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THB VERY LATEST FROM ALLTHB WORLD OVER. latarcatliig Itamt About Oat Owa Country, Ureat ttrltain, th* Unltod States!, and All ParU of th* aiobo, Coadciucd and Aaaortod far Basy Raadlag. CA_NADA. City Exigii>««r lUakins of Hamilton, died there on BuaU^y oiternoon: Tbe Camuii&D Pacific Railway wlU bfscome a member of the Joiut Traflic â-²<iaocialioD . The will ol tbe late Godfrey P-Pa/- tiiat of Windaor, N'ii., bequeatha (100,- (NJU to A<'&aui College. A dartug plan to rob thn Bunk of Coiuiueinxs in AVinnipeg waa fruulrated by ita pruuiature limxtveiy. Sobeit St«"wart. an employe of the Walland oanal waa dro>\'u«d in Look No. 1, new umal, early Sunday morning. of the rutted 6tat«a to the Bebrioflr Sea 01 alma Commiiision. Mm. Harriet Ijeecber Stowe, author of "Lfncla Xom't Cabin," waa atriokan down with congestion of the brain and dlad on VV'ednoBday. In a fight between Sberlfft men and atrikers near n«<rea, 6., one uuin wa« killed and aiiutber fatalW injured. Many ehoUi 'were exchiuiiged. "HuBury Jot'." the fomoua bunko man, recently released ifrotn a Balti- more prison, must report to the New York police every morning a* long aa he remains in that oity. Gan. Lawton, who served in the Con- federate army with Stonewall Jaokson and who fur two yeaxs waa United States UinlBter to Austria, died at Clifton Springs on Thursday. For the first time the fla^ of the United mates waa flown on July 4th with forty-five stars on ils blue field, indicating the admlsaion of Utah to the siet«rhood of Istatea. i A systematlo system of robbery, by which passenger train conductorH, sta- tion agents and I^lllm.an car porters have already stolen $15,000 from the I Chiivigo A Alton railroad, haa been dis- covered. The United States treasury state- A desfiatch from Vancouver statea that the wat«r in tbtt Fraaer lUver ia , , >. rising aad that m.uch damage lias bean [ment for the fiscal year 1890 discloses done upon the low lands. i * deficit of |25,5C0,00O. The deficits for Mr. Wm. McCammon. young«»t son of i ^^fi'^^^ ,,I,'^''««, P?;â„¢, ««K/e8ate «137,- ex-Major McC'aininon/ of Kingston. «»0;0^\'^«<1^^^ e-l*- Ont^as drowned at Clayton, nTT.. on "'"'••^ •' »10,000,000. Suturdav night. The deceased was 22 GENERAIk years of ago. j _ Forest fires are ragintf In northern Peter Wheeler was oonvlcUd at Newfoundland. murder of nixLeen-yeaj'-old Annie I to visit I^gland. KamptOQ at Bear Kiver, and sentenced to be hangwd on StqH. 8th. Sir Chajrles lii vers- Wilson before leaving Montreal for England ex- pr«»Bud bis belief that Grand Trunk affairs were progressing under the manage luent of Pietjiilent Haya. Smallpox ind yellow fever are caua- iag great loss of life in Cuba. tjuwn Margherita of Italy is about to puljlish her Alpine experiences in book form. It is reported that a tirother of Dr. ana^eiu^uu „. ^.^.,^.^.,,. Jameson lias been killed by the Mat Joaiah ILtnsou, the original of Uncle abelea Tom in Mm. Uarriet iieecher Stowe's : . .' ... -, . . . .. ,. novel, died in Dr^den. Ont., in 1872. and I A. despatch from Cairo states thai) wuit buried in the aegio cemetery near I during June there were 3.59B deaths that tinvu. I '"«» fliolera. Mrs. Catharine Lawless, a patient in Ihe total number of oases of cholera the Insane Asylum in Hamilton, com- in lOgypt to date is 7,550, which proved mittad suicide by Ranging herself from ' fatal in 6.21U instances. the burs of .the window in her room. ', An official denial haa been Issued of Sba had made several attempts pre- the report that an attempt was recent- Tiously to commit suicide. j ly made to assassinate the new Shah. I Km|>eror William has gone for a six weeks' cruise in northern Norway seas GItEAT BRITAIN. The death of Baron Fltzhardinge la tjaaouncfil. lie waa seventy years of â- ge. The Irish laud bill •waa passed by the Briti;«b Uou^u of Conununs by a vote of LU! to 140. Tiio sale of the estate of the late Col. Koitb ibo Nitrate King, realised five hundred thousand pounds. The Ouku of AiboU is the only noble- gan ^v'ho clothu bis nK-u-servanta in igblund drtvvi m London aloard the Imperial yacht, Hohenzol- lern. The packet lioat Rahmanieb, bound from Suakim for Suez, went on a reef and foundered. Sixty persons were drofwned. The nimiber of horses killed for con- smiiplion as food in I'aris last year waa 23.1H6, this being exclusive of 43 mules sud 383 donkeya Ttie Cretan insurgents defeated the IVrka on Wednesday, killing two him- "What outrageous conduct I" ex-' elalmed Mrs. Fielding, gazing at her daughter with wide-opened eyes. "Very extraordinary I" agrt-ed Ethel. "I never heard of such a thing in my life !" "I should hope not I" returned Mrs. Fielding; "what would your poor, dear father have said if, during his lifetime, a young man had come to propose for your hand, ajid, on being) refused by you, had expressed his in-< tention of staying in the house until you aacepted him I I've not even read In novels" (with a fine touch of scorn) "of such a preposterous notion. Did he â€" didâ€" did he seem firm about it, my dear 1" "FrightftUly I" Ethel aaeurod her, ,, 'frightfully firm, and you should Just I "^g- »"'' locked in my box I' see what a chi^ he haa. It would make I 2ST''?..'^^.^tl.«'i?ir/*'*' three of mine." "What did you sayt" aaked Mrs. Fieldiikg. "What could I say I I've already told you everything. I met him, aa you know, at the Marchant-Mainwsr- ings, and after our first introduction, saw him almost every day during the following month. The night before I came home he proposed to me, and Iâ€" > ter, too, waa addreesed to that low place. Friar's Court, Temple. So. by the time Dick had Ijeen located at "Pleasant View" seven days, he waa quite t Jriendly â€" nay, intunateâ€" terms with s hostess and her daugh- ter. Every .coming when he met the latter at the breakfast-table (seizing an opportuhtty, of course, when Mrs. FieldinjT was not present) he had ask- ed, "Will?" and Ethel had shaken her head very determinedly, and made the must of the exceedingly dimpled chin, which only represented one-third of Mr. Waterbury's. During the whole of that week Dick had never once been out. The kitchen commented severely on this point. It savoured more of the "man in possession" than anything el8<i he had done. "He's been sent, and he's got to stop," was cook's verdict. "And mis- tress is making t he best of a bad job by treating him as a gentleman guest. I've always un"lerst(X)d that the poor master li'ft her comf'able off, and I can't UDilerstood how she's lost ber money. I suppose it's a mine or some- thing. Thank goo<lnes3 ! I've got all my little savings wrapped up in a stock- seventh night had obme, and'still Ethel remain- ed obdurate. But she paid, her mo- ther noticed, considerable attention to her toilet, and wore her prettiest dresses. m. What was '.half Mrs. Fielding sat up, bathed In oold perspiration. Wtiat was â€" there it waa again â€" a scratching on the window. She listen- edâ€" ber heart beating a wild tattoo against ber rlba. Yeaâ€" there again â€" well, you know what I said. He then ' somebody was trying to break in I declared his intention of aekins ma .^'^ * sliding door separated Mrs. .„.:^ ....... .;- .„ »i, J J- J ,. I Fielding's room from her daughter's. again every six months, and didn't Her teeth chattering in time wtth the seem to care in the least when I asaur- wild throbbing of her pulsee. Mrs. ed him that my answer would be just Fielding ciejit out of bed and, the slid- the same, however many times he asked ^ '.''*''. "^"^ P"!!*'.? .*'P^"' '?'° -^"^ The sale oif the estate of the lata <ired of ihem, ud capturing three of Col. North, the "Nitrate King," la re- tt,.u. cannon. iKirUxl in X<oudon to have realized |2,- Sou.uoo. The wedding of the Princess Maiulot Wales and I'l luoa CtULrles of Doiiinark bsa finally bs'-n fixed for the 22n(l inst. The Uueeu will attend the ouretmouy. 'ihe llriliib revenue returns for the first quariai of ihu present fiscal year show uu increase of £'l,iiU8,000, one mil* Bnuil lias not Yeit ase«(nte<I to Eng- land's offer to sulMnit the question of Iht^ occupation of the Island of Trin- idad to arbitration. By the expluaiim of ammunition in an arsenal war I'ort Moselle in the Province of Lorraine 42 men were kill- ed and 100 badly injured. Notwithstanding that the American h^* .'."f',',^''"Hu'i U"^'*"^ " '^"""^ ''<»" Gov^mneut U coifronted b, a big def- the ex.iae duties j^.^t ^ ,, pro|K«,!d to spend many mU- Aa a result of the meeting of the im-< lions on a nnw army rifle, perlal Oabiuel on Saturday, the ^econ(k ,^ ,u„ ,,.„„ ,,â- __ , ,.. ' „ taiUUon oflht. King's Uoyal "in*/ .„^./^f liT^^^if? ,<l' *^i? ?»'' ^'â- '"»" now at MiilU. hius boSi ordered to th» ^'"fL'?**J"i'' "*»,'' 5^» ^»'*" efPress- " ed the hope that Germany will jet Q' Cape of Good Dope. MijB Charlotte Smith, of Washington, bmd uf tbi Itnwue League, bus written a circular dunouuciiig tlui use uf the bioyole fur wuiiiun, aa being destructive of huultb aud leading to immorality. The Imperial Uoverumeut has ac<^ul- •acLwl ill the demand uf the Uppottition tor thu apiwiutment uf a Seloul Com- milleti of Farliameut to Investigate the affairs of the Chartered South Africa Comininy. 'Ibent is a pronpect of a geueral ooal strike in KugLuiid. The employers are trying to effect a, 10 i»r oent. reduction in wages and the miners of Derbyshire havu a navy worthy of her armies. The mafisacre of while people in Mata- l>el<'land i-ontinues. aud it is ex|jecled thaji i\n u«aault will .ihortly be made U|<(>n Uuluwayo by tlie rvbels. In an engagement lietween Dutch SJKI Chinese in the Dutch Indies the Chinese lust 112 killed. Of the Dutch fonee 9 were killed and 39 wounded. It is «tate<l in Cownhagein thnt the Government woubl be pj-r^iared to sell •ome of ita West Indian colonies to the I'nited Stat*^ at a suitable price, for a naval station. The Czar and -= - - -. , , Czarina made their aud Lanuasbire have already refused to | JprmiU wtry into St. Petersburg on aix'ept the proiH*>iiiuii The lash was recently applied to the back of a iiiuu in Liiglaud who had committed highway n>bliery. He knook- ed down a young woman and stole her purse.' Justice l)ay, of th«t Kent As- Saturday, aud an immense concourse of pi'oplo acclaimed their Alajeaties with great entbiiniasm. Kxhauallv^^ statiatirs have been com- piled in Btrlin to prove the success of the serum treatment of diphiheria. two years. sizeM, uxprexned bis ilisjipproval of limg : which bus lie«-n follim-ed in one of the sonleniei f(jr fir.nt <if fenders, lie there- largest I^«^rlin bonpitals for the past upon sentenced KIlis to a month's Im- *""' "••"'- urlsoiiment and thirty lashes from the '•oat " It has been decided that a review of i'â„¢ wnicn tne fuL«an porties have troops will lie held at Aldershot camp , creatiwl for the Government, said they in honour of the Ancient aud llonoiu- ' would have actiepied autonomy for the able Artillery Company of Iloston, who Island liefore the outbreak of the in- I ^"S*^ Canovas del Castillo, the Span- ish Premior, m <li»cu.ssing Ihe difficul- ties which the CulMui parties have me. Well, it is exactly six months to- day since the â€" the first time I told him that I couldn't think of marrying him." "And he expressed his intention of staying hareâ€" in this houseâ€" till yoi» said, 'Yes' I" put in Mrs. Fielding. Ethel nodded. "Then," was Mrs. Fielding's decis- ion, "we must send for the police." "Oh, noâ€" tio â€" no â€" no I" ejaculated Ethel, springing up, "please don't do that. He's sure to go. He â€" he's very gentlemanly, mother, and I'm sure he'll behave himself if he does stop. Besides, if he fought t he policemen (and I'm sure he would fight them) there'd be such a scandal I" Yea, Mrs. h lelding agreed that the affair would give Market Norbury a month's food for tittle-Uttle, if the strong arm of the law were to inter- vene. "I will see tin- voung person myselfl" exclaimed the elder lady, majestically. "Don't be harsh, mother," said Ethel, blushing a little, "liecause, after all, you know he's " "Head over heels in love with you I Of course," r. joined Mrs. FieMing. "Of course he i- If he weren't, i shouTd Buspec't him of having evil designs on the plate. Leitve him to me, Klhell" Su savii^, Mrs. Fielding swept mag- nificently mto the drawing-room. But severe aa wss her tone, and stern her mien, Dick AVuterbury declined to builgw. He BjHilogized for the gross rudeness of hia decision, but, neverthe- less, refused to spike his guns and re- tire. During the altercation Mrs. : Fielding di-^covercd that he was a young gentleman of twenty-five, with an ample income, and a small country seat that stiKxl sadly in need of some- one to look after It. Twenty minutes later Mrs. Fieldmg returned to her daughter. daughter's room. Ethel was !<lumLier' ing peacefully, but a touch awuke her. There wot* a hurried explanation in whispers from Mrs. Fielding, and then the two women, clutching each other for comfort, stole into the outer bed- room, and once more listened. Tlie scratching bad ceased, and only a shuffling sound could be heard ; then there were footsteps on the gravel walk, and then the scullery wmdow (which was immediately beneath)waa shot up with a force that denoted a careletis haste on the part of the mid- night intruder, 'A burglar I" exclaimed Ethel, pale to the lips, for she was only nineteen, and an ordinary girl with ordinary nerves. Lnconscinusly ber lips formed the word "Dick I" "I'll wake Mr. Waterbury," said Mrs. Fielding. She tripped swiftly out of the room, down the passage, and rap- ped ax her gueet's duor. In almust less time than it takes tore- late it, Dick found himself standing ing at hus door, in dressing-gown aud trousers, trying to instil some calmness into the troubled breasts of Mrs. Field- ing, her (laughter, the cook, and the huuseniaidâ€" fur Mrs. Fielding had aroused the servants, there being com- fort in numbers, even scared ones. "Stop here," said Dick. "I'll go down. If he dovsn't use arms I can manage him I" So saying, he moved quietly down- stairs, the women afraid to be left by theuiM'lvee, fuUuwed him at a re- spectful distance. A few moments, and the darkness had swallowed up Dick's form. An anxious uilerval fol- lowed, during which nothing nmid be heard. Suddenly there was a crash of crock- ery, and a savage exclamation. Then anutber criiah. Then a whole series uf cnishes. The cook an<l housemaid shrieked with fright. Mrs. Fielding grasped the banisters aud trembled FUhel tremliled, too, for Dick. Yea. for Dick, cshe loved him, i^he knew it now. Uis life waa in peril NICHOLAS II.'S. OBJECT LESSOR* He Sides on a Mrset Car to Shew Hts Of- arem Ibiit 11 liB't a DIHKraes, Nicholas II., of Buasia haa had soms trouble in bending the stiff-necked mil- itary etiquette of his St. FeterabuT0 regiments to suit iiis rather liberal Ideas. He ia not popular with the arnxy, as were the three Alexanders, despits hia gifts of reodin.^ rooms and dining halls to crack regiments, and tfaerefors the innovations he recommends are in- troduced very slowly. Ever since he ascended the throne, for inatauoe, hs liaa been trying to discredit tiie notion that an army officer may not ride with propriety in a common street car. The army officer in St. Petersburg has long been supposed to be too rich and pow- erful and too far superior to civiliaoa to associate with the ordinary street- car crowd. One of the few untitled offioers ia the Russian capital ventured a feWr weeks ago to ride In a street oar to bis barracks. It waa a presumptuous and courageoua act, for be had to alight before the crack cavalrymen's casino of the city. It proved to be a very in- discreet act, too, for bis fellow officers at once took htm to task for di4gTacinjgE hia uniform, refused to listen to bis citations of the Czar's remarks on the subject, and eventually, after days of persecution, i<egan urging on him the proi)riety of his resigning bis oommis- sioa. In bis distress tbe persecuted of- ficer turned to a friend in tlie Mini» try of War, who brought the whole af- fair to tbe Czar's notice. It was i o'clock In the afternoon when Nichol- as heard the story. Ue at once put on a dark suit, ordered his adjutant to do the same, and Uxgetber they went to the spot where the persecuted officer had taken a car. Ih'^y boarded a car, rode on it to the liarraoks, alighted^ boarded a returning car, and wemt back to the palace. The Czar wiote out m brief account of this little tru>, and add- ed to it tbe inq.utr>: "Am 1 still worthy to wear the un- iform of a Boaslan officerl" He signed the document "Nicholas," and sent it to the Colonel of tbe perse- cuted officer's regiment. Sine* then there has been peace in the officers' quarters of that regiment, and tbe man who roc'e op a horse car boa bevn treated with the deference belonging to one who pulls wires at court. Perhaps Nii'bolas got his idea of an object lesson in this case from Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria. The Em- I peror heard several years a^ that bia offic<>rs in Vienna were agitated over I the question of tbe propriety of rldlu^ in omil'uses. He remarked impatient- ' ly that this was a Aveighty subject for {large brains and should lie settled li«- I fore anylody's mind liroke down under it. He then put on full uniform, took with him an adjutant in full uniform. and had an omnibus ride. The ride waa reported in the newspapers, and tbs question of propriety was settled. â-  My reosoniiig ha<l no effect on him; "!?u'"S ^ "^ P^M,.. .u " .. . hatever." she informed Ethel; "none ^ The liouse was filled with sounds of batever. 1 suppose he must remain I * • •''""tftf'e- A dej.i«rute figbi was are on tUeir wav to visit Knglanil. Inipoilaul con/erenc«a have Tiueii held lately between the officials of the Brit- ish Admiralty and War Department and members of the Cabinet, showing that the Government views the present •ta'« uf the Venezuelan question with the giaveet apinebenaion. Polilical unreAt and the iieuiil "mld- suxiiuier duliies.-)" have logutlier |>ro- dumed in th« I'liited l^laias much more than Hut ordinary c<'r<Aali(m of move.- ment which uMuilly marks this â- >erio<l of the. year in coinincrci.il circles. Prices all roaiul are impieoedejitedly low, and the iiiarkels Laigil^v overstocked, mi that mills and faclorU'S. l>oth north nnd south, ure closed for terms varying from u couple of weeks until the end of AvguAt. Borne ibrcileued "Uilxir troubleu" have forliiiuitely. in various Quarterj, been auiic^ibly arranged. The output bf iron Haim iietMi large, and worka are closing for repairs. UNITED STATES. surrection, but it could not now be granted as the price of ending the re- bellion. dying by thousands on granges owing to the Cattle are tbe Arizona drouth A boiler explosion at Uouston, T^x., klllsd three people and seriously In- ^ad a fourth. An enterprising cracker bakery of Waabiiigton ha« now placed upon the market a "bicycle biscuit." Berlamin Huff, an old soldier living paaj- Niu^8 MiuJt., shot his rtftughtw- In-law, and then killed hV'sel/. A daughter of James Mullln, of Mi- ami, Saline couutv, Mo., died from f»at- Ifl^ mullHyries tnal had been stung bjr locusts. The Cheyenne Indians have donned thsir wfar paint, snd are holding poW- wow%, preparatory to a general up- rising Ilobsrt Lansing, of Watertown, N.Y., bns been appointed oounsel on the part SNAIL'S WONDERFUL VITALITY^ Tlie vlttility of the snail is remarka- ble. One that was glued to a card in the British Museum for four years came to life uiion being immersed in warm wal«r. ,S(.me si„cimens in the collo<tiou of a naluiahst revived after tbey had apparently been dead for 15 years. WATER PIPES OF GLASS. An experiment was lately tried at St. Helen's, Lancashire, of making wa- ter pipes of glass, with asphalt tover- ing to prevent fracture. It is claimed that they give tiiorough protection against moisture in the ground, against the action of ai'.ids and alkalies, and thit they cannot be penetrated bv gusea. THE HEAT WE CAN STAND. Tue human system cau endure heat of 212 degrees, the boiling point of wa- ter, because the skin is a bad conduc- tor, and Itecause the perspiration cools the body. M«sn have withstood with- out injury a beait of 800 degrees for geveral imnutes. CYCLING INNOVATIONS. i Among the cycling innovations in Oattersea Park, which is still the centre of London cycling, is that of a wnroan who carries a parasol in one band while steering her machine with the other, and of a, young woman who apiiears followed by liveried groom on another bicycle. w whatever. 1 suppose he must remain. Ho may be in a more sensible frame of minil in the niorniug. Don't let the servants know aliout the real state of things, but pretend that we have in- vited him to stay here, and say his lug- gage will arrive in due course." i -.i, â-  u , •Fhe result waa: 1. That .Mr. Richard | ^â- "'' ,.^'*"'J.'?f,'* '**'^ Waterl>ury gained his iioint and stayed '"""" at "Pleasant View." 2. That only his fixed determination to win Ethel Field- ing would have led him tq take such a desperate step. 3. That Ethel bv no means deceived the paternal judgment when she expres.<ied herself Indignantly alxml Dick and hi.f resolution. (She let slip his nameâ€" "Dick"â€" several times unthinkingly.) 4. That it was the gen- eral opinion in the kitchen that the gentleman «h» hail come mi .sudden- lyâ€"without any luggageâ€" was a "man m possession." 5. That he seemed t« the kitchen a very well-dressed man, in poesession. 6. That the gentleman immediately sat down and wrote a long letter, which waa given to the housemaid (o post. 7. That be wired to ano'ber aiidress for some clothes. 8. That the letter waa addressed to Mr. John niunt. Friar's Court, Temple, London. And 9. that, in the opinion of tbe kitchen, "Friar's Court" sounded like a low place for any gentleman's friends to live in. 11. Dick Waterbury had been wish the Fielding a vseek, and still showed no going on in tbe inssage hading to tbe kitchen The women could dimly dis- cern the furm.H of the two men, wlio, breathing in short, quick gasps, were struggling furiously for tjie mastery. Hackwanls an<l forwards they swayed, with clenched teeth aud straining musclaa. Still the women dared not move. Tbe couple liad fought their way down to the extreme end of tbe pas- sage, and were close to the scullery door. Suddenly a pistol-shut rang out, there was a cry, a splintering of wood and a crash of glass and the two van- ished. A few seconds later Dick returned, his dressing-gown half torn off bis back "Ue pot sway," he exclaimed; "but he diiln't take anything. I'll get some things on and be off to the police- station." The women gazed at their hero with fond, ailmiring eyes. Once again they breathed freely. Slowly tbey moved upstairs â€" all but Ethel. "Are you hurt 1" she asked him, writh inXinite tenderness in her voice. "Only a braise or two," he replied. "I'll siHoi set the police on his track. But first " He took her band in his. "1 said I would not leave th' house," he Usgan. Ethel looked swiftly up the stairs to make sure they two were unolwerved. Then she Ixnt forward, quicklv breath- signs of departing from bis resolution., ^^ "Ves" in hia ear, and fled to her He luid soon made himself at home; ""'"" he hail broken the ice over the dinner- table durin,? the first night of hia stav. Mrs. Fielding and her daughter liaci onened tbe ball by treating him with frigid politeness; but Dick bad pretemled not to notice their manner, and rattled on so gailv that he effec- tually dispersed the cu'ld barrier which the ladies hud attempted to place Iw- tween themselves and their self-invited gueet. After dinner bo regaled them with ooroic songs, anecdotes, and news of the day which had failed to penstrale to the fastnesses of Market Norbury. So very agreeable did he make him- self. Indeed, that by lied-time he had (^uite won Mrs. Fielding over to his side. Ethel kept very close to ber mo- ther all the evening, he noticed, ami would neither play nor sing, although she could do both very nicely. On the following day hia clothes arrived, and on the third day a letter, addre.ssod to him in a bold masculine hand, lie ap- peared to peruse this letter with much mterest. and the one ho wrote in re- ply he delivered to the housemaid with spei-ial liLstruotiona that it was to Ik'. posted ix'forn 6 p.m., at which hour the Market Norbury mail-cart was dispatch- ed. 'The housemaid told the cook that, for a niim in poesessiiui. the new-ooiner wrote a very elegant hand. This let- The police never caught the burglar, who got liack to Friar's Court quite safely, after catching the earliest trajn from a rond-siile station six miles from Market Norbury. Ethel quite meant her "yes," and in due time was married to the "man in possession. " much to (he cook aud hoti.seiuaid's wonderment. And Mr. John Blunt, reading the wedding announcement, chuckled soft- ly to biraaelt. "It was a good Idea of Dick's I" was all he said. A STRIKING CHANGE. But, papa, things have changed since you were young. \es, they have; folks used to wait fifty years for a golden wedding, and now they demand it at the start. A M18USJ3D TERM. Blobbs â€" What nonsense it is for news- papers, in their accounts of wedding.s, to tlesoribe the bride being led to the altar. Sloblis- How sot Blobbs â€" Why, meet of the girls could find their \v.<iy in the dark. STRAIN OF RAILWAY WOHK. laxaaeei Where tbe TenvloK ub Ike Vr*«8 â- an <aasril Wailnrw asd Uealh. "There is reason to believe, says tbs British Mi-dical Journal, " that at all times there are men on the line who are working very near to their break- ing strain. We may In regard to thi» mention three well known instance* which, at the least, show the tension under which work is often carried on. A station master, seeing u man ruuovear on the line, himself fell down dead up- on the platform. Here was a shoik which permanently made hia heart stand still ; but bow many timee had not that man's hv.irt stocnl still befuref We may feel perfectly certain that if the major shock could kill, thei minor daily recurring shocks of a railway lif* must have greatly damaged a heart so under tbe Influeu.e of tbe nervous sy»- tem Two trains collided at a juni tion. It was either the fault of tbe drivers or of ihv raifs. c-erlainly nut of thjc sig- nal man. The signals were right : yet when the lox wa<« entered the signal man was found to nave g<.>ne mad, aud had to be taken to an asylum. wber« lie remaane<l lor long. Ue" was broken utterly by the horror of the dilemma; but what shall we say about the small- er dilemnuis which every hour of his working lite he had had to solve t Did tliey not also have an effect, although a lesser one. upon bis brain? A few years ago it was found that the eick- iiits rate among the signal men of cer- tain lines was Lecouiiug excessive, and it was determined to do away w ith the ^jstem of leaving to one man the wlK>la responsibility of taking charge of a signal kiox. At gremt expt-nae every box along the line was supplie*! with two men. Great evils were i>rouhe8ie<l ; it was thought the men would tali, nnd lark, and neglect their duties. This did not happen, but the sickness stoppeid. I mUr the s-luired lesinmsibility they no longer broke down. If then.ss seems to be indutiable, railway ' stiain ' can have definitely injuiious effects upon the nervous system, it l>e*-omes an im- portant question for inquiry whether this nervous derangement at all .'re- quently has the ell'ect of impairing lbs nutrition of the ht-Art. Ujiou this spe- ' cial i>oiut we do not at present (Kiesess sulficient information to wiirrant the eipi-eseion of a definite opinion," WARNINGS. The lark was up to meet tbe sun. And caroliug bis lay ; The farmer's lx>y took down his gun ."Vud at him blazed away. The busy bee got up at "5," And buzzed the meadows o'er ' Th* farmer's wife wenr for ita blw, And robljsd it of its store. ThB ant arose at ureak of day, Hia labors to begin; Ttie greedy swallow flew that way And touk his autsbip in. Oh, bees, and birds, and ants, be wise. In proverbs take no stock ; Like me refuse froui sleep to rise Till halt-post seven o'clock. REASON ENOUGH. Mamma, why ia the ocean so angry looking 1 Kccauae it has been crossed so often, Willie.