MUSICAL NOTES.

(SrsfiAMiY WRhtrs for Tun Sr'.s.by P.BM'BSSiJiI F. 0. OAIMjIMT.)

NO. VIII-MUSICAL IISHTKUC UOH

IS THE COLONIES,

When children have Icurnt music from Ice rudiments, nml in a systematic way, with what facility do they develop into musi cians, and that, too, in the techuioal, arid not in the more frequently derisive h< nso of the word, ;u applied to persons vvlio just know sufficient to enable them to liiitlc oil a tune upsn the piano, or scapo one upun the violin. Indeed, it often happens that as soon as some ptsraon or other acquires.the necessary amount of knowledge to rev form either of those feats, there are found a number of ignorant and there fore extravagant admirers to fall iato ecstasies with him, and to laud his playing to tho skief. They proclaim abroad the assertion, "He is a finished musician ; lip knows music thoroughly; hia execution i? perfection," &c,, &c. Happily for art there is occasionally found among these immoderate eulogists some person nho linf sense and judgmeut enough to see thing as they really are : and who, if he say? nothing, either shrugs his should™ with contempt or smiles in pity. Evcryb )d\ agrees that, in order to be a lawyc, obc must know the laws not only of lih owt country but also those of foreign nations, and even thoie of . antiquity. Wo |arf all perfectly agreed, also, that, in order to be expert at any trada whatever, ono must learn several years before being admitted to the rank and given the privileges of a workman, and the necessity for this does not stand in need of demon stration. If some day the humour should flefze me of defending another's action before the Conrt' the Judge would un doubtedly ask me to show him the creden tials of my capacity, and if I should reply that i[ had learnt justice at school while a child, and that 1 had not thought it necessary to mike of it a special study, his response would vary liJcely be an order to have me conducted to a lunatic asylum And yet music deems to be excluded from this necessity of making it a special study before being allowed to practise it for one's pecuniary benefit, or more important, before being allowed to teaoh it. This reminds me of. an anecdote that illustrates. verj happily 'what I have just said. ' The officers of a certain regiment were accus tomed to jest at musicians in general, and particularly of those who composed the brass band of their own corps; vand the latter complained of it to the colonel., He, singularly enotfeb, being a good mu'nician himself, assembled the officers together, and''delivered to them the following harangue, which should be well pon'lerdd pver'.by the pretentious:—"You laugh at the musicians ; now, that 13 wrong, for you know well enough that in a short time I could make officers of all the bandsmen of my regiment, whilst I could not, perhaps make a single musician of yon nil." It is unnecessary to add that they withdrew in confusion, but perfectly convinced of their chief's statement. It may be said that nnnic 13 a kind of polypus, which attaches itself to everyone in spite of himself. There aro some even who believe that they know too much of it, and who, therefore, disdain to learn more than the simple dia tonic scale. Ido uor, of course, include in this theinniimerablrf combinations that one may make with those sr-ven notes, for hardly one in a thousand at most would be capable of explaining the quarter of them.

Among the nations .with" whom music enters largely into the instruction imparted to the young, there are in their educational establishments, besides a class for elementary singing, akind of choral society, and often an instrumental band as well, the two latter of which are formed of the more advanced pripils, and these means facilitate greatly their acquisition of sound musical know, ledge. 15ut the courss of Instruction does not finish even here, for on leaving the colleges or public schools, those Btudents who wish to further improve and develop their musical tns'.e and acquirements have the option of attending wholly gratuitous conrses of instruction, the meetings being held several times a week after workiog hours. These courses are carried on by professor?, paid by the municipal au thorities, just as in this colony the teachers in our public schools arc maintained by the Government. In many cases thesepro fessors are persons who during the day time are engaged in teaching tho young. Every year these musical organisations, composed of adults and children, - having learnt music at the expense of their respec tive town?, are assembled together in one bod/, and execute, nndsr the direction of nn "experienced professor, some of the classical wotlch, magnificent in themselves, bat : rendered sublime by the finished manner .in which they are petformed. At Paris, it was Charles Gounod who wan charged with tho general direction of the •Orpbe'ori or Choral Society founded by B. Wilhelm, which ia equivalent to saying that it was entrusted to good hands.

! But, likewise, no pretentious individuals trouble these musical performances, which are honoured with the presence of the most illustrious persons in the world. Under the monarchical regime the monarch*' went officially; since then the French people have rid themselves of these noxious anil bnidensome being", and it is now the Pre sident of the Republic, the m-mbcrs of the earned and political bodies, that, by their presence, lend encouragement to the pro gress of the art par excellence

Here, where (I cannot repeatit too often) music is practised by nearly everyone, no official encouiagpmont whatever is given to it, True, the Board of Education main tains a horse for a professor, in order that he may visit the various public schools and teach the children singing, but they never trouble themselves to enquire what pro-; gross is being made or to what degree of pro ficiency the youthful pupils have attained. I am, however, sure that this titulary would not ask anything better, for there.iy nothing more discouraging to teacher and taught than such cold indifference, amounting almost to contempt.

! Now, if, on the contrary, every year,; just before the Christmas vacation, a choral asiociation formed of all the scholars who had followed the professor's course of tenons gave a concert under too immediate 'control and patronage of the City Council, •Board of Education, or City Schools or, better still, of all three "'conjoined, would anyone be inclined to doubt that it muse Jead to good result?, and prove a capital meanß of encouraging, 'besides supplying, at the same time, a .satisfactory opportunity of judging of the progress accomplished 1 The Mayor, who patronises concerts arranged by strangers, would surely never refuse to lend the weight of his great personal influence to promote toy all the means in his; power thR musical progress, of .his fellow-citizens. I am even cerlairi that the authorities wohH" not have to expend a single f farthing for such a concert, for by 'fixing the prico of the admission tickefa at one shilling each, they would even reap a prolit that might servo as the nucleus of a fund for enabling the poorer ftfliss of pupils to obtain with greater ea^e iitia necessary instruction, and might, per -baps, also suffice to secure a course of les itoni for adults, who would be able in their '^turn, once they were well • organised (and /always being, of course,under the control of itho supervising body—say the Municipal Council) to give a concert; that, without ;spubt, would yield a Sufficient sum to en-: sure the continuance of such courses of les ■«ons i 'inasmuch as thoir only expenses "^wo'uld be' the professor's salary and the 'gas 'bill, the concert hall' being furnished ■: gratuitously. M ■■•■ • . s '.. . - • i;> Priyate.enterprise, even when backed up »Jby ( f rinds and animated by determined wjll, could never achieve similarly great results -11SC would be "sure-to • en'stie from tho .initiative being taken by the administrative power when It !puts aside all party, spirit, .keeping-in'view only the well-being and 'the progress of tne nrta and sciences among its constituents, I shall demonstrate 'tbia truth iufuture articles; For.the present, I would only express tjbejWUh.that the fiiencis of musical .art,; of \yuojn'.ther.ft,ato.maDy heie,^ vvdutd, .take into'cbnsideraiidn' tb,e fffiw; and, easily,'realisable ideas, that I have .just Btateil, besides exerting their influence to aid and encourage this music—so much *$fed by all peoples from the moat" remote iJiEG3, until bur own days rfin order that it may march abreast of its kindred arts. ■,

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'LADIES' COLUMN.

Looking at-Kome of iho pew-s at church i better than looking into a bonnet shop.

A rent always in ai rear-the tc;ir on the buck of a coat.

a living readers of English literature we cannot class all the lovers of Lamb as muttou aoads. ' ;

A thrilling tale -The rattlesnake's. The Detroit " Post and Tribune " warn« the BoHton girls who have taken to wearing helmet hats that if they imitate the Boston [loliee they will never catch a man. "Yes,".said Airs. Toplofty, "myhusband came home very sick last evening I can't make out exactly what ia the ina'tor, bill hi; v very billiards.1' A lady who drew a gentleman's dressing gown at a recent bazaar now wi^hei to ihaw a good-lookina man to put in it. Mr, Duhb-s says thut he has one of the most obedient boys in tlw wotld. Bo tell' him to do as ho plcase3j and .lw does 11 without a murmur.

A woman lias many advantages over mm; ouo of them is that his will haf no operation till he is dead, whereas hers generally takes place in life time. "Why do you mfi paint?' asked a violinist of his daughter. "For the same reason as you use rosin, pa." " How li. that?" "Why, to help me to' draw my beju." . 1 A bachelor at a banquet gave tho follow in" :r—" The women and coal of Lanca shire I Oh, how desolate would be the lire sido,without them!" A man who jumped overboard recently to save his wife from drowniug baa ex plained his action satisfactorily. to his friend*, lie said she had a good daal ol jewellery on ber person. Ainonhera tribe believes that Beelzebub walks th« earth in the form of a woman And now and then you will find a nun in thin conntry.who believes so too, and that he has married that woman.

The Boston, girl is clever., She brings her suit for breach of promise, and then hay her tiiulpostponed until she can reduce her weight sulliciently to go before a jury as a fenrful example of the ravages of blighted affection, One Scotch farmer said to another, as they were returning home from the buriai of a teetotaller's wife recently, "Did they gie.ye ocht?1' ".Nn, na : neither bite nw iiup. He's gotten unco cheap awa1 wi1 her, I think." ■

In tho opinion of the majority of those present at the Royal wedding lately, the prize bt beauty was won very easily by tbe Princess Victoria of Hesse, whoso fair hair and nineteen years showed to great advan tage in a rose-pink costume with a huge bouquet of rosfibnds. .. , The Force of. Examplq.—Aunt Emily : " Why, Nellie, don't you know it is un kind to catch hold of your sister and pull her hair?' Nellie (who doesu't see in): " Well, auntie, I saw you holding cousin Frank round the neck quite tightly yester day, when mamma was oat, and palling his hair, and he didn't say anything !" A great acandal was caused in Cornwall a few months ago by the elopement of a young lady, the daughter of a gentleman well-known in the county, with her taiher's groom. They fled to South Africa, aud last week letters were received announcing that the dannel, having lost her illusions as completely as Aurora Floyd, ia on ber way home, hiviug left her companion in an hotel at Natal, where he has been engaged as waiter.

The magnificent lace worn at the iinke of Albany's wedding by the Princess Bea trice ha? a strange history. Her Royal Highness was, in girliih curiosity, a few yeara ago turning oat an old cabinet in the Queen's apartments, and came on a parcel of extremely old laces. Among them wus the suite in which she appeared at the wed ding ;on b.vi<ig repaired and cleaned, it proved to be almost pricele.B* : connoisseurs say it 13 worth £30,000. It was lately pre sented to the Princess by Her Majesty. Family Lite. — Home is sometimes thought flat and dull, and too often made s^, just for the want of recognising what it stand 3 for. The relations of life that go to form the household are the source not only of life's richest joys and most sacred me mories, but also of some of the finest and noblest characteristics of man. The love, the fidelity, the forbearance, the self sacrifice that are nourished by family life are among the richest possessions of hnman ity. It can never become wearisome or commonplace, save to those who fail to comprehend its meaning or refuse to act in harmony with it. In it Possible?—A city lady, who was one of the strictest of Church members, chanced to go into the country on a visit to her brother, who was a class lender. On the first Sunday of her visit a little son of her brother's came running into the house with a couple of eggs which he had just found in a hen's nest. "See, aunt," he exclaimed, "what our bens have been lay ing to-day !" •' What!" exclaimed the Isdyj lifting up her eyes in horror; "is it possible that your fattier, a pious man and a class leader, allows his hens to lay on Sunday?" FEMININE BREVITIES. Marriages are always "solemnized," while weddings are ".celebrated," Have a wedding by all means. The "Pittsfield Journal" says Chicopce has a population ol $12,000. Probably the '■Journal" was thinking of how much it costs to carry th» town in an election.— " Boston Post." " Where are you going in such a hurry ?'' "Only back into the house a minute to change my pocket-book. " Chango it?" " Yes, I had no idea tho day was so hot; I started out with my sealskin pocket-book. —" Le Figaro." Opera cloaks should be made on Singer machines.— "Exchange." -And ki chen garments on the Domestic.—"Folio." And teamsters' cloths on a Wheeler.—"New Jersey Enteiprise." We can only ask Howe sew ?—" The Score."

The royal princes of England are prover bially good waltzer?, notably the Pnnce of Wales, whoscarceiy.evermissesawaltz. The Crown Prince of Austria is also a splendid waltzer ; but on his recent visit to England he maintained the strictest etiquette of the Auittian court, and required that every ono should quit dancing when he waltzed. It is fortunate for the sociability of "English society that this' rule is not in force, and that when a member of the royal family, be it even the Prince of Wa'es Himself, honours any one with bis presence at a ball, he does not require that every one shall stand stUl while lie dances, altough at the same time ladies and gentlemen are discreet enough to refrain from dancing, it by doing so .they would be at all likejy to overcrowd the circle.

Cashmere is expensive, and is worn by girls whose fathers cash mere checks.. .The Queen has given special and par ticnlar orders that her youngest son is never to be styled Duke of Albany, but that he is always to be described as " Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany." Her Majesty does not wj*h £be name of her late reverend uncle to be forgotten,

How to Cross-Examine.

Lawyer—You say you know Mr Smith ? ■Witness—Yes, sir. Lawyer—You swear yon know him? Witness—Yes, sir., Lawyer- -You mean ."that yon were ac quainted with him? Witnoss^-Ycs, mf} acquainted with him, Lawyer-^Ob,'you don't know him ; jou arc merely acquainted with him. Remem ber that you are on oath, sir. Now, be carefuL You don't mean to tell the Court that you know all about Mr Smith ; every thing that he ever. did. ?, ••', t ',' ~'" Witne'ss-^Joj I suppose— .■ .' , Lawyer-^fever mihd what you ( Piease answer my question, .Do'you, or do you: riot, know1 everything that Mr Smith everdid? '"'',; ' l . ".' ' """ .■Witness—No, I-—. ~ . ,'■' '.. " ' ;;iawycr-AThttt'll' do; sir. * No, you do not."' Very good. So you are riot ac quainted with all his acts? ' ' t t%k f Witness -Of course Lawyer—Stop there, Are, you, or' are you not? 'l",' l; 1 Witness T —No7":" La v wycr i -i--'l hat U, to aay.iyou are not so well acquainted with him aa you thought you.w.ere.2.,-. .■ ■.'. ..••-. _:■ ■ if", , ■' , Witness—Possibly not. '■■ >..V v. i.v ■ i .| Lawyer-Jatt ;50.. ; Now we begin r.to' Understand each other. If you don't know anything ahout Mr Smith's acts when you : are I not i\\rith him,; you can't swear that you know him, can you? ; ,j>Vitne«s;-If yoft put it tbat way—■ Lawyer—Come, i sir, don't i try to. evade my - question. ■; I'll put it to you again. [When you say.you know,Mr Smith yon dqn't-mean:to.;say you know everything he does? '.{ , . i ra . Witness—No,-fir; of course not. Lawyer—Just so;.of course not.. Then you were -not quite correct when you said .you;knew. Mr Smith,? i..;: :::u! t ! i.lii I .; .'fitness—No, : Mr. s • 14! :■ bite II.; v ffo Lawyer—Ah I I thought so. That will [dpjt air. v u¥ ojjt: <$n stand down. —.''.Boston iTrangcripV^jj-jfUid li.iil •.,! Iwg am taoh i\

ELECTRIC LIGHTING.

On the lf;t of September last the people of Chcsififickl fouud themselves without any li^ht iv tlic Btrcotu, The contract with the gas company had expired, and an cil'ori was made ljy the Corporation to secure it* renewal, hut during the progress of its ne ootiatioas the company clrose to cnt oil.the supply of s*n.s and leava the streets in dailc nc»B, On the Sth of C'clober they wcio lit, the whole plant having beon put down in the short sp.ice of time of one week. The experiment!) were continued for three weeks in order to try the effect of tlio Lane-Pox in amdesoeiicelightsfors'lreet purposes. TVre ■ml t was highly satisfactory, a ud n'egotia tion endod in a contract being signd, by which \fcsrs Hammond and Co. undertook to light the whole of the streets with twenty two arc iiuil about 100 incandescem lights for tin'period of one year from tbi completion of the work. This was to b< ilone for a sum of £SS3, the price pre viously paid for gas bein{( £920. The arc lights are fixed partly ou iron standards, and partly on (ho polos carrying the wires,' and vary from' 14 foet (i inches to 20" fool In height. The iuc.mdescentsarelixed 12ft. O'ia. above, the and arc placed in 'a special fono of sivaet lamrv- Tin engines, o£ which there are two, are du)ili citcw. They are by Messrs John Fowler & Co., of Lee is, and are. what i.s known, as their 20 liorse power " Yorkshire" com p3iind enfiinea of the scmi-portabld type. liacli en^ina is capable of developing GO horsepower indicated. The generators, of which there are two, are each able to foed ■iO ate ligWS of 2000 candle nower; on one circuit, or 320 15-cnndle power iiicandiscent lights. Encli machine is driven by a 12in. btlt direct from the driving pulley of the en gine.' It' Will be «een that the engines and dynamo machinea biintj duplicates enables either one to do the work of the oth«r, but not only is this the case, but tue arc and incandescent lights are so arranged that the same current ii required for each, aud both arc and incandescents can be worked ou the same wire by one machine ; indeed oue machines cub supply the whole of the light", both arc ana incandescent, and has been doings,) for several dny. The arc lights burn with prent stuadiueas aud brilliancy. No better example will bu found of what can be dona with one of these lights than in the market-place. This covers an area ot 57,500 square feet, and ia lit by means of ono 2000-cuudlc power " Brush" li«ht placed at a height of 2tft

Electric lighting has received a new im petus by an invention for the storage of energy,' whicbii now,in .successful opera tion at the Electrical Exhibition, London. We present a few particulars, • which we find in a recent number of " Natute" : — "The new accumulator of Messrs K. Volck rnann and J. >S. Sellon, oxbibited at the Crjstal Palace Electrical Exhibition, in connection with the Line-Fox system of electric lighting iv the Alhambra, CourU, has already been announced, but its con structiou has hitherto been kept a secret for reasons of patent right. The storing power of this now secondary battery may be gathered from tha fact that 33 culls feed 201 Lane-Fox incandescent lamps, nominally of 20-caudle power, for seven hoursat a time, if the battery ia fully charged to start with, The actual light of each lamp, how ever, is nearer 30 candles ; and it is fouud that those lamps, which arc designed to bear a 20-caodlc current from the generator, will stand a 30-candlc current from the accumulator owing to its more uniform flow. " Kacli cell is stated to contain 5 horse power of energy acting for an hour, or 1 horse power for live hour*, and co on. It consists of a series of metal plates of some alloy, each plate being five-sixteenthn of an inch thick, and perforated with round half inch holes, as close as they can be punched or cast. Theso plates are con necicd alternately in series like the plates of a condenser, a»d joined to two stout terminals, which are the poles ot the coll. The holes are, filled with v metallic paste, the composition ot which is rot yet divulged, but may readily bu guessed, from the fact that metallic lead is reduced on the negative plates, and peroxide of lead on the positive plates. The spaces between the platoi, which are placed nearly mi inch apart, are filled up with water mixed with one-tenth part of sulphuric acid, to give good conduction. The whole is contained in n wooden trough about 30 inches f-qunre and S inches in thickness. The weight of each cell is about 375 pounds, including 295 pounds ot the metallic composition which is the storing agent. Tug cpark» given oif on connecting several cells of the charged battery ',by'a stout copper wire ore remarkably violent, the deflagrated wire flying off in a perfect shower oJ red hot sparks of copper accompanied by loud cracks. On examining the wire after wards, it is found to be literally torn asunder in small pieces by tho force of the discharge. A considerable quantity of hydrogen is evolved from the celln. it is generally acknowledged by electri cians that without a satisfuctoiy secondary battery domestic electric lighting ennnot become general. This i« not, however, confined to domestic lighting, but applies to lighting public buildings and to many other applications of electricity. Some thing must be had which in an electric lighting system, or in an electromotive power system, will take the place repre sented by the gasometer in the gas-lighting system and by the accumulator in a hydraulic power system. The battery which will do this is now provided, and the application of electric currents will probably make more rapid advance from this time than it has done even within tho pa9t three years. The new battery may be made to meet any requirements. It may be of small size to go into the place of the gas meter in a house, or in large masonry tanks for extensive public buildiog", and it mill probably ba made to fill very large tanks at central electric lighting and power-genera ting stations, so that smaller engines running continually .may take the place of large engines running as at proaent only during the hours that lights are required. It will be possible to obtain a light or work an.electric motor at any.time by one move raent of a handle, and the batteries will probably, in some cases, constitute the motor for domestic lighting. One of each pair of the elements or plates will last almost indefinitely, while the other will only require renewal when constantly in use about once in, say, fifteen month?, as far as can at present be seen, and.they may tijrn out to be made more durable. They are easily renewed, and tha batteries re quire no attentjon whatever, except for a little filling up af long intervals of the acidulated water in which the plates are immersed.

A Curious Incident.

Aunt Charles Fox told U3 of an Ameri can friend who once felt a concern to go somewhere, he knew not where. He ordered his gig, his servant asking where he was to drive. "Up and dbtvn the road," said the master. At last they met a funeral. " Follow this funeral," said the master. They followed in the profession until they came to the churchyard. While the service was being performed the friend sat in his gig; at its conclusion he walked to the grave and ex claimed solemnly: " The person now biried is innocent of tho crime laid to her charge," and then returned to his gig. An euderly gentleman in deep mourning came up to' :him in great agitation and said: "Sir, what you said has surprised me very much." " 1 can't help it, I can't help it,'" replied the. other; "I only paid what I .was obliged to say." "Well," said tliG mourner, "the person just buried is my wife, who'for some years has lain under the suspicion of infidelity to me. No one else knew .of ijfc, and op her death-bed.she again protested her innocence, and said that if I would not believe her then a wit ness to it would be: raised up even at her graveside !"---Caro]ine Fox's Memories,

Diamond Dust.

Kespect yourself and act accordingly, and other men will learn tp respect you. The world.is generous, and at lirat takes a man at his own estimate of himself. If he is able to meet the world's expectations all goes well j,4i not, all goes ill. iil'riue not children to their faces to the end that•■they may pay thee in the same coin. This is so thin a cobweb that it may -with littlejdifficuliy .bo seen through; .'iis rarely strong enough tp catch ilies of any considerable magnitude. ■ She who has do mind is more to be pitied than she who is.in waut of..necessaries for the body; and to beiobliged to ,beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of her who bega her daily bread.. There is no.other sin but selfishness. The agriculturist distinguishes between twosorts of roots—th/ise which go deep down into the .ground, .without dividing, andithose i whicb, < divide,©ff into endless fiores;; and roots, i i Selfishness is like. th ( e_latter, j kinder it is the gtqatrootof sin from Which others branch .out.;:.;: yvu mi <•<! i\ r,x?i ,i Imint

CONSUMPTION.

V>Y I'IIOF. TVNDALT,

Otf March 21, 1882, an address of very .-orious public import was doliyorcd by I Jr.

Koch before the Physiological fciopioty of lierlin. It .touchesa (iucation in whicli wo arc all]at present interested—that of

experimental physiology—:and I may, there fore,""bepermitted to giva'sdme account of it in tlie " rimes." The address, a copy of which Ims been courteously sent to me by its author, is entitled " The E iology of Tiil)Oic.ularl)iscaso." Koch first made himself known by the penetration, skill, and thoroughness of his researches on the contagvum of splenic fevo'. By ajmccss ofinnoculation aiid infection he traced this terrible p.irnsito through all its stages of development aiul through its various modus of action. This masterly investigation caused the young physician to be trans ferred from a modest country practice, in the neighbourhood of Breslau, to the post of Government adviser in the Imperial Health Depart men t of 15erlin. From'this department has lately issued a most important scries of investigations on tlic etiology of infective disorders. Koch's last inquiry deals with a disease which, in point of mortality, stands at the head of them all. If, he says, the serious ness nf a malady be measured by tlie minil her of its victims, then the most dreaded pests which have hitherto ravaged the world plague and cholera included—must stand far behind the one now under con sideration. Koch makes the startling state ment that one-seventh of the detuhs of the human race are duo to tubercular disease,1 while fully one-third of those who die in nctivo middle-age are carried oft' by the same cau<e. Prior to Koch it had been plae'e'fl beyond doubt that the disease was commvnicablc j and the aim of the IScrlin physician has been (o determine the precise character of the contagiura whwh previous experiments on innoculation and inhalntion had proved to bo capable of indefinite transfer and reproduction. He subjected the diseased organs of a great number of men. and auimals.to microscopic examina tion, and found, in all cases, the tubercles infested with a minute, rod-shaped parasite, which, by means of a special dye, he dtlier cntiatcd from the surrounding tissue. It was, lie says, in the highest dc^ne impres sive to observe in the centre of the tubercle cell the minute organism which had created it. Transferring directly, by innoculation, the tuberculous matter from diseased nni muls to healthy ones; he in every instance reproduced the disease. To meet the ob jection that it was 110); the parasite itself, but somewirus iri;whieli it was .imbedded ■in the diseased orgnri, that was the real contngitim, he cultivated his baeili iirti tic ally, for long periods ot,time iipd through many successive generations, With a speck of matter, for example, from a tuberculous human.lung, be infected ■». substance pre pared, after-much-trial, by him-etf, With the view of affording nutriment to the para sito. Hero he permitted.it to gruwsand multiply. From this new generation lie took a minute sample ..and infected .there with frcsli fautrltivo matter, thusp oducing another brood. Generation after generation of bacilli were developed in this way with out the intervention of disease. At the end of the process, which sometimes em braced successive cultivations extending over half a year, the purified bucilli were introducod into the circulation of healthy animals of various kinds. In every ca*e innoculation was followed by the reproduc tion and.spread f>f ilio parasite and the generation of tho original disease. Permit mo to give a further, though still brief and sketchy, account of Koch's ox porimeutß. Of six guioon-pig», all in good health, four were innoculutoii with bacilli derived originally from a human lung, which, in fifty-four days, had produced live successive generations. Two of six ani mals were not infeced. In everyone of the infected cases tho guinea-pig sickened and lost flesh. After thirty-two days one of thorn died, and after thirty-five days the remaining live were killed an examined. In tho guinea-pig that died, and in the thrco tcmaining infected ones, strongly pronounced tubercular disease had set in. .Spleen, liver, a"d lungs wero found filled with tubercles; while in the two uninfected animals no truce of the disease was ob s-rved. In a second experiment, six out of eight guinea-pigs wore innoculated with cultivated bacilli, derived orginally from tho tuberculous lung* of a monkey, bed and re-bred for ninetyrfivedays, until eight generations had bopn produced. Ercry one of these nnimals was attacked, while tho two uninfected guinea-pigs remained perfectly healthy. Similar experiments were made with cats, rabbits, rats, mice,

and othor animals, and, without exception, it was found that tho injection of Hie para site into the animal system was followed by decided, anil in most cases, virulent tubercular disease.

In the cases thm.far mentioned innocnia tion had been effected iv the abdomen. Tho pbice of innoculation was afterwards changed to the aqueous humour of the eye Three rabbits received each a speck of 6rto;7/(W-culture, derived originally from a human lung affected with pneumonia Eißhty-nine days had been devoted to the culture of the organism. Tho infected rabbits rapidly lost llcsh, and after twenty five days were killed and examined. The lungs of every one ot them Avcre found charged with tubercles. Of three other rabbits, one received an injection of pure blood-sorum in the aqueoua humour of the eye, while the o'her two woro infected, in a similar way, with the game serum, containing bacilli dcrivod O'iginally from a diseased lung, and subjected to ninety-one daj s' cultivation. After twenty-eight days the rabbits wtre killed. The one which had received an .iniection of pure serum was found perfectly healthy, while the two others were found overspread with tubercles.

Other experiments are recorded in this admirable essay, from 'which the weighti est practical couclusions may he drawn Koch determines the limits of temperature betweon which the tuberclc'Jaa'W?/* can develop and multiply. 'Jhe minimum tem perature he finds to be eighty-six degrees JFahrenheit, and the maximum one hundred and four degrees. He concludes that, un like the bacillus anthracis of splenic fever which can tlourish freely outside the ani mal body, in the temperate zone animal warmth is necessary for the propagation of the newly discovered organism. In a vast number of casc3 Koch has examined the matter expectorated from the lungs of per sons affected with phthisis, and found in it swarms of bacilli, while in matter expecto ratd from the lungs of persons not thus alllicled he has never found the organism. Tho expectorated matter in t|jp former eases was highly infective, nor did drying destroy its virulence. Guinea-pigs infected with expectorated matter which had bepn kept (by for two, four, and eight weeks respectively were smitten with tubercular disease quite as virulent as that produced by fresh expectoration, Koch points to the grave danger of inhaling air in which par ticles of the dried sputa of consumptive patients mingles with dust of other kinds. It would be mere impertinence on my part to draw the obvious moral from expeiiments. In no other conceivable way than that pursued by Koch could the true character of tho most destructive malady by which humanity is now assailed be de terni'iied. And however noisy the fanati cism of the moment may be, the common sense of Englishmen will not, in the long ran, permit it to enact cruelty in the name of tenderness, or to debar us from the light and loading of such investigations as tbat which is here so imperfectly described.— " Knowledge," April 28th, 1882.

Intense Love Within Limits.

"Pull up your pants, papa." Aristides McOuire heard theso words aa they came frpin tlie ruby-fed lip 3 of'Gwen dolon Mahafly and floated to his pars on the softly f-ighing and sensous breezes of a June evening. He looked and saw the pretty feet and shapely ancle» of Gwendolen as she picked hor way carefully along the mnddy crosswalk. He notod the tendorly solioilous tone in which she addressed her father, and that tone thrilled his very blood. Weiss beer would have also done it, but Aristidcs was not so fly as he might .have been.

Scarcely knowing why he did so, the young man followed the girl and her father, until fina'ly they turned up Ogden avenup, and, as Gwendolen headed for the south. Avest and storjd' fpr'an jnstant with her polonaise fluttering in the wind, she turrird to her oompanion and said: "Ouisis next to the last house on the street; isn't it, papa?" •■' Yes, my darling," replied the old man. "How long is this street?" asked Aristidcs of a policeman, : "Five miles.'' ■ 1 The young man entered a neighbouring saloon and sat down with a dull thud. "I love her madly.^hesaid, "but Heaven help me, I am not a Charles Rowell."— Chicago I.ribune., ,■ .■/■';, -, • ,• •. ;,;;/

AmilHlng Jlvcach of Promise.

At Dublin, before Mr Jusico Harrison and a common jury, a laughable ca?e of breach of promise of marriage was tried -the gen tleman being the plaintiff and the lady the defendant.. The plainiid', Robert Morris, is a farmer of tome twenty-five or thirty years of age, residing at Ballycarran, in the county of Wexford, and the defen dant a buxom widow of about sixty summers.living in the same neighbourhood. The damages sought by the plaintiff as a solatium tor his wounded feelings were £1,500. Mr Purcell, Q.C., stated the case for the plaiatiir. The lady was reputed to have a nice liitle piece of property in her own right, amounting to £2,500. The plamtifl was aware of this important fact, and it oc curred to him that the match would he n desirable one, notwithstanding the lady's age aud the fact of her being a widow. After a short if not an ardent courtship, he popped the question, and woa accepted. Uut woman was ever fickle. Within a few months the lady morru'd another mi or, n farmer named Cranwell, and the plaintill' was left with blighted hopes and a broken heart. He took the present proceedings to recover damages for the loss of the hi.ly, and for tho loss of the advantageous position which the marriage would have given him, The plaintill', a simple-looking young man, apparently about twenty years of age, was examined by Mr Hitchcock, lie saM lie knew the defendmt some ye.<it: In March l;ust he called to see licr. She asked him. to come and see her again, and he did so. He called at the hou*e and .saw her several times, In April last he called on her and saw her in the parlour. She was alone.

Was marriage talked of ?—Yes; we were talking about people getting married. Who commenced the mbject ? —She did, She said she would uever marry any one only a young man.

She wanted a young man ?— Yes, sir She said she would not marry an old man - that she would never marry anyone hut a young man that had never shaved (laugh ter).

What else did she say 1 She then asked me did I ever shave. I said I did, but very seldom (laughter).

What more occurred ?— She began feeling my face ond said it was Miiooth (laughter) Then what happened ? Did you pop the ijuorftion ?—I did, I asked her would she marry me, She said she would not make any promise just then. She asked me what fortune I had. I »aid if I married with my father's approval I would get a farm- called Annaeurt and £600. She said £000 was very .Tittle, And that sho was'worth ten times as much. She aaked me what was the value of Annugurt, and did I thiuk my father would be satisfied if I married her. I culled on her 'everal times after wards. My father gave his consent to the match. Some time after tlint she got me to buy a pig for her at the fair. When I brought homo the pig she told ma by the time it got fat and was fit to sell sho would many me (laughter). She also gavo me a silvrr fruit knife as a " token."

When did you hear she intended to break off the match and marry Cranwell ? —ln July. I called on Crauwell in August and asked him was he going to marry Mr* Jones. He said he believed so. I told him I was engaged to her. Had you a light for tho lady?— No. I told him I was engaged to her, and that if he married her I would bring an action for breach of promise daughter). She married Cranwell on the 11th of August. Cross-examined by Mr Lynch. Did you evcr-love the widow, sir?— Never. Did you hear your counsel inform the jury you were a broken-hearted man ?—No, sir.

When did you fi-st begin to think of marrying her ?—ln March. How long had you been shaving at that time ?—1 could not swear.

You can't swear when you commenced to shave ?—No.

Hud you a slight moustache when you began courting her ?—A slight one. It has grown luxuriant si»ce '!- Rather. Did you sciu-'t-zc her band?— No.

She aaked you had you ever shaved ? — Yes.

And she told you shq would marry you when the pig got fat ?—Yes, when tho pig was fit to sell

Did tbe pig ever get fat, sir?—l don't know.

Haven't yo\i sworn that tho lndy told you she would not marry you till the pit; got fat and now you say you don't know whether the pig has ever got fat 1 I don't know. When did you near that she was going to cut, you and marry CranweM ?- In July. I had a conversation with Mr Waircn.

Who uhe? -An auctioneer. He t aid to me "So Cranwell is going to get tho old woman after all; " and he told me if I gave him £100 lie would put Cranwell out and get me in (laughter). Didn't you give Warren, an I 0 U for £500? -I did,

The document was read—

£500 sterling. Ballycanew, July 13, 1881. I 0 U, R. W. Warren. Ksq.. »ho sum of fivo hundred pounds stc ling provider) I marry Airs Matilda Jones, of Ballycanew, widow. KOBKKT MORRIS. Witness present—Edmund Perry.

Margaret Quinsey, servant in the house of defendant, deposed that early in April tho defendant told her she had got a grand offer ; that Robert Morris had proposed to her, and she would marry him because ho was a young ma", and that blio would not marry an old man, as he might use her badly. Some time afterwards the defen dant told witness she had changed her mind and was {joing to marry Thomas Cranwetl, and that if Morris knocked at tho door she was not to let him in without telling her, because sho had made so many promises to him that »he was delicate in Ict'ing him in, and was ashamed of breaking her word. Other evidence was given. The defendant was examined, and dpnjpd almost the whole of the plaintiffs allega tions. She said she ncvor promised to mairy him j on the contrary, she rofused on the ground that she was too »ld for him, The jury found for tho plaintiff, damages 6d,

That Phonograph.

Young Smiffkins was somewhat surprised, but highly elated, when he recived a polite invitation from old Scroggins to come up and take a crust —which meant dinner— and that, too, when he had spent the very evening before in tbc sweet society of Mis 9 Matilda Jane Scroggins, It is needless to say that he was promptly on hand. "Matilda Jane,"said the old gentleman, when dinner was over, " did you evor hoar the phonograph in active opjcratiqn j "No, pa, but 1 should lik'o to," answered the maiden, who wished to humour her parent's scientilic weakness. " Well, my dear, you shall. I bought one the day before yesterday. You will find it under the sofa in the front parlour. I forgot to take it up stairs last night when I left you and Smiflkins conversing on church festivals."

Matilda brought the machine, and the old man wound it up, remarking that he had set it just before going to bed. The family circle and one or two pf Scroggins's cronies, who happened to be present, lis tened with a great deal of interest as it slowly revolved.

"Thank Godi tho o'd devil's gone a last! " exclaimed the phonograph, in tones that sounded amazingly like those of Smiff kins. "I thought the hateful old thing would sit up all night,' continued the wonderful invention in a voice that was unmistakably that of Matilda Jane. " Well, my own darling, we'll make up for lost time. Yum—yum !" ejaculated the revolving cylinder, with a pronounced Smiffkins accent, "0, don't darling I you mustn't. Yum—yum ! '.' it proceeded, in the tones of ■Ma.ti]c(a'j;anp. ' 4'f(;er"that tliq in'strujWt grew inppherent a.nd mixed, as ii were. A._ subdued oscillatory sound, mingled with deep-drawn sighs and occas ional whisptred protests in the Matilda Jane voioo Were ail that could be distin gui.hed,till it suddenly blurted out j " Woll, I suppose old Serog will be oominc; down stairs with a club unless I cloar out." Another silence broken by "Yum—yums," and then in the softer voice the inexorable cylinder concluded:—" There, you must go now. Good— yum—night—yum - yum. I'll make tbe old beast ask you up to din ner to-morrow—yum—yum'l" By this time Matilda Jane had fainted, and Smiffkins's face looked Jijcp gref.o ohcesp, but pjd fciorbggins pnzedupon them grimly, after- the fashion of a graven image, and tpe iost of the company seemed to be rather amusod than otherwise. Smiffkins bought a mountain how>tzer next day and went East to look for Edison.

y'lhpai Missuses" Again.—Applioant for situation as housemaid i " Well, you see, mum, the misses at my last place was a very nice person, but I Couldn't get on with the lady as was cook, so I was obligated to leave." \ him <>i :<kH .; ii«nj

OU R LITTLE FOLKS.

TRAINING CHILDREN,

It is easy to spoil children by rearing them in idleness. A girl who i.s never al lowed to sow, all of whose clothes are mp.de for.hor and put on'her till she is ten, twelve, fifteen or eighteen" years of age, is spoiled. The mother lias spoiled her by doing every thing for her. The true idea of self-restraint is to'?let the child venture. A child's mis takes are bct'er than no mistakes ; because when a child makes m'stakes arid has to correct their,, it.is on the way toward know ing ."something. A boy who is " put!to bed" iii night, who is waited every morning, and never waken himself up; and is dressed, and washed, iuid never makes mi-takes about being clean ; and is fed, and never has any thing to do with Irs fool; and is watched, and nevor watches himself; and isjeared for. and kept all day from doing mt- ng—such child might as well be a tallow can ile, per fectly straight and solid and comely and unvital, and good for nothing but to be burned up. A P.OY'S ESSAY. Once a man had a dog which dident have no tal, the do" dident, cos itwaa out off wen it was liitle, but, Franky, that's the baby, he is little 100, yea, indeed,, like pup: pie*. So the man's dog grode up ■*ithour no tail for to waggle, hut one night some notty b >ys they got a piece of rope out of a shipyard, and mm pitch, and fastened the rope unto the end of the dog's back with th" pitch like if grode there. Then that dog was prowd Ukm he was a new dog, on an old t.iil, and he went swelling around a inon» the other d'guj a frying for to w ggle it till it most broke his back. JJut he cudeni lift it off the ground, and after a wile it was drug a cossacigat wkh a fellow had thivw away, audit got a lite,! the tail did, and a smoke its own self. Then the dog it lied down like it was agon io sleep, and it said to the other docs—"There wasent n-ver any pup wich cude be co cool and callum like me while his tail was a hous" afire. I ot to be hired out to teech fortitude to marters. Just wakn me up wen it-t ol burnt of cos I have a important engagement. ' But when it was ol of, and the iire was got hold of the cake of pitch unto t!ie end of his back he di>'ent have to be woVe up, cis he Woke up the whole town hissclf.—"De troit Free Press."

A CHILD'S KISS Give me n kiss from your sucet red lips, Wee little maiden dear; Flint? me a kiss from your fliger tips— Something to banish care. To makQ me forget this worir and pain, To make mo a o .lid, like th-solf again

Climb in my arms, little devdrop sweet; Creep in my world-worn hart. " Trample its wo s with yoiiraimpled feet, Gather tie tears that start; Weave tho cTiurm of thy sinles life o'er mine Till my record shall read assure as thine. 1 A middle-sizedboy,!wiitinfacomposition on " Extremes " remarked tli.t " we should avoid extremes, especially tlose of wasps and bees." ■ " Charity begins at home s well denned by a little Sunday-school chill as meaning " Giving to others what we dai't want our selves."

A child being asked what ■sere the three great fea-ts of the Jews, proiutly replifd. "IJreakfas1, dinner, and sup)cr." A little girl, when asked tr her mother about suspicious bites in the ales of a dozen apples, answered, " Perhaps, mother, they have been frost bitten ; it wa so cold last night." i hildrcn are sent into tho v>rld to teach us how lovely angels are ; bu when a man finds himself pant<d to the net of a chair by a piece of treacle toil'ee honevcr thinks of thw.

■When Jemima went to scool she -was asked why the noun bachelorras singular. " Because,'1 she rcpli< d, " it i so very sin gular that they don't get mailed." A little girl beeping for so»e sugar in her tea was told that she had lvii several lumps already. Whereupon she jitifully said, "Ye', mamma, but you sec .ley nicltaway so*!"

A small boy went to see hiEjrandmqther. After lonkingeagerly round th handsomely furnished room where she satheexi-luim'd inquiringly, "Oh, gaandmaia, where is the miserable table papa saysyou keep ?'

A little Chicago fouryeanld coated a ripple by remarking to the lusher of her Sunday-school class, " Our og's dead. 1 bet the impels were scared Wen thoy saw him coming up the walk. |} is cross to strangers," .' A little three yrar-old Abfdonian want ing something of his mothcrVhcn she wa busy with tlie baby, she sn), "Go away; I can't bot'cr with you now " What did you have 'o many ohi dren h if you can't take care of 'em ?" was the- unexpected re tort, As you go through life, Jumbling, and slipping, and staggering to j>ur feet again, ructully aware of ymir own belched weak ness, nnd praying with n coiriie lieart, )et us trust, (hut )ou may if ba lrd intu tompialion, have you not iten looked at other fellow signers, and fc'culated with an awful interest ou thtiriireer ? Some there are on whom, quite in leir enrly lives, dark Ahrimaneabas seemedo lay hia dread mark; cliildren, yet corrupted wicked ot ongue — leiuler of agf, yj cruel ; who should be truth-telling ,'md generous (they wero at their inoiher|boiomß yester day), but are fnlse and treiy before their time. Infanta almost, theyitac'lse the art and selfishness of <<ld men Behind their candid faces arc wiles ami .ickeduepg, and a hideous preoocitv of artiie. I can recall such, and in the \i jta (if ff-r>fT, uuforgotten boyhood, cun sec marchid thai f>nd little procc-sion of enfants pftus. May thoy bo paved, pr.iy heivenl \\< n there is the doubtful class, those whore slill ou trial; those who full and ii.se aim ; I,'iote who are often worsted ii life's battle; beaten down, wounded, ;nd imprieoued; but escape laid conc.tr eometimes. And then there ia the ippy dasa about whom there Bccms no oubt at all ; the spotless and \yliite-iubui ones, to whom virtue is easy j in whosoure bosoms faiih nestles, and cold doubt ids no entrance ; who are children and jod ; young men and good ; husbands anWaihers, and yet gond. Why cou'd the c^taiu of our school write his Greek iambics]}ithout an effort, and without an enof Othets of ua blistered the page witlunarailing teara and blots, and might toj^vpr so, and come in lag last at the boforof the form. Oftr friend Phll'p, belongs tOthc middle-class, in which you and I prpibly are, my dear sir—cot yet, 1 hopu,-redeeuiably con signed to "that third clna whereof mention has been made. - Thacluiy.

New York Dens.

LonGjNO-HOUGES gm§lly are not plea sant p'ficfs, but thofpj'i ih\s country arc certain y an improYOtncj on the. * cw York dens. Were told (li there is a section of the city of Acw Yjk which is pacfo il densely'with populafn, and in winch there are spots of in&ciibable darkness anil filth. People wlf live in decent and well-kept houses canjave no idea of the wretch dness povcrtj^ud Hirt that crowd tlicc lodging-houses-called. They are for the most par", old) keries, intn wliicli have been crowded | l»rsjG a number of bunks and hannnockli they can be made \o contain, In one lv room, slung one above another, lyinffi narrow strips of canvas, iilthy and iiutcd boyoud liccrip tion, are found a3 iliy as sixty human beings—men and boj of all ages. These r< oms occupy succcsjc floors of some of the houses. They afWithout ventilation, and in the winter arjwarmed by a coal stove maintained at fed heat.

The occupants of |se dcus, who never know the luxury ell bath, lie down in their sa'urat d andjwlodorous rags. No pen can decribe thWcnsiveness of, the atmosphere, and it jidillicult for anyone, accastonied to thif-oniforts of life, to undereta'iid hpw hi|in beings can exist in these chambers of orrors. The natural savages live in the pjn air, and subsist on tho ordinary produdfof the earth; bat the city savage breatjfc a poisomd atmos phere, and feeds on|io offal and garbage of tho gutter and tho.ljjj- shop. If cleanliness is next to godliness the heathen who ia habit tlie lodging-fee dens of I* cw York are further from £ kingdom of Hci' en than the mest brfil wild man in Kailir land. , I In this pestilent! region virtue and de cency are nn"now and. im; o sible. The unfortunate creatfe who is once lo.st in th's squalid life incapable of resistance to the forces that dyi him down. There is no return from tß,dark abides of vice in which bodily u'lthU well as moral corrup tion, has boooine j^xed condition. Tba^ theso aggregation^ mis-ry smd crime are the school 1 in whll various forms of wic kedness are taughiaobious. Old offen ders and apt you! punils herd together there. Mosthorfle ol all, it is said that even to the obildj of comfo;table homes, s'rar ge as it mayypear, tnere is a horrible fascinatiou that i\ V s them downward into these gulfs of mily. Many a one, missed from a happy hoj, has been found in these dens, led there oa fearful instinct of dq praviiy, ■ .;■ ■%■■'■■ '■ : ■ ""'••■■■-; -'■■'■

HUMOROUS.

An autumn idyl: The corner loafer. The concern that always makes money : The mint. An election, like a circus, is generally carried on under a canvas. A cook who could not make pancakes in formed her mistress that she objected, on piiuciple, to fritter away her time, A .woman can dreßOjher hair to make her self look ten ytars younger, but the best a man can do is to pjrtly cover a bald spot and feel that he is a deceiver. "I wish 1 sould get a pair of easy boot?," exclaimed J. to hist gloomy friend ]{. " All right; but I like hoots wliich pinch my feet well, then I can't thiuk ot my o'her troubles." The editor of a Virginia paper was a ked lty the btrangtr if it was po3.iible that little town kfpt up four newspaper*, and the reply was : " No ; it takes four newspapers to keep up the town," A subscriber to a newspaper wrote to the editor thus: " I dou't want your paper any longer." To which the editor replied : " I wouldn't make it any longer if you did. The present length suits me very well," "My wife lost htr pur«e with three pounds in it to-day," said a sid-looking mtm " When going irjto town or coming home ?" ankod somebody. " When ! Didn't 1 tell you slie had *ome money iv it?" demamled the cad-looking maD, and every body knew when she lost it. The following epigram was written on a Mr Well wood, who wns much given to exaggeration . — Yon double each story yon tell. You rtonblo ounli slxht that you bob ; Ynnr mims'B doable v b double h ' Dauble v double o D. An Kugli«h lady, seated at a table d'hote in Pads ucxt to a travelled American, tii-d in vain to extract from him any expression of admiration ot wbat he bad seen io t-mope. At last she thought of the Vati can, and siid she supposed he would have been much delightid with the beauty of the statues tbeie. "Wai." replied be, languidly, "guess I don't think much of tbern stone gals." New heading of Old Initials.—l.O.Q.T. often get tight. What paper has the greatest circulation among ladies ? A curl paper. ' Why is a piece of cheap flannel like a dirty nmn? Because they both shrink from washing. Why is a manager who is about to bring •nt a new piece nearly certain to squint ? Because he is sure to have a "cast" in his eye. 11 Meant barkastic."—Waiter (who has just brought him his sixth cup) : " You don't like coflee, sir!" Guest: ."Oh, yes, Ido ; I'm very fond of a litrle coffee ; but [have to drink »uch a confounded lot of water here to get that little." •' How often does the ferry-boat start T asked the lady, "Ivery fifteen minutes, mum" "How long-since the boat left here?" "Tin minutes, mum." Lady waits ten minutes, and then fay*, "Didn't you say the boat starts every fiiteen minutes?" " 1 did, mum." " Well, I have waited here ten minutes since you m;d the boat had boen gnne ten minutes 1" "Yes, mum." " Then how do you make out that it start every iifieen minutes!" "Why, ye tee, mum, it starring from this soide wan fifteen minutes, and from the other soide the nixt "

Chicago as it is.

TnK following picture of Chicago as it now exists is given by the Hey. Dr. He/rick Johnson, of the Fourth Presby terian Church in that city :—" Politic* seized by unprincipled aspirants for power ami place; official patronage dispensed with no regard ■whatever for the public weal; billots sometimes served out like fixed ammunition,and dropped into the box at the word of command, witha kind of mili tary prideinnot caring what they contained, providing they came from the proper quarter j a mayor will go into a liquor dealer's convention, and publicly boast of bis hftvJDg been brought up on whisicy; a municipal chi^t who«e sworn duty it U to enforce law seekiDg to " regu late" an inquiry wbich he is under Irgal obligation to suppress; gambling houses flaunting theirsbameles and lawle s infamy in open day ; dogs' dens and low varieties visited and often crowded by hun dreds and thoui-aiidsof youugrnenand'youug worn-n (1,180 actually counted a? entering one of these vile establishments on one evening between the hours of 7 and 12 p.m.); 4,000 plaoes for the sale of liquor that is more saloons than lampposts; fifteen mile" of solid grog shops; liquor sold to miuorp, in flagrant violation af the law, and boys and girls found drnnk in the streets; a Sabbath that, in tome portions of the city, is a kind of hign carnival,' whore men and women trample on every thing mcred with defiant and insolent scoff; over 70,000 children, between the ages of six and twenty-one, with out any religious instruction whatever ; the majority of crime in the city committed by minors, and criminal classes control'iog the juries, and packing them to their purpose.1' _^^

Strange Marriage Announce ments.

It h not uncommon to find the bride de scribed in the old magazines us "a most amiable young lady," and the amount of her dowry is frequently stated. , Thus a banker's daughter is said to have "brought a fortune of £83 336." The Edinburgh "Weekly Magazine" of August 12 1773, announces the marriage of a ministor to " Lady Bagraw, a young widow laHy with a hands mo fonune, anJ entirely suii able to the character of a clergyman." The '.'. Npw Ladies' Magazine " [17S6] thus an nounces a runaway match: ''At Gretna Green, Benjamin Ruddell, an eminent grocer and tallow-chandler of Elton to Miss Fortesque, only daughter of Mr Fortesque, an ajrreeable young Jady with a handsome fortune." Another marriage is recorded in the same magazine as having taken place " attor a courtship of twenty-seven years." Of the seventeen marriages announced in the*" Yorkshire man" of April 8,1873, one^is said to have taken place "after a tedious courtship of tinny minutes," and of another the bride, who is stated to be a greengrocer, " has withstood the blasts of fifty winters."- All the Year Bound.

" Auckland, January 12, 1882, "•Messrs L. D. Nathan & Co., Auckland. " Sirs,—l am fulfilling an urgent request of Mrs Andrews, of Lord Howe's Island, in the Pacific, in stating to jou and to Air Hitchens the extraordinary cure made in her case by the use of Hitcnens' Medicinal Blood Restorer. Living on the Island, I am an eye-witness of the fact, and feel * it a duty both to Mr Hitchens and to the general public to testify to the really won "lerful effect of that medicine.

"Mrs Andrews wns for four or five years a martyr to agonising paitis in her hip ; medical men calling it sciatica. She bad been treated for it by the several doctors of the British men-o'-war visiting the Island f:om time to time, without the slighte't relief to the intense pain. She was afterwards taken to Sydney, hoping for some relief, if not a pcimanent cure, from treatment of the medical men of that city. _ She was told she was suffering from the hip disease, and her case was incurable. Without a ray of hope to lighten her future life; pain and-despair her constant attendants, ,her casevjTflsirea'ly deplorable. W,,C. E. Ponder, t,he n^lanager of the Guano Company at Lori,Howe's Island, one day.recommehded he;, Mxy .Hitcheris' Blood Restorer, as the".A i i.was just :* ;om%Renown at the;.-,,. 4 through Die adverMswnent of Oppertnane's cure,';■ testified »p, the German-Consul. lire: An'lrewß readily yielded to tlic reconmien datioo, aV;d sent fote|-'o bottles to Mr Hrchens,'Aucklao*f; fefp. three weeks . after using- itM£fi£ -was vfe° »se and lk.w^.£ife use of cri3^andtho C*? A?l r/ s tr-tny n?arvellou ß ,U to Mr Hi^eis is expressci > ?Cr i m crJ?Taym lhanking God ioi her; v

if }} v m,y firm belief that another two fP. tl"; eo bottles—unfortunately not ob-"• WJamable without long delay-would have wrought auch a com|ilcip ouro as to make crutches unnecessary. Oa .my return to MLonl Howe's* Hwi, J shall take a stock ~,01-tins wonderful medicine, so that a ..supply will pever be quite, out; for no ..words of .mine-can adequately express my ||anb m its curativeW.rfies, after steim» lj 'he result of it in M. s Andrew*' case. ]g " I am, dear Sirs, B "Yours faithfully, 1 ■ ; " Taos. Gecx Chas. Nichols, ' \. '(•(■ ''Master Mariner," I certify to tbo correctness of the above lna every particular, " <- 1. Charles C. Ponder. < (Declared before me this 13th day oi January, 18S2,

P. A. Pjtitups, J.P.

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rPIHE want of a reliable remedy for Rhen- X mutism, Sciatica, Gout, Lumbago &c, libs long been felt as one of the greatest calamities of the age. While other means and medicines having been proving them« selves vain and delu-ive this remedy has ■ been silently and steadily unloosing the cruel fingers . f disease, and feeing captive * men from ilieir deadly embrace. The people are now requested to give Blood Restorer a fair and impartial trial. And the Proprietor would have it distinctly understood that the cures of Rheumatism w' /*? id™ entirely t0 his Medicine's Wonderful Effect upon the Blood, by its Cleansing, Purifying, and Invigorating powe r, 6 Impurity and Inactivity of the Blood is tbe cause of most sickness and pain. After a course of this medicine, bloodvessels— which have become, as it were, choked up with unhealthy matter-become exhilarant with pure sea-let life-blood,- flowing na . turally aloßg, and imparting in its course vigour and strength to the entire system. KITCHENS'. CELEBRATED jgLOOD TJESTOKER, The Renovator of the Human Blood, No more Physical Degeneration if the Laws of Health are observed, ordinary care exercised, and BLOOD RESTORER freely taken. HITCHENS' fHORDIALISBD \_^ JgLOOD T)E STOKER (Price, £2 per case net), Is a healthy and palatable summer drink when mixed with Lemonade or similar beverages. • Without the great remedial properties of the MEDICINAL Blood Restorer, it isstiC of like character in its action on the human system, and is specially manufactured for HOTEL USE. To be had Wholesale of L. D. NATHAN & Co., Sole Agents. TTITCBENB' BLOOD RESTORER. We have received the following Testi monial anent this remedy, and publish it for general information, L. D. NATHAN & CO.