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l8 l llll ll. THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. Interesting items About Our Own Country. Great Britain. the United States, and A“ Parts of the Globe, Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading. CANADA. St. Catharines has voted $200 to 111': India famine fund. , ‘ Hamilton has given work to 400 of film 700 uncmpl’oyedl ‘ . The new (lilreotory gives Hamilton a population of 50,000. ‘ 7 Peterson, Tait 8: 00., have purchaSr 6d the Beaver Line of steamships. The. bronzes for the Macdonald statue have arrived at Kingston. The entire force of workmen at the. Springhill mines, N.S., is out on strike. Mr. McEachran reports that bug cholera in Essex is thoroughly stamp- ed out. The Dominion Type Foundry Comâ€" pany of Montreal has gone into liqui- dation. : The Hamilton Cattle Company has se- cured inwrporation, with a capital of 624,000. { Mrs. Western, of Hamilton, has in- vented and patenteda bicycle tire that will not slip. The Ottawa Board of Trade is dis- cussing a resolution in favor of an alien labor law. ~ The Winnipeg Public School Board has asked the Council for 123,256 for the current year. _ Rev. Dr. O‘Meara. has been appointed Dean of Rupert’s Land, succeeding the Bishop of Qu’Appelle. Brantford’s fire 10$ last year was only $1,528.50. In the last six years the losses were only $20,351. A Montreal despatch says that the Quebec Provincial elections will be held. on the. 29th of next month. The national India famine fund now amounts to $40,000, and a. draft for 100, 000 rupees has been forwarded to India. Barrington & Sons, trunk and bel: lows manufacturers, of Montreal, have laiossoigned. The liabilities are about $75,- An epidemic of grippe is being experi- enced in Ottawa. Sir James Grant says he never knew the disease to be so pre- valent. An increase of $10,000 in the Hamilâ€" ton Board of Education estimates will be required this year», mostly for teach- ars‘ salaries. ' ' Hon. D‘r. Borden, Minister of Militia, who was injured in the railway acci- dent near Dom-aster, N.B., two weeks ago, is at Halifax Rev. Ira. Smith, of London, called the attention of his con regation to their duty as citizens to c can the slush off their sidewalks. Governor Murray of Newfoundland, who it was reported Was about to wisit Ottawa on annexation business. has gone to England. The amount of cash contributed in To- ronto to the Indian Famine fund from various sources has passed the twelve thousand dollar mark. Rene Dabin and Fred Corier, two Frenchmen, who had 3. p1 gery two miles from Port Arthur. nt.. were burned to death on Wednesday night. Tlhe C.P.R. has declared dividends of 2 per cent on the preference stock and 1 per cent. on the common stock for the half year ending December 31st. News of a discovery of an enormous- ly rich deposit or copper and gold on both sides of the Canadian boundary line has been reported at Spokane. Charcoal, the Indian condemned to be hanged for the murder of Sergeant Wilde, it is : rted at \Vinnipeg, may not live till t e date of his execution. Tlhe Hamilton Board of Education has a deficit of $20,000, with a prospect of $10,000 or $15,000 more when the Collegiate Institute building is com- pleted. "Dine governors of the Hamilton Gen- elral Hospital propose to build a new residence for the nurses and use the present nurses' apartments for pati- opts. It is intimated that the Dominion Government intends to abolish the of- fice of Deputy Commissioner of {Pa- tents, made vacant by the recent death of Mr. Richard Pope. It is calculated that it will cost about three hundred thousand dollars to reâ€" pair Ithe damage done to the western Wing of the Parliament buildings in Ot- tawa by the recent fire. Of the fifteen Maxim guns in the pos- session of the Dominion Militia De- partment, some six or seven will be apt on hand for. emergencies, and the others will be handed over to the city battalions. The various Dominion Government departments have been asked to push forward the preparation of the estiâ€" mates, so that the Government can sub- mit the'cstimates early. and ask sup- plies while the tariff is being prepared. Dr. Selwyn states that he wasmis- represented at. the meeting of the min- ing engineers in Montreal. He is a be- liever, to the gold fields of British Col- umbia, and called attention to their good prospects in 1885. Secretary Charles Drinkwater of the C. P. R. was attacked by four foot- pads at Montreal on Tuesday night on his way home. He fought the men as long1 as he could, but they got away Wit his gold watch and chain. Mr. Drinkwuter received some injuries in the encounter. GREAT BRITAIN. The Mansion House fund for the suf- ferers in India will likely reach the $5,000,000 mark. One horse and 450 sheep from the wrecked steamer A‘ngloman have been safely landed _Prof. Crookes. the eminent English scientist, boldly announces his belief in ‘ telepathic phenomena. The halfâ€"yearly statement of the Grand Trunk Railway, issued in Lon- don. shows a surplus of £39,000. The steamer Angloman, reported at, London _to be ashore on Skerries’ Isâ€"l land. Will probably be a. total loss. Mr. Thomas Sexton, anti-Parnellite, who resigned his seat in the House (of Commons last year. refuses to reâ€"enler I’arlium nt. Th:- (lezilh is announced 0f l\lr.Fr:1nk May, who for twenty years previous lo November, 12393, was (‘hlt‘f (cashier of the Bunk of England. Through the. collapse of a viaduct on ainllroull at Cornwall nn Tuvusday 1‘1. ni'r-n fell a distance of one lmudredand fifty feet, and were killed. Lirul-Governor I Kirkpatrick. while not yet able to leave the hospital in London, wh we on operation was recomâ€" ly p >i‘i‘ormed on him, is progressing favâ€" orably. London at present is beingr flooded with such vale hordes of undesirable Germans, Poles, and ltalians, that Eng- land may be forced to pass an Exclu- sion Act. Returns issued by the British Board of Trade for January show an increase in imports of $7,500,000, and adecrcase in exports of $0,900,000, as compared with January 1896. In the British House of Commons on \Vr‘dnesday Mr. Samuel Smith's moâ€" tion for the. disesiablishment and dis- endowment of the Church of England was rejected by a vote of 201 to 86. John Chandler, of London, England, who confessed having forged bills of exchange on lVIQeSI‘S. S. 11‘. McKinnon and Company of Toronto, was on Tues day sentenced to five years' penal servitude. Mr. Balfour stated on Thursday that the Government intended to make a public holiday for the occasion of the Queen's diamond jubilee, but it was not proposed to make the day a perm- anent holiday. lMr. Curzon stated in the British Commons that the reported massacres at Crete were unfounded. There had been some small disturbances. A.re- port. from Canes. says 200 buildings were burned, and 5,000 Christian re- fugees from the city have been taken on board the British and Greek war- ships in the harbor. UNITED STATES. llfr. Richard Croker is the probable '{fammk any candidate for Mayor of New. or . The Ohio river at Cincinnati is fast verging on the danger line, which is 45 feet. ' \Villiam \Valdorf Astor owns 4,000 houses in New York city, and has an income of more than $6,000,000 a year. It is stated that after the inaugura- tion of President McKinley, Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland will start on a tour around the world. Warren \V. Linney, after reading Hamlet's soliloquy, thrust a. dagger through his heart in his mother’s home In Chicago, on Wednesday. Capt. McGiffin, who commanded the Chinese warship Chen Yuen in the bat- tie of the Yalu River, committed suiâ€" cide at New York, on Thursday. Two armed robbers in Chicago on Tuesday night held up and robbed An- toine Boenert in his steamship ticket office in La Salle street. They got $2,000. . lA mail clerk on a. Santa Fe train near Los Angeles, 031., on Tuesday shot one burglar and wounded another. They had attempted to "hold up" the train. The cattle dealers of Buffalo and 'viâ€" cinity are jubilant over the abrogation of the quarantine of Canadian cattle, and large importations are being made. The Michigan lumbermen are opâ€" posed ’00 the proposed two dollars duty on the white pine, as in the event of its imposition they fear Canadian retaliate tion. ' Albert Hess of Ipswich. lifess., disâ€" appeared suddenly with $7,000 of other people's money. He sent his Wife word to return to her parents in To- ronto. Armand Castlemary, an actor, fell deud at the close of the final scene of the opera. "Martha" at the Metropoli- tan Opera House, New York, on Wedâ€" nesday night. lMIs. G. \V. Baldwin, nee the Hon. Lady Carey, granddaughter of the late Duke of Brunswick, has filed suit for divorce at Houston. Texas. Her husband is a wealthy citizen of Houston. Business during the week has been a little more favorable; prices are more steady and there isabetter demand for labor; in the Eastern and Middle States particularly Works are reported to be opening up. A demand for pig iron at Pittsburg is also voted. H‘enrlock and leather are more active, with an ad- vance in values. While a lower range of prices is reported for a few articles, the general return quotes figures as being mostly firm, .and in many lines as higher and advancing. GENERAL. The death of Sir John Bates, Thurs~ ton, Governor of the Fiji Islands, is announced at the age of 61. . It is reported that there is- a. re- vived feeling in Hawaii in favour of annexation to the United States. It is said that Dr. Nansen, the Norâ€" wegian explorer, is much annoyed when he sees himself referred to as a Swede. Two men were killed and nineteen seriously wounded in a strikers' riot at Galileo Ferraris, member of the Ital- ian Senate and a well-known electric- ian is dead at Rome. A British troopship has been de- spalched from Malta with; a fortnight's food for twelve hundred Cretan refu- gees. Wm. Donna, the American artist, it is reported in Paris, will be promoted to be an officer of t‘he (Legion of Hon- our. An extensive forgery of Bank of Eng- land twentyâ€"pound notes is taking place on the Continent of Europe. The im- itation is excellent. " It is officially stated that 2,750,000 persons are now employed on famine relief wbrk in the different districts of India where famine prevails. Title distress in the Jubbulpoor dis- trict. of India is appalling. .About 120.- 000 are now recei-vmg Government aid. and by the month of May (the number will be doubled. ' Archduke Otto of Austria, nephew of Emperor Francis Joseph, and heir preâ€" sumptive to the throne of Austria, is at present visiting Emperor “lilliam in Berlin. The. building of the transâ€"Siberian railway will give the convicts of] Sib- erizi such facilities of escaping that they will likely be transferred to the Island of Saghalieu. The German Govermnem hognrdered the prosecution of several university professors who recently signed a deâ€" claradun in fusor of the striking dock labourers of Hamburg. It is now stated that the recent disâ€" turbances in Crete were stirred up by Greek agitators, that the Christians were the aggrexsors. and that war be- tween Turkey and Greece is very pro- buble. The despaich of the torpedo flotilla from Greece, under command of Prince George, has caused the greatest Pnâ€" ihusizism among the populace, and a feeling of grave alarm among the Euro- pean powers. - Prince Bismarck,when asked to give an academic opinion on arbitration treaties said that he did not. believe that. in questions of vital importance nations would stake their existence on the decision of an arbitration court, which had no means of enforcing its judgment. . LIFE OF A LONDON SWELL. â€"â€"â€" Ills Newspapers Are Scented For lllm. and Ills Laundry Is "one In the South or France. In the matter of how the young swells of London live, I have ‘been told some things, have read others, and have seen a little myself from the out- side, of course, writes a correspondent. Recalling the general impression re- ceived from these various sources, it seemed to me that here was,achance for the publication of a little handbook. under such a title as “How to Spend Money," or “The Science of Extrava- gant Living," or “The Art of Being Rich." I knew a London boy onceâ€" three years out of Oxfordâ€"who caused his morning papers to be scented with the perfume of iris. It is hard to be- lieve this, perhaps. but it is literally true nevertheless. He went even furâ€" ther than this, did my Oxford lad. 0b- serve: I was talking with him one morning about this very subject of the daily prom, and he said, pressing an electric button with his foot: "I’ll show you now how to read the papers." , lHis valet brought the papers, scentâ€" ed with iris, as I said, but ironed stiff and crinkly. The advertisements HAD BEEN CUT OUT. And the sporting articles marked in blue pencil. We started of with this as a beginning, and he told me how he lived. Says he: . "In the matter of tobacco, now, Ipre« fer the cigarette to anything else. I get mine from ConstantinOple twice a. week. and, by the way, my cigarettes are scented with IIaschisâ€"very diffiâ€" cult to obtain, believe rueâ€"medical or- der absolutely necessary, and all that. There are very few dealers, however, who can be trusted to mix it with the tobacco so as to produce the maximum enjoyment With the minimum of harm. Here," he continued, "is my bedroom." We. went in. “Bed,” he remarked. la- conically, stabbing his index finger to- ward‘the huge piece of furniture; "no- thing extraordinary, only the sheets. pillow cases and night gown are silkâ€"â€" sxlk’s. a bit heavy, too," he observed. running his figncr over it. “Change ’em every night and have then sent to France, South of France, to be laun- dered. quite the thing with us chaps nowâ€"aâ€"days to send linen and things to France. Let's go see my bloom- ing tailor." We rode to his blooming tailor’s in his blooming brougham. and. HE CALLED MY ATTENTION En route to the devices and appliances of_ the affair. Pneumatic tires, elecâ€" tric lam sâ€"on the inside, mark youâ€"â€" electric out warmers, a row of a doz- en ivory knobs, like the stops on the consol of an organ, by which he com- municated with the coacliman, asmall dressing case, cigar box, card case, mirror. flask, and the like. As we ulighted at the tailor’sâ€"I sup- pose it was in 130 (1 street somewhere â€"he said: "We," that is his class, you under stand, “visit our Lailor's dailyâ€"great institution the London tailor. See now," he piloted me about the greub institituon, "separate departments for the trousers, waistcoat and coat. Coat- man never makes trousers, waistcoatâ€" man never dreams of making coat, and see here, model of my figure. life size. so as I can judge effect myself." Coming from the \ailor's we went to lunch at his diningr club, which he and his "set" maintain. For the pair of usâ€"and we had nothimr lavish. either â€"the check was four pounds, $220. He told me the butter, even the cooking butter, came from Paris, and that the asparagus. we were in October, was the same Hesuripllon and had been pro- cured by the » same methods as that eaten by the Czar during his Paris visit in October last. â€"â€"â€"â€"-*â€"_ THE DIVER'S HEAVY DRESS. The dress of a fully equipped diver weighs 1691-2 pounds and costs about $500. It is made up among other things of 81-2 pounds of thick underclothing. The dress itself weighs 14 pounds, and the heavily weighted boots weigh 32 pounds. The breast and back pieces weigh 80 pounds, and the helmet 35 pounds. The. grealest depth at which a diver can ordinarily work is 150 feet, though there are rare instances of work being done at a depth of 210 feelnvhere the pressure sustained 18 881-23 pounds to the square inch. It is not generally known that the present; system of div- ing was first suggested by the action of the elephant, which swims beneath the surface, brealbing meanwhile through its trunlk, which it holds above the water. - I NOT LONG IN S’USPENSE. The boy who was toiling up the long and devious hill turned hurriedly when near the top to make way for a fat and frantic wheelman who had lost control of his machine. Say, bub, yelled the. bicyclist, how furl is it to the bottom of this bill? I don’t know exactly what the dis- tance is, the Dev Called out after him, but you‘ll be there in about four sec- onds, and there‘s a crick at the bot- tom of it. A PLAGUE’S REVELATION. WEIRD OLD CUSTOMS OF AN IN- TERESTING PEOPLE. The Sfl'lkl‘ll (‘ilyAfiml (‘nnscquenrcs of the l’rejmlit‘cs of (‘:isie-â€"’lhc New Serum ls Reported to no “'orking Wonders. The traveller who comes to Bombay just now is at first greatly surprised, says a letter from Bombay. The plague herel Fifty deaths a. day! The people panic stricken! WVhere is all that? The streets of Bombay from the port are full of life. The coolies in white with their red turbans, the women in red or rose-colored saris and with silver and colored glass bracelets on their arms and ankles, and rings on their fingers and toes, move about carrying different objects in sparkling copper pots. They present an air of gayety with their bright costumes in the warm sunlight. Jugglers installed under the tall barridas which line the avenues beat their drums and play their bag- pipes. All that noise and all those gay colours give a poor idea of a city strick- en with a plague. But that is only the first impression. Further on in the Hindoo town,’ the bazaar and the business streets are al- most deserted, that is, for this city where the population is usually so dense; but to a European even accust- omed to crowded cities, the streets here seem to be full of people. "In the little shops where they burn sandal-wood and incense, the strong odor of phenol pre- dominates, and in front of the houses from which dead bodies have just been taken the sidewalks are marked with large daubs of a reddislh mixture of which chlorine forms the basis. IN THE NATIVE QUARTER, ' along the seaside. and in the docks the plague appears to hold itself circum- scribed. and the houses giving out a strong odor of chloride and phenol are becoming more and more numerous. Colaba, a, half English quarter, is al- most deserted, and the troops that were garriso-ned at Marine Lines, are now camped by the seaside in: the neighborhood of Black Bay. The money market is closed, so are the factories, and durimg the last month about 250,000 inhabitants have fled from the city. Every evening at the railway staâ€" tion thereis a fearful crowding of peo- ple who missed all the trains of the day. The throng of coolives gathered around the entrance forthirdâ€"class passengers hold out their money and implore the ticket man to take their fares. The poor people, shouting and rushing, en- deavor to pass their money over the heads of those in front of them. Al- though repeatedly driven back, they never fail to return to the charge. Groups of women and children, carry- ing red and white packages and copper pots so highly polished that they! look like gold, wait at the office in expect- ation of the lucky ticket that \will en- able til-Jim to fly from the city. Then. when the last train is gone, they camp in crowds around the station stretched upon the ground. In picturesque dis- order, with their baggages lying in heaps, they wait for the next morn- ing’s train. The bubonic plague, as it is called, is‘ still a mystery. Its origin is not known. At first it was attributed to dates that. came from Syria and to corn that came from the interior. The dates were destroyed and the corn was thrown into the sea; but the plague still persisted and increased every day. One morning a large number Olf rats were found dead. ll‘hen the pigeons and chickens were attacked. After that a man took the disease. Then others caught it, and they ALL DIED SU DDENLY. A high fever with a little swelling under the arms or in the lgrodn, is all there is to it, but the’man dies in forty-eight hours. The victims are be- coming more and more numerous. It should be remembered that in the hospitals, thanks to the inoculations by the new serum. more than two-thirds of the patients are cured. ‘But the idea. of the mixture of castes and of contact with people who are considered inferior keeps 1th Hindoos from the hospitals. They prefer to remain at home and be attended by quacks or sorcerers, and they die rather than renounce their ideas of caste. Moreover, both before and after death the religion of the Bar- sees. who form a. considerable portion of the population of Bombay, orders queer sorts of practices which it would be impossible to permit in the hospitals, and that is why the Parsees refuse to be taken to them. In the house of a Parsee, who; was taken sick, yesterday, I saw his wife washing a white garment. Only a member of the fumin can do that washing. The Wife, who knew that her husband was attacked by the plague and consequently doomed, was preparing his death robe in a silent and learless resignation that made me shudder. The sick man lay upon a low bed. He seemed greatly oppressed, and was perspiring freely. Bandages were on his neck. ’With difficulty he murmur- ed, “Pane, sahib l” (“\Vater, sir i") Then he closed his eyes and seemed. to be asleep. They all sleep that way until the end. In the narrow streets funerals pass along. [Hindoos carried on litters and with their faces painted, grimace, aliv- id smile under the red paint on their checks. The body is covered with gar- lands of jasmines and roses of Bengal. In front of the bier a man carries a vase which holds the embers with which he will light THE FUNERAL FILE and behind the body a number of ‘men march, beating crotalums and tambour- ines. Then follow the friends, each one carrying a. piece of wood, which he will place upon the funeral pile as a las( homage to the dead. Here, too, are the funerals of the Mussulmuns. The body is carried on a Abier covered with red stuff streaked \Vilh. gold. The bearers and followers all Sing a sort of melopaeia that is al- mosl guy. They move along very slowâ€" ly toward the Mussulmzins cemetery on the border of the sea, where the dead man will sleep forever under the. tall bunyans and the flowery 'jasmines. 'But here comes the funeral of a Par- si. On a liller covered with. white draperies the dead man,clolhed in white is carried by eight men also clothed in white and wearing white gloves. The Parsx custom exacts that the dead must be brought to the Tower of ‘Silence by these men, who form a separate caste and cannottaike part in any public cere- monies wlthout‘. having first gone through eight. days of purification; and they remain Ln a house specially built for them. Now, on account of this ep- idemic, they are obliged to wear gloves, which they throw into the fire, just as they do their clothes, after having un- dressed the body,. in order to leave it absolutely naked. “Naked he came in- to the world, and naked he: must re- turn into dus ." ‘ At the Tower of Silence the vulture! in a few hours leave nothing of the body, but the skeleton, which the burn- ing sun Will soon reduce to dust, and the dust itself will be carried away by the first monsoon. A long file of men in‘ white marchl two by twp, bound to each other, as a. sign of union, by a white handkerchief. Very slowly they follow the bier, ex- actly at forty paces distant from it. They pass on to the Tower, where the vultures, gorged just now, await their feast while sleeping in the sun: To-day, .accompanied by Mr. Snow, the Municipal Commissioner of the city of Bombay, I visited the hospital where the sufferers were cared for. Qutsxde of the city for a considerable time the wagon brought us through A WRETOHED LOCALITY. and then through the grounds in the neighborhood of the factories. In the shade of the great banyans and palm trees delicate and pale flowers grow, rose and mauve color. lHedges constel- lated with tender violets and jasminos on the old walls alternate with the roses, and give out their perfumes. We reach the Parel suburb, at the._ end. of which, in a great field, stands the hos- pital for the plague stricken. It isa huge iron framework covered and sur- rounded with mats that are burnedas soon as they become impregnated With microbes. The air in the place is con- stantly renewed, and, in spite of 30 de- grees Centigrade, which in this seas- on is the average temperature here, it was almost cool. All the sick in the hospitals are coolies of the lowest Hindoo caste. On beds with thin mattresses the unfor- tunates lie. One after the other the doctor who was attending them showed them to us. The nurses uncovered them. At first nothing remarkable ap- peared upon their bronze, naked bodies. Some had bandages under their arms and in the groin. It is the hardened. gland in the neck, under the arms, and Lu the groin that causes all the trouble. The patient gets a fever which makes him sleep, exhausts him, and quickly kills him. In the ward which we had just pass- ed through there was only convales- cents or mild cases. At the end ofthis room there was a little emaciated crea- ture. (He was so thin that his body in the bed was hardly outlined under the covering. He was asleep as we were passing by. He came from ope of the districts ravaged by the famine. To fly from the other evil he came {here and caught the plague. They woke him. up, and he opened his enormous and superb eyes. He seemed delighted when he woke up, or it might be that. he was still in a half dream. He had the laugh of a happy child, and. comm- ally he shook his little shaved head, on the top of which was the Mussu‘lâ€" man queue that looked like a cork- screw. Then immediately he dropped to sleep again. The docmr said he was getting better. His fever was dimin- ishing, and he was as good as saved. In a room further on there were four very bad cases. Delirium held one in agony. He constantly called for help in a hoarse voice that was gradu- ally becoming more and more faint. The attendants held him. Another was IGNASHING HIS TEETH, and a third was motionless; perhaps he was already dead. . Further on in houses made of bam- boos and mats the Hindoos who refuse the assistance of any docLors who are not Hindch are isolated. One old man was there. To the swelling under his arms a sort of white paste was applied. He was delirious, and looked at us with a vague and vacant stare from which all intelligence seemed absent. Still further on was a Hindob wom- an that was brought there the day be- fore, along with her husband, who died this morning. lb‘he was singularly , beautiful, with a delicate, pale face and lblue-black hair. ’Her arms were orna- mented by bracelets, and golden rings hung from her ears. .For an instant she opened her beautiful large eyes, and looked at us like a-wbuuded gaz- elle. Then, with a painful sigh, she turned toward the wall, making her bracelets jingle as she moved. She still wore her blue tcholi. A variegat- ed covering was thrown over her, and beside her bed, was a collection of boxes and pots of polished copperi that look- ed like toys. As I said, she was marv- elloust beautiful, not yet maxed by the disease, which she caught only yester- day. She slept there quietly, more like some figure in a fairy tale than an unfortunate plague-stricken creature doomed to die in a few hours through the ignorance of her Hindoo doctor. . At last we left that sad hospital. No‘ Sister of Charity was there to bring a little consolation to those sufferers whose black eyes, with their vague and delirious expression. still haunt me. I fell on indescribable feeling of sadness of the idea of not being able to give them any relief or Lo expressilto them even one Word of hope in their very difficult, but soft and musical langu- age. . We returned to the city by another road, which brought us in front of the field of funeral piles. In the blue air of the night, which comes on ver quickly under the giant banyans, thic columns of red smoke lighled up acorn- er of tile; sky. I stopped in front of the house of the Pursee whom. I had gone to see the day before. v He was dead. In the place where his bed had been incense was burning in a copper vase; and in another copper vase there were flowers, which must be renewed regularly during fourteen days; while ~Lâ€"n the Towar of Silence, under the blazing sun, his bones will whiten un- til they are reduced to dustu