ollowing anecdote of the great Massachusetts
statesman has never before appeared in print:

One day, Clay, Webster and Calhoun met upon the steps of the Capitol.
Mr. Clay ventured to remark, in his most affable style, that it looked
like rain. Calhoun looked wise, but said nothing. Evidently he took in
the whole situation at a glance. It was a crisis for Webster. Carefully
laying his thumb behind the third brass button of his blue coat, he
gazed from out of those cavernous eyes and grandly uttered these
prophetic words: "No, gentlemen, the American people will never forsake
the Constitution. We shall have fair weather."

And so it proved.

ALONZO SAVAGE. This time it was the pupil who put the question. The
Sabbath-school teacher encouraged her children to bring each a Scripture
question to be propounded to the class. Alonzo Savage said he would like
to be told why St. Stephen was like a thanksgiving raisin? He allowed
it was because they stoned him.

That boy has grown up and entered on a career of usefulness. He gets
steady wages as a railroad brakeman, and last week he celebrated his
golden wedding. All because Alonzo was faithful at Sabbath-school.

SARSFIELD YOUNG.

THE CANADIANS.

A New York oracle, discoursing lately upon Canadian affairs, concludes
that American ideas are pervading that region because the people speak
of "baggage" and take the right hand in driving on the road. Having
traveled somewhat in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and
"the Island," I have never heard the term "baggage" used there except by
Americans, as they call people from the States. The word is invariably
"luggage" in hotels, steamers and stage-wagons. On the road all the
people in those provinces whom I met took the left hand, and if any one
should attempt to deviate from this old custom of England, he would
surely come to grief. When Canadians take greenbacks at par, or make
their morning porridge of corn instead of oats, perhaps they may be
ready for those other innovations.

What causes the curious difference between the people on the two sides
of the boundary-line? for a difference exists in customs, in appearance
and in the tones of the voice. It has been a favorite theory that the
New England thinness of fibre and sharpness of voice came from the harsh
climate and piercing winds; but in Canada the climate is more severe,
and the winds are as piercing, yet the faces and forms of the people are
rounder and m