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\N e retired behind a clump of bushes and sat down to await victims. A loud crow from the decoy was soon answered by one from a cock some way ofl". Our bird on hearing it stood more upright and seemed to listen fora few seconds before respond ing, which he did loudly and defiantly. Again the unseen jungle cock crowed -; It was evidently approaching the decoy, whose excitement was manifest. He tugged at the cord, flapping his wings and calling angrily as he tried to free his leg. As the stranger drew near the interchange of crows became less vigoro 1s, and at last he alighted on th: ground with a flutter outside the ring of noeses which were almost invisible from our ambush. With ruffled feathers and out- stretched head he manoeuvred round the decoy, [which stood impatiently awaiting his attack. With a shrill cry he came on, straight at the foe, thirsting for battle. Alas for his hopes ! A noose tightened around his leg, and bending double with the strain the springy bamboo converts his charge into an ignominious sprawl and whips him back a foot with outspread wings. Plucky little chap, he is up again, and with a shake of his firmly-entangled leg makes another charge at the excited decoy with the same result. The boy beside me, who has been watching the proceedings with open- mouthed interest, does not seem in a hur- ry to complete the capture, but after a poke or two from my stick springs up and seizes the snared cock just as he succumbs to his fourth rush. Fighting his human foe game- ly with beak and spurs he is deposited in a bag his captor Carries, where he soon gives up struggling and lies motionless. The com- mon jungle cock is one of the handsomest birds in India. Reembling a large bantam in shape, with bold, upright carriage, splendidly-varied plumage, and long spurs, he looks a. game cock all over. A determin- ed fighter, he does not know when he is beaten, and I have seen a bird too exhaust- ed to use his spurs seize his opponent by the hackle and cling to it with the tenacity of a bulldog. The Human enjoys few sports more than this, and in many districts seven paddy boats out of ten may be seen with the owner’s bird on board tied by the leg, for a bout of fighting, ii opportunity occurs. â€"[Macmillan’s Magazine. Stretching a Point. A dyspeptic whose ailment is as much a matter of the nerves as anything is accus- tomed to ask his relations such crucial ques- tions as theseâ€"“Will it hurt me to eat a tart? \Vhat is your opinion?” If the an- swer is unwaveringly encouraging, he enjoys his meal, and is seldon sorry that he indulg- ed in it. “ Frank,” said he to his brother, as they sat down to their dinner one day, “ do you think I might eat a bit; of fowl?” “ Undoubtedly." “ You don't think it will hurt me 2” “I am quite sure of it.” Ac- cordingly the dyspeptic yielded, and gave himself up without stint to the pleasure of the table. An hour later he sought his brother. " Frank,” said he solemnly, “ 1 shall never believe in you again. I followed your advice, and I’d better have eaten a crustâ€"a dry crust.” The adviser was not going to relinquish, without a struggle, his reputation as oracle. “ My dear fellow,” said he, with upraised brows and outstretch- ed hands, “ you asked me if I thought you could indulge in a bit of the fowls, I didn’t say you were equal to the entire bird. ” Powdered sugar, on the contrary, being less soluble, produces less liquid. It forms around the meet a solid crust, which re- moves very little water from it and does not alter its taste. Thus preserved, it suffices to immerse the meat in water before using it. Although this treatment costs a little more than preservation by salt, account must be taken of the final result and of the loss prevented, which oflsets the difference in cost between the two preservative agents. Ye think that navigators might profit by t is. PRESERVATION or Mrs? BY SUGAR. It resultsfrom a. special report made to the French Minister of Agriculture that sugar is an excellent agent for preserving meat, and possesse some advantages over salt. In fact, salt absorbs a ortion of the nut- ritive substances and o the flavor of meat. When an analysis is made of a 'solution of the salt dissolved by water cmtained in meat, we find albumlnoid bodies, extrac- tive substances, potassa, and phosphoric acid. Salt deprives meat of these substanc- es so much the more readily in proportion as it enters the tissues more deeply or acts for a longer time. It then results that the meat, when taken from the saline solution, has lost nutritive elements of genuine im- por_tano_e. ‘ ‘ Feeding for eggs is the principal thing, no matter when breed one may keep for winter laying. Mashed potatoes in the soft food are very desirable one or two times a week. Vegetables are necessary as well as grain and animal food for a full development of the laying capacities of any breed of poultry. ‘ A raw egg, if swallowed in time, will efl'ectually detach a fish bone fastened in the throat, and the whites of two eggs will render the deadly corrosive sublimate as harmless as a dose of calomel. They strengthen the consumptive, invigorate the feeble, and render the most susceptible all but proof against jaundice in it most malign- ant phase. They can also be drunk in the shape of that “ egg flip’ which sustains the oratorical efforts of modern statesmen. The merits of eggs do not even end'here. In France alone the wine clarifiers use more than 80,000,000 a year, and the Alsatians consume fully 38,000,000 in calico printing, and for dressing the leather used in making the finest of French kid gloves. Finally, not to mention various other employments for eggs in the arts, they may, of course, al- most without trouble on the farmer's part, be converted into fowls, which in any shape are profitable to the seller and welcome to the buyer. bven egg shells are valuable, for alopath and homuepath alike agree in re- lgarding them as the purest of carbonate of lme. VALUE or EGGS son Foo». They contain phosphorus, which is 9. brain food, and sulphur, which performs a. variety of functions in the economy. And they are the best of nutriment for children, for, in a. compact form, they contain everything that is necessary for the growth of the youthful frame. Eggs are, however. not; only foodâ€" they are medicine also. The white is the most efficacious of remedies for burns, and the oil extractable from the yolk is regarded by the Russians as an almost miraculous salve for cuts, bruises and scratches. The Jungle Cork. HOUSEHOLD. Lord Randolph Churchill's motion for a Commission of Inquiry into the charges of malfeasance against the Metropolitan Boa-I'd of Works has been agreed to in the British Commons. The list of alleged abuses of trust into which it will be the duty of the Commission to inquire, as recited in Lord Randolph's speech, is certainly a most for midable one. If one-half or one-fourth of the allegations prove to be well founded, American cities will shortly have to yield the bad preeminence they have hitherto maintained in municipal. corruption. The Lenormous scale on which the operations of ‘the London Board have necessarily been carried on have afforded opportunities anl temptations unique in their magnitude, and there is unhappin reason to fear beyond the power of ordinary civic or aldermanic virtue to withstand. Astounding revelations may be expected, and the investigation will give an impetus to the impending revolution in the civic administration of the great city which is in itself a kingdom and a little world. An apprentice having been told to pro- duce the worn-out: article when he wished it replaced by a new one, said: “If you please, sir, we want another piece of soap,” and thoughtfully interrogated: “Do you want to see the old piece 2" A church in a country town had been erected and a dinner was given, at the con- clusion of which the health of the builder was proposed. Thereupon be rather enigv matically replied that he was “ more fitted for the scaffold than for public speaking.” About the hardest thing in the world for a woman to preserve while engaged in the preserving business is her temper, when she is obliged to set her preserving kettle ofl‘ the stove to answer a. ring at the door-bell, and finds a patentâ€"medicine circular on the front step. During the last two years the toadyites of the United States have been taken in and done for by three bogus lords, four bogus dukes and five bogus counts, to say nothing of the fifteen er tweney barbers who have gone around playing earl. ' A school teacher 11 Bufi’alo County, Da- kota, whose wife was one of his pupils, had occaston to punish her one day. The next day the schoolhouse door here this inscrip- tion :â€"“ School closed for one week owing to the illness of the school teacher.” When Landseer, the great animal painter, was introduced to the king of Portugal, the latter, Whose knowledge of English was strictly limited, welcomed him with 2â€"“ I am delighted to make your acuqaintance, Mr. Landseerâ€"I am so fond of beasts.” A Noted Inventor. T. J. Mayall, who died at his home in Reading, Mass, on Saturday evening. was one of the most noted inventors in the_Unit- ed States, and had procured mcre patents, it is said, than any oth.r known man. He began his career as a bobbin boy, and suffer- ed many privations in his early life. When a young man heumade a model of the first cylinder printing machine ever produced, and from it has grown not only the present industry of wallpaper printing, but of call- co printing as well. He discovered the vul- canization of rubber, and was one of the largest inventors of rubber goods and a: - ticles, and has taken out over 200 patents in this country and over 70 in England. Among his other inventions were revolvers, guns and automatic batteries and revolving cannons, cannon shells, whose edges were sharpened like a chisel, so that they would bore through the armor of ships ; a coffee hulling machine, which he introduced into Brazil ; printing presses, self-acting draw bridges for railroads, and at the time of his death was at work on an electric cable road and a pneumatic elevated railroad, which he intended to put in operation in Boston and \Vashington. A nine years old boy was thus addressed one day by his mother. afbor some visitors had left the house :â€"“ W'hy, how well you behaved, my son, while the callers were in.” Quoth the dutiful son, “ I had to, mother. My pants were ripped.” Teacherâ€"John, what are your boots made of? Boyâ€"OE leather. “ Where does the leather come from '3" " From the hide of an ox.” “ What animal, therefore, sup- plies you with boots and gives you meat to em: '3" “ My father." It is said the number of languages and dialectsgpoken in the world is 3,004, and yet a man can’t find words enough to express his feelings when he takes a. seat on the side- walk just as he raises his hat to a pretty girl. “You get your daughters up most beauti- fully. Mrs. Hebe.” " Yes; that is art." “ And you get them into society so early.” “ That is mart.” “ And you find rich hus- bands for them.” “ That is smart.” The waiter brought a. glass of beer, on which, however, there was very little beer, but agreat deal of froth and foam. “No, thank you,” said the Major, “ I don’t want to shave just now." Parion(who is also an enthusiastic amn- teur photographer, his mind wandering dur~ ing the marriage service):â€"“ And now, fix your eyes on that mark on the wall, and look pleasant I” Mr. Bonpereâ€"S‘Vell, good bye, old boy, ban voyage. Are you taking your Wife with you or are you going for pleasure 2” Pater Fzmilias (deapondently)â€"Oh, I take my fam- ily with me. Lecturer‘s wifeâ€"Well, John, back from your lecture trip at last. Did you carry your audiences with you? Lecturerâ€"No; but I could have done so. They were small enough. ’ Wife (looking up from her book)â€"“ You know a great many things, John. Now, what do you think should be done in a case of drowning ?' Husbandâ€"“ Have a funeral, of course.” ‘ It is said that the rain falls alike on the just and unjust. In the case where the un- just hna appropriated the umbrella belong- ing to the just this does not hold good. Old gentleman (to boy, on twelfth birth- day)â€"“ I hope you will improve in Wisdom, knowledge and virtue, Tommy 1” Boy (po- litaly)â€"“ The same to you, sir.” You can not judge a man by his coat; it is his promissory notes that give him away. “ What; is home without a mother '3” It’s a. place where the girls can sit up with their fellows until they hear the old man coming in the gate about midnight. It has been found that the turtle is almost insensible to electricity. A shock that would knock down a. horse or kill a man only makes the smallest turtle a little tired. WIT AND “ISDOM. Though workers in copper seldom suffer any ill health from their work, yet the par- ticles of the mineral enter their system so as to completely saturate them in process of time. Some lold coppersmith have had their hair turn green instead of gray, and their bones have been found green after death. We may now plant dahlia and chrysanthe- mum seeds in boxes or pots, placing them in sunny windows. They will bloom next Fall. The debris of dead plants and animals is nearly always present in air, but it is only under certain conditions that it can be re- garded as an impurity from a. hygienic point of viewâ€"that is to say, when, by reason of its abundance, it deoxidises the air to any appreciable extent, or when it is specially irritating in character. Far more important are the products of putrefactionâ€"heavy gases and vapours, charged with suspended organic matter. hanging about over localities in which they originate. These vapours do not mix readin with the surrounding air, and the moist matters they hold in suspen- sion do not readily become broken up. Such vapours love the lower air, requiring nothing less than a storm to disperse them, and the matter they contain seems to re- quire a specially active oxygen to burn it up. The air in towns is much polluted by the products of putrefaction; wholly rural districts and little villages may however suffer from the same cause. The exhalations are derived mainly from dustbins, compound middens, cesspools. all sewers not regularly and frequently flushed, and also from churchyards, vaults and cemeteries. The air in and around dustbins, middens, and cesspools nearly always contains the deed organic matter just noticed, an excess of carbonic acid, and a deficiency of oxygen. Roses, new and old, galore. We will speak of these later. The catalogues must be examined. There are few among new roses, that: are equal to the best of the old. Sweet Peas (plant them as early as pos- sible), striped zinnias, Spinem Van Honttei, striped single dahlias are among the inter- esting new and old seeds and plants now ofl'ered. New and beautiful Chrysanthemums still appear. The growing appreciation of this sturdy plant is to be encouraged. Verbenas have been greatly improved of late. The flowers are larger, the colors more varied and intense. There are few plants more satisfactory as bedders. They bloom from early in the season continuously until long after frost. If to be grown from seeds, It is well to sow now. A friend was complaining that she could not succeed with a hanging basket. This I have found to be a very common complaint, and nearly every time the reason is lack of water. I placed a thermometer among the flowers on the window shelves, an then hung it with a hanging basket about seven feet from the floor and two feet from the ceiling, and found that the hanging basket was in a temperature over ten degrees high- er than the other flowers, and nearer the ceiling it was warmer yet. Of course, under these circumstances, the earth in the hanging basket would dry out sooner than that in the flower pots. Again, in a good hanging basket there are more leaves to constantly exhale moisture than there are in a dozen flower pots, and this would further exhaust the moisture in the soil. We water a hanging basket by dipping it bodily into a pailful of water and letting it get thoroughly soaked, once a week, besides giving it water when the other flowers are watered. We use Kenilworth ivy, parlor ivy, wandering Jew I and oxalis in our hanging baskets, and have one started which is filled with saxifrage, which makes a very nice plant for this pur- pose. Parlor ivy is used by some, but we prefer to train itup over the windows instead of allowing the vines to hang down. Ivy geraniums are very good also, if care is ta- ken with them. A well-grown hanging bas- ket is one of the prettiest ornaments that can be used in decorating a room, and it is worth one’s while to spend some time in caring for it. I do not know why we are so successful wi our window garden, but they grow an flourish, and every one exclaims at their beamy. One thing, I think, is that my wife and I are always fussing with them when we have a littie time, and it does really seem that flowers appreciate petting. We have callas, coleuses, fuchsias, geraniums of high and low degrees, lantanas, petunias, begonias, even to a big thrifty 'rex. Nearly every one of them is vigorous and hearty. \Ve try to keep our house from getting too warm for our aim health, and the flDWers are not subjected to great extremes, for we keep fires day and night and the temperature does net vary much. I think most houses are kept too warm for the health of flowers, and I frequently go into houses that are so warm that the perspiration starts from every pore, and very frequently these houses, as I know, are not kept warmed through the night. Such alternate grilling and freezing would be the death of me, and I am not a house plant, by any means ! New strains of pansies continue to com- mand the “ best positions” in the cats.- logues of 1888. Only give these fine strains 9. suitable place and good care and one is de- lighted with the many-faced blooms until frosts and often in mid.winter. Many so-called new varieties of musk and watermelons find a conspicuous place in the 1888 catalogues. \Ve have spent much time during a. few years past in trying all the new kinds of melons, but are not prepared to give any preference of the new over the old. It is well to try these varieties in a small way if one has the inclination and the time. HOUSE PLANTS, BASKETS, ETC. Usually a. cactus is the ugliest thing in all vegetable creation, but when it blossoms there is nothing more beautiful, and one can well afford to care {or them for years only to get them to blossom once. Cactuses do not require a great deal of Water at any time, and our plan is to set them back from the light in November and not water them oftener than once a month until spring. Then we give them a good soaking and water them rather sparingly the remainder of the season, and they will do well and put torth blossoms, if they are of the proper age. Jhe pots are filled with a. mold of well- rotted sods. FLORICULTURAL TI e Air. MILLER PURVIS. The river is probably the deepest stream in the world ; excepting in a few places the general depth is from 60) to 900 feet; and the bottom of the Saguenay at its mouth is 600 feet below the bottom of the St. Law- rence. Thus a low point of rock at the shore or an island is really the top of a great hili springing up steeply from the bottom, and many of the cliffs are not half out of water. As the spring tides rise about eighteen feet, the currents of the river are violent and ec- centric ; in some places the ebb stream runs from four to six miles an hour; the eddies along the shores are like those on a rapid; and the undercurrents sometimes lay hold of a vessel and turn her about or hold her still in spite of a tow-boat. Before the use of tow-boats, a vessel left helpless by a cilm sometimes drifted against the rocks, lodged on a ledge, and when the tide fell capsiz ed in deep water. As anchorage is Very rarely found, large iron rings were let into the rocks, and vessels even now sometimes tie up to the cliffs and await a fair wind. The tide for some unexplain- ed reason, advances with extraordinary rapidity in the Saguenay; thus, notwith- standing the fact that the ebb current very rarely ceases to flow out of the [river, yet high tide arrives at Chicoutimi only forty- five minutes later than at Tadousacâ€"seven- ty miles. 0n the St. Lawrence the tide ad- vances in the same time only from Tadou- sac to Murray Bayâ€"about thirty-five miles. The source of the Siguenay, Lake St. John, seems like a Northern sea The pale twi- light lasts far into the nightâ€"until the aurora borealis hangs its mystic veil across the sky. The beaches a mile or more wide in summer, the sharp gwaves raised by a wind on this very shallow basin, the scream- ing gull all make you look for a tide and for white-winged ships. But only a bark canoe now and then comes along from one of the thirteen rivers descending by many falls and cascades from the forest-covered mountains ; and the pinched-1p farms scat- tered along the shores add to the arctic sentiment, felt even on a summer’s day. The Saguenay comes into being as lusty twins, the Little and the Grand Discharge -â€"â€"deep narrow channels worn in the rock. They run on separately for some miles through rapids and pools, and finally come together at the foot of Alma Island, at the Vaohe Caille. There begin the Gervais Rapids, three or four miles long ; at their foot the river enters a smooth, quiet stretch of fifteen miles to the Grand Remousâ€"the most furious cascade and the most turbulent eddy of the river ; and then, after a. few more miles of falls and cascades, the Sagnenay ends its rapid career where it meets the tide near Chicoutimi. \Vith the exception of a few clearings, the forest still covers the abrupt hills crowding upon the river. The Grand Discharge is a beautiful region; the stream is filled with an archipelago of small islands, some black bare rocks, others tree-crowned or decked with rich mosses ; it has all the virgin secluv sion and quiet of a lake, enclosed by a shore of bold ‘p cturesque bastions and walls of rock, surmouhted by stately balsams that rise like sentinels above the bitches, poplars, cedars, and nooks full of tender green grass. But this quietness is full of life ; the islands divide the river into a labyrinth of streams; the water runs silently and swiftly in many opposite directionsâ€"down, across, even up‘ the general course'of the river; one is piqued, surprised, at this coquetry and shyness. And farther down it leaps away in the furi- ous rapids of Ile Malina. The Little Dis. charge is so rapid that it destroys logs in its falls and cascades ;the government therefore built an aqueduct, “ the Slide,” for running the timber over these dangerous places. After fishing a few days for the active wan- nonicheâ€"said to be the landlocked salmonâ€" and exploring the waters of these twin Dis- charges, I joined the men driving logs at the Vacbe Caille, and began my acquaintance with the nay-genre. Roumania, 133,839 lb. ;in Spain, 136,000 lb. Wheat was grown on 2,317,324 acres in Great Britain last year, this being an in- crease of 1.4 per cent. as compared with 1886, but a. decline of 6 5 per cent. as com- pared with 1885. Barley was grown on 2,085,156 acres, this being the smallest re- turn ever made, and 7 0 per cent. less than 1886. Oats were sown on 3,087,989 acres, or 0.2 per cent. over the area of the previous year. It is curious to note that, while bar- ley was sown on the smallest area on record, oats were sown (n the largest, the reason being that the straw of the latter crop is greatly used for stock-feed in winter. The total area under corn crops was thus 8 1457 900 acres, or 114,200 acres less than in 1886 â€"a decrease of 1-38 per cent. As com- pared with the average of the preceding ten years, the total decrease last year was 621,- 000 acres. ' The annual average consumption of tea in the Australian Colonies is 18,200,000 lb. ; in New Zealand, 3,902,000 lb. ; in Tasmania, 690,5001b.; in Great Britain, 170,733,600 lb. ; in Newfoundland, 824,000 lb. ; in the Straits Settlements, 2,098,320 1b.; in the United States, 70,572,530 1b.; in Canada, 16,600,000 lb.: in Holland, 4,860, 373 1b.; in Cape Colony, 1,128,5001b.; in Russia, 62,408,500 lb. ; in Denmark, 746,000 1b.; in Persia, 1,043,000 1b.; in Portugal, 561, 000 lb. ; in Austria Hungury, 739,500 lb. : in Germany, 3,113,520 1b.; in Belgium, 155, 896 lb. ; in France, [329,561 lb. ; in Roumania, 133,839 lb. ;in Spain, 136,000 lb. 295,300,000 11). in 1886, and 301,000,000 lb. in 1885 : the corresponding figures for the Eastern States, in the same order, being 72,- 000,000 lb., against 135,000,000 lb. and 147,- 800.000 1b; 'There Wis a. 'great reductibh in the area. last year, as well as a. very small yield. One of the lightest tobacco crops ever grawu a pears to have been produced in the United cuteslastyear. ALouisvillenews- paper estimates the the total \Vestern crop at only 76,300,000 1b., as compared with The United States in 1886 took from Eug- Iand one fourth of the Whole iron and steel exports. In 1885 397,663 tons were taken, value £4,106.1(9 ; in 1835, 796,526 tons, value £5,592,561. There are 197 “ towns" in New Zealand, but 82 of them have less than 100 inhabi- tants, while Devouport, the most populous, th only ‘2 650 inhabitants. Throughout the whole colony there are only 5561 persons to the square mile. Out of the whole popu- lation 01 New Zealandâ€"620,451-~ 51'89 per cent. are native born, 21"]? come from Eug- hmd, 9'48 from Scotland, 889 from Ireland, and 0.34 from Wales. A many as 900,000 do -licenses were in Great Britain last year. he duty amounted to £340,000. The Sagucnay River. STATISTICS. 3,000 1b.; in Portugal, 561,- ustria Hunga.ry, 739,500 1b. : 3,113,520 1b.; in Belgium, in France, [,029,561 lb. ; in W hen exposed to a blizz 1rd immediately envelop the head and upper part of the body in a thick shawl orblanket, and in no case allow the fine, powdered snow floating in the air to enter the mouth or lungs. This I wrote from personal experience, having some years ago been exposed to a blizzard in Minnesota, with the thermometer at 45 dens. below zero. The first fewbreaths sent a sensation like an icicle through my chest. I i grew weak and trembling. It seemed as though the blood was thickening in my veins and the heart could notcirculate it. Respiration grew rapid. l was being smothered. I concluded that that would not do, so with what meansIhaderapped up my nose and mouth and breathed only through the covering. I wasfxposed for morethanan hour and got through allright. I afterwards saw the Indians adopting the same plan, for they had a. large blanket â€" a government oneâ€"wrapped around their heads and bodies and they resembled unveiled moving statues or Turkish women on the streets. When lost in such a storm get on the lee side of asnow bank and burrow a hole in it and close the opening, or, as they say, “ Crawl into a hole and haul the hole in after you." Young Martindale had more nerve than the ordinary young man, but even he shud- dered as he thought of Whit he had passed through. The next thing was to get away. Now that he was himself again, he had no idea of being soused into a. pickling tub nor of ornamenting a dissecting ta. ble. He be- lieved that he had another destiny) and: then the thought of his past follies came to him, and he almost wished that he had not returned to this world, which at best has its unpleasant side. Unmindful of his father’s warnings, he had borrowed money until he could borrow no more, and he was ashamed to go home. He went \Vest and found em- ployment, and has been there until his sud- den reappearance to his astonished parents- the other night. And, lastly, sight came to him, and slow- ly his eyes opened and he was able to discern things about him. And what a. sight ! He was not in a. dissecting room, but in a. doc~ tor’s office ; shelves filled with bottles. solv- ed the origin of the odors. A bookcase well stocked stood in the corner, while in another was a. combination chair in which a. patient can be placed into almost any position. A skeleton strung on wires, with the ghastly skull and pieces of dlied flesh still hanging to the bones, was an unpleasant reminder of his own situation. He knew now how he came there. The men were two mediml stu- dents who had robbed his grave and who proposed to cut him up after having a. little fun with one of the professors. The pangs of hunger made him faint, and he searched the office for a. morsel. He found it behind the curtain, where it had evidently been placed by the doctor’s wife, who intended it for her husband when he should return home. from a. midnight call. He never got it their night, for the corpse did not leave as much as a. crumb behind. The meal despatched, Charles felt less like a. dead man. Moral strength is gained chiefly through“ struggles of the moral nature. Every time a temptation is resisted, an evil inclination conquered, a duty performed, moral strength is accumulated. The one whom all men honour for his virtue and integrity, to whom wrong-doing seems to ofl‘er no attrac- tion, and whc performs each duty as it arises, apparently without an effort, has not gained this power by treading flowery beds of ease. It has come to him through efl'ort and sacrifice, and the more it has cost the greater the reward. The poor weak victim- of temptation and indulgence, who is power- less to deny his appetite or to subdue a craving or to resist the persuasion of an evil companion, is indeed to be pitied ; buthis deplorable condition is due to long years of moral idleness, during which 6 has drifted into evil, instead of having stemmed the current and resolutely pressed forward in the opposite direction. l A Strange Story of Burying Alive and ille- suscltatlon. TOLEDO, March 6,â€"The details of a. re- markable instance of supposed death, actual burial, and resuscitation, after being dug up to serve the ends of science on the dissecting table, were made known here the other day. Charles Mertindale died suddenly in thiscity five or six years ago as a result of a stroke of apoplexy which came upon him during a. wrestling match with a. companion. He was buried with the usual forms. Last night he appeeard in the flesh at the home of his parents, in the First Ward, and had the fol- lowing story to tell of his experience. He knew that his parents were weeping over him, and afterward he was conscious that he was being laid out. Still he was unable to let any one know that he was alive. The most horrible sensation came over him when the coflin was lowered in the grave, and as the clods fell upon the lid he lost even what little mind he had, and everything was a. blank. When next consciousness came to him he was seated between two men, who were riding in a. light wagon. Although his eyes felt so heavy and swollen that he could not see, he heard enough to convince him that he was in the city, but the conversation of the two men was what attracted his at: tention especially. “ I tell you," said one, in low tones, “ we’ll give old Prof a. bigger scare than he bashed inmany aday. Ihooked a. good suit of clothes to-day from the house, and when we get this stiff fixed up he’ll be stunning.” “ Its mighty heavy,” answered the other, as he pushed the body over towards his companion. “ Good subject,” said No. l in a. whisper, and then Charles began to realize that he had been stolen out of the coffin for a medical college. The thought was by no means cheerful, but try as he would, Charles could not getout of his semi- unconscious state. Rather the news unset- tled him, and he again lost all consciousness. When he knew anything again he was standing bolt upright in a low, square, dim- ly light‘giroom. He could feel something on every side of him holding him up. He thought he was in a dissecting room, and realized that whatever was done must be done then or never. Necessity is a creator, and the gravity of his position seemed to in- fuse new blood into his veins. Suddenlyhe felt the throbbing of his heart, and then the sense of touch seemed to come back to him. He could feel the Warmth from the stove, While sharp pains darted through his whole body. i‘he sense of smell came next, and he almost fainted as the odors from a dozen medical compounds passed into his nostrils. What to do in a Blizzard. A HUNGRY CORPSE. Moral Strength.