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wr.. P)? t. f.....__~_.__n .__.4 ._ _._. lil0ll§lli i‘iil 80m Auterotioprlora‘ij-i A1351 is be ' Undertaken- It seems certain that, after a half cen- tury, there is to be: 9. pr rcricil revival of interest in Antarctic exploration. (leo- graphers have been working toward that end for several years. The International Geographic Congress at Bertie, in .1891, warmly advocated the renew ii of South Polar research. The majority of authorities on Polar esploration live in G reat Britain, and there the present movement centres. It has the support of the Royal and Scottish Geographical Societies and the influential advocacy of such men as Dr. John Murray of the Challenger expedition, and Admiral Sir Erastus Ommauney of the British navy. The indications are that, within the next year or two, more than one well-equipped expedition will start for the vast unknowu expanse of the Antarctic regions. The time is ripe for such enterprise if we are ever to have anything more than our present misty knowledge of that part of the world. Scientific men have collated With the greatest care all the reliable facts that have been learned about South Polar lands and waters ; and the chief result they have attained has been to set forth, as Dr. Karl Fricker has done in his recent paper on the “ Origin and Distribution of Antarc- tic Diift Ice,” the complete inadequacy of our present knowledge. It is a fact that we can place little de- pendence upon a great deal of the informa- tion that appears upon our South Polar charts. Capt. Sharp entered in his log on Nov. 14, 1681 : “ On this day we could per- ceive land, from which, at noon, we were due west.” His approximate position at that time is known,and the authoritiesdong ago agreed that what he saw was only ice ; and there is reason to believe that many of his successors, scanning the horizon through THE SNOW-FILLED AIR, or during the confusion of a gale,have plac- ed land on their charts where none exists. All or nearly all the inaccuracies contribut- ed to the charts by occasional visitors to South Polar waters for nearly three centur- ies, are perpetuated on the maps of to-day. Merely from the standpoint of human cur- iosity, which has been insaliable in the pursuit of geographic facts, it is important now that the discoveries of the earlier explorers be verified and their mistakes corrected. We know of mistakes that are still ,perpetuated. Both Ross and Capt. Nares sailed over parts still marked as land on many charts. One illustration will show how little we are prepared to draw satisfactory inferences as to the exact physical conditions prevail- ing in South Polar regions. Sailors have, found drifting, far north, toward Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope, immense . icebergs, sometimes miles in extent, coming apparently from great land masses. The study of the Greenland ice cap and icebergs has advanced so far that some interesting deductions could be drawn with regard to the origin of THESE SOUTHERN ICEBERCS and the nature of the Antarctic ice cap if we knew the associated influences that help to produce them. But we know almost 3 nothing definitely of the prevailing atmos- pheric pressures and temperatures of the high southern latitudes. In other words, . our knowledge of the prevailing climatic conditions is wofully meagre; and upon climate chiefly depends the formation of a great ice cap. 30, in respect of most other phases of Antarctic phenomena, we know ' too little of the enVironing conditions to have scientific knowledge of them. Many people who read in The Sun of the Antarctic meeting of the Royal Geographi- cal Society last week, may have been sur- prised by the statement of Dr. John Mur- ray, that the South Polar continent may! have an area of 4,000,000 square miles. Though this is pure conjecture, no geogra- pher will be astonished if it prove true. The statement is based upon the fact that the dredging operations of the Challenger in Antartic waters gave evidence of prox- imity to continental rather than to oceanic lands ; and further, the lands discovered on allsides of the Antarctic circleâ€"Enderby, Kemp,\Vilkes, Victoria, Graham,a.nd Alex‘ ander I. Landsâ€"have none of them been seen in their entire extent. In each case the top is covered by an almost unbroken ice sheet, extending outward from the coasts into the sea and terminating in pre- cipitous cliffs, the Great Ice Barrier of South Polar explorers. There are plausible reasons for believing that these lands around the Pole and ex- tending toward it from near the sixty-sixth parallel, may all be parts of the coast of a. great continental mass. If Dr. Murray’s conjecture as to the size of this supposed continent approximates the truth, it is eight times the size of Greenland, which Peary has shown to be the largest island known to us, and a third larger than the United States, exclusive of Alaska. The world long supposed, from stories told by explorers, that South Polar research was far more trying and hazardous than similar efforts in the Arctic regions. But the scientific staff of the Challenger report- ed that the DIFFICULTIES AND DANCERS of navigation in Antarctic waters had been unduly exaggerated. W'e must remember that the appliances and methods of Polar research have been revolutionized since Antarctic work practically ceased. The earlier voyages in high southern latitudes were made in vessels of fifty to one hundred and fifty tons, and the ships used by Cook, Ross, Bellinghausen, D’Urville, and Wilkes, though larger, cannot be compared in size, speed, or safety with the modern steam Whaler. Sledge travelling was almost un- known when Antarctic research stopped. Nansen and Peary have shown us how to make a highway of the inland ice. Their practical experience may be very rich in results when applied to the great land at the other end of the earth's axis; for sledg- fng on the inland ice will, probably, be the means of revealing to us the extent of the Antarctic continent; and it will not be sur- prising h' the south Pole will yet be more easily and sooner reached than the elusive prize in the North, which has been the ob- ject of so much vain striving. Almost every branch of natural science will profit lib; the renewal of South Polar research Biology, geology, meteorology, physics. arc“. physical geography will be mm there is room for n‘ldll'] workers. America has heretofore been in the front of both North and SOI‘TH POLAR EFFORT. It is an interesting coincidence that the scheme of Antarctic work prepared by Dr. lohn Murray is practically identical with that of Dr. F. A. Cook, both of which were published on the same day. While the details of Dr. Cook's project were being put into type in the Sun office, the scheme of Dr. Murray rcachedns by cable. Dr. l'ook‘s fitness was well tested in his Arctic campaign with Peary, and no one who knows the de- tails of the good. thorough service he rend- ered in North Greenland has any doubt that the right man is at the head of the South Polar project he has now on foot. He is to be congratulated upon the pros- pect, which seems certain now, that no one, sooner than he, will reach that inviting field. _.._.â€"â€"â€"- South Ari-lea and [he Radicals. Labouchere and some others of the Rodi cals in London have been condemning the East African Company in prot cting their properly from Lobcnguela. In connection with the discussion which has been the re- sult of Labonche e's criticism, the London Spectator in a recr ent article said :â€"Is it genuine love for others, or only distrust in ourselves, which has revived the discussion as to the lawfulness of conquest? Certainly, it is not knowledge of the history of pro- gress in the world, which is inseparably alliedwith the history of conquering tribes. Conquest alone has secured for civilized man hood the vast territories comprised in the two Americas ; and it is in conquest alone that there is any hope of terminating the savagery of Africa, where races left to self-government for ages, in regions super- abundantly fertile, have positively retro- agrded,and are now distinctly moredegrad- edthan many of the savages of Polynesia. The most cruel conquest recorded in his- tory, that of the Canaanites by an Arab tribe, saved for the world its only bene- ficial creed; and the double conquest of Britain by two sets of Norsemen enabled . the Anglo-Saxon to take his vivify- ing place in the history of man- kind. The evidence which proves that the conqest of the inferior races by the superior has been beneficial either to them or the world at large is irresistible, and in all who know history, wakes in them a doubt whether assaults upon the system can be either well informed or sincere. It is certain, however, that they are often both, and that many, whose intelligence is as undoubted as their motives, seriously question whether the new effort of the whites to conquer Africa. which is now going on from all parts of the Continent at once, is anything better than a hugedacoity, an effort to steal vast resources which properly do not belong to the conquering people. No such act, they assert, is com- patible with Christianity ; and though God, in His beneficial Providence, may utilize such a crime for good, still, it is a crime of which decent people who believe their creed should repent in sackcloth and ashes. This view is unusual on the Continent, even among the pious, and is unknown in America; but we are sure we do not mis- represent in the least degree either the religious Radicals or the Semi-Socialists of our own country. We cannot but think that, with the exception of a minute section, they are entirely mistaken. With- fhat section, which denies the right of making war under all circumstances, we have no quarrel, nor any common ground upon which it is possible to argue. They think that Christ forbade war, and taught. non-resistance even in extreme cases ; and, if He did, the question for us, at least, ends, and We yield to a wisdom which transcends reason, and is directed towards ends of which we have no conception. For the very few who are consistent in this faith, and who would abolish policemen equally with soldiery, trusting for defense or reparation only to supernatural power, we have the highest respect; or, in the few cases where faith and action are beyond all doubt. united, a kind of reverence suca as Arabs feel for the insane. \Ve cannot, hOWever, agree with them in the least ; and holding that Christ, in rejecting all coun- sels of insurrection against Caesar, declared conquest lawful, and that war may beh legitimate exercise of human faculties, we are wholly unable to seetliat war for the con- quest of barbarians is a. specially bad kind of war. On the countrary, it seems tc:us the best, far better than the wars for points of honour or fractions of territory which Europe has been accounted to Wage. The world really gains by the new wars immense- ly, and the white peoples, in taking up, as they have done, a responsibility for the world, are bound to see that their wars, like their other acts, push it a step farther to. wards their best ideal. If they can do:that, and will do that, they have, we conceive, a. right to conquer Africa,which without them will remain for the next three thousand years, as it has remained for the last three thou- sand, a wilderness in which man has been, on the whole, the most savage and useless of the wild beasts. They have a right, with provocation, or without it, to introduce order, and to use all force which they honestly believe to be necessary to that end. That the exercise of this force involves slaughter is no more to be regretied than that all discipline involves the infliction of pain. W Beavers as Fe it. An animal which makes a most agreeable pet, but is rarely tamed on account of its fur value, is the North American beaver. A Well known Indian trader, some years ago, tamed several of these hard working felloWs, so that they answered to their names and followed like a dog. In cold weather they were keptin the sitting room, and were constant Companions of the wom- en and children. “Then the Indians were absent for any great time the beavers show~ ed great uneasiness, and on their return displayed equal signs of pleasure by food- ling them, crawling into their laps, lying on their backs like a squirrel, and behaving like children in the presence of parents whom they seldom see. In their wild state beavers feed on bark and herbage chiefly, but in this case they fed for the most part on rice, plum p’ldding, partridge and venison, and they liked all of them ex- tremely. Dimling (telling his story)â€"“ Well, sir, when I reached the river the last ferryboat was gone. I could see it approaching the other side. So I sat down to think it over." Totling (with deep interest)â€"“ And did you succeed in getting it back by that chiefly enriched. The field is wide, ardfi method 2” _â€" Some Wonderful Instanqss. The I'lslon or Ilie [De-ml Formalâ€"Drivenl Abronsl by a Dream. Recently a number of Wonderful in- stances of the recurrence of dreams have been brought to my notice. It is no nnus ual thing for a person to dream the same dream with some modifications twice, but when the vision is repeated, exactly the same in every minute detail, as many as ten times in a year, it becomes ari interest- ing problem. A friend avers heis haunted â€"-yes, haunteduâ€"by a dream, which persists in recurring to him sometimes as often as twice in one month. He says he never goes to sleep at night Without the terror of having to pass through the horrible ex- periences of this vision. During the day he is unable to shake off the impression made by it, so that waking or sleeping the terror is always with him. The mere fact of a dream recurring ten times is most ex- traordinary, but besides this one has other peculiar features which make it all the more interesting. About a year ago the gentleman to whom I refer awoke suddenly and found himself in a profuse cold perspir- ation, with his heart thumping away as if he had been exercising violently. He colv lected his thoughts and found the cause to be a horrible dream, which he remembered vividly. THE DREAD VISION or THE DEAD roREs'r. In his dream he thought he was walking through a forest of leafless trees. chilly air and imp'essive stillness peculiar to a heavy overgrown wood were made deathlike by the absence of life on all sides. No songs of birds nor chirps of insects could be lieard,and the twigs which were scatter- ed on the brown, dry grass, crackled in an unearthly manner as the lone traveler Walk« ed along. My friend said the surroundings gave him the impression that something terrible was gains to happen, but he could not turn back, seeming impelled by some unseen force to pursue his path. At last he came too brook, whose banks were so slop. ing that they could almost be called hills. As he stood there his gaze was attracted by the figure ofsomethingcomingdown theslope in the distance, which seemed to be making its way toward him. As it drew nearer he saw that it was a man. From his first sight of the figure he was seized with an awful terror, which seemed to grow more and more intense as the man came nearer. 0n the figure coming closer, he could see the face of the man in the twilight of the shaded wood, but not distinctly. \Vhat a face it was i It had the pallet of death, and the eyes seemed to lack the fire of life. Still the man came on, and the wetcher‘s heart beat faster and faster. Finally, with a light spring, the figure leaped across the brook and stood right be- fore my friend, who then,to his horror, saw his own faceâ€"dead, not a sign of life vis- ible ; the eyes glassy and cxprcssionless,and the color of the flesh as marble ! Then the horror of the situation awakened him, and he found himself in the condition described above. He slept no more that night, and for a week after he thought about the por- tents of the awful vision, but finally the remembrance of that terrible night died out. About a. month after he had the same dream without a. single detail altered, and, peculiarly, it all seemed new to him, be having no recollection while dreaming of ever having seen the vision before. So during the year he has undergone the same experience ten times. No wonder he feels a dread of meeting his dead second self in the lifeless forest. DRIVEN ABROAD BY A DREAM A well-known gentleman told me the other day that the recurrence of a dream caused him to give up his business for a year and travel abroad. The dream was not so horrible as the one just described, but it sufficed to make a complete nervous wreck of the mm to whom it came. He was in the habit of dreaming that a. ruffian with a drawn knife was chasing him about, trying to assassinate him. It recurred about once a. week with some variation, and try what he would. he was unable to part with his vision of the assassin. Finally be arranged his business and left for Europe, Where he spent a year. It was toward the the end of his visit that he met an old Ger- man woman to whom be related his story. She told him the next time the dream oc- curred to seize the would-be assassin and he would never appear again. The dreamer tried this. He saw and caught the fellow’s hand and it seemed to dissolve while he held it. From that day to this the Vision has never haunted him. A HAUNTED PIANO. Another remarkable instance of the per- sistent repetition of dreams is found in the experience of a young lady. About once a month she dreams that after spending some time in making her toilet, during which she always dresses in her finest gown, she enters a carriage which is in waiting at the front door of her home. After a short drive up a steep hill the carriage stops and the door is opened. She sees no person about, but intuitively enters the cottage which stands before her. There she sees a certain room in which there is a. large con- cert piano. She sits down and begins to play, but upon striking a. certain chord her fingers become, as itwere, glued to the keys and she is unable to raise them. Then slow- ly as she is held there a. trap in the piano raises and the severed head of a man comes out, when terror-stricken the dreamer awakcs. This dream differs from the others in that while dreaming the young lady has the knowledge of the actions that are about to take place, remembering them from the former visions, but considering them as real- ities. She says that she knows the chord which is open sesame to the horrible trap, and when she seats herself at the piano in her dream she endeavors to avoid it. But try as she will the harmony always resolves itself into the fated chord and she must see the terrible vision. ' ATTEXDING oNs’s own FI‘NERAL A gentleman told me he has attended his own funeral a number of times in his dreams. He laughingly remarked, if ex- perience had anything to do with it that he was better qualified to superintend the arrangements for his own funeral than any undertaker that might be called. On five different occasions this gentleman has dreamed that he was taking part in his own funeral services, singing hymns and answering ”omens” tothe prayers. The Thelp iiig. Accrtain peculiarity (f the casket in which his remains are suppose l to lie has been noted in each dream as being identi- cal. The dream is so vivid that the man has noticed the streets passed over in going to the cemetery, and they have always I>een the same. He says hi invariably awakens just as the handful of earth is thrown upon the coflin, the tolloiv noise seeming to cause him to come to his senses in a secon'l. ,,_.w._.â€"â€" NEWE‘UILHMANn Fa i..i..§lfii‘i \. A Struggle For Llre by HM" llnrdlest 0!” Men and Women. Three kinds of fishery engage the atten- tion of the Newfoundlandersâ€"tlie shore fishery, the floating fishery on the banks or far northward, and the fishery “down on the Labrador.” Each has characteristic features, but all aim at the same preyâ€" codfish. All other fish, except it be sal- mon, the Newfoundland fishermen des- pises. God is money; all other fish is simply fish. The shore fishery is carried on from the outports or from tilts on lonely islands. A feature of every Newfoundland outport is the long line of flakes, great tables upon which the split and salted fish are laid out to dry. Owing to the steep shores these flakes are much higher than those we see on the New England and New Brunswick shores, and often rise in tiers. In places like Logie Bay, a picturesque fishing vilâ€" lage not far from St. John’s, the rocks are so high and sheer that it is necessary to pass the fish from tier to tier on long itchforks. Even in those outports which are fairly well settled the conditions of living are deplorable enough, but the people have at least each other‘s company. On the islands, howeVer, the misery of isolation is added to the pangs of hunger. There will be, per. haps, one but on an island, and the long Winters pass without schools, churches or human communication of any kind. “The struggle for life,” to quote the words of Rev. Mr. Flynn, of Little Bay, who is thoroughly familiar with the subject from personal observation, “is so great that it demoralizes those engaged in it.” The normal conditiOu of these people is to be everlastingly in debt. A shore fisher- man’s average season’s catch is from ten to twenty quintals, worth perhaps $40, and he must worry through the winter on a bar- rel or two of herring and what flour and molasses he can obtain in exchange for his fish. A few of the more fortunate can se- cure a small supply of potatoes. Some of, the more enterprising go into the woodsi build thomselves a winter but, and saw boards, which they take to the supply man in part payment for the summer supplies. Much of this distress is, I think, due to the fisherman’s lack of resources. He can fish, but he can do little else. If he could turn his hand to agriculture he might at least partially solve the problem of food, which is constantly presented to him. Agriculture is not an easy matter in New- foundland, as any oiie who has coasted along its rugged shores can realize. But amongthc rocks are patches of soil, and in the interior broad sexes which could be turned to account. The fisherman could at least raise vegetables for his own table. Yet one rarely sees the green of the garden. There are so many picturesque features about the Newfoundland and Labrador fishery that the casual tourist can not realize the misery that lies beneath this superficial attractiveness. The bold and deeply indented shores, the numerous rocky islands, the glittering spray dashing high into the air as the billows roll up against the iron-bound shores, the stanch fishing craft, the great hulking fishermen and the women busy at the flakesâ€"-all these combine to impress the traveler with the picturesqueness of the scene and to en- dow the fishery with those romantic attri- butes which seem to belong to life on the ocean. ' All this is, however, superficial. Even the men and women have not the stamina which might be expected from their muscular development. Big as they are, physically speaking,their faces usually show tracesofsufiering. Afisherman’s life “down on the Labrador” is one of continuous toil. with precious little reward. There are but few permanent residents in this desolate landâ€"not more than 4000, it is saidâ€"of whom about 2000 are Esquimaux. But some 20,003 Newfoundland fishermen cross the Straits of Bell Isle every summer and take up a temporary abode in Labrador. Superficially looked at , the scenes about a Labrador fishing stage are pleasant enough. One sees dapper little “ gashers" with their reddish sails scurrying along and sending the spray flying from their bows ; the heavier “ jacks" or “bullies” plowing more laboriously through the waves ; a schooner at anchor, her nets hung from her spars to dry, bellying and crinkling in the wind with overclianging lights and shadows on their weather-stained meshes; heavy barges rowing slowly along shore. while the fisherman in the bow thrusts his submarine glass into the water and peers through it hoping for a “good sight of fish on the botâ€" tom,” and, above all, on the rocky point jutting further out to sea, the flag of the merchant who owns the “room” fluttering in the breeze. But the undercurrent of toil and suffering is always thereâ€"women sawing and chop- ping wood, men, large of frame, but with dark circles under their eyes and lines that tell of privation in their faces, mending nets, returning from fishing or about set- ting out to fish ; the usualsod-covered huts and scores of lean, starved and treacher- ous looking dogsâ€"half Esquimauâ€"prowl- ing about the place snapping at each other, snarling and yclping. During the long Winter, when, as often happens, only one rounteik (dog sled) mail can get through overland from Quebec, and when news of Battle Harbor will perhaps not reach Newfoundland much before June, the person and his wife do their best to improve the condition of the people. There is a public sewingâ€"machine, and when oil gets scarce the women meet and sew at the parsonage, so that one lamp may do service for many. There is even a semblance of Christmas keeping in this dreary rock-bound harbor, the men, when they are unable to cut a fir use because of the deep snow and ice, cutting boughs and making an imitation tee of them. â€"â€" W Actressâ€"“You are a divorce lawyer, I understand.” Lawyerâ€"“Yes, madam; I secure divorces without publicity.” Act. services are always the same, the hymns sung and the pmyers repeated never differ-l ressâ€"“In that case, I’m in the wrong of- fice. Good day, sir. " hit in him Britain’s Naval Supremacy. A Trent-him” Says It Is an 11le to he Met Wherever Found. A London cablegram announces that the Administration has decided to expend £4,- 500,001! per annum on the navy. Twenty- two million dollars is a good round sum, and well laid out, it should in a few years increase British power on the sea very ma- terially. For some time there has been a Vigorous agitation on foot looking to addi- tions to the strength of the navy. The movement at first was largely conducted by naval officers, and although important. it attracted less attention than it deserved. Recent events have transferred the discus- sion from the olfimal class to the public press and the people. One of these was the visit of THE RUSSIAN FLEET to Tcnlon, and the plain intimation thy. that Russia and France had entered into an alliance under which in future trouble. the two countries would operate harmoni- ously. A second was a description of Tou- lon in the London Times. France has been augmenting her naval stre th of late, but not until a month ago did she allow for- eigners to know what she was doing. The English journalist who went through the Toulon dockyard was astonished at what he saw. He discovered their numerous vessels on the stocks, and all the machinery for rapid construction in case of emergency. The place, moreover, was strongly fortified. A third event which awakened Great Britain was the placing of a powerful Rus- sian squadron in the Mediteiranean. France has a stronger fleet in that see. than England has, but with Russia thrown in the combined powers are practically invin- cible. It is generally conceded that unless Britain is sufficiently powerful at sea. to defend her commerce her Empire is gone. Many people, indeed, holdthat she should be in a position to cope with any two European powers that may combine against her. On the latter point expert testimony is fur- nished, but the former makes itself plain to all thinking persons. The TRADE OF GREAT BRITAIN is the trade of the world. She must buy raw material abroad and send it out manu- factured and ready for use, else her millions and millions elsewherecannotlive. Shemust also purchase her foodsnpplics from over the sea. In the case of hostilities her businessmnst not be foramoment suspended. Aslightcheck to it would bring on precisely such horrors as presented themselves during the cotton famine. There is therefore a double dan- ger when war comes. First, there is the risk that possessions may be lost, and set- ondly the possibility that traffic which is the life of home industry, may he stayed. Nobody can contemplate the results of an interference with British trade with equa- nimity. Such a calamity would strike us severely, and it would be equally hurtful, and perhaps more so, to our neighbors of the United States. Both countries on this North American continent are engaged in producing food that is CARRIED IN BRITISH SHIPS to British months. A grave responsibility, not only to Great Britain, but to the world at large, therefore rests upon the Imperial authorities. To them the world looks for the centinnance of business uninterrupted by European complications. The attitude of the French towards Great Britain is un- happily not reassuring. M. Deloncle, one of the French Deputies, recently delivered a speech at Marseilles in which he declared that British naval supremacy was an evil to be met first on the Mediterranean, and afterwards wherever found. An obvious effort has been made to destroy it on the sea mentioned. France, as already ob- served, now boasts an aggregation of war- ships there that is fully tmce as potent as that which England has. Yet there the British must at all hazards maintain their power lest the short route to the East should be blocked. We are possibly not much interested in European quarrels ; but we are concerned in the freedom of traffic That freedom cannot be looked for long if jealous competitors find themselves, as they possibly hope to do, strong enough to over- power the British naval forces. Therefore the augmentation of the strength of Britain on the sea is a matter of some moment, and all of us must be inclined to say “more power to the Queepis navy.” Lord Dunraven is being feast:d in Eng. land for his plucky efforts to win the trophy which United States yachtsmen have in the past so successfully defended. Meanwhile the Valkyrie is snugly stowed away for another effort to Win the American cup ne xt year. Its opponent, too, the Vigilant, is held in reserve in anticipation of asecond challenge from Lord Dunraven~ In the last race the English yacnt was at a dis- advantage because its spread of canvas was too small. In the next contest the mistake will be remedied. Lord Dunraveu, who i: an Irishman, hassufiicient English in him not to know when he is beaten. ___ “.0..â€" TIIE QUEEN'S “EA [411]. _â€" It is Said to be Falling Nouccnbly and Causing Auxleiy at Court. A London special says:â€"The Queen’s health has growu feebler recently. She has no Specific complaint, yet is reported to be failing so noticeably as to cause considerable anxiety at Court. Her lameness has become more pronounce-2. and her general appear- ance suggests rad“_;‘al debility. On Monday she will go to Osbourno, where she will re- main until February. Subsequently she will pass a month or: Windsor. She will start for Florence late in March. In May she will visit the Duke of Saxe-Cobourg- Goths. (Duke of Edinburgh), and while in Cobourg will meet a whole group of her descendants, as well as the German Emperor “John, dear,” said a Toronto woman, “ I wish you would get me a horse and broug- ham." “Great Scott, Jane ! Didn’t I tell you we had to economize?” “Yes . that's why I want the brougham. Think of the car fare I’d save.” “ Ebbry man’s ideal woman,” says Brother Gardner, “ is one who would be- liebe he caught whales in de river of 13. told her so. No matter how welcome a guest is, de hostess always looks a imp, dismayed If She brings a trunk intend ob . valise.”