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It now seems not unlikely that, in the near future, steam-yachting may equal, if ’not surpass, sail~yachting in favor. Even in a. pursuit so leisurely as that of the yachtsman time has a measure of value, and in some aspects it may even be said to be money. Delightful as are the fea- tures of sail-yachting, the element of un- certainty which enters into it often be- comes a serious drawback. Plans are up‘ set by inability to get to certain places at certain times; and storms, calms, £025. or adverse winds, may change the entire programme of a cruise. Then, too, a large proportion of our yachtsmen are business men, and as such cannot afford to run the risk of not getting back to their ofiices and counting-rooms as the time calculated upon. This cannot be done with a boat dependent upon winds and tides. Therefore, for this reason alone, steam is likely to take the place of sails. In Europe steam has to a great ex- tent superseded sail in yachting. 1n the United States rapid progress is making in the same direction. It appears that in the past season at least fifty steam yachts have been constructed here, and many others are now building. Experience shows that the first cost is certainly in favor of steam, while in the metter of run- ning expenses. repairs, etc., things seem to be about equal Steam being, from a popular standpoint. a comparatively new feature in yachting, is characterized, as in the case of almost every new departure, by great and rapid advances in the way of improvements in propelling-power, lessening both the first cost and the run- ning expense, securing greater compact- ness in the machinery, so that compete- tively little room has to be sacrificed, and increasing the elements of convenience, comfort, and safety, both in model and motive power. It is in these latter con- sidentions that steam have been par- ticularly lacking in comparison with sail- ing yachtsâ€"[Outing for J anusry. ness in 1110 machinery, in that campers- bively little room has to he sncrihcetl, and increasing the elements of convenience, comfort, and safety, both in model and motive power. It is in these latter con- sidemtions that steam have been par- ticularly lacking in comparison with nail- ing yachtsâ€"[Outing for Janusry. 0n the husban’i, as being the higher power, lies the chief responsibility for so- curing domestic happiness. This will not be attained by selfish requirements from others. On the contrary, the husband must. use consideration and self-denial, and;expend time and money for this pur- pose. *EATON’S Xmas Sale. Our object in having this sale at this season is to make prices to suit the hard times and to reduce surplus stock in our several departments. To enable us to do this we have made some extraordinary reductions, as may be seen by our former advertisements, and by the rapid sale of these reduced goods day by dayfiespecially in our Mantle and Dress Departments,and to have a. still greater clearing of our:Mantles we have some still greater reductions. We still continue our former reductions until every garment is sold. Those $1.50 and $3.00 Jackets are big bargains, and deserve the attention of every person requiring a cheap garment. \Ve have put all our $7.00, $7.50 and $8.50 Jackets at $6.00 all round; these are heavy cloth Jackets, fully trimmed, and are a decided bargain. To-day we offer fifty heavy Tweed Ulstc-rs at $5 each, regular price of $10.00. Eaton’s Xmas Sale All Children's mantles at big reductions. Extra heavy umntlcs for children,with capes at reduced rates. Silk and Plush Dolmans Jackets. Seventy-five dollar Dolmans at $55. mans and Jackets for $40. Eaton’s X' Oilcloths. During the sale we offer the contents of a large shipment of Table oilcloths 3.3 inches Wide which we will sell at 30 cents a yd.,all:the newest patterns. During the Xmas Sale We offer some extraordinary bargains in this department; you can get a. variety of patterns at 50 cents a. blind, goods that are ordinarily sold at $1. We offer a. plain blind, complete with spring roller for (if) cents. These spring rollers are the most convenient rollers to be found. No side strings, no fixtures, work automatically. Complete with blind for 65 cents each. Clearing rice: for Blankets, white and gray. White Blankets, all wool, $1.7 5, $2.00, $2.25, $2.90, .50, $4.00 up. Extra superfine Canadian blankets reduced to $3.00, $3.50, $4.00, and $4.50. These goods are superior to any blanket mu.th heretofore and are equal to the best English goods and sold at half the price. Bargains in flannels Flannels in all colors. Window shades _ We offer some special inducements in this line of goods, 3128 65 cents each. Fine English Sateen Covered Comforter, Immense variety of goods suitable for Xmas presents, vases, brackets, mantle stands, albums, easels, scrap books: Blankets, Flannels. l90 TO I96 YONGE STREET, Xmas Goods. Bed Comforters. Bargains in $35, $30, $25 and $20 Dolmans;every garment sacrificed Eatnn’s Xmas Sale. Steam Yachting. TORONTO. \Vhite Flannela, \Vhite and Grey Canton Flannels, Canton Sixty dollar Jackets for $45 ; Fifty dollar D01 The clever turn everything to ac- count. presslon. Act well at the moment. and you have performed a wood action for all abet. nity. u «. a .--._, . The moat ignorant have knowledge enough to discover the faults of others ; the moat clear-sighted are blind to their 0WD The past is disclosed, the future con- cealed in doubt. And yet human nature is heedless of the past, and fearful of the futureâ€""gelding not the science and experience that past ages have unveiled. The finest results can only be obtained when ajoyful spirit has animated the worker, when no trouble is deemed too much and no denial too great to accom- pliah the end in view as quickly as pos- nible. Every man in his own life has follies enoughâ€"in the performance of his own duties deficiencies enoughâ€"in his forâ€" tunes evils enoughâ€"Without minding other people's business. A truly courageous man may be very much afraid; but he can never act the part of a. coward. When the crisis comes, he will nerve himself to action, and prove not that he is fearless, but; that fear in his Servant, not his maeber. The sphere of our Inflectionl is one in which we are very lpt to expect too much from others, and thus to can-e bitter nan» and often eatrangement. Where we love we naturally crave to be loved ; ban this craving, if not regulated by reason, in very apt to blossom into a. selfish op- 11185 Sale. GEMS 0F THOUGHT. is disclosed, the future con- dolls, tea. sets, wooden toys, tool boxes, tricks, 82c. ') bales to open to-day, full 7 lbs, weight, extra size for these goods Suberine, the characteristic component of cork, in atruo fat. naponifiable by alka- liea and oxidizsble by nitric acid, which converts it into a. mixture of suberic acid and ceric acid. It is composed of the mixed glycol-ides of phellonic and stearic acida. Vulcanized fibre has been employed {01' valves for marine condensers. It is said to do much better than india-rubber. Valves of this fibre do not skew 0r corm- gaie, withstand well the action of water and oil, end give very little‘brouble after they have been carefully fitted in place. Aleptol, a new nntiseptic,aays M. E Tumor, has for its scientific name or- thoxyphenylâ€"nnlphmous acid. I“: am acid phonol, capable of neutralizing am. monincalbues. Ibis said to be prefer- able to phenol as an antiseptic, because it poueaaes th. decided abvantage of not being poisonous. The elder duck does not,Dr. Sundntrom of Stockholm, has ascertained, take her young during the summer into the ocean. as i! no generally nuppoaed, but remain: with them among the islandaon the coast. It appears that the eider duck has greatly increued in the south of Sweeden during the last. few years. Smile in a state of captivity can, Dr. Rnwitz of Berlin, has discovered. be €ed on paper. Dr. Kennel confirms this fact by a statement based on his own observa- tions. Ho says that after feeding snails with highly calcareous paper for some time he found abnormal calcareous depos- its in their monstroust developed shells. Mr. Swan has estimated the life of an electric glow lamp at, about 5,800 lnnrs. This is a very high average, and the con- ditions under which it waaattained, in the case of the Swan lamp at least, must have been exceptionally favorable. It is maintained by Herr S. Ralieher that no steps have established the devel- opment of electricity during the conver- sion of water into steam, and that even upon electrified surfaces the steam which arises is electrically neutral. He also states that it can be experimentally dem- monstreted that no el-‘ctrlcity results from the condensation of the vapor of the at- mospnere. Afirst study on the paraliax of the sun by M. Bouquet de la Grye has been submitted to the Academy of Sciences, Paris. This paper is founded on the calculations made in Mexico by the au- tqor and M. F. Arago during the late transit of Venus. From the measure manta then taken there relults a mean parallax of 8.76, with an 'apperent ap- proximations of one-hundreth of a se- cond. Professor Hellriegel has made special researches on the influence of best and light upon the development of plants. At a constant temperature of 400 C. in the soil the roots of barley cannot devel- op themselves. A constant temperature of 309 is not destructive, but decidedly injurious. A constant temperature of 20° is best adapted to the wants of the plants. but one of 109 is not distinctly in- jurlous. For the rapid preparation of standard solutions of carbon disulphide, M. A. Livache takes a. solution of soap, with which he incorporates a. certain quantity of petroleum. In this solution he can dissolve on stirring more than 200 hun- dred grams 0f§diaulphide of carbon per liter for 150 grams of soap. The solution so prepared, after water is added, remains perfectly limpid, the disulphide of carbon not separating out. It must be of importance to dyers to learn that Mr H. Kcechlin has published a new method of fixing chromium oxide, founded on the proporty of alkaline solu- tions of chrome of giving up their oxide to organic fibres on being left in contact for some hours. Thus, if cotton is steep- ed in a mixture of two parts acetate of chrome at 169, (Beaume,) two parts caustic soda at 399, and one part of water and after 12 houre' immersion the cotton iswashed, the mordanting is complete. From the mode of life the half-wild bush horses of Australia lead, unaccus- tomed to the hand of man, and not depend- ent upon him for food, they learn to look upon him with alarm and suspicion, and it requires some manmuvring to ap- proach them without creating a prema- ture panic. On the approach of a. horse- man one or two on the outside sound an alarm and make 011' toward the rest, who thereupon rush together, and a. general concentration takes place. It is a fine sight to see a herd of these horses, of every size, age, and color, mustering in this manner from hill and valley, as if by common consent. Though physically very powerful, they assume no threatening as- pect ;thelr safety lies in their speed; and as they eye the suspicious object their meaning is obvious. They say, as plainly as looks and gestures can say: “Now, what do you want? If you are a stranger, pass on quietly ; but it you are for a gal- lop, we are quite ready to try of what mettle that horse of yours is made.” Establishing Relationship. “ Ma, is the devil the father of lies ’1" “ Yes, dear." “ And is a lie an invention '1" “ Yes." “ Then necessity in the devil’a wife, ain’t she, ma ‘3" “ How do you make that. out '3" ” Why, she's the mother of invention.“ It has been proved, by repeated experi- ments, that straw saturated with a solu- tion of lime or common whitewash, is incombuatible. The fact is of great. im- portance, especially as thatch la not only rendered fireproof, but more durable. A solution of alum has been tried, but being soluble the rain destroys its virtues. SCIENTIFIC GOSSII’. Bush Horses. Country houses are rarely supplied with such conveniences, for removing the house “slope,” as are desirable, not to say absolutely essential, from a sanitary point of View. The sink drain from the house pump, if there is one, gets foul and clog- ged, sometimes several times in a year, and has to be dug no and cleaned out. An open gutter 1A filthy. smells badly, tsinta the butter, breeds flies, and makes folks ill. Slope thrown around the deer, are, if possible, as much worse than the dram. as the spsce slopped over is larger, and closer to the house. The remedy is acovered drain of some kind, to carry the slops to a distance, where they may be economized. They ought never to be thrown into the pump-sink, but into on open receptacle, from which the drnin flows. A very good way which has com- mended itself to the writer, is to hnve n receiver not less than a foot square, laid up of brick, in cement, altogether about four feet deep. Out of this, from about the middle, the drain, flows, also made of brick (though one of oak boards will Inst 3 long time), and into which, a little below the middle, the water pipe, from the pump-sink. enters. The foul water thrown in will deposit its sediment, nnd flow 03' tolerabl yclenr by the drain, while the mouth of the sink- pipe, being below the surface of the water, admits of no foul air passing back to the house. It is easy to clear out the sedi~ ment in the receiver with a post-hole spoon, and to flush the drain by pouring s. tub-full of wnter at a time into the re- ceiver. The top of the receiver should be protected by n grating or a lid. To prevent foul air drawing np the drain. no it will often do, a. U-trsp of tile may be placed near the receiver. The trap should be under-ground, the top being level with, or raised a little above, the surface of the ground. How to Dispose of House "Slaps. boy a dr'um. GRAND DISPLAY PET N EW FALL GOODS Rich Mantle Velvets, Rich Dress Velvets, Rich Mantle Flushes, Rich Dress Flushes, Rich Black Silks, Rich Colored Silks, Rich Dress Satins, Rich Dress Goods, Also a Magnificent Stock of Elegant MANTLES from the Best Manufacturers of London, Paris and Berlin. Silk Plush Mantles, Silk Seal Mantles, Brocaded Silk Mantles. Brocaded Velvet Mantles Brecaded Cloth Mantles, Jersey Cloth Mantles, Jersey Cloth Ulsters, Jersey Cloth Jackets If t_hy neighbor ofl'end thee, buy his We beg to call Special Attention t on display of MILLINERY,Which is very Choice and Attractive, and worthy of the attention of the most fastidious. King-St, East, Toronto INfiPEOTION INVITED (OPPOSITE THE MARKET A correspondent suggests that instead of computing the time in the manner now proposed, the twenty-four hours might be divided in accordance with the prac- tice of the Chinese. who reckon from an hour (in our time) before midnight to the correspondng time next night â€" twelve hours, each hour being equal to two of ours. The benefit to be derived from the scheme is not exactly visible, yet it has the merit of novelty, which, inthese days where a love of change is the predominat- ing passion of the people, is alone sum- cient to insure a favourable reception. Our correspondent further suggests that another pleasing reform in the'present method of computing time might be efl'ected if, in taking account of it in fu- turn, we reckon nights instead of days. This, according to Tacitus, was done by the ancient Germans; and it is stated in the Rev. John Campbell’s ‘ travels,” published in 1822, that “ the practice of computing time by nights instead of days obtains amog the Mashors, an inland na- tion dwelling in the interior of Africa.” Curiously enough we have a tribe called Mashers now dwelling in the interior of London who also are notorious for turn- ing night into day.â€"[St. J ames’s Gazette. Friends and enemlea are many-sided, and while we may correctly see parts of their character, other parts are veiled from us. Every one has big virtues and vices, his excellencies and shortcomings, and, while much we see in him may be actually there, there is much more of which we never dream. “Well, Uncle Rube, how have you been since you came to live down here on the river 1" “Po'ly, marster, po'ly.” “You are not used to living in such an out-ofâ€"hhe-way place, Uncle Rube. You are aufl'ering from Isolation." “Dat’s it, nah, dat’a is. 1'5. got ’em. I'ae suffered wid ’em mighty bad, max-star. I had diarecommembered the name, but I knowed I had um.” Computing the Time.