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ýIe tIUcklk iflneemnpt PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY ALBERT BIENVENU. The Hungarian Oovernm nt has ob tained control of ten thousand taverns throughout the country. This ha been done by virtual purchase, and the sum necessary so defray the cost of the Oldemption of them will be raised by e ipelal loan. A large number of these buildings are to t)e convertci into pub. tic school-hooies. An effort is being made in Oreat Britain to repeal the ancient law ac cording to which jurymen are 'enied refieshmient when they are considering their verdicts. The London L,i',,e which is the principal organ of the En glish medical profession, cmlls for some relaxation of what it lesign:ites as "tthe antique rigidity of the I sw" on the sub ject. It urges tit it most persons whier hungry becom, an:gry, and the irr:tated mind ii seldom j.iut. The fire whtic dl,,:t:,,ye.l toIe l]i..' o0 the Minneapolis Tribue, an:il a numlbr of Its employes, co:muug so soan on the heels of similar disasters on a larger iIO as to property loss in Lynn and Bost n, his seriously inpresed the public mind with the necessity for greater safeguards against the flames. The 7rib're building, it seems, was provtled with only one fire-escape and one stairway, which was a narrow one, windi:ng :iruid that deadly tire trap;, th. elevator. Ur gent needy of the nim,'s are a fire-proof building which i= prof :against tire, and a vigorouti cc;frcetnent of law, which requil' the fr:niishi.g of adelquatc fixc I ap!tlitance, t.o c iile ipe p!e to es capel, from uIrni n, hunllinr {. ( e1 ::- ... ,t . :,> h , p ,'m s. r. 'ly .r _I i:: , I,:-it . H isI *peu t. V ' it :'nwa. : bull-t, tired fm11. rude, i: .i- t'th. Tl'h; ::, - ii ,; :o th ( h .-, l, ,,r ,, ., dt :icu it the ,r.n k, , hn 1 , > d.: it. the I ii:: h Ia i it.:tt :ln of tiita it !,~ > : 1'l an,! ca-ily th, :r., . "f .., .cr,' r, the te il *1 bal.,.r. u:; th, in .:a.d of being atopt .I biet'wi n tc:il t-o ch of the .how man, tent on thr.t n sl h h -ad. But the tr.:tldy will htrdly Ileak up this branch of the show liutitnes. It will probably be wiktke by the museum fakir as a good "ai." Evdences are nit wanting of the tenacity with which the French of Canada still adhere to old France as the parent country, and fre.h proofs are for:hcomnii e'very diy. The Dominion Gover:,r'.nt have just now been in formed that if the French Canadian grieva'ices Iu the ('ana, iant Northwest are not adjusted, and if the French language an/ separate schools are abolished, the former as an ( fli tal language, they will appeal to France, who they are as(ured will see that th,, treaty 'wh.,.h <' ted Canada to Great I r::,n is not broken. The French in ('n:t la have Icolenme too puwerful for the D ,minion tritiish (.,ve rnne nt to treat w.th mltTrence. They nnumbe 2,000,000 p,'1p'e, 40 per cit. of the entire tpopu: ltion, and te he threat of ap pealing to France is not now made for the first time, says the New York .usu. It has been used, aid used successfully, be fore ,s a0 nteaon under the power of which thie ('araia Goisvernment relent ed. It forn-ily trrves to show whaO t must inevitabit come, sooner or later an open -uftlict between the two nu. tional eh ments for .upreis.c. dred tines th,. . , i.tth -. -. bce:t d ,-,r:,: l I,. hu:,f ,.l ,: t , ' e Socictv, of Nhatralists i It,,,r. It is ex* atta'd fr,,t hi, se., ,f .t ,.. as itlata :"1::'h i hI e: : :, ,. India as I,-o::. O ttirj' I gli-h cIlt - hies ar, -aI hIi ve 1 ,,-on iri ,. le~d in India 1. oIt i.k , f,,mt -h:irpt I liits ritlled uii in tia -,d.-. l, ttw -n 'k 1 ft b iin4 no death by c.aguiai,- ot thc I hlod cor Of the 10,200 steamers in the world of over 100 tons register, 5914 are British and only 425 belong to the United States. THE T $',RRA L i.tL ,L There is no thing iw :annot overrome. * i Say not thy cv.,i nstit,'t is inh .rilted Or thaint siome tralt Ima-, lru miak'es thy whIo!e Iif, forlorn. And tillsn dorn l i:'.ushmenit that is not meri ted. Bark of tliy liar ntsu nil graldp:arnti Ines The great Elternal WIll! That. too. in thint' 1 iilher t anni,--st rong. Lewatituail. divine. 'Sure Iever of u, cessti for onle who tries. P'y up thy faullt with this rea:it lever--Will. Hloweve'r deeply li-dedl inll proll..ity. However firmly set. I 1,.ll thee. til-er yet Is that vast power that cometa f om Truth's Simmensnlity. ' Thou art a part of that strange world, I any; Its fIres lIi wiithin i he., stronger fur Thian all tiy miorItal sins andl fratilties are. t Believe thy selt divine., :tid unat'h und pray. Thore iso nio ble h lithit thou can:'st not chtnlb. 1 .( t trumnll" lml yt + inenTInet ' "futnlrity. If. )t.:a ,t.x,.r Ihy ,:| lt thou do t not faltl or hilt, B ltt L a :, lp;.o n t h e s t a ff ( of a. -|, ' lit , ::|rtl Ii- a- it 't]:lini thie soul -nit Ot wtl te-l Knioi t hy-'it part of tlhe tutri..il cri'e, .\l1l nI.II tli: i ":la: v.i il bea t'. ' ith .- iritls I e '.tiu ls Ii lt'I brLrTier :ti n i Its i . THE SAVAGES OF INDIA. : t : \'. <. " , i- l in Ina ia,. Yv o, w ill findtu ,la,,,r lo",i, . :io.t \ r,, r lhn mtut.l. Sor Ilzgin. youtr frot-t,, . ) ,ti art noti mlillch safer in a lart' ' t it'. thi:l in thel country. I va- stiapttbld by a oiultl-hit rollbber iahto-t ill thll hIt:lrt of Ilotlav. anti a poikonou, slpidehr bit miI in one 'of the parkn of (alcutta and causedil nit. a "monthls visit to the hospital. IBefore thv Briti.i t:lI] leut l li.tia must hiave b:,u what umiiht lie ternltd a ilaratli.sc-hell. It ,i'armed i itit Thu'gs, danigerous fanatics, and ital lunatic' and no splt was ::fe from s _c b'a" t, and dtlmingrou., retp tiles. Forty lear. of lron ress :n( civil i|ation. vitth thle r\lit: itii re of mnilliunll Minn iu lli.n of dollar., in the inhalt ii reward, have only mal,. crt::in n'ihli bI trho ii- it' im,. iath iych tal. Ti i Thill ili'!- tn il .\ i i, lI-. :ln il thet d:n - ",ll '" i n f Ii i i : .:ti:ii i tt a th lit , l ui Th til. , . : bl ' a ,, till, ,r, ,np t. the' be:r. the t: ,,,0,l, , ,,: :r rtor., ll a ,fcore. t ...r.. i t , a ,:li hil ll life t" \ t "il e Iii' ]', , ii iiti it , i I: , slecrclt*: do i I Iu iiI v ,l ,: .is ; . .; u: . 1, , s i:,t. :, r r .\ fth r 1 ,i -. in - jlit * . r e -n Ih,, .... i, i . ... i, ,t 1 hi, t h r c i t itt ,, .-, i t. ,ii uk: t' . t i.t ii tti o n ' a I r hlt Iht l i ' , Is "'\t. , t: l 1. 1t"i i . ' rni . i j: t a t :, hr\ k "tll , ie, .' .il. .'" .w .. ha.. i,'it.ck . ~a, t\ int 1:i i :t f t ief -i - ltnt. of ll ,t'i tiitl ws. i~,,, ile i :th, r itoll hi' outside. Ar till Virit(unlns a\ ryr" hot iritt. i ho K i lic, :orla , !ll o crme ini'i, I hall no fer on thit , tliatl thir'fhrili 1 na lis witder m in rlctlh. luii frainf tltl of theht w, withl Ctuid lof colst, the ireti a i lot nra sd ,lry lliftr itlil tain oust the otsithe -rotund, ere 2dr;hid h\- two doiiwkt It;i.\ d tor tllglu'hnl ei. I cald l not hae of irati a.li I hi ter ion th'r til the wttkith ierous hea iel the dirty imiiet from thi t3 It'inti n tl , inle i'. r haelt haitd Ia t prtitie- e , en a it z i ilolwl hsill ifter tlv lifted l h iis ht ia'l thiist sth e u itlet ian thie itit, itni hini es looked hitot tinti. F"or halfa i nt tl e uil it i. fncil e; if niv hartde i th l ri t a1t t hit l dir tlls t it \ inrlt ow Itcm,' ung ua d roue d not hav raistd a.t: i r to wa's oifl the iatitck. the sh urciit aiid :it it anr eoliver aits hietr.. Itied hll ora" the. In the mrhtyi fgrt )t-nu aItrg th t.re l hoil: t s Il bird of the sni per sti ui.at. inwei hwr ahoX tott',ri it w,> ihe one :if.thenaiveit Awhl ra ,in tile tI anti f iownli" ,ath tohted tur nd. back, antie, i . thi sai de lil thittiei the croclo:ietmig dIon trln haorm."nl :h e rn a hini arouCd thl I a': a-.nt.ci to the ;pot w'e're h ha h'alted, :1:1, ut bn made ,wit a htale saurian Ilvin t in thill r'::k, r,: it a. ro h,- p:.h anhl (, :ident ', waitinig for some ,ol'e to ctrot-. Thi, a's- Int i, q eluartcr of a mile from the i:u_..1oiw, and thet -aurian had evidentl\ c iome down the 'reek from a smi:all lake about t we miles :':ay. I mn:rl ready to tire at himnt, but one of the natives t:uch"':'d my arm and respectfullyv :id: "l'lease don't. sahib. If you :laer him he will bring others to make u; trouible." "liut he ought to be driven away or killed. '"Ye., but when thelre are a thousand more in the lake, what would you lie .seemIc so earnest aiut it t ::at I turu,'l as yv. That nitiht a nuli.'lr of tle servanit, croed tlhe c('reek to aitt:'ntl sine .'ort of a party. :nl in the mnlorniii a yiung wa< t a i--in'g. After con- :iti(rablet inquiry it ais decitd .ildi that the croc', dile had (eized him ais he :ttemlptcd to Ils-., the, pat.ll I taido to the native Slho huad rest,:ini ,I In" tirle "N";,w ' oil : v. uha i 1t did. Iit l I killed the reltili the \ ~' n t n tn i . ,li have been a: ith u< this mul, nilrn. . h . 1 , ,s h i b . b u t v o , ' m i . .,h t n o t h : r ,t . killed him, and then hIe , 'tit haive to:II tiooi o if u-. I Car so nl iLili lutll,'r oloi. llati. About six miles Ibelow Patnat. on the (:,nc in the lien-,.le disiriet. :, couple of -nzlh-h oliv,,'- with whom I wt1. a, tinted jhnai a 'hloi ting otI,\. :,i I weit up 7with a party to n joy s. ,e -i,,rt. It wa: ia ill .trip of c tuantry :liot, the -tr-an t. .nil .iltholinzh sto lit ar toI a illage this fact didt :ot render ganme aliv les; albundal:nt. A dozen titers. three or four pan }therl , antd l sitre iof hyenas had been ba,4-ed there within t%%o years, but it still reneiiid :Il ac r ite lurking, ground for hig itulne. As a matter of ciriotity I hunt d up the re turn:, m:iadle to the Governnent froin tlhi. plact', and fotund that the avera:ice of natives bitten byv serpelnts. devur,l by cr:lc'dilt., or .s in t l i l,\ ihd Iua-t- V.:,, ,over three lr e\\ck tIt wiear ru.i ,i . l'hc . wtre the i.m,'-' reportli 1bs the nati\h.- they per i-t in Ib.iie illan that lih, c-onin- ted w;th ta\':ti.on or ilici:il -s'rvc-iian , . T''\0io (i:,\ hrI Ii " \r, -tl.it , l na tlaile t.in e 14i ,,t 1 :t:" thni itie . tI o report ,I cI- . lie . :: ! e a ct (' "i l , " 't ' (:'ur C ,ibt :ir tl'I n.ti .. r it 31u'al ,r , x il , I , ' , , l "t :l .x , m y brt. r :r. l I " , N .- iii :1 n'1. I . i . It. " ',- t I '. . I" .' .:. r . fii ' .'." ,, _ . t . " , ' a . ", , , " I "' . , iil .' - r :' :l i ,' . - : : :C . 1 i it i ir ' c. , 1 t vii- ul:, ,( ' t re o "n .,fd i th ftu: re. out -hit i, l . ... h i I:i a ji. , ,! ,, !I ,i , to _ l: r, tho " " ,cr a w , ..., '", 1 I ' , ii , i ,r ait , ' - :ut It : s : ri , IT ,er a ' panther last week. Do not it ,ane ti,-[ will ido better in fut;re. Tihe idela of a man entreatin for ivt nis 1 beail-e his broither hadt been carried ti Iby a tiger seemed very clueer to "c. but the ofih-ial exptlain. l that withtult criticism and ensure IhI natives wtould libecome so careless thit the list oif fatital accidents w to1ld double in it year. We had been at thlte' shooting hbit eo three day, and hald killed a dtozen hie c 'as, a panther and a couptle of it' snake;s. There were four t hitet. men of is in the party. anti we had eight or ten hntive tra:kers and servants. On the fourth nmornin.z, before ibretakfast. I ran t tihorn into myn foot. and was adviised to 1i' luiet iurin; the day. The house was divided into twi rooms, each albouti twelve feet squ:are. andl each having twoi hluii:tuoeks in it. The first i room w:as usedi to store provisions in. The door b:tween the two wass a frate etiverel with wire •ltith. There was tinlv tnt windtiw in -ach roominl. intl that :i- ltrovidid withi a -lidintg sash, with wiri itihth tacked tveir hli out ile. Thi outside ihtur was als > . sc.i'n, but thh~ i ii, left .t iiling oipttii duihin" the tIny. Aflter it,:tkfts tine of ltie :iitiveso th\-d a p;u ltict of lt I va s fil :ttl woiuutl, aitid I Tot tlhr,'e tither white melt 'teat titi tip the river. :icomonitei-id bi h ill t he lintvt-s "\etlit pt i.. o t"t tip attend :ie and tite itig th d tIt:<. ::tit h:Isl a viiw of tit tirn lilt l:i strit)t)f (-iiunitr i ontlin it. At I, tip i'tk we h -a",l tit, ret' irtis of rites far away. h11tt an hour Ientr, just as I was ,!l'vatth. iniy in--id -,t thi:tt I tittild retil a bti,,k which was at hal. I satv a ti.,r sprinti ulit ii the tWO imte('. They weit nt -t h t' ihe. but - -iw itet soay. lm 1 -r a tr.,. t.,, th ir : , . ir tiw ,ril ', h I ..nin:,r i hI , tl e ,rd I .r,, apt I ir';:'. iti tn-, n. 1 I, ut- hk,alf an l, , n, a i t: i-I itf ,tha t tt ':i,- te v i: e I-ft t.he tien :ad :ihcamne t) the ilist,.- lu hiokid in. It. prohatbly scenteit me, fir he swit-Ited his tail and growled, and while he stood there I saw blood tin his neck. My antnnoek had ceased swinging, and I kept very quiet ini hopes tie brute would gt away. Hle stood and ..growled ad st:tred fr a minute, atd then aid -anceed to lhe inner door and pushed ag:tinst it. Had it olpitited toward me he could htave entered, but it opented the other %ay. With his eyes and nose against the wire he growled in a way to send the chill over me, b-t I feared to mwve a tine-er for fear he would make 3 dash and c. inle throu,_h the cloth. lie di 1 raie his teeth ial, n, the surface. and also strike the w.ire two or three times with hlis paw. lI' :ntu: t have hit the sharp enmIs ot slnt of the ires the I.-t time. for he utteried : tell and drew back. and after licking his paw for a moment re trc:ated throu,..gh the open door. As my ritle "a< in the further room I felt it pru dtent to lie quiet for a time, and when I didl get up the beast had disappeared. 1 found one of the natives dead, his skull having been cru-hed by a blow, while the tther had received a bite in the shoulder, but was "playing dead" to de ceive the beast. Just before noon the party came in; andi then I learned that they had started a pair of tigers out of cover about a mile above. The female had been killed in a rulhle,. but the male, afterbein wounded, ha- i bolted out of sight. lie was the cl::hp l h, hall paid the camp a visit and rvenred himself for the injury. 'TwI, weeks later, at Patna. dnring, a rili.rioun fest ital which lbrought in many native, fr ):n a distance. I was an eve s itnc-, of a terrible o-currence on the I;::nges. About f,,rty people had come Idwn fro m a iint t weont n miles above on a la rte raf'. rihe had Inuuic on board, ianl :ias they t arne within sight and hear in~, I walkeld to the bank of the river, Swhich was there not more than three feet a, nw' th.' water. I w:lved my hat to tlher. ailnI they answerted the salute, but ju<t a little behlow me the raft. which was then ,00 t'fet fromn shere and being guitledl to it. struck a "''s.ayer" and was inot o.tly co:-itlderably broken up but himn- fast. The woolnten and children Wile at once seized with a panic, and this brouw~hlt about direful results. In crntwding t on: .ide of the raft they brokte it up, and at leat thirty people were luing into the water. The river swiarmned with crocodiles, and at the titrt splash I saw ulunthbrs of them: hli<tenint to tthe stinc. Further down the bank men tput out with boats as soon as pI':s-ible. but -before they could reach thi peop.l,, nineteen of them were pulled under I tilt sauri s. On() the very next iay, while two men were cro.sing in a c:lan, it w1 li upiet in sighilt of a thousand Spe):hle anw lth Iner d,:.oured. Statis Si. , rtsti t ii froii Paitni Lave the averaue vi. tinii of tihe trocot iit's on twelve miles ' river frontit i4t I-) pr car. "" with very ! t. :I ' p'e i: in i lni ':,ppressed fior S e:". - r s:."' i N.w York stitl. Th. Greek Women. . . i :- I . . T .. :, :. .... , : : . iI I , t s ' ti I I: I i ... ii.". t i iti!:i i tt . ;ills ' . . -i s "i ,'"l u 'I'. o .m l - . ' ,i o . ,' 1 -.t i I) . ,I, ,,,.l . "t,, , l :,'t ,+," 'h i ss ati t," h' A o thr lii .t 't" i'; w: " tI. ",.n l -lith Turki- I t t S. ihte la< of !r't uie t! r,, bl t in i:r : lm she c:rrietid h r ,thidi, and iit th "' right h.,ui brandt:+!,,' a naked scon ir lt. nfor, t iatlci for the full develop itmet of the I r, ck woman s chara( ter as somein h liht think, she is still ruled by tricntal matrimontnial methods, and hence is lpart: illy an Oriental. Marry shte must. Suipos~ing a family of three sistiers :ur i seven brothers; not one of the bl'rotlers arris until the sisters are I providted with hlus:and.:. Hience in 1 r-c..e the men cuctncrailv marry late in lifte and womenn wed men far older than thlemse.lves. A girl of 16 or 18 marrying I a maan of 4.- to GO, is tile most common thini in the worild amtong the Greeks. M31r:i age is also with them a question of niotine'y; there must be some property on oilll tides,. Love is no consitenration and plays no part in /reek marriages, not wituslltinling that Eros was a Greek The maarriage ceremony of the Greeks antld Artnui:ins is tolerably long. It al iways occurs in church- no pews nor seats of nV stir are permitted; the densely crowded :-is, are tilled with incense. IanI bs thit time the lonb,-hb:ired priests I i.e !ichanttdi ani ptrayed two or three hour ,,- e tCtioiie is reatdy to fall with ex. hiition. Hcfore chlsiug it may be ad dut thl t irt nmi-'sionaries have repeatedly marritd nit't' ' of t helse Eastern cotintrics,. aiitl hitt t;'ii:s tiast, to t ll : accounts, re ultei happily.-- Brooklyn ('itizen. The Prince and the Blind Man. I was rec-nti. told the followinf story af :tiie.'t of sil rw'. (ar- now exitsting in tilt- iat-e roimn at Mlarisirnough house. SIll(one day tit Princt ttf WViles, on alight ing from his te arritue at the door of a haius whslire he wa ai nout to pay t visit, -aw :t ii manvit tial a it di g ':inly tri ini.,. t, it'fl''t :t In-ssagt ill rtos the thorouglifare i' tIhe iUit-t of a throng of carritt-. \ ith i ht"atc ri- tie - i ,-,t d nituri tie str et. A -h'rt ttn.e 'iterw'.u'i hi rh ii , , ia m-sive t-silvwr inkstand with the fo, li inr" incription: -To the Prim of t \'(e" I'r nlu toie ho, <.w him o ndu' t bhlin b' .Iar a.:is, thle street. In i memoryr ofa kindt annd (hristian action.' Neither note nor card at' ompanied the ofe-rin-, ant the iname oft the donor hus nive-r been discoverel-. i t Ithink that this anuonymous gift is not the !east prized of the many articles in the Prince's treasure-chaumber. I can vouch for the authenticity of this anecdote, as it came to me direct from a young English lady who, by the kindness of a member of the Prince of Wales' household, was shown through Marlborough House during the absence of its owners, and the inkstand in question was pointed out toher by he: conductor.--LPhiladelphia g MUTINY OF MADMEN, Extraordinary Conduct of Lunatics in a French Asylum. . mutiny. of :n extraordinary chars. ter t.oik pihe recently at the Bioetre Lun:atic Asyvlum:, near Paris, France hich wh i only put down by the arrival of the soldiery. Some of the dangerous blunitii i had appeared more exeitee' thas usual owing to the sultry weather, sad r.et of themn. :ln athlete of great treungtt rnamied .hly. sulcceeded in btreaking out of his cell. Ilaving opened the cells of fourteen of his companions. all of them made a rush at the kee.l,er., who were walking up and down on unard. The lanatic·s then laid siever to the nearest rmts. andl ibroke window's. chairs, tables and everything el-e on which they could Iay the ir hands. Afterward they went up to the keeper-. sleeping-pla cs. and, uiizin, all the razors, hamnunrs and other ,l:tangerots in-truments which tilv could find. redlescendetl into the qluaril.an-le and began shout in,, out that they ti tended to kill evcryl,,odl who ,huld in. terfere with them. O)ne of the keelpers a MI. Petit-- received a bilo fron the leg of a table hich Iroke hii atrm, but his collea'iues succteded eveniu:tli-. at the risk of their lives, in cutting oit the re treat of the madn: en In shutting them up in the ,quadrangle. The gover. nor, M31. Pinon, now intervened, and tried I, soft word. to ca:ll the rioters: bIut he was threatened by tlyv. who sail that he would spare his life if lie went dowvn on his knees and beg,,ced pardou of all the in. nates. As M. Pinon refused to do this .Joly hurled a flower-pot full of earth at hitn. but a keeper threw himself before the governor and received the pot and its contents on his chest. The governor and his men then withdrew and sent for the police and troops. The inslector of police iho arrived tirst foundil the mad. men straddlling across a wall, where they were brandishing their razor,. and sub jecting part of the asylum to i bombard. tment of rubbish, hones and bricks. .Ioly, n hen called upon to surrender. cried out: "*\Ve are outbide et laww: we are mlld men. andl you can 't' an:ything:" Whe twenty-four soldiers with tixied habonet irrived trout the llicelir f.,rt the lunatics b ni'w' moore exaslaera ,"i. whe.-re ion the keel'ri turned bnt the hoe atnd olave the :ni:ini- a few sho.\cr-b:ths. This wit f. ,lhlo\,d by a volley i' bIh.nk r. :'idles, which , tuitially frith.t -nu-.I h,.an They Ic-". i,.Id 1 trr, thu-ir t%:il a i:i allohwed - t',- s : be hanhl i,a. - .;i tr that '': . 1 , in ' ol :. t of tac . ,171 us ' u o f tre u r :or :: - t 'nu tr lit' t.-role I by the It:,o .-- Lfo l_:on Grcy hounds for .Canad:Aln u olves It 1, ,licei:d y e'-tio: .: .t 1 " : ",l,we? t;1l i i('1 -. 11 w& it -' .i ': : : lare i h un-- . a id ' tl lt ihaii:tat, , of the , :,,: i.1I r t:,,- : i'l, d ,no , uver than .li. oi)n i i-. a ( :-m ,ii-tr, t _1,t O 0. In thi (i': . s ii:ln : l.N-rh.vI th r .e aro lso wiolvi., btt tlu-se are nit. like the Euro pluan i-,., of a very dlangerout . clharacter. T'he cVyotes are. hoe,.ver, at times very tr.ublitsom., on the plains., esneially to thflocks of sheep. Some time ago Sir John Lister-Kaye imported a number of Belgian and French wolfhounds and Scotc-h deerhounds for the purpose of hunting down these coyotes, while other breeds of dogs have also been tried with fair success. 1P means of these the number of coyotes has been much reduced, as manyu as seventeen having been brough down in a single day on the 'ochrane ranch. The hounds are. however, scarce ly fast enough, and with a view to giving them a greater turn of speed, Mr. D an Gotrdon, the veterinary surgeou of Ottir wa, Canada, has just imported two of the fastest and best bred gre.yhounds ever :hipped from England-namely. Justin ian. by Cui Bono, out of Stylish Lady, and Jetsam, by Royal Stag, out of Casta way.-I[London Times. Paynizing Wood. Payniziag, a process for preservflg an hare i tg wo"od was invute el by a Mr. Payne, andl consists in placiug well easoned timber in an air-tight chamber, and whlt-i, by means of a wpo fui air tipump, the wood is deprivd of its air, a .ulution of sulphuret of calcium or d -ulphuret of barium is admitted, and readily tills up the spaces in the wood. he surperfluous moistutre is withdrawm bly means of the air-pump. and a solutios ,rof sulphate of iron ics injected. This acts chemicall7 uonp the sulphuret of barium r of calecium, and forms all through t wood an insotluble sulphate of barium ihuavy spar) or of calcium tgypsum). l5 thii way the wood is made very heavy, veirv durable, and almost incombii ustible: -[Chhicago Herall. "Barbaric" PRumstan Silver. A f:,amuti:s .eweher 'htwed :nt the other Iv, s ,n,. rich bI.'iuine , of "i-sian Ce :nci.i -,i e:. tOne .:ianliota ilv restral the t ,rm "barbaric" in looking at th gam-ly sleadors of this ware. #s a nt t..r ,if fact, the fashion runs bIsc to the ,aLV. of the Jlyzantine Empire, and mal:y mnderma pieces are made on th model of ancient plate prsen'ed in mu .eltutns. One of th- richest Jeces evy brought to this city is a larpgsoblet I ttansiarent enamel, the design represent ing cathedral wiadows, rich with mtay hut:d glass.-[New York Pres. Tari yentral prospect of the -oi in Europe -Is admitted to be vrYU ine. The plespecta in France have sel dom been better. In Germaniy the groW ing crops have a most promising apj-, ance. In Russia the grain crops s, been steadily improving. .