The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-27
THE F1EETIYG SHOW.
Continued from Fourth Page,
LATE, BUT SATIsFACTORY.


 placed in Petersborough Cathedra over the spot where were buried the re. mains of Queen Katherine. discarded wife of the King of Hal whom an ad- miring people called the "good," the bluff" and the "burly." with other en- dearing epithets.
 The inscription reads. Here lies the body of Katherine of Arragon, Queen of England, and first wife of Henry VIII, who died at Klmbolton Castle, on the Sth day of January, 1535-6, aged 49 years"
 It might be thought from this in- soription that Katherine was just a year In dying. Historians generally give the date as 1536 Aside from this doubtfulness of date, the worthy lady, could she be permitted to read the in scription, would probably be satisfied with it. After twenty-four years of blameless life as a. wife and queen she was not at all disposed to give up her claim to either title. When banish- ed from the court the outraged but spirited lady declared that Ito whatever place she might remove, nothing could remove her from being the kings law ful wife" And when at last the snuff fling, appealing and plotting of the King resulted in his triumph, and the marriage between Henry and Kathar- inc was declared null and void from the commencement, and Anne Boleyn was both welded and crowned, she still could not be induced by threats or promises to forgo what she deemed her rights, and insisted to the last upon being treated as queen by all who ap- preached her. So the words wife" and "queen" upon her brand new tomb stone, erected after three hundred and sixty years, ought to be pleasing to the spirit of the injured Katherine, if not to that of him whom almost in her last hours she called her "most dear lord, king and husband,Y and whom the late historian after a summing up of his deeds and misdeeds has stigma tized as "a most intolerable ruff1an, and a. disgrace to human nature"
 VOLUNTARY DEAFNESS.
 It is said that long. long ago, be- fore the human frame attained its present state of development, that there were little movable flaps to our ear orifices that could be closed at will. Just as we drop our eyelids to rest our weary eyes, or to shut out un- pleasant sights, so these little earlids fell and forbade the entrance of un- welcome sounds.
 One could almost believe it an error in Judgment that these ear flaps were at last dispensed with, Think of the comfort of theml To be deaf whenever one pleased-what suggestions of rest. fitness and serenity are in the thought! Chatter of hoof and rumble of wheels; rancous shouts of street vendors, bang ing of unmelodious gongs on street cars, whizzing of whips, the jingle of the door bell at fnopportune moments of stone end nailings of shingles, steam whistles, shrieks of small children, the new internal ma chine with which the neighbor's boy now splits the shuddering air-all the thousand and one blows of sound tour ears are cudgelled"- think what a joy 'tyrv,yIse be literally to turn deaf ear" against them!
 And disagreable remarks, unkindly criticism Of ourselves or worse yet, of our friends; tasteless compliments, insipid conversation, dull lectures and sermons, attempts at nrzsic by the un- coarse jests-all these forms of ear torture too unheard. What rest for body, and brain and soul, what sweet quietude there'd be in which to work or mediate, or sleep, could we 0nly let our earlids drop against all forms of aural torture
 "Silence like a poultice comes
 To heal the blows of sound" said our gentle autocrat. But what need of a poultice, could we protect ourselves against the blows? Proven don is better than cure any day, and awnings to our ears would surely have saved us much. And now that we are suffering a pleague of dust, and the | microbe assails us at every | urn, even noselids would not be an addition to our scanty l means of defense.
 HILARY.