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Wsus CANADIAN. cellar. About twenty were seriously and one fatally injured. At the live stock show at the \Vorlds Fair Ontario breeders again came prom1ncnt« iv to the front and secured the majority of TlieQ rebec Legislature will be summon- the prizes in the Soutliilown sheep classes, ed to me ’5 on November 0th. Steps are being taken in Hamilton to establish a free dispensary for the benefit of the sick poor. Mr. Thomas Kilvington, of Hamilton, has been appointed to take charge or the Ontario horticultural exhibit at the World’s Fair. The Hamilton Customs returns for Sep- tember show a. decrease of more than eleven thousand dollars as compared Willi the cor- responding month last year. The shipments ol new wheat received so far by the Canadian Pacific railway in Manitoba show the largest total in the his- tory of the company at this season of the yeah Two Ontario exhibitors succeeded 'on Saturday at the World’s Fair'iii sweeping off nearly the entire list of prizes awarded for Dorsa‘. Horn sheep, in the face of the keenest competition. The successof the recent Victoria. and New South Wales loans in London has iii- duced the Province of British Columbia. to announce the issue of £123,700 three per cent. inscribed stock at ninety-one. According to Mr. Hector Fabre, Cana- dian Commissioner in Paris, four sottle- merits of French people have already been founded in the Nthh-west through the exertions of the “ Societe Fonciere do Can- ada.” ‘ Mrs. Michael J. Daly, an American wom- an, from Waterbury, Conn., is at present confined in Longne L’ointe lunatic asylum. She claims that she is sane , and that her husband had her wrongfully confined. The case is before the courts. Dr. Olmstcad, medical superintendent of the Hamilton City hospital, tendered his resignation last night to the Hospital Com- mittee, and it was accepted. Dr Olmstead goes to Philadelphia to fill the position of assistant lecturer on bacteriology in the University of Pennsylvania. / The Woman’s Medical College of King- ston has ceased to exist. The board of trustees have decided that as there are not asufficient number ofstudents to supply the three schools of Toronto, Montreal, and Kingston, they will abandon the field, rec~ mmending the Kingston students to com‘ plete their course in Toronto. Edward Beauvais, a prominent resident of Rouville, who owns a large farm. on Saturday discharged a family named Grail- lon, who had been working on the farm, and on Monday morning the family, con- sisting of father, mother, two daughtern, and seven boys, attacked him with knives and clubs, leaving him at the point of death. BRITISH. M. Emile Zola. has contributed the sum of fifty fr. to the fund for the relief of the striking miners of England. Sir Stephenson Blackwood, secretary of the Imperial Post-Office Department, and cousin of Lord Dufferin, died on Monday night. It is thought among Scotch cattle men that the continued absence of disease in Canada among cattle will lead to their free entry next spring. At a. meeting of the Miners’ Federation at Chesterfield, Derbyshire, it was decided to refuse to meet the mine owners to discuss the proposed reduction of wages. Gen. Sir Evelyn \Vood has been gazetted as quartermaster-general of the Imperial forces, to succeed Sir R. Biddulpli, who Has been appointed Governor of Gibraltar. \Vhile the battleship Nelson was leaving Portsmouth, where she has been undergoing repairs, she came into collision yesterday withasteam dredge, and was badly in- jured. \Vork was resumed in the collieries at Polton, Lsncashire, Monday morning, and six thousand of the miners in Yorkshire, who went on strike on July ‘25, also resum- ed work yesterday morning. Miners returning to work yesterday in the Coventry district of \Varwickshire were attacked by striking miners and were used with such violence that they were iii- timidated from going into the pits. The distress among the striking English coalminersandtheirfamiliesissointensethat the Mayors of the towns principally affect- ed will meet in convention to (levise some means of bringing about a scttle:naut' be- tween the mine owners and the miners. UNIT ED STAT ES. Thirteen hundred coal miners went on strike in Springfield, 111., on Monday. Canadianexhibitors of fruitat the World's Fair were awarded a large number of prizes Because Milo \Vilson, a labourer of Will- iamsburg. Ohio, Could not marry an attrac- tive girl of eleven years of age, he shot her on Thursday evening, inflicting a fatal wound. A daughter of Prof. Briggs, of Union Theological Seminary, has resolved to enter the New York Training School for Deacon- esses, in connection with the Episcopal Church. There was a. heavy fall of earth at the Mansfield mine, near Crystal Falls, Mich, the other morning, by which forty-five men were entombed with no hope of their being rescued; In the Cave of the \Viiids, Niagara Falls, the other morning, clad in waterproof gar- ments, Miss Weller, of Allegheny City, Pen, was married to Mr. Walter S. Stewart, of Pittsburg, Pa. All the awards for the de partment of elec- tricity in the \Vorld’s Fairhave been hand- ed in. American exhibitors captured nearly all the medals, their only competitors in the field being Germans. The Johns-Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, to which Miss Mary larrett contributed three hundred thousand dollars on condition that women shall be admitted to all its courses, was opened on Monday. A heavy stoma which struck New Or- leans on Sunday night caused a serious loss While funeral services were proceeding against keen competition with a large num~ ber of United States breeders. The fight of the saloon-keepers of Min- nesotrt to secure recognition by the Knights Of Pytliias has ended in defeat. At the .neeting of the Supreme Court, held in St. Paul, the liquor men were forbidden to enter the order by a vote of 31 to 10. Mr. George \V. Cliilds, of Philadelphia, has given to the city of Chicago his exposi- tion collection of rare plants, valuel at ten thousand dollars, which with the Drcxel collection will form the nucleus for the per- manent gardens to be established in Jackson park. Some days ago it was discovered that Jesse Pomeroy, the boy murderer of twenty years ago, who is servmg a life sentence in solitary confinement in the B’lassacliusetts State prison, had an iron btr, a. rasp, and a piece of tempered steel, with which lie was to remove the mortar in which the stones of his cell were laid. Justice John M. Harlan, of the United States Supreme Court, and one of the ar- bitrators of the lbhring Sea tribunal, give; it as his opinion that any future dilli culties between England and the United States will be settled, without the intervention of strangers, by a conmittee composel of an equal number of judges of the highest courts of both countries. A warrant has been issued in Buffalo for the arrest on a charge of larceny of Jennie McIlroy, the Canadian Girl for whose ab- duction Mrs. McKinley is now in gaol ; but Inspector De Barry refuses to surrender her, on the grounds that she is in the charge of the United States, and that the local author- ties could not get her until the Govern- ment's case was completed. GENERAL. The Russian fleet which is shortly to visit France will first rendezvous in Ca liz. j The striking miners of Lens, France, hall to be dispersed by military force on Satur- day. It is rumoured that France will give Rus- sia for a coaling station the island of Samil, in the Gulf of Siam. The Golden Dragon, a resort of Rhine tourists near the Drachefels, in Germany, collapsed killing several persons. Thousands of coal miners are quitting work to join the strikers in the Cnarleror and Borinage districts of Brussels. George S. Muller, the explorer sent out by the Government on a scientific expedi- tion, has been murdered in Madagascar. Unsuccessful efforts have been made in London and Berlin to float an Italian loan of one hundred and twenty million dollars. Mr. Wyndham, British Minister to Bra- zil, is endeavouring to bring about a cessa- tion of hostilities between Admiral Mello and the loyal party. Sixty-nine Austrians, who are charged with connection with the antidynastic affair on the occasion of the Emperor’s birthday, will be tried for high reason. It is stated in Montevideo that President Peixoto, of Brazil, has under his command in R10 Janeiro five thousand Well-armed troops, all of whom are loyal to him. Immediately after the discovery a few days ago of the Anarchist conspiracy in Vienna, many men known to be members of the organization hastily left the city, and the exodus appears to still continue. By the order of the Sultan, the residence of Fluid Pasha. was recently searched for dynamite, which it was charged he was storing for the use of Armenian COHSle'fl.’ tors. None was found, and Fund Pasha is so indignant that b: will leave the country. The Spanish troops in occupation of Melillai Morocco, were attacked by a. mob of natives on Monday, and after some severe fighting, in which eighteen Spanish spldiers were killed, they were driven back into the citadel, where they are now being besieged by the Moors. Prince Bismarck’s condition has again become very serious. He has suffered a slight attack of paralysis of the right side, and his present illness is accompanied by an entire failure of his appetite. It is in- tended to remove him from Kissingen to Friedrichsruhe tomorrow. M. de Giers, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs. has informed the Govern- ments of Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Italy that the visit of the Russian squadron to Toulon will be simply a response to the visit of the French fleet at Cronstadt, and that no political importance must be at- tached to the incident. -â€"â€"â€"â€"¢-â€"â€"I Four and it Quarter Miles Deep. The floor of the Atlantic ocean is now al- most as well kuoivn to the experts of the hydrograpliic bureaus of the would as the surface is to the most experienced naviga- tors. Its depths, currents, tides, etc., have been carefully and systematically studied from Greenland and Spilzbergeii to the great ice barriers of the Antarctic circle. I recently wrote Prof. Forbes for some rc- liable data. on ocean depths, and quote be- low from a portion of his reply: “The general contour of the Atlantic's undulat- ing bed may now be regarded as pretty well determined. Scarcely any portion of its floor has a depth exceeding 3,000 falli- oms, or about three and a quarter miles. There is a remarkable exception to this last statement, however, in a wonderful sink or depression lying about 100 miles noth of St. Thomas, on island off the coast of Africa in the gulf of Guinea. The out- lines of this dcprossion are similar to those of an old-time river bed. The Challenger expe'iilion traced its meanderings for up- waidof 1,000 miles, finding portions of it to be more than a mile deeper than the surrounding ocean, making the depth of the Atlantic at those points not less than four anda quarter miles, or about 3, 75 fathoms.” -.â€"â€"â€"-oâ€" It is only the women who can lawfully hold up a train. INIllAN POTLATUH, The Red Man Like; to Impoveiish Bim- self. Sumter-i Inches In a Day. One of the most peculiar customs of the Indians of British ColumLia is known as “ potlutcli.” This is an lridian word, and there is nothing in English which fitslt. It is a custom which finds its source and main- spring in the desire fornotoriety, which ex~ ists in greater or less development among all classes of people. The oldest inhabitant or earliest pioneer in the extreme North-west found the potlatcli an established custom among the natives upon his arrival here, and it is stilladhered to whenever, as rarely happens in these days, an Indian chances to hoard up enough of those good things of this life as consti- tute wealth to the aborigine. In the past it frequently happened that Indians would become rich along the Pacific coast through killing seals and those were the days when “ Poul/LL01) ” flourished in its grandest bounty. AVYOYS TIIF. GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS. In the present day the survival of the custom is noted in various habits that exas- perate to the utmost degree the mounted p)licc and the officials of the Canadian Government. Suppose an Indian gets a big ration of beef from the Government or has good luck in hunting, does he take his food supply home and stow it away for future consumption like a white man would? Oh! no! he distributes it throughout the village, and has a gorge himself and then starch until he draws next week’s rations or has some more good luck. In past years, which were certainly the “good old days” for the aborigine, the cere- nioney of “ potlalch” flourished in all its primeval exuberance. Then every Indian was opulent in the things he most desired, plenty of grub, plenty of skins, plenty of ornaments, Then, indeed, was “potlatcli” a mighty feast. It consisted of a sort of Indian lovelcast, camp-meeting and barbecue com- biiied,with the important addition that the giver's generosity, entirely voluntary, went beyond mere feasting and laviilied all sorts of presents upon those who were call- ed to his Wigwam. The diligence exercised in giving away the fortune which perhaps he had been four or five years hoarding up was only equalled by the iiiiserly qualities and thieving proclivities which he had em- ployed in amassing his fortune. $6,000 (iivns AWAY. Piancers on the coast have seen a. single Indian sub-chin give away absolutely and forever, in a three days’ potlatch, $6,000 in coin or its equivalent. When the victim of this species of insanity has once determined to impoverish himself he sends out invita- tions to all his friends up and down the coast 30 or 40 miles advising them of his intention. The invitations are not elabor- ate, neither are they urgent. They don’t have tobe. Theknowledge thata “potlatch” is to be given is quite sufficient. For it means to the invited participants a royal good time, an abundance to eat fora day at least, the probability of getting new blankets, dollars in silver, and perhaps a good canoe, or fishing and hunting tackle. The irdian who thus seeks the utmost depth of poverty from the height of opu- lence immediately becomes an object of the utmost importance, and the loving atten- tion showu liim can only be likened to the sympathetic regard heaped upon a young woman who is soon to be married by her immediate girl friends. It is told how one Indian, who rejoiced in the highly euplionious native name of Phui-pok-sokâ€"sat, but who was for short called plain Capt. John Smith by the whites, and who was known to have a large sum of money, announced that he would give every cent of it away. No meaner Indian ever lived, but he suddenly leaped into greater prominence among his fellowmitizens than a local political boss who has a half-dozen offices to give out. THE DAY OF THE I’OTLATCII arrived. It took place on the Tatoosli isl- and. On the evening previous the guests of Captain John began to arrive. They came in a. fleet and in their big canoes Cap- ableofholdingfrom 15 to SOIndians. As they came near the beach their paddles stopped and they sang in a sort of chant an Indian story, the women takiin no part in the dis- course. It was not unmusical, and coming over the water in the falling shadows of the evening, mollowod by distance and mingling with the gentle Sivcll which little more than rippled on the beach, was wild and mournful. This Ceremonial over, they came ashore and mingled together about the camp. On the following meaning the feast bc- gan. Large quantities of brown sugar, kegs of syrup, hard tack and crackers were forthcoming and Were carried out above high water 0'1 the beach. sugar were poured into two canoes about 15 feet in length, the boxes of hard bread were opened and the feast began. Dried halibut and other fish made up the menu, upon which the natives turned themselves lobse with unlimited confidence and the utmost enthusiasm. Little and big, old and young, attacked the pi‘Ovciider, and the noise and confusnon of the feast could be heard even above the tumult, which is an inseparable adjunct to every Indian and Indian camp. The feasting over, the more Serious work of the potlatcli began. Bolts of blankets, bolts of many-colored flaiinels, loads of calico prints, HUNDREDS 01" FLAIIINC COTTON CIIl 1511‘s were opened up and brought before Captain John by his perspiring young bucks. Strip. ped to the waist, with a red blanket cover- ing his lower limbs, Captain John stood forth, his face artistically painted in blue and red. In a loud and consequential voice he called the names of those for whom he had expended his coin, and as they came forward and received from his hands their presents the .asscmbled multitude would shout out their approval of the g'wer's generosity and his prowess of “hyas tyhec,” which, being translated, means a “big HANDKER- Alexander had four kinds of cavalryâ€"the l chief.” oflife, twenty-four deaths being already rc- cataplii'aeti, or heavy armed horse; the ported, and aniinmense destruction of prop- light cavalry, carrying spears and very erty in the city and surrounding country. light armor ; the acrobalistuc, or mounted archers, used for outposts, patrols and re iii a private house in Ripon, “7,S on San”, coiiiioitcring duty ; and the dimachoe, or ., . day, the floor suddenly gave WM, and one troops expected to act either as cavalry or hundred Peisnua were precipitated into the l il‘fi‘l‘i'ry' The distribution was varied, enlivened and diversified by more eating and the further giving of money. Captain John, pleased, with the plaudits of his numerous friends, continued to iiupoverisli himself, until every blanket, every Scrap and piece of cloth and every dollar he had was gone. The syrup and ' He then gave away his canoesâ€"lie had srveralâ€"gave away all his seal-hunting out- fit, cleaned oiit his stock of personal cloth- ing, and finally removed the solitary blan- ket remaining, flung it to the crowd and stood before them naked. This last act Was the signal for a singular chant by those present, who joined hands and, dancing, circled about Captain John. When the syrup and sugar, the jerke' halibut and the hardtack were all gone the Indians dispersed in all directions, leaving the rich Indian of yesterday without one solitary piece of property or thing of value to-day. IT IS A SIXGULAR PARADOX in native character, and is not easy of solu- tion. Some Indians have another custom which excites strange speculation. They are devoted to their children. They will endure any hardship, any danger to Care for them. This feeling of parental afi'ection remains strong until the child becomes a man and has a family of his own. Then solicitude gives way to lndilIercnce and utter disregard, which, as time goes on, be- comes absolutely barbaric. When the par- ents become old they are literally permitted to starve. White trappers have seen an aged In- dian woman taken by her able-bodied son out of a warm corner in the hut, her blanket removed and she placed in an exposed posi- tion astride the houseâ€"left there to die of cold. In this particular case the woman was blind and deaf, and her hair was grey. She was thus turned out in a snowstorm al- most naked for the express purpose of caus- ing her immediate death. And this treat- ment is not objected to by the victim, who with the stoic and stolid indifference of the Indian race, takes his fate as a matter of course, without complaint or resentment. â€"[11lmpire. -â€"â€"â€"â€""â€"-â€"â€" AI’ROI‘OS 05‘ THE (390K LINE GHOST. thmordlnnry Manifestations in the Arc- lic licglons Some Thlrly Years Ago. Apropos of the recent revival of interest in the Cock Laue ghost and the possible verity of its manifestations it may be worth while to put on record certain events which took place in the early ’60’s at Fort Yukon, the outermost post of the Hudson Bay company, in Alaska, north of the Arctic circle. At this lonely, fort half a dozen from the northern isles of Scotland traded for furs under the command of Strachan Janes, post trader of the com- pany., Once a year a. party ascended the Rat river and crossed to La Pierre's house, at the head of navigation on the Porcupine river, bringing a supply of trading goods, one sack of flour, and a little tea and sugar for the commander, with the mail of the last six months, and receiving in exchange the'bales of furs which had been purchased dllrlng the previous twelve'months. The bateaux from the fort then returned down stream with the goods. In midwinter a courier on snowshoes brought the half- yearly instructions from the chief factor at York factory. At other times the little community vegetated among the tundra, or was busied with the hunting and trade which supplied the business and subsistence of the post. About a. year after Jones relieved his predecessor strange rumors prevailed among the residents at the fort. Singular noises were heard during the still arctic night. Raps on the door were reâ€" sponded to, but, the door being opened, there was no one there. Utensils hung on the walls of the log huts in which the com- pany’s servants lived fell down or weie moved when nobody was near them. Jones had a house to himself as commander, and around this house the uncanny (loin; s seemed to concentrate. Jones himself preserved a dignified silence, or professed ignorance of anything out of the common. But in spite of this the noise and turmoil continued, and were experienced by every one at the post, even by visiting Indians. When spring came the bateaux started as usual for La. Pierre’s house with the bales of furs, Joucscommanding the party. At the nightly bivouac, to the astonishment of the voyagers, the noises continued. The man who slept in the bong, as a sort ofguida reported that be heard raps and a. curious scratching on the mast. Men who slept around the campfire ashore declared that they heard Jones talking in the night to some one who answered in a voice unknown to any of the party. On meeting the party from Fort Macpberson at the portage the voyagers naturally compared notes, and the doings of Jones’ familiar were soon discuss- ed by every campfire and at every trading post throughout the Northwest territory. A visitor at the fort in 1866 was assured of the reality of these manifestations, which remained Without explanation, as Jones had retired from the post and carried his secret with him. The same visitor, while waiting the return of the officer then commanding, had the curiosity to look through a little library which in the course of years had accumulated in the commander’s quarters. Among the worn novels and less dilapidat- ed volumes of Scotch theology of which the collection was made up was a copy of Dr. Johnson’s account of the extraordinary istory of the Cock Lane ghost. Gold In South Afr-lea. The gold fields of the Transvaal repnb‘ lic, in South Afriea, yielded over 136,000 ounces in August, which is thelargestprod- uctyet recorded in any one month. In round figures a year’s output at the same rate would be worth $32,500,000, which is about equal to the annual production of gold in either the United States or Aus- tralia. In the countries last named, how- ever, the gold yield is about stationary, whereas it is rapidly increasing year by year in South Africa. If the Transvaal mines produce $30,000,000 in MERCHANT NllVlES 0F Tllll 1893 there ll'lllll. Great Britain beads. With Germ‘aay See- and. According to Lloyd’s Register, the highest authority on marine matters, the United Kingdom had last year 6,035 steam vessels, with an aggregated capacity of 8,601,679 tons. Germany stood next, the figures for that country being 846, with a total tonnage of 1,088,830. It will surprise many persons to learn that, in respect of numbers, the British colonies own a steam fleet exactly equal to that of Germany; the gross tonnage, however, is less than halfi as great, being only 515,20l. As regards ton- nage, France ranks next to Germany, her 532 steam vessels having an aggregate ton- nage of 853,700. In tonnage, the United States occupy the fourth place, their steam shipping having a total capacity of 572,252 tons. Spain follows with 436,925 tons; next comes Norway with 335,547 tons, and then Italy with 317,197 tons. So much for the steam fleets of the principal na- tions; it is scarcely worth while to quote figures with regard to countries having less than 300,000 gross tons of steam shipping. Passing to sailing vessels we find the United Kingdom still at the head, but not quite maintaining the superiority which she possesses with regard to steam vessels. Premising that the term sailing marine does not for the purpose of t ese statistics include small craft of under 100 tons. we may mention that in 18212 Great Britain and Ireland had 3,255 sailing vessels pos- sessing an aggregate capacity of over two and a half million tons. The United States came next, being pretty close in re~ spect of numbers, though not in that of aggregate capacity; Norway is next, the figures being 2,818 ships, with a tonnage of 1,345,212. The fourth place is occupied not by any European power, but by the British colonies, which owned 1,859 sailing vessels, having a total capacity, of 782,821. tons. Then came Germany, with 1,005 Vessels of 614,924 tons ; Italy, with 1,173, possessing a gross tonnage of 501,643 ; Sweden, with 960 vessels of 288,751 tons; Russia, with 947, of 276,706 tons ; and lastly, France, which possesses only 678 sailing vessels, with a. gross tonnage of 203,- 909, The sailing marines of Spain and Holland, which were once the largest in the World, are no longer worth mentioning. As regards the waste of shipping during the last year. the returns published by Lloyd’s Register are less favorable to the United States than to three other of the chief maritime nations. Comprehending both steam and sailing ships in the calcu- lation, we find that in 1892, the percentage of vessels lost by the United Kingdom was 2.59 ; by Itnly, 2.79, and by Germany 3.46. The percentage of vessels lost by the United States was 3.82; by the British colonies, 3.88; by Norway, 4.47, and by France, 5.29. For a. better exhibition than that made by the United Kingdom we have to go to the smaller maritime powers, among which we observe that Russia lost but 1.25 of her vessels, and Spain only 1.82. The remarkable immunity of Russian ships from loss is due apparently to the fact thata considerable number of Russian ports are closed during the winter, which is conspic- uously the wreck season. ' -â€"â€"â€"â€".â€"â€"_â€"â€" A Dot} 0!” FR. lNUE. He Was a Warrior Bald. and at Austen-1n: Saved a Standard. The story Of a dog of France is toldâ€"a dog who became one of the most loved of all thefollowers of Napoleon. He wasa shaggy dog, whom the soldiers called Mus- tache, and who, casting his lot with that of the army, had followed it into Italy. Scarcely had the army reached Alexandria when Mustache Warned his comrades of a night attack, his timely waking saving, per- haps, the army. In return the dog’s name was inscribed on the roll book of his com- pany. From that day be was entitled to draw rationsâ€"a grenadier’s portion daily. .Moreoventlie regiment’s barber was ordered to comb Mustache at least once a. week. It was not a sinecure for the barber, for not a member of the regiment was a greater lighter than the dog. Once he was wounded in the shoulder by a bayonet thrust, and once, in the battle of Marengo, he lost an ear. But eVery wound was dressed by the company’s surgeon, and every new cannonading put Mustache on his feet. Some years elapse, and then the dog reappears at Austerlitz. He was in the midst of the fight. The company was hard pressed, and the standard bearer was left aloneâ€"with Mustacheâ€"among the dead and dying. The Austrians were charg- ing and at a shot the stardard bearer fell. The dog and the flag were left behind to gether. Seizing the tattered shred of tri- color in his teeth, Mustache started across the field. Leaping from the very feet of the foe, who thought they had gained the prize, on through shot, and'cannon roar, and smoke, he sped until he reached the French lines, and dropped at his comrades’ feet the blood-stained rag. He lifted a broken paw, and the regimental surgeon set it; and the Mareshal Laniies with his own bands, they say, fastened a. medal around the hero’s neck. And then, they say, as Mustache limped proudly down the line all the soldiers presented arms as though he had received promotion in rank, or the cross of the Legion of Honor ! There were other campaigns after this, and in 1811 Mustache died in the field, pierced through the heart by a bullet. Barberâ€"“ Do you want a. haircut ‘1” Vic- tim-“ Not only one, but all of them.” Love is said to be blind, but it usually gets there ahead of the old man just the will be $40,000,000 worth of gold mined in same, 1804 in all probability. Where the top limit will be reached can hardly be guessed. Good judges say that hundreds of square miles of territory are underlaid with gold- bcaring rock and that the total yield of the region will not fall below $1,500,000,- 000. Solemn strangerâ€"“All flesh is grass.” Deaf manâ€"~“Hey?’ Solemn strangerâ€" “ No, grass. " Summer vacations have entirely stopped and there is noticeable a falling 03 in the autumn leaves. Willie Keepâ€"“I was once very strongly tempted to blow out my bwains.” Ethel Knoxâ€"“ Did you do it ?” Mrs. Brown-Jonesâ€"“ So he married you after all ‘3” Mrs. Brown'Smithâ€"“ Yes, after all I hadâ€", but he didn’t get it.” “ 0i wuz, sor. “ \Vell, Anna, have you found the rose PM. for my hair yet ‘3" “ Yes, madam ; but “ But the man was shot in the Rotunda. now I cannot find the hair.” WC M0 mid-n Pessimistâ€"“ Don’t you wish you’d new“! “BY hivmsu SOP. Oi flinel‘ notllssed been born '3" Book ageiitâ€"“ No ; I let tint whether it hit ’im in the rotunda or not." other People do that, for me,” Conflicting Evidence- In a recent Irish shooting case counsel asked a witness : “ You were present when the man was shot were you? It wuz in the park,” said