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WHAT IS OOINQ ON IN THE FOUR CORNERS OP THE OLOBB. 4>M and N«w World Event* of Interast ChroD< Iclcd Brieflyâ€" latcrcstlBK Happenlage of Rcceat Oat*. Ajiything luay I'e iMniKht in l/onilon. Tbe Excban^ ami Mart has Ibis cheer- ful advertiaement : " HarKainâ€" l>ady leaving Knglanil |M<riuanently must sell family grave, hold five, iu:irble slab." Kaiser WiLhelm's Jnliilee Cup, tu he raced for by Hritish yachls next sum- mer on th«! o<-«a8ion of his grandmoth- er's rc>g» of sixty years, is three feet bigh. The course will be from Pover to Heligoland. Miss Helen Gladstone, daugMer of the Grajid Old Man, hu« given up the prin- cinalsbiip of Newnham College, Oxford. wtMch ane ha« held for fifteen years, in 'order to remain with her fatbear and order to remain willh her father and mother. Le Havre Imm just rejected an offer of IGO.OtX) francs for a convalescent bome made by a merchiant of the town, on Mindition that the Town Council should provide the 8,OtlO francs needed for plans And preliminary expenses. Paris is afflicted with, a plague of rats, which have been driven from the river side and the sewers by the re- cent freshets. They have settled in the Halles Centrales and the Palais Royal, Init in some outlying districts tiey scour the streets in bodies. I'he death of a ymuig woman by mal- practice and the suicide of her lover, •n officer, to escape bl<< disgrace, have led Jules Lemaitre, Academician, play- wrig-ht and critic, opposed to Zola and fai.s school, to make a defence of such ope rations. The Comt« de Medrano set a opring gun so that it would discharge on open- ing the door of his pheasontry, ne^u Mons. He forgrot all about it in show- ing; his place to some friends recently, and on turning ihm handle of the door received the full charge in his l)reast, dying on the spot. Sporting instincts and the education (uestiou are queerly blended in the offer made in a public meeting by an £ngHsh member of Parliament to bet that an undenominational school which be proposed to establish in his district. In case his Bishop set up a Church of England school, would \>e raon- HUcceaa- Tul than the sectarian foundation. A public laboratory for scientific in- vestigation, named the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory, has been opened •t the HoTuI Institution in London. It ia evtablished bv .i gift of half a mil- lion dollars matie by Mr. Mund, the al- uminum manufacturer. Of th&s money 9190,000 has >j«en spent on a building and etiuipmont, leaving $3lO,000 as an ?ndowment fund. Instruction will be ree. Surgeon Oray tells how bis horse sav- ed his life during the recent fighting In Yashonalund, in the Natal Adver- tiser. The doctor \vas severely woiuided and fell from his saddle in a charge, his horse going on with the rest of the sauaiimn. In a short time he return- id, however, and stood over bis uncon- tcioujt master, till tht; latt<>r oame to bis seiutes, maua^t^d to pull himself up to tlft* animal's back, and then ride to I place of safety. Monte Ross ia to lilave a meteorologi- cal station on its top, Ihi; money for its maintenance being furnished by Ital- ians. Amontf the contributors are the Queen, who has given 4,000 francs; the Duke of the Abruzzl, who gives 5,000 francs ; the iLalian Alpine Club, and the University of Turin. The shelter hut on the Gnifetti p«ak, 14.000 feet above the aea, will be u.sed. The olutervatory will be the fourth in altitude in the world. The Harvard station near Are- quipa and thoH<' on Mont Ulanc and on Pike's Peak alone being higher. From thir middle ages to the present day tlM> highest price paid for silk goods that M. Georges d'Avenel, in the Itevue des Deiux Mondes, has been able to find, was $83 a metre giveji by Louis XIV. for thsi clolh of gold material for a dressing gown. Last year, however, the Empress of Germany onlered at Lyons Rome \vhiit<- silk, with flower.s, birds and f<iliago in relief, at $120 a yard, five- sixthft of the price being the actual val- \u: of the raw silk. .She Intended to make a dress of it, IVul it was so l>eau- tiful tlut she used it for a curlJtin. Earl de Grey has kt-pt a record of t he " game " he has killed in twenty-eight years; it amounts to 810,099 ht^ad, his average for the last twenty ye^irs Ijeing alxiut 10,000, while in 1H93 his record was 19,13.5. He tins put to death l^OO.- 000 pheasants and partridges, 47,(K)0 grouse, 0,000 oth*-r game birds, 600 deer and 9,000 miscellaneous animals, includ- ing pigs, capercjiilzie, samliur, a dozen biiffaloes and (igcrs, and two rhinoccr- oaea. On one day last moni h 3,000 birds were shot on one of the Marquis of Ri|)on's preserves, the largest bu<? l)e- ing Karl de Grey's. A tidal wave iluring the recent sev- ere storms completely covered tlVe lit- tle island of Sein, near I'enmnrch Point in Hriltany, carrying off t h«' stock and flooding the houses of the 3IMI inhabit- ants. The salt and srind left by the aea will render thhs arable land on the island barren for three year.s lo come. There ws.s no loss of life, howi-ver. Hiiui- lar catasi ropbie-s have occurred before, in 17S6, at t,ne lieginiiing of Loui.s I'hil- igpo's r^iigii. an't in 1WI>. In the ^aiuo fftorm thi« «ea broke through the dunes near Penmarch, covering Inrge tracts o( land lieWnd them, which are below tlve eea level. Bogdogoggpii, the Uuddhist high priest, rtsles I'rga, on the River .Selva In Mongolia, a community recemlly vis- 'Ited on his journey to Karnkorum by 'fierr Hans Lerter, who ha-i tuld his ex- •pfriaucea to the British Ge(iKTapii'''al Bocieity. X^nga is a great munastlo uni- versity, rattwr than a town. Of its 15,- (KM) inhiibiianla, 12,000 are monks, or La- mas, tlie rest beioiK Mongols, Russians, and Chinese. The university has four faculties, the theol()gical, which is the most important ; the raedicjil, where the 440 maladies to which man is subject are taughil, with their cures; the astrolo- gical, and the expounders of the sac- red writings. Hogdogoggen is 20 years of age, and is looke<l ujKin as u perfect god-man. A HYBERNATINO HAN. Had a Yearly Tnincr-'Tbr I'HHe Puulrd 4ble Pli.THlrlHiiH-llnal No Neniory. Jolun Telfer, died at Moscbelle, Anna- polis. N.S., last week, aged 70 years. The case of this man has been one that excited the interest and baffled the skiJl of physicians for years. In the fall he would enter into a sort of trance from wbidb he would not properly awaken until May or June. He was the son of a pensioner who coinjnitted suicide, but before his father commit- ted the deed hie showed symptoms of melancholia. He would sit by the hour over bin father's bench (cobbler's), laughing and talking to himself, and working himself into a frenzy, fighting itnaginary foes, and going into immod- erate fits of laughter. Atmut the end of August Jack would go to bed after eating his evening meal a« usual, without exhibiting any- thing out of the common in bis man- ner or otherwise, or giving any reason for supposition that he was out of sortH in anyway On the following morning he would not get up, nor wouJd he show any more vitality than any sleeping man. His sleep was very quiet, without any stertor : indeed, it was as calm ajB that of a child. Twice in every twenty-four hours he would be taken up, a porKon supporting biiu on eacJi side. ABOUT EUiVEN O'CLOCK every night be seemed to show rather more life Vhaxi at any other time, and advantage was taken of this to pour a little thin oatmeal gruel, lieef tea, or aoup down hiti tbiroat, be opening bis lips to allow them to do so, and slowly swallowing it. He only took a very little each time, aud, if urged to take more, simply kept bis mouth shut. Alx>ut once in every thirty days, not exactly at regular intervals, during the evening generally, be would get up, but soon return to bed. l>r. Robertson, of AnnafMiliB, one of the most skilful physicians of the pro- vince. sayKâ€" My first visit to Jock wafl alKiut twenty years ago. when I first came to live and practise in this vicin- ity, and it came alxmt in this way. Uf cx>urs«' there was a talk about the new doctor and what ht- could do. So 1 was called to see tne queer caae. I got all the particulars from the friends and neigbliors. and wliat means had be<'n tried by other doctor*, and then 1 pnrmiwd to try what I could do. On the following day I went again, accom- panie<l by my brot^ber, and also a physi- cian. We took with ua a good galvanic l>attery. One of the handles wan placed in eann band and bound closely to the fingers with wet l>undages. We then put on the full power of the instrument. Poor old Jack whs out of bed in anin- Btant, and I shu.il never forget his look of ASTONTSHMtavT AND HORROR as be yelled out, "Dlauination, what's that f" I can also w«ll rememlier my own feelings of satLtfoclion and com- placency when the natives congratulat- ed me on my smcdas in this my first <Ms<'. I walked off as if saying to my»elf. "I knew I could do it." Well, .lack re- mained awake alumt three rtay.s. and then I got a me.s.sage thiit my patient wa.s off again. I went up and tried the battery anccond time, witji only the effect, however, of making him open bin eyes and grunt " liJh." in a micr- uloUH manner, and, after looking alKJut him for a hailf hoar or bo, be lapsed into his former condition. Next day I again tried the liattery, but without the slightetit effect, so I gave it up as a liard case. Ihiring the summer montibs he did exactly the work he was told to do, but be had to Im- told over again every day, although the wtn-k wan the sjime day in and day out. The only thing ht: did without lieing tuld was to (jet his meals. He would talk quite rationally on any subjw.t when spoken to, and recollects diwtinclly m<wt of tjie incidents of his rhildhooil. lie would hold animated confab with the cows. dogs. tree«. whe«lliarrow, or any other ol)ject which ha^ppened to Ih' in bis way, and migM lx« noticed some- times lectuitip; a tree for .some time, breaking out iR:i.:,"'c..^:'y into uproar- ious fits of laughter. He. took his win- ter sleep for the last IB years. TIIK SKIPPER WAS A RAT. The London Field tells this story: "A rat w.is caught alive on board a Uritish naval vessel in a trap, and the beast was thrown from the trap into the wa- ter without l«!ing killed. A large gull that was following in t.he wake of the ship to pick up scraps of foorl thrown overboard by the steward stopped sev- eral times endeavoring lo pick the rat up. Onc<^ the bird got too close to the rat's jaws and the ImnisI grabl)ed it by the neck. After a short light, the rat succoerlexl in killing the bird. When the gull was dead the rat scrambled up- on the bird's body. and. hoisting one wing as a siiil. and using th<« other as a rudder, succeeded in steering for the hIioiv. Whether the rat reached shore or not is a question, since the ship soon got oul of sight of tiie skipper an<l its craft." FIT FOR A POOH MAN'S WIFE. An.xious Motherâ€" I am greatly nur- prised, my son, tu find that while you weiv away you becaiu.' engiged. I hope you liiivi> not aited hivsliiy. Has tlie young lady ynu have .s.-lecied the pixip- er qualifications for a poor man's wife? Adult (-'rinâ€" > Cs, ind . (1, nuiiher. .She's got f 50,000 in her o« n right. WEL OF QOEEH VICTORIA HOW HER IMMENSE WEALTH WILL BE DISPOSED OF. Her Farlane Malil to Amonnt to Fully i;«0,eao,«MH>-«'ouleulH of tUe Doriimeiil IH-Thliig Itoynl I'roprrty Well Known In t'onrl t'irrleii. The news recently circulated that the Queen is making a new will recalls the fact that, since the last one was compiled, twenty-five years ago, her Majesty's wealth has more than Ire- bled, and this coupled with the nu- merous births and deaths that have oc- curred in the Royal family, has render- ed another testamentary document ab- solutely necessary. But the contents of the new will will never be made pub- lic, for Royalty possesses over ordinary mortals the advantage of being ex- empt from all taxes and prolmte dues, while their wills arc regarded as State secrets. State secrets are, however, al- ways badly kept, and hence, while no official publication of Royal wills is ever made, their tenor is usually a matter of common knowledge, espe- cially in court circles. The Queen enjoys the distinction of being one of the few English sovereigns to have anything to leave. Most of her predecessors upon the throne bequeath- ed to their successors nothing but debts, which Parliament was called upon to pay. While her Majesty permitted the nation thus to settle the liabilities of her uncles. King George IV. and King William IV., she made a point immedi- ately after her accession to pay off in full the debts contracted by her fath- er, the Duke of Kent. This, and the portioning of her daughters and some of her grand-daugblera, may be said to have constituted the only very heavy expenses that the Queen has been call- ed upon lo meet since she ascended the throne in 1837. UKR MAJESTY'S SAVINGS. From that time forth until the pre- sent day she has been in receipt of a civil list amounting to close upon £000,- 000 a year. Of this the major portion is assigned to definite beads of Royal expenditure, but £60,000 per annum is devoted to what is called the Queen's privy purse, and constitutes tier iK)ck- et money, of which no account is ever asked. Besides this, sbe has at her disposal the revenues uf the Duchy of Lancaster, which have amounted on an average to £60,000 a year more. From this it will be seen that after having all the expenses of almost every conceivable character defrayed out of the Civil List, she has a sum of at least £120,000 each year to dispose of as sbe cl*osts,and which she is known tuhave set aside. This, in itself, represents a minimum of £7.200,000, and, when it is remembered that the revenues of the Duchy of Lancaster are all the time increasing, i\u- yield last year being no letts than £90,000 as compared with £(iO,- 000 ten years ago, and that, moreover, the Queen's savings have been most judiciously invested, for the most part in land which has increased almost ten- fold in value during th«^ lost halt cen- tury, it is no exaggeration to estimate the present fortune of her Ma>!sly from thiwe sources alone as in the neighborhood of £20.0110,000. In addition to this it must I* Iwrne in mind that all the savings out of thiwe particular branches of the Civil List tJittt are as-signed in the various departments of the Royal household ar« handed over to the Queen. These savings are esiiinated on expert au- thority to have anmunted, since the death of the Prince Consort deprived the Court of St. Jami-a" of so much of its old-time splendour, -to some £50,- 000 per annum. PRINCE CONSORT'S REQUEST. The Princ«> Consort is known to have left a will liequeathing his entire for- tune to the Queen, although it was nev- er oficially divulgvd. During the twen- ty-three years that had intervened be- tween his marriage and his death he had recx-ived from the PJnglinh treas- ury an annuity of £30.0n0, Upsides which lie had a private fortune of his own, which yielded him alMiut £4,000 a year more. As the Queen's huslHind he had practically no exiM'n.se» of any kind to meet, and it is known that he was able to set aside and invest at least £20,000 a year throughout hi.s married life. This amounts to £4(;0.000. The Mia>>r por- tion of this was most iuilic.iously in- vented in land at Soiitli Kensington, whiirh wa.s at that time little el.se than waste ground, but which to-day is probably worth more per square foot than it was forty year.s ago per acre. Tho fortune lK>queathed by the Prinw Consort is estimated to liave attained at the present day the minimum value of £5,000,000. Finally, it must lie taken into con- sideration tliBt several lipquesta have lieen made to the Queen by various rich people. A BARGAIN FOR 'fHE NATION. With regard to the civil list, an im- mense amount of misconception ap- jwars to prevail. Many are under the impr<'s.sion that the amount paid by thiE^ National Treasury each year to the fund for the m:iintenance of Royalty under t br" head of "Civil List" constitutes a salary for the Sovereign. As a matter of fact, the allowan(%s ar«^ nothing more or less than annuitiw paid to the Crown in return for the latter's surrender lo the nation of Innd-s, royalties and rights of one kind and another, which repre- sent to-day to llu\ treasury in annual revenue at least ten times the civil list and allowances placed at lbs dis- posal of the Queen. It is therefore not tlv? Crown, but the nation, which has l)enefited by the successive bargains niad'^ by tlu' pi>idecei«.s<>rs of the Queen â€" I>argains which they wen* I'onip'l'ed to make by temporary difficulties :iriK- ing from \\v misuianagement of ;hcir property. THE FAVOTJIRITE PRINCESS. Had it not been for the surrender to the nation of all these so-called Crown lands, of these mining righta, etc., her Majesty could to-day dispense not only with her own Civil List, but al.so with the allowances for her chil- dren and grandchildren and the Eng- lish Crown would tie as wealthy as the sovereigns of Austria and Russia, whose fortune« are practically incalculable. Exactly what the disposition of Queen Victoria's immense property und- er new will will Ije it is difficult to say. It may be safely taken for grant- ed, however, that one of her children who will be chiefly benefited, thereby will be her favorite. Princess Henry of Uatlenlierg. To her Osborne will pro- l)ably lie left, as she is already Govern- or of tho Isle of Wight.- Prince Henry of Battenl)erg possessed no fortune at the time of his marriage, and bis death last spring left his children absolutely dependent upon whatever their grand- mother, the Queen might be willing to do for them. Others who may l)e ex- pect«<l to receive a special stMire of the Queen's beneficence are the two chil- dren of thr" late Duke of AUiany, who will 1)C entirely dependent on whatever her Majesty may bequeath to them.and her Majesty's second daughter. Prin- cess Helena, the wife of Prince Chris- tian of Schleswig-Holstein. THE PRINCE OF WALES. The Prince of Wales as future King of England will have a right to the same Civil List as the Queen, and in- asmuch as the nation has undertaken as part and parcel of its bargain with the Crown to provide suitalile allow- ances for th«^ children of the Sovereign iHith the Duke of York and other chil- dren of the Prince cannot be consider- ed as -deserving olijects of the Queen's bounty, though there is little doubt they together with the Prince of Wales will figure ccHispicuously in her Majesty's will. Indeed, with such a vast fortune to disiKise of, it is difficult to see liow the Queen can forget or overlook any of her offspring, numer- ous though they be. THE GOLD BEETLE. The mast remarkolde gold beetles in the world are found in Central Amer- ica. The head and wing cases are bril- liantly polished with a luster as of gold itself. To sight and touch they have all the aeeming of metal. Oddly en- ough, another species from the sajiie region baa the appearance of lieing wrought in solid silver, freshly burn- ished. These gold and silver lieetles have a market value. They are worth from £5 to £10 each. PERSONAL POINTERS. DolBfa of Home or the World'* Prominent People. Lord Leighton's bouse in London has been offered by hia sifters to the Bri- tish nation on condition that it ba pre- aetrved as it ia. ' For the twelfth time in succession the Prince of Wales has lieen nominatetl for tliei office of grand m;t->ter of Eng- lish Mark Moscms. FTB<lericA Hill, who died the other day at bis home, near London, was the last surviving brothnr of .Sir Rowland Hill, the postal reformer. MrK Brookfield, Thack<'ray's friend, whoa few years ago published some in- teresting letters written by him to her, died recently at the age of 77. Cardinal Gibfauns is a lieliever in the "Kneipi> cure," and frequently provod his faith last summer liy taking early morning walks barefooted. The widoiw of Calliar Bey (formerly Mrs. P. T. Daroum) expects to return to her former home in Bridg«i»rt, CI., and take up hipr residence there again. Mrs. Duncan iVIl, who bos iH-^'n prominent for some years in New York society, is said to have jiositively deter- mine<l to adopit the stage fur u pro- fession, lyouise MicheJ declines to come to this country unless Pielro Gori, the Italian anarchist, accomi»anie« her. I'ietro has a dread of water and will not come. Archibald F. Heblnard, who died at his home in Westminster, Conn., re- cently, at the age uf 75 years, bad nev- er ridden in steam cars or any kind of a IxKvt. G«)rge Frederick Watts, R. A., is building a church near Guilford, Eng- land, in which he will psiint fn-scoes himself, while his wife will design the terra cotta <lecx)rationa. Canon Fleming, of Bt. Michael's church, l>imdon. bai had a large tele- phone tronsmitler placed in bus pulpit, 9f) that his remions may lie heard in a number of hospitals ana other institu- tions. Ennieror William is prolmbly the only Euroi»ean monarch who c.irries a revolver. Firmly convinc<>d that he is going to die by the bullet of an an- archist, he is determined to fight for his life, if nece*ary. Prof. Chorles l>aiie Poor, of Johns Hopkins University, has just finished tlRi r<»ii.st ruction of an equatorial tele- scojie which he will take with biiu lo the north next summer in order to pho- tograph the stars. I>r. K. Saccardo, professor of natural scionne at the school of viticulture at Avi>.llino, Italy, who reiH-ntiy died, waa recognized jih an authority on the dis- oa.s«'s of th»' vine and on the science of lichimulogy. Sir Henry Kepjiel, 86 years of age, is now thH senior admir.il in the Bri- tish navy list, but Sir Alexander Milne, who is 90 and who entered the navy eighty yearn ago, is the <>ldl^st admir- al and tbi* one who has served long«^8t| A CURIOUS CEREMONIAL. It ia not generally known that there is a strange and striking ceremonial by which the Vatican authorities assure them.selvcs that the Pope is dead. The CanliiHii Ch.imU'rlain approaches the lH>d of the dead Pontiff, and Iwirs in his hand a little silver hammer. He prostrates hiui.self before the t)ed and calls tlie dead man three times, not by his name as Poi«', Init t>y the name that was given him at his baptism. Then he touches him lightly on the forehead th'we times with the hauuner. The sil- ence which follows this appeal by voice and by touch is final priKit, lh:it he who makes no ajiawer to It is beyond its reach. ATler this formality the Cardin- al pronin'iiiVAs lo tlw^ waiting priests that the I'ope has ceased to live. A LITIIIB nRE-lSClfl JANITOR FLORENZ SAVES A HOUSE- FUL OF PEOPLE. Exritlns 8«enrR at a Riew York Tcncmcmt Hon»e Fireâ€" Ueacae and Tramtfer of Women and Children. Sixty-five families were driven ^t in the cold night, ill-clad and shivering by a fixe that gutted the two tenements of 230 and 241 West Fifteenth streets in the small hours of Monday morning, says a New York despatch. Forty- three fajniJieti were made homeleas.i Their flats were destroyed. Some ot them barely escaped with their lives. Tliere were thrilling rescues on every band. One man made of bis body a human ladder, down which a houseful of tenants slid in safety, and held bJa poet tiiU the last bad come. The fire- men labored with frozen hydrants against every odds and in periil of their lives. Two were liadly hurt. In tha general distress the neigbtxirs threwj open their doors and homes with warm- th, and welcomed all who bad none. For two blocks around the kitchen fires were started and chiidxen hustled from their warm lieds to make room for the shiver- ing ones from the street. One police- man's home auroes the street from the burning building alone harbored eight evicted inmates. How or where the fire broke out is a matter of discussion yet in the street. Wherever it was it came with such sudden sweep that it nearly PARALYZED WITH FRIGHT those whom it roused from sJeep. Police- men Howard and Gay nor heard a wild< piteous cry while they stood on the cor- ner on Seventh avenue. What it meant they did not know noi stopped lo in- quire, but ran together in the direction whence it came. They found out soon enough. The fire escapes of the two five-story tenements were crowded with a >vliite-robed throng making for the street with sihrieks and lamentations. On the laat balc<>ny it was stayed. Tba ladder was gone, the sky was reddening over the house and the smoke poured from open windows, but as yet no fire. The policemen saw it all at a glance. Gaynnr turned about, and made for the nearest fire alarm box. Howard dashed into the house and up three steps at a time to the top to give nihoit heJp he could. AJready resi'ue was at hand for those on the fire escape. The janitor of the tenement at 239, Charles F. Lorenz. roused his wife, and seeing his children safely hustled to the street, took in the peril of ihose on the tialcouy with a glance. He is an old fireman and an athlete lo Ixxit. No ladder wad needed. i'he janitor, running up the step of the house, jumped for the lower rail uf the balcony, and hung sus- pended from i<, a swinging human lad- der. He called to the frightened ten- ants to climb on biM shoulders and slide down. "Come on," he isaid, "1 will hold, hurry." They look the offered chance and slid. Down they went over bbe living bridge one after the other, men, women anu children, a full score, until the last was safe. Tbeji Janitor Lor- enz let go tu t^it un his hjimi- for a fresh grip if any were needed. None was. Patrick Madden, who lived next door in 237. seeing the fix of the tenants had brought a lamplighter's ladder, which he knew stood in the yard, and helped the res>t down. On the jani- tor's waistcoat NOT A BUTTON REMAINED. They had slid off "every one." Up in the bouse I'ollceiiiaii Uuuard found the Crossley family uu thi' lop floor iu ter- ror and diatre--*. Jlrs. Crossley and her son were on the fire ostape. 'Ibe wife's sister, Annie Nessel, was missiug. Sbe bad run to the r(«)f and Mr. Cross- ley after her. I'he policeman let them go, knowing that they would fuid their way down safely, and guided Mrs. Cross- ley nlmvn, carrying her child. The fire was roaring through the air shafi and eating its way into the buu-<e t)y this time. Ttu; leiiajits were stream- ing down the fire ladders. Those who landed in the yard were Uxeted over a ten-foot fence into the next yard and rushed over to Sixieeuth street. The women screamed as they went over ; some fell heavily, but snow broke their fall and none were hurt. Children were thrown from the fire es- cajie to the men at the fence. In leta than a minute it seemed as if a regu- larly organized system of re^-ue and transfer had lieen devised. In five minutes they were all safe. Not only the tenant* of the two burning housea l>ut tbo.se in "243 as well had gone over the fi"nc«. They were as frightened as tho.se whose homes were really burning. A few of tlie wiimen wantecl to jump, but were toUl not to do so. iStuue were paralyzed with fright, but were taken down in .season by the advance guard of the firemen coming on the first ca.Il. The firemen worketl in great peril from the red hot cornices that fell all al)OUt them, from the molten leatt of plumbing and fixtures that ran from above and from the wreck falling in every direc- tion. Foreman Robinson was backing over to the burning house when a red- hot draiiii pipe fell upright from its fast- enings ill an upper story, and striking him on the ftKit cut off four of bis toes. Tojipliing over it fell upon and burned his (.wmrade. John IX-uel. on the arms. They were lioth draKged out. Robinson to Ui sent to the hosiiital. His career as a fireman is ended. The losses of the fortv-three families who were burned out foot up to 8150,000. They hail no insurance, and lost their all. ALIENS IN FRANCE. France is still much trouble<l over the strangers within its gates. It is now found that Paris is not a city of Paris- ians, if even of Frenchmen. Only 36 per cent, of tho inhabitants wore Ixirn within its waits, and T.") In every 1,000 wer«^ lioru outside ot I'l-ance â€" a total of I8l,ll0,l aliens Ot tins.- latter no few- er than '^6,823 are Gerinj'tts,, while in Berlin there are only 397 FreftBjitinen. While Paris has 7.'S fDreignSits â- (♦" 'he 22. St.f^* i V .A, ^ 1,(KK» l.iindcm has only L':: 21, Vienna 22 and Berlts IW, 'ersUurg