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THE CANADIAN HORtlCUI.TLRIST. 



PIMPERNELL. 



fTo an Ent]l'shxceed axidentaUy found inthegardan.J 



Sweet souv'ner ef my earlj' days — 



Thoitt d;iys remeiBbereil weJl — 

 How I loved your smiling face, 



Starry little Pimpernell. 



■Where now are those with whmn T watched 



Your petals close in tiny l>ells? 

 Oh,' they are scattered far and wide 



Beyond the ocean's heaving swells. 



Some have in distant lands been raised 



To honor and to fame, 

 And will upon the jiage of Time 



Leave long inscribed their name. 



Others are sleeping their last sleep 



(n the dear land I love — 

 Are waiting now in trustful hope 



The summons from above. 



What is it that's around us tbrown, I 



A charm >>r fairy spell, . 



That even now on childhood's days ; 

 Our memoiy loves to dwell? 



Our hearts then full of buoyant hope i 



.And free from anxious care, i 



Our heaven was in the present then. 



The future had no fear. I 



Could roam at will o'er hill and dale 



Wi'h bursts of childish glee — 

 Could watcli the minnow in the brook, i 



The wild bird and the bee. i 



Oh ! do not curb with hand severe 



All childhood's little ways. 

 The world has yet of grief in store. 

 These are their halcyon days. 

 Owen Sound. M. W. M. 



A REMEDY FOR PHYLLOXERA. 

 (From the Christian Journal, English piper.) j 



As the result of a number of experi- 

 ments which have been conducted bj 

 Professor Barr, of San Francisco, it is 

 stated that a sure cure for Phylloxera 

 had been found in quicksilver. The 1 

 remedy is, according to a report by this 

 professor, just issued, J, oz. of quick- \ 

 silver, thoi'oughly mixed with an equal I 

 weight of clay, in the soil of the hole in ' 

 which the vine is planted. 1 



The cost of the mercury was, at the i 

 time of the experiment, only ^d. per 

 vine, or as the vineyards are planted in 

 Califoi-nia, from £1 8s. to £2 per acre. 

 Tiie suggestion as to tdie use of mer- 

 cury came from the fact that a small 

 globule of that metal in a case of mount- 

 ed butterflies will protect them against 



the depredations of beetles, and also to 

 the fact that mercurial treatment is 

 destructive to insects. The report ex- 

 presses the belief that a dose of the 

 mixture will protect a vine for at l6ast 

 20 years. It appears that from many 

 experiments made and reported on, 

 the efficiency of the quicksilver i-emedy 

 hi\s been determined. Other trials are 

 also being made. 



THE ILLUSTRATED WAR XEWS. 



The Grip Printing and Publishing 

 Company, of Toronto, issued last week 

 No. 4 of their fine illustrated news- 

 paper, descriptive of events connected 

 with the rebellion in the Xorth-West. 

 Each successive issue of this paper 

 eclipses its predecessors, and we are 

 pleased to observe that the publishers 

 are meeting with the success which 

 their efforts deserve. No. 4 contains 

 the following illustrations : — Lord ]\Iel- 

 gund's Scouts surrounding three of 

 White Cap's "Warriors ; The Winnipeg 

 Light Infantry (91st Battalion) pre- 

 paring for service ; White Cap, the 

 Sioux Chief; Trial Practice with the 

 Catling at Swift Current : Col. Otter's 

 Brigade approacliing the South Saskat- . 

 die wan ; The Nova Scotia Provisional 

 Battalion at Montreal ; Steamers at 

 Medicine Hat loading Ammunition and 

 Stores ; Reading Battalion Orders in 

 the Drill Shed, Hamilton; The Mid- 

 land (Col. Williams') Battalion march- 

 ing to the C. P. R. Depot, Winnipeg ; 

 Portraits of Officers at the Front, in- 

 cluding Col. Ouimet, M.P. 



No. 5, v/hich was issued on the 2nd 

 May, was an intensely interesting num- 

 ber, containing, in addition to other 

 fine illustrations, sketches rei)resenting 

 the Relief of Battleford, and the Battle 

 at Fish Creek. The price of the paper 

 is fifteen cents per copy, and it can be 

 procured either from the publishers or 

 from local news-dealers. 



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