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THE WEEK'S NEWS CANADA. The Karl of Westnutih ii at present in Montreal on vuit. A daily steamboat Mrvioe will be eitab- lulled uem Mason tetweeo Port .Stanley, Oat., and C.evjlund, U. Two meu named .1. S. Shippey ami A. McDonald, prospectors, war* drowned at Kat Portage ou >aturdy morning. It ii understood ttiit In; long-pending negotiation! (or the mli(inuon of the Montreal aodCon*umm Git Cjinpancet of Montreal have been completed. The City Engineer ol Toronto, hai re- commended th%l during the winter months the irotermen on ilreet can be pro* l* .-ted by veillbule* altaoheJ to the can. The Mauey Manufacturing Company, of Toronto, 11 making arrangement* for mov- ing into the United Statei, no ax in enjoy tnt advantage of free raw material pro- vided by the new Wilson Tariff Act. Monroe, Slrang, LM A Company, of New York, general railway contractor!, are preparing a large oulrit, and will ihorily commence work on the South Shore rail- y, running from Yarmouth to Shelburne, way, N.S. Mr. .lamei A. Walker died OP Wednef- day at hu rrndcncv in Montreal, a v*r two yean' illness, at the age of seventy-five yean. With the exception of Sir David Macphenon, he wai the lait of the old for warden in Canada. Mr. W. Peel, son of the Speaker of the Bntiih Houae of Common*, and Mr. Morn* on of Lord Morrn, formerly Lord Chief Joitioe of Ireland, who were in Montreal recently, are making a tour of Carada and the United State*. Major Bereeford, who wai atatione 1 at Halifax a few month* ago, wai on Thuraday on the roof garden of the Halifax hotel. He waa in ill-health, suffering from nervous prostration, and he fell off, dashing hi* brain* out on the pavemect five itorie* be- low. He will be given a military funeral to-morrow. 'apt. McLsnghlin McLean, of the Cana- dian sealing ichooner Favorite, ha* arrived at Vutoria, h. ( '. He intends taking action againd the United State* for the illicit eeizure of hi* veateL He wa* *nt from the fiihing ground* by a United State* i-ruiaer in th* middle of the season for hav ing a rocket gun on board, with which, he ay*, it would have been utterly impouible to nave iho; a leal. l.KEAT I.I.ITAIN. The Hon . Hugh < lough, the eldest son of Viscount (lough, has been appointed secretary to the British Embassy at Wain- ington. \>r. Nettlsehip, the oculiit, has made an- other examination of Mr. Gladstone'* eyes. He I* lat lined wilh their condition, and doe* not think that another operation will l>e requisite. Lord Rossbery is expected to ipealc shortly in Glasgow, whan he will define the party position on the Home of Lords, Home Rule, and the disestablishment of the Welsh Church. Mr. .Tame* L Hnddart, the faat Atlantic line promoter, i* awaiting the publication of Lord lerney'i report before asking fur- ther silxidies or making any further at tempt* to form a company. The Imperial Government offer* a thou- sand guineai for the lieit scheme of an Imperial Cuitomi Union. The Karl of Roaebrry and the Mar.juis of .Salisbury are expected to act judge*. liiihop Sullivan, of Algotna, ha* been appointed by the Colonial Continental .Society chaplain of Christ's church. Men- tare, Ituhop Sullivan, who has been in ill- health for tome time, ha* accepted the position. The betrothal of Mm Murel Wilson, eld est daughter of Mr. Wilson, of Tranby Croft, at whose house the celebrated lirac- carat scandal arose, and Lord Willmuhby de Kreiliy, hu been broken off. No reason ha* been made public. Sir. Terence O'Brien, the Governor of Newfoundland, who ii at preienl in Lon- don, say* that a majority of the people of the colony, through loy*l to the Kmpire . would, if compelled to choose, prefer a union with the United .State* to a union with Canada. I MTK.D STATKS A scheme is on foot to have a bull fight shortly in Denver, Col. At a meeting held at Birmingham, Ala., a committee of reputable colored minis- ten was appointed to visit Liberia and investigate iti advantages for a colored colony. KishopG. A. .Smith, of the Mormon Church, says that the centre of the Church will shortly b in Mexico, and that a powerful hierarchy, greater than Salt Lake, will be established. Mr. R, P, Hutchinson, better know as "Old Hutch, ' the once famous Chicago Hoard of Trade plunger, has opened a one cent cigar store opposite the lioard, where he onoe made and lost millions. Dominion Honano, the twenty.yrar-old Italian boy shot in what was to have been a mock duel at Chicago with Pont jKorko, another tray, ii dead. It was agreed be- tween the boys that they should fire in the air above each others heads. Ilorko failed to aim high enough. A number of persons in the neighbor- hood of Ogle Station. Mo. have recently been taken suddenly ill without any appar- ent cause. It wae at length discovered that the symptoms were produced by drinking water from a well, which had become the nest of a family of big green snakes. During the coining winter Australia wil compete with Canada for the live cattle trade. Tha czar's health i* again causing iraich apprehention among his relatives and friends. The health of Grand Duke George, sec ond son of the Czar ha* taken a very serious turn. A moment fur 'he importation of Ameri can cattle into Switzerland ha* been set on foot. Japan Ii effecting new treaties with the great powers, and is being reoognired ai VOC Of lh lll'.srbood. o( cjvjli/.ej Bailout. M. Barthon, French Minister of Public Works, is agitating for the underground railway for Paris like the Metropolitan, of London. Th* Czar ha* sent an au'ograph letter to the Queen, inviting her Majesty to at- tend the wedding of the Ciarewitch and Princess Alix of Hesse. A petition bearing twenty-five thousand name* of Swias citi/.ens has lieen presented to the Federal Cmnc 1. demanding the adoption of vigoroui repremve measures against the Anarchists'] The St. Petersburg Novosti, commenting upon the situation in the East, declaree that the victory of Japan will not mak Russia falter in her strong resolve not to permit any annsxalion of Corea. A correspondent in China telegraphs that an Imperial edict has been i**ued de- priving Viceioy Li Hung Changof the three, eyed peacock feather, because of his mis- management of the Corean campaign. A body of Arabs, armed with Winchester rifles, recently assaulted the British and Danish vice-consuls and a number of other Europeans at the Gates c f 'aaablaiica, Morocco, and stol* their clothing and valu- able*. At the National Labor Congress, held on Saturday at Nantes, a unanimou* decmon wa* reached agamit a generalitrike, which, it wa* declared, wa* a Utoplian idea which would bate no effect beyond duping the rorkinaman. The Britun cruiset Ringarooma, which recently went aihoreoc a reef off Mallicollo man I, New llebnde*, hai been Moated with the assistance of the British warships (art. Lizard, and Walaroo, and the French cruisers Sacrff and Loyaute. A band of Greek brigands a few day* ago carried off the Procurer du Roi, a judge, and their two secretaries. A delachement of m. Idiers were sent to attack the brigandi, and in the right which ensued the brigands wen exterminated, but the procureur and udqe were killed. At Tuskin cattle, near Nyiregnha/a, iungary, on Monday night, a hypnotist brew Ella von Solomon, daughter of the >roprietor, into the hypnotic sleep, and uggeated that *h* wa* *utTering from con timplion. Th* girl luddeni) shrieked, fell to the ground and expired. The member* of the Peary expedition, expect Lieut. Peary, Huh Lee, a compan- on, and Matthew Henion, a colored *er- ant, who remain at Rowdoin bay for nother year, have reached St. John's XfM. The party suffered great hardship* from the extreme seventy of the weather, and accomplished nothing. WOLF HUNTING IN RUSSIA. One Wke Trie* II > II Ii ikr Meal tv Wolf hunting is proliably the most dengrrou* sport there is. With a servant and a couple of fast h.inri attached to a sleigh, I have gone out and baited the [round for the brutes on numerous occa- ions. A fat hog tied to a tree never failed 13 collect a pick. The trouble wa* that it I'ew too many. Th* wolvt* would gather to the number of _) or 3UU and devour the >ig. Then we would da*h upon th* icene nd the fun would commence. They are a* leet a* a deer. To aay that they are a* Heet a* wolvei would be mon like it. They can outrun the horses every lime, and if they are not picked off a* fail as they come up, you might as wall give up the fight and jermit yourself to be devoured. Imagine yourself making a running tight wilh a banil of 31)0 hungry, maddened wolves and with the knowledge th*'. if oje of the fleet little brute* reaches your hone* you are a dead man, and you can possibly magint what a nervy iport it is. It re juires a cool head and a good eye. If you nisi your mark, you're gone. Ynur only chance of safety is in keeping your horse* up. It is generally a long fight. You look back and see the earcaases of the animals lulling the snow for a mil* or two in your wake, and still they pursue you in great numbers. Sljwly the pauk thins out. Many tiave dropped bleeding to the ground. ( )lher* atop to devour the carcass**. The more tha. fall the more timid the rent be- come. vVhen you finally ouldislance the pack you have been through the moet try- ing ordeal that the moat ardent iporteman could wilh. 1 consider wolf hunting the most danger- ous sport thsre is. Tiger hunting in India is tarn* beside it. If you go into Ihe jungles of Ind'a to shoot a tiger, vou are accom- panied by a long retinue. You shoot your prey from the howdah of an elephant. If you mis* your victim, there are twenty bullet* ready for him before he spring*. A person might ai well go tiger hunting in a menagerie. The only unsatisfactory par- of the sport which wolves afford is that after you are all through you haven't any, thing to show for your effort*. But it is grtat sport. Early to Bed, Early to Rise. Hijorniterne ttjornien, a celebrated Nor- wegian writer, inveigh* againit the growing cuitom of turning night into day. The practice, he think*, i* altogether pernicl- oui. "It ruin* men'* health, pervert* their taitei, and is as effect ive in lowering the tandardof intellect a* theabuas of aloohol. The State ought to legislate in the main r. If State employees and the schools were made to begin work at sunri** and to cease work at mid-day (or two hours later, if necessary), this reform would soon lead to otheri. Noon would again be noon, and all shops would be closed early in tha after- noon ; evening would once more be evening a* in ((inner time*. The theater! would be open from four to seven, or from live to eight, and between nine and ten everything would be clo*ed and all light* would beort, as ai present in th* country, wh*re peopl* have not yet ceased tu work during the day and sleep at night. Such a reversion to 'elder*' noun' would do much to allevi ate the evils from which society is at prei ent suffering." Seven thousand vislton aided the people ot t.i.ui.t Junction, Cola, to celebrate peach day. Specimen* of aitonishing size weie exhibited. THE NEXT NAVAL BATTLE. Ae Affair f a t>w Minnie* Wlik Few rviven i<> Trll Ike Tale. There has not been an engagement be- tween two navies on a large scale since the replacing of the old wooden wall* by heavi- ly armed battleship* ; an I the ability of the latter to withstand the shock of onset has never been put to practical test. A writer in the United Serf ice Magazine pre- dict* that ironclacj will make short work of one another. A battle will last te o minute*. The fleet* will probably approach at th* combined rate of 28 knot* an hour. 1'he two and a half or three minute* that elapse before the fleets meet will be min- utes of the most extreme and agonizing trillion. The compartments forward in the terrible blast of tire that will open the engagement will be blown away or riddled like lieve*. Water-tight door* will be u*e- le* when there are no water-tight wall*. The whole ihip will be covered with debris, her appearance will be transformed by tbs loss of her funnels and th* destruction of the superstructure and upper works. THE RAIS or Mri.lNITt SIIKI I.s which will be pored from gun* firing smoke* leu powder will wreck all part* cf the ship ouuide the heavy armor. In (hip* where th* bar belts* are insufficiently protected the exploeion of shell* under them may bring them down with their weight of 700 or SCO tons. If once they give way the armond deck cannot support them, and they may he expected to go clean through the bottom of the ihip, involving her destruction in their downfall. The destructionof the fun- nels will deetroy the draft, the shipswill fill with smoke and the dec** probably be set on fin. Th* big guns will be discharged at five or six hundred yards. The detonation of their hug* shell* will probably, like the exploiion of a powder magazine, reduce the already wrecked ship to a hopeless chaoe, destroying ll her organization and ths nerve thread that conveys the captain's orden to the enginerooin. Kven if the armor relist* th* blow, the chock to the hip will be terrific. Sinking the turret of an ironclad, one of theae projectiles would probably, if it did not hurl it overboard, stun or kill every man in it and wreck all its complicated mechanism. This will con- '.iiute the first stage of the encounter. The ship* will now be neering one another, and the survivon of the tettrible slaughter will drive the battered hull*, low in the water, at our another. Ship*, auniving the ravages of ordnance, will ram and sink one another, and in twenty minutes from the opening of the engagement four-fifths of the ships will be on their way to the bottom of the sea. IT IS A TERRIBLE PICTI'RB, but it doe* not appear to be overdr awn. And we have not yet nearly reached the end of inventions in cannon, though the imit of armor-bearing by ships ii in sight. The dynamite gun throws a dyn amite x>mb large enough to wnck the largest warship afloat, a distance of three mile* : and w.th such accuracy that nine succees ive sho'* were recently planted in a ipac* not much bigger than a battleship. Theee gu ns are meant for coast defense, but it will be mi a short time until they are adapted for use on ship*. When thing* get to that aw that two navins, thr.-e mile* apsr'i i an wilh a single discharge blow one another nto nnlhingness "leaving not a rack be- liud," the stupendous c riminallty of a- ill bring about its own end. That is the one encouraging feature of the continued >rogreas being made in the invention uf dealhdealing instruments of war. THE MUSICAL EAR. II Wa Larklat I*) Wa*j> r Ikr Fa**e |-r..|ilr ef Ike I-M.L ' I would HIVM the world,'' said the Km- press Catharine " to be able to appreciate and love music, but I try in vain. For me it is noiie and nothing but noise." To what must we attribute the absence of the e*r for music i.i certain people ? l>oe* ihis gap belong to an intellectual order or to a purely physical order? And is there any way to make people who have not the natural instinct appreciate music ? The great Kmpreas of Russia would find herself in very good company if around her august person she aasembled in the king- dom of i In- dead all the celebritie* who like henelf did not appreciate mime. She might form a very respectable court, with all the warriors, poet*, philosopher!, litterateurs and artists of all kinds, including even musicians, who understood nothing what- ever of the beauties of that art which exer- cised such a powerful influence upon the soul of Alfred de Musset, who wrote : " ' l'is music that made me believe in God." Among the literary celebrities whose "melophobia" was notorious we might cite Beaumarchais, who wrote the famous phraao, "The stuff that isn't worth writing is good enough to sing ;" Theophile Gautier, who said that "of all noise*, inline was th* deareet ;" Fontenella, the author of "donate, i|ue me veux-tu?" who used to say that there wen three things in this world that he could never understand, namely, gambling, women, and music ; and tin. illy the amiable poet, La Fontaine. Napoleon I. hardly loved anything in harmony, except, peihaps, the roar of artillery. Musi.-, he said, troubled his nerves. Neverlheleas, likeapracticalmau, he undentood the advantage* to be deriv. d from it from a military point of view. Consequently he gave orders to the bands of different regiments to pla-, every day in front ot the hospitals to soothe and encour- age the wounded. Napoleon HI. tolerated music with great iliiliculty, and Victor Hugo, in the pride of the poet, had to be coaxed by the com- poser who iirmreil to put h's line* in muiic. "Are not my vene*," he used to say, "umciently harmonious to stand without the aasistance of diaagreeable n.-.ue ?" PERSONAL POINTERS. Urn.. 4i...i a Few ef Ike airral folk. r Ikr World. The Count of Paris' fortune amounted to about $20,000,000, but there are many who are to have share* of it. Field Marshal Sir Patrick Grant ha* just celebrated his ninetieth birthday. He went lo India on entering the army in 18*20, and saw almost all hi* active service there. A Parisian chemist has invented a lumin- ous face powder which, it is *aid, will pre- vent the ghastly appearance which beauty sometimes assumes under the penetrating ray* of the electric light. Lord Wolseley, who has jtut been ere* ated a field marshal in the English army, ha* attained that rank at an earlier age than any non -royal officer since 1760, with th* exception of the Duke of Wellington, who became field marshal at 41. Henry M. Stanley and his wife, a for- eign correspondent writes, have fallen into the background. One never see* or meet* them at any of the smart gatherings. In fact, all Englishmen seem to Vake rather a pleeaun in calling Stanley an oul-and out fraud. A former officer of the Grand Army, Hen Waethe, a wealthy man, hat gone to California to purchase ground to establish a vegetarian colony. Hi* disciple*, how- ever, .re to tat fruit and vegetable* only in the raw state, live in unfurnished huts, and wear a* little clothing a* poe- sible. In the colony an twelve German noblemen. It i* aaid of Aubrey Beard*l*y, the original and eccentric artut whose work is the present craze in London, that ke gete his marked shadow effects by laying his drawing block on the floor and working from above it, stooping over from hi* chair. Hi* work is usually very ugly, but is is al- ways entirely different from apyihing one is accuitomed to. Among the victims of the cholera in St. Petersburg is General Count Paskevitch, one of the Imperial chamberlains, and a man known throughout Russia. In Paris, under the Second Empire, he was a popular figure. His wife, one of the moet beautiful women in the foreign colony of Paris at the time, eloped wilh Lord Hamilton, of Eng (and. For the famou* charge of th* Light Brigade at Balaklava only one Victoria Crou waa awarded to an officer. Ii wa* given to Lieutenant A. K. Dunn, who aaved th* life of a non commissioned officer by cuttuiK down three Russian lancen, and later in the battle also saved the life of a private. The decoration wa* recently sold at public auction in London. President Caaimir- Perier has a strongly- developed jaw. a look of determination, and somelhin; of the aggressive appearance of a bulldog. A clever caricaturist took ad- vantage of the resemblance in appearance and name to portray him a* " M. Ca*imir- Terner, ' and th* carioatun ha* " caught on." Far from lowering him in th* public ei term, however, it ha* greatly increased hi* preatig* as th* uncompromising watch dog of the Republic. Chrsholm Robertson, one of th* foremost leaden of the great Scottish coal miner*' strike, speaks French with an unimpeach- able accent, i* acquainted to some extent with Herman, write* two system* of (horl- har.d, and read* Carlyle and Schopenhauer. He wean a velvet jacket cut a la Whistler, affect* a stovepipe hat of the pattern worn t-n yean ago, and is profuse in hi* display of jewellery. He cartie* a cane which i* aid to weigh **ven pounds. Kismarck waa a ntudent in Goettingen in ISP2 and 1S93, when his skill in fence won for him the surname "Achilles the invul- nerable" In three terms he fought JO duels, and received only a single wound, ol which the scar on hi* lower jaw near the lip i* still perceptible; but a* this wa* caused by his adversary's blade Hying from the hilt, it wa* contrary to the code, ao that hi* reputation for invulnerability n- mained technically unimpaired. Indeed, the univenity authentic* forbade him lo fighl certain projected duel* on pain of expuliion. Prince** Beatice and her hutband, Prince Henry of Battenburg, lately took a brief trip along the French coaat, utrictlv incog, and a la Boh erne. They vuited Mont St. Michel, and cheerfully joined in the ruih for seals at th* table d'hote after watching the culinary operations in the kitchens. Pricces* Beatrice had with some difficulty secured a place when a young lady opposite said to her: '-Would you mind changing with me, so that I may sit next to my young man V The nquest was of course granted, wilh so laudable an object in view. Eugenie has the London and Paris n*ws- papen read to her after breakfast every morning, and not until she knows the news of the world doe* she open her mail. The e\ Kmpress was sixty-eight yean old last spring, and aa a concession to the infirmities of age she car nee with her a plain umbrella of unbleached muslin a* a walking itiok. Ii U never unrolled, and no attempt i* made to make uie of it a* a protection against a sudden shower. She usually promenade* alone in entire indiffer- ence to her personal appearance, and dresses always in black, which look* funer- eal in contrail with hrr white hair. A Thirsty Man's Chance. A Kentucky, gentleman, who has threo chaimin, and beautiful daughten, several years ago corked up a bottle ot old whiskey, saying at the time it should not be opened until one of the three married, when the liquor should be drunk to the health of the bride at the wedding feast. The whiskey is now thirteen years old, and the girls are still unmarried. What a luscious chance for some thinly young man! YOUNG FOLKS. The Boston voting list thii yar contain ths urme* of S.47J women voters. Kingston's health officer is testing milk delivered there. Daisy Major*, a lii-yeir old girl who hai acted a postmistress at Wampum, Pa., is found lo have embezzled $l,.">0(> The Poor Rich Horse and the Rich Poor House. The poor rich hone, driven by a tall coachman with high hat and white gloves, looked very gay as he pranced up to the door of an elegant, establishment on the avenue. The breast of the noble creature wa* covered with foam, and he held hi* head very high. Hi* month wa* itretched wide open, and he toned his head up and down, and ba.-k and forth, and pawed the air with hi* fore-feet. So high were hi* eye* almost looking toward th* sky that he scarcely seemed able to see a fat old dray bone t hat stood near, regarding him with a sleepy wonder, and considering him a* belonging to another "set" than hi* entirely. The old horse did not luppoee i t would do any good to pan the time of day with hi* neighbor, a* the rich hone un- doubtedly regarded bimielf a* far too grand to communicate with *uch a humble penon- age, so he changed th* bit around in his month and wa* just about to drop off into a gentle doze, when a sound of dislrees from the rich hone caused his plain neighbor to open his eye* wide and to regard the form- er with considerable curiosity, which at length expressed lUelf in this wi* : "You look vary gay, neighbor ; are you not comfortable with your fin*, silver-plated harness and shiny trappings ' ' " I can hear ycu though 1 can scarcely see yon," answered the poor rich hone, " for my harneas, although undoubtedly very handsome, i* a perfect torture to me. You can aee for yonnelf how my head I* lied up by a new tangled contrivance they call an over-check. My eye* ai* almost blinded by the glare of the un, and my neck ache*, and my head throb*, and I am really quite miserable." " I don't know much about checknina," bluntly aaid the rich poor horse, and 1 have never hauled fine ladies around in their carriage*. I supposed, by th* way I have seen them petting you with their soft white hands, that they wouldn't want you to be dressed up so you would lie uncomfortable or suffer by it." " Oh, Ihey don't think, ' *igh*d the poor rich hone; " they doubllesa suppose I have a very fine time with nothing to do but drew this pretty doll's wagon. If I could only have my choice I would change place* wilh you . * 1 would rather haul a dirt waggon without any check-rein on than to be dressed up in this tine style and suffer as I do." " You find the dirt waggon pretty heavy hauling," replied the rich poor hone. "But I'd have my neck free and be allowed to exert my full strength doing it. " retorted the poor rich hon* with sum pint, and a* he gave an extra strain at hi check-rain, the poor rich hone noticed the blood waa starting from the corners of his mouth. "Is it the check-rain that make* your mouih bleed ?" asked the rich poor hone. "Ob, yes ; I'm gelling quite used to that. Very often my mouth is *o son 1 can icarcely e*t, and then they think I'm ill, and the surgeon with a great long name v-e-r-y-t-y-r a n-n-y, I think they call him cornea in with a black ootile and tie* up ny head, and pours some dreadful medicine down my throat and whip* me when I kick him. 1 ' The rich poor horae now opened hi* eyes wide and surveyed his companion under the light of same new idea "Well, you have a nice stable to stay in, don't *ou? Now, I !..'e nothing but a plain barn and no padding. To be sura. >n cold nights I Have straw up to my knee*, bat I don't have any blanket an 1 my hair gets rough and shaggy." "Oh, dear," sighed the poor rich hone, "I would much rather have your coat of fur, and I wouldn't can how rough it was. [f they would only let me have the hair that belong* to me it would be much more comfortable than a blanket. They cut off my hair and I feel every chilly wind that blow*. I don't dance around as you see me because I feel gay and happy, but because [ feel perfectly miserable. Sometimes they make me wear Ihe over-check and bhnden. and then it seems to me as if I would loee my wit* entirely. Little then can I see except the iky and th* top* of people'* leads; and if 1 stumble, or run away, when [ am afraid of something I can't *ee, the driver whips me where my hair has been clipped and I can't say a word back." "Oh, well, you don t have much hard work to do," said the rich poor hone ; you ought to appreciate that and make the best of your condition." TH'change plajee with you at any time," replied the poor rich hone. "My load become* heavier than your* commonly is, becsuse I am so tied back and curbed and reined that half my strength is spent trying to relievo my aching muiclei and neck. When 1 don't have lo wear the over-check, then they put on the bearing rein, which ia no belter. And then, when we fashionable horses grow old atd loee our style and spin l, we are sold to somebody who forget* we are not used to labor which developes the muscles, and we are whipped when we can't pull heavy loads, and have to endure exposure and all sort* of other hardship* when the least prepared for them." "Poor rich horse'* said the compassionate .ttache of the dray, "1 think I will try to be content with my lot after this." Just then the drayman came around with some nubbins of corn. The gay coachman mounted his box ami with a crick of his whip sent the poor rich hone fly. ng down the street. The rich poor hone rubbed his note on hi* master's shoulder and told him what he heard about poor rich horses, and th* two jogged off together, the bed friend* in the world. P leadings of Mercy. 20,000 Wheelwomen. There are 20, "00 women riders in New York and New Holland alone. If possible,* the latter staid and conservative looeluja*. is more wheel mad than New York. The enihuiiasm has spnad to the tiniest town and a little mountain hamlet of 3<V or 300 soul* will have its ijuota of wheslwomea.