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Prof. Saunders, of the experimental farm, states that he has received crop prospects from all over the Dominion. Manitoba re- ports state that there are excellent prospects, North-west Territories, fair; British Colum- bia, very good ; Nova. Scotia‘ backward, ow- ing to late seasons. Prof. Saunders antici- pates a more than average crop over the D0- minion. The dry dock for torpedo boats being con- structed in Halifax dock yard is nearly com~ pleted. It is 250 feet long, 60 feet wide, built of concrete and the main portion cov- ered by an iron roof. Two torpedo boat-s are now 011 their way from England to be used on that station. The Synod of the Church of England, diocese of Montreal, met on Tuesday. The question of consolidating the various sections of the Anglican Church in British North America is under consideration. The Catholic Committee of the Quebec Council of Public Instruction pronounces st_r011gly against the “ deplomblc custom" of giving children ridiculous names, f01 the most part taken from 11m (:15. Six farmers, headsof families, from Dakota were in Brandon, Man. , on Saturday on route to the Lake Dauphin district, where they propose to locate. One of their number stated that they had seen eight seasons in the land of the Dakotas and only reaped one good crop. Chief of Police Wills, of \Vondstock, Ont, has recently been in Lockport, N.Y., search- ing for evidence in the Benwell murder case. He says he has located an important witness who will testify at Birchall’s trial in October. At the Toronto Criminal Assizes Joseph Maroney, convicted of assault; on a jul'ynmn who had served on a. jury that returned a verdict of which the prisoner did not ap- prove, was sent to the Central Prison for eighteen months. Rev. Dr. Castle, formerly Principal of the Baptist College in Toronto, (lied on \Vednes- (lay evening in Philadelphia. He had been in illAhealth ever since his resignation of the principalship two years ago. T he county judge in Toronto has given judgment in a. case to the effect that when property passes into the hands of a. corpor- ation exempt from taxation it escapes all local improvement, taxation. After inspecting the St. Clair tunnel, which is now nearly completed, Sir Joseph Hickson gave an order for the immediate constructiun of another alongside. Lord Lansdowne has sent $100 from India to be added to the fund for , erecting a monu- ment in Quebec to Major Shortt and Staff- Sergeant \anlick. The fund now amounts to $2,800. The details of the purchase of the New Brunswick Railway by the C. P. R. have been arranged, and were accepted last week by the U. 1’. R. directors. THE WEEK’S NEWS Chief Ashfleld, of the Townto fixe b1 lgade with which he had been connected since 1839, died 011 Sunday 111 the 71.. )nd year of his age. \V. Carson, while umpiring a. game of baseball at Kingston, was struck on the nose with the ball and knocked senseless. His nose was broken. A number of gentlemen throughout the Province of Manitoba are in correspondence with the View of forming a. Canadian club. The Toronto Methodist Conference on Tuesday passed a. motion in favor of increas- ing the pastoral term from three to five years. John Byron, of St. Catharines, was tried at Toronto last week on a charge of 1112m- slaughter committed at Mimico, and the jury disagreed. The Alaska. exploring party are said to have discovered a. large lake in British ter- ritory in the far north. M1“. Fred \V. Johnston, Q. 0., 0f Goder- ich, has been appointed Junior County Judge of the DistricL of Alzoma. The striking weavers of the Ontario Cot ton Mill, Hamilton, have resumed work at the reduced wages. A new and very rich vein of silver has been struck close beside the celebrated Badger mine, near Port Arthur. The first through trains passed over the new Canadian Pacific route between Mont real and Chicago on Monday. The result of the elections at the Toronto Methodist Conference of delegates for the General Conference was decidedly in favor of federation. The Lake of the \Voods Milling Company will erect Lhis year ten or twelve grain ele- vators in Manitoba. with a capacity of 30,000 bushels each. It is announced in Montreal that Mr. E. S. Cloustnn has been appointed joint general manager of the Bank of Montreal with Mr. \Vul. Buchanan. The Duke and Duchess of Connaught bade farewell to Canada. on Thursday, and sailed by the Sardinian. Rev. Dr. Laing, of Dundas, “723.5 chosen as moderator of the Presbyterian General As- sembly at Ottawa. The Toronto Methodist Conference elected the Rev. Dr. l’irritte, of Meaford, president on the fourth ballot. The I‘e-count of votes in Prince Edward gives Mr. Sprague, Liberal, a. majoriny of eight and deprives Mr. Meredith of a sup< porter. A. Russell, a. retired farmer living at Mid- dlemiss,‘ shot himself dead on Thursday morning. "he first sod for the Kincardine & Tees- wuter Railway was turned at Kincardine on Saturday. CANADIAN. The apple crop is likely to be a failure in Elgin County. Prices of sugar and molasses are having a sharp advance at Halifax. The Presbyterian general assembly will meet next year in Kingstown. Mr. George A. CO); was elected president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce on Monâ€" day. 'lhe G1ey Cotton Manufacturem’ Asso- ciation has ydecided to IiSC prices flu: per cent. An earthquake shock was felt at Cushing, Quebec, on Monday. Archd. Ferguson, 3. Mesa Township far mer, was killed by a train near Alvinston. The High Court of the Canadian Order of Foresters will meet next year in Toronto. The Government of India. has heavily Sub- sidised a company to build a, railway from Simla. to Kalka. The German Reichstag has adopted a grant of 4,500,000 marks on account of East Africa. France will shortly declare her recogni tion of the Brazilian ProvisionalGovernment Another plot against the life of the czar has been discovered at St. Petersburg It is positively announced that General \Volseley will resign July 31. Lord \\'ol- seley’s views as to the reorganization of the army are at variance with those of the com- mander-in-chief, the Duke of Cambridge, whose retirement he considers necessary before anything practical can be effected. The Queen stands by her cousin, the duke and refuses to hear of his withdrawal. Cardinal Manning, addressing a. deputa- tion on Sunday bringing him jubilee gifts, said he wished to die as a priest ought to die ~â€"without money and without debt. He then mentioned the charitable objects on which he intended to bestow his gifts. The \Vhite Star steamer Doric, trading between London and New Zealand, it is claimed, has made the fastest voyage around the world. The total time the Doric steam- ed was 77 days 6 hours and 50 minutes. The distance was 28,000 miles. The engines worked continuously. Cholera. has broken out in the province of Valencia, Spain. Some alarm is expressed in London at the proposal to build an additional underground railway which will run beneath St. Paul’s cathedral. Fears are entertained that the foundation of the cathedral may be under- mined. It is stated that Hemy M. Stanlev is to delix e1 fiIty Iectuies in ythe United States dining next fall a11dwi11ter,and that he ls to recehe $1, 000 f01 lecturilig in New Yoxk and $500 for those 111 othei cities The English Government has consented to the appointment of a. committee to examine into the question of compensation in connec- tion with the Licensing bill, and to report what is proper compensation. The negotiations between England and Germany on the East African question are progressing satisfactorily. It is said Ger~ many has made all the concessions required by England. It is announced that Portuguese troops are hastening from Mozambique to Angola to repel an alleged English 1nmsi0n. Chief Munroe, of the Metropolitan Police, has resigned in consequence of a. quarrel with Home Secretary Matthews. Miss Alford, a. niece of the celebrated Dean Alford, has won first. place in the classical tripos Cambridge. Bums’ manuscript of “Scots \Vha Hae wi’ VValIme Bled” has been sold by auction in London to an American for £70. J as. Jonasson, a. member of a New York firm, was arrested in Berlin a few days ago on a charge of using insulting language to- wards the Emperor, preferred bytwo drunken students. Mr. J onasson was treated with great harshness, and he does not fed inclined to be satisfied with his mere acquittal. The American brewers and maltsters have succeeded in inducing the Senate Commit- tee on \V'ays and Means to reduce the pro- posed duty on barley to fifteen cents per bushel. The Tariff bill thus amended will be reported to the Senate. It is proposed also to reduce the duty on fine lumber to one dollar per thousand. The Mahdi has set free his European prisoners. ' Rev. John Oakley, D. 1)., dean of Man- chester, is dead. The Duchess of Fife has been delivered of a. still-born child. i Mr. Gladstone will undertake 2i stumping tour in Midlothian in October. The Duke of Clarence will take his seat in the House of Lords next week. BishopComthwaite, of the Roman Catholic diocese of Leeds, Eng, is dead. Thirteen thousand dock laborers at Swan- sea have struck for higher wages. England has agreed to surrender Heligo- land to Germany for German concessions in Africa. The Edinburgh municipal authorities last week presented the freedom of the city to Henry M. Stanley. _ Stanley has been appointed Governor- General of the Congo Free State, his duties to commence in 1891. Governer Fifer has called a sp'ecial session of the Illinois Legislature for July 23 to sub- mit to the electors a. constitutional amend- ment to permit of the issue by Chicago of $5,000,000 bonds and other matters connect- ed,with the \Vorld’s Fair. A watevmelon trust has been formed in Georgia, Gm, which has bought up 90 per cent. of the crop. The negroes in Battleboro township, Edge. combe county, N. 0., have a. mortal fear of census men, and whenever the latter appear the former rush for lthe woods despite all ef« forts to allay their fears. The Duluth & Winnipeg Railway Com- pany has decided to build a line of its own through Manitoba. A plot was discovered in New York on Sunday night .130 burn down a tenement house containing 75 persons. The attitude of the Cheyenne Indians in Montana, continues to be menacing, 'thnugh no 0v e11; act has occuned since the killing of Ferguson. An explosion) and fire in the Hill Farm mine at Dunbar, Fan, on 1\.' outlay resulted, it is believed, in the loss of34 lives. Eighteen miners only escaped out of 52 known to be in the mine. The vicinity of Stracker’s Bend, 111., is in terror over the appearance of a Wild man, who has taken possession of a, tract of coun» try, and forages for supplies, living on the fat of the land. The Indians on the Cheyenne reservation in Dakota. are short of provisions and show signs of an uprising The settlers are un- easy. Lame, the San Francisco hotel waiter who beat another waiter in a prize fight so that he died, has been found guilty by a coroner’s jury of murder. The fight was over a girl A census enumerator in Richmond, "21., has found a. colored woman named Martha Gray who has had 37 children since 1868. GREAT BRITAIN UNITED STATE» Angry CEIIer~“L00a§ion be dashed ! The blanked ad. overdid the businessr My house was struck by lightning last night 2” Angry Caller (at newspaper 0ffice)â€"“Say, I want that little ad. I gave you two days ag<)â€"‘\Vanted, an electric battery in good working order’â€"tuken out.” Rev. Mr. James, of London, writes as follows of a renmrkahle canary bird : “Inn mediately I begin to play upon the flute she chirps about as if enjoying the music. If I open the cage-door and leave her, she will come as near to me as possible. but no attempt to fly to the music ; but if I put her upon my desk, and lay the flute down, she will perch upon the end, and allow me to raise the instrument and play. I often take her into the church and play there upon the organ, and she will perch upon my fingers, notwithstanding the inconvenience of the motion of the hands, and chirp in evident delight at the sweet sounds.” Fraud; A. Walker whose criticism of Edward Bellamy’s theory of an industrial army, as enunciated in “Looking Backward,” attracted so much notice from those inter- ested in the social questions of the day, has Ian interesting article in the June Atlantic on the eight hour labor agitation. The \spirit of the article is friendly towards the ‘workingmen, with whom Mr. Walker has evidently no quarrel. He recognizes their lot as being hard, and hopes for a time when a more satisfactory condition of things will exist. This does not prevent him, however, ‘ from carefully examining the remedies with Iwhich would-be‘reformers would cure the present social ills. After pointing out some of the untenable positions of economists on the one hand and labor agitators on the otherâ€"that under no circumstances is the [state warranted in interfering in the con- tract. for labor, and that inasmuch as a reduc- tion from fifteen and eighteen hours to ten or eleven has not been followed by any appreciable decrease of production or dinr inution of wages, the reduction from ten to eight hours would follow the same rule~ Mr. \Valker proceeds to state his objections to the present movement. Four difficulties present themselves in the way of the State interfering to adopt such a law : First,Mr. \Valkcr is of the opinion that this is a matter which should be left to debate and decision between employers and laborers ; the former retaining their right to grant or refuse the demand; the latter exercising their un~ questioned right to refuse, individually or collectively, to work except upon terms agreeable to themselves. Second, the rights l of the minority in such a matter demand con- sideration. If six hundred workingmen are willing and desirous to secure greater leisure at the sacrifice of some part of their wages they have no moral right by a mere majority of votes to refuse to four hundred fellows the privilege of earning all thewages they can in a longer day of work, always within the limits of health. Third, cou- ceding for the moment the desirableness of a further reduction in the hours of labor, it is a very grave mistake to undertake so long a step at once as that which is proposed from ten hours, or more to eight. Fourth, the uniform application to all trades and avo cations of an eight hour law would be an injustice as between workman and work‘ man. The several trades and avocations differ so widely among themselves, in the conditions under which they may be pursued as to make any single rule the height of in- justice. It is evidently impossible so to control the conditions under which labor is conduct- ed as to make it compatible with political justice, or even with ordinary honesty as between man and man, t 1 prescribe the same number of hours per day for all. Advevrtising Clerkâ€"“What is the matter ‘3 Didn’t wgg‘iye it tl_le right lpcagiop Y’i The Legislative Assembly of Victoria has unanimously approved the scheme for the fed- eration of the Australian colonies, and has appointed delegates to the convention to con- sider the subject. As if to put at rest the rumours of increas- ing friction between Germany and Russia, the Emperor has requested the Czar to al- low him to command in person the Viborg regiment, of which he is honorary colonel, during the coming Russian manwuvres. It is claimed that M. Bursual, the French electrician, is the real inventor of the tele- phone, having discovered and applied the principle twenty years in advance of either Edison or Bell. Great preparations are being made in Berlin for the reception of the German- American rifleman. The czarewitch will start on a tour of the world August 1. He will return by the way of the United States. Empel or \Villiam will attend the Aust11an maummres in T1ansyha11ia,a11d will then spend a week in Hungary The Italian authorities have seized a quan- tity of valuable objects of art in the form of religious paraphernalia, as contraband goods, which were in transit to Archpishop “'alsh, of Dublin, The French have occupied the territory in South America. which was in dispute be- tween France and Holland, Three hundred Soudanese Indian troops will enter the British East Africa. Company Princess Victoria of Prussia, is betrothed to the Prince of Anelunhalt Dessau. The marriage will take place at an early date. Micheal Eyraud, arrested in Havana for the murder of M. Gouge in Paris in July, 1859, has been handed over to the French detectives. Arrests have been made in France which prove a. connection between the German Anarchists and those of London and New York. The Cmr I'eiuses to recognize Prince Fer- dinand as ruler of Bulgaria, but would fa.- \'oui‘ either the Duke of Leuchtenbei‘g, or Prince Karl, son of the King of Sweden. A Cairo despatch says Major. \Vissmann is surprised at Stanley’s utterances. He says there is plenty of room in Africa, for both nations. The discovery is announced of a plant growing in abundance 011 the shores of the Caspian sea, which is likely to prove a pow- erful rival of jute. The steamer Columbia has made the voy- age from Southampton to New York in ,6 days and 16 hours. Southampton is about a. day’s longer sail than Queenstown. A Music-Loving Canary. More than lle Wanted The Labor Problem. and as many service of the The theory of Prince Bismarck that the dis- content of the masses in Russia and Ger- many is due to education is one that will hardly find many friends among the edu- cated and intelligent classes. The ex- Chancellor says: “ Over-education has led to much dissatisfaction and disappointment in Germany, but in Russia it has led to dis- afl'ection and conspiracy. There are ten times as many people educated for the higher walks as there are places to fill. Further, education is making pedantic theorists and visionaries unfit for constitutional gov- ernment. It would be madness to put such men in authority. The Russians do not know yet what they want. They must therefore be ruled with a rod of iron.” Prince Bis- marck would have come nearer the truth if instead of condemning the quantity, he had found fault with the quality of the education. A course of instruction that begets an aversion to honest labor, however menial, or renders a man less capable to perform the duties of even manual callings is sadly deficient in character. Of such education it is not difficult to believe that it does harm. Probably the Russians and Germans have been cursed with instruction of this kind. \Vhether from too high living or too little exercise deponent saith not, but the latest report is, that the Czar is growing very fat, and that with his increasing obesity there is a corresponding increase in his natural indol enee. So averse has he became to details connected with the affairs of state that many of his officials are said to have adopted the policy of saying in a word that all is going on smoothly and then going out and doing about as they please. Perhaps it is as well for the peace of Eorope that the man in whose hands such power lies should be too indolent to stir up a strife which if once he gun might outlive the present generation. If Europe’s tranquility depends upon a continu- ance of his present condition, few will pray that the scales may be less severely strained when he steps upon them. A Very interesting work just published on the Glacie s of the Selkirks, and giving in popular form some of the results of explora tious made in these mountains for the Royal Geographical Society of England, mentions a strange bouquet-making creature called the Sewellell as a curious inhabitant of the rocky wilds of our Pacific province. In climbing the wooded steeps on the marge of a glacier, Mr. Grant and his companion dis- covered along their path bouquets of flowers well arranged with their stems laid closely together. Very naturally they concluded that some one had been there before them, but yet the place was so inaccessible and so much out of the way of any settler or tour- ist or possible visitor other than an explor- er who felt it his bonnden duty to make the arduous ascent, that they instituted en- quiries, with the result that they learned of the existence of this flower-loving creature. N0 reasonable explanation is offered of this strange habit, nor is any hint given of what the “creature ” with so human an instinct is like. The author evidently is not venturing on a joke, but the men- tion of the whole thing seems so like a bit of the fabulous, such as might adorn a fairy tale or fit the pages of a traveller in the days when barnaele geese were hatched on trees and fierce, headless men roamed the forests of the Upper Nile, that one can only regret that Mr. Grant has not anticipated the curiosity of his readers and departed from the beaten track of his book to give a short chapter on the Sewellell. The name appears to be that sometimes given to a little animal somewhat resembling a beaver, but it may be doubted whether its flowergathering propensity has hitherto been known to naturalists. Not always is sleep “tired nature’s sweet restorer.” Sometimes, instead of a. balm, it brings abugaboo in the shape of the night- mare. Man is a, wonderful piece of work, but his machinery may be thrown out of gear and set a‘whizzing by so slight a thing as a late supper. An indigestible Welsh rare- bit at 11 p. in. may result in a big suffocat- ing black dog across his chest at 1 o’clock in the morning; an overplus of oaf-pastry, which his gastric juices cannot conveniently assimilate, may precipitate him from a preci‘ pice in dreamland into a bottomless abass; or a surfeit of pate dszfoi grabs send him to aMor- phean gallows, there to endure all the tor- tures of actual strangulation. This sort of thing, by the way, is only one remove from apoplexy, and the incubs-ridden victim of inordinate and untimely self-indulgence is likely enough to he at last bestridden in his sleep by a nightmare too strong for his Vitalityâ€"even death. Thevterm nightmare is supposed to have been derived from Mara, the name of a de- mon which, according to the Scandinavian mythology, pounced upon men in their sleep and held. the will in thraldom. The old Saxons called the distemper Elf-sidearm, or elf-squatting. With the doctors it is Ephi- (Lites, from a mythic giant of that name who undertook to climb to heaven, but, missing his foothold, tumbled into the fathomless depths. Most of us have probably been con- vulsed in our sleep with the same sort of horror which the tripped<up Titan is fabled to have experienced during his “lofty fall” from the celestial battlements. There can be little doubt that many of the spectres of the dark ages were Maras begotten of in- digestion. Your Saxon gormandizer, who sometimes feasted far into the night on boar’s flesh and venison pastry, washing them down with frothy mead, must have gone to bed with his stomach in a nice condition. No wonder that of the internal fermentation, caused by such stuffing and swilling, hob- gohlins and hippogril’fs in endless variety were born. The surest way to avoid the nightmare and procure that sound, health- ful repose with which each day’s life should be “rounded OH,” is to live temperately. regularly and honestly. Ay, honestly, for a troubled conscience, as well as an over- laden diaphragm, may engender evil dreams. The secrets I murmur are many‘ As sadly 01' blithly I blow. Yet, what I reveal to the river No mortal may know. I hurry through grain field and forest O'er valley and high mountain chain Their saltness and sweetness I gather From meadow and main. I whisper all day to the rushes, I rmfic the smooth-flowin r stream, And borrow from cloudlam and sunlight Their shadow and beam. A British Colllmbian Marvel. “ Black Dogs at Midnight.” The Wind’s Way. Little Daughterâ€"J‘Mzmnna, I heard papa tell a. gentleman yesterday that every male should learn the manly art of self-defense. \Vhat did hq mean by that ‘3” Mammaâ€"“He probably meant that they should have a lie all ready to tell their wives when they . one home after midnight, as he often does.” An interesting story, apropos of Stanley, is given in the British Weekly. It was told originally at a conference of workers at the Bible House, Queen Victoria street, London. In the course of the meeting Sir Harry Var- ney rose and saidâ€"“ I have something to tell you that I am sure you will all be very glad to hear. I was sitting a few days ago next to Mr. Stanley, the great African trav- eller, and in conversation he saidfi‘ Just be- fore I started for Africa; Sir “William Macâ€" kinnon said to 1ne~“ Now I want to give you something, but I should like you to choose for yourself. I shall have the utmost pleasure in presenting you with anythingyou like. Never mind the expense ; just say what you would like.” ‘ I replied,’said the traveller, ‘ give me a Bible.’ The desired gift was soon in my possession, just the Bible I wanted. And during my absence in Africa. I have read that Bible through three times. ’ ” It need scarcely be added that the announce- ment was received by the meeting at the Bible House with the utmost delight and heartiest applause. Previous to the time of Ezra, the Patriâ€" archs delivered, in public assemblies, either prophecies or moral instructions for the edi- fication of the people: and it was not until the return of the Jews from the Babylonish captivity, during which time they had a]- most lost the language in which the Pen- t iteueh was written, that it became necessary to explain, as well as to read the Scriptures to them. In later times the book of Moses was thus read in the synagogues every Sab- bath day (Acts xv. 21.) To this custom out Savior conformed ; in the synagogue ar Nazareth he read a. passage from the Prophet Isaiah, then closing the book, returned to the priest, and preached from the text. The custom of taking a text as a basis of a sermon is older than the Bible itself. Ezra, we are told, accompanied by several Levites in a public congregation of men and women, ascended a. pulpit, opened the book of the law, and after add] es .ing a prayer to the Deity, to which the people said amen, read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to under- stand the reading (Nehemiah viii, 8). The progress of Sunday school work will appear in the following statistics collated under the auspices of the International Sun- day School Convention, which Inetat Atlanta, Georgia, in 1878. Ten to 18 per cent would probably represent the status of gain for the present time. At that time there were in the United States 78,046 Sunday schools, 853,100 teachers, 6,504,054 scholars, or a total of 7,357, 154 teachers and scholars, 119,- 221 having been received into the churches from the Sunday schools, Canada had 5,395 schools, 41,693 teachers, and 339,943 schol- ars. For(,lreatBritain,there werein 1876, 378,- 762 scholars, an incrense of 186,418 in ten years. At present there are schools in suc- cessful operation in France, Germany, Swit- zerland, Sweden, Spain, Italy, and Portugal. They are pushing into Asia and Africa with the missionaries There are, undoubtedly, upward of a million teachers in the world engaged in this beautiful and hencficent work, and they have under their instruction ten million of scholars. “We have not exactly a banshee in our family who foretells by her wailing an ap- proaching death,” said a lady to the writer yesterday, “but we have had mysterious warning of such given us time and time again by an old clock which has been in our family for the last 120 years. The works were ruined by a shot tired by a. British soldier during the Revolutionary war at my great-grandfather, which shot, passing en- tirely through his body, killed him instant- ly and then broke the glass door, penetrat~ ing the works and stopping them, forever, for though innumerable attempts have been made to repair them, it seemed that some unknown power kept the clock silent except when death flapped his black wings over the household ; so it was banished to the garret. “nu “This occurrence was repeated when my grandmother herself lay dying. The old clock struck 12 just as she drew her last breath and my father, at last believing that there was something supernatural in the affair, had the old works removed, leaving only the hollow case ; but a few years after, when my brother was brought home dangerously wounded after the battle of Chancellorsville, the long, slow, solemn tones of the old clock were heard as before, and poor Leon’s life went out as they died on the air. They struck for my father and for my little child, who died last year. The clock warned me, too, when my sister died in Japan. Ihad just gota letter from her, in which she had spoken of feeling very well, when I heard the old clock, which was in a remote store room, strike so rapidly that the notes almost mingled, and then began slowly to strike another twelve strokes. ‘My sister is dead.’ I said to my husband, ‘and has died very suddenly, but who the other strokes are for I cannot imagine.’ My husband tried to reason and then to ridicule the idea, but I mourned for my sister as earnestly as though I had seen her die, and when, as I knew I should, I heard the news of her sudden death I found it had taken place on the same day and at the same hour as that on which the clock struck, allowing for the difference of time between Japan and Boston. Her baby, a few hours old, died a few minutes after the mother.” “The first instance of its warning was when my grandfather died. He had been very ill, but the physicians had at last pronounced him out of danger, and his family were just congratulating themselves on this news when the loud tones of a clock striking twelve, slowly and solemnly, like the tolling of a hell, was heard. “\Vhy, what is that ‘3” said my grandmother. There was but one other clock in the house, which was in full View, so it was evident that it was not that one. ‘It is my father’s clock,’ said her hus- band. ‘It has struck the close of my day,’ and before they could reach him he was dead, just as the last stroke died away. ”nu - The Sunday School Grand Army. What He Meant. He Took a Bible. A Banshee Clock. Origin of Texts.