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i Poulett are both in ‘ electric system. 'acoede to the request of tlic Domini: n WWWâ€"m s islllu . THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE . WORLD OVER. Interesting Items About Our Own Country, Great Britain, the United States. and All Parts of the Globe. Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading. CANADA. Earl Spencer is the guest of Lord Aberdeen at Ottawa. Mr. Justice Fournier, Supreme Court, is dead. The Ottawa City Council has reduced the number of tavern licenses from 71 to 66. Mrs. Buchanan. widow of the late Hon. Isaac Buchanan, died at Hamil- ton, aged 70 years. ‘ At Monday night‘s meeting of the. City Council of Guelph, Ont... the rate of ,taxation was struck at 25 mills. Mr. O. F. Bo‘tsford, druggistl, of Queen street west,_ Toronto. took his life by shooting himself on Saturday. . I Mr. George Johnson, the Dominion sta- tistician, has nearly completed all ar- rangements for taking the census of Lanitoba this year. i The Cornelius Vanderbilt special. con- sisting of three cars. ran from \Vindsor to Niagara Falls. over the M. C. R., 111 miles, in 103 minutes on Thursday. The Government has offered a “re- ward of $500 for the arrest of Alâ€" mighty Voice," the Indian who mur- dered Sergt. Colebrooke, of the North- west Mounted Police. Owing to the money for the Militia camps not having been, voted at the late session of the Dominion House, no camps can be held this year until the end of August or the beginning of Sep- tember. ‘ 'Constable Tinsley, of_BrockVille, who figured in the shooting tragedy at. Brockville last March is to be present- ed with the Sanford gold medal by the Royal Canadian Humane Society, as a reward for his bravery. Mr. Aemilius Jarvis and Mr. C. A. B. Brown, of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, left Toronto on Friday afternoon to meet the representatives of the Lin- coln Park, Chicago Yacht Club, to death on the date and place of the coming race 'between the Chicago and Toronto boats. Lord Aberdeen proposes to present to Gatineau Point Roman Catholic church a new bell weighingone thousand pounds in appreciation of the service rendered to Lady Aberdeen at the recent accident that nearly. resulted fatally. He has presented the three men who rescued Lady Aberdeen with twenty dollars each. lately of the / GREAT BRITAIN. The " wheeling craze ” is on the wane in London among the leaders of soc1ely. The Marquis of‘Donegall and Earl the Bankruptcy Court. April returns of the British Board of Trade show an increase in imports of $7,350,000, and in exports of $5,850,000, as compared with April, 1895. It is now stated that Baron Hirsch did not leave the Prince of Wales a milâ€" lion pounds, but ordered his l.O.U.’s for that amount to be destroyed. It is understood in ‘London that sev- eral of the directors of the South Africa. Chartered Company will resign unless the resignation of Mr. Cecil Rhodes is accepted. Members of the court circle at Lon- don assert that the Queen’s health jus- tifies the hope that she ‘will be able to ‘ perform the duties of her position for a dozen years to come. Two Philadelphians are making a pro- I posal to the London, England. County. Council to take over all the street rail- way lines and replace them With an Referring in the House of Commons ed to eleven. Several persons are still missing. Th° annual report of the American and Canadian ship canals show that last year the “Soo” canal had, the largest volume of business in its history. In the United States Senate on Fri- day the bill for the erection of abridge across the Detroit river was postponed until ncxt session. The wife of Oscar Lyons, afarmer livâ€" ing near Mayficld,Ky..a few days. ago had five children ata birth, all of whom are doing well and likely to live. i i I The fishermen of Dunkirk, are complaining of the free admissmn of Canadian fish into the [‘niied States, and are agitating for legislation to make fish du’tiable. ‘James B. Duke, president of the American Tobacco Company, and a number of its directors have been inâ€" dicl’ed at New York on a charge of havâ€" ing formed a. (rush or monopoly of pa- per cigarettes. J. “'atson Hildreth, convicted at Rome, V.Y., of mui‘dcr in the. second degree. for train-wrecking. was senâ€" tenced to imprisonment for life. His compaions, Flatt and l-libbard, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in tlngfirsl; de- gree, and were sentenced to imprison- 'merit for forty years. I It is stated that President Cleveland. through Secretary Olney has informed the S anish Minister at \Vasliington that t e United States will not. permit the execution of the men taken onthe steamer Competitor on the sentence of a court-martial. intense irrilaliou pro-- vails in Spain, and a serious outcome of %he action of ihe President is locked or. Reports from the United States conâ€" tinue of a by no means satisfactory character. The exports of gold this week have so far produced no moneâ€" tary disturbance, and this is regarded as an earnest of general confidence in the commercial and financial outlook. But with a few exceptions goods ap- pear to have beer largely over-produced; stocks are heavy. and many factories and workshops are on short time; the exception being an increase in the de mand for boots and shoes in one dis- trict. A slight advance in price is re- ported in cottons and print cloths. but the average of prices all round is a shade weaker. The trade situation is not as good as it was a. year ago. but there is a marked advance in bank clearings. GENERAL The Spanish Government: has declined the Pope’s meditation in Cuban affairs. Negotiations are in program between Japan and Russia looking to joint ac- tion in Corea. The French excavators at Delphi :have unearthed a lifeâ€"sized bronze sta- Eug of a bearded man of the date of 500 It is understood that the sentences passed upon the Johannesberg Reform- 1 ers will be reduced to a small fine and imprisonment. St. Petersburg society is agitated by the order of the Czariiio. forbidding ladies in waiting and servants in the palace from smoking. Two correspondents of New York papers have been expelled from Cuba on the round that they calumniatcd Captainâ€" eneral \Veyler. President Kruger syinpatliizes with Colonial Secretary Chamberlain. and is convinced that he was quite unaware of the intrigues going on in Africa. , The advance of the Imperial troops for the relief of Buluwayo has been can- celled beyond Mafeking, on Earl Grey‘s statement that the back of the rebellion has been broken. Earl Grey, who is in Buluwayo, says lbac the, back of the Matabele rebellion is broken. and he hopes all disorder will . have. been crushed before the arrival of l the Imperial troops. . A Gwelo (lespziich siys that it willbe mipossuble for the Rhodes column. en route from Salisbury to relieve Buluâ€" to the proposed fast Atlantic sewice’ i wayo, to leave for. three week; owing Mr. Chamberlain said that the. n .goti- ationswith the Dominion Government were hot yet completed. The report that Mr. Cecil Rhodes and to the Shaugani district being infested ‘ with rebels. The Czar a l the new Shah have ex- changed tele; 11135 of sympathy, the Mr. Alfred Beit have resigned conâ€" jSh'ili declaring that il: is his first, duty firmed; but it is stated that the South l African Chartered oCmpany has rcfus~ ed to accept the reSignations. to foster incl develop the friendly reloâ€" lion: wnicli bound his beloved parent lo the Russian lniperiil family. The extradition of “'illiam Turner; and William Dunlop,‘the two men or? rested in London on the charge of havâ€" . ing stolen \jewelery from Mi: Burden, of New York, was gran-led on li‘riday. Sir John Evans, Treasurer of the Roy- al Society, has accepted the presulency of the British Association for 1897, and will preside at the meeting of the as- sociation in Toronto next year. Growing interest is taken in the 2p- proaching marriage. of Princess Maud of ‘iVales to Prince Charles of Denmark. The Royal family will put off their mourning for Prince Henry of Butlcziâ€" , berg on the day of the ceremony. The President of the Local Governâ€" ment Board, Dir/Henry Ch in, in the House of Commons, promi Lo comâ€" municate with the Dominion Govern- ment to bring; about more frequent: in- speclion of the children who immigrat- ed to Canada. In the House of COllllll‘JlS Mr. White: Long, who has charge of the. Cattle Exâ€" clusion bill. stated that, he could not Government to appoint. a commission to I investigate the condition it; Canadian cattle. ‘ The hfarquis of Northampton, who owns the greater part: of Clerkenwell,v squalid district, a vast polytechnic inâ€" isliuilding, in the heart of a desperately stilulion, in which the liumblest classes may obtain. without charge, mental and physical recreation. ' l The suit of Mrs, Langtry against. the I Union bank of London to recover the value of jewer belonging to her, and: obtained from the bank on an erer alâ€" leged to have been forged. was settled! out of court yesterday, the bank paying ten thousand pounds. UNITED STATES. Preparations are now under way in Newark. N. J., to send a filibustering party to Cuba. An international yacht race will be sailed at Toledo, beginning on the 23-th of August. x Fire did $60,000 damage to several' business houses and property of the Sal- , 'l'h-r rc. or» lie Inimelliitclj,’ after the death of ,Shnli. the heir apparent. Muzaffcr-cd- Din, was proclaimed Shah, and was re- cognized by (irerit Britain and Russia. gmzit f ‘ Liuil lib" late Shah’s oldest son v. - dispute Numb fcrrc'ldl‘in's right to the throne. Herr Strobich, azili-Sciiiile, has been elected burgxiinasler of Vicniiajn place of Dr. Lodger, who resigned at the. reâ€" uucsl’ of Emperor ll‘i'mricis Joseph. Herr Strolmth announced that he would rc- sign at (h: proper mom'eiii'in favor of Dr. Lucgei'. A ’lP/szllch from Shanghai says that the Ru in Council threatens to forcâ€" ibly : e a stretch of the l‘oresl’iore'cf Chefr , to wh Croat Briiain has a 10ng-....aiitling iim. The. British Minister llil‘“ 1‘ steale'l against the threatened seizure, and it is understood that. Cillllil. also ol-Jccls. it is rumoured that the you."rr Norâ€" wegian e)"'!nrer Estrup. wh'r‘c loly w: found 1)!)19 tlmc :igo in a snowv filled rivizie. died by hi». own llll‘ll'l as the result of an agreement with Licut. i.’ l‘_". the American explorer, the. lower 1 c. giine of chance, between the two hf. ing to commit suicide. \Yhen Li-Hung-Clmng was received in and rice by the, Czar he presented his Majesty with the. order of tlic Douâ€" blc Dragon, studded with large bril- liziiits, on behalf of the. Emperor (f China, and he also presented. on his own behalf, two bronze vases, more than two thousand years old. , King Humbert has donated four hun- dred thousand francs to the families of 1he soldiers killed and wounded in the. African campaign, and one hundred thousand francs to the Red Cross Society for the benefit of the wounded. \Vhile the Duke and Duchess of Salte- Meiningen were traveling incognito in Italy they were held up by brigands near Rome, and robbedof fifty-five lire (about eleven dollars). The brigands two in number, were subsequently cap. lured. . M. Courtois. an ex-police official in Brussels. Belgium, was arrested for the murder of Mme. Herry. A woman vation Army at Elyria, Ohio, on Thurs- ‘ Whose huslnnd was some time ago (10)" I _ ‘ ‘imprisoned for defamation of Coui‘tois The death list of the victims killed character dropped (head when she by the Cincinnati explosion was increas- heard of his arrest. l l 4 l l years. Such an interval has occurred twice before in. the history of Scotland. and only once in the history of Eng- land, and two centuries will elapse be- fore it Occurs again. The last year of the present century, 1900. will not be a lean yeaz; but 2000,the last year of the succeeding century, will. The year 2100 will again beacommon ycar,so that the next period of seven consecutive coni- mon years will be between 2090 and 210i. The rule by which this seemingly arâ€" bil'l‘ary interference with an establishâ€" ed order of things is regulated is com- Dal‘illively simple, but its history is in many respects 'ooth curious and inter- esting. As every one knows, the earth revolves around its axis, and also tra- vel; round the sun, the one revolution Causing {the alternation of day and night, the other that of the seasons. From the earliest times men have made use of both these series of changes as a {means of reckoning time. all’l had there :0" 1 a simple numerical relation be- .n them there need never have been , trouble with leap years and such (icvioes. Unfortunately, however, this is not at DFGSenI: the case. The number of reâ€" volutiom‘s which the earth makes when 11’- _g‘o<is once around the sun, instead of being apwholc number. is a number and diamond stars that lit hei ricl; red hair. a. fraction or. in other words, the earth goosrounil the sun in 305 days, 5 hrs, 48 min. and 46 see, This is not. however, discovered in a daY- Various guesses were made atthe proper length of the year, and calendars \vete'ilrawn up in accordance with them. But in the course of time the error ac- cumulated, with the result that the. sea- sons changed places, and the vernal equinox, instead of remaining at a fixed place in the calendar, moved backward or forward, according as the approximaâ€" tion was in excess or defect, and extra days had to be intercalated or omitted to set things right. By the time of Julius Ceasar the Rom- an year. which consisted of 355 days, had worked loose by three months, so that the winter months had been carried back into autumn. In order to prevent such confusion in future, with the aid of Sosigencs, be fixed the length of the year at 305 1â€"4 days. or three years of 365 days, followed by one of 360. At the same time, to bring back the equinox to its proper lace, he intercalated ninety days. into t e current year of 355 days, making it 645 daysâ€"probably the long- est year‘on record. This was the Julian calendar, and to it we owe to this day the leap year which comes every fourth year. But the approximation on which the calendar was based, tho-ugh much more accurate and convenient than any that had preceded it, gave too long a year by; the difference between 365.25 and 363.2422, the error amounting to a day in 128 years. In the course of the cen- turies the equinox gradually receded to- ward the beginning of the year. Ceasar had fixed it on March 25: by the time of the, council of Nice, held in 325, it: fell on the 21d of March, and by 1582 it had receded to March 11. In order to re- storeahe. equinox to the position it: occupied in 325, when the council of Nice had drawn up regulations for the fixmg of Easter, Pope Gregory, in 1532, directed ten days to be suppressedand as the error was found to amount to thrcedays in 400 years, he laid down that in future the last year of every century should be an ordinary your, un- less it is divisible by 400, in which case it was to be a leap year. Thus 1900 will be an ordinary year, but 2000 will be a leap year. Pope Gregory’s correction gives an ayeragc year of 305.2425 days, or twenty- six seconds longer than the true year. These odd seconds will amount toa whole year in 3323 years, and it has been-proposed to allow for this error by providing that the year 4000 and all its multiples, shall be common years. But this would be pedantic foresight, and it or 365.2422 (lays. is unnecessary to dismiss the question' whether the year 4000 ought or ought not to be a, leap year. In azes yet to come. when the friction of the tides has ; so retarded the rotation of the earth that 305 days make a year, leap years will be unii ssziry. But that; isa still i'cmoter con .gcncy, and in the. mean- time Pope Gregory's calendar is likely to remain in its present f rm. ...__ . ".m. m...__. -_. . BOERS AND ENGLISH. . .12: ,iln-zlmicc 0. km- hluli‘cli of hu- labors 'l‘o‘n'ui'd Hui l-Iiiglisli. The hatred of the Transvaal Boers toward the English seems to be even F I‘Gllg‘}? than the similar scnlimcnt which the. North American lndiun once (TllL‘I‘lfllIEll toward 1110 white man. A traveller in that part of the world â€"â€"hi;i~_self an Englishruzinâ€"rclates that a»: he. was passing through the Rand dist he sat on the seal, of the Boer driver of a stage-mach. The vehicle was drawn by a team of sixteen mules, and the Boer had the assistance of a f‘:_lffil‘ at the reins, while he, the Boer, li*l.l the whip. Th'i Englishman noticed that the Boer never touched with his whip any of the mules except one por'r little crcuâ€" mm, the leader on the whip Side. This poci‘ creature. the Boer constantly lushâ€" cd. though he seemed to be domg his wcrl; wclf enough. . ' Al the, slightest pause. or at any stickâ€" mg in a rut or hard pull, away went the lush (ii this one little mule, until the, Englishman could stand , it no longer. ' “ Why do you whip only that one poor little mule f" be asked. The Boer smiled indulgently. ' “Oh,” he answered, “he's V011 Englis- inon. I lick him for de whole letâ€"dat's fun!” . There. was really nothing more for the traveller to say. under the Circum- stances. He could only feel :1 strong- er sympathy for the unfortunate “Eitglis” mule. SPITEFUL. I cannot understand why my husband should give me a finer present every year we are married: I suppose he does it to compensate you for growing old. LEAP YEAR. The leap year which is with us is. however, to a certain extent peculiar. , since another will not occur for eight “'DRTH KNO\VING. There are forty-seven Chinese temples in America. It is estimated that there are 210.000 acres of orchards in Great Britain. The. bldest national flag in the world is that of Denmark. which has been in use. since the year 12219. The English newspaper correspond- ents who are to attend the czar‘s coron- ation have to supply the. Russian \auâ€" thorities with three separate plioio- graphs of themselves. The sea ‘13 infinitely more productive than the land. It is estimated that an acre of good fishing will yield more food in a week than an acre of the best land will yield in a year. Twenty-four governments, including the United States, Japan, China. Persia and nearly all the European countries. have given official notice that they will exhibit, in Paris in 1900. Great Britain’s national lifeboat insti- tution had 303 boats in 1895. They were launched 43? times, saving 533 liv- es. The average cost. of a station ois $5,250 and the cost of maintenance $300. German foreign trade is steadily in- creasing. For February her imports amounted to 2,023,774 tons, as against 1,551,205 tons in February of last year; exports, 1.865,827 tons as against 1,- 463,929 in February, 1895. A "size" in a coat is one inch; in un- derwear, two inches; in socks, one inch; incollars. one-half inch; in shoes, one- sixth inch; in trousers, one inch; in gloves, one quarter inch; and iii hats, one-eighth inch. One hundred tons of cats’ tails were recently sold at once for the purpose of ornameniing ladies’ apparel. This means that, assuming an average cat’s tail to \vcigh two ounces, no fewer than 1,792,000 pussies had [0 be killed. In the year 1894 the estimated num~ bar of persons employed in the produc- tion of coal in Great Britain was 665,047: in Germany, 299,627; in Belgium. 217,103; and in Franco, $31,587. During 1894 Gfreat lBritain exported 42,690,000 tons o coa. .Hcrr Krupp, the gunmaker, is the richest of the PruSSians, being taxed on an income of $1,1‘;0,000. Baron Roth- schild co cs next with a taxable in- come. of $1,400,000. Only sons in Prussia report. incomes for the last year above $476,000. It has been estimated from the stamp duties paid by patent medicine-makers that 4,000,000 pills are taken by the in- habitants of the United Kingdom every week. In France the quantity is about half. Only about one million are taken by the people of Russia. Mme. Cavaignac. wife of the French war minister, had a bit of broken needle in her hand which the surgeons could not find. She went to the Ecole Cen- trale, had the hand pictured by the Roentgen rays showing the needle, took the. picture to a surgeon, and had the needle taken out. The enormous amount of wood used every year for the purpose of making paper may be estimated from the fact that the Petit Journal of Paris. which has a circulation of over 1,000,000 copies a day, and is printed on wood-pulp pap- cr, consumes in a year 120,000 fir trees of an average height of 66 feet. This is equivalent to the annual thinning of 25,000 acres of forest land. CHINA’S \VOMAN RULEB. Ever since the Empress Dowager of China retired from the formal direction ‘ of the. affairs of the empire, and the young Emperor assumed all the duties of his high office, the. memorials to the throne have been addressed to the“ Emperor alone, and not, as before, to both the Emperor and the Empress Dowager, with the distinction of high- est honor in the form of address given to the latter. For some. time. it has been well known 5 among those acquainted with the inn- er life of the, palace that the Emperor was not left to his own individual ju( g- iuen‘t, but in all important matters must secure. Ihe opinions and approval of his aunt, the Empress Dowager. The usual metlio'l has been for the import.- ant memorials, ozi “hich decrees were; to be passed to be sent. to the palace. of the Empress D()\‘.’ng{‘l‘. and when her will was expressed it had to be follow- 1 The mode, of communication has occasionally the higher )Ianchu offi- cials. .A great many matters were left on- tirely to the Emperor. and in such a ' case, he has largely followed the advice of his favorite. tutor. \Veng T‘ungdio. The Emperor has had no joys in his royal position. but day after day, from the miserable hour of 2 o'clock in the, morning, has had to bother his brain‘ with a. mass of most critical problems. as. well as the routine of strict proprir eties. The Empress Dowager, on other hand. has had leisure for recrcal- tion. amusements. and change. She has been supplied with all sorts of costly and attractive treasures by the central and, provincial officials, and has been daily waited upon and amused by the eunuchs of her palace. and nobles, with the lifanchu officials of the imperial household, have in uttendsanm upon her as well as the Emperor. Thus her life, has, in the last few years. been one of comfort and pleasure. \Vhen the two officials, \Vang filing- luan and Chandâ€"lin, were degraded a few weeks since. at. the instigation and by the ordrer of the Empress Dowager, her power was at once felt and feared by all in the capital. Since then the Official Gazette has chronicled nearly every other day the visit of the Emper- or to the Empress Dowager. This is all that. is mentioned. but no one. sup- poses that this is all in reality. “'hen the young man stands in the presence l of the distinguished and strong-willed woman who fiist chose him for the throne and afterwards looked after his training. selected his wife and concur bines, and finally placed him in pcaCe- ful possession of a throne, which in his boyhood was liable to overthrow, it can be easily imagined that more than a few formalities are then observed. and that once again the Empress Dowager is interesting herself in the right man- agement of the. affairs of the empire. and more especially the adoption of methods and means new but impera- tive. \Ve shall hear more of her in the future. seven per- . ‘ 3n the cunuchs of both palaces, and, the , The princes ' been ’ EXCITING SPORT. __ . .\ ’l'culn of “holes Tow :i I’mil's (‘rcw 0!)! In 3591:. The other day a crew of green whal- ers were initi-iierl in a branch of the. calling in the Bay of Montcrey with such suddenness and vigor that they have not yet recovered from the experâ€" ience, They were lowed by a team of whales, in tandem fashion, at a speed which equalled that of a railroad train. They implored old Capt. Pedrof who was in command, to cut the rope, but he refused. and finally succeeded in lending both whales after the most EX< citing experience he has had in the thirty-one years hc. has spent in whal- ing. Now that his appetite has been whet- ted Capt. Pedro says he expects to do more than capture two whales on one. line at the same time when the regu- lar whaling season opens. The cap- tain and his crew, the members of which were without practical exper- ‘ iencc in whaling, happened to be at the whaling station. on the sh res of Mon- tercy Bay, when a school of whales ap- peared. The. big fellows were after sar- dines. and Capt. Pedro thought it would be a good time to get after the whales and give his crew 21. little experience. There are. two boats at the whaling sta- tion and Capt. Pedro ordered both of them out. He stood in the bow of one â€"the.boat that was first to get near the big fish. It happened to be in- fant whaleâ€"a sea calfâ€"that the boat ran near and into which Capt. Pedro deftly transfixed a harpoon without loss of lunch He. anticipated no diffi- culty in landing his catch, as the whale was too young to make much of a _ But Capt. Pedro had failed to conSid-er the mother whale. which was not far off. She came to the res- cue with a rush that startled the mem- ? leis of the crew and caused the veter- an commander in the bow of the boat to become rigid. In movmg about her young the old whale got one of her flukes entangled with the harpoon line. . She tried to free herself, and failing in that. dashed straight out to sea. There had been a storm for several days preVious, which had left the sea rough and choppy and mighty unpleas< ant: to be upon under the best of con- ditions. It was worse to be dashin along at a high speed and in a. small boat, and not knowmg when the. old whale would stop. A mile was made in i such fast time that a. white streak was ‘ left to show the direction in which the I struggle. boat had travelled, and when there was no let-up to it some of the crew implored Pedro to cut the rope. He made no reply, but waited until mile after mile had been covered, watching the whale. Then the whales, having be- come exhausted, stopped.» Very cau- tiously and gently the rope was ‘haul- ed in. When near enough, Capt. Ped- ro seized the gun and killed both whal- es. They yielded three barrels of oil. PEARLS OF TRUTH. ', Stranger is a holy name. â€" \Valter Scott. For they_conquer who Mlieve they conâ€"oâ€" Virgil. \Vhat is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.â€"â€" Cicero. Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.â€"Cromwell. - y The art of pleasing consists in being , victoriousâ€"Hazlitt. I Against stupidity_the very gods fight unvictorious.â€"Schilier. Rough winds do shake the buds of Mayâ€"Shakespeare. ' Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.â€"â€"Emerson. Who conquers indolence will conquer all the rest.â€"Zimmerman. I Convey a. libél in a frown, and wink a reputation down.â€"Swift. \Velcome e ermore to gods and men is the self-helping manâ€"Emerson. l A small sorrow distracts, a great one lmakes us collectedâ€"Richter. . i Slander is the revenge of a coward and dissimulation his defenceâ€"Johnson. ; A thing is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently learned. â€" Seneca. Virtue 'tself offends when coupled with forbidding mannersâ€"Bishop Mid- dleton. ‘ A scnte‘nce. well couched, takes both the sense and the understanding. â€" : Feltham. . l Romance has been elegantly defined ‘as the offspring of fiction and love. 1â€" Disraeli. l The. innumerable stars shining in or- der, like a living hymn written in light. â€" \Villis. ‘ x . The smiles of infants are said to be ‘the first fruits of human reason. â€"H. ‘N. Hudson. l darling .‘_._‘,____....<~. EMPEROR FREDERICK HIS “UNCLE.” . __ ’ll‘lic. .‘lioniu'i-li Saved :1 “lilo (‘li‘jp ll-‘i'iml Punishment by \‘l‘rliing {o is}: for l'lciiiciu'y. l I This story is told by 'a German army officer: 2 It is strictly against the rules of the Military Academy for a cadet to enter any of the beer gardens in Berlin unaccompanied by a relative. A ’ friend of mine however, hoping to be lundetected ventured one night unat- tended. A gentleman came and sat at ia'small table near him and began chat- éiing pleasantly, when suddenly one of the. Chiefs of the Academy passed them. "Sir," whispered the lad, “will you be my uncle ?" . I ] “Certainly” slld the gentleman, smil- ing. ' Next morning at parade the unfor- tunate youth who had hoped to escape, was called by name from the ranks. Tremblineg he obeyed the call and came forward. "You were. in the beer garden last night 'I" gruffly said his Captain. “Yes, sir, but I was with my uncle." “Your ‘uncle' happened to be the Crown Prince, who wrote this morn- ing to ask me to bet you offpunish- merit. Never let it happen again.” The Crown Prince of this incident -was the late Emperor Frederick.