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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1898-4-22, Page 3z .PItIL 15, 1S1rg, THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. retsrestIng none About Our Own Country, Great Britain, the United States, nen An Parte of the abbe, Condenser! and Assorted for Easy Reeding, CANADA. The. Sons of England have applied 1nr ineorporatiou. .flase.ph F. Merehnnt, aged 70, woe sandbagged and robi,ed at London, The Beak of British North America Is to establish a brattish in the Yukon, Fall wheat is reported to bo damag- ed, by the recant Croats in several sec- tions of Ontario. The Qu00e0 City Council has decided to tax all telephone and telegraph poles b'0 cent's wadi. Mr, Ira .1. Flatt, es-141.P.P., is said to bo heir to it Philadelphia estate, his share amounting to $700,000, ytrattord will likely build all en- tirely new City Mltll, to replace the old one partly destroyed by fire. A syndicate of Hamiltoninns will shortly make the experiment of trying to acolimatize English game in Canaria. Air. E. P. Davis, Q,C., of Victoria, 13, 0„ is men Liuned as likely to he appoint- ed Chief Justice of British Columbia. The Government is reckoning upon an expenditure of $250,000 to transport the military contingent to the Yukon. Two children of Alex. McDonald, a Nova Scotia farmer, were taloned to death in the destrn('L'ion of their home. Diver Kilker of Montreal was caught in the gates of. the Canada Paper Com- pany's mills at Windsor mills and lost his lira, The new 7-pouud breech loading guns of "4" flattery were tested Thursday at I{iugstun end found very satisfactory. McNamee & Simpson, of Montreal and Toronto, have lawn awarded the ,:entreat for dredging in Toronto bar- ber this summer. It is now meteoroid to raise by 25 cent subscriptions the $20,000 required. Lor rho proposed monument to the late 1''reinler Mercier. A.' laze in the Star Theatre al Ham- ilton destroyed a tot of costumes be- longing to the troupe playing there, be- sirlee doing other damage. The Minister of Marino and leisb- (sees anntruucos that the Government arcs considering the advisability of es- tablishing a naval militia corps. Two thousand visiting troops are ex- pected in Ottawa on the (Queen's Birthday, including the Queen's Own Rifles, 701) strong, from Toronto. J. W. Harkens, master mechanic of the eastern division of the G. T. R. system will be assistant mechanical superintendent of the C. P. R. The now seven -pound guns of A Bet - tory were given a salisfaetory test at the Royal Military College by Capt, English) in the presence of the cadets. G. L. White, representing the Ven Camp Packing Company, of Indiana- polis, was in Quebec un Sunday, be- came insane, and halt to he placed un- der restraint, The Grund Trunk Is Inaugurating a new fast freight line to operate over the Grand Trunk Railway system in conjunction with the \Vest Shore Rail- way. Mr. S. E. Wilkins, a Hamilton mer- obant, was fined one cent by the Police Magistrate for violating achy by-law in selling a pair of shoes after 7 o clock in the evening. Rev. Dr, Carmen, General Supel'in- cendent of the Methodist Church, has isft Toronto for Vancouver., on route to Japan, where he will visit the vari- ous missions of the Church. Tho inland Revenue officials at Que- bec. have seized two barrels consigned to 0. merchant supposed to contain flour, They lead 333 pounds oath of very fine American plug tobacco. Sixteen Mogul engines have been pur- chased by the Canada Atlantic and Ot- tawa. A.rnprior and Parry Sound Rail- way for their freight business,. They will be delivered during April and May. One of the main features of the eels - bastion of the Queen's birthday aL• Kingston will bo the placing of bronzes on the base of the monument., erected in the City Park in memory of Sir Rho A. A9uudcnald. The British Government is sending .000 troops Lo reinforce blue garrison of Jamaica, The seemed. battalion of rho Leinster Regiment, now stationed in Halifax, have received orders bo pre- pare to emlxark on May 0, 0 portion of ilbo new briclgc on the Crows Nest line of •railway over the 00. Mary's River was blown down, and with it eight men,. A. man named leer- guson of Renfrew was kilted and the others serbusly injured, The men fell aboult 00 feet, The Department of Trade and Com- merce at Ottawa has been advised that merchant ships of Japan will be afford. ed the same factlitics for dealing with deserted seamen in British forts as is now accorded to British vessels, GREAT BRITAIN, Lord William Seymour will probably be Mb new commandant of the British troops in Canada, Manchester has subscribed .1350,003 to Provide a new steamship service, t;0 Montreal The torpedo-boat destroyer Sparrow Hawk has been ordered to Halifax.. bhe has a speed or thirty knots, "rho British steamer Marengo, of the Wilson line, mole est route for New York ream Newcastle, has on board 14 of the Most; modern gulls, 70 tons of gnu carriages, 01 tons 0f, empty shells, and eleven toms or empty carteidges, all Croat the SInw13k works, 'Cies suspicion is (tandemed that. it Was the German steamer Magnet from 7omat'on, Oiarc'h 0, for Stettin, that Wta9 sunk on March 10, in colliaion off Gabbard Lightship, England with the British. bark, British Princess, Captain Scott, from Leith for Liverpool. Eigh- teen of the trete were drowned. IYb l',Ch;D STATES. The milieu( of coat for the Unite)) Slates for 1307 was 1OR,25O000 tons, "`l0 veitrrnt element won 25 out of BB:138S03LS POST, the 35 seats in 'ho addermantc siee- tions Ln Oblcago on Thursday. The damage done by the, Earthquake to the Mare Island navy yard in Cali- fornia amou0ts to !6342,000, Hon. James Boyle, a 'Toronto boy, now (United States Consul at Liverpool, ]las been offered has former position as private srinretery to President Me - Rev. Dr, ti. 0, Swallow, of Harris, lure, I'a., has accepted the Independ- ent elimination foe Governor of Penn- sylvania, mem tate pllttferm "Thou Shalt Not Steal,' 0 colony of Neenah-Oaltadlans at Ilarrisvill5, N.Y., are threatened with being called into service In the event of war. Some of them have returned to Canada. Important negotiations for renewed scaling re10ballelle between Britten, Canada and the United Stales, that will 10011140 miaiag, hare fisheries and other matters, will soon be begun at Washington. Work has been suspended in. all the coal mines of the Ohio district, beeausc the ten per cent. increase in wage's agreed upon by the ruiners and mine owners at Columbus and Chicago has not yet been applied to the common laborers in tate mines. GENERAL. The wheat yield of the colony of Vie.• torte is estimated at 10,400,000 bushels. Privy Councillor Bausch, engineer of the Baltic and North, Sea canal, as deed al Berlin. The condition of the insane King Otto or Bavaria bas suddenly became worse and it is feared that lie, Is dying. At huge wave rolled over the lerenrb barque President Felix Faure near Adelaide recently, and swept 18 men overboard. They were all drowned. The worst snowstorm of taro season raged 011 the Newfoundland coast on Monday. T'he railroads are blocked, and steamers have been unable to leave port .A rumor is current in Paris that Al- fred Dreyfus, the former Captain of artillery, who was sentenced to im- prisonment for life atter baying I Ben convieted by conrtmartial of baying betrayed. Itnpertant military secrets to a foreign power, is dead. MURDER IN 'MONTREAL. Oenuis ('tilrnrd stench 114,101, 011 1119 Own 1'eraudlla—Trol,bl,' over a seizure h'or Rent. A despatch from Montreal says:— Dennis Clifford, a carter living at 40 Aylmer street, was murdered about 2 o'clock on Sunday morning on the ver- andah of his own house. He and his brother Daniel own considerable 010 - party la that neighborhood, and among their tenants was Mrs. O'Hare, who kepi. a grocery at 1he1 corner all Ber- thelet and Aylmer streets, Recently Mrs. O'Hare fell beb,(n:1 in her rent until she owed about ;pl00, On Sat- urday Daniel Clifford put a seizure on her goods, and this caused a great deal of 111 -feeling, las she had been a ten- ant for many years. The Cliffords sus- pecting that en effort would be made to remove some of the stock, kept watch. About 2 o'clock en eiunday meriting Dennis Clifford was sitting on the verandah of his house, which teas only Ia few yards away from the More, ellen some of .airs. O'Hnre's friends appeared, and a dispute arose. Among those present was her brother Joseph O'Afeara, file well-known la- orosse player, Mrs. Griffin, a warted daughter of Dennis Clifford, who lives with 1115), waS awakened, by Lae noise, and states that she heard O'Meara say that he would have revenge, and that his sister endeavoured to persuade aim, to go home. There MIS a Lull for about five urinates, and then Mrs. Griffin heard a blow and a fall on the ver- andah. She ran downstairs, and open- ing the door, s.aw a man named Mi:h- eel Hubbard lifting her father from the floor. She accused him. of mur- der, but: he declared that be did not do it, and that, Clifford was not dead. '.Cho injured nuts was carried inside, but: died almost immediately. The medical examinabtou showed that be had received a blow from some dull iasia'unrent on the back 0f the head sufiisiunt to - cause death. Hubbard wits at once arrested on a charge of murder. He was the only Iran 1: res- ent: when Mrs. Griffin appeared on the scene, but in consequence or all the circumstances Jos O'Meara was also arrested, and a. third man named Sid- ney Elliott !vers placed under arrest afterwards. A. bottle partly filled with jam and. baying a few hairs at - teethed was pierced up nearby, and has been referred to the Coroner for ex- amination. Mrs. O'Hare, the sister of O'Idaara, who was present shortly 11(1- fore the wader occurred, is prostrated with grief, and unable to give nu in- tetlbgent amount of what took plane. THE DERVISHES DEFEATED. Aaglialeay1) 1att Troops alive 'them Nettle tar '1'153 sloths. A despatch from Abadar Camp, South of the Attain, Nubia, says :—A recon- naissance in force with: olavalry, artil- lery, and two ligyption battalions to the camp of Mahmoud Pasha on Tues- day morning Brought bheenemy out h force. The righting lasted from half -pest eight until ball -past ten, Tae ,British lass was 0 killed and 10 wounded. Capt. W. 1•L, Parsee, of the Second 1)ragoen Guards, Wes wounded slightly, The dervisbes last about 400. The re- connaissance is regardeil as a great sweetie, its chief features being the ad - Mixable behaviour of the Egyptian cavalry aad. the val'u'able services of the Iiiaxtnis, Mahmoud's gun filo was ineffective. .Major -Gen. Hunter commanded the Anglo-18gyplian forces in the engage- ment,. A SOFT SNAP,, Chilly 131a1ne,—'4V'ot's de soften' snap yes: ever struekt Frozen Foote --A toothless ball dog, THE SUNDAY SCUOOL, INTERNATIONAL LESSON, APRIL 24, 1.Frn "A Lessee of Pnrgl)eerse." Shall. ,B, Attie 00(aeu Text, Luke G. in. Pit.A0TIOAS, NOTES. Verse 21, Then, Daring the dlsoour- Se on humility and forgiveness, Came Peter to him. Moine have suPpo501 Mat new, as on several other mesas - ions, Peter toiled as spokesman for the twelve; but, ma we have seen in our i(ntredu'.story note, It, is not unlikely that he bud beeemeaan object of their special envy—ghat some of his twelve "l,rotluirs" had sinned against him, and being a cuneelenbtnus man, he wants to 1Cn0W riots to treat thele, ]'Ned, chow oft 5115,11 1113' brother sill ncsaiaust me, 1111(1 1 forgive him? A ;question often asked even by Christ - lens. Till seven times', Jewish rabbis generally taught that forgiveness should be granted to the second and 1laird offetoc,Lut nut to the fourth. Pet- er knew that Jesee w01114) extend for- giveness far beyond This, but with him it was still a q,ne0Uon of degree, Jes- us proceeds to Lomeli, thins abet as there are no bounds to the love of God, so there mnt„et be nonel 111 the love of his uta Bron, 22, 1 say roll :unto thee. Until seven times. Peter's Christianity reached as far as that of tbouslands nowadoyls; quite as far as that of any Christian who, prele.rring law to Gospel, asks "flow far may 1 go without transgres- stng7" Bet we are no longer under 1110 Jaw, bet under grace. Until seventy times sewn. That le, probabiy, four hundred (end stoats, though it ,may be interpreted seventy-seven. In either case dt manes nn indefinite number of Limes; just as frequently as the of- fending brot'hor asks to be forgiven. 23. Therefore, .With reference to this duty of unlimited forgiveness, The kingdom of heaven. To Peter's simple mind this would mean our Lord's gov- ernment, for he 'still expected to see his 1,eloled Master en(hrunecl, crown- ed, and sceptered. Ile hall nut yet learned that strange lessen, "My kingdom is not of this world." To us alas "the kingdon, of heaven" cleans the Lord's government, only that we have better opportunities than had Peter to understand how this govern- ment would he exercised. A certain king which would take acenunt of his servants. Round utoul. Judea in the fi1•st hall' of the flrst century kings were plentiful. This 1(ing's "ser- vants" were his officers of slate, es• 1>eci'(lly these engaged in collecting his revenue, and his "taking account" of theist moans his rucking reckoning with th010. Aovernor's of petty pruvinces were appointed quite as much to draw taxes .11001 the people ere to tad.mintster just ice. and often they farmed out their provinces to lower officials. The time lets come, perhaps al the end of I los rime year, when this king culls for regular reports. (rod is our Bing, 13y every er'isis in our lives he would take account of us, and Dur returns. cannot 11e male in coin, but by tlords and deeds. 24. One was b.rouglzt', unto hitt. Ther phraseology indicates that this man Was a notorious wrongdoer. Perhaps hs trod plundered the revenues. The governors of other dislriets had ap- petered promptly, but he did nerd appear 111111(1111111 and bad tote brought by force. Owed him ten thousand talents, An ellorri101hs suln,l:ardly short of ten millions of dollars;. perhaps far beyond it. It expresses an unlimited amount, and repl'esellts the debt of sin, for which it is impossible any man should make satisrnu1ion, 25, He had not to pay. Ife had wast- ed the revenues of his province. His ill-gotten gains were gone. Command - ad hila to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that be had. Sold as slaves, Phis barbarous custom w'as al• Most: universal in 50018111 tiines. The Jewish law• moderated it, Lev. 20, 30. but, as tate. law wile practiced, slavery as a result of debts, does not seem to have been infrequent. Besides, many of the 3511r5 close to Palestine, as welt as those in further count rias, were gov- erned by Gentile despots, and the action of this king would Ile falrtitin r. to them, The horrors of slavery have only lately been gradually aholiShed by the influ- ence: nt Christianity, 2(1, Worshiped hint. flirt hint abject reverence. There Is no penitence shown here, only fear of pun- ishment. Have fnllienee 11th 111x, land 1 will pay thee all, 0 wild prnut- Lsal. Ile undertakes to do w'ha't he ootid not do, or at least could do only I v a1LI1 granter exierlion from tb.s poor, 27. Moved with rompassi,n.The king did not expect his frightened Servant to keep this promise; he. Oiled him. Loosed him, Ordered 111 chins to be dropped from hie wrists and ankles. F'or'gave hint the. debt, Not ex act- ing 105,11 when he retell afterward be able t.o, pay, 28. Servant . , ratow-ste:vont, These. words we naturally refer to slaves or employees of a menial sort, but in the phraseology of the Orient they would be used of 111311 geverlr meat officials, t110 haughtiest of whom oe .related to the king, 11110 tt 8111v0, Peace. Crane tvorLll about fifteen or sixteen cents, se that the 30110)e sutra owed w'oul'd be 11110(11 sixteen dollars, The pr0porti.en between the amount. of tbi5 debt•, and the (lebt. to t.1, trine is startling. Took him. by the throat, Throttled him, Seth brut:alit.y' is a common incident in the criminal courts of the .Roost:. 211, Fell dowel et alis feet, 1111)1,111)11.- 1113hirests 11 asaWetly: aa,bia erect] i(ur 1131 CI humiliated Himself before 111ek111g, 711 is as 11'Lfftraldt 10 pay a 7uundred pe110e as teat tli,nusand talents if yea own no t0iaal(g. .IHume Patience witdv ate, and 11 will pay base alL 'llleeee is hardly a towel 111' village in the cnmlntary, itar(ily a (Marsh, 110 emitter how small, hardly a little soeiai ,ger'°' i, but; trout their Netts many of cis melnbetrs latter th,Le pitiful cry to 80015 oorporalbiom or per- sae, 130, Went awl' cast ,Wan thin prison. Dolubtle15 be justified 0uiimolf 141 so (lo - tag as meet men who do wrung fon the love of money justify themselves. "Outdated is business ; 1 am sot rsspea sable for other folk affairs." 'Till the should pay the delft, One of the deep; est stains on butnanal y's m'ea'd, in mod- ern and Watteau eivilizatlon as well as Ln ancient oriental barbaris(n, is Writ mob punitive 1111.4811 roe tore not x'eforrn- nlory,u restorative l.0 their effect, and some actually make anweelinen.t 101)05. sable. 31, 11113 follow-sr•rvunle 1. fhrubt1088sume of them uwppoaod tthat their tura lva,t roaring next, 30. I forgave, dose al Met debt, he - cause thou desiredel: me. In fact, the king 11011 granted far more than the awn had requested; he had asked for furbearen,'c, toe king bud rt'rolbted the antis debt. 33. Shualdest not thou also. Jvery r•easo11 11.hy lie slrotu'(l receive meetly was an. easement why be should grant 34.'I'l,u tormentors. Our Lord re= fees to metb)ld5 familiar to oriental depotism, '1'11503 were the jai'ers,wh."e office it often was to aff int and tnr- t.ur'e their prieoneis, 'rill he Should ('ay. 'flat is, for; life, bsa:tnse payment was utterly i111005sible, 31. From your hearts. The, e;2 is no- ttdng if it be not willingly and kindly done, .0 man may remit debts from eonteingt or ostentation, but, a Chris - Ban enuwt do Il. front love. Our Lord gives n0 Lille of three' times or seven atmos, but enjoins hearty, full for- giveness, WHALING FLEET CRUSHED. Steer 0111,4 nave (teen Lost In tee '1'rer,k- nee 1111' Pohl narrow, A. despatch from Fort Simpson, 2, W. '1'., via Saddle Lake and Qu'Appelle, N. 1T, T., Buys:—Late on the evening of March 23, Charles 11. Walker, e hose home is in Seattle. '~';ash., arrived here with his team of three husky dogs, which had brought. aim all the Ivey from Point Barrow, on the Arctic coast. :kir. Walker brought the infor- mation that the gr'eutesl catastrophe That ever overtook the Pecifie Steam Whaling Company's fleet cattle upon them last September. Ile brings an 110'nlirying' letter from the 0ompert36 agent with the fleet. Mr, Walker says that as many its 11 men perished on the f101111ng ice upon which they took 10(113e when the bolts went down. He says they were on the ice ten days and nights, and that the cold Waste from the north caused the mast terrible suffering dur- ing the enure time, All 31 ere badly frozen, and mere than one of those who perished wore crazed before being finally overcome by the cold, Walter Whiting, steward of the Nolareh, In despair. shot himself. The first and second engineers of this steamer worn overwhelmed with the intense suffer - big, and both went mad beiure tinutly suec•utiLing to the pangs of hunger and the l;enumbing (.014. While all 5Curtect frein the Wrecked boats with rood unit blankets they were obliged to drop everything while jumping from one 1(:e cake to another. Some of them chewed. their deerskin moccasins to prolong life, A PLUCKY WOMAN. Mrs. Whiteside, wife of the captain of the Nna'a1ch 1.185 the tally !0010(10 among Ills shipwreelred porgy, and she not only sn.ved Saar own life, but en- couraged bar .husband and conduoted herself so heroically as to inspire others with renewed euerage. 2'r. Walker says that his steamer, the Ova, on whloh he was "boat header," souk abut 0 a.m. on September 28th. Everybody on board escaped to bile Joss P. Freeman. and at about 10.30 am, the Sumo day this steamer was squeezed by the irresistible Ire jam and sunk. but net unlit all un bon rd haul escaped to the heating dee, when began that battle for existencs', in which the despairing ones went helplessly to their graves nail the strong and hope- ful, by clinging fast to the toast, desper- ate chance, seee(1 their lives. The steamers Newarch was also lost, but it is not mentitned in Mir. Dry - man's letter. No 0055 410 this ealantiLy has as yet reached the whaling men - pony, hens, \li'. Walker is making i he hest time be can. The trip he is minc- ing on Snolvshcies will be the longest in a continuous direction ever at- 1empt'ed.. He will huge made upward of 3,000 tulles neer the anew when. he reaches Edmonton, AWFUL COLD IN THE FLOES. $e,tders are Ittdne, ug I1ae1( orad and Band'-It1l44.14 sten. .1. despatch from 1St, J'olin's 2110,, says:—Tho steamer Neptune, Captain Blandford, commodore oC the sealing fleet, arrived inure on 11Wodnesday with 23,000 seals, Captain (Blandford says than never I:efore dlrtug an ex- perience xperience of over six years amid the ice flues dial be encounter such a hurricane as the Neptune weathered 011 the night of .\larch 21st, when 48 of the Greene land's crew perished. 1301 for the feet that most of the fleet tweee hoisting seals aboard, and that the crews were consequently not spread over bhe ice fields, he believes that 4,000 men would have [perished or been dangerously ft:est-bitten. TUs steamer Aurora. Cap- tain Kean, which arrived on Wednes- day night. brought 25,000 seals. She bad 25 men frost-bitten on the night of the Greenland disaster. These steamers report that the Walrus had taken 14,000 seals, the Diann 18,000, the Elope, 14,1.00, rho Nimrod, 72,100, and the Vanguard 0.000, Other ships have smaller fares. The Vanguard is 1'lsriuging bank tares dead men, the Leopold two, and the Labrador two, all of whom perished on the ice floes on the night of March 21st. LANDSLIDE IN THE CHILIt00T. reita•Otie Sten Willed final neer lit• ,lured. hi despa,tcll from Seattle, Wash., flays: —Thin steamer A.lki nrrlved on 'Friday 11Ll(1 news that a landsli(10 has omens od pm Chilkont trnii; in which 31 teen aro known to have been killed, and a large number injured HIS BEAD STUOK THE LOESS. Or. Wm, dl. ',onion, or T4r'enlo• %tilled Rn if Rs naive,. Amini en 1. A despatch from Toronto says:—Dr. Wm. J. Fenton, of Patterson and leen- ton, dentists, 160 College street, lost lets life thrr,ugh (1 runaway aeladent on (Queen street west about 0.30 o'olock un J+'rldi,.v morning, Tempted by the tine weather, he do- oided to go for a drive shortly after eight o'rlock. taking with hien Mrs. 7uttorsun. wife of his partner. All went well until they :arrived at Simcoe street, when the horse took fright :1L a street railway sprinkler, and ran away. Dashing eastword, Lt took the north side of the street, drawing grad- ually near the sidewalk unlit arriving nt the corner of Queen and Elleabeth streets, where the wheels struck the kerbing, and overturned the vebiule, Both 011110 ants 11(71.1 In consequence thrown to the pavement with groat vlo' • HIS SKULL 1'IIAOTURJID. Mrs, Patterson escaped with slight injuries• but as Dr, h'ent(:n fell his heard str'uek the kerb, fracturing the base o,1' bir sI;u11. rendering hint uncon- scious Dl. Garratt was rolled, and directed the removal of the injured man to bis home. On 511181ng There Drs. Powell and Peters, two neighbors 0f deceased, were sUnlnloned, 10110, re-, ulicinlf she gravity of the sit.uatiun, did al, in their power. but without avail. About II 0'010,k 131, FOLIton died, w1111- uuL has ing regai.ne.1 w,nsci0osneed. BOTH TItlliD '1'0 STOP IT. 0r. Lenton 10x5 as well-known citizen and an. ni, *ls'ni horseman. The herso he was erivin3 was a confirmed run- away, 1011'.uli he was cel lea. oring to re0erm. 1411011 he S„w that it wits get- ting away from hint he tried to check it by, pulling with all his strength on the right line, end han ling the other to Mrs. Patterson that she might assist him. This experiment, it 111,1 be Sean, however, 31.115 in err Way re0)1an9111113 for the accident, for although be was pull- ing in the opposite (iirect.ion. the brute succeeded In bringing the vehicle in contact with the sidewalk, wtih such disastrous results, TO KLONDIKE BY BALLOON. A French Scientific IC0n,'(lillen Arras(. in Nrly York. A deal steal from New York, says: - 3'i, Antoine Variola, of the French 0eo- grapbirel Society, arrived on La Bre- tagne en Monday with a balloon with ivlii,+h ate intends to make the trip from Juneau to the Klondike. T'iisrs are abut a dozen persons in the party, and they are at the Hotel Martin. Ar- thur'I'ervagne, LL, D., is the secretary of the exl,sdition, and is also corres- pondent of the Figaro. 1\i. Variola, the head of the expedi- tion, is a man of shout 45 years of age. and a well-known engineer and in- ventor in France. Ile invented anew method to direct a balloon with the aid of a rope and a steering sail, and this method he has succeeded with in two trips, the one from. Paris to The- neait in the south or leranee, the oth- er from Paris to Hamburg. The balleen Is cylinder -shaped, has a sail beneath it, and is equipped with electric lights and a searchlight. The expedition carries with it all the mo- dern instruments of geographical and topographical science. Carrier pigeons will be employed to send book news of the progress of the expedition. The balloon will carry about '7,303 pounds. A feature of it is the '•auto- testeur,” as its inventors, bf. Val'iole, calls it. "Automatic ballasting ap- paratus" is perhaps the proper trans- lation. ft enables the aeronaut to di- rect the balloon to a certain degree. The members of the expedition are stopping bore only until news comes from Juneau that the apparatus is ready for generating the hydrogen with which the balloon til to be inflat- ed. When that is ready the party wilt go directly to Juneau,and if the wind is favorable, the trip to the Klondike will be male at once. Photographs will be taken from the balloon' en route. The cost of the ex- poditien is borne partly by the French Geographical Society and partly by the members oC the party, A MISSION MOBBED. Tile Ana1'rirauas Demand I1,drelin fly E,'oat 1111, V311 HOU, 4i0ver111arn1. Telegrams l'eceived at Shanghai re- port that. a chapel in Chung-King-Kin- su Province, belonging to an Ameri- can mission, Inas been attacked by riot- er's, and some persons of the mismion have been luurfleted,'I'he United States Consul has demeuded from the Taoll, first, that the soldiers shall he disband- ed; second, that the murderers shall be put to death and 111e ringleaders ar- rested; third, that 500 tales be plaid as compensabi0u, for the chapel de- stroyed; and, fourth, that full pro- tection be given to the missionaries when they return NATAL OFFERS COAL. . The (101011r t,'Iu Ptol'141e 15,441441 Tens Per Amimia for 1(,'141,111 117n',h11w. A despatch tram Leaden says;—The Ministry of the .l3ritish Colony of Natal has cabled to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Kr. Joseph Chamberlain, offering to supply gratis 12.,0110 tons of coal annttally to British warships ea111- ing at Durban, and to afford them, all passible facilities in other h'ay's. Air, Cbanherlain has replied to the mes- sage, aoespting the gift, and warmly thanking the colonists. ROSP1:,CTS. You say, Aerie the millionaire, that you have a. fortune in prospeot, What is the nature of that fortune? 'Before I Can conee 1t to my daughter's mar- rying you I must know sonlething of that. 'lV'ell, said the young man, visibly embarrassed, ah—I—I can't tell you ex- actly( lint it you will give me a list of your securities, I think 1 can give you a detailed statement or what I ex- pect. ;�• , EN, , � ra EDITORS, g v 1 , r ken and Women in all Walks of Life Toll of the Remarkable Cans Wrought by South American Nervine Tonic. SIX DOSES WILL CONVINCE THE MOST li L1EDULOUDi EDITOR COLWELL, OF PARIS, ONT„ REVIEW. Newspaper edi}ors are almost as sceptical as the average physician on the subject of new remedies for sick people. Nothing short of a series of most remarkable and well authenti- cated cures will incline either an editor or a doctor to seriously oonsider the merits honestly claimed for a medicine. Hundreds of testimonials of won- derful recoveries wrought with the Great South American Nervine Tonin were received from men and women all over the country before physicians began to prescribe this great remedy in chronic oases of dyspepsia, in- digestion, nervous prostration, sick headache, and as a tonic for build- ing up systems sapped of vitality through protracted spells of sick- ness. During his experience of nearly a quarter of a century as a newspaper publisher in Paris, Ont., Editor Col- well, of The Paris Review, has pub. fished hundreds of columns of paid medicine advertisements, and, no doubt, printed many a gracefully - worded puff for his patrons as a matter of business, but in only a single instance, and that one warrant- ed by his own personal experience, has he given a testimonial over his own signature. No other remedy ever offered the public has proved such a marvellous revelation to the most sceptical as the South American Nervine Tonto. Ib has never failed in Its purpose, and it has cured when doctors and other medieines were tried in vain, "I was prostrated with a partica- lariy severe attack of 'Le. Grippe," 4. says Mr. Colwell, " and could find net relief from the intense pains and die; tress of the malady. I suffered day and night. The doctors did not hell) me, and I tried a number of needle cines, but without relief. About this time I was advised to try the South American Nervine Tonic. Itssffectli were instantaneous, The first dose / took relieved me. I improved rapidly and grew stronger every day. You Nervine Tonic) cured me in a single week." The South American Nervine Tonic rebuilds the Hie forces by its direct action on the nerves and the nerve centres, and it is this notable feature which distinguishes it from every other remedy in existence. The most eminent medical authorities nay, concede that fully two-thirds of all the physical ailments of humanity arise from exhaustion of the nerve forces.. The South American Nervine Toni° acting direct upon the nerve centres and nerve tissues instantaneously supplies them with the true nourish- ment required, and that is why its, invigorating effects upon the whole system are alwaya felt immediately, For all nervous diseases, for genera debility arising from enfeebled vital. Its, and for stomach troubles of every variety no other remedy eat possibly take iter plaes. Sold by G. A. Deadman. THE YUKON MOSQUITO, DDr(vos Sieoee. 110(1' and ('araban l0 4011 81101v tine, 4t111jii' lie,tri 1)111111, ,1,441 Laves 85011. Not only do the Yulaon mosquitoes attaok men and overwhelm them, but they drive the moose, deer, and caribou 11p the mountains to the snow tine, whore these animals would prefer not 10 1>e in berry time. They kill dogs, and even the big brown bear, that is often inisoailed a grizzly, bas sucoumub- ed to them. Bears come down to the river from the hillside in the euriy fall to get some of the salmon that are after thrown upon the banks when the "run" is heavy. If bruin runs foul of a swarm of mosquitoes and has not his wits about him bis day has Dome. The insects will alight all over him. Hie fur pro - toots his body, but his eyes, ears, and nose 11111 soon be swollen up and bleed- ing, and unless he gets into the river ora strong wind he will 153 driven mad and blind, to wander about hapelesSly until be st'a'rves to death. Although the Alaska summer 15 short, two broods 00,nosquiboes hatch out each year, and are ready for busi- ness from one to ten seconds atter they leave the water, It rladns a good deal along the Yukon, and rein Is welcomed, for it drives the mosquitoes to cover. They aide under loaves and branchos until the shower La over; then they come out boilidg with rage et the time they have been forced to spend in idle - nese, and the miner has a harder time than (Wer after tits respite. Mosquitoes and snowflakes are not contemilorurios in the States, but in Alaska It is different;, iinaw dons not bother them so much as rain, and an early snow may fall lvbile they are still on the wind. Fog does not choke them, either. They appear to like it. They float about; In it as Liu ambush and take the unwary prospector by Rua:prise. A CURIOUS REFORM. The I'd tlutlaoder.ia.('idler i11sguteled W11h 111e Snags nt talc 5111 /11(1.9• Lord Wolseley, commander -in -chid of the .British arm3, has just been the means of inaugurating a species of re- for,n in the infantry ranks whiob bas brought forth amusing comments from the London press, It is well known that Lord Wolseley is a good mei. clan, On a recent visit of Inspection his ears were partiouta.rly offended by the songs of the soldiers on the march who enliven their spirits in this weds anti at the same time give better meas - urs Co their stop. 'l'aa eommanc er-in- chief leas disgusted, and conceived the idea of having certain men In each! ruml:ally trained to sing properly tvben Lt should be necessary or deslrahie. The .10urna's do not believe that I.his will restrain tate tone-deaf soldiers from joining in, for patriotic spirit and a good ear for music are not always identified in Lite same. person. TOO BAD,. French vanity is a matter of amuse went to the rest of the world, thought it is to be admitted that the lerene l poopio have touch to be vain abouts and that their habit of regarding the( 'world as smvolvin' around their pare tloular personalities makes ;them sot'+ leotively a greet and successful pooplea It Ls related that a French maid int the employ of a lady of London wits dismissed for some fault. She matte(,.; a national issue of the dfsoiL sal, Ah, perfidious! she exclaimed. In- famous Albion 1 You burn Joan od'. Aro, yen kill zo great Enoporor Nae poloon, andnow you dismiss mo 1 And perfidious Albion ')emained frlj 9(nsibie oven to this rs iroaoh, HE HAI) BEEN THERE. Were you ever caught in a su(ideiO squall 1 asked a passenger: of the steal ,• boat captain. Well, 1 rather yttria sol .replied the captain. I'm the. father .t three pair4 of ovine.