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When 3 mm pnys for hi- boud he should be “loved to on a grout do“. __w_._-v.. -... "run. run? wunuuuuuu. Earn your own brand. and one how sweet it will be! Work, and see how well you will be I Work. and see how cheerful you will be I Work and see how independent you will be I Work. and see how happy your family wzll be I Work. and see how religious you will be lrâ€"for before you know where you are. instead of repining at. Providence, you will and yourself offering up thanka {or all the numerous blessing. you enjoy. Why is a drunkard like a bad politician -â€"Beosu~e lie is always poking his nose into measures thin appil the oonatituhon. --..... v"\vlll" Afterunomé' iWâ€"JVhdum' discussion. the House decided that Mr. O'Donuel meant no ofi‘enon to the Speaker. and the debate was resumed. Mr.'O‘I)onnelâ€"-â€"Sir, ldid not do what the Prime Minister states. I was merely brushing away it fly. _ ([riehfheers") A].-- _~Au A sham] membersâ€"N33: was this. (The entire Home makes long noses at each otlggr.)A_ Sir Stafford Northooteâ€"I beg to any that the Prime Minister in wrong. The hon. member did is this way. (Sir Stafford puts hie thumb to hie nose and twiddlee his fingers ) The Speakerâ€"I was under the impression it was thin way. (The Speaker makese 1023 none at Sir Stafford ) Mr. Gladstoneâ€"Sir. I rise to move that the words of the hon. member for Dun. got-van be taken down. (Criea of " What. words 7“) Mr. Gladstoneâ€"Ho said. Blr, " My opinion of you is this." and then, air. he did thinâ€"(Mr Gludutone made a. long nose at the Speaker. amid the roots of the House). aid to have treated the chair disrespect- fully at times. Sir. this is not true. My opinion of )ou. air, is this (the hou. gentle- man puts bin thumb to his nose to brush “my a fly). (Cries of “ Shame." “ Name him." " Order.") (Mr. O'Donnel speaking during the Egyptign dubaze)-5Mr. O'Donnel: I am Devitt, speaking in Nnvnn last even- ing. declared that the inrmers in the west 0! Ireland should not starve, as they would compel the Government that preVents them from livmg on the soil to support them during the winter. In case they were unsuccesslul in getting the Govern- ment to do its duty. he proposed to make the landlords support the people. If Glad. atone did not apply the enrplus of arrears in estimate to ane the people, then no rout should be paid lrom Nov/ember until May. A portion of the arrears surplus should be placed as a. national relief fund to save the ople lroui etsrvmg. In 1848 Archbishop 5:131:93 declared in New York that men threatened with hunger would be justified in seizing breed upon the altar. How much more justified would the Irish be. in feeding their destitute from the tribute they are compelled to pay to felonous lend- lordiem. Cox and the prisoners were removed. Dolan is not expected to live. He says that he and his party are all good men. and that he duee not care if he dies. The police state that a whistle was blown as they approached the group, and the word to fire was repeated three times.» Dolan lives near where the Fenian armory was recently discovered. The police. at 2 o'clock this morning, broke into the house of William Woodward, an organ builder. on Cufie street. They arrested him on a charge of being cannected with the murder of Cox. Woodward has been imprisoned under the Coercion Act on suapwion of being con- cerned in the murder of the informer Bailey. The police are expected to break into other houses during the night. The men followed the cab conveying Cox to the hospital, and tearing an atteck the oflioersl presented reVolvern out at the windows and reached the hospital safely. It is said that 00x was warned that he would be killed. Bowling. or Dolan. the murderer of De- tective Cox, is a brassiitter. One of the two other men arrested is named Deviue. He was released from prison a few months ago and is known as a “bully." He had two reVolvers in his pocket and eighteen rounds of ammunition. The detectives about halt past 10 noticed three suspicious looking persons with- draw from a party of ten with whom the detectives had au eucounter. The officers crossed the street and Cox approached Dolan. whom he suspected of having arms in his possession. As the detectives get near the group a man shouted, " Now fire," and Dolan immediately discharged his revolver. Eastwood then wounded Dolan and wrenched the revolver from him. Meanwhile one of the party tired twice at Eastwood, a bullet pertorating his hat. Devine knocked Eastwood down and was aboutto shoot him when he was seized by a constable and a soldier. The soldier had his bayonet across UeVine’s throat, threat- ening to kill him it he moved, when a voice shouted, " Shoot the soldier." ' Matters appeared threatening. but the police drew revolvers and kept the crowd back until ' Archbishop MeUube. speaking at Harold’s Gross to-duy. strongly denounced the murder 0! Detective Cox. He asked the people for their influence to drive awn) secret societies. The wrong-deem 0! last night were no doubt abroad for a. deadlier tad more fiendish work, but their inten- tions were fruetrated by the vigilance of the police. liner-nee- or Aroma-top lug-Cube and L'Ilchlrl Davin. A last Saturday night's London despetch aye: A Dublin telegram says that Eut- wood.Cox and another detective were in the neighborhood 0! Seokville street watch- ing a petty of men surpeoted of being Feniaue. Four l-hOIB ware fired at the omoere, one wuuudiug Cox. Eutwood pur- sued the men and ehot one numedbswliug. He is not expected to recover. He was among a group of ten men, one of whom nought to hurry the murderer away. but was captured by a. soldier who threatened to bayonet him. The third man is in ous- oody. The men had junt come out of a publio house {requented by_Fenien-n. A SOLDIER'B PLUCKY CONDUCT. A scene In .he llou-c ol Commons. Assassination of a. Detectiveu'l‘he Culprit Arrested. ANOTHER DUBLIN '1 RAOEDY. . ‘ ,"J -.- u. v... w: uvuullt‘fl in “ Poor Joe " while in Amerilca. wont to Australia and cleared 86.000 5 week for nine moccasin weeks 3: the Molbourna Thou". in on P1 The Goderieh New: states that it is reported that Mr. Jeane Farrow. brother to T. Farrow. M P.. of Bluevale. has been murdered in Jollet. Illinois. The oldest resident of Antigonish County. N 8.. Mrs. Hugh Maedonald. of I"rwer‘a Mlll.dted on Monday in her 103rd year. At the age of 100 she could walk six miles to vim neighbors. Jennie Lee.who played toempty benches in u I)--- 1-- n ,, The iollowing new poatofl‘ices wereestab- lished on November let : Birdsslls. Peter- horo‘. Ontario; Broadview, Northwest Territory; Clareview (reopened). Adding- ton. Ontario: East Angus. Compton. Ontario; Hsnlsn. Lisgar. Ontario ; Harold. Hastings. Ontario ; Indian Head. North- west Territory ; Letour Mills. Pontiac. Quebec ; Mooaomin. Northwest Territory ; Nysnza, Victoria. N.S.; Regina. North- wast Territory; Romilly.0ardwell; Sewell. Selkirk. The following have been changed: Clsndeboye to McKinley. Goose River. N.S.. to Linden ; McGillivrsy. Ontario. to Clan~ deboye. Rondeau to Blenheim. A Petereburg We.) telegram eeye : In- telligence has just reached here of a horrible murder.,whlch wee committed near Smith‘s Croee Reade. in Meoklenburg County. a. few days ago. Alpheue Thonme Jones and his brother Henry. both youths, quarrelled over the distribution of a lot of walnuts, and subsequently the former shot the latter with a rhot gun. killing him instantly. The murdered boy’e head was torn almoab completely from his body. A Drunken "Inn Plum-«l Down by a lleuvy Window BIII. A Buffalo telegram says: Martin Hil~ bert met his death in a singular manner early this morning. Patrolman Hertz. of the Eighth Precinct Squad. was called to 302 Monroe street at 7 30 this morning to release an old man who was reported to be hanging out of a first floor window. The ofliesr discovered him lying dead flat across the window sill, with his hands and body inside and his legs sticking out. He was noticed about the premises at 10 o'clock last night, and it is supposed he was Intoxicated and attempted to get in the house through the window. and that when half way in the heavy window fell upon him. pinning him last. and no one coming to release him he probably died of congestion. A key of the house and his pocketbook were found in the yard. MURDERBD B" Ills BROTHER. l‘rrrlhle Result of n Qunrrel About \annu-u. Bishop Dnhamel and the Slxlh Pro- vincial Council Epl-copal Letter. A last (Monday) night's Ottawa despatch says: In the Basilica yesterday Bishop Dohamel read the Episcopal letter from the Sixth Provincial Council and made cammenta thereon. Among other things he said that these Catholics who were fond of expressing their opinions publicly on religious matters were deluded by the idea that they were safe because they had Protestants on their side, but there were sensible Protestants who. in many cases, had a knowledge of the doctrines of the Catholic Church and did not always agree With those self‘constituted champions of Catholicity. The Catholic who acted upon. ‘spoke or wrote his own opinion regarding ianytbing affecting the Church ceased :abv that fact to be a Catholic. The‘ Church should be appealed to in all such cares, as it alone had a right to decide all such matters. His Lordship also referred to the clause relating to marriage dispen- cations, and said he was happy to find that very few dispensations had teen asked of him in this diocese since he had assumed the mitre. Many Catholics who could not succeed in being married to one of another denomination by a clergyman of the Catholic Church were under the impression that the marriage ceremony performed by a clergyman of another religion was valid. Such a marriage might be legal in the eyes at the law and the world, but was con- aldered invalid by the Church. The Bishop's remarks were listened to with rapt attention by the unusually large con- gregation present at mass. " AM the cab came in through the Pullman its occupants could not escape, and the ‘escapiug steam and water rendered their ‘reecue perilous. We broke the window of the cab and got them out; they were all alone. but terribly scalded. The stoher died in fearful agony before we reached Newcastle; Fraser died just after arrivwg there. The others can hardly recover." The Pullman and engine which were tele- acoped were badly damaged. As to the cause of the accident, it is stated that the Quebec train was two hours behind time ; that she was moving at the rate of five miles an hour only, and that she wan steaming badly in the face of ablinding snow storm. The other train was coming down at a good rate of speed. supposing that the Quebec train was out of the way. and the consequence was she telescoped the Pullman. The usual lights were burn- ing on the rear of the Pullman. I A St. John (NB ) despatoh of last (Sun- day) night's date says: Late particulars of the accident on the Interoolonial Ratlway last night show that it ooourred at Beaver Brook, 10 or 12 miles above Newcastle. The engine which telesooped the Pullman oar was drawing agravel train and running tender foremost. The train which was run into arrived hate to day. Among the passengers in the Pullman car were W. H. Morrison and P. E. Parrot. of Toronto; I! G. Leokie. of Siterbroolte. Que. Mr. Mirrieon wan tlightly bruised. but the others escaped unhurt. Mr. Murrtuou lost a fur-lined coat worth $150. and other pas. eenuere lost a few things. Mr. Leokie said that in the cab of the engine belonging to the gravel tretn were the engineer. Whose name was Bronn; the stoker. a young man belonging to Mono- ton. and the brakonian. J. Fraser. SAD [DISASTER 0! THE IITKKCHLMIAL [Paul lie-III:- or [he Tcleuoplnx of Bull- wuy (Jun. LAY 091M058 0! RELIGIOUS QUESTIONS. A STRANGE DEA'I‘II. Nc-w Poul-omrc-n. In Montreal geaterday Mr. Justice Tor- rance dlaminno the once tion taken to the Attorney General of the ’rovinoo interfer- ing in tho wit against the Montreal Tele- anph Company. The oolebnted one of Dr. Edward Pynchon. charged with complicity m the denthof Buddio MoCrao. of Chatham. at Buffalo, has again been postponed. The proprietor of a paper published in Philadelphia offered a prize of 820 In gold to the person who rhould write the most words from the first chapter of Genesis within a circle the size of a silver quarter of a dollar. The prize was awarded to Mrs. Lillie E. Wood. of Hartford. Mrs. Wood accomplished the Wonderful feat of writing the entire chapter within the pre- scribed space. and to show how wonderlul that was it is only necessary to count the words which the lady crowded Into this email space. In the first chapter of Genesis there are thirty-one verses and 795 words. not counting the headings or the numerals at the beginning of the verses. as1 the writer was permitted to omit these. The reading matter and the punctuation had to be copied into the quarter of a dol- lar circle. into which she put the 795 words and 11-1 punctuation marks. â€"â€" Hartford Tim". A foreign medical journal mentions the case of a lady suffering from cramps it. the stomach. and to whom something less than is drop of l per cent. alcoholic solution of nitro-glyoerine was given. In two minutes the pulse tell from 140 to 50. a clsmmv sweet covered the putient‘s features. and she became senseless. Stimulants to the nose. and brandy were quickly admin- istered, and in about tnree minutes more she began to recoverâ€"the pain was com- pletely gone. and did not return all that night or the followmg day. While under the effect of the singular substance in ques» tion. the patient felt. as she su' sequeutly stated. like two persons, and so strong was this impression that. though entirely rstionsl in her conversation and com posed as usual in her manner. she could not dispossess herself of the illusion. A Detroit telegram says: Terrible excitement was created at Blissfield on Wednesday evening by a murderous assault committed by an insane German tramp, whose name appears to be George Garty. on Thomas OConnelly. a Lake Shore haggageman at that station. It appears O'Connelly saw the tramp, stark naked, crawling under the oahome of a freight train just a~ it was leaving the station about dark. He drove him from his position and the tramp assaulted him with a large clasp knife, inflicting twenty terrible wounds on his person. \Vhen O‘Connelly Was dis covered he was unable to describe his assailant. and a party started in pursuit toward Riga. at which station the man was \ found still naked and armed with a coupling ‘pin. He was quickly overpowered and taken to Blissfield. where the efl'orts of an oflicer and half a dozen determined citizens alone prevented his being summarily hung by the excited mob. He was taken to‘ Adrian on the night express and safely jailed. Two inches of the knife blade. which had broken 03. were extracted from under O‘Connelly's shoulder blade. The latter's medical attendants say the wounded man cannot live. The tramp’s clothing was found by the pursuing party scattered along the track. body was opened as though the flesh had been cut away with a knife. exposing the intestines. Both arms were twisted from their sockets and one leg was almost severed at the knee. Mrs. Foreythe was out and gashed in a mostagonizmg manner. ‘She had been sitting close to the stove. The pieces of iron struck her in over thirty places. giving her the appearance of a person who had been riddled with bunk- shot. She cannot possibly recover. Charley Forsythe, the youngest of the children. and about 5 years old. was horribly bruised and cut, and died not long after the accident occurred. Robert Foreythe, aged 7 years. was out about the head and body. Hie injuries are serious. Forsythe is almost crazy about the affair and constantly ex- claims that he is to blame for the disaster. He wanted to commit suicide. but was prevented. The man in reality does not seem to have known the character of the explosive. Mrs Foreythe was a daughter of Mr. Huey. one of the firm for whom Foreylhe worked. A l’ittaburg (Pa) despatch says: A frightful accident occurred nerr Bellevue: about twenty miles u the Monongaheh River. the other nig t. A coal miner named F orsytbe procured several sticks of dynamite for the purpose of catching fish. As the explosive was frozm he placed it near the kitchen stove to thaw. and started to work in the mine a short distance from his home. Fifteen minutes later Forsythe was told that there had been an explosion at his house and all of his family had been killed. Half frantic at the newa he ran home and found that the report was true. in part at least. After For-ythe left the house, his wife and children sat down to supper at a table near the stove. While they were talking. and just as the children Were laughing about some joke, there was a terrific ‘report. The stove was blown into fifty fragments. The entire end of the house, which is a one‘storey frame building. was wrecked. and the mother and her little ones. who were hurled in different direc- tions. were cut by flying pieces of iron and glass, and violently thrown against the walls. The eldest boy. aged 8 years. had Just arisen to get a drink. and was not more than tWo feet from the stovo and facing it when the explosion occurred. The mother was seated with her back to the stove and the two youngest boys by her side. The boy nearest the stove received the full force of the explosion. He was thrown a distance of tWenty feet and was found in a corner of the yard. his body being horribly mangled. He died from the effects of his injuries about twa hours after the occur. reuse. The entire lower portion of_ his Awful lacu- cl 3 Dunn-Inc ‘ lploulonâ€" A Mother and Clinch-u: ’l‘oru In I’lrcu. Terrible Annual! by a truly Tramp. PEARFUL CATAB'I‘IHDI’II I}. NIIro-Glycerlne an n Medlclue. Thompson is in Uhioago. Fine. \Vrlclnu. Mr. John Prain, who has been Reeve of Miuto {or the past thirteen yenra, and twice Warden of tho County of Wellington. intends retiring from municipal lilo. â€"-0ver 814 000.000 has been expended on the Brnoklyanidge. and the end in no‘ yet. What makes the people mud in the (not. that. no one can be convicted of stealing 98 000.000. The congregation of I'lol}; Tyiriiâ€"ticrfi‘uroh. Winnipeg. are about to erect a new church. which is to cost. 8100.000. In the Provincial Court. Winnipeg. yes- terday morning Suuau Palmer. of Pine Fells, was committed to jail an a lunatic. to await. the pleasure of the Lieutenant- Governor. It in a and case. Mre Palmer, 3 young women, lout, her hut-band by drowning a short time ago. and since that event two of her children have died. and thgbereavement hasnpaet her reason. Governor elect Butler is not one of those oratore who complain because the reporters do not get into print every word they utter. or became they eometimee change a word here and therenfor the better or the worse. “ You workingmen of the press." he said at a dinner of a Boston reportere' Club. " elwaya do your duty thoroughly, and that I have received any portion of the applause of my fellow-citizens comes from the fact that I have received from you accurate and truthful reporte of what I have said. And for that fidelity. which hae neVer faltered. whether from men opposed to me or in my lover. I beg to re- turn to each and allot you my most gratelul thanks." A new swindle. appropriately emanating from Cincinnati, has lately been exposed. It seems that an advertisement has ap- peared in several newapupere purporting to furnish easy employment to those desir- ing to enter the ranks of journali-m. with the proqise of at liberal compensation. The officers of the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Crime have taken the matter in hand. and. of course. discovered it to be a new trap for the innocent. There is no royal road to jv-urnuliam. and he who would enter its ranks must begin at the bottom round of the ladder. And a difficult climb it will be (or ‘him.â€"New York Com mercial Advertiser. A lady who possessed a piano which had once been good and was really unaware of the effect which time's efl‘aomg fingers had had upon its ancient brillianoy asked a famous German pianist to perform upon it. and. after he had obligingly done so. was raeh enough to ask him what he thought of it. " Since vou press me for an opinion,“ replied the eminent artist. " I will tell you first that your piano wante new wires. and, secondly, that the hammers want new lea- ther. And while you are about it." he con- tinued. gradually boiling up. “ with your new leather you had better have new wood ; and when your instrument is thus repaired the best thing you can do with it will be to make it into firewood and have it burned." â€"St. James‘ Gazette. Miss Nightingale has pointed out how constantly the mental state of the dying depends on their physical conditions. As a rule. she tells us, in acute cases interest In their owu danger is rarely felt. " In- difference. excepting with regard to bodily suffering. or to some duty the dying man desires to perlorm. is the far more usual state. But patients who die of consump- tion very frequently die in a state of seraphlc joy and peace; the countenance aImOat exp-eases rapture. Patients who die of cholera, peritonitis, etc.. on the con- trary. often one in a state approaching despair. In dysentery, diarrhoea. or fever. the patient often dies in a state of indif- ference." Those who have carefully examined the dead on the battle-field. or in the streets alter an cmcute, are struck with the fact that while the expres- sion on the faces of those who have died by gunshot wounds is one of agony and distress, the dead by sword have a calmer-1 expressiou. though their wounds often seem more painfultolhe eye. Avery careful ob- server who was through the Indian Mutiny. entirely confirms this. After giving several instances. he says : “A rapid death by steel is almost painless. Sabre edge or point dwides the nerves so quickly as to give little pain. A bullet lanerates."â€"London Spectator. The report of the Superintendent of Education for Manitoba showa the number of Protestant Public Schoola and the attend ance for each of the ten years during which the public school system has been in exist- ence. From 1871 to 1881 the number of Protestant b‘chools has increased from 16 to 128, and the total attendance lrom 816 to4,919. The average attendance during the year in the Protestant Schools of Win- nipeg has been 501 lor 1881 against 864 in 1880. During the last year 848,126 49 was spent upon these echools in Winnipeg alone. Subjoined to the report in a table showing the average salaries of teachers for the year ending January 31st, 1882 First in cities and towns. they are as follows: Winnipeg, 3572 66; Portage la Prairie, 8536 67; Emerson, 8500. The averages for counties were: Selkirk.- 8409 20; Lasgar. 8420.23 ; Marquette, 8405. 45; Provencher. 8388 75. Says a. Winnipeg correspondent : “ It is amournful {act that forty-rod hm! Hunt. at. least three men to the grave in Winnipeg this year {or ovary one that. diad of typhoid." -Theee three lines lrom the Winnipeg Times tell a lamentable Isle : “ There are plenty of men in the city who have already epeutiu liquor all the money they earned during the eummer." Winnipeg in to have a. toboggauiuq club. and a Ruuuiuu slide. similar to that. at Rideuu Hall. in to be erected on the banks of the swift. ruuuiug Auniuiboine. Law on no about the most numerous clam oi, professions! people in Winnipeg. and it is oiwn Wondered how so large a number uppeur to thrive on no Imull a community. Poonibly some 0! them on- ooumge litigation. Peruse la. Prairie bu laid out acme 040.000 on uidowalkuduring the sou-on. THE CANADIAN NORTHWEST No Royal Road to Journalism. Fullhl‘nlneu of Reporu-rn. Lute-l From Winnipeg. \Vlun Alled the Plano. llow Propln Die. INSTITUTION (RM‘AHLIRHED lim 4 QUEEN ll‘l'nltlt’l' lsAn’l‘. 1'0"ch I NERVOUB DEIIILI'I‘Y, lsheumamm, Lam Hack Neumwllmonlynfla Ind all Livnuml (‘ho Comrmnu mmedlltoly relieved .an puma nontr cured by mum: mm BELTS. lust) AND REGIME (Immlnn urI Connnlhnuu PIMP. Fitty yeere ego the name of Parnell was as prominent in Parliament as it in today. In 1831 was published " The People‘s Book." containing an annotated list of the two Britieh Houses of Parliament It thus describea Mr. C. 8. Parnell'a great-uncle. Sir Henry Parnell. alterword Lord Congle ton: " He in an able. induntrioua. Liberal. and efficient member of Parliament. It was upon his motion for a committee of inquiry into the civil list that the Welling, ton Cabinet wee broken up." Mary Anderson is an exception to the oft-repeated rule that nobody can attain excellence on the stage without beginning to climb at the lowest round. She made her debut in leading tragic roles only a few years ago. and began to make money and fame at the very outset. She is now very wealthy; and as for glory. she wan pub- licly crowned with a laurel wreath the other night in her native city of Louiaville, hy the Mayor and Editor Wattereon. of the Courier» Journal The Mayor aI-aured hLl' that the y‘aaeased “ exceeding loveli- ness of person. purity of heart and beauties of mind.” 1N UHMJXN ’t-i ELECTRIC 351.7 A girl of Waukon. Iowa. being excee- eively fond of babies, borrowed one ofe neighbor for the day. It fell into slim and was burned to death. The girl was not immediately the cnuee of the accident and yet. she was no wind and {tightened by_i_t. thntrehe died within an hour. Mr. Chilton. of St. Cutharinea. United States Consul at the Internatiénal Bridge. hm been unpainted to the oousulship at Oracle: ioh and Strntford. â€"A leaee for 999 years is generally regarded as equivalent to freehold. but uuoh a lease has recently expired. and the property has reverted toita original owner, the Church of England. It is thus legally decided that the Church has had a cor- porate entity for at least a thousand years. n“. The Mexican Government. has junt. abol- ished the export tax on the precious metals, and there in talk of abollshiug the: inter Stggeingpqata. ‘ ALondon daily newspaper,in arecent editorial on the death 01 Mr. Chahot. the ‘expert on handwriting. says: “ Brothers frequently write singularly like each other, and any one who has paid the slightest attention to the subject cannot fail to notice the broad peculiarities which the caligraphy of certain people possesses in common. There is no mistaking the broad, ‘expansive, clearly formed letters of those who have been taught to write in the schools of America. The admirable hand- writings of the Scandinavians are so much alike that experts will be enabled to pick out from a hundred examples almost away one executed by a Dane. a Norwegian or a Swede. The Italian handwriting is also so marked that it is one of the " styles" affected by writing masters. and the pretty, scratchy characters of a Frenchman. with the flourish and sudden redundancies, in- evitably suggest the gay. volatile. fickle character of the race to which he belongs." Mr. Labouchere. editor of London Truth. says in regard to electric light: “ I certainly would advise all towns and local authorities to pause before they either take powers themselves or grant any to com- panies to take up their roadways, in order to lay electric rode. No one is more desirous than I am that electricity should replace gas. The former. however. has not yet arrived at its commercial phase. No existing dynamo machine can supply elect- ric light at anything like the price of gas. All that have done so for a short time have lost by these contracts, which were merely entered into in order to humhug the public into taking the shares of these subcom- panies. Meu of scientific acquirements. and not mere ' patent ‘ quacks. are devoting themselves to arrive at this result ; but until it is reached, it is absurd to precipitate action." The tendency of the evidence before the coroner's inquest into the cause of the recent fatal lntercolonial Railway accident goes to show that the rolling stock of that road is in a most deplorable condition. In the case in question the engine drawing an express train could not gather enough steam to ascend the grades. and even upon leVel stretches lost time. The railway cfii- cials also state that engines are patched continually instead of renewing their boilers. An instance of the carelessness of oflicials is mentioned, a despatcher having, since the accident referred to. started two trains from opposite stations upon the same line. and a terrible disaster was only averted by the vigilance of the engine- drivers. who were favored by a straight piece of road. This road is under the control of the Ottawa Government. At the recent inaugural exercieee of Edinburgh Univereity. Prof. Butcher. the new Greek proleeeor. went through a trying ordeal. Au he entered the hall he was re- ceived with a loud cheer. a lane toward the doorway being opened for him at the name time. The professor emilinuly uolinow- lodged the oomplirnen t. and was melting the best of hie way into the ball. when eeveral etudente were heard to any: “ Let's give him a squeeze." The proleeeor was huddled. tequeezed against the railings, pelted With peae, and attempts made to knock ofl hie hat with etioke, end his coat was torn. Ultimately he got re- liel by Prof. Wilson causing the door to be opened. About ten minutes before the hour at which the proceedings were to commence the commotion in the hall was very great. Large numbers of etudente mounted on the acute, which are more then usually well uphcletered. and several tree lightn between parties with pea- ehootere took place. Belore the etock of peas got eornewhet exhaueted the majority of thoee in the area Were forced to put up their umbrellas to protect themselvee from the ehower lrom the occupants of the galleries Don't llurrv Ilae Electric Light. Criminal Nrullgencc 30-: when. Pee-undue. ln Penmanship. figurrlln. I Pnleuor.