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There are many other curious facts con- nected with the progress of cold waves. Many instances oc :nr, says Lieut. Woodrufl, where the temperature at a given station, at the time of the appearance of the cold wave in the northwest, is lower than the minimum afterward produced by the cold wave. It often happens that a cold wave sets in from the extreme Northwest, and upon reaching the Mississippi Valley divides a part going northeasterly to the lower lake region and the other part southward to the Gulf States. In either case the intensity appears to be greatly dimin- ished. This action seems generally to be due to the sudden development of a storm somewhere in the southern part of the Missouri valley. Sometimes a storm of slight energy remains in Kansas, Misâ€" souri, and the Indian Territory, and has the eflect of retarding, or even totally destroy- ing a cold wave. Again, when a cold wave is retarded in this way it seems often to ather force and intensity, and rush rapidly orward and spread over the entire country. Another frequent feature is that after a cold wave commences the temperature con- tinues to fall in the North-west, and an- other wave is formed entirely distinct from the first, from which it becomes separated by a warm wave. The warm wave is only a narrow belt, but the cold waves are per- fectly distinct. “ 1".er ‘ m Some Results of Observatlons (‘oncernlng‘ the Career orlht- Great Amen- cnn Blilzunl. As in the case of the tornado, the direct origin of the cold wave is shrouded in mys‘ very. It is known that a. majority of cold waves make their appearance in the North- west east of the Rocky Mountains; and it isalso pretty well established that they are due to an inrush cf cold air from the regions of perpetual snow and ice at the north. But why that region should be any more hospitable to cold air from the north pole than other sections, where cold waves form less frequently or not at all, is an important problem that has never been solved. The- ories have been advanced based upon the vastness of the plains in that region and their capacity for absorbing and giving off heat, but no theory on the subject has been generally accepted, and the greatest meteor- ological authorities in the country do not attempt to explain the phenomenon in their writings. Cold waves may form at any mo- ment. They seem to depend not at all on the time of day, and but to a limited extent on the season of the year. They do not come and go in cycles but erratically. m,,,_ The second class was the most numerous iii the four years observed. The rate 01 pro- gress was very variable. Considering Helena as the first point of observation, there were six cases in which the cold wave was felt simultaneously at St. Paul and Helena; 19 in which it reached St. Paul 8 hours after its appearance at Helena, 19 in 16 hours, 11 in 24 hours, 12 in 32 hours, 3 in 4) hours, '2 in 48 hours, and l in 72 hours. From this it will be seen that of all the cold waves that reach St. Paul from Helena, 73 per cent. arrive within twenty-four hours. As a rule, it is found that the maximum effect of a cold wave occurs at each station in a. very short time after its occurrence in the Northwest, generally within twenty-four hours, and often at the northern and west- on stations at once. Thirdâ€"Thoseuwhich move southerly from Montana. and Dakota to Texas, thence through the Gulf States, and then northeast- erly over the Atlantic coast States. It sometimes occurs with this class thatfthe cold wave is first felt in St. Louis and Shreveport before being felt at St. Paul and Chicago, and that then the cold wave takes general movement eastward of the second class. Then it is shown that in the four years under consideration, 114 of the cold waves observed originated east of the Rocky M oun- tains, or come down the east side of these mountains from the British Northwest Ter- ritory, while 34 other cold waves observed came from the Pacific coast. With but few exceptions, all the cold waves in the North- west appeared first at Helena, Mont, and these few exceptional ones were felt first at Bismarck, Duk. “ \Ve must conclude,” adds Lieut. \Voodrufl', “that these waves have their origin in the vast regions of ice and snow near the arctic circle, far to the north of our stations. fl Seéondâ€"Those which move in a. south easterly direction and cover the entire coun try__i1_1 t_hei:>progre_s§. Activity, like zeal, is only valuable as it is applied ; but most people bestow their praise on the quality, and give little heed to the purposes to which it is directed. Areas of high and 'low barometer move almost invariably across the United States from west to east. Most areas of low baro- meter are formed in the region east of the Rocky Mountains; and as these low areas move easterly, the high moves in and we have 'a cold_wave of more or less intensity as the result. ' tinselâ€"Those that move dirEctly across the country from west to east, and which follow an almost invariable path along the chain of eat lakes and across New England. These do not extend to the States south of the Ohio. WitlIi-Vespect to their progressive motive, cold waves are divided into fibres classes 2» The tables prepared by Lieut. Woodruff show that cold waves are most numerous and most severe in the months of January, February, and March, although some Very severe ones do make their appearance in other months of the year. Also it appears that the most decided changes of tempera- ture appear upon the 3 P. M. charts of the Signal Service, and that the most decided and moat severe cold waves follow severe storms. The prediction of the progress of a cold wave is attended with a good deal of difliculty, largely on account of the fact that there is no way of determining which of the three paths it will takAe. Lieut. Thomas“ M. Woodrufl". the officer in charge of the indications tfl‘ice in St. Paul, made something ofastudy of cold waves which connected with the chief weather office in Washington, and the re- sults of this study are given in a pamphlet in the “ Signal Service notes ” series, pub- lished in 1885. Ihe pamphlet contains the substance of all that is known with refer- ence to this subject, Lieut. “'oodrutf made his studies from the tri~daily weather charts of the years 1881 to 1884 inclusive. After stating in a general way that a fall of tem- erature succeeds or follows an area of low arometer; that a rise precedes such an area, and that with respect to an area of high barometer the rise and fallot tempera- ture usually ‘occur in reverse order, he says : THE S‘VEEP OF THE COLD WAVE. The report that was current in the cable dispatches some. time ago that Lord Lansâ€" downe, now Go'vernor-General of Canada, was to succeed Lord Duflerin as Viceroy of India, and that Lord Stanley, of Preston, brother of, and heir presumptive to, the Earl of Derby, was to reign at Ottawa, has been confirmed. These changes, we pre- sume, are supposed to be base on a system of promotion, but they remind us most forc- ibly of Mr. James Anthony Froude’s remark in his latest book, “ The English in the West Indies,” that the Home policy, in ef- fect, has come to be a matter of rotation in colonial office. No matter how efiicient or inefficient a Governor of any province or colony may have proved himself, when it becomes advisable to remove him elsewhere ; the pieces are merely moved on the checker- board. In this instance the changes have been made necessary by the resignation of l Lord Duffel-in, which some people affect to regard as a surprise, whereas the truth is that he proposed to take this step two or three years ago, when Lord Salisbury first took office, but was persuaded to re- main at Calcutta owing to the then critical state of things on the Afghan bound- ary and in Burmah. Now the situation at both extremes has greatly improved and Lord Dufl‘erin doubtless feels at liberty to carry his original purpose into execution. But what is his lordship going to (10.; He is notoriously not a rich man and for many‘ years has fed on governorships and Viceroy- alties until the salaries attached must have ‘ become to him more or less of an object. That a man so diplomatic in debate and so astute in policy will be allowed to seek se. clusion is out of the question. How, then, will he be employed? The strangest feature ‘ as regards answering that is that nobody appears to know how Lord Dnfl'erin stands l relative to Home Rule. Some say that he his well aflected towards it ; others that he is coming to England to denounce Mr. Balfour and to take a prominent part in attack ing that gentleman’s course in Ireland; others again that he is going to support Lord Londonderry at Dublin C astle, and yet others who believe that he is gonng to enter the cabinet as foreign minister. To :whatever party his lordship allies him- self he will undoubtedly lend both strength and influence. But, of our new governor. Lord Lansdowne cannot be called a bright or a brilliant man, and is no more like- ly to set the Ganges on fire .in India. than‘ he has done the St Lawrence in Canada, but for all that he has a latent force of charac- ter that in cases of emergency stands him, in good stead, as was shown by his attitude, during the O'Brien episode. Moreover he‘ has that necessary adjunct of the modern governor an indisposition for meddling.‘ His successor, Colonel Frederick Arthur Stanley, Baron of Preston, created so in 1886, comes of too staunch astock to be really the “ amiable nonentity” that the Pall Mall Gazette declares him. In fact such is the history of the family that in spite of the political instability of the present Earl Derby, it is almost impossible to think of the family without reflecting upon the discovery made by the London Times at‘the death of his father, the Rupert of Debate, that there is but one word in the English language that rhymes with Stanley, and that isâ€"manly. Our coming ruler may not be an orator or a man of letters, but he has had much experience of official life, having been in Parliament for twenty-three years and filled the positions of a Lord of the Admiralty, Financial Secretary to the War Oflice, Secretary to the Treasury, Secretary of State for \Var, Secretary of State for the Colonies and President of the Board of Trade, an office he will resign to come to Canada, and is, therefore, well qualified to preside over Ministerial Councils. More over, he is described as hospitable, affable and sensible, and what more can be desired of an occupant of Rideau Hall? He is married to Lady Constance Villiers, fourth daughter of the Earl of Clarendon, and is the father of a large family. The King of the Slavers. When Tippu Tib, , the great slave and ivory trader of central Atrica, returned to Stanley Falls last spring he was not welcom- ed by the other Arab and half-caste traders. Some of them are almost as powerful as him- self, and though they had for years acknow- ledged his leadership, they now combined to oppose, and even to fight him. The reason was that Tippu Tib had turned his back upon his old business and his former friends and had engaged in the service of the Congo State, to suppress the slave trade at Stanley Falls. It was hoped that with the large force of men in his sevrice he would be able to cope successfully with the slave merchants if they undertook to carry on their murderous raids in spite of his inter- diction. Tippu Tih believed himself that he needed no assistance in thework of assert- ing his complete authority over the Stanley Falls district. .I.‘ mu: unuu nu. Tippu Tib overrated his strength. All the traders combined against him and bluntly gave him to understand that if he had sold himself to the enemies oi Ehe . nun. nun“.-. " trade" he had better take himself off. for the merchants intended to do as they pleas- ed. This was a. great disappointment to the old leader of the slave stealers, for he (Belugaw fivfiafillggrfltbrstayl the progress of the slave traders with military toroe.__ It is very likely that there will be stir- ring timea at Stanley Falls as soon as an ac- tive effort is made to subject the traders to the authority of the Congo State ; and it is certain that a harder fight than Gordon’s against the Soudanese slavera will be re- quired to stop the traffic of the Zanzibar {)nerchants in the upper part of the Congo asm. lev VIM AUI-uvl v- -..- 7... , had expected to convince the most powerful among them that their greatest profit in the future was in the direction of the legitimate ivo_ry trade by way of the Congo River. 7 ,_ .»__:...:l n The next Host down the river carried a report from Tippu Til) to King Leopold, in which he said that before attempting to co- erce the slavers into submission he would await the arrival of ammunition, of a small force of soldiers, and of two or three white officers whose counsel he desired. He had in his camp a considerable force of his own men, and he wished to have them reinforced by only a small body of trained soldiers from the lower river. Capt. Van de Velde, one of the oldest and best known agents of the Congo State, was accordingly sent from Belgium to the Congo. He organized at Poma his party of less than 200 Houses soldiers from the Soudan, and accompanied by three white officers he started up the river. His expedition, it is supposed, will reach Stanley Falls this week. This is the first attempt of the whites in the The Gnvernor-Generalship. A Mysterious Incident by the haunted of :1 Chattanooga Man. The killing of Lewis Owens by James M. Barnes last month will be recalled. But there is one peculiar feature of the case, or rather a. feature that grew out of the case, that has just come to the surface, and that is as yet known to but few Chattanoogans. After the soup had been served, and just prior to serving the next course, the host gave his signal and rose from his seat, as did every other gentleman at the table, all the ladies remaining seated. Each gentle- man then moved to the next gentleman’s seat to his right. When this was first done the ladies, not being let into the secret, were very much surprised at the unusual conduct of the gentlemen, and could not at once comprehend the meaning of it; but when they gathered its full intent, and the charm there was in it, it was decidedly gra- tifying to note the merriment and interest with which they received the innovation. Just prior to the commencement of the next course the host gave his signal again, and each gentleman again moved one gentleman's seat to his right, and so on. The entire setâ€" ting of the courses was so harmoniously ar- ranged that at the close of the dinner each gentleman had visited, for a short space, every lady at the table and had at last re- turned to her whom he had escorted in to dinner. A few months ago young Barnes ‘came here from Georgia and formed a. partnership with M. J. Nix to engage in the boot and shoe trade. After a few weeks Barnes sold out to Lewis Owens,.one of the wealthiest and best-known men in Tennessee. It ap- pears that Barnes and Owens quarrelled over the settlement, and, after being struck in the face, Barnes drew his revolver and shot Owens three times, the third shot being fatal. though not instantly. The wounded man was carried to his house, where every- thing possible was done, but nothing could save him. However, he fought desperately to beat back the rider of the pale horse. and so gallantly did he struggle that he lived several days. Saturday, Jan. 14, came, and Barnes was for the second time taken before the magistrate, and after a stubbornly fought trial he was released on hail, the magistrate holding that inasmuch as the vic- tim of his shooting was still alive, murder was not yet committed. The next day 0w- ens grew worse, and toward evening sank into a stupor. Those who had been watch- ing by the bedside knew the end was not far off. MLSharp is one of the best-known citizens of Chattanooga, 3 memter of the bar, ex- Mayor of the city, inteiligent and fearless. he is so Well known and his word is so trustworthy that those who‘have heard the story cannot but believe that something supernatural attended the flight of Lewis Owen’s spirit from its prison home of clay. A Good Family Clock. Omaha. Jewelerâ€"“Here, air, is aclock which will, I think, please your eathetic castes. Ac precisely 10 o'clock every even- ing a chime of bells rings and a. bird hops out and sings a. cargl.”_" ‘ _ â€"not loud, but ominousâ€"were distinctly heard ; and that for an instant the lamp, which had been turned low, almost went out, and the little light left seemed to shine as though through a. fog. What it was I know not, but it couldn’t have been fancy on the part of us all. There were two other watchers beside myself. Besides, I was in asepurste room.with the door closed, and I had said nothing to them of the tap- ping on my shoulder. If I were a Spiritu- alist I would believe that the soul of Lewis Owens, just starting on its journey home stopped to say good-by to me, for when we went to look at our charge he was still in death.” Omaha fianâ€"“ I will take that if you will make a. few changes in it.” “ With pleasure." “ 1 have a. daughter and I wish the clock for the parlor Where she entertains her com- pany. Fix it so that at 11 o’clock at night a. milkman’s bell will ring and a newshoy will skip out and yell, ‘ Morning papers.’ " Among those who remained through the night was (ax-Mayor Snarp. A little after 4 o’clock Monday morning, Mr. Sharp left the room in which the wounded man was lying for a moment, and a. circumstance that soon occurred is the feature referred to in the beginning of this story. Mr. Sharp does not like to talk of the matter, but be con- sented to tell it :0 your correspondent, and his own words are used. “I was standing," he said, “with my elbow resting upon the mantelpiece, looking down into the fire. The coals were nearly consumed, and the apparent efforts of the embers to burst again into flames again re- minded me of the-heroic efforts of my friend to get a fresh and strong hold upon the soul that was surely, though slowly slipping away from him, And I was running over in my mind the vicissitudes of lifeâ€"how fleet of foot misfortunes are; how sorrow comes across our path at the meridian hour of the brightest day, leaving a shadow by usâ€"when the lines of Horace came to me : ‘ Pale death with equal tread knocks at the cottage of the poor and the palace of the rich.’ The thought was still lingering in my mind when I was aroused by a tap on my shoulder. Supposing some one had en- tered while I was absorbed in thought, I turned to answer, but no one was there, and ,the door was still closed. I was start- led, and immediately returned to the wounded man’s side, where I found the watchers as pale as the watched, and trem- bling like aspen leaves. They asked me if I had been making any noise, and on assur- ing them to the contrary they looked at each other in amazement. They said that just before I entered the room a sound as of the moaning of the wind seemed to pervade the room, and peculiarly appalling sounds In front of the postoffice of Vrirsailles, Mo., there is a placard on which is the fol- lowing announcement :â€" Stamps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 cents. Stamps licked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 cents. Stamps licked and stuck . . . . . . . . . . . 4 cents. “ If I might venture to make a sugges- tion, madame,” said the tombstone agent, in a. sombre yet respectable manner, “ I should say the motto ‘He has gone to a. betzer land’ would be an appropriate one.” “ You forget, sir,” said the lady in black, thh cold dignity, “ that; he lived in Boston.” An Enterprisinz Postmaster. WAS I'l‘ A MAN’S SOUL? Novelty in Dinners. The China Tea Trade. A fact not generally known is that the tea trade with Great Britain is rapidly de- serting China and being transferred to India. Heavily taxed China tea cannot compete, it seems, with the duty-free tee. of India, and if the taxation is not remitted the tea-trade of China is Within measurable distance of extinction. The entire crop of India tea in 1890 will be laid down in Lon- don at a cost of 6d. per pound or under, While the average cost of the Foochow Con- gou this year was 91, per pound laid down in London, for teas inferior to those of India growth. It is thought to be too late to re. cover the lost ground, but that timely and vigorous measures may yet enable China to retain a good share in this important trade. Other causes have contributed to the de- cadence of the China tea trade. Among those mentioned are negligent cultivation. imperfect firing, excessive admixture of dust and stalks, and fraudulent practices on the part of the native tea guilds. For- merly it was the practice among tea growers to trench the ground of the plan- tations, manure the plants and prune them at least once a year, while every year some were replaced by new shrubs. Now, how- ever, no trenching, manuring, or pruning is done, no new stock is planted, and the worn-out trees are so stripped, that four and even five crops are taken instead of three, and the last ;crops are torn off with shears or bill-hooks. Owing to want of sap in the leaf, the teas are so lightly fired that they commence to deteriorate within three or four months of packing. The dust and stalks have lost the continental mar- kets and those of Australia and Canada to the Foochow teas and caused the latter to be replaced by teas from Ceylon. A postmaster in a small village in Misais- sippi has written to the postmaster general asking him to discontinue the office. He explains that his neighbors, who are wool growers, became distrustful of his rabbit dog, and in consequence, he states “ it turn- ed up missing. So I am left here “ with- out the means of sustenance. So if you ex- pect me to get up nights for the train you will have to forward at once some pork and beans or some other nourishment, or a new postmaster will have to be appointed at this place." He adds in postscript : “ Mr.â€" wsnts me to split him some mils if I can get rid of this office ; so hurry up with the grub or the discharge.“ The olfice was dis- continued in response to his appeal.â€"Roches- ter Democrat. A Torontonian in Vancouver. A former resident of this city, writing from Vancouver, B. 0., to a. friend here says :â€"“There is a great demand tor brick- layers at $5 per day, plasterers $5, carpen- ters $3, stonemasons $5 and painters $3 per day, and a man can Work, with the excep- tion of a few days, all winter. Builder’s labourers get $2.50 per day. With the ex- ception of house rent a family can live here as cheap as in Toronto. House rent here is very high. A house that rents for $12 in Toronto is 330 here. Lumber is about 30 per cent. cheaper here than in Toronto and bricks are $10 per 1,000, so you can build a house here as cheap as in Toronto with the exception of labor.” In Salt Lake City the houses of the Mor- mons all have two front doors, even the smallest of them. Some have also two wood- sheds and two wells. A house that is begun with only one room is frequently lengthened out room by room and door by door as new wives are taken. ‘ A curious complication has arisen in con- sequence of the murder of .the Woolfolk family by Tom Woolfolk near Macon, Gm, which was one of the most revolting trage- dies of this generation. The murderer now lies in goal under sentence of death, and he has been approached by the heirs of both his murdered father and mother. No one but the condemned man knows the parti- culars of the crime. If he killed his father first, his mother’s heirs will come into the property ; but, if his mother died first, his two surviving sisters and himself succeed to the property. A full confession from this monster is expected before his execu. tion in order to clear up this point. A good deal of fault is being found in the United States with the manner in which “ Old Probs ” at Washington has been doing his work of late. During the past year or so his “ indications ” are said to have been singularly fallacious and misleading. This winter half a dozen cold waves which never turned up have been predicted for the East- ern States, while no warning was given of the great blizzard in the North-\Vest. It may be that “ Old Probs ” is losing his grip, and if so the people will have to re- turn to the good old method of spying out weather by means of the goose bone and the ground hog. The crocnses and hyacinths are already beginning to push their green points through the bare beds and lawns of our suburban gardens, and more than one morning dur- ing this month of January has brought with it a feeling of spring time in the air, giving pleasure to all save the gardeners, who dread a too earlyibudding of tender growths. More indicative still of the mildness of the season is the reawakening of the birds. An observer of natural phenomena reports that in Lancashire the birds, in spite of the great autumnal migrations, are just now everywhere very plentiful. Golden plovers, numerous during the frost, are since the weather grew milder away again to the hills. The flocks of lapwings are reported to be very large, and the frosts have not been sufficiently prolonged to drive them away to the sea-coast to procure food. The same observer has heard the throstle and blackbird singing almost every day this mon 1h ; but, adds this Lancashire Gilbert \Vhite, though there are plenty of skylarks with us, they have not been singing much yet, as there has been little sumâ€"London Daily News, Jan. 27. The loss of the tea trade is undoubtedly a. grave blow to China, but: its gain by India could be taken as anotner argument in favor of Imperial federation and fair trade, as showing how thoroughly inde- pendent of all outside supplies the British Empire might be made. Brown (to Robinson, who is reading a telegram with a look of anguish on his face) â€"“ What’s the matter, old fellow? Some- body dead? Robinsonâ€"(crushing the tele- gram with both hands)â€"“No; somebody alive! Twins.” lie Got His Discharge Spring in England. New York horsemen in driving put 'a. few folds of paper across the chest undid-math- the overcoat as well as at the back, and find efl'ectual protection against the cold winds that prevail at this season. The paper is like a wall in completely protecting the wearer. An English County Court judge has com- mitted a lawyer to prison for saying that something which fell from his honor’s lips was “ an unjust remark.” Another judge has just come into fame by calling a Witness a liar. The witness promptly retorted that the judge himself was “ u liar and an im- pudent old vagabond.” This witness did not get committed. It is stated that a London firm has re- ceived an order from the Russian Govern- ment for a flee t of balloons for war purposes. Each balloon is to carry a car which will accomodate six men and will cost, with appurtenances, $2,500. The balloons are being made of a preparation of asbestos which is strictly non-infiammab‘e and they will be filed with rarefied air. An Iowa clergyman has challenged the “ faith healers,” “ mind curers " and. “Chris- tian scientists " to a test of their powers. The terms of the challenge are that the sub- jects shall be deaf, blind or afflicted with cancer, and for every cure effected the clergyman agrees so pay $10 to a missionary fund. A Columbia, Md., healer named Schrader has accepted the ofier, agreeing to pay a like sum into the same fund for every failure. The test will take place in Chica- go at an early date. Speaking of the chal- lenge the Chicago News says 2â€"“ No student of the history of medical delusions Will ex- pect any practical result from this business. Least of all will he expect the collapse of the “ faith cure ” when Mr. Schrader finally confesses his inability to make the deaf hear and the blind see and the cancer‘stricken w hole. There seems to be little doubt that the Panama Canal Company is on the verge of bankruptcy, the French Ministry having de» clined to sanction M. de Lesseps's last de- vice ior raising money, the lottery scheme. When the crisis does come the effect will inevitably be disastrous. The London Standard says that M. de Lesseps’s greatest enemies could have wished his project no worse fate, and that the result of the crash will be appalling to the French people. The company has absorbed nearly $2,000,000,- 000 of the savings of the poorest and most industrious classes of the French peasantry all ever the country, and not a. cent of this vast sum will ever be returned to the lend- ers. This is bad enough, but it is not im- probable that the Government itself may be seriously involved, if not partially bank- rupted. Its loans are obtained through the same financial groups upon whom M. de- Lesseps has been leaning. and it is this fact, it is =aid, which has led Ministry after Min. istry to put off disclosure of the real state of the affairs of the Panama scheme. Matters have evidently, however, now reached such a point that the Government feels compelled to face any risk rather than allow the peo- ple to sink any more of their savings into the project. The situation is a serious one for France in more ways than one. The New York Tribune gives an account of an organization which is being formed in Kansas to promote an extensive emigration movement amongst the coloured people in the South. Recruits are to be gathered from the American cotton belt, with its out- lying tobacco. sugar, and rice fields. The objective point of the migration is South America, especially Brazil and the Argen- tine Republic. The promoters of the move~ ment claim to have $2,000,000 of capital pledged to aid them in the work, and ex- pect to be able by the close of the year to offer free transportation to hundreds of thousands of plantation labourers. The latter are said to be discontented, restless, and anxious to find new homes in some country where they can live in peace. “ We are offered a welcome,” says the lead- er of this exodus, “in a country where we can have our homes and not be driven from them, where we can earn our money and not be cheated out of it, and where our votes will be counted when we vote. We have waited in the Soutu until our hearts have failed us.” Should the movement be successful on any large scale it would press very heavily upon the chief agricultural in- dustries of the South, which would be threatened with ruin by the loss of the best classes of labourers. The very fact of an attempt being made at such a wholesale migration may, however, react favourably upon their condition at home. It would be turning the tables very effectually if, in- stead of being longer at the mercy of the planters, the coloured labourers should find themselves in the position of being able to exact better terms trom their employers, and a fuller recognition of their rights from the politicians. A little Esquimau woman. who left har native home on the eastern shore of Green- land when 15 years old and has resided in the United States long enough to learn the language and to develop the fact that the Esquimaux are as white as other people when the dirt and grease are washed off, is lecturing to interested audiences in Chicago. Among other things she says the people of her nationality never wash or bathe in all their lives, have no rulers, no form of gov- ernment, everyone does exactly as he or she pleases, and are all contented with their lot, as they know of nothing better. A Philadelphia grocer advertised to give every thirteenth customer the amount of his purchase free. The plan seemed a success at first, and business thrived, but one day the boys put up a job on him. Twelve of them walked into the store, and each made a trifling purchase ; the whole bill for the dozen was less than a dollar. Then the thirteenth man walked in and ordered a barrel of sugar, ten pounds of tea, ten pounds of coffee and a box of cigars. The grocer faced the music like a man, but at once took down his sign and put up another saying that the offer had been withdrawn. He (with deep passion)â€"Oh, Geraldine, my darling, Ilove you so. I love you 30. Be mipe. dealjefi, be mine. Shé (with I suppressed emotion) â€" Oh, Jack, you are so sudden: I must have time toâ€" He (unguardedly)â€" Don’t mention it, darling. Time is nothing; money’s the thing, and you’ve got plenty. HERE AND THERE. The One Thing.