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; ARMIES IN CLOUDUND. How France and Italr Might for ttte Alp*. II- IT Ik* Italians 1., ,1.1. III. liu|l, In 'rs. The Alp* have been the scene of a good many tough scrimmage* Hist ami last Han nihal with iho Romans, C'.csar with the Hulv..in, Lombards and Piedmontese, Na- poleon, the Hermann, the French, the A us trians in recent years. It l lie expected war breaks out again in Kuni| e. ihe Mps will be again the scene of tierce fighting. They couldn't help it, peace fullv disposed as thny may Iw. Counting In the ovent of war Italy could place in the tint line seven strong brigade*, with forty-four battalion*, of four or five com- paniesaltogether I il companies of Alpine .logeri, with 18 battene* ol mountain ar- tillery, or 38,000 men, with 108 gun*. They are so distributed throughout the frontier provinces that they ooultl be concentrateij on the frontier by at least the sixth day of mohili/atiou, after a declaration of war, thanks to the admirable uetwork of railways in Lombardy. Kebind the Alpine troop* are stationed the following forces : The whole of the First I 'orp* is quartered in the provinces of Turin and Novara: the second thorps in Cunco and Alessandria ; and Fourth in Porto Man- ri/.io, Sigunra iinil Piocen/.a. Of the romiiiu- ing corps, Iwsules one at the i|iiartere ot the WATER AM A 11 ' U.IAI K or ral. mm Aswuhellr II l> Declared Frrrrr H. I. < -era4ne r theTyrolasapartotthegreat Alpine range, |>eoil *taff, the Third is at Milan, tin- Fifth four of the great powers of Kurr e border j ' Verona, the Sixth in H ilogua, the Seven- on the white-capped, gigantic mils, not ( ''' MI Aucouu. the Kiglith in Florence, the counting 8wit7.sn*M, whose nominal neu ti-ality would not he respected for a mo- ment by any of th other powers if any advantage could lie expected by breaking it. I 'ranee and Italy hate each other almost as bitterly a* France and Prussia. Here, iht-n, arc the material* of % foul -cornered combat such as the world ha* Dot Men, among the heaven kucing hill*, with Rus- sia tagging at < Germany's coat tails on the east. Koth France and Italy, on whom the MM** number* about -W..OK) tilling men, of whom some 23},OOU ar uow serving with the colors. -'. .'he Mobile Militia '-O.'I.OOO men. L Territorial Militia 1,400,1100 men. NV v t , an to thentrength and oruani/.atiuu of , , __ the Frunoh Army on her southeastern of Alpine warfare would fall most boundary. In the fourteenth and fifteenth heavily, hsve made great preparation* for i district* bordering the Italian frontier are it. | stationed respectively three Regional In- Ninth in Rome, the Tenth in Naples, the Klevcnth in IWi, and the Twelfth in Paler- mo. Including Olivers, the strength of the lulian Army may lie calculated UIIIM : A discovery in the domain of an esthetics i* being a (jood deal talked about in medical circles in \ ieuna, which, if it liears the se- vere tests which it is proposed to apply to it, will prove an inestimable boon to suffer- ing humanity. Neither of the two agencies heretofore employed \>y surgeons to deaden or miinmi/e physical pain during serious operations, chloroform and cooAlue, is wholly free from danger. Chloroform cannot be administered to persons suffering from heart disease, poverty of blood, eU 1 ., and cnr.-.iue injections under the skin have more than once had exceedingly deleterious ef- fects. The new discover) , which is credited to Dr. K. L. Schleisch, determines the -fact that absolute local immunity from pain even during protracted operations, can be obtain- e-l without restoring to general narcosis of the patient, so that a sufferer may remain perfectly conscious during the amputation of his hand or foot without undergoing the 1. Die standing army, with it* reserves, tortures usually Associated with such opera- Italy's northwestern frontier stretches , fanlry regiment*, seven battalions of the Al long i he northwest of F ranee fur a distance P' ua corps and two brigade* of si\ ,-uvalry of nearly -JPo miles, and i* separated from j divisions, and ono Regional Infantry regi- he i .erinan Kmpire by Swiss territory, '"cut, and live Alpine battalions. Further ! rature the with air aggregate frontier line nf I. VI miles, j a regiment of mountain artillery, with six After i i.e peace of Villafranca and tho ces- 1 batteries, is attached to each district. The smn of the upper portion of Savoy aud Nice Alpine corps is a recent creation. In Ixs, to France, the frontier line was consider, imitating the Italian scheme for protrcling sbly altered to the disadvantage of Italy, the Alpine frontier, the Alpine .lagers were since all the passe* with the exception only formed irom the foot-Jogor baltalions, and ot lint minor St. Bernard, are now in French the mountain batteries reorganised. The possession, or, at least, within reach of th* , -lagers consist of six companies, with their artillery of their numerous frontier fortiti ' special equipment of six batteries. I All iinuuh the French Army has no chance of surprising (ierrnany in mobilization, yet in this respect France i* undoubtedly su- perior to Italy. On the ninth morning of the mobilization theadvanciug troops would be situated a* follow*: I. The Fourteenth Corps from Albertville m the Isere Valley, marching across the cations. The systems may be grouped in ihe fol- lowing districts I. Th* uppe, portion of savoy. J. The river region nf the Isere. 3. The river region of thu Durance. 4. The Maritime Alps. The rirst, although belonging to France since 1*460, is by virtue of former treatte* Lm'e St. Bernard, through the Anita Val- ilslri 1 , considered as neutral territory, ley, toward Ivrea and Turin, where, the French are not entitled to build -. The Ninth ixnd Kighteenth Corp? from any fortifications, and the right of ocuupa- Aiguebelle in the Maiinennu Valley, aver tion incase of war belongs to Switzerland. Mont Cenis and into the Dora Riparia Val- The Isere district is rev-hod hy the main ley toward Susa and Turin, j road across the lesser St. Uernard J'sjm, and ' ') The Tweltli Corp* from Grenoble, in is commanded on the Italian side by Fort , the Romanche \~allev, over Mont lienevre Ban). A second e<|iially cunvcnient road and into the Chisone Vallev toward Caeana, lead* from the Maurienne \ alley over Mont Fenestrella, Pinerolo and Turin. Cenis. near Susa, in the valley of the Dora , 4- The Thirteenth Corp* from Kmbriin, converting the atnmoniacal gas into liquid ammonia, which is led into large reservoir* or refrigerators, where it expands with the ptnduction of cold. Having returned to the gaseous state it is taken up again by the machines, vtshich furoe it anew into the condensers, and so on indefinitely. The am: supply of ammonia serves over and over again. Th.- lowering of the tem- perature produced by the expansion is utilized for cooling^n uncongealabli liquid (solution of calcium chloride) whi h circulates in spirals in the oenler of the refrigeratories. This liquid, by means of a pump, it forced into the pipes in the floor of the riuk. Kach section derive* it* supply trom Iwo principal conduits, into which there ii a constant flow of the chlor- ide of calcium solution cooled to a tempera- temporary paralysis ot 't'he uerves results. 1 1 lire that vanes according to the velocity tions, or exposing himself to the danger of syncope over present in the operating room. It nppears that subcutaneous injections of a solution of salt, and even of rimple cold distilled water, will produce exactly the same local auicsthetic effect* a* cocaine. The explanation of the phenomenon is simple. Local insensibility to pain in caused in the case of cocaine by purely chemical change* : while cold water act* mechanical- . -by means of high pressure and low temperature. Under the inltueu -e of the pressure and sudden lowering of temp- blood and lymph ars driven MBATINii t k Tit H I 1 1 ICE. Ho flrai il rr-Uttlucl'arl.liiB. < Mrrm Kin... iur n.mi.. Ur, an Wlaler. The French, though an industrious and thrifty race, take their pleasure very earnestly, and the Parisian is the petsonili- ca'.ion of gayety. Although he is the beat in summer, when the sun i* always shining and he can pass hi* life m the o^en air, he i* a* keenly alive to the attraction* of winter recreations a* his Canadian brethren, and while people in other land* have Iwen . >m lilaimni; of the intermittent iiiture of thii winter's frost* he liaa been skating on genuine ice since Oct. I last. A skating link of artificial uoln* been constructed in Paris forty meters in length by eighteen in width. As described by a correspondent it consists of a cement and cork floor resting upon a perfectly tight metallic foundation upon which i* arranged a series of connect- ed iron pipes having a total length ol .">,' HI meter*. The building i - .--ipplie.l with steam engine* and the n.vc. y machinery lor ymph d upo from the region operated upon to places where the pressure is less. The tissue is thus deprived of its supply of blood and It is staled on the authority of one of tho Hi MI physician! of F.urnp* that the impor- tance of this discovery is all the more un- doubted seeing that if, m a given case, .-..Id of the circulation, which can be regulate, I at will. When the extents! temperature i* not very high all that has to lie dune 11 merely to keep the ice in condition, ajid a ------- ----- ..... U B .. DU ,_^, ,., , , water should fail lo produce the needful few 'legrees lielow -ero will snrlice while, fiegree of insensibility, a weak and absolute- J on "> contrary, wlu-n the upper atratum. ly harmless solution of cocaine would p certainly etfioaciour. r n. Wanhli) ..r In nearly every reference to the servile worship of fashion it is taken lor granted or even the entire rink, has to be renewe 1 a tem|.eratureof 1.1 to 'JO degrees below may be needed. The surface is renewed every Fii-i, the snow produced by the , ' ll f" ?' "" ' kMc< " l ' ect ' water tha: woman >s the worshipper. But this ', asaiiinption does not accurately record the t r . .. .' Kiparia. A third road leads from the in the Durance Volley, over Mont (ienevre IComanclis Valley over the aud that of Uenevre into Kiparia, entering the latter at Cessna. They are connected by several minor roads. On the French side a mounlainoua rrgiun of alwnt twenty kilometres in width lies be- tween the two roaus, being in iis travel sed rrv the (lalibier mad. e C.ii ile Sauteret, to unite with the Tweltli Corp-. the valley of Dora. ">. The Seventeenth ( 'orps iron through the I'baye Valley, by llarcelnnnelte and the Col de I' Arche, into the Surra Val- ley, toward Cnnuo and Turin. li. The Fifteenth and .Sixteenth Corps I urn from Nice, across the Col di Tenda, toward | < 'mien and Turin. On these routes the marching columns r the ice entire fact. "Doubtless she is a worshipper, but in J[l e *_ P?? every cose man will l>e found kneeling by P her side more than that, he is not only a t | f worshipper of fashion on his own account ! .i but he would Iw a most unhappy, nut to say ......... ..........I it i.._ f~ii.~ i ...ii * i "" ol , and 1 1. en a iy means of a pump kept ill circulation during ongelatlon m order lo surface. In order spirals from producing Changes rough the contraction due to ces m iemperaiu-e to which angry, mortal if his women folk should take Ins cynical Hings at fashion seriously, and ignore its decrees. It pleases him and does nut stall offend the women to hold them up as slaves to fashion Hut the cowardly are subjected they are compos pipes that enter ech other with iriciion t,. a certain length. They thus form tlides that .dlow of a certain play. , in order that their tamperatuic as uniform as possible, < \re is >! 4 D. n>< * larliJa-verassri *Jakr a 1,.. tm ISM- HI (hi Ulri-rll.il The Ontario Government, deserve* to be ougraiulaledon promptly responding W the Agitation for reform in road making. \V bat the country district* need u, th* placing of the entire road system under uniformity of management. Mere sporadic improvement* will not meet the general ne- cessity and demand, nor will it be possible to carry wit the reform* needed if they are attempled oaly hire aud (here m spots. There are appliances required which are too costly to be purchased for occasional us* on short sections of road. 1'he pla : u of joint ownership of such plant by two or more municipalities or ihe rent- ing it to neighbors hy the owners would lead to constant friction aud to neglect , as on* municipality that did road work efficiently might have it* efforts handicapped and i hwartod by an adjoining one in which less nlslligeocp prevailed, where mere avoid- ance of expense was mistaken for economy. Tii is notion i* the bane of rural municipal- lies, so much so, that Lhe present wretch- .ditioti of our country roads is almost wholly attributable to false ideas as tn economy. During the last few decades there have xeu great exu-imous of railways, marked rnproveineois in maniuipal buildings, coun- try residences and farm build, n^s, which seem U> have directed altenlion from the road question. Having secured probably all the railway* needed for many years for shipping farm produce and bringing in farm supplies, u is high lime ibal the road* lead- ing to the local stations and markets b placed in belter couditiou. The advantages of railways have not ben realized by farmers lo ue a* great a* was hoped when tlu-y voted Urge subsidies to aid in their constniriiou, because the roods forming a connection lnt<ween them and their farms have been left unimproved. Improvements in roads result in bringing more closely together the members of the agricultural oommiiuily and thereby increase th* MX ul iiiien-ouns ol farmers. This is a good point,une more important than appears on the surface. The distaste alleged to U increasing for farm life is, to a large extent, owing to the comparative exclusion of " ..p .aitua i* IMIIIUII nui me cowardly , . , . , ,. fellow ishmist-lf such a cringing .lave to ' ? ke " to '""'T "',>' cl)1M1 * e tlle l|lrec " "f . . " ? the , urn-Mi In ll.i. u HU i.nif....... .. fashion that he goes on wearing costumes whose appropriateness in many long ago acknowledged, "plug" hat, for instance. year a absurdii after year id in e ha* There is the From the artistic Ihe current, temperature In thu way a uniform mcn in Important fortifications are ueing. erected on the road from Su.a to Turin, besides ^ ,,1L T" ,7"" ,"- lth 7,, t ,*' " " Ihose atKxillesand on Mont Cem.. On " ^%W , mtl " n K U e p.m of the Po. th. other side of the frontier the French "f*. 1 j u , r " '2? nurch " ld Dot **> con " pleted before the sixteenth, to the nine- teenth dayof moltili/.ation. Meanwhile, the Italia'i Army would be assembled cninph-ie have recently strengthened tlie old Pied :ncntes* fortress of Ktseillon close to the mouth of Ihe Mont Cenis tunne! and Mo- --"" daue. They have sl*o bulk anew block '^ P''''rn [ od position, m the plain u t house on Mont Telegraphs, commanding l ml ht ^ <umclllt for tlle thu road, railway and mouth of the tunnel. The third road is blocked at i.he narrowest point, (.i the deep Chisone Valley by the strongly fortified town of Fenestrella. i Val l* y A " . >-'"l'"n""-''lted from -he Alpine " offcct th " "ln.ledcomb.nation. ' v J ' n 8 ""y ; whsther it or **"" to ooml.ine The most northerly road through the I),,,. ' ''. ? lll " d . * rmv ort - h " f thp '"' "" 1 ' 1 in. I utilitarian point of view it is utterly indefensible. It is imsiiited to the windy anil stormy weather of winter and spring, and in summer it is little lei* than a crime. .instructed m detiMicc of all hygienic this entire circulation hull is decorated vith winter scenery and III by else trie light, ami the temperature is carefully regulated and usually maintained it Iwtween I", tn.i Is degrees. i in- Prr., ,,r rarls. usaite. it i 'i tind elligent people whntlunk for them selves. Urn as a matter of fact it does. \Vc would not be understoo I slice district lead* fron Mont Gonevro, and past Chisone Valley, and at latter puss joins the from th Isere region the valley over Cessna, into the the height of Ihe to ' ak a thence along the French border about sixty Uil " * ' The outlying works of direction. The French Army-would hurry to tho interior to guard the capital, Paris. southernmost road ] """^P" 1 "low must be dealt here to " destroy the opponent . hosd source jf cvp- ply. Both forces, therefore, will aim it the two commanding the road to 1'arii. ...jOlnClIOl s\p&rl'< s,iiu ifULijiufi WVI KB * K.yaneon extend for over twelve kiloir.e- ; Ith r ?' em "; <! '" Anglo- 1 tali* trs, commanding Ihc pass over Mont (Jene- ."" , ' t n ' ll , n - ^ r " I'autage is very even vre, the mouth ot the tunnel on the Italian ! .* Iiei * " "' hotl1 count "~- "' .ide. and .treU-hing far into the Alpine re- """ re ' ''er coasts against a hostile landing gu.ii to the north and smith X. all th. ' ?"*"' her flt trom dest neighboring road, lead to this point, bnih i option of keeping fr offensive ami defensive operalion* on the r hel arlll - v ; /-"K 1 "'"! "cures tl Alpine frontier would probably centre in " lll 1 ' 1 ' '"PI"" t of the lulian fleet for th th,, region. Kjghtv kilometres behind ~' et V f her aHitnced post, ,11 the .\le,hte Brivicon. clone to the. i unction of the '" '"""' and llor "* ln 'he coos Knmnnche and the Isere. (ircnohle form. ''*<""" ! the great bulwark of the Alpine dintrict j """" "~~ tho base of the second line of defense in the ' Tfcrer Hnadrrd a lesr. siiith, matching Chambery and Allwrtvillu A delightful sketch en tilled " Kom,m. in the north. | in London on Three Hundred a year,'' a| A second road lead* from Cunco through pears in the April number of the Chautaii lUrcelonnot t.. and tho Col de 1'Archc to the quan. Tho author Ihus describes her in Ihrronce Valley, and eventually unites with ^enious melhoiis of mkin^ Hire* liundie< the iiortlmrii road previously mentioned. In dollars go as far aa double that sum (he Stura Valley this road in bin ricaded IMI | less careful fingers : Tho furnish. : ng of 1113 Ihc Italian side hy Fort Vina.iio, and on !{airet cost, $10.00. and I pay a weekly Iho French side by the fortifications of rent, ol li'J cents. My expenses' amonni ti Toiirnoux almve Karcelonn.>ttc and l',,n ' I 00 a week when I am careful, an. 1 n-ai v in- en t below. Further sonrh an I south-; much at home, as I am apt lo do at tin- en. et Smtoroii and the forts of C'olntara and ' of each quarter. Kill 1 am much nlir.ud i- 'itievaux, in the respective valleys of tho There arc hosts nf free lectures and galleries )' : i nice, the Verdon and the Vr, guard almost all exhibition! are free on oerlait the imiKliliorin)} roads. In tho event of an days, and " orders'" are not difficult to oh Italian invasion the intersecting roads tain when they are not. I frequent readinf would be of the greatest impjrtance. Be- j room. . whurclam wanned and suppliei tween tho Col de 1'Archc and the Col di with perio heals and newspapers.noniutimes Tenda, the Alpine frontier is only crossed for two pennies, aomelimos one, SDMI, t.tnc- hy sinnll paths, pmtected by foriitications for none. The t wo |K>nny ones are numer- m the plateau ol Aution and somn isolated ous. A favoiitc penny uiie i at \Vhitt-ly's,thc outworks pushed forward from Nice. The grca^ .-'nean l>*'iar. A free one is the pub- road over the Col di Tenda on reaching the , lie library nearly opposite St. Martins French frontier is not more than lift -en Church, "Ju the Fields of brick and mortar, mile* distant from tho route ovr the Col An iiusurparsable one is at the People's :ls 1'Archo, which il finally jnin.i it VM, Palace in Mile Knd Koa.i. I'm American l)alma//..i, in the Stura Valley. Nice is the papers I seek tho reading room of Hankers, mainstay of the French advanced line of as tree to the penniless, if dean and indulging in any criticism of the "plug" hat, much losi a* orgam/ini{ a cnuade againut lU We Live not a word "(criticism for the i men who wear "plug" hats : they form a northwester!) larg proportion of our lest and most intolli gent oiti/ens. Kv-cu i he man who wears a "plug' hi! while ruling a bicycle may, and doiihtless does, adorn every station he nils. All we mean to imply in these philosophical remarks is, that in then- devotion to fash- ion women are but mutating men. They are only acting as they know men are most desirous of having them set. Wo are aware defense. Finally, in the third line of tlm French defense, comes tht- Rhone, with in right bank guarded by Lyons. Lyons is the most important defense Ian Iw aid of Southern Franco, just as Toulon in tho bulwark sgainst tho *nemy in the .Mediterranean. i '" thu millionaire,. What matter.-, it. to oy enjoyment of existence thai I have not a second pair of shoes in the world, and that my gloves are men. led ' \\ li.u Uight is upon my fate, or my fid, that of my > yer I jpoud more upon romance then I iio upon raiment, mure upon poetry than upon 1)1 late years the city has >x>en strengthon- 1 pudding " "lictUr a'ie dump!'" ed by a further girdle of for: l.ilo- daisies, ' says a (.'hinciui pn>M-il.. < and picpared for a garriitoii of tW,<A>0 men. A comparison of the French vt it lithe Italian frontier fortification* shows Italy much thu superior. Anxious for Ihc ,i;'eiy of her frontier (trov in.-t>.s, in !,':' Italy organi/cd an Al -Yie Jagcr Corps, liecriul- ed from the ranks of the Kcrsaglicri regi- ments, the corp* are kept coni.Uiitl.vuii the move about tli--> . \lpino region and the neigh- borhood. They a.-e quartered exclusively ou the French i>nd Austrian froiitiers, and In xar times r.uild be intriiste.1 entirely - i I'IB Jfei.*e of Ui 5* p.ii^li unibl than am not l hmesc, tuid I prefer l.ii'ios, ' in igaiii't, or plucked by humble way MI!.:*. Had not ev cu Lazarus joyi that I'm never knew ? Not a Millionaire- " \\'.int to l<iiy (.!ne of those ftpplo<?' iui|iiired thu griM-er s clerk. " To buy 8Omo ? ' said tho hopc-lr* i-ln,,!. ing man near the barrel, with a dry sob. ' V>, I .lon'i want In buy any, but if il .IncHu't cost loo much I'd like to t,,:,d here a fsw moments an I indulge sparingly m iinoliiiig i liciu. " the conduct of the urwi- ai- in which n and bond- holders of the comptny have been squander cd or stolen, the daily press of Par i* has either been silenl or has openly supported the .swindlers. The support, it is now known, was simply bought, the fruit of direct and shameful bribery . and no, in part, was the silence, but not in all coses. This is not so strange. Papers have been hriU-,1 m Now Vork by Tweed, in Philadelphia l-y liardnley. Bui they were exposed, and in gival pan by oilier papi i* U'hy did this not happen in Paris' The general farts were not unknown. M. Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, in the Kconomisto r'run ,- we, -i liv week, for yinrs, from the . ed ic.'oimts of the company, slowed' bevon that this admission may appear to be a base , . lio ,,ht that it wo* rotten. *u.i .ay Ja.lv ,_ _ u _ , paper coul I have done Ilia same. It ... , - <**> in nin n fame m joksNasMsl women H subserviency to ' nMOII j, ,,, al , fashion. Hut none of these consideration. , , )f ,, ewg in surrender to that clam, , -uperiurny m ; p,^,. o,,,,, , ,,.ve done the same. It was .his muter winch men always make for , , h(! wini , lllt , ,,,, WM u themsslvesondwuch some women weakly , |,, ,,, u Ou . lntrv Iiro , ri . ioll , riv , rv allovv. \\ c are also aware lhal we are tak- : WP kll(m .-. enterprise -would have ,u ihe bread out l the mouth of numerous fllrlll . hwl . ,,, ,,,. \\ WM craftsmen who have found money and ' weak , | he newspapers of Paris' Un* .h are not readers the sense that American* and englishmen are. They seek in their jour nals amusement and a certain excitement. csji tempt u to ignore ih,- cold facts in thin case. Taking no attitude on the great question of fashion as such, we simply re- for the most part political ; but the detail- , . , . " u. u niifvi. IJNI i iniii i ii^t, ; UUL invat-iaii- mark tha men who go on year after year cd report* of lia P |ii,.ngs. great and small, wearing "plug hats, merely because they ; from 7 ny au ,i ll somcfs. such os--ui pap,-rl. are ilmnlnvti. I lit I hi. iK-.inli.tv j nf l.ut i.m^_ * ... arc display.i.l in the window, of hat stores, furnish, do not please theni-wouid/ in have no tight to make jokes on the coining | f so t |, . ] r ft rein of crinoline. for the Hot weak as man is with respect to This has made H unread. papers to mike of financial news a matter of business wholly, taahion, we are glad to be able to say t hat | rare | y discussed or reported in detail. To he is showing some , .spout, on lo let his , ,|u. add the fact that there are no journals ! .! UBMOrt >,Alf ,,. tndllAH ..1.1 J . - good sense and adornment. itself in matters ot dress Not many years ngo niot A wi men would have l*icn *hme.l to wear a bontonniere. They would have ni-ideicd it i mark of eireminaey. Now it is liecoming one of the most common, as t is,,.,..-' t f >. - . us t appropriate, adornmonls of gentlemen, not merely on formal or , occasions, hut during business ho.irs. [n itsi'lf the wearing of a flower may senm a small thine Hut it may have an unsuspect- ed influence in the direction of manners and lutes. And if there were uo other consid- eration it is a good thing for men, most u i of importance iu France outside of Pari*, and the "conspiracy of silence," as M, Cavnignac termed it, become* lest unoc "iiinlable. i li. I ... .T ,.; i i ...i.. in I Iml free Hcpiihlie, the I'mted Mates of \neri., is on. liidln _ Oie treaty with Russia ; a treaty which will deny to the CVar'd nuemies tho refuge which monarchical KM i! land has always ottered ami still nlVrm lo the victims uf tyranny. The treaty, i: ratined, will practically whose livenhre immersed in tho artificialities 'ko the Oar's police a* powerful in the nf life, thus to he brought into contact, with I I'nrted States as they are in liiiuio. The a bit of nature, with its manifold suggestions r g''t nf asylum lu political offenders is safe- simplicity and beiuity. Moreover, in niaii.v guarded by clauses thai appear to mean nth- detail* of dress which we have not pare here lo uuunieratc men afe showing a lisposiUon to get away from the dead ami dories* nnifi, unity which has so long lieen ho rule. It is neilhar possible nor dosii able o go back lo (he pi. !iir<i*nue styles of the nun h aid in reality mean nothing. At tempts on the hti of the I'm or members of tho C/or's household are specially ev copied from the llt of politi. al ott'ences. In a country that has no law hut the will of one n.un murder seems to lie the only styles would b ou! of available weapon of tho oppressed. A dynasty that regards dissatisfaction as a M* from social intercourse. There are many thousands of inch households w ho ire ouipelled to remain secluded in their home after nightfall because the roads are too damjeiotus to travel in the dark. In the Old World, where good road* exist, there i* a very large amount ot intercourse be- tween farm families, who think nothing of running over to a neighbor's houso many mile* away fur gossip, a souiil meal, game of cards and doubtless ooutting. Life is made more worth living, especially to the v.iuni; folks, when the evening is looked forward to wn!i pleasure instead of being, as is too commonly th* case hern m farm house*, without any interest and often a* a tim* of ennui and wearisome idleness. Km the main puinta are the bringing farmers closer u> markets, economizing tuns and Having wear and tear of wagons and horses and drawing the agricultural 'im- munity into closer touch with urlttii life. T...I. ru Mill. u nit, ini; The (Jirat Kaslern was considered a mar- ine marvel when she was compUved thirty- four yoars ,tgo. but sh. proved . failure be- cause she was not well designed, and. more- over, because she was '.o<i Tug for the lime. With til the remarkable advances in steam navigation during recent years lu-r dinieu si'ins have not beau approached. Hu- was I.V. ft longer than tiie New Vork and JO feot broader in lieain, aud her ton-ia^e was I. 'I,. M 10 greater. The new Cuuarder* will make i closer approach lo tl-e Hi.-ai KasU-iii in dimensions to lonnage, iiut will sull lie markedly interior in this rps|ct. Hut in engine power arid spied all the new- eel '.me. s like the New Vork, the Parrs, tin Teutonic And the Majeaticare a long way in advance. Thn threat Kast'in had lour crew and foui puddle engines, witliaool- lecUve hoise power of IH.IMHI. The -ngine. of liie newest ships have a p iwer ranging from {.'..ON) upward, and hare mom iban doubled tin great leviathan speed. Sir Kdward Holland, the great Kelfasl >iii|i- ImUilt i, recently spoke of Brunei, the Ir- signer of tho (Jreat Kastern, as a dreamer who wanted to go too faai. "His ship was a gi^at c.cep|ion," he added, "hut ihi was wrong. ' Her proportions certainly were out of gear, for she had a deck too many, was loo high out of water, and i oiled heavily in * gain. Kin '.!in grcaleal '"is- ealcnlit ion of I he designer was m relation to her adaptability to the conditions of ocean tralnV. The ship did not meet any of the practical requirements nf trade. She was suitable neither for passenger nor freight service. Possibly if shn had had two sister ships trade mighl have IM-.-U ed foraiireat Kostern line, lint as it was shn was a failure from ihc muscl. In- deed the only useful i unction which her rnusli'ii-tion ser vcd was that nf warning designers si(ainst building ships too lui; for their lisM, and nf odmoninlimg the .ship built Icr that it wns his tirst duty to provide steamship owner* with vessels which c >uld rofitably operated. 'he recent advances in the art il |tiii|, limlding have nut been accompanied by ominerciat iniscalrulaticns. The lonnsge and dimeniioni ol ocean steamer.- have lieen gradually lucrrased, bill only proportion- ately to iho normal development ropoiti "t P. i ight ntii.-y. Such laimony with thorpirit of Iliis md'inrria! ' ge. I'.ul itiioiit, any radical change* the resent styles of men's drr-'s may lie, and oiihiless will l>e, very much improved, so beautiful as well as II, make them more lore cun- onieut Most Liknlj. A , onriincj couple in a car :.|.pv . 'it'le ooi'v -wootsv ?" She-' Oli, so' happv' Is api.y ?" " ' "li, so happy !" \\ iiat would to|.<J here wss no oolty-woctsy in the vv,rl<l Uroffvoio* of a man m the car " Topsy- onsy woiilit be h.igging somo other girl." " Is she topsy-wopty ilo if crime canno! be disturl>ed by any argiini'int less forcible than dynamite. It will not be o t liu credit of the United State* if u with the Oar lo destroy the patriots who use the tool* which Kiissian tyranny ha* forced Russians In .;. r,.i the good uf their country. The Abient Friend. Old Friend -" Don't you think that Nel lie Sccoi dseasou is fading a littl. T'olhir l':i'n.1 "I really cannot hate >ou aim. ;t, K the .ibscn' in such fashion, 1 think *h -. A,>iiderfully well preset \ed. -^lic is at least ten years older thin people think the is. passenger tnlhc. The luxnriou* ap- xi, nt in, uts .ii.i Inch (,.. d of Ihe new liners lavo been instilled by the cni.rmo'is*c\r>an- sum of the paacenger trade K. ,-iv new leparturo lias been successful, and the mar- vel is that with the eager competition and ntcnie desire on the part of rival corpor- ations to outstrip one another no serioui mistake has been 11104)0. It is not uncommon to lii-.ii the prediction that ihe voyage be- tween New Vork and Vueeustown will be made bsfore many yi ars inside of four days; and in view nf ihe amazing improvements in steam engineering during tiie last twenty yean, there is no very large draft upon hu- :n.'i ..i'iity involve.) m *u< h forecasts. Still, oven if the possibility of such amr< hau- ioal a liioM-men; \f admitted, it will be a .icsignnr .19 bold and pouihly an dreamy M tho '"'lild*.' ','f '"0 (ireat Mai*rn > "s^ dolilHsriiioly iindrtak to plan jucl. a iliiT droKt ;u will bo the mechanical .lifti.iiltiei of in^Tovm^ i^pon tho best lineM nowafl<*t t-bcro will Iw the siipers.Ucd riski of mak- in,: Ihe initial ,-o 3 t no hi^ii and the .onsunip- ti... i '.f coal so enormous ;h :he opi.rauny ns will fur .-lutrun any possible ,*. create in naengcr or Ireight "tr .