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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Advocate, 1887-08-04, Page 2s•-•• 777 TIRE -- =mops. Dr. Tanner Explains to the Cornices* WWI' !le 'Teed "Cuss" Words. A last (Thureclity) night's London cable aye: Dr. Tanner (Home Rider) appeared before the Rouen a °Quinn:ma this aftPr- Uoon in obedience to its summons, to ex- plain the charge made by Mr. Long (Con- servatiye), that the doctor lied in the lobby and in the presence of several members called Mr. Long a "-- snob," and used other improper language. Dr. Tanner said be regretted the trouble the House had been put to about the matter. Mr, Long's manner and language when he approached laim (Dr. Tanner) were part of an arrange- ment to annoy blab. Mr. Long twice importuned him, and said in reference to his exclusion from the division (a matter over which he was still very sensitive), "That was a 'nice sell you got." Dr. Tanner said. he was sorry for replying to Mr. Long as he aid, and withdrew the indecorous expressions. Mr. Long arose and denied Dr. Tanner's statements, deolaring he did not make use of the alleged words about a sell. Messrs. George Hawkesviorthe Bond and James Bigwood (Conservatives) confirmed his statement. Mr. Patrick O'Ffea (Home Ruler for West Donegal) said he was also present and that he heard Mr. Long say, That was a nice sell you got." Mr. O'Hea added that Dr. Tanner was jeered at by Mr. Long and his comrades. Sir Julian Goldsmid (Liberal -Unionist) urged that the House let the matter drop. Mr. W. H. Smith said he regretted that he was unable to accept Sir Julian Gold- smid's advice. Dr. Tanner had offered no explanation of his failure to attend the House last Monday when the matter was nrst brought up. Parliament must mark its sense of his misconduct in some manner. If a month's suspension was too long, the term of suspension Would be shortened. GREAT EXPLOSION. Powder House Struck by Lightning—Great Destruction of Property. A Streator, Ill., despatch says: The powder house of the C. W & V. Coal Com- pany was Struck by lightning at 2.30 a.m., causing a terrible explosion, killing one man and wounding many, and demolishing ali the property for blocks around it. There was not a window left unbroken within half a mile of the explosion. Not a vestige of the powder house remains, while where it stood is an excavation about sixty feet long, forty feet wide and twenty feet deep. Rescuing parties were speedily formed and the search for the dead and injured began. Strange as it may seem, only one /atality has been reported,but a large num- ber are seriously injured. Among the wounded are: Mary Lone, right hip broken ; James Blackmore, hurt in the back; Mrs. Blackmore, several ribs broken; Mrs. James Sheldon, three ribs broken; Mrs. Thomas Birdwell, badly cut by flying glass ; Mrs. Hattie Reaschon, an aged widow, strick over the eye with a brick and badly. injured. A tramp who was sleeping on a car near the powder house was fatally injured. The number of minor casualties.will.reach 100. There were forty. five dwellings almost totally demolished, and there is.not -a plate -glass left in the business part of the city. It is impossible at this time to estikestethe loss, but it will psobably reach 6100,000, Late Scotch News. Mrs. Dingwall Fordyce, widow of the former proprietor of Brucklay, died a few days ago at Blairgowrie. The will of thelate Mr. J. Graham, of Skelmorlie, has been registered. The amount bequeathed is over £300,000. The death is announced at Edinburgh of Mrs: Livingston, of Drumsynie, Argyllshire, a great grand -daughter of Flora Mac- donald. Victoria Public Park, Partick, was opened on the 2nd inst. by Sir Andrew Maclean, Provost of the burgh. A new park was also opened at Coatbridge. Mrs. D. 0. Hill's e of Burns at Dumfries has been Iifjed from its pedestal, which is to be height d so as to enhance the effect of the colossal- ,re. the markers at thAiitte. the Aber. • .inschaw, a private fin Gordon i. dere was on the 5th July cilledby a which glanced off the .t. A : tarted to walk on stilts fro don, was brought to mother earth in 'tired leg, through a collie ata Stirling. The Duke of Bucclench i out to erect a memorial to his son, the. te Earl of Dalkeith, on the spot on th 'hillside at Achnacarry, Inverness-shire, ere the lamented young nobleman lost is life in the autumn of last year. ." • . %, The King of Saxony arrived at the Alex- andra Hotel, Edinburgh, on the 30th ult., accompanied by the Earl of Hopetoun. After seeing the eights and visitin Forth Bridge he left for Rev. Dr. , was en er- Leaned to dinner in Darling's Hotel, Edin- burgh, recently, by the Free Church Pres. bytery of Linlithgow, and presented with an address, on occasion of his jubilee. D. Thomson'Beryl°, Kincardineshire, has been givingAlex. Orchardson, Grange, a thrashing, for trying to take his sweet- heart away from him, and the Sheriff said helikely got no more than he deserved," and so let Thomson off with an admonition. The acreage of Edinburgh is stated at 6,002, and the length of the streets 130 miles. There are 42,413 inhabited houses. Fifty constables are employed in special duties, and 433 in 'ordinary duties. The total cost of the policeis £45,049, but £1,982 IS received for special serviced. The following 18 the inscription on the monument at Kinghorn to Alexander III.: "To the illustrious Alexander III., the last of Scotland's Celtic kings, Who was acci- dentally killed near this spot, March XIX., Mcclicxxvi. Erected on the sex -centenary of his death." The Princess of Wales is having a cart built specially for tandem driving. The Princess is an admirable whip. Beaufort Castle, Lord Levet pictur- esqueneat in Inverness, has been leased for two months by W. K. Vanderbilt at a rental of $10,000,.. It is the finest sporting estate in 13figland. HEADING FOR OANADA ? The Chief of the ChteaSe Doodlers Escape ffeut tht) Oherhr• A last (Sunday) night's Chicago despatch says: W. J. MOGarrigle, the convicted boodler, has escaped. All day to -day every available policeman and detective 111 Chi- cago are trying vainly to find hina. Tele- grams have been sent all over the country in the hope of heading him off, but little hope is entertained that he will ever again be in the custody of the people of Cook County. Last evening Sheriff Matson drove up to the county jail in his buggy, got out and dis- appeared in the building, reappearing in a few minutes with McGarrigle. The two entered the vehicle and drove to McGar- rigle's house in Lakeview. Upon arriving there Sheriff Matson and bis charge dis- mounted and entered the house. McGar- rigle greeted his wife and children very affectionately, and all entered the front room, ' In a few moments McGarrigle went upstairs to see the baby. Sheriff Matson i remained downstairs n the front room. Although McGarrigle was out of sight he was not out of hearing of the sheriff, who heard him talking in the room upstairs. Presently he descended and said he would,like to take a bath. McGarrigle went into the bath -room, accompanied by his wife, closed the door and Sheriff Mat- son heard Mrs. McGarrigle tell the domes- tic to bring some clean clothing for Mr. MoGrarrigle. Sheriff Matson could hear the water running into the both -tub. He waited a liberal time for the bath and then asked McGarrigle's little girl, who had re- mained in the room with him, to tell her father he must hasten. The child went to deliver the message, entered the back room and did not reappear. When after a consid- erable time the little girl had not returned, the sheriff for the first Una° grew suspici- ous that something was wrong, and step- ping to the door that separated the front parlor from the bed -room knocked and called " McGarrigle." No response was returned, and upon entering the bed -room Mrs. McGarrigle said that her husband must be still in the bath. The sheriff at once made for the bath -room, and upon entering saw that McGarrigle had not changed his underwear and had mit been in the bath. Then came a hasty search, but lloGarrigle had disappeared entirely. The sheriff ran out of the housessearched the yard and the outhouses and finally roamed throughout the neighboring yards, but he was unable to find a trace of his, prisoner. He finally hastened to the near- est station, the police of the entire city were soon warned,, detectives by scores began to scour the city and every police- man was ordered to, remain., on duty inde- finitely in the hope thaelsome of them might run across the ex -Warden. The reason for taking McGarrigle home from jail is found in the fact that States At- torney Grinnell, for reasons of his own, has had frequent consultations with McGarrigle, ,most of them outside of the jail. It was arranged that the two should meet at Mc- Garrigle's house. The State Attorney, for some reason, could not keep the engage- ment. McGarrigle was convicted a short time ago for having been engaged in the wholesale robbery of Cook County, and was senteeced to three years' imprison- ment, and was awaiting the result of a motion for a new trial. He was formerly chief of police. Although`MeGarrigle was in the custody of the sheriff on the case for which he was tried be was still under bonds of over $60,000 on twenty other indictments. DANCING NAILED AROUND THE FIRE. Extraordinary Case of Religious Frenzy and Superstition in Spain. • A Paris cablegram says: A very extra- ordinary case is about to come before the high tribunal of Malaga. A few months ago, a woman belonging to:the village of Tor- rox declared that the Virgin. Mary had appeared to her and had ordered her to preach a new gospel for thesalvation of 'nd, as the end of the world was at ban . e woman's story was believed withouttion, and soon the whole vil- lage was in a e of religious frenzy. The woman preache favor of the abandon- ment of earthl ,6 sions, and advocated 'ode life and habits of prim' ive an. Dori ' the height of the frenzy a large fire was hted in thevillage, into which the conve to this fantastic superstition , threw t r valuables, furni- ture and clothes, omen and children danoin a g around the fire in a e nuaity. Warned of what was going on, the local gendarmerie arrived only lust in time to save the infants from being thrown into the fire by their frenzied mothers, and to prevent the houses at the village from being set on fire. , • Mr. Wall Gets a Testimonial. A New York despatch says: Mr. John M. Wall, of the New York Tribune, was the recipient this afternoon of a cheque drawn N 'one' Broadway Bank for 1)1,030 • he pre- sentation was ma • e Place. The testimonial was presented in recogni- tion of his suffering as a patriot in Kil- mainham Jail, Ireland, as a fellow -prisoner of Charles Stewart Parnell, and of the injury he received when visiting Canada with editor O'Brien. He was struck in the head with a stone and badly cut in the tenaple while in Toronto. After the pre- sentation a collation was served. Together in Death. A Providence, 11 1., despatch says: Gila Luther, an aged resident in the outskirts of, Warren, left his invalid wife at 11 o'clock last night to get a neighbor to go to town for a doctor, as Mrs. Lather was failing. On his return he walked into the Kiokimuit River, four feet deep at that place, and, be- ing much fatigued and partially blind, was unable to get out. Searching parties found his body this morning, and his wife died while they were bringing it into the house. Bain Jones recently preached four days in Henry County, Kentucky, Without mak- ing a single convert. At the close of his last Sermon he remarked: " The Sermon Which. I have just preablied at you Was the One which converted Sam green. 1 there- fore theright it (night to make at leaiii one convert here, but I had forgotten that thie A BRIDE FOR HEAVEN'S SON. The WaY the Wife of the Teung Chinese EthPeTer Was Chosen. In the San Francisco Chronicle Of July 3rd was the following: The Chinese resi- dents of this city were somewhat anxiously awaiting the arrival of news relating to the approaching nuptials of His Imperial Majesty Kwong 8uey, " Son of Heaven" and " Lord of Ten Thousand Years," eta. A despatch received in this city yesterday announced that a bride had been selected for the young Emperor, and that 05,000,000 would be expended in the celebration of the most auspicious event. As soon as it becomes known when the imperial affair will take place the Emperor's wealthy and loyal citizens of this city will prepare for the proper observance of the event. The day will be made a holiday, the -dragon flag will be floated, feasting made the order of business, and perhaps a procession and other exercises will be held. But as yet the date of the marriage remains with the fates, which the astrologers of the Empire must divine. The first ceremony of betrothal has now been observed. This is the choice of the bride. A Chinese Empress is not chosen for nobility of family or reputation, although generally she is taken from the nobility. Her per- lional beauty is the almost exclusive re- quirement. The mother of Hien ri ung, a former Empress, kept a fruit -stall. The Emperor himself has nothing whatever to do with the selection of the Empress. The present Empress -Dowager, who is a very able woman, and who has reigned as Regent, some time ago issued an edict through the Pekin Gazette that the Em- peror should marry, and set a date when a reception should be held to candidates for the high honor. On the appointed day the Mongolian papas and mammas took their fairest daughters to the Empress' palace. The Empress, with her ladies, then chose the handsomest virgin. She should be Empress. But the Emperor is also legally entitled to eight Queens: Consequently eight other handsome virgins were chosen ffi to fill these high oces. The personality of these selections has not reached this city, but the next mail is expected to fur- nish the particulars. It is now the duty of the Imperial Board of Astrologers to consult the stars and determine the lucky day when, if the marriage takes place, all will be well. If it does not go well all will go wrong with the astrologers. They are consequently very careful, and consult the stars and various deities favorable to matrimony. The date of the marriage being discovered, other ceremonies ensue, such as the presentation of 100 cakes to the Empresa -elect. If the Emperor should die before the wedding takes place it would be quite the proper thing for the fiancee to commit suicide. At any rate, she must go and live at the palace and remain a virgin. When she is 61 years of age she will be rewardeaby the reverence of her relatives. The Emperor Kwong Suey, from all ac- counts, is a commendable young man, and has considerable influence with Confucius spd the other gods. On May 4th, for instance, he prayed for ram, the China papers re- late. On May 13th it rained. All China fell down on its knees to express thanks for the beneficent hearing of Kwong Suey's petition. Suey was born in 1871, and was crowned at the age of 4. He is the son of the seventh brother of the Emperor pre- ceding the last. It is expected that after his marriage the Empress Dowager will hand over the reins of government entirely to Suey. Latest Old London Gossip. Mr. Chamberlain is not well. He is get- ting too fat. Orientalism is to replace jtipaneseisna in decoration. Tandems are on the increase in Londoa. A new tandem club has been started. It is proposed to import a supply of pom- pano for introduction into British waters. Buffalo Bill and his entire troop of Indians attended church the other day in full war paint. Some of the most aristocratic houses in London decorated their balconies on the day of the Jubilee with carpets, rugs and colored bed -quilts. At the laying of the foundation stone of the Imperial Institute the Queen used glasses in public for the first time. The lenses were no larger than a shilling piece and set in a plain bit of tortoise shell. A French philosopher shows that Alsace- Lorraine 'should ready belong to France, for the reason that there are many more brunettes than blondes there, and hence it is more French than German. The casualties of the Jubilee procession foot up about six hundred. Three hun- dred were cases of fainting, over twenty of sunstroke. There were several broken legs, arms and collar bones, and disloca- tions. Some people suffered conowision of the brain, some had their chests crushed, and others were kicked by horses. Round the Globe in sixty -Nine Days. A London cable says: The Times to -day announces that a copy of one of its issues has made the cirouit of the globe in sixty. nine days. Its journey was made via the Suez Canal route to Yokohama, and thence to London via the Canadian Pacific line and Atlantic connections. This is the shortest time in which the circuit has been made under the British flag. Influential metropolitan and Provincial journals con- tinue to urge the importance of the recog- nition of the Canadian route to the East. The press is practically unanimous in favor of a subsidy to the Canadian service Those Dear Horses. A London cable says: The statement by the War Secretary in the House of Com. mono on Tuesday night, that the Govern- ment had decided to purchase no more Canadian horses for tlie army owing to the price, show that the influence of the county members and the agricultural societies, in favor of using the home supply, have pre- vailed. It is thought here that the Canadian Governraent could meet the objection as to cost by initiating horse fairs at recognized centres, so that the expenses of officers in scouring Canada for good animals might be avoided. The Best Card: " I (1,n1 king, remarks Kaiaks a, majestically. That May be so, but to congregation is composed of citizens of,, Hon01"Ju rifles appear to be the ace.—San floury County." ' I Franeitc0 Poet. TEST FOR *THE BIM! tii Instramont That Will Tell a'WetuateS 'Meet Age! At the Freneh, Academy of Xedieitr, according to a cablegram; Dr. Javal pre- sented an optometer recently made by Dr. George J. Bull, son of Mr. Richard Ball, of this city, who has attained a high position in hie prefesSign. in thn 941, Vci,eq4 The design of the optoreeter, Which it is un- necessary to describe in scientific language, is to enable an oculist to tell instantaneously what glasses are required by far-sighted or near-eighted persons. The inventor has had in regard to it a peouliarly happy idea, especially suited for French practitioners and patients. The figures marked upon the graduated scale at which the subject has to look through a lens or a simple aperture, according to, the raCre or less deteriorated condition of his eyes, appear, when the instrument is held as one would hold a sheet of paper, to be a series of irregular, elongated figures, but when viewed through the aperture with the optometer held as one would hold a teles- cope they jesolve theraselves into email dominoes. These dominoes are arranged in such a way that the sum of the dots on the furthest domino seen indicates the degree of far or near sightedness, while the number of dominos distinguished indicates the focusing power of the eye examined. There is another extraordinary, feature about this instrument. The focusing power of the eye diminishes as age advances, the change commencing in early childhood. This axiom has been borne in mind and applied to drawing up a column of figures along the line of dominos. As soon as any one tells the number of figures he or she sees distinctly, his or her age is revealed beyond dispute. The laboratory of Sor- bonne charged itself with some expensive engraving necessary for perfecting Dr. Bull's instrument. DIPHTHERIA AT LEVIS. Some Herculean Work for the Provincial Health Board. A Quebeo despateh says: The recent -out- break and ravages of diphtheria at Levis are'more than accounted for by the state- naente communicated by, a resident of the place. Some time ago the authorities re- moved all the bodies inferred in the old Levis Cemetery to a new one. Curiosity in some instances and.accident, or the work of exhumation in others, caused the open- ing of the coffins removed, and crowds of children were permitted to gather around and to peer into the receptacles of the dead, despite the stench arising from the decomposed remains. A merchant of the place who lately lost a child by diphtheria kept the body two or three days in'the house, which was open as usual for the neighbors and H children to visit and pray around the corpse When told the risk that he was causing his own family and that of his neighbors to run, the bereaved father simply replied that if others were to die of the disease it was the will. of the good God, and could not be helped. Four little boys carried the coffin to the grave, and a few days later another child was buried from the same house. Don't Despise onions. A mother writes: "Once a week invari- ably, and it was generally when we had cold meat minced, I gave the children a dinner, „,which was hailed with delight and looked forward to; this was a dish of boiled onions. The little things knew not that they were taking the best of medicines for repelling what most children suffer from— worms. Mine were kept free by this remedy alone. Not only boiled onions for dinner, but chives also w,ere they encour- aged to eat with their bread and butter, and for this purpose they had tufts of the chives in their little gardens. It was a medical man who taught me to'eat boiled onions as a specific for a cold in the chest. He did not know at the 'time' till I tcld him that they were good for anything else." The above appeared in the Lancaster New Era, and having fallen under the eye of an experienced physician of that county, he writes as follows: "The above ought to be published in letters of gold and hung up beside the table, so that the children could read it, and remind their parentethat no family ought to be without onions the whole year round. Plant old onions in the fall, and they will come up at least three weeks earlier in the spring than by Blaring plant- ing. Give children of all ages a few of them raw, as soon as they are fit to be eaten; do not miss treating them with a mess of raw onions three or four1thnes a week. When they get too large or too strong to he eaten raw, then boil or roast theni. During unhealthy seasons, when diphtheria and likecontagious diseases pre- vail, onions ought to be eaten in the spring of the year at least once a week. Onions are invigorating and prophylactic beyond description. Fnrther, I challenge the medical fraternity, or any mother, to point out a place where children have died from diphtheria or scarlatina enginosa, etc., where onions were freely used." • Latest from Ireland. Rev. Thomas Waugh is conducting another evangelistic campaign in Belfast. An addition of 339 was made last year to the membership of the , Irish Methodist Church, 4.. A circular has been issued to the Royal Irish Constabulary conceding special favors to them in connection with the Queen's Jubilee. . In consequence of the great scarcity of water in Belfast, caused by absence of rain for nearly six weeks, several large spinning mills have partially ceased working. Mr. Jnatice Harrison, in opening the Kildare Assizes on the 7th July, congratu- lated the Grand jury on the state of the county. There was nothing in the statis- tics 61 the county, or in any of the returns, that called for special remark. Mrs. Kennedy, who has just finished her honeymoon, Was bathing in a lake at Moyree, County Clare, with several com- panions, when she suddenly disappeared and was drowned. At Cara Lake, near Glenbigh, three cattle drovers bathed in a lake at the side of the toad. Their clothes not having been removed a considerable time afterwards, a seareh was instituted and their dead bodies were recovered. —Two clergymen, well known in the Diocese a Niagarai are deVoting a portion of their istoatiori time to laying floor in a little Englieh church in Muskoka. THE PAAm OF 1P4'.0tbrPERS! What RaPP4mcd to a Trail/ oz, u Afoon?ig!it4 Night. "Moonlight nights—they arethe bane of railroad engineers," remarked a head offi- cial of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to a Cincinnati Commercial Caeette reporter. He is a gentleman who knows every branch of railroading. "1 would have thought that the train- inen Weelfi be glad to have moonlight Pightu." interposed the Writer. No, sir; all engineers dread moonlight nights; they try the nerves of the engineers to the utmost. Engineers like to run on dark nights. On a moonlight night the. trouble with them is no trouble at all— shadows. An engineer, lookieg out from. his engine sees before him all manner of shadows. He is mire that the shadow acmes the track is a man, or a rook,. or some kind of an obstruction. He doesn't know, and he is kept in a state of nervous. excitement all the time. Going around curves, along hillsides, very curious, shadows are outlined around the track, and very often an engineer is so worked up over a night's ride that he is scarcely able to perforna his duties. Some years ago, when I was going over the main stem of the Baltimore & Ohio one night, there was a freight wreck ahead of us. They were running freight in convoys then, or as we now call them in sections. Our train was stopped and I went forward to see what was the damage. Lying in a out was about the worst freight wreck I have ever seen. I went forward to see what the trouble was. It was a moonlight night and when I got forward I saw the engineer. He was shaking all over with excitement. He was one of the oldest and best engi- neers on the road, and I was surprised to see him so nervous'as he escaped unhurt." " What is the trouble, Toni ?' I asked him. I could see nothing wrong." ' It was a rock,' replied Tom. I was coming round the curve when I saw it. It was a big one; big enough to smash e. whole train. I reversed the engine to, avoid a smash up, and the cars coming. down the grade just piled up in the shape you see them.' " I looked around, but could see no rook. anywhere. The wreck was cleared away that night, and there wasn't the sign of an obstruction near the locomotive. We all were curious to find out what had caused the trouble. The next night a railroad man went to the cut, and there in the moonlight he saw a perfect image of a big rock lying across the track. He looked up on the hillside, and there was a big rock throwing its shadow down on the track that caused a wreck that cost the company thousands of dollars. No, sir; if an engi- neer wants things to suit him, he don't want moonlight by which to run his train." SUNSTROICE. Its Symptoms and its Best Method of Treatment. A physician gives some valuable and sea- sonable information about sunstroke. During the hot weather, when exposed to the sun, headache, giddiness, nausea and disturbance of sight, accompanied with great prostration of the physical forces, are indications that sunetroke is probably im- minent. The best plan is to immediately retire to a cool place and apply some sim- ple restoratives as aromatic ammonia, and it can no doubt be prevented. Those ex- hausted with the heat have a cool, moist skin, a rapid, weak pulse and respiration movement, and the pupil is dilated. Im- mediate unconsciousness frequently results. from heat apoplexy, and is likely to prove fatal. Hot foot baths, blooding, etc., is the best treatment in such cases. In thermic fever the patient is unconscious and con- vulsed, and the body temperature may be 100 above the normal state, and the skin is very hot. An afmlication of ice to the head and cold water to tb.e body is the best treatment, as the object is to cool the body immediately. It is always best to obtain medical advice in serious cases. Milk Preservation. Pure air is indispensable for the preser- vation of milk and the place where milk is kept should be as free from taints of all kinds as possible. A writer in the Country Gentleman has found the common moulds in cellars to sour milk quickly and to pro- duce the special fungi found upon sour milk—a blue mould and a bright red one,, which is much like the round cluster cups of rust in form. As mould and mildew are abundant in damp confined places, and cel- lars are usually close and clamp, they are not suitable places for keeping milk in. The easiest way to kcal) milk sweet is to bottle it, using a perfectly clean bottle, and to plunge the bottle in a vessel of cold water; or if there is an open well, to hang it in the well near the surface of the water. If the bottle is set, with the cork or cover loose, in a pot of cold water and this is then brought to a boiling heat, the milk, if quite sweet, will then keep a week if immediately closed up and kept in a cool, airy place. An ice closet is not a good place for keeping milk on account of its dampness, which causes a disagreeable odor and impure air. A refrigerator may be purified naost effect- ively and the air kept dry and sweet by keeping some fresh quicklime on a plate in it. The lime will absorb one-third of its. weight of water and time dry the air and greatly increase the effect of the coolness, of the ice. A Lucky Sub -Inspector of Police. Mr. Blake has been transferred krona the Goternqrship of the Behalves to that of Newfouihdland. Only a few years back Mr. Blake was an humble sub-hispeetor of Irisb. constabulary, and lie has certainly played; his cards well. From the day he married Miss Bernal,thibornethe Ducheas of St. Alban' a sister— Ids life has been One sue-, cession of leaps Up the ladder of fame. The. late Mr. Bernal -Osborne vvaa furious at his. danghter'e marriage With the " green peeler," as he contemptuously termed hian„ but had he Hied to see the progreSs hid Sen - in -law was destined to Make in the World, he wetild probably have been More then reconeiled to the meta: Mr, Blake is cer- tainly a rising Man, ,tink oae of the big geiverhOrshiPs Will assuredly be his in dti6 cetiree.—London Life. The Toronto city assessors have about completed their labors and it is understood there Will be an increase in the assessixtent of about $13,000,000. This Will bring the, assessment tip tri about 696,000,000.