Some Old-fashioned Scotch Funerals

Talking of funerala, in the good old times, and in the mansions of the lairds, these used to be the most enjoyable of parochial festivities. The kith and Trin came from great distances to be entertained in a style befitting the occasion. There were grave faces at the gathering when the giiests assembled round the coffin to listen to a suitable prayer. Then glasses of wine were han'ded round once, twice, or oftener - the poorest people would procure wine for the occasion - and "the memory of the deceased " was toasted ia silence. Then the long procession moved off to the kirkyard, and the body was laid silently in the grave. That duty being solemnly discharged, a load was visibly üfted from the assistants. Acqnaintances came together in the carriages and monrning coaches, and there was plenty of animated conversation. When the guests took their seats at the tables in the dining-room all were in excellent spirits and appetite. The near relations might be sad at heart, but they feit hospitably bound to stifle their sorrow, and there were ampie appliauces for drowning it. When the old fashion of drinking healths and " taking wine " prevailed, mourners were apt to get merry in spite of themselves, while, as may be supposed, the mere acquaintances of the deceased gave themselves over easily to boisterous joviality. It was a churíish thing to be the firét to break ap good company, and even the ministi'j might wefl sit it out till oonvivial example upset his decorum. - Conihill Magazine In the northern woods of Michigan the deer are being slaughtered by wholesale