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THE HAIDA INDIANS. TIip Mot IntrrrMliiR Alrlclnp Dwelllns In tlir Xrtltwpt ('out Country. otn little Interest and romance at taches itself to tlio Hatila Indians of liueen Charlotte Islands, from a tradi tion which exists, that their ancestors ?ume, originally, in canoe from a -ountry far to the southward. It is -laid that they wcro many moons on Mie voyage, that they landed at mapy poiiits on the way like Prions and his Trojans of classic story - and that they were always repeled hy savage natives, ir evil omens, till, finally, they reached these outlying islands whore they established themselves, built village.-, ind fashioned now canoes from the huge yellow c?dar-trees which here reach their greate.-t size. It is supposed by some travelers that these exiles, seeking a home and a ountry, wore a remnant of the mighty Aztec people of Mexico, conquered by Cortex and his Spanish cavaliers, and that jitor the tragic fall of Tonoehtlt lan. the Aztec capital of Mexico, a bund jf fugitives made its way down to the west coast and came northward. Certain it is that the Haidas excel the )ther Indian tribes of the Northwest ?oaht. in warlike spirit, physique and ingenuity. They are now often seen t Sitka. Victoria and Pugot Sound ports, but still claim the Queen Char lotte Islands as their homo. What gives the legend of their origin collie degree of probability is the art hey possess in carving and engraving in s-toni wood, silver, copper and gold. As nearly as can bo ascertained, the practice of carving the huge totem posts, which form so odd and striking a feature of the Indian villages along this coast, originated with the Haidas. There is something in the grotesque sculpture.and imagery on these totems suggestive of Aztec art, as seen in the museum at tho City of Mexico. Not n-en civilized art exceeds the skill dis played by the Hindus in carving plates, platters, tureens, miniature totems and :inimal groups of statuary from solid, tine-grained blade slate; for it is done with such skill, finish and good taste in design that a single platter or group often commands forty or fifty dollars. More remarkable yet is tho skill ex hibited by these people in tho model ing and construction of largo canoes from the trunks of the gigantic yellow cedars, which, on the Queen Char lotte Islands, attain a diameter of seven and even ten or twelve feet for Queen Charlotte's is tho Lebanon of the Northwest coast. From a single cedar log the Haidas fashion a canoe, sometimes seventy-live feet long, with a breadth of seven or eight feet, a craft capable of carrying fifty persons, a good sailor, seaworthy and safe for .a, voyage of hundreds of miles on tho open sea. The prows of these huge canoes are often curved upward in a formidable war beak, and decorated like tho galieys of classic times. It will, indeed, bo an interesting dis covery in ethnology if tho arts of these west coast Haidas can bo traced to their source in that peculiar Aztec civ ilization of early Mexico, which Cor tex and the coniuistartorcs crushed so ruthlessly threo hundred and seventy j ears ago. Youth's Companion. . -- A Test tor Malaria. A loving father who, at a summer resort last season, had left behind him four beautiful children, dead of diph theria, said to mo: "That hotel, pro prietor was as much a murderer as if ho had shot my little ones." Yes, dear sir, but you, the guardian, ought to have been armed and equipped -.igninst such foes. An hour's intelli gent examination of water supply and drainage at a proposod country homo would, in a largo majority of cases, prevent tho risk of such a catastrophe, and might bo made before a landlord could object. Take in tho dross-ing-bag an ounce vial of saturated solution of permanganato of potash, which any druggist will prepare for a few cents, and put half a dozen drops into a tumbler of tho drinking water that is supplied. If it turns brown in an hour, it is, broadly speaking, unfit to drink; if not, it is not especially harmful. If a country hotel's sower age system is confined to cesspools within a hundred foot of tho house and near the wator supply, lake the next train to a point farther on. These matters should force thomselves on one's personal attention, quito as much as tho undertaker's bills that occasion ally follow their neglect. American Magazine. How a Fortune Was Acquired. "A scheme by which I could acquiro a fortune in thirty days would he all I would require to make mo happy," said the long-haired man with tho corn-cure. "Happiness will soon bo yours," said tho cast-iron brick-mnkor.-I will give you a scheme, I chargo nothing for it, which will render you u wealthy man." "Your first gift to tho needy?" asked tho corn-butchor. "Hut never mind, I will not seek to call up your record. I will tako the scheme without gratitude, for what is cheapor than advice?" Tho schemo was to form oi stock company and advertise tho corn-cure under a foreign name. The long-haired man did not form u company, but ho nold his romcdy with rcdoublod energy and at last got togethor f00. Soon tho wulls of tho city blossomed with glowing "ads" of tho .Scandinavian Corn Exterminator, accompanied by a plciuro of a yollow-haired Swede bath ing his foot in a blue liquid. The long haired man is now called tho hand somest millionaire in tho country and Is tho owner of u big itou-in yuoht. Uullalo Express. THE RUSSIAN POLICE. Accorillne to Mr. Kriiiicn IW Chirr Clint-itrlrrl.tli- l DUlmiip.ty. Ill a recent lecture in Ronton. Mr. George Kenr.en referred as follows to the Russian police: "The police of Kussia control, by means of passports, the movements of all the inhabitant of tho Empire, keep thousands of 'sus pects' constantly under control, and certify to the courts the liabilities ol bankrupts. They conduct pawnbrok er's sales of unredeemed pledges, su perintend the repairs of roads and bridges, collect statistics and enforce sanitary regulations, make searches in private houses, read the correspond ence of 'suspects.' give certificates to Identify pensioners, admonish church members who neglect too long to partake of tho holy com munion, and enforce obedience to thousands of multifarious orders and regulations. It u hardly an exagger ation to say that in tho peasant vil lages of Siberia, away from the cen ters ol enlightenment and education, the police aro tho omnipresent and om nipotent regulators of every thing a sort of bureaucratic substitute for Di vine Providence. The police of Rus sia are divided into four classes: Tho rural police, tho common metropolitan police of the cities, the detective and secret police, and tho ijcwturniv.i. The strongest class numerically is that of tho rural police, who enforce the or ders of the (lovernment in the peasant villages. According to a recently-published statement, thoro are in tho forty-seven provinces of European Russia 2(W,i00 towns and villages where intoxicating liquors aro sold at retail. If wo suppose that for every such village there are two police o Ul cers, which, perhaps, is not an over estimate, wo have an army of over .100, 0.H) men in this one class, without including Siberia or any part of Asiatic Russia. Tho rural police aro divided into stuns, or stations. They wear a uniform, and aro armed with a saber and revolver. Their salaries aro from !?7f to $100 per year lor a privato and sfliOO for the chief of t district. The natural result is thai tlie rural police represent the worst elements of tho whole population. A large proportion of them are ignorant and stupid. Those who have brains aro generally dishon est, and use tho orders of the Minister of the Interior in innumerable in stances to extort money from tho peas ants." The lecturer asserted that bribery was almost universal among tho offi cials. An instance of this was as fol lows: In every village there was gen erally one Jewish capitalist. At a time when tho peasants were about to float thoir wheat to market on barges, ono of these capitalists proposed to tho official that when tho peasants applied to him for their passports to enable them to travel to the market, ho should tell them that they had been sent to the department for renewal, or invent some other excuso to prevent tho peasants from traveling. Then he (tho capitalist) would buy their wheat at homo for about half its value, and divide up tho profits with him. To this the ollicial agreed, and the scheme was carried out, with tho result that the peasants became discouraged, and agriculture declined. "Next to the rural police in numer ionl strength, and far above them in intellect and power," said the lecturer, "are the secret police of Russia, who are to bo found everywhere through out tho Immense Empire, and who aro most numerous in tho large cities. A great part of their work consists jn maintaining supervision over persons who are suspected of sympathizing with the revolutionary movement. Tho number of persons uuilor super vision when the last Czar came to the throne was officially reported to bo 2,8:57 in European Russia, besides about 2,000 in Siberia, all of tho latter polit ical exiles. The number is probably much greater now. All these aro un der open surveillance; they know the polieo aro watching them, and that thoir correspondence is under con trol." Frank Leslie's Weekly. r Honesty Finds Its Reward. Some time ago a wealthy man died in iJrussols, leaving .nearly his entire fortune to a young woman who was en tirely unacquainted with him. Tho American Art Printer explains that this is how it came to pass: Ho was a very eccentric man, and sot out, like Dlogones, in search of an honest man. Ills tub was an omnibus, and his lan tern a small coin. In tho omnibus he usod to tako his scat every day near tho conductor, and always showed him self very obliging in passing up tho money of pussongors and returning tho change, but to tho latter ho always managed to add a franc or half franc. Then he would watch thoso to whom it came. They would count it careful ly, notlco tho extra coin, and Invaria bly slip it. into their pockets. No one thought of the poor conductor, whose meager salary of three francs a day could 111 support such a loss. Hut at last a young woman passed hers back with, "Conductor, you have givon me half a franc too much." Diogenes, de lighted, followed her homo, made in quiries, and, as tho answers wcro sat isfactory, mado Ills will in her favor, though he nover gavo hor warning thai her half franc was going to bring hoi half a million. Domingo, tho Spunlsh painter, long resident in Paris, for whoso work immense prices have ruled these mnny years, has had tho honor of pulnting the baby King of Spain and his mother, tho Quoon Regont, receiving for the form-jr $'.'5,000. FOREIGN GOSSIP. The population of Africa Is eighteen to the square mile; in Europe there are eighty-eight to the same space. In Liverpool the rate of mortality is 1S.S per cent. Every fourth funeral is that of a child under ono year old. and every second funeral is that of a child under five years old. Princess Eugenie, of Sweden. -ha borne the expense of establishing n mission house for the benefit of tho Laplanders in the northern part of. Sweden. It is over two hundred milos north of the Arctic Circle. A Russian officer who has made a tour of observation through .India? concludes that English rule there is "far from tottering to Its fall. . tt um struck out so many deep roots that to disturb it would be no easy' task." It has hitherto been tho rule in Japan that all persons visiting gov ernmental otlieos must alight from their horses or vehicles at the out'Or gate: unless they were of. certain rank. This relic of feudal times has now been abolished. Every Japanese is now nt liberty to go where lie pleases on foot. Thorough tillage, combined with irrigation and drainage, enables Japan, from only 12, 000.000 acres under till age, to clothe and feed '58. 000.000 peo ple, to say nothing of exporting an nually -10000.00;) pounds of tea, sev eral million dollars' worth of silk and large quantities of tobacco and rice- Tho Gorman Empress is not a woman of dress, but when she does array herself in her stateliest robes ho presents a marvelous spectacle, l'lio other Sunday sho appeared in a' gown of white silk, with a train sev 3 nil yards long, embroidered with gold ind silver. The material cost J1,;"00. It took twolvo girls two months to inako tho embroidery. Tho Emperor of Russia has dis tributed small tokens of gold to all those who were with him in the im perial train at the time of tho railway accident near Horki, in memory of their miraculous escape. Tho keep sakes aro miiiaturo copies of a sacred picture which was found quito un Janiaged after tho accident in the din ing saloon of the train. It appears that laud grabbing lias been going on at a lively rate in the South Pacific. Ollicial reports at Washington aro said to show that up to 188(5 foreigners had laid claim to 301.000 acres in tho Samoan Islands, which have a total area of C70.720. Thus aliens assorted ownership of 21,000 acres more than tho entire king dom possesses! During the' past two years tho Germans have. tiled addi tional claims amounting to many thou sands of acres. Queen Victoria is so fond of fresh air that sho is in tho habit of sleeping with open windows even in the dead of winter. The Empress Maria Theresa of Austria was more peculiar in this respect. Her writing-table, oven in winter, was close to tho open window, and tho falling snow often drifted in and fell on tho paper on which she wrote. It frequently happened that the hands of tho hairdresser were partly frozen while attending to her majesty's coiffure. The rapid increase of tlio furejgn population in' Franco is causing great concern to tho government. Since 1SK(! no less than lS2,0O0olglns,"2f).;).- J0O Italians, 100,000 G irmL-is, Tb'.OOO Swiss, and 80,000 Spaniards have gone, into France in addition to tho foreign population previously resident, there. In 1851 there were but S81.000 foreign ers in a total population of nearly thirty-six millions. In 18SfJ tho for eign population ' exceeded l,00l),000, while the native population remained nearly stationary. SOME CURIOUS FACTS. ISOLATED PEOPLE. I' I 111 UlH'llvlltllltl I. ut of tllll .Mllll Wild Citrt'K for Xoboily. Men who isolate thomselves from lociety, and have no near and dear family ties, aro tho most uncomfort able of human beings. Hyrou says: "Happiness was born a twin," but the phrase, though pretty and poetic, does not go far enough. Wo aro gregari ous, and not intended to inarch through lifo in single or in double file. In pairing time. i. o., during tho honey moon, individuals of opposite sexes may find it very pleasant, not to say delightful, to walk apart from the un sentimental world, two and two. Hut as a general thing they aro ready enough to rush back into tho crowd when the billing and cooing season is over. Petrarch would havo grown tired of Laura, and she of him, had they been condemned to a life-long teto-n-teto in tho wilder ness, and Sappho would huve jumped into tho sea to escape ennui, hud she been competed to matrimonial solitudo with the man for lack of whoso lovo sho mado "a damp body" of her self. It has boon well said that tho vital prineiplo grows weak when isolated. Tho man who cares for obody, nd for whom nobody cares, lias nothing to live for thut will pay for tho troublu of keophig soul and body together. You must have a heap of ombers to make a glowing fire. Scatter thoiji apurt, and they becomo dim and cold. So, to havo a brisk, vigorous life, you must havo a group of lives, to keop each other warm, as it wore, to nllord to each other mutual oncourugomontatid confi dence and support. If you wish to live thojjlfo of a man, and not thut of u fungus, bo soolnl, bo brotherly, bo uharitablo, bo sympathetic, and labor earnustly for the good of your kind. N. Y. Lcdirer. AccnrilliiK to nil Authority All Thut colur l Not llrn. "Every jeweler lias doubtless met with mnny curious incidents in his business career, but I think that a re cent experience of mine is worth relat ing. Shortly after the holidays there camo into my place a pleasant-man- t nered young man who expressed a do- , sire to look at some gold necklaces, it ' 'is- needless to say that 1 sold him one. , U was fourteen carats and very pretty. Two days later tho door was Hung open and In rushed the young man, .bolting with rage. He threw the neck lace on the counter, demanded the re turn of his money, and threatened to , oppose' me as a swindler. It took half an hour to learn his story. 'It seems that after presenting the necklace to his lady love he had taken Ho? to a reception, ornamented with 'lis present. After the first dance there was a commotion in one corner of tho ruoni, and the rivals of our customer's bes,t girl were tittering among them selves and whispering about, her. "The young lady looked in the glass ami almost fainted at the sight. Her beautiful neck was almost black from the friction of the necklace. She changed her mind about fainting, re turned home with her brother and sent the necklace back to her young man with a note that sho did not like his brass. I tested the necklaco In his pres ence and proved to him that it was full fourteen carats. About that time a young physician called U purchase a scarf pin. lie had overheard part ot the story and asked to hear the bal ance, as he believed lie could throw some light on tlio subject. Pretty soon ho 'laughed outright, and said: 'Why, sir the trouble is with your girl and not tho necklace Sho has too much sul phur, iron, mercury, salt or acid In her blood, and as any of these substances has an nihility for gold the explanation is clear. I havo patients for whom mercurial medicines have heen pro scribed, and the result is that their fingers upon which rings aro worn dis colored at once.' My customer cooled oil and carried his purchase away. "In connection with this subject, a good story is told at the expense of a Maiden Lane dealer, lie gavo his sis tor an eigliteen-carat ring as a present. Ho is a practical jokor, and sho asked him if tho ring was gold. Ho replied that it was. That evening, tlio young lady had occasion to remove tlio ring from her finger, and she noticed that tho skin was greatly discolored. 'Jim has carried his jokes too far,' she ex claimed, and opening the window throw tho trinket into tho street; some gamin picked it up. When my friend learned of the iucidont, ho camo tome for consolation, and I oxplaincd my owu experience. His sister is sorry for hor haste. "'All is not gold that glitters,1 nor is every thing brass that discolors. A person wearing a fourteon-carat ring on one finger and a ten-carat ring on another may havo noticed that the linger with-tho higher carat will bo discolored and the other ono not. Tho reason Is that tho ring of tho lower carat fits snugly and thoothor is rather looso, thus causing a friction." Jewelers' Weekly. FRENCH CANADIANS. The ".Solid" I'lii-tor. Ill Polltlcill Arro tu; Moplr Perhaps nothing will surprise- tho visitor more -than tho persistence of tho French typo in Canada, and. natur ally its aggeessiveness. Guaranteed their religion, laws and language tho French have not failed to assimilate, but havo had hopes may bo still havo of making Canada Fronoh. The French "national" party means simply a French consolidation, and has no re lation to tho "nationalism" of Sir John A. Macdouald. So far as tho Church and tlio French politicians aro con cerned, tho effort is to keep tho French solid as a political forco, and whether tho French aro liberal or conservative, this is tlio underlying thought. Tho province of Quebec is liberal, but tho liberalism is of a different hue from that of Ontario. Tho French recognize tho truth thatlanguago Is so integral a part of a people's growth that tho Indi viduality of a people- depends upon maintaining it. Tho French havo os caped absorption in Canada mainly by the concession to them of thoir civil laws and thoir religious privileges. Tho French havo always been loyal to the English connection under all temptations, for thoso guarantees havo been continued, which could scarcely bo expected from any othor power, and certainly not in a legislative union ol the Canadian provinces. In lltorature and sentiment, tho connection is with Franco; in religion, with Rome; in politics England has boon tho guaran tee of both. Thoro will ho no pre vailing sontlmont In favor of annexa tion to tho United States so long as the church retains Its authority, nor would it bo favored by tho accomplished politicians so long as they can use tho solid French mass as a political forco. Charles Dudley Warner, in Harpor'a Magazine. Another BUmarcklan Victim. Managing Editor (chucking manu script into waste-baskot) Rats! Funny Man What's tho matter? M. E. Why, here's Samoa of thoso Pacific Island jokes. F. M. I thought tho subject had boon exhausted. M. K. So did I, but It doesn't Apiu to bo quito finished yet. V. M. (dropping dead) I am. Washington Critic. RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. , Sowing classes hnvo been added to 1 the public schools of Hrooklyn. Th new course in electricity nt Columbia College will bo opened to graduates of all scientific schools. it happened, very jirovidentially, to tho honor ot the Christian religion, that it did not take its rise in the dark. Illiterate ages of the world, bu: at a tituo when arts and sciences wore at their height. --Addison. The greater and more varied the knowledge necessary to perform a cer tain line of duty, the greater the ex treme from the inferior to superior tnl ents; hence in proportion is the ser vico rendered increased or decreased in value. A little Moslem child accounted for the preference for the Christian reli gion by saying: "1 like your Jesus be cause Ho loves little girls. ' With un erring instinct she had se'zed upon at least ono of the gieut d I tTerences be tween tho two religions. Hy educating our daughters they will get more out of lifo. havo broader views; it is not how long wo live, but how well lifo is; it should not be reck oned by the number of days and years we live, but in the manner we improve what we have. Mrs. Watson. If you want to havo good compan ions about you. don't bo afraid to count good stories among those good com panions. They can teach you some thing, can turn your heart toward bet ter things and induce you to a nobler and truer life. Robert Collyer. The American Missionary Associa tion supports 17 schools with !'. teach ers among tho Chinese. Of tho LRU pupils RMS are professing Christians. They havo It churches among tho In dians, with ,'i!)7 members, with 1,001 children in tho Sabbath-school. They havo 18 day-schools, with f80 scholars. Instruct your son well, or others will instruct him ill. No child goes altogether untaught. Send him to tho school of wisdom, or he will go of him self to the rival academy kept by tho lady with tho cap and bolls. There is always instrue'ion going on of some sort, just as in tho fields the progress of vegetation is nover idle. - It Is a fact not w.dely recognized that sixteen States of tlio Union havo a compulsory school law upon tho statute book, while ono State enforces Its law. The ono Stato deserving honorahlo mention Is Massachusetts. Yet, in spite of a rather stringent enforcement of tlio law, so far as it goes, there were, in consequence of Us meagerness, no less than 10,000 children under sixteen years of ago employed in the textile mills alono in that State last year. How fnrtunato are the children of to-day In tho excellent litoraturo pro pared for them. There Is so much of it pure, wholesome and entertaining that no bey or girl who knows how to read need bo without books suited to his or her taste. The business of pre paring juvenile literature has grown to enormous proportions; some of tho best writers do not disdain to cater to tlio little ones, and thoro aro publishers whoso fortunes hnvo been mado by tho printing and sale of books for tho young folks. WIT AND WISDOM. AFRICAN CANNIBALS. Tho man who louds his Influence rarely gets it back, Politeness is tho most efilcicnt aid in fho world to strengthen a gooil liaino or to supply the want of one. If wo did but know how Uttlo sonio enjoy tho greatest filings they possess, there would not be so much envy in tho world. It is in lovo as It is in religion; tho man with a now goddess is ready to offer up tho old Idol as tho first burnt olTor ing. Once a Weok. Prejudice is tho conjurer of Imagi nary wrongs strangling truth, over powering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. There Is nothing in tho world so toilsome as the pursuit of fame; life concludes boforo you havo so much as sketched your work. Hruyero. It is not always tho man who looks the wisest that knows the most, but most people don't know tills, so that it will pay you to look just as wlso as you possibly can. Somorvlllo Journal. Really thoro Is much to bo thankful for in this country that has food in abundance, enough of material comforts, and, in the main, freedom from pestilonco and the horrors of war. Don't think that a man Is a gonitis because ho wears long hair. Truo ge nius brings plenty of work to both tonsorlal and editorial shears, for tho much-quoted man can always afford to be clipped. Puck. A faithful and truo friend is a liv ing treasure, inestimable in possession, and deeply to bo lamented whon gone. Nothing is more common than to talk of a friend; nothing more difficult than to find one; nothing more rare than to improvo by ono as wo ought. Lavator. I havo nover been In a hurry; I havo always taken a plenty of exercise; I havo always tried to bo cheerful, and J havo taken all the sleep that I needed. Thoso woro tho rules followed by tho late Rev. James Freeman Clarke, and ho outlived and outworked must of those who bogan lifo with him. Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. Ho that shoots host may sometimes miss tho mark, but he thut shoots not at all can never hit If- Ir resolution loosens till tho joints of a Stato; like an ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all tho body is at once in a lit- Tho irresolute man is lifted from one place to another, so hatghuth ucthlug, but uddlus all his ac tions. A uou. Olisr-rviitloti MidIi In Mm Durk Continent liy nn I:iikIMi TruvHrr. I never so thoroughly appreciated tho "unnecessary" character of thta African anthropophagy as during nn exploration of tho Upper Cross river in the early part of tho present year. My cano," had been stopped, and I had been "captured" and carried on shore by a noisy, boisterous hand of natives. They meant me no harm, but objected to my visiting the tribe boyond them, with whom they were at war. Thoir country bore a singularly prosperous appearance, with its tidy plantations of yams, sweet potatoes, ground nuts, col loeasia arums, manioc. Indian corn and bananus, and the large herds of sleelc cattle and tho numerous sheep, goats, fowls and Muscovy ducks. So abund ant was food and so exceptional woro these Africans In their hospitality that in the course of two days they had filled my canoes with 1,200 yams, a number of corn-cobs, fowls, ducks, sheep and goats, until I had to cry: "Hold! enough, because tho canoes were dangerously overloaded. More over, they presented a largo bullock to my Kruboys. Any one who knows Africa and the natural stinginess of the negro will realize how abundnnt must have been tho local food supply to account for such easy generosity as this! Yet in this land of plenty tho people craved' for human llcsh, to ob tain which they were constantly fight ing with their neighbors. Hut a Uttlo while before my arrival a successful "bag" -of captives had been made, a feast had taken place, and, as a relic of the abundance, there was a sinoko-dried human log hanging from tho rafters in tho chiefs hut where 1 sat and parleyed, which swayed to and fro over tho smoking brands on tho clay hearth. Lower down the Cross river, in the district of Euyon (part of tho I bo country), about the most cold-blooded cannibalism is reported to exist which I havo over heard of. Youths aro purchased at tho interior slave markets, and aro dealt with us we deal with tho young sheep and oxen which we turn into wothors and halluces aro deliberately unsoxod so that they may fatten quicker, and ure then fed upon yams and nourishing food till thoy aro ready for tho feast llorriblo and incredible as this state ment may appear, it is one that I make on good authority; and this phase of cannibalism has also, I bellovo, como under the notice of certain traders mid missionaries of old Calabar who havo visited tho district I speak of. There is little doubt that tho abrupt cessation of tho exportation of slaves, which was brought about on tho west coast of Africa by Hrltlsh intervention, tem porarily increased tlio provalonco of cannibalism in tho Oil rivers and Nigor delta. Having no longer a profltablo market for their war captivos and criminals, tho natives havo found it more convenient tocousuino thorn than to lot thoni eat tho bread of Idleness and cumber tho ground; for tho do mestic slaves in thoso parts seemingly will not work for their living; thoy oppose to all threats and coercion a dogged resistance of stubborn Idlonoss that nothing can ovorcomo. Slavo la bor in Africa is a broken rood to roly on. Wo want the vigorous, choorful work of free, willing men HkoKruboyH and 'anzibarls. H. H. Johnstou, In Fortnightly Review. MARRIAGES THAT FAILED. Divorce Stitt Wtlnt Oovtirlner " I'orloil of Twouty Wart. Tho total number of divorces grant ed during tho twouty yoars in oaoh of tho several Statos, and tho niimbor of married couples to ono dlvorco in each during the years 1870 and 1830, aro given as follows: Sr.vrr.s. a S : u. 1B70. 1R80. Alabuinu Arizona Arkansas California ('oloruilo Connecticut... 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