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The Brussels Post, 1887-7-1, Page 1Volume 14. BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1887. Number 81. COUNTY COURT AND 11ENER&I, SES''MONS, The following oondudes the report of the oases heard at the above Court :- MoClay vs. Day. An action for build- ing material. By consent jury was dis- pensed with, and the case tried by His Honor. Judgment was reserved. Stretten vs. Dickson. Action for com- mission on sale of lands. Tho jury re- turned a verdict for deft. and His Honor ordered that caro be dismissed with costs. Papst vs. North American Association Company interpleader issue. Judgment reserved, Reid vs, Wade. Interpleader issue. Judgment reserved. Regina vs. Chao. Seheifer. Larceny - from G,T.R. station, Wingham. After a partial hearing of the case prisoner was discharged by His Honor, the judge. In the two charges against Leonard Carlie, of Exeter, a jury found the pris- oner inane and he was committed to jail until proper accommodation could be procured for him. An appeal ease of J. P. Fisher vs. late Inspeotor Yates, from a decision under the Scott Aat was tried before a jury. jury returned a verdict of not guilty. MoLean vs. Prior. Action on account in a sale of cattle. Judgment reserved. This Closed tho business on the calen- dar. Elrusttelm School Board. A. special meeting of the Brussels School Board was held on Monday even. ing, June 27th. Members present—F. S. Scott, T. Fletcher, J. Hargreaves and H. Dennis. Moved by T. Fletcher, seconded by J. Hargreaves that the following accounts be paid :- J. 0. Halliday, for fencing $ 46 66 W. H. Herr 4 00 Moved bY. H. D e conded by I no Hargreaves that Miss Roberteon'sresigna- tion dei na. tion be accepted, and that we advertise for a teacher to take her plane in three Saturday issues in each Daily Mail and Globe. Carried. Moved by J. Hargreaves, seconded by H. Dennis that the Secretary be inetrnot- ed to discount note for $1,000, for 3 months at Bank of Hamilton, Wingham, for the purpose of paying teachers and caretak- er's salaries for qr. ending 80th inst., a ad to retire note due corporation. Carried. Board then adjourned. The Listowel Races. SECOND DAX. The second day's meeting was held on Saturday. The weather could not have been more suitable and the attnndanoe was fairly good. Tho meeting was a most successful one in point of entries, good raising and a well pleased audienoe. The bill for the day's sport was es fol- lows :- FIRST BAor-2:45 class ; purse $200, divided 60, 25 and 15 per cont. ; mile heats, 3 in 5. George P. Y orbee' blk. m. Maine, O,, by Chicago Volunteer 1 1 1 Tooter dr Itlindaugh's g.g. Grey T out 2 2 2 Amos Stepson's g. g. Donaldson4 3 9 D. liyndman's b. g. Little Fred 8 4 4 T. Tipmaa'e br. g. Stage Bo e 6 5 Time -2:42 2/5.2:406, 2:41 SECOND Beoe-The 2:37 trot did not fill, and an exhibition race was eubetitut- ed between two local flyers. A. Cusiok's b. m., Swamp Nancy and T. H. Roll's ch. g. Tom Jones, paper. In the first heat the mare led at the second turn and maintained her advantage for the trip. Time, 2:53. - In the second heat the marc led till they''streok the Home stretch, when the little pacer olosed up and they went to the wire neck and neck, the son of blear Grit winning by a neck, in 2:482/5 In the 8rd heat, it was anybody's race, both seesawing all the way to the home stretch, where the mare went up and dropped behind, the poor winning by three lengths, in 2:45, THIRD RACE -31 mile dash, purse 13150,- divided 150,divided 60, 25 and 15 per cent.; weight for age. George L. Rade br. g. Roddy (Steeds Goo. A. L orbea' ob. 01, Maggie Brno° 2 (Dannon) Geo. A. Forbes' b.6. Oliver (Jamieson) 8 Time -2:1S. Fonmrn BALE-Ohio°go Volunteer purse for 1884 foals, open to the get of any stal- lion ; purse $150, divided ; } mile heats, 3in6. Jobb Pesoos's g f Ellie E, byOhlaago Volunter 1 1 1 John Sharon'e bik 1 Volatile, 03 B. R Bal eVolunteer ±Avon Girl, by aloe 9 2 2 ole 8 4 8 b. Livingston's b s Electric, Mier, by Ridgewood 4 g 4 —1:85,1:85,1:25. Mr. Bancroft, the historian, employs eight typewriters four or five days in the week. In the Grand Canyon of the Colorado snow is still ten foot deep. In . northern Minnoaoto. last week a man had both his feet frozen, makingamputation necessary. At Halley, Idaho, three severe snow storms have raged within a fortnight. Sono years ago a wealthy citizen of Babrenl.eld, in the Duchy of Holstein, promised a worthy married man of that town that he would give a house to the man's twelfth child, if he should have that many. In duo time Number 12 ar- rived, and the proud father asked the wealthy citizen to make good his promise. Vile he refused to do, saying that the whole thing was a joke. The father then went to laity about it, and although the promise was only a verbal ono, the court not only decided in favor of Ntunbor 12, but authorised the plaintiff to those whichever one of the defondant'e houses he lilted best. COMMUNICATION. Rev. J. 8, Cooke Again. To Ino Editor of Tun PosT. How do Romanist; regard the ten com- mandments? In studying the Roman Catholic catechism, prayer books and Bible I have some to the conclusion that nob only are many Romanists bought that Protestants are wrong bub that the Almighty Himself must have made some stranger blunder in giving the law to Moses. Certainly Roman Catholics ar e not taught the ten oommandment'' as they are given in the 20th of Exodus. Mr. Editor, as many of your readers aro not acquainted with the Roman method of teaohing God's divine law the following facts may be useful :-I have before mo the most Reverend Doctor James Butler's catechism, revised, enlarged, improved and recommended by the four Roman Catholic Arobbishope of Ireland as a general catechism and adopted and pub- lished by order of the first Council of Quebec and with additions authorized as the English catechism for the Archdio- oese of Toronto, to which is added an abridgement of the Christian doctrine by the Rt. Rev. Dr. Milner. Now, Sir, from the title page, as quoted, your readers will at once see that Borne changes her tactics or mode of warfare as she reaches different communities. I don't object to that but Ido objeot to her changing the word of God or leaving out some part of Ilia divine law. What then are the facts : let, In the shorter catechism by Dr. Butler, lesson 6, page 19, we find the question, 'Say the ten commandments of God.' Auer. let, "I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt not have strange Gods before me, dro!' 2nd, "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain." 8rd, "Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day." 4th, "Honor thy father and thy mother." 6th, "Thou shalt not kill." 6th, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." 7th,"Thou shalt not t steal." 8th, "Trion shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." 9th, "Thou lima not covet thy neighbor's wife." 10111, "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods."-Exod.. 20. In the second part of the catechism, lesson 14, page 50, the same question is asked and the same answer given, with this excep- tion, after the first oommandment we have (see appendi:t, pp. 91, and a refer- ence to Exodus 20 and Dut. 10-4.) Now Sir, the appendix is one of the additions made and ie not found, as we learn from the title page, in the other catechism taught by that church. So that we are bound to the conclusion that Roman Catholics ignore part of God's command by leaving it out in the ten parts referred to. Why ? Just because if they allow that command to stand they must tear down the many images before which they bow and give the honor duo to Christ. Their present practice of image worship will not standthe light of God's oorn- mand and therefore they do not teaoh their children that part of God'a divine law, which speaks against such. It is not the people but the priests of Rome who are keeping the children thus in the dark. Docs the Dona), Bible help. mat- ters at all ? It of course gives the com- mandments in full as it is an edition sometimes seen in English speaking com- munities, but the editions found in Rome during the revolution of 1848 had not the seoond commandment. The Douay Bible which I have, has, however, but of what use is it in the face of the iuterpet- ation given to it and in the face of the teaohing of the catechism on the point. The annotation says :-"All such images or likenees urn forbidden by this com- mend as are made to be adored and serv- ed ; according to that which immediately follows, thou shalt nob adore them nor serve them. That is all such as are de- signed for idols or image gods who are worshipped with divine honor, but other• wise images, pictures or representations even in the house of God and in the very sanetuary so far from being forbidden are expressely authorized by the word of God. See Exod. 25, 16, chap. 88, 7 ; Num. 21, 8 and 9 ; lot bhron. 28, 18, 19 ; 2nd Ohron.3, 10. I hope your readers will hunt up those passages, and when they find the passage their surprise will, I have no doubt, be great, to see how utterly and unblushingly truth is falsi- fied by this declaration and by these quotations. Their catechism asks, page 54, Why do Catholics kneel before the images of Christ and his saints ? Ans. To honor Christ and his saints whom their images represent, Ex. 25, 18 19 22. Again, on page 55, we find the queston, Is it not forbidden by the first command- ment 16 Make images ? Ans. "No I if we do not make them for gods, to adore and serve them as the iciolatota did. Num. 21, 8 8 ; Kings 6, 28," God dis- tinctly says, even in the Douay Bible, Thou shalt not adore or serve them. Remanists say Thou shalt bow down be- fore them and honor them. Bomeniete here not only by their praotioe virtually destroy the teaohing of this seoond com- mandment but ignore the authority and wisdom of God on the subject of image worship. They leave it out of their sate. °hieing save when it cameo In the appen- dix and they would weave it out of the Bible too if they dare, They have done it in former editions when they were the rulers, NoW, Sir, my contention all along has been that Roman Catholics have not the Bible, that they ars without the word of God. Father West says otherwise, but how can they when their catechism asks, page 86, In what dogs the word of God contained in the Holy Scriptures properly consist ? Ans. "Not in the mere words of tbo sacred text but in the moaning of 1000400 Holy Fathers 108411." Now what is the use of 0110521 having the Scriptures at all then gonane they have! a Holy Father alwayo with thorn, Father West Gannet get over the facie of hie own authorized works. Now, iiir, hoping that this with the other let- ters which I have written may have the effeut of awakening interest in the great question of Christianity in this country and if spade will allow next weak we shall say something on the Bible verses tra- dition, Yours, JommeIr S. Clothe. P. S. -Allow me, Mr. Editor, to thank the Rev. T. West, through your paper, for hie last communication, wherein he nye, referring to the nine points in my first letter, that "they ere all his own mere statements and everyone of them an untruth, except, perhaps, the last two or three, eta." My last statement reads : "The reason for my present course ie thio ;-Father West is not a true debater. He falsifies and misleads, and does not answer the propositions on these ques- tions. I want to.show him and the pub- lic of this community that every proposi- tion of my sermon 18 absolutely true, and T ohallenge him before the public' on the publio platform to dispute them." By acknowledging the last two or throe pro- positions true he acknowledges what .f said about himself to be true, therefore out of his own mouth be is a "falsifier," a "mieleader" and "not a true debater." This he did, possibly, in a moment of ex- citement, being so thoroughly overpower- ed by the few remarks I made against him. I am sure I could carry on the controversy a little while with him with- out letting the people know, as he at present is doing, the weakness of my cause by abuse. There is no necessity whatever for the Rev. T. West showing snob an unmanly spirit and temper in his replies. If ha feels hurt and sore by the blows he has received he should not, eepeoially in the publio print, ory about it. It is his own ,fault that he is now placed in such a humiliating position be- fore the public. For of what use is all his boasting and spread-eagle style of re- plying when an open challenge 000froats him? In his few childish remarks he very carefully avoids the challenge, and also the letter in which I sustained m position from his own catechism, Council of Trent and prayer book. But he finds that he bas been laboring under a great mistake by thinking I know nothing about his church. I want the discussion to continue and if he will stick to the question it may be interesting to the public, but I hold, not boastingly, that every proposition of my sermon against the Catholic church remains unmoved, so that all the splash and foam of a drowning man, however much pity such may elicit from a sympathizing public, as no ono can see a man going down be- neath the waves of controversy uttering a last despairing cry without 5One feel - big, such being the predicament of the Wingham pastor in his last letter. But although people may be sorry for him their sorrow for him in his expiring mo- menta does not take away their desire of seeing a fair disouesion and their demand for legioal reasoning, which, so far, Father West has been unable to give. Let him show himself capable of such in hie re- plies and this live question, which is be- ing discussed in Conferenoe,`General As- sembly and Legislative Hall, will be an interesting topic for your readers, Prot- estant and Catholic. $luevale, June 27. JOSEPH S. Coons. [NOTE. 'Phie controversy must be kept within a limited apace if oontinued.- EDITOR POST.] Dominion Election Peti- tions. The twenty-four Dominion election petitions filed have been assigned for trial to the different Courts as follows :- coma 01` APPEAL. Russell (with cross -petition), Kent. Prince Edward. Algoma (with cross -petition). East Bruce (with cross -petition). South Victoria. Kingston. QUEEN'S HENCE DIVISION. West Huron (with cross -petition). North Viotoria. West Durham. East Northumberland (cross -petition). East Elgin. West Middlesex. mount= 027181es. Dundee. North Lanark (with cross -petition). Peel. Lincoln and Niagara (areas -petition). South Norfolk (with arose -petition). Haldimand. COMMON ILLAS DIVISION. East Hastings. East Simooe. Muskoka and Parry Sound. Glengarry. Centre Wellington (with cross-psbition). Halton (with areas -petition. LO.O.P. The following are the officers elected by the Grand Lodge of the Canadian Order of Oddfollowe for the ensuing year : Grand Master, T. V. Gearing, Toronto. Grand Secretary, 0. P, Parkinson, Hamilton. Deputy Grand Master, E. A. P. Cook, Hamilton. Grand Treasurer, Geo. Boxall, Toronto. Grand Trustees, S. 11. Ruda, A. R, Welch and Thos. Dean, all of Toronto. Grand Chaplain, Rev. Alfred Osborne, Gravonhnrat. Grand Warden, 31, Webster, Owen Sound. GrandGuard, R. bloMurchy, Owen Sound. District Deputy Grand Masters -No. 1 District, II. Richards, Toronto; No. 2, Thos. Parry, Hamilton ; No. 8, J, 0. Mo. Nell, Gravonhnret ; No. 4, Edwin Millett, London; No. 5, F. Harrison, Owen Sound; No, 6, W. Spencer, Hepworth ; No. 7, (British Columbia), deferred ; No. 8, W. Robinsou, Unionville ; No. 9, G. W. El- lis, Niagara Falls. • Huron County Notes. South Huron Fall Show will bo bold at Exeter on Oot. 8rd and 4th. Within a circuit of four rnilee in the township of Stanley, sixteen colts are said to have diad this spring, and that others are on the way to ',morning cat moat. Tbo arrangements for celebrating the ooming 12th of July in Goderiob, under the auspices of the County Lodge of South Huron, are progressing finely. The speakers expected are Supreme G. M., N. Clarke Wallaoo, M. P., Provincial G. M„ W. W. Fitzgerald, of London, and others, including a number of clergymen. A. cricket match was played in Clinton last week between the Stratford Juniors and Clinton Juniors. The Stratford° made 22 in their first innings and 49 in their second, while the Clintons made 88 in their first innings and 12 in second for 7 wickets. The match was decided in favor of Clinton on the first innings. On Saturday, Jane 25th, the Directors of the 1Howiok Mutual Insurance Com- pany met at Gerrie. 80 applications were passed, amounting to $100725. Two claims were paid, one to Mr. Hogg, for his barn recently destroyed by lightning,, 6850, and $80 to another party for a cow killed. The Board then adjourned to meet in Wroxeter on Dominion Day to consider the matter of steam threshers. County Detective Graham was up in Zurich on Friday in connection with the Steinbrook robbery case. He has secured a clue to further evidence, which, he says will be very damaging to the prisoner Sipple, who is now awaiting trial nn Gods. rich gaol, and which will also lead to the return of a large quantity of the stolen goods, A woman Is now found to be con - fleeted with the case and to have received the stolen goods. The Goderich Board of Trade has been organized with officers as follows :-Pres- ident, Joseph Williams ; Secretary, Jae. Mitchell ; Treasurer, R. Radcliffe ; Conn - oil, Messrs. Hutchinson, Drummond, C. Seager,{Jas. M. Sheppard, John Butler, T. C. Datlor, A. S. Chrystal, Wm. Camp- bell, 3, H. Colborne, C. A. Nairn, C. Crabb, Joe. Kidd, jun., E. Campion, Jas, Saunderland, T. B. VanEvery, Rees Price, M. Nicholson, D. C., Strachan, H. W, Ball. A REMARKABLE CAT.—P. Adamson, Of Goderich, the county clerk of Huron, is the proud possessor of a cat, of the Thom- as persuasion, which certainty has mom than one life. Wednesday night the stillness in the neighborhood of the coun • ty clerk's residence was rudely disturbed -(if we may be allowed to use an expres- sion which although a stereotype fills the bill in this oase) -by a serenade from a party of oats in his back yard, He grab. bed a stout stick and sallied forth, but all the oats had fled save and except his own Thomas, who kept to his music in a key by no means minor. The worthy county clerk's indignation waxed fierce, and he smote the Thomas cab once and again, and stiffened him out, as a feline bereft of life. Then the doer of the dead of blood got him a spade, and selecting a spot in the garden where the grape vine twined and the soil mads easy digging, he dug him a place of interment for the defunot Thomas cat. When the grave was ready he took the departed by the heels and dumped him into the prepared place, and then -drew back in astonish- ment, when the lamented Thomas oat, quickly regaining his feet, sprang over J. S. Maedougall's fence and vanished in the darkness of night. Mr. ' Adamson avers that his cab at any rate has more than one life, even though it should not have nine. Perth County Notes. Stratford Oddfellowe decorated the graves of their deceased brethren Tues- day. The main building of the new G.T.R., shops at Stratford will bo 700 feet long and 120 feet wide. The 28th (Perth) Battalion are taking up a collection for the widow of the mur- dered volunteer Shaw. . Palmerston Telegraph :-"We are sorry to have to reoord the removal of one of our subsoribers to the Stratford jail." B. Barker, of Stratford, blew out the gas in his bedroom at the O'Neil House, Wopdstocll, before retiring and was near- ly dead when found in the morning. Wm. Davidson, County Clerk of Perth has been presented with a gold watch and chain and gold mounted inkstand by the members of the Coirhty Council, as an appreciation of the valuable services ren- dered the county during his incumbency of office. The consular agency which bag for many years existediu Stratford in con. neotion with the consulate at Goderich has been changed. Mr. Benedict (Strat- ford) has received a dispatch stating that hie oommieaion as consul hag been signed by the President: It is not always safe to put hellebore in a pepper bottle and then put it in the castor, or even on the shelf, A Stratford family thonght they were using pepper on their salmon the other day, but it was the other artiolo, and a dootar had lice hands full to bring thorn round. Iuformatibn 6785 laid al the Stratford Polio° Court Saturday morning by Mee. Ballantyne, of South Easthtpe, °Barging that the teacher of the Harmony Public School did maliciously and unlawfully beat and wound a child belongingto her, Several witnaws wore examine, Tho Magistrate held that the teacher had ex- ceeded her duty and fined her 31 and costs. McKenna d: Co., of Ottawa, have been awarded the contract for building the new Grand Trunk car shops at Stratford. The prion is understood to be about $05,000. Capt, Psisey, of Kirkton, at the 000050 - ion of Victoria, as it gunner in the Royal Artillery, aesisted to fire the salute from the ramparts et the Tower in Old Lon- don. This loyal veteran went purposely to London to parade with the 28th in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the event. The St. Marys Argue says :-A. valued correspondent "Glengowan" sends us the following :-A "Mutual Beef Supply Co." was formed here last winter. John Les- lie was (sleeted President ; Wm. MoGrieg- or, Seo.-Treas. ; Walter Gowan, bubaher ; the President and Wm. Pearn, Referees. The objeot is to supply he members -16 farmers -with a supply of fresh beef weekly, during 16 weeks in the summer. Each member furnishes a young beef "critter" in turn during the season, the butcher kills it and outs it up into 16 lots, of throe pieces each -a piece of steak, roast and boiling piece in each lot. When the beef is weighed, the member providing it, gets credit for its value (at a fixed price) in the books of the Company, and is charged with the value of eaoh lot as he gets it, and at the end of the season he settles with the Company. We began operations the other day by killing Wm. Pearn's 2 -year-old heifer, which weighed 476 lbs. There are no'ess than 30 fam- ilies to be supplied by this company. Where the family is too small to oonsume a full share, they take a neighbor into partnership. Mr. Ferguson organized a company in Downie two years ago, and has known these companies to be in op- eration for the last 25 years. tat- cserol Newss. A San Jose (Cal.) court fined a men $1 for winking at a lady. A vicar in England has himself by refusing to baptise a child "Jubilee." J. W. Berry, the champion hammer thrower of the world, sailed for New York on Saturday. France and Abyssinia are said to have concluded a treaty which shuts Italy out from the Red Sea literal. There is a cute Yankee in an Illinois town who plants a sunliower seed in every hill of beans, the stalk serves for a bean pole, while the seed is utilized for chicken feed. A nospitsl for animals will soon bo erected in London, and at the same time free dispensaries will be opened, where the horses„donkeys, eats, dogs and birds of the poor can be treated when ill. A French tenor, who washissed£or bad singing, gave this little speech to the aud- ience : 'Ladies and genlemen, I have a wife and five ohildren to support, there- fore, it is useless for you to hiss me ; for, being a good husband and father, I shall be obliged to sing as long as I have breath.” Tho only meat which Mr. Edison, the inventor, will eat is beefsteak, helikes all kinds of vegetables, and for dessert al- ways takes fruit, strawberries being fawn. rites. It only takes him a few minutes to eat his dinner. Soups are omitted from his table. When Mr. Edison uses the telephone he fairly shocks whoever receives his message by talking very loudly. Being slightly deaf he does not appreciate the high pitch of his own voice. A 28 -foot vein of what promisee to be a valuable kind of fuel has been discovered is Elisnote, Cal., and it is thought that the whole valley is underlaid with it. It is described by the News of that plane as quite soft, and easily worked when in trio mine, but its gets hard when exposed to the air. It resembles slate somewhat in appearance, although of a somewhat lighter Dolor. It is Olean, leaves no mark or stain on the hand, does not slack or crumble in the air, can be split like mica, into very thin fibres, burns freely, and needs only to be ignited with a match, smells like burning rubber when being consumed, and leaves behind a jet blank ash, resembling lampblack in all its pro- perties. It is said to bo worth $16 per ton for making gas. Capacity of a freight oar. -A load is nominally ten tons, or 20,000 pounds. The following can be =tried :-Whiskey, 60 barrels ; salt, 70 barrele ; lime, 70 bar - role ; flour, 90 barrels ; eggs, 180 to 160 barrels ; flour, 200 soaks ; wood, 8 oords.; cattle, 18 to 20 head; hogs, 50 to 60; sheep, 80 to 100 ; lumber, 6,000 ; barley, 800 bushels ; wheat, 840 bushels ; flax- seed, 360 bushels ; apples, 870 bushels ; corn, 400 bushels ; potatoes, 480 bushels ; oats, 680 bushels ; bran, 1,000 bushels, butter, 20,090 pounds ; oranges, 250 (box- es ; strawberries, 20,000 pounds, includ- ing refrigerators; all other fruits of all kinds, 20,000 pounds to the oar. They are now building oars of 40,000 to 60,000 pounds capacity, in which 500 boxes of oranges eau bo loaded. The Chinese aro to have new coinage, and ninety coining presses and all neces- sary machinery for fitting up a mint in China will be ready b) next April. Tbo presses, which are being made in Eng- land, are ooiselees and automatic, and are capable of producing 2,700,000 mine per day of ton hour'', The coins are to be dollar pieces and three sub -divisions, a half, a fifth, and a tenth in silver, SS well as "sash" or "mills," equal to one. thousandth part of a dollar in rolled brase. The silver dollar is equal to 5s. English money. Oftthe 2,700,000 coins which are to be Willis per day, 100,006 arotob°, if required, silver dollars, The extent of the order may be estimated from the fact that the Royal Mint in London is only furnished with sixteen proems. Tho value of the daily coinage in English money is 1:25,650. A minister in Somerset county, Maine, has his sermons printed monthly, and Bends them to those of his parishioners ,u who do not go to ohnroh. Capital punishment has been abolished in Michigan, which gives additional point to the following remark of the Detroit Journal: -""At the hour of going to press' yesterday, two mom murders had been oommitted in Michigan this week. One a day is now the average allowance." A man at Genesee, Ill., took sink the other night and sent his nephew out for some pills. The young man, finding the drug stores all closed and one solitary grocery open, entered and procured a handful of small white beans. When ha got home he filled a pill box in his room with beans and took them to his nano. The beans were taken and proved quite efficacious, as the man recovered the fol- lowing day. A. coldly widow's cap was sent to Queen Victoria as a jubilee elft from the Queen - Regent of Spain. Itis made of prioeless old Spanish lane, with an embroidered veil at the bank hanging almost to the ground, and a pearl diadem in front, the jewels being embroidered on,the lace by Queen Christina herself, who is an ao- complished needle:woman. The cap is copied from an old portrait which Queen Christina found in the palace of Madrid, representing a widow of the Spanish roy- al house in the gold costume of three cen- turies ago. "Another 'fastest steamer in the world' hasjuatbeen launched on the Clyde," says the Pall Mall Gazette. "Tire other day the Fairfield Company put into the water the Queen Victoria, which did 22i- knots 2}knots (25.62 miles) an hour on her trial trip. This speed hse been exceeded by her sister paddle steamer, the Prince of Wales, which steamed the measured dis- tals at the rate of 24} knots (28 miles) an hour. This is flying with a verge. arm. Both boats aro foe the Liverpool d; Isle of Man Line." the The libraryof e British museum now contango more than 2,000,000 books, which occupy three miles lineal of book- cases eight feet high. The library has increased to such an extent that .the dis- position of the books has become a ser- ious difficulty to the authorities. There is still so much crowding that in a very short time the state of the library will necessitate the building of a new wing, unless other means are devised to obviate the difficulty. The scheme which has now been considered by the trustees and has received their sanction, is one for the introduotion of movable presses into the library. The address presented to Queen Viotor- iaby British residents in Austria-Hun- gary is a splendid specimen of Viennese art work. The ground is of dark brown leather carved by band. The subjects are the rose, shamrock and thistle, with the royal cipher reproduced in various com- binations andwith the most beautiful ef- fect bya ffectbya genuine master -hand. It may be remarked that the °erring of leather is now almost a lost art in Vienna, being practised only by a very few artist work- men. The royal arms on the case are in reponssebronze gilt, with the escutcheon and the bordering eat in the finest colored enamels. A very swell dinner recently in New York began with raw oysters, tiny ones opened from the shells, the outsides of which had been burnisheduntil they wore fit for jewellery. They were served in frames of twisted and silvered wire, each holding ten bivalves. Then came clear soup in hand -painted dishes. Boiled sal- mon, with while canoe and Parisian po- tatoes came third. Dishes ornamented with pictures of fish have gone out of fashion with the very swell. Chicken croquettes and asparagus were fourth ; next small broiled birds ; then fillets of beef with mushrooms ; then ices with cake, and finally with coffee. Prof. Ford is a well-known temperance lecturer of Detroit. He has entered snit claiming $100 damages from the propria. tors of a laundry, under somewhat hum- orous circumstances. He claims that his washing was not delivered as promised, and consequently that 81 cents were ex- acted wrongfully from hint ; that he was caused trouble and annoyance because of the failure to deliver; that he was com- pelled to pnroliase underwear of undesir- ed kind and of insufficient size ; that he was caused annoyance and hindrance by wearing olothing too small and think, which caused illness for about 30 hours; that he had to take a long and weary trip searching for a washerwoman in a small place ; and finally that he had so wear country-laundried linen in public on two occasions. The laundry firm ask for se- curity for costs on the ground that the Professor, being a temperance lecturer, has no visible means of support. Some peoplebake their fun in a peculiar way. Since Her Majesty's accession to the throne, England has seen sixteen new Ministeries formed, and nine Premiers have at various times held the reins of Government. In 1837 Visoount Mel- bourne was Prime Minister, having taken office for the seoond time April 18, 1885. The list of hie enmessozb up to the present time, with the dates of their appoint- ments, is as. follows •; Sir Robert Peel, -Sept. 0,184i. Lord John Russell, July 6, 1846. Earl' of Derby, Fob, 27, 1862. Earl of Aberdeen, Deo. 28, 1852. Lord Palmerkton, Feb. 10, 1865. Earl of Derby, reb, 25, 1868. Lord Palmerston, Juno 18, 1850, Earl Russell, Nov.6, 1865. Earl of Derby, July 6, 1866.. Benjamin Disraeli, Feb. 97,1868. W. E. Gladstone, Deo. 9, 1868. Benjamin Disraeli, Feb. 21, 1874, W. E, Giadeto o, April 28, 1880. Marquis of Salisbury, Juno 24, 1881. W. E. Glad'etone, Feb. 6, 1886. Marquis of Salisbury, Atig; 3, 1886,