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This gate of hell swings acmss of hell. We want in this besieging host not the axminster of many a fine parlor, and soft. sentimentalists, but men who are across the ballroom of the summer watering Willing to take and give hard knocks. The REV. DR. TALMAGESPECIFIES SOME place. You have no right, my brother, gates of Gaza were carried off, the gates of OF THEM. l . no ren. What They in nu.- or and lt‘hickelfling KPMJ 0‘ 01W Parlor” fiddle of my sisterâ€"you haVe no right to take an l Thobes were battered down, the gates of attitude to the sound of music which would Babylon were destroyed, and the gates of be unbecoming in the absence of music. No hell are going to be prostrated. The Christianized printing press will be ..,,,,,,,,,.,.,, "u. “ml,“ Pu”, wnh “c ’ mountain picnic can consecrate that which rolled up as the chief battering rum. Then Anvil of God'- Trillli~§wlnxluz 0'“ and Swinging In. Nizw Yuck, June .'Â¥0.â€"In his sermon for to-day Dr. 'l'almage chose a momentous and awful topic, “The (Lites of Hell," the text sclcctc-l bring the familiar passage in Matthew x vi, ls, “The gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Entranccd, until we could endure n0 more of the splendor, we have often gazed at the shining gates, the gates of pearl, the gates of heaven. But We are for awhile to look in the opposite direction and see swinging open and shut the gates of hell. I remember when the Franco-German war was going on, that I stood one day in Paris looking at the gates of the Tuileries, andl was so absorbed in the sculpturing at tie top of the gitcsâ€"the masonry and the bronzeâ€"that I forgot myself, and after awhile, looking down, I saw ‘that there were officers of the law scrutinizing m‘! supposing, no doubt, I was a German and looking :it those gates for adverse purposes But, my friends,we shall not stand looking at the outside of the gates of hell. In this sermon 1 shall tell you of both sides, and I shall tell you what those gates are made of. \Vith the hammer of God's truth I shall pound on the brazen panels, and with the lantern of God’s truth l shall flash a light upon the shining hinges. Hate the Firstâ€"Impure literature. An- thony Comatock seized 20 tons of bad books, plates and letter press, and when our Professor Cochran of the Polytechnic Institute poured the destructive acids on those piatcs they smoked in the righteous annihilation. And yet a great deal of the bad literature of the day is not gripped of the law. It is strewn in your parlors ; it is in your libraries. Some of your children read it at night after they have retired, the gas burner swung as near as possible to their pillow. Much of this literature is under the title of scientific information. A book agent with one of these infernal books glossed orer with scientific nomenclature, went into a hotel and sold in one day a hundred copies and sold them all to women Itis appalling that men and women who can get through their family physician all the useful information they may need, and Without any contamination, should wade chin deep through such accursed lit- eraturc under the plea of getting useful knowledge, and that printing presses hop- lug to be called decent lend themselves to this llifnmy. Fathers and mothers, be not deceived by the title “ medical works.” Nine-tenth; of those books come hot from the lost world, though they may have on them the names of the publishing houses of .‘vsw York, Chicago and Philadelphia. Then there is all then’ovelette literature of the day flung over the land by tLe million. As there are good novels that are long, so I suppose there may be good novels that are short, and so there may be a good nov. elctte, but it is the exception; No oneâ€" mark thisâ€"no one systematically reads the aVeragc now‘ette of this day and keeps either integrity or Virtue. The most of these nowlettes are written by broken down literary men for small compensation, 0n the principal that, having failed in lit- erature elevated and pure, they hope to succeed in the tainted and nasty. Oh, this isa wide gate of hell! Every panel is made out of a bad book or newspaper. Every hinge,- is the interjoined type of a corrupt printing press. Every bolt or lock of that gate is made out of the plate of an unclean pictorial. In other Words, there are a million men and women in the United States to-day raiding themselves into hell ! \V'nen in one of our cities a prosperous familv fell into ruins through the misdeeds of one of it.- members, the amazed mother said to the oiliccr of the law: “Why I never supposed there yras anything wrong. I never thought there'could be anything wrong.” Then she sat weeping in silence for some time and said: " Oh, I have got it now I 1 know, I know. I found in her bureau after she went away a'bad book. That's wlut slew her.” These leprous booksellers have gathered up the catalogues of all the male and female seminaries in the United States, catalogues containing the names and residences of all the students, and citatilars of death are sent to eyery one, without any exception. Can you imagine any. lung more dreadful? There is not a young person male or female, or an old person, \\ ho has not. had offered to him or her a bad book or a bad picture. Scour your housv to find out whether there are any of thew: adders coiled on your parlor centre tabic or coiled amid the toilet set on liuto the extraordinary and indiscreet. I time “Oil. who leads on the fray. Will CW: l 1 God hath accursed. there will ha a long list of aroused piilirits, Gate the Thirdâ€"Indiscreet apparel. The which willbe assailing fortresses, and God’s attire of woman for the last few years has redhot truthshall be the flying ammunition been beautiful and graceful beyond any- of the contest, and the suppers and the thing I haVe known, but there are those miners will lay the train under these who will always carry that which is right foundations of sin, and at just the right charge Christian women, neither by style “Down with the gates l” and the explosi: u or dress nor adjustment of apparel to beneath will be answered by all the trum- become administrative of evil. Perhapsnone pots of God on high, celebrating universal else will dare to tell you, so I willtellyou victmy. that there are multitudes of men who owe But there may be one wanderer that. their eternal damnation to what has been would like to have a kind word calling at different times the boldness of womnly homeward. Ihave told you that socin-ty attire. Show me the fashion plates of any has no mercy. Did I hint at an earlier age between this and the time of Louis point in this subject that God will lllLVu XVI, of France and Henry VlIl. of Eng- mercy upon the wanderer who Would land and I will tell you the type of morals like to come back to the heart of infinite or i'iimorals of that age or that year. No love ?" exception to ii. Modest apparel means A cold Christmas night in a farmhouse. a righteous people. Immo-lest apparel Father comes in from the barn, knocks the always means a contaminated and depraved | SHOW from his shoes and Sits down by the society. You wonder that the city of Tyre fire. The mother sits at the stand knitting. was destroyed with such a terrible destruc- . She says to him, "DO you remember it tion. Have you ever seen the fashion plate l3 the anniversary to-night '3" The father of ths city of Tyre? I will show it to you. is angered. He never wants any allusion H Moreover, the Lord saith, because the to the fact that one had gone away,und the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk mere suggestion that it was the anniver- witli stretched forth necks and wanton Bury of that sad event made him quite eyes, walking andmincing as they go, and rough although the tears ran down his making a twinkling with their feet, in that cheeks. The old house dog that has played day the Lord Will take away the bravery With the wanderer when she was a child of their tinklingornaments about their feet, comes up and puts his head on the old and their cools, and their round tires like man’s knee, but he roughly repulses the the moon, the rings and nose jewels, the dog. He wants nothing to remind him of changeable suits of apparel and the mantles the anniversary day. . and the wimples and the crisping pins.” A cold winter night in a city church. That is the fashion plate of'ancient Tyre. It is Christmas night. They have been And do you wonder that the Lord God in decorating the sanctuary. A lost wanderer his indignation blotted out the city so that of the street, with a thin shawl about her, fishermen to-day spread their nets where attracted by the warmth and light. comes that city once stood? in and sits near the door. The minister of Gate the Fourthâ€"Alcoholic beverage. religion is preaching of him who was Oh, the wine cup is the patron of impurity. wounded for our transgressions and bruised The officers of the law tell us that nearly for our inquities and the poor soul by the all the men who go into the shambles door said: “ Why, that must mean me. of death go in intoxicated : the mental Mercy for the chief of sinners : bruised for and the spiritual abolished, that the our inquities; woundod for our transgres- brute may triumph. Tell me that a young sions.” . . man drinks, and I know the whole story. The music that night in the sanctuary If he_becomes a captive of the wine cup, he brought back the old hymn which she used will become a captive of all other vices. to Sing when, With father ”did mother, She Only give him time. No one ever runs worshipped (ind in the village church. The drunkenness alone. That is a carrion crow service over the minister went down the that goes in a flock, and when you see that aisle. She said to him: "Were these beak ahead, you may know the other beaks words for me? Wounded for our trans- are coming. In other words, the wine cup greasxons. Was that for me?" The man of imbalances and dethrones onc’s better God understood her not. He knew not judgment and leaves one the prey of all ow to comfort a shipwrecked soul, and evil appetites that may choose to slight he passed on, and he passed out. The upon his soul. There is not a place of any poor wanderer followed into the street. kind of sin in the United States to-day that “ \\ hat are you dome here, Meg '2” said does not find its chief abettor in the chalice the police. “ W hat are you doing here to- of inebriety. There is either a drinking night '3” “ Oh," she replied, “ I was in to bar before, or one behind, or one above, or warm myself," and then the rattling cough one underneath. These people escape legal came, and sne held to the railing until the penalty because they are all liscused to sell paroxysm was over. She passed on down liquor. The courts that license the sale of the street falling from exhaustion, recover- stroug drink license gambling houses, ing herself again, until after a while she license libertinism, license disease, license reached the outskirts of the city and passed death, license all sufferings, all murders, cn into the country road. It seemed so all woe. It is the courts and the legisla- familiar. She kept Op thff road, and she lure thatare swinging wide open this grind- saw in the distance is. light in thc_ Window. in , creaky, stupendous gate of the lost. Ah, that light hll'l been gleaming thcrc ut you say : ” You have described every night since she went away. On that these gates of hell and shown ,us how they I country road she passed until 8ll(‘ came to swing in to allow the entrance of the cloom- the garden gate. She opened it and passed ed. \Vill you not, please, before you get up the path where she played in childhood through the sermon tell us how these gates She came to the steps and looked in at the of hell may swmg out to allow the escape fire on the hearth. Then she put her fingers of the penitent ?” I reply, but very few to the latch. Oh, if that door had been escape. (‘f the thousand that go in, 999 locked. she would have perished on the perish. Suppose one of these wanderers threshold, for she was near to death ! But should knock at your door, would you that door had not been lockedfiiuce the admit her ‘.' Suppose you knew where she time she went away. She pushed open the came from, would you ask her to sit down door. She went in and lay down on the at your dining-table. \Vonld you ask her hearth by the fire. The old house dog to become the governess of your children ‘3 growled as he saw her enter, but there was Would you introduce her among your something in the voice he recognized, and acquaintanceships'.’ “’ould you take the he frisked'about her until he almost pushed responsibility of pulling on the outside of her down in his joy. the gate of hell while the pusher on the In the morning the mother came down, inside of the gate is trying to get out ? and she saw a bundle of rags on the You would not, out one of a thousand of hearth, but when the face was uplifted she you would dare to do so. You” would knew it, and it was no more old Meg of the write beautiful poetry over her sorrows street. Throwing her arms around the and weep over her misfortunes, but give returned prodigal she cried: “ (lh, her practical help you never will. But Maggie!” The child threw her arms around you say, " Are there no ways by which her mother’s neck and said: “Oh, mother!” the wanderer may escape 1'” Oh. yes, and while they were embraced a rugged three or four. The one way is the sewing form towered above them. It was the girl’s garret, dingy, cold, hunger blasted. father. The severity all gone out of his But you say, “ Is there no other way for face, he stopped and took her up tenderly her to escape?” Oh, yes. Another way is and can iod her to her mother’s room and the street that leads to the river, at mid- laid her down on mother’s bed, for she was night, the end of the city dock, the moon dying. Then the lost one, looking up into shining down on the water making it look her mother’s face, said : “ Wounded for so smooth she wonders if it is deep enough. our transgressions and bruised for our It is. No boatman near enough to hear iniquities ! Mother, do you think that the plunge. No watchman near enough means me 2” “ Oh, yes, my darling,’ said to pick her out before she sinks the third the mother. “ If mother is so glad to get time. No other way '3 Yes. By the you back, don’t you think God is glad to curve of the railroad at the point where get you back '3" _ the engineer of the lightning express train And there she lay dying, and all their cannot see a hundred yards ahead to the dreams and all their prayers were filled form that lies across the track. He may with the words. “ Wounded for our trans- whistle “down brakes,” but not soon gressions, and bruised for our iniquities,” enough to disappoint the one who seeks her until just before the moment of her depar- deatb. But you say, “Isn't God good, ture, her face lighted up showing the pardon and won’t he forgive 2" Yes, but man will of God had dropped upon her soul. And not, woman will not, society will not. there she slept away on the bosom of a The church of God says it will, but it will, pardoning Jesus. So the Lord took back not. Our work, then, must be prevention one whom the world rejected. rather than cure. sun goes down _‘° “PM" 3°“? f“‘“lll’ justas certainly“ God and the Bible are libraries With 3“ inexorable scrutiny: 849- true, but it will not be done until Christian member that one bad b0“, 0" bad Pia-m men and women quit their prudery and may ‘10 the work for'eternity. I want 1° squeamishness in this matter and the whole arouse all your “99“”0“ about “"91““? 1 Christian sentiment of the church as- want to p“; 3'0" 0“ ”‘9 “mm “83.1““ all these great evils of society. The everything that may seem like surreptitious Bible utters its denunciation in this direc- (””339cadence through the Pomflm- 1 tion again and again, and yet the piety of want you to understand lb“ {ml-m“ the day is such a namby pamby sort of literature is one _05 the broadest, “8““: thing that you cannot even quote Scripture mightlefl gates 0‘ the 1°“- without making somebody restless. As Gate the Secondâ€"The dissoluto dance. long as this holy imbecility reigns in the You shall not divert me to the general church of God, sin will laugh you toscorn. subject of dancing. Whatever you may I do not know that before the church think of the parlor dance or the methodic wake- up matters will get worse and worse, motion of the body to sounds of music in and that there will have to be one lamb the family or social circle, I am not now sacrificed from each of the most carefully discussing that question. I want you to guarded folds, and. the wave of uncleanli unite with me this hour in recognizing the near dash to the spire of the Village church fact that there is a dissolute dance. You and‘tho toppf the cathedral tower. . know of what I speak. It is soon not only Prophets pad patriarchs and apostles in the low haunts of death, but in elegant and evangelists and Christ himself have mansions. It is the first step to eternal thundered against these sins as againstnio ruin of a great multitude 0f both 30X”. You other, and. yet there are those who think know, my friends, what postures andlwo ought to take, when we speak of these ' d 5 nice are suggestive of the subjects, a tone apologetic. 1 put my foot airfrdosm g on all the conventional rhetoric on this Those who glide into the dissoluto dance subject, and I tell you plainly that unless glide over an inclined plane, and the dance you give up .tbatsin your doom is sealed, is owifter and "lifter, wilder and wilder, and world without son _you will be chased until with "the sped of lightning they by the anathema of an incensed God. l, I. the dressing 0336- 1 adjure you before the Those gates of hell are to be prostrated A Romance. The Knight of the Golden Lance drew rein upon his richly caparisoned steed in front of the ancient castle of Doonderborg, The portcullis was buttoned down and the draw-bridge was reefed close to the lamb of the battlemented doorway. ' The castle presented agrewsome gray front and the Knight was so impressed by it that he did not observe the daughter of the seneschal, who was working in a small garden plat beyond the moat. As no one appeared to greet the Knight, he concluded to make’bis presence known, by word or month. “What, ho there l” he shouted. The daughter of the seneschal looked up suddenly. 'She had not before observed the Knight. ' No response 'being forthcoming the Knight shouted again: “ hat, ho there i" “ ‘Tain‘t no hoe," sung out the girl; “it's a spade." And she shook it at him. Being thus called down, the Knight of the Golden Lance felt himself so hurt at his misadventure that he threw a brick at the daughter of the eunuch-l and withdrew in sullen’ silence. - THE NEWS Illl NUTSHiii. THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL~'OVER THE WORLD. vâ€"_- I w". Intel-«sung Items About Our 0wn (foun- iry. Great ltrllnln, the United Statics, and .III I'm-In or the Globe, Condensed and Assorted for Easy Itcmllng. CANADA. Mr. Joseph Hoodless of Hamilton, is dead. Fears are expressed at Hamilton that the bay is drying up. ' The C. l‘. R. land department sold 330,- 000 worth of land in June. , Master John Gleason, seven years old, was drowned at Brockville. Hamilton dry goods merchants are dis- cussing early closing on Saturdays. Mr. 1.. \V. Shannon has sold The King- ston News to Messrs. Oram and Moore. James Ncalon, the young man shot by lioielkeepei‘ Wsll at Hamilton, is recover- ing. ‘ The shortage in London’s water supply has been overcome by the new springs taken in. The annual games of the Hamilton Police Amateur Athletic Association will be held on August 25. Miss Falkiner has left; Belleville to as- sume tl.e position of lady superintendent of the haspital at Woodstock. The American tug Grace, seized over a year ago, and now at Port Colborno, has been abandoned by her owners. John Miller, a young man from Toronto, was probably drowned in Burlington Bay. A boat hired by him came ashore empty. One hundred and sixty union cigar- makers employed by Messrs. S. Davis and Son, in Montreal, have gone out on strike. The new directory of Montreal, which is just out, shows that there are at. present three thousand unoccupied houses in the City. A Winnipeg despatch states that Mr. John Hullzim of Toronto has purchased nearly the entire wool crop of the Northâ€" \\'cst ranches. The number of sheep inspected for shipment at Montreal to the end of June- wns 18,720, of neat cattle 29,830, of horses -l,1l0, and of swine l'ZS. Mr. Francis Boydc, 70 years old, of London Township, was knocked down and very seriously hurt in collision with a London West electric car. Thc gross earnings of the Montreal street railway for the month of .l une were 3] ll,- l.\‘~l.32, against SSS,I03.‘.’5, for J line, 1594, an increase of $23,021.07. John and llcssie Gray, charged with the murder of James Scollie of Otonabee, arrived in l’eterborough on Friday from Florida in charge of Detective Murray. The Sir John Macdonald statue for Kingston, Ont., is finished and ready for shipment. The ceremony of unveiling will probably take place on Labour day. It is announced that the American To. bacco Company has acquired control of the cigarette business of Canada by the purchase af all the Dominion manufactur- lcs. ' Mr. Walker and a young lady of Dundas were driving across the Northern i”. North- western ll..ll.. when a train killed the horse and smashed the buggy. The occupants were not hurt. l)r. Montague, Secretary of State, has reduced his staff by five or six, saving seven or eight thousand dallars a. year, without, he claims, lessening the efficiency of the department. Napoleon Dcmers, the husband of Me- lume Masse, who was murdered at St. Henri, a suburb of Montreal, last month, was arrested on Friday on the charge of having committed the murder. The Meteorological Department reports that the rainfall for 1895 to date is only a trifle above half the usual amount,and that last month was the warmest June recorded by the Toronto Observatory. Albert and Paul lliesier, two Germans, were arrested in Toronto on Thursday, on warrants charging them with fraud, committed in Germany. The Gernan Consul received the warrants from Berlin, Reeve Mcl)ouald,of London West, Ont., has written to the City Council of London. Ont., c.illiug attention to the $100,000 judgment recovered by the village against the city four years ago for polluting the River Thames with sewage. The letter states that if the nui>ance is not abated the judgment will be enforced and suggests a conference with a view to settlement. GREAT BRITAI N. Prof. Huxley’s funeral took place at Eastbourne. Sir Henry James will take the title of Baron Ayleston of Hereford. Nazrulla Khan visited the Queen at Windsor, and was received with military honors. A labc rer in Dublin was blown to pieces by a tin canister he picked up on Boyne street. Lord Salisbury’s Cabinet now consists of nineteen members, and is the largest ever formed in Great Britain. Two hundred and fifty pounds of flesh is what Dr. \V. Grace carries from one wicks: to another every time he makes a run. Right Hon. Charles T. Ritchie, the new President of the Board of Ti ado, was returned without opposition in Croydon. The action for absolute divorce brought by Mrs. Craigie, the novelist, against her husband ended in favor of the plaintiff. Mr. ‘Gladstone has written to the Chairman of the Midlothian Liberals in connection with his retirement from poli- tics. Col. Stitt and Brigadier Clibburn of the Salvation Army are coming to Canada to select unite for the Army’s proposed farm colony. Mr. Gerald W'illiam Balfour, brother of Mr. Arthur J. Balfour, leader of the House of Commons, has been appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland. Her Majesty the Queen gave Mr. Bell- Smith asitting for his historical picture of the decoration of the bier of Sir John Thompson at Windsor Castle. j URSDAY. JULY IL 1805- It is rumored in London Club circles that General Lord Roberts will be the .::~-.,.,,. . .- CIIAS. “'. RICHARDS Publisher Proprietor. QUEEN VICTORIA’S CROWN. . . , . . . ( 0mmandcr-1n-Lluef 0f the arms“ army Thousands of Diamonds and firms Are In in succession to the Duke of Cambridge. Lord Rosebery’s mother, the Duchess of lClcveland, is writing the life of Lady â€"_â€"__._____ Hester Stanhope, her aunt, who began life as the private secretary and confidante of William Pitt, and for thirty years had her own exact way as the Arab sheikh in Syria. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, the new Secre- tary of State for the Colonies, on Thursday received the representatives of the dill‘crent colonies. Replying to Sir Charles Tupper, the (’Janadinii High Commissioner, who was spokesman of the party, Mr. Chamber- lain said the colonies could rely upon his hearty ‘co-operation to advance their interests and increase their influence. At Long Sutton, between Cambridge and Boston, in England, a farmer‘s wife recently discovered that an old woman in the neighbourhood had bewitched‘ her. Tbs only remedy was to beat the witchcraft out of her, which she and her husband at once did, breaking the old woman's wrist before they were successful. As they were convinced that the spell was broken they cheerfully paid a heavy fine. UN 11‘! I) STATES. A riot took place at Boston during an A. P. A. and Orange procession. Several peOple were fatally hurt. A ten-year old boy named Palmer fell from a horse he was riding at Fargo, and the animal trumped him to death. Common Councilman Charles J. Kingster was fa'ally shot in the head during a flag- raising in Philadelphia by the accidental discharge of a revolver. At Elkhart, Indiana, six hundred people fell 40 feet by the collapse of a bridge from which they were watching a boat race. Several fatal injuries were received. The excess of United States Government expenditure over receipts during the fiscal year ended on Sunday was forty-two million eight hundred thousand dollars. Mrs. Leland Stanford of San Francisco, has determined to sell her jewels, which are worth more than half a million dollars, in order to support the Stanford Univers- ity. ‘ Mrs. Catherine U’l.ea.ry is dead. She was the owner of the fractions cow which, on a memorable night in October, 1871, kicked over a lamp and started ablaze which cost Chicago $190,000,000. Counsel for Clarenceand Sadie iobinson, convicted of the murdcr of Montgomery Gibbs in Butlalo, will make application for anew trial on the strength of evidence, which, he says, will establish a complete alibi. Friday at noon in Buffalo, Mrs. Maria Calistan Phelps, a widow seventy-eight years of age, reputed to be worth a million dollars, was married to Dr. Ashton Buchan- an Talbot, of Philadelphia, aged thirty- four. Bessie Harris,the pretty sixteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy farmer of Rainireiia, Texas, confessed on Wednesday to having murdered Albert Bluckman, her suitor, actuated by jealousy. She lured Blackman, to a lonely place in the woods, and banged him. The trade reports from the United States for the week continue satisfactory. The advance in wages that commenced some time ago goes steadily on, and thisâ€"added to the increasing price of many staplesâ€"is a satisfactory sign that the improvement in general trade is not ephemeral. Some advances in price have not been everywhere maintained, but this has been more than otl'set by the steady upwazil tendency in other lines of goods. Considering that this is the period of the midsummer and holiday dulness, the reports as to the present state of trade across the line are decidedly satis- factory. lVool, cotton, leather, lumbei, iron, and tin are higher. The coal trade alone appears to remain in the unsatis- factory condition it has been in for some time. G ENERAL. The Russo-Chinese loan has been signed. Prince Bismarck's health is very unsatis. factory. Five men were injured by the bursting of a German military balloon. The infernal machine received by the Berlin police was sent by Belgian anarchists. A despatch from Sofia says that the situation is serious, almost amounting to a state of war, between Bulgaria and Turkey. Russia produced 297,500,000 pood of petroleum in 1894. a falling off of more than 27,000,000 from 1893. A pood is 36 pounds. It is reported in Paris from Madagascar that recently several thousand Hovas attacked the French troops at Zarasostia, and were repulsed with heavy loss. It is the intention of the Emperor of Germany in the spring to send a squadron to visit the ports of the nations who were represented in the naval display at Kiel. , Baron Hirsch, the Jewish millionaire, has just leased the shooting on the estate of Cardinal Vassary, Prince Primate of Hungary, which extends over 77,000 acres. Governor O’Brien has refused assent to the Newfoundland retrenchment bill, which cuts $5,000 off his own salary. The bill must now be submitted to the Imperial Cabinet. It is reported that Russia has massed a very strong naval and land'force at Viladi- voatock, and is prepared to make an instant descent upon Japan should occasion afford an excuse. It is announced that King Humbert will shortly issue a decree exonerating Premier Crispi from the charges of having been con- nected with Dr. Cornelius Herz,the Panama canal lobyist. In the town of Hamned, Sweden, on Monday, lightning struck a building in which ten persons had taken sheller,killing seven of them, and injuring the other three soseverely that they will die. Olney’ B. Ashlord and Fred Underberg. who were expelled from Hawaii for alleged complicity in the recent rebellion, have announced that they will return to Hono- lulu under the protection of the British flag. . The British and German admiral: have withdrawn their guards from the Island of Formosa. It is believed that the reason for If. and It I: "cry Uncomfortable. In the tower of London is kept the Queen’s crown, the diadem used at her coronation in 1838. It is composed of very ancient relics, but is a very modern composition, having been made by the firm of Bundle Bridge, and completmi in the year H33. The crown is constructed of jewels taken from old crowns, and other stones provided by her Majesty. It consists of emeralds, rubies, sapphires, pearls and diamonds. The stones which are set in gold and silver, encase a crimson velvet cap with a border ofermine, the whole of the interior being lined with the finest white silk. Above the crimson border on the lowerl edge of the band is it row of 129 pearls. Round the upper part of the band is a border of 112 pearls. In the front, station- ed between the two borders of pearls, is a huge sapphire, purchased by George IV., set in the centre of valuable pearls. At the back, in the same position, is another but smaller sapphire. The sides are adorned with three sap- phires, and between these are eight emer- alds. Above and below the sapphires, extending all round the crown, are placed at intervals fourteen large diamonds, the eight emeralds being encircled b clusters of diamonds, 128 in number. Be- tween the’emeralds and sapphires are six- teen ornaments, each consisting of eight diamonds. Above a circular bend are eight sapphires, set separately, encircled by eight diamonds. Between each of these eight sapphires are eight festoons of eighteen diamonds each. In front of the crown is a. diamond Malt~ ese creas,in the centre of which glistens the famous ruby given to Edward I. by Don Pedro the Cruel. This is the stone which adorned the helmet of Henry V. a‘. the battle of Agincourt. The centre of the ruby is hollOWed out, and the space filled, in accordance with the Eastern custom,with a smaller ruby. The Maltese cross is formed of seventysfive splendid diamonds. At each of the sides and at the back is a Maltese cross with emerald centres, con- taining respectively 132, 124, 130 sparkling diamonds. ' ‘ Level with thé four Maltese crosses, and stationed between them,are four ornaments shaped like the flcur-de-lis,with four rubies in the centre,and surrounded by diamonds, containing 85,80, and 87 diamonds. From the Maltese crosses spring four imperial arches, composed of oak leaves and dia- monds. The leaves are formed of 728 diamonds ; 32 pearls represent the acorns and 54 diamonds the cups. ' From the upper part of the imperial arches hang suspended four large pendant- shaped pearls set in diamond cups,each cup being formed of twelve diamonds,thestcms from each of the four hanging pearls being incrusted with twenty-four diamonds. Above the arch is the mount,which is made of 438 diamonds. The zone and are are represented by thirty-three diamonds. On the summit of the throne is a cross, which has for its centre a rose-cut sapphire set in the centre of fourteen large diamonds. Altogether the crown compromises one large ruby, one large sapphire, twenty-six smaller sapphires, eleven emeralds, four rubies,l,363 brilliants,l,‘273 rose diamonds, four pendent-shaped pearls, and 2'3 small. or pearls. It is the heaviest and most uncomfortable diadem of any crowned head in Europe. __._._..â€" A DlPLOMAT‘S ESCAPADE. Muscular Slr Jullan Pauncefotc Threw a Bully Conduct or lnlo the Street. Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British Am- bassador, had something of an experience prior to his departure several days ago for Europe. He likes to explore odd regions, and one day, having nothing to do and the steamer not sailing for twenty-four hours, he took a trip to the picturesque region conductors of New York, as every one knows, are the most insolent creatures alive with the single exception of trolley company directors, and this conductor not only refused to stop, but proceeded to give the woman a talking to as well, saying that she ought to know better than to order a car to stop at inconvenient moments. “ Stop !" exclaimed SirJulian, interrupt- ing the tirade. “Stop if she wants you to." Again the conductor refused. The Am- bassador immediately went to the motorman and ordered him to stop. By this time every one’s attention was attracted, and after some dispute the car was brought to a standstill. The woman thanked Sir Julian, and when she had alightod the conductor deli- berately threw her basket off the car into the road, spilling the contents. Quick as a flash the Ambassador leaped up, grasped the conductor by the collar and hurled him clean over the road. In getting up the bewildered fellow fell head first into a. fountain and was soused from head to foot, and all the passengers in the car roared With laughter. The trip was continued un-eventfully after that, and the drenched object did not. say another word either to Sir Julian or to the motor-man. Sir Julian’s trip.to England is said by some of the observant to be connected with the pending extradition treaty with Aus- tralia, and by others to have something to do with the financial problem. At any rate, the Ambassador has managed to make himself a very popular character, and his experience in this country would make a very interesting book. .__â€".â€"u No Drugs Needed. Mrs. Ebonyâ€"Little Cissar's jaws are locked fast. * Dr. Darktownâ€"Am day locked shet, or locked open 2 . Day is locked open, doctah. Dat’s easy cured. Put er piece or broiled chicken between ’em, an’ of (Int don't work try watermillion. The wisest womanyou talk with is ig- this action is the inexpediency of retaining nor-ant of something that you know, but the guard with the Japanese forces advanc- \ ing, and fighting probable. north of the Bronx, in New York. He was riding on a trolley at a furious speed when a woman carrying a basket signaled to the conductor to stop. Now the car an elegant woman never; forget: her ele- ganoaâ€"Holmel. ' , ' l ,.-..:-w_ .. --.-____.. HE LIME-KILN BLUE. 3; BRO. GARDNERâ€"_INTRODUCES A GEN TLEMAN FROM MISSISSIPPI. It Is None (Illici- That the Hon. II“!- bolmm Lawlessâ€"flint Gentleman De llvcrs a Discourse on “Sesame-l"â€" lblsllncflons Between Dun-rent [his or Sentiment Clearly filueldnted. “I wish heah to displaiu,” said Brother Gardner as be adjusted his spectacle: and brushed up his front hair, “I wish to displain dat de Hon. Higginbottom Lawless of Cosciusko, Miss, am present in de aunt)” room an’ burnin’ to dcliber his celebrated address on ‘Sentiment.’ He arrove heah three or four days ago, an’ has finished my lat’ bar’l of apples, Worn my Sunday coat right along, an' will be a den l-head on me till he can spoke ltis piece au’cotch a mixed freighttrain gwine to Toledo. De committee will escort him, an’ if dat water-pailam upsot or any lamps knocked down doorin’ his delibery do guilty wretch or wretches will receive a lesson dat will remain solid for a. hundred y’ars.” THE HON. The Hon. Lawless appeared with a pair of red mittens in one hand and a lemon in the other, and such was his placidity of mind that when he bit into one of the mittens in place of the lemon he never even changed color. He sized up five feet and six inches, intelligent expression, head cast in the shape of a pair, and feet large enough to trample an onion bed out of sight. He mounted the platform like a steer climbing a side-hill, bowed right and left in response to the applause, and quiet- ly began : “ My frens, I cannot depress the pleas- use an' gratificashun which I feel to fin’ myself standin’ heah under de sacred shin- gles of Paradise Hallâ€"a structure whose name am a household word whereber do English language greets de ear. (Ap- plause.) I would rather stan’ heah dun be buried under a $10,000 monument. (Cheers.) “De subjeck ob my address am Senti- ment. What am sentiment? Whar’ do we get it, an what am it worf by the pound when do market am not oberltock- ed '2 I answer dat sentiment am a sort 0’ 'lasses au’ mush surroundin' dc heart. In some cases it hardcns out an’ turns to stun, ‘ while in oders it thins out until de heart fairly floats in a pond o'sweetness. (Ap- plausc.) Sentiment has considersbul to do wid ebery ackshun in our eberyday life. It am bizness when you start to borry a pan of flour or a basket ob tutors. It am sentiment dat causes a naybur to lend, instead of demandiu’ spot cash. (Wild applause from Judge Cadaver.) “ Bizness acktuates de lazy an’ de shift- leas to sot out an’ BEG COLD VI'I'I'LES an ole clothes an’ dimes an' quar- ters. Sentiment acktuates woman to shed tears ober ’em an’ stock ’em up wid 'null" to loaf on fur 'nother month. When we have a kickin’ boss oursontiment am’ pcaled to. We argy dat de safty of our loved ones requires us to trade dst anamile oil" to some preacher who wants a perfeckly reliable boss. Dat's one kind of sentiment. When we buy an excurshun ticket to Niagra Falls, an' reach de grand cataract after a thirty hours’ sweat on cattle cars, do immense waste of water peals to anuoder sort 0’ sentiment. When we luv we reveal another phrase of senti- ment. If do gal am high-toned an’ rich do sentiment am all solid. If she am only avierage, an’ in debt fur her las’ spring hat, de sentiment am purty thin an’ won't last longer dan do first bill fur meat comes in. (Cries of “ You bet l") “My frens, sentiment writes poetry wid one han’an' tans de backs of de chill’en wid the Oder. It guides our thoughts to frens ober de sea. it makes us shed tears fur dedead, nu’ yit warns us to cut dc undertaker’s bill down 2‘) per cent. Senti- ment tells us to luv our feller~men, an' yit whispers to us to lock our doshs an’ place torpedoes in our hen-roasts. (GI-onus.) I have bin lookin’ into do matter fur de las' forty-eight y’ars, an' I has cum to de con- clushun (hit it was a. wise thing ter purvidc de human race wid sentiment. If it had bin lef’ but by any accident in do mixin, do bes’ man among us wouldn't have gota bid if put up at aucshun along with a lot ob fence-posts. I could talk to you fur three straight weeks on dis subjeck, but obsarvin dat my half hour am up I will chop ofi' right heah an’ hope dat it may be my pleasure at some fucher day to meet you agin. Any pusson who wants his fortune told will fin’ me in de aunty . room fur de next two hours.” (Cheers and yells, and such vigorous stamping that three lamps and twenty-two feet of stovepi fell down and Brother Gardner adjourne the meet- ing.) Scarcity of Camphor. Camphor is becoming scar-oer and scarcer. The Japanese Government has placed still further restrictions on its export from its dominions, and the oflicials who havereplaced the Chinese in Formosa have receivel instructions to do the same with respect to that island for the present. This will seriously interfere not only with many medical compounds, but with the manufacture of smokeless powder. into which camphor largely enters. Japan, therefore,appears to have suddenly jumped into the position of the universal arbiter of war conducted in accordance with the latest scientific discoveries, as it practically con- trols the supply of camphor, and thus of the smokeless powder: which are now extensively manufactured throughout Eu- rope. Smuggled Liquor Seized. ' A despstcli from Quebec lavaâ€"Some time ago Mr. McMichael,chief inspector of customs, was here, and about the some time the cruiser Constance was despatched to the Gulf. Resultâ€"the Constance is com- ing in the river with a schooner which has 75 cooks of smuggled liquor, valued at $10,000. The vessel was captured of the Seven Islands, and it is believed thatCo May will land his prize at Bimouski. o captain and crew will have close on $34!” as the result of the capture. .5 :..\1.d’\"-‘I“‘-‘ 9.. L <W‘Efiafi)“’£ ~"Jfl~ “aw, Lam-v v4 and v‘jnmma'flw .. I 2 . ...- 93-.