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The Tick of the Clock at Midnight.

Tis the click of the clock at midnight, Solemnly, startlingly clear, Like the throb of a fevered pulsation Made audible to the ear. Through the house reignsa death-like silence The death-like silence of sleep, | While the fragments of time, like meteors, Pass flashing across the deep. From the coming eternity rushing, They illume for a moment our sky, But no power can stay their departure: They touch us and hover by. They touch on the heart of the watcher, And utter these words in his ear: ‘‘ Can ye not watch for one hour, And our soul-stirring message hear ! We are God's messengers speeding With swift and invisible flight, And we speak to you best in the silence Of the quiet dead hush of the night. Remember we carry our message Of what ye are doing on earth To the bountiful Father in heaven, Who endowed you with souls at your birth. What are you doing, oh, mortals ! With that glorious gift of a soul? For what are your strongest yearnings, And what is the longed-for goal ! Pleasure, and power, and riches, Leisure, and freedom from care Is it for these ye are strivirg !

Such strivings must end in despair. Like a butterfly crushed in the grasping, So bleasure is crushed when caught,

And power must end in weakness, And riches must end in naught ;

While indolent leisures lies basking Sleepily, selfish, glad,

Till the adder of conscience stings it And the terror driveth it mad.

Soon the dawn will streak the horizon And herald the fateful day ;

Prepare ! Lo, the kingdom of heaven Approacheth ! Watch and pray.

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Miscellaneous.

susiness is improving in San Domingo. — , The Czar is expected in Berlin shortly, | on his way te Ems.

Southeastern Kansas has been inundated by terrible rainstorms during the past week.

The temperature in the sun in Kew Ob- servatory, near London, on the 26th ult., was 146 degrees.

General Sheridan says fears of hostilities from Chippewas on the Minnesota and Wis- consin borders are lessened.

Mr. Archibald Forbes will visit the United States this summer, and lecture on his Russian army experiences.

Mr. John Lorn McDougall, the newly appointed Auditor-General, will enter upon the duties of his office on the 2nd July.

Austria has asked the Porte for 7,000,000 florins as indemnity for maintaining Bosnian refugees, or the cession of a number of towns.

The St. John News gives, as the result of the New Brunswick elections, 13 Govern- ment, 24 Opposition and 4 independent members elected.

At the Derby, Mr. George Payne is said have won £7,000, Captain Arthur Paget £4,000, and Mr. Crawford and the Duchess Dowager of Montrose £21,000.

People going to Paris will be glad to know that the exhibition building contains sufficient explosive compounds to reduce the whole of Paris to a heap of ruins.

Mrs. Urger, of New York, who, on May 17th, chased, captured, and handed over to an officer, a burglar, died on Saturday last from the shock and fright she experienced at that time.

President McMahon has, upon the rec- ommendation of his Ministers, decided to pardon 800 Communist prisoners, on the occasion of the National Festival of the 30th inst., in honor of the Exhibition.

The Turkish representatives at the Con- gress make so little resistance where their protests are over-ruled, that it is supposed they are reserving their strength for the fu- ture, and that there will bea hard fight over the Greek and Bosnian questions.

The will of William C. Rhinelander, who left an estate worth ten millions, was tiled for probate at New York yesterday. He leaves legacies charitable institutions and hospitals, and the balance is to be equally divided among his children.

Father Hyacinthe is now delivering a short series of lectures in Paris. The topic of the first was ‘‘Deism.” Although a large audience gathers to hear him, his lectures do not excite the curiosity they did when he first appeared in Paris, about a year ago.

A well known actress being asked her age, frankly replied: ‘‘I have four ages ; the family arehives unfortunately claim that 1 am fifty; by daylight I . pass for thirty-six ; by gaslight not more than thirty; and, with all my war paint on, in a soft light and no rude glare, [ pass for five-and- twenty.”

Prince Bismark is not an early riser, and is fond of sitting up late at night, chatting over a bottle of wine or a glass of beer. It is said that nearly all his diplomatic nego- tiations, beginning with General Govonne’s confidential overtures in 1866 for an alliance between Italy and Prussia, until the most recent pour parlers on the Eastern question, have been transacted by him in a convivial way in the nocturnal hours.

ContTRARY to the general impression, notwithstanding the ‘Turkish blockade of the Black Sea, Russia supplied Europe with more grain in 1877 than in 1876. The returns show that, while in 1876 Rus- sia exported 146,089,000 bushels of grain, in 1877 she exported 188,622,000 bushels. While the exports from the Black Sea ports fell off from 54,000,000 te 29,000,000 bushels, the movement from the Baltic ports increased from 24,000,300 to 57,000,- 090 bushels, and the overland movement from 10,000,000 to 61,000,000 bushels. ,

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