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Is fine a well as to hold water all ll me. I might be poor fellow a the majestic tree Ind. ant! the king" : sunshine. Then .ell you 'hat. did you say Hi, ‘ you ought thgte’g a. place rhere I can ambiguous )yself whatl can king let him havé 3, who was the ’13, and half the m d‘ied “on". he frightful as the grandest i! lived happily 'days. Court bar of the well and 1!, Hi suppose 9: you know as large enough wahmt from his morning 3" he you know you it here, lots, will keep », and lose no .too will find namgd Mary Jack, and the ole in a. swift 01d- rounds who]: the porter. in'dge. at once a, graph key. The button which President Cleveland touched on Monday in opening the World’s Fair is of solid gold, and resembles a tele- __._L Iâ€" ~77 UNITED STATES. The Second National Bank of Columbia, Tenn., has suspended payment temporar- fly. The cyclone in Oklahoma. killed 90 peo- ple and injured 250. misuemeanants by the Prison Act. The London Times, according to a special cable despatch, says that the British advo- cates at the Behring Sea. arbitration tribu‘ 1131 will not reply to Mr. Carter’s prolong- ed discussion of interesting problems of philosophy and natural history as afiecting seals, which properly belong only to the question of regulations. wrner, or counsel for ‘the United Sinâ€"£3; continued his arguments. In reply to questions put in the House of Commons Home Secretary Asquith said that the privilege: enjoyed by the Dowager Duchess of Sutherland in Holloway gaol were such as were permitted to first-class misdemeanants by the Prison Act. l‘he Behring Sea. Arbitration Tribunal has resumed its session, Lord Hannen, the British arbitrator, being sufficien tly recover- ed from his recent illness to be presen t. Mr. Carter, of counsel for the United States. continued his arguments. his victim. Mrs. Whittle, a resident of Cree Denbigshire, Wales, was bru tally mun by a groom in her employ named Shel who afterwards committed suicide. {I was a liaison between the murderer R‘s “‘4‘:â€" The physicians who have examined the mental condition of Townsend, the man suspected of having designs on Mr. Glad- stone’s life, certify tha‘. he is a. lunatic, and he will probably be sent to an asylum. Dr. Nansen is a hpresent in London mak- ing fins] arrangements for h‘ The wife of Capt. Roberts and the Wife of Chief Officer Wright, of the lost steamer Naronic, have both become insane through despair caused by the loss of their husbands, and have been placed in a lunatic asylum. A large number of residents of U belonging tothe Presbyterian and Uni ' The Queen derived Inge}: benefi recent sojourn in Florence, and sh enjoying perfect health. oer, mostly Swedes, left in the 1dfteruoon for the Canadian Territories. A despatch from Hamilton, 01115., states that the twelve-year-old daughter of Mr. Henry Kelly. of Ancaster, has confessed that she placed the Paris green in her father’s dinner can. Mr. Kelly has suffered a change for the worse, and the doctors fear that he cannot recover. -..e voucr mormng the Canadian Pacific railway sent out from Montreal 8. special with about six hundred English settlers for the N orth-West, and about an equal num- ber, mostly Swedes, left in the afternoon for the Canadian Territories. A despatch from Hamilton, Ont., states that the twelve-year-old danalnfmn A: nâ€" ___ -"u- vu vuv chul‘fl V0 June 14th; The other morning the Canadian railway sentput from_ {Iontreal a. “at. -L--_L vuuuu Lu arsn, a. member “ A ” Battery who was stationed at Fort Henry, Kingston, nt., was so seriously injured by the pre- mature discharge of the thirty.two pounder he had just loaded, that he died shortly after. Mr. Edward Holmes, paper man, has started out for a tramp to Vancouver, B. C. He intends walking twenty miles a day, following the Canadian Pacific railway track, and sleeping at the: station houses at night. On his return to England he intends to write a. book. The first steamer in a steamship service to be established by the Canadian Pacific Rail- way Company between Canada and Austra- lia will leave Sydney, New South Wales, on May 18:h, calling at Brisbane, Queensland, Honolulu, and Victoria, Vancouver Island, and reaching the city of Vancouver on June an English news- Major-Gen. Moore has been the force in Can Ross. Alexander gazetted os co Montgomery mmnnder of ada, to succeed Sir John Rev. DJ. MacDonnell, of 2 been elected president of the Alumni Association of Queen’s Kingston, Ont. Another case at smallpox has appeared in the quarantine station st Winnipeg, Man, and quarantine will consequently be con- tinued for 20 days longer. Mr. G. RR. Cockburn, M. P. for Centre Toronto, has been appointed as one of the honorary commissioners from Canada. to the World’s Fair. Hon. John Carling is prevented from attending owing to ill- health. CANADIAN. The Governor-General, it 18 said will go to Englud until August. ’ not THE WEEK’S NEWS I resident of Cresford, :s, was bru tally murdered emflqypamed Shellard. h benefit from her 5 and she is now voyage Theré 88 one of the ’m Canada. to ’hn Carling is owing to °m Toronto, has ? Theological ! University, At the equator the limi snow is 14,700 feet. The speed of the falcon often exceeds 150 miles an hour. The largest mammoth task yet discover- ed wae sixteen feet. t Vicâ€"f perpetual - n ..- “w". nccu U]. one nuge Mormon temple in Salt Lake City, which was dedicated last wesk, do not lead us to believe that it is a. masterpiece of architec- ture, though thousands of the Utah saints have been engaged in the construction of it during the past forty years, and over five millions of dollars have been spent upon it- Judging from the pictures, it does not pos; sess any feature of artistic merit or interest. it is not majestic or splendid ; it is not graceful; it is not in an ' ' there is nothing of the august or even the grandiose about it; it is merely a huge and clumsy structure, with heavy, awkward, and stultified towers at each end of it. It is not an inspiration to faith ; it is not an expression of spiritual aspiration ; it is not conducive to the worship of the Deity in whose name it has been erected, or provo- _ _ ,H ,-.. «.1- uuuu mu: trov- mce of Podolia stall remains a. dangerous centre from which the disease may spread with the return of warm weather. ,V “'J â€"u. VAVUUo The latest official reports show that cholera. is generally decreasing in Russia owing to the cold weather. A special cablegram from Odessa says that the Prov- ;nnn p.‘ 3-341» t ,,*_v"- 44“.; WG§I prompted to the act of self-destruction by afear that he was losing his eyesight. At a banquetgiven in 111.109?“ the P 1' esi- l of nobles of pre-eminent celebrity for over ’ dent of the wass Itepublxc, in the course . a. space of 400 years, a. remarkable excep- Offiis speech welcoming Emperor William: tion to the chaugeful career of other titles said he was confident that European peace would continue while the German Emperor l of equal antiquity and eminence. It will _ . . be thus seen that the Governor General of fenéamed ”3 power ful guardian and de- I Canada, who will shortly leave for England en er. to take possession of his ancestral halls, is of blue blood of the bluest. The motto‘ places of business have their work seriously i many centuries, seems to have been adopt- ' ' ed in a prophetic spirit. Invariably hon- ease. The death rate continues more than arable, just, bounteous hospitable, valiant fifty per cent. above the average. and munificent; above all, inVariably loyal Dr. F lahaut,of Paris, strongly recommends that family a says Bur 1.“? if} his “ Vicissi- the use of petroleum in diphtheria. A l tudes '°f (’1' eat Families, may perhaps special cable despatch gives the result of a ’ safely challenge. history . and tradition to striking experiment. Out of seventy diph- show one defective link in its long",r chain of theria patients, forty, whose throats were "0995310”; ‘50 PO‘Pt’ at a 5112819 stain" 0f “IF painted with raw petroleum, recovered, purity 0f W5 public °°9du°W or on Its um- while of the other thirty treated by the form exercme of_ the mild and graceful du- ordinary method only twenty survived. ties 0f pr ivate hfe' Baron Poecke, of Vienna, proprietor of the Tourists’ Journal, eiphty years of age, committed suicide‘ by throwing himself from a fourth story window. He was prompted to the act of self-destruction by afear that he was losing his eyesight. At a banquet given in Lucerne the Presi- dent of the Swiss Republic, in the course of his speech welcoming Emperor William. said he was confident that European peace would continue while the German Emperor ! remained its powerful guardian and de- ' Not only the Behring Sea tribunal, but the I courts, post~offices, and public and private I places of business have their work seriously I interfered with by the ravages of the dis- ease. The death rate contm ues more than ' fifty per cent. above the average. Dr. Flahaut,of Paris, strongly recommends A The pictures we have seen of the huge ormou temple in Salt Lake City, which is dedicated last week, d9 not Iced us to 1:13‘713 9L... :L l- 7 The German Emperor and Empress re- ceived a cordial welcome on their arrival at Lucerne, on their way back to Berlin from attending King Humbertfs silver wed- (ling. Russia. is seeking to have the frontier of North Persia rectified in such a. manner as to bring her nearer to Meshed. English in- fluence is opposed to the change. There have been serious May day riots at Marseilles, and the troops had to be called out to assist. the police in dispersing the crowds. liable to fire, an village fires are It has been practically decided that quar- antine in- its ordinary form shall be aban- doned as a. means ofcontrolling cholera in Europe this summer, and the English system of inspection and registration with- out detention will be substituted. The German Social Democrats expect to poll one million more votes at the next general election than they polled in 1890. The abnormal weather in Russia. contin- ues, and the winter wheat crop in the south- ern provinces has been almost destroyed by the cold. _-....w Avyvlu um.» a. general oiodus or German colonists from Russia. to America. has begun. The Navajo Indians inNew I killed eight: white settlers, : trouble is feared. The whites an and troops have been called for: The mammoth Canadian cheese at the ‘ World’s Fair, which weighs 11 tons, fell through the floor of the Agricultural build- ing yesterday and sank deep in to the ground beneath. It is not injured, and will at once he raised to position by machinery. The province of Santiago, in Cuba. has been declared in a. state ef siege. The recent cyclone in Cisco, Texas, was most destructive. There are not more than thirty houses left standing. Already twenty- one bodies have been taken out of the ruins, and there are still some ten or twelve per- sons missing. i --_.....J ans ‘uuucr water, and. the outlook for the crops is very black. Jim Buck and Sam were hanged at Bonham, Texas, yesterday in the presence of 10,000 people, the former for assaulting a. white woman and the latter for murder. Massey, negroes, Mormon Temple. gepprt that The sixteenth Earl; upon whom this ancient title devolved a few days ago, was elected to Parliament at the age of 24, and has held numerous offices in various Con- servative administrations. Although edu- cated at Eton he never took a college career, the lack of which he has on more than one occasion since deplored. He does not appear to have any distinguishing? ability, and the fact that for ten years be- ‘ fore he came to Canada he had been count- ed indispensable to every Conservative social position and his gréat connection. He was an officer in the Grenadier Guards, and up to 1886 wasplain Col. Fred. Stanley. In that year Her Majesty created him a. peer. His wife is Lady Constance Villiers, daughter of the Earl of Clarendon, a Knight I The new Earl’s father was one of the most brilliant representatives of the race and a powerful Parliamentary orator. En- tering Parliament at the early age of 21 he enlarged the scop¢ of his vision by takin a tour through the United States and Cana a, and returned to England to denounce “ the stubb Jrn spirit of Toryism.” of the most ardent supporters of the Re? form Bill in 1831. He was defeated in ' Preston by a Radical on his a pointment as Lord Lieutenant of Irelan under Lord Grey. He held the office duri exciting period of Irish history, great skill and courage. O‘Connell dubbe him “Scorpion Stanley,” and vehemently denounced a coercion bill which Stanley carried through Parliament. The personal encounters between the Irish Liberator and Irish Secretary earned for Stanley the title of the Rupert of Debate, applied to him by Sir Bulwer Lytton. One by one the lords of time advance; Here Stanley meetsâ€"here Stanley scorns the glance ; The brilliant chief irre ularly great. Frank, haughty, ms â€"the Rupert of De- I bate. It was said that O’Connell, the master of the most matchless eloquence ever heard in the House of Commons, had at last found his match in Stanley. THE NEW EARL. a l s l a vuulu UL succession, to point» an a single stain of the purity of its public conduct, or on its uni- form exercise of the mild and graceful du- ties of private life. V - â€"--v wu'fiflmge or the I ,_ __-.- . w. nun ms new, or salut- f former. It shows that the n I ing the Earl of Richmond as king, Richard I the development of which the prosperity of " ’compelled Lord Stanley to lock up thelthe country must come, lies largely on the Countess Margaret and to deliver up Lord ‘ mainland. In concluding the petition ob- Strange, his son, as hostess for his father's fi- l jects to the resources of the provmce being . delity. LordStanley secretly allied his forcs- ' with Richmond’s, but when the main arm~ ’ ies advanced together he held his forces aloof in the dreadful hesitation between :' l his concern for the life of his son and re- 1 prays His Excell l l gard for his honor pledged to Richmond. ment buildings c ‘ At that instant Richard sent this message This petition tohim :â€"“ That he had sworn by God’s stitutional League, ~ death to cut off Strauge’s head if Stanley tallized form of the l did not join him.” Stanley, with Roman 2 receiving su’pporta l spirit, replied that “ he had more sons, and l i would not promise to come to him that ’ movement is grow' \time,” and then rushed into the battle for ' , Richmond. Strange was, however, not lie- l v j headed, but after the battle delivered to m his “then . nonnmc. SHIPS ox THE ROCKS. Lord Stanley placed the crown on Rich- , mond’s head. This was King Henry to Wrecklm: Stilltizaggggo by Bontmen at ; whose mother Stanley was married. For . ,_ . t l . . . his great sex-Vices the king created Stanley ashgrlesslltoLiygg :hllicefinZIIEE-inihdpt.32: i Earl of Derby. . , Table of the Tower, Stanley was wounded and arrested. When Richard was placed on the throne Stanley was raised to the ex- alted dignity of High Constable of England. The Duke of Buckingham having proposed l the plan, which cost him his head, of salut- 3 ing the Earl of Richmond as king, Richard compelled Lord Stanley to lock up the ‘ Countess Margaret and to deliver np Lord 3 Strange, his son, as hostess for his father's fi- " delity. Lord Stanley secretly allied his fores- with Richmond’s, but when the main arm~ ies advanced together he held his forces aloof in the dreadful hesitation between his concern for the life of his son and re- 1' gard for his honor pledged tn moan“: . _._ ....., um. “all. or nicumond, [the King’s father. Her second was Sir fHenry Stafford, son of the Great Duke of Buckingham. \Vhen the royal Margaret married Lord Stanley, to prove that she only wanted a. protector, she took a vow of continency, administered by Bishop Fisher, which document is still extant in Cam- bridge. The splendor of her run]: and vast ‘ fortune raised many competitors for her the “ V. “V _. vvi vuu uu Ullu'llsl'aea With I the command of the right wing of the King’s army on the mvasion of Scotland by the Duke of Gloucester, where he earned Ber- wick by assault and ‘performed service: which gave proof of milltary talents. Stanley continued to use 1n royal favor. He was allowed to marry Margaret of Lan- caster, mother of King Henry VII. , who had become for the second time a. widow, her first husband was the Earl of Richmond. flnn V:â€"...’- £_J_1 r.- uvxng, seven boys and < "atone were]: or a Famous Family. son, who is a lieutenan ' Guards, recently marric Frederick Arthur Stanley, G. C. B., Baron- Duke Of 54311011855813 a1 Stanley of Preston, second son of the four. having royalty grace th teenth Earl of Derb ', has, by the death of 185‘ GIOCtiOB he W88 el his brother, the fifteenth Earl of Derby, the House Of Commons. ,- succeeded to one of the ‘ ' 3 the world, which ranks ‘ precedence and rank in the peerage of Eng- land. British Columbia’s Mall Thomas Stanley, first Earl of Derby, was It. himself ofa distinguished and and ., His successors for three generations had an outgrowth of the late held eminent ofiices ' a petition was put : under the three monarchs of the House of the purpose of obtai ‘ Lancaster, the last of whom, Henry VI., out all the mainland of Lieutenant of The petition is addressed Ireland, and as Lord Chamberlain of the General of Canada, and SEPARATION ‘VAl â€"â€" of Derby was born May 24, in the first year the rural districts, witho of Edward IV., 1461, and wa s summoned political leaning are cryi to parliament by the title of Baron Stanle . y appropriations for work His marriage with the daughter of Richard It quotes the estimates 1 Neville, Earl of Salisbury, whose brother, Legislature at its last as the celebrated Warwick, had placed Edward deficit of $216,000, to b IV. on the throne, introduced him to the borrowed money in order favor of that prince. Warwick afterwards ordinary work of the coun importuned Lord Stanley to join him in that with full knowledge arms against Edward, and received a firm Government, while refusii for necessary works of 0' taken power to borrow $6 unnecessary capitol buih he carried Ber- Government. has: ”and“: Wlhl? her n..-....1A. , n _ â€" Historic Sketch of a Famous 1": His Excegleqcy the Right Honor O’CONNELL’s MATCH. 1: 0y me table of Baron Stanley. 2 with the daughter of Richard [of Salisbury, whose brother, d Warwick, had placed Edward throne, introduced him to the _-_ _ A 1" :, introduéed him to the r. Warwick afterwards Stanley to join him in rd, and received a firm rwards entrusted with right wing of the King’s sion of Scotland by the , where he earned Ber- nd ‘ performed service: . ‘ tred. He does distinguishing '_t9n years he- ouuua 01 me house of of whcm, Henry VI., I Lord Lieutenant of 'd Chamberlain of the ne founder of the house lay 24, in the first year , and was summoned l If the report that the Hamilton Street Car Company was employing drivers and conductors who were not Hamiltonians had not been promptly investigated and found to be utterly false, it seems there might have been serious trouble, Why should persons in one municipality presume to seek employment in another? They should find work in the place where they are born and ‘ raised. Rather lhan enterinto competition I with workers in another city, or even in an- “are required to act, and if Canada. is to be an aggregation of jealous localities instead of one nation the rule should be applied to Canadians. 16115 une. A Vancouver, B. C., telegram says :â€"As ions had an outgrowth of the late political agitation nd court I here, apetition was put in circulation, for House of the purpose of obtaining signatures throughâ€" :nry VI., out all the mainland of British Columbia. enant of The petition is addressed to the Governor- in of the General of Canada, and cites the alleged the house wrongs of the mainland. It shows that all i first year the rural districts, without regard to their Immoned political leaning are crying out for larger Stanley. appropriations for works of development. Richard It quotes the estimates submitted to the brother, Legislature at its last session, ' Edward deficit of $216,000, to be mad m to the borrowed money in order to carry on the :erwards ordinary work of the country. It declares him in that with full knowledge of these facts the l a firm Government, while refusing appropriations for necessary works of development, has ed with taken power to borrow $600,000, to meet e King’s the first estimate of the cost of the new and l by the unnecessary capitol buildings ; that the led Ber- Government has bromisml ”man--- L:__ l A _ -_-..--u. auu men we were happy. Well, I had a cask of sherry Wine out of her,” he went on. “ and _ I got it safe in by the back way, and you i see I’ve a coast-guardsman living on each , side of me. “ But, law bless you, sir, they be just the , same as we. Oh, yes, sir; everything is - supposed to be given up, but everything ‘ isn’t, not by a good way. And when we‘ risk our lives to save the cargo, who has a better right to a share of it than we ?” re was near the Mose}, he said, when she ran full speed upon the rocks, and the sound of it was like a thousand tons of cliff falling into the sea, and such shrieks as never were heard. Might he have stopped her ? haps he might. But a mate of h‘ out at the risk of his life, liner that she was too cl ' backed 06’ and was sav much as a word of thanks, let alone any re- ward, for saving her. “ Another man,” he went on, “ warned a steamer from his boat, and, as I am a living man, they tried to ‘ swamp him for fear the captain would be blamed for his bad sailing.” (U ('1‘ v , H" .. "wu ;ca.l [13.111 WIUD no ‘ sham ’ to it, for when we did knock the tops of the bottles 03‘ all the wine went out at one spurt and we couldn’t; get a, drop. But, at last we got the corks_cre_ws and then won morn Ln“--- 1'" u -. Fâ€" nonnmc sulrs‘ox THE ROCKS. ~ was kept by the agents ‘ and preventiw men, but the next spring a ’ a perfect epidemic of musical instruments ' broke out in every village in the district, proving audibly enough that the light-fin- gered wreckers had been at their tricks all the time. How it is done the rambler in‘ the west country, who can use his eyes and ears, will soon discover; will agree, too, with the remark made the other day in a Western_ village, that people who talked of wrecking as a thing of the pastI knew very little about it. “You see, sir,” said a weather-beaten fisherman, “a great deal drifts out of a wreck, and although there are salvage men always on the watch there’s many a cask and bale that’s picked up by our boats. One man with a long pair of tongs and an- ' er telescope can make a; good thing of it between them. There was i an Italian steamer, now, that went ashore I at Muilion. She was full of fruit and wine and all sorts of thingsâ€"enough for every- body. 1 1 “ There were great cases of champagne ‘ lying about, and the word went round . 1 among our men that it was ‘real ’ pain with 5 1 has not been, for many years, representa- tive of the people of the province; that the Assemby is non-representative to an ex- my I vlulIlUI-IU, wane relusul g appropriations for necessary works of development, has taken power to borrow $600,000, to meet the first estimate of the cost of the new and unnecessary capitol buildings; that the Government has promised consideration to SEPABATION “’AN‘I‘ED BADLY‘ â€"_ British Columbia’s Mainland Panch- ‘of the Garter. They have eight children living, seven boys and one girl. His eldest son, who is a. lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards, recently married a daughter of the Duke of Manchester, and had the honor of having royalty grace the wedding. At the last ele tion lie was elected a member of man 115 was ‘ real ’ pain with for when we did knock the oppcd her ? Well, per- ;t a mate of his who put 3 life, and warned a. big too close in shoreâ€"she luv” 13 now the cry3‘ itation that has bqen expressions of sym- fthe province. The Mainland Peuuons for It. At the equator the average annual min. tall is 100 inches. There are 2,754 languagearrnd dialects now spoken. While the Teutonic, Majestic, New York and Paris have accomplished an average rate of twenty knots across the Atlantic, the Campania and Lucania. are expected to do 23 : but at one bound the Gigantic is to run at the speed of 27 knots an hour on tha ocean, so that the voyage from Queenstown to Sandy Hook will be reduced to about, 100 hours, or just over four days. ,,_ -u' vaI-IU quCl'u. Her dimensions are 700 feet length, 68 feet beam, and 45,000 horsepower. She w111 therefore be 8 feet longer than the Great Eastern, but 15 feet less in breadth. The horse power. of the Great Eastern’s engines, howgyer, was less than 8.000. .I'Yl '1 ~â€" va-vu UuV While the Campania, the 1 now afloat, is 620 feet long. (i and of 30,000 horsepower, the will be longer than the Great Avessel Which Will out-rival the Can- puma. A London ( Eng.) despatch saysâ€"The new Cunarder Campania is soon to have a. rival in the new White Star vessel, designed to be larger, swifter, and'in every way more re- markable. Her builders are making a. great secret of her construction and all informa- tion is withheld. However, it h icaked out that she is to be called the Glgzmric. WHHA 44". n _____ E, A . AN!) mm: HUGE sminsmr. * AVessel Which Will onnriwgl nu , l Beaten from their contention that the b i Behring Sea is a closed sea belonging to the United States, the representatives of that. 1 country before the commission sitting at , Paris are now engaged in trv‘;b to prove that the seal is not a wild animal. They ask, Is a seal in its rative state, and right out in the middle of the Behring Sea, a “fera naturae ” as the lawyers call it-a thoroughgoing Wild animal? An indisput- able answer to this question would, it seems, settle straight away the Behring Sea difi- culty. it is the very kernel of the dispute. Because if a seal in such circumstances be a wild animal, it cannot be anybody’s prop- erty. On the contrary, if it be not a wild ianimal, it is as if it were an ox breaking :loose from a field and swimming out into the middle of Lake Ontario. That the seal is in the position of the ox is what Mr. 1 Carter, United States counsel, is now argu- ing before the Arbitration Court. That the seals are born on United States territory, that they go out to sea for food, and that they then return to United States territory â€"-this is his argument. In short, they are in the position of domestic beasts, and can be rightly claimed as property. But how that can be property which cannot be in- dentified he does not attempt to explain. _- 'vâ€"v- WMLV‘ sustenance left to them by their consort ,,e-e_,-_ v..- I/Ay\u ”culy, UHF he was not; a. leviathan on the ocean of liberality; the mode of assignment of his charities was to such men as we truly wish and recommend and exsuscitate enthusiasti- cally. He used to give monthly to many relics who had no hobbaboy-boy even to support them, and had _no other source of aunt--.__ ‘A V , F vvâ€"v v re us. Such a distinguished man was naturally charitable, and this is the way his eulogist sums up thgt side of his character : “ The Hon’ble Mookerjee did bleed. freely, but BA man “A‘- _ '-â€"3-‘ ram. His wife and children had not the mournful consolation to hear his last words: he remained sotto voce for a few hours and then went to God at about 6 p. m.” Q,__L - J‘, The book of all East Indian books for ex- traordinary English is the memoir of Ouoocooi Chunder Mookerjee, Judge of the High Court of India, published by his nephew shortly after the death of his uncle. We can select only a few gem here and there to show the character and style of this remarkable literary production. The learned Judge was striken with illness while on the bench, and his biographer says : “ All the well-known doctors of Q]- cutta did what they could with their puls- sance and knack of medical knowled 4:, but it proved after all as if to milk t. a ,- _- .. v-â€"-_v‘. “er-vulaumlh India, however, if we may judge from a. number of recent publications on the sub- ject of bobu English, as it is commonly knowu, will have to be awarded the palm ior queer English. The East Indian is am- bitious and is a diligent student, but in many cases he becomes enamored, seeming- ly, of verbal forms and nicet-ies, and uses words to the detriment of ideas. For ex- ample, a student during an examination was required to write an essay upon the horse, which he did in the following sum- mary fashion : “ The horse is a very noble animal, but when irritated he ceases to do so.” Henry George’s “ Progress and Pov- erty” was boiled down by another essayist in this way: “ The rich man welters on crimson velvet, while the poor man snorts on flint.” , _-_ --v_ mv wuv vuc é British Columbians and Californians are familiar with Chinese English, and of late have been made acquainted with the at tempts of the Japanese to master the intrica- cies of English, some of which, by the way, are very amusing. The Ja ane se, it is to be noted, are uniformlypolitefetterwriters, the kitchen boy who desires leave of absence or an increase in his wages approaching the subject with a laviehness of compliment and an extent of circumlocution which would do honor to a trained diplomatist. T-J.‘- L-â€"Afi "' ‘ - procured a book of French colloquial dia- logues, which, with the aid of adictionary, he put word by word into English, though he knew literally nothing of French. Necessarily he carries over bodily idiom after idiom, and as his knowledge of Eng- lish was scarcely greater than his knowledge of French, the jumble and confusion that resulted may be easily imagined. For ex- ample, one of his familiar phrases is: “It must never to laugh of the nnha pies.” and another: “He burns oneself t e brains,” ‘ which any French scholar will recognize at once as literal translations, or rather tra- ductions. The author gives his readers the following humorous anecdote : “One-eyed was laid against a man which had eyes that he saw better than him. The party was accepted, ‘ I have gain over.’ said the one-eyed ; ‘why, I see you twt eyes, and you not look me who one?’ ” dué The Sturdy Slam of Foreigners to Haste! 0m- Icllons and Some Results. The struggles of foreigners with the - lish language have become proverhi , especially since there was given to the world that funniest of all books, “ English As She Is Spoke,” which, as is well known, is a free translation of the free title, which was “The New Guide to Portuguese and English.” The peculiarity of the book was ,1.-- -L:_A WRESTLING WITH ENGLISI‘ A Fine Point. me: long. 65 feet beam, sepower, the new Gigantic n the Great Eastern. are 700 feet length, 68 45,009 horsepower. She N». Am larggsc -r-‘\\A “newly, guy on the ocean of assignment of his m