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THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL TflE WORLD OVER. latlMttlng Items About Our Own Couatry, QrMt Britain, the United States, and All Parts of tba Olobe, CoadeiiMd and Aaaerttd far Eaay Raadlos. CAlfADtA.. St. CaUiarmes has voted 9200 to the India (amine fund< Bamiilton has g^iven work to 400 of Vbb 700 unem,pl<^ed.( The new diirectory {fives Hamilton a population of 50,000. Peterson, Tai.t & Co^, have purchas- 0d the Beaver Line of Eiteam^ips. The bronzea for the Macdonaid â- tatue have arrived at Kingston. The entire force of workman at the Bpriughill minea, N.S., is out on strike. Mr. Mc£a^-hran reports that hog cholera in £aaex is thoroughly stamp- ed out. The Dominion Type Foundry Com- pany of Montreal has gone into liqui- dation. The Hamilton Cattle Company has se- cured incorporaition, with ai capital of 124,000. Mrs. Western, of Hamilton, has in- rented and patented a biuycle tiire that trill not slip. The Ottawa Board of Trade is dia- cuasing a resolution in favor of an alien Tabor law. The Winnipeg Publio School Board baa aaked tlie Counoil for 123,256 for the current year. Rev. Dr. O'Meara haa been appointed Dean of Rupert's Land, succeeding the Bishop of Qu'AppeJle. Brantford'a fire loss last year was only fl,528.SO. In the laat six years the losses were only 92Q|,35L A Montreal despatch says that the Quebec Provincial elections will be held, on the 19th of next month. The national India famine fund now amxmnts to $40,000, and a draft for 100, 000 rupees has been forwarded to India. Harrington &. Sons, trunk and bel- lows manufacturera, of Montreal, have assigned. The liabilities are about 175,- ooa An epidemic of Brippe is being experi- enced in Ottawa. Sir James Grant says Iw never knew the disease to be so pre- valent. An inctreaSB of #10,000 in the Hamil- ton Board of Education estimates will be required this year, mostly for teaob- tra- oalaries. Hon. Dt. Borden, Minister of Militia, who was injured in the railway acci- dent near Doncasrter, N.B, two weeka â- (go, is at Halifax Hew. Ira Smith, of London, called the attention of his congregation to their dutj as citizens to clean the slush off their sidewalks, Govenxor Murray of Newfoundland. who it was reported was about to ivisit Ottawa on annexation business, haa (one to England. The amount of cash contributed in To- ronio to tibe Indian Famine fund from! various souirces has passed the twelve thousand dollar mark. Bene Dabin and Fred Corier, two Ppemciunen, who had a piggery two mil»5 from Port Arthur, Qnt., were bunted to death on Wedne-sday night. 11be Cl'.R. has declared dividends of 2 per cent on tine preference .stock and 1 per cent, on the common slock for Ihie half year ending December 3Lst. News of a discovery of an enormous- ly ric'h deposit or cupper and gold on/ both .sides of the Canadian boundary line has been reported at Spokane. CUi»rcoal, the Indian cundemned tu be tuanged for the murder of Sergeant Wilde, it is reported at Winnipeg, may not live till the date of his execution. T1be Hajuiltou lioard of Education hais a deticit of J'-iW.l'Ul', wit«h' a prospect of 91O,(HI0 or «ir>.UU<J more when the Collegiate institute building is com- pleted. The governors of the Hamilton Gen- oral Hoepi'ial propose to build a new giBsideuce for the nurses ajid. use the f resent niu'ses' apartments for pati- opts. It Ls intimated that the Dominion Govemmeuit intends to abolish the of- fice of Deputy Commissioner of Pa- tents, made vacant by the recent death of Mr. Richard Pope. It is calculated thut it will cost about three hundred thoucjaud dollars to re- pair the damage dome to the western wing of the Parliament buildings in Ot- tawa by the recent fire. Of the fifteen Maxim guns in the pos- session of the Dominion Militia De- partment, .some six or seven will be kept on baud (or emergencies, ajid the othieiT-i will be handed over to the city battalions. The various Dominion Government de4)artmeuls have been asked to push forwiard the preparation of the esti- mates, so that the Government can suIj- mit the estimates early, and ask sup- plie.s while the tariff is being prepared. I>r. Selwyn .states that ho was mis- represented at the meeting of the min- in4{ enfjiriecrs in MqutieaJ. He is a be- liever in the gold fields of British Col- umbia, and called attention to their good prospects in IHH^. Commoms last year, refuses to re-enter Parliament. The death is announced of Mr .Frank May, who for twenty yeara previous to Novemlier, 1803, was chief cashier- of the Baink of England. Through the collapse of a vuiduot on a railroad at Cornwall on Tuesday 12 men fell a distance of one hundred and fifty feet, and were killed. Lieut-Governor Kirkpatrick, while not yet able to leave the hospital in London, wheare an operation was recent- ly performed on him, is progressing fav- orably. Lomdon at present ia being flooded with such vast hordes of undesirable Germans, Poles, and Italians, that Eng- land may be forced to pass an Exclu- sion Act. Returns issued by the British Board of Trade for January show an increase in imports of 97,500,000, and a decrease in exports of $0,900,000, as compaa-ed with January 1896. In the British House of Commons on \yednesday Mr. Samuel Smith's mo- tion for the disestabliahment and dis- endowment of the Church of England was rejected by a vote of 204 to 86. John Chandler, of London, England, who confessed having forged bills of exchange on Messrs. S. F. McEinnon and Company of Toronto, was on Tues- day sentenced to five years' penal servitude. Mi'. Balfour stated on Thursday that the Government intended to make a publio holiday for the occasion of the Queen's diamond jubilee, but it was not proposed to make the day a perm- anent holiday. Mr. Curzoa stated Id the British Commons that the repor ted massacres at Crete were unfounded, 'iutrj had been some small disturbances. A re- port from Canea says 200 Iniildirgs were burned, and 5,000 Christian re- fugees from the city have been token on board the British and Greek war- ships in the harbor. UNITED STATES. Mr. Richard Croker is the probable Tammany candidate for Mayor of Newi York. "The Ohio river at Cincinnati is fast verging on the danger line, which ia 45 feet. William Waldorf Astor owns 4.000 bouses in New York city, and has an income of more than 96,000,000 a year. It is stated that after the inaugura- tion of President McKinley, Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland will start on a tour around the world. Warren W. Linney, after reading Hamlet's soliloquy, thrust a dagger through his heart in his mother's home in Chicago, on Wednesday. Capt. McGiffin, who commanded the Chinese warship Chen Yuen in the bat- tle of the Yalu River, committed sui- cide at New York, on Thursday. Two armed robbers in Chicago on Tuesday night held up and robbed An- toine Boenert in his steamship ticket oit'ice in La Salle street. They got 92,000. A mail clerk on a Santa Fe train near Los Angeles, Cal., ua Tuesday shot one burglar and wounded another. They bad attempted to "hold up" the train. The cattle dealers of Buffalo and vi- cinity are jubilant over the abrogation of the quarantine of Canadian cattle, and large importations are being made. The Michigan lumbermen are op- posed bo the proposed two dollars duty on the white pine, as in the event of its imposition they fear Canadian retalia- tion. Albert Hess of Ipswich, Mass., dis- appeared suddenly with 97,000 of other people's Imoney. He sent his wife word to return to her parents in To- ronto. Armand Casrtlemary. an actor, fell dead at the close of the final scene of the opera "Martha" at the Metropoli- tan Opera House, New York, on Wed- nesday night. Mrs. G. W. Baldwin, nee tie Hon. Lady Carey, granddaughter of the late Duke of Brunswick, has filed suit for divorce at Htm.s(on. Te.xa.s. Her husband is a wealthy citizen of Hbuaton. Busmess during the week has been a little more favorable ; prices are moie steady and there is a better demand for labor ; in the l<ktst em and Middle States particularly works are reported to be opening up. A deaiiand for pig iron at Pittsburg IS aUo voted. Hemlock and leather are more active, with an ad- vance in values. While a lower range of prices is reported for a few articles, the general return quotes figures as being mostly firm, .and in many lines as higher and advancing. GENERAL. professors who recently signed a de- claration in favor of tliia striking dock labourers of Hamburgr. It is now stated that the recent dis- turbances in Crete were stirred up by. Greek a^itatora, that the Christians were the aggressors, and that war be- tween Turkey and Greece is very: pro- bable. The despatch of the torpedo flotilla from Greece, under cominaud of Prince George, has caused the greatest en- thusiasm among the populace, and a feeling of grave alarm among the Euro- pean poiwers. Prince Bismarci.when asked to give an academic opinion on arbitration treaties said that he did not believe that in questions of vital importance nations would stake tiheir existence on the decision of an arbitration court, which had no means of enfiorcing its judgment. A PLABUE'S REVELATION. WEIRD OLD CUSTOMS OF AN TERESTING PEOPLE. IM- Secpretary Charles Drinkwater of the C. P. B. was attacked by four foot- pads at Montreal on 'lluesday night on his way home. He fought the men as long as he could, but they j^ot away with h|is gold watch and chain. Mr. Drinkwater received .some injuries in the encounter. GREAT BRITAIN. The Mjeunsion House fund for the suf- ferers in India will likely reach the 95,000,000 mark. One horse and 450 sheep from the wrecked steamer A'ngloman have been safely lauded Prof. Crorikes, the eminent English scientist, boldly announces his belief in telepathic phenomena, Tho half-yearly sLateiment of the Grand Trunk Railway, iasued in Lon- don, shows a surplus of £39,000. rl^L^'f^ti' ^h =!»'""'"'â-  cL**°-'^;' ,"•* !eri:-. such tacilRies of escaping that thev London to be ashore on Skerries' Is- ^m li^piy be transferred to the Island The death of Sir John Bates, Thurs- toB, Governor of (he Fiji Islands, is announced at the age of 61. , It is reported that there Ls a re- vived feeling in Hawaii in f.'ivour of annexation to the United States. lit is said that Dr. Nanaen, the Nor- wegian explorer, is much, annoyed when he sees himself referred to as a .Swede. Two men were killed and nineteen seriously wounded in a strikers' riot at Galileo Ferraris, memlier of the It.al- ian Senate and a well-known electric- ian is dead at Rome. ^ A British troopship has been de- spatched from Malta with a fortnight's food for twelve hiindred Cretan refu- gees. \Vm. Donna, the American artist, it is reported in Paris, will be promoted to be an officer of t'Jie (Legion o£ Hon- our. An extensive forgery of Bank of Eng- land twenty-pound notes is (j-king place on the Continent of Europe. The im- itation is excellent. It is officially stated that 2,7l".O,000 persons are now emp.Io.ved on fiimine relief wjork in tho different districts of India where famine prevails. The distress in the JubbuliMor dis- trict of India is appalling. About 120.- 000 are now receivuijp; Government aid. and by the month of May i,the number will 1» doubled. ' Archduike Otto of Austria, nephew of Emperor Francis Joseph, and heir pre- sumptive to (.he throne of Austriii, is at present visiting Emperor William in Berlin. The building of the trans-Siberian railway will give the convicts ofi Sili- LIFE OF A LONDON SWELL. HU Newgpapen Are Scented tor UUu, aud HU Luuudry U U«ue lu the South or Vrauce. In the matter of how the young swells of London live. I have toeen told some things, have read others, and have seen a little myself from the out- side, of course, writes a corr>>Hpaadent. Recalling the {general impression re- ceived from these various sources, it seemed to me that here was a chance for the publication of a little handbook, under such a title as "How to Spend Money," or "The Science of Extrava- gant Living," or "The Art of Being Rich." I knew a London boy once â€" three years out of Oxfordâ€" who caused his morning papers to be scented with the perfume of iris. It is hard to be- lieve this, perhaps, but it is literally true nevertheless. Hto went even fur- ther than this, did my Oxford lad. Ob- serve: I was talking with him one morning about this very subject of the daily press, and he said, pressing an electric button with his foot: "I'll show you now how to read the papers." His valet brought the papers, scent- ed with iris, as I said, but ironed stiff and crinkly. The advcrtisementa HAD BEEN CUT OUT, And the porting articles marked in blue pencil. We started of with this as a beginning, and he tkild me how, be lived. Says he: "In the matter of tobacco, now, I pre- fer the cigarette to anything else. I get mine trom Coustantinoplb twice a week, and, by the uay, my cigarettes are scented with Ilaacbisâ€" very diffi- cult to obtain, believe me â€" medical oc- der absolutely necessary, and all that. There are very few dealers, however, who can be trusted to mix it with i he tobacco so as to produce the maximum enjoyment with the mtuimum of barm. Here." he ciaitiuued, "is my bedroom." We went in. "Bed," he remarked, la- conically, stabbing his index finger to- ward the huge piece of furniture ; "no- thing extraordinary, only the sheets, pillow cases and night gown are silk- silk's a bit heavy, too, " he observed, running bis figner over it. "Change 'em every nighi. and luive then sent to France, South of France, to be laun- dered, quite the thing with us chaps now-a-days to send linen and things to France. Let's go see my bloom- ing tailor." vV'a rode to his blooming tailor's in his blooming bruugbaoi, and HIE CALLED MY ATTENTION En route to the devices and appliances of the affair. Pneumatic tires, elec- tric lamps â€" on the inside, mark you â€" electric foot warmers, a row of a doz- en ivory knobs, like the stops on the consol of an organ, by which be com- municated with the coachman, a small dressing case, cigar box, card case, mirror, flask, and the liUc. As we aiighted at the tailor'sâ€" I sup- pose it was in Bu d street somewhere â€"he said: "We," that is his class, you undei- stand, "visit our tailor's dailyâ€" great institution the London tailor. See now," he piloted me about the great! ilislitituon, "separ.iit departments for the troupers, Avaislixiat and coat. Coat- man never makes trousers, waistcoat- man never dreams ol making coat, and see here, model uf my figure, life size, so as 1 can judge eliect myself." Coming from the tailor's wo went to lunch at his dining club, which he and his "set" maintain. l'"or the pair of usâ€" and we had nothiut.' lavish, either â€" the check was four pounds, $'20. Ife told me the buttci, even the cooking butter, came from Paris, and that the asparagus, we were in October, was the same Uest;ription and h.id been pro- cured by the same metiiods as that eaten by the Czar during his Paris visit in October last. land, will probably be a tt^tal loss. Mr. Thomas Sexton, anti-Parnellite, who nfailgQed his scat in the House (of of Saghalien. Tlw' (!('rm;i]i Ooveniment bat nrdorodi the prosecution of several university THE DIVERS HEAVY DRESS. The dress of a fully equipped diver weigb.s 169 1-2 pounds and costs alxjut 9500. It is made up among other things of 8 1-2 pounds of thick underdo! hing. The dress itself weighs 14 pounds, aud the heavily weighted Ixiols weigh 32 pounds. The breast and back pieces weigh 80 pounds, and the helmet 35 pounds. The greatest deplb at whicn a diver can onliiiarily work i.s 150 feet., though there are rare instances of work lieing done at a depth of 210 feet, where the pressure suslaioed is 88 1-2 pounds to the squ.are inch. U. is not generally known ttutl, the prwient .sy.stem oi; div- ing was first, suggested by the action of tho elephant, which swims beneath the surface, breathing meanwhile thirough its trunk, which it holds above the water. I NOT LONG IN SUSPENSE. The Ixiy who was toiling up the long and devious hill turned hurriedly when near the top to miikc wa.v for a fat and frantic wheeluiau who had lost control of hi.s macliine. Say, bub, yelled the bicyclist, howi tairiis it to the bottom of this hill! I don't know e.vactly what the dLs- tance is, the l)oy culled out .after him, but you'll be there in about four. sec- onds, and' there's a crick at the bot- tom of it. The 8(rlkfin <:i(y-Hud Cannnineures of the Prejudices or Ciutte-The New Herum In Keported to B« Working Wonders. The traveller who comes to Bombay just now is at first greatly surprised, Bays a letter from Bomliay. The plague here I Fifty deaths a day 1 The people panic stricken I Where is all that f The streets of Bombay from the port are full of life. The coolies ia white with their red turbans, the women in red or rose-colored saris and witih silver and colored glass bracelets on their arms and ankles, and rings on their fingers and toes, move about carrying different objects in sparkling copper pots. They present an air of gayety with their bright costumes in the warm sunlight. Jugglers installed under the tall barridas which line the avenues beat their drums and play theii* bag- pipes. All that noise and all those gay oolours give a poor idea of a city strick- en with a plague. 'But that is only the first impression. Further on in the Hindoo town,' the bazaar and the business streets are al- most deserted, that is, for this city where the population is usually so dense; but to a European even accust- omed to crowded cities, the streets here seem to be full of people. In the little shops where they burn sandal-wood and incense, the strung odor of phenol pre- dominates, and in front of the' bouses from which dead bodies have just been taken the sidewalks are marked with large daubs of a reddish mixture of w'hich chlorine forms the basis, m THE NATIVE QUARTER. • along the seaside, and in the dooks the plague appears to hold itself circum- scribed, and the houses giving out a strong odor of obloride and phenol are becoming more and more numerous. Colaba, a half English quarter, is al- most deserted, and the troops that were garrisoned at Marine Lines, are now camped by the seaside ini the neighborhood of Black Bay. The money market is closed, ao are the factories, and during the last montb about 250,000 inhabitants have fled from the city. Every evening at the railway sta- tion there is a fearful crowding of peo- ple who missed all the trains of the day. The throng of coolies gathered around the entrance forthird-olass passengers hold out their money and implore the ticket man to take their fares. The poor people, shouting and rushing, en- deavor to pass their nuouey over the heads of those in front of them. Al- though repeatedly driven back, they never fail to return to the charge. Groups of women and children, carry- ing red and while packages and cupper pots so highly polished that theyi look like gold, wait at the office in expect- ation uf the lucky ticket that >will en- able th>!m to fly from the city. Then, when the last train is gone, they camp in crowds around the siation stretched upon the ground. In picturesque dis- order, with their baggages lying in heaps, they wait for the next morn- ing's train. The bubonic plague, as it is called, is still a mystery. Its origin is not known. At first it was attributed to dates that came from Syria and to corn that came from the interior. 'Ihe dates were destroyed and tlie corn w,is thrown into the sua; but the plague still persisted and increased every day. One morning a large number of rats were found dead. Then tho pigeons and chickens were .attacked. After tliat a mail tooik the disease. Then others caught it, and they ALL DIED SUDDENLY. A high fever with a little swelling under the arms or in the 'groin, is all there is to it, but the man dies in forty-eight hours. The victims are be- coming more and more numerous. It tiiiould be remembered that in the hospitals, thanks to the inOcuiations by the new serum, mure than two-thirds of the patients are cured. But the idea of the mixture of castes and of contact with people who are ctmsidered inferior keeps the Hindoos from the hospitals. I'hey prefer to remain atvi home and !» attended by quacks or .soifcerers, and jmeiiled by bracelets, and golden rings a bier covered with red stuff streaked with gold. The bearers and followers all sing a sort of melopaeia tbat is al- most gay. They move along very slow- ly toward the Mussulmans cemetery on the border of the sea, where the dead man will sleep forever under thei tall banyans and the flowery jasmines. But here comes the funeral of a Par- si. On a litter covered with white draperies t he dead man.clothed in white is carried by eight men also clothed' in white and wearing white gloves. The Parsi custom exacts that the dead must be brought to the IViwer of Silence by these men, who form a separate caste and cannot taike part Ln any public cere- monies without having first gone through eight days of purification; and they renuiin in a house spe<!ially built for them. Now, on account of this ep- idemic, they are obliged to wear gloves, which they throw into the fire, just aa they do their clothes, after having un- dressed the body, in order to leave it absolutely naked. "Naked he came in- to the world, and naked her must re- turn into dust." At the Tower of Silence the vulturea in a few hours leave nothing of the body, but the skeleton, which the burn- ing srun will soon reduce to dust, and the dust itself will be carried away by the first monsoon. A long file of men in' white march! two by two, bound to each other, as a sign of union, by a white handkerchief. Very slowly they follow the bier, ex- actly at forty paces distant from it. They pass on to the Tower, where the vultures, gorged just now, await their feast while sleeping in the sun. To-day, accompanied by Mr. Snow, the Municipal Commissioner of tbe city of Bombay, I visited the hospital where the sufferers were oared for. Outside of the city for a considerable time the wagon brought us through A WRE'TCHED LOCALITY. and then through the grounds in tbe ueighburbood of the factories. In the shade of the great banyans ami palm trees delicate and pale flowers grow, ruse and mauve color. Hedges constel- lated with tender violets and jasmines on the old walls alternate with the roses, and give out their perfumes. We reach tbe Parel suburb, at the. end of which, in a great field, stands tbe hos- pital for the plague stricken. It ia a huge iron framework covered and sur- rounded with mats that are burned as soon as tbey beoome impregnated witb microbes. The air in the place is con- stantly renewed, and, in spile of 30 de- grees Centigrade, which in this seas- on is the average temperature here, it was almost cool. All tbe siuk in the huepitals ara cooliea of the lowest Hindoo caste. On beds witb thin maltrasaes ihe unfor- tunates lie. One after tbe other the doctor who was attending them showed them to us. The nurses uncovered them. At first nothing remarkalde ap- peared upon their bronze, naked bodies. Some had bandages under their arm* and in the groin. It is the hardened gland in the neck, under the arms, and in the groin that causes all the trouble. The patient gels a fever which makes him sleep, exhausts him, and quickly kills bun. In the ward which we had just pass- ed through there was only couvaiea- cents or mild cases. At the end oif this room there was a little emaciated crea- ture. Ue was so thin that his bcKly in the bed was hardly outlined under the covering. He was asleep as we were passing by. He came fruiu one of the districts ravaged by the famine. To fly trom the other evil he came here aud caught the plague. They woke bun up, aud he opened his enormous and superb eyes. Ue seemed delighted when he woke up, or it ouight be that he was still in a half dream. Ue had the laugh of a happy child, and comic- ally he shook his little shaved head, on the top of which was the Mussul- man queue that looked like a cork- screw. Then immediately he dropped to sleep again. The doctor said be was getting better. His fever was dimin- ishing, and he was as good us saved. In a room further on there were four very bad cases. Delirium held one in agouy. Ue constantly called for help in a hoarse voice that was gradu- ally becoming more and more faint. The attendants held him. Another was GNASJUNG HIS TEETH. and a third was motionless; perhaps ha was already dead. Further on in houses made of liam- boos and inais the Uinduus who refuse the assistance of any doctors who are not Hindoos are isolated. One old man was there. To the swelling under his arms a sort, of white paste was applied. Ue was delirious, and luoned at us with a vague aud vauani stare from which all intelligence seemed alwent. Still furt.lier on woe a Hindoo wom- an that was brought I here t he day be- fore, along with her husband, who died this uiorning. , She w:is singularly beautiful, with a delicate, pale face and blue-black hair. Her arms were orna- they die rather than reuoiiiice their idpjis of caste. Alorcover, both before and after death the religion of tbe Par- sees, who form a considerable portion of the population of Bombay, orilers queer sorts of practices wliich it uAiuld lie impossible to permit in the hospilals, and that is why the Par.sees refuse to be tiiiken to l.hem. In the house of a Parsee, who was taken sick, yesterday, I saw 'his wife wa.shiiig a white garment.' Only a niemlier of tbe family can do i bat washing. The wife, who knew that her husband was attacked by ihe plague and consequently downed, was preparing his' death robe in a silent and tearless resigu.ation that jiiade me shudder. The sick nma lav upon a low bed. He seemed greatly opressed, and was perspiring freely. Bandages were on his neck. AVit b difficulty he niuruiur- ed, "Pane, sahib I" ("Water, sir I") 'then he closed his eyes anil seemed, to be asleep, 'lliey all sleep that way until the end. In the narrow streets funerals pass along. IHindotDs carried on litters and wiiu thoLT f.icosi iiainied, grimace, a liv- id smile u,nd©r l;he red paint on t heir cheeks. Tho body is covered with gar- lands of jasmines and roses of Bengal. Jn front, of the bier a man carries a vasewhith holds tbe embers with which he will light THE FUNERAL PILE, and behind the body a number of men march, beating orotalums and tambour- ines. 'Ihen fiUow the friends, each one carrying a piece of wood, which he will place upon the funeral pile as a latii houiiige to tho dead. hung from her ears, i'or an instant she opened her beautiful large eyes, and luuiced at us like a wijunded gaz- elle. Then, with a painful sigh, she turned toward tho wall, nuuking her bracelets jingle as she moved'. She still wore her blue tcholi. A variegat- ed covering was thrown over her* and be.side her bed, was a collection oi Imxee and: pots of polished copperi that look- ed li'Kc lo.vs. As I said, she was marv- ellously buiutiful, not yet imired by the disease, which .she caught only yester- day. She slept there quietly, more like some figure in a fairy tale than an uiiforiuiiale plague-stricken creature doomed to die in .a few hours ithrough the ignorance of her Hindoo doctor. At last we left that sad hospital. No Sister of Charity was there (o bring a little consolation to those sufferers vvhoKB black eyes, with their vague and delirious oxprcsaiou, siill haunt lue. I felt an indescribable feeling of siidiioss of the idea of not being able to give them any relief or to express ito them even one word of hope in their very difficult, but soft and musical langu- age. We returned to the city by another road, which brought us in front of the field of funeral piles. In tbe blue air of the night, which comes on very quickly under the giant banyans, thick columns of red smoke ligjiited up a corn- er of th'j sky. 1 stopped in front of the house of the Pursee whom, 1 had gone to see tlie day before. â-  He was dead. In the place whore his bed had been incense was burning in a copper vase; and in another copper vase there were flowers, which must be renewed regularly during fourteen days; while the Tower of Silence, rrfl the Tower of Silence, under the Hero, too, are the funerals oil the blazing sun, his bones will whiteo un- Mussulimuns. The body is carried on til they are reduced to dust, - /i