Scandia Journal from Scandia, Kansas • 3

REPUBLIC JOIML. A. B. WILDER, Proprietor. SCANDIA, KANSAS FASUIOH BOTES.

Some of the new roses are as large as a peony and a single one in crepe foliage is sufficient to decorate a bonnet. The newest cottage bonnets clasp the bead closely and have a narrow rolling brim, which is covered with gathered satin. Very large bonnets with coal-scuttle brims hive made their appearance. There is an interior lining but no trimming on the inside. Colored silk underwear is cut quite close to the figure and beautifully trimmed with Torchon or Valenciennes lace.

The chemises are somewhat high, square, coming well over the shoulder; the night dresses are embroidered in feather stitch on the bands in white silk and trimmed profusely with lace. Dressy little kerchiefs of pink or of white crepe lisse are trimmed with Breton insertion and edging, and are used for caps, for cravat bows, or as a FARM TOPICS. Girdled Tries Saved bt Scions. A number of years ago I bought a farm on which was a large orchard, many of the trees being about six inches in diameter. A crop of second-growth clover was allowed to go down la this orchard in the fall and remain all winter.

In the spring I found many of the trees girdled by mice, which had a nice Elace all winter under this clover. A and of bark six inches in was taken off perfectly clean to the wood on some of the trees. Scions were cut a little longer than the place to be bridged over. Then both ends of these scions were whittled in the shape of long slim wedges, and the buds taken off. A knife-blade was now inserted between the bark and wood of the tree above and below the girdled place, and a scion crowded in at the bottom and bent so as to be sprung into place at the top.

Eight or ten of these scions were put to each tree and a small mound of earth was raised so as to cover the wounds. The result was that every tree lived and did well. They did not make so much growth the first year as those not girdled, but since that time they have, to all appearances, done just as well, every other ear being loaded with splendid Baldwins and at this time those scions not only touch each other, but they have so crowded that it would be hard to tell that there had ever been any thing the matter, were it not for the uniform ridgy appearance at the foot of the trees. By this plan it takes but a few moments to fix a tree all right. Cor.

N. 7. Tribune. Seeing Stonewall Jackson. Mr.

A. C. Redwood, in one of his Johnny Reb papers, in Scribner for June, give this description of an incident within the Confederate lines. He says It was tho end of a bleak November day; the fires of railway ties, extending in a long line either way as far as the eye could follow, made Btiil more neutral by contrast with their ruddy light the dun-gray fields of stubble, and the woods in which the gorgeous panoply of the earlier season was paling into russet and ashy tones. The work was over and we were waiting with some impatience for the order to take up the line of march back to camp for the evening air struck chilly through our threadbare and tattered jackets, and we had eaten nothing since early morning.

Moreover, a wild rumor had spread abroad that an issue of fresh pork awaited our return, and though the long habit of expecting nothing good until it came secured us against any serious disappointment, there were not wanting tender memories of "short" biscuit to raise our anticipations higher than we cared to own. Thus preoccupied, we are fain to refer a distant cheering further down the line to tidings of the coming rations, and we gather by the roadside in order to get off the more promptly when our turn shall arrive. The sound grows more and more distinct every moment, and now, far down the road some moving object can just be discerned in a cloud of dust which travels rapidly our way. Nearer and nearer it comes; louder and more enthusiastic ring the shouts, and now we make out in the dust the figure of a single horseman, with a clump of others trailing off into obscurity behind him Jackson is coming! A moment more, and he is here, going at almost top-speed his hat is off; his hair blown back from his broad white forehead his eyes dancing and his cheeks aglow with excitement, and the rush of keen air. And now the cheers grow deafening and ragged hats arc swung more wildly still as the men of the Foot Cavalry recognize their leader.

The cavalcade passes like a whirlwind and disappears in the dust up the road, cheered to the very last lagging courier of the escort for we are in good humor now with ourselves and all the world. And we stqp briskly out upon our homeward march, the air feels fresh and invigorating, and the miles seem shorter than they were in the morning even the beloved biscuit is of minor consequence, and the promised pork pales beside the thought which fills us that we have seen Jackson And we got the pork besides Greenland Courtship. When the Danish missionaries had secured the confidence of the Green-landers marriage was made a religious ceremony. Formerly the man married the woman as the Romans did the Sabine women, by force. One of the missionaries writing in his journal describes the present style of courtship as follows The suitor coming to the missionary said, I should like to have a wife." Whom?" asks the missionary.

The man names the woman. Hast thou spoken to her?" Sometimes the man will answer, "Yes; she is not unwilling, but thou knowest womankind." More frequently the answer is No." Why not?" "It is difficult; girls are prudish. Thou must speak to her." The missionary summons the girl, and after a little conversation says I think it time to have thee married." I won't marry." "What a pity! I had a suitor for thee." "WhomP" The missionary names the man who has sought his aid. He is good for nothing. I won't have him." But," replies the missionary, he is a good provider he throws his harpoon with skill and loves thee." Though listening to his praise with evident pleasure the girl answers, won't have him." was burned terribly, and died in a few hours.

A 5-year-old son of Henry Bol-gan of Mankato, while playing in an unoccupied house with other children, jumped through a window, and a scarf which he wore about his neck caught on a hook and hung him. The children ran to the house and gave the alarm, but so much time elapsed that when released he was apparently dead. By extraordinary efforts on the part of the mother life was finally restored. Foreign Notes. A St.

Petersburg letter declares that the heads of the secret police have discovered that three-fourths of their men are in league with the Nihilists. By the birth of a daughter to the Princes Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen Victoria becomes a great-grandmother, before she has attained the age of 60. When the Duke of Connaught was married his Royal mother forbade the bridesmaids to wear high-heeled boots or pull-back dresses. Victoria, it seems, is about as sensible as though she were not a Queen. The Nnova Gazette de Palermo announces that the authorities are preparing a biography of more than 4,000 brigands living in Italy, with short notices on their friends and associates.

These gentlemen all belong to the dreaded "Mafia," and many are said to occupy high positions in the State. The Prince of Wales was so tickled with the rifle shooting of Dr. Carver, the American, before his august presence recently, that he sent him a letter 6f compliment accompanied by a gold horse-shoe s'carf-pin, studded with diamonds, and having in-the center the Prince's feathers, with minute colored precious stones in the band of the coronet. In the best Parisian society of late the power to read with grace, meaning and intelligence has been much studied. Many capable professional readers are employed in families.

Indeed, reading threatens to replace the classic piano in the programme of the feminine education of the future. Paris has, too, a reading society, composed of shopkeepers aad clerks, who every year have a grand public meeting for the interpretation of literary masterpieces. Odds and Ends. What is more deserving of our sympathy than- a young man with 15 cents in his pocket, a girl on each arm, and seven ice-cream signs in sight? The Bolivian army has been much embarrassed by the detention of its baggage train, but they've got a fire going under the mule now, and it is thought he will start. Boston Post.

Why," asked a governess of her little charge, do we pray God to give us our daily bread? Why don't we ask for four days, or five days, or a weekP" Because we want it fresh," replied the ingenuous child. The prudent housewife who, on account of "hard times," has decided not to repaper the sitting-room, as desirable, will find the old paper very much improved in appearance by simply rubbing it well with a flannel cloth dipped in oatmeal. The unblushing assurance that leads the hen of 20 summers to enter market as a spring chicken compels the belief th it nothing but the inexorable difficulties attending the exploit prevents her from appearing in the guise of a fresh-laid egg. Boston Transcript. maiden sweet, with delicate feet, Tripping the fair fields over, What do you seek by the gurgling creek, And amid the dewy clover? Why, mister," she said, you don't know beans I I'm a-gatherin yaller dock for greens." A person is known by the position he occupies.

The man who trudges around the saw-dust arena, amid the thumping of drums and the sounding of brass, is a hero while he who plods his weary way along the dusty thoroughfare, beseechingly asking for work, is a tramp. Waterloo Observer. An old Dutchman who keeps a beer saloon on Sacramento Street has his third wife, and being asked for his views of matrimony, replied: "Veil, den, you see, de first time I marries for love datvas goot; den I marries for beauty dat vas goot, too, about as goot as de first; but dis time I marries for monish, and dis is petter as poth!" San Francisco Qolden Era. in this paragraph A State Superintendent who had made during a long term of office, hundreds of visits to un- fraded country schools, declared that never once saw a teacher conducting a recitation without a text-book in hand that he seldom saw either teacher or pupils at the blackboard that he never saw a school-globe actually in use that he never saw a teacher give an object-lesson that he never heard a lesson on morals or manners that he never saw but one school-cabinet; that he never saw a reading-class trained to stand erect and hold a book properly that he never heard a teacher give a lesson in local geography that classes, when asked to point north, uniformly pointed upward to the zenith; that he never heard a spelling lesson dictated in which the teacher did not mispronounce one or more words and that he never found a school where the pupils had been trained to write a letter, either of business or friendship." Science and Industry; The acreage of the cotton crop in Western Texas is 50 per cent, greater this year than it was last. Putting up "caviare" 'made from sturgeon spawn is an important industry at Menominee, Mich.

The most of this "caviare" is shipped to Germany. Glue made of the clippings of hides, horns and hoofs, washed in lime water, boiled, skimmed, strained, evaporated, cooled in cut into slices and dried upon nets. The Chemiker-Zetiung states that wall papers, in imitation of silk, are manufactured at Aschaflburg, dyed in the mass, and afterward printed by means of the cylinder machine, The paper is made of cellulose. It has a decided silky appearance and feel, arid the effect is pronounced pleasing. The designs are executed in darker shades of the ground color.

The latest triumph of French chemistry is the extract of color from red cabbage by boiling and maceration and pressure. The Cauline is a deep violet. From this, by various additions, other colors are formed, as in the case pf aniline. are perfectly harmless, of exquisite bloom for dyeing and perfection itself for the artist. A German inveriter proposes to make boots that will wear out.

He mixes with a water-proof glue a suitable quantity of clean quartz sand, which is spread on the thin leather sole employed as a foundation. These quartz soles are said to be flexible and almost indestructible, while they enable the wearer to walk safely over slippery roads. Straw board lumber which can hardly be detected from hard wood lumber, exhibited at Oshkosh, by S. II. Hamilton, of Bushnell, 111., is attracting much attention among lumber men.

The process of manufacture, as explained by Mr. Hamilton, is as follows Ordinary straw board, such as is manufactured at any paper mill, is employed for this purpose. As many sheets are taken as are required to make the thickness of lumber desired. These sheets are passed through alchemical solution which thoroughly softens up the fiber and completely saturates it. The whole is then passed through a succession of rollers, dried and hardened during the passage, as well as polished, and comes out of the other end of the machine hard, dry lumber, ready for use.

Mr. Hamilton claims that the chemical properties hardening in the fiber entirely prevent water-soaking and render the lumber combustible only in a very hot fire. The hardened finish on the outside, also makes it impervious to water. It is also susceptible of a very fine polish. Haps and Mishaps.

Miss Minnie Hoskins, aged 16, who resided near Greenville, was burned to death in a field while burning cornstalks. John Moran and John Durnell, two young men, while engaged in plowing near Fredericksburg, were struck by lightning and instantly killed. An infant child of Hugh Edwards, on a farm four miles from Iowa City, Iowa, was so badly gored by a cow that it died. Elmer Kimball and Lee Guerrin, two Lewisville (Ind.) boys, were fooling with a revolver, when it was discharged, shooting Kimball in the mouth. Hi injuries fortunately were not fatal.

A goose attacked a little grandson of Michael Wilson, a farmef living near Washington, Iowa, scaring the lad into convulsions, from which he never recovered, dying a short time after. Miss Minich, living near Castine, Darke County, while out in the yard washing some clothing, accidentally got too near a fire built for the purpose of heating water. Her clothing took fire and she was burned so badly that she died in a few hours. While carelessly handling a revolver, John Montgomery, a young married man, living near Lawrenceville, shot himself through the body. The ball entered just above the heart, inflicting a serious and probably fatal wound.

Miss Virginia Hicks, a young lady of Wyandotte, Indian Territory, was riding a very spirited horse, and was thrown from the saddle. She struck on her head, and a high tortoise-shell comb which was in her hair was driven clear to the brain, producing almost instant death. A 9-year-old son of John Miller, near White Bear, during the absence of his parents, took down a shot-gun and, supposing it unloaded, pointed at a httle brother of 4 years, and discharged it, the charge entering the stomach, causing death in two hours. Among new industries recently introduced in France is the expressing of oil from grape seeds. It is stated that at least five pounds of oil can be obtained from every 500 pounds of seed.

The oil extracted, from the grape seed is of a light color, odorless, and of a mild flavor. At Bettsville, Mary Ruggles, aged, 11 years, while playing with two other little girls, accidentally stf p-ped on a parlor match, igniting ber clothing. In -r terror she ran to the street, enveloped in flames. Neighbors soon tore the clothing from her, but she ITEMS OF INTEREST Personal and Literary. Mrs.

Myra Clark Gaines proposes 1 found a great library. It will probably be located in New Orleans. Sam Small, the Old Si" of the Atlanta Constitution, is writing a book about the Fighting Alstons of Halifax" and the Cox-Alston case. The German Empress Augusta has offered a prize for the best treatise on diphtheria that shall be published within a year. Mr Froude is parent of the last curious blunder, and in his new book on Cresar speaks of that General as returning with the light of twenty victories blazing round his bayonets." The late Mrs.

Sarah Josephs, Hale was active in many excellent public undertakings. She had much to do with the completion of the Bunker Hill Monument for 30 years she labored to have Thanksgiving Day made a National holiday and she greatly influenced her old friend, Matthew Vassar, in the organization of Vassar College. Paul Morphy is harmlessly insane. He denies that he knows any thing about chess, imagines that he is a great lawyer, and that he was defrauded in the settlement of his father's estate. He is living quietly at New Orleans, promenades Canal Street daily, and if any acquaintance rashly gives him a chance, rehearses the long story of his wrongs.

He is well cared for by his friends. The late Mr. McGahan, the London Newt correspondent who first directed attention to the Bulgarian atrocities, is being all but canonized by the Bulgarian natives in gratitude for his fearless services to them. They, are about to hold high religious services in his memory on the anniversary of his death, and Prof. Muller of the St.

Petersburg University is about to write his biography for distribution among the Slavonic race. Mark Twain, when asked why he hasn't written a book on England, says 1 couldn't get any fun out of England. It is too grave a country. And its grav- ity soaks into the stranger, and makes him as serious as every body else. When I was there I couldn't seem to think of any thing but deep problems of 'government, taxes, free-trade, finance and every night I went to bed drunk with statistics.

I could have written a million books, but ray publisher would have hired the common hangman to burn them." Edwin Booth wrote a private letter from Chicago to a friend in Richmond, just after the attempt to assassinate him, in which ho said: Your very kind and welcome letter of congratulation reached me in due time, but the nervous shock (referring to the shooting) has been so severe to both Mrs. Booth and myself that we have been unable to do much more than play nurse to each other since the event. The poor fool that committed the outrage is in safe keeping, and I hope he will be confined in an asylum for the rest of his life. He is a dahgerous lunatic nothing more." School and Church. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, South, met at Louisville, on the 15th.

Rev. Joseph Wilson of Wilmington, N. was elected Moderator. The Presbyterian General Assembly met in annual session at Saratoga, N.Y., on the 15th. Rev.

Dr. Henry H. Jessup, of the Syrian Mission, was elected Moderator. The forth-ninth General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church met at Memphis, on the 15th. Rev.

J. L. Gnder, Bowling Green, Ky.f was elected Moderator. The Canon of Dorry Cathedral in England has written a book, in which he asserts that "the divine right of episcopacy has always been, and always will be, an open question in the Church of England." The Congregational Church at Ionia, has been without a pastor for several months. The officers of the church take their turn at reading, sermons from newspapers, and the people like this plan so woll that they contemplate continuing it permanently, and calling no minister.

The tea ladies who are County School Superintendents in Illinois have managed the financial part of iheir business particularly well. Not one cent of the large sums over which they had supervision has en lost, either through dishonesty or ignorance of business. Even those male educators who opposed the law making women eligible to this office now pronounce their work a success, after the five years' experience. The Northwestern University at Evanston, 111 is one of the great training schools where young men are educated for the Methodist ministry. It is in pecuniary trouble.

From an aggregate of $34,000 a year of professors' salaries there has been a cutting down of one-half, and even the reduced salaries are now largely in arrears. Endeavors are now on foot for relief, with hope of success. Mr. Spurgeon sounds a warning note the habit, becoming too -common in many pulpits, of prominently describing the theories of unbelievers. He does not think it necessary in giving a guest wholesome food to accompany it with a dose of poison, and declares that many young men have got their first notions of infidelity from these ministers, haviDg sucked in the poison and discarded the antidote.

An English newspaper cites an instance of the starvings" as well as livings in the Church of England. The case is that of a living for which the Bishop of Truro wishes to find a self denying clergyman. It is situated in a healthful part of Cornwall in moorland surrorf jded by beautiful country the value 6 Vne living is $175 a year, with two acres of glebe. The population of the parish is 84, and the area 843 acres, but there is no parsonage or church. There is a good deal of suggestion ocKet-nanaxercniei.

utners, ol mus-n. embroidered in colors, have the center caught up in a puff, and held by a cluster of flowers. This may be used either on the head or at the throat. New Bilk bows for the throat are without lace, but are made up of the material of the dress and its trimmings. Thus a cream-colored satin bow has its jabot shape made partly of this satin and partly of olive green, both of which are held by straps and loops of brocade in which these colors combine.

The ends of the satin are cut in sharp trident points. Louis XIII. styles have made their appearance, and it is thought will takfl the lead next fall. They are quite severe, the trained skirt showing no flounces or drapery, but having many rows of narrow gold braid, which is carried round the bottom and continued up the front. Loops of ribbon trim ming, deep basques and jackets, large pockets, rich buttons and large collars belong to this era.

Trained underskirts are not now worn either morning or evening. Even with trained dresses the balayeuse renders the trained skirt unnecessary, and for dancing the short skirt, with the interior plaitings, are infinitely more convenient. The newest "dreBs-improv-ers" are depressed at the top and provided with flounces at the button on, and can be taken off at pleasure. The new parasol, writes Jennie June, is a piece of expensive absurdity, as ugly as it is possible for a parasol to be. Its size is awkward too large for a sunshade, not large enough for protection from showers.

The shape is Japanese, low, squat, and divided by 16 ribs, which destroy all elegance of ef-tcct, no matter- bow costly tiie material maybe. To complete the list of its enormities, it is made in zebra stripes and dreadful figures, which aro only permissible when the latter are lost in the richness of the fabric, or what is called "invisible," or match the costume. Now, no one wants one of these monstrosities to match every costume, especially at $8 each, so that harmony is out of the question, and all that is necessary to complete the harlequinade is the cap and bells. There is consolation in the fact that the plain, regular sun umbrellas are simple, handsome and ladylike. The most desirable are of black twilled silk, soft and durable.

The handles are ebonized and the frames are never divided by more than the number cf ribs used in the construction of the paragon frames, which is 12, and they usually contain only eight. An elegant parasol, just imported, is a very rich figured black silk, considerably larger than the Japanese styles, and surrounded by a border of handsome Spanish lace, in which the principal part of the design is a sodd leaf. The figure in the silk is large, but only partly in relief. The handle is of ebony, with a little inlaying of pearl in the form of an insect. Very small cottage-shaped bonnets and the picturesque large shapes have both been adopted, as milliners predicted they would be.

Some of the dressiest bonnets to be worn with various costumes are small close shapes of Tuscan straw, or else ecru chip, trimmed with loops of cream -colored satin ribbon and a wide Breton lace barbe that form3 a bow on the crown and also strings inside the brim is shirred satin, and the flowers on top are either chrysanthemums or This is a charming bonnet to wear with elaborate costumes black grenadine, silk, and satin. The beaded lace bonnets to wear with various dresses are either close shapes, or else they have Marie Antoinette flaring ftonts these are also most often trimmed with white chrysanthemums, lily buds, roses, and a barbe of Breton lace. Simpler bonnets of black" chip are edged with beaded lace, or else they are daintily trimmed with a jabot of India muslin and lace on the right side, some Baucy perked-up loops of black satin ribbon on the left, a bunch of white lilacs or of chrysanthemums on top, and four narrow strings, two of which are white satin ribbon and two black. Inside the brim is shirred black satin, on which rests a row of white Breton lace. To make this still lighter, the brim may be faced with shirred white muslin.

Other black chip bonnets have an Alsa-cian bow and strings made of a white Breton lace barbe; this is quite far back on the crown, while in front of it is a cluster of black ostrich tips; the brim is edged with large jet beads, and a crescent of jet is in the center of the lace bow. For light mourning are very dressy bonnets of black chip, trimmed with black China crape edged with black Breton lace. The crape is twined around the crown, and held by jet stars. A wing is stuck in the back quite low down. Harper's Bazar.

George H. Stuart of Philadelphia, after ten years of suspension from the reformed Presbyterian Church for communing with other denominations and singing hymns, has been restored to membership by an order of the Penn sylvania Supreme Court. Archibald Forbes, the celebrated English war correspondent, has started for the scene of the Zulu war, under a sa'ary, says a Lrndon journal, larger than any journalist has ever received. How to get up a spring meeting-put two fat men in a light buggy. Training Instead of Pruning.

I know of apple trees not yet twenty-five years old, off which, I think, there has been cut brush enough to weigh more than the whole tree as it now stands. And still the work goes on year after year. Now, this strikes me as a fearful waste, not only of the life and strength of the tree, but of the productive powers of the soil. Every year the tree is forced or allowed to produce a quantity of wood, only to be cut off and thrown away. Surely this is poor economy, at least.

If we could so manage the tree that it should make wood where it is wanted, and only where it is wanted, all this waste would be avoided, and this wasted energy would be turned to the production of fruit, and the tree be brought earlier into a fruit-producing condition. If we could afford to watch the tree from the beginning, and pinch the ends of such shoots as seem inclined to go too fast and too far, and rub out all such as start where they are not wanted, thus persuading the tree to grow into the proper shape, instead of letting it grow at random, and then trying to cut it into shape afterward, we might have healthier and better trees. The principal objection, made to the system of training trees, instead of pruning them, will probably be the extra time and attention required, and it may be that where fruit is as cheap and labor as dear as it is in this country at present, it would not pay, But, if it is the right principle, we should work toward it, instead of away from it. The indiscriminate and reckless sawing and chopping that one sees going on every spring in the orchards is far from being a pleasant or encouraging sight to a genuine lover of trees. Cor.

Country Gentleman. Thick or Thin Sowing. We sow our grain from a quarter to one-half too thick, thus throwing away each year a large quantity of seed of our choicest gram, and all under the mistaken notion that it is needed. The grains, like fruit trees and plants in general, want sun and air in plenty, not only as a necessity in growth, but to perfect their growth, and in particular the fruit and seed. Corn sown or planted close, it is well known, will not produce ears, and the stalk is less nutritious.

So fruit trees, with dense tops, fail to color and mature well their fruit, only that on the outside being perfected, and not then so well as if sun and air had reached all parts of the tree. Grain standing thick has weak stalks (from the effects of the shade), unable to grow such large well filled heads as we find in the more scattered stalks standing high with large drooping heads, supported by the strong stem, which seldom gets down. A little moisture lays the other flat. The effect is upon the cells of the plant, elongated and enfeebled in the shade, toughened and perfected in the sun, making a stout, healthy plant. This is the explanation of science, and does away with the common notions about lime, ashes, silex, as having that effect.

To sow thick is to exclude the sun and air from the start. The stem of the plant, kept thus constantly in the shade, is weak throngh its whole growth, becomes pale and spindling, and the most affected where the longest confined to the shade, beginning at the foot of the stem, which seldom fails of turning yellow where the stand is a close one, however rich the ground may be. The stem thus suffering, the berry of course can not be expected to equal that of a strong, healthy plant. We see this exemplified where the sowing is done in streaks, the dense lines showing a shorter, weaker and closer growth than the adjoining sparse growth which always has the longer, stouter stalks and the large full heads. The heads in the other case are small, on a fine dwarf growth of stems faded and shrunken almost to nothing.

It is only necessary to test the matter by such extremes anywhere to satisfy one. What is wanted is to sow thin and even, and cover well. But besides this the absolute necessity to the highest success is a rich soil, in good condition that is, well drained and mellow. The object should be to give the plant a chance to spread and occupy the ground from the start, and be kept in a thrifty condition all of the intervening time. American Poultry Yard.

A young woman who has never learned the gentle art of cookery, being desirous of impressing her husband with her knowledge and diligence, manages to have her kitchen door ajar on the day after their return from the bridal trip, and just as her lord comes in from the office, exclaims loudly: "Hurry up, Elizi, do! Havent you waahed the lettuce yet? Here, give it to bw; Where's the soap?" "Well, I won't force thee. I shall soon find a wife for such a clever fellow." The missionary remains silent as though he understood her no" to have ended the matter. At last with a sigh she whispers: Just as thou wilt have it, missionary." "No," replies the clergyman, "as thou wilt; I'll not porsuade thee." Then, with a deep groan, comes "yes," and the matter is settled. Mr. Tennyson, walking in a London park the other day, met a writer, who described the poet thus He looked tall, somewhat stout, round-shouldered, and he walked with a stick, as though the gout were hanging about his legs or feet.

He had a long beard, which almost buried his face, and wore a pair of large, round, Chinese-looking spectacles. He had on a very broad-brimmed, weather-worn felt hat, dark trousers, gaiters, several undercoats or jackets, covered over all by a thin, shabby-looking, red tweed dust coat, buttoned very tightly, as though it were much too small for him. Dangling outside from what should have been a clean white shirt front, was a pair of large, goli-rimmed nose spectacles. He was one of the oddest-looking creatures I have ever seen out of a Mormon meeting." A young Jewish lady, of a rich and respected lamily, was on the point of being married, near Cologne, in Germany, when a peasant woman entered and forbade the ceremony. She said that twenty years before she had been the nurse of the child now supposed to be the bride, but had accidentally rolled over upon it and smothered it while sleeping.

Fearing punishment, she substituted her own infant, and allowed it subsequently to be taken from her. Of course I am much obliged for the education and rearing the child has received," said the woman, "but you can understand that as a good Christian I could never allow my daughter to be married to a Jew." The title of Jean Ingelow's new novel is Sarah de Berenger." How the Chinese Fish. A thousand years ago the Chinese had the same ideas in regard to the catching of fish and the working of nets as they have at the present. On the coasts, however, the generally accepted system of procuring fish is in vogue. The lakes and rivers of China, especially those in the north, are so abundantly stocked that the fish-catchers make their living by actually seizing and drawing the fish out of the water with their hands.

The man goes into the stream, half swimming, half walking, raising his hands above his head and letting them drop, striking the surface with his hands. Meanwhile his feet are moving on the muddy bottom. By a rapid dive he brings up a fish in his hands. Striking the surface frightens the fish, who sink below, and thereby are felt by the feet and secured. Another curious method is sometimes practised on several of the great rivers.

A man sits at the stern of a long narrow boat, steers her with a paddle to the middle of the river. A narrow sheet of white canvas is stretched along the side of the boat, and along the other side a net is fastened so as to form a barrier of two or threo feet in height The man keeps perfectly still, while the fish, attracted by the white canvas, approach, and are caught in the net. The fishing cormorant is often trained in this country to catch fish, and are diligent workers, obejing promptly the call of their master. On the rivers and canals near Ning-Po, Shanghai and Foo-Chow-Foo, the employment of these birds is by no means an uncommon sight, but they are never to be seen fishing in the summer months, their work being in the winter, beginning always about October and ending in May. The birds have, of course, to be trained, which is carried on in the cormorant breeding and fishing establishments, one of which is at a distance of thirty or forty miles from Shanghai..