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Proceedings of the National Fishery Association at New York. A New York despatch says: The National Fishery Association met yesterâ€" day in this city, with President F. B. Bab- son, of Gloucester, Mass, in the chair. He made an address on American fishing interests, past and present. He claimed that the fisheries and their attendant industries had become a matter of strong national interest, and that it was of vital importance that the Government should at once take action to protect its interests. Reports from different parts of the country were presented, showing that the fishery interest was in need of legislation to save it from destruction. Secretary Wilcox reported that there were 221 firms in the association, and that a movement is on foot to send a fleet of Atlantic fishermen to the Pacific slope, Where the trade has not been developed. The mackerel fishermen did fairly well off the New England coast this year, and the cod fishers off Labrador did better than eVer before. The demand for fish has been greater than ever. Treasurer Pew spoke against Commercial Union With Canada, 11 .‘I ______ u.” “boa-..” V -__ on the ground that it would destroy the fishing industry. Canada, he asserted, would never consent to a union that she did not have the best of. The policy of the Unite States should be to build up its own comm ce, not that of another country. The Committee on Plan of Action pre- sented a report recommending that the representatives of the association in each locality interested should be considered a committee to collect money for the support of the association and look after its interâ€" ests, and that F. L. Babson be appointed as the agent to represent them at Washing- ton. Resolutions were adopted demanding the recognition of the fishery industry as an important national affair, which should be placed on an equality with other indus- tries by protection against the importation of foreign fish, and securing equal rights for fishermen in foreign ports to those accorded to foreign vessels in our harbors. The reselution disavows any desire of the right to fish in foreign waters. His Death from Fever at Tel-el-Kebirâ€" Brief Sketch of His Life. A London cable says: Baker Pasha died at Tel el-Kebir yesterday from fever, conâ€" tracted at Port Said while proceeding to Cairo. V Valentine Baker, son of Mr. Samuel Baker, and brother of Sir Samuel, was born in 1825. He entered the British Army in 1848. served through the Kaffir war of 1852-3, and in the Crimea during the cam- paign of 1855. In 1860 he took command of the 10th Hussars, which he resigned in 1873 by reason of seniority. After exten- sive travels through Persia and on the borders of Afghanistan, he returned to Eng- land and published “ Clouds in the East.” In 1874 he was appointed Assistant Quarter- mastenGeneral at Aldershot. In the August of the ’{ollowing year he was tried r assaulting Miss Dickenson in a railway rriage, for which he was fined £500 and sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment and dismissed the service. In 1877 he began a new military career in the Turkish Empire, He was employed in organizing the gem‘armerie, and held the position of Major-General in the Turkish army. In the August of that year he went to Shumla as Staff Military Adviser to the Turkish Commander, and was conspicuous through- out the campaign on the Lom, and shortly afterwards he was given the rank of Pasha. The Prince of Wales was a staunch friend of the banished colonel, and he and other friends made repeated but unsuccessful attempts to secure his reinstatement in the British army. He was considered one of the most brilliant cavalry officers in the service. WWW I'alks to Newspaper Men and Fuvoralily Impresses Them. A Washington despatch says : Mr. Chamberlain gave audience last evening to about twenty newspaper men. It lasted nearly an hour and was chiefly remarkable for the affable and cordial manner in which the distinguished envoy declined to en- lighten his visitors upon the subject of their more searching inquiries. He was understood to say at one point that the purpose of the commission was to make an entirely new treaty, the existing treaty having proved unsatisfactory, but upon further inquiry,especially as to whether an interpretation of the existing treaty might not be found which would meet the views of both sides, he became non-committal beyond the point of admitting that such might be the possible outcome of the con- ference. He said that though, as a matter of fact, he supposed that Minister XVest and himself being 'a majority of the British Commission, could decide any mooted point, he should consider any arrangement which did not have the full concurrence of Sir Charles Tupper a very lame and un- satisfactory one. He thought it unlikely that the sub’ect of Commercial Union with Canada would come before the commission in any way, There was scarcely a shadow of doubt that any arrangement agreed to by the British Commission would be held binding by their Government. He did not think any sane man on the other sideof the water ever thought of war as a remote wibility in connection with the fisheries ute. BU NED TO THE WATER’S EDGE. The Steamer Arizona Crematedâ€"The Crew's Escape. A Marquette, Mich., despatch says : The steamer Arizona, of the Lake Superior Transit Line, was burned to the water’s edgeyesterday morning. She left this port at 9 o’clock on Thursday night, bound for Portage, and carrying a full cargo of mer- chandise. When out thirty miles a heavy sea was encountered, and the boat turned about to come back to Marquette. When she was still five miles out the boat com- menced to roll heavily, and a tank of acid set her on fire. '11 othin’gfl‘ could be done to put out the flames, every man being driven from his post by the fumes of the acid, but the boat kept on moving. When flames were discovered a good fire Was put under the boilers and the steamer swept on under full steam Without the engineer at his post. Capt. Graser stood at the wheel, and, rounding the breakwater, ran the steamer up to it, while the crew jumepd off. She then started up into a narrow slip, chasing the crew, who ran to escape the fumes of the acid. The boat just missed immense lumber piles on the decks. Tugs and the city fire department went to her assistance, but could do nothing and she burned to the Water’s edge. Ship and cargo are a total loss. The Arizona was a freight boat, valued at $450,000. She was on her last trip for the season. A Chicago despatch says : Miss Rendau, 19 years old, was buried on Wednesday. Her death was unexpected, though the young lady had been subject to violent spasms and fits of vomiting for many days. No doctor was able to discover the cause of her death. On the day before her death she was seized with a more violent paroxme than ever before. There was a choking sensation in her throat, and finally there was forced up from her stomach a live young snapping turtle with a shell as large as a silver half dollar. The physician m attendance said the patient became un- conscious and almost immediately began to well up in her limbs like one afflicted with lropsy. She never rallied. It is believed he turtle grew from a germ swallowed in water from Lake Michigan. WHOLESALE INTERVIEWING. BAKER PASHA DEAD. PROTECTION FOR FISH. Vomlted a Snapping-Turtle. The Schooner “'reckml and No Trace of the Crew. A last (Friday) night’s Kingston despatch says : The Glengarry, with the Gaskin and Glenora in tow, left Fort William some time ago with grain for Kingston. While on Lake Superior they encountered a gale which blew so hard that the Glenora’stow- line parted and she was left in the rear. She managed to follow up safely, however, and get into Jackfish Bay. After that everything went fairly well until _ off Presque Isle, in Lake Ontario, yesterday morning at 11 o’clock. A heavy gale came after them all the way Gown, and at the place named the Glenora’s tow line again parted and once more she was left to look after herself. Those on board the Glengarry saw her jibs being carried away, a serious loss in the storm. They also saw her roll into the trough of the sea. She disap- peared in the distance and has not been heard of since. A threeâ€"masted schooner is ashore at West Point, above Long Point, and it is thought that she is the Glenora. The sea was so high that on one occasion the Gaskin’s crew were going to cut the tow line, thinking that because they had not seen the steamer for two minutes she had gone to the bottom. The missing schooner has the following crew : Matthew Patterson, captain ; Wm. Patterson, the captain’s nephew, mate; John Moreland, Picton ; Harry Middleton, Kingston ; John Murray, Kingston ; Anthony Seabrooks, Seeley’s Bay, and a man unknown, sea- man ; Mrs. Middleton, wife of Harry Middleton, and the cook. The Glenora was built in Kingston two years ago, and cost $18,000. She is schooner-rigged, and was built so that she could take care of herself in a gale. The tug Active, which went to look for the Glenora, has returned without finding any trace of her. ! Rev. A. M. Phillips, M. A., B. D., of St. Mary‘s, has accepted the unanimous invi- tation of St. Paul’s Methodist Church, Avenue road, Toronto, to become their pastor for the ensuing year, subject to the action of the Transfer and Stationing Com- mittees. The crews of the Glengarry and Gasken had a. terrible experience. James Crozier, 0n the Glengarry, was nearly washed over- board on one Occasion, and so also was D. O‘Connor. The latter clung to a fender and was rescued The schooner B. W. Folger arrived from Oswego with coal. Between the Main Ducks and Oswego the schooner sprang Meek and lost one of her mastheads. The water rose above the forecastle. A heavy sea rolled all the while and threatened the destruction of the craft. Six men were kept at the pumps, and their exertions kept the boat from sinking. Awful Explosion in a hIichigan Factoryâ€" Six Men Annihilated. A Hancock (Mich) despatch says : This town was greatly shaken shortly before noon yesterday by an earthquake. Houses rocked and the church spires swayed. This was followed by a report like distant thun- der. Four miles from the town, on the shore of Portage Lake, and in an isolated spot, were situated the works of the Han- coch Chemical Company. Among the nIluw [wad uan of the works were dynamite and nitro-glycerine. These explosives were ke pt in the packing-house, a building 150 by 75 feet in size. it was known that the works had 1,500 pounds of dynamite on hand, and Hancock was shaken. The chemical works were at once thought to have blown up, and a delegation set out for the factory. Arriving there they found that not a ves- tige of the buildings remained. Where they had stood was a hole 100 feet in diameter, 30 feet in depth and conical in shape. The concussion had packed the sand around the side of the great cavity as hard as cement. The locality was searched for pieces of the works and in the faint hopes of finding the bodies, in part or whole, of the six men employed in the factory. but not even a button from their clothes has been or ever will be found. The monuments in-a cemetery about half a mile away were shattered and knocked down. On the further shore of the lake was found a timber, thought to be 'part of the buildingâ€"and this was all. Five of the six men were single. They all lived across the lake from the scene of the ex- plosion. Their names are as follows: Willie Renaud, Charles Burkett, Thomas Thompson, Timothy Crowley, William King and William Lapp. The latter leaves a widow and one child. A Kansas City despatch says : About 5 o’cloek last evening as a Broadway car was crossing the cable railroad tracks at Ninth street, the 9-year-old son of John Tarsney, attorney for the system, who was rid- ing on the front platform, lost his balance and fell from the car. His right leg went under the wheels and was frightfully mangled, but the little fellow did not lose his nerve in the least, and when carried to his home cautioned the persons with him to break the news gently to his mother, as she was nervous. While the surgeons were amputating the mangled limb the little fellow did not even so much as groan. It is feared that the shock and loss of blood will prove fatal. The father is one of the most prominent attorneys in the section and is a brother of Congressman Tarsney, of Michigan. The Detroit 'Frce Press says that the Rev. T. R. Reid, of St. Thomas’ Church, Detrm‘o, has received call from Trini y Church, Toledo, Ohio. The paper speaks very highly of Mr. Reid’s labors in Detroit. Mr. Reid was not long ago a minister of the Mono Road circuit of the C. Church. Rev. Dr.Rainsfor<l, of New York, on one. occasion said at the close of the service after the usual formula, “ Let us pray for the Whole state of Christ’s Church mili tant. ” ‘* When I say militant that doesn’t mean only the Episcopal Church ; remem- ber we are praying now for Presbyterians and Catholics and every human being who calls on Christ’s name.” Two or three were a good deal shocked by 1115 unconven- tionality, but the major part of his con- gregation liked him all the better for the reminder. Mrs. Barbara Kaudle, aged 60, was found murdered near her home at Unionville, N. J., on Friday. George Dunham, her son- in-law, who is supposed to be themurderer, has been jailed. â€"“ Six Hundred Medical Don’ts” is the title of a book recently published. One of its most striking omissions is expressed by the words : “ Don’t overcharge or overdose a patient.“ VOL XXX The Grit of a Nine-Yearâ€"Old Boy. HOLE IN THE GROUND LEFT. THE GLENORA LOST. THE FOLGEB’S ADVENTURE. Among the Clergynlen. “ Cut a Dido," “ Gone to Pot," " Done to 3 Turn,” and the Like." There is probably more of the poetry of tradition than truth of history in the fol- lowing paragraphs from the Christian Union: Dido, Queen of Tyre, about seven cen» turies before Christ, after her husband had been put to death by her brother, fled from that city and established a colony on the north coast of Africa. Having bar- gained with the natives for as much land as could be surrounded with a bull’s hide, she cut the hide into narrow strips, tied them together, and claimed the land that could be surrounded with the line thus made. She was allowed to have her Way, and now, when one plays a sharp trick, he is said to “ cut a dido.” A tailor of Samarcann, Asia, who lived on a. street leading to the burying ground, kept near his shop an earthen pot, in which he was accustomed to deposit a pebble whenever a body was carried by to its final resting place. Finally the tailor died ; and seeing the shop deserved, a. person inquired what had become of its former occupann. “ He has gone to pot himself,” was the reply by one of the deceased’s neighbors. During a. battle between the Russians and Tartars a. private soldier of the former cried out : “ Captain, I’ve caught a Tar- tar.” “ Bring him along,” said the officer. “ He won’t let me," was the response. In- vestigation proved that the captive had the captor by the arm and would not allow him to move. So “ catching a. Tartar” is ap- plicable to one who has found an antagonist too powerful for him. While lying on the gridiron over a. slow fire, St. Lawrence â€"in whose honor the Escurial was built by Philip ILâ€"said to the Emperor, who was watching his suffer- ings : “ Assatus est; jam versa et manduca,” which one translator, not quite literally, but appreciatively of the grim humor char- acterizing the original, rendered : In a. work, “ Essays from the Desk of Poor Robert the Scribe,” published in 1815, the author, C. Miner, tells the story of a boy who. by the offer of liberal compensaâ€" tion, was induced to turn a grindstone for a man who desiredto sharpen his axe. The promisad compensation was never paid, and of one who disguises his own selfish aims under an appearance of generosity or dis- interestedness it is remarked “ He has an axe to grind.” Formerly in London, whena small dealer bought bread of the baker, for every dozen loaves purchased he was given an extra loaf as his profit, from which circumstance “ a baker‘s dozen” signified thirteen. Variâ€" ous origns have been assigned the phrase, but the above is the only one that is based on a sure foundation. It Lifts a Cannon Ball as if it Were a Needle. A Bridgeport, Conn, despatch says : One of our leading army engineers has brought before the engineer classes of late an experiment of so startling a nature in its inception as to promise wonderful re- sults. It is a monster magnet made of two Rodman guns, which are connected at the breech. Around the magnet thus formed is wound about twenty miles of submarine cable. The cable is some that has been used in the torpedo service. It is wound and fastened in a substantial manner, mak- ing a permanent magnet. When electricity is applied some strange results take place. For instance, a bar of railroad iron thirty feet long, if placed in the open cannon’s mouth, cannot be drawn out by as many men as can grasp it, Hence, “ Done 1:0 a. turn.” Another instance of the strength of this big magnet was illustrated Saturday with a 350- ound cannon ball. The shot was place in the mouth of the cannon on the negative side. On reversing the electrical current it fell from its position, but was attracted to the opposite cannon and clung to its side. The positive current was then reversed alternately with the negative, and the heavy cannon ball played between the two cannon like a tack between the poles of a toy magnet. Latest from the Northwest. Winnipeg's local grain market is increas- ing in volume of business. Over two thou- sand bushels of grain are now marketed daily by farmers from the districts around the city. Large quantities of oats are daily being shipped to points in Eastern Ontario and also to British Columbia. James G. Dunlap, manager of the Coch- rane Ranche, died yesterday, at McLeod, from the effects of exposure a. few weeks ago, when he was thrown from his waggon and left on the prairie on a. bitter night. He was one of the best cattlemen in the Northwest. m D. M. Gordon, late pastor of Knox Church, left with his family this evening for his new field of labor at Halifax: Farmers are complaining that the Do- minion standards for judging wheat, as applied to Manitoba, are altogether too high as compared with Duluth, and it is proposed bringing the matter before the next session of the Dominion Parliament, with a View to having the grading changed. The flour mill at Dominion City, owned by James Spence, of Winnipeg, was totally destroyed by fire at 5 o’clock this morning. Loss, $7,000; uninsured. ERICHMOND HILL THURSDAY, D E (JEMBER 1, 1887. Tliereyliéé been a slight fall of snow in the eastern portion of the Province, but in the wegj th_e plzajrieg aye still wperfectly bare. The 10651 banks have ad-vanced'the rate of discofiuntrfrrom 7 to 8 pe_r omit. The death is announced at Donald, from drink, of a man named Dean, formerly a Liam-Colonel in the British army, and richly gifted in many ways. Gen Middle- ton, during the Northwest campaign, rec- qgnized him as an old acquaintance. “The Education Board of Minneapolis has excluded the Bible from the public schools.” “ What for?” “ There was too|much about St. Paul in it.”â€"New Age. â€"Beautiful autumn leaves have made gorgeous albums which have been sent abroad to give foreigners a correct idea of Canadian foliage. Leaf mosaics, columns of leaves and pictures of leaves fringed with pressed sedges are some of the ar- rangements made by artistic designers. â€"â€"The English sparrows which were allowed to come into this country on the distinct understanding that they would work for their board and clothes and free the land of caterpillars haven’t done any- thing of the sort. This shows how little dependence can be placed on imported con- tractlabor. A MAGNET MADE OF CANNONS. This side enough is toasted, Then turn me, tyrant, and eat And see whether raw or roasted I am the better meat. ORIGIN OF PHRASES. That Bitter Rivalry. Parasites Said to Cause Many Mysterious Complaints. A young peasant woman from a village near here has a new theory and cure for rheumatism, writes a Japanese correspon- dent to the St. Louis Globe. Many of those short-tempered people, who have had rheumatism in their knees and gout in their toes, have declared that the sensation was as if something were gnawing at their muscles, and this Japanese woman says that it is so in reality. Rheumatism, according to her, is a growth of small parasites under the skin, a small insect that gnaws and bites and causes the untold misery and all the twinges of that ailment. She has had for one of her patients here a grizzled and sceptical sea captain, and as sea captains may always be believed, except about the sea serpmt, his case ought to settle it. The mariner was completely laid up with his ailing knees, and the Japanese woman was sent for. She claimed to see the move- ment of the parasites under the skin, ordered foot baths of bran and hot rice brandy, and came another day with a little steel hook and nipped small white insects out by the dozen. By the stories, it must be a large white flea, for one of them when brought out to the surface madea spring and was lost to sight. One of the bystanders felt a sting, and the next day had a sore place on his arm, and cutting into it, it was found that the rheumatism bug was there burrowing like a tick. The regular practitioners are sceptical about this new theory of rheu- matism. They put one of the insects un- der a miscroscope and decided that, by its organism, it never could have lived under the surface of the skin away from the air, and that she must have carried it under her finger nail and introduced it at the pro- per moment. To this the sea captain enters a vigorous denial. She says that she has taken the insects from his knees and ankles by the hundreds now, and that all have been killed in his sight, and that he is growing better and can find relief after each treatment. A deaf man was persuaded to go to her after suffering pain in his ears, and she promptly took a dozen or more parasites from one ear. The idea was so repulsive to the man that he would not continue the treatment. Those who believe in the woman and her strange discovery are anxious to have her go to Tokio and be made famous and given a chance to operate upon the Mikado, who suffers grievously from kakke, a disease of the legs peculiar to Japan, and something akin to rheumatism in its excruciating pain. If this Nagasaki woman’s idea is proved to be the right one, there will be a grand upsetting of medical theories and a closing of hot springs and other rheumatic resorts; and if they prove her to be an imposter, Japanese jugglers again come to the lore as the cleverest in the world. Personalâ€"Will the youn woman who edited the gravy department an corrected proo at our pie foundry for fwo flaws and “ n in 4 "a the game on can (flyinhf; L115»: “‘1‘ c to: W. our clergyman to dine with us, 17163.56 come back, or write to 32 Park Row, saying where she left the crackers and cheese '2 We will also strive, 0 so hard, to make it pleasanter for you in every way. If we had known four or five years ago that children were offensive to you, it would have been different. But it is too late now. All we can do is to shut them up in Come back, Wilhelmina, and be our little sunbeam once more. Comeback and cluster around our hearthstone at so much per cluster. If you think best we will quit having company at the house, especially people who do not belong to your set. 1 a. barn and feed them through a knot h-ole. If they shriek loud enough to give pain to your throbbing brow, let no one know, and we will overcome any false sentiment we may feel towards them and send them to the Tombs. I Since you went away we can see how wicked and selfish we were and how little we considered your comfort. We miss your glad smile, also your Tennessee mar- ble cake and your slat pie. We have learned a valuable lesson since you went away, and it is that the blame should not have rested on one alone. It should have been divided equally, leaving me to bear half of it and my wife the other half. ,___ 1- -1' i ,,A‘,. Where We erred was in dividing up the blame on the basis of tenderloin steak or peach cobbler, compelling you to beat half of it yourself. That will not work, Wilhel- mina. Blame and preserves do not divide on the same basis. We are now in favor of what may be called a sliding scale. We think you will like this better. .‘ ~n, We also made a. grave mistake in the matter of nights out. While young I formed the wicked and pernicious habit of having nights out myself. I panted for the night tilt and would go a long distance and stay out a. long time to get enough of it for a. mess and then bring it home in 9. paper bag, but i din see now it is time for Ema- to remain indoors and give young people like yourself a. chance, Wilhelmina: A So if I can do anything evenings while you are out that will assist you, such as stoning raisins or neighboring windows, command me. I am no cook, of course, but Ican peel apples or grind coffee, or hold your head for you when you need sympathy. I could also soon learn to do the plain cooking, I think, and friends who come to see us after this have agreed to bring their dinners. V--..O .__V_, ,, There is norreason why harmony should not be restored among us and the old sun- light co_me Eyck t9 OI}: roof-tree. q p v Another thing I wish to write before I close this humiliating personal. I wish to take back my harsh and bitter words about your singing. I said that you sang like a shingle mill, but I was mad when I said it, and I wronged you. I was maddened by hunger, and you told me that mush and milk was the proper thing for a brain- worker, and you refused to give me any dope on my dumpling. Goaded to madness by this, I said that you sang like a shingle mill, but it was not my better, higher na- ture that spoke. It was my grosser and more gastric nature that asserted itself, and I now desire to take it back. You do not sing like a shingle millâ€"at least so much as to mislead a practiced ear. You; Voice has moi‘e volume, and when your upper register is closed is mellower than anyAshi‘ngle will I faver heard. _-- . v-v - "Abâ€"6&1? bkckfvwilhelmina. We need you every hour. .1A A” After you went away we tried to set the bread as we had seen you do it. but it was not a success. The next day it came off the nest with a litter of small, sallow rolls which would easily resist the action of acids. If you cannot come back, will you please write and tell me howyou are getting along and how you contrive to insert. air holes into home-made bread ?-â€"Bill Nye in N. Y. W orld‘ Bill Nye and His Servant Girl. BUGS THAT BU RROW. Lots of Wives, Concubines and Slavish Courtiers. The Sultan makes his rigid fast of forty days at Ramazar, like any other good Turk, and at the end of the fast he receives every year a new young wife from his mother, according to the say of the prophet, or if his mother he not alive, the oldest woman in the harem presents the wife. This young girl is chosen six months before from among hundreds of candidates, who are chosen in infancy and educated expressly for that purpose, and then some ten or fifteen are chosen and put under a course of purification with baths of balm of Gilead and Sukys tea with milk and rice for the principal diet. The last day of the feast the bride is selected from among the others, and led to the Sultan’s room and divested of clothing, and left standing there, with bowed head and folded arms, until the Sul- tan enters. Sometimes the Sultan never sees her again, and sometimes the new bride becomes prime favorite. It is not always the most perfect beauty which renders a wife the favorite, but generally the most intelligent one who gains the coveted posi- tion. No ceremony is considered necessary when the Sultan takes a wife. She is con- sidered sufficiently honored by his choice. In the afternoon the Sultan receives his sons. They are brought into his august presence by their respective “ dadas ” or tutors, who each have entire charge over one boy, and each boy is made to believe that whatever he wants he must have. Murad Effendi, once when but 5 years old, declared that he would neither eat nor sleep until they had brought ainan-of-war to fire a salute in front of the palace, and they had to send for one, gather a crew, buy and take on board powder and then get through the bridge and come down in front of the palace to fire the salute and scare Murad nearly to death. If during the day a new son arrives the news is announced to the Sultan, who, bored though he may be by the constant repetition of the news of new arrivals, must give order that a salute be fired at Tophane first, and then on every fortress in Turkey, seven guns fora girl and 21 for a boy. The slave who first reaches the Sultan with the news receives a handsome present, and then the monthly nurse, who is a power in a Turkish palace, as well as a poor American’s home, brings the new born baby for the Sultan to look at. She also receives a valuable gift. The event means much to the mother, for it often lifts her from slavery to the position of legitimate wifehood. The Sultan shows little affection outwardly, at least, for hc children, girls or boys, but they are taught to respect him as a superior being. The Sultan has over 6,000 souls attached in some manner or capacity to the palace and in his personal service, aside from the soldiers, and the amount of money the Sultan orders spent daily would bankrupt England in a month, only, as he is not very good at calculating, and his chief eunich, Chamberlain and treasurer are, they put their heads together to cut down everybody’s expenses but their own, and of late vears an effort has been really made toward economy, tlmugn still volumes might be told of how money is lavished, for each wife must have her own separate establishment, and each as good as the other, and each new child its separate nurse and tutor, and all the caprices of the Sultan and his imperial family must be humored. A new remedy for the potato bug pest has been discovered by Major-General Laurie, of Nova Scotia. The General informs the Secretary of Agriculture of that Province that, on the farm of one of the most enter- prising farmers of Newport, his attention was called to a milk-weed which grew among the root crop, and to which the potato beetle is much attracted. It lays its eggs on the under side of the leaf, and the larvae, when hatched out, feed on the plant and die, being apparently poisoned by it. Where this plant grows the potatoes are apparently not touched by the beetle. The milk or juice is very powerful, giving a burning sensation down the throat and into the stomach, and the weed proves to be Euphorbia Helioscopia, a common weed of gardens and fields in England. “ It’s nothin’ but perliticle parties in my house, Sarah. There’s Jimmy, he‘s a proâ€" ’bishunist; Eddy’s a. Hinry Georger; Patsy‘s a. Jimmercratâ€"same as his father was, God bless him; Tommy, he’s jined the Pergressive Labor Party; an’ would you believe it. Clementine, my only gal Clementina, come last night an’ axed if she might; join the Pergressive Ewker party just formed in the neighborhood, an’, as she said it was no 61111 of favors she was to get, I let her jine.”-Harper‘s Weekly. “ Whom did you say he was going to marry ?” “ Twenty millions.” “ Oh, how perfectly sweet ‘.” And then the car stoppedâ€"Boston Herald. Heâ€"“ My dear wife, I love thee so fondly that when I am near thee I feel not the cold blast of winter.” Sheâ€"“ Me, too." “Glad to hear it. Then you don‘t need any sealskiu sacque this season.”â€"â€"Flcz'- gende Blatter. Vessels are leaving the Neva to avoid being closed in by ice. Mrs. Geo. Harvey, Port Huron, wife of Grand Trunk Conductor Harvey, took an overdose of laudanum on Wednesday night and died on Friday. She was in the habit of taking the drug to make her sleep, and when discovered was beyond help. â€"â€"A physician says that the best break- fast to prepare for a day’s work is that of “ steak or chops, with good coffee, hot rolls and eggs.” He declares that recent experi- ments have shown that to digest oatmeal properly hsrd out-door labor seems to be necessary, and he believes that the only nutritive value it has is found in the cream which is eaten with it. â€"â€"â€"A bride may be robed in yellow and stand with her bridegroom in a bower of yellow flowers and all that, and even be married by a minister who has the jaun- dice, but no amount of decoration will pre- vent the discovery of the couple’s greenness at the first hotel they put up at. wIn the earlier editions of Lew Wallace’s “. Ben Hut” the dedication was ‘ ‘ To the Wife of My Youth.” He received so many letters of condolence on his supposed widowerhood and so many offers of adeâ€" quate consolation that latterly he added the line 1 “ Who still abides with me.” â€"A magazine writer says: “Should fortunes be limited ? ” The trouble with most people’s fortunes is that they are Limitedâ€"«very limited. ' New Remedy for the Potato Bug. HOW THE SULTAN LIVES. A Ronmntic Engagement. A Mean Man. Favors. WHOLE NO 1,529 NO. 22. Inscriptions that will Interest Students of Ancient History. A collection of Babylonian antiquities of great interest is at the present time in the hands of a. private collector in this conntry. The collection consists of a. series of about 300 inscribed terra cotta tablets relating to the revenue and titles of the most ancient of the Babylonian temples. In the year 1880 Mr. Hormuzd Rassam, when engaged on the works of exploration in Babylonia on behalf of the trustees of the British museum, discovered in the mound of Aboo Hubba, about 30 miles from Bagdad. the site of the ancient city of Sippara, one of the chief centres of the religious life at Chaldea, in which was a great temple dedicated to the Sun-god. The work of exploration was continued during subsequent expeditions of Mr. Ras- sam, and large numbers of inscribed stones andterra cotta cylinders and over 20,000 inscribed tablets were obtained from the chambers of this vast edifice and were deposited in the British museum. These monuments vary in date from B. C. 3,800 to B. C. 300, and represent every class of literature, sacred and secular. On the return of Mr. ltassam to England, native overseers were retained on the site for a short time, but were last year removed. No sooner were these men withdrawn than Arab antiquity hunters from Bagdad com- menced their irregular diggings on the site, and the collection which has just reached this country was thus obtained. While regretting that the recovery of these records and the excavation of so important a site should be due to so unscientific a source, the new collection will be welcome to all students, as several of the inscriptions are of great importance. ‘1‘ 1“”, The majodrity of the tablets relate to the collection of the revenues of the temple, which were derived from tithes and dues imposed on corn and dates, as well as con- tributions from pious donors. In addition to these sources of revenue, large grants of land from time to time had been made to the temple by kings and others, and were farmed like the Mohammedan mosques or the glehe lands of our English Church. Thus we find that in the twelfth century before the Christian era the king gave to the temple "’ a farm adjoining the city of Al-Essu (New Town), which is within Babylon, and placed it in charge of Ekur- sumâ€"ibassi, a priest." Similar grants were made by most kings. The new collection of tablets affords very clear indications of the wealth of the land of Chaldea in the seventh and sixth centuries before the Christian era. Thus from one tablet we learn that 4,600 sheep were given to the temple as sheep dues in one year, the owners be- ing allowed to redeem them on pay. ment of certain sums. Herodotus tells us that Babylonia supplied one-third of the corn of the Persian empire, and some idea of the fertile conditionmay be obtained by the tithe receipts here preserved to us. In one tablet ten thousand measures were received in the third year of N abonidus, B. C. 553 ; in another, five hundred measures from one man. In addition to corn, we find the receipts for quantities of barley, dates and other fruits, oil and honey. The persons paying these dues are gardeners, farmers, boatmen, scribes, weavers and the masters of the canals. and also women, who thus appear to have been taxpayers. The collection of the taxes was appointed to certain persons, and in the reign of Nabon- idus the chief collector was Nabu-sumiddin. while in Babylon the Egibifoim were the tax gatherers. In addition to these receipts for revenues, these tablets mention the reception of various materials for the repairs or adorn- ment of the temple. In the eighth year of Nabulpalassar, B.C. 616, a quantity of wood and stone was received ; in the seventh year of Nebuchadnezzar 11., 13.0. 547, a quantity of wood, furniture and bricks; in others, straw and reeds for building purposes; while in the first year of Cambyses, BC. 529, we have the memorandum of the reception of five minzeworth of cedar and cypress wood. In the reign of Darius we have the entry of fifty-four sheckels of gold, a metal rarely mentioned in these tablets. One of the most interesting features of these tablets is the great care with which the accounts are kept. The names of the payers are entered in full and sometimes the name of the father and the trade are given. The amount is entered in ruled columns and separate payments in other columns, , the total being given at the foot, and the whole sometimes countersigned by witnesses. Independent of their value as indicating the flourishing condition of the land of Chaldea and the richness of the temples, some of these tablets are of great historical Value as connecting links in the ‘ chain of documents on which Babylonian and Assyrian chronology are based. Every one of these tablets is dated in month, day and regnal year of the king’s reign when the transaction took place, and are, there- fore, a most valuable aid to the construc- tion of the chronology of the period. The first of these tablets is dated in the tenth year of Kindalanu, the Kinladinus of the Canon of Ptolemyâ€"that is, the year BC. 637, and forms a valuable record of this last of the Assyrian Viceroy kings ruling Babylonia and dependent on the court of Nineveh. This king's reign of twenty- two years terminated with the revolt of Nebupalassar and the death of Assurbanipal or Sardanapalus of Assurbanipal. On the death of the latter king several claimants arose for the Assyrian throne, among others two sons of Assurbanipalâ€" two of these tablets give dates in the reign of the second and third claimants, named Sui-sar-iskun, a name hitherto unknown to us. This name in the abbreviated form of Sariskun, bears a nearer resemblance to the Saracus of the list of Berossus, the last king of Assyria. The reign of this king lasted but three years, and terminated with the success of the revolt of Nabulpalassar. In a tablet dated in the first year of Darius Hystaspes we find the Persian king claiming only the title of “ King of Countries,” and not the full title of “King of Babylon and Countries." because Babylon was at that time in the hand of Nid-intu‘Bethe rebel. These tablets prove very clearly that, great as has been the harvest from the fields of Chaldea, much remains to tempt us to renewed efforts in the work of exploration. I -Londnn Times. A covered Waggon drawn by a somewhat weary-looking pair of horses crossed the ferry at Detroit to Windsor on Saturday. Upon the side was 9. rudely painted legend : “ In Dakoke we trusted. In Dakota. we busted." Within were John Ainslie, an intelligent farmer, his wife and six child- ren, who have been drawn from Douglas County, Dakota, 3 distance of over 1,000 miles, en route for Garfield, Essex County, Ont., their former home. In spite of their long journey all looked clean, comfortable an-l in good health. BABYLONIAN RELICS. “LI know it, Harry,” said Winnie, “ but we intend to wait a year at least. You will consent to our union then, will you not ? ” It was a cold December twilight, but the room was cosy where Harry Cutter w-a seated in an easy-chair before the grate. Winnie was standing beside the chair, with one hand resting lightly upon brother’s shoulder, the other hanging lietleasly by her side. “Come, Harry, why don’t you speak? “ Come, Harry, why don’t you speak ? You have been silent at least ten minutes. What are you thinking about? ” questioned Winnie, trying to rouse her brother from the reverie into which he had fallen. “I was thinking, Winnie,” he replied, “ what you and Walter are going to do if you get married. He has only his clerk- ship.” “ Yes, Winnie, and I should not with- hold my consent now if you wished to be married, for I know of no man more worthy of my precious sister than Walter Adams.” “ Please tell me now," said Winnie, coaxingly. “ lVell, I will, since you desire it. “ When I was a young man I loved a woman named Lucy Alcott, and her parents had appointed a day for our mar- riage. She was 20 years of age, beautiful and accomplished, with a kind word and a smile for everybody. She was the only woman I have ever loved, and I think she reciprocated my love; but I am not sure. Once I was absent from home a week, attending to business in a distant city. WhileI was gone Lucy attended a party with a young man who did not bear a very good reputation. On my return I heard of it and immediately called to see her. She greeted me affectionately, as was her wont, but I was angry and upbraided her for her thoughtless conduct. “ Yes you can, Winnie. Half of the fortune our father left us is yours. Next Thursday will be Christmas. You can be married then and live here with your hus- band. What do you say to this arrange- “ How old are you, Harryâ€"37 ‘2" “ Yes, Winnie," was the reply. ” Were you ever in love, Harry ?” was the next question. “Yes, Winnie, I loved once. But we will not talk of that now ; some time I will tell lqu all abgut it.” “ ‘VWhy did you attend Mrs. Loring’s party“with Chfirles Badger ? ' I askeq. H ‘ ‘ “ [Because I wanted to. I did not think thereiyvaspny harm in it,’_ she replied: L “"Mybusif1ess§vas of importEnce and could noAtA bgidelgyed.’ “ 1 am happy to hear you speak 30, Harry, for your manner toward Walter has always been so reserved that I did not know whether you liked 12in: or not.” A silence ensued for a. few moments, which was broken only by the monotonous ticking of the old clock on the mantel. At length Harry spoke. “ Would you and Walter like to be mar- ried now ‘2” “ Yes, indeed,” replied Winnie, the rose tint deepening upon her cheeks, while her brother smiled at her earnestness. “ Walter said last night,” she continued, “ that he did not wish to wait a year, but we cannot do otherwise.” ment After'a‘ pause of a.â€" few moments she asked : “ ‘ You knéw it was against my~ wishes.’ I saiqtsterq115 _ “ ‘ You miéht have delayed your busi- mass, for you knew I wished to attend that part}_,’_sl}e rgplied, a. little .wilfully. “ ‘ Well, Mr. Chtter, I am not your wife. and am not bound to obey you,’ she said, in a. voige minglgd with_a.nger and pridg “‘Lucy ‘Alcott, do Slou main this ‘I’ I asked. - “ ‘ I do,‘ was the reply. “ ‘Very well, Miss Alcott. Henceforth you are free from all engagements with me,’ I said, calmly, and rising, took up my hat and prepared to depart. “ Oh, happy We shall be !" murmured Winnie, almost audjbly._ ” She accompanied me to the door, and there was 9. perceptible tremor in her voice when she bade me ‘ good evening,’ and I think she regretted the words she had uttered as badly as I did mine; but I was too proud to seek a. reconciliation. Now you know, Winnie, why I never married.” ‘ “ Have you 'ever'seen Lucy Alcott since you parted with her that night ?” asked Winnie, after Vheribfother had qonclgdqd. "No.'Winnie, I have not; but I have heard she still continues to reside in this city,but in seclusion. Let us drop this subject now. Isn’t it most time for your lover to be here ?” “ Oh. Harry ! I forgot; to tell you about Walter’s auntâ€"his mother's sister. He has lived with her ever since his mother’s death, which occurred about ten years ago. Perhaps she will not like to be separated from him." 1‘ She shall not, Winnie. You can tell one of the servants to prepare a. chamber for hert How olgAis§he ?»_ Do__you kpowi ‘? “ Thirty-five, I believe,” replied Winnie, and, with a. happy face 3nd 9. light heart, she left the room, while Harry relapsed into thoughtful silence. It was clear, cold Christmas afternoon. Harry Cutter was seated in his own room, deeply engaged in the contents of a book. HEverything had been arranged for the marriage of his sister, which was to take plug}; in the gvening.‘ _ a. The opening ofvthe door of his room roused Harry, and Winnie came in exclaim- lng :M (‘1 Come down into the library and let me introduce you to VValter’s aunt. She has been here nearly three hours, but you have kept yourself aloof as if you did not desire to see her.” “ Well, I do not, to tell the truth, Win- nie,” replied Harry, reluctantly rising and closipg big book. ‘ ” I think you will when you know who she is,” said Winnie, while she vainly tried to repress the merry light that danced in her blue eyes. “ Winnie !” The voice was grave, and Harry looked inquirineg at his sister. “Oh, Harry ! it is Lucy Allcott l" “ I cannot see her, Winnie," was the reply: ._.. . NI ‘ “fargnvfionr Winnie reasoned with her brother, and at last she persuaded him to seek a reconciliation with LPG): Alcptfi. 7 77‘ “You must, Harry! She loves you. Wgy do y_ou wigkto yvreck two liver-g ?” And Harry Cutter often says he is glad his bachelor life is over, while his sister tells him if it had not been for her he would have been a. bachelor to this day. "rfieiédr r 717 add more ? Nee'd I tell the reader there was a double marriage in this mansion that Eight ? -7, .. . - . 1 Diphtheria. is alarmingly prevalent in the neighborhood of Ottawa. At Lake Opinicon a number of cases are reported, and at Aylmer Dr. Woods, the local health officer, has ordered the closing of the con- vent schools in consequence of the prevalâ€" ence of the disease. In that village three children of Mr. Granville died in three days. One was boried on lÂ¥Ionday, a second “,1 1 on Tuesday and a. third on Wednesday. Two others are in danger of death, while the dread disease has entered the families of Mr. Portelance and Mr. Rivals. â€"A yellow weddingis one of the latest freaks. The bridesmaids are in yellow, the decorations yellow, the laces yellow, the flowers yellowâ€"everything, in short, but the bride, who is of course all white, wants that jaundiced hue. The effect is some. what trying and more suggestive of 3 tons- ing bilious attack than a gentle, amorous scene a. fashionable marriage ceremony seeks to be. t?” UNEXPEOTED WEDDING.