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v» CLAIMED BY ANOTHtK I'AKKNT. A VouBc Man Who Wiw Found by His Supposed Mothfr Is Novr Confronted bjr His Adopted Father, A Cincinnati, O.. despatch says: Within ten days Frank Morey. 31 years old, living at Coal City, Ky., a few miles from here, has had a most romantic experience, being nothing less than the finding of a mother, to be followed to-day by his adopted father claiming him, with evidence that upsets the mother's claim and seems to make his own claim as parent certain. For years Frank has searched for his parents, of whom he had no recollection. His story was published a few days ago with the result that Mrs. Harriet Williams, of this city, recognized him as hsr son, stolen thirty years ago. That was also published. To-day Gci. A. J. Morey, an editor of Cynthiana, Ky., visited Coal City and convinced both himself and Frank that the latter was his adopted son. His story is that in 1R58, when the boy was 2 years old, he adopted him from a woman who said he was the child of Mr. and Mrs. Pierce, of New York, who died at New Orleans of yellow fever. in IWJO Morey entered the confederate army, was captured, and imprisoned at Camp Chase. His wife died and the boy was placed by strangers in the house of refuge here and so forgot his home, while Uorey was never able to tind him. The adopted father has pictut-es and doca- ments proving his story, and Frank Morey is compelled to believe them, though loath to give up the woman who he thought was bis mother. He is content with the present situation unless another claimant as a parent puts in an appearance and adds to the romance of the situation. NOVA SCOTI.*. LICE.NSE LAW. excitement In Halifax Over the Enforre- ment of tiie Measure â€" Strange S<reues la the Streets. A Halifax, N. S., despatch says : This city is greatly excited over the enforcement of the new Provincial license law. which forbids the selling of liquor in hotels to other than guests, and in the case of guests t* be drank only in private rooms or at meals. At shops li()Uor cannot be sold in leas quantities than a pint, and this is to be carried away and drunk. Between these two restrictions there is no chance for the bar-room toper at all. Little clus- ters of drinkers could be seen on the side- walk going partners in a purchase, the liqaor being carried out in a measure and drank from glasses borrowed from late bars, or turn about from the measure itself. Keepers of leading hotels say their receipts have fallen off one-half, while the price of licenses is three times as high as before, aod much additional help is recjuired to carry drink« to rooms or to tables The measure was passed last year, but •nly came into force two days ago. It was strenuously opposed by the Halifax mem- bers of the House, but was carried by the votes of the county members, nearly all of whom are constrained to support strict temperance legislation. A peculiar feature of the bill is thai inspectors of licenses mast be members in good standing of some teoognizeit temperance society. 0NT.4RII) LEIilSUTllE. THAT TEKTZKL WIM»K.\LL. A rortuue of (4,0OO.00U lu be Ulstribiitrd Auiunpit Thirty. A despatch from Pittsburg, Pa., says :â-  The Government of Germany ha.s had in its possessio.i for the last fortv-Uve vears a l^gacy of »4,000.000 left by Anclrew teetzel, ?/ho died near Wurtemburg. The heirships of thirty persons in the United States have at last been proven, and the fund is to be sent here. One of the heirs is a well-known business man of Fourth avenue, Pitteburg, Mr. J. K. Teet/el. A LONil W.\IT irCWAKliED. A rejMrter had a conversation with the gentleman this afternoon, and he told the following story of the windfall : " My brother, .James V.Teetzel, who is a New York attorney, conducted the nego- tiations with the German Goverumeiit for ns. These transactions have been carried on for a long time, and he has crossed the ocean to Germany live or six times in rela- tion to the matter. Thirty heirs are scat- tered all over the United States. K.Teetzel A Co., bankers, and .James B. Teetzel, live in New York. Two others live in Chicago, lu. ; three more at Milwaukee ; seven at Benton Harbor, Mich. ; George Dale and others at Troy. N.Y., and Terre Haute, Ind. I used to hear my father and grand- father talk about this claim. My great- grandfather settled in this country at Log Jail, N.J., which is now Trenton. The 14,000,000 is composed of Government bonds, other standard common securities, gold and property. It is now ready to be distributed among the heirs, I under- stand." « THi: HIKKU OIKI. (Jo** Ci-aisy and Tortures Hrr .>ll»lrrss' Children. A London cable says : A couple of weeks ago Mrs. Cane, upon returning to her resi- dence in St. .John's Wood, heard distressing cries, and proceeding to the nursery found her three children, a b<.)y aged â- ') and her two girls, aged 7 and I'i, stripped (juite naked, and tie<i to the bed with ropes. They were covered with cuts, bruises and burns. They told their mother shat shortly after her departure the gi ne-al servant went out, and Mary Dobson, tne nurse maid, took the children separately to the nursery and stripped and tied them to the bed. That she then got a roi^e with which she beat them for several minutes, in the case of the two girls drawing blocnl with almost every blow, and that she then made the poker red hot and burned the children with it in several parts of their bodies. She then went away, leaving them as found by Mrs. Cane. The police were notified, and to-day arrested the girl in a house at Blackwell. Bhe had cut her hair close, and was dressed in a suit of her brother's clothes. She is about 20 years of age, and is supposed to be insane. . « An lixplanatlon Necessary. " Mr. Feat) erly," inquired Bobby, not- withstanding the injunction of his father that little children should be seen, not heard, " have you got holes in your feet '.'" 'Holes in my feet !" exclaimed the astonished young man. '" Yes ; pa says you must have, or you couldn't drink all the li<,uor you do." The House went into Committee of Sup- ply, Mr. Harcoart in the chair. On the item of education, Hon. G. W. Ross, in reply to a question, said that it was not correct to say that the expenditure on Common Schools had re- mained stationary, that there had been no increase during the past three orfour years, but there had been a very large increase in the past fifteen years. Fifteen years ago the grant was S172,0OO ; now it was 8240,000. Then it must be remembered that a new Normal School had been estab- lished, and that was a direct benefit to the Common Schools ; that model and training schools had been established ; that aid was given to the teachers' institutes, and that one-third of the amount expended on High Schools was really expended for the train- ing of teachers in those schools. Mr. Wood (Hastings) said that there was a rumor that the Government was going to make large new grants for higher educa- tion, and if this were do"e a commensurate amount should be granted for Common School education. He expressed his opinion that Model Schools were a very valuable part of the educational system of the country. On the item maintenance of public insti- tutions, Mr. H. £. Clark asked for informa tion as to the large number of persons of unsound mind said to be confined in the jails of the Province. Hon. A. S. Hardy said there were- 87 persons of this class in the jails last year, and, including these, about 140 applicants for admission to the asylums. The crowded state of the asylums was to some extent due to the presence of harmless imbeciles who might just as well be con- fined in refuges established by the counties, and the Government was urging the counties to establish such refuges. He said there were '200 idiots for whom applications had been made, and who would find accommodation when the enlargement of the Urillia asylum was completed. Mr. Ingram inquired about an item for cab hire from the Central Prison to St. Michael's Cathedral. Hon. A. S. Hardy explained that this was paid in connection with religious services at the Central Prison, and that there was a grant of S7.')0 last year to the Prisoners' Aid .\ssociatio;> whi';h was a Protestant association formed for the purpose of carrying on religious services at the prison. During the late campaign it had been falsely charged that grants for this purpose were made to the Roman Catholic clergy. Mr. Wood (Hastings) said he was glad to bfar the e.\planation, as misapprehensions on l! >> subject had existetl. Mr. Waters asked if the additions to the asylum accommodation would provide for the insane who, the Provincial Secretary said, were awaiting accommodation. Hon. Mr. Hardy said the room would be barely enough. The Government would probably go on with the second half *of a cottage at Hamilton, half of which was building, and which.when completed, would accommodate IHOO lunatics. Mr. H.E. Clarke asked what had become) of the scheme to close the Toronto asylum and build cottages at Mimico. Hon. Mr. Hardy said that the plan of building cottages at Mimico had never been definitely decided upon by the Gov ernment. It was favored by the Superin tendent of the asylum, but the Govern- ment had not decided to aetopt it, though doubtless there was much to lie said in favor of it. Several petitions relative to private bills were presented. Mr. Gibson (Hamilton)â€" From a large number of persons in that city, praying for the introduction of temperance text books into the Public Schools. Similar petitions were also presented from different parts of the Province The following Bills were introduced and read the first time Mr. Gibson (Huron) -To authorize Mar- shall Bidwell Mallory to practice dental surgery in Ontario, Mr. Graham -To authori/.e the trustees of Warwick Methodist Church to sell cer tain lands. Mr. Nairn â€" Respecting the conditions of sale of iiersonal proi)erty ; also, for the pre- vention of frauds and perjury in the sale of horses and cattle. Mr. Toolev â€" To amend the Assessment Act. Mr. Graham asked whether it is the intention of the Government to reduce the rate of interest on draiiiagc debentures held by them agaiust the several municipalities of the Province, and if so to .vhat e.xtent Hon. Mr. Ross (Huron) stated that the Government had given notice of a Bill on the subject, and the Bill will be down in a few days. Mr. Waters moved the second reading of the Bill to amend the Ditches and Water- courses Act in regard to railways. He said explanation was not necessary, as the Bill was the same as one he had introduced at the previous session. He moved also that the Bill be referred to the Municipal Com- mittee. Hon. Mr. Pardee said it was a serious thing to tamper with railway ditches. He would like to have some machinery pro- vided to force railway companies to do the necessary works themselves. He had no objection to the Bill going to the Municipal Committee. The motion was carried and the Bill was referred to the Municipal Committee. Mr. Waters moved the second reading his Bill to amend the Municipal Act. He explained that its object was to define in a clearer manner the duties of County Councils in regard to bridges at the boundaries between municipalities. He moved the referance of the Bill to the Municipal Committee. The Bill was read the second time and referred to the Municipal Committee. Mr. Murray moved the second reading of the Bill respecting the driving of sawlogs and other timber on lakes, rivers, creeks and streams. He explained that at the present time the trouble is that when a number of lumbermen are operating on the same stream the man operating at the front can control all those behind, and commit injustice. He wished to have the Bill sent to a select committee. Hon. Mr. Pardee had no objection to the Bill going to a committee. He stated that the object of the introtluction of the Bill referred to a committee composed of Messrs. Pardee, Meredith, Gibson (Huron), Phelps, Lees, Bayside, Bronson, Monk, Evanturel, Clancy, Armstrong, Wood (Hastings), Mar- ter, Drury, Murray and Slratton. Mr. Wood (Hastings) moved the second reading of the Bill to amend the Railway Aq« of Ontario. He said the object of the Bill was to provide a way by which parties whose lands are affected by the location of a railway and who are aggrieved may have redress. The Bill provided for petition to the County Judge, who may appoint three commissioners, one of whom shall be a civil engineer. This commission may change the location of a line, but only on condition thst the engineer is a consenting party. Hon. Mr. Pardee said he felt that there was some necessity for an appeal being pro vided from the dictation of a railway engineer. The Bill was read a second lime and referred to a committee jomposed of Messrs. Pardee, Meredith, Clarke (Wel- lington), Creighton, Hardy, Clancy, Morin, Hudson, Leys, Preston and Wood (Hast- ings). Mr. Graham moved the second reading of the Real Property Limitations Act. He said the object of the Bill was to give to honest men what belonged to them, and to prevent dishonest men holding, because of crooked fences, lands which belonged to their neighbors. He did not think the present law was ever intended to apply to division lines between farms. Hon. Mr. llowat expressed his fear that if the Bill passd in its present shape it would injuriously affect a large number of titles to land. He thought such a matter, if dealt with at all, should be dealt with by the Government on its responsibility. Hricould not advise the House to adopt t)ie Bill. Mr. Graham withdrew the Bill. Mr. Mack moved the House into com- mittee on the Bill to amend the Act in- corporating the Eastern Ontario Railway Company. The Bill was passed without amend- ment, and the committee rose and reported. ♦ .4.SPHY.\IATIO.N. How Death by Inhaling Gas Is Cuuseil and Can be Prevented. At the annual meeting of the Provincial Board of Health in Toronto yesterday Dr. J.J. Cassidy reported for the Committee on Poisons and .\ccidents as to the best means of preventing loss of life from the inhalation of illuminating gas in bed- rooms. Accidents from the causes men- tioned occurred most fretjuently in hotels, and the su|{geBtions of the committee ap- plied more particularly to these houses. The observance of the few rules which they submitted would, in the opinion of the committee, successfully prevent the loss of life. In the event of a fatal accident the coroner should have power to fix the re- sponsibility on the guilty person. Their first suggestion was that wire gratings 12 inches by 12 inches should be inserted in the walls above bed- room doors. (2) Where chimney flues did not communicate with bed- rooms special ventilating flues reach- ing to the outer air should in all cases be introduced. (3) Wherever any kind of illuminating gas was used in a bed-room a suitable automatic cut off gas burner should be placed in each of thegas fixtures, the gas shduld not be turned off at the meter e.\cept during the repair or refitting of the pipes. (1) It should be the duty of some responsible person to move about the different flats of the building during the night, at periods of two hours or oftener, in order to ascertain whether gas was escaping. ('>) A periodical inspection of all gas fixtures, pipes and burners should be made by an inspector of plumbing, who should be appointed at the recommenda- tion of the Local Board of Health. The report was adoptetl. THE HIKED GIRL. FRENCH S.MCGGLERS. She Has Her RighU Just as Well as the Some tibrewd Uevices Which Have Net Parlor Folks. 1 Reen SurpasHed .\nywhere. I have always maintained that many At one of the Paris barriers there exists indignities were put upon the servant girls a museum of contrivances use<l for the of to-day, and that much of their imperii- smuggling of liquors into the city, which nence and stubbornness arose from the have been captured on various occasions by fact, says a writer in Good Housekeeping, the employees of the octroi. Here are piles Now, our next door neighbor firmly re- of common white plates, the top one of fuses to allow her servant girl to have any which, on being lifted off, shows a cylinder company at all. This is outrageous. Hetty has the free and undisturbed uae of our dining-room, and may have orderly, of tm piercing the remainder of tlie pile. Here are rolls of linen which are merely a fe' _, ards of stuff wrapped around a tin .MAKKIAOE IS NO JOKE. So Two Couples who were >lHrried for Fun Altera Ball have Fiiund Out, Herbert W. Stone, aged 17, and Charles Eales, aged '20 years, were before Judge King yesterday, charged by their wives with non-support. Young Stone's wife, Grace, is but 14 years of age, and a niece of C. E. Kendall, of this city. Mary Vaughn, aged KJ. is the wife of Eales. .\fter a ball at Turn Hall the two couples were marrie<l " for fun " by Rev. Charles H. Smith, pastor of St. James' Episcopal Church, two months ago. Stone's mother, who lives at Tonawanda. was in court and anxious to break up the marriage, and, though quite well off, she refused to go on her son's bond for $300. He was sent to jail. Rev. Mr. Smith says the youngsters signed papers that their parents knew of their intention when they applied to him to be married. â€" Hujialo Si'W». respectable company in it any evening she box fashioned to the rexjuisite shape, and pleases ; she may have a beau if she wants with ends artistically finished off with to, but she and I must know that he is a stripes of linen set on end. respectable man ; and he and al) her other Here the bust of India rubber of a make- company must be out of the house at 10 believe wet-nurse, who used to take her o'clock at night. For more than a year little charge out daily to breathe the fresh this airangement has obtained, and we air beyond the barriers. Here are two have suffered no inconvenience from it great blocks of stone that on close inspec- and the privilege has never been abused. Hetty has seldom had her friends call oftener than once in two or three weeks. She has a neat, cosy, well fur- nished room of her own with furnace heat ; she is not tucked away in some dark, cold, shabbv little cubbv hole unfit for hu tion prove to be tin-lined boxes with artis- tically tilting ends. Here are these stout folio volumes bound in calf and labeled â- ' The Philosophy of Nations.' With these books under his arm a pale, inter- esting-looking student used to wander forth into the suburbs to pursue his studies. man habitation. She has no regular after- 1 One day an inquisitive custom house noon out when she is obliged to go and oflicer. grown suspicious from the fact that come like a prisoner on parole. Bhe can go out any afternoon wt.en her work is done. Her evenings are almost entirely her own ; she has a sewing machine in her room â€" her own â€" and makes most of her own clothes. But she is always ready to do anything we ask her to do in the evening. We never speak slightingly of servants in her presence. In fact, we never use the word " servant " before her. Women less sensitive than Hetty hate the words â- â€¢ service " and " servant " ; there is no " ordering around " by any one. We try to remember that Hetty has feelings in common with the rest of womankind, and we respect those feelings. She nor no other woman on earth is ever asked to polish my boots, but I know girls who do polish the boots of the master of the house. I call that degrading service. If I happen to be in the kitchen when Hetty's coal hod is empty, I go down cellar and fill it for her ; sometimes I build the fire. Hetty never shovels snow out of the paths, nor rolls the ash barrels out for the ash man. I relegate such pleasing tasks to myself, maintaining, as I do, that such work belongs to men rather than to women. We offer no suggestions to Hetty regarding the expenditure of her wages. I do not think that we have any more right to med die in this matter than my employer has to ask how I spend my salary. I feel some responsibility for the moral well being of everybody under my roof and I try when opportunity offers to impress upon Hetty the necessity of right living and right thinking. We do not make Hetty " one of the family " in the popular sense of that term : but if she wants to come into our sitting room for an hour in the evening when we are alone, she knows that she can do so. .\nd she can have any book or paper in the house if she cares to read them. Mrs. Dane was very ill for a long lime since Hetty has lived with ns, and if ever there were a faithful servant Hetty was one at that time. Some of our friends shake their heads and declare that they " never, never could ••ive a servant the privileges" we give Hell.;'. I do not call them "privileges.' There a'e rights that belong to any good, honest s.irl who is trying to earn her own living ii the way she feels that she is best fill' .1 .'1 earn it. I met Hetty down town *'.ie other day, and of course I tipped my hat lo her. .\ friend who was with me looke<l iuia/ed and asked: "Why. isn't that your .-ervant girl?'' Y'es, it is, " I said. He looked for a second and then said: ' Well : |ueer fellow : I think I see myself lip- ping my hat to our kitchen girl. " I can, without any self abasement, tip my hat to any good woman on earth, though she be only a charwoman going from door to door scrubbing steps. 1 think there will have to be a reform in this treatment of house servants before there is an end to this cry about inefficient and impertinent help. We began a reform in our own home when Hetty came and the result has been most gratifying to both mistress and maid. \ Grand Methoilist Church. A Montreal despatch says : The large Methodist Church to be erected on the old Allan propertv on St. Catherine street is to be one of the finest sacred edifices on the continent. It is to have a seating capacity of 2,000 and school-rooms for 1,000, besides committee, reception and ladies' work rooms. The style is to be 14th century decorated Gothic. The width inside is 7« feet by 141 feet long, with a gallery round three sides. The front, on St. Catharine street, will be 102 feet wide, with three spacious triple porches, carved and moulded. Work on the foundations has begun. The church is for the congregation now worshipping in St. James' Street Methotlist Church. the yonlh always carried out the same books to study, insisted ca opening one of these volumes. He found that the leaves had been nicely cut away with a sharp knife to afford a secret niche for a s<iuare case bottle, which was filled with brandy â€" a similar contrivance existing in each [of the other two books. ";r But the cleverest trick of all was one which was very complicated and costly in its details, but which must have paid hand- somely, and it was carried on for months without detection. A lady and gentleman sealed in a plain, respectable-looking coupe, drawn by a good horse, and driven by a oachman in livery, were wont to drive out to the Bois de Boulogne every afternoon, returning usually about dusk. The gentle- man was evidently an invalid. He was always enveloped in a furlined cloak with the >'ollar raised above his throat, and had a cap pulled down over his brows, while the little that could be seen of his countenance was of a sickly pallor. He was always re- clining in a corner of the carriage, as if too feeble to sit erect, while his attentive wife sat beside him. evidently solicitous of his welfare, being especially careful to keep his cloak wrapped around him. The guardians of the octroi saw the vehicle and its inmates pass by them withontsuspicion. One day. however, after making the usual inquiry. " Have you anything to disclose ?" the custom-house officer, on closing the door, struck the supposed invalid's foot. •' I beg your pardon, sir, ' said the officer. No response â€" not so much as an inclina- tion of the head. Rather surprised, the officer repeated his remark in a louder torn.-, ar the same time touching the sick mail's shoulder. .\t that moment the lady and coachman leaped from their respective f daces and lied with surprising swiftness, eaving in the hands of the officers the car- riage and the invalid, which latter was found to be made of tin and filled with brandyâ€" his face being most artistically constructed of wax. The siHiues under the seat of the coup and the coachman's box were also reservoirs of tin. so that smuggling transactions of the party had been practiced on a very extensive scale. â€" Lunilun Tul liils. Business UlWcuUies, The following assignments are reported Ontario â€" Port Arthur. M. J. Dillon, mer- chant tailor ; Rondeau, J. E. Sterling, gen- eral store (failed, out of business) ; Sutton West, W. J Crosthwaite, hotel ; Thorold Alfred Abbott, tinsmith ; Toronto, Chas S. Benson, grocer ; Toronto, J. Hunter Brown, merchant tailor and gents' furnish ings ; Walkerton, E. Stenabaugh, grocet'; Winnipeg ; G, L. Garden, groceries aijd li(|Uors Mrs. William Bailey, of Ripley, Pa., went the other morning to milk her cow, a very valuable thoroughbred, and was gone so long that her husband went to see what was the matter. He found the cow standing over the dead body of his wife, whom she had gored to death, and when he undertook to remove the body the mad animal attacked was to' get the opinions of the lumbermen. I him, and but for the arrival of neighbors The Bill was read a second time and • would have killed him also. at me vou re Royal Templars Recover Stolen .Money. A Pittsburg. Pa., despatch says : S. Nelson, of tnis city, who was recently appointed Grand Secretary of the Royal Templars of Temperance, in placeof .Vbbott, absconded, returned from the headquarters of the Order a^Bnffalo to-day. He says the relief fund will not be impaired by .\bbott's embezzlement, .\bbott took ♦I.">,000 with him, but of this amount $7,000 was recovered from a Toronto bank, where .-Vbbott had deposited it. A committee sent t* Canada afterwadrs met the ex-Secretary on the street and he turned over to them $2,000 in cash. The balance of the shortage is covered by a bond of the .American Surety Company", of New York, for $10,000. Mr, Spuri^eou's CongreKMtion. .\t the annual meeting of the Metropoli- tan Tabernacle, London, which took the shape of a welcome home " to the pastor, reports were roaii showing that there had been an increase by baptism of 2H1, by pro- fession 48, by transfer Hii, by restoration H â€" making a total of 418. There wag a decreaseâ€" to other churches 17-^, leaving without letter '27. non-attendance 'M>. emi- gration 17, other reasons r>, death (iO â€" making a total of :^80. Thenet increasefor l><8i; was 3k, bringing the total membership of Mr. Spurgeon's congregation up to."i,3,'>l. This leaves the Brooklyn Tabernacle l,30i> behind. The Theory of Evolution .\U RiKbt. In these statements Dr. Wallace main- tains that there is nothing in evolution inconsistent with man's spiritual nature and immortal destiny. Many, on the contrary, think that Darwin's theory of evolution landu in sheer materialism. Our own idea has always been that there is nothing inconsistent with Christianity in admitting natural development as one of God's methods of working out His plans. But when this method isspokeii of as if the mode was itself the cause, we regard this as a serious mistake, which ignores the Great First Cause of all things. â€" C/in.iMuH Guardian. Rnuger the Kest Sauce " I seldom talk about the war, " said the Union soldier, " but 1 think about it some- times. Whenever I look out of the window and see old Kennesaw mountain I think of the best dinner I ever ate. For months and months w-e had been living on hardtack and sow-belly. About the time we reached Marietta a crowd of us came upon an old, deserted house and found some Irish potatoes and onions. We steweii the jxita- toes and feasted. Never since have I tasted such a dinner. Ten thousand times have I thought of it. I think of it every time I see a restaurant and every time I see a specially fine spread. For twenty years 1 have been haunted by the memory of that dinner, where Irish potatoes took the place of hardtack and fast meat."â€" .(('<;hm Con Ktitution. What .she Would Uo. (to his pretty cousin. who is Charley , fishingiâ€" .-Vuy bites yet, Maud .' Maudâ€" Only a nibble or two. Charley â€" W^hat would you do, Maud, if you should make such a " catch " as I am said to be '.' Maudâ€" Throw it back in, Charley. Mttcon Trlennijili : Extract from the marriage notice of a millionaire's daughter next January : " The bride's presents were exceeding costly and magnificent. Prominent among them '"as exhibited the gift of the lady's father, a ripe Florida strawberry upon its own stem. It was the centre of attraction." Utiuglas, Tender and True. Not long ago Ruskin expresseil the wish that he might see Ireland under an Irish King, and Scotland under a " Douglas, ten- der and true. " The Manjuis of yueens- berry is the head of one great branch of the House of Douglas, and is a divorced man. A wag suggested that ths present Douglas is neither "tender nor true," to which the noble Marijuis takes exception, and writeb a communication to a London paper, in which he argues that divorced iwople can be as tender and true as others, if not more so. â€" Hoflim Traiucript. Why Me Wore Them Colby Moore, of Monson Me., has been sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment for arson. ThiS means almost a life- sentence, as Moore is now .W years of age. The scene when Moore parted from his wife and little 4-year-old daughter was a very touching one. He wore handcuffs and the little girl was puzzled by them and innocently asked : " Papa, what are those for ? .\re they to keep your mittens up ?"â€" lloKtoH Ilirald. The Tlchborne Estates. Sir Henry Tichbome will come of age in May next, and will enter upon the posses- sion of his much " claimed" estates, which will pay him a net income of about $4."),0OO a year. â€" .V. 1". Tribuni'. The death rate of England is decreasing and 1 ">0 iieople are added yearly to each 10,000. At the present rate of increase, according to Dr. M. Tidy, the country's population twenty generations hencfl w'll be 27,-200,000,000, or enough to fill twenty earths with the present density of popula- tion. **: