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Some Herculean Work for the Provincial Health Board. A Quebec despatch says: The recent out. break and ravages of diphtheria at Levis are more than accounted for by the state- ments communicated by a resident of the place. Some time ago the authorities re- moved all the bodies interred in the old Levis Cemetery to a new one. Curiosity in some instances and accident, or the work of exhumation in others, caused the open- ing of the coffins removed, and crowds of children were permitted to gather around and to peer into the receptacles of the dead, despite the stench arising from the decomposed remains. A merchant of the lace who lately lost a child by diphtheria ept the body two or three days in the house, which was open as usual for the neighbors and children to visit and pray around the corpse. When told the risk that he was causing his own family and that of his neighbors to run, the bereaved father sim 1y replied that if others were to die of the disease it Was the will of the good God, and could not be helped. Four little boys carried the coffin to the grave, and a few days later another child was buried from the same house. Rescuing parties were speedily formed and the search for the dead and injured began. Strange as it may seem, only one fatality has been reported,but a large num- ber are seriously injured. Among the wounded are : Mary Lone, right hip broken ; James Blackmore. hurt in the back ; Mrs. Biackmore, several ribs broken; Mrs, James Sheldon, three ribs broken; Mrs. Thomas Birdwell, badly cut by flying glass; Mrs. Hattie Reaschon. an aged widow, struck over the eye with a brick and badly injured. A tramp who was sleeping on scar near the powder house was fatally injured. The number of minor casualties will reach 100. There were forty- five dwellings almost totally demolished, end there is not a plate-glass left in the business part of the city. It is impossible at this time to estimatethe loss, but it will probably reach 3100.000. Mrs. Dingwall Fordyce. widow of the former proprietor of Brucklay, died a few days ago at Blairgowrie. The will of the late Mr. J. Graham, of Skelmorlie, has been registered. The amount bequelthed is over £300,000. The death is announced at Edinburgh of Mrs. Livingston, of Drumsynie, Argvllshire, 3 great grand-daughter of Flora Macr domld. Victoria. Public Park, Partick, was opened on the 2nd inst. by Sir Andrew Maclean, Provost of the burgh. A new park was also opened at Coatbridge. Mrs. D. O. Hill’s statue of Burns at Dumfries has been lifted from its pedestal, which is to be heightened so as to enhance the effect of the colossal figure. One of the markers at the butts at the Aberdeen Wspinschaw, a private in the Gordon Highlanders, was on the 5th July killed by a bullet which glanced off the target. Powder House Struck by Lightningâ€"Great Deltructlon of Property. A Streator, Ill., deepatch asys : The powder house of the C. W. dz V. Coal Com- puny wee struck by lightning at 2.30 a.m., cunning a terrible explosion. killing one man and wounding many. and demolishing all the property for blocks around it. There was not a window left unbroken within half I mile of the explosion. Not a. vestige of the powder house remains. while where it stood in an excavation about sixty feet long, forty feet wide and twenty feet deep. Alex. Adams. who started to walk on stilts from Dundee to London, was brought to mother earth with grief and an injured leg, through a collie attacking his stilts at Stirling. The Duke of Buccleuch is about to erect nmemorial to his son, the late Earl of Dalkeith, on the spot. on the hillside at Achnacurry, Invernessmhire, where the lamented young nobleman lost his life in the autumn of last year. The King of Saxony arrived at the Alexi» nndra Hotel. Edinburgh, on the 30th ult., nccompanied by the Earl of Hopetoun. After seeing the sights and visiting Forth Bridge he left for the Highlands. Rev. Dr. Burns, Kirklieton, was enter- tained to dinner in Darling’s Hotel, Edin- burgh. recently. by the Free Church Pres- bytery of Linli¢hgow, and presented with an address, on occgsionpf his jubilee. D. Thomson, Bervie, Kincardineshire, has been giving Alex. Orchardson, Grange, a thanking. for trying to take his sweet- heart sway from him, and the Shel-if)c said he likely “ got no more than he deserved,” and so let Thomson off with an admonition. Mr. W. H. Smith said he regretted that he was unable to accept Sir Julian Gold- smid's advice. Dr. Tanner had offered no explanation of his failure to attend the House last Monday when the matter was first brought up. Parliament must mark its sense of his misconduct in some manner. If a month’s suspension was too long, the term of suspension would be shortened. The acreage of Edinburgh is stated at 6,002. end the length of the streets 130 miles. There are 42,413 inhabited houses. Fifty constables are employed in special duties, Ind 433 in ordinary duties. The total cost of the policeis £45,049. but £1,982 is receist for specisl services. Mr. Patrick O’Hea (Home Ruler for West Donegnl) said he was also present and that he heard Mr. Long Bay, “ That was a nice sell you got.” Mr.O’Hea added thlt Dr. Tsnner was jeered at by Mr. Long and his comrades. Messrs. Emerge Hafizkesworthe Bond and Jlmes Bigwood (Conservatives) confirmed his statement. Bi? Julian Goldsmid (Liberal-Unionist) urggd that the Hpqae 1912 {he matter dÂ¥rop. Mr. Long 32039 and denied Dr. Tanner’s statements, declaring he did not make use olihe Illegfd wordg 920m 3 sq“. “ A last (Thursday) night‘s London cable says: Dr. Tanner (Home Ruler) appeared before the House of Commons this after- noon in obedience to its summons. to ex plain the charge made by Mr. Long (Canâ€" servetive), that the doctor had in the lobby and in the presence of several members called Mr. Long a “ â€"â€"â€" snob,” and used other improper language. Dr. Tanner said he regretted the trouble the House had been put to about the matter. Mr. Long’s manner and language when he approached‘ him (Dr. Tanner) were part of an arrange- ment to annoy him. Mr. Long twice importuned him, and said in reference to his exclusion from the division (a matter over which he was still very sensitive), "Tth was a nice sell you got.” Dr. Tanner said he was sorry for replying to Mr. Long as he did, and withdrew the indecorous expressions. The following is the inscription on the monument at Kinghom to Alexander 111.: “ To the illustrious Alexander 111., the last of Scotland's Celtic kings, who was acci- dentally killed near this spot, March XIX, Mcclxxxvi. Erected on the sex-centenary of his death.” Lord Palmerston used to say that one of his best services to the country was the pur- chue of the camp ground at Aldershot for fifteen pounds per acre. Since then. and largely n n consequence of the establish- ment of the camp. land at Aldershot has been sold at the rate of a thonund poundl on .0". Dr. Tanner Explains to the Commons Whv He Used “Cuss” Words. DIPHTHERIA AT LEVIS. THE GREAT EXPLOSION. Late Scotch News. EPISODE. Buflalo Bill and his entire troop of Indians attended church the other day in full war paint. It is proposed to import a supply of pom- pano for introduction into British waters. At the laying of the foundation stone of the Imperial Institute the Queen used glasses in public for the first time. The lenses were no larger than a. shilling piece and set in a plain bit of tortoise shell. Mr. Chamberlain is not. well. He is get- ting too fat. Orientalism is to replace J apaneseism in decoration. Tandems are on the increase in London A new tandem club has been started. Some of the most aristocratic houses in London decorated their balconies on the day of the Jubilee with carpets, rugs and colored bed-quilts. Its Symptoms and its Best Method of Treatment. A physician gives some valuable and sea- sonable information about sunstroke. During the hot weather, when exposed to the sun, headache, giddiness, nausea and disturbance of sight, accompanied with great prostration of the physical forces, are indications that sunstroke is probably im- minent. The best plan is to immediately retire to a cool place and apply some sim- ple restoratives as aromatic ammonia, and it can no doubt be prevented. Those ex- hausted with the heat have a cool, moist skin, a rapid, weak pulse and respiration movement, and the pupil is dilated. Im- mediate unconsciousness frequently results from heat apoplexy, and is likely to prove fatal. Hot foot baths, bleeding. etc., is the best treatment in such cases. In thermic fever the patient is unconscious and con- vulsed, and the body temperature may be 10 0 above the normal state, and the skin is very hot. An application of ice to the head and cold water to the body is the best treatment, as the object is to cool the body immediately. It is always best to obtain medical advice in serious cases. A French philosopher shows that Alsace- Lorraine should really belong to France. for the reason that there are many more brunettes than blondes there, and hence it is more French than German. The casualties of the Jubilee procession foot up about six hundred. Three hun- dred were cases of fainting, over twenty of sunstroke. There were several broken legs, arms and collar bones, and disloca- tions. Some people suffered concussion of the brain, some had their chests crushed. and others were kicked by horses. Round the Globe in Sixty-Nine Days. A London cable says : The Timrs today announces that a copy of one of its issues has made the circuit of the globe in sixty- nine days. Its journey was made ‘via the Suez Canal route to Yokohama, and thence to London via the Canadian Pacific line and Atlantic connections. This is the shortest time in which the circuit has been made under the British flag. Influential metropolitan and Provincial journals con- tinue to urge the importance of the recog- nition of the Canadian route to the East. The press is practically unanimous in favor of a subsidy to the Canadian service. An Instrument 'l‘hnt “'ill Tell a Woman’s Exact Age. At the French Academy of Medicine, according to a cablegram, Dr. Javalpre~ sented an optometer recently made by Dr. George J. Bull, son of Mr. Richard Bull, of this city, who has attained a high position in his profession in the Old World. The design of the optometer, which it is un» necessary to describe in scientific language, is to enable an oculist to tell instantaneously what glasses are required by far-sighted or nearâ€"sighted persons. The inventor has had in regard to it a peculiarly happy idea, especially suited for French practitioners and patients. The figures marked upon the graduated scale at which the subject has to look through a lens or a simple aperture, according to the more or less deteriorated condition of his eyes, appear, when the instrument is held as one would hold a sheet of paper, to be a series of irregular, elongated figures, but when viewed through the aperture with the optometer held as one would hold a teles- cope they resolve themselves into small dominoes. These dominoes are arranged in such a way that the sum of the dots on the furthest domino seen indicates the degree of far or near sightedness, while the number of dominos distinguished indicates the focusing power of the eye examined. There is another extraordinary feature about this instrument. The focusing power of the eye diminishes as age advances, the change commencing in early childhood. This axiom has been borne in mind and applied to drawing up a column of figures along the line of dominos. As soon as any one tells the number of figures he or she sees distinctly, his or her age is revealed beyond dispute. The laboratory of Sor- bonne charged itself with some expensive engraving necessary for perfecting Dr. Bull’s instrument. Those Dear Horses. A London cable save : The statement by the War Secretary in the House of Com- mons on Tuesday night, that the Govern- ment had decided to purchase no more Canadian horses for the army owing to the price, show that the influence of the county members and the agricultural societies, in favor of using the home supply, have pre- vailed. It is thought here that the Canadian Government could meet the objection as to cost by initiating horse fairs at recognized centres, so that the expenses of officers in scouring Canada for good animals might be avoided. Together in Death. A Providence, R.I., despatch says: Giles Luther, an aged resident in the outskirts of Warren, left his invalid wife at 11 o‘clock last night to get a neighbor to go to town for a. doctor, as Mrs. Luther was failing. On his return he walked into the Kickimuit River. four feet deep at that place, and, be. ing much fatigued and partially blind, was unable to get out. Searching parties found his body this morning. and his wife died while they were bringing it into the house. Lonely Jacob’s Ladder. 0n Mount Whitney, the highest moun- tain in California. at a. level 14,000 feet above the sea. and 1,500 feet above the tim» her line, where there is no soil and no moisture save snow and hail and ice, there grows a little flower shaped like a bell flower. gaudy in colors of red, purple and blue. It is called Jacob’s Ladder, and itl fragrance partakes of the White jasmine. It blooms alone, for it not only has no floral associate, but there is no creature, not even a bird or insect, to keep it company.» Eureka (Nan) Sentinel. VOL XIX Latest Old London Gossip. A TEST FOR THE EYE. SUNSTROKE. A mother writes : ” Once a week invari- ably, and it was generally when we had cold meat minced, I gave the children a dinner, which was hailed with delight and looked forward to ; this was a dish of boiled onions. The little things knew not that they were taking the best of medicines for repelling what most children sufier fromâ€" worms. Mine were kept free by this remedy alone. Not only boiled onions for dinner, but chives also were they encour- aged to eat with their bread and butter, and for this purpose they had tufts of the chives in their little gardens. It was a medical man who taught me to eat boiled onions as a specific for a cold in the chest. He did not know at the time till I told him that they were good for anything else." The above appeared in the Lancaster Nyw Era, and having fallen under the eye of an experienced physician of that county, he writes as follows : The ‘Vay the Wife of the Young Chinese Emperor Was Chosen. In the San Francisco Chronicle of July 3rd wasthe following : The Chinese resi- dents of this city were somewhat anxiously awaiting the arrival of news relating to the approaching nuptials of His Imperial Majesty Kwong Suey, “ Son of Heaven ” and " Lord of Ten Thousand Years,” etc. A despatch received in this city yesterday announced that a bride had been selected for the young Emperor, and that $5,000,000 would be expended in the celebration of the most auspicious event. As soon as it becomes known when the imperial affair will take place the Emperor’s wealthy and loyal citizens of this city will prepare for the proper observance of the event. The day will be made a holiday, the dragon flag will be floated, feasting made the order of business, and perhaps a procession and other exercises will be held. But as yet the date of the marriage remains with the fates, which the astrologers of the Empire must divine. The first ceremony of betrothal has now been observed. This is the choice of the bride. A Chinese Empress is not chosen for nobility of family or reputation, although generally she is taken from the nobility. Her per- sonal beauty is the almost exclusive re» quirement. The mother of Hien Fung, a former Empress, kept a fruit-stall. The Emperor himself has nothing whatever to do with the selection of the Empress. The present Empress-Dowager, who isavery able woman, and who has reigned as Regent, some time ago issued an edict through the Pekin Gazette that the Em- peror should marry, and set a date when a reception should be held to candidates for the high honor. 0n the appointed day the Mongolian papas and mammas took their fairest daughters to the Empress’ palace. The Empress, with her ladies, then chose} the handsomest virgin. She should be Empress.‘ But the Emperor is also legally entitled to eight Queens. Consequently eight other handsome virgins were chosen to fill these high offices. The personality of these selections has not reached this city, but the next mail is expected to fur- nish the particulars. It is now the duty of the Imperial Board of Astrologers to consult the stars and determine the lucky day when, if the marriage takes place, all will be well. If it does not go well all will go wrong with the astrologers. They are consequently very careful, and consult the stars and various deities favorable to matrimony. The date of the marriage being discovered, other ceremonies ensue, such as the presentation of 100 cakes to the Empress-elect. If the Emperor should die before the wedding takes place it would be quite the proper thing for the fiancee to commit suicide. At any rate, she must go and live at the palace and remain a virgin. When she is 61 years of age she will be rewarded by the reverence of her relatives. The Emperor Kwong Suey, from all ac- counts, is a commendable young man, and has considerable influence with Confucius and theothergods. On May 4th,forinstance, he prayed for rain, the China papers re- late. On May 13th it rained. All China fell down on its knees to express thanks for the beneficent hearing of Kwong Suey’s petition. Suey was born in 1871, and was crowned at the age of 4. He is the son of the seventh brother of the Emperor pre~ ceding the last. It is expected that after his marriage the Empress Dowager will hand over the reins of government entirely to Suey. “The above ought to be published in letters of gold and hung up beside the table, so that the children could read it, and remind their parents that no family ought to be without onions the whole year round. Plant old onions in the fall, and they will come up at least three weeks earlier in the spring than by spring plant- ing. Give children of all ages a few of them raw, as soon as they are fit to be eaten ; do not miss treating them with a mess of raw onions three or four times a week. \Vhen they get too large or too strong to be eaten raw, then boil or roast them. During unhealthy seasons, when diphtheria and likecontagious diseases pre- vail, onions ought to be eaten in the spring of the year at least once a week. Onions are invigorating and prophylactic beyond description. Further. I challenge the medical fraternity, or any mother, to point out a place where children have died from diphtheria or scarlatina enginosa, etc., where onions were freely used.” 0 Farm . 0 Practical Knowledge. 0 Experience. CAPITAL STOCK END OF TEN YEARR 0 Experience. 0 Practical Knowledge. 0 Fan]: . 0 Money 0 Conceit. A Boston girl entered Manville’s store yes- terday, and stepping up to Ed. Manville, said : “ I would like to purchase a diminutive feline intestine prepared expressly for a bunjpgxeph."_ It is only within the past 500 years that women have danced publicly with men. Italy first began the custom, but the Church condemned it. “She; got a. fiddle string at once.”â€"â€" Whitehall Times. Money A BRIDE FOR BEAVEN'S SON. The City Man as a Farmer. (From Our Country Home.) Got There Just the Same. CAPITAL STOCK FIRST YEAR. Don‘t Despise Onions. RICHMOND HILL THURSDAY, AUGUBT 4, 1887. An addition of 339 was made last year to the membership of the Irish Methodist Church. DIilk Preservation. Pure air is indispensable for the preser- vation of milk and the plaCe where milk is kept should be as free from taints of all kinds as possible. A writer in the Country Gentleman has found the common moulds in cellars to sour milk quickly and to pro- duce the special fungi found upon sour milk~a blue mould and a bright red one, which is much like the round cluster cups of rust in form. As mould and mildew are abundant in damp confined places, and cel- lars are usually close and damp, they are not suitable places for keeping milk in. The easiest way to keep milk sweet is to bottle it, using a perfectly clean bottle, and to plunge the bottle in a vessel of cold water ; or if there is an open well, to hang it in the well near the surface of the water. If the bottle is set, with the cork or cover loose, in a pot of cold water and this is then brought to a boiling heat, the milk, if quite sweet, will then keep a week if immediately closed up and kept in a cool, airy place. An ice closet is not a good place for keeping milk on account of its dampness, which causes a disagreeable odor and impure air. A refrigerator may be purified most effect» ively and the air kept dry and sweet by keeping some fresh quicklime on a plate in it. The lime will absorb oneâ€"third of its weight of water and thus dry the air and greatly increase the effect of the coolness of the ice. Latest from Ireland. Rev. Thomas Waugh is conducting another evangelistic campaign in Belfast. A circular has been issued to the Royal Irish Constabulary conceding special favors to them in connection with the Queen’s Jubilee. In consequence of the great scarcity of water in Belfast, caused by absence of rain for nearly six weeks, several large spinning mills have partially ceased working. Mr. Justice Harrison, in opening the Kildare Assizes on the 7th July, congratu. lated the Grand Jury on the state of the county. There was nothing in the statis- tics of the county, or in any of the returns, that called for special remark. Mrs. Kennedy. who has just finished her honeymoon, was bathing in a lake at Moyree, County Clare, with several comâ€" panions, when she suddenly disappeared and was drowned. At Cara Lake, near Glenbigh, three cattle drovers bathed in a lake at the side of the road. Their clothes not having been removed a considerable time afterwards, a Search was instituted and their dead bodies were recovered. “ I looked around, but could see no rock anywhere. The wreck was cleared away that night, and there wasn’t the sign of an obstruction near the locomotive. We all were curious to find out what had caused the trouble. The next night a railroad man went to the out, and there in the moonlight he saw a perfect image of a big rock lying across the track. He looked up on the hillside, and there was a big rock throwing its shadow down on the track that caused a wreck that cost the company thousands of dollars. No, sir ; if an engiâ€" neer wants things to suit him. he don’t want moonlight by which to run his train.” Slow Starvation. Rev. D. Frank Culley, missionary to Labrador coast of the Society for the Pro pagation of the GospelI has published a letter in the St. John’s (Nfld.) Illm'cury, in which a painful account of the slow star- vation of the people is detailed. He cites instances where villages had to subsist on rock cod for months; where men Walked hundreds of miles for flour and could only get one barrel. Mr. Blake has been transferred from the Governorship of the Bahamas to that of Newfoundland. Only a few years back Mr. Blake was an humble sub-inspector of Irish constabulary, and he has certainly played his cards well. From the day he married Miss BernalOsborneâ€"the Duchess of St. Alban’s sisterâ€" his life has been one sne- cession of leaps up the ladder of fame. The late Mr. Bernal-Osborne was furious at his daughter’s marriage with the “ green peeler,” as he contemptuously termed him, but had he lived to see the progress his son. in-law was destined to make in the world, he would probably have been more than reconciled to the match. Mr. Blake is cerâ€" tainly a rising man, and one of the big governorships will assuredly be his in due course.-â€"London Life. The Princess of Wales is having a cart built specially for tandem driving. The Princess is an admirable whip. ” No, sir; in engineers dread moonlight nights; they try the nerves of the engineers to the utmost. lngineers like to run on dark nights. On a moonlight night the trouble with them is no trouble at allâ€"â€" shadows. An engineer, looking out from his engine sees before him all manner of shadows. He is sure that the shadow across the track is a man, or a rock, or some kind of an obstruction. He doesn’t know, and he is kept in a state of nervous excitement all the time. Going around curves, along hillsides, very curious shadows are outlined around the track, and very often an engineer is so worked up over a night’s ride that he is scarcely able to perform his duties. Some years ago, when I was going over the main stem of the Baltimore & Ohio one night, there was a freight wreck ahead of us. They were running freight in convoys then, or as we now call them in sections. Our train was stopped and I went forward to see what was the damage. Lying in a. cut was about the worst freight wreck I have ever seen. I went forward to see what the trouble was. It was a moonlight night and when I got forward I saw the engineer. He was shaking all over with excitement. He was one of the oldest and best engi- neers on the road, and I was surprised to see him so nervous, as he escaped unhurt.” ” ‘ \Vhat is the trouble, Tom ‘2’ I asked him. I could see nothing wrong." “ ‘ It was a rock,’ replied Tom. ‘ I was coming round the curve when 1 saw it. It was a big one ; big enough to smash a whole train. I reversed the engine to avoid a smash up, and the cars coming down the grade just piled up in the shape you see them.’ “ I woufd have thought that men would be glad to have nights,” interpgsed the writer. _ \‘Vhat Happened to a Train on a Moonlight Night. ” Moonlight nightsâ€"they are the bane of railroad engineers,” remarked a, head offi- cial of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to 21 Cincinnati (lonnnorcial Gazette reporter. He is a gentleman who knows every branch of railroading. A Lucky Sub-Inspector of Police. THE BANE ()F ENGINEERS. the train- moonlight \Vhen Junk salutes Jenny, though miles apart, then the jubilee of noisy affection begins. It is an infernal 0011(1el‘t,§t11101‘0118, jocund and ear-benunibing. It starts with an exaggerated ease of asthma. (Laughâ€" ter.) This r:prs your soul. The beast loses, then catches its breath with a harsh, squeukish sibilation, until a roar as of forty hungry lions comes toits relief. (Laughter) All the powers of \Vheezy, whistling, gasp- ing suction are exhausted. Then follow terrific expii-utions of the bellowing inonsv ter. (Laughter) Suction and emissionâ€" repeated with “ dumnuble itomtion ” ~ until the noise dies out in an agony unutter- able. 1 used to hear when a boy the creek- ing of the unmrred wheels of the Conestoga Waggon from Pennsylvania. 1 have lately heard the screaming shadoof, turned by blind buffalos, pumping the Nile upon the fruitful land of .l‘lgypt, but never before 01' since have I heard such it diabolical concert as this bruying of the donkeys of l’rinhipos. In a house on the Boulevard Napoleon of Toulouse, a woman locked up her money in a desk and went out shopping ; on her return she missed three napoleons, a gold five-franc piece and a franc in silver. There was no trace of a burglary. Very much bewildered by these losses, the good woman was deep in reflection over the matter when she heard a roar of laughter from her neighbor’s garden. “Oh, the thief l” cried several persons at once. “ “There has he stolen this ’2” The dame descended instantly, ran out and said : ” 0h 1 my money, messieurs; where is the thief?” “ He is up a tree, madame,” pointing up to a monkey in a high branch above them, “ but here is the money !" The monkey, who certainly would be an in» valuable assistant to a burglar, had been seen to climb into the window of one of the good lady’s rooms, had unlocked a drawer, found the money and, concealing,r it in his jowl, had brought it to his master. 1 find that no less an authority than Button de» clares that a female chimpanzee who went out to service at Loango made the beds, swept the house and so far assisted in the cooking as to turn the Spit. M. de Grand- pre, an officer of the French navy, tells of another chimpanzee, on board a French man-ofâ€"war, which assists the cook and turns the capstan and furls sail as well as any of the sailors. In China monkeys help in the tea picking, and Lord Monboddo used to gravely contend that apes could talk readily enough, but that their superior cunning told them to hold their tongues lest they should be put to hard work.“ Jim'rls Merv/try. Harry rrr'chx fiush it all ! (10m refused my offer of marriage last night, and I don’t care now what lmuomvs of me.» 'I‘irl Hits, An innocent Cheyenne mun wrote to a Denver sport_ the other day am] asked the question : “ How can a man get rich at poker 7” The sport promptly replied : " Don’t p0ke.”Aâ€"7I)e'm‘cr N'ws. The Danbury Nz’ufx says : Dr. Snow has a Very fine cat and a parrot. Both occupy prominent quarters in his office, the cat most of the time monopolizing his chair, and the parrot confined in a cage hangs beside a window. As is natural, the cat and parrot have become friends and take great interest in each other. The other day the doctor returned from his round of calls, and on entering his office was met by his cat, which seemed to be. evincing great uneasiness. She ran on before him and kept looking up and mewng ; she would advance a short distance ahead of him and then run back. The doctor concluded that she was hungry and went and procured a piece of meat and offered it to her. She refused to touch it, but kept up her run- ning back and forth. Finally she sprang upon the sill of the open window and looked out and mewed. This called the doctor to the window, and he looked out, and then discovered the cause of the cat‘s distress, the parrot, which was walking majestically about the yard in the grass. He had escaped from his cage and flown out of the window, and the cat was trying to tell her master about it. ‘ She succeeded by her sign lan~ guage. The parrot was easily captured and returned to his quarters. The nondolivcry of a telegram Sent from Manchester to Liclifield 8. week or so ago was attended by some amusing circum- stances. Some old tapestry was lent by Mr. Litchfield, an art dealer, to the Jubilee Exhibition, and, requiring the return of a certain panel, he particulnrized in his tole- gram by stating the size and subject, “ Venus and Adonis,” ending tlm message with Sondor’s name “ Lin-lillvld.” A Clark at onm replied to “ Venus and Arlonis, Liolilielr ,” and after making every effort to deliver the message, tliePost-Office officials were constrained to w1re back to Manchesâ€" tor that no Venus and Adonir“ could be found in the (:Ml’mli'al oily. I‘D/whim] liom'mr. Driven tn Desperation, JackflWhat‘ I Are you snmking cigar ettos ? Be it known that the isle is full of donkeys. They carry water and vegetablefi *and tourists-~np and down and over the mountains. I am not unfriendly to the donkey. He has a goofl name for patience and industry. I was fumiliurwit‘h them in and out of Congress. ,1 admire their courage. They can whip a California grizzly. ‘ Hon. . . 8. Cox Describes the Song of the Donkeys ol' l’rinkipos. The following is an extract from the Hon. S. S. Cox’s recent Tammany speech: ‘ Last summer it was my pleasure to live in one of the isles of the princes. It is called I’rinkipos. It is a few miles below Con- stantinople in the Sen of Mnrmora. It is a sort of Saratoga for pleasure and health seekers, set on a mountainous island of pinesâ€"e paradisefiâ€"a new South, bursting out of the old harried Propontis ! There was one drawback to the pleasures of l’rinkipos. The isle, like that of Slmks penre’s “Tempest,” was “full of strange iioisesl’inot the nightingale in the even- ing, nor the cocks at dawn, nor the shep- herds, nor the vendors of fish, nor the dry cicada, nor the limp of the American flag in front of our legation. These were pleasures, and they did not interrupt my morning dreams, but hark! when the sun paints in gold and purple the Asian mountains, I hear an equivocal sort of bruit. is it the distant thunder of {love from Mount Olympus, in sight of our isle? Is it the rolling of the lsmid train across the channel? It starts after! It approaches! It ism-No? Yes? It is the grand diapa» son of the jnolmsses. (Roars of prolonged laughter.) It frights the isle from its pl‘O» prietyi The Addr 5 of Venus and Adonis. How the Munkey Stole the Money A DIABOLICA L CONCERT. A Cat and :L Parrot. hund A (1 \‘il’(% WHOLE N0 1,510 N0. 14. “ Does Mr. Stirling live here ?” asked a mechanic of a woman he met at the door. ” Yes, sir.” “ I have come down to clean out his furnace". “ You’re just a littlet late ; the sheriff has just been here.” Attacked by a Steer. Mr. Andrew Aitken, of Paris station, was attacked by a steer on the road the other day. After dodging the first charge, Mr. Aitken made for the fence, but before he got there the wild steer was upon him, threw him to the ground, and began a savâ€" age attack on his prostrate form. Mr. Aitken is not only a courageous man but a man of cool nerve. He kept his presence of mind at this moment of deadly peril and managed by a series of quick movements to avoid a thrust from the long, sharp horns. Finally the opportunity he wanted arrived. Turning quickly on his back he grasped the nose of the beast as it made a blind hinge at him, and held it by the cartilage in a vice like grip. His extraordinary strength enabled him to retain his hold, which he increased with the other hand, and so he held the steer until the drover got a rope and tied its horns to its fore leg. Wednesday, Auuust 3rd. ' civic holiday. ° ' ls Brantford’g A romantic wedding took place at Ed- wardsville, 111., the other day, when Prof. James 0. Duncan, of Vandalia, a widower, was married to Mrs, Lillie Carroll, of Springfield, a widow. The marriage was the culmination of a series of coincidents in the lives of the wedded pair. The Rev. J. B. Thompson, who performed the cereâ€" mony, officiated in the same capacity at Prof. Duncan’s first marriage and also at Mrs. Carroll’s first marriage, and preached the funeral sermon at the death of Prof. Duncan’s Wife and at the death of Mrs. Carroll’s husband. It was this strange fatality of circumstances which induced the couple to seek again the services of Mr. Thompson. ‘ Later onHMr. Aston argued that a dress 1mprover was virtually the same as a gur- ter. His Ilordshivaery well, Mr. Aston, I can see I shall want a jury of matrons on this case before it is done.â€"Pull JlIaII Gawtln. A young German carpenter was married Le a pretty Bohemian girl in Omaha the other day after a six months’ courtship, which must have been conducted entirely in pantomime, as neither can speak a word of the other language. The services of an interpreter were needed at the altar, but the young couple seemed as happy as if they had talked sweet nothings into each other’s ears all their lifetime. Four years ago Willie Noland, then aged €),ran away from his home in this city, bent on striking out for himself. His family made every effort to locate him, but without avail. His brother, Mr. Richard Noland, of the Montreal House, never, however, gave up the search, and as late as Wednesday last wrote to a friend in the States inquiring if he had seen or heard anything of the adventurous lad. By a strange coincidence the youngster turned up at the hotel yesterday~well dressed, healthy and with more than ” $15 in his inside pocket.” The joy attending the re- union between the two brothers may be imagined. Young Noland has been all over the continent since he left Toronto, having got into the circus business. His presence in the city at this time is due to the fact that he is travelling with Burk’s show as a contortionist. His professional name is Willie Leroux, and his perform- anoes are wonderfully clever. There was a happy time at the Montreal House last night over the lost having been found.â€" Toronto World. His Lordshipâ€"It is one which when a lady sits down plays the National Anthem. (Giro,th laughter.) Is a Bustle a Garter? Mr. Justice Kekewich was occupied yes- terday with the hearing of an action relat- ing to patents in dress improvers. The court was strewn with various specimens of these articles, and considerable amuse- ment was caused by the spectacle of a judge and several leading counsel, includ» ing the Attorney-General, arguing gravely on the intricacies of the various designs for dress improv S. Mr. Justice Kekewich, after looking at several designs, said : I hope you are going to produce another of these articles, Mr. Aston, which I do not see here. It is called the Jubilee. (Laughter) Mr. Astonâ€"I havé nevBr hedrd of it, my Lord. His Lords}1ipâ€"â€"Do you mean that seri- ously. Mr. AstonWYes 1&0, my Lord. They are the same, though not in size. A Toronto Boy‘s Romantic. Adventures. Spectacles were first used in the latter part of the thirteenth century. There is no certainty as to who was the inventor of them, but the distinction is generally claimed for Alessandra. di Spmn, who is said to have made some about 1285. The first London directory was printed in 1677, and contained sixty-four pages, with the names of 1,790 persons or firms. ~~Lzmdo11 IdJ‘Change. The first nav-igéble éanal in England was made in 1134, when Henry I. joined the Trent to the VVitham. \Voollen cloth was first made in England in 12-13], though its making is one of the most ancient arts. It was not dyed or dressed by Englishmen until 1667. Cricket was first played about the year 1300. It was then and for a long time afterwards known as “ club ball.” The first voyage around the world was made in the Vittoria, a ship which formed part; of the expedition that sailed under Mmgnllans in 1519. Pens were first used in the seventh cen- tury. They were, of course, quills, and steel pens did not come into use until 1820, when the first gross of them was sold whole- sale for £7 43. The quality of these pens was greatly inferior to that of those for which we now pay Sixpence a, gross. Handkerchiefs-were first manufactured atrl’aisleyr in 1743. Poshoffices were first known in England as early as 1581, and exactly one hundred years later a penny post was introduced for London and its suburbs by an upholsterer named Murray. The first geographical map of England Wigs: lTlflidG i1} fihg year 1520. “'hon Coins, Maps, Pens and Other Popuâ€" lar Things Wei-e New. The first coining of money is attributed to Pheidon, King of Argos, in 895 BC. Coined money was first use& in London twenty-five years before the Christian era, but gold was not coined here till the eleventh century, and money was not given the round form to which we are accustomed until the lapse of another hundred years or so. THE BEGINNING OF THINGS. Two nIidsunlmer Love Stories. 7‘ D6 you know, my dear,” he said to his Wife, ” I‘m really becoming quite well known here. The undertaken bow to me already.” Knew Their Friends. A young physician who had recently hung out his sign came home one day in higllspirita: A farmer stood at the Ithaca gas well yesterday and sadly declared it was just ruining Bible prophecy to dig such things. On being asked to explain he said: “ If the oil and gas is all pumped out of the earth, don’t it stand to reason that there will be nothing left inside for the final burning up of the world. It is just spoil- ing Bible prophecy, and ought to be stop- ped.”â€"~Elmim Gazette. Cute John. Chinumen entertain very exalted ideas of justice. The other day a citizen, who left a shirt at a Chinese laundry to be washed and dressed, was told when he went to get it that it had been lost. The Celestial washermsn said he mi ht, perhaps, find the missing article some ay. “ But I want it now," said the owner. “ Belly good. Don’t be nflaid,” was the reply. “ If I no find shirtee, you no pay for washee.”â€"-Toronto Mail. The Queen of Portugal wore a scarlet satin dress, trimmed with lace of s combi- nation of cream and gold. Her train had on each side down a border of gold and scarlet silk brocade; her neck and arms were covered with diamonds, and sapphires of enormous size, like gems, were pendant from her ears. On her head she wore an aigrette of scarlet feathers. with diamond stars among the hair, which was gathered Very high up.-â€"-Parz’s Register. George Johnson, aged 78, died at the Bristol Town Farm on Sunday. He was an interesting character, his chief notoriety being in his effort to perfect perpetual motion. He became so engaged in this sub- ject about 40 years ago, at the time of the perpetual motion craze, that his mind he- came unbalanced, and since that time he contrived several ingenious devices which are curiosities. Mr. Johnson wasame- ehanic of more than common skill in the use of tools, yet he was never able to use his ability to accumulate any property.â€" Hartford Times. A Jubilee Story. Two Scotch fishwives in London were talking about the Jubilee the other day. “ Eh, wumman,” said one to the other, “ can ye tell me what a jubilee is, for I hear a' the folk spakin‘ aboot it ?” “ Ou, ay," replied the other, “ I can tell ye that ; ye see, when a. man and a wumman has been marrit for five-und-twenty yenr,thnt’s n. siller weddin'; and when they’ve been marrit for fifty year that’s a gouden wad~ din’; but when the man’s deed, that's a jubilee l” Giles Busby, a Toledo fishmonger, was cleaning a white fish last Monday. and in the larger intestines of the fish he found a diamond ring. The ring had engraved upon its inner surface “J. A. B., Chicago, ’69.” Busby forwarded the ring to the Chief of Police in this city. Yesterday Mrs. Julia A. Lennox, of 12 Lennox place, identified and recovered the ring. She tells an interesting story of its loss. In 1869 she, as Miss Bennett, became engaged to Mr. Lennox. and he gave her this diamond ring, for which he paid $450. Upon their bridal trip in 1871 Mrs. Lennox lost this ring ; while she was washing her hands in the toilet room of the Pullman car the ring slipped from her finger and dropped through the waste pipe. As the train happened to be crossing the bridge over the St. Law- rence River, near Montreal, just at that time the bereaved bride had no hope of re- covering the ring. There are no white fish in the St. Lawrence; the theory is that a small fish seized upon the ring, and that at some future time this small fish, while cruising about the lakes, fell a prey to the white fish in which the long-lost ring was discovered. Giles Busby, the Toledo fishmongor, received from Mr. Len- nox a check for 35100 for his honestyâ€"Chi- rago News. Oh, the drums were heard and the pic’ colo note, as the circus up-town paraded, and the shormofi mule and whiskered goat and the elephant umber shaded. I followed it calmly at early morn, my work and my labors spurning, and I harked to the sound of a rusty horn with a wild and unhallowed yearning. Few and short were the tunes they played, and they paused not at all to monkey ; so I slowly followed the route they made at the heels of the lop-eared donkey. I bought up a seat at the show that night. andlooked at the limber woman, who tied herself in a knot so tight she seemed more like hemp than human. And I eagerly looked at the wondrousbloke who swallowed some cotton blazing, and blew from his nostrils a cloud of smoke till I thought he was sheol raising. And I watched the clown as he ran and rolled and stood in a dozen poses, and worked off a string of jokes so old they came from the time of Mosesâ€"Atvhison (Kain) Globe. A passenger who arrived here last even- ing from Sarnia tells of a startling tragedy that took place in that town yesterday. It would seem that a carpenter named Frank Howard has recently been paying marked attentions to a Miss Lafarge, whose friends are said to live in Tilbury Centre. Matters finally came to a crisis, and the pair were to have been married yesterday at the Farmers’ Hotel in Sarnia. All the prepa- rations were made, the would-be bride, the witnesses and the clergyman were on time, but the bridegroom was missing. After waiting for a considerable time a general search was instituted, and the dead body of Howard was found suspended by a. rope to one of the beams in the barn on the hotel premises. It was evidently a case of suicide, the motive for which has not yet transpiredâ€"London Advertiser. A Sarnia Man Prefers Death to Matrimony. A Life W‘asted on Perpetual Motion. How do we buildâ€"what can we show Fur hours and days and years of toil ? Is the foundation firm below ? ls it on rock or sandy soil? Is there a. block of stainless white Within the monumental wall, 011 which the sculptured skill can write “ He builded well; so should we all I " The hand that lifts the fallen up. That heals a heart, or binds a. wound, That gives the needed crust and cup, 19 building upon solid ground. Our building must be good or bad; In words we speak, in deeds we do; On sand 01' granite must be laid The shaft that shows us false or true‘ 'l‘lm carven statue turns to dust, And nimble obelisks decay ; Jiut deeds of pity, faith and trust N0 storms of fate can sweep away. Their base stands on the rock of right Their apex reaches to the skies; They glow with the increasing light of all the circling centuries. The modest, humble and obscure, Living unnoticed and unknown, May raise a. shaft that will endure Longer than pyramids of stone. Through life we build our monu Of honor and, perhaps, of fame The little and the great, events Am blocks of glory or of shame‘ The Scribe at the Circus. HALTER OR ALTAR. A Cheerful Believer. A Fish Jewel Case. Building Monuments. A Queen in Scarlet. â€"-Chriatian Intelrle‘gmcer. our monuments vs, of fame;