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Hospitai Sunday.

One of Haligonians is the unanimity and genero- sity with which they support their many charitable institutions. For instance, all denominations unite in the support of the ‘‘Halifax Dispensary,” and this is the result of arecent ‘‘Hospital Sunday” collection ;— St. Mary’s Cathedral, $214.35; St. Pa-

trick’s Church, $77.98; St. Joseph’s Church, $26.20; St. Luke’s Cathedral,

$31.61; St. George’s Church, $33.25; St. Panl’s Church, $146.44; Bishop’s Chapel, $32.42; Garrison Chapel, $72.13; St. Mark’s Church, #18; Christ Church, Dart- mouth, $17.81; Brunswick Street Metho- dist Church, $48; Kaye Street Methodist Church, $2; African Methodist Church, $5 06; Charles Street Methodist Church,

$8.63; St. Matthew's Church, 870; St. Andrew’s Church, $38; Fort Massey

Church, $35; St. James, Dartmouth (Pres- byterian), $18, North West Arm Mission, $3.09; Granville Street Church, $13.15; Third Baptist Church, $6.61.

It would be well if a like unanimity were shown on the subject of the Charlottetown Hospital,

In this connection we may remark that His Lordship Bishop Melntyre has issued the following :—

CIRCULAR.

REVEREND DEsR Ste.—-Among the varieus duties which devolve uponusas Christians and citizens. is thatof providing a suitable Asylum for suffering humanity. It is abundantly evi- dentthat many forms of disease can be more effectually treated, aud many lives more read- ily saved, in a well appointed Hospital! than elsewhere. Christian charity endeavors . to surround the sick and wounded with the most tender care and unwearied attention. For obvious reasors many sufferers canuot have such care and attention in their respective homes.

A vear ago the Charlottetown Hospital, conducted by the Sisters of Charity,and visit- ed by the leading Physicians of the city, was opened. Since its inception it has been kind ly aided by persons ot*every denemination, and considering its limited means, it hax done much good.

As the Hospital is for the benefit, not enly ef the eitizens of Charlottetown, but also that of the whole Island, and as many from the country have actually been received within its walls, it is only right that all should con- tribute towards its support.

Hence we trust that all will cheerfully res- pond to the call we are about to make on their charity. A small offering frem each one will enable the Hospital to continue, and to ex- tend its sphere of usefulness. We therefore request each Pastor to take up a collection in each of his missions, on some Sunday in De- cemer next, in aid of the Charlottetown Hospital. The amount received to be for- warded to us as soon as possible.

This Circular shall be read in each Church of the Diocese, on the first Sunday after its reception on which the Pastor shall officiate

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Word-Hunting—II.

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LABEL, ROOK, ST@OL, GROW, ETC.

The word Label introduces us to a word that has changed or limited its meaning, Its origin is the Latin diminutive labellum, a little lip, which seems far from our present use of the word. Yet its history is very simple. Many of your readers must have noticed on old pictures and on caricatures, a sort of balloon hanging from the mouths of the characters, on which is described what the character is saying. In some of the old collections of pictures this was very common. This lip appendage received the name of labellum or label. A paper some- what of the same shape, and containing a necessary inscription, was often found, in our younger days, tied to the necks of medicine bottles. It was the /abel, or that which was near the mouth or lip of the bottle. Now-a-days the label has lost its original shape and sutfers itself to be pasted on the stomach of the bottle, or on any old trunk.

The commonly accepted derivation of Rook is the Latin raucus, from its hoarse voice. A more sati-*.ctory derivation can be found from the coivr of the bird.. Rock is the same as the German word ranch, smoke, or the Anglo-Saxon Aroc. This, too, will remind your readers that in Eng- land, Rocky bacon is bacon which is black from having been hung in smoke.

In stool, we have another word of modi- fied meaning. From the Saxon stol, it for- merly meant a seat, chair or throne. Even now we speak of the ‘‘stall” or chief seat of a cathedral. But under Norman in- fluence, there was often a degradation of word and thing. The Normans put their feet on the Saxon chair, and forthwith it became no longera throne, but a chair for the feet.

Words grow like animals and plants. | Just as one oak willgive acorns that will produce thousands of oaks, so from one word spring forth a great many. Your readers will, from time to time, have mapy of these roots presented to them, and will find that all the words keep some likeness to the parent stem. To-day let us take grow, from the Saxon growan, to grow, to swell. From this we get growth, the act of | growing; grass, the plant that grows | everywhere; green, the color of growing things; ground, the soil out of which things grow; and lastly, root, the part of the plant which maintains the growth.

Maint Sevrasc.

A St. Petersburg despatch to the Stand- ard says-—‘*‘ The Governor General of Casan will be superseded and tried shortly

the pleasing characteristics of |

NO, 153

bas ‘The Decline of British Wheat | Productions.

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The British wheat crop of 1880 has been variously estimated since it was harvested at from eighty to one hundred million bushels. The latest computation, which is made bya well informed writer in the London Times, puts the amount below the lowest of previous estimates. Taking 3,070,000 as the number of acres cultivated and twenty-six bushels as the everage yield per acre he finds the total product to be 79,820,000. The crop of 1879 covered 3,056,000 acres, and yielded only eighteen bushels per acre, or a total of about 56,- 006.000 bushels. That year, however, was an exceptionally disastrous one to wheat production. But while this year’s figures are much more favorable than those of last year they showa remarkable and steady decline in the wheat crop of recent years, both in the area of cultivation and the amount of produetion. The average num ber of acres cultivated has been 3,576,000 for the last fifteen and 3,464,000 ffor the last ten years. The crop has averaged about 95,000,000 bushels during the past fifteen and 88,000,000 during the past ten years. Hence the production of this year is more than 15,000,000 bushels Jess than the average of the past fifteen years, and mere than 8,000,000 bushels below the average of the past ten years, while the area of cultivation falls 500,000 acres below the average acreage of the past fifteen ‘yeers. Deducting seed, the amount of this years crop available for consumption is put at 72.9C0,000 bushels. This is about 25,- 000,000 bushels rsore than was available for consumption from last year's crop, but it is cousiderable less than the average of the past ten vears, which has been 81,180,000 bushels. Itis estimated that for the com- ing year Great Britain will have to import about 120,000,000 bushels of wheat to make up the 192,600,000 bushels needed to sup- ply its wants. The imports of wheat, though likely to be less the coming than the past year, have been steadily and rap- idly increasing in recent years, their extent for the ensuing year being estimated at 5,000,000 bushels greater than the average for the past six years.

These results are fall of significance to the American as well as the British nation, but they have a brighter meaning for the former than for the latter, They indicate not merely a temporary depression or fluc- tuation in English wheat culture, which in time must be followed by the prosperity of former years ; they show a loss which will never be regained! and a’steady decline which has not yeat reached its end. The chief cause of this state of things is not hard to find. The cultivation of wheat has been attended with a steadily decreasing profit to the British farmer. According to the authority already cited the value of the wheat crop to the cultivator after deducting seed averaged £7 4s. lid. per acre during the five years from 1866 to 1870, but only £5 18s. Sd. per acre during the five years ending with 1879. Here in about ten years isa loss of nearly £3 per acre, or almost thirty seven per cent. This result is due to foreign, particularly American, competition more than to any other cause. That competition wiil increase rather than diminish in the future. The wheat crop of our Western and Northwestern States is yearly growing more enormous. The facilities of transportation are steadily becoming better and the cost of moving grain less. The natural consequence must be that wheat grown on our prairies will continue to be sold in English markets cheaper than it can be’ raised on English soil.

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Washington Letter.

Wasnineton, D. C., Nov. 15.

The strong ground taken by General Schofield in his late report, against the sending of culored cadets to West’ Point, is much commented on here, and will doubt- less lead to extended debate over the bil! appropriating money for the institution. The General isa very clear headed man, and has had experience, which makes his opinion on the subject valuable.

But it is not believed either Republicans or Democrats, are ready to vote to exclude any class of citizens from the benefits of the school.

All or nearly all, the Republican State associations of this city, have voted to main- tain a permanent organization. They were disbanded, it will be rememberej, in 1877, but reorganized duiing the past Summer, and aid very efficient work for their pariy.

Almost every day I see in the public papers, statements that General Garfield has signified a wish that this or that mem- ber of the present Cabinet, should remain in charge of his Department during the next four years, or that some one else should occupy high positions after March 9th. I do not know that any one here is anthorized to speak fer the General, but I know, as does almost every other Washingtonian who knows anything of the General, that all such reports are most unlikely. I do not suppose that anyone, even the General him- self, can name the Cabinet that is to be. He is not the man to make up his mind on such a point, when there are three good months for reflection and study, before him on the subject.

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