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ri- OURKENT TOPICS. BnYEBS of costly {urs who go abroad to make their purchases will be interested to hear the substance of a communication just made to the Voesitche lieilung by its Paris correspondent : " The fur cf the French rabbit is in great demand at this time of the year. It figures, moreover, under all sorts of names. The easiest form in which to present it is that of " Siberian fur ;" vith the long hairs taken out it takes the name of " castor " closely shorn by machine it sells as " otter." Two-thirds of all the furs sold, in fact, have aujuired their beauty neither in the plains of Siberia nor the waters of the Arctic Oceau, but on the back of the rabbit that disports itself in the fair fields of sunny France." Foreigners who wonder why their expen- sive furs fade so rapidly ought to need no further satisfaction of their curiosity. The official inquiry into the causes of the terrible railway accident near White River Junction, on the Central Vermont Road, last Saturday morning, does not, thus far, clear up the mystery. The engineer of the fated train says that just as he came upon the bridge the bell-cord was pulled and at the signal he slacked the train. His speed was not more than eight miles an hour when the signal sounded. Looking back he saw the rear car swing off the bridge. In its fall it seemed to pull three cars with it, one after the other. Then tue coupling broke and the forward part of the train wae saved. This would indicate that the truck of the rear car broke and that somebody in the car realized this and gave the signal to the engineer. As nearly everybody in this car perished, the probabilities are that we shall never know more about the cause of the disaster than is known now. EvEn since a few London west end ladies adopted the Bloomer costume in 1851 there have been spasmodic spurts in favor of dress reform. Of late years an annual conference has been held at which corsets, skirts, high-heeled shoes and garters have been denounced as the parents of all the evils, physical and moral, which afllict a stiff-necked generation. The annual con- ference of the Rational Dress Reform Asso- ciation in London has just been brought to a close. The meetings were not open to the sterner sex. The platform was adorned by ladies dressed in various styles of " rationality." Viscountess Harberton, who appeared iu a divided garment, deliv- ered an address, and so did Mrs. Pfeiffer, who wore a Greek costume with modifica- tions, but nothing positively novel seems to have been said or worn and no fresh suggestions offered. There is not in London the least sign of a disposition among women of society to adopt anything but the latest fashions of fashionable dressmakers. While Mr. Stanley has been making the last preparations at London and Cairo for his journey into Africa, some of his assist- ants, sent in advance to Zanzibar, have beea hiring porters and bnyingand packing the trade goods needed for the march. Stanley expects to arrive at Zanzibar on February 21st, and if the thousand porters he requires have been secured by that time he will doubtless depart at once on his difficult mission. He greatly prefers the Congo route, believing it to offer the easiest and safest road to Emin Boy's camp a». Wadolai. It would, to be sure, take him over a month to roimd the Cape and reach the Congo, but he estimates that with the aid of the Congo State steamers, which King Leopold has placed at his disposal, ho could reach Emin Bey in forty-five or fifty days from the mouth of the river. If, however, there is no steamer at Zanzibar that Stanley can engage at once to take his party to the Congo, he will riek the mani- fold perils of the overland route. It is a noteworthy fact that although the natives .serve the whites as porters along a large part of the African coast,the Zanzibaris are by far the most trustw^orthy ; and Stanley thought it necessary to go to the east coast for them, though ho desired to begin hin mission on the west. A FIGHT WITH PECCABIE8. AnlmaU That Will Keep Up a Slecfe All Might. "Three Thousand Miles Through Brazil !" contains this animated descrip- tion of a fight with peccaries : I had barely closed my eyes when 1 felt my hammock violently shaken, and perceived an odor of old pigstyes. It became evident that we were surroimded by some animals, for in many directions was heard the sound of bodies moving through the bash, twigs snapping, grass rustling, etc. It wat a moment of suspense, but not for long, for suddenly from all around us came a blood- curdling sound of the simultaneous snap- ping of teeth from vast numbers of the enemy, followed by the appearance of a crowd of charging black animals rushing with wonderful speed toward a common centre â€" our fort. Each of us lighted a coil of wax tapers that were prepared ready for the occasion. And what a scene ensued. The fire was rapidly scattered and partly extin- guished. Under and around us was a seething mass of black peccaries, barely distingnishable in the dim light, but all pushing and struggling to the front. * * The men in the hammocks, after discharg- ing their guns, reached down and slashed with their knives at the swarming auimals below them. The attack was more Uke the wild, reckless bravery of the Arabs of the Soudan, for as pig "after pig fell squealing and disabled, scores more struggled for his place. * * They threw themselves against the fort, regardless of being struck down one after the other, and always im- pelled forward by those in the rear ; others rushed for our hammocks, or viciously gashed the trees that gave as support. The extremely disagreeable and nauseous o<lors of the animals, their snapping of teeth like musketry file tiring, the reports of the fire- arms, the shouts of the men, the howling and barking of the dogs and the dim light created an indescribably strange and excit- ing scene. Every bullet of my revolver took effect. I shouted to the men to reserve their powder and fire volleys, but it was like talking in a gale of wind at sea. The animals appeared to be in immense num- bers, grunting, stiuealing and gnashing their teeth ; but noticeable above everything was the abominable rxhalations from their bod- ies, an odor like a combination of rank but- ter and garlic. * * Than came a diaboli . cal crash of teeth from a complete circle around us, followed immediately by another wild charge, and the battle was again renewed. • * Six or seven other attacks followed, but each one became weaker, and the intervals of longer duration. The eventful night seemed interminable, and finally it was not until near daybreak that we heard the last grunt. In the morning 27 dead pec- caries were found in about the camp, and several wounded, to whom it was necessary to give the coup df grace. * • • During the battle I could not help noticing the apparent method of their movements, as though they were led by chiefs. Their mode of attack is to surround in silence by a complete circle the object to be stormed ; when, at a given signal, a simultaneous snapping of teeth takes place, followed by a converging rush to the centre, whereby the largest and strongest reach the front flrst and the smallest bring up the rear. Their retreat is carried out on an equally methodical system. »-^ â€" BRIGHAH YODNO'S GVLDE. Fun from the Fatherland. "Ach, Adele, I love you like â€" like- likeâ€"" " Well, think it over, Herr Fritz ; perhaps you can toll me to-morrow!" â€" Fleigende Blatter. " Do you know Frau Zâ€" , madame ?" "Oh, yes ! she in my best friend ; we have no secrets from each other." " Ah, then, perhaps you can tell me how old she is ?" " Oh, air, wo are not (juite as intimate as all that !" â€" lie .â- imnterdammer. A talented pianist, Madame De V , sitting at dinner by the side of Colonel RamoUot, asked him in an amiable tone ; " Colonel, are you fond of music ?" " Madame," replied the warrior, rolling his eyes savagely, " I am not afraid of it." â€" Fleigende Blatter. ^ Probably an Oakvllle Man. The body of an unknown seaman, taken from the sch.ooner Lucerne, which foun- dered off the entrance to Ashland Hay, Lake Superior, in November last, was pro- bably that of Patrick 11. Madigan, of Oak- ville. Mrs. Madigan has been making inquiries regarding the whereabouts of her husband, and from information she pos- sesses there is left little doubt that ho was aboard the ill-fated craft. An increased demand for cut diamonds, which has been noticed for some time at Amsterdam, is reported also from Antwerp, which is the principal rival of Amsterdam in the repairing of diamonds for the mar- ket. The workmen engaged in the trade have decided to ask for a considerable increase of wages, and they threaten general strike if this increase be not granted. He (enraged arvjl engaged)â€" Why, Laura, how is this 1 I thought you were to save those dances uatil I came, and here your programme is full ? Lauraâ€" Oh, that is all right. I filled it out with dummy names. It saves embarrassment, you know, when disagrooable persons ask you to dance with them. The late Prof. Archibald Alexandar Rodgo, of Princeton Thoological Seminary, was a man of broad sympathies and con sidorablo humor. One day an impecunious young graduate called with a letter of introduction to ask help in obtaining a pastorate. Ilnrpir'g U'ecklii says the docu- ment stated that bo had n, wife and baby and was in a starving condition. " You have a wife? " asked the Professor. " Yes, sir." "And a babv?" " Yes, sir." "Is it plump and tender?" "Oh, yes, sir." *' Well, why not eat the baby ? " The Governor Danoea on Sk«t««. The Vice-Regal party a' '-ended the fancy dress ball given at the Victoria Skating Rink, Montreal, on Thursday night. The Governor-General worea short coat of dar' brown velvet, trimmed with sable, black hose and breeches and a gold cnain. It was in fact a Hamlet dress. The Mar- chioness was dressed as a Swiss peasant. The Governor-General surprised the Cana- dians with his dancing, which was grace- ful, his stops being gracefully taken and with the co.ittdenoe of an expert skater. It is by no means aii eas;, i..r'.lc.' to dance on skates, and the effect is surprisingly grace- ful and impressive. ♦ â€" llride and Corpw In n Week. A few days ago. Miss Edna, eldest daughter of Mr. L. Penslie, 2nd line, War- wick, and niece of Jamcw Busbie, of this city, was married to Abraham Warren, of Vigner, near Sarnia. They had* been married but a week, when the bride was taken suddenly ill withinflammation.and in four days she died. The body was interred in Lake View Cemetery, Sarnia, yesterday Deceased was 18 years of age and is rr gretted by a large circle of friends. â€" St Thomtu Timet. How He Led the Mormon Chief Into the Valley of the Great Salt Lake. John Y. Nelson, the guide who piloted Brigham Young to the present site of Mor mondom, told the story of the trip as fol- lows to a reporter for the New York World : " It was late in the fall of 1846, I think. I was at Cottonwood Springs, Neb., living with an old Mexican half-breed, who knew every inch of the Rockies like a book. We were doing nothing in particular and ready for a job, when Brigham Young came along and asked my jlexican friend and myself to be his guides across the Rockies, pro- mising us good pay. He had four com. panions. Mormon elders, I think, but 1 can- not remember their names. Seven in all, we started with two emigrant waggons, one of them loaded with fiour, bacon, coffee and biscuit enough for two years' supply. I don't believe Brigham had an idea when he started just where he was going nor when he would get back. It was a sort of prospecting trip. He and the elders called each other ' brother,' and the old man was a good-naiured, jolly sort of fellow. He talked a good deal of religious lingo, but he was not the Sunday School, pious-Jonah kind; would say 'D- it ' just the same as I would, and played a good hand at euchre. I was quite a young fellow in those days, and, as the old Mexican didr.': speak much English, Brigham talked a good deal with me and tried to convert me to Mormonism. ' He was about 40, well set up, and with a big, strong head and neck. I didn't taUe much stock in his arguments defending polygamy, which Jo Smith had recently introduced as a revelation among the Saints. But Brigham gave me the idea of a man who was pretty firm in his opinion and actually believed what ho preached. " We didn't hurry ourselves much, making only about twenty miles a day with the waggons, pitching our tents for three or four days at a time when we got into a likely region where game was plenty, and exploring the country for miles around. I don't think we met a white man all the way across. There were lots of Indians, but they didn't trouble us, just coming into camp to trade off fresh meat or skins for bacon and coffee. Toward Christmas we struck Ham's Fork, in Western Nebraska, after making a journey of nearly a thou- sand miles. There we were snowed up until the spring. " That was a particularly hard winter, and the snow was forty feet deep in places where it had drifted over the canyon. But we didn't suffer ; provisions were plenty, there were lots of game, and when we couldn't get water we got snow and melted' it. Our camp at Uam's Fork was pitched in a sheltered valley, and we got all the elk, antelope and bear we could shoot. Late in the spring, when the snow had melted, we struck camp and started straight up the mountain about forty ilea. Right np on top of the mountain we fotmd a large lake, fed by a living spring, chockfuU of trout that beat anythins in the world. The smallest of them was about two feet long and weighed five or six pounds, and the flavor " The old trapper sniacked his lips as the recollection of the gustatory gratification of forty years before arose in bis mind. " Brigham was aU.the time spying out the lay of the land, and as he looked from the top of the mountain over the level stretch of desert nearly fifty miles away he said : ' The promised land is in sight.' We made our way down the mountain without any accident worth mentioning, and when wo struck the water now known as Salt Lake Brigham swatlowo<l a mouth- ful and named it tho.Great Salt Lake. Then we struck out about six miles to the north- west, and Brigham You'igBtoppedsnddenly in the middle of the vulley and shouteJ : ' This is the spot ; this is the place revealed to me by the Great Spirit in a dream long ago. Hero we will build the New Jerusa- lem !' " We stayed in the neighborhood about six weeks. Brieham staked out the place BO that we could find it again easily an<l made a sort of map of it. 'Then we started back to Cottonwood Springs, which we reached late in the summer. Brigham and his friends went over on to Nnuvoo, III., and I went off on a deer hunt with my Indian friends. Next year Brigham took a large party of Mormons over, and Salt Lake City was built oi: the very spot to which I guided him." WHAT SOME MEN NEVER LEARN. That the Baby la the Key to the Doniaittic Situation Every Time. It is ama/ing how slow some men are to find out that the baby is the key to the domestic situation. Nu woman ever quar- rels with a man who plays regularly with the baby. No woman ever really loved a man who ignored the baby. Doesn't the poet say that " hell hath no fury like a woman with a baby scorned ?" That isn't exactl) it, but it's near enough. In the majority of suits for divorce you will find there was no baby. The baby is down on divorces every time. The baby is the pre- siding judge in the court of matrimonial arbitration, and he keeps it in per- petual session. If there is a strike the baby orders it off and both parties back to work on the old terms. If you have the baby on your side, the baby's mother can ba counted to send a solid delegation in your favor to any kind of convention you can think of. The babies are all peace- makers, and " blessed are the iwacemaKe.s," you know. Moreover, the man who has bribed the baby into his confidence will tell you that the little citizen in pink knows more than you give him credit for. Some doctor's books will tell you that babies don't talk intelligently till they're about eighteen months old. This is a medical delusion. A healthy baby is a brilliant conversationalist at three months old. People who know their language â€" it is not quite ours â€" can and do talk with them by the hour. You can tell the baby that you feel blue, and he will push his fist in your eye, which gives you the denial direct. Go on and tell him that you have had a bad week's business ami have lost money. The moment you say "Money" the baby will blow big bubbles from his red lips ; babies have infinite contempt for men who count their gains and losses in money. Now, tell baby tha* you think he's the pittiest little dot of a baby, bess it, dat ever was in dis world, and he will immoliatelv fall on one side of your neck and yank your hair, which means that now you are talking common sense. It is Victor Hugo, the biggest. hearted Frenchman of the century who sings of babies : lu our liKbt, bitter worM uf wronfts Ttioyctnuw: God Kiv**H us them awhile. Hi» Hiweob i> in their utaniiiierint; tongue Aud His forKivene««i in tlieir auille, â€" Botton Globe. -Supt. Shields, of the Western Division of the Canadian Pacific, has left for St. Paul, Minn., to accept a similar position on the St. Paul A Manitoba Road. Before leaving Medicine Hat ho was presented wilh a purse containing 81,500 by the employees. KOYPTIAN SEBE.NADE. HinR aKaiii the sonR you nung When wo wore toKotlier youngâ€" When there wore nut you and 1 Underneath the summer alcy. Hing tlie song, and o'er and o'er, 'Though I liuow tliat neverinoro Will it Beoin the Rong you aung Wlieii we "ere together young. â€"Rev. George Muller, of Bristol, Eng- land, who it was reported had died in Australia, has arrived at Yokohama, and during the past two weeks has held meet- ings there, and in other countries which ho has visited. He is now 82 years of age, but full of itoal. â€" The latest styles of dressing the hair in Paris are much loss e.xaggorate<l than at one time they threatened to become. High structures of puffs and curls and aigrettes have been replaced by much simpler and less elevated modes of arrangement, though in the same style. The " Diana " coiffure, formed by bringing the 'oack hair forward and turning it over to form a single roll at thetopof the head, is new and very graceful. â€" ^The Chicago A Alton Railway seem to have reached the perfection of expensive and artistic advertising. They have issued throe beautiful volumes, each a parody of ono oi Gilbert A Sullivan's popular operas â€" "Princess Ida," "lolantlie" and " I'atience." These parodies are written by D. Dalziel, and profusely illustrated in colors after the (]uaint style of Kato Greonaway. They are admirable siwci- mens of color work aud western railway enterprise. ^^ A Canny Soot. A Scotch farmer rode up to a tol'bar, and finding the gate open, he wheele<l his horse round about just as he passed through, and shouted for the toll-keeper, who was in- visible. " Hey, I'm sayin' fat's the damage tae git through yer gate wi' a horse ?" " A shillin'," shouted the toll-keeper, making his appearance. " A shillin'," echoed the farmer, sarcastically. " No shillin' d'ye get frao me. I'll awa' hamo again ," and wheeling his horse for the second time, he rode off in the direction ho wished to go, chuckling at the trick ho had performed m>on the toll-keeper. â€" , _^ . Mr. Kinch Kitchen has attained an envi- able notoriety among his neighbors near Talapoosa because fifteen years ago ho swore off from getting mad and has kept his reso- lution from that day till this. F'iftcon cows huddled in a Northern Pa- cific cut to keep from freezing to death, and a freight train came through and killed all of them. One of a gang of ice cutters near Mount Carmel, 111., cut out a block of ioo on three sides and then laid a saw on it, remarking: " Home fool will go to pick up that saw and in he 11 go. ' Ho provc<l to be a prophet, for forgetting his trick a few moments later he himself stepjicd on the ice cake and went down in seven feet of water. A novel advertising scheme wa.H recently introduced by a merchant in Carthage, 111. A series of prodigious boot tracks wore painted leading from each side of the public square to his establishment. The scheme, it is said, worked to perfection, for every- body seeme<l curious enough to follow the tracks to their destination. A Welsh couple from a mining settlement neor Pottsville, Pa., re.«ntly obtained a marriage license from Register Johnson. Then they went home happy in the thought they were man and wife, and lived together for two or throe weeks before thsy found out that a minister or a 'Squire was necessary before they could be really ' married. Late Fashion Noteh Knots of platinum and gold heavily chased are liked for linked aleove buttons. Aniang fashionabU' women the favorite ring is a large shield sliajied turquoise sur- rounded with diamonds. Black braiding on white cloth vests and panels is not new, but is still worn, gene- rally upon house dresses for those iu mourning. Ladies beginning to lay aside mourning wear gray cashmere combined with white corded silk and trimmed with steel passe- menterie. There is a tendency to return to some old-fashioned colors under new names. A bright blue shade is called "Jubilee blue," in honor of the Queen. A hght pink that is being brought out in velvets to combine with black lace is much like the old Magenta shades and is called CharUs X. ptuk. Anamone Is a new red- dish purple, much prettier than the helio- trope now worn. India silks are more popular than French foulards, owing to their superior durability. White India silks, with all-over patterns of graceful lines in black, blue, brown or scarlet, will make pretty summer dresses, and there are many Watteau and Pompa- dour designs of roses and pinks in pale and charming colors. Lace is no longer used iu prcf jsion to trim these light silks, velvet having sapercedecl it. Surahs with large, wide diagonal twills are shown in all solid colors and in many plaids, some of the prettiest being dark blue cros8e<l with pink or lighter blue ; Suede, with bars of rose and green, and green grounds, barred with pink. These are to be made up in entire dresses, not combinations, with velvet collar, vest and cuffs ; the skirts bordwcd with velvet, or with velvet laid in between the plaits. The sleazy diagonal wools of light quality are shown in all dark colors, with white lines and bars, like that which had such immense popularity last summer. How- ever, the method of making them up will be quite different, the kilt plaits and -..nootii short lavandeuse drupery being replace<" by plain skirts and volun.'ious Grecian drajiery. The sailor hats almost invariably worn with these suits last year will bo re- placed by the brimlcss turban. Drab and tan shades, brown and gray are largely represented iu what is called covert cloth for short covert coats to be worn with suits of wool of lighter colors, or as an occasional wrap to go with almost anv dress. There are also loosely woven English cloths in small blocks of two or three colorsâ€" such as olive with blue or red with brownâ€" to make travelling suits or the suits worn in the morning for shopping, or any use, except for visits and afternoon entertainments. There is already a large display in all the shops of sateens, batistes and other cotton goods, because such dresses are made up during the leisure of Lent. Panels of embroidery, borders for the lower skirt and entire skirts of embroidery are special features of these pretty gowns. The various shades of heliotrope, so fwpular this winter, reappear in the sateens, as well as several of the now greens and grays. The fancy is to make them with plain skirts of solid colors, the drapery being figured in white or ecru. NEW THINGS JUST OITT. Wood Woolâ€" Sewing Machine Improve- meutiâ€" Cork Bricks for Partitions. The best quality of that growingly uaefol article, wood wool, isobtained from the Rig^ fir tree, by means of a machine specially adapted to the purpose. This ingenious machine consists of a cast-iron frame resting upon three iron supports, and car- rying a driving shaft, which is actuated by two pulleys, fast and loose ; to this shaft is fitted a fly-wheel, one spoke being pro- vided with a pin that receives one of the extremities of a connecting rod, the other extremity being connected with the knife- carrierâ€" this latter, which also rests upon the iron frame, sliding in iron guides, and carrying a set of peculiar knives, so ar- ranged that the wood is cut in both the backward and the forward motions of the knife-carrier. The wood is held. apright by the machine by suitable arrange- ments, permitting the introduction of blocks of a few fractions of an ipch long ; the wood is shoved forward under the knives by means of a click, that causes it to advance the requisite distance at every revolution of the fly-wheel, every move- ment thus aiding in perfecting the result. â€" La Nature, Parii. The new sewing mach'ne contrived by an Edinburgh inventor claims to be the simplest yet mode for effecting the lock- stitch. It is on the rotary shuttle princi- ple, the novelty of it lying in a circular saucer-shaped shuttle, which is set up oa edge and laid with its flat side against the left-hand end of the lower shaft, which is held in position by a revolving cap. The axis of the shaft, the shuttle and the cup, being in line and revolving together, the result is an easy motion far excelling the old reciprocating shuttle. â€" Snc York Sun. For some time past experiments have been made in Germany with a composition of cork, sand and lime molded into bricks for the construction of tight parti- tion walls. This, it is said, excludes sound better than brickwork, and ia alia light and a good non-conductor of baftt. â€" Sew York Sun. > • A Novelty la Womon's DrcM. A novelty in ladies' dress has been broogkt out at the Pro-Cathedral. Melbourne, Aus- tralia, and the originator is Rev. J. E. Bromby,theclergyman who officiates there. It is nothing more nor less than a gorplice for the ladies in the choir who sapplemeok the singing of the men and boys. The Church of Knylaml .Vetienger on the spo4 having criticised the innovation adversely, Mr. Bromby preached on the subject. The following is an extract from his sermon : " It cannot be denied that, considering the . extraordinary caprices of fashion in the matter of female attire, it would offend the taste to see the simple uniformity of sarj pliced men and boys disturbed by the in- trusion of the grotesque and daily changing inventions of the Paris milliner. What bet- ter solution, then, of the difficulty could there be than to clothe the female mem- bers of the choir in an ecclesiastical vest- ment of such a suitable type as shoald harmonize well with the surronndings of their position ?" Miss Elizabeth Atkinson, whe recently (lied in Burlington, N. J., aged yrt_ years, had not been out f her room for eightaen years. It is reported from Maine that the Eng- lish sparrows are growing white, as a result of their becoming acclimated. White feathers have been often noticed this winter on the sparrows. .\ bill has been introduced into the Ten- nessee Legislature offering to the United States the Hermitage farm, famous as the homo of Andrew Jackson, as an asylum for diaablc<l and invalid 8oldie.-s. 'The bill provides that Mrs. Sarah Jackson, the adopted daughter of Old Hickory, shall be allowed a homo and maintenance upon the farm for life. People in the Northwest Know from experience that Putnam's Pain- less Corn Extractor is the only remedy to ba relied upon for the axtraotion of coraa. This is the case everywhere throa^heat the Dominion. Be sure to get Putnam's sure-pop corn euro. At dealers every- where. Ice cutting on the Lake of the Woods, is Illinois, has been abandoned because it was found that the heavy cakes contained many fish that were caught during the cold snap and frozen in the ice. 1 was attacked with rheumatism and tried usual remedies without success. I then took McCollom's Rheumatic Kepellant, and it drove rheumatism out of my system. With ( Liiodence I recommend it to those similarlv afflicted. â€" Rkv. J.(>iks Dhoci, Kingston, Ont. "'.Ilinois whiskey ia dangerous stuff, even in the bottle. An Odin physician bought a flask for medicinal purposes and set it on the table for a moment. It exploded with a bang, the bottle was shattered, and the li<|uor where it fe1! on the tablecloth burned it like acid. ♦ * Gold Mines are very uiicortaiu property ; mine a Hundred exist tiia for every payins :lo not pay. Hut if yiiu write to Hsiletl & Co., I'lirtlaud, Maine, you wilt n^ceive, free, full particulars atwut their new business, and learn how some have made over $50 in a "higle day at it. You can live at home and earn from ClA to t'JR and upwards |wr day wherever vou are located. Hoth sexeii : all ages. Capital nut required ; you are started free. Sena your address ami all will bv )*roved to you. _ Almost without a dissenting voice, the House Committee on Shipping yesterday resolved to make a favorable report on Mr. Dingley's Bill to protect the fisheries of the United States. The Bill makes liable to seizure and forfeiture any foreign vessels found taking Hsh of any kind within three marine miles off the shores of the I'nited States. When a drop of oil is placed upon the surface of water it rapidly spreads in all directions, forming a film of exceeding tenuity, and affecting the waves as if a sheet or carpet of thin, flexible, elastic, and yet tenacious substance, like rubber was ^rcad over the waves. i isM 1-' ;..â- Â» f- 111! I 111 .||»4«- •â-  > . • Al . to cor« |h« w<imt cue*. Il»«-«i»*ff â- â- tt>> r • ii i r«**onftir aot ni>« r#r«l*tii( « t'<>i' -^mi: tr*«tlM «n.| ft Kr*« ll<itll« ol my hiStn--.- r Ki|>r«M «â- â€¢! PtMl OAc«. II oMt* >uu l.»l^(l • nii I will rur« tou. A'Mr.^n 1>K. if «l Uk* Brancli Office, 37 Yonge St., ToroDto. N^t* f ^ a <•?• â- >!•â- Â»Â» f«tr • • all A l-K ll> si ^\ .1 PAt (^ 1 att i«inr.lf - Ul.*d la M 4l -Hte* tnr* iiw.1f. Qlff« f u»r% krlal. D O N L. K. 87. ^ OUHH' BAKINQ POWDER THE COOK'S BEST Ff^l END. f'%«t ^#