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Judge Manisby. of the English High Court: of Juahloe, Queen’s Bench Division, died on Saturday in his 82nd year. Sir William Gull, physician in ordinary to the Prince of Wales, died J an. 29211 of paralysis, aged 74. Raports are current in London that Irish- Amerioan extremishsconbemplabe more dyna- mite outrages in England. It: is decided that the difi‘ernnfl organiza- tions of Good Templar: in England shall reunite and form one organizmlon. The London “Lancet” says that; Fufope has much to fear from cholera. during the coming summer. John Raid & 00., one of the oldest ship- building firms on the Clyde, have failed with heavy liabilities. The colliery owners of Great Britain have resolved to combine to resist the unions of he oollierI. Dublin municipal council has adopted a resolution expressing confidence in Mr. Parnell. Montreal shippers have a big live stock shipping scheme, which they intend bring- ing before the Dominion Government. They want permission to establish, on the east end of the harbour, a quarantine yard, into which the American cattle trains could be run, and from which the cattle could be transferred to steamers set apart for the trade, and carrying no Canadian cattle. GREAT BRITAIN. The bishop of Tunm died on Saturday. aged 79. H. R. H. Princess Chriutian ia suflaring from influenzx at Wiesbaden. The Indians of the Blackfeet reserve, near MacLeod, have a pretty little white girl in their possesaion, who, it; appears, in the daughter of an American cflioer killed in an Indian skirmish. The American Govern- ment have sent an officer to recover the ohild,whom, however, the Indiana refuse to surrender. Marie Anne Colehhier, a poor French- Canadian girl living in Montreal. has be- come an heiress to about: $60,000 through the death of her grandmother, mother, and aunh, who lived together, and had their savings, amounting to that sum, secreted in three tin boxes. A syndicate is being formed in London to acquire trading rigbva in Alaska. While Chief Detecflve Cullen, of Montreal. was showing a. revolver, which he did not: know was loaded, to Judge Dugaa, be dis- chm'ged the weapon. and the bullet lodged in the cheek of Deputy High Constable Douglas, inflicting a serious wound. A marriage from which Mrs. Walker, nee Herald, seeks release, was carried out in fun at an amateur dramatic performance in Dundas, Oath, has, as the ceremony was per- formed by a clergyman, the matrimonial knob was securaiy tied. Mrs. Farmer, of Scra‘bford, 0nb.,lwidow of Christopher 0. Farmer, who was recently killed by lumber projecting over a. car in the mud Trunk yard an Sbratford, has brought an action against the company for $20,000. The county council of Cornwall has resolv- to petition the Ontario Legislature to amend the License Act so that: the appointment: of commissioners and inspectors shall real with tlfla‘ county councllu. Rsv. A. Imballe, Assistant Commissioner of Agriculture of obs province of Qxebec, in alecmre before the French Gsographical Society ab Paris, France, on Saturday, earnestly appealed to Frenchmen to come to Canada and nebula. Rev Mr.‘_0&uon, of K’ngaoon. on Sunday evening lectured she femsle portion of his audience on the evils of tight-lacing ' and wearing thin boots in sloppy weather. A large number of Canadians are return- lng to Somtford from the Michigan lumber woods, on foot: and pennilleaa, having failed to obtain work owing to the open winter. The Dominion Government has decided to place in the estimates the sum $25,000 for fine purchase of seed barley of the two-rowed variety. Senator Macdonnld, of British CoEumbia, introduced a bill into the Senate at Ottawm on Monday night he prohibit the Mormon practice of plural marriages. (l‘he Obbawn lumbermen do not believe the story ourrenb in Sh. Paul, Minn., that: Canadians are uteuling lumber in large quantities from the North-Western States. Elgin county council has passed a. resolu- tion to ask the Legislature to amend the law so that all counties shall have power to elect their (flifials by ropular vote. Mr. Tapper has inbrodnced a bill into Par- liament at Ottawa to absolutely prohibit the throwing of sawdust and other will refuse into streams. The Indians of the district east of Rat Portage are suffering so severely from in- fluerzs that many of them are unable to leave for the trapping grounda. A deapatoh from Windsor, 0311., says the importation into Canada of butterine and oleomargarine in very considerable juab 110W. John Flannigm, Clerk of the Township of Bidénlph and of the DAvision Court: in Lucia, has disappeared with‘hia books. Mr. W. T. J annings, late Engineer of the C. P. R., has been appointed City Engineer of Toronto, wibh a salary of $5,000 a. year. J. G.Howud, at: one bime city Engineer of Toronto, died at his residence in High Park on Monday. Mrs. J gmes Campbell. wife of at Windsor drayman, has had 825,000 left to her by a deceased uncle. East Middlenex Farmers’ Inntiiube have voted that the duty on corn should be ntmck OE the Hub. According to the estimates for 1891 the sum of $1,704 485 will be expended on public works in Ontario. Hon. L. F. R. Manon. ex-Lieut. Governor of Quebec, has been called to tne Senate to suocsed t}: 6 late Senator Rodler. A number of Detroib capitalists intend erecting works in Walkuvilla for the manufacture of articles of malleable iron. Britifh Columbia. 1551: year exported to the ~ Inked States produce to the value of $2,700,000. Govarnor Nelson, of British Columbia, has had a serious “back of influenzn, but is re- NEWS OF THE WEEK. CANADA . Araport comes from Lisbon hbm Maj )r Sarpa Pinto intends visiting Aemrlcv. “ for his health. ” .. Aoâ€"mt‘riob has been signed for a Run sing 101311 of $70 000000. The French Rspublioafi party has adopt- ed_ the American _oauou_a_aysbem‘ The Duke of Montpensier is dead. The condition of Emln Pasln has grqatly improyad. _ By order of Archbishop Ryan, Father Pawler attempted be hold service in the Polish church M: Buflalo last Sunday. A lorce of 200 police was summoned to protect the priest: and his followers. Polleh men shood aloof while the women fought like on- raged tigeresses and by sheer force drove the police away, and the prism: was roughly handled and badly ecu-ed. The service was not held. The New York state Assembly railroad committee ham decided to repart favorabEy the bill authorizing tna Rome, \Vmertown and Ogdenaburg railway to um fax-ties from anv of their termini in St. Lawrence and J afl'ersou counties to any point across the Sb. Lawrence river in Canada. The house of Mr. Tracey, Secretary of the Navy, in Washington, was destroyed by fire on Monday morning, when Mrs. Tracey, her daughter, and her maid servant were burned to death. Saaetm‘y Tracey was rescued, but lies in a. precarious condition from having inlmled smoke. Mrs. Parnellhas been interviewed by a repor‘er of the Buffalo “Ex pres», ” who found the old lady m a state of desvluutlon. She Enid she lost money in speculations, and that her BOD had sunyk all his wealth in the Irish cause; also them she could live cpmfortably on $25 a. year. The auditing committee engagad on the accounts of Dr. Reilly, treasurer of the United States branch Irish League, have re- ported that they found a model syltem of keeping the books, and that everything was properly vouched for. Mm, Sam Ann Gridlev has just: died in the Home of the Friendless at: Muskegon, Mich, aged 104 years. She was born in North Carolina, smoked her pipe regularly and cauld read without speobaoles up to the last. Sergeant O’Donnell, of the U. S. garrison at For!) Niagara, camminted suicide on Sun- day in his room at the barracks by putting the muzzle of his rfifla to his head and pulling the trigger with his toe. In New York Sunday night: Emil Myers, a blind man, hit his wife on ole head with a hammer and then oommitbed suicide by throwing himaeli from the fire escape. The wife was seriously hurt. The United States fish- commissioner has sent between four and five mfllion Whitefish fry for planting in Lake Ontario at Sackent s Harbor, Chaumont and Black River bays. The Natlot 3}. Builders’ convention an gt. Paul resolved to advocate the system of [my- menu by the hour as the only safe method of changing the reoognizad limit: of aday’s work. Patrick Gibbons, a politician and witness in the Ozon'm trial, shot on Tuesday by Police Captain Schuetbler in a saloon brawl a‘J Chicago, in dead. J mob Adel), a religious maniac of Fair- mont, Ind.. roasted himself to death on Wednesday to expiate his sin: and propitiate the favour of the Almighty. It is stated 1211841 U. S. Minister L‘ncoln’a son Abraham is dying. being unable to bear tpe drastic treatment) of his French physi- cums. The presbyteriss at New York and Chicago have voted in favor of revising the Confes- s’on of Faith, which baa been under discus- sion for some time. Rev. Dr. Talmaga and hmily, of Brook- lyn, have reached their hours. The doctor is in fine health. The Eng Iish Brewery Syndicate has bought: four Toleda breweries ior more Ithan three million dollars. President Harrison’s residence in Indiana- polis was burglarized on Wednesday night and conaixierable booty secured. Mrs. Coppinger. (“:zxughter of Secretary Blaine, dial in Wuehieghon an an early hour on Sunday morning. The Gloucester, Mam, fishermen unani- moual y pronounce fihe weather on the banks the worst they have evar experienced. The United States Senate has ratified the Samoan Treaty, only twelve negative votes being recorded. ASE. Louis baker yub poison on some cakes to kill rats. Two children scale the cakes aud died. Eight: delayei passenger trains reached San Francisco lamb Saturday, one week be- hind time. Mr. J whn Morley, M. P.. spoke ah Liver- pool on Thursday night. He criticized the Muqnis of Hartington'a programme and expressed the opinion that: Lord Salisbury made a grava mistake when he threat-sued the resistance of the peers if Mr. Gladstone was returned no power. Heavy rains and flo'ods are reported in Otegon. Sir George Otto Trevelysn, in a. speech at Doncaster on Tuesday, denounced the land purchase scheme, because lb was altogether at the risk of the British taxpayers. He thought the whole risk should be taken by 0116 Irish local authorities. Lord Salisbury has abandoned hiap propos- ed trip to the continent, but his health is so bad that it I! almost certain he will inaish upon being relieved of the care: of the Foreign Office. Sir Charles Dllke' a new book, “The Pro- blems of Greater Bribein,” is said to be meeting wi h a. large sale in En gland He asserts that Imp eriai Federation must come scene: or later, pand the sooner the better. Mr. Wm. O’Brien was received with en- thusiasm at: Leeds on Thursday. He said that England’s conscience was yturning bo~ wards the policy of justice, kindness and pMesace wherewith Providence had inspired .Gladntone. The London “Times” has aethled the libel suit brought against: it by Mr. Parnell and his secretary, Mr. Campbell, the former receiving £5,000 an a eolatinm. and the litter £200. 16 is reported that the Duke of Cambridge will resign his position as commander-In- chief of the Btiuiah Army in October, and will he succeeded by the Duke of Com naught. IN GENERAL. UNITED STATES . There lately passed acroaa the Red Sea from the African to the Arabian shore a. flight of locusts calculated to have covered over 2,000 square miles. A sensational story with “a woman in it" comes from Constantinople. It appears than Ismail ex-Khedive of Egypt was most unfor. tnnate in his choice of a wife, when eighteen months ago while on a visit to Lomon, he added to lie numerous household an irieh damsel. Piecing her at the head of his harem she lived in Oriental luxury. She has not proved the angel that he took her to be, and has made herself very obnoxious to the other ladies and most unseemly soeneI have occurred. Matters came to a cristis the other day when Ismail forcibly ejected her. She has made her complaint to the British embassy, and has informed him of the horrid practices which are of daily occurrence in the seraglio, and revealed some political intrigues to which she was privy. The result is that at the request of the embassy the Sultan ordered Ismail to be kept in honorable confinement in his palace pending enquiry into the afi'air. Meantime it might be well for Ismail to spend the time of his imprisonment in making himself familiar with Shekespeare‘s immortal play, “Taming the Shrew.” if: sending forth this draft convention Mr. Blaine points out that the present treaty is not 5 substitute for that of1842 but only a supplement, that seeing a. great mass of practice had grown up about the old it was not thought wise to disturb it. He draws attention also to the fact that the crimes em‘ braced in the treaty are such as "are made punishable by the lsws of all civilized States, and not such as are made peuel‘in any Der- ticular country by reason of any conditions there existing.” Though not so comprehen- sive as many could have wished. the new con vention embraces those particular crimes whose frequent commission of late years has more then anything else stirred up the pow- ers to take the present action. It will at least have the eflect of preventing an in. crease of that notorious class of citizens who having been unfaithful to their trust and embezzled their employers’ goods, have sought an asylum in the neighboring coun- try, where without fear of molestation they have enjoyed the fruits of their dishonesty and fraud. And this provision alone would render the treaty far from velueless. The extradition treaty between Canada and the United States has advanred another important stage, the terms of the Convention having been decided upon by the British Minister at Washington. Sir J alien Paun- oefote, and Secretary of State. Hon.James G. Blaine. liI‘here provisions have just been published and are as follows :â€"-” Man- slaughter, counterfeiting or altering,_moneg, uttering or bringing into circulation counter- feit or altered money, embezzlement, lar- ceny, obtaining money, goods or valuable securities by false pretences; receiving any money, valuable security or other property, knowing the same to have been embezzled, stolen or fraudulently obtained; fraud by a bailee, banker, agent, trustee, or director, or member or ofli :er of any Company, made criminal by the laws of both Jeuntries ; perjury or sub- nrnation of perjury,abduotion, child-stealing, kidnapping ; burglary, housebreaking or shopbreaking ; piracy by the laws of nations '; revolt or conspiracy to revolt by two or more persons on board a ship on the high seas against the authority of the master ; wrong- full 7 sinking or destroying a vessel at sea or attempting to do so ; assaults on board a ship on the high seas with intent to do grievous bodily harm; crimes and offences against the laws of both countries for the suppression of slavery andelave trading: It is reported in official circles it! St. Pateraburg thnb Emperor William of Get-u many, the Sultan of Turkey, and the King of Sweden will attend the Russian millc‘g'l'y manoeuvres at Kmanoe Sela during the present) year. Cal. Sfioppel, formerly French mimary attache, who warned his Government bafqre 1870 of the diaas rolls results of & confl.‘ ob WiLh Germmy, now advocates a. quco- Gm: mun alliance to 0} cc]: R lsuia. Bismarck has written a lebber to the German Ambassador to the Vatican, saying shat ali the Societies of the Ohm" ch at Rome, including the J ssuicn, will be Wel- comed' In the German colonic: and protect- ed. »- lb isfreporaed in Lisbon that Louisa!“- burv has agreed to a conference of the powers on the question of disputed bé‘und- aries in Africa. between Portugal and Great Britain. ’5. Forty dismissed and destitute English clerks at: Lisbon have app piled to the British consul there for passage to their humfll. The Portuguese prime minister sail than he' is preparing an appeal to the p,oweu bub is anxious to meet Great Britain’ as wishes. An Austrian doctor claims to havé dis- covered an absolute cure for bydrophobia, and in kind enough to present the world wiuh the recipe. ‘- The Octal debb of the United Shnba§,1ess cash in the “mummy February 1,1890 is $1 040,707 016 14 The decreasey lash youth was $12, 245 _895 19. .w -- â€"~~ W'â€"I‘-"- In the French Chamber of Dapubié the bin providing for a. law to tax foreifiners and those who empl )y foreign labour» had its first reading on Thursdaxy. " Count Andraauv, who is in his 70th yam1 and represented Austria. ab 0119 Berlin con green, is believed to be dying. The cz \1' has summoned the Russian min- ister at Landon to Sh. Petersburg to report upon the Anglo Portuguese dispute. Duly incldenta strengthen the lmprbaslon that there is a. sex-lam: divergence of views between Ptlnce Bismarck and Emperor Wil- liam. '. The czzr lies declared he will not i-ecog‘ nlze the Brazilian republic during the life time 01 Dom Pedro. ' The workingmen at Brnnu, Aunt-i; have decided to demonstrate on May 1 in favor of the eight-hour moment. It is expected than nkass will shortly be Issued forbidding German colonizmon in Soubhern Russia. The Melbourne confederation of the Australian province: has been postponed 12111 February 651:. The Siamese Government has protested against the encroachment of the British flag on its territory. A Strange Story. The New Treaty. V The danger to the public health oi the present method is two fold ; first from the ll pregnation of the drinking water with the poisonous compounds which result from decomposed bodies, and second, from the propagation and dissemination of those . living organisms which science has do monstrated to be the cause of some of the most deadly diseases which affect mankind. . Here again Sir Henry Thompson is called ‘to Witness. He says: “ I state, as a fact of the highest importance, that, by burial , in earth, we effectively provide~whatever sanitary precautions are taken by ventilation . and drainage, whatever disin‘ection is , applied after contagion has occurredâ€"that tho pestilentiai germs, which have destroyed » the body in question, are thus so treasured and protected as to propagate and multiply, ready to reappear and work like ruin here- after for others. The poisons of scarlet- . fever, enteric fever (typhoid), small pox, . diphtheria, and malignant cholera are undoubtedly transmissible through , earth from the buried body.” This opinion is supported by the statement of Dr. . James McKsllar, a member of the American Public Health Association, who declares ; “We believe that the horrid practice of earth-burial does more to propagate the germs of disease and death, and to spread desolation and pestilence over the human race, than all man’s ingenuity and ignorance in every other custom.” Acting now on the principle that the true physician is the man who, having diagnosed the disease, proceeds to prescribe the remedy, our an bhcr turns his attention to the actual and possible methods 1 of disposing of the dead. Here there is not ‘ much choiceâ€"to throw them into the sea, to ‘ allow carnivo-ons birds and boasts of prey to devour them, to burn t rem, to bury them out of eight, to embalm, to entcmb, cover the possible methods of disposition. i‘he first two, not to say three, are so shocking to the tender sentiments that they are not likely ever to prevail, burying is prejudicial to the public health, embalming is too ex~ pensive and involves too much mutilation, and only entombing meets the requirements of the tender sentiment, the demands of the public welfare and the question of expense. Instead, therefore of burying or embalming the bodies of the dead, he would desiccate them in an atmosphere from which all mois- ture had been extracted by artificial means. To accomplish this mausoleums shall be erected in the suburbs of large towns and cities, extensive and handsome edifices that will provide sanitary sepulohres for the dead. Each sepulchre shall be so construct- ed that anhydrous air could enter or be made to enter, and withdrawn, laden with moisture and morbific matter, which it would convey to a separate structure where a furnace would complete the sanitary work that the anhydrous air had begun, and return to the external atmosphere nothing that would be noxious. The feasibility of this scheme, in so far as controlling the de- l composition of bodies is concerned, is de- l monatrated by the fact that in upland ‘ regions and where the air is naturally dry the bodies of the dead do not share the fate of those in moist aim )spheres. Among others the following instance is quoted. “A cave was not long ago discovered high up among ‘ the Sierra Madre Mountains within which were found, where they had rested undis turhed for many years, the lifeless figures of a little aboriginal household, dried and undecayed. Father, mother, son and daughter, one by one, as death had ever- taken them. had been brought thither, bound so as to keep in death the attitude that had marked them when at their rest in life, and there they bore their silent but impressive witness to the benefioent action of the unmoist air that had stayed decay and kept them innocuous to the living that survived." What will be the outcome of the agitation which is being promoted by the Association of which Rev. Mr. Treat is a member, cannot at this early data be cer- tainly foretold. There can be little doubt, however, that this question of properly dis- posing of the dead, is pressing to the front, and that it will soon constitute one of the um.mmHnn.m~â€"an‘m__â€"___ "Sanitary Entombment," a brochure by Rev. Chas. R. Treat of N. Y. city, discusses the important question of the best method ‘0! disposing of our dead, viewed from the standpoint of the public health. In his tpamphlet the author traces the origin and growth of the custom of churchyard burying ‘and points out that civilized and Christian society are responsible for the practice. 80 late in the world’s history as the opening centuries of the Christian era, the universal opinion was that the dead should not he brought into proximity with the living. Ac- cordingly the practice definitely demanded by the “ Twelve Tables" became universal, not to bury within a “city" or any group of human habitations. The first step in the wrong direction seems to have been taken at the dying request oi the first Christian em- eror, who was interred at the entrance of the hurch of the Holy Apostles, in Constantino- ple. The tendency, however, to follow this ex- ample, and to secure similar interment in holv earth, was stubbornly resisted ; and it was notuntil the latter part of the sixth c entury that burials were permitted within towns or cities, and it waslnot until the eleventh century that burials were permitted in churches.” About the close of the last century an agitation arose which has been going on more or less steadily ever since. During these one hundred years much valu- able testimony has been brought together. Less than 50 years ago Dr. Elisha Harris brought this serious indictment against the burial ground connected with Trinity Church, New York: "Irinity churchyard ‘hss been the cenlre of a very fatal preval~ once of cholera, wheneVer tee disease has occurred as an endemic near or within a, quarter of a mile of it. ll‘rinity Place, west of its, Rector Street on its border, the streets west of Rector. and the occupants of the{ neighboring offices and commercial houses‘ have sufl'ered severely at each visitation of the past, from 1832 to 1851.” Of course the evil results are more maniiest and glaring where the population is most dense, still where the population is sparse the evil is not abolished but only diluted. On this point Sir Henry Thompson has given en- phatio testimony. “No dead body,” says this eminent authority, “is ever placed in the soil without polluting the earth, the air. and the Water above it and about it." Similar testimony is given by D'. Holland, who says that the best situated cemeteries may be so mismanaged as to become unsafe ; that cemeteries should not be too near dwellings; that they should not be over- crowded ; that the soakage from them should be carefully guarded against ; and that wells near burial-grounds are unlit sources of drinking water." The Best Method of Disposing of the Dead. A celebrated French teacher (M. D 1 Sailly) has been teaching the children in his school, ever since 1851. kindness to animals. He says it has the best influence on their lives and characters. He found them “not only more kind to animals, but more gentle and sfi‘ectionate toward each other,” and he hopes that principles of kindness to animals will soon be taught in everv school. In more than 5000 French schools regular lessons are now given the children on this subjeat, and MI have before said in these papers, hun- dreds, perhaps thousands, of societies of children have been formed in England, France and other countries to It tect anim- als from cruelty. Outfoi about 2000 criminals in American prisons, inquired of on the sub- ject, it was found that only twelve had any pet animals during their childhood. ' While the Central and Union Psoifio rail- ways have both been blockaded for a week or more by snow, the Canadian Pacific rail; way has been practically free from stoppag- es, showing in the most practical manner how useful our great Northern line is and how well it might serve the purposes of the Enpire at a. time when the other lines were in a state of blockade. It is very well for our neighbors to say that the wonderful ‘ contrasts of the American climate are strik- ingly illustrated in a despatoh from Sun Francisco, wherein our correspondent draws attention to the fact that at the very time when the Central Pacific Railroad was blocksded in the Sierras a fortnight ago, roses were In full bloom and oranges and lemons were ripening on the trees at a dis- tance of only seventy miles from the snow- bound trains. It is almost impossible for people to realiz 1 the situation in the Sierras during one of these great snow blockades, Three thousand men were employed for tsn or twelve days shovelling snow from the sides of the track, While a. couple of huge rotary ploughs, each propelled by six of the most powerful locomotives in the world, and a score of smaller ploughs were used for cutting through the drifts. The press representatives at Ottawa are breathing out threatings and slaughter agauist the members of Parliament who have thus tar occupied the attention ol the House, because of the indistinct and inaud- ible manner in which they have been expres- sing themselves. The complaint is made that in order to gain any idea of what is being said the reporters have to crane their necks and stretch their backs until the tor- ture they endue is sufli :ient to make even is. grippe take a back seat. One of their number in a fit of desperation has even gone so far as to hint to the members on the floor that unless they mend their ways the living speaker may come to his end by a dead- ly missile consisting of the heavy speeches of former sessions. This will no doubt effect a reformation. Cu: sage legislators have sufficient discernment to act according to the old adage “ A word to the wise is sufli- clent." We may therefore confidently expect that what could not be eflected by an appeal to their philanthropy, will be brought about by the consideration of self interest and preservation. It is notlikely that we shall hear anything further of “ indistinct utterance," oonglomeration of mumblings ” and other similar expressions. Depnhy will bring up the subj 30b of Iberian union in general in the Spanish Cortes. sum it: is confidently declared that his own party will only countenance a. friendly alli‘moo, without) any attempt at polibioal amalgama- tion. . , 7 , Portugal and Spain. Iberian union is a proj act which, although just now freshly agitated on account of re- cent experlences both in Portugal and In Spain, has been proposed sufficiently long t) develops the intrinsic objections to it. In earlier times the theory of the "balance of power” or of the “equilibrium of Elrope" might have suflized to arouse externsl opposition to such a d ynastic consolidation of the kingdoms on the Peninsula, but newsdnys nothing would be in the way but the indiepcsition of the people themselves. Portugal and Spain, however, have fought for the mastery more than they have sought to coalesce. Three centuries ago Portugal was under the dominion of her larger neigh- bor for sixty years ; then she broke out in revolt and efl’eotuslly defeated the Spanish armies, although it was not till nearly seven- ty years afterward â€"ln l737â€"thet Spain formally renounced all claims to sovereignty over Portugal. In Napoleon’s day the two kingdoms were again at odds. il‘hree years ago a proj eel: was balked at for uniting them, and lately it has been said that e. The Emperor of Germany is very active at present in preparing for the elections to the Reiohstag. He is openly courting the workiugmen with promises of an ameliora- tion of their condition. So far, Bismarck’has mot been very active, although he has ‘ written to the Pope that all Catholic societies .will'be protected in the German: colonies. In 1887 he went farther and asked for Catholic support in the elections. In Ger- many, however. the Emperor is the chief organizar and it is assumed by some Euro- pean correspondents that he has taken- matters into his own hands without much reference to B'smarck. The failure of the Socialist bill is considered Bismarok’s iailura, and the Emperor did not allude to the measure in his speech to the members when the Reichstag ‘was dissolved. It appears that the question is to be kept out of the canvas. The result of the elections in. matter of speculation, but there lea belief in Europe that the new Raiohsteg will be a more liberal body than the one that has just completed its labors. If the results justify expectations, Bismarck's position will be unpleasant, to say the least. He has devoted all of his enemies to repression. The strong arm is his chief reliance. By its use popular representation has been reduced to a mere formality. The question now is, will there be areaction from his methods that will restore constitu- tional methods? lending problem! wibh which promoters of the public health will have to deal. The pre- sent: mebhod may die hard, but die it must if once a concenaue of scientific opinion is declared against it. While we cannot: but cherish tender feelings towards our den], feelings which manifest themaelvel in a reverent care for their iiielcu bodies, we mush ecceph the doctrine that our first duty is to care for the living. Our National Highway, Indistinct Speaking. Politics In Germany.