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Uneasy lies the head when the mosquito reigns. A plumber’s bride at Saratoga wears a. terra. cotta. hued dress in ” pipings.” When does water resemble a gymnast? When it makes a spring. There‘s very little or no opposition to a red-hot poker. Britain’s jewel just now is a Garnet. The modern pie-rateâ€"ten cents a. piece. The best thing 10 take before singingâ€" breath. Whrv is a. messenger like a bad penny? Because he’s one sent. All tyipes of mankind to be justified must be in good form. It depends upon “what’s trumps ” when the right bower is left. On week days one buys his music by the sheet; but on Sundays he gets it by the choir. A southern duel was lately interrupted by rain after only nineteen rounds had been ex- changed. It ;vas an apple that made Adam tell, and the same fruit made William Tell. It is not proper to speak of a. milkman’s watering his milk. You should any that he expedites his cream. ' . {Twisting the tail of the British lion is a dangerous thing for the country that loses its grip. It is said that during the moonlight fight in Egypt the English bands played “The man In the moon is looking.” AWest End man gave his wife $5 for a. health appliance. She bought a plume for her hat. He thinks the “feather cure” ought to be advertized. In an autobiographic humor Boileau wrote: “ A fool always finds some one more foolish than he is to admire him.” A latter-day philosopher has said, “Send me all the dresses a woman has worn in the course of her life and I will write her biog- raphy from them.” “ Will you drop us saline '2” asked a. man departing from Syracuse. “ That depends salt together on circumstances,” was the re- Ply' . .. . . “ It is not necessaly for a. man to be poor to be honest." Certainly not. But it seems sort 0’ half way necessary for a man to be poor if he is honest. Politics, nowadays, is like the fandango swings at country mustere, the man who is in the top bucket this minute is soon down chafing with the groundlings. An igveterate dice-thrower in this city has had an attack of malaria. This is the first time he has had to shake for something he didn’t want. “What is a. pessimist, papa?” asked». bright lad. “A pessimist, my son,” said the old man, “ is one who would find fault with his seat in Heaven, if he ever got there.” ' We were eating our supper, and Mrs. Dodge was cooking beefsteak. I asked my little girl how she would have her beefsteak cooked. She replied, “ I will have it ten- der and true.” " Bunyan’a Pilgrim Progress on the Stage” is the heading of an article in a morning paper. In Old times the pilgrims’s progress was made on foot but this is the era. of rapid transit. prime. “ Is this your first appearance in a court of justice '3” asked the Austin Recorder of a vagrant. “No, Judge :it is the last time thus farâ€"how is It with yourself '2’? If Jonah had had another fisherman along with him when he was Secretary of the In- terior the big fish that gobbled him could not have been measured by any tape line then in existence. The use of Tea and Coa‘ee. Tea and coffee are beveragosused through- out the civilized world, and their effects have been studied with no little interest. That they affect the system there can be no manner of doubt, but whether this effect is beneficial or otherwise, is the question. The experience of those who use cofi‘ee and tea sl ows us that they are stimulating in their action, and that coffee is more so than tea. Both are asserted to be nutri- tiouu, which may or may not be attributed to the fact that they remove the sense of fatigue and hunger, and allay the mental unrest produced by exhaustion and anxiety. If used to excess they derange the organs of digestion and cause various annoying dis- eases. Functional disturbances of the ner- vous system are also caused by the): Lxces- give employment, such as headache, vertigo, and contusion of the mind. A cup of coffee after dinner facilitates di- gestion. Those who take a cup of cofiee in the morning suffer with headache if they emit it. Cofi‘ee is a laxative, tea. IS an as- tringent. The use of either frequently pro- duces wakefulness. r" . Tea. and coffee are stllnulants, and they share with other stimulants aproperty com- mon in a. greater or less extent to, them all. Alcohol will do the same thing. Stimu- lants, as a rule, if taken in small doses, pro- mote the appetite and increase the digestive ower by stimulating the gastric fullicles. ut if used to excess derange the organs of digestion and excite functional disturbances of the nervous system. This is accounted for both chemically and physiologically. Both contain tannin. Headache, Vertigo, etc., are the effects of over-stimulating the wvous system; wwi‘ilfie‘fisove is what is taught in regaxd to the effects of tea and cofl'ee. But thereas- one for them must be looked for beneath the Tea. and coffee derive their activity not only from the volatile oil which they con- tain, but from an important constituent known by the names of caffamcor theine. Bartholgvy says : fl mindI etc.” It may, therefore, be seen that coffee and tea are like most other things, excellent when taken in moderation, but most unex- Uellent if taken to excess. “ Cafl‘eineIin small medicinal doses, pro- motes appetite and increases the digestive powers. On the heart it exercises a. deci- ded stimulant action, and raises the arterial tension. As regards the cerebral effects, it may be stated that at first drowsiness occurs, but this is soon followed by wakefulness, excitement, muscula trembling, confusion ALI. SORTS. A bear who_ had made himself beheve that he had the worst luck of any animal in crea tion, was crawling through the woods one day when he met a Serpent, who inquir- ed : “ Which way now, my Friend 2’” “I am going to find some spot where I can letire fmm the W'orld. The VVox-Id has not used me right, and in revenge I will desert it.” “ I wouldn’t do that.” “ But I will. 1 can no longer trust any: body. I have been cheated, lied to and misused untill have no falth left. I will now retire within myself, and if any convul- sion of Nature takes place the country must not blame me for it. I have borne all that one Bear can be expected to 'put up with." Bruin went; his Way until he found a. lonely spot, and he then ncrawled into a hole and began listening for the Crack of Doom. It made him feel good to think that the World was turning itself bottom side up because he had absented himself from eight and search, and he was determined not to yield until after several thousand terror-stricken people had come to him with tears in their eyes. Much to Bruin’s surprise the night pass- ed like all the other nights. N 0 one appear- ed during the forenaon to plead with him, and the afternoon passed without an Earth- quake or Tornado. He momentarily ex- pected the advent; of a crowd to plead him to come back to the World and have faith and confidenet, but the crowd didn’t show up. After along and hungry night Bruin began to weaken. After much argument with himself he crawled out of his den and was sneaking through the woods when he met a Hare. “ Is the “'orld yet standing I?” asked the Bear. “ Certainly, never more solid since I can remember. " “ And is anyone searching for me ‘3” “ Not that I know of.” “ Every goes on just the same, eh Y” “ Just the same.” “ And didn’t you hear I had lost all faith in human , nature, and retired from the World ?" The Bear sat down on a. thistle and thought the matter over for a. few minutes, and then arose and made a bee-line for his usual haunts, telling every animal he met on the way that he had been off on a fishing (xcursion. ” Iifie‘ver heard a word of it Tra-la, old man, I’fn off.” MORAL : The cynic who flatters himself that he is rcvenging on the world by withdrawing his company forgets that he will be obliged to associate with himself. Reply Pea-Cards in England. A treasury warrant appears in last n'ght’s Gazette prescribing the regulations and con- ditions for the use of reply post-cards with- in the United Kingdom, the Channel is- lands, and the Isle of Man. It will come into operation on the lat of October next. The cards will bear an impressed stamp of one-half penny on each half. The address and nothing else must be written, printed, or otherwise impressed on that side of either half thereof which bearsthe impressed stamp. Anything (including a. letter of communica- tion in the nature of a letter) may be writ- ten, printed or otl erwise impressed on that side of each half of a. reply post-card which does not bear the impressed stamp. Nothing whatever must be in any manner attached to a. reply post-card nor must a reply post- card after the issue thereof be cut or folded or otherwise altered, except that that half of a reply post-card which is intended to be used for the purpose of a reply (in these regulations referred to as “the return half”) may be severed from the other half thereof. If any reply post-curd or the return half thereof is sent by post otherwise than in conformity with these regulations it shall be enclosed in a sealed cover and forwarded to its destination, charged on delivery with postage us an insufliciently paid letter of the same weightâ€"London Standard. ._.â€"-â€"-»<-.'>«-â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" Control of Feeling. It is sometimes urged that, however re- sponsible we may beafor our deeds, we can- not be held accountable for our feelings, as they come and no unbidden. Yet, if it is true that every feeling is dependent for its continuance upon the action which it prompts, the feeling itself is at least medi- ately under our control. We cannot, it is true, by an effort of the will, at once expel from the heart a gust of passion ;but we can deny the angry utterances that tremble on our lips. “ e cannot suddenly kill a selfish desire, but we can refuse to commit the un- just or unkind actionlthat it prompts. We cannot immediately banish curiosity or a. love of gossip ; but we can withhold from them the food on which they thrive. In the same way, if worthy and honorable im- pu ses are weak within us, we can strength- en them by following steedfastly that course « f conduct which they suggest. ' We can in- crease our sense of justicu by doing justly, our sympathetic feelings, by tender and loving acts, our good temper by self-govern- ment. “ Do fish perspirc “I Is a questxon now agitating scxentists. They make a man sweat who tries to catch them, generally. Tradition says that beer was first made on the banks of the Nile. Just at present there are lots of lively hops in that section, but they are only brewing trouble. When Arabi Bey “as a subordinate he once received the bastinado, and was unable to walk for three months. He has so far recovered that he can now run like a deer. The word “ honeymoon” is traceable tora. Teutonic origin. Among the Teu’ons was a. favorite drink called “ metheglin.” it was made of honey, and much like the present mead of European countries. The same bev- erage was in use among the Saxons, as well as another called “morat,” which was also made of honey, but flavored with mulber- ries. The honeyed drinks were used in great abundance at festivals. Among the noâ€" bility the marriage was celebrated a whole lunar month, which was called a. moon, dur- ing which the festive board was well sup- plied with the honey drink. Hence this month of festival was called' “ honehmoon,” or honey-moon, which means a month of fer tival. How the World Went Right Along. AMERICAN FABLES. The number of Jews in the world is about ten millions. Of these, upwards of three millions are in the Russian empire. In Austria. there are nearly a million, and about hle a. million in the north- ern parts of Germany. The Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews has stations in England, Austria, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Persia, Russia, Turkey, the Danubian l’riucipalitxes, Asia Minor, Syria, and North Africa, while in Jerusalem is special elfort through the means of the Hospital to seek the welfare of Israel has been very successful. The'greatest work of the Society has been the putting into the hands of the ews their own Scriptures, together with a Hebrew translation of the new Iestament. Since 1823, 153,286 entire copies of the Old Testament, and 380,263 parts of the same. have been circulated. Since 1817, 188,468 copies of Hebrew New Testaments, and portions thereof, have been sold or distributed gratis. Of late years, the British and Foreign Bible Society have taken up the printing and circulation of the Hebrew Scriptures as a. branch of their labours. The SOciety supports a. number of schools in its foreign stations as well as London. It has schools in Bucharest, Constantinople, Damascus, Jerusalem, Mogador, and Tunis, where alarge number of Jewish children are receiving daily instruction, and in all their youthful minds the seeds of the \Vord is patiently being sown. ~..~nu ‘ At J e;usa1em there are the Girln’ School, and the Inztitubion for J ewesaes. The Hospital where the Jew is made practically to understand the power of Christian: love and benevolence ; and the House of In- dustry, where the convert is put in the way of gaining his livelihood: ‘1 ‘ The c’most udiligent search could only discover thirty-five Christian Israelites in England at the beginning of the century. Since that time more than a hundred Jews have been ordained as clergyman of the Church of England. Our missionaries es- timate that there are now 2,000 Christian Israelites in London, and probably 1000 more in the English provinces. “It can be stated with confidence that in Germany there is not a town where there are not some Jews who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and this is the result of our mission, directly and indirectly.” There are now nearly 5,000 Jewish Christians in Prussia. The Societies for promoting the Conversion of the Jews had made, since the cominence- ment of the present century, some 20,000 proselytes. r n 1- i... n,,,,,1 K A correspondent of the London Record writing from Jerusllem says : The agents of the Jewish Mission have found a. large and promising field of labour amongst the hundreds of Israelites who, driven from Russia, have come to the Holy Land. Formerly, Jews came to the Holy City only to wee for its fall,to study the writings of theRu bis, or, after passing their last years within its crumbling walls, to be buried on the slope of Olivet. On its approach to Jerusalem each little company was met by those who performed for it the ceremony oiclothes-rending, in token of grief for the desolation of the sanctuary. Now the case is different, the new-comers appear to have little sympathy with their Talmud-reading brethren, many of them ‘seem to have re- ceived a smattering of Gentile learning, some have been clerks in bankers’, lawyers’, or merchants' offices, others tradesmen , and as they come in numbers too large to be soon absorbed into the mass of the J ew- ish population, they are easier of access than their co-religionists who have been longer resident here. The Society’s “ Em- quirers’ Home " and “House of Industry " are filled with inmates, and it has been found necessary to establish a large party (some of whom are not “ Enquirers ”) in charge of a scripture-reader in a camp out- side the town, at a spot known as the “ Sanitorium.” Here some of them have been employed in field-labor, others in a ditierent way. A good many come here in- stead of going to America. or elsewhere, be- cause they had been told that they would receive land gratis. Their hopes were dis- appointed, as the Turkish Government, though it permits Russian Jews to settle in its dominions, and would, it is supposed, be glad to have them in Asia Minor, seems to be frightened at the noise which “ the return of ihe Jews to Palestine” has made. and consequently objects to the establish- ment in the Holy Land of a. distinctly or: ganized Jewish colony, which may in time prove the nucleus of a “ regnum in regno.’7 Private individuals, it is said, are not likel to meet with the opposition to their, ac- quiring land which a “ corporation ” will, and the “ Habazelth " states that many of these Russian emigrants have announced their intention of purchasing property on their own account. Fat Boyâ€" No, you can not reuse chickens from egg plants. You might as well try to raise calves from a cow-catcher. Some remarkable, as well as numerous, suicides have occurred recently. Among them is that of the young Chicago reporter Who killed himself because he couldn’t make money enough to live in style; that of the man who killed himself because he couldn’t get a. wife; and another because he had five or six. A sin ular sucide of a young lady occurred in In iana caused by her fear lest she should die of consumption. The Society whose head quarters are in London, England, has a. Canadian agency of which the Rev. Johnston Vicars, of Toronto, is secretar . A Perthshire Minister, more skilful as an angler than popular as a. preacher, was once iving advice to a. parishioner on the bene- fits at early rising, and mentioned as an in- stance that he had afew mornings ago com- posed a. sermon and killed a. salmon before breakfast. “ In fact, ” says he, with self-satisfaction, “ it is; a feat on which I plume myséli greatly.” “Aweel. sir,” was the pointed reply, .“ I wid much raither 1116 had yer saumou than yer sermon.” Why does a duck go into the water? For divers reasons. Why does it come out? For sun-dry reasons. Why does it go back ’ To liquidate its bill. \Vhy does is come out again ? To make a run on the bankâ€"[Drum-neh The Jews of the World. Questions About Ducks. Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful to them, to praise, which deceive: them.â€"â€"â€"La. Roche- foucauld. Those who have nothing else to command them in the respect of others but only their blood, cry it up at a great rate, and have their mouths perpetually full of it. They swell and vapor, and you are sure to hear of their families and relations every third word. By this mark they commonly dis- tinguish themselves ; you may depend upon it there is no good bottom. nothing of true worth of their own when they insist on so much and set their credit upon that of oth- ers.â€"-Charron. AS good almost kill a. man as kill a good book. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a. good book is the precious life- blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treas- ured up on purpose to a life beyond life.â€" Milton As ceremony is the invention of wise men to keep fools ata distance, so good-breeding is an expedient to make fools and wise men equals.â€"â€"Steele. Actions, looks, I ords, steps, form the alphabet by which you can spell characters. â€"â€"Lavater. The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to All solicitude as to the future, and wzll meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.â€" Horace. field. No man can possibly improve in any com- pany for which he has not respect enough to be_qnder some degree of restraintâ€"Chester- The superiorityof some men is merely local. They are great, because their associ- ates are little.â€"â€"Johnson. It is the part of a prudent man to concili- ate the minds of others, and to turn them to his own advantage. â€"â€"Cicero. Our minds are as difl‘erent as our faces; we are all travellmg to our destinationâ€"happ i- ness ; but few are going by the same road.â€" Uolton. The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the [Eolian harp, to await inspiration of the passing breeze.â€"Burke. Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, af least in repute, be greatâ€"Zimmer- man. A docile disposition will, with'applica- tlon, surmount: every difficulty. â€"-Man- lius. It is a folly for an eminent man to think of escapmg censure, and a. weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious per- sens of antiqulty, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecutionâ€"A ddison . good ' ' Though th'e ungrateful subjects of their favors Are barren in return. V â€"Shakespeare. Great miqu. like Heaven. are pleased doing The surest way to health, say what_they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill. Love. keep it : Erasmus. Pride, ill~nature, and want of sense, are the three great. sources of illvmunners ; with- out some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.â€"Swifl. Wildnessis a. thing which girls cannot afford. Delicacy is a thing which cannot be lost and found. No art can .restore th e grape its bloom. Familiarity Without lov e, without confidence, without regard, is des- tiuctiveto all that makes woman exalting and ennoblinq. “ This world is wide. these things are They may be nothing, yet Nothing ? It is the first duty of womz l to be a lady. Good breeding is good sense. Bad manners in a woman is immorality. Awkwardness may be ineradicable. Bash- iulness is constitutional. Ignorance of etiquette is the result of circumstances. All can be condoned and do not banish men or women from the amenities of their kind. But self-possessed, unshrinking and ag- gressive coarseness of demeanor may be reckoned as a State’s prison offence, and certainly merits that mild form of restraint called imprisonment for life. It is a shame for women to be lectured on their manners. It is a bitter shame that they need it. Women are the umpires of society. It is they to whom all mooted questions should be referred. To be a lady is more than to bea princess. To a, lady, prince and pea- sant alike bow. Do not be rest: ained. Do not have impulses that need restraint. Do not wish to dance with the pi .me unsought; feel differently. Be sure you confer an honor. Carry yourself so loftily that men shall look up to you for reward, not at you in rebuke. The natural semiment of men toward women is revered 7U. ‘ e loses a large amount of grace when he is obliged 0 account her a being l0 be trained in proâ€" priety. A man’s idea is not wounded when a Woman fails in worldly wisdom. B ut if in grace, in tact, in sentiment, in delicacy, in kindness, she would be found wanting, he receives an inward hurt. Mo4®>ooWâ€"â€" A Fourth Ward lady lei t the baby in charge of its father one evening last week, and went out to corner the ice cream mark- et. She was absent about an hour, and when she returned she found her husband smoking and leading, while the baby sat tn the floor playing with a revolver, and sur- rounded hy a clock, a case of razors, a pair of scissors, a. lot of boaks, a hell, a bunch of keys, a coal scuttle, a bootjack, a fire shovel, a handqnirror, a hammer, and a toilet bot- tle, while in its lnp was acake of soap, and in its little mouth a ten-cent piece and a finger-ring, The husband explained by say- ing that every time he saw a squall coming he pitched something to the child, and that he had exhausted all his resources just as she came home. The mother just sat the baby in an arm-chair and give it one of its thumbs to suck, which contented it until order was restored in the room. All that glitters is not gold Gilded tombs do worms unfold. that has nothing but beauty to in good health, is 'short-Iived.-â€"-â€" BRIGHT THOUGHTS. The GU15. â€"â€"Churchiu. Most of the written remains of ancient- Egypt are religious. Many consist of hymns to the gods, and have a pathos of their own. Others are lists of oblations or of spoils tak- en at war. These has e no more liters y pre- tensions than an auctioneer’s catalogue or an inventory of furniture. They give us, however, a vivid idea of Egyptian belong- ings. The nianiiold production and riches of ancient Egypt are nowhere set forth in more detail than in what is known as the “Great Harris Papyrus,” which contains divers of these summaries. It was found in a tomb, and measures 133 feet lone by 16$ inches broad. here we read of the barge of cedar with rivets of gold-plated brass and cabins adorned with precious stones ; of houses with doors and lintels of gold, sur- rounded by gardens planted with all kinds of fruit, and tanks of water-fowl and fish. Besides these are granaries with corn and treasuries filled, or temples presented, with a surprising amount of miscellaneous proper- ty, paint, spirits of wine, honey, oil, linen overcoats, embroidered caps, incense, silver dishes and ladles, rings, onions, cedar harps, bundles of writing-reeds, wax, leather sand- als, turquoises, perfumes, images, neck- laces, Wine, colored bed-clothes, &c. The most careful inventory was made of the sev- eral items, and in every case the exact amount of the articles in store seems to be set down. For instance, in one place we find a record of 825,840 crystal beads ; in another of 23,008 pots of frankiucense, while one “cedar rule” figures by itself. Be- sides these dead or dry goods we have aston- ishing lists of cattle and birds, especially pigeons, ducks and geese. Here we are struck by evidence of much that was emin- ently businesslike and prosaic among the old Egyptians. It is true that there rec ligion especially, at least so far as the offer- ings made by the king represented the gen- erosity of the people, was marked by mar- velous and abundant devotion; the adorn- ments of the temples not being brought to a focus in some inner shrine, but shown in the capping of sacred obelisks with solid gold, and the covering of huge holy walls inside and out with costly sculpture. But though this indicates a certain profuseness of ex- penditure, nothing is more striking than the minute economy and attention to details exhibited in what may be called the sacred rent rolls, summaries of obligations, and the like. The chronicler carefully distinguishes between the “ ducks” and the “ ducklings,” offered to Ra, the sliced, salted, and pre- pared fish, the crowns, nosegays, chains, and handsful of flowers, and the exact amounts of these several items are set down. In the “ Great Harris Papyrus," now in the British Museum, and translated in the “Re- cords of the Past,” there are many of these entries, and in every case the totals of the goods in question are precisely recorded. There are, e. 9., 1,975,800 nosegays of vege- tablesâ€"4t does not say what proportion of these were onionsâ€"as against 11,000 nose- gays of corn, and 3,410 of lotu. Thus, in these chronicles we have evidence of both extreme profusion and precise economy, of the nicest reckoning and the most liberal abundanceâ€"Good Words. Sir John seemed never to be happier than when speaking of his former voyages, and he encouraged me to converse freely with him as westrolled‘ river the grounds to- ether or rode out into the country. He" ad acompletc and most perfect and ela- borate set of charts of the arctic regions, so far as they had then been explored, upon which his own operations and those of Cap‘ts. Parry and Ross and other arctic explorers were distinctly marked out ; and it was the greatest pleasure of an evening to dis- play these charts and point out the spots he had Visited ;- also tracing the courses he would endeavor to pursue. '.f it should ever be his “ good fortune,” as he expressed him- self, again to be employed in what was the great hobby of his life. There was not a point he had discove'ed, nor a s ot that he had visited respecting which e had not some anecdote to tell or some narrow es- cape to relate. And to me it was delightful to listen to these anecdotes from the lips of a man who had barely dared and overcome the perils of which he spoke, and who had already rendered his name famous as one of the boldest and most energetic and perserl vering of arctic discoverers. Besides, I con- fess that it was flattering to my pride to hear a post-Captain and a Lieutenant Governor conversing thus freely with a young midshipman and encouraging me to express my own op'nions and listening to them kindly and attentively. I spent a pleasant visit at tho Penns, and was sorry to return to the ship. While we lay in port an emigrant ship and a female convict ship arrivedâ€"the latter one of the last, if not the last, female convict ship that left the shores of England, and Sir John and L Ldy Franklin visited them both immediate. ly on their arrival. It was her ladyship’s chief pleasure, and she seemed to regard it as a duty. to exert herself to the utmost for the benefit of younger female convicts as had conducted themselves well during the voyage, and whose offences against the la“ s of their country were such as aflbrded hope that, removed from temptations of vice and poverty, they might yet redeem thrir characters and prove useful members of society. It must be rccollected that in those days, when there was a. scarcity of females in the Australian colonies, young women were often transported for offances which would nowadays be punished by a. few months‘ or even a few “ eeks’ imprison- mentâ€"Chambers’s Journal. Land and Water has a curious communi- cation from Mr. W. Hearder, of Plymouth, England : “ Mr. Charles Clarke, While fish‘ ing in the Plym, hooked a trout about 11 inches long which had an India rubber band over its head. The band slipped back‘over‘ the gill covers and was compressing the gills. The ho ny part of the fish, which extends from the centre of the lower jaw to the belly and divides the gills, is deeply indented where the band has evidently been pressing, and it has made quite a. cavity in the lowm' jaw. I should like to know if anbeme marked the fish with the band or whether it got its head through it in an attempt to take it for a bait. How the fish lived is a. mystery. It is in splendid condition and I have preserved it for my museum.” This oc- currence will cause many naturalists to re- vise some of tl: cir ideas regarding the lives of fishes. A Reminiscence of su- John Franklin. Written Remains of the Egyptians.