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m 'i x l A serious railway accident at Hawes LATE BRITISH NEWS law-ion «new to a snares ' ltrain on Saturday ni ht. While the train was shunting to the â€"â€" backed ‘wes branch, it was- against the buffers very forcibly, During a strong northerl gale on the , when the last carriage but twoâ€"a saloonâ€" north-efist coast of Englani on Saturdaylwas lifted on_eud,andanumberofpassengersi mornin , a fishing boat, the Albert, waslweré badly shaken. Several very much; wreck off North Sunderland. Two of he: i crew were drowned. The body of a. young married woman, 1 named l-Imnia “'iles, aged nineteen, togeth- 1 or with her six months old child. was found in a pond at Hall or: Sunday. It was evi- bruised about the face and head. A lady} had received a very serious shock; and; - another, it is feared, has received serious in- E ternal injuries. The trip train could not, proceed, owing to the carriages having been ’ dent a,“ she jumped in“, the ‘3,“ with seriously damaged. About twenty persons the infant in her arms. One of liufi'alo Bill's Indians died at Shefield on Monday morning from an acci- l . . . l are said to be more or less injured. l The Bolton police made a shocking dis-, covery in Back ‘pring Gardens on Sunday i dent which he sustained whip: the “vim ' leading to the belief that. an attempted mur- West Show was in the town a fortnight ago. ‘1" had “ken Place- The deceased was a. Sioux Indian named Eagle Star. A great labour demonstration, in which 12,000 people took part, was held in Brad- ford on Saturday. Messrs. Mann, Tillet, and other labour advocates addressed the people, urging the election of labour reprec , sentatives to Parliament. Col. Ellison an architect at Liverpool, has l devised a photogra hic focusing cloth with a metal eyepiece w rich does away with the 3 troublesome fumbling about to cover the = head. The eyepiece looks upon a reflector fixed to the camera which presents the image right nide up. The body of James John Harris, baker: of N ettlewell, Essex, was found on the railway on Saturday morning shockingly mangled, and it is supposed lie was knocked down, while attempting to cross the line the previous night, by an express train. The Rangoon Gazette announces that a eneral court-martial will be held in Man- dalay in connection with an alleged card‘ scandal, in which a lieutenant in a Madras infantry regiment is accused of cheating. This officer, who is now on leave in England has been ordered to return to give evidence. A serious accident, involving in the death of one man and injuries to another, occurred in Middlesex Street, Aldgate, London, a. thoroughfare familiarly known as Petticoat Laue. Adrian Sansom, of Manor Park 1 Road, Finchley, and another man named, it is believed, J uduh Cowan, but whose identity has not been established, were passing a dead wall at the corner of Garden ‘ Place when it bulged out- aud collapsed,| killing Cowau and seriously injuring Sun- son, who received a lace-rated head and i nose and dislocated thigh. He was remov- ed to the London Hospital. .A horse also had a leg broken and had to be destroyed. Lord Salisbury has made twenty-one new peers since he has fallen into office, besides raising the rank of several more. It is announced in London that anovelity in the form of five minutes’ recitations be- tween courses at fashionable dinners is about to be tried. “ About half.th two on Sunday afternoon a terrific explosion occurred in Abercaraid Pit, belonging to the Hills Plymouth 00., Limited, and situated near Merthyr. The report was of such tremendous volume that it alarmed the whole neighborhood, and in a ver short time the pit’s mouth was sur- roun ed by thousands of persons. Two men lost their livesâ€"John Morgan and his brother Joseph, and their bodies bore indi- cations that dcath had been caused by suf- location. In Vasten, in the Congo State, the first newspa er has recently made its appearance under t is name of Se Krileinga (the Daily Light). Its object is “ to enlighten the souls of the black skinned.” It is printed in the po ular dialect of the country in the Latin alp abet. The first issue of the paper was edited by two educated negro women, who did their own type setting. It contained a lengthy article on "the natural history of the elephant,” from the pen of a learned negro. . It is well known that about 25,000 people are killed every year in India by wild beasts and reptiles, the larger number falling vic- tims to poisonous snakes. It was recently discovered that the injection of 'permaugau- ate of potash was a specific cure for cobra poisoning. The Government discussed the project of furnishing the natives with hypo- dermic syringes and a quantity of perman- ganatdof potash, but the scheme had to be I rejected because it was found that it would entail an expense of £120,000,000. l A magistrate in Horncastlc,Eug.,sentcnc- ed a man under the vagrancy laws to seven day s’ imprisonment, for having slept in a stable. It was shown that he had slept there by permission of the owner, but the 3 Justice said there was nothing in the Vag- raucy act about permission’ and to jail the 1 man went. ' On Monday evening a man named Thomas George El'iott jumped from the high-level bridge which spans the river Tyne at New- castle into the street below,and died instant- ly. There were many persons crossing the ment was so sudden that there was no op- I portunity to seize him. The jump was! \Villiam Harper informed a policeman that his wife had at- I tempted to commit suicide, and on an officer ! proceeding to the house he found Mrs Har- ' per lying on the floor with a deep gash in 1, her throat. She was removed to the i infirinary,and owing to her critical condition j depositions were taken. She charged her 3 husband with attempting to murder hen: Harper, who is a moulder. 47 years of age, was brought before the Magistrates on Mon‘ day, charged with cutting his wife’s throat. From the statement for the prosecution it! appears the motive for the assault was , jealousy. the prisoner having charged his wife with going with men. Harper was afterwards discharged, the Coroner’s jury having found that the woman committed suicide. 0n the Galilean Shores. Then Jesus saith unto them. “ Children, have ye any meat 2” They answered Him, “ No.”Aud he said unto them, “Cast the net i find.” They cast, therefore, and now theyé were not able to draw it for the multitude i of fishes.”~â€"xxi-, 5-6. . The happy history of the Lake of Galilee l is richer than all the stories of the classic streams of Greece. The very names of these streams are passing away from the - memory of the world, but “ the blue waves . of Galilee” will be dear to the hearts and, thoughts of men as long as the world en-‘ dures. \Vhat memories cluster around that little inland lake '2 From its shores the first apostles of the lamb were called from their boats and nets to the higher destiny of be- ing fishers of men. On its western shore the wild man of Gadara was brought to sounder mind and gentler thought after the briefest of interviews with Christ. Along its .i'assy slopes thousands sat down and were fizd by that open hand that offers to men in all ages not the bread that perishes but the bread that answers the hunger of -' the soul and builds up the spiritual nature to eternal fruition. On these shores with a boat for a pulpit Christ preached to thousands, and the words He spoke linger luaStakenintotliestationmaster'shouse who. There were a half dozen who round her " Don't cry," she said. and the words were lOW. Ifceling tears that she could not. see. “ l on won't have to work and be tired so \Vhen there ain‘t so many of we." Muerto was the ideal desert of the wgrld. In no other of the earth’s most fearful wastes can be found such natural conditions of ideal horror. Even the mirage. tempter of the "Too Many of We.” 03' from business, from mails, telegraphrl u “mum . newspapers, society, and all that worries o, in“, umeifiggofimgg 9h”, annoys, is the best medicine i ' able for “Perhaps you wouldn'tbe you sec. and Americans. \Vhy wish it ortened! It a few of your childs should die." EVhen one an cross the ocean in twp or thgee She was on] “1 ~ __ . ays, the .advantages and attractions 0 a Who spoki snared: siding; foreign trip will be greatly lessenedâ€"In- As she saw her mother's inimtieut frown dianapoli's Journal. a At. the children's boisterous play. ______._______. mad. Wonders of The Desert. And the “‘Pmef “"‘5 SiL‘k and P°°T- The original J ornado dcl Muerto,or Valley Wm figffiflgggfi‘gfhgfigkm of death of the Mexicans, covers nine thou~ sand square miles, and more than a uartcr Fg‘; irtpcillotpfa kissi no ttfipalxlm placeâ€" of this area, a space of one hundrt miles ‘ ° °“°- “‘3 0 a i . lon b an avers width of twent -five A ‘ , 8 3,’ 8° Y m fffgc Shadow um darkened the mowers miles, is below the level of the ocean. In O'cr the young life seemed to fall. some parts its bottom if! two hundred and _ _ eighty feet below ti e-watcr. Reliable Mgfgggg lg‘gfigfififigyfi“ more cnm’ authorities assert that it is the most intense- How to_lighten the burden she could not share, ly hot spot on the face of the earth ; the Growing heavier every day. Sahara is nowhere compared with it. The 0 l . I surface mayfairly be said to be strewn with ’iffl‘fifi’; ‘g‘fig‘gfig‘gfc‘flgfi' thebones of human beings who have lost Lay with her blue eyes closed and the sunny their lives there. Expedition after expedi- Cutb‘im: f h w m h d tiou has been lost in attempts to cross it. c 0’6 mm L 0 B0 on on ' It might be said that this .lornado del And the dear little daughter who went away From the home that for once was still Showgd the mother's heart. fr )in that droiu-y “5‘. What a place she had always filled. a.-.___ -_-.....â€".._ - Progress in Science. The Geographical Congress recently held in Switzerland recommended the universal adoption of the metric system and also the Greenwich meridian for the reckoning of longitude and time. It is doubtful if this _ _ , will be done however, by all nations, for, 011 the fight Side Of the Shil’ “"1 Fe Sim" l although a slandard in both cases would be i beneficial to the world at large, France na- Iturally desires Paris time and England would never surrender her prime meridian and adopt a revolution in her system of measurements unless the new measure was examined and based upon intrinsic merit. A new scientific instrument has been got- ten up by Prof. Bigelow, which is called the aurora-inclinometer. By extensive research- les he has found that the same law which underlies the working of electricity and magnetism is operating on the sun, and that sunlight is a magnetic field in which the magnetized earth rotates as does the arma- ture of a dynamo. The instrument will be sent to Alaska, where it will be used in the study of the aurora, as it is there seen in the best conditions. Imitation gold is a new compound which was recently discovered and which puzzles the best jewelers to detect. Its weight is that of gold and the acid tests are the same, except that; the acid boils a. trifle when ap- plied to it, although when it is wiped off no spot is left. It is cheap and easily worked. yet, the wisest, tenderest, gentlest words'Its chief factor is aluminium composite, the .world has ever heard. Here many of C‘Om 5 to 8 per cent. His mighty deeds were wrought, And here The new departure in photography, as in that, mysuc time the strange lute!" i recently applied to telescopes, has extended magnum between the r?3“"§°°l’l0n from our information toa most wonderful degree the (lead and the (1.8093810!) 11150 hem'en- already, especially in the delineation of the Jesus WVRS leased to enter into the most lll' lnoon’s surface, and has opened a wide P timate con (lences with His friends. It was a dull, gray morning on the shore of Galilee. The disciples had evidently come back to their old order of life. The glorious dream they had cherished of “ a. kingdom” had al- most entirely vauished from their view, and they had had a night of fruitless fishing on i the lake and were returning sad at heart and l wholly dispirited. Of all times this was the l time they needetl the presence of their Lord to revive their failing faith and to relume their dying hope ; and of all times this was the time when Jesus was near to make them glad with His presence and strong by His word. “ gested by this one morning on the Lake of ' Liiililec, one thing will be enough to set our thoughts in a happy direction this pleasant Sabbath morning. How thorough- ly Jesus entered into the spirit of these men, and from the level of their present need led them to diviuer things. He might have said, and if He had been simply a leader of men,theprobabilities are thatHe would have said: “ You see how utterly helpless you are without me.” This would have been very natural, but not Christlike. Jesus comes in the hour of need not to emphasize the fact of failure, but to help His friends in their need. ‘5 Cast the net. on the right side of the ship.” “’ho was this stranger that bad advice to give to practiced fishemicn about their busi- ness. Moreover, were they not very near the land? “"as it likely a shoal of fish would be found so near the shore ? But at His word they let down the net, and lo ! a rent swarm of fish came crowding into the net. \Vhata lesson for us all, especially in the days of empty nets and fruitless toil. The simple unquestioning obedience of these men brought success and for us there is this assurance that if we will launch out into the deep where the voice of (lod distinctly bids us, there can only be one result, that the divinest kind of success. After the catching . . . . -. f the fish and the curl inorniii meal what bridge at the time, but the suiCide’s move 1 O y g ’ glorious disclosures awaited these men. So nvill it often be, that the darkest night is nearest the day of divine excitation. So from a height or nearly 100 feet, Mid ll!“- l may it- be at last. When the night of time ! unfortunate man mangled bv the impact with the pavemen . 3 bo‘ly “m3 {rightfully ‘ is over and the weary voyage is ended may we meet the Master on that further shore The deceased, who .ivcd at (latcshead, was l and so be forever with the Lord. 36 years of age, and married. Two men were killed outside Exmoulh Docks on Monday afternoon by the bursting of a steam pipe on board the steamship Beaver. Two others were injured. the dead is named Escott, of Withycombe; the other is supposed to be a foreigner. The in'urcd men, who belong to Liverpool, were ta en to the hospital, where they died shortly afterwards. A farmer named Joseph Flint, aged 60, who lived at Dore, near Sheffield. recently became des nden: over his bad harvest prospects. a Monday mornin he rose at ten o‘clock, and shortly after-war sdischar - ed a gun loaded with shot at his stomacfi. Dr. Alde was summoned, and the man rallied somewhat for a time, butsubsequentâ€" ly had a relapse and died in great agony. A cruel murder. has been discovered a lresorta. The Italian peasant llawtlierton, a village near Stafford. Onlthe bagpipe hursday a boy named Guy Arrowsmitli, ll can of age, who resided at Green Dragon an, Hatherton, was missed, and search was made, without efi'ect. On Saturday a i u: utity of blood was found in the cellar of i is inn, and further examination revealed the body of the boy, with a gunshot in the Mother has been arrested on an murdering the boy. . lPriortotbo 16th century the head. hidden in an outbouse. A step common in England; carvings Where Bagpipes are Used. Bagpipes are not only used in other coun tries than Scotland, but, in fact, are com- Onc of; paratively a modern innovation in the land ‘nf the Scot, not having been known there luutil the 15th or 16th centuries: the first authentic. mention of them being in connec- tion with the battle of Balyinnes in 1594. As a musical instrument among Eastern nations, the bagpipe dates back to a very remote period, being almost universal throughout the whole of Asia. It is used l among Chinese musicians, and also in Persia land India. It was introduced into Arabia : and Egypt, and is common in Italy, some of l the peasants of which country come over l with the hand-organ tribe, and may be seen 3 during the summer months alternately with l the German bands at many En lish pleasure lioves that was the best-beloved music of the Virgin Mary. and that it was the instru- ment upon which the shepherds expressed their joy when they visited the Saviour. When the Italian your“. visits Rome on the anniversary of e birth of our Saviour, he always carries his ipes with him. pipe was 0 it occur 'cion of.in churches at Boston. Great Yamouth, The \Volver amptoulnnd Human also at Melroae. It lamen- in no are investigating the mysterious l tinned by Chaucer and Spenser, and several - lumen by Shakespeare. for astronomers. Many points are clearly shown on the negative which cannot be seen with the human eye even when using the powerful Lick telescope. A desposit of what is known as “fossil flour ” has been recently discovered in Maine I which will resist the action of acids, olkalies and oils and isa remarkable non-conductor of heat. It will be used in the manufacture of rubber goods. It contains 95 per cent. (if pure silica, and when mined it comes out as a. fine powder. A careful examination of aqueous humor A thousand helpful things are sue- l of the eyes of cattle will determine whether they are suffering from tubercle or not. The bacilli will be found there in all cases wher the disease exists. ' The English Union Jack- The old red cross of St. George, for Eng- land, on a white ground had received, at the time of the union with Scotland, the cross of St. Andrew, for that countryâ€"a. cross which naturally fell into a diagonal position on the flag. It was shown white on a blue ground. The cross of St. George remained over all in its old position, separ- ated from the new blue ground by a strip of white. With the union with Ireland came the invention of the cross of St. Patrick, a. diagonal cross like St. Andrew’s but red on a. white ground. These two diagonal crosses take precedence alternately, which brings the white above the red at the hoist, or parts next the staff, the red above the white at the fly, or parts furthest from the flag- stafl'. The new red cross has, like the old one, to be separated from the blue ground by a strip of white. All of which is con- cisely expressed in the Order of Council : “ The union flag shall be azure, the crosses saltire of St. Andrew and St. Patrick quarterly per saltire, countercliau red urgent andgules, the latter fimbriated of t ie second, surmounted by the cross of St. George of the third, fimbriatted as the saltire.” How the Record 112}. Beien Out. The extraordinary performances of ocean steamships this Summer have stimulated speculation and reminiscence about record breakin to new activity. It. is a little re- markabe that the record (f the City of Paris. after standing for two years, should have been broken twice in one Summer. Another feature of this year is that the per- formancc of the Teutonic has brought the time of crossing the Atlantic under five and a half days. This is a reduction of three days in forty years. It itas in 1851 that the speed first fell below the equivalent of nine days to Quecnstown. In 1873 the eight-day mark was passed ; in 1852 seven days ceased to be thought much of a trip ; two years ago six days were left behind. In the twentycfivc ears from 1851 to 1876, when the era 0 the “ocean grey- hound" may be said to have begun, the re- duction of time between Roche’s Point and New York was thirty'one and a half hours, while in the next fifteen years, from 1876 to 1891, the gain was thirty-nine hours. This was at the rate of two and a half hours every year. At this rate the time will fall below five days in the next six years. w sofa» ror rm Steamers. Who wants to cross the ocean in a jiffy 2 What shall it profit a man to take a vaca- tion simply to be shot from one place to another as from a catapult? Everybody agrees that the most restful thing about a journey abroad is the ocean voyage. The time spent on the “pater, where one is cut ‘ dying traveller’s despair, reaches a more {extraordinary development I anywhere else. On any fine dayâ€"and in the region all days are fine, because there is no rainâ€"one can behold in the Colorado Desert, where all is hopeless misery around, beautiful lakes, tempting verdure, and even towns with houses and churches within distances appar- Beyond all other characteris- tics, this desert possesses that of the For the aesthetic who can live on pictures, it should be an ideal abode. He . would never be fatigued, because the strange l phantasmagoria is endlessly changing. g lThe explorer who is bold enough to venture into this region of despair for purposes of investigation is struck, to begin with, with the weirdness of findin himself walking on there than I eutly small. - picturesque. what. was once a. bed 0 ocean, hundreds of feetlowcr down than Neptune’s waves which are flowing a few miles away. He knows that this branch of the sen. subsequently be- came an inland“ lake, and it is with inter- ] est that he looks upon the shores of what was erstwhile a. mighty body of water. A great shallow lake it was ages ago, and the rocky banks which enclosed it still remainâ€" . cliffs of im erishable stone, with the ancient ' water-mar 8 still upon them. When water was there, the lime which it contained was desposited upon the rocky shores gradually for thousands of years, so that now the cliffs are coated with it three feet thick in many parts, and one is thus enabled to observe just how high this strange inland reservior threw its waves in times gone by. Its bed today may well afford a study to the seeker after marvels, as well as to the geologist. It is a desert wonderland. Im-‘ agine 8. Iain of clay, monotononsly level, relieved ere and there by hills of sand built in beautifully wave-like outlines. These hills are not stationary ;' they travel con- stantly, though slowly, journeying over the lain as the wind directs. The sand of which they are composed is not like ordin- ary sand at all, but of a nature marvellous. | Most of the grains are transparent; others are translucent, while many are of rainbow hues, being in fact small gems of red carnel~ ' iau, green chrysolite, and vari-colored gar- Looked upon beneath a microscope, , not. {they are most interesting. A‘majority of them are perfect spheres, rounded and beau- tifully polished by attrition with each other. When mixed with familiaracid, they offer- vesce like Seidlitz powders. Composed of these stran ely wrought materials, the sand- hills look li e great snow-drifts with here and there a gleam of color. Continually they give forth a. rustling sound, as the tiny spheres are shifted by the winds, slowly rolling onward. In some parts of the desert, here and there, water boils up from natural springs, which are surrounded by circular hillocks of carbonate of lime from four to eight feet in height, the material of which has been deposited from the flowing fluid. The latter is so highly charged with gas that. it is very difficult to keep corks in bottles filled with it. It seems queer to find in such a deso- late country real soda-water fountains sup- plie’l by nature. Syrups are not offered to order, unfortunately. The lime deposited on the rocky shores was contributed by such springs as these, bubbling up from what was then the bottom of the lake. The atmosphere of the desert is so clear, owing to the absence of moisture, that small object at a great distance seem close at hand. All sorts of illusions deceive the eye. A man far away on the plain assumes gigantic stature. Ranges of hills take on wonderful effects of colorâ€"yellow, violet and rose. The phenomenon of the mirage is developed on a gigantic scale. Moun- tains below the horizon rise into view. and lakes of clear water invite the traveller to turn aside for refreshment. The northern portion of the desert is paved with the most wonderful pebbles in the worldâ€"in many parts so exquisitely laid as to defy successful imitation by the most skilled worker in mosaic flooring. These pebbles are made of porpliyry, agate, carnelian, quartz, crystals, garnet-s, chryso- lite, and other beautiful materials. They are packed together so that the surface corn- posed of them is like a floor, and they look as if pressed in toit with a roller. As a rule they are nearly of uniform size, and each one is pollished brilliantly, as if oiled and rubbed. Most of them are perfect spheres, and the reflection from the sun’s rays is gorgeous beyond description. Each convex surface gives back a ray of light, and the ground for miles seems literally paved with gems. Thus the whole surface of the plain is a combination of myriads of reflectors, each pebble being so highly lished that it is like a mirror, and it is. be loved that the lakes of the desert mirage are produced by this means. The pebb es are polished by the loose sand which is blown hither and thither. Such animal life as is found there is for the most part reptilian, the creatures most numerous bein horned toads and small rattlesnakea o a very peculiar pattern. The latter have curious hoods on their heads and are little more than a foot in la 11. These remarkable beasts are known as ‘ila monsters; their very breath is poisonous. There are many scorpions, also, as well as countless other things unpleasant. The vegetation is almost exclusively restricted to cacti and thorny mesquite bushes. In such a territory there are always sure to be new species found, zoological or otherwise, merely for the reason that rew other explor- ers have gone before. IN VENIGE rm Gonna? A City of Witchary, of Romance. of Poe- try and Dreams- smxrs ON THE GRAND CANALâ€"DELIGHT 0? [BLT FLOATISG ‘ALONG THE FA!- 0175 WATERWAY. As you approach Vonicel'fou slide up the easy Adriatic and your sw‘ t ship scan:er cuts the surface of the sea. The oily waves do not break into foam as your prow parts them, but wave folds upon wave in tranquil, uuprotesting curves of fluent tenacity. Little fleets of fishermen gathered here and there in groups of a dozen or twenty catch the light of early sunrise upon their tinted sails and the sunlight falls 11 n the sea, softened b a veil of illuminate mist. There are no out ines anywhere; there is no defi- nition. It is all vague, soft, satisfying and sensuous. . . Poo 1e are looking for land, but they see none. '21: far away to the left there is a dim ray effect that is the nearest thing to a ine visible. As you watch it. it becomes less dim and also less gm . It is touched as if with a dainty tinge o rose. ls it land? No; it is a city. You can seetowors lifting them- selves above the maiu mass, and you can see that the main mass is made up of various edifices. It is not land. Itis Venice. And as you watch the city grow upon your sight you are conscious only of varia- tions in color, for the sea shades from purple to robin’s-e blue. The sky above is pure cerulean or u trumarinc, while at the horizon above the line of the city it softens to the faintest rosy light that the eye can perceive as a color, and the only life, and that a lazy one, is the sluggish fishing-boats, pictures- que with clumsy forms and tawny sails. Half an hour of all this and you are at anchor at the end of the Grand Canal. If you want to enjoy Venice don’t touch a tilde-book. You don’t want to know any actsâ€"and the guide-books are merely cata- logues of facts. Ruskin is a guide-book in Venice. He will tell you in extraordinar detail the meaning of a lot of stories, whic is a little like giving you a dictionary when you want to read poetry. Let yourself live in it ; or,iu the words of Walt Whitman, just “ loaf and invite your soul." You will find that the real Venice is not the part that is set down in the catalogue of si his and shows; but, on the contrary, all t c restâ€" all that part of it that the catalogues have been unable to grasp and write down. If you were to have a bath in some divine and famous river, and took with you a treatise on the philosophy of bathing, you would neither understand the treatise nor enjoy the bath. And Venice is in this sense a river of the soul which appeals less to the understanding than to other elements of na- ture. Float in this humor on the - Grand Canal, by day or night,with silence or with soundâ€"for the sound is mostly music-â€"and you may have hours of delight. Picturesque wallsâ€"walls of the ancient days, beautiful with all the graces of archi- tectural fancy, quaint with the devices of it passed away life, dignified by all the traces v of the hand of time ; walls that are the fronts of the series of sombre or magnificent pal- aces iu which was developed the drama of the life of the Venetian peopleâ€"this is what presents itself on either hand, stretching away before you in‘a perspective affluent with surprises in the names of palaces. And these walls are separated by the stream of sea-water that is green, blue or golden as the humor of the light varies. And down this stream, between these walls, you glide swiftly and softly, without even the cou- sciousness of any effort, without the labor- ing oar, without the fussy propeller of the launch, without the intrusive canvas of a sail. By a. mere twist of the hand of the silent ondolier behind you you go onward in a ream, in virtue of-iuward volition onlyâ€"floating in a dazzling world, the very atmos here of which is saturated with all that ( elights the soulâ€"filled with poetry, history, romance ; with all that is noble, with all that feeds and satisfies the imagi- nation.- “is is Venice. And in all this there is a. sense of rest ; as if one had reach- ed the goal of a pilgrimage without even knowing that he was a pil im. Here the embroidered abric of history and romance enrolls itself before you, som- bre with tra ic stains at one place, guy at another witi colors that borrow their hue from that light in your own life in which you first saw the story pictured. Here is a window from which it is ossible Desde~ mono in the sweet and fair ays of girlhood looked out upon the common Venetian world of that timeâ€"for this house, they say was the house of Brahantio. What the World is Dome:- 5' Gutta percha is the gum of the perclia tree, which grows in the Malayan Islamic and that locality. The price of this article has more than doubled within twa years, chiefly because of the wastefulncss of the natives in collecting the gum b felling the trees and the increased demam for it. in in- sulating electric wires. Dirccttelegmphic communication between the United States and Brazil was opened last \Vt‘t'k. This was done by a new cable at the Brazilian end from French Guiana to the town of Virgin in Brazil. I" is (:niilrol- led by French capitalists. In the manufacturing line paper bids fair to supplant wood in the manufacture of boxes, buckets, packing cases, and many other articles. t is much lighter than wood, and can be made fireproof, to say nothing of its chcapness. The first large t uautity of American sponges ever sent to ‘uro an markets was recently slii ped from P iladclphia. The lot comprise 6,000 pounds each at twu kinds of sponges from the Florida coast. School education in Louisiana is very de- ficient. The recent school census shows a school population of 370.000, of whom but 85,000 attend school, and many of these at tend but one month. Flatterin inducements for farmers to raise beets or sugarmaking are being held out by a body of capitalists who propose to start a factory for that purpose in New York State. Groundibone is anexeollcnt fertilizer. lt isinsoluble in water but becomes decom- posed in the round. The finerit is ground the more readil' y it decomposes. Artificial halt, made by beating resin with sulphur "centigrade is now being used to replace Syrian asphalt ip 'ihow cushy. .... .i...\~,. ,,, . “trau- w.».....-... a. .W‘ a.â€".......... “A... ...c... are... as} ‘ . !«W x:â€"u.‘km> . Wm nail a...