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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-5-4, Page 6MISTRESS OF THE SEAS. •••••••••,..10,,, kitain's Fleet Takes the Led in Hampton Roads. BUILT FOR BUSINESS, NOT SHOW A Fort Monroe, Va., ineenetioh liana t The ,NhoW in Hatninon Reeds has bonen. The Englith equadron el five ships arrived in yesterday morning, followed soon after be the Ditch fillip Vim Spesin. Another French - Man arrived late in tile afternoon. Mist Immune the number of foreign &ships here to eleven. They are five English, one 'Dutch, two Russians, one Italian and two French. The arrival a the British was accent Ponied by a large amount of fuss and noise on the water and a good deal Of excitement ashore. The approach of the squadron was very imposing. It was a morning for a eneotaole, and the treat afforded to the Many hundreds who saw it aebore aod froin boats was the finest yet presented A brisk breeze stirred the surface of the water, and a bright sun made our white ships shine There is no gainsaying the fact that the Englishmen are the most imposing ships now In the roada. Our oruisere, it must be confessed, Buffer somewhat by comparison, at least to the eyes of the ninututical tousands here. In point of beauty and ,cnitce the Englishmen are nowhere, but three of them at least have an air of being out of business, which is as completely lacking in our ships as in the Frenohmen. The Inenohrnan, by the wine who has been the idol of the place for the last twenty- four hours, is no longer in it. The nate affections of the apeotators have swung round to the English ships. These Englishmen have none of tbe Frenchman's waxlike and stillni bearing, but they are in some mysterious way ha more impressive. The fact is, as one of the belles of the Hygeht expressed it, the ships of the two nations are very much like their men. The French ship poses. She is romantic. She frowns upon her neighbors in a some- what grandiloquent way. She seems to say, "Look out for me•now, for I'm something ef a devil when I get my blood up." On the other hand the English ships are un- ostentatious to a degree. There is no bluff :about) them. They assume no airs. To be sure they are dignified even to stiffness, but they are simple with it. They do not threaten. They are even peaceful in their beaten. All the same there is something In their substantial solidity whichcarries with ib the assuranoe that these ships can be terrible fellows when they want to, and that when it comes to fighting, which, after all, is their business, the ferocious bearing ef the Frenchman would not count for a .shigle minute. THE SMAILER SHIPS. The Blake's attandantearetheMagioienne, the Tartar, the Australia and the Partridge. The Australia is en big fellow, apparently not much smaller than the Blake. The Magic:tonne comes next in size, and the Tartar fourth. The Partridge is a baby, a little wooden ship of a few hundred tons, and very lightly armed compared with the others. The Australia is the only really armored snip in the harbor. She has ten inches of compound armor on a water line belt, while the Blake has only a protective deck six to eight inches thick on the side. On her thwartship bulkheads the Australia has six - 'teen inches of compound armor and on her conning tower twelve inches. Her length 300 feet width. 56 feet ; draught, 22n feat; displacement, 5,600 tons, and her speed is 3:8n knots an hour. The Australia, although she has 3,400 tons less displacement than the Blake, has identically the same main battery, and better secondary battery. It follows that, having heavier armor and a slightly better battery, the Australian could whip the Blake unless the latter ran away, which her superior speed would enable her to do. The Magicienne is rated as a third-class cruiser of 2,950 tone. She is only slightly •emaller than the Atlanta, which carries a heavier battery but has less speed. The Niagioienne was a failure so far as her ex- pected speed of 19n knots was concerned, bub she can beat the Atlanta about two knots. She carries six dinch guns. The Partridge is somewhat smaller than • the Banorcift, having a displacement of 755 tons only. She bas a battery of six 4 -inch glum and a speed of In knots. A number of the Englishmen'. from the Blake and other shirt came ashore at night, arrested a drunken docker last evening between 11 and 12 o'clock. A mob of and the parlors of the Hygeia were filled strikers stopped them on their way to the with a very anitnated throng. The swarm station. The police fought them off, and of outsiders dissipated by 9 o'clock, and the sent for reinforcements. The numbers of girls had it all their own way with the the strikers swelled rapidly. When the Britons. There was dancing, and the flirt- police reinforcements arrived more than Mg was fast and furious. The Russians 2,000 men had gathered, armed with stones, were over, too, but they were simply out olubs and a few revolvers. The police drew •completely out their batons, and, clubbing right and left, A rontanneete CRUISER. divided the mob, so that the Mee officers, Nnw Yens, April 18.—The Tribune has with their prisoners, could pinceed to the the following about the Blake "Being station. After the dru se+ n sinker had altogether a remarkable ship, the Blake been remanded, the rioting charged • deserves more than passing tuention. She is the police repeatedly. They were forced to -day the largest, the fastest, and the most back by band -to -hand fighting, were heavily armored cruiser in existence, with divided and driven into side streets, the exception of her sister ship recently where they rallied again lo the attack. launched, and her appearance on Atlan- More police were called out and more tic coast last year was her maiden voyage. strikers were attracted by the uproar. She is =ideal of naval architecture, with a The wounded men on both sides were dieplacernent of 9,000 tone and engines of carried away, and the sti ikers obtained a . 20,000 horsepower to propel her through new supply.of pokers, boat hooks, cudgels the water with twin screws at the rate of 22 and epiit planks. The police forced the nautical miles, or about 25 miles an hour. men gradually into the iminediate neighbor- -She is a floating battery, capable of throw- hood of the docks. The whole district was Ing nearly a thousand pounds of metal in an uproar, the struggle being carried into with each broadside of her double row 1 every street and alleyway. Windows were of guns, each weighing twenty-two smashed and doors were battered down. tone, and mounted on such massive gun 1 The nghting lasted well into this morning. carnagee that a man can stand on the deck 1 Only six strikers were sunned. 'beneath the muzzle without bending. These Ten acres of timber at tbe Victoria dock guns can fire a shot of 360 pounds a die. i in Hull are ablaze. The loss will be more tance of twenty.four milee. Down in her 1 than £100,000. The fire is supposed to 'hold there rine fifty huge furnaces and seven 1 have been started by striking dockers. immense bonen, which are attended by 150 1 All the telegraph wires in the district Eremen. Her four sets of triple.exparieion 1 are down and the railway hone have been engines cost alone one million of dollars. 1 melted. Marines and sailors from the two She carries no less than five searchlights. gunboats anchored in the made are helping Iler two immense funnels are ninety feet u the firemen. The timber yards in which high, and her masts are in reality signal the fire was set are owned by the staffa of steel. Directly in front of the for- i Wade Company,who employ non-union men. ward mast ita the firing tower, protected by forged steel three feet thick, where the 1 Women Competitors. con:unending officer direets every movement uring an encounter with the enemy." BpumgD..RuFFIANist . 00Wardly SOphoMIOSS Behave With A11405t ineredible Brutality to jnniore. BOYS BEATEN AND BSANDED. A Toledo O., diepatoh sap : One of the moat dastardly outrages perpetrated in thie Section a the isouotrn for many a day is re- ported from Delaware, Ohio. The story f rune that lad night, whilat five members o the S. Z. E. A. College fraternity of the Ohio Wesleyan 'University were engaged in initiating a stucleut in the Chi.phie hall, twelve eophomoree broke, into the room and set upon the inmates. For fifteen minutes o fieroe contest was waged, in which the juniors, by reason of their inferior size and strength were given very much • the worse of it. They were each in turn dripped of their olothipg, thrown upon the floor, and the letters D. 0. A. branded • upon their cheeks with nitrate of silver, the caustic: burning completely through the flesh and marking them for life. Red hot shovels were then applied to the victims' bare backs and legs, until they cried out for mercy. Finally, four of them, Bert Bogen, M. W. Brown, Albert Austin and 0. B. Harm, were gagged and left squirming and struggling upon the floor of the lodge -room. '.12he fifth student was dragged about two squares from the hall and tied up in a stall with a cow, where he was found in a pitiful condition this morn- ing. The others were filthily reamed by a passerby who heard one of them groan. They are all waned to their beds to -day, and have been Buffering frightfully, their faces being terribly bunaed and mutilated. The college fraternity have done nothing in the Matter as yet, but the citizens of the town have taken the matter into their own hands, and every effort will be made to punish the perpetrators of the cow- ardly assault. The only reason given for the outrage is that the sophomores had arranged to initiate the same man, a student named P. A, Wilson, and were enraged to find that the juniors had preceded them. Warrants have been issued for the arreet of Holway Farrar, William Phillip', Harry Belt, William Ennis, Peter Adams, Ralph Harold, S. Welch and Walter Evans, all of whom are supposed to have participated in the affair. They have all disappeared, and it is believed have left town; but every effort will be made to run them down. The town is greatly wrought up over the affair, and the students would probably fare badly at the hands of the citizens if they were captured within the next 48 hours. They are all members of wealthy families. The faculty will take some action in the affair to -morrow. Tommie 0., April 24.—The victinas of the recent outrageous hazing at the Ohio Wesleyan University have suffered greatly in mind as welt as in body. The constant reflection that on their faces cannibalistic signa will be carried through life is by no means food for quiet peace of mind. Medical experts have been called to the city, and every method known to science has been employed to prevent permanent disfigurement in the way of scars,. but at least in three instances the marks will stand as living mementoes throughout life. The branding of six or seven of the young lady students of lower gradee by their school mates of 'old Monnett Hall is of more serious consequence than was at firsb reported. Three or four of the girls were terribly ecarred by the action of the nitrate of silver upon their shoulders and breasts. The object was to prevent their appearance intent dress at class recep- tions and the commencement!. A patron of the university said to -day that union the male offenders jumped their bail, which was made ridiculously small, he believed from the positive proof of a direct violation of the statutes a short time in the penitentiary would result from an impartial trial. In this institution, under the ad- ministration of Dr. C. H. Payne, several years ago, a certain Greek letter fraternity was initiating a new member by compelling him to pub his feet in shoes to which an electric battery had been connected. A stronger current than was intended was turned on and the iniatee received a shock that nearly resulted in his death. For this act the charter was taken away from that fraternitysentnd it was several years before ib was again granted. STREET FIGHT IN RUM. A Riot Results from an Attempt to Reams a xertunken Prisoner. A London cable says: The police in Hull For the Rinds To keep the) halide white, bathe them as seldom ae opoteible, unlees in a dry bath of meal, reinoted with a Allmon skin. , Even then be sure to duet on some simple powder. At night try a paste of cornstarch, lemon and n little borax. This ie what girls use, and it can be recommended for bru- nettes. Remember thab to check preepira- tion euddeoly, and so close the pores ef the lido, would impair °iv:elation and destroy lamb that freslx white look which &tin. ,gtiiehes beautiful /textile. ' An, idca Of the amount of gold mined ibVery year May he had from the fact that Zur�pean goldsmiths make up $24,000,000 'MO g�ld piatt arid jewelry annually. Women in Finland, it is said, compete with men ea olerke, managers of limited corporatione doctors, dentiste, hone build- ers and ban' k cashiers, in Which calamity they are found more honest than men. It is paid that Mr. Gladstone figures to the villian in Otilda's new novo/. Oulda, it will be remembered, is a emir old maid. Dr. George McDonald, the Scotch poet, is an invalid, and le living a secluded life in Scotland. The Methodist chhrthes of various name, all over Australis:, are conferring with a view to union. In Sydney the repreeenta- tiYee of the vedette bodies have resolved, by practically unanimous Votee, that union le desirable. The name of the united ehtireh fe to be "The Methocliit Church of Australia," ECHOES FROYI HOLY ROME. Wide in the Sala Eagle,. and the cannon. from the Castle $t, AOgelO announces the resurrection. snan TO Jrirr. FOR SEWN() tue OWN. There is in Rome le Prince who has jusb Complications and Doings in the been sentenced to thme mouthe' imprisou. ment and a fine of $:300,04Q for havii% sold abroixd some of the most celebrated pitituree In his own gallery, Mc:Luning the "Tioliniet" of Raphael. The law under which he suffers Was framed with the lendable intention of preventing the needy or amend - thrift scions of great histodcal famines trom denuding the country of ite art treasures. It does, however, seem a little ludicroue that a man should be compelled to keep a collec tion of white elephants which be doee require end then be palliated for selling theme a hundred times more ederely than if he had stolen them. The only way out) of the diffioulty is for the owner of historical heirlooms to burgle hie own house and after getting eway quietly with his possessions, to return home and raise eheol for having been robbedunder the very eyes of the police. Poor Prince Venalis le now sorry he did not do this, for he will have to endure the mortification of languishing in jail, whilst the city is ringing with Inertial music in honor of Emperor William's visit end this in addition to having to part with a small fortune. Eternal City. Great Easter Exinetion at t.' Inner's—A Ittuatillinegavuully Fete: rroville8retyn,t to Jall IJAIBERT has just celebrated his forty- ninth birthday. The clay is an important one at the Quirinal, inis Majesty, es is usual, re - j oeived all kis civil and military hoosehold Whe ,,„ wished to offer him their congratulations ; this being over, he mounted his charger and, followed by a brilliant cortege of Ambassa- dore and their attaches in all the uniforms in Europe, preceded by a number 0 Cairas- eters, went his way to the Macao, where the annual review was held. The Queen was in all the splendor of her full-blown beauty, and appeared on the scene in a landau end four, with her ladies and gentle- men in waiting. There was a grand court dinner in the evening, followed by a ball and the usual basket full of decorations was distributed amongst the sycophants ,and toadies which hang on to every court, and that of Humbert m particular. " YOUNG HOPEFUL," A GALLANT LADY HILLER. THE IRISH RIOTS. ONTARIO LEGISLATURE, were iutreduoed by Mr. MoMehou—Respeoting embalming, Mr, McMahon—To amend the Municipal Aot. Mr. Stratton—To amend the Agricultural and Arts Aot, Mr. Tait—To amend the Consolideted Aesesement Act of 1892. Mr, Hardy—Respecting the establishment of o national park in Ontario. Mr. Gibtion (Hemilton) presented a re- port of the Miniater of Crown Lands. enetens o' moeIon, Mr. MoCo11-13ill to amend the Act re- specting coroners. Mr. Gilmour—Bill to amend the Ontario Architects' Act. Bills were introduced by Mr. McKay.—To consolidate the debt of the town of Tilsonburg. Me ortv . ,Rivekr!on—To prevent fraud in the sal Mr. Sharpe—To amend the Act incorpor- ating the Parry Sound Colonization Railway Company. Mr. McColl—To provide for the sale of certain church lands in the city of St, Thomas. Mr. Wood (Brant)—To incorporate the Lake Superior and Algoma Trading COM. Paul'. Mr. Teit—Respeotbag the Toronto incan- descent Light Conipany. , Mr. Clarke—To amend the Land Titles More Fighting Between Orangemen and Aot. Mr. Tait --Respecting the Sault Ste. Marie & Hudson's Bay Railway Company. Mr. Waters asked if the Legislature of the Province had power to enacitand enforce O law for the entire prohibition of the sale of intoxicating liquors by retail, further than thepower a,reacly exercised by mune cipalities under oeotion 18 of chapter 56, • 53 Victoria'and the amendment thereto by chapter 46, 54 Victoria. Mr. Mowat said that whether the Login lature had jurisdiction to pass those enact- mentaor not was a matter of dispute and was now before the Supreme Court. Nin Whitney asked what officials had been appointed to carry out the provisions of the Suedesion Duty Act, 1892, and under what authority. What salary or remuneration was paid to molt officers. Mr. Harcourt said that Mr. A. Mac- dougall, Toronto, bad been appointed by an Order-in•Council, and received a salary of $1,000. Mr. Wood (Hastings) moved for a return showing separately for each county the ex- penditure on colonization, government, or county roads and bridges. Mr. Clarke moved, that in the opinion of this House the provisions of tbe Revised Statutes respecting the representation of the Legislative Assembly as to the repre- sentation of the electoral district of Toronto are inadequate and unjust, and no reason exists for maintaining the anomalous, ex- ceptional, and unfair method of electing representatives for the said electoral die- triot which was eetablished by the said Aot. In 1890 the total number of votes oast in the city of Toronto was 16,350, of which the Government candidate mewed 5,359, while his colleague and himself received 11,000 votes, In other words'while the Government candidate received 5,000 votes, the candidate!' opposed to the Government received 11,000, or more than two to one against the Government candidate. Mr. Davis thought the Government did well in trying the experiment of minority representation in it large centre like Toronto —(hear, hear)—and he thought they did well in not trying it elsewhere. (Laughter.) He thought with reference to the inoreased representation of Toronto that the Province was opposed to it, and did not desire any increased representation. He therefore moved "that all the words of the main motion after tbe first word 'that' be omitted therefrom, and that instead thereof there be inserted the following: Prior to the Franchise and Representation Act, 1885,' the city of Toronto was divided into • two electoral districts'each of which re- turned one member to the Legislative Assembly of this Province ; that when said Act was passed, the system popularly known as that of minority representation bad not been tested by actual operation within the Province; that it was deemed desirable and • expedient that such a test eleadd be made, and that said oity, havingingerd to its then area and population, was especially well suited for the making of smith a practical teat; that bythe said Act the division of the said oityinto two electoral districts was abolished; and said city, with the adjoining town of Parkdale, Was constituted one elec- toral district, returning three 'members to said Legislative Assembly on a basis of minority representation ; that the applica- tion of said system of representation to said electoral district was understood and was intended to be experimental; that since the passing of said Act two gen- eral elections to the said Legislative Assera. bier have been held in this Province, and in addition and within the past twelve months two bye -elections to the sante .Assembly have taken place in said city; that these several elections, and notably the two bye. elections, apparently demonstrated that the form of minority representation now applied to said city is in its practical working out unsatisfactory, inconvenient and expensive. It is therefore the opinion of this House that there should be a readjustment of the representation of said city in said .Legisla- tive Assembly, and that the system of min- ority representation now applied to said city should be abolished. Mr. Taib thought the minority form of representation adopted in big case was not the best that could have been devised. He moved that the following words be added to the amendment of the hon. member for North York (Mr, Davis), to constitute part of the amendment: "That it is further the opinion of this House that in view of the great increase of population in the said city since the said Act of 1885 was passed, the said city is entitlei to increased repre- eentation in this House. Mr. Mowat said that he agreed with the subetance of both the motion and amend- ment. He thought the representation for the city of Toronto was inadequate, and thoueht also that the system of minority legislation as an experirnenb had been tried long enough and had nob proved satisfac- tory, andwouldtherefore be abandoned. Mr. Meredith rebid that hon. gentlemen opposite had not theManlinesa to come out boldly and abandon their legislation of 1885, which was a disgrace to the statute book. The hon. gentlemen had referred to it; ati an experiment, and finding they could not fairly elect a man in Toronto they had been compelled to retreat from their posi- tion. Very seldom in the history of legis- lative bodies was a Government placed in the humiliating position now held. He fully concurred in the view that Toronto ought to heve increased repreeentation. Mr i Hardy said that while the represen. tenon for Toronto, as provided by the Act of 1885 and based on the population of 1881, was then just and fair, it might nob be so now, in view of changed conditions and growth. Toronto could hardly expect to have the Karim unit of repreaentatiOn ail county conatituericiere The featuree of die - niece and territory must be taken into aeemilent MWood (ifentiegs) failed to de how a Nationalist e at Belfast. THE TORY POLITIOIANS TO BLAME. The Prince of Naples has been staying a few days in Rome, where he attended it A London cable says: The Orangemen few tea fights, and dances, improvieed after employed in the Queen's Island Ship -yards,• the habit in vogue in Naples. However, he Belfast, refused to -day to allow one was obliged to return to that city for the thousand of their fellow workingmen, who review alwaye held everywhere for the are Roman Catholics, to resume work at the King's birthday, and ae he is Commander- yards and chased them away from the place. in -Chief of the garrison in la Ulla Nepali In the attack which attended the expulaion he could not be absent. The Prince will of the Roman Catholics a number of permeate take part in the grand military review were injured. which the King will hold in Rome in honor T10. conflict between Orangemen and of the German Emperor, and for which Nationalists in Belfast proceeds inter - occasion the Regiment Como will be sent inittently. i More than 3,000 Orangemen from Naples. This has given 'rise to the have been marching about in procesaion report of the Prince leaving that eity but threatening to attack the Nationalists. The His Royal Highness remains and next year, military has been kept between the two when it is deoreed that he is to take unto mobs, and will probably prevent their meet - himself a wife, the heir to the Italian Ing toosight. Several tights between lees Throne will, with his bride, establish his coneiderable bodies of Nationalists have Court at Naples, the place of his birth. In been stopped by the police. the meanwhile the young Prince is putting Mr. Thos. Sexton'anti-Parnellite for in the bed time on record, especially with North Kerry, asked Mr. Aequith, Home the ladies, and hardly a week passes with- Secretary, in the absence of Mr. Morley, out eome story going the rounds of an irate Irish Secretary, whether the attention of father dodging his future King, armed with the Government had been directed to the a stiletto or a big stick. Belfast riots ; if to, what measures had been taken to preserve peace, and whether the speeches of the eminent politicians who had inetigated the ride would be considered by the law officers of the Crown. Similar con- duct of the Orangemen on a previous ocoa- sion Mr. Sexton added, had resulted in the killing of twenty people. The Belfast police apparently had made no effort to prevent the looting on Saturday night of the tavern kept by the Catholic Connolly. Would such negligence be tolerated by the Government? In reply, Mr. .Aistinith read the official report of the rioting m Belfast yesterday and Saturday. • The facts related corresponded with those cited by Mr. Sex - It has now been deoided that during the ton, and already published. As regards the German Emperor and Empress' stay at the speeches of the eminent politicians, as Mr. Italian Court there will be no ball, but Sexton had designated AIL Balfour and instead, at the German Embassy, a bal Lord Randolph Churchill, Mr. Asquinnex- costume will be given by Count Soling. The pressed the opinion that they had incurred principalpartsinthegrandtournamentwhich a very heavy responsibility by using intern - will be held in the Villa Borghese are to perate language directly calculated to be taken by the Duo d' Aosta, as Humbert incite the bitteresb party drift". The with the White Hand; Amedeo VII. by Government had taken every possible step, General Aymonino ; Vienna Emanuele by he add, to prevent a recurrence of the nee the Count di Torino; the Grand Master of plorable demonstrations in Belfast, and the Santissima Annundate, by the Prince of believed that further trouble would be Naples who will have a suite of knights, all averted. olunen out of the Neapolitan nobility, twenty-four in number. Part of the pro- granune included bt the festivals given dur- ing the Emperor William's stay in Italy is an "excursion" to Naples and a naval re- view in the Gulf. On the same occasion the Minister Martini bas ordered that the ex- cavation going on at the Cesare' Palace on Palatine Hill shall proceed as rapidly as possible, so as to have the Emperor Augus- tine house completely uncovered. •Thus, after so many centuries'the German Em- peror and the King of Italy will be the first to enter it. ROYAL MOTHER-IN-LAW sAINCE As OTHERS. Queen Margherita's mother arrived to pass Easter as usualwith her daughter, and to gladden (1) the Courb with her presence, or, perhaps, more correctly speaking, to throw a web blanket on it) ; for never does the Courb appear less pleasant than when the Dowager Duchess is there ; her son-in- law, the King, being one of those who would rather have her room than her com- pany, notwithstanding which he very duti- fully was at the railway station to meet and welcome her. .ANUSEMENTS FOR EMPEROR WILLIABT. THE TEUTON AN B2CPENSIVE GUEST. Kaiser Wilhelm will be accompanied by a suite of sixty persons, which will make the Emperor truly &costly guest for King Hum. bert ; and where to put the whole body of them is another difficulty. The Quirinal is the Only Royal Palace in Rome, and not large either. The Prince of Naples has to inhabit) the rooms of his grandfather, Victor Emmanuel, which no one has used since that galantuonto's death:. The Princess Laetizia Duchess d'Aosta, has to lodge at an hotel, as probably many others of the Royal visitors will. Orders have been sent to Naples to prepare apartments for their Imperial Majesties in the Palazzo Reale of tbat town; where they will be accompanied by the Italian Sovereigns. EASTER AT ST. PETER'S. Easter has been a busy time in theRoman Churches, and the priests have been hard at it from morning till night with ono function or the other. Good Friday es not looked upon in a religious point of -view with ae much reverence as the preceding day. In the churches every outward sign expresses mourning. In the Papal Chapel the throne and the cardinals' seats are despoiled of all hangings, no incense burns, no torch is kindled, no colors but black and purple are worn, except by the Pontiff; who wears red. It was formerly usual for the Pops, the cardinals and many others to walk barefoot in procession on this day, from the Lateran to St. Crosse in Jerusalem. A trace of this still remains in the practice of putting off the h hoes in going up to kiss the creme the pope devoutly doing the same. TRH PASCAL CANDLE. The blessing of the takes place on the Saturday after Good Friday (a remnant of old Pagan days), in the portals of most churches. In the Sistine Chapel the can dinel celebrant blesses exist) the intense to he fixed in the pascal °ensile, which eignifies the ;apices used at the entombment. The pascal candle is of great henght, and ia of moat ancient use, resembling a column. It hag been likened, when unlit, to the pillar of fire which guided the Israelites. The blessing of water is, and always was per- formed at the Lateran Basilica, and 18 per. formed by the Cardinal Vicar, wheexorthaes and bleeds the water and sprinkles it on the people, after which ceremony follows the briptiern of adults heretics and Jews who wish to be baptized. RED surensimes melte. The signs of mourning are laid aside, the Cardinals exchange violet far red robes, the altar is decorated with white, and just at tine moment His Relined aerivem vested in White, with a cloth -of -gold mitre, and re. wives at the throne the mom! homage. The A young man at Ypeilantl, Mich., who Gloria is Mfg and the veil ie removed from recently advertised for a wife, claims to befare the altar, and the bells of all the have received eighteen replies from hut - chinches in Rome peal forth. After n hands in a neighboring town offering him. silence of two days the :diver trumpete their %vomit. Great Diving Feat. London's latest thrill is derived from the feat of a man who dives down 95 feet from the roof of the Westminster aqua- rium into a narrow and comparatively shallow tank of water, set in the fluor of the building. The diver is Thomas Burns, a sturdily built man, some 26 years of age. He stands on a tiny platform euspended among the iron girders of the roof, 95 feet above the floor, and sees below Mm, in- etead of a broad, deep river, a mass of flaring, bewildering lights, a sea of upturned faces and in the wooden floor of the stage wbaii seems from that height to be a mere slot, the tank which he must surely land M. The tank is 18 feet long, 8 feet wide, and 7 feet deep. The spectators see him peer over the platform edge, then they see hie toes project over, he crouches down, and then he glidee off Ike platform head foremost, and comes plunging down with stiffly outstretched arms and hands meeting in front of him in reagular " header " fashion. But when little more than half way down his feet fall over his back towards his head, he turns almost completely over, and before the mur- mur of excitement and horror that is the meal accompaniment to the dive has voiced itself he nerikes the water with his shoulders and back with a prodigious thud. He skims juet under the surface of the water, seeming barely to enter it, and comes up face upward. He scarcely breathes hard after the tremendous exploit, and goes off • immediately to give an exhibition of fancy swimming in another part ot the building. Ride's Pretty nameonaghters. The young women of Eyota, Minn. are taking care of the street lamps of thaaown. Each lamp has been assigned 10& young lady, who keeps it filled with oil, lights it at dusk, and gets out of bed too late in the morning to extinguish it at dawn. This arrangement him been brought about by an anti -liquor armada. Tho women wanted the saloons of Eyota closed, and the liquor men mid it didn't make an iota of differ- ence to them, but they hated to see the town invested with Cimmerian gloom every night, and this would be the case if the saloon license money, which was used for street lighting, was diverted from the town treasury. Thereupon the women said they would look after the street lamps them- selves, and they are doing it No well that Eyota is a brighter place by night now than it ever was before. A Matter et Grammar. "Can I kid you ?" bo asked the Boston girl after his proposal had been accepted. "1 do not know whether you can or not," the replied critically. Ile hesitated a moment. "May I Ides you ?" he murmured. "That's different," she responded, and he gathered them in. He Was Then Mrs. Itickette—I saw Mr. Dumsquizzle run after you yesterday with an umbrella during the rain. Mies Giddey—Yes ; he is my rain beau chaser, system that Is admittedly wrong in 189$. wee right In 1885. NOTICES Or MOTION. Mr. Gibsen (leini1ton)-13111 to con- golidate the Regietry Act, Mr. Watere—Bill to amend the Ontario Medleal Ad. Mr. Waters—Return—Front the treasurer of the Itledioel Council, giving a detailed etaterneut of the stuns paid to each member of the leledioal Clounoil during the pest five years for travelling expellees, hotel accom. modation while aetentling council and com- mittee meetings, aud else the details of the arnsunt eet down in the fluanciel returns foe 1891 and 1892, under the heading of ex. penes of legislature. Bills were introduced by Mr. Mackenzie --,-Iteepectieg the Sarnia Consumers' Gan Company, and to change the name to the Sarnia Gale and EleotrIO Light Company. Mr. Meckenzie—To enable the Board of. Education for the town of Sarnia to take, certain lands for the town of Serma, Mr. Ryerson—Respecting the Toronto - Railway Company. Mr, Tait—To incorporate the Niagare & Port Huron Railway Company. Sir Oliver Mowat moved the second read- ing of a bill respectipg eecurities in the Surrogate Courts, which provided that Surrogate Courts may take the bonde of guarantee companies instead of individuals.. There was not the same danger of their becoming insolvent. It also enables guar- dianeof infants to give seourityforguarantee comoauies. Sir Oliver Mowat moved the second read- ing of a bill respeoting the County Crown Attorney in the County of Yin k and the city of Toronto. The bill provides for the division of the district, BO that one atter. ne3r will have only the oity of Toronto to attend to, and the other will have any other outside work in the country, The week in this district had now grown to such dimen- sions that one man could not attend, to it, and an assistant bad always to be engaged. The salary would be no larger than at pres- ent attached to the office. Mr. Whitney thought the business of the district should be under only one head, and pointed out that in New York the work was not considered to be eufficiently large te warrant the appointment of two heads. The bill was read a second time. • Sir Oliver Mowat moved the second read- ing of a Bill to extend the time for the vesting of estates in heire and devisees, The Bill enables executors or administra- tors who have failed to register a caution, within twelve months after the death of the testator as provided by law to register. subsequently under certain conditione. Thes Bill was read a :second time. Mr. Dryden moved the second reading of O Bill to further pxovide against the exter— mination of the plant called ginseng, which provides for the hotter enforoemept of the law relating to the care of the plant. The Bill was read a second time • Sir Oliver Mowat moved the second read- ing of a Bill to establieh an office of land. titles for the district of Rainy River. The. office is to be established at Rat Portage,, and is to be separate from the office for the rest of the provisional judicial district of Thunder Bay. Mr. Harcourt moved the House into Com- mittee of Supply. On the item of the, Central Prison, Toronto. Mr. Waters said he understood that thei twine manufaotured at the Central Prisoni was made from manilla. He thought tha fax should be used, as it wee largely grown in Ontario, and made a more durable and serviceable twine. Mr. Meredith said the appointment of Mr. Mixon as an additional inspector for public institutions was in direct violation of• the statute, which provided for the appoint— ment of only two inspectors, who were. already in office. This ProvincialSecretare had exceeded his duty in making such an, appointment at a salary ons$2,400s Mr. Gibson said that Mr. Noxon could' not have been secured for a less sum,, or - he would have been. He would be em- ployed almost entirely at the Toronto. prisidorn. Myon. Waters said Noxon was as capa- ble a rnan as could be secured, and had had considerable experience with binding twine •as a manufacturer of agricultural irnplian meats at Ingersoll, Ont. • Mr. White said that Mr. Noxon miglit be- an able man, but God help the binder twine • if they had to have a man at a Salary of $2,400 a year to inspect it. (Hear, hear,. and laughter.) Mr. Ross said that what was probably troubling the hon. gentleman was that he Vim chagrined to think that the Govern- ment was about to utilize prison labor in a satisfactory manner and build up a self- enstaining Industry which would save to the farmers thousands of dollars. • AFTER RECESS. Upon a further consideration of the item of public institutione Mr. Meredith protested agaimsf• the . indeed of public officials unities their appointment was an absolute necessity.. Once they became attached to the public crib it was almost impossible to shake thern off. Sir Oliver Mowat said the inspector was needed in tbe public interest. As to the term " inspeotor," it was of small moment. His duties were those of an inpector'and why not call him so ? His salary wasfixed: at $2,400 because they could not get him for less. • Mr. Clancy asked what steps the Govern- ment proposed to take to dispose of the twine. He understood that a Toronto firm was negotiating for the entire output, and, thought that there should be no middleman: In the traneaction, but that the manufac- turers should deal as directly with the farmer as possible. Saved by a Little "You remember Biggins, who was going •• to the dogs so fast ? He ie doing well now. . Ib appears that he was saved by his little 10-year-oid daughter." "By her prayers?" Prayers, nothing ! He put her on the stage in a new dance, and shele clearing him $150 a week." Purple is the popular spring color. mormegroosolooloweezeoptomiommemibiamerenceiermi. 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