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An Oak Fire. ( h. llgK My Irouhles vanish oul ol And like the spark* expire, When seated, on a rainy night, Iteside a big oak fkt. The win 1 tnatji, hi- .nee; - Hut tempts the "i >' And fau ) paint' a ' liesftie a mg oa' AM. And Jreami rare dreamt of Fall oft, and never tiie, While Memory's warnuug at the blaze Beside a big oak fire. Not this vain world, with )oy ublime Could tempt my fond desire. Could I but dream all winter lime Beside a big oak fire. Monsieur le Vicomte. 'Go,' said she. 'He is the very man 1 waul to sse '.'' "Cursed Corysand/a :"mutteBuLa*\Optran "to come lo my ro^hs now, permitted inch a f^ug l-'rom Jl i.tfctr ro>i RskesJ- "awhfl J never ajmen'H voice MCE Monsieur G.intran d'Heristol's engage- ment to Mile. Carmen de la Vergara had just been announced. Some of his friends rather doubted the young couple's prospec- tive happiness. She was all that could be desired by way of beauty, education, or birth. But Uontran's future mother-in-law was known in Paris for her dreadful tem- per. SJie was a rich Porlagnesit widow, and for the last ten years had live 1 a', ths French capital. "You won't be married ten days before you will have to put the ocean between yosj anil your motber-ln-Iaw, for she is a you h- : I u'BothinK. pet. -only ilk* janitor rom the rue de Marlgnan, wnn ha- cni' lovelier davs -w a mislaid key. I shall have U go hpme but will return immediately. "Take mo with you. "No, dearest, the room are all upsett I shall not stay more than ten minutes." <n the street poor Gontrao was dehber ating whether lo employ force or strate;,) with Cory sandra, when suddenly he spied his handsome friend d'Ktigny. as distin- guished looking as ever, perhaps even more so, with his fine face bronzed by the sun of the Orient. "When did you teturn from Aden?" he joyfully uaeil. " The day before yesterday. At break fast, I read the announcement of your marriage, and am rather surprised to see you looking so worried at five o'clock in the evening." " I am turn Heaven itself has sent you to help me." After a quarter of an hour's explanation, d'Ktigny left Gontran. " Don t worry, 1 ' were his parting words. "Al seven o'clock your trunks will b at the train, or my name isn't d'Ktigny have killed so many panthers that I don't lear a circus-rider. " Thanks ! Hul keep out of the reach of f orysaodra's nails, (jood-bye. I am your sternal debtor. (Jail on me if ever you are in similar straits." On enuring Gontrans appartment d' Kligny found a very liandsome woman woman who would ruin herself to spite any one she disliked. Besides, she is still ex- tremely handsome, and awfully young," aid one of Uontran's friends. "I shall see thai she soon becomes a grandmolher. " "Take care lhat lie doe* not give you a little lir.ithe; in-law '. ' "Bah ! She has been a widow len years. No, no ! Whal worries me just now isn'l Mme. de la Vergara. Il is Corysandra. If she lets me get married without a fuss 1 shall lie surprised and itill, I have been very generous to her !" Corysandra was a circus-rider of easy virtue and a fiendish disposition. She loved none, scandal, quarrels. Her horse- whip duel with a colleague from the Hip- podrome is still green in the memory of 1'aruians. She it was who one day pushed aside two guards, so as to hiss insults at poor Monlrupert, who, with his !>ride, was just coming out of Madeleine Church to tht tune of Mendelssohn's wedilmg inarch, liontran, however, had better luck" With- . At seven o clock sharp Prosper and the oat molestation the wedding party return- lu ?*'! l w r ' f 1 V?. tallon - , od to the Marquise de I. Vergara's apart- ; We1 .' ' " kej ' I0nl 1 r "' uk !" ''," man 1 ... ! Ktiiifk* '*vi/a f h>p*> much m Mir>lll t v " meat. Put the greatest trouble was locome. "Dear mamma," said the groom to his mother-in-law, after the wedding break- fast, "you must give :ne credit for the docility with which I have endured your whims and exigencies." stretched on the chaislonpue, smoking cigarettes and keeping her eyes on the trunks. "Gad "' thought he, "she must require a pretty solid horse." And approaching carelessly : " Madame," said he, " I know your trouble. That fellow d'Heristol is a wretch, and having seen you, I may add, a wretch without taste. To encumber oneself with a stupid little thing when one has " " That will teach you to talk more re- spectfully about my daughter ! " said the >ii. known, springing to her feet and striking the ambassadors cheek with a violence worthy of a Portuguese rage which has been simmering for threeJionrs. " when one has the happiness to possess a treasure like' this ! " continued d'Ktigny rather sheepinhly. " And here is another to teach you to whom you are speaking," emphasi/ed the touchy person, on the other cheek. "You are not Corysandra?" asked d'Ktigny, rubliing his jaw. " No, sir. I am the Marquise de la Vergara." H aside, "was there much difficulty "None at all,.M. le Viromte, Monsieur's friend was closeted a good hour with the person. Then he seut me for a carriage and they left together." "Truly," thought d'Henstol, with a mile, d'Ktigny is cleverer than 1 thought. H isn't so much to be pitied, after all, 1 1 should have liked to see you do , . otherwise," said the Marquise, complacent- 1 '"'having to console Corv.andra. ly admiring her daintily -shod fool. " Don't you intend to continue ?" " No, not exactly. My wife and I itart this evening on a lonx j .urney. ' " You ! Leave ! My daughter promised me that there woul.i be no wedding trip, You rt member. Carmen V " Dear Mad*me, mnce then your daugh- ter has promise. I lo obey her husband. Come, dear, kiss your mother. The car- riage it waiting, and the thorler Ihcadieux the Inner. " .Mine, de la Verpara at once proceeded to faint, and Gontran quickly look advantage of it to Iradhway his weeping wif*. "Gad!" said he to himself, throwing a last look at the Marquise, whose gown the maid was trying to unlace, " 1 must admit thai my mother-in-law is wonderfully handsome." A quarter of an hour later e young couple entered the Gran I lintel, where Carmen a maid, with her mistress' luggage, awaited them as previously nrranged. (>on- Iran's trunk* were to go from his bachelor quarters direct lo the station. He changed his clothes an 1 was just going lo his wife's rooms, for she also had donned her travel- ing gown, when some one knocked. Fifteen days later, al Florence, Carmen ssid to her husband : Who is there?' he prudently asked, before opening, for he dreaded a visit either from Purtugft'i or tiie i! iiipudrome. " Ii is I, Monsieur le Vlcomle Prewar, your man," said a fnmiliar voice. Uontran opened the door rather uneasily. The presence of this man, at this hour, boded no gouj. |--B m "Anything wrong*" asled ConUsn. " Yes," answered Prosper, cautiously looking around. "Monsieur ordered me to lk out for a certain lady." -wear . / "Weil. Moniieitr le Viromte, she has arrived, i wa* busy about your noses, whtn sill at one, Without knnokniSj or f rl4g irff, * I 'Iv .-n'-rn I, droup-'l iu> an arsieliaM , nn<l arl>> -n if M. d' Jlerititol UM in. I answered that he was not', (flat h- wu imirie.l '!! |iii>rnini{, and t Bat Ms J/tti' w.is |ut bsHr>a "nt t" 'ris,.t^u. "'We will seealmiu that, 'said -!., nhaV mg hT t'-it at m. i tried n lesson null her, 1/u' she only fhrujgert hfr shoulders. I laid hi-i that i nhoulu lit dbllgeil to put * her out. She poun<ie<i upon asi old horse- whip ol yours and put herself on the rlefen *> sive. I told her that I would go and get "Do you know that mamma's silence is beginning to alarm me ': I have written her five letters since we came here. Not the least reply, " "She i sulking ; but what do you care? We had to strike the blow for liberty. I h aven't had any (otters either from my friend d'Kiigny. He was to do some inv porlanl business for me, but he persists in withholding lii account. Well, lei us forget France, since France forgeU us." I 1 ranee, however, had nol quite forgotten them. They had been n irriod sis weeki, when In Venice they leceived wedding- cards. "The Marquise de Is Vergara lias the honor to announce her marriage to Count Daniel d'Etignv." "What ?" exclaimed the astonished young Viscountess, "mamm% married again ? But who is M. d' Kligny ? 1 never saw him at OUr house." "Why," replied (iontran, "he is the fel- low I WHS ex peeling a letter from about that important businsss. He has succeeded well, 1 fincy?" Thed'Heristolsare not on speaking terms with Uis d'Ktignys, who arc none the less happy. Not long since, (iontran had the pleasure of receiving a delicately tinted nsjte: H> . <i*jjssi4s| "Count d Ktiijiiy has the honor to an- nounce that Countess d'Kiigny has given lurlli to a sou." "How funny V' said Carmen, kissing her three weeks old hahy : "mamma's son was an iim-lf frsin its liirth !" "Tou think that funny?" answered d'Heriatol. "Well, the idea that t h uncle's WaetriM'itts will ooet thsl nephew >.n income of fifty tii<iiisanU poumU does not seem qnle no uniiisrtii; to m. Onl these) ir.owers- (law 4" Crushed Under wngon Wheels. \ i rom Tfsifliltnn snyH: I>sn tVray.rf RftH'ktnTl, was rtrnwinf in turnips, hd -his' win Trnn\ wan with him in the ti.-ld throwing lurniiis mte the wagon. 1'he .little. feUow had reached uiidor tlte wagvn fur a tiirnfp, nnd his father not noticing Mm, started IhehnrMs. One ot the Inml wheels passed over the bay'* abdomen. He will die. THE WEEK'S NEWS CANADA. . A night school for girls is to beestsWlsh ed in Loo Jon, Ot. ^ *^f* 4 All the post-ofi, en,|,:oyi' of \'i :Ui M. B. C., are on ejlke. . '1 hnnn-, Harris 'lied at Sal. a, <>nt., f cenlly, aged 104 >al*. The costs in the Hartley murder irial at Biantford amounl to over $3,UOO. Thefcoal dealers of London, Ont., have put up the price from ?5. HO to 96. The immediate construction of the Hud- son's Hay railway is said to be assured. MacWherrell is reported to be quite happy in the stone shed at Kingston peni- leniiary. Lieutenant-Governor Schultz, ol Mani- toba, is again 10 ill as to be confined to his room. The Sultana gold mine at Rat Po/tage has been sold to an English syndicate for S2JO.OOO. Angui Maodonald, a ten-year convict, escaped from the Kingston penitentiary ou Friday. The convention of ihe Women's Christian Temperance Union nexl year will be held al Hamilton, Onl. The North-West is having its first cold snap of this season. At Prince Albert there were 20 degrees of frost. arson, Purcer A Co., will atone* re- build at Brockville the planing mill and factory recently destroyed by fire. Mr. John Mitchell, of Dorchester town thip, Middlesex, Onl., celebrated hit lOlsl birthday liie oilier day. He wu born in Scotland. Jacob Bouchard, a mail carrier for tin Sagusnay steamer, fell off the pier at Bale St. Paul, Quebec, on Wednesday nighl.and was drowned. Neal, the MacLeod, N. W. T., Customs Collector, who stole $7,000 and fled to Kngland, has been sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary at Stoney Mountain. Arthur Tarnmadge, a fitter in Ihe Grand Trunk shops at Belleville, while out shoot- ing on Thursday, lost a thumb and was cut in the face by the bursting of his gun at the breech. Mr. W. K. Hiscotl has reiigned the leadership of the band of the Seventh Fusiliers, in London, a position which he bad held for many years. It is reported from Halifax that the war- ship Tourmaline has been ordered to St John's Ntld., to maintain order between the political factions. Messrs. Wilson and Henderson, of Brant- Ford, lately patented a bicycle chain rivet. They have sold the patent in the United Slates for $17, On*). Mullina & Wilson, Toronto cattle dealers, are, according to a Winnipeg despatch, making large shipments of North-west live lock lo France. The first break in ihe trolley wires lhat now overhang all the main streets of To- ronlo occurred at Wellington and Yonge streets on Tuesday night. Mo one was njured. A lady of London, Ont., who wished her name suppressed, gave $600 on Wedne* lay lo Commandant Booth, of the Salvation Army, in aid of the Workingmau'i Caslle- Miss Nina Phillips, a graduate of the Training school of the Kingston .eneral iospital,has been appointed superintendent of nurses in the General hospital at Low- II, Mas*. Mr. K. J. Barbeau. director and general manager of the Credit Foncier, has left Montreal for France to complete the arrangement for the new Province of Quebec loan. Messrs. Mo onuell and Russell, of the Ideological Survey, have returned from the Western Kootenay district of British Columbia. They report the country very rich in both gold and silver. Postmaster J. H. Dolmage, of Lacombe, N. W.T., swallowed poison the other day because the post-office inspector happened along and found him short in his accounts. It is thought he will die. As a result of a conference held in Toronto, between lumbermen and officials of the (irand Trunk railway, the, contem- plated increase in rates for lumber will not lake place until spring, and then only after an, .t In i conference shall have been held. Five canal boat*, loaded with lumber, :>roe loose at trie mouth of th'e Nicole t river, Quebec, in Wednesday night's gale. Two are aground opposite Three Rivers, and the other three are supposed to have shrunk. Lumber is strewn all over the river. H. M. S. Champion and the flagship i loyal Arthur, of the Pa -ifie squadron, left Vancnver on Friday for Callao, where it s rumoured the British Consulate had been attacked by revolutionists, acd that mem- bers of the Consul's family had been mur- dered. The letter-carriers and clerks in the Post-office Department at Victoria, B. C., struck work on Thursday, because a grant of $10 addition al per month, ou account of lie extia cost of living in the Wen, was withdrawn. On the advice of the Board of frade of Vancouver, ihe linkers went >ack lo work, declaring Ihe strike off for a moiitli on the understanding that the Board of Trade woW press f:r payment of the allowance. i.RIJLT UBITA1S. Finance Minister Foster Hill leave Kng- and for Canada by the Campania, of the un..rd line on Saturday. The tender! for the two million and a lalf sterling Canadian loan amounted to more than eleven million pounds. The London Times announcss the death ot the Kigbt Hon. Sir Patrick Joseph Keeni.it at filasnevln, Ireland. Typewriters in ttift I'.ritiavi War flftioe" recaivs oaly from :t..">u u> *u per week, and an agitation for biglie( wage* is in progress. Jhe,siss>inor Tornvps struok Crow Rook, nar MiHonl ITivcm, ,ni 'PltMilay iiij;ht. Twimty-one turn, tstolnawg Me uauuuu and officers, *ur diuwned, <0 mvtt N Th Marqua ol Luusduwnu, formerly iovernoi-Geneitil of ranniia, and, wore He wa discharged on a technical objection but was immediately rs-arrested. Municipal elections were held throughout Kngland on Thursday. The returns from 1 .'( boroughs ihow *Mt the Conservatives secured S!l seats, Bo Unionists 8, the ,,-i-ent'y Vi.-en.y "f ImMa, has been ore atert a Knight of ne Order al h* Garter, fames Mulim.i h Montreal man charged with embezzlement, was before the Bow street Police Court, in London, n Friday. i, bii'f Poo* iits ' 1 I.nniixt, Fn [ inc 1 Time* says thut -ij-.'ml.-'i sta'-'iritnt at the Canadian i: JrVay is disuppninUBft. 'Che in- crease in the expenditure, as compared with the previous month, is by no means a favorable sign. At a conference of the Scottish Conserva- tive Asiocialions, held in Edinburgh the other night, Lord Salinbnry made a vig- orous defence of the House of Lord, con- tending that a second Chamber war a constitutional necessity, and if the Lords were at present overwhelmingly Conserva- tive, it was the result of Mr. Gladstone's radical and dangerous legislation. CNITCD 8T.ITI8. William McTaggmrr, a notorious ot.itrm smuggler, has been captnred in Detroit. Two thousand hogs have died of cholera in the vicinity of Champagne, III. Thursday, November 29., has been pro- claimed Thanksgiving day in the United States. The Commercial Life Insurance Com- pany, of New York, has been placed in the hands of a receiver. The directors of the Pennsylvania rail- road have declared a semi-annual dividend of ~i 1--J per cent. cash. (iallus Miller, chief clerk of the .Toilet prison, who introduced the Bertillon sys- tem into the United States, committed miride on Thursday, 'he strike of the Fall River, Mass., weavers, which terminated on Wednesday, resulted in a Ion of wages to the operatives amounting to about one million and a half of dollars. A missionary to Japan, who- is at present in Chicago on his way to Kngland, seel nothing to prevent the Japanese continu- ing their operation* against the (,'hinese during the winter. Two men entered the jewellery store of Brethaner & Co. in lht> heart ot Chicago on Monday, ihrew the son of the proprietor into the vault, and locked him in, then cooped about $6,000 worth of watches and and other valuables into sacks and es- caped. The senior memlier of the firm arrived in time to save his son from suffo- cation. BOUND THE WHOLE WORLD WHAT ISOOIVG ON IN THE FOUR COBNERS OF THE GLOBE. Yellow fever is said to be raging at Porto Rico. The insurgents in Peru are said to be gaining ground. The prohibition against American live cattle has been extended to every port in Germsny. The district of Casablanca, Morroco, i* said to be in a stale of anarchy, and rival tribes are killing each other. An official examination shows that the Parthenon in Athens was seriously damaged by the earthquakes of lasl spring. Tank can are being used on French railrovU for Ihe transportation of wine in bulk. Six foreign toreador* who were engaged in the bull fights at Nimes have been expelled from France. The Pope has decided to refuse M. Emile /Cola, the French novelist, an audience under any consideration. New dockyards at Sebastopol are being pushed rapidly to completion to accommo- date the increased naval foroe of Russia in the Black Sea. According to the International Tariffs Bureau, which has its seat in Brussels, 4~, tariffs and 64 supplement! were issued by the various countries of the world. The Jardin des Plantes has the only white panther in caplivily in Western Kurope. It was trapped in the Pamirs and sent to France by the Governor of Turkestan. A despatch to ihe New York Worl'' from Tokio says lhal Great Britain ha * secretly asked the King of Corea lo ced Porl Hamilton in exchange f< rihe auittanoe of the British Government. A conspiracy against the life of the Czar- wilcli has been discovered in St. Peters- burg, and many arrests, incln ling a number of students, have been made. Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, of the French army, has been arrested, charged with selling plans of fortification! and other military secrets to the Italian Government. M. Favetto, a high French official, who nearly wrecked the Cabinet by charging ix hundred and forty din Mrs and six cab faxes against the (rovernment,has been removed from ottos. A special from Shanghai confirms the re- port of the death cf the young consort of the Kmperor of China. She was rebuked by the Kmperor, who slapped her face,and she took poison. Emperor William hai conferred upo Gen. van Csprivi the Order of the Black Kagle ssl with brilliants, and upon Count r.u K.ulfiihurg the Cross and 'Star of the (irand Commander of the Hohenzolleru Order. On Wednesday -laeMWKlisee Ueclui.the French Anarchist, daring hi absence, was sentenced to twtjuty years' imprison- ment. Real us is a re*owneil scientist, a celebrated geogrsfswf, ami an uncom- promising enemy of all existing Govern- Odd Properties of Nitre-Benzine At a chemical factory at Hulhouie, In Alsace, an accident occurred the other day which would be too gruesome to relate had it not some scientific interest. An explosion ol itro-betitiDS) took place in a building In which a workman w*s known to have been. A fire ensued, and when il had been got uuiier u wa tiMimi ilia; thre , i . .- Infc li,|in,l >.< sn tiie loOr ,i/' th, ImiMitig. When it had cooled a hearcti was nude 1,'f the man's rontaius. Inn no Uac> : WM fnttid ot them. It war tfcwi th ha lujght sfteeatl Jinr* Mtfhyp|pM before t)ie explosion. To put the ma test carcasses of annuals were pi i . !. l.nijil il was it-mid they disa] shout tw'o hours; Twenty-four elapsed between the e/ploiiou and th, ..Mh i-r to the iiro the red in rs had N.I nnel Vw v .irl.l I irnl. of hrralrlril Krlelr- Interesting Hip. prnlBftef atrrrnl Miifr. Sir William Harcourt is going to Wies- baden in October to consult a dislingnished oculist in regard to cataract of the eye. A prisoner in India recently, on being released, revenged hitesslf on the assistant commissioner who had sentenced him, by cutting off one-half of his moustache while he was sleeping out of doors on a hot night. Lady Randolph Churchill haa written t a friend in England that her husband shows no signs ot improvement ; that his physical weakness is serious and frequently alarming, and mat it is improbable that he will be able to fulfil the engagements) which he made in anticipation of his recovery. The Duke of York, who is an enthusiastic slampcollector, recently applied to the agents-general of the colonies for specimen* of the issues of their countries In reply tamps have been sent to him by the sheet, and in s/ome canes issues withdrawn have been reprinted for him. A revolving wheel is being constructed in London, Kngland, which when complet- ed, will exceed in dimensions thai of Ihe great Ferris wheel which proved such an attraction at the Chicago world's fair. It will be three hundred feet in diameter wfth forty cars or carriages, capable of seating in all 1,000 people. Claude Lorraine's "Hook of Truth" is said to be one of the rarest and most valu- able books in Europe. It is in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire who is said to have refused -20,000 for it. It it worth abo-Jt six time* as much as the famous "Mazarm" Bible, the most cosily book in the British Museum. The Dues of Somerset, who died lateiy, devoted Ins whole life practically todriving. At one time he mod to drive a stage coach from I-ondon to Oxford, dine at the mitre, and then drive the night mail back to Lon- don, which left only two hours out of the '24 for sleep. Of late years he kept the horse bazaar at Plymouth, letting out teams to officers and teaching them how to drive. Holy well, in North Wales, may soon be- come an English Lourdes. The well of St. Winefride, which gave the place its name,' has recently begun again lo perform mira- dee. The latest cure is thai ot a little girl, who recovered her voice on entering the water. A blind womin got back her sight, a deaf and dumb boy his hearing and speech, and pilgrims are beginning to flock lo the plaoe. Dr. William Moon, the famous blind philanthropist, who has just died at Brigh- ton, Kng., lost his sight when be was til. He at onoe set about learning the systems of reading for the blind then in vogue, but rinding them all imperfect, he invented a new system, which is now widely used in institutions for the blind. The alphabet in his system, consuls of only nine charac- ters placed in various positions. In some of the wine districts of France frost bells are lolled when there i* likely lo be a severe frost, and immediately on hearing ihe warning the inhabitants harry- out of their houses and place quantities of tar between the rows of vibes. Then a signal is given to light the tar, and in a few minutes a dense cloud of smoke arises, and thus the vines are said lo be completely protected from the severity of the weather. M. Dupuy, Minister of ihe Interior, has just forbidden bull lights in France at which either bulls or horses may be killed. At Nims, where preparations had been made for a series of fights on a large scale, the prohibition caused great excitement. Crowds paraded the streets demanding the fights, aud a public meeting was) called to protest. The Court of Cassation wilP be called upon to decide on the validity of (he prohibition. I lince Waldburg, eldest son of the reign- ing prince of that ilk, who a year ago renounced all his rights of succession in favor of his younger brother, Maximilian, on entering upon his novitiate as a member of 'he order of Jesuits, has now completed his term of probation and has just been admitted to the full membership of that, powerful order, which counts among its ranks more princes and great nobles than any ottar religious fraternity. Five battalions of the Tyrol /trie regi- ment, the Kaiser jauer, lately performed a wonderful march from the Pusterthal to the valley of the lower Inn. They had to cross the Killerthal Alps) by passes S,:tiN) fset above tiie isa. Kain fsll m i or runts all the day long and on the mountain top they met a blinding snowstorm. One battalion accomplished the feat in thirteen hours, while another had to passsixty- three moun- tain torrents through water often waist high. The Rev. Dr. Arbuthnot, vicar of Strat- ford-on-Avon, says lhat his old church is in much the same state as it was in Shake ipeare's time. Of the few genuine relics of the dramatist preserved in his native town, the most interesting are his signet ring, with the initials "VV.S-"en Hand the desk at which he lat in the grammar school of Stratford. The) average number of visitors to the poet's home and church is '23,000 a year, of whom about 6,000 are Americans. Pups Usols getting ready his narrow tutus* Ixeumea: the sculptor Marasai is at work upon tun sepulchre, which is of white (.errata marble. Ou its hd there is a lion, with a paw resting upon the pontifical tiara; on the right is a status of Faith bearing a candle and the Holy Scriptures: on, the last statue of Truta, with the Pope's uruis IB one hand; on the side heoeath the lion Uie inscription: "Hie Leo XI 11., P. M. PuTvUssl Here lies eo XHI,N>\ ereign Pontiff (Itantiftx Maximui. He is dust. 1 ajgu a* ViHT ofthenioat eminent men in Euiope uru al thd present time suffering froir par- tial blmdMHL In ahVcasM tli nature of the ailment is the same, namely, cataract. Mr. i .ia,lst,m,i ban had sevoral operations prrf< rrord up,,n one (.f his eyes, Theother y in still lai'hil enough lo uUe him to lead aud write. Sir Win. naroonrt's eyes) are both much obsmured, and must soon ntltsitrt* Mi Aether darkened. M. JullHnRRnll To nke plight and Signer Crispi tn whoia case the ailment haa not proceeded quite So far M id tke- others, hss _i 1 ,j, t loe a^vjcss of " a skilled v **. M -