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 r^lW f'^^?mfm9i»mmmmm ]• o'd in yoc"" lC»rt8. no UG OF THl ENA' RKED c E LETTERS. PERATIVE MAGHIlil 25 I A^H. now ready, and k terns at 965.00. ' 'IMOItlALI viLLK, Dec 17th, UK_| -i^ht, and ir is certau J ou ask for it -w^m i I prefer it to B r any other make«tl lira traly, ' .AAbON HA-WKntl !, New Pumit Stand. pies of sewing andc photographs of r irom Agents. ;nt on trial. • until March Slst, 1 erson sending us |Kj nne of our macninea, i in t ible Hnd brack lanu'S are 8oniethii_ iritg tliem introduceil friendiswanc amachia dug MaclmiB Go h, Hamilton, Omt, 'ARMERI NI' â€" lose Living on Farms, c.ird?, wi'h addrea a-a piirticularsof V)- iriiCi by the ILIS, MANlTOBAffVl iAnds in the sr Valley, rf frHck. On^y .50 I III ^iilh'on KCies. l^ixLci in thd :iin andDevil'l istricts, Farticulnrs fiee. ton Irav. Agent] Mhnltoba Railway, TORONTO. ONT CE'S N â-  1 N E u a-d F ouer Garden, â- .t .l-;a.{! i:, I'ublic for we 'kil::' -Init they are 'a: t:: ], re-al excel- it: oj Ca lu;. ,-uc, beau- ic:- '•^' !r" I'^h useful in- _•..: 1 be mailed r.' ^•»i s :0 Ha: I'-ilton, Ont 'i?^^aiâ-  ...o: by la I .a rf lent â-  -IS mvfaitS â- "'•w Tort. I. AWARE 'HAT 's Climas Plti^| 'in t,uj that â- u- cue that Lorillardlj t i^orillard's SSnoflai' J' cousiJered 1 id Hom Stock FariTit i C2::32ISLX, iaci.| I:.:roRTED PbrCI EKON HORSBS. All Stock selccteil from the get of sir«»I and dams of cstaM Hshed reputition *^\ registered in th*| Books. We have »f d«*il lions and brooaj i.-isonable. CorrespOfJ istrated catalofiAj I^TAVAGE ft FAKJnAJ 3re THE BEST osriie for 1885 es of the choicest riOWEB SEEDS r and Gardener s*- â- "J*' seedi for the comiog uiiiihed in Caaad» TORONTO lUID Bl a the kind erwitfc the I aly oBewUab or batai aad â-  ^r*°ceofJi«^ j^^^, such ex. ,t '""'X^ondtm Daily Tele- tier ca, â- *y' ^pjudeut »n the Sou- "â- ^rC sTea"y, »' even Kh.r- Sings, are c.mp.'t «»"»«'». °lr.^ or nearly as Its 'â- " 1 ude constracwon °!*d/to ahelt^r himself. Singly \wo or tirea wide, six or .even feet K' ' Tbe pooresN which is to say the â- "• /k.^n are without doors or win- „°' Ctchiene,, wi,ho.. .uVJi. '• Ld-itloate'en preteiM of (or- " ., tx.^^ ora lif.Mfl needed bOD are. „ But then tires are little needed lieht the native bathes in it oat if Ld'ofthe comforts and convem. 'o? civiliz d life he has no idea The Ingsfthe village Arab can, how- hardly be thought of singly. One "' „f serves for several houses they ;;," compacted together thatadoz.n or ^of them are usually joined m a Ub- lof mud walls; and if there be rtjQ,, to vary, it can hardly be said to ' jheir monotonous appeir^ce, it Zoddvjoi^^^ Hit roof, where the J Torkin' Arab woman stores her san Vd cun^ and keeps her always famish- jjintr'^fowls. A holeforaimiaaion L hut°3ulli:es for the Arab of to-day mnareatly it did centuries ago. Possi jfe«- palms grow round the. outskirts throff their grateful shade and the iat contrast of their foilage over the monotone of unbaked clay. Im- ^e an aHsembla^e cf 1,000 to 1,200 Uties each as these, arranged in a lon« strafgling line, and peopled by 6 000 OOO'of the mixed tribes to be found ithebiLksof the Nileâ€" Arabs, negroes I Berbsrii e ,â€" and we have Mttemmeh. the native census the town is credited bo GOO males, the women and child- beirg enumerited, and this computa- ,13 probably not excessive, beciuse idiD' at the end of the great caravan ;k fiom' Ambukol it is the principal idezoas of the caravans between urtoum, lower E^jpt, Berber, and ikin. A line of low hills lie behind Met- leh and shield it from the encroach- Intof the ever-advanc ng desert while tween if and the ^lle is a strip of land [dertd fertile by the inundation of the Lr, In later times Metemmeh with its hk and dervish, its caravau traffic, and well supplied market, seems to have en the place of the neighboring town sliendy, which in bygone times was lace of eminence, one of the capifals of kingdom of Sheba, and a centre of lizni n. But the culture and civilizi- indastry of the old kirgdom of lioe, the Sheba probably cf the old tament, have pasatd a'vay, and no- igiemaius tf them but, the ruins of. pyramids not far from Shendy, and iplacehaa been taken by a withering iticism and fatalism, under whose in- 'nce industry and civilization, as well [tie area of cultivated land and the bers cf the people, have declined to ir present low ebb In even. lat«r Shendy was a flourishing mart, jugh whith the great caravans passed ;heir way from Stnnaar to Egypt. It then a population of 7,000 people they barely number two thousand, its c( mmerce is a thii'g of the a8t. iter leaving Sheady. the only town my importance before reaching Khar- m is Haltiyeh, now a mere relic of its lent g'e-dtnesa. Time was when it 15 OiJO inhabitants it has now prob- a tifih of that number. The flas- ieh tribe, who abound here, are war- tbe people of Halfiyeh were the to begin, and they have been the [t persistent to c ^ntinue, the beleag lent of Gen. (iordon. CIraks, hVestern Moil ou the Xile. j-is said th^n a number of western and Ihsfesieni stcarab 'at men are prepar- I to aubxi*: to Minister West, the paentiuiTe of Grent Britain at Wah- oa, a prop.siti, u ti furnish steamers pa-.si;,' tbe:ii f,ir- ;ho transportation Psproii^^ed KncHsh relief expedition pe !^ u3-ii Tht» men who are willinx '»rk -.li ;:;i5 on':erprise have had |s of exp-ri-i.co ia navioritingsome of P^chejt ef the western and ncrfch- lern rivers. They contend that the I wnh steamers properly built, can pre easily i:avigated than some of P'-^ers (f this cjuntry which are Marly navigated. p plan of tht se men is, in the event 1 get a contract with the British gov- P^it. to take a large number of p workmen to some point on the pbere the material can be most Lf'2=?'"edâ€" 3nd which would best Cl ^^'^^ f tticers and commanders t aT^ l^^'^^ '-^" draught steamers pa to the nwigation of that river. l";itct, in all its details, will, it is Jl 'I'^mit-ed to Minister West, L-,7,°\en of means and experience, Ji pledge themselves to have the Kn!'!^."' very short time, and \S2 f ^^' ""«h troops and fas,, H ^^l *° '"^^ PoiiitB along the â- as IS deemed necessary. Â¥^JmT! T^^'^^^^ at Sunium by rhand'nt^f "§^*^*^ Institute have Ka-iof U'^^^'P^^^^d. All of the U 13 .H„ ^°°§^' '^^^ o* tl»e l«ild- k nitir"rv^°°tl2. There- fthed^w^ i^^^ frieza has been ge of vJl " Bcnlptures. To "^Wer^Midf,! f, "'^*' general plan I^B ttifa'Z;^^" structure, of*«l' I '^^^^ »luch It was built Parw ia Pteii, no mattw imdf r what dond it BMtyreet, writes a oonMpnnd«n% and joA now one eaeapiag JEroin the e^f- fee-oolored fog that enwiapa John BolTa great city to the bnghter ab of P«rtf eaa not at first see that Paris ia not at its best. Bat soon ihe fact is evident, for on almost every house is the notire 'Apu-tments- to let." The hotels and pensions are by no means deserted, but the familiar American with the long pnrte is not as usual omnipresent. It is a sad erperience for the thrifty native who e^r sfcer year has marked the innocents of the new world for his own. Is ia almost equally sad for the stray Americans who are hete, because they are paying for those who staid at home. How the francs double I Once it was so much for lights and fire. Now there are fine diatinc- tions 2 francs for a fire and 100 cen- time I for the heat it ia supposed to give but does njt. It is really 'hazardous to step before a show-window to admire a pretty article. Open flies the door and out pops a voluble madame or a beguiling demoiselle who really can not longer wait f'^r customera withia, but who must play "ivalk into my par'or, aaid the sgider to the fl/." Of course it is the cholera scare that has kept many foreigners ont of Paris, but how the statement c f that fact acts on a Freachman t He is ready to vow that there is not now, never has been, and never can be any cholara here â€" the water There is none purer any- where, but why need one be so benighted as to drink water when wine is to be had 1 Tell him that the Americans are all in London, but stand back lest the pieces hit you when the explosion comes. ' London Why the people there are dying by thoucands of small-pox 1 Lon- don, indeed why, it is a perfect pest- house." But if the Americans are not in Paris in great force this winter one finds plenty of interesting people from all parts of Europe. Here come students of art and science, musicians and artists of every stamp. Charming little cliquss are formed, and the outsider who by good fortune gets among these bright spirits can very well exist a season without in- tercourse M ith his own country people. A dozen or more of such clever persons meet cften in a certain pretty salon, where goes on much interesting chatter, more good mnsic, and if the Parisian ele- ment predominates some dancing. Here comes a young Swede with a wonderful tenor voice, about whom they tell a pret- ty story. He is the son of a man promi- nent in his own court circle. He is well educated, amiable, and attractive, but his chief gift is his exquisite voice. When, a few years since, Christine Nils- son sang before the king, she heard this young Swede sing. Delighted wi'h his voice she made his acquaintance, and proposed to open to him a musical career. She has ever since acted toward him as to a son, and he has sung with her over half the world. French gossip is nob amusing j ust now. It chiefly conctrns the latest play, Mme. Huguea' release, and the engagement of the Princess Beatrice. It ia amuaing to hear the hot discussiona tha still go on over the murder trial. The whole affair was so thoroughly French, and yet there are plenty of people here who call a mur- der a [murder, and neither qualify it nor make a heroine out of the murderess. Still more of the Parisians are ready to exclaim with Virginius "There is no way but this," and a few are equally in- spired to call Mme. Clovia Hugnes '*mine own dear little girl," although in this case she is the slayer and not the slain. As to the Prin :ess Beatrice everybody is happily agreed. It will be such a re- lief from the harrowing monotony of the last fifteen yeais if some time we may be able to take up an English paper and read the thrilling news that her "majesty rode out this afternoon accompanied by some- body else thaa 'the Princess Beatrice.' " The shops now look almost c xactly as do those of New York at this seson.' The great bazaars like the Bon Marche and'Le Printemps have jusc the air of Macy's and other shops along Sixth avenue after New Year's. There tons cf the same siightly, clinging bits of finery, miles of variegated libbon in remn^intp, stacks cf Japanese kniek knpck^, and shop- worn kid gloves. No end rf these things which a Frenchman struggling after an E igUsh adjective, as he described to me, as looking very "tired." The ays- tarn in regard to the clerks strikes an American aa peculiar. There does not seem to be half as many to the average number of cuatomers aa there would be with us, yet) when one buys an article the clerk leaves his place and goes with the buyer to the cashier's desk to see the purchase paid for, wrapped up and n^ven back or sent But oh I such enticing creatures as these French clerks are. Sou would think Paris paved with blar- ney stones. They have no stereotyped talk about their goods being "warranted to wash," or so much "a yard." They waive the price question at first as being a trivial matter, and sach eloqttenoeiu they spend is on the poetry f the silk or satin, so to speak. I went lately; to buy a simple gown, never expecting it to be made a really soul-stirring experience, but the gentleman In charge of the cloth struck such attitudes â€" went off into such raptures; this piece was ravi-hing, that was "delicious." I grew confused as to whether I was going to ea* a salad or was atteiiding an opera. Thai I collected my wits to find him in imaginatkm mak- ing up my entrancing robe land finish i ng it off in tiUree different traya-r to itereet,* for dinner^ «r as a •♦peignoir." Tha qualities pointed out to meMlalent m that one dreia fill^ M* •♦»»»«»'« mfWt *i f ir frtf til^ ianit laiwni eC the IkawforBMriy ,u any eity tf Italy, ^alevmin. ntes walk on any cf Om thonogh- f«res one BMJta hatf-paralyaed men and wumpft, eripples hobblii^ or etaarling over 'he pav-ment, Und and aged peo- ple dowerteg in eoiridora or by the ^nroh doois. Many of th«nt look like akilifal membera of die prrf jaa'on â€" somegauut •nd wretched, â€" are not importunate, while not a few seem ready for a riot or r 5Tolution. Troops i f tanins oongrpgate abonn the railway stations and tease lot sous or bits of travellers' luncheons. The little ones throw kisses or stand on their heads and deport themselves like dirty, demoralized eopidsâ€" being almost as snperfici%lly clad as the last named order cf animal. Almost universally they form a great company, headed by a great, lazy sort of a fellow, who leans against a convenient w^ll. To him the smaller boys bring every prize, from a coffee to a stale biscuit. If the latter is very stale he rejects it, and the little ones gleefully devour the spoil, every one ge ting a fair morsel. I saw one little f illow â€" a veri- table Tby Timâ€" seize bjs bit of bun, carry it eagerly to his mouth, and then stop to look down into the ftce cf his lean, ex- pectant dogâ€" the dog who got hia sbare by also looking. One comes ii contact with so many French people of so many different minds in regard to national mat- ters that one can reiuiily imagine all the old political troubles in time repeatine themselvea, with modern variationa, cf course. The sc -called meeting cf opera- tives out of work held on Sunday ^cer- noons have been extremely lively, to sav the least. At one session the anarchists broke up chairs and tables for weapons, while yelling, shrieking men tried to drown the voices of would bs leaders in the revolutionary agitation. Cyras Shelter's Endarance. A young man nained Cyrus ShoUer, says a Pittston, Pa telegram to the New York Sun, started to go from White Haven, in the lower part of this c }untry, to Blakeslee, ten miles distant, on foot. It was late in the afternoon, and the ther- mometer atood nearly at zero. The Tobyhanna creek, a lai^e atream, croasea the road he toe k a mile from Blakealee, and there ia no bridge there. When Sholter reached the creek it waa dark. He found Ihe aides of the stream frozen for a d-a'ance of ten feet, but the current was so ripid in the middle that the water had not frozen, Jeaviog a space twenty feet wide, over which there was no way to paea. The house to which Shelter was going was only three-quarters of a mile ahead, bub there was no house nearer than seven miles on the aide of the creek where he waa. After following up and down the creek for some distance in hope if finding a spot where he might cross, and findinf none as favorable to faim as the place at the road, Sholt-r resolved to wade the open space. He sat down on the edge of the ice and let his legs down in the water, but when the water was above his knee and no bot- tom reached, he waa afraid that the creek was too deep to wade, and he madei up hi« mind to make his way through the woods to the turnpike and cross on the bridge apanning the creek at a point aix miles distant. His course lay over ground thickly grown with underbrush and briers. After a two hours' struigle through these, in which he travelled but three miles, he came to a large stream emptying into the Tobyhanna, which was also only partially frozen over, and thoroughfard in that direction was made impracticable. Sholter then concluded to go back and find a house that lay six miles d'lwn the old road which he had left. He was suffdring greatly from the cold, and, although he was footsore aiid almost exhausted after hia difficult tramp, he did not dare to stop and rest, fearing that he would frei z j. He tramped for hours in the woods and at last discovered that he was I st. He bad wandered away from the creek and had lost his bearings. He kept on, however, knowing that a few miles in any direction would necessmly f e' ch htm out on a road, or a clearing. His course must have b?en a circuitous one, fur it waa 5 o'clock in the morning when, barely able to drag himself along, he c!tme out on the old road within twenty rods cf the epot where he had been stop- ped by the Tobyhanna creek twelve hours before. Feeling that he could not]pc ssibly travel much further, and that even a few min- utes' rest might be fatal to him, Sholter determined to take his chances in wading the swift current between the two shores of fee, and plunged in. Tbe waber came up to his neck when his feet touched the bottom. The water was so switt that he was carried a hundred feet down, the stream before he got over. The cold water seemed to warin him, he said, and he drew himself out of it reluctantly. When he reached the opposite side of the stream he made all haste possible for the house where he was going, but he had nrt made one-quarter of the distance before his wet clothes were incased in an armor of ice. When 'he finally found himself safe at his destination it was with the greatest difficulty that he CDuld make hia way in his stiffening garments. His ears, hands, aiul feet were badly frost-bitten, but tiie report from him yesterday was that he would suffer no aeriona injury from lus terrible night'a,experienoe. For removing paint from iron a mixture of one pound of Ume to four pounds of ^tnh and rix quarta of "water haa bem neummeiided' as aaoat cffimeaife otiier ptopmiioaa of Um aaaaa nmtetiidi do not dMo wjtil. IVPBTin^ •r a "^Siiiisjxt^- •s-S*S iaSiti,* ^.«i.j.^r- A wQBaa who bekngsd to one of baas famfieain Philadelphia died in a wretehed ftaase hoose on Kaigha'a avenae, Camden, N. J., at an earij hbnr thia momiDg, from the tff eta of an aasanlt on her by WiJUam Fisher and John Barley, two yonog n^rovs, on the 14ch of January TAe woman waa otca the haneaoiBe and accoipli«lied wife of ez-Jad|fe Woodward, and moved in the best society. She became addicted to drink, and her downfall was rapid and terriUa. Her friends for a long time tried to reclaim her, but at last were eompellitd to abandon her, though they fixed upon her an income cuffioient to lyintaln her in comfort. After she was (^n up by her relatives she became ut- terly abandoned, and associated with the vilest characters and was continually un- der the influence of liquor. Seme years ago she moved to Camden to the house where she died, and her furniture and clothing attracted much atteniion in that neighborhood by their expensive quality. Bat she died !n the midst t f filth and rags. Early on the evening of Jsn. 14, the residents of the neighborhood heard ecreamam Mrs. Woodward'a residence, and upon breaking into the house found the unfortunate women, bound and gag- ged, lying in a pool of blood. Fisher and Barley were arrested for the assault, and the latter, having turned atate'a evidence, the men were convicted and sentenced by Judge Boed to six and five years, re- spectively, in the state prison. The death of Mrs. Woodward was caused, be- yond a doubt, by the brutal kicks and blows which she received at the hands of these negroes, and fr^m which she had been suffering ever since the at'ack. Dr. Willis, the phyaician who has been at- tending her, aaya her death waa the re- sult of these injaii^s, and refuses to give a certificate of death until a poat-morcem examination ia made. She aent a mes- sage to H. S. Shovel, Esq to come to her house and wiite her will. Thinking it one of her many whims, Mr. Sc3veF»did not go. About 3 o'clock ia the morning the woman spoke her last words, and at 7:45 o'clock she died. Feathered Farmers and Thieres. Speaking of the prominent professions, there are at least two of them â€" farmer and thief â€" represented among the birds. They destroy ccuntless million" of insects, and this Veil-known fact, of which every- boby is so tired, contributes mora toward the production of aoppUea than all the work done by farmers. lo is known that the birds all over the world eat mora in- sects in one day than all the human in- habitanta could count in a year, and if they were all to die the woild would come to an end, fer so fast do insects multiply than one season would pass and the next wou'd not find a leaf, bud, blade of grass, or other living thing on the f ice of the globe. The change would be as though the sun had ceased shining and perpetual winter enwrapped the earth. This is what ia meant by the remark that birda eat a great number of bugs. As for thievea, there are plenty of them among the feathered class. They ateal chickena, pull up corn and wheat, steal bright-colored ribbona, and an occasional piece of aparkling jewelry left careleasly near an open window but, after all, that is no worse than members of our own race do, and while the human thief makes no reparation, the bird-thief helpi to keep the earth from being depopulated; ao what mattera a chick or two or a diamond ring which is of no uae to the reat of the world? It is a curious thing to see the varieties of disposition and characlor dia- played by them the quiet, shy, bashful thrush the saucy, impudent wren the aly, prying bluejay the boldneas of the hawk, or proud, warlike bearing of a game-cock. The English aparrow, what a queer fel- low he is â€" a foreigner who is so perfectly at home hel-e that one would think him the only native bird. He is going to be comfortable ia spite of all opposition; He insists upon it. If you don't like it you can lump it. The sparrow is one of the three birda which do not belong here. He was brought to this country fifteen years ago, daring a craze which made peo- ple fansy that a seed eating bird would rid na of inaect pests. This was done against the advice of well-informed p-r- sons, ana now the invincible little bird has overrun the entire country, and can laugh at legislatures and ornithological societies. A Warning to Poets. "Officer, yon say this man was drunk on the street, whooping and using ala"g and quoting bad poetry to the paaaers- byl" "Yes, sir." "Ten days." "But, yer Honor, I'm a poet, and I don't want to be sent up." "A poet 1" "Yes, sir. I'm the boss poet of this country, i am. Hy works have the larg- est cirrulation. Everybody, heeled or broke, tony or way-down, has my poetry in his house." "What do you write?" **Yet Honor, I'm the gentleman what gits up the poetry on the comic valentines for a big pnUishuig hooae." **Oh, you are. Well, tihat altera the osae. Did I say ten days i Well call it aix montiia." Dry, pure air* M^* M. D. Msoaloao, haa no aetion npo^ mevBoxy. tTatecy va- por, iHien alone, haa also no aetton nopn I^ire mcareiiry bat moiai air wdt eet the ttxidstbrn of tkla metd. The rtrised efilioa et1ikfa«ldTesta wiU be pubiwhiadftfeliatw. HMibertOlada^oM will repnaantthe pahlie-wwka cffioe in the eommona and Lnd Boaeberry ja the lurda. Mase. Chsrioste H. Sainton Dolbf the eminent eon rdto ainger, ia dead. She waa bom in London in 182L S r Henry Gordon, Iwother of Gen. Gbrdon, intend* to otdlcc; and pnbiiah the heio'a lettera and writings. Prince Ferdinand Colonia a d his Wife are going to R ^me, whero a recep- tion is to be c-ndi-rHd ihem at oourt. The ice yacht Zvz^g. owned by Mr. HiggioBon, made rtn miles on the river below Ponghket-psie on Saturday in nine minutts. District In8pec^nr Alma Soiith, of the Dublin police force, has been appointed in command f tte new dynamite detec- tive farce In London. A canister tilled with a aubatanca sup- posed to be dynamite, and a partly burned tuse attached, was found lately near the magistrates' room at the Woolwich police court. Durirg the funeral of JaUa Valles, in Paris, ^hievt a entered the prcmisea of Gabriel, the jaweier in thw Avenue de I'Opera, andbtule jjwels valued at 800,- 000 f ancB. The ateamer Weaternland, of the Bed Star line, which was in a collision last Sunday, has put into Plymouth. After complnting repuirs she will sail for New York Feb. 21. C-ncinnati has nnr'er diicussion the building of an dtvittcd beh railroad around the city, the length f which will be seventeen miUs, and the estimated cost ?5,000,00n. The pope is mourning the death of Cardinal MacCabe. His holitiess refused to see Michael Davitt. It. is stated that he fears England would deem an audience with Divitt, under the present circum- stancei, an u ^friendly act. While the barns of Mrs. T. J Fulton^ of Be hVhem, N. Y., were on fire lately, Ge(.r£;i« Fulcon, h-^r daughter, entered th? bu Idiug and untied the halters of sevet-t-eh horses and saved them from, the flamer. Each horse was led out singly and the tsek woul 1 have been a difficult one even for aa expetienj d horseman. William Bi lou. who went to the Idaho mines in 1863, aijd Irom whom nothing has been heard for 19 years, returned, home to Sprincfield a few days tince with sufficient wealth to keep his family in good circumstanoKs He was aijppoaed to have been de»d, ai;d his wife long ago obt-iined a divorce on the ground of de- sertion. He had h^atd i»he w;s mariied agan, and so never made himself known. The last of the prisoners °tak;n durin; the Franco-German wav have just left Geima- y. Some Turcos, who, during their imprisonment, had killed a keeper by whom they had bc^n badly used, and who, iac nspquence, had been condemn- ed to iirprisonment in a fortreos, reached Cologne ihe other day from Wesel. They were dressed in new uniforn», which had been sent to them by the French Gov- ernment. As a miner entered oie of the breasts of the Hilimau V^-in coal mine with a. naked lamp, on Tues'^ay last, an explo- sion tool place, spreading into the gang- ways aud other parrs of the mine. A large number uf miners were at wotk, a number of whom were seriously injured, and one, James Salomon, was killed. T :e wounded a^-e Daniel B chards, thigh broken John O Donnell, arm broken Harrv Greibel, Harry Dunston, William Eustice, Harry Jenkins, William Reed, Thomas D Jones, Thomas S. Jones, and John Williams, wno were all severely burned. The London Netcs has an account, which it says ij authentic, of the recent outbreak in Corea. The Kin.' finding hiuise f threatened with personal danger, applied for aseis anoe to the Japanese Minister. The Minister brought 150 Japanese soldiers int' the pilaca. Two days after this the Chinese and rebels opened an attack upon the palace. The Japanese f jusbt brave'y in defence of the palitc but they were at last over*hfltn- ed by sheer foica of numbers. The royal family m try in;; to escape were taken prisoners. The Jajanese Minister then retired to Samulpo, the Japanese c )lony. The whole trouble was caused by the Chinese joining the rebels. A string of fine snipe hung outside the kitchen door of a Chico Valley sports- man. A cat tried to reaah them, but could not. She went away, but soon re- turned with another cat, end, staLdihg upon his thoulders, they we-e soon en- joying a genuine game dinner. The discovery of'e action of the white globules of the blood in inflamma- tory complaints have beeu attribi/ted by M A. Hovarth (not to Cooheim) but to Datrochet, who, as far back as 1824, ac- curately described the migration of the sanguine globules and their passive inta the o rganic tissues. Steel instead of wooden supports hav been introduced in colter ies. Large sec- tions of channel steel are used for roof beams in pit workings, and t^e^e are sup- ported by steel props. Steel beams and props are more costly than those of wood» but the incieased outlay Is supposed to be more than connterba]ancid by the faot that tihdy can be ea iyreroved unlnjared for ftttnre uae, and by the further advan- tage that their oompacative lightness per- mits of is better workug headway thw ia possible with the ^iaent cnm^Mroua wood- en timb^ing. ^H^ i.i-