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/ 1 m i i ill WE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORU> OVER. latereatlas Itam* About Our Own Country. Unat BriUin. tli« United States, ajvl aU Parts o< the Oiobe, CoacUnscd and \asortail lor Easy Hsaillng. CANADA. Burglars ase operating in Gaelph. Ottawa is to have a new 9100,000 op- era house. St. CatbarinR'a total adses«in«nt last year waa t3,.')(i0.30O. IHajnilton City Council .starts the yea.r with an overdraft of JlO.iXK). The total reel aaseasment of the Pro- vince of Manilolia in ll^Utj was $71,1143,- 914J2. The directors of the Bank of Ottawa subscribed $500 to the India famine fond. Hon. Mr. L,aurier has sul scribed $100 to the fund fur the India famine suf- fer era. The Allans of Montreal faave pur- cbaaed the steamer State of California for £50,000. The Markets Committee of Hamilton will recommend the Council to pass a enrfew by-law. Mr. Robert A. Robertson, rancher, of Pincber Creek, Allierta, was found dead on the prairie. Sir Samuel Strong, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, has lieen appointed a Privy Councillor. W. Hespler, Winnipeg, has been ap- Dointed sole liquidator of the defunct Commercial Bank of Manitoba. It is now pretty certain that the Dominion Parliament will not meet until atout the middle of MJarch. Mr. Edward Gujney was elected by acclamation on Monday to the position of president of the Toronto Board of Trade. The Ottawa City Council has ro'^i'^'d to petition the Legislature to abolish eivic exemptions on manufacturing con- cerns. Dr. Uaudette, medical officer at St. Vincent de Paul penitentiary, recently mjuspended, bos been reinstated by or- der of the Minister of Justice. Councillors of Niagara Falls have pe- titioned the LocaJ Government not to grant the extension of time asked for y the Canadian Power Co. The Bank of Montreal has nubscribeil five tbuu.sand doilaro and the Molsons Bank fifteen hundred dudlars, to the Montreal Indian Relief fund. All the Manitoba land companies re- port increased inquiry for Carm lands. Many of the correspondents live in the northern and western Slates. Rev. Father Lacoste, D.D., of Otta- wa University, has received the news of his appointment as a memlit^r of the Acadeaiy of St. Thomas, in Rome. It is rumoured th&t Parliament will be a.-<%ed to pass an address to the fiueen, inviting the Uuke and Duchess of York to visit Canida this year. The James Bay Raiilway Company will apply to Parliament for an act authunxing the company to e.\tend Its line fixan Paa-ry Sound to Toronto. Mr. Laurier has caliled, in reply to an invitation frtm the Liverpool Cham- ber of Commerce, that he would not lijiely visit fhiglamd for Mnie time. Mr. Arthur Brophy, formerly of the Dominion Express Company ai Mont- real, has been appointed private sev- r«tary to Hon. Mr. Scott. Secretary of State. The analysis of a large quantity of strained honey, collwled. in different parts of the Uotuinion shows a large percental uf came sugar and glucuse, insteaid of the pure himey. The difference of opinion tn-tween the Canadian Pacific railway and its con- ductors and braikesmen, which at one time threatened to end in a serious rupture, has been amicably settled. Judgment ha-s l««n given at St. Catharines in favour of the estate of Henry Kolls in their suit against the Nia^a.nk Central Raihvay for pay- ment of the first mortgage Ixwds of 9:2.500. The Nova Scotia Legiitltture was op- ened on Thursday. In his address Ijeu- tenant-Govcrnor DaJy referred to the success uf the fishing season of the past year, and stated that the output of coal during 11*96 was the largest in the history of the province. John Busby and James Quinn wetv arrested in Ouelph charged with Ihe- ing tjie authors of a uuuMwr of in- cendiary fires there recently. BusUy turned Queen's evidenoe at the pre- liminary trial, and gave evidence Charging Quinn with ai least one of Uie crimes. GRK/VT BRITAIN. The opening of the Imperial Paxlia-, ment took pluce ou TuetMl^. The> Karl of Kimi:erley was electcci Lilierai leader in tho Uo^se of Lords. Sir Isaac Pitman, the inventor of the Pitman shorthand system is dead. Mr. John DiJlon was re-elected leatl- •r of (the Iriiih Natloiiai party in the Impejriuil Parliament. Lieut .-Governor Kirkpatrick. who uiKlttrwent an operation in a London buKjiital. a few days ago, is progress- ing well. It is tibuught lu I>oiidon that the RoyaJ C(»umiBsiou will pursue its en- ?U'i.ry into tlio fiu&nciall relations o£ rciland. Murib itiiterest is taken in conuuerciai circles in London in the de'Velopiueut of trade between Canada an^ the South! African colonics. It is utidersl(»)d that knighthood wi'M be conferred uj>on tJie Mayors of th(t principal Caiia<luiu cities during the dia- moiMl jubili-e celebratuuis. In the Im|)erial H<»ii8e of Cunimona on Wednesday. Mr. O'Brien's motion fon amnesty for Irish poilitical prisoners was d«>fe«ited t>y a vote of 204 to UK, Mr. Jvtaa W, Itonn. Canadian com- mercial agent at Bristol, s.iys that Can- adian 5,hi(>m('uts show a steudy improve.- uient and are certaioCy making their own way. A blue book containing the official j ecrreeponnlence tietwe<'n the powers la' jegard to coercive nwyusures in deal- j i^ >vittlithe Sultan of Turkey ba« been iwoed, in London, MeasTS. Baring Bros., of London, of- fered for Bulsflcription £400,000 ster- ling 4 per cent. BOO-year del)enture stock of the Commercial Cal.le Com- pany. The loan was largely ovar-aub- , aerified. A meeting of the twndholders and shareholders of the Chignuct« maxLne raiilwaiy was hrld In Lnntlon. when a. reealuticm was paased calling upon rh<t Laurirr Govemunent to aiil the scheme. A service in nu^mory of Prince Henr."? of Battenijerg. bufiband of the Princesa Beatrice, was ceiV>t;rated on Wednes- day at noon in WhippLngha'jx church. The Queen, Princess Beatrice, her chil- dren, and other members of the Boyai. famidy were present. Official corre^xmdence published on Thursday id Lonflon shows that the powers have agreexl to Lord Salisbury';* propuslition to resort to coercive meas- ures shouild the Sultan prove recalci- trant, and refuse to adopt the reforms unanisnously recommended '»)y tJie Amii>asifiulors. The Secretary of the imper;ad Ad- miraiity Ktate4l on Thursday, that it would he impctislLle for ihe Goverimient to act upon the suggestions of the Royal Sociiity of Ca^da and secure a uniifLca4:ion of time, as any ajteration in the .astronom'caJ day would not he agreed to by th« Continental powers. UNITED STATES. W. P. Killner, aged 77, a wealthy citizen of Governeor, N. Y., hanged himself at that place on Monday. The New York Board of Health haa formally declared that tuberculosis is an infectious and cunHUunicable disease. Liabilities of the wrecked First Na- tional Bank of Newport, Ky., will reach 9^')0,U0U in loans exclusively. One man wa^ killed and several in- jured by a dynamite explosion at Greenwich, Conn., on Wednesday. The sleet, which gave the pavements of Chicago a slippery coating, was re- sponsible for two deat.hs. Col. Robert Ingersoll has given up the practice of law, and will de- vote bis entire time to the lecture plat- fonn. It is reported that ex-Governor Lon^ of Massachusetts has accepted the Secretary.iliip of the Navy in iMr. Mc- KinUy's Cabinet. Two negroes were bkiwn to atoms and a number of persons seriously injured in the explosion of a powder magazine at Mobile, .Ala., on Tuesday. Mrs. Slernaman, of Butfalo. has ap- pealed from Judge Coxe's decision m her extradition case to the I'nited Stat^ Circuit Court of Appeals. Tho report of the deep waterways commissioners of the United States was submitted to the Ilouae at Wash- ington by President Cleveland. The Baltimore Iron and fin Plate Company, which operated one of the first tin plate factories established in America, went into the hands of re- ceivers "Ihursday. The First Nati»>nal Bank of Newport, Ky., the German National Bank of Louisville and the Minnesota Savingrs l^nk stopped payments on Wednesday. Frank J. Palmer, of West Parson- field, Me., aged 16. has confessed at Soco, M*-., of thie murder of Mrs Betsy R. Hobbs, liecause she made him pay for glass brolben in her house. Joneph Jones, coloured, who claimed to have w.iiied on George Washing- ton at the home of his former owner, died at Ridgeway, Ont., at the age of 115. His widow is U)5 years old. In the New York Senate on Tuesday a bill wad introductid prov.ding ihac whoever treats or offers to treiii any lierson to an intoxicating drink in any public pUu^ shall be fined or impris- oned The Department of Immigration at Wod^bington h;Ls nolUitid Inspector De- Barry 01" BuffaJo, of LllB passage of the Corliss bill w-bacb provides that only full-fledged Amtrican citizens will be allowed to work on Government con- tracts. The advices received from New; York indicate m> pofticular change in the business siiuation during the week just closed. In certain lines a bet- ter deniami Is retorted, which is, to some extent, countexbalaoced by low- er pric«'.s. An incrtased demand for materials appears to exist in some di- rections. The failures of the week have tiad little or no depre'ising in- fluence. The lalxjor market is in a rather more satisfactory condition, as the deni-ind for skille<l labour is im- proving. 'I'be market for securities is firmer and the money inaxkeiLs a-Mioad axe more scttleii, but Iwuis are not eas- ily effected except on first-class secur- ity. The couuuexcial outlook is consiil- ered to be better than w-«,s the case a week ago. Couimercial f:iilures for the week in the United States have lieen 40a. compared with 873 in the corre- spontling week of last year. GENERAL. Madame Camot. mother of the late President Camot of France is dead. The Countess C.i.stell;ine. nee Anna Gould , on Mon<iay. gave Iririh to a son in Paxis. The native rising in Griqualand is growinx more serious, and the white-s axe laagi-ring. Two cases of the bulH>nio plague are reported at Kamaran, an islaud off the west coast of Arabia. Col. Seddon, of the firm of Walter & C\)., Bristol, Quebec an<l Chicago, is deiid a,t Pcn'xa, Portugal . Russia is said to be .secretly treating with the Turkish Govemmeut for the use of a port on the Black Sea. The Italian Government denies that theiv have t)een cases of the bubonic plague a^ Massowob on the Red Sea. It Is sta,ted in CkmsLiintiuople that the Sultan firuiJy resists Euroiieun control of Turkey's finajices or anluiin- istration. A British syndicate has received from the (iovemmeut of Dutch Guiana a txmcession of a million acres of gold land.s. The British military post in ITrnan, the occupation of which led to the acute ti-ouble with Venezuela, has been abandoned. The Indian Government has ordered the stoppage on Fobi-uary 2nd of all pilgrim traffic from Bombay to Kar- achi, on account of the plague. The expedition sent by the Royal Nig- er Company against the Kmir of Nupe found the Voulah army dispersed and in flight when it arrived at Kabba. If is reported from Ca.lcuitta that the BXitLsh steamer City of Canterbury hiifi been wre<:ked at Hoogbiy Point. All on board were saved. It is learned thcii France is medita- ting the negnciations of a treaty of ar- iMORalion with the United States sim- ilar to tin! Anglo-American treaty. A despatch from Teheran says that two thousand five hundred persons per- ished as a result of the earthquake on Kisjuun laland, on the, 11th inst. The British Indian troopship Warren Ilaslings was totally wrecked off the Island of Reunion on Thursday. The troops and crow were ajl saved. Dr. Bergmann, of Berlin has been summoned to St. Petersburg to perform an operation on the Czar, who Is suf- fering from the re.suJts of a blow re- (^eived in f891 from a Japanese fanatic. HOSEOES OFJHE PLA&UE THE PEOPLE ABE DYING IN THE STREETS OF BOMBAY. Booibay'* Awfal Vl»it«liuuâ€" Tke PcMllrace ut 4;«veraatea( Hoiimâ€" .ia E>e-Wl(aeiw of Sceara la Ike iMrlckea City. A de*^>aU'h from Bombay, gays;â€" "A case of plague has occurred in the ser- vants' quarters, situated on the grounds of the Government House here. Imme- diately on its discovery the patient was removed to a bospital, and the whole row of servants' hcuses were set on tire and burned^ "The plague has now assumed sucb terrible proportions that the resources of the municipal' officials are complete- ly overUxed, people are dying hourly in the streets, and much difficulty ia experienced in obtaining corpse bear- ers to carry the bodies to the cemetery." The following despatch respecting the suspected cases of plague at Hamburg has been receivei "It has been official- ly ascertained that the British sailing vessel Pirrie, which arrived here the other day from Calcutta and was placed >n quarantine on account of iiaving sev- eral cases of illness un board, left, that port September 29, when no disease was prevalent .there. .Ail coses of sickness are due to exhaustion, caused by over- Wfork.'' FROM THE STRICKEN CITY. Major â-  (Edward J Turner, an Eng- li»h army officer stationed at Bom- bay, now on bis way to England, gives a description of the horrors of the plague now devastating Bombay and otjier parts of India. "The natiives are sir wasted by starva- tion." said he, "that they have no power to resist tbt. plague, imt panlu stricken they faJl a prey to the hor- riiijle death. In the outlying districts I found Iwdies numerous on the roads. On the bonks ot the Ganges, where the ghats are aiU located, hundreds of isMlfes are lying waiting rbeir turn to bw buried. "The ghats axe sm^l raised burning piues inade of stone. Tb<.' victim is brought to the r.ver if possible, be- fore death, that he may clie by the sacre<l stream, then when he dies his l>ody is dipped in the stream, taken out and laid on tbe ghat with a pilei of wcmmI under .ii,d a1<ov«i and is soon re<hiced to ashes which are swept off into the river. NATIVE SUPERSTITION. "The natives Itok upon the plague as a scourge of their go<l that cannot be helped, and will not tolerate any inter- ference wiih their religious rites. " I look for some outbreak, and do not expect to more than reach home, Ix'Xore Iwibg Hucimoned back t o my post . The situation is becoming aiarmin^. The proposition is being seriously considered of setting fire to the entire native quarter of the city, as well as the bar- racks of the native troops, in the hope of thereby burning out the contagion. "I don't knosv what will l)e done, for the whole earth s«'ems laden with the poison, and it is carried by rats and other vermin everywhere. Nothing e.x- i-ept a furnace heat can purify the quar- ters where the pl.igue has raged." QUEER SUPERSTITIONS. In Ireland a belt of a woman's hair is placed ui>on a child to keep barm away, and garlic salt, bread and steak are put into the cradle of a new liorn liaby in Holland. Kouiuanian mothers tie red ribbons around the ankles of their children to preserve them from harm, while Gsthonian mothers attach bits of asafoetida to the necks of their offspring. Welsh mothers put a pair of tongs or a knife in the cradle to in.sure the safety ot their children. The knife is also used for the same prupose in some part.s of England, .\mong Vosges jjeas- ants children born at a new moon are supposed to have tongues better bung than others, while thi;se born at the last quarter reasoning powers. A daughter Itorn during the wa.xing moon is always precocious. .At the birth of a child in Lower Brittany the neigb- twring women take it in char^, wash it, cmek its joints and rub its bead with oil to snider tb cranium bones. It is then wrapiied in a tight bundle and its lips are anointed with brandy to make it a full Ki'eton. The Grecian mother, before putting her child in its cradle, turns three times around tiefore the fire while singing her favorite song: to ward off evil spir- its. The Turkish mother loads her child with .ainulets as soon as it is bom, and a small bit of mud, steeped in hot water prepared by previous charms, is is stuck on its forehead. In Spain, the infant's face is swept with a pine tree bougb to bring good luck. BALDNESS IS CONT.AGIOUS, The investigation? of a French der- matoK>gist, Dr. Sal>ourand, go to show that beldnesi is a cvutitgious disease. due to a microlie which he claims to havie isolated. It is spread, he declivres, by barber's brushes, and its presence is not recognized until the harm is done. In other words an ounce of prevention is worth several l^ottles of hair restorer. A VEEY OLD JAI, IPEED JAMES J. CAVANAUCH. OF NASHUA. N.H., IS 106 YEABS OLD. A Tailor fatll He Was M, aad Was •ace »w«m at l>y Klas tieorfe iV.â€" Tells Murlen af (he Luua la<*> James J. Caranaugb, Naafaoa, N.H., celebrated his lOtith birthday last week, and notwithstanding bis extreme age be still retains bis mental faculties. Save for a siight stoop, and a deafneaa that makes it very hard to converse with him, he carries his years lightly and a stranger would place his age at 8U rather than 106. His friends believe be is the uldeM man in New Fogland. When George III. woe King of Eng- land, Cavanangh was serving bis appren- tioeabip to one firm of the many tail- ors to the King, Stutson A. Housley by name. Not only bos be seen George lU. and put stitchee into the breecheo that covered the royal limbs, but he has also cut a coat for George IV., and was, according to his story, sworn at by the King for a slip which he made in assisting him to try on that gar- ment. He formed one of the crowd of men and boys who lighted the huge bonfires that were burned to celebrate the battle of Trafalgar. Mr. Cavanaueh was bom in county Monagiuin, Ireland, in December, 1790. He cannot tell tjlie exactoday of the month except that it was a few days before Christmas. When be was 9 years old his parents removed to Eng- land, and be resided there with them until in 1837, several years after their death, when he came to America. Although an Irishman by birth, be became during his boyhood days in Eng- land, imbued with an admiration for all things English, which he retains to this day. He is very fond of telling bow easily England <;ould bave whipped the colonies bad she not had more import- ant matters to attend to. and he in- sists t.bat the United States would stand iu> show in a wax with any of the great European powers to-day. WELLING'ION AND NELSON are bis heroes, and be never tires of singing their praises, and be thinks there were never any statesmen like William Pitt or Rol)ert Peel, lioth of whom be has seen many times. Wash- ington is no hero to him, and he always speaks uf him with a sneer. " When I was a mere slip of a lad," said Mr. Cavanaugb. " I was appren- ticed to a tailor in London. In those days a lad had to serve seven years before be became a journeyman tailor, instead of a few months is it is now. It took me nine years to learn my trade, for I wasteU two years, about u t^^elve- montb afu;r I began my apprenticeship, attending Dublin University. It was there I ieamedall the devilment Iknow. and that's all 1 did leaxn. too. I went l>ack to my trade after 1 bod sp<-nt all my money, and worked at it in the old country an<l in this until t "of 90 years o.d. Since then I have let my children care for uie. Did I vver see King George lll.f ^ es, sir, I huve, and many a garment of his I have seen in the shop where I worked. I have seen him many a time, and I remember the day of his fiineral is dis- tinct Iv as though" it haptwned yistanlay. I not' only stitched a i-»at for Ueorge IV., but he swor»' at me lierause I didn't hold it right when 1 tried it on. Wil- liam IV. I saw once, and Daniel O'Cou- nell a do/en times. " I have seen tiueen Victoria many times. Once. « iicn ^he was aliout U>. she was at Devonshiiv Castle, on avis- it. and saw her neiiriy every da.v for 'wo wev-ks at least. You know the Puke of Devonshire was in high favour with her family at that time. SHE W.\S A SLIGHT GIHL then, and, so fax as 1 irould see, cared far more for a good time inil a rouip than for Uioks or anything else. " Regarding the prognss of the rail- roads Mr. Cavanaugb has often .siiid: "The talk that all you people have alout the opening of railrouis makes me laugh. Why. I was at the op-,-n ng of the first railroail in the world. th'< one l>etw.'en Manchester anl Liverpool. Then we thought ihi' road a wonderful thing, but it was legorded as too dan- gerou/s and complicuted in affair ii),>ver eb sued by Uii- oeop!e to any exicrit' It i.s in warlike evi-nis that Mr Cav- anaugb takes the greatest interest. He claims to have seen most of the gre^t Generals of his time. Nai>olcoii he saw at 'Forbay. Englanil, when a short time after the baltle of Waterloo, the Em- peror was at that port on boiinl the ship Belleropbon. .Mr. Cavanaugb. like thous- ands of others rowed out in a sniiU lioat and s;iw Napoieoii pacing up and down the deck. Mr. Covaniugh went to the I'nited Stales in 1837. and for twelve years worke<l in New York. Boston, and Phil- adelphia. He n-niembers when Uoj.toii harlior wiis frozen over and wooil was hnu'.e<l .ici-i)ss the harlior to ICast Hoe- ton. On -Vlay 1. 1841, he married .Miss Hannah Barrett, the ceremony Uiking place at B<ston and lieing performed by tlie Rev. Father Hwskins at the Castle Street Church. He was at that time several years older thin his bride's fath- er, and altlK)Ugh the marriage was one of convenience, being arranged by his wife's grandpon-nU, it proved a hnp- py one. Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Cavanaugb, five of whom are now living. Mrs. Cavonaugb's earlv life is one of th*< most iKoresting ot Mr. Cavan.rtigh's ivminisi-ences. Her muther was an Eng- lish woman of g«>o«l family and her fath- er was a native and resident of Ire- land. When she was an infant, her par- ents died and the graniipa rents en l)oth sides wanted the child. F-ch pushed tbt'ir claim, and there w.is >; lawsuit which resulted in the custody of the child being given by the courts to her maternal, I he Engli.sb grnndparen** THEY WERE WEALTHY, and installe<I ber in their comfortable home. The fact that the child w:is be- ^ ing educate<l as a I'rolestant inste.\d ot | a Catholic ln«ible<l her paternal graml- ; parents excessively, and finding tbut pleadings and threats wer« of niv s-vaiL they kidnapped their granikhild when she was 9 years oid. FeaRog proaecu- cicn. tbey immediately left England for America. Mr. Cavanaugb haa lived in Nashua sine IS8S, withhis daughter, Mrs. Bart- ley McSherry. He lived atWatortown Mass., for .some time previous to th* deattt of his wife, eixteea years ago, and chien moved to Bcjslon, living for a, time with his son Joseph. He haa never been naturalized, and takes but little interest in national pol- itics, except as tbey may relate to the country's policy toward the European nations. He is still able to go out eacU day fur a short w-alk, and boasts that no weather can keep him within doors. Mr. Cavanaturh reads with the aid of glasses, and spends much of his time either reading or telling ntoriea to his nephews and grandchildren and their playmate*. MARVEUOOS MEMORIES. .tame Exaaiples of rcaple Wko Have â- Â«Â«â-  Able (• Kelala Tklacs l> Tkelr MlaAs. There are many historical feats of memory tJaat sound as impossible to you and me as would an account a^ the gymnastics of a Japanese acrobat if we had. nut seen them. Lord Mar eauiay found wiien by chance he tried it, that he could repeat the whole of " Paradise Lost," tbcmgh he never tried to learn it ; but than Lord Mar caulay loved bis Milton, and had read ' Paradise Lost " many a time and oft. So what was that to the actor Wil- liam Lyon, who fluuiished in Edinburgit about a hundred years ago, and who one day on a wager repeated the wbola of the Edinburgh Doily Advertiser for that day, from beginning to end. a<W vertisements and all. Lyon could taave but a few hours at best to study the journal ; the matter was characteris- tically disconnected, yet be rattled it ail off without hesitation or mistake. Magllabecbi wan the queer name at a Florentine, who was librarian to Ca»- mo lU.. Grand Duke of Florence, and though he never travelled be informed himself atx>ut. ALL rUE PRiNCIP.AL LlBBARUSak in the world to such purposes, that few of those who frequented them could have known as much alxiut them. One day the Grand Duke sent for bim to ask what were the chances for buying a ceruin particularly rare work. " You can never get it," said the lib- rarian. * your Highness' treasury would not buy it for you, for there is bat one copy now in the world, and that ia in the Grand Signor's library at Con- stantinople, and is the seventh book, on tbe second shelf, on the right band side as you go in." Sometimes these wonderful memories are gifts of nature, tjut some of ttas most wonderful have also tjeen acquire ed. and it w worth while to enquire buw. because a great memory is a won- derfully useful thing. Hou<lin, one ot the most wonderful conjixrors that ever lived, and a man of real scientific ab- ility, performed some of his must mar- vellous tricks with the aid of a son whose memory he bad trained to be miraculous. He would take tbs boy when be was a child pkist a toy shop, and then make him tell what he had seen in tlie window, and after awhile one glance would suffice to tell the youBg»ter more about such a window than other people could find out in ten minutes. In this way his eye-sight, bis power of seeing much accurately and quickly, vvas trained lo be as wonder- ful as bis memory. Tbe father would write down the son'« li.st of objects seen and then go bock and verify it. but so<jn one rapid walk ly suco a Window would enable the bov lo men- tion forty Olid articles, and ae almost NEVER .MADE X MISTAKE. One iiuie Houdin wa.s lo give a per- formance in a private house, and when he and bi.s sou entered tbey were con- ducted t-luough tho lil-iary on their way to another room. Hcmdin made tbe boy a sign to see all be could, and af- ter ih:s brilliant ijerLormauce be said to the i-oiupjiny, â- ' Now, luy son has sec- ond si;;'bt, and can mid through tbe walls of a house, " and with tb;it he, .les- iguat:ng a certain bbelf of books that thev had previously agreed upon, a.sk- ed hiin what li<K.>k stuoil third from the left-hand corner. " Uuffon." the answer came quickly. "And thv one by its side.'" quickiy quest icne,.! an incredulous si>ectalor while a luetseiiiler was dispitcbed to verify the first as-serton. " T<i tbt* right or the left f" said the lad. "On tji«r right," " 1 he TravfLs of .Avacharsis tile Lounger," came the prompt reply, "but if, sir, you )iad asked whii wason the left 1 shoubl have answered I.,amar- tine's Poems; a little to tlte right of this 1 see Cretillon's works, and be>- low two volumes of Kleurys Memor- ies "â€"and thus he went on to name a dozen IsKjks. .\» all were found just where he said they were this w.ns the most suixt'ssful feature of the evening. It was all the uutt^iue of a trained eyesight and a trained memory. AN OVER ZEALOUS SENTRY. A London corre.spondent relates the following rrmarkaiile incident. The story is that while walking in a park at Tzarko»> tiho Czar sunxmoned to his side a gardener he saw working about the grounds. The man obeyed with alacrity, wlicn an over-zeali>us sentry, mistaking thi- gardener's approach for an evidence of huetility. shot him dead within a £e^v feet of where the F.m- peror stood. Whether the .story be trus or not. the wcurrenoe is uniortu- natcly not too improbable, coiiisidering ilie high nervous tension of every of- ficial ot th«? Russian Court, and the pver-;>resent thought of a.ssi(.ssinatioi» which, if the face is an,, index to the f-ar.s withi.'i: w,-i.s ne"er al>S(>ut from tjie mind of tbie Czar hiiusa't.