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After the Board of State Pewee Dime. patient and unoonplairtieg than, or we
tote, sitting 10 seeslott et at the prison had
heard and die ' od of the oomplainte and
petitions of a number of convicts the ward.
ern announced that all who wished to, app•
uoar had been hoard, Thereupon a acrtain
neasy and epprehousivo ovpressiou, whiah
all along lied sat upon the faces of the dir-
ootors, became visibly deeper, The ohair•
11011-0 nervous, energetic, abrupt, i110 VO
't
In
should have heard item you Ion (, r go. I1
e u etatetnent .I ant Mere'
asking you to mak
lyMilting for your help to right a wrong, if
a wi'011g hits been done Leave yo1W owtl
wishes entirely out af.00nslderatiou, if you
Prefer. Assume, if yen Will, dint It le not
our intention or deafro either to give you
relief or to 100110 your case harder for you.
There Ore fifteen hundred human beings in
man— lanced at a slip of paper in his hand, ' this prison, and they are under 1110 0beoluto
lend salad to the Wal den,-
4'Sead a guard for c0nvietNe. 1.4,295."
Tho wercieu started and immune slightly
pale. Samowilat mama, he haltingly
replied, "Why, he has expressed no desire
to appear before you."
"Neve'tlmloes, you will send for him at
once," responded the ohairway.
The warden bowed stiffly and directed a
guard to produce the oouviet. Toon, turn•
lug to the chairman, he said,—
"e am ignorant of your purpose in snin-
:monieg this man, bat of cease I have no
objection. I desire, however, to make a
sietemeut ooneorning him before e ap.
pears.
" When we shall have called for a state.
mens from you," coldly reeponded the chair-
man, " you may Hake one.
The erdon sank bank into his scat. He
was a tall, finselookiog man, well-bred and
intolligeut, and had a kindly tam. Though
crelinat'ily cool, courageous, and self-pos-
sessed, he was unable to conceal, a atcoug
emotion, which looked much like fear. A
heavy silence fell upon the room, (lieturbed
only by the official stenographer, who was
sluu'I:oning WE pencils. .A. stray beam of
Iighe from the westering sun Blipped into
the room between the edge of the Window -
shade and the sash, and fell across the
ohefr reserved for the convict. The tummy
eyes of the warden finally fell upon this
beam, and there his glance rested. Tho
chairman, without addressing any one par-
ticularly, remarked,--
" There are ways of learning what occurs
he a prison without the asaistauce of either
the warden or the convicts."
Just then the guard appeared with the
convict, who shambled in painfully and
laboriously,as with a string he held up
from the floor the heavy iron ball which
was chained to his ankles. He was about
forty-five years old. Undoubtedly he once
had been a mea of uncommon physical
control of one man, ' If a serious wrong le
practised upon ono, it may be upon others.
I ask you 1n the name of common humanity,
and AB 1,13.0 man of another, to pat ns 111 tate
way of working justice in thle prison, If
you have the instincts of a men within you,
you will comply with my request. Speak
out, therefore, like a man, end have no fear
of anything,"
The omelet was touche 1 and slung. He
looked up steadily into theohairman's face,
and firmly said, ' There is nothing in this
world then 1 fear," Then he hung bis head,
and preeentiy he raised it and added, "I
will tell you all about it,"
At this moment lie shifted hie position
so as to bring the beam of light perpendie.
ularly acres his face and chest, and it
see ed. to split hint in twain. He saw it,
and feasted his gaze upon it to it lay upon
hie breast. After a- time he thusprooeeded,
speaking very slowly, and in a strangely
monotonous voice
"1 was sent up for twenty years f01' kill -
in" a man. I hadn't beon a criminal : I
kilted him without thinking, for he had
robbed me and wronged me. I came here
thirteen years ago. I had trouble atfirst-
it galled me to be a convict; but I got over
that, because the warden that was here then
understood me and was kind to me, end he
made the one of the beat men in the prison.
I don't say this to make you think I'rn 0001-
pleining about the present warden, or that
he didn't treat me kindly; 1 oan take care
of myself with him. 1 am not melting any
complaint. 1 ask no man's favor, and I
fear no menet power."
"That is all right. Proceed."
(T0. BE CONTINUED.)
Child Government.
One of the hardest tasks of a mother's
life is the government of her children. That
WO can nralte children mind is perhaps the
strength, for a powerful skeleton showed boast of many of ns ; but to make our
underneath the sallow skin whioh covered government ootnatdentwithproper devin-
peculiar
al
his emaciated frame. •His sallowness was meat to reattain and not destroy
peculiar and ghastly. It was partly that
of disease, and partly of something worse;
and it was this something that accounted
also for his shruuken muscles and manifest
feebleness
There had been no time to prepare him
for presentation to the Board. As a conse-
quence, his unotoekinged toes showed
t hrough his gaping shoes ; the dingy suit of
prison stripes which covered his gaunt
frame was frayed and tattered ; his hair had
not been recently cut to the prison fashion,
and, being rebellious, stood out upon
his head like bristles; and his beard,
whioh, like his hair, was heavily dash.
ed with !fay, had not been shaved for
weeks. These incidents of his appear-
ance combined with a very peculiar expres-
sion of hie face to make an extraordinary
picture. It difficult to is describe this
almost unearthly expression. With %certain
suppressed ferocity it combined an inllex-
ibility of purpose that sat likeau ironmask
upon him. His eyes were hungryandeager;
they were the living part of him, and they
shone 1 umiunus from beneath shaggy brows.
His forehead was massive, his head of fine
proportions, his jaw square and strong,
and his thin, high nose showed traces of an
ancestry that must have made a mark in
some corner of the world at some time in
history. Ile was prematurely old ; tithe
w as seen in his gray hair and in the uncom-
monly deep wrinkles whieb lined hie fore-
head and the corners of his eyes and his
mouth.
Upon stumbling weaary „'a the room,
faint with the labor of walking and of
carrying the iron ball, he looked around
eagerly, like a bear driven to his haunches
by the hounds, His glance passed so
rapidly and unintelligently from ono face
to another that he could not have bed time
to form %conception of the persons present,
until his swift eyes encountered the face of
tho warden. Instantly they flashed ; he
craned itis neck forward ; his lips opened
and became baud ; the wrinkles deepened as are not correct to real life. The mother
about his month and eyes ; his form grew who takes this interest in her children will
rigid, and itis breathing stopped. This find them developing, and abstaining from
Meister and terrible attitude—all the more evil ways without much effort on her part,
so because he was wholly unconeeious of ib One of the secrets of successful control is
—was disturbed only when the chairman the power of a mother to distinguish and
sharply commanded, " Take that scat." discriminate between the real causes of an.
The convict started ns though he had act. Was it from direct disobedience, was
been struck, and turned his eyes upon the it from carelessness, or ignorance, or was it
chairman. Ile drew a deep inepiratien, really the result of an occident? Each ono
which wheezed and retread as it passed into of these calls for a different mode of treat -
his cheat. An expression of excruciating tneut. To construe an atm as intentional
pein swept over his face. He dropped the whoa it was purely accidental, end punish
ball, which struck the floor with a loud as such, never corrects the fault, but makes
sound, and his long, bony fingers tore et the a child sullen, and even defiant. To scold a
striped shirt over his breast. A groan ea- child for something, when it knew no bet -
caped him, and he would have stink to the ter, but did the best he could, makes him
floor had 1101 the guard caught him and fearful, silent and awkward. It checks
held him upright. In a moment it was originality and retards Ina confidence, a
over, and then, collapsing with exhaustion, thing which will be more precious to you
he sank into the ohair. There he sat, con- by and by. Especially on the nervous,
seisms and intelligent, but slouching, dis- sensitive ohtld is its chert more noticeable.
organized, and indifferent, To such a one sympathy and a cermet
The chairman turned sharply to the understanding of its mottveeareaseasential
guard. " Why did you manacle this man," to its proper growth as sunshine is to certain
he demanded, "when he is evidently so flowers.
weak, and when none of the others were Seine individuals do inherit a sullen dia.
manacled 1
dividuality ; to punish only when the act
merits it, to advise at just the moment
when their minds are in a state to appro-
priate the lesson for their good; to guide,
yet not retard originality; in other words,
to make them thoughtful, unselfish, lovable,
easy and graceful as well as obedient is
another muoh more difiloalt thing.
Every mother has a guide, if oho will
study and thoroughly understand herself,
for almost invariably children inherit some-
thing of their mother's disposition and
traits. In knowing self then we can anti•
cipato their naturos, knowing what to
guard against.
Am I not right in saying, the truest
mother is she who can most vividly recall,
her own childhood ; who, forgetting at
times her motherhood, stn, in realization,
and appreciation, be as a child with her
children, enjoying their games; imagining
all their yearnings, awakening, step by
step, as they do to knowledge ?
That person has most influence over a
Mild. who is most in sympathy with it.
Sympathy makes children easy ,graceful and
above all truthful. True sympathy does not
mean giving Dake and candy in the morn-
ing, o.nd them in the evening when you are
haatening with sapper, and your little boy
gets in the way while playing with an
imaginary train of cars, giving him a sound
slap for his pains.
In school work or in bailie, s life, we all
like the one who is bright enc active. Is it
consistent, then, to suppose that this same
activity will not manifest i5self in their
'unmade? Yet how often we try to cheek
it? Haweis sage, "There is one tiring better
than crashing impulse, itis using impulse."
So long, then, as their make-believe playa
are pure and instructive, lot teen play. It
enoonrages originality, invectiveness and
independence, and lays the fo iodation for
business life. Not only ought we to allow
them to play, but we ought 11 suggest and
improve upon such portions of their games.
OPTIO SEABOE-LIGI 'P:
'1.14e 4inbtbaimollactrl''i'hrlrws 44 Penn; at'
8140,1rie tight , into the rly0 and 1,0''
rales i4(4lr,
One of the most reinurknble inventions
which has lately mune into praotioal use in
the hospitals of New York is the opltthal-
momete. It is used for examining the 0yo
when it is in a state of disease, and it
illustrates how accurately modern soienoo
has come to deal with the ailments to which
the flesh is apt to full heir.
The invention of Ole new instrument
was tcund to be a necessity. It is an 1io-
knowledged font. among speohtl1 is in dis-
eases of the eye that poor eyesight is cm am
alarming increase in the United States,
especially among obildren. The number of
school children who wear eye -glasses con-
tinually in Now York Pity a10n0, and es-
pecially in Boston, is double or treble of
what it wee several years ago. 'Pito very
large inoretse of work willed this has 00-
caesoned for the doctors in the eye hospit-
ale rendered it extremely ditiioult foo' them
to carry CO their e'tuninationsas they had
heretofore dote.
The old method of examining the eye was
to station the patieutat some distanoofrom
a chart on which were printed letters of
various sizes. If the person under examin-
ation was perfectlycleoranindod, a more or
less nominee result was obtained; but in
the case of a child cr a puma dull of com-
prehension the regale was not generally se
good,
The ophtbaltnometer does away with all
this uncertainty, and by its use the veriest+
tyro fresh from the medical college oan
make the most accurate diagnosis. Ib is
the invention of Profs. ,Taval and Sehiotz,
of Paris, and was introduced into the hos•
itals of New York by Dr. D. 13. St. John
Roosa.
It is a oombination of a telescope and a
arge painted disc, on whioh is projected
an intense electric light. In front of the
died isa small wooden mask -like frame in
which the patient places hie taco, On the
diso are a series of divisions. •
The doctor looks through the telescope at
the patient's eye. The effect of the intense
light in to 00050 the numbers and divisions,
on the disc to be reflected end to show out
oloarly on the cornea or rear wall of the
patient's eye. Connected with the disc is
a sliding arrangement by merino of whioh
any desired pointon the disc may be local].
ed, so that in the case of astigmatism, for
instance, it is only necessary for the physi-
clan, after locating the source of the trou-
ble, to make a record of its exact looa1lon
ou the disc. Since the reflection on the
eye corresponds exactly with the disc it-
self, he has no trouble in doing so.
Of course, the different markings are
meant to show the different degrees of
afiiiosiou, and after the record is made it
is the easiest thing in the world for the
doctor to prescribe the proper pair of
glasses to be worn. And the best part of
it all is that this point is established be-
yond a doubt. People need have no fear
hereafter of making a mistake in the selec-
tion of their eye -glasses, for that eeiectloa
is made according to aa absoluterule, and
not, as in the old method, according to
their sensations merely,
Having the eyes examined by electricity,
which is really what it amounts to by this
method, is es vet something of a novelty,
even among physioians. Some years ago
the celebrated Dr. Helmholz devised an
instrument mach, after the fashion of this
one, bat it was too complicated 16 be of
use.
"Why, 1111," stammered the guard,
"surely you know who this man fa : he is
the most dangerous and desperate---"
" We know all about that. Remove his
manacles."
Tho guard obeyed. The chairman turned
to the convict,, and in a kindly manna said,
"Do you know who we are?"
a The convict got himself together a littlo
and looked steadily ea the chairman.
"No," he rep'ied, after a pause. His man.
net wee direct, and his voice was deep,
though hoarse.
" `e are the State Prison Directors.
IVe have heardof your 'ease and wo want
yon to toll us the whole truth about it,"
The oonmat'e mind worked slowly, and it
was home time before he could comprehend
the explanation and requeet. When he
had accomplished that task he said, very
lowly, "1 suppose you want me to make
a complaint, sir."
" Yes,—if you have any to make. according to the 'word, they wore of mar.
The 00nvi01was getting himself in hand. riogeahle age. As in Hungary at that time
He atreightenod, and gazed at the cbair• a bridegroom must have reached the age of
pian with a peculiar intensity. Then firmly twentyand a bride that of fifteen, the pair
and clearly he answered, "I've no complaint meet now be at leasb 120 and 115 years old.
position, but I am confident that many
more are cultivator], through wrong accusa-
tions and unjust punishment, To undo,'.
stand ourselves, to study our children, and
have reepeet for 'their individuality, this
should bo our aim. Instead of Baying,
" Spare the rod and spoil the child," would
it not be troll to say, "Spare the rod and
study the child?"
Time passes quickly, end anon our "ha.
hies" become men and women, but the nee
thing imperishable le the result of our early
teaohinge.
MARRIED ONE HUNDRED YEARS.
A wonderful anniversary, the 100th, of
the marriage of 1Ir. and hlrs•Jean Sztth mary
is reported from Hnugary. ''this appears
to be it eireetnabanoe which is entirely im-
possible fiat the marriage of this aged pair
is duly and oliloi0l1y recorded as having
taken place in May, 1793, at which limo,
to make,"
Tho two men sat looking at each other in
allenoe, and as they looked a bridge of
human sympathy was slowly reared between
thorn. The chairman rose, passed around
an intervening tablo, went up to the eon.
vict, and laid a hand on his gaunt shoulder.
There wan a tenderness in his voice that
few mon had ever heard there.
i4 T know," said he, " that you are a
LAVA BEITI II MINT'S
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An lnteruational cat show has just
Wooed a very snocossfaj soeseu in Lotit[on,
A national valuation of figurelheacle of
old ships of war 10 to be made by the
British Admiralty. Figureheetis will be.
taken torn all old slops sold out of sorvioo
in futuro.and 01101ts mettle to reclaim all
such relics from junk shops and scrap piles,
Provision is to be made for greatly en -
forging the 111ltislr Niemen. Five and a
half acres will bo added to the nine acres
already occupied, through pur'e)tase from
the Duke of 'Bedford.
A company has been formed in New
Zealand to establish a whaling station on
the Kermadec Islands, 10 Una Pacific O0000,
nortltweotOf New 'MaMedind.
In the island of St, Ilelena's total revenue
for 1802 of 17,091 to included.the odd item
of "£1139 received from dealers throughotit
the world for postage stamps." The
population of the island is bub about 4,000,
and is steadily decreasing.
Since the discovery several weeks age of
the presence of petroleum in a well of
drinking water in Somerset, England,
experiments have been made in the region,
aad the results show the existence of oil in
many plaoee in the districe poring is abill
prooeeding,and the experts think oil will
be found there in abundance.
After many years of hard fighting, the
Sunday opening of the picture galleries in
London has just been concealed by the
Common Couuoil, but only through the
oasting )rote of the Lord Meyer. The
Council stood eighty-eight in favor and
eighty-eight against the motion, and items
amid mueh excitement that the Lord Mayor
gave his casting vote. A motion to remind
the resolution will Donne up at the next
meeting, and the Sabbatarians yet hope to
triumph.
The experiment of shipping button from
Auetralpa female English market was success-
fully made a few menthe ego, and a oonaid-
orable Male Etas resulted. Trial shipments
of eggs and cheese have been merle in the
past few woke, and the goods arrived in
London, after a six nveerrs steamer voyage,
perfectly fresh and sweeb. The eggs were
rubbed over with grease and packed in bran,
flour, or limo.
There was a singular boom in the matri-
monial market in England last year,
whether because of or despite the hard
times is an interesting point for speculation.
There were more people married there in
the third quarter of last year than in any
similar quarter of the last ten years, with
the exception of 1801. The marriage rate
was highest in London, where hard times
were generally reported to be most felt.
AN ENGLISH ENTERPRISE..
A PROGRAMME FOR A PRINCE.
tierces tt Splendid Snggestloneee r101t`I'alcs
Stier/tit .act Oen.
The Prince of;Wales has been remark.
ably successful in yacht racing in European
waters. His yacht, the Britannia, held
her own against the Valkyrie in the early
part of the racing season in British waters
last year, and after tate Valkyrie left for
America she was left without to serious
rival, and easily took and maintained the
lead 1ltro0ghoue the season. It .will be re-
membered that the Britannia, in all races
but one beat the Americas yacht, a sister
of the Vigilant, which crossed the At-
lantic to contest the honors with British
yachts in British waters, Tho ,iritaunia
has begun her career this season with a
series of victories over British, French, and
Italian.yeehts on the Mediterranean. So far
it Ilan been a Baso of Eclipse first and the
rest nowhere. The Prince of Wales has
proved the right of Britannia to rule the
waves so far as pleasure -sailing iu Europe
is conoorned. The heir to the throne of the
See Kings should now turn his face to aha
west, and see if he cannot conquer the
yachtsmen of thellnitedbtatosin their own
waters under the rather trying conditions
for strangers imposed bythcm,endwin barb
the America's Cup, as the Queer's Cup
is now called. There would be a great deal
of interest in any international yacht rape,
hue ace in whioh the Prince of Wales was
the owner of the British yacht would prove
the most exciting contestever exiled. A
second 'lett ot the Prince of Wales to
America would be of use to him, and Can -
ads has a great deal smattered from Halifax
to Vtetoria that she would take a pride in
showing him. He would be interested in
noting some changes which have taken
place silica he wts here last, thirty-four
years ago. Canada would also like to meet
and greet the gentle and much beloved
Princess of Wales. The future King and
Queen of the British empire might make
their trip a celebration of the closer 11010n'I
of the British nations by going home by
way of Australia. Lord Rosebery, who
is an ardent irnpettad federationiat, would
no doubt enthusiastically advise a visit
which would be calculated to do something
to remind the British people of Greater 1k'i•
tain tint they are all subjeote of ono sever.
igu.—[Montreal Witness.
The 109th anniversary was celebrated atthe
town of Zsombolyi, in the Banat, which has
for along 'doe allowed the venerable couple
tepensi0n in recognition of their great age
and fidelity to each other.
" Yon are like a toy wat0h,"
She remarked to her beau,
When he asked why, she said:
"Because you wont go."
LOOK OUT FOR LOCUSTS.
ilisey Aran;;" lit rwautyl'wo '31,11(.11 and
'I'c rrllol'1es 311014 dhglnter.
Lon(te are d110 in tweiity•tw0 nlatee and
territories in the months of "day and +l line.
There'd read 410041e of this interesting insect
s the 70110d1aal oloade, or On rod -eyed,
100415,. as bug hunters fumiliariy ooIl 1t.
of dose n'et belong to Elio 10015st tri bo, whioh
Ir0 near relatives of the grasshopper and
aistinguished-147rent ability, to jump.dile r'ed.oyod cicada doles not /imp. .Phe
(iictionariea derive the word looust from
two Latin words, moaning a burned place,
and the papular use of that word as the
name of made is justifiedby the testimony
of writers who have described the ravages
of the savontoen,year locusts. One who
1110/01104 100 miles through ) be forests of
Penusylvanla and Ohio after they had ap.
peered said the whole forest looked as if it
had been soorohed by fire. This year, a000rtting to Prof,fRiley's
schedule, the ootultry is to be visited by a
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maintaining Telegraphic, Cowillunt 1 endo
'laffi!e Elghtshtps.
The first of the five permanent lightship
cables, connecting light vessels by tele-
graph with the shore, recommended by the
Royal commission on electrical communi-
cation with lighthouses and light vessels,
was successfully laid last weak under the
direction of the elder gentlemen of Trinity
horse and the post office authorities, the
cable having been carried from the Kentish
Knock lightship to the post ofiies at Kings-
gate, hard by thoNorth Foreland. In the
work which has just been brought ton sue-
cessful issue is to be Been the fruits of the
experiments made with the Sunk lightship
ort Walton -on -the -Naze. The Kentish
Knook lightship is securely moored in
twelve fathoms of water when the tides
are low; and her distance from the near -
000 land—tile North Foreland—is eigh-
teen miles. In the case of the Sunk
lightship the length of cable connecting
the vessel with the shore viae only eleven
miles, and the lightship itself is moored
with a single chain cable attached to a
mushroom anchor weighing between two
and three tons. With the Kentish Knock
lightship, however, the precautions as to
mooring have to be far more effective. In-
stead of one mushroom anchor there aro
four, and to these the vessel Is seoirely
fastened by chains. The fixing of the moor.
ings was carried out by Mr. Hattersley,ono
ot the Trinity hoose superintendents, and
Mr. Reading, of the Trinity house steamer
Vestal. The cable itself was lard under the
supervision of the submarine department of
the poet office. The establishment of an
electric cable connecting the Goodwin light-
ship with the shore is now occupying the
attention of the Trinity house and post
office authorities. The other three light-
ships whioh the commission recommended
should be connected with tbe shore by tele-
graph cable are the Shipwaeh, off the
SntTolk coast, the Hasborongh, off the Nor-
folk coast, and the Scarweather, o0' the
northern shore of the Bristol channel. --[Lon-
don Transport,
Reasonable Explanation.
Gedney—Do you know, I think Van
Guzzler must have been bitten by a mad
dog in his early youth.
nfarlboro—Why so?
Gedney—lie has such a horror of water.
Ile Was Satisfied.
Mr. 13. has just turned fifty-eight, and
finding himself a widower after twenty-
five years of married lite, is preparing to
lead to the altar his new bride of twenty-
two Remmers.
His friends, alarmed at the wide differ-
ence in their ages, remenstrate, but hi vain.
" Whetl you say my intended in too
young?" Mr. 13. exclaims in utter astonish-
ment. " Why, she Is exactly the same ago
as my first wife when I married her. "
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thirteen -year broo 1 and a seventeen-year
brood together. Small broods of both sorts
appeared at dietant notate last year and in.
1888, but in 1855 both sorts appeared in
vast reaches of territory east of the Missis-
sippi, and the last visitation before that of
a thirteen -year brood and ft seventeen•
year brood in the same year Was in INS.
The seventeen-year locuste aro soheduled
to appear this year in Connecticut, New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Mary.
land, Virginia, District ofColunibia, North
Carolina and Miohigun. They are called
by Mr. Riley brood XII, and are very
numerous.
The thirteen -year locusts are scheduled
to appear in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia,
Illinois, Indian territory, Kentuoky, Louis.
iana, Miesissippt, Missouri, North Caralino,
South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and
Virginia. They constitute brood XVIII of
Mr. Riley's classification. Ile says tide is
the largest of the thirteen -year broods and
the most widely extended. Only in Vit..
gins and North Carolina are both varieties
predicted to appear together, although they
may overlap in iu the vicinity of Michigan
and Illinois.
Before the natural history nt the seven-
teen-year locust was understood its appear-
ance was regarded as 0 supernatural mani.
Eightliundrrd tons of Australian butter
wore landed in London flotn one "'•cool a
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DISCOVERED AT TORONTO,.
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by 161'tertive Alarrlson (tacit k'oti:mann,
sally 141 .illrlctigbl.
A Toronto simnel says; -Jahn Herr, of
101) Dupont street, was arrested by P. C.
'Mebane the other night and lodged in Na
2 pollee station. The 11,0110eman noticed
Herr inossession of a bicycle, and as 000
lied been reported missing by W. bmith,
281 Queen starot west, the officer 4eteine
Kerr on suspicion. Ile was taken to the
station house and there searched.
Ooi1Nmente11tT 001NS POUND,
, The rented revealed a number of mantel,
fait five and ton•oont coins, amounting in
all to 1$10, The coins were bright and new,
and were good counterfeits of the genuine
ertiele. They rang well and had every
appeatenee of good money fresh from the
mint. Aslight dillereinoein weight aroused
the suspicion of mho police, and it was dis-
covered that on applying tbefr teeth to the
coins the high polish could be easily defect-
ed. The oohs 000ld likewise be easily'
bent between thumb and finger.
Detective Harrison at once proceeded. to.
Kerr's house at 30011npontstreet end made
%thorough search of the premises. He be -
,gen upstairs mud finished in the cellar, but
10antl all that ho wanted to convince him.
that a regular counterfeiting business was
being carriedon on the ground floor. Hid-
den away in various places he found a
polishing board, a half mould intact and
the other half broken of 5 and 10 cent
Canadian conn, a ladle and a metal pot.
The ntortld was a very good one, and show-
ed that Kerr was an export at hie business.
DID 'TIIR :1010LT1N11 AT T1IE 0100111,
The metal -pot was discovered in the
kitchen, and it was evident that Kerr had
done his melting at the kitchen stove. P.
C.Lilly assisted the detective in his search,
and both officers thoroughly examined the
premises. They wore unable, however, to
Gnd any more bad money.. The apparatus_
was; aken away by the officers and will be
used as evidence in the serious charge of
counterfeiting, which will be laid against
Herr.
Detective Harrison interrogated Kerr's
wife, who at first denied knowledge of her
husband's guilt When confronted with
the apparatus, however, the officers say she
confessed that her husband had been mak-
ing "that kind of money" all winter.
UNEMPLOYED ALL WINTER.
Kerr, who is a men of about, 27 years of
age, gave his oaoupation at the station as a
laborer. He has a wife and three young
children. He has beon unemployed all
winter and has just come out of jail from
serving a sentence of one month for drunk-
eness.
The police are uncertain as to whether
Kerr is alone in his operations, and are
'inclined to suspect that his house is the
rendezvous of a gang of counterfeiters. It
is thought that Herr may "peach."
festation. In Louisiana in 1935 it 1000 re-
garded ae presaging war with Mexico,
There is a dusky Meng line near the tip of
the creature's wings whioh looks like a a5',
and is said to stand for war. The omen
would not hold good in other languaues,
but the seventeen year lomat does not pre-
vail in other lands. Itis a die tinctly Ameri-
can product, and of the 330,000 varieties
of insect life shown to science it has the
longest life. It is a little singular that the
Arabs trace in the wings of tine genuine
looust a meoaago from God written in
Arabic.
THE STORMY ATLANTIC.
Two SIearner, hound ler New York Pett
Isle 480011alx Short or goal.
A Halifax, N. S., despatch says :—Two
steamers bound to New York from Europe
put in here this morning short of fuel after
very rough experience in storms. They
are the Storm King, Captain Crosby, from
Hamburg, via Shields, and the Italia,
Captain Craig, from Medit orranean porta
The Storm Xing sailed from Hamburg
March 15, and pat into Shields outhe 20th
for coal, sailing from there the sante day.
After leaving the latter port she met with
heavy head gales and high seas, experienc-
ing cold weather and +snowstorms, the
latter part of the passage the ship becom-
ing somewhat iced up. Four icebergs
were pissed, one in latitude 50.15. The
Storm King sustained seine damage about
the deck by being boarded by several heavy
seas, the rails and etanchione being broken.
She has a general cargo. The Italia ,Cap-
tain Craig, sailed from Naples March 8th
and item Gibraltar on the 13th with 280
passengers, all steerage. She met with
fair weather up to the 33rd instant, when a
terrific hurricane with a high sea was
encountered, during which the ship re-
ceived pretty rough handling, but came
through without much damage. She
passed two icebergs in latitude 42.30.
During the passage ono birth occurred.
The Italia belongs to the Anchor lino.
DYNAMITE OUTRAGE.
A I1,,ml rxplodeil n1 the II'indotr811i ol•n
ltestaarant.—iliac)- Persons Injared.—
Arrest ora !emerioitr Anarchistin Lon-
don.
A Paris despatch says :—A bomb WAS OK.
plolad about 9. LI o'clock this evening on
the windowsill of the Restaurant Foyot, du
the Rue de Conde, near the Luxembourg.
The restaurant was two.thirds full of late
diners. Pieces of the bomb flew through
the room, smashing glass and property.
Everybody started for the doors, but the
panic abated as soon as it became evident
that only one bomb had been placed. When
the police arrived they found only three
persons injured, one of them the Socialist
poet Taiilade,who was wounded severely in
the head. The and of the restaurant facing
the Rue de Conde won partly wrecked. The
windowsill and two or throe feet of the well
wore blown out. Theplaster was cleaned.
as if with a knife, and everything on the
nearest tables was in fragments. .Not a
window in the Rue de Conde front of the
building was loft whole, The windows of
houses far two hundred feet up and down
the street were smashed into small bite,and
the the pavement was strewn with glass.
The whole neighborhood was shaken, and
the audience in the Odeon theatre, hardly
150 yards distant, were badly frightened by
the report, but the manager quieted thotr
fears Immediately after the explosion
there was one arrear. The p +lice:nen who
arrived at the restaurant first was informed
by a bystander that a man then walking
hurriedly down the street bad just run out
from the building next door. The police.
man overtook the man and arrested him.
The notorious French Anarchist Meunier,
accomplice of terauoois, and the avenger of
Ravachol, together with a friend, was
arrested this evening by Inspector Melville
at Liverpool street station in London. The
police of three countries have been tracing
Meunier's movements ever since the ex-
ploelon at `the Cafe Verey, almost two
years ago. The charge on whioh he was
arrested this evening was the murder of
the proprietor, who died of his injuries a
few days after the cafe was blown up. The
motive of Meunier and bis accomplices in
exploding the bomb was to punish the men
who had betrayed Ravaehol to the police
and secured his armee in the cafe. Both he
and his comrade fought desperately, but
the porters and several persons from the
crowd helped the inspector. $e will lie
brought up iu Bow street court in extradi•
tion proceedings based on the charge of
murder. His oornpanion will be tried for
aiding him in his attempt to Gacape,
Another arrest was made by the pollee
before midnigbb. Besides M. Taillado, a
W00160 named Vigniu, who a000mpanied
him, and a waiter were injured severely.
Many others were saratchel( by flying glass
or were bruised by falls. The bomb was a
preserved meat can filled with dynamite
and old nails. A waiter who wee neer the
window at the time of the explosion says
that he saw a workman,about 30 years old,
place the bomb in a flower box on the
window -sill and then inn down the street.
His description of the mutt tallies with the
appearance of the prisoner taken after the
explosion.
Women on the Royal Cominission.
The three ladies who have been appointed
motnbersof the English RoyalCnmmission on
secondary education are all distinguishodin
different ways. Lady Frederick Cavendish
is the widow of the younger brother
of the Duke of Devonshire, the
victim of the Phoenix park tnur-
lero, Lady Frederick has taken a very
fictive iuteeesb in oheritable and educational
work, espeaiolly since her husband's tragic
death, She is a lady of much knowledge,
both of then and things, universally popular
and respected, and not too philanthropic to
be without shrewd knowledge of the world,
and is exoollenbly fitted to be a Royal Coin,
missionor. Mrs. Henry Sitlgwiak is a sister
of Arthur Balfour, She is the wife of
Henry Sidgwick the well-known Cambridge
professor of moral philosophy, and is prim•
otpal of Newnham College. Mrs. Bryant,
Mo., is a distinguished lady graduate of
London, who won great honours in selene
and mathematics. She is a popular and
su:easeful lecturer at some of the principal
London high schools,. end a rather active
Liberal polineian and platform advocate of
emlile suffrage.—[Chicago Post.
Moss grow (thickest on the north side of
hills, and a sun•exposel tree has its largest
limbs on the south side,
" What dis country wants," said Uncle
Mose, "is seine Bort ob patent contraption
whar a man San drag a nickel in de slotan'
gib religion,"
A ValllauiO Patent,
The mart with a patent loch saluted the
president of the bank, and the president
:lid not manifest great pleasure in his
caller's presence.
" I would like to show you, sir, a patent
look whioh I—" he began.
" Don't want to see it," interrupted ilio
resident. " We have all the burglar•proo
loops we avant."
" I beg your pardon," said the caller
" but this isn't a burglar-proof lock ; it's a
oashler•proof look."
" Oh—alt—um," replied the president
apologetically-, " let mo look ab it."