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THE NEWS IN A NEE
THE VERY LATEST PROM ALL TUE
WORLD OVER.
interesting Items About Our Own Country.
Great Britain, the United States, and
All Parts of the Globe, Condensed and
Assorted for Bass Reading.
CANADA,
riamilton has decided upon August. 5
as the date of its civic holiday.
The Cornwall Canal will be ready for
navigation by the last week of April.
Over 100 buffalo have been seen in
the vicinity of Fort Smith, Athabasca,
during the past winter.
A despatch from Bombay says that
the plague has broken out among the
British troops at Calaba.
Conductor Hoteure, of Hamilton. iS
dead, as the reetilt ot injuries sustain-
ed at. Woodsloek in January last.
IL is said that at the approaching
convocation of Queen's University,
Lady Aberdeen will be made an LL.D.
The total coat of the work done by
tha'• ominion Government for the im-
prove era of Toronto harbour was
0356,0a
Vital bey, aged 60, was asleep on
the I.C.R. ereck one mile east of St.
Valley, We., when the Halifax express
killed bin..
The huge steel arches of the bridge
that will take the pieta of the railway
suspension bridge at Niagara have been
placed in position
atEr. E. re. Haranaforu, tate met en-
gineer of the Grand Trunk ie suing
the company for damages on account
of his dismissal.
The Manitoba fund for the relief of
the laidia famine sufferers now reaches
$17,560.78, of which nearly $2.000 is
from the school children.
Inspector Scarth left Ottawa on Sat-
urday night for Regina. From that
plaoe be will take with him enne twen-
ty mounted policemen to the a.ikon
district.
at is intimated that the negotiations
In connection with the fast Atantie etas
..ice have reached a shape that an an-
nouncement may he expected before
long.
Senator Macdonald of British Co-
lumbia has introduced a bill in the
Senate to make the 2ath of May a per-
petual holiday in honor of her Ma-
jesty.
Mr. J. A. Kinsella, instructor of but-
termaking at the Kingston Dairy
School, has been appointed as assist-
ant to Prof: Robertson, Dominion Da-
iry Commissioner,
The Internal Economy Committee of
the Dominiats House of Commons has
decided - to carupensate Resteurant-
keeper Parnett for The alaulition of
the House of Commons bar last- sea -
sun.
The Canadian Pacific railway have
deposited plans for the ('row's Nest
Pass railway with the Railway Separt-
=Ant, which is an official intimation
that they are ready to construct the
road.
'With the approval of many of the
Boards of Trade, the Government will
soon appoint commercial agents to
South Africa, the Mediterranean coun-
tries, Mexico earl other places to pro-
mote trade relations.
Trouble Isle arises between the
Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific.
railways owing to the new tariff of
Mr. Curzon, Parliamentary Secretary
for Foreign Affairs, in addressing his
constituents at Southport on Saturday
spoke bitterly of the action ,of the las-
ted States in endeavoring to kill the
arbitration treaty.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin, int full
robes of office, attended the bar of the
Truperial House of Commons on Mon-
day and presented, apetition praying
the Commons to take into eonsideration
the financial relations of Great Britain
and Ireland.
In a fashionable English club a few
evenings ago Mr. Maekie, one of the
members made an insulting remark re-
garding the mother of Mr. Gerald
O'Shea, son of Captain O'Shea and Mrs.
O'Shea' -Parnell, which the young man,
resented, and knocked Mr. Mackie down,
who fell upon a fender, receiving a pro-
bably fatal injury.
In the British House of Commons
the °thee day Mr. Chamberlain said he
was unab:e to state the number of
Colonial Premiers who would visit Lon-
don during the diamond jubilee. No
formal conference -had, been arranged,
but the Government would be glad; to
have the co-operation of the Premiers
in all matters of common interest.
'UNITED STATES.
Navigation lais opened at Chicago.
A Canadian Society was formed in
New York last night.
Governor Adams has signed the bill
abolishing capital puniehruent in Oolo-
redo.
The New York press says Daniel S.
Lamont may become president of the
Northern Pacific' Railway.
Eight. Clninamen are under arrest in
Malone N. Y., who are alleged to have
been smuggled aortes the border.
Mrs. Leopold Vandal/wee. at Nor-
wich. Alia., has given birth to five
children within the past la months.
Table hands and finishers in the Chi-
cago tanneries have decided that a gen-
eral Si rik'e sbuld Le declared.
Masked men in the vieinity of Lan -
passenger rates to the Kootenay die-
, trim. issued by the Grand Trunk, and
IsTERV la rate war is threatened,
BEAN
;levee/ met eat, ow -.ere re of
Nervous Debility, Lot sneer end 1 The. union bricklayer.% (if Montreal
S ece.kngere of try ler r=ksetustiel: SV/Ont on strike on Friday. They are
receiving 80 cents an hour
by over -work, or the errors or at present re
ceette of. youth. This Remedy ah- and working ten thours• a day, and.
relutely cures tl.e =est obstinate eases- when all other
n aek for a -change to 35 cents an
rRLATNENTS btu, e failed even to relieve. , ,
:hie at Slyer 1,-.wkotte. or six for 4.-ts, or sent LT mail or DORT aria name pours a day.
*aorta rase JAIriT5M-P,IC:FCF The Dominion Government's proposed
amendments to the Civil Service Act
• will be sweeping in their nature. It
. is said that all new appointments will
be during pleasure, instead of during
good behaviour, as at present.
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Exeter,
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The Government has granted V00.000
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ment of Victoria bridge, the condition
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Levis to Montreal.
Capt. Yates of the Oregon Asiatic
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tawa to submit a proposition to the
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lishment of a line of steamers between
British Columbia ports and Central
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A Toronto syndicate WWI has ac-
quired options on elesitric railway
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and operate all properties workingun-
der city franchise% giving the city . a
voice in their control tied a• certain
share of the profits.
It has been decided in Ottawa by
a meeting of military authorities that
the jubilee regiment will be made up
of volunteers from the different corps.
They will leave Montreal on June 1
by a troopship for Liverpool, whence a
train will convey them to Aldershot.
Two weeks will be spent there, and one
in Landon.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Archbishop Plunket of Dublin is
dead.
Mr. Cecil Rhodes has left London on
his return journey to South Africa.
The farewell banquet to Mr. Bayard
will take place in London on the 7th of
May.
Lady Lascelles, the wife of Sir Frank
lescelles, the British Ambassador to
Germany, is dead.
The English Government has refused
to allow stands to be erected in the
London parks for the diamond jubilee.
Major Sir John Willoughby, the only
one of the Transvaal raiders to serve
his full sentence, has been discharged
from the jail.
At the last ballot of the Reformed
Club in London every candidate bear-
ing a German name was blackballed as
a demonstration against Kaiser Wil-
liam.
Owing to the failluee of the efforts
to close the quarrel between Lord Pen-
rhyn arid his Welsh quarrymen, twen-
ty-seven hundred workmen are still out
of work.
Kr. Edsvard Blake's motion in the
British Molise of Commons setting
forth that Ireland was overtaxed was
defeated on Wednesday by one hundred
and sixty votes. ,
In connection 'with the waalike
'Peet of, rougope and Souethe a."'"
siipificantiy ;reported '
he Belli*
Hanotaux, the Minister for For-
eign .Alfairs, and Comas de Man, the
well-known clerical Deputy, have been
elected members of the French Aca-
demy.
The Cretan Committee will not accept
the fifty thousand roubles offered by
the Czar for the families of the refu-
gees They' ask no aid. from the Czar
while Russian warships take part in
the blockade.
THE DIAMOND JUBILEE,
t...•••.111
THE COLONIAL TROOPS WILL MARCH
SEPARATELY.
4.111111•11,
Each Contingent Escorting: Its Premier lit
A Royal Carriage—Jubilee Donnas's -
Decorations anti Titles in Great Pro.
Fusion.
A despatch from London sayst--In
consequence of the unexpected num-
ber of colonial troops coming to take
part in the celebration of the Queen's
diamond jubilee it bas been decided,
that the colonial procession will march
separately, each contingent escorting
He Premier in a Royal carriage drawn
by four richly caparisoned horses. This
procession will leave Buckingham
palace ten minutes before the Queen's
processioa. On arrival at at. Paul's
Cathedral the bolanial forces will be;
drawn up round the west front of the
sacred edifice, and the wives of the
Premiers will take assigned places
near the Queen. Thus, on her alae
jesty's arrival, all the colonial visitors
will have a splendid view, and will
be able to salute the Sovereign.
The Government has reaueed to al-
low stands to be erected in the .public
parks far the Queen's diamond tubilee
procession. An offer of 4:70,0u0 was
made for permission to erect a stand
in the Green park, faring Piccadilly.
easter, E.Y., bave threatened to kill The statement that President Faure
tollgate keepers if They preeist in col- will visit England. for the jubilee IS
lecting tolls. denled.
Much commotion prevalle in the
The Baltimere & -Ohio Railway is to
variou,s departments -of State owing
have a rail and lake line between Chia
eago and Milwaukee and the eastern to the rumour that -the elliefe are
engaged in making out he lists of theta
seaboerd. Government servants who are deem -
Mile. Her -ales Pachiri, a_ Grecian lady ed worthy of special recognition be the
at the Buckingham Hotel. New Yoraa Queen in connection With the forthcoui-
is reported to have been robbed- Of dia- mg diamond .jubilee. Naturally most
monde worth 5.0.00. men consider themselves entitled to de-
coration, and. those with family or oth-
.A.bratiatu Ephraim Elmer, of Utica, N.ci influence are using it with vigour
Y., claims to be one hundred and lit- ,. and persistency. The announcement of
teeu yeare of age, and the oldest man
- the men whom the Queen will delight
Ea ehe Lnit Cu attales. ., to honour will be Made in what is
Eastern capitalists have, it its sea . u
wines II- eias`e. known as the Birthday Gazette. at. the
bonded immense capper end of May, and the list is likely to
Cars.on City. Nev., and will build tia he -t, h
eeter olPaflhieYenrrahleeinzwi9slutiers in regard to the
mill and smeltere it once. Yeenlaufgollootlives. the -ad-
Between 30,000 and UMW steam flitn- I!
lionoure conferred for poiitical ser -
New York Its a result of a practical ; vices, but she sorutiniees all the lists
Lockout on the part of the bosses. e very closely, and has been known to
he breaks in the levees la Missia-refuse
eut to
accept-
i
lIt any reasons. It s
recommendations
sippi have allowed a vast trar'• a 1 altogether too early vet to predict
country to be flooded and the in'llabi- I with vonfidence what' particalar men
tams barely escaped with their lives. ,,will
got the honours, (a who will be
Former Ambassador Bayard. will re- lea.
out in the cold, but it may that be
turn to the Laiited States May 15th said. with reasonable confidence,
from England, and former Ambassador the diamond jubilee list will include a
Wayne alacVeagh team Italy April dultedcm for the Marquis of Saiiebury
Keh, and a peerage for Sir Julian launce-
Reprsentetive alpitaling, of Miehigan, fote. whose tactful conduct at Wash,
bas introduced a joint resolution in ington during the past eighteen
fee House et• eteisuingtan providing months, many people -think, has not
for the annexation -of Hawaii to the been fully recognized here.
United States,
tele
Lady Shale" Douglas, nec .Loretta
dis, a San Francisieo concert hail singer,
has given‘ birth to a son. Lord Doggies
is the youngest son of the Marquis of
Queensberry.
William Bloom, under arrest in
Cleveland on a charge of arson, de-
clares that he has been, setting fire
to buildings in various cities during
the past five years.
At the annual meeting of the stock-
holders of the American Bell Telephone
Catapany. the directors were re-elect-
ed, and it was voted to inerease the
capaal stock from $,23,03,000 to 26,-
015,000.
Frank Butler, the Australian mur-
derer, who was extradited from San
Francisco on Saturday, confessed prior
to hie departure to having killed Ar-
thur Preston, but be teams it was
in self-defence.
The United States Senate has au-
thorized the Secretary of the Navy to
place a vessel of wars and a chartered
merchant vessel at the disposal of the
collector of the port of New York for
transporting contributions of wheat,
flour and corn to relieve the famishing
poor of India.
The Supreme Court at Washington
has decided that the Oceanic Steam
Navigation Company was responsible to
cattaln passengers for damage done to
baggage in crossing from Liverpool to
New reek, although the tickets of
olaimante •coetainett in fine type a
waiver fur damages to persons or prop -
arty.
Commercial reports from the Unit-
ed States indicate little, if any,
change. Business is dull, and the out-
look uncertain, but employment is more
general in various lines of industry
than was the case a few weeks back.
Prints and woollens are in steady and
appreciative request, and the wool mills
are everywhere busy. The decision of
the Supreme Court in regard to trusts
has, for a time, detrimentally affect-
ed the iron trade, but the check is only
expected. to be temporary.iThe politi-
cal situation in Europe s affecting
markets id the United States and else-
where detrimentally, but in business
circles prospects are considered good.
GENERAL.
President Kreiger has suspended his
grendsma for insulting Great Britain
and the Queen.
There is great rejoicingin Madrid
i
over the Spanish victories n the Phil-
ippine islands.
It is report,ed at Bombay that the
plague has broken out among the Brit-.
ish troops at Cala,ba..
Princess Leopold of Prussia is taking
a regular course of training as a hos-
pital and field nurse.
The Portuguese troops have been de-
feated isa Guinea by the natives after a
fight lasting eight hours.
A Paris despatch says that a n-ew At-
lantic cable is being manufactured at
Calais and. will shortly be 'laid,
President Faure bast been officially
Unformed of tag approaching visit oil
the lauaaian Emperor and tile Czarina
to France ,
It is reported at Capearown that Ba-
lsam). Bey has been leased to Great Bri'-
C 30 years at an annual rental
'hon sterling.
brig Aeronaut, from
comber 31, for Hamburg,
dottedat sea. Her crew
Berbacieee.
ol,.qoverrimen
whic
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FBA DIAVOIJO OF CHINA,
:row.
wromommommalsemorowaviatemir
WRECK OF THE MAYO
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AN ELDER-DEMPSTER STEAMER ON
'BLONDE ROCK.
Rescue of the Crew by the Seal Island
Life-Saviag Peat — Steamer Srveloing
Up.
News reached Yarmiouth, N. 5,, on
Wecbs.efidae bf the wreck of the big
four -masted steamship `Assam Captain
Carruthers of the Fader -Dempster
Line, from Liverpool to St. John, N.B.,
on Blonde Rock, off Seal Island. The
wreck took place on Monday last about
noon during a. 'heavy northeast gale.
At the first grating sound the full speed
astern was ordered by the officers on
watch, but before the order could, be
obeyed the vessel, was hard aground
and began at once to make water.
When this was diacovered the order to
stand. by the boats was iramediately3/4
given. A stiff northeast wind and the
strong current which runs off the island
made the work of launching the boats
exceedingly difficult. In attempting to
bring the starboard afeboat around to
the lee side, the boat's crew was swept
off and could not make tnship atgain,
After to or twelve men had. scram-
bled into the. other lifeboat it atm was
carried away. By this time the island
lifesaving boat was on tbs way to the
scene of the wreck. Before proceeding
to the assistance of those on board. the
Assaye it made for the twa boats. The
quartermaster was exchanged for one
of the lifeboat's crew, and under his
guidance they reached Seal Island. in
safety. On reaching the wrecked
'steamer the lifesaving crew, in corn -
of Coxswain Wiley, were re-
ceived with hearty cheers. Taking off
those rentainang on hoard the Assays
and towing thc cutter containing the
rtmainier of the crew the lifeboat
startel for the island, reaching there.
ahout 7 p.m., where all hands, 65 in
annular, were safely landed. Some of
th.• men exeerieneed considerable dis-
eemfert, as they were in the open boat
fee pipe*" hours and were scantily clad.
Residents cri the Wand received them
very 11 ',OHS? 7y WWI did all they could
fee I heir mama The Aesase is fast.
breaking up and likely will he a total
less. Shi was built by Hortan & Wolfe
at Belfast in 1801, is an iron steamer
of 5,000 'free, and considered one of the
best freight steamers on the Atlanta!
Ocean. Heavy sveather on the coast
was the cause of the delay in the news
reaching the mainland.
TERROR OF THE vOUNTRY SLICED
TO PIECES IN PUBLIC,
The Criminal Cruelly Tortured Till Ile
Signed Ills Own. Death Warrant—An
Extraordinary Trial.
K'Ang, the Pra Diavolo of China,
whose deeds of blood have kept town
and hamlet in a constant state of ter-
ror for years, has at last paid the pen-
alty of his crimes.
It appears from advices brought by
the steamer Rio Janeiro, that embold-
ened by his long immunity from cap-
ture, K'Ang visited and laid siege to
the heart of the daughter of a high
Manchu official of the Imperial Court
whom he succeeded in inducing to el-
ope with him early in January. There
was great commotion following the
flight of the pair, and influence was
brought to bear which proved sufficient
to spur the Peking police to extraor-
dinary efforts, finally resulting in the
capture of the fugitive at New Ch-
wang later in the month.
K'Ang was taken to Peking, where
lie was tried twice before a special
tribunal, and, although cruel tortures,
such as kneeling on heated iron chains,
being pricked with red-hot needle's,
etc., had been administered to make
him to confess to the formidable list of
some 29 robberies, with murder in each
case, of which he had been accused,
he would divulge reething. Finding
they could not elicit anything from
Kadeng by torturing him, the judges, by
a, clever appeal to his vanity, trapped.
him into signing his own death war-
rant. He was thereupoa, condemned
to suffer death by the slicing process
or tingehl.
On the day he was led out to die
K'Aog sang songs all the 'way to the
execution ground and kept it up even
when the executioner's knife had cut
into him. several times. A stab with a
dagger in the region- of his heart
,silenced, the desperado's voice, and the
rest of the site -log and the final sever -
ante from the body was then done in
sileace, although 10,000 people sur-
rounded the spot.
A NEW ELDORADO.
101.•••••:.
Gold Seekers' Rich Finds In Yukon Valley.
A despatch from °Uwe. says :—Mr.
Ogilvie, the Dominion land surveyor,
who boa been shut up, about Fort
Cudahy all winter, being unable to get
out owing to the heavy saowfalls has
met a number of reports to the de-
partment during the last few months,
pointing out the mineral wealth of the
Yukon territory. Last fall, he sug-
gested that additional protection
should be given to the speculators
land those entering the coantry. The
result of thin is that an additional
company of Mounted Police is now be-
ing sent out there from Regina.
MT, Staten has east received from
Bar. Ogilvie a remarkable report as to
the vast discoveries cit gold whieis are
made there. Mr. Ogelvie says that at,
Clarelyke, Whiali is mime 60 miles
sooth-east of Fort Cadahy, tund further
Io British territory, some man are
to 'tea ,x•loMl$1,000 te $2,90 per day,
ION
by
AN IMPORTANT EASIIRE,
AGRICULTURAL MARKS BILL 1N THE
ENGLISH COMMONS.
To Peeled; the Dritish Public Front Fraud
—It Day Militate Against the Col-
onies,
A despatch from Londroi, skeet—Mr.,
John K. A Windfield-Digby, Conserve -
five member for the North Division of
Dereetshire, moved the second reading
of the agricultural marks bill on 'Wed-
n.l>cday in the Hetaaa of commons. This
is a dra,.stio zneaehare intended to pre-
vent the Fraudulent sale of foreign
meat, and cheese as British products.
The President of the Board of Agri-
culture, Mr. Walter Long, in the House
of Commons said there was marvellous
unanimity in favor of the principle ol
Mr. WingfieId-Digby's bill, the object
of which was solely to protect British
prod'uc.e from fraud and not for pro-
tectioa against imports. Mr. Long
further remarked that the Govern-
ment. was prepared to support the bill
on the. condition it was referred to a
select. committee. Me. James Bryce:
Liberal member for the south division
of Aberdeen, said he believed the only
effect of the bill would bo to show pur-
chasers how much cheaper foreign meatt
is than home meat. Mr. Bryce added it,
was a pity so many bills were intro -
deiced in Parliament- treating the Bri-
tish colonies as foreign countries. By
fair the largest part of the imported
meat, he continued, came from the col-
onies, and the bill undoubtedly tended
in the direction of protection, Mr.
Windiehl-Digliy moved the closure of
the debate, which was carried withoat
a division, and the agricultural marks
bill passed its second reading be a vote
of 160 to 90. The. measeire was then,
referred to a select committee.
COUNTERFEIT MONEY.
THE WORLD'S BLIND,
Curious Facts About the Sightless and tilt
Cure Taken of Thera In 'Various
Lands.
IA paragraph is travelling about to
the effect that the world's blind are
computed to number 1,400,000—about
one sightless person to every 1,500 in-
habitants. If the proportion of sight -
leas persons were the same in every
country, or substantially so, it would
be easier to conclude that blindness is
due to causes wbich neither skill nor
foresight can prevent. But the truth
of the matter, as has been pointed out
by a distinguished German oculist, is
that the great majority of cases of
blindness are due to fever and the same
authorities declare that 75 per cent. of
the afflicted persons could have re -
tallied their sight had they been pro-
perly treated. Some figures in =re-
boratloa of this are supplied by the
official statistics of both England and
France. By the last reports there were
23,000 sightless persons in Englandahe
average being 870 for each million in-
habitants. The percentage of blind per-
sons among infants ot less than five
years was 166 for each million; between
five and fifteen it rase to 288; between
twenty and twenty-five to 422; between
forty-five and sixty, to 1,625, and above
sixty-five years of age 7,000 for each
million inhabitants. Similarly in France
the official figures show that only one-
sixth of the sightless were born blind,
and five -sixths became blind throueh
illness or accident. The French official
figures further ehow that of those born
blind 65 per cent were male, and only
85 per cent. female children. Another
curious result shown by the figures is
found in the fact that while the Dum-
ber of blind male and blind female ad-
ults was. substantially the same, the
number of sightless married men in
France is double the number of sight-
less married women. Loss than 10 per
cent. of the total number of eightless
persons in France by the last report
were under the age of twenty-one.
Russia and Egypt are the two coun-
tries in which blind pereonc constitute
the largest proportionate number of the
total population; in Resale on account
of the Lick of experienced medical at-
tention, anti in Egypt on aceount of
ophthalmia due to the movement of the
sand, by the wind, or, more properly,
to the irritation caused by this unusu-
al local condition, which has made oph-
thalmia general. There were at last ac-
counts nearly 200,000 blind persons in
European Russia, the proportion being
highest in the northern provinces and
conspicuously so in Finland, where the
prevalence of blindness, four times
greater than the general average in
Europe, is ascribed to the flatness of
the country and the imperfect ventila-
tion of the huts used by the peasantry.
Many of these huts are either without
chimneys or are supplied with primitive
chimneys, which do not draw, and the
escape of the smoke into the living
apartments has a marked tendency to
aggravate all eye troubles. -Though
more than half the blind population of
Europe is to be found in Russia there
are only twenty-five asylums for the
blind in that empire, one-tenth of the
total number in .Europe. Though the
number of blind persons in the flnited
States is less than one-third as large
as the number in Russia, the number
of inmates of blind asylums in the Unit-
ed Slates is larger than le any other
country of the world. By the last re-
ports the total number of pupils in iti-
stitutions for the blind in the United
States was 8,489 and the grounds and
buildings devoted to their use were
valued at 86,000,000.
Four Arrests in Brantford for Uttering the
tom.
For some time past a lot of bad
money has been circulated in Brant-
ford, principally 25 and 10 cent pieces.
On Wednesday the police searched the
premises of two families, Sears and
Sickles, on suspicion. In the Sears'
house in an old trunk in the woodshed
at the back of the premises was dis-
covered a cigar box, which contained a
complete outfit of counterfeit tools. The
articles were of a very rude &erec-
ter, hut certainly answered the pur-
pose. They comprised, a.piece of lead
on the end at an iron pipe, a piece of
brass pipe, a couple of old pewter
spoons, a file, a mould in plaster tif
Perla and a long handled small dip -
pip Semaptee ttopeAs. querleorres ,ro eed
duty for a crucible, and a bicycle mons
key wrench.
The arrest of Albert Sears, aged 20
years, quickly followed. James Sickle,
father -it -law of Joan Sears, was also
pieced in the toils, charged with ut-
tering The false coin. In the afternoon
John Sears, the supposed leader of the
gang, was arrested in a bush where
he was biding from the pollee, clear
Mohawk perk. He made a desperate
fight for his liberty, John Brown, a
coloured man was also arrested, charg-
ed with being impliceted in the ille-
gal business, 'What part ho had to do
in it the police refuse to say. None of
the gang have got rich over the bu.si-
stanreteydo.ta
netts yet, as they were just getting
HER INVISIBLE CH.ABM.
e own judge, Chumpley, but
can you show me one thing about Miss
Richly that makes her attractive?
No; it's in the bank. .
IIETI,51100,
ONE WOMAN'S NOTIONS.
The men will stand anything.
It's a woman's vocation to be mar-
riet woman is as good as a man any
day.
Dearest friends make the best ene-
mies.
to3orlsairriage sometimes
love.
It's a bad workman quarrels with his
the grave of
Sinners never hear any harm of
themselves.
An old girl makes a young married
woman.
There is something better than beau-
ty, and that is charm.
There are not husbands enough to
go around—statistics prove it.
A lie should be large and adaptable,
and allow a margin for alteration.
There's no sight more deplorable than
a man who can't employ himself.
All lovers' promises are, of course,
entirely founded on the doctrine of pro.
liabilities.
A woman may just as well give up
the game, when once she can't make
the other woman jealous,
It is my theory that half the unhap-
piness of married life comes of husbands
end wives being constantly together—
all in all to each other.
BOUGHT THE ISLAND.
• An amusing incident occurred dur-
ing the last cruise of the English ship
Royalist in the neighborhood of the
New Hebrides. The time arrived for
the holding of the annual prize shoot-
ing, but no suitable place could be
founii. for the erection of a target ex-
cept a. email island in Southwest Bay.
This ,bowever, was tribal property, and
as the natives had. been taught to fear
the power of big guns, they bargained
that they should be paid for the is-
land, as it was sure to be blown to
pieces. :Elaborate negotiations ended
an a Chief going oft to the ship, when
the requisite agreements were enter-
ed' into, and Captain Rason, of the
Royalist, became the owner of the
island, the consideration being five
sticks of tobacco. A target was then
erected awl some excellent shooting
took place.
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