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t is stated in St. Petersburg that ne- gotiations are in progress for a visit. of the Russian Mediterranean fleet to Constanti- nople. Minister Blount’s report to the United States State Department delares that Minister Stevens was directly responsible for the overthrow of the Queen of Hawaii, and that without his intervention the rovisional Government could not have Eeen established. The Madrid newspapers voice the public ckmour to thrash the Kabyles, and thus Seriously embarrass the Government, who iear that they will be compelled to Convicts employed in the Pratt mines, near Birmingham, Ala.” set fire to the bath- house on Friday morning in the hopes of being able to escape in the confusion. In this they faiied, but two white convicts, who were asleep in the bath-house, were burned to death. The London Times, in an articie on the colonies, says that one of the first results of the reâ€"election of Sir ‘vViIliam \Vhiteway in Newfoundland will be a. demand upon Eng- land to fulfil the pledges made to the colony regarding the French shore. The financial condition of the city of Chicago is very distressing. She will be- gin next year with currentliahilities of one million three hundred thousand dollars. In an editorial dealing with agricultural matters, the London Times says Canadian timothy hay is now recognized as being as goods: the best available hay of natural home growth. huchan, in crassan, was destroyed by autumnal: and it is feared that the loss 0f hie is fiery heavy. A“ “hm?” was made in Mzzze'fifes on Wednesday night to blow upfiijd resxdenc: of Gen. Mathelin with dynamxte: A breac Was made in the wail of the oraerly-room, but no one was iniura The great English coal strike is ended, and work was generally resumed at the col- lieries yesterday morning. ing adivorce from his first. The matter wxll likely be brought before the civil courts. A dupetch from Mefified, in Persia, says gig-gtwo-ymrds of the imporganc towp iof The Catholic Church authorities of Mont- real have refused to allow the remains of Mr. John F. Gourley, formerly of Boston and Montreal, who died recently at Medi- cine Hat, N. W. T., to be int-erred 1n the Roman Catholic cemetery, on the ground than he marriedA a. second wife, after obtain- M. Jule de Smedt, a. Belgian, lately ar- rived in Montreal, has submitted to Mayor Desjardins an elaborate scheme regarding a co-operative bread company. He proposes to start a company with a. capital of seventy- five thousand dollars, in shares of five dollars each, payable in five instalments of one dollar each, extending over the five months from December to April. Two young and prosperous farmers named Joseph and Edgar Pocock, who rented a. farm at Glenboro, Mam, disappeared on the l6th of October, and have not been seen since. A search party started out yester. day, as there are strong hints of foul play- Judge Gill, in the Montreal Superior Court, condemned the Windsor Hotel Com- pany to pay fifteen hundred dollars damages to Mrs; \Villiams, the widow of a. railway porter, who was killed by the hotel elevator three years ager No less than seven distinct attempts to wreck Canadian Pacific railway trains. have been made lately, and the railway authori- ties are at present investigating the matter. e‘nt stricture: immédiately below - the American Falls, for the purpose of runnmg; electric, cable, or horse cars. Mr. R. W. Webb, the Montreal-druggist who sold Hooper the prussic acid with which the latter is said to have killed his Enfe, died suddenly in Montreal on Sun- uy. The stockholders of the Niagara. Falls and Clifton Suspension Bridge Companies intend to petition the Dominion Parliament for the privilege to lay fix-aegis on_ their pros- The German steamer Markomannia, which arrived at Halifax on Sgturday night from Hamburg, reports that on the 14th inst. she fell in with the steamer Dominion, ‘of the Dominion line, on fire. She lay by until the following day, when the fire was considered to be under control. The Domin- ion was seriously damaged, and one hundred and eighty head of cattle were burned, and their remains throwu overboard. boat aisafipeared, and is aupposéd to have gone over the Horse Shoe falls. Several people on the Chicago express of the Michigan Central railway which arrived at Niagara. Falls on Saturday afternoon at five o’clock, saw a. boat with two men_ in it gtruggling in Q10 Canadian rapids. _The John McNabb, an old man, who was found unconscious in Sylvester Broa.’ ele- vator Toronto, on Thursday last, died at the General hospital on Saturday. A post- mortem examination disclosed the fact that his spine had been fractured. The circum- stances connect-ed with his death are rather auspicious. The Atéhhilhop of Ontario has withdrawn his name as one of the vice-presidents of be English Church Union. The police census of the city of Toron so 535 been completed, and shows that on the night of November Ssh the population was 188,333. Sd satisfactory is the financial state of affairs of the John. H. Stratford hospital at Brantford, 011%., that the city grant of 32, 000 :3 not needed, and the Council will be notified to that effect. A cargo of gain has arrived in Mon {meal from Chicago in eight. days, which is 331d to be the quickest time on record. Dominion Government oflicials seized the tug E. C. Oggles, and about four mile‘eof gill net, the property of the Sandusky Flsh Company. They were caught fishing near Pelee Island in Canadian waters. CANADBN. Troop 43'. Somthe shipbrokers of St. John, N. B. have failed with liabilities of more than $200, 000. THEWBBK’S NEWS UNITED STATES. GENERAL. BRITISH. A negro in Floyd County, Georgia, dress- ed himself in a. sheet a few days ago and atiut-edout at dusk to “scsre the life out. of ” a. whine woman, against whom he had a. grievance. He intercepted her as she was returning to the house from the well and she came near beating the life out of him with the iron bucket. she carried. Be is in the hospital seriously injured. The besp way to ascertain whether or not cofi‘ee has been adulterated is to pour cold water on It. If pure it will color the water very slightly ; 1f mixed with chicory the water will take a. brownish hue. Snowdon; in North Wales, is the highest mountain south of the Tweed, and Scaw Fell Pikes] in Cumberland. the summit of which is 3,166 feet. above the sea. level, the greatest elevation in England. The boatfiy passes the greater part of its life swimming and divmg 1n the water. It; is the terror of all other aquatic insects and has been known to kill those that are fiVe and six times its size. The navigation of the Dead sea. is the lat- est step in oriental progre‘ '. The Sultan has sent two sailing boats tffié‘t‘me for freight and one for passengers. Jg‘dr'ul Hamid is going to try to make momry- but of the salt, bitumen and sulphur of the lake. The largest gasometer in the world is at East Greenwich, Eng. ‘Vhen full it contains 12,000,000 cubic feet of gas. It weighs 2,. 220 tons, is 180 feet. high, 250 feet in dis- meter, requires 1,200 tons of coal to fill it, with gas, and cost $300,000. ' When younger and fresher houses in your line cease starting up and using the news- papers in telling the people how much bet- ter they can do for them than you can. When you would rather have your way and fail than take advice and wm \thn every man has become so thor- oughly a. creature of habit that he will certainly buy this year where he bought last, year. \Vhen you can forget the words of the shrewdesb and most successful business men concerning the main cause of their pros- peritv. When men stop making fortunes right in your sight solely through the discreet use of the mighty agent. When nobody else thinks it'pays to ad- vertlse. W'hen you have convinced everybody whose life will touch yours that you have better goods and lower prices than they can get anywhere else. When you perceive it; to be the rule that men who never advertize are out-stripping their neighbors in the same line of business. When the population ceases to multiply and the generations that crowd on after you and never heard of you, stop coming An English trade journal once requested 9. number of its largest. advertisers to give their opinions concerning the best time to stop advertising, and the following replies were received:â€" Similar testimony is given by the column- ful. It covers all classes of workers who are dependent upon getting employment in order to make a. living. This one investi: gation, referred to, touched servants, clerks, nursery governesses, fancy cooks, butlers, actors, actresses, school teachers, private tutors, mechanics of all sorts, stenograph- ers, typewriters, draughtsmen and the whole range of wage-earners. New York is a good place not to go to just now. The products of New York labor are good competitors to protect our labor against for many a. day. “ Why some of the people who come hEre are hungry. The other day a. young woman fainted on the floor. She had been sitting here 311 the iorenoon. After she came to, we asked her what was the matter, and what do you suppose? The foolish thing had had nothing to eat for aday and a. half. Just think of that.” The stringency in commercial afl‘airs in the States, though perhaps eased to some extent by recent legislation on the silver question, is still severely felt, especially in the cities. In New York, according to the press of that city, there is already great destitution among the laboring classes. It is a most erroneous notion for a poor man to imagine that financial crises have nothing to do with him. Sooner or laterâ€"or both â€"they strike his comfort or his life in a direct way that few of the financial kings know. \Vhat is a financial crisis on Wall street is apt to be a food crisis in the tene- ment. The New Yo Mail and Express has been investigating e state of afi'iairs in New York city, and things do not look immensely better than they dld a few weeks ago when the World was distribut- ing bread to hungry a " ants. One news item reads : “ A we - " .ed herself in an East side ten 10 e not long ago because she could not provide food for her- self and her child. She preferred poison to " starvation.” She was a young wife with a youngbabv;herhusband had beenaway from her for three months. She had sold all that she had to sell. Investigation by the reporter showed that she had scrubbed for a living until she was too weak to scrub longer. She could get no work, because she was in rage and ill, and she knew no one to leave her baby with. She tried employment agencies and ready-made clothing stores ; and then she gave up the strug le in the midst of the city of New York. or is her case a soli- tary instance. The fll'az'l (mi Express re. 1 presentative went to the Intelligence Offices and found there frank evidence of the pinching hardness of the times. One of the woman clerks he saw said that she had never seen such hard times before. “ Last year at this time,” she added, “ we placed more servants in a single day sometimes than we do now in a week.” An agent in another office gave similar testimony, saying among other things : “ X‘I'lnw cnmn A‘ (“no annual- ‘nkn AAMA L-..“ The German Government has decided to establish a. permanent military camp at Malmedy in Rhenish Prussia. as an offset to the strong earthworks France has con- structed at Msubeugo, on the western fron- tier at Belgium. Acting upon the initiative of Spain the European Governments have agreed to keep a. very close watch upon the Anarchists. The police of each country will arrest for- eign Anarchists and send them back to their own countries. When to Stop Advertising. Hard Times In the States. Mrs Pike re] oincd “ Yofi always, was preuty particular about water, father. ” But Eli still 5'5ng his head, and e] aculat- ed “Brackish, brackish. "’ as he began to {mt the bit; m D01 1’s patient mouth. He was think' ug, With a passion of loyalty, of But Eli ate sparingly and with a. preoc cupied and solemn look. “ Land father 1’ said his wile, “ you ain’t eat no morc’n a. bird l” And he answered : " I guess I’ll go over to that well and get a. drink of water, 1 drink more’n I eat when I ain’t. workin’.” But when he came back, carefully bearing a pail brimming with cool, clear water, his face expressed strong disapprobation, and he smacked his lips scornfully. “ Dreadful flat water !” he said. “ Tastes as if it come out o’ the cistern.” But the others could find no‘fault with it, and Serene drained the 35%. :Pretty good I celet,” he said, and “ We’ve prospered, ain’t we, Maria. ?”he said at last g, and 1118 wife. unconsciously following 115:. thoughts, in the manner of those who have lived long together, strok- ed her black silk visite, and answered, with a. welHSmtisfied nod : “ I guess we airit got no muse to complgin._ _ For the first ten miles of the way. fami- liar in being the road to market, Eli was placidly cheerful. The sense that he wasi going to do some strange deed, to step! into an unknown country, dropped away from him, and he chatted, in his intermit- tent, serious way, of the crops and the lay of the land. “ Pretty bad job up along here, ain’t it, father '2” called Sex-eno, as they passeda, sterile pasture which two‘ plodding men and a. yoke of oxen were re- I deeming from its rocky fetters. “ There’s! a. good deal of pasture’ in some places that ain’t fit for nothin’ but to hold the world together,” returned Eli ; and then he was silent, his eyes fixed on Doll’s eloquent ears, his mouth working a little, for this progress through a. less desirable stratum of life caused him to casta backward glance over his own smooth, middle-aged reed. He nodded from the window where he was patiently holding his head high and undergoing stangulation, while his wife, breathing huskily with haste and impor- tance, put on his collar. “You come in, Hattie, and help pack, the doughnuts into that lard-pail on the table,” she called. “I guess you’ll have to take two pails. They ain’t very big.” At length the two teams were ready, and Eli mounted to his place, where he looked very slender beside his towering mate. The hired man stood leaning on the pump, chewing a. bit of straw, and the cats rubbed against his legs, with tails like banners; they were all impressed by a sense of the unusual. “Well, good-by, Luke,” M rs. Pike called, over her shoulder; and Eli gave the man a. solemn nod, gath- ered up the reins, and drove out of the yard. Just out-Side the gate he pulled up. “When!” he called, and Luke lounged for- ward. “Don’t you forget them cats! Get; up, go‘ge. For days before the date of the excursion Eli had been solemn and tremulous, as with joy ; but now on the eve of the great event, he shrank back from it with an undefined notion that it was like death, and that he was not prepared. Next morning, however, when they all rose and took their early breakfast preparatory to starting at five, he showed no sign of indecision, and even went about his outdoor tasks with an alacfity calculated, as his wife approvingly remark- ed, to “ for’ard the v'y’ge.” He had at last begun to see his way clear, and he looked well satisfied when his daughter Hattie, and Sereno, her husband, drove into the yard m a. wagon cheerfully suggestive of a wandering life. The tents and a small heir trunk were stored in the back, and the horse’s sil swung below. “ Well, father,” called attic, her rosy face like a flower under the large shade-hat she had trimmed for the occasion, “ guess we’re goin’ to have a good day.” " ---. V“! I: nun-51¢] IUUIE, dee ng thin, and crow’s-feet about his th :“e'? gm? eyes. He had been smoking e 1P9.“ tWIIight contentment, but now _k 11: out and laid it on the bench be- 1m, uncrossing his legs and straight- it 1’ ll himself with the air of a man to whom de: .3! hfter long pondering to take some w 18”? ,Step- “No : it don’t seem as if ’t edas gom to happen,” he owned. “Itlook- 121m“? dark to me all last week. It’s a fioou deal Of an undertakin’, come to think :vaer. I dunno’s I care about goin’.” 7) l}y, father ! After you’ve thought :hout it so many years, and Serena’s got b e tent'5’,,3t'1"l‘l)Ped up, and all ! You must e crazy! “‘W ell,” said the farmer,gently, as he rose and went to carry the milk-pails into the Pafltry, calling .eoaxingly, as he d1.dS°’ “ kltby! Kitty ! You had your mllk' D011,“ YOu joggle now i” For one 81] ce r. Mrs. Pike came ponderously to her feet, and. followed with the heavy, swaying "10111021 Of One growu fleshy and rheumatic. $313 was no" in the least concerned about 15.11 2 change If mood. He was a gentle soul, and she had always been able to guide him in paths of her own choosing. Moreover, the present undertaking was one involving his own good fortune, and she meant to tolerate no foolish scruples which might interfere with its result. For Eli, though he had lived all his life within thirty miles of the ocean, had never seen it, and ever since his boyhood he had cherished one dar- ling plan. Some day he would go to the shore and camp out there fora week. This, in his starved imagination,was like a dream of the Acropolis to an artist stricken blind, or as mountain outlines to the dweller in a lonely plain. But the years had flitted past, and the dream never seemed nearer completion. There were always planting, haying, and harvesting to be considered, 3 and though he was fairly prosperous, ex- cursions were foreign to his simple habit of life. But at lost his wife had stepped into the van, and organized an expedition, with ; all the valor of 8. Sir Francis Drake. 1 “ Now. don’t you say one word, father,” 1 she had said. “ We‘re goin’ down to the beach, Sereno and Hattie and you and me, and we’re goin’ to camp out. It’ll do us all ‘ good.” I n â€" -v“ u... '“v u»: I?“ gray eyes. He' had been smoking lie of twilight contentment, but now .0 it out and laid it on the bench be- film. uncmnamn L: .- 1...... -_.a 4-4-1.. Doll!” And thief-time they were FABHER REPS VACATION. came ponderously to her feet, d with the heavy, swaying 8 grown fleshy and rheumatic. it} the least concerned about It is said that when coal was first used in England the prejudice against it was so strong that the house of commons petition- ed t‘no king to prohibit the further use of the “infernal and noxious fuel.” A royal proclamation having failed to abate . the nuisance, a. commission was appointed to ascertain who burned “coles ” within the City of Lundon ; to punish by branding for the first offense and by demolition of the furnaces for the second. Finally, when minor punishments had no effect, a. law was passed making coal burning a. capital offence In the records of the Old Tower there is an account of a man who was hanged there for no other crime than that of using coal for fuel contrary to royal edict; this in the time ot Edward I. Hattie turned and whispered to her hus- band a moment. Then she took her father’s hand. “I’ll slip into the tent and put you up something for your breakfast and lunch- eon.” she said. “Sereno’ gone to harness; for, pm, you must take one horse, and you can send Luke back with it Friday, eo’s we can get the things home. What do we want of two horses down here at two and ninepencé a day? I guess I know.” So Eli yielded; but before his wife appeared he had turned his back on the sea. where the rose of dawn was fast unfolding- As he jogged homeward, the dusty roadd sides hleomed with flowers of paradise, anf the insects’ dry chirp was as the song or angels. He drove into the yard jusuait the tur- ning of the day, when the fragrant smoke of country fires curls cheerily upward in promise of the evening meal. “What’s bu’sted?” asked Luke, swinging himseif down from his V load of fodder-corn, and unharnessing Doll. “Oh, nothin’,” said Eli, leaping from the wagon as if twenty years had been taken iron his bones, “I guess I’m too old for such jaunts. I hope you didn't forget them cats.”â€"[Se1ected. whiiper, “ don’t you tell. I just come out to see how’t was here before I go. i’m goin’ home-I’m goin’now!”â€"“why, father!”said Hattie ; but she peered more closely into his face, and her tone changed. “All right,” she added cheerfully. “ Sereno’ll go and harness up.”â€"“ No ;I’m goin’ to walk.”â€" “ But, fatherâ€"”â€"-“ I don’t mean to break up your stavin’ here, nor your mother’s You tell her how’t. was. I’m goin’ to walk.” She sleptneegndly and vocally, but her husband did not close his eyes, he looked, though he could see nothing, through the opening in the tent in the direction where lay the sea, solemnly clamorous, eternal responsive townie infinite whisper from without his world. The tension of the hour was almost more than he could bear ; he longed for morning in sharp surpense, with a. faint hope that the light might bring re- lief. Just as the stars faded out one lumin- ous line penciled the East, he rose, smooth- ed his hair, and stepped softly out upon the beach. There he saw two shadowy figures, Sereno and Hattie. She hurried forward to meet him. “ You goin’ to see the sunrise, too, father?” she said. “ I made Sereno come. He’s awful mad at being weked up.” Eligrasped her_a.rm. “ Hattie,” he said in a. “ Well, I s’pose he is some tired,” said Mrs. Pike, acquiescing, after a. brief look of surprise. “ It's a. good deal of a. jaunt, but I dunno but I feel paid a’ready. Should you take your hairpins out, Hattie?” That nig 0‘01; they set upon theehore while the moon rose and laid in the water her majestic pathway of 1i ghn. Eli was the last to leave the rocks, and he lay down on his hard couch 1n the bent without speaking “ I wouldn’t say much to father,” whisper- ed Hattie to her mother as they parted for the night. “ He feels it a good deal. ”â€" I; 11'? 0‘ 1‘ _’____ L- J.- n-uâ€"nn 44-1“: 1’ nn:(: Eli took it ohediently, but he did not speak; he only looked at the sea. The two sat there, chilled and content. until six o’clock, when Mrs. Pike came calling to them from the beach with dramatic shouts of: “Supper’s ready! Serena’s built a burn-fire, and I’ve made some tea!” Then they slowly made their way back to the tents, and sat down to the evenin meal. Serena was content, and Mrs. ike bustling and triumphant; the mere act of preparing food had made her feel at home. “ Well, father, What do you think?” she said, smiling exuberantly as she passed him his mug of tea. “ Does it come up to what you expected? Eli turned upon her his mild, dazed eyes. “I guess it does,” he'said gently. Mrs. Pike’s mind wasudiverted by the exigencies of labor, and she said no more 3 but after the horses had been put up at 3 neighboring house, and Sereno, red-faced with exertion, had superintended the tent- ralsxng, Hattie slipped her arm through her father’s and led him away. “ Come p3.” she said in a. whisper. “ le‘ ’3 you and me climb over on them rocks.” Eli vent, and when they had picked their way over sand and pools to a. heailaud where the water thundered below, and salt spray dashed up in mist to their feet, he turned and looked at the see. He faced it as a. soul might face Almighty Greatness, only to be stricken blind thereafter} for his eyes filled painfully with slow. hot tears. Hattie did not look at him, but after a while she shouted in his ear, above the outcry of the surf : “ Here, pa, take my handkerchief. I don’t know how’tis about you, but this spray gets in mzeyes.” s vl-uu, (DI-l“ vuluvu a Euuuwu ' 7 h 1‘ l ‘ “-5- .. Mrs. Pike faced her husband in mum? “There, father !” she cried. “There ’txs! ‘ But Eli’s eyes were fixed on the dash- board in front of him. He looked Pg?“ “ Why father,” said she, impatiently, “am t you goin’ to look ? It’s the Sea 1”-â€"“Y§3’ yes,” said Eli, quietly; “byme-by. 1m goin’ to put the horses up fust.”â€"“ Well,1 never l” said Mrs. Pike ; and as they drew up on the sandy tract where SerenO hfid previously arranged a. place for their tents! she added almost fretfully, turning *0 Hattie, “ I dunno what’s come over 3'01? father. There’s the water, and he won} even cast his eyes at it.” But Hattie understood her father, by somaintuition 0f love, though not of likeness. “ Don’t you bother him, ma,” she said. “He’ll malt,e up his mind to_ it pretty soon. Here, 18? 5 lift out these little things, while they 1': unharnessin’, so they can get at the tents. $9 the clear. ice-cold water et home, wmcu‘ had never been shut out by a pump from ‘ the purifying airs of heaven, but lay when i the splashing’hncket and chain ”on event i day the image of fern and moss. Hi5 ”hr“ I grew parched and dry with longing' Wile}; they were within three miles of the 393’ l 1 seemed to them that they could taste ‘ j sa‘ltness of the incoming breeze; the "’3' was ankle deep in dust ; the garden flowerflI were glaring in their brightness. 1‘7 was 3;} new world. And when at last they emerg‘j ed from the marsh-bordered road “PM1 a ridge gfrsend, and turned a. sudden ICOmfr’ Dr. J. W. Gregory, of the Geological De- partment ofthe British Museum of Natural History, has reached London from East Africa, having accomplished an ascont of Mount Kenia under very ditficuit con- ditions. No previous explorer had suc- ceeded in going higher than 14,000 feet, but Dr- Gregory passed the record by 3,000 feet, butwaggtopped 2,000 from the sum; mit by a cornice which he could not sur- mount without assistance, and which his native companions would not approach, being afraid of the ice. He found the upper Pattof the mountain almost com- plgtely glnciated above 17,000 feet, and saw evxdence of the glaciers having had a. much greater. eXansion than they have now. The PrmCipal glacier is now readvancing, .131“ he thinks this may be only a seasonal change duetoheavy rains. It is evident, however, thstthe gfaciatlon of Kenia. is much more extensive then that of Kilima- NJEYO; Previous explorers had surmised that kenia was topped by a crater Hill of “0‘7? but Dr. Gregory found the tor. consxsted of the centrel core of an old vol- cane, Of which the crater has long dis.- appeared. In several other respects b! has corrected the observations'of earlier travelers, While he has brought home with him nearly a ton of specimens of various kmlis’ 3e91°8i°3L zoological and botanical, Whmh “’1“ increase greatly the present knowledge of that part of British East Africa. The news received by cable the other morning reflecting on the management of the Bank of England was well calculated to cause almost as much surprise as if it were news of same vagaries among heavenly bodies. so long has the old lady of Ti reiiueedle street been regarded as a model of finance, cor- rect methods and stability. That Mr. Frederick May, the trusted cashier of such an institution. should have allowed parental feeling to overcome his sense of duty With- out check from the directorate is another warning that in such afiairs eternal vigil- ance is the price of safety. The history of the commercial world for the last three years has furnished too many incident; which justify the belief that business pru. deuce and conservative commercial methods Tdml, 111,69E predict-£4353. {wave of crime; for the fall Midwinter, following both the Chicago exhibition and the dcpresaion. I‘- is upon us now and there is not, a. day that. passes that more than the average number of crimes ere not reported. Such a. state of things 15 inevitable With hundreds of thousands 0f people'in the neighbouring republic, and the worst is not; yet, for as the weather g eta keener the misery will become greater and the destitute will grow more desperate - , Iti a. rave uestion how multitudes °f People§n<§3 0:21;;1 in America, but “1 Eur are going to pull through‘ “the at- all,but~ the strangest pathy being shown by the different‘govemmemg when they must ‘know that action to relieve the pressure will be inevitabie. ' Last year We Germany ii the ' ’ greatest zmc- roducin countl‘} or the w°fld- The main I<.‘i‘ist.rit:1: ii in Upper Silesia, Whe _ _ from calanine a re the metal 1: made mm 116 zinc blended in). mm! gppear to be waning in resence of the widespread craze for sndde riches. Refer. ence was made in these columns at the time of the break in industrial securitie- dlover America some months ago, to the business methods that had led up to that disastrous depreciation, methods that were only too common in all lines of busi. ness at that time. It was pointed out that the energies of business men connected with joint stock corporations in the United States for some time back had been devoted not to the production and sale of the com- modities in which they dealt, but to the exploiting and manipulating of the etock of the company. The former is business, the latter gambling, and owing to its prevalence many of the commercial calas mitiea that have been recorded are due. The English newspapers at that time made similar comments on the improper conduct of American business concerns, and it is evident- from the despatches an- entthe mismanagement of the Bank of England funds that the American papers were nearly ready to return a tu quoque. Wain Canada are sometimes regarded by ouneighbors as slow, but the familiar promiis‘that slow and steady wins the ingtgieycar which ended J one 30, 1892. Some of the figures are not a. little startling. It appears, for instance. that in the period mentioned there were 4710 casualties in all, “or 5121mm than in the preceding year. Of this total, 1866 were serious disasters or ‘totel wrecks, which resulted in loss of life in 163 cases. Collisions were responsible for nolcss than 1530 of these disasters. Of the 4710 vessels figuring in the report, 4909 were either British or colonial. The locali- ties of the casualties, excluding collisions, were: Esst coast of England, 782; south coast, 593; west coast of Engiand and Scotland and east coast of Ireland, 1231 ; northcoast of Scotland, 93; east coast of Seotlaml, 168 ; and other parts, 263; total, 3130,01‘i06 more than in the previous year. It lubeen found, as a. rule, that the east coast is the most dangerous to shipping; but, curiously enough, for the last three Years aehnnge has occurred, and the west coast hasproved more disastrous than any other. The total loss of life was 585. The following figures show the number of wrecks on the coast of the United King- dom for the last twenty years : 1872, 2381 ; 1873-74, 2191 ; 1874-75, 4239 ; 1875-76, 4554; 1876-77. 0017; 1877-78. 4436; 1878- 79, 3716: 1879-80, 3133; 1830-81, 4297; 1881-82, 4367; 1882-83, 4363; 1383.84. 4405 ; 1884-85, 3761 , 1885-86, 3598; 1386-87, 4W4; 1887-88, 4004; 1888-89, 4272; 1889- 30, {243; 1890-91, 4193; 1391-92, 4710. ace. We have been so slow that'tbe evils at stock gambling have not invaded our busi- ness world. The old basis of trade, namely producing something that people want to buy, is still the object of our industrial energies, and that it has been a safe motive is testified to by the fact that amid com- mercial disasters allover the world our little corner of it has been subjected to no storms of any moment. TheBritish Board of trade has just issued its annual blue-book containing statigtics of maritime disasters on the British coasa dur- Alundred Thousand Wrecks. Unloant Xenia 17.000 Feet. the Bank of England Scare. A Want of (‘ rims. Where the old pine Guarding alone its From the winds "mid And the cruel winter! There stands halt hid.) The logs that remain 1‘ The path is winding :1 From the old stage And the flowers plan Still btoom as sweet And the ivy vet ty :1 And creeps o‘er the r Oh that. the years m3 Toilook from (0-day ‘ Bung pack the soon And place each for: hmne. 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