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oyster In per by the gaolor, and was driven inmu titans h the town, the sheriff and tho police mnsgistnto taking part in the ooegs.edin Such is the ubtement of the motive journal 5% Fiction. It in to ho hoped the story innot two; for if it in, it would up that oflioen of the low no doing thp but to make bribery respect The Postmaster-General says that the convention for a parcel poet sen ice between Chanda and the United States had been ii nod by himself and Postmaster-General V and only requires the signature of Pruident Cleveland to make it legal. The terms agreed upon were satisfactory to both Governments and it had been arranged for the service to be inaugurated on March 1. The burÂ¥lnry in Montreal on Saturday we: certein y one of the moat extreordinuy on record. Not content with carrying away three iron niceâ€"one Inge one worth $1,800 -â€"t.he enteniricing burghre mode nwer with boob, boo men, deekl, chairs, otter- preeeee, counters, and even the flooring, in- cluding the joints. When the proprietor of the unlocked premises came upon the scene In the morning he no doubt felt grnteful thnt the ceiling and walls were still left to him. In such a case even the emulleet mer- cieeere grently to be appreciated. At a tea meeting in e New Brunswick parish there were some unusual featuree provided. In one corner of the church an enclosure was prepared, within which two young ladies were sawing wood into stove engthe. In another corner were two {oung men making a patchwork quilt. Al for e dngle admiuion. Tickets ten cents. Itie awender that in order to make the leap year efi'ect complete, the young pastorâ€" and he must have been a very young pastor -â€"wee not Ihut up in another corner and a detachment of young ladlee en aged to mm him with proposals of ma age. When one of the politicians imprisoned ior bribery in Prince Edward County had coniploted bin _terr_n in gap] he w_u givgn tn The lMp Britannia. from the Mediterran no, wimp 850 people aboard, is now at; days out due At N ew York. h: “er Stetion. Monok ; Spenirh River Notion, gomn :Yonge Hills, South Leeds. It In reported thet the Prince Edwerd hinder- ere indignant over the feilure of the Domini": Government to mnintein regu- hl' communication between the ialnnd end the mninlnnd, which is declared to be thin winter more incomplete end irregular then for nanny years. A echeme for establishing e penal colony in the North-Went Territoriee adjoining the Athehuce River, with s View to the devel- opment end rettlernent of that region, in mood by Warden Bedron, of Monitobe tentiu-y and endorsed by Mr. Moylan. hlpeotor of Prison, in his annual report. h @319 first specie} flog train rfron_1_Mi‘nnee: towing mode the journey in five days despite the heavy snow end severe cold. The train hit immediately for Boston, where it in ex- pected to lend the flour on the seventh day diet leaving Minneapolis. The preotioee in many matters in the ver- ions provinces ere curious] divergent. In Non Sootie end British 00 umbie there ere divorce courts, but there ere none here. In Non Scotin street one my be run on Sun- dny, on driving, ecoording to the courts is not senile lebour; in Quebec they mey he run to carry people to church; in Ontario they must not be run under any circum- stences. In British Columbia Snndny news. pope" are published. and the closing oi «icons on Sundlej is e mutter {or munici 1 mad not provine regulation. Here Sunfly in observed unanimously, except, as the low prevides, 1) Indians. liere t e Legislature regulntee t a municipal franchise. In New Brunswick the city council fixes the voting qualification. Tho orofter agitation in Scotland and tho mtl'tltho movement in Walea are rapidly growing more Ierioua. why my of the Sault Ste. Marie and Idnnlftcgfio ‘nilvny‘regcheg Mogtregl. It in reported in Berlin that Italy In pro- puing to lend 150,000 troops to Gallcla in the event of war. od will therefore Inn to uni: mother orb to elect it; own bishop. II). followin new t offices were estab- IM in Oak: .:llt Anion. North M53; Bluckwoll” Station, Lombton; 0» lion!!!" 1 Pe- Mesm-p -Mseh» The New York World seys thet whet Henitobe vents worse then enything else is e new elimete. New climete yourself 2 Ieeltobe will be ploughing before Dekote, “atom or Minnesote find out where they left their fences lest fell. It is roposed by leedln members of the Der of ontreel to cell en dignetion meet- et en eerly dete to proteat egelnst the 25¢» of the_Lo_eel end Dominion_Qovern- neat to remedy the patent anti-factory “dwell of the udminintnfion of justice. Tho Arohbiohop of Canterbury hu do chad tonominoto obi-hop for Nova Seotio, u the Provinciol Synod will not Quorum fio ntiflqotion of yhls nomineo, and the inlet- to leoee 3v; ht. There plenty of (leg but theyogllfid not be ht. Emma Grunt, of Queen's University, we thet when all the cenvmere report nextweek itwillheiound thetthe quarter on million re nixed for the jubilee endow- ment fund hu euhecribed. Compinint hue been node to the Dominion Government thete men who «coped from A hiol lcel exemlnetion of temple. at “town :fty weter mode in Toronto hue demon-tread tint the weter is unduly in- eeted with hector-in, though it in not settled definitely whether they ere typhoid fever gel-In- or not. he Toronto Board of Trade deolded tor epply to the Dominion Parliament for mndmente to their Act of Incorporation giving them power to compel the nttendnnce of witnauee in once of nrbitrntion and to enforce nwerd !. WADIAN. '1‘. Bell telephone pinata hue been eul- . In Mexico. Indln WM 3t Fort MuoLeod e in! den ego we! thought to be Deetfoot. but he tum outtobeBed Dried Meet, [wobbly emu relation. . M et Seddle Luke, N. W. T., was 5 Mm_ t eeeeonpwlng to '3}te lggeote THE WEEK’S NEWS. FORE"! N. A reporter tor the P311 Mull Gazette re- cently convened with Mr. Benlett, superin- tendent oi the London Zoolo icel Gardens, about his experience with the. ippopotamne. According to Mr. Berelett’e account, thin curious enimnl mnkee an interesting pet, nlthoughâ€"u in the one with name hunnn nnimnlrâ€"ite tern er in rather uncertain. it would he etreimng e point to cell it thin- ekinned, since its skin in two inches or more thick, but there ere times, to soy the least, when it seem-"to be. .unoomfortnblx touchy. Obach, the first hippopotamus thot came to the gardens, we: presented by the Viceroy of Egypt in 1851. He died in 1879. For some reason or other the brute got ottached to me. I believe it Wu become I tolked to him whenever I new him. We were the greatest of friends, and he was so docile that I used to ride on his book. In 1852, I was eng ed in mounting a speci- men hi po for the Eye“! Palnce, and went into 0 ch’e den to make some measure- ments. Thinking no evil I we: bus with my tape, when it an deuiy Iii oped, nndythe brute turned Aroungi on we with n__ iugiouejnort, Â¥_A‘L!_, I uhing his jaw. fiercely. I rushed for my Ego, and escaped through the rails; the keeper. who was with me, did the same. It we ‘I very near thing, lqdeed, fer bothpf no. At present we bevg'onâ€"Goge' $555553}; here.â€"the den hter of Obtainâ€"who wee born in 1872. ell, one dey u day do sex-oiled cuuell into the udene end stop before the to of the ippo’e outeide in- closure. men. There are further niche divisions of cavalry on a complete war footing and re ceiving already war pay, close upon the frontiers towards Germany and Austriaâ€" namely, one each s Kovno, Wilna, Lomshs, Alexandrov and Tchenstock of looking to; ward German , and at Lublin, Samostye, Dubno and K of looking toward Austria. The four divisions stationed at Romny. Tchovgovyef, Jelisavetqrad and Kishenci can be transported to the frontier in a few days. These thirteen divisions count 3 600 ‘horses esch, or, altogether, 46,800. Each division is supplied with two batteries. The whole force consists, therefore. of 757.! 00 men, of which eight corps and nine divisions of horse, or 356,000 foot and 35,400 horse form the first line. Railroads with double tracks connect the second and third lines with the firstâ€"that is, they can be moved forward so rapidly that they can be in the encampment of the first line simultanously slmost with the forward movement of the} The dny was Wm. the pool was tempt- Ing, so the dog wriggled through the toil: md sprang into the water to his doom. The hippo tone to the surface, and, toning, took the dog Into her groot jaw. and crushed him to bits. Another nen'ow ewepo wu thet of e keep- er who came home: to the gardens vet late one stifling August night. He was ll? htly tip. and very hot. so he strip d 0 his clashes and plunged into the poor6 Unfor. tunetely, the hip wee also in the pool, dozing-away m‘t e darkgsolltudee. The keeper of course, thou ht that he won locked up In 3 clge. He d d not discover hh mistake till his hands came in contact with the back of the huge am hlblan. The hippo swam after the man, bl‘pWM not quick enough. The keeper just eacu ed. and when he wanted a both afterward, 0 took it else- where. Had the brute got at him. only hla mangled romaine would have been found to tell the tale. When our baby hippo was born the mother was tertlbl savage. I was afraid she would kill herael end her behy as well. We were compelled to feed them through the ventila- tor, end never dated to go Into the house. The strength of the Rnsslsn troops essem. bled ready for action in the western provin- ces towel-d the end of December is reported by e Gel-men military pe r he follows:â€" In the first line, close to t e frontier, there ere stetioned ei ht umy corps, one ench st Rige, Koonn, lotsk Lomshn, Petrohof Worsew, Ivan rod Lnblin, Rovno Shito- mir, Kief Mes 'booshve snd Kishenef. The second line is mode up of three corps, one each st Bislystok Minsk, Tcherin oo Orel end Korkof Poltevn. The third 1 no con- sists of five corps, one each at Revel Nov- En‘od, Petershnrg, Moscow, Jonslny end mu Sontof. Each of these sixteen co counts 14,500 men, or, eltogether,_ 712, The experiment of givin helfpenny din- nere It the Birmiug hem lc ooll has been no eueoelefnl thet ferthlng dinners have been tried end nearly encoeeded. Two hundred end twelve thonlend ferthing dinners were given lest you et e coat of less then 39 100th- of e penny. The ettendlnee et the lchooll hel been greedy inoreeled, end the good of fogt ugogfiho to'mpor of $1160th in; 130:1: feir health, and seem- likely to live for several years. At n dinner At the Mansion house, Lon- don, three forei n consuls were present whom the Lord fieyor wished to honor by drinking their health. He accordinoly direct the toast muster toennounce the heelthn of “ the three present consuls." He, howe , mistaking the words, gave out the 1 owing :â€"“ The Lord MA or drinks the health of the 3 per cent. ooneo If the records of her baptism in Knock- mshcn. Ireland, ue correct, snd if she lives until the 5th of April next. Mrs. Bridget Doody, of Mineral Point. Wis“ will be 116 you: old. She has outlived t“ of her ten children, the youngest of whom was born yhen‘ she you 58‘years old.“ §he is lnpreity fluent?» to tenors rsopoot for; th: in: it: It:- hnd, u the Irish people could not obtain whnt they asked by violanco. two for timpor‘tntlon, «oh hnlf 731153; freight auxâ€"Ex. Out of 53 pnlntinl ruidenoeo in Pain in- spected by 3 Government Innitnry engineer, 47 worn found to have Inoh detective plumb ing that the hodth of the oocupnnh was constantly threatened. The Pope hu ndviud the Irish hlnhofil 2nd prion- timing Romp tofu-9 thoirA - The doctor. hnve decided thnt l! the Crown Prince 01 Genneny dlee. hlldleeue ll 0! n Intel ohunotenbntfl he recovm it in not lnoureble. Heny 0! Mr. Punell’e Iollowen, lnelnd. In; the two Henlye end Mr. Dillon, object to their lender'e propoeed policy of nheteln- lng from obstruction. The Perl. Unicorn has n report from Rome tht the English Cebinet nooepte Pepe! medlntlon in regard to Irelnnd on the heels of Mgr. Per-100’s report. . A gentle Christina tree we. sent from P0 mwtheGennenCroWn Pdnoe at Ben Items), eo hr3e_§hnt it by! tebeentln Treacheronso ersons signinst purchasing any partool' the {erritory rom any person or persons whom- soever.’ An enormous amount of in d swindling has already been perretrated by locating Texas laud grunts n “ Greer County," and selling the oertiflcatos to reenhorns, and this proclamation should have been issued over two years ago« More than three years ago the Ens Opener warn- ed rural readers against th fraud. Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria looks upon his duties in a different way from his prede- cessor. PrinceAlexanderoonsidered itreasou enough for abdicating that Russia insisted upon it, and he held that in so doing he was best servin Bulgaria. Prince Ferdinand would " ra or leave his bones on the battle- field than abdicate," because this latter would be abandoning and ruining Bulgaria. The present ruler possibly overestimates his ersonal im rtanee to the prinoi ity, et He has don tleu been of real va ue in ur- nishing to it a head, and thereby giving a head, and thereb giving a greater semb- lance of public or or and security. The re- rt that the powers contemplate a com. ined boycotting or " blockade ”.of Bulgaria in case erdinand should not resign, al- though exceedingly doubtful. yet recalls the process made ready for refractory Greece when that little kingdom persisted, at great expense, in preparing to fight. There would probably be no dillinulty in dis sing quiet- y of Prince Ferdinand could t e surround- ing powers only a why they want a vacanc and for w om they want y it. In the Inc of such agreement, and of any com- mon notion what to do next, Prince Ferdin- and seems justified in holding his laoe, even if_only as the man in possess on.â€"- Between the North end South Forks of the Red River end the lCOth degree ofvlon~ gitude is en extensive ten of fertile coun- try ebont 34 miles wide y 167 miles long, oonteining 3,687,360 ecres. It in cleimed by Texes under the neme of Greer Gonna, end by the United States es apart of e Indien Territory, end is elso known as “ No Men’s Laud.” Belonging definitel to no 'orgenised community, it Is governed by no lews, end hes long been the resort of deeperedoes oi ell kinds. The lend hes never been sold by eny proper euthorit , end the thousends of settlers thereâ€"stoo - men end renchersâ€"hoia their possessions by squatter sovereignty. The President hes just issued e proolemetion warning ell fi:°9r::.‘::ffi:t’-:5:‘£'f. {filing 3: tabs:- we " dilpoaing otiny of .316 fluid 3:11;}- erciaing or “tempting to exercise my an. thority over " it; andylso warnipg :‘rgll 2Â¥AA ‘ The average cow, well cared for. says an agricultural writer, should make 200 pounds of butter ayearâ€"one of lean capacity should not be toleratedâ€"a good cow will make 300 pounds a year. We will call three acres sufficient to keep one cow a year, which is a large estimate. Two acres should sufice; infact, Hiram Smith, the celebrated Wis~ cousin dairyman, comes pretty near keeping a now on one acre. But two or even ree acres to one such cow as noted V above will prove cow keeping to be a better business than can be done on any wheat land in the country, particularly w en it is considered that in the cow busmess the farm is getting better and better every year, instead of poorer and poorer as in the wheat business. be sweet feed, grass, , vegetables, fruit, or an thing that wholesome and nutritious. ut must be abundant and um failing. Weeds, brush and briars will keep sheep alive, but don’t ask sheep to grow mutton on such pastures, no, nor wool. The Dairy Associations of the Scottish shires of Dumfries and Wigton have decid~ ed to make a joint endeavor to secure for next season the services of a first-class Can- adian instructor in cheese-mains. This is a compliment to Canada 3 but it will be a more particular compliment to Ontario, for it is to this province that the associations will look for their expert. It is not a "We remarkable that the Dominion should be invited to inst: not the Mother Land in cheese-making. There we no secrets in sheep ruling. It ha to be done by feeding. The sheep Inn to eat something, sud that ugmethlnahg to L- _.___ A; l- _ _I glowing cranberries; large Eamon hnva been lost in slmllu- venmreo. On! the wedtttiar omugxzho hpvo ox and“i vlut mm money provmg u: eq pp 113 their pro , om odculnte with any do- gm of cor ty on n psying crop of fruit The Mary 11nd Farmer u a tint while thousands"-y 0! dollars have {eon made in At the Ontu-io Agricultural College. nn experiment in feedinc eighteen: head of store cattle with twelve pounds of hay, thirty-five pounds of turnips and nine pounds 0‘. what bran 1- bond duly, nnd also the name unonnt orhny and roots but with difi‘erent kinda of grain, resulted in ti):-l loweat out of production on the bran n on. The W'iaoonain Dairymen'a Aucoiatjon met at Ripon, January ‘25 to 27. inalmuve. These meetings always attract attenuon, not only in fine state. but are attended by dairy- men from announding states. It ought to he settled beyond dispute thnt it pays to provide good shelter for all the stock on the farm. The unrest plan. us far u possible. in to provide for this ahead of time when it may be wmted. Penning loud in Connecticut, except in the vicinity of oitiee, he: not increased in value in the hat thirty yeu'l. Where hem ore not ohm from one lo- cdity to Another, they will y n greet mnny more egg: in the course of a you. Even the Active leghornl form an nttachment to n certain place. I! n former in. plenty of tience, end in willing to give cloee stunt on to details in the core of stock, he can make more money for food consumed from cheep than from any other stock. Nous. Frown “odor noun Mid phat. Plenty ol good fuel, umber. Futon or loll an aurplu nook. Extra (dad for pig: md poultty. Protect fruit tree. from the “album.” Curd grdn ugdut the nu uni mice. Don't nu tho totturlng chock-rein. A clan, well-ventumd cell-r. Milk to: young pig. And odvu should be fed warm. Prince Ferdinand. I do not think thst there is any English map which gives all the towns and cities w ch have been destroyed, but s few of the rincipslsreChing-chowaeLSi,Chung-mu, enliu, Fu-Kao, Sihai, Tsin-chow, Cho- chis-Kow, ,Tai-Ksng, Tsiping, and Ying- chow, the latter being in the Ngsn~hwuy Province. The country sround them cities, which are situated in s great plsin, was, just before the calsmity, in s most prosper- ous condition and covered with rice fields, mulberry groves and other products by which the industrious people subsist. The present flood is the most serious one thst ever occurred since the mythical snd deified Emperor Yii is recorded toihave drawn swa into their old bed the tributaries of the ten- - ble river hundreds of years before Western civilization orfhistory began. It has changed the positions of several laces with regsrd to the Hoang Ho. Kis- an in (spelt on the; maps Kisfong) is now to are north of the river, which partly returned to its old bed â€"thst discovered dry in 1858. At Kis-fung~ in the river took n northeasterly bend; t now flows southeast, hsvin as s matter of fact, swallowed up the Kwe or‘Little Ye]. low River, throu h which n portion of the waters of the m in river now enters the sen through the Province of Klsngsu, and no longer waters Shsngtung. The submerged district consists of the great and fertile plsin occupying the eastern corner of Honsn and the northern portion of Ngsn-huwy, and the depth of the water sveragesjromten tothirty feet. Recent re rts stated that s portion of the water of t 0 Yellow River was work- ing an outlet for itself into the Yanktsze Kisng, but this has since been iound to be incorrect, sud whst is a most IXTMORDINABY “NEURAL REVOLUTION is now found to heve token plece. For neerly two months the immense volume of wetelr; of ithe Hoen {E0 hes mat reselhed th: see nt enge e conver t o gree lain mentione once more intonsthe vest in- end see thet is chronicled by the historiens of Chine es heving existed in the time of the mythioel 1m riel engineer referred to, end ee heving en compelled by him in those remote eges to recede into the dimen. sione of e river, which he enclosed in the predecenors of the present at embenlr- ments by which it wee force to flow into the oceen. Indeed, if tradition is to be be- lieved, the dykes end isscines which have lately collapsed with such ewiul consequen- ces ere, in some instances, the veritable works of Yii and his immediate successors. The inroede of time, no doubt, had weeken- ed thou gigantic embenkments, end the hcevv reins which preceded the ceiemity elso helped to brin itjebout. But the chief esnse, I em inclin to believe, oi the discs- ter is the gredeel chenge in the conforme- the (End. numoxa, who are ntterl beggered md who nre de- pending for en ' hence upon the cherit of others. The Emperor‘hne already oontri nt~ ed one hundred thousand mole out of the Privy purse, besides ordering two million hole out. of the Im rial Treasury toward- the relief of the an erers. The Chinese and foreigners hnve contributed liberally townrd are stated to have been eneulfed in a very few moments, and scarcely any of their ill. fated people had time to save themselves, as the hrth occurred in the night. time. The extent of the disaster will be better understood when I sa that an extent oi coun much larier the Principali of W as and muc more thick] popnla isnowasea, and alltheinhabtants either drowned or tied. The people so terribly visited cannot number far short of the whole population of Ireland, as the Province in- cludes about twenty~iive millions, with an area of sixty-five thousand square miles. and the waters oi the river new cover be tween eight and ten thousand square miles. The accounts daily published in the native and foreign papers and in the Peking Gan ette, reveal the most horrible suif ring for‘ the survivors, who are perishing of famine. I am told that in hundreds of instances on the present occasion the people, when the water rushed into the cities sweeping walls, houses and everythiu before them, refused to stir, and met their oaths with that won- derful indifference which characterisee the Chinese in some casesâ€"for the Celestial is nothing if nota fatalist of the most pronounc- ed and unreasonisg type. According to the best and most trustworthy authorities which I have been able to ,consult, the loss of life will not be numbered 1) thousands or ten thousands, but literally y hundreds of thou- sands, while the BTABVINO PEOPLE NU" AMOUNT '20 IAN! Fu Fu, one of the largest cities ofthe Prov co, and in one insuut some four miles of the solid embankment of stone, brick. and md clny Were swept away, with in. numberdale mole: and fascia“. In the din. trio“ of Gluing-chow and Ohden-chow no lu- than It needs no smell stretch oi the lmegine- tlon for people in Englend. perfectly ecquein. ted es they ere with the gi eutlc river which wes. centuries ego. end ttingly. de- nominewd “ Chine's sorrow," to oompre. hend the extent 0! ltsletest visitetion on the beeutlful Province of Honen. The news oi thQ full extent of the disaster even here is on] now being escerteined, elthough the breec in the embeukutente by which the treecherous weters oi the Hoeng Ho, or Yellow River. ere sought to be kept within bcunds,oocurred es ier beck es oheQOth September, end it wee known thet lnthe first wild rush of the reinmwollen weters meny cities. towns end villeges innumern eble were submerged end countless thous- ends oi reons oi every renk drow‘ned. But, es urnell the one, the oficlels in chuge of the r ver et first ettempted to minimise the extent at the dieeeter in their ‘memoriels to the Throne. A higher inno- ‘ tionery. however, wes directed toreport the full facts of the occurrence, end hisstory veevery dili'erent espect to the tele. bout one sixth of the entire ereeol the “ garden of Chine." es Honen is styled, in now converted into e vest lake. with here end there e pegode top or the gsble of some higher well rising over-the increasing waters to merk the site of whet were, e short time ego, prosperous oitiee of meny thousand in hebitents. The rest of the country in over- i run with the wretched refugees who were fortunate enough to escape with their line, though with nought else. In hundreds oi instances men who three short moons ago were men of wealth. to-dey sit gaming on the lnlend nee, “ stunned, hungry. stupid enddejected, without e rag to weer ore morsel of food to eet.” The lnundetlons commenced ate little distence from Kni- CHINA’S GREAT GALA-IT“ (SAwM‘ Oonww London 31m ) mm THOUSAND LAME VILLAGE And whet if the sun should withdraw its rays? Whet if the fuel of the soler inrnsee should run low? Whet if grevltntlon end etomio motion should go on strike 1 Let the sstronomers torment:8 their imsginstion with such thing s. While the sun shines we prefer to thinks of it so never growing dim. And next snmmerpeo le will be wondering why in the worldpoo it sohot. If cloud: drlvo up high from the south, ox t a thaw. f shooting mu Isl] in the loath in In Win00}. If thé {Sides sud tree. are on- orgg witl} white ’Wv ogxpeqt 9 flag. _ Very hosvy white fro-t In Winkl- h followed by s thaw. White front on three mace-live nights indicates n thaw. When-mile blmk {meat- uppon on the angy._oxpect a thuy. The preparation of the tronuom of the future Empress of China In under full held- way, a1thonqh the wedding will be it IMO. Thousands of hands no now bu . nnd it will be the greatest ever nude. 0 his as mummy hummus. We get s very striking idee of the ectuel situation which we occupy if we meke for ourselves e microcosmie picture of the sun end earth. Let e fiery globe es lerge es en orenge. blazing with intense heet end light. represent the sun. Then e little pertiole. ‘ebout one-fortieth of en inch in diemeterâ€"e mere speck of dust. smeller then the smell- est pin's heedâ€"will represent the eerth. Let it floet et e distenoe of twenty-six or twenty-seven feet from the ‘mineture sun end slowly revolve eround it. Suppose ell the surrounding speee to be eirless end ter~ rifioelly cold es ell inter-teller speoe is, end we heve before us the ectuel condition of things in the soler sys- tem. The little eerth, but for the kindly reys of the neighboring sun, would Quickly freeze to deeth. It turns ell itssdes in rotation towerd the sun end gets them warmed. It preserves e little heet in its etmosphere end by the eid of the veper thet the sun reises from its oceens, end yet it is helf the time shiverinc et the touch of frosty spece. First one hemisphere end then the other is turned to the werming blew of the soler heerth, end the side thet is turned ewey must temporerily safer for the comfort thet the other side enjoys. If the eerth didn’t turn on its exis it would be baked on one side end frozen on the other. Itis engeged in e constent start to keep If shooting Ibr- full in the south in Win03. oxpogt 1; Han. When i5 'wlnter pTgn rub against the old. of their pgnhlt 1! a gun-p sign of a. thaw. ,. If iho iron are frosty Ind the can take- it gygy befpre nooq, It _ln a sign_ 9! nln: If th'ero ba an ab'undnnco "of hour front, 2 x pect nin. Hog- rubbing them-ulna in Winter indi- cate}: m 9pprpaphlng thug. The phenomenelly eold weether of which we heve just bed e teste, end «which hes been ettended by such frightful oiroumeteum of sufiering end dleeeter in the Northwest, is well celculeted to it!) rose the feet thet. but for outside eid, com ng to us out of the do the of eoe, we should be nneble to ex t upon t s globe of ours for e s‘ 1e week. When the continent hes been bu ed for may weeks in now, end icy bleste from the Frigid Zone come to eesist in chilling the etmospbere below the point of human endurence. it is to the sun elone thet we can look for rescue from the frost. This must heve seemed overwhelmingly evident to those reilroed pessengers in Dekote who, huddling together in e single cer, hu n; the stove, end covering themeelves en t they could with germents, blenhets. meil begs. and whatever would serve to keep in the heat of the body, looked forwerd de~ speiringly to the return of the sunshine. Mother Earth had no wennth in her bosom for them, end two children in the perty ectuslly froze to deeth. In summer the sun mekes thoee some pleins, ever which they peseed with terror end greet suffering, pleas- ent with grass end flowers 3 end yet. so ner- now is the mergin of heet supplied to the eerth, thet e few months leter, when the globe hes rolled ite northern feee slightly ewey from the sun, men must fight e bettle ior‘his life with the encroeching frost. mount of money for works which. it is hoped. will have the efl'ect of directing the river into the old cheunel once more, end e member of the Grsnd Council. e v sugust functionsry. he been delpeteh from Peking to the scene end ordered to travel night and dsy. The emount required is estimsted st the lowest at ten million teell. end it is believed if some foreign on~ gineers here that it wi teke yous to do the work, if it can be donefet ell. Anion t the measures by which the Imperisl edv . era suggeet raising the necesssry funds ere, stopping the purchase of arms end muni- tions of wsr throughout the Empire, paying the Manchu and Chinese Banner troops in irice instead of money (which will. if et- Ttempted. lend probsbly to erevolt), stop- ping the coolic pay ellowed to All provincinl armies, and levying edeitionel texee upon certain articles of ordinery use. Th» en~ tire military force of the Province is nine placed at the commend oi the oficiels em~ played in the work. so u to lessen the amount. tohepuid for lebor. To increase the difiicultice of the undertsking. the materials necessary ere 'net obtainable at the river. but must he brought from n dis- tance. But the work of gettin the river sgein in hind is only of secon try imporx tance, end the reeouvcee oi the country ere taxed enough for the preeentbv the dementi- upon their chsrity for the million: of ion. ine stricken people who will perish if not promptly aided. can!“ 01mm» ml [IPIIIAL FAMILY in Peking, sud the Empetor and Empreu- Mothor bnvo than: the grate» lollcltudo for the sufferers. The Poking Guttto ny- thut the "Emfreththor has neither dept nor «ten for wt" in oonuquenoc. Step- huvo boa-I! Mon to mine the enormou- “on o! the coo-til the Gui! 01: 900th into Which tho Hoona o lowed ond which ha been constantly b’.‘.olowly thing up. But no doubt the action 0! salt which hu ol- Woyo boon carried In moot oath!" by w tho rivoro in Chino,- hu hv‘“ mothln doo to do with bringing oboufi tnT‘oxu-wr inuy ond oohmltom mult. Thot this ch in not nnfonoon by tho Chinooo ofioh is shown by the loot tho: oomo months ogo it won ”molly Inggootod that tho that should be diverted to in former bod by open in; tho ombonhmonto ot Roi-{nag in. The dilator had When to Expect a Thaw. 0m- Blg Friend In the Sky.