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. I”, .. ,,,,...<..~.v..,,.... , , .2: .'I/~§ "V “Two comcflimv mums The Giant Cunard Ship Campanile Row Afloat on the Clyde. null: ll Lines for Connolly, fleetnm. and Beauty. like Exceeds the “all of the Great Inmate Twins by Over 2,000 Tom. “'hst are the limits of the marine archi- tect in the building of mighty ships?_ A re resentative of one of the, great lines thinks this question may be answered in Yankee fashion by propounding. another, and that is: How big must a ship be be- fore her running expenses exceed her re- ceipts? Will larger ships thanthe giantess of the Cunard fleet, Cain ania, launched las'. month on the Clyde, sent forth to battle for commercial supremacy of the At- lantic? Other competitive lines doubtless will build, and we may not unreasonably expect to see within the next few years a fiyer of greater tonnage and power than the Csmpanis. ' An American engineer of large experience recently wrote to Mr. Vernon H. Brown of the Cunard line, congratulat- ing him on the launching of. the great Cun- arder and expressing the belief that the day was not remote when the 1,000-fgot ship would be in service between New York and I Liverpool. Mr. Brown says he does not see what is to prevent the coming of THIS )1 ARITI .\1 E COLOSSCS if it can be demonstrated to the line that may order her from the ambitious British builders that she will yield a reasonable in- come. There is now no dock either in New York or Liverpool large enough to accom- modate such a vessel. The biggest docks we have, recently lengthened for the twin. screw ships now in service, are not over 700 feet long, and they would not be wide enough, even if lengthened, safely to berth a 1,000‘foot ship, whose beam would be close upon 100 feet. The Liverpool docks were not large enough for the \Vhite Star llyers, and these vessels are docked atBirk- enhend, which bears the same relation to Liverpool thatBrooklyn does to New York . There was a stronger feeling among ship- ping men when the pioneer of the twin- screw Titans, the City of New York, was launched in 1888 that she would ruin the luman Company. She turned out to been immensely profitable ship, and in the im- port-ant item of coal consumption she show- ed herself more economical by nearly $100 a. day than either the Etruria or Umbria, then the swiftest merchant ships afloat. The sister Cunarders burn about 350 tons, and the City of New York and City of Paris burn each about 3'25 tons a day. The con- cervativcs opened their eyes when they heard that the Cunard line was building two GOO-foot ships. They had supposed that no company would venture beyond the 10,500 tons of the City of Paris, and they shook their heads after the ancient custom of shellbacks, and looked a big doubt they did not care to utter after the failure of their evil prophecies about the first twin screw. The Campania is more than 2,000 tons larger than the sister ships of the lumen line. The only vessel ever launched that was bigger than the Campania was the ponderous Great Eastern, whose designer sought ._._â€"â€"- TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM of swift ocean navigation by bulk, combin- ed With the comparatively inSignificant horse power of 6,200, applied to paddle wheels and propeller. The Great Eastern was 680 feet long and 83 feet broad, or 60 feet long'cr and about 13 feet broader than the Campauia. The builders of thp Cam- pania expect her engines to develop, after she has been in service a season or two, be- tween 20,000 and 30,000 horse power, or nearly five times as much as the Great Eastern used ifielIcctuully and with much expense, owing to the marine engine of her time. The Cunard Company feel so well assured that the Campania will be a swift and rofitablc ship that they have dupli- outed her in the Lucanie, which Will be launched next month. The Campania slid from the ways at the yard of the Fairfield Com auy,.the builders also of the Etruria and mbria, on Sept. 8. The Clyde was dredged immediately opposite the yard, as there was fear that the deep draught of the shipwould cause her to strike bottom. She made hardly any commotion when she took the water. She is built somewhat on the lines of the Um- briu, having a straight stem and an ellepti- cs1 stein. She will have, when completed, two pole masts. She measures 620 feet over all and 600 feet on the water line, and thus has an overhanging stern of ‘20 feet. Her extreme beam is 65 feet 3 inches, and her depth of hold from the upper deck is_ 43 feet. She will have sixteen water-tight bulkheads, so constructed that in case of damage to any two of them 5118 Will still be able to float. She is built to meet admir- alty requirements, for servingas an armed cruiser in time of war, having decks espe- cially arranged and strengthened to carry guns, and her vital parts protected. Unlike the other twin-screw ships, the Campania has an opening in the stern frame similar to that in a single-screw steamship. This is intended to give the ropellers more free. dom of movement. ho brackets are fitted to the stern frame to support the outer end of the shafts. Instead the frames of the hull are bossed out and plated over so as to form the stern tubes. At the outer end of those are strong castings of steel which. nn-‘ error the purpose of brackets. and being a continuation of the lines of the hull are sup- posed to color the least resistance to pro- pulsion. . . _ It may be Assumed from this description of her business end that the Campania was built for a racer. Her designers and con- structors have done away with almost every conceivable hindrance to speed that exists in the best of the twin-screw fleet in ser- vice. But the moat marked difference be. tween the Campanis and the City of Paris, fleetest of steamships, is in their engines. 1 The engines of the City of Paris are mph expansion ; that is, each set has three cylin. ders, one high pressure, one intermediate, and one low ressure. The engines of me Campania all ough nominally triple-exp”). sion, might not impro rly be called guin- to lo expansion. he set of engines is fit. led with five inverted cylinders, two of which are high pressure, use low pressure, and one intermediate pressure. The for. ward and after cylinders are tandem, an: is, the high pressures are placed above the low pressures. The exhaust is from the high scores to the intermediate, and thence to the double low pressures. Engine. ere say that these are the “(.51- POWKFJ’C‘L “Kaunas ever constructed. The cyiioders are ar. ranged to work on “if” “"95” set at an angle of 120 degrees with one another, and all having the same stroke. Steam in gen. crated for the engines in twelve big double ended boilers, arranged in two groups, with one funnel for each group. Each boiler has eight- furnms, ninety-six in all. Excepting her rudder, the Campania is entirely of British build. No British firm had the machinery necessary for making the rudder, which is formed of a single piece of steel, and was rolled by Krupp, the gun- meker of Essen. . With the advantages her constructors have had throth studying the weak points of the racers of this season the Campania ought to carve a large slice ofi' the record in a year or so, when her engineers begin to understand her. Since June, 1838, when the Etruria held the record, then 6 days .1 hour and 25 minutes the twin-screw speed- ers have reduced the tine between Sandy Hook and Queenstown by 11 hours and 31 minutes. In the next four years we may not reasonably expect the power of steam, which has its limitations even when exerted through trible expansion engines, to knock another eleven hours or more 011‘ the record. But we may hope to see the Cumpania fulfil the expectations of her owners, just as the other big ships have sometimes done after disappointing first efforts by covering the ocean race track at the average rate of '22 knots an hour, thus bringing Queenstown within five and a quarter days of New York. Should she develop ‘23 knots and maintain it for the voyage, the New \Vorld and the Old will be divided by only five days. Some Recent Wife-Sales- According to a Welsh newspaper, a man employed at the Cyfarthfa ironworks sold his wife, in 1803, to a fellow workman for the sum of two pounds ten shillings,with the understanding that another half-sovereign should be spent in drink. The wife, it is said,wcs more amused than indignant at the transaction. On the fifth ofJuly, 1872, a Well-dressed woman applied to the Exeter magistrates for a summons against her hus- band, who had refused to support her chil- dren. To the utter astonishment of the justices she stated that her husband had sold her to a man with whom she was then living for fifty pounds, he undertaking to support two of the children. He appeared, however, to have gone back on his ni‘gain, and refused to do anything for them, and the magistrates very wisely declined to inter- fere. In 1877 a wife was sold for forty pounds, and, what is more remarkable, the articles of sale were drum up and signed at a solicitor’s office, the money paid, and the chattel handed over with all the gravity of law. In the course of a County Court case at Sheffield in May,lSSl,a. man named Moore stated that he was living with the wife of one of his friends, and that he had purchas- ed her for a. quart of beer ! During the hearing of a School Board case in the course of 1831, at Ripon, a woman informed the Bench that she had been bought for twenty- five shillings, and had assumed the name of the purchaser. At Alfreton, in 1882, a husband sold his rib for a glass of beer in a public-house, and the rib gladly deserted her legal lord. One cannot expect a wife for less than two-pence halfâ€"penny! Two years after this a bricklayer at Peasholme Green, Yorkshire, sold his wife for one shilling and six-pence,_a “ legal ” document being drawn up to make the bargain binding on all sides. In the Globe of May the 6th, 1887, there appeared an account of a well-to- do weaver at Buruley, who was charged with having deserted his wife and three children. He admitted the soft impeach- ment at once, but urged that inasmuch as he had sold the whole family to another man before the alleged desertiou, he was acquit- ted of all responsibility for their mainten- ance. It was nothing to him whether their purchaser provided for their wants, the law had better see to that. For himself he had duly received three-halfpeuce, the amount of the purchase money, and there his inter- est in the affair began and ended ! A Momentoas Time- Wlien M rs. Spudkins called on her friend, Mrs. Diusmore, the other evening, she could see at once that something unusualwas about to transpire. The latter was dressed in her very best gown, and she bravely tried to repress the tears that came involuntarily as she smiled upon her little daughter, and tried to make the tot happy in a hundred ways that only a. mother knows. “I want her to remember me as she sees me now,” said Mrs. Dinsmore. “I want her always to think of her momma as handsome and swoet. For this reason I have arrayed myself in my very best before I change my clothes and go away from her.” And the mother wept again : but wiped away the tears before the child saw them. “Mercy!” cried Mrs. Spudkins, as the nurse carried away Mrs. Dinsmore’s daugh- ter, “what is going to happen? Are you going to India as a missionary and leave your family here?” “Oh, no!” “Are you going to a hospital to die of an incurable disease ‘1” “No.” “You haven’tâ€"you haven’tâ€"got a di- vorce. with child given to the father?” “Oh, no!” “Then; why all this solemnity of fare- well 1'" “I um going to take my first lesson on the bicycle.” No Wonder he was Anxious. Heavas a very old man, hair white, teeth one, but very fond of fishing. Day after ay 1 used to see him at the end of the pier a group of little darkies around him with boys lost his balance and tum led in. The water was over his head, and it was appar- ent if he did not et help he would drown. Then the old dar‘y threw down his rod, muc impressed with the old man’s heroism. wind blows from the “ He is your son '3” I said. “ No, sub.” " Your grandson, then 2" “ No, nah." ‘,‘ No relation 3" “ No, sob." “ Then you risked your life to save that of a child who was nothing to you, which makes your not even more heroic.” " Well, you see, boss, dat minable chile had all do worms in his pocket.” â€"-.-â€"- The longest canal in the world is that ‘ In a year the food eaten by a horse is nine which a. handful of soda has been dissolved. Algeria is the greatest cork-producing I VERY INTERESTHB. About two thirds of the men in this eonn~ try use tobacco. An electrical machine in the London Mint counts the coins. There are 300,000 commercial travelers in the United States. A revolver has been invented that shoots , seven times in a second. New Mexico is enjoying the first rainy season it has had in four years. Chinese control almost the entire shoe. making business in California. In India there is a species of crow that. laughs just like a human being. George Eiffel is said to have made £22,000,- 000 as his share in the Eiffel tower. There is but one sudden death among women to every ten among men. i A man of science in Germany maintains that it is from meteors that all our dia- monds come. Glass in oven doors is a new contrivunce. It enables cooks to watch the food without opening the doors. A Russian can plead infancy for a long: time, as he does not come of age till he is twenty-six years old. The Amazon Indians use a blowpipe with which they throw an arrow 200 yards with wonderful precision. times his weight : that of a cow, nine times: that of an ox, six times. The Ronmanian crown is made of metal from the cannon captured from the Turks‘ at Plevua in 1877. It is stated that there are 50,000,000 vol- umes in the public libraries of Ainerica,while there are but 21,000,000 in Europe. On a clear night a red light can be seen at a greater distance than a white light ; but on a dark night the reverse is the case. The Indian exhibit at the Chicago World’s Fair will include representatives of every tribe from the extreme north of Terra del Fuego. There is a tooth of Buddha, preserved and worshipped in an Indian temple, which probably all the gold in the world could. not buy. ' The longest canal in the World is the one St. Petersburg. It measures in all 4.472 | miles. Herculile the new French explosive, is so powerful that half a. pound of it, in a recent test, displaced a stone weighing thirty tons. The Czar of Russia is the largest individu- al landowner in the world. The area of his possessions is far greater than that of the ' entire Republic of France. A submarine electrical lamp has been tested in Toulon at a depth of thirty feet. It illuminateda radius of 100 feet. Fish surrounded it like insects about a lamp. It is said that smoke spots can be removed from u. kalsomined or painted ceiling by gently brushing the spot with water in country in the world, having 2,500,000 acres of cork forests, of which 300,000 are made to yield regular crops. The finest cork is obtained from that province. The Italian Ordnance department is con- sidering the purchase of a projectile which, when it bursts, will produce a luminous disc of 100,000-candlepower. It would lighti up an enemy’s camp with great brilliancy. Three-quarters of a second is the time oc- cupied by the fall of the knife in the guillotine. The knife is weighted by 120 pounds of lead, falls 9 feet, and cuts through flesh and bone as easily as through a bar of soap. There are reported to be more Jews in three of the twenty<four wards of New York I city than in the whole of Great Britain and Ireland. In Sitka, when an Indian wife has lost her husband by death, she goes into mourning by painting the upper half of her face a deep black. Three good washes are received by an Abyssinian during his careerâ€"«at his birth, on his marriage morn, and at his death. At all other times he shuns soap and water. Drowning, as a. punishment for crime, was legally enforced in Scotland up to the year 1611. The same punishment prevailed idn England up to a few years before this ate. England imports annually about 50,000. tons of palm oil ; but it is considered that i this is a very small amount compared with what might be the case were the enormous i supplies fully or even moderately realized. It is not generally known that an orange hit in the exact centre by a rifle ball will i vanish at once from sight. ' is the fact. scatters it in such infinitesimal pieces that it is at once lost to sight. There is a tree in Jamaica known as the even after being severed from the Only by fire can it be entirely destroyed. The oldest arm-chair in the world is the m a low monotone ; or long, glassy waves is throne once used by Queen Hatsfu, who: flourished in Egypt 1600 Ii. C. It is made of ebony, beautifully carved, and is so burdened with age as to appear to be carved from black marble. In a cave in the Pantheon, the guide, by striking the flaps of his coat, makes a noise I with his line and hook, and generally with 1 equal to that produced by firing ii. twelve {pound cannon. their hooks and lines. One do one of these . near Viborg, Finland, a stone thrown down In the cave of Smellin, Wild animal. which extends from the frontier of China A CITY OF THE DEAD. The Awful Convnlslon which Bur-led Beautiful Pompeiiâ€"The Calamity Re. called by: "loner to the Scene. “ Day was turned into night, and light into darkness; an inexpressible quantity of ashes and dust was ured out, delugiug land, sea and air, an burying two entire citiesâ€"Herculaneuin and Pompeiiâ€"while the people were sitting in the theatre.” Such, being interpreted from the Latin, is the brief allusion made by Dion Cassius in one of his histories (Lib. lxvi.) to the tearâ€" ful catastrophe of an August night in 79 A. 1)., when the recentl urestored city of the Pompeisns was finely overwhelmed and hidden beneath twenty feet of debris from Vesuvius, for seventeen hundred years. For Pompeii had been shattered to its founda- tions only a few years before, by a terrible earthquake of Vesuvius. in A. D. 63, a vio~ lent oscillation of the mountain, accom- panied by lightning and 'great noise, shook the city; the walls clashed and fell, the stone streets were uphesved, and the citizens reduced to a state of utter panic and distress. But they did not despair. At once they set to work to rebuild their Courts of Common Appeal, their Forum, and their private houses : they drew their best archi- tects and artists together, and, with the improved ideas of Roman art. adorned their newly-built city with beautiful frescoes, sculptures, and mosaics. No pains were spared to beautify itâ€"a poor humble village of little fame, threatened hourly by the wrath of the mountain towering above it; yet in our eyes a city of exquisite art, the highest perfection of Roman skill in sculpture and painting, and a standing object of wonder that such skill should have been twice lavished on a city doomed to de- struction. Yet, from histories written stthe time, and soon after the time of the destruc- tions of the city, we learn much definite factâ€"that the city was beautiful to a hi h degree, that wealthy Romans and Neapo i- taus, as well as Pompeisns, occupied houses in it, and lived in luxurious style and splendour. We also learn some interesting facts as to the topography of the land at that time. The sea almost lapped the southern gate of the city, and thither it was that the chariots used to be driven down, where the citizens embarked in their ships, and merchants landed their goods. The force of Nature, however, altered the contour of the land considerably, and Vesuvius sent its streams of lava, scoria, and rapilli for three or four miles southward where now, between Pompeii and the sea, oranges, lemons, pomegranates, and vines grow in profusion, scouting the hot air. Pompeii, in short, is nowâ€"what is left of it-â€"an inland city, and a city of the dead. To-day no togns flaunt the sunlight with their bright dyes; no sandalled feet nor rattling chariot wheels echo through the narrow, stone-paved streets: Nydia, the blind girl beloved of Glaucus, is heard no more singing her songâ€" Buy my flowers. oh buy. Iprav, The blind girl comes from afar: If the earth be as fair as 1 hear them say, These flowers her children are. Only wild maidenhair now grows in the nooks and crannies of the ruined walls ; and hats at sunset flitter and flap in the shadowa, haunting the silence. Parasols of all shades and patterns, white flannel trousers and trousers and “ blazers,” cameras and opera glasses, tell by day of the revolution of seventeen centuries. Those whose time is limited will at least observe the deep ruts worn by the chariot wheels in the stone- paved streets, also the beautiful mosaics which here andthere have been left un- touched by the hand of the vandal or by time; the fragmentary frescoes which still adorn the walls of the private villas; and the devices employed in those remote days for the conveyance of water. Leaden pip- ing is visible in many places, with neatly executed taps and jetsâ€"a marvel of what the citizens could do in their day. One is inclined to think, when beholding these things, that the ancients were more skilled than ourselvesâ€"certainly they had reached the highest pitch of art and culture when the dark pull fell and silenced them for ever. \Vith visits to Pompeii wemust combine visits to the famous Museum in Naples in order to learn fully the history of the an- cient arts of sculpture and painting. The Museum contains, as is well known, many priceless relics in marble and bronzeâ€"not. only priceless in themselves as high works of art, but also as affording an admirable insight into the life of the citizensâ€"the food they ate, the vessels they drank from, the dress they wore, the jewellery, and the ordinary necessaries of daily life. But it is given to few to devote time to the full up reciation of these valuable relics rescued rom Herculnneum sud Pompeii; few may {ford time to linger over the incomparable figure of youn Narcissus as he listens to the song of Be 10 ; to mark the exquisite grace of Diana as she bends forth to the I . snob: hOWB'I'el', | bow ; or to study with satisfaction the fine Shooung “ithmugh the centre. bust of the Emperors of fallen Rome. Then we are twain among the silent streets of the buriec city, listening for the about from the Theatre, the splash of life tree, on account of its leaves growing ; water from the baths the rattle of chariot I plant. I wheels in the by-ways. But We listen in vain ! Far away down the twinkling, roast- ing shore, the din of Naples comes to us come rolling in upon the ach in heavy pulsations. Look down from the ramparts into the Theatre belowâ€"the Tragic Theatre, where once Tragedy was acted in its fullness. Grass and inaidcnliair fill the crevices be' tween the dislodged stones. Allis confu- sion and lack of symmetry ;nll is a deathly stillness. Yonder, without the city wall, stands the dismantled amphitheatre ; and 0 Cérmln 3b)?“ Flak“ 3' r‘él'erberéting who ! beyond it, hugged to his neck with scoria which sounds like the dying wail of some and “has, the destroyer of an city_Vesu. vius. Already the sun has purpled him In Turkey, if amen falls asleep in the d . '1 my be 1}, f - t ' t. jum ed in, and rescued the boy. I was neighbourhood of a fpolrapy field and the 2:,J,?d°‘c,;,§: ,fifiingznaflagnffi me: e to ‘ wards him. he do ten 8 to art: ' ‘ h- beoonics narcotiscd, and would die, if the gumafiug aman' 0"” ’ an 8“. “mg the shore or crown apparently 0011“th people. Who “8 we" acquainted inaccessible heights. Again the sound of with the circumstances, did not bring him traffic and busy ife comes to us as we stand to l ‘79" 01' “mam 3"“ empty Pitcher after gazing northward to the city where 300,000 pitcher of water on his face and body. Of all vegetable phenomena in tropical bustle and activity. climates the Pale de Vacs is one of. the most remarkable. Although it fr uently rows upon the bare sides of a roedlt, and has dry coriseeons or leatheryvlike leaves, yet it is productive of a very glutinous liq- uid. For months its leaves are not mois- silence that may be felt. ,tened by a single drop of rain, and its hand on Pompeii. She isacaptive for ever souls are toiling, hurrying, clamouring, in There, an unending moon of life ; the city sleeps not by night nor day, it knows no rest, no peace. Here, an intense silence, where sombre shadows fall through the twilight, and gossaniers deck the spider’s web at day dawn ; it is a Ruin has laid her Which council“ lb“ {mailer 0‘ Chi“ Wi‘h lbrsnches and boughs a pear entirely dried -â€"-a city of the dead. St. Petersburg. Its length is 4,472 miles. It is calculated that there is roperty value $210,000,000 at the bottom 0 the At. lautic. ‘ be as nourishing as the milk of the cow. : up ; but when the iron is pierced it gives ‘out a plenteous supply of yellow juice, l having a balsamic Wasps’ nests often catch fire from the perfume, and is said to ' chemical action of the wax upon the paper- juke material. I' LATE FOREIGN NEWS . Thirty years ago there was a great out- cry a sinst the lighting of St. Stephen’s Oath ral at Vienna by gas. The Anch- bishop has now introduced electricity. A visitor to Marshal Machlahon says that the Marshal is still a guest sportsman. He starts out with his gun at six in the morning and walks twelve or fifteen mile: a day. His hand is firm and his aim ll sure. According to statistics compiled by the International TeleEraph Bureau, there were despatched in urope during the year 1891, 207,595,000 telegrams: in the remain- ing portion of the world, 83,422,000, a total of 296,017,000. A resident of Lawrence, Kain, received a letter last week which was mailed in Chi- cago twelve years ago. Itwas “ accidentally discoverei ” in a ventilator shaft with a wad of other mail. The Tourist Zeitung publishes a list of Alpine accidents for 1892. There were 32 fatalities in 311,926 having occurred in ascents without guides and 6 with guides. Twenty- six were tourists and 6 were guides. Ten were caused by attempts to gather edelweiss. The river Nile has a fall of but six inches to 1,000rmiles. The overflow commences in June every year and continues until Aug- ust, attaining an elevation of from twenty- four to twenty-six feet above low-water mark, and flowing through the Valley of Egypt in a turbulent body twelve miles wide. During the last one thousand years there had been but one sudden rise of the Nile, that of 1829, when 30,000 people were drowned. Since ‘ the war of ’70-71, twenty-two years, the military expenditures of France have been fifteen millards three hundred and sixty-eight millions of francs, or about $3,800,000.000. This sum is exclusive of the five millinrds paid to Germany as an indemnity, of the sum expended on the navy, and of the amount used in building strategic railroads and the payment of mili- tary pensions. An Engliin Railway carriage company is building for an Indian potentate three sn- perb railway carriages, which will constitute a palace on wheels. In the framework of each carriage is to be used £40 worth of teak to resist the ravages of insects. The suite of carriages includes do. and night apartments for the rince an his i‘etinue, and ulsoa cuisine cpartmeutâ€"the latter having the facilities to carry two tons of water and two tone of ice. At the mamruvres near Spandau, Ger many, special orders were issued that the country between Gutow and Cnrolinenhoehe should be cleared of everybody outside the army, as the troops were to practise with the new ball cartridges. Despitegjdl warn- ings, a servant girl went to work in‘rt garden on the outskirts of Gatow. A stray bullet shattered her arm and entered her left breast. She was removed to a Spundav hospital, where she died a few hours later. British postal cards of the value of one halfpennyâ€"-â€"correspouding to our one-cent cardsâ€"have always sold at three furthings each. The penny cards recently put on sale for foreign correspondence sell ldr just one penny, the simple amount of the post- age, as all cards sell here. The British people now want to know why cent post cards don’t sell for u. cent, and one member of Parliament has figured that the revenue from the extra fartliing on each post card brings in to the Government over $110,000 a year. The annual sale of postal cards is about 230,000,000. The desire to serve the country by holding public office, be the post ever so humble, seems to be about as strong in France as anywhere else. The Prefect of the Seine had recently 1,071 offices at his disposal, all of a minor importance, and for these offices he had over 40,000 applicants. The offices were mostly as supernunierury clerks, port- ers, local customs collectors, tobacco shop- keepers, and even chief funeral mules and cemetery rangers. There was only one office that lacked a candidate. That was the office of teacher of manual labour in the elementary schools. There was no aspirant for this situation. The Roman journal L’Itali'a. says, since the French mnnmuvrcs, that “ the work that the French have accomplished durin the late manicuvres is admirable beyond question, and it gives a clear ides. of their powerful military organization including the railway service. Without being jealous of our neighbors, we would be glad if their example could be followed in our country. In truth, we are far, indeed, from the French organization, and our inferiority is rendered more painful by the fact that it is complete- ly ignored. We believe that we are almost on the top of the mountain, when in reality we are at the foot.” News has just reached Rome of a shock- iiig occurrence in ii. sulphur mine near Palermo. \Vliile work was in progressan accumulation of noxious fumes took place at an unexpected point, and fivo men were immediately overcome, and shortly after. wards succumbed. An alarm was soon raised, and two gendsrines and a man cuter- ed the mine in the hope of succouriug the unfortunate men. These courageous people wore also suffocated, and it has been found impossible for the present to recover the bodies. Lieutenant Welder, a French officer, has completed his ride from Sedan to Rheims and back in ‘24 hours, with 40 minutes to spare, on his mare Incartade. Starting from Sedan at one o’clock in the morning, he reached Rhciins about half-pest nine, and after a short rest commenced the re- turn journey, arriving at Sedan at 20 min- utes past midnight. Altogether about 151 miles were covered, and the feet was per- formed undcr very unfavourable condio tions, fora strong wind was blowing and the rain came down in torrents nearly the whole of the time. Hans Nielsen, of Copenhagen, has had the probably unique experience of being sentenced to death three times. Such is the lcnity of Danish law, or rather the in- disposition of the authorites to proceed to extreme measures, that this notorious crim- inal has already been re rieved twice and relegated to prison for a on term. It was in prison that he committed lie but albums, for be murdered one of his jailets. Niel- sen be on his career of crime at the age of eight y setting fire we. farm-house, and it is doubtful whether he has ever earned m honest penny in the whole course of his existence. He was formerly resident in London.