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• •-.'V OOUliTY "** - a '■.lysvissis ❖ a <« i ! ISiikiJ I U “Our Ambition is to make a Yeracions Work, Reliable in its Statements, Candid in its Conclusions, and Jnst in its Yiews. ” : 3i VOL. I. A federation of clubs and similar goeieties in Paris has been formed with the object of cheapening medical attend ance. Adult members of the association pay forty cents a year for medical at tendance, and children twenty cents. The contract for the Peter Cooper monument in New York has been awarded to St. Gaudens, tbe sculptor, who began his art work in Cooper Insti tute. The monument will cost about $ 113 000 and the money is in t he bank. , , It is a curious fact that while Queen Victoria speaks German iu her home circle, the present German Empress dis regards it in hers and uses English as much as possible. Engiish is the fire side tongue of the Greek, Danish and Russian royal families. It has been figured out by a statistical official that there are 31 criminals to every 1000 bachelors and only 11 crimi nals to every 1000 married men. From this showing he argues that matrimony restrains men from crime, and ought therefore to be encouraged by legislation and otherwise. The hay crop of 1887 was something like forty-five million tons. For the past seven years the hay crop has aver aged a value of about three hundred and eighty-eight million dollars a year. The hay crop exceeds the cotton crop in value, and Southern farmers are now paying more attention to it than ever before. Artificial flowers are going out of use in England and lace coming in at about unequal ratio. In 1883 the value of flowers imported reached the enormous sum of $3,500,000, while in 188G this fell off to $1,350,000. The increase in the importation of lace meanwhile has amounted to more than all these figures of artificial flowers together. An old man in Afaysville, Ivy., has Jriven a coal wagon for thirty-eight years, and in that time it is estimated that he has delivered over 4,000,000 bushels of coal. In his declining years > h* can reflect that he has contributed to .hs'tiomfoifc, anil eo li sequent!}* to the happiness, of a vast number of his fellow beings, and therefore has not lived in vain. Some interesting facts and figures re garding the unfortunate exiles of Siberia have recently found their way into print. It appears that on January 1 of this year, the total number of politi cal and other prisoners of both sexes in the provinces of IrKutsk, Yeueseisk and Yakutsk was 110,000. Of these 43,000 were in fixed places of residence, 30,000 were employed on different public works and 48,000 had escaped confine ment and were living on “their own hook.” In Western Siberia the number of the escaped prisoners was still greater, a recently taken census of the different towns and villages showing that the enormous proportion of 07 per cent, were missing. The treatment which Sir Alorell Alac kenzie is receiving in Berlin greatly ex asperates the people here, writes the English correspondent of the New York Sun, and there is even some wild talk in society of boycotting certain German medical experts settled in London. We learn from Berlin that Alackcnzie is the recipient daily of many abusive and threatening letters. Ho is railed at in the press and iusulted on the bill boards. Lnly the other day an offensive cartoon was found posted on the famous Bran denburg gate, depicting the Empress 1 ictoria and Dr. Alackenzie. with the in scription beneath: “The murderers of °wr Emperor.” The placard was imme diately torn down by the police, but no attempt was made to discover and punish its authors. • he $10,000 cook who is engaged and wil1 soon hold the position of “gastro S£frr ehold, n in says 5rr - the New a- v *-r Aork p. » besides being the inventor of recipes for producing appetites, and “Plots” for taking them away again, knows to a wonderful nicety the anatomy a rowl or bird. He can carve one a touch of refinement, and has an ability to make a little go a great way, that it wm.iri t difficult + to surpass. Take take a ^ auck, - for . instance. Off go the •‘g’and wings in four quick passes the knife. Next the breast bone is clean shaven with ? a perpendicular perpendicular stroke strode ami 1 th men a number of horizontal eaung ones, as many slices on the dish as there has been dashes of the knife. Then the carcass is divided into so many 1 nice T look ingtidbits tr! tw h h Wlth the ° ther in yingto prove itself the most tempt ln g morsel of all. If “31. Josef ” tired gets of his small salarv and limited ST’ ' euc carving hecau fi or ive turn Lssons surgeon. in the art of GRAY, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1888. AT SUNSET TIME, The painted shadows fall From the church windows tall Its pictured saints look down, Upon the quaint old town, At sunset time No tramp of horses' feet Disturbs the quiet street; The distant hill-tops se IVrapt in a halcyon dream, At sunset time. A bird flits to and fro, Above the branches low. And sings in monotone Of joys forever flown, At sunset time. Strange shadows, floating, rise, Across the evening skies As daylight wanes apace In this sequestered place, At sunset time. Tho glowing tints grow dim, And faintly, like a hymn Heard through the half-closed gate, They fade—and it is late, At sunset time. Falo watcher! though the night Shall quench yon rays of light, Know that all sorrows cease, And troubling sinks to peace, At sunset time. I Ye seek the fields where bright Streams run, and lillies white And fadeless roses grow — M here deathless summers glow, At sunset time. There is the perfect restl In pilgrim’s garments drest, AVe march, with staff in hand, Straight to the Sunset Land, At sunset time. —New Orleans-Times Democrat. TIE HOUSE-CLEANING. BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES. “Leah—Leah! are you most through is whitewashing the cellar wall? The baby down so cross, the and front Johnny has just fallen steps and knocked out two of his teeth, and your father and two hired men are clamoring for' their supper, and I’m so tired out, I don’t know which way to turn!” Leah Falkirk stopped, with the white wash-brush still elevated in air, and listened. “Where’s Jeannie, mother?” said she. “She won’t leave her book,” returned the nasal, melancholy voice of Airs. Falkirk. ‘ ‘She says the children are no business of hers.” though,” “Very well, mother; I’ll come. Al Leah added, in a sort of solil oquy, “I should have liked to finish this place to-night. Of course it will all dry in streaks, and I shall have the whole thing don’t to do over to-morrow. Oh, dear! I suppose there was ever any one who toiled from morning till night as I do!” She untied the coarse crash apron that enveloped her from head to foot, loos ened her curly red-brown hair from the folds of a red cotton pocket-hander cliief that she had tied turban wise over her head, washed her hands in a tin basin by the aid of a bar of yellow soap, and ran up the cellar steps to the kitchen, where a kerosene lamp had just been lighted to reveal a most uninviting re past. Airs. Falkirk had been house-cleaning all day long. Unfortunately for the family, housewives she was one of those notable who cannot clean one room in a house without throwing all the rest into hopeless confusion. The rag carpet was taken up, the pa per of it stripped hanging half off the walls, and half in fluttering pennants, and the “overflow” from the neighbor ing rooms was piled up in all directions, with a step-ladder and two or three stumpy brooms balanced against it. The table was set for supper in the least occupied portion of the room; the fire sulked and smoked as tires will when an east wind-storm sets in during the latter part of Alay; the lamp per sisted in sending up spurts of flame on one side of ihe wick. The men, who had just come in from tlie fields,radiated a sort of misty atmosphere of a disa greeale damp as they stood around the stove, looking hopelessly about them, Iu his mother’s arms, Johnny was be wailing himself, and the baby kept neglected up a melancholy cradle, monotone to his furtive while two other children ly dipped their fingers in a dish of apple-sauce, whenever and they stole could. a ginger-cookey or so Leah and Jeannie Falkirk were the two daughters of the farmer by his first wife. The present Airs. Falkirk was the moth er of the unruly flock who at present ssr&?& and prettier of n j 6j j be y ounger two step-daughters, absolutely rebelled against her step-mother’s rules. ! “ 1 ¥» a P aid servant ’ ‘appealed , P j Mrs. Falkhk tehe’r children, for aid and and ; comfort. “I can't endure | I don’t owe dear any mamma.” duty to a woman who is not my Which was, perhaps, very pretty and sentimenta! of jeannie, but came rather hard on Leah. “But,” said Leah, cheerfully, “I’m not a beauty like Jeannie. Beauties are always sensitive.” Sn that ghe was no t surprised . , at .Jean- T , ; n j e ’s withdrawing herself into the easiest , chair read in the room, novel, by while an especial^ Airs. Falkirk, lamp, to a new i called u pa’e baired, plaintively watery-eyed to. her (Leahj little woman, for as aistance in this emergency. j Just then a tall, overgrown lad—the eldest and probably the most ungainly of the second flock of Falkirks-rushed | ^Ntetheu”'^°he shouted, “there's been of ■ - a load o' hay overturned just front our house, aud the teamsters they say they can’t get no further to-night, and —say?” can you keep ’em till to-morrow morning rather “Sorry to intrude, ma’am,” said a tall, pleasant-voiced man, whose face was concealed by his rubber coat aud cape; “but our horses are dead beat, and so are we, and the load of hay has set tled the question by turning itself over —so I don’t see how we can avoid be coming Airs. pensioners on your kindness.” Falkirk looked nervously around. “Oh, dear! ” said she, “I know what the Bible says about entertaining angels unawares, but we’re house-cleanin’, and”— “And,” added Jeannie, in sharp, in cisive accents, “it’s a perfect imposition for people to come here in this sort of way. “Folks Exactly is as if pa kept a tavern.” welcome.” said Abel Fal kirk, slowly—“kindly welcome, if they can put up with the sort of fare and ac commodation my wife can give ’em at house-cleaning “Is time.” it far to the next house of enter tainment?” the smaller of the two strangers feel that questioned. “Really Jones, I ably--” we are intruding unwarrant “No, ye ain’t! no, ye ain’t!” said Air. Falkirk. “Set down, strangers. Lewis, put on another dry stick, and see if ye can’t stop this everlastin’ smokin’. Leah, my lass, see what you can do for a bite o’ supper. I know things look sort o’ straighten discouragin’, but my Leah can out ’most anything.” Leah gave a quick, bright smile to her father as she went past. “It shall all be right, father,” said she, “if the gentlemen don’t mind wait ing a little.” “Gentlemen!” audibly sneered Jean uie. “Common teamstei'3! No, John,” with a vicious push at the forlorn little brother who was nestling up to her. “go away and don’t bother me. “You’re a naughty, right disobedient boy, and it served you to fall down and cut your lip open!” “will “Jeannie,” said Leah, in a low voice, you take the baby while mother helps about the supper?” “No, I’ll do no such thing!” said Jeannie, contracting her pretty brows into a most unamiable frown. “And if you weren’t a fool, you’d keep out of all this turmoil and confusion!” to So her saying, and she drew the light nearer commenced on a new chapter of her novel. Leah only sighed and went more ac tively than ever about her work. She was used to this sort of thing, and as she moved here and there she had a pleasan* word smile for for poor, the little, others, sobbing encouraging Johnny, | an whisper for Airs. Falkirk. “I dunno what we should do without Leah,” said Airs. Falkirk, as at length her step-daughter brought in a smoking dish of ham and eggs, a glistening tin fles. coffee-pot, and a plate of buttered waf ‘ ‘Leah’s a famous good cook, ” observed the farmer, complacently. “And she’s always willin’ to help her mother. Jean nie’s different now. They’re both rny darters, but I’m a little afraid Jeannie’s inclined to be selfish.” When the supper was over, Leah helped her mother put the children to bed be fore she prepared a sort of “camping down” room for the men, placing mat tresses before the fire and bringing out blankets. And almost the last that the two strangers heard before they fell asleep was her soft voice, in the adjoin ing room, singing the fretful baby into dreamland. The sun shone brightly the next day, and Leah came in as sunny as the morn ing itself. “We must finish the house-cleaning to day, mother,” said she, in a low tone, as she bustled around, helping to prepare the breakfast. “Oh, don’t look so de spairing! T here really isn’t so much to do, and I’ll help you myself with the rag carpet.” “Couldn’t I beat them for you, Aliss Falkirk?” asked the smaller and younger of the two guests, who just then came iu, without his heavy wrappings. Leah started. “Air. Stafford!” she exclaimed. “How came you here?” “Didn’t you see me come,” said he, “last night? Why, you were here!” “But—that was a teamster.” of “Aly hay companion was. It was bis load that was tipped over opposite vour barndoor. I chanced to be coming by, and helped him get the horses up. And so, of course, I came in also, quite unaware that I was crossing the thresh old of your house! When I perceived that you did not recognize me, with all my wraps, by the imperfect light, I made up my mind to continue a—com mon teamster.” lie where glanced, with a half-smile, across to Jennie sat, curl-papered and untidily shawled, still crouching over her novel. She looked up scarlet to the very roots of her pretty, half-brushed hair. “Oh, Air. Stafford’.’’faltered she; “if I had only known—” “But you didn’t,” said Reginald Staf ford. “Oh. pray don’t suppose that I mean to criticise either of you in the least degree! walk I was only too glad to escape a long across the dreary marshes to the hotel. And weather was so dreadful 1” Mrs. Falkirk pulled the gown of her elder stepdaughter. said she, “Leah,” only half under standing what was going on—“Leah, if the young man wants work—” “Hush!” sharp!}' whispered Jeannie. “You get Stafford—the everything rich wrong, mother. It's Mr. Mr. Stafford, who is down here from the city, trout lishing, at the Walpole Hotel.” “What! the same one you met at Clara Vail’s “Yea—do May-party?” hush .” Jeannie could have bitten off tbe tips of her rosy finger-nails and torn her hair with rage to think of the light she hud placed herself in before Reginald Staf- ford’s clear, amused eyes. Of all men, she would bast have liked to please him, and somehow she did not think that she had succeeded. '< Leah—poor, hard-working, plain, r it Leah, who never got out of pafieace and always toiled on, meek and gentle as a Cinderella—how was it with her? She remembered her calico dress, her coarse Mr.. Stafford gingham apron; she knew that was a little inclined to be fastidious. Rut, after all, was it likely that he would think twice about it? She knew too well that she, unlike pretty Jeannie, was not the sort of girl that men grew wild about. “But I do wish .leannie had had on her nice dress,” thought she. “Jeannie can be so pretty when she fixes herself up!” Out under the budding apple bough, however, where Reginald helped her hang up the breadths of rag carpet, and a certain jubilant robin darted to and fro like a brown arrow, he detained her when she would have gone back to the house. “Leah,” said he, gently, “stop a min ute. I have something that I want to ask you.” (“It is about Jeannie,” she said to her self.) “To ask you, sweet Leah, if you will he my wife,” he pursues. “1 have liked and admired you this long time, but last night, when I saw how sweet and pa tient and forebearimr you were, I learned to love you. Will you trust yourself to me, dear one, forever and ever?” * “And so they’re to be mairicd right off?” said Mrs. Falkirk. “And what am I to do without Leah, goodness only knows.” “You will have Jeannie left,” sug gested Airs. a mischievous neighbor. Falkirk shook her head. “Jeannie takes the loss of her sister awful hard,” said she. “She don’t do nothin’ but cry from mornin’ till night. The neighbor smiled and shrugged her shoulders. “The loss of her sister,” said she, “or the loss of her own chance in the matri monial market? ’ “La!” said Airs. Falkirk. “I never thought of that !”—Saturday Night. King of Man Raters. A very large and ancient looking shark has been swimming about Taboga Bay recently. It is known to the islanders and generally down the bay by its marks, and by those who know it is called the “Somberera,” owing to it having seized and eaten a man off Anton some years >ago under peculiar circumstances. It along ^11 *5 ntonFointT wlirmffm hat" of one of the crew was blown overboard. The man when jumped he into the seized sea to regain his hat, was by this shark, which promptly dived with i s prey. Subsequently, off the Alorro 1st and, the same animal was seen to seize the brother of the Lev. Salinas, of Taboga, him while under. ho was further bathing, and to of carry No traces Ins second victim were ever seen. ne same shark is credi ted by the bay sailors . with other deaths, but the in tances mentioned arc vouched tor by many. 1 he natives, who claim tto recog n.ze it as an annual visitor, speak of these incidents as a matter of island his tory, dating from the period Navigation when the iactory of >t he Pacific bteam Company was at the Mono, and when the animal first acquired notoriety attempted by eating from an Englishman vessel thou who anchor thcre to swim a at to another. All the fishermen have a peculiar ana it appears well-founded terror of this animal, and none will dive in the vicinity of its haunt, although the water is not over with five this feet m depth. In connection the old carniverous monster, in habitants of Taboga relate a have legend, and m which they appear to perfect faith, which is worth recounting. T hey believe that below the spot where he so constantly swims, when on his periodical visits to Taboga, there lies a valuable coral bed, and when m that vicinity the shark believes it to be its peculiar duty to keep constant and careful guard over that treasure. One thing in connection with this pe culmr legend is, however, certrin, and hat is that none of the bay divers-and they are all good men, as they have proved dive when pearl tashing-will and attempt to in that vicinity, you cannot persuade any of the islanders, addicted as they are to the water, to bathe informed, m that place. I his animal, we are is of the shark species, and not a marine monster of the flat-headed type, such as was the lust big one caught there some few years ago by an Italian man-of-war which was then at anchor off that island. lanama Star. A Shrewd Swindle. What looked like the largest, straight cst, soundest and longest wulnut log ever floated down the Cumberland reached Nashville the other day. It be longed to a green-looking countryman, who gave good reasons why he must sell it immediately. It was such a fine log that, it fetched despite the owner’s anxiety value. to sell, In almost its apparent due course of time it was taken out of the water and proved to be a sycamore log with walnut bark tacked all over it in the most artistic manner. The green countryman has not been seen since.— Pittsburg Dispatch. His Laughable Tragedy. When Sheridan first brought out his comedy, “The School for Scandal,” Chesterfield, himself a dramatist, checked be ing present with his children, them whenever they laughed. Sheridan, hearing of this, wrote to Chesterfield that he thought it mean in him not to i«c the children laugh, because he (Sheri dan) was present at his (Chesterfield’s) tragedy it a lew nights before, and laughed at all the wayjthrough.— Argoruiut. WORDS OP WISDOM 1 . H« that dies pays all debts. Use both brain and brawn. Regimen is better than wisdom. Poverty is bard, but debt is horrible. Our deeds determine Us, as much as we determine our deeds. Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies. What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. Moderation is the silken string run ning through the pearl chain of all vir tue. The man who minds his own business and constantly attends to it has all his time employed. Throw away idle hopes; come to thine own aid, if thou carest at all for thyself, while it is in thy power. Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since fiction can only please us by its resemblance to it. spirit Poverty and often deprives is a hard man of all virtue. It for an empty bag to stand upright. ailment Study is the bane of childhood, the of youth, the indulgence of manhood, and the restoration of age. The chief properties of wisdom are to be mindful of things past, careful of things present and provident, of things to come. With love, the heart becomes a fair and shine fertile garden, glowing with sun and warm hues, and exhaling sweet odors. The Lasting reputations are a slow growth. man who wakes up famous some morning night and is sleep quite it apt all off. to go to bed some mild, We seldom cautious,Jor regret having been too too too modest; but we often repent having proud. been too violent, too precipitate, or too As we are bound not to inflict unneces sary sufferings on animals, so we are obliged the to avert and all trials that of tends to add to sorrow our common community. That which we require with the most difficulty, we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who huve inherited one. To divert at any time a troublesome fancy, run to thy books. They presently fix thee to them, and drive dull care from thy thoughts. They always meet thee witli the same kindness. A Chinese Merchant’s Funeral. A recent letter from San Franc ' lsco to - ^a^ChiLe* Chicago I'rijMne funem* describes cw* what s'cm'.’Tn the America.” The deceased, Chinese says the writer, -was Loo Muck, a merchant, who, thirty * . five yea ' Lodg re ag0 | of , founded the Gsee K fa Ton 6 " Freemasons in this city The genc al impression among the thousands of American people who gazed -wonderingly at the funeral procession * „, as t])afc it was a pageant of 0 e of tho powerful societies who of highbinders. witnessed Ameri cau Frcemasons the cere , nonies howcver) recognized in the dis ’,. , J a formal funcral of a brothcr Magon . 0O M ui:k founded the order in Kan Francigc0- Masonry haB spread ‘ among ” th(J chineg(3 so that thcre a 0 , it j is, 000 members of tho order in his 8tate- Delegations Pacific had come from ad , )ar ( SO f the coast to attend the fll ftnd „er a l. half The procession 'j band took of an hour a t0 ' )ass . A Chinese M asons in lon r bluo gownvw ith long black swords in their hands and bands of r(jd whitc and blue ribbon3 tied acrog3 th eir foreheads and streaming down their back , cJ the way . Then came acorn < of 3everal hlindrcd Chinese soldiers n bright ? blue tlI nics and carrying short broad shjelds< 3Words and highly in ornamented A band of cavttlry red grecn and orange uni f orm3) wit h quivers of lrrow3 and | ong double-edged swords ,, » across their backs, followed. Then can iu , array gome foot soldiers, Bpearsmon { and warriors with broad bat t e . axes< warriors on foot, mounted war ,. ior3 riding w ith short stirrup-leathers, nu , n e r0 uS bands of Chinese music in hacks, and finally the hearse, drawn by four black horse3 . 0 n top of the hearse was a gorgeous f catafakiue of paper and tingel itl he Chinese htylc . T h e coffin bore upon its sides the square and coin ith theTetter ' “G”iu the centre. The slandard b( . a r( , r who pre ccded the hearse carried the Masonic emblem. Prelimi nar y ceremonies were all Masonic. Pro cisel ag the bell on gt M , s Ca(he . dra ] contiguous to Chinatown, had an nounced middav tbe J) epu ty Grand Master “ gave die word that the hour of nigh j? tw lve Jmd arrived. On this the of cer8 of the ( ; ralld Lodge lifted the casket. incense, The disjilay with of other corn, oil and the pot of signs only known to the craft, were fully under stood by American Alasons in the great crowd of spectators. The blowing of the trumpet by the high certain priest and the incantations, with signs well known iu the higher degrees of Free masonry, showed that the ( hinesc have a knowledge of the craft that would gain them admission to an American lodge if they only understood our language. display astonished American Ma The sons, many of whom followed thebtrange procession to the cemetery where the dead Master was interred in the orthodox Alongolian style, the banners and badges of the mourners being burned in a great bonfire at the gates, while a liberal feast of roast pork, kinds poultry and drinka bles of many the spirit was of spread departed before the tomb for the to entertain his friends. As each car riage-load the of mourners Chinese stationed passed out from the cemetery handed at gates them money, while dimes and establish nicklcs the were financial flung credit into the the fire to of de parted in the other world. Altogether the pageant was indescribably strange. NO. 30. LIFE'S LESSON. If love be sweet, and youth be love’s young' bride, And both be ours, do we but hold them fast; If pleasure's golden wings earth's sorrow's hide, | And at our feet life’s jewels rare be cast; If hope and faith attend us to the last, And if her path be strewn with garlands gay, And glory link the present with the past— Why should wo long for future joys to-day. And fail to pluck the flowers that bloom along the way? When love has fled, and youth with rapid wings Pursues him fast o’er distant hill and dale, And pleasure to our feet no longer brings The joys that now are but an empty tale; And when we vainly strive to pierce the veil That separates to-morrow from to-day. And where wo fondly thought to win vre fail; Then as we view life's tear-dimmed pag» say; “Oh, would that we had plucked the flow, era along the way!” —Arthur Edmunds Jsnks. PITII AND POINT. The best social tea—Repartee. A rounder seldom acts on the square. A sad reflection—A crying girl’s face in a mirror. When a woman busies herself with a hammer and nails it is difficult to toll what she is driving at .—Sifting '. It seems absurd to speak of a blind man’s favorito color, and yet everybody Tid lias heard of blind man’s bull.-— Bits. The reason that the old beau’s hair is of that greenish black line is that he is willing to dye for the woman he loves.— Merchant Traveler. In Paris there are said to be people who make a living by waking people up in the morning. They must uo a rousing business .—Boston Bulletin.. Young Hopeful—“Papa, what is a stepson 1” “A son by marriage, Willie.” “ Then a stepladder is the son of a lad der by marriage, isn’t he, papa “You are yawning,” said a wife to her husband. “Aly deiir,” he replied, and when “the husband and the wife are one, I am alone I am bored .—Commercial Ad vertiser. IJjoncs—“That fellow Oagley tried to borrow the— $500 ‘$5001 of He me this be morning.” cracked 1” 8my 1 must cracked. Bjones—“No, he’s not He’s broke.”— Life. Brown—“I say, Dutnley, Robinson has threatened to knock some horse sense into you the first tirno he meets you. You want to look out for your self.” Dumley (contemptuously)—■ “Pooh! It would take a dozen men like Robinson to do it.”— Harper's Bazar. “Have you spoken to my daughter yet?” asked the old man. “No, sir; I wanted your consent first.” “Well, I advise you to give up the idea. I don’t believe she would marry you, and if she did, neither of you would be happy.” “Why do you think so, sir?” “Because you part your hair in the middle, and slio parts hers on the side.— Neio York News. “Aly beloved brethren,” announced a preacher from his pulpit, “Sabbath morning next a collection will be taken up for our blessed Fiji mission.” “Amen,” rang fervently through the congregation. “And I would add,” wont on the preacher impressively, and sin “(hat amens, however resonant cere, make but littlorattlo in tho con tribution box. Let us unite in prayer.” —New York Sun. “ When the weather is wot, We must not fret; When tho woat.her is dry, We must not cry; When the weather is eold, Wo must not scold; When the weather is warm, We must not storm, Rut he thankful altogether, Whatever the weather.” — Siftings. Snatched from the Jaws of Death. An extraordinary case, illustrating how at times the fact of a doctor being at hand at tbe critical moment may be the means death, of rescuing a person from the Cen- im pending London is reported and from Hospital. tral Throat Ear Some time ago a young woman, of the suffering larynx, from extreme narrowing was waiting in the oui-patient depart ment when she was seized with a sudden attack of dyspn sa, which caused her to fall perfectly ttncon-cious upon the floor. The operation of tracheotomy was imme diately performed by Dr. Orwin, one of the senior surgeons of the hospital, and artificial respirat on by Ala, shall Hall's method was perseveringly resorted to for over half an hour before the patient's breathing breathing was restored. She le t the hospital, quite comfortably, with the canula in the throat, and able to talk distinctly. —New York Post. Why Men Are Halil. We have noticed an article going the rounds of the papers which says: “A Poughkeepsie barber says that eight out of ten men are bald nowadays, and he attributes it to food adulteration.” It is nothing of the kind. It is the wool hat first worn when Kossuth first came to the United States and which was never fit for a man to put on his head. It is hot and air-tight, causes headache and loss of hair. The “plug hat” is airy aud its roof is so high that the action of the sun is not apt to immediately affect the brain. It is the most sensible hat yet invented, unless it be a straw hat for summer .—Idaho Statesman. In the international skating contest at Amsterdam James Smart and George Lee, British, beat all the Dutchmen. Two miles in six minutes and fifty-six seconds.