The speciality of Bavarian and German beers is their bright and sparkling charac ter, combined with a brisk flavour and a full frothy head. This fine condition is due to a peculiar method of fermentation, and to keeping the beer in air-tight casks at an exceedingly low temperature by the aid of ice, thereby retaining the carbonic acid gas in a compressed state until the beer is drawn from the cask. The gas upon being liberated in a warm atmos phere expands and produces partial effer vescence, which gives to the beer its sparkling and cream-like head. This condition, however, can only be insured when the cask is quickly emptied, for otherwise the beer becomes flat and un drinkable. Still, the habit of using small casks and storing them in ice even in the cellars of the retailers, enables the system to be generally carried out. The mere keeping of_ English beer in ice would not impart to it the sparkling character and creamy head of German beer, but would rather serve to render it undrinkable. The Bavarian system of brewing and managing beer could only be adopted by our brewers by reconstructing their brew eries, and adding to them vast cellars, and the cost of ice would be enormous. Be sides, beet' of such a nature that a cask

Something is to be said for the artless and ingenuous simplicity with which a young Chinese girl, named Ho, settled down into married life. Ho was found in a state of destitution on board a boat ab Canton,- and taken before a magistrate, who questioned her as to her origin and intentions. She explained that she had come from a distant town with the object of obtaining work ; hitherto she had failed, and had come to the conclusion that " she should like to marry some one." The magistrate wanted to know who the happy man was to be, and where he lived ; but Ho professed her ignorance of these important subjects ; she was of an accommodating disposition, and had no special views — anyone the magistrate recommended would suit her, and she would be under an obligation to him if he would produce any likely persons of hia acquaintance, that she might make selec tion. 