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OANADIAN . The first wild duck of the season has been bagged M White Island, Province of Quebec. OVer $200 000 worth of farm implements are aa‘d to have been sold by Winnipeg dealers thin: spring. Seventy five orphan boys, ranging from ten to ninebeen years of age, have arrived in Shatford from England. In the Montreal Police Court yesterday ‘0. Valois, a. druggiat, was fined $75 for sell- tng laudanum without a label on the bottle. An eff)“; is being made in Winnipeg to arrange for an excursion to induce Ontario servant girls to go to Manitoba. A band of about 25 children, sent out by the English Government, have arrived at Quebec for distribution amongst Canadian farmers. The Montreal City Council yesterday passed appropriations for the current year, amounting to 52 372,770, an increase of $423,594 over last year. The new Toronto, Hamilton, and Bnfi'alo Railway Company are progressing with their arrangements for the new line. The village of Welland, though only asked for a bonus of 320.000, unanimously voted the sum of $30,000. ~ From various lake ports our correspodents report the!) vessels will commence making regular trips some time next week ; and it is evldent that navigation will be general on all the lake routes two or three weeks earlier than usual. The working tailors of London (01m) have struck for an advance at wages. With three exceptions the employers refuse their demands, but the men say they are pre‘ pared for a long strike, and claim that their rate of pay is lower than that of neighbor- ing‘cities.‘ u ,Â¥|,_ ...r ...J..:...... 4-,. The Missouri Legislature has refused to order the engrossment of a bin to prohibit baseball on Sunday. nub v uuuuuu The lady students who are anixious to study medicine at: McGill College, Montreal, are agitating to raine an endowment of $250,000. It: is understood that they have $12,000 in hand, and that the faculty have promised to undertake the work as soon as that amount is maie up to $50,000. AMERICAN. At present there are fully 20,000 families receiving charitable assistance In New York A sailor on board a schooner in Baltimore found a. cockroach in his scup, and at: once 'went and murdered the cook. Tbs widow of Stonewall Jackson has re- fused the )fi'er of President Harrison to ap- point: her postmaster of Lexington, Va. city. Five companies of United States troops are now at Oklahoma clearing out; the set- filers. Under recent legal rulings all the concert halls in New York city, where liquors are sold, were closed on Saturday. The nomination of Mr. Murat Halatead to be United States Minister to Germany has been rejected by the Senate. An absolute divorce has been granted to Mrs. Helen G. Bishop against Washington Irving Bishop, the mind reader. Msnierre’s large warehouse in Chicago was burned yesterday morning with a. lot of tens, oofl'ees and general merchandise. Loss $1,- 509,000. ‘ _.s..... A. pr . It", is raid that Editor Osborne, of Los An- geles, the discoverer of the Murchison letter. will be made the Public Printer under Presi- dent Harrison. A Papal rescripb will be issued giving the new Catholic university at Washingtona monopoly of the superior education of the clergy in America. 7 A suspension of the Pennsylvania conl mines has been ordered for six weeks. and about 6J0C0 men and boys will be aflected. szoordiru to a report made to the busi- ness men’s Republican club of New York, three million men in the United States are out of employ ment. Some excitement is created in New York by the blackballing of Mr. Sim‘ S. Straus, Minister to Turkey, by the Manhattan Club, because he is a Hebrew. A woman anouncinz herself as “ M rs. Dr. Brooks. great Inspirational text medium,” has been ex poied at J ackson, Mich, and hastily left: the place. Jen-y Farnsworth died recently near Buf- falo in supposed poverty. A hunt through his efl‘ccts disclosed $20,000 in greenbacks, which were dusty and musty. The virus extracted by a madstone re- cently applied to a little girl who was bitten by a dog in Terre Haute, Ind., is to be sub- mitted to scientific examination. The Supreme Council of the Royal Tem- plate of Temperance. in session at. Buffalo, declare that: nothing short of entire suppres~ sion of the liquor tmfiic will be satisfactory. John McCabe, foreman of Frank Leslie’s illustrated newspaper for 30 years. has com- mitted suicide because he was notified that his services would not: be required after May l._ _ .. n‘.. y:,,, .vâ€"u "The British cflicials and forces at Hong Kong took a prominent pal-tin the obsequiea of the late Rear Admiral Chandler, m: which the Washington naval officers are highly gratified. Gen. Torres, governor of Lower Cali- fornia, has sent: a message to the Mexiczm consul at San Diego asking him to publish in the press that the richness of the Santa Clara mines have been greatly exaggerated. The Bnflalo City Council has ado ted a resolution calling upon the United tates District Attorney to eniorce the Alien Act, so as to prevent C unadian workers from get- ting employment in that city to the detri- ment of home labour. A “Strong” locomotive yesterday made the run from Jersey City to Buffalo, 423 milesl yithout phgnge. The “time taken was I"). hours and 5 minutes. This was the greatest mn ever made by one engine. FOBIEGN. A proposition has been made to confer the freedom of the City of Edinburgh upon Mr. Parnell. Russian detectives have been sent to Switzerland to negotiate for the extradition of Nihilists. Mind-reader Bishop found a needle, for which he hui to drive a. mile, yesterday, in Minneapolis, after which he was seized with slit of catalepsy and is now in a critical condition. NEWS OF THE DAY. It is estimated that since March let the United States debt has been reduced by 512,. 500,000. r A bomb was exploded at the church in Rome in which Father Agostino was preach- ing on Sunday. The “ Journal de St. Peterabourg" denies that Russia is massing troops on the frontier of Afghanistan. Theaum of $750,000 changed hands st Monte Carlo during bebruary. Twenty- Pnde suicides occurred during the same per- 10 . The Emperor and Empress of Austria have abandoned the usual Msundy Thursday ceremonies owing to the illness of the Em- press. A Spanish steamer has been sunk by 001- lision near Manilla. and thirty of her psa- aengers an crew drowned. Afire in a. lumber yard near Bucking- ham palace, London, yesterday, destroyed $300,000 worth of lumber. An unused four-cent: British Guiana. post- age stamp of 1856 was recently sold at auction in London for $250. The Prince of Montenegro will visit: Bel- grade about the end of April. It is believed he goes to the Servian capital by the advice of Russia. A riot occurred yesterday in Rome, aria ing out of some people insulting Father Ages tine, the popular preacher. It is said a clue has been found to n gigan tic plot existing throughout Russia for a- new series of attempts upon the life of the Czar. The eldest son of the late Mr Bright, who is a Liberal Unionist, will contest the nest in the House of Commons for the central division of Birmingham. Owing to illness having incapacitated the King of Holland from the duties of a lover eign the Queen, has undertaken, temporari- ly, the duties of Regent. Lord Mande‘lille, heir to the Duke of Manchester, who has been declared bank- rupt, is to be criminally prosecuted for hav- ing made untrue affidavits. 7I‘he Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, who was born in 1823 and held the portfolio of Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1867 to 1868, died yesterday. It is rumored that ex-King Milan has grown tired of the lady for whom he left his Servian throne, and that he thinks of setting up a harem in Constantinople. The Vienna “ Tagblatt” announces that an atuempt was made to wreck a train on which were the Czar and Czarina, travell- ing from St. Petersburg to Gatschina. Gen. Boulanger declares the Government: are insane, otherwise they would never dream of adding to his popularity by insti- tuting against him a public prosecution. It is definitely announced that the British Cabinet will propose two Irish measures, one providing for a scheme of land purfisse and the other dealing with lacs-l govern- ment. The Swiss Council, suspecting that in the event of a Franco-Prussian war Germany would violate the territory of Switzerland, has recommended to Parliament the adop- tion of a credit for the pur}ose of fortifying St. Gothard. The “St. James’ GZZette,” commenting upon the appointment of Mr. Robert T. Lin- coln as American Minister to England, says it is certain he will be popular. It is said that pending action for breach of promise between Miss Phyllis Broughton, the burlesque actress, and Viscount Dnan has been compromised for £50,000. A Mandarin on Western Women. A travelled Chinese mandarin, who has lately communicated his impressions of the West tohis countrymen, deals with great particularity with the position and treat- ment of women in Europe. These surprise him beyond measure. Thus the notion of husband and wife walking arm in arm in public places fills him with amusement. “No body smiles at it,” he says, “and even a husband may perform any menial task in his wife’s presence, yet no one will laugh at him." Then, again, the notion of men standing aside to let a woman pass, and the code of politeness which requires men to make way for a Woman, are to him incom- prehensible. In China when the men are gorged the women dine 06 the scraps ; but in the West “at meal-time the men must wait until the women are seated, and then take one after another their places, and the same rule must be observed when the meal is finished.” Western women have curious notions about dress and appearance. “They set store by a large bust and slender waist, but while the waist can be com- pressed, the bust cannot naturally be en- larged ; the majority have a wicker con- trivance made which is concealed under the bodies on either side, and is considered an adornment. If a woman is short-sighted she will publicly mount spectacles. Even young girls in their teens pass thus along ahe streets, and it is not regarded as strange.” As for low dresses, he observes in bewilder- ment that women going to Court regard a bare skin as a mark of respect. He is greatly exercised how to describe kissing: the thing or word does not exist among the Chinese, and accordingly he is driven to describe it. “ It is,” he says. “a form of courtesy which consists in presenting the lips to the lower part of Yb“ - um and making asound”-again, "chilu. a when visiting their seniors apply their nmuth to the left or right lips of the elder with a smacking noise.” Women asshop attendants, women at home, women with moustaches, then en- gage the writer's attention, and he passes on to “ at homes” and dances. “ Besides invitations to dinner there are invitations to a tea gathering, such as are occasionally given by wealthy merchants or distinguish- ed oflicials. When the time comes invita- tions are sent to an equal number of men 81d women, and after these are all assem- bled, tea and sugar, milk, bread and the like are set out as aids to conversation. More particularly are there invitations to skip and posture, when the host decides what man is to be the partner of what wo- man, ani what woman of what man. Then with both arms grasping each other they leave their places in pairs and leap, skip, posture, and prance for their mutual grati- fication. A man and a woman previously unknown toone another may take part in it.”â€"[Loudon Times. The London “Daily Telegraph” any: Count: Bismarck made a definiue offer on the part of Germany toaede to England Dumas-Mud, a German protectorate in West Africa extending along the coast from Cape Frio to Walfiech Bay. The locality was near that part of the delta called the Sunderbunds, through which the Ganges expands its branches as in ap- proaches the sea. â€"a labyrinth of creeks and rivers, of jungle and stagnant water. The night Wu! perfectly flue, but mooniess; there was a heavy dew rapidly failing, like misty rain, which in hot; countries is a par- faotl; natural occurrence I went into the dras‘ringroom by what may be called the back donr. as it led Into the back drawing-room and smaller one of the two; the other, a far larger apartment, communicated with this one by great fold- ing doors of gold and white. The back draw- ing-room was very full of furnitureâ€"rather inconveniently so. As I was carrying an armful of books and in my disengaged hand a lamp I proceeded with tolerable security, though slowl , but then of course I knew the room an could have gone to my des tination in the dark. What struck me as both curious and irritative was the fancy that the room seemed more impeded than ever with the furnitureâ€"dark, old-fashioned ‘ rosewood furniture that had been made to match the grand piano. The various arti- cles looked as If they had been dragged about the room. Possibly the darkness above and around me helped the illusion; anyway they had the appearance of hav- ing been gradually spread toward the center of the room round a heavy and solid table. It was this table that I wished to go to. I walked very slowly, partly because I did not wish to spill the books that I’d spent the last hour in collecting and partly be. 08-35%} Of an unaccountany horrible feeling that had come over me. This part of the house was quite silent ; indeed, it was often so a! an evening. My brother had passed me on his way up stairs, having been all day at Madrepore, and no doubt being tired had gone to bed. There Were very few stairs at all, as the house was practically a one- storied one, rambling and full of angles, having been built and added to at various times; here and there little staircases streamed out leading to long passages and unexpected cupboards; the back drawing- room door itself opened from a side flight of five stairs. As I had encountered two small chairs and an overturned music stand I stood still for a second, looking for a clear passage, and thereby holding the lamp high and well in front of me. As I paused amid the complete silence that reigned an immense tiger slowly crossed the path of light, turn- ing on me two burning yellow eyes, gleam- ing like vivid topazes'. I stood there in stifiened terror and heard my heart baa its mouth was loosely parted and runnqu with saliva ; so wide was it hanging open at the corners that the serrated edges of the lower lip were plainly visible. It gazed with a steadfast look of such grinning cruel- ty, such conscious malignity, that it froze my blood and turned my limbs to stone. This description of sight and feeling was of course the impression of one vivid concep. tion condensed by a minpte’s agony. IUUIII i uunu uluuv w u... v ._ .0... The house itself was oldiashioned, a large and many-gabled one, standing quite elem and solitary in a spacious garden; all the windows had been closed and the jilousiea shut and secured from the outside; the batty-grass blinds on the piazze had been rolled up and put away tlll another blazing mcrning called for their refreshing shade. Blood-(Zurdllng Adventure with a Man- liuu-r In the Bella of the Ganges. There were two entrances to the drawing- room ; this must be borne in mind: The tiger crossed the India. matting of the room with a noiseless, swinging gait ; as it appeared to have come from the obscurity near the piano, so it vanished into the ob- scurity beyondâ€"that is, outside the path- way of the lantern light. I stood perfectly immovable, still clutching the books with my left arm, still holding the lamp before me, still gazing at the place it had crossed, and apparently forever seeing that awtul look upon the tiger's broad face. It seemed as if my eyes saw the face, though my mind had rapidly suggested the frightful probabil- ity that the tiger was behind me. At the some time by at me dual mental process it was holding out hope tlat the animal had passed through the great folding-doors into the dark room beyond. 1 have no remem- brance at all of my mind dictating the next action 1 pursued ; it seemed just an instinct indulged in by the body upon its own ac- count and for its own immediate preserva- tion. I laid the books very carefully down without making the slightest unnecessary noise or disturbing the hand that held the lamp, and than raising with slow efl'ort one of the heavy little chairs that had blocked my passage I silently swung it onto my shoulders and held it so that it covered my head, then turned slowly sldewise with my mind impressed with the necessity of keep- ing the lamp as far as possible behind me. This struck me at the time as clever and of unquestionable importance in saving my life. I managed to walk gently out of the room. I suppose I’d been in it five minutes, but it seemed like a weary hour. An Iclosed the door and locked it my brother unexpectedly came down the pas- sage and passed me on the little flighu of stairs. He was rather in a berry. “ Godfrey,” I called out afber'him, ” do you mind pulling the front door to in the large drawing~room as you go by ‘2” It seems strange now, but I could think of nothing else to say then, and I said in slow- ly and quite naturally. He assented and disappeared and I, with. out: noticing it at: the time, took up Uhe chair again and. with my lamp ascended the short flight of stairs and proceeded along the pass- age to my own room, walking slowly and guardedly. The mind had evidently been so shocked that it had not: recovered its dom- inant away over the body. Upon reaching my own room I put the chair carefully down and sat upon it. The lamp I had placed on the table at the same time. I sat there a few seconds feebly wondering which room the tiger was in. Then I got up with a sudden alacrity, took from its case a large revolver and turned into the passaage again. In a minute or so I was in Godfrey’s room. He was half undressed. “What’s the matter?" he demanded with startled eyes. When I had told him he took my hand and wrung it. “ You may thank God that you are alive. old fellow.“ Then he dressed hurriedly, took a heavy rifle from a rack, and filled his poc- kets with cartridges. and sprang forward with a mighty bound and rolled over with a scream of dying rage. When we came to measure the brute afterward we found it was 15 feet from the nose to the tip of the tall.â€"[Charlee Lillie in Pall Mall Gazette. .__*â€"â€"â€" A Dubuque inventor has patented an electric light designed especially for the de. tection of burglars. The apparatus can be 80 arranged that a burglar in entering a. bank, office or dwelling, will, in his opera- tions, touch something which will cause a “Com along; at“. l flash, and the result will be his photo aph let me go first; your nerves “68bit aInky } 1m indelibly on the plate. A hum er of yet." We crept out and awakened the punkahâ€" wallah, an old and faithful Hindu, Whom my brother once nursed during a dangerous illnessâ€"a brave, reliable, and trustworthy cameras may be placed in the room and a varie of views taken simultaneously. The tell- e wire can be fastened to the inch of the safe or door so that he cannot avoid touching it, thus disclosing his identity. We crept out and awakened the punkah- wallah, an old and faithful Hindu, whom my brorher once nursed during a dangerous illnessâ€"a breve, reliable, and trustworthy NIGHT AND A TIGER. “Three hours will bring the dawn ; now, who can see in the darkâ€"non the sahib, but yes,ihe tiger]: "Cunning must be m'eu winh cunning,” said the Hindu. “Ic'h take three hours to arrange,” I re marked. “ Very well,” said Godfrey, “ let-s set about it at once." From the gardener’s outbouse we brought a roll of wire netting that had been put there for fencing in a paddock a few days previously. Together we collected armsful of. shavings the work men had not cleared away, quantities of dried leaves, rags, everything we could find soft and pliable ; and having cut the wire into three square lengths firmly lashed them together. one over the other. When com pleted it was the shape but rather larger than the window in lhe room in which the tiger lay hidden and the doors of which had been locked. Our operations so far had been conducted upon the veranda outside, near the gardener’s room. We then rolled up the wire netting and carried it round the corner of the house to within a few yards of the big window ; here it wrs unrolled again and flattened out, then upon its surface we poured all the shavings, rags, leaves, and refuse we had collected, and upon this mass smeared and spread aquantity of lime left by the workmen for the morrow. This we smoothed down as well as we were able till ‘ the whole mass assumed some consistency and clung to the interstices of the netting. anee next took some stout twine and im- provised a rough kind of needle from a barn boo cane. With this implement he sewed all over the mass of staff, thus making a string netting that helped to keep the com- position in its place. So far so good ; the most difficult operation yet remained. “ Will the salib let his servant advise him?” “Yea Rsmee ; tell me your plan.” As the Hlndu rapidly unfolded it my brother smiled dubiously at the idea. man, who would have laid his life down for Godilrey. .... w. u 7 7 7“”Y0l’1 wili coine with us. Rzmee?” asked my brother. The old man smiled as if the qugstiqg w_ere au-p‘er‘fluoqa: 7 “In in the maneater!” said the Hindu afte|:_my rgcfltal. ‘ Sagib," wiapered the Hindu, placing a restraining hand upon my brother, "let Ramee complete his workâ€"is it nob his duty? If he fails he shall suffer?" " You foolish man,” said Godfrey, “ how can you do it: alone 2 we're Wasting time." He pushed the revolver in his belt, laid hold of one end of the netting, and threw off his shoes. With slow and noiseless feet the net;- inq, looking very like a large mattress, was carried exactly opposite the window and laid gently down; then both retired as silently as they had advanced. “Take my gun," said Godfrey to me, “ aqd gfi_vq_me_the re_vol_ver..:’_ Ramee then brought from the out-house a ladder, and with a gesture of entreaty sign. ed to my brother to stand aside and take his rifle in his hand. With bare feet the Hindu crept up to the window again and reared the ladder against the wall. Taking a coil of rope from his neck he deftly fastened it to the highest wall-staple of the outside shutter. Descending he quickly enlaced the short strand in the netting, placed the ladder on the other side, and ran the thong through the other staple. For the first time he made a noise, but it was unavoidable, and was caused by the netting being drawn upward till it hung like a great curtain cov- ering the shutter and hiding the indow from us. Godfrey and I stood ready to fire, The Hin du, perspiring at every pore, descended the ladder, which he lowered and placed horizontally on the window-sill and lashed it to the bottom of the netting and again fastened that to the two lower staples on either side. The thing was done; far away in the east: the dawn was breaking, above which the morning star was slowly paling his silver fire. 1‘73“; Ramee. the shutters are still fast- enedl" “Sahib, I unfaatened them ; they are open the breadth of a man’s hand; presently the light will stream tnrough." “ Quick ; fetch another rifle." When he returned I wok the gun and gave him my revolver. A light breath of wind passed murmnring through the feathery crowns of the slender cocoa palms, two great spears of light shot up in the sky, somewhere in the garden a bird sang, the sun had risen. “Wait the signal, whispered my brother ; “ now, Ramee." The Hindu knelt down and imi- tated the bleating of a kid that had lost its mother. At the instant Ramee sprang to his feet the silence was rent by a sundering crash and a sudden terrific roar ; the shutters were torn from their sockets, a great mass hurled itself precipitataly through the Window, and the tiger, with its head and shoulders buried in the lime-covered debris, was grappling in maddened fury with an enemy he could not see nor make much impression upon. Our guns were at our shoulders. The animal was twenty feet from us, tearing up the graveled path and coilin itself in in- extricable confusion in the bro en netting and splintered ladder. Ramee uttered a loud cry. The animal had freed his head and stood with its bleeding mouth in an enforced listening attitude. It was the moment God- frey had waited for, and he fired. The ti- ger, evidently not seeing him, sprang at the window again, but missed the opening, hurl- ing itself against the wall and falling on the broken shutters. At the minute it alighted I aimed at the spot behind the shoulder and fired; it gave a convulsive leap and turned its bloodshot eyes in our direction. Then Godfrey fired again and told me to do the same. "Back 1 back !" cried Ramee‘ The animal had gathered itself together and sprang ferward with a mighty bound and rolled over with a scream of dying rage. When we came to measure the'brute afterward we found it was 15 feet from the nose to the tip of the mileâ€"[Charles Lillie in Pall Mall Gazette. The position of the island of Zanzibar is» about the sixth degree of latitude south of the equator, opp3site to a wide “bight” or bay of the east coast of Africa, from which it is divided by a channel some thirty miles in breadth, commands the maritime access to the lake district of that continent, and in the hands of a strong European power, instead of an Arab Sultan, would probably become the instrument of commercial supre- macy and vast territorial conquests. Its destiny is just now a consideration of high political importance, with regard to the division of German and British colonizing enterprise on the mainland, the combined naval blockade for the suppression of the slave tradr. and the insurrection oi the Suaheli co m tribes against the German settlement». Zanzibar is an island forty- sight miles long and eighteen miles broad, formed by a reef of madrepore, with hills not above 400 feet high, and covered with luxuriant vegetation, the soil being in most parts extremely fertile. The climate is sultry, moist and miasmatio, in spite of the sea breezes. The population, altogether numbering about 300,000, includes about 14,000 Banyans oi the Hindoo trading class from India, many of whom are British sub- jects ; Arabs, chiefly from Oman or Muscat; Parsee merchants; free and ;slsve blacks from different parts of Africa, from the Comoro Islands and Madagascar ; and the native race, who live in huts oi wattle and clay. The port of Zmzibar is a fine by or har- bor on the west coast of Africa;snd the town has at least 60,000 inhabitants. It is built on a low projecting spit of land, the houses being of durable limestone. It con- tains twenty or thirty mosques, several markets, the palace of the sultan, and a fort of no great strength, besides the houses of foreign merchants nni their stores. The late Sultan of Zmzibar, Seyyid Burghash, was very friendly to England, and visited London. The connection between Southern Arabia and Zanzibar is of very ancient date but was long interrupted by the Portuguese dominion, which on this part of the East African coast has been abandoned, though it is still a reality in the Mozambique chan- nel and far to the south. anzibar, how- ever, did not exercise env‘iunctions of actual government on the mainland, while claiming a titular sovereignty along in; seacoaut ; and it remains to be seen 33w whether either of the German or the Eu lish companies re- cently formed will be able to use the powers assigned to them. respectively for the civ- iliz ntion of the Washurhell and of the Masai in a region ill suited to European settle- ment, and scarcely accessible to a military expedition.â€" [Christian Secretary. The origin of the "White Cap” move- ment is not very far to seek. The desire to meddle in other people’s business and regu- late other people’s lives is widespread. and our civilisation covers up a good deal of in- nate rowdyism. When the spirit of rowdy- ism and the spirit of censoriousness and med- dling can be gratified at onca and by the same set, the temptation is too strong for some souls. If to these motives is added the preponderanCe of the imitative facultv in week minds. the rapid spread of the White Cap nuisance is easily accounted for. It Appears to thrive best in villages and small towns. The young men there have much leisure and scant means of recreation; and some of them are not strong enough to resist the temptation to amuse themselves in a manner which gives vent to some pent- up blackguardism, and at th same time al- lows them to pose as reformers of the morale of the community. We regret to observe that the infection has spread into Ontario. There is no difficulty in dealing with it except such as may arise from the weakness or timidity of the people among wiom the outrages take place. The offences committed by the White Caps are ofl‘ences punishable by the ordinary laws of the country, and all that is required to put a a stop to them is the vigilant, stern and fearless enforcement of those laws. They were telling experiences the other night and Col. Grannis told one of his. He made the trip through the Southern coun- try herejust after the road had been opened. The festive cowboy had just begun to enjoy the sport of running the train in the rough region, and at one of the stations s formid- able specimen of that tough human boarded the cars. The conductor came along punch- ing the tickets, and this cowboy did not pay any attention to him. At last the conduc- tor laid his hand on the oowboy's shoulder and saidzâ€"“Ticket, please." The cowboy turned in true cowboy style, pulled out his revolver, and pointed it at the conductor. “Here’s my ticket.” The conductor walked on and punched everybody else‘s coupon. Then he disap- peared. The little incident had been for- gotten by almost everybody on the car. The cowboy was in a quiescent state, and the car was still when the conductor came in. He walked leisurely up the aisle and suddenly stopped before the cowboy, placed a great big knife dangerously contiguous to his vital part: and said, quietly:â€" “Lemme see that ticket again!" The cowboy paid his farmâ€"[San Francis- co Chronicle. The Princess Maria Theresa, of Bavaria, is an excessively nriginal royal personage who combines a passion for birds and beasts with a mania for extending her acquaintance. It is her pet ambition to own more dogs and know more people than any other member of the royal tamilies of Europe, and with this end in view she rushes all over the civilized world and picks up all the interest- ing individuals who are readyto swallow her eecentricities for the sake of being on speaking terms with a princess. As she is an unmarried woman. she isaccompanied on her travels by a dame d'honneur and a chamberlain, to whose tender mercies are confided the fourteen animals which compose her royal highness’ travelling menagerie. In Madrid she created an immense sensation and no small amount of scandal by taking her walks abroad carrying a huge tame rat in her princely arms, and followed by the unhappy chamberlain chalned to a small cinnamon hear. The rest of the menagerie is made up of dogs and a magpie,â€"{Paris Figaro. Anglomaniacâ€"“That's the way it goes. If we hunt foxes iolkes say we’re cruel; if we hunt aniaeed bags folks laugh at: 115, What can we hunt without exciting ind' nation or ridicule 2" Smn‘l boyâ€""Cam The White Cap Nuisance. Equal to the occasion. A Princess' Fad. Zanzibar.