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THE WEEK'S NEWS CANADIAN. A fire in a building on William street, Montreal, i* Mtisr.ated to have done dam- age to the extent of fi'ty thousand dollar*. A petition wa* preiented to the Senate from the Belleville Board of Trade praying that tli* Insolvency bill bo not made law. The Hon. Peter Mitchell, who wa* taken ill in Montreal on Saturday, rallied quickly. He wai much better and is expected to be all right i:m in a few days. I'r Joeeph Charle* Tache, lait Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Canada, died at Ottawa on Sunday night. He wa* a brother of Archbiahop Tache, of St. Boni- faoe. Aid. Morn* ha* accepted the nomination of the Central Temperance Kxecative, and will be the temperance candidate at the coming provincial election* for Ea*t Ham- Secretary Pratt, of th* Hamilton Young Men'* Christian Association, has resigned hit position. On the tirst of June he will aasum* his dutiei as secretary of the Toronto astociafon. Mr. David Nicol. of Kingston, Out., an < rnmenc agriculturist, and widely known as an essay iit on farm topics, diJ suddenly in hi* house on Tuesday. He had served for twenty yean a* luperinleadent of Cata- raqni cemetery. Mr. William \Vylie, second ion of Mr. David Wylie, of North I'laulagenet, was drowned at Bear Brook, Oct., on Monday, while crossing th* river on a log, from which be slipped off. The deceased was thirty- three y*an of age. At the requeit of a deputation of leading sealers. Collector Milne, of Victoria, B. C., yesterday telegraphed to Sir (harlot H. Tupper, urging that a warship be sent im- mediately to warn sealer* to (top on April 30, and thereby avoid trouble. Some unpleasant revelation* are coming to light in connection with the proposed monument to Maiaonneuve, thi founder of Montreal. There it an unaccounted differ- ence of rive thouiand dollars between the subscriptions received and the amount ex- pended. Two children in a Public school in Point St. Charle*, Montreal, w*re (lightly injured by the fall of debri* through the ceiling of out of the school -rooms. Exaggerated rumour* of th* aeoidtnt caused a scene of great excitement for a time in the ueigh- great exc bornood. A tpecial from Hio Janeiro taya that Ad- miral Mello'i flagship, the Aquidaban, ha* Men tank by Pretident Peixoto'* toipe- doe*. A man who is supposed tohav* aaaanltad ind murdered tho Sifter of Mercy near lierlio on Saturday ha* been arretted. The opinion it general in Berlin that the nil to readmit thu Jesuits into (iermany, >a**ed by the Keichitag on Monday, will M rejected by the Buiulerirath. Sir .lotm Higby, the present Solicitor- ieneral, will become Attoruey-deneral to incceed Sir Charle* Kustell, who will go upon the Bench at Lord .lattice of Appeals. A large portion of the Yoahiwari quarter it Yokohama, where disreputable women ive. wa* destroyed by tire on the 2nd ioit , and two United State* marine* and four native women were burned to death. It it statei in St. I'etenburg that with he aaaent of the King of Italy and the Omperorof Austria, Emperor William ask- ed the Czar to convoke a congrett of the lowen with a view to a general redaction A meeting of Pretbylerian mi**ionary worker* wa* held in Ottawa. The treaiur- i < itatement ihowed that the total con- ritratioui from all auxiliarie* daring the pt year were 141. Si'.?, :tl. The total amount eipended on miwion* during the year wa* 43,339,4.1. Sir John, Thompson itated in the Houi of Common* that an agent had been eent t Washington to approach the United State* Government on in* inbject of reciprocal trad* relation*; and that h* had been curtly received, and the information given that any negotiation* on the (abject mint b* conducted formally through the Ambaa- eadon of th* United Statei and Great Britain. liBIAT C.RITAI*. The Queen ha* decided to give up lha royal ttnd at Hampton ('our', and the whole Dtook wi'l be (old during the coming lummer. SirCharle* Kuuell.the Attorney-General hat accepted the Usrd Justiceship of Ap- peil, made vacant by the death of Karoo Boweo. The anti-Parnellite memberi of Parlia- ment have decided to lupport the budget, provided that the < Government will agree that the increaaed tax on ipirit* be lim- ited to the present year. The Duke of Portland ha* leaaed the min- eral* under an area of seven thousand acre* in hi* NotU eatate to the Hucknail Colliery Company. A plant is being put down to raise three thousand tout a day. It i* itated that the rraaon fn-prror Wil liam did not attend the gala pvrformanoe at the Vienna Opera haute en Sunday weak wa* not lus to the fact tiai he doe* not go to tr.e theatre on Sunday, but br rant* the, polio* bad received in.oru.aliw. that an Anaronist r tge was iu'.eod-.'. '. he visited the theatre. I SilF.D >'/ A Balumore deipaUir. %a;i i.r^t .1 Knabe.the well-known pianumadufacLurer it cd. Sr&aii^ox hai nrokeo out anew in iit-t V.;n i.nton. Three cat** tliveloped 01. 8nnda;-. En-State Senator A K. Wood*. hgd >evntj *ix, committed auicid* it Saginaw. Mich.,' by hanging himirl.'. Mr. Cuaunoey M. Uepew aay* t:* hai no idea o' brooming a candidati for the Pre- idem y o( the United Statei. Ten caae* of tmallpox were found in the County hotpital in Chicago, and the ioiti- tution haa been i|oarantined. The motion for a new trial by Col. Breckinridge in the Pollard-Breekinridge oaae WM filed in Washington Wednesday afternoon. A despatch from \Vaa)ung)on iaya it it |iropo*d to surround Coxey and hi* army a* soon a* they coma within the diitrict limit*, and treat them aa tramps. In th* United State* .Senate Mr I. nig offered a profaaaed amendment to the pud ig Tariff bill, pioviding for the imposition of retaliatory rates of duty againit Ureat Britain. Loui* I'lant-, wanted in Toronto for rob- bery, ha* been held in Denver, Col., for txtridition, dwpite hi* confection of anon, mad* for the purpose of being detained in the United .Slate* for trial. The *ult of Joseph Hoffman, the tint of .iiirty'i.'ir tints brought againtl the World'l Kairby Chicago imiiiomna for violation o! contract, ha* beta decided ID favor of the )i position byJudg* Branlano. It it propeaed to pit a lion againit ini/iy bear ia a upacially prtpared arena t the Midwinter Fair, in Sau Franeiico, text Saturday. Tho Society for the Pre rentioo of cruelly to Animalt it taking M.-IIV* ttep* to privtnl the contest. f their military footing, used. t:\prrlmrni Ie Tett Ike Skert- nlnz ef Ike Worklac Bestra. The London Time* give* an account of an industrial experiment carried out by dr. William Mather, M. P., upon aa adequate acale, extending over twelve mouth*, to rest the working of the forty- light honn week, in place of the fifty-three inuri week. The trial wai made at the Salford Iron Workt, at Mancheater, where twelve hundred men wire employed in the various departmenti of general engineering work. It meant cutting off ten per cent- of the working honn at aitroke. The prob- em to be iclved waa whether the weekly lour* of work can be reduced from 53 to 18 without reduction of wage*, and without landicapping th* firm in the keen compe- tition for order*. A* it happened, the year of the experiment, terminating on Febru- ary 28, waa very well *uited for the purpoae n view. Trade, a* the Time* remark*, wai depreteed, the price* obtained for ,he output of the concern were ower than at any prtvion* period of it* history, yet the total invoice value of the ordtn executed wa* equal to the average of the preceding tix year*. In other worda, thi reduced hour of labor had to produce an amount of work otnewha The ! renoh budget for I SKA (bow* a d*- icit of olglity-three million franc*. 1h* nholerin* epidemic in Portugal it in rrcuing end cauung mu<-h aniiety. but the Czar re- t M.HI HOI B l-l AV. TEBBJrU' VOLCANIC PwBCC. < oi..pm. I . Blaalnc Beckel* and * Well Uirmrtl KaTarlt ef Mn.hj Vmtjvlaa. In 1738 Co top* ii ejected it* blaziog rocket* mort than 3,000 feet above it* crater, while nineteen years later the roar of the flaming man, as it mad* it* exit,wa* hard 600 mile*. In 1707 Tunguragut, one of the great peak* of the Andes, discharged luch torrent* of mud and lava ae to dam the adjoiniug river, opened new lake*, and made a deposit 600 feet deep and twenty mile* long in a valley averaging over 1,000 feet wide. In 1737 Veiuvin* emitted f molten itream that posse 1 through Terre del (ireoo con- taining 33,000,1)00 cubic yard* of solid matter. The town wa* a tecond time de- stroyed in ITi.'i, when thi* volcano belched out 45.000,000 cubic yarda. In 1760 Etna evolved a hoarse rumble and ipat out a blazing river that covered eighty-four square mile* with boiling lava from ten to forty feet deep. Mount Roaini wa* formed on thi* occaiion of sand, aahei, and scoria a conr-ihaprd structure near Nicholisa, two mile* in circumference and over 4,000 feet high. Veauviui in A. D. 79 vomited forth an amount of matter whose bulk far excelled the mountain itself. In 1700 Ktna diigorg- ed more than twenty time* it* own max. Syria, Rgypt, and Turkey have received contribution* of a*he* from Veauviu*. From thi* crater (tone* weighing 800 pound* were thrown to Pompeii, diatantiix mile*, in the memorable eruption of A. b. 70. (Jotopaxi ha* car. a rock containing 100 cubic yard* a distance of nine mile*, and which, calculating the angle of asceasion, must have reached an altitude of aixteen mile*. On teveial occasion* thu volcano haa *hot up a solid itream to a height of 6,000 feet. In 1815 a volcanic outpour in Java covered 400 square miles with ashes and lava and of a population of lj,000 only twenty neaped. During the terrible earthquake of the autumn of 1883 twenty large and small Javanese volcanoes were vomiting at the same time. Fifty quart- mile* of land, including two vil- lage*, wholly disappeared, and a section of mountain chains 66 miles long and 20 miles wide was swallowed up, leaving a lake instead. It was th* vapor from tbi* terrific eruption that covered four-fifth* of th* globe and caused the remarkable after sunset glow* of October and November of the year mentioned, and which wen visible all over tli- United States. The noiae of this eruptic.i wa* heard at a point above, rather than below, the output under in Auitralia 1,900 miles distant, exceeding the fifty-three hours' system. It is very all known record*, ancient or modern. satisfactory to find that, in face of this j The primary cause of volcanic outpouring! disadvantage, the forty-sight houn week j i* undoubtedly the pressure oi the cooled baa been entirely successful On wages *hell of the earth settling on the gaaeout alone there n a fractional increase in pro- ' and molten interior. As the molu-ii and portion to turnover measured in money Jompared with the ratio of the preceding tix years, there it an increase in the ratio 'or tb* experimental year of 0.4 per cent, Kat thi* loss i* exactly balanced by economy u gas ami electric lighting, wear and gaaeoa* matter some forth the shell grad ually Mttle* toward* a common center, and the cooled emit, having to accommodate itself to a dowry decreasing interior, wrink- le* are formed, which we denominate mountains. Preferably, these mountaini :ear of machinery, fuel and lubricant*, I '* the"chai" formation, paralleling and miscellaneon* store*. Crediting thi* : *o*** '" when the*e are not too thort economy to wage* account the ratio of , and curving. Bat when th**e line* ar* too wage* to output remain* entirely unaffect- 1 abrupt and alto in caae* of great coalmen- ed by the alteration in the hour* of labor, I * width, they diplay themaelve* capn- hile tha fact that th* money output has 1 cionsly. tad to l>e earned by a somewhat increased Tkc Wax *a amount of actual labor it an item to the credit of the forty-eight houn week. It is lardly possible to put in a statistical form the way in which forty eight hour*' work BKcomea equal iu practical efficiency to Jfty-three noun' work. Then i*, indeed, a very marked diminution in the per cent- 1 age of lost time, which is evidently doe in ' U " part to a itrloter discipline. The Time* article well ohscrre- that thorter hour* with reduced pay would b* very doubtful benefit to workmen, i Shorter hourt with no reduction oi I M.M-H xlll I ! BBKEDIAU. lor aud Wklrk Tk*7 Tare Tkelr fleck*. Sheep farmer* in Kngland do not all fol- low the same method* of car* and manage- ment of their flocks, eajt John Jackson, of In *ome section* where they have hadeil permanent, pasture* the iheep an allowed to roam at large for a portion of the season. In other part* of the country they are folded in hurdle* Summer and Winter. In some cases they ar* folded on gra*t and no increaa. in efficiency of lal.or would 1 1 " <1 J ''. \< d ** * : * n thjw they simply lead to the transfer of erd.r. to other mre ke f loldl ' .** "" - b " n eqt "'' where Kngliih TBB BBITIy III IK.I r. Tin- Urruii >i at Lartjs a* Es>erleeee ew II Will IM- Nrl la.-rr i<r In Ike lareea* fax and AM** Pel/ I* Ilit* mm a llrrr. A Despatch from London aayi : The budget wa* introduced in the Home of Common* on Monday by Kir William Har- court. Chancellor of the Kx. hoquer. Sir William itated that the total revenue for the last year wai only $.V)7,OtX) under the estimates, and proved the solidity of the national finances in vie wot tlie depression of trade. It ss estimated that the ex- pend it urea for the coming year would be 9r),4."iS,(X>, which will have a deficit of 4,502,COO. Tbi* deficit, h* said, would not be met either by borrowing (cheers) or by abandoning the fixed provision* for the liquidation of the national debt. It was proposed to cover the deficit by appropri- ating 2,:f59,000 from the mm engaged in thi- Naval Defence Act, an ia crease of the death duties, and th* increase of a peony in the pound in the income tax, sixpence per gallon on tpirits, and tixpenos per barrel on beer. Sir William Harcourtipoke for two hour* and three-quarter*. His monotonous ttyle of delivery added greatly to the necessary dullness in explaining in detail the Govern- ment'* complex scheme of reorganizing the death duties by consolidating the existing five clauei, the probate, account, estate, legacy, and luocsssion duties, in one which i* to be called the estate duty. Thi* im- poses a graduated Uxation beginning with one per cet. on urn* from 100 to 3<>0 and ascending to eight per cent. on amount* of over CKri.UOO. A graduated acale is also applied ia the income tax. Incomes of 150 are now exempt from taxation. The bill provides that income* of 160 a year (hall be exempted, while an abatement of 1 4O i* allowed on income* un der 400, and aa abatement of 100 on all incomes between 400 and "jOO. The effort of this readjust- ment will be that in -omea of 300 will pay no more under the proposed tax of eight penoe in th* pound tbaa they do under the exiiting tax of seven peace in the pound. Sir U illiam contended that the addition duty on ipirit* and beer would fall upon the pro- ducer and not affect the consumer. Reviewing the past year, he showed that the loss in revenue from beer, bad exceeded the record by 80,000. The Chancellor of the Kx chequer suggested that the increase had been due to the mild weather. The savings bank return* haa increased by a million pounds, which was proof that the resources of the wage-earning classes had been en- hanced. ANOTHER BRITISH VICTORY, t KING KABAREGA OF UNYOBO PUT TO ROUT. countries, where Kngluli capital might, , find romnncrMive employment, but where English workmen would scarcely be welcomed. The thine all desired to eee proved ie juit what Mr. Mather thinki lie hai proved, and seem* to hare proved ai far ae one experiment, however carefully maeV. otn prove anything. If, with wagei at ili-ir preeent level, and with hoiirn re- dnoed to forty-fight per week, Engliih in- dnt'ry can maintain it* pneition a* against ! foreign competition, then every one will n-joico <> see the example of the Salford I Ittn Work* *xtn*ively. and indeed, nni veraa.y, followed. It mutt be observed, w-'f, t'.iat 'hi i* by no meani the light ia which the matter hat utually been pre- nir,! by the ebampiont of a uni venal p,,t hiurr day. The Amalgamated So- cily of Enf-neen hat behaved extremely well in thii Imiinnaa. It hat not only re- rtivnd Mr. Malher'a overtnrei in tho most cordial way, but ha* exerted iu great in- fluence to keep the peace in the engineer- .n/'rades while hi* expeiiment wai in progress. It undertook to discourage all itrempts at agitation for an eight honn' day until the experiment wai concluded, and alio recognized the right of Mr. Mather ID go back to the old arrangement* in the event of failote. Rat the Amalgamated DAen are not abreast of the new union- !tm, which it inspired with very different aim*. The loudest outcry for shortened hnu.-t bai com* from men avowedly aiming at reduction of output and acting upon the theory mat thf let* the cunntry products per week thi great*: it the number of men for whom remunerative employment will be forthcoming. In thort, the problem which Mr. Mathtr ha to far solved it not , . i WT .1 naval expert, w uuin t xuuiui th. problem oUhe Newcattl. programme, d % > Huin sh . WM andtheretultMr Mather ha. reached by 1 8, fe , montb . M1 , no meant agreeable to the leaden of the Iff . .,.,,,.. .,.,,,. I to oalle.1 Uboi party. Several prominent Parieiant were recent- ly pestered by begging letter writer*, torn* of whom had the audacity to threaten re- prisul* by dynamite if they did not receive prompt alm-i. Thii conduct hat led to the arreat of twenty-two men, who fotunsd a band of cosmopolitan begging-letter acribra. They uaually mat in a tavern in the Rae d* I* Koqiietle, where they had a veritable exchange and mart of concocted cleemosy- inary epulle t, forged oertifloate* of conduct, tbam passports, and hit* of the persons who were to be approached or written to for pecuniary help. The tavern waa sur- rounded by the police, and it ia believed that every member of thii International Mendicant* Aatociation bat been captured. Russian* predominated, Amman* and <*r- man* coming next ; Hungarian*. Ursek*, AM! one alleged Turk, who, In the police n poru, hai a Teutonic name, bring up the fed in racks in thi* oaae they are moved at regular interval*, *o that in either ca*e by thi* tysUm the land it regularly and evenly manured. And again, in other caeet, I the land i* town with vetcbe* ; the (beep are then folded an thi* land/*>the vetchet being cut forward of the fold, and aleo fed in the raoki. Another thing the flock mailer* ar* very Denticular about ii to nte nothing but a first-class ram, even in the flock* that are only kept for wool and mut- ton. They attend the ram tile* mod buy the beat they can get. I know of a breeder that *old la*t year at the < 'irencester ram tale forty ramt that brought enough money to pay the rent on a good farm of 800 acre*, ana the moit of these ram* would be bongut for crossing. Hut to determine juit how far we can follow the English practice of management in our flock* we mutt first consider the different cirrumitance* in which we are placed oar hotter climat* in Summer, the more intente cold in Winter, the imallnet* of or r flookt, coat of labor, value of the product, etc. Vet in many way*, to a cer- tain extent at leaat, we would do well to follow th-ir example in the care and man- agement of their flock*. And, whil- the hot inn and tevsre f roet nay be againit u* to aoine extent our climate a* a whole it ahead of the Knglish climate for the health and growth of sheep. 4 < OMt tf M l> W lUMIIT the I ri-m-b Iremrlad Msirata Declared Wertkleu. The French sea-iroing ironcla d Magenta which, according to a cable d eepatch ha been declared virtually wor thleat by naval expert, wa* built at Toulon after the completed __., _ _ . thelatt of the four ihlpa constructed under the 1880 programme. She it built of iron and iteel. Her length it 323 feet inches, breadth 66 feet, and depth '2tf feet 4 inuhee. Her di .- plaoement it in,. '(In ton*. Motive power U ' " d ei Tke Bckrlac sea BUI. Sir Charles Ilussell haa explained thu position of the Imperial tinvernment a* to those prov itioosof the Hehring Sea bill whioh have been fcostileiy criticised ie t'.e United .State*. In regar i to tint it it to be rem- embered that the two government* concern rd in the arbitration approached the subject matter from different standpoints. The United Statei claimed dominion over and the right to legialate agaiiut foreigner* in Hehring tea, and a right of property in the trait which retorted there. The (Government retorted that the sea in ques tion was fne for the benefit of th* world, aiid that the U-ited State* had no right of property in anything found therein outside of the three-mile limit. The United Stale* had enacted laws forbidding it* citixens to take seal* in the prescribed area, and (ought to enforce them againit Britiih subject*. In doing thii certain Britiih veasel* were tei/ed, whereupon I'.reat Britain protes'ed, and the arbitration reiulted. The tribunal decided that the United State* had no right* in Behring **a beyond the three-mile limit, and no right of protection or property in the fur seal* outside of this limit. The arbitrators, however, further decided that, for the preservation of the sal herd aud in the general intereit of the world t commerce, regulations should be made, on linet laid down in the award, calculated to secure this objtct. It has been asserted in the United Statei that these regulations came into force, on the rendering at the award. The very text of that document is sgaintt such an Idea. The wordi are that "the Covernmenls of the United States and Ureat Britain shall forbid," etc., and provision i* further made for a revision of the regulations at itated periods a* experience may show inch to be necessary. Cleat ly, in the case of Oreat Britain, which had no law to protect seal life, and which had protested against the application ot the United State* law to her inbjects, until such a law was enacted ahe could not prevent her subjects from punning a lawful vocation on th* high sea*. This is what Sir Charlrt Kuxsll hold*, with the addition that British vetsels engaged in the occupation of pelagic sealing shall not be liable to any penally until they have had the opportunity of informing themselves of the changed condition*. This is just and reasonable, and in keeping with lound legal principles. It does not disregard the award of the arbi- tralon. and does not imperil the success of the regulations for the preservation of the seal herd. The law will ne passetMtnd pro- claimed liefon the let of May, the beginning of the clot* sraaon, and any vessel that may be innocently punuing teali after that daU will beeome liable to ii on being warne.l by the ciuitenof either nation to thecompaeV The British Government, while protecting it* own tulijecta, it acting according to the spirit as well as the letter of the a ward, and giving no occasion tor the somewhat wild talk United State* statesmen have been in- dulging in. NaJr Owen < nwiaadlBE the Brldek Bail Africa 4 autpaar'i Vrtr% efrat* Ike kl.- After a Fl(hl Latlldg I bre ear*. A I.i mluu d**pat-:h lay* : The (Jovern- meut i* in receipt of information from Uganda, dated Dec. 7, that the force* of King Kalxrega of Unyorehad been attack- ed by the force* of the Brilnh Katt Africa Company, commanded by Major Owen, and defeated after three hour*' fight. Kaba- rega'* force* were routed and left 50 dead behind. Kabarega i* the moat powerful ruler ia the African lake region*. Hi* cuuntry, Unyoro, i* north of Uganda, and extend* we*t to Albert Nyania, on whoa* *hore*i Kabarega ha* important aalt mine* an4 other inMieit*. There art) at Iea*t 50C ,000 people, and perhap* mor* uader hi* abaolute control. Sir Samuel Baker wa* the lint to introdace Kabarega, then a young nan, to notice. Baker thought Kabarega wa* a nice aort of a fellow, but later traveller* formed a very different opinion. In fact, after a number of white men had vurited h i* country, K abarega began to be inipic iouai of them. He teared that U<ey inteaaed to rob him of hi* throne. Hi* white vi itora found tha' thy could not depend en what he *aid. Re wa* particularly mutruitful of Kmin Pair a, whose equotarial province ad- joined hit country. It wai a l< ; t inae, however, before the King ihewed a iy open hostility. Unyoro i* the only region anywhere near Uganda which the king* of that once power- ful country were never able to inbdue. Long and bloody have been the war* be- treen Uganda and Unyoro. When the Arab trader* were driven out of Uganda a few yean ago they took refuge with Kaba- r*ga, and kia forces have lopplemented the Arab* several timea *ince then in giving battle to Mwanga. Kabarega ha* also 1 o:n very active in recent year* ia raiding far and wide for slaves. He ha* *enthu1ave- catchfcgpartiea Ur south weetinto the rerien between Victoria Xyanza and Lake Albert Kdward, which he ha* almoat drpopolate I. It wa* to put an end to thu nefarious b 1*1 neaa, and also to protect the northern frontier of Uganda, that Captain Lu^ard over two year* ago established a chain of fort* to prevent Kabarega from raiding aouth of hi* own territory. Theae fort* were manned chiefly with Kmin Pasha old oldier*, who after Stanley took their chief away tpent aeveral years quarreling with one another, and were very glad when Lugard went to Albert Nvan/a, collated them all and took them, inclndiag their wivea and children, about 10,000 in number, down into Ugacda,di*Uiluting them at the variout trongholds the Britiih e*Ub!i*hed in that country. Thet are the fort* that have excited the will-grounded fearj of Kabarega. The Null. an aoldirn referred to in the above detpatch are theae old loldien of Kmia I'uha. Kabarega ha* many hundred* of , , n'rearmt, but the weapons of the British 1 I traopa are of far better quality, and tb* Britiah will probably make abort work of the famous King ot I nyoro. rk PavratenU. A new material for paving i* being intro- duced into Loaded. It r* compose i of granulated cork and bitumen prened into blockt, which are laid like briok* or wood paving. The tpecial advantage of the material lie* in it* elasticity. In road- ways it furniihei a splendid foothold for horse*, and at the taine time almost aboliih- e* the noise which i* such an unpleasant feature ot city traffic. It i* uaed in Aus- tralia with good remit*. The Sign Was Wronjf. Mr. Silventein " Now, MOM*, 1 dink* dot ve vill get tome of dot high toned trade ; dtr dude* vill gome in ven dey *ee doae new tignt I hof ordered." Motet " Vhat lign* are doae, fad her t" Mr. Silveratien "Vhy, dey reads, He finest guality und a tier fact fill guaran- teed.'" Moee* " Vhy, dot rill drive trade avav. Dem dude* ilond vaar cloeo dot fit* now. " tupplied by four aet* of compound enginei of 11,000 hone power. Her armament compritft four 34 cm. gnnt, aeveiiteeu U cm. gum, fourteen quick tiring gunt, nine machine gum, and three torpedo tube*. At the trial trip of the vewel a ipeed of Hi _'.". knot* waa obtained, the contract call- ing for 16 knot*. The Magenta'a coat waa in round number* 93,1)110,01)0. She WM launched in 1890. On anooenfully complet- ing her gun trial* early in the year ahe waa pawed into the Mediterranean iquadron. It wtirst doomed thl her accession to its rnki> would add decided itrength to the French navy, hut Admiral Vallon ii represented a* aaying that the belong* to an oneolete type and i h., i the first aevere impact, either al'0\ i- nr below the water line, oo'd cause liei ti. kcil nv cr. What He Got by Monkeying-. With a tweet imile the took hi* hat and cane. l)eare*t,"tho cooed, when they were seated tn the gloaming, "I have *om*lhing to tell you." Summoning all hi* fortitude he bade her .peak. "Deareit," she proceeded, a delicate flush overiprcsding her cheek, "papa ha* at la*t contented to our marriage.'' He wai too deeply moved to expreat him- elf for about forty five minute*. When at last he found voice the latter thrilled with emotion. "That " A gentle preuure of the hand told him the wai listening. " i* what I get by monkeying with an opal ring. Hia eye* reited upon the fateful jewel with a fawination of horror. Mr. F. r. Warmoll Toronto, Ontario. A Narrow Escape Took Poison by Mistake Bad Effects Entirely Eliminated b] Mood's SarsaparllU. "C. 1. Hood & Co.. Lowell. Mas*.: "(ieiitlemen-lii April last, through the effect* oi a dose of itrvcliulne taken In mistake lor another drug, I <ra* laid op In HL John, h. B., for teu days After this I never seemed to regain my former health, and continually *uf- fe\d from Indieestlon and heart palpitation, for which I could get no relief. I thought I vould try Hood'* Sanaparllla. After taklnc on- bottle, I felt a little better, so con- UniK<l using the remedy until 1 had consumed six uottlcs. I found myself gaining strength HoodV^Cures and flesh every day, and am now as healthy M I wa* before taking the poison." P. V. WARMOI.L. represcntm*; Uie Seehr rerfume*. 30 Melbourne Avenue, Toronto. Ontario. Hood\ Pllh) cure liver His, eomtlp.iUon, janadltc, liiliousneaa, tick niadacbe, IndlgeaUoa.