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Tm: Liverpool Post is informed on the very highest authority that the Great Eastern has been purchased by I. Liverpool '. firm of metal merchants, and that it is \ their intention to breekher up in the course of the next few months and sell her as old metal. This in gnificent vessel, whose gross registered tonnage is 18,915 tons, whose length is 692 feet, breadth 83 feet, Ind depth 60 feet. has been sold at the price of £16,100, or very little more than one. tenth of the sum it cost to launch her. Alarming Accident to a Gay Party of Thir- teenâ€"A “ Double Ripper " Wrecked. A Holyoke, Mass, despatch says: In a coasting accident last evening Miss Eugenie Pentland, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was killed. The street through which the slide runs is fully a mile long and crosses at least twenty streets from the top to the end. The double ripper contained the unlucky number thirteen when the start was made from the top of the hill. The boys and girls on the slide were of all ages from 8 to25. The boy who steered was shout 11. When about half a mile down the hill he saw a team coming against him. He endeavored to avoid the team and ran right into a tele- graph pole. He jumped off and escaped with a broken leg. The second seat on the sled was occupied by Miss Pentland. She was instantly killed. The occupants of the next six seats were bruised and scratched more or less, but it is thought now that all will recover. Another Sad Coasting Colvision. A Torrington, Conn., despatch says : In a coasting acoldent last night Miss Kittie Miller had a hip broken and was probably internally injured, and Miss May Marian and Willie Cooper were painfully bruised. The victims were among a party who were on a “ double ripper.” when the steering “ I do not want you to want for any comfort? Do you know that I have a heart? * * * I must close. I am blue 3nd sick, and with h’gs and k’ss must close and remain your “ K. M. Q.” “ Oh, Bunnie, I am worried. If I could rest my head on your lap anti have a. good cry I imagine I would feel better. but I know not. The Internatlunal Dispute May be Settled on Such 8, Basis. “ It has been my desire to go and pay you a. visit. Bun, I did not have the nerve to meet those that I had never met, and look and feel blue. I am blue and have been blue, and I am completely broken down. Now, Bun, when am I to hear from yougA _ _ _ “ If ynu were to feel as wretched as I am and have been for the past year I would wrige 31011 more oftener than you write me. A Washington despatch says : It is the general opinion among New England and Eastern members of the House that the Committee on Ways and Means, which has charge of all revenue legislation, will do what Sir Charles Tupper and Mr. Joseph Chamberlain have failed to do, that is to say, that this committee will report a Bill in favor of the admission of Canadian fish to American markets without payment of duty. The majority of the committee is made up of Democratic members from points remote from the seaboard, who have no interests at stake in connection with the fisheries. Free fish is a cry which meets a responsive echo in all sections of the United States away from the New England and lake ports, and a proposition looking to the cheapening of this article of food would certainly be well received. It is likely to come up in the General Tariff Bill. Mr. Cameron, official private secre- tary to Sir Charles Tupper, arrived in the city to-day. Sir Charles is expected to- morrow. Congressman Butterworth has been too ill to attend the sessions of the House lately, so that he had no opportunity to introduce his Commercial Union Bill. He will do so as soon as he is able to get out. apparatus becaxfié disarranged, causing ii collision with a post. “ DEAR BUNNIE,â€"‘ * * My stomach with that of malaria. and bronchial trouble has been all and more than I could hem-for the past two years and makes me blue. I am not and have not for a. long time been able to retain a. good breakfast or dinner. Some of the letters were decidedly rich. Here is one from the defendant to the plaintiff : A New York telegram says: Miss Clara Campbell is plaintiff in the Supreme Court for $100,000 damages for breach of promise against Charles Arbuekle, the wealthy coffee merchant. The plain- tifi’s counsel in his address to the jury to-day stated that his client for twelve months prior to 1879 had studied music at Milan, Italy, with the expectation of going upon the operatic stage. On her return to this country she met Mr. Arbuckle by means of a letter of introduction. He soon showed that he was deeplysmittenwith the plaintiff. He professed the most ardent love and the resuit was an engagement. He gave her a $690 engagement ring and many other presents. and this engagement was not broken off until Mr. Arbuckle learned that the plaintifl’s father had failed. Miss Campbell, being a non-resident. had to give security to bring this action. Having no money, she was compelled to pledge her diamond engagement ring for the costs. Mr. Arbuckle testified that he had promised to marry the lady on her asking him to do so. The witness stated that in addition to the diamond ring he gave Miss Campbell $500 because she asked for it. “ That was in the sum- mer of 1883." he added. “ She wrote me a letter asking for it.” On cross-examina~ tion he said he met Miss Campbell on a steamboat plying between Pittsburg and Cincinnati. The clerk introduced them. After an acquaintance of two weeks she asked him to marry her. At that time he was in very bad health and took a great deal of whiskey and quinine, so that he was not always himself. Counsel for the defendant read three letters from plaintiff to Arbuckle. They opened with “Dear Baby Bunting,” and were signed “Bun- nie” and “ Bunnie C.” In one of the letters she desires to know his purposes concerning herself. The plaintiff then took the stand and told her story. She said she was 39 years old and was born at Hanging Rock, Ohio. Her father was John Campbell, an iron manufacturer. She related at length her relations with the defendant. An Edinburgh cable says: Very deep regret has been caused in Edinburgh by the terribly sudden death of Dr. Dickson, the well-known Professor of Botany. who died on Friday afternoon while engaged in "curling" on the ice at Hartree,his place in Peeblesshire. Prof. Dickson, who was only 52, has held the chair of botany at Edin- burgh for nearly nine years, and he was also the Begins Keeper of the beautiful Botanical Gardens, which are one of the great sights of the city. He had attained to a first place among the practical botanists of the age, and few scientific men who are engaged in active and public work have been so universally popular. He was a most thorough worker, and his accom- plishments were not confined to his own particular line, for he was an excellent draughtsman and a most skilful musician. A Maiden Demands $100,000 Damages for a Broken Heartâ€"The Defendanta 1\Iil- lionalre. ROMANTIC BREACH OF PROMISE CASE. KILLED WHIL E COASTING. Death of Prof. Dickson. “ N. YORK, Feb. 17th, 1884. FREE FISH. Late details of the Chinese floods make the story one of the most terrible in his- tory. What was a beautiful populous dis- trict of ten thousand square miles is now a rolling sea. At least three million people are homeless and absolutely destitute of the barest necessities of life, while it is thought that the loss of life will reach 750,000. Everything in the way of figures is as yet, however, pure speculation, with the chances of a total mortality far greater than the present estimate. Court and business circles in Pekin, Canton and other centres are doing all in human power to cope with the disaster. The World has the following from Lon- don: The special correspondent of the Standard at Shanghai sends a graphic picture of the tremendous loss of life in China from the overflow of the Hoang Ho river and of the tremendous famine nowi threatened. About one-sixth of the entire area of the “ Garden of China," as Honan is styled, is now converted into a vast lake, with here and there a pagoda top or the gable of some higher wall rising over the ever increasing waters, to mark the sites of what were a short time ago prosperous cities of many thousand inhabitants. The rest of the country is overrun with wretched refugees who were fortu- nate enough to escape with their lives, though with naught else. In hundreds of instances men who three months ago were men of wealth toâ€"day sit gazing on the in- land sea, stunned and hungry, stupid and dejected, without a rag to wear or a morsel of food to eat. The inundation commenced a little distance from Kaifung Fu, one of the largest cities of the Province, and in one instant some four miles of solid em- bankment of stone, brick, sand and clay were swept away with innumerable moles and fascines. In the districts of Ching Chow and Chen Chow no less than three thousand large villages are stated to have been engulfed in a very few moments and scarcely any of their ill-fated people had time to save them- selves, as the breach occurred in the night time. An extent of country much larger than the Whole principality ofWales and much more thickly populated is now a raging sea, and all the inhabitantsareeither drowned or have fled. The people so ter- ribly visited cannot number far short of the whole population of Ireland, as the Province includes about twenty-five million inhabitants with an area of 65,000 square miles, and the waters of the river nowcover between eight and ten thousand square miles. The accounts published in the native and foreign papers and in the Pekin Gazette reveal most horrible sufferings undergone by the survivors, who are perish- ing of famine. In hundreds of instances when the waters rushed into the cities, sweep- ing walls,houses and everything down before them,the people refused to stir and met their deaths with that wonderful indiffer- ence which characterizes the Chinese. According to the best authorities the loss of life will be numbered by hundreds of thousands, while there are millions of starving people who are now depending for subsistence upon the charity of others. The Emperor has already contributed 100,000 teals, besides ordering 2,000,000 teals out of the imperial treasury toward the relief of the sufferers. Murderous Attack Upon a Husband and Wifew'l‘he Woman Fatally Wounded. A Brooklyn, N. Y., despatch says : C. Stiger entered the house of L. Cobert on Harmon street early yesterday morning and attempted to murder Cobert and his w1fe. Cobert got up at 6 o‘clock and went down stairs to make a fire. Stiger, who had entered by the back door and secreted himself in the hallway stairs, then attacked Mrs. Cobert, who was in bed, with an iron bar. She screamed and called for her husband, but Stiger struck her several times and inflicted injuries which will pro- bably cause her death. As Cobert entered the room Stiger struck him on the head _with the iron bar, saying he would kill him so he could not tell the story. Stiger rained blow after blow upon Cobert’s head until he fell senseless to the floor. Subsequently he revived, and gave information to the police, who arrested Stiger while he was removing his bloody clothes in his own house. Mrs. Cobert had on several occa- sions helped Stiger‘s family. Stiger says the Coberts were living on the money his wife had earned for them, and he was sorry he had not killed them outright. A Pittsburg. Pm, despstch says: John Beck, a druggist here, has been the Victim from time to time during the past seven years of systematic and mysterious rob- beries. The thieves were discovered last Saturday. They were rats. At the back end of the money drawer an opening of about two inches from the top of the counâ€" ter, and through which any small sized rat could climb, was found. In it was a bed or nest made of a pile of greenbecks and other small articles, and in it were eight small rats, which were too young to make their escape. Several hundred dollars are sup- poaea to have been lost in this way. AMontreal telegram says: A woman named Parker, who came to Montreal from Boston, pretending to have been betrayed and deserted by a man she discovered to have been previously married, and sub- stantiating this doleful tale by apparently authenticated letters, obtained the confi- dence of a good family in this city. She was given full charge by her too onnfiding friends, and yesterday while they were absent the lady from the Hub disappeared, taking with her $200 worth of jewellery and $20 in cash. ' And at Least 750,000 Drowned by the Mighty Waters. We learn, in a semi-reliable way, that Miss Katie Lee, formerly of this place, was married in Monticello last Sunday to a Mr. Ezell. Whether Miss Katie was married or not she is a beautiful young lady of rare accomplishments and would make a charming companion. We Wish Miss Katie, or Mrs. Ezell, as the facts may warrant, a merry Christmas and many, many happy New Years.â€"Camon Advance. Graphic Details of the Terrible Calamity in China. HORRIBLE SUFFERINGS 0F SURVIVORS The Rats Had a Bed of Greenbacks. MILLIONS OF PEOPLE HOMELESS, A VI LL AINOUS ONSLAUGHT. THE YORK HERALD. VOL XXX A Georgia Society Itenl. Samaritans Taken In. Physicians are just now having a crush of patients who have, or think they have, throat troubles and are afraid of cancer. The trouble of Germany’s Crown Prince has started up a regular cancer scare, and physicians are profiting thereby. Some years ago, just after the death of Charley BackusY Ricardo, and Floyd, all from kid- ney troubles, there was a similar scare among theatrical people about kidney diseases. They went to the doctors in flocks, many of them possessed with the idea that they too had kidney troubles. A singular fact in the experience of one physician was that of the scores of actors who Visited him none of those who were sure they were afflicted had any trouble. Three actors there were, however, who submitted to the customary examination in a spirit of fun. Every one of them had the trouble they hadn’t expected to find. and two of them have since died of Bright’s disease. The physician in ques- tion does not know what became of the third.â€"N. 1’. Times. A Bachelor, Aged 74, Sued by a Maiden Schoollnarm of 38 for $5,000 Dmnages. Miss Sarah H. Chellis, 38 years of age, and a teacher in one of the public schools of Watertown, New York, has sued John B. Chapman, aged 74, for $5,000 damages, alleged to have been sustained by reason of his reins 1,1 to make her his bride. Miss Chellis is a rather prepossessing lady and quite prominent in social circles. She alleges that her aged lover agreed to marry her in June, 1886. Afterward it was arranged between them that the affair be postponed until Sept. 15th. From that date it was again set down for the 22nd day of the same month. Then she learned that he had taken it upon himself to break off the match entirely. So she sued him. Mr. Chapman is a bachelor, and lives with , a maiden sister, on a farm in the town of ‘ Rodman, 12 miles from the abode of Miss Chellis. He has got lots of land and plenty of money, yet he has thereputation of being the most parsimonious individual in his town. He is afflicted with rheumatism, bowed with age, and his dress on most occasions would stamp him as an inmate of the county house. Altogether, he is one of the most unattractive and ungainly lovers that Cupid has ever tackled. The people of \Vatertown are quite familiar with the face and figure of Mr. Chapman. His custom in years past has been to come to town in summer barefooted and ragged. When the cold blasts of winter swept down from the Adirondacks he did not surprise those who knew him because he put in an appearance without an overcoat, and wearing a straw hat. While courting Miss Chellis he thought a new suit of clothes was necessary to help along his little affair of the heart, so he bought or hired them. As the new outfit was only for the eyes of the lady in question, very few people saw him well-dressed. His custom was to come to town in his old and tattered clothing, which he exchanged for the new only long enough to pay his re- spects to his lady love ; so Miss Chellis saw him in one garb and the people saw him in another, These are only a few peculiarities of the aged wooer. In his answer to the complaint of Miss Chellis, Mr. Chapman denies the promise to marry, and says he is afflicted with rheumatism, disease of the kidneys, has fits, falls down unconscious, remaining so several minutes at a time. In spite of all these alarming symptoms it is believed that the defendant will be on hand and make a vigorous de- fence when the case comes to trial at the March term of the Supreme Court. White vests are growing numerous in full dress evening assemblies of men, and while most of them are plain, many are elaborately embroidered in white. They are out very wide and low, so as to amount to little else than a frame around the shirt bosom. Umbrellas are not the most abused of man’s belongings, after all. They are not mislaid or lost half as often aegoloshes are, if the statements of those who keep public resorts be true. Men leave their rubbers and arctics everywhere that they stay any length of time, in the theatres,hotels, cafes, barber shops, and even the railroad waiting rooms. For every umbrella left in such places many pairs of foot covering are gathered up on every day that it rains. Deerskins are in demand among glove- mukers, who find the glove made of this material very popular just now. These skins when made up look like undressed kids, but are extremely soft and pliable. Cossacks Routed by Women. A squadron of Cossacks were quartered at Tatio, near Yelisavetpol (Gendje), in Armenia, Russia. They said they had come to draft the whole male population of the village and make them soldiers. That“ was too much for the patience of the females to stand. They took up sticks, brooms, hoes, hatchets, pokers, anything they could lay hands on, and marched against these wholesale manufacturers of grass-widowhood. The Cossacks, declining to fight the women. were put to flight. The women, encouraged by their success, pro- ceeded to lay siege to the Government building, and the Mayor was not able to appease their wrath. He telegraphed to the Governor. who despatched a few more I luadrons of horse to restore pea-e. During the night, however, the excitement of the women had cooled down and there was no more fight in them. An $800 Egg. At Mr. J. C. Stevene' auction rooms, in King street, Covent Garden, this week, a large number of ornithologists assembled to Witness the sale of an egg of the great auk. Before offering the lot Mr. Stevens remarked that in 1880 two eggs of this bird, both of which had been broken, were sold by him, and that they fetched 100 and 102 guineas respectively. Of the recorded eggs twenty-five were in eighteen museums and fortonne in nineteen private collectionafl forty-three out of sixty-six being in Great Britain. The first bid of 50 guineas was made by a. well-known ornithologist, and this was followed by 60 guineas from Mr. L. Field, to whom the egg was eventually knocked down at 160 guineas.â€"London Times. ‘ Dr. Gross, of Geneva, has lately experi- mented with himself in hanging. His ex- periments established that the sensations were only warmth and a; burning in the head, Without convulsions. Of course, his experiments didn’t go very far. ' Big Lake, near Osceola, Ark, usually forty miles long and eleven wide, has shrunk, in consequence of a. protracted draughtw to dimensions of less than two miles, and the weteris so shallow that men wade in and kill the fish, which are very numerous, by means of clubs. FUNNY BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT. RICHMOND HILL THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1888 ‘s Belongings. Imaginary Ills. vice ‘2” “What do I demand?” said the lad, smiling. “Nothing. A fine thing thaw would be, indeed! And then, if it were for the Germans, I would not do it on any terms. But for our men! I am a Lom- bard 1” “ Good! Then up with you!” t o “Wait a moment till I take off my shoes.” He pulled off his shoes, tightened the girth of his trousers, flung his cap on the grasi a._nd clasped the trunk ofithe ash: “And will you be able to tell me What you see up there, if there are Austrian sol- diers in that direction, clouds of dust, gleaming guns, horses ‘2” “ Certainly I shall.” “ What do you demand for this sen “ Have you seen any Austrians pass ?" “ No, not for these three days.” The officer paused a while and thcrght. Then he leaped from his horse, and leaving his soldiers there with their faces turned toward their foe, he mounted to the not The house was low. From the roof only a small tract of country was visible. “ It will be necessary to climb the trees,” Add the officer, and descended. Just in front of the garden plot rose a very slender and lofty ash tree, which was rocking its crest in the azure. The officer stood a. brief space in thought, gazing now at the tree and then a.t the soldiers. Then suddenly he asked the lad, “ Is your sight good, you monkey ?” “ Mihe ?” replied the boy. “ I can a young sparrow a. mile away.” ” Are you good for a. climb to the top of this tree ‘2” “ To the top of this tree, I ‘2 I will be up that? inrhalf & minute." H “ Take careAnow,” exclaimed the officer, making a. movement to hold him back, as tllthgh seized witgh a. Vsudden terror. THe boy turned to look at him, with his handsome blue eyes, as though interrogat- ing him. The lad, in order to see better, removed his right hand from the tree, and shaded his eyes with it. “ What do you see?” said the officer. The boy inclined his head toward him, and making a speaking trumpet of his hand, replied, “ Two men on horseback on the white road.” “ At what distance from here ‘2” “ Half a mile.” “Are they moving ?” “ They are standing still.” “What else do you see ?” asked the ofii- cer, after a momentary silence. ” Look to theright.” _ In a. few moments the boy was at the top of the tree twined round the trunk, with his legs among the leaves, but his body displayed to View, and the sun beat- ing down on his blonde head,which seemed to be of gold. The officer could hardly see him, so small did he seem up there. 7‘ No matter,” said the officer. “ Up with you 1” Up went the lad like a. cat. “ Keep watch ahead,” shouted the officer to the soldiers. The boy looked to the right. Then he said, “Near the cemetery, among the trees, there is something glittering. It seems to be bayonets.” “Do you see men?” “No; they must be concealed in the grain.” “ What are you doing here ?” the officer asked him, raining in his horse. “ Why did you not; flee_wit}_{ ygur fg‘gnily ?:’ “’1 have no family"," said the boy, “ I am a. foundling. I do a. little work for everybody. I remained here to see the war.” “Look straight ahead afnd far away,” shouted the officer. In 1859, during the war for theliberation of Lombardy, a few days after the battle of Solferino and San Martino, won by the French and Italians over the Austrians, on a beautiful morning in the month of June, a little band of cavalry of Saluzzo was pro- ceeding at a slow pace along a retired path I in the direction of the enemy, and explor- ing the country attentively. The troop was commanded by an officer and a sergeant, and all were gazing into the distance ahead of them with eyes fixed, silent and pre- pared at any moment to see the uniforms of the enemies’ advance posts gleam White before them through the trees. In this order they arrived at a rustic cabin sur- rounded by ash trees, in front of which stood a solitary boy, about 12 years old, who was removing the bark from a small branch with a knife, in order to make him- self a stick of it. From one window of the little house floated a large tri-colored flag. There was no one inside. The peasanthad fled after hanging out the flag, for fear of the Austrians. As soon as the lad saw the cavalry he filing aside his stick and raised the flag. He was a handsome boy, with a bold face and large, blue eyes and long golden hair. He was in his shirt sleeves and his breast was bare. ' At that moment the sharp whizz of a bullet passed high up in the air and died awaxiu the_distance behind the house. 7‘ They are aétuélly aiming at me 1” he exclaimed. The bullet had passed at a. short distance from him. ” Down !” shouted the officer, imperious and irritated. “ I will come down presently, but the tree shelters me. Do not fear. You want 0 know what there is to the left ?” “ Come down, my lad,” shouted the ofi‘icer ; “ they have seen you. I do not want anything more. Come down.” “ I am not afraid,” replied the boy. “ Come down,” repeated the officer. ” What else do you see to the left 2‘” “ To the left ‘2” “ Yes, to the left.” The lad turned his head to the left. At that moment another whistle, more acute and lower than the first, cut the air. The boy was thoroughly_aroused. “ Yes, to the left,” answered the officer, “ but come down.” “ To the left,” shouted the lad, thrusting his body out in that direction, “ yonder, wh_ere_ there‘is a. chapel, I think I see “â€" A short, fierce whistlepassed through the air; and, almost instantaneously,the boy was seen to descend,catchin for a moment at the trunk and branches, and then falling headlong, with arms outspread. The oflicer ram up. The boy lay stretched upon his back. with arms outspread. A stream of blood flowed from his breast on the left. The sergeant and two soldiers leaped from their horses. The officer bent over and opened his shirt. The ball had entered his left lung. “ He is dead!” exclaimed the officer. “No, he still lives,” replied the sera geant: ‘ V “ Ah, poor boy, brave boy I" cried the officer, “ Courage, courage I” But while he was mying “ courage ” he was pressing his handkerchief on the wound. The 'boy rolled his eyes and dropped his head back. He was dead. The officer turned pale, and stood for a. moment gazing at him. Then THE LITTLE VIDETTB. Wonderful Experiments of a Parisian Doctor on His Subject. The amphitheatre of the Charite Hospital in Paris was crowded the other day with persons who had been invited to witness the experiments of hypnotism made by Dr. Luys, member of the Academy of Medicine. Rafore introducing Mlle. Esther, his sub» flit, the doc-tor showed his auditors photoâ€" graphs illustrating the effects produced on her in his laboratory. Mlle. Esther was then brought forward. By the means of magnetic passes the doctor throws her from a state of lethargy into a cataleptic condition, and then into a state of lucid somnambulism. Dr. Luys placed a tube containing hashish on her neck, and she seemed instantly to feel the effect of the narcotic preparation. She assumed a natural air and soon went straight toward Dr. Reclus, who was present, and proposed to perform the “ Masootte ” with him. The doctor was rather annoyed by the pre- ference shown him by Mlle. Esther, so Dr. Luys diverted her attention from him to Dr. Segond, who consented to play the part of Pippa, while Mlle. Esther took the part of the Mascotte. He sat down beside her, whereupon she promptly kissed him. “Now sing,” said Dr. Luys, holding the tube to her neck, and she began at once, stopping short when the tube was withdrawn. At sunset the whole line of Italian ad- vance posts marched forward toward the foe. Along the same road which had been traversed in the morning by the detach- ment of cavalry there proceeded in two files a heavy battalion of sharpshooters, who a few days before had valiantly watered the hill of San Martino with blood. The news of the boy’s death had already spread among the soldiers when they left the encampment. The path flanked by a rivulet, ran a few paces dis- tant from the house. When the first oflicers of the battalion caught sight of the little body stretched at the foot of the ash tree and covered with the tri-colored banner, they made a salute to it with their swords ; and one of them bent over the bank of the streamlet, which was covered with flowers at that spot, plucked a couple of blossoms and threw them on it. Then all the sharp- shooters, as they passed, plucked flowers and threw them on the body. In a few moments the boy was covered with flowers, and officers and soldiers all saluted him as they passed by: “Bravo, little Lom- hard 1" “Farewell, my 1M1 1" u I salute thee, gold looks!” “Hurrah!” “ Glory l” “ Farewell 1” One officer tossed him his medal for valor, another went and kissed his brow ; and flowers continued to rain down on his bare feet, on his blood-stained breast, on his golden head. And there he lay asleep on the grass, enveloped in his flag, with a white and almost smiling face. poor boy, as though he heard these salutes and was glad he had given his life for his Lombardyâ€"Cums. Dr. Luys then begged Dr. Reclus to place himself behind the young woman, and to put the tube on her neck and then gradually take it away. Mlle. Esther began again to sing; but in proportion as the tube was taken further and further from her her voice became fainter and fainter, till it died away entirely. She then fell, in a cataleptic condition, into the arms of the hospital assistants, who were behind her. Dr. Luys made other experiments upon Mlle. Esther. By looking at her he made her follow with her eyes an imaginary bird in the air, and at last she thought she had caught it in her hands. Then, by making her look down, the doctor frightened her by making her imagine there was a serpent at her feet. The most remarkable dlsplay was when Dr. Luys placed a tube contain. ing 10 grammes of essence of thyme on Mile. Esther’s neck. In a few moments her face became purple, her arms and hands stiff, and the neck swelled out in a most extraordinary manner. From 31 centimetres it grew by the contraction on the muscles to 35. The suffering seemed to be intense. and when the tube was taken away the patient was two minutes at least before returning to a state of lethargy.# London Standard. A doctor in the Kansas City Star says : During the past two days I have treated several people for frozen hands and feet. In one or two cases Ihave found it very difficult to treat them on account of their plunging their frozen members in hot water or hold» ing them in close proximity to a red-hot stove. The best possible way to draw out cold from frozen parts is to plunge them into ice or snow-water containing a liberal supply of saltpetre or common salt, and then submitting them to a rigorous rubbing with a coarse towel or slapping with the hands to restore circulation. In many cases amputation has been found necessary where the patient has foolishly applied hot water. “ I’m no vagrant !” he exclaimed, as he was being registered at police headquarters. “ Do you know what a vagrant is?” asked the sergeant. “ Iâ€"I guess so.” “ It is a gen- tleman out of work.” “ O-o-h ! That’sit I, Then put me down. I thought you, took me for a gentleman th‘ didn’t want to work.” â€"Dctrm’t Free Press'. They stood for a few moments: longer in silence. Then the officer turned to the sergeant and said to him : “ ‘Ve will send the ambulance for him. He died as a sol- dier, and soldiers shall bury him." Having said this, he wafted a kiss with his hand to the dead boy and shouted, “ To horse i" All sprang into the saddle. The troop drew to- gether and resumed its route. A few hours later‘the little dead boy received the honors of war. Sufficient. Eirle Citizenâ€"Do you know anything about Bullwinkle, the butcher, Brown, if he is a. reliable man or not “.7 Second Citizenâ€"Well, I say this much for Bullwinkle. I’ve bought sausages of him for over five years.â€"Atl(mta Constitu- tion. Then he approached the house, removed the tri-color from the window and spread it in guise of a funeral pull over the little dead boy, leaving his face uncovered. The sergeant collected the dead boy’sshoes, cap, his little stick and his knife and placed them beside him. The statement of the public debt of the Dominion on December slat shows total liabilities of $274,710,702, with alleged assets of $47,290,792, leaving a, total net debt of $227,419,910. “ Pbor boy,” repeated the officer, “ poor, briYe bo_y l” he laid him down carefully on his cloak upon the grass, then rose and stood looking at him. The sergeant and two soldiers also stood motionless, gazing upon him. The rest were facing in the direction of the enemy. How to Treat Frost Bites. HYPNOTIC TEST. He Was Put Down. NS Tee” WHOLE NO 1,536 NO. 29. The other day, at Westerhall, Dumfries- shire, Sir F. J.W. Johnstone, Lord Dudley, Lord Gray de Wilton and Mr. Baring shot in five hours 1,000 pheasants, eight wood- cock and seventy hares and rabbitsâ€"Albout one kill per minute to each gun. Mr. Cochran-Patrick, ex-M. P. for North Ayrshire, has been appointed to the perâ€" manent Under-Secretatyahip for Scotland in succession to Sir Francis Sandford. Rev. J. Robertson, Stonehaven, continues to announce his sermons in a. sensational way. On the 11th ult. his subjects wereâ€"â€" “ Have you had your photo taken ‘2" and “ A 1 at the Devils.” On Dec. 17th the remains of the late Sir Francis Grant, Bart. of Monymusk, Aber- deenshire, were interredin the family vault in the churchyard of Monymurk. The pan-bearers included the Earl of Aberdeen. Mr. Robert Inglis, of Gall & Inglis,pub- lishers, Edinburgh, died at his residence in Dick Place on the 212i; 1111:. Mr. Inglis took a. great interest in the working classes, and for many years took a. leading part in the work of the Cnnongate In- stitute. " A Lady‘s Dilemma. (New York Letter.) It’s all very well to go on discovering new tricks in electricity, and new laws in political economy, and new cures for dys- pepsia and things like that, but science has to turn its attention to finding out some new kind of patent which will enable a woman to tell when she has her hat fixed on her hair or her cloak fixed to her figure. It’s a good thing women are not absent- minded about dress,or many of them would go home looking like guys. It was ina fash- ionable restaurant last week. A lady was sitting eating lunch, and the place was full. Suddenly there was a commotion. The waiter came up. The lady was looking under the chair, and the table. and at all the hats and cloaks hanging up. She had lost something. “ Waiter, where is my cloak ? ” “ Your cloak, madam? I do not know." “ I took my cloak off when I sat down. It has been stolen, I have been robbed.” The late Mr. James Smith, the poet and story writer, was a. member of Buccleuch Church, Edinburgh. Dr. Adameon con- ducted the service at his funeral, which was largely attended by representatives of all classes. He was interred in the Grange Cemetery. The result of the recent heavy orders for shipbuilding on the Clyde has been to stiffen the steel market, and an advance in the price of all classes of steel is now quoted. It is estimated that contracts are now in hand on the Clyde for 150,000 tons of new» steel shipping. The trial of Dr. Phillip Henry Eustace Cross, of Shandy Hall, for the murder, in June last, of his wife, closed in Cork on Dec. 17th. He had administered in succes- sive doses arsenic and strychnine. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to be hung. Everybody was attracted to the scene. Everybody looked up and down, allover the house. No cloak ! The lady was in a rage. Suddenly somebody happened to catch hold of something on the back of her dress. It was her cloak, and it was tied around her waist, and hung where she had thrown it off, gracefully on her bustle. There’s an awful lot of human nature in very small episodes. Late Church Notes. In the Irish Presbyterian Church the Rev. Dr. Carson, Keady, commenced his jubilee year in September, Rev. Thomas Beare in February, Rev. Alexander Can- ning in October; Rev. James Budd com- leted his jubilee in February, and Rev. ames White, Garrickfergus, entered his on the last day of December, 1887. Rev. Samuel Finlay, for thirty-seven years minister of Kilraughts, county Antrim, isiflfmd1 'The death is announced of Sir Robert Montgomery, K. C. B., formerly Chief Commissioner of Oude and Lieutenant Governor of the Punjaub. He was born in Londonderry in 18709: There has been a fatal outbreak of measles in the small population of the island of Cape Clear. In one family all have died but one, and in another all the male members have succumbed. The remains of the late Prof. Balfour Stewart, formerly professor of Natural Philosophy in Owen‘s College, Manchester, were on the 23rd ult. interred in Bally- magarvey, near Droghetla. A Application was made recently on behalf of Rev. Henry Bartraml vicar of St. George’s, Ramsgate, for a license to per- form stage plays at a theatre which has been transformed into a parish hall. The exits being good, a provisional license for three months was granted. The vicar has this week commenced his career as a responsible theatrical manager. The Queen has intimated that the pre- rogative of mercy, so far as Scotland is con- cerned, should in future be exercised by the Secretary for Scotland. There were great rejoicings on the 14th ult. at Tillyfour, on the occasion of the marriage of Miss Begg to Mr. W. R. Reid, advocate, Aberdeen. Jay Gould has left Rome and will go to Palestine on his yacht. The Princess Metternich, famous in Paris for her magnificent attire, is now astonishing the French capital by her shabby dress. John J acob Astor has given his son, the sax-Minister to Italy, a. magnificent lum- mer residence at New ort, facingthe ocean. The gift is value& at 400,000. The oity of Santa Barbara, 03]., is pav. ing State street with bituminous rock at ccpsj of $160,000. At a. concert in the Trades’ Hall, Glas- gow, the other night some miscreants utterly destroyed severaldozens of silk hats in the cloak room. Mr. Alex. Anderson (known as a poet as “ Surfaceman”) has accepted the post as subAlibrarian in the University Library, Edinburgh. Dr. Thomson, medical officer of health, Aberdeen, has been appointed medical officer of health for Sheflfield. Salary, £500 per annum. On the 11th ult. Widow Mary Brandy or Kennedy, Longacre, died, aged 101 years. Her sister Agnes died last year, aged 106 years. There died at Edinburgh, on the 15th 11112., suddenly, Prof. Wm. Robertson, Prin- cipal Royal Veterinary College, aged 56 years. OLD WORLD NEWS BY MAIL. Latest From Ireland. Latest Scottish Gossip. Personal. Did you ever study the cheapness of some pleasures? Do you know how little it takes to make a multitude happy ? Such trifles as a penny, a word, or a smile do the work. You employ a manâ€"pay him cheer- fully, and speak a pleasant word to him, and he leaves your house with a contented heart, to light up his own hearth with smiles of gladness. As you pass along the street you meet a familiar faceâ€"say, “ Good morning,” as though you felt happy, and it will work admirably in the heart of your neighbor. Pleasure is cheap â€"-who will not bestow it liberally ? If there are smiles, sunshine and flowers all about us, let us not grasp them with a mieer’s fist and look them up in our hearts. No. Rather let us take them and scatter them about us, in the cot of the widowI among the groups of children, in the orowde mart where the men of business congregate, in our families and everywhere. We can make the wretched happy, the discontented cheerful, the afflicted resigned, at an ex- tremely cheap _rate. Who will refuse to do it ? Henry Sharstein, the artist employed to make the life-size emblematic figures over the boxes in the new Music Hall at Buflalo, N.Y., has been surrounded by grave difli- culties since he began the work. He wished to make designs for certain nude figures and advertised for female models. Modest Buffalo did not seem to comprehend his re- quirements. Various women answered his advertisement, but when they finally oom- prehended the full duty of an artist’s model they were shocked and angered. The un- lucky Sharstein was nearly thrashed by the elder brother of a young woman who wished to be a model only so far as her face was concerned. A maiden lady of an uncertain age went into hysterics when she realized what was required of her. One enraged mother threatened to have Sharstein ar- rested for insulting her daughter. Finally the perplexed artist was obliged to send to New York city for models. Sausage a Cure for Dyspepsia. “ Everything I eat in the morning dis‘ agrees with me, doctor,” remarked a patient a few days ago. “ It has come to a point at last when, if I take any solid food before noon. it becomes a source of heavy discomfort.” “ Have you ever tried any home-made sausage ‘7” “No, why I could never digest that, doctor, it is too greasy.” “ Well, perhaps so,” was my answer, “ but, as some really good results have shown up lately, I would like you to try it.” And, sure enough, the highly seasoned fatty food was quietly digested, and proved just the required morning meal. It is worth trying in every case of forenoon dyspepsia when ordinary diet failsâ€"Dr. Richardson, in American Magazine. A correspondent sends the following notes from which, he explains, a possible explanation of the formation of natural gas might be elaborated : fat. Atempemture of about 960 degrees F. will convert water into oxygen and hyfirggeg gases. '2nd: Tlfé temperature of the earth in- creases at the rate of one degree F. to every fifty feet downward from the surface. 31d. At a depth of lésé’tfin 10 miles the temperature will be sufficiently high to (/13: campus: _wa:te_1j.“ ’ " ' ” "’ 4th. The difference in com osition of natural gas (from that of ecompoaed water) may be accounted for by its coming in contact with a. variety of different ele- ments after formation. This theory is not new but is still held by many, though rejected by some of its old- time adherents. Our correspondent says : “ It may be difficult to show that water reaches that depth,” and he adds : “ Would the pressure of surrounding elements pre- vent the decomposition of water ?” H“ any one any explanation to offer? The Gush which Greets the Giddy Debu- tante. This is about the time of the year when debutantes make their appearance in . Washington society and ensnare the effec- tions of the young men who write for the western papers. One of the buds is de- scribed this way in a morning journal to- day : “ A trifle over medium height, she has a slender,willowy form, and her cheeks are full of the warm. red blood of the west- ern plains. She has beautiful dark-brown eyes and her rich growth of hair hangs down in fluffy waves above a forehead in- tellectual in its cast. She has a beautiful mouth and her face is full of soul. She thinks ‘The Marble Faun ’ is one of the prettiest things in literature. She likes both Shelley and Longfellow very much," etc. 0 paragon of female loveliness and intellectuality! Stately girl, with lissome figure I Are your cheeks full of the “ warm", red blood of the western plains” because your papa quenches his thirst in that liquid ? Or is the blood of the western plains redder or warmer than any other blood ? Where did your face acquire the soul it is full at ‘7 Is it pleasanter to have one’s face full of soul than full of gum ? At what foundry was your intellectual forehead cast? Do you really think “ The Marble Faun ” is “ pretty?” And isn’t “ Paradise Lost ” nice ‘1 And did you ever read a lovelier poem than the " Odyssey ?” No wonder you like Longfellow and Shelley. They so much resemble each other. And how does the ” Children of the Abbey " strike you for classical prose? And what do you think of the young genius who gave you the above-mentioned startling send-off, if we may use a term which is popular amc ng your father’s constituents in far-away Kansas, who know more about warm- blooded, red-blooded steers, grasshoppers. drug stores and cyclones than they do about Shelley, Longfellow and the “ pretty" works of Hawthorne ‘Iâ€"Ohicago News. Worse than Volapuk. The eyes were made to read from right to left. Try it and see how much more easy it is. It is natural, and the mode of writing and reading should be changed back to the ancient practice that conforms to nature.â€"0akland Tribune. The mule has ground for a slander suit against the Louisiana orator who called him " the Mugwump of the nnimal kingdom.” A little ceremony grave, A little struggle to be brave, A little cottage on the lawn, A little kissâ€"my girl is gone! A little mufi for wintr weather, A little jockey-hat an feather, A little see with funny pockets. A little chain, a ring and locketl. A little while to dance and bow, A little escort homewnrd now, A little party somewhat late. A little lingering at the gate. A little walk in leafy June, A little talk while shines the moon, A little reference to papa. A little planning with mamme. A little corner with its crib, A little mug, a. spoon, a. bib, A little tooth so pearly white, A little rubber ring to bite. A little plate all lettered round, A little rattle to resound; A little creepingâ€"see, she stands! A little step ‘thxt outstretched hands. A little doll with flaxen hair, A little willow rocking-chair. A little dress of richest hue, A little pair of guitars blue. A little school day after day. A little “school ma‘am" to obey. A little studyâ€"soon 'tis past. A little graduate at last. An Artist’s Dilemma. Origin of Natural Gas. A CHICAGO CYNIC. Pleasure is Cheap. Her Life.