“‘Tomorrow, at the latest,’ he answered, flinging aside roughly a branch that crossed his path.

“‘Have you told my aunt?’ said Helena, tying the strings of her hat.

“‘No:  I must do it now,’ he said, holding out his hand to relieve her of her parasol as they entered the shady avenue.

“‘Shall you go direct to London?’ she asked hurriedly.

“‘No:  I stop one night at the Grange,’ he said, inviting her by a gesture to take a seat upon a rustic bench.

“‘Oh, then I will ask you to be the bearer of my letter,’ she said, quickening her steps lest he should perceive her emotion.

“‘Is that all you will permit me to do for you?’ he said, with more feeling than he had yet permitted himself to show.

“‘Yes:  I am careful not to burden my friends,’ she added, drawing her mantle round her and speaking in a tone of irony.

“‘Then you do not believe in true friendship,’ he replied as they reached the house, and with a heightened color he threw back the hall door and made way for her to enter.”

NOTES.

Since the publication of the article on “Salmon Fishing in Canada,” in the May Number of this Magazine, the writer has had access to the Report of the Department of Fisheries of the Dominion of Canada, for 1872.  By this document it appears that an establishment for the artificial hatching of salmon, whitefish and trout is in operation at Newcastle on Lake Ontario, and that two millions of fish eggs were put in the hatching-troughs the last season.  Adult salmon, the produce of this establishment, are now found in nearly all the streams between the Bay of Quinte and Niagara River.  A salmon-breeding establishment is about going into operation on the Restigouche, and another is contemplated for the Matapedia, both rivers of the Bay of Chaleur.

The reports from the river overseers indicate that under the system of protection all the rivers are improving in the number and size of their salmon.  There were taken with the rod in 1872—­from Grand River, 70 fish, average weight 14 pounds; Cascapedia, 139 fish, average weight 22 pounds; Restigouche, 500 fish; Upsalquitch, 70 fish; St. Marguerite, 165 fish; Moisie, 219 fish, average weight 18 pounds; St. John, 147 fish, average weight 13 pounds; Mingan, 130 fish; and in most of the rivers the young salmon are very numerous.

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It is a familiar observation that great inventions are commonly foreshadowed in theory or speculation, and very often are approached gradually in a long series of tentative experiments before the perfected result is reached.  Exceptions occur to this rule, but they are exceedingly few, since usually it is a general sense of the need of any new device which directs mechanical skill toward supplying it.  Nevertheless, it is with no little surprise that one