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Lyle had a savage ""â- ".â-  a firl at Hamilton recently. ... over a n"' " i hcds iu F'ritish Columbia are being 'â-  ' â- ";; d'jilar to three dollars an III' ",,..' ^-e il.Kusaiiil dollars has JQst been â- ^Im-'c'i 2"""'a "" Indians of the Noith- ' T. ;.^it Fathers from New York are v.'.:-n"'a retreat at St. .Mi'-y's cathedral, '--.r. cf -M' Mackeczie Bjweli, Minister V""., 5 MT'i been made a customs officer .:|_JS.0 !â- ' â- " â- ;. Hvior Lar.gevin laid the corner stone 1.^. e new G' vernment buildiugd at Port '.rft^'eut-y- â- ;â-  ,tgi- Blaia of Maine ha^i been invited I ^,2tht Do::iiaioa exhibition at St. Joha, 'J- ;ib!e Christian Canfereiice has re- I, ito cu with Union, despite the tlfe Kngl sh body. .Icseph Ludgate, of the Hamilton I, vation '.rniy, net having paid his fine, is It: .Itbat. ..ved t ,;-.;on 'J Capt. .int Ul goal if he can be found. (,a Union in the General Gon- .â-  ,j, Lu^ MetliOiSiit Church of Canada w'iW, iionii^.es to be a very protract- |i: i--' iohn L'jwe, for many years a leading .ipbailatr at Moser's lliver, N. S., com- •tej suijide by blowing out his brains iia a revolver. .^ man named Howson was feeding a l-icjhiu" machine at Cumberland, near Iirtawa. when his clothing became entangled Ij; the machinery and he was killed. LODstable Glendenning, butcher to the C. Ilroop, X. ^\ • ^^- '• accidentally wounded |;iicstii during the performance of his duties In the iud iust., and bled to death. John Archer, storekeeper and postmaster |j; White Oak, on the fourth concession lif ft'estminster, his abscondf-d with his liervant girl, leaving his wile, children \m creJitors behind. He has married the .;rl. The Fruit Growers Asssoiation has closed |.:3 session at St. Catherines. A committee lias appointed to consider the best means' lieani of er.r)rcing the existing laws, and lyailvise furtl.er legislation to extirpate the ICanaJa thist'e and the black knot. UXITEiJ STATES. Tne rir.st synod of the West Presbyterian, I:: in sessii n at Ijfctroit. Thirty iier.scns were injured by the derail- igDi :.u express traip at Atlantic City re- liently. .\t.\" \v York, Bertha Heyman |:deEi:e i'jeen, has been the con- sentenced to three the world.' He is 108 yoan old. and has been u the ministry 84 yeira. The commander of the French fleet in Ljbinese wsters, has been ordered vo stop Ohmese boats carrying arms or troops. i.u^^*.?"!*^â„¢'"'^^**â„¢ was three houis in the saddle at the mUitary review in Berlin reoenl^y. It is a-aerted he is as spry as a man of 50. *» Bail for the ConiwpUy brotbtra, on trial at iiratt, Ireland has been refused. An inform- er rwore that one of the prisoners ii-anted nim.to throw vitriol on John Cirroll. ^-Ojponovan Rossa denies that he gave Jas McDermott. the man on trial at Liverpool tor conspiracy, any letter or postal card, lie declares the trial is the greatest f irce of tae ag3. It is called to mind that in 1SG5 cholera disappeared in the first week in August and broke out again with greater virulence thin ever the latter part ot the same month at Oamietta. An organization has been formed in Eag- la^d to commemorate the work of Luther. The Protestants of the ki igdom are request- ed to hold religio-' mocrmg* oq several days, beginning wi h the 10th of November, the date of Luther's birth. .(..rs a the penitentiary. September 3rd was the hundredth anni- '^Ersary of the signing of the definite treaty )â-  peace between England and the United IJates. Seventy- five cases of cartridges and one |;:iidred cases of rifles and revolvers have Len shipped to Shanghai from San Francis- â- 0. .IcDnductor on a Sjranton, Pa., railway, Ipc: John Kerrigan, aged IS, ofi' a train wich was going at the rate of thirty miles |iDi:our. Kerrigan was killed. Capt. Khodes, is in Brantford, Pa., trying; 'â- â€¢ raise luaus to enable him to swim the P'agara Hapids. He wants the money for 1 3j wife in caie the worst happens, Ti:e city 0" New York has been divided ht} districts by the New Y'ork Free Trade I:b, and meetings to inculcate free trade |p:;n.ip!es are to lield in each district. A report comes from Matamoras of a rtisel !ound floating with only the body cf ::e man en it, all the rest having been â- :rown ovir'board after dying with yellow I -sver. Charles W. Connolly, a Second Adventist t: Florida, lias written a book predicting I'teenJ of the world and the second coming â- ; Christ next October, within ten days h^ter the visible appearance of the new l^oon, One humired chests of tea have been re- J -cted at the bay of San Francisco by the p-'pector, en the ground of adulteration I *;th foreign ai.d exhausted leaves, sand, and I 'ner impurities. The tea will have to be "-isen back to China. I eo. B. Bunnell, of Bunnell's museum, "w York, a millionaire showman, has "Mn arrested at New Haven, Conn., on the •^idence of a Mrs. Maria Magee, for in- dent exposure of person on a New York 'Jpress train. Lightning struck the school-house at Un- I l^rhiil, Vt., while the school was in session, •We up the floor, threw down the ceiling, I "tire the soles from one boy's shoes, and ms.de plittle girl deaf, while many of the children 1 *ere hurt bv flying splinters. THE OLD WORLD. *^lio!eia continues to decresEe in Egypt. Cardinal Howard has failed in hia pacific paaion to Berlm. 'jne agency alone has assisted 16,C00 Irish I sitls to emigrate this year. Prince Bismarck and the Austrian Minis- 5^ of foreign affairs have been in consulta- The Spanish Cabinet has decided to hold '^to the sweets of cthce a little longer. Tke wife of the Tichborne claimant and °*r two children are in the workhouse at ^^ithampton. All British war vesrels are lo be provid'ed ^^ nets of wire rope for detence against 'Woes. G«r ived in Fra cu m irance. many has the o'dest living priest ii TbeKaok and the SanHatb. A clerical friend, a rector of long experi- ence, who has given much attention to the habit of rooks, tells me that these birds quite understand the difiFerence between Sunday and week days. He speaks more particularly about those that breed about churches, and their behavior, noted by him scores of times, is fair proof of the fact, how- ever singular it may seem. Shy enough during the other days of the week, on Su^n- days they will become comparatively tame, permitting nearer approach, as though they knew that on the Lord's day there was no danger of their being molested. I myself have noticed their air of fearlessness or trust- ing confidence on this day greater than on others, and have no doubt of the fact. But how IS it brought about Sagacious bird as is the rook, its sagacity can hardly be equal to counting seven, or keeping a calendar. That it can tell a gun from an umbrella, or walking stick, or farm implement, is a fact well known but its being able to distin- guish Sundays from week days is a still greater stretch of reasoning intelligence. My friend ofi'ers an explanation, which is no doubt the true one, that the birds are made aware of the sanctity of the day, or rather its safety to themselves, by the ring- ing of the bells, and the assembling of the people to worship. It would be worth noting whether they also lay aside their shyness on occasions when there is a funeral or week day servic3 in the church. In relationship with the fact of the rook distinguishing between Sundays and week days is another of almost equal singularity their choosing trees in proximity to a church at a nesting-place. For that they show this preference seems unquestionable. Proof of it may be seen at many country churches where there are rookeries established on a scanty lot of trees of no great height, and easily accessible to the birdnesting boy, while in the near neighborhood are clumps of tall ones, just the sort one would expect rooks to build upon, showing not a neat. Nor can it bo shelter that rules the selection. Often the trees by the church are in exposed situations, and thc3 nest blown off to their last stick during the autunm equinoctials, whereas on other trees, only a few hundred yards distant, they would have remained throughout the winter with but little dam- age done, and so saved the labor of their re- building in the spring. It would seem, then, as though these birds have a knowledge that proximity to a church affords them protection, which it usually does both from gun and nest-robbing boy, partly from the force of public opinion, and, at times, fear of the vicar. Mrs Lugtry at Home. A London correspondent a few nights ago saw Mr. Langtry at Drury Lane. He siya she "sat in the stalls, somewhat oddly at- tired. Her dress, a scarlet brocade made high in the throat, was singularly unbecom- ing. It was a long tirne before the stall audience knew she was present. I should not have recognized her bad she not been pointed out to me. The strong colors of her dress utterly destroyed her complexion. Moreover, she looked thin and worn. Her hair was dragged away from her face, aa it is in one of the popular ' Soap' advertise- ments of her which are stuck about in the public omnibuses. Unless her beauty on Saturday night was marred by her toilet it has fled she is no longer ' the Jersey Lily' whon artists painted, and of whom poets sang. I told you many months ago that she would not appear in London on her return. It bas been industriously announced that she would, but it is now understood that she will not. She is to play a short engagement at the Theatre Royal, Manchester, after which, it is said, she goes to Paris 'for study and dresses.' " Xnak a Ttear aaA Swore off. The ArkcoMaw Traveller, a hnmorons pa- per, sometimes drops into the pathetic vein, as witness the following story from its columns "B3ys, I won't take lessen yon take jrha' I do," said old Josh Spillit, in reply to an invitation. He was a toper ol long standing and abundant capacity, and th^ boys looked at him in astonishment, " The idea," one of them replied, " that yon should prescribe conditions is langhable. Perhaps you want to force one of your ab- ominable mixtures on as. You are chief of the mixed-drinkers, and I will not agree to your conditions." " He wants to run us in on caster oil and brandy," said the Judge, who would willingly have taken the oil to get the brandy. " No, I'm square," replied Spillit, "Take my drink and I'm with you." The -boys agreed, and stood along the bar. Everyone turned to Spillit and regarded him with interest. "Mr. Bartender," said Spillit, "give me glass of water." " What, \vater "' the boys exclaimed. " Yes, water it's a new drink on me, admit, and I expect it's a scarce article with all of you, Lemme tell you how I came to take it. Several days ago a passel of us went fishing, and we took a fine chance of whiskey along, an' had a heap of fun. Long toward eve^m' I got powertul drunk an' crawled under a tree an' went to sleep. The boys drunk up all the whiskey and came back to town. They thought it a good joke 'cause they'd left me that drunk, and told it around town with a mighty bluster. My son got a hold of the report and told it at Home. AV^ell, I laid under that tree all night, an' when I woke iu the mornin' thar sat my wife right thar by me. ' She didn't say a word when I woKe up, but she sorter turned her bead away. I got up an' looked at her. She still didn't say no- thin' but I could see that she was chok- in' •' 'I wish Ihadsuthmte drink,' s'l." " Then she tuck a cup what she fetched with her an' went down to whar a spring biled up an' dipped up a cupful an' fotch it to me. Jest as she was handin't it ter me, she leaned ever ter hide her eyes an' I seed a tear drap in the water. I tuck the cup an' drank the water an' the tear, an' risin' my hand I vowed that I would never hafter drink my wife's tears agin that I had* been drinkin' them for the last twenty years, an' that I was goin' to stop. You boys know who it was that left me drunk. You was all in the gang Give me another glass of water, Mr. Bai tender." "one of the French ministers attended the j dcy^"'" °^ ^^^ 8*atue of Lafayette at Le- ij^® Emperor's mesiage^at the opening of ^fj^etman Reichstag has been favourably '*«iTed in Vr-r, â€" Iiady Base-Balllats. Sixteen young ladies,, aided by two young lads, played base-ball at Pastime Park, Philadelphia, a few days ago. They wore jaunty little white cloth hats, shoes of the regulation style, untanned belts, and white dresses with trimmings either blue or red. The occupant of first base (accordmg to the Philadelahia T»me«) did honor to her posi- tion When the ball was carefully tossed to her, so that she could put her hands down Ld scoop it in, she took hold of it graceful- ly, and sent it back to the pitcher but if it came at any speed she quietly stepped aside^ and emilingly let it pass, ^o^^eed.itwas with many of the fielders. The most prom- iBine "flies" sUpped through theu' lovely little hands like water through a sieve, but stiU they smUed and contentedly ran after the playful ball, as though it was ]ust as well to deUver it at one time as at another. There was no unladylike hurrying. Miss Miller, as a pitcher, was gentleness itaeU. The closing exercises of a school in Honolulu conLted in part of t^e producUon 5 Pinafore" by Hawainui children The cSen'i proficiency inEnghsh and of their acting. A Unique Weddlng-Cake. One of the items connected with a mar- riage about to be celebrated in aristocratic circles is a magnificent wedding-cake of which the following is a brief description The cake consists of three tiers, surmounted by a castle, made an exact architectural copy of the bride's home. The stand, owing to the sizs of the cake, is made of wood and gilded, no gold or silver stand in the trade being available. The whole structure mea- surea five feet high and weigha two hundred weight. The stand is three feet four inches in diameter and nine inches in height. The first tier of the cake is two feet and a half across and ten inches high, decorated with eight arabesque ornamental columns, each surmounted by a small vase holding orange blossoms and maiden-hair ferns. Between the columns hang eight festoons. The top of the tier is ornate with filigree piping. The second tier measures one foot eleven inches in diameter and eight and a half inches high. Four panels adorn this tier, two of which contain the coat-of-arms of the bride and bridegroom respectix ely, painted on white silk, in true heraldic colors, each surmounted by pearls and ferns. The two other panul3 exhibit the monogram) of the pair, also on ailk and colored in harmony with the coats-of-arms, but surrounded by wreaths of orange blosoms and maiden-hair ferns. Between the panels hang four pretty gypsy baskets, full of stephanotis, orange blossoms, green ferns, and silver-leaves. Between each basket and panel hangs a cor- nucopia, with orchids, etc. Over each panel is a pair of flying doves, and a dove also is placed between each basket and cornucopia standing on the top of the tier are eight cupids, each rising out of a bouquet of orauge blossoms and holding over his shoulder a stephanotis, out of which is flDwing a stream of water, represented here by spun glass. The top and bottom of the tier are embellish- ed witn filigree piping. The third tier is twenty inches across and six inches high, ornamented with eight fes- toons made of stephanotis, orange blossoms, erica, oats, and silver ferns. Drooping sprays of orange buds and blossoms and Sliver leaves hang between the festoons down to the second tier. Over each festoon ia an ornamented scroll bracket, from which hangs by silver wire a basket of c range blossoms, oats, maiden-hair, and silver ferns. Fili- gree p'ping as before finishes off the top of this tier. Above this tier stands the Norman castle, with outer castellated wall four and a half inches high, containing a portcullis entrance, with turrets on each side. Inside are the moat and draw-bridge leading through a Norman doorway to the court, nine and a half inches high, with its three turrets and rows of windows. Further back is the keep, eighteen inches high and six in diameter, its fourteen windows overlooking the whole structure. At the very top is the large flag- staff, nine inches high, floating the banner of the house. â€" British and Foreign Confec- tioner. KUled by an Xlepluuit. Henry Packer, of Hartford,Conn.,employ€d by the trainer of elephants with Barnum's show, was killed at Cincinnati by the ele- phant, "Queen" lately. He had not provoked the animal in any way, but was at work pre- paratory to the morning parade, when the monster suddenly pinioned him with her great body against the side of a tableau car, and remorselessly crushed the hfe out of him. The pressure was so violent that the car was thrown over, and thus the poor f el low was released. The trainer says it ia only a proof of the sly, malicions cunniog of these beasts. He thinks she saw the oppor- tunity to do mischief to Packer and em- braced it. The wounded man was taken to the hospital in a patrol waggon and died in a few loors. Paemlgiluu of Java. Java, an island of the Indian archipelago, the scene of the recent volcanic eruption, is the moat fertUe and prosperoos tropical is- land in the world, situated between lat. 50® 52' and 8 » 46' S., and Ion. 105® 11' and 114 33' E. The geological formation of Java is highly volcanic A range of mountains runs from one end of the island to the other, through the centre, with peaks â-¼arrying in height from 4,000 to 12,000 feet. The highest is Semiru, 12,235 feet Slamat is 11,329 feet six other peaks are each over 10,000 feet high six others are 9,000 feet, and ten others from o. 000 to 9,000 feet. Among these peaks are 38 volcanoes, some of which are in constant activity. The most remarkable ot these is in the Tenger, "wide" or " spacious," mountains on the east part of the island. It rises from a very lairge bas3 in a gentle slope with gradually extending ridges. The summit seen from a distance appears less conical than that of the other volcanoes, and ia about 8,000 feet high. The crater is more than 1,000 feet below the highest point of the mountain. It is THE LAKGEST CRATER 0f THE GLOBE, with perhaps tie single exception of that of Kilauea in the Hawaiian islands. The shape of the crater is an irregular ellipse with a minor axis of 3^ and a major axis of 4^ miles, and it forms an immense gulf with a level bottom covered with sand, which the Javanese call Liut Pasar, or " Sandy Sea." From its centre rise three cones several hun- dred feet in height, one of which called Brahma, is in almost constant activity. South of the great central range is another range of mountains, from 3,000 to 8,000 feet in height, which skirts the south coast. It is composed of volcanic materials, chiefly basalt, and is called by the Javanese Kan- dang or " war drums," from the peculiar columnar form of its rocks. The volcano Papandayang in this range threw out in a single night in 1772 ashes and scoria3 spread- ing over an area of seven miles radius a lay- er fifty feet thick, destroying forty native villages and 3,000 people. On .luly Sth, 18S2, the volcano Galunggong, a few miles north-east of Papandayang, destroyed every- thing within a radius of twenty miles. Five days later a second eruption followed, and the total loss of life in both was 20,000 per- sons. The south shore of the island is in many places bounded by steep piles of trap Low ranges of limestone occur in the eastern part, and in the ^extreme west a few granite boulders are occasionally found. HOT SPRIN'CiS ARE NUMEROUS at the bases of the volcanoes, and some of them are impregnated with carbonic acid. In the lowlands there are mud volcanoes, which furnish muriate of soda. The princi- pal elevated plains of Java are those known as Solo and Kediri, which comprise the cen- tral districts, and in the* wtst that of Ban- ooDg. These plains are fertile and well watered by streams from the mountains, which afford an abundant supply of irriga- tion. There is also a long alluvial tract running along the north side of the island, which may be regarded as a con- tinuous plain, and many of the moun- tain valleys are also spacious and fertile, There are a few small and beautiful lakes among the mountains, and some exteneive marshes, which in the rainy season become lakes and are navigated. The largest of these is in the Province of Banyumas, and is close to the south shore. The island, however, is abundantly watered. The rivers on the north aide are very numerous, but are none of them navigable for large vessels, being all more or leas obstructed by bars of mud or sand at their mouths. They are, however, of great use for irrigation, and contribute largely to the immense agri- cultural capacity of the island The largest river in Java is the Solo, which rises in one of the low ranges on the south side of the island, and after a winding cou^e of 356 mUes, empties by two mouths into the nar- row strait which aeparates Java from the west end of the island of Madura. This river is navigable all the year by small boats, and by large ones in all the months except August, September, and October. The second river in size is called by the na- tives the Brantas, but is known to Euro- peans as the river of Surabaya, .-ind contributing to form its harbor. A HETEROGEXEOUS POPDLATION, Though in reality Java is wholly pos- sessed by the Dutch, two native kingdoms, comprising together not more than one- fourteenth of the island, have been suffered to retain a nominal existence, under the control of the Dutch officials. These are the dominions of the Senaan or Emperor of Surakertas, and the Sultan of Jokjoherta. The rest of the island, with Madura, is divided into twenty- three provinces, called residences. The principal cities are Ba- tavia, the capital. Bantam, Bintenzorg, Cheribon, Samarang, Surabaya, Surakerta, and Jokjokerta. 'The native population of Java comprises two distinct nations, the Sundese and the Javanese. The Sundese occupy the western end of the island, and are graatly inferior in- number to the Java- nese, as well as less-advanced in civilization. They speak a distinct language, the Sundese, while nine tmths of the entire native popu- lation speak Javanese. Both classes are of the Malayan race, and are generally about two inches shorter than the men of the Mongolian and Caucasian races, with round faces, wide mouths, high cheek bones, short and small noses, and small, blactt, deep- seated eyes. Java is one of the moat densely-populated countries of the world, the population, inclusive of Madura, amounting, according to a census taken at the end of 1872, to 17,298,200, being 337 persons to the square mile. Of these, 28.926 were Europeans, 185,758 Chinese, and 22,32 Arabs and other foreign Orientals. The Javanese are almost entirely occupied in agriculture. There is a small class of fishermen on the north coast, and a few artisans in the towns, but the great bulk of the pE;ople live directly or indirectly by the cultivation of land, in which they have made greater progress than any other Asia- tic nation except the Chinese and Japanese. The chief cereal is rice, of which, with the aid of irrigation, industriously and almost universally applied, two crops are raised in a year. Java is one of the princiral coffee- growing countries of tiie world. The coffee plantations are situated at an elevation of ^4000 feet and upward, and are conducted onder the supervision of the Colonial Gov- ernment. The cultivation of sngur is next in importance indigo, cottm, pepper, tea, and tobacco are also raised. The commerce of Jaya is transacted chift^ at the ports •{ Batavia, Samarang, and Surabaya. THK -VALlAr OF. DEATH. Several of the Malaysian islands bear traces of volcanic origin. In Java itself there is a crater at tne eastern end of the idand which contains a lake about one- fourth of a mile long, stroogly impregnated with sulphuric acid. From this lake there issues a stream of water so destructive to life that even fish cannot live in the sea near its mouth. Another extinct volcano, called Gaevo Upas, or the Vale of Poieqn, is held in horror by the natives. Every living creature that enters it drops dead, and the soil is covered with the carcasses of deer, birds, and even the bones of men, killed by the carbonic acid gas which lies at the bottom of the valley. Krakatoa is an island in the Straits of Snnda, latitude 6 deg. 9 min. south, longitude 105 deg, 29 min. east. It is about six or seven miles long and four or five miles broad. ROUGH ON HENS Art ficial Bggs that Would Deceive the meet. I followed my conductor to one end of the apartment, where there were three large tanks or vats. One was filled with a yellow compound, the second with a starchy mixture, and the other was covered. Point- ing to these the proprietor said " These compose the yolk mixture and the white of egg. We empty the vats every d^y, so you can judge of the extent of the business al- ready. Let me show you one of the machines. You see they are divided into different box- es or recepiaclea. The first and second are the yolk and white. The next is what we titm the 'skin' machine, and the last one is the sheller, with drying trays. This process is the result of many years of experiment and expense. I first conceived the idea after making a chemical analysis of an egg. After a long time I succeeded in making a very good imitation of an egg. I then turned my attention to making the machinery, and the result you see for yourself. Of course it would not be policy for me to explain all the mechanism, but I'll give you an idea of the process. Into the first machine is put the yolk mixture â€" " "What is that " I asked. "Well, its a mixture of Indian meal, corn starch, and s ^veral other ingredients. It is poured into the opening of a thick, mushy state, and is formed by the machine into a ball and frozen. Iu this condition it passes into the other box, where it is surrounded by the white, which is chemically the same as the real egg. This is also frozen, and by a peculiar rotary motion of the machine an Oval shape is imparted to it, and it passes into the next receptacle, where it receives the thin filmy skin. After this it has only to go into the sheller, where it gets its last coat in the shape of a plaster cf Paris shell, a trifle thicker than the genuine article. They it goes out on the drying trsys, where the shell rises at once and the inside thaws out gradually. It becomes, to all appearances^ a real egg." " How many eggs can you turn out in a day " "Well, as we are running now, we turn 01 fc a thousand or so every hour." "Many orders?" "Why, Dless your soul, yes. We cannot fill one-half of our orders." " Can they be boiled " "Oh, yes;" and he called one of the men. " Here, Jim, .bo'l this gentlemm an egg." •'Can they be detected " I icq lired, while the bagus egg was being boiled. " I hardly think that anybody would be likely to observe any difference unless he happened to be well posted, as they look and taste like the real thing. VVe can, by a little flavoring, make them taste like goose or duck eggs, of course altering the sizs. They will keep for years. That ons you have eaten was nearly a year old. They never spo'l or become rotten, and, being harder and thicker in their shells, they will stand shipping better than real eggs. Oh, it's a big thing, and capable, I suppose, of being brought to still greater perfection. One of my employes here insists that if I go to work at it I can invent a machine which will run the eggs into an incuba- tor and hatch out spring chickens." â€" N. Y. Sun. CURIOUS FACTS. The full-blooded Indians of Indian terri- tory make their bread of pounded corn meal and beans, and flavor it with lye. All the sycamore trees now in Scotland have sprung from a little tree which Mary Stuart brought from France and planted in Holyrood. An idiot of the religious sort in Wisconsin has his cellar painted and fitted up with flames and demons to represent hell, and takes his children in it to whip them. An island about three acres in extent, re- cently discovered off the coast of California is almost paved with the eggs of sea fowl, and the discoverers think that it is the greatest bird's nest in the world. The Chinese think that white men wear red clothes haye red hair and blue eyes sunk in the head, or vertical or at the back fatigue themselves on every occasion need- lessly,' and have the restless curiosity of monkeys. The wife of the editor of the Sydney Herald, a lady of great beauty, personified "The Press," at the Savage Club ball in London recently. The dress ia made of white satin, on which actual copies of her husband's paper have been printed in color- ed inks. Nearly all the myths as to the origin of fire represent it as stolen from the gods, sometimes by a man. In several of these legends the stolen fire is hidden in wood, whence it may be brought out by rubbing. Dr. Delanney has tried to establish before the French Anthropological Society the fact that right handedness is not an acquired habit, but a characteristic of the superior races. Savage tribes show a larger propor- tion of left-handed people than those which are civilized, and idiots and epileptics ofier a very large per oentage of left-handed in- dividuals. After this statement it was un- gallant in the Doctor to say that there are more left-handed women thaii men. 11 W .P u-'s .11