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hdayfthe Boar‘suddenly havé way, and one .hundred persima were precipitated into the A daughter of Prof. Briggs, of Union Theological Seminary, has resolved to enter the New York Training School for Deacon- -esses, in connection with the Episcopal Church. There was a. heavy fall of earth at the Mansfield mine, near Crystal Falls, Mich., the other morning, by which forty-five men were entombed with no hope of their being rescued; A heavy storm which struck New Or- leans on Sunday night. caused a. serious loss of life, twenty-four deaths being already re- ported, and an immense destrnction of prop- erty in the city and surrounding country. While funeral services were proceeding in a. private house in Ripon, Wis. , on Satur- All the awards for the department of elec- tricity in the \Vorld’s‘ Eairhave been hand- ed in. American exhibitors captured nearly all the medals, their only competitors in the field being Germans. " The Johns-Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, to which Miss Mary Garrett contributed three hundred thousand dollars on condition that women shall be admitted to all its courses, was opened on Monday. Thirteen hundred coal miners went ‘itrike in Springfield, 111., on Monday. In the Cave of the Winds, Niagara. Falls, the other morning, Clad in waterproof gar- ments, Miés Weller, cf Alleghany Qity, Pm, was married to Mr. Walter S. Stewart, of Plttsburg, Pa. The distress among the striking English coal miners and their ’amilies is so intense that the Mayors of the towns principally affect- ed will meet‘. in convention to devise some means of bringing about. a. settlement be- tween the mine owners and the miners. Because Milo \VilSon, a labourer of \Viii- iamsburg. Ohio, could not marry an attrac- tive girl at eleven years of age, he shot her on Thursday evening, inflicting a. fatal wozmd. » Miners returning to work yesterday in the Coventry district of Warwiekshire were attacked by striking miners and were used with such violence that they were in« 'timidated from going into the pits. Canadian exhibitors of fruit at the World’s Fair were awarded a large number of prizes \Vork was resumed in the collieries at Polton, Lancashire, Monday morning, and six thousand of the miners in Yorkshire, who went on strike on J uly 25, also resum- ed work yesterday morumg. \Vhile the battleship Nelson was leaving Portsmouth, where she has been undergoing repairs, she came into collision yesterday with a. steam dredge, and was badly in- jut-ed. Gen. Sir Evelyn \Vood has been azetted as quartermaster-general of the fm perm! forces, to succeed Sir R. Bipddul hp who has been appointed Governor of Gibraltar. AI: a. meeting of the Miners’ Federation at Chesterfield, Derb yshire, it was decided to refuse to meet the mine owuers to discuss the proposed reduction at wages. It is thought among Scotch cattle men that the continued absence of disease in Canada among cattle wiI} lead to their free entry next spring. CANADIAN. The Quebec Legislature will be summon- ‘ad to meat on November 9th. Steps are being taken in Hamilton to establish a free dispensary for the benefit of the sick poor. M. Emile Zola. has contributed the sum of fifty fr. to the fund for the relief of the atriking miners of England. Sir Stephenson Blackwood, secretary of the Imperial Post-Office Department, and cousin of Lord Dufi'erin, died on Monday night. Edward Beauvais, a. prominent resident of Rouville, who owns a large farm. on Saturday discharged 3. family namei Grail- lon, who had been working on the farm, and on Monday morning the family, con- sisting of father, mother, two daughters, and Seven boys, attacked him with knives and clubs, leaving him at the point of death. The VVoman’s Medical College of Kings:- ston has ceased to e ' “‘ ~ The board of trustees have decided as there are not aaufficient number of students to supply the three schoo!s of Toronto, Montreal, and Kingston, they will abandon the field, rec- mmending the Kingston students to com- plete their course in Toronto. TEE WEEK’S NEWS According to Mr. Hector Fabre, Cana- dian Commissioner in Paris, four settle- ments of French people have already been founded in the N nth-went through the exertions of the “ Societe Fonciere du Can- Mrs. Michael J. Daly, an American wom~ an, from Waterbury, Conn., 13 at present confined in Longue Poime lunatic asylum. She claims that she is same , and that. her husband had her wrongfully confined. The case is beiore the courts. Dr. Olmstead, medical superintendent of the Baniilton City hospital, tendered his resignation last night to the Hospital Com- mittee, and it was accepted. Dr Olmstend goes to Philadelphia to fill the position of assistant lecturer on bacteriology in the University of Pennsylvania. The success of the recent Victoria. and New South Wales loans in London has in- duced the Province of British Columbia. to announce the issue of £123,700 three per cent. inscribed stock at ninety-one. The Hamilton Customs returns for Sep- tember show a decrease of more than eieven thousand dollars as compared with the cor- responding month last year. The shipments of new wheat received so far by we Canadian Pecific railway in Manitoba. show the largest total in the his- tory of the company at this season of the Mr. Thomas Kilvington, of Hamilton, has been appointed to take charge of the Ontario horticultural exhibit. at the VVorld’s Fair. Two Ontario exhibitors succeeded on Saturday at the World’s Fair in sweeping otf nearly the entire list of prizes awarded for Dorset Horn sheep, in the face of the heme“ competitxon. UNIT ED STATES. BRITISH. It; is only the women who can lawfully hold up a. train. Alexander had four kinds of cavalryâ€"the outaphraeti, or heavy armed horse; the lgght cavalry, carrying spears and very nght armor : the acrobalistae, or mounted archers, used for outposts, patrols and re- connoitering duty; and the dimachoe, or {troops expected to act; either as cavalry or mtantry. to be more than a. mile deciaer than the surrounding ocean, making the depth of the Atlantic at those points not less than four and a. quarter miles, or about 3,875 f athoms. ” well determined. Scarcefy any portion of its floor has a. depth exceeding 3,000 fath- oms, or about three and a. quarter miles. There is a remarkable exception to this last statement, however, in a. wonderful sink or depression lying about, 100 miles north of St. Thomas, on island off the coast of Africa. in the gulf of Guinea. The out- lines of this depression are similar to those of an old-time river bed. The Challenger expeiition traced its meanderings for up- ward of 1,000 miles, finding portions of it to be more than a. mile deeper than the surrounding ocean, making the depth of The floor of the Atlantic ocean is now al- most as well known to the experts of the hydrographic bureaus of the would as the surface is to the most experienced naviga- tors. Its depths, currents, tides, etc., have been carefully and systematically studied from ’(a‘rreenland and Spitzbergen to the great ice barrlers of the Antarctic circle. I recently wrote Prof. Forbes for some re- liable data. on ocean depths, and quote be- low from a portion of his reply: “The general contour of the Atlantic’s undulat- ing bed may now ~be regarded as pretty M. de Giers, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs. has informed the 'Govern- ments of Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Italy that the visit of the Russian squadron to Toulon will be simply a. response to the visit of the French fleet at Croustadt, and that no political importance must be at- tached to the incident. Prince Bismarck’s condition has again become very serious. He has suffered a slight. attack of paralysis of the right side, and his present illness is accompanied by an entire failure of his appetite. It is in- tended to remove him from Kissingen to Friedrichsruhe to-morrow. By the order of the Sultan, the residence of Fund Pasha. wm recently searched for dynamite, which it was charged he was storing for the use of Armeman conspira- tors. None was fo 1nd, and Faud Pasha. is so indignant the at b: will leave the country. The Spanish troops in occupation of Melillai Morocco, were attacked by a mob of natives on Monday, and after some severe fighting, in which eighteen Spanish soldiers were killed, they were driven back into the citadel, where they are now being besieged by the Moors. Immediately after the discovery a. few days ago of the Adarchist conspiracy in Vienna, many men known to be members of the organization hastily left; the city, and the exodus appears to still continue. Sixty-nine Austrians, who are charged with connection with the antxdyuastxcafifir on the occasion of the Emperor’s birthday, will be tried for high reason. It. is stated in Montevideo that President Peixoto, of Brazil, has under his command in R20 Jaueiro five thousand well-armed troops, all of whom are loyal to him. Unsuccessful efforts have been made in London and Berlin to float an Italian loan of one hundred and twenty million dollars. Mr. Wyndham, British Minister to Bra.- zii, is endeavouring to bring about. a. cessa- tion of hostilities Between Admiral Mello and the loyal party. Georgé S. Muller, the explorer sent out by the Government. on a scientific expedi- tion, has been murdered in Madagascar. It IS rumoured that France will give Rus- sia. fox 9. coaling station the island of Samil, in the Gulf of Siam. The Golden Dragon, a. resort. of Rhine tourists near the Drachefels, in Germany, collapsed killing several persons. Thousands of coal miners are work to join the strikers in the ( and Borinage districts of Brussels. A warrant has been issued in Bufl'alo for the arrest on a. charge of larceny of Jennie McIlroy, the Canadian Girl for whose ab- duction Mrs. McKinley is now in gaol ; but Inspector De Barry refuses to surrender her, on the grounds that she is in the charge of the United States, and that the local author! ties could not get her until the Govern- ment’s case was completed. The Russian fleet which is shortly to visit France will first rendezvous in Cadiz. The striking miners of Lens, France, had to be dispersed by military force on Satur- day. Justice John M. Harian, of the United States Supreme Court, and one of the ar- bitrators of the Behring Sea. tribumi, gives it as his opinion that any future diifi culties between England and the United States will be settled, Without the intervention of strangers, by a. committee composed of an equal number of judges of the highest courts of both countries. Some days ago it was discovered that Jesse Pomeroy, the boy murderer of twenty years ago, who is serving a life sentence in solitary confinement in the Massachusetts State prison, had an iron bar, a. rasp, and a piece of tempered steel, with which he was to remove the mortar in which the stones of his cell were laid. At the live stock show at the World's Fair Ontario breeders again came prominent- ly to the front and secured the majority of the prizes in the Southdown sheep classes, against keen competition with a large num- ber of United States breeders. cellar. About twenty were seriously and one fatally injure¢ The fight of the saloon-keepers of Min- nesota. to secure recognition by the Knights of, Pythias has ended in defeat. At the meeting of the Supreme Court, held in St. Paul, the liquor men were forbidden to enter the order by a. vote of 31 to 10. Mr. George \V. Childs, of Philadelphia, has given to the city of Chicago his exposi- tion collection of rare plants, valued at ten thousand dollars, which with the Drexel collection will form the nucleus for the per- manent gardens to be established in Jackson park. Four and :1 Quarter Miles Deep. GENERAL. coal miners are quitting strikers in the Cuarlemi The distribution was varied, enlivened and diversified by more eating and the further giving of money. Captain John, pleased, with the plaudits of his numerous friends, continued to impoverish himself, until every blanket, every scrap and piece of cloth and every dollar he had was gone. The feasting over, the more serious work of the potlatch began. Bolts of blankets, bolts of many-colored flannels, loads of calico prints, HUNDREDS OF FLAMING COI‘TON HAXDKER- 'cumrs were opened up and brought before Captain John by his perspiring young bucks. Strip- ped to the waist, with a red blanket cover- ing his lower limbs, Captain John stood forth, his face artistically painted in blue and red. In a. loud and consequential voice he called the names of those for whom he had expended his coin, and as they came forward and received from his hands their presents the assembled multitnde would shout: out their approval of the giver’s generosity and his prowess of “hyas tyhee’,” which, being translated, means a. “big chief.” ' THE DAY OF THE POTLATCE arrived. It took place on the Tatoosh is!- and. On the evening previous the guests of Captain John began to arrive. They came in a fleet and in their big canoes cap- ’ableofholdingfrom 15 to 50 Indians. As they came near the beach their paddles stopped and they sang in a sort of chant an Indian stnry, the women taking no part in the dis- course. It was not unmusical, and coming over the water in the falling shadows of the evening, mellowed , by distance and mingling with the gentle swell which little more than rippled on the beach, was wild and mournful. This ceremonial over, they came ashore and mingled together about the carnp._ On the following morning the feast be~ gen. Large quantities of brown sugar, kegs of syrup, hard tack and crackers were forthcoming and were carried out above high water on the beach. The syrup and sugar were poured into two canoes about 15 feet in length, the boxes of hard bread were Opened and the feast began. Dried halibut and other fish made up the menu, upon which the natives turned themselves loose with unlimited confidence and the utmost enthusiasm. Little and big, old and young, attacked the provender, and the noise and confusxon of the feast could he heard even above the tumult, which is an inseparable adjunct to every Indian and Indian camp. It is told how one Indian, who rejoiced in the highly euphonious native name of Phuipok-eok-sat, but who was for short called plain Capt. John Smith by the whites, and who was known to have a. large sum of money, announced that he would give every cent; of it away. No meaner Indian ever lived, but he suddenly leaped into greater prominence among his fellow-citizens than a. local political boss who has a. half-dozen offices to give out. V The indian who thus seeks the utmost depth of poverty from the height of opu- lence immediately becomes an object of the utmost importance, and the loving atten- tion shown him can only be likened to the sympathetic regard heaped upon a. young woman who is soon to be married by her immediate girl friends. In past yEars. which were certainly the “good old days” for the aborigine, the cere- money of “ potlatch" flourished in all its primeval exuberance. Then every Indian was opulent in the things he most desired, plenty of grub, plenty of skins, plenty of ornaments. Then, indeed, was “potlatch” a mighty feast. It consisted of a sort of Indian ioveieast, camp-meeting and barbecue com- bined,with the important addition that the giver’s generosity, entirely voluntary, went beyond mere feasting and lavished all sorts of presents upon those who were call- ed to his Wigwam. The diligence exercised in giving away the fortune which perhaps he had been four or five years hoarding up was only equalled by the miserly qualities and thieving proclivities which he had em- ployed in amassing his fortune. $6,000 GIVEN AWAY. Pioneers on the coast have seen a single Indian sub-chief give aiVay absolutely and forever, in a three days’ potlatch, $6,000 in coin or its equivalent. When the victim of this species of insanity has once determined to impoverish himself he sends out invita- tions to all his friends up and down the coast 30 or 40 miles advising them of his intention. The invitations are not elabor- ate, neither are they urgent. They don’t have tobc. The knowledge thata “potlatch” is to be given is quite sufficient. For it means to the invited participants a royal good time, an abundance to eat fora day at least, the probability of getting new blankets, dollars in silver, and perhaps a good canoe, or fishing and hunting tackle. One of the most peculiar customs of the Indians of British Columbia is knowu as “ potlatch.” This is an Indian word, and there is nothing in English which fits it. It is a. custom which finds its source and main- spring in the desire for notoriety, which ex- ists in greater or less development among all classes of people. The oldest inhabitant or earliest pioneer in the extreme North-west. found the potlatch an established custom among the natives upon his arrival here, and it is still adhered to whenever, as rarely happens in these days, an Indian chances to hoard up enough of those good things of this life as consti- tute wealth to the aborigine. In the past it frequently heppened that Indians would become rich along the Pacific coast through killing seals and those were the days when “ potlatch ” flourished in its grandest bounty. ’ ANNOYS THE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALSX In the present day the survival of the custom is noted in various habits that exas- perate to the utmost degree the mounted police and the officials of the Canadian Government. Suppose an Indian gets a big ration of beef from the Government or has good luck in hunting, does he take his food supply home and stow it away for future consumption like a white man would? Oh! no! he distributes it throughout the village, and has a gorge himself and then starves until he draws next week’s rations or has some more good luck. The Red Man Likes to Impovefish flim- self. INDIAN PDTLATGH. Scatters Riches In a hay. The gold fields of the Transvaal repub- lic, in South Africa, yielded over 136,000 ounces in August, which is the largest prod- not yet recorded in any one month. In round figures a year’s output at the same rate would be worth $32,500,000, which is about equal to the annual production of gold in either the United States or Aus- tralia. In the countries last named, how- ever, the gold yield is about stationary, whereas it is rapidly increasing year by year in South Africa. If the Transvaal mines produce $30,000,000 in 1893 there Will be $40,000,000 worth of gold mined in 1894 in all probability. Where the top limit will be reached can hardly be guessed. Good judges say that hundreds of square miles of territory are underlaid with gold- bearing rock and that the total yield of the region will not fall below $1,500,000,- A visitor at the fort in 1866 was assured of the reality of these manifestations, which remained Without explanation, as Jones had retired from the post and carried his secret with him. The same visitor, While waiting the return of the officer then commanding, had the curiosity to look through a. little library which in the course of years had accumulated in the commander’s quarters. Among the worn novels and less dilapidat- ed volumes of Scotch theology of which the collection was made up was a. copy of Dr. Johnson’s account of the extraordinary istory of the Cock Line ghost. “By hivms. sor, Oi nivver notussed whether it hit ’im in the rotunda or not.” “ But the man was shot in the Rotunda we are told.” --------- rvvv’ vvv-n ‘1' Vlulvlué nuutaua. When spring came the bateaux started as usual for La Pierre’s house with the bales of furs, Jones commanding the party. At the nightly bivouac, to the astonishment of the voyagers, the noises continued. The man who slept in the boat as a sort of guide reported that he heard raps and a. curious scratching on the mast. Men who slept around the campfire ashore declared that they heard Jones talking 1n the night to some one who answered in avoice unknown to any of the party. On meeting the party from Fort Macpherson at the portage the voyagers naturally compared notes, and the doings of Jones’ familiar were soon discuss- ed by every campfire and at every trading post throughout’the Northwest territory: “ You were Present when the man wag snot _were you? “ Oi wuz', sor. Pat. In a. recent Irish shooting case counsel asked a. witness : Extraordinary Manucstations in the Arc- tic Regions Some Thirty Years Ago. Apropos of the recent revival of interest in the Cook Lane ghost and the possible verity of ‘ its manifesrations it may be worth while to put on record certain events Whlch took place in the early ’60’s at Fort Yukon, the outermost post of the Hudson Bay company, in Alaska, north of the Arctic circle. At this lonely fort half a dozen from the northern isles of Scotland traded for furs under the command of Strachan Jones, post trader of the com~ pany. Once a. year a. party ascended the Hat river and crossed to La Pierre’s house, at the head of navigation on the Porcupine river, bringing a supply of trading goods, one sack of flour, and a. little tea and sugar for the commander, with the mail of the last six months, and receiving in exchange the bales of furs which had been purchased during the preVious twelve months. The bateaux from the fort then returned down stream with the goods. In midwinter a courier on snowshoes brought the half- yearly instructions from the chief factor at York factory. At other times the little community vegetated among the tundra, or was busied with the hunting and trade ‘ which supplied the business and subsistence ‘ of the post. About a year after Jones relieved his predecessor strange rumors prevailed among the residents at the fort. Singular noises were heard during the still arctic night. Raps on the door were re- sponded to, but, the door being opened, there was no one there. Utensils hung on the walls of the log huts in which the com- pany’s servants lived fell down or “'ch moved when nobody was near them. Jones had a house to himself as commander, and around this house the uncanny doing 3 seemed to concentrate. J ones himself preserved a dignified silence, or professed ignorance of anything out of the common. But in spite of this the noise and turmoil continued, and were experienced by every one at the post, even by visiting Indians. . (V1 APROPOS OF THE (KICK LANE GHOST. White trappers have seen an aged In- dian woman taken by her able~bodied son out of a. warm corner in the hut, her blanket removed and she placed in an exposed posi- tion astride the houseâ€"left there to die of cold. In this particular case the woman“ was blind and deaf, and her hair was grey. She was thus turned out in a snowstorm al- most naked for the express purpose of caus- ing her immediate death. And this treat- ment is not objected to by the victim, who with the stoic and stolid indifl‘erence of the Indian race, takes his fate as a matter of course, without complaint or resentment. â€"[Empire. ‘ When the syrup and sugar, the jerks ’ halibut and the hardback were all gone the Indians dispersed in all directions, leaving the rich Indian of yesterday without one solitary piece of property or thing of value to-day. He then gave away his canoesâ€"he had szveralâ€"gave away all his seal-hunting out- fit, cleaned out his stock of personal clothe- ing, and finally removed the solitary blan- ket remaining, flung it, to the crowd and stood before them naked. This last act was the signal for a singular chant by those present, who joined hands and, dancing, circled about Captain John. .--. IT IS A SINGULAR PARADOX in native character, and is not easy of solu- tion. ‘Some Indians have another custom which excites strange speculation. 'lhey are‘ devoted to their children. They will endure any hardship, any danger to care for them. This feeling of parental afi‘ection remains strong until the child becomes a man and has a family of his own. Then solicitude gives way to indifference and utter disregard, which, as time goes on, be- comes absolutely barbaric. When the par- ents become old they are literally permitted to starve. Gold in South Africa. Oonflicting Evidence- It wu‘Z in the park,“ saii He Was a War-'rlor Bold. and at Austen-lit: Saved 3 Standard. The story of a dog of France is toldâ€"a dog who became one of the most loved of all the followers of Napoleon. He was a shaggy dog, whom the soldiers called M us. tache, and who, casting his lot with that of the army, had followed it into Italy. Scarcely had the army reached Alexandria when Mustache Warned his comrades of a night attack, his timely waking saving. per- haps, the army. In return the dog’s name was inscribed on the roll book of his com- pany. From that day the was entitled to draw rationsâ€"a grenadier’s portion daily. Moreover,the regiment’s barber was ordered to comb Mustache at least once a week. It was not a. sinecure for the barber, for not a member of the regiment was a greater fighter than the dog. Once he was wounded in the shoulder by a bayonet thrust, and once, in the battle of Marengo, he lost an car. But every wound was dressed by the company’s surgeon, and every new cannonading put Mustache on his feet. Some years elapse, and then the dog reappears at Austerlitz. He was in the midst ot the fight. The company was hard pressed, and the standard bearer was lei t aloneâ€"With Mustacheâ€"among the dead and dying. The Austrians were charg- ing and at a shot the stardard bearer fell. The dog and the flag were left behind to gether. Seizing the tattered shred of tri- color in his teeth, Mustache started across the field. Leaping from the very feet of the foe, who thought they had gained the prize. on through shot, and cannon roar, and smoke, he sped until he reached the French lines, and dropped at his comrades’ feet the blood-stained rag. He lifted a. broken paw, and the regimental surgeon set it: and the Mareshal Lannes with his own hands, they say, fastened a medal around the hero’s neck. And then, they say, as Mustache limped proudly down the line all the soldiers presented arms as though he had received promotion in rank, or the cross of the Legion of Honor 1 There were other campaigns after this, and in 1811 Mustache died in the field, pierced through the heart by a bullet. British colonies, which bwncd 1,859 sailing vessels, having a total capacity, of 782,821 tons. Then came Germany, with 1,005 vessels of 614,921 tons ; Italy, with 1,173, possessing a gross tonnage of 50!,643 ; ‘ Sweden, with 960 vessels of 288,751 tons; Russia, with 947, of 276,706 tons ; and lastly, France, which possesses only 678 sailing vessels, with a gross tonnage of 203,- 909. The sailing marines of Spain and Holland, which were once the largest in the world, are no longer worth mentioning. As regards the waste of shipping during the last year. the returns published by Lloyd’s Register are less favorable to the United States than to three other of the chief maritime nations. Comprehending both steam and sailing ships in the calcu- lation, we find that in 1892, the percentage of vessels lost by the United Kingdom was 2.59 ; by Italy, 2.79, and by Germany 3.46. The percentage of vessels lost by the United States was 3.82; by the British colonies, 3.88; by Norway, 4.47, and by France, 5.29. For a better exhibition than that made by the United Kingdom we have to go to the smaller maritime powers, among which we observe that Russia. lost but 1.25 of her vessels, and Spain only 1.82. The remarkable immunity of Russian ships from loss is due apparently to the fact that a. considerable number of Russian ports are closed during the winter, Which is conspic- uously the wreck season; ' Love is said to be blind, but it usually gets there ahead of the old man just the same. Pessimistâ€" “ Don' (3 van wish you'd new: been born. ’_” Book agentâ€"‘f No; I let W Other people do that for me.” Barberâ€"“ Do you want a. haircut 2” Vic- timâ€"“ Not only one, but all of them.” “ Well, Anna, have you fouzid the r' ‘ for my hatr yet ‘3” “Yes, madam; 12:: now I cannot find the hair." Solemn strangerâ€"“A11 flesh is g: Deaf manâ€"“ Hey?’ Solemn strung “ No, grass.” Summer vacations have entirely stopped and there is noticeable a. falling ofl’ in the autumn leaves. Mrs. Brown-Jonesâ€"‘f So he married you c after all ? ’ Mfg. Brown Smithâ€"“ Yes, afber all I hadâ€", but he didn’ 1: get it. ” \Villie Keepâ€"“I was once very “ragga tempted to blow out my bwains.” Knoxâ€"“ Did you do it ‘2” . u _, “v-Wâ€" ~'--rr‘â€" ' Passing to sailing vessels we find the United Kingdom still at the head, but not quite maintaining the superiority which she possesses with regard to steam vessels. Premising that the term sailing marine does not for the purpose of t’ ese statistics include small craft of under 100 tons, we may mention that in 1892 Great Britain and Ireland had 3,255 sailing vessels pos- sessing an aggregate capacity of over two and a. halt million tons. The United States came next, being pretty close in re- spect of numbers, though not in that of aggregate capacity; Norway is next, the figures being 2,818 ships, with a tonnage of 1,346,212. The fourth place is occupied got by: any European power, but by the MERCHANT NAMES 0F THE WGELD Great Britain basis, With Germany Sec- ond- According to Lloyd’s Register, the highest authority on marine matters, the United Kingdom had last year 6,035 steam vessels, with an aggregated capacity of 8,601,679 tons. Germany stood next, the figures for that country being 846, with a. total tonnage of 1,088,830. It will surprise many persons to learn that, in respect of numbers, the British colonies own a steam fleet exactly equal to that of Germany; the gross tonnage, however, is less than halé'as great, being only 515,204. As regards tcno nage, France ranks next to Germany, her 532 steam vessels having an aggregate ton- nage of 853,799. In tonnage, the United States occupy the fourth place, their steam shipping having a. total capacity of 572,..52 tons. Spain follows with 436,925 tons; next comes Norway with 335,547 tons, and then Italy with 317,197 tons. So much for the steam fleets of the principal na- tions; it is scarcely worth while to quote figures with regard to countries having less than 300,000 gross tons of steam shipping. 1‘)...:.. A. L, A BOG 0F FR lNI‘JE. ,1