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“ This is about the slimmest dinner I ever sat down to," he said as he surveyed the table; “but I s'poso I on ht to make certain allowances.” “ Yes, Jo n," re lied his wife. " if you would make certain as low- anoes you would have no occasion to quarrel with your food." .1. _. lady in the audience declared to be that 0? her grandmother, was sailin gracefully about in mid air, the wire su denly broke and the heavy weight spirit fell down into the pale upturned faces of twelve old gentle- men of strong characteristics but weak necks, and knocked them silly. The heel of the motherly old spirit also struck her self-confused grandchi d in the mouth and knocked out four of her front teeth. The old entlemen were nllcd from under the apir t and sent home n carriages, in a more or less dilapidated state, while thee irit still lies in ahospital suffering from t roe broken ribs and a badly skinned ahin. Spirits cannot be too careful nowadays how they come back and cavort about on this mundane sphere. They will he fooling1 around until some one of them breaks a leg if they keep on. At Chicago, a few evenings since, a medi~ um had succeeded in bringing enough spirits out of a cabinet, that if formed into a pro- cession might have taken twenty minutes in pagsing a given point. The lower jaws of the audience were resting in their laps with awe, and all went well until the spirit of Joan of Arc appeared, and a fresh young man fractured the ii'V stillness by blurting out in a hoarse whisper : " There’s a rat just run under the spirit's dra my ‘2" Then the spirit of the valorous and eroic Joan of Arc suddenly grabbed for the bottom of her skirts with all the hands she had, and goth: erin her feet together, jumped full four feetlln the air with a shriek that start ed the audience out of their seats. The girlish i spirit still further surprised the audience b making a break for the interior of the cab - net with so much enthusiasm as to kick it clean over, and when the lights were sud- deniy turned up the unfortunate materalized spirit of Joan of Arc was seen sprawled out on the floor and groaning dismally with the weight of the cabinet across the small of her back. One of the spirits playing a week's engagement with a western medium also came to grief a few days ago. The medium had won considerable fame and dollars by causin spirits to come out of her cabinet and” oat in the air above the buds of the audience. One ethifié'Qfi-e; '3 Particululyuliirgianirig, w.hi9h‘a young 1.. AL, -__ The spirit mediums are having an awful hard time of it lately. A large number are languishing in jails throu bout the country, charged with being N o. la! -wool-and-a-yard- wide frauds, and, sad to relate, the spirits that condescended to bob around at their back and call seemed to haile retained enough of their human characteristics to desert the mediums just when the latter needed them most. But the strong hand of the law is not all that mediums have to fear. Judging from the reports that are coming in from dis- tricts where mediums most abound even the spirits themselves are having troublous many. 3.350.000 ; France. 2 ”800 000 horses and 300,000 mules; Fn gland 2,790,000 horses; Canada. 2, 624, 0009; S pain, 680, 060 horses and 2 300,000 mules , Italy, 2 000,- 000 horsea; Belgium, 383, 000; Denmark, 316,000; Australia. 301.000; Holland,125.- 000, and Portugal, 88,000 horses and 50, 000 mules. It will be remarked that Russia heads the list by an enormous majority. Lunacy in England is still an increasing factor. There were no fewer than 82,643 lunatics registered at the beginning of the year. Of these only 37,601 were men and 45,042 were women. 74,171 are supported in pauper asylums. Though there are more female than male lunatics, there are fewer supported out of private fund s,the figures being 3,974 to 3,821. Since the last Presidential election there has been an increase of 7,000,000 in the population of the United States. This will give at least an additional million of voters, making 11,000,000 votes to be cast. Over 40,C00 of these new votes are in New York State, where the Democratic majority last election was only 1,200. It will be seen that there is a good deal of margin to play upon, but there is no reason to suppose that the united Democracy has not made as many friends among the young voters as have been made by the distracted Re- publicans. ' The im ortant roles which cavalry and artillery p ay in the art- of modern warfare make it interesting to know the total num- ber of animals which the leading countries of the world can throw into the field of battle. Here, accordingto the latest statis- tics, in the list : Russia, 21,570,0L0 horses; America. 9.500.000; the Argentine Repub- lic, 4.000.000; A_uetria, 3,500,000 ;7 Ger- Not content with the Transcaspion rag way, the Czsr's Government has determine to build a. transcontinental road across Siberia, with 3 terminus on tho Pwifi: ocean. The whole len th:of the road will be about 5,000 miles, an it is estimated that it will cost 400,000,000 roubles. The first section will be about 2,800 miles long, and will soon be begun. The total out-put of coal from all mines .n the United States in 1887 was 129,925,- 557 short tons, valued at $182,491,837, an increase of 14,129,403 tons over the previ- ous year. It will be seen that the value is set down at $1 50 per ton, but it is almost certain that some consumers have paid more than that. The largest ocem steamer in the 0in of Rome. which coneumee about 270 tons of coal 3 d3 . The Umbrio and Eerun'a of the Cunard ne, although each about 100 tons unaller then the City of Romain actual ton- ege, nevertheless consume from 325 to 350 tons of coal daily. 4 tory of the Baptist Churcfi in modern time: we: thet performed in July, 1878, by J. C. Clough, e mineionery, who, with the min- teuee of five native preachen, immersed 2,222 persons within six hours. Mon than one million men are ample by the various rdlwuy lines cf the Un Sum. A low figure: :--During the Demoontlo Convention 2,151,791 word. were lent from St. Louis over the Western Union wire. The Hebrew: ate returning to Jeruulem. The teoent Ruuien persecution. heve led (4110de to take up their residence in the encientcity, the Hebrew population of which he: incremd from 5,000 to 30.000 einee The'giutglt {09an baptism in_ the» Unhappy Mediums. STATISTICS. Bobby (whose uncle has iven him u (lol- lar)-â€"“ I wish on would give mo a nickel, Uncle James, notead of a dollar.” Uncle Jamel (utonlnhedIâ€"" But, Bobby, a dollar in better than n n okol.” Bobbyâ€"" That’s the trouble; If it's a dollar, pa’ll want It a If “'I only a nickel, I ocn have It." Lu d From the days of the War of Indepen- dence there has existed in the United States a turbulent party, composed of_‘the meaner and less reputable class of American citizens, and augmented from time by considerable accessions of immigrants of t e baser sortâ€" Socialistic propagandists from the slumsof German cities, red republicans who had be- come discredited in France, the sans culoltses and in short, the rilf‘rafi‘, scum and oil‘- scourirg of the European continent in gen- eralâ€"and this party, steadily increasing in numerical strength from these more than questionable sources, had constantly held to one idea in its olitical creed, namely, that Canada sbou d have been cajoled or wrested from the British ; Crown. so that no foothold should be left for British loyal? on the continent of North America. he party was forever on the look-out for opportunities of attacking England ; it had adopted a motto by an unconscious plagiarism from Demosthenes, “ and England's difficulty is the United " States' opportunity," became the unwrit. ten law by which their policy was guided. The leaders of the party thou ht that the opportunity had now come. ngland was engaged in a Titanic struggle in behalf of the liberties of Europe, and these professors of the doctrines of liberty were not ashamed to countenance and aid to the utmost of their power the efforts of the great despot of the Old World to crush the only Cham- pions of liberty who were now able to oppose him. The infamous Berlin and Milan decrees of the Corsican usurper were replied to by the “ Orders-in-Council " of the British Government ; the French and English marine policy alike told with disastrous efi'ect on the commerce of neutral States, but the blame was fairly . chargeable on the Imperial decrees in which the commercial troubles began. Napoleon was the prime cause, and on him alone should have been laid the blame of all the disasters that befell the mercantile marine of the United States in consequence of the restric- tions im osed upon the shipping trade of neutrals by the English as wel as the French. But this view did not suit the anti-British party of the States. Mr. Jefferson hoped to fan the mean spite of a small faction into a blaze of national hostility ; he refused to ratify the treaty of amity, commerce and navigation that had been agreed upon by the American Minister to the Court of St. James and the British Government ; and in an angry message to Congress he furiously inveighed a ainst the “ Ordersin-Council," ' while he ha not a word to say against the Berlin and Milan decrees of the would-be despot of Europe and the world. This was ‘ followed by the suicidal policy of the “em- bargo," whereby Mr. J efl'erson’s friends did an immense injury, as it was probably in- tended should be done, to the commerce of l the New England States, then and ever the ' most ardent advocates of liberty, and for that reason the most strenuously opposed to a war with England, from which the only ‘ conceivable advantage would accrue to Na- ‘ poleon, the greatest enemy of liberty 'then alive. The “ embargo” was withdrawn; but in the meantime, and all the time. trouble was arising from the com licated na- ture of the claims on which Eng and stead- fastly insisted, namely, that she, as mistress of the seas, bad the “ ri ht of search” in all vessels in which s e had reason to believe that deserters from her service were being concealed. The affair between the Leopard and the Chesapeake neither re flected credit on the English captain for good sense, nor on the American for personal courage. honor or veracity ; but it served to increase the tension of the al ready strained relations between the peoples of both countries, and the war party in the States made all the capital that could possi- bly be made out of the incident. From month to month and r - om year to year this party was steadily gaining the ascendancy, till at length in January, 1812, Congress by a vote of one hundred and nine to twenty- two, resolved to increase the regular troops to 25,000 men and to raise an immediate loan of ten millions of dollars. What this por- tended required no olitical Zadkiel to pre- dict; and according y no person nor party was very much surprised when the same Congress declared war against England on the 19th of June, and decided that the brunt of the war must be borne by the mere hand- ful of settlers, only 300,000 all told, who had then made Canada their home. The obnoxi- ous Order-in-Council were removed about the same time, so that no decent pretext for the war existed ; all the best and most hon- orable politicians in the United States de- nounced it as unjust, ungencrous and im- politic ; Randolph, of Virginia, opposed it 1 Congress in one of the best speeches ever delivered in that hall of oratory, and a special convention of delegates met in the fall of the year at Albany on ur- pose to denounce it. But it was al of no avail ; the war party thought they would make an easy conquest of Canada, and that was all they wanted ; they, perhaps not an naturally, sup osed that a population of 300,000 would all an easy prey to a popula- tion of 8,000,000, and that the 25,000 regu- lars of the United States would very speed- ily demolish the 5,800 men of all arms on whom the young colony had to depend for the protection of moret tan a thousand miles of frontier. 'l‘hc inexorable logic of stern facts has demonstrated how completely the war party was astray in its calculations ; the War of lSl‘Z was one of the most scathing rebukes ever administered to a party of ava- rice end aggression. Seventy-nix year. ago -â€" on the 19th of June, iSl2â€"the Congreu of t e United Staten declared war againlt England. At first light it might seem a plucky, almoet a ohivalrone thin? for a mo le numbering eight million souls to beard t eBritinh lion, to dare to attack the only power that was able to hold its own against the military genius and all-mutering ambition of the great Napoleon. But a closer scrutiny din- pele all the illusion- oi the chivalric char- acter of the deed, removes the glamour of romance and heroism from all concerned in carrying the measure, and reveals the trans- actloan a the declaration of one of the most wicked, wanton wars of aggression that have ever been forced on an in ant community by a powerful neighboring nation in its mad lust of conquest and of unrighteoue territor~ ial nggrandieement. ‘ The War of 181.2. A South Carolina lrl married five times in seven weeks, and Fe now in geol trying to settle in her own mind a to which of the men is her Inn-bend. A Paul: costermongcr quarrolled with his mother, and to at a( tune hung himself from a nail on the wa l. {e pulled his hat down over hls eyes and held his ipo in his mouth, so that she would think t at he was sham- mlng until she went up to him, and no would be scared at finding him dead. His scheme wag-keg perfectly, and the mother nearly ha a t. .__._v_ c... .- avw referred to are common among the masses of India outside the cities and towns, it is uite evident that the time has not yet come gar the adoption of the scheme of the Na- tional Congress. The first endeavour of the reformers should be to secure the abolition of de rading sccinl customs, to crush out brutefizin su erstition, and to hasten the spread 0 en ightenment, education and Christianity generally. When a fair amount of progress has been made in this work, it will be time enough to give the natives poli- tical privileges which they do not at present desire, and which they could not use pro- pen,‘ if they had them. '“ We venture to say that no cannibal feast amonb he most brutalized South:Sta savages ever exceeded in horrible details the two scenes just described. If such things are possible in the India of today, we may readily picture what the country was before it came into contact with Western civiliza- tion. A century of British rule has over a large area of the peninsula all but extermi- nated suttee, infanticide, the brutal rites of superstition and other unspeakable horrors. But that a herculean task is still before us :is proved by the tales set forth above. A few natives of India are men of the highest intellectual endowments. A considerable proportion of the [population possess at least a veneer of educat on. But the vast majority away from the towns and centres of thought are steeped in barbaric ignorance and super- stition. Yet we hear the baboos of Ben al, who constitute an insignificant, or rat er infinitesimal fraction of the population, prating of India as a nation, and demand- ing self-government for the country, and electoral privileges for the masses. Are the men who stand by while a wretched woman’s eyes are ganged out, or a living, quiverin dumb brute. is torn to pieces mouthiu by mouthful by human devilsâ€" barbsrltics committed, too, in the sacred name of religionâ€"are these the men to ex- ercise a vote. or take any part whatsoever in 1rguiding the destiniespf- the_Empire2 " E !L LA L___- .I ated, was still alive and its awful bellowings were added to the din. At a short distance several men, with their bodies naked and painted, held a goat by the legs while they tore away with their teeth mouthfuls of bleeding flesh from the still living and quivering body. Other animals were wait- ing their turn, and around them a crowd of women smeared with blood, apparently iu~ toxicamd with dru s, were dancing and shrieking wildly. he purpose of these re- volting orgies was to appease'the wrath of the goddess, who is supposed to hold in her ban the scourge of smallpox. The Bombay paper, commenting on these horrid scenes, “331. A Bombay paper recently cited two horri- ble incidents as roof that much remains to be done in the direction of social reform be- fore it will be possible to give the natives the franchise. In one case a tenant farmer, in the presence of the assembled villages and amid the beating of drums and the singing of songs, deliberately gouged out the eyes of his young wife, who had been bound by the neighbors, because he had been told by a demon that they would be replaced by golden eyes. The whole neighbourhood shared in ,the superstition, even includin the police, who asserted that the victim ha perished by cholera. The scene of the other incident was the temple of a Hindoo goddess. A crowd of natives had hacked to pieces three buffaloes, in whose blood some daced about; while others, gesticulating furiously, whirledabove their heads thedrip- ping limbs of theslau htered beasts. Another animal, which was fiso‘being horribly lacer- -L-J _,, ,.9I A 1’; Social Rt form-Below Home Rule and the end in View: extended criticism would be out of place. It is perhaps scarce- ly possible in these days that the despotic sway and unjust extortions for which such companies made themselves badly famous in earlier days should be re ated. But if reasons, either State or o philanthropy, rendered annexation, on a scale almost con- tinential, desirable or necessary, most per- sons will be inclined to regret that the British Government did not at once, in its own name, assume the responsibilities rather than hand over the people and all their in- terests, presumably without consent asked i or given, to the tender mercies of a trading company. An ennonncement. which seem- to hen ewekened n eingnlerly Imell emonnt oi in: tereet in comparison with it! intrinsic im- portance, in that concerning th' 'Ioweu end prerogativee granted by the u itinn Govern- ment to the Beet African Company. We had suppoecd flat the deye in which civil and mi itnry rule over immenee tracts of oountr and millions of people could be en- tmete to private companiee were et an end. If the meagre ceble reports can be relied on, this ie for from beingl the one. A royal charter based on the inee of that of the old Eeet ‘Indie Compnny in said t_o hnvc _'l‘ho East African Company. Evenvnow the outlook of the whole world is truly dark, and the clouds are lowering. Yet surely the outlook wee darker, the clouds were blacker fiftyy care a o. Read Carlyle's “ Past and Present,” an compare. There may be other den ers before us of which we then euspect nothing. But if we still preserve the qualities which enabled us to stand up, almost alone, easinst the colossal force of Napoleon w th Europe at his book, and which carrie us through the terrible troubles which followed the war we sure! need not despeir.â€"" Fifty Y’eers Ago,’ by Welter Besent. â€"tho very House of Commons in this boasted land of freedom did not re resent halt the people, seats were openly ought and sold, others were filled with nominees of the great men who owned them. What could possibly follow but ruinâ€"swift and hopeless ruin? What indeed? Prophets of disaster always omit one or two important elements in their calculations, and it is through these gaps that the people basely wrigg 0, instead of fulfilling prophecy as they ought to do. As soon as the battle of Waterloo was fairly fought and Napoleon put away at St. Helena, the Continental Professors, histori- ans, political students, and journalists all began with one accord to pro hesy the ap- proaching downfall of Great ritian, which some affected to deplore. and others regard- ed with complaceney. Everything conspir- ed, it was evident, not only to bring about this decline, but also to accelerate It. The araell of Carthageâ€"England has always sen set up as the second Carthageâ€"was freely exhibited, especially in those coun- tries which felt themselves called upon and qualified to play the part of Rome. It was pointed out that there was the dreadful deadweight of Ireland, with its incurable poverty and discontent ; the approaching decay of trade, which could be only, in the opinion of these keen-sighted philosphers, a matter of a few years; the enormous weight 3 of theNational Debt; the ruined manufactur~ \ era; the wasteful expenditure of,thc Govern- ment in every branch; the corruptin influ- ence of the Poor Laws; the stain of s avery; the restrictions of commerce; the intelorance of the Church; the narrowness and prejudice of the Universities; the ingorance of the peo- ple; their drinking habits; the vastness of the Empire. These causes, to ether! with discontent, chartism, republicamsm, ttheism â€"in fact, all the disagreeableismsâ€"left no donbt whatever that England was doomed. Foreigners, in fact, not yet recovered from the extraordinary spectacle of Great Bri- tain’s long duel with France and its success- ful termination, prophesied what the partly hoped out of envy and jealousy, an eared from self-interest. Therefore the politicians and professors were always looking at this country. writing about it, watchin it, visit- ing it. No, there could be no don tâ€"none of these changes and dan ers could be de- nied; the factories were 0 oked with exces- sive production; poverty stalked through the country; the towns were filled with ruined women; the streets were cumbered with drunken men; the children were growing up in ignorance and neglect incon- ceivable; what could come of all this but ruin! Even-rand this was the most wonder- ful and Incredible thing to those who do not understand how lon a Briton will 0 on enduring wrongs and.suii'ering anomal‘es Col. Hezier, in reply, said he preferred a brown to a gray uniform. transsort yet, because‘fie did .not think the;' woul be able, under all circumstances, to degeyd'gpqn railwayq. 001. sn- 0. Burn said in the‘Inaian mutiny they used to put ten men on an elephant, and in that way go long distances. He thou ht the alteration in the form of the swor was very desirable, as sometimesImen would ride through the enemy without doing any damage, whereas thrusts were very dangerous. He hoped that the au- thorities would not give up their heavy L..- M n__ _ .A The whole face of the country everywhere in Euro e had changed in the seventy-five years which had elapsed since the last great war ; and there was no longer the necessity for such measures to encamp the fighting men as formerly were absolutely necessary. He advocated the soldiers wearing a gray dress in time of war. The kit must be re- duced in weight to about 38 pounds, instead of 52 unds, which it was at present. Men ‘ shoul carry not more than 30 rounds of ammunition at a time. Favor had been shown to takin infantry into action on horseback, but t en one man out of every four would be required to hold the horses, and he recommended the substitution of Irish carsâ€"each oar drawn by four horses, and carrying fifteen armed men. With regard to the arms carried by a cavalry soldier, he recommended that a triangular sword should be substituted for the present form, because in ii hting a man always did more damage by t mating than by cutting, and that a pistol should be substituted for a carbine. The revolver, he thought, was not a useful weapon for a soldier to carry. The weight which the horse ought to carry should’he lightened as far as possible. Col. Hozier called attention to the present attitude of foreign nations, with large bodies of cavalry watch each other on each side of frontier lines. n any future war he be- lieved that there would be an increased number of enga ementa between cavalry. and that by the :- means much damage would be done at an early period of any war to roads and railways. But these cavalry engagements would never be decisive of the war, and victor would depend upon which side would be a le to brin up infantr with the greatest ra idity. is involve rail~ way trans rta on. There were now,every- where in oreign lands fortresses command- ing the lines of railways and at the first opening' of war u n the Continent no doubt a dash woul be made at these for- tresses to prevent them being viotualled for any lengthened period. They must be pre- pared to strike quick blows, and within a 1short time of the outbreak of hostilities. They must reduce the weight to be carried by every soldier and by every horse; they ought not to handicap the soldiers by make- ing them carry enormous weights. Next, they must have eflicient railway corps, able to repair railways in'advancing, and to break them down when they were not wanted. Thirdly, they must do without camp equip- ment and tents, because they would not be able to carry _them _in_the future. At n muting oi the momben o! the R0 A! United Service Institution hold recent- ly n London n paper wu read by Col. H. M. Hozier on the equipment md trnnlport of quqgn mnlu. Britain After Waterloo. Modern Armies. er cont, of the lives thue lost were there- ore taken through liquor. The report does not mean that beer was the source of all this orlme, but that llquorl In general, eplrlte no doubt almost excluelvely, were reeponelble for It. The ehowlng Is not so fevoureble to llqnor after all. The American Browers’ Association has been enquiring into the relation of liquor to orimo.‘ It reports that “ o! 859 murders re- ported in the New York papers, only 93 were clue to liquor, and of 554 suicides, liquor was responsible {or 9_8." Exactly l4 _-_ -_h‘ All doubt in re ard to the disease to which Emperor Freder ck succumbed after long months of patient suffering has been set at rest by the postmortem examination. The fatal malady was cancer of the larynx. The larynx, indeed was nearly destroyed ; it was found to contain a large cavity, and its oar- lilaginoue character had almost wholly dis- appeared. It is marvellous that the Emperor survived so long. Nothing but the best medical skill postponed the evil day and permitted the brief reign which will be memorable in the history of Germany. To Sir Morel] Mackenzie the German pao le owe a lasting debt of gratitude. But for is skillful treatment, in spite of opposition and abuse even, in all probability Frederica would never have ascended the throne. An extremely interesting experiment has been made by Mr. J. \Vagner, of Boston, Mass. He sent nine carrier pigeons t.) Lon don by mail steamer on October 9, 1886. Shortly after their arrival they commenced their long flight home across the Atlantic Ocean. Up to January 10, 1887, three of these birds had returned; one arrived in Boston direct from London, the second was recovered near New York City, and the third was found in the Allegheny Mountains in Pennsylvania. The owner’s address was painted on the bird’s wings, and, when they were found, the birds were returned to the owner. The other six birds were not re- covered. entertat the doors and windows. At first the people rush away, but finding that in many cases the light follows they throw themselves down with their faces to the earth. In a few minutes the village and river banks are cleared, and the terrifi- ed people take refuge in the bush or at the backs of the houses. But this onl lasts a very short time. Curiosity is stronger than prudence. So far the ight has struck no one dead. Perhaps it may be harmless; so the children, clinging to each other, venture into the glare, then run to their mothers' arms screaming half with fear and half with delight. Some of the big boys then rush out, have a good stars, and having dared so much once more disappear. The ladies seem to gain confidence next to the children. Their curiosity cannot be re- strained any longer, so they get together in groups and hide their faces and scream and giggle. Some of the more cheeky ones actually put out their tongues atus and begin dancing and yrating about. The men, last of all, moo ily emerge from their cover, and still not half likin it walk cautiously about, and gradually t e village is gay. ” bibs and bounces ABS‘iéâ€"Eixla $6335.? uncanny fnahion. I.“ vi_llnge is illumined. ._2_SL,, __v ...â€"w vâ€" -n-uuuuuvu. 1t viz-lit? fiverywimrtiop at it; and seems to _--._v_ uv uv- uuvn A flood of light is can? on a "in“ in the vi] Iago, but it' 18 03' with more I: an lightnin {31R 'dity to illumine another. It _he_aps am n--.) L-___-~ 7 ,V___---v.. v- .u uluvllllv A. III!- “ A grest soy of soft light,” I10 says, " shoots aogoss ‘the heaveps from horizon to horizon. Major E. C. Browne, an Engishmen, writ- ing about the acquisition of Burmeh by the British, describes the effect upon the natives of the first exhibition oi the electric light. “ A neat rev of soft: light.” ha nun u .5-..» A cause of disagreement between kaiser Fritz and Bismarck is regardin the restor- ation of the private fortune of t elate King of Hanover,whioh had been! confiscated by Prussia. Bismarck prevented‘Kaiser \Vil- liam from restoring it, and now he and the Emperor have locked horns too. Admiral Hewett of the British Navy, who was drowned the other day, was a very successful blockade runner during the Am- erican war. So were Hobart Pasha and Capt. Burgoyne, who commanded the ship Captain, which capsized about ten years ago. A correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that thousands of Russian peasants have died of hunger during the past six weeks. In the district of Zvenigorodks the peasants seized the cattle of the rich land- owners. A well-known London firm of refreshment contractors recently advertizsd for 4,000 additional waiters, and 10,000 up licationa were- received in response, the who 9 of the candidates claiming to have had exPerience. There has been a long aearch for a sunken rock in the Red See I: n which two Brit- ish steamers foundere . It has at last been found. It is a. very small coral patch with only fifteen feel: of water over it. The French are acknowledged to have the finest guns and projectiles in Europe. Their Ferminy shell has been shot through an ar- mor plate twenty inches thick, and come out with its steel point uninjured. Admiral Hornby says that England would require at least 186 cruisers to pro- tect her merchant vessels from the enemy's cruisers, and that she has but forty-two. The Petil Journal recentl‘ signaled to Bismarck to restore Alsace a d trains to France, to kiss and make up, and then both have a go at England. The new wire gun at Shoebnrfieu has thrown a 500-pound shell 3 distance of twelve miles, the sweetest distance evcr covered by aoannon bell. A French engineer has conferred a blew ing on all players of atria ed instruments by inventing n peg which wi 1 not slip. A gun for projectile. of 100 pounds hes been complete! by Armstrong. It fires seven shells a minute. The Income of the Univereity of Cam‘ bridge of this year will be $180,000 and ex- penses. $170,000 The Zuydor Zoe msy be drained before long, for the association for that purpose is about to try it. The Austrian Government has ordete‘ thirty automatic Maxim guns. W. G. Grace, the greater]: uric pr in the world, will be 40 years old on t mm of July. - A Long Flight. mamas so'rfis. 0’