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THE WEEK'S NEWS OsUUMAjf, A Swiss colony U to be formal on I.i'lu Iilaud, at the mouth of the I'raaer river, 15. c Hon. J. M. (iiUou has been eleotcd proii flent of the Dominion Kifle Asiociation. The report Is current in Ottawa that Mi . I.. I. Koy, Q. ('., of Toronto, will be ap- pointed Deputy Minister of .lustier. The Caanmercial Cable Company proposes to lay a third caMe from C'anso, N. S. , to Waterville, Ireland. The Toronto brunch of the Irish National league passed a resolution endorsing Mr. (iladstone's home rule bill. A branoh of the Imperial Federation League has been formed in Woodstock, comprising the leading men of the town. Ten farmers of Oxford county have with- in a month past left wealth Talged in the aggregate at fl^.'.UOO. A Canadian dub was organized at Hamilton on Wednesday night, witb Mr. Langford Kvans as president. A teat cate of the Manitoba school question is being prepared in the t of Justice for submission to the Supreme Court. Among the rumours current in Ottawa is one to the effect that Mr. Frank Smith will be among the t m dioni who will receive knighthood re .t spring. Robert Best, a patient at the Hamilton Lnnatic Asylum, was drowned in a pond while working in a quarry near the asylum grounds. The Department of the Interior has issued an order that in future all immigrant* must be landed at Quebec instead of Montreal. This decision has been arrived at owing to the want of accommodation at Montreal. The members of the Women's Christian Temperance I'nion of Winnipeg recently debated in that city the question of grant ing the franchise to women, and the ladies on the negative side presented some very strong argument* in opposition to the pro- posed privilege The members of the Local legislature supposed them to be in earnest, and now they are anxious to tell the states- men that they were only speaking for argu- ment's sake. The British waiship Uyacinthe ia coaling at Victoria, !!.., and taking on a full Bap- ply ol ston.c. It u s.id she is to sail with waled orders, and it is supposed she is going to Honolulu. A motion to further restrict Chinese im migranion to Hr.lisb Columbia by increas who are furuialiiug the World'a Fair with models of Atlantic steamers since they were lii 91 i mi between New Vork ami Liver- pool, have ofcreil a model of the rebel cruiser Alabama, which was built at their yard, but the oflsr has been declined. IMTFD STATUS. President Harrison lias gone duck shoot ing. The Walker failure at Youngitown.Ohio, is said to have ruined Governor McKinlry. There baa been sleighing for (if) consecu- tive dys in Ulica, N. Y., and the runner* go well yet. The United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations has favorably reported the Hawaiiai treat} of annexation. One ihoiiiand depositors in Kockafellow's broken bank at Wilkeibarre, Pa., will only get "> cents on the dollar. The important announcement i* made that Mrs. Cleveland will not have her in- augural gowns made to be worn withcrino- line* It in announced that the Chicago and North- Weat-jro railway will derate all its tracks within ibe limits of Chicago, at an expense of 124,000,000. President Harrison shot a rabbit on Saturday and violate i the game law. The her iff took o action, but simpiy laughed when told of it. Mrs. Triggs, a native of Nova Scotia, and wife of Mr. Henry J. (iriggs, manager of the New Kngland Dressed lieef Company, committed luicide in Itutfalo l.y stabbing herself in the neck with a pair of scissors. Wallace Bruce, of I'oughkeepsie, United States consul at Kdinbnrgh, has been elect- ed to succeed the lato John (ireenleaf Whittier as life corresponding member of the Scottish Society of Literature and Art of Glasgow. A Special from Washington states that the financial situation ha* = ot improved, and that the United State* fiovernmcnl may be forced to the expedient of putting bonds on the market to retain the integrity t f the reserve. It is understood that the Propaganda in Koine ha* decided that Mgr. Satolli shall male his ollicial residence in Washington. It is reported from Washington that the Hawaiian treaty is not likely to be ratified by the present Congress, as the Senate has all the work it can do U.t wrm this and the inauguration of Mr. Cleveland. BOW cum; is ITMSIIKD. Within Grim Pruon Wall* *lr*ll Tkrims.li Ike (ralral al Trnlu Wuiurn MrlU J. < .... |. ,r, ,1 Mill. *M Ihr Hard lali.r c,r 1. ..!,. Ml.nl > in Life I.. It U a sat isfaction to reflect that moat ]M-r30ns are acquainted with the oumide'of a pi non only. The gloomy exterior perhaps calls to mind Ules they have read or heard of sufteringx cud.iied j' innocent and guilty like, the en. lieu tuk atrl pitiless taak- muter, the unpremeditated offence and aperdy puuishment, the dungeon tnd the laali, and it la with a iliutiiler tli.it they pass on, grateful that they know nothing further, but with an expression of pity for the unfortunate! who do. In some respects, perhaps. thii universal impreuion baa had beneficial effect, and to the weak and err- ing may have possessed deterrent qualities, Im i in thin advanced and advancing age it it just al well to know that old time methoda, even in respect V> the prisons, have given place to broader and irore humane idea*, and that a sinning fellow creature ia not now subjected to the harsh and brutal treat- ment considered then, not only as a punish- ment but as a cure for crime. IS TUK I>V-* "F UiSi. li.ii a governor of a prison wai general'.y selected because of unyielding disciplinary qualities- t ions displayed as an army officer or in some other capacity where men were controlled by ant', subject to him. Too often he was one of those martinet! whose terse of justice w.i* blunted in the blind determina- tion to exact the most passive and abject obedience. The unfortunates given to his care were put to the meanest a* well as the moat laborious of occupation*, such as stone breaking, oakum picking, etc., while the ignominious and useless treadmill was in- troduced as a sort of recreative variety. All this has been gradually but -ureiy undergo- ing change, and in many instances lias been transformed altogether. Interchange of idea* has accoir.plised wonders in serving to replace the slave driver with the humane disciplinarian. Instead of keeping to the surface the coaraer nature of the criminal it ii now the aim to bring out the germ of good that it is claimed is possessed by every man and to utilize it to hit cwn and Tlir CKSK.KAI. IIENCCIT. To any one who has not inspected the A passenger train on tin West Shore workings of one of these sad necewilies for, railway, running between New Vork and | >; "'*" y. " change will appe.r Rochester, was derailed about a mile east 01 Palmyra, X. V., al ten o'clock the other morning, ami fell down an embir.kinenl lit tli- short of marvel!nu. JliU can truly lie said of tl>e C-uiral Prison, the provincial! institution on Straclian avenue, which, when IIULf reUJMJIl W ItliklsllI VVIUUIUSM "T im-ICsW _ , - U 1 1 ing the poll tax from *W> to $.-,00, was de- nd lne co * che were ft}'* . . . . t rir*ii> it *\ * n if r wore* killnrl feated in the British Columbia Legislature on Friday by only one vote. A young man named Thomas Kastorbrook was kicked in the face by a runaway horse whbh he was driving al Tweed, Out., on j ' ( ' Saturday, and had bis jaw Imne broken in two plaoes, besides being otherwise injured. Mr. Robert Fallon, of London township, left his team untied at deary's creamery on Saturday, and while he was inside the horses started off. Mr. Fallon ran aftflr them for a mile, when he threw up his hands, fell down and died. A whim on the part of a prisoner in the gaul in Napanee, Ont., who sought to re- lieve the tedioutnei* of his leisure moments by singing hymns, i* said to have created a genuine religious revival among many other inmates of tlie nrison. At a meet mi of the l.'aerec branch of lhe Uuininioii Alliance, held in Montreal, it was laird that in Mill the number of licensed places in Montreal exceeded by I >7 the total number of licensed places in the eleven cities of Ontario. Mrs. W. C. Mackny, of London, Ont.. died on Sunday morning from >n ovurdose | of i nloial admiuUtered by k-rMrU. .she, ; had obtained a preioriptioa from a family medicine book, and did not understand the character of the drug she was* taking. Premier tireenway, of Manitolm, thinks III.- IIP. in -y i*..'ivd ti.iin tho sain fit Mam tola schom%H(is lmuld bo used for elu<. jrjioiei in that prov ni.-e instead of l-emg hilsf by the Dvtiiiiion <iovniment, liioi lung, anil inn uown au rmoii. ameui. - eighteen feet high. One, of the two engines <"<! the other day by a newspaper rep and passengers were killed and fifteen in- jured. Mr. J. Sterling Morton, who will be Secretary of Agriculture in President Cleve- land's Cabinet, says there are only 40,000.- of timber left in the L'nited States, and this simply is being used up at the rate ol 'J-l.tlOH acres a day. He will resentative, had on its roll exactly names of men incarcerated for terms of from three mouths to five years. A walk through the buildings under the patient guidance of Warden Massie proved a tour of more than passing interest. From the office in the left centre of ttie main bull line, and over win. h presides Mr. H. M. IVr-e, tlie courteous and omniscient clerk, a heavily barred open gate in dred feel long by sixty widu presented a j busy scene. About a hundred convicts are employed. Here t>n in the binder twine factory, the machines ilo most of the work, the men merely attending on them. Never- quick eye and steady hand is aa necessary a* at some MORI! INTUli'ATI KMlToVIE-XT. Among the many industries for which the Central 1'iison is now famous and which with the others is to lie attributed to Mr. Massi's genius and enterprise, i* the manu- facture ol iion bedsteads and wire matresa- ei. Commencing with a design for a prison cot which wouM do away wilh the mat- tr.-si hitherto 1.1 use, and which offered a convenient in J ing place for implement", the persevering warden ha gone on until m lhe demur," is Ix-yond his capacity. So, of hi* designs adopted for the provincial asylums, hospitals, etc , are molt ingenious while the healthful a* well as permanent nature of the structure* commend them to notice without any preliminary explanation. The wire weaving process, which, of course, is incidental to the maims making u a most interesting feature of this department. Contiguous to thii building arc the shops of the blacksmith* and tinsmiths, and it wa* difficult tc conceive that the lusty dust-be- grimed fellows wiio wielded the anvil ha-.n- mer or I/OTC'I to see tho flaming forge and hear the bellows roar, were convict* , jealously watched by Argus- eyed guards. Near by are the engine and boiler rooms, where three huge furnaces and a big Corliu engine are kept merrily moving to furnish the powr and warmth to the buildings. TUE WEAVIS-I: <noi- is prulubly one of Mr. Massie'* greatest tri.nupha. U* found great difficulty 10 start- ing it, from the fact that none would believe that he could make it a anccess, and for a long lime the encouragement he sought was denied him. With characteristic persever- ance, however, ho continued to urge the feasibility of his scheme and finally wa* given permission to make a small beginning. The development and complete success of the undertaking has been his best vindica- tion. Here are manufactured not only the clothing lhe prisoners wear here, but the blankets and clothing for all the inatitiitions in the province. Some of the checks and tweeds turned out of this room would do credit to many a factory of skilled weav- ers. Excellent work too, i* turned out of tbe tailorc'audilioeinakeis' shops, where were ob- ! served a number of lads apprenticed to those trade* and who by the tune their periods of durance hate expired, will have something to face the world with. THK PHOTXMiRM'll I.VP.I.IRY and measuring room, nectesary adjuncts to the institution, were visited and tbe inspec- tion proved very interesting, but if there is anything around the premises in which the Tke Kkeia*lii>ei The March /.///in -/''< has a 'eosible article on lhe subject of putting on mourn- ing for deceased friends. Tbe writer ...... u^ ^ . ..<-d iu.4 u.oLi.uv of the emblems of woe as " the selfishness of mourning. 1 ' It would acxn, Uie artiol* says, at if death were uu.iu|ire4cJib enough to need no anch frenueaU rtraindarf ai the diaplay of crape unit the unrelieved monotony of black in the dress of those bereaved. Because we have a private and sacred grief, why should we tell it to everybody as far at the eye can see' Why should we inflict the often-pain- ful thoughts of duath on the merchant ia his biuiness, on the children ia the street, on our friend" M whom we really wish ne sad thoughts. If it l>e ans*red that ins dress of " mourning" ! so "common a sigul in city trw. < as to evate uo interest, then, thongh the answer i wrnn?, It could yet be proved by it that the garb of grief i in liis respect at W.<utt useless. On the contrary, however, many sensitive or ner- vous people and invalids are given, an un- pleasant and unwholesome shock by the avrf ul black attire ; and to pass it, or ait next to a voluminous mass of stilling crape, is to receive a chill like the damp of the grave. It seems, therefore, only Christian that we should spare others the inrliction of a gloom which, in the presence of a greater gloom, or through the hardenment of habitual use, we who wear the weeds of woe do not feel When we come to consider " mourning " as a way of giving vent to our own feelings, there may be two sides to the question, bui the brighter side would suggest ita being done away with to a great extent, if noi altogether Shall we delegate our gnef te our clot bee ? If there ia ' that wit bin that passelh outward show," do not " the trapn pings a nd tho s-iita of woe ' sctm a nuktg light of the real grief by the very Inade- quacy of the expression ? One will say that it relieves one from the intrusion of worldly pleasures or social enjoyment, Irom the temptation to forget our sorrow. What *ad admission ! A real sorrow is life-long. A sorrow of ine beartgrows with our growth as we learn to appreciate our loss), and rightly viewed becomes one of our strongest aud beat of Angels. Let us, then, not fear the forijeUiiig of a leal sorrow by tbe one who experiences it. A sorrow, then, being life-long, should not be reotnc.ed in ita expression to a period of six months, a year, or two years, as fashion dictates in the various degrees of bereavement. The very idea of fashion in the realm of grief should make faahionable manifestations of its presence most distasteful to all sane and refined people. Fashion in sorrow must ultimately lad us to tbe insane, where feeling is unkuown. To a certain extant there is at least a plausible excuse in the adoption of mourning emblems by those of extended social connections and dutiea Bat lhe excuse limps in that it acknowl- "friends" on ... - < nvra, a IITTMTIIV irtin< WIPBII KIAIV in charge .aggest legislation compelling railway, to ;, M VheUtic uniforme."^'*. admu, lo plant trees along their tracks, from I , prlioll 1>rop . r . The first ol-crvation winch they can supply their own want.. k Q , Ul() {V^ JJJ hfn n ^ Af They nl!m . i/or four, and newly arrived warden takes a pardonable pride it is his ' sVt the hundred* of greenhouse. Tlli. comprises a .uccewkm of j visiling list are, after all, not intimate , ferns, rose.., tropical u * 1 ** u. to be ablet .remember o U1 af fliction* and exi-rcise the proper for bearance. So lhe ailvoc'.tenof mourning' would con- less, first, thit they mourn thn.ugh the medium of their clothes ; second, that they ha e lo adopt mourning as a defence from l.KSF.KAI. Alild spring weather has prevailed in (iermsny lately. Already fields are beeom- in it green and shrub* arc. budding. Karon Bleichroeder, the richest banker in Berlin, and one of the richeat men in l.cr inanv, is dead. He leaves a fortune of 1,IH) MHJ.iiOO marks. The returns of the French Board of Trade show that during January the imports de- creased NlV-lij.i.'iWr. mid the exports in- creased 3,571,0001., ai compared with the corresponding month last year. The floods in (iermany and Austria are reported to be doing a great deal of damago to property. A ipecial cablegram says the will amount to millions of marki. u<iii.il purj nog h' which declines to advunre to the (iovrrnmeut from tlie fund tbe aiity thoii and dollar* required for the erection ol a Normal school building. IIK1TMI. F.nglaml will send two delegates to the cholera congrc** al Drcjden The strike of cotton spinners in Lanca- shire ha* been settled by a compromise. Ilight Hon. A. .1. Italfour, the Opposition leader in the British Commons, u suffering from influenza. Ireland sends annually 4O.OOO ton* of eggs itom>- tt40.000.OPO in rou n d number* - to Kngland alone. A bill ha* been introduced into the New .South Wales legislature to restrict the ad mission of Syrian peddlers, on the ground that these destitute aliens aro becoming a uulilic evil. The Midlothian Liberal Association has adoptnil a resolution declaring lhat Home Rule for Scotland is a nccesaary condition to granting Home Rule la Ireland. It is pru.tia.bli> dial KngUnd will order a naval demoaatralion to take place shortly in the neighborhood of Honolulu ai a protest against tho annexation of lhe Hawaiian lands to the United Sta'.ei. Culled Ireland, the Parnellite organ pull- Inhed in Dublin, expresses the opinion that Signor Criiualdi, Italian Miniitsr of Fi- nance, says the Monetary Conference will prnhejMy iret reaeaenibie Best May, as the Kuiopean (Jovernments are convinced that nothing will come of it. Twe old women in a remote district of Russia were dete. Id in the ml of stealing a i ceUl *"'}., tn * l . r child, and subsequently c'tnfnaaed to hating killed and fatten a number of children whom (hey had kidnapped. The two female can- nibal* were burned to death by a mob of peasant*. Traejieas Title*. Here is the poet's own account to Mr. James Knowlon, editor of the .\'i.i./-. ,.''i < '> n/iiry, of how he wasoffered and accepted tho lauieatexhip : "The night before 1 was aakrd to take the litureatcahip, which was offered to me through Prince Albert's liking for my 'In Memonam, ' 1 dreamed thtt he canio to me and kissed me on the cheek. I said, in my dream, 'Very kind, but veiy ' ;. Minn In the morning the letter about the laureatesbip wa* brought to me and laid upon my lied. 1 thought about it through llie day, but could not uiake up mv mind whether to take it or refuse it, and at last I wrote two (alters, one accepting and one declining, and threw them on tho table, and settled to decide 1 which I would send after my dinner aud a bottli of poi I. " " Hit way of working wo* much let* like 1 work ' than inspiration. ' I can always write,' he said, 'when I see my subject, though sometimes I speml three-quarteri of a year withonl pulling pen lo pa|ier.' When he did ' see ' it his miud dwelt on it al all the new Home Rule is interior to tin measure of ISM!, whirh Mr. Farnell did not regard as a complete settlement. Tho London Standard calls the lf.>m Ilul.' bill a "colmsal inoiiiiineiit oi in^eiuniiM futilitv," and ridicules especially the financial proposal*. It says the unity of the counlry would rust on it l>aiaof whiskey and brown alont. Hon. Arthur Stanley's condition contin- ues to improve, l^ady Stanley is now with him. The Imperial supplementary Civil Service iVimalea oontain an item of f.M.IH^l foi thu <-oui|irn*atio!i of Behring Set sealers for loeioa due to the delay in arranging a mod -is MM-ndi i I fill Knnt{iti'in circlet in ',reat Hritnin arc inn :h jierlin be i l>) I lie art ion of the Caia- titan itearnsliip Tnen in raiding emigrant rates twerty-t" 1 I" r cent, at a time whon there arn indiir *inn of .m unusually large flow The lAn ula. slupbnildors'a* Uirkonhead, times and seasons, possessing him until he possessed and jierfocted it. Sparkles aud gleams might flash out at any moment from and painted by the silent prisoner ' re tenanted by prisoners When thr-e late comers have'gone through a coune of bathing and barbering and have been < os'umed in clean pri*on garo, they are Holed an apartment in the galleries so freque illy described lie- fore, tly this course of preparation snel precaution perfect uleanline** is secured. Thin parl of lhe building suffered imut by tbe tire o' a few years ago and in redesigning it Mr. Mumie displayed excellent judgment. Here is the libiary, judicioiia'y, if not plenti- fully, I'm niilicd aud in which the minimus pcjta.'W countenance of the convict in charge, wss observed Iwnignly fronting over a favourite volume, and Till SCHOOL KUU.M adjacent, where profitable evening* aro pawed by tin me who take advantage of it, and where religion* nervier* are also cou- ilu -led when occasion requires. Furllcr on aie the tiers ot gallencs round which vigilant guards patrol al night watching throughout the silent hours lhe many little 'in slumbering occu- pant* until relieved at cockcrow, when with the precision Of clockwork a fresh relay of officers assume duly. The convict* having arranged their cells witii silent alacrity, fall into procession at the word of command, there are no laggard*, and proceed with measured step to ablution* and thence to early morning labour. No word, is spoken lint by the otticera. Prompt punishment follows disobedience and so rigid i* the dis- cipline in this respect that it I* seldom that an infraction is reported. Across the yard from the main building are the conkhoua, kitchen andotricer*' din- ing room '1 he appliances for preparing the meal* are of the latest design*, and arc kept in perfect order and scrupulously clean. roUK AM> UK AS-. with good wholesome bread baked by them elves, was the midday repast ill )n<cns* of preparation on the day ol lhe vi*it I he menu is changed daily, but is always plenli- fill and of excellent quality. Hundreds of deserving men, women ami children in tin* fair city would rejoice if they could have Hat down to inch a meal on that raw winter day. To the south of tho coukin^ premise* is the first of the many comfortable steam heated shops wherein the convict labours easily for utatod hours each day. Croquet set* to lie playe t with by innocent lads and lasses later on were here- being put together Chll- the intrusion of their friends ! As we have seen, the infliction of gloomy apparel on compartment* in which ferns, roses, tropical , planl*. Mower* and foliage of rare quality I and beauty are gathered in porgeous pro- fuiion. Tins, too, ia au illustration of sue- .cesslul perseverance. There was a very wall of difficulty raised tip when lhe estab- lishment of * greenhouse wa* mooted, but from a very small beuinuinc Mr. Mauiesuc- - -,---,_ ceeded in accomplishing his desire, and the | tn uublic-whom we do not know. , g im in.titntion now poeaesM* ometh mg *"'> * J" " ot , , kd * , "*""" * 1 wi hin it* forbid.iina walls that the visit- violation of the C.olden Rule. bash- I or would least expect to fir.d there. lfth ! "> "' "lonrnmg tationery, in 1 ladie* of Toronto would but drive out lo mourning bead gear, in mouruing I'very- ' the prison aud sen. thedi.play. some of which wll l hollow sound they have! is destined for the Chicago Kxhibition.they I " mourning" hlp to keep alive the memor;, would not only be repaid for the trouble of the de,I? 1'os.il.ly. to i some : but who of the dea I would care for remembrance ihu* perpetuated, associated with sombre imsgery ? And must it be written thai " monrning become* " lome people, and that it ha* been worn beyopd even the fashion- able period for that reason ? What *en*eol griet, or the sacrediiee* of sorrow, or the lolcmnity of death, is conveyed when a rosy but would gratify the Warden exceedingly. His greal difficulty is to secure the right kind of men to assist the chief gardener. Convict* as a rule do not uhibu tbe taste which is the requisite qualification in the Met. A IIKM.THt < KliKU. Returning to the olhoe, the visitor en- j countered the processions of prisoners ou their way to dinner, and Was struck with I the tone ef tiula health which pervaded I thaw all. "We Ihtvr comparatively little nirkness | here,' said Mr. Mis-ie. "So lilt:* tint it s not worth pea king off. Regular liabiUaaxi I i-< / ' healthy surrounlinTn noon tell their own story. There are worse places in the world, you'll admit, lliau tin* inside of a prison. ' Yes, thought the visitor, but it greatly depends on the establishment and how it is managed. Uii'tovery prinon that's a lit- tle world's fair, botauic garden and reiormv lory combined. If bad men cannot he made good here tlitur U little chance for them anywhere else. heeked person enveloped in crape comes into a street-car laughing and chattering wilh a companion '.' Is it pot travesty ! One ctntoof hope that tH ag*l, accustomed to the UMvge, will abandon it at onee ; if it cakes the c grief to so display it, who would forbid them, who have lost so many of their iemls? In the ?ery old there is, if anywhere, an approach to appropriateness thi anvil where his genius was lieating his j drcn s waggons for summer and lccia for : into sha|><), but the iiain creative process, where the vision wa* condensed into art, went nn when he had shut himself up in In-, room with hi* pipe. Re would do this two or three times a day hi* 'most valuable hour,' a* ho often told me, being the hour after dinner and then, with In-, pipe in Ins mouth and over the fire, he would weave into music what t lung came to him,' for he never accounted for hi* poetry in any other way than that Ml came.' 'Many thousands fine lines go np the chimney,' he said to me, and indeed the mechanical toil of writing them down, made heavier by bit short sight, was so greal that it waa eaiy to believe in the sublime waste the characteristic profusenes* of geniui. When Im cam* out from hi* room at such seasons he. would often have a sort of d.t/i'd a-.d fr nil' d.Ktmy look about him, as if seeing ' beyond this ignorant present.' and such a* Millais nlone has caught in hia great portrait, where he looks like the nmulici and bard that he was." winter were leceiving their gay conn from tieft linger*, while rocking horses of dappl- ed grey were being saddled with a neatness and dcipatch that would shame the average groom. t'llMVIKNTIMi IIS TIIK SKll.l. dinplayed at ibis work, Mr. Niaasio aaid : " They soon adapt themselves to it, and if they <io not, we remove them co something more suited to their taatos. Although the work in easy it requires a neat hand aud light touch. The labour-saving machines of modem times give us the opportunity to take up employment of thin kind. Wo re- ceive all those things in thj rough, and put them together and paint them here. Some of tho convicts become verv expert at it, but you can undenUnd that it is never ending instruction here. Iho nverauc I. lontion is not twelve months, a good deal leas, in fact, be that we are always teach- ing, and alwayn hoping that our teaching is m I in v.tm. The broom shop, a prcat room two him- in the wearing of at least partial black. But tae discarding of excessive im.nrumg display may well be begun by the young and mid- dle'aird. Especially let 119 not have chil- dren, spirits of joy and hope, masquerading in the hues of death. Why cloud their live* more than nature clouds them ? In all but the very aged it seems as if some appro- priate ol'scr. uioe in neck -dress, the wearing of grays aud lirowus, etc. , rather than any gay color*, were as far as we could safely go without mllictiug our grief on others. And if we are any mo'e tempted to forget our grief or join in the dance, can we not aafely leave these th'ngs to the heart? What conduct is above reproach thai does not emanate therefrom T Away wilh hypoc- risy in grief, as in anything else ! Ii our fi lend- rally around in sooner and beguile us more quickly frcin the temporary, natural shock of death, from a lonely vigil wilh death to which we have bond ro un selves, will it not bo better? The lesson of death ha* bteii often preached, to I* also ready. And to thai end let the sorrow- stricken work yet more diligently while it is day. There is no truer balm for grief than self-sacriflciug work for olhec*. A relic of barb trism, perpetuating lhe spirit of the dav . whu the mourner shaved his scalp, to: tnifl hia flesh, put ashes on his bead, starved, m.-xdu night hideous with wailing aud beating of drums, let us gent- ly divest ourselves of this custom of wear- ing entire black for the dead, and aee if the world will not 1> . brighter in spirit as well as brighter to the eye. A >ui<-l I ...i.l.n Mission. The oilier Sunday night al lhe Charring- Ion Mission, which is held in a long, narrow room double gulleried all around, the coughing ( from the fog i was more like Fourth ot Ju'y with conglomerate firecrack- ers, clinrch bells and cannonading, than one would conceive a* uissiblc issuing from a merely human assembly. .hi: t a word aboat this Ciiarringlon Mis- sion, which U a feature of the Ko-st Kml. Frederick Clmriington belongs to u wealthy family of bruwers. Abont seventeen ysars ago he began to ilo a sort of street mission- ary work in Ka*t London, near hi* father's brewrry. lln father threatened to disin- herit him, but finally lefl him a share, I thoug'n uot a full share, iu lhe buiiiieu. Once-, on being taunted on the street wilh wearing the blue ribbon " What doe* it coil you to wear thai Mue n!>l.i,>;i I, . wa* able to reply, "1100,000. " He told out hia interest in lhe brewery lo hi* brothcrn, and Imill in Mile KnNl Koad- the prolong- ation of tVhitochapel the lireat Asseml.l} Hall, which had lieeu projected, but never began, by Keith Falconer. Kvery Suudav niirhi ,'I.UUOcr more people gather at the evangelistic service of the mission, and its fellowship society, wilh lhe constant ,, |i ; . ion*. cdiK itiou&I and entertainment work centuring at the (treat Assembly ll.tll, make il u power for good in a district which contains a number of powers for evil. Charrington himself U a tall, finely built mun whose rich, drawling tones convey somehow the impression of an intense en- thusiasm ami a certain lack of judgment. The Mile Kml Road, however, not to speak of other streets in London, it not overload- ed with famttidof his type. The new treaty which has been made be- tween Venezuela and Colombia is tin- first step toward a triple alliance, win, h M to in- elude K3iia<lor. The alliance is to be formed for offensive and defensive purposes, but . >zw i>r iu. n iv.- .>.,|>cu ju will not huve any direct conniK-tion with I the ordinary vein rock, takr.t a^liiaslcJ uut the Panama canal question. of the t*<-n'ty -fueit vein A limit (...1,1 i. I.I A I'ort Arthur, Out., despatch says: W. H. Harris, of this town, has just returned from the Sultana mine, near Rat Portage, where lie had been summoned to ilx up the stamps in the Sultana mill, which had got out of order. Asa test to find out if they were in a satisfactory condition, the stamps were started up and worked steadily fcr thirty fix consecutive hours. The result was electrifying, \\ln-n the stumps were stop pe>l, it was found that the. rock operated upon by only ten heads had yielded the ex- Ir. ordinary amount of seventy-two ounresof g.ildainalghM, while a similar amount cover- < .1 tho mortar. The concentrates are worth per ton. The rock stamped was just