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England has just: adopted the Bouillon system of minute anthropometric measure- ments for the identification of criminals, in addition to Herschell’s finger print, sys- tem, Which Francis Galton has made gen- emllv mown. TEe Honse of Lords has passed the Mar. quis of Ripon’s bill repealing the restricâ€" tions upon the Australian colonies regarding the imposition of customs, and the meas~ are received royal assent. Owing to the continued prevalence of the grip in the British Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, the cadets have been sent home, and the institution closed temporarily. An appeal for an additional $1,000 to complete the international memorial to Tennyson in theIsle of Wight has been issued by the American Committee in London. ' The attempt of Great Britain to secure the extradition of James Balfour ex-membar of Parliament, from Argentina,has thus far coat £4C,000. Home Secretary Asquith intends intro- ducingin the near future a bill mnking options and future speculation in grain 3 p053] offence. The death is announced of the Dowager Duchess of Bucclouch. On Thursday afLernoon, in the Manitoba Legislature, Premier Greenway, in moving the adjournment, said that the Govern- ment had as yet seen no reason to change its policy in respect to the schools of the province. The Government, he said, de- sired time to thoroughly consider what action was best, and in May, when th) House reassembled, they would be able to definitely declare their intentions. The feeding expenses of the animals in the London Zoo are $500 weakly. The funeral of Lady Mary Montagu, called the prettiest girl in London, took place last Thursday. The proposition to build a. city gem] in Hamilton has stirred up the County Coun- cillors. Some of them contend that the city cannot throw back the present. 3210] on the county’s hauds,eapeciully as the coun- ty was compelled by a mandamus to build it in 1870. The county fathers will look for recompense ii the city is allowed to build a new gaal. The Bell Telephone Company has com- menced an action for twenty-seven thousand dollars damages against the Montreal Street Railway Company on account of the introduction of the trolley system, which is interfering with the telephone company’s wires. The land offices of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company at Winnipeg are crowded daily with intending settlers in Manitoba and the North-Wear. The pressure is so great that. the company will open a branch ofl'i'ge 33 galgary. r Rowland French, a young man sentenced at Cbatham to the Central Prison for burglary, was released by order of the Ottawa Government, with several months of his term llncompleted. The boy belongs to a respectable family. The rumor is gaining ground in Ottawa that Lord Aberdeen will be shortly recalled by the Imperial authorities to take the Lovd-Lieuteuaucy of Ireland, in succession to Lord Houghton, who will receive a Cab- inet portfolio. The engagement of Hon. A. J. Majori- banks, A.D.C.to the Governor-General and brother of her Excellency Lady Aberdeen, to Mlsa Myssie Brown, of Nashville,Tenn., is announced. Mrs. C. T. Williams, the earnest tem- perflnce Worker, died in Montreal on Thursday afternoon. The deceased was secretaryâ€"treasurer of the World’s Wo- men’s Christian Temperance Union. Representations hsve been received in Ottawa. from persons in Alberta, urging upon the Government the propriety of conferring provincial autonomy upon the district. At Stratford. James Sheen of Logan Township was found guilty ofsbealing some flit-y sheep from \Vhyte 8: Sons, and sen- tenced to five years in penitentiary. Forty-eight counterfeit quarter-dollars were found under a loose board in a vacant lot on the south side of the Hamilton Police Station. Senator Thibaudenn has returned to Montreal- from England, and expresses him- self confident of the success of the Atlantic and Lake Superior railway. The net assessment of the clty of Lon- don, Ont., for 1895 is $15,182,340, an in- crease of $284,415 over last. year. The amount, of exempmons is $504,950. John O'Shen, a professional swimmer, died at Kingston, aged 65 years. During his life he saved about, one hundred persons from drowning, besides recovering many bodies. The Queen’s Avenue Methodists of Lon- don will rebuild on the site of the Morkin property, corner of Dufierin avenue and Wellington street. Mrs. Thompson of Detroit, who died recently. bequeathed over half a million dollars to hEr niece, Mrs. F. B. Lays of London The most, severe gale for many years swept New York harbor on Thursday, doing much damage to the vessels. . It. is announced that Mr. J. K. Clare has been appointed manager of The London Free Press. Mr. R. H. Bethune, for many years onsh- ier of nhe Dominion Bank, died on Thuraday at his residence in Toronto. Trade reports unite in saying prospech are improving, and prices are higher for many lines of goods. The members of the Manitoba. Legislature will present Premier Greenway with a life- uized oil portrait. Mes-rs. Elder, Dempter and Co. will run a fleet of twelve ships from Montreal dur- ing the coming season. Mrs. Taylor of Lucan, died at London. Her age is mid to be 104 years. Interesllug l'oms About Our Own Country, Great Britain. [he [lulled Stnles. and All Parts or the Globe. Condensed and Assorted for Buy Itcmllug. THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. THE NEWS IN A NUTSHELL GREAT BRITAIN CANADA. The special correspondents in Paris comment upon the irritation and disap- ppmtmeub caused there by Emperor William’s speech to Bismarck, which they It is snated that. Great Britain, France, Russia. and Italy will require the insertion of a. clause 11) the treaty of peace between China and Japan, providing for the opening of the principal Chinese ports to European commerce. A contract, has been made for the con- struction of the railroad from Keneh to Aasouan, in Egypt, to be completed by the end of 1897. There will then be a continuous line from Alexandria to the first, cataract. Li-Hung-Chang objects to the extraction of the bullet fired at him by an insane Jup- aneae, which lies a centimetre under his left, eye. Surgeon Sato and Ishxguro are amending him by Imperial command. The Emperor of Japan has ordered an armistice with China in response to a. re- quest of Li Hung Chang, made before the Chinese Minister received his wound. An order has been issued by the Grand Duke Vladimir, in command of St. Peters- burg military disbricLJorbidding all officers attending theatres during Lent. Mr. Henry ffeylyn Hayter, C. M. G., the distinguished statistician, died in Mel- bourne on Sunday. He was sevenLy-four years of age. The present: Sultan of Morocco is descended from an Irish girl who became a member of the then Royal harem more than 100 years ago. The French Government has sanctioned a proposal to allow the Credit Foncier to issue a lottery loan of two hundred and fifty million francs. Part of a wrecked steam launch from the lost cruiser Reina Regente has been seen 03" the aomh Spanish coast, near Conil. Despabches from Shanghai say there were thirty-eight. cases of cholera in one d3 among the Japanese troops at. Port; Arthur. A returning officer in Hungary has eight duels on hand with Deputies who denounc- ed him for misconduct. Barrels of wine, anchors,scythesâ€"â€"in fact' all kinds of merchandiseâ€"are conveyed by the Swiss Post-office department. The Czar has ordered 500,003 rubles to be devoted to a fund for the relief of newsr paper men and authors. It 13 understood that the French Govern- ment; intends to Lake the 3010 right to manufacture cigarettes. The new telegraph line connecting Manâ€" dalay in Burmah with Pekin was opened on \Vadnesday. A landslide near Titel, in Southern Hun- gary, destroyed a. hotel. and caused a large loss of life. The world’s population increases at the rate of l per cent. per aunum. l Advices from the chief commercial centres of the United States are more ‘decidedly satisfactory than has been the case for a longtime. Railway earnings, hank clearings, and the industrial situa- tion are factors of primary importance. and all of these are in better shape. Raw materials as a rule are firmer; hides, cotton, and coke are all higher; and as a consequence leather, cotton goods, and iron are advancing in price. In some quarters wages are better and the demand for labour is increasing. In the lower grades of woollen goods, however,there is a cessation of activity and large orders have been can- celled and in some mills strikes are checking production. Immigration Inspector De Barry, of Bufialo, makes the stsrtling statement than the children brought to this country by Dr. Barnardo are the illegitimate offspring of the British aristocracy. taken from homes supported by the British aristocracy in which to conceal the evidences of their shame. Arthur B. Chase, a retired theatrical manager, committed suicide at, New York by ahoomng himself. Mr. Chase acted as Edwin Booth’a manager for six years, and managed the Booth-Barrett-Modjeaka com- bination. Albert Knowles,the young Canadian who was accused in Utica, N. Y., of fraudulently obtaining naturalization papers in order to marry a Tonawsnda girl,pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to one. year in the penitentiary. M rs. Frank Anni! perished in her burning home, four miles north of Fenton, Mich. She was ill and could hot help herself, although two young children escaped un- injured. It is said that she and her hue- band lived unhappily, and there are auspi- cious of crime in connection with the fire. Senator Mullen introduced in the New York Senate on Wednesday a bill prohibit,- ing any woman appearing in tights or in any indecent, costume in any place where male persona ere assembled. The bill also prohibits the publication of so called high an, pictures in any magazine or newspaper. William S. Kimbal of Rochester, the cigarette man, died at Virginia Beach, Va., where he had gqne for his health. He was a director of the T., H. 81 B. A lady in Atchiaon has a poodle dog which has just been fitted with a glass eye. At Minot, N. D., the house of Phoanix Christensen, a carpenter, was burned. Five children, ranging in age from 3 to 15 years, perished in the flames. Half of the world’s product, of quinine is used in the United States. Knocking about, somewhere in the Atlan- tic, off the coast of Ireland. is the derelict. steamer Loch Morse, which was abandoned in a supposedly sinking condition a month ago. H-er car-go is wgrbh $450,000, one- third of whxcb, according to marine law, will go to any person or persons who bring the cast/away to shore. Sir William Harcourt recently stated that the Island of Cyprus was costing the British taxpayers three hundred thousand pounds per year. A few nights ago he had to correct his statement, and admit that Cyprus, since its acquisition, has been a source of profit to the extent of two hun- dred thousand pounds. Lord Kimberley on Friday informed a deputation from the Armenian Association that Great. Britain, in conjunction with France and Russia, would take decided steps to attain degired reforms for the pro- tecnion of the Armenian Christians. UNITED STATES. GENERAL A simple form of door holder, made of two pieces of wire bent to form inclined bars and posts, and looped at their forward end: to form oppositely facing wedges. l ventor of the house boats IS unku’own. Encyclopaedias are discreetly silent on the subject. and a. careful research of long established English journals fails to find runy mention of the term previous to 1884. ‘Jn some inscrutable way. though,it has be- come Known that a certain merchant, a. perfumer, in Bond street, London, made use of the first house boat in English waters as long ago as the year 18%. He adopted the idea. of having a movable summer colâ€" tage on the waves,and he lodged his family in that unique fashion for several seasons without attracting any particular attention from his neighbors. Since that time house boats have become popular in Englandmnd the Thames just above the capital is full of them, anchored all along the shore, some- times so near together that the inmates walk across from one boat to the other by a conveniently arranged passage-way. flow the Weallhy uml “'lse Britons Live In Summer. One of the featui'es of life in Englani ia the house boab as a. summer residence. Instead of wearing himself out and ex- hausting his purse by going to a watering place. your wealthy Englishman hireu a tugboat: to tow his floating home up the Thames and rests him content, angling for fish that never bite and smoking. The in- Two or three years ago an unusual flood in the lowar Nile destroyed much property in Egypt. A little later an explorer re- turned from Victoria Nyanza. with the news that about four months before Egypt was unexpectedly deluged: the waters of the lake reached the highest stage ever known by the white men who live there. He added that if Egypt had been connect- ed by telegraph with the lake, she would have been warned of the approaching inundation in time to prepare for it. Engineers say thlt regulating sluioes at the outlet of the lake would control that great sea. It is plain that the interests of Egypt demand that the outlet of Victoria Nyanza. be in her own hands or in those of a friendly power. One reason why these facts are very interesting is because they vividly illustrate the important part that physical geography may play in political history. Egypt can never consider herself safe unless she controls the upper Nile. of the upper Nile region the inhabitants of . Sennaar boasted that they had it in their power to turn Lower Egypt into a deser:. The late Gen. Gordon and the late Sir Samuel W. Baker shared the view express- ed by Sir Colin. Ten years ago Baker de- clared that the security of Egypt depended upon her command of the upper Nile. It is well known that the rich sediment from t the Atbara. tributary coming from the Abyssinian highland created the Delta of ithe Nile and made the fertile belt along l the lower river. Gordon and Baker de- gclerad that an enemy, without any engine- Iering knowledge. might deflect the waters of the Atbara, by a. dam thrown across its bed during the dry season, when it is devoid of water, about 250 miles from its junction with the Nile. The Athens flows through a. perfectly flat desert for that distance, and the effect of a. dam would be the dispersion of its waters overa vast area of thirsty bands, which would absorb the ‘greater portion and prevent the necessary inlindationr in Lower Egypt. S bQCâ€"‘K P- <“ 3“: I _~ mm In response to the joint representations of the Envoya of Great Britain, France, and Russia, the Turkish Government has promised to order the provincial Governor to protect the Christians of Diarbekir, j Asiatic Turkey, who are said to be in dan- gar. A despabch from Honolulu says a large number of political prisoners have been put to work on the roads in Hawaii. Among them are the leaders, Wilcox, Greig Widemann and Marshall. The Englishmen, Packard, Seward, Ashford and Gulick, will be kept in prison for the present. Seward in said to be quite ill. In a lecture on the Nile, delivered in England a. few weeks ago, Sir Colin Scott- Moncrieflr expressed the View that it would be a perfectly easy matter for a hostile power to cut off the water in the Soudan and put Egypt in asterving condition. There is nothing new in this opinion, and excellent authorities believe it is worthy of grave attention. The idea even occur- red to the barbarous people of the Soudan for long before the Egyptian euhjugation An Easy Manor to I'm Egypt In 8 Sta" lug Condlllnn. The Paris and Lyons railway in France is building forty locomotives with sharp provrs, engineers having become convinced that the greatly reduced air resistance consequent on the new shape will not, only increase speed materially, but will also effect a saving in fuel of from 5 to 10 per cent. The Spanish Premier, Canovaa del Cas- tillo, admits that the situation in Cuba. is grave ; but says that, if requisite, one hundred thousand troops will be dispatched to the island to suppress the outbreak, and if necessary, to occupy the entire disturbed district. may tend: to dash the hopes of more ami cable relations. Aha Cabinet. Council held in Brussels it. was decided to immediately mobilize seven thousand soldiers of the army reserve, to be employed to counteract the danger arising from political agitation in industrial centres. SIDE ELEVATION 0!" HOUSE fiOAT. A FUTURE POSSIBILITY IT’S VERY ENGLISH The Chicago newspapers are congratulat- ing the cny on the fact that three ex- United States Ministers live there. They are Robert T. Lincoln. who was Minister g) England : Lambert. Tree, who was sent, Rev. Dr. (J. A. Butol, of Boston, the friend of Wendell Phillipa, \Villiam Lloyd Garrison and onher prominent abolitionists, is still vigorous in his 83rd year. He may be seen any fine day taking a. “:onstitutiou- al” on the common. It has been nobiced that eggs through- out Georgia, having been packed In the strong, resinous pine sawdust of the region, have, when eaten, a decided flmvnr of bur- pentiue, whlch, though unpleasant, may not be unwholesome. Vestern Washington loggers cell of an immenhe log recently floated down the Snoqualmie river, which five oxen had difficulty in hauling. lb was a fir log 32 feet in length and 89 inches in diameter at the largesb and. Charles Teige, of Chicago, killed himself because Mrs. Matilda Stewart had secured a verdict of $3.000 against, him for breach of promise ol marriage. She had answered his advertisement for a wife, but he refused to marry her. The Rev. Thomas Dixon,jr.,has annulme- ed that; when he severa his connection with the Twenty-third street Baptist church in New York he intends to preach in the Academy of Music in that, city every Sun. day morning. Mrs. Harriet Duterie, a. colored woman, is one of the most. successful undertaken in Philadelphia. She has carried on the busmess for twenty-five years. Shefurnixlles hearses, carriages, and all the requisites for funerals. Jim Boucbicb. a Puyallup Indian medi- cine mun,was killed by Jerry Dominick, an Indian living on the Muckleuboot l'fiSdl‘VE- Lion in the state of Washington, because he had failed to cure three of Dominick’s chil- dren. The First Baptist church of Cincinnati has sued the Cincinnam Baptist Ministers’ Conference for $50,000 damages because the conference quesbioned the church's title to its propsrcy. Mrs. W. M. Ward of Bibb county, G3,, who secured a divorce from her husband because of a quarrel, took pity on him on the day the decree was granted and was remarried to hxm. The sword that Byron used in his brief campaign for the independence of Greece, now hangs in a Chicago dining room. It was brought home from Greece by Col, Mil- ler. of Montpelier, Vb. / The Progressive Engineers’ Association of New York, a. colored organization, is going to send one of its members out. to Liberia to see what, if any, inducements that; country offers for colonization. The Fourth National Bank of New York is run on civil service reform principles, and as a result of the resignation of an assistant cashier, a. few days ago, made 34 promo. tions on the staff of its employee. Patrick Sullivan, a. labourer of Fall River, Mass., was strangled to death by some silver coins that he put in his mouth when he went to sleep. Au Anzona farmer has a tame rattlesnake to guard his premises instead of a dog. The report, does not say whether the snake sleeps in the farmer’s boots. A butcher in Belfast, Me., in training a hog to harness, driving him behind a sled. He haw also two tame skunks who act as tramp discouragers. The Chicago Civic Confederation declares that. there are 60,000 victims of the opium habit in them city. They keep alive 100 public smoklng places. 0n sandy Martha’s Vineyard the mud commissioners are spreading cotton cloth over sand to prevent macadam trom sinking into the sand. 001. W. C. P. Breckintidge lectured in Louisville, Ky., to an audience composed chiefly of his relatives and the relatives of his wife. \Villiam Walsh, an aged man of Sn. Jo- aeph,Mo., was terribly tortured by robbers, who thought he was hoarding money. The town of Meriden, Ct". proposes to impose a. tax on all book agents and cam vaasing men that follow that. trade in that town. W. J. Perry, a gambler, of Houston, Texas, attempted to stab Joseph H. Shah], a building contractor, and was fatally shot. Four millions of acres of Indian reserva- tion ‘lands in Dakota, are now opened for settlement by a purchase of 50 cents an Students at Beloit College translated B Greek play and successfully produced it before a very large audience. A Baltimore man swallowed his glass eye the other night. by drinking & goblet of water in which it had been placed. An eagle with seven feet, spread of wings was caught in a wolf trap near Brady Island Neb., recently. Considerable money was lost last. year in attempts to introduce California grapes in the British market. William Miller, a 13-year-old Indiana- polis schoolboy, took arsenic because he had been whipped for disobedience. Ab Saliueville, Ohio, every coal mine is in full operation for the first time in ten years. During 1894 the membership of the Ca- tholic Church in the United States increas- ed 175,832. J. Pierpont Morgan has given $20,000 to build a sanitarium for consumptivea near Liberty, N. Y. Nelghhnrly Interest In Ills Doingsâ€"Mm- lers of Moment and Mirth Gathered lrom Ills Dally Record. Threats have been made to burn St» James’ Catholic Church in Haverhill, Mass- ITEMS OF INTEREST ABOUT THE BUSY YANKEE. WHAT UNGLE SAM IS AT. Forty Murder Indictments. A despatch from New Orleans says:â€" The Grand Jury on Tuesday brought in forty indictments for murder against men implicated in the riots of March 12. The jury also presented a report on the subject f the riots, which it has been investigating for nearly two weeks. The blame for the riots and the 105s of life is placed on the authorities. The trouble has been brewing for months, and energetic action on the part of the authorities would have prevent- ed the outbreak. The police are also de- nounced for their cowardice, and attention is called to the loot that they did not make a. single arrest, and fired only one shot, and that at one of the negros who was attempt- ing to escape from the meters. The Grand Jury declares that the attack on the negro laborers was thoroughly organized and ar- ranged in advance, and the force of the rioters, armed with shotgi ns and rifles, higul: marching on the levee as curly as 6 Tortured by Flends. About 1:30 o’clock on Wednesday morn~ ing two burglars forced themselves into the residence of Mrs. Mary Berger of Spring- field. Ill., who, notwithstanding she is 86 years 0! age, lives alone, and after binding the old woman with a. rope and thrusting a handkerchief in her mouth searched the house for $2,000, which they said they had been informed she had. Failing in their search, they took Mrs. Berger from the bed on which they had thrown her and placed her on the floor. Then they procured a. quantity of straw, saturated it with coal oil and set it on fire for the purpose of compel- ling her to tell Where the money was. They also leveled revolvers at her, but she had no such amount in the house, and did the best she could to convince the fiends of this fact by shaking her head. Not being con~ vinced, hOWever, the robbers chloroformed her and made a further search, but without finding the money. They then left the house,und some time afterward Mrs. Berger managed to free herself from her bonds,and when morning came reported to neighbors what had happened. She was not seriously injured. I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.~Epicbetns. Happiness consists in the attainment of our desires, and in our having only right. deaires.â€"Au2ustine. An accompiished coquette excites the passion of others, In proportion as she feels uone herself.â€"Hazlibb. There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.â€"Seueca. Conceic not; so hlgh an opinion of any one as to be bashful and impotent in their pres- ence. â€"Fuller. No man can be provident of his time who is not prudent in the choice of his com- panyâ€"Jeremy Taylor It thou hast wanderings in the wilder- ness and find’at not Sinai, ’bis thy soul is poohâ€"Lowell. Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.â€" Seume. A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst than in the begming of dmgerâ€"Sir l‘. Sidney. Hell is truth seen too lateâ€"duty neglect. ed in its season.â€"-Tryon Edwards. Conscience warns us as a friend before it. punishes as a judge.â€"Stanislaus. Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character. â€"Froude. The inconvenience or the beauty of tha b1uah,wbich is the greater 2â€"Mme. Neckar. We step not over the threshold of child- hood till we are led by love.â€"L. E. Lana don. Genius hears one individual and then compreheuds Lemâ€"Japanese. He that; will not apply new remedies must. expect new evils.â€"Ba.con. The men who make history have not time to write it.â€"Metternich. I believe the first test of a. truly great man is his humility.â€"Ruskin. False face must hide what the false heart doth kuow.â€"Shakspeare. Harriet A. Eskins, who died at, Lebanon, Pm, last week, was born on the eastern shore of Maryland in 1783, 112 years ago, and was a. descendant of an African King. Her grandfather, whose name was Lego, was King of one of the tribes on the coast of Guinea and was one of the last of the native Kings of Guinea. He was deposed about the middle of the last century, cap- tured bv alsvers, and was brought to America in a slave ahip, ’vvith his son, the father of Mrs. Eekine. We enjoy thorougmy only the pleasure that we give.â€"Duma.s. Captain Auld, of the Baltimore polio:K s 591: 9! Hpgh‘Auld, who was the master of Frederick Douglass during his days of slavery, possesses the orignal bill ofaale for Douglass, given by Thomas Auld to Hugh Auld. It is dated Oct. 28, 1845, neven years after Douglass ran away. and the consideration was 5500. Captain Auld says that this bill was executed with the idea that the fugitive could be recovered, al- though at that time he was in England. Peter Deveau was born in Meal. He followed the sea for nearly half a century. He was a great hand for tobacco, and, it, In to be feared, drank wine when he could get it. Until the very last he never had a sick day. Md never enriched the medical pro- fessi01 co the extent of a. dollar. He died at Webster, Mam, last, Friday, within a» few weeks 01 his 100th birthday. to Brussels and then to St. Peterlbnrg, and hen. Wineton,who was “mum u: L\ (-3.3. Mrs. Hannah Chard, of Vineland, N. J., will celebrate her 107th birthday April 20. Five generations are to be represented at: the celebration. Mrs. Chard, during 7‘1 years of married life, had twelve children, but only three of them are now living, at; the ages of 85, 73 and 61 years respectively. She is still an active housekeeper, and in an inveterate pipe smoker. ock in the lfibrniug‘ PEARLS 0F TRUTH.