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A great sensatiou was caused in Tor
onto by the discovery of a number of
cartridges of dynamite secreted under
the Parliament buildings where sessions
of the Ontario Legislature are held. A
son of one of the caretakers, Willie Mac
donald, was playing aronnd the western
end of tho building in which is situated
the Crown L inds Office, containing all
documents and records of the depart
ment from the earliest settlement of the
province. In a ventilator under the
window lighting the office of the Com
missioner of Crown Lands, he saw a roll
of paper continuing two dynamite car
tridges of the most powerful kind. A
wire and fuse were attached, and there
is not the slightest doubt that they were
ready for explosion at very short notice,
should the desired opportunity occur.
Tlie mingled consternation and excite
ment, as may tie judged, was great in
the extreme, and word was immediately
passed around the buildings to make a
careful examination. Under the cham
ber of the Speaker of the Legislature
were discovered similar cartridges con
taining dynamite. Preparations had
here been made for attachment, which
lay a short distance from the cartridges,
thus demonstrating that the miscreants
had been disturbed in their foul purpose
and compelled suddenly to abandon it.
II id the conspiracy trial been in progress
the Speaker would doubtless have occu
p. and bis chambers, and the attempt has
therefore a dreadful as well as peculiar
significance. The safe containing the
records of the Registrar General’s de
partment is in close proximity to the
place where the destructive agent was
discovered, and this furnishes additional
incentives to perpetrate the outrage.
The officials at Parliament Buildings
Ray that they have not seen any sus
picious characters about tho buildings.
The cartridges, however, must have
been placed in the ventilators lately,
else they would have been discovered
liefore.
The cartridges found are about six
inches long by an inch and a half in di
ameter, and weigh between a quarter and
half a pound. Tin y are called -Etna
No. 2, and arc manufactured by the
.Etna Powder Company, of Chicago.
Across the end of the shell of each car
tridge is printed in large type, “forty
per cent.;” this doubtless, being the pro
portion of nitro-glyeerine. The shells
appeared to have been newly oiled, as if
to keep out the moisture. There is
enough in any one of these cartridges to
blow up either the east or the west wing
of Parliament Buildings. A piece of
fuse, about two yards in length, was
fonnd by the gardener lying on the lawn
in the neighborhood where the cartridges
were afterward discovered. The gardener
was at work with his lawn mower when
he picked up the fuse, and, not knowing
its nse, he thought it had fallen from a
window above, and it therefore excited
no cariosity in his mind. Another piece
of face was found under the steps near
by.
The United States Government owes
the State of New Jersey seventy-three
cents with interest thereon since 1861,
the State having paid an excess of the
amount assessed upon it for direct taxes
to carry on the war in 1861. The inter
est amounts to ninety-seven cents and
six mills, and at the present time the
sum of g 1.70.6 stands to the credit of
the State on this account on the books
of the Treasury. An act of Congress
would be necessary, however, in order
to have the debt paid off,
SUMMERY!LLK, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1884.
WHY IS IT SOt
Some find work where some find rest.
And ao tho weary world gopN on;
I sometimes wonder which is Dost—
Tho answor cornea when life is gone.
Some eyes sleep when some eyes wake,
And ho the dreary night hour* go.
Borne hearta l>oAt wher some hearts break,
I often wonder why ‘tie* ho.
Some hands fold where other hands
Are lifted bravely in the strife;
And so thro* ages and thro’ lands
Move on the two extremes of life.
Some feet halt where some feet tread,
In the tireless march, a thorny way;
Some struggle on where some have lied;
Some seek, when others shun, the fray..
Some sleep on while others keep
The vigils of the true and brave;
They will not rest till roses creep
Around their name above a grave.
—StiTy Other Saturday.
THE POLAR REGIONS.
tiik m:u;iiiioimiooi> of point mo
lt ow |>IX It lit I O l!\ I.T. HAWS
1A ItTV.
A Primitive Lot n( Inritnn* Tlirlr Wnyuniid i
lliibil* lluneM llubieM.
The Ooglaamiemonna are tho tribe of
natives in the immediate vicinity of
where Lt. lluy’s Signal Service station
was at Ooglaamie. The tribe consists of
130 souls. A few miles distant is another
tribe, called the Noowookmeuns, num
bering 140 people, but the relations ex
isting between the two are not so har
monious as one would be led to believe
was due to neighbors where acquaint
ances are so few. There have not been
any open ‘outbreaks botwoen the tribes,
nnd they often mingled together near
the station, but each eyed the other sus
piciously, and tho members of the two
tribes were observed to breathe more
freely when they were surrounded only
by their own people. Neither trilio
holds allegiance to any chief or ruler.
No congresses or legislatures have as
yet broken in upon the rude mode of
living. They are anarchists in the full
sense of the word. Each man iB his
own chief and, strange as it may seem,
Lieutenant ltav pronounces them the
best governed and happiest, people in
the world. There appears to be no clash
ing of interests among them, and no
bully has ever yet come to the front and
bulldozed the tribe by asserting that
might made right. Fighting and quar
relling are unknown. Ray says he never
Raw a child punished iu any form, and
yet he reports the children as well be
haved, modest and honest. As high as
twenty-live children have visited the
station at one time, and their deport
ment would be such that he could not
help but notice the striking contrast be
tween them and the children who hail
all the advantages of civilization. How
ever small tho child might he it never
intruded itself into univited places. No
matter how many tools, articles of cloth
ing or provisions were scattered around,
the Lieutenant never saw them toneli a
thing, much less to try to appropriate
or steal them. If anything was given a
child it showed its appreciation thereat,
sometimes in words but more often in
smiles, and by informing its playfellows
that he or she Injd been shown especial
favors by tlie great, white Captain. The
only blow Ray ever saw struck in these
tribes was by a husband, who boxed his
wife’s ears for supposed infidelity.
HABITS ANI) CUSTOMS.
Thieving is seldom known among the
men or women of the tribes, and when
it does occur there is no punishment for
the crime. The thief makes no secret of
his act, and will deliberately expose the
article taken to the whole trilxi iu a few
minutes after appropriating it, to his own
use. The petty thief will take a hatchet
from its owner, and in half an hour loan
it to him to dosome work,and the ownoris
in honor bound to return it to the scamp
whostoleit. A casein point is as follows:
One of the tribe stole a tent from another
one. He “pitched” the tent a few min
utes later, and in half an hour had as his
guest, or dinner the original owner. The
owner knew the tent, and yet came with
in its folds and partook of tlie hospitality
of the thief. Possession appears to bo
nine points of law with them. A police
court would soon become bankrupt
there. Neither tribe appears to have
any marriage ceremony. If the man is
willing and the woman also, there is no
legal impediment and the twain arc as
one. There is but little funeral cere
mony. When a male dies his body is
sewed np in canvas or a deer skin,
placed on a sledge and moved out on the
tundra, where it remains. The deceased’s
effects are all broken up over the body.
If a woman dies the only change in form
of burial is in simply breaking a bowl
over the body. Having no implements
to penetrate the hard frozen ground and
there being a scarcity of lumber where
with to build caches, the above manner
of disposing of their dead seems to be
' the only practicable way. Many persons
have accused these tribes of having no
feeling for their dead, not stopping to
consider the difficulties surrounding
them and the almost impossibility of giv
ing them decent sepulture. Ray says the
memory of the deceased is ever cherished
with the kindliest feelings, and when
they speak of the departed it is with a
reverence and charity not surpassed by
the white race.
NATIVE SUPERSTITION,
The Ooglaamiemeuns and Noowook
meuua we lull of superstitious ideas, and
have a god of fire, one of water and ouo !
of almost everything else, even a god of j
the north wind, and so on for the oiglit
principal points of the compass. These j
godh they often supplicate for assistance, I
and should tho prayer bo heard it is all
right, but should tho prayer he unan
swered in their simplicity they merely
jonsidev the god angry or too busy to
attend to their present wants. At one j
time one of these pow-wows (or prayer |
meetings) was in progress, tho object he- j
ing to have the god of tho east wind
drive away the iec pack that they might |
hunt for seal, when Lieutenant Kay
called one of ilie old men of the tribe to
him and, marking tho outlines of tho
Asiatic coast upon the sand, told tho Imiu
(for such they call themselves) that
across the great water was a larger body
of land and many, many rnoro people
than the Ooglaamiemeuns had; that
these people also wanted seal, and the
god of the west wind was providing for
them, as they had undoubtedly prayed
harder to have their wants supplied.
The lunu was satisfied when informed
by Ray that ho bail been there and seen |
this large body of people. The Innu I
departed to where his people were in j
such a sober manner that it showed ho j
was deeply impressed with the Lieuten- j
ant’s words. Boon the tribe were seen j
to go to a higher elevation and there the
pow-wow commenced with redoubled
fury. The ceremony was kept up until
late in the day ami that evening an east,
wind prevailed and broke up the pack.
The next day the old Innu called upon
Kay, and with the solemnity of a Quaker,
said:—“l told you wo could outpray
those fellows ou the other side 1” When
they go for a whale or during the time
the flesh of that animal is on hand, seal,
walrus, reindeer hunting and so on must
ho entirely abandoned by all the rela
tives of the participants in the first hunt.
This same superstition m also found :
among the Esquimaux on tho other side I
of tho continent. Roys are thought j
more of than girls, yet, both sexes are so
scarce that when a couple in blessed with
more than one child the children are
distributed aronnd to the other families
who are childless. A child is considered
a great blessing among them, ami is
thought more of than anything else
which they possess.
PECULIARITIES OF LIVING.
Asa rule these natives do not eat
blubber. When provisions become
scarce they will eat it, but never by it
self. The same can be said of oil. A
food is prepared in a large wooden bowl,
consisting of a little seal oil ami deer
tallow beaten together to the consist
ency of thick cream. Boiled deer meat
is then stirred in by a woman with her
naked hand until it becomes : i‘v.o pem
mican. This is finer chief traveling
food, and is always used when a journey
is to be performed. No part of the ani
mal is allowed to go tte waste. Even
the hones, after being picked bare, are
pounded up and boiled and the marrow
extracted for pemmiean food. Kay says
it is a common occurrence for them to
take a little seal oil and thoroughly mix
it with reindeer droppings, and eat it
with an apparent relish. They crave
vegetables, ami would always carefully
gather up tho potato peelings around
the station, boil them and consider they
bad dined like a king. When traveling
they eat but ono meal a day. When
they arise in the morning they start on
their journey without breakfast, will
travel all day, and when they strike
camp at night will gorge themeelves and j
go to bed?"* They have no sleeping sacks
or deerskins. When the igloo is built
and the slab of snow cut out upon which
they are to rest, a tanned walrus hide is
thrown over the cold slab and they lie
down in the clothes in which they have
traveled all day.
FONDNESS FOR TOBACCO AND WHISKY.
They are crazy after tobacco and will
do almost anything to obtain it. The
blacker tho tobacco and the more adul
terated it is the better the Innas like it.
The common natural leaf brands and the
fine-cuts are not as eagerly sought after
us the “black Jack,” with its copperas
taste. They get the full value of tho
tobacco in chewing, and, after tho
“end” lias yielded its richness it is care
fully tucked behind the ear for some
future occasion, the native, no doubt,
fearing that a “corner” in the article
might take place. So insatiable are
their appetites in this respect that they
would often come to the station and
crave the privilege of cleaning out the
men’s pipes of their refuse—scrape tho
inside of tlie bowl and stem of nicotine
and, mixing the ashes and other debris
together, take it into the mouth and ab
solutely cat it. Tobacco appears to have
no effect upon their systems, unless it is
to strengthen them, for after one of their
feasts upon the weed the limits appear
to have more vitality and seem far hap
pier. Even children and infants seme
to take to it naturally. Ray says he has
seen a babe tbreo months old taken
from its mother’s breast, its mouth filled
with tobacco, and the infant would
suckle away at the weed, with more en
joyment than if it had its natural food,
until it fell asleep. They are literally
tobacco eaters. The same may lie said
about whisky. The more fiery it is in its
taste the harder they will strive to obtain
it. The liner brands are not sought
after, but one good drink of old “tangle
foot,” which contains equal parts of
! aquafortis, nitro-glycerine and a
sa'retida, will make a native happy as a
cltua at high water, Alcohol, in its pure
state, is their high-toned drink, and the j
nativo’s idea of pure bliss is a bottle of
alcohol nnd a plug of “black Jack,” It
is impossible to get these peoplo to
travel with you in the long Aretio night
They will not leave their lints ns long as
tho sun is below the horizon. They are j
generally a very healthy people and con
sumption is unknown among them.
There are no traces of lingering sickness
or hereditary disease, and the peoplo are
mostly affected by bronchial ailments, j
caused by sudden exposure. Their snow
huts are not exactly like the Esquimaux
of the Hudson Bay region, being shaped
more like a tent. Bay says lie has slept
in ono of tlieso “igloos” when it was so |
crowded and poorly ventilated that his i
cooking lamp refused to burn, yet in tho
morning he felt well and was prepared
for a long journey.
FLOWERS BLOOMING AMID THE SNOWS. j
As far north as this station was it was
not without designs of civilization iu the
spring and summer. The old-fashioned
dandelion was found hero in abundance, |
about the game in size nnd as strong in
growth ns in the Eastern States. Several j
species of the saxafrage grow in that re
gion, and the little buttercup is a com- i
mon thing. The latter has been found
in bloom in early spring, the plant being
in some favored place where the sun
reached it and where projection of snow
protected it from tho cold wind. A blue- j
bell similar to our own grows on the low '
lands, while several species of poppies
are found, the most prominent of which
is a small yellow variety. This poppy |
blossoms and fades quickly, and while
the flower is passing away a small yellow
butterfly frequents the bloom and feeds
thereon. Tho Indians believe the poppy
changes into tho butterfly, and hence
both arc called ‘'lucky-tuclcy-Jackson." i
A small Arctic willow grows under the |
surface of the moss, and one shrub will
sometimes cover an area of several rods, i
No grass ean be found, except along the
seashore, where a small, coarse, wiry
species is found,
Meade River in sixty miles from tho !
station, and there we find a small,scraggy
willow about four feet high. Thin river
is tortuous, about two hundred yards
wide at its mouth and (lows northeasterly
into the Aretio Ocaan. Ten miles further
on is tho Ick-pick-pong River (the river ,
of big cliffs) and the same willow is found
thore. In both of these rivers whiteflsh,
trout and a few salmon trout are found.
Large game is seldom seen in that local
ity. Occasionally a stray doer wanders
there. Kay says he does not believe tho
ground cariboo deer is ever found north
of latitude 70 degrees. Tho large gray
(or white) wolf is seen at intervals, and
the white fox iH found early in winter,
but as the weather becomes more severo
entirely disappears. Only five polar
bears have been killed in that neighbor
hood in two years. Kay saw hut ono
during his stay there. The black and
red fox do not inhabit that region, but
the natives have their skins, which are
brought from the south.
BIRDS OF THE FRIGID ZONE.
Of the eider duck there are five
species—the Pacific, king, spectacle, old
squaw and stellar's elder. The brant,
white-fronted and Arctic goose frequent
this locality. Tho Canada goose lias
been seen about one hundred miles
further south and west. These and
other birds migrate northward at a defi
nite time eacli year. In 1882 they
appeared on the 12th of May, and in
1883 they came one day later. In their
flight they draw across tho American
continent, and it is Kay’s opinion that
they go to Prince Patrick’s Land. Kay
also believes there is no habitable land
duo north for man, boast or fowl, as
there is no migration in that direction
in the spring, nor do the birds return
from due north in the fall. Birds re
turn in July in small flocks passing
south, although tho king and Pacific re
mained near the Point as long as there
was open water. A few straggling geese
and ducks built their hatcheries near the
Point, along the seashore, and in less
than six weeks from the timo the bird is
haldied out it is strong enough to fly
southward with the elder ones. Of the
small waders the fallarones and sand
pipers hatch in immense numbers on tlie
mainland, coming in May and leaving
about tho Ist of September, and all de
parting at once. The rnurr—the small
Aretio diver—remains longer than any
other bird. They have been frequently
caught in tho breathing holes of the seal
in November. There are three species
of the loon—-the great North diver, the
red throat and the black throat. The
little snow bunting comes early in April,
a forerunner of spring. Kay describes
this bird with a note like a skylark—a
single liar—and the bird towers when
it sings. It is the only place he ever
heard them sing so sweetly. A few
crane of the Richardson species are
found here, anil several species of the
seagull—the burgomaster, ivory, and
blue wing, several species of ttie tern
and skewers, sabines, and rosqgull. The
large, white Arctic owl was found, but
few in number. The owl is a wary bird,
and seen in thut region as well by day
as by night, and consequently was the
most difficult to capture. Lemmings
were also found in goodly numbers, but
the marmot was very scarce. A large
collection -of specimens have been made
for the Smithsonian Institution at Wash
ington, including every animal and bird
seen in that section, and the eggs of all
tho birds. In this respect Ilay lisw) ex
celled &U others.
NO. 20.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Three hundred and two Mormon con
verts accompanied by seventeen mission
aries arrived from Europe by tho steam
ship Nevada.
The population of Mexico, including
natives, Indians, Spaniards and those of
mixed blood, numbers about 10,000,000.
Tho area of tho country is nearly 800,000
square miles.
Two young women in New Orleans
tarn 818 a month by keeping books, and
on this hnvo bought and are paying for
a cozy little homo for themselves and
their mother.
Champagne drinkers refuso to beliove
the most of their favorite beverage comes
from California, but statistics show that
15,000,000 gallons of it was nover nearer
Europe than Now York.
Loiux Tennyson has written to an old,
blind Sheffield workman who sent him
some verses: “I should havo a heart
harder than your anvil if I were not
deeply interested in what yon write.”
The London Times Rays that "at no
time since before the civil war in Amer
ica lias so little attention been paid in
England to the affairs of the United
States ns during tho past four months.”
The uow steamer Oregon made the
passage from Queenstown to Sandy
Hook, in six days, ten hours ami ten
minutes. She heats the best record
ever before made by eleven hours, thirty
minutes.
What Sunday is to Christians Monday
is to the Greeks, Tuesday to the Per
sians, Wednesday to the Assyrians,
Thursday to the Egyptians, Friday to
the Turks and Saturday to the Jews and
Seven th-day Baptists.
| Census reports state that the people
1 nf Canada are divided (hv classes) into
agricultural class, 662,630; commercial
class, 107,646; domestic class, 74,830; in
dustrial class, 287,296; professional
class, 52,974, and not classified, 205,228.
In some parts of Northern Sweden, it
is considered a crime to dance ou a
Saturday night, while every Sunday
night may lie spent in dancing. The
Sabbath commences at six o’clock p. m,
Saturday and cuds at six o’clock p. m.
Sunday.
An enterprising capitalist of New Jer
sey has set out 100,000 cocoa-palm trees
on a tract of 1,000 acres in Dade County,
along the southern coast of Florida. Ii
will require six years for the trees to
yield, and tho owner calculates that in
ten years (ho grove will pay ten per
cent, ou a valuation of 82,000,000.
Foiitrf.ks Monroe, Virginia, is tho
largest fort in the world, covering nn
area of seventy acres. It was built in
1817, and to the uninitiated looks im
pregnable. In shape the fort is an irreg
ular hexagon, two sides fronting the
water, while tlie other four command
tho land approaches.
Boys intending this summer to emu
' late the bold limiters of the prairies,
who live on roots when gamo is scarce,
should take warning from the hoys of
the training ship Cumberland, stationed
on tho Clyde. Ton of them wore re
cently reduced to unconsciousness aud
made dangerously ill by eating a hark
which turned out to he a species of hem
lock.
| Curious Phenomenon at Sea. —Tho
officers of the British bark St. Lawrence,
from Dernerara, report a remarkable ex
perience dnring the voyage. When
about 500 miles off Cape Ilatteras tho
air suddenly became very dense and
great, difficulty was experienced in
breathing. A strong odor as of burning
pine timber was also perceptible. Tho
misty mass is described as of a light
bluish tint, forming a zone extending
from tlie horizon toward tho zenith
about 15 degrees. Within the radius of
a mile the water was inky black.
In the ’Squire's Office.
There was a wedding in the 'Squire's
office, the high contracting parties being
j a cowboy and a pretty country girl. The
I room was well filled with reporters,
j officials, curiosity-hunters, and poliee
| men, and after the ceremony the groom
remark's! :
“Now’s the time to s’lnte tho bride.
Step up, gentlemen; step up and help
yourselves. This is yer last chance.
Ther’ ain’t nothin’ mean about me. I
kin spar' a few, seem’ ils how I’m to liev
the hull crap, after the first pickin’.”
Then they all stepped up, the report
ers as if they were accustomed to good
living, the officials with a diffident man
ner, the curiosity-limiters with a don’t
care-to air, and finally tho policemen
made a break, as if they were going to
make an arrest; but the cowboy put out
his hand.
“Hold on there, my brass bnttoners,
hold ou ! I kin stand the rest of the
gang, and so kin the gal, ’cause she hez
ter; but the line’s got to be draweil som
mers, and I reckon ez how I’ll draw it at
you fellers. Stand back. Come on,
Sal, les’ mosey from this rancho like a
steer with a hot brand on ter his tail.
Much oblceged, ’Squire. "—Merchant
Traveler.
An astronomer who has been engaged
lately in the micro-metrical measure
ments of Sirius has discovered its dis
tance from the earth to he “about 123,-
750,000,000,000 miles.” A journey to
that star would be quite a Sirius under
taking.
THE HUMOROUS TAPERS.
A FEW NOTES Fit OH THE I’lllt.AOEte
I’lllA “KVK.NINU CAM..”
WnAT THEY FEAR.
Oleomargarine Man —“These people
will ruin our business before long."
Customer—“ What people?”
“Tho ilairymou.”
“Tho dairymen 1 In what way? By
getting laws passed?”
“Oh, no; wo do not foar that.”
“Then what is the trouble ?”
“Well, you see, they make such bad
butter.”
“But how ean that affect yon?”
“Peoplo who got it think it must ho
spurious, and that gives oleomargarino a
had name,’
WHAT CAUSED IT.
Smithers —“Do you see that man with
tho haggard face, a look of abject mis
ery ami despair over his features, and n
coating of yellow mnd over his hoots ?
Don’t speak to him. He is mad, dan
gerously mad.”
Blithers—“By Joe, I thought so.
Looks as if he had just escaped from a
lunatic asylum.”
Smithers —"Not quite so bad ns that.”
Blithers—“What a tearfully miserable
look he lias. Do yon know him ?”
Smithers —“Yes. ”
Blithers—“What has caused that
wreck ?”
Smithers—“He has been out in the
country all day looking for a cottage.”
CHALLENGING FOR CAUSE.
“Now, then,” said the Judge to the
prisoner who had been arrested for mur
der, “you hnvo a right to clnUleugo
through your counsel any of these gen
tlemen liefore they can ho placed on the
jury, either peremptorily or for cause
Mr. John Smith it is the first name or
the list.” *
Tho prisoner here whispered to his
counsel.
“Your honor,” said the lawyer, “my
client challenges Mr. Smith for cause.”
“State the cause,” replied tho Judge
“My client asserts that within the
past two days ho has heard Air. Smith
complain bitterly of a dullness in Ilia
business. Mr. Smith is an undertaker.
Hence the challenge.”
“Mr. Smith is excused,” said his
Honor.
A MOTHERLY ntNT.
Lillian—“ What a queer title for a
book, mn 1”
Ma—" What title?”
Lillian—" ‘Not Like Other Girls.’ ”
Ala—“lt is rather odd. Is it a
novel ?”
Lillian—“Y T es. I wondor what tho
heroine can be if she is ‘not like other
girls?’ ”
Jla —“I don’t know, unless she goes
into the kitchen and helps her mother
instead of staying in the parlor to road
novels.”
NO WONDER riß COULD WALK.
Rural Editor—lf you wish a report ol
(ho New York pedestrian tournament
you will iiave to get a city paper. 1
have no space to print it.
Delinquent Subscriber Well, of
course, l don’t care much about it, lint
I am interested in that man Rowell.
Don't you thinn his walking powers per
fectly marvelous ?
“Well, no; considering tlio training
fie had in his youth.”
“Ah ? What was lie ?”
“Bill collector for a country paper.”
- Phila. Call.
HE HAD NO FEAR.
Medical Graduate—“ Yes, I havo de
cided to settle in Bighville.”
Old Resident—“ What 1 settle here?
Why, you will starve to death 1”
Afeilical Graduate —“Why will I?”
Old Resident —“‘Because Highville is
one of the healthiest places in tho coun
try."
Medical Graduate —“Oh, it is, is it?
Well, just wait until I havo been here a
while.”
A SHOUT MISTAKE.
Mamma—“ I hear you have boon
guilty of great, very great rudeness and
vulgarity.”
Little Jack -“I ain't. What did Ido,
anyhow?
Mamma—"Mary states that yon used
some low expression ns ‘let her ritV in
speaking of your aunt.”
Little Jack—“ Aunt is up-stairs in tho
sewing-room, ain’t she ?”
Mamma—“Yes, but ”
Little Jack—“And what is she doing?”
Mamma—‘‘She is ripping up my old
and ress. ”
Little Jack—“ Well, let her rip. That’s
what I said.’’
Stoky telling is still a remunerative
calling in Japan, In Tokio alone six
hundred street improvisatores ply their
trade, provided with a small table, a fan,
and a paper-rapper to illustrate and
emphasize the points in their tales, and
are as ready to extemporize histories of
modern events and celebrities as to re
late ancient legends.
The north of Scotland recently eann;
in Tor the tag end of a shower 'roni
Hecla or the other Icelandic crater.
Between the Orkneys and tho Slietlands
ash has fallen so thick that it has to be
shoveled off the deck of passing vessels.
Wien Skapta broke ont violently some
years since the lino dust fell iu such
quantities ovor Caithness that it entirely
killed tho crops.
Awkward. —Tho London TYuth says
that at a royal marriage in England some
ears ago the bridegroom was a German
prince. Only members of the royai
family were present at the ceremony,
with a few of the chief officers of the
household. When the bridegroom came
*o repeat the words, “with all my goods
f then endow,” an indignant exclama
tion was heard from the royal circle,
“Good God 1 the very shoes the fellow
wears are not paid for 1” It was the old
Luke of Cambridge who bad blurted out
I this awkward truth in one of his tits of
1 ibstractiou.