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r Go'C ’P He said her buil^^Ks dyed, and when she indignantly- txslaimed, “’Tis false!” he sa d he presumed so. Madame Albani has recently re ceived from King Ktl kaua, of the Sandwich Islands, the jewel of the loyal order of merit, as a token of his Majesty’s appreciation of her musical talent. The Prit cess of Wales is nnxkus to preserve her children from snobbish notions, and will not permit them tc wear the numerous decorations usually bestowed on juvenile royalty. Three quito young girls boarded at the National Hotel, in Washington, seventeen years ago. They were all daughters of United States Senators, and were Mary Harlan, Lucy Hale and Minnie Chandler They are now respectively Mrs. Robert Lincoln (wife of the Secretary of War), Mrs. William E. Chandler (wife of the Secretary of the Navy), and Mrs. Eu gene Hale (wife of the Senator from Maine) Miss Jean Armour Burns, great- grand-daughter of the Scotch poet, is sixteen or seventeen years old and bears a striking resemblance to her great ancestor. She and her mother earn a scanty living oy dusting the pews of a Dumfries church. London Truth : It is now fashion able to nave small children for brides maids The older the bride the younger, I observe, are the child bridesm ids. Cali a young girl a witeh and she is pleased ; call an eldsrly woman a witch and her indignation knows no bounds It was Longfellow who slyly de scribed the lady as wearing flowers on he congregation side of her bonnet. Rapid Growth and Quality. As a general rule, the “soft woods’ (poplars, willows, etc.) are rapid in their growth, and in many other kinds, the rapidity of growth bears an inverse proportion to the solidity of the timber. There may be real or ap parent exceptions to this statement, but the general fact however remains true. Mr. Shuttleworth, Conservator of Forests, in reporting from the North ern Division of the Bombay Presi k dency for 1871-3, in reference to ex- B perience upon this subject, says : H “In reports on Teak Plantations we frequently read, that the plantation of those seedlings have attained the greatest LeigUt in the shortest period j^B~'"Of time is considered the most flourish ing and satisfactory. This is a mis- V take. It is very pleasing to the eye to ■ see teak-plants growing tall with gaint f strides, but when they come under the axe, the result will not be considered / satisfactory instead of a close, even, r graiD, the heart of the sapling will be found full of pitchy matter. Three or four years ago, called in to sur- vey some teak rafters from the Madras plantations,Supplied to her Majesty’s Dock Yard, Bombay. These rafters weri 9 to 12 inches in girth, about 20 feet long, and remarkably straight, bearing outward evidence of rapid growth. I found them quite scf r , full of pitch inside, and broke several < f them across, by hitting one ehd on the grcuid. It hi.aeedless to say tha’ they were utterly worthless for roofing purposes, and for use where strength and toughuess are required.” . - As an exception to the above rule, we find white-ash, elm, hickory and some other trees, when grown in the open fields as a second growth, very solid and firm ; although the amount of yearly gain is large. Although rapidly-grown woods in all climates, may lack that solidity, strength, and durability, which are acquired by age, there are processes of impregnation that will in a partial degiree supply these defects, as we have elsewhere noticed, in the preparation of the Maritime Pine. j Congressional Play, Mousing among the records of the past some enterprising seeker after facts has learned what pay the mem- Imprisonment for Debt. Imprisonment for debt is still nol uncommon in England, though a man cannot be locked up for not paying his bills so easily as he might have been some years ago. Judges frequently order debtors, againsi whom their creditors make out case-, to pay in monthly installments, and one who fails to do so regularly, month by month, until he has made good the uttermost farthing, may be committed for contempt of Court. No one owing less than $250 can take ad vantage of the bankrupt laws, so that small debtors frequently have a hard time of it. Men have sometimes been sent to jail for contempt in not mak ing the decreed monthly payments, who not only had and could earn nothing, but were actually receiving parish relief. Some members of par liament have set about instituting reform in this business. of the First Congre jach colony paid its own Hampshire allowed s received, delegation, to each all ■ VY ixauipeiiuii aiiuwtJU, wi tacn all “lenses, a servant, twevhorses and a fuinea a day; Mijarfiachusetts, ex penses and $3 a da^qlRhode Island aud billings a day aud ex- la, a half Johannes per iolina, £50 per annum ; ia, £300 per auuum; | per montn while in never realizes the im- Dl the Invention of pins buttons on his pantaloons ij, been there. ■ to a nj|n as and is prompt- ry it looks rson referr Modern Egyptian Fleshpots. W hat is a fleshpot ? This is no co nundrum, but only the humble groping of an earnest searcher after truth. Is it merely a pot—more or less ornamen tal according to taste of designer—or (to lie desirable and a thing for non- possess.- rs to be envious of) must it be a cornucopia of good things ? The condition of the hotels here just now suggests this abstruse question : Is an hotel of necessity a place to dine in or a place where you can procure a bed and nothing more? Instead of dine, I should say feed, for no one dines just now except successful commanders-in- chief and their lucky guests. We fill our vacuum when we can, aud aie thankful, independent of quality. We are ravenously hungry, and dip our noses in the manger. But what if that mauger contains brickbats or priceless Egyptian curiosities manu factured at Birmingham, or any other utterly useless and unnutritious ol ject. Shepherd’s Hotel is closed—like the shoj s, which are enjoying a prolonged Bank Holiday. The royal is bo crammed with officers of high degree —gentlemen who, quiet and courteous and hospitable in their own familiar Rag, are awful despot here. The New Hotel—vast bsiraik—is hope lessly uncomfortabi; nothing remains but the Oriental, whither we have all learned lo congregate, That does not mean, however, that we are “taken in and done for.” Fresh from the tender mercies of the British commissariat, we £re not difficult to please; but, resiling our haven at last, we did ''hope to give up the munching of hard biscuits, the scraping of empty potted- meat tins. We have reached the promised lund, but the grapes Eschol have not arrived. Such a scene of confusion as this caravanserai presents at what the proprietor is pleased to call dinner time would require the facile pencil of a Frith to depict. The dining hall is spacious, lofty, decorated with taste. The long tables by the glitter of their cloths and cutlery in vite the hungry guest, but the pom pous show is akin to the wniteness of the sepulchre. Happily, there are no dead men’s bones under the tables— we have had a surfeit of them lately on the field—neither is there more uncleanness that we can well put up with : but, alas! there is instead of nothingne-s—a non-existence of the important—which rouses the British Lion. It is “Hamlet” without the princely Dane. The plates are there and eke the knives and forks, but where is the dinner? A smooth-faced little man assures us of the pr< ximate arrival of the delicacies of the season if our Excellencies will wait two little, minutes. We wait thirty, a whole long hour, still no signs of aught to plaoe upon these plates. We storm, we rage; the little man appears with sweeter smiles than ever. “If Uielr Excellencies will have a little patience ” But the fifty guests or so, with their unshorn chins and con vict hair and bespattered and stained red coats, are young English warriors, who stood without blenching under that withering fire at Tel-el-Kebir. They are ravenous as young hawks ; they are lion-whelps whom mamma— kind Mother Commissariat—has^left to wean themselves. They have driven before them the ridiculous A^ab—will they submit to bad practical j ikes on the part of this plausible smiler? No. With one accord they bowl him over and advance a pas de charge over his prostrate form. They escalade the lobby, take t ae kitohen with a rush, aud full to searching for the spoil. Ah, me! The practical joke is tolerably oomplete and well managed. Two or three small fowls, half-roasted, about the size of a thrush ; a pot oontalnln hen with a curl pound in it that might be meant for a dark curry or a pallid hash. And that is all; all that the smiler has pro vided for the lion whelps. This is worse than the tender mercies of the Commissariat, for we expected noth ing from her, and were not, therefore, disappointed : but in Cairo—the splen did city bo magnifijen:ly Hauss- manized by the ex-Khedive Ismail— it is very, very painful. Oh, for Spiers aud Pond, or Bertram and Roberts. Oh, for a modest sand which, a humble hard-boiled egg ! But no ; in this city of palaces, of metal work from Damascus, of textile marvels from the looms of Tor, we are reduced to anxious searching In our discarded haversacks for fragments of Huntley and Palmer, scraps of Peak & Frean, half-gnawed knobs of chocolate—we will tenderly draw the veil, for the subject is unspeakably painful. The fleshpots are delusions and snares; the smiler, though he profisses to be a German, must be in secret league with Arabi.—London Telegraph. The St* Bernard Morgue. The great curiosity at the Monastery of the Mount St. Bernard is the mor gue. If the day is a little warm the brother who attends to visitors hesi tates a bit before opening the door of the wooden house just outside the chief building. He first drives away the dogs, who come prowling about, snufflugtheair suspiciously, and has them shut into their room opposite the huge refectory. Then he marshals the little company of international tourists in lifte before the mysterious door, and opens the chamber of hor rors. The keen mountain air rushes in, aud presently you are conscious of a faint, sickly odor—not strong enough to be repulsive, but eminently sugges tive of death. Then as you stand there peering with strained eyeballs into the darkness,you become vaguely conscious that a face is looking at you. I defy anyone who is possessed of the smallest grain of imagination to see that mysterious face growing slowly out of the obscurity without a sudden sinking of the heart and a chill which no effort of the will can suppress. It is the face of a woman—and yet of a ghost; a kind of corporeal presence divested of life, and yet so horribly like life that you are almost afraid the bony and skinny frame to which it belongs will arise and stretch out its dreadful arms, and drag you down into the depths which you so distinctively shun. The good brother does not say anything ; he watches the effect of this curious spectacle upon you. Pretty soon you can discern that the face belongs to the body of a woman—and that this woman is clasping to her breast the form of a tiny babe. The mother Is seated on the ground, and appears to be dazed by the light pouring down into her darksome habitation. But oh ! the horror of her face! Here is death without decay; here, in this wondrous air, on this pass more than eight thousand feet above the sea levtl putrefaction is unknown; and bodies found in the snows in winter— or after the white shroud has melted away from the bosom of Nature in the spring—are preserved entire so long as the monks care to keep them. The grimness of the spectacle is en hanced by the fact that nearly every body found is contorted, twisted, strained and knotted in fantastic shapes. Now and then one which bears all the appearance of tranquil sleep is brought in ; but in most cases there are indications that man and woman, in their battle with Nature, fought hard and desperately and re fused to be overcome until every par ticle of force was exhausted. The brethren gather up h* bodies with tender care.aud place them in thedead house in the usually vain hope that some relatives may come to recognize them. Where is the father of the child which this stranle spectral mother olasps in her arfts? What was the history of the roman who had thus wandered in the mild winter from the Rhone valley bwvard the kinder and warmer Itallm slopes? Perhaps her husband was roth her— and perhaps his body now As at the bottom of some precipice wh«e even the “pious monks of Saint Barnard” cannot find him—or perhaps lro is in the dead house; perhaps that pwtrate body, seeming to grovel on thenoky floor,is his. The peasants rarely carry any paper which can completely identify them, aud sometimes the un fortunates found dead in the pass here led such wandering lives—going to Switzerland for harvest in the sum mer aud to Italy when thfe winter nip^hem—that their passports even Pl<«q olew to their bi 11m. Trichinae. Some Interesting Facts £bout the Disease. Trichime consists of a male and iemale. When mature the male is about one-twenty fifih of an inch long by one-six-hundredth of an inch in thickness ; the female of at least twice this length and thickness. The eggs measure about 1-1200 of an inch in diameter, and each female, though so small, contains from 800 to 2000 ova. These, after fertilization and six or eight days of gestation, are developed into embryos, which, when extruded within the intestines of an animal, commence at once their migration. Finding their way through the intes tinal walls,‘they travel on until they locate themselves in or between the fibers of some of the muscles. There they coil into a spiral form, and be come gradually surrounded by a cal careous sac or cyst. When incysted, if left alone, they soon change into so many specks of lime ; but, if ingested into the body of an animal, they burst out and infest the system. The sac has an ovoid or lemon-like shape, and is visible sometimes to the naked eye as a whitish or gray speck. The muscles mostly affected are dif ferently slated by the vai ious authors ; but, generally, the insects migrate to the muscles of the back, tbe chest, neck and limbs, also the muscles of the eyeball and throat. For examina tion during life, the muscular tissue of the under part of the tongue is prefera ble ; a fragment is obtained, and, when placed under the lens of the microscope, the free worm may be seer. The hog is especially liable to trichi- l to, but they have been found in the horse, eheep, dog, cat, mole, pigeon, eel, and, tome assert, in the ox. Ex perimentally, by feeding the animals upon infected meat, they have been communicated to the rabbit, guinea pig, and other creatures. 8 imetimes death follows, but it is astonishing how little disturbance of health occurs in a large number of in stances. Stiffness of movtments and hoarseness of the voice show the affec tion in the swine in a large number of cases. Much more often, however, they appear to be, during life, in as good condition as other animals not so effected. The number of parasites in the muscles of an animal may be immense. As many as 10,000 to 18,000 have been found in a cubic inch of hog’s flesh. Prof. Dalton estimates the number of them in a human sub ject at 85,000 to the cubic inch, and Prof. Flint found in a piece of a human muscle, one-twelfth of an inch square and one-fiftieth of an inch thick, twenty-nine trichinae, thus giving a little over 208,000 to the cubic inch, and 1,000,000 to 10,000,000 of them may exist in a single human body, accord ing to examinations made in several cases. It is said that enough trichinae may be present in a half a pound of meat to give birth in a few days to a brood numbering over 30,000,000. It wa3 not until 1860 that the morbid effects of the parasite, when inhabiting the body of man, were distinctly recog- i^zed. Zenker, of Dresden, then found trichinae in ham and sausages eaten by those affected by tbe insects. Wun derlich saw two cases in Leipsic in 1862, and several persons died from this cause the same year In Plowen, in Saxony. In 1863 occurred a startling example of the disease in a town in Prussia, called Hesttadt. Of 103 per sons there dining together dta a festive occasion, twenty died and eighty others were for some time very ill, A part of their dinner consisted of sau sages smoked and warmed, but not cooked. Some of the sausages left were examined, and found to be swarming with trichinae. The same was ascertained to be the case with the muscles of those who had eaten of them. Since that occurrence a num ber of other instances have been re ported throughout Germany. In another village, called Hadersleben, of 2000 inhabitants, 300 were affected, of whom eighty died. All of those effected had eaten raw or but slightly cooked meat, mostly ham or sausage. The first cases of trlchniosis recorded In America were seen by Dr. Schuet- lei, of New York, in 1864. About the same time Dr. Voss, of the same city, saw four persons so affected on a steamer from Bremen. Afterward cases were reported from various parts of the country ; and a number of oases occurred in Canada. Do not forget to have your meats well cooked before eating them, for, by so doing, you need never have fear to become victims of trichina).— Dr. Lagori, of Chicago. The Health of American Boys. There has been some alarm manifest ed by the press over the stalement that nearly nine-tenths c f the boys who recently endeavored to enlist as ap prentices in the navy were rtjeeted on the ground that they were physically unfit for tlie service. From this it is argued that the American physique is. degenerating. Our contemporaries could not have made this mistake had they seen the boys who applied, for tiie youngsters were not, as a rule, chil dren who had been reared with or dinary care. The majority of them were unfortunate enough to be sons of drunken parents or members of fami lies too poor to buy sufficient food and clothing. Many of them bad been picking up their own living and not succeeding very well, and some were irredeemable little vagabonds who had run away from home and added to the careless habits of roving animals the vices of men. Very few appointees to the academies at Annapolis and West Point are rejected on physical grounds, although therequirem nts at these institutions are higher than those of the naval apprentice system. Ac cording to men who were in the neanut and short jacket state twe ty cr thirty years ago there has been a mark ed improvement in the physical condi tion of American boys ; it may not be noticeable in large cities, where the young have little or no opportunity for the exercise that is necessary to proper development; even here, ho wever, boy invalids are rare in respectable circles such as contained many of them a quarter of a century ago. Food and clothing are better and more appropri ate than they were in olden times, and the change is working wonders in boys as well as men. What Made the Other Passen gers Glad. The seventh passenger was a lady, There was an abundance of room in the car, but as she entered an elderly man rose with a great flourish and called out: "Take my seat, Madame, I am not the kind of a man to keep a seat in the street car and oblige a lady to stand up.” She sank down with a half bow in acknowledgment and he held out his hand for her fare with the remark: “Sime men are brutal enough to permit a lady to stumble to the fare-box and back, but that \ isn’t me.” He took her ticket and deposi ted it, and then hung to the strap\ and continued : “And I know men Who think that passing a lady’s fare to\ the box gives them the privilege of enter ing into conversation with her ab^ the weather, crops, rate of mortal!)) politics,^^1 so forth. That isn’t speech had lta( in cludi] out an^ ing uj does nTJWfTtitl^ her off the car, of aS! or single, or in any manner down the stern barriers of so<| nudity. It is simply an act o| tesy and I shall so consider it.” There was something painful in the situation to the other six, but relief came by the man reaching the end of his journey. As he was ready to get off he looked back and said: “I have seen men whose conceit obliged them to lift their hats and bow to everybody in the car bafor# stepping off, but that isn’t me. I shall step off without any formality, and without hoping that I will be missed.” When the six looked back and saw him sprawled in the dust they were glad of it. An Important Discovery, A most important discovery has just been made in the neighborhood of Poitiers, In France, where an entire Gallo-Roman town has been un earthed. It contains a temple 114 yards in length by 70 yards in breadth, baths occupying two hectares, a thea tre, the stage of which alone measures 90 yards, streets, houses, and other buildings covering a space of nearly seven hiotares, or about 17 acres. The excavations are being continued with further success, disclosing more edi fices, soulpture in very best style and in good preservation—dating, it is thought, from the second century— and a quantity of iron, bronze, and earthen articles. M. Lisoh, the in spector of historic monuments, is en thusiastic over this discovery, and de clares that the town is a little Pompeii in the centre of France. Wherever there is power there is age. Don’t be deoeived by dimj and ourls.