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. W' ' . . __. - _ ._. V- _ _. e ._ . __. A Song of Canada. ll'f SIR GHORUY. VAli'l'll‘lll. No land so door to noble. be: As that which birthright g" Than in the songs that tell her charms, No sweeter llll.v€l(' livcs. l sin;r of music to you, my friends, Of her so fair and bright, 0 Canada, dear Canada, tnc land of my delight. The stronger vicws with envious eye, The river of our pridci The broad St. Lawicncc, with his streams, That swell the ocean’s tide. And Sons of Canada, that View His current in its might, chliim, " 0 fairest Canada, the land of my delight I“ The many brooks and rivulets That ('lmnc the fields with green, ; The distant loominu' Inollllti’lllbtopfl, With pleasant valcs between, The forests broad, the waterfalls, So oft that greet the sight, Make Canada, fair Canada, the land of my delight, Where else has nature’s bounteous gifts, 1n country for or near, Been with such lIH'lHl') hand bestowed, As in their concourse here 'f Who prizes not. thy crystal lakes, Lik jewel»: sparkling bright. 0 C nada, fair Canada, the land of my delight l Foch son inherits from his sires ,i A gentle heart and brave, Loving,r his country, ne’er can he A traitor be, or slave. Bis motto “ Peace. goodwill to all," lint ever for her right Ready to die for Canada, the land of my delight. ‘ and givc. up the pursuit for that night, and l try, for from all human help, and without .‘ resolving what to do ; he was determined, with him a. little dried meat, and a gourd containing water, and started at a. pace which few of his countrymen could have equalled, fleet of foot as they are ; the ini» l mediate. dread of the “ sainboch," or whip of rhinoceros hide, quite putting the more remote dangers of his lonely journey out of his head. An hour or two of daylight still remained, and he had no difficulty in find ing the “ spoor” of the lost animal, which the uncrring intelligence of his race enabled , him to distinguish from that of any otherl of the herd; and he followed it Ateadily, until the failing light made it undistinguish- able from the footinarks of film wild»beast or the gun which crossed and rccrossed it perpetually. It became necessary to halt, he did so, gthough feeling thoroughly dis- heartened at the non appearance of the cow. for whose safety he now felt the most seri- ous uneasiness. His own also became a matter of aux cty, as night closed in, with the sudden darkness of a tropical climate, and found him alone, in that desolate coun- any means of defence. Ile was not long in at all hazards, to find his lost charge, and i would almost have preferred dying where he was to returning without her; besides which it would have been madness to at- tempt lo retrace his steps in the dark , so, marking with his stick the spot on which Each laud sings of itsladics bright? I doubt not. they are iair, But so are those. who flourish here In frce (Tanadian rair; Within our homes ther gentle words Our noblest di, Thus winning light. me for Canada, the land of my dc- With all the grace and taste. of Franco, They blend a softer tone : Sincerity and innoccncc, (lire power all their own : llravc sorm vfairdaughtersr Nature‘s gifts (frown in the wide world’s sight 'I‘ My Canada, (lcar Canada, the lvlllil of my delight. Tr'imxlwfion b; .i. (r'. 1'1. ll'. Tate this With a. Lion. In the year 18;, ‘I set out from King Vl’illiain's town, in llritish Uall'raria, in com- 5 pony with a. brotlier-olliccr, on a shootingl expedition in quest of “ big gaine”â€"~a name given at the Cape to elephants, Glands, girâ€" zill‘es, hartcl)cetsJandlthc)argcr species of an- , flow long he slept, he did not know, but liehad left the. “Spoor,” he looked about for some tree in which he could pass the, night. lc soon selected an acacia tree, which grow close by, and lost so time in climbing up and settling himself in a fork l of the branches. Ulc ate and drank spar- ingly, keeping a supply for the necessiti s of the morrow, and then completing his preparations by lashing himself to the main brunch with his waist-belt, he drew his sheepskin blanket over his head, and corn- posed himself to sleep. It was a still night; i the silence only broken at intervals by tlic shrill notes of the screech-owl, the bowl of the jackal, or the dreary laugh of the liycna fisouuds to which our friend was too wcll accustomed to be kept awake by them. he was awakened by a noise far dill'ercnt‘ from any of those which had been mixing ' with his dreams â€"»a noise which, once hcard, could never be forgotten. Full, deep, audi ominously ncar rose the dreadful sound, waking,r all the echoes for miles round, yet seeming to come from under his leUtr' the tci‘riblc roar of a hungry lion. l telopcs. The excursion had been long plain ned and looked forward to ; and at last the 5 leive of absence “ on urgent private affairs” being granted, one line spring,r morning we: set out. The party consisted of (177 r and l myself, who travelled on horseback; our English servant, who had charge of our two led horse and two llotteuiois, one of whom drove the wagon, and the other acted as conductor to the leading pair out of the. fourteen oxen by which it was drawn. in the wagon were stowed away somc cooking ; utensils of the roughest description, a bell» tent, some biscuit and flour for ourselves, and a small supply of oats for thc hor to be reserved for a Zia/Inc bow/14: after \trv hard work. (lur party was completed by six pointers, destined to ass st in the cup- ture of the smaller game. For the more solid parts of our daily meals we tillfilml to our guns, which kept us pretty well sup- plied; and at evening we alwny s looked out for some spot well supplied w ith wood and 1 water, where we could cncainp for the night. Perhaps those evening halts were the pl ‘asi : antest hours in the whole expedition, when the wagon was outâ€"spanned, as the Uan phrase goes, the fire lighted, thcgame cook § ed and eaten, and our party drew round the ‘ tire of acacia-wood, to discuss the day‘s ad» i ventures over a cup of coffee and a pipe of civendish. Sometimes when our way lay through inhabited districts, our impromptu soircc was attended by liuslunen, llottcnq tots, or friendly (Jaffres, who had acconr panicd us during the day, pointing out the likeliest places for game, or “ spooring” an , eland o ' a hartebecst, over ground where no i European eye could discover the slightest trace of the footprints of any living crea- ture. They were most useful to us, and thought themselves amply rccoinpcin. a share in our supper, and a place by our fire. They often proved most entertaining companions; and as U spoke a little (Jaflrc, and scveral of them spoke brokcn Dutch, we. were able to make out their stories. Told as they were in those strange lonely places, by the woodâ€"fire, which costs its weird shadows on the tawny face of the narrator, with the darkness all round us, and the strange noises breaking now and‘ ‘then on that vast silence and solitude, every . tale of peril and adventure, of doing and daring, sounded terribly real; far more so than] can make them appear, when read in an English drawing-room so many thou- sand miles from the great wilds to which they belong. Nevertheless, one of those stories made such an impression on me, that I am temptâ€" cd to record it here, hoping to convey to others some faint degree of the breathless interest with which it was listened to by G AAAAA and myself, as it was narrated by one of those chance acquaintances, a wiry little Hottentot, who sat crouching over the fire, helping out his story by g ‘aeeful gesticula- tion, which increasedin energyas our absorb- ed attention flattered and pleased him. Some. years back, he told us, when he. was a more lad, he was in the service of a Dutch farmer iiithc Orange River Territory, in part of the country much infested by lions. it was his duty to drive his master’s cattle to pasture every morning, and to bring them bick to the farm at night, an employment which left. a good many idle hours on his hands; and what boy, llottcntot or l‘luro- pean, could, under ~ucl1 ciicumstanccs, lizivc r( rated an occasional rumble i‘fiifl'lllcdt- coy ng honcyvbird, or in search of ostrich eggs, or of some of the other numerous tron.» :‘ur so congenial to boyfriaturc, with which iliosc regions abound. The :zittle, who, (llll'lll! their keeper’s absence, were, of course, cit to their own devices, generally provcd quite capable of taking care of them‘ sclch ; but on one occasion, when the Hot: , te-ntot counted them over before driving them home be perceived that a fine milch (tow was missing, having doubtless availed, herself of onc of lllx‘ truantabsenccs to wan- ' dcr away from the rcst. To search for her , then was impossible, and he could only trust to thc carelessness of the upper servants, who often in cctcd to count nvcr the an» inmls as fl entered the kraal, hi this hope he was not dcccivcd : the loss passed , unnoticed: and be resolved that it should be replaced, if p0. ‘iblc, before he had again ' to risk the clmncc of discovery. Animated by the remembrance of former punishments, he set out alone, and without telling any one, in quest of the missing cow. He took ‘ wildcrcd, and still only llitlf»tt‘vl'(ll{0, be fun- .d byl bond as it was, it failed to rouse the tired boy into full coiiScIousncss, though it made 5 him start till he strained the belt which fastened him to the tree. ared and be- cicd for a moment that he was actually fall» , llllf into the jaws of a lion ; then asked him- 1. self, was the terrible sound a dream, con» l jurcd up by his unwontcd sleeping-place? A second roar thoroughly awakcncd him, and looking down, he saw in the moonlight. a large black-mancd lion seated at the foot :- of the tree, his eyes fixed on himself, and E liisboily motionlcss, save for an Occasional angry lash. of his tail. It was a dreadful moment : and thc hours which followed were more dreadful still. All through that terrible night the savage 1 beast sat watching his intended victim, and the terrified boy tint motionlc. ‘ also, afraid to stir, and almost to breathe, lest he should exaspcriilo the. lion. llncc his cramped attiâ€" l tude became. unbearable : come what might, l l l l l l he felt that he 9mm! stretch his stiffened ‘ limbs for a moment : and, as lioisclessly as ‘ possible, be shifted his position ; but he paid (l larly for the momentary relief, for at his : first cautious mo vcmcnt, the lion rose with a roar, and sprang at the tree, high enough to .1 make the llottoutot's blood rim cold, though 1 not high enough to reach him. As he threw himself back, and coiled his limbs into a still " more cramped position, he could hear the j deadly claws scraping down the tree, with a sound which might well make his heart die within him. Again the disappointed animal took up his post at the foot of thcl tree; and now the moon began to wane, and i again the sudden darkness came down on ‘ the face of the earth, and brought a little respite. to the prisoner in the acacia tree. Under its friendly shelter, he could at least . stretch his: stiil' logs, and in spite of the hor- l ror of his °i nation, hc dozcd from to time, . always waking with a start to the same be, i wildcrcd wondrr. as to whether all this was ‘ a realty or a (ll‘Citl‘iL lie was finally awakcin E cd by the raw cold air which precedes the (lawn and by the rushing by of a herd of‘ l antclopcs. fleeing before the face of the com- , ‘ mon Enemy. lt' may bc imagined in what i. breathless suspense he watched for the. day i which would probably decide his fate, how i eagerly he listened for some sound which might SllOW him whether or not the lion had abandoned his post. Once the cry of a Springbok fawn, calling its mother, gave him , hope ; if the lion was still there, would not the creature's instinct Yarn it to flee '3 All i too soon, however, light grew stronger, and, ,- by degrees, showed him the grim form at, the foot of the ti'eeâ€"â€"first in outline only, then the gleaming white teeth, became visi- ble, the cruel eyes still glaring up at him, the black mane, the sa 'age face. Through ‘ all that long night the lion had not stirred. More \vrctchcd hours, and then the sun rose hot and samrching, darting its unspar» ing rays on the poor Hottcntot, till his brain threbbcd painfully. The lion, too,. was evidently distressed; his tongue was lolling out of his iirmtli, his tail lashed his flanks uneasily. At last, towards noon, l heat. and thirst sccmcd to ovcrcomc him : i and with a throbbing heart, the kid saw him ‘. moving slowly oil". llnt ho was mistaken if . be supposed that the relentlcssaniuml would 1 illuillllull his prcv so easily; be stalkc away a and then stopped, look log back ixilh a. low growl, a precaution which be I't'jll'illt‘ll every minute or two, unlil hc i «bed :i pool of water, about two hundi cal) .mlsfrcm the tree, when he qucncli- ed his thirst, and hurried back to his post All liopc scorned gone now ; and, almost in , despair, the Ilettentot saw day fade intoli evening, and evening into night. It is useless to describe that second night ; it was worse than the first, inasmuch as the. j terriblc cnvl ~ cmcd more certain, and mind i and body wci ~ alike worn out with terror j '\ pin“ r and uttcr wcai invsa : but, on the other band he was. :1. micullat reassured by the failure of thc lions rcpeated attempts to reach him with a spring ; and when daylight i'cturin d, V be vcnlurcd, :iftcr r rcsliinu l)llni~;('lf\\'l1ll a little food and \thh r, to climb higher up to a post whence l e could look in the direction of his mil-ms farm. His. last hope now 1 was, that the farmer or some of his fellowâ€" servants might discover his abscncc, and ' come in search of him; and long and wcar- ‘ ily did he strain his cy es in that direction. 5 The rage of the lion, when he saw his. pris- i dclivcrei's. r ly, nriddenod by the cries . behind followed his eldest son and the re» ' ) i or two to meet them, then suddenly crouch- ' ed, with his head resting on his fore-paws, ; ing his example: at the same momcnt all ‘ the .and the dead report of the lllllt]llll:‘l{(’l’, . . , n ’ u . ‘ .tooth for a tooth, and continues, If the , out me to the heart, for the Group cough ‘bad idea. this, if only the [‘4‘sz Journal, oner move, was fearful to Witness ; he tore up the ground, bit the tree, and furrowed it with his claws ; but the Hottentot felt more secure in his position than he had done at 1 first, and, besides, the very despair of his situation gave him courage. Through all , the hot hours of that long day he remained on the lookout, often fancying that the in- , distinct forms of the hartebcests or guns were those of his master, or some of his stalwart 50113, with their long rifles, coming to the rescue. l But every hope ended in disappointment ; and at last, late in the afternoon, he gave it ‘ up in utti r despair, and prepared, with a sinking heart, to return to his former place, the only one in which he could fasten lii.n- ‘ self securely. As he began his cautious 1 (lurceiit, his eye Was caught by four darkl objects in the distance coming towards him. . Ills strained and dizzy eyes could hardly j distinguish them. but surely, surely they were advancing ; did his longing hope dc- ceive him again, or was their line tor) cvcn, l their advance too regular, for that cfa troOp i of wild animals? This time he was not i mistaken ; they came on slowly, but surely, and presently he could distinguish their forms. could see that they wci 0 four men on horseback. A slight rising ground hid the lion from any one in that direction until ‘ within twenty yards of him. In all the tu» mult of his sudden l‘clicf, tho llottcutot could psrccive that ; and taking off his sheepskin, he waved it; over his head, shouting with all his strength: “ A lit 11 l a, lion 1” long before his voice could reach his They, meanwhile, tame steadily a on : and now he could recognize them, the old farmer himself heading the party, twoj' of his tall sons, rifle in {land-Ha wclcomel sight~ and a llottentot servant carrying a flint musket. The lion was raging furious- i and gestures of: his prisoner, who only thought of warning the advancing party of their danger, before they came on the animal unawares. Suddenly the Hottentot, who had disc I mounted, and was following the “ spoor ” 1 on foot, stopped and looked up. l‘litherthc * boy’s cries had reached his car, or his quick cychad caught sight of his figure, for hcj pointed towards the trce, and then, in an i instant, he was on his horrc, and the whole l party advanced at a brisk gallop. This was 3 a moment of great suspcnse to the poor l Worn-out Hottentot, who could hardly find i vmce to send out his warningâ€"cry : “ A lion]! 1 a lion 1” He saw lihc advancing party ga lop on, till, on gaining the rising-ground, -. they suddenly haltch they had seen tlici ' lion. The magnificent be. st 1) ‘came aware of 1 their presence at the same moment, and, with leisurely pace, advanced to meet them: r then stood still, moving his tail slowly from g sidc to side,and uttering a suppressed growl. 1 His rage w; ‘ a splendid sight: but it may ' l l . be bclicved that his adversarii did not lose much time in contemplating it, They had hastily dismounted, and tied their hor "togetbcr, with their heads turncd away from the lion, lest terror should render them 3 unmanagc-alilc, and now they advanced oul foot. The old lloor, who had shot manyl a lion in his day, headed the party ; closcl maining two brought up the rear: all mov- ing firmly and cautiously, and each nith a' finger on his trigger. Thc lion moved a stop and remained so till, when his cncmics had approached to within twenty paces of him, he began slowly and noiselessly, to ri' e to; his feet. As slowly and noiselcsfly did the l farmer drop on his knee, the others 'ollow- four raised their guns to their shoulders, and, as the lion was in the act of springing, , sharp crack of the three rifles were heard at oncc. There was a. terrible roar of pain and baflled ago; and the noble animal bounded forward in his agony, and fell at the feet of the farmer and his son. ; How the llottcutot got down from the tree, , he never knew ; he remembered nothing I, afterwards until he stood by the dying lion, and saw him receive his coup {In gram by a ball through the head. The farmer pro- 1 nounch him the finest lion be had ever ; 8:01], and was so rejoiced at his death and a. the safety of his servant. that our friend csâ€" c.ipcd the punishment, from dread of whiuh he had nearly run on so horriblc a fate. 0f the truant cow, less fortunate than her keep» i far from the scene of this adventure. "4,... , ,,.. tlermany's Trained War Does. One of the novel features by means of} which (lcrmany will defend herself in the “impending” war is a battalion of traiir , ed dogs, which are now being drilled by a.) regiment of clicsseurs at Lubben. (lomâ€"j inenting on the value of this new tiglitinge or rather bittingâ€"power, the existence of, which is confirmed in (lcrman military: publications, the Poll! Journal advises (lcn. l Houlanger to act on the prcnciple of “a; Germans continue the edu :afion of their’ dogs, we ought, without delay, to enlist a regiment of cats, and the battles which these two hereditary enemies will light will lessen the monotony of field life.” Not a; would find a means of curimr the. instinct of 1 a cat to turn tail sight of a dog. If this dilliculty can be overcome thcrc is no knowr ing what the cats may not do, for their rcp- 4 utsition as warriors has been grcal. ever since. (Iainbysos gained his great vicloi'y ‘ over the l‘lgvptiaiis by the help of an army ! : of Egyptians cats. ‘ i‘liim-sc ‘E‘rca‘é‘uiciil of Animal“. They never punish : hence a mule that in the bands of a foreigner would not be only" useless, but dangerous lo cvcry onc alumii it, becomes, in the pOSsChsiou olaflhinaman, ' as quiet ‘l a lamb and as tractable as a. do}; I We never behold a runaway, a jabbing, o" l a vicious mule or pony in ii llhinamuu'sl employmcnt;but found the same rattling chc' rle pace maintmincd ovcr hcavy or , light l'nuilu. by means of a fur r or clu-. :-k, the lu-zvct turning to the right or left. and; ‘lupplhgf with but a hint from the, reins. This irraiincn‘i is cxtcndcd lo all an- inmls thcv press into thcir si‘ (lttcnd havc i admired the. tact. exhibited in get; l ting a l :rc drovc of sheep through narrow crowded streets and alleys by incrcly having a little boy to load one of the quiet of the ' flock in front ; others steadily followed with- out. the aid either from a yolping cur or a cruel goad. (Tattle, pigs, and birds, are cquacly cared for. tho . life. i time. THE TOBACCO HABIT. Some Plain Talk from one Who Knows all Aboul lit. Have you ever stopped to think what the use of tobacco means inot to your neighbor, your friend or your relative, but to your» self? Do you really think it is doing you any good, and if not are you prepared to say it is not doing you any harm '3 Your hand is as steady as ever it was ;~~granted, ‘ but is your eye as bright; or if itis, is your l digestion as good? 7 Have you never felt a fluttering of the heart or a something ris- ing in your throat which while it was there iniadc you feel anything but comfortable. If not, and you are a devoted servant of the weed, you must have an iron constitutionâ€" a constitution which if you would only take care of it would perhaps last you ten, fifteen ;or twenty years longer than it will if you continue as you are doing. The fact that you are a smoker is no proof, remember, that you are killing yourself, for a few inveterate smokers have lived to be a. hundred years old. But it is proof that you are not bene- fiting your constitution, and the life insur- ance companies, whose business it is to take chances on men‘s ,lives, will pass you over in favor of a non smoker, or if you insist on being insured you will have to pay for the extra risk. There are more chances, do you see, of your dying within a. certain specified time than of the man who does not smoke. No doubt you would 1.11;}: To (HIT A sini‘mc RULE by which you or your friends may learn whether tobacco is injuring you or them. ,lllortunately there is a very simple one, and here it is : Try to make up your mind to give up using tobacco. If you can do so right off, and keep to your good resolution, the poison has not yet got complete mastery of your system. On the other hand, if you find it hard to make up your mind in such a simple matter, or begin making excuses for not doing so, or, having made your mind up to quit it, you vacillaie and turn to your idol again, rest assured that tobacco is the master. It has sappcd right up to the last defence and has attacked the citadel of the soul itself, the centre from which every thought and every nerve impulse originates. One last g “and effort may route the enemy and save the citadel. Perhaps you are a. poor man and often Wonder at the “luck” of a neighbor who has riser) to allluencc while you have been iplodding and pulling all the days of your Did it never occur to you that perhaps if you had pulled less you might have been in a better position 10-day than you are? Perhaps you had a business transaction with some one a few years ago, but at the time your attention was divided between your pipe and the man you were bargaining vith. The result was that he got the bet- ter of you and that corner lot or that mill ‘ , sight which you let slip through your fingers has proved a veritable gold mine to the shrewd bargainer. Competition today is too keen for any man who L'pccts to sue» coed to have his attention distracted from his business by pipe, cigar, cigarette or wine glass. Work when you have it to do, and flit): when by honest exertion you have our red at ‘ holiday, pack your dunnage, and with gun or rod, start for Muskoka along with your fam» fly, and enjoy yourself as the Almighty inv tended you should, leaving the camp lire and the guides to do the smoking. A lady speaking of her husband says he is an inveterate smoker and chewer, and she believes the constant smell of the wood has injured her health. There are hundreds of others who tell the same story. Now, if these husbands want to make their wives rthink of them as they used to, they will throw pi] e and tobacco into the stove and . say nothing. llon’t put them away with the generous intention of presenting them to a friend. If you do, the chances are you will present them to your best friend (your~ : self) within the next twenty-four hours. __. +.___g _ Mn rm 11 ring. “I was tired of washing dishes ; l was ' tired of drudgery. 1 had :iliv‘oys been so, and l was dissatisfied. I never sat down a. moment to read that Jamie didn't want a cake, or a bit of paper to scribble on, or a ‘ bit of soap to make bubbles. I’d rather be , in prison,” I said one day, “ than have my . or, only the larger bones were found, not life teased out so,” as Jamie knocked my cl» bow when I was writing to a friend. But a moment came when I had one plate less to wash, one chair less to set away by : the wall in the dining-room; when J amio’s ‘ little crib was put away into the gal’ret, and ‘ it has never come down since. I had been unusually frctful and discontented with him that damp May morning that he took the croup. Gloomy weather gave me the head- ache, and I had less patience then than at any other time. By and by he was singing in another room 2 “I want to be an angel," i and presently rang out that metallic croup. I never hear that hymn since that it doesn’t rings out with it. Ilc grew worse towards night, when my husband came home and went for the doctor. At first he seemed to help him, but it merged into inflammatory croup and was soon over. “ l ought to have been called sooner,” said the doctor. I have a servant to wash dishes now ; and when a. visitor comes I can sit down and en- tertain her without having to work all the There is no little boy worrying me to opcn his jack-knife, and there are no shav» ings on the floor. The magazines are not ' oiled with looking at the pictures, but stand prim and neat on the reading-table, just as ' l lcavc thcm. “Your carpet never looks dirty,” say ; weary, worn mothers to inc. liut my life is as weary as theirsrrrwenry with sitting in my parlor at twilight, weary with watching for the little arms that used to Lwiuc around my neck, for thc curls that brushed against my check, for the youngr ‘ laugh that rang out with mine, as we wutclr ‘ ’ cd ihc hissing coal fire, or made rabbits with the shadows on the wall, waiting merrily for peipzt’c cominghomc. l have the ucalth and «use I oncc longed for, but at what prich ‘ And when l scc other mothers with grown» ’ up sons driving to town to church and my , hair silvered over with gray, 1 think what might have been had 1 murmured lcss at the providence of (lod. Readerrflyoung mother you may be~~harl you heard this mother tell her story, you would have fclt disposed to say with the writer, “ I will be more patient with my lit» tlc onesâ€"l will murmur lcss.”~]i’omc Illumi- 21271.0. SCIENCE. ANU'I‘IHZR Socncii 0F Ai.cr>iioi..~Swect potatoes promise to be a valuable source of alcohoL Experiments carried out in the French Arctillcs have developed a. yield of four gallons of alcohol to every 132.? pounds: of potatoes. This may prove of consider»- ablc importance to us, as large tracts of land throughout the lower Atlantic seaboard are peculiarly adapted to this product. RAJ-in ll‘llJIHRAl’llY. «»~Tclegr'aphy proniv ises to be greatly expedited by the intro~ duction of a new system of combined sten» ography and telegrapliy. By this mear the operator is able to record and transmif alarge number of words instantaneously Cxpcriments in France have given the fol. lowing results \iith a single wir *: (l) 400 words per minute to a distance of 2‘20 miles. (2) 280 words per minute to a distance of 400 miles. (3) 200 words a minute to a diS» tauce of 560 miles. Messages may even be.- sent simultaneously in opposite directions. Fool) AND \Voiik. it is popularly sup. posed that the quantity of food eaten is i‘eg-~ ulated by the muscular work accomplislied._ But such has hardly been the result of ex pericncc. The lloman soldiers, who built such magnificent ioads and carried a heavy: burden of armor and luguacc, lived wholly on coarse brown. bread and sou r wine. The Spanish peasantry work all their days or; black brc id, onions, and \vatcri‘nclons. The 1 Smyrna porters car 800 pounds, and their diet is fruit and oliv . Moderation in diet and regularity both in food and exercise seem to be the bcst prerequisites for physi- cal end nrancc. Tiir. CAMERA is .i\ insulin: l)l~2Tli("l‘Ul:.r« A photographer u riics to the (fauna/m. May» (film. that he once 1o< k the photograph of a child that was sccmingly in good health and with a clear skin. The negative shon'» ed the face to bc thickly covered with iii: eruption. Thri c days aftcruuird the child was covered with spots due to prickly heat. “The :amera had seen and photographed the eruption three days before it was visi. blc to the nail-zed eye.” It is said that an. other case lof a similar kind is recorded where a child show cd spots on his portrait, which were visiblc on his face a foi'tniglii ju‘evious to an attack of small-pox. AC’I‘IUX or “Carri: o.\ LL.“»,â€"»~According to the most icicnt rcra‘arc s of l’rofs‘. Crookes, Odliug, and Tidy, it appears that the action of water upon lcad pipes in not directly dcpcudcut upon the relative hank ncss or softness of the w- icr, as commonly, supposed, but upon tl amount of dissolvoi‘. silica. As a result of elaborate experi ments, it has becu shown that when water contains 0 3 grain; silica pcr gallon lead is; rapidly taken up_ lint. when 0.5 grain» ‘silzca arc pr sort water has no action or: the pipes. If watcr is to be uscd from a lcadsurfz .c, than. we, tiltialiion through a silica (sand) filler is advisable. If, however, lwatcr contains no more than 0.5 grains of lead per gallon it is regarded by the Sitllie‘ authorities as nor.~injurious to the animal economy. l’os'i‘Moirrcu Pnnsua‘..a'rios.~A IDUS.» rcmarkakble cas‘c of [VJStJli'Il‘fUln preserva- tion comes to us from Indianapolis, Ind A lady dié d in that city some thirty years: Since, and her body, in :1. iron colliu, was placed in a dry vault. ltci cutly the collin was opened and the bodv found to be per- :f( tly 1,)1‘Cmil'Kizil, mm: the bloc color of flu: eyes being recognizable A careful exam. ination of the body sloucd that its material had changed into ilic so-callcd “ adipoccre.” l This is a peculiar chemical compound {OTIHA cd from the fatty acids with the alkalis. Other cases of such transformation in the ‘ presume of moisture are i’wordcd. lint this is one of the most remarkable, as the- body, though kcpt pcrfcctly dry, had re. v taincd its form so completely. «My... Elbow (0 Examine n. Witness. The real tcst of a successful advocate lthc examination of \vitnes s. The lawyer ‘ and the witness a re often cniirc strangers, i and it rcquirr 1 kcci in:ight into charac ter, a strong grip, and at the same time. a delicate touch in the former to handle thc lluttcr so as to make the most of him with , out the introdiu-tiou of any disturbing elc. ,lrnent. llcrc is an old story wl ch well ll lustratcs the point. Two Ah lawyers, Henry Cockbui‘n and .lrsllci'y, wc acting to gctlzcr in a (“inc which turned upon the can i l l l Hen ,3 ity or iinsanit_ of one of the parties “ ls thedefendant," asked .lcllci'y of a. thesis, “perfectly sane. in your opinion?" The witness, bewildered by the word “lune,” gazed vacantly at the lzn ,cr, and gave no answer. “ llo you il:Ei inc dcfcudant cap. ablc of nainaging his own :illliirs “I” asked .lcll'ery, (tlulugin'f the foim of the question. The witness \ :l more vacahtly. “ I ask you,” continued .l ell “ do you consider the man rational ‘1" The \vitnwxs scratched his head. “ lief nic tackle him,” said (Iockburn, seeing tl his associate was; making a failure of the examination. “ Hat. ye your mull [snuff-bird u i’ ye Y” be asked. in the broadest of Scotih. “ Uu, ay,” an- swered the awk 'ard fellow, being put at his case by the simple requisr, and handing his snuffâ€"horn to the lawyer, who, taking a pinch, said, “ Non, hoo lang hac ye kent John Sampson ‘1” “ liver sincc he was that hight,” answered the witne indicating by a. gesture the hight. “ An' lliLO ye think noo, atwccn you and me," asked (Iockburn. in his most insinuating broguc, there’s onything intill the crca are 2"" “ .l would not lippcn [trust] him with a bull calf.” was the instant rz‘eply, amid roars of , laughter. f A Safe Motto. One. of our bellcs. who is wooed, and wil j soon be won. cmbroincrcd a motto for a pro l sent to the family parlors. it. is o. Scriptur al text and capable of wide applimfion, but when it was donc in wcr tcd, its meaning was materially changed. l‘litbcr from lnatural confusion of ideas. or n la n of pro ,pcr punctuation Miss "4 :zzoflo road as ifollows: a The village of linittlingcu, in \Vurtem lbcrg, will celebratc this: month ihe 400th anniversary of the birth of Johann Faust. ‘tlic famous “ sorr-cr‘cr ” and progenitor of Goethe's immortal hcro. Johann Faust ‘ voritably studied, first medicine, then them ll ' y, and, finally, in the. University of (Ira- cow, the science of mun‘omancy, then a re l cognizcd branch of learning. He enjoyed a great reputation as quack and sorcerer, and ‘thc. oldest book which record» his doings and fate, the “Ilistoria von llr. Johann ll‘auston , ” appeared in FlellifOI t-onthe-Main just 300 years ago.