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Dr. Smith, Bishop of Victoria, 
writes on child-selling in China: 
“I was walking in the neighbor¬ 
hood of Shanghai, with Mr. Hob¬ 
son, when I was accosted by a 
man and woman, the man with 
baskets sluug on each side of 
him, in each of which was a child, 
while another rested in the wo¬ 
man's arms. The children were 
THE GARDENS OF DAMASCUS, 
The Holy Damascus, this earthly paradise of 
the prophet, so fair to his eyes that he dared not 
trust himself to tarry in her blissful shades—she 
is a city of hidden palaces, of copses, and gar¬ 
dens, and fountains, and bubbling st reams. The 
juice of her life is the gushing and icc-cold tor¬ 
rent that tumbles from the snowy sides of Anti- 
Lebanon. Close along on the river's edge, 
some remote corner meet the 
ears aud gladden the hearts of 
their teachers, aud the blessed 
effects are sd¥n i u the daily be¬ 
havior of many of the girls." 
The fallowing account of some 
new comers is from the pen of 
Mrs. Clemens, the English lady 
in charge of the school, who also 
makes honorable mention of Bio- 
Mammy, the most prominent 
picture. 
“We received, in May}wid/June, new child¬ 
ren, together "eighteen^ 4Uj| Sherbros, who, in 
consequence of the late war with the Tim nebs, 
were made slaves, but caught and rescued. Some 
were accompanied by their poor mothers, who 
wished to see how their children were placed, 
aud who parted from them, not without hard 
struggles and tears. Many^toueblng scenes of 
mothers' love have we witnessed, which im¬ 
pressed on ua most forcibly the misery of this 
people, and our bounden duty .towards the dear 
children so providentially brought under our 
care. • , < 
“Our girls recelvedjthe new 
comers with shouts of joy, suf¬ 
focating them almost with their | 
embracings, and very willingly 1 . L. 
shared with them all they had. pJllllj 
They also took good care of the /MM $1$ 
little ones, so that they soon were r J : jJj 
at homo and happy here, and gave W / m If-M 
altogether much less trouble than | jl^- | Ip* 
one might expect. Our good ' /jjifgjafr- 
‘Big Mammy,’ as the matron of • Ml* vKyi 
the younger children (who has fflfl'fjafr 
been now eight years with us,) is 
called, especially deserves my |' • 
thankful acknowledgment for all 
that she, mothor-liko, does for 
the infants.” 
In the year 18:38, a Brahmin 
family in North India, who had 3 
never heard the glad tldlmrs of 
the Prince of Peace, set out on 
a pilgrimage to the] temple of Juggernaut, | attraction to the inhabitants of the hot regions. 
Although they were heathen, they knew and These are to them the very romance of nature, 
felt they had committed sin; they wished to In my travels in the interior of Java I met with 
atone for it, and thought .they could do so by a most accomplished lady, who was burning 
taking a long and wearisome Journey. The with a desire, about to be gratified, of visiting 
family consisted of the Pundit, his wife, and Europe. ‘ And now tell me of all yon hope to 
their little girl, only a few months old, and two 6 ce, from what do you expect to receive the 
or three servants. They had gone as far as Bal- greatest pleasure?' ‘Oh,’ she answered, ‘a 
asore, INI mile* from the temple, when the forest without loaves! 
uadi’s nest, 
TUB KINO OF KETU AND THE l’ATCHWORK KOI1E, 
MISSIONARY SKETCHES 
TROPICAL NOTIONS, 
There can be nothing 
more interesting to the 
people in general than some record of the thou¬ 
sands of self- denying men and women who, 
actuated by the most benevolent motives, leave 
homes of comfort, sometimes of luxury, and, for 
the sake of doing good, journey to Jar distant 
lands, careless of climate or fatigue. These re¬ 
cords, as they come home to friends, or to the 
society thatsent them forth, teem with thegrave, 
the gay, the lively, aud the severe. They tell of 
the gradual winning of savages into the paths of 
civilization, and of the many small romances 
the mission, where the child is now thriving, 
and has shown so much Intelligence that she is 
to be educated as 11 missionary, and when old 
enough, sent back to Bhagulporc to teach.” 
At Jbadon, India, a large mission school is 
that go to make up mission life, nnd give the salt I supported, at the liekd of which is Mrs. Hind 
to the otherwise unpaltable dish. [ erer, the wife of a missionary at that place. Slie 
thus relates a pleasant incident: 
the orphan of JUOOESNAUT. k'VO at. Abbeokuta, in 
the Zonvba country, Africa, who, 
Wo here give illustrations ot some Interesting joined with great intelligence, is highly edu- 
icenes, with descriptions from letters: catcd, having received it in England, gives a 
The Rev. Mr. Hunter writes from Rupert's little anecdote of his friend, the King of Ketu 
..and: “One day, while visiting at the hut of an illustrating that great monarch’s fondness 
ndian woman, a wretched place, made up from for the toilet: “ I heard that the King of Ketu 
. few pine Branches, and open on all sides, with was Milling to receive missionaries, and as I had 
. lire burning iu the center, 1 saw a small bundle, some time before gained his favor by sending 
>r rather bag, composed of rabbit skins, lying him a present of a pair of red cloth slippers, I 
ipon the floor, wltlch, to my utter astonishment, thought it would be well forme to go up and 
eemed endowed with motion. I took it up and see his majesty. I had in my possession a gay 
,rew the strings that held the mouth of the bag, patchwork quilt, which I immediately had mode 
nd out. popped a little hand, followed by a tiny into a long robe or cloak, and this, with a gay 
iead, with great brown eyes, which, giving a velvet smoking-cap, sent mo from England by a 
cared look into my face, closed, and the head lady, I took np as ft present to his royalty, llad 
nd hand drew back into its furry house. If I brought the wealth of the Indies to him it 
ver there was a bady nest, that was one.” could not have pleased better. His majesty 
TROUBLESOME BEDFELLOWS, 
■Kinglake. 
RATS ON A SPREE 
An amusing experiment on rats was recently 
perpetrated in a mercantile house in^Peters- 
burg, Va. Two of the animals had beeu 
trapped, and it was decided to try the effect 
of whisky upon them. Forty drops were ad¬ 
ministered to them by force, aud the result 
awaited. They were placed iu a wide, deep box, 
into which some gravel had been thrown. A 
saucer of whisky was placed therein. For a 
while all was silent, each rat having seated him¬ 
self in a corner, where ho remained os morose 
as a rat could be. By and by, however, the 
liquor began to work. The rats begau^to 6 luilc 
and play with their tails; then to jump up and 
squeak; then to fall down and roll-over. Final¬ 
ly, one of them found the saucer, and, with the 
peculiar curiosity attaching to the race, dipped 
his nose into it. He drank, and the noiae of his 
drinking brought his companion to his side. 
They drank as though they were really^fond of 
the stuff, and, it is estimated, took more than 
twice forty drops. And now they got glorious. 
They kissed each other. They wrestled and 
played about They revisited the saucer, and 
got mad over it; and a rough and tumble fight 
ensued, which lasted until both were exhausted. 
They then remuinod for a while, each with a paw 
to his nose, grinning at the other. Finally both 
fell asleep, aud while they were gloriously un¬ 
conscious, a terrier was dropped beforejthcm, 
and the curtain lulls. 
THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA, 
SIERK.V LEONE SCHOOL. 
The Rev. John HaUUlay, writing from Brazil, 
says: “I have roughed about this world in vari¬ 
ous ways, but I do not remember that I ever 
have been more taken aback than a few nights 
since, when stopping at a wayside post house 
for the night. I was very tired, and sought my 
wretched bed with a most powerful desire to 
sleep. I never felt much concern about cock 
roaches, lizards, scorpions, centipedes, spiders 
or musquitocs, which here rise into 1 he dignity 
of inches, but I hud scarce fallen into my first 
dose, when my sleep was invaded by somuliug 
across my face, which as I snatehed at it, and it 
slipped away, seemed fully the size of a rabbit. 
PETROLEUM AS FUEL, 
There is good news for those interested in 
petroleum. A series of official experiments 
have been for some time in progress at Wool¬ 
wich, England, and the results have^been of the 
most gratifying character. The object of these 
experiments was to test the capacity of petro¬ 
leum as a substitute for coal in tliej'produc- 
tlon of steam. One grand conclusion arrived 
at is that by the use of the oil an engine of 100 - 
horse power becomes exalted into one of 140 or 
150, the gain being from 40 to 50 per cent. It 
has also been satisfactorily determined that the 
oil may be carried to sea In tanks, and be inca¬ 
pable of ignition, even though a red-hot cannon 
ball wcut through the mass. The furnace re¬ 
quired for the use of oil would be very email, so 
that a large amount of storage room would be 
saved. The report states that “ the first great 
naval power that adopts petroleum will have an 
immediate advantage over the fleets of all other 
nations, and the latter will be compelled to ac¬ 
cept the invention, however determined at first 
to deny its value." 
Man, says Pascal, is but a reed — the weakest 
in nature — but he is a reed which thinks. The 
universe need not rise in arm 3 to crush him; a 
vapor, a drop of water, suffices to kill him. But 
were the universe to crush him, raau would still 
be nobler than the j>ower which killed him, for 
he knows that he dies; and of the advantage 
which the universe has over him the universe 
own inclinations, but are placed by the Govern¬ 
ment in what la termed the Liberated African 
School. 
“The matron, who sleeps with those elder 
girls (fifty-eight in number,) declared afterwards 
