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fflpw" mmmt THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. IfitarMtlng Ittmi About Our Own Couatry, areat BrIUIn, the United SUtn, Mid luf- Parte ol the Globe. Coadenecd and Aeeorted for Eaiy Reading. CUNADA. Thieves are onierating extensively in London 8outh. lA youlb, 18 years of age, was aent to ?a<il in VVinuLimg <'n Tuesday, for mak- Bg counlerfeit coin. The Dominion Government has draft- ed a bill to |>revent extortionate rates of interest l>ei.ng lollet'ted. Laforce La^evin, only son of iSir Hec:tor Langevin, conirailted suicide at his father's house in Quebec on Wed- nenday. The pilots of the St. Lawreiye are luiiuiiw ii hard fight to aaaure in<!or- liorntion, but it is doubtful if they will euoL'eed. The Quebec City Council on Tuesday night voted tw»nty-five hundred dnl- Inrs towards the oele>»ration of the Queen's jubilee. Th« bill to make railway companies carry bii-ycles as baggage was curried in the Railway Committee at Ottawa by 40 votes to 21. An item of 826,0!)0 to pay the expenses of Canada's military representatives at the Queen's jubilee was passed by the Bbuto of Commons. Flora and Maggie Mjr-Millan, sisters, living at St. Andrelw's, N.S., near An- tigoniah. were !)mrned to death in their house on Tuesday night. Mr. .William Soutbam, one of tbe shareholders, has taken a(Aion to have the HomeHtead Loan & Savings Society of Hamilton wound up. The steamer Diana, which will carry the Canadian Government exjiedition to Budson Bay, has arrived in Halifax, and will in inrovisioned at once. I'oHtinaster-General Muloik announc- ed on Thursday in thei Dominion Hbuse tkat Juliilee stamps of various denom- inations will be issued to^ tbe public on tbe 19th prox. A deputation waited on the Govern- ment to ask toTuhontm o! 81,000,000 to- wards the constiuction of a bridge over the St. Lawrence .it Quebec. Mr. Laurier promised consideration. It is understood that Mir. 0. K. Pomville, Mechanical Superintendent of the Grand Trunk Uailway, will short- ly lie transferred from Hamilton. It is not known where he will be ulac- •&. iMt. Thomas Fyshe, cashier of the Bank of Nova Scotia, has been ajipoint- •d joint seneral manager of the Mer- chants' Bank of Canada, Mir. Hague, the general manager, having asked that a coadjutor be ajifiuinled. Joe Racine, a furmetr well-known re- sident of Mont real, has liaen arrestcKl on a charge of murdering Ijeo Mail- loux, an old man, wbo.s*^ body was Ipund in a swatnj) near Itouaes Point, K.Y., on January 8th last. Mrs. Gortlon, widow of one of the vil.:tiTns of tbe Point Bllice bridge dis- aster, haa got a verdict for tlU.DUO against the City of Victoria. It i.s said there are many more suits, of a similar nature to follow. It is reported at Victoria,, B. C, that the Transvaal Gold Fields Company, of London, Kngland, has acquired the rbarter and cuniessions obtained by the Cassiar Central Railway Company from Rritish Columbia. The Governor-General has received a letter of thankn from thcs Viieroy of In'lia, in which it is stated that Can- ad-u Hlood next to (ireat liritain in her contributions to the India famine, fund. The worst of the fajnine is past. Mr. Oelcourt of Ottawa has drawn tbe attention of tbe (iovernment to the necessity for theerec^lion of anational museum to prejierve the very fine c«l- iM'tion of specimens of various kinds now Indifferently stored away at Ot^ tawa. The movement to establish a volun- teer cor(:s in connection with Toronto University, to repltt<-e tbe rifle com- pany whicb existed for nearly thirty- three year* buit was dislianded some four years since, was .-iclv.'incpd a Htep on Wednesday afternoon, which an in- fluential ivn<l very tepiewjiitative de- putation brought the Uiutter to the notice of Sir Richrird Curtwright, Act- iu{f Minister of Militia, who promised rci ^ive the matter hie favuri^bl« consideration. lArrangemenla hiive lieen almost com- plete<l for a jubiiee I lianksgiving ser- vic«, to be held iji N*)t re Dajiie cliuroh, Montreal, on â- '^unday evening, .lune iiOthi, in commemomtion of the sixtieth anniversary of the Queen's accession t-o tJie throne of Great (iritain. It will vurpaiNS aiiythjng uf l.lie kind evej- b»- ^>re aWeuipted in (Unadii. TJie decor- J-tioiiB of the cJiurch will I* carried out on a magnificent scale, while the musio will be ihe great feature. There will l>e la ohoir oi six hundred voices, lunld un on'<h«.<iira (in addition to the great organ) of fift^y or sixty pieces. Mniny distinfuiehed personages will \>e nro- Mnt, including Lord and Lady Aber- deen. OR^AT BRJTAIN. Lord Henry Edward Komerset.fourtlb inoa of tlhe Duke of Beaufort, is dead. He â- want horn in I8!i3. Otscar Wilde, during his im]>ri8onuient wa« given the minimum of treadmill on account of the condition of his heairt. Hi« principal dulie.a were bookbinding iin'd marking <(>al sark». ^an«. Dowager Ducbeas of Atholl, widow of llie Kixth Duke, Is dicad. She was a daughter of the late Ileory Home Druuimoud. of Dlair Drummona, N4rw Bruiuiwicjc. Owing to the feax of hydrophobia in Engliwd, an order has been issued by the Briti.sh Board of Agriculture, enact- ing such stringent regulations as vir- tually to amount to the prohibition of the imiiurtation of dog«. . Oapar Wilde woa ielcafie<l from prison on Wednesday morning with jfreal seo- jrecy. Hj wiU.pay a rfii^fL yi«jit; toj,'i^r- !«, then return t^ L<)n.l6A and re«tiin« tils liteimry lalK>urs. He is in splendid ine.qtal and physical health. "^ "irhc Bench of Bishops in Dublin on Wedne'^day elected tlie R.iglit Hav. Job- «ph Feigueon, 1>.1)., Bishop of Hfeal.h, to I'v' Anglican Archbishop of Dublin U> ^ucL'ession to tbe Right Hon. and Most R«v. Lord Pluuket, DJ)., who died on April 1, UNJ'I'ED STATES. About ten thousand tailors are out on strikie in New York, and their num- ber is being iucreaoed. Efforts will )» ina4e to induce the tailors in Syracuse^, Rochester and other to'wns to join in the New York sirilkie movement. Adolpb L, Luet^ert a sausage manu- facturer, is charged at Chicago with having murdered his wife and after- wards burning her body. President McKinley has sent a mes- sage to Congress recommending an ap- propriation of fifty thousand dollars for the relief of the destitute Americans in Cuba. A war of extermination against sym- ipathetic strikes in tbe bulldog trades has Iwen declared by a combination of Cliicag'o contractors^ employers, and other business men. The United States Senate paosed tbe joint reBolution recognizing tbe exist- ence of a state of war in Cuba and de- cJaj-iing the neutrality of the United States by a vote of 41 to 14. Private Allan of the 9th U. 8. In- fantry at Watertown, N.Y., has been indicted there by the grand jkiry lor the murder of Mary Crouch andi Mary Daly, near Sodkett's Harbor. Former Governor Alfgeld, of Illi- nois, has been talking the Kneipp cure in Milwaukee. .He is suffering from se- vere nervous prostration, and, it is said, is affected with locomotor ataxia. iMr, George A. Kittredge, who haa been a merchant in Bombay since 1862, has arrived in New York. ' He says there is great distress in India, and oontribiitions are urgently needed, but not a single person has died of atarv- ation. Twelve firemen were frightfully burned by the explosion of a tank con- taining 80 gallons of gasoline in a Chicago grocer^. Mfbe explosion was heard for several blocfks, and many win- dows in the vicinity were shattered. Bear-Admiral Miller, of the United States Navy, will represent his country at thu^ Queen's diamond jubilee. He will canima.nd tbe cruiser Brooklyn. It is said that be has been provided with a liberal sum of money for thii purposes of entertaining. Elvexton R. C'i.up(man. tflie •nigar trust witness wtito refused to answer a .Senate committee's q,uestions as to Whether hv had acted as a broker for any Senators in npeeulations in thit .•mgor trust, has Iteeui given 25 days in jail in KVa^liing^on. A Cuban, memoirial bat been sent to tihe United States Secretary of State by bankers, sibippers and manfaetair- ers in New Y^ork, Philadelphia, St. Louit and other cities asking the Gov- ernment to take Hte.ps to bring about a reconcUiatioo lietween Spain and tlhe (>it)ajx> inmirgentA. GENKRAL. Tbe Madrid Liberal nays Une Cuban insurgents have raised a loan of three million dollars in Niew Yoilk., It is rpfiorted that a plot to mur- deir Kinig George has been discovered at Alliens and that many, arrests have been made, Brazil's MinUter for War, General Bernardo Vasquea, has resigned, and has been Mi<«oeded by General Marcado Uitencourt. A man in SoutJi Africa claims to be the youngest brother of the late Duke of Hamilton, and therefore heir to the title and estates. Mncadonia Frannto, tbe 17-year-old lioy, wluj murdered four i)erson8 at Monetova. Mex., and l<li.en eloued witJi the (Inughler of a r&nchiman, nas been captured. A train convctv'inig a detaobiment of fcMrvista from \V>»tp4ialia to Metz was wirecked oji '\\>dlle^day. Tlwenity- eiight meiri were killed, and many other.") were .leriously injured. The residents of Hong Kong have de- cided to erect a hospital for women and children and a training school for nurses as a memorial of tfhe Queen's diamond jubilee. It is semi-officially stated in Madrid that Spain will never agree to the suin of Cuba, nor to foreign intervention in a (luestion which she reAurds ag exclus- ively concerning herself. THB FAMILY TREE. Many years ago a conundrum-loving king offered a prisoner his lil)erty if he could invent a conundrum that the king could not answer. The prisoner evolv- ed tbie following couplet, pointing to a man who stood near ; Brothers and sisters bare I none, But that man's father is my father's son. This woni hJm his liberty. When ask- ed to explainl he showed that the man t'O whom be had pointed, when he re- IKated, the nouplet, waa hid own son. It bee been a matter of iqieculation ati one time or anotlwu' with most peo- ple, 08 tp what Telationsbip certain membexB at the family stood to each other. It ia claimed that if a man should marry ibie wife's sister, he has also man led ibis own aunt. That makes him not only my son, but my brotber-in- law. He is nis wife's nephew, his math- er's broftiher-iin-lBw, and, if J havie oth- er children, uncle to his own brothers and fristers. But, whatever else he may Ije, he oamnoit cscapo hiH wife's mother l>eijig his mother-in-law. There is also little consolation for hun in the fact Ithait he will only be a cousin of his own children, but that may serve him in good BtjBad when they become too exacting H(n the matter of new clothes u.|id pocket money. i He in not only the brothe'r-in-law of his daugbler-ln-law, hut .will be, if hJB son becomes a father, the grand- lather of his own 'nepbewB and nieces. His wife will be mothier-inhlaw to her own Bister and gTandmother of her n«phJe^v8 or nieces. Her own son is also her brother-in-law. THE ARMISTICE ACCEPTED. TERMS ON WHICH THE TURKS WILL END THE WAR. No Troth In the Bepurt of the Maceafoiitnu InHurrecllOBâ€" The tireeh Armr Falling Bark MACEDONIAN INSURRECTION. The Turkish Government declares there is no truth in tbe report that ifiOO Macedonian insurgents have cap- tured the pass forming a part of the principal line of communication with the Turkish army, that they are ad- vanoing towards EJassona, and are preparing to unite their forces with the bands under Daveli. Zermas, and other Macedonian chiefis. According to the Porte all these statements are abso- lutely witbiont louncaiion. GREEK ARMY FALLING BACK. The Greek army in Epirus has been compelled to fall back upon Arta. bul continues to occupy a few positions be- yond tihe bridge. The Greek losses at Griboro were 568 killed and wounded, 33 being officers. It is stated that the Government has ordered the forces in Thessaly and in EJ>irns to remain strictly on the defensive. TBE INIJiEMNITY. The sum ot i;i(j,oOO,000 (Turkish) is mentioned in Constantinople as the amount of the indemnity which Tur- key will demand from Greece. Placards have been posted in the Stajuboul quarter protesting against the shedding of Mussulman blood, on the ground that the sacrifices impos- ed upon Turkey by tjie war are out of p roportion to the advantages she can gain, RESPITE AT LAST FOR GREECE. To all appearances tihe struggleâ€" if it can be given sunh a name â€" between Turkey and Greece is over. For over a week the Turks, flushed with victory, all their old savage de- light in battle awakened, have delayed to give the armistice which the world â€"except the Turkn and the German Emceror â€" desires, and have put a cruelly extreme price upon any relent- ing towards their beaten foes. Apparently It tins lieen Russia that has al last intervened. A partial mob- ilization of the JUufgarian army, which numl)ers not far islujrt of 200,000 men and is decidedly formidable, bias taken place, and the Sullan has abated bis jxreteAisluaiH to independent action. And It is undeniable that Russia guides Bul- garia. The hold of Hussia ujion Turkey is overwhelming. The Black Sea is a Russian lake, and tbe 100,000 soldiers whom Russia is said lo have at and near Odessa could sail down the coast and choose their point at whicb to land, from Constantinoa'le to the boundary of fiulgaria. The three strong Russian ships in the Mediterranean could oper- ate on the coast railway whifh connects Oonstimtinoiple with Salonica, and so with Edhem Pasha The 200,000 Bul- garians would keep thousands of Turks busy along the sIoiksh of the Rhodope Mountains, and so fight Russia's bat- tles. I Turkey may well pause when Russia calmly bints that Greece has l»een tor- tured long enough. The calamitous struggle which has lasted for just a month, divides itself into four well-marked stages. War was declared on AJ>ril 17, the .Saturday following Good Friday, and fighting in the 'liiessalian mountains Ijegan at once. Kor a week the outnum- bered and ill-nrepared Greeks fought bravely ; then l>a(l work on the part of officers and lack of discipline on the part of the men led to the panic whicb lost Larissa on Friifay, April 24. Then came a [lause, while the Turks established themselves at l.arissa and took breath, the feast of Bairan com- ing in oivportutiely. The Greeks took post at Pnarsalos and reorganized. The air was full of ruiuors of intervention. On Tuesday, May 8, Uie Turks advanc- ed again. The Creeks showed lietter generalship, but the odds were against them, and on Thursday or Friday they had to evacuate Pharsalos. Then came this perplexing pause, the Greeks willing at last to accept the mediation of iiurope*, the Turks setting too high a price upon a cessation of the war and drivins on their men, till Domokos fell on Saturday last. Then Russia, salisfied with Greece's three defeats, raised her finger and the war seems to have stopped. WHITE FLAG NOW FLYING. A desi)atch from Larissa says the white flag has l)«en hoisted between the armies of Turkey and Greece, and that Crown Prince Constant ine ha» jf .sincere fxiendislhip and neigtlilliourly feeling w:hiicih. exL>^ between us, I take uiKm myself the loalk of addressing lo your augusit Beosibility my expres-' .sioo of the wielb that yjou will crown t'be heroic succe.sse8 oi your soldiers by a .sus|]entiion of tipsitilities. "This i« a course which will be in entire accord with the firmness and peiiceful moderafjoni ytou evinced at the commencement of tlhle campaign. Your Emperial Majesty will tlhua accomplisih an act whiich will be entirely in con- formity witli wisdiom and naoderation, and wliicb wiU serve to still further augment ttie trf.ipecl and admiration you personally inspire, and of which I will forever retain the memory. "I prny your Imperial Majesty to be good enough Uo believe in my un- alterable friendshijj." THE SIULTAN'S REPLY. The Sultan re(plied, expressing lively and sincere thanks, and informing the Czar that be has ordered tbe Turkisb commanders to stop fighting. In con- clusion, the Sultan said: â€" "I pray your Imj>erial Majesty also to take into consideration that I wish for the friendly intervention of the powers to assure the re-eel ablishtne at of peace, having for its result tbe safeguardinig of the rights and pr«etige of my Gov^ ernment and tbe maintenance of gen- eral iieace by the subseonient continual security of my frontier. LIFE ON TflEJOEAJS WAVE. A SCHEME TO INSURE SAFETY ON THE HIGH SEAS. A Strlim! or gtmcturr>;Gver7 Vew Hundred Nllee Acroae the Arranâ€" They Will Be Orcupleil By Men , But Ever^thiug Will Be Done Aaloiuatleallr a» Far na Po* •Ible. A project, as bold as it is magnifi- cent, has just been invented for pro- viding a series of stations across tbe Atlantic whicb will enable steamers at ,sea to be communicated with just as a railway train is on dry land. At certain intervals of about a hun- dred miles. Mr. Reuben U. Plaw, for that is the inventor's name, proposes to place what he calls "central sta- tions." , They are lwx)-3toried structures, with quarters in which a certain niunber of men will live just as they do on the lighLships round the coast. Each of these statioiui will be supplied with stores capable of lasting a long time, and is to be equipped with a life-boat manned by three sailors, which is to be available far use whenever nece,»- sary. TThere is also to be attached to these stations two steam or naplhtha launches to patrol uhe interval from one sta- tion to the other, keeping a lookout for sihips in distress and for wrecks, as well as iceberg'd. AH information gathered on these points will be con- veyed along the line by means of a tele|>hone apparatus, with which it is proposed to connect the chain of ves- sels. Between eadb central station theure will be a .series of small floating ligijilbouse,s at intervals of a mile. Tlhese are to be provided with fog- horns, whose working will be by means of cou4<ireseed air hiLored by an AUTOMATIC APPARATUS as tJbe edifice rocks, while the light whicb they farnlsbut nigbt will re- ^uLre attention only two or three times a year. < 'llUese ligtuhouses will be furnished with ladders rea>.ihing to tbe sea, so ti.iat .should an individual be unfortu- nate enougiQ tjjirougu shipw reck or ac- cident, to get into tAxI water he would be able to climb into ithti lighthouse, which will comain food and tue means of i>re4>aring it, as well as supplies of dry ilol.hang. Tht! opening oi the door of any one of t.heise lighthouses in the chain will automatically convey a mesisage to this efftvct down the line to the central mtatioo on each tude, and will also indi- cate the lighthouse which has thus become the shelter of some one need- ing assistance. As soon as tbe storm subsides, should oim: be raging at the time, the life- boht will put off from the nearest sta- tion in order to take tbe man off the lighthouse, and i>la<-« him on board the first paaeing stciumer going in the di- rection iu which he, was bound. While tbe human side of tbe project is thus imlicated, its utilit:irian advan- tages will be by no means lost sight of been authorized to suspend hostilities | Un every one of tlhese ligbthouse.s or with a view to concluding arrange- j buoys^f or sucb they will practically mentfl for an armistice. To all in- bee otncâ€" automatic inWrumemts will tents and purirostvs the war is ended, record the temperature of tbe air and The Sultan is puffed up with vanity ! water, the rainfall, the velo.!ity and by reason of the success of his troops, dire-,-t ion of the wind and current, as &REAT FIRE IS TORONTO. JOHN EATON'S DEPARTMENTAL STORE IN RUINS. The Whole Balldlng Was In namei In Al- moitt an Iniitant-The Hottest Blaie on Kreord-In Eeitu Tliaa iieveB HInntes the Boor Fell Iu- In Ten Hlnnte* tbe Walls Pell. Tbe John Eaton Company's depart- mental store at the corner of Young and Richmond street is in ruins. Tbe fire was one of the hottest in tbe his- tory of Toronto's great conflagrations. Loss estimated at (250,000. which will be covered by insurance. IT WAS MARiVELLOUS. Before the f irebells bad ceased sound- ing (he alarm from box 31 at Yonga and Adelaide-streets, the flames had burst through the roof of the fronfa portion of the building and then a wild glare lit up the surrounding streets for tboujBands of yards. In tb4 boarding bouses along Temperance St., and in the living apartments onTonge St., there was a general panic, tbe peo- ple all having been aroused by the in- stantaneous appearance of the bright light. When the Bay street firemen came around tbe corner the front part of the building was a mass of flames and people living in adjacent plaess were hurrying for safety with what little of their personal effects tb«]r could get out. I OUT m THEIR NIGHT-CLOTHES. In the boarding bouse of Mrs. Mo- Clenigban, 15 Temperance St., right next to Eaton's, 17 people were slaep- ing and escaped in their night clothes^ Some of them who were more coUccteit got on their apparel and, seeing ther«) was no immediate danger, got tb* others to do so. Although tbe wind was coming front the west tbe flames seemed to burs quickly towards tbe rear of the build- ing. FIGHTING THE FLAMES. The firemen were stationed on Yong* Temperance and Adelaide streets, and with one of the engines on each street, FVcgn the roof of tbe Saturday Night building one stream of hose was play- ed on the burning mass, while iToim the top of the Methodist Book Room building on Temperance trtreet anotb^ er stream was playing. On Yoni^e street there were several streams going, but they looked altogether useless against roaring flames that seemed threaten- ing to take in the whole of tbe block, and in a short time the efforts of th» firemen were directed to saving ad- jacent buildings by watting them thor- oughly to keej> tbe sparks which wers flying in mjmads on all tlbe surround- ing roofis. WATER TOWER DIDN'T WORK. Tbe water tower was on Temparano* street, but it was a miserable failure. all attempts to get it to work beia^ futile for w at the fire. futile for Kome time after its arriva HER NATIONALITY. BBenaflvayâ€" W4i.y, hello, Henuypeokl I hear that you are married? Hride one of the village girls? Hennypeck (meekly)â€" No; she is a foreigner. * Ehf A tartar. > ' and Greecfl, the n.ition with whicb the European powers sympathize but dare not assist is humiliated in tbe dust made sacred by a IJiousand memories of the post. I I The Sultan ia in no yielding mood and flings his defiance in the face of combined 1?urope. He says he is pre- pared to modify his demands in regard to the retrocession of Thessaly, and mjiy even lessen his claims for indem- nity, owing to the bnnlkrupt condi- tion of Greece. Bnt in regard to tbs modification of the capitulations, it is impossible, ho says, to make any change in his demands. It is confi- dently hoped by him that Europe will have a sufficient sense of justice not. to press Turkey, iia upon tiis point she is determined not to yield, and should Europe attempt to impose such a sacrifice by force oi arms, tJie situa- tion created would l)e most detrimental to general peace. The powers have, a gwve tasflc be- fore them. They are pledged to Greece to obtain terms of peace that she can accept without national humiliation, and the Sultan bars the way and speaks contemptuously of the combined forcea of Ruroiie compelling him to abate hla demands one Jot. Tha powers are face to face with a dilemma, and the civiliz-i ed world awaits with anxiety its so- lution by the diplomats of the powers. THE CZAR'S MES.SAGE. A deispalcih from Cwistaotinople gives tihi.' text of thii Czar's jnessago to the Sultan aslUing fnt* tihie cessation of hJos- tililies An I'olldlwji*â€" "Yiiur Ilruperial Majesty will not fi^l aato4ii>4hedl by the fact, thnt encounaged by the evidence well as other facts which it is desir able lo j(gi*iter. Tlie*-.e will be telegrajkbed to both .sides of the Atltuitic, and a knowledge of the climatic conditions advancing to t 'IP .'c I :t likely to obtain on shore will thus be secured B.RVERAL DAYS AHEAD. Everything which can be done auto- matically will be done in tlhis way, so that as little routine work' as possible will he left for the men at the differ- ent station-s to look after, 'llhey will thus he able to give the greater part of their attemtion to the patrol of hheir district and the life-saving work, which will naturally be one of tbe chief considerations rendering' the atloption of tbe plan at all feasible. In order to keev> the lightships and floating stations in positions, they will, of course, have to be anchored to the bottom ot tile ocean. To make them as comfortable and as steady as pos- sible for the men living in them, huge iron tanks will form an essential fea- ture of their construction. Tlhese will be filled with oil, which in .stormy wea- fher, will be poureid on the waves in order to breaK their force and keep the seh. from running too high, thu.s endangering thie safety of the statioB.s or causing them to drag their anchors. No doubt the whole idea seems Uto- pian in its suggestion at present. The i>Toblem is, however, one which hlis engaged the attention of inventors (or many years, and there is little doubt but that some such scheme will be elaborated, if not in our day, at all eVenIs before the next century has celebrate*! its jubilee. It was about five minutes after th* fire waa discovered that tbe roof M the Eaton place fell in, and in ]ta» than three minutes afterwards tb« front wall on Yonge street collapeedw Some thirty firemen were working in very dangerous proximity to it when a warning cry went up from the crowd, and they bll rushed toward the Ar- cade jiLst in time to avoid l>eing crushed to pieces. The wall totte«red first iiv ward and then outward, and then with' an awful crash fell forward. THE WIRES WENT TOO. A.s it struck tbe vast network of wire* in front, the scene, though terrible, waa immensely grand. For a brief moment Yonge street in front of the Arcad* seemed a mass of irides?ent sparks.bub iti lasted for but a short time, and the tangled ma.ss of wires was sputtering underneath the rtiina. When the fire a{>peared these waa hardly a soul on the -street excepting a few printer?? going home from theif vv-ork and the police. In five minutes five hundred people were on band, and by the time the wall crashed in the crowd had increased to thousands. OTHER PROPERTIES DAMAGED. The intense beat flayed havoc witK the plate plass and inflamtnable mater- ial on the buildings on the opposite sida of Yonge street, and on tbe north nid« of Tem^ierance street. The siifferers from broken glass and scorched wood- ciiwcirk on Y'onge street were: C. W. Hunt & Co., tailors; J, Ovens, fancyi work; Pemlwr's hair goods store; the Art Metrojiole, the Toronto Tire Com- jiany, and the Boston Lunch. The dam- age to these establishments will range from SlOn to fl.OOO each. The Fleming H. Revell Comiiany, corner of Richmond and Yonge streets, sustainexl oonsider- able damage from broken glass and wa- ter Davis & Sons, jewelers, whose es- tablishment is immediatelv to thesoutb of^ the ruins, have suffered heavy loss from smoke and water, Tbe premises oc"uiiied by the Toronto Bill Posting Comnany, and owned by George Mc- Conkey, on Tenioerance street, alnit- tin.qr the .Tohn Raton Co, were badly damatjed. The roof was burned off ana tons of water rushed down into th» l>asement. IX>«?S AV.TLL BR 8S5O,000. Mr. John Eaton, who manages the establishment, w.os seen while the fira was still in progress. He stated that there never was a lime when the firm had less sto^^k on hand than they had In-Core the fire. The greater jisirt of their spring stock had Iwen sold out, whiH^ the summer sfoods were still in the customs houses. He estimates the loss, therejfot-e, at not more than Ji2,50,- 000, and gives JBOnjWO as the probable loss, including buildinif- Ftoth build- ing and contents wero fully insured, but at the early hour Mr. Eaton could net_ recollect the names of the com- panies. fREVISION NEEDIED. Wilkinsâ€" Sui'h idioms as Between the devil and the deep sea, though very expressive, are not exactly uio to date. Siinpsonr-They're not? Well, how would you imriTove on the one you quoted, for instance? Wilkinsâ€" Well. I think a u-ore mod- ern plan would be to sa* : Between tbe trolley car and the !>^<»':oher. r