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rdnmpiint , .1" 1‘. George McVittie is dead at Hamilton from lock jaw. He stopped on a rusty nail last Wednesday. The body of Fred. Begy of St. Cathâ€" arines, aged sixteen. was found in the Old Welland Canal. CANADA. Mrs. A. 8. Craig. Montreal, took stryclminc pills in mistake and died. The Clifton House. Niagara. Falls is to be rebuilt on the old site. The new structure will be an imposing ho- tel of modern style. The Victorian nurses en route to the Klondike, when last heard of, were on the Flenoraâ€"Teslin trail. The water in the St. Lawrence River is two and a half feet higher now than it was at this period two years ago. The State Department and Clerk of the Crown in Chancery at Ottawa,aro busy preparing for the prohibition ple- biacite. It is announced at Ottawa that all the bye-elections to fill vacancies in the House have been postponed until the fall. Lightning. during a storm at Kelly's Cross. Prince Edward Island, killed Thomas Monaghan and Owen Trainor. At Guelph Charles Sully was present- ed with a Humane Society medal for rescuing Charles (‘lendennan from drowning in the Speed. been re-oloctod. Shovellers employed by the Transportation Company are {or increased wages. The Kingston Y. M. C. A. have re- ceived a gift of one hundred dollars from O’Loughlin Brothers, of New York, formerly of Kingston. Another large batch of Galicians were released from quarantine at Winni- peg on Monday. There are still over one hundred detained. Two girls employed in the Bouril factory at Montreal. settled a dispute with knives. One named Rath seri- ously wounded the other. Winnipeg's resident population. ac- cording to the assaqssmen}: commission- srs' 0838118. is 39.356. The assessment of real property reaches about $23,000,- The apple crOp throughout the whole' of \Vestern Ontario will be one of the largest for many years. and the qual-W, ity promises to be equal to the quan- tity. } A chartered telephone company, in which a number of local capitalists are interested. is likely to secure a foot- hold in London in rivalry to the Bell concern. The retirement of C. J. Anderson. head of the savings bank branch of the Finance Department. is announced at Ottawa. Mr. John Fraser willsuc- oeed him. ~ Chief Keeper Hughes and Engineer Derry. officials of the Kingston Peni- tentiary. have been susyended. They are accused of being too friendly with an ex-convict. The Broz-kville 'l‘uwn Council has pass- ed a by-law prohibiting bicyclists car- rying children on their wheels and lim- iting the speed of the wheelmen to eight miles per hour. James lAllison, who took poison at Ottawa some. days ago in an attempt to end his life. has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment in the King- ston penitentiary. The Canadian Pacific Railway Com- pany have sent an official to Switzer- land to engage a number of Alpine guides to act as guides for tourists in the Rocky Mountains. Miss Florence Shaw. colonial editor of the London Times. passed through Win- nipeg on Tuesday, en route to the Yu- kon, to learn the true facts about this country for her paper. The Stikine river steamer McCon- nell has made the run from Fort Wrangel to Glenora and return in 43 hours. lowering the Ogilvie's record by half an hour. The body of “'m. Herman. at. one time a wealthy merchant of Toronto, was found floating in the canal at Hamilton beach on Tuesday. It is be- lieved that he committed suicide. Fifteen pegleg tramps have been ar- rested to date in connection with the London murder. They covered arange of territory extending from Montreal on the east to Minnesota in the west; Capt. Thenault, of the 89th Battal- ion, at Rimouski. is reported at Que- bec to have levanted with some 8475. intended for the payment of the bat- talion. France is said to be his desti- Brantford ratepayers on July 27th will vote on the question of spending mm to keep the Grand river with in bonmb. and upon the proposal to abolish the ward system in electing! alderman, their number to be redneâ€" od to 12. Brentford ratepayers will on July 27th vote on the question of spending $60.!!!) to prevent the Grand River flooding the town; also upon the-quee- tion of reducing the Aldermen to trelve_en_d electing them from the city IE VERY LAIEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. Wm. Cotter, Superintendent of the G.T.R. Eastern Division. has been mov- ed from Montreal to Detroit, to as- sume thb__ $qperin_tonden_cg Act the AH Parts 0‘ the (”006. 9 assorted Ior Easy Rad“!- WM Division. James M. Herbert, tuin master at. Bolloville. will sue- enod It. “tot. -GBE£T BRITAIN. It is rem-in London.»Eng., that the Montreal are on strike ’ It is said that British farmers and dairymen are to-day milking over $300,000 cows, and producing in their :dairies £32,000,000 worth of milk and ibutter and cheese. no‘oL l Bl'v ;. u-.._._e . _ nually, \Vhlch at a fair average price, would bring in an income of £14,300,000. i Liquor may be sold in the House of Commons without a. license, the Police Magistrate having dismissed the summons against its barkeeper. As the Daily News puts it, “If the House of Commons wants liquor, the House ’of Commons will have liquor, and all lthe courts in England cannot control lthe legislative power." l UNITED STATES. l The recent. census showed 62,000 Pro- testants among the 31,000,000 of , Italy. i At Munich there is a hospital which is entirely supported by the sale of old steel pen nibs. collected from ell parts of Germany. They are made ‘mto watch Springs. knoves and razors. The conditions under wmcn Drlusu sailors and soldiers live are far more sanitary now than in the past. In 1865 more than 11 deaths occurred in every 1,000 men afloat, while ten years later the number tell to 6.8, in 1885 to 5.4, and in 1895, 4.4. Someone has undertaken to show how Ireland might be made to prosper. There are 2,000 parishes, which ought to turn out 50 pigs weekly. [This would give a desirable total of 5,200,000 an- A. A 19-2.. “tin-‘0) nu [\T‘iflp. There is a remarkable society in Leghorn. comprising no fewer than 9,000 members, which succours the sick and buries the dead gi'a'tutiously. A whole town of 500 inhabitants near Foo-Chow has adopted Christianity. The Chilian Government has given Argentina until August 18th to de- cide the boundary question. More eggs are produced in France than in any country in the world, the number being about 42,000,000 annual- 1y. â€"v--~' By the capsizing of a cathoat in the harbor of Portland, Maine, five lives were lost. Twenty returned miners. irom the Klondike are at Seattle, \Vash.. with $375,000 in gold dust and draii’ts. ' O Egypt is the only country in the world where there are more men than women. The male sex in the dominions 01 the Khedive exceeds the female by 160,000. The wheat crap throughout the Unit- ed States promises an increase of from 15 to 25 per cent. over the yield a: 1897. The total acreage now growing Ls 25,651,000 acres. Congolese rebels have massacred 31 of the 100 mew in the Belgian expedi- tion under Lieut. Dubois. who, it is re- ported, was assassinated by his own At Welbeck, in Germany. a decree has been proclaimed that a license to marry will not be granted to any in- dividual who has been in the habit of getting drunk. i strayed. The British Admiralty has directed Parsons’ Marine Turbine Company of Newcastle- on-Tyne to build a torpedo boat destroyer to test the turbine sys- tem as applied to warships. It has been discovered that Princess Ena of Battenberg, who was born in 1887 is the only royal child born in Scotland for nearly 300 yearsâ€"that is, since the birth of Charles I. in 1600. Appelling destruction was caused by a recent snow storm in Caucasia. In addition to the loss of 35 human lives over 9,000 horses, nearly 30,000 cattle and 14.000 sheep, goats, etc., were de- JUST WHAT TU BALL THEM HOW TO PRONOUNCE PROPERLY THOSE SPANISH NAMES. They Are lhmml in Get .Vllxecl up In War Talk-lull“ ’l'hat “Ill l-lmlhle You to Langl- at (filters. There is a great deal of mispronun- ciation of Spanish names, proper and geographical just now, which is un- necessarily fantastic. Spanish is one of the most easily pronounced languages in the world. and there is no reason why those even who have not mastered its rudiments should not acquire the few simple rules of guidance that will ,enable them to read at sight, without [grotesquely perverting them or help- lessly stumbling over them. the names of people and places which they are destined to see duly atter day in the neWSpapers for some time to come. Everything in Spanish to begin with is pronounced as it is written. There are no arbitrary distinctions like those which. in English. confront the puz- zled foreign student in such pronun- ciations as “ cow” and “ low;” no such capricious discrepancies between spell- ing and enunciating. as in “slaughter” and " laughter.” Nor are there any “ mute ” vowels. as in French. An ex- ception is made for the vowel uwhen it is preceded by, the consonants q 01' 8- and followed by e or i. In those cases. and those only, the u is not sounded as we should sound it in .‘ mug-L ,’ _ - ll â€"â€"â€"' â€"â€"â€" “â€"_‘ b' . " quest” or “qnarrel.” Thus the name Junta. Senor Queeada. is. pronounced Kaysahda. Aguinaldo is pronounced Agginaldo, and so forth. But AGUADORES IS AGW'ADORES. ETC. U. itself is represented by our double 0. under every circumstance. The Spen- ish i is represented ~b our e as in “ eel ;” and the Spanish e corresponds as nearly as it can he described‘to our 3!. he in day. per, etc. - % final e u: following themenl '. t0? V'Mlfl, 31“,; 36%. The GENERAL. take up the At- ! naval annals of America W111 so w... ”“39”" the names of Dewey, and of and lManllfi’S outpost battery, Cavite, that )ver ‘1‘ might as well be learned at the heir ’start that the latter is and 'Kavee’tay, and not Keveet. the_ Cuban gentleman latterly in the tish 'Umted Sta-“BS on a mission to Preexâ€" bore Idem MCKmley from the msurgents’ 186510311198 pronounced his name Kapotaf'. and not Kepoat. Sapote. a fit of :3: 3!: ‘firande should have the Lts last syllable, and not be clipped. off 5‘4’ mto an lnelegant Sagua la Grand’. . whrch ls somewhat painfully suggestive ban of slang. On the other hand, the tonic Sper. accent never falls in Spanish on afinal lght e. as 1t does in French when it bears 0‘11‘1 the .acute accent. Puerto Principe. 38 311' 'an mstance, is Prin’cipay. e. as it does in Frencn when .... _--- i the acute accent. Puerto Principe. as an instance, 18 Prin’cipay. an Prmcipa-ay. . ‘ , ' ' broad, in every combination. Santiag pronounced. therefore, with lish or a Bostonese ‘ Viz" Santiahgo, Santiaygo ls offen- sively flat to the ear, and s suppressed at once. It may . Why Santiago de Kewba, and not, in the true-blue Spanish vernacular all through, Santiahgo de Cooba. The same question was aske ago when the whole country was .lab- oriously seeking to acquire pronunciation of junta. ' ' not say Cooba. it was (leman ed, AS \VELL AS “HOONTA ‘I” We need not trouble ourselves to catch the peculiar and fascinating man- ner in which a pretty Castilian says Madridâ€"it does not sound like our Madrid. certainly, and the treatment of the letter d by a Spanish tongue is something altogether not to be de- scribed in black and white; nor do'we need to concern ourselves to change our long-accustomed Kewba into Coo- ba. Cuba and Madrid are names that have been on English-speaking tongues for generations. and our Anglicized pronunciation of them, universally re- cognized, and the correct way to speak them is to get as close to the original as possible . Z and c are two letters that give much trouble to Germans. Frenchmen and Italians who are learning Span- ish, but they offer no difficulties to us. Z is in every case given with one sound, and c has the same sound When it occurs before the vowels e and i. The Cervera, Centa, Maceo, Garcia, Cienfuegosâ€"Thervera. Thenta, Matheo, Garthia. 'l‘hienfuegos. Z though invariably represented. as I say, by our th, is sometimes softened a“) 9 U) Uul. Du, Lu WWV‘DOO-vâ€" __ _, a little when it occurs at the very end of aword. Thus Gomez is oftener sounded, perhaps, as it it were Gomes, than as Gometh; or. at least, the; final z is made to glide off into something between the two. With the Cubans it is an almost universal practice to Change the pure th sound of c and 2 into s. The Spaniards, particularly the inhabitants of Castile, the true “Cas- tellanos,” make no end of sport of the lisping, emasculated Cuban-Spanish. The great beauty of the Spanish lan- guage lies, indeed, in its virility and resonance. and in its crispiness when Draperly enunciated. and much of all these qualities is lost in the indolent sing-song fashion in which THE CUBANS SPEAK IT. La Zocapa, the fortress opposite the Morro at Santiago, is Thocapa on a Spanish tongue. but it. becomes Socapa to the Cubans. who. on their side, find the Spanish enunciation very hard and dry. So the main island of the Philippines, Luzon. is Loothon to the Spanish and Looson to the Cuban; the insurgent patriot there who was shot by the Spaniards a while agoâ€"Rizalâ€" is Rithal, or Risal, according to whether it is a Spaniard or a Cuban who is_speak_in.g of him. andso on_._ The Spanish j. the jota. is the letter most troublesome to foreigners. and the precise sound and enunciation of it are really never quite achieved. save by the native-born. It corresponds more near- ly to our aspirate than anything else. But when we have pronounced junta, and Jimenez. and San Juan and Jose. and so forth, as hoonta. Himenez, San Hooan, Hose, there is still a guttural sound to the j that we have not attain- ed to. The consonant g. when it pre- cedes e and i, has the same sound as the jota. Corregidor Island, in Manila Bay. is thus Correhidor Isle, by the way, which is island in.Spanish, is pro- nounced itzla, every letter being given its full value. The Queen Regent, the Reina_Regente. is Rehenta. The soft g of Sagasta becomes. followed by L a hard aSpirate in Giberjaâ€"Hiberhaâ€"and artists who have been some time in Spain learn to speak of the “ H‘iralda” as they speak of the “Alkathar.” The Spanish j is a guttural aspirate, and is g in the circumstances mention- ed, and this guttural aspirate is the very backbone of the language. the bass ViOl. as it were, in those magnificent sonorities that have caused Spanish to be spoken of as the tongue in which to address Godâ€"but the h itself 1s not- pronounced as an aspirate; in fact, it is the only Spanish letter that is a mere silent sign. Americans are famil- iar with the épatiisli pidifinBiétiSE‘KE Havana, not sounding the initial h. It is so with all other words in which the h occurs. - The stylish lace curtains for next season are elaborately decorated with ribbon work. The designs which. ac- cording to the dealers, will be most popular are floral, and are very pro- nounoed. Who!) carried out on cream nets, with white satin ribbons of vari- ous widths, theeffiect is very striking. The newest curtains have centres of plain. coarse nets. with an edge of lace and an, inner border of ribbon. pair 0:5 curtains. the design of whio or Renaissance lace eight or ten inch- (38 deep, with an inner border twelve inches wide at Maxie _ Antoinette de- sign. sheyviqg long-handled basket: 12“-) â€" 9 LATEST IN CURTAINS. nerwa mu -- 7 _ , of Dewey. and of .ttery, Cavite. be learned at. tter is pronounced k'nvaet. Similarly will e announcement that the balloon is destined to play a role in the pre- sent war between thb United States and Spain recalls the aeronautic ex- periments made by l the great war in 1870 and 1871. Asj early as 1792 balloons were used for' military signalling in France. But, in our times. during the siege of Paris by the German troop frequent at- tempts were made by Frenchmen to communicate with those insi leagured city, and to despatch men and matter from the capital by means of balloons. In Paris itself, under the direction of Postmaster Rampart. a balloon post and transport service was ’established for carrying persons and |Governmental as well as private mail matter from the besieged capital. Am- ong the public men leaving the city in this way, M. Gambetta will ever be remembered. Homing pigeons were also sent by this route to carry back news to Paris. A total of sixty-six balloons. according to Tisandier’s “En Balloon Pendant le Siege de Paris." left the besieged city, and 168 per- sons,. 10.194 kilograms of' postal mat- ter, including 3,000,000 letters, 363 hom- ers, five dogs and two boxes of dyna- mite, were dispatched by the aerial route 0f the balloons, fifty-two de- scended in France, five in Belgium. fourOIn Holland, two in Germany, and one 111 Norway. Only five of them were captured by the Germans and two were. never heard of, having been lost In the ocean, vvvvvâ€"v Of all voyages of that time. howev- er. none could compare for excxtinfl . and perilous incidents with that of; the well-known aeronaut, M. Natl”. Who left Tours for Paris with im- portant Government despatches at 6 o’clock one fine December morning- At 11 he was in View of the capital. on the Seine. While floating about 3100 metres above Fort Charenton. Nader suddenly discovered a second balloon on the horizon. Thinking it to be one leaving Paris. the French aeronaut at once displayed the tricolor of his coun- try, and the other balloon responded by exhibiting the same flag. Gradually the two balloons approached one anoth- er. being drawn in the same direction by the same current of air. When they were separated by only a short dis- tance several explosions were heard. The stranger commenced firing shots at. Nader’s balloonâ€"the “Intrepide"-â€" which began to descend rapidly. The French flag had by this timd been re- Placed in the other balloon by the Prussian colors. The Parisiaus. who were watching the affair from the ‘ forts below, and who now realized the true character and object of the last arrival. cried out that. their plucky compatriot was lost. But they were .mistaken. Nadar had, scrambled from the car up the network of his airship after the first shot. of the enemy, to stop ahole made in the tissue. Presently be de- scended to the car as the balloon right- ed itself. and throwing out a quantity of ballast, caused it to rise higher and higher. Then, seizing his rifle, he fired shots with rapid succession into the Prussian. which suddenly split and sunk to the earth. On reaching the ground a detachment of Uhlans, who had been watching the combat from the plain. picked up the German aero- hunts and rode off to the Prussian outposts. Nadar then nlighted in safe- ty within the girdle of the Paris forts meeting with an enthusiastic ovation for lhis victory in the first balloon due . Look before you leap; see before you go.â€"Tuaaer. Burdens become light when cheer- fully borne.â€"Ovid. Children have more need of models than of critics.â€"Joubert. Constancy is the complement of other human virtues.â€"Mazzini. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminentâ€"Swift. The truly generous is truly wise. and he who loves not other. lives noblest.â€" The more any one speaks .of him- self. the less he likes to hear another talked o£.â€"Luvnter. To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring e comflimenLâ€"Bulwer. Providence has given us hepe and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of lifeâ€"Voltaire. Tho h a great man may. by arare possibil ty. be an infidel, yet an‘ intel- lect of the highest order must build upon Christianity.â€"De Quinoey. Wherever you find patience. tidal- ity. honor, kindness, truth, there you find reapectebility. however obscure and lonely men may be.â€"H. W. Beech“ mind and. like personal beauty wins almost without anything 0130â€" some- times. indeed, in apite of positive doti- ciencies.â€"Hanway. gentleman is to be honest. (to to be generous: to b_e_ brnvo, ‘3“ kg “9:“ -_J â€"Aâ€"*' to be wise. 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