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“ It’s hard on a fellow, I do declare l” Said Tommy one day with a. pout ; “ In every one of the suits I wear The pockets are ’most worn out ; They ’rc 'bout as big as the ear of a. mole, And I never have more than three ; And there’s always coming a mean little hole That loses my knife for me. “ I can’t make ’m hold but a. few little thingsâ€" Some cookies, an apple or two, A knife and a pencil and bunch of strings, Some nails and maybe a screw, And marbles, of course, and top and ball, And shells and pebbles and such, And some odds and endswyes, honest, that’s all ‘. You can see for yourself ’t isn’t much. “ I’d like a. suit of some patent kind, \Vith pockets made wide and long ; Above and below and before and behind Sewed extra heavy and strong ; I’d want about a dozen or so, All easy and quick to get at ; And I should be perfectly happy, I know, With a handy rig like that.” The Emperor William brings up his little sons like soldiers. ’l‘hey rise with the sun, and go to bed at six or seven. Five o’clock is their usual hour of rising; and they are not allowed to remain in bed for EL minute after they Wake, as the Emperor thinks that the habit of lying in bed encourages self- indulgence. The two youngest have an English governess ; but the three eldest are under the care of a. military tutor, and wait- ed upon by men servants. If they run to the nursery their tutor asks if they have been there to have “a baby’s bottle.” “We went there for pmvyers,” said one of the Princes when rebuked. “Prayers will be read 1n my room for the f11ti11e, ” said the tutor, Who has received 01'- ders from the Emperor to observe military discipline In the HPriuce’ 5 apartments. The Crown Prince is aware that he will one day be Emperor. He discovered the fact for himself, although he is always styled Prince V‘V’illiam, and, by his father’s com- mand, has never been told that there is any difl'erenee between himself and his brothers. He is a clever boy, full of fun, but with a great idea of his own importance. Prince Eitel Frederick is a favorite with every one, partly because he is so handâ€" some, partly on account of his sweet disposi- tion. H0 is a. born soldier, and delights in making mimic war with his tin soldiers, who represent all the nations of Europe. The Princes are devoted to their father and mother. It is no uncommon thing to find the Empress in the nursery before six o’clock in the morning, dressed, and ready to begin the day. In the middle of winter she may be seen walking in the Thiergarten with her husband by eight o’clock. All day long she is busy, receiving Visitors, performing public funcâ€" tions, or writing for the Emperor until her hand aches. Both the Emperor and Empress are very conscientious. They are determined to fulfil the duties imposed upon them by their position. But the Empress grieves over the fact that she cannot spend much time with her children. When she was simply Princess VVilliann she heard the Princess say their prayers every night, superintended the nurâ€" series, and insisted upon rigid economy. The clothes of one little Prince were handed on to his younger brother by her orders, and nothing was wasted. Now she is obliged to content herself with embroideringthe cloth- es of her babies. She is an accomplished needlewoman, and very fond of sewing. But few people give her credit foxT the share she takes in the Emperor’s work. It isa great mistake to imagine that she is a mere Hausfrau. Those who imagine this should have seen her on horseback at the last military review, dressed in the uniform of her regiment, which she led past the Emperor. She is exceedingly popular in German} not only on account of her domestic vim _ because she has strengthened the German empire by bringing into the world five sons. Presents are showered upon her for the children. But the presents never reach the nursery. Probably few children are so simply fed, or dressed, as the little Princes. They are taught to despise luxury, and to look down upon nfi‘ectation. “Are the [3111511 costumes coming to-day ‘3’ thgimevn Pgince inquiregl 0n_his birthday He referred to 50m}: little playmates “'1'10 always visit him in velvet. My son, you remember reading, not many weeks ago, the statement of a minis- ter of the gospel. a foreign missionary, one might say, as he is preaching in New York, that he was obliged to go to Europe for a long rest, because he was run down by overwork. “ I have a hot box,” he said, and then went on to explam that when a railway train ran too fast and too long the boxes or journals of the car wheels became over-heated and the train had to come to a halt and remain at rest until the “ hot box” cooled off. “That is What ails me,” said the good minister. “I am not sick, and I have not broken down ; I have simply been work- ng too hard ; I have been going too fast and doing too much, and have a hot box 3 I must rest a while ; rest is all I need.” The German Emperor’s Children. When overcome with anxious fears, And moved with passion serong, Because the right seems losing ground And everything goes wrong, How oft does admonition say : “ Put trouble on the shelf ; Truth will outlive the liars’ day, And Right will right itself ‘3” By all the triumphs of the past, By all the victories won, The good achieved, the progress made Each day, from sun to sun ; In spite of artful ways employed By perfidy or pelf, Of One thing we can rest assured, The Right will right itself ! Unshaken in our faith and zeal, ’Tis ours to do and dare, To find the place We best can fill, And serve our Maker there ; For he is only brave who thus Puts trouble on the shelf, And trust in God, for by His aid The Right will right itself. The Right Will Right Itself. Advice to aYoung‘ Man. A Grievous Complaint. YOUNG FOLKS. Now, my son, I hope, and I believe that preacher is a. better theologian than he is a railroader ; he ought to be, anyhow. He knew what ailed him; he had a hot box. But he didn’t know what caused it ; he said it was working too hard ; doing too much. Nonsense, my boy ; sheer nonsense ; utter absurdity. He wasn’t doing half as much as he should have been doing, maybe. He might have been the laziest preacher in all busy New York, and yet had a hot box all the same. It isn’t the speed that makes the journal heat up and set fire to the pack- ing, my son. The box is out of order ; that What’s the matter. I have been shot from Philadelphia to Chicago on the “Limited,” the drix ers fairly throwing the miles away like seconds, and never a smoking axle nor the loss of a. minute on a single mile ; and the next day I have boarded the \Vesley City, Bluetown & Copperas Creek Air Line â€"â€"runs from Quarries to Kickapoo siding, mixed train, three times a week, twelve miles an hour~and helped to carry water from the creek to pour on a hot journal be- tween every other station. Itisn’t the speed at all. The next time you are whirling along on a lightning express, and the train stops to doctor a hot journal, you will observe, if you please, that there is but one smoking axle on all the train of seven Pullmansâ€"or is the plural of that car Pullmen ?â€"running on an aggregate of eighty-four Wheels. One hot box in eighty-four. Now the eighty-three wheels that are in good condition were run- ning just as fast as the one that set fire to its packing, making just as good time, and they are ready and able to keep on making time. The wheel that stops the train is out of or- der ; there’s something wrong about the wheel; it hasn’t been doing a hit more than any other wheel on the train. And when it says it has been doing too much and running too fast all the other wheels have a right to squeak on their axles in derision, were they not too smoothly polished and too well oiled to be guilty of such harshness. 1 Takoe care of yourself, my boy; keep your- self in condition; run regular trips on sche- dule time ; look after yourself before and after the run, and at the five minute stops, and I don’t care how much you shorten up the time, you may go as fast as you can make steam and turn the drivers. It 1511 t the greatrailways, with their Well~ appointed trains, thoroughly disciplined and practically educated crews that are troubled with hot boxes. You find the hot boxes on the poorer roads, that run their ex- presses on freight train time,and try to save oil by using plenty of water on the boxes, because water is cheap and they think there is more economy in cooling a. hot journey with water that costs nothing than there is in keeping it cool with with oil that costs money. If arailwaytmin, sl’iootingthrough the atmosphere [like a§streak of lightning, should suddenly burst into devouring flame simultaneously, from pilot to marker, I should be inclined to think that speed and friction had something to do with destruc- tion. But when only one wheel in lOO he- gins to smoke, I am positive it is the fault of one wheel, unless it can prove that it was running faster and going farther than any other wheel of its size on the train. ROBERT J. BrnDnTrE. Just at this time of the year there is always agnumber of city men who get an itchingr (le- sire to be farmersâ€"not farmers for health or pleasure, but farmers for profit, writes T. De \Vitt Talmage in the Ladies’ Home Journal. Now, farming is a grand occupa- tion ; but to the average city business man who goes into it for profit, it holds out noth- ing but failure. The city farmer, forexample, never considers, as does the Wise and know- ing farmer, that there may be disappoint- ment in crops. He thinks that whatever he sows will come up and yield profit. Even a stupid turnip knows a city farmer as soon as it sees him. Marrowfat peas fairly rattle in their pods with derision as he passes. The fields are glad to impose upon the novice. \Vandering too near the beehive with a hook on honeymiaking, he gets stung in three places ; his eauliflowers turn out to be cabbages; the thunder spoils his milk; the grass butter thathe dreamed of is rancid; the taxes eat up his profits; the drougl’it consumes his corn ; the rust gets in his Wheat; the peaches drop off before they ripen ; the rot strikes the potatoe‘ ; expect- ing to surprise his benighted oi y friends with a few early vegetables, he accidentally has heard that they have new potatoes and green peas and sweet corn for a fortnight ; the bay mare runs away with the box wagon ; his rustic gate gets out of order ; his shrnh- bery is perpetually needing the shears; it seems almost impossible to keep the grass out of the serpentine walks ; a cow gets in and upsets the vases of flowers; the hogs destroy the watermelons, and the gardener runs off with the chambermaid. Every- thing goes wrong, and farming is a failure when a man knows nothing about it; if a man can afford to make alarge outlay for his own amusement and the health of his family, let him hasten to his country pur- chase. But no sensible man will think to keep a. business in town and make a farm financially profitable. “Uiile the Behring sea, controversy is oc- cupying attention it is pleasant to observe that at Victoria, B. 0., last Wednesday a. British war ship was withdrawn from a British drydock by a British admiral so that a United States steamer which had been aground and put into Victoria. in a leaking condition, might be promptly repaired. The courtesy is the more noticeable since in case of a rupture of the somewhat strained re- lttions between the two countries in conse- querca of American interference with sealing carried on from Victoria this same admiral and his war ship would take an active part in hostilities. The reported floods in England, which have exceeded any that are remembered since 1813, mean the destruction to a Wide extent of the hay and the wheat crops, and the diseomfiture of the English farmers. The wet weather has been unprecedented, and the rain has come down in floods so that in many places the whole hay crop is under water and is reported as utterly ruin- ed. A word of caution, however, is called for. It must be remembered that the farm- ers generally paint the situa im at its worst, and that the return of fine weather may work a great improvement. Still there is no doubt that a. good deal of damage has been done. This misfortune to the English agriculturists means that» Canadian hay and wheat will be in great demand in England in the early {L ll. City Men as Farmers. Some little excitement was caused the lat» ter part of last Week by the publication of the correspondence relating to the seal fish- eries in the Behring Sea. Like most diplo- matic correspondence it is entirely disingen- uous. It is a verbal fencing match, in which each party tries to evade the other’s attack and to draw his antagonist into avulnerable position. The game is still going on. It cannot be said that either side has an advan- tage thus far or that either side appears to manifest any burning desire to reach a defin- ite conclusion. The correspondence begins with a remonstrance from the British repre- i sentative against the seizure of sealers in Behring Sea. He asks whether the Govern- ment of the United States will not direct that such unfriendly acts shall not be repeat- e l. Secretary Blaine returns a polite note, but neglects to notice his question. The Eng- lishman returns to the charge, and after several more communications Mr. Blaine re- plies that it is now too late to issue any or. ders for the present season. He then goes on to express his surprise that Great Britain should encourage the destruction of seals or should object LO theefforts of theUnitedStates to protect them, and he explains and defends at length the position of this government, which, he asserts, has not claimed exclusive territorial jurisdiction over the fisheries, but has simply arrested vessels “engaged in a pursuit thatwas in itself contra bonos mores.” The United States government, Mr. Blaine continues, has alwaysbeen ready for a friend- ly adjustment, and it was not its fault that the negotiations of 1888 had been suspended. He would like to hear What the other side has to propose. The British Minister, Sir Julian Pauncefote, is pleased with this sug- gestion. Let us resume negotiations. But we ought to have a commission of experts to report whether it really hurts the seals to be killed, and meanwhile he suggests a temporary arrangement. At this point Lord Sallsbury takes a hand himself. He is pleased that the negotiations are going along so nicely, but he would just like to have a little friendly understanding at the start. He begs to inquire What law of na- tions made seal fishing piracy or gave the United States police juiisdictionon the high seas, and he quotes a lot of American pre- cedents in defense of the claim of free navi- 3 gation and fishing in open waters. Mr. ilaine has not time fairly to tackle these questions when, a year having already rolled around, the reports of seizures begin again. The British Minister again protests and Mr. Blaine again postpones and evades and takes up the discussion of Sir Julian’s proposed modus vivendi, which he does not find sat- isfactory. He makes a counter proposition that pending negotiation Canadian vessels shall not enter Behring Sea during this sea- son. Or Lord Salisbury might make for a single season the regulation which no had proposed in XSSS to make permanent. But Lord Salisbury has in the meantime con- cluded that he cannot now go that far, beâ€" cause Canada would not agree to it ; or, as . he says, he has no legal powerto enforce its observance. He is sorry that the President should think him lacking in concilliation. He is just as conciliatory as he can be. The advocates of temperance point regretfully to the fact that last year there was an increase in the consumption of in- toxicating beverages in the United Kingdom to an amount which represented an expendi- ture of nearly £8,000,000, or $40,000,000. Estimating the population at 37,800,000, each man, woman and child spent, on the average, in the year 1889, 551 more in the purchase of intoxicating liquor than in the year 1888. The two great items of increase were in spirits and beer, the increase in the latter item amounting to an expenditure of quite $25,000,000. It is pointed out that this indicates that the increased consumption of liquor was almost entirely due to increased purchase on the part of the wage earning 1 classes. Times were better, the earnings 1 from work were larger, and asaconsequence ‘ a very considerable part of these was turned into drink. It is shown by the government statistics that the outlay for intoxicating liquors was larger in 1389 than in any year during the past decade. On the other hand, it is well to state that there were certain years between 1870 and 1879 when the con- s.,mption of intoxicating liquors was very much larger than it was last year, although the population of the United Kingdom was considerably smaller. Thus in 1876 the value of the liquor consumed was $75,000,000 greater than in the year 1889, and the average for the ten years from 1870 to 1879 gives an annual con- sumption fully $50,000,000 greater in value than the annual average consumption between 1880 and 1889. Still, considering the relatively small earnings of the English workingmen, it is a sad commentary on the slow growth of temperance in the United Kingdom that last year there were consum- ed there intoxicating beverages to the value of $650,000,000, an amount about equal to the entire military expenditures of all of the nations of Western and central Europe ; or, to state the same thing in another form, for every head of population there was an expenditure for strong drink of $17, or per family of five persons of $85 during the year. This is a tremendous outlay when it is considered that all but an insignificant fraction of it is an entirely unnecessary gratification of the appetite, and, to a large degree, tends to lessen the productive act- ivity of the people. Thus. for each family group throughout the United Kingdom, there was consumed, on the average, 140 gal- lons of beer, 5 gallons of spirits and 2% gal- lons of wine. It is obvious that a very large number of families consumed none at all, and that some of the members of many of the family groups were non-consumers ; ‘ but, making allowances for this, what a burden of consumption this must throw upon the liquor drinkers when the average per family is set at this high mark. Policemen in Englandâ€"41nd elsewhereâ€" sometimes have peculiar ideas of their duties. A Birmingham hotel-keeper is a. witness to that statement. In the rear of his hotel and on his property isa foot-racing ground. He (lid not want any betting there, and said so in the hills posted about the grounds. The hills did not stop the betting, and he ap- pealed to the police authorities to send a constable to prevent the practice. A c011- stable went in pursuance of this request, as the officer himself testified, but he went in plain clothes, and instead of stopping the betting he made three bets with different men, and the next day prosecuted the hotel- keeper on the charge of allowing betting on his premises. England’s Drink Bill. The Seal Fisheries. rl‘lere are two main shafts, one 318 feet and the other 290 feet deep, which were sunk in order to facilitate the C()‘ilf:1’tl'l}Ctl<)tl of the tunnel. The chief obstacle to progress arose from the flooding of the tunnel at more than one point. A large spring was out and the water flooded the shaft on the Candahar side to the depth of 180 feet. It took ten weeks to pump out the \‘uter, and in the western heading as much as fifty gallons a minute were eonstmtly rushing out of the west month. In order to overcome this difficulty a side cutting had to be made. The magnitude of the work is testified to by the banks of shale and rock at the months of the tunnel and at the pitheads, Which are said to be quite altering the landscape in places. One curious discovery made during the progress of the work, as the result of an investigation in the cause of certain myster- ious explosions, was that it was proved that “ combustion had arisen inside a case 01 blasting gelatine. ” The Great Engineering Fem Recently Ac- 'eoluplislm¢l in 'l'pper India. An article in the Allahabad Pioneer gives some interesting particulars concerning the tunnel that has just been completed through the Khojak on the railroad from Quetm to Candahar. The Khojak pass is 7,500 feet above the sea. and about 2,000 feet above the level of the surrounding country. The tun- nel pierces the range at right angles and its course is therefore (lue east and west, and it enters the hill at about 1,000 feet below the crest of the pass. The length of the tun» nel is 12,600 feet, or two and one-half miles approximately, and it will carry a. double line of rails. For the first half the floor as- cends about 1 in 1,000 and for the second half of the journey it descends at an incline of l in 40. A11 old superstition, with specially Russian characteristics, has of late been manifested in Klisheva, a village in the government of Moscow. At the beginning of June two peasants dug up a spring of water at that place. An old woman dreamed that the newly discovered spring possessed curative properties, and she told her dream to the laborers of a factory near by. Thereupon masses of people, mostly women and chil- dren, began flocking around the healing Waters. As the spring did not yield enough water to satisfy them all a fence was built around it, and a cross was erected on the spot. Several peasants of the village stand inside of the fence and deal out the water in bottles to the applicants, each of whom depos1ts a coin at the foot of the cross. The money is collected by the elder of the Village every evening and kept “for communal pur- poses.” At the foot of the cross there stands , a bottle with two dead frogs in it, who had come to their untimely end in a peculiar manner. Before the concourse of sick per- sons around the spring was great, some of the peasants caught two perfectly healthy women, told them that they were danger- ously ill, and pinning them to the ground made them drink the healing waters until they fainted. \Vlien the poor women were picked up from the ground the two frogs were found in their garments, and were de- clared to be devils driven out by the virtue of the holy water. They are now exhibited in the bottle as a sign of the wonderful pro- perties of the spring. The rush of people , A1AAL 1.1.- v- “w. u- -.__ "r"'" r c' - - to that place is so great now that the authorities have great difficulty keeping them in order. An attempt on the part of the authorities to cover up the spring was met with loud protests by the villagers and the duped masses around the place, and had, therefore, to be abandoned. Dr. Dawson, of the Dominion geological survey, says that nearly a million square miles of our country, or about one-eighth of the total area of the continent of America, are as yet practically unknown. The an- nual reports of the geological survey and Interior Department at Ottawa have a peculiar interest from the fact that they are to a considerable extent records of original discovery. The greater part ofthe Canadian Northwest is well known only along its water courses, and some of the explorers of the scientific bureaus are now pushing away from the rivers and lakes to map the regions lying between them. In the large region embraced between Great Fish River on the north, Great Slave and Athabasca lakes on the west, Reindeer and Hatchet lakes on the south, and Hudson Bay on the east, we find on the maps a large number of rivers and big and little lakes. It is a curi- ous fact that all these rivers and lakes have a place on the maps upon the authority of only one man, Mr. Hearne, who wandered for three years through this region over 120 years ago. \Ve may infer from the changes our explorers have been making in the maps of other regions that these rivers and lakes will probably appear under quite a different aspect when modern exploration reaches them. The largest unexplored area in Can- ada is the interior of Labrador, almost 300,- 000 square miles, for mapping the larger palt of which we have scarcely any informa- tion at all except Eskimo reports; and yet if these reports are in any degree trustwor- thy, there are many interesting discoveries to be made in inner Labrador. including the big waterfalls of the Grand River, reputed to be the highest in the world, which no white man has yet visited. F. Marion Crawford, the novelist, is the happy father of twins, born at Sorrento, Italy, on April 17. “VVVe geg 120 pounds of ivory from an elephant,” said acircus man recently. “This is worth $300.” For street wear a well-dressed lady wears the plainest shoe, but her evening shoe is “a thing of beauty.” Chocolatc'caramels occupy the same relative position to the confectionery as hash does to the boardingâ€"house. A very careful lady up-town makes her servant pull down the folding bed every night and look under it for burglars. Maori women of New Zealand are "illing themselves trying to wear corsets, since they have seen them on the missionary women. Fashion now frowns on the heavy black edge on the stationery of the mourner, and its place has been taken by a black strip across the left hand corner of the writing paper only. Superstition in Russia. A MONSTER TUNNEL. An Unknown Country. 0(1d Facts of Interest. Sn the Atlantic coast.“ An industry“ so valuable is not to be bartered away for a mess of pottage. Reports from Ottawa concerning our At- lantic fisheries state that “it is not at all unlikely that this season will prove to be one of the best for our fisheries that Canada has haul for some years past. The confiden- tial circular of the Boston fish bureau shows that the importations of mackerel at that port up to July 11 were away ahead of last year and 1888. The importations so far amount to 10,642 barrels, as against 5,024 barrels last year, and 6,665 the year previ- ous, the greater portion of the quantity nuned being from Canada. This informa- tion is confirmed by our own fishery intelli- gence bureau, and the latest return to hand says that 8,000 mackerel were caught in one trap in P. E. I. Prices are ruling high for mackerel, and this should be a good year for our fishermen.” In these figures one can see good reason for standing up for our rights The French fishermen, with whom the Newfoundlanders have had so much trouble of late, have not shown a, very commendable spirit or great saintliness of disposition. Prohibited from, or at least not granted the privilege by the terms of the trczrty of catch- ing lobsters along the so-called French shore, they have resolved upon playing the part of thedogin themangerand so prevent the eolon< ists from engaging in the work. It appears that by the terms of the treaty of Utrecht, which have been copied into all latter agree- ments, nothing is specified as to where along the shore they shall have the privilege of drying their fish. Hence it is optional with them as to the sites they select. And so it happens that wherever the colonists propose to erect a factory for carrying on the lobster industry the fishermen discover in place something peculiarly suitable for their purpose, and object to the factory being erected there. Of course no one believes that this kind of thing can long endure, but for the present it is exceedingly exasper- ating. M. J. G. Colmcr, Sir Charles Tupper’s secretary, who visited Canada last year to enquire into the crofter settlements in the North \Vest, has been giving his evidence before the select committee of the Imperial House of Commons on emigration and colon. ization. He denied that the people had been in a starving condition when they arrived, but admitted that they needed more cloth~ ing. The statements which had appeared in some of the papers about their condition were very much exagge ‘ated. The experiâ€" ment had shown that £120 was too small a sum for the emigration of a family, £130 to £180 being a more likely figure. It had, however, proved that a scheme of coloniza- tion was practicable, and future parties could be handled with more facility and satisfac- tion. The result of the experiment could not be definitely pronounced till the tim came for repayments. Mr. Colmer also ex- pressed the opinion that the scheme should be continued. There is some more correspondence after this, and it is to be continued. It is really a very difficult question for each side. If Mr. Bayard had had a friendly senate at Washington, he would have settled the matter in 1888, but Lord Salisbury is less free now to make concessions, as Canada is more thoroughly aroused to her interests and has become persuaded that in these fishery matters she has been bull dozed quite long enou h. Blaine, on the other hand, has modi ed his pre-election Fenian hatred of everything English and is compelled to acknowledge that his attitude cannot be defiantly maintained. He cannot assume even a protectorate on breeding grounds over the seals without the consent of Great Britain, Germany and the other Powers, while the absurdity of his first eon, tention that Behring Sea was a mare Clausum, or closed sea, has been most thoroughly ex- posed. Patienee is now the only remedy for the tangle. There is no evidence of any jealousy or wish for hostilities on either side, and it will be to the greatest degree dis- ereditable to two powerful nations if they cannot find a peaceful and sensible wa y out of the quarrel. A Good Year for the Fisheries. The scriptural text about turning the Lord’s house into a den of thieves has liter- ally been realized in Paris, France. The ac of deseeretion is thus described by a French correspondent : “Agents of the suppressed and illegal Parish mutue] must be hardpress- ed by the polieeintheirusual haunts, for it is now found that they are actually using the churches as places in which to carry on their illicit betting traffic. It has been noticed during the last Week that between 11 a. m. and 1 p. m. several of these sacred edifices in and around the Faubourg Montmatreâ€" especially Notre Dame de Loretteâ€"â€"have been frequented by groups of men whose acquaint- ance with the internal economy of a place of worship seemed to be a meagre, and their interest in the relics and images of the saints even less. They selected the dark corners of the building, and stuck to the positions they first took up. Some of them had little volumes in their hands, but no prayer books, for every now and then their owners, after whispered consultations with individuals in the throng, produced pencils and made entries in them. After the re- sults of the day’s racing became known the same groups reassembled in the same places, when more whispered consultations took place, and sometimes money passed from one to another. The regularity of the at- tendance of these gentlemen aroused the attention of the vergers, who, finding that there churches were used for betting, and were in danger of earning the anathema passed upon another place of worship, of be- coming ‘(lens of thieves,’ informed the au< thorities of What was going on. Should the betting men continue to abuse the “opem church” system in this way we shall pro- bably soon hear of police raids upon these sacred retreats.” A \Vaterville feline has a. great fondness for the flesh of birds, and in order to make her quest for the same successful employs a. stratagem. Evidently understanding the bird’s fondness for angle worms, she collects a, number of the same and buries them in the ground. She then takes her place in a. con- venient place of ambush, and when the birds alight to secure their coveted morsel she springs from her concealment and pounces upon them. Many a bird thus falls a. prey to pussy’s shrewdness. The Dog in the Manger. Pussy Catches Birds with Bait.