The apostles commended it, Let two sentences suffice : ' It is more blessed t3 give than to receive ;' ' The Lord loteth a cheerfal giver.' A Toronto baby, left by itself in a perambu lator while asleep, fell out in such a way that a strap suspended it by the neck, and it was dead when discovered. A Sacramento baby's hands were tied Jto prevent it from scratch ing its head, which was affected with salt rheum, and while thus bound it fell with its face in a basin of water, which drowned it. Much more horrible was the fate of the Phila delphia baby, who was left to sleep in a room infested by rats. The mother was careful to spread a netting over the little one as a protection against flies, but was not mindful of the ravenous vermin. When she returned the infant had ceased to struggle against the rats, its face was gnawed away, and death ensued immediately. A lady of enormous physical proportions, who recently visited Ireland, was the other night very eloquently describing to a demo cratic audience her experiences. Referring to the boulders removed from the mountain sides by the cottiers to impiove the land, looking" round the hall she observed that she could see no object there to equal them in size — ' Except yourself ma'am,' answered an unmistakable Milesian from the gallery. An unfeeling Englishman says : " Women are notoriously indifferent to their food. If a European community could be deserted for a year by the men we verily believe that .the women would slide back, first into a custom of having tea and chop at every meal, next into pecking at some bread and butter at any hour when they feel the pangs of hunger, lastly into the condition of savages who live on cafcual roots and gum and the'bark of trees. It is man, pioud man, who keeps woman up to the civilised mark in the matter of eating and- drinking." The Anti-Semitic Association of Students at Leipsic have received a reply to a telegram sent to Prince Bismarck, in which he says-:— 1 1 look to the future for consolation for the injuries of the present.' A captive bear at the Arkansas Hot Springs finds occasional solace in a bottle of beer proffered by some good-nature i person. 