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THE WEEK’ S NEWS v.â€" CA‘.’ ADA. Mrs. Malo, the mother of Mrs. Hooper, is seventy-two years of age, and has been the mother of twenty- -four children. A committee has been formed 1n Mont. real for the purpose of raising a fund to present a testimonial to Rev. Father Chin- 1‘1“)“ Sir Narcisse Belleau celebrated' in Quebec recently the eighty ~fifth anniversary of his birth. He is still halo and hearty. The extra clerks of the Privy Council Department, who had been without any pay for nearly two months, got their cheques on Saturday. The safe 1n the Dundas. Ont., pcstofice was blown open on Thursday night, and $356 in registered letters, stamps, and cash were stolen. A writ for $9, 700, which had been issued against Messrs. Boyd, Ryrie and Campbell, of Montreal, for an infraction of the Cus- toms laws, has been paid. A Citizens’ Municipal Association has been formed in Montreal by a number of leading taxpayers, to aid 1n securing the nomination of proper persons to serve as Mayor and aldermen. The American Public Health Association, composed of sanitarians from Mexico, the United States, and Canada, will hold its next convention in Montreal 1n September. A World’s Fair special train had alnarrow escape from a serious collision at Hamilton, Ont. Considerable damage was done to the rolling stock, but fortunately only two per- sons were injured. During the course of his sermon on Sun- day, in the Dominion Methodist church in Ottawa, Rev. Dr. Benson created a sensa- tion by denouncing dancing, which, he said, was inconsistent with a Christian life. Father Stark, of Brantford, Ont, who was reported among the victims of the Bat- tle Creek disaster, is safe in Chicago,where he ls enjoying the Fair. Mr. Hugh John Macdonald denies having received any oflicial notification regarding the acceptance of his resignation, but the sooner it is accepted the better pleased he will be. A branch of the Machinists’ Association, which 1s a very strong body 1n the United States, although numerically small in Can- ada, has been started in Canada with a membership of about fifty. Before the session of the Protestant Teachers’lConvention, held recently 1n Mon- treal, Dr. S. P. Robins, eminent education- ist, reada paper advocating the teaching of agriculture 1n the Public schools of the province. A despatch from Montreal says the Commerciil Cable Company announces that telegraphic communication has been established with New Caledonia, the rate from Toronto being two dollars and seventyâ€" six cents a word. Maj or-Geneial Cameron, the commandant of the Royal Military College at Kingston, Ont., lost twelve prize messenger pigeons last Friday night, some of which were mported stock. He places his loss at two hundred dollars. Sir Charles H. Tapper, Minister of Marine and Fisheries, has had forwarded to the Queen, through the Dominion Privy Council, the names of several Canadian officials who gave him valuable assistance in preparing his case for the Behring Sea arbitration. The celebrated Purcell will case, which involves the title to several large bequests to Roman Catholic charitable institutions,I is at present before the Supreme Court at Ottawa, with a host of legal talent look- ing after the several interests involved. The Dominion Government, it is under- stood, has notified the United States auth- orities that while the Dominion cannot officially recognize any arrangement where- by the United States inspectors may supervise immigrants in Canadian ports, it will not interfere with any arrangement which the United States may make with Canadian steamship and railway companies. BRITAIN. thile Mr. Herbert Spencer 13 in feeble health, he is still able to dictate for some hours each day to his secretary. Sir Andrew Clark, the celebrated Lon. don physician, was stricken with paralysis I on Thursday, and 13 in a very serious con- dition. The British Admiralty has contracted for the construction of three torpedo de- stroyers, designed to exceed in speed any- thing now afloat. The Most Rev. Robert Knox, D. D., Protestant Archbishop of Armagh, and Primate of Ireland, has died from heart disease. The Lucania, of the Cunard line, which arrived at Queenstown, broke all previous records, and during the voyage she averag- ed twenty-one knots an hour. Mr. Justin McCarthy has issued an ap- Eeal on behalf of evicted tenants 1n Ireland. e belieVes that the reliance of the Irish race upon Mr. Gladstone’ s promise will be justified. The London Lancet, the medical paper against which Dr. Leslie Keely brought a libel suit because of comments on his bi- chloride of gold treatment for drunkenness, announces that the action has been abandon- ed, Dr. Keely paying the costs. The London Times publishes an article condemnatory of the policy of Sir George Dibbs, Premier of New South Vi ales, in allowing the first section of the Australian and British Columbian cable to fall into the hands of the French Government. Mr. Andrew Beuner, afarmer at Ridge- way y, Ont, found $7,000 In the old housec on the farm, which was undergoing extensive repairs. He deposited the money in a bank in Buffalo, and was arrested there yesterday charged with having stolen the money. The accident to the Canadian Pacific steamer Miowera at Honolulu and the long delay in learning the cause of her deuention are referred to 1n the London Times, which urges the necessity of the immediate laying of the proposed British cable between Australia and Canada. UNITED STATES. Dr. John C. Peters, the well- known pnthority on cholera and germ diseases, died in New York on Saturday. a member of the French George Chive... The Dalton gang a few nights sinced ap- peared at Cushing, 0. Tu and attendef 2n oyster supper given by the ladies 0 t t8 church. They left their arms outside, pad ronized the tables liberally, and behave like society gentlemen. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union of Osceola, Nob” has resolved itself into a “7 hite Cap Committee, and on Sat- urday night inflicted terrible floggings or:; five young women whose morals did no meet the approval of the union. Commercial reports state that business in the United States 1s most seriously depress- ed by the policy of obstruction resozted to by a minority in the Senate at Washington. Manufacturers and wholesale houses, in view of the uncertainty, refuse to operate, and thus business' in many lines is practically paralysed 1n regard to future supplies. There was a 1iot at Blarney castle in Midway Plainance, 1n the World’ 3 Fair, on Saturday evening. A number of Irish sym- pathizers tore down the British flag from the WP 0f the castle. The flag was at once re- placed, and when a second attempt was made to tear it down the Irishmen and the COIumbian Guards had a tussle, which a One time threatened to become a general riot. Order, however, was finally restored, and three of the hot headed Irishmen were arrested and placed in goal. GENERAL. Lord Vivian, British Ambassador to Italy, died in Rome on Saturday of pneu- monia. Theodore Hebert, the sculptor, who was born 1n 1829, died in Paris on Sunday. The). Marquis of Conyngham has arranged to sue for a divorce on the ground of adul- tery. The Maharajah Dhuleep Singh, who was born 1n 1838, died yesterday 1n oParis, from the effect of a. paralytic stroke. The English Mediterranean fieet visited Spezzia yesterday, and were given a very cordial welcome by the Italian authorities. ____________‘ ELECTRICITY ON THE PYRAMIDS. now Arab Guides Were Frightened by a Party of Scientists. In his autobiography the late Sir W Sie- mens relates the following anecdote: An Arab called his attention to the fact that when at the top of the pyramid of Cheopsi when he raised his hand with fingers out- spread, an. acute singing note was heard, the sound ceasing as soon as he let his hand fall. “I found his assertion,” he writes, “ to be true. As soon as I raised one of my own fingers above my head I felt a pricking in the fingers. That this could only be caused by an electrical phenomenon was proved by the slight electric shock filt on trying to drink out of a wine bot- e “ So I wrapped a full bottle of wine that I had with me. in the damp paper, and thus converted it into a Ley den bottle, WhiCh was soon strongly charged with electricity by the simple device of holding it high above my head. The Arabs had already become distrustful on seeing small lightn- ings, as it were, issue from the wine bottles held up by myself and companions, and now held a brief consultation. Suddenly. at a given signal, each of my companions was seized by the guide who had led him up, who now tried to force him to go down again. D“ I myself was standing at the very tOP of the pyramid when the Sheik of the Arabs came to me and told me through my interpreter that the Arabs had determined that we were at once to leave the pyramid because we were practicing magic and it might damage their chance of them earning a living. On my refusing to obey orders the sheik caught hold of my left hand. I had awaited this moment, and held up my right hand with the bottle in the attitude of a magician, afterward lowering it slowly toward the point of the sheik’s nose. “ When quite close to that feature I felt a violent shock run through the bottle to my own arm, and was certain that the sheik must have received the equivalent. At any rate, he fell senseless on the stones, ~and a few anxious moments passed before [he rose suddenly with a loud cry and There are now five hundred politics. lsprang down the ygigantic steps of the pyra- prisoners in the gaols in Rio Janeiro, and lmid with long strides. The Arabs, seeing their execuuonsi after private trials: are this, and excited by the sheik’s constant said to be frequent. cries of‘ Magic! magic." released my com- Emperor lV1lliam has sentto King Charles panion and followed their leader, leaving an autograph letter, congratulating him upon the birth of an heir to the Roumanian throne. It is expected that one of the chief naval engagements of the Brazilian revolution will be fought off the coast of Uruguay in a1 few days. The German socialists intend agitating for direct suffrage 1n elections for members of the Landtag, the same as in elections for members of the Reichstag. Two students of St. Petersburg, suspected us complete masters of the pyramid. "’ _â€"+â€" The British Harvest. An English correspondent writes as fol- lows: “ What we have grown this year we have secured in prime condition, includ- ing not only the small crops of grain, but ' also the great crop of potatoes, now for the most part harvested. The threshing ma- chine shows that the yield of grain. is even more than it was expected to be in two- thirds of England, while it is good or fair 0f having murdered a Nlhili“ cf” giving ‘ in the north of England and Scotland, and information to the Government, have been sent to Siberia for twenty years. The Sultan has bought from a French all “the counties which excellent in Ireland. But very little wheat is grown in Scotland or Ireland, and nearly grow that cereal ex- servant, for five thousand pounds, Turkish, ltensiv ely suffered severely from the dry two epistles that are ascribed to the Prophet ‘ weather of the spring and summer. The Mahouiet, and are believed to be authen- total area of the wheat crop in Great Brit- tic. Legation at Washington, made two at- tempts to commit suicide on Friday nighfii while on the verge of delirium tremens. The Marquis of Dufi'erin placed on Field- ain and Ireland this year was only 1,902,- 476 acres, and the Isle of Man and the lMar shal MacMahon’s coffin a beautifull Channel Islands 185: year produced only wreath from Queen Victoria, and Colonel; Talbot laid one beside the Queen’s from the; It is reported that the Brazil revolutionary [party under Admiral Mello will establish a ’ Provisional Government, which, it is hoped, The condition of Prince Bismarck has so! ' much improved that Princess Bismarck has i been able to visit her daughter- ~1n law, Countess Herbert Bismarck, who is expect- ing her confinement at an early date. The column sent out from Fort Victoria , to operate against King Lobengula’ s Mat- » abele warriors met the enemy on October, 1 16th, and an engagement-,was fought, which1 resulted in the defeat of the natives. The son of General MacV' show who was I buried on Saturday, received a telegraphic despatch from 611- ~13) impress Eugenie, sayings â€"“ I share your grief. Convey mv senti- ments to Madame Mac Mahon. ” Within five years there have been five! different Ministers at the head of the \Var! Department in Germany, and it is suggest- ed that these frequent changes argues some defect in the Empeior’ s knowledge of men. Gen. Tulloch, commanding the forces at Fort Victoria, Mashonaland ,has declined an offer made to him by the Bendigo (A11stra~' 11a)mil1t1a to furnish a hundred men t0' assist in the operations against the Mata- ’ beles. Signor Giolitti, at a banquet on Wednes- day,stated that Italy’s financial deficit had been reduced by five hundred and fifty; million lire. and that the Governmenti would put a progressive tax upon incomes l exceeding five thousand lire, which wouldl bring 1n forty thousand lire annually. News has been received in Brussels from the Congo State that the Belr 1an ‘ forces have captured Kirundu, an Arab]: stronghold, near Stanley Falls It is reported from Aldersliot that uh Duke of Connaught has rat-her astonisheg the principal stafi officers by his knowledge ‘ of the details of organization andequipmenot and that there is every prospect of his; proving hims' elf by no means a second- -rate commander. the Grand Duchess Elizabeth had intended to go to Paris for a fortnight on leaving England, but a telegram from the Czar obliged them to alter their plans, as his Majesty deemed it inadvisable that an more members of the Imperial famil should visit France at present. y W Mr. Stead 1s promoting a project to start a model newspaper in London, of which he will be the model editor. The basis of the scheme 15 that 101), 000 people shall subscribe 26 shillings each, in return for which the will each receive bonds for twenty shillin g; Then if the paper gains a. circulation 5of 100, 000 Mr Stead will pay the subscribers 5 per cent. on their investment, and if the circulation is 260, 000 he will pay 10 per cent. His contribution to the capital will be twenty shares. Mr. Stead dgoes on the nu- ciple that the more a humbug asks the £10 he 13 likely to receive. The woods are f I? of men who would undertake to publig: newspaper in Timbuctoo on such term a Tuey are few and far between, how, 3, who would venture to ask the ubli veg, take them into such a partnership,p c o 3124 acres, so that the total for the United Kingdom will not exceed 1,956,000 acres. Prince of Wales. iAt twenty -five bushels an acre, whlch is a full allowance, the product of this area will 'be 48,498, 000 bushels. Now, our popula- tion at the middle of the current cereal will obtain recognition from the foreign l year will number abOut 38 611 000 and the powers. Iconsumption per head, including seed, is 51x bushels, so that the total consumption lmay be 1.11 at 231,666,000 bushels, and we shall have to derive from imports and extra reserve stock about 183,000,010 bushels. The average yield for the nine years ending with 1 92 Was 29. 59 bushels an acre. Bar- ley will probably yield about 30 bushels, as co'iiparel with anine years’ average of 33. 66 bushels, and oats. about 35 bushels, against an average of 38. 63 for the period just named. The barley area this year in iGieat Britain and Ireland was 2,244, 385 acres, and that of oats was 4, 4 20,11 6 acres. Potatoes are abundant; roots are short; and hay is the shortest crop ever know.n The averages estimated above would hav e to be put mouch lower if it were not for the fair crop of the north of England and Scotland, and the good ones of Ireland.” â€"â€"°â€"â€"-â€"J Women [11 Scotland. The Scotch census return, to which Sir G. O. 'l‘revelyan has prefixed a. useful and l veiy welcome analysis of its general results, affords one or two remarkable bits of evi. dence. There is hardly a single occupation from which across the bor ler women have been wholly excluded, and there are some occupations, generally deemed unsuitable for the gentler sex, to which they have been admitted in veiy large numbers. For ex- ample, there are 87a women employed on railways, 59 on roads, 19 in shipbuilding, 116 in gas making, 103 in the tin and zinc manufacture, 415 in the iron and steel trades, and 591 in stone, clay, and road- making. The result is that 556, 564 women are engaged in competing with 1,220,388 men for a Dlivelihood. In the commercial class of the population alone there are tW1ce as many females engaged as there were in 1881, and the only class of which females form a smaller proportion than they did in that year is the agricultural, which has been deprived of the services of ma 20.- of their number. This exception is doubtless to be ascribed to the dying cus- tom of employing women and girls to do the roughest field work. Moreover, against 02,644 women who are described as working on their own account, there are no fewer than 11,662 who are employers of labour. It would seem that in the land which was electrified two hundred and fifty years ago by the furious apparitlon of Jenny Geddcs, woman has at length achiev- ed her perfect emancipation. Great Britain’s Debt. The debt of the United Kingdom is in round numbers $3,355,090, 000. Compari- sons are made with the debt as it was in 1689, just before the reign of William 111., when it was Only $3, 221, 000, and with the beginning of Victoria’s reign, when’it had reached the enormous total of $4,291, 000, - 000. Under Victoria this great total has been reduced some 21 per cent. Something over $33, 000, 0‘70 was paid off in the year ending March 31 last. The first census in Britain was taken on March 10, 1801. We.- The Time Without a Watch. Actual and repeated experiments have shown that the nearest hour of the day 01' night may be ascertained in the following very curious way: Make a small running loop in a piece of sewing thread about a foot in length, placeW a shilling' 1n th1s loop, see that the coin IS accurately bisected by the thread, and then draw the loop tight up, so thatI the shilling is firmly slung at one end of the thread. Put on a solid table a glass tum- bler with a fairly wide mouth. Rest your right elbow on the table in a firm and easy position so as to avoid any shakiness in your hand, hold the other end of the thread between your first finger and the “ball” of the thumb (i. e., the fleshy top joint of the thumb), so that the thumyb nail is under- most, and a few inches above the middle of the mouth of the glass. Now, if you keep your hand quite steady, the movement of the coin (which 15 hanging inside the tumbler) will become less and less until the shilling IS motionless. Then, in half a minute or so, a very slight and regular vibration will commence, the coin oscillating from side to side like a pendulum, and gradually 1ncreasing the length of move- ment until it gently strikes the side of the glass. This strike goes on in the most regular and automatic way, first on one side of the glass and then on the other, until, say, eight strokes have been struck: the vibrations of the coin then diminish in length, until the suspended shilling again becomes motionless and hangs 1n the middle of the tumbler. You look at your watch and find that 8 o’clock is the nearest hour. I have tried this over and over again, deliberately setting about the experiment without bias or any intention of influencing the swing of the coin, and also being ignor- ant of the time, and when my hand has been steady the right time has invariably been struck. There is something very curious about this phenomenon. Whether the thread is influenced by the pulse in the “ball” of the thumb or whether there is some unconscious transference of “intention ” from the brain to the thread, I do not know- ,'but 1n any case the matter is sufficiently interesting to be worthy of a critical test- by ypersons who will carefully and without bias carry out this singular experiment of telling the time. â€"â€".â€"_â€" KLEI’TO MA\ IA. A Physician Consulted on this Subject to his Sorrow. Sicily, the classic haunt of brigandage, seems ambitious of showing that highway robbery does not quite exhaomst her methods of breaking the eighth commandment. Some days ago, in Palermo, a well- dressed, pleasant- -mannered young man was ushered into the presence of one of the leading alienists and proceeded, on painfully matter-of- fact lines, to state the object of his vis1t. His dear wife had during the few months since their marriage developed the most distressing, most incorrigible, habit of kleptomania. Not only in public shops and 1n private visits, but even in her own house, she could not keep her hands off other people’ 8 property, which ,however, on coming to her real self some hours after- wards, she invariably returned to their owners. Medical treatment had hitherto failed to wean her from that habit, and in his despair he bethought him of the Paler- mitan expert, whose success in such cases had come to his knowledge. The consult- ant, having put a few questions which were intelligently answered, expressed his Wil-- lingncss to take the young lady in hand, and appointed an hour on the following day when her husband was to bring her to him. True to time the pair arriv 2,611 and the lady had hardly been introduced to the consultant when her beauty and frank, en- gaging manner imparted a quite peculiar interest to her case. During the interview she conducted herself like a high- bred woman of the world, except for the unfor- tunate failing she labored under of pocket- ing articles of value when she thought she was unobserved. Among these the vigilant eye of the consultant missed a photograph framed 1n brilliants (the gift of a patrician patient), and also a beautifully modeled statuette of pure gold. He also remarked that just at the t’moment of bidding him good- -day she relieved him in the quickest and most graceful manner possible of a valuable cravat pin which became “secret. ed about her person” with the suddenness of magic. “You see yourself,” groaned the afflicted husband in an aside to the consult. ant, “how possessed she is with the thieving instinct. Uh, my poor, uhfortunate wife ' I will bring you back all the missing articles to- morrow at any hour you may appoint, when you will kindlyg ive me yen;- opinion of the case and advise me what tto do.” To morrow came and with it the appointed hour, and the consultant waited and is still waiting for the “ well- dressed, pleasant-mannereda young man” and his stolen goods. He was as cleverly swindled as Gil Blas was by Don Raphael and Cami]. la, “niece of the Governor of the Spanish colonies in the Philippine islands.” .“-W‘â€"‘ A THRILLING T ALE . The Experience of Mr. ll. fl. Powell. of Wu odstock in the Battle Creek (:alam- ‘ 11y. Mr. Powell was in the front day coach of the west bound train, next the smoker Fortunately he occupied a seat in the front part of they car. The Second coach ran under the first, the latter completely telescoping and settling down 011 top of it when the trains came to a standstill. Both cars Were smashed literally to pieces. Mr. Powell w“ one of the three who were able to get Ont. Most of those in the rear end of the car were killed instantly, others were taken from the wreck before it was burned. But horror of horrors, it was not realized Until the morning that under this car another One with all its human freight had perished in the flames. Mr. Powell rs satisfied that no one in the second coach escaped. In takin victims from the wreck of‘ ms car they hears cries and groans, but did not realize that they came from another car beneath the first one. In the morning two sets of truck! told the tale. Mr. Powell declares that he can scarcely tell what happened or how he got out. It was all over so quickly and the , sight so horrible as to daze and bewilde: those who were in the awful tragedy. He is pretty badly shaken up and is slighuy injured on the thigh and side, but how 331-, iously he could scarcelys He believe; the number of dead will be about 70. One of the peculiarities of the cocoanut palm is that it never stands upright. wHenry NEAL PABAGRAPHS. â€" est” Items About the World’s 1111; People. MG 310“ of music amounts almost to Th livid, the Countess of Dunraver: the villlrlge choir. A niece of Abraham Lincoln, Miss Mattie Todd, is postmistl‘ess at, Cynthiana’ Ky She was appointed by President HZ yes and has held her plea e ever since enri Rochefort expects to be a . 11 g shortly by the French Chambetgmnfg that- event he will desert London and rem.” at once to his home in Paris; en the vines on the house late] oc- “Pie ed by Phillips Brooks in Boston, ywere trimmed the other day, many passch- -by picked up leaves as memen .03. The English royal family never hav. car Whedg them free by railroad Icomi ‘ nieB when they travel. The queen Pays jig-own fare, like the humblest passenger. Dr. F rederlck A- Cook, who was with the I”, Peary expedition, and has just been dome some summer exploration in Green. land on his own account, anticipates great results from Peary’ s present journey. I); Oilver Wendell Holmes is looking well for his years. The other day he visit- edthc Boston court house, and whcnv he saw his son standing at- the door made a respeCtable bow and said- 1. How do you do, Mr. Justice Holmes?” Prof. Henry Drummond, the Glasgow teacher, says the universities in the I hired States are something the country has rea- son to be proud of, and their chairs of phil- 090th are as a rule, worthy the admiration of Europe. Miss Frances E. Willard has Won the afiection of all the poor people of Llllrland by contributing her watch for the rel: cf of the suffering coal miners and their families. Lgdy Somerset contributed $5110 for the game cause. Clarence E. Long, who is quite short, as heis but 10 years old, won a medal at the Columbian prize shooting match at West Pullman, 111., by firing seventy- ~fi1e shots without a single goose egg! He is the son ofa crack shot, who taught the young idea how to shoot. Oscar Wilde has been detected weaiing cred rose on the lapel of his coat. 'll.c sun-flower has apparently had its day, so far as he is concerned, but it is pleasant to feel that, come what may, Oscar is himself aflower that will, under no circumstances, “blush uuseen’ The Queen of the Belgians IS reputed to be one of the best living performers on the harp. When recently her chief lady -in- waiting became a nun,t the queen as spon- sor, presented the postulant at the altar, and then play ed a. solo on the harp, to the great delighty of the sisters who thronged the convent. Mrs. Flower, wife of Gov. Roswell P Flower, of New York, is a regular contrib- utor to many charitable institutions, which she aids to an aggregate ex ent of $250 a week. Mrs. Flower is as shy as a school girl, and her modesty has prevented her from having herself photographed. Her portrait IS now being painted by an Albany artist. Archbishop Redwood, of New 7 eaiand who preached in Baltimore last Sunday, is an accomplished and enthusiastic violinist. He carries with him on his travels an old violin of celebrated make, and last Satun day evening he took this highly-prized in: strument from its case to entertain Cardi nal Gibbons with “Home Sweet Home’ and other melodies. In a pathetic letter to a friend in Hun- gary, Kossuch writes , “I am weighed down by the burden of years and my eyesight grows dim. I can now see only outlines and not details. I cannot read, and when writing only,D guess at the charactexs vi hich I trace. Nevertheless, impelled bv a sense of duty, I completed the third volume of my memoirs a few days ago.’ Prince Komatu, a near relative of the imperial family of Japan, with his wife, is about to begln a journey to Europe to pay his respects to the various crowned heads there. In all probability he will a so visit this country. The prince is a young man , not more than 30 years 0 d, and: n oliicer in the Japanese navy. He was four. oily at tached to the Japanese embassy in Berlin. An English author describes W. S. Gil bert, the author of “ Pinafore” and “ Pa- tience, ” as a tall, well- built, handsome man With grayish- white hair and mustache, and lively bright eyes. His hearing, be con- tinues, would lead a stranger to suppose him to be a military officer rather than a bar- rister, but when he talks, one recogn zes at once the crisp, smart manner of comersa- tion characteristic of the alert practitionei at the bar. Richard A. Proctor, whose grave in Greenwood Cemetery y, Brookhn, 1101. rests, thanks to George W. Childs, beneath a fit- ting memorial stone, lies near a. distinguish- ed company of such men of good repu. .c as Ward Beecher, Jno. Brougham. Lester ll allack, VI 111. J. Florence and lit: 2:,reenc Halleck, one of the sweet singers a a2 '5 generation. A goodly company ( Wel’fub ll. nown people witnessed the rein tei me: Proctwr, popular astronomer, was born.f England, and died in New Ybrk in 1888 R .lways in Palestine. There is now a. great railway system in a'athe course of construction which will girdle the Holy Land from one end to the Oil-161‘ A French company has secured a concession for a line from Beyrout to Damascus, and has already commenced work on .. 11.1.1 row- gauge road. An English syndicate is new building a railway_ from Haifa to Damascus, Which will be aboiuuglto miles long starting from Halfa finding its way along lbs 110: th- ern base of the range of Carmel to ilie plain of Esbarlon, through the valley east of Nazareth. Leaving Mount Tabor, it will cross the River J 0 dan on a trestle, and then to the oint known as Majcmeh, where the little ordan joins the greater riv.ers At this point the road will border on the somhem Shore of Galilee, and almost without a curve along the famous wheat region, biblically known as the Plains of Bashan; thence to the southern gate of Damascus. The road will undoubtedly p rove of ‘be greatest interest to Syria 1n an agricultural and commercial way, finding a means for placing upon the Eastern market the rich woulucts in which» hat semion abounds. I" “'3’ the Auditor- General wil .. .»‘.-'V' Sbmething About the Only H1 ’ 11. speaking from his pla ment. There is nothing inspire lll'lll‘lllll 1011 '11. Andilor-Gdiâ€"e-ral 0H lisment Hill Who is Indepl of the Government “ TAudimr- General is the said he Minister of Finance du Audi WiGeneral, however. His acct ,mpwied by a voucher. H e’cn acc: pt the word of a cler ent of the Interior. T General might be called by names. he is the Pariiame dog, the in ruisitor. the censo letter of the law. It is his d all the accounts paid by the F eminent and to see before glut they are properly covered the apprcgriations voted by When arr'accounl does not a regular he enquires into it; if charged against an appropri- should not bear it he censures. are defined and his whole can by ~”-..n Act of Parliament. All liament appropriating public 1 guide to him and an instruct-i0 administration tries to take mo appropriation and apply it in a statute in support of his v.eto AN APPEAL TO cuss The veto of eve: the Presi United States is not final, so appeal from the Auditor-Gener the Treasury Board, winch co Cabinet Ministers always in Minister of l inance and the Justice. This body may ov er- ~r ion of ilieAuditorGeneral, wh the account in dispute, givin of the Treasury Board as auth Under such circumstances, h Auditor-General is obliged to case to the House of Commons the correspondence, so that ii Board acting under this se less liable to sanction anyi would be hard to defend in Par BSA )1 11.155 0F AUTHOR] At times even an order-in-co nored by the Auditor General, ' ts opera ion would iniriuge an liameuias,10r instance, \1 lien follov. s to the secretary of the of Railways and Canals:â€" "‘ I have an Order-i11-Council instam, authorizing the emplo the 315‘. instant of certain emph department. There is no iiidi Order-iu-Council ilia'. the outpl forms to the I‘i‘qllll‘ell‘lf'llls of th vice Act. \‘.'ill you therefore ' recommendation to Council, 8. information which may be 11 show 1.11.1: the employment in legal.” 01' again : “ My reason for declining ti Chief Engineer’s certifinite in that the “or k is no. 12.0118 T Council, under which the L311 is allowed in this case to accepl work as complete, is, 4 think, The contractor}; argumemâ€"th although not up to specillcatio as they have done for the f beforeâ€"is not one which shou them.” This was referred to the Tre and as it was never again bean be presumed the (Severnmcn sustain their own action in c the Auditor General. A few other extracts from i ten by him to the heads of 6 will serve as examples of the v in which this oliicer acts as a a public expenditure : “.~'ir,â€"l have your applicatiox eral letter of credit of SlU(l,U department. I regret that I :11 decline to pass this credit, . restricted‘ .orm. IL 11 ill not a) following appropriations 111111 laneous.’ . . . . T11 have been irregularly nude months, and, them: ore, I do 111 fled in continuing the cred L 1 they are made. ' S1r,-â€"Let me ack nowli d :e vour letter of vestir day 5 dis; c once to an O\'(l‘ -oxpvii.iiture 10‘ called )0 1r alien '20: 1 on 30 ammunitbzi. I regret iii 1: goal that iinexpendcd "'a'az-Cvs on prietions might lo nil/ed 511 cxpe1..ii.i:-r., or 11...: the 211;; extra. ammun itimi which is revenue. 111113.31 1:13 wusulci'ed 5.2":‘1'11’. s '« 111 10?" 11:...115‘. :l of tlic Audit Act. Under sect! Act . am to :«se ti 1'. noc ie H: e Woul'. ‘ cause an QXCU .vs' of d 111: 11 11'}; allp1WOpII ior‘ l ti1<rcfore,'o 111:: \ mur rut: 1 :1 bill of excl. zinge. i he chea- .~ n: July L". for-i of Mr. L011: s‘ 35%}, 101' iii: 31 Should be cl. 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