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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Sentinel, 1881-04-01, Page 7THE ELECTRIC LICHT. One Mile of Broadway. New York, Lighted by it - Eilison's Prospecis- Can the Light- be Adapted to House- hold Use i One mile of Broadway, New York, is now lighted by Edison's system, and the inven- tor only waits for aldermanic liberty to light an enlarged area. A reporter who went on an interviewing trip lately says: Mr. Thomas A. Edison sat at his desk in the Office of the Edison ElectricLight Com- pany, at No. 65 Fifth avenue. The wizard said, strange as it may seem, that he will not underbid the gas companies. If com- petition necessitates a reduction of his prices, however, he will be able to reduce. He will simply offer consumers a better light than they have -safer, more brilliant, without noxious gases to make the house abort -m 'nable and in every way superior to the iiil illuMing agents that are in use. He does ot plume himself on the invention of tho electric light; he has done no more thazt utilize the discovery that Faraday made in 1832. Nor does he expect elec- tricity to supersede gas and oil, since these 'illuminators 'must necessarily, hold their own in the household, especially in small towns. Indeed, he desiresthat in the first places he will light in this city the con - Burners will retain their gas fixtures and use some gas to make the difference between gaslight and the electric lignt conspicuous. •He continued: "In many respects my system, differs radically from all methods of lighting with which the peblic are familiar -chiefly in the fact that my lamp isintended to serve in the same places and to give the same volumes of light that is emitted from the bestform of gas jet now in ordinary domes- = tic u0e.. The methods of lighting zloty seen in the streets are by the systems known- as the voltaic arc system, by which a light much too powerful for oidinarydo_t.nestic and commercial use is produced. The lamp' of the Edison incandescent system gives a warm and mellow ray, with some- what less of -the ojange than is found in the cowmen gaslight :It has been my effort . to produce: a light - adapted . to the hunren. eye that has been _ liabituttted -, to gaslight, My Method of supplying light is strictly analogous to the _niethed of sup- . .. . - Plying ,`•. , s ation for -gen A !BADMAN'S FREAK. A Bogus Cardlnal,—Attired in the Robes of 011ice, Arrested in the Pope's Ante- chamber. The Liberta of March 5th has the fol- lowing: The arrest of a cardinal is not an abso- lutely new thing, though a somewhat unusual one, but what is unprecedented is an arrest under the conditions in which it happened yesterday. At the Vatican, yesterday, while his holi- ness and all the College of Cardinals were in the Sistine chapel taking part in the ceremonies incident to the anniversary of the Pope's coronation, a cardinal, attired in the robes of his office, presented himself in the private antechamber of the Pope. At that moment the antechamber was deserted by all except the servants in attendance, who received his emin- ence with all the respect due to his high dignity. The first salutations over, however, the presence of a cardinal in that place and at that hour, while the whole of the college of cardinals was With the • Holy Father, caused Some Surprise, and the attendants began to wonder who this new Erninentissimo could be, Whose face was unknown to them. "He must be one of the new ones," they whispered, and one of them at last was bold enough to approach the object of their curiosity and respectfolly inquire what he was waiting for. "1 am waiting for the Pope," he replied. " But,does not your eminence know that the Pepe is in clia,pel toglay and does not receive V' • • Tho general surprise was not decreased by this apparent ignorance of the usages of the Vatican, and finally the Mysterious personage was requested to give his name. Sabsequently ou his being questioned it Was found that the supposed cardinal was a peer madman who had on several oeca-- sions presented /himself at the Vatican asking to be presented to the Pope. Having managed tp: pass the -Swiss Guards, he had Made hieway, it. is stated, equally unobs Served, to the apartment of Cardinal_ jecobini, where he changed his. clothes_ for a suit, of lifir eminence's robesaand was -pro- eceding tranquilly to take his,.placci- among . • • - the menibers of the:Sacred Celle 6 th erating Sustine -Chapel:- when he ,was. discovered. for a He ve quietly by the guards - and. taken to the asylum. Two petitione Were found uPoo him, oneaddreesed to Leo XIII.; asking for the.beatificationof dertainDon. Pietro; the other to King Humbert, begging that -a :chapel Might be .erected to the newly beatified.. - - . The Canddiain-Northivelit: -pr • Winnipeg raises this :3i -eat 12000: for.th : --electricity is Centrally situated, tin - - . s1IIare mile around this station Lelectricity is distribtited therefrom upon conduetiiig_ . Wires, laid- in the streets, and. delivered into !lions -es by branch_ wires running from the reale wire under the pavement to the houite wall._ These wiresarethere passed through •_ a; meter, _and may be dis-tributeil _ to all, _pointa in -the 'rouge at which gas :jets or other -lights can be -used.. 'No maChinery whatever mit' into- the house.-: The litznps, or ' burners axe so sins I - require- no moro. intelligence to aria the ihreldieary gasbti a--•raltr,ebneltittion-lie said • There , . drfference lie wee:n. the discovery ofaisCiena title fAec and -the .practidal work of estab- ._. •tlic.-Commercial practiCability -.of that feet. it may take lerieer_toestablisli and apply a- principle of -}:livaies -afterit _ _ hitareeeived scientific proof than. to prove the theory to _ be; correct. .A..yea-r_ agci I had • 100 lights burning- in Menlo Park, -and, _they • - , burned :for eight inontint - 'Si • 1 _ - Christmas I have illurnineted larg there; thaline.extende.d seven Miles.- eetablishect the c' mut practice. PROHIBITION IN KANSAS Churches to be Shut Up for Using Wino at Communion. (N. Y. Tribune.) The new prohibition law of Kansas is meeting with the strongest opposition from a quarter whence trouble was probably least expected. The law absolutely forbids the Use of wine in the sacrament, punish- ing the minister who so administers the sacrament with two years' .imprisonment in the penitentiary, and shutting up the church itself as a public nuisance, accord- ing to the interpretation of the Rev. Dr. Beatty, rector of the Episcopal church at Lawrence. Last Sunday that clergyman administered the sacrament as usual, regardless of the consequences, having previously announced to his congregation his determination to do so. He said: "We are willing to render unto Queer the things which are Omar's, but we will give to God the things thatare His. I say, as did Peter, 'Judge ye whether we should obey men rather than God.' Of one thing you may be assured: we shell never recognize for a moment the attempts of human legislation to destroy the great sacrament of the Christian Church." It is probable that the Rev. Dr. Beatty's action will be imitated by other clergymen, and the result is hard to predict. It will be argued that the state cannot perrnit the prohibition law to be openly violated by the clergymen without arousing a storm of opposition from those to whom its enforcement is a pecuniary loss, and, on the otherhand, that to consign the Rev. Dr. Beatty to prison and close his church as a nuisance, would place sharp weapons in the hands of those who want to see the law hewn down roott-and branch. liateri ot A greet scare had been got abont trichinto in American pork. The disease of which Herod.died is said to be destroying hogs and agricolturista in Tennessee. A hideous story kin circulation about a far -,- mer who: -_an the Undergraduate lated'the .Greek word for "eaten up Of worms bOanie Skolekobrote "-a-terni whieh -he :took - to be that of , high office. There is net Much- reason for - anxiety Which would be natural if ,w13;°-‘ like sonie highliOiailizedand touchy European rapes, -delighted-in eating raw ham and similar a,boininations. I.. The werd.. ," " ineens"eatersi:of raw meat" in the &age of e nearest Red -Indian neighbors of the Esquimiiux. The Greelta also Called savage and cannibal Men 4"oreopliagi," or "raw -eaters."-- SOrrie continental c "t° e, revietaing us with ninch severit Writ-, it is ;OnlY: natural to 'point at the poor.; Indian, With -unto Ind, avoulddeSpise their love of raw . - ilo the Greeke-WOuld have elassedt cannibals. It is -this practice,: revel Englishmen, i'Greeks, -and priany Ba- ts! " Intakes: trichinie- danger public school purposes-:- - - -.• - ' rt-ria„8- Jetnee__ fatrachan ,_ of ' .V-icteria,----J1.--.G.--,-- --gs ttah aaaa'a.• merch_an-ts..east --himself: into the = Saa-ao ' - .- ' ureday. and was drowned ..-- .Businesa _aaa _reverses aresupposed-to-have-,-cause-d -the- rash act. Manitqba. Collegti has Outgrown its present - quarters- the management_ have- -resolved -to erect neWabuildingsat a. cost of 41.50 600 on -a new site within- the- city Of , ;Winnipeg.. . The amountofMoney-in hand . .. _ - to begin operations :- with is 510 000 - and , - . . , . t _ . , it is -expected that . a portion of the e ttrea structm•e„. Costing . 520,000, will be Coin - This tiletedthis year, Tire cost of the, site is bility. -S6, . . ' Notes on Notiibles. . The Earl of St. GE rmains is dead. The King of SwedD12 is better, but very weak. General Milou, Italian Minister of War, is dead. It is announced that Mr. Ruskin's health is restored. General Jumtin Cl:nchant, military gov- ernor of Paris, died yesterday. Prince Leopold ha E been elected a mem- ber of the Beef3teak C lub. Sir Frederick Robe Is and the Duke of Cambridge have becorre fast friends. Marie Gordon, late Hrs. J. T. Raymond (" Colonel Sellars "), hi -.s sailed for England. General Lecomte has been appointed military governor of Paris in place of Clinchant, deceased. Mr.- Hayes is no president of the Women's Missionary Society of the Metho- dist Episcopal church. Lady Colley, widow of Sir Geo. Colley, risatloachere apartments in Hampton Court Count Pecci, the Pope's brother, has had an attack of apoplexy. The symptoms are alarming. General Upton, who committed suicide the other day, fired tin first cannon at the battle of Bull's Run. The Paris carrespon dent of the ,Netv York G-raphic calls Henri Rochefort the "cham- pion liar of the universe." The article "Army," in the new Encyc- loptedia Britannica, was written by the late General Sir George Colley. Pope Leo XIII., it is said, intends break through his " imprisonment," and to officiate oil Easter da TEA TABLE GOSSIP. -A poet sings of " A face bent over the banister." A face bent that way must be sadly out of shape for a sweet smile. -Strings of bonnets for morning -calls are worn very loose so that ladies may have a chance to talk. -" Jimuel Briggs "has gone to Maine to "work up "the prohibition law, about the operation of which there is so much dispute. -The Methodist congregation and minister of Devizes have been at logger- heads lately, and la,st Sunday, when he went to occupy the pulpit, he found the cusnion of the seat stuck full of pins with points upwards, which made it rather un- comfortable for him when he sat down. -" Seth," said Mrs. Spicer, " I wish yon would go and see to the furnace; that Kate is putting in coal as if she was firing a locomotive." And when Spicer remarked that the girl was perhaps a railway -cinder - Kate Mrs. S. grew warmer than ever.. -Among the announcements of new books we find one to the effect that a ten cent edition of the revised New Testament will be put on the market by a New York publishing house as soon as the sheets can be received from England, which will pro- bably be in May next. -A learned society of Chicago last year announced a prize of $200 for the best essay on the following subject: "What is the surest method of destroying mice ?" The money has just been awarded to Dr.Burnett- s, o hiladelphia, who hal written the to following brief essay; "Breed more ;cats 1" er's. Prince George Of Ilesap, brother of Her Royal Highness theDlicheas of Cambridge, has just died at Frankfort, at the advanced age of 88:- - Count- Von Moltke is often. called •• Berlin the "Great Silent 'Ofie." He - said to - show - hi • cOmpany, consinimeat courteay of manner and rare modesty. - MajorCUrrie, who was arecently tried b Court;martial for cowardice At the battle(i Maiwankhae been -acquitted. _The prosie ctition Utterly Sir Augustua-Pageta-at present Englis ambassador at the-.1talian Court, 0,4d. in Lord :Dufferin, is mentioned a.s'IMiaaCToS ehen's probable successor at -- The rapoi•ts of failin health which have been seduleeisly disseini ,nitted' are -claimed to be baSeless - . :friends report.him -in the highestspirit Y. -sit and. vigor.; - •-. ;. ;Out • - ° - tared . 4,ftr.-Gladi3tdone„. budgct,wi hartz propose re netIon On:lance/tie taaafrern hem- sixpence -le livepencejn the pOtincla Purina ting: the Easterredess:Mr, -Gladstooe' will Make vage pa- trip to the -Mediterraftean iu • it vese ei given for tbe purpose -by Mr. DorialdbOrie. :gra- Ahne.,-Tadericia ga.Ve a brilliant littia- " 'Twixt the gloaming and the dark" is the title of the latest novel issued in New York. A Chicago young- man is thinking of getting out one entitled " 'Twixt the old mari and the bark." He called when her father was at home and the dog untied In 1 inc splendid -chandelier of rock.cryetal, . is , . in -the room where the . ast-ef, - .--,A farm hand recently advertised that .-. e I the Prince of Prussia, or :rather supper, . I took place in, Berlin the other day. is -the y indentical one .underWhich Luther: stood f at the- Diet of Werina. The late king - bought it for £4;000.. • .- - - . ,- - a _ . . - . h, he.Could speak lour languages, --WhY net ? - t - If you have an Alderney Cow; a HOIstein - cow,- a Russian bloodhound auda -French • . heree; why -shouldathe man not speak four g languages tO them ? • This reminds us of a • .„. Musia.teaeher who boasted that he conic/. - speak . Six I-engin:gra : "But," said the. 8 Stibiltbali critic,. " hecannot play .the piano in any one of them." _ . :a. --The Mil-toriNeWs is the organ- Of ;the - ... Scott Act in _ Halton Icon:ray; and as -a - - a organ itgives -.forth music, of -which the -1.-- ;},foliowing stanza is a, sample : ' - Ye _noble -sons efffalton arms at duty's call, . By the 19th day .of April - - .011 Alcohol must -fall. , Then marshal all your forces, _ Call every-stragglerin,- - -' - Let each man _do his-daty • - l'or the right is sure to -Win. ' -r.--W...MlialIock : i t.'"Nineteenth CenttirY" a "Does any one. is :in:'to say that the Englialt 'nation as -6,_ '• 'ole, has . ,. not A profound and passionate r• • ,rence for home and. the marriage ties? Why, even the eollier-who kicks ,his wife would. - .prevent aripther from ' kicking her,. and *mild resent still triers' another Mau 1 makine love to her." • . ..., - _ . . o my light. INT.EITILPE.RANCE ANI) CRI L. • : : — - - *low the Penult-1es .are Plied on Among the Itlormons-Andge Saby on Crime nnd.Low-Groggeriesi, • - 4..-eon'espotiaent of the New -York Tithes is at present: sojourning' in kormourlorn. - --He describes Salt Lake City ita it handsome, • cleanly, healthful place, and theMermons as a. hearty, robust, healthy people, physi- daily, but as mentally dwarfed and spiritu- • ally enslaved. If there is any virtue in • rigid, =license law_ -Salt -.Lake enjb a it • - • , _Liquor selling is licensed .aunder a- charge of _61,060 per annum, payable quarterly. :Bare -must be closed at 10 o'clock at night, - and on Sundays - under penalty of heavy punishment. l'ronaptly at 10 o'clock p.m. the doors of all saloone are :closed: .1 - entered -an - oyster saloon last night arid - ordered some oysters. What . you have to drink? asked the -waiter, te coffeeor milk?' I told him I 'would t a glass of beer. A startled look came o • the boy's face as he Said Can't do it, • Don't you keep beer V Yes, sir, but •-ninety days in. the penitentiary for eel' - a glass Of beer after 10 o'olock at pig - Up to about 1870 liquor was not allpwed he sold 'at Tall at- public sale, but with. G tile influx the Church opened it *holes liquor store and- permitted bars andastalo under the above hamed restrictions." a .A despatch from Montreal says: - kb judge Baby -opened the: Court of -Quse .. Bench. yestarday, with a- calendar ---. serious caseertipe, arson; burglary, p jury and forgery. He thanked the licen commissioners for their prohibitory effor . . H crime was yet rampant anion unfortunately wbuld-be so as long :tntemperance was, fostered by the licensi . of Seloons and grog shop) of it /ow orde These dens of immorality, he would- c --them. such, had been. allowed of - It to increase to .a. frightful extent with •. the city, to the great injury and da,nger - every class of Society, the old as well aa ti young. --Howeier,the holders Of these s • _ places- of entertainment had stepPe . down- so low firth -di' nefarious trade th • public- opinion had at last been-atwakene It was a matter of sincere_ congratulatio to them all theta number of good citizen irrespective of creed- or -nationality, usin _the law as it now stands, had Arrely an Patriotically, resolved to extirpate thes , places from (Ali:midst. The efforts of thei benefactors of mankind had already bee crowhed with. march- success, and in thei arduous task they had it right to expec from the court and gr -and jury every assist ance that they were entitled to, as they h .d. already, O. believed; their best. wishws. and sympathies. •- - • • ` Booth as King Lear continues to attract - enthusiastic andieneeS 'in London. He openeth-day ghylock.eind as-PetruchiO. His Wife's long illness has- reached an acute stage, resulting in delirium. - Her condition occasion!, . grave, a -P -Prehension,. though 'her physicians,fincluding -Sir William Jenner, have- great liepes of improvement,' Irving has issued invitations to nurnerous friends . to meet Booth at dinner at the Garrick, Club on the 3rdofApril: _ . Ate late meeting of the .-Council of the University of Manitoba it committee;. -con-. siSting of the Archbishop of - - St Boniface, ReV-. Can.on- Orisdialec ReV. Uol3ertsion, Professor_ Forget ,Despatis, 'Bev... S. IT. _Mattheson, Rev.. Pref;- Hart- and Rev W. C, was appointed= to • con4. sider the question of -higher edneation- of women, with a view of bringing it within the scope, and aim of the University .work AT% •Biteerrea a.alizr, . - Beecher _recently paid huil 'aecta- . various classes of the conirn *t y, p m- any to the large -class which claims that "the world otaes. them a- living." If the world paid its just debts, he said, halters would be scarce. The world owed a burial to about two-thirds of its people, and that was all. .The men of the -class Mentioned lived day by day like fishes -they sucked the water and spurted it otit, and that was all. They were content to let their fathers , support thein—to -live on their relatives. aka About the only Scripture they .ever read ver was "Go to the ant, thou sluggard,"- and sir.' they went to their 'aunts to be supported. it's They had no energy, no ambition.' "They ing were content to crawl along through life ht." like a silk -Worm over it leaf, eating, eating, to. eating, that was all -only a silk -worm en left enOugh behind it to pay for its keeping, ale These men left nothing. They were • not ons even good for manure." 4 . An impure water when accidentally en. infected will be more -dangerous than one n's which contains less organic matter, since of development and _ reproduction . May be expected at -the expense of the impurity, if Me the temperature is more favora.ble. Oxid- tS; izing influences which render dead organio g matter harmless are incapable of destroying as y, An since filtration does not effect ng the mechanical separation of the germ, it r• can afford no Protection from typhoid all infeetien. * * When the infective th matter of a disease is introduced by -water, in the resultant case is generally. or it more of dangerous character -then when the poison e bas been drawn in from the atthosphere 0- and swallowed. Boiling the wat affords d the most effectual protection.7-Dr. Stuart, at ru, s. army. d. Because .'a native wothan had been . • - delivered of twine,. the Indian seers °;.; prophesied thatunlees one of them died the teals would not come again to the sealing u grounds on the Britiih Columbia coast. So ° the parents carried -the babes into th b h -.us, rind and began a course of incantation and starvation. In the - midst of the rites, '4. Father Necolai,;of the Roman Catholic mission; -suddenly appeared and induced the parents to give the babes proper -nourishment. The twins.' lived the -catch of seals was uncommonly large and the seers have lost all prestige in the -villages. By a, decree of the -Khedive:Egyptian 'dervishes.are henceforth -forbidden to cut_ and slash themselves with swords and knives, -or heat themselves with great balls of iron, and. - finally, to howl- themselves into epileptic fits on fete days. _He also -commands them -not to eat snakes, Swallow burning coals or crunch glass. The Khe- dive's order is regarded in -conservative elericateircles-ia Egyptis a deadly bit)* at religiknas liberty. . - • Ifthorouglily well fried thej are -cOrnp tively harinleaS. po long as and- powerful -'-:nation behaves. :like -Chinese before the ,accident Which tau theni tereaet pig, So long trio/line-Sig have its. day, and Men will becenita." Sk kobretes." Let itis fry our bacon well, pet away amplitant apprelieneiouta-TLI iaitoother-rease '.for moderate_Confide The Scare about Ithe trichina) is . trorneti trick of trade. A'. speculator. will than he is - to Supply.; Ho will t s_baccria- "short; "ett_hat -la-, -he: m have to purchase more. and as it is _nee sary to get -the bacon. -cheap,..;he hatche canard.abput the poisonous , quality, Of a,rticle.- "Americans," Writes -knew person, 1." when short ron the -,deal, take extraordinary-:piettsures - to -protect the -selves. Let us --hope: that this scare ab the terrible disease .in.pork only tt in trade, it little less low than -the Sellie iseased horseflesh and rouged beef.- Th _ there is a reason to trust that tlie 'Tenn see farmer is not really dying of the in'. elady the.] irnill?erry-faCed dictatdr," Sulla.----London News." • • Personai: .--.Qtreen Victoria!, Will &ate •Cobtirg in the teat Masked hell a short time agoitWhieli Mr. the Julian Hawthorne _wee rale of the most . ecinSpieuous figures:- He appeared as 1-.JOrd will Beaconsfield ' an admirably.. arranged ole repdel mask and wig.: : 7 and The Revf., -A, H. 'Dashiell, D.D., who ere bait been for Many - years -A -prominent nee.' preacher in the Presbyterian Church, and naps who had ministered to-, eon reciations sell: • ore hen es•-• s a the ing mb Phila. in Bro . The pleaee ridiculing : the Msthetic eraie, that she ". 1 requested to have a c_opr to rad -the . Hi " prempt," if aheeould get, no other. pia, Jill as tliely-lstet print -ed, A iTecial oopr waS The Pall Mali Gazette of'March8th says: s Da - out ick of 111 delphia. 'as just died t oklyn the 89th yettr of his age. - Princess of Wales; has been so d_ with A.Tr. -Burnand's new - play The maiden, smiling in a cream of bliss, _ Said, "Gladsome days are coming; -rshall be s best beloved -for his farewell kiss - Spoke of a future full of love for rm." t ere. the year was past her_hopes had flown ; • She iriourned-alone. • -Ohio Poem. . • . • ' e maiden, sitting in the old arm chair, - aid, " Jim is surely coming; I Shall get • - inc more fried -oysters--for he promised:me o bring a dozen when he came to•night."- tere the hour was past her hues were -flown ; Jim failed to show up.. -aSmall-as may -appear :the resource:jig pagraphy, they can.nevertheless lay c the following "graphic" attempt at mar, it painting -----expressive of: thadefor. her. - - - - Th "The Princess Louise is tit the Hotel 13ns. So t T `-ltu ty to tra • . e received on Sunday the US Wiie of a Canadian Senator, and kept her es- o inner, The _Princess will probably witness the Lenten' ceremonies .before she goes back to Canada." _ . itutumna . I The Empress of Germany. Suffers frord spinal complaint. Mi. Langerin Will pay. a visit driring the coming sumriter to the maritime provinces and inspect the public works. May 26t11 is the time fixed for the -return of Princess Louise to: Canada after her visitti, to Florence,INaplers_alld Venice.: - - Gladstone's, voice is not ;se strong.' as. was. He is subject - to draughts, . and weeps a black 84411 cap in the Hots° of Conitnons. - Dr. McMichael; -,counsel for Browne of Chatham, in. the McCrae abortion case, hai -given notice of appealing from the recent decision ordering his extradition to buffalo, - Kossuth is now living in a pleasant villa near Turin: Although 79 years old, he is in good, health, and his intellect Is unitnpaired.. -.Ile spends it -great.-deal of time inetudYing natural science. . CavernO, -a-Chicago !clergyman, -quoted_ statistics in ,a recent. sermon -which 'went to show that from one-eighth to one- tenth of the marriage is in the county and city were followed by appliCatione- for divorce:. ' "` The-. new . Replan Catholic) bishop of Kingston :sells from Ireland' to . day per _Steamship City of Chester. Ho Will, on his arrival remain in New York for a few days, the guest of it priest with whom he is personally intimate; From NOW. York he proceeds to Toronto, thence to Kingston, _where he will arrive about the 7th. of 'Apra The Queen. has placed the; following inscription on the. memorial of _King Leo- pold -in pp. George's 'Chapel : "Erected by Her Majesty _Queetf,Yietoria in -the loving memory of Leopold. L-, -King of the 3361-• glans,' her maternal uncle, who was as :a father to her as she was to him its it daugh-.... ter: - A. D. MDCCOLXXIX." ;While it party of American iltravellers were visiting the battlefield of :Waterlog an iron box was found:by one of them-. It contained the will ofan English Officer, Sir Charles O'Neally,:' and by it the present heirs of his fortune ..suddenly 'find MOM-- aelvetii.disPossessed in -favor of the children ef his eldest BOIL - • - A clause in the Municipal Bill before the British Columbia Legislature imposes an annual tax of 00 upon every person smok- ing opium. .1 •• - _ Mrs. J. W. Mackey, wife Df the Bonanza king, gave in Parie, the other evening ilip most magnificent • ball of th st 'season. -Fur the &sliding she furnished not Only the best band -AO -be had, but a group of singer's who sang the waltzes, giving a .marvellous - spirit nt.feacination to the,dance: _ - - . - MissEmma.- S-. 1.1owe, . a .well -know Boston - vocalist-, goes to .Mr. -• l3eecher's church, in -Brooklyn, at a salary of $1,000 a year,-.7"..She. succeeds Miss. Hattie L. Sim- mons, who goes to St: Thomas', New York. Mr. -George Werienrath is continued at Mr; Beeclier's-chnrch as its, toner, atanadvance, of 6500 on his salary. - : i - ' • -I " Sir Garnet Wolseley wa.s bitterly dis- appointed,at not beiniveMthe con:inland r vit at the:Cape: ' :He - , : ery' nearly _being sent, 811(1. would h • een ,rnained had it not been for the determined- opposition of the -Duke of Cambridge, for *hon the new - mas,rterznaster-general istalit iletoo strong and independent- .The late Gen. Colley, killed by the Boers - •in South Africa, was na.Toronte three years age: He came. in search of . information,!, respecting -a -brother Who hail:settled at Anrora,-. and -found that he :had. gone to California: . The -gallant _officer followed ,up I . the chie.only-to- discover that his brother ; p had died on the Pacificfdope. •••••••• . - • • _.a . ; Inditfer: Astoniiila- erriment: Taciturnityence. ment. SEEDS! SEEDS TLINTSI ILINTS1 - "- Robert Evans EGETABLE, FLOWER & FARM sEps aro. selected with the greateeh possible care from English,. French ,and ' German Growers; also -many varieties grown here under our -own PERSONAL SITEEI• VISION. itt the Plant line We claim to have the beat commercial collection Of . house and Budding -Plants in the Domin- ion and invite inspection. Our Seed Ware- house is in the 'Market, Square, and our Greenhouses on Charles St., three minutes' walk from the Market. If you have net already received our „beautiful Catalogue - send -for one; They are mailed free to all. liOBEIST 'EVANS Oic CO., Seed Merchants and Florists, Hamilton, bet.- . The Detroit, Iliac c -. and Marquette Railimoad - Company I ,. - - _ ., NOW OFFER FOrSALE.OTER 1,350,000 ACRES Of the ChwWest, FAII *I, Nci ,autiff,inDrBERED LANDS in Oise ' - Northeam peninsula or Michigan. Destined to be the best wheat prodacing-region in the world. These /ands aretituatedin the* coun. . a ' " ties of Chippewa, Mackinac, Schoolcraft and Marquette, and embrace MEMV C10.11SaIld8 of acres or . tlie best agricultural lands in_the State of Michiga,n. 1 • - - - Among those in, the counties of .Chippewa, and Mackinac are tracts of what are known -as the "burnt or cleared 'lands. These lands offer many advantages over the prairie lands of the west, as the timber lands adjoining insure a duplily of fuel at little cost. The soil being axich clay loam 03 ..1, great depth. The timber remainina upon the land being generally sufficient for the settler's u in _building and fencing. - , - • - These partially cleared lands are now 'offered at the low/price of from. $4 to $4.50 per acre, °al - fourth casb, and the remainder at rurchaser's -option; at any time within nine years, with intereat payable annually at_7--per cent. • , _ , • - ' Roads are being opened through these lands, and no better oppottnnity has ever been offered op men of small means to secure it geou farm, and intending purchasers will be wise by availing theta: - Selves of this chance -before prices arivance, as the lands are being rapidly taken and settled upon. The lands more inlmediately on the line of the Detroit, Mackinac & Marquette railroad, from Stfaits of Mackinac to Marquette, ate more heavily timbered, and are almost 1111iVetially good a culturellanda leaving sPlenclid farois when the timber is removed. • , The iron and lumber interests of the upper peninsula are of such magnitude as to can forl 41: charcoal and lumber that the timber and wood upon ,the lands will produce -this will enable ..,. settler to make goodwageswhile clearing the land.' • • . •• Lumber mills and charcoal kilns 171,11 be built at Various points along the tine, and furnaces an, ' now being erected along the line of the road at Point St. knee°. • , The great demand and good price' for labor, both in winter and snmmer, make these landspar- , timid -ray desirable as homes for the poor man. The lands/adjacent the railroad are offeredat prices T . from $5 upwards, according to locaton, value of timber, ate. The lande are at your very door, aigl arebeiegmpidly settled by (lanai:liars. - a ' --• For pamphlet* maps andother inf.nmiaticin, address,: . . . _a- ' W. 0. STRuNG- Lanli commissioner, . _ 39 Newberry and Menillan-Buimi iog, Detroit, Michgan, • _ - i 11,