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BUILT OVER 500 MILES and this year over 500 miles. Mr. Van Horn can make good his boast of closing in 1885, if he uses the force be had in 1882 and works from both east and west; but in no other case. In the event of working solely from the eastern end the time of comple- tion would be prolonged for very likely a year and certainly for six months. And now another matter. The writer has little reason to thank the syndicate for any favor while in their service. Yet truth demands and the fact remains, that they have carried on their operations with commendable energy and an apparent desire to fulfill not only the letter but the spirit of their agreement with the Government. The reasons, or rather one reason for the many conflicting newspaper accounts, is that when the relocating en- gineers arrived on the ground last spring it was found that many important changes could be made and these changes are still in course of operation. It is possible for any one en ineer to better to some extent the work 0 his predecessors; this is acknow- ledged among all practicable men ; so much So much has lately been written on moun- tain passes with so vast a divergence of geo-~ graphy and opinion that it might be well to give a description of the valley of the Bow river to the menth of the pans and continua- tion. The Bow river is a. atream about 300 feet wide, and flows with a velocity of four to five miles an hour at Calgary. 11: outs its may through the foot hills in a series of bends, an in too shallow for navigation above 03.1- gary, though below that point it might be .used during floods for steamexs of two-feet blight. .- .. u u ., .1 FAMOUS ’ XICKING HORSE PASS difl‘ers little from many others, excepting, perhaps, that it is more costly to build a road through owing‘to its abruptdescent. Major Rogers fixes its altitude at 5,309. feet, and taking the crossing of the Columbia river at 2309 feet above sea level, we have a, descent of 3,000 feet to make, and a. distance of 50 miles to make it in. This would give, roughly, 60 feet to the mile. a fair gradi- ent. §o much much for the Kicking Horse, the crossing of the Columbia being a simple matter of brid ving. The line the commences to scale the Selkirks. Mr. Sanford Flem- ing. late engineer, has reported on the. FEASIBILITY or THE ENTIRE DISTAKCE across the Selkirks, and he doubtless not only had com lete access to the plan and profiles, but ad aneroid and other means of trying if the impossible existed»; though very often the engineer, through practice and training can readily determine by mere inspection the teasibility of any route. .- The" total distance across the Selkirks is 63 miles, and again the Columbia river is crossed at the entrance to Eagle pass. There isnothing at all formidable in this last pass. This writer has carefully examined it throughout: it has no abrupt descents. either east or west ; its length is 45 miles to the great Shaswep lake. From this last point there are no great engimering difficulties to vicinity of Kamloops, some 80 to 85 miles more from this last point. Thorough sur- veys made by Government have determined the perfect feasibility [or road making‘eon. nection with the present contract (Under- donk’s) at Savona ferry. The distance of road to be built next year would be from summit of Rockies to Colum- bia river. east crossing, 50 miles across the Selkirk range ; 65 miles to west crossing Columbia : west crossing Columbia. to Shut;- wap lake 45 miles : total to be built to con nect. with the navigable water system of the Shuswap lakes. Thompson river, and Kam- loo s lake to Sevens ferry, end of 0nder- do ’s contracts, 160 miles ; water stretch Shuswap lake to Savona. ferry, about 115 miles; total mileage the Canadian Pacific railway have to complet to reach the Curie!- donk contract, 275, say 280 miles. In 1882 the company Directly the” summit is passed the Kicking Horse river commences to tumble down to the Columbia, and here some difficult and excessively heavy work was met with, but nothing atall impracticableto the east cross- ng of the Columbia. river. a further dis- tance from-the summit of 50 miles. In the writer’s experience it has always been easy to obtain any altitude for a railway line with fair work in any portion of B. 0.. but when it came to the descent is great many. rungs were wanted in the ladder. -‘ In other» words the whole bottom of tho- country appeared to drop out, and it is the clinging business that costs: * Mountains do not present re- gular slopes and the numerous streams that ow down their sides present deep ravines that in descending become wider and more formidable. This is always theease on the interior slopes of the Rockies, the 'Selkirks, and the most of all the‘Cascades. .The now ENTRANCE Tourms PASS is exceedingly easy, and thence continuing up ~the Bow river almost to the summit, a. dia~ twee of 70 miles from the mouth of the pass (Paamore’s) the work_ is vqry ligf‘le heayier Bow River, Klekmg' Horse, Selkirk Rogers Pass and Eagle Pass) ‘ to Junction with endu- denk’s Contract. Calgary, the future Sacramento of‘ the North-\Vest, is situated on the Bow river, 127 miles from the summit of line far- famed Kicking Horse pass, and 177 miles from the east crossing or the Columbia river. Ap- proaching Calgary (mm the east the travel- ler is struck by the peculiar beauty of its situatitn; It seems to nestle at the foot of the serrated snow peaks that appear to over- hang the town. though they are forty miles away. The Bow river, clear as crystal, winding thruogh the grass-covered flats, and the back-ground of timbered slopes reaching up to‘ the eternal, making a. fairy picture. Sunrise and sunset at Calgary are too gor- geous and grand a. display ever to be ade-, quately described, and when the silver moon- hesms tip the icy peaks sentiment runs riot. Far away to the east 6faih§ry prairie work: (The writer had access to the profiles of this work in 0039ber,_188_2), ’ ' THE BOUNDLESS PRAIRIE Itretches, and the winding valley of the Bow with its tree-cu'éred slopéa completes the pitifure. The construction of the railway line to the entrance of the Bow river pass was a. very timple matter ; the writer, ,then in the em- ploy of the C. P. R. 00., recommended the crossing and recrossing of the Bow to avoid excessive work, but generally that the line be carried up the right or south bank, where it is at present constructed. The CALGARY. ' Our Lord God is like. a. plinter, who sets the letters backward. We'see and feel him not: the t pas well, but we cannot read them. hen we are printed ofl' yonder in the life to come. we shall read all clear and straight. Meantime. we must have pa- tience. ' There is no law in this country to prevent the consumption of hot bread but the law of common sense, and unfortunately that is a dead letter as a. governing principle in the lives of a great many people. That hot breed in nine cases out of ten wiilvproduee dyspepsia is no newly discovered fact, and especially is this terrible result sure to fol- low persistent indulgence on the part of those whose pursuits are quiet, in-door and sedentary. And yet the reformers, or those who call themselves suchâ€"the men and women who work themselves into a. white heat over the sale of a glass of ciderâ€"will go on year after year, not only making no outcry against this pernicious indulgence. but actually filling themselves up day by day with the hoe-and poisonous gases of the oven. This servant of the housewife can be made as terrible a. stomach-destroyer as the distillerypsnd thersworn toes of‘ thornsth are “apt to be its best patrons. Dyspepsia paints the nose and soars the temper as surely as dram drinkin . and many sufferers from the former, thong hy their own will- At the present moment Brazil has a slave population of about 1,300,000. Besides these she has a large population of blacks, and from 250,000‘ to 300,000 free-born children of slaves. The future of these people is a. question of no alight import- ance to Brazil. for it is the alternative be- tween transforming them into free laborers, or permitting them to drift into a. life of idleness, beggary and crime. Thus far the planters have been considering only their selfish, immediate interests, and have over looked the problem of what is to be done with the emancipated slaves in the future. Elsewhere they have made the same mistake -â€"as in the West Indiesâ€"and they have paid dearly for the error. The immediate suc- cess of the Centagallo colony is an eloquent proof of how easily these ('5: slaves can be transformed into free laborers, and if this one example does not lead to others of a similar character it will be because the planters are both blind and perverse and do not want their old slaves to get on in the world.~:â€"Ria de Janeiro News. ment. Va): Horn believes in improving a1- ignment and curvature employing differ- ent engineers-to the very v moment; in fact, taking every foot of advantage the ‘Tgrgund afl‘ogdaL andrpejs right. ' Hi5 family, to obtain his release,» used their utmost. influence to prevent the mili- tary authorities from pursuing the brigande until the ransom had been safely paid and received. The band liberated their victim after having conducted him on foot for :a considerable distance, to the territory of Caetellamire, where a, peasaht’s house had indicated to him, whence he would be con- ducted by the inmates to Trapa-ni, about twenty miles distant. V at his ca. tors’ dictation. a letter to his family, as ing'them to send the above nam- ed ransom. In‘ the evening, the journey was resumed, and, as the rain was falling iri- torrents, the duke was clad in some turpen- lin, and a. sack was thrown Over his head to protect him. The second night the party reached an abendoned'shed, where the duke was left, with a guerd’outside the door. The third night the journey wssiccntinued. and ended at the place destined beforehand for the duke’s canceelment. 1 He had "to em ter this retreat on hands and knees, through a narrow openinp. into a cave. (1 then through a second hole into"; sub rruiean grotto. Here ‘he remained for thirty ’days without an light, lyin s._ bundle of straw whic was'neverc enged. His food consisted of bread and cheese, and water. The brigands left him alone, only returning to bring him food. By the' light of a. lamp, which was, lowered from above. they forced him to write other pressing letters to his farhjly, gndudictated :whet he should say. ful acts, inveigh the most loudly against the letter. A well. defined case of jim-jams is the climax to a. course of intemperance and warns the victim that his alternative is death or imrfiegiate re ormation. ‘3 But the dys- peplia' h‘ntfhd; re’edhmince pie and kindred abominations eauso has no sudden warnings. The man who uses them goes on making both himself and thosevamund him wretched, and refuses to acknowledge that ‘he is a sinner abova these whose lighter faults he fiercely condemns, â€"Amcrécan Miller. UNPOUNDKD REPORTS calculated to injure, npt only the Cwadian Pacific Company, but the prestige 'of our whole country. will not be allowed to find places in the columns or obtain the coun- ténanee of the great lever that controls the rations. fiayfnent of {ransom of 160.000 francs by lsfamily, who never expected to see him alive again, he being very obese, advanced in agef‘ahdefflicted with a nervous malady. He’ had passed thirty-five days with the brigands, and, strange to say, the treatment he had received, though by no means pleas- ant, hai’had the efi‘~ct of completely curing him. The duke relates that in the night when he was taken he was put on horseback and made to ride till morning, when the brigands staged at a kind 0! warehouse. There he remaineglr the first day, and wrote A Naples, dispatch to the London Tele- qraph says : “The duke of Calvino, who was captured by brigands on the evening of the 4th of November in the neighborhood of Trapani, hay: Peén released by his captors on ‘SIVHHU “HULUE’ Bu“ “U ’5 llsllIh _ It is to be .‘hoped that a more patriotic spirit will animate ‘the various members of the press, and that m for the “ jealounzyr.repon,”.unless indeed the syndicate have boy engineers, in which case, no doubt, constant trouble would arise ow- ing to ingfliiérience, etc. Darin my‘ two lyears’ “wide in film company 3v no jealop‘ly, and; eltnone ;’ each mm id his beating‘thnbi' Mfihq,‘e_nd_of it. Another reason for injurious reports would be the fact of the company closing down and stopping Work for the winter. This in very easy of explanation {they have am Is time to complete Eyeir goggrmt with the oven;- “A Subject Not a Slave.” The Evils 61'" Ho’t‘fiiead. Brig‘andage in Sicily.- Herr Bummer- Daughter Takes ' Gold and-Comes to America with it1 - VGlrI friend and the » latter’s Lover. Ever since ,his birth there has lived in Munich, the oldoapital of Bevaria, a staid and respectablebarber, named Johann Rum- mel. He reared a fine daughter, named Gretchen, who, when she became 18" years ofage, had a firm friend in the daughter of a. neighbor, named Bertha Kraus. Bertha had a sister vho several yesrs ago came to America and married a young farmer, Long, at Collamer. She prospered well and sent glowing: letters of, her new home to her peo- ple in Munich. Bertha. also had a lover, who, being poor, thought he could win a fortune in the land of the free. Gretchen Rummel read many oi the letters, and also became fired with a desire to come to Am- erica. was,of.oou<r§e..willin I ‘Jteaeoempany hemand‘the ‘lhirer ‘Was' 'ea‘éh "‘ to depart at once. None of them had money enough to support them during a week’s journey, and Gretchen, whose father is con- sidered wealthy, was looked to as a refuge in this, their time of financial trouble. Slip confirmed their good opinion by stealing about 1,500 marks, or $975 in American money; from her father. “ The fond old father’s surprise and grief can better be imagined than described when he make one fine morning in last July to discover that his daughter had fled with some of his money. Margaret generously paid the pass a of both her companions to thi country. hey arrived in Cleveland, and went to the home of Mrs. Long. By this time Margaret had only $75, so lavishly had she ex ended the money on heririends during t ;; journey through the States. There warm "room for her in Mrs. Long’s family, and she' took up her abode at a boarding house. the location which she has' forgotten. To make the matter worse. she de osited her $75 with the proprietor of thep ace, and went to Cul- lamer to accept a position as servant in the family of a farmer. " Meanwhile, Herr Rum- me], in Munich, was wearing away his sur- Bios flesh in worrying about the fate of his __loved daughter. 4 month after _she had Love is n habit. ', God has given to us the love of relations and. friends, the love of father and mother, brother, sister, and friend, :0 prepare it; gradually for the love of God. It soothes and cool”. feverish patient to bathe him in warniwater in which a little aaleratus has been dissolved. croseope, they were able t3 make out the word Collamer. Yesterday they drove to Collamer and found the truent girl without difficulty. She was sincerely penitent, and her father weeforgivinz. The meeting be- tween them is said to have been quite af- fecting. ‘It was not long before the girl agreed to go back to fatherland with her perent, and they will leave the city to- morrowâ€"Cleveland Leader. ‘ â€"â€"â€"‘N<<.v>ooâ€"-â€"â€"â€"â€" How DRINKsIâ€"Dr. James H. Salisbury and Dr. Ephraim Cutter, of New York. have strongly rcommended the drinking of hot water as a. cure for special diseases of the digestive organs. The London Lancet, on the other hand, says that too frequent fomentation with hot water may permanent- ly congest the mucous membrane of the stomach and intestines, and do a. lasting in- jury. It may he quite possible that much of the prevalent indigestion and other stom- ech diseases of to-dsy are attributable to the common nee of hot‘ tea. or some dt’fier hot, drink, at every ’ disgppeggeq 118 received} letgteg from her stating thatshe was well and happy, but not mentioning the town in which she was livin . He answered, directing his letter to Cuya one county; the only name he could deciph'q‘von the envelope. Of course it never reached the girl. Finally he resolved to go in search of his daughter, and started for this country; arriving in Cleveland last Monday. He sought ‘ont an old friend in this. city“ and, by’ inspecting the. postal- thought it about time toting the r:ub, and reached down to grasp it ‘; Quit the llttle fel- low turned as quick as a out upon his back and fastened hishlaws in his throat. He held on like a'leech, while the father, who had found it impossible ' to ‘exti‘icate him- self, shouted to his son to use a. club. This was inieifectual,~however, and throttling the infant lion with his left hand, he “pressed dOWn with all his mi ht, and it Wasznot un- til he had almost kil ed the animal that the son was enabled to release the claws from his father’s neck. ', Yesterday 'M‘r.’: Pelmialf er; rived in the city with both of the animals, and caged them in Sehloss’s old building.â€" Leadvlllc Democrat. this city and by inspectin the postal- mark on hp leéter-frorg‘thg gxgrl with a. ngi- Affier a terrible struggle, Palmer; succeed- ed in suspending his prize‘ in the git, and, fastening the rope securely, he sprang from the rock and p qceeded to tie the remainder of "th_e 1}QO Accomplishing _thi_a, hg QA Rand-toggny right With the Vicious .2 41 ‘5710renture. me; illean W. Palmer came to Color- :ado end;bégap,:t6 hunt antelope and deer for a livelihood. He throws the lasso with the accuracy of a rifleman. U one Hard- scremhle wMoantfins‘ .9." ow ays'aago he halted‘ before is. half-eaten deer that had been killed by a' mountain lion. VWith a knowledge off the beset and its" habits-,- Palmer concluded that there were a lioness and her cub near by, and he determined to capturezher, and; returning to his cabin, is short dietancejl‘, assay, he procured sevaral ropes. ' Rally 9equipped,’ he proceeded cautiously,- and .- finally discoveregi the liorltfss with her onb beneath a prOJee‘tiu'iz roe . ' It was that he motionedg to his son, who follow at his heels, to stop, and in- structing him to make his appearance at a signal fromhimyhe left the pat eto mount the rock that sheltered the beast, p Reaching the summit, e'un‘c'oiled'the ropé‘ from his arm and pre ed to make the battle. The signal was given, to the bra'Ve young fellow, who made his appearance a. short distance from the lair; Z'The beast was about to leap forward, but'the father sent the loop over her head. There was a brief struggle, in which the noose was slipped, but in a second more it was~seenre upon the hind legs. The end ofethe rope had been previously thrown over the limb of a tree whose boughs spread amnnd. and the contest beggnin enmest. _ ' fillings. A GERMAN ROMANCE. country with a. baaer sort, like will draw to ‘Iiié. But it cannot be told too laixfly that for years to come' nobody no go to the North-West Abut workers,»and that almost the on] workers needed‘ue farmers. There is hard y any honest way of making a. living there excapt by taking it out of the ground. â€"â€"Rw. Principal Grant in The Week.‘ ‘ during the night. ’And we, learn as little by hearing as by seeing. The information picked up by the way, chiefly in the odd minutes at stations, is not of the most reli- able nature ; and nowhere is it so difficult to get at the truth as in the North-\N’est on either side of the boundary line. Of course, it is part of every man’s religion that the country! and his section in particular, must be cracked up. And when you point to in- difl’erett crops, or tell of hardships your friends encountered, or drawbacks undeni- ably connected with the North-West, these are at once put down to some malign genius indiflerently known he “the government,” or “the syndicate,” or “ the banks.” A man with these to fall back upon is armed at all times. He has a; complete Ready Reckoner, and is saved the trouble of thinking, while he has the comfort of khow- ing that somebodyâ€"against whom he'has no personal ill-willâ€"is to-blame for every calam- ity. His casual judgment is satisfied, and at the same time his patriotism and self-re- spect are preserved intact. Fortunately. I was not dependent for information ‘on the only sources open to flying visitors. I had visited the country three times and spent several weeks chiefly in farmers’ houses, and ‘ hadylea‘rned something of the hard facts of 3 the case. ’It igno use blinding our eyes to ‘ the truth that the sun of the North-W'est ; has its spots. Ten or‘eleven years ago I ‘ could get few to believe that there was any- thing good there- Two years ago few won (1 allow that there was anything bad. By and by we shall understand that like every othe- coun'ry it is a mixture of good and bad.. We maybe thankful for enormous areas of good land.’ vast fertile plains that shall be an inheritance for our children's children, unless we go on begging strangersâ€"pin mercy ‘to usâ€"to come and enter on possession of 160 acres apiece, without necessarily fancy- inz that it is better than Ontario of Nova Scotia. I, for one, would be very thankful for another Ontario. The North-West has many disadvantages. The one that will be felt most sorely for many a day was the “boom” of' two ears ago that unsettled values and demote ized the people. Floods, grasshoppers, early frosts, monopolies and chameleon land policies havew been ,small evils compared to the drinking and gambl- ing. the rage for speculating engendered, the laying out of imaginary’town sites and consequent cheating by wholesale, the for- mation of wildcat compinies, the fictitious value everywhere, the attempt to build up towns before‘there was any country to sup- port them, and all the other evils connected with the craza to get money suddenly, to get it without working, and to get it at other people’s expense. Gray-haired men seemed to lose not only their old-fashioned honesty, but their senses. They talked as if half a million cr a million people couldbe poured. into a'conntr'y by one road in a year of five or six months, and a. wilderness of stubborn glehe turned into the garden of the . Lord by affixing names to town sites and 10-7 eating railway stations. HThe settlement of 1 the North-West will take time, and the ‘ we (sign the 963111- 3 - a Gardeners understand the good effect that turning up the soil late in the Fall has upon them“ year’s crop; has there are many othersâ€"those who have small gardens, and in this class are many of our well-to do farmersâ€"who, by neglecting this work, only raise half a crop of vegetables, and these of an inferior quality, and than they wonder why their more knowing neighbor: do so much better. Try in the'efid." Ihtending settlers, too, had better make up their minds to endure hard- ships or stay at home, for they need not ex- pect to escape what has been, and always will be, the fate of the ‘average immigrant. The men who made Ontario and the other older Provinces were of the right stuff. So are the men who settled in Minnesota and Dakota, hardy N orwegian‘s, Swedes, Welsh- men, Canadian, who lived at first on pota- toes and milk, and were blind to the neces- sity for completing railways before they had obtained patent; for homestende. The change wrought by them on the appearance of» these prairie States inâ€"tenyears is marvel- 0115. Men of the same stamp have gone in- to our Nonth-West, and unless we flood the A crowd of spectators were recently amused by the gambols of a large ape that was lotding it over a. number of smell mon- keys confined in a great iron cage in the J ardin des Plantee. Eruit and many other things were thrown into the cage and the ape was always the first to seize them. Some one threw in a small mirror. The ape flourished this likea hammer, but, sudden- ly perceiving the reflection of himself in the glass, he stopped, and for a. moment looked puzzled. Then he darted his head behind the glass to find the other ape. Aetoniehed at finding nothing he apparently thought that he had not been quick enough. He then proceeded to raise and draw” the glass nearer to him with great caution. and then. with e swifter dart, looked behind. Again finding nothing, be repeated the attempt once more. He next passed from cstonieh- ment to anger, and began to beat the frame on the floor of the cage. Then the glass was shattered and pieces fell out. vbontinu- ed to beat, he was anddenly surprised to see his image in the piece of glass in his hand. Then, as it seemed, he determined to make one more trial. More circumspect- Iy than ever the Whole first part of the pro- cess was gone through withâ€"more violently than ever the final part was made. Hie fury over his ‘laet failure _knew no limit, Hé'crunched the frame and glass together with his teeth, beat them on the floor, and crunched them again till nothing was left but splinters. - One sees little anywhere from a railway carriage, and when the country i pretty much of a dead level, covered with a uniform net of thick grass, green or russet, accord- ' ing to the time of year, the View from the .1 window ceases to interest,3 and no one re- gretgs that he misses 200 or 300 miles of it The Character b1 the New North-West TOWARDS THE ROCKIES. A Bamed Ape. C " ’ " '“T' " "U"""‘ u." ' Now, you may give Bridget punitirve orders with regard to the fires, but when 11:) one is at hand in the morning hours," the tem ta.- ' tion is strong to assist the smouldering b 823 I by the aid of a little kerosene. She has done it without injury formerly. why not do it again? So the nose of the can is tilted I ovar the range or rate, tlier‘emieU3,,5‘131,gem,~ “g ‘yféei-‘eam, 31ml ’ Piaget will never have a? 1 Chance to disobey orders. Perhaps it would i be better, if Bridget must not be allowed ac- ‘ case to the can at oilâ€"the suggestion is timv 1 idly madeâ€"to show her hewehe may aid the 1 fire with comparative safety. All she has i to do is to pour the all from the cup, upon i‘the fire. It is not'lihely that she will suffer ‘ I‘nuch injury from the comparatively. mild 1 e’xplos'mn that may follow. sTh‘e amount of the prolucm of the marm- feohuring establishments of the Mxricime Provinces. paging over the [More obnial for Quebec, Ontario, and points farther VVesb, has ’growu to large dimensions, and this is, perhaps, the moat gratifying feature of trade that presents itself just now. The market for probably more than half of the products of the six cotton m'vlisnow running in New Brunewiclgend Nova, Scotia is found in the Upper Provinces and the \Vest, and. the same mzy be said of our auger re- fineries. Nor are these industries altogether exceptional; for we find thaqtbe products of the lock factory at Manama, the not factory at Truro, the skate factories, the mil works, and the starch factories a.“ fin a ready market in the West, and in the aggregate thebenefita‘derived are not inconsidereble. Monohm Times. ..' ' 12C. When the household of 'oiirgrmdmothers was threatned With infection the common practice was to sprinkle brimstone‘on a. hot shovel or on hot coals on a. shovel, and carry the burning result through the house. But now this simple method of diainfeotin has gone out of fashion without any 300 and sufficient reason. The principal reason is neither good or sufficient, viz , that nobody can patent it and sell it in twenty-five and fifty-cent bottles. On the 183i: “September last M. d’Abbadie’ read a. paper at the French Academy on "Mush Fovers,” and stated that in the dangerous regions of African riVer"mouths immunity from such fevers is often secured by sulphur fumi a- teel on the naked body. Also that the Sio' 'sn worker; in low-ground sulphur mines sufl‘ei‘ much: less than the rest of the surrounding population from intermittent fevers. M. Fouque has shown that Zephyrin (on the volcanic island of Milo or Melos, the most westerly of the Cyclades), which had epopu- lation of 40;000rwhen it was the centre of sulphur mining operations, became nearly depopulsted by marsh fever when the sul- phur mining was moved further east and the emanation prevented by a. mountain from teaching the town. 0 .her similar asses were state . Inter-Provincial Trade. It is gratifying-to note the steady and rapid growth of inter-provincial trade in Canada. There is probably nnecaion in this wide Dominion that has not experienced a great change in this respect; within the past few years. ‘Nowherc,lhowever, is the change more apparent than 3.1011}; the grant inter-provincial highway kno m: as tug latex» colopial Railway. _ The Deadly on. a N‘Xy Kerosene becomes more deadly every Eear as the hours of evening 11mplight lengthen, and the frequent lighting of fires bepomes a. daily duty. The fact that these accidents are utterly unnecessary renders them the more lamentable. In the hope of prevent- ing some of these accidents, we state a few fagta which everybody ought to know. Pouring oil from~a can upon a butnin‘g‘fin‘ or into a lighted lamp onghtto be followed by a terrible explosion, Sometimes it hap- pens that no expldsion occure, but the risk is fjghtfgl. ' T53 only safe rule is never to pour oil on a. burning fire or into a lighted 1a. KTnm "I... a“... ..:...‘.. 13.31--.. _-_ If the oil is poured into a. lamp that needs filling, this gas rises out of the lamp or can, or both. and explodes, often with dgndl'y‘ force,-if that? be any fine within reach.‘ J can Louis Fons, the discoverer of this comet. and whose name it bears, died more than fifty years ago. He was has fortunate than some other astronomers who have dis‘l overed comets of short period, uni hue been able to see them several time: again on their return to perihelion. But then .L’one’ comet has a. much longer journey out into space to make, and it is a. more interesting object than the little telescopic comets which course about the sun in short orbits and are never seen except by astronomers. It is not the kérorsé‘r'xefi Eat expléd'e'a, thg figviaiklg gas thy; ariseqfrom it. sun, although the distance is hundreds ‘of millions of miles, and in how many years it will return, although the tilm ia_ nearly three quarters of acentury. 0n the dthelf hand,_ while men of scim :e have been able to predict the vande‘in course of a comet which turnedits tail an fled from the sun about the time when Napoleon fled from Russia, and has only just now reappeared winging its way bank, the same learned students of nature have failed to satisfactor- ily account for the phehomena which comets present, and are not in accord as to what comets consist of. Growing Brighterâ€"Tho Accuracy with ' Which It: th Was Tuned The comet of 1812 is now visible to sharp- sighted persons without the aid of telescopes. It will grow brighter for a month to come, and W1" probably attract general attention in January. But the chief interest excited by this visitor from space will be due, not to its brilliant appearance, for unless some- thing'extreordinary happens to it, it will, at its best, be a comparatively inconspicuous object, but to the fact that it has come back as astronomers many years ago said it. would do. Moreover, it has returned very nearly at the predicted time, although its journey but toward the stars and back near the sun has occupied over seventy years. ,It must be admitted that the astronomers \know a great deal about things beyond the earth when they are able by watching the motion of a comet through a very mull portion of its orbit, to tell how_far it. will go from the A Neglected Disinfectant. THE comm OF 1812. The Deadly Oil.