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THAT MISS WILLIAMS. Jessica bewailed her fate greatly to her‘ confidante, Flora Williams, the “woman ” four years her senior, who had been to Gir- ton, and whom Jessica. exhalted to a throne in her little mind. Flora was handsome, with masses of golden hair. She wore tailor’s dresses, talked a. little slang, smok- ed an occasional cigarette, and spoke of her collegefriendi'by their surnames unprefixed. She atfected eyeglasses, too, and kept a number of heavy tomes in a locked book- case. Otherwise there was nothing very learned about her, nor was she half so keen for culture and. superiority as was Jessica Nevill. “I admire old maids less than I did five years ago,” she confessed to her friend ; and J essica, hardly grasping the profound bearing of this remark, replied frivolously (for even J upite'z; nods sometimes):â€" n “I suppose, Flora, at Girton you some- times saw too many women 2 I admit I like men best. All I object. to is the sup. position that. we must. want to marry them.” “But we do,” said Flora ruthlessly ; “you yourself, Jess, you wanted to marry Mr. Robson.” 7 “Oh no. Only just. while he was asking me. And I shouldn’t feel like that again. It was only that I was so unaccustomed to that kind of thing. Next time when a man makes love to me I shall dislike it.” “Are you sure?” “It is just. what I dread about John. He will think it proper to make love to me, and then I shall hate him. If I could only see him without. his knowing me, Flora!” “But, judging from Mr. Hobson’s experi- 7’ once when he made lovo 1:0 Eufâ€" A “ No, you goose, it’s all of a piece. You don’t, 'publicly and in the abstract, approve of love-making, Jess ; but when Mr. Hobson got down on his knees before youâ€"” LAâ€" --_ _‘“ 9 n “ Flora, how can you '2" I “It is only that I am older than you, dear. I shouldn’t dislike the idea. of your John so much. Engaged. ! And with a man coming in three months to make love to you ! I dag-e say he’ll_do it. better than Mr. Hobson ; so'cheer up, Jessica, and come and see my new dress.” “ Y on do yourself the greatest injustice,” said Miss Jessica, “ talking in that; silly way. But. oh, Flora, what a. very beautiful dress 1" Considering how strong-minded these two young women were, their interest in mere clothes was perhaps excessive. Books and lovers were quite secondary to-day, and every day. Next month Mr. Nevill had to go away to Wales on business, and he was exercised in his mind about leaving Jessica, -bhe be. trothed heiress, so near Mr. Hobson ; for the good cprate being of nervous tempera- ,sLsL- __:_L4. v..- 0"“ -__- ment, and apt to be precipitate, might easily stumble into lovemaking again, and Mr. Nevill, unable to distinguish among girlish caprices and fancies, had always considered his daughter a. little sentimental about her rejected suitor. So this person and that of her aunts and elderly cousins did 11 :r father suggest as a. visitor during his absence, but Jessica would none of them, and Mr. Nevill’s alarm about Mr. Hobson increa sed. “ Go to town to your grandmother, ‘ Jessica, and buy some new gowns.” “ Thank you, papa ; I have just. laid in a stock.” “ Then begin your trousseau." “ I will wait, papa, till I see how I like Cousin John.” “ Tut. my dear, tut !" l “ Papa !” exclaimed Jessica suddenly, “ it. has just struck me ! Do you remember zhat John belongs to your generation, not to mine 2” “ But he is your age, Jessica. Near enough.” “ Papa, people always belong to their generation. I am sure John is quite old in his mind and in his ways. I have heard you say, papa, you don’t approve of marriages between persons of different gen- stations.” “ Tut, my dear “But, indeed, papa, I can’t begin my tronsseau till I have seen him.” '1) “ Then go to Aunt. Lucy at Bourne- moufih." “ She has not invited me.” “ Or to Miss Snow at. Bankside.” “ Her spare rooms are full, papa.” “ Well, where will you go?” asked Mr. N evil], in despair._ Jessica answered that question a few days later. She came running to her father one morning with sparkling eyes and a pretty, pleading look on her face. He knew that: look : she wore It when she had set. her heart on some innocent pleasure which it would be his delight togrant. He smiled encouraging:- ly, and held out his hand ; for Jessica had, asked nothing of him since her betrobhal nor been like his merry, sweet little coax at all. â€"‘v‘707h, papa ! dear papa! do say yes ! Do. Just while you are away ! Think how stupid for me all alone here. Do say yes ! Do let, A COMEDY 0F ERRORS- “Why, to be sure I will. It’s what- I’ve been looking forâ€"a place to send you to while I’m away. Where do yoq want to go 2", “ It’s a letter from Flora, papa. “ Oh ! That Miss Williams 2 Well, I suppose you must go‘if yo? wish it." ,9 'I “ They are going abroad. papa, and want me to go with them." 4 “ Bless me. ’ Who are ‘ they ?’ ” “ Flora and her friend Miss Talbot, 9322;". ‘ “Who is Miss Talbot, and how old is she. ”’ “A Little younger than Flora. She is still at Girton. And her mother is the Dowager ViscogntessA of iMopastereven. ” “ Flora, papa.” “ But she’s only a. young girl like you.” “ Papa I Why, she’s years older than I. And so sensible. She and Talbotâ€"I mean Hist Talbotâ€"went to Vienna. last. ytav alone; Simon girls, papa, don’t. require among Oh. phage, let. me go. You “ Uéar me! But. who‘is the chapel-on of mi:- zany ‘2” CEAPI‘ ER 11 53'5ng fof'get what a. dull life I am going to with only that elderly cousin of yours ! gzve me qge link Enqntt} of fun first.” '3 “ Mr. Nevill hadn’t the heart to say no straight off. " Ask Miss Williams to lunch,” he said, “ and let me see if she is 8- proper person to take charge of you.” For Flora. lived at a. place three stations down the line, and Mr. Nevill (being inclined to despise her) had not made her acquaint- nuw. Jessica wrote to MISS Williams that wh 3n she came to be inspected she must try to look like achaperon. Consequently Flora was hardly recognizable. She had left her smart spy-glasses at home with her tailor-made frock. She wore round blue spectacles. a gOWn of her mother’s, a long mantle, a bonnet, and a thick veil. She talked graveâ€" ly on serious subjects ; and Mr. Nevxll was delighted with her, and began toreconslder his opinion of Girtonians. Jessica was fly. ‘ ing about in a white serge frock, rather too short for her, and worea broad hat With streaming ribbons. She looked a child,and Miss Williams surveyed her benevolently, like a mother. Mr. Nevill withdrew all objection to the proposed trip, and promis- ed his daughter asmucn money as she re- quested. ‘ “And where, Miss Williams, do you pro- pose to go ‘2” he inquired of the chaperon. “Oh, to Rome. Talâ€"Miss Talbot 13 there already with her mother. Lady Monaster- even has to return soon,and then J essica and I will stay on with Miss Talbot at the same hotel. After about a month, we three Will travel home together.” . 1: xi _-_i_.1.. -..:4...1.J.. ” gum Mr, Nevill : “ 1n sounds sigma,» said Mr. Nevin; and began looking up routes in the Conn- nental Bradshaw. _ . “ We will do exactly what you advise, Mr. Nevill,” said Flora. meeklv; And Jessica. jumped into her father’s arms and kissed him. She had not been so gay for weeks. She was going on a frolic, and a. first frolic, is highly exciting to a. young person. At the eleventh hour, however, the plans for the journey of the two ladies was all overturned; Mr. Nevill was packing, and rather in a fuss preparing for his departure, when Jessica. burst into his room, crying out that a. most shocking thing had occur- red. Miss Tabot had got Roman fever. and all Home was full of fever, and Mrs. Wil- liams positively refused to let her daughter go there on any account. Mr. Nevill was in dismay. remembering the inflammable Mr. Hobson. “But Flora and I might go somewhere else, papa,” suggested Jessica. \ “ Yes, yes, of course,” assented Mr. Nevill readily. “ Keep away from the fever. Go somewhere else.” And he proposed Florence, where was Jessica’s tincle with nine daughters; or Cannes, where one Mrs. White and her grand- ?iece would befriend the lonely travel- are. Jessica pouted. “We can make up our mind as we go along,” she said. “ Paris is the figst. stagg to eit_her pl_a.ge_s.” “ Very well, my love (fold my dressing- gown, please, dear child), and you had bet- ter keep your money as much as possible in English gold (that box of collars, please, J essica). It passes everywhere (don’t. tumble over my boots). And write to me very often, my _dea.r.” “' Papa, _ said J essxca, packing busily, “you know you never get my letters when you are in Wales., I shan’ c write often.” CHAPTER III. WILLIAMS AN D TALBOT. So Mr. Nevill went to Wales, and on the same day the two young ladies crossed to Calais. Flora declared her opinion that to be “ at a loose end” was the pleasantest way of travelling, and that Abraham was the wise man, who went out not knowing whither he went. It is needless to remark that Miss Williams had restored the flop- ping mantle and the poke bonnet to her mother’s wardrobe. She and her friend were dressed alike in dark blue, with smart little felt hats and Eton jackets. Their fellow- passengers looked admiringly at the two pretty young creatures and wondered who they were. Their ultimate destination still undecided they stayed two days In Peris, and came to the conclusion that Frenchmen were some- ‘ times rather storing and rude.~ Then one evening Flora. wrote the names of several countries on slips of paper and jumbled them in a. hat, and Jessica put in her hand and drew one out. Spmin was written on it, and the younger girl, cried “ Hurrah !” and waved the piece of paper above her head, and jumped and danced hilariously about the room. “ Are you so pleased, Jess ?" said Flora. “ I have a. scheme in my head,” replied Jessica. But neither on that night nor the next could the maiden lady (so Mr. Nevill had descrihei Miss \Villiams to his motherin- law) extract from her charge what manner of scheme it was. They travelled straight to Madrid. and from thence each wrote home. This duty accomplished, Jessica. pulled a. wise face and addressed her companion in the follow- ing manner :â€" ' “ Flora, it is getting late in the season, and Madrid is farther north than SeVille and Granada. Let us go to those places while the weather is still cool. And, Flora. let us steadily set our face against bull- fights, for, in my opinion, English people should always set a. good example. And. Flora, don’t you think we ought to see the Rock, which is such a. remarkable place in English history?" “And when; Captain Farquhar is ‘2" said qur§,_witk_z_a. coggh, “John Farquhvar is not at thz Rmk,’ said his betronhed; “he is at Tangier â€"on leave, I suppose. That kind of man is al- ways on leave. Have you heard much of Tangier, Flora. ‘2” “Not much.” “I have read it up in Murray. It is about three hours from Gibraltar, and is a. vevy old-world place, which reminds one of the ‘Arabian Nights.’ But there is a. French betel. Would you like, Flora, to see Tangier ?” “Jess'ica. ” ' _ Bald F e me for the, 10m, ‘can you be yearn- =’ . ‘ 00mmenceme t. makmg‘z” ‘ n of the love- Jessi'ca took a. chair, and looked graver than ever. “Flora, how much money have you? Whgg is_your fortune?” 11-" “My" farwne? 0b,}; competence- Six '. Nevill ; to have hundred a year now, and eventually two or tllzjee hundred more.” (OT ‘ ’ no“??? 581:“ " You nearly as rich as I am 2’ are not, 01mg to me the greatest, pity you g ng to marry J 01m Farquhar, when 0 ' I can; u can endow bun nearly as well as “Not quite; and besides, I store_ him his house. " “I would give , ‘ you that for a. weddmo' 55:15:113-1 d1 assure you, Fora, ! should be or “:08; to make up the trifling hundred Y thch you are poorer man I, as 2:123:13? to you for taking this men of my “ You are most kind. But why should I do With him any better than yourself 1’" asked Flora. “ I see excellent reasons,” replied Jessica, counting on her fingers. “ First, you want to marry, and Idon’t. Then you like the accounts we have had of John, and I don’t. You think the position romantic and pleas- ing. You do not apparently disapprove of inconstancy, Flora, to the ideal, nor consid- er it desecration to marry an unknown and commonplace man. And as you are hand- somer and nicer than I am, John is more likely ‘to‘fall in love with you than with ms. ' And if he’s incapablé o'f love, why. he W111 stxll get money with yo‘u, and we have no reason for supposing he wants anything else. Pray induce him to have you Flora.” “And An T I‘hJ‘_-LA“J T---:-- ‘Ln‘ c-A‘q “And: do I understand, J essic'a, that 3’0“ ‘ are taking me to Tangier to introduce me 1 to Captain Farquhar ‘2” 1 “It is one of my reasons for going there.” “And the others?” “I expected you to guess, Flora. Men are so stupid that it is just possible John may still wish to marry me. But I alto- gether object to marrying a man I do not know. And how, I ask you, Flora, could I possibly learn to know a man who was try- ing to make love to me? What I want is to see this John before he arrives at home as my fiance. I want to catch him una- wares at Tangier, and see what he is like when he is himselfâ€"not disguised in the airsflof Aa. Pouter pigeon? “But, Jessicaé-Qill not the airs of a cock pigeon be assumed whenever and wherever you appear? And does it not occur to you, my dear, that he might think it a. little everfluous, even a. little bold, your seek- Inghim in this manner in the ends of the earth ‘2” “I have thought of that. Flora, John must not know in is I.” Flora started. “ The plan is great,” she said, “ but it staggers me. May I ask, Jes- sica, if you will appear under an assumed name ?” “That: is what I propose to do, Flora.” “ But when Captain Farquhar comes to Nevill Lodge, he will recognize you, Jess ; what. will you say then ‘2” “ Most; likely I shall hate him so much that I will never allow him to come to Nevill Lodge at all. If, by extraordinary good fortune, I find him comparatively un- objectionable, why, I shall explain to him what I did, and why.»”_ “Well, he may feel flattered , or he may not, Jessica. What would Mr. Nevill say to yqu_pla_.n, dear. 9” "‘ Idbn’trsuppose papa. would like it at all. But, I do not feel bound to consult papa’s tastes now that he has become a mam, Flow , II “I “ The plan is great,” repeated Flora, “ but, are we clever enough to carry it out? Shall We dress as young men, Jess, to per- fect our resemblance to Rosalind and Imo- gen '.'" “ No,” said Jessica, laughing ; “ I should not know how to behave as a. young man. But I can behave very nicely asâ€" Talbot. for instance." Whereupon Flora. jumped up and clapped her hands. _ “ The very thing !” she cried ; “ you shall pose as Talbot the (z‘rirtonian ! For Jessica, if you tried passmg yourself off as a. wholly imaginary person, you would say that you had six brothers to-dav and to-morrow six- teen ! But you know exactly how many brothers Talbot has. Represent her, Jes- sica. unHMiss Talbot might Int like it. !” said JeSaica, breathless with excibem ant. .. m n A n \n‘.. 2--.. TA-.. " n-:AA 17:.an ucaau.a, u-vuvu-vuu "u... -.---V-._-___V_ “Talbot? My dear Jess," cried Flora, who had now thoroughly entered into the jest, “ it is the kind of thing to delight Falbot immensely. I never knew a' girl so fond of aneughty joke. Oh! I'll undertake to square Talbot. One condition though, my love: that while you are personating her you do nothing scandalous. Don‘t for instance, elope with CaptainJuhn. In fact, I should say permit no love-making.” “ Iâ€"permit love-making i” said Jessica, in tones of the greatest disgust; and they discussed further details of the scheme, de- aiding that Miss Williams might retain her own name, as she was unimportant and the name was co nmon, and the wearer’s con- fidence in it would gain credit for them both. “ or... uuv... U My death” said the chaperon, “ this whole planp very naughty. Are you ser-‘ mus aboun 1t. ‘2” ‘ ‘ . n u- 1 «.- u Luv-u “v _ __ , “I am most serious," replied Jessica. “ I mean to do it." 410m. lowked hard at her friend, and then thev both dissolved into delightful laughter; under the influence of which the plan be- came a. resolution fixed as the law of the Medea and Persians. Three days leter tljemrgaiden ladies who called each other Williams and Talbot 1 crossed from Europe to Africa. They had slept one night at Gib. in the hotel at the Europa Point, and had walked about that queer medley of a town, and bought lace from Emilia Birch, and sought in vain for the tailless monkeys. Talbot, had a notion that John Farquhar might have returned to the Rock, and whenever they passed a haughty English officer, she pinched Flora’s arm and whispered, “Ohl dear ! Williams, could that be he?” And Flora, being young herself and as yet rather starved in the matter ot love affairs, was ‘ secretly much excited too, and would not for the world have abandoned the search for the captain. At last they embarked in the Hercules paddle-boat, and steamed away to Tangier; and the voyage was not pleasant, for the sea was rough, and the Hercules is small, and on this occasion crowded with Moore and Jews, all very seasxck. Some first- class passengers there were, however ; an elderly lady with a husband ; a lonely man ‘ in a slouch-hat ; a thin and strong-minded Mrs. Geoffrey Cobbe, whose name was em- blazoned on all her luggage; and lastly, a young officer from Gib, with whom she conversed persxstently. Jessica was rather seasick, and noticed none of these people much. _- The landing atrrT‘gngier was a little alarming to tffe two English girls, unpre- couldn’b re- pared for the half-naked and noisy Moors, who bustled them into a boat, rowed vio- lently ashore, and incessantly clamored for “twelve dollars.” Presently they were dragged before a superbly robed, white- bearded-and-turbaned gentleman, presum- ably a customs officer, who sat in the mud and ordered all portmanteaux to be opened and instantaneously shut up again. His perceptive powers must have been phe-. nomenal in quickness; supernaturally quick also were the five men who, the moment the perfunctory examination was over, snatched up the portmauteaux and ran away with them through the town and up the! hill of the Soko, pursued by the panting maidens under the noisy escort of an en'or- mous negro. Williams and Talbot nearly fainted with relief when they found them- selves and all their goods deposited in unexpected safety on the floor of Bruzeaud's Hotel ; where rooms were awaiting them, and English was spoken, and five o’clock 1 tea was the order of the day. Anomalous ‘ civilization ! “ I have it !" gasped Flora, “that black cannibal and his horde were sent by Mon- sieur Bruzeaud to meet us ! Why couldn’t they say so 2” Jessica was leaning out of the window, smiling at the purple sea and the flat white town and the aloes and the cactus on the slope below the hotel. 117-110 ,._ n -L- ~n:A “ T Slope UULUW Luv uvuvu “ Do you know, Williams,” she said, “ I dare say papa. would not like our having come alone no a place of this sort.” " Have you only just thought; of that, my dear Talbot ‘2” said Flora. An Engllah Locomotive Ready to Race the New-York Central’s “999." There left for Chicago last week an Eng- liah engineer and railroad builder who has designed and completed a. four-cylinder lo- comotive, which he claims can run at a greater speed and carry heavier loads than any other locomotive in the world, not .even excepting the record-making engine of the New York Central, “999.” «n 1...:J. u.. v nub ‘- â€"â€"v-_â€"- There are two pairs of driving wheels, each 7 feet 6 inches in diameter. The “leaders” are driven by a. pair of inside cylinders 17 inches in diameter, and with a. ssroke of ‘22 inches. The trailing driving wheels, of the same size, are driven by wucc a, us any -u.-.v qu ..-- __.-__ cylinders 16!; inches in diameter, with a. stroke of 24 inches. The “bogie” wheels are 4 feet in diameter. The weight; of the engine, loaded, but. without tender, is sixty tone. It has, so its designer claims, a. tractive power of 143.8 pounds for every pound of effective pressure and will work to 200 pounds on the_ square inch. No Encouraging assurance has come from the New-York Central management that the famous locomotive, “999,” will be pitted against my other locomotive in any test of speed for stakes or otherwise. Third Vice‘ President H. Walter Webb receiveda. pro- position somc time ago from persons who desired to back an English locomotive against the New-York Central’s wonderful flier. He replied that it was not the desire of the New-York Central to race its locomo- tive against locomotives of other manufac- ture. The engine “999,” he remarked, had made a speed record of 112% miles an hour. Should any other locomotive equal or excel that record an opportunity would undoubted 1y be found for “999”to show how muc better she could do. . p J l for the erection of the high co Lord Lansdowne in Burmah. Lord Lansdowne, the Viceroy of India, has just been .on a visit to Burmah, whose people gave him an exceedingly warm wel- come. in Which they referred gratefully to all that had been done for them, but their gratitude was not altogether free from that lively sense of lavors to come, of which gratitud generallv 18 mild to be largely composed. Tne favors the Burmese ask are, happily, of a kind wnlch Great Britain ought to be proud to grant. and they are likely to be granted. . urmah is at present ruled by a chief commlSilonel‘; its govern- ment is in commissmn. and is more or less despotic. The Burmese want their country to be erected into a provmce, with a lieutenant, governor, a high court, in. Which natives will be represented. and Wgth a representa- tive in the viceroy's ,leglfilative council. The reasons they give “1 urging their peti- tion are gond- They point Out that since 1886,when Upper Burmah was annexed,the Commissioner of Burmeh miles a country twice as large anda population twice more numerous, With a doubled internal trade a sea-borne commerce increased to sixty m’il- lions of rupees, and a doubled revenue reaching fifty -five millions of rupees. Up: per Burmnh is now as peaceful and almost as prosperous, and Is troubled with, if any- ‘ thing, less brigandage or dacoity than Lower Burmah Under these circumstances it is not wonderful if the old administrative machinery of Burmah has become somewhat unequal to the task imposed upon it. Lord Lansdowne was able to promise that the 1 country would be made a province, but he thought some time would havg to be given lift and repre- _-«Ontdnnr dn *kn 'nlfia‘nt:_- vvv-LU “ Agatation' in the legislaiive council. GBR FOR A TEST OF SPEED- (TO BE CONTINUED.) n Accompxxauvu aux-v" Now A Marimba“? ha"31.1156 been celebrating the 3 n of its ship canal, a great water. $131,532; it direct accees to the Irish Sea, and thence to the Atlantlc Ocean, and with the complain of tips work the realxzation of a scheme whxch, In. one form or another, discuszed at IntervalsIfor more than and“ reejquarters. ti; po ularl 2:33:23 that Manchester has E2);.lwaaLSZg ‘ ac uiseced m the growth and devel- t1 (we): A; Liverpool, fund» hes been content qufizgtz‘iabivel’POOL and- has been content agar, LivetP°°l should receive toll 0n the gotton and' other raw materials imported largel y from thisside the ocean which are - such immense and increasing quantities in the industrial region lying within a cricuit .of twenty miles from Manchester. This is a mistake. Manchester has always been Jealous of Liverpool, and of her position on the estuary of the Mersey, again and again contemplated calling in the aid of the engineer to right her wrongs Liverpool had begun to draw to herself the trade with what were then American colonies. when Bristol had still the monopoly of the commence or run wssr , and Liverpool was but a small place (own. in some eightybr ninety ships), Manchester was moving With a view to securing some of the advantage which it was felt ought to accrue to her, owing to her nearness to the sea. Manchester stands on the Irwell, a tributary of the Mersey, and the Mersey is navigable for ships of three or four hundred tons burden as far as Warrington, which is exactly midway between Liverpool and Manchester, and eighteen miles from either place. Liverpool constructedher first dock in 1703 ; and in 1712 the engineer who was responsible for this work devised a scheme under which the Mersey and the Irwell were to be made navigable to Manchester. Nothing came of this scheme, but in 1720 works were carried out which gave Man- chester a water communication with Liver- pool, which was partly tidal and partly canal. This waterway was in use until about seven years ago, when the ship canal works interfered with it. It was, however, never larger than barges of seventy or eighty tons burden, and never began to meet the needs of Manchester after the era of the cotton factory had commenced. Forty years after this waterway was made. Brindley, with the aid of the Duke of Bridgewater, con- structed the picturesque canal which is now known by the name of the Duke. It is twenty-one mlles long, and joins the estuary ot the Mersey at Runcorn, within half a mile of the point at which the first water- A'J~‘ ___..:-_ way was con: of the Mersey. UL vuv “Vb-'J' Like the waterway constructed in 1720, the Bridgewatet Canal is for barges only. It doubled the means of communication by water between Liverpool and Manchester, and along these two old waterways millions of bales of cotton have been carried from Liverpool through of Cheshire into the heart of the cotton manufacturing district of Lancasmre. But Manchester has always desired something more than barge canals, and variousschemes for ship canals were discussed before Parlia- ment gave its sanction to the construction of the canal which is now nearing comple- tion. vav... There was a long, bitter, and wearisome fight in Parliament before the scheme for the present canal was adopted. Liverpool was strongly opposed to the canal, and fought the promoters at every point. The Liverpool City Council, the Liverpool Dock Board, and the railway companies whose lines connect the two cities spent about a quarter of a million sterling in lawyers’ fees and in fees to expert witnesses in en- ‘deavoring to defeat the proposals for the waterway. Never in the history of private bill legislation was there a bigger or a more costly fight in the committee rooms of the Houses of Parliament, and never before were two English cities set in antagonism as were Liverpool and Manchester in the early eighties, when the Ship Canal scheme was before Parliament. In 1883 LiverpoolI was triumphant. Parliament threw out the Ship Canal bill. Two years later a new and greatly amended scheme was submit- ted to Parliament. Again the fight between Liverpool and Manchester was waged for nearly half the session, but this time victory rested with Manchester, and Parlia- ment passed a bill empowering the con- struction of the canal. u A certain clergyman in early life had met with an accident which left him with a broken nose, 3. deformity about which in spite of his piety, he was known to be a little sensitive. One day a. new enquirer pmpounded the old question :â€"-“How hap- pened you to break your nrse?” The min- ister answered solemnly:â€""To tell the truth my friend, the accident was cause by my poking my nose into other people’s business.” Getting Bflioent M edicel Attendance- As soon as the Emperor of China. is sick it is a. notification to his physicians that their salary is cutoff till he is perfectly well again. The passionate zeal with which the regulars get his majesty back where their salaries will begin again is said to be something astounding. The result is that the emqeror isabout the healthiest man standing on the planet, and his physicians seldom lose a. day’s salary. Jack and the Grindstone-New Version. “ Gracious, Johnny, wherever have you been all the afternoon 2” exclaimed his mother as the heir of the house made a late appearance at the supper table. “ I was over or: Spadina avenue, ma, at ’ 9’ Mrs. Sharp s. “ Why, what has that wretched woman been getting you to do for her now? Go to the kitchen, J oynuy, you are soaking.” ~AAâ€" -n. qu n. -v..-_, - “ Well, manâ€"I dia 'shovel her moi, but she paxd me such a. compliment when it was done.” “0h did she ‘2” asked the surprised mather. “ How ver unl‘k difl she say ?’_’ y l [e her. What -I g, o O“ bhto Empire. uU‘.‘â€"S-i;e ;3fidered how it; was 'ycn possibly (:0qu have such a. nicq little boy.” _[ 173g. The Great Ship Canal- _â€" .. An Accomplished Fact. WV 5%. AVAILABLE FOR VESSE LS Probablg that W asn’t True. 1'"_’ , connected with the tidal portion THE GARDEN COUNTY of the cotton A Gunning Fraud Who Bad 0 u. Hontreal 91113.10 for Ye '30:. Nobody“ Ind-dug In- .2" runs “on”. The other night, says the Mn nose, there was a. scene enacted gun’s store which cnu'ui mm. M I)": most sceptical that, the day profound sympat by and has I els of coppgrs from mneivr-he 3,,.L1-.: v-u v. v 'l': He is all bent and thawed. expression of $0959ng on his- £0} to see : while his little 4 canacientioueiy p‘says every n the most. doieful manner exci‘ nest-sympathy for its 0“}981‘, 1 in a} corner. covered with a w: or sack. He is indeed a sari-j ,, A1, -- uvv- w: ._r-,, i in a corner. covered with a w: or sack. He is indeed a sat-r: divlflual and has been mpnken‘ dcrful freak of nature. 9e0pl< tiered how the po 1r creatul home with his consumptive problem was solveé last ni amazmg. Nothing but a mi pla an the wonder. v r The hour was 11.30 p. m. bundle of rags still turned the pumped air into the decayed veteran organ. Thelauer cm sing the 0!?! songs “3% sang 10: There was not a soul in e‘ght the arm ceased to move. Hat poor tired body '3 Had the he winter frozen the last drop a in the poor cripple’s body ‘3 yet too lane ! See, the poor slowly to and fro and the pair vacantly up and down St. Cat there is not. a soul in sight. Ian‘nvgu.: -“7, Wonderful, wonderful ! Th: vanishes as if by magic ; the sax-etch out. the bent. hands v the cramped 'mgs, the body 101 eppearance' and becomes strai rod. Pa1ieuoe.pabience,:-here more to teil.the miracle is elm The coat next is removed from of the face and the wounds I the giver 0‘ charity had imagi were harpilyabsent. Noweon Up springs the poor median hand seizes the organ and tin back that looks broad and at; carry a mule. a.-.--v_v-, that the number of Jews in increasing. The reports whi< culaned with reference to ti ever. have always been more In the last number of a joi by the German Palestine SOI ‘ Verein) Dr. Dalman. of fin Leipzig, has a careful and l tion of the Jewish popuhti band. From this the folk: has been condensed : That is not 51L There c slightest doubt of this mir- waa lame. to warm his cram; of." along 80. Catherine and c' under street at, a pace like 31 u'i‘Ketgigéifiéi is int-formed tween 11 and 1:2. uwv ~V. .â€" The Jewish populatic during the ten years hetwe increased from 13,920 to 2 the latter date about fl peopie of the city were .le not room for trem all 1 “ Jewish quarter” within therefore built themselves I the northern and western q considerably to the extenI city. These houses are us in groups under the directi‘ society interested in the 1 ,, ‘___- A UBfl'PLB GAUGE Travellers in Palegtjne hs' stances. Gun-ow...â€" Besides those in J etc numbers of Jews in other especially Jafi'a, Hebron and Safedâ€"in all, 15,849. Tue most. interesting 1 however, is the appearam of J ewieh colonies in vari tine. There are no fewel in the vicmity of J affa. ‘ there are 1,016 Jews of a‘ ged in cult-ivuing ll,‘ he principal crop is W] rain also in large quan: here is a. small colony a tract of 1,250 acres of la! In the norshern part of ‘ are several colonies. ‘ Palestine, consisxicg < Jews, occupies 2,758 no Mount Carmel and the In the neighborhood of S with 486 members. “‘11 5,363 acres of the (to :14 It appears, therefore; were in 1891â€"2612 Jed gaged in earning their end that they have acres of land. These ' not represent the ex! movement has progres lanai under cultivati acres more that, have purposes of ooEoniza'. this is in a. single tra near the line of the p Haifa. to Damascus. chased by Baron Eds}: is more or less interc-s the colonies now in c The whole number tine. according to D and the whole amoun or those interested in TEE JSWS IH P Two facts with N meat. are favorable u there .re men of grefl behind it; and (‘3) to have been WiSdY people have been themselves to agljcj Ul-vâ€"vâ€" V â€" ~ settled on some 0f 1 “Is he any use. " “Well,S-1'Y' takes ninety oeight' he comes near 6““ every chaptef- ' to thei: country. “What you read; “Dare-3.8“! Dan 1301' a. year p835 dn'flfled.