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Advices receivcd at Johannesburg show that Chief Khama, who is assisting the British South Africa. Company’s forces against the Matabeles, has arrived at Tami wub fifaansmadted followers. The Queen will leave Balmoral about the middle of November and reside in Windsor Castle until the latter part of December, when the Ccurt will proceed to Osborne for two months. The Prince of Wales has sold several hackney stallions, bred in the Royal stables near Sandringham, to the Indian Govern- ment. It is generally thought in Ireland that the Pamellites, who have shown their power in Dublin, will wfin several seats at the next- eIections. - Mr. VanHorne, who is at present in London, says that the success of the Aus- trallan line of steamers emphasizes the necessity of an improved Atlantic line. It is announced {abet the Czarewitch was formally betrothed on Sunday evening to Princess Victoria, the second daughter of the Prince of “781435. The religious marriage between Lord Terence Blackwood, son of the Marquis of Dufi‘erin, and Miss Flora. Davis, daughter of Mr. John Davis, of New York, was celebrated Monday in the English Church of the Holy Trinity in Paris. The Socialist Williams, who led a num- her of unemployed workingmen to the London Mansion house on Friday and sang with them the Marseillaise, was fined five shillings in the Police Court on Saturday morning. Fully twenty thousand miners are now at work in Nottinghamshire and W‘ arwick- shire and the situation in the coal districts of those two counties has practically resumed its normal condition. Abbey. The bullion in the Bank "of England decreased £316,000 during the past week. The proportion of the bank reserve to liabil- ity, which last week was 45.52 per cent., is now 45. 68 per cent. Mr. Charles Jenner, F.P.S., has given to the Tennyson family a bust of the late poet laureate, executed by Mr. Thomas Woolner, which will be placed in Westminster ALL,,, The Inf-ante. Eulaiia. of Spain, who recent- ly visited the United States, is now visiting incognito in London. The Queen has approved the appointment of the Earl of Elqiu as Viceroy of India. Two Grand Trunk railway trains collided at Woodstock doing great damage to the rolling stock, but no one was injured. The brakes on one of the trains would not act on account ofacoating of sleet on the rails. According to the Confederation Act, when a Governor-General leaves the country the Commander of the Forces in British North America must be sworn in as administrator, and a. proclamation forthwith issued. It appears that on the departure of Lord Aber- deen for the ‘Worid’s Fair Gen. Moore was duly sworn in, but, by s ome blundering in the departments at Ottawa, no proclam 0.- tion was issued. The officials of the London Asylum Boards report that the hospitals are still quite full, and the applications for admission far ex- ceed the number of beds rendered vacant by the discharge of cured patients. The Constitutional League held a. conven- tion at Kamloops, B. C. on Tuesday, at which delegates from a. dozen mainland dis- tricts were present. The majority was adverse to the separation of. the mainland from Vancouver island. Mr. Alexander Smith, manager of the Merchants’ Bank, Napanee, has been super- annuated, and will be succeeded by Mr. T. E. Merrett, formerly of Kingston. A movement is on foot among leading Canadian Catholics to have an apostolic delegate appointed, withjurisdiction over the whole’Dominion,to.whom all questions of dispute between Catholics may be referred. Three men who were at wcrk on Thursday in acoufectionery store in Hamflton were severely burnt. by the explosion of a soda- water generator. Two of the British farmer delegates have returned to Ottawa from their trip through Manitoba and the N orth-VVest, and were greatly struck by the agricultural capabili- ties of the country. They wfll present a. favOurable report to those intending to emigrate. Professor Wallace, of Edinburgh Uni \‘ersity, was in Ottawa. the other day, on his way home from a. visit to the crofters of Killarney and Saltcoats, in the North- West. He says there is no truth in the report that the crofters are in a. starving condition, and he will recommend the Im- perial Government to continue the crofter emigration system,with some slight changes, which time has shown would be desirable. Henry Elliott, steward of the steamer City of N anaimo, was drowned at Victoria, 13.0., on Tuesday. The deceased was formerly of Toronto, where his mother and aister‘stil] reside. The early-closing by-law which was pass. ed in Ottawa on the 9th inst. is particularly objectionable to the city milliners, who say that, law 0*: no law, they intend to remain open after the hour named. A daring but unsuccessful attempt at highway robbery was made on Mr. Lewis Claw, of Kingston, Ont., on Monday while driving into the city. A farmer named Mr. John A. Crawford, of Berridale, near Burk’s Falls, Ont., was caught in a threshing machine and fatally hurt. It is rumoured in Hamilton that. a. bill will be introduced next session in the On- tario Legislature providing for the division of the city into two electoral districts. CANADIAN. Mr. Robert McGreevy, who has been in the Ottawa 4301 for some time, has been liberated on bail. The mate of the steamer Omaha, which was going into Port: Dalhousie, had both legs broken by being hurled against the buiwarks during the storm on Friday night. The Province of Manitoba has issued two hundred and five thousand pounds snerling four per cent. debentures at par through the National Bank of Scotland for public works. THE WEEK’S NEWS BRITISH. The excitement in Paris over the coming visit of the Russian squadron has driven at least one man mad. On Monday morning the policeman on duty at the gate of Cour- eelles Levallois observed a gentleman tak- ing a promenade upon the old fortifications. He was completely naked and gesticulating 'wildly. Tlhe officers asked him to come down from the wail, but he only abused them and blasphemed. He said he was a. son of Jesus Christ, the Sovereign of the world, and did not intend to take orders from any body, much less a policeman. His name, he continued, was St. Gerome, and he was a master mason, just as St. Joseph was a. master carpenter. His mission there was to wait the coming of the Russmn squadron, which according to the latest programme as issued by the Council of Min- isters, was timed to arrive in the dyke unde the great wall that morning. The hour, in fact, was at hand, and he wished to be 'amcngst‘the first to give Admiral Avelane a. warm and a patriotic welcome. The two officers had by this time-succeeded in reach- ing the naked gentleman, and, throwing a cape over him, they conducted him before the com nissary, who in tum sent him to the infirmary. ‘ Advices received in Berlm allude to the Czar’s determination to preserve the peace of Europe, and suggests that the Czare-r winch is about to ViSIb London and Berlin fo the express purpose of convincing the English and German Governments that Russia’s pohcy will remam permanonsly peaceful. During the recent bombardment of Rio Janeiro by Admiral Mello the fire was di- rected toward the heart of the city, and many persons were killed and wounded. A panic prevailed, and business houses were closed for two days. Admiral Avelan commander of the Rus- sian squadron visiting Toulon, and the fifty officers of the fleet accompanying him, arrwed in Paris Monday morning and were recexved with frantic enthusmsm by the populace. The Brazilian Government has agreed to withdraw all the guns from certain forts in R10 Janeiro on the assurance of the repre- sentatives of the foreign powers that they will not permit the bombardment of the city. The Brazilian armed cruiser Sena de Set- embxo, which was bound for Rio to join Admiral Mello’s force, ran ashore near Praia Grande and all the crew were cap- tured by Government trOOps. A port-ion of the British Mediterranean fleet visited Taranto yesterday, and were received by Admiral Corsi, in the name of King Humbert and the Italian navy. During a Mahnmesan festival in Fez Morocco, a. few days ago, several Europeans were assaulted and seriously injured by the fanatical Moors. A fielegram received in London says that everythmg in Rio Janeiro tends to the res- toranion of monarchy, and it; is now virt- ually only a question ofterms. Count Blucher, while wrlking in his Wartzow estate, was shot dead by a dis- charged gardener, who then committed suicide. Field-Marshal MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, the celebrated French General, died Tuesday in Paris, at the age of eighty- five years. 'lhe insurgents in Rio Grande do Sul surprised and defeate'l the troops of the Brazilian Government. on Thursday. A hurricane is prevailing in the Baltic sea, and it; is feared that; damage will be done toshipping. Eight thousand striking miners in the Charleroi district, Belgium, resumed work on Wedneshty. There was a. very serious fire in Bal- timore, Md., on Friday night, by which the Brush Electric Light plant was totally des- troyed. The fire extended to the penitenti- ary, and the turnkeys refusing to unlock the cells, fearing an escape, until they W are prevented going to the rescue on account of the flames, many of the prisoners, before being set free by the firemen, were serious- ly, if not fatally, injured. The special committee of the World’s Fair Management, recently appointed, has decided to keep open the Fair beyond the end of the month, as long as the weather will permit and the people attend in suffici- ent numbers to make it profitable. The enormous amount of travel brought on by the one per cent. mile rate for Chicago Day at the Fair has been without parallel in the history of railroading. The roads will now adopt a. one-cent-a-mile rate for the rest of the Fair. Averdict of criminal neglect has been brought in by the jury that investigated the Mansfield mine disaster at Michi- gan. There were sixteen cases of smaUpox re- ported in New York during the week ended at noon on Saturday. Word has been received at Tuskahoma, I. T., of a. terrible triple murder which was committed about forty miles west of there. The victims were Choctaws. Emma. Go] Iman, the New York Anarch- ist, has been sentenced to one year’s im- prisonment; in the penitentiary. A_ court-martial has been ordered to con- vene at Annapolis, Md., to investxgate charges of hazingr against several cadets. The London Times, commenting on thel action of the Opposition in the United States Senate to prevent the repeal of the silver bill by a. resort to continuous sess'xms, says that the determining of an economic ques- tion by an appeal to physical endurance is little removed from the medieval ordeal 0f battle, and the Daily Chronicle says that communities must hasten to get themselves represented by athletes. A test case, which caused much excite- ment among the Hebrews of the United Kingdom, was ended Monday at Aberdeen. where two rabbis were charged with cquelty to animals for slaughtering a bullock in ac- cordance with their ancient custom. After hearing much expert evidence, the Mang_ bmte dismissed the case. Archduke Francis Ferdinand, who is ex- pected to arrive in England next week. will Bay 2. flying visitAto the Queen at Bal- moral 7 It; i8 efpected that he'will be given the Grand Cross of the Bath. A Madmnn’s Freak US ITED STATES. 7 {vith the 7th Dragoon Guards and a number of women and children on board, After the ship had got well out to sea. it was found that there was a lad on board who apparently belonged to nobody. On being questioned he stated that he had smuggled himself on the ship at Portsmouth and wished to go to India. for the winter as England Was too cold. He gave his name as James Sullivan, of Liverpool, and his age as under 13. At Malta, on the 13th, he was sent ashore and placed in the care of the military authorities with a View to his being sent back to Portsmouth by the first returning troopship. He soon. made ac. quaintances amongst the soldiers, who listened eagerly to his explorts, for he boasted of having crossed the Atlantic many times ina. surreptitious manner, and having visited Australia once. The rare incident of a. stowaway being discovered on one of Her Majesty’s ships occurred at the commencement of the/pres. ens Indian ttooping season. Her Majesty’s ship Serapis left Pgrtamouth {an September New lands have been brought. into cul- tivation, and hemp to the value of $2.00, is grovm annually for the manufacture of fishing nets, which, before the signing of the covenant, had to be imported entirely from the mainland. Statistics also show a marked decrease of crime, and so famous did the success of the experiment become that a large community of settlers in the neighboring island of Ezo pledged them- selves to a covenant similar to that of Oku: shiri, and with similarly happy results. Finally, we may add that when the five years originally contemplated by the cov- enant expired it was renewed for another term of five years, despite the opposition of an influential local olficxal.â€"â€"[Japan Mail. WSigned) 117 OKUsiits' Ismxmcns. The consequences of this covenant were very marked. It was rigorously observed. Exen Government officials, whatever their rank. had to give up sake drinking when they visited the island, and, as a. matter of course, every dramster who could not reform was compelled to take his departure. .Order thenceforth reigned completely, and pros- perity came with rapid strides. The l population increased five fold in five years and the capital invested in the fishing indus- try ten fmd. Reed thatches Were replaced by shingles. Four large granaries were kept full of rice, and, in addition, each ; house had a. store of its own. It is stated that there is now stored in the island rice sufficient to support the people for three or . four years, even though the herring fishery should fail entirely. Roads have been con- structed in places where nothing ofthe kind existed before. The principal school has been greatly improved, and several branch schools have been established. “ Debtorsware unable' to meet their en- gagements, and some are even compelled to depend on official aid for supplies of food. \Ve are threatened with misery and some extraordinary measure is necesSury to save us. Frugality must be the rule of our con- duct, and every kind of excess must be avoided. We, therefore, hereby resolve to abstain from the luxury which we relish above all others, namely, sake, so as to ter- minate the importation of the liquor into the island. The money hitherto devoted to the purchase of sake shall be applied to lay in stocks of rice and other grain as a provision against future want, on the one hand, and to increase the capital available ‘ for fishery purposes on the other. 1 [SIGNATURES or THE Puonomasj “ Dated July. 1884. “ Article l.â€"\Ve, the inhabitants of Okushiri Island, jointly and severally, in} accordance with the covenant hereby sign- ed, (lo pledge ourselves to abandon wholly the sale, purchase, and use of alcoholic bev- erages. “ Covenant Iliad: by the people of Okushiri Island concerning the sale and pur- chase of alcoholic beverages and the use of the same in the island of Ukushiri. “ This land which we inhabit- is a. lonely island in the Pacific Ocean. Its inhabit;- anus, numbering ninety familiesfind almnet their only means of amusement; in drinknxg alcohol. Nine out of every ten are midwa- ed to sake, the sums annually spent upon which aggregate a. heavy amount. These circumstances induced some bold men arnong them to openly denounce the excessn‘e use of alcoholic beverages as the came of all the people’s sutferings, and to premh the necessity of applying to useful‘ purposes the funds thus squandered. Th' crusade provoked vio1ent opposition,but in .1884 the inhabitants were induced to enter who the following agreement : J _ 1 “(Dun-HH...‘ -rm ,_ L1__ ___A,,1A ,1- ---â€"~M \Iaau \al‘ll\LLCI-lo LIXU §alllc ratio of intemperance applied to the whole of Japan would signify an annual expendio ture of $500,000,000 on intoxicating bever- ages alone. In the face of this reckless outlay for liquor the people often suffered severely from hunger and cold during the winter, the price of rice ranging very high in the midwinter months and dwelling houses being ill adapt-ed to exclude the inclement atmosphere. The local authori- ties prevailed upon them to adopt a system of storing provisions against times of scarcity, but their sources, reduced by P3)“ mentsron account of sake, were insufficient to accomplish anything efi‘ective in that 1.2. _ line. Living thus in ease and plenty the peo- ple might be expected to develop qualities usually incidental to such circumstances, and they appear to have fallen pretty freely into the vice of drunkenness. In 1885 there were some 960 souls in the island. They possessed only four fixed nets. Theyâ€"lived in houses thatched with coarse grass ; they had scarcely any roads, and they could boast only a, single school. Yet they con- sumed annually $3,000 worth of sake in ad- dition to shochu and‘ other strong drinks- In short, these common fisher folks spent upon intoxicating beverages more than $1 per month for every unit of their number, including women and children. The same um. us 3011 ls fertile. Trees of varying proportions cluster thickly over its surrec‘e. The agriculturist and the lnmberman mlgflt find profitable occupation there. But the chief pursui: of the people is fishing. Every such quantities that this one bountiful diS- pensation of nature suffices to feed and clothe the inhabitants from year’s end t0 year’s end. ,_- vâ€" v-Cv ~vâ€" wâ€" â€"â€":â€"â€"â€", some forty miles distant from the large isl- a-EIC! 0f E20, lies a tiny island called Okus- him. Its soil is fertile. Trees of varying Proportions cluster thickly over its surrece. [he agricultnriaf nut: LL- I.i__1._.....,i__ __.._Li How an Island in the Sea ofJapnn Turned Over a New Leaf and prospered. ID the northezn cnvnn Font“ _: part of the Sea 9f Japan, A. Stowaway on a Troopship. WHOLESALE TEIII'ERASCE REFORM. Uses of Linden? Bark in Russia. The bark of the linden tree plays a. Siam. larly important part in the domestic econ. omy of the Russian peasant. _ It Is made into a. sort of matting which 15 used for bags of all kinds, the best and heaviest, be- ing reserved to contain fioun; and also in- to sandals, which are so universally Worn that some 10,000,000 pairs ure required each year. For sandal-making strips of the bark of saplings are employed, and as it takes the bark of about four saplings to form asingle pair, the destruction wroughtby this one industry can eesuly be ”nagined. The young trees are stripped 1n spring 0 early summer when they are full of sap, J"'V, iii Palermo, a. well-dressed, pleasant-man- nered young man who was ushered into the presence of one of the leading: specialists in mental disease, explained that his “dear wife ” had during the few months smce their marriage developed an incorrigible habit of kleptomania. After listening to the dis- tressing details, the doctor requested the visitor to bring the patient. During the 1 interview she conducted herself likes. high- §bred woman of the world, except for the lunfortunate failing she laboured under. : pocketing articles of value when she thought; she was unobserved. Amongst these Was a photograph framed in brilliants, and a. statuette in gold. The doctor also remark. ed that just at the moment of bidding him good-day, the sufferer relieved ,him of a valuable cravat-piu. “ You see yourself,” groaned the unhappy husband, m an P‘Slde, “ how possessed she is With the thievingin, stinct. Oh, my poor unfortunzste wife, I will bring you back all the missmg articles tomorrow at any hour. you may appOint, i when you will kindly give me your Opinion on the case, and advise me what to do.” “ To-morrow ” came, but the “ well-drew ed, pleasant-mannered young man ” andhjs I afflicted wife have been seen no more. l An amusing case of “ Kleptomania inthe Consulting Room ” is related by a. come. spondenb of the Lancet. Some days ago in Palermo. a. well-dressed. nleasannmn’ l l I -tal love story. The popular literature of to-day contains too many love stories ofacertain sort. The mutual attraction of the sexes is the sole theme of a large majority of the books that come from our printing presses. The books to which we refer are not those which are distinctly immoral in tone and impure1 in suggestion. They are novels in which the love of men for women and women for men is treated as though it constituted the only element of interest in human life. There can be no objection to the portrayal of love between the sexes when it is done with reasonable fidelity to the facts. But the novels that disregard the wide diversity of elements which go to make up human life, and dwell on love and marriage alone, fill the minds of young girls with a set of false ideals that frequently do infinite harm in later life. Fiction has an important place in literature, and must continue to 1 hold it. But the young folks should read 4 more healthy fiction and less morbidness j and mawkishness. Young women whose par- ents and guardians keep them well sup- ( plied with wholesome novels are not likely 1 to cultivate an appetite for trash. Novels ‘ of action or of character, filled with the e breeze of healthful human nature, are 1 plentiful, if one will but choose them. The master storytellers, whose eminence the present generation of novelists, fertile though it be, cannot hope to equal, wrote such tales in abundance. There are many writers of to-day who, though they cannot approach the skill of Dickens-Scott, Thack- eray, Balzac, Hugo, Hawthorne and George Eliot. are yet producing books of absorbin interest ; books in which love plays its rightrul part and does not usurp sole domi- nance ; books which picture life in its varied phases, with a. hundred times greater truth and charm than the silly and sentinen. These are the novels that; are worth reading. There is no ood (“80a why American young women s ould rest rubbish. 'flmrfldfi 6) "" ”936 000.00 l 1 recently had occasion to interview a - prominent railway official, and in the L ‘ But here is a tragic sequelâ€"a sequel which, course of the conversation that ensued that gentleman incidentally alluded to two col- lisions which had lately occurred in the neighborhood, following up his remarks with the announcement that the local men would be in a state of subdued excitement and “flurry ” till a third mishap took place. Such is the Superstition of the railway man. Upon expressing considerable aston- ishment I was assured that this kind of‘ thing was notorious among railway men in‘ general, and in this particular instance it was known that the circumstances of the two previous accidents were the chief topics among the workmen in all departments, who were also counting on the possibilities of a. third disaster. Curiously enough a touch of realism was lent to the informa- tion just imparted by the explanation that the second of the two collisions referred to was due to the driver of one of the en- ginesâ€"a reliable servant, with an honorable recsrd with some forty years’ serviceâ€"who being, it was believed, so disturbed over the “omens” of the first occurrence and so engrossed with what he felt would be two other catastrophes that he committed the slight error of judgment which caused his locomotive to crash into another coming in an opposite direction. The statement is given as the conviction of one who spent upward of a quarter of a century among men of all classes, and who has known the driver alluded to for a long period of years. So came about a. second collision. Surely superstition could go no further than this. unfortunately, will in all probability do much to strengthen the reprehensible be- i liefs of these men. Two days after the in- l terview above mentioned, within fifteen l minutes’ drive from the scene of the second ( collision, an express mail failed to take the ; points, a portion of the train with the ten- v der of the engine was violently thrownlr across the rails and one stoker killed. This $3 is what the railway men will term theirfti “third mishap.” “There’s the third,” they a say, and now perhaps they will breathe it freely for a season. is 1 Common Supe‘rslluon Among English Engineers and Other Rallwny Men. - Of the superstition of sailors, fisherfolk and others we have all heard, but that such a. distinguished characteristic should have attached itself to railway men would not appear to be generally known. It sanrs somewhat of the anomalous t1: at such a pre- eminently practical class of men should be the victims of credulity regarding the super- natural. Such,'however, is the case, says a. writer in London Tit Bits. A New Klephfinmna Dodge. COLLISIONS NEVER COME SINGLY Fiction in Luci-alum. fault is that of letting large wouqu,r=?§?3§ exposed to the drying w‘nter WIDGE “f“; out any protection of varnish 01‘ PW)?" There is nothing better or easier _'J’ 3?”; than common gas tar for covet-mg ‘2” Woun is. It is better for Irwin: We“ ‘1”. heated to boiling to chick-.3 1t. A plan of heating mills has been intro- duced by which heated air is delivered from a. large Ian into ilues m the walls, registers iii-om each flue delivering 'the air into the different rooms, this air being heat :d by the waste gases from the boiler. The pro- ducts of combustion pass from the boilers through economizers for heating the feed water, next through a regenerator for re- heating the steam exhausted from the high- pressure cylinder, and on its way to the low-pressure cylinder, and then passes through air pipes, ,where it heats the cold air for heating the buildings, then pawses to the chimney. If heated air is not wanted, but only cool air for ventilation, the 24395 from the boiler are turned by adamper into the chimney without entering the heater: and it the gases are not sufficient to beat the air as .desired, additional heat is Slipplled by radiators of steam in thi. heater. The temperature of the air is raised about fifty degrees by Its contact. with a... Imu- antes. A successful application has been made, it appears, of the newly invented road con. crete, some time ago described in the papers of Germany, and its usefulness in various directions seems to be assured. Curious enough, shavings and placing mill chips. either of common or fancy woods, and which may be stained before use if desired, are mixed with cheeseâ€"or rather caseinâ€" calcined magnesian limestone, glycerine, silicate of soda, and a. little linseed oil, and this combination of substances is forced by hydyraulic pressure into moulds where it is allowed suth'cient time to harden. \N'hen dry the composition is strong and solid, and can be sawed, planed, polished,and varnish- ed. Among its various proposed uses are or- namental panels and wall surface coverings, iv- The latest reported improvement in lamp 5 is a. device intended to obviate the objecs ' tionable shadow thrown on the ceiling by ‘ most regenerative lamps, and to overcome _ some other features which detract from the ' value of the principle. The difficulty of the shade thrown up'ward is met by forming the upper part of the lamp of etched orna- mental glass instead of having a metallic dome, as is ordinarily the case. A good illumination is thus obtained without the loss of any downward lightâ€"two streams of hot air are supplied to the burners, one being heated by means of the regencrator, which is of cast iron, the other being warm- ed in its passage through the lamp casing. Another p'oint dealt with, in this construc- tion, is the deposit of carbon on the ceiling, which is usual with such lamps; this is practically reduced to nothing, first by the small amount of gas burned per hour and the perfect combustion obtained, and next by the products of combustion being emit- ted from the lamp laterally instead of being projected upward towari the ceiling. This arrangement has the merit of simplicity,and the effect is very satisfactory. In pruning all saw times as much space as a marine engine and the marine quadruple-expansion engine hasten times the heating surface of the land engine. Further, the new quadxnplex two-crank expansion engine is twice as powerful as the triple-expansion three- crank engine, occupies also 30 per cent. less room, and carries regularly ‘210 pounds of steam ; the land engine carries only 8:1 or 90 pounds of steam, and gets one horse- power ont of from four to ten pounds of anthracite coal, while the quadruple-expan- sion marine engine develops one horse ‘power out of one and a quarter pounds of ‘Welsh coal, that is, acccrding to these data, the land engine requires from m'o to four times as much coal as the marine engine to produce the same power. An interesting departure in engineering is the introduction of marine engines for land service, and the plan is commended by so good'an authority as the Age of Steel. One of the great electric illuminating com. panics, it appears, has adopted them in its work, and concerning their economy in respect to space and power it is reported that the land engine takes up some ten completely protect pictures from the action of dampness, air, gases, and other causes that operate to destroy paintings exposed orframed 1n the ordinary way. 1 {118 is from the usual atmospheric action which is so deteriorating. In carrying out this plan the picture is enclosed in a metal frame or vase, covering the back and sides, and projecting from the sides like an ordin. ary frame. . In the edges of this case a plate of glass 18 inserted, just as in an crdiuary frame, and hermetically sealed to the metal. The air is then withdrawn from between the surface of the picture and the glass, and thus the picture is in a vacuum. It is asserted _tha.t the efiect of_this plan is to Uflu "' The preservation of pictures has now be- come in London, it would seem, as the re- sult of some very ingenious experiments, a re scientific proceeding, if the accounts iven are to be relied upon. It is simply placing the surfaee of the picture, be is of canvas or papei', m a. vecnum, tlhus protect- ' ea va- - lafter hm'innr bec I, Ome erf 7 V V :1 1' treated 5° 3' secand coatâ€"133m;a Sig. d5}: 18 ‘essary’Plenty 0t tlme being alllrd at nec. twee” “‘3‘! *0r the effect of the :Wed .be- on the fablflc to become perfect Agfgatmu as been applied, if the swig: last: coat L remains Stic '3': a mixture pgund of shellac to a. pin 1: “gaggle-£222? Y belted until near the boi ' ' ' F0 this a small quantity (Enligqgiodug’ addi_ng 15 pammd over the surface. For mrfzoma, waterPTOOfs yellow ochre is emploa yellow for a blac}: cloth, lampblack is f0 yeg, and weable. l‘he coloring matter iug‘1 sew. can bgused 1:1 mixture with the sizefiagmd’ oeesses commonly resorted to fox waterproof quality to zotton ”11,131! have proved onlymeasurably success- F13 besides being somewhat complicated (’1 troublesoma The latest and most agree-ave method, as recently described, is famed to be free from the objections here- ;We encountered, end conszsts, mainly. in {3-950 drying the fabne thoroughly in a dry 11:38.th then spreedmg 1t; hght‘ly over a. surface. W 1th a. brush tins is Daint- nh . - - ‘ ‘53:“. with a. thm coat; of bozled 011,which, The Pr ' arting a LAAAMA “A";An‘I-u J..-‘ mm 0! the air is raised about fifty by its conxact. with the hot gases. NOTES 0! SCIENCE AND INDIISTEX. cuts should be made Many pert even durilfi moutl. s, by limbs shouh keep thems cannot beg stove or a or bag to coider aften this :rouble; exercise posi one says, T er I get. T' 0‘ [he bIOOd he abdome vessels ru by number: branches, ration of t.‘ a. contracti fusing the fl seated, he :s the irritat‘ stomach ca. vessels. N he is not pale over t. mere 15 n vessels only no: free bl going, so ordinary c of chronic feet. 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