A Courting in the Olden Days.

Thirty years ayo Michigan peeple |

were a frank and trathful set, Strangers |

ceuld come here and trade horses with

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Mothers as Doctors. Practical mothers learn much by their experience with the little bodies entrusted to their care. ‘Some of the

their eyes shu’. and breach of premise | common sease facts in the physical cul-

cases were vnknown. Folks meant what they sad, and when they gave their werd stuck to it.

Exactly thirty years ago this month a widewer from New York State ap- peared in Lansing on business. That same business carried him over to Dew Witt, eighty miles away. the way be stopped at a log farm heuse to warm his celd fingers. warmly welcomed by the pioneer and his wife, both of whom were well aleng io years, and alter some general talk the woman querie. :

‘Am right in tainking you are a widower ?’

* Yes.’

‘Did yeu come out here to find a wife?’

* Partly.’

‘ Did anybody tell you of our Susie?’

‘No.’

‘Well, we've get as bouncing agirl of 22 as yeu ever seteyeson. She's goed- leoking, healthy and goed-tempered, and | shink she'll like your looks.’

‘Where is she?’

‘Over in the woods here, chopping down a coon tree. Shall I blew the horn fer ber ?’

‘Ne. If you'll keep an eye on my horse [’ll find her.’

‘Well, there’s nothing stuck up or affected about Susie. She'll say yes or pe as soon as she looks you ever. If you want ber, lon’t be afraid to say so.’

The stranger heard the soued of her axe and followedit. He found her just as the tree was ready to fall. She was a stout, good-looking girl, swinging the axe like amano, and in twe minutes be had decided to say :

‘Susic, I'm a widower from New York State; [im thirty-nioe years old, have one child, own a geod farm and I_ wantawife. Will yea ge back home with me?’

She leaned on the axe and looked at him for half a miaute, and then replied : !

‘Can't say fer certaia. Just wait till | I get these coons eff my mind.’

She sent the tree crashing to earth, aod with his help killed five ceons, | which were stowed away in a hellow. |

‘Well, what do you say ?’ he asked, | ai the last coon stopped kicking.

‘I'm yeour'n ,’ was the reply, ‘ and by | the time you get back trem DeWitt I'll | have these pelts off and tacked up and- ke ready for the preacher !"

He returned to the house, teld the) eid folks that be should bring a presehe | et back with him, and at dusk that/| svening the twain were married. | Hardly an hove had been wasted in| courting, and yet he took home one of the best girls in the State of Michigan. — Detroit Free Press.

Discoveries Made by Accident. |

Not a few discoveries ia the arts and sciences have Leen made or suggested by accident. The useef the pendulum, suggested by the vibrating of a chan- delier in « cathedral; the pewer of steam, intimate! by the oscillating of the lid of a tea-kettle; the utility of coal gas for light, experimented upon by an ordinary tebacco pipe of white elay ; the magnifying properties ef the lens, stumbled upon by an eptician’s apprentice, while helding spectacle- gisses between his finger, are well- knowa instauces in proof ef the fact.

Galvanism was discovered by accie dent. _Prefesse: Galvani, of Bologua, | in Italy, gave h.s name to the operation but his wife is cousidered as actually | entitled to the credit of the discevery. | She being in bxd health seme fregs were ordered for her. As they lay upon the table,-kinned, she noticed that their limbs became stroogly convulsed when sear the electrical conducter. She called ber husband's attention te the fact ; he instituted a series of ex~|

riments,and in 1789 the galvanic | Sates was invented.

Eleven years later, with that diss covery for his basis, Prefesser Allesend | ef Volta, also au Italian, announced his discovery of the ‘ veltaic ’ pile.

The discovery of glass-making wes effected by seeing the sand vitrified upon which a fire had been kindled.

The making of plate glass was sug- gested by the tact of a workman hap. pening te bres a crucible filled with | melted glass. ‘Che fluid ran under ene of the large flastenes with which the | floor was pave’. On raising the stone | to recover the lass, it was found in the form of a plate, such as could not be | a by the ordinary process of

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A Strange Disease.

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James Vail, of Pennsylvania, aged 15, while snowball ag with some playmates a few days age. was struck squarely en the nose, causing a bleeding which filled both nostrils and it was with great diffi- culty that it was stopped. The day fol- lowing it started again and the family physician was called. The boy had al ready lost» «quart of blood, and the doctor could culy succeed in arrestiog the flow by plagging the boy’s nose, whish was eflective foratime. A few days later the bieeding commenced anew aod it was several heurs before it could be cheeked. The parents of the boy were greatly alarmed, believing that the case was hopeless. The flow of blood was also accom panied by bleeding from the gums, throat asd bowels, Small blood-vessels under the skin have be- eome ‘dissolved, and strange leoking spets are formed upen the body by the deposit of blood. The case puzzles the physicians in that vicinity. It is called purpura hemerrhogica, and is the first case of the kind oo reserd in that section of the country. Vail is atili alive.

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Everyday Maxims.

Each heart knows its own trials.

Ever remember the needy are with you.

Excuse macde.

Expect but little if you weuld be happily surprised,

inergy in indispensible to snceess.

Empty barrels rattle worst in rolling.

Earnest effort in a good cause wins Buccess.

A smooth -ea never madea skilful! marioer ; neither do uninterrupted pros- perity and suceess qualify for useful- ness and happisess. The storms of adversity, like the storms of the ocean, arouse the facilities and excite the in- vention, prudenee, skill, and fortitude of the voyager

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Sitting Bal) is reported to have re« crossed into British territory. Among the firearms yiven up on the occasion of the recent surrender of some of his braves was a revolver claimed ito have been carried by General Custer at the time ef his death,

m stakes when honestly

While on!

He was

‘ture of these little ones known to more }experienced mothers may not come amiss to those who have had but little eare of children. The child must be well slept, well aired woll fed and well bathed. By a thorough understanding and practice of those feur simple rules, much ef the physieal, mentaland moral | sufferings in this life weuld be avoided by parents as well as child. If a healthy child—and a delicate one proe pertionately—is regularly put to bed about dark in a quiet, well-ventilated, ereven cold reom, after a supper of plain foed, it will naturally awake at daybrake, good natured with a geod appetite fer a whelosome breakfast. Nutritious, plain foed, at regular heurs with mo oandy stimulates, and free bathing, help the system te ward eff many prevalent children’s ailments, and te bear with less danger the few that must necessarily come to the majority ef little ones. The child that is just given a little confectionary, or any unsuitable food, then recked to sleep should cause n@ surprise at peevish.

It is simply the result of imaginary affection aad want of knowledge on the part of the ene in charge. It will eer- tainly pay in the end te search diligent» ly the cause when a child is proverbial« ly cress.— Western Farm Journal.

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Little Things.

Springs are little things but they are sources of large streams; a helm is a little thing, but it governs the course of a ship; # bridle bit is a little thing,but we know its use and power; nails and pegs are little things, but they hold the parts of a large building together; a word, a look, a smile, a frown, are little things, but powerful for good or evil. Think ef this, aud miad the little things. Pay that little debt; if it isa promise, redeem it. You know not what imper- tant events may hang upon it. Keep your word sacred : keep it te the chile dren—they will mark it sooner thao anyene else, and the effect will probably be as lasting aslife. Mind little things.

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Clippings from Late Papers.

The defence in the State trials at Dublin is reported to have cost $7,500.

Seventeen lives have been lost by an explosion in a colliery near Chell, Staf fordshire.

Sixteen cenvicts were confirmed in the Central Prison last Sunday by the Lord Bishop ef Toronto.

Twenty-four theusaed Lancashire miners are threatening te strike unless an advanee of wages is conceded to them.

Lord Beaconsfield has fellowed the example of Mr. Gladstone in giving his tenants a remission of 20 per cent. on their rents.

The credit of the fellowing incom- parable utterance falls to Mr. McCoan, member for Wicklow : ‘ So long as Ire~ land remained silent under her wrongs, England was deaf to her cries.’

The heirs of James Wilkie, formerly ordnance storekeeper, Kingston, and Isabella Deacon, wife of Thes. Deacen, of Kingston, are wanted, a fortune hav-

_ ing been left te them.

Lieutenat Maurice O Connell, of the 60th Rifles, who was killed in the action inthe Transvaal on Tuesday. was a grand nephew of Danie! O'Connell, being the eldest sen of Sir Maurice O'Connell.

The late Frank Buekland left his widow but peerly provided for, The London World says,and at the same time he bequeathed to the nation his Fish-Culture Museum, valued at four oer tive thousand pounds.

Bishop Decharbenel, formerly Bishop of Toronte,then auxiliary Bishep ef the Cardinal Archbishop of Lyons, France, been raised by His Holiness the Pope to the rank ef Archbishep, with the title ef Archbishep of Sosepolis,

The bread and majestio Niagara river has been cenquered by King Frost, and is now frozen ever frem Niagara to abeve Queenstewa. At the latter point on Friday maornieg, a man named Ben« jamio Webster essayed to cross ever trem Queenstewn te Lewisien. He soon came toa “seft spet,”’ and sunk to his arm-pits. But fer the timely as- sistasce that was rendered him he uadoubtedly bave perished,

What is supposed to have been a dia- bolical plot te blow up a steamer with dynamite has been discovered in New York. A_ carter endeavoured to smuggle on board the vessel two barrels which were subsequently found to con- tain dynamite cartridges. On the dis- covery being made the carter took to his heeis, leaving his horse and cart te take care of themselvee,

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The magnificent ice mountain in Niagara river, below the falls, was the scene of an exciting accident and a narrow escape from drowning on Friday, It need scareely be said that the mountain has been formed by the spray of the falls aud such accumnula- tion of snow as has fallen upon it. Mr, John Andrew, and English tourist, stop- ping at the Niagara House, while seeing what was to be seen from the summit of this mountain, slipped and went suddenly down in the direction of the merciless river. In his frantic endeavours to save himself as he went down he had the nails literally torn from his fingers, and he only stopped in his terrible career when he got within a few feet of the river. His escape was a narrow one, and may serve as a les- son to others who are disposed to be reck less in their adventures about that ice mountain. — Buffalo Oourier.

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King Coffee is again on the war path, and it will cost another million or two of pounds and a number of lives to chastise him. He will need to be more effeetively checked this time, as the Empire cannot afford to send regiments into his deadly jungles twice in ten years. It looks as though something better could be done with sava- ges than simply killing them when injury, or the spirit of fighting leads them to war. The ancient Romans had a way of enlisting the fighting men of conquered peoples into legions, not only to fight, but to act as nayv- vies on public works, especially on military roads. In this way we might perhaps have had Ashantee half civilized by this time, by means of a railway, and the builders thereof familiarized with steady work and civilized comfort. This process, even if possible, would be very expensive, but it would probably be cheaper and certainly more beneficient than periodical slaughter.

Ben. Buford, who shot Judge Eliot, who decided a case against him, has been ad- judged insane, and, nanny enough, is to be sent toan asylum. owever, some of his friends predict that ‘‘ he will ouly stay until the fall shooting begins.” Prisoners

have a habit of orp be suddenly sane, after their acquittal, as they became insane befere their trial.

Correspondence.

ae We donot hold ourselves responsible / the statements or Op uuons of our corre sponde nis,

T'o the Farmers of P. B. Island.

GearLemen,—Last winter, you will remem- ber, | wrote a number of letters to the Press, ona matter of general interest to usall. 1 have new to reply to some criticisms and, in doing so, will be brief. A gentleman from King’s County, under date of Mareh 19th, 1580, ad- vocates the fitting up of a vessel and packing her full of dead meat, packed in ice. Some years since I shipped a quantity of poultry in ice, packed in barrels, and, «!(hough the poul- try was frozen hard and kept im a cool place on the ship’s deck, the birds spoiled long before the shores of Kngland were reached. This shipment was made in January. It would cost thousands to fit up a vessel to carry dead meat ; and there is always great riek of its spoiling, as the ice melts rapidly after vessela cross the Banks bound East ; and after meat once thaws it spoils quickly. Besides, dead meat sells for much less price than meat freshly killed. Fresh meat is shipped from some of the large Ameriean cities ; but always on steamers, and the steamer’s ma chinery is used te force cold air through the reoms in which the meat ia kept. As the gentleman's scheme supposes the shipment by sailing vessel, the eold air process could net be carried out. The Farmer's Club, ef Cra- paud, seems to be in aeoord with your corres- pendent om the matter. All he can say is more power and suecess to their efforts. :

The Hon. Daniel Davies’ letters contain some excellent suggestions. A review of his letters would occupy too much of eur friend the printer’s space just now. But later, | trust to beable to give satisfactory reasons for dissenting from some, at least, of this gentleman's propositions. The matter is new iw your hands. If you agitate the subject, Government assistanee towards the improve- ment ef ateck, will follow and a small sub- sidy offered will give you the steam cennec- tion with Europe. Remember one fact. In the fall of 1879 potatoes were a drug with you. In England they were in demand at from 60 ets. to 31 ber bushel, and the reason #80 few were shipped was because facilities to ship by steamer were wanting. I| believe | am safe in saying that we could have made $100,000 had we shipped only half of our potatoe crep to Europe on the fall referred to. Last fall Senator Carvell and a well-known Common Councillor had to ship their flock (some 2600 sheep) to & point some hundreds ef miles further from England than we are in order to get them shipped off at all. On this little let the extra cost over shipping direct was apwards of $3000. ;

I remain, yours respectfully, Hexky Coombs.

Lexrxox Corraas, GraFron SrREET, Feb. 10, 1881. To the Editor of the Eraminer. My Dear Sir,—In your paper of Tues- day, the 8th inst., I read, under the head

of “Chat by the Way,” the following paragraph, which I copy, verbatim et literatim : ‘‘ May it not be true that there

are orders of nobility in heaven as well as upon theearth? The great difference be- tween the two, however, is, that in the one ease your title of nobility depends on your grandfather, while, in the other, it depends only on yourself.”

I understand that the above paragraph is part of a cutting from some other news- -aper. I felt very certain, on reading it, that your correspondent ‘‘ Observer” was not the author of it. It must be, and is, held to be a fact, by every intelligent per- son who reads and studies his BIBLE, that there are orders of nobility in Heaven, —‘*Thrones, Dominions, Principalities and Powers ;” the whole Book of the Prophet Daniel, and many other parts of the Old Testament (so-called), many passages iv the

_ Epistles of Saint Paul, and the whols Book

of ‘*The Revelation of Saint John the Divine,” prove it; to say nothing of the sound eommon sense remarks of tne good Jenturion,recorded in the Gospel of St. Mat- thew, chap. 8, v. 5 to 10: And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a Centurion beseeching him, and saying : Lord, my servant lieth at howe, sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him. The Centurion answered and said : Lord, [ am not worthy that then shoaldest come under my reef ; but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. For Lam a man under auth rity, having soldiers under me; and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh ; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed: Verily, I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.

Common sense was given to Man by the Almighty, and, as such, is a Revelation of His Will, to be he heid, however, in due subordination to what is termed Revelation, im common parlanee ; in the case of the good Roman Centurion, eur blessed Lord stamped his approval of it, and GOD as he was and is, actually ‘‘ marvelled” at the man of whom he said, ‘‘ I have not found so great faith, nv, not in Israel.” The Centurion knew and felt that Hquality and Levelling are utterly incompatible with Heaven.

The latter part of the paragraph, whieh you quoted, is utterly wrong in its pur- port. ‘The title of nobility on earth does net necessarily depend upon the grand- father of the holder thereof. It may have descended from a mueh more remote Ances-

tor, or it may have been bestowed upon the individual now holding it, or it may have been augmented, as in the

case of the Marquis ‘Welleslsy and the Duke of Wellington, both of whon were the sons of him who held the inferior title of *‘Earl of Morningten.” ‘One star also is the resuriection of Some men who are poor and this world, may, (and i firmly believe that they will), rank high in the heavenly hierarchy and evistocraey. Dives may change places and concitions, if Lazarus be enabled by his Redeemer to bear his earthivy Jet with resignation, patience and charity; for there is quite

the

has no alins to give), as in those donations which may, unhappily, flow as much from ostentation as from charity; inen ought to remember to be just, before they are generous. But the sting, I had nearly said the tail, of the paragraph which you have quoted, is Satanic indeed; it tells us that the title of nobility in Heaven ‘* depends only on yourself!!!”

Allow me to quote the following lines from your correspondent, Vieh Dhoimnuil Nan Ord.

“O Thou who know’st each erring mortal’s way,

Assist as guide us while we humbly pray,

‘That by thy ways, mysterious amd unknown,

We may be led to kneel before thy Throne,

To seek for happiness in thee alene,

And enter Heayen by merit NOT OUR OWN,”

I had intended toreply at some length to your Communistic correspondent at Souris, but this letter is already long enough for your cosmopolitan paper; so I shail leave Dr. Ford to be tackled by my friend Vich Dhomnuil Nan Ord. I remain, my Dear Sir,

Yours very truly, Rosexr Bavog Stewart.

Our rising generation ought to beware how they imitate the modes of the British aristocracy. Just ai present, in many so- exiled highly-fashionable eircles in New York, it is thought the correet thing to walk with the elbows pointed outwards, forming an isosceles triangle at either side of the body. This is said to be the ordinary manner in which England’s hereditary statesmen enter the House of Lords. Un- fortunately for the continuance of the fashion, a young Englishman who happened to stand upon the steps of a New York elub the other day, remarked in the presence of some of these young fools : **T can't imagine what makes you fellows walk with your elbows sticking out. Ex- cept it is,” he added, aftera pause, ‘‘ be- cause youall used to carry parcels home when you were boys.” Young New York is now walking round with limp elbows

and saying, “ How awfully clevah ye knaw.”—The Hour,

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The Irish-Canadian Immigration.

Tue Halifax Herald has an Ottawa des- patch explanatory of the Irich Canadian lomigration scheme pro} osed by Sir A. T. Galt. It appears that the Canadian Gov- ernment s)mpathizing with their fellow

subjects of lreland in their distressed cir- | to cheerfully co- |

cumstances, are willing operate in a well considered measure of relief by means of systematic immigration from Ireland; the precedent condition being that no immigrant should become a burden upon the existing population of the Dominion. Ne difficulty would likely arise in the case of single men or women, as they would find employment on arrival, but in the present distressed circumstances of Ireland, it is manifest that it is only by removal of entire families that any sensible relief would be experieneed from the pres- sure of redundant population. Provision would therefore have to be made not only fer transport of families to place of settlement, but for their maintenance until a crop can be had from the land. In the vast plains of the North-west the question becomes comparatively easy of solutiun. By a very simple pre-arrangement, any required num ber of farms could be prepared for occupa- tion during the season preceding the ar- rival of immigrants. Small dwellings can be erected, a certain extent of prairie land broken up, and prepared for seed, and in case of late arrivals actually sown so as to ensure a crop the same season that immi- grants are placed in possession. This work could be done by contract by new immi- grants, and would furnish employment for them while their own crop was growing thereby greatly reducing the cost of under- taking, and really limiting it ultimately to little more than the cost of the trans- port, as the payment of advances by early settlers would soen be sufii- cient to meet the annual outlay for preparing new lands. The cost of removing an immigrant family of five persons from Cork to Winnipeg, is estimat- ed at $200, subjeet toan increase for trans- port thence to the farm. The dwelling and eighty acres of land prepared for the crop, with seed, may be estimated at $175 to $200. Some provision for the family might be required on their arrival, but the wages of the man onght to suffice for the support of hia family till the crop is harvested ,after which the immigrants may be regarded as self-supporting. The Canadian Govern- ment provides each settler with 160 acres of land free, subject only to a patent fee of $10, while the settler can secure pre- emption of 160 acres adjoining, at the cur-

rent price and usual conditions. For re- imbursement of outlay, fer transport and establishing an immigrant upon

his farm, it is snggested that the Can- adian Goverrment would provide the total cost as certified to their agent and acknowledged by the settler, should form first charge on the land payable by certain anpual instalments with interest. To obviate any misconstruction to which the lwperial Government might be expesed in favoring auy purely Canadian system of immigration it is suggested. 1st—That instead of direct action by the Imperial Government the whole movement should be conducted under the auspices of a commission or national emigration association, with adequate or- ganization, both in Great Britain and Can- ada, and that pecuniary aid should be given by the Imperial Government in the form of advances to such association at a low rate of interest secured upon settlers land. 2nd— All iminigration must be voluntary, and as- sistance must be equally to all who come under the conditions laid down by such com- mission or association established. Certain tracts of land willbe placed at their dis- posal for settlement which under their officers will be prepared for incoming fami- lies. The asssociation wiil also charge itself with disemination of information at home, and with selection and shipment of immi- grants, while the Canadian Government would make them participants of any re- duction on passages obtained in favor of immigrants and cause them to be cared for on their arrival and forwarded at the ex- pense of che association to Winnipeg, whence they would be forwarded to settle ments, after which officers of the associa- tion would take them in charge and see thew installed on their lands, which would have been prepared for occupation dur- ing the previous season. ieee Wit and Wisdom of Goldwin Smith.

(From the Bystander for February.)

When money reigns the rich sre the masters.

A public divorce suit is a hideous out- rage on the memory of dead love.

Another cause however, of the lack of wealth, and of the difficulty which the Maritime Provinces have in keeping their children at homme appears to be the truck system, & barbarous aid ruinous remnant

Monument to Cartier.

In response to a query of Mr.

stated that it was the intention of the Gov- ernment to aid in the erection of a monu went to the memory of Sir George Cartier. It is said that $2,000 will be appropriated to that end. The Club Cartier have taken up the matter,with their usual promptitude and zeal, and intend establishing a per- manent committee, with Sir John MeDon- ald as President, to carry out the scheme to a suceessful termination. The object being to make the monument a national ‘ tribute to a great man whose loss is still so keenly felt, it is contemplated raising sub- scriptions throughout the Province.

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Olé-Fashioned Winter. A correspondent of the ‘‘ Pall Mall Gazette,” writing from Twickenham says : ‘*Vo-day the inhabitants of Twickenham are raising subscriptions towards the purchase of a bullock, to be roast- ed on the river immediately, and the meat distributed among the necessitous poor of the parish. Soups are now being served out on the ice. The ice is now fast ex- tending on to Teddington Lock. Large numbers of visitors are arriving to take part in the * ancient’ sports now being held on the river in the neighborhood of Eel-Pie Island. Invitations have been sent out for a grand skating party to assemble on the river this evening, in front of the residence of Lady Adeliza, Manners. A display of fireworks is included in the programme.”

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Impeachment of the Chief Justice of Nova Scotia.

Sugland’s

A petition has recently been received by the Governor General from Mr. T. J Wal- lace, of Halifax, barrister, praying for the impeachment of the Chief Justice of Nova Scotia, and pending the trial of the several charges therein set forth, that he may be prevented from acting in the trial of any cause in which the petitioner may be engaged as either advocate or party. Mr. Wallace charges the Chiet Justice of Nova Scotia with sitting in judgment in suits in which he (Mr. W.) was a party, while there was a suit at his instance for libel undetermined in the Court of which he was Chief Justice, and aleo for his im- peachment pending in the Parliament of Canada, with granting rules and orders ex parte contrary to law and justice; with inducing counsel engaged by Mr. Wallace in England to withdraw after being retained, with acting for many years towards Mr. Wallace in his judicial capacity with injus- tice, and invariably giving biased and er- roneos judyements, kuowing the same to be auch; with abusing and disregarding pro- ceedings; with refusing to grant writs in several cases, all of whick were afterwards appealed to the Privy Council or Supreme Court of Canada, and with one exception, reversed; with writing to judges of the Appeal Court disparagingly of Mr. Wallace while cases in Which that gentleman was interested, were before the said jud- ges for judgment; with falsely report- ing evidence in cases tried before them and refusing te correct his minutes when applied to; with making illegal and ob- noxious rules, among which was one to limit counsel toan hour in judgment causes, and to prevent them reading from books of authority during the argument—a rule which met with the unanimous condemna- tion of the Bar Society of Nova Seotia. These,with many other accusations of equal gravity, are set forth in this petition. It is not unlikely that it will create, within the next few days, quite a furore in legal circles.

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Women and their Ways.

A slave of the ring—Almost any married man,

Nearly $83,000,000 of United States bonds are owned by women.

A sister of the King of Sweden is a mis- sionary in Lapland, and has sold her jewels te aid her in her work.

Twenty years ago the girls of Lake Erie Seminary, Ohio, nominated Gen. Garfield for the Presideney.

Jenkins tries to avoid meat in the morn- ing, but sinee he got married he says he always has tongue for breakfast.

During the census in Switzerland 917 women refused to tell their ages, and each one was returned at 46, and fined $1.20.

The mother of Mr. Charles Stewart Par- | nell, the Irish agitator, will address a Land | League meeting at the Opera House in | Newport, R. 1.

| John Koop, a miser of Houston, Texas, | died a few days ago of starvation, leaving $50,000 in real estate and money. He | hated women so much that he would not

of primitive times, in which such barter | even rent his house to one of them.

Was a necessity |

The session of the Ontarie Legis- lature opens with the pomp of Pro- vincial Monarchy, and the ‘*‘ Speech frem the Throne.” Whether, eupposing the Local

| Legislatures are wot to be Parliaments,

there is a throne to speak from, ia a grare question for the consideration of jurists. Sir Charles Tupper has maintained his pre-eminence in debate, both in Parlia- ment and on the platform, though nothing can be lesa happy than the comparisen of his oratory to that of Bright, and of the oratory of Mir. Blake to that of Gladstone. Bright’s oratory is a sledge hammer wielded with perfect calmness; about Gladstone there is nothing furensic; occasionally he is betrayed inio a subtlety which is rather

differeth from another star in glory; so; dead.” | untitled in | and most practical form, commanding the

Lazarus and | inent

lsomewhat ont of date; it as much charity in ieeling, (where a inan | of Parliamentary Governnient.

ecclesiastical than Jlegel, but generally he presenta a question in the broadest

assent of his hearers as much by fervor aud

| nroral ascendancy as by the force of argu We hear that Sir Charles Tupper’s !

prowess hes assured him the succession whenever that may be open ; and whatever it may be worth. Paetitioning is, in truth, was tiore appro- priate to the times of Royal than to those It was first employed systematically on a large scale by Pym and Hampden fer the purpose of forcing Charles to pit an end te the reign of Prerogative by calling a Parliament. The people are now accus- tomed net so much to send up their prayers to those whom they have entrusted with power, as to Qeelare ther will, In those days, moreover, there were no journals te give expression to public opinion. In re- cent times the Chartiats and other bodies cf Reformers or agitators have got up mon- ster petitions as demorstrations ; but with- out mueh efiect.

The “‘ Shareholder and Insurance Gaz- ette,” speaking of the New Syndicate, says ; ‘‘ It came into the House of Com- mons like a lion, but has gradually tamed toalamb. In fact it never possessed the lo vie of a plucky young lamb, bit ran its head against fenees and posts to get elear of those wishing to get some knowledge ef its so-called strength. However, the frolicksome term of Syndi- cate No. 2 was but of short duration, and has, apparently, died thedeath justly and fairly allotted to it. It appeared and it vanished, and having no foundation, shared the fate of the house built upon the sands Probably ere this,those who so energetically appended their signatures to the ‘‘ gassy ” document, to be so hurriedly laid before the Heyse, have sought to regain their loyalty from officials on the Government benches, and with diffidence of conscience would express surrow at acting “by Proxy,” or on behalf of absentees who could not personally affix their autographs. The sub- stantial boldness of their purpose melts away under excuses and apologies so frivilous as these, and instead of establish- ing their ideas by honeat and straightfor- ward discussion, based upon indisputable facts, they are ready at the moment of attack to show a disposition of recalcitrancy and shallow composition. Syndicate No. 2 and its supporters have done themselves no good amongst their friends, but, on the contrary, have lost caste in having failed to impress the government of what they dreamt and super‘i¢jally considered a won- derful scheme.”

‘* Bowling parties” is a new entertain- ment for ladies and gentlemen in Boston. They engage a bowling alley, invite the matrens and spend an evening every week or fortnight in the exhilarating game of ten- pins.

| Mrs. Mary Fogarty, of Galeebury, IIl., | brought suit against ten saloon keepers of that city for $10,000, for the loss of her husband, who was killed by the cars while in an intoxicated condition. The jury, after lovg deliberation, gave her $1,000.

A young lady slipped on the ice and lay there recklessly waiting to be rescued. A clerk in a hosiery store, who was standing

near the s¢ene of the disaster, viewed the spectasie with professional curiosity s moment or two and then exclaimed :—

‘* Pretty, very pretty ; but they only cost thirty-six cents per pair.

The champion woman farmer of Maine is probably awoman at Minot Centre, who has herself cut and yarded ten cords of

gied length wood this winter. She is a a strony Seetch woman about 35 years of age ler husband is living, but past bard

work, being over 70 years of age. She carries ou successfully a large farm, doing | nearly all the work herself,

Jleven years ago Miss Harvey, of Can- dor, Tiogs county, held a pin between her iips while dressing, which passed, into her mouth aud war supposed to be swallowed. Recently an extremely painful swelling ap- peared upon one side of her tongue, from which Dr. L. D. Farnham removed a pin two-thirds covered with lime formation, and much corroded. The lady’s health has much improved.

A fair young mother, with a crying babe in her arms, sat in a western stage ceach, On the opposite side was a prominent poli- tieiau of engaging manners. By-and-by he said :—‘‘ Let me hold your baby, perhaps I can soothe him.” ‘‘ Oh, no; Iam much obliged ; you ecouldn’t help me any,” was the answer. But,” he persisted, ** you had better let me try.” ‘‘ You are very kind, but I know you couldn’t help me, for he is hungry,” replied the blushing mother.

The Duchess of Somerset, who died some weeks since, had an intense passion for dress, and was a miser in keeping every- thing she had worn. Her effects were rv- cently sold, and included the robe she wore at the coronation of the Queen. It was of crimson velvet, lined with miniver. The whole attie story of her house in Park street was filled with dresses, and such a miscellaneous collection of clothing has not been seen in this generation. She held te the idea that nothing was too good to wear; nothing too bad to keep.

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A number of missionaries in China have sent aprotest to Max Muller against the translation of the word Sang-ti in his book on the religions of China as Gud. Although missionaries agree that Shang-ti is the best term to be used in acquainting the Chinese with the God of the Christian Bible, they are opposed to identifying the Shang ti of the Chinese classics with the true Ged. Mr. Muller defends the translation, and calls upon the missionaries to withdraw their charges.

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The Supreme Court rendered judgment this a. m. in the case of Dewe vs. Water- | bury in connection with the St. John Post Office, an appeal from the decision of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick. The appeal was sustained, the Court deciding that the statements made by Dewe were privileged, and therefore could not be re- garded as slander.

Another important decision by the Supreme Court this morning was that of the appeal case of Jouas vs. Gilbert from the Supreme Court of New Brunawiek. The question involved,-was that of forcing commercial travellers to pay licenses. The