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â- i. IHE VERY La f est FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. (uttrtstlns Item* About Our Own Country, Great BrlUIn, tb« L'nited SUtes, and All ParU o> tta* Ulobc. CoaOraaed and AMorted far Bny Raadlng. CANADA. Guelph CouncU bas not yet elected a treasurer, and may not this year. Mr. Mulock proposes to attend the Postal Uni<o gathering in AN'a&bington in May. A good roads campaign is to be inau- gurated at the municipal election in HamiJtnD. The Grimsby Park directors have de- cided to discwntinue special attractions on Sundays. The tovra of AJherni, on the British Cduuibia coast, has been made a port ot entry for goods. VandaU broke into AU Saints' Church at Kingston and did a lot of damage to the church property. During the ten months ended October 31, Lonilon tuis had SUfi deaths, <!68 mar- riages and 649 lirths. Charges of bribery have i)een brought against a number oT Montreal Alder- men. Mr. John Day, architect, of Guelph, was found dead in bis tedroom with a bullet in his head. Wages of employes of the W. E. San- ford CCotbing Company, of Hamilton, tiave been reduced 10 per cent. Burglars were surprised at the resi- dence of Mr. George Walker, London, and fired a shot at Mr. Walker. The Ottawa lumber dealers announce that there will be a curtailment on the cut during the opening season. The Ottawa authorities are prosecut- ing persons who drive two- wheel ve- hicles with less than four-inch tires. The business men of Canada express general satisfaction with the result of the Presidential electiim in tile t^nited States. The Canadian deputation to negoti- ate a treaty of reciprocity with the United States will prot)ably visit Wasb- Ington in about six months. Lieut.-Col. Lindsay denie.s the rumor that the 7tfa Battalion of London is about to disband or that he has any intention of resigning. The Governor-Cieneral's office on his ranch in British Columbia was burned, and it Is feared a lot of important public documents have been lost. A Branlford man t^xik a flask of whiskey w-ith him while serving sum- monses in the Indian reserve and was fined f50 for his breach of the law. Chief Engineer Cijsle of Ottawa says that no emgineeiring difficulties would U- encountered in making improve- ments at St. Andrew's Kapids on Red River. A dopartmentali circular h-is been is- sued from Ottawa pr(;hiliiting stamp vendors from purahasing postal stamps from merchojits who receive them through the mai! from customers. The Dundaa Council has agreed on a by-law giving the Hamilton & Dun- das Railway Company tk« right to run as a trDllcy system, the company to pay |1,(M)0 a year mileage. Mr. Laurier informed a deputation that wailed on him that be was in fav- or of a 30-foot chanuali l)etween Mont- real and Quel>ec and of fourteen-foot canale west of Montreal'. Mr. F. T. Shutt, chemist of the Ex- oerimental farm in Ottawa, will go to <Va.>-hington to attend the annual con- vent ion of t lie agricultural chemists of the United St,ate9 and Canadu< Prof. Bell, of the Domiuion Geological Survey, is of the opinion that the min- eral found near Sudl>ury is anthracite coal; but as it is in veins instead of lay- ers, he is doulitfill if it will be found in paying quantities. - Among the amendments to the city charter, for which Montreal proposes to ask the Legislature, is one to au- thorize a tax on al'I lots of lamd, in- cluding those upon which churches and charitatue institutions are erected. An Ottawa girl was on her way to be married wrbico she received a letter from her father in Missouri etnclosing money to pay fcer fare out there. The wedding was immediately declared off, and the youjig '•dy will do as her fa- ther desires. The members of the Doninion gov- emmeoti profess to be well pleased with the resuH. of the election in the Utiited States and there is a disnigition to regard tb<- election as on indication that a reciprocal trade arran(f*''nent may be effected with the U'niled Slates. GREAT BRITAIN. Rev. Carr Glynn has been appointed Bishop of Peterborough, Kngland. Mr. Edward John Poynter has Iwen elected President of the Rojral A(»- demy, as the successor of the late Sir John Millais, who died in August last. The extensive worsted mills of Daw- son & Sons at Bradford, England, have besn destroyed by fire. The loss on buildings, machinery, and stock amounts to £70!000. At a meeting of the British South African Company in London on Friday a stock-bolder called fur three cheers tor Col. Cecil Rhbdes, and they were moat heartily given. The Queen has sent a message to the Viceroy of India expressing her sym- pathy with the pei^le who are suffering from the famine caused by the failure of the summer rains, and promising to assist them. The general oi>inion in Glasgow is that Mr. MoKinley's election will give a great temporary stimulus to the llrit- Ish export trade, in order to rush mer- chandise forward before BIr. McKin- ley comes into office. Monday morning the Bishop of Kil- laloe left his residence in Dublin to summon a doctor for his wife, who was ill, and fell dead on the sidewalk op- posite his door. When carried into the bouse it was found that bis wife bad 4ied during bis absence. Mr. and Mrs. Castle, of San Kranci.sco, were on Friday put upon thieir trial In London on charges of having stolen a number of articles from city trades- , men. The charges against Mr. Castle were witb drawn, and i>n the advice of her counsel, Mrs. Castle ple.ided guilty, and was senlenmd to three monthis' hard labour. 0\ving to the \ut- Fortunate woman's mental condition, it s thought prolable that she will reierve KxecuLiva gl«unftnt;y, IJNITKD STATES. ufrs. William H. VanderbUt is dead. The NiAv York canaia will be closed on December 1. The monthly comparative statement of the receipts and expenditures of the L'nited States shows the total receipts for the month of 0<^tober to have l)een »26,2}-i;,8:.9, and th« disbursements |33,- 'J7t<,277, leaving a deficit of «7,695,448. Mr. Chauncey M. Depew says that the most pleasing feature of the elec- tion of ilr. McKinley is the demon- stration of the fact tiiat the voters of the United States are able to under- stand a complicated monetary question, and are honest in their decision. Commercial advices from Messrs. Dun :in<l Bradstreet'a agencies are of a mU'h more buoyant nature than w-e have been accusiomed to for some time past. Tbe decisive resolt of the Presi- iential election has had an almost in- siantaneoiis effect in restoring confi- dence, not only in the UniU>.d States, but in Europe. Of course th<^ period of transition from miub uncertainty to safety has been short for any positive t'hanges to occur, bat the feeling am- ong business men everywhere is one of much relief, and the only danger just now would seem to be that exaggerat- ed expectations may lead to ex- aggerated prices, but the exper- ience ci <he post couple of years has taught business men to be so conservative that this possible dan- ger abead may be considered as fairly discounted. . > GENERAL. The Hawaiian Government has gsant- ed a full pardon and restoration of her civil rights to ex-Queen Liliuokalani. The ,f apanese Government h.is award- ed to American shipbuilders contracts for building two swift protected cruis- ers. Capt. John Marriott of England, whi was captured by bri gnnus nearSmym- na and held for ransom has l)een re- leased. James Brown, a British subject, and a prominent Havana business man has been imprisoned tiiere on a political charge. The gold yield of the colony of Vic- toria for the first tbn-e quarters of the present year was 586,512 ounces, an in- crease ot 81,000 ounces over the same period last year. It is rumoured in Berlin that Prince Bismarck's revelations in regard to the Russo-German treaty were made in re- venge for ihe Hmperor dissuading the Czar frcon visiting the Prince. M. Lebon, tie Minister of the Col- onies in rie French Senate on Tues- <!ay said that he was convinced that the rebellion in Madagascar would soon be sup|)re8s.»d, and that 'the island would Iwcome one of rhe most prom- ising and prosperous colonies of France. In tie French Chamber of Deputies un Wednesday M. Hanc:aux, the Min- ister for Foreign Affairs made an im- (Kirtant statement regarding Armenia, m Ihe course of which he said the pow- ers h.ive done tieir duty and accord has been eslablish-'d and united Kuroiie will be able to show the Sultan that he must give Tiis subjects security and peace. GEN. DE LA FOSSE. A Brave italdler »rthe llrltliik Army. Major-General De la Fosse, C. B., has had a varied and honorable career in her Majesty's wrvice. As a subal- tern, he first saw active service in the Indian Mutiny, serving through that terrible campaign with the greatest distinction from the beginning of the trouble to the final relief of Lucknuw under Havelock. It is, however, as one >f the four survivors of the horrible Cawnpore massacre that he is chiefly distinguished. All who have read the story of that frightful experience will remember how the few score surviv- ors surrounded by a horde of rebebt took refuge in a Hindoo pago<ta, and finally cut their way through the fan- atical host to the river, into which they plunged, only to lie shot down ruth- lessly by their enemies or drowned through exhaustion. All but fourâ€" i>'>o privates, Sullivan and Murphy, and Lie- uts. De la Fosse and Mowbray- Thomp- son , perished, the survivors having to swim six miles down the river till they lan<led on the estate of a friendly Ra- jah, who kept them in safety till they were sufficiently recovered to return to their posti. In Trevelyan's Story of Cawnpore his name is connected with many other deeds of heroism, for which he was recommedded for the Victoria Cross, but this unfortunately, owing to the recommendations not coming from of- ficers sufficiently high in rank, he was unable to obtain. At the close of the Mutiny there was more active service in store for the young officer, under Chamberlain, in the Khyber Pass, where he again dis- tinguished himself and was uieutioued in de^pal ches. In 1!I80 Colonel De la Foese was in Halifax in command of thie lOlsl Fusi- liers, but was invalided home, owing to a dangerous attack of fever con- acted in Cyprus, having been kindly given passage by the Duke of Edin- burgh in his flagship the Black Prince. PRIDE'S PENALTY. Quite recentjy, into a railway car- riage at Oklhain, stepped a young man â€" fresh from 8»'hoo] evidently, and wear- ing his first watob. 'The very many proud glances which he uost on the gold chain raised a smile on the faces of his fellow passen- gers. Apparently by. accident, though mis- chief might have been at the l>ottum of it, the pubject of watches was "brought on the carpet." Ah I sighed an old farmer, giving the watch back to the young man, who had handed it round tor toe inspection of the comjpaoy, that theer watch 'minds mo (v my own son. How's that t asked several passen- gers. Why, I gave 'Lm a watoh when 'e wur IB year owd, an' it vrui th' ruin of 'im. tfeing asked tew an explanation, the farmer concluded: Afore I bave It "im, 'e wur the straightest built lad tor miles round ; but 'e 'adn't 'ad that wat<-h above four months afore 'e growed 'ump- backed wi' lookin' at the cnain so much. A DETECTIVE'S CLEVER CAPTOBE OF A MURDERER. â- â€¢w a Rit at 4'ardlHiaral Lrd lo Ihe Haac- ioK ur a nurderrr â€" CaugUt by I'hanea- Trnrltiit B Ticket. Trifles, it is said, make the sum of human things, and triCes sometimes go a i(Hig way in helping us in our profes- aioQ., In the case of the murder of old Von Amheim, the German lianker, on the District railway, Lan<km. It was a little piece of blue cardboard hardly as big as the murderer's thumb, which helped to put the rope around a neck whicii deserved hamging if ever human neck did. On the night of June 1, 189â€", when the lO.-O train from Westminster bridge left for Ealing, the guard accomiianying the train saw two men enter a aecond- cilass carriage near the locomotive. One of them was an aged gentleman in a fur coat, the other was a dark foreign- looking fellow, who walked with a slight Ump. STARRED rO THE HEART. When he looked into the comport- ment at Victoria station, he was horri- fied to find the old man liying on the floar,stabbed to the heart. The dagger, whioh was stilt in ttie wound, had a piece of paper attached to it with the word "Rache" ((jerman for revenge) printed in typewritten characters. By dint of descriptions widely circul- aled the man who had entered the train in company with the deceased at West- minster bridge station was found, after a short delay, in a alum at Suho. He vigoroiUiliy protested his innocence, and his story was straightforward enough. He tiad, he admitted ent^^red the car- ri-ige with the murdered man at West- minster bridge slaliun, and bad indeed exchanged a few words of conversation with him on different topics as they journeyed lz. However, just before they reached St. James' Park station, he drew out: his cigar case to smoke, when the old man poiuited out 'o him that it was not a smoking carriage, and thai a bad cough made him diaike it very much. He had alighting at St. James, entered a smoking carriage a few doors off. COUJLDNT CONVIcr HIM. The guard could neither contradict nor confirm the man's story. He (the guard) bad exchajiged a few words with a oumpaniun at the piatform at St. James' Park station, and he accord- ingly had not noticed who entered or alighted from the train 'I'he man wIkj had been arrested (Hartmon by name) was next asked if he could refer to any persons who were occupying the Kuiuking carriage which he alleged he had entered. This he i>aid be could not do, us the compoxtmcut was em|>ty. It. therefore came to this. That there was absolutely nothing to connect Hart- man with the crime un the 1U.2U train except that he had been seen to enter the carriage with the deceased. On such fraili evidence, however, no jury could possibly feonvicl a mou. THE SECOND IICKET. It was at this point that the ca.se came into my hands. The first thing 1 didun going to thp "lurtuary where the (lid man lay was to nake a rigid and thorough examination ut lue clothing and contents uf the pockets. These comprised a purse containing some gold and silver ajid notes, a cig- arette cose, a bunch ol keys, a watcn, a humlkerchief, a latchkey, and nuudry letters ajid a meiuoranua. 'there was one other thing a sccoud-olaas ticket from Westminster bridge to South Kensington. He hul lieen carrying a gold-headed stick, a pair of gloves, and an evening newspaper, and strangely euoug'h an- other railway ticket. "That's curious," 1 remarked to my mate. "Wuat un eorlh did he wont two tickets for iui the siune directionif" "Give it up," said my mate; "can't make it out at olU." 1 called the superintendent. "Tel'T me," 1 «iid, "'how was this ticket found on the deceased; was it on the seat beside liim or w here ?" He thought a moment and then said slowly: "It was found clutofaed tightly in his right hand." TRACING THE TICKET. As the superiutentleui spoke these words a sudden light, lloiihed upon me in an instant. The ticket found in the old man's hand iiad belunged, not to himself, but to the man who bad struck the fatal' hltow. KiipidXy putting things together in ,uy mind, 1 accouni«d fur Ihe occurrence in this way. When the oOd man was struggling with his ai^sai'l'ainlt he had caught at the firs) part of the ruffian's clothing he couid seize, which, my theory lieing correct, was the ticket pocket uf his overcoat and had dragged out bis ticket. I looked at the ticket closely. It bore the date of issue, "June I, 189â€"," and the number "2764." Cbiu'tering a han- som, I told the driver to take me to Westminster bridge station. Arrived there, I sent Tor the station master and presented my card. "Look at this ticket," 1 said, taking from my pocketbook the piece of carcf board, "and be good enough, to tell me who issued it." "The booking cilerk who issued this ticfcet is off Juftt now, sir. He's havinig his hfoCidays at the presevnt moment." He gave me the addreas of the house Wibere the booking clerk, Stanley by name, !o<lged, and I was siion deposited at 25 Little WiMis street, where Iin<ter- viewed the londlndy^ and found that her lodger was stoppwlg at a hotel' at Brig.htoo. The train landed me at Brighiton in ani hour's time, and I took a hanmim to the hoteU which was some halif-mile from ihe. station. There I found the booking olcrk, a bright., ixutelligeat iDuking young fellow. "I want you," t «aid, "to Hook at a ticket which you issued on the night of Juoe 1', K9â€" , • presuiiiably aUijut 10.15, OS the train left at 10.2U, and to see if "you oaa by uhance- reineaaber -the lierson to whom you iisbuud it." "I'm afraid that will! I)e iniixissibUi, sir," he said quietly. "1 issue hundreds of tickets every ilay, and don't take much notice of the people who buy them. We've got enough to do without that." IT IS RECOGNIZED. I handed him the piece of cardlxiard. He took it and examined it olusely. As he did so an expreiiaian of amaze- Dient and satisfaction passed over his face, and be uttered a low cry. "By George," he sold, in a low tone, 'it's a won<lerful thing, but I do re- member distinctly Ihe party to whom I issued this lioket." "Describe hiro," 1 said, quietly. He at once give me a description, in a few words of a man exactly answer- ing to the foreigner we had captured. Then I said to him : "How have you been able to fix his identity f" "Well, it's a marvellous thing, sir, ami no mbtake. It looks like the finger of Providence. It isn't much in six months that I look at the number on the ticket., but on this occasion I did so. It bubpened in this, way : "^yhen I had issued this ticket I left it lying on the pigeon hole coun- ter whilst the German chap fumbled for the money, for the fare. My eye carelessly fell on the ticket, and I noticed that the number was 2,704. I couldn't help giving a start when I saw thii number, for, curious, y, enough. 1 had that very afternoon drawn the same niimlier in a German lottery in which my landliord was interested. So gretiA, an impreasion did the occurrejice make on me that I was thinking of it all the rest of tiie time I was on duly, and whan I got home I told my land- lord alxiut it." CAPTURED THE CRIMINAL. "Very well, then," I said, when he luul finished the history, "the next thing to be d<me is for you to come l).ick to London with me at once and ideiutity the nuMi we have anested as the person to whom you sold ticket No. 2,704 on the night of June Ist." Hartman was committed for triAl', and the Iwoking clerk's evidemv was of course taken. In the face of that evid- ence his guilt was proved clear as day, and the jury returnt>d a verdict of guilty witn/,>ut leaving the tiox. He war 3Ciii.eiicea to leath in the usu- al manner, and the sentence was car- ried out one monlhi after the triail. He protested his innocence well-nigh to the lust, but on the eve of executiim be confessed to the chcMjlain that he bad indeed been guilty of the crime. DIET OF EUROPEAN NATIONS 4 Mwple Ulel l'«u<(n<'r« lo HeallkralaeM aail Luna Ltfe. A sununary of the dietetic baliits of the rural population of some European countries proves very interesting. It will lie borne in mind that the rural people of the .several countries named are noted for sturdy growth, long life, and healthfulnesH am', this is due be- yond doubt to the simple but wholesome diet which they are ^'customed to. In Kngland, it is beef, jwrk, mutton, potatoes, vegetables, tea, nheesa, l)eer, and cider. In Scotland, oatmeal, bread, potatoes, milk, butter, coffee, lea, and very rare- ly meats. Ireland provides, oatmeal, bread, po- tatoes, beans, milk, butter and vege- tables. In France, in the neiighlwurhood of Bourgogne, meat is eaten but once a year. The peasants of Mowan get meat twice a year. Of Sardinia once a year; peasants of Auvergne, very seldom ; the Bretons never, except rich farmers who get meat un feiust days. The {wasants uf Switzerland get cheese, milk, coffee, vegelal>le«, soup, wine, very rarely meals. In Sweden, they get potatoes, rye, oatmeal, barley, milk, salt herring, lieer, no iueat.s. Russia yields her peasants rye bread, cabbage, mushruoui .soup, wheat cook- ed with milk and oil. Spain, bread, vegetables, fish, fruits, meat occasionally. Italy, macaroni, bread, fruits, beans, peas and lentils, wheat, rice, grapes, wine, and meat mi feaat days in some regi(His only. Bavaria, porriilge, butter, milk, cab- bage, polatces. Saxony, bread, butter, chee.se, soun vegelabiea, coffee, meal on feast <lay8. tChenl.sb Prussia yields milk, soup, dried fish, gr&)ies, potatoes, meat on feast days for her pe.u«ants. Belgium, coffee, black brea«), potatoes, vegetablea, chicory, and sometimes salt- ed meit.s. It will be seen from Ihe aliuve that the lalx>ring classes, the hardest work- ers, subsist almost whiilly upon fruits, gra,ins and vegetable foods, a regimen whioh is highly economical, and yet.su»- tains them in good health and long life. It will be of further interest! to stale here What the cost of bread is in some of these countries, from data taken in 1895. In Vienna, tthe price of wheat bread per four pounds ranged from 6 cents to 10 3-4 cents. In Fiuiuc, the price was from 8 1-4 to 10 cents. In Antwerp the wholesale price was 6 1-4 to 8 1-2 cents. In .Paris, wheat bread stdd at 10 1-2 cents for fc«u pounds, and rye bread at 8 3-4 cents in the open market. At Brest, wheat bread was 8 and 10 cents, and rye bread 10 cent.s; hut in the country districts it sold as low as 4 cents. In La Ho- chelle, wheat bread was 1-2 and 10 cents, while in Brnxleaux it was 12 and 16 1-2 cents, and in Marseilles, 12 and 12 1-2 cents. In Berlin, wheat l>read brought 14 3-4 cents, and rye 8 3-4 cents. In Stettin, wheat bread was from 10 1-2 to 16 S-4 cents and rye from 6 1-2 to 8 cents. At Frankfort-on- Main pure wheat bread is not .sold. Mixed bread was 10 3-4 cents for four pounds, and rye, 8 3-4 cents. ONE WAY OF GETl'lNG THERE. "Conig.ratufate me, olid boyâ€" at lost I am on the top round, of the ladder of success." "Well, here's to you hut I'll bet you got there by tumiug it upside down." MB. GLAOSTONE'S KNOWLEDGE. now Ic A»louiitlie<l Ike Printers a( axfoMI and Ibr Anchor anal CluUii HaEers la (he Weal of Eugland. A few yearn ago Mr. Gladstone visit- el Oxford, the scene uf his yotuhfuli triiuupiia in scholarships, and made tha rounds of one of the most interest ing quadrangles, ihe University Press, where the famous Bi'uies oie printed. When he bad been conducted ttirougit the varioufl <iep3jrtments, and hod been allowed to handle the Caztous and oth- er literary treasures, the superintendent informed him that the men employe^ in the bindery, cumposing-room and otji- «r departments hod asseinl)Ied in on* place and were anxious to ;bee him. Mr. Gladstone cuusenieil to sbusr himself. Entering the aseemMy-roum. he was c<Eifronted with a great thronjf of wurkiugmen, wiio were eagerly' awaiting bis coming. There were sev> eral bedxty cheers, fulluwed. by a lon^ awkward pause. "Can you not aay u. few word* t« themf" u«ked the superintendent. "About whutr ' ttsked Mr. Giadstone. "Talk to them ahouc printing," waa the laconic advice. That was enough. In a moment t he orator was mounted un a box, wiping his spectacles and Ijeaming upon the printers. "Tou are printenil" he exciaimedk Do you have good wages J" Some of the printers cried yes; others no. "Get the best wages which you can command," continued the orator, "but remember that there is something high- er and mure important thun the money which you can earn. It is the quality of your work., It is that which make* the wurkuian what he is_" After ih.s introduction Mr. Gladston* l( Id Ihe story uf a famous inan who. in ULTuer to obtain a perfect copy of one of his boolu», set The type biiuseii ;ui<t currecteiil it line by line, ae the Oxford Billies ore revised; and then passing from one branch of the suijject. to aji- oiher, be displayed nuujcb technicai knuwletlge. "NuUoay ever told me," said one ol the bystanders, "that the Grand Old Man .was a. prinier." Mx. GKidmoue was not a printer, but be heemed to know a hundrea tJiings about lUe trade which the work* men had never learne I. He had nutt ex|>ecied to addiess them, and he did nui bave mure tlkin a moment's warn- ing; but out of a full m:nd he was able tu bpeak tn them with miiirvelloua facility. The print er» of Clarendon Press have rememi:ereil that speech to this day. It he.pe I tu make every man who hear«i it u more ihoughtfiU, self-respect in0 workman. .\ l^imiJaJ' story is told of anuiher visit by Mr. Glmlsli^e to a factory where ancbuTs and chains were made, in the west of England. He persisted in go- ing ilirough the work^t, anil when he eniei'ged from (hem he astonished the me.mbars of the firm by telling them ni>t a little a^iout their business that was new to them. "I hod ailfways understood," said one of them, "tiiat Mr. Gladstone was a wi>e man, but I would never have siLspeited that he knew more alioui an- chors and chains than I did." It has always been natitral for him to assimilate "knowledge in every day life. Everything human ha« interest- ed him. THE MAN AND THE SNAKE. Wka« (ke rawer u. ImoaiaaUm Will Honiellllie<« Do. The reputeil fam-inatiun of the ser- pent's eye is the motive of a story in Mr. Ambrose liierce's volume of tales entitled "In the Midst of Life." Mt Bray ton was the guest of a friend, an eminent zoologist, whose specialty, o| which he had a fine collection, waal en.xkes. Stretched upon a. sofa in his own room. Mr. Braytoii glanced from the Ixiok lu>â€" hus i-aroie.ssly si-an- niug while awaiting the suiuniuns lu dinner, and saw, in \he shadow under bis led. two small poml.s uf light about un inch apart.. Ue gave them no .spe- cial thought, and resumed his reading. In u few minutes he gave an invul- uniaxy start, luiii stared into the ol>' scuxily under the bed. His gaze ilia- ciloee.1 the coil» of a la,rge serpent; the paints of light were its eyes, out they were no longer merely luminous points; they looked into his o>vn with a malign significance. Brsyloii was a brave man, but this seemed an >wcaaion when discretion was the better part of valor. He would beiil a relrea.t and l)Bck- ward, so as not to disturb the i-ep» tile; but iu-tead of the movement b\A will had shape,!, his right foot was pla«> ed in advance of his left . 'I'he snake ilid not. move, but its eyes seemed to become larger and more lu- minous). There were strange noisex in Bray ton's ears as, with reliuLant steps, he couhl not refrain from drawing nearer the bed. Suddenly sumelhing slTii'-k hiiu a haXvL Irt-nv upon the face. He had faJlen to the floor. 'I'he zoologist, staj°tled by a terriflp scream from above, ru&hed to bis friend's room. There bay Brayton. senseless. As ht- bent over bim he glum-ed under the bed. "Ho^v did this thing get here?" he exj- claimed, and pulling out the suoko^ flung it to the centre of the room, where it lay without motion. It w.ia a .stuffed snake; its eyes were two Hhoe-buttons . FAILING. Mr. Figgâ€" I've caililed ti> gel some- thing done for my boy Tommy. Perhapa you can prescritie without goms' to foe house. Dr. Bow lessâ€" Wdat are the symptoms â€" how is biis appetite? Mr. Figgâ€" That is just what I called to see you about. He lins got so fo« the last two or three days that he doesn't care to eat more than twice aH much as 1 do. .-_^.j^^^>' .k