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1 m IN It iiii IHE VERY LATE5T FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. ^tercsting Item* About Our Own Country, areat Britain, tha United SUtes, and All Part* o( tba aiobc, Coadeiuad and Aaaortad lor Baay Jading. St. Thomas has ua epiUviuic ol diph- UutrJA. Floods have oauaed ^reat damage at Halifax. J. T. Moore has Iweo ajppoioted city treasurer of Guelph. Tht' liriti^b wur&hip Mohawk ha^ ar- rived at Ilalifax from Nt-wfouudland. Mr. John Fraeer, an expert driller hne lieen engaged to put down from ten to fifteen oil weJls in Uolhwell. Another Irnge ooDMgnment of the Lee-EnfieM riflee, numliering aliout 6,- 000, has t)een received at Quebec. L'undie, the aliaconding Oak Lake, Hiui., 0(H.>rator and express a«vQt haa Veu arrested at Gtedatunu, Man. The Muntreal Trant>ix)rtation Com- pany offers to buiid a lar^ grain ele- vator at Kingston if the city will tjike •took to the amoujBt of f25,l)00, grant a free. Kite and exeuplion from taxation. An Ottawa dei)Ui.aliuin waited upon Mr. Laurier, urging a Government rant to the interpruvinciai bridge, he Premier promi&ed to pluce in the estimate« next session a sum to aid in tkit undertaking. One dollar and one cent per bushel was paid for wheat at Qu'Anpe.'Jle on Wednesday. This is a record-breuJier, and wa.s the result of millers' competi- tion for wheat, which they must get at any cost. There Is a considerable stir in com- mon stock luml)er among the Ottawa lumlier merchaats. Simultaaeously with the rise iii the price of wheal, the price of lumber has gone up, but the cause is as yet uniuiown. The official half-yearly reiKirt of the Grand Trunk Kailway was issued at Mcnireiil. The groiiis earnings show an increase of £54,448 over the corres- pundluK half-vear. The report praises the efforts of General Manager Hays. 'I'he Grand Jury at the Kingston As- sizes rcporied that the shuoiing of Convict Hewcll by Oiief Keei)er Hughes was juHiified, but bcjped ttiat in future measures would be taken to render eucb au occurrence unneces- sary. . , The annual financial statement of the Dominion for i*e year ending June 30, 1896, Ua.s been iii.ide public. The deficit (or the year is *3C3,4H1, and the in- crease of (Idil |5,52»<,83l. The net debt is now $1:58.5^8,304. ITje revenue on account of consolidated fund wa.s $3(1,- 817,484, and th- exp.-nditure f30,9tl«,!l06. GHJiA*r BUITALN. f The British Parliament will re- •MemHe Jiinuary 25ib. Ur. William C:unpion, president of Que<>u'8 College, Cambridge, is dea<l. The df-atb of Dr. Pollock, the well known iliess player, is announced at Urislol, Kng. Over 18,000 agricultural laborers hbve left Ireland, to work in Kngland and Scotland, during the year ending June St). Traffic receipts of the railways of the United Kingdom for last year tdiow an increase of f8,000,000 over the re- ceipts for 1894. Mr. Morgan, M P., for Merthyr Tyd- vil, has offered lo rciign hi.s seat in fav- or of Mr. GliulHtone, if that veteran oen be induced to re-enter politics. A dcsi«alcli from Cuirnsunore, Kirk> cudbrigblt-liiru, unnounccu that the Duke and Uui bess of iledford, while out driving, were i hrown from their car- riage, and were seriously injured. Lord Roecl.ery. speaking of Colches- ter, iHtid be fuiily agived with Lord (Salisbury's Turkish p<>lii7, Indieving that £n(rland's inileiM-udent interfer- ence W€>uld result in a grc.il European war. A resolution adopted l>y tiie Iiiii>- tists of Great Biituin expressing rc- grell at the inaction of thi- powers, an<l the bapu Ihiit the (loveriuiient would •peedily and fully explain their posi- tion in K'gaid In Tiiirkey, has Ix-en forwarded to Lord .Salisl)ury. UNJ'r,KI) STATKS. Jost-ph AVech.sler, the llrooklyn mil- lionaire inerchfint, died suddenly on Wednesday evening. A deatii occurred on Swinbotirne Is- land, Nfcw York, from yellow fever contracted ai Hiivuiia. A AVashinglon despatch annoumM.'.s the death mf Willliain A. J{irli.'ird>4(m> Chief Justice of the Court of Chiinis, and I'ornierly S<-cielary of the Trea- sury. Thom.-js McKee, at Winsted, Conn., iitlein|i)led filicide \^ drowning, on hearini^ that bis wife, who liiid allenipt- ed suiciile iij- Inking paris green, would recover. Gifts apgregaling to •l,iif)3,0IHI Jiave been received by Princeton I'nivcrsity, of which ICtHMIOd, from a donor whose name, is lo Ik' wiihbebl, is for the lib- rary. H. B. Bbenalint, a member of the Land o{ Annri'lhi.sts who ijnused tlin Hayinarkel »iot in ("hicHgo, die«l of ooaiKUoiiplion in Han itariiardo, Cal., last l''riday. •Sir Julian I'auiicefole, Uritisb Ain- |ihssa4lo>r tp Ihe I'nitcd Htates. ha.s arrived in Nfcw Yoirk from Knglanrl. His first work will lie to endeavor to effeol a setdemcnt with the Stale Uu- Iwrlmeal oif the Veinezuelan queslinn. A itirrible Bloriii pri*vniled on tiho Gulf of California on Heplember 17 and 18, news of wh'cli ha.s (inly just reach- jdSan Krancitco. Thyre uasa combina- tion of a oloudlmrst, and tidal wave, whic4> wipi^l (he little lo\vn of Allata out of exis^eni'e. > GENKUAI.. Thi' French arrny is to lie incre:)sed to a peace fooling of 550,000 men. The Japnneso Minister lo China has hsen transferred lo SI. Peterslnirg. Lj-IIung-Chang has arrived at I'ekin, fm will shortly pivseul his report to ihe Kmperor. It h expected thai the Emperor and liminvss of Germany will visit thoC^tM- ne\t suninaer. The Swedi.sh GovernmenI will apply" to the next Rik«iln« for a large credit (oi an incrcH'* of the nnvy. News received from Cgnstantlnople says that widespread femrs exist of a renewal of the maasacros. The .Spanish colony in Btienos Ayera h:us raised two million dollars with w hi'-h lo prp,sent to Spain a new aruiser. A desiiatch from Pretoria denies the rumour tjiat the Transvaal will make an immediate demand for indemnity for the Jame-son raid. > The St. Petersburg Grashdanin has been t>u!>pended for pulrishinp de- siwtches from Paris adversely criticise iug President Faure and tht> h^renoh army. An irade has been issued by the Porte, levying extra taxes to raise funds' to forward military preparations. This ac' tion excites much comment^ Massacres of prisoners of war are the rule in Culia now, and ttie Spanish General, liornal, is said to have con- ilemned women and children to sum- mary execution. Cuban atrocities are reported to be mild in comparison wilih tii^iae taking inlace in the Philippine Islands, where t'he Spanish are trying to suppress a revolt of the natives. A despatch from Constantinople says that a conflict has taken place at the Yildiz Kiufik (the Sultan's pala<ie) be- tween the Turkish and Albanian guards, during which several mi-'U on boln sides were killed. Lord Brossey, the Governor of Viiv toria, in a 8p«"<'.ch on imperiai Federa- tion, said th-it it would be wisj, if pos- sible, to bring Ataerica into a f .rand de- fensive league of the Anglo-Saxon race, which would effectually secure the peace of the world, ITEMS OF INTEREST. A Few ParaKraplu Mlilrli May Prove Very Kcudiible. Some of the best families in i::ngland heive substituted boys for housouuiids, whom they have found incompetent and insolent. The eubstilutes are chiefly from Indiu, . Smells are bo pJentilul in Bellingbam Bay, Washington, 'hat they come to the margin of the Wiiler In BCbool8,and are drawn lUihore with garden rakes and scoop-nets. A torn of the ^vuter of the Pead Sea, when evaporated, yields 187 pounds of sail ; a too of the water of the AUan- lic Oc^on, 81 pounds; a ton of the wa- ter of the Pa«ufic, 81 pounds. A flea entered the ear of Adolphus Uoncourl, of > lushing. N.V., and for an hour Adolpliuw danced without mus- ic. Then a ptiy»ician was successful m removing ihe little intruder. The longest distance to which a pro- jectile h^is been thrown was at Sboe- Uuyness, Knglnnd, on AjxrLl 15, lt;88. wheji a Longridge wire-bound ifuu threw a shot !il,3by yards, or 12 miles 238 yar<ls. A colored couple in Ameriiius, Ga.. met Justice Graham, co the street and rc- ((Uesled him to marry them. He prouppt- ly gratified (hi>m. standing on the high- way, and tlu'n re«umed his walk. The cold uoatt of a tqaniel, pressed aguinsi thi^ f.-iL-e of a sleejting man in lUxkland, Me., awoke hiili. Tie arose, followed his doc to the kitchen, and foun<l it flooded with water from a leaking tank. The Cultan insurgents, not being able lo l>uy the cjuinon in general use, make them of a tree which has a winding grain, liore them with hot iron, and sirenglhon theou with Kindages of ox- hide. Piifecily ln'.Ulby nion are scarce. In one month, at an army recruiting sta- lioii in Chiciigo, 4.")5 men aj»plied fur en- listment, and only twenty-seven of them were acce]itcd, all of the others, being unMHind. Simie eleii nciaiis carry a small com- pass in their [>ockels, and before they touch a wire h>dd the coumMsh neai° it. If the needle i« not deflected, they know there is no current in it, and that it is safe to handle it. in (hiiui hens are kept busy hatch- ing fish. The Hiuwn is place<l in egg- shells, hemietically sealed, and a hen is induced to sit on Ihi'm. At the j»ro- per time the liltle fish are removed and put in carefully tended ponds. During a small-pox scare in Johan- nesburg, Afriea, an enterprising fcllinv di«lared (hat he was u doctor, and with u c.iii of condensed milk and a needle vacciiia(u<l al,<>ut 1,500 people, charging each of Uiem five Bhilliiigs for his scr- viws. Lightning played <}Ueer i)rank8 in the resitleiice of Paul Siinmoiison, at Mon- tague, Mich., It p«ss«-d down the chim- ney, rent the stove-pipCi burned hoJi-s in a table-clollk and cut some picture wires. Sit iiersoiw were in the house, but they were not injured. A lelejvhime wire in .Springfield, Mo., was unintenlumally connected with the fire-alarm wire^, and wlwn the tele- phone was teste<l the file departnient was aroused Iw u long-<'ontiniie<l false alarm, which for several inlniit«\s kei>t the firemen on an cxusi>erating hunt. AN ENJOYAIII.l!; riMK. Lord Glasgow, who .shortly will puss through this country on his way home from the antipodes, has Im-cii acting as governor of New Ze^iland His lerin of office there hasi been marked by a deal of incident quite the reverse of enjoy- able. He was shipwHH'ked al the start, one of his daiighlers niel wilh ait acci- dent in llic huniing field thai resulted in the anipuialion of a leg. Lord Glas- gow hiinse.lf was tossed by a prize bull al an agricullural show, aixl now he has U-en forced to Imive, owing lo an open fight b»7tween hiniititif and the colonial U'gislalure, in which he distinctly got the worst of it. Yet he is a very charm- uig anil aiuiaiile man. and it se.e.inH dif- ficult to underaland how the New Zca- laiKlers hive been unable to get along with him. i SEED WHEAT FOll GERMANY. The Ontario Ocpartnient of Agricul- ture has just received a requesl from two farmers in Germany to send them smolil samples of seed wheat. They say that (bey read reports in German iwpers of the fine yields made at the Ontario Agricultural 1,'ollege of Daw- son's Golden Chaff and Early Genesee Giant. 'The lulJelin pul>li»lie<l by the college in August on the rcHult of the y«R»r's testing of 71 vaiielics of fall ,\hi>at coiiiiiiiicd photo illuHlr.itioiiH of iheso two wheats growing in the fieid. . THE WIEK'S DUTY. By iar the most important duty of a wife is thai she make home happy and itle<.'sant and thai she try to please her husliand. The housewife who de- votes herself too much lo her domestic duties, will find that while her hus- band is very grateful for her domes- tic services, he will seek his pleasure and amusenaenls elsewhere. It is not the leaal use drudging aiwut the house or slaving over needlework if your hu.s- band is missing your companionship all tile time. To Ik! a good wife, one must study one's husliand, and try to anticij»te what will please him most. A woman should lake reasonable ex- ercise, and out-of-door recreation her- self; she should keep herself reason- ably well informed on all simple topics of the day, and be able to discuss tbeju with her husband. But she should not be forward, nor ojiinionated. A man is apl to bo pleaseil and find a great deal of reslfuluess in a wife who will chat pleasantly and entertainingly ; ihe.e- fore, one should st udy to please in this re,s^>ect. Never bother the tired hus- Imnd when he coiues home al night, with what the children have been do- ing wrongly, or wlmt have lieen your worries of the day. Ue, too, has had his, and if he be a laaA. be will not dis- tress nor add to your burdens by com- plaining lo you. Of course, there is a happy medium in this; it is not meant that they should shut themselves up like a clam. The success of marriage and a happy home depends not only on love, but on tact, common sense, and good feeling. LACBS AND HANDKERCHIEFS. Tln're is a right and a wrong way of doing everything, even such little things as washing laces and handkerchiefs. One who has truste/l them- to the tender mercies of the ordinary washerwoman knows that it takes a great deiii of their spare change to replace these dainty and very necessary articles. But they can be very easily and satisfactorily laun- dried at hnme, which will be quite a saving from a financial point of view. Prepare a suds in the evening, using ivory soap and sofi water, and after rubbing a little soa^ on the soiled places, put them in it. and allow them to remain over night. In the morn- ing rnb lightly between the hands un- til clean, and rinse in clear water. Do not wring them, but squeeze each piece in the hand. Dissolve half a teasiuion- ful of gum arable in a pint of boiling water; when cool, add a very little blu- ing, and di^i ttu- handkerchiefs in it. When taken from this water press per- fect ly smooth U|«>ii a clean jiaue of glass, and allow them lo dry. The mar- ble u^> of a table or bureau is good for ihus piurpope. 'rh^^y can then be "peeled off" and will need no ironing. The gum arable makes them stiff en- ough, and this process of drying gives LlK;m a new look that can be obtained no oilier way. Lace can be laiui- dried in I lie same way. VARIOUS RECIPES. Baked Onions. â€" Select large, perfect onions, but do not peel, put inloa ket- tle, cover with boiling water, salted, boil rapidly fur one hour, drain, wipe, dry, roll in tissue j>a{M:r, put in a pun, and liake sUnvly for lulf an hour, take off the papers, |ieel the onions, put in- to a vegetable dish and cover with melted butter; dust with salt and po- ller. Cheese Omelet. â€" Beat the yolks of three eggs, add thiee tablesiKxnifala of milk and a little snit, then the lieateu wlijles. Melt one dessertsiKMinful of butler in a frying pan; when bubbling, iMtur in the omelet, let it cook till a light bi-own underntath. Sprinkleover tlK tcf> one ur two tablespoonfula of grated dieese. Place in the ov<mi to dry, luUl and serve very hot. Ituckwlii-ai Paueake.s.â€" One pint of liike-wann water, half cuj^ful of wel yeust, half c.U)>ful of wheat flour; add sufficient buckwheat flour to make a I bin batter. Let it rise over night, in Hue morning add half cupful ol warm water in which there is dissolved half a teaspoonful of baking soda and one leuspoonful of molasses, Diop on u hot griifdle well greased. C<xlfish on Toast.â€" Put a liowTful of shredded codfi.-^h into cold wuler in u .skillet; let it coine to a boil, then turn Inloa coluiider to drain; turn into the skillet again with a ciiplul uf cold milk, season wilh nutter and jMiipcr; stir smooth a spoonful of flour with a liltle cold milk, add and lei it boil fur a moment. Turn this on to buttered toasi on a plalter. I'ig'.H Keel.â€" -Mell two lable.siHKinfuls of liuller in a .skillet, split two feol Ungihwise into fimr j>icces, and put into a nkillei. Cook for ten niinuie*, tuin and ciKjk lor five miiiutns. .S) ason tii taste. 'I'Ik« xauce is made of Ibreepaits loinaUi oalsuii and one part of hor.'-e- radi.sh not beuted. This recijie is for liig.^' feet Hint have been prepared by .vour butcher. Onions in Cieam. â€" Wash, peel, and cut, ruiliei Cine, four large onions, put lutoa slew pan with enough cold wu^ ter I o cover them; aild a little .salt and b«>il briskly 'or about Iwenly minutes, or until the onions are tender. Drain off the water, add cream enough to cov- er the omuin.s, let come to a b<jil,ttdd two talde.'ipotuifufs of butter, melt, mix, and serve. Season to tnstc. Klection (;ake.â€" Two and one- half cup- fiil.s of raised bread dougih, two cupfuls of .sugar, one-half cupful of butter, two cgg.s (a little of the white re*erved), cinnamon, nutmeg, pinoh of .salt, one- half leaspoonful of soda, one-halt cupful of stoned and cIiopjMul raisins, one-half cuitful of currants. Beat ugcther su- gar, butter and eggN till Km(K>th. Beat lhe>e into Ihe dough wilh the liaiul until well uii.xed. Kxcliaiige hand for [.sptum, stir in'spiiT, .si^lt, t(|irl fniit I'uur jiiilu two buttered pann. (over anil let Island in worm place one-biilf hour. the. rising will not be perceptible until sub- jected lui the heat uf the oven. Bake one-half hour. . When done mix sugar with the reserved white of egg until stiff eiiouub not to ilrop from th« spoon. Apply with a cloth. HELPFUL HINTS. Meats that are boiled will be more tender if tbey are cooked gently in- stead of lieing allowed to ramp. Proper cooking will make tough meat more tender; wrong cixiking Will niake ten- der meat tough. When there is a bit of fish left from a meal it will make a very good sousp by being picked in small piece.s, and lioil- ed in milk, and .served with crouton. A meringue may 1* easily -spoiled by Placing it in an oven that is too hot. It should brown slowly, and it will then rise well, and be light and spongy. Old potatoes are made mealy by be- ing soaked for au hour in cold water after being peeled. When boiling, cook in sailed water. When done, jioar off water, and shake wel I in covered kett le. Cracks in the floor may lie filled with th«- following mixture: Mix one table- spoonful of alum with a pound of flour, and work into a smooth paate with wa- ter. Pour on this two quarts of boil- ing water, and stir all while it boils: than add a few drops of carbolic acid or oil of cloves. Shi'e<l up newspapers into small pieces, work ihem into a pulp wilh this jiaste. \^ ben the paste i.s liii- isbed it should be as thick as putty ,and it oulghit to harden like papier mache. Few pemde know how lo roll an um- breUa pudiierly, and yet it is not dif- fiuuit, if you once understand what is necessary. The right way is to hold the ends of the ribs and the stick with the same hand and hold them lightly to- gether to prevent their twieting.while the covering is being rolled around with the other hand, in this way an um- brella may be as lightly rolled as when it came from the store. It is thetwisl of the rile out of shape around the stick Ibat spoils the looks of the lun- breUa. It is sometimes useful to know that a leaspoonful of cornstarch is equal to one etgg, and may be sulistiiuted in ca*e of a ^carcity of eggs for part of the eggs ir ciLstards ur other dishes where milk and eggs are called for. An exi-elient gargle for a diphther- itic sore throat is made of equal parts of pure alcubol and water. It is harm- less and effective. Another gc/od one is a teaspoonfuj of glycerine, one tablespoonful of lime water, and a teaspooniul of p.iregorie; this makes a good gargle, but care should be taken not to swallow any. If milk is added to tlie dish water, it will be found very beneficial in wash- ing <li-.lies. It softens the water, pie- venls hands from chapping, and also prevent.^ the gieasy scum from sp- (tejiring on top of the water. About hi) If a cup should be us«d. I'o prevent sail from caking, mix a smill quaniily of cornstarch with it. Granulated sugar, if used in cake making, is apt to make a cake fall. iii clean block cashiUieres and merin- ws, brush well first, and reinovn all dust ; wash quickly in warm water in which soap has been lathered. Put in plenty of ammonia, and do a.s little rub- bing as possible. The rinsing should be done in uiued water containing uhnnd- ful of salt. Never rub soap on the gooda. BIG BUCKLES. The enormous waist buckles w hich are at pu-exent so much in favor in Paris are direct deseondauts uf Ihe brobdig- nagian d'Artois shtst buckles, named af- ter the fauiuus Comte d'Artois, brother of the Erencb King Louis IK. In foot, all w-.ist buckles are descendants of shoe buckle.s; not only in h'runce, but in Knglandâ€" in London as much as in Paris. When shoe buckles died uut, waist buckles ciiiie in. I''asbiun chang- ed the locatiun of the.se articles of adorn- ment frcini ihe extramitios of the gen- tlemen uf King Charles ll.'s court to the waisis of their attending ladies. But shoe buckles hisled long enough to lx!C(une, in the liuuds uf the rich and frivoluus, uii excuse for e.Ntruvag- unn'.s. ihkdr price rose from u shilling to II) guiiKiiB u pail', and varied between th-vt and very much larger amounts. Two and u half mlllious of them were iH-tng made every yciir, w Iumi, for s<ime ine\plic;iblo rejison, the demand dwin- dled and died. A vigorous but unsuec»*sltil at tempi was made to levive the fashion. I'oua- thoUM;ind buckle-makers of ijliminghaui apjiealed for help lo the Prince of Wales. The obliging Prince promised to at.sLsl t lu'ui by eM-ry nivalis in his IMjwer. lie wore buckles hijiisclf, uiiil enjoined llu'ir luse uism the uieuiliers ot his hous'hi'ld, but Ihe dictates of fashion v.ei«v not to lie overruled. ProUibly some olil ui.ikcrs are enyaged in tha rc- cenlly revived trade in waist lenklcs, which, however, flourishes principally in l''r inw. in Paris, to-day, the well- dressed Ikui leva rdie res are mi the high road to rival the old magnificence and exlravugani» in the matter of these pretty trinkets. Some tint :\io worn reat'iiible u. inasrt of serjients intertwin- ed Willi jeweled he.-KJK, and long, pro- truding itiweled fang.s. BHU I'KS OF .MEN. THE MOST PAINFDL DEATH AN EXPERIENCED SURGEON GIVES HIS OPINION. Mraage to 8«y. Deallu by Accident Are the Must Kusyâ€" liirhjaw or Tefanaa Caase lutrnur Agony ap to tke Time of Denlh-In llir .najorltr of Deathn tbe Bad Ik Paliilexs. The most paimful forma of death are curiou-siy enough, not those that ax* the most sho<'king or the most commonly dreaded. The moat dislres.sing accidents, usually produce painless deaths, w bile some familiar and little feared dlieas&s result in intensely agonizing death. The machinery and the rush and hurry of city life canoe more shocking forms of death than the tortures of the Inquisition. The question as to what are the most painful and easiest deaths to die, must, of course, be deeply interesting to eivery- one. Dr. A. P. Smith, a surgeon of wide experience in one of oux large cities says: DEATHS BY ACCIDENT EAST. "It is a curious fact that few peo- ple know- how a man really dies. They have only a more or less blindly super- stitious fear and horror of it. Ihe deaths which are to be most dreaded have as a rule little or no terror for .most people. Now, to decide whfli ie aclually ihe mciit painful death any ot I us can die we must look somewhat into ' the nature of pain ur agony. i " In the first place, the greatest suf- ; fering is produced not by the surface ' or superficial nerves of the body, but by a disturbance at some important nerve centre. iLiny of the death* ! which are supposed lo be accompanied j by the most excruc^-iting agony are in reality almost painltss, because only the outer nerves are affected. " Perbips the most familiar example is death from burning. Most people im- agine that lo be burned alive, or l>oil- ed alive is the must intense torture con- ceivable. As a matter of fact I would rather be burned to death than die from many of the so-called ' natural ' causes. This is also true of the pain proiluced by moBt cuts and bruises. Unless such cuts go very deep or the bruises are very severe, a death caused in this way, although very distressing, is not, how- ever, nearly as painful as that from many familiar du>eases. " Most of the railroad and trolley- car accidents injure jieople in just this way. Of course, death from such causes is far more distressing to relatives. It ia grievous to see a body mangled or CUT AND BRUISED often beyond recognition. And so peo- ple naturally dread such a death and Imagine thai it is I he most paiuful death to die. Bui for the victim of such an accident the actual pain U not by any means as great as most people lancv. " The pain, as I said. Is in a sense su- perficial, and the ceulre of nervous force remrins undisturbed, so that such a tierson can retain consciousness and ;eep mca.stiiabjy cool-hc;ided. It should, liesides, be considered that any severe shuck, as in I he case of a bod accident, pusluces a dulling or numtn Ing effect upon the entire system. This is a most merciful provision of nature. A mim who falls fmni a high plai-e is likely to U- unconscious before be rciehes the ground. The victims of railroad di..saKters as a rule, have their senses dulled in this way, and it is much the Kline with a person who is burned alive or who meets death In any other i sudden and violent manner. j PAINFUL LtX'KJAW. I "On the other hand, some disea.ses |c;ui.sc at the end the most Intense ag- ony. I'be most painful death a man can die Ls from tetanus or lockjaw. In this disease Ih; nerve centres are so affect- ed tint the muficles are set or knotted together rigi<tly. so that the pain ie most acute, The disturbance m this ci.se directly affects the spinal i;ord, and this quickly .spread.s to rho brain. It ia impossible for any one who has never seen a death from lockjaw to appre« ciile the terrors of it. " It is u mistake lo Ixdieve, however, I hit the m<»-l violent dejiths are neces- sarily iwinful. As II rule, whenever pa- tients are violent' ibey are delirious and uncoii.scious of theii" piiin. K.VSIEST FOK.MS OF DEATP " I'h;' easiest deisih to die, of course, is In cases where the. patient is abso- luiely uncou.si'ious. lb it Is to say, they lu.vs fri>iu f-leep or a condition which daselv re,-,euibles it into death. The great" niajoriiy uf ileuths tK-cur in una wav. Ill iui«t diseases as the end ap- proiches there is a gradual falling of Ih- f.icultievs, so that the end ia quite IKiinleta. " DeiJh from nuffceation la also very painful. In this case Ihe agony is not the result of nny injury to the nerve centies. But the iiinsciou.snes.s that (le.ilh is Hjiiuouchitig in spite of one's l.ibured efti.rt.-. lo pet air is most dis- tress'mg. fhls lirii'g^ on intense nerv- ous agony. Of course, in speaking of the pain of living I lefer particularly td purely physUvil suffering. Fond Mother â€" My dear, don't you Ihink of marrying that Mr. Goodsoul. He's hard-hearted, lazy, .selfish, and without one spark of huniauiiy. IXiughiorâ€" Mercy I How did you find it out I â-  Why the day I went to visit youp Aunt ,S:illy, he was in the same train, and my window stuck, and I asked hJni to rai.«' it. \Ve''l. you mayn't believe it, but il's an iwtuali tact he didn't work at it more than half an hour before he stopped trying, and advised m» to lake another seal, and I had all my bundles there too. HE NEVER COULD. 'ISvo clergymen were walking to- gether recently, when one of them had the ini.sfortunc to fall over some orange pi'el. Hal ha I exclBimed his brother of ihr. elHh. the >vick«il »lwi»y.s stand oi. fclippry. ground, (so U Sceems?snld th.- fallen one. but 1 never could. DID THE BELL RING? In ringing an electric Ixdl, which Is far from the point at which the push butloai Ls pres.sed, a perstwi is often in doulit as to whether the bell has or has nol been souuded. Batteries will some- times give out at uiie-xiiected moments, ami o:her interrujiiioiis of the action of the current are apt to arise. A lu.veli liut cxce.Mlingly simple arrangement for c'vnoting iNTiethcr clw.tiic. !.s?ll.s have rung, or are m proper ringing orilcr is a new indicating lell push, which when Ihe I ells rings at toe o hur end, tells the operator so liy means of an oscUat- ing indicator jusL al-ove the jui-ih but- ton, this indieator U actuated by the •â- .91U(' current ihil rings Ifea bell. This 13 onH ot ibe ntsatest and \ioM devicee ior the purpose that has. been hit uiwih. •gt'iattWlil'WWH'iti' 1f''»afa ; â-  atr^;'