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Little Diokâ€"Mamma. mayn’t I have some of that black cuties! Manamaâ€"Me I No; it will make you jump out 0 your boots! _ Qh.no.ma.mma;m3 bootsnawtul pendencia in Africa. There is one more point worth considering. namely, that when England adopts the metric system, France, in all probability, will ad I: Greenwich time. pand thusy there riff he but one time system in the statement of the facts; for a. compul- sa'yphange from old and complicated to new and simple methods of weighing and measuring has been accomplished in Turkey, in Japan. and even among the black populations of the French de- Those persons whose memories go back for a generation will appreciate how much British public opinion on this subject has been modified. In the Parliamentary report of a committee which sat thirty-three years ago, two men 0! science no less distinguished than Sir John Herschel and the late Astrono- mer Royal, Sir George Airy, opposed the adoption of the metric system. On the other hand. before the select committee which recently examined the question. one of the witnesses. Lord Kelvin, being asked how far in his opinion the views of Herschel and Airy were applicable to the present time. testified: ”I be- lieve these two great men would see things very differently now; their minds had not been opened to the great advantages of the metric system." Lord Kelvin added that since those unfavor- able opinions were expressed the system ‘ had been adopted by almost every coun- - neoeseary. Mr. Balfour expressed re- luctance, however, to compel every clam in the community suddenly to abandon its traditional and habitual methods of measuring and weighing. He suggested that the Chambers of Commerce, and even the Trade Union Congresses, were scarcely adequate representatives of the kind of feeling that would probably animate the great body of small retail dealers. and of those who buy from such dealers. when they found all their familiar landmarks swept awayland un- familiar things put in their places. He believed, therefore, that the Government should confine itself to legalizing and teaching the metric system, and. should not make it compulsory until its mer- its had become practiz-zlly known to all dam of the community. This charac- teristically English decision is pronounc- ed satisfactory by the well-known scien- tific journal. Nature. which admits that a gradual transition from the old sys- tem of weights and measures to the new would be preferable to a sharp and vio- lent change brought about by legal The recommendations made by the Chambers of Commerce were as follows: First. that the metric system of weights and measures should be at once legalized for all purposes. Secondly, that it should be the only legal system allowed in the United Kingdom after two years. Th'u‘dly. that every effort should be made to teach the system in the public elementary schools. \Vith the first and third proposals Mr. Balfour declared himself in entire agreement. He ao- knowledged it to be the business of the Government to do everything in its power to smooth the transition from the old to the new system, and that cer- tainly the first step thereto should be to make legcJ that which is thought de- sirable, and may ultimawa be thought It has often been alleged in England that the agitation for the adoption of the metric system is maintained by scientific men unfamiliar with the prac- tical difficulties that would be encoun- tered in the application of new modes of weighing and measuring to ordinary life. The assertion can be made no longer in view of the composition of the delega- tion which waited on Mr. Balfour three weeks ago. In this delegation werere- presented no fewer than forty-six Cham- bers of Commerce. which. moreover. were supported in their advocacy of the metric system by resolutions of the tmde unions passed in two successive Congresses. Equivalent resolutions. to the effect that the adoption of the deci- mal system of weights and measuresis highly desimble in the interests of the working classes and of the general trade of the country, have been passed by a multitude of trade mieties, includ- ing the Dockers‘ Union, the General Railway \Vorkers’ Union. the National Union of Gas \V'orkers, the Boot and Shoe Uniun of Leicester. and the United Bargemen and Watermen's Protection Society. In a. word, almost every branch of labor in Great Britain has de-_ clan-ed its adhesion to the system. The movement in favor of introducing the metric system of weights and mea- sures in the United Kingdom has of late acquired great impetus. and has secured the qualified approval of Mr. Balfour, the leading representative of the Salis- bury Government in the House of Com- moms. Certain legislative steps in that direction are. therefore. likely ‘50 be’ taken during the coming session of Pain liament. Even now in Rugia and the United Statue this system is employed t‘01' pharmaceutical and medical pur- 90388. and in the new edition of the Bri- tish Phannampaea, the metrical weights and measum are to be adopted. VOL 111- NO 4. NOTES A MD COAIMENTSâ€" In No Danger. Whfie he watches the shadow or; the dial the shadow beams to retreat. In- stead of going on ward 6 o'clock in the evenmg 1t goe_s back toward 6 o’clock in the morngng. The fig poul- tice had. been drawmg fog me time. and. sure enough, tho box] mks. and backward. In Iother words. let the day instead of gomg on towgn'd sundown. turn and. go toward sunnse. I see the invalid king. bolgtered up and wrapped in blankets. lookxpfi gut of the window 2999‘ t‘he su_n:dm. . }n the _ courtyaxjd. We are told that Hezekiah. the king. was dymg of a boil. It must have been one of the _worst kind of carâ€" bunclw, a bod mthout an central sore, and sometunes death 91. A fxg was put upon It as a.poultloe. Heze- kiah dxd not want to (he then. His son who was to take the kingdom had not yet been born, and Hezekiah’s death would have been the death of the na- tion. So he prays for recovery. and is told he wxll get‘well. But he wants some miraculous sxgn to make sure of it. He has the chance of having the shadow on the sundyal of Ahaz advance or retreat. He rephed it would not be so wonderful to have the sun go down. for 1t always does go down gooner or later“ 6 asks that. it _go .â€".â€".â€".â€"â€". Fâ€"\vw The clepsydra or water-clock follow- ed the sun-dial, and the sand grass followed the clepsydra. Then came the candle-clock of Alfred the Great and the candle was marked into three parts. and while the first part was burning he. gave himself to religion. and while the. second part was burning he gave himself to politics. and while the third part was burning he gave himself to rest. After awhile came the wheel . and weight clock. and Pope Sylvester the second was its most important in- Iventor. And the skill of centuries of ’ exciuishe mechanism toiled at the time- i l pieces until the world had the Vick's clock of the fourteenth century and Huyghens, the inventor. swung the ‘ first pendulum, and Dr. Book contrived - the recoil escapement. And the "endâ€" ' less chain" followed, and the “ rachet ’ and pinion lever " took its place; and ‘ the compensation balance and the stem winder followed, and now we have the , buzz and clang of the great clock and watch factories of Switzerland and Germany and England and America. turning out what seems to be the per- fection of time-pieces. It took the world six thousand years to make the Present chronometer. So with the measurement of longer spaces than minutes and hours. Time was calcu- lated from new moon to new moon; then from harvest to harvest. Then the year was pronounced to be three hundred and fiftyâ€"four days, and then‘ three hundred and sixty days. and. not: until a long while after. three hundred ’ and sixty-five days. Then events were' calculated from the foundation of Rome. afterward from the Olympic games. Then the Babylonians had their measurement of the year and the Romans theirs and the Armenians theirs and the Hindoos. theirs. Chronoâ€" ‘ logy was busy for centuries studying? monuments, inscriptions. coins. mum-z mics and astronomy, trying to lay a! plan by which all questions of dates might .be settled and events put in their right place in the procession of the a es. But the chronologists only heape up a mountain of confusion and ‘ bewilderment, until the sixth century‘ Dionysius Exiguns, a Roman abbot, said. “ Let everythin date from the; birth of Bethlehem 0 the Lord Jesusi Christ, the Saviour of the world.” The ; abbot proposed to have things datedI backward and forward from that great[ event. What a splendid thought for: the world! It would have been most natural to date everything from the! creation of the world. But I am gladI the chronologists could not so easily] guess how old the world was in order' to get the nations in the habit of age] ing from that occurrence in its docu-| meats and histories. Forever fixed. 13! it that all history is to be dated With: reference to the birth of Christ, and.i this matter settled. Hales, the chief. chronol ist. declared that the world: was ma e five thousand four hundred! and eleven years before Christ, and the ' deluge came three thousand one hun- dred and fifty-five years before Christ. and all the illustrious events of the last nineteen centuries and all the great events of all time to come have been or shall be dated from the birth of Christ. These things I say that you I may know what a. watch is. what a g clock is. what an almanac is. and learn to appreciate through what tOils andi' hardships and _what perplexities the : world came to its present conveniences i and comforts. and to help you to more respectful consideration of the sunâ€" 1 l dial of Ahagplanted in_i_ny text._ . J as may now be found. in Hindustan and other old countries; and when the shadow reached one step it was 10 o’clock a.m., and likewise other hours may have been indicated. Here is the first clock or watch or chronometer or time piece of which the World has any knowledge. But it was a- watch that did not tick and a clock that did not strike. It was a. sun dial. Ahaz. the King, invented it. Between the hours given to statecraft and the cares of office he invented something by Which he could tell the time of day. The sun-dial may have been a. great column, and when the shadows of that column reached one point it was 921.111.. and when it reached another point it was 3 o'clock p.m., and all the hours and half hours were so measured. 02' it may have been a flight of stairs such Rev. llr.’l‘alnn¢e 8cm Watches um Clocks Going for the New Year In Brlxhtlefl- God‘s Control or the Dill Shadow. Washington. Dec. 22.-â€"And Isaiah. the prophet. cried unto the Lord: and He brought the shadow ten de- grees backward by which it had gone ggwn in the dial of Ahaz." II. Kings. .. . 11. A SERMON FULL OF BRIGHTNESS AND GOOD CHEER. THE SUN-DIAL [1F AHAZ. grandchildren . and Emitâ€"grandchildren and amore boxsterous crew were never turned out of this suhlunary sphere. ass themselves by "uvenility. It is a. d thmz for an 015i man or old wo- man to sit looking at the vivactiy of them grand-children shouting ”Stop that hacker. !” Better join the fun. Let the elghty-yeaxs-old grandfather join the elght-years-young grandson or granddaughter. My father and mother ivodtpflsge over oighty 0111111118?“ ‘and But I promised to show vou how the shadows might be turned back. First. bf 30mg much among the young peo- pe. In most family circles there are grandchildren. By this divine arâ€" rangement most of the peo 16 who are passed_ the meridianflof 11 p can; cpm- a set-back. The highest thrones in; heaven are for teh set-backs. In 1861 the shadow of the sun-dial of this na- 1 tion was set bapk. and all things seem- ‘ ed going to rum, and it was set back ‘ heaven are for the set-backs. [n 1861 and still further in 1865, but there is not an intelligent and well-balanced‘ man, North or South, East or West but feels it was set back towards the ; a. set-forward. You never would have becomp Qhris__t_ian ;f_ you} had not had in his palace window wrapped in in- valldism and surrounded by anondynes and cataplasms and looked out upon the black hand of the only clock known at that time and saw it move back ten degrees, he learned a lesson that a majority of the human race need this hour to learnâ€"that the best friend a man ever had controls the shadow. The set-backs are sometimes the best things that can happen. The great German author Schiller could not work unless he had lin his room the scent of rotten apples, and the de- cay of the fruits of earthly prosperity may become an inspiration instead of a. depression. Robert Chambers' lame feet shut him up from other work. and he became the world-renowned pubâ€" lisher. and helped fashion the best literature of the age. The pa.nful dis- order like that of Ezekiah calledavar- buncle is spelled exactly the same as the precious stone called the carbuncle, and the pang of suffering may become the jewel of immortal value. Your set- back like that of Ahaza's sun-dial may be recovery and triumph. I never had a. set-back but it turned out to be Son. for anybody can be happy when things go I‘lfl‘ht. When you sleep eight hours a night and rise with an appe- tite that cannot easily wait for break- fast and you go over to the store and open Your mail to open more orders than you can fill. and in the next let- ter you find a. dividend far larger than you have been promised and your nelghbor comes in to tell you some flattering thing he has just heard said. about you, and you find that all the styles of goods in which you deal have advanced fifteen r cent. in value. and on your way ome you meet your children in full romp, and there are roses of health in cheeks all round the table. what more do you want of con- solation? I don‘t pity you a. bit. You feel as if you could boss the world. But for those in just opposite circum- stances my text eomes in with an om- nipotence of meaning. The shadow 1 Oh, the shadow! Shadow of bereave- ment! Shadow of sickness! Shadow of bankruptcy! Shadow of mental depres- Slon! Shadow of persecumonl Shadow of death! Speak out. 0, sun-dial of Ahaz, and tell all the people that God manages the shadow! As Hezekiah sat pse the day is dark? You have to Lght the gas at noon. The sun does not Show himself all day long. There IS nothing but shadow. How slow we. are to realize that the storm is from GOd and the darkness from God and the chill from God. 01‘. we buy the day before the market's retreat: or we make an investment that never pays: Qt we purchase goods that we cannot d15l’950 0f; or a. crop of grain we sowedis rum- ed by draught or‘ froshet; or when we took account of stock on the first of January we found ourselves thousands of dollars worse off than we expected- Who under such circumstances says, "This loss is from God. I must have been allowed to go into that unfor- tunate enterprise for some good rea- SOn; God controls the east wind as well as the wast wind ?” My friends, 1 cannot look for one moment on that retrograde shadow on Ahaz's dial without learning that God‘ controls the shadows and that lesson we need all to learn. That He controlsi the sunshine is not so necessary 8183‘: say in our feelings. if not. with so many words. “This life is from God, this warmth is from God." Or we have a. rush of prosperity and we say. "These successes are from God; What a. providential thing it was I bought. that lot just before the rise of real estate! How grateful to God I am that I made that. investment! \Vhfv'. they have declared ten per cent. divi- dend! \Vhat a mercy it was that. I sold out my shares before that collapse!" Oh. yes; we acknowledge God in the supShine of a. bright day or the sun- Shlne‘ffi q.grqat prqsperity. B‘ut sup- Hezekiah got well. Now'I expect you will come on With your higher criticism and try to explain this away and say it was an o tional delusion of Heze- kiah. and t e shadow only seemed to go back. or a cloud came over, and it was uncertam which way the shadow did go. and as Hezekiahexpeeted it to go back he took the action of his own mind for the retrograde movement. No: the shadow went back on all the dials of that land and other lands. Turn to II. Chron.. 82. 31. and find that away off in Babylon the mighty men of the palace noticed the same phenome- non. And if you do not like Bible author- ity. turn over your cop of Heredotus and find that away of in Egypt the people noticed that there was some- thing the matter with the sun? The fact is. that the whole universe waits upOn God. and suns. and moons and stars are not very big things to Him. and He can with His finger turn back an entire world as easily as you would set back the hour-hand or minute- hand of your clock or watch. At the opening of a new year peo- ple are moralizing on the flight of time. 'ou all feel that you are moving on towards a sundown and many of you are under a consequent depression. I propose this morning to set the hands on your watches and clocks to going the other way. I propose to show you how you may make the shadow of your dial like the shadow on the dial of Ahaz. to stop oing forward and make it go backwar . You think I have. a big undertaking on hand. but it can be done if the same Lord who reversed the shadow to Ilezekiah's courtyard moves upon us. \Vhile looking at the sun-dial of Hezekiah and we find the shadow retreating we ought to learn that God controls the shadows. \Ve are all ready to acknowledge His manage- ment of the sunshine. \Ve stand in the glow of a‘bright morning and we “0E, WAD SOME POWER THE GIFTIE 01E US,TAE SEE DORSELS AS ITHERS SEE US.” 1.17131 OMEMEE. ONT. THURSDAY. JAN- ‘2. 1896- Some of .the Freiich railroads trans- port wine In bulk 111 tank cars. I have seen the day break over Mount Blanc and than Matterhorn, over the heights of Lebanon, over Mount Wash- ington, over the Sierra. Nevadas, and mid-Atlantic, the morning after a de- parted storm when the billows were liquid Alps and liquid Sierra Nevadas, but the sunrise of the soul is more ef- fulgent and more transmitting. It bathes all the sights of the soul and illuminates all the depths of the soul. and whelms all the faculties, all the aspirations, all the ambitions, all the hopes With a. light that sickness can- not effaoe or death extinguish, or eternâ€" ity, or anything but augment and magnify. I preach the sunrise. As I look at that retrograde movement of the shadow on Ahaz's dial, I remem- ber that it was a. sign that Hezekiah was going to get well. So I have to tell all you who are by the Grace of God hevmg your day turned from de- oline.toward night to ascend toward morning, that you are going to get well, well of all your sins, well of all your sorrows, well of all your erthly distresses Sunrise 1 Let me say to those in the afternoon of lifeâ€"Don’t be put off the harness; when God wants it off, He will take it off. Don't be frightened out of life by the grip as many are. At the first sneeze of an influenza many give up all as lost. No new terror has come on the earth. The microbes as the. cause of disease were demaribed in the Talmud seventeen hundred years ago. as invi- sible legions of dangerous ones." Don’t he scared out of life by all this talk about heart failure. That trouble has alans been in the world. That is what all the people that have passed out: of this life have died «ifâ€"heart failure. \Adam had it and all his descendants have had it or will have it. Do not be watching: for symptoms of everything Some of you will die of symptoms. Symptoms are often only what we Isometilnes see in the country, a. dead owl nailed on a ham door to save liv- ing owls. Put your trust in God, go to bed at ten o'clock. have the window ‘open six inches to let in fresh air, 1 sleep on your right side and fear noth- ] mg.“ The maximuwas right: many cases has done. There have a great many things been written and spoken about the sunset of life. I have said some of them myself. But my text suggests a letter idea. The Lord who turned back that day from going to- wards sundown and started it towards sunrise is willing to do the same thing for all of us. The theologians who stick to the old religious technicalities until they become soporifics would not gall it anything but conversation. 10311 It a change from going towards sun- down to going towards sunrise. The man who never tries to unhnckle the clasp ~of evil habits and who keeps all the sins of the past and the present frightening him and ignores the one redemption made by the only One who could redeem, if that man could ex- amine the sun-dial he will find that the shadow is going forward and he is on the way to sundown. His day is on sand glasses that empty themselves, the road to night. All the watches that tick. all the clocks that strike, all the shadows that move on all the sun-dials indicate the approach of darkness. But now, in answer to pray- er. as in my text the change was in answer to prayer, the pardoning Lord reverses things and the man starts to- wards sunrise instead of sunset. He turns the other way. The Captain of Salvation gives him the military com- mand. "Attention! ight about face!" He was marching t wards indifference. marching towards hardness of heart, marching towards pravyerlessness. marching towards sin. marching to- wards gloom, marching towards death. Now he turns and marches towards peace. marches towards light and marches towards comfort and marches towards high hope and marches towards atriumph stupendous and everlasting. towards hosannas that ever hoist and hallelujahs that ever roll. Now, if that is not the turning of the shadow on the dial of Ahaz from going towards sundown to going towards sunrise, what isit? , , __ But, while lonking at the sun-dial of Ahaz. and! see the shadow of it move, Inotice that, it went. back towards the sun-rise instead of forward towards the. sunsetâ€"towards the morning in- stead of towards the night. That. thing the world is_willin_g now 39 do. gxnd in "Get. th) spindle and dismff ready and God \\ x1] send thee flax " as the grandparents were. Matters have been hushed up, but if you have ever been in a room adjoining a room where some very old people a. little deaf were talking: over old times you will find that this age does not mono- polize all the young rascals. It may now be hard to get young people up early enough in the morning. but their grandparents had always to be pulled out of bed. It is wrong now to Play mischievous tricks on the unsuspect- ing, but eighty years ago at school that now venerable man sat down one. crooked pin. not accidentally put there, and purposely drove the sleigh-riding arty too near the edge of the. em- )ankment that he might see how they would look when tumbled into the snow. And that man who has so little patience with childish exuberance was in olden times up to pranks, one-half of which, if practised by the eight- yearâ€"old of tu-dny, would set grand- father and grandmother crazy. Revive your remembrance of what you were between five and ten years of age. and with patience capable of every- thing join with the young. Put back the shadows of the dial not ten degrees, but fifty and sixty and seventy de- Set back the clock‘ of human life. Make the shadow of the sun-dial of Ahaz retreat ten degrees. People make themselves old by always talking about, being old and wishing for the good old days. From all 1 can hear the grandchildren are not half as had and they all seemed to cry to the old folks. “keep voung.” and they did keep young. Don't walk with a cane unless you have to, or only as defence in a city afflicted with too many can- ines. Don’t wear glasses stronger than necessary. puttingr on number tens when eighteens will do as well. Don't go into the company of thme who are always talking about rheumatism and lumhago and shortness of breath and the brevity of human life. It is too much for my gravity to hear an ovto- genarian lalkin about the shortness of human life. g‘rom all 1 can find out. he has always been here. and from present respects he is always going to stay. ema'm young. Hang up your stockings in Christmas time. Help the boys fly the kite. Teach the girls how to dress their dolls. Better than arnica for your stiff joints and catnip tea for you: sleepless nights, will he a. large doge‘o‘f youthful companionship. At Boston one day recently Mrs.Bal- ling ton Booth made three addresses. re- viewed the local Salvation Army, _and attended a reception in the evening She was at work again next day before ten o clock. The United States Senate has re- pealed the act prohibiting Confederate officers who had held commissions in the United States army from being appointed to places in the army or navy. Poker plaving for money is not (rambâ€" ling, according to Chief Justice Beatty, of the California Supreme Court, or at least there is no criminal not committed in playing the game for money stakes. A bill has been introduced in the House. at \Vashinm on authorizing: the construction of a bridge or tunnel from Grand Island, on the Niagara River, to a point in Canada. A lift span four hundred and txxenty- one feet long is proposed for the new Kansas City hrid g.e The thing works on weights, like a 11 indow shaft. Lieutenant Peary has learned to speak the Eskimo language with all the ease of a. native. It. is almost; as easy to reach the poleastb acquire that, tongue. A duel was fought in Berra Ken- tucky, in \\ hich both the principals were killed. They were named Mitchell and Johnston. The Manchester Courier says that. or- ders have been given at. the \Voolwich and Devon rt arsenals for a large quantity 0 ammunition. together with 9.. great number of (magazine rifles. Martini-Henry rifles, and other guns for shipment to Canada. in January. The. Courier also learns that the deâ€" fences of Canada. are to be gradually stlwcngrthlened. _There, were s_ix suicides and one ‘30- cxdental death In New York at Christ- mastide. Joseph L. Ingalls. of Bridgton. Me... never was in a barber's chair for a shave till last week, although he is a. no-nogenarien. By the burning of the saw mill of the Sutherland Lumber Company at Ash- land, \Vis.. three men lost, their lives. The marriage of Miss Maple, of Lon- don. to Baron Eckhnrdstein is Iikclytn be one 0f the events of next season. for the daughter of Sir John Blundcll Maple is not. only fl beautiful and :wcnmpliahed girl. but one of the greatest heiresses in England. Svrzius Stopniak. the R11<s11n au- thor. who was in exile from Russia and has been residing in London. 1_1'as killâ€" ed the other day by a paxsinp: train while walking over a level raihxuy crowing" at Chiswick. He was fiftyâ€" fonr years of age. Profnsmr Archibald Goikie director- Ronnml of the geological surveys of the United Kingdom. and author of many important works on geology and kind- md subjects, intends visiting the Uniâ€" 10x1 States very shortly on a lecturing tour It is rumored. that. the J apannse Guv- ernrncnt has entered into arrangennents with Lord Armstrong: (‘nmpany. the great Fhuzfish fhwn of shipblfilders and gun-makers, for the establishment of a dockyard and gun factory in Japan. A leading: London musical serial says: "It is enough to make the mouths of British organism water when they road that the organist. of the Marlboroughâ€" Vn‘nderhilt. wedding at New York reâ€" ceived £500 for his services. The Queen is greatly inferested in the Ashanti expedition, and also in Barney Barnuto's Kaffir booms. She has order- ed the Colonial Office. to keep her in- formed of Ithe latest developments in those matters. Sir Henry Harland M...P in the Con- servative interest for North Belfast .and head of the famous sh1p â€"bu1]din£ firm of Harland \Volff. isp dead. He was sixty-four years of age. Mr Robert Burr, the. :.1uthm‘ xx bnhas remnth bong: hi .1 piece of ground on Surrm Hills. I:an-L'md, also 0“ ns houses in Florida. and on the Canadian shore of the Detroit river "1111151114 Zola. will ‘visit England aaain in the spring. Hp, “ism-s to study the industrial and Social life in such cities as Nanchvslor and Shefâ€" field. A Preshyforian church in Notting- ham. England. ror‘r-mly mlehratod the insinllminn of olm-a‘rir‘ light by aspe- cial sorvim, whivh attracted much at- tonf ion. Th0 honvv gale; mmtinue around the coasts of Gran. Britain, and many wrecks. accompanied by loss of life, arg roportqd. Londzm is to have another Orionm} visitor, the Nizam of Hyderabad. Ho rules. 15000000 suhioms and 100,000 squpro; miles _of territory._ _ V Tbrd Roselwrv is mid to he engaged on :1 new book \\ h1< h \\ 111 be a. 511‘“;- int: contrast to his "Life of Pitt. '1 Traffic neceip ts on the C. P R show an increase for the week ending [December 21 of $86, 000 over the cor- responding week of 1894. The distribution of 3.2200 Martini- Motfm‘d riflns and 600,000 rounds of ammunilirm to the volunteer forms has been completed at Kingston. A London \Vest young: woman nam- ed Mary Price swallowed an mince of lauda‘num with suicidal intent after a quarrel with her intended. Her life was saved. An inquiry is being made at Kings- ton Penitentiary into the mndutt of a number of the ompk "09,5 “ho are al- leged 10 have dist ussed with outsiders the dismiswl of three 01' Me guards GREAT BRITAIN. A lifeboat was capsized in Dublin Bay and th'b whole crew of seventeen men drowned. The convicts at Kingston enqued a. [£200 pound pudding on Chrxsfmas ay. A farmer named Piuhe blew out the gas in his room at Montreal and died from suffocation. Interesting Items About Our Own Country. Great Britain. the United States. and All Parts of the Globe. Condensed and Assorted for Buy Reading. Dr. Montague has been sworn in as Minister of Agriculture. THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. [HE NEWS IN Ii NUISHHL UNITED STATES CANADA. tirely and cut a great furrow along its side. Crazy with pain and fright the animal tore around the back yard. pur- sued by Peter. whooping and yellingr like an Indian, and making frantic slashes at it with an ax. The animal dashed into the door of the kitchen and upset Mrs. Hofminister, who was busy with her household work. The destruction so wrought so aggra- vated Peter that he welted away at the animal harder than ever. Round and round the kitchen went the wound- ed pig and excited German. The lat- ter kept yelling to his wife, who had gained her feet and snatched uparoll- lug-pin in the meantime to head him off; while the ig kept up an unearthly squealing. " ally the hog, weakened by the loss 0' blood. fell in a corner, exhausted, thus giving the farmer a chance to cut his throat. The kitchen after the battle was over looked as though a cyclone had struck it. What the hog had failed to upset in his wild race around the room. the farmer, in his excitement, smashed with the ax while slashing at the fleeing pig. Several time.e his Wife narrowly escaped his plunges. .oâ€"-L In a. sudden fit of anger young As- choff grabbed a. large carvingâ€" â€"knife from the diningâ€"room table and stabbed his aged father to death. The enraged youn man then attempted to kill him- self, ut only succeeded in inflicting some slight wounds. as the cries of the father had brought the other members of the family on the scene, who disarm- edthelunatic an_d.prevented_ a suicide. Another scandal is reported from the Rhine provinces. where in a, suburb of Colofilne. Supelintenrlent Czaplewski. of the ouse of correction. had been sen- tenmd to a long term of imprisonment for inflicting punishment of medieval brutality on gthe inmates. hetwecn the eyes, missed thé beau eu- The Perils of Pig Killing. Peter Hofminisier, a German farmer residing in North Sewickiey Township. Penn., undertook to butcher one of his fat hogs the other day by shooting it with a. rifle. His aim was poor and the ball, instead of. striking the 'in'umll Millionaire Auclmil' Stabbed to Death With a Carving Knife. Another frightful tragedy has just been enacted in Wiesbaden. Germany, which illustrates the danger of harbor- ing soâ€"called harmless lunatics unre- strained in private families. For years the well-known millionaire. Herr As- choff, has refused to permit the incar- ceration of his son in an insane asylum. Through the affidavits of prominent physicians he managed to evade the law which forbids the keeping of luna- tics and imbeciles outside the state or private institutions. _ Amnn'; the conditions imposed upon China. by Japan in evacuating the Liao Tum: peninsula. vas one that; neither Russia, France nor Germany should he allowed tn occupy the territory, and a numlm’ of ports are to be opened to international trade. It is reported that Gen Gomez, at the head of the Cuban insurgent army,uum- boring twelve thousand men. has turned the flank of the Spanish army. and is 10w marching: direct: on Havana. There i< great. excitement in the city over this insurgent success. 'l‘he lon es! Egyptian railroad nowex- tends to Eirgeh, :36 miles from Cairo. It, is soon to be extended to the first 'ataract, 710 miles from the coasL. This means, of course. an ultimate railroad connor‘iinn with the British possessions in South Africa. M. Weitoff, profemr of bacteriology in the. University of Moscow, who reâ€" cently died from the poison ofaacrau‘h of a piece of glass from a broken bottle containing bacteria was one of the most eminent of Russian scientists Advices from Aleppo say that; the town of Zeitoun, which has been held by the. insurgent. Armenians for some time past, has been captured b the Turkish troops, and that the. in abit- ants fled to the mountains. An Austrian named Dr. Marmhrick, after four yearns" study at, the Pasteur Institute in Paris. claims to have. discov- ered a. serum cure for orysipolas and pugl‘pqru} fgvor. Florence Mack. aged seventeen years, of Detroit. ran a. small splinter under the thumb nail. A phyxiciun removed the hit. of wood and told bar to poul- tice the thumb. She disregarded the instructions. On Sunday she was taken ill and on Monday hazamc unromcious and remained so until her death. GENERAL. Dr. ereph Czajkmvski. a foreign bac- teriological expert, is reported 1.0 have digcorvered the Ink-robe of measles. Report. comes from Newfoundland that there were in all 22 persons on the ill- fated schooner Victory believed to have founderod “ith all on board. Archie Turpie, a pier watchman in New York, has rescued his twenty- first individual from drowning. He. keeps a, coil of rope handy 1.0 throw to those who jump or walk off the pier. The last man saved was a drunken marine. Joim O'Donnell of Lowville formerly a. railroad commissioner of New York State, has xicv'mad a cheap form of tramway for rural roads, tn farilitate hauling yhig loads on 0rdina13' farm \saggoms. 'lhe estimate for lhe tram- algiie is $2,500 a mile. Prince Bismarck has informed Emper- or William that if his health permits he will attend the State banquet at the 80,13}st (m‘ Jangary l§._ The cru'Lser Kwén Ping, captured by the Japanese from Chma, has been wrecked. A number of officers and 60 men {we misgiiqg. A herd of Jersey cattle at Deposit northern New York. ha;~ been found infected wiih (ulxervuksis and conâ€" demned by the 81.910 in§pectprs. _ KILLED BY HIS MANIAC SON. CHAS. W. RICHARDS Publisher ‘1' Proprietor It has been remarked by those who are most conversant. with the anatomy of the optic that. the daxkest- huud «yo is most. sua-cptible Lo (hangc The far!- ins: of the blank e) e is no soviet. as it is almost universal. and Lhis is natural and accounted for from the kmmn fact that the black eye is not black. but a vellow of deep color, and sometimes ound in combination with one or more colors. The light blue and the gray seem to be the most lasting. A Thoughtful Hostess. Hostess (m male w all- flo“er)â€"Permit me to introduce )ou in a charming dancer, Mr. \Vestend. Mr. ' \VcfiLexflâ€"Afi, thanks, no, I nevah dance. \Vuuld you like to join the card-party in the drawing room? Au. thanks. no, I do not play. Well. supper will be ready soon. , V4,,“ Mr. Henpect (anxiouslyâ€"Gaul bring proceeding in court. Mr. Blackstone. to set aside my wife's will? Lawyerâ€" Why. your wife isn't dead. man Is she! Mr. HenDecLâ€"No; that’s just the trou- A dospatnh from Midland, Ont, says: â€"H. F. Switzer. clerk of the council of this town and prominent. in several social orders. died on \Vednwday mornâ€" ing twelve hours after having his left arm ampumbed near the shoulder. lie was a. pioneer citizen. and was clerk for about, 13 years, and was one of the foremost business men in Midland. On Saturday evening he made a false step. and fell down the hack stairs in the Bennett, block. His arm was badly smashed near the wrist. Victoria, the smallest dog in America. died a few days ago at Rahway, N.J.. and was interred with honours worthy of a. human being. Poor Victoria was only six inches long. and her head was but four inches from the ground. \Vhen real plump she weighed 18 ounces. Her coffin was nine inches long, five wide and {our high. and was covered with em- bossed plush. The sorrowing mistress was a Mrs. Garbonetti. who 19 years ago was a star horse rformer in Bar- num's circus. Since caving the saw- dust she has made her home in Rahway. It would doubtless sux?rise many folk to know the nnmber furs that are taken annually in Connecticut and Masâ€" sachusetts. \Villiam Clarke, of \er- non. Conn.. makes a tour of Tolland county, Conn., and Hampden county, Mass.. every fall collecting furs from the faunas. Last year he collected some 1, 50 ) skins, mostly skunk but many of them mink. These animals are prob- ably not more_ plentiful in thesep two countries than in psome other parts of the twoStates. More big game was killed in the Maine forests dunng October and November this year than durmg October. Novem- ber and December of last year. So far as shown by the records kept bfl the railroads which carry the game illed bv the hunters, 1,170 deer, 74 moose, and 68 caribou were killed duri ‘ October and November the year. wh 6 during the three hunting months of last year only 1,001 deer, 4 moose and 50 caribou were killed. For some little time a. law and order league at Davenport. Wash. has been trying to enforce the Sunday 0105' law, but with no success. Last wee a. number of citizens of the town called on all the saloon keepers and businees men and asked that they close theu‘ places on Sunday as a matter of courtesy to oblige the citizens that the committee mpresented. There was a prompt and general compliance With the request. A fierce but somewhat funny war is waging in Pontica, Mich, where the Sal- vation Army has its headquarters in the same building with a saloon, the former upstairs and the latter on the round floor. Every man who wantsa ink has to run the gauntlet of a line of pickets set out by the Salvationists, and the incidents of the skirmishes and hand-to-hand conflicts are highly inter- esting to onlookers. After seventy years of married life together. Mr. Snow den Files and his \\ ifc Eliza. of She} )erdstow n, \V. V3,, died on the same day within a. few hours of each other. last week. Mr. Fileswas 91 years old and his wife was 88. Up to withm a. year the old man was in full possession of all his faculties. and rode about the country on s irited horses. Indeed he broke severe. 0011: when he was nearly 90 years old. Neighborly Interest In His Doingsâ€"Matters of Moment and ”ink Gathered from His Daily Record. Needle threading socials are the latest kind of money raising church entertain- ments. The outlay is small and the fun is said to be of the $10 variety. A Camden. N.J.. lady holds the record for thread' fourteen needles in three minutes, whie the best record for men is seven. A pencil sharpening match 13 one of the byâ€"plays. to give the poor men a show. An almost perfect cedar tree was dis- covered buried at a. depth of 170 feet below the surface of the earth near Eu- reka. Junction, \Vash., by well-diggers last week. Large pieces of the trunk and branches were taken out,and so well preserved was the tree that the grain of the wood was very plain. The well was dug through soft soil and soapstone and a, little basaltic rock near the surface. ITEMS OF INTEREST ABOUT THE BUSY YANKEE. \Voman suffrage is being pushed vig~ orously in Idaho. There IS a club 111 each county. Chicago's ball team. under Anson's management, is said to have cleared $75,000 on the past season. James Dowing, a patrolman of the New York police force. can speak the Chinese language. He learned it while doing duty in the Chinatown of the meâ€" tropolis. Miss Alice Ireland. of New York, has raduatcd as a. dentist. She claims to e the first woman to practice dentistry in Gotham, although there are other: in various parts of the country. Discoveries of valuable onyx, which promise to develop into very large miles. have been made near Healdsburg. Cal. The stone is beautifully marked. anda. blast of the face of the ledge has exposed it in great quantities. Fatal Fall Dowu Stairs. Color of the Eye. (I‘W‘ ”V N "