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NINETEENTH CENTURY

IMPROVEMENTS.

BY EMILY ROGERS.

Friends? Where's the mortal who's got one! Who owns to a treasure so rare? The race is extinct-there is not one-

They've long ago vanished in air.

Old triends of the past are succeeded

By acquaintances, truc, by the supre;

But they don't supply quite what is needed,

And I'm tempted to own are a bore.

True friends and good neighbours existed

Some centuries back, I dare say;.

But materiale of which they consisted

Are quité out fashion to day.

Heurta? Pra a dim recollection Of having once read of such things; But relinquished for gold, by election, They happily found themselves winge. So, in spite of the dictates of Cupid, Who argued the point, but in vain, We ignore them as useless and stupid, And mortals who have them insane. Thank heaven, however, such madness Is now not so frequently seen,

And we own with a triumphant gladness That for years such a case has not beer.

Truth? Why it's just a delusion Which posts and fools talk about; But 'twero wiser to make no allusion To that whose existence I doubt;

Or at any rate, taking for granted

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There once was a fragment on earth, It never took root, being planted Without due regard to its worth. And I think, and none seem to doubt it, At the present enlivening age, That they get on much better without it Who its services never engage.

Nature. She's long since been banished, We didn't approve of her plans, And now every trace of her's vanished- Her reign is succeeded by man's,

I fear our improvements are flying

A little too far and too fast;

Indeed, I expect we'll be trying

To improve upon Heaven at last! Improvement, once free, who shall bind her? Where will she her arrows not east ? And nature onoe lost who shall find her, Or call back the old-fashioned past? -From "The Ivy Wreath.”

CULTURE,

It has become fashionable to be cultivat ed, and hence comes the din of culture that forever fills our eare; yet the harm coming from its commouness is not merely

long and painfully as to whether it will really be any object to you to have your boots.blacked unless they are returned.

Give your key to the omnibus driver if you forgot and carry it off with you.”

Outside the hotel, wherever you wander, you are intelligently assisted by the signs. You cannot come to grief as long as you are in your right mind with so many in structions to keep track of. For instance:

"Keep off the graes,"

"Don't climb the trees.” *Hands off the vegetables."

THE CHINA MAIL.

When I came round again I said: --- "Excuse the seemingly impartinant on, riosity of a drowning man, but will you ex- plain this singular conduct of yours 192

With pleasure. I am the coroner, Don't hurry on my Rosount; I can wait for you. I wish I had a match,"

“Take my pisco and I'll go and get you one," I said.

He declined. This lack of confidence on his part created a coolness between us, and from that time forward I avoided him.

It was my idea, in case anything happen Don't hitch your horse to the shrubod to me, to so time the occurrence as to bory."

throw my custom into the hands of the Visit the Cave of the Winds.” ~

opposition coroner over on the American side.

At last a policeman came along and ar. rested he for disturbing the peace by yolling for help.

rings.

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Have your portrait taken in your car Forty per cent. in gold levied on all peanuts and other Indian curiosities pur- caused in Canada."

The judge fued me, but I had the advan. Photographs of the Falls taken here." tage of him. My money was with my Visitors will please notify the superin-pantaloons, which were with the Indians. tendent of any neglect on the part of Than I examped. I am now lying in s employes to charge for commodities. (No very critical condition-at least I am lying inattention of this kind is observed.) any way, arities or not.

**Don't throw stones down; there might be people below." The proprietors will not be responsible for parties who jump over the falls." (More shirking of respon sibility-it appears to be the prevailing thing hero

I always had a high regard for the signers of the Declaration of Independence; but now they did not really seem to amount to much along with the signora of Niagara Falla.

..

To tell the truth, the multitude of signs annoyed me. It was because I noticed at last they were prohibiting the very thing I Was just wanting to do.

I desired to roll on the grass: the sign prohibited it. I longed to smoke: a sign prohibited it. And I was just in the act of throwing & stone over to satonish and pul- voriso such partios as might be picnicking below, when a sign I had just mentioned forbade that. Even that satisfaction was denied me, and I was a friendless orphan.

There was no resource now but to seek consolation from the flowing bowl. I drew my flask from my pocket, but it was all in vain. A sign confronted me, which said:

No drinking allowed on these pre. ntises,"

On that spot I might have perished of thirst but for the saving words of an honoured maxim that fitted through my in dry times" Common law takes prece- memory at that moment; "All signs fail

dence of the statutes; I was saved.

The noble red man had always been a darling of mine. I love to read about him in tale and legends and romance.

I love to read of his inspired sagacity, and of his love of the wild, free life of

esan.

the shade of a great tree, making mocassine, I came upon a camp of them gathered in and addressed them in the following lan guage of friendship :---

Noble Red Men, Brave Grand Srchem, War Chiefs, Square, and High-you Musk a Mucka, the pale-face from the land of the setting sun greets you. You, Beneficent Polecat, you, Devourer of Mountains, you Roaring Chandergust-the pale-face from beyond the great waters greets you all.

I am hurt all over, but I cannot tell the extent yet, because the doctor is not done taking the inventory.

Ho will make out my manifest this evening. However, thus far, he thinks only six of my wounds are fatal. Don't mind the others.

Upon regaining my right mind I said :-- It is an avinly savage tribe of Indinus that do the bondwork and mocassins for Niagara Falls, doctor. Where do they come from p

I shall not be able to finish my remarks about Niagara Falls until I get better.

A COMBAT ALOFT;;

(Once a Week.)

A small United States war vessel, the Winthrop, with five guns, was cruising off the coast of Africa in search of a slayer, which had been reported to have lately afled from Heyti, West Indies. One day a strong gale drove the vessel shoreward, Captain Willaan, who commanded, just saved her by dropping both anchors within about twenty fathoms of the coast of Guines, a few miles bolow Caps Palmas, The vessel dragging, he was finally obliged to This held the ship, anchor by the stern. although she was now scarcely fifteen feet the branches of which almost touched her from land, right under a huge tree, one of

yard,

Darkness gradually gathered. Soon the gale abated, although the heavens were yet black with alouds hiding the moon, and throwing an impenetrable gloom over all objects.

"Suddenly strange noises filled the woods,

[No. 4440-SEPTEMBER 22, 1877.

The mate's eyts, tok: naturally very large, ↑ Government military school, where he of the lecture-room. And, unless the instry. now glowed out like great balls of firo, qualified for the staff. He has been a ment were very accurate, there might be The moon emerging from behind a cloud, general officer since, in 1873. He has seen some confusion as to whether a sudden and throwing a broad glass of light on service in Yemen, Crots, and Servia. panse was intended as a hint for applause, every object, revealed the figure of the uleiman Khairi Pasko distinguished or was due to a hitch in the machinery. intruder in all ite terrible hideousness. ly himself in engineering at the military The first of these objections might be mot Not the master's 'mate this, but a huge, school, and was subsequently appointed without any great diffionity. Thero isa hairy gorilla, with flanting orez, jaw pro instructor in military science at the capi game, or there was when children were oun- truding, and long teeth disclosed, as its tal. Last year ho was sent to take Comtent with games that involved no moral or great mouth was opened to its full extent mand of the Turkish forems in the Herzego-scientific lesson, in which, while one person The suddeness of this discovery for a vins, and on the renewal of hostilities with recites a poem, another goes through the moment took away the self-possession of Montenegro, he forced his way through actions that he conceives to be appropriate the young midshipman. His bralo grow Montenegrin territory and effected a june to the poet's meaning. A hint might be dizay; his blood was chilled; he trembled tion with All Saib Pasha at Spus, whence taken from this the entward signs of the in every limber) study aldea he marched to Antivari and embarked for telephone might be kept out of the audience's The bravest man in the world might have Salonika, with his army, defend Rou-view, and a person "made up" as accurately been similarly affected under the elronm. melia. He has since compelled the Rusas possible to represent the lecturer might stances, which were certainly of a most mans to fall back from Roumelis upon the appear to deliver the discourse with fitting trging nature.

Shipka Pass. He is over forty years of gesture and aspect. In the same way the Here was the youth; all alone, near the age.

resources of the new apparatus might be and of the yard, with no arme except a Ali Saib Pasha qualified for the staff in turned to account by learned persons desirous small alasp knife in his pocket, and no way the Government military school and be of iustruoting the world, but unable to over of retreat open to him, but

cathe a general officer in 1878. He officiat come their fear of standing up to face an ed as second in command of the Turkish audience. Sitting peacefully in his own army for four months during the Servian study, a man whose eloquence was before war, and shared with Ahmad Ayyoub defeated by his shyness, might give forth Pasha the honor of the victory of Alexinata. burning words to an audience some miles off, Last June, he operated against Montenegro whose applause might be transmitted to him by from the south, but was not able to enter a second telephone arranged for the purpose. Montenegrin territory. He has accompanied In the case of theatrical and operatio Suleiman, Pasha to Roumelia, with the entertainments the telephone might render effective portion of his army.

incalculable services. Suppose that a favou- `

The gorilla being between him and the mast, he was thus debarred from running inward, while two steps backward would precipitate him over the end of the yard, to be dashed to pieces on the deck below.

On came the hateful beast, nearer and poster.

Glancing wildly around him, and seeing nothing of the departed men or their boats, he gave himself up for lost.

Nerving himself at last to do his best, be drew his clasp-knife, resolved at least to strike one good blow in self-defence.

Meanwhile, with all his might he shouted; but so terrific was now become the din in the woods, that he doubted if he was heard by his shipmates."

When within two feet, the gorilla aprang Lat him, clutching the yard with one claw,

burying the other in his shoulder. The blow almost knocked him from his hold.・・・ Writhing with pain as the claw was with- drawn for another blow, and the huge jaw me down with a soap for his throat, he almed a blow with his knife at the creature's neck.

The gorilla, seizing the knife between its weth, jerked it from his hand, and the weapon fell to the deck.

The beast again struck him, and strove. to clutch his white neck in its terrible fangs. Thomas, however, drawing far back, the monster only got his jacket in its teeth.

He wrenched himself quickly from ity to woolve upon his breast a blow that knocked He clutched the yard. The gorilla, bending over, would the next mo- him over.

ment have caught his whole head in his huge jaws, but for his letting himself quickly down to the stirrup.

There he glang for a moment, out of the roach of his enemy. The latter, however, now winding its limbs round the yard, getting ita jaw over his head."

We must look into this matter.”

"Aye, aye, ar," answered Mr Davis, who reach of its fangs and claws. was the first lleutenant.

The order was noon obeyed. captain to the midshipman and the master's "Mr Thomas and Mr Graves," said the mate, "I shall go ashore myself; so we leave the vessel in your charge. Keep a good look-out. Although I have taken the whole orow, I will leave ten men, with one you may give." of our boats, usar enough to hear any alarm

The next moment the two boats were being pulled shoreward, and the young officers, with the cook, the cabin-boy, and steward, were the sole occupants of the vessel

The thres latter were in their berths, slooping to soundly that the report of a cannon could hardly have waked them.

The midshipman, Mr Thomas, and Graves, the master's mate, mounted to the cross-trees.

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Thomas realized the full peril of his situation. Right beneath him lay a spare anchor, upon which he must fall when the pale moonbeams, the eyeballs of the hairy strands of the rope ab ald part. In the tend above him seemed to glow with a green lustre, as his teeth snapped at the cord. One of the strands was already out through. In one minute all would be over.

Hanging thus between life and death, Thomas had given up all hope, when he heard the simultaneous crack of many rifien; and with one long, wild scream, the gorilla fell whizzing past him, crashing to the deak with four bullets in its body. yard. He then bebeld his rescuers, some Thomas easily succeeded in regaining the of the crew of the quarter-boat, who, to save him. arriving, aboard, bad mounted the rigging

Azis Pasha entered the army in 1849, and rite actor is prevented from appearing by a qualified in the military whool as an artilt of the gout or anything else which cripples, lery oficer. He subsequently completed his limbs, but leaves his voies and intelligence his-education in Berlin, where he is said to unhurt. What more simple in such an have made himself almost perfect in his emergency than to arrange a telephone by particular line. At Alexinatz he dorved which his accents shall be carried to an as a brigade officer and did good service, enraptured audience, while a double goes His present post is that of commandant of through the mere mechanical movements of the garrison of Shumla:

the part? Or, if a prima donna were and-

Salami Pasha entered the army in 1858, denly indisposed, and no one could be found and qualified in the military schools as a to take her place, the manager miglit at once cavalry ofloor. In the Sarvian war he was telegraph to another prima donna in a distant wounded, and was made the commander of town, and have the heroine's music sung by a brigade. He has a great reputation as a telephone. This system might of course be bold and clever officer. At present he is carried still further, so as to improve on the in charge of the defence of Silistria, new method lately exhibited at Bayreuth.⠀

Ahmad Shukri Pasha is an old offoer Herr Wagner is of opinion that the sight of who has been a second time placed in com- en orchestra interferes with the proper mand of a brigade and seat to the Grecian appreciation of the lyric drama. The imagi frontier.

nation, which should be filled with mysterious. On the Asistio side we have the following impressions of things far removed from com- Commandara:

monplace life, is checked by the view of a Ahmad Mukhtar Pasha qualified for the company of meu of this world engaged in ⠀⠀⠀⠀ staff in the military school, and subsequent-blowing and fiddling. We would go further ly accompanied the Seriskier Redif Pass than this, and say that not all the resources to Yemen, where he was promoted to the of machinery, steam vapour, and practicable rank of general, and in 1872 was made dragons breathing real flame, can furnish Governor of Yemen. Here he won the adequate embodiment of Herr Wagner's battle of Asir with the Seraskier and suc-ideas. Let us, then, do away with these ceeded in bringing the provinos completely grass representations of poetic images. Lot under the Turkish power. He was made each member of a number of audiences commandant of the Turkish forces in the assembled at various points ses in his own Herzegovina in 1870, and cleared that pro- mind's eye the stones and parsonages what vince of insurgents. He is now Comman the composer's music, conveyed by telephone to the different assemblies, suggests. There Mustof Janfic Pasha was educated in would then be no need of building special Egypt, and passed into the Turkish ser- theatres in accordance with the notions of vice after the war of Aore, He was Com the poet and musician. Herr Wagner might mander of Kalafat in the Crimenu war and train his own orchestra and keep it constantly became a general officer in 1863 He is in his own house, ready to comply at a mdiment's notice with the demands made by now in charge of the garrison of Kars.

Ismail Bakki Pasha is a Kurd. He dis-operatio managers all over the world. tinguished himself in several frontier ware, and was promoted to the rank of general

Miscellaneous.

Governor of Erzeroum. He is over sixty DOMESTIC Magazines,-Wiyes who blow years of age.

Ibrahim Dervis Pachu was born in Lovelzup their husbands. and educated in the military school at POSTEY OF THE Urren Tan-The young war and in 1662 against Montenegro, when the bliss of reading a little thing of his Constantinople. He served in the Crimean bard, Hon. Biz-Lavender Balairs, enjoys he acquired great glory by forcing the own, Duga and Ostrog passes, a service which weak-minded but intensely sympathetis **Fair Aroboress,” to a circle of earned him the rank of a general officer. women In the Servian war he carried the strongly-clad lady mino, that glittewost entrenched position of Javor, and in the In shimmah of shummah atuwaht the lawn, last war with Montenegro he advanced Canst tell me which is bittewest, from the south-east, and occupied the heights of Spar. He has recently been sent to Butonin, and his arrival there has been the signal for mocessful offensive movements on the part of the Turks.

the social blight it causes, but the fact that | mountain and forest, and his grand truth extending some way back from the rooke ooped over, and a second time came near der in-chief of the army of Anatolia. It gives rise to mintaken notions about what fulness, his hatred of treachery, and his culture is. Encouragement is given to the general nobility of character, and his state shore, near which the craft was anchored.

Fortunately, a loose rope, one of the The crow listened with wonder, notion that culture need be but skin-deeply metaphoricat speech, and his chivalrio

gaskets, was near the young man, who, that it is an accomplishment like dancing love for the dusky maiden, and the pictar with a peculiar bissing, was heard,

Unearthly screams and shrieks, mingled now clutobing it, lowered himself along the or wood carving and not the serious educa. i esque pomp of his dress and accoutrements.

"Don't like that said Capt. Williams, rope to the end, and there hung suspended, tion of a good part of the mind. It is really a development of what runs great full of dainty beadwork and stunning mo-perhaps, take us for the slaver, and are me

When I found the shops at Niagara Falls The woods must be fall of natives, who, feet below the spar, and fifty from the

deck. risk of being neglected ; it is the rounding

The gorilla, with horrible cries of rage, of the whole man; by it life is breathed in, and equally stunning toy figures alitating an attack. Clear away the quarter at once commenced gnawing at the rope, into what would otherwise be unused Tepresenting, human beings who carried boat and the long-boat, Mr Davis, and have seemingly determined to destroy in this officer in 1667, after which he became members, the individuality is enlarged and their weapons in holes bored in their arms both manned with good men, well armed, way its antagonist, who had got beyond the Governor of Diarbakir At present he is atrengthened by forming nor sympathies with emotion. I knew that now I was go and bodies shaped like a pie, I was tilled and by acquiring new means of enjoyment.ing to come face to face with the noble red This enjoyment must certainly lie in real appt salation of what is good and admirable,

A lady-clerk in the shop told me, indeed, and not in the consciousness of the speaker that all her grand array were made by the that he, or it may be she, fe uttering the Indians, and there were plenty about the opinion with which every one will soon be falls, and that they were friendly, and that agreeing To tako au example, the exit would not be dangerous to speak to change of enthusiastic comments on the them, profundity of certain forms of musical expr ssion is but a frigid pleasure in com- parison with real enjoyment of the music; not that the two are incongruous, büt sometimes perhaps the rapturo is expressed more strongly than it is felt. An ardent heart will not rest satisfied with the knowledge that the Belvedere Appollo and the Laocoon are fine statues, but that in the present century excessive admiration of thom is a mark of faully training; nor yet be contented with pitying reference to Sir Walter Scott as a harmless, kindly old man- War and pestilence have thinned your with a craze for writing unreadable novels. ranks and destroyed your once proud nation. The aim of education and culture is not to Poker and seven-np and a vain modern ex- get facility in the utterance of sach ready. pense for soap (unknown to your gloriens made opinions, nor yet to nourish unseemly ancestors) have depleted your purses. Ap. pride in such cheap methods of imposing propriating in simplicity the property of upon the ignorant, but in the place of af others has gotten you into trouble. Mis this pretence to put the genuine expression representing facts in your shless innocenco of opinions which shall be felt and not has damaged your reputation with the learned by rote. Unlture is not a code of soulless warper. Trading with 40-rad mental etiquette which smothers all original whisky, to enable you to get drunk and feeling beneath

supericial array of ac- tomahawk your families, has played the complishments. So long as this mistakon everlasting mischief with the picturesque view is held, independence of thought pomp of your dress, and hero you are, in becomes a flaw like color-blindness; worse the broad light of the nineteenth century, than this, all change is lost of strengthen- gotten up like the ragtag and bobtail of the ing the mind by the natural and healthy purlleus of New York. For shame! Re. process of getting rid of old errors. In the member your ancestors! Recall their cultivation has thrust upon him a succession Jacket, and Hole-in-the-Day, and Horace place of normal growth the victim of faulty mighty deeds! Remember Uneas, and Red of formulas, and he learns early to comply Greeley.. Emulate their achievements! Un. with the demands of his special coterte, furl yourselves under my banner. Noble The precocious wisdom of the young ls for cavages, illustrious guttersnipet-

"Down wid him.* from being the only result; the old become precocious, overwise, and Impatient of any "Scalp the blaggard !" thing but the results of study, Various "Hang him 1" forms of affectation assert themselves; innocent people who are really anxious to do batter aro led antray to join the band which considera itaal alone wine and of good reputo-Contributors' Club in Atlantic for July:

MARK TWAIN AT NIAGARA,

"Dhrown him {"

It was the quickest operation that I ever saw. I simply saw a sudden fash in the. air of clubs, brickbats, £stas, bead-baskets, and mooessine-a single flash, and they all appeared to hit me at once, and no two of them in the same plece.

"I say," said Graves, "only look bare. I can get right up this tree. This is being pretty close athore, my boy."

"Yes," said Thomas; but you had Don't be better stop where you are. en ass."

"Something to talk about, my boy," said Gravesomething to tell them when we get home. No one will believe that I climbed off the yard into a tres

Well, what of that said Thomas. There, stay hero, man. Recollect we are in charge of the ship."

Having discovered that the strange noise which had drawn them ashore were made by birds, apes, and other animals, they had set out on their return, fortunately in time to hear his cries for assistance.

The midshipman, desconding to the deck, soon told his story; when the body of the daad gorilla boing thrown overboard, a party went to the foot of a tree on the bank, to there discover the torn and mangled remains of the poor fellow whom the savage Thomas. C beast bad made its victim ere attacking

The body was burled ashore that night,

"Yes," said the other.

and the vessel sailed the following morning. "What induced

Years have passed aince then; and the skipper to go ashore like that 7”

Thomas, now Captain of a fine war-vezzel, As he spoke, he crept from the yard to has faced many perils, but in none has he snagonced himself mear the truck, about that night when he was attacked by an the branch of the tree mentioned, and experienced the horrible sensation felt an twelve feet from his shipmate, who remain African gorilla. ad upon the yard.

The two kept up an animated conversa- 甘on.

Do you see anything of our men, now, Graves ?" Thomas at length inquired.

The latter did not answer. Thomas re peatad his question with no better result.

"Strange thought he..

There was no response.

"A that moment he thought he beard a gasping shriek, so smothered that it sound od something like the wail of a child. Then came a sort of crashing noise, like the fall In the next instant the entire tribe wasing of a body through thick branches. upon me. They tore all the clothes off of Either he has fallen or is making fun," tregar world. ve been visiting gave me shitmap that dented the ton of waggish propensities of the shipmate. Niagara Falls is one of the finest struc.me, they broke all my arms and legs, they mattered Thomas, who well knew the this favourite watering place recently for my head if it would hold code like a Graves" he exclaimed, standing up, and the first time, and was well pleased. Baucer, and then, to crown their disgraceful poering through the darkness.

A gentleman who was with me said it proceedings and add insult to injury, they was customary to be disappointed in the threw me over the Horeshoe Fall, and 1 falls, but that subsequent visits were sure get wet.

(et out ninety-nine or a hundred fost from to set that all right. He said it was so with him. He said that the first time he the top the remains of my vest caught on want, heck feres were so much higher than projecting rook, and I was almost drowned the falls that the falls appeared insignis before I could get loose. cant. But that is all regulated now.

The sources of information are not meagre at Niagara Falls. You're some thing in doubt what you ought to do, but are seldom in doubt concerning what you must do. If an infant can read, that infant in mensurably ssic in Niagers.

If you room at the hotel you will And your course marked out in the most con- venient way, by means of placards on the walls like there?

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Reaily concerned about his friend, the midshipman was about crawling out upon the branch, when, through the gloom, he beheld the lissa of a form, and caught the momentary gleam of a pair of bright eyes, sparkling an if in wild merriment.

Haba laughed Thomass. You joker, you! Better not try that again, Graves.

THE TURKISH COMMANDERS.

The glainaw of eva, or the glimmah of dawu,

To those with whose henhts thou litterost

The fold where they foll at thy foot to fawn ? As s battahily dost thou futtab by!

How, whenoo, and, and ob! whither, aht come

and gone?" Chorus-How exquisite ! How refined !! tow really quite too far more than most awfully delicious ! ! !—Punck, 2-

Faik Pasha entered the army in 1827 and became Commander of a brigade in 1866. He is chief of the staff of the fourth army corps, and is at present Commandant of Yan. It was he who commanded the forces which for 23 days besieged the Rua

Tas Russian Imperial Guard, which is sian garrison in the citadel of Bayazid reported to be under orders for Bulgaria, Fusli Pasha entered the army in 1858, consists of three divisions of infantry, to and in 1874 became Commander of a breach of which is attached a brigade of field gade. He shared the glory of the victory artillery, a brigade of rifles, and three of Zaitscher with Osman Pasbs. At the divisions of cavalry. Hach division of in- beginning of the present war, he was sent fantry, again, consiste of two brigades; esch to Soukhoum Kaleh, whence he has appar: brigade comprising two regiments, of four ently returned, on the abandonment of the battalions each. The brigade of artillery Canaasian expedition.

POSSIBLE USES OF THE TELEPHONE.

attached to each division bears the same number as this latter, and consists of six batteries of eight guns each. Of these bat- taries the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd are armed with 9-pounder, the 4th, 5th, and 6th with 9- pounder guns. The total number of men in each division of infantry of the guard, The telephone might be made useful in an including the artillery brigade, the artillery

amusement. A popular lecturer, for instance when its war establishment is complete, infinity of ways, both to the public and to park and the divisional ambulanca, amounts the people who provide for the public's to 20,848; each division being able to place,

(Saturday Review.)

might, with the aid of the new instrument, 16,860 bayonets and 43 guns in front line. save himself a large amount of wear and tear Each division of cavalry comprises two by delivering his discourse in a dozen differ brigades, each formed of two regiments of ant places at the same time, thus outdoing cavalry and two horse artillery batteries of The Constantinople newspaper, Jaridari Frikell's feat of riding out at all the gates & guns. The total number of men in such Hawadith, gives us short accounts of the marvellously clavar, but little known, work place in the field 2,499 sabres and 12 guns. of St. Petersburg at twelve o'clook. In a a division amounts to 4,070, and it can principal Turkish generals, We subjointled "Adventures in the Moon," there is a Finally, the brigade of rifles of the Guard extracts relating to those whose names story of a certain Aristus who came to the consists of four battalions, numbering in have been most before the public of late. mander-in-Chief, is a Frussian who turned hold god to teach him a charm by means of Imperial Guard of Russia numbers 77,087 Muhammad ali Pasha, the present Com. onclusion that a body was a very inconve all 3,816 men and placing 8,040 bayonets nient encumbrance, and persuaded his house- in front line. Altogether, therefore, the Mahomeden and entered the Turkish mail which he might get rid of his limbs, and of all ranks and arms of the service and, fary service in 1845. He rose to the rank

Commander of a brigade in 1950. His retain only his mind and voice. The ar- provided that all its units are completed to Oratan insurrection, and in the Servian when he spoke to him, "were at first terrifed feces, and 96 horse-artillery guns. The distinguished himself in putting down the rangement did not turn out quite as stoness their full war strength, can place in the field fully as he thought it would. His children, 49,120 bayonets, 7,497 abres, 146 fields and Montenegrin war. At the beginning by this mysterious voice, and could hardly commander of the Guard is the Unarewitch, of the present war, he was in command of be prevented from running away; but hear holding the rank of ueneral of Infantry, the third army corps, on the Servian and ing it solemnly assure them that it was their and his chief of the staff is Lieutenant Montenegrin frontier. He has the reputs father, and had no design of hurting them, General Count Voroozoff Dajkoff The don of being an ambitious and enterprising they took courage, and were then greatly commander of the 1st Division of Infantry mmander. He is between fifty and sixty amused to and how their father had hid Lieutenant-General the Grand Dur years of age.

himself; they laughed violently whenever Vladimir Alexandrovitch of the 2nd Oeman Nuri Pasha comes from Aidin he spoke, and seemed to be delighted with Division, Lieutenant-General Tjerkoff of (Smyrna). He entered the army in 1845, the novelty Increased fatoillarity with the the 3rd Division, Lieutenant-General and qualified for the staff before leaving wonder bred contempt. They had been Kutalei; of the Brigade of Rifles, Majors the military school at Constantinopis: Not accustomed to follow without hesitation the General Ellie of the 1st Division of long ago, he was made a general officer and advice which came from & peremptory coun- Cavalry, Lieutenant-General Couns Mussit Determined not to encourage his fun, appointed Commandant of Widain. He, tenance but now the advise which came out Pujkin, and of the 2nd Division of Cavalry, Thomas now retreated to the end of the sorted in Crete, but his fame of the aft made very little impression upon Lieutenant-General Genres

won by him in the Servian war. He is at fat refusal his wife attempted to bring the the stirrup, down

present in Plevas, with a large army drawn children back to a sense of their Allal duty feel it a duty owe to you to express my from Widdin and Sophia.

@but her exposttilations could procura no gratitude for the great benefit I have don Muhammad Ashraf Fasha is a native of obedience to the venerable sound, and it was rived by taking 'Norton's Camomile Fille.' officer and placed in sommand of Rustehuk; were delighted, and they even went so far as stomach, from which I suffered exertels 1833. Last year he was made a general rated Aristus became the more the children for the above-named Pills, for wind in the Bronssa. His military career dates from alsobeyed every hour. The more exaspe I applied to your agent Mr Ball, Berkeley,

which he has since given up to Ahmad to play all kinds of tricks on purpose to hear ting pain for a length of time, having tried from the wind. Freastly a gaff of winding out towards the young man, apparently are, for some years he represented the made against it, belong to the system of taking two bottles of your valuable Plio, I The form was now upon the yard, craw-civil offices, as Governor and Ambassador, inconvenience might, unless provision were out deriving any benefit at all After Ayyoub Pasha. He has also filled several the air molding them. Something of this nearly every remedy prescribed, but with.

The next time I swopt around him hen all four

Themas, knowing his comrade not to be said to be a poet and a man of letters at accompanying words spoken by a man who health. Please give this publicity for the Turkish Government in Teheran He is lecturing by telephons. The authority was quite restored to my usual state of & very motive gymnast, was surprised. It present he seems to be in command of the believes in the lesson he teaches and lend it beneßt of those who may thus be afflicted. Also struck him that as well as he could see army at Nisss Yes. In my other vest. Help me out, in the darkness, the proportions of his

friend had strangely intrested in size.

Ahmad Ayyoub Paska, the present Come Another surfeur, fan impreseed him, mandant of Busichuk, was educated in the

I anally fell, and brought up in a world of foam at the foot of the fall, whose osiled and bubbly mass towered up several inches above my head.

Of core I got into the addy," I sailed round and round it 44, times, chasing

Still Graves did not answer.

chip and gaining on it—each round trip ayard, and sat astraddle upon it; his beel on /rests chiefly upon the battle of Zaitschar, them." Aristie's commands were met "BERKELEY, Sept. 1869, Gentlemen, I

bull mils-reaching the same bush on the bank 4 bibe, and just exactly missing by a hair's breadth every time.

Then he ear the dark body dimly reval ed, crawling along the branch towards the At last a man walked down and cat down yard, but Mal clots to that busk, and put a pipe in mot Wo came up here to keeps look-out, not

"Beak to your place, Graves, he cried mouth, and lit a match, and followed me !

with the ere, and kept the other on the to skylark," my hea matak while he sheltered it in his banda

"Pall the bell-rops gently, but don't

Jork"

**Belt your door.”

"Don's scraps matches on the walls or

furniture.

"Turn off your gas when you retire.” "Tie up your dog."

blew it out.

**If you put your boots outside the door, į sald i- they will be blacked; but the house will not be responsible for their return."

"Got a watch?"

This is & confusing and tanglesome pru. Į pissss,' pepition, because it moves you to deliberate

As befors-po response.

weight by an impressive demeanour, might) --I say, Bir, yours truly, HATAY ALLYLEN well be lost in the oss of a spectral volos-To the Proprietors of Nouzon's CAM braing from a drumhead hung in the middle) mins Fizzo. "1(80p/6