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EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, PEBRUARY 4, 1878

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A Terrible Night in a Theatre.

| Once when I wasa callow, a bashful cub,

comedy one night. she seemed divine: }

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she said, ‘“‘Why do you say, ‘Yes, oh yes!’ and ‘ida, ha, oh, certainly, very true!’ to

the end of another half hour | er guardians on both sides.

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i ei aa . religion, and of the hostility of former govern- {ments to enlightenment. Besides being for-

I | biddea between very near. relatives, marriage took a plain, uasentimental country girl te a jis also forbidden between such as have been 'had known her a day; wore my new boots. At the end of the first half hour she said, ‘* Why ,do you fidgeb with your feet so?” | ‘tnd T?y”-then I put my attention there and kept still.

Suckled at the same -breast. Among the an- | cient Evyptians, as already mentioned, mar- /riages were permitted even between brothers ‘and sisters, At the preliminary betrothal the /martiage contract is made between the fathers The father agrees | to pay to the father-in-law of his son a certain ; sum, and part of this is paid at once, the other

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Cor. Queen atid Dorchester Streets, opposite Connolly’s Bank. | Sage of understanding, but of want of know]-

entirely irrelevant answers?’ I blushed, and

explained .that i had been a little. absent |

minded, At the end ofanother_ half-hour she sdid. ‘‘Please why do you grin so steadiastly as vacancy, and yet look so sad?’ I explained that I always did that when IT was reflecting. An hour passed, and then she turned and con- templated me with her earnest eyes and said, ““Why do you cry all the time?” 1 explained that very funny comedies always made me ery. Atlast human nature surrendered, and

‘| L secretly slipped my boots off This was a | mistake.

I was not abie te, get them on any more, “It wasa rainy night; there was no omnibuscs going our way ; and.as I walked home, burniag up with shame, with the girl on one arm and my boots under the other, I was an object worthy of some compassion, es- pecially in those moments of martyrdom when { had to pass through the ylare that fell upon the pavement from street lamps. Finally, this child of the forest said, ‘‘Where are your boots ?” and being taken unprepared, I pata fitting nish to the follies of the evening with the stupid remark, ‘‘The higher classes do not wear them to the theatre.”—From ‘‘Mark Twain's Random Notes,” in Belgravia. svet-p-baeap-sqekisneley

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Tue following is the list cf Societies afiil- iated to the Central Council, with the name of their respective Presidenis,; up to Jann- ary 30th :—

1. St. John the Baptist’s, Miscouche,

Mr. Hubert Gendet, 145 2. St. John the. Baptist’s Cadet, Mis-

couche, Master Henry Cunning

ham, 70 3. Mount Carmel, Fifteen Point, Mr.

John Potrier, 210 4. St. Jacques, Eemont Bay, Mr. Syl-

vain H. Arseneanx, ~- 359

5. St. -Mary’s, Brae, Mr. Eusebius*

Beaton, 40 6. St. Authony’s, Bloomfield, Mr. Hip-

polyte Martin, 250 7. The immaculate Conception, Wel-

lingtoa, Mr. Dugaid Currie, io 8. St. Bonaventure’s, Tracadie, Mr...

John Angus McDonald, 150 9. St. Eugene's, Covehead, Mr. Ed:

ward Mullins, 54 10. Sacred Heart, Alberton, Hon. Nen-

ator Howlan, 100

1i. St. Francis’, Little Pond, Mr. Gas- pan Mecinnis, 45 12. St. Joseph’s, Charlottetown, Hon.

A. A. McDonald, 200 13. St. Francis de Sales, Grand River,

Mr. James A. McKinnon, 200 14. St. Bridget’s, Lot 11, Mr. Joseph

Murphy, 50 15, St. Michael’s, Montague, 95 16. St. Mary's, Sturgeon, 1i5

17. St. Augustine’s, Montague Bridge, 42 18, St. Peter’s, St. Peter's Bay, Mr.

_ John Sullivan, 150

19. St. Andrew’s, St. Andrew’s, Mr. Daniel McDonald, 200

20. St. Charles's, Summerside, Mr. Jas. N. McLellan, 110

21. St. Charies’s Cadet, Summerside, Master James McHale, 101

22. St. Mark’s, Lot 7, Mr. Matthew Howard, 60

23. St. Felix’s, Rollo Bay, Mr. Alex’r Chaisson, 90

24, St. Joseph’s, Tignish, Mr. John J, Arseniceaux, 660

25. St. Mary’s, Indian River, Mr. John Ferrista!, 200

25. Holy Magi, Freetown, Mr. Joha W. Hughes, 100

27. St. Bridget’s, Vernon River, Mr. Dennis E. Clark, 287

23. St. Patrick’s, Fort Augustus, Mr. James Commiskey, 220

29. All Saints, Cardigan Pridge, Mr James E. McDonald, M.P.P.. 100

30. St. Cuthbert’s, Cardigan Road, Mr. Patrick 8. Mulligan, 122

31. St. James’, Georgetown, Mr. Peter McCourt, 80

32. St. Columbus, East Point, Mr. Jas. Beaton, 100

33. St. John the Baptist’s, Rustico, Mr. John C. Doiron, 372

34. St. Patrick’s Society, Charlottetown, Mr. Maurice Blake, 205 5,318

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Egyptian Marriage Arrangements.

When their young son wishes to have a wife the father and mother set out in quest of a bride for him. By the latter the bath is often selected for this purpose, and her sober reason often brings more suitable pairs together than the impulses of the heart. Both young people have to acquiesce in the arrangement, they cannot be forced, and the marriage is not valid until on the ‘‘ uncovering and unveiling ” the pair feel a mutual pleasure; but at this age refusal is rare, and in case of after-disillusion the marriage may be easily dissolved on either side. The search for a bride is generally quite unnecessary, as in two-thirds of the cases it has been previously settled that the young fellow is to marry his female cousin, and if he has none,"more distant relations are applied to, and lastly strangers. If these marriages of cousins had really such a prejudicial effect upon a race as they are usually represented to have, it must have been long ago noticed in Egypt; its inhabitants, however, show no in- feriority, either from a physical or an intellect- ual point of view. The low rank they hold in the intellectual world is not a consequence of

edge ; it is a consequence of their stagnating

| Wiie im case she should happen to be divorced. These payments, however, must not be under- stood as if the. parents were simply selling their danghter; the ‘‘bride’s treasure” is in most cases spent on clothes and ornaments for the bride. aud bridegroom often gives these di- rectly instead of money, And the bride who brings nothing to her husband except her per- son, lays up for herself from this bridt’s treas- ure a fund for cases of misfortine. Tf the wife has any independeat means’ shé doés not share it with her husband-<ft remains her personal property. In the’ Kast, accordingly, merce- nary marriages—so incompatible with manly dignity—are anknown—'* Upper> Byypt,” by Di, Klunzinger. t ;

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A Quarter’s Foot From America. '

Statistics have been compiled of the quan- tity of food. landed at Liverpool during thie past three months. In that period: 43,024 quarters and 1,569 sides of beef, 4,037 carcases of inution, 25 carcases: of pigs, 6,614 packages and 243 frkins of fresh butter, and 1,322 live cattle, 4,311 sheep, and 357 pigs arrived, against 17,638 quarters and 646 sides of beef, 616 earcases’ of mutton, 50 carcases of pigs, 20,814 packages, 3,152 tubs and 106 firkins ‘of tresh butter, and 4,419 live cattle, 197 shee and 119 pigs inthe previous quarter. It will be seen that there is a large increase, in the turee months just closed, in the quantity of beef and mutton over the previous three mounts, though in live cattle there is. a great falling off. ‘his is accounted for. by the fact that the winter season, which is so suitable for the transit of fresh meat, is a very bat time for the conveyance of live stock, as the weather is usually so -rough 43 to cause great loss amongst the animals. The experiment of bringing live stockover during the cold months has been tried this year, but it did not result favorably. The tara of the year leaves the market for American beef in a somewhat de- pressed condition. The great stagnation in trade in the provincial towns has caused the demand to dwindle down to less than 1,400 quarters weekly, while the average * quantity arriving at Liverpool cach week is 4,000 quar- ters,’so that the surplus has to go to the Lon: don market, which also receives a large supply direct. In consequence the Metrpolitan ’ mar- kets of late have been overstocked) and the price of home-fed beef, as well as that iamport- ed, has been much reduced. At the corre- sponding period of last year, while sides of American beef realized from €d. to 6}d, per Ib., and mutton as much as 7d., the prize at present obtained does not exceed 5d. to 54d. respectively. The total imports for the half- year just ended are 65,672 quarters and 2,215 sides of beef, 4,653 carcases of mut*on, 75 car- cases of pigs, 27,428 packages, 3,152 tubs and 349 firkins of fresh butter, 5,741 live cattle, 4,508 sheep, and 476 pigs.— English Paper.

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Glass Printing Type.

Some experiments are reported to have been made im France with a view to showing wheth+ er toughened class can be pressed imto the printers’ service and substituted for the met. composition of which types are made. The ad- vantages in point of cleanliness alone would,” it is alleged, be net insignificant. But the ‘“* Patrie” points out that there are other ‘and’ more solid improvenients invelved in the new! system. The toughened glass, which is not to be made in quite the same way as that used for tumblers and wine glassés, and need not, of course, be quite so transparent, is naturally much harder than the old metal, and can hard. ly be crushed out of shape by those little acci- dents which so shorten the life and spoil the beauty of the old type we now employ. It ia also capable of being cast into more delicate’ siapes, so that the differences, for instance, be- tween the thin and the thick strokes can be more clearly defined. Finally, it is now found that the new material can be cast in exactly the same mould as the old, and that, therefore, » there need be no expense incurred in altering the machines and implements used In the ma-. nufacture of type. If, says the ‘‘ Globe,” the ‘‘ Patrie” has been well informed, the ex- periments have been completelly successfulyand andthe adaptability of toughened glass to ppaies and to numerous Other purposes is

ikely ere long to be fully established. We much doubt, however, the povsibility of hand- ling the type when set up with the facility wiuch the triction between the surfaces: of the metal types secures.— Lng. nver,

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The Largest Book in the World. hai.

The Trustees of the British Museum are in treaty for the purchase of a copy of the largest book in the world. Toward the close of the* seventeenth century the reigning Emperor of China appointed an Imperial Commission to reprint in one vast collection all native works of interest and importancé in every branch of — literature. In the beginning of the following century the Commissioners completed their’ labors, and were able to lay before the Em- peror a very probable proof of their diligence inthe shape of a compilation consisting of 6, 109 volumes, entitled ‘*Kin ting koo kin'too shoo tsliien ching,” or ‘An Ulustrated [m- perial Collection of Ancient and Modern Liter- ature.”

Only a small edition was printed off in the first instance, and before long the greater part of the copper types which hal been cast for the undertaking were purloined by untrustworthy officials, and the remainder were melted down « and coined into cash. » Accidents by fire and by violence have considerably reduced the ) nufuber of copies of the Imperial edition orig |, inally printed, and it is believed that only a , comparatively few now remain extant. The Trustees of the British Museum, having be- come aware that one such copy has lately been

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