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There are very pretty innovations in hats, which will be worn a. great deal. They are draped with soft silk soarfs, printed in colors and gold or of delicate interwoven tints. Broad gauzy silk-ribbons are coming in for trimming hats' and dresses. The lushionable colors are likely to be navy blue, dark brown, dark beige, deep crimson, myrtle and mossgroens, watercress, pole willow green, tan buérlo, ten-s. ootts, shrimp and aurora. pinks, and combinations of terra. cotta and greens, blue and tan, or willow green and shrimp. into the mysteries of fractions. Said she : “ If a thing is divided into eight parts, what portion of the whole do we 08)] each part: ‘2” Tim didn’t know. “ Why,” said the teacher, “ It your mamms. were to cut; apie into eight pieces what part woulgi your piece be ‘2" “ The smallest. l" shouted Tim, triumphantly. In file pyrometer heat is measured by the expansion of metals. and the influ- men!) will measure heat accurately up to 7,000 degrees. Indian veilinge this spring will be adorned with small geometrical and conventional figures or Winn single flowereie. This style applies to Foularde and Indian silks. The fashionable ailke of the season include soft ribbed French taible, Sioilienne, Muecovibe and veloutine. Varieties of poplin and satin will be in use for trimmings. Plain and figured aurah are even more in favor. Delicate orape and gold or silver gauze are all the rage for bodice draperies. Lauark cauvma and guipure will also be much used, principally for tunics and polonnises. Another fuellionable materiisl, called “ Sunglier cloth,” a. hairy and opaque material, is worn eiaher plain or interwoven with stripes or course and plain patterns with Oriental colors. A SD-Vear-(Ild Roy Hlnhhed in the Back by n Bigger Boy. V A last (Wednesday) night’s Halifax, \I. 8., deepatoh says: A juvenile stabbing affair is reported to have taken place at Stellarton yesterday that is likely to be attended by fetal results. Two boys were quarrellmg. One was getting the better of the other and a third boy intelfered, the bigger brother of the boy who was getting the worst of the fight. The two boys light- ing were named Denoon and Blackwood. The elder Bluekwood, who interfered, was aged 14 years, and Denoon was about 9. When the thir‘fl boy Interfered Denoou took to his hc 815. The elder Blackwood fol- lowed him, and when Demon fellexhaueted in the snow Blackwood kneltupon him, deliberately took out his jack-knife, opened it, and [lunged the blade into the small of Denoon’e back. The little boy was re moved to his home. Both his legs are purely zed and he is not expected to recover. Blackwood is still at liberty, and no Steps have as yet been taken to have him arrested or punished. Among the fashionable stuffs for dresses this spring is a. coarse kind of semi- trsnsparenh woollen canvas. It: will look well when plain and well» made, simply with hams and tucks and striped down hhe selvedge with a. velvet) skirt made up length- ways and with a lump of trimming around the bottom. This canvas, it covered with bouclattes, will also be popular, for, though rough to the touch, it has a. semi-transparent ground and “ curls.” gmdwa 11:12:23; helpless and dying.” an Afab, who was pursuing a. soldier and had passed live paces to Burnsby’s right and rear, turned with a' sudden spring, and this second Arab rsn his spear point into the Colonel’s right shoulder. It _ was but a slight wound. Enough, thOugh, to cause Burnaby to twist around in his saddle and defend himself from this unexpected attack. Before the savage could repeat his unlocked for blow, so near the ranks of the square was the scene now being enacted, a. soldier ran out and drove his sword bayonet through the second assailant. Brief ‘as was Burneby’s glance backward at this fetal episode it was long enough to enable the first Arab to deliVer his spear‘pol‘nt full in the brave ofiicer's throat. The blow drove Burnaby out of hiaeaddle, but it required a second one before he let go his grip of the reins endtumbled upon the ground. Half a. dozen Arebs were now about him. With blood gushing in streams from his gushed throat the deuntless guerdemen leept to his feet, sword in hand, and slashed at the ferocious group. - They .were the wild strokes of a. proud,=b_ra.ve man dying hard, Novl‘llles Given 16 the World by the Plil'isinn llf‘flllel‘fi- A*Pa.ris cablegrumgayisj: It: is estimated that nearly a. quencher- of a. million people flocked to the great; shops and stores (30-day to see the annual exhibition of spring and summer novelcies. It was almost impos- sible to get inside of the doors of the Louvre and Bon Mamba. “I was at that instant insult) the square, not far from the Gardner gun, when 1 saw the left lace move somewhat backward. Colonel Burnaby himself, whose every action at the time I saw from a distance of about thirty yards, rode out in front of the rear left face, apparently to assiqt two or three shirmishers running in hard pressed. All but one man of them succeeded in reaching our lines. Colonel Burnaby went forward to his assistance, sword in hand. As the dauntless Colonel rode forward he put himself in‘th‘e _wn ole sheik charging down on horseback. fire the Arab closed With him a bullet from some one in our ranks brought the sheik headlong to the ground. The. enemy’s spearsmen were close behind, and one of them suddenly (lashed at Colonel Burnaby, pointing the long blade of his spear at his throat. Checking his horse and pulling it backward, Burnaby leapt forward in his Esaddle and pan-lei the Moslem’s rapid and ferocious thrusts. But the ‘ length of the man’s weaponâ€"eight ‘ feetâ€"put it out of his power to return with interest the Arab‘s murderous intent. Once or twice Colonel Burnaby just touched his man, only to make him more wary and eager. The affray-was the work of seconds only, for the savage horde of swarthy negroes from Kordofan,and straight-haired tawny complexioned Arabs of‘ the Bayuds. steppe, were first closing in‘ upon our square. Col. Burnaby fenced the swarthy Arab as if he were playing in an assault at arms, and there: .was, .a smile on his fea- tures as he drove off- -thc man’s awkward points. The scene was taken in at a glance. With that lightning instinct which I have seen desert warriors before new display in battlehwhile coming to one another's aid, Ting’s teachex: wag grying no inifiiafie him “ Still down upon us the dark Arab wave rolled. It had arrived within three hundred yards undimiuished in volume, unbroken in strengthâ€"s. rush of spearsmen and swordemen.‘ Their rifle fire had ceased. Other-"Arab forces surrounded us â€"the Mahdi’s troops, plundering Bedouins and pillaging villagers from the other aide â€"stood eager oh the hillsides watchng the charge upon the British square. In wild excitement, th‘é‘irwhite teeth glistening and the sheen of their hmndished weapone‘ flashing like thousands 91' minors. onward they came, charging straight into our ranks. - A Graplllc Accounl 6? flow lhe Glnul Guardsman Mel Ills Damnâ€"Tm: Sabre Against lhe Spenrâ€"An lhu‘qlml l-lnml-lo-luml linuumlér “in: the Aral”. A London cabla says .: Mr.Burleigh. the war correspondent; who was wounded at Abu Klan, has, under 0113 inspiration of his Inn-h, written to the Daily Telegraph a thrilling account of ‘the buwle. and m it occurs this description of Colonel Burnaby’s death. which must become historical : 'I‘IIE BI’IGING FAalllflNfi. A YOUNG SAVAGE. now u’UBNABY In El). The Brilish Foreign minister Makes a Pacific Speechâ€"Bisumrck’s flliellndcr- standingâ€"Northbrook on the Navy. A last (Friday) night's London cable says: Granville delivered a long speech in the House of Lords this even- ing about the Bismarck controversy. He said it was now more than ever before to the interests 0! Germany and England that the relations between the two Governments should be good, because it was at a time when both Powers were about to meet- each other in all parts of the world. ” Whilst each Power will maintain its rights, both ought to advance,” con- tinued the speaker, “ in their common work of extending commerce and civiliza- tion in a spirit of candid (so-operation. All my efforts Will be exerted in favor of the conciliatory policy which Bismarck has sketched out.” Granville denied he had published the confidential matter commu- nicated to Bismarck who, he said, must have misunderstood him, for England beyond any other nation was gratified at Germany’s greatness, and would spare no efforts to retain the friendship now existing between the two Govern- ments. “1 hope," said Granville, “to make such a statement in the regular way to Bismarck as shall show him that the points raised by him concerning the publi- cation of the communications may bear a very different color. I sincerely regret that the apt-och I made in the House of Lords under pressure of a severe party attack should have annoyed Bismarck. The Duke cl! Richmond had attacked the Gavernment, saying a great foreign states- man condemns it. I retorted that the Duke of Richmond had no occasion to com- plain of Bismarck’s disapproval because we failed to follow the very friendly advice Bismarck gave the previous and present Government to take Egypt. I added that I presumed he did not expect us to aban- don all liberty of action in our foreign and colonial policy. The thrust was aimed at the Duke of Richmond. not at Bismarck. The latter, tomy great regret, construed this as havmg a meaning which I posit-iver 1 assert does not attach to it. Regarding the words ‘ take Egypt,‘ I ought probably to have useda better phrase, although the words were certainly applicable to annex- 7 ation, a protectorate, or even to occupation. ‘ Nobody would regret more and nobody would be injured more by a breach of confidence than myself. I did not mean to refer to those private and friendly communications described by Bismarck in the Reichstag, but to subsequent decla- rations which were not confidential, and which appeared to me to express Germany’s former, it not her present, hope that Eng- land would represent Europe’s interest in Egypt. No country more fully and cheer- , fully appreciates Germany’s immensely important position in Europe than does England.’_‘ .G . _ O O Earl Northbrook maintained that the British navy was superior to that of France or any other nation. He said it was the inhenhion of the Government to build thirty torpedo boats. Ten had already been ordered. He gave an assurance that the Government would gladly assist} the various British colonies in Improving their coast defences. “Madame,” he said, sorrowfully, “I shall never be young again.” “No,” she replied, regarding him with a. cynical ex- pression, “ when nature makes a. mistake she never repeats the expenment with the same material.” Mrs. Croaspatoh was engaging a. servant. “ You will find me rather crass sometimes,” said she. " Oh. ma’am,” exclaimed Bridget, “ I’m used to that. I never mind a cross mistress." Nor did she, as Mrs. 0. found after she had engaged her. Augustus H. Garland, Attorney-General, was born in Tennessee in 1832, and became a léwyer. He followed his State into secession, and after the war helped to reconstruct the State, becoming Governor. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1877, and had prevnously gained fame as apleuder in an important case béfore the United States Supreme Court. He in said to have “ read more law than any mm: in the South.” Wm. C. Endioott, Secretary of War, was born in Salem, Massachusetts. and is about 58 years of age. He graduated from Ear- vsrd in 1847, was admitted to the bar in 1850. and sat on the State Supreme Court Bench for ten years. Resigned through ill-health, and was Democratic candidate for Governor last November, securing votes from some anti-Blaine Rupublioans, and holding himself always opposed to the. Ben Butler wing of the Democrats. William] F. Vilma, Postmaster-General. was born in Vermont in 1840, but settled in Wisconsin. Entered law, and fought in the war, after: which he returned to his forensic career. He became widely known as Chairman of bhe Democratic Convention last year. Wm. 0. Whitney, Secretary of the Navy, was born in Conway, Massachusetts. in 1839‘ Graduated from YaJe in 1863, and entered law in New York City. He had a. large practice, and pclitically opposed with activity the Tweed ring in 1871. He has held various public offices as counsel, but has been chiefly occupied by his practice, and is known as a principal organizer of the County Denlocrmyg Lucius Q. C. Lamar, Secremry of the Intarior, was born in Georgia. in 1825. He was professor of Oxford University, Georgis, elected to State Legislature in 1853, to Congress in ’57, was a. secessionist and fought: 1n the Confederate army. After the war he retired to a. professorship in Mlssissippi. from which State he was sent; to the United States Senate in 1876. Daniel Manning. Secretary of the Treanhry, was an errand boy on an Albany newepaper and ' became compositor, rcpurter, editor, proprietor of the paper and politician. Well known as a. Bkilful political manager of the New York State Democracy, m 1882 he was chosen chair. man of the State Committee. To him Tudeu eidreeeed his famous letter in 1880 declining candidature. He is 55 years old. Thomas F. Bayard, of Wilmington, Delaware, Secretary of State, born October, 18‘28, was educated by his father, the eminent lawyer, placed in business at first in: four years, but afterwards went into law, and soon became prominent. Was always a Democrat and against eeeeefion. Elected to the Senate 1869, where he has sat ever since. Friday, the United States Senate oeu- fitmed the Cabinet nominations sent to it by President Cleveland. The following is the personnel of the new Cabinet : The Rennie Confirms [he Appointments-â€" Records of me New fleucls ol Depart. I‘III‘an- lirliANVll CLEVELAND’S CA Bl NET. VOL XX VI. .LE '1‘0 B18114 “CK. It is said that the Guards are not over- plessed at going to Suahim. They are, of course, eager enough to take part in any campaign afoot, but in the present they are only made a convenience of. They ought, they say, to have been employed from the first. It is said that the Queen was very loath to give her consent to their employ- ment. Lord Hartington went down per~ sonally to Windsor to ask her approval and had a difficult task to obtain it. People are not generally aware that Her Majesty allows no movements or changes to be made in the stations of the Guards without her express permission. On this point she has always been most tenacious. Whatever Ministers may choose to do with the rest of the army. she reserves to herself the abso- lute control of her Household Brigade. This control extends to even the smallest detailsâ€"~the pasiticn of sentries and the number of men on gourd. Another ancient institution which the Queen personally controls is Her Majesty’s Tower. Most people have heard of the ceremony of handing over “ Queen Victoria’s keys," which takes place every night, but few are aware that at the time of the recent explosion all the reports were addressed to the Queen direct by the officials of the Tower. Z. Munsey testified that at Tracy City he saw Deputy Warden Carter whip Frank Wilson until he was exhausted. The lash was passed to two other men, who struck Wilson until they became tired. Wilson died soon afterward. On another Occasion Carter gave a. convict thirty-five lashes. The witness informed Gov. Bate, Inspector Thomas and Supt. Carter'ot the cruel treat- ment. Carter offered him a position else- where, but he declined it. The Gazette Hebdomadairre de Medicine staues that French bakers are making use or vaaeliue in cake and other pastry. Its advantage over lard or butter lies in the fact that, however stale the pastry may be it will now become mneid.’ The Council of Hygiene disapproves of the practice, on the ground that the derivatives of petro- leum contain no nuttimenfi. It does not any distinctly, however, that fihey are injurious to health. Dr. Marks, former physician at Tracy City, testified that frequently men were whipped two and three tunes 3 day, and he had seen blisters on their bodies. While he was than six convicts were shot, tour or five were kllled in the mines, several had their legs broken, and six or eight had their feet. and hands frost-bitten. The male convicts had access to the females. Dr. Frizzell, physician at the Tracy City prison testified that the convicts needed more clothing, and that the average num- ber of deaths per month is five. The bed- ding was dirty. Recently the prisoners were provided with shoes and socks. A few weeks ago they had no socks, and but poor shoes. To-day Mr. Bummett, for the defence, aware that he had seen convicts at 003.1 Creek cook and eat; rats in the mines. Convicts worked in six and twelve inches of water eight hours per day, and also labored Sunday nights. The mines were filthy, fihe air bad, the clothing scanty and the food insufficient. They were whipped for failing to complete tasks, and their cries were heard seventy yards distant. _ J. W. ’Posti testified that: a. convict named Wells, who had complained of being sick, wag wiljppqd ope day and died the next). Cooking and Eating Raniâ€"Brutal \Vhip- ping â€"- Sunny (Homing â€"â€" Numerous Deaths. The developments in the case of the State against the Nashville Banne1,iudioted for the publication of alleged libelous state- ments concerning Penitentiary officials, says a. Nashvflle despnboh to the Sn. Louis Globe-Democrat, daily grows more ‘inter- eating. The court-room is densely crowded, and the greatest: interest is manifested. The Great Value ol Reports to the Politi- cul Lite 01 a Nation. Parliamentary reports form a most important part of the matter of a. national press, says the 'London Times. Proceed- ings in Parliament are an integral portion of the life of a nation. The press. which undertakes the duty of photogtup‘iing society, feels obliged to picture the course of legislation with the rest of the spectacle. For its career it is not positively dependent upon the liberty of reporting. It can live Without debates ; it lives without them for half the year. They are a terrible tax upon its straitened space. They are often ponderous and dull. It has to bear the disagreeable burden of arbitrating, within the limits it concedes to them, between individual members and its readers. The public in general would bestow a short snritt on a majority of parliamentary speakers. Half a dozen it is never tired of hearing. The majority it would gladly take as having spoken without seeing any of their utterances in print. A journal holds the balance much more evenly and generously than the public, yet has to abide commonly the reproach of curtailing the dues of a hundred tedious orators. It does not quarrel with the embarrassing task. It is conscious thatit has itself chiefly to thank for the load in the first instance. Unless by its own determination to report parliamentary debates, the original charmed silence would never have been broken. At the same time it cannot but suspect that, werea parliament to return to its old habit of mystery, the press would not be the greater sufferer. Baniehmcut from a single field of facts would not wither up its sphere of public instructor. Parliaments could stand ostracism by the press less well than the press could endure a prohibi- tion of inquiry into their pro- ceedings. Parliaments have been more profoundly enthralled by the custom of looking for a perpetual reflection of them- selves in the eyes of public opinion than the press by the intermittent mortgage of its columns to a particular class of topics. Constitutional parliaments have gained a supremacy far beyond any they enjoyed before, simply through the instantaneous contact the press has enabled them to maintain with the country. Each morning they ask and receive a fresh national sanc- tion by the medium of the press. Their commission is thus constantly being renewed. They confer with their con- stituents, and know how far their pledges will be redeemed. With the daily renewal of strength may be bound up a curtailment of individual freedom. The grand inquest of the nation may be tram meled by the know- ledge that public opinion is sitting perman- ently as a court of appeal upon its verdict. At all events, good or bad, wholly excellent or subject to heavy drawbacks, the fashion of reference of parliamentary action to the judgment of the press is immutahly estab- lished. The Queen and flex- Troops. meussn In; con vw'rs‘. PRESS AND PARLI lulEN'l‘. RICHMOND HILL THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1885. The words of the Bishop 0! Gloucester, Dr. Ellioott, in which he condemns certain practices in the Church of England, Stirred up some of the High Church papersto make remarks not wholly respectful. The Chm-ch Times says : -“ The pc-or lmle prelaue is a. sore trial, but, as We cannot suppose that anybody came a straw for what he says, we suppose he can be borne with.” Au enterprising PSX'SOD at The Cascades, 0!e.,abarhed & saloon with a stock stolen from snow-bound freight trains. Up to the time of his arrest for the robbery he did a thriving business. Possibly the Mahdi had no legal title to Khartoum. but he has no less right no in than has the Viceroy of Egypt, whose father obtained and. taxed in by just. the same right that the Mahdi rules thereâ€"â€" the right of conquest. And he has this superior claimâ€"than the people in and around are more in sympathy with him than with the monarch who rules over them by virtue of black troops and Banhi Bazouke. And on whom are we to inflict vengeance ? We cannot massacre a. whole people, even in hhe name of civilization am} Christianity, and am for the Mahdi, are we to follow him it he chooses to retire to iahe equator? Before we accede to the gentle demand for revenge, we eheuld know precisely on whom and Where the not of vengeance is to be vieified.â€"-Pall Mall Gazette. ' OTTAWA, March â€" Mr. Robertson (Ham{ ilton) presented petitions from bonkers, liquor dealers and others, praying for the appointment of a commission to inquire into the working of the Canada. Temper» anoe Act, and that no further action be taken under that law until the commission has reported; also asking for compensa- tion. On account of aeveml irregularities the Speaker ruled that the petitions could not he received. Procmnion Again-st Burial Alive. The interment alive of Miss Cox, at Okonoke, W. Va... recalls to mind the curious custom precti» ed by an old Virginia. family, the Feudele, of Alexandria. When- everra member of the family dies the male representative of the older branch thereof, just before the hour for interment, buriea a dagger in the heart of the dead t3 assure himself of no re-owakening. The dagger used is one sacred to the purpose, and has been devoted to its use for many generations. The custom originated because of the buriai alive 0! a. member of the family and an inherited tendency to a peculiar form of heart disease.â€"~Cumbcrland Times. He closed by moving a. resolution recit- ing the facts of the case, and declaring that the House regretted the acéiou of the Finance Minister in this manner; The motion was lost on the foflowing division: Yeas, 59 ; nays, 118. Sir R. Cartwright, rising to move a. reso- lution in connection with the Exchange Bank, expressed regret that the documents on_this_subjecfi had pot been printed. Sll‘ HJmngevin 351d he observed that the hon. gentleman had a notice of this question on the paper, and suggested the matter should be postponed to Menday. Sir Join: Maodonaldâ€"The G5vernmenfi have not come to 9. conclusion on that: sub- jeqb: Mr. Casgmin asked when the papers respecting the Shots Line would be before the House. He had been receiving oom- munications daily on the subject. Sir Richard Oertwrighteeked whether it is > the intention of the Government to request the Catholic clergy 0: the Province of Quebec to suppy the Government with such information as they possess, in detail, showing the number of the actual resident Catholic population of the Pr: "ince of Que- bec in the years 1883 and 1884. respectively, for the purpose of tewtiug mieunmftqy of the statements made in this House and elsewhere touching the large emigration from the Province onuebec in recent years. Mr. Pope replied in the negative. Mr. Robertson (Shelburne) asked it it is the intention of the Government to intro- duce a. Bill amending the Canada. Temper- ance Act of 1878 in the direction naked for by the delegation of temperance men which waited upon the Premier recently. In reply to Mr. Blake, Sir John Mac- donald said no understanding had been reached between the. Government and the Lieunenant-Governor of New Bcunswiok as to his continuing to fill hheyfl‘ioe for any length of_time. Mr. McCarthy inbroduoeclvgbBill respect- ing the sale of railway pwseenger tickets, whioh he explained was to provide that the failway companies should be oompeiled to put up a notice in stations telling where tickets not used would be redeemed. The Bill was read the that time. Mr. Sutherland (Oxford) presented a. Bill to amend an Act to provnie for the em- ployment without the walls of the common jails of prisoners sautenoez‘i to imprison- ment therein, whim, was read the first time. to whom to apply for a license. He inshaneed the case or an hotel-keeper who paid two hundred dollars for ‘2» license, and also paid fitteen or twemy dollars for a. Dominion license. The person who issued the Dominion license was a magistrate, and was named Denoyere, After nha Supreme Court decision the otfieere of the Quebec Local Government arrested the hotel- keeper referred to for selling liquor with- out a. license, and had him brought“. before Mt.Denoyers. and this very magistrate who had granted the liaenee inflicted a. heavy fine on him for selling under it. He understood there was Hume arrangement between the Dominion a.an Quebec G .vern- menus which would prevunu oeeuirenees such as these. Mr. Carling thought that the time had not yet come when this reduction should be made. When the change was made in the United States there was 9. surplus in the revenue from the postal service, but now the Postmasterâ€"General of the United States estimated 9. five-milieu dcfioit. In Canada there was yet u‘defiait, and he thought the reduction would be unwise. The opening-up of the vest territory in the Northwest and the perftczing of the postal facilities in the older Provinces involved greet expense, and it would be better to spend the money in tit-M: Way than in reducing the mite. The motion was carried. Mr. Bergeron moved for the correspon- dence between the Dominion and Quebm Governments regarding the working of the License Lew. He referred to the recent decision of the Supreme Court, and said that the poor tavern-keepers did not know i Mr. Charlton moved for the cones nd- enoe received by the Government ‘nce January let relating to the reduction 0! the letter postage to two cents per haif ounce, or any other reduction. DOMINWN PARLIAMENT. he JVlalIIll’s Position Hon. C. F. Fraserâ€"Mr. Speaker, in moving the first reading of the Bill to fort-her extend the franchise, I do so with all the greater satisfaction and all the greater delight to myself because it is the fulfilment of piomises mode by the Liberal party prior to the last general election, that during the present Parliament there should be an extension of the tran- chise. The franchise now is limited to owners, occupants and tenants of real estate who are ' assessed for a certain amount, to possessors ot income of a cer- tain taxable amount, and formers’ sons, which latter class are placed in the posi- tion of joint owners or tenants, and are thus entitled to vote. As the law now stands the owner, occupant or tenant of real estate can have a vote in a city pro- vided he is assessed for real property to the extent of t400,in towns to the extent cl $300, and in incorporated villages and townships to the some extent. In this Bill we pro- pose that the franchise, as for as the owner, tenant, or occupant is concerned, shall be extended for the some class to those assessed to the amount or $200 in cities and towns and $100 in incorporated villages and townships. Hon. gentlemen will thus see that we reduce the amount of assessment by one-half in cities, and $100 in towns, villages and townships. A further change we propose in the class of owners, YEASâ€"Baskerville, Blythe, Brereton, Broder Carnegie, Clancy, Clarke (Toronto), Creighton, Denison, Ermatinger, Fell, French, Gray, Hammell, Hess, Hudson, lierns, Kerr, Lees McGhee, Meredith, Merrick, Metcalfe, Monk, gorgan, MulhollamL Preston, Ross (Cornwall)â€" NAYs-â€"Awrey, Badger-ow, Balfour, Ballantyne, Baxter, Bishop, Biezard; Caldwell, Cascaden, Chisholm, Cook, Dill, Dowling, Dryden, Ferris, Freeman, }ibson (Hamilton), Gibson (Huron), Gould, Graham, Hagar, Harcourt, Hardy, Harv, McIntyre, Mackenzie, McMahon, Master, Morin, Mowat. Murrav, Neelon, Pardee, Ruyside, Ross (Huron), Ross (Middlesex), Sills, Snider, Waters, Widdlfield, You ugâ€"el l. The House then went into committee and passed a large number of items, including all nude: the head of public institution maintenance. The debate was continued by Messrs. aneer, Carnegie, Creighton, Young, Clarke and Ferris, and on a vote being taken the amendment WM defeated on the following vote: Mr. Meredith protested against the mea- sure, contending that the decision of the Supreme Court only concerned non-navi- gable and non-tidal rivers. Ever since Confederation the right of dealing with the fisheries was always vested in the Dom- inion, and Ontario could not assume it without entailing considerable loss to the revenue. Last year the receipts were $11,345; the expenses for salaries of ofli- oiale, $15,192, in addition to $27,285 for fish breeding and $1100 for legal and adverâ€" tising expenses. It Ontario claimed the right to deal with the fisheries of the Pro- vince, the Maritime Provinces would claim the far more valuable fisheries of the Atlantic coast. « Mr. Fraser’s Bill to regulate the public fisheries of this Province came up for second reading. The Commissioner ex- plained that under a. recent decision of the Supreme Court the inland fisheries, hitherto supposed to be under the control of the Dominion, were under the jurisdiction of the Province. The Bill empowered the Commissioner of Crawn Lands to take con- trol of the leasing and licensing of inland fisheries. It provided that no leases should be granted except by public competition. Yuri. «1,, 1- Mr. Meredith, in ascending the motion, said : I concur in the propriety of showing this mark of esteem to our deceased friend which is involved in the motion of my hon. friend. I had the good fortune many years before Mr. McCraney entered public life to make his acquaintance, and every- thing which my hon. friend has said I can fully endorse, and I may add that notwith- standing the bitterness of party strife the kindest feelings existed between myself and himself to the very last. I concur, too, in what my hen. friend has said of his 5233 qualities in other respects, and I agree With him that this House and the country have suffered a serious loss in the death of my hon. friend. Hon. gentlemen on that side no doubt were more intimate with the deceased member than we on this side of the House, but I think I can say for every one of them that nothing but the kindest feelings were entertained towards him by them always, and that we agree most cor- dially in any expression of sorrow for his loss. and of sympathy for his bereaved family: Mr. Mowatâ€"It is known to the House that since we adjourned on Friday one of the members of the House has gone to his long home. Mr. MeCraney has not, I believe, been in attendance any day of the present session of the Legislature. He became Without the commencement, and his illness has been going on gradually from worse to worse till the and came. Unfortunately from day to day the news only got from worse to worse, and since his death the respect in which he was held was manifestedby all the members who were here going up to his funeral, including my friend the leader of the Opposition and several members on that side of the House, as well as several of my colleagues and members on this side. Mr. McCraney was a genial, kind-hearted and exceptionally amiable man in all the relations of life. He was also a man known to be of unbending integrity, undeviating truthfulness, and‘ of unwavering fidelity to every duty that he undertook. 'He was, in fact, in a word, all his life a well-living and well-doing man. He formed many , friendships ; he had many friends, and it is pleasant to be able to add that he had not a single enemy. He was a man of excel- lent judgment, and successful in the affairs of life. Here, being modest and unobtru- sive, he did not take a prominent part in the affairs of the House, but with much talent, and being well informed on public questions, he took a live interest, if not a prominent interest, in the questions which arise here. But he was extremely well informed on municipal ‘ matters, and on questions affecting the rural con- stituencies we frequently consulted him. Though, as I have said, taking no promi- nent part in the affairs of the House, yet when he ; addressed it his views were always forcible and well delivered. He was public-spirited, too, and took a keen interest in his own municipality, which showed the estimation in which he was held there by electing him Mayor six times. Shortly after he ceased to hold that posi- tion a vacancy occurred in the representa- tion of the riding and he was chosen to fill that, continuing to represent the con- stituency for about ten years. I need not say to this House that he is deeply regretted here. I know, too, that he was regretted as a citizen and mourned for by hieloviog family. Following the custom hitherto observed, I move now that this House do now adjourn out of respect to his memory. ONTARIO LEGISLATURE WHOLE NO 1,392 NO. 41. A material which is fireproof as well as indestructible by vermin is made of ashes- tos and silicate. 1h resembles stone, and, though massive in appearance, is of light weight. It makes a. useful box or safe for the preservation of documents. Charles W. Voshall, of this city, brought to the Union Benet-um today the largest Eugheh mastifl m the world. The canine is the property of Mr. G. L. ThemesS of Albany. He answers to the name of Sena.- tor, is 13 months old and weighs 160 pounds, father and mother were Nine. and Dido. Both father and mother have taken the first prizes at the bench shows in New York for the last three years. His height is 3515inohes over the wethers, extreme length, tip of nose to end of tail, 7 feet 8 inches. He is valued at $1,500.~â€"Rochcster Union. M. Verbeck, a. French mesmerist, now in London, performs some surprisingillusions, using but one hand. A wedding ring bor- rowed from a lady is hammered into 8. her by some volunteer assistant among the audience. The conjurer borrows a pro- gramme, rolls it into a. cornucopia-shaped receptacle for the ring. and without the use of the left hand orumples the paper into a ball, which the volunteer holds tight, full in View of the audience. When he is directed to open it he finds that the crumpled ball of paper consists of five sealed envelopes, one within the other, and with the perfect wedding ring in the, smallest and innermost. In the exhibition of the effects of mesmeric control, Mlle. de Marguerit, who assists M. Verbeck, bears without sign of feeling the thrusting of a. scarf-pin through the fleshy part of the forearm, and afterward, moving rhythmi- cally under musical influence, still in mesmerie trance, stops with the cessation of the music and preserves her poise, motionless. in attitudes which a panto- mime figumnte would certainly find painful if not impossible. Mr. Re a said the proposition was to begin with three training schools, one in the east, one in the west. and one in the centre, and that the sum of 3300 would be placed in the supplementary estimates to cover the expense, as the work was looked upon as Provincial in its character. No fees were to be imposed upon teachers attending these training schools. The Bill was read the first time. Mr. Harcourt asked whether additional grants were to be made to the five institutes which were to become Model High Schools, and also whether the teachers getting the benefit of the professional training in them would be required to bear all the increased expense. Mt. Rossâ€"No. That iii a. of appointment by the Department; on the recommendation of the High School Inggectiors. Mr. Meredithâ€"~Doé; ‘nhe ‘Bill provide what High Seligola 11:}: t9 he set apart? ment authority to set apart five High Schools or Collegiate Insti- tutes for the purpose of providing instruction in the theory and practice of teaching for assistant ngh School teachers. There were at present about 12,000 pupils in attendance at the High Schools at the Province, of whom about 1,000 graduated annually as teachers, so that the import- ance of the work W38 apparent. aâ€"wwfiwmw occupiers and tenants is that those only shall exercise the franchise who are actu- ally resident in the electoral district. In this respect the change will work satisfac- torily to both sides, and the trouble and expense hitherto necessary in getting in the outside vote will be obviated, and greater protection and safeguards will be thrown around the exercise of franchise so that‘only those really entitled to vote will be permitted. 'Mr. Meredithâ€"A single vote for each voter 7 Hon. 0. F. Fraserâ€"â€"A single vote only. At present as regards the ordinary income franchise, a person only can exercise the franchise where he has 35400 taxable income, and has paid his taxes on that prior to the , time at which the election is being held. What we propose now is that the income qualification should be reduced to $300 and that the provision making it taxable income should no longer exist. We also propose a great deal more than this, and that every man earning wages to the amount of $300 , shall be entitled to vote, and thus, prac- tically, that every wage-earner in the Pro- vince of Ontario shall be entitled to vote, under this designation. if he be qualified to the amount. We also give a vote to those who may be called householders, and not entered upon the assessment roll to the value of $200 in cities and towns, and in vil- lages and townships $100. We propose to give a vote to every such householder who is living in a separate dwelling, and it follows that we have adopted the house- holders’ franchise, for many years existing in England. Everybody appearing on the assessment roll as a householder will hereafter be entitled to vote. Here we come to the farmers’ sons franchise. In future they need not be sons of land owners, but the present Bill will include landholders’ eons. Landholder will mean any person who being the owner of and residing and domiciled upon real property of at least twenty acres in extent, or of at least an actual value in cities and towns of $400, and in townships and incorporated villages of $200, is, in the last revised assessment roll of the municipality where such property is situate, entered and assessed as owner of said property of at least the number of acres of assessed value aforesaid; and any person actually residing and domiciled in any dwelling house as tenant thereof, where such dwelling house and the land, if any, held therewith by such person as such tenant is of at least an actual value in cities and towns of $400, and in townships and incorporated Villages of $200, and is at not less than such value entered and assessed in the name of such person in the last revised assessment roll of the municipality wherein the same is situate. expression “ landholder‘s son ” shall mean and include a son, step-son, or grand- son, as the case may be, of any father, stepfather, mother or stepmother, who is a landholder. There will be changes to be made in the assessment law to provide the machinery, and these will be provided for in another Act. and the unorganized districts the law remains the same except that actual. rn‘d- deuce in all cases is required. The Eran- chise as regards Indians is allowed to remain as was amended last session. The Bill was read the first time. Hon. G. W. Ross moved the first reading of the Bill to further define the powers and duties of the Education Department. He explained that the object of the Bill was to The ‘ With regard to Algoma ’ define more clearly certain powers of the ‘ Department as to which there was some uncertainty. It also gave. the Depart- “-.rr. n__u,r,s. some Surprising Illusions. l he Biggest Dog. M Teefy It is stated that Prince Albert Victor is betrothed to the Princess Clementine, daughter of the King of the Belgians, a young’sehoolgirl aged 12. Difficth punctuation.â€"Putting a stop to a. go aip’a tongue An extraordinary affair has occurred at Felling, near Newcastle. A woman. said to be respectany connected, was appre- hended on a charge of killing cats and selling them as “ Scotch hares.” She was in the habit of taking cats from docreteps and conveying them to her own house. where she slaughtered them, cut off their heads and paws, skinned them, and ex- posed them for sale at a shilling each. Forty cats’ skins were found in the house. The affair has caused considerable sensa- tion. For some time cats belonging to different families have mysteriously disap- peared. Some were never much thought about after, but in the case of some ladies who have become much attached to their feline favorites diligent inquiries were made. but without success. It has now transpired that the woman was in the habit of going out at night, and on seeing a cat on a door- step or on a wall she would go quietly towards it. stroke it gently for a moment, and then suddenly seize the animal and place it under her shawl. She after- wards, in the scullery of her house. slaughtered the cat, skinned it, and next day would offer it at a “ cheap” rate to some neighbor or other under the pretence that it was a “ beautiful Scotch here.” A few days ago, a family on sitting down to dine ed a “ Scotch hare " which had been pur- chased oif the accused woman were unable to eat in consequence of its strong and peculaar odor. It was shortly afterwards ofiered to a cat and a dog that were on the premises, but neither of them would touch it. The attention of Sergeant Tillar, of the Durham County Constabulary, was drawn to the matter, and he made a search of the woman’s house. In the garden he found the skins of nineteen cats, with the heads attached partly buried. He found the remains of cats’ paws, parts of legs, etc., buried in the ash heap, and also a large cat, partially disembowelled. in a hen-house. The intelligence of this find has caused an uncomfortable feeling among the people who have been in the habit of buying the woman’s “ Cheap Scotch hares.” Several of the victims are very unwell, and their sufferings are made much more acute by young fellows following them wherever they go out of doors shouting, “ Puss, puss." “ A thing of beauty is a jdy} tdfévér-j’nxrs from Keats. Campbell found that “Coming events cast: their shadows before," and “ ’Tlfl dia- taqug '19de gqohanhment to the View." Dean Sv'vifli thought 'fihau “ Bread is the stuff of life.” Edward' Young $911571}: 53;“: loves a. shining mark,” and " A tool at forty ism fool indeed.” From Bacon comes “ Knowledge is power,” and Thomas Southerne reminds us that “ Pit;ng akin to love.” agreeable intelligenée TEE-13in d is himself again." “Wkâ€"‘- Johnson tells us of “ a good hater,” and Macintosh. in 1791, the phrase often attri- buted to John Randolph, “ Wise andmes- terly inactivity." “ Variety is the very spice of life,” and “Not much the worse for wear," Cowper. “ Man proposes, but God disposes." Thomas a Kempis. Christopher Marlowe gave forth the invitation so often repeated by his brothers in a. less public way, “ Love me little, love me long.” Edward Ooke was of the opinion that a "-men’s house is his castle." To Milton we owe ” The Paradise of fools,” “ A wilderness of sweets " and “ Moping melanoholyjnd moonstruok madness.” Dryden saysâ€"“None but; the brave' deserve the fair,” “ Men are but children of a. larger growth.” and “ Through thick and thin.” ‘1 O! twb evils I have ohbséxi the least," and " The and must justin the means," are from Matthew Prior. “ When Greek bins Greek. then was the tug 9_f_war,” Ngulypiel Le_e, 1692.7 “ All Ery ail'd nu wool” isflfound in But- ler’s “ Hudibms.” Thomas Tagger, a. writer in the sixteenth c'eunury, gives us “ Better late than never,“ “ Look are you leap." and “The stone that is :01ljpg can gghher no moss.” Lee. “ First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens " (not countrymen), appeared in the resolutions presented to the House of Representatives, in December, 1720, prepared by Gen.Henry -r_r Charlie Pinokey gives “ Millions for defegoe, hint nob one cent for tribute.” Washington Irving gives “ The almighty dollar.” Thomas Murgan queried long agoâ€" “ What will Mrs. Grundy say 7" while Goldsmith answers, " Ask no_questiona and I'll tell you no fibs.” Familiar Sayings, and “’l-o First Said Them. Many of our common sayings, so tribe and pithy, are used wibhoub the leash idea from whose pen or month they first origi- nated. Probably the words 0! Shakspear‘b furnish us with more of these familiar maxims than any other writer, {or to him we owe “ All is not gold that glitters,” “ Make a. Virtue of necessity.” “ Screw your courage to the sticking place" (not point). “ They laugh that win," " This is the short. and long of it,” ” Comparisons are odious,” “ As merry as the day is long,“ “ A Daniel come to judgment,” “ Frailty, thy name is woman,” and a. host of others. At the wedding of the Duke of Bucking- ham and Miss Grshemwll/Icntgomery, the other day, the bridesmaids’ dresses were composed of white brooeded satin, trimmed with dark blue velvet and lace. and they wore small blue velvet hats, with shaded wings. Esch‘wore a breech of dark blue enamel and pearls, with monogram in diamonds, and carried a large bouquet of lilies of the valley, gifts of the bridegroom. On the same day the bridesmaids of Miss Passe, who was married to Viscount Lymington, wore dresses of cream Indian muslin, trimmed with ruby velvet,over~ skirts of satin merveilleux, trimmed with Mulines lace, the drapery being looped with bows of ruby velvet ribbon, and straw Amazon hats trimmed with ruby velvet and cream feathers. Eeoh wore a gold locket as a, memento of the event, and car- ried a bouquet of pink azaleas, the gifts of the bridegroom Mrs. (Speaker) rdfil‘isle, lavender satin with train of cloth 0! gold and from of pegrlbeads. with a. long train edged with tiny plsited ruffles. The low waist V shaped beak and front was 'edged with narrow folds of the silk and ruched with point lace, held up- right by 9. narrow satin ribbon. The sleeves were short, and displayed a prettily rounded arm. covered above the elbow with long white gloves. She wore a. bend of black velvet about her throat. Her oorsage was. held by glittering stones. Mrs. (Vine-President) Hendricks, a Parisian robe of heavy satin, the troni) a mess of crystal and peer] paeeemenheriee of shrimp pink satin. The sides were laid in rich folds and the revere joining the long train were lined with pink. The orna- ments were diamonds. The Costumes Worn a! the ihafigilratlon Bull null m Big‘EngllsllrW‘éddlhfila The toilettes oi! the ladiesiin“ both «the Presidential parties at the rebent inaugura- tion in Washington were exeepfiionably elegant. Miss Cleveland (sister of the President) wore a. robe of white surah silk with along train edged with tiny visited We ardjnglabbed tq galls grape: to e Prnnnkln ind-A ‘ . l5._A_,,) m; LL.::~ Selling Cats tor “ Scotch flares.” DRESSES INUPPBB Tubman.