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'i‘iir'Wi-jfirs NEWS This year buildings costing $141.30 have been erected in the prosperous town of Berlin. The Chatham, VVallaceburg and Petrolea railway is a new project, backed by strong capitalists. Mr. R. R. Waddell, a well-known bar- rister of Hamilton, Ont., died of diabetes at his home on Friday, aged sixty years. Some of thc extreme Radicals of the Whiteway party in Newfoundland propose to memorialize the Queen for the removal of Governor O’Brien. A new company will handle the news business on Grand ‘l‘runk trains after Jan- uary l, the company having secured an in- creased price for the privilege. Owing to the expected large demand for ice, for the ice castle and forts in Montreal, and the open season, the price of ice for domestic purposes is advancing. The farmers in the neighborhood of Pres- cott have had an unusually prosperous season, the output of butter and cheese bring the largest on record. Among the mail matter which arrived by the steamship Sarnia at Halifax on Satur- day were packages to go by the Canadian route to Japan and China. A motion introduced by Mr. Desjardins in the Quebec Legislature to reduce the sessional indemnity from $800 to $600 has been given the six mont-hs’ hoist. Sir William Van Horne and Mr. R. B. Angus have left Mortreal by way of New York upon a holiday trip to the South of of France and the Mediterranean. The London Street Railway Company will carry school children to and from Lon- don West between 8.30 and 9 a.m. and 4 and 4.30 p.m. for a. cent each per trip. It was stated in Winnipeg on Friday that the appointment of a. Lieutenant-Gov- ernor will be made within a month, and it is believed that Mr. W. B. Scarth will get the position. Majorâ€"~General Herbert, accompanied by his aide-de-camp, has left Ottawa for Vic- toria. and Esquimalt, B. 0., to inspect the Works of fortification there. He will be back in Ottawa by Christmas day. Montreal is in a ferment now because a bundle enquiry, similar to that in Toronto, is talked of. The Good Govermeut Association is said to be back of the move- ment. Mr. A. L. Howard, of “Gatling gun" fame, intends making application for naturalization papers, as he intends residing permanently in Canada. He was born in New Hampshire, Mas. At a meeting in Toronto the other night of the Canadian Cricket Association it was decided, if a representative team can be secured and satisfactory financial arrange- ments be made, to send a. Canadian team next year to England. The Parks and Gardens Committeeof the Toronto City Council. has granted a site in the Queen’s park on which will be erected a monument to the vo unteers who ' fell in action during rebellion. In his speech on Friday night at Niagara. Falls, 0nt., Mr. Haggart, Minister of Railways and Canals, Dominion general elections will take place within a. year. This means that the Government will go to the country by December, 1895. Mr. Robert Archer, ex-president of the Montreal Board of Trade, has been present- ed by the members of the board with his portrait in oil, accompanied by a beautifully .lluniinaied address, in appreciation of his services in connection with the new build- .ng. In 1873 Mrs. J. H. R. Molson, of Mont- real, gave to McGill University the sum of twenty thousand dollars to he need for the l endowment of a chair of mental and moral philosophy. Mrs. Molson now sends another cheque for a like amount to .incraase the fund for the sustenance of the chair. GREAT BRITAIN. Horatio William Walpole, fourth Earl of Orford, died on Friday. He was 84 years old. The Prince of VVaIes and the fluke of York arrived in London from St. Petersburg on Friday. Miss. Victoria Vokes, who died in London on Tuesday, was the last of the celebrated theatrical family. In the last five years fees paid to counse1 for the Crown in England and Wales amounted to $570,000. The Freeman’s Journal, of Dublin, says that forged American bonds to the value of several thousand pounds are in the hands of Belfast investors. '1' he bonds were bought in the usual way. In November the emigration from Great Britain to Canada was :â€"English, 646; Scotch, 2.) ; Irish, 66 ; and for the eleven months :â€"English, 15,465 ; Scotch, 917 ; Irish, 976. The American line steamer Paris, from New York, went aground off the company’s docks at Southampton on Wednesday night, but was floated ofl shortly after noon yesterday. Two practical solutions have been sug- gested for the problem of the unemployed of Great Britain. One is the reclamation if the waste, and the other the afforesting if the waste lands of England, Scotland, ind Ireland. UNITED STATES. Capt. John l’ridgeon, the millionaire capitalist and vessel owner of Detroit, is dead. Richard Croker and M. F. Dwyer are contemplating the transfer of their racing interests to England. Miss Josephine Brand, of Lawrenceburgi Ind., was robbed of $10,500 in cash on the streets ofCincinnati just before dark Thurs- day night. A long continued drought has prevailed in portions of northern Indiana, and such is the scarcity of water that there has been suffering in many places. Four hundred cloakmakers, employed by Strawbridge & Clothier, of Philadelphia, we'zl on a strike on Thursday rather than fllibmlh to u. reduction of w» gee the North-VVest - stated that the1 l The faculty of the College of Dentistry of the University of Minneso'a has decided to discontinue the use of hypnotic sugges- tions in the dental infirmary. J. M. Ripport has Won $5,000 ly walk» ing from New York to San Francisco starting May 15, and to finish before De- cember 31. He had a. mouth to spare. The I);-nver grand jury has begun a secret investigation of the numerous murders by strangling committed therein September and October. President Cleveland has reconsidered his denision, and has consented to send a )i‘epi‘esentative to the Porte‘s commission of inquiry into the Armenian atrocities. The Chamber of Commerce, of New York, has pisseda resolurion favoring the ‘exiension of the LexowCommittee‘s investi- lgaiions to all departments of the City 1 Government. The shipments of Mediterranean iron 1ore to Philadelphia which have been lin consequence of the dulness of the iron business, have been resumed. Dr. John H. Durland, president of the Provident Bond and Investment Company, of Philadeiphia, has been found guilty on the charge of using the mails to further a scheme to defraud. The effort to prevent anarchists from coming to the United States will be resumed in the House of Representatives next Week. lIt is said a large number of anarchists are _ about to leave France for America. Goodman Barnett, for 30 yearsa member of the Chicago Board of Trade, has com- mitted suicide. He went to the docks of the Anchor steamship line, and, standing as closely on the edge of the dock as he could balance himself, swallowed poison. Then he fired a revolver shot into his head. Judging from commercial telegrams, there is little material change in the trade situation throughout the United States. There is always a commercial lull towards the end of the year, and what is called the holiday trade is of little real importance. The plans affecting the new currency have so far made no perceptible (inference, and opinions are much divided as to the ad- l visability of the suggested changes. There has been no disturbance caused by pay- ments for the bond issue, and gold is being shipped to Europe. Cotton is now at the lowest point for years, Prospects are bet- ter in the iron trade. Failures in the United States total 385 for the week,against the same number in the corresponding week a year ago. Usually the tendency of prices is reported as towards firmness, and the outlook is generally considered hopeful for business early in the coming year GENERAL. . Most of the silk weavors of Lyons,France, are on strike. " Two tiansports with Turkish troops on board left Constantinople on Sunday last for the Black sea. The Paris Eclair states that 15 anar- chists, belonging to an organized band of thieves, have been arrested in Paris. Rev. Dr. W. J. Hall, a Canadian mission- .1 ary, has died from typhoid fever at Seoul, lCorea. He was born at Glen Buell, five miles from Brockville. A special from St. Petersburg says : The IRussian press unanimously repudiates the idea. of intervention by Russia in the affairs 1 of Armenia. Compressed air as a motive force has been adopted on three lines of tramways in Paris, A nugget of tin weighing five thousahd four hundred pounds has been found in Tasmania. King Christian, of Denmark, is suffering from a cold contracted on the way home from St. Pctersburg. Count Ferdinand de Lesseps, the great canal projector, who was born in 1805, is i critically ill in Paris. ‘ Conventions have been signed by all the lAustralian colonies for the direct inter- change of money orders with Canada. A local judge in Germany has aroused general indignation by fining a. woikiiigmau for appearing in court in a blue blouse. Count Ferdinand do Lesscps, the great French engineer, who carried out the con- struction of the Suez canal, died yesterday. He was eighty-nine years of age. Gen. Gourko, the Governor of Warsaw, has received an order from the Czar not to interfere with the Catholic clergy or to impose any orders upon them. Gen. Gourko ' has resigned. Zekki Pasha, whois said to have been the leader in the Armenian butcher-y, has been decorated by the Sultan for “suppressing the Bitlis revolt.” The German Bundcsrath is considering a preposition to increase the duty on cotton seed oil by about 250 per cent. This u ill hit the United States another hard blow. Japan would, it is said, accept 400,000,- 000 yen and close the war now if China. would knuckle down and sue for peace in a way to suit Japanese ideas. If the war is prolonged the demand will be increased. There was a disturbance in the new Reichstag palace in Berlin the other day, on the occasion of the first sitting of the Reichstag, owing to the refusal of the Socialist members to respond to the call of the President for three cheers for the Em- peror. - In consequence of the cold, wet, season, and the consequent lack of flowers, the bet-s in France have not. been able to make honey enough to feed themselves. Bee cultivators are supplying their hives with honey and sugar in order to keep the bees alive. OUT OF HIS MIND. A student of Michigan l'iilvcrsity Who Studied Too Pcrsisleully. Adespatch from Detroit, Mich., says: â€"â€"Word has reached this city from the interior of Canada that Carl Beardsley, the young University of Michigan student who mysteriously disappeared from this city while attending the Cornell-University of Michigan game on ll‘linnksgiving day, he; been found there hopelessly unbalanced mentally. Young licul‘dslcy was a member of the class of ’97, and a. student of Civil engineering. Overstudy is said to be the cause of 'his condition He comes of a prominent Indiana fnmilv, and is a son of the late Senator Beardsley, CHRISTMAS GIFTS. If, among: llze names on your Christmas list, are those of a few friends Who have iummcr hem“. the question of providing an acceptable gift is greatly simplified even if t-lic house holds “all that money can buy. ’ If you paint, there is scarcely any end to the gifts you can make yourself. One which would be very charming to give to the friend in whose house by the sea or in the hills you have visited is a tiny portfolio holding half a dozen water-color sketches of places near the house. Make the portfolio like the illustration, in one piece, each 51; by 092 inches ; the flaps, 1 inch deep, serve to keep, the sketches in place. Fasten ribbons through slits to tie, after the fashion of real portfolios. For the sketches cut the entirely suspended for nearly two years, 1paper rather smaller, and when painting leaves. margin around the sketch of at least 1 inch. To give variety, several 5'] .159 R Bier sketches might be landscapes ; one or two might show a favorite corner of the veranda or spot fireplace, and one or two could have wild flowers, if any specially lovely ones grow near the place. Outside the portfolio make, in a corner, a sketch of the gates or a group of the gables, and put on in decorative letters the name of the place. These small sketches seem to furnish a happy solution of the problem of giving sketches away. So often the amateur finds that to frame sketches to give away is a very heavy expense, while she very reason- ably objects to giving “half a gift ” in the shape of an unframed one. To an invalid this small portfolio would be very welcome, bringing to her the places she cannot go to see, and its almost imperceptible weight would be another advantage. A very pretty and useful gift for a writâ€" ing table is a letter pad in a decorated case â€"4.l_.-x7 inches is a good size. “ Irish linen” paper (or what is called so) can be had in this form for about 35c. a pad. For the cover use VVhatnian’s imperial paper. Cut a shape like the illustration ; along the dotted lines score lightly with a. knife, so that it can be easily folded over the pasta- board flaps of the pad. One sheet ofim pcrial makes four of these covers. Secure the two together by passing “baby ribbon” between the leaves of the pad, and tie at the top ; a. few stitches before tying will secure the ribbon, Use half a dozen lengths of the ribbon, each about 1 yard long. Never try to economize on ribbon for decorative articlesof this sortâ€"nothinglooks so shabby as a. meager bow of ribbon. For the decora- tions, to be painted in water colors, there are endless charming designs. “ Dresden" effects are so much used now, and these are specially charming for the blottors ; with garlands of flowers run through with rib- bon bows and ends‘ the most delightful effects can be obtained ; or scatter over it at regular intervals a flower, slightly conâ€" ventionalized. Remember to keep the color very pure and delicate, avoiding all realistic silects and strong contrasts. The ribbons for the bow’s can combine all the delicate tints of the painted decoration. When the pad has been made up, a. new one is easily slipped in the cover, and it can be used in- defiuigely, Smaller pads may be decorated "i l I i , 0 l I I o o--- â€"-_ .â€" ..-__â€". fish..- .-~a--Q-â€"-- l l’.“‘.._.- â€"-hd-uaâ€". ' grotesquely amusing as the well-known tinguisher, and which is a general favorite. it " fancy farming" is a hobby of the place, most amusing decorations can be made by using tiny radishss, onions or large straw- berries. Sketch on eyes, nose and mouth, make the tiny roots suggest arms and legs. Several might yawn, and one or two hold a candlestick. If you like, “ Good night" may be lettered on the candlestick in dull gold letters, with a few touches of the dull gold on handle and rim. The painting of radishes, etc., should be done in very flat, simple tones, the natural contrast of rosy and green tones being so good that no elaboration is necessary. These are as “ Brownies,” without in any way copying them. Photograph frames are legion in these days, but one which withstands the ravages of dust can be made on a gray passe partout mat (10c at a photographers’ supply shop), and, after decorating, have a trainer make for 60c a tiny silver “bead- ing” frame, with glass. Prices may vary somewhat in different places :thoss quoted are the average. The soft gray of the llllllliil THE WHAT is GOING ON IN THE FOU'll coausssoieriis GLOBE. v 01d and New \Vorld Events of Interest Clironicled Brieflyâ€"Interesting flap- pcliiiigs of Recent Data Pious Russians do not eat pigeo/Es because of the sanctity conferred on the dove in the Scriptures. The Imperial Museum of Paris contains over 20,000 stone implements collected in various parts of France. Several English sportsmen have started for Madagascar to engage in hunting ax. peditions with Frenchmen. The Belgian Government proposes to in- troduce legislation for the amelioration of the condition of the laboring classes. Efforts are being made to obtain a steam Ir. pastehosrd forms a most eflective back- ground for decoration. Covers for the current magazines are made of brown or gray linen, made in one continuous piece, much as the pasteboard portfolio is cut. The sewing must be of the finest, the linen should be the smooth, fine iinen, at about 600 a yard, in natural flax shades. For instance, a cover for “The Century” might have the name of the magazine and the decorative scroll work which appears on the actual coverâ€" this, in sepid or madder or in olive green would be very effective. A little Chinese white can be added to the paints for working on linen, to prevent running and blurring the pattern. Sketch the patterns lightly in follow this; then, when almost dry, add the outlines and finer touches. If simply managed two tints will be enough to give a most satisfactory effect. Monochrome can be made as artistic and as decorative as any other form of painting. All these suggestions are strictly prac- tical; none require (except the sketches first mentioned) any special artistic ability. Nor do they require a large outlay of either money or time; the merits and pleasure- giving qualities of at least a few have been well tested in various “ summer homes.” PERSONAL. Lady John Scott, who composed the air of “Annie Laurie,” and of the words as now sung, is still living. The original song was in praise of a daughter of the first baronet of McXWelton. Count Caprivi had never been active in public life when called to office in 1890. But he took to speechmaking as a duck to water and soon made a reputation as a trenchant debater. Richard Croker, of New York, is said to have at least $500,000 invested in horses and turf and breeding property, while his racing stable contains winners that have earned nearly $200,000 for their owner. Captain Mary H. Miller, the first woman granted (at New Orleans, 1883,) a license as steamboat master, died the other day in Louisville, Ky. Her husband, Captain George Miller, an old steamboat man, sur- vives her at the age of 86 years. A new and mysterious beauty, who has taken a. charming house and lives alone in it, in London, is causing a sensation in the English metropolis, where it is known of her only that she is “Mrs. Sav- age,” supposed to be from Washington, Boston or Philadelphia. Count Constantine Nigra, the poet, at present Italian ambassador at Vienna, re- lates in his latest book that as a child of She once played the role of an angel at some private theatricals, adding this com- ment: “ As a child, an angel; as a. man, a diplomatistâ€"how are the mighty fallen 1” Among the bills of election expenses sworn to by candidates in New York is one from Benjamin Zacharias, who owns up to 20 cents spent in car fare, and William Sohmir, who put out $14,980,40. Both were defeated. The actual personal outlay of Mr. God", who was elected recorder, was 75 cents. MOTORMAN SERIOUSLY HURT. ASH-set (‘iir Collides with a Wagon and Samuel Clayton Snslalns Injuries Which )lay Result Fatally“ A despatch from Toronto says :â€"â€"An accident of a very serious nature, and which may result fatally to Samuel Clay~ ton, 97 Maitl‘and street, employed as a motorman by the StreetRailway Company, occurred in Tannery Hollow, Yonge street, north, at 10 a. In. on Friday. Samuel Wilkinson, 9. York Mills farmer, was driving a team of her 0 attached to a wagon laden with hay down Yonge street, and when opposite Roxborough aveviue,and just at the head of the steep decline which ' commences at that paint, the bolt attaching in the same way by omitting the folding one of the whilflatrees to the doubletree flaps of the cover. Simply paste :he pad on the lower half of the cover. The ribbon bow is also omitted. Make a suggestive little sketch outside and put on a motto, such as “ Odds and ends,” or when found make a note of." An absent-minded friend will bless you many times for this small, yet great, convenience, The designs may he in black and white, though, of course, colors will add far more effect, and the size of the block, of course, regulates that of the sketch. If vuu have a. friend fond of botany you mav find an acceptable gift in the book called “How to Know the Wild Flowers.” This has many illustrations in black and white, to which you can give an additional interest by tinting the flowers and leaves. Remember, however, that you are not painting pictures, but elaborating a semi- sCientific book ; truth of color, therefore, is the thing I!) be sought. Use transparent washes, so that the delicate stamens, etc., are not lost under an opaque cost of paint; work largely and freely ; avoid too much water on the brush, or the paper will wrinkle, and be especially careful to give ind viduality to the greens, Candlesticks, if odd and well chosen, are always welcome. Very pretty shapes in” be bullilllti in Haviland white china for 430c an.) ('10.: each. Paint with a flower sug- gesting the summer place, or to match the decoration of an especial room. came out and the whitfletrees dropped on the heels of one of the horses. The animal plunged forward, carrying the neck-yoke clear of the pole and allowing the latter to fall to the pavement. The end of the pole entered the grove in the rail, and in this manner the speed of the wagon was some- what slackened, until the foot of the hill was reached, when the wagon came toa stand still. Just at this moment the car ,of which Clayton was motorman, started down the decline. Clayton saw the danger, and applied the brake, but the rails were slip- pery, and the car went crashing into the heavy laden wagon. The force of the col- lision completely wrecked the vestibule of the car, and Clayton was pinned between the wrenched brake and the front of the car so Securely that he could not be freed until a heavy sledge was procured and the brake driven back. Besides several heavy bruises on his face inflicted by the glass, the blow from the brake caused serious internal injuries which, it is feared, will have afatalter- mination. He was removed to his home in the ambulance, where Drs. Johnson and Fenton attended his injuries. Wilkinson’s horses succeeded in freeing themselves, and dashed down Yonge street at a lively rate, but were captured at Davenport road. The few passengers on There is the car were badly frightened when the ashipe which comes with a. pointed ex- crash cam pencil; with the lightest tint ll life boat for Flzimhorough, one of the most dangerous points of the Yorkshire coast. Austria is to spend $6,465,630 on her navy during the current fiscal year. The estimates include the construction of six torpedo boats. After minute and careful investigation the Russian admiralty has decided upon the experimental use of petroleum as fuel in ships of war. Germany Will build an artificial harbo at the mouth of the Swakup river in sout west Africa, on the edge of the Eng 'sb Waalfisch Bay territory. Professor Zacharin, the physicia treated the Czar, has the largest c nsulting Exclusive of salaries paid ’60 professors motion in Moscow, and occupies lthe chair of medicine in the university of t {at city. 1 land, second crops of plums have just been gathered. Some of the plums are quite quality. ) the Prussian Government expands over 350,- 000 a year in support of the laboratories the University of Berlin. , It is stated that a man who is under has confessed that overtures were made to King Alexander of Servia. In an interview going the rounds of the Mary Anderson, of the American stage, with positive aversion. from Siberia. Une came from Tomsk with gold from vet and gold from the Kronsberg mines. A Russian whaling and sealing comp y of Okhotsk has been organized at St. P teas- e t a protection of the Russian cruisers ' The Prussian State attorne recently a girl of seventeen who had spo en disre- In sevral gardens in Li neolnshtire, Eng- equal to the August crop both in size and connected with the medical department of trial for murder at Kraguyvalz, Servia, him to poison wine intended tor the use of British press Mmr. do Navarro, formerly says she now ,looks upon her old profession Two caravans with gold and silver have arrived at St. Petersburg private washings, and the other with sil- for the Pacific, Behring Sea, and the Sea burg. The company’s ships will b Pacific. pleaded for three months’ impris ument of spectfully of the Imperial family. \ In view of her size, however, she was dis issed with a reprimand. “\d The programme of the British 8. miralty fornext yearincludes three new secbnd-class battle ships,several cruisers of a s mewhat novel type and several others of {enlisting types, besides a. large number of \torpedo boat destroyers. Owing to the enormous expense which the undertaking would invclve, the project- ed railway from Sati to Kassala has been _ abandoned. A good road, over which troops and artillery will be able to trav easily, is to be bmlt instead. ,. Here is an advertisement from a Londfin ‘morning paper :-â€"â€"“Dogs-â€"A young lgdy takes them out daily walking ; meals ‘nd toilet attended to ; terms from 2s to 3s Q a week, according to the time required ,g reduction for severaL ” l , One of the new torpedo boat destroyers‘ built for the British na‘vy attained a mean speed of 29 1-10 knots on two runs With and against tide. The highest speed attained was 30 1-10 knots with the tide, or at the rate of thirty-four and one-half miles an hour. Frauds upon a colossal scale have been detected in the Italian railway administra. tion. The thieves formed themselves into a regular society, the membership of which covered nearly every important station ; and office, and the frauds were carried out) by means of forged passenger tickets. A Japanese medical student at the Uni- versity of Edinburgh recently claimed th privilege of being examined in his nati? language, which by the rules is allowe all foreign students who are not Frenc German. The faculty were not put ut, but found one of its own members ho could examine him. Mr. Gladstone can now be classed ’ a hotelkeeper. Last month he opened as. hotel near the library he equipped with twenty-five thousand volumes at Haward- en and established a rate of twenty-five shillings a Week for board and lodging and the use of the library. Readers and stu- dents have made it a success. An elementary education return just is. sued shows that there are 14,668 voluntary schools in England and Wales, with ac- commodations for 3,646, 830 children and , an average attendance of 2,410,450. . The 1 total income in the year ending August 31, was $22,280,090, and the total expenditure , $23,553,790. In dredging the harbor of Bizerta, in Tunis, a silver sacrificial bowl was found which is the most valuable piece of work manship in the precious metals yet disco ered in Africa. It is oval in shape, shall has two handles and weighs twenty po uds. The inner surface is ornamented wit a de- sign in inlaid gold representing the cutest between Apollo and Marsyas. The ork is by a Greek artist of the first centu y after Christ. In the Roman Catholic Church at lotthus the other day ashockinp.v accidentl fippened while a marriage ceremony was Ibelng solemnized. The bride carried al lighted taper and while leaning forward ti answer a question put by the priest her vgll took fire. She was speedily enveloped i flames and bec ime unconscious. The priesit and the marriage party rendered promptkhelp and bore the bride with her dreadful burns from the church to a neighboring hospital. e to or 1