TELESCOPES, FIELD GLASSES, &C. SECOND TO NONE IN VALUE FOR EXCELLENCE AND CHEAPNESS. The "SCORER" FIELD or MARINE GLASS, so called for its efficiency for Scoring at Rifle Practice, is without a rival for value. The height of the instrument, when extended for se, is 6 inches; when closed up, ready to be put in its case, measures in height 5 inches; extreme width across both Object Glasses, 4 inches; size of Object Glasses, 1 inches. The Bars and Focussing Tubes of the instrument are very rongly made of Black Enamelled Brass. The Body is overed with Black Morocco, sewed so as to prevent its readily getting detached by damp. Screws not liable to derangement. The Lenses are Achromatic, giving high power and clear definition. PRICE, in Patent Leather Sling Case, 35/ FIELD or MARINE GLASSES, in Great Variety, from 15s. POCKET ACHROMATIC TELESCOPES, Extra fine Quality.7/6. Terrestrial Eye Pieces. Packed in Handsome Pine Case, £6. OPTICAL WONDER" ACHROMATIC FIELD or OPERA GLASS, in Sling Case, 12/. BOTANICAL MICROSCOPES, from 1/ each. EVERY BOY A GEOLOGIST. Geological Cabinet, illustrating GEIKIE'S Geological Primer, 2/6. ROWN'S ORTHOSCOPIC or CORRECT VISION SPECTACLES. Finest Glass 76 ST. VINCENT STREET, GLASGOW. SINGLE DINING-ROOM SUITES AT WHOLESALE PRICES, ranging from £7 10/ to £18 10, £23 10/ to £32 10/; and up to £100. Designs and Lists free. SINGLE DRAWING-ROOM SUITES AT WHOLESALE PRICES, ranging from £6 10/ to £10.10 £15 10/ to £19 10/; £30 10/ up to £100. Designs and Lists free. SINGLE BED-ROOM SUITES AT WHOLESALE PRICES,-viz., £4 0/, £6 10/, £10 10/, £14 10 £16 10/, £19 10/, £23 10/, up to £100. Designs and Lists free. MIRRORS in great variety. Being the First Mirror Makers in Scotland, we are enabled to produc CARPETS.-IMMENSE CONTRACTS have again been gone into for the regular supply of the FINES Our 3 and 4-Frame Brussels, 2/6 and 3/; Tapestry, 1/6 and 2/; Axminsters, 4/6, 6/6, to 20 Art Squares all sizes. Patterns sent out for Selection. LINOLEUMS (Best Makes) 2/3 to 3 FLOORCLOTHS, 1/3 to 2/6. MATTINGS, MATS, RUGS, &c., &c., in great variety. BLANKETS.-In these we give special value at 16/6, 19/6, up to 60/ per pair. Silk Down Quilt full size, from 12/6 each. Bed Covers, Quilts, Sheetings, Towellings, and Napery of every description, will be found of best manufacture, at lowest Cash Prices. CURTAINS.-An important Department, with all the Newest Novelties, as well as the standard regular Goods. Venetian Blinds, Iron Bedsteads, Perambulators, and all manner of House Furniture. A. GARDNER & SON, Manufacturing House Furnishers, 36 JAMAICA STREET, GLASGOW. we open shest Paris Medal Awards for Treatment of Timber. Patentees for the Prize Parquet Oa Carpeting, and for the Prize Spring Mattress. A RECENT number of the Century contains copious extracts from the journal kept by General Garfield during a trip to Europe with Mrs. Garfield in 1867, while he was yet a member of Congress. His life for a few years previously had been so full of action that he had but little time or taste for recording its events. But in starting for Europe he resolved to record the leading points that impressed him while abroad—first, because if he did not take notes he would leave much of the trip a chaos behind him; second, because a somewhat particular statement of occurrences and impressions would probably some day be pleasant and profitable for his children. The following brief extracts will be read with interest by those especially who are directing their attention to the service of praise in the sanctuary :-" Went at an early hour down Regent Street, across Westminster Bridge, into that part of London called Newington, to the Metropolitan Tabernacle of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon. By good fortune we were invited by a pew-holder to take seats in his pew in the second gallery, and finding our shipmate, Rev. Mr. Goodrich, of New Haven, on the steps, took him with us. I did not intend to listen to Mr. Spurgeon as to some lusus naturæ, but to try to discover what manner of man he was, and what was the secret of his power. In the first place, the house is a fine building, and we had a good opportunity to examine it while the people were assembling. It will seat comfortably at least seven thousand people. The popular estimate is ten thousand, but seven thousand is nearer the fact. The building was two-thirds filled before the main doors were opened to the public. When they were opened, a great throng poured in and filled every seat, step, and aisle to the utmost. At half-past eleven Spurgeon came in, and at once offered a short, simple, E |