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Robert G. BtlaLn, brother of the late James G. Bllain, is dead at \K'ashin‘gton. The New York Central railroad has declared the quarterly dividend of 1 per cent; \ ‘ Earnings at the N'; Y. Central Rail- road in February amounted to 83,300,-‘ 460, an increase df $94,820. The entire staff of employees at the Devonport dock yard. numbaring» 5.000. have been Ordered to work overtime fdr the p'urpose of hastening the com- ;iletion of the fittingâ€"out of vessels up- on which they are engaged. UNITED STATES. ‘ Robhestar has four:- mlld cases of smallpox. . r Honorary degrees were conferred on.‘ Thursday by Cambridge University upon MIL ’l‘hos. F. Bayard. retiring! United States Ambassador. and upon the retiring French Ambassador, Bar~ on de Course/1. ‘ A The British imports from! Canada in- creased 166 r cemtl. in’ February, and 100 per can't» im the two months of the current year, while British imports tro‘m all countries only advanced four per cent). r r l The Queen is taking a direct gersom 3)] part in shaping the policy 0 Great Britain in the Gretan emergency. as she did in the Germzm crisis fourteen months ago. , . . The Queen’s gifts to the Mansion House fund for India. famine sufferâ€" ers amoun¢s to £1,000. The fund has regcheq £411,000. .’ Inspector Bchlugnm of Detroit says that Mr. C. M. Cog.<-L’a»nd of Winniâ€" Peg. recently airpunied Y. M. C. A. bucretary {or Mic'hfigaln'. will be sent back if hr: comes ’bo Ueiroi‘t, and an effort will be made to collect the pen:- aJty, olf $1,000 1'er the Michigan: Y. M. C. A. for viouatmg the alien labor Prof. Henry Drmmmand, the author of "Natural Law in the Spiritual World," is dead. He was fiorty~six years of age. The Louder; Times commepds Can- ada’s generosl'ty towards India. In Mexlmroug‘hl. Yorkshire, last week. a miner named Jodm Tait, sold his wife for half a. gallon. of beer. law‘ m‘nl samu. 00 it was s‘ The tender of the Kingston Locomo- tive \Vorks for the construction of Lwo steel barges for the Montreal Transâ€" portation Company has been accepted. lar 1m oontribu $119,000 a. few the the Interesting Items About Our Own Country. Om: Britain. the United Stakes. and All Parts 01' the Globe. Condensed and Assorted lor Easy Reading IA couple of Pmis residents have been fined $10 each for using cancell- ed postage stamps. The stamp mill in connection with the Kingsiron School of Mining is now crushing ore from different places night and day. MT. Alfred Pichetfie of Montreal fell firom the third storey balcony of his huge while engaged in adjusting a. pulley for a. clot-119511118, and was killed. It is said that No. 4 Clampany, R.R. 9.1., of Fredericton; N.B., has been se- lected by General Gascoigne (catacomâ€" any Premier Laurier to England in unis. ' Prof. Cmig, Go ist, in the cours‘ wa on Thursday length of Omar province. prov Rain storms have soaked the westb- arn departmemal block at Ottqwa which was recenLly damaged by fire. Ottawa is to have a military demonâ€" stration on the Queen's birthday in hon- our of the jubilee celebration. Capt. Prevost, the new Ottawa. firm chief. will be tendered a. banquet pre- vious to his departum from Montreal. The Government will send a. small exhibit of Cnrmdiun cereals and wood pulp to the International Exhibition at Stockholm. The Dominion Department of Public Works has been) notified that the sur- vey of the Fraser river. in British Col- umbia, has cummenced. A new $12,000 Ba.pList church has been opened at rerun-1:3. Manitoba's contributions to the 111’ die. [amine fund amount. to $13,000. .An earthquake shock was felt at Hamilton on Friday morning. Prohibitionists are organizing for the plebiscite campaign in Quebec. Ald. Hall has been appointed Assess- ment Commissioner of Hamilton. A new railway from Vx'innipeg to Port Arthur is projectei in Winnipeg. The total shortage in the accounts of the late Treasurer Campbell of Brant County is nearly $25,000. It is said the G.T.R. will transfer most. of (heir yard work to the Port Huron aide of the tunnel. HIL “UN IN E liUiGiiLLL. THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. a»! Mr {Ln .m't at I will days. num ‘anm 11' JIL 3.1] 10115 GREAT BRITAIN HUD Int. Government Hort 11 Indian CAN A DA “Ii xbl and R. will transfer pre to Cal‘ fruit gr H I'H zmme In W ,ul tur- 011 aâ€" fund OI What kind a: 'a. comefiuon did yom my? Oh. yes. yes. Haw stupid of me! Do you think they will be worn much next season? ‘ THIRST FOR KNOVVLHD‘GE. Ci-ty Belleâ€"I hope your stay in. our city will not be 's‘hort, Mr. De Science. MI. De Science (member at {the Orni- tlho'logisfs' Uniom)-â€"Thanfl; you» but my sojourn must be br'uef. I am here at- tending the Ornthoflogml ‘Oonvemtou at “he, Mussum of Natural History, and the sessions win soon be over. - ‘ {Herbert Fuller, Ihas been sentenced! to be hamde at Boston! on June 18 for the murder othapt. and 'Mrs. \NaAhJ. A bill Will be in'tlmdubed into the New Yomk Senate and Assdm‘va placimg undâ€" er cemsorsfhxip of State officials all the gewtlgpapers pubiidhed in New Yon-k. Lia . ,A despmbch from Cleveland, Ohio. sn-ys zâ€"Mrs. E. A. Fletcher, :1 handsome and dignifiedâ€"looking matron, arrived in Clevelend early on; Friday morning. She had not been in the city more than five minutes before she had a sample of the cold inhospitable man~ ner in which Cleveland treats her guests. In fact, she had not. lrft the Union station before she discovered that her satchel. containing all her belongings, including her extra. cloth- ing and cash. had been: purloined by a sneak thief. She reported her trou- bles toa policeman, who in turn notifi~ ed The detective, who is always at the station to take care of just such cases. The latter had been- watching a rather wspiciais-lookin-g man for some time, and for the time being had lost sight of him. When the story was told to the detective he at once suspected the individual referred to, and started on his track. It did not take him ‘long to find him. he being- ’traoed to a. dis~ reputable house 011 Hamilton street. The men» was p‘rolmpt'ly arrested. and on being threatened with imprison~ men‘t. confessed the crime. and told the officer to whom the Canadian visitor's belongings had been sold. The sa‘ichel was subsequently restored to the own- er, and the thief sent to gaol. Mrs. Fletcher had colme here on a visit. The United States Department of Agriculture reports flhat 20 ' per ‘cent. of last, year’s Wheat crop and 44 per- cent. of Uh» oat. crop is stiJ-l in fammers’ lhamds. | The 800 emplqyes of the Globe Shipâ€" hu Uding Cbmpany, Cleveland, who have been out on strike fan neafly two weeks have returned ho Work, win- ning the dispute. In the Bombay Presidency up to date 14.856 cases of bubonic plague and 12. 204 deaths have been remrden. 7713119 gnpouncement jha_t Japan _has Gen Wey esting that ed in Cuba. the insurg< martin}. It is stat miraJ vom It‘ is expected that the revised United States Laxiff will increase; the duty on] ooh! importations from 40 cents to 75 cents a. ton. Percy Dame, 5» fteller in” the Mer- chants’ Natimnal Bank at Newbmryport; Mass, has confessed to the embezzle- ment of $7.500. ' ‘ Thomas M. Bram, mate of the bark! Herbert Fuller, Ihas been sentenced: ta be hanged at Boston! on Jame 18 for the Secretary Sherman the other day signed the extradition, papers authoriz- ing the delivery tq the Australian offi- cers of Lee W eiler, wtho is wanted in Australia on a charge of murder. Trim‘e Bismarck is suffering from miralgia and cannot sleep. ‘ The Emma Bertha V011 Bwlow,- of kiwdergaarten fame will arrive in the United States the last of this month to make an educational tour. of the mummy. ‘ v The annou nee gfioplegi the gob Businesa in the United States con- tinues quiet, (wounding to the reports of the chief commarcisJ agencies at New York. At the same time there is a fair, and to same extent increasan activity in diflerent lines of industry. Steady prices, and increased railway earnmgs have increased confidence in the satisfactory outlook for trade in the early future. .In many directions already the spring demand has oom- menoed with the (retailers throughout: the country. A more active enquiry is experienced in shoes, headweaa‘. and clothing generally; While in the \Vest and South Agricultural implements are being enquired for. Despite some de« creases. prices are usually well main- tained, and prospects are reported as most encouraging. Tbére the D The liobhvry of a ’l‘nrmno Lady in Cleve land. pt on complaint. the chlel dared the search was the Ornithologicalâ€"about 'OI is stated in Be'x‘lin that ViceQ-AJCI- I vom Hullmann. Secretary of the , has tendered his resignation. but enema-nee is Telf‘used by the Em- W’eyler has issued an order dir- ' that hereafter all manner» arrestâ€" Cuba who are suspected of aiding .xsurgenfs shall be tried by court- xclu FELL AMONG THIEVES, only a fired that Gen. Wey‘ler has re- sitive orders from Spain to end 11 war at once, even by going hem. of selling the island to GENERAL 3 standard to firemature bill to that eflect before in Ha! o the AbstrianhReichs- m Tuesday, and were Cleveland, Ohio. tcher, a handsome : matron, arrived n Friday morning. in the city more undér ur his )urg occupym ‘ charged wit iiger Cbmpany m of expelling p01 it" schar were badly rt 11 ho orâ€" “re riti as to were ersu'll‘ son. nthâ€" THE GREAT PROBLEM HAS BEEN PRACTICALLY SOLVED. Captain D’Abxney,'i11 describing the quallty of the solutlons. .declares that the coloring is of a. very Simple nature. "There are three dyes," he writesâ€" "a crimson red, a grass green and a Very good bluehall in solution and pro- bablv mixed With some other ingredi- enlt besides water. There is what we may call a mowdanzt‘. in {:he sha of a. colorless liquid. cothaLnlng. I s ould say, album and {salt} "The last liquid is brushed copiously aver the face of the positive on the silver print and the blue dye applied a. litrln at a time. It was declared that the (viewing must take place in good A Clever Frenchman Discovered the Score â€" Expcrlmonm by Bugllsll Experts â€" The Inventor cnn Photograph All the l‘olors of the Rainbow. According to information which has come to this country, the problem of photography. which has been so long experimented with.and which has been declared solved so many times. only to discover that the amnduncement was premature, has been at last solved by M. Villaiiwâ€"Chassagne, of Paris. The experiments of the Englishmen were confined to gelatine films, but the inventor treated with complete suc- sess some paper posrtives he \had brought trom Paris. These are de- scribed as looking like ordinary silver prints: t;ng with goid. The light‘, {they say, upon that 00- oasion was extremely bad; the sky be. ing overcast, an d'unfavorable' atmos- pheric conditions prevailed. Notwith- standing this, huwe'velr, the positives, which were within twemty-folur hours after the negative. showed with perfect distinctness, when treated according to the Villedieu-Chasseugne process, the salons of a bunch of? flowers which the secretary of the Somety of Arts had bought at Cove-nit Garden. The com- bination] of colors in such a subject can be readin understood. Photographs of subjects not possessxng such brilliant tints were equally sgccessfgl. U > The French experimenter has been at work on various solutions for along time. It will be remembered that pre- vious efforts to secure chromatic photo- graphy have been made with prepara- tions in powder form and on the nega- tive M. Villedie'u-Chassagne overthrows both oi these principies and uses solu- tions instead of powders and operates upon the positive instead of the nega- tive. Within the iast fortnight experi- men’ts have been made in London by Sir H. Truman Wood, the secretary of the Society of Arts, and Captain W. D'Arcey, with a. view to testing Ville- dietuâ€"Chassagno‘s process. While bomb of the Emelish experi- menters started in upon their inquir- ies with decided scepticism. they were converted. it (not entirely. still to a. very notable degree. to the French in- ventors theories. The Villedieuâ€"Chasâ€" sagne process was originally suggested by Dr. Adrian Bansac, but the recent development of it has gone very far totward destroying all of' the details of the Bansuc process, leaving only his theory behind. The demonstration took place In a laboratory of King's College, in Lon~ don. The geniflezmen who were pre- sent Were Professors Thomson and Herâ€" bert Jackson, of King's College; Sir H. Tmeman Wood and Captain D'Abn-ey. According to the description of the ex- periments which is given by the secre- tary oi the Society of Arts the colors of the natural object are produced with a wonderful similarity in the photo- graph. Sir H. Tmman, Wood says:â€" ent ( four I PRACTICALLY SOLVED. "To say that Vi‘lledievuâ€"Chassagne’s process enables photographs to be prmlmced in natural colors would not perhaps be strictly true, since coloring media. are introduced, but the result of the process is a. photograph in the colors of nature, a. faithful reproduc- tion in color of the object; photograph- ed, and so for all practical purposes it may be said that the long sought obâ€" ject of photographing in colors has act- ually been bdtained." Villedieuâ€"Chussagn-e insists at pres- recy the in ve and red, and the print takes up the propriate coiors in uppropriaLe pa) the three collars giving by their va ous combinations all varieties of hue Iective absorption is given to the com- ponents of the photographic image~ principally, of curse. metallic silver â€"is, it; aprpeurs to me. the interesting question connected With the ‘pwcess. The action is certainly previously un- known, and it‘ will as certainly repay scientific investigation." ’l'he English investigators declined to be convinced by the IDIPI‘e inspection of the finished result. and the inven- tor demonstrated all the details of the process to them. They took a number of photographs themselves on the day before the experiment. Sir H: Twemun Wood, in comment- 1ng_yp0in _thl_s phenomppon sayszf 5X11 COLORED PHOTOGRAPHY 11‘ soJu \vi frt riecticrn, 0 ion in th ledieuv transpgx; at& his SIMPLE COLORING it is "that this tre pm Ir; meat t this power 13 $9;â€" is given to the com- hologmphic image~ I98. metallic silver m, the interesting (1 with the. ‘proeess. zin-ly previously L111- 1 ‘as certainly repay {v 1th {I the 1t Lily DIM 3.1116 daylight. The blue dye rapidly takes hold of .Ithose portions of the surface which represent in monochrome blues in the original. "For instance, 2). china. vase will take the bll‘ue tint, and the face or hands a faimt amount of the} same color. The green dye is applied in the same man- ner, andjthe greens in the original make their appearance in the positive as do the red tints. Finally. the print or posxtive presents a picture in colors, underlying wihioh is the dark brown silver image. It appears that the im‘ age takes up selectively these three colors. but why it takes them u it is hard to see. I. have a. portrait one by him {in the manner described. and the negative has evidently been reâ€" launched with a. pencil. It is hard to understand why a pencil mark could be the cause of selective absocrfption of the colors. That the success 0 the process does not depend upon the inventor's intervention is quite evident. Were it the negative which took up the color one might understand the matter better.” i . Expense of the Bitter-cut Sorts of Artlflelnl Lights. The director of the electrical company of Cologne has made a comparison of the cost of the difle'rent aorta of 31s tificial lights, reduced to the same standard of illuminating power. As the cost of materials for illuminating var~ ice in different localities, he has tak- en the cost of coal gas at ninety-one cents per thousand cubic feet; of a1- cohol for use in incandescent lamps, at thirty cents a gallon; ofcoal oil at fifteen cents a gallon; and of electricity at one and threeâ€"fourths cents per hectowatt. Supposing the "manstis" of the incandescent gas burners to last 400 hours, and to cost fiftg cents each, and other apparatus to ave the average life. he finds the most expensive ordinary light to be that from the incandescent electric lamps, which cost ten cents per hour, for a given amount of illumination. Next comes the light from ordinary gas burners. with openings in the form of slits, which cost six cents for the same illumination. Amgand burners, are, light for light, about 20 per cent, more economical than the other sort. Next to these come incandescent lamps burn- iing alcohol.‘which give light at half the price of the ordinary gas burner. Ordinary coal oil lamps give light munh more cheaply, the omt per unit of il- lumination being little more than oneâ€" fiIth that of an incandescent electric light, but the modem gas lights with incandescent [Daniels are still more eo- onomica1.furnishing for one and threeâ€" Sta'te berimgabsorbed bk thB'l‘Ian'svanl. Continuing, President ruger said he lkmew he had to abide: by the London convention, but the Queen waslua trou- bLesome woman, and iit was t'herefore necessary to dean wim‘b the. «nation of uniqn with the utmost caution. He. hoped some day to see a. union of the whole of Atria». At Plongastel, in Brittany, all the weddings of the year are celebrated on one day. In February last 34 couples were simultaneously 'oined together in holy matrimony. . e ceremony was very pretty, all the brides and bride- grooms wearing Breton costumes, and walking in procession round the town. followed by their fathers and mothers, their brothers, their sisters, their ccousâ€" ins, and their aunts. The wedding break- fast was laid out in detachments, hard- ly a building in the village being ex- empt from making room for a portion. There were 2,000 guests distributed among the lofts. barns and kitchens; plates were conspicuous by their ab- sence and a. dish of food was supplied to every four persons. The festlvities lasted for a week, and included many curious old Breton customs. l'rcsldent Kruger‘s (omelnptuuus Refer- (‘llt'l‘ to the Queen. A despadom from Bioermfonvteim 01‘- wnge Free State sayszâ€"President Kruâ€" ger, of the Trams/nail Republic, has ar- ri-ved here with the view golf arranging flar a closer uniotn between 1th Transâ€" vaal and the Orange Free State. {He was enieu‘tained at a puxhitib luncheon. and repflyi-n‘g to like eulogistio toasts of President SLeyng, of the Orange Free State, he, said he was not there to con- trovert hhue Queen's righ’ts. Time; he addbd would s’hmv he had always (19;- femded [her Majestyâ€"(cheem)â€"and he [had ‘told his people .to respect her. [He expressed the hbpe that the two Re- publics would form iIndi-ssolubla ties, buft {he mver had wuyddea. otf the Free Sta‘te bejmg almoth by; the Transvaafi. light, t incande onomice quarter amount electric madness, trees 1mm sadness anti evu passions. ' ' Octoberâ€"Opal; hope. Novemberâ€"Topaz; fidelity; prevents bad dreams. Decemberâ€"Turquoise; prosperity. known to us amps kALL WEDDINGS ON ONE Th Apri COST OF DIFFERENT LIGHTS. A TROUBLESOME WOMAN. nberâ€"Chry ;, frees frc lam T'R th- III MONTH about Li“, a artifi 11111 11‘ D‘ lma 1y 1t ial 10 solite; antidote to m sadness and evil Incandescent electric em gas lights with 15 are still more eo- : for one and threeâ€" means :es in IC STONES an is direct incan at preée mdescent ectrlc arc DAY dis- a1 ILLNESS 0F ROYALTY IN FOUR COUNTRIES OF EUROPE. HEALTH OF THE RULERS Speculaung About the mm of the Cur-A Man of Nervesâ€"Emperor of Germany Never Free From Pulu-Clone Inn-th of Marriage the Cause of the Trouble. A correspcmdent, writing from Lon- don says that there is no exaggeration whatever in the whispered reports of the feeble health which afflicts the Czar, the maxi: two heirs to the Aus- trian crown, the Prince of Naples and the Emperor of Germany. Any of théée personages is liable to the sudden grip of the dread enemy. A5 for the Czar, his real trouble is consumption, and a long life for him is impossible. His present illness. ascrib- ad to neuralgia of the face, is really brain worry. It is not caused by the slight wound which he received a few years ago from the attack of awouldâ€" be assassin in Japan, but by the unfor- tunate illness which came a. few weeks ago to the Empress and frustrated the hope of a. male heir to the throne. True, there is the Emperor's brother. but he is slowly dying of consumption, and the Czar himself is of opinion. that were he to die, and the crown devolve upon his little daughter, she and the Em- press, who would be Regent would cer- tainly become the speedy prey of the regicide’s’bullet or bomb. Russia would never submit to the regency ‘of 9. Gen- man princess. THE FAULT IS IN MARRIAGE. The health of the young Prince of Naples has not been improved by his recent marriage to the Princess of Montenegro. As for the Emperor Wil- liam, he is never entirely free from pain, and it is now stated “that the ul- ceration of the ear is gradually extend- ing to the brain. and that must mean madness or death. 7Kle It is as I feared to be married! Daughterâ€"Bridget has ‘beccune re- maximbe attemfmve to her duties late- ly. Mother (sudly)â€"'I halve motin it. Yes, she has stopped dlfingg her war’k, and pa’s shirts and oo'llars and. Duffs are start;th beautifully. Sh» w-al'ked twenty squares last Saturday p'ftemnmn to we a woman who had" pmmisexl to Show heir how." - x i My 1 my I - And lately dhe. has begun! studying cookâ€"books, amd asklm'g me all mannem of questions about thy-31 (Desserts and 0th,- ea‘ dishes which I have a.1ways had td make myseflf. She seems delermimedt m master every department olE' {housekeepâ€"w 'unLg. The Cause, perhaps, of this general condition of affairs in so many royal families must be traced to the close kinship of the marriages they contract, and the unfortunate laws which pre- vent crown princes from choosing WlVeS from the ranks of their healthy coun- trywomen, not of royal lineage. The Queen and the Prince of \Vales are ar- dent reformers in this direction. as is shown by the marriages they have per- mitted their children to contract. True, the Prince of Wales rather contradicted himself when he allowed his youngest and most delicate daughter, Princess Maud, to marry her first consin, Prince Charles of Denmark, but it is no secret A songstress sigh'd to be a, star, A star divine of singing. And famous masiers, mau- and far She sought, bright silver bringing. the only came He. drew her in‘ and from his soul He breath’d of song a. shower; - That thlrlough her heart (lid swell and r0 With dreamy spell and power. Her silv'ry voice he taught to trill \Vith‘ birdâ€"like ease and rapture; And left her smiling on a. hill, The World by song to capture. “Dear master, stay, for what you've done. I’ll gold and silver borrow" "For love I teach and love alone I" Cried singing-master Sorrowl” lat yith the young ed in' her own But, sad to say, her silver spent, Her dearest hopes departed, Hameward, at last, the singer went; Forlorn and broken hearted! She would have died. had not beside. Her ’way she saw a hermit, \Vh-ose but behind the hills did hide, Till one could scarce discern it. at atuTall )D union, on the plea. of c SAD DOMESTIC NE‘VVS THE SINGING MJA STER A NER bl VOUS CZAR .nally conversation beâ€" am! the Princesa had Ewith sitting in silence Emperor's hand clasp- 11d no nally ( 11d 15m. gly propoged onsanguimty 1d talking is vh'i.t irritat- 1ediate cour- no salt; 11 sanctx een 308.ch- the _ specu- mm 111 case Emperor a of late 0113 from ‘e to him, h am exâ€" ar 3. word his Ma;â€" studying mann/em and 0th.- 9 had td mined! to muselkeepw a. bell is rmperial hin eur- have H15 0188 1f