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BRU•SSEIIS COST,
JAN, 27, 1899
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Great Britain, the United States, and
Ali Parte of the Globe, Condensed and
Assorted, tor Easy Reading.
CANADA.
The Ontario Legislature has been
called for Feb, let for the despatch of
business.
A privets in the garrison at Fort
Niagara, N.Y.. is down with small-
pox.
A syndicate proposes to erect a large
abattoir at Three Rivers, upon condi-
tions of exemption from taxation.
The Hamilton Blast Furnace Com-
pany intend to establish asteel plant
in connection with the blast furnace.
It is said that the 7th Battalion, at
London, when reorganized, will con-
sist of nix companies instead of eight.
The house of Mr. Paul Parker was
burned at Plantagenet, and 141rs. Par-
ker and two ebidren perished in the
fire.
Albert E. Musson, clerk in the Mer-
chants' Bank at Montreal, hos been
arrested. His shortage is said to be
almost ,780,000.
Fifty-two branches of chartered
banks and several private banks were
opened in Manitoba and the Territor-
ies last year.
The Grand Trunk offered Mrs. Casey,
wife of the engineer who w is killed at
Murray Hill $100 peri month for three
years, which she refused to accept.
The Canada Atlantic Railway has
received no communication from the
American roads relative to 'the propos-
al to abolish second-class fares on
railways.
Individual communion cups were used
in the Centenary church at Hamilton
last Sunday for the first time. Com-
municants remained seated in their
pews.
The Crow's Nest Railway is now in
working order and three passenger
trains are sent over it each way every
weak. The regular freight traffic is
steadily increasing.
Rumors are in circulation at Cairo
that on December 28 last the Dervishes,
under Emir Fedil, on the Blue Nile,
defeated the Egyptian forces, the 10th
Soudanese battalion being entirely de-
stroyed.
Wolves are said to be so plentiful
in the northern parts of Quebec Pro-
vince that they are ranging the woods
in large pecks and have been known
to attack settlers' stock. They are also
waging deadly war against the large
herds of elk and moose.
The annual report on adulteration
of food issued by tha Inland Revenue
Department has been distributed. Dur-
ing the year 879 samples were analyzed
and of these 701 were found to be gen-
uine, 87 adulterated, 61 doubtful, 6 sold
as a compound, 19 not classed and 5
sold illegally.
GREAT BRITAIN.
There are now over 116 million peo-
ple who speak English.
London pays 42 per oeut• of the in-
come-tax of England and Wales.
A female town crier fulfils her du-
ties in the Scottish town of Dunning,
L'erthahtre.
The White Star steamer Oceanic, the
largest ship ever built, was launched
at Belfast.
Fifty pounds a year Is aevoted to
dusting the books in the Library of
the House of Lords.
AAn artesian well sunt; to the depth
of 425 feet in Clapham, London, yields
840,000 gallons a day.
Argument upon the dispute between
Great Britain and Venezuela will not
likely be heard until in May.
Eight churches have stood on the
site of St, Paul's Cathedral in London,
The first one was built in the year
232.
Thirty thousand women spend their
lives in driving and steering the canal
boats in southern and midland Eng-
land.
The British Admiralty is being urged
to emphasize the unity of the empire
by adopting colonial titles for British
warships,
The Board of Trade relurns of Great
Britain's foreign trade for the month
of December show increases over 1897
of £3,098,100 is imports and £1,658,-
800 in exports.
A branch of the Navy League has
been formed at Rottiugdean, Sussex,
Among the members of the first com-
mittee are Mr. Rudyard Kipling and
Mrs. Rudyard Kipling.
Canterbury Town Council has deoid-
el til present Mr. Eennikee-Heaton,
M. P., with the freedom of the city in
recognition of his services in the mat-
ter of imperial penny postage,
The Empress Frederick has °aneent-
e;l to visit Plymouth on January 26th,
to open the new blook of the Royal
Sailors' Rest, which has bean erected
by Miss Weston, the "Sailors' Friend,"
at a cost of over £5,000.
Princess Viotoria of Wales, arranges
flowers beautifully, and usually pre-
pares the dinner table decorations at
Sandringham. It is Princess Victoria,
also, who frequently( makes up the
buttonholes so much worn by the
Prince of Wales.
It not generally known that the
Queen possesses a most valuable collet:
tion of autographs, Besides the name
of nearly every Drowned head in the
world, kvith his or her portrait, those
of famous artists, musicians, and lit-
terateurs abound.
The late Mr. John Harling, of Man-
chester bequeaths £34,500 to oharities
and institutions, the majority of them
local. The Society for Che Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals receives £1,000,
and the 1teunoheseer branch of the
Royal ,Lifeboat Institution comes in
for £2,000.
The trade of the British Empire is
estimated to amount to about R.1,200,-
000,000 per annum which is nearly
equal to the combined trade of Prance,
Germany, Austria, Russia and the
United States; and the shipping re-
quired to berry on this gigantic trot -
Lit exceeds 120,000,000 tons.
Sir W. Ataonormaa, the great sur..
co Is rice n 1 h foreign g In o ex ordere, gn o e o, ane he
le espeoletly proud of being an officer
of the Legion of Honour,. a distillation
worn by foe medical men j ouq of
France. Ile owes leis red ribbon to the
services be rendered the French army
in the Franco-Prussian ever.
UNITED STATES,
The town of Pullman, I11, is to be
auuexed to Chicago.
One-half the Confederate pensioners
in Mississippi are widows,
A number of animals in the Phila-
delphia "Zoo" have died from grip.
Connectiout'e homioldes in 1808 were
27, es compared with 24 in 1897 end 25
in 1896.
Tit Pennsylvania there are 867 school
districts in whioh the schools are open
only half the year,
The United States Government will
send four regiments of infantry to the
Philippines at once.
South Dakota has a surplus of money
in the state treasury. It recently took
up 370,000 of bonds nut due until 1910.
The state library of Pennsylvania,
with 141,316 volumes, is the second in
size of such libraries in the United
States.
Richard Tweed, brother of the fa-
mous "Boss" Tweed, former Tammany
ruler of New York, is dead there,
aged 75.
The Populist Senate oe Kansas now
proposes to fix the legal rate of 40
cents for berths in sleeping cars in
that State.
It has been judicially decided in
South Carolina that under a provis-
ion of the state constitution, a juror
must be a qualified voter. •
North Dakota law makers have al-
tered the divorce law, making the real -
demo 12 months, and only to residents
of the United States.
The extent to which the ball -bear -
Inge are now employed is shown by the
importation into the United States of
at least. 200,000,000 balls a year.
By a tunnel 390 feet in length
through the mountains, Gold Lake,
Sitka, has been drained and its enor-
mous gold wealth made available.
Chief Joseph Ripley has instructed
the Chicago police to "shoot to kill"
when it becomes necessary in deal-
ing with highwaymen and notorious
thugs.
A Joliet Prison convict told the war-
den where 42,000 worth of diamonds,
stolen from a lire, Williams, a Chicago
hotel guest, had been seereted. Mrs.
Williama now has the diamonds.
An epidemic of grippe has broken out
to an alarming extent among fine
horses in Kentucky. Thoroughbreds
especially are suffering, and many val-
uable mares are dropping their foals
on account of it.
The official estimate of the annual
egg product of the United States places
it at 850,000,000 dozen. Placed end to
end, they would gird the earth twelve
times at the equator, and there would
still be some over.
Chicago now boasts the "longest po-
lice heat in the world." One patrol-
man has charge of a bit of territory
seven square miles in area. It is at
the extreme western limit of the city,
and includes a few houses and a good
deal of prairie.
A Belgian priest named Delbruck has
been murdered by Chinese rebels n
elupei. His companions took refuge
t
n
in the house of a friendly mandarin.
Another priest named Fleury is now
imprisoned in a• coal pit at Szechuan .
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He is gagged and shamefully treated.
Serious fighting is reported to have
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taken place in the Connell distrio
French Guinea the result of native
attacking the Franco-Belgian mission
No details are given.
A Snit against the city of Minnea-
polis polis for loss by tire because the va-
d
ter pipes were choked with sand,
has been decided in favor of the city
by the Supreme Court which ruled
that the city was not liable for the
negligence of the servants.
Experiments es to the porosity of
thin .sheets of metal carried out in the
United States Navy Yard at Washing-
ington, have shown that a plate of
steel 1-32 inches thick is absolutely im-
pervious to water, even under a pres-
sure of 6000 pounds to the square inch.
It is expected that the present sea-
son will the one of the best the lumber-
men of Maine have experienced in sev-
eral years. The cut upon the waters
of the Kennebec will probably exceed
that of 1897 by at least 24,000,000 feet,
and the total cut of the region, it is
estimated, will be fully 125,000,000 feet
of lumber.
The late William B. Smallbrldge, of
Glenville, W. Va., a veteran of the
civil war, parried a bullet in his heart
for 37 years. Hie death was not due
to the presence of the bullet, and, Lu
fact, he never suffered any inconven-
renes from it. Before his death he
asked his physicLane, in the interest of
science, to make an autopsy in order to
find the bullet. The physioiens did
so, and found it imbedded in the heart.
GE)NE114AL,
The world's navies number 2,391 war-
ships.
British India has 10,417 licensed
opium shops.
The Italian navy includes 328 war
vessels of all kinds.
The population of India increases at
the rate of 3,000,000 annually.
An elephant takes up the collections
in some of the I•Iindoo temples.
Fifteen thousand people are employ-
ed in making violins in Germany.
The Paris Exposition of 1900 is 10
have a theatre which will seal 15,000
persons,
influenza le epidemic in St, Peters-
burg and thousands of cases are re-
ported.
During the lest century 1011 lakes in
the Tyrol have subsided and disappear-
ed.
Emperor Willlialn is to visit Ring
Humbert of Italy and the Pope in
March.
The Prussian Government has issu-
ed a degree abolishing tema.le corporal
punishment,
Coal from Japan is gradually en-
croaching upon the Welsh ooal in East
Indian markets, ,
The dee peel coal mine in Lhe world it
the Lambert in Bolg en i you can dee-
cend 3490 feet.
It is said 1S,'r, Rockefeller made over
338,000,000 by the rise of Standard 011
liquidating certificates. •
Terat, in )Afghanistan, is the city
which dos been most often destroyed,
Kitty -ix times in all,
In 1900 Iceland will celebrate the
900th anniversary of the introduction
of Christianity into the island.
Chinese byelists are frequently seen
in the streets of Hong Hong and
Shanghai carrying au open umbrella,
The law which prohibits Jews in
Russia from giving their children other
than lliblieal names is to be repeal-
ed.
The Italian Government propose to
take a census of the people on Deoem-
ber 2nd, 1099, no census having been
made since 1881,
Russia has always been in the fore-
front in pilgrimages to the Holy Land,
Between 30,000 and 40,000 Russians visit
Palestine every year,
Spain has greater mineral resources
than any other country iu Europe,in-
eluding iron, copper, zinc, silver, anti-
mony, quick -silver, lead and gypsum,
General Lord Kitchener, the Sirdar,
has decided to send a strong expedi-
tion against Khalifa Anduliah, who is
now in Darfur with a large force of
Dervishes.
Police. throughout Germany have con-
fiscated the Paris Figaro on account
of a caricature, oopted from Puok, re-
presenting Emperor William in the
guise of a despised animal,
General Weyler, the former oaptsin-
general of Cuba, gave a banquet re-
cently at Madrid to 14 generals and
admirals and a number of other high
officers, Toasts to the regeneration of
the country and reform in the army
and navy were drunk.
The French Minister of Finance has
his budget lightened this year of a
pension which has been; paid regularly
for thirty years. In 1869 it was agreed
to ply a yearly sum of 55D to allnon-
commissioned officers and soldiers of
the First Republic who had seen ten
years' service and received a wound. In
1869 the annual sums amounted to
3600,000; last year it, was 350.'Nov the
item vanishes, the last recipient hay-
ing died at the age of 105.
NUBAR PASHA DEAD.
Former Prime Minister of Egypt Passes
Away In Paris.
A despatch from Paris says:—Nubar
Pasha, formerly Prime Minister of
Egypt, died Saturday. Nubar Pasha
was born in Smyrna in 1825, and was
educated in Prance and Switzerland.
He was secretary to Mehemet Ali and
Ibrahim Pasha, and under the reign
of Ismail was Minister of Foreign Af-
fairs in 1807. He was created Pasha by
the Surtet1, and in 1867 obtained for
Ismail from the Porte the title of Khe-
dive. Nubar Pasha held various offices
under Ismail, and his successor, Tew-
fik, but was suddenly dismissed from
the office of Premier in 1888 and re-
placed by Riaz Pasha.
CATCH OF HALIBUT.
One Fulled States Vessel. Taking Ont
8200,000 l'ennds per ,Month.
A despatch from Ottawa, says :—Ac-
cording
Ac-
cording to returns which have reached
the Department of Marine and Fish-
eries one steamer, the New England,
an American vessel, by the way, has
taken on an average 200,000 pounds per
month of halibut in Brilleh Columbia
waters. On her Last trip Lo Vancouv-
er the New England brought down the
largest cargo of fish ever carried in-
to a port to North America, namely,
180,000 pounds. This industry in .Bri-
tish Columbia is ane which our own
people are neglecting, and which the
Americans are exploiting without let
or hindrance. ,
PRIVATE VOLUNTEER SUICIDES.
Was Formerly a Member of 1°A" Battery
Ii1ng to,e.
A despatch from Kingston, Ont.,
says:—Private Leaman, a trooper in
Troop "F." of the 7th United States
Cavalry, Macon, Georgia, committed
suicide, At his funeral the whole
troop anted as an escort. An effort
was made by the military authorities
to locate the dead trooper's relatives,
but they were not successful. The
deceased was a driver in Battery "A,"
this city, for three years, taking his
discharge in July last, and leaving for
the United States. He came hither
from London, Endland, and of his fam-
ily his comrades here know nothing.
TOPSY-TURVY
tenter Things That the Japanese D0--'1'hetr
Symbols In Arl.
The law of the Japanese is that of
inversion—at least it seems so to us.
Viewing things from an oriental stand-
point, we would probably think our
present way of life the topsyeturvy
way and pity ourselves for shortsight-
edness and foolishness, as they do now,
In Japan, white is mourning for both
men and women, while women indicate
their age by their costume. The Jap-
anese has no foundation to his house,
but instead the roof is ballasted, that
being considered a batter safeguard
against the violent storms. After din-
ner speeches aro made before dinner,
and probably no custom shows the in-
nate good breeding of the Japanese
more than this last. Think of the be-
lated guests if such a custom were
ours 1 Think of the speeches thrown
to the air I
Some of the Japanese symbols are in-
teresting and deserve recognition, so
popular are their works of art in our
homes. Look closely at Japanese sateen
panel, kimono, fan and you will find
the inevitable cherry bloesom, the na-
tional flower; the plum, which signi-
fies sweetness oe heart; the pine, the
strength of vigorous old age; awom-
'an under a roof, charming symbol of
content.
The obliqueness of the Japanese eye-
lid, whish comes before one always in
speaking of anything Japanese, is
paused, it is said, by their living in
high latitude, a protection of nature,
accorded, too, to many animals,
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JAN. 29.
tf l'hrist et Jaeoh's Well," John 4, 6.15,
Golden Text, John 4. 14.
I.'RACTICAL NOTES.
Verse 5, Then con etla lie On hit
way from Jerusalem to Galilee Josue
passed through Smartie. This wale
not his ueuat course. Like most Jaw•S,
he preferred to arose the Jurdan twine
on leis way to Galilee and pass through
Peres, which, though largely inhabited
by Gentiles, was not. as hostile Lo the
Jews as was Samaria, A city of Sam-
aria. But not necessarily a place of
great size or importance. Samaria
here menus the province, IL had done
duty as a name for the ancient capital
oily of the kingdom of Israel, and for
the kingdom itself. Its people at the
present Lime were mongrels, whose
origin is told in 2 Kings 17. 23-41. They
mingled the worship of Jehovah with
foreign superstitions, They hated the
Jews, and constantly perseouled them
in petty fashion. Which is called
Syoher• This was formerly supposed to
be Shet;hem, or Stollen, as it is called
in the Old Testament, situated in a
green and fruitful valley between the
mountains Ebel aucl teerizine. The
people of the place point out an ancient
tomb there, which they call the tomb
of Joseph, and a well of abundant and
cool water, much resorted to, which is
probably Jacob's welt. See Josh. 24.
32. But it is now reasonably certain
that a village about two miles to tee
east, very near to Jacob's well, which
still bears the name of E1-Aekar, is re -
teeth. to, Tho parcel of ground that
Jacob gave to his son Joseph. We
only know that Jacob bought, ground
front Shechem, and that the whole re-
gion aftel'ward was inherited by the
son el Joseph.
6. Jacob's welt was there. Jacob's
spring. It is one of the sacred sites
which has perhaps never been dis-
puted, The Traveler finds IL an a
slight eminence near to Mount Gerizim.
There is uo mention of it in the Old
Testament. In the Middle Ages the
Crusaders built a church over it, and
recently devout hands have emoted a
chapel amid the .ruins of the older
building, The well is about nine feet
in diameter and seventy-five feet
deep, Wearied with his journey, Ae
tired man, as weary as we should have
been if we had walked as far. Sat thus
on the well. Sat es he was by the
spring, reclined on or against the ourb.
7. There cometh a woman of Samaria.
A very undignified character. She was
a woman, anti in the ancient East that
meant a thing to actress' and a beast of
burden, but hardly implied possession
of an intelleet or a soul. She was a
Samaritan woman, and therefore of pe -
culler contemptibility to the eyes of
Jere. She was a poor woman very evi-
dently from the rest of the story, and
bad. To draw water. She came down
probably with. a rope in tier hand, and
a Leather bucket over her shoulder,
and a crockery jar on bar shoulder or
on her head. Jesus saith unto her,
Give me to drink. Here was a strange
sort of rabbit He jarred and shocked
rabbinic prejudice at every turn. It
is a good Lesson in the art of win-
ning souls to God to note that Jaeua
used his own thirst as a means of ap-
proach to the woman's heart.
8. His disciples were gone away into
the city to buy meat. Food ; not ne-
cessarily flesh. Many Jews would not
eat provisions purchased in Samaria.
9. How is it that thou, be-
ing a Jew, asketh drink of nee.
This woman had a deep na-
ture underneath much of froth. And
it really was strange for Jesus thus to
reject the restraints of caste. How
dill she know he was a Jew 4 Jews
have never been hard to identify,
Doubtless by his features, by his
dress, and by his dialect. "Jew„
here does not mean Judean, but is ap-
plied to the race broadly. The Jews
have no dealings with the Samaritans.
This remark is singularly illustrated
by the unneighborly words of the son
of Siraoh: "There be two manner of
nations which eny beart abhorreth, and
the third is no nation ; they that sit
upon the mountain of Samaria, and
they that dwell among the Philistines,
and that foolish people that dwelleth
at Sichem." According to Greek and
Roman writers Jews habitually refused
to give any information to Gentiles
who inquired oonoerniug the road
from town to town or to the nearest
welt.
10. Jesus answered and said unto
her. He saw that she was sus-
ceptible to the truth. Patiently and
kindly he led this inquiring mind,
but he pays no attention to the cap-
tious question; he bad greater work
to do than to recognize the quar-
rels of sects. The gift of God. Water
In the Beet, especially in Egypt, is
often referred to by this phrase. The
best gilt of God is the grace enilmer-
cy now offered. Who it is. "It isethe
Son of God who cake water of thee.'
Thou wouldst have asked of him. The
positions would have been reversed;
in reality she was the thirsty one and
he the abundant giver. Living water.
Running water, or water from a spring
but here referring to the water of
life, which cleanses the soul from sin,
Isa. 12.3 ; 44,3. Our Lord's manner of
speech, was richly figurative, and he
was always ready to use objects Im-
mediately before him as Illustrations
of spiritual "truth.
11. Sir, A phrase that might: be
translated "My Lord." Tee Women•sre-
spect fa rising. Thou hast nothing to
rlraw with, and the well is deep. She
is 'fending," 11 is evident that he
doee het refer to this well; but what
does he refer to 9 ; i
12. Art thou greater then our fath-
er Jaooh. The Samat•iians olaimed a
descent from Tedi. and Joseph ; but
They were a mixed rage of pastern
people, probably with little of .Israel-
itish blood among t.bem, 2 Kings :17,
2441. `Jacob, the greatpatriarch,
had to toil hard to secure Tlns boon to
his ohlldren. Who is this ernnger,
that: he can give it without even a
bucket to draw with 6—Moul.l:on,
13, Whosoever drinkolh of this wat-
er, Compare John 7. 37-89. They who
drink of this well will for a time be
remelted; but their natural thirst
will return again, 'l7tey who drink of
the fountain of life and solvation will
find all their desires satisfied,
14. Whosoever drinketie "Shall
have drunk." Once for all wo
drink of (hie spiritual water
when by faith we enter into fellowship
with Christ and become partakers of
the •divide nature, Shall never thirst.
"Shall not thirst forever," There is
a sealse in which the Christian slugs;
"insatiate to ibis spring I fly;
1 drinir, end yed; am ever dry i
Alt I who against thy elm rnls Jt proof
All I who that loves can love enough?"
But the water o8 salvation possessed
the power to satisfy the longings of the
heart. A well of water springing up
into everlasting life. A fountain of
800200ss,
16. Sir, give me this venter, She
speaks as still understanding his words
l terally, Before she can realize that
it is a spiritual supply the woman
must be aroused to the spiritual need.
Hence our Lord's next words,
A NEW QUADRUPED
,Lu Animal Resembling nil Ant. -Later hound
In Patagonia.
In these latter days, when people are
constantly• hearing of the threaten-
ing extinction of various tribes of ani-
mals, the news of the discovery of
an entirely new species of quadruped
is startling. The feat of the exist-
ence of a hitherto unknown animal
has been brought to light by Dr.:l'1or-
entino Ameghino, wlto for some time
past lute had reports of a mysterious
creature of nooturnal habits brought
to him by several Indians and a few
years ago the late Ramon Lista, while
hunting in the interior of Santa Cruz,
was startled by the appearance of a
strange animal, which he described to
Dr. Ameghino "as a pangolin without
scales and covered with reddish hair."
Lista shot at the creature, but it was
apparently bullet proof for it disap-
peared into the brushwood and al-
though instant search was made no
trace of the animal was to be fount,
As no further evidence was fortil-
coming, Dr. Ameghino was inclined to
think that naturalists had been de-
ceived, but he has just received a
skin from South Patagonia which
proves that Lista was correct in his
statement. On examination the ossi-
cles which were embedded in the skin
"like paving stones in a street," proved
that the animal evidently belonged to
the pangolins or scaled anteaters, fa-
miliar to naturalists; but instead of be-
ing scaly it is covered with coarse, red-
dish gray hair, titbits the skin itself,
which is two centimetres thick, is so
remarkably tough that it can only be
out with a hatchet. This explains why
the bullet had no effect upon it,
It is booed that a living specimen of
this interesting' quadruped will be ob-
talned before very long. Such en addi-
tion to the zoo would be a matter for
congratulation. .
WILL REACH $75,000.
Defalcation of the ,Montreal Rank Eno-
ploys Very large.
A despatch from Montreal says :—The
ease 01 Albert E. Muesen, who was ar-
rested on Saturday charged with ap-
propriating the funds of the Mcf-
chant's Bank, will Dome up in the
Police Court to -morrow. The specific
amount of 35,000 named in the inform-
ation demanding his arrest is stated
to be only a small part'Fof the sum
which the bank is seeking to amount
for. The figure of $75,000 named as
the rumored amount of his defalca-
tion on the day when the matter first
became public, is said to be a great;
deal nearer Mussel's sbortage than the
sum named in the warrant under
which . he was arrested. Muesen's
method, it is alleged, was to enter cor-
rectly the amounis received in the sav-
ings bank from depositors in the Pass-
books, but he did not account for the
full amount received either in the of-
fice books or by cash handed over.
WIPED OUT BY DERVISHES P
leak Sondancse itatutlton Said 10 Have
11een Entirely destroyed.
A despatch from London says:—
Rumors are in circulation here that on
December 28th the dervishes, under
Emir Fedil, on the Blue Nile, defeated
the Egyptian forces, the 10th Soudan-
ese Battalion being entirely destroyed.
It is reported that re-lnforoemenis are
being hurried up to the rescue, and
another battle 15 imminent. According
to a despatch from Cairo on tannery
5, Col. Lewis, with a Soudanese repo-
mdnt and detachment of irregular
troops, attacked Pettit, the last remain.
ing formidable dervish chief, while he
was crossing the Blue Nile on Decem-
ber 20, at: the cataract, south of Rose-
lle, storming the island on which Fedi!
took up his position, and capturing 1,-
500 dervishes. Fedi!, however, escaped,
with 300 followers.
ENGLAND'S SHIPBUILDING BOOM
Ail ,tilled lndnsirles Stimulated by 111
Vastness or the Tear.
After a long periodof self-abase-
ment and the .bewailing of British
commercial and industrial decadence,
Englishmen have been cheering them-
selves during new Year's woek with
the statistics of the shipbuilding boom
in 1888. British shipbuilders closed
the year with about 2,000,000 tone of
work On hand, which is nearly four
times the total tonnage built in all
foreign countries in 1897 and an in-
crease of 500,000 tons on the shipping
under construction at the outset of
the year,
The total vain° of mercantile ship-
building int 1898 is 1920,000,000, and the
allied industries have naturallybeen
stimulated.
When the Nerve Centres Need Nutrition.•
A ViTonderfrnail Recovery, Illustrating the
Quick :°sponxse of a Depleted Nerve
Systema to a Treatment 17714,o14
Replenishes Elihansted
Nerve Forces,
MR. FRANK BATTER, BERLIN, Omit
Perhaps you know him ? In Water-
loo he is known as one of the most
popular and successfulbusineee men of
that enterprising town. As . anag-
ing executor of the Kuntz estate, he ie
at the head of a vast business, repre-
senting an investment of many thous-
ands of dollars, and known to many
people throughout the Province.
Solid financially, Mr. Frank Bauer
also has the good fortune of enjoying
solid good health, and if appearances
indicate anything, it is safe to predict
that there's a full half century of
active life still ahead for him, But
it's only a few months since, while
nursed as an invalid at the Mt,
Clemens sanitary resort, when his
friends in Waterloo were dismayed
with a report that he was at the point
of death,
"There's no telling where I would
have been had I kept on the old treat-
ment," said Mr. Bauer, with a merry
laugh, the other day, while recounting
his experiences as a very sick man,
"Mt. Clemens," he continued, " was
the last resort in my case. For
months previous I had been suffering
indescribable tortures. I began with
a lose of appetite and sleepless nights.
Then, as the trouble kept growing, I
w,ls getting weaker, and began losing
Iiesli and strength rapidly. My
stomach refused to retain food of any
kind. During all this time I was
under medical treatment, and took
everything prescribed, but without
relief,. Just about when my condition
seemed most hopeless, I beard of e
wonderful cure effected in a case
somewhat, similar to mine, by the
Great South AmericanNervine Tonic,
and I finally tried that. On the first
day of its use I began to feel that it
was doing what no other medioine
had done. The first dose relieved the
distress completely. Before night I
actually felt hungry and ate with an
appetite such as I had not known for
months, I began to pick up in
strength with surprising rapidity,
slept well nights, and before I knew.
it I was eating three square meals
regularly every day, with as much
relish as ever. I have no hesitation
whatever in Baying that the South
American Nervine Tonic cured me
when all other remedies failed. I
have recovered my old weight—over
200 pounds—and never felt better
in my life."
Mr. Frank Bauer's experience is
that of all othere who have used the
South American Nervine Tonic. Its
instantaneous action in relieving dia.
tress and pain is due to the direot
effect of this great remedy upon the
nerve centres, whose fagged vitality
is energized instantly by the very first
dose. It is a great, a wondrous ours
for all nervous diseases, as well as
indigestion and dyspepsia. It goes
to the real source of trouble direct,
and the sick always feel its marvel.
lour sustaining and restorative power
at once, on the very first day of its
use.
Sold by G. A Deadman.
FIGURES OF THE PLEBISCITE.
Au Interesting Compilation Slade From the
°metal Returns,
The net prohibition majority
throughout the Dominion is officially
given at 13,925. The total vote was
543,029, or 44 per cent. of the names
on the voters' lists. On the 213 mem-
bers of Parliement,128 represent pro-
hibition conetitaencies,according- to the
plebiscite, and 85 represent non-prohi-
bitien constituencies.
There are 1,233,637 nines on the
Dominion voters' list. The percentage
of the list, of those voting for prohi-
bition is 22.5; against, 21.5; percentage
of the votes polled, 51.3; against, 48.7,
The vote that went against prohibi-
tionwas mainly al!rench vote. All the
Quebec constituencies that voted
against prohibition have a very great
French-speaking population. Many of
them are entirely French, Outside of
Quebec a majority of the constituen-
cies that votedagainst prohibition have
large French or German elements.
Although some oonatituencies outside
the Province of Qualm° went agaiust
prohibition because of their French
element, the general opinion of Anglo-
Saxon Canada may be learned from
the vote of the six other provinces
and the Nbr'th-wort Territories. Tak-
ing these seven divisions together, we
ting the following insult:—
Total names on voters' lists, 898,992;
total number of votes polled, 391,833;
votes polled Eos prohibition, 249,895;
votes polled agalnett prohibition, 141,-
038; majority toe prohibition, 107,957.
Percentage polled of names on list,
43.0; percentage of list voting for pro-
hhibitioat, 27,8; percentage of list voting
against prohibition, 15.8; percentage for
prohibition, of votee polled, 64; per-
centage, against prohibition, of votes
poleld, 30.
Number of membora of Parliament,
1.18; number whose eonstituenoies voted
for prohibition, 120; number whose eon-
stituencies voted against prohibition,
28; average majority for prohibition,
1,012; average majority against prohi.
bitten, 611. •
WORK AND ROYALTY.
It is a great mistake to suppose that
to be domestic is of necessity a bour-
geois characteristic. A writer pointe
out that all of Queen Viotoria'sdaugh-
ters were taught to cook and sew and
make themselves useful. The Princess of
Wales knows all about scientific dress
cutting, and another princess was not
long ago initiated into all the mys-
teries of the professional hairdresser's
art, "There is no better judge of
needlework in the kingdom then 'Prin-
cess ChrisLidu," nays the writer refer-
red to. "Arany of the designs used in
the Royal School of Art Needlework
are from the clever pencil of Princess
Louise, Marchioness of Lorne, Prin-
cess Alice, mother of the present Em-
press of Russia, used to eta her child-
ren's clothes and trim their hats in the
far -back days wheal she was Grand
Duchess of Hesse and was surrounded
by the little ones. Princess Henry of
Battenberg is a skillful embroiderer,
besides being an artist and musician,
Domesticity has hot proved a
bar to culture in the 'caf0 of
any of these highly placed
women, The Empress Frederick of
Germany is one, of the most intellec-
tual end ,cultured women in the world,
but she is also au adept in the domes,
tic arts. She is a soulpiress and can
oloverly wield the brush, as well as
her sister, the 'Marchioness of Lorna,
So here is a shining example in high
places. And if we take a etep down to
duoheeses, marchionesses, eto., wd
shall find that blue blood is usually
&alieiated with a taste for true Brit-
ish domesticity. The •Duchess of Aber -
corn can sew betiutifuliy, The Duch-
ess of Sutherland can cook and make
a gown. She often designs her own
dresses, The Mayohioness of London-
derry, one of hn !end's most famous
beouti�es, is a utilitarian of the neat
water.'t
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