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>4 World’s 343‘ ' f Bunsen. '= t Cynthiana, ever since. 3° be amnes- “mber‘ In no London and Paris-w so lately 0c. Boston, were ” y Pincers-by llroad com. 6 queen pays "1‘" Weenger. . was with the as just been on in Green- }cjpatee great ourney. 3 is looking day he visit- nd whom he door made a How do you the Glasgow in the United ntry has rea- chairs of phi]. he admiration has Won the e of England r the relief of their families. $500 for the uite short, as medal at the tch at West nty-five shots He is the son e young idea cted wearing is coat. The ad its day, so is pleasant to car is himself ircumstances, is reputed to rmers on the chief lady-in- ueen as spon- at the altar, e harp, to the o thronged the . Roswell P° ~ gular contrib- institutions, ate extent of is as shy as a has prevented graphed. Her by an Albany New Zealand, :-t Sunday, is stic violinist. travels an old (1 last Satun lily-prized int tertain Cardi- weet Home’ iend in Hun- weighed down ? my eyesight only outlines :o, and when racters which lled by a sense ird volume of elative of the th his wife, is l crops to pay rowned heads will also visit a young man , and an officer as formerly at R almost to a 333 sings in 'ncoln, Mia, y President V8? have cars c l like Auditor-General of Canada. 533 flamething About the Only Man on Par' liment am Who is Independent of the Government- sai the Minister of Finance during the last ‘ n, speaking from his place in Parlia- meat. There is nothing inspired about the Audito General, however. His department is a 30 of cold storage for hard, high and dry inst; He would not take the word of the Mime Minister as to an account, unless ace-,mpuiied by a voucher. He would not €"en acc:pt the word of a. clerk in the De- partment of the Interior. The Auditor- General might be called by many other names. H9 is the Parliamentary watch dug, the inquisitor, the censor, the very letter of the law. It is his duty to audit all the accounts paid by the Federal Gov eminent and to see before passing them that they are properly covered by some of the appro riations voted by Parliament. “'hen account does not appear to be regular he enquires into it; if he finds it charged against an apprOpriation which should not bear it he censures. His duties are defined and his whole course governed by an Act of Parliament. All Acts of Par- liament appropriating public moneys are a guide to him and an instruction, and if the administration tries to take money from an appropriation and applyrit in another direc- W the Auditor-General will quote the statute in support of his veto. AN APPEAL To C;ESAR. The veto of evce: the President of the United States is not final, so there is an appeal from the AuditoroGeneral’s dicta to the Treasury Board, which consists of six Cabinet Ministers always including the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Justice. This body may over-rule the decis- ion of theAuditor- General, who then passes the account in dispute, giving the ruling of the Treasury Board as authority for it. Under such circumstances, hOWever, the Auditor~General is obliged to report the ~ case to the House of Commons and submit the correspondence, so that the Treasury Board acting under this search-light is less liable to sanction anything which would be hard to defend in Parliament. EXAMPLES OF AUTHORITY. At times even an order-iu-council is ig- nored by the Auditor General, if he thinks its operation would infringe an Act of Par- liament, as, for instance, when he writes as follows to the secretary of the Department of Railways and Canals:â€" . "‘ I have an Order-iu-Couucil of the 19th instant, authorizing the employment until the 313s instant of certain employees of your department. There is no indication in the Order-in- Council that the employment con- forms to the requirements of the Civil Ser- vice Act. \Vill you therefore send me your recommendation to Council, and any other information which may be necessary to show that the employment in each case is I legal.” l Or again : “ My reason' for declining to honor the Chief Engineer’s certificate for $618.50 is ‘thot the work is not done. The Order-in- Council, under which the Chief Engineer is allowed in this case to accept incomplete work as complete, is, I think, ultra. vires. The contractor’s argumentâ€"that the work, although not up to specification, is as good as they have done for the lntercolonial beforeâ€"is not one which should count for them.” This was referred to the Treasury Board and as it was never again heard of it is to be presumed the Government could not bered 3"“an the dead. The story in his 18 mi sustain their own action in conflict with instance is a very sad”?- Robert Henrv the Auditor General. A few other extracts from letters writ- “ (mam NOTABLE. agglzyutgm. n. Audi. on... “ TAuditor-General is the Biblem the Recelvwsesiwrfieneral. The periodi- A Pathetic Tale in Connection With an ,_..â€"â€"\ .â€".â€"-~ ‘__. _ .v - -__ ~ ~ A... â€"â€"â€"__...~A_.,_ __ _ ./ it“mulled by anybody in the out. --â€"â€"_.. BRIEF AND mrrnssrme. -_.â€"â€" All pay lilfs before any can be paid. Liverpool has m d semen”), are returned to the ore exports than London When loan and the departmental officers Britain is £380, eques, which, however, are . ay lists are de osited - ° ' - not cashe {1 “3,;ng lapse of timep these on , this includes guns and all equipments. in the bank-'1 coma back to the Auditor- pay sheets 2;) in one), can be transferred by ,. General. oral except on the joint, Podce force. The largest private house in England is Wentworth Woodh h‘ Earl Fitzwilliam. 01130, W ich belongs to According to.the latest returns the num ber of schoals in Basatoland is 113, with an enrolment of 6.932 scholars. The making of Iucif er matches is aState monopoly in France, Spain, Portugal ,Italy, action of theAgent out by the Government’s gal statelfimm Landon are examined by canola. the Auditor-Gme- t t ‘ use of 1’“th con ram 3, the men, In the c act certifies to the work done, dent engm dorsed at headquarters by ’ is en ' ~ and this mister: or chief englneer. the deputy m d b th d G ' ' . _ . enma e y e eputy to reece Roumanla and Serv1 Application 13 th I, who sees that there is , 3'- the Auditor-Gene" On a recent day no fewer than 6,936 , ‘ tion and that it I tte " q ,1 manta” ,ppropria. .. e re, -09 postcards and 9 381 book 203:; athe cl ass of work certified to. The packets were dealt with’by the ’oflicials of _ , . , enllh‘?“ makes a certificate the Dead Letter Ofli . missile... .. fie finance .. . e deputy says, “let a dleparxitemiigx‘i’eflhosl‘he cheque, ,when made Ed? 093 back to lheAu’dmor‘General to be couhtgersigned. It is then fready .for the contractor. This ”Stem 0 seCuring. cer- done from the engineer tificates 0f W°rk ' . will of the system sxnce on the 819;: Egg)“; was drafted on the . . £600 0% _ . ~ act. but is more strmrr- f ' . llneS. or 311.; 1313118; keeping officials frog) It is estimated that the total production int 5p ethe yublic cash. There are nu- of coffee 1n the world is about 600,000 to an mg fe “Pm in me public interest 600,000 tons, of which Brazilalone produces $133115; €103 beenumerated here. The between 340,000 and 380,000 tons, and closest supervision of the public expenditure J ava 60,000 to 90,000 tons. cannot be too close where there are so Of the recruits in the British Army 32,- many thousands of employees fppread over 60; were last year raised in England 3,567 territory some of which 13 50k M‘ _1‘,em0Ved in Scotland, and 3,861) in Ireland. One from headquarters- Mr. Mac enzre s mem- thousand three hundred and five of these ory is entitled tothe benefit 0f the Au‘llt young soldiers were under seventeen years Act. of age. THE occurm or THE OFFICE- Fifty-three e f h ' ' ‘ J. p r cent. 0 t e lunatrcs in There has been but fine Audauor r‘ filial-21:]. the asylums of Heogal are there entirely John Lorn l/chouga h wafsficeppomte. (31’ as the result of using “ hasnish,” a. poison- Mr. Mackenme wheat e 0 was create one drug. In Egypt, Greece, and Turkey and he is thereyel.g9°d for another flit?“ the use of the dru is forbidden b a years. He is a, native Canadian, havmg stringent law. 3 y o - w 54 cars a o. H $2223: at; Sanifid me ddllist of'gl‘oront: On the tower of the parish church of . ‘ , Bicknoller Some set ‘ ‘ ' v rs t , [slither- was elected to the ’ I: ’ ls growmo‘ a yew (ElglPirliayfnentHOl Canada. At the age of tree, now‘5 feet high. It is supposed that 29 he was electedtolhe first Ontario Leg- bt' owes its origin to a. seed dropped by a. islature, and allied himself with the Op- "dfi position, then led by Archibald 310K611”, The anthorities in Finland will not have afterwards by Mr. Blake. N0” content active members of the Salvation Army in with these legislative honors Mr. 1.lchou- their midst It is declared illegal for the gall ran for the 30““ °f Commons in 1869 Salvati°nists to wear their uniform or make as the Reform candidate and was elected and money collections. sat in both Houses. He defeated his Op- _ . ponent, the Hon. Malcolm Camerou,by 218 At the beginning of the ccntury the Bible majority, The boundaries of the riding was accessrble to but one-fifth of the popu- of South Renfrew were altered by the Act latiou of the world. Now it may be read of 1872 and in that year Mr. McDougall by nine-tenths 0f the people Of the globe, was defeated by James O‘Reilly, the so rapidly has its translation been carried celebrated Queen's Counsel, who died sud- on. denly in Kingston adozeu yearsago. Quill tootlipicks came first of all from Mr- McDougall basal-rigged 500mm ap- France. The largest factory in the world pearance, an open, cheery manner, silvered is near Paris, where several million quills hair, “‘03 gray moustache and a hard 1111- are dealt with yearly. The factory started sympathetic voice. Among the CiVil 381“ to make quill pens, but when these went vants he is regardedasodommtine- 'He is out of general use it was converted into it certainly no respecter of persons. HIS cor- toothpick mill. respondence reveals him as a. man who is ‘ . . thoroughly postedm his duties, intelligent The great turtle found in the Artillery beyond the usual degree and absolutely Barracks at Port Louis in 1810, when fearless in the discharge of his duties. Mauritius was ceded to Great Britain, is There is a robustrina‘about his 0(5an still alive. Though it is believed to be 200 D V . letters, and it is much in these days that years old at least, it has enormous strength, Canada has at least 0116 public officer “hose and can With apparent ease carry two men administration of an important office has on It‘s back. been beyond suspicion and she ve reproach. The cabman’s lot at Melbourne cannot be W a happy one. In order to meet the com- , , petition of omnibuses and tram cars penny Y HEY SEESTORY' fares have been started as an experiment. in the public department of the Govern- ment amounted to 768,680 reams, with a gross weight of 7,870 tons. Since 1843 the Free Church of Scotland has raised no less than £22,000,000 by vol- untary effort. It has now 1,l(,0 ministers, 1,000 menses, and an annual income of ‘ _ r _ The first envelope-making machine was English Ilcum In the Battle Creek invented by Edwin Hill, brother of Row- Wreck- land Hill; and De La Rue’s machine for George D awson, ofEssex, Eng, is num- folding envelopes was patented March 17, Dawson, of Tacoma, Washington, left his rooted and sold from the Cheviots yearly. home in England about six years ago and Botauiets assert that unless something is ten by him to the heads of departments came to America. George, his brother, was done the rarer flora of Nor-thumberland and will Serve as examples of the various ways on his way to west him, and had written the Border Will soon become extinct. in which this officer acts as a check on the his brother in Tacoma to meet him in public expenditure : In the Colony of Natal tea continues to Chicago, and they were to do the World’s be largely grown in the coast districts, “~“l!‘,â€"I have your application for a, gen. Falrbefore gOing on West. At Bllfl‘alo George chiefly in Victoria. County and the Lower months, and, therefore, I do not feel justi- siuce our mother died, and although it . . . The payments seems only YGStcrdaYJcannot bear being have been irregularly trade for several alone any longer. have not been doing very well in the west. erul letter of credit of $100,000 for your wrote his brother in Chicago, and this letter Umzimkulu Division. The area. under cul. department. I regret that I am obliged to decline to pass this credit, except in a restricted form. It will not apply to the two that are left. Itis more than 10 years following appropriations under ‘Miscel- lancous.’ . . . was the only means olidentification. In tivation may be put down at about 2,200 this letter he said : it We are DOW the only acres_ Oyster cultivation is a very important industry in many parts of the Continent. At Arcachon, on the French coast, there is ' a. huge salt water lake open to the sea. at high tide, and this has become the centre You write me that you The average value of the houses of Great A des Mashonaland has a white population of 1,490, of whom over 800 belong to the local In the two years 1891-93 the paper usedL _~~.~_._~..___-<» - â€"» .â€"‘-â€"-- DUEL LINES IN BRITAIN. Circular Issued Drawing Attention to ““3 Scarcity or Work. 10an gOVernment board has issued a .0}?- cu ar t:0 various sanitary I authorities emplol‘ment which now exists in many Parts of the country and to the great prob- abfht-Y 0f tibis becoming more general and being intensified during the Winter months, and 1"ng the great importance of aiding artisans and others who make great personal sacrifices in order to avoid the stigma. of Pauperism to maintain their independence. mm, says the circular, can be secured by the local authorities proceeding with the execution of the works which, in the inter- est of their district as regards its sanitary cqndlElon or local improvement or other- WIse,'is desirable should be carried out at the time when other emplovment is difficult to obtain. " . Whatis required in the endeavor to re- lieve artisans and others who have hitherto avoxded POOr law assistance and who are tempwarfly deprived of employment is: (1.) Work which will not involve the “1631113 0f paupcrism ; (2) work which all can Pe’fm'm, whatever may have been their prevmus avocations; (3) work which does not compete with that of other laborers at Pref”? emplOyment : and, lastly, work which is_not likely to interfere with the I“isuml’tlou of regular employment in their own trades by those who seek it. JOhn J ewere, the organizer of the une m- played 8'gitation, says there are in London 31°93 100.090 unemployed men, the’ ma.- Jority of whom have wives and children de- pendent upon them. _â€"â€"â€"-â€".-â€"â€"-â€"- THE P001! 01‘ RUSSIA. Awful Poverty of the Lower Classes In Russia. .In 3' report, just made public the British Vice consul at Cronstadt dwells at some length 09 What he describes as the growing finpoverishment of the Russian peasantry. 3? says It 13 Painfully evident that the e Ortsof the government to ameliorate the condition of the rural classes by the estab- hflhTent 0f the peasants’ banks, the re- lmsslm 0f “ma-1‘3. aid in money and grain, and in other WAYS have not been attended With success. The economic decadence of the peasantry may be said to have com- menced With their emancipation, and it has become more sharply accentuated since 1891) Whmh was a year of widespread famine “1 RHSSia. While last year was mark- ed by a. failure of the crops in mean of the dietl‘lcts formerly famous for the fertility Of the sell and the prosperity of their pOP‘ulation. This decrease in the fertility of the land, Wltfl a. consequent impoverishiug of the agricultural class, is ascribed to a series of causes, one being the reckless destruction of the forests, which has seriously affected the climate and the humidity of the soil, while another cause is the primitive system of cultivation pursued by the people, which rapidly exhausts the soil. The economic decline of the peasantry is also attributable to‘ the decrease in the number of their cattle, for which, especially during the last two years, there has been little fodder in consequence of the failure of the grain and hay crops. Another cause which, the vice consul says, is erroneously assigned for the dis- tress of the rural class, is the insufficiency of existing peasants and allotments, which are now being more and more subdivided by the natural increase of the population. The Road To Acadia. With talk of the historic and picturesque past, surrounded With what might be called “ the local color,” we drove the wretched watery corner and turned out of the mighty river into the Atchafalaya. This we call- ed “ Chafi'erlyer,” to be in harmony with our acquaintances. It is fed outof the Mississippi where the Red River Joms the Father of Waters, and immediawa that we entered it a new scene was presented â€" a view of a. narrow stream between groves which grow not merely to the water’s edge, but into the water. It does not look like any river that we know in the North, it is rather like water running through woods, us aflood might appear, ora greatly swollen stream. Suddenly what is called the Grand pours into it, but the Grand is merely a wider belt of liquid mud flowing patch from London says :â€"The Idmm‘g the attention to the scorelty 0f IN THE rill Noni T”â€" A Missionary Tells Wonderful Tales of Reindeer. the Aurora. and the Cold. A remarkable story, says the San Fran- cisco Examiner, is told by the Rev. E. C. Wallis, a missionary who arrived here recently from the Porcupine River, in the British possessions, just over the line of .Alaska. on the edge of the Rocky Mount- ains. It is mainly about the intense cold, the immense herds of reindeer, and the sublime magnificence of the aurora borealis. Dr. Wallis has been seven years in the wilds of the Porcupine River, and for the last eighteen months his wife has been with him assisting in teaching the Indians. It does not appear to be generally known that there are vast herds of reindeer in that part of the cbuntry. Dr. Sheldon Jackson, Superintendent of Education for Alaska, and Capt. Healy of the Bear have for a couple of years been importing rein- deer from Siberia, and this is the reason for the supposed scarcity throughout that‘ region ; but the scarcity appears to be towards the southern, south-western, and northern coasts. In the far interior there are myriads of them. “They are remarkably numerous every- where about my missiou near the mouth of the Porcupine Rive r,” said the reverend gentleman. “ Back towards the mountains from my house I have seen great bands of them, and almost everywhere I looked I could see them. This summer when the ice broke up on the river I remember seeing an: or seven of them on a. cake of ice floating down, andI saw many others floating on the ice. “For much of the time I have lived at the mission, I have subsisted almost ex- clusively on reindeer meat. It is very good, and I may say it is about the only kind of meat you don’t get tired of. I think it is better, all things considered, than beef, and you eat it longer without its pulling on .you. The Indians eat it almost exclusive- ly, and they are very big and strong. Some of them are six feet in height, and the average is about five feet ten inches. They are genuine North America Indians, and not the Aleuts, Esquimaux, or a mix- ture of the two. “I keep an Indian hunter, and he supplies me with all the reindeer meat I want. He also brings in’grouse, ducks. bear, and other game as I need it. I have learned to shoot pretty well myself, as all white men do in that region. The ducks an i grouse, like the reindeer, are remarkably good eating. “ It is fearfully cold there. Last winter the thermometer was for a week at a time down to 60 ° , and I have seen it go even considerably lower. At no time in the winter, nor during other winters that I have been there, was it higher than 40 ° . This cold is excruciating. We lived in a solid log house, a good warm one, but many a time I have awakened in the night and found the blankets, which were kept up well under the nose, frozen into a cake of ice. Sometimes the intense cold cakes the blankets for a long distance down. “Meats and everything froze, and you would throw them anywhere without think- ing. The worst experience was trying to make bread. The yeast would freeze in spite of you,of ten times even when the great- est- care was execrised. If you stepped out, everything was so still and so intensely cold you could hear yourself breathe. It had a rustling sound. “I discovered a queer thing about the cold, and it was this: Below 40 degrees you didn’t notice it any more than 40 de- grees.- It might go to 60 degrees, or even more, but it made so little difference. that you didn’t notice it. It was all practically the same to you. “The wonders of the aurora. borealis in that region cannot be told. The heavens all winter long are lit up with a golden glow. Indeed, Imay say the colorsâ€"the and varied that no one can describe them. There is practically no day during the year For two or three months, up to Dec. 15 from 9 to 12 o’clock, there is a sort of dawn: but the rest of the time it is night. It is so clear that you can go out and read a newspaper anywhere. . “ The 400 or 500 Indians at my missmn are bright, and good progress has been made in instructing them. Nearly all of them can read in their own language. I have translated various religious and other books which have been printed in England, for their use. They have an entirely. dif- ferent language from any other Indians. fied in continuing the credit under which I have enough to take you back home With they are made.” me, and we W111 live in the old home to- gether the rest of our lives, 1 have stopped The Huddersfield Municipal Lodging over here in Buffalo tO-da h 1 . ‘1 House has been flourishin for fort ears my“ t , , ,,, , ,. y t at may et _g YY - lands *3 girotigiiterdgns date “hlth refer- you know how you mavknow me when you There a. bed, use of cooking and table uten- called 1‘)" attc 95'“ l ure ‘0 W 10h} had ' see me. It has been six years since you saw sils, smoke-room. reading-room, conversa- wrmrnl‘ioq I he: 1:11.103u-Ymm “he . for me, and perhaps you WOuld not kndW me.” tion room, and library is provided at the " ‘ V‘ .. are L ‘1 '10“? COHWMIOHS Herc follows an accurate description of inclusive charge of threepence per day, or (in: unexpendcd balances on other appro- h' . . . ~ . . ‘ . . .3. . 13 dress and ms baa nce or do. for married cou les. Priitlons lY‘llelt lc utilized for this oxer- Ugage- Then he tells Slxpe P V P assy in Berlin. l-s lV. S. Gil re” and “ Pa.- handsome man mustache, and ing, he con- to suppose him than a. bar- It is said that 30,000 ferns alone are up- weather out of mind until we reached a/ sparkles and flashesâ€"areso many, coustan t, for rearing and fattening the oysters. l through a wilderness. Next the land begins to There are five different languages, for ' ° ' ' from there down to the mouth of ‘ rise hwher banks are formed,and With these 3 111313309, . . comb Uviews of cottages, freight-houses, the Yukon, and no one tube can under ruins of old brick sugar-mills, fisher-men's Stand the other. The languages are all as ' ' ‘ D tents, negro cabins, bits of greensward, l different as French is from German. banks of rose-bushes, and patches of culti- 7 " . ’ vated farm land. Our first stop Was at a NEW ZEUJAN” W031“! ‘0'“:- houey plantation, where the half-acre lot I [run sum-age on “I0 filledwithbeehives,novel as the Sight proved, The “r“ to Con er “Sir,â€"Let me acknowledge receipt of e recognizes at r of conversa- . t practitioner se grave in lyn, now rests, beneath a fit- a. distinguish- ood reputeas . Brougham, vrence and F it}: weet singers a.’ ly company ( hereintermef , was born! ‘ ork in 1888. l Mlle. ray system in hich will girdle lto the other. ed aconcession or Mr. Louis Cosle, for his July seri- should be charged to ‘Chief siatz,’ instead of to ‘ River St. independent one. He is see unable only to Parliament and can only be moved f ollice on address from the Senate and House ‘ - . . Commons. He is as independent as a sWe expendiiuro, or that the annual sal revenue. might be considered as an offset or: ‘ it, an m to be against the provisions of two Audit Act. Under section 2.1 ofthat. Act lam to see that no cheque issues which would cause an excess of any direct parlia- mcumry appropriation. I am unable, to rcfore, to pass your requisition for the 5 bill of exchange. inc cheque of July 237, f0? $2501.11 favor ’ 7 The chief rcas on why the Au illor~Gencral udge on the bench. PAST AND rmmnxr SYSTEMS. ] what he has in his peekets and the number ,. ) . . . . . . e 0‘ of his watch, even add err. ammunition. which is credited to hi; watch will be foun all‘day Saturday and Sunday for the arrival of ms b"0ther on one of the trains. He or- love; rived this morning, and the identity of the Jaugsneer's remains of his dead Lawrence ter: (lcepemng. And the payment should have ' be? him (leffi .' i ' ‘ c ” - brrel until the end of El“). lnonth. sic-kg, and In the pocketof -- .. . . . fourd the kc to the Wat r .; w .1. ex 11 of Henr VIII. man rich forei n furs is $3.?! an Importanr officer fat he is an brother is thz most hopelislvrfiszgr‘gfigfi 3.9%.. imported: and thenythc tradegof the 0f relatives that have yet guided, The skinners was a flourishing and important etter which he has from his brother is as industry. At that time the company had aifcctionate and tender as thou h from a as their headquarters Capped Hall, which ram 1 . Since the system of effecting insurances ing that the key to and annuities through the Post Office was d In his vest cocketfi established in 1865, annuities to the number “I may gctwrecked. or captured by In of 37,658 have been purchased at a. cost of (1181's. and $118 Will serve to let you know £4,484,513; and 313,763 insurances effected, who I am m case anything happens. I shall the total premiums for the whole period 11‘3"? Bu:t'a.lo 0"” the Grand Trunk on the amounting to £971,653. 1 acrfic express. “The number of benefices with net in come between £100 and £2 30 a year,” say- the Bishop of Lon don, “ appears to be about 4,200. To raise then all to £208 a year would require, at an average of £50 0 year for each, an income of £210,0tl'0 a. year, or a capital sum of £7,000,000.” This letter was receiVed in Chicago Saturfi . , n ay morning by Ruben He had waited . _bl'0tlier was soon d€~ mned upon. _ Hi8 Wotch, with the unm- _ , , . ’ was found m ope of the little paper The Skinners Company claim to be one a tweed vest was of the oldest in the City of London. In the ethefil‘t. and the feet that, this },,.;1 been is believed to have occupied the siteot their written from one :niddlmged man to an- present hall in Dowgate-hill. was not as peculiar as the honey-plant- er himself. He is famous up and down the Teche route as a. man who so loves to argue that nothing can possibly happen which will not arouse his instinct for de- bate. He has some little learning, and even in his worn old suit of homespun sug- gested traces of gentle blood and breeding as he stood on the river-bank flinging long sentences and uncommon words up at our captain up on the main-deck, While his daughter, the only other white person for miles around, leaned her Spare form against the side of the cabin doorway, and smiled with affectionate pride as she reflected upon the good time her father was having with his vocal organs. Something which had been ordered by him from New Orleans had not come, and he was begging leave to differ with the captain, no matter how the captain sought to account for the delay. I think I remember that the sum of this man’s income each year was computed at five hun. dred dollars, which proved, it seemed, that other Sex. Both Houses of the New Zealand Par- liament have passed a bill to confer _full suffrage upon women, the bill has received the formal assent of the Governor, and this enterprising community has become a true republic instead of an aristocracy of sex. Women in the Is‘e of Man enjoy Par- liamentary sufi'rage; women in Iceland, too, have full right to vote; unmarried women and WidOWs in England, Scotland, and most of the Canadian provinces have municipal suffrage, and the women 'of Wyoming excercise the right of franchise to the full, but the New Zealand women will be the first to vote for what may be called a real Parliament in a practically in- dependent Stateâ€"a. self-governing country of 950,000 citizens. M“ Foreign Bank Bills. The Bank of England note is five inches by eight in size, and is printed in black ink )amascus, and , 0f love that years other trlls of a. bond - - - . - - .. ‘th ra ed ed 'es The . - \Vood. like W00], requires to be shrunk he was in ver comfortable circumstances on Irish popes W1 gg é. - r. on a narron The ethos of Auditor-.(Jeneral was created could not weaken. before being used for manufacturing pur- could well. sfl’brd to go to New Orlean; notes of the Bank of France are made 0f udicatc is now . in 3875 by .‘dr. Mackenzie. Prior to that . â€"_.â€".'_\â€"- oses. PitChPine beams will shrink in twiceayear and was able to SUPpOrt the white water~lined paper, printed in blue is to Damascus, ‘33“? the“? “‘33 “0 P-‘flléd‘knt‘ary audit and Them are 1331'” ”file Schools in England fhickness from 18:33 inches to 183; ; spruce. position of a’man of consequence in that re- and black, with numerous myt'h91031‘33'1 and slong. starting ‘r the system in mail? was a loose one. All and Wales, With 3:43.357 children. The from 3.1,- inches to 8 “; white pine, from 15 giou.â€"â€"[From “Along the BayouTeche,”by allegorical pICtuI‘eE, and running "1 de- long the north- checks on expenditure were left to the 32- total number paying... ‘89 in schOOIS Ve' inches to 11:3- ; yellow pine .3- trifle less, Julian Ralph, in Harper’s Magazine for nominations from the 20-franc note to the 181 to the lain Parole departments. ceiving the fee grant; but still char ‘1) a- « s will shrink from w’dth of 12 1000-franc. The German bills are printed valley 9351; °f g g Cedar beam 8. 2 November. in green and black. They run 1n denom- At- Present a lame part of the ex enxli- fee ranging from underone enn me little ‘ - to 93 3 elm from 11 to 103 ' oak. ’ r p P y Inches % ' ’1 ’ inations from 5000 to 1000 marks. Their ture is made by letter of credit issued on the over Sixpence, is 849’031- f m 1" t 113 H n. ' ~ ~ I o c . o d o ‘ . - . . wul cross the 3mm. authority of the Deputy Minister of The emigration returns just issued by r Next to Pdris, Lyons, and Marseilles e Telephoned later bills are printed on silk fibre paper. Sweet Girl: “ I am so glad to see yo Its, lion notes are of all Sizes, shapes and 3d then to the Finance, and the Auditor-General to the the Board of Trade show tl . . th 1: l . . _ . , . t d c; the B rdeaux 18 e mos po u ous town in . . . - here the little 4 various departments. Against these bulk 6"ng months endlrg 3131; fugugtl 1336,3453 fiance, Though during thg last ten years alive and well. I was afraid papa woul colors. The smaller billsâ€"5 and 10:11re Kingdom for places the POPulation has increased by about 30,- lose all control of himself when you as ke notesâ€"are printed on white paper In Pink» “1 At this sums the (lep'trtments, through the Deputy persons left the United 1 the southern . 31953?” anl Accountant,de the cheques, out Of Europe, as agalmt 211 093 in the 000 persons. this increase has been almost him for my hand, and he has such an ”‘qu blue and carminfl inks. The lOO-ruble note vithouta curve l .‘ Q r.“ the em] of each month a. Receiver. "corresponding period Ollast, 9dr 0f the entirely due to the immigration from the temper. What did he 8557?” of Russia is barred from top to bottom Iion, biblically General’s cheque £3 31"“! to “3’3 bank on “19 236342 the English mmlberelTi 96 633 the neiahbouring rural districts and from for- Brave Adorer: “Iâ€"I couldn’t quite With All the 001°“ 0f the rainbow blended an ; thence to g2 -.:...:crion o: .hc cushcd cheques. At the Semeh 16.961. and the Irish 41,52ng the (gig; Countries ; for in late years the number understand.” as when shown through a prism. l us. ”"3 '7’: tile followiogmonth ‘1‘“: d9 artmenrs ”mama“. 1’8in foreigners or persons of births in this town has been less than Sweet Girl: “Couldn’t understand ‘2” _ m. ........-.. prove of the "warn all cheques With voucners to the whose nationalzty had not been distmouish- that of the deaths. At the last census the Brave Adorer: “hrâ€"0; theâ€"enâ€"wires The recruiting in England for the 0‘96. an agricultural -‘ILIXWY'GBDQI‘SL Under mm system no ed. a population of Bordeaux was 252,054. got crossed.” Mounted Rifloncn has been suspended. z a means for larket the rich on abounds.