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THE WEEK'S NEWS CANADA. Diphtheria is quite prevalent in Harm- ton. Winnipeg women have formed an Equal Suffrage Association. Hon. Geo. K. Foster has gone to New Brunswick for a week. Canada's exports for October show an in- crease of $00,UOO over the same month last year. Five schooners are reported to have been wrecked in a gale on Wednesday at Esqui- maux bay, Qus. Four more British Columbia salmon can- naries have pasted into tho hands ol the Knglish syndicate. The provincial ploughing match at IV- trolia, Ont., has been postponed for a year on account of the weather. Near Teeswater on Friday a son of Mr. David Ritchie, while ploughing, unearthed a perfect skeleton of a man. A. ('. Tresham, of Toronto, recently from London, Kng., has been appointed bandmaster of the 7th Fusiliers, in Lon- don Ont. The steamer Cape Breton, Irom Mont- real with a general cargo, has been blown out to sea from the harbor of St. John's, Mi. The Hamilton Radial Railway Company asks the city for a bonus of $ 400,000, in return for which paid-up stock to an equal amount is offered. Judge B. Lester 1' -ters.of St. John.N.B.. died on Sundsy morning from the effects of a paralytic stroke received six weeks ago, aged 60. The Hamilton and Toronto Company's steamer Macassa has been laid up for the season, after having made M'J trips between the two cities since April 7. Toronto City Council, at its meeting last week, appointed Mr. -I. S, Fuller ton, Q.C., city counsel in place of Mr. VV. X. Mere- dith, who has been made a judge. (.real indignation exists in Winnipeg because the eastern underwriters have increased the rates In that city twenty- five per cent, because of th* reoent fire. Dr. Luca, of Selkirk, Man., committed suicide a fe days ago by taking a large dose of opium. It is stated that he was addicted to the use of morphine* D. Mclntosh k Sons, of Toronto, have secured the contract for historical moou menta to be erected at Lundy'a Lane, Chrysler's farm and ('hateauguay. There is no decline in the number of diphtheria and scarlet fever cases in Mon- treal, and the contagious wards of the General hospital are still kept full of pa- tients. James Kirwin, water wheel tender in the colored cotton mills at Cornwall, was caught by a belt OB Friday and his braius were dashed out. He leaves a wife and family. The Montreal Health Committee intend asking the City Council for three thousand dollars to defray the expenie of fitting up a laboratory for the production of anli-dipli- theritic serum. Mr. C. H. Wood, of Maxville, Ont., went to Morrisburg on Friday and drew $6,000 to pay patrons of his cheese factories. On thr way home two i.<en robbed him of th* whole amount. Aid. Hewitt, of Toronto, whose name hai been so frequently mentioned during the investigation before Judge MoDougall relative to alleged blackmailing, has re- signed his seat in th* City Council. .fudge Travis, of Calgary, recently pre- ferred charges of professional misconduct against Mr. Peter McCarthy, 1,1. C., and Judge Maguire, who tried the case, has disqualified Mr. McCarthy. Measrs. Daniel Donaldson, Walter Lo- gan, T. F. Kingsmill, jr., and Fred Boyd, well-known residents of London, Ont,, were arrested on Saturday for kidnapping John Morkin ou election day. Between Teeswater and Glenannan on Friday a young man fired a charge of sh t into a ('.!'. K. passenger train. The charge passed through the car window and be- i ween two ladies, but no one was hurt. Mr. Andrew Onderdonk has be*n award- ed the contract for one section of the Trent canal, and Hogan ft Mscdonald, of Mon- treal, for another, the tenders being the lowest in each cane. Mr. and Mrs. John Marlatt, of Yarmouth township, near St. Thomas, Ont., have been married !>0 years, all of.wbioh have been passed on th* farm on which thsy now live. Kyfeand Thompson, theStrathroy young men who placed obstructions on the (I rand Trunk ' rack some days ago, have been sen- tenced to 17 months each in the Central prison. It is reported on good authority that the Montreal <>ai Company are preparing a lender offering to supply gas on a similar basis to that by whioh Toronto recently arranged for its supply. The tribe of Indians known as the Missassaguas are pressing the Dominion < ; ov*rument for payment of th* lands which they surrendered many years ago, and on part of whioh Uakville now stands. ' Sir Adolphe Caron, Postmaster General, has returned to Montreal from New York, where he made a thorough examination of the postal elecfio service, with a view to introducing a similar system in Toronto. A Bradford, Ont, despatch, tells how a sport from Toronto on Thsnkgiving day mistook a black fur cap for a black squirrel and fired a load of shot into neck of a man named Bennett, who was working in th* oods. ProfsMnr Holier taon, Dominion Dairy Comnuasinnsr, has returned from a trip to the Maritime Province*. He say* the out- put of cheese in the Government dairy stations on I'rince Kdward Island was I 1 .', i KM boiss. The total quantity of milk received was 4, '.'All tons. A delegation from Hamilton waited upon Mr. Daly, Minister of th* Interior, iu Ottawa on Friday, and asked for a lease, rent free, to the city of six hundred and ixty feet of canal reservs south of Bur- lington channel, at present unoccupied, to b* improved by the city for park purposes. There was an increase of three thousand head of cattle sent from Montreal to Eng- land during the season just closed, and an increase of ten thousand iheep. A very profitable market has been found in Great Britain for sheep, and henue the large in- crease in the shipments. Canada is to have a grand international exhibition in Montreal in 181*0, lasting from May to October. An agreement hai been signed between the Montreal Exposition Company and a syndicate of gentlemen, re- presented by Mr. Joseph H. Stiles, late Commiasionerof Great Britain toCaliforoia'* Exposition. The most discussed question at present in Montreal political circles is the successor to Mr. Hall as Provincal Treasurer. There i* an impression that Mr. King, nf Megsntic, will receive the portfolio, but the choice i* not likely to meet with general approval, as there is a fueling that on* of the Montreal Knglish members should succeed Mr. Hall. CHEAT BHITAIN. The Bank of England's rate of discount remains unchanged at 1 per cent. Nearly 13,000 agricultural laborer* went from Ireland last year to assist in the English harvest. Mr. G. H. Jennings, brother of the late Louis J. Jennings, trie well-known mem- ber of Parliament is dead. American steamers with more than four- teen thousand bales ol cotton have entered the Manchester ship canal. One of the very few medical bursaries in the University of Edinburgh has been won by a Japanese student. A private despatch received in London, from India says that Lord Randolph Churchill's condition is very satisfactory. The Duke of Argyle denies the report circulated by hi* daughter-in-law. Lady Colin Campbell, that his grace is engaged to marry Miss Knox Little. A despatch from Dulnth, Minn., says that a movement is well under way look- ing to the opening of the great waterways of Canada to the vessels of the United States for the purpose of securing revenue. An African volunteer rifle team will go from Cape Town next summer to compete j ai the meeting of the National Volunteer ! Association in England. I After defraying the expenses of carriage and labor a snipmeul of pears from Glou- cestershire to Manchester, England, paid at th* rate of two cent* for twenty-three pounds. It is rumored that the war correspondent captured and killed by the Chinese wa* Frederic Villiers, the well-known artist of BUck and White, formerly of Tne London Graphic. Mr. John Burns, the British member of Parliament and labour leader, sailed from England on Saturday to attend the Con- ference of the Federation of Labour ID Denver, Col., and to enquire into certain municipal matters and labour questions. The embargo on ( 'anadian cattle has be- come a factor in British politics. The London Chronicle says it was one of the causes of the Ministerial defeat in Forfar- shire on Saturday, and adds that Sir Charles Tupper's recent speech to the Fcr- farshire farmers will not lend to msks his popularity with the British Government any greater. rNITKIi xTATKS. The Knights of Labor General Assembly will convene in Washington next year, Dr. Parkhurst, of New York, is consider- ing an invitation to visit Montreal. J . R. Sovereign has been re elected gen- eral master workman ot the Knights of Labor. Paul Conrad, the president of the famous Louisiana Lottery Company, died the other day in New Orleans. The net ordinary revenues of th* United Slates for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1894, were $88,007,609 less than for the previoui year. All the officers of the Standard Oil Com' pany, from Rockefeller down, have been indicted, charged with violating the trust law of Texas. Mount Tacoma, or Kanier, 14,444 feet high, in Washington state, is in eruption, and the people of Tacoma and Seattle are alarmed. Mayor Hopkins, of Chicago, h*s an- nounced his determination to create a non- partisan commission to control the police deparln ent. Sainnel C. Seely, an assistant bookkeeper in the National Shoe and Leather Bank, New York, ha* disappeared, $364,000 short. Subscriptions aggregating over $166,000.- 000 are said to have been offered lor the new ttO.000,000 loan of th* United Sutes Government. The Remington Arms Co., of llion, N. Y., is said to have received from the Japanese Government an order lor 10,OOO bayonets. The number of immigrants arrived at New York from Kurope, for the fiscal year ending .'With June, shows a deoieaae of over %,WH) a* compared with the previous year. In an interview at Detroit Rev. Dean Hole is said to have stated his opinion that saloon* should be open a part of the time on Sunday. . I* New York 2,800 loaves of bread, with other provisions, have been distributed among the striking cloakmakers, who are in great distress. Miss Frances K Willard wa* again elscted president of the Women's Christian Temper anoeUnion, with Mrs. Stevens vioe-preiident at large. James Liddle, editor of the Preeton, Iowa Times, wrote up his own suicide and then went and killed himself, carrying out the programme to the Utter. There wa* a lively contest in Buffalo be- tween Kansas City, Minneapolis, Baltimore, and Toronto for the next annual Fraternal Congress. Th* final vote wa* in favor of Toronto. By th* blowing down of a steel smoke tack at the Handy Abstract building, in ( 'hn ago, two mi M were seriously hurt, and \'K> people were more or leas injured by flying particles of glass from the skylight. Frank E. Godfrey, assistant superinten- dent ot th* Boston Y. M. C. A. gymnasium, slipped while attempting a somersault from the shoulder of a companion the other night ami was instantly killed, hi* neck being broken. At th* convention of 'he Women's Christian Temperance Union in Cleveland it was put on reoorl lliat tl.e league is opposed to the use of birds for il.* adorn- ment of hats, the killing of e*l< for cloaks, and against vivisection, as unnecessuy for the promotion of aciencx. A Rochester despatch says it is now be lieved that Jacobs. Kerngool, Ilia travel- ler who disappeared from a Michigan Central train between St. Tnomas and Buf- falo some days ago, is hiding inmewhere in Older that hu relatives may collect $40,000 insurance on his life. Commercial reports last week as to the condition of bnsinesathroughoutlhe United States indicate some improvement. More seasonable weather has had an influence in promoting activity in several lines ot goods, and there is also noticeable everywhere a growing feeling of confidence in an early more active state of things. Holiday goods, clothing, dry goods, and hardware are among the lines in which there has been an increased demand. There has been a slight advance in theptice of cotton in the South. Lake navigation ha* practically closed in the North after an unsatisfactory season. Bessemer iron is weaker, and iron and steel are iu ample supply. '1 hi b*nk clearing* in the principal cities of the United States for the week show an increase over last year of 7.8 per -xni.; outside of New York the increase is 10.6 per cent. OINKRAI.. It is said the Czir will visit the court* of Berlin and Vienna in the spring. Princess Bismarck, who has been ill for some time, ha* grown worse. Sell-denial week in Australia resulted in a total contribution of $370,000 to the Salvation Army funds. The Egyptian cotton crop is estimated at nearly .".MMI.OUO kantars, exceeding last year's crop by about 3 per cent. Jean Victor Duruy, the well-known French historian and politician, died yea- terday in Paris. H* was born in 1811. The Japanese Minuter of Finance ha* announced a further loan of litty thousand yen. Rubinstein, th* Hussian pianist, who died ou Monday, suffered from chronic asthma. De Ting, the chief of the Imperial Cus- toms in Tien-Tain, ha* left tor. Japan to arrange termt of peace. Father Rouignoli, the 1 is", cf thi priest* captured by the Mahdi and imprisoned at Omdurman, has escaped and is new at Assouan. Siity workmen and students are report d to have been arrested a*. Warsaw for advising the Poles not to swear allegiance to the Czar. Th* opening of th* German Reichstag is keenly awaited, as th* politicians are anxious to see how Prince Holenlohe will figure as Chancellor. At Singapore th* post of " tiger-slayer in-chief for th* Strait* Settlement" ha* just been given to M. d* Nancourt, a Frenchman, with a record ot /MO tiger* killed. King Leopold of Beleiu n has offered an annual prize of $.~>,<IOO for the best pian of supplying Brussels with drinking water. The competition is open to the world. Prince Regent Luitpold is to be declared King of Bavaria under the raine ot Lud- wig III. At tin? coming seasiou ol the Chamber*. Two interpreters ami one war corres- pondent, who were following the second Japanese army, have been captured and killed by the Chinese. It is understood at Washington that at present Japan is not prepared to accept th* offer made by the United States of media- tion in the China-Japan war. Despatches from the island of I-ombok state that the Dutch troop* hate captured th* palace of the Rajah, and that the relllious B*jlm*s* are inclined to submit. King Humbert hassent forty thousand lir e for the relief of the earthquake sufferer** and Premier Crispi ha* donated the snm o* seventeen thousand lire for the same pur- pose. Cobra* and other venomous reptile* in- fest the grounds of th* palace and Govern- ment buildings in Madras. On several occasions cobras have been found in the public offices. Prof. Behring has discovered typhoid secum, whii-h, he claims. Huts curatively in the case of typhus fever with al out as large a percentage of succeasful treatments as the diphtheria serum. In an interview Count Herbert Bismarck allowed it to be interred that the relation* between his father and I'rinue Hohenlohe, the present German Chancellor, are not cordial. A correspondent at fort Arthur lay* that fortress is impregnable if defended. There are twenty thousand tuperior Northern Hoop* there, and plenty of ammunition and provisions. Il is staled that a ma.i who is under trial for murder at Kraguyvals, Servia, has confessed that overtures were mad* to him to poison win* Intended for the uae of King Alexandria of Servia. Dr. Lambroes, the well-known physician, agrees with the contention of other Euro- pean medical men that ail Anarchists and Communists are demented, and that the lunatic asylum would be a filter place for them than the prison. It Is reported that China ha* intimated that she will offer to pay a war indemnity to Japan of one hundred million taels, to- gether with all war eipenses, two hundred and fifty million taels, or a total of about two hundred and sixty-two million dol- lars. A Russian whaling and sealing oo:npany for the Pacific, Behring Sea, and the Sea of Okhotsk lias been organized at St. Petersburg. The company'* ships will have the protection of the Russian cruiser* in the Pao-fic. The Prussian State attorney recently pleaded for three months' imprisonment of a girl of seventeen who had spoken disre- spectfully of the Imperial family. In view of her age, however, she was dismissed with a reprimand. The German Imperial budget is now fixed at seven hundred and eventy-rive million maiki, seventy million marks above the budget of last year. The addition I* ac- counted for by th* increased demand* of t he army and navy. STRAW FURNITURE. ftesie Very I' seta I Article* ( Make fr i'kerrb liazaara. Last month we showed how to make a pretty basket out of cardboard and itraws, says Toronto Ladies' Journal. This month in a few words I will try and show yon how to make a number of small articles of furniture either for ornament or the dolls' house. We will take an ordinary rocker to start with. Cut out two pnoe* of itiff card- board the shape of FIJ . I. They can be the same size as shown or larger according to taste. Punch or bore a number of holes inonepieoeMihowninFig.il. Then put it exactly over the other piece and with a sharp-pointed lead pencil, mark the holes for the other side so as to get the holes of both side* exactly similar cr opposite. Next cut some straws long enough to paas through both side*, (ticking out a little at each end. The straws must be suitably long enough according to the size of chair made. Of course you can use your own judgment in this matter. The chair is DOW complete, although if you wish you can decorate it iu many pretty ways, as, for instance, threading a broad piece of ribbon in and out be- tween the straws, a* you did in the case of the hanging basket. Some make a inu j little cushion for the Mat. The lides can be colored or gold painted according to fancy. Perhaps it would be a* well to state here thai theee straws are bought by the bundle, usually 25c. a bundle, and nan be obtained from almoet any fancy store. They are the same that used to be used for making straw picture frames many years ago. I ill now make a few iketches of more furni- ture, not so large a* the above, but they can be enlarged very easily by J 9 o any intelligent girl. Sometimes arms are put on the chairs as shown in Fig. IV. Also a very nice ALL ABOUT KOREA. A DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY WRITTEN BEFORE THE WAR. Kcreaam are *> !!. <- mi IBZ a ir) ai orrd I>T a llfel rro. Idr.rr kin* of JM.HU~ We have here a conaolidated, homogen- eou* nation speaking the lame languag, hiving the tame religion, divided into DO clam hostile to each other, occupy log a country favored at to climate, and ex- ceedingly rich and productive in agricultur- al and food products, with 100,000 square miles of territory and 16,000,000 of people. It is the habit, I may say fashion, with foreigners here to regard and treat this country in every respect as among the weakest, and entitled to bat little, indeed the scantiest, consideration. If mere terri- tory were the chief factor, that tight little island, Great Britain, with only 89,643 square miles, would be of little consequence compared with Brazil possessing 3,287, 964. If population, alone, is to be taken into consideration, Germany. France, or the United States would cou.it for h' tie against the teeming millions of China. Korea has a Urger area than Great Britain ; she hat nine times more territory than Belgium ; about eight timee mure than the Nether - lands ; more than six times that of Den- mark or Switzerland ; ti.e times that of Greece ; three timee that of Portugal, and perhaps as much as Italy. KOREA'S POPITLATIIIN. Korea has a population eight times more than Denmark or Greece : tave times more than Switzerland ; over three times (hat of Portugal ; and Dearly three times that of Belgium. In the American Hemisphere there is no nit ion except the United State* which exceeds her in population ; of the others, the unlv I wo approaching a.e Brazil the largest and rnott populous nation in South America, which has I'J.'i.T'f.i'iHi in- habitants, and Mexico, having 1 >,4UO,UUO. When the English colonies in America revolted against England their combined population was less than 3,000,000 that is to say, not a fifth of the population of Korea ; and in more modern times, we may note the successful wars which Chili has recently waged ; that within the last year she seemed ready to cross swords with the United Stata* and that in fact great appre- hension was lelt in that country that she would catch it unprepared, and be able to bombard and levy tribute on its western ports, and yet this doughty and peppery little nation of Chili ha<, including Indians, only a population of some '2,600,1100 or about one-sixth the population of this coun- try. A liOOD KIXC. It would be manifestly improper for ae to enter into a discussion concerning the governmental affairs of Korea : but I ven- ture to ssy that the most persislant and pronounced pessimists I have met, admit that His Majesty, the King, is humane, I just, and enlightened, earnestly desirous of promoting the welfare of his Nation, and devoting all his ti-ne, energy, and attention, most industriously and conscientiously, to the accomplishment of this laudable object^; indeed about the only criticism I have heard is the unusual, and under all the surroundings, the very complimentary ene that he gives too much time and attention to the details of the vast business which as absolute ruler, he controls. O e o o 00000 O OOOO PI Jo chair can be made by making a double row of straws a* shown in Fig. IV. Many im. provemei.U and change* can b* mad* in this way by a little thinking. Let us pass O M O C O O O O O O o 1 1 t&. V//1 o V V "07 o ' o o 900 o o o o O on to a more important piece of furniture now, viz., the bed. This can b* mad* in many ways, either a single or double bed can be made in the same way by making the bed narrow or wide. Fig. V. shows the one side of an ordinary b*d. Fig- VI. ha* a canopy atone end, while Fig. Vll. i* an old-fashioned four-poster. When these are out out nioely and decorated the same way as the chairs, making a nice little mattress and curtain* to suit, they will look any- thing but cheaply made toys. I have seen these al church bazaar*, and they always brought a comparatively good price. The straws can be bought in various colors if desired, although the natural color always looks best. Some Chinese and many African* us* he ear a* a pocket to carry coin* and other mall article*. Charity. The lady waa mak 1 1115 some remarks a boat the kind of clothes om other ladies at church had on. "The finest garment a woman can wear," said her husband, "is th* muitle of char- ity." *1 es," she snapped, "and it's about th only one some husbands want their wive* to wear. " A Change of Views. .Vegetarian (who has been chased acre** the fence by cattle.) Just wait, you stupid brute*. From this moment I am no longer a vegetarian. It Was Chilly. Jink* (entering! "Hello, old look blue. What's up v " Binks (gloomily) "CoaL" nan! yon ten In the Penitentiary. Thief "How do you like yonr new quar- ira ?" Counterfeiter (just in) "Oh, I guess they are no worse than the half dollars I math- that brought me here." Too High. Tom De Witt "You didn't bow to Mr. Wyckoff. '' Killy Winslow "Oh, 'all flesh is grass," you know, and I thought that particular piece of gran needed cutting." Construed Two Ways. 'Mia* Goldby flattered me verwy much yestah lay," said Freddie Hayrebrane. "Indeed?" "Ya-aa, She told me that when I came. out on the stage in ouah pwivate tbeatwioal* 1 looked good enough to eat." "Wall, that is substantially what she remarked to me. She *aid your face waa like a boiled lobster." The Coming Jury. Lawyer (a few years hence) "Make year mind easy. The jury will disagree." Prisoner "Sure?" Lawyer "I know it. Two of th* mm- ber* are man and wife " The Paternal Rack. Young Man-"\Vhydoe.Mr. Jink* have such a hand-dog no account look? Is it because lie is in financial trouble?" Old Man "Oh, BO. It is Waua* h* i* the father of children of school age, and they have begun to ask him to help them with their arithmetic."