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The wife of one of the official messengers of the royal palace at. Rome has been at- tacked with cholera sympbomS, and she, with her whole famiiy, have been sent; to the hospital. The Queen of Roumania is again develop- ing symptoms 02 paralysis, and the symp- toms indicate a dangerous attack. A Berlin correspondent says that, tWo German tramps have been arrested near Orleans in connection with the dynamite outrages. - GENERAL. A dissolution of the Portuguese Cabinet is imminent. Forty- three deaths resulted from the railway collision near Milan on Wednesday night. The theft of a quantity of dynamite from a train on the Zurich and Zug railway has caused a panic among the inhabitants of Zurich. Influenza. is spreading very rapidly in Austria. One of the presidents and both the vice-presidents of the Reichsrath are prostL-‘ated by the disease. While Col. A.F. Rodgers and Mr. John F. Coppinger, United States ansul at, Toronto. were in conversation, on Friday in Alton, 111., and old dispute between them was revived, and a fight ensued, in which Consul Coppinger shot Col. Rodgers in tfe leg. It, is reported that Sir William Harcourt, Chancellor of the British Exchequer, is considering, among other expedients to meet: the deficit in the budget, a proposal to place a. tax of one penny on the shilling on theatre admissions. The wreck of the British ship Jason, lost 03 Highland Light, Mass., on Tuesday, re- sulted in the loss of twenty-six of her crew. The official estimates sent to Congress ask for $411,879.061 for the fiscal year 1895, as against, §42_1,6_1‘2,215 fgr 18574.7 _ It i; stated that Prof. Tyndall’s death was can-133d by an overdose of chlora1.which he Was accustomed to take to alleviate his sufferings from indigestion, rheumatism and insomnia. The British troopship Malabar has been disabled, and is being towed to Malta. This is the third of the four big troopships disabled recently, a fact which caused the British Government to charter the steam- chip Bobhniain order to convey troops to India. Eleven prisoners escaped from goal at Famden, Ark, early on Sunday morning. The authorities at Dublin have decided to institute a. priva‘e inquiry into the murder of Pat-rick Reed, also into the re- cent discoveries of expk sives. The report in circulation on “’ednesday in London that King Lobengula had been captured by the South Africa Company’s forces was not confirmed at the Colonial Office. A boy named Vernon, a resident of Edin- burgh, Scotland, has invented an apparatus for photographing projectiles in transit with the aid of electricity. Lord Dunraven has suffered from an exceptionally severe attack of influenza, but is now making sacist‘acwry progress to- wards recovery. Mrs. Gladstone and Chief Secretary Mor- ley, who are suffering from influenza, Show considerable improvement. The British Admiralty will immedialely begin the construction at Chatham of a. battleship similar to the Magnificent. The great, ship canal connecting Man- chester with the sea has been opened tor traffic. The total general loss caused by the re- cent strike of the English coal miners is now placed at. $333,000,000. Lord Roberts has again declined the Governorship of Malta. Lord Randolph Churchill xs laid up with a severe attack of influenza. On Saturday the GovernopGeneml form- ally opponed the Royal Victoria hospital in Montreal, in the presence of a large and distinguished gathering of citizens. The structure. which is one of the finest. of its kind in the world, cost more than a. million and a. half of dollars. A man named Roger Allan was found dead early the othermorning on Woodward avenue, Sc. Thomas. His throat: was cut from ear to ear. Opinion is at present divided befiwean the theories of suicide and murder. The Allan Line Steamship Company has been awarded four thousand four hundred pounds salvage by the British Admiralty Court for safely towing into port the Do- minion Line steamer Sarnia which was picked up last August by the Montevidean. The Moude explains that while the Post-Office Inspector of Toronto is paid $2,800 a. year, the Montreal Inspector receives only $2,600, which it denounces as anotherinjnsnice towards the French-(lun- adians. John Dufi'y, who said he belonged to Napanee, was stealing-'1. ride on a. Grand Trunk freight. train running from Hamil- ton to Toranto when he fell 01} the cars, and was killed. A young man named Thomas Carlton, oi Ornngerille, was instantly killed on a. railway crossing near Inglewood. He was thrown out, of awaggou and struck by a. missing engine, dying half an hour after- wards. The police magistrate of Winnipeg, 01:1 Saturday, dismissed the two criminal libel clues brourht by Mr. A. “1’. Ross against Mr. R. L. Richardson, in connectiono with the alleged personation an the recent bye- election. . CANADIAN. The steamship Waldo R. Avery, With 70,000 b_usi‘.els of cormwas burned on Tues- day in the Straits of Mackinaw. Capt. Burke, of the Canadian tug Relianw, is to receive a. gold watch and chain from the American Government fer rescuing the crew of an American tug m the Georgian Bay. THE WEEK’S NEW 301i!) Campbell has turned up in as a. counsellor employed to defend ine Mohammedans implicated in riots. UNITED STATES BRIT The wedding ring in India. is an im- mense nose ring which often hangs below the girl’s chin. A beautiful little girl of 12 years was presented an elegant ring. Her father informed her that it was the gift of the husband who was coming next week to the wedding feast. There is little or no ceremony, merely a grand feast and an ex- change of presents. Upon the day appoint- ed the little one, bedecked with jewels, ~ arrayed in handsome clothing, in all her beauty, stepped forward to meet the bride- groom whom she had never seen. Behold, he was white with leprosy! Turning an appeal ing glance toward her father, who frown~ ingly motioned her to advance,she approach- i ad the leper. A priest mumbled a few Words, threw a sash over their heads, and they were man and Wife. 0, India! Samarkand, Khokand, and Kashgar. They met with marked courtesy from We Russian officials when passing through Russian territory. Their severest trials were in Thibeb and crossing the Pumii‘s. Between Lobnol‘ and Koknuor the guides Were treacherous and finally deserted, leaving Mr. Littedale and his wife to direct their course as best they could by the aid of a. sextant. A large proportion of the animals succumbed on this part of the road, which took about two months to traverse. Most died from lack of water. An Adventurouq Journey- Mr. and Mrs. Libtlednle, of whose travels in Asia newa has reached as from time to time, have completed their interesting journey and arrived at, Shanghai. The adventurous couple left London as the end of Junuarylmst for Constantinople, whence their route was through Russia, Tartury, Dear Baby Nell looked troubled. As she fled to my warm-embrace. “ Good little girls grow fast." Isaid: “ My little cremure. take heart. 0' grace, year soon goes. then We shall see How easy you‘ll 'span' the Christmas tree !" No more Baby Nell looks troubled. And the cold moon shmes so bright; On the sparkling Snow o'er her little grave Far ofi‘ on the hillside Coâ€"mght, Only two stockings (his Christmas- [ting deemy the Christmas bellâ€" Harry and Nan are in my arms. They nestle close and whmpering mu How they lovedlitcle sisterâ€"dear Baby Nell â€"â€"[VV. B. Cossitt. Hand in hand they bravew tried, Harry, and Nell. and Nan; Vainly, alas! Then Harry cried: “ Once more! Try the bestest you can! Baby Nell, if you wath ath bitr nth me We could eathy thpan the Chrislmath tree! This Christmm. two little stockings; Last Christmas there were three, When my loved ones gleefully assayed To “spun ” the glittering tree, Laden with all that, loving pride Could suggest, With purse-strings free. bohdnzze grieving. _ Vainly yearning for peace (1.de discord and Strife, _ That he gave [us dear Son, so our lost race be- Moving; In his name might inherit the heavenly life. The and burdens of human s‘m, sorrow, and weakneis. Christ. descended from bright glory realms co aaspme. . _ For our gum; to atone wnth meffable meekness, And achieve joyful triumph o’cr death and me tomb. Earth afforded no place but a mafnger-bed lowly To receive Him whose coming brought rest and release; But with loving devotion in heart-tempfes holy, We may now fondly welcome the pure Prince God Sp 0ft-I‘epeated. yet ever new story of J csug, We rejoice. in thy message of measureless love. And to God be all glory for mercy that trees 0n the earth evil reigned. and deep death- darkness broodcd Over fallen humanity’s hopes like a pan. As to ruin souls wandered by error deluded. With no hand to deliver from sin's fatal thraU. Let. each produce wh From any lore he lov But a." the Christian Will simply be “ the But now that; we are On this glad day, the As on this ewvated D Let; us give those he]: Rut sec ! mm \Vith mace I land. While merry 0f every son And lot For all But oh His low 0:- that Oh! when shall it be c} That pvil‘s but the dnr That In some great, eqn Darkness as though 'bw ment? Should prompt Tis a beautiful story that dOWn through the What a. as 0011055 to gludden our hearts with its mean- g sublime, ' A sweet. story inscribed on tho hohest pages, Which are bound in the mystical volume of time. Wham Else In 65‘ Both The: And That us From sin-fetters, and grants usglad life from I" bh above. of Peace SI sence. myth cling, IIc em ill is called the alas! Lhntzwc ShOl‘ e and carem full p discomfort. for a rm loved the doomed world in its )onrz‘ unruly thnflk him (' his Chriscs and V ode. :r t} my amid c cc and me cl‘ The Baautiiul St ary The Wedding Ring. Christmas Mu ght and me inmost souls aqccnd : wemons ower who This Christmas POETRY. 111.11 other m luatre o {1r lumpy ho JOY wide-8pc; Vt‘ter mile Lh at treasure he has got '03: «no matter Wham ' n11 assembled here whitestonc of the 1 y but & 'thess n 0“ firéfound “(Jennie Wilson. 1 u 933‘ spam]. pmg ham Julia 110 an bristma \mcrn ‘hlehc Mmm roughout th CTCC mil lir ‘Ol’fl morn. ow or! ‘11 The more judgment. 3 In and the more careful he a‘ iztct, however, the maintenance of an army and navy beyond the ability of the country fairly to sustain has been a. matter quite as much ofa pupular demand as of monnrch- ical ambition. A proposition to retrench at the expense of the prestige of Italy and her importance in Europe would have no chance of success. Austria. and Germany will hold Italy to her engagements, but engagements equally onerous would doubt- less be imposed upon her if she threw her weight into the opposite scale. That, hoW. ever, is practically out oi the question. An alliance or an “cntente” with France Would be a most. unpopular measure in the present temper of the Italian people, em- bittered as it has been by a series of irri- toting events, of which the newest are very recent. 1!: would be so unpopular that no statesman Would venture to propose it. It is quite out of the question for Italy to re- main neutral. A declaration of neutrality now Would convert her recent allies into enemies Without making her new friends, and would expose her to the brunt of the next European conflict, in which, whoever might be the gainer, she would he the sure loser. Italy is, in fact, irrotrievubly com- mitted as to her foreign policy. The suc- cessors of Urispi have no choice but to con- tinue the course he laid out. It is a. course that binds the nation to engagements that keep her on the verge of bankruptcy and that cause widespread distress. There is no device that can convert into prosperity and happiness the state of one Who must spend more than his income to keep up ap- peurancee. Extreme frugality in all de- mIMga, that; fl thankl try. of peurances. Extreme Irugality in all de- partments in which excessive expenditure is not a political necessity is bhe only means by which such a condition can be mitigated and made tolerable. To enforce chab'frugality will be the difficult. and thankless task of the next Indian Minis- try, of whomever it may be composed. It is true that Italy is in trouble, and that all external troubles tend to discredit the powers that be. As Sir Charles Dilke has shown, Italy is the country in which the strain of huge armaments has come nearest to passing the limit of elasticity. That her expenditures have been beyond her- means is manifest, and there may be an increasing disposition t0 charge the burden of expenditure, aggravated by corruption, upon‘the triple‘ alliance. As a _ma.tter of The Parliamentary and personal results of the report to the Italian Chamber upon the " Panamizm” are likely to be more important than the results properly polit- ical. It is true enough thet‘the tendency of the disclosures is to discredit the mon- arcbical Ministry, and indirectly the men- archy itself, and thus to strengthen the republicans. But the republican party in Italy will take a great deal of strength- ening before it becomes a party with which it is necessary to reckon. The redemption and the unification of Italy are events too recent to be ignored in current politics. The house of Savoy is too inextricably connected with tlfose events and entitled to too much of the gratitude of the Italian people on account of them, to give any promise of success to any efiort for the'de- thronement of the second king of Italy. 'llxe claims of the royal family upon the people have been as greatly strengthened by the unification of Italy as the claims of the Hohenzollerns by the unification of Germeny. Lh and muw of those put the { from and : tively 18 certainly some but it can hardly and limb and tho: man on tfie street. Lesbant- in the fie )1 ame Th minded of the zum when the 9.1 humanity o College .1 One of the 1110's? the times is th tness ll] HI an 50 times. Th cdoor sports approval I 11 our de: barhmrious Linly some un con 3 ll ‘fes )ll bf the en; mblmg of ud footbal x by the siderable Condluon of Italy. limited in c nfined to th 1t‘husiasm of ;xhiIo.ra.bing I aople, enters a! t} um the MM 'hau fiem hat must enjoyrr Much-ale Sports. in marked characteristics ie attemiou given to all» :e colleges of the coumry ile portion of the general thé numbers that. be :11 1n as the lines assemble to nests one is forcibly re- mys of the Roman Collis- ghest (25 {195 of the physi- he day were brought to- istrated the power of skill in the crude caliethenics .‘he climb of this devotion ts from the manhood of games, m w gly that th‘ 3 adds too 1 L, are only trher mes true My 1 and HOOK 1, and z ‘esaive expenditure ssitv is bhe only condition can be that the measure of consequence. But the players, for the of an immense 3.3- ; pleasure of several rs largely into the neat. for) man has the slower {ill be to condemn. what crowds on the is an evidence of count for some- of the sport as uppe 11 CE XI," lacrosse, ‘8 measure of h< uzm'nua rom 3n Smita 13 u re- “SSE mra 1H th 3.11 | toined by the Ministers that an agency of this sort was the only one by which Eng- land could carry on its work in South Africa, but it was also made clesr that the South African Company would not be left without supervision or control to make war and peace and to decide on the civil and social laws by which the new country shall be regulated. It wan even intimated that in the course of time tin Mstabele who have now been defeated in fight will be found supplying the armed police for the British rulers. To Mr. Lebouchere, who on this occasionseems to havequite lost his usual cynical selbcontrol and to have fallen into a. curiously emotional extravagance, these Metabele are a. greatly wronged and very estimable race. They seem in reality to be a. race of extraordinarily cruel and rape.- ciOus plunderers, who have for some fifty years been living on the 19.. born of the original Meshona natives, when their slaughter and burnings and plunderings have left the poor wretches any time or means for labor. Two wrongs do not make a. right, and the dispossession of the Mutabele is not necessarily justified by their dispossession or perswution of the people of Mashone. But no one doubts that when this latest dispossession shall have been completed the Matabele Will have fair chance at a. penceable and decent life of which they may or may not avail them- selves. In the meanwhile the English will replace the industry of Warâ€"the only one known to the Metabeleâ€"by those of min- ing, agriculture. and trade, in some of which the Mashous men will engage gladly and prosperously, and from which an in- finitely greztter advantage to the human race will Come than from the Wild sav- agery of the race that is now undergoing conquest. m We cannot control the tongues of others, but a good life enables us to despise colum- nies. ’ 200 feet. The towers Will be 280 feet high, and the center of the bridge, above mean high water mark, will be 140 feet, five feet higher than the present bridge. There will be four railroad tracks. The North River bridge, for which the house oi represents.- tives has just passed a. bill, is required to have a clear waterway of 2,000 feet and a clear headway above high water of spring tides of not less than 150 feet. New York is unique among the world’s cities of the first class in the greatness of its need of riv- er bridges, and in the almost total lack of such accommodation. The ferry lines, al- though thirteen in number on the two river, con never serve the purpose of bridges for heavy city trnffi c. To the visitor from London or Paris it is an enigma. how the people of Brooklyn and Jersey City manage to transfer themselves from one part to an- other of what 15 virtually one great town. The Brooklyn bridge. on October 1‘2,during the Columbus festival, transferred 258,953 passengers. The plans now in progress are to double its capacity. The era is one of great bridge building. . â€"~â€"â€"â€".â€"â€"â€"â€"a Glrdllng the Holy Land with Balls. There is news. greet railway system in the course of ennstruction which will girdle the Holy land from one end to the other. A French company has secured a concession for a line from Beyrouth to Dnmnscufi, and has already commenced work on a narrow- gauge road. An English syndicate is now building a railway from Haifa to Damascus, which will be about 140 miles long, starting from Haifa, finding its way along thenorth- ern base of the range of Carmel tothe plain of Esharion, through the valley east of Nazareth, Lesvxng Mount Tabor it Will cross the River Jordan on s. trestle and then to the point known as Majcmeh, where the Little Jordan joins the great river. At this point the road will border on the southern shore of Galilee, and almoet without a. curve along the famous wheat region, biblicnlly. An element of power necessary in every 1 known as the plains of anhnn, then to the kind of work, is quietn spirit. css and evenness of. southern gate of Damascusâ€"[Sh Louis 3? public: Dnfifig the fecent; debates in the House on the motion of Mr. Litbouchere it was conceded by Mg Balfoul: asit was main: We cannot control the tongues of others, by: a good life enables us to despise calum- mes. Nothing in the recent history of English rule has brought out more strikingly the unresting, but not restless, energy of the race. During the past month three col- umns of troops have rmrched against the Matabele chief, Lobengula, and not only by their superior arms, but by the use of just the qualities that the savage warriors are believed to excel in, by swiftness, cun- ning, and unflinching endurance of physi- cal hardship, have overcome a force at least five times as great as their own, cap- tured the kraal in which the chief’s treas- ure, arms, and ammunition were gathered, scattered his followers, and driven him to such straits that he has invited a. meeting for the purpose of surrender. The person who has set out to meet him is not an Eng- lish General, nor an official of the colonial service, but the chief agent of the South African Trading Company. And here is the sign of the peculiar- spirit that prevails in English operations of this sort. They are carried on by a. commercial company, because trade and the profits of trade are the primary object. They are even, in one sense, the controlling object. flut- wbile this cannot be held to be a noble pur- pose, it would be a grave mistake to infer that; it is inconsistent with the pursuit of order, justice, and civilization. I drew the child within my home From out the Snow and alcct. I rubbed the little stifl’ened hands. And cluLfed the frozen feet. on after thathe came to me In search of fqod and rest. And warmed him at my kitchen fire, A self invited guest. But summer came, and months passed on, The wanderer came no more, Though oft, I listened for the sound. or tapping on the door. Then. when the leaves were dead and brown, A message came to me, “ A child is dying in the town And W0111d the lady see." I seemed to “ Naked I And Myt “ Ah why the difference. kind Heaven-â€" Mine Sheltered safe and warm. While tb}:\' poor wait to me is driven. By peltmgs of the storm 7” In wretched hut. on pauper bed, With none to watqh or tend. Breathing his: sufi‘enng life away. There lay my little friend. With feeble smile he turned and said. Raising his lmcle hand, “ I’m 20mg to be an angel now, And With the angels stand!" And oft the thought will come to me, A solace 'mulmy carts, Perhapfi that, mgbt I “entertained An angel unawares.” Poor lime Joe! earth gave at last A place to lay the head. Where none may tell thee to “move on From my low, narrow bed. J11 'I‘ve in But cw They've Oh lat And no Outsiz The The In Ab [laid him in a little cot And watched him sink to rest. And Hmnked the Lord for giving me Than night, a. child for guests. Ar Th Sn “ The 11 Ck. and a 3 And ye re( .VIy pleasun then. finger as I wached his hezw ‘idc hie humble bed, 3am, unchecked. fell 3n the tangled head. \\ a my @1501 hé'ard ie the mndow pane. Energy of the Engliah Race. hristmn bia th tht freezing in th< me in Lo-night Med the windâ€"“ Oh Gc Jy on the poor!" I thought; I heard a. tap 'S on the door. d and mead at many a door. where 1'vc been. me Ionghly to ‘ move on? ake me in!" barn: are very cold. 3 nq fire not light, mg in the storm~ hear another voice: came to thee. stranger, hungry, poor, zcived not me.’ Poor Little Joe- iuly ficr menvy sleep, ) bed, 1, tell thick and fast ~n. bitter 112131111. ‘20 and wil , rpm heavenly light said. but then â€"[Sarah H. Bradford. uhimney hung Oh God. thi ‘rt my :d with out n=ght There Are Many In Eur-one, but the U. S. Beats Them All. They are indulging in some big bridge talk in Europe. The high-level bridge across the Mersey at Liverpool is to con- sist of three spans on the arched suspen- sion principle, each 1,150 feet, 150 feet above the river at high water. There is to beadouble railway track, a roadway 40 feet wide for vehicles, and sidewalks or footpaths. The railway bridge proposed across the Bosphorus at Constantinople would be 8,645 feet. long. or nearly the length of the Forth bridge. The projected Channel bridge, between England and France. runs ins. straight. line from the South Foreland to Cape Blanz Nez. The structure as now proposed, would consist of 73 spans, alternately 1,300 feet. and 1,625 feel; long. It would give a clear headway of 175 feet at every point between the piers. Two bridges just completed across the new North Sea. and Baltic Canal have spans of 150 feet each, and, besides railways, carry also a common roadway and footpaths. Some of the adultemtions found in beer are cocculus indie-us, capsicum, ginger, quassia, Wormwood, calwnus root, cars.- way and coriander seeds, nopperas, sul- phuric acid, cream of tartar, c'lum, cn’r'oon- ate of potash, ground oyster shells, nux vomiea, picrotum and stryChuine. 0f sixtyâ€"seven queens of France only thir- teen have died winhout‘, leaving their his- tories a record of misery. Eleven were divorced, two executed, nine died young, seven were soon widowed, three cruelly treated, three exiled; the poisoned and broken-hearted made up the rest. Some very ancient books are to be found in the sacred relics of Ceylon. They are formed of palm leaves written upon with a metal pen, and are bound merely by a silk- en string. The first appearance of peanuts in mer- cantile history was a. consignment of ten bags sent from Virginia to New York for sale in I794. In 1892 the product was 2,000,- 000 bushels. ' That: May marriages are unlucky is a. superstition as old as Ovid’s time. and had then passed into a proverb among the people, which puzzled even Plutarch. The new East River (New York) bridge, as projected, is to take six or seven years to complete. The pan will be 1,670 feet; the total length from anchor to anchor, 3.- 200 feet. The towers W111 be 280 feet high, and the center of the bridge, above mean high water mark, will be 140 feet, five feet higher than the present bridge. There will be four railroad tracks. The North River bridge, for which the house oi represents.- tives has just passed a bill, is required to have a clear waterway of 2,000 feet and a. clear headway above high water of spring tides of not less than 150 feet. New York is unique among the world’s cities of the first class in the greatness of its need of riv- er bridges, and in the almost total lack of such accommodation. The ferry lines, al- though thirteen in number on the two river, can never serve the purpose of bridges for heavy city trnfii c. To the visitor from London or Paris it is an enigma how the people of Brooklyn and Jersey City manage to transfer themselves from one part to an- other of what 18 virtually one great town. The Brooklyn bridge. on October 1‘2,during the Columbus festival, transferred 258,953 passengers. The plans now in progress are to double its capacity. The era is one of great bridge building. The greatest depLh recorded of Lake Michigan is 870 feet, or about one-sixth of a mile. The mean depth is about; 325 feet. or one-sixteench of a. mile. Since the beginning of the century France has fallen from the second to the fourth place 111 poiubof population among, European countries. Our earth has just passed through swarms of meteors, and of late no fewger than thirty brilliant ones have been nosed within an hour. Henry Brock, who is an app postmastership of Yellow S} said to weigh over 600 pounds, Eccentric Richard Webber died at My sontown, P&., recently. One of his pecul- iarities was to keep his two old horses in the house with himself. Nine women out of ten will fuss about a. trifle and meet calamity with a. calm-eyed and iearlesa smile. Statistics show that Russia. produces and consumes a smaller quantity of beer than any other nation. It has been calculated that 800 shots Were fired for every man wounded during the civil war in the States. An uncut diamond looks very much like a. bit of the best gum arabic. The best Opals are obtained irom Hun- gary and Honduras. The eye that. laugh: is the eye that wasps easily. California has women tramps. Venezuela. has milk trees. Paris taxes funerals. Traces of the bicycle are found as far back as the fifteenth century. A woman usually likes flattery, even when she recognizes it. Australia produces annually 130,000,000 pounds of wool. FACTS I!" FEW WORDS. BIG BR! 06‘. ES. who is an applicant for the of Yellow fixings, 0., is