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Slnvdi In Brnzu# \ great Bird Boostâ€"â€" I‘d-13'“ 0! sea Waves Busslnn Res ureaâ€"Tree Phnllng In Allstrulln, «a. dc. Anew finh. rha charm, belungirg tn the halibut fumily. h 3 Luth its appear- ance in the Gulf of Mexico. A Blauqhtar house and refrigs-ra'ing es babllshman’ cnfifiilm nvar $1 000 000, have been built at Main”. W. T., tur supply- lng fresh {man to the E at. The alsvu pupuhmon of 'he empire of Brazil 13 ewtunweu an 1,177,022, of whom 623 274 are miles ziud 553 748 females. â€"M K diet is said no have selec’ed a PIM- eutant church in Psrla as the scene 0| his recent au'cida because a Protestant par- lon’a daughter had jllted him. Henry Ruseell, who wrote the music to “Wooamau, Spare That; Tree." and “ A Life on the Ocun Wave,” is 53111 living in England as a very advanced age. A resident: of Bergen county, N. J., is just reauvenng from whanmme neat-being a fatal abbacx (If eryalpelas, caused by weal-mg a pan- of spectacles which hugged his now no tighnly as to bruise it. There is a bird roost at Lake Gentry, in Bervard county, F111,, covering a tract, of eighty acres, in which, it in estimated, 7,000,000 birds gather every season. It has beena resting place [or bird: from time immemorial. The English span-ow has a fresh indict:- lnent'. against him, that. uf wannonly nip- ping off the blmaoms from orange trees in Louisiana and Florida, where the growers are complaining that a uhurb crop will re- nult from this desnmcuon. The first car load of cherrlea ever ship- ped from San Francisco to an Eastern market: was deapetched on the 20m inst. The fruit. came from Alameda. cnuuty. Eight tone of cherries were pub up in I nall baske I of five pounds eachaud the 0 were put into cram-s, through wthh thu air circulates freely. The car WM also open at each end, lheends being protected with wire gavze. An 18-year old boy was before 8. Ken- tucky court. for cmrylng deadly weapon. The Judge consented to dismiss the one on condlmon that his mother openly cow- hided him in the court), which she did with a will, stripping him to the waist. The most interesting passegeat the Roy- al Academy dinner was the graceful and well-considered acknowledgment of the attitude or the Irish people durlug his recent Vislt and his allusion to its social and philanthropic character by the Prince 0k Wales, whicn elicited greatenthusiasm. There is an impression that the project. of a royal residence has been distinctly for- warded by the visit. Even Queen Victoria will have to read the Revised Version of the Old Testamant, for a handsomely bound copy of the “ Standard Ejiigu” of the Ravine?! Bible has been preaentud to her in five volumes. The volume: ware enciowd in a morocco box, and bore the following inscription : 1“ Presented to her most gracious Majesty the Qqeen by the Convocation of the Pt)- vince of Canterbury, May 15, A. D. 1885. A great Paris drapery house is selling “ bath bags,” by the Use of which “refined people" may obtain a sort: of velvety, oatmeal soap cmmplexion ablation, for the moderate sum of eight cents. These queer articles consist; of a bag containing half a. pound of bran, some meal, and a little powdered soap. On Wetting and pressing the bag a lather is produced, and, at the same time, a. soft pad for rubbing pur- poses. Sea. waves, according to observations of the U mted States Naval Hydrogrsphic Officer, show a. height of from 44 to 48 feet, but those of a. height greater than 30 feet are not commonly encountered. The longest recorded wave measured half a mile from crest to crest, with periods of twenty-three seconds. Waves having a length of 500 or 600 feet, and a period of ten to eleven seconds, are the ordinary storm waves of the North Atlantic. A coroner's jury in San ancieco re~ cently rendered no less than three verdicts in the case of a man who died from injur~ les recleved by being run over by a. horse car. Four of the juryinen rendered a ver- dict oh accident, four others exactly the opposite opinion, while the ninth went it alone and rendered the following verdict, slgned only by himself : “ I come to the conclusion not to say how the deceased came to lose his life, whether by accident or by being thrown from the car, as the testimony given has not proven which.” There are some indications that an in- creased number of reputable physicians have more or less limited belief in the good effects of animal magnetism. In the Chicago Medical Times, Dr. Charles E. Taylor dosenot hesitate tosay that it is an auxiliary in the treatment of disease. A general magnetization by longitudinal passes, he says, is always beneficial, and lnvarably serves to soothe and pacify the patient. In all cases vital magnetism has been employed in thetreatment of diseases peculiar to tropical climates, the convales- cence of the patient has been extremely rapid, and the general stane of health of the patient afterward remarkably good. It seems that the Suak'im-Berher rail- way is to be abandoned. The navvies have already stopped work, and the seventeen miles of railway constructed are, therefore, to remain an appropriate memorial of British intervention in the Soudan. Political philosophers ask what more fitting monument of ill-considered and resultless action there could be than a railway begun in ignorance dropped in a few miles and leading nowhere. Such a gigantic absurdity is too grotesquely far- cical for farce. Itis now known that the evacuation of the Soudan will be at- tended with an immediate relapse of the country into its former condition. The effect of English interference will pass from the native mind with the departure ROUND 'l‘llE “'ORLD of the Eng‘ish troops, and leave no more trace than their footsteps. What may be d me by acommunity in the way of treevplanting in an arid dis t in has been exemplified at Jamestown, in S vnth Australia Five years ago the corp-ration mmmenced the plantation of a prev'ousiy treeless region with timber Up to that date the place must have been an undesirable a town to live in as cwuld be found. In summer there was nothing to mitigate the blinding glare of the sun or the Intolerable radiation of the heat from the fissured surface of the hard- baked earth. The hot winds swept scrnss a wide expanse of scorching coun- try, bringing with them clouds of all penetrating dust. In the winter there were no natural means of breakirg the foica or diminishing the inolernency of the gales which came howling down from the north. But the corporation has changed all that. it has planted over 20,500 trees of various kinds, ani the once glaring and dusty streets are pro- tected, shaded, and ornameni ed with sev- eral beautiful varieties of gum, now in fl war, and standing twenty five to thirty feet high. and this after having been twice lepped during the five years since they were first planted. But gums are not the only trees, for they are relieved by hundreds of pines, catalpas, tsmanx, ficus,willows, cypress, olive (doing splen- didly), acacia lophantha, and a lot of others. The practice of litigants conducting their asses In person is one that seems to he daily gaining ground in England. Occasionally a jury Will make strange blunders, but, as a rule, what they want is to have the facts brought fairly before them. Thissconnsel oftendoes not. do. He is thinking (f the rules of evidence, orhe fer cies than in would be pJIiticm sappcess this particular facts, or to “aid the: par ticulnr circumstance, or in stuns other way to finesse the evidence. This is what a jury dislike. They can do mvc‘l better wxbh a litig-mt in person who blutm every thing but with a supreme contempt for all establlahei rules. and who, if a thing is not evidence, will aombow nuke It nu. . The Invalide us a given an account of the reserves whtcn cnuld be called out. in the event of war. On Jan. 1. 1883, the number ofrezervemen was 1,283.36). In the course of the year this list was in- creased by 198 907 fresh men and dimin- ished by 76357 tame-expired men, so than on Jan 1.1884, the reserve amount- ed to 1,405\910 men There were in ad- dition on Jan. 1, 1884. $077,000 militia of the first class, The aoldlers (f the re- aerve havea‘ready gone through their mili- tary service, whlle the militia. of the [1185 class are these who, at. the time of con- acripbon, were not drawn by lot for ac~ tlve service. There is also the militia of the Eecond class, composed (f the wnule male population up to 40 years of age. Taber-an, the capital of Peraia, iaa place of no anciqmty. It was Aga Mo- hammad Khan, the founder 9f tha_pre- sent dynasty, who first adopted it, shout a Century ago. A mud mall surrounds the city, but it would ban mistake to say that the place ls fortified, in the mo- dern sense of that word. The wall is dis tinctly pre-Vauben in its tracing. As a po‘ise boundary, or something of that sort. it may serve some purpose ; but as a defence to the city, if it were attacked by amodern army, It Would be useless. The supply of water is brought into the town by what the Persians call ksnsutst This is the same as the kareu of Afghan- istan. These are tunnels simply cu: through the soil, in parts at some depzh, and by this means water is found, Where all ls dry above, and brought tor long distances to irrigate fields. Holes have to be made at regular distances to bring up the earth in excavating these ksnsuts, and their dlrectlon can be traced across the countrv from the mound that is around each hole. This mode of irriga‘ion exists all the way from this place to the Khyber. The making of these tunnels is a regular trade, and share are wlse men who have a repu- tation for being able to find the under. ground source from which the supply of water is obtained. Some large extents of ground in Persia would be a desert were it not for these kamuts. The supply of water brought into Teheran by them. is large, and the quality is said to be good. The bazaars are arched over with sun- dried brick, which is the usual building material hereabout. The object of this is to keep out the sun. This makes them dark, bu: it is highly picturesque. In some places they are painted with figures and ornaments, and at, one place, where two lines of bazaars cross, the seat of the Kadl was pointed out, with a. rail below for prisoners. Here, cases are tried be- fore the public, and punishment is inflict- edâ€"a. very eastern and primitive mode of administering justice. At one part of the bazaar we noticed nothing but shoe makers. Passing them we found nothing but; hats being made ; a little distance further in was tailors, than brass-workers. [his grouping of each trade has many advantages, and it; is not so many years since it was common in some towns at home. Kabab shops, or eating-houses, and tea.- houses are to be found scattered about the bazaar. In some of the tea-houses men were sitting smoking kaliws, while story-bell?“ werq amusing them. The Constantinople bazaar has long ceased to be Oriental. Any one wishing to see a. pit ce of this kind in astill purely Eastern r‘ondition might come to 1‘8- hersn. We visited the 01d Residency in the centre of the town, where Sir Henry Rawlinson, and other early British Rep- resentatives lived. It is st present un- dergoing a. complete repair. The new Legation is on the outskirts, near the gate of the road leading to Gulahek, It is, perhaps, the biflt building in Te- her-an. Features of Teheran “I've had some putty handsome tussle! with hem-am my tune, buu I never had u. hear hackle me with so little provocatlog KILLED A BE “1 WITHASToNE an’ 30 near hume as one did men Week.” said Farmer Elms Williams of Spnng Brook, the other day. “ I was goin' out; to the barn about 7 o'clnck in the evening to milk the cows. Bwk of the burn ban arduzau of my sheep was chnwiu’ then- ends, the most of 'em‘layin' down kind be inueraeub like. Just. as 1 was turniu‘ he: What Fa rmer “'llllmas Found In Ills Sheep [0‘ . corner I sue a bxg black bear sueakin' up toward the sheep. I dropped my milk- pail au’ ran to Lhe house after my gun, little thinkin' the besr'd gin away ’fure I While I was gone after the gun the black rascsl grabbed one 0’ the fattest sheep in his anus, and when I got out 0’ the house he was weddlm' ofl" with It as fast as his big body would let him. The sheep blasted an‘ cried le‘ his life, but that didn't «care the beer at all. He kept waddlin’ toward the woods, 311' when I had got wizhin ahootin' dmtsnce I pull- ed the gun on him. The consarned thing wasn't loaded, 311' there I was in a putty scrape. I could'nt let that. mutton be untried off without an effort to rescue Itl go}: back. Ididn't auppJae he’d meddle with the sheep, but that. shows how mm I knew ’bout. a boat's decency.» an’ no I rushed for the cussed animal‘ With the butt and of my gun rained. I intended to whack him on the heap an‘ surprise him so he'd let up on the sheep. Jest as I was goin’ to maul him Over the pate he seemed to amell a rat, fur he turned round 1:11 of a sudden an' looked at me 5: much a; to any: 'What you want round here? I hopped to one nlde kinder lively 311' was goln’ to cuff him gently to nee what he'd do, when he bounc- ed round eqln an’ faced me. Then 1 bobbed beck the other way, intendin’ to tap him on the nozzle to see how he’d like it. I didn‘t look for what fullerdwhoug‘. He seemed to tumble to my gnme, an’ the thought that he'd have to drop that mutton in order to attend to me made him mad, the sheep we: klokin’ and equal- lin’ pitifully. l madea luuge forward an’ brought the stock of the gun down on the bear'a bang. He kinder granted, as if the blow unsettled his ntomick, en’ then he’dropped the sheep an’ plunged at me. I jumfned to one side an' hit him by the side of his head. Mr. Ben- ahowed fight. his aim bein' to git his grab~hooks on me. I had no weapon except the gun, an’ that was 1 o goad without a charge in it. He pmnced round on his I ind legs an‘ tried to coax me to come to Lie bosom, an’ ev’ry time I whacked him on the moot with the butt < f my gun he muttered aometbin’ that sounded like an oath. Once in a while he got close enough to me to tear my clothes, 811' then I'd punch him in the chest with the end 0’ the bsr'l sn’ make him back up a few steps. He had hugged the sheep so hard that it was I almost dead. sn’ 1 was bound to have l‘fs. I give him one swat on the ear that staggered him sn‘ broke the gun so’t was no more use to me. The bear noticed that I’d lost my only weapon, an’ that ’pesred to cheer him up. He pitched at me as 1 stooped to pick up a. stone. an’ got his paws partly ‘round me. I hustl- ed myself to loosen his grip, an' we both rolled over two or three times sn’ come up s‘andin' agin. I wanted to bucket him out if I could, but his wind was fine. Then he made ’nuther lungs at me an tote one side of my coat i if. I scampered sway fur a. couple ’0 rods to git a round stun. un’ he was on topof me ’iore I knew it. He Ip'iled all the clothesI had on my back an' busted my suspenders, but [got the stun and crawled from under him, an' then I turned au’ thumped him nu the nose till tears rolled down his cheeks. He got discouraged for s minute or two, but. he tallied agin au' tried to put a hold it nt onto the affair by mskin’ faces st me. While he was doin' this I was surveyin' the ion to see where a stun lsy thst I could handle. 1 spied one a few yards away sn' scooted for it. He made for me once more as fast as he could, but I was to quick fur him, an' by the time he got there I'd grabbed up a. stun that welghed four or five pounds. I had scarcely s thread of clothing on my hody from the waist up, an' the scratches that Mr. Beer had muceon me dldn’t feel fast rate. The next thing I done was to give hlma whack on the oocoanut with the stun. He staggered au’ I fol-. lowed it up with another terrific thump. Fxnslly, I got him down, 311' then 1 ham- mered hls tough pate till he stopped breathtn’. It was a desperate tug. an' I was all but used up. but I had downed the sheep thief. It was purty dark when I finished the beer, an' when I went over to where the sheep was I found it was dead. I don‘t want to tackle smother beur unless I have a. loaded gun or a big knife." Adelmus translated the Psalms into Sex on in 709. Other parts of the bible were done by Ediri'l, or Egbert, in 750 ; the whole by Beder. In 1357 Tretiss published the whole in English. Tindsll‘s transls'ion appeared in 1334, was revised and altered in 1538, published with a. preface of Gran- mer’s in 1549, and allowed to be read in churches. In 1551 another translation was published, which, being revised by sev- eral bishops. was printed with their alterationsin 1560. In 1613 a new trans- lation was published by authority, which is the one in present use. There was no translation of it into the Irish language until 1685. The pope did not give his per- mission for the translation of it into any language until 1759. J ames Logan, who died last week in Philadelphia, formed one of the band of amateur detectives who started upon the Charley Ross case with a theory of their own. He was untlring and enthusiastic to the last, and exhausted his small for- tune ln chasing shadows. The Bible in English. Twenty mare mounted men are on their way from the Birtle district to join B)ui~ ton'a brave scouts. The Winnipeg Field Battery will be released from active duty and wdl retard home at once. Scenes and lnrldents at Ihe Front. The Mounted Garrison Arcfllery are doing garrison duty an Regina. Gabriel Dnmont (“Dead Shot Gabe"), was one of the first. to run from the “ thm rad line ntppud wish sneak.” The bodies of Private Wheeler, Ennis and Hunnhinaon Will be disintatred and taken to Wmnepeg for burial. Stafl' Sergb Mitchell, of Toronto, 3. member Lf L110 Wlmbledon team for three or four years, gob in some bull's eyen at short range. In is reported that; Dr. Vallee, of Que- bec, will be called us witness 1n the matter of Rlel‘s alleged insanuy. The docoo: aonandei tha rebel in Bgnuporu lunatic asylum. The funeral of Lieub. Fitch was one of the largest ever seen in Toronto. Thou- sands nned the streets on the route to the Cemetery, and an the band panned play- ing “Nearer my God to Thee, Nearer no Thee," many were affected to tears. The remains ware intered in Mount Pleuanb Cemetery. Rlel is still in the blrracke uh Reglm. in charge of a. detachment. of hue Mount.- ed Puhce. He spends moat of his mum in praying. He is In consume drew ut the Montreal Garrison Armllery. Wnen he sees a gunner he tremblee Wm: fear. Since the armllery arered here he has felt: very uneasy, being oppressed with the idea. that. In: hfe [a nun safe no long. as one of the members of the Montreal corps are near him. He still wens the military overcqan presented to him by General Middleton. A correspondent deacnbwg the entry of the vicbonuue troops into Pllnce Albert under Gen. Mlddletou, says: Tee band of the Nineteenth played mad the local wind- jzmmera brayeu, and nll was hllnrlny Alter the Camp had been set; and prepar- abiona for tent. pl ching were well under way the m Vuu'ed pullce undel CJL Irvine, 200 a rang, orlllilut ln scarlet and orange, well fed, sleek, and Vlgoroua. appeared, and were revlewed by Gen. Mludleton, OJr fellows dldn’t cum‘ are well as to clothes, but: I'll back them as to courage for all the odds of bhe book-makers. However, in wasn't a llin to be clean, and the polio: really looked very Well. Brsmner, one of the halfâ€"breed prison- ers seusxn by Poundmaker, and who is now charged with melting the Indians to tlae, intermed a correspondent that Pri- vate Usgoode, of the Ontawa Sharpshoot- ers. who was killed at the Cub Kalle Crsek fight, was mutilated by the Stony iqvlaws in a most. horrible manner. Afcut th: tight his body w,» bnrled by the rebels, but. the squsws exhumed it. and after first acalpmg one body they decapitated in. The nears created the utmost indigna'im in camp, and threats, loud and deep, am: ucbered on all sides against the Indians. Private Coom‘oea, of the 90th, writing of the bubble ut Baboche says; “ kaing over the battle field was a herd eight. The rebels Were lying here and there with their faces lying in pools of blood, and most of them with their eyes Wide open. In one place four or five ware lying close u gebher. They are not: buried yet. I did not know any of them. I think I saw one of them before. It was a. and eight. to see women and and children owing One man by the name of Donald Rue, from Whlbe Horse Plains was 111 many wound- ed, and his daughtu 1‘) and lime chiluren were all gathered 341ou mu: crying, and one could not help I: ellug bad. nlnnktuél] they were rebels. We; c mi: cm‘e of mm: wounds and gave than} water. Wiser was the first hhmg asked for. Curious Whims of Testawrs. Thegennleman who d1ed lately lewmg $500,000, and. munght his wife Wuu‘d be sanction wiah the provlaiun of a. house and its maintenance 1n cox junction wmh his minor children, must: have bad a. peer Idea cf the oommen sense of the sex femimne At any rate he might: as well have saved hlmeelf the trouble of malung a will, as me family dld not abide by it. One of the curious wills made by an old i resi‘lenter of Philadelphia bequeathed a large homestead on South Second street to be a residence for his children as long as they lived, but forbade any of them taking husband, wife or children there to dwell. The expenses of the household were provided for from the estate, and no obliquity of temper or conduct was to cut a child Olll of his or her right to residence in the house. However, one after an- other they all married or died except one elderly maiden lady, and she lived on so long that she began to believe the prop- erty was her own. She made 5 will and bequeathed it to the Catholic Church. One brother, however, survived her. who went to the funeral and astonished the priest by drawing his father's will out of his pocket, and showing by it he inherited the homestead. There was no contest, and as the property had become valuable for business purposes, it made a snug for- tune for the son’s children. There is a barbaric sentiment some- times revealed in wills where men direct that; their favorite horses shall be shot after their death, but this doubtless has a. basis in humsnlby, as they fear ill-treat- ment for old and helpless animals. Sitting Bull's new hat is thirteen sizes larger than the average hat. It is seven inches and three quarters deep and has a. rim of ten inches, and its greatest outside measurement) is 30 inches, or larger than an ordinary umbrella. It was made of green porcupine straw, and is to be worn by Sitting Bull on his visit to the Great Father at Washington. CA1! MPAIGN NOTES. English Triangular uul Sword Beyonew Bent and twisted In some. “ It was at El Teb," says 3 correspond- ent of the Lmdou telegraph, that 1 was first struck with the inferior quality of the English bayonet. At Tatum, In the rush and scurry, It was put to a sever-er test than anywhere else In the Suudan. In that battle the deendowas. as they rush- ed out of their gross cover thn then- short spears, fairly pitcued themselves upon the weapons of our Black Wu.th and saw- fifth. the triangular bsyunet ofttlmes Demand twisted. 0n the whole, how- ever, lt stood the test better than the sword bayonet. Like the sword bayonet, it of- ten bent like hoop iron when a. thrust was made, It‘s. bone interposed, and became corkscrewed in the struggle. corxecreweu u] we flbtugsm. “ Lb has two serious dmwbacks, not no observable in the sword bayonet. _The wound it: makes is slight, so that afannnl- cal savage or tnfurtated man requires sev- eral chruam before he in placoJ hros dc combat, glvmg h'm a. chance to run amuck among alvflxzed troops. In the Iecond place, the urxangular bay 01135, when th'tllh violently, goes too far, and there is a great :lnflimloy 1n freemg 15. At; Tamat a stal- wart endxer hooked his opponent in such a manner mat. he had to draw the body twenty yards, as We were retreating. be- fore hoereting tun weapon Th1: was the most complcuous lunLance of the kind I saw, but in wua by no means the only one. “ The swUrd bayaueu has Welghb without breadbn, and, With the cutlass, frequenth lacks tamper. I have seen a blue jackeb's cnnlass svmrd bayonet an Tam .i, as wellas some 111 the batbles up the lee, bend inbo a semicircle and rematn in that shape, nu- fitbing it for a. second “ point. " ‘I‘ne usejb was put to did no: jus'nfy nhe givmg way of the weapon. Tm: (ac: aha: in did uot. re- gain its form further proved that. the quali- cy of the beads was of the pooresn. It would have g we the same way had in been drlven awkwardly into a sack of flour. “ There can be no real duficulny with our mechanics and workshops in procuring beyoneta that Will hear the brunt of rough. huge in a complign. What I have said of the bad quali'y of the cublaae applies equally to me sword bayonen. Many a soldier ab Abu Klee new will dismay hie bsyonet. rendered useless as the moment: wmn thexe 475.5 no chance oolo:d his rifle, anal when he stood in need of its services. There also I new sword bayonet: bent; and twist mm the faciliny of win iron rather than steel. After that fiéht you might} have not‘c:d brawny foot guardamen, her- cu'ean life gu “demon, an). nhe deft. light- ers of the mounted infantry, all cf whom had stood snouler a shoulder in the square Buraightemog their bsyuneae across nhelr knees or unrer foot. Osnera there were who discarded their diatorzed weapons and packed some dead comrades from the. fieli." In the Consular Raporl from Persia, which CdesuflY: at arather appropriate mo- ment, the popnlsxlon of that country ises- Lxmaced, mmer roughly, at a. little more thn 7,500,000, dsvmlen between the pre- Valnng rellglous in those pruertlons: l‘ne Sheeans form the great bulk of the inhabitants, numberlng more than 6,500,- 000, next lu whom came the Sunnis and 0 her Muhammadsns, reckoned at. about 700,000. Jews are repreensed only by about 1900,) souls, Armenians 43,000, Nestorisns and Ohaldesns together 23,000, and harness 8,000. The division of the. popnlstion according to modes 0: life gwes 363,000 families for the occupants ot luwns, which are set down as 99 in number, arm 381,000 familtes described. under the heading of nomads. But the number of indivmuals in each family is, it appears, plainly largerin the case of the inmlllea nsnng fiXud. resldences than in those whose existence is unsettled and, wandering-a fact which one would per- haps hardly think consistent with the popular idea of patriarchal life. At any rate, the 363,000 town families are said. to contain nearly 2,000,000 persons, whereas the 381,000 named establish- ments only contain a lime over 1,900,- 000. The rest of the population is in- cluded under the denomination or village and country folk. As for the trade of Persxs, it has been undergoing a trans- formation, ohiefly by reason of the closing of the Caucasus route by order of the Russian Government. The chief eflect of the unenligi tened policy of the Mus- covite has been to force the stream of. trade from the North to the Persian Gulf, and increase the commercial importance of Bushire. Ispahan has benefited just es Tiflis hes sufierd; and in fact the mer- chants in South Persia. are congratulating themselves on the growth of fore'gn trade, while their brethren in the north are crying out that commerce and national prosperity are going to the‘ ‘gs.â€"London Globe. The population of France isd 310815ng instead of increasing. The in ‘tallty among infants belonging to the classes is appalling. So, also, is the death rate among the orphans or foundlings left to the charge of the communes, who are placed out to nurse. and drop out of life in numbers during the first years of their existence. This can hardly be wondered at, when babies in the first year of their existence are paid for at the rate of only 6 to 15 francs a momn, and of this sum of from 4 to 10 sous a day the nurse is supposed to lodge, feed and care for the child. After the first year the pay is redaced by a third, while from 6 to 13 years of age in no few- er than ten French departments the nurses’ pay is only from 3to 9 francs a month, or from 2 to 6 sons per diem. The world now makes use of 68,000 miles of snbmarlne cable, mostly for the purpose of advertising traveling actresses and announcing the deaths of people no- body ever heard of, USELESS wmross. Persian Trade.