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A deputation from the Life Saving Society waxed on the committee of the London Schnoi Board recently and ug‘ged that all svhnlars should be taught to swim and render aid to those in danger of drowning. A horse attached to ahansom cab, which had been left unattended. took fright in Regent street. London. A man named Adams. who attempted to Map the horse was knocked down and fatally injured. In addition to the extensive manoeu- vres of trooys of MI arms to be held in “ilts and Dorset in September, it is proposed to muster al'large force 0! cavalry and artillery for manoeuv- res on Salisbury plain in July. The governors of Queen Anne's Boun- ty have made. their annual distribu- tion of surplus funds in grants to meet ltenefactions on behalf of poor bene- fices. in England and “'ales. The Bounty grants amounted to £57,1(X). ln consequenve of the strong local Oppositioll. the. Brighton l'nderground Railway bill has been removed from the list of hills referred to the com- mittee of the House of Lords of which the Duke of Richmond is chairman. By order from the. Admiralty over- time on all new work to the extent. of three hours u‘day is to be com- menced in Portsmouth dock yards. Slost of the men in' the yard will be included in this order. in the quen’s Bench Division, Lon« don. recently, Mr. Jinks a. painter. was awarded £500 damages for per- sonal injuries sustained through a beam falling on him from a" window in Burleigh street, Strand. An epidemic of measles is raging in many of the villages of \Vest Herts. At Rickmansworth several deaths have occurred. Almost every house at Ab- bots Langley is said to have been vis- ited by the malady. The annual rate uf mortality, of the 33 great to“ us of England! and \Vales for the week ending March 12th av- eraged 21.1 per 1,000. The rate in Bir- mingham was 21. Derby 18, Leicester 17. Miningham 24, and Wolverhamp- too 17. Thomas Anderson. 40, miner. was sent for trial. recently, charged at Castleford with the murder of his two Suns by throwing than into a reser- voir. Tho vain/e of the estate of Lord Sackville Arthur Cecil, half brother of the Premier, is sworn for prol'rate at £249,388. Hts exeuuwrs are A. J. Balfour and Lady Margaret E. Cecil, sister of the testator. ‘ Addressing the grand jury at Bir- mingham Assizes recently, the Lord Ohio! Justice strongly urged magis- trates to use more largely their dis- cretionary pmvers in granting accused porsuns hail. It has been decided to commence the. erection of a new Jenny Lind infirm- ery for sick children at Norwich. The charity was originated some 50 years time through the munificence of Jenny Lind. A rare visitor to English waters has been caught off the Lincolnshire coast between Skegness and Gibraltar Point â€"a file-back sunfish. The creature weighed nearly 15 cwt.. and was over 7 feet long. At 'l‘odmorden. on the 3rd inst, John Hitchin. a..laborer, was sent for trial‘ charged with attempting to murder a young woman by throwing her into a. canal. George Williams. a. submarine diver. has been remanded at Bonthwerk pe- FR‘JE MERRY ENGLAND. An extensive scheme of harbour de- velopment was: inaugurated at Llan- olly lately, when {the first sod of a large floating dock was out, which will accommodate the largest vessels afloat. (mun-red l‘rom Many Pain" In the 1".“ little Island-Inner: or ”are Than Panning Intcrfll. Tbs death ucvurred recently of Lord Charles Lemux Kerr, son of the sixth Marquis m Luthian. He was born in 1814. Lord Carrington laid the foundation atom! of a. new Liberal club at Black- I’OOI. and later was the principal speak- or at a large Mlio meeting. On March 10, Admiral R. Coote, C. 8.. died at Arden. D'ulwicht, after a long “111088. The late officer was born in 1820 and had a! brilliant record of naval service. E. J. Halsey has been unanimously rib-elected chairman of the Surrey Counfy Council. Lord Ashcombo was to-elected vice-chairman. A Mr. French has been appointed to the chief agency of Lord Penrhyn’s “'elsh estates, in succession to the Hon. M'kville~“'est. who has retired. ITEMS 91'" NEWS FROUGHT BY THE MAIL. Th. wili of tin la'te \Vm. Singleton. of Edglastun. who died last November has 00-3,: proved at £72,984. The funeral of the late superintend- ont of the Crimina! Investigation De- partment, John Shore, took place at Nor-wood cemetery recently. The will of thw late Lord Berwick. of Attinghaan Hall, 8310;», wha died last November has been proved at £138,822 grw-s. It would be 0. little dizzy even at an- chor in a friendly harbor. But send the ship to sea, with every roll of her hull multiplied by three or four. the top describing arcs of huge circles in the swing of the swell, and set another ship to shooting at her from a distance of 1000 yards at the rate of 5,000 shots a. minute and the landsman might be excused if his heart should crowd into his mouth. The fighting man in the fighting top. intently training his machine gun on any group of (omhatants he may see exposed on the enemy 's dec’,ks may not be troubled by the landsman' s qualms. but even his seas ,ned nerves cannot be expected to ignore the meteoric shower of projectiles big anl little, that hurtle by him. the smallest of \shich \sould terminate his earthly existence. 'A single one. of the larger shells striking the. mast below him mould bring it dmxn Like a tree under the ax of the woodman and plunge the man in the top a hundred feet to his death. In the absence of such a catastmphe the top itself must inevitably be riddled by the smaller bolts and, if it remain stand- {The landsman would find an hour in a fighting top a rather thrilling experi- enee even in time of peace. After crawling up a little iron ladder on the inside of a steel shaft like a hollow tree he would emerge in a. huge drum with the top off. Loiiking over the side he would find himself suspended at the height of a (-hurch steeple. with nothing visible beneath him to break his fall. He would have the sensation of hanging in the car of a balloon. In the l-‘lglmng Top of a lug Bunion-In. There are some men who will have an interesting and exoiting time in the next naval battle. ‘They are the fol- lows who will be perched up in the fighting tops. looking down upon the hell of crashing steel and mangled limbs below and doing their best to re- produce it on the decks of the enemy. ing when the battle is over, it is likely to contain a. crew of corpses. ' Daughterâ€"I will have to break my engagement with Mr. Nicefellow. moth- er. I find I do not love 3him. ,Motherâ€"When did you make that Daughter-List. evening. I saw him apt walking with another woman. and The funeral of the late George Mul- ler took place at Bristol. It. was of a public character. thousands of people of all classes crowding the streets from 10 till I o’viock, when the lung string of sixty carriages passM through ihe city to the cemetery. On the church towers flags were hung half-mast high. and hundreds of nn'hun children folowed the procession to the Beth- esda chapel. The death is announced at‘ Chatbam, at the age of 84, of Arthur Dickens, an old quartermaster of the Royal. Navy. He neco'mpanied Sir John Rosa’s expedition to the Arctic regions, and was with the Baltic fleet during the Crimean war. Some workmen engaged in excavat~ ing at Bury. recently, uncovered a large copper bell, beautifully chased and evidently very' ancient. The bell weighed about a hundred weight and a half, stands 2ft. 6 in., and is 2ft. 7 in. in circumference It woodman named Lobley comniitted suicide at Armley 32on by hanging him- self by his belt in' his cell. Lobley had been sentenced to five years’ penal servitude for setting fire to the farm prnmisea of his father-in-law. \Vhile workmen were preparing the slip in Portsmouth dockyard for laying down the new battleship F‘nrmidable, Alfred Baker. :1 labourer, fell from a derrick, (SO-ft. high. and was kiiled. C. Coppard, of Perryman’s farm, on the high road from Bnrwash to Bright- ling, was driving home recently when the carriage was upset and he was thrown on his head and killed. A woman named Emma Berry died on March 1 at Sunderlzmd. as aresult of terrible injuries received by the ex- plosion of a. paraffin lamp which she “as carrying from one room to an- other. At Carmarthen, Timothy D. \Vilâ€" llams, 38, a poacher from Llandovery, was sentenced to five years’ 'penal ser- vitude. He was charged with attempt- ing to murder Constable Mitchelmore, Benjamin Kirkmzm, one of the grave- diggers of Louth cemetery, dropped dm‘vn dead. He was in). the act of get- ting a shovel to dig a grave when he. made a remark to a fellow-workman and dropped dead into his,arms. A two storey warehouse belonging to Messrs. Smith, Edwards Co., in Queen street, Liverpool, was destroyed by fire with 2,800 bales of cotton. The dam- age is estimated at £20,000. At Birmingham Assizos recently Luvy Roberts pleaded guilty to forg- ing the name 'of Joseph Chamberlain 3.0 an order of hosiPI‘y, and was sentenc- ed to five months’ imprisonment. Arthur Pewsfione. of Woolstonfiouthl amIJton. was riding a bicycle down hill “ithmt a. brake, near Romeo!- thrown on his. head and killed. DANGEROUS POST. NOT TRUE LOVE. Lge drum: A sample instance rOf the danger i0 vver thelthe steamers that have left Atlantic ports for |Uhe Pacific is found in the “Silended‘case of the Ohio, which sailed from ple. with ; Philadelphia on March 8, bound for San to break lB‘raneisco. Seattle and Tacoma, with a p ‘ t' {cargo of supplies for Uhe Klondike senba ”m trade. She was last heard of at Cor- llloun- onel, a Oh-ilian port, where she touched en at an- on April 13. She remained them three d , days taking on coal, and when she sail- But 3"" led her commander, Capt. Broomhead, l“ of her leou'ld not have heard of the state of she woulld make a prize worth' at least 0200.000 to the Spaniards, and it is noth- ing wonderful, therefore, that the Done noth- are inclined to countenance privateer- ing. when there are from titty to one . and big cllnpe'r Aryan. which leflt New York 311- “on Jen. 18.. bound for Francisco. Take. for instance, the big ship Ab- ner Coburn. one of the beat of this class. She sailed from Hongkong on Dec. 4, bound for New York with: little likeli- hood of her touching at any port dur- ing her long ‘voyogez With not cargo ‘LA ._...â€"-.I J One of the richest. harvest fields for the Spaniards on the ocean is found among the clipper ships that are cargo carriers between the .United States, China. and the East Indies: These ships _..._ .LL- 5‘ MCBT VADU‘ABLE KIND. Many of them are engaged in the trade. A similar instance is that of the steamer Illinois. a sister ship of the Ohio, which is engaged in the same trade. The Illinois left Philadelphia on March 22. and has not yet touched at any port Where there is cable com- munication with the United States. Her captain ‘had no orders touching his procedure in case of war at the time of her sailing. Then there are the steamers engag- ed in the West Indian and South Amer- ica n trade. These have not been out as many days as hhe others. but there are many of. them that are not in a position to (receive a warning that 'will be of any .real use in (helping them to take Uhe necesswry precautions for safety. 'lihe goods which they carry, in many instances ' vâ€"v vu'ru are the finest vessels of their class, most of them built in Maine, and their cargoes are always of the IMIPERISHLA BLE PROVISIONS is just 'Uhe thing the Spaniards need the most. and Obey will make every endeavor to capture as many of them as possible. There are at least a dozen of these steamers which have sailed from New York, Boston and Philadelphia for the Pacific Coast. and every one of them is in imminent danger of becoming a Spanish prize. Perhaps lube first intimation they will receive will be the roar of a $110th gain. an unanswerable challenge for them to heave to and deliver. The Klondike steamers have large cargoes of supplies and numerous passengers, men and women on their way to the land of golden plumage..- wi'tlhl no aus- picion of. {UM danger that impends. Many of t'hese ships were chartered for long voyages before there was any gtrealt fear of war and no extraordinary precautions were taken .for Uheic pro- tection or safety. For instance,there is a great fleet tlhat is now on its way around Cape .Horn and up into uhe Pa- cific Ito engage in the Klondike trade. Tlhese left Atlantic seaports weeks ago. and their captains have no idea now of the serious turn of affairs since they steamed out of American 'hsarbors. by the speedy Spanish cruisers and gu-nboats. With their cargoes. they would afford more prize money for the Spanislh sailors than they have ever dreamed of. There is not one of them that could defend herself, and colors would have to be lowered at bhe fir- ing of ‘txhe first gun. 760 Yankee “easel: Far From Fort Win: No Idea the: the War Is leally on- Witloou Keckoulng ‘l‘lu-lr Cal-goes ‘l‘uey Aggregate a Total or 354.466.0115. A careful review: of the weekly com- pendium of the New Yodk Maritime 3488181613 just issued shows that there are at the present moment on the high seas exactly 760 vessels flying the Am- erican flag. 0f cousrse this does not! represent all the American shipping now engaged in the commerce of t‘be world, for there lure many ships that are safe in port. and none of these have been included in this reckoning. 'Ilhe tonnages are taken from the rec- and Published by the American Ship- maste-rs' Association in New York. The valuations are the estimates of an ex- Perienced marine underwriter. Uhan “them there can obviously be no better authority, 'I‘ahese valuations are for the Ships themselves, and no reckoning is made for the valuable cargoes they are carrying from port to port. So that in the single item of vessels the Spaniards have a chance for a 81038 sum O’f $54,466,075 in prize money. These Ships are scattered all over the world. many Of them in places where they are really without a particle of protection beyond their own speed, and this is a reliance that is not very far-reaching. except in a few isolated instances. Th0 American merchant marine does not include many sudh‘ flyetrs as the St. Louis. the Paris and the New York andof the other steamers almost every AMERICAN SHIPS AT SEA. CHANCE FOR RICH PLUNDER FOR THE SPANISH NAVY. LIABLE TO CAPTURE. Port With AWAY UP. Mistressâ€"Ara you up in French dress- ings! - Cookâ€"All my belt gowns in Paris made man. I do, efie pouted, as she twisted her empty engagement finger. I do not believe in rings. declared the amateur politician who was calling on big best girl. rooms are provided with electric curl- ing iron heaters. The laundry has its share of electric appliances in the form of electrically heated sad-irons. A Few [Huts About Proper "VI-g Which u Would up Well I. I-‘ellew. We should like to take the opportun- ity of pointing out a few of the mis‘ takes which are too frequently made nowadays. It is a mistake to work when youare not ina fit oondit ion to do so. To take off heavy undercloth- ing because you have become overheat- ed. To think that the more a person eats the healthier and stronger he will become. To believe that children can do as much work as grown peOple. and that the more they study the more they learn. To go to bed late at night and rise at daybreak and imagine that every hour taken from sleep is an hour gained. To imagine that if a little work or exercise is good. violent or prolonged exercise is better. To con- clude that the smallest room in the house is large enough to sleep in. To sleep exposed to a direct: draught at any season. To imagine that. whatever remedy causes one to feel immediately better. as alcoholic stimulants. in ex- ample. is good for the system. without regard to the after effects. To eat as if you had only a minute in which to finish the meal. or to eat without an appetite. or to continue after it has been satisfied to gratify the taste. To give unnecessary time to a certain es- tabli hed routine of housekeeping when it could be more profitably spent in rest or recreation. “e trust that these little mistakes. which. as we pointed out above. are so apt to be made. will in future be avoided. Should burglars try to enter the house their efforts will not only ring an alarm hell. but at the same time the electric lights on the porch and in the vestibule flare up and expose him to the gaze of the occupants of the house and the 10'ice. 'l he temperature of each room in the house is controlled by electric devices which can be set to any degree wanted. The ,use of elec- tririty has done away with‘a stable and in its steed. provided himself with an electric carriage, which he keeps ready for use in the basement of his house. An inclined cement pavement leads to this carriage room from the street. and when the carriage is not in use it is ( onnected to the wires in the house and is automatically rechaxged ready for servite again. In the kitchen all the cooking is done by electricity. and there is besides an electricallv driven knife sharpener and toffee grinder. 1n the dining room the tea 01 coffee is kept but by an ele. tric heater and for midnight suppers there is an electric chafing dish. In the bathroom there is an electric shaving water heater and a big electric heater for furnishing hot water for the bath. The current for this is turned on by the turning of the spigot. and shut. off when this is closed. One may use as much but water, as may be de- sired withuut exhausting the supply for the next person. In the sewing room a. pressure of the foot upon the treadle of a sewing machine sets an electric motor at work driving the machine. in the smoking room an electric cigar Lighter is at hand and the women's All in all. the best muthorities admit, Uhat there is a tremendous danger to American Ihipping. with little or no chance for an adequate reprisal. {or the Spanish merchant marine is not one- tenth as valuable as the American, and Where the Spaniards have ten chances to make a captmre Uhe Americans will not have one. ' ' Novel Electrical Appliances in the [louse M a unable Man. An electrical engineer in Buffalo has recently fitted up his house with a great variety of novel electrical ar- rangements. If he arrives home in the night after the usual lights have been turned out he has no trouble in finding the key hole in the front door, for as soon as he steps on the porch floor at the top of the front steps. lights on the porch and im the vestibule are aut- omatirally lighted. After he gets in and closes the door these lights are exâ€" tinguished and those on the first land- ing of the main stairway are lighted. If he desires to light the hall. the bath- room or any of the bedvhambers before going further. he opens a secret panel in the vestibule and turns the proper switch. There in no telling where she mny be at this time, and bar owners are natur- ally anxious over flbo danger of .her being captured and taken to a- port where she can be converted into prize money. When a caller arrives and rings the bell members of the family who may be in any part. of the house can speak to him without: leaving the room where they are, and if they wish to admit h-im can do so by merely pushing a hut- ton. NO TROUBLE TO FIND THE KEY- HOLE. SOME MISTAKES WE MAKE. AT VARIANCE. AMAN'I‘OI How did you. ha mu for grocenes. I at his name. You. I know him honest man. I sat I In a short time Jew he and Stephvn with t Stephen knocked him ed him to the 01d w throat with a jack-kl .stated that next year iwith most 01' H1» in) ltim. Stephen after 'c ithe truth. of Jesse's « 'this (boy were w nvim -to be hanged on the : 1820. They applied fu .sentenz‘e. and as sum 'nocence. advertisemc 'ed in various papers f ' long afterward a lwttu ;New York Evening 1’ :Mr. Chadwirk and 11:”. (N. J.. December Hi. J In, slight 1y deranged in {Colvin had been then- ‘This was generaily h gboax. but Jas. Whelpl =who knew Calvin rem ithe clue, and actually “he house of William l 301', N. J., where he hum £1813. masts raw. Mrs. Nowwedâ€"lell W H She never comes in!” t 3b “’(ll't 161} me gu mm 11» . the Mr. Newwedâ€"M y dear (-9“ that 000k “1:11 we t beefsteak binned an! dc Some other 11' We fret for the thing“ been done Some other d We trace the path ”3"“. The beckoning hand 0‘ Leads us yonder gut 0" 3 Some other «by And when woare 0M an Some other (by. “'0 know we must toil if Some other day. But we say to ourselves tobegin Some other d_,: .V see the dead alive. A. can! brought out and Cabin “us With a discharge. of mmvm a1 tyms Stephen Boom firing piece. There was muwh «iisvuss the motive [or the wnfmsinn tubuting [t (,0 the effm‘t 0f 1 ment. :1 general {-1an of panic and others to the inju«1;viuu~‘ 3‘ exhortations of a clergyman. And so. deferring, m Until at last we. find The strength of the There are wonderful things v ing to do. Some other «My: And harbors we hope. to drift Some other day. With folded hands the oars ‘ We watch and wait {or :1 fav‘ To fill the fOIds 0f .10 it“? 53 Mr. “'helpley Look him to the common councii gu’v to [named to Vermnut. an! at Man'oheater on the Bid ( ember. jrbe whole plan: was in Wild excitement. Pwph’ e" from all the surrouni'flh' . . m .. nerve quivering. “1th "or, h drtwn to its utmost ' ,. pain increasing in '1 ~' ence, should confess petrator of crime '13 annual The prospect of relief from “[310: is a temptation that biin {is the 'm or to the future. But it strange, and is indeed one 0[ the" inexplicable things in human M that men have been Induced by “H mm exhortatjons and owe; M 92130881011 l0 Slgu the” own (193.th rant by confessing crimes actually. er committed. Such in England | the case of John l’urx'y. execumd. Campden in 1661, with his mother. brmher. for murdering William Ban on, steward [or Lady Campden, 1 tOStlmony against. lbwu was chiefly confession of John Perry. himseil.i to the ulouishluvm of all. Harm who had been kldnupvd and enrich returned two year; uher the execnu Whom be fixed upon as his ”will Stephen and Jesse. Hie ghufit of: murdered man ewn spwifibd tbepu of the murder 8.111 the 01d (21hr! where the mangled body hadh thrust. There a knife and burn were found. \\ hinh were identified belonging to Calvin. On this the. were arrested. Stephen and Cd had quarreled just bet'ure thedh pearance of the latter. and Stephen! been seen to strike him with ac and knock him down. In 1812 a. man named Russellu Vin. living at Muuvnvster. m,“ peared and suspi‘riuns of foul plan. entertained. Public {pinion auxin“ his murder to Stephan and Jem Be: Still, $3 there was 11-: definite gm. on which to arrest. thmu. the em ment gradually died uxxay. [n11 boweven a Mr. {cum dreamed um had been "O. “h. Ila \‘Q' (on MIL'R DE R131) mM [581' l (1‘ the path that 'mds us ' m dew“ Mint hand 01 gri ysgndor out of the hero me other (by. “I“! Sew-r 1 SOME 0mm DAY fined .. 0".“ BY we ldimr on. 1d withdrawn [)6 how W. 1 ROBLEMS looked l and 0‘” LV '1’ W0 MEX if ever 9881011 1f n. htd a and cu‘ and fa! )nfessed of in?! Dd scum Shrew” stating ‘ uued Rd Vt! lllll II mint \V DCC St ate all!“ unul 01 I. certain point PM“ Mi maintains y. u only is the risk I ”dud to a mix of reaching the .U11 greater. Gnu ‘V- \“8 Ital Wit . HO cuimfi that the mzu In men: of Mount m. wu vainly attempv tourist: mic“ days I MW itâ€"uab such palm. was because he I [um Ild thorough! wan. tho membtrs oi ind mum climb Mum: and mams of ‘9 Wt! apprum-hes Md mute “in be 91 With. Ind themetu '5’ “I“ be made by“ men “hr “01'“th [~[[\ Hort of human laddq "ll foremost being I '11:. Prince does not pm I Nm's footstepi. I guns of “edges and i no“ as kayaks. 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