VOL. XXVI._

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ALMANAC FOR MARCH, 1876;

MOON'S CHANGES.

New Moon, 7th Day, th. 8m., p.m., W.S. W. | First Quar., 14th Day, 8h. 58m., a.m., N. E., !

below horizon.

Full Moon, 21st Day, 7h. 39m., a.m., W.

Srd Quar., 30th Day, |2h., 12m., a.m,, N. E. “velow horizon.

Db. : su» } MOON} HIGH DAY's M wat od aa Lanen sets water len’th er uuMu MM ll M 1 Monday (6 4355 41, 1050 5 10) 10 58 2 Tuesday 42; 43; 11 53; 6 34; 11 1 3 Wedn'sd'y) 40; 4tA 33 7 48 4 4 Thursday 38| 46) 145: 8 46 8 5 Friday 36] 47) 255) 9 32 ll 6 Saturday 34 43) 4 13) 1014 if 7|Sunday $2} 50) 5& $2) 10 50 18 8|Monday | 30) 51) 651) 1127) 21 Oi\Tuesday | 29 53] 8 11M 24 10 Wedn'sd’y| 27; 64, 935; O 8 27 tiiThursday | 25) 86) 10 57; O 41) 31 12| Friday 23; 57 M te 22) 35 13/Saturday | 21) 53) O 5} 212) ~~ 38 14 Sunday 19} 59) 149) 3 12) 40 15) Monday a a 44 16) Tuesday igi 2} 4 4 612 47 17;}Wedn'sd’y, 13) 3 450) 7 33, 50 18\Thursday | 11) 5S 5 28) 8 32) 55 19 Friday 9} 6 547) 916) 37 20) Saturday 7 762 9 55} 12 0 21|Sanday 6} 9 6 20) 10 23) 3 22) Menday 3} 10 6 35) 10 58! z 23|Tuesday 2} 12) 5 50} 11 28} = 10 24, Wedn'sd'y'5 59, 18, 7 6} 11 87) 14 25'Thursday 7, 144 7MA 29) if 26 Friday Sei ie 7 44) 1 2] 20 $7)Ssturday | 54) 17 S11 140) 23 98|Sunday S32} 18 8 44, 2 32) 26 39, Monday $0} 19 924) 3 21 29 30) Tuesday 48; 21 10 16) 4 35) 33 811Wedn'sd’y'5 46) 39 11 20) 6 1) 12-36

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WILLIAM DODD, Commission Merchant and AUCTIONEER QUEEN SQUARE, CHARLOTTETOWN. P. E. ISLAND. _

CARVELL BROS., AUCTIONEERS,

Commission Merchants,

AND GENERAL AGENTS. Lower Queen St. Charlottetown, P, E, I.

WILLIAM JAMES HENEY,

AUCTIONEER, GENERAL BROKER, AND COMMISSION AGENT,

DEALER IN CHOIC#

PAMILY GROCERIES, TOBACCO & FANCY GOODS,

PRINCE ST., COR. OF DORCHESTER,

Charlottetown, - - - P. E. sland. JAMES BRENAN,

House, Sign, and Carriage Painter,

Paper Hanger & Glazier, SOURIS WEST.

Orders will receive prompt attention. July 7, 1873. ly

F. M. CAMPBELL. General Merchant COMMISSION AGENT,

MUCTIONEER & BROKER TRINITY CORNER, GEORGETOWN, P, E. I.

AGENT FoR THE

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Sept. 1, 1873. ly

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St. Lawrence Marine Insur- ance Co. of P. £. Island.

Boarp or DinxctTors:

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Agtemas Loxv, Esq.

Baten B. Peake, Esq.

P W. HynxpMan, Esq.

Tuomas Mornis, Esq.

W. D. Srewart, Esq.

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ullding. . * REDERICK W. HYNDMAN,

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RAO OOP LEO OL

A MORNING SONG.”

) 1 wake this morn, and all my Hfe

| Isfreshly mine to live; The future with sweet promise rife, And crowns of joy to give. | New words to speak. new thoughts to hear, New love to give and take; Perchance new burdens I may bear, For love’s owa sweetest sake. | New hopes to open in the sun,

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New efforts worth the will, | Or tasks with yesterday begun More bravely to fulfil.

Fresh seeds forall tne time to be,

Are in my hand to sow, Whereby for others and for me, Undreamed of fruit may grow. In cach white daisy ’mid the grass That turns my foot aside, In each uncarling fern I pass, Some sweetest joy may hide. And if, when eventide shall fall

In shade across my way, It seems that nought my thoughts recall, But life of every day;

Yet ifeach step in shine or shower Be where thy footstep trod,

Then blessed be every happy hour That leads me nearer God.

Chambers’ Journal.

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THE WORLD IS WHAT WE MAKE IT.

I've seen some people in this life, Who always are repining, Who never, never yet could see The storm-cloud’s silver lining. There always something is amiss, From sunrise to its setting; That God’s hand made their map of life, They seem the while forgetting.

And I have seen a blessed sight To sin-beclouded vision,

Some people who, where’er they be, Make earth seem an Elysian.

They always see the brightest side— The direful shadows never-—-

And keep the flower of hope and bloom Within their hearts forever.

The one can make the sunniest day Seem wondrous sad and dreary ; The other smiles the clouds away, And makes a dark day cheery. This life of ours is after all, About as we shall make it. If we can banish grief and care, Let’s haste to undertake It. iy LITERATURE.

THEODORE

LL OL LL

HOOK.

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Hook told us an amusing story of his going duwn to Worcester, to see his brother the dean, with Henry Higginson (his coms panion in many of his frolics), They ar- rived separately at the coach, and taking their places in the inside, opposite to each other, pretended to be strangers. After some time they begin to hoax their fellows travellers—the one affecting to see a great many things not to be seen, the other cons firming it and admiring them.

‘What a beautiful house that is on the hill!’ cried Higginson, when no house was near the%spot; ‘it must command a most magnificent prospect from the elevation on which it stands,’

‘ Why, yes,’ returned Hook, ‘ the view must be extensive enough, but | cannot think these windows in good taste; to run out bay windows in a gothic front, in my opinion, ruins the effect of the whole building.’

‘Ah! that is the new proprietor’s do- ings,’ was the reply, ‘they were not there when the marquis had possession.’ Here one of their companions interfered; he had been stretching his neck for some time in the vain hope of getting a glimpse of the mansion in question, and now asked—

: Pray, sir, what house do you mean? I don’t see any house.’

‘ That, sir, with the turrets and large bay windows, on the hill,’ said Hook, with pro» found gravity, pointing to a thick wood.

‘Dear me,’ returned the old gentleman, bobbing about to catch the desired object, ‘I can’t see it for those confounded trees.’

The old gentleman, luckily for them, proved an indefatigable asker of questions, and the answers he received of course add« ed much to his stock of authentic infor- mation.

‘ Pray, sir, do you happen to know to whom that house belongs?’ inquired he, pointing to a magnificent mansion and handsome park in the distance.

‘That, sir,’ replied Hook, « is Womberly Ilall, the seat of Sir Abraham Hume, which he won at billiards from the Bishop oh Fath and Wells.’

‘You don’t say so!’ cried the old gea- tleman, in pious horror, and taking out his pocketsbook begged his informant to re- peat the name of the seat, which he readi- ly did, and it was entered accordingly— the old gentleman shaking his head grave- ly the while, and bewailing the profligacy of an age in which dignitaries of the church practised gambling to so alarming an exs tent.

The frequency of the remarks, however, made by the associates on objects which the eyesight of no one else was good enough to take in, began at length to exs cite some suspicion, and Hook’s breaking suddenly into a rapturous exc’amation at ‘the magnificent burst of the ocean!’ in the midst of an inland country, a Wiltshire farmer, who had been for some time stars ing alternately at them and the window, thrust out his head, and after reconnoitring for a couple of minutes drew it in again, and looking full in the face of the sea~ gazor, exclaimed with considerable empha- sis—

‘ Vell, now then, I'm d—d if I think you can see the ocean, as you call it, for all you pretends ’—and continued very sulky the rest of the way.

‘ December 8, 1828.—Called on Hook, In the course of conversation he gave me an account of his going to Lord Melville’s trial witha friend. They went early, and were engaged in conversation when the peers began to enter. At this moment a country-looking lady, whom he afterwards found to be a resident at Rye, in Sussex, touched his arm, and said—

‘I beg your pardon, sir, but pray who are those gentlemen in red now coming in?

‘Those ma’am,’ returned Theodore, ‘are the Barons of England; in these cases the junior peers always comes first.’

‘Thank you, sir; much obliged to you. Louisa, my dear; (turning to a girl about fourteen), tell Jane (about ten) those are the Barons of England, and the juniors (that’s the youngest you know) always goes first. Tell her to be sure and remember that when we get home.’

‘Dear me, Ma,’ said Louisa, ‘can that gentleman be one of the youngest ? lam sure he looks very old.’

‘ Human nature,’ added Hook, ‘ could

bold cheaper than ever. (Sov. il, eth]

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not stand this; any one, though with no

more mischief in him than a dove, must have been excited to a hoax.’

‘And pray, sir, continued the lady, ‘what gentlemen are these?’ pointing to the Pishops, who came next in order, in the dress which they wear on state occa~ sions, namely, the rochet and lawn sleeves over. their doctox’s robes.

‘Gentlemen, madam!’ said Hook, ‘ these are not gentlemen: these are elderly ladies—~the dowages peeresses in their own right.’

‘The fair inquirer fixed a penetrating glance upon his countenance, saying, as plainly as eye can say, ‘ Are you quizzing me or no?’ Nota muscle moved; till at last tolerably well satisfied with her scru. tiny, she turned round and whispered —

‘ Louisa, dear, the gentleman says that these are elderly ladies, and dowager peer- esses in their own right ; tell Jane not to forget that.’

All went on smoothly till the Speaker of the House of Commons attracted her attention by the rich embroidery of his robes.

‘Pray, sir, said she, ‘and who is that fine looking person opposite ? ’ ¢ ‘That, madam,’ was the answer, ‘ is Car- dinal Wolsey ! ’

‘ Now, sir!’ cried the lady, drawing hers self up, and casting at her informant a look of angry disdain, ‘ we know a little better than that; Cardinal Wolsey has been dead a& good year!’

‘No such thing, my dear madam, I as- sure you,’ replied Hook, with a gravity that must have been most preternatural ; ‘ it has been, I know, so reported in the coun« try, but without the least foundation; in fact, those rascally newspapers will say anything.’

The good old gentlewoman appeared

thunderstruck, opened her eyes to their full extent, and gasped like a dying carp ; vox faucibus hesit—seizing a daughter with each hand, she hurried without another word from the spot.—Barham’s Reminis- censes,

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THE BLOMB3RG GHOST STORY.

The name of Dr, Blon@perg is well known in connection with the celebrated ghost story so frequently narrated by George IV. As several versions of this strange occurs rence are in existence, it may be worth while to give the one which Mr. Barham heard at the doctor’s own table, either on the occasion when the foregoing anecdotes were told, or a few days later,

‘During the American War, two officers of rank were seated in their tent, and clelay- ed taking their supper till a brother officer, then absent upon a foraging party, should return, Their patience was well.nigh ex~ haushed, and they were about to com- mence their meal, concluding something had occurred to detain the party, when suddenly his well-known footstep was heard spproaching. Contrary to their expectas tion, however, he paused at the entrance of the tent, and without coming in called on One of them by name, requesting him with much earnestness, as soon as he should return to England, to proceed toa house in a particular street in West. minster, in a room of which (describ- ing it) he would find certain papers of great consequence to a young lad with whom the speaker was nearly connected. The speaker then apparently turned away, and his footsteps were distinctly heard res tiring till their sound was lost in distance. Struck with the singularity in his behaviour they both rose, and proceeded in search of him, A neighbouring sentinel on being questioned denied that he had either seen or heard any one, although, as they believ- ed, their friend must bave passed close by his post. In a few minutes their bewilder- ment was changed into a more painful feel~ ing by the approach of the visiting officer of the night, who informed them that the party which went out in the morning had been surprised, and that the dead body of poor Major Blomberg (their friend) had been brought into the ‘camp about ten minutes before. The two friends retired in silence, and sought the corpse of the person who, as both were fully persuaded, had just addressed them. The found him pierced by three bullets, one of which had passed through his temples and must have occasioned instant death. He was quite

cold, and appeared to have been dead some ‘hb

ours. Itmay easily be conceived that a memorandum was immediately made of the request they had both so destinctly heard, and of the circumstances attending it, and that on the return of the regiment io Eu- rope, no time was lost in searching for the papers. The house was found without dif- ficulty, and in an upper room, agreeably with the information they had received in such an extraordinary manner, an old box was discovered, which had remained there many years, containing the title-deeds of some property now in the possession of the Rey. Dr. Blomberg, who was the °* lad’ mentioned by name by the voice at the tent. oor.

‘ This story,’ adds Mr. Barham, ‘was re~ peated to me by Mr. Atwood, the King’s or- ganist, at Dr. Bloomberg’s own table in his temporary absence, Mr. Atwood declared that he had heard the story related by George IV., (whose foster brother Dr. Blomberg was) more than once, and on one occasion when the doctor himself was pre sent. He further stated that the King had mentioned the names of all the parties concerned, but that, with the exception of Major Blomberg’s, they had escaped his memory.’

Since the foregoing pages were prepared for the press a very different version of the story has reached me, furnished by a mem- ber of the family, to the head of which the Yorkshire property has descended. The account given by my informant contains the substance of a narrative of the circumstans ces under which the alleged supernatural communication was made, drawn up by the officer to whom it was most particularly ad- dressed, It ran as follows :—

Captain (Major) Edward Blomberg was left a widower, with one little boy, two years old, who was heir to fair estate in York- shire then in the possession of Baron Blom- berg. The captains’s regiment being sta- tioned in the island of Martinique, he was, in the course of duty, sent off with dis- patches to @ place at a considerable dis- tance from head quarters. One night, shortly after his departure, an officer who, in consequence of the crowded condition of the barracks, was sharing his chamber with a comrade, was aroused just as he was dropping off to sleep by the opening of the door, Captain Blomberg entered, walked slowly to his friend's bed, and drew back

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CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1875.

‘Why, Blomberg.”’ exclaimed the latter in astonishment, ‘what on earth has brought you back ?’

The intruder answered: ‘This night [ died at—and I have come hither to beg you to take charge of my little orphan boy.’ He then gave the address of the child's grand- mother and aunt who were residing in Lon- don, and requested that his son might be sent to them immediately ; adding direc tions as to the searching for certain papers necessary to establish the boy’s title to the property of which he was the heir. This done, without waiting for a reply, the figure departed. Perplexed, not to say alarmed, and thinking it just possible that his imagi- nation might have played him false, the of ficer called to the occupant of the other bed :—

‘Did you,’ he asked ‘see any one come into the room?’

‘Yes,’ was the answer, ‘it was Blom- berg, was it not? What did he want?’ ‘Didn’t you hear what he said ?’

‘No,’ returned the other; ‘I could hear that he was talking to you, but what he said I could not make out.’

The first speaker then related the ex. traordinary communication he had just re- ceived. Both officers were much affected by the strangeness of the affair, and were not a little ridiculed on the following morning when they narrated the occur- rence at breakfast in the messroom. In the evening, however, a message was forwarded tothe general in command to the effect that Captain Blomberg’s death had taken place on the preceding night just at the time of his appearance in the bed-room. It came out that he had died of fever, evidently brought on by depression of spirits occasioned by the loss of his wife. No time was lost in seeking

ed to England, where he seems to be some. what co'dly received by his grandmother. His story, however, happened to reach the ears of Lady Caroline Finch, the Queen's

The Queen, struck by the interests at-

immediately sending for him ordered that he should be brought up in the royal nurs- ery. She afterwards provided for - his education, and saw to the settlement of his property. In addition to this, when the lad reached the age of nine years, the Queen employed Gainsborough to paint his portrait, and subsequently presented the picture to the original. This lad, brought up at the palace, became in due tame Chap~ lain to George |V. and residentiary of St, Paul’s. He married Miss Floyer, a Dorset~ shire lady, but, continuing childless, ad- opted her niece ; and narrative and portrait: papers and estate—to say nothing of the ghost’s plates and spoons—are, | am told, at the present time in the possession of this lady's representative.—Burham’s Reminis» CENCES;

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SCENE JIN AN ENGLISH CHURCH,

On Sunday morning the service at the Irongate Cathedral, at Albury, near Guil- ford, which was erected at the cost of $60- 000 by the late Mr. Henry Drummond, was interrupted ina somewhat alarming man- ner. The service had proceeded to the reading of the prayers, when Captain Symes, a member of the congregation, was obs served to leave his seat. He at once as- cended the stairs and entered the pulpit. Closing the door. he stretched forth his hands and addressed the congregation. He said he was commissioned by God to deliver a message which would not be heard with favor, At this juncture several of the Church officials rushed up the pulpit stairs and begged the gallant captain to desist The request was met by the captain draw- ing a sword from a sheath which was con- cealed under his coat, and waving it above his head, he said that if any person inter-~ ferred with him in the delivery of his mes- sage he wouldrun him through the heart. A precipitate retreat was made by the officials, and in the meantime Captain Symes proceeded to address the congrega, tion, warning them that it was his duty to tell them that perdition was their fate if they continued in their present faith. Mr. Armstrong a barrister-at-law, and an intimate friend of Captain Symes, left his seat, and running up the pulpit stairs beg- ged him tocemedown. The captain raised his sword, and striking Mr. Armstrong across the hand, nearly severed one of his fingers. The alarm caused by this extra~ ordinary conduct was very great. The ladies of the congregation screamed and many of them fainted. The male portion of the congregation left their seats and, as. sembling in knots in the aisles of the Church, called to Captain Symes to come down. One gentleman, undeterred by the injury inflicted on Mr. Armstrong, ascended the stairs to expostulate with the captain. The only reply he received was the pre-~ sentation at his of a loaded revolver. Hearing the click of the weapon, he slipped down stairs on his back, and hid behind the staircase, During this scene, the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, who are regular attendants of the church, left their seats. The Duchess fainted and was carried from the church by her attendants. Captain Symes had now full possession of the pulpit, and striking the sword on the Bible, he was proceeding in a loud tone to deliver what he termed his message amidst the screaming of women and the vociferous calls to ‘come down,’ of the men. The officials of the church had by this time armed themselves with long poles, and with these they went to the pulpit, and after a tremendous scuffle suceseded in knocking the sword and revolver out of the hands of the captain. They then laid hold of him and lugged him down the stairs. A rope being procured, he was bound with it, hand and foot, and tied to one of the pillaraof the building. Mr. Inspector Parke, of thecounty police, was sent for, and the captain was given into his charge. He was taken almost immediately before Mr. R. Bray, one of the county magistrates. Two surgons were ordered to examine him, and on their certificates he was removed to a lunatic asyium.—Morning Post.

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The London Globe says the defenceless state of many of our foreign naval depots and government establishments, has re- cently engaged the attention of the authori- ties. Arrangements have already been made for the defence by torpedoes of Hali- fax, Bermuda, and Malta, and the re-arma-

out the child, who was found and despatch- | @d, plump, active, and gleeful, and the men,

governess, who repeated it to her Mriesty. putin Pa gets eg: al een geen

tatching to the boy, declared that little | glistening pebbles of a smooth beach. Blomberg should never wanta home and | interior includes nearly every kind of

and on its mist.crowned heights. * * °

THE ISLE OF MAN,

There is a patch of land in the stormy Irish Sea called the Isle of Man, about which many traveiled and untravelled Americans know scarcely more than itsname. On & sunny day the highlands of Ulster, in Ireland,

its western shore, and from the summit of | Snaefell Mountain busy little England is | seen fretting in the golden haze far across | the sea. It is not much greater than | Staten Island in area, and an ambitious | Californian might look upon it as a fair- | sized ranch. But small as it is-a mere speck on the map of Great Britian —it has a government of its own, witha | ouse of Parliament, a people infused with noble blood, and a thrilling and eventful history. Hawthorne found it out when he was a Consul at Liverpool, and has praised it in the deilcious prose of his HKnglish Note- Book ; Scott gathered material for /éeveril of the Peak from its romantic scenery and legends; and Wordsworth commemorated a visittoitin a sonnet. But it is not in these few literary associations that its chief interest lies. The history of its varied fortunes and the ancestry of its super- stitious people have a peculiar interest, dating as they do from the thrilling age when the Norsemen were mighty in the West.

In its greatest length the island measures about thirtysthree miles, and its greatest breadth about thirteen. Its circumference is seventy-five miles, excluding the sinuos- ities of the bays; and it contains a super~ ficial area of about one hundred and tiirty thousand acres, or two hundred and three square miles. Enjoying the benefits of the Gulf Stream, the climate is singularly mild and genial, and there are few other places in the world where the difference between sunimerand winter is so slight. The mean temperature of summer is usually about 56.170, autumn, 46.970 ; of winter, 49. 900; of spring, 44.700. There is plenty of rain, but very little show or frost. Fuchsias grow to the height of ten or twelve feet out of doors, and are found, a mas3 of crimson blossoms, in the poorest gardens. As to to the healthfulness of the climate, you should see the native girls, rosy-cheek-

who are as stalwart, musculor, and hand some race as ever breathed sea-air,

For the most part the coast is rocky and wild, hoar with foam ofthe turbulent sea that surrounds !{t, and indented with cap- acious harbors and innumerable creeks ; turage, and meets the water on the The

natural scenery — heathersclad balsamsc hills, plains as richly cultivated as the downs of Surrey, wide reaches of prickly gorse as drear as Yorkshire moors, and the rettiest of cascades. The enchantment of Northern land dwells in its subdued light

The vikings are fishermen now, and all the great treasure steamers from Liverpool sail into the west without a thought or wish of evil towaids them. Sleepy villages are perched on the clifts where once the beacon fires of the wreckersallured many a goodly ship toher doom, !n the bays, where the pirates hid themselves, fly the white sails of pleasure boats. So great are the changes wrought by time that even the spel! of mist worked by the wisard king has been broken, and the summer has its share of cloudless days. ‘The invaders are not Romans, Picts, Scots, or Scandinavians, but aggressive tour- ists bearing knapsacks instead of eagles, and walking-sticks instead of javelins. These confront you in nearly every part of the island, and the primitive character of the natives is fast changing under the ivfluence of the town manners which the visitors bring with them. Many of the superstions have been laughed away, and hospitality has acquired a fair money value. I do not mean to say that there are no more gens erous hearts and simple minds in Mona. An old fisherman’s wife entertained me w:-th flour bread, salt fish, and tea, in her hut at Creg-y-neesh, and indignantly thrust me out of the house when the mea! was end- ed because I offered her a shilling. There are now a few honest folks, too, who yet have a steadfast faith in mermaids and fairies.

RESOURCES AND POPULATION.

Prior to the reinvestment of the sove-

reignity in the British crown, agriculture

was greatly neglected, and exertions of the

peasantry were devoted to smuggling sad

the herring fisheries. But since that event

adecided improvement has taken place

and the best methods of cultivating lands

have been adopted, The holdings are very

small, and though some include two hun-

dred acres, the greater number consist of not more thana hundred or a hundred

and fifty. About two-thirds of the whole

island are productive, the remainder is

sterile and neglected. Some of the land in

the south resting on limestones is said to

be equal to the best in England, and in the

north large quantities of marl are found,

which possesses highly valuable chemical

proprieties.

Mines of lead, iron and copper are work-

ed extensively at four places, and the ex-

ports of these minerals afford a consider- able part of the insular income. The lead

mines in general yield a mixed ore, two-

thirds Jlende, and one third lead, in a ton of which there are from seventysfive to one hundred ounces of silver. Quarries of lime,

marble, and granite are aleo worked on a moderate scale at Foxdale, Scarlett, and Ballasalle.

At the beginning ef the eighth century the population consisted of about three thousand families, and in 1861 it had ine creased to fifty-two thousand. Not a few of the people are decended from the Scotch and Irish immigrants of centuries ago , but the pure-blooded Manx are in a majority.

‘They are jealous of foreigners, and in sorae remote villages on the mountains and on the coast, they intermarry among them» selves. In manner they are stolid and re~ served, suspicious of questionings, and more disposed to listen than to answer. They are very temperate in the use of strong drinks, and are wellseducated and intelligent. Since the year 1702 they have had acomplete system of compulsory edu-~ cation. —Wittum H. Ruweine, in Harpe’s Magazine for March.

How a Lavy Dentist Succegpen IN Berwin. —An interesting account of a lady dent st at Berlin appears in Woman and Work, a journal edited by Miss Emily Faithfull. This lady married a dentist, who settled in Berlin; but he died of intemperance, and left her without any means of subsistance. She had often watched her husband at work and resolved to become a dentist herself. But the law forbade any one to practice dentistry without a certificate, which could be gained only by examination, and there was no examination forwomen. Being ia» formed that an American certificate would be accepted at Berlin, she resolved to go back to Philadelphia,where she was inforna- ed she could study without difficulty. To her disappointment, ver, she learned that no woman had ever before applied to the College of Dentistry in that city; but after much discussion the authorities allowed her to attend lectures and work in the laboratory, while private instruction was was given to her. Finally she passed a successful examination, and commenced to practice in Philadelphia with success. But she wanted to return to Berlin, and she finally did so, armed with her certificate. She began the practice of dentistry in that city, confining her practice to women and children. She met at first with much op»

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Miss Lorenzo fiayes has just been ordain. ed as pastor of the Universalist Church in Hallowell, Me.

‘}he indemnity to be paid by Spain to the

and Galloway, in Scotland, are visible from | relatives of the American victims by the

‘ Virginius’ affair has been fixed at $84 000, Prince Gortscha‘off has replied to Eng» land's refusal to participate in the Inter. national Code Conference at St. Peters- burg. He says the way will alwys be open to England to give in her adhesior to the resolutions which may be adopted by the Conference whether she joins it or not. Recently inan English theatre the stage manager struck a supernumerary who had exasperated him behind the scenes, where~ upon the supernumerary came before the footlights and formally announced to the audience that he had resigned, The an- nouncement oocasioned a great deal of hilarity. Tamed.—In December last, a wild goose, which had evidently strayed from a flock, passing over the premises of Mr. Peter Cruikshanks, East River, was attracted by tho noise of the geese in the yard, and alighted. The stranger goose took kindly to the domesticated geese and has remain- ed with them ever since, being, to all ap-~ pearance, quite at home. Its color is a blue grey.— New Glasgow Chron,

Fin.—Downing Street, February 4,—The Queen has been pleased to cause letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom for erecting the Fiji Islands into a seperate Colony, to be called the ‘Colony of Fiji,’’ and for provid- ing for the Government thereof; and to appoint the Hon. Sir Arthur Hamilton Gor. on, K. C. M. G., late Governor and Coms mander-in-chief of the Island of Mauritius and its Dependencies, to be Governor and Commander-insChief of the Colony of Fiji. — Gazette.