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LEMS A UTS HR VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. i liems hapnog: Our Own Nay Great Britain, the United States, and All Paris of the Globe, Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading. CANADA. ment returns of the, city of of Hamaton, ‘snow an increase. of $1,- General Gascoigne has return~ ed to Oita from a prolonged stay in Englan ee Tufford was sentenced to pen- itentiary for two years at Hamilton n for a new postage Si ihe “decir stamp |+ hus pean approved by the Postmaster- roe pena Pace, oe by ‘Winnipes parties to rc 850,000 The G arines shows a gain of $275,000 in proper on’? . i ee the Monarch mine pas he been 3d by the Balton Company, for $25,000. Toronto men are the pur- The Selkirk leper, Gudmun Christ- ianson, has been conveyed to ‘Tracadie, NB. No further cases, ut is stated, ex: Pectin Cooke, of the Royal Military cotieye, K Kingston, has, it is understood been granted a commission in the Im- perial Ei vice. Immigration Commissioner _Pediey and James A. Smart, Deputy. Minister of the Interior, have left on a tour of the western States to visit immt- gration agen: The Dominion Minister of Cusiome is satisfied withithe-tirst effort to col- Collector Davis A special from. oS innipeg states that this co bat witnessed a remarkable i in t Canadian Pacific railway and also in the total sales of the land department. Sir Louis Davies; Minister of Marine and Fisheries, has issued a circular ‘to bidding the dumping of sawdust into the river. pany wit a ator to Rossland, and wi furnish Hen capi- tal to @ smell in the vicinity, ear leat (ta oes att hae ata p will be treated cheaper tlmn they ean bé'across Mr.iGedred Hizue; Genera) manager of the Merchant’s Bank of Canada, fxs it twice as valual Canadian oe. are to be invited to submit proposaits to the Government for erected on Parsiament hill, the amount to be expended on ee being $5,000 es by Parfament last session. eported that the Canadian Pa+\ °° ait Railway Cor ny have offered to Quebec _ Regarding the first tri shipment of Canadian fruit to Engcai {n cold Storage, a cabegram thas been re- ceived in Ottawa, stating that os pears, p.ums, and tomatoes arrived in good condition, but ‘the peaches and Srapes were too Tipe, and did not ar- Tive in good condition. Michael Qdrie jumped ont of a sec- pe ond-storey winavi on St. Pau street, a Teat. People picked him up, and third storey. He w a pie icked up pfeattusts mangled, and died shortly GREAT BRITA The Libera: candidate ast Den- big! ire was returned. on “fhureday with an increased ae Moka Ormiston Chi ant, ie socia. re- mer, announced during’ a lecture in War ane that ieetcrors Prino- tae during, a “tog on Wedinan's Point. ‘The Thrasher broke in two, ipe on oe the Thrash tly after she grounded. oF shorty ONITED STATES. Maj Lewis Ginter: the cigarette I king, is dying at bis home, ond, bers Potter .of New York diocese, is suffering with a severe attack of la ‘St. Clair Sampson, peed 18, aceident- Cy shot bod killed hi ig mother at Tr home P. Newark, Ns. Wed- Deda = Creek, indians have ire a centile ung ;to accept Innds in:aet- eralty Gallas ane: e their form of ernment. The price of beer im San Francisco nt gous up fully one-third within the few weeks and expected t higher. (William Pearson while digging in the saind near Covington. Ky., umearthed a eee bail is er = Pal the ate The eed es peal by the ‘The finding of a burned railroad im the debris of the Newcastle, death of Elmer Black and his bride of Pittsburg. THE EARTH'S DESTRUCTION GIGANTIC yee best BE HURLED|“ sheriff. declari the killing was “wanton and unjust In a new world about to burst forth ‘sun? bee hho thought feaveriont ap conic ‘According to Uhe discoveries made by irregular. sist oi Prof. Severinus J. ighested of the 7s United States war reid Yan. beri Obse: lead Geis asram atios hae viva the lakes, with = modern sea fire bat- ae see te report ae thie ge be. accom- between the Upited States and Great ag has pain with aie explosions, which | ®ve & it; 2 eat sturbances: reduce! Thrcushost the fein solar systemand jJueen and t. Court wines arrived at Ma ial cont San The an has Dect Tanchet at Sestri a Boriente, ome if a minority will not ‘Obey, “coerce pecdic asked, as the Paleozic age when that solar er- The Teelandic Se having oe Se: are frome iit raphie able’ will be laid ‘nest sum-| DOr Sue Paoe Selita the Uinta of ats Darts of te world Bee ly becoming bs) prominent on soe ‘onomers me sult of their resea for Sriticizing “the erratic course. s beat © resmrches are of the es “raaintammed tha! would introduce ia public ite 2 new mon Tae of the substantial identity ee ol bie thse emacle whicd are yee vail is reported! that @ powerful Span-| fie fo sound | eaertee was so expanded that’it oc C f mathe non-fighting ‘majority of males fi by Au z < WOMAN Speeeeee IN BRITAIN. al ‘And every! island fled away, and the found. And there fell upon men a great hail a Been. pictured. He believed, he said, | could ot! exist when the sun was ex- | vil for the vlagee thereof was exceet- ast ingly great: « Sol which it filled at the time the earth as into existence. ‘The separation of a vast molten mass, is globe, from the sun would, no doubt, Produee effects that might. easily make ees and indirectly, they, have an in- ae sieht to say! a their — how those been, until taal of the opinion that bod: mn. ceeeere eararted cheap jewelry. ‘Needles, pins, Ma‘am ? Sell 1 shook “Table Jinen, Tinamf” he continued as heleid that was . At that I shook my head and said, more ermpbadically, No, 1 don't want “aes ns to ny oitesese then ‘that Iwould not buy, and begam towrap up the box again. ‘After that, was accom firty 3 pit was Teulty oi t the eu of - sincere advocates of women in that ‘How more that? asked the innocent “Does y eaetoer er £0 chroot your aaa ham. also stent iets all those ES jeithe! ets. ein ee nor have this eveara ce ow. er heart tapes aos in bene onghtare SE ae SSimsef on a bicycle ot : egies ‘all life on earth dala freeze tot Garrett, & Serviss, an eminent se secret / Baten and — Nig ia tot of the: site in the Bri- mari no ee our backs to sun, aad racially eft it ont of ac cept: of course, building. Tune the, plastic arts, and | ‘ ee Bete Santer with lost a oe they alle neeer spoken since they noe curtain that hides the fu- parecta strongest a: Hgecd brought Hise! against the bill hee shat present ches ars who pointed out that if te Saar eT ies PLEASANT fel rv Tost oF eee Since then “they. ae control. tie fae of Commons. Wie tees Gatticnas is soon sommtatence co. Cs te 2 tats NEES IS EE: ‘The first glimpse I had of him was from the sitting-room window, as he comes one of Dago or Armenian peddlers!” I those said. “I ful believe I'll let him in. there is no use of letting him come in. Bat it you stand in the dr be WOE th 1 pay into the kitchen to follow her suggestion. By this time he was wnt opposite the kitchen window, and looking this way and: that in Sank oF was But as it swung in there odor wafted to me that I involuntarily Stepped nck. I suppose he my Anywa; ing his bundles upon the floor he sai down uponachair in the centre eth room. I looked at his muddy boots and won- dered what Mary would say when she came in and found her clean floor all streaked up. “Buy, Ma'am ? Sell cheap, sell cheap?” sai My gaze traveled up from and rested upon his face, andasI looked gust. i somewhat stooped. His face, wh was the 7a peitieachel lives oras and dirty, and his Secthecrn ake sloped back at anangle of forty-five de- the top of hi which rested upon the floor were much ‘too large for him and there were deep depressions in them where his feet-end- ed, which made them turn uplike. Tunners. He seemed tobe ma resentative of his class, but he was the ring lay Bee andieh had il opened Get yas nooe its sides. In the ere sore = bia rood pipes, all the sore cheap?” his SP iy hand npon-the bundle wrap! figure straight. into the hitherto expressionless face which entirely changed its appearance. Tglanced inthe same direction, won ing what the cause might be. The! itch- en, sittin; esac and parlor all in aline, and as he was sitting ai rectly in front a them heha a straight back at him very much puzzled, for that, | SUE surely could not hare, adansthing to oor. aN bt me blay, Ma'am,” he sai rising, his “face au animation. Thad ple Ww ia vost they oovid an Ainge art cone numbered him soon as he grasped my T never dream filth. “Now me blay!™ he sald confidently, and before I could collect my wits, had shambled throx at oe “th petri aS horroi ie Te clam | Sold country ne | ¥2 si I e_ often ee sian wea wise ti tall forget eve: ing. oxgeD w ee Bat t afternoon r up behing was the only time that I ever passed through such ‘an experience. look back and ae about it of the pecu- Powsible. seemed to be swa no’ e language he. spoke but Brine ‘be sad dn zeality, Tonly different composi- Hons that oa even: ay comprehension reached onty through the intonaity ‘of emotion us it was for half a1 ir, | ent ond ‘when he rose from the stool at the ee et time, I seemed to awake | ,, m a aoe and I followed him out, but to him. Ponder over the st Cons ‘angeness of and fate.—Annie Lillian pists SSE ae SE A MAGAZINE ON FIRE. Archibald bet Narrow Escape in the rvian War, There are some exploits of a man’s life that beeor pleasanter hee look- back at oe asafe distance. Such ed an experience is one narrated by Arcb- ibald Forbes in an article on “ Some Escapes sion was the Servian war 1876, and the scene the camp of the ae army. ss The huts and tents surrounded large open space, im the centre of ase of all places in the world, was ie magazine. And such a Pe zine! Its be and flat root were c stance tat mara: bardles of oprettle: fastened together etter a feahion by willow wil ete Netra ee, just as the sinkin, there su: was a anicstrieken ‘ebout that the n fire. Sor \ost repulsive to me of any that had | Some loose pow. ut the wicker ‘ever stopped at our place. He evidently | door-way. ‘Th azine containe thought that I had not heard orunder-| Several barrels of gunpowder, quite an stood &i re, for the repeated, while | sccumulation of cartridges, an imbecile smile played over his rtment of rockets. stantly there cai sort of wool, From underneat ae y material service, but A ae ee best in my power with the ly, wetting a wicker huvales of the roof, and pouring part of the water down upon tne Maangerous combust- ible matter belo “Presently, the roof began to smoul- der, and then I fell through, Meo tat t small quantitgies was still being su lied to me by the indefatigable Vil- liers, and L kept up my effo: to off General Tchern: the aneft de ted me with Takova Cross, as Villiers er tainly deserved quite as much as 1 di if mot more.” i pea small bookstore— Say, Customer, stearate are canes ser ee school can’t affor: psy. the i ning 6 eat again, and draw- ing one leg across the other, he be- if ye few ba t | “Bookselles—You keep the little shoe- store around the corner, don’t you? Yes. Well, I've got nine childres, and they do all need shoes. Order all the books you want, Til run the risk of your getting ANCIENT, GOLD COUNTRY. Ireland of prehistoric times was the | TaJehsby his own governors, continua! ly withdrew to the royal eit of Burepe: Ta no other & ey ie belies country, at any rate, has so much-man;| his own Sones the rich fruits cf In- afactured im tian fat of ae ages t arg found, | dian victories ood's great obj Wras not even to wealth, | ing to contained rather to root out ido ‘ilatry, After | Great. After sweepii oF S Dare India gAtins Hicen ee ses kes ena bod pes ring hing) ap- proached the image, raised his mace THE FAMED KH” BER PASS, THE erent FOR EVERY INVAD- once. TO as ding Forces that went after Ind:a, The Khyber pass is not only on x Many fn) A the chief gates of india in the om day, and guarded with great vigilance, ye on Sine ate but it has di been the highway for every invading pre. to India for many centuries be- ai Ronny A writer inthe London bo gives an interesting skétch of mili these military incursions when arm- legions marched through the dark defiles of the Khyber a: ing an ‘igorous ga: crossed the Tien and conquered. Tie) dia. PERSIAN AND GREEK INVASIONS. Five hundred years bef ist there is just the misty outline exist- of a great and conquering arm e a 8 i= 3 5 z 5 af ad was formed of strangers wit! fair complexions, they had pest oS and blue eyes; spoke a str lan- guage, wore long-sleeved, tight-1 iting ot jackets of woollen cloth—nc skins or the hides of animals; they bad curious breastplates of shining hrass, id gr ao of thick and finely em- sac they a short swords sot bra each horseman had two long ae Theieflgge horses passed through Kabul “like the waves of the sea,” and their imperious riders hanisian, like a cloud of locusts, this army p. the Vest, soldiers of the conquered into its ranks am ar ried on tow: Toain (Ursegbithe Indus, it was joined by more . legions who had arrived in India by ‘other routes. 2 di During the following ten centuries neither the annals of India nor the traditions of the Afghans can say muc! about other invasions, although there e good reasons to suppose that, in through Beto het and at At- ‘han armies crossed the great cation jaaren thie Ban of con- tree, | where that great high. first became enlightened by ce paint om. Ha FIRST MUSLIM INVASION, nat . for the first time in India, the spec- ae, of soldiers of the plains being com- letely overwheli the more | Shoe. rdy warriors of the hills, It was the ‘irst time in ry e soldiers of Muhami had el ae of Brab- » but the c ot perma- not pel nent, oS we find hi tan ‘ans his | & ret istan again through the defites gat ite Khyber. ‘Notwithstanding, Je; erm the wealthy sovereiga of Lahore, ad. it tory 00, chat he en aied 2 a madi the crow ie ready to give up his Ii fb, Mavi ordered a funeral pile to be prepared, he set Gre to if with bis own hands, perished. i qT THE SECOND MUSLIM INVASION. The next Afghan invasion was op- pepe ane eof Samoant he went posutiful’ teas a stone, with its lofty exported ag tty pillars, arioualy where at ries of that eek vd in height. of goid and Paco struck off nc Riaiormeasern Gite wey Bas ck ta — Seme of the to a ee cs ae ey: v- | Ors tH im a body, This problbat is one which has’ excited the keenest ume among cy- tt is a well-known fact san dyeing: Physicians state that the lungs of cyclists have many more cells in active is very important that the chest sed ae ‘one rng to all Jintentsand wen ot. and those of the: then hoe are 20 | dice, against brica-brac has never ox pata the person owning it, but ere ‘ist iy 8 er ge as % fe ae cone” pee eee ene EXPENDITURE ON BRIC-A-BRAC. + Prejudices Agatmat bac Ornamentations Dying © A prejudice which is Sie out with the greater diffusion of wealth, though classes ing hard with and in some ‘ities, is that against expen- diture on what -brac. possess tity ee taste or the pride which aunts its possessions the gen- eral eye. To spend money upon them ° Pay, and to pay well, for grotesque fig- ures weit tics at or Rehan fon Suche and ares inthe ph es insta bili bility. earthly cornet ng | Iy such rastefulneg an ul eaterinet against Soaps seeeaaiees for its basis ints eo th: the senentment of Hoople at tee) tee fe of their ‘{lot. With al 2. investment, 1ops for the sal cie-a-bri ply everywhere, and the prices asked and many ariicles are such as to, justify the old charge of wasteful- ness, People talk a good deal more about their purchases, which savors of the flaunting of wealth, pene a Ae eo ei zoel assumption ee y else 00 afford the same expenditure if they Within reasonable limits, however, there is nothing to be said’ against the collection of bric-a-brac, if all higher tain margin of waste or unprofitable nditure, or they will not aceumu- late, and in’ this case the was! eptire nor the profit wholly for xy for anot} aera may, it will le urged, disappears But it was strong in Solomon's Hime, m to d there is abt that it will hence. Unless all present conditions are re- raed, ¢ will increase with popn- lation, and so long as ib does, men are pretty certain to invest a portion of it in mov ¥ Teason- spent for Japanese Plaques and old chin ee Tt is a singular fact that the preju- can p: Sanuallay f for the Driclces of ow. ind osou i ins, too, a Tenniatiee res being some- E Elin, more than a mere money grab- her—that of a man of taste and re- finement. ‘The reason for | seats ohigssig ears eres ture is to be found, we suspect, in the impression which good. pictures pmake upon the imaginataion even of tucated, the fact that they have & oe well understood value, and that their session ir rere ater th than prcbett an interest egy paste them cannot be imine ished, sav $e ait wo eae: Toph i in which interest 5 ny biti of art suffer eclipse.