TO HALT© DRUNKARDS. wurllln* Fuel* About the KOvct t'pon the Hnmiiu > lnn at lh ('■ of Tolwrra.. A Hvrrlkltat'a NUUmeat. "Someof your statements made in your address before the Woman's Tem perance league, elicited considerable discussion," said a Witness reporter who was present at that meeting, to the lecturer of the evening, Mr. Garnsey, in an interview. 'Ofou refer I suppose among other things, to my classification of habitual users of tobacco ns 'drunkards.' It was not n slip of the tongue. It is a startling fact that a tobacco-user is a drunkard. Especially is this true of tlie smoker." " Many excellent men, leaders of the people, are smokers, who would reject a zlass of liquor with moral aversion." " 1 agree with you Unit many a man can discern the alcoholic mote in his hrofher's eye, notwithstanding the rloud of tobacco smoke in his own. I would, however, say to such an one: "Cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to east out the mote out of thy brother's eye." " Let me explain the statement that an habitual tobacco-user is u drunk ard." continued Mr. Garnsey. "Medi cal men look upon any b.ain that is ex cited into unusual or beyond natural activity by a narcotic, as being in an intoxicated condition. The brain, rtlsely and unfairly acted upon, is in an intoxicated state, whether the acting agent is alcohol, opium or tobacco, these three poisons each act in a differ ent manner. Alcohol excites its vic tim: opium puts him to sleep, and he lies like a dead man; tobacco takes a middle ground—produces inactivity, stupor, loss of energy. A thoughtless ami indifferent tone of mind results, when not under influence of the weed. The brain has been trained to act only when intoxicated by the narcotic, to bacco. When the mind must be active, users chew twice the quantity of the wred. If tlieir supply is exhausted be fore the task is accomplished, how they sigh! The workman throws down his implements. 'ltis no use! I must have a chew ol tobacco, or I cannot do the job,'—or discipher the problem, or whatever it may be! Now, I ask, in all candor, is such an one a sober man, or is he an intoxicated man when, the chew being orthcoming, his nerves be come quiet, his brain rebounds with new power and he accomplishes his task ? " He would argue that the result was gwi, that the stimulant helped him," suggested the reporter. " Bpoause he had trained himself to work only in an intoxicated state. It affects the stomach as a deadly poison. In course of time it utterly destroys di gestive functions. If tobacco does not affect the mind, what lias the number of pounds sold to do witfi the number of suicides in any part of tire country! There are men who if jou will give them the number of the population in a certain district and the number of pounds of tobacco shipped to that dis trict for immediate consumption there, will tell you almost to a man the num ber of suicides that occur annually among them. This is a fact. Habitual tobacco users are men who seldom draw a sober breath. The smell of their breath is almo-t equal to the gas of a sewer pipe." " Public sentiment has a great deal of tolerance for the tobacco-user." " The pubiir is not intelligent on the subject and does not care for informa tion. The agency of tobacco is masked. A strong, well-looking and hearty man. who has sapped all the vitality from his system, and has spat it out under his feet, meets with some little accident, perhaps has some sudden sickness and is gone. ' What caused his death?' Friends answer, ' Palpitation of the heart.' Now tobacco is a direct cause of this disease. Another died of bilious fever. Tobacco is a direct cause of indigestion and con stipation. Another. 'Ob, he had pul monary consumption.' Tobacco" is known to be a direct cause of throat and bronchial affection, and it is a grave question with medical men whether tobacco is not the main cause of so much consumption in our land to-day. It was no. always so." " What relation has the use of to bacco to,tlie appetite for alcohol?" " A craving for alcohol is aroused by the physical conditions produced hy the use of tobacco. General debility, j weariness, nnd a marked prostration of he whole system are just the states (hat alcoholic medicines have been pre scribed for. for centuries. The sudden stimulus of alcohol produces such an exuberant feeling, the victim drinks deeper and deeper till all self-control is lost. Delirium tremens, and death re suits; ar.d I believe the self-murderer from this course will lie railed in judg ment as any other suicide. It is a sin gular, yet nevertheless true, statement, that the use of alcohol alone never pro duces delirium tremens, but it is a dis ease natural to tobacco, and ia hastened by the use of alcohol. " I)r. Kianchard of this city," pur sued Mr. Garnsey, "asserts that in fif teen years' practice he has never seen or ieard of deli rum tremens except where tobacco had been used for years; nnd he says that though a man should drink all his days and not use tobacco he might die from the drinks but the delirium tremens Would never show it self; and that it is produced directly through the agency of tobacco, whiofi completely shatters and wrecks the nervous system, so that it cannot stand the sudden hard shocks of alcoholic stimulants, and the delirium tremens is a natural result of surh a condition. " From tobacco, fourdistincland sure poisons can he extracted. We have no * other mineral or vegetable substance on the gloM> of which this may be said. Two of the four poisons can be procured from other sources, while two are only known to tobacco and arc peculiar to itself. These two are the most deadly, namely, nieotianni, a concrete or solid oil: the other, nicotine, which is a limpid, colorless liquid. Dr. Virgil Blancharo (ells flint he took a piece of a broken stem of a mecrsclinuni pipe and scraped witli a knife on the inside; gave one eighth of the scrnpings to a Scotch mastiff weighing sixty-five pounds, and it killed him in ten seeonds. " The use of tobncco was carried to such excess in the Sandwich Islands many years ago, that many would fall down senseless and suddenly die. "Two drops of oil ol tobacco placed on the tongue of a cat will kill it in four minutes smid horrid convulsions. "Dr. Clay, of Manchester, England, states that a little hoy, eight years old, was afflicted with scald-head. His father steeped mime tobacco and bathed the parts affected at five minutes before two in the afternoon. The child almost instantly complained of giddiness, vom ite precipitated in such snow and rains as occur on the foot-hills of the Himalayas. About the sources of some of the great rivers of India occur the heaviest rains ever known; and further east, in Cashmere, it seems the snows are sometimes ter rific. Some interesting details of this extra ordinary snowfall in Cash mere in 1877-43 are given in a paper in the just issued number of the "Journal" of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, by Mr. Lydekker. Early in the month of October, 1877, snow commenced to fall in the valley and mountains of Cashmere, and from that time up to May, 1878, there seemed to have been an almost incessant snow fall in the higher mountains and valleys: indeed, in places, it frequently snowed without intermission for upward often days at a time. At Dras, which has nn an elevation of 10,000 feet, Mr. Lydekker estimated the snowfall, from the native account, as having been from thirty to forty fectthiek. The effects of this enor mous snowfall were to le seen through out the country. At Dras, the well built traveler's bungalow, which has stod somo thirty years, was entirely crushed down hy the weight of snow which fell upon it. In almost every vil lage of the neighboring mountains mora or less of the log houses had fallen, while at Gulniarg and Sonomarg, wh< re no at tempt was made to remove the snow, almost all the huts of the European vis itors were utterly broken down hy it. In the higher mountains whole hillsides have l>cen denuded of vegetation and soil by the enormous avalanches which swept down them, leaving vast gaps in the principal forests, and closing the val .eys below with the debris of rocks and trees. As an instance of the amount of snow which must have fallen in the higher levels, Mr. Lydekker mentions the Zogi pass, leading from Cashmere to Dras, which has an elevation at 11,300 feet. He crossed this early in August last year, and then found that the whole of the ravine leading up to the pass from the Cashmere side war still filled with snow, which he estimated in places to be at least 150 feet tlilck. In ordinary seasons this road in the Zogf pass is clear from snow some time during the mon h of June. As anoflo r instance of the great snowfall Mr. Lydekker takes the valley leading from the town of Dras up to the pass separating thnt place Iroirt the valley of the Kishengunga river. About the middle of August almost the whole of the first-mentioned valley, at an elevation of 12.000 feet, was com pletely choked witfi snow, which in places was at least 200 feet deep. In the same district all passes over 13,000 feet were still deep in snow at the same sea son of the year. Mr Lydekker gives other instanees of snow in places in September where no snow had ever liefore been observed after June." As to the destruction of animal life in the Upper Ward wan val ley large numbers of ibex were seen im bedded in snow; in one place upward of sixty heads were counted, and In another not less than one hundred were counted. The most convincing proofs, however, of the havoc caused among the wild animals by the great snowfall is the fact that scarcely any ibex were seen during last summer in those portions of the Wardwan and Tilail valleys which are ordinarily considered ns sure finds. So, nls , the red hear and the marmot wcrdTar less numerous than usual. Mr. Lydekker estimates tha* the destruction to animal life caused by snow Irs far exceeded finy slaughter which could be inflicted by sportsmen during a period of at least five or six years. Words of Wisdom. There is no good preaching to the hungry. Better go supper less to hed than to run in debt. The wild oats of youth change into the briars of manhood. The lesson of disappointment, humili ation and blunder impress more Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one who fears to do wrong. He has a thousand who lias overcome that one. The hardest working men and women are those who do the working and plan ning; and they arc lew, for most people consider second-hand goods the cheapest. Good words do more than hard speeches, ns the sunbeams, without any noise, will make the traveler throw off his coat which all the blustering wind could not do- It is easy enough to find plenty of men who think the world ones them a liv ing, but hard to find a chap who is willing to own up that he has collected tiie debt in full. If a man's word is not as good as his bond the best tiling is to get on with out either. If this can't be done look well to (lie bond and treat the word as ' though it had never been spoken. FOR TIIK FAIR HEX. ■•Hmhlon Not*#. Among tho Intent importations arc quaintly - colored French cashmeres wrought all over with polka dots of the same color; these come in gray, brown, olive and blue. They are to he used lor the principal part of a costume that may be completed with silk, satin, or velvet. I here are also separate embroidered pieces representing vines, (lowers and foliage, though all ol one color, and scalloped on the edge; these are to bo used for side-panels, aprons, scarfs, and for edging the square-cornered revers now made lengthwise in front and side breadths. Iu selecting velvet, it is desirable to get, that with elastic pile, that will be least easily flattened by use. Some of the richest velvets, with thickest pile, are often the most easily marred. The way to test this is for the purchaser to obtain samples, and crease them by pressing a sharp-edged paper-knife against the pile, or in other ways, and also moistening it slightly. If the pile does not come up after the pressure is removed, it certainly will not resist that which comes with even the most careful Usage. w rtieOriental cashmeres areso popular that they are now imported in pale rose, blue and gold tints to combine witli the light colors of evening dresses. The white Utile religicutc, or nun's cloth, which is really all-wool French bunt ing, is very popular this winter for full dress toilets for young ladies, and this is especially effective when combined witli pale cloth of gold, which is really Oriental cashmere with many gold threads in it. Some velvet, either dark garnet or peacock blue, is then added to give character to the dress, and a most picturesque toilet is formed. For streetsuits that have figured cash mere basques there is now the Tallien overakirt of plain silk or wool widely boniered with the figured material. This new overskirt is merely a long but very scant round overskirt caught up high on the left side almost to the waist, Wving the opening very far forward. The short skirt is then made of length wise plaiting* in alternate clusters of the plain fabric and the cashmere. The Spanish marriage has brought Spanish colors and stylos into vogue in Paris, and modistes are combining red and yellow in very rich toilets. The new est Parisian costume iB a skirt of dark Capucine satin de Lyon, with a basque of garnet velvet. The Spanish veil is also much in favor, and is shown by modistes here in both hlaok and Vhite Spanish lace. Red and yellow ostrich plumes also trim hlaok satin or lace bon nets. 1/ong black kid gloves with a bracelet of small yellow rosebuds at the top is one ol the caprices of semi-dress toilets. For a debutante to wear with white and blue toilet, white undressed kid gloves bail a band of tiny blue forget-me-nots forming a bracelet at the top ol each ust below the elbow. The newest lare cravat ia a large lace bow called the Mervoilleuse, in imitation of the bows worn during the French revolution. It mny be made of any trimming lace by sewing the straight ends together, and of this forming an ordinary bow of two long loops and two ends strapped in the center; below this 1 the lace ia then formed into a jabot: shaped like a fan, the two shell-like ! rows coming together in a point below. ! This point reaches nearly to the waist \ line, while the large bow ia high about the throat—indeed, just under the chin. Another bow, called the butterfly, has two little plaited pieces of white India muslin strapped tightly where they are joined, and this forms tlie center. Wide lace, either or duchcase, or Valenciennes, is then sewed to the plaited ends, and when the bow is worn the upper end of this lace is pinned high about the collar, and it is Allowed to fall j open below and display the pretty de- : sign wrought ui>on it. The butterfly bow is also made of black Cliina crape I edged witli the black hand-painted lace ! which is new this season. Artificial ImuquMa for the corsage are worn both in the house and street, and j are seen on the dresses imported from j the best Parisian houses. Natural flow- , ers are, however, greatly preferred, and j ladies who can obtain them use fresh natural flowers all winter. Small yel- I low chrysanthemums, as bright-tinted as buttercups, are as popular as the daisy bouquets worn during the sum mer. and will remain fresh several days, fjirge creamy tea-rose buds, and the darker Isabella sprunt rose arc worn with garnet, peacock blue, invisible green, or black toilets on dressy occa sions.— Ifarpcr'i Baxnr. ■Smithy Women. A writer, in urging the necessity for more attention to the physical culture, notes as a favorable sign, to the fact that "the pale and interesting" type of female beauty is fast losing its popular ity, and tiiat men of position and influ ence are declaring for the healthy standard of womanly beauty, such as was over recognized by Greece and Home. This is certainly an important and happy change in public taste, and already the effects of it are to hv detected in nn Improved condition of feminine health, for it will hardly he denied that on an average the women of to-day arc physically superior to what they were a few years ago, when tight-lacing and similar destroying customs prevailed. Young women fake more exercise than they formerly did. They ride and walk more and arc more in the open air. They liave not the insane dread of the sun's rays which they once had. Rut therein much room for improvement yet. Many homes are still presided over by invalid wives and mothers, who furnish a con stant spectacle of sadness and misery to their family and friends, and are a sub jected unllroitedj expense to tlieiribus hands. In such homes the greatest of nli blessings that could be hoped? for would f>e the health of the mistress re stored ; but too often it is the one bless ing tHiieh never comes. American homes, morn than any other, perhaps in the world, have been saddened by sickly women. If this ■hall be so no longer, it will be a great blessing to the nation. And the remedy is simple. American men are as strong and healthy as those of other nations; there is no good reason why American women should not be. All that is needed is proper attention to dress and exer cise. I4, By the effects of Poison. Theglass remained in the window un disturbed until the country was shocked by the murder of Mr. Lincoln on April 14, lflf>s. A few days alter that event Mr. R. M. N. Taylor, proprietor of the Mcllenry houe, cut the pane from the window, framed it over a bar-king of black velvet, placed with it the auto graph of Mr. Booth, which Mr. Taylor cut from the hotel register, and sent the whole to me. just as it now is. Afghan Cruelty. A Cabul correspondent of the Ixrndon Timet writes: As a specimen of the, rule which we come to deliver the Afghans from I give the following, winch 1 heard Irom Major-General Hills, before whom the case against Ibrahim Khan was tried. Ibrahim Khun, who is a brother of Yakooh Khan, when he left Cabul with other royal sirdars to join our camp at Kushi,ln structed a confidential servant to bury some of bis treasure. On Ibrahim's re turn with us the confidential servant and the hiding-place of the treasure was not to be found. Ibrahim, how ever. laid hands on the father-in-law of the mnn who had been entrusted with the business, and giving him credit for knowing something about it—whether justly or upjust.ly does not appear—tor tured him to death by fastening up bis head in a bag of snuff and tobacco, which was eventually set on fire, as the milder preliminaries -had no effect in throwing light upon the whereabouts of the treasure. A man had a tooth extracted by'a Chicago dentist, and expresred regret 1 for the loot. A girl whose jaws were overcrowded with teeth entered the office to have two ol them taken out. The dentist suggested the experiment of transferring one of these sound teeth to the wacancy in the man's mouth, and tho operation was performed with sue cess, the tooth growing fast and firm in ten days. TIHRLT TOPICS. Mr. A. S. Fuller, of Ridgewood, N. J., whose etomological cabinet Is said to contain " fi,ooo species of beetles alone." is credited with the declaration that of I the hundred thousand species of insects in the United Slates, there is "not one hundred whose true history is well known." So lie reminds active young men that there is a little room still left I for them in this line of study, and men tions for their encouragement that one person bug-hunting in F.orida " found under a dead palmetto fan hundreds of hup that were previously rated at $7.1 apiece." Many of our greatest discoveries have been the result of accident, rather than a fixed and definite purpose. "It is curious to note," says the Chicago 7Vi bune, " how nearly every invention that lias proved to be a service and a blessing to mankind has been the result of what is popularly termed an accident. It is well known that many great discoveries j in the arts, in science, and in mechanics | have come to the knowledge of experi menters in a line quite different from the one in which they were operating, and what they called a blunder at the time led the way to the most important re sults. It is said that the Goodyear pro- \ cess of utilizing rubber was purely an : accidental discovery, and now it is claimed that Mr. Edison by a fortunate I accident discovered that carbonized I paper, instead of platinum, was what he was after." The reigning Czar possesses in full measure the family love of being present at great fires,which bis younger orotlier, the Grand Duke Nicholas, is enabled to gratify at will by hi i position as head of the St. Petersburg lire brigade. On one occasion this passion for "running with the machine all but proved fatal to ; lioth. When the German Lutheran j church, on the Moika canal, took fire ' n the middle of the night, the Czar and his brother were among the first to reach the spot, and, while directing the opera tions of the fireman, incautiously ap proached too near the burning build ing, the belfry of which was already be- i ginning to totter. Suddenly a huge beam, at least twelve feet in length, fell blazing from the roof, and struck the ground with a tremendous crash close to the spot where they stood, injuring several of the crowd with its flying splinters. General Trepoff, then minis- ! ter of police, at once stepped forward, and succeeded in persuading the Czar to withdraw, but the Grand Duke Nicholas , unained to the end, and saved i the greater part of the building. If Mexican robbers, who have always been one of the many curses of ill- I governed, distracted Mexico, were dealt i with as were the robbers near Guana juato, according to a recent account, we should hear of fewer depredations there upon travelers. Thirty highway men, having attacked a mail coach with Winchester rifles, were put to flight, five of their number killed and several wounded by two young Americans, only one of whom was hurt. So the account reads, and it might seem to be a gross exaggeration, considering the disparity of numbers, were not most.professional lawbreakers, especially those in Mexico, arrant cownrds. who never take the offensive unless backed by greatly su perior strength One might imagine that the Americans had been armed with Gatling guns from the destruction they wrought, but their most effective weapons were, no doubt, coolness, cour age and resolution As one of them, George Green, is from Texas, and the other, Frank Sen ter, is from Massa chusetts. the honors of intrepidity are, a* respects section, equally divided. They are obviously of the right ma terial; just such citizens are wanted there, and many of them. A hundred j brave, firm fellows of their stamp would be more effective tlian 10,000 pronuncia mentos in favor of honest government and strict administration of justice. The education of the two Americans has | unquestionably been of the kind most needed there. Their parents have, very I plainly, in their case taught the young idea how to shoot. Edison's Rirnl. Edison is all very well in his way, ! but the inventor that will be remem bered when all others are forgotten is a party named Miekley, who has just rendered his fellow-men an inestimable service by producing an apparatus called the " Married Man s Indicator, or the j patent " Domestic Barometer." This ingenious device is simply a wonder fully sensitive arrangement of the ordi nary barometer, which infallibly detects the most minute alterations in the atmospheric conditions. The married man. returning late from the alleged " lodge," or other locally contraband ol war. Indulges in no fearful speculations as to his reception He simply takes his " indicator" from its case and inserts a projection, arranged for the purpose, . through the key-hole. Instantly the domestic temperature within is recorded Iby the dial. If it marks S. F.—set fair; S. A.—sound asleep; or even C. B. cross but sleepy, he brings his propitia tory box of fried oysters well to the front, chews a fresh clove and enters boldly. If, however, the faithful little instrument reports 8. B.—storm brew ingr or V. 8. L.—very squally. With lightning, he doesn't waste any valuable time in warfare, but hies him to the nearest hotel and sends an "up all night with a sick friend" note, wfth some matinee tickets and a new bonnet, home in the morning. Truly, if science keeps on in this way, the world will be come quite a comfortable place to live in after a while.— Botton Herald. Wards or Wisdom. Life is a flower, love is its honey. Pleasure becomes an ill when it costs regrets.— Roehebrune. Beauty without modesty is like a flower broken from its stem. A small evil ought not to be done, even for the sake of a great good. That civility is best which excludes all superfluous formality. It is very dangerous for any man to find any spot on this broad globe that is sweeter to him than his home. Write your iwme by kindness, love and mercy in the hearts of thousands you come in contact with year by year and you will never be forgotten. | Anyb.dy can soil the reputation of any individual,however pure and chaste, by uttering a suspicion that his enemies will believe and hit friends never bear of. Events are only the winged shuttles which fly from one side of the loom of life to the other, bearing the many-col ored threads out ol which the fabric of our characters is mods. BIG THINGS. Mammoth Mramahlp-A SOO.OOO Pran< Mtonr—Pll.a of titld-Patttit Cow la the World. A new steamship, to be named the t'ity of Home, which will be the largest and finest merchant vessel in the world, is now being built at Barrow, England. Bhe will ply between Liverpool and New York. Her length of keel will be 54 feet, and length over all 590 feet, with other dimension* in proportion. Her measurement will be 8,300 tons, or over 2,000 tons larger than either the City of Berlin or the Arizona, and 800 tons larger than the Servia, the new steamship, which will be completed this fall. She will lie over four-fifths the size of the Great Eastern. The engines of the City of Uome will be of 8,500 horse-powrr, with six cylinders, three of which are high-pressure and three low-pressure. There will be eight boilers, heated by forty-eight fur naces, and the vessel can be propelled at the rate of eighteen and a half knots an hour. She will carry four large masts and three smoke funnels. There will be 275 revolving chairs at the saloon tables, and the staterooms will easily accommodate three hundred first-class passengers. A drawing-room, which can be occupied by one hundred ladies at once, will be placed on the deck, im mediately over the saloon. The smok ing-room will be above the drawing room, and will accommodate one hun dred smokers at one*. The saloon will contain six bath-rooms. There will be room on board for almost any number of steerage passengers, ana space for an enormous quantity of freight in the hold. The City of Home is to be built of steel, with a double bottom and eleven bulkheads. She will have the highest classification of any vessel in the Liverpool red-book and in the British Lloyds. The largest stone quarried in 3,000 years was used in the construction of the obelisk to the memory of Major General John Ellis Wool, which ha* just been exposed to public view in froy, N. Y. General Wool was a dis tinguished soldier of the war of 1812, having been shot through both thighs at the storming of Queenstown, and having covered himself with glory at the battle of I'lattsburg, two years later. Moreover, as second in com mand lie helped Taylor at Buena Vista. General Wool left $50,000 for a monu ment to iiis wife and himself. The late Wil'iam Cullen Bryant became inter ested in the monument scheme, and be fore his death wrote the inscriptions for it. The stone for the immense shaft, weighing about 500,000 pounds, was obtained from Vinalhaven, on Fox Island, Maine. Its transportation to Troy cost about $7,000. The huge mono lith was placed by skillful engineering on a barge and towed through tempest uous waves to the Hudson. It was feared quite often that the stone had sought the bottom of the sea. The monument, as it now stands, seventy five feet in height, on the summit of an eminence, may be seen for many mile* around Troy. Perhaps the largest payment made in gold coin since the revival took place in Chicago recently. Then one of the hanks of tliat city paid out in settle ment of its clearing house balances $1,650,000. Of this sum $1,500,000 wa* in gold coin. The coin was received from New York in twenty kegs, each keg weighing three hundred pounds and containing $75,000. The transpor tation through the'street* was attended by five men to handle and guard the treasure. By an arrangement between the banks and the clearing house offi cers the gold was delivered directly to the several creditor banks. By this ar rangement the transportation and hand ling were simplified. The coin was sent thither by Jim Keene in payment for wheat, and with other remittances of like character, will largely enter into general circulation in Chicago. P. I Annan, who handled all the cattle at the Centennial, is now a dealer at Sail Lake City. Utah, where he now exhibits the carcass of "the biggest bovine in the world." The animal was i a heifer. She looked to be approaching ! elephantine greatness, and so thick liad ! the fat become on the animal tliat she | could scarrely walk, and her hide was stretched to its utmost tension She weighed before the slaughter over 9,500 : pounds, and after dressing over 1.300. The butchers of Salt Lake City are oi the I opinion tliat she was the fattest oow In i the world. Some idea of her vastness can be formed from the knowledge that • on the thinnest part of?the rib measured the fat was seven inches in thickness. There comes from Duluth, Minn., an authenticated yarn about a pig which . had iust been aroused from a sleep of 142 days. The pig belongs to Miner Eblerhausen, of Little Bay. The animal slept so soundly that it* owner built a gall around it. and on tearing the wall do *n recently he heard a grunt on the inside. Its appearance when taken out WHS rather funny. The ribs on each side seemed to have met. The haras had vanished and only the hip joints stood up, gaunt and angular. The vertebrie could be counted and the ears drooped from the large skull. The eyes looked ont of the deep bony sockets with a profoundly melancholy expres sion, as though their owner had been in the other world and had found there cspe, tally hard times. Business Affair*. A careless business man is morally unsound. Bhow me s man who never pays liis notes when they sre due, and who shnus the psvment of his bills when it is possible, and does both tbiugs as s habit, and I shall see s man whose moral character is, beyond all question, bad. We have had illustrious examples of this lack of business exact ness. We have had great men whose business habits were simply scandalous —who never paid their bills unless urged and worried, and who expended for their personal gratification cvorv cent of money they could lay their hands upon. These delinquencies have been apologised for as among the eccentricities of genius, or as the un mindfulneas of smell affairs which natur ally attends all greatness of intellect ami intellentual effort; but the world has been too easy with them altogether. No matter how many amiable and praiseworthy trait* of character such men possessed, they were dishonest and untrustworthy in their business rela tions, end that simple fact condemns them. Xam reedy to believe any bed of e men who habitually neglects to fulfil his business obligations. Bush e man is oertainly rotten at heart, end does I not deserve respect.