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. "^} ^ ^ niE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. ManatlBg Items Aboot Oar Own Coantry, Orcat Britain, tba Unltad States, and All Parta ol tta* Olube. C o ad so sad and AiMrtad tar Baiy iUadliHb ClAJ^AItA. iA fifty barred' oil well waa struck! on th» Porter farm aear Petroluu fit. TboauLS clergymen have formed a Ministerial Association^ The building permits granted in Lon- don amount to |357,llO0 lor the year. Mr. Oliver Teft of Hamilton is re- ported to have fallen heir to >500,000. Senator McClelan has been appoint- ed Lieut-Governor of New Brunswick. Tbare has been a, discorvery of gold- bearing quartz at Stony Mountain, Man.. Prof. Robertson wants Canadian farm- ers to go into the business of shipping canned batter to India and China. ITie depoeits in the Government sav- ings banks for November were f244,0o0 and the withdrawals «:>64,UUU. Tihe Qgilvie Company sent another special train with flour for Australia to Vancouver on S&turday. Anti-toxine is beiujg used -with giieat â- ucceas in the London City HoapitaJ in the case of diphtheria patients. Messrs. Hoffman and McLellan of Berlin are negotiating for the pur- chase of the St. Thomas Street Railway. Sir William Van Home denies the truth of the revived rumor that he is alxMit to retire from the Presidency of the C. P. R. The young son of John Neil Wilaonv of llidgetown, narrowly escaped being burned to death. His night-dress caught fire from a grate. The Dominion Government is being strongly urged, to reptUriate the Can- adians who were recently induced to emigrate to Brazil. It is not expected that the next ses- sion of the Dominion Parliament will be called for the despatch of businesi be- foire the end of March. It is announced in Ottawa that a oommission will forthwith be issued to enquire into the efficiency of Indian eohoula in the North-West. The Dominion Government will be asked to interfere to prevent the bar- barous practices which prevail among the pagan Indians in the North-Weat. Archibald McGowan probably fatal- ly injured Margaret McKeu^ie with an axe at Charli>Li<jtown, P. K. I. He has been placed in an asylum to await trial. Judgment has been given against Arthur E'. Butt, and in favor of Ade- line F'erris, at St. John, N.B., for 9:2.- 600 for breach of promise of marriage. The appeals of the Domioiou and Province of Quetjec against Ontario oonceruing the payment o£ Indian an- nutiee have been dismissed by the Privy Council. It is stated at Montreal that the Do- piinion Government haa taken over the Baie des Chakurs Hallway, which will Jiereafter be run in connection with the Intercolonial system, Frederick &uall, the contractor who pleaded guilty to defrauding the Ham- Illon Houfin of Rt-fuge out u( $100, was sentenced t>y Maifistnite Jelfs to pay a fine of ftOO, which he at once paid. Mr. J. 6. Le<rk», the Camadian com- mercial agent in Au£.tralia, states that the trade with that distant oolony is greatly hampeied by the wuut of trans- portatUMi facilities. Dr. Borden, Minister of Militia., at the annual dinner of the Ottawia Gar- rison, repeated hie declaration that he was iin favor of the annual drill of the entiire militia force. ' Messrs. Harry Muruhy and (David 6picer fell through the vault while working on the ruins of the Sparks street fire at Ottawa. Spicer died in a short time and Muirphy is not ex- pected to recover. t The Montreal Council has revived tht* project of building a viaduct from "^ St. Henri to Uonaventuxe station at a cost of »1,000,000 to carry the G. T. R. tracks and do away with level cross- ings. \ The Winnipeg Grain Exchange Counciil has arrived at the conclusion that with a properly equipped boat for crushing ice navigation at Fort Wilt- Uom could be lengthened for two or three wceikB.' Nightwatchman Eastman of Wetlland was attacked by burglars Whom he was attemptiinff to drive from Brown Bras', liquor store and beaten insensi- ble. The burglars escaped but failed to bdow open the liafe. Miss Etheil Smith, of Taronto, was presented with the Sanford gold medal by the Royal Canadian Humane Asso- oiatioD for bravery in clinging tq the boy and baby Galbrai'h wb?ii wrecked sn Straw^ierry Island laat July. Tb» boiler of a threshing engine at wiork at the farm of Mr. Archiiilnald Ferguson, Yarmouth, exploded Mr. Alexander Forbes, who owned the en- gine, wns struck by a flying piece of the txriier in the bacM of the left ear and instanft^y killed. Three other men were injured. An in vest ligation will be held by ttee Fire and Light Committee of the Ot- tawa City Council into the recent ex- tensive sparks stree<t fire to ascer- tain if there was anything wanted in the manaKetnent or appliances of the fire department. â-  ^ The Ogilviee intend to erect early next year a new elevator ajt Montreail with a capacity of 500,000 bushels, and another in Winnipeg with a capacity of 1.50,000 bushels, maikilng their total elevator eapacily for ManitolJA w^heat 4,500,000 bushels. GHJEAT BRITAIN. The Clyde seamen and firemen bave gone out on strike and are endeavor- iDg to preveoit the sailing of the An- tUmx and Allan Line steamers. A colliery has been flooded near Abernant, in the south of Wales, and one hundred and twenty men who were - in the mine had a race for their lives. Six of them were drowned The British army is to be strength- ened with eight new battalions of in- (uitry and eighteen new batteries ot artillery of four guns eacU, and the cavalry force is to be reorganized. The Birminghun Post of Wednesday confirmed the report that an entente has been arrived at l>etween the pow- ers, and that a laige fleet will be ioa- l>ilized near the Bosphoroua, and Turkey forced to carry out reforms. Mr. Gladst<»e hias been afflicted with frequently occurring aittacks of short- ness of breath since last Thursday. The doctors attending the ex-Premier state that there is no cause for anxie- ty, bui, it will l>e necessary for Mr. Gladstoine to upend this winter at Cannes. A tbinly attended conference was bfeid on Thursday in London of those favourable to the reform of the fis- cal policy of Great Britain. Mr. Low- ther. who attended, advocated a duty on grain, saying ttuit the British far- mer must not i)e ruined either by for- eign or colonial competition. UNITED STATES. Col. John R. Fellows, New Tork Dis- trict Attorney, is dead. At Butte, Mont., a olub of Culian sympatbcrizers Is being organized to join the insurgents in January. Private post-cards, larger than the official cards, were authorized by Con- gress at Washington on Wednesday. Scunue<! Rosenbaum, aged 60, shot his wife and himseJ at Rochester, on Tues- day. Both are probabljy fatally injur- ed. The Kentucky Court of Appeais has refused a new trial to Soott Jackson, charged with the murder of Pearl Bryan. At Dunbar, Pa., on Tuesday an earthr quake startled the pec^le. The shock was feut in several of the surrounding towns. T. L. Lewis, secretary of the Ohio Miners' organization, predicts a gen- eral miners' strike a^ the restilt of the Pittsburg meeting. The fire loss of the United States and Canada for November amounts to ♦5,211.800. The totSii loss for 1896 will be about 9115,U00,UOO. Afre'nzied man, crazed by his wife's death, buried bis teeth in an officer's arm at Atlanta City, N.J. The ai°m v/'Ol have to be amputated. By a vote of 104 to 7 the United States House of Representatives has passed the biiltl prohibiting the Hale of wtoxi- cating iliquors at the capitol. A sensation has been caused at Au- burn. Ind, by the discovery that Dan- iej W. ITair, the retiring treasurer of De Kail'b County, is $13,500 short in his accounts. Mrs. WaCter Castle, who v/aa convict- ed of ahopiliftiiig in London, £^g., has undergone a surgical operation at PhiuadeJphia, with the hope of being cured of her aflMction. The Buffa.,:o wholesale dealers say that Canadian dreteed beef is killling the local trade, and compllain that the twenty per cent, tariff is not enough to pro- tect them from Canadian competition. The Ailbright & Wilson Electro- Chemica.: Company of Great Britain have closed a contract with the Ni- agara PaUs Power Company, and will move to Niagara Falls, N.Y. Theopbiie Lo Blanc, a French-Cana- dian, and bis wife, who have lived six years in New York, have been found on the verge of starvation, Le Bilanc be- ing out of work. H<B is an architect and a painter. Secretary Oiney has received a mes- sage from Senor Andrade, the Venezue- lan Minister to Wa.shiiigton, stating that the Venezuelan Government has accepted the agreement reached by the United States and Great Britain for the definitiuu of the disputed boun- dary. At this time of year the condition of trade everywhere is only of a holiday nature, and the activi*^y in various lines is usually of a transitory kind. ThJe break in prices was expected, and is not considered of more tbian passing consequence. The coming holidays and some doubt as to tba action of Con- gress are the osl-ensible reasons given for an ordinary quietness in trade just before Christmas. Talk as lo crop con- ditions here and abroad is wild and var- ious, but the opinion of conservative business men is that good prices for grain may be expected to endure. Gen- eral trade is quiet, and thte labour mar- ket is for the present again depressed. No positive obange in business condi- tions is possible until we are well into next month. GElNBHiAL. The Hamburg dockers' strike con- tinues. Herr Ernest Engel, the German sta- tistician is dead at Berlin. A despatch from Bombay stat«s that the bubonic p'ague is spreading every- where. The famine which threatened the whole of India has been partially averted in certain districts by the re- cent rains. Fourteen ot the crew of the British ship Peer were drowned in the wreck of the vessel on the South African coast. It is reported that the Negus of Abyssinia has ceded to Russia a small stretcft of coast between Obok and Erithrea as a coaling station. The German steamer Salier. with a crew of 60 men and a large number of passengers, foundered of f the coast of South Africa with all on bcHLrd. A despatch from Caracas says that public opinion hasi triumphedL and that Venezuela will withhold her constent to the arrangement entered into between Lord Salisbury and Secretary Olney. The British steamer. Castle Eden, from Sierra Leone, with tiOO African labourers for the Panama canal, h.oa arrived at Colon, Cohiniliia, a number of the labourers suffering from small- pox. A serious uprising ot the natives is reported at Lorenzo Marques, Portu- guese South Africa. The Portuguese and British forces are acting together, but the British ooflumn, which numliers five hundred men, is facing thirty thousand warriors, and great anxiety is felt. At Xeree in the Province of Andal- usia a house containing 26 per.<«ons col- lapsed without â- warning, burying all of its inmates in the debris. The house fell upon an adjoining tenement building, which al»o ^ave waof. The tenement house was uibabited by 85 persons, all of Whom were buried by the wreckage. KQeven dead bodies and 46 iseriously injured have been taken from the ruinsi, and the work of exca- vation for the purpose of recovering the others is progressing. HOSQE, DIS&ECE, SEiTM raOM A PHIME MimSTE/fS POSI- TION TO A CONVICT'S CELL. tiaeh ta the eKp«'.<.«ni!e at WUllnm Hoagh- t«B, an EngUsii Adventurer lu Fiir-«ir AbyiislBtaâ€" Mis €<am|MiBl«B, an EnelUlt M»tjler, SIMM far Inlrlsae Axalnst Ike tUmK. There has just been landed in jail tJie only man that has tasted the sweets of power that a Prime Minister wields, and has run the gamut of crime that concluded with the convict's stripes. William Houg^vton is the individual to whom has fallen this remarkable ex- perience, and the distinction is accord- ed him of being' one of the moat bril- liant criminals and blackmailers that history is cognizant of. In the course of his career, the dis- tinguished portion of which began with be no peace with Abyssinia until the Englishtuen were out of the country. So an expedition was sent out after tbam, under Omnan Paaba, the best- of- ficer in the Khedive's army.' Strange- ly enough, he managed to caprturethem and they were carried to Cairo^ Here they were treated with extreme (!on- sideration, and after the bare formal- ity of a trial a sentence of banishment was imposed. Major Barlow had no fancy for leaving a country that flowed with milk and honey; so by foi>ging a number of letters, by continuing his policy of intrigue, he gained permission to take a quantity of gunpowiler with him, travel East and exchange it for ivory. He then brilied an Egyptian of- ficial, shipped tons of gunpowder Into Abyssinia, was detected, fled and fin- ally succeeded in making liis way back to the nation that had made him a pow- er. Retribution finally overtook him, however, for the rod of iron with which he ruled King John's army produced a mutiny, and Barlow was killed by the very men he had trained in arms. Hougbum accepted his sentence, and took passage on a vessel botmd for Franca. He was not content, however, the year 1378, he was ruleda kingdom. He to refrain from evil even on an ocean ^^S.*-^® Prime Minister of Abyssinia, tile chief adviser of King John; his word waa law, and be could order the ex- ecution of any one but the King and his immediate rwlativea. This height of power Houghton reached from the plane of life of th eordinary adventurer. For years he maintained bis po^ver and when at last fortune forsook him he turned to the capitals of Europe for fresh tributes to his genius as a swind- ler. Houghton first achieved notoriety in 1876. In that year he journeyed from England to Eespt. A man named Maj- or Barlow, who had been on officer; of the Yorkshire, England, Yeomanry,was bis companion. Both had planned out a programme of adventure that was as daring as IT WAS DANGEftOUS. Just at that time the relations be- tween the Khedive and the King of Ab- yssinia were very strained. Houghton and his partner made their way into Abyssinia, and, in a manner that no one seems to be thoroughly familiar with, ingratiated themselves with King John. Major Barlow was tie first of the two to gain prominence, for he induced the King to give him a very excellent ap- pointment on the military service. King John was more than willing to have his troops receive the benefit of the military knowledge of an English of- ficer, and it was not long before Bar- low was placed at the head of the Abys- sinian army. No sooner had he gain- ed this point than he began to labor with the King in the interests of Houghton, with such excellent results that the EngliAJ adventurer became King John's political adviser, and later on Prime Minister of all Abyssinia. By this time Major Barlow had so won the King over that the title of General was created for him, and he was formally appointed Commander in Chief of the Abyssinian forces, with 70,- OOO to 80,000 warriors under his com- mand. Included in this force was the famous brigade of Amazons who were placed in such a stale of efficiency by this man thai they liecame a tremend- ouii power in themselves, and won fame that to this day has made them well known. . While Abyssinia is in a state o£ sexni-civilizatiun, there is yet a strong leaning toward the seini-barbaric, and at the time these events occurred that prediction was even greater than now. So the two Englishmen, quickly per- ceiving that to mainlttin prestige and power they must conform to the native customs, decided to impress the fact of their high position and favor with the King liy a series of ceremonies both long and weird. For a week the soldiers of the army danced and feast- ed, the ceremony lieing witnessed by the King, Houghton and Barlow, the latter two decked in paint, lieads and feath- ers, and portions of uniforms of Bng- liah officers. This had aJl the desir- ed effects The Englishmen found them- selves thoroughly established WITH ROYALTY AND PEOPLE. Power was not all tjjese gentlemen were looking for. Their mission to Egypt and Aliyssinia was principally tx) gain tremendous weaJlh, and this they seemed now in a fair way to secure. They deliberately appropriated gold and silver and ivory from tjie stores of the King's subjects, sparing no one but the King ihimsellE. How much they man- a-xeU to secure no one but the King will ever know, but certain it is that the amount was enormous. Wealth achieved, the pair of adventurers turn- ed their attention lo politics, and very soon had the Egyptian Government and King John by the ears. While all this was going on Hough- ton and Barlow lived as well as Abys- sinia could permit.. When they trav- eled it was in state chairs, carried by Amazonian warriors^ Each had a har- em, and for Uiis the youngest and prettiest Abyssinian giriB were selected. Presently these two grew too reserved to even dine with the King, and had their meals served apart from him,pre- pared by an old Abyssinian whom they had inducted into the mystery of the preparation of the English dinner. Uninterrupted success made them still bolder, and they induced the King to present them with a large quantity of gold dust, which they proceeded to transform into a nest egg by placing it to their credit in a Iwnk at Berlin, Germany, to which point they forwaad- ed the treasure from Abyssinia. About all the King poase.ised m the way of valuables of which they failed to get at least a iKirtion was an enormous ruby worn as an royal armlet; They told the King Ihat he should give them that ruby bo they could present, it to Qup«n Victoria, and that on re- receipt therof she would be so ple;vsed receipt thereof she would be so pleased plete annihilation of King John's Egy- ptian enemies.i Jfor some unknown reason, however, the King remained ob- durate, and that is why he STILL POSSESSES THE RUfBY. In 1885 the star of the Englishmen began to wane^ The Egvption Govern- ment made up its mind Inout there ooulid voyage, and so he very shrewdly made overtures to the Captain of the vessel to become a pirate, assuring him that within two months be .would make him immensely Kvealthy. It so happened, however, that the Captain was a rath- er clever and thoroughly honest man. Instead of joining in with Houghton's schemes, he landed him on the coat>t of France at the THE FIRST OPPORTUNITY. So trifling a misadventure as this did not daunt Houghton in the least. He made his way to Paris and posed with- out delay, as the accredited representa- tive of the King of Abyssinia. He had considerable money which, with the Berlin nest egg, gave him ample capital for the time being. His life was one of almost oriental luxury. Social hon- or of all sorts were his. All classes honored him and did all possible to make life pleasant. All things have an ending, however, and finally Houghton and the woman with whom he had oast his lot were forced to leave Paris in disgrace.' It waa in the spring of "1887 that Hough- ton and his companion reappeared in Boulogne, and now bis talent had been turned to blnkmail. The system he pursued waa almost fiendish, and the victims of his machinations were prac- tically ruined so tar as reputation was concerned, in the minds of their friends. Careful watch was kept of the marri- age and birth notices in the Boulogne papers, and whenever addresses were given,jetters were sent to these persons. So cleverly waa the purport of the let- ters concealed that the victims almost always replied. These letters were for- warded to an Enelish confederate and blackmail followed. At last, however, the French police arrested Houghton, and be was sent to prison for two months. In the fall of 1888 be made bis way to England, and there began the career of swindling that has ended in a prison. From time to time he was connected wi^*)^^ very shady transactions, and alwajallj ni.inaged Lo avoiil arrest until a short time since, when he tried to blackmail a London broker, was arrested, tried, and sentenced to 18 moulihs at Wonh- wood Scrulibs Prison, a London place of punishmi^nt for criminals of the more degraded type. THE RETIRED BURGLAR. THE CHAIR DID IT. â- aw a <i«ail Man Oat BeklBd Ike Peal leullary Bars. I went, through the penitentiary r»- cently and while passing by one of the cells I was impressed by the quiet and entirely incrffensive appearance of the inmate of that particular cell. Indeed I was so impressed tJiat I asked per- mission to speak to him. The request waa granted and I said: "What has brought you here, my poor man ?" He burst into tears and said: "The ill-adviBe.d kindness of my beat friends I" "I don't understand." "They â€" tliey â€" gave me »â€" a â€" ohâ€" chair 1" he said between bis broken sobs. "Pray calm yourself and tell me all about it." "I will," he said manfully, as he wip- ed his eyes upon the coarse striped sleeve of bis convict's jacket. "You see it waa like this : I was, I may say, pop- ular, alas! too popular with the boys in tlie great mercantile establishment of which I waa cashier, and on one of my birthdays they got up a surprise party and came out to my house witJi a sup- erb |75 chair." "Well »" "Of course my wife and I weregreot- ly elated over it, but the cariiet in our parlor was worn a good deal where the chair had to stand, so we bought a fine rug tol ay in front of the ohair. Well, the rug made the carpet loodt worse than ever, and although we couldn't afford it, we got a fine new carpet to go with the rug." He blew his nose violently and addp ed. "Well, the oarpet cheapened and brought out all the defectis in our old parlor furniture so we carted it ail off to the auction room where we got al- most nothing for it and liougbt new furniture throughout for the parlor. Ol course that made the hall carpet and fruniture look shabby so we hau to re- furnish the hall." He wiped his eyes again before say- ing : "Well, the dining room opened right out ot the bail and the new things In the parlor and hall brought out the sbabbiness of the dining room i bings so forcibly that we couldn't stand it and almost liefofe we kne wit we'd gone in debt another 9U0O to make the dininc room match the hall and parlorj WelX the sitting room connected with the parlor by double doors and when these doors were oiJen the sitting room looked horribly ehaliby, so it had to be refurnished to harmonize with the oth- er things and soâ€"" He guli>ed down a rising sob and said: "Well, Iheae and a lot of other im- provements we made didn't harmonize with my sajary and I â€" Iâ€" well, I sort o' borrowed funds from the firm I work- ed for to pay the bills; only I was foul- bb enough to do my lxirrowinjk,with- Ihe firm's consent. and --^RJ«l)ow they got wind of it and f'rt^^^'« I knew my books were in tbJL''*U(/. of an examiner and I was belHE: ind that chair my friends gave u^e a at the bottom of the whole busincBs. If I ever get out of here alive it woa't be healthy for any of my friends to come around with another chair, now you bear me." lUs Mo*t li'nexpecCrd Beeovery of a Lons' Lost IK»|C. "Speaking of watch dogs," said the retired buif^tar. 'I never owned a watch dog, but 1 did own once a jolly little mongraj dog that we called sometimeti Nibs, but mostly Nibsey ; a lively, sen- sitive little fe'low, but no watfh dog. You might have played .^ biiu>s 'ooiiu outside and he'd never hear it ; but let anybody he know walk across the door and he'd wag his tail in bis sleep. "Welfl, after we'd bad Nibsey a num- ber ot years we Host him ; he just disap- peared one day and didn't come liack and we didn't know whether he'd been run over by a t rain of cars or .strayed away and got l»st, or whether some- body had picked him up and carried him off, or wihat was the matter ; but he didn't come back, and we missed him very much, because we all liked Nib- sey. "Now, maybe you can guess what hap- pened: One morning early, about 'i or halif-past 2, some months after that, as; witlf "carbon to form carbonic acid". "He CHEAP ELECTRICITY. It WUl 8«OB be Praanec<l INrcel From I'lial. One oC the greatest problems of the end of the centuryâ€" how to derive elec- tricity direct from coalâ€" is, in the light of recent discoveries, a stage nearer solution. The work of Dr. Jacques in this direction, which has received the recognition ot the highest scientific au- thorities, has Ijeen lately called in ques- tion on the ground that reiKirts on the efficiency of his process were based on the amount of carlion consumed within the pots, and no data have been given as to the amount of coal consumed up- on the graite, or the power necessary to run the air pump â€" factors which mi^hl greatly modify the commercial efficiency ot the apparatus when put Into use. Dr. Jacques has now effec- tuallv .ansswered these criticisms in a complete story ot the invention. He proves that the phenomenon exhiliited, u e., the generation of the current, waa not due to thermoi-lectric action, Imt to the chemical combination ot oxygen I was moving silowly in the dark, across a room, on the second filbor of a house that I caliled at some fifty mileis from where I lived, I felt tihe legs of a small dog thrown against mine. 1 cou,:dn't see the dcg at al.ll/ but it was standing on its bind !e|gs and resting its tore also demonstrates that under proper conditions the electrical energy obtain- able from one of the generators is suljstantiully equal to the potential en- ergy of the weight, of carlion consum- ed with the pot. The invention is not yet by any means pj'.rfected. As oom- legs against me, and 1 could tell by the "pared with mo<lem steam engines, oiilv niuveineut of them that he was wag- ! relatively small oarlx>n electric gener- giug his toil violently. It was Nilisey. at-ors have as yet iK'eii built; and of course,. He'd known my tread, soft y,jtij this generator, as with the steam engine, increased size means increased as it was, and woke up to receive me. | ^.. „„^ "Weia, you know, glad as I was to , effTci'encv "per pound" of coal, particu- find Nibsey. I'd rather not have found i^tly in 'the coal constimed in the grate. A two horse-ijower carlwn electric gen- him right there, because be was a,lmo8t certain to make troul.ile for me. He began to whine with joy, the first thing and then he gave a little yelp. That waa just what 1 was afraid of." He didn't want to make any trouble for me, but that one y<?lp was enough. A man in lied sits up and pulls a string and turns on a llight and says: Now, what's the matter f erator, in an occasional use over a ^r- iod of six months, gave an electrical efficiency of 32 per cent ot that theoret- ically obtainable. This means an ef- ficiency ot 12 times greater than that of the average electric light and pow- er ^)lant In use in tlus country, and 40 tunes greater than plants of corres- ponding size. But while showing these 'And I puts up a great polar bluff extraordinary results Dr. Jacques con- ond says; TTou swiped my dog, and I've come to get him.' "'Swipe nothing 1" he says, 'I swipe you in about a minute,' and he wasn'ti aliDw In getting at it either ; he was getting out of lied and coming for me Rilil the time he was talking, and a good heailtthy, powerful looking man ho was, too. But NiJjsey was bright. Nibsey made just one dive at the man's feet, but that was enougib to stop him untii/ I'd got turned and started; and amin- ute later I was going down the road with Nibeey coming on behind." THE LAST JOY. There's a memory of my childhood. Of a bllsB-time long gone by. Which, just now, 1 sadly ponderâ€" 'Tis not coffee â€" no, nor pie. Where are now the dames who mode it ? Love can't buy itâ€" ah, nor cash- Smoking, brownâ€" and crusty rapture- Good old-fashioned turkey-basn. cedes that many details .have still to be worked out, and many improvements to be nitule before the carlion electric generator can \tp put into general com- merciiU use on a scale comparable with that of the modern- steam engine. The data given, however, are most encour- aging to tjiose â€" and they are now manv who regard the commercial ob- taining of eltictricity direct from coal as a possibility of tjie very near fu- ture, RESERVOIR FISHING. Lady, shocked,- Pardon me, sir, but I overheard you remark that you were going fishing in the reservoir. Am I to undei'stand that people are allowed to fish with horrid worms in the resep- voir from which we get our drinking water f City Employee- Oh, no. mum, .{ don'b use wbrms ; I use big hooks w ta n>ith- in' on them. You see, I fi»h for Ijodiea of suicides.