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? .1 4a OURBBNT TOPICS. Or the Empnwi Eageoie, a Paris cur- respondent writes : " 8he was lately at Amsterdam, whither she wsnt to consolt a noted Datch physician respecting the rheomatism, from which ahe is a constant aafferer. An American lady who saw her there tells me she has grown very stoat and infirm, and has lost every vestige of her once dazzling beaaty. She is sabject to attacks of insomnia, daring which abe wiU sit the whole night throagh before the bioode lace, bat a lovely Bmssels net. portrait of the Prince Imperial, and these attacks uaaally terminate mfits of weeping and acote hysteria." Chutbeix, the French lavant, has jast celebrated his lOlst birthday. When aaked the secret of his longevity, he replied : " There is no aeeret ; there can be no rale of life ; what is good for one man may no be good for another. We mast study what- is best for us iodividually. For example, my parents lived to be more than 'JO years- old, and they drank wine ; from my child- hood wine has been disagreeable to me. Like Locke and Newton, I iiave never cared for any beverage bnt water, and yet I am President of the Wine Society of Ajijoa." Fbascis JoBKfB, Emperor of Aastria and King of Hangary, has more royal titles than any other Garopean sovereign. He is King of seven countries or provinces, Grand Prince of one. Prince or Margrave of several others, and Archduke, Grand Dake and Dake of half a dozen more. He is considered the richest monarch of Europe, with the possible exception of Qaeen Victoria. Beside his personal revenues, which are enormoos, the Em- peror manages on various pretexts to extract about $8,000,000 a ye»r fiom the public treasury. Altogether Francis Joseph IS what is commonly known as " well fixed." Thb i?rifti/i ir«dioa/ Jeumal gives the fol- lowing intert-Btiag particulars of theheinht, weight and dimensions of Thomas Longley, of Dover, who is said to be the heaviest British sabject in the world. Mr. Longley, who is a respectable and intelligent publi- can, is 40 years of age, being born (of parents not aboT* the normal size) in 184<*. As a baby he was not considered large. His present weight is 40 stone ; height, 6 feet } inch ; measurement of the waist, 80 inches ; size of leg, '25 inches. He finds considerable difficulty in walking, and does not trnst himself in a carriage, (or fear of breaking the springs. He is said to be very temperate botn in eating and drink- ing, and has never safiered from any ill- health of a aerioas natare. AM CNHAPPT BRIDE. Overwhelmed by a Complication of Acci- dents on the Day of Marrlai^. It was reserved for a bride lately to saf- fer a complication of accidents which for- tanately could not occor more than once or twice in a lUe time. The young lady left ttaa house and got ten blocks away when â- ha discovered that she had not put on her bridal veil. This was no fool of a veii either. It was not the regnlation square of richly wrought by the nuns in the convent of the Bacre Cocur, in Montreal. Back went the bride for this gorgeous portion of hax raiment. It was thrown over her in tha carriage and the wedding procession ig^tn started. This time a breath of air produced an inclii.ation to sneeze. The poor bride repressed it, bat it saoaped at last, and oh '. horror on Ipftror a head, her white satin waist tfUS from belt to shoulder. Here occnrred a bait, this time at a little shop where thread and needle were obtained, and the 0ifiD^ apace with difScnlty was covered. t% last, much too late, that unfortunate 'Woman reached the church. In atepping n^nroualy from the carriage the lace bot- tom of an under petticoat caught on the step and she felt the fastening give way. Every step up the aisle she could feel that crval akirt slip, slip, till she feared ahe woald have to step oot of it at the very altar. She took a grip on the side and on ahe went. Daring the entire service she dung to it like grim death . 8he let go for a mtxneut to get her glove off for the ring, and when she resumed her hold ahe felt that it had gamed on her. Like Florence WaUack, she might have been married with the catechism for all she knew. She had these thoughts: " Will that petticoat be dropped in the aisle, or will I shed it on the sidewalk before the mob as I cUmb into the carriage ? Is it the lawn shirt, with three raffles of Valenciennes, or is it that Uttle blue embroidered cashmere made me wear so I wouldn't take oold The perspiration started on her pallid brow as she hurriedly made the responses and. half-fainting, made her way down the The Sewing GlrU of Germany. The sewing girls at Germany, according to a report which has been sent to the Department of State, have a hard time. Their wages are barely sofScient for subaisteuoe and lodging, leaving all neces- sary incidental expenses, including cloth- ing, to be provided either by a girl's family or through independent efforts of her own. In the larger cities this condition leads to frightful suffering or degrading immorality and ruin. Their emi^yers are endeavor- ing to compel them to purchase their thread and other supplies at employers' prices, and the well-to-do girls who want a little extra aooney for laanuss or flneeiet cotoiieto with tlie lower classes and do the work at even lower rates than those generally paid. In short, only those girls have a passable existence who have sufli- cieut support in their family ties. The self-dependent girl who lives by herself generally falls an easy prey to designing men and ends in private or public im- morality and prostitution. â€" tt'athington Pott. The aionejed Olrl Who CoalUn't Write. Not long ago a very nicely dressed woman, accompanied by a gentlemanly looking man, walked into one of the banks and asked for a certificate of deposit. The book was passed out to her for her signa- ture. She hesitated a moment, glanced nervously at her escort, then boldly grasped the pen and put her face very close to the paper. When the teller took the book back he saw plainly enough that the girl had simply made some very minute up and down scratches. He locked at her, saw her confusion and decided to be lenient with her. As if unable to read the signature clearly he imiuiredthe name. It was given promptly. Then it was slyly written in the teller's own bold letters, the certificate filled out and delivered. The escort never suspected the difiicalty and the girl de- parted happy.â€" C'^icdffo lUraUl. BIT 'EX AOAIR. TheToleda "Stroller" TaJMa a Shy at Two Handy KxpreesloBs. Of all the shortening and clipping that goes on in daily conversation, what ao meaningless as this exclamation â€" "Thanks"? If one has done yoa a favor, why not say •• I thank you?" not •• I thank ye," bnt " I thank you," plainly, clearly and distinctly. The exclamation •' Thanks," jerked out of some unfathom- able depths, savors of too mach haste to be polite, and best be omitted. " Thanks " is only ecjvalled, in my judg- ment, in straight down wroui^ness in the idiocy that responds to the polite " I thank you." or '• Very much obliged, ' for a favor rendered or a kindness performed, with •' Not at all." I have, I think, written of this before, but it will bear repetition, and I can see no reason why, if you pick up a lady's kerchief, tender her < lur seat in a car, or save a friend from a 4ant;erou3 fall on that result of a fool's sarelessness, a banana peel, and are rewarded with that exactly proper remark, " I thank you," I say, I can see no good and valid reason why it would not be equally proper and true to say " You're a liar," as to respond with " Not at all." Honest now, can you ? â€" â- â- StrolUr" in ToUdo Juumal. The Drammer's Rerensre. A drummer had a spite at a hotel in Palestine, Texas, and resolve' on a terrible revenge. So when he went to Galveston he " bagged '' a lot of the cockroaches for which the island city is celriirated. Bring- ini{ a lot of the largest, conanoiily called by native Galvestoniam "diggerlootiers," the drummer took them to the hotel and turned them loose in the halls and corri- dors. In about two weeks the hotel was swarming with them and they got in the soups, preserves, jams, molasses, in the milk â€" everywhere â€" and wocked hard all day and sat up at ni^ht to help that drum- mer get even. They have filled the hotel and gone to work on the private houses, and now Palestine is accursed with them. â€" Chicai/o Stve. PBOFESSIONAI. WIMDOW-GAZEKS. A (Jueer ProfeMion Followed by the Toang Men in the Qiuker City. Two young men who spend the day and a large part of the evening on Chestnut street are paid to do so. They are both well known figures, and generally travel together. They are piofesaional window- ga/iera. The young men, in common with everybody else, luiow that to attract a crowd to a window all one has to do is to stand and gaze into that window. In a short time ten or a dozen people will be gazing with him. They were down to hard panâ€" on their uppers so to speak. One of them went to the proprietor of a men's furnishing hoase on Chestnut street and told him that for ao mach a week he would guarantee to attract more attention to his window than all the dis- plays that could be laid oat. The proprietor waa alruck with the idea and gave it a trial. As a coase<juence, there was a crowd at his window nearly all the time. The young man would walk ap to the window with his friend and stand gaz- ing there until a crowd of a dozen or fifteen were atanding with them. To keep the crowd moving be would walk away, and that started the break in the crowd. The performance was repeated every ten or fifteen minutes. The young man went to other stores along the street, vmfolded his plan and pointed out the success of it. In a short time he had the whole street from Ninth to Broad on his beat, and he had to take his friend into partnership, and he makesplenty of money. If other window- gazers du not get on to the idea and get into the business, these two originators will shortly establish branches of the ' Gazers ' in other cities. â€" I'hiUidclplna Seict. The Telephone Craz^. Periodically the public have "Don't lose your presence of mind, dear," whispered the yotmg husband. " It's my petticoat I'm losing," returned the lady, pettishly. When once in the carriage the sentimen- tal bridegroom pressed her hand and said : " At last the prize is mine. " She said the same thing as she kicked the dreadful petticoat under the carriage scat. It was the woollen one. â€" Philadelphia Pram. ~ Fresh Mews Notes. A bill providing for several importan sanitary reforms will be prepared by the Quebec Provincial Board of Headth and submiited to the Legislature next session. The Dominion Government has been invited to aend a lepresentative to the Interprovincial Congress to be held next month in the city of Quebec, but will most probably decline. At yesterday's meeting of the Montreal bQa|||LUiwa«tigation oommiUee, epnneel for thrftsttnplaiuant attempted to pat a number uf fishing juestioiis on the gas contract charge to witnesses, bat they were ruled out by the committee. Nothing important was elicited, and unless something definite is proved at the next meeting the charge in its present form will fall through. It is stated that Sir John Macdonald will within a few weeks resign the General Sup- erintendency of Indian Affairs, the admin- istration of the Indian Department reverting, as in former years, to the De- partment of the Interior. The appointment of Mr. Burbidge, De- puty Minister of Justice, as judge of the new Court of Claims will be gazetted to- day. It is rumored that the office of Deputy Minister will be abolished, in view of the appointment shortly of a Solicitor- General. Sir John Macdonald has not yet signi- fied his acceptance of the position of Canada's representative on the Fisheries Commiaaion, nor will the appointment be made by the Canadian Government until it is definitely informed as to the scope of the commission. A Mother's lAve, Teacher â€" Yes, my children, always re- member there is no htmian love equal to a mother's love. Little Girl â€" Womens love their child- rens better than their husbands, don't they? " Very often." " Yes, indeed. When we gets the hic- coughs mamma gets sorry and tries to cure 'em. bat when papa ^ets the hiccoughs she' readers gets mad." The Widow's Kite. She was a widow, and perhaps a little sensitive on that accooot. When she answered a summons the other day she found a good-looking ministerial chap standing at the door. " Good day, " he began ; " I represent a loan association" " So do I," she responded shortly, " and I mean to stay alone . good day, sir." He hasn't thought it out yet to his entire satisfaction. m Learning to ft^m. It is perhaps not genas^v knows that if a child IS taught to swim at a very early a craz thrust on their notice ; at one time it is a gold-mine, at another a lead company that seeks to draw the hard earnings from the people's pockets. In ancient times it was the South Sea bubble that turned tbe heads of kings and senators, who were ultimately engulfed in one grand maelstrom that ruined them by thousands. Montreal just now is (juielly being flooded with tele- phonic schemes as tlighty in imagination and as dubious in results as the black angel companies lloated in the States, to the financial ruin of those who once prided themselves on being in affluent positions. It is against investmg in these imaginary companies that we desire to caution our Bat yesterday a new scheme was atloai to wipe out the Bell Telephone Com- pany by reducing its tariff to i'io per aniicm for subscribers ; to-day another bubble company which wishes to reduce the price to iVi is floating in the air. It is needless to aay there is Uttle room for the next fifty years for any competition such as is perhaps intended or intended for sale. From personal inquiry we find that no person, directoror otherwise, in the Bell Co.. has ever received any bonus on his jtock, and that that company has never sold a share below par for stock gambling purposes. It is not to be supposed there- fore that any of the new concerns can place the shareholders in a better condition. Again the Bell Telephone Co., with its 1,000 or 5,000 mile* of Hnes. connecling XON8TER MAjti MEETINGS Declare In Favor of Gladstone and Hoate Rule and Condemn the Police and GoverouieuC, A last (Bonday) night's Lonoon cable says : A great Liiieral demonstration was held at Templecombe, Dorsetshire, yester- day. Twenty thousand persona were pre- sent, Somerset. Hanti and Wilts seudmg continuents. Mr. John Morley, who waa the chief speaker, replied to Mr. Chamber- Iain's recent speech at Birmingham. Ue denied that the Gladstonian position waa not perfectly clear. The Liberals, he said, stood with their feet upon a rock. Mr. Gladstone had annoimced bis assent to modifications of his original Home Kale plan, and every one of his colleagues who had been concerned in preparing the Bill had also cordially assented. What more did anybody want to know ? He was amazed that Mr. Chamberlain did not pro- dace his own plan. Was Mr. Chamberlain against Home Rule altogether ? The Gladstonians wanted to know also what Kadicals like Mr. Chamber- lain thought ai)Out the doings at Mitchells- town, Ennis and other places. As for Chamberlain's urging a postponement of Irish for English legislation, the position of Ireland, the speaker said, would not allow Parliament to deal with other affairs. The ship of State was in a storm and was surrotmded by tumultuous waves. There was only one way of making port â€" to sum- mon back the old pilot. (Cheers.) Reso- lutions were passed expressing confidence in Mr. Gladstone and demanding justice for Ireland. A mass meeting, which was attended by 10.000 persons, was held to-day at Tower Hill. The police sciztd the placards an- nouncing the meeting and demanded the names of the promoters of the demonstra- tion. Speeches were made from six plat- forms. The speeches condemned the Government's Irish policy and the conduct of the police at Mitchellatown. Appro- priate resolutions were pat and carried. A strong force of police was present, but their services were not needed, as the proceedings were orderly throughout. The Canadian Northwest. A collection of Manitoba exhibits Vnlucfcy Bill. children all turned ont well, I old but de- " Your reckon? " said a man addressing an friend he had not seen for many years. â- â€¢ Wall, yes, all but Bill, pore" feller. " •' Drimk licker, I reckon." " Oh, no, never drunk no licker, han't amounted to nothiu'. Bill wuz ceived and it rnint him." " Love affair?" " Yes, an' a mighty bad one." " Shu married some other fsUer, eh ? " "Oh, no, ahe married him. She wuz a widder, an' let out that she was well off, but she wan't. W'y. she war.'t able to get Bill a decent suit o' clothes the week airter they wuz married. Yes, the pore fellow has lost confidence." â€" Arkamaw Traveller. A I.lne of Study. Editor (to young assistant)â€" "Mr. Great- head, I want to map ont a line of journal- istic study for you !" Yo iiig ' .Xsaistaut (dubiously) â€" " I am pretty well up to newspaper stuff, as it ie, sir." Editor â€" " I am aware of that, Mr. Great- head ; but you know too much. I would suggest that you devote one hour each day to forgetting'something." "â- â€¢â€¢â- â€¢ 'â€"Pill-*. Kettles on the Boil. Here is an advertisement that is appear- ing in the Utah papers: "Wanted, infor- mation of John Edmund Kettle, aged 26, formerly of i.,ondon, Eng., latterly of Salt Lake City, by the undersigned. Marietta Kettle, Rosa V. Kettle, Lillian O. Kettle, Katharine K. Kettle, Mattie S. Kettle, Susan T. Kettle, Fannie B. Kettle, Con- stance C. Kettle. Margaret A. Kettle and Julia A. Kettle, all of Salt Lake City." .\pparently these Kettles are all boiling; at any rate, it will be pretty hot for John Edmond if ho is caught. â€" .V. Y. Tribune. Thonghtful Little Boys. Some boys were playing in an alley off Congress street the other day when a woman came out of her back gate and said : " Boys, I want you to go away from here with your noise. My husband is very ill." " Y'es'm," replied theleadero' -he crowd. " Is your husband's life insured ?" " No, sir." " Oh, then, you don't want him to die, of course. Come, boys, let's go." age it learns much more easilv than when ' "".^« !""1 'o«f8. °^*:" <? >ts subscribers it is older. Instinct teaches it'exactlv wliat '"cUities which no otner lelephone Co. can to do. The children of the South Sea , ''""'"b- . The Bell lelephone ^.o. s divi- islanders almost hve in the water from ', dends, with the practical monopoly of the past eight years, average about o per cent. Therefore it is certain that with its econo- mical and conservative management it has been no special bonanza for its share- holders. Its stock sells to-day at about par. With two or three competitors in the lield, and the couseijuent rate catting, what prospect is there for dividends from any of them, since it is not to be supposed that the Bell Telephone Co. will retire from the field? This then is a fair financial view of the matter as to the prospect of a new, poor and untried company paying any divi- dends. Knowing the large number of our ' subscribers who are shareholders in the Bell Telephone Co.. we should be base to oar trust did we not try to protect their I interests as well as prevent others from losing large amounts of money by invest- I ing in new bubbles which cannot by any V- I.-, w • ^ 1^ !-• 1 ..ot a:., I possibility pav a fair dividend, if any at NUuta. Mannoe btrakosch s l»«f8» dis- P^ Wefindon still farther mquiry that covered star about whom he told that ^^^ g^„ Telephone Co. today has about wonderful iLdian story, and for wbom he j^ q^^ g^,, of instruments m use and owns prophesied » future ^0'« ^'''U''"' J";:^ between 4,000 and 5,000 mUea of Ime, con- glorious than that of Fatti, haa appeared in j ^ ^^ ^.^^^^^ ^^^ ,^^ their early infancy and are quite as much at home there as they are on land. â€" London TeUyraph. ♦ Hill Nye in the Barber's Chair. Barber â€" Y'ou are very bald, Mr. Nye. Nyeâ€" That's so. Barber â€" What was the cause of your baldness ? Nye â€" The top of my head grew faster than the hair. â€" Texat Si' tings. Homewhat Indefinite. Old Friend â€" Well, good-bye. my boy. I say, why don't you come up to dinner with me some time ? My Boy â€" Why, I will ;of course will be glad to. When shall I come? " Oh, come ap â€" er â€" sometime. Well, so long." â€" Texas Si/tings. making remarks are common.- Hamilton Sad REsriT. â€" " Capital articles those of yours on Commercial I'nion, Mr. Young," said our voung man to the hon. gentleman from Gait. " But why do you look ao | ashamed ? You ought to be proud of your i work." "Proud! Perhaps you haven't j noticed that I'm being praised by the Toronto World," was all he said. â€" Grip. The Pittsburg, Pa., Grand Opera House gives an oi>era glass with every seat. The glasses are chained to the chairs, the chairs | are riveted to the floor, the floor is nailed to the beams, the beams are let into the ; foundation, and the foundation is sunk into j the earth, but one of these fine nights somo I'llow will dig the whole establishment out j nd carry it off, rather than let go of his glass. A Yankee Solution. " Jones is getting rich," " Jonea money." 8ucl Times. Copying the above, the BuiTalo Setcs wonde'riugly inquires in a headline, " Who is Jones?" Well, we may tjot be able to give all the particulars, but we have heard that " Jones, he pay the freight." If he is making money he ought to. â€" Itochetler Herald. ^ â€" Belgian ^ass- workers are now preparing to make glass into various shapes and patterns by running sheets of it at just the right temperature to work nicely through steel rollers. Jacob Sharp is to be sent to Sing Sing on Friday and James A. Richmond, one of Sharp's colleagues, is to be placed on trial. The Greenhorn mountains in Oregon are covered with six inches of snow. Dark ngs : Looking for a match when aroused at 1 o'clock in the morning nited States. It has also the ey.clnsive right to connect with the system of the American Bell Telephone Co., in ''je United States. -Vny person at all familiar with the businees'and the cost of construction can readily see that no company could duplicate this construction without a very large capital. Opposition may be a good thing, and where it has a chance of success a creditable thing, but where in common sense is there anything to be made with three or four companies in such a small population as we have in the Dominion of Canada ? We have, therefore, two desires London at the promenade concerts given at Her Majesty's under Col. Mapleson's man- 1 agement. So far the success of this young lady has been of a rather doubtful nature, if we accept the verdict of some of the lead- i ing London papers. A sTRiKiso instance of the extent to which saving machinery is carried nowa- days, says the Indiutriii. .Toumal, is shown in the tin-can industry. Everybody know;a that tin cans are manufuctured by machi- nery. One of the machines used in the proc'ess solders the longitudinal seams of the cans at the rate of litty a minute, the cans rashing along in a ontinuous stream. I ;„ jjjjg matter, the first to protect our Now, of course, a drop or two of solder is ffjends who have already invested in one left on the can. The drop on the outside eompany, and the second to protect those can be easily cleared away, but it is not ^ ^jjq [„j^y be solicited to invest in certain easy to secure the drop left on the inside. ' logg^g. 'Finally, what is there to prevent It wouldn't do, of course, toretardthespeed jjjg ggn Telephone Company, with its of the work â€" better waste the drop ; it wealthy and paid-up organization â€" in case is only a trifle, anyhow, and to 99'J men in ^j j^ doubtful success of their rivals â€" re- 1,000 would not seem worth a minute's jucing the price of their subscription to attention. The thousandth man worked jq^jj ^ point as would wipe out all and sun- for a firm using one of these machines, and ^^y ^jj,, opposed them by a tariff on which he set about devising an ingenious arrange- 1 ' ,,,-.., •,-, ment for wiping the inside of the can, thereby saving that viiop of solder and ^ leaving none to couu- m contact with the , _-];i,e Pwis Fi'/nro says that those who contents of the can. He was encouraged ^ ^ ^^^^^ â-  ^^j^^ qumiiie should mix by his employers to vatent bis invention, prescribed with a verv small did so, and has ''â- â- ^-'-^â- . J^^^'^^' .\";"'' ,,uantity of fresh butter and spread it under thousand dollars in loyalties for its use. i ^ -^ -•â-  â-  " â-  As the machine ,«?'^'"^ J^"^? '^°"^"^ perfect as if inlroeluced into the stomach cans a day, the solder saved by nis invention t~ amounted to about $1 J a day. It pays to think as you w^ork. " Orchard tea" is the name sometimes applied to hard cider by the Connecticut deacons. A New York despatch says : Preston candidate of the Union Labor party for Secretary of State, has resigned to allow has been sent by the Canadian Pacific Railway to Charloltetown. P.E.I. A carload of anthracite coal from Banff has been received by the Naval Department at Ksqaimalt. If the results are satist&c- torv a large order is expected. It is stated that Mr. Somerset Aikins, son of the Lieutenant-Governor, is to be married in ten days to MissColby, aaoghter of the member for Stanstead. At a meeting of the CoancU of the Board of Trade this afternoon a report was pre- sented by the Secretary in which the total vield of wheat for this year in the Province Is placed at 11,000.000 bushels, giving T.OoO.OOO bushels for export. This, with the surplus of other products, will realize about $7,000,000. The average yield of wheat for the Province will be about 25 bushels to the acre, and may probably reach 30. One hundred cars of wheat passed throagh the C. P. B. yards yesterday en route to Port Arthur from points in Soath- eru BZktttoba and between this citjf ati<l Brandon. The railway company reportsthe wheat movements brisker every day, and their locomotive power will shortly be taxed to its utmost. The Moosomin Fair ended last night in a banquet to the eastern press representa- tivee. which lasted till 2 in the morning. Prof. Saunders was present and made favorable comment on the Moosomin dis- trict. To-day the eastern pressmen were driven here across the prairie to WapcUa. There were 200 entries at the fair there to- day. The party leaves for Whitewood by to-night's train'to attend the Whitewood Fair. A mimicipal election in Emerson yester. day resulted in a small riot. C. S. Doug, lass, M.P.P., a candidate for mayor, tore up the official voters' Ust at one of the polling sub-divisious because it was incom- plete, he claimed, and a row ensued. In conse<iaence there is no election of mayor. When the Nelson Valley Railway Com- pany was dissolved by Parliament some years ago the Hudson Bay Company was Sirecttd to pay the Nelson Valley Company SlO.aTO for surveys, etc This has never been paid, and Mr. S. Drammond, of Mon- treal, has appUed in the Courts here for an attachment of the line of the Hudson Bay Road in order to liquidate the debt. All the bridges on the Red River Valley Road are now completed excepting the one at Morris, and the construction of the ata- lions have now been begim. Four mounted policemen arrived at Ed- mon: <u last night with a half-breed and his son from Lesser Slave Lake charged with the murder of the wife of the former and the stepmother of the latter. The woman became insane and was inciting to cannibal- ism and murder. Therefore, in accordance with Indian custom, her nearest relatives killed her. none but "themselves could subsist ?- Shareholder and Insurance Gazette. -The The absorption will be as nlroducedinto the stomach. â€" A witness in a Scott Act case at Paris, describing *hat he had got to drink at one â-  of the hotels, said : " There was not much whiskey in it. 1 could drink twenty glasses of good whiskey and never feel it, but I call the mixture I got in the Windsor just rotgut." «, »,.uw According to the Washington .Star, T u a •• . . . K , „f .f .1.^ 1,^1,1 Secretary Bayard is unable to tind suitable John Swmtons name to be put at the head °'''^'""',' •'„.•'_:„;_,,.., ..,,„ .,,..^„ „„«»,» Major Pbipps Free. The term of imprisonment of Major Ellis P. Phipps, the defaulting supcriuten- Jent of the almshouse, expired last mid- night. His season of mental and physical depression, which invoked the solicitade of his physicians and friends, was followed, as the time of his release drew nearer, by brighter spirits and his old physical vigor. When he left the prison he was as vigorous- looking as when he was first arrested. Ue has yet formed no plans for the future. It was announced some time ago that he would tell all he knew about alm^hcust. irregularities when he was released, be cause he fancied that his quondam friends had deserted him in his hour of need. The Major the other day denied any intention of making any statement. of that ticket. This makes four parties already in the field. The Republicans have Col. Fred. Grant. The Democrats will nominate to-morrow. Henry George represents United Labor and John Swinton Union Labor. The fall election promises to be lively. men who are willing to take places on the United States section of the Fisheries Com- mission. " I say, waiter, this beefsteak is at least three weeks old !" " Can't say, I'm sure ; only been here a fortnight."- Pari* Esta- rette. It is understood that the new Exche<iuer Court provided for by the bill passed by the Dominion Parliament last session la to be started immediately, Mr. Bnrbidge, Deputy Minister of Justice, being spoken of as the Judge. .\ witness in the recent convict inquiry in Georgia said it was necessary to whip the men to get any work out of them. If they were whipped in time, however, it was not necessary to whip them much. The Illinois State Board of Agriculture declines to recognize the Galloway breed of cattle as a breed, but classes them the same as the Aberdeen- Angus. I