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/ gnawâ€"d- finesse nswsl CANADIAN. Troop & Sumthe shipbrokcrsof St. John, N.B.. have failed with liabilities of more than $200,000. Dominion Government oflicials seized the tug E. C. Oggles, and about four miles‘of gill not, the propeity of the Sinulusky Fish Company. They were caught fishing near Pelee Island in Canadian waters. A cargo of grain has arrived in Mon trcal from Chicago in eight days,which is said to be the quickest time on record. The Archbishop of Ontario has withdrawn his name us one of the vice-presidents cf the English Church Union. The police census of the city of Toronto has been completed, and shows that on the niEht of November 52h the population was 188,333. So satisfaCtory is the financial state of affairs of the John H. Stratford hospital at Brautford, 0nt., that the city grant of $2,- 000 is not needed, and the Council Will be notified to that effect. John McNabb, an old man, who was found unconscious in Sylvester Bros.’ ele- vator Toronto, on Thursday last, died at the General hospital on Saturday. A post- mortem examination disclosed the fact that his spine had been fractured. The circum< stances connected with his death are rather suspicious. Several people on the Chicago express of the Michigan Central railway which arrived at Niagara. Falls on Saturday afternoon at five o'clock, saw a. boat with two men in it struggling in the Canadian rapids. The boat disappeared, and is supposed to have gone over the Horse Shoe falls. The German steamer Markomannia, which arrived at Halifax on Saturday night from Hamburg, reports that on the 14th inst. she fell in with the steamer Dominion, of the Dominion line, on fire. She lay by until the following day, when the fire was considered to be under control. The Domin- ion was seriously damaged, and one hundred and eighty head of cattle were burned, and their remains thrown overboard. The stockholders of the Niagara. Falls and Clifton Suspension Bridge Companies intend to petition the Dominion Parliament for the privilege to lay tracks on their pres- ent structure, immediately below the American Falls, for the purpose of running electric, cable, or horse cars. Mr. R. W. V'Vebb, the Montreal druggist who sold Hooper the prussic acid with which the latter is said to have killed his gife, died suddenly in Montreal on Sun- By. No less than seven distinct attempts to wreck Canadian Pacific railway trains have been made lately, and the railway authori-' ties are at present investigating the matter. Judge Gill, in the Montreal Superior Court, condemned the Windsor Hotel Com- pany to pay fifteen hundred dollars damages to Mrs. \Villiams, the widow of a railway porter, who was killed by the hotel elevator three years ago. Two ydung and prosperous farmers named Joseph and Edgar Pocock, who rented a. farm at Glenboro, Mam, disappeared on the 1_6th of October, and have not been seen since. A search party started out yester. day, as there are strong hints of foul play- M. Jule dc Smedt, a Belgian, lately sr- rived in Montreal, has submitted to \Mayor Desjsrdins an elaborate scheme regarding a. co-operative bread company. He proposes to start a. company with a capital of seventy- five thousand dollars, in shares of five dollars each, payable in five instalments of one dollar each, extending over the five months from December to April. The Catholic Church authorities of Mont- real have refused to allow the remains of Mr. John F. Gourley, formerly of Boston and Montreal, who died recently at Medi- cine Hat, N. W. T., to be interred in the Roman Catholic cemetery, on the ground , that he married a. second wife, after obtain- ing sdivorce from his first. The matter Will likely be brought before the ciVil courts. . BRIT [E H. The great English coal strike is ended, and. work was generally resumed at the col- lieries yesterday morning. In an editorial dealing with- agricultural matters, the London Times says Canadian timothy hay is now recognized as being as good as the best available bay of natural home growth. The London Times, in an article on the colonies. says that one of the first results of the re-election of Sir \Villiam \Vhiteway in Newfoundland will be a. demand upon Eng- land to fulfil the pledges made to the colony regarding the French shore. UNITED STATES. The financial condition of the city of Chicago is very distressing. She will be- gin next year with current liabilities of one million three hundred thousand dollars. Convicts employed in the Pratt mines, near Birmingham, Ala.., set fire to the bath- house on Friday morning in the hopes of being able to escape in the confusion. In this they failed, but two white convicts, who were asleep in the bath-house we burned to death. ’ rc Minister Blount’s report to the United States State Department delares that Minister Stevens was directly responsible for the overthrow of the Queen of Hawaii, and that without his intervention the provisional Government could not have been established. GE NEE A L. It is stated in St. Petersburg that no- gotiations are in progress for a. visit of the Russian Mediterranean fleet to Constanti- nople. The Madrid newspapers voice the public clamour to thrash the Ko-byles, and thus seriously embarrass the Government who fear that they will be compelled tc') yield. A despateh from Meshed, in Persia, says that two-thirds of the important town of Kuchau, in Khorcssan, was destroyed by an earthq .iake, and it is feared that the loss of life is very heavy. ' An attempt was made in Marseilles on W'edneatlay night to blow up the residence of Gen. Mathelin with dynamite. A breach was made in the wall oi the orderly-room, but no one was iniure The German Government has decided to establish a permanent military camp at Malmcdy in Rhenish Prussia. as an offset to the strong earthworks Fr once has con- structed at Maubcugo, on the western fron- tier nt Belgium. Acting upon the initiative of Spain the European Governments have agreed to keep a very close watch upon the Anarchists. The police of each country will arrest for- eign Anarchists and send them back to their own countries. __.___..___.-â€"â€" Hard ’l‘lmcs In Illc Santos. The stringency in commercial affairs in the States, though perhaps eased to some extent by recent legislation on the silver question, is still severely felt, especially in the cities. In New York, according to the press of that city, there is already great destitution among the laboring classes. It is a, most erroneous notion for a poor man to imagine that financial crises have nothing to do with him. Sooner or laterâ€"or both ~they strike his comfort or his life in a. direct way that few of the financial kings know. \Vhat isafinancial crisis on Wall street is apt to be a. food crisis in the tene- ment. The New York Mail and Express has been investigating the state of afh'airs in New York city, and things do not look immensely better than they did a. few weeks ago when the World was distribut- ing bread to hungry applicants. One news item reads: " A woman killed herself in an East side tenement house not long ago because she could not provide food for her- self and her child. She preferred poison to starvation.” She was a young wile with a. youiigbabyihcrhusbaudhad becnswziy from her for three months. She had sold all that she had to sell. InvestigatiOn by the reporter showed that she had ‘scrubbcd for a. living until she was too weak to scrub longer. She could get no work, because she was in rags and ill, and she knew no one it: leave her baby with. She tried employment agencies and ready-made clothing stores ; and then she gave up the struggle in the midst of the city of New York. Nor is her case a soli-_ tary instance. The Jim? (mi Emirate re presentative went to the Intelligence Offices and found there frank evidence of the pinching hardness of the times. One of the woman clerks he saw said that she had never seen such hard times before. “ Last year at this time," she added, “ we placed more servants in a. single day sometimes than we do now in a. week.” An agent in another office gave similar testimony, saying among other things: “ Why some of the people who come here are hungry. The other day a. young women fainted on the floor. She had been sitting here all the forenooii. After she came to, we asked her what was the matter, and what do you suppose? The foolish thing had had nothing to eat for adsy and a half. Just think of that.” Similar testimony is given by the columm ful. It covers all classes of workers who are dependent upon getting employment in order to make a. living. This one investi- gation, referred to, touched servants, clerks, nursery governesses, fancy cooks, butlers, actors, actresses, school teachers, private tutors, mechanics of all sorts, stenograph- ers, typewriters, draughtsmen and the whole range of Wage-earners. New York is a good place not to go to just now. «The products of New York labor are good ' and six times its size. competitors to protect our labor against for many a. day. When to Stop Advertising. An English trade journal once requested a. number of its largest advertisers to give their opinions concerning the best time to stop advertising, and the following replies were received :â€" When the population ceases to multiply and the generations that crowd on after you and never heard of you, stop coming on. \Vhen you have convinced everybody Whose life will touch yours that you have better goods and lower prices than they can get anywhere else. When you perceive it to be the rule that men who never advertize are out-stripping their neighbors in the same line of business. When men stop making fortunes right in your sight solely through the discreet use of the mighty agent. \Vhen you can forget the words of the shrewdest and most successful business men cmcerning the main cause of their pros- perity. ‘ When every man has become so thor- oughly a. creature of habit that he will certainly buy this year where he bought last year. When younger and fresher housesin your line cease starting up and using the news- papers in telling the people how much bet- ter they can do for them than you can. When you would rather have your own way and fail than take advice and Win. When nobody else thinks it pays to ad- vertise. _4._...__' The largest gasometer in the world is at EastGreenwich, Eng. \Vhen fall it contains 12,000,000 cubic feet of gas. It weighs 2,- 220 tons, is 180feet high, 250 feet in dis.- melcr, requires 1,200 tons of coal to fill it with gas, and cost $300,000. The navigation of the Dead sea is the lat - est step in oriental progress. The Sultan has sent two sailing boats there, one for freight and one for passengers. Adbul Hamid is going to try to make money out of the salt, bitumen and sulphur of the lake. â€"__oâ€"â€"' The boatfly passes the greater part of its life swimming and divmg in the water. It is the terror of all other aquatic insects and has been known to kill those that are five Snowdon, in North Wales, is the highest mountain south of the Tweed, and Scaw Fell Pikes in Cumberland, the summit of which is 3,166 feet above the sea level, the greatest elevation in England. The best way to ascertain whether or not coffee has been adulteratod is to pour cold water on it. If pure it will color the water very slightly; if mixed with chicory the water will take a. brownish hue. A negro in Floyd County, Georgia, dresa- ed himself in a Sheet a few days ago and started out at dusk to “ scare the life out of” a white woman, against whom he had a grievance. He intercepted her as she was returning to the house from the well and she came near beating the life out of him with the iron bucket she carried. He is in the hospital seriously injured. fl...â€" .1 FARHER Eli's VACATION, “ltdon’t seem as if we‘d really got round to it, does it father?" asked Mrs. Pike. The West was paling, and the August insects stirred the air with their crooning chirp. Eli and his wife sat together on the wash- ing-bench outside the back door, waitin for the milk to cool before it should be strained. She was a large, comfortable woman, with an unlined face and smooth fine auburn hair ; he was spare and some- what bent, with curly iron-gray locks, growing thin, and crew‘s-feet about his deep-set gray eyes. He had been smoking the pipe of twilight contentment, but now he took it out and laid it on the bench be- side him, unrrossing his legs and struighfi eniiig himself with the sir of a. man to whom it falls, after long pondering to take some decisive step, "No : it don't seem as if ’t was goin’ to happen,”hc owned. "It look- ed pretty dark to me all last week. It’s a good deal of an iindertakin’, come to think it all over. I dunno’s I care about goiii'.” â€"“Why. father ‘. After you’ve thought about it so many years, and Serena’s got the tents strapped up, and all ! You must be crazy l”~â€"“Well,” said the farincr,gently, as he rose and went to carry the mixk pails into the pantry, calling cosxingly, as he did so, “Kitty! Kitty 1 You had your milk. Don’t you joggle new i” For one eager tabby rose on her hind legs in purring haste, and hither nose against the foaming saucer. Mrs. Pike came ponderously to her feet, and followed with the heavy, swaying motion of one grown fleshy and rheumatic. She was not in the least concerned about Eli’s change of mood. He was a gentle soul, and she had always been able to guide him in paths of her own choosing. Moreover, the present undertaking was one involving his own good fortune, and she meant to tolerate no foolish seruples which might interfere with its result. For Eli, though he had lived all his life within thirty miles of the 000:“), had never seen it, and ever since his boyhood he had cherished one dar- ling plan. Some day he would go to the shore and camp out therefore. week. This, in his starved imaginationnvas like a dream of the Acropolis to an artist stricken blind, or as mountain outlines to the dweller in a. lonely plain. But the years had flitted past, and the dream never seemed nearer completion. There were always planting, haying, and harvesting to be considered, and though he was fairly prosperous, ex- cursions were foreign to his simple habit of life. But at last his wife had stepped into the van, and organized an expedition, with all the valor of 3. Sir Francis Drake. “Now. don’t you say one word, father," she had said. “ W e're goin' down to the beach, Serene and Hattie and you and me, and we’re goin’ to camp out. It’ll do us all good.” For days before the date of the excursion Eli had been solemn and tremulous, as with joy ; but now on the eve of the great event, he shrank back from it with an undefined notion that it was like death, and that he wan not prepared. Next morning, however, when they all rose and took their early breakfast preparatory to starting at five, he showed no sign of indecision, and even Went about his outdoor tasks with an alacrity calculated, as his wife approvingly remark- ed, to “ for’ard the v’y’ge.” He had at last begun to see his way clear, and he looked well satisfied when his daughter Hattie, and Serene, her husband, drove into the yard in a. wagon cheerfully suggestive of a wandering life. The tents and a small hair trunk were stored in the back, and the horse’s ail swung below. “ Well, father,” called attic, her rosy face like a flower under the large shade-hat she had trimmed for the occasion, “ guess we‘re goin’ to have a. good day.” He nodded from the window where he was patiently holding his head high and undergoing stsngulstion, while his wife, breathing huskily with haste and impor- tance, put on his collar. “You come in, Hattie, and help pack the doughnuts into that lard-pail on the table,” she called. "I guess you’ll have to take two pails. They ain’t very big.” At length the two teams were ready, and Eli mounted to his place, where he looked very slender beside his towering mate. The hired man stood leaning on the pump, chewing a. bit of straw, and the cats rubbed against his legs, with tails like banners; they were all impressed by a sense of the unusual. “Well, good-by, Luke,” Mrs. Pike called, over her shoulder; and Eli gave the man a solemn nod, gath- ered up the reins, and drove out of the yard. Just out-Side the gate he pulled up. “Whoa!” he called, and Luke lounged for- ward. “Don’t you forget them cats! Get up, Doll!” And this time they were gone. For the first ten miles of the way. fumi- liar in being the road to market, Eli was placidly cheerful. The sense that he was going to do some strange deed, to step into an unknown country, dropped away from him, and he chatted, in his intermit- tent, serious way, of the crops and the lay of the hind. “Pretty bad job up along here, ain’t it, father ’2” culled Serene, as they passeds. sterile pasture which two plodding men and ayoke of oxen were re- deeming from its rocky fetteis. “ There’s a. good deal of pasture’ in some places that ain’t fit for nothin’ but to hold the world together," returned Eli ; and then he was silent, his eyes fixed on Doll’s eloquent ears, his mouth working a little, for this. progress through a less desirable stratum of life caused him to casts. backward glance over his own smooth, middle-aged road. “ We‘ve prospered, ain’t we, Maria i”he said at last; and his wife, unconsciously following his thoughts, in the manner of those who have lived long together, strok- ed her black silk visite. and answered, with s. well-satisfied nod: “I guess we ain‘t got no cause to complain. But Eli ate sparingly and with a. preoc cupied and solemn look. “ Land father l' said his wife, “ you ain’t eat no more’n a bird E” And he answered : “ I guess I’ll go over to that well and get a. drink of water, 1 drink more’n I out when I ain’t workin‘.” But when he came back, carefully bearing a pail brimming with cool, clear water, his face expressed strong disuppi‘obution, and he smacked his lips scornfully. “ Dreadful flat water 1” he said. “ Tastes asifit' come out- o’ the cistern.” But the others could find no fault with it, and Serene drained the pull. “Pretty good I call it,” he said, and Mrs. Pike rejoined I “ You always was pretty-particular about water, father.” Hut Eli still 5.7..“ his head, and ejaculat. ed, “Brackish, brackish l" as he began to put the bit in Doll’s patient mouth. He was thinking, with a. passion of loyalty, of WW â€" ~54 % the clear, ice-cold water at home, which had never been shut out by zipump from the purifying airs of heaven, but lay where the splashing bucket and chain broke every day the image of fern and moss. His throat grew parched and dry withloiiging. “When they were within three miles of the see, it seemed to them that they could taste the sultness of the incoming breeze ; the road was ankle deep in «lust ; the garden flowers were glaring in their brightness. It was a. new world. And when at last they emerg- ed from the numb-bordered road upon a. ridge of sand. and turned a sudden corner, Mrs. Pike faced her husband in triumph. “There, father E” she cried. “There “5 is!" But Eli‘s eyes were fixed on the dash- board in front of him. He looked pale. “ Why father,” said she, impatiently, “ain‘t you goin' to look ‘? It‘s the Sea l.._,,ch, yes,” said Eli, quietly; “byme~by. I’m gOin’ to put the horses up fust.”â€"“ \Vcll, I never 1” said Mrs. Pike ; and as they drew up on the sandy tract where Serene had previously arranged a. place for their tents, she added almost fretfully, turning to Hattie, “ I dunno what’s come over your father. There’s the water, and he won’t: even cast his eyes at it.” But Hattie understood her father, by some intuition of love, though not of likeness. “ Don’t you bother him, ma,” she said. “He’ll make up his mind to it pretty soon. Here, let's lift out these little things, while they're unharncssin’, so they can get at the tents,” Mrs. Pike's mind was diverted by the exigencies of labor, and she said no more ; but after the horses had been put up at a. neighboring house, and Serena, red-faced with exertion, hnd superintended the tent- mmflg. Hattie slipped her arm through her father‘s and led him away. “Come pa.” she said in a whisper, “ le‘ ’3 you and me climb over on them rocks.” Eli tent, and when they had picked their way over sand and pools to a healland where the water thundered below, and salt spray dashed up in mist to their feet, he turned and looked at the sea. He faced it as a soul might face Almighty Greatness, only to be stricken blind thereafter ; for his eyes filled painfully with slow, hot tears. Hattie did not look at him, but after a while she shouted in his ear, above the outcry of the surf : “ Herc, pa, take my handkerchief. I don’t know how’t is about you, but this spray gets in my eyes.” _ ‘ Eli took it obediently, but he did not speak ; he only looked at the sea. The two sat there, chilled and content, until six o’clock, when Mrs. Pike came calling to them from the beach with dramatic shouts of: “ Supper‘s ready ! Sercno’s built a burn-fire, and I’ve made some ten !" Then they slowly made their way back to the tents, and sat down to the eveniii meal. Sercno was content, and Mrs. Hike bustling and triumphant; the mere act of preparing food had made her feel at home. “ Well, father, what do you think?” she said, smiling oxuberuntly as she passed him his mug of tea. “' Does it come up to what you expected? Eli turned upon her his mild, dazed eyes. “I guess it does,” he said gently. , _ That night they sat upon the shore while the moon rose and laid in the water her majestic pathway of light. Eli was the last to leave the rocks, and he lay down on his hard couch in the tent without speaking “ I wouldn’t say much to father,” whisper- ed Hattie to her mother as they parted for the night. “He feels it- a. good deal”.â€" “ Well, I s’pose he is some tired," said Mrs. Pik‘e, acquieseing, after a brief. look of surprise. “ It’s a. good deal of a. jaunt, but I dunno but I feel paid s’ready. Should you take your hairpins out, Hattie '2” She slept soundly and vocally, but her husband did not close his eyes, he looked, though he could see nothing, through the opening in the tent in the direction where lav the sen, solemnly clumorou8, eternal responsive to some infinite whisper from without his world. The tension of the hour was almost more than he could bear ; he longed for mornipg in sharp surpense, With a. faint hope that the light might bring re- lief. Just as the stars faded outvone lumin- nus line penciled the East, he rose, smooth- ed his hair, and stepped softly out upon the beach. There he saw two shadowy figures, Serene and Hattie. She hurried forward to meet him. “ You goin’ to see the sunrise, too, father ?”\shc said. “ I made Serene come. He’s awful mad at being waked up.” Eli grasped her arm. “ Hattie,” he said in a whisper, “ don't you tell. I just come out to see how’t was here before I go. I’m goin’ homeâ€"I’m goin’nowl”â€"”wliy, fatherl”said Hattie ; but she peered more closely into his face, and her tone changed. “All right,” she added cheerfully. “ Sereuo’ll go and harness up."â€"“ No ;l’m goin’ to walk.”â€" “ But, fatherâ€"”â€"“ I don’t mean to break up your stayin’ here, nor your mother’s You tell her how‘t was. I’m goin’ to Walk.” Hattie turned and whispered to her hus- band a. moment. Then she took her father’s hand. “I'll slip into the tent and put you up something for your breakfast and lunch- eon,” she said. “Sereno’ gone to harness; for, pa, you must take one horse, and you can send Luke back with it Friday, so’s we can get the things home. What do we want of two horses down here at two and ninepenco a day? I guess .I know.” So Eli yielded; but before his Wife appeared he had turned his buck on the sea. where the rose of dawn was fast unfolding- Ashe jogged homcward, the dusty roadd sides bloomed with flowers of paradise, anf the insects’ dry chirp was as the song or angels. Hedroveintothe yard justat the tur- ning of the day, when the fragrant smoke of country fires curls cheerily upward in promise of the evening meal. “W'het’s bu'sted?" asked Luke, swinging himself down from his load of fodder-corn, and unharncssing Doll. “Oh, nothin’," said Eli, leaping from the wagon as if twenty years had been taken fron his bones, “I guess I’m too old for such juunts. I hope you didn’t forget them cats."â€"[Selectcd. It is said that when coal was first used in England the prejudice against it was so strong that the house of commons petition- ed the king to prohibit the further use of the “infernal and noxious fuel.” A royal proclamation having failed to abate the nuisance, a commission was appointed to ascertain who burned “coles ” Within the City of London ; to punish by branding for the first offense and by demolition of the furnaces for the second. Finally, when minor punishments had no effect, a law was passed making cosl burning a capital offence In the records of the Old Tower there is an account of a mun who was hanged there for no other crime than that of using coal for fuel contrary to royal edict; this in the time of Edward I. l 4- The Bank of England Scare. The news received by cable the other morning reflecting on the management of the Bank of England was well calculated to esuse almost as much surprise as if it were news of some vagaries among heavenly bodies. so long has the old lady of TI retdnecdlo street been regarded as a. model of finance, cor- rect methods and stability. That Mr. Frederick May, the trusted cashier of such an institution. should have allowed parental feeling to overcome his sense of duty Withâ€" out check from the directorate is another warning that in such affairs eternal vigil- ance is the price of safety. The history of the commercial world for the last three yearshas furnished too many incidents which justify the belief that business pru- dence and conserved ive commercial methods appear to be waning in presence of the widespread craze for sudden riches. Refer- ence was made in these columns at the time of the break in industrial securitie- all over America some months ago, to the business methods that had led up to that disastrous depreciation, methods that were only too common in all lines of busi- ness at that time. It was pointed out that the energies of business men connected with joint stock corporations in the United States for some time back had been devoted not to the production and sale of the com- modities in which they dealt, but to tho exploiting and manipulating of the stock of the company. The former is business, the latter gambling, and owing to its prevalence many of the commercial calns mitics that have been recorded are due. The English newspapers at that time- made similar comments on the impropef conduct of American business concerns, and it is evident from the despstches an- out the mismanagement of the Bank of England funds that. the American papers were nearly ready to return a tu quoque. “70 in Canada are sometimes regarded by our neighbors as slow, but the familiar proverb is that slow and steady wins the race. We have been soslow that the evils of stock gambling have not invaded our busi' ness world. The old basis of trade, namely producing something that people want to buy, is still the obj cot of our industrial energies, and that it has been a safe motive is testified to by the fact that amid com- mercial disasters allover the world our little corner of it has been subjected to no storms of any moment. .___4_____ A [hundred Thousand Wrecks. The British Board of trade has just issued its annual blue-book containing statistics of maritime disasters on the British coast dur- ing the war which ended June 30,1892 Sonia of the figures are not a little startling. It appears, for instance, that in the period mentioned there were 4710 casualties in all, or 512 more than in the preceding year. Of this total, 1866 were serious disasters or total wrecks, which resulted in loss of life in 163 cases. Collisions were responsible for no less than 1580 of these disasters. Of the 4710 vessels figuring in the report, 4209 were either British or colonial. The locali- ties of the casualties, excluding collisions, were: East coast of England, 782; south coast, 593; west coast of England and. Scotland and east coast of Ireland, 1231; north coast of Scotland, 93; east coast of Scotland, 168 ; and other parts, 263; total, 3130, or 406 more than in the previous year. It has been found, as a rule, that the east coast is the most dangerous to shipping; but, curiously enough, for the last three years a change has occurred, and the west coast has proved more disastrous than any other. The total loss of life was 565. The following figures show the number of wrecks on the coast of the United King- dom for the last twenty years: 1872, 2381 ; 5 1873-74, 2191 ; 187l-73, 4259 ;. 1875-76, 4554 ; 1876-77. 5017; 1877-78, 4436; 1878- 79, 3716 ; 1879.80, 3138 ; 1880-81, 4297; 1881-82, 4367 : 188283, 4363; 1883-84, 4405; 1884-85, 3764 , 1885.86, 3596; 1386-87, 4224; 188788, 400-! ; 1888-89, 4272; 1889- 90, 4244; 1890.91, 4198; 1891-92, 4710. Total, 111,696. lip Mount Kcnla. 17.000 Feet. Dr. J.‘VV. Gregory, of the Geological De- partment of the British Museum of Natural History, has reached London from East Africa, having accomplished an ascent of Mount Kenis under very dificult con- ditions. No previous explorer had sue. ceeded in going higher than 14,000 feet, but Dr. Gregory passed the record by 3,000 feet, but was stopped “2,000 from the sum- mit by a. cornice which he could not sur- mount without assistance, and which his native companions would not approach, being afraid of the ice. He found the upper part of the mountain almost com- pletely glaciated above 17,000 feet, and saw evidence of the glaciers having had a much greater extension than they have now. The principal glacier is now readvuncing, but he thinks this may be only a. seasonal change due to heavy rains. It is evident, however, that the glaciation of Kenia is much more extensive then that of Kilima- Njaro. Previous explorers had surmised that Kenia was topped by a. crater full of snow; but Dr. Gregory. found the top consisted of the central core of an old vol- cano, of which the crater has long dis: appeared. In several other respects b! has corrected the observations of earlier travelers, while he has brought home with him nearly a. ton of specimens of various kinds, geological, zoological and botanical, which will increase greatly the present knowledge of that part of British East'- Africa. ._.___._._._â€"._ A Want of Crime. Last year We predicted». wave of crime for the fall and winter, following both the Chicago exhibition and the depression. It is upon us now and there is not a. day that passes that more than the average number of crimes are not reported. Such a state of things is inevitable With hundreds of thousands of people in the neighbouring republic, and the worst is not yet, for as the weather gets keener the misery will become greater and the destitute will grow more desperate. It is agrsve question how multitudes of people, not only in America but in Europe, are going to pull through the next few months at nll,but the strangest feature is the apathy being shown by the different governments when they must know that action to relieve the presgure will be inevitable. _____..§_____. Germany is the greatest Zine-producing country of the world. The main district is in Upper Silesia, where the metal is made from calaninc and zinc blended is: distil- htiun.