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st 1 ) LATE Foreign news. Rafael Meir Fanidg‘el, Haham Bashi, died ' the first. week of January. The silver wedding of the King‘and Qzeeu of Italy will be ulebrated April 22. 2d. Clemenceau, the French duelist, rides a bicycle and he is fond of it as a means of traveL Baron Hirsch has only eight horses in training, but his last season’s winnings amounted to $165,000. Pasteur was affected to tears by the warmth of the reception tendered to him on his 70th birthday at the Paris Ins titute. In breaking up the Volta, an old wooden rruiser of the French Navy, a loaded shell lvas found in her timbers. It is believed the shell was fired into her at the bombard- ment of Foochow, nine years ago. The Sultan has ordered a competitive trial of Krupp and Call cannon. The latter are used by the French army, and the Ottoman army has been using the former. King Leopold of Belgium, who has been on one of his periodic visits to London, is reported to have spent a great deal of his spare time making a round of the music halls. A farm-house which Napoleon used as head-quarters after the battle of Ebelsberg, situated near the Austrian town of that name, was lately destroyed by an incendi< ary. An English journal, the Optician claims that most great men have blue eyes. It cites Napoleon. Bismarck, Gladstone, and every President of the United States except Harrison. ' Several large cargoes of raw cotton grown in Russian Central Asia were recently shipped at Odessa to German ports. The Russians are sanguine that there will be a vigorous development of the cotton-growing industry there in the near future. The quality of the cotton so far, however, has been inferior. ‘ Queen Victoria has commanded the exe- cutiou of ektensive repairs in Holyrood Palace. Queen Mary’s audience-chamber and supper-room, with the adjoining'corri- dor, are to be thoroughly cleaned and re- stored, as well as the staircase and the pic- ture gallery. Russian female convicts in Siberia are in future, if a proposal made by theMinis- ter of Justice to the Imperial Council is ratified, to be exempted from flogging and wearing lcg irons. Restrictions indict and solitary confinement are .be substituted. There are 10,000 individuals in Paris who make a living by nothing but begging ; 6,000 beggars live in about 410 lodging houses, scattered over the city ; 4,00031eep at wine shops, or in the open air, and about 300 of the aristocracy of the begging communit live in private apartments or houses. » 7 Austria announces an electric locomotive which is to travel 1'25 miles an hour. The [luleprruImn-v Belg/n follows with the state- ment'that the North Belgian Company and the North France Company are constructing a line for locomotives, operated by electri- city, ou which the journey from Brussels to Paris, about 192 miles, will be accomplished in eighty minutes, a speed of nearly 150 miles an hour. It is further stated that the trains will be running in about two months. There has been a phenomenal absence of snow in the Swiss Alps this winter, and the matter is said to be becoming serious for both visitors and natives. Transport is hampered by sledges being useless, and the Julier Pass is traversed on wheels, a mid- wintcr circumstance previously unknown. The mountain slopes around St. Moritz are bare of snow, and it has been impossible to construct the toboggan slides usually such a great attraction there. Skating has, how- ever, heen especially good. . . . this is excellent, Baron Hirsch’s noble The chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. Remake,” can nuke sated). g perceptime acres, and £l60 for buildings, plant, .tc., which they are expected to repay in ten years. Comment is made that, while all impression on the mass of JeWish distress in Russia. It. would take, it is urged, an. emigration of 50,000 Jews a vear merelyl to keep down the natural idcrement of population, if calculated only at one per cent. per annum. The Jewish Colonization Association’s first report of the progress thus far made in settling Jewxeh refugees, chiefly from Rus- sia, in hospitable lands, show that up to the 20th of last September some £800,001th the original capital of £2,000,000 had been ex- pended, half of it in the purchase of land and the other half in the settlement of families on the land. The colonies have chiefly been established in the Argentine Republic. One has been formed in Canada, 330,000 acres of land in all have been pur- chased, and about 1,000 families have been there settled. The council of the association believes the undertaking can be made self- supporting, and established on a financially sound basis. Five hundred families wil[ henceforth be settled every year, and it is believed that when the success of the scheme is clear there will be a large emigration of self-supporting families. Each of the fami- lies‘settled by the association receives 100 AN AWFUL SCENE- Onc Thousand People. in :1 Chinese (‘lty Burned to Death. A San Francisco despatch says :--The Celestial Empire, an English ncwspaper of Shanghai, which arrived yesterday by steamer, contains some, interesting details of the disastrous temple fire near Canton, China, which resulted in the death of over 1,000 people. These additional facts show that the brigands who started the fire did not do it in the heat of anger over an un. successful raid, but waited till the follow-, ing night. On the night; before the fire the brigands attempted to rob a theatre in which was being held an exhibition to the Tin Hau Goddess. The gold and silver ornaments excited their cupidity, but soldiers on guard beat them off, wounding several and captur- ing one. The next night while the temper- ary theatre was crowded, fire was seen on the roof. The house was made of matting and bamboo, and in a moment was a. mass of | roaring flames. Many were badly burned by falling bamboo and those not seriously injured rushed to the stre'et. There they en: countered so solid 3. mass of excited people I that they could not get through. In their; alarm, they rushed into the neighboring temple. This caught fire and the scene was awful. The door did not offer sufficient egress for the mass and large numbers were roasted alive. Altogether 1,000 lives were lost, including those burned in the theatre. The neighborhood was literally strewn with bodies. The charitable societies of Canton and other cities sent 700 coffins to give decent burial to the dead. The village suf- fered heavily, as nearly 300 houses were burned. The robbers evidently escaped, as no mention is made of them. A Golden City in Africa. We find in the London Timav a letter giving a striking description of the remark- able town of J obannesburg in the Transvaal, which is well called " The Golden City.” Its name even does not appear on the maps . of Africa issued ten years ago. It will be i a surprise to multitudes to know that there is any such spot on the African continent. The city stands upon a gold reef, upon which reef fifty companies are now work- ing, employing 3,370 white men and over 1 32,000 natives. Of the city of Johannes- burg itself, the writer says : i “It is neither beautiful nor impressive ! ' from the aesthetic point of view, but it i ~ might be set down as it stands in any part 0f 134,333 recruits received into the of the civilized world. It has apopulation German “my Md navy recently only 3.34 of about 40,000. The buildings are good, could not read or write. There were 179,- 886 who could both read and write German and 3,672 who‘ could read and write only in a foreign language. It is said that the Czarcwitz of Russia manifests his sympathy for Germany in many ways and that he has his rooms dec- orated with portraits of the late Emperors William and Frederick and of Moltke, Bis- maer ‘hnd other German notabilities. The British 'Blinister at Constantinople has called the attention of the Parts to the interesting doings of the Press Censor in his handling of the New Testament, hymnl books, and other Christian books intended for circulation in the Turkish provinces. The l’ortc has promised redress. Something of the character of the changes made mavl be gathered from the one instance of the insertion of the word "Christian" before “sinners” in the passage “Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners." Changes of this nature have a tendency to, at least, take the edge 00' Christian mis- sionary effort. The general showing in regard to the vin~ tagc in France last full is not considered to he very satisfactory. The total yield for is made is estimated at 654,348,015 gallons. This is a decrease of some 25,000,4Xl0 as com- pared with '91, and yet some 50,000 more acres were planted in vines. It is, how~ ever, an increase over the two years pre- ceding 1801, and is 25,000,000 gallons above the average of the past live years. But the average hm: been decreasing steadily since 1875, when the ph ylloxera invaded French vineyards. In that year, with 5,550,000 acres in vines, France produced 1,800,000,- 000 gallons. Prof. Garner, who is in Africfs inquiring and experimenting concerning monkey speech, writes to the Balloon Society that he has already gathered much valuable data and is making a beginning of his real work. He wrote from Libreville, French Congo, and said he bad «times there to a fine young chimpanlee and had promise of two young gorillas. The belief that the monkeys talk is very general among the natives and res:- deuts of the interior. He has also gathered much quaint folk lore concerning the apes. He was going on a trip up the Gaboon River, and then to Chaucn, a town in the bush about three hours‘ journey from Libreville, on the south side of the river. His con. templated route thrice is overland via Cape Loch to tl mettl- Come and Augovie, re. turning to Aug.“ in In “or and up that valley 0, 6,13,“ to [he Lime Congo liasm, down the north side of that river to the roast. He hoped to leave in .l musty and complete the journey by August or Mptrmbvr, 15163, and then return homewanl. the streets are broad, there are shops with plate glass windows full of ball dresses and silver plate, the residential quarters are lapidly spreading themselves out into squares and boulevards, a tram line connects them with the business center, for twenty miles east and west- you may see the funnels of milling works smoking against the sky, I the sound of an engine whistle is in youri ( ears, and you find that a tram has been con-l istructed, which runs from one end of the (Rand to the other. The town is lit with { gas, the water is supplied to all its houses, ievery ordinary appliance of civilization is here, and when you remember that it has ‘ull been done in five years, and that every scrap of material has been carried up, and the six pianos waiting at the frontier will ' presently be carried, by ox wagons, you be- l gin to rcalizo something of the extraordin- I ary conditions which can have called so sudden a development int-o existence.” +â€"â€"-â€"â€"- l ' BAILROADING ON THE ms. Trucks lulu Every Wlulrr Across the Fro- l zen St. lawrence. Romance on!" Benin: Book. One of the wildest and most audacious beta ever ofi'ered was that of a physician. named Asotepiades, who wagered that he would never be ill in his whole life. Absurd as it may seem he gained his bet, though of course he was unable to enjoy it. He lived to an advanced age, and met. his death sud- denly in consequence of a fall downstairs. In the year 1634 the Parliament of Dole in France was called upon to decide an ex- traordinary wager between two inhabitants of Pasmes. One of the two had agreed that if the other would pay him :24 francs in hand he would furnish him with a certain num- ber of grains of millet. in proportion to the number of children who should be born within a certain extent, of country, and be baptised, during one year. For the first child he was to furnish one grain, two for the second, four for the third, and so on : always doubling the number of grains for each successive birth. The number of children born was 66, and the proportion of grains to be supplied was so enormous that the party bound by the bet demanded the cancelling of the contract as being founded upon an impracticable condition. The court decided after having made the neces~ A new cantons wacsss. p be declared himself unable to meet, should return that sum to his opponent and should payan additional sum of 245, which was the only chance of loss incurred by the winner if the millet had been furnished. The Count do Ssillant made a bet with the Prince de Conde that he would ride twice from the gate of St Denis to Chantilly at full gallop and return to his starting place in the space of six hours, the distance between the two points being thirty miles. The stake was 10,000 crowns, and the bets on both sides exceeded amillion of francs. The Count equipped himself with atight belt round the waist and his body was swathed with strips of flannel, while he carried a leadcn bullet in his mouth. Relays of horses were stationed on the road .; every- thing that could, in the slightest manner, obstruct the course was carefully removed ; undo. clock was fixed to I the gate of St Denis to mark the precise instant of start- ing and return. The Count accomplished his task with eighteen minutes to spare, in which time he offered to ride to Versailles, a further distance of eleven miles. The year 1725 was extremely wet, and a. banker named Bulliot, noticing that it rain- ed on St. Gervais’ (the French St. Swithin) ' Day, offered to support the popular supersti- tion by a bet that it would be wet for forty consecutive days. Several persons took him, and the wager was reduced to writing in these terms ;-â€"-“ If, dating from St. Ger. vais’ Day, it rains more or less during forty days successively, Bulliot will be considered to have gained; if it cease to rain for only one day during that time Bullion has lost.” On these terms Bulliot, betted against all comers, and on that day be deposited at very large sum of money, for besides what he had lodged in the ’ hands of the umpires, he took gold-headed canes, snuff-boxes, and jewellery of every kind whose value was appraised, and against which be staked money. The affair caused great excitement at the time, and as the chances were decidedly against Bulliot many people were eager to get on the good thing. At last the banker, having deposited all his cash, was forced to give the stake- holder notcs and bills of exchange, and as his credit was well established, he was enabled to issue paper to the amount of fifty thousand crowns. It will readily be conceiVed that the hero of this wager bcv came quite fashionable. \Vherever be ap- peared be attracted attention. But, unfor- tunately, Saint Gervais was not true to his reputation, and it ceased raining beforetthe expiration of the alloted time. Bulliot was ruined, and so completely that he could not honour the notes and bills of exchange which he had given. The holders tried to enforce payment, and as the existing law did not. recognize debts of this character, they on- deavoured to pass themselves 00‘ as bona fide creditors who had taken Bulliot‘s notes for other considerations than the wager, and that they ought to be paid or compounded for ; but the assignees made it appear by the dates and other evidence that all these notes formed part of the wager. They were, therefore, nonsuitcd, and the debts declared irrecoverable. revious to the passing of the Betting Acts, actions used to be allowed in England, and Lord Mansfield tried several. One .vas where two spendthrift young noblemen wagered which of their two fathers would die first and the verdict was given for [.0rd March. Another famous case was that of the Chevalier d’Eon, the point at issue being whether the Chevalier, who, though a mili- tary officer, was of cffeminate appearance, was a man orawoman. The case was heard before Lord Mansfield, and the verdict given that he was a woman. Although the ver- dict was afterwards set aside on legal the company had been sent on in advance, and they-were ready to commence directly the manager arrived. The interlude was layed, the songsung, and 810mm posted to aidstone, a distance of eight miles in forty- four minutes. Here he was welcomed by a house crammed from pit to gallery and ac- complished his task with fifteen minutes to .1 "fill to Wonderful Klmberlcyvâ€"An Accl- delt Dlsclosed lo :1 Paula: THH'CHCI' the Wealth Which lay Beneath an Ari-lean Farm. Less than twenty years ago, writes Mr. Howard Hazell, lll “Hazell’s Magazine,” Kimberley was a farm, just as flat and un- interesting as other farms in the karroo, and it was not. until a passing traveller notic~ ed the pretty and brilliant: stones that the farmers' children were playing with, that any one dreamed of the fabulous wealth of diamonds hidden below. Now Kimberley is a. large and thriving town and until a few years ago it was the centre of trade and business, and upon its prosperity depended the prosperity of South Africa. The town itself is flat, and as uninterestâ€" ing as a town can be, for everybody’s aim seems to have been to make as much money as possible and then leave ; and the result is that, with the exception of one or two streets, the town is composed ofa collect-ion of corrugated iron huts and buildings, all equally hideous in appearance. At grst, each digger had a. small plot of land allot-ted to him, 30 feet by 10 feet, and from the earth be dug out he extracted the diamonds by working and suiting. But as the digging was carried deeper, these claims began to fall in, and complications arose which ended in almost all the mines being purchased by the De Beers Company, who now virtually control the diamond market, and by limiting the output have raised the price and made it a profitable enterprise. What remains of the open mine is an enormous hole in the ground which, very much resembles the holes children are so fond of digging on the seashore. In fact, it might well have been the playground of a gigantic race of children, who had dug these holes~and left them as soon as they had tired of their amusement. The largest of these holes is more than half a mile round and about 500 feet; deep, and as there are four mines all nearly as litrge, one can form some rough idea of the enormous amount of earth that has been re; moved in searching for the precious pieces of carbon. , At present all the mining is done by underground tunnelling, the same as in a coal mine ; and thanks to an introduction I hadto the general manager, I was granted the exceptional favour of going below. I met: the underground managerâ€"u canny Yorkshire minerâ€"at the time, and attired myself in an old canvas jacket, 0. pair of trousers, and a slouch hat, which a. tramp would not have accepted as a. gift. Another visitor completed the trio, and we managed to squeeze ourselves into a little lift only 2 feet 6 inches square, and at the word “ All right" we were shot from the brilliant light of an African sun into utter darkness, which was only occasionally relieved as We rattled down past the different levels. To our right was another shaft, up which the earth is taken, and we Would now and then hear the big skip rush up with a. roar and rumble at something like thirty miles an hour. -Down and down we went, until I thought. we were never going to stop ; but at last we gradually slowed up, and then stopped with a. jerk at the seven hundred and fifty feet level. Before us was a scene which I shall never forget. Picture to yourself a. large cavern, which might. well have been the entrance to hell, dimly lit by a few electric lights, and filled with mist and sulphurons fumes, spare. . these pretty stones are here considered . valueless. IN THE DIAMOND DIGGINGS' One afternoon I went into the offices of and the" diamonds picked out. 'it was very interesting to watch the men sortin over these stones. About a bushel won d be brouglxt in and thrown down on a tin-coup ed ta 1e, and they would thenbe turned over with a piece of tin, and the diamonds picked out and put in a sort .of‘ locked poor-- box. Gar-nets are found in great numbers, and the De Beers Company and saw a parcel of diamonds being sorted. . 0n along bench in front of the windows were piles of diamonds of all sizes, shapes, and colors,~laid out on white paper in much the same way as sugar is wei hed out at a grocer's. Tho diamonds varie in size from a hazel-nut: to a pin’s head, and though chiefly of that pure white color which is the marked characteristic of diamonds, yet some were grey, pink, and other tints. The diamonds on the table were about £30,000 in value in the rough, and of course would be \vortlrmuch more when polished ; and I longed to be able to bring away a few of the finest. Diamonds are all sold at. so much per carat and-at presett the average price is 295. 6d. per carat ; but the price varies from is. or 52', for the smallest and common- est stones, called “boart” (which are used for grinding the diamonds), up to almost any price for a large and beautitul stone. A’WONDROUS SBA STORY. line Bulow sweeps u Snllor Prom ills Shlp. Another Brings lllm Back. After a terrific combat with winds and waves the British steamship British Prince came into New York the other day with the story of a rescue more startling than anything Clark Russell ever dared to write. The British Prince came from Mediterranean ports. As soon as she got outside the Straits of Gibraltar shc encountered the fierce gales which have been recently mak- ing such havoc on-the North Atlantic. She is not a large steamer, and though stench and well found, she had a hard time of it, the waves breaking over her decks and pounding her back as she struggled to ad- vance. Still, inch by inch she struggled on, until her coal began to give out and she ran into St. Michael’s, in the Azores, for a fresh supply. After leaving St. Michael’s she met the same kind of weather as before, and had it up to Sandy Hook. \Vhen 400 miles east by south of Sandy Book the steamer sighted what Captain Innis, who commands the British Prince, thought was a pilot boat. A heavy south-west; gale was blowing,and a tremendous sea was running. The supposed pilot boat was headed south and had not a stitch of canvas up. She was apparently deserted. The pilot commis- sioners say there is no pilot boat in that region from New York, and none at sea for which any fear is felt. Still Captain Innis thinks it was a pilot boat. , It was 3 o’clock in the afternoon when the supposed pilotxboat was sighted. Three hours later, as the captain was eating his supper, and doing so with considerable difficulty on account of the pounding and the rolling of the ship,and thesccond oflicer was on the bridge, a great wave, which the first officer says was “like a cliff,” came over the bows, carrying away everything before it. The Sweodish boatswain of the ship, Charles Lastadius, was on what is called the “ fly bridge,” a structure extend- ing out in front of the real bridge. He saw the cliff of water falling on him and grasped a. stanchion. Stanchion and man were swept away like leaves before a. hurricane. The second officer saw the boatswain rise on the to of awave close on the starboard hand. t was bright starlight, so the struggling man could be seen as he was swept along on the great surging billows, and he was shouting for help. Thomas Jones is the second officer’s heme through which emerged thenaked forms ofl and Mr, Jones made one of the greatest, dusky and Perspmflg “3‘71"65» W110 W?” casts of any kind ever read in the seafaring hauling and emptying the “11033 thh tales. He grabbed a life-buoy which was had- been filled ‘Vlth the Premous bluclhanging handy on the bridge, and threw it. earth. Toward this Oliver" “In several out into the waves with such precision that tunnels. equally filmy 1“? and fun 0f V8" . it settled down over the boatswain’s head, pO‘II‘. Wthh "mnlth huh truckflter lEWCk i just as the people at Coney Island threw of blue earth. WhICh was speedily “"115de l rings over cheap canes in the booths of the to the surface by the enormous skip. I At first I was bewildered by the noise and the peculiar surroundings, but I soon became need to it, and stumbled along after our guide down one of the galleries. These galleries only measured about 5 feet in height, and in many places less than that; while the ground was worn away in- to ruts and holes, in and out of which we stumbled, often up to our ankles in black slush, and groping our way as best we could by the-light of the candle we carried in our hands. From the main tunnels ' branch off side workings, and at thesel points the air was suffocating. \Vhat with the number of candles burning in the mine, the dynamite used, and the number of men workings the air becomes unbearably hot and stifling in the higher levels. The per-l spiration was streaming from my face ; and even the natives seemed to feel the heat, for I often could only distinguish them from I “ fakirs ” in summer time. The man pulled it down under his arms, and though the water was so intensely cold that it numbed him, struggled bravely for life. The cap- tain, hearing the cry of “ man overboard," ran on deck and ordered the ship backed down toward where the boatswuin could be seen, rising on the top of the giant waves in the starlight,anddriving tothe northeast. The steamer backed down past the man, trying to get near him, and then a great wave swopt him around the bows to the front side of the ship. Then he was swept away into the night and Captain lnuis lost sight of him. But the captain heard a loud cry from him, and noting a star in the direction from which the cry came he steered by that star and soon saw him again bobbing like a cork on the foaming crest of tho starlit waves. The steamer ran toward the strug- gling man and then close to him, until he The communications between the two‘ grounds, it was allowed to settle many other the rock; by the candle-light glistening on was just, “bear” “loge abounp A we,“ wave the seveutv~six departments in which wine shores of the St. Lawrence River at Mont- bets laid on the same question. According real are made, as is known, by the means 0 : sary calculation, that the wager was natur- T ally impossible to be fulfilled, and it conse- quently decreed that. the party who had re- ceived the Bit on condition of an event which i to a contemporary authority, this decision , their naked and perspiring bodies. We descended a vertical ladder to thel the Victoria Tubular Bridge, constructed] was instrumental in retaining in this coun- level beneath, find here we had to wait some thirty five years ago, which is the: try no less a sum than £lo,OoO, which would whilst a, chm-go of dynamlte exploded, we: longest in the world, the metallic span being ’ 6,500 feet long. - But from this point to the Atlantic, for a distance of 1,000 miles, there is no other! bridge and all the railroads established on , both sides the St. Lawrence have necessari- ' l_v to cross it. The company of the Grand Trunk railroad, which built it. levies arigltt of way toll of $10 per car and eight cents( per passenger. ‘ To avoid payment of these moneys the S. i E. railroad company had the idea, some ten | years ago, of constructing in Winter a com~ l munication between the two shores by a means of a railroad established on the ice. , Every winter the work is done over again. 5 and it amply pays for the outlay. Thel length of this ice road is about two miles, between Hochelaga and Longueil. The roadway is easily built. The track l leaves the main track parallel to the shore, ‘ flier: curves radually in such a manner as to be perpen icnlar to it, and, then, again, l before it strikes the other share, it curves: anew so as to become nearly parallel to the . otherwise have been transmitted to Paris. The Chevalier, after declaring that she (or lie) had no interest whatever in these bets upon the question of sex, left England for France. and assuming female attire, enjoyed l a pension from the French Government, for having been long a spy of Louis .\'\'., till the breaking out of the Revolution in 1790. He then went to England, and being in great distress lived with a lady of reputation as her companion. but- on his death in ISIU he was found, on post-mortem examination, to be a man ' ~ Some fifty years ago, John Sloman, the actor, who was then manager of the five theatres comprised in what was called the Kent circuit, made a bet of a hundred pounds that hewould act the part of Tom in i the interlude of Intrigue, and sing a comic - song at Wit his theatres on the same night beth the hours of seven and eleven. The theatres selech were those of Center- buryklloflflateq and Maidstone, between whiélgplae'es theta was at that time no rail- way communication. On the appointed all waited iu_silence, which was only broken by the drip, drip of water oozing through the rock, and the heavy breathing of some of the natives, who were glad of a short respite fro n their arduous work, when sud- denly there wasa was and a rush of air which blew out all our candles and made my ears throb painfully. We were then allowed to continue our walk, the air being more filled with fumes ‘ than before. Thus we went on for nearly two hours, along one tunnel as far as the working end, examining the progress of each gang of men, until I was fain to say that I had had enough, and should beglad to return to the surface. So we three, tired, dirty, and perspiring mortals entered the lift once more, and were soon drawn to the surface, where in the glorious daylight, and with the blue sky above me, all our subterranean ex. perience seemed a hideous nightmare. The blue-earthâ€"it is so called from its colorâ€"is taken in trucks to the “floors " (large open spaces, some miles in extent), where the earth is laid out and allowed to 0990309 Side. “‘1 “1°” 1‘ is mama“! With evening the curtain rose at the Canterbury , pulverire by the action of sun and rain. the main track on this shore. ; â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€".â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"-â€" Four thousand nine hundred and fifteenf jumped into a post-chaise, and made for the earth is washed and sifted. all the dia- his {.w, When he became com house exactly at seven ; Slomeu went through his part. and sang a comic song, then l After some months it is again taken up, 1 and carried to the washing machine, where reared itself with the boatswain on its crest and dashed him against the vessel's rail. He grasped it as a drowning man would, and the have, receding, left him there. The mun was dazed, as well as he might be and clung so tightly to the rail that. it took five of his shipmates to loosen his hold and carry him below. Hot water, hot whisky and hot cloths soon brought. him about all right, and when the British Prince arrived here yesterday he was none the worse for his remarkable ad venture. Ayoung woman died at Leigh, England, last week from the effect of being struck in the eye by a snowball, thrown at her in fun by a boy. She never rallied from the blow. When Hencral Butler was making an electionecring trip through Massachusetts ina s ecial car witha party of friends he woul- often call the children inside who came to the station to see him. One of these, in Springfield, was a bright little girl. He asked her if she knew him. “You'refleneralButler."was her prompt reply. “How do you know I’m General hat or?" he inquired interestedly. “Be- cause you‘re cock-eyed," was the daring answer. And the General lay back in his chair and laughed until the tears ran down ed be new books and 1,339 new editions. a total l Rochester asfaet- as four good horses could men-ls and heavy stones falling to the bof- “id; " That’s fame for you. 'Ihat’s in. l ‘of 0.2:“. were published in England last} year. This is an increase of more. than 500 .9 over the production in 1591. 1 take him, covering the distanceâ€"~twenty- six miles «in an hour and forty minutes, larger portion of the stones, and those that changing horses at Sittingbourue. Part of are left are carefully sorted over by hand tom. Another machine washes away the dividual eminence. Even the rising ens girl receveid a silver dollar and a kit“ ‘etation know of my might 1" That 1 tth h