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tBl-itgin'and Russia in I Indian nBfibiah'étste'Sman of 5L1 shades‘of politics drew a sigh of relief at the'ébnolusion and wggyuce ‘oi thgvzgglg‘of the Afghanistan ‘ N~-r'.. _ -- «nay iii? arj’Eommlsswn.‘ Yet"m‘os: who are accustomed to hsuspectntghe nssian, even when ma 'ng‘treafiQâ€"and th are many â€"will _ cely hope thit-this‘rdelimihtion ensures mgore them a ’te' orary rest. '5?er in tlfe‘gsondon M . points out th misfits}; nature\‘of' l'e‘ problem which y eonfronts the Brim in India, in t ‘ ‘fl-élatipnsfffi' the ‘Ereat Northern Pow ' ForrKerl-y'._the rivalry was for the frie ship of “the feeble tribe of Afghans whose territories lie between the British and Russian posse sions the‘Wesy. The con- quest of Burmgh hasnow! ihtérp ed the great Chinese natio betvieen the.» e two great / rivals in the East, d the éonflest bids fair to be equal] keegbetv'c'een'them for the friendship or allie ce of the’l Mongolian. The inducem nt '. Rnssia‘to‘jcontinue to push southwagdto‘ ard the _open sea is still even greater tithe Eastern than at the end offt‘he great mon’htain‘ gangs hitherte. barred her wa V ibuth- firing eaciy secured in ladivo- " ‘open for nine months 'rfihutftlllia Corean peninsula is in- vitingly shaded with harbours open the whole year rmfird. :Invthis light the rather unusua c 11 se ,Eng 1151 in ceding to Chi post‘o Port 'Hamilton' in the aged “tries explicsble.. To have re- tain sd this _ ”_ 'hbld would have material- ly akenerFU 'm‘s power, and paisibly her disposit'mrij'jtogesist the Russian desire for a’hnrhd'm‘ oh the Northern Corean coest. aA Berlin. letter ft:me friem‘i‘gives a pitiful. plbtfiifikf’fie‘ griefiof the poiqr‘ 61d Kaiser aé thodcnlamity .of the death of his grandson, Dohiflbf‘Baden, earning as it did on top of his chrgnic anguish at: 'the' state of the CroWfi'Frin’ce. The physician resident in New .Schldss-wen tginto. the.Ka.iser’s bedroom ammomleolmhe other mowing and found mmsxtmmp inabeq. :Sabbinm he cries! any, {fipqc or, I qpnnofig 9“), for thinkin, ofi Fritfix'vi‘gr He V911”; ‘ akedhnrry an I akefpré fixationq tb'1é€_' me go to San“ ¢$6'£o 'é'with‘ him? It ‘is with great diffi'oulfy‘flhat rhé'h'é's’ heéd dissuaded from ‘ mdflng""thi§"j6urnéy 111 along. and if the‘ caie‘tah'e'st. worke' tum-he’lwill probably in- aiifl‘cm going, evenif the tfip kills him. The Experience of a Vegetaria'fi, £330 figs 'best pf“ minim-madam, England and ltaly will refuse/plumply to consent't‘o the,Rh§sihn re<fue§tz "'FFauce w'ill assent to .LH' ' ltleagggly." Gerfimnyifilllassent formally; and gven-Auatriammy accede with reserva- tions. ‘-It is a. case‘vyhere England mad Italy,‘ ngt beingvdireoily céii‘dgiiig'fi? can play Biéf mgqu’p gaine better than bqpr his Austrian ally. oould.- . They will. rdbly. that the Bul- gain-isms electe&»Ferdiuand,“)iihd his "orderly rli‘le filillfil'sj'gll t'He conditipigqi‘dgsired by the signatpry powers of the Berlin treaty. Hence; theyisee-no reason why he should be eifieliéd.' Thgfi ‘ Russilz Wwill have to say mb'ijé' cléarl‘y what [she 'niééns, and.,there will bg ingre Deflation, .circular notes. and delay»; 'All t is time Russia. will be bqingifig dtrpops fprward until she is‘ ready to'mfi‘clgi'e 'that .she has got ,3 mis- siofi: tog'o in 9nd fix. the Bulgarian G‘overn- ‘ m'ent, iii hgr qu way, apddefy Enrage to‘ [event ,her. This {will take a longtime if fingg‘iaiis allbwtho‘go on writing dilatory note; and‘mgsging .proops, but it may be wqup u ‘Zvei'y'ishortly ii Germaszand Auptrjg gcide :tlxpt‘they had bettqu fight beforefiuéfiig‘fi prppagations are complete, omitâ€"What. is equally likelyâ€"they .9gree thatjhe, best thingwill be to let Russia my... Bulgaria. _ to suit inane”. Meapwhile th9;Ryppia;i {glflq ispgw at the lowest ,point ofiidlemeqiatianit hag. gxér reached. cqm‘ ,gugfrggn thngoyests in AlsaceLBad- en} ll? uringi», “and Auvergne. The whole Bordeaux wine‘d-istri'ct; is covered with 18 in‘c‘heg og‘gngjw; and; ,‘t‘pere are great fears of diédfitréus floofls if a’su'dde'n thaw comes on. Sup}; 3 wintry visitation ‘in the last of Feb- rqai‘xi’y’ifl ’séid‘to be‘fingxampled . in, the re-' 09}; {.617 Eu’mPe- I. . -No doubt the chief thing which has de- terredrhim' thus far nimthe bitterly cold: and stormy. weather'which-all Europe has felt in the pfistv. eight or‘ ten days; ' Here there is mbre snow mow thanziell all last winter, and the cold is intensevt-hatis‘, for this hothouse island. The whole-Continent is buried in snow, mime-cold". in some places almost reaches zero, which is an unheard-of-sever- ity. TharDanube is frozen over for the first time in a long,whil3ai .and the; wolves are . DmG. .3. Walter, in .a papal-"iée'ently: read before the Society » of Cyclists in Lon. don, Ehiq strongly adfibca‘t‘ed‘e vegetable diet. ose animals, he 'céfi'ténded, who did the hard work of the world, the horse, for instance, liged purely [upon vegetable food ',\ and he instanch gnumhsr of “3335f cych who h‘adlperferméd remarkable feats of endurance,mnd who were strict vegetara ians. He admitted that he found some dii. ficultyin getting vegetable food at the ordin- ary houses of accommodation. His oatmeal was not alwaysgvenjskillfully prepared, and in more than one bill it‘figured as gruel. In the course of a recent journey of over 900 miles, however, he had managed to subsist quite comfortably without animal food of any kind, and to do a very fair average of work, amounting to about 55 miles a day, without the slightest feeling of fatigue. His diet consisted of oatmeal porridge, eggs, whole meal bread, cheese, macaroni, fruit, tea, cofiee, cocoa, milk and sodawater. film’s "I Russia in Bulgaria â€" Emperor W Gnef at the Death of his Guggenâ€" Severe W1 ether in Europe. LONDON, Feb. 29,â€"fle séfllmeuiifikns. aia game has made progress for a step dur- inM-or pcrhxpa. I.shnuld'sa.y for two steps, for a note has been sent around to the meryask§ng them’togskvl‘xirkey to ask Prince Ferdinand to get out, and the Nine- teent-Infigpgygdiviaion win thwGaucmt‘ has started on its march to the quarters that have fieen (ptdpmed for it at Proskurofl", a towfi in Podolia about a dozen miles from tmfiam“ and un‘bhelina-oith railway ruining to Lemberg. Both are of importance, butltfl'e‘latter ia‘the more sig~ nifioa‘nt‘dfi thé'i‘d’pr " "'“l .. CABLE NEWS. The oldJiindu capital stands at the junc- tion of its 'two, upper headwaters; about 65 miles above Calcutta“, ,yYeureach the ancient city thxqugh a river, chaos, emerg- ing at length one. well-markqu éhannel below the juncti‘dh’. It was from ‘Nadiya. that the last Hindi) 'King of Be al, 'on the approach of the M'dhammedeh' 'gavader in 1203, fled from his palace vin"th'e' middle of dinner, as the story runs, with his'sh‘ndals snatched up in his hand." It‘was at Nadiya that theldeity was inmrnated‘dn the fifteenth century A. D., in the great Hindu reform- er, the Luther of Bengal." vAt~Nadiya the Sanskrit colleges. since the dawn oflhistory, have taught, their abstruse philosophy. ,to colonies 'of students, who calmly pursued the life of a“ learner from boyhood to white- haired old a e. I landed with feelings'ljof' reverence at is ancient Oxford of"Ind‘ia. A fat, benev'61ent abbot paused in fluttering his beads to halute me from the veranda of a Hindu monastery. I asked- him for the‘ irthplace of the divine founder of his faith. he true sité,.he-_,said, was now covered by the river. The flooeg had first cut the sacred city in twolthen twisted right round the town, leaving anythingthat remained of the original capital on the opposite bank. Whatever the water had gone over it had buried beneath itsvsilt. I had with me the Sanskrit chronicle'bf'th'e present line of Na- diya Rajahs. It Begins with the arrival of their ancestor, one ‘of‘ the first five eponym- ous Brahman immigrants into Bengal, ac- cording to its chronology. in the eleventh centuryiiA. D. It brings down their annals from father to son to the great Rajah of the eighteenth century, Clive’s friend, who re- ceived 12 cannon as a trophy from Plassey. So splendidhwere the charities of this Indian scholar-prince. that it became a proverb that any man of the priestly caste in Bengal who had not received a gift from him could be no true Brahman. The ' Rrujahs long ago ceased to reside in a city which had become in mere prey tO'the 'river.‘ Nadiya is now a 'pollection of peasan’ts’ huts, grain shops, mud colleges, and crumbling'Hindu monas- teries, Cut ;up by gullies and hollows. A few native magnates still have houses in the holy city. The only. abjectsxha: struck me in its narrow lanes were the hands of yel- low-robed pilgrims on their way to bathe in the river; taro statelysacred bullsth pac- ed about in well-Ted complacency, andthe village'idio't', swollen with monastic rice, listlessly flapping Th'e flles'with'a‘ palm leaf as he lay in the sun. ‘ “ 9,... It: ié‘la 'm'dtter of ;greatfl an: riée. t M é, after having (xperiencéa'z‘af T6301 ffiegbggu- ties of this comparatively 'un‘known pan of fihe'yorlthat it is'n'ot befitfil‘ k’novrn ajfid ap- pre'cmted by our Caha'diafi:English'anQAmer- 306.151 tourists, who wohl'd flix‘d"a'bun‘dhh’ce of mountain scenery.‘equal‘in’ point iof’ Minty toanyintheworl‘d.- " - 'J: - The commodities iaxle, wonderfully cheap. herehamlong whicHfigtirgs .the nafivg/(ag called “Khakatinskwawjne. T m' is. sold in skins of various sizes, théflisfial small skinsficontainffié'fibd'lib ei ht quarts, costihg'fr’om two 'to‘four‘fr‘bubis (fo’ur‘to eight-shillinfis.) Of course,-much cotii‘m'dfi- er wine-can 9 obtained‘ which'gis npttiYal’ly‘, cheaper: 1 ' “ " ' I A THe real hhakatinsky EWine is rather ex: pensive; that being Maths best quality grown in ma Caucasus.,.lt obtains. iananame from‘the‘heautiful province-wherein it: .is cultivabgd, viz : “ Khakaty,” I fiéfiich i‘imim, ated ahqugeventyjersts from“ iflis. ,;._. ‘ Very good sport can be enjoyedmhere» goats and hares- ahgundilgg in =ahuadance inflle neighbofiqg foxescfi.‘ . _ r H 4,17 ,‘_..; Not théjleast'quarint’ id'th'o‘ G'epy'gihfl' this" turns Which filthdugh un'cbuth’ and was: is very ‘picmreéque.’ It is coifipbs'éd'of‘a'long buffalo ‘hide~made into th’e aha e' ’Uf’mvyéry’ large cape, which Being suaupan eflflbt'n- the shoulders reaches to the heels. Under-ibis. along gown i worn,. ornamented on each sideiof mammals” with fittlfififisedikfl 1pm:- kets, originally intended‘ for cartnidgefi,‘ Round thg.vy§1§t.a belb7§ilyer9rn 1471 beautifullx';xemb9§sgad, serve'g_ goalifig‘ph‘e. nnméroils drrfia'ln which 'he 'r'eal (leorgian'_ delights. -' These'vveapéhlg’, although 'lwo'i'fi; exclusively for'brn’ame‘fit‘, aré vé'r'y i‘eh’l,’ ah'd' consist of a. “ kinjal” (long native knife?" stuck slantwise low the belt, a dagger, the sheath of which-is also embéslsedfla‘ndl‘ldst but incl; least; a'revolverrreadv'for imhxedi-' . l . EtE:U$L - .x .. ..I.l 6 l'!‘I I-“LH Berlin military experts estimate the Rus- sian troops on the frontier at 800,000] Railways in Denmark are blockaded ing to heavy snow storm. 5“?â€" Sonjqiqtercsting {Moi-mat I lipknown . ‘ ~am'v'ed here 1 zWeek‘,’:a.fter a fifteen firs’ ridé_ by trai ‘1 U 6m thggaezi‘p‘ort towrx' :‘Bétoumnhavlutgénjoya '-' ‘ ummp- see of very beautiful and vaned mountain scenery on thejoggue . 73mg».th "apital 'ofth'e Caucasué, is a- arge tuwn situated in a. valley and surrounded by mountains of varying ‘hS’ightfi 31!? p egwwem wider sanitary streets, tor‘der'o "on each side by a. row of trees, which confer grateful shade on fuot passengerfifl thizfifbfifbil Weather. Some of the buildings are also very fine. especially those ngunected iujnnway wit-l1. the Russian Government. The moét inberv‘ eating portion of the town is the Asiatic Wmong the-booths and bazaars-M? which ai stran 917 megts with all kinds of strange sightd-Bfid?§)§nds.§’.'%fie are men Of all nations?" Th'e quljngIj, ussian, Per- éiqu ,Arg) nigh, GFeek, Jew, etqq who, ni'sbaifi' " tot dfi’d" Nb’ ‘fhi‘ou'gh' lthanatr'rqw sfi‘éetm‘, some ogi horseback’,"otflef 'ridifig' phhétbn's,‘ crea‘t'la' 5. me‘dl'rlfir ‘tjiil ' o'f‘be‘ seen' and appreciafiefl!in‘-Sm‘Eatbmi‘lé‘bf‘tylj " ' ' ' Th6 Shops, or ratherbooths, in this quar- temn e eioe‘e'dimgfy' interésollig,‘i£ontaining all kind of ancient -relics, ¢hings to delight the eye.o theantiq‘uary‘end‘curjoait Voallector. Here we, si‘tpautedh thafamxgla op sulphur bfilfianxe angfl.,£gy,tb. j;_guging ptqperties for skin iseases of all l'uds. Theuymteps of these baths are unadulterated,‘runnin9 directly from the sink}; {ate $19.19th {Fady foi'lise.’ ". "' “,‘"'.' “ ' THE CAPITAL or THE CAU- CWSvf-ggw- w“.ng Nadiya,‘ different directions Rita; crouching in the nearest comers; la Ysh'zi.r'l'ing and exposing their tee‘t ,“s'howing il'dhhistakable signs of a dxost dung rbhs 'fear.‘ That side of the deck Was'desertedl'and‘th'dUrowd gazed in inter- est at a. respectable'dis'tance. Mr. Fleuse, ethird oflioerythez-second oflficer and the eeper each.&plwed :himself before a tiger, string their. :exit, should they attempt to moye away. Flame. inquired if the tigers had”. een fed ,th% day. They had not. They ad always; sen fed on living fowls. Fleuse called font ree chickens from the hen 'coop. Taking these he threw one in the face of each tiger: The chickens seemed simply‘djotionless',‘ ' nod to the spot, so in- stantaneous Was " t e fixing of teeth and claws. 'Ii'leus‘e then“went deliberately up to a. tiger, coolly took the loose skin of the back of the neck-with one hand and the root of the tall with the‘other; and, putting out his full strength, dragged the heavy brute along the deck to the-cage and. forced it through the open bars. The. chicken diversion act- ed perfectly. The brute had no object but that of retaining its 'p‘rey.‘ It growled fear- fully; its eyes blazed; its ‘ teeth crashed through the chicken its unsheathed claws clasped and pierced its quivering body. Red-hot irons would hardly have made it loosen its grip of-the bird. Then the keep- ers and the others helped Flense in carrying the remaining tigers into the cageâ€"[From “ ThreeYesrs of a Wanderer’s Life.” The Paradise , I‘bnce saw three young tigers, larger. than Newfoundlandudpgs, loose on the deck of a British, ngia steamer crowded with several hungye Mace}; pjlgrims. The ca gjnllwhich theg mgre‘gopfiged was large, an aljred on éae ’ "i e,with nyartition running‘plong its mi’ddleI'ivIriiéh had a drop door.‘ The man whoihafl cHAl‘gé'df the animals W'ould drive them'hve'r'to one side of the cage, close the partitio‘hand elean out the other’bije at his l‘eisure';:theh,'%a,n~ing up the clean side, he would open-the partition and drive the tigers back, whilethe went through the same per- ormance‘on the other side. ‘One morning he neglectedto put up the.b&ra on the side he had finiehed, and sodroye the tigers out of the opposite side ofithemqpen cage. The finimals I on btainin their liberty“ took :a-AUUJ z! 'i"‘ “ Rev.” W. H. 11. Murray was a. guest of the Megantic Fish and Game Club, Boston, Mass, Feb. 14th,} and he entertained the gentlemen 'with a most entertaining and instructive description of trapping and fish. ing in Northern Canada. He recently re- turned from an extended trip throughout the region north of Quebec, and he fired the hearts of his enthusiastic hearers by his des. cription of that paradise for sportsmen. He said that in a region 1,500 miles long and 1,000 Wide there were no less then 200,000 small lakes abounding in fish, and streams that were the feeding grounds of nyriads of ducks and geese. The region was practi- cally a wilderness, unknown to civilization until within ten years, He said that; the Canadian Government had nearly Completed a railroad from Quebec to Lake St. John, ‘250 miles distant. When the road was opened he said that the region would be ac~ cessible to all sportsmen, and urged all who could t: visit that country before it became civilized. He said that for the first time fishing lost its charm, because he was always sure of getting fish, and big ones, too. The-first days of August open the generfil vintage â€" although the grapes from the warmest spots’mre sold and eaten from the ’end of May“onwardâ€"and its duration OI some six weeks is due pxrtly to the widely differing altitudes and aspects of the vine- yards, and partly to the custom_ oi first gathering and pressing the inferior grapes, and leaving the best until the encLof, 0c; tober to over-ripen and grOW‘sweet‘for‘ the choicest wines. They are pounded with fl‘a‘tiruallets on;a§gslcp}g£{ hard; floor- before p‘réssing, and'the deepred must fermen: in immense inverted pear~shaped stoneware jars, half sunk in the ground. When the jars are at the end of some six weeks cov ered over the wiueéhasbecome lighter in col- lor. The jars, which are baked so large as to holed from 12 to 20 barreis, have been made probably from all antiquity at the vil- lages of Lipithos, Korno, and Varoshis. The custom of burying those holding the best wine in deep trenches has long furnish- ed the cunning Cypgio, with a. means: pf evading the gaugerg, .ing porous,‘,these jars are coated with pitch, or a compost of pitch, turpentine, vineashcs, sand,’ ‘ and goat's hair. This, applied boilingmenetrates tlfe substance of the‘ jar, and never quits it; and partly accounts for the repulsive taste and smell of almost all the coarsexi'and newer'Cyprus WhOSI'r But the chieiwnse of thistarflavor is the transport of therwine in skins, whiohmre also stanched with pitch within. The churning of-.the;wine.irr‘1 these, under an Eastern .,snn .v during a tedious journey, completes the ruin, of thg wi e,ior a. European palatehand it takes ittwe velpr' f fifteen years 'to recover. The local taste of course improv'és,‘and it is no worse from a hygienic point of: view than Berkeley’s once famous tarwatefi’WEicfi’fi'sYill upheld" hate and there at the tables-d'hote of the'French yand Belgian bagmen. The bnl‘y radieul'bnre ‘ for it is to make roads practicablehr carts i' to the wine districts, so‘that the mer- ants of the townsâ€"ion Mohammed must go to the mountaincvwcan send.up pmcasks, and bring down the wine themselves. Some {forts have lately beepJuade in this grin near Limasso, and ,wine now in some places comes down inuwood on camels, in- stead of in skins on do]: "eys and mules, but the 'vast majority of the c 'mmunica‘tl‘ons’are all but impracticablel ih‘ untain paths and mule tracks, which drivv'wh'e'pehfsant- to the use of the wine-skin.‘-!‘-'I‘h'e :mtma 'fa‘stidi- q'us residents of the Scalsahavenlong been accustomed to send up the large glass demi- jlolms (Arabic, demajam) yeaseduin wicker- worklon donkey~back, to bring. down their household wine in cleanly fashion from the Eineyarfls,‘ and the wine keeps better in a ame-jeanne than in wood, but then they are fragile. So long as'thpwine was worth Iittle or'vnothing the itch did not much inatteiLâ€"many a Span sh'village was p‘laél‘ ered with mortar made ‘with wine, as being an‘dier- than water ‘,-""but‘ now that France’s iflieulties have given Cyprus an opportu- my, we ought no longer to have Cyprus winesaofl‘ered in a positively repellent con- dition, as they were at the celebrated bars of._the Colonial" exhibition last year. It is curious to find that, so long as 120 years, igohspme winemakers from Provence es- iblished, themselves at Omodos to eradicate t e ' roe f); ching practices, and found a good gn‘ market {8: their produce. fShip’s’ TOIIicer's Pluck. The Vintage in Cyprus. nf Piscicnlturists “ Yes,” said the young man as he himself an: the feet of the pretty school-teach- er, “ I love you and would go to the wox1d°s end {qr you. ” _ " You could not go to the end of the world for me. James. The world, or the earth, as it is called, is round like a ball. slightly flattened at; the poles. One of the first lea« sons in elementary geography is devoted to the shape of the fllobe. You trust have studied ll: when you were a boy.” “ 0t course I (ill, butâ€"” “ And it is no longer a. theory. Circum; navigatora have estbalished the fact.” When a acnall pféce of potassium, the size of half a grain of cogn, is dropped into a tumblerful of water sgme of the oxygen of the water leaves its hydrogen, owing to the intense heat which the dhemical action pro- duces, and combines wi't'h,1he metallic po- tassium, causing a violet. bluish flame. When the potasaium is plated on the wick of a coal oil or Alcohol-lamp the flame pro- duced by touching the potassium with a bit of snow, or ice or a drop of waist .will in- flexme it. “ I know, but: What I meant was that I would do anything to please you. 'A'h"! Ming-ya, if_you kn_ew_t':he achingxoid-â€"â€"” “ There is no such thing as a. vBid, James. Nature abhors & vacuum ; but admitting that there could be such a. thing, how could the void you speak of be a. void if there was an ache in it ‘2" " I meant to say that my life will be lone- ly Withoutyou; thabyou are mydaily thought and my nightly dream. I would go any- where to be with you. If you were in Australia. or at the North Pole I would fly to you. I " Extended observations at Parisx and at Munich indicate that the sanitary condition of a. locality depends on the amount of water contained in the ground. The yeafs'in’ivhich there has been a large quantity of ground-- water present have invariably been the healthiest while those in which these has been a smaller quantity have invariably ee‘n'the unhealthiest. 5‘“ " Belts conveying power are very 1. t’to slip ‘on'pulleys, but a new pulley hastb‘een devised 't'd'prevent this. The pulley is ' vé're‘d' With perforated sheet iron o'n‘e six- Veenth of winch thick, which is riveteil to the pull he tension on the belt causes it,t9i rip the holes, and thusflilip- i . - . . . mg is avoxded while at the same time the ulley is strhhgiflened. . L p The appareqti paradox that the most trahsparent WA r is at the same time‘ 'per- fectly opaque from a certain point of view is shown by a'fiimple experiment'flv'l'ai‘t‘l” fill a glass gob'l'ég with clear water .auiifh‘o. d_‘,' it a. little above. the level of the eye and: disw tent in foot or more. No object can be'seen' when held just over the surface of the water, but the water surface appears like a burnished mirror. 9 “ Fly 1 It will be another century before men can fly. Even when the laws of gravi- tation are successfully overcome there will still remain, says a. late scientific authority, the diffi culty of maintaining a balanceâ€"â€"” “ Well, at all events,” exclaimed the youth, “ I‘ve got a pretty fair balance in the savings bank and I want you to be my wife. There I” “ Well, James, since you put; it: in that light, Iâ€"â€"” Let the curtain fall. The Sultan’s jubilee gift to the Pope was an anneau of gold profusely studded with precious stones, which is valued at £10,000. It was presented by the Armenian Patriarch. The President of the French Republic sent two magnificent vases of Sevres, along with & cordial letter of congratulation; and his Holiness has received £20,000 from the monks of the Chartreuse ; a. diamond rose, valued at £225,000. from Ecuador ; and a. huge golden stafl‘, filled with gold dollars, from San Francisco. um. my “swrww. _ W The 'vafiie‘ '6? condlxilen'ts in the prepara- on of food is being discussed. "Authorities at may be Mara! reliabioiassert that red pepper Mulb‘re'speoialiywaluable as aids'mv 'a bite" and: efi'tiqni'“ Various herbs and picesi'arfl’mio‘gbbdfwhile all the condiments used in salads promote digestion and the assimilation oHood. 'yb's'p, The sulphur in the yelk of eggs, it may not be generally known, acts chemically on silver spoons, turning them black, and forming 9. sulphide of silver that cannot be removed without taking ofl‘ the surface of silver, thus rapidly wearing away the spoon. A: new organ, cHI’Ied fan offifie‘ electricque, has been placed in the Church of Sainte Clotilde. in the Faubour Saint-Germain. It is the first instrument of the kind that has appeared in a Paris church. The accumula- tors are placed behind the hi h alter, whence the wires are connected with the keyboards .v' a‘ndth'e o‘rgn‘n ripest” ' The electric motor railway at San Diego, 031., was recenply ,t iedfindv woi‘ked satis- factorily. The 'gwdla‘ié’s‘g pier cent. The motor, crowded with people, moved up the rade, stopping oq t _e aceepggp rtion and Egain starting Wi'flj’ 8.588.!“ Mfigfng all day without a. hitch; vThe lips “four miles:1 long. _"y " " “1", ‘ Bulk-windows that are cased up from the main store may-be kept-free from steam and frost. by a. small}, dogr 9139922953 of glass that will swing 61151111505:- the ’t'd’p of’fihe window, so as to let botainnear the to - escape, and the cold air from mudwrrw Ik'g‘o 1in and keep the glwlgw. .. . Glass blowing is an art nearly 4 000 years old, perhaps’ older; yet there has nevpr been any gov-ice gd’ichviareg to take ‘tijg place of E'he human lungs in the blowing. Bottles, howeverparemblownxwith & mold and mechanicqr.:rzel,l<m;;rz. 1': Bessemer’a steel patents luvs brought him $35,385,000 in royalties. An estimate places 'the number of persons supported by all forms of employment: fur- nished by electricity at 5,000,000. According to Mlin‘htlll'fi‘ gilétionm-y of eta. tistics the uverage’ag'e of all the people liv ing in France is thirty-two years. two months and twelve days. In the United States the average is only twenty-four years, ten months and twégity-fonr days. Dr. Szephen Mackenzie, lecmrer on medi- cine at; the London Hospital, recommends Indian hemp. ,in doses of one-half grain night and morning as a remedy for penin- ent headache. Tlvlgj.llgmiugp_ity.ofyphobphorus ls impaired by a dense and increased by a rarefied at- mosphere. Ata pressure’gf'sixty pounds [0 the square inch, d‘r'foui' fatmospher‘es, phosphorus is non-luminous. Captuw ing a Schoolma’amlm, (HUNKS 0F “1800M. The allusion which eeuEmI Wilson makes to the navigation Jawsof the United States 'is peculiarly unfortunate... Those laws are not working for the benefifof theâ€"people of the United States. Under them their, for- eign mercantile marine has almost entirely disappeared and their domestic trade .is hampered and embarrassed. ‘ So injurious have "these laws become tenths trade and commerce of the United Statesthat‘ % ht- ful and” patriotic men are agitating ' or eir modification and repeal. It is amusing to see General \Vilson’s attempts to excite alarm among Americans at the growing importance of Ca ads. It is surely an insult tp the Ameri 8511 people sixty millions strong) to tell them that they have anything to fear from either trade competition or the military prowess of a neighboring community num- bering barely five millions. This doughty general must regard his countrymen as the veriest poltroons when he tries to excite their fears by telling them that twenty-five years hence, when the population of the United States will, if it increases in the same ratio as the General calculates for Canada, be considerably more than two hundred millions, they will be in danger of an armed invasion from these terrible Cana- dians, who will, according to him, then number some twenty millions. The Ameri- cans will certainly not feel complimented when they are told that one Canadian is. more than a match for ten American citi- zens. Surely General Wilson must greatly underrate the intelligence as well as the éourage of his countrymen when he thinks that such an appeal to their timidity can ave anyrother effect than to make himself ilidiculo‘us‘. , Thee advocate of the railway rings had a geek ease and he did not, in our judg- ent, manage it at all skilfully. \Ve very much mistake if both the Congressional Committee and Amercian public are not shrewd enough to see that the real objects of his attack are the rights and interests of the citizens of the United States and not the Canadian Government or the Canadian railways. PRINTING-INK AND PAPER.â€"Printing-ink appears blacker and coldar on white paper than on tinted paper; While on yellow or tinted paper it appears pale and Without density. For taking printing-ink most per- fectly & paper should be chosen that is free from wood in its composition and that is. not too strongly glazed. Wood paper is said to injure the ink through the nature of its composition. Its materials are very absorbent of light and air‘ and its ingredients go badly with colour. Pale glazed or en- nmelled paper, on the other hand, brings out colour brilliantly. . In order to get as much information as possible out of the movements of an isolated barometer, its indications should be watched in conjunction with the readings of a. ther- mometerin the shade, and very careful at- tention should also be given to the direction of the Wind and its changes. There is a couplet which conveys an important rule with respect to the chnnm: nf wina_113rnA‘:A- 01 me Wind and its changes. There is a couplet which conveys an important rule with respect to the change of wind-direction, and the truth of which is well known to every saibr. “ \Vhen the wind shifts against the sun, Trust it; not, for back it will run.” The wind in the northern hemisphere usual- ly shifts with watch hands, and a. change in this direction is called veering. A change in the opposite way is called backing, and: indicates that; a. storm is approaching. declared that thwcompetitien of Canadian railroads deprives the United States Government of “ the ‘p'ojzer to proper. Ly regulate interstate commerce.” If he hadsaid that Canadian competition will aid and verv materially aid.th§,Government of the United States in regulating inter- state commerce and preserxle the people of the United States. from the extortion of railway monopolies, hqmnukl have been much nearer the truth. Congress has been obliged to interfere to pnqtgct‘ the citizens of the United States from the greed and in- justice of railway combinations. The op- pression of these monopolies had become so galliug that the people werefotced to apply to the Legislature for relief. The Interstate Commerce law has not proved a very effec- tive check to the tyranny of the American railways. What was needed to give the users of American, railroads the reliefs they so badly need was notuso much the restraint of law as thehealthy action of free com- petition. The connection of the Canadian roads with th’e‘ railroad system of the Uni- ted States'supplied that competition ; and in a natural and perfectly legitimate way made the work of the Legislature much more sim la y, an _ at ,the same time, didpmugfigiahpfge'ghe (iieopfe‘ from the yoke of the railway rings. It is hardlyth be expected that Congress will, by acced- ing to General Wilson's modest request, in- crease its dificnlties and fasten upon the people a bondage which they al- ready feel to be well nigh intolerable. The true policy of 'the representatives of the Americam people is certainly not to strengthen the hands of the railway monppolists by taking",av§ay“,almost the only check that exists to the exercise by them of almost unlimited power. They should rather encourage railway competi‘ tion, no matter from what quarter it may come, and if they interfere-with Canadian roads at all it should be to prevent them entering into combinations with‘tbe, roads on the Abram side of the liner‘iG‘anhdian competition, as long as it remains free, is a benefit to the American peopler The dan- ger to thenr‘liéa'fiir'the liabilief'of fiCfina- dian lines ente ’ing into an alliancfa‘ifithl'the' lines on the or at" side of the border and thus killing a coniyétition‘from which they al- ready derive nl’a‘n'y and great' advantages, and which are certain in the progress of time to become more apd greater. A Ring Advocate. The American railway interest hhppplied to Congress for aid against the co{-®$tition of Canadian railroads. The Uniteu ‘States railway mag-notes see that the Canadian rail- ways are already seriously interfering with their sovereignty over the citizens of the Republic in matters relating to the carrying trade of their country, and they have invok- ed the _aid of the re resentatives pf, the peo: ple w‘pE'eGen‘c' the‘igreigners from infringing upon what they have come to regard as their prerogative. General VViIson not, of course, say in plain terms that American railway combinations have a right to rule over the American people witlr‘fi‘t’b'd of iron. and that any encroachment on that right by Canadians is not to be tolerated. He Was much too shrewd to allow the pe'onle a glimpse of the motives by which he and those whom he represents are actuated. ~He appeared before the‘Ihnterstate Committee 0‘ the Salami-93.3. pWiot who had none but the interestsvdf the Government and the People _of the United States at heart. He