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r 1 tits M ill rHE VERY LATEST FROW ALL THE WORLD OVER. â- tcrestinc Item* About Our Owa Coootry, G eat BriUIn, the United SUtes, and AU Perls of the aiobe, Candenscd nn^ AiMrted lor Ea«y Reading. CANADA. Thie late 3Mr. Tiicacma Lawry of Ham- Ute<l left an estate of 9155,000. OxSord County Couocil \a considering Uie purchase of all the toll roads in the county. It is expected that the new census of Monireai will show a population of tbiee hundred thousajid. Judge Ijarldsan !:&« been appointed profetitior of criminal law in the Mc- 0111 L'niversity faculty of law. The CuBloma Dei'artment ia taking •tepa to stop the importation of infer- ior and unwholesome lea. i^eut.-Col. Humiphreys, of the 6flth, Halifax, hae withdrawti hia resignation and other officers will follow. Dundas Town Council will not co- OI)erate Ln the Uominion Alliance's pe- tition for liquor licenses amendments. jAlphoase C^ r, wiio ran a nail into his foot while working in Booth's mills, died of Io..-kja,w in this hospital at Ot- tawa. The British Board of Trade figures for November show a decrease in im- ports of £1,330.000, and an in.^rea^e of exports of £1.202,717. Chevalier Drodet haa left for Fngland to f«m4ete arrangementa tor the sale Oif his mining rights on the Saekatche- wan to an Epgiish syndicate. Guard MUligan has been suspeniied by the I^ngstoo p«-nitentiary autbor- Itias for carrying out lettera andi hav- ing communication with convicts. The C. P. R, baa been compelled to refuse grain shipments via St. John OB account of the difficulty of getting Teasel accommodation from that port. W. B. I'almer, Hamilton, eenteoced to three years at Kingston fenitenti- ary for em'bezzl.emeni from the Bank of I'oumerce tvico years ago, has been pardoned.' The County Council has decided to encourage the introduction of the tea.'hing of agriculture in the Publio Schools of the rural oLatricts of Went- worth. Mr. irhaughneiuy, Vice-President of the C. P. K> Btronigly denies the re- ports that the mi»n engaged on the Crow's Ntot Pass Railway have been iU-treated. A letter has been received from Ma- jor Walsh, written from l^ka Bennett, on November luth. Uis party are all well, and they aipeot to reach Dawaon In February. It is prot'<able that the Dominion Cot- ton Company's lig mills af Braulford will shortly be moved to Three Hivers, where power can be bad from the Sbawanegan Falls. The annual report of the London Board ol Healtii stateii tii^t the death rate Is only 1^.09 per thousand. Lon- dou claims to lie the healthiest city Id the Province. Mr. G. M. BoHworth, traffic nuina- ger of the Canadian Pacific railway, •ays tlie freight rates on grain be- tween Fort William and Montreal were lowered to Lnduce a winter move- mimt of Manitoba wheat. A delegation of artillery officers, beaded l>y Major-General tiascoigne, waited on Dr. Borden on Saturday, and asked that a special grant be given the association to entertain the British team that will visit Canada next summer. Mr. David Mills, Dominion Minister of Justice, Is being deluged with a4>- ftUcations for the pardoning of crim- oals, and it is remarked as a curious fact that most of the letters asking for pardons refer to the worst crimin- als, sad emanate fromi women euid women's associations. Dr. U. Wailitoni L. Jooes. who was â- ebt by the Dunuuiton Government to The Stockholm Kxhitiition, returned to Montreal, tnd re(x>rts that there ie T«ry little prospect of immigration from Norway, iSwedeni, Finland, or Russia, as times at present are good in Norway, and fair in the other countries DMin'tioaed.. GB.EIAT BRITAIN. Investigation into the recent London firs reveaU poinis of inefficiency in tbe brigade. A severe gale is again raging on th6 British coasts, and esi>ecially on those parts bordering on the Irieh sea. At the sale of the Earl of Ashburn- bam'a library in London, Caxton's translation of " A Bboke of the Hoole Life of Jaeon " fetched two thousand OB« hundred pounds. UNITED STATES. Mr. Charles Fleieclkmanin, the yeast manufacturer, of Ciitu-i'Unati is dead. Capitalists of Bay City, Mich., have orgaDize<l the first beet sugar com- pany In the State, with a capital stock of •300,090. Rioting is reported at Port au Prince resulting froou popular iiulignation •gainst the Goveruiment for surrender- bag to the demands of Germany. Mr. George W. Vainderbilt, youngest â- on of William U. Vajnd<erJ:)iU, before â- ailing for England. eff««ted a million- dollar insuranoe imlicy on his life. Mr. J. Havelock ' .'iLson, labor menn- har of the Itn'periiit Parliament, and Mr. Kdward Harford, of the Britiah Vrades I'nion Ckmncil, have arrived in New Yoo-k to atteod the congress of Um American Federatioa of Labor, to h» oipemed at Nashville next Monday. Tlif Inteor.state Commerce Commis- •ion of Uie United States has decided to axteud for two jrears the period wlthu» wbich railru«Mls nKust comply with tba act of Coogreas requiring all railroads to be equipped with safety appliajices for the protection of the employees and passent^era. Commenolal summaries are not usual- ly exciting rea.d!lng ait this season of the year, and those of the present week are no exception to the general rule. There ia a steady retail trade in the ordinary lines of holiday (goods, es- pecially in the ligiitar lines of toya and presents, but usually business is quiet with no special features. But while there 1^ no marked improvement in any special lines. tber« is a better tone all round Ln business circles than has existed for a long tinue., and many con- cerns are busy to tb«lr full capacity I in conJldent expectation of a large in- crease of business Inunediately after the turn of the year. All the speculative markete are atrongier t'han at the close of last week, ami in the chief centres o{ trade and industry in the United 15,'atea the outlook la regarded as ex- ceptionally encouraging and bright, GEiNllRiAJL. The ravages o^ the bubonic plague at Pooaa are unabated. The harvest prosi)ert3 of South Aus- tralia are unfavourable. Bmperor William refers to the Hay- tiaaa as a contemptible crowd of ne» grOes. Tlie Albanians are reported to he uommitting great excesses at Debra and Kitchevo. A Frencb expedition is reported to have been maa.-ia.red while on its way to the Nile. It ia announced from Rome that there is a aerious falling off in Peter's Pence, the principal revenue of the Vatican. rhe Chinese Government has caused it to be made known that the occupa- tion of Ria;o-Chau bay by the Germans will be resisted. It ia said that Germany baa pro- vosed to China to take a lease of Kiao Ctvou Bay and adjacent territory for a lung period. •VVilhelmina Queen of the Nether- lands will take the oath of accession to tbe throoe on Seiptwmber R, 1898, In bbe new^ church at Ainsterdam. It is reported from. Port au Prince that the Haytian Government hae saU nte-l t.h« German flag paid the rec;uired ln''ecninity. and that all trouble be- tween the two powers has ceased. The new Governm/eint of Newfound- land has "cliopped off the heads" of 12 magistrates. 23 customs officials iind other officers, saving 'thereby 915,000 a yean It Is officially reported that since the beginning of the disorders at Prague there hanre been GOO arrests, and 30 citizens, 60 policemen and 20 soldiers have beea injured. The Havana corrrearwnlent of the London Daily ChronUrle says that the Cuban reforms offered by Senor Ssg- asfa have come coo lata The devast- ating policy of General Weyler has converted the inhabitants of Cuba in- to the implacable enemies of Spain)' cBCRiafrMAa TiDa Another Chrlstmaal "The old, aid thing." says a sour oitizen, whose di- gestion has been impaired by excess. " Tin wbistlea, firecrackers, foolish gift making, cooking, eating, aches, and doc- tor's bills." Ab. well, that is the dark side of it, further darkened by the pessimistic spectacles through which you look at it. All the cyniciam in the world cannot do away with the good effecte of Christnuui. It is a sweet breath of love and charity and hope blown across the arid desert of a work- a-day life. It is the sen.<;on of reunion and forgiveness â€" of healing old wounds and forgetfulnesa of old wrongs. Fam- ily affe<:tion takes on"~new life and freshness under its influence, as the dry, seemingly dead resurrection plant blossoms anew when it is given the benediction of water. Christmas can never be old. any more than the roses, while youth and love are in the world; while there are children to be made happy and young lovers to thrUl at being drawn together in the sweet sac- rednesa of the festive home circle, and old gray-haired lovers to be carried back in memory to the days of youth and happy courtaliip. Bleaseil memoriesr sweet with peace-making, come with the daa,r old Christmas ; a festival that is ever sacred to charity and love, to home affections and to aspirations af- ter a better life. AN INFANT WARRIOR. A Naval Bcro't Baby Inbertled the Love far Rattlr. Lord Cochrane woe one of the great- eat naval commanders England ever had. and in 1817 be helped free Chile from that same S; aniah yoke against which the Cubans are now fighting. While be was serving Chile as the Commander-in-Chief of the navy be fought an engagement with his five- year-old son by his side. This extra- ordinary incident was the result of the child's indomitable will and his fath- er's secret sympathy with his desires. Lady Cochrane had come from Santia- go to Val}jaraiso to aee ber husband go off to war. She bode him goo<l-by on board his ship and went ashore. As she wras looking out of the window of her house and liatening to the gun that was summoning ail hands on board for the last time she saw her little son in the arms of the First Lieuten- ant, waving his cap and shouting "Viva la Patria I" as ha was carried to the beach. The sea lion's cu1> had insisted on go- ing with his father, and before his fran- tic mother could reach him he was In the boat and underway to the flag- ship. Lord Cochrane could not delay the fleet to send him lia^-k. It seemed probable be was gla<l to get him. for if the First Lieutenant bad not a pretty good notion of bis ina-ster's de- sires how would he have dared to bring the boy aboard? The youngster was without other clothes than those he had on. and be was rigged out in a suit made of canvas by the delighted sail- maker. Before the first engagement Lord Co-hrane locked his son in the after cab- in, but the child wals nk^t his son for nothing. He wormed himself through the quarter gallery winiiow. joined his father on deck, aud, strange as it may seem, was allowed to stay there. Lord Cochrane had a weakness for that sort of thing himself. He. the baby, stood there in his miniature mid- shipman's uniform, and handed pow- der tins up and do\vn, to the gunners. Presently a shot tore off the head of the marine tiext to him. and he was covered with blood, but he rushed to his father crying out: " I am not hurt, papa ; the shot did not touch me, .Tack aays the ball is not made that can kill mamma's boy," After that he was ordered below, and was carried away screaming, but vic- tory ran in tiib family, so to speak, and hb got On deck a«;ain, and waa at last allowed to stagr thare till the last gun vrea finad. A NECBSSART ADJUNCT. OhoUy, examinuig some papior-macbe atytlers for 'bis smokimig roomâ€" AVhat ia ttiajt hole in them for â€" to hangl tbem up wibhf I Dealer aghast,â€" Greait Scott, nal That is the buUeit bole. HOUSEHOLD Hli^TS. Wreaths of holly around the plates wUl look well on the great day. â-  Teach the children to acknowledge Christmas gifts promptly. Riblxin bows add much to the looks of almost every [lackage. A handsome piece of furniture is one of the most appropriate gifts fur a home maker, and is afterwanls enjoyed by each member of the household. "God bless us all. With tiny Tim, 'Tis thus we finish prayer and bynut. While cheerily from lip to lip The Christmas wishes gaily trip; Grod bless us all, the circle round, W^herever are our dear ones found ; At home, abroad, please God. wa say, God bless his own on Christmas day." CHRISTMAS BILL OF FARE. Boiled Partridges.â€" Split down the back, place on a broiling-iron over the fire, and turn until dune on both sides, dredge with salt and pepper ; take up on a heated dish, pour over melted but- ter, and serve with browned toast. Frie^l Bananas.â€" Peel and slice half a dozen bananas lengthwise. Heat two tablespoonfuls of batter in a frying- pan. Cry the bananas in it ; take up, dredge with sugar and powdered cin- namon. Oyster Soup.â€" Drain the liquor from four dozen oysters, put it into a stew- kettle, and set over the fire ; when hot, add a quart of rich milk and a quarter of a pound of butter ; let come' to a boil, add the oysters, let heat through but do not boil, season with salt, cay- enne and a Kqueeze of lemon-juice. Break a dozen crackers in the bottom of the tureen, pour the boiling soup over, and serve. Boiled Goose.â€" Select a fat young goose, fill the boily with a bread stuff- ing well seasoned with onions, pepper and salt ; put into a kettle, cover with water, add a spoonful of salt, and set over the fire to boil slowly for two hours ; take up on a heated dish, and serve with apple sauce. Creamed Turnips.â€" Pare and slice turnips, put into a saucepan, cover with salt water, and let boil until ten- der ; drain, dredge with flour, pour over half a teacupful of cream, stir until boiling; season with salt and pep- per, and take up in a heated dish. Roast Turkey.â€" Draw and singe a fat young turkey. Make a stuffing of half a pound of bread-crumbs, three ounces of butter, a tablespoonful of minced thvme and parsley, with pepper and salt ; mix well, and moisten with a lit- tle white stock ; till the body of the tur- key with the mixture; put it into a large dripping-pan, add a teacupful of boiling water and a teospoonful of salt; set in the oven, and let cook fifteen minutes for every pound, basting every ten minutes; serve with giblet gravy and cranberry sauoe. Potato Croquettes.â€" Mash four large boiled potatoes, season with butter, a tablespoonful of cream, the beaten yolk of an egg. half a teaspoonful of salt, a dash of cayenne and a little grated nutmeg; be.at the mixture in a saucepan over the fire until thick and smooth, turn out on a large dish to oool; when firm, make into small balls, dip into the beaten yolk of an egg, au'l roll in grated bread crumbs; fry in boiling fat. drain on brown pa- per, and serve hot. Hot Slaw.â€" Chop a quarter of a head of cabbage. Put two tablespoonfuls of vinegar into a sau'-^pan, with a ta- blespoonful of butter, half a teaspoon- ful of salt, a teaspoonful of sugar and one beaten egg, stir over the fire tor two minutes, put the cabbage in, and let heat; take up and serve warm. Browned Sweet Potatoes.â€" Wash four large sweet potatoes, and put into a icettle to boil ; when tender, take up, peel and slice, fry in a pan, cover with bits of butter, dretlge with salt and sugar, and »et in the oven to brown. Sweetbread Salad.â€" Blanch and boil a pair of sweetbreadft in salt-water; let cool, chop, and put into a salad- bowl, with naif ^ pint of chopped celery ; pour over a pint of mayonnaise dressing, and serve very cold. Cranberry Tarts.â€" Line tart-shells with delicate puff paste, bake a deli- oete brown ; let cool, fill with stewed, well-sweeetened cranberries, pile whip- ped cream on top. and serve very oold. Christmas Plum Pudding â€"Take one pound of bwf suet chopped fine, one pound of /iugar, one pound each of muscated ^nd aultaua raisins, one pound of dried currants, two ounces aaoh of candled orange and lemon peal, the grated riod of one fresh lemon, two ouncea aaoh of bitter and Jordan almonds cut into pieces, two grated nutmegs, a teaspoonful each of ginger and mace, a teaspoonful of salt, a pound of stale br»ad-crumbs and three quarters of a pound of flour, mix well in a large bowl. Beat nine eggs, and add to the pudding, with a gla^ul of wine. Wet a pudding-bag in boil- ing water, dredge it with flour, turn the pudding in, tie securely, and put into a kettle of water to boil for six or seven hours ; when done, lift out of the kettle. let drain. and turn out on a large dish; serve with plum-pudding sauce. Block Cake.â€" Cream two pounds of sugar and one and one half pounds of butter together, and two pounds of sifted flour, fourteen beaten eggs, one half pint of molasses, a glassful of grape jelly, a teaspoonful each of cin- namon, mace and cloves, two pounds of seeded raisins, one and one half pounds of sliced citron and two pounds of dried currants ; beat the mixture well for twenty minutes, turn into a greas- ed pan, and bake in a moderate oven for four hours ; when cold, ornament with white icing and bolly-leaves. SEVERAL PODDDJGS. The Christmas Pudding. â€" One and a half pints of soft bread crumbs, one pint of seeded raisins chopped, one pint of currants and citron mixed, the i citron to be shaved very thin, one cup- ful of sugar, half a teaspoonful of salt ' one cupful of chopped suet, a tiny i pinch of cayenne pepper, one-half salt- spoonful of ground cloves, half a tea- ! spoonful of ginger and cinnamon mix- ed, six eggs and two even tablespoon-; fuls of floor. Add sufficient milk to make a batter. Steam four hours and serve with foam sauce, made with one- half cupful of butter, beaten to a cream : add to this one cupful of pow- dered sugar, one teaspoonful of vanlila, two table-spoonfuls of quince jelly. ' Just before serving add umv^uarter of a cupful of boiling water, silr well and add tha white of an egg, beaten to a foam: then beat ail together until foamy. The sauce may be flavored with brandy or wine, as desired, in- stead of vuni ia. To make the pudding very showy \.hen it Is brougut onto the table a sprig of holly may be stuck into the center of it, and the whole en- veloped in blue flames. A little alco- hul or brandy is poured over tha pud- ding and when touched by a match it looks very pretty. When the flames have subsided It may be cut. A Dslicious Plum Pudding.â€" Pick and stone one pound of the best Malaga raisins, which pu't in a basin with one pound of currants well washed, dried and picked, a pound and a half of best beef suet, chopped not too fins, three quarters of a pound of brown sugar, two ounces of candied lemon and or- ange peel, two ounoes of candled citron. SIX ounces of flour and a quarter of a pound of bread crumbs, with a little grated nutmeg ; mix the whole well to- gether with eight whole eggs and a little milk. Have ready a plain or or- namented pudding mould, well butter the Interior, pour the above mixture Into it and cover with a sheet of paper; tie the mould into a cloth and put into a large stewrpau containing bulling water and let It boll quite fast for four hours and a half. It Is not ne- cessary to use a mould, the pudding I may merely be tied tn< a pudding cloth previously well floured, forming the shape by laying the cluth in a round bottomed basin and pouring the mix- ture into it. When done take out of the cloth, turn from the mould upon your disbk sprinkbs a little powdered sugar over and serve witiii any prefer- red liquid sauce. We always added a little more flour as we found six ounces were not enough to make it sufficiently stiff. Queen Victoria's Plum Pudding.â€" The queen offered a prize for the best re- cipe for plum pudding. She received five hundred recipes, and the follow- ' ing is the one that was awarded the two-guinea prize: One pound of rais- ins, one pound of suet, chopped fine ; three-quarters of a pound of stale ' bread crumbs, one-quarter of a pound of brown sugar, grated rind of one lemon, one-quarter of a pound of flour, one pound of currants, one-half of a pound of nutmegs, grated, five eggs, one-half of a pint of brandy, one-half , of a pound of min.ed candied orange peel Clean, wash and dr^ the currants. ' Stone the raisins. Mix all the dry in- gredients ftveil together. Beat the ! eggs, add to them tb« brandy, then ' pour tham over the dury ingredients, and thoroughly mix. PEu.-k in small ' kettles or molds, this will make about six pounds, and boil sl.x hours at the '. time of making, and six hours when wanted for use. Observer readers will umlt the brandy and enjoy their pud- ' ding just as much. Plum Pudding.â€" Thoroughly wash a half pound of large currants and dry them. Stone a halt pound of the best raisins, cut them in halves and slice a half pound of candied citron into thin shreiis. Chop finely three quarters of a pound of suet, and grate three quarters of a pound of stale bread Into fine crumbs, Mix currants, raisins, citron, suet, and the bread crumbs to- gether, pouring over them a wineglass- ful of brandy and eight eggs, beaten until light. Put in a cloth bag. tied tightly, and boil for six hours, being careful to butter the mold first. Turn the pudding out, pour two table- spoonfuls of brandy about it. and light l<lie brandy just as it ia brought to the table. Serve brandy sauce with it. and plaoa the top. little sprig of holly on i DURING THE REPAST. Indolent Ivorsâ€" She's a kiad-he<irted old soul. Bibulous Baileyâ€" She is so. bless her ! It's a pity afae don't know dtait mince pue had ougliter have brandy put In- to It. aiCfl HI AU MIKISALS, HUDSON'S BAY, THE MEOITEB- HANEAN OF THE NOBTH. Ueldt Silver and Cupper Found Thar* - â- one InramatioH Abuat riul Caaatry vrhlek Mny «arprUe Vaa-Synapsls afa hectare Delivered by »r. Bell Wfee Apenc Six Monlka There. Hudson's Bay is h^f as large as tbia Mediterranean sea â€" It draina a vast territory, three million square miles In areaâ€" vast rivers flow in,to it from tba south, east and west; flovrlng frank places as distanit as the plains of Min> nesota and Dakota. In Its waters live undisturbed fiah and oil-bearing mam- mals, along Its shores are fine harbors In the country surrounding it are ricU mineral deposits and fine farming lan'risi But It is a porticm destitute of human habitatlom. White whales, wal- ruses, big OS elephan'ts, and tur-bearinv seals disport themselves undisturbed In the water. On land there is wealth with no one to take it aw-ay\ "But all this is the Arotic regions," you say, "Not a bit of it," says Dr. Bell, direct- or of the Geological Survey. Moose Bay is in a latitude further south than Lon- don, and the more northern portion of Hudson's Bay ia at about the soma latitude OS the North of Scotland. Tba climate also compares very favorably with that of the same latitude la othen portions of the globe. The bay does not freeze across In winterâ€" the winter con- ditions there being similar to those of the tiulf of St. Lawrence, and naviga- tion ia possible during four or possibly five months of the year. The Hudson's Bay route would bring the great North-"\Vest as near to Kurope as th« City of Quebec. It offers, perhaps tha best route to the Yukon district, aiul 'is the national route to THE GREAT OIL FIELDS, of the Nortb-West. Gold is thereâ€" si>ecmiens of gold-bearing quartz hav« been brought Into the Hudson's Bay stations â€" pyrites containing gold baa been found by the ti«Jolog;cal Survey party and alluvial gold has lieen found, according to Mr. Williaau Ogilvie In tba vaJleys. Gypeiuim. iron, copper, silver and lead are abundantly indicated in many places. Such are some of the points brougbt out by Dr. Bobert Bell, in a lecture recently delivered in Montreal that was iuterestioig from start to finish. His summing up of the ^fological fea- tures of the country showed an intim- ate knowleilgv of such topica and a close acquaintance with the vast dis- tricts describecL Ws wonl pictures of tjie scenery were jgropbic and bis stories of the doings and habits of tha never-washed natives, who live in skin tents, burrows and snow bouses, ware llfo-Iike and amusing). Mr. Bell is an enthusiast with regard to this north- ern country, wbich has so few friends. He flouts the grueeoinie story of the end of the adventurous Huiison, aft^-r whom the vi\at inland sea is named. History hath it that Hudson and a few of bis men were a>l>an<ioned in an open boat by a mutinous crew after a wint- er of privatlmi in the southern portion of Jiunes Bay. leading to tihi" inference that they drowmed mioerably. Dr. Boll caused some laughter by statiiug iit to l)e his belief tliat the faiiioiw ex- plorer rowed ashore, and wlt.h hiscom- pa,nions lived out the allotted span oC humoji life in that pleasant climabcc attd was probably as happy as though living in England. RICH AND VARIED are tihe mimerals of the tvuntry. ao- cordimg to Dr. Bell who has probably surveyed it more extensively than any explorer living. It has b«"«^ known for years that ores rich in uiajig.'inr:ie and iron were to be found on the west coast of the bay. Iti.uivii tiematite (iron ore) has lieen found in the James Bay district, mag- netic iron ore in the interior. an:C lop- per ore is found upon both shores itnd in some of the isliuuls. .\loiig the straits white mica, now lieconiing val- uable as an odjuniut to electrical appli- ances, is so easily obtalnieid that the> na- tives bring large sheets of it to the ships. There are also seams i)f lignite, and indu-aiions of petrole^uou Dr. Bell also described the valuable fisheries md the splendid forests of spruce*, birch, taniarac, black ash and Imlsam. whiob are found more iMirticularly on the riv- er valleys In the aeighlMrhood of James Bay. â- Were the country withim the .\rctio Circle the quality of the s<.>il would l>e of no consequence. But tlvere are scores of millions of acres u|x>n which proflt,- able stock raislnig a.n<l farming may be carried on. and It is unvorlant to notn that the soil ol»erveid is ru-.b and pro- ductive. In the district South of Jauieci tSiiy. i,n a dist.rictt as large as all Kng- land. the total ()opulation !it present is ONE SCOTCilMA^f iml thirty or t''>rty faiiuilies of indi- an^. The "Diana," with Ur Bell andparty on board, started Cor the Hudson Strai.ts in June Last, and returned fin- ally In Novenibert. Dr. B?ll, with one aurveyr.ng party, mveetigat^d and map- ped out the n.jrth shore of the straits, while Mr. Low. with (mother party, woi'kevl on the souith. that is, on the north coast of l.al)rii.1or. Dr. Bell in- vestigated what is MOW known to be the thinl largest island In the worbl. He found on ir'>n-l>ound coast \wj,th a wall irf mountains 2,U00 f««t In height, cloeing in the inU-rii^ir. |H^ .^Uo found an Eskimo who vfojf willuiig to go along as his guide, leaving a wife, and rhil- dreu iind a father .ind mother, and a sick aunt, ti> wonder What V.ad I>eci>iii9 of hi.ui. Dr. Qeirs region upon tills por- tion of his trip h'W alrea ly bee.n made public* Hie »^)s in Baf(ln"s Land in July, xnd at that tijue, t,h<Migh it wns warm emougb duri.nig the day, H>vr.-y- thlng froze ui) j,t nighiâ€" wbat it in lika up" I her-! now makes uae cold to con- tempUtov