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I must confess that, my expectations of the hospice, since I had read nonung of it late- ly, consisted of hazy childish visions of monks and dogs. I expected to mean but, few visitors at the monastery and hml nn Men that the gentle monks entertain from sixty to eighty tourists in day during the summer. I uuppoae each visitor feels aha.“ it. in inconsiderate of the others to be there ; at kiln I did, for the setting of a common- place, hustling crowd destroys illusions, The hospice consists of two long stone build-lags, set almost, at right, angles. In one the monks and well-m-do tourists are lodged. The other is for the poor, who are given food only, and allowed to remain bun fibrse‘days. Over this pass one goes dlrecb- y from Switzerland into Italy, and as any asbet way is roundabout, nearly all pOur ~ melon walk over the St. Bernard. Moat the unvelers in winter are poor workmen ’ rrying home to Italy or Swnzerland the 1.503“: savings of their season’s work. An mileage of ten persons page daily in winter, ‘ Before bhe invention of the telephone there r '6" many fatalities. but. now the monks are notified of ‘heaglproaeh of travelers and go out, to meet. n'uem. They are ulmoan always picked up from the snow, overcome by wold. 1 183110 a Monastery 8.200 I’ve! Abnve "It Seaâ€"Where Frost-blue“ Truvt‘lers aw- Cnl‘ml For uml [Knurer and Tnurlwls “Hen a Kindly “'rlcume. The Napoleonic pass of the great. St. Ber- nard, between Swit‘zerlnnd and Italy. do“ not present; the ditficulbies to-day that; beset the little corporal and his brave army when they jOurneyed from Marnigny boSt. Remy in 1804. The widened pathway made by his “caps has given place in the last. three year: to a narrow international road. The ride from Martigny to 85.13 ernard is a long one. We started early in the morning and did not. reach the monastery until the sun had set. The distance is not: great, hOW- ever, for the road is a. constanbascenf, 8X- oept for a short. discsnce from Max-Ligny, md our horses walked all the way. A VISIT T0 ST. BERNARD. 518E HOSPITALITY AND CHARITY OF THE FAMOUS MONKS. A courbeous monk informed me that the usual method of reamring circulation was to beau half-frozen Wayfarer: with heavy Ma. "The sufi'erers generally beg to lib them die," he said. “If their iimpa are frozen we first, rub them with snow im some momenta, and then carry the patieiii to she hospice by putting sticks under their um and resting these on our ahonéders. Then the limbs are treated withasolution of salt and Vinegar. Ali flesh that has been frozen hard decays and in cut. away. We kept one man from November bill June, and sent him “my cured. Our treatment in very successful. 0325 we sent a man whose feeL were frozen to a. hoapibfll an Aosz, on the ltuh‘au aide, thinking he would be better cared for were, but, the physicians were non as successful as we are and the panieun losn both feet. If. is perhaps too Well known [,0 repenb lhst the hospltslivy of toe St. Bernanl is free, and Hum visitors leave what. Lhey de- sire to give in a. box in the chapel, markcd “ ofigrings for the poor. ” Sbraugely enough, the only bowl in the world, 1: lb could be called such, that allows guests to name their own rates must be supporred by char- iLarble contubuuons, for the utl‘eriugs r1101) ped-iu the box form only a small part, oi the necessary exPenses of the place, and Lhe hospice depends [or its existence on dunk» tions from various Swis§ cmes. The aucom. modations for travelers are disappomung, like those in most, Swiss hotels. Bun B. tourisc’s desire for the unusual in sauufiexl by lung, dur'x,cold, vaulned corridors. Only one monk is visibleâ€"the one who receives guefiba an the door. The sleeping chambers are plainly furnished. 1n the dming-ro‘m area number of beaubiful pummugs, given by various celebrities. The Prince oi Wales donated. the piano. The sleeping-rooms are long and narrow, some of them wul) three white canopied beds in a line, and to end. Sometimes they are wide enough for «no rows of Llu‘ee beda‘ There is a small window at; one endlof the room and a door at the other, opening into che-currldor. The chapel is ricbl) decorated and has a. sweet-boned pipe organ. The construction of this ohmpel at, the precipitous he:ch of nearly 8,330 feet above the sea. was the resuln of much patient, weary labor. Large space is given to it, far it 13 the pride oi the hospice. In contains a. umnumclln mined by Napoleon L0 Lhe memory of Dcmux, killed In bhe battle oi Mateugo. Most of the visitors appear at morumg mm, which lusts hams m 8. For one morning it is curious and entertaining, but after shivering in the cold the warmest day of the year, {was ready to give the monks credit for unusual zeal in attending services in midwinter. A sack-clothed attendant told me that monks who say mass are no: ulloWed to rub their hands, and, it frequently happens that their fingers are frozen stiff during the Services. No attempt is made to heat the chapel. Wood is expen- live there. It must be brought up the mountain on mules, backs. The monks console themselves by saying that heat Would create & dampness more unhealthy than 001d. The avamge term of service of a St. Bel-nan! monk is twelve years. At the expiration they are sent; to another monas- tery, generally to Marm'gny, to die. Their health is always broken. and fewof them recover from the severity of their life in the hospice. The morgua is one of the most. curious sigth the place. It in a small stone building with barred windows at each end. Within these walls ate placed all the bodies of unknown travelers found frozen in the snow. A more zrewaome collection it would be dificult to find. There are at least. a dozen gh&aLly figures, standing erect, leaning agmnst the opposite Wall, all mapped in coarse clmh. They go through a. slow process of mummification, and do "a? decay, owing bothepeculiaratmcspherlc whinimxs. Several of the bodies have '1 forward and are propged up by BESTOBING VICTIMS 0F FROST. THE MORNING MASS. 8.200 I’ve! Abnve the sticks. The custom of the bodies 3nd me head are perfectly preserved, also the hair. The skin is brown and hardened,yet the figures have a distressing resemblance to Monks who die at St. Bernard are buried under the floor of the chapel, in a standing position, dressed in the garb they Wear an; high mass. bwing to their great, number, visitor are allowed to remain at: the hospice but one day. An addition is saou to be made to the buildings, to accommodate those who want to stay more than one day. The monks are charmingly hospitable. Even sham of Lhe halo of romance that surrounds them, they are more than ordinary men. Cefia'inly ihey meet their duty bravely and go out in the coldest habiaahle climate of Europeto don noble wolk for poor and perishing travelers. It. is only a, step from the hospice to the Italhm frontier, muked hy two howldem with the coat of arms of watzerland and Italy rudely carved upon them. The pnbh 1108 along a. clear little lake. that sadly re- flects Lha gaunt granite slopes rising from its surface. The first rays, of a. morning sun were just, peeping over the mountain as we approached the lake, a miserable, misshapen man, kneeling on the rocks, was dipping a. crucifix into Lhe waters and Wildiy praying for rain. “ He lost his mmd worrying over the failure of his crops,” one of the monks exâ€" plained. Just. across the boundary line are evi- dence: of an old Roman road. Nupnleon crossel the pass in 1804 and stoppmi three hours at the hospice. The canton of Vaini: put. a. tablet in the hall four years later in his honor. There is a flask in the hbrary where he left n. Thf ‘ankeen Think it llllp'li‘ihli‘ That the (‘anndlmu (HUI Got Allrml “I Them In lihoost‘lllnkina The New York Sun repronuhfully calls the attention of the New York farmers to the progreas of dairying in QuehA'. which, of course, they could non prevent, but, whichit, thinks they mightemulate. The an. nouncemenc chac Quebec has nearly fifteen hundred cheese and butter factories should, the Sun supposes, sink deeply inm the minds of the farmers in its Shane, and make them Lry to be 'ome dairymen of some ac- count. “ It cannot be," our contemporary objurgabes, “that Americm farmers will let Cmadians get ahead of them in this profitable business." But, it can be, has got to be. even now is, and keeps gaming more so all the time. Unin States cheese hadatremendous lead in the Bribish market, before Canadian cheese was produced for export. That. lead has been lost for quite a. long Lime now, and it becomes farther losteach year. For the year ending the 306k of April, 1894, the United Kingdom imported 52,806 tons of Canadian cheese, and 31,520 ions of United States cheese. THESE FIGI’RES TELL A STORY of progress and decline, Canadian expotea having m-tde a. phenomenal increase and United Scams exports have fallen mi. The didcreuee in the fortunes of the two classes of cheese is due Lo the fact than; the Caner diam is incompxrably better than the Uni- Led States urliule. That. has been admwted more blmn once In the course of 'he sung- le beLWeen the Canadian and Amen-led}: or the British mark“, and the admission wok Lhe dxsuredimbiefurm of mat-Ring New York cheese as Canadian. and ehxppmg in from a. Canadian port, Ar We are sensuive to very broad compliments, we put a stop to this practice. IL is as well that, our cheesemakem should lose none of the pride they have so far taken in upholding the uutioubl trade mark that We thus protect, by law. There have been rumors that scme at our shippers have not so mac n sense of the honor and value of the name “ Canadian ” as they used to have. We are glad :0 hear that; these rumors are emâ€" phaucnlly contradicted by the Montreal Butter and Cheese Associataion. and than that body has forwarded a copy of its deu- ial to Sir Charles Tnpper, in London, with the-requeflb that; he assist in eudeavnring 1| w _ to place the responsibility for the damaging statement; that Uztnmiiuu summer cheese was in one case Sold as Sepnember make on the Lnudon market. The abatement. is credm‘ed, Bl-CJIITL'Y OB. WRONULY, to a. shitty London buyer who bought on a rise that suddenly changed into B- isll, and naturally rueing his bargain, he tried to get- out of it by making out something to be wrong with the cheese. 1:. would never do to let such an accusation puss unnoticed. The Butler and Cheese Association of M ont- resl, did wisely iu promptly taking it up. If true, the blame could be traced to where it belongs, and the offender dealt With by the assocaation in a. way to discourage the repetition oi such bad business. If false, as1 there seems every reason to believe it was, ‘ the association is the proper champion to undertake its refutation. We have come by a. grand trade, thanks to our cows and our cheese~makers, a. trade that at this moment it would be easy to lose if we be- came too secure of the market and less cere- ful about quality, for not only New York and other States of the American Union covet it, but also New Zealsnd and some of the Australian colonies are making it a study to produce good cheese for Great Britain. These same colonies have great natural advantages in their favor, and it behooves our cheese-makers to be on their guard against carelessness and our shippers to avoid wrong business methods. It: is only possible for February to have five Sundays three Limes in each cenmry, unless, through some chronological freak the century comes m with aleap year, with the first day of February a Sunday. The five Sunday Februarys of this century have been those of 1824, [852, and 1880. The next time this oddity will occur will be in the year 1920. Professor Ghoost says that if we reckon the average depth oi the oceans at three miles there would be a layer of salt 200 feet thick in their basins should the Waters of all suddenly evaporate. THE HUMAN BODY IN LIFE. THE CHEESE TRADE Not a. Sunday Month. tu ROUND THE WHOLE WORLD WHAT IS GOING ON IN I‘HE FOUR CORNERS OF THE GLOBE. A Presbyterian church is to be built, at Baden. Saniou draws $159,000 a year from royal- ties on his plays. Physicians’ carriages have the right of way in the screens of Berlin. One-seventh of Lhe lz'md surface of the globe is controlled by Ruaami Miss Balfour, sister of the English Con~ servntive leader, i5 thelling in Africa. Indy Marie Forrester, who recently died in England, selected Florence Nightingale for hospital work in the Crimea. A deaconess hospital in connection with the Church of Scotland has been opened at Edinburgh. Six veterans of Waterloo are scill living in France. fourteen in England, and three in the Umted Slates. Charged with drunkenn‘ess 338 times be- fore a single police judge Is the record of 3 Liverpool woman. It 13 estimated that. the recent. 009.1 unlike in Scotland cost $40,000,000, or $10 per head of population. In England, Scotland and Wales last. year $3,500,000 was spencou technical edu- cMion, nearly a. miUion more than the year befnre. Mrs. Humphrey \Vard is said to have made $80,000 from “Dawid Grieve,“ $80,000 from “Marcella,” and $10,000 from “Rob- ert lClsmere." Amulet: are now worn by royal noble families in India thus are believed to have been handed down from father to son for nearly 2,000 years. Several sacrifixiai knives have been recovered from the Mexican pyramids They are pieces of flint, fashioned into he shape of a. butcher-k nife. A black but)» statue covered with fine inscriptions has been found on the site of vhe great palace of the kings of Babylon where Belshazmr held his feast, One of the London newspapers is adver- Liaing for a journalist who can telegraph promptly the lat-est. political and non- political news “ founded on fact.” The Turkish Government is considering a. projem. for the exmentlon of pobaw cul- tivatmn in Angora. Land devoted to this object is to be exempt, from taxation for five years. The Wesleyan Methodists of Great Britain have 1,154 xemperance societies, with a. membership of 68,793. Their Bands of Hope number 4,222, with a membership of 435,411. A bfack Canada shilling stamp, damaged, broughl. $150 at, a recent awe in London, a. double Geneva 3125. an 1851 Madrid two real: $85, and a. ’l‘mnsvau-l shilling, red and green, $100. Approacheu are being made to leading persons in the world of an. literature and snatcsmanahip to secure thelr co-operation in the eambliahment of a. Dante Ahghieri Society in London. ‘ Psbci has just discovered a new tenor near her Welsh estate and will have him sing at, her next London concerts. He is 3 tinminer, named John Williams, but his local nickname is Eryr Afon. Sir John Rugby, England’s Attorney- General, has just, been appointed a. Lord Justice of Appeal‘ w fill a vacancy made by the promouon of Lord Davey as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. At a recent; examination for the Indian civil service six natives, the largest number on record, were successful. Two of them were Mohammedans, one a. Purses, and the omer three Hiudooa. Mrs. Gray, of Bowersville, Perthshire, Ssobland, the mother of Lady Millais, has just died at. the age of 84 years. It. was irom Mrs. Gray’s garden that Sir John Mil- lais painted “ The Vale of Rest.” Dr. Y. May Kin was the first Chinese lady to receive 9. medical degree in Amer- ica. She has now Marge practice In Kobe, Japan. and was the first scientifically educated female practitioner in that coun- try. :- nn-_L, JA white panther from the Pamirs has been presented to the Jard'm des Piuutea by the Governor of Turkesmn and Pnnce Gargariue. It, is an animal which has never been seen in any zoological collection of western Europe. J. P. Wallis: editor of the state trials and render of cousbitmional law to the inns at court, is uo’w writing the consaicubional history of the British colnuies, from the date of theearliesn settlements in America- to the present time. Herr Cramer, who for forty~five years Was Paris correspondent; of the Koelnische Zeitung, hm: just died at, the age of 70. IL was he who in July, 1870, first, sent to Ger- many the despatch, “ Der kreig fist erklaert.” W at is declared. (T 0n asingle Sntyurday the football acci- dents in England included the assistant master of one school killed, and the head master of another laid up with a compound fracture of a leg, and five other persons aerioualy injured. Twenty-fl“: miles of the Congo Railroad, forming the first, section between Mamange and Keex.ge.arecompleted at a. cost (#8100.- 000 per mile. The line will be 93 miles long and will conner xhe immense water- ways above the {Alla With the sea. Stockholm has abebter and cheaper tele- phone service than any other city in she world. There are about 14,000 instrumean in use, or one to every eighteen people. Twncompaniei, the General and the Bell, owu 10,495 and the State telephones number 3,009. The Ameer of Aighanistan has been under the treatment of Miss L. Humilwn, M. D.. a. ypung Sootchwoman, whofirst. 'rained as amurse in the Liverpool infirm- ary. She took her medical degree in Brussels, and was a practising physiCiu in Calcutta. until she Went to Uabul a. few months ago. Lady Sophia Cecil, aunt of the Marquis of Exeter, who is now 94, is the last. survi- vor of the famous bill as Brussels on the night before Waterloo. She is a. daughter of the Duchess of Richmond, who gave the ball, and danced that night with the Duke in; Brunswick, who was killed next, day at 5 Quntre Bras. The mm: of roses industry is departing ' from Kemnlik. In 1890 3,163 kilogrammes ': were profiuced‘ In 1892 the yield was I)an i439 kilogrmnmes, and last year it was a. liLLle over 200. Competition is the cause of the falling 06‘". The industry is now carried I on in other parts of Turkey, and in France i and Germany. A Brooklyn barber shines the boots of every patron without cost. The female frog is voiceless. It is only the male frog that sings. Beggars are promptly arrested in Vienna if caught begging on the streets. Italy has more theatres, in proportion to population, than any other country. A New York woman recently in Paris confessed to a. green interest in the woman boopblacka whom she saw there. “They Wear a. peculiar uniform,” she says, “not unlike that, of the sisters of mercy,buc their coquettish manners quibe nullify the reli- gions aasnciacions of their dress. Most of them work with gloved hands, and they are wonderfully neat and dexteroua at their calling.” Victor Hugo‘s coffin in the Pantheon in Paris still rests on the temporary treaties upon which it was an on me day of his funeral, nearly Len years ago. Nothing has been done toward preparing the tomb in which it is to 1ie,ur mum-d erecting a monument. over it. At the time of his death It was proposed to raise a great na- tional subscription for that pnrnose, but: nothing has been accomplished. Bath-tubs are to be placed in the Chicago schools, so that the pupils may diaper: themselves therein. A gill of catholic acid,added to a. bluket of white-wash, WI“ kill the vermin ina hen-house. A 5900“: keeper iur Brockton, Mm,d diaplltys this sign: “Home-made Come Beef. ” It costs {our bimes as much ‘4) gmern American clues as is spent for the same purpose in English cities. Stockings Were first. worn in Italy, In the year 1100. Before than period it. was customary $0 swabhe the feet and legs in bandages. It, 13 Meg»! to erect in Washington, D. 0., on business streets, 1:. building ovur 110 {get high, or one over 90 feet, on residenti- a.| streets. The early Egyptians believed that. the soul existed only while the body endured. They, therefore, embalmed the body, to prevent decay as long as possible. The smallest, tax paid in Scmervme, Mass” is paid by a man who OWna a mom key. The monkey is estimated to be worth five dollars. and the tax on it is seven cents. Many of the people of New Zealand are seriously meditating the pensioning of a.“ the residents after they have attained their aewunieth year. A hunter from VVinnemucca. Nevada, hAs been gone three m‘mths, hunting for a. big bear. Now his ioiks we hunting for him, and they fear he has found the bear. The best burglar-proof safes are made of alternate layers of htil‘d and soft, metal, which are Welded together. This combina- tion will not yield to either drill or sledge. hammer. A Norwegian law prohibits a. person from spending more than five cents at. one Visit to a. public house. Therefore. when a man decides that it, is t'une for a. spree, he must. hustle from house to house. In Sweden in is believed that if; bride, during vbe marriage ceremony, can keep her right too: in advance of the bride- groom'a, she is destined to secure future supremacyâ€"in other words, “wear the breaches." Oliver Wendell Holmes once said that “If ulna-tenths of all the medicines, patent, proprietary, and otherwise, in all the world, were poured iuw the ocean, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.” A family in Pittsbqu had an old ward~ rohe tbun had stood u; lhe house for fifty yearS. It, became an eyesore to them, and they decided to remove 1t. As they were doing so. the borytvom dropped, and out; popped $75,000 in bauk-uoLes and Governv popped $13,! meuL bonds. “ McSwiney’s guu “ m the name given to a natural bolel ten inches m diameter, in 3 huge rack on the coast of Donega], Ireland. A: high tide, when the sea. is tough, the “ gun ” repeatedly spouts up jets of water :0 a heigm of one hundred feet, and each spout. is preceded by a. loud reporc. Filnlllle,‘ on the VQ‘l'ge of starvaslon and Suflcrlna Fran (fold A despntch from Omaha, Neb., says :â€" The destination in those Western Nebraska counties devaswd by the drought is grow- ing daily, notwithstanding the efforts to aid the sutfering inmate. The following appeal has been issued by Mayor Bernie, of Omaha. :â€"-"Infon‘ntbion has come to me within the past iew days from the'most re- liable sourcesâ€"from gentlemen of integrity who speak from actual observationâ€"that the suffering among the farmers in the drought-stricken districts of our State is ‘exceedingly severe. Families are on the ; verge of starvation ; mothers have nothing in which to wrap their babes, and heve no clothing for themelves, excepts dresses made from gunny sacking ; underwear and shoes are almost unknown, and fuel is a luxury only to be dreamed of. One of my informants, a clergyman, informs me that he has partaken of meals among farmers where she greens of potato laps and mouldy bread, constituted the only food. I am fully ewue that where is a great deal of suffering among our own people, but I believe that our citizens should make a. special effort to extend all possible assist:- nnce to the aufl‘erem in on: State oubside the city. In would be a listing manner of giving thanks for the blessings we have received for our citizens to contribute to- watd relieving the sufferings of these peo- ple. What is needed is clothing of all kinds and dvau’iptions nod food of all Saul." ITEMS OF INTEREST. FAMINE IN NEBRASKA Sardou draws $150,000 a year from row} ties on his plays. Le Smde Frsncaia, a Paris football (min, recently defeated the London Cwil Sew-7w) Club. If Alphonse Dandet’s health continues good he will visit London for the fires time next, spring. In Eugbmd, Scotland, and Wales last year, $3,500,000 was spent. on technical educaaion, nearly a million more than $129 year before. Alabama of Claude Bernard, the great physiologist, whq, while he lived, was the chief attraction to Paris for medical stu- dents all over the world, was recently unveiled at Lyons, near which city he was born. Photographs of the Princess of Wales are mu the most popular in England ; more than 200,000 were sold last year. Next. in demand after royalty and the professional beauties, comes Mr. Giadsbone. There is iibtle call for Lord Rosebery’s picture. Sir 11A. Lange, who was appointed in 1858 constructor of the Suez Canal, and carried out that work. died in London re- cently. He had stepped into a. barbez’s shop to be shaved, and, while waiting for the barber, took a seal, lighted a cigureue, and expired immediately. A pneumatic typewriker has been invent.- ed in England in which compressed air does the work of the lever: in other machines. A small Indiarruhber bulb takes the place of the keys, the pressure of the finger produc- ing the impacts of the type on the paper. It Is much cheaper than any. of the exist- ing bypefl of high-grade instruments. A political agent in England recently sent the following protest to an elector : “To Mr. X. XXLâ€"Take notice that I object, to your name being retained on the lian of the ownership electors of the county, and I ground my objection on the iacz that you are dead” The document was addressed to the dead man and opened by his widow. A second part of the presenr, Czar’a ac- count. of his.tmvela in the E335 is about: to be published by Brockhaus in Leipsic. It deals with the visit to China. and Japan, the attempt to assassinate him, and the return through Siberia. The illustrations are from phowgrsphs taken by himself and by Prince George of Greece, who accompani- ed him. Cambridge University has recenth taken up the question of degrees for advanced study and research. The council of the Senate recommends the appointment of a committee to confer with Oxford and other universities to secure common action on the subjecv, and calls intention to the scheme for post. graduate studies already in opera- tion at Harvard. AL Pessavells-Sectermiui, near Pompeii, a Roman bath house was recently excavated. on pnvahe property, in which were found in position an immense boiler and a com- plate system of tubing, with bronza tapsâ€" ». thing never found before even in Pompeii. Three rooms, with mosaic flows and artistic marble tubs, are well preserved, and, when; is very unusual. a roof about. sxxty feet long is still in place. Sir Henry Achmd, Bart, Begins profess or of mediums at. Oxford, who accompanied the Prince of \Vales in his visitrto Ameripa in 1860, has Sentin his resignation, to take eiiect at the end of the year, when he will he 8i) and will have served the university fifty years. He was appointed reader in anatomy in 1845, Radclifi‘e’s librarian in 1851, Begins professor in 1858I and was creaied a. baronet in 1890. He is the uncle of the ‘Right Hon. Arthur B. Dyke-Acland Lord Rosebery’s Minister of Education. Louis de Bourbon was the name given in a Paris police court the other day by a wine shop keeper arrested for trying to blow out his hrsins. He claims to be the grandson of Naundorf who, when Louis Philippe was King, declared that he was Louis XV 11., the little Dauphin imprison- ed in the Temple. The wine dealer asserts that he has been an otficar in the Dutch army, that he has no political ambition, { and that his attempt at suicide was due to i his failing to make his business pay. the sign over the shop reads “ Maison de Bourbon." What mechanical power makes a. cat fall on its feet has been puzzling the French Academy of Sciences. A series of sixty instantaneous photographs exhibited before ii showed the completeprocessin every stage, and demonstrated scientifically that the cat does turn in the air and does land on its feet, but did not betray the motive power. The general impression was that it was due to the leverage obtained by contact with the surface from which the cat dropped, so to decide this point a new set of photo- graphs wxll be taken ofa Gut dropped from a. string suspended in the air. Thirteen may soon be oflicialiy recognized as an unlucky number by the French War Department. Some mouhers oi conscripts belonging to the class of 1893, which should be released on Nov. 13, petitioned the Minister to discharge their sons on Nov. 12 on account of the fatality Accompanying the number thirteen. The French for seventy-three is soixanteâ€"treize, sixty- thirteen. and for ninety-three, eighty- thirteen. The conscripts were born in ' sixty-thirteen, were enrolled in eighty thirteen on Nov. 13, and were discharged, if the Minister prove ohdurute, on Nov. 13. 1894. The share arose from the talk in the French newspapers of the influence 4 of the number on the career of the late Czar. A Skittlsh Princess. The Princess Waldemar, of Denmark (Princess Marie of Orleans), has just; left Paris for Swwe House, England, the resi- dence of her cousin, the Duke of Orleans. It is reported that, she is out of her mind. She used to promenade the boulevards at. tended by him woman, and would laugh and giggle at. the men she met. She ran away from Copenhagen on account of her recent eccentricities. She used to dress in fire brigade uniform and attend fires. She would give pertain of herself in that coa- cume to admirers. Consequently she is in disgrace at the Danish court. The Princess Waldemar is the wife of the third son of the ;King of Denmark. She is verging on 30 years of age and was nmrried nine years 530- Shs is the eldest, of the iour children of the Duke 0! Chartres, brothex of the 1m Count of Paris. Britisn and Foreign.