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THE WEEK’S NEWS CANADIA N. Robert McMeekin of Dalkeish was accir dentally killed on Tuesday, while hunting, by the discharge of his own gun. Mr. Peter Redpath has otfered a yearly donation of $5,000 towards the maintenance of the new library at McGiil University. There are rumours of a. deficit, in the ac- COunts of the Montreal Police Court,and an audit has been ordered. Two children named Watson were burnt to death in a. prairie fire new Winnipeg on Saturday. Great; damage was also don'e to crops. . - 1 The body of Robert Colgrov‘e of London Township, has been identified, making the ninth Canadian victim of the Battle Creek disaster. A branch of the Canadian Association of Stationary Engineers has been organized at Kingston. Tfie French-Canadian press of Montreal speaks in very high terms of the late Sir John Abbott. A man giving the name of Butler is under arrest at New Westminster, B.O., for at- tempting to cash aforged draft on the Bank of Montreal in Toronto. The schooner Hoboken has gone ashore near Alexandria Bay, and will probably be a totalloss. The crew are all right, and most of the cargo will be salvaged. The Rev. S. D. Crown, pastor of the Sherbrooke street Methodist church, in Montreal, has received a unanimous call to the Carlton street Methodist: church of Toronto. Mrs. Henry Gillard, of Hamilton, Ont, was found dead in her room Tuesday morn- ing, having been suffocated with gas. The deceased was 85 years of age. Customs spies seized the outfit of the De- troit sportsmen at the Toronto club house, St. Clair Flats. They expect, to get $1,000 out of the seizure. John McMurray of Gravenhurst, was ac- cidentally wounded by a. fellow-employee’s axe and bled to death before effectual aid could be rendered. on some French Canadians 1n \Vinnipeg on Monday night, and in the melee knives were aged, with the result that. several men were badly injured. The Rev. Father Eamon, Jesuit, in the course of a. lecture in Montreal on Monday, said that the time had come when Catholics must take up arms and wage war for the defence of What is most dear to them, their faith and morals. As a result of an interview between Mr. Mackenzie Bowell, the Canadian Minister, and the Australian Premier, a conference is likely to be held shortly in Canada, with the purpose of advancing trade and cable communication between Canada and Aus- tralia. The inspection of immigrants all along the Canadian border by the United States officials, to prevent the introduction of cholera, is no longer considerei necessary, and has now been discontinued. On account of the death of Sir John Ab- bott, the festivities an ending the unveiling of the monument in Ham1lbon, Ont. . were curtailed. Sir John Tho iipson asked to be excused from attending any dinner or en- gagement in the evening. At a. meeting of the employers of the electric street, railway of “'innipeq on Mon- day night a committee was appointed to meet, the manager and alderman of the city to protest against: the proposed twenty per cent. reduction in salaries. The residence of Mr. Orville Sills, of Frankford, 0nt., was entered by burglars. Mr. Sills started out to investigate, and just outside the back door came upon the piquet, who ordered him to halt ; but the merchant instead fired on the Scoundrel. The rascal, as well as his confederates, got away. The drought in England is causing a water famine in several places, and factor- ies are shutting down for wanbof water. Lord Dunraven’s Molly Morgan won the Cambridgeshire handicap at; Newmarket. The brig Corbin, from St. John, is 9. wreck at. tghe mouth of the Bann,11;eland no lives lost. The London press speaks highly of the courage and perseverance of Presidenb Cleveland, which led, after a bitter struggle in the Senate, to the repeel of the Sherman Silver Act. Although Mr. Gladstone will be in Lon don earlier than expected, it is not probable that he will be regular in his attendance at Westminster until warm weather returns. The Count and Countess of Paris, who are residing at Stowe, will visit the Queen at: Windsor and the Prince and Princess of Wales at Sendringham before they leave England to pass the winter in Spain. Eleven cases of smallpox were discovered in Brooklyn, N.Y., Monday. Coal docks at West Superior, Wis., col- lapsed, precipitating 3,000 tons of coal into the bay. Chicago Corporation Counsel Kraus is inclined to think that no law exists confer- ring authority on the Council to elect; an acting Mayor. Mr. Frederick L. Mathias, superintend- ent of works of the Postal Telegraph Com. panynvas shot,proba.bly fatally, in his office in New York by a crank. The Columbiau Fair has been officially closed. Owing to the murder of Mayor Carter Harrison 3.11 festive proceedings were omitted from the programme, and the cere- mony was at once a. funeral service over a. popular Mayor and the end of the great; Exhibition. Dr. F.O. Vincent, who while drunk shot and killed his wife at; Fresno. CaL, in 1891. was hanged Friday. He faced his fate Miss Daisy Garland, aged 23, daughter of ex-Attorney-General Garland, of VVashing- ton, shot herself with her father’s revolver. Cause unknown. bravely The members of the Ontario staff at the World’s Fair diet. in the Canadian pavilion yesterday and presented Mr.-- Awrey, the Provincial Commissioner, with an illuminat- ed address expressing appreciation of his services. Some elegant silverware and a. meerschaum pipe accompanied the address. :omm UNITED STATES nu “‘33 BRITISH. caused in of M on treal London Army circles at New York the other day by the refusal of the registrar of vital statistics to accept a. marriage certificate for a wed- ding at. which Gen. Ballington Booth per- formed the ceremony, The register claims Mr. Booth has no power to marry people, while Gen. Booth claims that he has. Martial law has been mala. There has been serious rioting lately in Lima, the capital of Peru. The President, of Guatemala, Central America. has abolished slavery 11] his do- The President of America, has abolishe mains. Mount Calbuno, in Chili, is again in eruption. Extensive prairie fires are devastating Nebraska. The Frankfurter Zeitung says that abank- ing house in Cassel has failed for 4,000,000 marks. The senior partner has ubsconded. The health of the Pope is again exciting much uneasiness. Ten thousand French women wrote to Admiral Avelan while he was in Paris ask- ing for an audience, a. lock of his hair or his antograph. A Russian ukase has been issued ordering the formation of fifteen new reserve bri- gades, which is equivalent to an immediate increase of the army to a. war footing by the addition of one hundred and fifty thou- sand men. It is a remarkable zoological, piscatorial, or hydrographioal fact that whales are never (if allowed to follow the dictates of their own will) found within the limits of that great ocean riverâ€"the gulf stream. The shrewd Yankee Whalers were the first to gain an accurate knowledge of the extent and limits of the great artery which pul- sates between this country and Europeâ€" this by studying the habits and haunts of the whales. It was noted that they were plentiful northwest; and southeast of certain well-defined lines, and that the “neutral waters” were several degrees Warmer than those which, paradoxical as it may sound, formed their “banks" and boundaries. Finally it was decided, and rightly, too, that the noc-Whale-producing area was the gulf stream. Franklin learned this curious scientific fact from the New England Whalers, and in 1770 published a. chart for the benefit of the mail packets or mail ships plying between our large coastcities and Lon- don. Curiously enough this chart was not gotten up for the purpoae of adding to the sum total of hydrographical knowledge, nor for the purpose of outlining the gulf stream, but solely as 8. guide to the best route for ships to pursue in order to keep from encountering whales.â€"-[St. Louis Re‘ ‘ public. For the Success of the Canadian-Austral- ian Steamship Line. A Vancouver special says :â€"T. Rain Walker, British vice consul and agent of the Canadian-Australian steamship line, is here en route to England, on leave of ab. sense. He intended to sail by the Miowera. and came on from Australia. He confirms previous reports that Capt.‘ Stott was not responsible. Speaking of the prospects of the line he said they were bright, and Honolulu merchants Were much pleased at its establishment, as it, opened a. new mar- ket for them. At present; the sugar plant- ers had to contract. with San Francisco firms to take neariy all thelr sugar. The contract expires in three years, and then Mr. Walker thinksa big trade will be done with Canada. in sugar. Elm, 300 years; ivy, 335 years; maple. 516 years; larch, 576 years; orange 630 years; cypress, 800 years; olwe, 800 years; walnut, 900 years; Oriental plane, 1,000 years; lime, 1,100 years; spruce, 1,200 years; oak, 1,500 years; cedar, 2,000 years; yeW, 3,200 years. The way in which the ages of these trees have been ascertained leaves no doubt of its correctness. Last year New York City paid for its school bill $4,000,000, for its amusement bill $7,000,000, and for its drink bill $60,, 000,000. Bombast was once the cotton plant, then the cotton padding with which garments were filled out, then any padding or stuffing, lastly idle bragging. Pamphlets owe their name to Pamphcla, a Greek lady who left behind her a. number of scrapbooks containing notes, recipes, anecdotes and memoranda. Guestâ€"“What is that; pretty little octave volume ‘2” The German linguisbâ€"“ That’s a. new edition of my rules of German gram- mar.“ Guestâ€"“ And what are all those quarto volumes near it ‘3” The German linguistâ€"“ Those are the exceptions to the rules." No Wlmles In the Gulf Slreum. PROSPECTS) BRIGHT Limit of GENERAL Age In Trees. declared in Guate An Old Woodman Recount; the Events of A Wmtcr Day in the Great Ontario Woods. “ There are times in the life of a. woods ‘ trapper," said Captain Barker, who is un‘ old-time trapper himself, “when he‘d rather catch sight of his old log camp in the wilderness then run up against a. gold mine, for the camp at such times can do for him what all the gold mines on the face of the earth couldn’t (loâ€"save his life. If you had ever tried trapping in the Ontario woods in the depth of winter you would know what I mean. For the sake of an il- lustration, just imagine yourself trapping there, say along in the month of December. There is a. foot of snow on the ground. It doesn’t require much imagination to see a. foot of snow on the ground in the woods in December. You might multiply it by three and get nearer the truth. You have ‘two camps. and if they are fifteen miles apart it will be nothing unusual. Leading {‘rom one of these camps to the other you ave T\VO LINES 0F TRAPS, one to the right, over the hardwood hills where there is good ground for the sable and fisher-cat, and the other to the left, up abrook and around a. small pond, where the otter and beaver and mink work in their various ways, and then up another brook valley to the camp. “Early in the morning you take your axe and rifle, your bag of bait and lunch, and follow the mountain line of traps, while your partner takes the valley line or vice versa, as the case may be, but the re~ sulc will be the same. The expectation and calculationis that you are to meet each other at the camp before dark. You go up into the hills. It begins to snow about. 10 o’clock. Your partner has no difficulty in following the valley line, for the creek shows the way, and he will get; to camp be- fore dark, cut the wood for the night, get; it in. build a. fire, and prepare for getting squer, expecting to hear you stamping in be ore long. But things godifi'erently with you on the mountain line. There is more snow up there than in the valley. The travelling is hard. The traps need a. good deal of setting over and fixing, for have been busy along the line, robbing you of a sable here and a fisher there, which otherwise would have been your well-earned trophy. Then a. fisher, fast in a. trap, has dragged it away into the woods, and it takes you a. good while to find it. A light wind drives the fast falling (lamp snow against the trunks of the trees, and it sticks there, so that in a couple of hours or so you can’t see the blaze marks on them until you have brushed 06' the snow. “ By and by you find a blazed tree, and then look ahead and try to make up your mind which tree the next blaze is on. You pick out a. tree that you think is the one and crush off the snow. No blaze there. Then you go on to another tree, perhaps oilt to the right, and brush again. No blaze there. Some distance ahead, off to the left, you see a tree. That must be a. blazed tree surely, you think. You scrape the snow off of that tree. No blaze there. And then you go on, hunting here and there for the next blazed tree, until at last you find it, only to have to repeat the proceeding, perhaps, before you locate the next one after that one on your course. All this takes much time and annihilates but little distance, and almost before you are aware of it darkness begins to {all around you. You have lost the line altogether, now. You don’t know whether it is to the right or to the left of you, but you do know that you are still a long way from camp. You have a compass. but as you don’t know your course it is of no use to you._ “ By this time you have begun to think that there is a. good chance for your having to lie our, on the mountaig that night. You slip your hands into your pocket to make sure that your match box is allsafe,and feel a. little faint, when you fail to find it. The likeliest explanation for its absence is that is slid out, of your pocket While you were sleeping in your bunk last night. Never before have you realized the importance of always being sure that you have everything that, can possibly be necessary on a tramp when you leave camp. I .u v V"__J, “ Your situation now can’t be described as a. pleasant one. The damp snow through the day, together With the perspiration due to your hard working, has wet your cloth- ing through and thr'ough. By and by it stops snowing. The wind has shifted around into the northwest and IS BLOWING A GALE. The snow comes piling down from the trees upon you, and it hurts, for it is frozen. The fast-scudding clouds look White and Ileecy, and you occasionally see scold-looking star up through them. The mercury is liable to tumble down to 25 ° or 30 ° below zero be- fore morning. it is madness to think of lying out. You must get to camp or die. “You are struggling on through the snow and night, fully conscious of £116 peril of your situation, when suddenly you hear the distant, report, of a rifle. No one who has never been there knows how sweetl the report of a. rifle can sound to his ears when plunging aimlessly about in the darkness, LOST IN \VINTRY WOODS, and what a. change it can make in his feel- . ings on the instant. If you ever want to hear music that is sweeter than the swell of the grandest organ, let the report of a. rifle come to your ears under circumstances such as those. At first you find yourself rushing in the direction from which the sound came. Then you stop suddenly. The awful thought comes over you that it Was not a rifle shot you heard: that you only imagined it to be one: that your nerves are forsaking you; that you are losing your senses under the strain. Then there is what seems an age of torture, but it is really only a. moment. Then you hear the report again. This time you no longer doubt your ears or your senses. It is your partner, uneasy at your tardiness, and fearing its cause, signalling in hope that you will hear. You answer with a. shot and stride on for camp, knowing that you are saved. By and by you come out in sight of the camp. Brightasparks are shooting up in showers out of the smoke hole. It is but a rough, rude log hut, but no illuminated ‘palace of kings could awaken suchjoy with- in your breast as that same hut, with its blazing fire. The finest dinner that was ever spread could never taste as good as the meal of flapjacks, venison," and black coffee that your partner has ready for you GOING OVER Till} TBA-1P5. THE \VILDCATB when you knock the snow off of you and gov in. And no downy conch ever brought such rest; to mortal man as that bed of spruce boughs on the cabin floor will by and by bring to you.” Thelittle fellow had been born an hour and was snugly nestling against his moth- er’s breast. The mother, proud and happy, was smiling up to the father‘s face ; he, proud and happy, was smiling tenderly back to her, and, bending down, kissed her cheek. She gently pressed his head to the bundle on her arm, till his lips touched the wee red head. Then he straightened up and walked from the room, tears of glad- ness and of sweet wonderment in his eyes. The mother turned her face to her babe, with tender look and touch, thinking mearr while of the father. Already, on the first day of his life, the influence of the child was felt, though he knew it not. 1 The child was named Joseph. Little Joe thrived. He was the center of that domesâ€" tic circle, and the home was happier by his presence. The love given to him was reflected in the lives of his parents. With the tenderness and responsibility of father- hood, the man be:a.me more sincere and brave. With the grace and dignity of motherhood, the women became more lov- ing and lovable. But love has its anxieties. The pains of childhood came upon the child, and the parents suffered with him. Broken rest, apprehensive fears, sympathetic disquiet- udes came to them, as to other parents. The boy grew. He crawled, he toddled, he walked; he erowed, he prattled, he talked; and gradually the mind within him awakened to thought and feeling under the influences of the world without him. The daily tasks of mother and father were sweetened by thoughts of theboy.lTheir mu- tual love was purified by their love for him ; they lived, not for themselves, but for the lad. The husband, with playful rueful- ness, complained that his-Wife lavished all her time on the child; the wife merrily laughing, tapped her husband on the cheek, placed the child in his arms, and said, ”Heartless man! Jealous of your poor little son I” In the hours of evening as the boy lay peaceably sleeping on his bed, the father often looked upon him and yearned over him. And sometimes, as he looked above and saw the twinkling stars, he thought what a. speck the little fellow was in this great universe, and prayed to the Power above to guard his boy, and that he him- self might be a. better man for his boy’s sake. Love simplified mystery, and hope and faith became easier through love. Husband and wife, in their: relations to each other and to others, were influenced by little Joe. They clasped hands and clasped hearts with greater love and greater trust. because of him. They peered into the future, and drew fanciful pictures of Joe as a. brave and spiriaed youth, and as an hon- est and tender man, with wife and child of his own. So in his young life this innocent child unconsciously engendered love in others. But sorrow fell upon that house. The child sickened and died. The head that had lain snugly on the breast of mother, the face that had been kissed so tenderly, the body whose growth and movements had been watched with so much loving interest were still and cold. From the cherishing breast of the mother that bore him, the child was placed in the bosom of the mother of all, where all must sleep. The mam and woman mourned for him, and for long would not be, could not he, Comforted. But as their love for the child had brought their hearts closer, so their sorrow for him brought them still closer, and in time resignation took the place of grief. Years passed and the man and woman grew old. But the memory of the child they had loved, whom they yet loved, al- ways to them as a. child, made them pure and holy in their lives. As they toiled on. the grey hairs came upon their heads. They seldom talked of the little lead, but often- times thought of him. The woman was a better woman that she had been mother; the man was a. better man that he had been father. Because of their love for the dead son they were kindlier and more sympa- thetic; they looked upon little children with greater tenderness ; they remembered that men and women had been little chil- dren, like unto little Joe. While their minds sometimes dwelt on the past, with its joyous and sorrowful memories, they sometimes thought of the future, and an ticipntcd a meeting and greeting when time for them should be no more. Death touched the man first. In his de- lirium, ere he died,he was observed to smile. and was heard to say, “ My son ;” and soon afterward he passed away. The woman lives on, her hope and faith greater than before. So in love for a. little child there were springs of joy and sorrow, of hope, of faith and of love for others. Though the child knew it not upon the earth he powerfully influenced father and mother for good, developing in them gentleness toward chil- dren, sweet tolerance and love toward their fellow men and women. The influence of the little child was not only upon its parents, but passed through them, by their speech and conduct, upon others. |\la.ny men and wo- men, many children felt the influence of the short life of little Joe, though they never knew that he had lived. Love is mighty, stretching beyond its immediate sphere, into spheres where its source is unknown, reaching far beyond Death. [low The Empress of hush-Ia Saved An Express Train From Destruction. A Paris special sayszâ€"The “Gaulois” to- day says that the Empress of Austria. re- cently saved a. crowded express train from being derailed. According to the story told, the Empress was enjoying a. «ride on horse back, her favorite exercise, and amusement when she saw a huge pile of stones placed upon the railway track over which the Buds-Pest ex- press Wss to pass. The Empress sprang from her horse, and calling to her groom, who Was riding behind her, she herself helped to remove the obstruction from the track, and a. moment later the express dashed over the spot in safety, the pass- enger‘s little knowing how nearly they had ‘escaped a. terrible accident, {moi totally unavaare that the saved by the Empr RESOUBD BY THE EMPRESS THE POWER OF LOVE. of the Buda-Pest Empress sp g to her gr her, she h( bstruction ater the ex d tbtally had been “He is your closest f never lends a. cent.” “It’s your ante; Bill.” if I don’t Win tbls pot it; next.” Belleâ€"“I can’t bear to think of my thit- tieth birthday." Aliceâ€"â€"“VVhy, dearâ€"- What happened '3” Even the man who is considered a“trump” 13 sometimes “turned down. ” Burglarâ€"“Your money or your life !” Victimâ€"“Certainly. Take a. scab while I make my will.” “Snobbins is the best talker I ever heard on one subject.” “What’s that)?” “Him- self.” “Five minutes for dinner I” yelled the railway porter. ”Good !" cried the editor. “The last; time it was $5!” Miss Singletonâ€" “ I never expect to marry.” Miss Satefnlâ€"“But you know if, is the impossible that always happens.” Teacherâ€"“Now, Robbie, take four slices ot cake from six slices, and what will there be left ?” Robbieâ€"“A licken’ for me." “ I passed your door last evening, Miss Gildersleeve,” remarked youpg Mr. Gilley: “ How kind’of you !” refiliedvthe gratefhl girl. ,. “I hear you are going to be married!” “Tha: is news to me.” “Some one surely told me you were engaged.” ”That’s dif~ fetent.” Tis now the heartless iceman, \Vith never the least ado, 7 Leaves on the stepsa. piece of ice That will chill the whole house through. “15 he honest, do you think ‘2" “Honest ? \Vhy that. man just sufl‘ers tortures in re. aisting the impulse to return a. borrowed umbrella.” New governessâ€"“You have a grandfather and grandmother living, have you not, Master George '2” Master Georgeâ€"" Yes, but they are not. mates.” “ Don’t. be (low n-hearted. Every rose must have its thorn, you know." “ Yes, what I’m kicking about. is that every thorn doesn’t have Its rose.” “ Don’t you think Rev. Stilt’a sermons are awfully narrow ?” “I suppose they are, but, goodness he makes up for it, I should think, in the length." Saphroniaâ€"“ They say that one should always strive to get into company that. is better than one’a self.” Georgeâ€"“In you} case that, would be impossible.” Teacherâ€"“Emma, what do you know of the orchid family ?” Emmaâ€"“If you please, madam, momma. has forbidden us to in- dulge in any family gossip. The rain came down in torrents With a splishy-splashy swash, And it soaked the foolish fellow Who had soaked his mackiutosh. “ So your son John is courting a. woman at last ‘3 I’m afraid, howaver, that he’ll be too bashful to propose to her,” “He won’t, need to propose; she’s a widow.” “That friend of yours seems to be an ex- ceedingly jolly fellow.” “ Humph ! He ought to be. I’ve put about $2 worth of good spirits into him in the last hour.” The pup was so good natured That the tramps all turned him down; So they put a. muzzle on him, And be terrified the town. Robbyâ€"“Papa, I ran all the way up Long Hill to-day.” Papaâ€"“And how did you feel when you reached the top?” Robby â€"“I felt just as if I had a. stomachache in my eet.” These days so warm and nights so cold, They keep us all a. guessing To knowif our heavy underwear’s A nuisance or a blessing. The sageâ€"“ In choosing a wife, own man, you must not look for beauty 9. one. ’ The youthâ€"“Of course not. It is the other kind of a. girl that one may expect to find alone.” “But, Ethel, how do you know that this young man loves you? Has he told you so '3” “Oh, no, mamma ! But if you could only see the way he looks at me when I am not' looking at 'him Mr.s Mug gsâ€"“ That horrid Mrs. F6119 told \1rs.Nexdoor that I was a. regular old cat. \Vhat do you think of that; ‘3” Mr. Muggsâ€" â€"-”I think she never saw you in the same room with a mouse.” . “ D03 on take the daily paper. '1” asked the newly install_ed janitor of the ahpart,‘ E'én’é'hbfise. “No,” replied the lady to whom he was talking, “ we subscribe for it, but the people on the next flat take it.” “ \be do you employ that haughty Eng- lish butler ‘2” “ Well, you see, dear, I can- not afford to live in London all the time, and he makes me feel just as uncomforta- ble as if I were moving in the most aristo- cratic society.” Papaâ€"“ Good gracious, what a, point of interrogation you are I I am sure I didn’t ask such strings of questions when I was a. boy.” Sonâ€"“ Don’t you think if you had done so you would be able to answer some of mine ‘3” Ere long my bosom’s loving wife Will speak that sentence dire, That makes a. burden of my lifeâ€"â€" “ Get up Editorâ€"“I like this story, but the end is too commonplace and tame. A good story should end with a. snap.” Roland Ricarâ€" “Greab heavens, man ! Doesn’t) the hero marry a girl worth a cool million ? Don’t; you call that a. snap ‘2” Hungry Higginsâ€"“Madam, I useter have as good a. home as anybody till misfortune overbock me.” Mrs. Pottsâ€"~“ Indeed ‘2 And what was the nature of the trouble ‘2” Hungry Higginsâ€"“ My father-in-Iaw lost his job.” » misto Mr 1121. lb cunldn’t hzive been bachelor (one of the jud imne, we all agreed that y1 least objectionable of the 1‘ will 50011 As Wily z MERRY MOMENTS. That has ‘0mpk1nsâ€"" himself ento it; do you after several ungmaâ€" that, h be time for .s can be, e more the ; the C and light frien ‘ And so a_.by 5pm molo mean “All right. in be ‘my , Sunday school mas tree. m James a gold- tried to be, but gically.” Smythe the fire‘ \Vill ight. But: ‘my uncle’ "Yes, he Tompkmsâ€" Wall street of a. tumble- otherwise