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THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. %t«re«tlat Item* About Our Own CouBtry. Ureat Britain, the United States, and All Parts of the Olobe, Condensed and Aasorted tor Ea^y Readlos. CANADAj ' ' . Forty caaea of mt^aalt's and one dpnt.h aru reixjrtwl a* the Winnipfil? quurun- tlne. Th« NteanishiiJ Livoiiinn, aground for tfu duja in the Ht. Jjawront* has been floated. Mr. A. H. Harriaa, traffic manager of thK Canadian Goverutnent railway •yHtoiu has resigned. Vreini^r Warhurton. of Prince Kd- ward Island, hu.s u«'o«pted the Kings County Court judKctihip. There is a coal war un amonK the dealers of nomilton, Ont., and prices bave taken a big <lrop Janips AUiaou, inmnte of the Otta wa Uld Men's Home, tried (o end bis life with laudaiium. Ila toolc too much. Thomas Parsons, burglar, inc<!ndiary and Juil breaker, wa.i sentenced at Belleville to fourteen years in the penitentiary. The report th.it Kfiuwhoiipers are prevalent in some purt« of the North- wetfl, is, after caj-eful inquiry, found to be incorrect. 'J'he MUilia Uepartuient will estab- liHb a provisional sihuol at Carletun Fla<w for the ifistruetion of infantry .lobn Johnston, mm of Mr. Urent JohtiHlun, Httmiltun. ruuiuiitled suicide by Mhoutinu hiwwHf through the heart with u ebotguii. The duties collected at the port of Toronto during the fiscal year ending June 90, IKii, show an increase of •0;it;,48O 'JC. W. Kring. blacJt.sniilh, Webbwood, Algoma and A. Miller celebrated the Ikoliday by going ht'uting. Kring mis- touk Miller for game and shot him dead. I'elerboro ha.H abolished tlie ward •yslem. limited the number of Alder- men to one per tbouMand inhabitants and will select them l>y a general vote. An offine of the Groai Norill West- ern Telegraph Company, has been op- ened In Victoria, U. C. and direct cotn- tuunication nstablisbetl ullh that iwiiii. It is said that the Standard Oil Com' inuy has effected th>t purchiuie of tbd lmperi:il Oil WorkA. and ha-s leased • very oiher refining plant in Canadil for five years. X bishop in England has a sun in Canada itslding a .nhoit distance wn!<l of Winniiwg. The other day he wroln to tt Kingston lawyer and re<iuejtte(t bijn tu inviiii hit i>ou in tu dinner uc- OasionuUy. Captain Philippe de Perion Casg'rain, R. K., has tx-eu nominated by i.ord Lans'towne, Secretary of War. as Quart«rmu^er>!ieneral of the Canadian foio«<i ill |>lace of Col. Lake, »ho re-' iiivs to rejoin his regiment. N'wB has reached llalifa.t of a drown- ing iurlclent in the Straits of Magellan, by « hicb four S'laman of Iha Halifax, •teamer Alpha and a Straits pilot vent drowned. Tile ni'm were lust by the eapsixing of ajowboat. ^ A mure beloiiging to Geoige Howe, of Ottawa, ran away towar<ls Iba build- ingA Juni{ied the cliff ut Lovers' Walk, ft diataiu^ oC sixty feet, and rolled down to within a few feet of the wu- ter'B edge. .She wa« practically un- injured. â-  The Itoyal Canadian Humane .^ssi- oiatiou have awardea .% brou/e niedal to .1. C. riully of (iuelplil for prompti- tude and ciolncss and rouHiiicuoutt bra- Very in fiaving Cbarlea Clendennan from drowning in the River ,Si>eiid ai Uutlph on May l!<i. A privali' letter from a memlwr of the Yukon force states that the Kie<l- erii'ton and SI. .John. N. H., <ompan.>i mutinied and refused to carry packs weighing from 71) to HU pounds. Tha writer cumplaiua of the fare and oharg«« tha officeis uilhalack of con« si deration. Mr. H. i'. Stujmrt, director of the Ik>mli\iuu nieleorolc^ical survey, is at Vumouver, is to make arrangements (or the eietXiam of a time signal ap- paratus at Urockloii point for the bene- fit of Hhlpplng and the harbor ut Van- couver. It Iwil always been understood in Quebeo that the late Senator de Rloia (ntendad to allow hi.i inlerest in the de Hlnis estate, as well as other iiro- Serlies, to revert to that estate, ami Ir Adol|jh« Caron would be one of (he principal beneficiaries. It appears, however, that a few days befoie his death hi' made u will leaving every- thing III hi^ wife. Peter Clljie, a foreman, of n con.struc- tion crew on the Crow's Nest Pass Kail- Way, who shot ail ItiiUan named /Vnglo Oir<ionni near Kimkonook on April 'JXi, has been Iriril at Nelson and found Riiilty of shooting wiih intent to maim. The sentence of the court was that Cline be confined in the provincial pen- itentiary for three yeais at hard la- bor. CrHEAT imirAlN. Lord Wolseley, commander-in-chief of the Hrill.Hh army, h.ijn joined the Angio- Ainerlcan commitlee, which is aiming to cultWatu an entente. At Liverpool, ii is said the United States hHd purchased six of the At- lantic 'liansporl Company's liners and the National liuer Michigan for £H00,- 001). The Knglinh artillery team, which is <oming to Canada to compete with the Canniliaii anillerymen, will prob- fclily sail for St. Jahn, N.B., on Ang- «at 80. At th*i Old Bailey in London on Mon- day 'W . Miiuaol Collins, an unrc^i.iter- •d dootor, was idaoed on trial charged with causing the death of Mrs. Kmily Kdith L'zielli, by an illegal operation. .Mrs. Uxielli was well known in soccity. UNI'IKD .STAIl-a. The Western Rubber Helting Com- pany, of CilicJ^fo, has collapsed. Three companiivs of the Eighteenth ileginieiit Penn.sylvania .VoUinleera. Iiave arrived at t'ort Hrady, Mich., to guard the lock.s of the Soo Canal. Anna Forrewtor. aged :;3, committed .suici,l« at Itetlford, a suburb of Cleve- land, rather than uiairv. She poured oil on lier clothing and set, fire to her.self. Many new victims of the storm which blew downacirciLS tent at ."^ioux Ci'.y, Iowa, were di.s(^ovcred Sunday. The dead numi ei three and the iojured 33. oi the latter ten ^re critically hurt and may die. The Great Western distillery at I'boria, 111,, the seccmil largest in the world, wius struck by lightning on Sat- urday and everything wius burned ex- cept the Ixinded warehou.se. The loss i» e.stimatea at $300,000,; fully insured. Three men were drowned in the ("hippewa river at the half-way diim, near Mount f'leaaant, Mich., on Satur- day. Tlve iKirty were fushing, and had prepared to return home, when Thymaa Kranci.sco, aged 16, and Sidney '♦.'aiter went in liathing. The father. Harvey 1''runci.sco. plungwl in after them, and all thive-.sauk"iK thirty feet of water. Captaiu JoshuQi Slo<uin has arrived at Newport, R. L, in the .sloop yacht .S[iray, after a voyage around the world. He left Ho.sloii on April 24, IHI.'i. goinn to <;il>ralt II :ind .South Am- erican ports aad from there to the Strait* o£ Mag<p|lau into the Pacific to Auatralia, Tasmania and Juan Kernan- dez. He sailed into the Indian Oeun and visited Natal, .>*outh Africa; Cajie Town. at. Helena. ..\scensioii Island, (ireiuida and Antigua, and thence home. His cruise of more than three years was made In a sailing craft 33 feet long and 11 feet wide, and 12.70 net tonnage. Captain Slocum made the voyage entirely alone. GKNKRAI.. The new Krench Cabinet h:us lieen formed. Marti;k1 law has l>e«n proclaimed in {wris of Austria. I The new Kmnch I'alrinet is not fttvor- alMy received m Ku.s8iu. Th« Newfoundland Transinsular iiiiihvay U completed and the first through train across I he country made tlM! 5i8 nitle.s In 24 hours. The Aivhduchess Klizalwth. mother i>f the Queen Ite^fent of Spain liei .ser- iously ill at Miulrid. in consequence of I he present excitement. In resigning office, o\vini4 to his fail- ure to fo.iu a party government, the â- Marquis Ito expressiwt a desire to re- nounce all bis rank^l and decorations. Xn eilict hits tieen published in Hav- ana providing fui' the burial of the dead. (My cttrts will collect the lK>die» at certain hours. .V heavy fine is ini|xx(- ed upon citizens v\ ho conc(^a.l bodies or keep ?bem in huuses uaom *ha,n 'ii hou ra. The first street railway work in St. John's. Nfld., will begin in «i few days. Men are now eiup'oyed i|uarrying the stone to iiave the streets. I^e fishery prospects in Newfoundland n.re fair. I.obsters are re|>ort»d scarcer than last year. Chief MuboinedaU Kh.ilif and five otlker lingleiulers of Ih" attack recent- ly inaikt liy lUIH) natives on a Hus.Man liut garrison by 300 infiint ry, at tlw towir of Aiidijaii, I'ruviiice of I'org- hiuin, TnikestiMi, in which twenty of th>> «oldieis were killed and eighteen otlvnrs were wounded, have l.eeu i>ublio- ly h'tnged.. UOM ANTIC, BUT UNHAPPY. A Chinajuan, un being a.sked why it was thfl custom of his country" to mar- ry porsuns who bad not yet cxuue to years of dLsoretiou, replied: "If you wait until they cx>me to years of dis- cretion they will never marry at all." It Is the old story â€" in youth it is too soon, when youth is past it is too late. And yet there have been many who have piighleil their troth in youth and have been happily united iq niaturer yetMV. How man. V romances have turn- ed on long Ijeliothalsl How many bal- laila liave been sung of brave knights who have gone forth to prove their valor, and have returned after a year and a day, or even after several years to find their ladyloves faithful or faithless I The anc4>.stor of the bouse of Lennox, Huke of HIcbmond, was the sun of Cbarle.s II. ojld Louise de Quer- uaille, Duchpss of Portsmouth. 'This peer uiarried a daughter of Lord Hrud- nnll, and bis li>ve of gambling eventu- ally involved him largely with his wife's brother, but ha hit U|M>n a novel way of paying bis debt. He agreed ! that hi.s son and heir, who at this lime , was an under-graduate at Oxford, i should at once marry the daughter of llrudnell, though she wius but a child, j On Dts-ejuber 4, 17llt, Lord March waa ] brought fiom college and the lady i from the nursery for the ceremony. The | bride was amazed and silent, liut the j bridegroom exclaimed, says Napier: | 'Surely you are not going to marry me to that dowdy I" Married he was, however, and his tutor instantly carri- ed hUu off to the Continent. Three years afterward Lord March returned from his travels an â-  iiccompliahed gentleman, but with such a disagree- able recollection of his wife that he avoided home and repaired on th« first night of his arrival to the theatre. There he sow a lady of such fine ai>- appearance that he asked who she was. "The reigning toast, the beautiful Lady March," wa« the reply. He hast- ened to claim her, and they lived to- gether so affe«'.tionately, that one year after hia decease, in 1751) aha died of grief. THR BOAST,S OP LOVE. My girr.s hand is as white as the Agricultural immmtMmfmfNumMffmfmffMt CON,STANT CULTIVATION PAYS. ijometimes I am almost persuaded that weeds are a iioaitive benefit to the small planter, and if to him, why not to every farmer ? writes h\ II. Sweet. Nearly every occupation has some way of indicating pressing need or want of attention, and weeds are the alarm- cloctcs of th«; agriculturists. No mat- i.<:r how much a man may like hi.s craft, he is aj>t to procrastinate rather than anticipate its wants, and while he Is willing to supply them, be has too much else on his hands to meet them more than h;ilf way. The fundamental need of farm crops is cultivation, a constant loo.seniug and stirring of the soil. The routs need uir quite as much a.s they do food and water and if com- munication id closed lietween them and the source of supply, not only are they cut off from this primal ne- ce.s«ily of their existence, but even thuir food becomes sour and unassimil- able and their water U lost for want (If a mulch. Many choic* cruiu have been des- troyed by wee<ls that th» over-pushed farmer could not find time tu meet, but on the other hand, many and many a finely started field has coma to naught tor want of warning from the.se weed vagabonds. The crops have come uii well and given signs of an abundant harvest, but for some rea- son or otlker the weeds have not shown tlieir u.sual strength and jiertinacity. Don't put off IHl to-morrow what should Ije done ti>-day. A few days' growth of weed.s may make an extra day's lalior for your force. ikjin't grow up a crop and then let it go to wiuste before harvesting it. X)<m't allow the lioy who drives your rows to and from jxisture to throw stones at tliem, or to run them to see which cow Is fastest on fiXJt. liun't try to chop with a dull axe; you can't, do it. Judt go and grind it. Don't go a-fishing when you should go a-fleld. Dkm't fail to mi.K: a lilerul [portion of whistling with your grumbling. Don't forget the.se don'ts. POULTRY HOUSES ON THE FARM. In building a house for your {)Oultry place it on a high, dry spot and have it somewhat sheltered from the cold winter winds if poasilila ; have the front of the building to the south and be sure there are plenty of windows in it. It is beat not to have it connected with the stables, as the fumes from them are more or less injurious to i>oultry ; and if they, through neglect, become lousy, the cattle and horses will be al- mast sure to be affected. As poultry can be kept more cheap- ly when running at large than when confined. It would be better to put the SUMMER SMILES. Doctor, de you treat rioh and po«r alike ? tio; circumstances altar cases. Auntieâ€" When I was your age I nev- er told a lie. Tommy, Tommyâ€" When did you begin. Auntie t Fond Parentâ€" That child is full of music. Sarrnstic %'isilorâ€" Yes. What a pity it is allowed to escape. .Soulful Youth (at the piano)â€" Do you aing 'For Kver and Ever*' Matter-of- Fact Maidenâ€" No; I stop for meals. A Questionâ€" Mikeâ€" Ut's twins. Pat; wan bhoy an wan gur-rl. Hia brother â€" Oegorrab, thin am Oi an uncle or an aunt, Oi dunnof Too Inquisitive,â€" .Sheâ€" And would you go to the «nd of the world with me f Heâ€" Which end f Now she treats him as a stranger. Husbandâ€" I have just had my por- trait taken. What do you think of it If Wifeâ€" Beautiful, dear, I wish you would loolc like it sometimes. Hickdâ€" I have only this to say again- st Charley, that the only enemy ha has is himself. Wiok»â€" Oh, he would have other enemies, I supposs if hs was worth it. My dog is almost as intelligent as I am, remarked Squildig. Are you go- ing to have him snot, or will you try to give him anayf asked Mc^willigen. Askinsâ€" How is jour cold to-dajrf Coffinâ€" Much better, thank you. I i cough only all the time new. whil* chicken hou-se at some distance from ; before I had to stop coughing every your own dwelling, so that they will now and then in order to breathe, i not litUT up the stoop or doorstep. If ; "''' R'"! M.eaning-When a man hs- I , , , .... Ill „f ; terta that ha is Just as good as any- they have good quarters they will not : ^,^^^ g,^ j^ ^^^^ ^^j^^ ^^ ^^^jj^ ^^ lielikely to bother much if table scraps j lii-ves it/ Certainly, not. He believes an I f o I ate not thrown out of the back j he is better. door to attract them. To .save all risk Mina. I am getting jealous of that a light fence of lath or wire netting i f»""^" there. VVaitre.ss-Nonsen.el . . ., , . , ,,. i' scarcely spoke to himl \es. I know, may lie built about tha dwelling. but you give him larger dumpling When you hiive your buildings and than you give me. breeding stock you are ready to liegin | Tommyâ€" Paw. what Is woman's in- „.^ . , ^ ,_ .business. Do not expect eggs too soon : t«'t''^n ' Mr. Figg-Il: Is that quality The farmer gooa through his fields oc- | ;( ,)^ fowls have just l)«en bought, as i of her mind that enables her to say. casionully, but his alarm-clocks are moving usually disturbs them, and it j VVell, I don't care; It ought to be so, dormant and he neglecU or only half ' takew some time to become accustomed | anyhow. d<»s his cultivatimt The uround be- H* "»*''â-  °«* quarters. If your build- i In Earnest-Do you think their en- u.-w uis luiiiv.iung. ine grouna oe- i j^^ ^^_^ ^^^ mntiin arrangements for . g,igiimenl really means anything* Shs «^l>urating the silting hens from the; says it m'>ans m:.>re tandem rides and others, take pains ivhen a hen is set ioe cream than the lust one she man- to fasten her in with laths so that the aged or it will be broken off others cannot di.slurb her and w_heni Hanleigh-Do you enjoy bicycling f you let the sit mg hen off to fed l"* Foote-Cant say that I do; Imt then sure that all others are -shut out of | tj,^ „^,j „p„riouce I have had is in he house or some may enter the ne.st being run into. Perhaps if I should to ay. and the â- sitter on returning i le^^m to ride 1 might enj.,y it better. .1, • . ... I J »»â-  i>i .make such a row that the eggs be' „ ., .... . their sun an.l w.nd-baked coffins. Plen- ! ,,r„ic^„ or ^jje go to another n»Ht. and ,,-'^-*": »Ui'tters warns t.. know If ty of manure us gix>d, [.roper Irrigation tvhen the laying hen comes off the eggs y"" '' l«nd him an umbrella. Hs says U letter, but cultivation exceeds them ! become cold. Where several hens are . ^2" """^ ""S ''""..'"''y tay fhat I do The grouii comtv* hard and Ijaked and the starving crops grow more and more slowly and finally turn yellow and mature a&mall yield. It matters little bow rich the soil, or how well watered, if no air can iienetrate to the nxits of the plants they will of necftssiiy lie smothered in , tx>th. Crops can liardly l>e hoed loo mui'h. The onion lied should be gone over mint frequently ; and yet 1 wonder if tluire U an onion raiser who duiis not .set in a row of nests all alike, some ors to assist thi» hens in finding their j own nests, ami tiiey assure us that they have much less trouble with _ ^_ _ hens getting on their neighbors' nests time hLs work bj~the size of the weeds. | than w h«n there is nothing to tell tha And so it is with lieets, carrots and â-  uests apart. Sitting hens should be alloweds to I come off every day. but do not disturb I them If they do nut seem inclined to ! leave their nests. 8ome hens will not feed oftwner th.m once in three days. know him. Hs will uroliably uuder- advo<-ate painting thein different col- i ""^n,'^ " "y y"" <l'<ln t bring the um^ other fine croixs. Whan the beds get toul with weeds they are hoed and when the weeds return, the hues are again brought into requLsilion, Occa- sionally 1 notice that the alarm-clocks are signaling for u long time, and are alile to bow to one another acravs the topLS of the crops liefore they are taken heed oC; and 1 wonder what ths cul- tivation would. h;ive lieen if there had Iwen no weocLs. The farmer ha.s no many things tu do. so many small details to remember and look after,' that he hu.s unconsciously fallen Into the habll of watching his weeds as sopie [leople do their calen- dar.s. They tell him « h:i.t to do and wh«n to do it ; and without their fre- queint reminders I um almost persuad- ed that he would feel lost, even on bis ow n farm. Indeed, if weetLs wore [ler Have plenty of grain and fresh wat- er at hand. BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF COFFEE. A nmllriil Journal Ttalak* 11 Ik Prefer- able lu 1'«M In lU AuKtaluins Power. A w(>mu,n writer who g;i.ve up coffee Berthaâ€" These men are troublesom* things! Edithâ€" Why. what's the mat- ter with the men now f Berthaâ€" For the life of me I can't make up my mind whether to let Fred or Charlie fall in iova with ma, Hiramâ€" That's the darndeat mistake I over aeon in a high-class newsiiaper. Mindyâ€" What is it Ui f Hiramâ€" Why it sez. she's a man-of-war,' iustld uv say in' she's a woman uv war' or he's a man uv war.' What do you m<>an b> forcing ths price of bread up f inquired the philan- thropist. I didn't force it up, replied the siHJculaLor, with a look of injured inriix;euce. After I got (wssessiou of all the whaat it went up of its own accord. True .Soâ€" Ws wanted to call the bat- recently found lha.t she was unable to'."",?"- ''"' """"e wasn't a white flag ... . , tn Ibe army. What did vou dot (*at continue her wrilmg with any success ' ' "" "** until she liad re.sorted again to the timu!a!ing beveiage. With<mt it her The Medlo- ir.tually lianLslted, I lielieve there are mind wun logy and heavy. many farmers who woubl have to learn B,i Timea quotes an authority on the their calling over again. But now and ; _„, . . , ... ,, , th.-n we find a man who seems to have | ""''J"*^ "^ prescribing coffee as a med- an innate love fm ihe .soil lie does i '<''ne in certain .state.-* of great debility, not concern him.self about the weeds, land odds: for tiK-yare a.s rare luhim aslh-y are "Tea aojd ooftee seem to bemnch common to his neighliors. He mav be i ... . ^ . . .l a large farmer, or the gardener of one !*''''« '" '"""X respecU. but the lat- or two acres. In the latter rase he ! t<"' '* greatly preferable as to its su.s- probably doe« all hi.s work and the ' taining power. It would be a great ad- uelghlH)r« can Ivear the click_^ click of ' vantage to our working classes, and a his hoe long liefore the sun has cross- , , , , ^ T . «vl the line of eastern hills. Ami so it «'"•'*' ''^'P toward the further develop- coiitiiiutw, day after day. and week in "lent of .so.'ial sobriety, if coffee were and week out. As .soon as the plants i fo come into graalty increased u.se, and show t heiii.selves aUjve the surface hia if the ability to make it well K-ould 'ne hoe is at work and a weinl has about acquiivd. As an example of the differ- the samechince on his place as. i wood- cnce of effect of lea and coffee upon chuck or rabbit. He doe.i not think of : the nerves, the writer notes what he tho nuiulter of times he goes over the i believes many sport.smen will confirm, ground; but does it juat as often as he that it is far bette>r to drink coffee a pieva of wedding dress trom a bride who was visiting and waved that. Re- gular flag of trousseau. W''hat did you nujoy canâ€" us many times us there is oppoi^- tunity lielween dark and dark. His idea Is to keep Ihe .soil constant- tliau tea when shooting, rea.if strong i>r in any quantity, esiwoially if the in- dividual be not in very robust health. ly mellow and friable. ,lf it rains, he iwlll induce a sort of nervousness which U outiwith his hoe almost liefore tha is very prejudicial to steady shooting. „i„.,,i„ »,,, â€" i„fi .».„ ..1... i» :. ..„:..„ L'nder its influence one is apt to sho^t drivAit snow, Pooh, that Is (Ml deep at) a driven wel Pooh, that's nothing, my girl's heart 1, olouds hiive left the sky. If it rain again in.sld«i of a week he goes over the ground again with his hoe. Over and over and over I And how his plants grow! There are none like them in all tlie country round, und the neigh- bors wonder and say that he his the "knack of such things." He mana^^as an acre and a halt, or two acres, with no special effort ; and his ground is al- way.s clean, neat and free from weeds. The market gardeners around him are well satisfied to allow a man to an acre, and even then are nlwa.ys lichind with their weeds. And that is just it. He takes pcnsession of his ground be- fore the weeils come and refuses them admittaniMj ; they wail until the weeds have fully ast4iblished themselves and th»"n try to drive them away. It Ls on- ly another exemplification that posses- Bion is worth nine iKtints. .SOiMK IX)N*rS FOll KAHMERS. l>on't forget Poor Richard's maxim: "He that by the plow wouUl thrive, Hiiaself uiuHt either hold or drive." Your hired hand.s are doubtless all right; but you should Ae at the helm. IJon't leave your farm tools exposed to tlie weather; it is a bad plan. IKm't let your hogs run at large un- fed, if you wLsh them to thrive. Be- sides they will grow breachy and get up trouble between yourself and neighbors. tio quickly, whereas coffee steadies the hand and gives quiet nerves." Mrs. Innocent most about your fishing trip, dear'. Mr. Innocentâ€" I got most excited when I was reeling in, my love. Mrs. Inno- cent (bursting into tears)And to â€" to- th-think you promised me y-you would- n't d-drink % drop ! â- fho way, said the Sweot Young Thing, to a man's heart is through his appetite. Is that right* sharply re- sponded the Savage Bachelor. I want to know who it is that expects the other of the couple to buy ice cream, candy and all that sort »f eating ma- terial. .Vn angry small boy wfU) pelting stones at a noisy dog, when a vener- able iw-sserby stopped and addre.s.sed him. Little boy, the stranger remoii- 8l,rated, don't you know you should be kind to dumb animals f Yes, replied the angry boy, hut what's dumb animals got to do with yelping dogs f Mrs. Petter-Did you see that » Dix- on seised the ro<^king chair, and was into it before his wife had a chance to reach it. And on his wedding trip, too. Mr. Potterâ€" That's just it. There's whore Dixou Is smart. Nobody will .sus|)eot that hs is on his wedding tour, don't you seel And besides, he get; ohair. gets ths STEEL HAIRPINS DOOMKD. The attack is now upon ihe st«el hairpin fur siieciulisls declare that the .shell or bone pins is better for the hair and that many women have suffered martyrdom from nervous headaches without once .sus[)ectiag that the cause lay in ii tne-lal hairpin. But whiit shall we dio without the Utile implement which might be call- ed " woman's beat friend *" How are we goiae to suiPply the 75 demands we make djion a hairpin? We use it to batlon our gloves <and our shoes, to open the drawer whose lock is gone, to cut the leaves of our books, to clean our tmsband'a pipe, to pin ou the ex- tra wrap, to draw the cork wht^u the oorkso'rew cannot be found, to wedge a ratUtng' wukIidw sash, to stone rais- ins, to fasten s card to the bell pull In snow timie, to do duty as a bodkin and render no one knows how many llUle services of this sort. 'I'he shell substitute is good for none of these things, and if- it le doomed to crowd its humbler ivlative from the Zola ivceived the sum of £13 foshis market, we can only exclaim, "Though i first liook; for "L'<\s.sommoir" he re- lost to sight, to memory dear t" I oeived £6,000. DANGER TO SPIRIT LAMPS. It is frequently charged against wo- men that they are deficient in the sense of moril restxinsibility. Perhiipe nothing lends more color to Ihis charge than their iuoonslderata, one might almost say conscienceless, use of spirit lam{M upon public oon- veyauoes. A woman will Iwil her baby's milk, or, worse, curl her hair ou a train rocking thjough the mouataiiM, or a ship lurching at sea, althisigh by ,so doing .shkj risks the upsetting of tha lamp and Ihe consequent peril to her- self and every other passenger on boaird. Spirit lujutis are prohibited ou board transatlantic steamers and are rutlv lessly confiscated whenever found, still the fact rem.iiua that numl^er.'S of them every year cross Rn4 retMoss in cabin liii.ggage. and are succe.ssf u 1 1 v hidden while in use. rho wonder is lh:it aoci- (lients are so rai^e.