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4 - TRI-WEbEKLY EDITION. WINNSILOROt C.. 'MARCI 29,1883,E STABISHE 184 . KRORGENROTH. Morning's red I as fresh as ever, Fresh as when my life begun, Glowing In the orient heaven, Greets with roses rising sun. Morning's red I old mythlo ages Deeined it palace of the Dawn, Whence the ever-booming Eros Sowed with pearls each mountain lawn. Where, In secret chamber hidden, old Titionos age-worn lay, While the Dawn )ler courser lashing Ushered in the full-orbod day. Rose-wreathel Hours about her circling, As the tuisty dartit below, Ocean, city, mountain, meadow, Kindle<d in the lnorning's glow. THROU11L A OURTAIN. The drawfug-room at the Kents' was a large bright, lofty apartment, woll furnished, in the usual acoeptance of that term. Velvet carpets were under foo), cheese cloth ourtains, trimmed with antique lace, draped the bay-windows, plush covered chairs were invitingly diaposed around. And the velvet portiere! Mention must be made of the por ticre-what a struggle there had been to obtain it. Never did victor in a mighty battle sigh more contentedly over his success than the only daughter of the house of Kent. "Folding-doors are out of date pa pa," she had avowed implorngly, impe riously. "No one has them now, They are vulgar, inartistic. "We must have a portierf, crimson plush, to match the furniture. "It will look so graceful, you know, falling from the ebony pole and gold Iings. "Well, I must have it, papa; so there's no use talking!" And when Miss Kent put down' her foot with that energetic stamp there was no use talking, and her easily inti midated father generally, with quiet wisdom, produced his cheque-book. She sat now, and looked at it approv ingly. Curled up in one of the big plush easy-chairs, in her soft, light wrapper, ue reminded one of nothing so much as a white drowsy kitten. Au odd little piece of contradiotion, with a name too impoeing ior her dim inutive person, was Miss Callidora I Kent. Her admirer. called her a boiuty; her I friends a jolly little thing; casual ac- 9 (uaintances, stern old maids, and jeal ous girl companions, pronounced her a foolish, dress-loving coquette, Dress-loving? Who would see a woman without the thousand bewitching vanities of the toi let, and a desire to look her prettiest? I And too many admirers will give a I girl the title of coquette, often without the sanction of her own conduct. i She snugged around a little more contentedly in her chair, as the door t opened and her cousin came into the room. She was a tall, rathor good looking i girl, with a pair of handsome brown eyes. She held a broom in her hand, and had a martyred expression on her face. She carried a certain high-tragedy sir into the commonest details of everyday< iife, and dusted a room or cooked a oustard with the half disdainful haugh tiness of a dethroned queen, Lovely! "IAn't it Frances Eva?" The demure little Philistine, who usually succeeded in spreading for her self a bed of unerumpled rose-leaves, nod'led toward the plus i curtains, Tue other contemptuously ignored the remark. "With whom were you last evening, if may ask?" in a gentle injured tone, "Oh, yesl" oheerfuilly. "I went to the Queen's with Fred I Haleek." She uncoiled deliberately, and rose to view herself in the mirror, A small face, with a row of curl-pa pers across the forehead-a pair of mis- 2 *chievous, hael eyes, a straight pretty, impertinent nose, and lhps that could I charm with the most enohanting of smiles, fickers of modern, shallow wit, *and occasionally saucily spoken slang. "Ciallidora, are you going to marry F red Halleok?" "Marry? "That depends. "His grandmother-fabulously weal thy, barbarously eccentro--is dying. *"If she dlios loving him financially, yea; if ignoring him financially, ne, "There lies the ease in a nutshell." *"If so unfortunate, who will succeed Ihim In your favor?" 'Why, that's so, Frances Eva-I for. ot to tell you about him-the gentle an I met at Mrs. Slasabrook's dance." She turned from the mirror with a udden flicker of ambition, "Ho is so handsome, Frances Eva, I anced with him three times. "He asked permission to call, and his. ae is Silbert Bichardson. "Oh, I had almost forgotton to men on--he is as poor as the proverbial uroh mouse," A week passed, during which Miss Ilidora Kent, taking advantage of r. Hallek's absence by his grand other's eathbe, laughed and flirted %nd went to the opera with handsome Silbert Richardson. One morning he was announced, and shown into the front patlor, where a bright-eyed little siren, in the most art ful of -morning costumes, was indus triously feeding her goldfish. He was not at all diffident or bashful, this handsome Bohemian to whom pret ty Miss Kent had lost her heart, so he oame to the point immediately. "Oallidora," hQ said, "will you mar ry me?" The bell rang; the door opened, and there was the sound of footsteps in the hall. "I am very sorry," she said, in a 3hoking voice-and indeed she was -"I %m sorry, but I can't." "Why not?" "Don't ask me," imploringly. "But I will. Are you going to marry Ralleck?" "I suppose so." ' And yet you love me?" "Yes," with a big sob. "Then you have seen the morning p)apers? * "Yes." "And know that Fred Halleck is heir bo all his grandmother's money?" he continued. She nodded. "Is that why you are going to mar ry him?" "Yes, that is why," emphatically and1 ngrily. "Thanks for your candor," in coldest, ?olitest tones. And like a slender, black-coated ice .)rg, exit Mr. Richardson. "Please, mum," shrilly inquired Join ma, the maid-of all-work, popping a grinning face insi-le the door, "did you se Mr. Halleck?" "Mr. Halleck? "No. "Did he call?" "Yes, mum." "When?" "Bout the same time as Mr. Rich. rdson. "He went into the back parlor, sayin' ie'd wait until you was disengaged. "He's gone now, mum." "Gonel" "Yes. mum." Ske flung the di-iding curtain aside, aid rashed into the next room. There was just a line sorawled on a eaf torn from a memorandum book, 6nd lying on the table. It was Frei's big slapdash hand and 'ead as follows "The plush porfiere is something kew, is it not? It is very co'ivenient. "HALLROX-" Miss Kent sank down, stormiiy sub )iug out remorseful words, and bitter )eneflcial tears. "It was all that horrid plush por ietcl "He could neyer have heard through he dear old folding--doors. "Oh, my goodnessl , "It has sen6 away thb man I love, 6nd the man who loves me. "Oh, how I bate it!" "Papal" imperiously commanded diies Callidora Kent, three hours later, .tandwg tear-worn and sorrowful eved, ni her father's offlee, "send men i nediately,40.t put up the folding ''But, my dear-" "It's no use talking, papa-I muet iave them! "Yes, I know-the plush portiere, "lBnt I neyer want to see it again, "I hate it-there! "Folding-doors, papa-vulgar, mas ive. heavy, and three feet thick!" Avoid that which you see amiss in >thors. Follow the examples only of the good. keep your ears open to all that is vorth hearing, and closed to all that a not. An older person's experiences Is of io value te you unless you profit by it. You are not building on the future, mut on the past and present. Elvii communications corrupt good nanners. Nobody wants to deal with a double ninded boy. Be industrious; the world wants boys who are not afraid of hard, steady work. "The empty yessel makes the great ist sound." Some boys inherit good fortunes, but 1o boy ever Inherited a scholarship, a rood character or a useful life. If you would be capable, cultivate tour mind ; If you would be loved, your teart. Never excuse a wrong action by say ing some one else does the same thing ; his is no excuse at all. A new teat for gold leaf was accIdent ily discovered at the Farrell Venetian Art Glass Manufacturing Company's works n BrooKly'n. By the l?arrell pross the ear is placed on the incandescent glass, which is then blown. The expansion splits he leaf into beautiful and fantastIc forms, nd the object is then fired, covering the ilass with the vitreous material. In using aguaranteed . 999 quahty of gold loaf, the workmen found that the expansion separa ,ed the gold fronm the coppur alloy,anid the >bject was ornamented with golds and a sandisame green, the the latter color being Ine to the oxidatIon ot the coppnm. A Canadian Romance. - Thirty six vears ago there lived in that pleasant little town down the river called Sorel-very little it was then a.youth and a maiden. The name of the youth was George Beaupre, tie name of the maiden Mary Ann Pearce. They belonged to families of moderate circumstances. He with the strength and deyotion of honest young manhood, loved this young maiden, and vfooed her with that earnestness which only such a loyer can. He was given every eucouragement; was, some say, a0tually accepted; was congratulaing himself, at least, on the smooth coursing of true love, when suddenly a rival appeared, and everything for him turned back. The rival was one Jacob Savage, of the same town. Pretty soon she and Savage were married and settled down in the place, and then young Beaupre's hope died out. He tried to work on as before, but could not. He closed up his affairs, and started to the far West, toward which so many adventurous spirits were about that time shaping their course. From that day to within a few weeks ago he had not set foot in this part of Canada. He had worked hard, saved carefully, prospered and laid up prop erty worth at least $200,000. He had never married. He was getting up to ward sixty years of age. Several weeks ago he took an idea to come back once more to see his friends, and he started East. He searched out relatives in Sorel and Montreal but found few that he remembered. H-a inquired for the woman, whO, as a girl, had so many years before thrown him overboard for a rival. They told him that she was wi.dowed; her husband had been dead many years; she had been living seve ral years in Montreal. He went to call upon her; met her, and then-He found her getting old, in poor circumstances, with several children, but that made no difference; he saw only the girl of thirty-six years before. On Saturday they were married by his Lordship Bishop Fabre, the wealthy bridegroom being content with no other dignitary than the highest in that part of the country. He has bestowed all tfe happiness that wealth and affection can upon his bride and her children, and in a short time they will go to his home in the Black Hills. Deaf and Dumb. A woman who got aboard the Eastern bound train on the Detroit, Lansing & Northern at Howell, Michigan the other day was accompanied by a big dog, and after the train had moved out a passen. ger walked baco to the stove and asked of three or four young men sitting around thore: "Can any of you talk to a deaf and dumb person by signs?" "I can, though I'm out of practice,' replied one. "Very well. I wish you'd go and ask that woman over there if she expects friends to meet her in Detroit." The young man walked up to her, tapped her on the shoulder to attract attention, and began a series of gyra tions with his his fingers which attract ed the eyes of every passenger in the car. The woman's eyes opened and her jaw fell with astopishment, but after a minute or two she colored up as red as a beet and called out: "X es, I've got my dog undler the anat, and if you mean that you'll tell the conductor on me I' mean that I'1l hire someone to pitch youi into a snow drift if I have to mortgage my farm!" The deaf and dumb language chopped off right there. A Home-Made Barometer. Take a common glass pickle bottle, wide mouthedl; fill it withmn three inches of the top with water, then take a com mon Florence oil-fiash, removing the st.raw covering and cleansing the ftak thoroughly; plunge the neck of the flask as far it will go into the bottle, and the barometer is complete. In fine weather the water will rise in the neck of the flask, even higher than the necic of the pickle bottle, and in wet, windy weather it will fall to within an inch of the flask. Before a heavy gale of wind the water has -been seen to leave the flaskc altogether at least eight hours be. fore the gale came to its height. An able bodied man can make one of those barometers in a day if his stock of bottles hold out. If that fails a fair ready .made article can be purchased for seventy five cents. whe Wodcera or water. Tb'e q'iantity of 'water used in Uniengo last year was 24 150,000,000 gallons. Talking of this (Jommissioner (Jregier said the water would form a cu'e of 1.478 feet; a river 200 feet wide, 15 feot deep, and 204 mIles long; form a canal 20 feet wide arnd 10 feet deep from New York to San Francisco, 8,088 mIles; cover the etire city (84 square miles) to a depth of three and one- half feet; but the quantity would equal only about one fourteenth of an inch ol the' depth of surface of Lake Michigan -20,000 square miles. The weight of the water equuied 100,400),000 tons. The distance traveled by the fly-wheels of the pumping engines,- representing 888,182 miles. -would gIrdle thie earth nearly 14 tinie. The water would 'fill 7,000,000 .mites of 4-ingh pipe, 8,500 miles ,ofp foot tunnel, and 16,00f males of'7 fodt tunnel. And yet (licoago Is not a temper onvt Ware. The extent of the trouble laid upon the housekeeper by her abundance of silver, is indicated by the number of preparations for cleaning and polishing. which. flood the Mirket and thrust themelves everywhere upon her atten tion. Each one claims excellence over all others, and promises results more marvelous, with the expenditure of less time and strength, than anything ever before )ffered for sale. It would be interestimg to know t)e amount drawn annually from the panes of much-en puring womankind;'by this one class of articles; it could nbt fail -to reach a pretty large figure, If these prepara tin really do perform what they promise, if they clean the silver quicker or bet. ter than the substances commonly used and if they bestow a brilliant and per maneut polish, as many of them profess to do, the money epent on them is not all wasted, for what is better worth paying for than that which really saves time and labor? The two permanently valuable possessions of man, and the basis of all wealth and welfare. Lot us consider for a moment the work which a good silver pplish has to do. If sil ver is only soiled by ordinary use, it is best cleaned. by oareful washing and wiping, with brisk rubbing with a piece of chamois skin. A few drops of. ksmmonia added to the water in which it is washed, will aid in the process. Sii ver does not need rubbing with powder as often as is commonly thought. If time, or exposure to harsh treatment and to foul gasses has left a tarnish which fails to yield to this care, it is because a thin film of some chemical compound of silver has been formed on the surface. (The dark stain of the sul phide is well known.) In or<Ler to re store the brightness to such a discolored surface, it is neccessary to remove the objectionable film, andsinoewe knew of no safe solvent for the dark salts of sil ver, which will not as well dissolve the metal, we must resort to friction. For this, the substance used must be en tirely free from any gritty or sharp par. ticles, for the soft silver is easily de faced beyond remedy. A good silver polish has then to fulfil three conditions. Firat, it must be clean, free from any grfsoe, and it may contain amnonia or alcohol, to take away any greasy film 12ft in careles washing, Secondly, it must not contain any chomical which can harm the met al. Thirdly, it must contain a very fine powder, free from any grit or sharp grains, which will nevertheless be hard enough to remove by gentle friction, the stained surface. Three substances fulfil these conditions-rougA, whiting (the purified form, sold as precipitated chalk,) and infusorial silica, often sold as eieetro-silicon. Of these, whiting is, perhaps justly, the f avotite; and if the practice of one good house-keeper is followed, namely, to stir it up with wa ter and carefully float off the fine por tion and collect it on a cloth, leavibg the coarse grains behind, it is probably as good as any powder need be. Of one thing the housekeeper may be sure, that in nine cases out of ton, whiting, more or less pure, or chalk, will form the basis of her fifty-cent box or bottle of silver polish, A littlo dr ganic coloring matter is often added when-rouge is not, and the liquid pol ishes contain alcohol or ammonia. No alchemy has yet obviated the need of care and knowledge on the part of the housekeeper, andjge must teach gentle handling of electro&plate, must not al low the direful clatter of the knives and forks and spoons, so of ten heard, if she wishes to keep the surface smooth. She must also look well to the material in whioh silver is wrapped when it is laid away, Tissue paper is best, and Canton flannel is next; .woolen flannel should not be used either to wrap sil ver in or rub it with, since sulphur is used in the manufacture or dressing of fuinnel, ane sulphur in all Its forms is a thing which we~ wish to keep from on tact with silver. Bieglnning to Mquneese. T wo or three years ago a Jersey City pension lawyer took the case of a widow who wanted about $2,000 back- pay, and the papers went to Washington, to be hidden away among the cobwebs until some clerk had nothing else te do but examine them. After three months had passed, a young farmer called to ask about the case, and regularly every ninety days; since that time, he dropped in with his: "Well, any good news for the Widder Jennings?" At his last visit the other day, the lawyer replied after the same stereotyped fashion, and added:, "Do you live near the widow?" "Only one farm between us." "And she has told you to wasoh for the money?" "Well, not exactly that, but I've kinder taken It upon myself to do so. if the Widder Jennings gets that 62,000 before the 1st of April, my heart is gomng to. yearn to marry her. If she don't git it, I'm going to marry an old maid1, with twenty-one acres of land and a yoke of oxen. I wouldn't have come in to-day, but the widder she's a winking and the old maid Is looking purty as a bed of onions, and things is beginning to squee.e o m. Derahardt?e Lost Jewels, About 500,000 francs was' put by as savings after Mme. Sara Bernhardt' great foreign tour. This she is said to have lost in unlucky speculations, and hence she was obliged to part with i her jewels. In the catalogue of the recent sale there were nine collars and diadems, ten sets of pearls, forty-two bracelets, eighteen brooohes, fifty-six I miscellaneous objects of worth, and fifteen pieces or sets of silver. Nearly every one of these pieces is a souvenir of the most distinguished homage in the world. Qaeon Marguerite, of Italy, gave the "yery handsome coilar of pearls and ebrilliants, representing a garland of foliage with a palm lehf for a centre piece," while her Majesty's brother-in-law, the Duke of Aosta, offered the bracelet in "or mat en riohe(i with a sapphire and a brilliant," The three fine brooohes in the form of a winged dragon "are the tributes of a Russian princess," and an English prince, who will one day be an English king, gave the "fine Indian bracelet in enameled gold, represen,ing a serpent with two heads, enriched with rose diamonds and rubies," as well as an other trifle of an "Indian banieau," dotted all over with foolish nothings in emeralds, rubies, and pearls. The pretty comb in fluely wrought gold, representing an "allegorio" trovhy of comedy and tragedy," with Quand mene, Mme. Sara's own device beneath, was Emile do Girardin's handsome acknowledgement of a life like portrait t bust from her hand, Russian ladies gave the "collar in brilliants, rubies, emeralds, and other colored stones;" Canadian ladies the "fline collar of six t and twenty chatons in brilliants," a lady of Vienna the "pendant formed of a great black pearl," while admiring Americans stand in the artiste't faithful memory for the seven very large soli- i tairs suspended to the "collar of origi nal form," which in other parts of its structure is a fine confusion of brilliants pid rose diamonds. Five young Eng- I lish ladies contended, or rather com- I bined, for the honor of offering another bracelet, and Prince Demidoff gave the aapphirOU and brillian net in the same form. The house in the Avenue do Villiors, with its bronzes, statuary, palms, carpets, and stuffs-in fact, with the artistic spoils of half a lifetime of taste and opulence-is still left. Fly Flowng. For dashing sport and constant excitement there is no kind of northern look-fishing so entrancing as is sea trout angling with artitloial fly. "Hal he had it then," we murmur, as the shapely silvery creature leaps wildly at our gaudy lure, and the unkind barb is driven well home into its palate; and while the boat rocks on- the dashing waves and Donald vainly endeavors to I get her head to the wind, whirrl whirr I away goes the swift sea trout toward the open sea. Yon hold on, and set your teeth in the face of the wind, t while up into the air leaps the fish once i and again, and then runs off at a tan gent and springs up once more, to fall like a ball of silver on the crest of a big wave. Your heart is in your mouth forc a moment', but all is right and thec linej is soon seen cutting the dark water to one side of the boat. "Now, Donald, the net!" Whirr! away once more darts the trout, once more springs up 30 yards away from the boat into the suushine, shows its gallant form for a moment; thuen there comes a slack line, and you know your fate. "Aweel, Sir," says Donald, "onuffing" the while, "1 jist thooht that was owor muckle a troot to be ta'en. She's like enough the witch troot that Sandy MacFarlane saw leaping like a flying-fish I' the moonlight roond and roond his boat. Sandy had been, ye ken, to Craigel lachy to meet t.he men, and hadna but. twa dram.s when," etc. This story is ats< good as any other, at all events to solace yon for the disappointment; so you suffer the old man to tell the tale of the, "witch troot," and then he too has a dram like his hero Sandy, after which it will not be his fault af you are un successful. Nothing Is so snobbish and detestable as to spoil a boatman by overpaying and giving him too much whisky, but a true sportsman and gen tleman is always considerate to his gilly, and when the boatman is old, and a specimen of nature's gentlemen like our gilly Donald, a little extra kind-t ness, and indulging him in a "crack," with you now and then between the ''drifts," gives him as much pIe naure as it will give you profit., Such a man Jocks for ward to suimmer, when "thei gentlemen wall be coming," quite as much as the latter long for their north ern holkciay. TI'e Sues Vansal. rho proposed enlargement of the Suez Canal now occupies the attention of Elng lish speculators, and there are many large schemes proposed upon the calculation that the interests of British enterprise will ih the end be promoted. TAhe general width of the waterway is a little oter1 three hundred feet, and'one 'suggestion is that another hundred feet shipuld be atided. But against this -It is reasoned that the heaps of sand formerly taken out would have to be removed, and it IS a debatable qnestion whether It would not be a loe expenulve design to dig another and inde pendent ditch. It Is poiated out that the present canal would greatly facilitate the Introduction of another, reducing the Out-1 lay in a number of ways. The Operator. Men who travel a great deal, never ease to wonder how It is that the crossest lepot agentv that can be found, are nearly iways located at junctions, wnere there is iothing but a depot and a store, and a sloon, but such is the case. A traveler lets to a junction and goes into the di-pot o fnd when.the train goes, and the ticket window is closed. le look around and inds that the agent is helpinf unload reight or is on a side track coupling cars, >r is over across the track helping a farmer sill hogs,or has gone tu the adjoining town with a team, to carry some passengers. Or if the agent is in the office, he has g t more business than the general manager of the road. -You speak to him and ask a ques. Jon, and his brow corritgates, and he goes >, counting a. pile of one dollar bills, and Lets as though lie thought he had a dim dea that he had been spoken to, but he waist until lie. gets the money in the safe. tad turns the knob and then he answers rou so short that you almost conclude to walk to the next station, and then he ustles out of the olice and locks the door, ind you think he has gone to attend to 1one iportant business. upon which lepends tue late of the road, and you go mnt and walk the platform, and pretty ioon you see him helping his wife to wring ut clothes, or you see him out in tho )ack yard hanging clothes on the line, or ipli'ting old railroad ties for wood. *ou may be a millionaire, and you may )ay your hostler more than the junction igent's salary, but he looks up3n you as a hree card monte man, and locks tne stove loor for fear you will put In a stick of wood, or steal the lining out of the stovo. The agent is in his element when a train a a few hours behind, and he site at the elegraph Instruiant working as if the vorld rested on his shoulders. You listen o the constant click of the instruimeut, md would give a ten dollar note to know vhat is going over the wires. . Occasionally he will laugh at somethingi he instrument says, and when you begin o think the news of the wor!d is coming wver the wires and is stored iii that massive >rain, the agent turns to a country galoot, 8 vho lis on a blue drilling roundabout,aud t us pants in his boots, anti who wipes his rose on his mitten, and says "There is go ng to be a dance at the hop yard at John ton Siding to-night, and they want us to some tip on No. 4." Then you realize hat the agent, All these long hours that ron have been watching the varied ex - )ression of his cali:, mysterious face, ha )nca chaffing with the female operator at he next station, and as the country galoot, ,akes a chew of ping tobacco and says li will go and brush ui a ittle and put on a .lean shirt before No. 4 conies, and the )perator says they will have a daisy time Lhu daneu, you go on tWe platform and ry to get acquainted with the fellow who -uns the horse power wood sawing ina :hine. There is no man ho knows more than he junction agent, about everything. if rou can only draw him out. Thouzh only our trains a day stop at his statloi. and hey only stop for a minute to let. ni ome C >oor devil who has got to get off there,tho c igent is in his element foi a brief moment. le addresses the conductor as "Jim." nr "Georg,"or "Billy," and asks wlth a how of intereet as deep as a division si - erintendent would have where he passed a 'No. 1," and if "No. 6 ' is going to be on line. le may ask something about rail 'oad stocks, and you imagine that he is mulling the market, when tne chances .-oe , te hasn't got eleven dollara left from his t ant month's salary. If he was polite,and ,1 lid not seem to own the road, you would f, Ike him, but when lie snubs you, and 8 reats you as though information was uorth moi'e than your ticket, you hate him, i and if you should hear there was talk oftI >romioting um to a station where there - vas six houses, you would want to prevent i t. There may be some rul by which the rossest inan oni a lineo is given an issolated i. unctIon. Muanitobja. The oflat creop iep'ort for 1882 of a >ortion of Manitoba and the adjoin ing Trer- I 'itories of the Uanadian Northwest has icon issued. It is compiled from infor nat,ion collected prmeolpally by the post. nasters of ttie various localities, eighty our districts being represented, compris ng about one-fourth the whole area oh et,tlement at the present tIme. 'rho aver go yield is shown to bie: Wheat, thirty & mushels to the acre; oats, fifty-one and a t i'; barley, stirty-clght and hlf; pota ces, two hundred and sevenity-seveii and a xalf; turips, one thiousandl; flax, fifteen; ye, twenty; pens, thirty-soven. The aoc cage uinder cultivation in the eIghty-four histructs represented Is 4712,770m acres. lho t Lverag~e number of cattle to each settler inm everal districts is estimated at ever thirty icad. Altogether the report is a most sa isfactory erne, an(i bespeaks a general I tate of contcntmernt andi prosperity among I hle settlers. The Canadian and Pacifle t Railway Company line now completed its I nain line, some C06 mnIles beyond Wrnni iOg andl 114 mnIles on its southwcsterii jranch, and iiext season it wIll have up- I ,vard of 1000 miles of rovId through this ine country, thus giving the settlers resdy tommiunlcation with thie 10sttern marktst. U.togethor the Canadian Pacific Railway vill have about 20010 miLes of railway in >porartion along its whole line by next a'I A Stranago ),arnor spot. Any one familIar with that part of Rome a which st'inds the mnonutmental ruin ofI he Baths of Caracalla, one of the houchiest nad most desolate spots withmn the city walls, would say it was tire least probab)le piot in all R')mc that a committee would elect as a place ini which to give a dinner. ~nd yet a dirner was actuially givon-',nd baten -.there a few weeks ago to,1200 per ons. It was given b)y the mniipality to lie exhibitors at the flue-art exhibition. l'ho largest hail had been covered witha iwiing, perhaps somewhat after the man, ier of the Uoliseum in the days of silOleat a Rome-and was adorned with . bunting, I wreaths, hebaldlg . devices ad repi'oduc. 'I ions In tastoi'6fali the groat art works I hat have been found In the treasure-house C >f sculpture. It was on thle ,top .of. this t mui, as every one knows,. that Shelley wrote hie "Promiethous UnNupd.' The'4 invitation cards to the dInner were vhtnted in Imitation of a Roman Inscription, and the mentu was in classical Latin printed, in red. - eris of Cypross Wood. Although the cypress tree grows in all he states south of the Ohio river and In ome districts north of it, and notwith. landing the fact that its wood Is very valu ble in many industries, still its merits re hardly known outside the regions vhere it is produced. The growth of the ypress extends a considerable distance up he valleys of our southern rivers. It io silte a large tree, averaging fro-n three to Lve feet in diameter, and some trees are ixceptionally large-having a diameter of Ix, seven and eight feet. I measurel one Nhose circumference was twenty-seven 'eet. The cypress grows In the. bottom auds, sometimes In standing water, and ilso on lands that are flooded. There are wo notable varieties-the white, growing a water and in the lowept places, :aud the ed, growing in the higher lands. The vood of this tree is of a red color, some. vhat harder than the white, and does not oat readily on account of its weigL. The ypress grdws well only in rich soils, and '10 high 19nds where it is foUnd -are the ,cry best hInds in this stAte. 'he timber m most excellent for fine w)rk, suca as airniture, counters, shelving and walins oting. It Is susceptible of receiving a kigh polish, which brings out its betutiful reins and desirns. As this wood does not pILt easily across the grain, it is well dapted to carving. .xposed to the reather, it is almost everlasting. Shingle. 'f well selected timber wll last ifty years. PLcket fences sunk in the ground will last iore than twenty-five years, if all the sap i removed. Cypress is much stronger than white ne, and in our market is worth more than wice as much ; it has more elasticity; it i nailed without splitting; it does not rarp at all ; it does not readily absorb iolsture. When sawed up Into* planks nd piled up exposed to the weather it loes not warp and crack. It is exclusive y used in L >misiana for hogsheads, barrels, anks or cisterns, etc. Ithas been worked ato very good sounding-boards for violin., ud the roots of the tree are said to be ex ellent for veneering, for making corks ud razor straps. There is a particular eason for felling the trees in order to ob sin lumber of a good quality. It is late a the fall or in the beginning of the win 3r when the sap is solidilleui. If cut ear or and suffered to lie on1the ground some ime, the sap is attacked by a very small vorm; but if seasoned after being sawed, oth the heart and sap of the tree can be Loed profitably. Thu sap, however, may ot quickly if externally exposed to tho kcat and moisture of the atmosphere. A. third variety of cypress is of siualler ize, harder and close grained-suitable or exquisite fancy work. The tree grow ng on the high lands make the most last ng timber. It contains a small quiantiry of gum, resembling much that of pine, sud naking it almost. Imperishable. The trees ,row very large at the bottom. and are of en hollow to the height of four or five cot. The trunks of the large tros are 0 feet or more up to 75 feet in height, without branches, and usually perfectly traight. In places where the treen as onparatively slender in size they grow loser together and attain a greater height. pots could be selected where tho standing rees would be sufficient, when felled, to uild a two-story house on the area Oni atich they stood. The timber is univer. Ily used for making picket fences. Tho >go being cut in ten-feet sections, the ,ickets are split by skimming and going round the log, in thickness of two inches r more. It is almost Impossible .to split lie log centrally, like oak or other timber. 'or clapboards or shingles, it split@ per etly straight and as thin as can be de [red. Irogues, or huntIng boats are made rom the large cypresses by scooping them. 'hose boats form but one solid piece, and re as strong as they are light 'The 'rench and lipaniush authorities *never iled, during a hundred years of colonial ute, to irecmmend to their respective go. 'ernments the cypress timber as one of he most valuable that could be found. Fly surprise, therefore, was very great when I lately ascertained that this wood n the northern and western lumber mar [ets was almost entirely unkanown to ar hitects and lumbermen, who, for purpo es of construction, attach so much1i3port wee to white pine, which is so vastly in crior to white and red cypress. I could how the architects and luinbermien houses a-New OJrleanis that were built of cypress ii inoU m>re than one hundred years ava, ad the materials arc as sound as pn ~tte rat day on which they were used--don -i o the very foundations. FerdeIty orfv Tgers, A traveler teals -the following story or le way in which one tiger terrorIzed a whole community. Trho captain showe:i so the skin of a large tiger, which, a hort time since, killed three natives in our mights in this place. The village is urrounded by a stockade to keep out hose ravenous boasts, and the gate is luarded at night by a native arined with a nusket. One evening this tiger stole up ichind the guard, sprang upon him, and, us a anative sa'd who chanced to see it, tilled him instantly with a blow of her >aw on the back of his neck. She then aught him up and ran away with hima. L'he next day the body was found partly uaten, and was buried very deep to keep .1 out ef her reach. T'he second evening ho seized and carried off a nativse who was Lathing in the stream at the foot of he cliff. The captain now found ho must try and destroy her, and therefore loaded 11 musket with a very heavy charge of powdeor and two bullets. 4Thie gun waus hen lghed .trmly to a ,ircee and a large plcde df fresh meat was fasteilied' to the onuzsle, so that when she attempted to ake at away, she would discharge the iace and receive both bullets. The next rnorning they found a piece of her tongueo )a the ground near the muzzle of the gun, nd the~ same triyp wras set again.; but the 'ext night she emo back and took laway second haan.on guatd at the .gate of the tackadie.' The captain i st5rtqd' with corporal anid eighit meid determined to hit lier dowmr The ta ed,her to a lade filled with" tall 's ~ Ed', coloping round tht; sloiwly advanced, t~it &vMo rs three of thq .beard a #dw' wh'eaa )T0e be~J a sae, hsdieti lently bqp so dao th1t bpfgge of >r0urii foo'lor,ler youngs