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Mrs. McLean, thirty-five years of age, and wife of Mr. Kenneth McLean of Wood- stock, Ont., committed, suicide on Thursday night. Chief Justice Johnston, of the Montreal Superior Court, is seriously ill from an at- tack of inflammation of the lungs. Thirteen thousand people have to be pro- vided for in Montreal in connection with the great Christian Endeavor Convention in July. It is again reported in Ottawa Oflicial circles that the Mounted Police and Indian Departments will be amalgamated, with Mr. Fred White, the present Controller of Mounted Police, as Deputy Minister. The St. Andrew’s Society _of Ottawa has appointed a committee to take steps to- wards forming a kilted company in connec- tion with the 43rd Battalion Carleton Rifles. A young woman named Mary Baptist was found dead the other morning in Toronto under suspicious circumstances. The an thor- ities are reticent, but the facts of the case so far as known will be ventilated at a . coroner’s inquest to be held. There has been another death in the small pox hospital at Winnipeg, Man., the victim of the disease being a woman named Eva Adams. Mr. William Sullivan, a resident of Hamilton, and agent for an English carpet warehouse, was suddenly and completely Some years ago he lost the sight of one eye while sufl'ering from an attack of typhoid fever, and the other eye was injuriously affected. deprived of his eyesight Tuesday. ‘3 THE WEEK’S NEWS l assesses. upstream: side the Fair grounds, provided they have paid their entrance fee. Willoughby and Florence ThompSOn, brother and sister, 21 and 19 years of age respectively, were rowing upon the river at Detroit on Sunday afternoon when their at was upset by the swell from a passing steam barge, and both were drowned. ' It is stated that Mr. E. A. Macdonald, of Toronto, has formed a syndicate in New York, to build an aqueduct and canal from, Georgian bay to Toronto. The plan calls for the expenditure of fifty million dollars. Carlyle W. Harris, a medical student, of New York, in February, 1891, poisoned his wife, then a. girl of 19, whom he had secret- ly married, by giving her a capsule contain- ing an overdose of morphine. which he told her was quinine for the cold from which she was suffering. He was brought to trial, found guilty, and was electrocuted at Sing Sing on Monday. _ GENERAL There has been a serious uprising in Nicaragua, and three important- cities have . been captured by the insurgents. Russian cotton spinners boast that they will soon be in a position to dispense with American cotton altogether, drawing their supplies from the trans-Caspian region. The report received in Madrid that the chief Cuban rebels had surrendered is not credited at Key West. The cholera, which appeared some time ago in the workhouse in Quimper, Depart- ment of Finisterrc, France, has now spread through the town. It is stated in Paris that the Siamese have resumed the offensive a. ainst France and it is charged that Englan is support- While returning from a visit to an oculist ing the action of the Government of Siam. he suddenly became completely blind. Courtland Freeman Bridgman deliberate- ly shot his wife three times while they were in a hallway on Beaver Hall hill, Montreal, to the police. The first bullet struck the woman in the shoulder, the second in the forehead, and the third in the hand. The husband and wife had been separated for some time, and the woman had declined Bridgman’s Mrs. Bridgman’s Tuesday. He then gave himself up requesttoreturn to him. wounds are of a serious character. Mr. David McLean was loading glass into a waggon at Hamilton Monday morning, when the horse became frightened and ran McLean jumped from the into the nearest surgery. Blood was pouring from a. cut in his leg, and before it could be staunched away. Mr. waggon and rushed i The French Chamber of Deputies has re- jected the proposition to tax foreigners res- ident in ,France, but has adopted a resolution requiring foreigners living in the country to regist-er. The St. Petersburg Church Messenger says that out of the one thousand pilgrims journeying to Nazareth the majority perish- ed fron‘ exposure during the terrible weath- er encountered on the way. . The destruction by fire is reported of the ' British steamer Khiva off the Arabian coast, with a heavy loss of life of Mohammedan pilgrims. Benjamin Guerra, secretary of the old American League of Cuban Patriots in New ,York, says that the Revolutionary party lWlll be supplied with abundance of money the unfortunate man was so weakened that i from America; but that care WI” be observ- death resulted in a short time. ner of the accident is unknown. Mr. J. H. Turner, Minister of Agricul- The man- ed not to violate international law. From authentic information, it would ap- pear that the Pope is preparing an ency- A CITY 0F PALACES. â€"â€" The World's Fair Buildings and Grounds â€"To the Visitor They Are a Vernnble Dreamlandâ€"The Immense Cost of the Enterpriseâ€"Ontario’s Partvin the ln~ tel-national Display. articles on the World’s Fair, and the thought is echoed by your correspondent. Pages of print would not begin to do justice to the Great White City, nor suflEice for even a bare catalogue of the attractions. It is, in truth, a dreamplace ; marvellous as having become a City of Palaces in two short years, and equally marvellous when we realize that in two years nearly all the beautiful structures Wlll have disappeared, leaving nothing but a memory behind. A mere enumeration of the buildings conveys no idea of the city ; nor does a statistical array of figures give a conception of its vastness. What ordinary mind can realize anything more than an impression of bigness, from the fact that there are 633 acres and 200 buildings included within the walls, including the Midway Plaisaunce; that it has alake frontage of a mile and a. half ; that an expenditure of $40,000,000 on the part of the World’s Fair Company, foreign Governments and Concessionaires is repre- sented, and of at least $250,000,000 on the part of exhibitors. That the exhibitions of Paris, Philadelphia and Vienna could be placed in Jackson Park and still leave a good deal of space ; and that such A STUPENDOUS AGGREGATION of the wealth and progress of the nations has never been gathered together before and probably never will be again in the lifetime of the youngest child now livingâ€"these are true statements, but after all is said, one must see the fair for himself. Therefore it is that I shall be compelled in these letters to confine my attention to my own country and especially“ to my own Province. Canada has been favored by the Directorate in having a choice place in every building,and Ontario’s Commissioner, N. Awrey, M. P. P., has secured for his province the most prominent corner in each court, so that the Premier Province has in Every instance the importance which is its ue. MINERALS. Let us take a look first at the Mineral Department. The importance of Ontario’s mineral resources has long been acknow- ledged, but the vastness of our mineral wealth is only beginning to be realized, and the extensive display made by the Bureau of Mines, and installed now under the superintendence of Mr. David Bayle of Toronto, will be the means of in- troducing it most thoroughly to the world at large. Canadian nickel, being hire in the British Columbia Government, clical to the European powers setting forth I at- the present time a trump card, 30 - - the inevitable crisis to which the crushing who is at present in Ottawa says that the . . Redistribution bill was not passed last military charges °°nflemn them. _ session as, had it‘ been based upon the A Key West SpeCIa-l says preparations census returns, which were notoriously in- l are being made for what looks like an arm- . centre of the Court. correct, it would have been unfair and un- ed expedition from that place to aid the satisfactory. Mr. Frank McLeod. employed in Sickle- with a terrible death the other morning. While endeavoring to shift a belt from a stave-cutting drawn in between the pully and the belt, and he was dragged under the shaft. The arm and shoulder were pulled from his body l and his face was horribly crushed. He lived for an hour after the accident. The Managing Committee of the Mont- real General hospital has refused to grant the petition of a majority of the Governors requesting the Committee of Management to issue to two women students of Bishops’ machine his left arm wasI Cuban insurrectionists. to speak, Mr. Boyle has allotted it the place of honor, and a grand trophy of the mineral in all its stages occupies the There are huge boul ders of nickel ore, lumps of nickel, and a square block of the clear product A special despatch states that it is alleg- l erigl‘iggl 50:11:31 :ogoirpqulidla; filth inglds ’ . ' ed that the olice authoritits of Rome have 0 D,“ e a. ,. ,P “We e a 0Y; go - steels stave mill at McGregor, Ont., met.been subsidized by the proprietors of the I bearing .quality, silver in the rough, and gambling houses to leave them unmolested. I every mineral substance 0f value, With A school teacher of Pilsen, Austria, died l of starvation. Upon his falling ill he had been suspended, and as his salary had amounted to only $130 a. year he had been unable to save anything to pay either for food or medical attendance. It is rumoured that Grand Duke George, second son of the Czar, has fallen in love with a telegraph clerk in the Caucasus, where he is staying for his health, and as he is not expected to live and is determined College permission to walk the hospital, on marrying her, his parents Will not 0P- basing their objection on the ground that there exists no facility for the separate edu- cation of women in the hospital, and that the co-education of the sexes has already been disapproved by the Governors. BRITISH. The strike of the dock labourers at Bris- tol, England, has ended and the men have returned to work unconditionally. pose the match. The German Army Bill was rejected on Saturday In the Reichstag by a vote of 210 to 162. The Emperor immediately dissolv- ed Parliament, and the new elections are ordered for June 15th. There is great exâ€" citement in Berlin over the result. Sir Francis J eune, president of the Eng- lish Court of Probate, has declined to in- terfere in the case of the Dowager Duchess The trustees of Shakespeare’s birthplace 0* Sutherland, whom he committed t0 301‘ report that six thousand Americans visited . IOWBY €301, holding that the matter should Stratford-on-Avon last year. Mr. Gladstone has offered the position of poet laureate, made vacant by the death of Lord Tennyson, to Mr. John Ruskin, the art critic. The fires shipment of Canadian cattle for the season arrived in Liverpool yesterday morning. The commissioners appointed by the British Board of Agriculture are keep- ing the animals apart from all others for inspection. Mr. Michael Davitt, anti-Parnellite mem- tr ber of North-East Cork, who was recently “'vegetable food of the world”: declared a bankrupt, being unable to pay the costs connected with the election con- test in North Meath, has applied for the Chiltern Hundreds. William Townsend, the man supposed to have had intentions of murdering Mr. Gladstone, was again before a. London police magistrate and was remanded,“ the medi- cal oficer was not prepared to pronounce upon the question of his sanity. Late on Saturday night a. dynamite bomb was exploded in the quadrangle of the Four Courts, Dublin. The walls of the court buildings were not injured, and no person was hurt. It is not believed, says aspecial despatch, that the purpose of the persons throwing the bomb was to sacrifice human life, as at night the vicinity of the courts is deserted. UNITED STATES. Large numbers of sailors have deserted from the British warships in New York harbour, likely attracted by the higher pay in the United States navy. The exhibitors in Machinery hall at the World’s Fair complain that they are being . overocharged for power, and some of them threaten to withdraw their exhibits. Miss Frances Willard, the temperance advocate, has entirely collapsed as a result of her years of hard work. She has been ordered to Switzerland for the entire sum- mer. The paid admissions to the Chicago Fair on Saturday did not total fifteen thousand. The Board of Lady Managers have put themselves on record as favouring the open~ ing of the fair on Sundays. About five hundred business places in Milwaukee were closed on Wednesday in observance of Revivalist Mill’s mid-week sabbath. Over five thousand conversions are reported. The President of the World’s Fair has. jbe referred to the Home Secretary for action. A New York Times special is authority for the statement that there will be a great uprising of the Cubans against Spanish rule in the first week of June, and that there are half a million of Cubans in the United States who have enlisted in the movement to free their native country. .‘Hâ€" The Acids of l-‘rults. Mr. George W. Johnson, in his “Chemis- v of the World,” says, in describing the grateful acid of the rhubarb-leaf arises from the malic acid and binoxalate of potash which it contains ; the acidity of the lemon, orange and other species of the genus citrus is caused by the abundance of citric acid' 1500 glass jars, containing which their juice contains ; that of the cherry, plum, apple and pear, from the malic acid in their pulp ; that of gooseber- rice and currants, black, red and white, from amixture of malic and citric acids ; that of the grape from a. mixture of malic and tartaric acids ; that of the mango from citric and a very fugitive essential oil ; that of the tamarind from a mixture of citric, malic and tartaric acids ; the flavour of as- paragus from aspartic acid, found also in the root of the marshmallow, and that of the cucumber from a peculiar poisonous in- gredient called fungin, whichis found in all fungi, and is the cause of the cucumber being ofl‘ensive to some stomachs. It will be observed that rhubarb is the only fruit which contains binoxalate of potash in con- junction with an acid. It is this ingredient which renders this fruit so wholesome at the early commencement of the summer, and this is one of the wise provisions of nut- ure for supplying a blood purifier at a time When it is likely to be most needed. Beet-root owes its nutritious quality to about nine per cent. of sugar which it con- tains, and its flavor to a peculiar substance containing nitrogen mixed with pectic acid. The carrot owes its fattening powers also to sugar and its flavor to a peculiar fatty oil; the horse-radish derives its flavor and blistering power from a volatile acrid oil. The Jerusalem artichoke contains 141} per cent. of sugar and 3 per cent. of inulin (ajvariety of starch), besides gum and a. pe- culiar substance to which its flavour is ow- ing; lastly garlic and the rest of the cult:- family derive their lithographic stone, marble and granite and other building material, many specimens most exquisitely polished, and everything labelled so that the most casual observer can pick up a. good deal of information unassist- ed. The facade, fronting on the main aisle of the mining building and just north of the big coal pyramid, is at once artistic and forceful, the arch being flanked with ten highly polished granite columns, and the corners huge marble pillars. On the north wall is a geological map, 12x18 feet, on which the location of the principal minerals is plainly marked, there being also a. compendium of Ontario’s mining laws, and statistical information, as to population, etc. These and besides several smaller maps and photographs, the entire exhibit being most unique, are al- ready one of the chief attractions of the building. FRUIT AND FLOWERS. It is no small boast that Ontario is the apple orchard of the world, but no other conclusion can be come to, from an inspec- tion of the thousands of plates of fruit that crowd the tables of the Ontario court in the western annex of the horticultural building. These were collections of Mr. A. H. Settel, of Grimsby, Superintendent of the pomological section, from all sections of the Province, and the dis- play may be fairly considered a repre- sentative one, leading fruit growers everywhere having lent their co-operation. The fruit was kept in cool storage here M straw, in ornameuting the central trophy, and the railing, together with corn of some 13 varieties. It is not pretended for a moment that Ontario can compete with Iowa, Kansas, Illinois, or other Western states as a corn growing region, or can at- tempt to vie with them in this extent of their exhibit in this particular line, but in every other cereal, as can be judged from the numerous samples of seed grain in glass bottles, we easily hold our own. The name of the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, appears frequen tly on the trophv,v.nd rightly so, for no institution in America can attract more general attention as a. training school for scientific farmers. The big cheese is just opposite the cereal court, and has- been mounted on its big truck, but this with the dairy cans, and many other fea- tures of interest must wait for another letter. Just a word to intending visitors. The World’s Fair is not completed yet ; prob- ably not more than half the exhibits are fully installed,and no one who can possibly avoid it should come here before the middle of June. at least, as only disappointment can result. C. W. YOUNG.. T W0 BRAVE GIRLS. How Capt. Scott’s Daughters Cheer-ed up the Crew of the Hyderabad. The British ship Hyderabad has just arrived at San F raucisco from Swansea, after a most eventful voyage of 272 days. Capt. D. F. B. Scott had his two daughters with him, and both the young ladies assert that they never want to make a similar trip. This is the Hyderabad’s maiden at- tempt, and Capt. Scott hopes he will never haves. similiar experience while he remains skipper of her. After being launched and fitted out, the Hyderabad was loaded with coal at Swan- sea and started for San Francisco. All went well until Sept. 9, when the ship ran into a storm. The stanchions gave way, boats were smashed, the galley was washed 'overboard, the cabin was flooded, and final- ly the cargo shifted. While the ship was lying on her beam ends the fore-topgallant mast went by the board, and it looked as though the ship was doomed. It was regular Cape Horn weather, and the men were almost dead from cold. In spite of the fact that death was imminent, the Captain’s daughters were not dismay- ed. They made cofl'ee over the coal oil stove in the cabin and served it to the half-frozen men whenever an opportunity occurred. The men assert that many times the young women made their way forward when ladders, pieces of boats, and hen coops were all awash. The gale lasted nearly a week and then contrary winds were met. Capt. Scott was about to give up in despair and start for San Francisco via the Cape of Good Hope, when on Oct. 12 it came on to blow again. All the temporary yards were blown away and almost an entire suit of sails was lost. The weight of water that came thundering on board bent the deck beams and the vessel began to leak. The cargo shifted again and everybody prepared for the worst. A con- ference of the officers was held in the cabin, and it- was decided to make for the Falkland Islands. The men were exhausted by this time and refused to work. Many of them Iwere sick and did not care whether they lived or died. The Captain’s daughters went among them, bound up their wounds, and, with steaming hot codes, into which the Captain put a “ stick ’ on the sly, per- suaded the men to return to duty. Five days later Port Stanley was reached, and for the time the trouble was over. It took one hundred days to repair the ship, and then another start was made. W WEAPONS OF WAR. Some of Those Used in the Days of Our Forefalliers. The Greek pike was 24 feet long. The medireval lance was 18 feet. The standard Roman sword was 22 inches. The helmet of Richard I. weighed 25 pounds. The rabbis say Cain killed Abel with a club. David slew Goliath with a sling-stone B. C. 1053. The cross-bow came into use in the twelfth century. The pulley-drawn crossbow had a range of 40 rods. Projecting engines were first invented by during the winter, and though it was the Greeks. shamefully neglected by the Storage Com- pany, visitors most favorably, and to compel the most flattering compliments from visitors. Besides the natural fruit, there are some everything in Mixed chain and plate armor was used enough was rescued to impress from 1300 tol410. Gustavus Adolphus abolished all armor but a light cuirass. The French infantry were armed with the line of fruit, from the smallest to the the pike until 1640- greatest. These have been preserved in Damascus blades were famous all over the acid solutions which retain the natural world 3-0- 500. appearance, and are most artistically ar- ranged in pyramids and on shelves. intended during the season to have consign- ments of fresh fruit forwarded to Chicago as it is ready so that the exhibit will al- ways be fresh and novel. In the big greenhouse is Ontario’s floral Exhibit, which I have the authority of one of the leading Chicago papers for saying, is the most complete in rare tropical plants of any in the building, and that is saying not a little. The utility of growing palms and ferns and such things may be disputed by cavillers of the utilitarian stamp, but there are rich people whose hobby it is to indulge in such a pastime, and the beauty and luxuriance of these specimens will have its influence in dispelling to some extent the idea that has too long prevailed that Canada is for the most of the year a. land of ice and snow. The display of plants was made up by Messrs. Houston and Ewing of Toronto. The vegetables, of which there is a large quantity, are not yet fully arrayed, owing to vexatious delays of various kinds, but it is expected will be ready for inspection next week. They are in the main horti- cultural building just north of the fruit annex. CEREALS. About a mile to the south of the horti- cultural buildingâ€"distances are long in these quartersâ€"is the ing, in the southeast corner-of which is peculiar odor from a Canada’s cereal court, Ontario occupying yellowish, volatile acrid oil, but they are the north front. agricultural build- The design of the Ontario nutritious of gummy and glutinous substan- section is particularly attractive, the var- ces not yet clearly defined.” ious grains and grasses being used in the Shields were not used in England after It is , the reign of Henry VII. Greek swords were short cut-and-thrust leaf -shaped blades. The crossbows of the fourteenth century weighed fifteen pounds. â€"â€"â€".â€"â€"â€"-â€"-â€"â€"â€" Insane People Cannot Cry. One of the most curious facts connected with madness is the utter absence of tears amid the insane. Whatever the form of madness, tears are conspicuous by their absence, as much in the depression of melancholy or excitement of mania as in the utter apathy of dementia. in a lunatic asylum be discovered in tears it will be found that it is one beginning to recover, or an emotional outbreak in an epileptic who is scarcely truly insane ; while actual insane persons appear to have lost the power of weeping, it is only returning reason which can once more unloose the fountain of their tears. Even when a luna- tic is telling one in fervid language how she has been deprived of her children, or the outrages that have been perpetrated on herself, her eye is never even moist. The ready gush of tears which accompanies the plaint of the sane woman contrasts strangely with the dry-eyed appeal of the talkative lunatic. It would indeed seem that tears give relief to feelings which, when pent up, lead to madness. It is one of the priv- ileges of reason to be able to weep. Amid all the misery of the insane they find no relief in tears. ENGINEERING NEWS. An ingenious method of making weld- less, cold-drawn tubes for machine parts, where strength and accuracy are required, is described in an English technical jour. nal. The steel from which the new tubes are made is of a special quality, and is received from the steel works in the form of sheets, from which flat circular disco are pressed into the form of shallow cups, which are then pressed through dies (it gradually decreasing diameter, until they have assumed the form of a tube of the re quired shape, closed at one end. This and is cut 03 after the final drawing is complet- .. ed. It will be noticed that the process is not unlike that used for drawing cartridges. The tubes produced are any diameter lio- tween 3. sixteenth of an inch and an inch and three-quarters. Street cars are used in a rather novel manner in one city in England. Letter boxes are attached to the cars, and when- ever a person wishes to mail a. letter he has only to stop a car and drop the envelope in its box, for which privilege he is charged 20. The convenience of such a system in suburban districts is apparent, for while the Government is constantly increasing the speed and number of the mail trains there is very little progress in delivering the letters after they have been received or in collectin them for mailing. Another advantage lies in the great ease with which a letter could be mailed in disagreeable weather by a person some distance from a letter box or a post oflice, but living on a street through which cars run. Even the gentle nannie out is forced to aid the engineer down in ew Mexico, if we are to believe recent accounts of the construction of an earth dam 85 feet high and over 1,000feet in length near Santa Fe. This structure was formed by dumping sand and gravel and leveling it off into 3- 1nch layers by dragging a beam over it, then sprinkling the to with .water, and finally, keeping a herd of. 115 goats in motion over the top. When the animals were first put to work they tired easily and were able to stand it but a part of the day. They were fed for a few days on peas and hay, which brought them into good spirits, and were afterward able to run about all day. Goat; have often been used for such a purpose in India, but this is probably the first dam that has been consolidated in this manner in the United States. One of the interesting features in the design of many new locomotives is the in- creased length given to the ports through which steam enters the cylinder. When an engine is running at the rate of fifty miles an hour the time that is given to the steam to pass in and out of the cylinder is very little, and it needs all the opening it can get in order to flow in the proper manner. For some unexplained reason many design- ers of locomotives have been opposed to making these ports as large as could easily be done, but recently the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway has increased the length of ports of a. number of engines from 18 and 19 to 23 inches, and the Big 3F our road has placed nearly forty locomo- tives in service with ports of 23 inches in It ngth. The system of oiling the engines of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Rail- way is to allow so much oil to so many miles for passenger, freight, switch and work 10- comotives, making a distinction between the difl'erent classes. From thirty to thirty- Jfive miles to a pint of lubricating oil and from 100 to 125 miles to a pint of cylinder oil is considered good service for large pas- senger engines on heavy trains. For con- solidation freight engines twenty-five miles to a pint of lubricating oil and seventy-five to 100 miles to a. pint of cylinder oil is con- sidered good service, and for switch engines forty-five to fifty miles to a pint of lubri- cating oil and 125 to 150 miles to a pint of cylinder oil. These figures represent good average practice, but they are frequently exceeded with light trains, there being a record of a light passenger locomotive run- ning 200 miles with but a pint of cylinder oil. One of the convenient uses to which elec- tricity is being applied is in the operation of traveling and stationary cranes. Before its use for such a purpose the driving, in any convenient and practical manner, of this kind of machinery was a puzzling prob- lem. Rope drives and square shafting were extensively introduced and fulfilled the requirements, but there was always a feeliu that something better could be de- signe . Electricity has been used with . much success, however, on traveling cranes and it now is being introduced for jib and other stationary cranes. For the latter purpose the motors are made of special form and drive the hoists throughout spur gear: The motors are of a slow-speed type, which can be reversed or driven at variable speeds by the man in charge. It was a more difi- cult problem to fit electric apparatus to a jib crane than a. traveler, and the fact that it has been done successfully several times is encouraging. â€"â€"â€"â€"_.____ A Tree Started In Ills Stomach. A Trimble, Tenn., dispatch says :â€"A strange case is puzzling local medical prae~ titioners, and the most prominent of the fraternity from Memphis and Nashville. John Henry Leake, a stalwart negro living on the plantation of R. L. Strong, a week or two since ate a lemon and swallowed one of the seeds, which, it seems, lodged in his stomach, and, attractingto it a certain pro- portion of the food subsequently eaten by him, was soon surrounded by a clot or mass of matter which gradually grew larger. After a short time Leake began to suffer ~with acute pains in the region of his stom- ach, and applied to a physician, who diag. nosed his trouble as indigestion and pro ,ceeded to treat him for it. If a-patient 4 I But the pains increased and it soon be- came a matter of impossibility for the suf- ferer to retain any food except such as was administered in a liquid form, and the doc- tor began to suspect that the cause of the trouble lay beyond the ordin- ary phases of indigestion, and declared an operation necessary. It was with difficulty that Leake was prevailed on to submit to this, but he finally consented. The surgeons thoroughly explored the abdomen and intestines, but without find- ing any disturbing object, though it was ob- served that the stomach was distended to nearly twice its normal size. Leake finally died in great agony, with repeated efforts to vomit, which continued until death ensued. A post-mortem examination revealed tho fact that the seed had sprouted from the mass surrounding it, and, putting out shoots, had actually attacked the walls of the stomach as a creeping plant does a walk 6‘04 gap-.. Alia, ~ ‘ a- ,. rhfip, a wkw‘ ..= to uvfimwww ,7. . \ ".01.?! .) mafia,“ . l, I, , J I A. ..,~-.gm:¢.ww \ 73‘3"," o». .3 . w, ' -"5' I!‘ v ‘ s ginger“