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A London special says :—What is known
as the Ardlamont mystery is making some
stir in London. The trial in the case will
soon take place in the Scottish courts. It
is a question of murder or a i idental death.
In the story is found mixed up a tutor or
friend (the man now in custody), the pur-
chase, of an estate, a life insurance policy, a
boating aecident and the strange disappear-
ance of the attendant who was with the
friend and the lieutenant on the evening of
the accident or the crime.
The young man who hal been shot was
Lieutenant Windsor Cecil Dudley Ham-
Brough. The person who is awaiting trial
on the charge of having caused his death is
Alfred John Mouson, who comes of a dis-
tinguished family, and is also said to be a
cousin of Lord Houghton, the Lord Lieuten-
ant of Ireland.
The scene of the fatal occurrence is in the
wild and romantic neighborhood of Loch
Fyne. The Kyles of Bute have been visited
by many a tourist. As the steamer passes
along the western extremity of that lovely
strait it turns sharply round a promontory
into the loch. The name of the promontory
is Ardlamont Point, and is now for ever
connected with one of the tragedies of old
Scotland, a story that Sir Walter Scott
might have woven into a thrilling romance.
Before giving the latest details to hand of
the shooting of Lieutenant Hambrough, it
will be well to tell something about the es-
tate of Ardlamont, which is pleasantly sit-
uated on the promontory. It may help the
the reader to a better
UNDERSTANDING OF THE STORY.
The estate covers 11,000 acres, one-third of
which is arable land, while the remainder
is moorland, woodland, pasture and hill
country. From time immemorial the estate
has been owned by the Lamonts of Cowal,
but not long ago Colonel Lamont died.
After his death the estate was valued at
£82,000, but was offered in the market by
the trustees at the upset price of £50,0
A prospective purchaser appeared in the
person of a Yorkshire gentleman, M r. Al-
fred John Monson, who took the mansion
house aid the shootings for the
season as a temporary arrangement
while the negotiations for the trans-
fer of the property were proceeding. He
brought his servants from England with
him and at once became very populace with
everybody with whom he came in contact.
After he had been at Ardlamont a month or
two he was joined by Mr. Hambrough, a
lieutenant in the Fourth Battalion Prince
of Wales Own Yorkshire Regiment, and
the eldest son of Mr. Dudley Albert Ham-
brough, of Steeple Castle, Isle of Wight,
who is a Justice of the Peace for Hants,
and generally resides at Houghton, Stock-
bridge. Lieutenant Hambrough having been
born in 1873 would have attained his
majority next year. Mr. Monson, who was
born in May, 1858, is the third son of the
late Rev. Thomas John Monson, rector of
Kirby -under -Dale, his mother being a
daughter of the fifth Viscount Galway. Mr.
Monson was understood to be Lieutenant
Hambrough's guardian or trustee, and on-
coming of age the young man, who is said
to be connected with the well-known bank-
ers, Messrs. Hambrough Bros., London and
New York, would have come into a fortune
of about a quarter of a million sterling,
which had been left him by a near relative.
After Lieutenant "Hambrough's arrival at
Ardlamont an understanding was come to
that the estate should be purchased jointly
by him, and Mr. Monsun's title deeds to this
effect were being drawn up. Then came
the tragic incident which resulted in the
young officer's death. the mansion house
of Ardlamont stands on a gentle slope over-
looking Loch Fyne and about seven miles
from Tighnabruaich, the westmost pier in
the Kyles of Bute. About half -past one
o'clock on the morning of Tuesday, Aagust
10, Mr. Monson and Mr. Hambraogh were
out alone fishing in Ardlamont Bay, when
their boat struck on a rock and capsized.
Mr. Hambrough who was unable to swim -
managed to climb on to the reek and re.
main there until his companion swam to
the shore -and returned in another boat to
his rescue. - About seven o'clock the same
evening Mr. Monson and Mr. Hambrough
left the house with the object of shooting
rabbits. Each gentleman carried a gun, one
a twelve bore and. the other a -twenty. They
were accompanied by Edward Scott, an
En. Heitman about twenty-eight years of
age, who had come, to Ardlamont the pre-
vious day, having been engaged by M r.
Hambrough as engineer of a small steam
launch which he had purchased. After his
arrival Scott was nearly all the time with
his employers and even dined with them
on the Wednesday.- On this eventful morn-
ing he carried
THE GAME BAG, BUT NO GUN.
The trio entered the cover and walked
-through the plantation notil they were
about five hundred yards from the house,
and about twenty from the open. Between
the cover and an adjoining field is a wall 21_
feet high, whose top is level with the foun-
dation of the.plantation and is covered with
turf. Alongside it is a ditch. According
to his two companions,' Mr. Hambrough be-
came separated from them after they had
shot one rabbit and they lost sight of him
in the thick brushwood. And Monson and
Scott said that they were passing through
the plantation toward the house when they
heard a shot fired in the opposite direction.
Mr. Monson called out, " What have you
got?" and on receiving no answer they
went to the spot and found Mr. Ham-
brough lying in the ditch about 20 yards
from the highroad beside which are the'
stable& He was dead, the cause being a
1t wound two or three inches- wide
behind his left ear. Assistance having A Strange Beat•
been procured, the body was carried into
the house, and Dr.' -McMillan, Tighna- Writing in the The Journal of the Poly-
bruaich, sent for, but. of course his services nesian Society, Miss Tenira .Henry, of
were of no avail. Mr. Monson brought his Honolulu, says that a strange ceremony
own and his friend's gun into the house used to be practised by the heathen priests
with him. Now, it happened that the guns- at Raiates, but can now only be performed
of Monson and Hambrough were of differ. by two descendants of priests,- Tupna and
ent calibre, and it was ascertained that the -Tzero by _name. This ceremony -consisted
Shots - which killed the young man came in causing pee-ple to walk in - procession
from the Monson gun. -Mr. Hamhroagh's over a hot east coven, without any prepare-
, pa was a long 12 -bore, while stir. Monson's tion upon their feet, whether barefooted or
.rasa short 20 -bore... When this peculiar shod, yet open their emergence they did
c roumstance was mentioned to Monson he- not even smell of fire. The ovens are fre-
expiaained that he and_ his friend_ had ex- quint lv J7 feet lin diameter and are filled
-change guns.. Upon this point Edward with r _ee of the ti -plant (Dracaena termin-
ott could. throw some light.. Likely alp) __ s:sortpieces-of ape -root .(Arum
ogee -lie is able to contradictor corrobo costatuer.) Itis -hoped that someone will
. Lonsot. But another- strange cir- endeavordo solve the mystery of the feat
i the`eaae is that Scott cannot , while those men who practise it still live.
be - found. He disappeared immediately tRAD.E AND OOMMBRCE
afterthe occurrence, leaving no trace behind --
him. Mr. M. E. Naughton deputy procure- Interestingitems on mildness and Finance
tor fiscal for Argyllshire, made the enit� res From Many Points.
usual in such a case, the _explanatian to. `nportaut gold finds have been made in
the peculiar position of the wound being Alberni district, Vancouver Island.
that Mr. Hambrough had been walking The amount of wheat on passaste to Great
along the top of the Wali Britain and the continent is 32, 752,000
wfH HIS GUN AT FULL COCK, bushels, an increase of 1,160,000 bushels,
and that he having fallen into the ditch the for the week, and 9,232,000 bushels more
gun had been discharged behind him. All than a year ago.
this is very peculiar. Hambrough was a The uncertainty as to the outcome of the
soldier, though a young one, and knew all silver question now being considered by the
about the careful carrying of firearms; was, United States,Senate; is having a depressing
in -fact, trained to be careful with them, effect upon securities, and stocks continue
and his father says he was accustomed to dull and weak both at Montreal and Torten -
handle guns from his earliest youth. Ham- to.
brough's head was not disfigured by the It is estimated that the total consumption
scorching or burning of gunpowder. • About of cotton by the leading countries during
six yards from where his body was found is the past year, expressed in bales is as foi-
e small tree, and about the height of a
man's head a number of shot marks are dis-
tinctly seen.
News of Mr. Hambrough's death was
telegraphed to his parents on Thursday
and by their instructions the coffin contain-
ing their son's body was sent to Ventnor
on the Monday afternoon for interment.
Up till that time no doubt had been cast
on the belief that Mr. Hambrough's
death was accidental. Gradually, how-
ever, the case began to assume a new
aspect. It transpired that a week previ-
ous to the shooting fatality Mr. Ham-
brough had insured his life with a New
York life insurance company, through
their Glasgow office,for $100,000,the allega-
tion being that at the time of Mr. Ilam•
brongh's death the policy was in course of
being assigned to Mr. Monson, while it is
rumored that the deceased was neeotiating
with an Edinburgh office for :t fifty thou-
sand dollar policy. On the Saturday after-
noon after the fatality Scott, remarking
that he would be no longer required for the
steam launch, left by the " Columba,"
having been driven to the pier by Mr.
Steven, factor on Ardlamont estate. At
that time he wore a dark blue cloth coat
and vest and dark gray trousers, and is
described as about five feet ten inches in
height, of sallow complexion, with small
dark moustache and steel gray eyes. Since
he left Tighnabruaich no trace of him has
been found. In consequence of various cir-
cumstances which came to the knowledge
of the authorities, a consultation took place
between Mr. Sheriff -Substitute Shairp and
the Crown Counsel at Edinburgh, the result
of which was the arrest of Mr. Monson and
his removal in custody on August 30 to the
county town of Inverary. -On the arrival
of a representative of the firm Mr. Monson
was brought before Mr. Sheriff -Substitute
Shairp in private and judicially examined
on a charge of
CAUSING MB HAMBROUGH's DEATH.
After making a declaration he was removed
again to a cell. Witnesses were summoned
by the Crown authorities, who have also
applied to the Home Secretary for permis-
sion to exhume the body of Mr. Hambrough,
which was interred in the .family burying
ground in the Isle of Wight. An official
from Inverary will superintend. the exhum-
ing and examination of the remains. - Mr.
Monson is not rich, but his wife is wealthy.
They have - three children. It may be
added that as the assignment of the $100,-
000 insurance policy had not been complet-
ed at the time of Mr.-Hambrough's death
Mr. Monson could derive no pecuniary bene-
fit from that event. Four years ago young
Hambrough became the pupil of Mr; Mon.
son, his father's intention being, after
the youth had been successfully "coached,"
to send him to Sandhurst College. - This
was how Monson and the Hambroughs
came to know each other. Dudley
Cecil Hambrough *as a fine bright- lad
singularly handsome.and prepossessing,
and was beloved by all wit) knew him. He
was about five feet ten inches in height,
with brown hair and eyes, and wore a
slight moustache. Monson and ilambrongh
became much attached to each other, and
for four years they were hardly ever separ-
ated—much, it is slid, to the annoyance of
the deceased man's family. They were
frequently together in London, Monson,
who lived at one time in Jermyn street be-
ing particularly well-known in West End
circles. Recently the two men when. in
town lived principally at -the Hotel Victoria
or at the Hotel- Metropole, and were.often
to be seen at the Criterion and other noted
places of public resort and fashionable dis-
sipation. In certain London financial cir-
cles Kir. Monson is by no means unknown,
and it is stated with every show of author-
ity that from time to time he himself ad-
vanced sums of money to young Ham.
brough, who, it is reported, gave Monson
in return a mortgage to the extent of £12-
000 on the property which would come to
hip' when he attained his majority.
Re DI dna Remember Vera Weel.
People- accustomed to calling things by
their simple and perfectly proper names
would do well to adhere to the custom if
they do not fully understand the meaning
of higher -sounding, but apparently more
effective terms. •
A somewhat simple Scotchman, when
taking ,his bairns to be baptised usually
spoke of them as laddies or lassies, as the
case might be. At last his wife, possessed
of the ideathat the terms used - were in-
elegant, said he must in the future say
" infant." -
The next time Sandy took another of his
babies to be baptised, the minister asked :
Weel, Sandy, is it a laddie?"
" It's nae a laddie," was the answer.
"-Then it's a lassie."
"It's nae a lassie," said Sandy.
" Weel, weel, mon, what is it then ?"
asked the surprised minister. -.
" I dinna remember vera weel," said
Sandy, "but I think the gide wife said it
was an illefant." .
Canada, �t rise paralleled
by any-ohfiete se, s - is without
any stimulus but the zeal of the men them-
selves ; and the other is, that art invest-
ments can be safely male at home.—[Chica-
go correspondent of Merchant.
— am —s -
FARMING IN BRITAIN.
canadieu Ideas Reeoeed for ling-
laudm.min .
A recent London cable despatch says :—
"The Chronicle of this morning,comment-
ing on the appointment of the Royal
Agricultural Commission, says that Canada
is one of the most conspicuous examples of
State education to the farmer. Certain it
is that siiniliar instructions to the farmers
of England would be greedily received."
lows : Great Britain, 3,706,000 ; Europe, It must heartily gratify every Canadian
4,576,000; United States, 3,180,000 ; India,' who thinks well of his country, to see its
farming methods thus recognized at the
heart of the British empire. In the last
issue of the Free Press we quoted from the
North British Agriculturist strong testi-
mony to the excellence of Canadian cheese
making. By following the insoructions
which they receive from Canadians; the
Scotch cheese makers have carried off the
leading prizes in the cheddar classes from
the best English makers. This has given
alarm to the latter, who have induced the
Dairy Association of England to set the
Scotch cheese in a special class, so as to
prevent the prejudice in fas or of Somerset -
shire cheddars from being completely swept
away.
Now comes the testimony of a leading
London journal that Canada is regarded as
"one of the moat conspicuous examples of
State education to the farmer," in a gen-
eral sense. It is not to the German system,
excellent and progressive as it is, or the
American, which is acknowledged to be in
the advance guard, but to the methods
which have been pursued in Canada, that
the newly -appointed Royal Agricultural
Commission will turn for direction in the
enquiry that is to be made for the better-
ment of British -agriculture. The- journal
in question tells us that "similar instruc-
tions to the farmers of England would be
greedily received."
There could certainly be no more com-
plete vindication of the measures which have
been carried oat by the representative of
this city, Sir John Carling, under sanction
of the Dominion Parliament, than what is
here set forth. One of the first tasks to
which he addressed himself on being chosen
Minister of Agriculture in the Sandfield
Macdonald Administration of Ontario, was
that of establishing a Model Farm for the
furtherance of all sorts of experiments for
the benefit of agriculture. -Recognizing
that Ontario was par excellence a farming
country, that it was upon the products
of the soil that the people must chief-
ly rely for prosperity, Sir John Carling
purchased a farm at Mimico for the
above purpose; but the defeat of the Local
Government in 1871 deprived him of
the opportunity to carry out his well ma-
tured ideas. On being appointed Minister
of -Agriculture at Ottawa, however, he took
up the scheme where he had left it off at
Toronto, but upon a more extended scale,
comprehending the requirements of the
whole Dominion. It was with no little dif-
ficulty that Sir -John Carling was able to per-
suade his colleagues as to the feasibility and
utility of an Experinental Farm system for
the whole of Canada. To some of them it
seemed a wild proposal, over costly and im-
practical. But upon Sir John's positive and
persistent pledge that he would make it of
great and lasting benefit to the people, he
was given power to proceed,with the result
that the work as carried on under his di-
rection, as Minister, received encomiums
from practical men among the Opposition
in Parliament, and has proven one the
strongest bulwarks of the Government in
the farming constituencies. Not only so,
but of the large sums that were expended
for Experimental Farrn purposes, either at
Ottawa or in the Provinces, no charge has
ever been made that any part of the public
money was expended either extravagantly
or corruptly. All the outlays made have
stood the test of the closest investigation.
All the work that has been attempted,
either at the Experimental Farm at Ottawa,
or the Provincial Stations, has been upon
the most direct and practical lines. In the
matter of cheese -making, for example, On-
_
r tario has for many years occupied a high
position. It was the aim of the Dominion
Canadian Art at the World Fair- Department that all sections of Canada
In a little room in the Art Building at should share in this advantage. Wherever
the Centennial Exhibition was domiciled the business was lacking, as in Quebec, the
what was called the Art of Canada. The attempt was made to improve it, and the
collection contained a few gcod but unim- result was that Quebec cheese last year
portant works ; those, at least, whose in- stood on a par at the Industrial Exhibition
timacy with numerous specimen of unprom- with the beat products of Ontario. So high
raising mediocrity lost for them the value indeed is the claracter of Canadian cheese
they deserved probably, and the exhibit, as making that when the system pursued in
a whole, has never been referred to with Canada was introduced into Scotland, the',
much pride. The Canadian pictures now at Scotch cheese began to take the palm from
the World's Fair at Chicago -hold apparent- the best English makers. -
ly quite a different place in the midst of the Facts of -this kind have so impressed the
world's art than did those of 1876. The minds of Englishmen that they have re -
rooms occupied by the one hundred and odd solved to determine by means of a Royal
quickly -gathered frames are visited as much, Commission of Inquiry, how their own
and with as lively interest as any others. system of agriculture might be improved
And though there are not amongst them on the same lines. The Daily Chronicle
many striking subjects to catch the eye tells the British public that Canada through
with trick of title or jugglery of ,there its Experimental Farm system had become
are, on the other hand,many numbbersens which "one of the most conspicuous examples of
give evidence of much thoughtful, spirited state education to the farmer," and that
and often highly artistic treatment. In fact, "similar instructions to the farmers of Eng -
it appears to us had many of the pictures land would be greedily received." There
been simply rolled out upon large canvasses, has been no higher compliment paid our
their importanee would have been greatly distinguished fellow citizen, Sir John Carl -
enhanced as an attraction to the eye of the ing, than this indirect testimony of a great
hurrying sightseer, although their value - British journal to the value of the work
would, like that of many, have been possib- which he has done for Canada ; nor can we
ly much greater had they remained in mod- conceive of any thing that ought to give
est proportions. To the practical eye, the greater satisfaction to the Canadian agri-
appearance of vacant lots in a picture is a culturist than such warm recognition of the
detriment, and does not improve its value. superior position which he now holds in
The awards that have fallen to us are the world.
another proof to Canadian people that their
painters -deserve well of them—that we have
living amongst us distinguished and very
worthy artists. We de not, of course, know
upon what system the awards were given,
but while eminent members of the profes-
sion are reticent, we ventii a to think some
surprise is felt at names being passed over
that deserve as well, at least,as some receiv-
ing the honors of the Fair. The names of
Forster, O'Brien, Fowler, Peel,- Jacobiwill
not be questioned for work of the highest
quality, and rooms 11 and 12 in the Art The total bank clearings in Montreal,
Building owe as much, in our humble judg- Toronto, Halifax and Hamilton for the
mesa, to these and a few others as to some week amounted to $18,316,980against$18,-
who wear the laurels, no matter how well 356,350 the week before, being a reduction
deserved.- We speak in no spirit of captious- of .021per cent. for the week, and 5.5 per
nese,, but in the interest of an industry that cent short of the same week last year.
contributes much to our country'aelevation
and. orfvancen.ent.' -
Two things are made clear -by out exhibit
in Chicago. - One is the growth of art in
1,170,000, being a total consumption of 12,-
641,000.
The influeidce of the telephone has general-
ly been regarded as salutary, but the Sul-
tan of Turkey evidently takes a different
view of it. He declined to have it in his
dominion at any price. Not only has he
forbidden telephone lines to be laid down
in Constantinople, but he objects to them
even in the other large towns, such as
Smyrna and Salonica. He says that his
subjects are far too ready as it is to plot
and conspire to make his life a burden, and
he does not propose to introduce a means
whereby they can do this twice as easily as
they could before. This feeling of the
Sultan is so 'well known that for consider.
able time those interested in telephone
matters have ceased to apply for conces-
sions in the land of the Turk.
A Mr. Rimmington, of London, has been
making some experiments in the line of
producing electric light by induction,which
bid fair to revolutionize the whole indus-
try of electric lighting. His method is
similar to that recently shown by Mr. Tesla,
but he uses vastly less power. He produces
a light by simply revolvi.,g a vacuam tube
in a constant electrical field between two
charged plates. He can even produce the
lightsby rotating the tube and holding a
rod of glass or ebonite electrified by friction
near it. If the rod is simply drawn once
through a piece a dry flannel, sufficient elec-
tricity is developed to make the rotating
tube luminous at a distance of a foot from
the rod. The tube in this experiment is
simply a plain glass cyclinder" about
five inches long, with a bore similar to that
of a spirit thermometer, and a bulb at each
end. A T -piece, or projectfbn, allows it to
be exhausted by an air pump and then seal-
ed, besides forming an attachment to the
motor; which revolves it. If the tube is
merely twirled between the fi nger and
thumb near the excited rod, the character-
istic luminosity, which has a -double fan
shape,will appear.
Thrun of salmon in the Fraser river has
been exceptionally heavy this season and
the result is that the canneries have put
the largest pack on record estimated at
425,000 cases. There is a shortage in the
Columbia river and the Northern rivers of
British Columbia have only put up about
half the pack of last year. The Alaska
Canneries are also believed to have about
half their usual supply and the chances for
good prices are excellent.
Reviewing the business situation in Que-
bec city, for a periodofsix months back,it
is found that notwithstanding the large
decrease in shipping tonnage coming to
this port, compared with other years, the
volume of business in all lines of trade has
kept up remarkably well. There have been
fewer failures in the dry goods line this
spring than for the last two or three years.
Considerable excitement has been prevalent
amongst those engaged in the leather in-
dustryhere, owing to the three big failures
which have recently taken place, a good
portion of their liability being with the
trade here, but in no case is any serious
result anticipated, though some of the
smaller manufacturers are likely to be close
run for the time being, and will be largely
dependent upon the indulgence granted
them from their respective bankers. Ons
bright feature bearing very directly upon
the situation is that collections keep up
well. Payments which fell due on the last
"4th," with very few exceptions, were met
with satisfaction. -
Awake to the Situation.
Mrs. Lush€orth—I suppose yon think it is
a lot of fun forme to situp and wait for yon
while you are enjoying yourself with your
companions down town ?
Mr. Lusorth—No, m' dear, I don't think
it is -any fun for you at all. I know as well
as anybody that your fun begins after I've
got home.
Newton's application of algebra to theo-
retical and practical mathematics was made
in 1668. -
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Bengal enjoys three harvests a year.
Ireland's -linen industry employs 100,000 .
personn. -
One-half the population of Mexico are
full-blooded Indians. -
Rats avoid a house wherein a guinea-pig
is permitted to roam at will.
Wilhelmina, the little Queen of the
Dutch, is called in all of pial documents -
"the king."
M. Paderewski, when he is at the key-
board, earns money at the rate of about £3
15s. a minute.
Nineveh was fifteen miles by nine, the
walls 108 feet high and thick enough for
three chariots to drive abreast.
It is estimated that there are less than
10,000 paupers in the Japanese empire,with
its population of 237,000,000.
It is estimated that in India, counting
all Protestant missionaries, there- is about
one to every 50),000 people.
During the complicated process of menu- _
facturing postage stamps they are counted
eleven times to guard against pilfering.
The Sultan of Turkey has conferred on
Mdme. Albani the order of Chelakat. The
star forming the decoration is set in dia-
monds.
" Devil's Mountain," north of. Montreal,
known to geologists as the " Trembling
Mountain," is gradually sinking into the
earth's crust,
In 1830 the whole tonnage of the British
Empire reached but 2,500,000. To -day the
tonnage register is 6,000,000 of :steam and
4,250,000 of sailing.
Lord Mayors of London during the past
twenty years have collected a little oveZ
£20,000,000 for charitable and benevoletst
purposes.
The smoke -stacks of our ocean steamers
are much larger than is generally supposed.
They range from 14 to 18 feet in diameter.
The entire revenue of all the Protestant
missions of the world is computed at $12,•
250,000.
In the three Northern counties of North-
umberland, Durham, and Cumberland about
129,000 persons are engaged in coal -mine
work.
Suicides are becoming so frequent in
Denmark that it is proposed to check them
by a law turning over the body of every
suicide to a diesecting-room.
Jules Verne is an officer of the Legion of
Honour. The decree conferring the decora-
tion on him was signed just two houro be-
fore the fall of the Empire.
Assuming the working age to be from
twenty to sixty years, and counting only
male workers, 440 persons in this country
live on the labour of every 100 workers.
The orange and the lemon are both said -
to be fatal to the cholera -bacillus. Placed
in contact with the cut surface of the fruit,
the bacteria survive but a few hours.
An Italian committed suicide at Santa
Rosa, Cal., recently because he had no
education. He left a statement to the effect
that a man without one had no business to -
live.
Seven thousand members of the British
Volunteer forces have served continuously
and efficiently for periods of from twenty to
thirty-three years, and it is proposed %
bestow a medal or badge on them for Iong
viserce and good conduct. -
Rum, gin, and tobacco form the chief .
sourees of the revenue of the Oil Rivers
Protectorate, and last year gave £72,805,
or almost seven -eighths of the entire
amount collected.
Quakeresses are not allowed to wear gold
ornaments or to have their ears pierced for
earrings. If a mother permitted her
daughter to undergo this operation both
mother and daughter would be "read out"
of meeting. -
Mail sorters in London post -offices are to
be selected in future by open competition.
The pay commences at 18s. weekly, rising
by le. a week annually to 20s., and then lige
2s. a week annually to 40s. The hours -;at ,
work are about eight a day.
The custom of Chinese wearing pigtails
is not so very ancien'.. It dates from 1627,
when the Manchus, who then commenced
their conquest of the Celestial Empire, en-
forced this fashion of doing the hair as a
sign of degradation. The average queue
is 3 feet long.
The Duchene of Edinburgh is the happy
possessor—from the Russian and supersti-
tions point of view—of two genuine bezoar
stones, one of which was left to her by her
Imperial father, and the other by her
aunt. The bezoar stone is cut from a very
rare animal, and is -regarded as a sure pre-
server of health and happiness,
The French President receives a salary of
£25,000, a house to live he and allowances
amounting to £25,000 more ; his term of
office is seven years, and he may be re-
elected.
The Emperor of Russia has ideas of re-
tiring into the country and going in largely
for sport, of course only for certain montht
of the year. He has decided to build a nen
palace, which will cost the country; it it .
estimated, nearly $15,000,000.
One of the most productive sections of the
world is the Russian province of Bessarabia
taken from Turkey in 1878. Its -vineyards
often yield 300 gallons of wine per acre; the -
average yield of wheat is thirty-five bushels
and of maize sixty bushels.
The Prince of Wales dresses most expea-
sively. His annual expenditure on gloves .
and boots alone amounts to the income of
a well-to-do suburban householder ; for
every time he goes out he wears on ills _
hands and feet alone goods amounting in
valve to considerably over £5.
In Hawaii, one of the Sandwich Ie1antss,
there is a spot called the Rock of Refuge. -
If a criminal reaches this rock before cape_ -.
tore he is safe, so long as he remains there. -
Usuall3 his family - supply him with -food. '
until he is able to make his - escape, but he
is never allowed to return to his own tribe
again. - - - -
The Czar is described as the largest eater
among crowned heads, and the Kaiser comes
next. The latter is stated to have a mania
for eating at extraordinary times, and al-
though dining copiously before going to the
theatre, he generally insists on the despatch
from the imperial kitchens of a fully -pre
pared supper, which he devours in one ur.
the private rooms of the theatre betweeni
the acts. The King- of Portugal is a1En:
more gourmand than gourmet. King Hum. -
bert of Italy le a light eater, and so is tiin
Emperor Francis Joseph.
[
A Mesmerist'
A goy o; Sixteen
file Turns up in
There is a ; press
city hospitals a yo
very strange, inde
he lived with his
Michigan, where h
ienly he disappear
whole State was vs.
that a clue would 1
abouts. However,
parents were sure
the authorities of o
pitals that their so:
institution, and
with them, The
she is still in the ei
and trytna to &oive
appear thee.
The young man
hardly speak, and i
sible to get a sats
the affair. From cs
appears that he wa
force or otherwise,
of whom is suppose
influence over him.
were being made,
his native town, a
there for several v.'
somewhat restored
took advantage of
came to Canada w
landing in Slontrc
It seems that her
for him in a bar -rd
should Qo over t•o
night. Finaliv he
moved to the hose
The boy is atKoit
the most serious
motives of his ab
abouts are at pr
authorities have to
startling revela:io:
light.
ONTAB,10'
Reports ir'espeetir
The anual report
deaths in Ontario f
tains much interes
oration. The stats
value as throwing
that has taken pia
relative to the act-
in 1891 over 181,
census returns an
the English rate of
given. This show
population in the
199,106, while the
would have been
in some counties .
Bruce, for instance
10,390, while its ac
171. Grey shows
against 11,323 n
method of estimatin
by taking the exces
for the year and find
increase bears to the
as above stated, am
per cent. while in O
per cont. This int
rural districts and
in the cities and 1.1
ince.
BI
The total births ri
ince in 1891 were 4
3,019 from 1890. 1
in every country of
female births holds
rate being 1,061 n
females. In 1890
The English average
was 1,037 to 1,000.
imate births was 63;
average ratio to the
to 1,000 births. Th.'
compared with other
in England being 42
this was the lowest r
many years. This
moral status of the p
ing the year there w
born and seven cases
MAF:
During 1891 there
in Ontario, or 28,318
is a decrease of 274
with 1890 and 691 1
to 4.9 per cent. Th
tario is less than in
rope except Ireland
to the general opinio
Ireland is the lows
thirty per cent. bei
rate is also low there
tionately as low as t
is usual December is
marrying and May
married 10,112, or 35-
odists ; Presbyterian:
"-cent. ; Episcopalians
Roman Catholics 3,
There were 47 bride
who were over 70 ye;
ries. The greatest d
in the case of a con
groom was 85 and ti
Of the whole number
were by license and,
bridegrooms were u
and 2,420 brides ; 11
-cent. of the whole nut
tween 20 and 25 year
DEA'
The number of dea
grease, being 21,5.58 i
1890, a decrease of 2
due to the fact that
.abnormally large owl
of lagrippe. This fay
in the cities, being it
16.09 to 1,000 of the i+
14.87. There has in
-cline since 1883. Th
whole province was
19.7 in Scotland and
principal causes of <
Ontario were, pht
anemia, 9.24; heart,
monia, 5.5 ; old age,
diphtheria, 4.02 ; typ
The inhabitants of
people on earth. No
wash, but when once
-attained they never
When the garments '
-others are pat over tl