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THE VHRY LATEST FKOM AU.THE WORLD OVER. ratinf Item* About Our Own Country, Oraat Britain, the tnlt4 Stato, anil All Part* of the Globe, Coadcaxd mat AnorleJ for Eaay Heading. CANADA. Chatham baa uuned a bridge, after Lord Aberdeen. Ex-Mayor Stewart of Hamilton an- nounces that his public and political life in ended. Mr K. R I.ineb'un. one of the men arnvited at Johanneaberg. is a citi- sen of Belleville. Oil was struck in Yarmouth Town- slMp. rwar St Thomas, by a farmer dkr-iny a w^ll. Test wells will be unit. Mr. E. Farquhar. of Toronto, has reoeivt I the ormtract for tbe comple- tion ,,f the Ottawa ft. Purry Sound Railway The Metropolitan of Canada will issue an appeal to the church for aid to the Armenians and prayers tar their de- liverance. John SeatoD. of Strathroy. Ont., i in U>' rwunty paol under the charge of onrmpinng to set fire to bis own pro- perty Beaton i* 75 years of age. and lotaJly blind Mr. Rufos Stevenson, son of Mr. Jamea Srevenoco. M P.. has been ap- pointed Collector of Customs at Peter- Wough Tbe salary in twelve hundred dollars. I' stated that Mayor Tuckett of Hamilton will pres-nt the Youri* Wo- M's Christian Association with a 910- nnn building and it is also rumored that be will preaen* a music hall to tbe city. Mr George R Reeve. Traffic Man- HT of tb Chicago A Grand Trunk. M* len a|.pornt^l Gne^al Traffic Manager of the entire Grand Trunk system, with headquarters at Mont- real. Mr McNeill has given notic* of a resolution in Parliament expressing the loyalty ,,f Canada t<> Great Britain and [he willingnead of tbe people to stand the empire in any storm that may Crty o* Txindon has abandoned it* claim of 926000 aganurf th-> Grand Trunk Railway Company for deteriora- tion of the Txindon A Port Stanley Railway during its lease to tbe Grand Trunk GREAT BRITAIN. The Queen ha* sent an autograph let- ter to tbe Sultan, which believed to contain an appeal on behalf of tbe Ar- The flying quadron recently put in nxiiniMinn ha* left Portsmouth under 1 F*tMN*tB It is surmised itMdestina- ''', is Bermuda. Canon Grey, who diec 1 . the other day. wa rwlor of Hoocbtoo-le-Spring. Kng- laiid for fort y-eitfht yearn lli^ |. .,(.- ce-or wa* r<-i-or for fifty-six years. Th \Ve-t n, luster Gazette say* that if formation is correct the Mar<)ui* l:*urysd<esire to b-, better friend* with Prince ban already brought forth fruit Tbe British Foreign Office his reoriv- iMrfi- fnn Mr Bavard the I St ite* Anihxssa<h>r. mwur that he has been in,sir:-i'tvl by hi*. Government ! 'i.t-r think- to Great Britain for her "ciml of flee* to Amerii^uvs in the Trans- vual. The Iftacfcavtar Guardian re|K.;t. ihit the (JovemiiM-nt are taking steps to end the Armenian horn>r Thcrt- will p:oba- hlv h,. land invvtmn <f Turkey by Hu-stiit. awl a naval demonstration at t\mtantinopl by (Jreaf Britain and franc*. 1 orirf r*redrick \Vstta. the celebrat- ed Rngjnli arlist. whose eiitht.v-setumd vewr will hi- complete- 1 in February us *l-n liofth* wuiterin tbe I'nited States. 11- I**t0l in excellent heilth and works with characteristic aiilinlv ' '< ' ndon Graphic clainm to have authority to deny ibr report that Great Britain has offered ntonev ti- Venezuela ! the latter *s acceptance of tbe Schtmi- tviirg line as marking th" txundarv be- tween Venezuela and Bntiab Guiana Mi Cecil l:.'-.<inv who bax been tbe ruJing (.pint m S.,utb Africa, and who k st. rk-h th%t tb Bank of England thinks nothing <' < ruxhinw bin ihVqur for 9IOOU.OW). saved bis life by going noutb wbeQ b WAS a boy. after be had la* onr lung Tbe Arrbbu*bopof Canterbury baiide- cluml to pncvu-utr the Bishop of Lon- dtMi for iesuing a If.i-nse for tbe niar- nagv ofai*orc*d p *. on tbe ground thai the Bwhop'" chancellor held that Huch licemeo are proper, and the. Hi-h . ( . ha*a right to act on tbe decision of bis cuanivllor I'NITKI) STATES. W. Hasell Wilson, presidejit of the Helvidere railway in Pennsylvania, is the. oldest railway president in toe I'oitexl State*. He was liorn in IKH Mr Morne pro^xwed a reduction in the I'nited States llouw of Kej re.sentatives. thf expressed intention of !;,.(, was U> "wipe the Turkish natuw off the fan* of tbe earth." John Cork, who has been making beds at tbe. Ant-hor kotWaV-aWBM in Buffalo for three yan< past, w the presumptive heir to a fortun*- of forty thousand dol- lars, derived from an estate in England. Peter Houghaard, a Dane, killed him elf, his wife, and five children in Chi- cago. < Sunday night. He waited un- til the family were asleep, and then, turning on all the gaa jets, be calmly lay down and awaited tua own death. Superintendent Craig, of the Duluth Gas and Water Company, has been in- dicted by the grand jury for man- slaughter in the second degree for sup- ply ing the city with impure water, which caused the death of a citizen by typhoid fever. Timothy B. Blackstoue has given a 9-sio.UXt library to bin native place, the town of Branfurd. Conn., which will t* co-nj.leted in a few months. Mr. Biack- stone ie to present his choice collection of banks to the library, and will also liberally endow it. The number of immigrants who ar- rived in the United State* during !> cnmber 1895, was IMfii. and during De- cember. 1804. 14.777 During the twelve months ended December 31. 1895. the arrivals numbered &M.542, and during the preceding year 248,983. A mac who gave his name as D. V Uaukond, w<b<> arrived in I'tica on Fri- day morning from Montreal, and ai- !rnipt,'<i ! >-i-k cashed. wa sr- re.sted. as he is wanted by the Montreal I-.., ,.- on a rhartre <>f buncoing a man OUT ..f eighteen hundred dollars. At tbe fipening of th- Cmu-d Stales ,-t Representatives on Friday Mr. n. the blind ctuiplain, pr.n-ul f-r vently for i ru.vlirig Cuba, and tin cess of her battle for independence sentiments be expressed were greeted with a round of applause. 1 1 is recalled now that Napoleon, on tbe completion of tbe Louisiana pur- chase, said: "This accession of terri- tory strengthen) forever tbe power of iin- 1 miejl St.itn*, and I have given to Kin.- 1 .ind a maritime rival that will sooner or later humble her pride." Senator Sewell of 'x'ew Jersey off-r- ed a resolution in the United St.it.-> Senate declaring that the Monroe doc- inne was neve.r intended to be apolie.d in the manner proponed bv President Cleveland, and that tbe President's ac- tion wa* premature and inooport line in view of tbe financial condition of tbe country. John C. Enntland. of Danville. Ky . has a reruarkaliU record as a Sunday school scholar. He has onU mts-ert at- tending school one Sunday in seven years, and hut i.. Sundays in nine years. This is the more notable as be lives five mile* distant in the country, and has had to brave some pretty had weather at times to get to school. Miss Ella Wilcox* is the highly effici- ent janitor and sexton of the Church of the United Brethren in M*r<-ellus. Mich. She has full care of the church, keeps it in order, rings the bell on Sun- days, and attends to all tbe other duties of a sexton "in every way belter than any male janitor ever has." the church- goers say. She is good-looking, a* well an accomplished, doubtless another point of .superiority over the male janitors. I'nited States senator Davis, of the Committee on Foreign Relations, refer- ring to the Alaski-m I* undary.-ays there i- nothing to arbitrate between the United States and Great Britain. The claims of the former country are right, and those of Great Britain are wrung and no matter how much Kngland and Canada may desire to obtain millions of acres of tillable land and a naval sta- tion the I'nited States must maintain her rights. Tbe tone of commercial summaries a to the condition and outlook of trade in the T'nited States is none too encour- aging. Tbe present position is depress- ing, and the imm"di%te future doubtful The financial rnuddl? increases distrust in commercial circles, and strongly ac- centuates the prevalent indisposition among business men to do more than jut hold on in a tentative way. Hence there is little or no speculative move- ment in trade .and men-Hants are ap- parently indulging in the negative con- solation o' beinir truuakful that matters ar n" worse. SI-TI-- ~eriou- commercial failures have occurred during tbe week .in ill- I'nited States. Manufacturers are unusually dull owing to a general 1 alack riea* in demand; staples are little enquired for. though stocks in dealers' hands are believed to be low. Prices in various inns>rt;in' lines continue to de- cline Pig m n u- firmer though the finished iron products are in no great requ- GKNRRAL. A hundred Portuguese troops were surprised and slaughtered by natives of I' i experte'l that Spain's reverses in Cuba will cause a Cabinet crisis at Mad- rid Tb transport Victoria with 1.200 : troop* rom Rnm>>ay has arrived at 1 Cape Town. K-!'reiiiiei Floquvt <>f France, who baa l*en ill for several days with con- gest ion of t he lungs, is dying. The neat in Sydney N.S.W.. is terri- fic reaching the highest point on re- cord There have been many deaths from sunstroke. The latest reports from China say that I i-llung-Chang. who is living in retire- ment in Pekin. is rapidly failing in health. According to information collected by the Embassies in Turkey, three thous- and Armenians were killed at Orfah on Decemlier 'Jflth and 29th. Despatches received in Madrid state that the Culian insurgent* hive cut off ( all means of communication between ' Havana and the interior. The citizens of Havana are greatly afraid that the in*urgenl will destroy the water works, which are situated ai.'iit five miles from tbe city. It ban liera finally settled that Dr. Jameson and bis officer* shall be con- . veyed as prisoner* to England, where , they will be arraigned before the pro- I per tribunals. It is reported from tbe British Km basB.v in Constantinople, that about fifty : thousand |x>unds \\\\' l-e required to ave the Armenians of Anatolia from starvation until spruif* As a result of hi* quarrel with the German Kmperor. Prince Frederick Le- , ojs>ld of PruMtia ha." resigned his posi- | t ton in tne army am! taken his wife ' away to southern Kurope. Tbe Paris Figaro aays that France will not depart from the position which has made her alone the silent arbiter of the peace of tbe world She will not interfere l*tweeu Germany and Eng- land It is generally admitted in Havana that ! Captain-General de Campos has failed in i bis attempt to put down the. Cuban in- surrection, and his immediate recall is urgently pressed upon the Spanish Gov- ernnien' According to the official figures just publinlted. French imports for the past year decreased oue hundred and fifty- two million francs, and exports increas- ed three hundred and ten million francs, as compared with tbe previous year. It is now know that the Queen of Core*, who was supposed to have been murdered and cremated with her maids of honor, escaped, and remained in hiding in an outhouse hwile the palace was Wintf sacked. Tbe Porte has decided to prohibit tbe distribution among tbe destitute Arm- enians of the- funds collected >n foreign countriCH for their benefit, and says that tbe alleviation oJl their distress is the function of tbe Turkish .Govern- ment. Mr. Cecil Rhodes, previous to leaving Cape Town for London said in an in terview that be did not intend reoigii- ing his seat in Parliament, and that be ! would I* present at the meeting of the Chun fied Company in London, when he I will adilreas the shareholders on recent event*. DUE MEXICAN LETTER. A CANADIAN'S OPINION OF TE PEOPLE OP MEXiCO. . <-riir. Im Ihr selm Nadre N*w Tker I>r>i4 sun Jar In **alrrt-r -!' *IU- lellr iirio TkaalrM, Kail*, HaOiliiz fir.. Hr-l'^r. .!.. Monterey, N I.. Mexico, Decemlxr 2nd. 1895. People who have not visited Mex- ico cannot have the remotest iiiea of I be manners and customs of the peo- ple 1 will in this and future, leltera try and give a brief sketch of the scenes in thU country as I found them. AMI SKMENTS ON THE PLAGAS. Sunday waa a gala day in the pictur- esque Monterey. All tb children. teachers and patrons of the public school* held their annual anniversary in the Alamexla (Park) and had a jolly time. Duriru; the previous week Gen- eral Bernardo Reyes, the progressive Governor of the State of Nuevo Leon, had a force of men decora ring the grounds with 'tanners, bunting and Uie national colors, green, white and red. In the centre of the Alameda is an ornamental " Kixi.sk " hand stand. Thia was trimmed with l-unting. wreathe* of evergreen, lace curtains and silk ban- ners ; while all around the carriage drive and walk* were planted ornament- al poles twenty feet apart, on which were stuck the Mexican flags and the "Liberty Cap," with gold hands around it, and across the front "La Liburtad." was painted in golden letters. There are two iron fountains in it. which throw streams of sparkling water At one corner of the park there is an artificial pond which us stocked with black swans, ducks and geese., and at the other end is a deer park which contains fifteen of these noble niml Both places are fenced in with woven wire fence twelve feet high and made fast to iron posts. Three p.m waa the tune for the schools to assemble, but long before that hour hundreds of men. women and chil- dren could be seen going there. Every street car waa loaded to its fullest ca- pacity. Each school carrier} their own banner on which was paint- ed in golden letters toe name and number. Some of the teachers were ah"ad. while the others brought up the rear. Aa they have separate .schools for the boys and girls in this country, they pay more attention to the dressing of the girla on occasions of this kind than they do to the boys ; and on this occasion there wan no two of the pupil.* of the girls' schools dressed alike. I will describe one of them. All the chil- dren were siaed up and paired. Toe small one* in front were dressed in red and each one of them carried a bouquet of tropical flowers and small silk l*nners in their hands. The next group wore oream-ooiored dresses, which were trim- med with green and purple ribbons. and they carried in their hands bou- quets of flowers and banners. The next group wore pink dresses, which were trimmed with red. blue and orange colored ril*on. While the next <r-oup were dressed in green; and the "jst in black. This was designed to represent THE NATIONAL COLORS, green, white and red; while the black represented the dark anil bloody strug- K\>- 'hit the country passed through l.-fon- ill.- .TIIIM-.I their independence. Kacb one of t bear groups carried in their bands silk banners, and bouquets of trop -il flower*, while around their beads th y wore wreaths <>f orange blos- som*, feme, maidens' hair, hyacinth, nigh' l>bwiing ceries. mantos. belio- i.-f" myrtle and thyme, whose sweet aroma perfumed the atoi<*pbere as they marched along. Toe i>\s were also picturesquely dressed for the occasion. ;trl HI--V attracted conaiderable atten- tion as they filed into the park and took thir seats. m after all were seated the hand discoursed sweet music, after which .short addresses were delivered and pre- miums awarded to the successful pu- pils. At 5 p.m. there was a sham battle fought liet ween the pupils of the high .school and the College Civil or State I'niveraity. That wound up the en- tertainment for the day There were fully 10.000 people in the park during the afternoon. At night there was muw on the zar- agnza plaza (this is the main plaza), and the lite of Monterey were the.re The rich and the poor, the saints and the sinners, the Governor and staff, the army officers with their bright uniforms on, the Jew and Gen- tile, the state and federal judges and officers, th" foreigners and the fashion drummers. Inld-headed men and ladies with flowing hair. newspaper men and philosophers, miner!) and prospectors. and your correspondent were there marching round the plaza, keeping step with tbe music, inhaling the odor of the orange and rose, sipping from the .sparkling fountains until the clock in tb to*< r struck twelve, when the mu- sic ceased aud all retired to their re- spective homes. Thus it will be seen that the citizens of picturesque Monterey enjoy outdoor exercise on Sundays, and that they do all in their power to promote the edu- cation and comforts of their children. They instil into them a spirit of re- finement, patriotism, music and social- ity. ATHLETIC SPORTS. While tbe public schools were cele- brating their anniversary at tbe Ala- meda. the Monterey Athletic Club were engaged in giving an exhibition of the (luvrilv arts at their park Thia consist- ed of a sparring match lietween two Americans, and a sword contest on horseback and on foot between tbe champion swordsman of tbe world, Capt. Duncan C. Ross, of tbe British army, and Capt. George Laporte, also of the British army, but now a citizen of Monterey. Capt Ross had the ad- vantage in stse and weight, but be failed to overpower tbe light cavalry- man, for be gained the most point* and dpi. Laporte wan awarded tbe honors. The next waa sword and lyonet con- test, and two mules pulling against each other, etc. It vs customary in this country to have hull fights and theatres on Suti- daya. In fact . Sunday* are their breath- ing il.iys. and they devote those days to all kinds of outdoor entertainments. All tbe banks, stores and places of busi- ness are opened until 12 m. on Sun- days. All kinds of bu.sine.38 is carried on the same as on week days. They hive no Sunday lawa in this country. I I) people do just an they please. The farmers can plough and plant, reap and sow, with' >ut fe*r of being disturbed. '\ on can n-> to church or not, jusi an you feel like it. In my next letter ( will give a de- scription of one of the largest caves in th.^ world. PERSONALb. I frequently meet Canadians in this city. Miiiy of tb?m have located hare and are doing well. Last Sunday morn- ing I paid a visit to Mr I. H. SlcDou- gall. a native of Maripoaa. He is super- intendent of a large furniture factory in this city. EDMOND LEV AN. PERSONAL POINTERS SOIE ODD HAPPENINGS, PECULIAR AND INTERESTING FEA- TURES OP ACTUAL LIFE. Malili-r Itr-ls a I.MS I raarr-lnll f LIcklBlBI- A |,llalar (aawe* Her BWalk- **w Is !! I|BM f l T-I 1 i>..<i i ! rik Crcal f.iu. ml ike rid Henri Rochefort never drink* or sni('k.. and has no Bohemian habits. No wunder ha is considered eccentric. Employes in the British Home Office are to l retired for age at 60. The I IM lei Secretary who signed tbe order is himself 60. Mr. Gladstone thinks that the surest way for Englishmen of wealth to earn fame and immortality is to build ca- thedrals. The. latest reports from China say that Li-H ling-Chang, who is living in retirement a'. PeJcin, is rapidly failing in health. Although Sidney Cooper, tbe English artist, is 93 years old. be is painunK pic! urea for the spring exhibition at the Academy. It is a. curious fact that, after eleven. years' captivity in the hands of the . Statin Pasha-s greatest difffeul- ty was to walk up stairs an art which he had almost forgotten. William Morris, whom tbe world us- ually thinks of as artist and poet, is a practical printer, and the inventor of printing prews which has turned out tbe most beautiful work, technically, of tbe day. Lord Beaoonsfield's brother. Mr. Ralph Disraeli, is still living. He hears One day last summer Thomas Horton of Binghamton. Ala., wa* passing through a piece of cleared land when be was bitten by a rattlesnake. Tbe reptile, was shedding its skin. and. there- fore, in its moat venomoua condition. Tbe serpent's fangs had penetrated the cowhide boot, and it was easily killed. Horton took off but boots, and his wit* gave them to Napoleon Meeke.r. a narro who worked on an adjoining farm. 11* wore them and died. Archibald Hooker, a nephew of the dead man. wore them 48 hours, and he also died in great, a^nny. The boot* next pawed m- posmssion of an uld trapper. Th* ond day be wore them he was at- tacked with a pain in bis Leg. His ex- perience told him it was the result el rattlesnake poisoning. He applied a remedy in time and recovered. OB examining the bootleg be found a small point of a piece of bone embedded in tbe hide. It was the fang of the rat- tlesnake, placed in such a way that on drawing out the foot the fang, which curved upward, would not injure it. but on putting the boot on it would be almost impossible to escape a alight scratch from the potaon-aovered tooth. About ten days ago Mis* Nellie Ryan wa* going from Ameabury to New- buryport, Mas*., on the street cars. So* no rese ml'lance to bis distinguished bro- ther, and baa always lived a quiet, re- tiring life, having been for many years clerk of the House of Lords. Eugene Kranz, the Alsatian, has held the poaitiufi of chef in tbe household of the Czar of Russia for some yean, avid he is said to be the must accom- plished cook in the world. His staff numbers some 1,200 persons. The Duke of Mar 1 1 trough's cigar- ettes mut hive a stopping of cot tun to keep the nicotine from his mouth. In Knfrland Una is said to be the keynote of he Duke's character his health is not the most rotxist. and be coddles himself most carefully. Dean Farrar, of Canterbury, thinks it "perfectly erroneous to talk of tbe failure of missions, when they started with 120 despised Galileans, and when now there are 120.000.000 Protestants, and they have in their power almost all the resources of tbe world." Robert Louis Stevenson's history of his own family will appear in the forthcoming edition of his works now being prepared in Eiiinburgh. It ends with tbe great achievement of his grandfather's life in the building of the. Bell Rock lighthouse. Sir Henry James, who might have been Lord Chancellor bad be liked. wears tbe shaUiiesl clothes, perhaps, of any celebrity of tbe day. His tall bats are, however always conspicuous for their immaculate glossiness. He is a great favorite with tbe Prince of Wales. One of the must enthusiastic women horticulturists is Miss Alice Kol hs< hild. wlvwe collection of roses alone Is said to be worth 950.000 The Archduke of Austria owns flowers to tbe value of $20(1. 000. and Sir Trevor Lawrence 'a col- lect ion at Dorking is worth over 9-50.- 000. Tbe Prince of Wales and the Due de Cbartres have just exchanged birthday presents, according u> their custom of many years past, as their birthdays fall on the same day. The Orleans" Prince i* the elder by a year, however. The Prince sent the Duo a, fine gun, while the Due's souvenir to the Prince was a gold cigarette case. WEATHER PROPHETS. Fi.k ai lrrl.-l I Ik* tpproark .( a M*ra. By some particular instinct certain animals are able to foretell the wea- ther. But of all. tbe fish ie probably tbe best prophet in that direction. When storms are alxmt to happen there is called into use this wonderful sense '' (of foretelling the weather) which ap- { pears to * electro-magnetic, anil some I hours before tbe storm comes on tbe 1 herring* wU. leave the shore and move 1 out into deep water. Being able to ' detect when a storm is coming on. her- rings are also able to tell what way it will blow. Thus, if a storm is ap- J reaching from a direction tbe wind rom which does not much affect tbe water where they lie. they do not move. On tbe approach of storms from any other direction they make off at once. Tbe fish on these occasions leave their i haunts full 10 hours before the violence , of t be storm reaches their These facts have been known to tbe fisherman un Megaviasey Bay fully 30 I years, and are. acted on every winter I by them. Many other kinds of fish, the pilchard, mackerel, cod. etc., have this sen** well developed. It is sup- pi wed that the sense in question is af- | affected by electrical currents in the ' ocean. The organs of the sense are * i s ! u. i grew suddenly ill and became entirely unconscious, fine was carried to her home, and has since remained in the same state. Friends and relatives be- lieved after 24 hours had elapsed that she was deed. Physicians who have been in attendance upon the young wo- man refuse to take this view of th* matter, and declare that there is life in tbe body and that she ut simply in a state of trance. Th* features retain color, as if alive, and toe rigid condi- tion of tbe limbs of a corps* is not ap- parent Mis* Ryan has always n- loyed the best of health, but is of * highly nervous constitution which tact many of the physicians assert, is th* <au.se of her present state. The case U attracting wiileupread attention, and eminent physicians have been sent for by tbe local doctors to view the pati- ent. Chris lioyk. of No. 1743 York Place. Chicago, had an exciting experience early the other morning. He was driv- ing a horse attached to a delivery wa- gon for one of tbe early morning paper*, and drove on the wet approach tu Madi- son street bridge from the Pennsyl- vania Depot. Electric wires are strung under the bridge, and tbe nails in tbe bridge planks bad become charged with an electric current. When tbe bora* was driven on the bridge be fell d<mn. iing overcome by toe current, and was unable to get on his feet. When Boyk attempted to assist it he was also affected by the electricity and bad to leave off the attempt. The horse lay on the bridge for ten minutes.- when several men wearing rubber boots ap- peared and gave tbe necessary assist- ance. Tbe animal waa in no way in- juned. A splinter caused the death tbe oi her day of Florence Mack, daughter of V. N. Mack, of Detroit. The splinter produc- ed lockjaw. On last Saturday morn- ing Miss Mack ran a small splinter un- der her thumb nail. It broke olf. leav- ing only a quarter of an inch imbedded in the flesh. She was unable to re- move it. and was sent to tbe family physician, who removext the bit of wood and told her to poult ice tbe thumb on returning home. She disregarded the instruction. She was taken ill Sunday, and Monday became unnoo- wious, and remained so until her death occurred next morning. Thirty years ago J. B. Garrison, of Plant City, Kla.. a machinist, ran small sliver of steel into his right hand at tbe base of tbe thumb. The wound was treated, and finally healed, the doctor saying that the steel had 'ern expelled. But ever since that time Garrison baa suffered with severe pain* in his right arm. which be at- tributed to rheumatism. Last week the pains became very acute in hi* right shoulder He went to a doctor, and the doctor drew from just under tbe skin of tbe shoulder the steel sliv- er that entered hi hand in 1865. Mrs Elida Dawley Beet*, of Sand- usky. N. Y.. died the other morning from exhaustion, due to a hemorrhage that followed tbe extracting of a 'i.t h. Mrs. Beebe bad been troubled for sev- eral days with a .severe toothache. Wednesday afternoon Dr. Merrill pul- led tbe tooth and an artery was rup- tured in the operation, causing a hem* orrbage, which raoulted in her death. An informal tent was made at Leav- enworth. Kan., of the. power of resis- tance of packed snow, against tbe pene- trative force of a bullet from toe new InrjiTitv" ">"" old Springfield riflet. Krom a dis- tance of It) yanfe tbe gun* were fired into an immense ball of snow. In no case did the bullet penetrate beyond five feet, and in some instances lea* than four feet. Mr. John W. Williams, of Chase City, Va,, is 6 feet 6 9-4 inches high. 43 years old. and weighs 195 pounds. He. had ' believed to bv the "lateral lines" found in nearly all fishes, and oonei-ting of a kind of tube filled with nerve*. Tbetw have long been known to be organs of sense, though up till quite recently no one could tell what purpose they served. Skin Diphtheria, Diphtbaria of the skin, a very rare disexsv. has been cured by the use of antitoxin in a little two-yeara-and-a- half-old Herlin girl recently. She had been badly scalded with boding water six brothers ; four are now living, and none of them las* than 6 feet 2 inches. His uncle. Patterson Jennings, was 7 feet On bis maternal side all are very tall people. Llffhtntnff. In describing recent photographs oi lightning a well-known scientist names three types of flash band lightning, tube lightning ami water-Apout light- ning. The first two be found to occur with _ in all storm* . tbe third he met and as t lie skin was healing, was kissed I once only. Erom the meaaureri width of by her mother on tbe wounded spot. | the band lightning on photographs and Tbe mother had diphtheria, and tniis the computed dit&nce ne> estimate! th* communicated it to the baby'* skin ; the throat was not affecUd. actual widths to be from about 1ft 80 yard*.