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?acific Kai! I 4th were } compared ’ast year. ,Longayon, ,entirely of ponies was pd, about yder on the bngineer of ,’ to obtain ‘2 mechaniâ€" formed by Which are My to be Imps sup- }ocated at. a from the ’ e Tivoli line, and rimental I work. its prac- go where k of such K) where rep, and :1 in most. ntario and “ion. Al ediction as good start ontinued a. Irrgncy, here is 3 has as stlement also to , the de- n which 0 finan- Ionerz is r fur two ban a mino ard with actically and as it stimated or stone. he glass 1 of the uahouse aw. No b a con- {turbine >rk next so their Id many gigantic :mighty |g world 'ork so far $13,072,- nd for last :3 for the D, and for ant. and thy pr? erately and if :on jus« Land es- mt of California l§rgest on x m the by tbepe :1 gold loan it. »f Can- satis~ itional :her in ad St. 6 horse >r a tnr- caitle > drive Larket. an: mad: at. of th‘.‘ factories, dynamite not. far money in Led as the of the L‘AXADIA 21'. The liquor man of Broome have signed a. petition making that the Scott. Act; be re- peeled. A woman in Charlottetown, P. E.L, was recently delivered of five children at a. pirth. They were all girls, and were stillâ€" THE WEEK’S NEWS Maj or- -General Herbert has left Ottawa tor England to arrange with the Imperial authorities the details of the fortification of Esquimalt. The Earl of Aberdeen regrets his inability to be present at the convention of the Christain Endeavour Union to be held in Montreal next July; Cote St». Louic, a flourishing suburb with a. population of three thousand people, has been annexed to the city of Montreal, and will be known hereafter as St. Denis Ward. The Imperial-Government has decided to grant Canadian volunteer officers who have served twenty years decorations similar to those given to British volunteers who have served the same period. Mr. Hall, Provincial Treasurer of Quelwec, has left. for England to renew the loan of four million dollars negotiated by Mr. Mer- cier in 1891 and to raise an additional loan of the same amount to meet deficits. perimental Dairy Station at Perth from a. woman believed to have been concerned in 207,200 pounds of milk, for exhibition at the dynamite explosion last November in the World’s Fair, weighs 22,000pounds,and the Rue des Bons Enfants, by which five measures '23 feet in circumference by 6 feet persons were killed. in height. The Chinese land telegraph line has been 1L- T).--_..._ -"nd-gm ant: man. The Gargantuan cheese made at the EX- ‘ The Paris police have captured a. man and Mr. J. X. Perreault, of Montreal, has I. series of articles in the Pattie advocating the claims of Cardinal Gibbons as successor to Pope Leo XIII., promising that the American eagle would protect him from any humiliation attempted by King Humbert of Italy. Adespatch from Winnipeg, Man., an- nounces that two of the immigrants from Halifax who arrived by the steamer Van- couver are sufi‘ering from smallpox. One is receiving necessary attention near Fort William, and the other is under medical care neat Winnipeg. A bill has been introduced into the English House of Commons to provide for the submission of labour disputes to arbi- tration. emu" ~--v vw-"vâ€" -- won, tge churge having evidently been made by a. blackmailer. The report is in circulation that on Sat- urday Mrs. Florence Maybrick, under life sentence in Waking prison for poisoning her husband, made a. desperate attempt to commit suicide. It is reported that the Orangemen of Glasgow are arming to aid their brethren in Ulster in their fight against Home Rule if such steps are necessary. The British Government is being approach- ed for a grant of the naval cruiser allow- ance to the new Canadian-Australian line between British Columbia and Australian ports. . Lord Hastings, who was convicted on March 24 of having insulted a girl in Re. gent’s park, carried his case to appeal and W3; _ --_:.l-_4.1.. in”... maria Sir Charles Tapper is confined to bed in Paris with an attack of grippe, and his physicians decline to allow him to leave his room or participate in the work of the Behring Sea. Court of Arbitration. More than two hundred Methodist min- isters in Ireland have signed estatement to Methodist ministers in England to the efi'ect that they opposed Home Rule both on religious and commercial grounds. Mr. Ben Tillett, on trial at the Old Bai- ley for inciting riots at Bristol, was found guilty on Saturday, but the jury appended a rider, which declared that while the words were incendiary they did not believe they were spoken with intent to cause a. breach 7 n .1 -, A‘_- :“J_._ AAA]__‘A It is stated that the United States has acquired from Ecuador a naval station on the Gallapagos islands in the Pacific. , There are good reasons for believing that :the men of the Homestead, P3,, steel ‘-works are preparing for another strike next July. The Washington authorities suspect that a. large number of Chinese laborers are being smuggled into the United States by the trans-Pacific lines as merchants and actors, and an investigation has been order- 'Elu nrv-.v_ .. of the peace, and this the judge declared was equivalent to a verdict of acquittal. It is reported that in an interview Car- dinal Logue said that there were good unds for the assertion that if the present ome Rule bill should be defeated the Conservatives would offer the Irish 3. still more sweeping measure on the condition that a Conservative-Irish alliance be con- cluded for the overthrow of the Liberals. The're is a. rumour in London to the effect that when the Home Rule bill reaches the committee stage a. large section of the Radio 03.13 will support a. proposal to leave the counties of Londonderry, Antrim, Down, and Armagh, in the Province of Ulster, under Imperial rule, these being the coun- ties in which the Unionist ieeline; is strong- Col. the Hon. C. P. Dawnay, who was a. member of the late House of Commons for Thirsk and Melton, Yorkshire, is taking an intensely military stand on the Irish Home Rule question. He announces the forms.- tion of a corps of gentlemen volunteers in Yorkshire with the intention of joining the Ulster Unionists in armed opposition to Home Rule. v..- ’. Tuesday morning, in Grace Church, New York, the Earl of Craven and Miss Cornelia Martin, of New York, were married with great pomp and ceremony, 1n the pres. ence of over two thousand of the elite of the city. -â€"_ v- _, Monday morning John Johnson, who is as “the Blue Nigger from Clyde,” $3M]; in the 12r‘oo-m shop of the Auburn ,1, ,L J-___ 1‘. 1., VIII-WV“, wâ€"â€"â€"-â€"...... 7 by a. keeper killed one fellow- ' fatally stabbed a second, and aerioszlgrnfgt jured two others. Information has been received at Hong Kong of a brat-Q attack on. native Chris. time 38 Tea Tau-3, uvezty miles north-ease 731m Smith. the ,flsndbgfore hé YES shot dqwn UNITED STATES. BRITISH. Hawaiian Ministar to the United States, thinks that the pm- visional Government will appeal to England or Germany for support. The famine in the north of Shausi is worse than at first supposed, and a. number of young women and girls have been sold by their parents for food. King Humbert. accompanied by Signor Brin, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and by the Royal suite has arrived at. Florence on 8- visit to Queen Victoria. The excitement over the Servia coup d’ etat is sub‘siding and the Regents and the Ministers of State who were seized at Thurs. day night’s banquet have been set at liber- ty. Incessant earthquake shocks were felt m the Island of Zante throughout Monday night, and it is estimated that there are .m the City of Zante only two hundred Inhabxt- able houses. The Belgian riots, fanned by the activity of the Socialists, are extending to alarmmg proportions, and it is rumoured in Pans that Germany may occupy the country to prevent a. revolution. It is not all plain sailing yet for young King Alexander of Servia, as the Liberals have issued a. manifesto disclaiming his coup d’etat as an unconstitutional act. The ex-Regents of Servia. and their Min- istry are accused of misappropriatinz a. large sum of money during the regency under the pretext that it was used in the Secret Se :- vice of the State. PM.-- . The Chinese land telegraph line has been joined with the Russian system, and mes- sages can now be sent throughout the world from China. Messages to Europe by this aygtem cost leis than by cable. I 1 ,1,L_J LL- ELL :«HL uJ â€"--..- -v..- _- News trom Honolulu dated the 6th inst. says that the Stars and Stripes. which float- ed for two months over the Government buildings. have been hauled down. United States Commissioner Blount regards a pro- tectorate as unnecessary and incompatible with any diplomatic relations which might be arranged between Hawii and the United States. ‘ uâ€"vv-a The Island of Znnte was visited by an- other destructive earthquake Monday morn- ing, which resulted in great loss of life and property. The greater portion of the city of Zante was destroyed, and arrangements were at once commenced to provide tents for the unfortunate inhabitants. .v- v..v __.-‘-- A despatch from Honolulu says that the nati 1e population, forty thousand in num- ber, able to read and write, and brought up under American missionary training. with very few exceptions are strongly opposed to annexation, while the Americans, less than two thousand in number, favour the move- ment. The Belgian Chamber of Representatives reassembled in Brussels Tuesday after the preparation of the reports on the revision of the constitution, and by a. vote of one hundred and nineteen to twelve adopted universal suffrage, with s. proviso for plural voting for the classes owning property. It is expected that this decision will have an allaying effect upon the popular agitation, which was rapidly assuming alarming dimensions. While the use of electricity in farming and for horticultural purposes has not pass- ed beyond the experimental stage in most foreign lands, some important results in these fields have been reached by the late Sir William Siemens, of England, the de- tails of which have been set forth in a re- portto the department of state. The ex- periments of Siemens were for the purpose of ascertaining the effects of electric lights upon the growth of plants and the develop- ment of blooms and fruit. According to the report the experiments were exhaustive and among the important results arrived at were the following: That plants do not ap- pear to require a period of rest during the twenty-four hours of the day, but make in- creased and vigorous progress if subjected during daytime to sunlight, and during the night to electric light. That the radiation of heat from powerful electric arcs can be made available to counteract the effect of night frost. That while under the influence of electric light plants can sustain in- creased stove heat without collaps- in gâ€"a circumstancefavorable to forcing by electric light. That the light is efficacious in hastening the development of flowers and fruits. The flowers produced by its aid 1 are remarkable for intense coloring, and the 1 fruit for both bloom and aroma without ap- 3 parent augmentation of the saccharine con- stituents. There were other deductions of technical value, but the foregoing embrace those of public interest. That the electric- al light has been shown to have a distinct value in a scientific sense is unquestionable, whether it will eventually be found to have a value in. the economic sense, making it an aid to the work of market gardening, is an- other question. But it is a question of so much practical importance that the ex- perimentalists will not be apt to dismiss it until they shall have reached a definite con- A gentlman livin in a village a. few miles north, has a valuab e six-year-old trottin horse, which some time ago formed the very bad habit of cribbing ; that is, it would chew at the wood of the manger and parts of its stall. The habit grew and grew till he was cribbing so constantly that he lost flesh and did not eat a sufficient quantity of food. The owner sent a statement of the condition of things to Thomas P. Night- ingale, and ask ed him if he could suggest a remedy. Mr Nightingale thought the mat,- ter over and replied “Yes.” He then went to work at the arrangement described here- c lusion. (Jaws. He had an induction coil wound. Three cells of a battery were used. A flexible cord was led from it to the horse’s back under the surcingle. The stall was lined with tin, where the horse had the habit of cribbing or chewing. . The connection was made so that when the animal touched his lips to the tin at any point the electric current ran through his head and along his back to the spine under the surcingle. This was enough to make him turn away his nose and lips with all the disgust an equine can show. After vain efi'orts to touch any part of either the manger or stall without getting the dose he gave it up, and the result is the animal is again eating, and digesting his food natur- ally and has lost his taste for ' anger and stall wood. â€"[ Utica Observer. after. Electricity for Cribbing Horses. Electricity on the Farm. .13.- “w Stailstlcs 0! Industry and Finance or the 1 Unlted Kingdom. . l The latest statistics gathered for the Royal Commission of Labor of the United Kingdom, recently presented by the com- pilers and classifiers, and soon to be pub- lished as the fifth volume of the series of reports on the industries of thta kingdom, contain much interesting information con- cerning the average rate of wages, and the total earnings and savings of the working people of Great Britain and Ireland, and the losses by strikes and lockouts, together with much of general interest about in- ; comes, investments, and savings of the country in general. In the final compila- tion and classification for publication the statistics are to be compared with similar data from other countries, where it is avail- able. At present the Commission has not been able to secure much information of this kind from foreign countries. There are employzd in regular industry in the United Kingdom, in round numbers, 7,300,000 men, 2,500,000 women, 1,700,000 males under 15 years of age, and 1,200,000 girls, a total of 13,200,000 persons. Thirty- three separate occupations are enumerated in the returns which aggregate these fig- ures, but in presenting the figures the As- : sistant Secretary of the Board of Trade regretted “that the statistics had not been extended to the lower middle classes,” which makes rather indeterminate the pre- cise value of the figures. Probably they refer to'all trades and manual occupations, 1 the higher grades of clerks and special workers not being classified, although this was not distinctly stated. The total amount of wages paid yearly is about £633,- 000,000, or about £48 per head for men, women, and children. All the figures have been specially gathered during the past year, and are practically up to date of the beginning of this year. . .I A‘ ~ 1,, LL..-- _____n -_ _7,, , The normal wages of men in the thirty-three occupations enumerated average 243. 7d. per week, or £64 a year; of women, 125. 8d. a week, £32 103. a year; boys, 93. 2d. weekly, 23 85. yearly ; girls, 73. 4d. week- ly, £18 a year. Sixty per cent. receive wages of 203. to 303. a week, and of the re- mainder five per cent. earn under 205. a week, the rest over 308. Building trades average about £70 a year, agricultural lab- orers in England about £39 a year. On railroads there is not much change appar- ent in the averages of pay between 1886 and 1892, although in some few particular divi- sions there is a great upward change. Out of 314,000 men employed on railroads in 1892 8,400 received less than 153. a week. 124.000 from 155. to 203., 139,000 from 205. l‘t'ZQUU" LLVLAI Lua- Irv ~v~v, -wv,v.,- _____, V, to 305., 21,000 from 305. to 35s., and the rent over 35s. a. week. Most of those classi- fied between 159. and 205. receive wages near the latter figure. Domestic servants, say the figures, are m the aggregate better remunerated than women in other employ- ment. In domestic service the wage is £50 a. year, while in other employments it is only £32. Of course averages include the very high and very low, and in this particu- lar may be misleading as to the bulk of the class. v Returns from savings banks and like in- stitutions show that the savings of the working classes amount to £6,200,000 a. year. This is exclusive of the amount invested in friendly societies and in furniture, which, ,3L- -_ it is estimated, would represent quite an equal amount, bringing the total to £12,400, 000 a. year. The totalfiannual income of the United Kingdom is about £1,400,000,000. and out of this the estimated savings amount to £240,000,000. The amount of in- come received from foreign investments, railways, national debts, and the like is estimated at from £80.000,000 to £100,000. 0C0. In 1891 the loss of wages on account of strikes and lockouts was quite £1,500,000. In another year the loss was £1,292,000. Tlns is a. fraction of l per cent. of the total of wages earned yearly. The total mem- bership of trades unions is 817,006 in a. working population of over 13,000,000. -E n v. --...D rvr “V Comparisons between present rates of wages and those of former times are dif- ficult. Fifty years ago nearly half the work- ing class population of Great Britain and Ireland were agricultural laborers. Now less than one fifth are employed in agricul- ture, with Ireland included ; possibly only one-eighth are now so employed. The average wages in 1868, according to one reliable statistician of that day. were £33 per head; the present rate is £48 per head. Comparative statistics of other countries were not available when these were given to the Commissioner, but it was stated that in France the average earnings of the working classes are much less than in Great Britain, whiie in America the average is rnuch higher. . , ‘.,____L__.L ROYAL COMHISSIIDNBRS' REPORT. Inagination plays a not unimportant part in the affairs of labor in Great Britain. The number of immigrants who came to Great Britain in 1891 intending to stay in the country was 21,000, including a great many Russian and Polish Jews. In 1892 the number was 4,000 less, and the figures available for this year show a still greater reduction compared with the same period last year. Wages are lowered in some trades by these immigrants. but only a few trades seem to be so affected. Still the matter is an important one, and is being carefully considered, with a. view to stop- ping undesirable immigration. : AL- L-_L:‘â€" 1.. AAMM‘A‘ 1""6 “M":wm a . . When this volume of statistics 13 complet- ed and published its will be a. mine of in- teresting industrial information. It will treat of both employers and employed, wages among all classes of workers, and comparisons with other lands: trades unions and cause and efl'ect in strikes and lockouts, sweating, profit sharing, hours of labor, wages and cost; of production, and a‘. great mass of similar master. This is the time of the year when the country is most apt to show its seamy side. Even apart from the habitations of men the ground is more or less littered_with nature’s refuse, accumulated during the last winter, which has not yet had an Opportunity to bury itself in Mother Earth. - Dead vege- table stalks lie prone on theground or wave disconsolateiy in the wind. Broken or fall- en branches from the trees add an element of untidincss to the scene, which is accen- tuated by the presence on many branches of last year’s dead leaves. The brambles in the fence corners, which will ere long add so much picturesque beauty to the landscape are now saraggy aud unkempt. Nature has been lying dead all these past months,cover- ed with the pall of winter ; and though she has begun to feel the pulsations of a new life, she is not yet strong enough to exhibit Hygiene in the Country. that marvellous renovation which is her Work in the later spring. But Nature may be safely trusted to do her work, and do it in accordance with the canons of beauty, as Well as the laws of utility; for she is'a con- summate artist in addition to being a rare chemist, Soon the desolation we now see in field and forest will disappear as if by magic. She will bury her dead out of our sight, chanting no requiem as she does so,but singing the while of the joyous exuberant life that is to come‘; for she would not at this time sadden us with even the least note of decay. Then out of the grave of the dead past she will cause to spring up for us ithe tender vegetation and flowers of the ‘ early year. The fields and gardens will smile in their renewed loveliness of youth. And this great workshop of Nature, which we call the earth, will take upon it forms of exquisite and artistic beauty that will drive out of our minds all memory of its desolate and unlovely bareness in the early springtime. But powerful as Nature is, she finds her match when she strives to re- pair the disorder which man creates. She can make the most unkempt landscape look beautiful; but she is impotent when con- fronted with the miscellaneous litter and disorder seen around most country houses at this season of the year. As man is re- sponsible for this unsightliness, often re- pulsive, and always more or less disagree- able. so man alone can remedy it. That so many people of intelligence and culture are content to live in the midst of the litter that accumulates in country places is a standing wonder. There is a lack of , trimness and neatness about the rural home i that is a serious offence to the artistic _ eve. Without taking a long journey one . may see country residences whose grounds are best described at this season of the year . by the word “ frowsy,” if they are not act- - ually unclean, all because no one ever thinks of spendinga few hours in setting things to rights. And how many otherwise frugal , and thrifty farmers there are whose barn- yard and outhouses are an unspeakable ofi'ence, not only to the eye, but to the nostrils, and who, out of sheer shiftlessness, allow valuable implements to remain ex- p_osed to the weather all the year round ! E LL , IA 2‘___- L- 1 We have been speaking of the failure to clean up country places in the spring as an artistic offence; and so indeed it is. But it is often a sin against hygiene as well. Matter that will soon decompose is allowed to remain in close proximity to houses and wells. Puddles of stagnant water are per- mitted to stand until Nature in pity dries them up. Other nuisances not necessary to describe in detail are tolerated apparently without a thought that they may be breed- ers of disease and death. It would be a startling circumstance if the fear of impend- ing cholera should spur our cities to cleanse themselves, so that no danger may be ap. prehended from them, while in the fresh and smiling country the ideal conditions for the propagation of this deadly disease ‘ should be allowed to exist. ‘ A new thing in the surgical world is a. curious brass button recently designed by a. surgeon for the purpose of joining together two ends of an intestine that has been cut. The button cons15ts of two parts, into which an end of the intestine is fastened. When the two parts are pressed together between the thumb and forefinger they are caught by a spring and held in place. Then the intestine grows together, an opening remaining through the button all the time. When it is completely enveloped by- the new tissue nature repairs the ravages of disease so thoroughly that the button be- comes detached by the decomposition of the tissue holding it, and it passes o'fi'. Another recent discovery in surgery is a new needle with an automatic spring eye which disappears when passing through the tissues and reappears when the pressure is- removed. The eye is sprung into a. slot on the concave side of the needle near its point. It is the invention of a. prominent surgeon who aimed to secure a stronger needle with an eye which would carry a. thread without tearing the tissue. :- n A H The constant aim of surgery is to reduce the rate of mortality in certain dangerous operations, and with this object experi- ment is going on all the while. These experiments are often continued for a. long period of time upon the dead body before being once tried on a living subject. This was the case with 9. new operation yhich was tried for the first time in NewYork. This operation, which is just now exciting the attention of the surgical world, is call- ed symphyseotomy, and it is said to be hardly less dangerous than the one for which it was sup- posed to be a. snbstitute. It was intend- ed to take the place of the improved Caesarian operation. Symphyseotomy con- sists of splitting the bones of the pelvis. It was tried twice in Philadelphia since the first operation of the kind in Amerif’a which took place in NewYork,- and it was not followed by any disastrous result. In the record of all the cases here and in Europe since this operation was introduced the mortality is lower than the Caesarian method, and it is hoped it may be perfect- ed so as to dispense with the latter alto- gether. an PA, 11‘ O The protection of the eyes after the per- formance of an operation for cataract is an- other matter to which attention has recent- ly been drawn by guidents happening when these organs'flre in a delicate condi- tion; for at least two w-ecifi after this operation has byen performed it is very nenessary that the eyes should not be touched. With this object in view an oculist has designed a. pair of wire shields to be worn like a pair of spectacles, and to be kept on day and night until all danger of injury is over. Ocuuliéts have recently been trying a. new anaesthetic made from the leaves of the small-leaved cocoa. of Java. It is closely related to atropine, and with it, it is said, the iridectomy can‘be performed painlessly two minutes after putting three drops in the eye. Attention has been called to the decrease in the school population of this province during 1891. According to the educational report Ontario had two thousand less chil- dren of school a e in that year than in the previous year. ' he falling off was entirely in the rural districts. The eleven cities had an aggregate increase of five thousand, and nearly half of this was in Toronto. Therefore the actual decrease of children of school age in the rural districts was seven thousand. flew Triumphs of Surgery. Ontario School Population. Queens Who have leaned and lean In posed. ,J-‘w Princess Mercedes of Spain, who is now in her thirteenth year, and has recently made her first communion, enjoys the alto- gether exceptional distinction for so yaung a girl of being an ex-queen. Her littlI brother, the present King of Spain, wasnot born until over six months after the deutk of his father, the late King Alfonso XIIJ. and during those six months Maria de las Mercedes held the rank of Queen of Spain. On the appearance of her baby brcther she was obliged to step down from the throne and to surrender the title of Queen and of Majesty, assuming in their stead that of the Princess of the Asturias. The title of Prince or Princess of the Asturias is invari- ably borne by the heir apparent to the throne, just in the same way as the title of Prince of Wales is borne by the eldest son of the ruler of Great Britain. v. ~-.. _ .._-_ Princess Mercedes is a very clever little girl, with all the self-possession, the gravi- ty, and the sedateness of a Spaniard. Alone of all the three children of Queen Christina, she hears a striking resemblance to her father. The name she hears is that of the first wife of King Alfonso, who died suddenly after a few months of marriage. It was her successor, Queen Christina, who insisted that her eldest girl should bear the name of the ill-fated Queen Mercedes,which was an act not only of great sagacity, but also of considerable delicacy, all the more praiseworthy from the fact that Kin Al- fonso never made any concealment o the a fact that, whereas his first marriage with his lovely cousin Mercedes had been one of afi'ection, that with the rather homely and unattractive Queen Christina was purely one of policy. - V e . Little Princess Mercedes considers her- self too old now to take part any more in the ramps and game! with her brother, tho‘. mischievous young king, and when shed , ‘ happen to do so she puts on akind of supo â€" ior indulgent air of condescension which is ' very amusing to behold. The principul playmate of the little king is his second sister, the Princess Marie Therese, who is far more full of fun, and who takes out in the games while Mercedes pronienufél §ravely up and down with her Austrian and rish governesses, who each receive a. salary of £600 a year.“ Quite a. long list might be made of Prin- cesses who, like King Alfonso’s little sister, have worn for a. time the crowns of Queens. and have then been forced to lay them aside. Prominent among them is'the still beautiful ex-Queen of Naples, who distinguished her- self so greatly bgher heroic defence of the castle of Gaeta, and who figures in Alfonse Daudet’s novel,“ The Kings in Exile,” un- der the very transparent pseudonym of the “ Queen of Illyria.”_ Like her sister, the Empress of Austria. she is passionately fond of horses, ahd spends a. considerable portion of her time in the saddle. Curiously enough, her hus- band, the ex-King, is never seen on hofsev back, and manifests an antipathy to the equine race, which goes to the extent of rendering him unwilling even to drivefiUp till about twelve months ago the ex-Queen and her husband were in very straitened circumstances indeed, and their silver plate; as well as the Queen’s jewels. have on sev- eral occasions been intrusted to the keeping of the 'great London pawnbroker, Atten- borough, as security for loans that were urgently needed. Last year, however, when the Queen’s mother. the old Duchess Ludo- vica, of Bavaria, died all her other daughter! ‘ renounced their claims to the succession‘in liavour of the ex-Queen, who has thus in- herited almost the entire fortune of the old lady. " Of Empress Eugenie. who reigned for eighteen years over France, and who has now lost throne, husband, and country, it is unnecessary to speak here, as her story is too well known. So, too, is the romantic and sensational career of ex-Queen Natalie, of Servia. A royal lady, however, of whom one hears but little nowadays is the ex- Queen of of Hanover, a white-haired and very stately old dame, who lives all the year round at her son‘s beautiful palace on the shores of the Gmunden Sea, in Austria. It is asserted by those who know her that she constitutes the last 2 remaining obstacle to a reconciliation between her son, the 1Duke of Cumberland, and the Court of i Berlin. At Paris there is ex-Queen Isabella of Spain, who appears to be becoming younger and more pleasure-loving with increasing age, and who is as extravagant as ever, her daughter-in-law, the Queen Regent, being every now and again forced to come to her financial assistance. It was but a few months ago that her financial embarrass- men ts became so critical that it was necessary to reorganize her entire household. to dismiss the leading members thereof. and to intrust its direction to noblemen specially select-ed by the Madrid Government for the purpose. Ex-Queen Isabella and her grand- child, little ex-Queen Mercedes, appear to be the only two sovereigns who do not; manifest traces of regret at the loss of their crowns. Instead of importing yearly five or six hun' dred thousand boxes of sardines, Canada will soon be in a. position to ship unlimited quantities of the delicious little fish abroad. Down in ithe vicinity of Kamouraska Sar- dines are found in great abundance; and un- til recently their commercial valyg was not realized. The fishermen were-in the habit of throwing them away, and so numerous are they that the farmers in that part of Quebec aflqummtly‘ plough them into she ground for manure. Ar. enterprising Que~ becer last year started a. canning, factory. The result of the season’s operations was highly successful. Already three or four hundred hands are employed, and as the , trade develops the number will beincreas- ‘ed. Tl incident- pointsamorsl to Cana- dians. if they realized more fully the natural advantages by which they are surrounded, and showed a little more enterprise in developing them, the country’s prosperity would be assured. One industry that is indigenous will outlive all the tarifi' bred exotics. ~ , was that dehoming was not a» cruel an operation as some had and that it added very consida: 'valusof the animal. . The Ontario Dehoming Commission ap- pointed last year has reported to the Gov emmenn the result of its investigation Al to the propriety of taking rfibe hormfrom domesticated cattle. After carefuljdelib- eration ant} enqufiry the conchfiiofiyzpe to A Sew Industry. if