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China has always been a very‘interesting country to us, first because there are so many people thereI numbering. as they do, 390,000,000, and in the second place because they are so very industrious. When 13 years of age a chum and I were talking one day oi our studies. An uncle of mine, a sea captain, Uncle J.immev we called him asked me why I did not studyChina. He sai‘ed away and was wrecked. \Ve heard nothing from him for many years. Finally one Dluh' uih r I had finished a lecture very much .ike this one a gentleman present sent word that he wanted to speak to me. It proved to be my long lost uncle. The people who come to this country are not the Chinese as they are found in their own land, but a race by themselves, a sort of alien element, as it were. There is some reason to believe that the Chinese date ‘ back to the time of Cain. Certainly they 1 have the pruhar mark upon the forehead. mentioned in the Biole. We can best up» preciate the size of the great Chinese nation if we bear this first in mind : If its terri- tory were cut into eixips a mile wide and y-‘aoed end to end. it would take a man ‘ :svelling thirty miles a day 500 years to walk the length if the land. The country is rich in oml,i10n, gold, silver and lead, but owing to the low state of their mechani- cal arrangements, these sources of wealth are practically valueless. Everything is done by hand. The mines. if such they may be called, are dug a few feet below the sur‘ face. Then they fill up with water and the work has to cease. A Chinamon who had travelled through England and France was asked what was the most wonderful thing he had seen. It was a man working a com- mon wooden pump. The public cflicials in China are notoriously corrupt. When we ‘were trying to get amine we were “ struck" _ m- s:..:.....:,... kn‘nrn urn nun-n nilnw. At the Lincoln Club on Siturduy night Mr. Robert Lilley, of the “Century Magaz ine," lectnr on "China and Its People.“ nauhjeot w' Lwhicb he was familiar from many years' reuidence in the Celestial Ern‘ pire. The speaker was introduced by Mr. William Berri, nresidenu of the club. The attendance was large, and all listened to Mr. Lilley with close attention. His effort was really more in the nature of a. talk than of 3 lecture. He said in part 2 "o... .. “.5 -_ 5,, ,, b various dignitaries before we were allow- 85 to go on with the enterprise. ITowns and cities are everywhere. There are no fences and no i‘erms. as we know them. Farmers live in the villages and walled towns and go to their work in the country with their plows strapped upon their backs. In the southern part of the country the favorite vehicle for travel is a. wheelbarrow- like structure. In the northern part; people ride in a basket hung on poles, hetween two An lnlorcsllng Talk by Mr. Lllley a! the - Lincoln (‘lub mules, in tandem rig. The Chinese are very much afraid of the “ foreign devils," us they call all Europeans. They will soar- ter like sheep if you turn around suddenly. When you go to an inn you are sure to be followed and watched by a large and curious erowd. “ Here you brought your tea. with you 2" the proprietor will ask. Every gen- tleman carries his own tea, so boiling water and cups are brought in and the beverage prepared. When you wane to go to bed you will have hard work to get rid of the throng. They do not know what sorh ‘of being the “ foreign devil ” is. The cities, towns, and, of course, houses and inns are closed at sun- set. Everyone who is nbrnsd after that hour is on no good errand. I remember how one night the only way I could get ec- comodntlons was to threaten to die on the premises, when, according to Chinese law, the innkeeper would have had to bury me, pay my transportation home and support my family the rest of their lives. It is a common method of revenge there for a man to call upon an enemy, pretend to be recon- ciled, and when he has been invited to stay all night hang himself in his bed- room. The Chinese are very super- stitisus and they are very, very curi~ one. They were constantly asking how we got into our narrow trousers, some of them suggesting that we must have been born in them. They commonly ask the ladies how old they are. The usual answer ismore than twenty. They think it strange that we wear no pigtail, but as they have only worn it since the middle of the Seventeenth Century, as a sign of their conquest by a ioreign tribe, I had only to mention the fact to shut them up completely. A point that I want to touch upon to-night, is this: There is no danger that we or any other ‘ nation shall be overrun by the Chinese. At no time have there been more than 105,000 in our total population of 60,000,000. In the first place it is against their law to leave home for more than three years; in the second, there are certain duties that must be performed at home in order to in- sure their own happiness in the world to come. Third, and last, but not least. of all, they have to perform certain sacrifices to keep the spirits of their ancestors in a st-ite oi happiness. A great point against their coming here, too, is that they want to keep their friends in large number at home. They think that a man is reckoned in the next world by the ado that is made over him as he leaves this. if there is a great wailing here they say, “Here comes a big man ” and prepare accordingly. If there is no nahe echoed from this side the river of death they say, “He is no good, let him alone.” For this reason it becomes necessary for a Cbingman so stay at home and cultivate a large oil-C18 of acquaintances." nun.- -_ -_- “There's aowu 6n the Rvger's plan tation who has Just had his thigh ampumt ed." Solon was the name of a certain old color- ed man. who was so named, perhaps for his want of wisdom. Hie observations were scarcely as weighted with knowledge as the words of his nameaskt, the Wise man of Greece. One day Solon heard one of the menrpn the plantation say: AL- h._.__'.._l.... skirt. “Why, out off." “Am data so? Data's a pity. 3110’] But day’s one great cons'lation far de 1):), man: of he on'y had de fizh amtercated, he done got de knee and dc icon lef’ far to walk wid." A most successful fancy dress costume made by Worth was a Gipsy dress in which she Duchess de Mouchy appeared as a- fiower basket. The oorsage of the dres was covered with gilt wicker work and re- presented a basket: turned upside down: from which a oucade of flowers fell over the CHINA AND ITS PI-MH’LE V-“tht's datâ€"amfercatei?" asked Solon. Something Saved. When an elephant goes mad. he makes things lively. A company of Englishmen were out on a. tiger-shooting expedition, and all at once were startled hv a shout: from one of their servants: “Run. run, Sshibs l the maker has gone mad. He has broken loose ” Most of the company got out of the beast’s way, but one fellow was still in the tent. Over the river we could see the brute in n frenzy of rage, kneeling on s shspeless heap of cloth, furniture. poles and ropes and digging his tasks with ssvsge fury into the hangings and canvas. , ‘3‘. L- ____. ._B m, We hid little doubt: that poor Mao lay crushed to death, smothered beneath the weight of the ponderous animal, or mangled out of all likeness to humanity by the terrible hunks that we could see flashing in the moonlight It: seemed an age, thlfi sgony of suspense. . I, ,, A_ u :LL-J Everything showed as clear as if it had been day. “'9 saw the elephant: tossing the strong canvas canopy about as a dog would worry a. doorman Thurs!) after thrush was mmde by the tasks into the folds of cloth. Ruining his huge trunk, the brute would scream in the frenzy of his wrath, and at the lash, after what seemed an age, but in reality was only a. fowminntea, he staggered to his feet, and rushed into the jungle. v21. _ J usb than a smothered groan struck like a pea] of joy-bells on our anxious ears, and a. muffled voice was heard from beneath the folds of the almmiaha. : “Look alive, you fellows, and get me out of this, or I shall b9 smothered ! " In trying to elude the first rush of the elephant hiu fnot had caught in one of the tent ropes, and the whole felling canopy had then come bodily upon him. hurling the camp table and a few cane chairs over him. Under these he had kin. able 90 breath, but 1101 daring to stir. - n - ml _ 41-1L uuv «mu-.5 .v ...... His escape seemed miraculous. The clolh had several times been pressed so close over his face as nearly to stifle him. The brute in one of its savage, purposeless thrusts, had pierced the ground between his arms and his ribs, pinning his Afghan ohoga or dress- ing gown deep into the earth ; and he said he felt himself sinking into unconsciousness. when the brute happily got up and rushed off. “How did you feel ?" Iasked. “Well, I can hardly tell you.” "It must have gr azed your ribs 1" “It did. After that I seemed to turn quite unconcerned. All sorts of funny ideas came trooping across my brain. I could not for the life of me help feeling cautiously about for my pipe, whlch had dropped some- where near when I tripped on the ropes. I seemed, too. to have a quick review of all the actions I had ever done, and was just dropping OE into a dreamy unconsciousness, after pulling a desperate race against Oxford with my old crew, when your voices roused me so sensation once more." Storage of Life. Within each ton of coal was stored, long before the creation of man, a definite amount: of heat, which, by the chemical process of combustion, may be made available for man’s use. A barrel of wheat contains a fixed amount) of food. Elecsricity can now be stored, and bought and sold in measured q ngntity. .-.. .r Each person has a definite amount of stor- ed life, normally equal to about one hundred yam-s, but, in most cases, our ancestors have squandered much that: should have come to us, and we ourselves waste not a. little that wgaotually inherited. n u. . This washing of our store of life is as serious 8. thing as it: is common. It may be done thoughtlesz or ignorantly, but the waste is just as irret‘rievable. Tens of thou- sands of children die annually, and as many more survive, with a sadly wasted vitality, simply because their mothers do not excer- cise enough care in the matter of food, cloth: iug. pure air and sunshine. I 1 ._°. ___~ Our school: waste this store by drawing :00 largely on the brain and nervaa of their pupils through the competitive systems, the worry of public examinations; ohrough ex- acting the same tasks of the bright and dull, and throu in luck of adequauo and perai s- mut atten on to the sanitary condition of the school-rooms. Some parents allow their children to waste their supply of nervous force by the inces- saSLt reading of sensational books, or by frequent ascends.qu ab exciting evening par- ties, and some by not insisting on regular and snfiicient sleep. Women waste it by overwork and worry in their homes, and it: is a very rapid waste. Gay young ladies and fast young men wube it at: a fearful rate in their ronpd} 9f pleas- 11839. Hr; iOthy next: is the waste of high-l-iving conjoined with excessive dmotlon to busi- Of all the professions. the medical washes the life store mosh rapidly by irregular and broken sleep, night exposure and the con - stunt drain on the sympathies and the nerv- ous system. It seems a pity thab those whose great work is to save and prolong the life of others should have to do it at the expense of their own. The Growth of Forestry in Vic- torla. I have been quite interested in the state forest: administration of Australia. says a correspondent of the San Francisco Chronicle South Australia distinctly leads the other colonies. Tnis is so for two reasons: First, that colony is more in need of trees, and in the second place it has 3 more wise and business-like conservator of forests. This gentleman, J. E. Brown, comes from afnmily of ioresters. He has been especially trained in the subject, and he is well up in the matter, backed by an unbounded enthusiasm. Practical results are beingpbpsinedig various ways. At one time South Australia had to import most of the sleepers required for railway construction ; she now supplies all her own needs, some 500,000 sleepers having been obtained from one reserve during the lust sevan years Mr. Brown has had blunted 9,000,000 of timber-producing trees, and arrangements are now conpleted for planting 1.000,000 more each year. The department favors and encourages tree-planting by farm- ers and other lend-owners. This is done by supplying plants without charge iron the state nurseries. During the last year over 200.000 plants were gratuitously distributed and by this means the face of the country is being beautified, and the value of many of its agr cultural holdings increased. A Gentle Reminder.â€"It was about: eleven oclock, and the head was where it should be at that bewitohlng h‘ur. “ Tell me, Lulu," humid softly in her ear, “ how much you love me." Oh, Georgc, darling, I could- ifl. (10 all that two-night. It's getting boo 3M. How He Feit. AN lBREVERENT WOMAN. A Washington letter to the Philadelphia “ Record" says :â€"" W hen Chief Justice Chase left his seat and stepped forward to administer the oath to President Grant, an unknown womsn stepped out of the crowd behind the chair and took his place. When he turned to resume his seat he saw that in was occupied. Beckoning the Marshal of the Supreme Court, he su-id: ‘Cleer my seat.’ ‘Msdem,’ said the Marshal, turning politely be the woman, ‘ you have taken the seat of the Chief Justice, and he wants it agein.’ ‘ I don't csre,’ she responded sharp- ly, not; budging an inch : ‘ I am a free-born American oitizan, and I beve as much right to it as the Chief Justice, and I won’t get np.’ ‘Your honor,’ he said to the Chief Justice, ‘ you_hesr whnhshe say:.' “ Clear my ssst,’ inid the chief justice firmly. and with a look tbs-h meant, ' or I‘ll have your offieial head struck ofi.’ Moved by the look, if not by the words, the marshal turn‘ ed to the woman and said: ‘Madsm, you must surrender this sent. If you don’t I shall have to summon two negro messengers to remove you by force.’ This brought: her to her feet. ' Take your old seah,’ she said with; stamp of her {cot and a mounting color in her cheek, as she disappeared in the crowd, while the chief justice took it with a sigh of triumph, echoed by the msrshsl's sigh of relief." The great bustle manufacturing industry of America in now getting its full share of prgtection and encouragenaenh. The bustle ,:n__._-;:__ -..-.._.. ¢ r ------------- r .. policy of the new Administration seems to be no half-way halting ufl'sir. A manufac turing company in Marion, Iowa, adverriscs the fact that Mrs. Harrison wears a pefect pnm in steel springs and cream satin pre» sented by them to her, and for which they hold her receipt dated February 11. A bustle architect in Shelbyville, Indiana, pub- lishes a levter of acknowledgment and thanks from Mrs. Harrison’s secrebary. IThis second hustle is described a! “ of me- dium size, covered with fine white satin and in is a work of art.” A Connecticut art)- isb announces that he has received from Mrs. Harrison “ a most gracious acknowledg- ment” and letter of thanks for the most wonderful bustle ever constructed by human skill. It is of “ blue satin. trimmed with rich lace, and furnished with gold monntings, all oi the metal parts which are exposed being of gold." The “ Jewellers’ Raview" tells the story of a young man who purchased a fourteen- carat gold necklace for his best girl, and a few days after rushed into the store and ‘ throwing the present on the counter, declar- ‘ ed that he had been swindled. He exclain- ed that the owner wore the necklace at a reception, and after the first dance, finding it had made a black mark on her neck, she immediately went home, and the next day returned the piece of jewellery, with a note that “ she did not like his brass." The jeweller assured the man that the article was as represented. l4-carat, and while testing it, a young physician, who was standing near and had overheard part of the story, asked to be told is all, as he believed he could throw some light on the subject. Pretty soon he laughed outright, and said : “ Why, sir, the trouble is with your girl and not the necklace. She has two much sulphur, iron, mercury, salt or acid in her blood, and as any of these substances has an aflinity for gold the explanation is clear. I have patients for whom mercurial medi- cines have been prescribed, and the;resu1t is that their fingers upon which rings are worn are discolored at once." The customer cooled 96 and carried his purchase away. Chm-lea Frederick Worth, the famous “ man milliner" of Paris. relM es the history of his establishment. He thus explains his 31100385 1 The rumour that my house was founded mainly through the influence of the Princess de Metrernich is wholly inexact. The lady was at the outset of my career one of the best and most appreciative of my customers, as she has since always continued to be ; but that was not all. ’Bwo things at the begin- ning of the empire combined to give to feminine dress an added importance. One was the invention of the orinoline and the other was the rage for fancy costume balls. I: 1 L--- Vuuvl u...- u", “.5- -_ OI ex-Empreaa Eugenia he says :â€"“ I have dressed many lovely women but never a. lovelier one than the tax-Empress of the Frenpb. The hooped skin was invented by .inn n- .L- E Inuuu. nun uuvyvu v..- . the Empress. The amplitude given to the skirts of ladies‘ dresses by the new invention was something extraordinary. Ten bresdths of satin or velvet became necessary to fashion the simglest skirt, and in lighter materials, where ouncing, rnching, etc , were used as trimmings, we hesitated to promise a see and dress out of a attain oi 60 or 67 yards till the first was nished. Once I made a dress in whose construction 100 yards of silk were employed. It was in light gleoe tel- fetss in three shades of purple, from delicate lilac to deep violet ; the whole skirt was covered with close full ruchings in the three shades, sndwhsn completed the dress looked like a huge bouquet of violets." KISSES WITH A MORAL A nice young fellow loved two girls, one stately and dark, aged twenty; the other delicate and bronde, aged seventeen. He had been in the habit of kissing the dark girl as often as a. hundred times at 3 single sitting. She liked it and so did he. But the little blonde lay low. One night as the young man was bidding her good night he lifted her fingers swiftly to his lips and kissed their small, cool tips. She drew her hand quickly away, gespod, and seid :â€" " Why, whet are vou doing?’ Then she fled like s bird and the young ma}; departgd. man up an wu- Six mcnths later these two were married. I The stately, dark girl wondered how it had been accomplished, She would have wager- ed that her kisses were the finest in the market. Very likely they were, but they grew to be a drug, as peaches sometimes do in August. The delicate hlonda's remained curious until after the ceremony. And that is where the delicate blonde had the excel- lently large intelligence. Among the curiosities of the Queen's rail- way journeys are the time tables supplied to her Majesty, these being printed in violet ink on hand-made paper with gilt edges. They contain the exact time of the stoppages at all points, and give other in- formation of interest. There was no response, and the silence had lasted for a few seconds, when the bride said : “He’s a little deaf ; you'll have to speak up louder." The minister, a grave, dignified man repeated the question in a much louder tone. The bridegroom put one hand to his ear, leaned forward and said in an equally loud voice, “Hey .7" Then the bride. who had remained self- poasessed throughlit all,strraightened matters out by raising to her tiptoes, putting her whiteglcved hands on the bridegroom's shoulder and her lips to his ear while she screamed: “He says do you wantâ€"toâ€"marry â€"me ?" “Why, of course ; what also am I here Tm: BUSTLE AT THE WHIrE HOUSE FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN. EVEN GOLD SOMETIMES DISCOLORS. WORTH, mm “ MAN MILLINER.” One Sunday afternoon she was present at the funeral of a generally beloved young lady who had been prominent in church and Sunday School walk, and whose death 00 curred under peculiarly harrowing circum- stances. At a point in the ritual where a hymn is sung. just before the body is borne away to the cemetery, Miss Nilsson slowly walked from her pew down the aisle, paused on the platform at the side of the casket, and laid upon it a simple but beautiful wreath of flowers; then facing the congregation, with her arms crossed upon her breast, she sang in her native Swedish tongue, with almost unearthly pathos and artless simpliclty, a beautiful funeral hymn: “ O'n ! angels of immortal light, In robes of dazzling radiance bright, On wings of lave, come! bear away Our sister’s form of senseless clay; Walt, kindly v~ ings, oh! waft away. Our sister. to eLernal day.” When she had concluded, and the notes of the organ accompmimeut had died away, there was a silence so profound as to seem awful. It was some moments before the pastor could recover from the spell, and utter the few closing words of the service. In an article upon the churches of denom- inations but little known, of WI ich there are many, in New York, the Minnenpalis Tribune relates a very pleasant anecdote of the great Swedish prima donnn, Cnristine Nileson. Miss Ni saon was accustomed, when in New York, to attend service a: the humble little Swedish chapel on East Thirty-ninth Street. ,s._h_ She was very regular in her attendance. and usually occupied a pew near the cen’re of the church. Never elsewhere did she seem to sing so sweetly. The pioneers of the Susquehanna Valley were obliged to depend upon the forests for their supply of meat; and hunting was a prohbablo business with them. These early huntsmeu had many stirring adventures. Asa Comeback, with the aid of his dog, one day drove a large buck into the river opposite where the Presbyterian church, at Su que- hanns. Depoo, now stands. 1.1,, .............._r__, 7, The river was not all frczan over, and the current carried the dog and deer down the stream. until they came to firm ice in the bend of the stream. Mr.Comatock ran along, encouraging the dog with, “ Hold him, Tige, hold him 1 Good dog. good dog 1" When he saw the animals had lodged against the ice, he ran up to them and impulsively seized the deer by the horns, thinking to out: his throat; against the sharp edge of the ice, or at least to choke the creature ineenplble. But the buck was yet fresh and gamy. He gave a. auddenjerk with his head, and Comatook was drawn into the river, and. ere be fairly realized what had occurred. man, dog and deer were borne by the swift current under the ice. He was fully alive to the danger of hi5 position. Fortunately he was a good swimmer and, though terrified at finding himself under the ice. did not lose his presence of mind. “I never felt cooler in my life,” he said afterward, “and you can believe, in that lay water. that the coolness wasn’t all in my mind 1” His hope, of escape rested on coming to an air hole in the ice. They were hurried down- ward for several rods. Comatockv kept his eyes open, and. seeing a. light place ahead, be swam toward it 10 was an air-hoie and he climbed out; through it upon the solid ice. I “I lost that buci:”fihe- said, "but tbeul reckoned I was moderately lucky to get out 0’ that scrape alive." Facts relating to the Lappe are of interest to Canadians for the reason that the Eskimos of this continent resemble that race very closely. But the Lspps come more in contact with civilized people than do the Eskimos and more in known of their past. hie't‘oryfmd Eczema condition. -n..- -LLMI can:n‘" Inna nvuvu. In... v'-_-_ V, The Lapps live farther north in Finland than they do in Norway. This is because in Finland the pressure of clvillzxtion is stronger. As fields are enclosed and cnl- tivated, the range of pasture for the reindeer is made less. Tnis forces the Lspps north. Their former dwelling-places were further south in all that part of Europe. The Lspps find their chief occupation in sea fishing. At the end of summer they move inland, and fish in the lakes till winter sets in. Their winter home is near the bogs and marshes where the reindeer find the moss which is their fodder. uuu u“, ...v_~ .. It has been a common belief that: the Lapps are dying ouu. This is not an exact statement of the case. It is true that; they are disappearing sea race, but this is be- cause they are being steadily absorbed by the Finns. What the future promises for them in Norway and Sweden is no: so clear. A minister’s wife tells some funny stories about young couplea who have come to her husband to be married. On one occasion there cune a young couple from the coun- try accompanied by several friends. The bridal couple took their places before the minister, and all went well until the bride- groom waa asked if he took this woman to be his lawful wife. There fiofiii‘ezponse, and the silence had lasted for a few seconds, when the bride said 2 Singing Over the Coffin. Carried Under. Say “ Yes" Lapps- 1nd. “ Now be sure that you don’t let yoursefl get sc befuddled as to say ‘no' at the place you'd ought to any ‘yes,’ John,tor then we'd have to be married all over again ; and, like as not, he’d charge double.’ The doxible charge” was not made, how- ever, for John said "Yea," in a bashful man- ner, when the time came for him to declare himself. The trend of legislation on the l’q‘wr ques- tion on this continent is srmwn by the 0:11 introduced in the Michigan levislsture to raise the liquor license lee to $1,000 State prohibition in Michigan was defeated two or three years ago bye narrow majority, the prohibitionisn majority of ‘24 000 in the state outside of Detrou‘. being suomergeri by the large vote the other way in that city. Un- able to secure prohibi im some of its friends have turned to high license, withthe view of crippling the traffic, and it appears that they will be successful. In Pennsylvania the order of things is reversed. High license ‘ was adopted two years ago, and now a. vote l on state prohibition is about to be taken. Another self-passcased bride once came to the parsonage with a difli lent and nerv- our. bridegroom. They csme alone. While they were waiting! for thcminiater to appear, his wife, sitting inn room adjwining the parlor, heard the young woman speaking words ofencouragemenb to the young man and instructing him in the part he was to take in the ceremony. Whatever may be said for and against the use of tobacco, the general consensus of opinion is that its use by boys is in the main pernicious, and this opinion would appear to be sustained by the theory that tobacco checks the change of tissue necessary to the physical development of youth. But there will be many who deplore the tobacco habit amongst boys who will question the wisdom of the law recently p'xs «ad by the Connecti- cut Senate, which imposes a fine on persons selling tobacco to a minor, and makes it a l crime for a minor to use tob-icco in any pub. alic place. The lnw is rather suggestive of I the old blue law of the same State, which in- structed the own constable to arrest any person, old or young, found smoking or chewing the weed. for 2 ' responded the bridegroom, in a sur- prised none. And, although the reply was not quit: in form, the ceremony proceeded to the end. The Stete Superintendent of Public In- struction in New York reports that the rural schools sufier a. great deal from the persi- mony of trustees. He says that while all teachers are entitled to consideration because of their trying work, the “cross roads" teacher is most to be commiserated. Atten- dance at the crossroads or rural school is irregular, so that much of the teacher's labour in virtually thrown away. The trustees drive hard bargains in regard to his salary. He is usually hired by the term, indeed the trustees frequently nndertnke to hire him by the day or week. in order that they may be free to efl'ect a change at my time. The number of young persons seeking employment as teacher is Very large, and this competition, of course, fsvaurs the nig- gardlinese of the trustees. All this is eqnelly true of the condition of the mini teacher in Ontario. The rural teacher is, perhaps, the most importent of pnbli; servants, and he is ‘ certainly the most unfortunate. The people of Servis have he: nothing directly by the abdication of Kng Milan. Nor can the brotherhood of European mon- archs have anything to ragruu in the retire- ment) from the stage of so disreputable a representative of royalty. I: in hard to con- ceive of a more pltable night than that: of one who might have emhroned himself in the hearts of a. grateful pm ple, goin into ob» aonrity bowed down physncslly an mentally under the burden of his own vices, and folâ€" lowed by the execrations rather than the ra grate of a people who could no longer tolerate IT'L ., -,, lath; a“ r r ' v r .. him on their sovereign. What the effect will be upm the stanza of the kingdom and the “situation” in Elstern Europe remains to be seen. Much for the present depends upon the character of the regentâ€"e. rather frail support, itia lenruL In the not im- probable event of the restoration of Queen Natalie, and the preponderance of Russian influence, the danger of trouble with Austria, and the possible precipitation of the long looked-for European conflict will be eeri~ one. Mr. Charles Dudley Warner has stirred up a homet’s nest in British Columbia by stating, in his articleon Canada in theMarch number of Harper's. that “Vancouver has taken away from Victoria all its import- ance as a port." The Victoria Colonist, in the course of an article headed “A Stufi'ed Tourist,” says that “no one but a Vancouv- er boomer with a cheek of br-ss would have the impudenca to attempt to cram such a statement as that down an unfortunate tourist’s throat.” The same paper asserts that Mr. Warner was also grossly misin- formed as to other matters relating to Victoria, the work of the “Vancouver stuf- fer" being here again apparent. It would seem from this that Mr. Warner heard, or paid attention to, only one side of the story. But tourists who make flying visits to foreign countries for the purpose of "Writing them up” cannot be expected to furnish accurate information about them. The only wonder is that Mr. Warner mide so tew mistakes as he did. Even the ” free west ” of California is affected by the croza for regulating every- thing. A bill has been introduced in the Legislature to abate the nuisance of big ham in theatres. Section 1 reads: “It shall be unlawful for any spectator in My public place of amusement to wear a covering for the head which shall reach more than three itches above the crown of the head or more than three inches beyond the literal circum- ference of the head ; and any person wearing such a covering for the head shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined in a sum not less than $5 nor more than $10, or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than two days nor more than six day‘s ; gravided that this Act shall not a ply to females more than thirty-five years 0 age." If the Cali. fornian solon who introduced this measure thinks he can alter the shape of a lady’s hat by such legislation he has sadly miscalcnlat- ed the powers of resistance of the so-called weaker sex. The hat won’t be crushed down in that fashion Perhaps he knew that: and was simply playing the role of a financier and endeavoring to enrich the muni- cipal treasury by the fines of ladies who, rather than confess to being within five years of forty, would admit judgment in can“. PASSING NOTES.