The Quebec gazette, 5 avril 1893, mercredi 5 avril 1893

[" The Quebec Gazette \u2014 IS THE \u2014 Shipping and Mercantile Newspaper -\u2014OF THE\u2014 DOMINION OF CANADA, And each week contains full detailsof the ship ments of Lumber from thus port to the various ports of the world, also quotations concerning freight and merchandise of all kinds.It aleo contains n synopsis of the general news of the United States and Canada.In Conada and United States : Price, One Dollar Per Annum.Other parts of the world, including Postage : P.O.ordess payable to JOHN J.FOOTE, PROPRIBTOR, QUEBEC GAZETTE.Jannary 11, 1003.\u2014_\u2014 \u201cTHE QUEBEC GAZETTE.\" 87.LOUIS STRERT\u2014ITS STORIED PAST.Os, on we go past the imposing new Court House, just completed om the site of the former one, dating back to 1814 and destroyed by fire 157).In this neighborhood also in 1764, Brown & Gilmore printed, twenty-four years before the London Times, the first number of The Quebec Gazette, \u201ctwo doors higher than the Secretary's Office,\u201d wherever she latter may have been.J.M.LaMorvz.À Habid Anncxationist.The National, of Lowell, publishes the fol- Jowieg paragraph :\u2014\"No buman power can tide of French-Cansiian emigration.sop Tes hence, 15 at the utmost, half a ow of ur people wil bare come ore fo us en this side of the frontier.and them, if Canada ie not by thet time annexed to the United States, the Eaglieh will be strong med time sotarcod pojeotd pari Fi t accursed project of Im, - ration.A fine :t indeed for those of our compatriots who will have remained Quebec City Bonds.We are to know, upon good authority, that » Gemand baa sot ic for city bomen The Treasurer, Mr.Lafrance, has sold loa Mawtreal investor, within the past tions, have opened their eyes to the fact that, score of security for due payment of and interest, ne investments are safer made in the bonds of the Ancient Fifteen Hundred The Limit ATES 10 THE LIKERAL CONVENTION AT OTTAWA.The basis of tion at the ferth- ming Liberal Convention has been fixed at ve delegates from each riding, which will wee a convention fifteen hundred strong.addition, all members of the Dowinion Parliament and candidates, will be eligible sriicuiare be furnished in due time, by means of à circular to be issued and sent to those interested.À committee will be appointed ia Octews to attend to the local arraogements.ed Méssery.À gentlemen from Albany, N.Y., was shewn 1he antiquities in the Anglican Cathedl bere, a fe old colers i iudows fermer bishops of Quebec, aad finally the Communion service presented by King George, und the brass plate which MK the in the chancel where the Duke of Richmond \u2018was baried.The Albauygentieman was much bat rather surprised his informant m that the communion service era Church, Albany, which he was presente: to the church by Anne, and that Lord Howe, the commandin the Britioh £ forces in the one re years \u2018wes buried in that church, after bad boon killed in the war with the French.The British Chambers of Commerce and Tansdian Trade.on At the 23rd annus] meeting of the Ameciation of Chambers of Commerce of the United Kingdom, the Midd Chamber brought up the following motion :\u2014*'In view of the fact that Canada has invited Great Britain to draw more closely the ties which bind the Colonf to the Mother Country by an arrangement for reciprocity im trade, the sxseative council of tbe Associated Chambers ave hereby requested to urge upon the Government the necessity of taking that invita- tien into their immestiate and serious conei- deration.\u201d Mr.Fisher (Hartlepool) seonnded Mr.Leng, M.P., moved, and Mr.Cousins (Loode) seconded the previons [nestion on the carried into effect, it would mean a return to Protection.A discassion eusued, in ber in Paris).Sir Stafford Northcote, M.P., and others supported the previous question, the motiem, and a long discussion ensued.t, if the proposals of Canada were lovg ou whieh Mr.Boddington (of the British Chamwhich was carried by 53 votes to 20, An Baster Luncheon.Everything about the table should be white, relieved only by green foliage, writes \"Mrs.Barton Kiogeland in \u201cA Trio of Pretty Lancheons\u201d in the April Ladies Home Journai.Have for a cenire-piess a cut-glaes bowl filled with Easter lilies.Le Radiati vou the \u2018centre-piece t - stememend lilies may be placed so a elneter of blossoms before the plate of esch guest.The' long, spiky leaves adorning every inch of stem, make an effective decoration an themaslives, and a round table, so treated, is prettier than any other form.The little silver or cut- receptacles, the white sogared bons and litthe fra cakes, % find their places in between the stems, orange- , eut tin: sibracs, aad crystallized Tih sugar, is 1 sovelty that is mach liked, and is à decors- tive feature for a white table.The candles should, of course, be white, oot in silver or glass candelabra.I havesses pretty shades made to t water-lilies, and bobéches may be improvised by et the candles in the hearts of small, arti annunciation lilies, which are readily procurable about Easter-time.At the place of cach gues: I woold have a Insge Paster lily filled wich sprays of liliss-of- the valley, with two or three small leaves for contrast\u2014the whole set ina slender wine fo It makes a fower-bolder fit for a A Wedding Fancy.{ From the London World.) At the wedding the eight ids, who bridesmaids, were Empire gowns of white silk mull over slips of piok silk, and bats of white velvet with pink feathers, carried large palin leaf fan uets of white chrysanthemums and bYacintbe with initials in pink carnations \u2018our of these were the groom's initials, and their bearers ranged themaalves at the right of the bridal couple, while tbe other four, the bride's letters, stood at the left.Whes the married pair left the altar they beyween this doable quartet, whose boaguets were at \u2018\u201cpresent arme\u201d At another the bridesmaids carried tions and viclets.Thess swung from their arme by vislet ribbons.{ London Canadian fazette, ) Canadian\u2014and what Canadian worth his salt is not enthusiastic in these days of growing not be neverthe \u2018Don't You Hurt Aggie.\u201d A most amusing story is related of Mrtis a common lament with the enthusiastic Thos.W.Keene, the famous actor.rally known, , that he is the father of on possibilities ?\u2014that Englishmen are woefully : the most beautiful girls, or to he Q Ir may bat it is a fact, e of more ignorant of anything more than the baress ' accurate, one of the most fascinating women, outline of Canadian history.There is, no : for she has outgrewn her girlhoo!, with doubt, ground for the lament.The English- : Which any man on or off the stage has ever man has become 30 accustomed to long per- bee spectives in bis historical readings that he n blessed, When Agnes She is known as Agnes Keene, was a very little girl and can hardly bring himself to a stuly of events her father was the leading man in the stock ontil all living I:nks with them have passed company Jof a San Francisco theatre, the away, asd until the records of them have Pretty little maiden was cast for the part of the grown mouldy with beyond the seas which have been won by blood and treasure of his forefathers.Bur than Agnes, a youth of extreme ave - of à disregard of the tale of early beginnin which his own land has to tell?Is there pe might pass his verdict on the acting o too much truth in the amurance which illustrious sire, as well as on the ability of ,., reaches us this week, from a Canadian of his very much loved sister.: acknowledged political and litersry standing, crooked and distorted \u201cRichard\u201d strode upon | that \u201c\u201cCanadiane are for the most pars the stage in his great scene with the chil of This is true of his .**Dukeof York\u201d while ber father gave hisgreat own land.How much more true of the lands interpretation of \u201cRichard 111.the still another member ot the family, younger recocio while this reproach does undoubtedly lie hese whose name was Claude, and who, one + againet the average Englishman, can the Tight when there was to be an extremely Canadian reader be wholl vitted Iashionable audience, waa lly ace honor in a box of the theatre in order that he | There was Tham.given a seat vi his When the ; ]umentably ignorant of the history \u2014and very dren at the lower tower and rested his ! interesting history it is\u2014of their own coun- showing \u2018themselves capable of w ler aymp- thiesin thisrewpect.What Mr.Jo: MuCuet Canada can boast.The Roysi Society of Canada inin the vanguard of in this of the Journals and Transactions of the The Wentworth Society owes its origin to which much of the historic nd of; between Lakes Erie and Ontario forms the battleground © which five people have struggled and fought for victory \u2014the Indians, French, British, the residents of the United States, and lustiy the Canadinne\u2014and when last year Ontario celebrated to the memories which living men poesess of the struggles which should make this Waterloo of Canadian liberties sacred for all time in British American history.In the society's Journal for 1592 we find many valuable contributions.The Rev.E.J, Fessenden, Rector of Chippawa, disconrses upon the early Loyalists\u2019 life amoug the forests of Canad Dr.William Thomas White sings with en.thusisam of the part played Queenstown Heights, wi gallant little band \u2014 That foot of no invading foe should cer pol- late their land ; and when Gemera! Brock fell fighting for the Canadian caose, and wun for himself ipimor- tal honour in Canadian annals, and in British aunals too, for is not his name placed among the names of thoëtother \u2018*, valour is remembered in ti of war,\u201d whose ational cathe.Macinnes, the Hon.Arch.McKellar, the Hos.Henry Griffin, Mr.George H.Mills (the president of the Society), and others depict various scenes in the gallant stroggles which have secore | for Canada her heritage of and liberty.h of these papers has a merit and interest of its own, but to the English reader, whose knowledge is too often fragmentary, especial value will attach to the attempt which Senator Maclanes is making to pre- | sent a bird's eye view of the momentuns ! periods in Canadian history.In the presen papers he takes a rapid glance at some of th more im nt Canadian events down to the ! aest of Canadas and Treaty of Paris in 17 He recalls in brief outline the circom.stances under which British North America had its beginnings in seitlement and colonisation under French rule iu the 16th and 17th centuries, and touches lightly upoa the unfulfilled bilities that Jay in such events aa the offer of Sir David Kirk, the grantee of the Newfoundland settlement, to King Charles of so asylum in that island, where + might, like King Arthur, heal himself of i grievous wounds, We are reminded, too, hi of Champlain's noble achievements, and of how much of worry would have Leen spared Britishand Colonial statesmen hail the advice of Pitt been followedand we hare of the Norta American fisberies been left to France w u ! the Anglo-French peace of the last century | sharp, cold winds of winter.Une of these that be follows other historical writers in ! rendering to the Hudson's Bay Company for the probity by which! the assimilation of the Red Indian in Canada »0 much more nla process than it has proved to be iu the United States.In future 20 doing he will vice.Soclety Women as Mothers.Society bas put maternity out of fashion, and considering the average society woman, is is perbaps just as well.No children are more forlorn and mere to be pitied than the waifs of the woman whose life is given up to what she calls \u201cpleasure.\u201d Hombler-born cradled in her lovii in all their wrougs \u2018\u2018mother\u201d is an ever.few dollars a month is exported to the vitisted, pr pessant, mouth piece, when the woman in charge chooses to give it dressing or feeding herself, and it is not to be expected she will pot any sixteen-dollar-a- month baby before own comfort or pleasure.As for these neglected babies of pleasure- seeking women, they suffer terribly, but then their mothers are having what they consider : a perfectly lovely time, posing at the or gyrating im some ballroom, ex dressed, and laughing as lightly as if there nurseries.For no nurse is apt to compris ! of her baby, she knows her business ber interest too well for that; she prefers to spesk comfortable words, and vows the \u201clivtie darling grows better and better every hour, God bless it and, so assured, the mother goes airily-awa, telling herself that her nurse isa perfect treasure.Whatever other nurses may do,»he kvows that her nurse isrelinble.The fact is, that even where there sre other children ina su able to complain of the wi and Crucis thay have to endure t bid sel- dem dare to dose.Mamma is a dear, u- tiful lady, very far off ; nurse is an ever present power, capable of making them suffer still more.And mamma does not like to hear tales, she always appears ansoyed at any- | thing agaist murse.T' look into their } mother's face with eyes full of their sad story, hey bad the heart to understand ; but tl ro not speak, sud soon ti are remanded back to their cruel keeper Pen a kiss, aud an injuæction to \u2018be good, and o ae purse tells them.\u201d \u2014 From \u201c\u2018Good asd Bad Mothers,\u201d by Mrs.Amalia E.Barr, in North American Review for April.Strange Natural Phenomenon.\u201cI always thought,\u201d seid the ancient Demecrat who had been to Waahingson in the interest of the country, and incidentally of himself, \u2018I have always thought that a good frost was jist the thing for the persimmons, but it didn't seem to work in my case at all.I atruck the frostiest kind of » frost, but nary 8 persimmon.\u201d - Indianapolis Journal.Learning the Business.Lady (in drag store) \u2014\u2018I wish to get a two- ceus stamp.\u201d New Boy\u2014'*Yes\u2019m ; here's one, ma'am\u2014 ten cents, please.\u201d Good as Brass.Englishman\u2014*\"Hev brawss bedsteads?Hole] Clerk\u2014N-o, the bedstends are made the recognition of the neglected state into | Ontario has falien.The strip of land lying hand upon the young Duke impersonated by n ! Agnes, and the stillness of death rei for tl , ter.from the theatre, in ti Iappily Canadiane\u2014like Englishmen\u2014are throughout the vast audience waiting passed, and ali i t great speech, one of the gems paces in number hy \u2018 of the tcagedy, Master Claude shouted at the inturest taken in andother writers aredoing for British history tp of bis voice, Papa don't you hurt Aggie ; ! of more recent times Canadian men of letters don't you hurt her, please are seeking 1o do for such modern history as Scribe the scene that followed would be Ritchie-Gilmour Cu beyond the Imagimatie hunch-back and respect, and a pamphlet which reaches us existence and in his stead came an actor .this week from Hamilton of the first volume csoshed in genias and convulsed with langh- In full sympathy was the audience, and Wentworth Historical Society remindsus that .8 great roar went up that wae followed by all throu there are local Lilies throughout the Dom.: One shout of laughter after another, until in were rected iniom whose object it is to illomine the pest the otmost confusion thecurtain wasrundown which carried full sail ; this was too much records of their own particolar localities.264 young Claude was ignomi To of a Haggardchard\u201d faded out of Better Hygienic Conditions.Since the Crimean war the military ies, aided by the excellent hygienists he niedical officers of the army, bave edd The the health of the army in a much more satis.Ee what it now lessens th tary condition and war, is much better attended to.In the Franoo German war the German But it is not in condition, and the result is that the ty of the army is now less than half .h was before the war.its centenary it was felt that no better oppor- : our army alone that sach results have been tunity coull be chosen for giving permanence produced.Formeily the deaths from sickness in campaigns were four times as numer.| ous ae those from wounds.: \"of où Every campaign rtion, because the sani- soldier\u2019s life, both in peace ! troops lost less than a third of their dead by disease, while formerly the loss had been four times that from wounds.by the Battle of ing figures give the deaths from disease for 100 men lost in the campaign ;\u2014 \u201cOne spirit moved, one thought inepired, that French in the Crimean war, 79; United in the American war, 80; Ger- Inst French war, 29.The every States troo; mans in t The follow.small loss from disease compared with that from wounds in the French army promises much for military hygiene in future cum- paigns.in the Crimean war, after the sad ex- Jetience among our own troops owing to de- ective sanitary organization, we sent out a : mnitary commission and improved the hy- dral of the City of London 7?The Hon.Donald jenie condition of our treo pro , while France \u2018ailed to do so ; ani the final result, according to Chenu, is that, while we Jost 12 per .1,000 of ou® men, France lost 155 of hers.! Formerly the rate of mortality in the chief towns of British India, | and Bombay, was appsiling ; gienic improvements, and Fs ch as Calcutta ; now, by hy- | spite of the tropical climate, it scarcely exceeds that of ; Manchester, Liverpool, or Glasgow.\u2014 Lord Playfair, The Latest Spring Fashions.An English letter says : All the best authorities agree that there is no fear whatever for the crinoline.spring mantles wre quite short and very full, u The new \u2018 tullness being arranged in round pleats resembling the flutes of an organ.Black silk | and black satin are favorite materials for these.Modifications of the Russian blouse are etill often seen on well-dressed women.The newest jackets bave quite short basques, : « total change back again to the siyles of three years It is the better, however, for the thrifty-minded than a change to loog ones, matter to cut the long ones short, whereas it isa most difficalt business to add to the length.| can begin reading them with-ut going on to Empire mantles in lace depending from a yoke the last chapter.of k velvet trimmed with jet are prepared = mistress of her art, Nhe knew the for it is a simple for wear when balmy breezes rep! shoulder every shade of brown, meed of prai shad through fong years it wom the condence oi a Falls voor from the hans te the.odd tl igi ica, made: alls sheer from pu of re ee oo Torin, and .{ the dress beneath, which fits to the waisted figure as nccurately az if the Empire - been invented, contributions Senator Maclones will no doubt ~ anomalies are thought nothing of now, any persue his subject down to a later date, In | more than they are regarded in the furgish- render us ull 8 valuable ser- | ing of our houses, where Greek vases lool down on Persian carpets and Chippendale style never was under negotiation.The early pioneers wos the yoke and high collar in pans the basin ne St.Lawrence, the Acr- | Yelvet, the rest being in pleated dians, and the native races of Canada, afford | Jace, with long Empire lappets of Ince fringed other themes for Senator MacInnes\u2019 pen in | with jet hangicg down from either side the course of this sketch, and it istobenoted ©f the bodice in froot.Another has the in biscuit-silk, covered with a a | mass of rich embroidery io beads of alinoat bronze, primrose, is black, of course, oul, tables rest on Torkish rugs, while the present moment, Is the Barth Solid ?A very large part of the educated public babies are nursed at their mother's breast and | believes that the earth is a molten globe arme.She teaches them : superficially enveloped Ly a chilled crust, to walk and to resd.In all their pain she , 0d à magazine article in support soothes them ; in all their joys she has s part ; theory has recently attracted much attention.A very large part of the natural philo- t help and comforter.The child of the ; tophers consider it most probable that the ashionubls woman ix 100 often commitied at rocks at and rear the surface of the globe once to the care of some stranger, whe for a - Would expand in melting.1f the earth were perform thus constituted a time would come when the mother\u2019s duty for ber.If it does not suck the solid crust would crack from itsown bly diseased, milk of some Weight, or from moderate internal disturb- ;\u2018 it has the botile and iudia-rubber Ance ; and then block after block of the crust, |, region of the world we know and But she is often in a temper, or love so well, would plunge slowly and heav.wlecpy, or the milk is mot prepared, or she is ily to meet the rising, molten flood.while in the midst of a comfortable gomip, or she is Whiriwinds of scalding steam would shroud It would require a ic side of thin region after rishing humanity.Jante to «lo justice tothe ti A hard-hearted physicist would simply remark that a crust of such dimen.ides resting on a fluid of inferior density is vastable equilibrium ; the rest \u2018evident consequence.Statemenis auc tely | this are commonly considered as extremely but the Dantesque view of the were po paistful echos from their neglected .subject has been indicated sufficiently to show theme.uvinterestin 0 le Chaat Hy the | whom she related the adventures of pur| These apanese hainhoo work holds Chinese guds and Indian chessmen, The *\u2018dress-as-you-please™ is the only league at all likely to be successful at of auch a that the earth's interior is withio the of human interest.Aside from iguoble fears, re seems scarcely any topic better suited to excite a legitimate intellectual interest among meo than this most fundamental question concerning that litile planet, our world.Init a molten globe with a pellicle of cool thei dry land, or is it real) new for April.Gotha,\u201d the Albert of Saxony, throne ; years of Wurtemberg, ruling 4 year: \u201cCan you give an: the character of t judge.of soft wood, but you'll fod the mattress nice and bard.\u201d nged 29, ruling 3 years ; Servia, 16 years old, ruling 4 years.1d terra firma, à solid earth?-\u2014From *\u2018 The Interior of the Earth,\u201d Gzo.F.BECKER, iu North American Reof Greece, vidence in regard to deceased 7\u201d said the \u201cYes, my lord,\u201d replied the witness.\u201cHe was a man without blame, beloved and ed by sil men, pureis all his thoughts, \u201cWhere did you learn that ¥ copied it from bis tomintune, my Ages of Present Rulers.In the new edition of the \u201c\u201cAlmanach de es ofthe various rulers of Europe and the length of their reigus are given in completeness.The \u2018\u2019Almunach\u201d reports forty ruling princes, eight of whom are more than seventy years old.the senior of all, his age being 82, the years of his reign 14.The other leading rulers reported are Christian IX.of Denmark, 74 years old, has ruled 29 years; Queen Victoria, aged 73, with 55 oo the throne ; King 64, with 19 on the throne ; King Oscar II.of Swe-len, 64_ years of age, with 20 on the tbrome; Francis Joseph of Austria, aged 62, with 44 on the ld II.of Belgiom, aged 57, with 27 on the throne; King Carl of Runmania, 53 years of age, with 20 on the throne ; Sultan Adbul.-Hamid, 50 years oli, with 16 on the throne ; King Humbert of Italy, 48 with 15 on the throne; (Czar Alexander I11.of Russia, nged 47, with 11 on the throne ; King George with 2 on the throne; King Wilhelm of aged 45, ruling 1 year ; Emperor Wilhelm 111.of Germany, 34 years old, King Charles of Portugal, ing Alexander of Leo XIIL is | i 1 47, { son, of the famous educational institute at UEBEC, WEDNESDAY.APRIL QUEBEC YACHT CLUB.i The following officers were elected at the annual meeting of the Quebec Yacht Club, helil 30th March :\u2014 (Commndore\u2014Stoart H.Dunn.Vice-Commodure\u2014 Walter J.Ray.Captaia\u2014George C.Scott.Secretary \u2014H.H.Sharples.Treasurer\u2014W.A Home.Managing Committee \u2014P.Landry, J.Piddington.O.B.C.Richardson, Hon.Life Member Simon Peters.Sailing Committee-\u2014John Shaw, D.Arcand, A.E.Scott, Frank Peunée, J.8.C Room Committee\u2014E.Chinic, C.W.Phillips aod T.Hethrington.Auditors\u2014H.ID.Morgan, L.Odell.The following was the ANNUAL REPOKT :\u2014 Quebec, 30th March, 1803.REPORT OF THE MANAGING COMMITTEE TO THE MEMBERS OF TILK QUEBEC YACNT CLUR.GENTLENEX,\u2014In presenting the eighth an.ul report your Committee feel justified in saying that a very successful year has been ough they regret that tbe were fewer than ususl, the them was encouraging.On 23rd July the third and final race was mailed over the Bellechasse course, for the and was won by the \u2018\u201cBeraaslerte,\u201d which makes this cup tbe pro- rty of her owner.On 17th September the race over the Triangular course was won by the Yawl Onyx\u201d with \u201cMay Dreain\u201d a good second.The wind the race was heavy and all yachts down except the May Dream\u201d iniously ejected when ronning close hauled, on her first tack i she had her masthead carried away, but pluckily held on in the race.The Sioop \u201cSurprise\u201d at the start broke her main beem, The *\u201cAlice,\u201d though having a bad start, did very well.\u2018The Ladiea\u2019 Sailin Mid Summer was voted asuccess, and the supperand dance st the Island, afforded a pleasaut amusement to all concerned.\u201cWe have arranged to reci te the privileges of membership with the St.Lawrence Yachi Clubof Montreal, which we hope | will prove a mutual benefit.The Euchre prize kindly presented to the ! Clubby Mr.Bedard, which was played for in : the Club rooms, waa keenly contested, and won by Mr.Gauvreau, Mr.Cadman carried off the second 3 À conai:l le amount has been spent in renovating the Club rooms.The Club has spoken with the proprietor in regard to letting them have the small room for the pur.| pose of fitting it up as a bath room.| Having expended a considerable amount on tlre rooms we «id not consider surnelves justified in going to any further expense this past | season, \u2018 The Clab membership has bees well maintained, there are now 227 members, QU of | whom joined this year.The finances of the Club are ina healthy condition, as the report of the Treasurer will show, Pr the seath of Mr.Amos Bowen and Mr, J.M.Cassils, the Club has Just two of its esicemed members.The whole respectfully submitted.H.SHanrles, Hon, Secretary.Strat H.Duss, Commodore, \u201cLiterary Notices.MISS FKRRIER'S NOVELS, Messrs.Ruberts Bros, Boston, are doing a magnificent thing.They lately introduced to the reading public of the United States the triking and altogether delightful stories of lish home life and character, which Mise Austen left behind her.To their series of British clasaice they have adiled those beautiful novels, illustrating Soottish life and reality, which Miss Susan Edmonston Ferrier wrote during Sir Walter Scott's time.Miss Edgeworth's Irish tales have held the place which Miss Austen and M es Ferrier occnpy in their delineation of English and Scottish characteristics.Inheritance and Marnage are grand tales.They are full of huinor, full of character, full of emotion and feeling and full of interest from cover to cover.No one Mins Ferrier was a genuine to T cren- tions, and her work is artistic and aheorbing.To-day we have no such novels with which to beguile our leisure moments.Juheritance and Marriage are rich in Individuslity od urpose.They are strong an erful in he way of presentation, 5 They Be Seottioh in Savor and in character, and all men and women who can claim the privilige of = Scottish ancestry shoul call at Dawson's anid secure thin series of brilliant novels, \u2014novels which really teach lessons.Destiny isto follow.But the first two are gnod, entertaining and worthy of all praise.A True Dog Story.A goal dog story\u2014and a true tale\u2014comes from U Canna College.Principal Dick- Deer Park, has a fine mastiff dog, \u201cBoss.\u201d One day last week \u201cHoss\u201d strayed down town, and his subsequent appearance led to the belief that he lind been fighting, and was probably well cudgelled by the owner of the other dog.That night Me.Dickson heard at his door the bark of a strange dog.The bark was a good imitation of om \u201d usual style of demanding slmitiance, but as the voice was strange no attention wes poid to it for some time, At last Mr.Dickson opened the door snd found the call was by a stranger Bt.Berpard.At the foot of the steps was; \u201cBoss,\u201d very much exhausted und beliy ; used up by his beating.The St.Bersard stood by till \u201cBoss\u201d was taken into the house and then turned and marched gravely away.The St.Bernard was unknown about the college.He could not bind up the mastiffe avounds, hut he was good Namaritan enough to take \u2018Boss\u2019 home and call out his master to attend Lo the injured dog.\u2014 Toronto Globe.Gigantic Birds of South America.At the last meeting of the Ornithological Society in Berlin, Dr.Reichenow communicated some particulars of the finding of remarkable remains of gigantic birds in Argentina double the height of the ostrich, which represent our living cassowaries and netriches.| In modern times many kinds of birds are becoming extremely rare, especially the dinor- ius races of New d, which are beginning to die out.The lecturer presented a specimen of one of these birds, a very rare and costly apteryx basselti, which inhabits the northern island of New Zealand, and.while resembling an ostrich, is very much! larger.The Government of New Zealand \\ has determined to cat off some of the smaller islands from all civilization, in order, after\u2019 destroying all the wild cats, pige and other | animals introduced there, to preserve as far as possible the native fauna.A Chestnut Revived.Two English country Jokels recently met inalene.\u2018Hello !\" said one, *\u2018there\u2019s heen a eubference.\u201d \u201cA conference ! What's conference ?\u201d vas : the astonished reply.; \u201cDon\u2019t you know what a conference is?\" retorted the firat speaker.* Why, it's a place where parsons meet and swap sermons.\u201d \u201cSwap sermons, lo they ?Well, then our parsun must be an unlucky mon, for he sllers gets a crop of bad une,\u201d ! + \u201cLook me in the face! My name is \u201cMightve-l Tam alo called \u2018No-more,\u2019 \u2018Too late,\" \u2018Farewell I\u201d + The port who wrote the above, must bave \u2019 been in the last stages vf consumption.Perhape he had only learned, for the first tima, that if he had taken Dr.Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery in his carlier illness, he would never have reached his present hopeless condition ! What can be more sad than a keen realization uf what **might have been !\u201d Lo.Phys 4 now admit consumption in simply : serofula in the blond attacking the Jung tissues, : Itis never safe to allow the blood to remain impure, as it is especially reckless, when such a pleasant, harmless remedy as Dr.Pierce's Golden Medical Disonvery will drive every taint of serofuls or impurity fran the system, causing & current of healthy, rejuvenating bloud to leap through the veins, \u201cTie paths of glory lead but to the grave,\u201d This saw a pessimistic poet gave ; But why despair?for be forgot to say That paths ingiorious lead the self-same of way.Lie, The Quebiey Gazette, - De TRANSPLENDENT EASTER.BABS PANEGYRIC OF RADIANT SPRING, NATURE'S ANNIVERSARY.you.\u201d And noboiy said à word; but just then the Easter belis began to ring, the sick boy raised himself » little, inted to the door, and in a weak, quavering voice sang, \u201cLo! the white-robed ones stand by the door,\u201d And à minute after he was asleep, and Granddaddy knelt heside the two boys, the living one and the slecping one, and he took the living one ana gift from the sleeping one, and because he knew he was resurrected from the tomb of vice: amd be very sure as ull the angels sang they thought of Grand daddy and both bis boys.SWERT FLOWERS AND RESURREI TION, It is at the altar of the chapel, and womanly fingers are putting lovely flowers all about it, to tell to the world at large that Christ has arisen, and one woman as whe lays the fragrant Llossoms down is careful and exact, though she looks unhappy and unforgiving, and notwithstanding she has given much to make ( house beautiful, a loving girl doubts in her heart whether those gifts are The Ghosts of Buried Ambitions Sweet Loves, and Beautiful Unseltishness\u2014 Resurrection of Hope, Love and Human Joy - Leaves in Life's Book\u2014Our Departed Kindred and Friends\u2014-Earth's Time-Worn Pilgrims\u2014Maukind's Blessed Redeemer's Victory Over Death and the (irave\u2014Affectionate Remembrances of Calvary's Christ-\u2014Lilies, Lilacs and Roses are Opulent Emblems of Immortal Beauty and Purity\u2014The Exquisite English Travel Expensive.WHY RATES BY RAIL, FOR PASSENGERS ANb FREIGUT, ARE SO HIGH.In the Ænginrering Nagazive the emimen English railway lawyer, Mr.Wilham M Acworth, points ont many causes for the dis.ferences between railways in hin country and the United Staten.The higher rate of charges où English roads are thus es- plained : The very large capital outlay of English railways is of couree one main teavan of tle high steu-ard of rates and farce iv Eugland.Exactly how high that siawient is we have no means of knowing, for onr railway statistics, made up it à fe Lid dave hy act of Parliament alu carefully suppress the Flower of Forgiveness.New York, March 25, 1593, Even the man, God help him! who haa nao belief, fins his heart gives a thumpon Easter day, for he seems to discover rome- thing finer and better and purer in the sun.ine itself, and he claims that it is becanse, sll of u sudden, the flowers seem to have sprung up.My friend, it isn'tonly the flowers that are resurrected on Easter day.Ii ia the hopes, the loves, the joys of humanity, Suddenly there comes up before us, as if from a tomb, the ghost of the man or the woman that used to live.That ghost that has aboat it a halo of youth and hope, and on each side of which stands an angel\u2014the angel of faith and the angel of love.We time worn ilgrims find it hard Lo look this ghost in the ace.It isthe ghost of buried ambitions, of sweet loves, and of beautiful unselfishness, and it comes forward te face you to-day when you lack belief ; when you ncoff at love, snd when you, moat of all, worship yourrelf.But thisehost of the past is good to meet once and awhile, because sometimes he inakes the mau of to-day take tho leaf in the Hook of Life, that leaf on which there are so man blots and so little that is fair and beautiful, he makes hitn turn it over, and, baving a fresh page, teaches himto write uponit, only the story of kindness and consideration.t LOOKING BACKWARD.When the sun dances on Easter morning it is glad because you and I have met these ghosts: is because the old i , ani the new means joy to everybody.you ever meet the ghost of your past ?Did you ever meet the man you Were twenty years ago?Jt is 11.45 o'clock, take up the mirror and look at yourself.You see the face of a mun whose eyes tell of nights spent in dissipation, the firmiy-set mouth whispers of determination, of greed, and, when the lips loosen a little, of uubelicf.! Youn see n mau who has been successful, whose clothes are made by the best tailor, and whose waistcout of the most fashionable ranteris] ie over a heart that, when it beats at all because of an emotion, heats for fear stocks will go op or down, beats with delight because you have gotten the better of your enemy, or heats with pride because your wife or your danghter de credit to your name and your millions, The hells are ringing at 12 o'clock an they chime out the news of the resurrection ; every Rower in the land joins in with its sweet chime, and into your room there comes the man you buried twenty years agen.His eyes are bright and flash with hope lips show gentleness and cousideration in their shape.and all over the face there is belief\u2014belief in mankind, belief in heaven His clothes are nat as fine as yours, but the heart that heats under them ir brave and honest, and couldn\u2019 even give one beat in approval of a mean thing.How can you face your other self ?You mutter something about à woman who made you lee belief, you mutter something aboat how hard it is to be hungry, and yom mutter something about ge g on in the world.My frieud, you deliberately anl crolly buried your better self, and now it has come to ask for an accounting.Are you prepared to rive it ?Can you sit down with this other relf, and, taking the Bouk of Life in your hands, delide with it what the future shall be * All the angels in hoaven are singing, \u201cLreath is no more There is your opportunity, take from the grave the wan you ought to be, and uke him the man who ie, then indeed will your Easter be à joyfal resurrection.A bringing back from that tomb of forgetfulness, the great virtues | most of all, that greatest of all blessin belief.BLESSED ARK THE MERCIFUL, Aod you, my friend, who are a woman, 5° are slotie before the bells begin to chime.At the ehrine of vanity, pride, greed and selfishness you have worshiped, and there you have buried the other woman.What will she think of you when she sees you?Nhe was voung in heart as well as in Indy.She didn't fear growing old in years, Liat you have made her ald in soul.She thought nothing of the outward garb of peop! and you have made her worship what y à call the fashion, She would go to a gre.deal of trouble to do a kind act.And 3 ou have concluded that only fouls are kind.She believed ina God who hail made her, its a Holy Spirit that had sanctified ber, and in a Christ who redeemed her.You have listened tn the vulgar words of men who have made dollars by their ignorance, ani you think there is nothing grester than yourself.Poor fool! This girl has come from her grave to ask an accounting of you.What right hal you to bury her?Ace you the happier womar?Is the world the better for it + Au atie enters and looks at you, get down on onr knees and pray to the God in whom yon lave tried not to believe, to make you the woman you used to be, to make this Easter Day one of perfect resurrection for you, to raise from the dead the woman you were, and to give her life again.Then, indeed, and theo only, will you le of service in this world and the pext.KINDNESS AND CONSIDERATION.And the little chillren and the dumb animals can all ses the angels on Faster ing, en they are the only ones, And way wptown, where some kind people have inadea resting place for the children who are sick snl weary, is a little boy.He might be your son, or he might be mine.He tosses shout on his bed, and sighs about his puins, sod it seems as if relief would never come, Anda i and he begs of her to ho can run about, and with tears in her voice she docs as he asks, and he hears wonderful stories of the boys who are playing tops down in thesquare, au the boys who are guing to the circus, and how when he gets well beshall go.And when she goes away, slie kisses him goodhy, this pretty, kind girl, sud she lays a bunch of ilios in his hand.Aud then there comer to see him an old man.He calls bim \u2018Granddaddy,\u201d and they talk about the little rooms they lived in, and they laugh and wie meny, and every now and thes \u201cGramleddy's\u201d voice breaks, anid he goes away to get a drink of water, and oncehe looks at one of the Sisters inquiringly, and she answers him, sadly : \u201cNot very long.\u201d And then Granddaddy goes back to his hoy und another visitor comes-a boy they both know, a hoy who would have come earlier, but he had to get rid of his evening papers first, and he has brought a beautiful present, Easter egg boiled a lovely purple ant having \u2018\u2019A Happy Easter\u201d written out on it in the most elaborate manner.And the hay that sells the papers tells the sick bey all the newsof the day and the sick boy laughe a weak listle langh wheo he hears about the ball games, and when he hears how there was a scrap down the atreet, anl how his friend won.Then the little newaboy goes away, saying as a goi-hye, I hope you will have à happy Faster,\u201d and Granddaddy site there and smiles, anil the sick boy smiles back, and THE PERFUME OF THE LILIES is over and about everybody, anid the purple of the Easter egg seems to tell of that great glory which is in heaven, and uo place else.It is getting very near 12 o'clock, and there is à loud ring at the door.They have put a screen around the boy's hed, hut the law; burning bright and Granddaddy aod the ter are watching.Somebody comes and says something to the Sister, She goes away, and then comes back, bringing with her in ler arms a little baby, ch she lays down Lesirle the sick boy.gown is pinned n card which rete: \u201cThis boy has nobody in the world to care for fim.\u201d And the sick bay looks up and rays: \u201cHe has just come in time for Granddaddy.What would Granddaddy do without a boy ™ And he puts his poor little thin band down beside the Laby ; then he looks up piifally.but gladly, and says : \u201cHis lege are right, Granddaddy ; he enough, and be will be my Easter presens to y acceptable.And the ch \u201cof beauty.The lillies of everywhere, and the little blue violets tint blossomed as Christ went to Calgary, are sending forth their fragrance and flowing their heads like gentle nuns at prayer, and the work is ull done.And everybody has knelt down to say a praver, ss the announcement of Fuster is made to a waiting world.Everybody but this one woman, who stands alone \"hen the bells finish their chine, Tgan takes up the tune and there goes through the church such music as the masters of old wrote when they were inspired | by faith.For a minute the woman stands, - then quick as à flash she is in the organ loft, her artis about the neck of a man, and she is , crying as did the mothers of oll, \u201cMy enn, ,oh, my son.\u201d And in the signt of the + Almighty Gol all that she has given isas no- { thing compared to the exquisite flower of forgiveness, which she has laid at the feet of her newly risen Saviour.NATURES EASTER HALLELTIAN! You want to take flowers to show your faith.You want to pit on the altar of Jove the sweet white Lilies that you may offer a nure aud immaculate life, You want to put the gentle hlae violets to symbolize modesty aud continual prayer.You want to put the rich red roses to aya.bolize the world of love that you gladly give.You want to put the purple passion flowers to symbolize what you would suffer for the make of right.You want to put the odorous orange blooms to show how unseltish your love cau be.You want to put the bunches of fair lilacs to symbolize the greatness of your ch .You want to put the stately hyacinths and gorgeous tulips to symbolize the pomp and majesty, that should surround the King of kings.You want to pnt the green leaves and grasses to symbolize, that as they grow every: where, 80 is the grace of God omniprescent.You want moet of all to put your own heart, purified by suffering, scarred it may be hy contact with the worl.but for that very reason a thousand times more valualle.Who is the soldier, whe will be moat linded * He wher haa gone through the war, has fought cluse fight, aud whe, notwithetan hi: wounds, has come aut victorious.And ite the heart of a soldier tint makes the best Eastel present.And this is what you and | want t give when the bells are ringing the news all over the world \u2014that woudcrful news \u2018That death is no more, \u2018 which means that te the soldier who has faith, hope and charity, death only cames as a restful sleep, and that after it there is an awakening of love aad joy and happiness eternal, Ban Forcing the Icebound Kattegat.The Hull steamer leaving Gothenburg on the 4th February was timed to start at one s'elock in the afternonn, \u2018at when we re membered that the ten milen of bread river teiween Gothenburg and the sea had been rizen up for some weeks, and that oaviga- tion in the Baltic, and also in the Kattegat, was completely stopped by the packed ice, one expected that the voyage across to Hull woul be an exceedingly interesting one.In apite of bright sunwhine, the thermometers in the treet leading down to the river register ed fifteen Centigrade degrees of frost (e quiva- lent to a very hiitle alove zero on our thermometers).The \u201cRollo\u201d was lying close ta the quay, in à good position for g-tung dowa the tiver, but lonk where you pleased.no open water was vinible anywhere, However, our captain seemed hopeful that we shoul.off, thengh the lon mail at little farther do twa Lours to get a and was still pointing straight actors the river.With the usaint- ance of the ice lreaker, she dil at lust get anny about half peat one, and was closely followed by twa smalier steamers, the ice closing up beaindl them immediately.The ker, a small, but very powerful eur asristance, Jin first breaker's men were own rope, and we were pulled slowly away from the quay, ami the hurraha of the 400 oid emigrants on board and their friends on shore.Everyone socmed in as goood spirits as if he were going for a plowsure trip te the Lal: of Man.Most of them were retarving to Canada, having been heme for the winter, Our capi told me that the return face from New York, ria Liverpool and Hull, to any port in Swede ly costs them £4 t0s., including sil provisions and railway exprnaes ; so that, living cheaply with therr friends in Sweden iastea-l of ing in Cansila when work is very scarce, they are able to make a considerable saving, besilcs having the pleasure of visiting thei native country, Having got into the Chaone], which, with the exception of a few days at the end of January, had Leen kept open all the winter, we went full steam ahead through the broken ice.But our progress was so slow that the Nwedes running alongside on the ive coubl keep up with us.Lads on small aledges, armed with a spiked stick, were able tu go in front of us.Skaters, in fact, weut past us as if we were standing still, There were two wen on hoard hy mistake, 20 the engines were stopped, and they climbed down a ladder over the side of the vessel, and walked back on the firm ice.The channel was really so narrow that one might have jumped off the boat almost anywhere.Soon afterwards we had another stoppage, owing to une of the steam: of us having smarhed her bow ainat the ice.The icebreaker had now to go uhewd, and cut a new channel round this l>wt to let the others get past her.Further down the river, where it is nearly two miles broad, we found the patives fishing through emall holes ia the thick ice, each mun with s smalt ecreen rigged up ta shelter himwelf from the coll wind, Ponies dragging light sledges were trotting across the smooth surface of the river.The sun wan sotti all the spten- dour of a clear frosty eve an we steamed out into tie ttegat, ould see nothing hut & vast frozen sea of packed ice, which extended, we were told, all over the Baltic.By steerin, wtherly course we were fortunately alle to kerp clear of this obstruction, but in the increasing darkness a sharp look-out had 10 he kept for icebergs.So keen was the frost that the sea was frozen the whale way acres fram Sweden miles.Thin ice was only halt-an-inch thick, but perfectly smooth, and the stars were reflected from its surface.We had vur own course to cut through this, and it was very curious to wath the being broken op into regular elabs as it was Lifted up by the waves from the Lows of aur boat and fell splashing back into the water, About seven o'clock we passed the Skawe lighthouse on the north of Denmark, and forty-eight hours Graphic, What a Parrot Did.Une vf the cleverest performances cver recorded of a parrot is told in the Chicago Noirs, lu a certain home in that city the hends of the household were abuent, leaving the servants in charge and Polly, as usual, on ler perch in the diming-room.Daring the eve 2 burglars entered aml began rummag- i ong tise siiver anû other aloables t did not se * eveature ae * wrong, and, moned the servants wan with \u2018 rhe had vften seen her mistress « ining-ruom.As it was dak the the parrot.Uto teuliæs 1} Tue a the matter.had sin extra cracker\u201d for ber services.h is made a bower ace and purity are whking south ue: to Denmark\u2014a distance of sboat twenty later were landed rafely 10 Kall.\u2014 Fhe fraily i | reach, she ly pressed the button with lier claw, ae \u201c .It way have been only imitation an l\u2019aliy's part but it worked as well as if she had reasoned out The wervants came rushing ia an run and jamp when he gets old and secured the burglars, and doubtless Polly most necessary for us to have.Ton miles ancl senger miles ure not hete recordel.We know that each ton of goods carried pays the railways on the average about 0) cents.If we guess that the average distance is about miles, we arrive at an average rate of 2.40 cents per ton-mile, which is rot very far from three times the average Tate in the United States No in the case of passengers we may guess that the average fare in nlent 1.73 centa per mile, which, thovgh lower thanthe American av age, is higher Shin in any European country, Nuch a result seems very far from satiefac- tory.High cost of construction might have justified a high range\u2019of rates and fares at the outset, hut year by year the tratlic per mile of line open increases in density, and yet the goods rates hardly came down at all, in the last vear or two their tendency kos been all the other way, \u2014while the passenger fares only come down very slowly And yet the explanation ie not far to seck.+ (our services have always been expensive to work: they are becoming more expensive year by year In Am«rica train-loa«s are mainly limited hy the capacity of the engines ; ours by the weight of goods or namler of passengers that have had rime te accumnulate in the very short interval between ome train {and another.let me illustrate : If = man is .1 ailing from New York te Furupe, he will choose his favorite line or his favorite boat, | regardless of the time of day or the dey of the week at which it starts.(In the other band, if the Manhattan Elevated were to try to run its Lrains only once in tea minutes in t the slack hours of the day, the street cars would rob it of the bulk « passengers.Now, io England our businestis sll between places which in America would be regarded as close together.We call Manchester \u2018the , vorth of England,\u201d yet Maachesier is only * 4j hours from London.Consequently there must be trains between the two poista at all hours of the day.to suit the convenience of | passengers wantingto go at any time.Consequently, too, each Uain rans with very much lcs than a train load of passengers, i Then these trains mast be run at high speeds ; 1 for, though à few minutes more or fom are of ittle imporianee in 8 journey of hundreds of iles, a quarter of an hour aut of four hours is a very considerable percentage.High peeds mean few stopa ; and few stops mean litional traine to sctve the mecond-class tations.Then high apeedsand frequent expres.| mea for paseenzers mean high speeds and short | traing for goods, \u2014that ie, half loaded en- ! gives ; for an engine loaded to ite full capa.CIly moves so slowly \u2014occupics the line, that is, for 20 long a period\u2014 that it is impossitle to find room for it.Hut it would not le true to ray that the goods are worked at high speed simply for the convenicnce of the railway management.Un the contrary, the demand for spoed in the case of merchandise trati fully abreast of that in the case of passengers.Heoadly, it may be said that the English goods service is based on the supporition that, be: ween im- poriant towns at least, whatever ishanded to the railway company at the forwarding sta- i it will be delivered to the consignee the first thing next moming.Now, a sriice euch as this, in the nature of thiags, can never be à cheap one.The Protable Attendance at the Fair.The average daily attendance at the Centennial was 62.033 ; the largest atten:tance was 774,911 average at | single days admissions, 4om.000 While the cireamstances aus) conditions sarroun five the Columbian Exposition differ materially trom those of either the Centennial or aris ex table inference drawn from every international fair is this: The attendance is very largely drawn from the population within a Lmited radine from the site of the expositi Thus, for instance, the statistics of the \"aia exhilition show that on days when the att.mlance averaged 2,000, at Teast 130.000 cane from 1'arix aud its environs.Allvaiug fer the difference in national habits which sakes the American a trip from Nan Fraucisco to with greater readiness than the Frenciunan doa a jmey Berlin : allowing, too, for the unlimited etimalus to travel given by the excursion system planed by the railroads of thin conntry for Use coming event \u2014tuking every prusille factor ialo R:count, it seems hundly possible that more than an average of two hundred thousand non residents will Le in Chicago during the Exposition.Assuming, then, that two han.died thounand will be the lar strangers needing fund and y, uo one familiar with the situation wauhi hesitate ta declare that the ordinary rule of supply and Jemaud will prevail throughout tie rix ooh ail that the price of living wiil be ac reasonable an could he expected.\u2014 From * Charges at the World Fair,\u201d hy bi rector-General Davis, in North Amrican Fcricre tor April.Valuable Postage Stamp Collec: tions.An estimate has been made by The Lomion DPhilatelist of the extent and vaine of existing peatage stamp collections, bas-d in great part upon an actual census taken for the purpoee.The conclusion arrived at is that the HG members of the London Philatelic Soci ævlent in this country possess cullections of the total market value of £125,000.The col- Tections out of tirest Brit«in are pat down at L100, Hence it appears that the home and birthplace of the systcui of prepayment of postage by stamps takes, as no doubt it ought te do, the lead in stamp collecting eu- terprise.What You Shoot in China.À naval officer once toll the writer that pheasant shooting in China was very fair, and would be really good if there were not ao many obetacles nlout tr enjoying it com- fortaldy.He said that the people were so numervus that if you let a gun off almost ever, to deal with, damages sending then away in a contented state of mind: wid, imdend, this naval authority did axy that they would sometimes try toget in the shooter's way on pur: pme 0 get these damages \u2014Maractiau « Marça-ine, She Was Crushed.\u201cWell,\u201d said the intelligence man, sas haughty waitress insuded lus «ifice, \u201cwhat brought you back a\u201d Weren't the boarders h tuted en ! Bower * Why, the ewcll-ggra I wx d ive the missus.te take off my the dining room.\u201d t lon nas à watch and chain.kK pine, an\u2019 my ecarines, amb i gold glasses, an\u2019 the ornyments in my hair, an\u2019 four engagement rivgs, an\u2019 a pair of gold bracelets, an\u201d one bressipin.NX prose Fil been rigged oul with jewellery like nome of the , boarders! Nak «+ Lan just crashed © | A Great Difference ada .Fheres mere difference than that.The son wa backward boy avd ine daughter is a forward sit \"\u2014 Brooklyn £774.Labour in Vain.A San Franci-co burglar worked for several hours the other night to \u201ccrack™ a safe, sad then found that it wasnot ouly unlocked, Dut that there was nothing in it, 2 arse dede NO.1 Magazine (Leudou Coxadian Garstte.; l'rexoure of cther matters las defayed our notice of the three articles ox Canadien topics ie this month's magazines.EASY die JACYIR The freshest and moet interesting «f tle three ir beyond question that by Lady Jephem in the Natiom! I rice, om >The Fremchs Canadian Hatitant.\u201d Tt isclesr that Lady Jepheos writes of what she knows, and her sketch of Jacques Bon-Homme shows loth sympathy aod insight.The typical babitaut teems with contentment and philasophy.Can he not pot by a little money