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The lazy and the industrious can never live happily together; the lazy despise the industrious too much. .‘ Be loving, and you will never want In: §love ; be humble, and you will never want for guiding. Dr. Dawson’s Address Before lhe "k" Iorlu Philosophical lnsli-ute. A gala meeting was held by the Victoria Philosophical Institute of London in the second week in May, at which its members gave a worthy welcome to Vice-Chancellor Dawson, O.M.G., of McGill University, Montreal, at whose instance the British Association visits Canada this year. The Society of Arts kindly lent its premises for the occasion, and the great theatre was crowded in every part before the hour of meeting. The chair was taken by Sir H. Barkly, whoâ€"â€"after the members had been announced by Capt. F.Petrie,the Secretary â€"-welcomed Dr. Dawson amid loud ap- plause, and asked him to deliver his ad- Ydress. It was ‘on “ Prehistoric Man in Egypt and Syria," and was Illustrated by large diagrams, also flint implements and bones collected by Dr. Dawson him- self on the spot during his winter tour in the east; Prof. Boyd-Dawkins kindly assisted in the classification of the bones. In dealing with his subject Dr. Dawson remarked that great interest attaches to any remains which, in countries historically so old, may indicate the residence of man before the dawn of history. In Egypt nodules of flint are very abundant in the Eocene limestones, and, where these have been wasted away, remain on the surface. In many places there is good evidence that the flint thus to .be found everywhere has been, and still is, used for the manufacture of flakes, knives and other implements. These, as is well known, were used for many purposes by the ancient Egyptians, and in modern times gun-flints and strike- ights still continue to be made. The debris of worked flints found on the surface 3 thus of little value as an indication of any flint-folk preceding the old Egyptians. It would be otherwise if flint implements could be found in the older gravels of the country. Some of these are of Pleistocene age, and belong to a period of partial submergence of the Nile valley. Flint implements had been alleged to be found in these gravels, but there seemed to be no good evidence to prove that they are other than the chips broken by mechanical violence in the removal of the gravel by torrential action. In the Lebanon numerous caverns exist. Thee were divided into two classes, With reference to their origin ; some being water caves or tunnels of subterranean rivers, others sea caves, excavated by the waves when the country was at a lower level than at present. Both kinds have been occupied by man, and some of them undoubtedly at a time anterior to the Phocnician occu- pation of the country, and even at a time when the animal inhabitants and geographi- cal features of the region were different than those of the present day. They were thus of various ages, ranging from the post- glacial or antediluvian period to the time of the Phoenician occupation. Dr. Dawson then remarked that many geologists in these days had an aversion to using the word “antediluvian,” on account of the nature of the work which, in years now gone by, unlearned people had attributed to the flood described in the Scripture, but as the aversion to the use of that word was, 'be thought, not called for in these days, he hoped it would pass away. Speaking as a geologist, from a purely geological point of View, and from a thorough examination of the country around, there was no doubt there was conclusive evidence that between the time of the first occupa- tion of these caves by men "and they were men of splendid physiqueâ€"and the appearance of the early Phoenician inhabi- tants of the land, there had been a vast submergence of land, and a great catas- trophe, aye a stupendous one, in which even the Mediterranean had been altered from asmall sea to its present size. In illustration of this, the caverns at the pass of Nahr-el-Kelb and at Ant Elias were described in some detail, and also, in con- nection with these, the occurrence of flint implements on the surface of modern sand- stones at the cape or ras near Beyrout; these last were probably of much less anti- quity than those of the more ancient cav- erns. A discussion ensued, which was taken part in by a number of distinguished fellows of the Royal Society. A foxhound which had been brought to Halifax in a. close cm: from a town 105 miles distant recently disappemed, and two days afterwards hm arrival at his old home was reported. The first Londoner, according to the Builder, who introduced conduit water into his premises was a. tradesmen of Fleet street. This is how a. record of 1478 sets forth the occurrence: “A wex chandler in Fleet street had by crafte peroed a pipe of the condit withynne the ground and so conveied the water into his eelar ; where- fore he was judged to ride through the citie with a condit uppon his hedde," the city crier meanwhile preceding the crimi- nal and proclaiming hie offence. Card felegramsfii‘e much in use in Paris. There are two kinds of themâ€"one like the firdiuary pogtpl oardju fox-[gand-cglqr, and the other blue and capable of being so closed as to conceal the writing. They are each large enough to contain a message of fully 60 words. When a card is dropped into the card telegram box of the nearest telegraph office the official in charge picks it up and has it transmitted through one of the pneumatic tubes which extend all over the city, thus insuring its delivery at the place to which it is addressed in less than half an hour from the time it was “posted.” The great pine forests of Michigan, Wis- consin and Minnesota are beginning to i show the signs of exhaustion. There is a‘ shortage of production this year in these States footing up about 600,000,000 feet. The average of “ first quality ” lumber has run down from 12 per cent. ten years ago to 2 per cent. last year, showing the rapid deterioration of stock which is brought to the mills. The quality of the logs is much poorer than ever before, as many have been put in from land once out over, and new land has been cleared of everything that will make a cull board. The improvi- dent lumberman, who in the past only cut the choice pine and left the remainder to be devastated by fire, now saws down his trees close to the root to save an axe kerf, scrapes the ground with a fine tooth rake to get every log that will make passable mill culls, and will discharge a foreman that leaves on the ground a log six inches in diameter.â€"â€"Northwcstcm Lmnberman. A Rocky Mountain Government despatch. dated May 27th, says: Yesterday an import- ant event in the history of the Dominion oi Canada. took place. when the rails of the Canada. Pacific Railway were laid across the summit of the Rockies into British Uolumbia, thus uniting that Province by an iron bend to its eastern sisters. life is trlzly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height a! honor. Five children went home from a circus in Dakota. deeply impressed by the feat of descending an incline on a globe. Fmding a. smooth log lying at the top of a steep hill, they took their places on it in a row and set it rolling. They were all thrown off and run over, three being killed. Mr. Fawoethia reprinting oertain chapters from the new edition of his ” Manual of Political Economy.” The new brochure will treat of “ Labor and Wages." PBEIIIS'I‘O RIC IRAN. Denpoillng the Forests. Curious Facts. A Paris despateh says M. Pasteur has been worried to death since he announced his discovery of an antidote for hydropho- bie by offers of subjects for experiments, a. young lady being of the number, and by hundreds of thousands of prayers for relief by persons bitten by dogs in all parts of the werld. His life is further embittered by a crusade against him of the anti-viviseotion- iets. The weather has now definitely broken in England,and there has been a succession of thunder storms and fierce rain. The farmers are delighted, for the crops badly wanted water, while sporting men are con- soled tor the diminution of attendance at race meetings by the impmvement of the ground for horses. It is significant of the progress of female employment in England that the Providen- ticl Company, one of the greatest insurance ofiioee, is now entirely served by female clerks, and that 4,353 are employed in Government offices, but the excess of women is still so great that Lord Shortes- bury has declared that the grentest benefit that could be conferred on England would be the emigration of from 200,000 to 300,000 women. A London oablegram says: Much uneasi- ness has been caused among Government officials here by the latest imperial utter- ances from St.Petersburg. This is attri- buted toe growing belief in Russia that England is gradually retiring from its former policy of extension of empire. Russia. has formally announced that she has decided to abandon her recent intention of evacuating Central Asia, and has pro- claimed a determination to extend her Asiatic frontiers. This announcement contains a. threat for England. being coupled with a declaration that Russia believes it will be better for England to confine her energies in the East in future within the natural boundaries of India. There are two additions to the list of royal authors. The Austrian Crown Prince has published a. book on his travels three years ago in the Holy Lsndnmd Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia. is preparing a. history of his recent experiences in the East. ASL Petersburg deapatoh says twelve artillery ofiioers have been arrested at Odessa. charged with Nihilism. Fifty male and female pupils in three High Schools at Kischeneff have also been arrested on the charge of Nihilism. A Novel Bide. “Bet I once had the queerest railroad ride ever known in the world,” remarked the brakeman, as he and the train boy set- tled down on the corner for a chat, says a Chicago Herald gossiper. “ It was about, ten years ago, whenI was a yardsman. One ‘ night I jumped onto the pilot of an out- gomg freight to ride out to my cabin. It was snowy and slippy, and when I went to get off I lost my foothold and come near falling right in front of her, but I straddled out my legs and my toes caught the bars that run up from the pilot to support the headlight frame. There Ihung by my feet, with my head clear down on the nose of the pilot. I had to use my hands to hold my head up clear of the tree. I yelled, but I couldn’t make myself heard. The engi- neer couldn‘t see me for the boiler, and though he hadn’t seen me jump of)”, supposed I had done so on the other side. There I hung, getting stifi'and cold, with my bones and joints aching as if I had the gout, the snow thrown up by the cow catcher covering and freezing megmy nose skimming along within an inch or two of the ties, and the most awful pains in the cords of my neck I have ever known. Every minute it seemed to me I must drop to my death, but I hung on to her for eight miles, when we stopped at Woodstock for orders. I couldn’t walk for a week, and I believe my neck is a little stiff yet. I’d rather walk 500 miles than ride another ; eight in that fashion." A Swiss doctor who has been ruined by gambling, committed suicide at Monaco yesterday. Thus in the thlruy-second sui- cide at Monaco this season. The latest devices of a Paris paper for attracting readers is the engagement of two eminent physicians to attend gratuitously upon its yearly subscribers. Cablegrams Received Since Saturday Evening. The plague has appeared on the Persian frontier. Ald. Hadley, of London, who was in Canada a short. time ago on cable business, has failed. One of the oldest ministers in this country is Rev. Thomas Rump, who is now on the superannuated list of ministers of the Canadian Methodist Church. Mr. Rump was born in the old town of North. walsea, in the county of Norfolk, England, during the first year oi the present cen- tury, and is now verging on towards his 85th year. Working at his usual evocation until 1834, he emigrated to Canada and landed at Quebec. He afterwards became a preacher of the Methodist New Con- nexion Church, and as such, in 1837, was located in the Ancaster District. Soon afterwards he served two terms in Halton county, then almostawilderness back from Lake Ontario. From there he went to St. Thomas, in the Elgin district; afterwards to Haldimand and then east- ward to Frontenac and Leeds. In 1850 he went to the St. Catharines district, and many men now growing up in years speak kindly of Old Daddy Rump. In 1874 when the New Connexion and Wesleyan Churches united at the Milton Conference, he became a regular minister, and has since been associated with the Methodist Church. For 18 years Mr. Rump has been an esteemed member of the Orange Order and a Deputy Grand Chaplain of the same. He was once married and had a family of ten children, three of whom are yet alive. A Richmond, Pm, despstoh says : Abra- hstsaao and Jacob Kile ot,this township, are brothers. They are triplets. 72 years of age. Issac is fifteen minutes older than J such and is fifteen the junior of Abraham. Their mother,‘ Catharine Kile, died re- cently, aged 98. Besides these three children she left 9 others, besides 82 grandchildren, 120 greatgrandchiidren, 28 great-greatgrandchildren and 2 greet-great- greet-grsndohildren. She had been a. widow four years, her husband dying at 95. They had been married 75 years. Right Hon. John Thomas Ball, ex-Lo:d Chancellor of Ireland, is dangerously ill. Why is a. vine like a. volunteer ?â€"Beoause it is trained, dressed, has ten drills and shoots. GOSSIP FROM BRITAIN. THE VOL. XXV’II. The Wonderml Kile Family. A Veteran Clergyman. Suggestions to Ilse Home Secretary by the Police Authorities. A last (Thursday) night's cablegram from London says: The police authorities have suggested to Sir Wm. Vernon Harcourt, Home Secretary. that the Government should ask the United States to compel shippers of dynamite to make a declara- tion of its destination and purpose, similar to that now required in regard to other ex- plosives and inflammables by laws enacted before the invention of dynamite. It is understood that some request to this effect will be included in the diplomatic note to Washington which is now being prepared by Lord Granville. The licensed dealers in gunpowder here say, however, that such legislation would only hamper legitimate trade in the new explosives, and would be ineffective against the dyna- miters, who always smuggle their materials and never pack or label them in the style used by the trade. Professional Trots Condemned by Lin- coln County Council. At a meeting of the County Council of Lincoln on Friday. Mr. Nelles moved, seconded by Mr. Culp, That! the county should discourage professional horse trots at county and township fairs. Mr. Nelles took the ground that too much time is spent in these matters, and that the tend- ency of these professional horse trots is detrimental to the interests of shows. Mr. Strong thought the county had no right to dictate how the money voted for shows is used. Mr. Culp said that there was no attempt to control, but rather to recom- mend. Mr. Snyder thought horse trotting was capping the foundation of the county. by perverting the attention of the sons of the county, who become excited and lose interest in everything else but trotting stock. The motion was carried. A brutal murder was committed near Ratndrum, County Wicklow, on May 19th. The victim was a women named Moore, 80 years of age ; and the murderer, who beat her brains out with a. shovel, and stole a. gun, £3 in cash, and a. cheque for £50, is believed to be a retered soldier named Tobin. About twenty disguised men entered one night lately the house of Dennis Hayes, a farmer at Gortahola, Tipperary, and car- ried off his daughter. Her father had re- fused to let the girl marry her lover, hence the abduction. ' v " An inquest was held on May 2131; in Dub- lin on the body of Capt. Alex. Bell, who had died suddenly while on his honeymoon tour. The jury returned a. verdict of death from natural causes. The vacancy in the office of Local Govern- ment Inspector. recently created by the death of Dr. George F. Roughnn, Gelwny, hes been filled by the appointment of Dr Stewart Woodhonee. Dublin. Occasionally a French printer evolves a notion worthy’of alive American. A typo in Rouen has printed and published a large edition of handkerchiefs for the diffusion of military knowledge among the masses. There is a grotesque sound to this,but none such is intended; the novel typographic enterprise is as serious 9. business project as the prosaic work of issuing a primer or spelling book. The handkerchief has been carefully edited by two officers holding high positions in the army of France, and is printed on linen with what is said to be in- destructible black ink. A large quantity 0! matter has been crowded on the handker- chief, all of practical value to men in the ranks of the army. Besides the array of martial knowledge inculcated, the handker- chief inoulcates sentiments of patriotism in pithy, ringing sentences. The shrewd printer of the handkerchiefs is sure of the countenance of his Government,icr France is more than ever eager to recover her old- time military supremacy, and to awaken a love for a military life among her people. What more convenient manual for the would-be soldier than the handkerchief of useful military knowledge I I risk News. Mr. Ambrose O'Rorke, D. L., Ballyboley, Ahoghill, 5 member of an old and respected family in the county 0! Antrim, died on May 14th. Watering in gardens requires different rules from watering pot-plants, though both need thought, and must vary with the time of year and weather. It in a. very smoky town I should recommend more fre- quent watering than in the country, in dry weather. In the country the water is only wanted for the roots of the plants, but in the city it is wanted by the leaves, too, or the foliage gets choked end poisoned by the smoke. Plants breathe through their leaves, as we do through our mouths, so it is neces- sary to the lives of some, and to the health of all, that their leaves should be kept clean. Otherwise, in watering your garden, you should try to imitate nature. Do not water your garden in a hot sun ; it makes the foliage shrivel and turn oolor. Nature takes care about this, for when rain falls the sun is hidden by elouds. So in hot weather do your watering very early, or else in the evening, unless your garden is shady, and then any time will do. You should water as seldom as possible, except when the foliage needs washing, and then you should ; be careful to soak the roots thoroughly before 1 any water touches the leaves. Many people are wondering, says the Pall Mall Gazette, what the Shah thinks of Russia’s advance to Sarakhs. The Shah is probably not thinking about Sarakhs at all. His troubles arise from other sources. Twice or thrice every year one of his eunuchs leaves the Imperial Palace at 'JJeheran for the far-famed Women Bazaar at Herat. These agents carry with them large sums oi money in gold, for the dealers in women allow no credit on their beautiful goods. The last mission of the imperial messenger was. however, unsuccessful. He had scarcely crossed the Afghan frontier when a band of highway robbers overtook him, robbed him of every penny, and he has had to journey back to Teheran with empty hands and empty pockets, and without the convoy of delect- able damsels which the Shah was expecting to replenish his harem. Much more serious is this than Sarakhsâ€"at least for the Shah. Prof. Henry Ward Rogers has an article in the last number of the North American Review going to show that the plots of the dynamitera do not fall within the provisions of the Neutrality Act. THE DYNAMITE OUTBAGEB. HOBSE RACING AT 13'th!- The Shah and Ill- Harem. Printed Handkerchief» 0n Watering Flowers. RICHMOND HILL THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1884. There died on the 16th ulh. in Edinburgh, Dr. John Mute, Inspector-General of H08! pitala (retired), formerly in the 7 th Fusi- liers and 72nd Highlanders. The duath is announced of Mr. Robert Sellar, head of the firm of George Sella: 62 Son, Huntly, widely known for the manu- facture of ploughs. Mr. R. R. Glen, for thirty-three years town-clerk of Linlinhgow, has resigned. Provost Mackio has resigned with a. view to the vacancy; so also has Bailie Hardie. J. Shaughnessy, writer, Glasgow, has raised an action against Dr. Andrew Robertson for £500 damages for calling him " a. confounded rascal.” The members and friends of the Sir William Wallace Four-in-hand Club. a company of 140. in seven brakes, each drawn by four greys, drove from Glasgow to Ayr and back on May 20m. Thomas Landele Philip, 9. Leith timber merchant, has been sentenced to five yeera’ penal servitude for forging flve bills of the nine of £330. Dr. Norman Meoleod is of opinion that the Christian education of the youth de- pends upon the direct exertions of the Church if the rehgioue character of the country is to be maintained. Rev. John Arthur, 0! Helensburgh, died on the 17th ult., in his 90th year. He was probably the oldest inhabitant of the town. having realded there tor sixty years. The window gifted by ex-Ptovost Mao- donald to the Perth Commiesioners' Ball is being fitted in. It represents Her Majesty and Prince Albert at the time of their first visit to Perth in 1842. The Master of Saltoun. eldest son of Lord Seltoun, has been chosen to contest East Aberdeenehire in the Conservative interests at next election. The appointment of the first Scotch Secretary of State will soon be made. Mr. Baxter, M. P., Dundee, is now spoken of as the mostlikely choice of the Government. Sheriff Rhind, of Wigtown, has been presented with an address 'by the prooura tors on the occasion of his retirement from the Sherifi-Bubstituteship of the county, which he held for thirty-eight years. A son of Arch. Steel, porter, Oraigielands, Dumfries, has just been sentenced to six lashes for playmg hangmau on a younger boy at school. Annie Miller is the oldeut inhabitant of Wiehaw pariah. as she was just entered her hundredth year. She is still hale and hearty. Annie was only once in her life in asteamboet, and but twice in arailwey train. There died at Preston, Linlithgow, on the 17th ulb., aged 77, Alexander Seton, Esq, Deputy-Lieutenant of that county. A robin has built its nest in the pocket of an old coat hanging in the pot-house at Gretna. Bridge, Dumfries. The Enrl of Seafield has, on the recom- mendation of the British Prime Minister, been made 3. Peer of the United Kingdom. It is said that Cambua, Glenoohil and Carsebtidge distilleries gave to the world three million gallons of whiskey last year. The wife of Mr. Alex. Baird,“ Urie, died at Urie House on Ma.) 2lat. She was the eldest daughter of the late Lord Haldon, Haldon Park, Exeter, and took a warm interest in the tenantry on the estates belonging to her husband. The Presbytery of Linlithgow have found the Rev. Mr. Whyte, South Queens- terry(£ormer1y of Arthur, Ont ), guilty of adultery with his servant, Margaret Young, and of indecent behaviour towards Chris- tina. Haldane. The Marquis o! Lothiun on May 22116 was elected Captain-General o! the Royal Company of Archers (Queen’s bodyguard for Scotland), in room of the late Duke of Buocleueh,who had held the appointment for forty-51x years. Mr. Gladstone has intimated to the Right Hon. Geo. Harrison.LL.D., Lord Provost of Edinburgh, that the Queen has been pleased to ofler him the honor of knighthood in consideration of his services to the municipality of Edinburgh. The Scottish Farmers’ Alliance has decided to send a deputation to Ireland, to inquire into the working of the Irish Land Act, and to ascertain whether any of its provisions are suited to the just require- ments of Scottish tenants, or any portion of them. Alarge majority of the Liberal electors of the Kirkoeldy Burghs have expressed dissatisfaction with Sir George Campbell, and have asked him to resign his seat in Parliament. A plebiscite was taken on the subject under the directions eta committee. Alexander Smith, goods guard, and J emee MoAllieter, waggon checker, employed by the North British Railway at Gowlaire, are in custody on 9. charge of having in a quarrel caused the death of Wm. Miller, a. private detective. Martha M'Allister, one of the ten young woman killed in the terrible dynamite explosion at Ardeer, on the Ayrshire coast, was an active worker in the local United Presbyterian mission. Her whole heart was in the work, and she was held in high esteem by all on account 0! her amiability and genuine Christian eharaoter. She often sang at ther work, and a survivor employed in the same but relates how Martha, imme- diately before the explosion, sang ” We shall Meet on that Beautiful Shore." Fel- low-workers in the mission carried her oofiin shoulder-high to the grave. The General Assemblies of the Estab- lished and Free Churches were opened on Thursday, May 22nd, in Edinburgh. For the fourth time the Earl of Aberdeen was present as Lord High Commissioner, and the pomp of the customary State cere- momals was enhanced by brilliant sunshine and a pleasant westerly breeze. The Rev. Dr. Rankin, 0! Born. the retiring Modera- , tor. preached the inaugural sermon at St. Giles’. Dr. Peter Mackenzie, of Urquhart, was installed Moderator, and the Lord High Commissioner announced the renewal {of Her Majesty’s grant of £2,000, with the ‘ suggestion that a portion 0! the sum might be beneficially applied in the promotion of the administrations of the Gospel in Gaelic. At the Free Church Assembly the retiring Moderator, Dr. Horatius Bonar. having delivered the opening sermon. Dr. Walter Ross Taylor, Thursc, was elected to the chair, and delivered his address, and Mr. Andrew Melville, St. Enoch’s Church, Glas- gow, was appointed to the clerkship vacant by the death of Sir Henry Moncreifi. According to the German monthly statistical statement, the total number of those who left the country for America. in the first quarter of 1884 was 29,782,113 compared with 28,291 in the same period 0! 1883. Scottish News. The lengths to which keen competition carries modern advertising would make a better book than has yet appeared. There is hardly any field of labor in which so much ingenuity, fancy. skill and money is expended, allot which, of course, every- body knows. Tennyson not long ago wrote apoem for an Eastern magazine for the confessed purpose of advertising it. He received $15,000 for the effort. Now I hear he has been ofi'ered $100,000 for a poem advertising a certain manufacturers’ wares. My Lord Alfred, most people will be in- clined to remark, will he a goose if he doesn’t accept. Advertising has given a certain impetus toart. Not a few of the struggling young artists owe much of the encouragement they have received to go on to the liberality of merchants who buy their pictures to catch custom with. The most original and cleverest idea I have heard of, however, is that of a Chicago man who proposes to hire a phalanx of bald- heads, paint the name of his compound upon their shiny scalps, and exhibit them every night in their historic front-row seats at the theatres.â€"“ Lounger,” in the Chicago Inter- Ocean. Extraordinary Action by a Father who Caught Diphtheria from his Child. Medical man, says the New York Times, will be relieved by the result which has been reached In a singular case before the English courts. The plaintifi was the father of a child who sui‘feredtrom “ croup." It being necessary to insert a tube in the child’s throat to relieve it from threatened suflocation, the operation was skilfully performed. After the insertion of the tube the physicians requested the father to free it from the accumulated matter with his lips, which he instantly did, the doctors neglecting to tell him that be incurred any risk. The child died, and its disease proved to have been diphtheria, by which the father, in turn, was soon attacked. He sued the doctors for damages. The case was tried twice, and was much discussed in the English press. Upon the first trial the jury dis- agreed. But Lord Coleridge told the second jury that the doctors were right in telling the father to free the tube. and a verdict for the defendants was found. The prin- ciple, we suppose. is that it is no part of a doctor’s duty to incur danger in the dis- charge of his profession, when the act to be performed requires no particular skill and can be devolved upon another standing in relations of blood and affection to the pa- tient “John,” said a. father to his son, " you have disappointed me greatly. I have given you every opportunity to learn something, but it has been just money thrown away. You are the stupidest young man I ever saw. You know nothing.”‘_ fiaâ€"It is true; father-flusaid John, with a sigh; “I never see you with a book in your hand," pursued the father; “you never take up a. newspaper; you know nothing of currena events. You don't take after your mother or me, for we’ve both got good natural intelligence. What you’re going to do to earn your living is a. puzzle to me. There isn’t a. single earthly thing that you can gum your hand to.” “But I’m not altogether an imbecile, father. I can count up to a. hundred.” “ 1 know it and that’s what vexea ma.” ” Why '2" “ Why, don’t you see, if you didn’t know them much you would- make an excellent jurymau for criminal trials, but you: know- ing that much entirely disqualxfies you. It’s a and cale.”â€"Somcrville Journal. A Delaware farmer has ploughed under 40,000 hen-Inga as a fertilizer. An Oglethorpe, Ga, boy has invented a. cash drawer for which he has reiusad $10,- 000. A Laadville girl name Daily is reported to have coughed up a. needle on Monday which she lost; in her knee a year ago. New York piokpookets have a. new dodge of securing ladiea’ purses. A boy of 14 or 15 strolls along behind a lady and bounces a. rubber ball on the sidewalk so that it rises and falls close to her dress. While she is watching the motion of the ball her pocket is quickly rifled. Miss Jennie Casseday. of Louisville, who is incurs.ny confined to her bed as an in- valid, is nevertheless prominent as super- intendent of a flower mission, and now she wants to send bouquets, on June 9th, to all the prisons, penitentisries sud reforma- tories in the United States. She thinks it will humanize the inmates while the flowers last. We have all seen on the plains here, says the Coluea Sun. beautiful sheets of water in appearance, in which men would look like giants, sheep like buffalo, and small houses like great castles. Portions of a level plain will sometimes seem to rise and a ridge appear, where, in fact, there is no ridge. The prettiest mirage we ever saw, however. appeared to us the other day just above Jacinto. A field or bright yellow poppies was raised to an apparent height of about twenty feet, so that they appeared as an immense bouquet set in a sheet of water. The delusion was so perfect that it was hard to realize the fact that these flowers were on level land, perhaps lower than the intervening country, and that they were really not over afoot high and on a dry plain. AWinnipeg despeteh says: The Sub- Committee of the Farmers’ Union met here yesterday and revised the constitution under the Act of Incorporation. The Central Union is now fully constituted with a board of officers and directors. Mr. Bayley, late of the Nelson Mountaineer, has been appointed travelling agent to form branch unions. Steps are to be taken to ship grain direct, and to import imple- mentsâ€"American preferred. The commitâ€" tee passed resolutions oondeming the C. P. R. elevator regulations, and approving the course of the Legislature in regard to the Ottawa terms. Rain has fallen copiously in all parts of the Province and the territory. The crops are in splendid condition and promise well. Dredging at the mouth at the Red River is to be commenced at once. This will im- prove the navigation of Lake Winnipeg. Certain additional tracts of land in Manitoba. have been set apart for school purposes. They are thhdrawn from settle- meat. MoManus, the Calgary murderer, has been committed for trial for the murder of Buckskin Shorty. A Do CTOB’S QUESTION. Competition in Adverlidug. Oddities 0! Every Day Lite. Calilo ruin M lrnxen. Disqu ullfled. WHOLE NO 1,354 NO. 2. Teefy At home it is quite impossible to produce all the many varieties of ice cream without more or less care and expense. “ The secret of making good ice cream of any grade,” said Miss Juliet Corson, whose re- cipes are here given, ” lies in the freezing. The old way of freezing cream, which is still in use among small confectioners, con- sisted of occasionally stirring the cream while it was freezing in a tin can, set in a tub of ice and salt. A more easy and expe- ditious method is within the reach of the average housekeeper in these days of patent freezers. The same principle underlies all the best known patentsâ€"i. 6., the mixing of the cream by a wooden beater, which re- volves inside the can by the same motion that slightly changes the position of the can in the outer tub of ice and salt. This freezing mixture should be composed of three parts of crushed ice to one of coarse salt, of which care should be taken that it does not reach high enough around the sides of the can to penetrate to the in- terior and so spoil the cream. The water formed in the outer tub by the melting of the freezing mixture need not be drawn off while the cream is being frozen unless it is likely to get into the can, because the water is intensely cold. If it is desired to pack the cream after it is frozen, the water may be drawn OE and enough more ice and salt placed around the can to reach nearly to the top. Ice cream packed in this way can be kept over night, or longer, if the freezing mixture is properly renewed. When ice cream is ‘ molded ’ or packed in moulds of fancy shapes, all the openings should be closed with butter or oiled paper fixed about the apertures of the moulds with paste or gum tragacanth. Sensonable Binls About the Summer Dessert 0! Which Most People Are Fond. “Ice creams of the most ordinary sort are made with milk thickened With arrow- root or corn starch in the proportion of a. tablespoonful to a quart dissolved in cold water and then boiled in the milk, which is cooled, sweetened and flavored before it is frozen. The sort of ice cream usually made at home is composed of milk with a small proportion of cream, with eggs and sugar added to it; for instance, dissolve halt a pound of sugar in a quart of milk ; place it over the fire and let it heat to boiling point; meantime beat three eggs to cream, pour the boiling milk into them and then return to the fire and stir until it begins to thicken; then at once remove it from the fire; stir until it is smooth; then flavor it, cool it, and when it is cool freeze it accord- ing to directions given. Frozen custard is made in the same way. only five eggs at least are added to a quart of milk. “ French icecrenm. thick and yellow, is made by boiling a. quart of cream with a long vanilla. been, and cooling and strain- ing it; then the yelks of twelve eggs are beaten smooth with a quarter of a. pound of sugar; the cream is then mixed with the eggs and stirred over the fire until it begins to thicken ; directly the cream begins to thicken, take it from the fire and stir it for five minutes; then cool and freeze it.”â€"New York Evening Post. lflethodist Membership Benn-no. There is an increase of members in the Montreal Conference of 1,252, and in the London Conference of 3,389, not including the Woodstock district, which has yet to report. There will also be a good increase in the Toronto Conference. LONDON CCNFERENSE. Total Membership. Increase. Hamilton District............... 9,330 439 Niagara. “ . 3,147 100 Bruntford “ . 2,946 424 Woodstock “ 1,077 (lost; your.) Simcoe “ 3,266 73 London " 3,913 00 (decrease) at. Thomas " 2,691 62 Cbathom ” 4,450 180 Sarnia. " 3,581 457 Guelph " 2,665 267 Wellington “ Stratford “ Goderich “ 3,617 676 2,795 454 3,801 257 Total A London despstch says : Oscar Wilde. who was married last Tuesday to Miss Constance Lloyd, has written a. silly and thoroughly characteristic letter to a. friend, in which he says he has not been disap- pointed in married life. He feels confident of his ability to sustain its labors and anxieties, and sees an opportunity in his new relations for realizing a poetical eon- oeption which he_hes long entertained. He says that Lord Beaconsfield taught the Peers of England a new style of oratory, and similarly he intends to set an example of the pervading influence of art in matri- mony. The impenetrable mystery that has hitherto shrouded the tragedy on Luna. Island, Niagara. Falls, in which Mr. Peer- son lost his life, as was supposed at the hands of his brother-in-lew, Vedder, and which was deepened by the lstter’s com- plete disappearance, bids fair to be cleared up at last. the body of the letter having been found yesterday in a. good state of preservation in the Cave of the Winds. An inquest will be held to-dey. An Oawego (N. Y.) firm has orders for a. million torohllght handles, in View of the approaching political campaign. The thirteen-year locusts have appeared in East Feliciana pari‘h, Louisiana, but; not in sufficient numbers to do any damage. The inscription on Beaconsfield’s bust in Westminster Abbey is “ Lord Beaconafield, twice Premier of England." Two hundred and twenty-five thousand persons live in furnished lodgings in Paris, and moat of them possess no reserve of pecuniary resources whatever. The poor and despised are much given to boasting ; they feel that their position is equivocal and they brag to make it less so. It has been said of Millet’s “ Angelus ” that it is the only picture in which sound has been painted. CELTIC MonALIzING.â€"Soeneâ€"â€"A shieling iu the north. Tonal (who in a. rapid upholder of“use and won" on reading the debate on Dr. Cameron’s Cremation Bill) «It’s awfu’l awfu‘l tey’ve prom.an ta. kirk wi’tere organs an’ hymns an’fat not, and 1100 tare trying to profane ta kirkyaitd pi purnin’ ta. ashes o‘ ta. teid in pottles I Speaking :of Sir William Thompson’s announcement of sbelief in a “possible magnetic sense,” the Aliem’st Neurologist thinks that we might as well be logical and liberal, and add to the present senses the touch sense, the self sense, the power sense, the logical sense, and the psychic, mus- cular, and electro-magnetio senses. To divide and sub-divide is believed to be 9. rowing habit with medical writers. How To MAKE 10E CRBAIVI. (hun- Wilde on fllnrrlnge. Nlnum'n Mysterv Clenred Up. 43,299 3,889 Mr. Watkins, of St. Catharines, has been appointed Public School Inspector of Elgin county. An Englishman has recently introduced on the Thames 8. real Venetian gondola. and gondolier. A bear weighing 913 pounds was killed last week at Milladore, Wisconsin. Middlesex County Council has under con- sideration the propriety of stopping the use of tobacco by the inmates o! the County House of Refuge. The Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec has decided not to admit women to membership of the Union. Sitting Bull gate 350 a week for exhibit- ing himself. There are no surplus men in the field embraced by the Montreal United Metho- dist Conference. The amount due depositors of the Penn Bank of thtsburg is $1,466,000, and the amount of overdrafns $1,250,000. Mrs. Ford, of Harrison, N.J., aggravsted by her son 13 years of age, became so ex- cited that; she fell on a. chair and died. Mr. W. B. Clark, who has been for seven- been years employed at the freight shade of the G. T. R. in Guelph, has been ap- pointed atation agents at Limehouse. Yesterday afternoon Eddie Dufton, a. brighh lad of some 9 years. son of Mr. J. M. Dufbon, of the woollen mills, London, wan drowned in the Thames while bathing. Five of the six murderers hanged on a. recent Friday in this country declared that rum had led them into crime. There are now 206 Presbyterian mission stations in the Northwest Territoriesâ€"a. very creditable showing. A Vera Cruz, Mexico, young man barbar- oualy kicked his wife, recently, because she refused him 31 a. week for spending money At fashionable dinner parties in New York, says the Mail, only the green tips of asparagus are served. Rev. Mr. President or Ierence. The United States House of Represen- tatives passed the California and Oregon Land Grant Forfeiture Bill byavote of 159 to 10. The committee of the Quebec Legieim ture in charge of the Leglelative llbraty have reported in favor of excluding works of fiction from its shelves. Mr. W. P. Chisholm is the new High School trustee in Oakville. Rev.E. Roberts has been elected Presi- dent of the Bible Christian Conference. Td-day the ratepayers of Toronto are called upon to vote for or against the by- law devoting $115,000 to certain civic im- provements. A London insurance company has re- ceived in the past 10 years over $25,000 “ conscience money ” from persons who had fraudulently recovered insurance. Fitneen Massachusetts girls have an- nounced that they are going to take a. trump of 300 miles in the Adirondacks this summer. They probably intend to do 20 miles apiece. The Duke of Rutland has taken so heavily to heart the removal of the Duke of Wellington’s statue from Hyde Park that he writes: “I! it were possible, I would resign my peerage.” The new French ambassadorial abode at Rome is the Roepiglioei Palace. A splendid housewarming entertainment was lately given. Cardinals were thick as black- berries in May. One Saturday night last month Edward Pummelof Castlefotd, England, returned home drunk and, it is alleged, ill used his Wife, who was found dead next morning with & newly-born child crying by her side. The coffee, tobbaooo and sugar crops in Vera. Cruz are being ravaged by swarms of locusts. which have come from Yucatan. It is feared that they will extend through Tamaulipas into Texas. A farmer named Resheaw, living in the township of Anderdon. while quarrelling with his son on Monday, struck him on the head and knocked him senseless. A (Mal result is feared. The tents of “ the Grande Kermesae " in Place d’Armes Square, Montreal, 001- lapsed during a. thunderstorm on Tuesday. A charitable fanny fair in aid of Nortre Dame Hospital was in progress and a num- ber of ladies fainted. The damage amountod to $2,000, but nobody was hurt. Councillor Palmerton, of Simooe, has given notice that he will at the next meet- ing of the Council introduce a. by-lnw to prohibit the erection of barbed wire fences on the streets of that town. A Chinaman ingeniously evaded the law in British Columbia which provides them a. second story shall 110% be built on the top of an old house, by raising the old house with jack screws and building a. story un- derneath it. For ways that: are dark, euo. New Brunswick is the only Canadian Province sending exhibits to the Forestry exhibition which takes place this year in Edinburgh. Sixteen large cases of wooden goods, specimens of wood and foliage, etc., have been forwarded from that Province. Miss McFMlane, a. respectable young lady of Quebec, committed suicide at Montmorency Falls Wednesday evening. It is supposed that she entered the river above the falls and was carried over the boiling surf. Her body has not yet been recovered. Mr. John J emes Redpath, 9. member of an old and respected femin in Montreal, died yesterday. Inheriting an independent fortune from his father, who commenced life humbly, he gave up business years ago and lived on his income. He was one of the founders of the great sugar refinery, in which he was a. large owner of stock. The Tilsonburg Observer’hys the passing of the Scott Act in Oxford has been the means of badly tumbling the value of hotel property in the county. The Woodstock hotel in Woodstock, which cost $22,000 to build. was sold last: week for $3,500. and the Royal hotel m Thamesford, which cost $6,000 a few years ago, was sold the other dayfiot 31,9510. ... n...“ gt. .. nâ€"w /-. ...._, - The recent speech of the Right Hon. Mr. Chamberlain, President ot the British Board of Trade, in moving the second reading of the Merchant Shipping Bill, occupied three and three-quarter hours. and is said to be one of the longest ever delivered in the House of Commons. He spoke without pausing even to take a. drink of water, giving utterance to what would fill sixteen or seventeen columns 0! the TIMES. The revised edition of the Old Testament is nearly completed, and will be published eagly in_the autumn: __ In order to impart: dignity to the town of Maroa, 11L, forty ot the merchants have signed a. pledge to wear high silk huts, instead of the wide-brimmed slouohea that have been in fashion there. Three tramps commanded a woman at Orestline, Oblo, to cook a breakfast for them. She said coolly that she would do it; but she brought in a. cooked pistol in- stead of food. and they fled for their lives. She had more bravery than strength, how- ever, and bag since been a raving maniac. A oertsin doctor of Paris who had had many unfortuate operations became crazy. His mania. was to walk day by any among the tombs of Montmartre, muttering all sorts of incomprehensible things. One day a. friend surprised him trying to force open the grated door of a. private vault. “ What are you doing there ?” asked the friend, trying to lead him away. " Let me alone,” said he ; “ I want to make my excuses to my last patient.” NEWS IN A NUTSHELL. '. Mr. Galbraith has been elected the Montreal Methodist Con-