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THE WEEK'S NEWS _^- CANADItX. It Is reported that a team of Irish crick- eters will visit Canada this summer. The spring stallion show in Ouelph was a access, both as to exhibit* and attendance. Two hundred and fifty of the Brazilian insurgents, who escaped from the Potugnese man o.' war on Sunday, were captured by a Uoveriiment war vessel. Admiral de Gaina was not among them. _ Mr. W. T. Cook, a traveller representing the firm of Cater, Platt ft Co., mantle man- ufacturers, London, Eng. , died from heart d'sease at the Queen t hotel, Toronto, the other afternoon. He leaves a widow and two children, who reside in London. Richardson, the Chatham wife murderer, has been convicted of manslaughter ami sentenced to imprisonment for life. Miss Marian Gerrard was robbed by a highwayman yesterday afternoon in Wind- tor. Th* robber was captured and he con- fessed. The City Council of St. Thomas, Ont , has decided to pass a by-law for the ringing of the curlew bell at nine o'clock rach night. Th* Rev. Mr. Bland, of Hamilton, Ont, at attacked and severely abused by a man named Moody on Saturday. Sergeant Healy, of Bermuda, has been appointed instructor of artillery at the Royal Military College in Kingston. The rate of taxation for the city of St Thomas, Ont, was on Tuesday night by the Council fixed at 17i mills, the tame as last year. It is rumoured in Montreal that the steamer De Ruyter, from Antwerp to Bos ton, ban been lost. Nothing has been heard of hr since March 17th. The Finance Committee of the City Council of Montreal has decided to borrow five hundred thousand dollars from Messrs. Coate* 4 Co., of London. lean U Labrecque, the defaulting clerk of the Banqne National, who was brought back to Montreal from Boston, was sen- ten led to twenty- three months' imprison- ment on the charge of forgery. The Managing Committee of the Montreal General hospital has appointed Dr. Ridley Mackenzie, ton of Mr. W. I. Mackenzie, of th* Land Security Company of Toronto, superintendent of the hospital. Mrs. William Nichol, of Stratford, Ont, committed suicide by tying a large stone round her neck and throwing herself into a ci tern, in which was about three feet of water. A young girl in Collingwood was fined ten dollars and costs a few days ago for having written "All is well" on the margin of a newspaper which was sent through the mails with paper postage attached. It is stated on good authority that the governor of Newfoundland, having receiv- ed instructions from Lord Kipon, Secretary of State for the Colonies, to act on his own discretion in the political crisis, has refuted the request for a dissolution, and has re- quested the Whiteway Government to re sign. A resolution has been adopted in the British Columbia Legislature expressing a hope that the bill now before Imperial Parliament making the Behnag Sea arbi- tration effective will not receive the Royal useut until the claims of the British Colum- oian sealers for the past three years be plac ed in th course of settle men t. A five-year old- boy wat burned to death on Saturday in a hay-loft at Stratford, Ont., which had been apt on fire by some boys who were playing. Mrs. Newcoms, the mother of the boy, was badly burned about the face in her effort* to save the child. There is a continued heavy decline in emigration from Great Britain, and the emigration to Canada for the past three months of the present year, as compared with a corresponding period last year, fell off by moro than six thousand. This U at- tributed to the low price of wheat and the ncreased passenger rates. BRITISH. fhe Ailesbury title will go to Lord Henry Aligns i in Brudenell-Bruje, an uncle of the late Marquis. The Marquis of Ailesbury, who created a scandal some years ago by marrying Dolly Tetter, of the Brighton theatre, it dead. It it rumoured in London that Mr. Timothy Healy, the well-known anli Par nellite, it trying to form a Home Rule party of hit own. The Knglith Board of Trade returns for tlarch show a remarkable increase of liitish imports from Canada. There was a decrease of exports to Canada during the month. Mr. Gibson Bowles has asked the Imper ial (loverument in the House of (.'ominous to slate the actual terms of the agreement ii itw Dominion ( .ovcrnuient in regard to the Bchring Sea bill. The London Social Purity Association is reported to be engaged nightly in shadow ing the movement* of prominent members of Parliament and other distinguished per sons. It is rumoured in London th*t Major LoCaroc is not dead, and that tbe report of bis death was a ruse to enable him to pro- ceed without suspicion to a distant colony to escape Fenian vengeance. In the House of (.'n iiir.ons on Friday night Sir Edward Grey declared that British merchants are entitled to the ad- vantage of the Russo-German commercial treaty, under the most- favoured nation clans*. Nearly all the London morning papers agree that if the Government did not have a narrow escape it had at least an alarm and a shaking up in tbe uncertainty that prevailed during the preceding three or four days. A deputation of London tea dealers wait- ed the other day upon Sir Charles Tupper- and pointed out how the changes in the Canadian tea duties would hurt the Anglo Canadian trade. Sir Charles Tupper prom- ised to cable their representations to Ot- tawa. In reply to a deputation from Scot- land yesterday Mr. Gardner, President of the Board of Agriculture, said he hoped to be able to indicate the decision of i bo department through a communication to the Colonial Office, which would reach i he Canadian Govafomaat iaabouk.* week. Sir Thorns* Mcllwraith, Premier of Queensland, in hit address to the colonial party in the Howe of (Jem men* on Thurs- day evening, insisted npon lh* viial im- portance of the Pacific cable, and urged that the construction should be the joint undertaking of Great BriUau and tbe colonies. A deputation of Australian and Canadian representatives waited upon the Marquit of Ripon and Earl Rosebery on Wednes- day to olicit Imperial aid for the Atlantic quick steamship service and the Pacific cable. The replies on behalf of the Govern- ment were characterized by extreme aau- tier triflTBD 8TATH. President Cleveland's proclamation put- ting in force the Behrmg Sea bill which passed Congress was issued yeeterday. The New York State Hay and Straw As- sociation have petitioned against the re- duction of the tariff on hay. A society for the prevention of crime similar to the Dr. ParkhnntSociety in New York has been organized in Chicago. Diniel Whorling, a worthless fellow of Pituburg, Pa., killed his wife on Saturday because she would no longer support him. There was a series of explosions in a fire- worksjfactory in Petersburg, Vs., on Satur- day afternoon. Eleven men were killed, and several seriously injured. Sheriff Gilbert, of Chicago, was served yesterday morning wiln formal notice that the execution of Prendergsst has been fur- ther stayed until July 2. A tremendous storm twept over New York and Jersey coasts yesterday. The storm on the Atlantic coast did great damage in Brooklyn. The Lake Ontario Fish Company at Cape Vinoent, N. V., was fined two hundred and twenty-five dollars for having twenty black bass in its possession. The Sue represents ten dollars for each fish and costs. The riots of Wednesday in ths coke re- gions near Uniontown, Pa., were more se- rious than wat at first reported. Ten men were killed, and many were badly injured. It is state I in Washington that the Eng- lish Boh ring Sea bill exempts Canadian sealer) which have already sailed from the penalises of the Paris award, and that much indignation is felt at such British dupli- city. It is reported that Queen Lil hat accept- ed an orler of twenty-five thousand dollars and expenses to deliver a series of lectures in the United States. Cornelia Coster, who died in New York on Sunday, has left her entire fortune of one million dollars for the erection of a mausoleum in Woodlawn cemetery. uKfamaL. The prolonged drought in Austria, tier many and France, threatens to injure the crops greatly. The commercial treaty between Germany and Russia has wonderfully revived Russian trade. In the Hungarian Diet the leader of ths Radical party gave notice of a vote of cen sure against the Government for it* attitude on the occasion of Kossutb's funeral. Louis Kuesuth, son of the patriot, has become a Hungarian subject, aud will en- deavour, by constitutional means, to pro mote some of the measures advocated by his father. A sensation was created in the Spanish Cortes on Tuesday by the announcement that Seuor Kmilo Cavtelar had left the Moderate party, and would in future adhere to th* monarchy. The Swiss National rath hat passed an anti-Anarchist bill, which provides severe penalties for the unauthori/txl manufacture or concealment of explosives. Referring to the rumour that Russia wat seeking a coaling station on the island ol Poros, the Greek Government declares that under no pretext would t-reece content to Russia's occupation of any part of Greek territory. Advice* have been received in Paris from China that the Chinese st Hiianfu, in the province of Sheii Si, have burned the French mission at that place and maltreatsc and imprisoned the French missionaries The Government has demanded an explan- ation, an apology, and compensation. A despatch to the London Times from Paris says the interview with King Hum- bert publtsl ed in the Figaro i* undoubtedly genuine. It is the general belief that the Italian King availed himself of the oppor tunity offered to express fully and freely the feelings which animate him. A yslerlosu PbruummoB. Numbers of explorers, who have sought the Arctic regions in quoit of the pole, have told of a mysterious city mirrored against that northern tky stately buildings in choice architecture, tall and imposing spires, but such a* differ from anything w< kcow of. Whether the foundation of this mirage it a reality and only unrecogniza- ble, because of transposition as to directions, whether it is the work of some mysterious remnant of our race that once occupied the pole, or whether this is some fanciful fea- ture of the frost, as the peculiar shrubbery we sometimes see on the window-pane whatever this is, it must be contigned to the perplexing enigmas of the unknown region. Who knows but that some spot, once the theater of busy and advanced human life, may have escaped the general cataolysmal wreck and that this city may be the silent and as yet undiscovered witueuofpre- polar time, standing alone in the dead des- olation, in the frigid shroud of now polar death ! If -we must be barrsd from entering this undiscovered country w* may add to our equipment by a careful noting of its mirage and then givu to the bases of the** phenomena a most thorough ttudy. Weary Watkins " 1 think if I had my life to live over again, I'd go into the as- tronomer business." Hungry Higgins " Wot sort of thing is that? 1 ' Weary Wat- kins" Wy, jist watchui' the stars. Fel- ler could 'lend to that sort of job layin* on his back." Miss. Budd " I don' tthink, mamma, tha 1 Mr. Silvertongua will ever come to the point. I've done everything yon suggested ; but he is as far from a proposal as ever." Mm. Budd" Don't be discouraged dear. You must remember that Mr. Silvertongu* is a United States senator. " me nc i\ UkU> One er tfcr Bid I law aaerts IB a far-iwav Lea*. An Indian village is always more or less >icturesqnly situated, when possible by he banks of a river or fresh body of water. There are innumerable wells from which irrigation is carried on, and these hamlets are embowered in grand trees, such as pip- ls, which are a sort of a cottonwood with great fleshy leaves, mangos for their fruit, and all about where the soil it favorable .re plum grove*. In the latter myriads of rreen parrot* make their home, and their chattering at daybreak and shrill shrieks it night as they return from their daily oraging are indescribably annoying. Wa- termelon pitches akonnd ; gram, a coara* sort of grain, is raised for horso feed; bajra, a speciei of millet, attains a gigantic height The seed is used for bread and th* stalks, called churbi, are sold tor cattle, horse, and lephant feed. Farther afield are the carrot plantations, argeajt. cultivated in India for man and lone. From the succulent root a sweet- meat, or rather paste, is made called halwa, which is hugely prized by the pailwans or wrestlers for it* strength-producing pow- ers. It is not a bad sort of confectionery , only it is too greasy to suit the European date, or too rich, which I know not. Such was tbe village where my friend Land was encamped when be promised to 'tili that pig. The head man's house was .n the centre of th* village, and in honor of the occasion he had given a dance. ilis guests sat around and smokd their mkahs and eyed us admiringly, for we lad been bidden to watch the evolutions of the Nautch girl*. It is hideous dancing unless you understand the accompanying angiiage, and when you do thoroughly un- derstand tho languags you would not be surprised that in a competition for indec- ency Hindustani literature would take Highest rink, for the motions represent the words, and the words well, they are unprintable. I watched tbe dance moodily. It was my first hunting expedition in India, aud I was yet young to tbe land, while my companion had almost grown gray in the service, was a great huuter and thoroughly at home in all sporU of the field and water. Tbe moon rose gayly and smiled gently on the village, and I thought of the pig. "You must not shoot rashly," said my Friend. "Let the pig get quite near yon and then hit him in the shoulder. If you don't nit him he'll be on yeu like t flash and rip you up." "Rip me up ?" "Rip you up. Yes. Cam* nearly being ripped up myself once." "How was that ?" "Oh, we were in the jungles of the Terai. Yon know the grass is pretty thick in those regions, and I was mounted badly. We'll go pig sticking one day. Yon can't be here six months and not go pig sticking. That would be unallowable, especially when we e in a pig country." "Well, about that ripping up ?'' I per- sisted. "Yon see it was in this way : Ths beat- ers w^re out pretty thick driving out the pigs, and, confound it, a woman wat along. Women are no good ID a pig country. She was a good rider, but, bleat you, if a woman is no end a good rider she should never at- tempt to stick pigt. She was riding a horse used to the business, and, for the fun of the thing, had a spear. The pig came out of tne grass, and before you could yell ' Jack Robmsou' away went tho girls' horse for TRXEl) IIT A riO. that pig. The pig did not decline the combat, and he went straight for the hors*. Jove, the horse, passed on the right side, but the girl, paralyzed with tenor, had dropped her spear, and good thing she did, too. The horse then, of course, came back from the pig at a terrible gallop, expecting she would give him a jab from the rear. Then I came on the scene. I had to see her out of danger, for her horse was determined to give her all the chances he could. Seeing that the reins were loose he was not at fault. "My tat, a beastly, country-bred thing, wat afraid of the pig, and what with the girl, a wild and angered pig, and a restive horse, I was near in for a smash up as can be expected. His tusks did gra/.e my ani- mal once, and then after that I could do nothing with the brute. You see, if he had succeeded in tearing my horse open he'd have gone for me next But don't look pale, yon won't be mounted. Yon have only got to shoot him in the shoulder. That will disable him and then we'll see to the rest" Finally all set out to the carrot fields. If I ever liked carrots I hated them then. I felt as if I was being impelled to a slaughter for which I had a revulsion. I thought of all the dear, harmless little pigs I had teen killed at home by meant of a pocket knife. I thought of ohitlings and shuddered ; pork sausage gave me the nausea. Here I was about to be introduced to a pig a pig which in my thoughts bad always been connected with gross feeding, grunting, wallowing in tbe mire, and laziness, but this new pig ferocious, dangerous, man- killing pig ; a pig with a body like a hippo- potamus, tuski like an elephant, 'blessed with the speed of a -/libra, and endowed with the strength of the forgotten behemoth. HISTINI! KOKTHR IHA.ST. The moon shone peaceful)}, and the plum trees looked lovely, the bajra patches in- viting, and then stretching for miles north south, east, and west were the carrot fields. "There i no pig in sight," I said. "0 wait," answered my friend "We'll call t halt here. Now, you stay nvre and I'll take \ tarn ronnd this field. You had better stand neat that tree. It throw* a shade, and if I start a pig or pigt mind you they'll oome this way, and you can have a good shot at them." 'The sahib is right," laid the shikari. "When they do come they'll oome faster than the wind and fight everything in sight" "Only fire at the tusker, that's the chap they want." The night was cold, horribly cold, and my hands ached holding my ggQ and wait- ng in the shade of that miserable tree for a tusker a pig. Soon there was 1 a shot, which I judged was about a mile to the west, and thortly after a snarling and a snorting and the thud of rapid-moving feet Forgetful of caution, [ mounted one of the ridges and looked out twfore me. It appeared as if a great bowlder were coming straight toward me, followed by several smaller bouncing bowl- ders. Very soon the huge outline of a pig came into view and the moon lit op a pair of yearning tasks. I was told to wait till was within a few rods. I did not wait ; [ fired, and my fire was ineffectual. Then I thought -one thinks very speedily some- timesthat, though this pig could out-trot a a hone, kill a man, and do other sort* of terrible things, I had never been told he could climb trees. When 1 thought of that pig and all the other pigs that were coming and would come I concluded I had better beat a retreat to the tree. I did. It was quite a fine and exhilarating sight They were all pigs ; the biggest sort of piggery I had ever seen. There were big pigs and little pigs ; pigs with tusks as long as my arm, and nigs with nice little tusks very sharp and very smooth, but such pigs rapid-moving pigs, fierce, snarling, growling, grunting pigs, and they waited by that tree and then galloped on galloped into the forever. "Well," said my friend, " Did you get a ?" 'Did I get a pig ? Hang your pigt 1" "DtoVyon see many ! ' "No, I did not tee one." "Well, they came this way. T thought we'd give yon a good chance. Well, you took to the tree, eh ? Well that was right Only I have this to say : Don't you speak so contemptuously of the Indian wild sur. He is a dangerous bratt at best, and if yon hadn't gone up that tree why, you might have been food for hogs. That's all." After this, but several months afUr.I did fetch in a pig with this same man. But then I had learned that pigs are not always to be despised. MCC FBI)* TBE MAst, TIM Rrpert ef Otr Late Mr Crrald Pertal i.<-rruln British Vrrupalloa c.r IK ma- st London despatch says : Th* report of the late Sir Gerald Portal, formerly British Commissioner in Uganda, Africa, who died from typhoid fever in this city on Jan. 26, shortly after his return from Zanzibar, is published. The report recommends that the British Government retail its protect orate over Uganda, expressing the opinion that it is desirable in the interest* of Brit- ish commerce, from tht Indian Ocean to the Nile bssin, that the British Chartered Company cease to exist as a political or ad- ministrative body either in the interior or within the limits of the Sultanate ofZanzl- bar. The report further recommends that a British commissioner with a staff of thir- teen officers and a guard of five hundred Soudanese soldiers, be appointed, with headquarter! at Uganda, and with jurisdic- tion over tht dependencies of Uganda to the Kavirondo border. Continuing, tbe report suggests the appointment of another British commissioner, with a staff of four officers and a guard uf sixty Zanzibar sold- iers, with headquarters at Kikuyu, and urges tbe building of a railway to Kikuyu, and eventually to the Victoria N'yanza. In conclusion, the report recommends that special precautions be taken in order to prevent the trade in slaves, and suggests abandoning tbe idea of using the rout* by the lakes to the Zambesi. Science < iippiM K . Taking the earth as the centre of the universe and the polar star at the limit of our vioion,the visible universe embraces an aerial space witha diameterof 420,000,000, QUO miles and a circumference of 1,329,742.- 000,000 miles. Auronsuts cannot rise much above five miles ot vertical height on account of the increasing rarity of the air, but double that height has been attained by self registering brlloons, which tell us that some ninety degrees of frost prevail up thare. The Liverpool electric railway, which has been in existence about a year, has proved completely successful in operation. It it five miles long, and its total cost, in eluding equipment and all other ohargea, has been i.'!:50,(HH). A five minute service of trains is maintained with perfect regul- arity, and so far without mishapof any kind. On a recent holiday 40,000 passengers were carried in eighthoura. To stop the leakage of a boat hy the use of sawdust appears at the first sugges- tion ridiculous. It it a common method, however, employed by the backwoodsmen. One day last summer a party having con tiderable baggage discovered upon loading it into a scow at the end of one of the regular "carries" that the boat leaked badly. To delay for repairs would occasion consider- able annoyance and without repairs to pro- ceed teemed impossible. At this juncture one of the guides said : " I think I can fix it. Just unload the boat again." This was done, and then the guide brought from .1 sawmill near the spota quantity of saw- dust This he sprinkled thickly upon the water on either aide of the boat "Now," continued he, " load up again. " Thit was done, and when the weight again sank the boat the influx of water through the side* and bottom sucked in the sawdust, which finally accumulated in the crevices, swelled under the action of the water, and actually stopped the leakage, A Slight Correction. The applicant for small assistance was telling the gentleman something about him- self, one feature of which included an ex- perience of ten years in the penitentiary. " Ah, sir," he said, "my career hat been a checkered one." ":-ay 'striped' rather," suggested the gentleman, and gave him half a dollar. nY ** H* "And would you marry a poof poet ?' She "I don't tee how I could mar- ry a rich one." ' All I want," said the opera linger, "Is note* for notes; large note* for high notes." He " Here comes Mrs. Gadabout, That woman goes everywhere." She "Yes ex- oept home." "That's what I get for my pain*," sobbed the small boy as be swallowed a dot* of castor oil. Husband "Does that novel turn out hap- pily?" Wife " It doesn't tay. It only ays they were married. " Mrs. Uptown " Did you post my letter this morning, George?" George (with much "feeling"):!" Yes. dear." " Kr bat young Hill come into bis mon- ey yet?" "Come into it? Great Scott, man I He t gone clear through it r' " They've each got a touch of brimstone in tneir tempers. " " Is that so! Then they ought to make a good match." " What an easy time you men have, "she taid, I only with I bad been born a man. "I wish you had !" replied her husband. " I've never bad the courage to get mar- ried." " Haven't, eh ? What's your busi- es ?" " Oh, I'm only a lion-tamer." His mother" You ought to feelashamed of yourself,fighting little Johnny Nay bora." Tommy " I do, mamma, he licked me." " What song is now most popular ?" Asked Si from way down east ; Straightway bis city friend replied : " The one that's sung the least." Wife "Isn't it funny? Prof. Garner my* the gorilla only speaks eight words." Hus- band " Nothing strange, he has five or six wives. " First lady" And the last thing that Henry did was to give me a kit*." Second lady" Indeed ; I should think that is about the last thing he would do." " At what time in life do yon consider a man in hit prime ?" " When he it neither young enough nor old enough to want to writ* poetry." " What do you girls call that club of yours I" " Tbe Analytical." " H'm. What do you analyze ?" " Other pe- pie's reputa- tions, mostly." " There was great consternation on the stage of the Oriental lost tvening," wrote tbe critic, " when Ah Sing, the leading ac- tor, lost hit cue." " Did yon ever see such remarkable weather for April ?" " What's wrong with " There's bean only five varieties this whole day." Teacher " Now remember that in order to become a proficient vocalist you must have patience." Miss Flipkins "Yet; and so mutt the neighbors." Maude" Why don't Laura marry Dick Hobson ? I thought she liked him." Clara " She does, bnt she says it shall never be said of her that she was Hobson's choice." I sing of spring, a thing That this year seems a hoax ; For the nreez* doth freeze the trees. And the crocus croaks. Mrs. Brown (nudging Mr. Brown, who elaepe with hit mouth open) " William, you'd make leas noise if you'd keep your mouth shut" Mr. Brown (only half awake) "So'd you." "Mainly, did you read that notice on th* counter, 'Your choice for fifteen oents ?' " Mandy "Laud sake* I yes ; but it look* like an awful price to ask for them clerks." Tom "The management seems to have ipared no expense in the production of this play." Kitty "No, indeed ; they have given every chorus girl at least three coats of paint" "Marriagt," remarked tbe professor, "was a rite practiced by the ancients " "And bachelorhood," interrupted a maiden of 40, "it a wrong practiced by th* mod- erns." "Did your late boarder succeed in remov- ing all his effects ?" "I should say not," rejoined the landlady. "I don't suppose I can ever get the cigarette smell out of th* curtains. Like a Miracle Consumption Low Condition Wonderful Result* From Taking Hood's Sarsnpartlla. Mia Hannah Wyatt Toronto, Ont "Four years ago while In tho old country ( England ), my daughter Hannah was tent away from the hospital. In a very low condition with consumption of the lungs and bowels, and weak action of the heart The trip across the water to this country seemed to make her feel better for a while. Then she began to get worse, and for U weeks slit 1 was unahlp to get ofT the bed. she gr*w worse for flvn months and lost the ii9o of her limbs and lower |>artof body, and If shn rat up In bed had to be propped up with pillows. Physicians aid She Was Past All Help and wanted me to send her to too ' Home for Incurables.' But I said as long as I could hold my hand up she should not go. Wo then began Hood's^'Cures to glv her Hood's Sarsaparllla. She It getting strong, walks around, Is ont doors every day; hat no trouble with her throat and no cough, and her heart seems to be all right again. Sb* has a first class appetite. Wo regard her c-irti an nothint. short ul a miracle." w. WYATT, W Marlon Sftroet Parkilal<', Toronto, Ontario. Hood's Pills are purely wgrtahie and MtfecUy uumteas. Bold I-/ au druggist*. JOo.