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THE VERY LATEST PR4 ALL THE WORLD OVER. George Meyers and A. A. ('06 are charged at Hamilton with burning three G.T.R. freight. cars there July 10th. The check of the United States for $473,000, the amount of damages ad- judged by the Bering Sea claims com- mission. has been received by the D6- partment of Marine and Fisheries. The Canadian Gold Fields Company. is erecting anew plant at their works near Belleville, to take the place of the plant destroyed by fire some months ago. Vancouver people suggest that the imperial authorities instead of increas- ing the dry dock accommodation at Esquimalt that they build a dry dock at Vancouver. It is reported that the Ottawa Street Railway Company has bought the Ottawa and Gatinezm Valley rail- way. The dispute as to the quality 013 co'al supplied the Hamilton Board of Educa- tion by Myles' Sons has been referred to the decision of an expert. Prof. Alexander Graham, Bell has ar- rived at St. Peter’s from Sable Island, where he went to search for the bodles of La Bourgogne victims. He reports the search fruitless. Jas. Day: a logger, stepped off a boom of logs at Gimbier Island, B. 0.. on Sunday and was drowned. A British Columbia pioneer died on Sunday in the person of James Reid. :1 poundkeeper of Vancouver. The Ontario Government has select- ed the Mackenzie property, South Lon- don. as the site for aNurmal school. Arrangements are being made for the trip of a team from the Canadian Lacrosse League to Port, Arthur, Fort William, Rat Portage and Winnipeg- Gen. U. P. Leach. and Col. Dalton, of the Board of Imperial Defence have ar- rived at Ottawa from England. The Board will commence its sittings im- mediately. . Mr. Joseph 'Laidlaw, of Hamilton, who had his skull fractured by atrol- ley car, is dead. Col. Hutton has been appointed com- mandant of the Canadian forces to succeed Major-General Gascoigne. The Hamilton Bricklayers’ Lithogr- ers Union has been organized, wnth John Asbury, president. Galt. will spend $10,000 in street im- provements. London has already received 3243: 21 in taxes for this year. Sir Henri Joiy do Lotbinigre has turned to Ottawa from bxs trip the Old Country. The contract, for the construction of the west pier of the entrance to the Welland Canal at Port Dalhousie has been awarded to Mr. John Riley, who built the east pier. ntcrcsticg Items About Our Own Cour‘w, Great Britain, the United fiuus. 1“ All Parts of the Globe. Condense; and Assorted lot Easy Reading. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will hold a competi- tion at Hamilton on September 5, open to cab drivers. carters, milk vendors and drivers of laundry waggons. Bullock’s Corners Episcopal Church has a choir trouble, and it is said that last Sunday the choir sung different hymns from those given out by the minister. thereby causing some confu- sion in the services. There are eighty-one members of the Senate. of whom forty have been called in the last decade. and ten since the present Government came into power. There are three vacancies at present waiting to be filled. Mrs. William Rycroft committed sui- cide at Toronto on Tuesday. She look- ed herself in her room. swallowed ' a large dose of carbolic acid. poured oil wont the room and set it on fire, and then cut her throat. with a razor. The new People‘s Telephone Com- pany in London threaten to cease oper- ations unless the city guarantees an extension of the company’s franchise at the end of fifteen years. James Fitzgerald was struck by a train and killed on the Canadian Paci- fic Railway while crossing a bridge be- ween Keewatin and Rat Portage on Monday. He was a prominent lawyer. Owing to the action of the London, Ont... City Council in granting the Peo- ple's Telephone Company a franchise, the Bell Company have met the prices of the new comers. and reduced their rates nearly one-third. Rev. Dr. Hackett, former principal of St. Paul‘s Divinity College, Allaha- bad, India, at present secretary of the Hibernian Church Missionary Society, has been appointed principal of the Montreal Diocesan Theological Col- Another application will be made to the Dominion Parliament next session for a charter for a bridge between Hull and Ottawa. to give the Hull Aylmer Electric Railway entrance to Ottawa. A vigorous lobby defeated the bill last session. Chas. Schmidt. who robbed his room mate. A. Wright. in the Avenue Ho- tel. Vancouver, 8.0., of 875 and evad- ed the police. attempted to steal a ride on the Atlantic express leaving there Monday: H_e {ell and was mangled There is a movement. on foot in Tor- onto to appoint adspefi: inspector of dry anode importe an the new to. (ere-tie! 13min order that there :13 he no eve-ion d119, lew-thr_ough Br: A2... -_._.A-__ CANADA. 1‘8‘ ‘ w The directors of the German-Ameri- can Bank of Tonawanda, N. Y., have de- cided that the institution shall go in- to liquidation. and have arranged with the Buffalo Commercial Bank of Buf- falo to take charge of the affairs? of their bank with that end in View. The reports that thousands of cattle have been dying off in California owing to lack of food are denied by; the cattle raisers. The animals are thin, but re- ports are exaggerated. Mr. Bartlett, an old man aged 82, :of Albion, Mich., was killed'hy his grand- nephew, aged ten, on Sunday. The boy was fooling withaguu. and aimed ata door near the old man’s head. TheHg'un missed fire, and blew the old man's head off. Asaresult of a conference between (Ix-Senator Earner Miller, president of the Nicaraguan Canal Commission, and President McKinley, it is stated the latter intends to makeastrong recom- mendation to Congress for legislation making immediate provision for comp“ pleting the canal and for making it \the direct property of the Government. GENERAL. Mediana, Spain, has been partly de- stroyed by a cyclone. t-VV' vvv- Employes of the American Wire Co. and the H. P. Nail Co., Chicago, are on strike against areduction in wages. George Todd. awealthy resident Of New York. committed suicide on Tues- dqy by jumping froma. tenth story Window in the Hotel Majestic. DouguLy, Ullluuuau, V'uv _:..: . _. owing to a change of polrtlcal faltli. was re-elected with a plurahty of 1,75 . Mr. Chamberlain stated in the House of Commons that her Majestyfs Govern- ment wished to estabhsh dlrect com- munication between Canada, Jamatlfia and London, in order to foster e fruit trade A number of stores at L'scauauu, Mich. were destroyed by fir day night. 8100 000. The losses will amoun tto Newfoundland fishermen are to be organized as naval reserves. and to be drilled by special instructors sent from England. \V Signor 'l'urati, one of the leaders of the riots at Milan. was sentenced. at Rome on Tuesday to twelve years' im- pisonment. ' A terrible fire broke out on Tuesday in the petroleum factory, Dunkirk, France. There were three explosions, by which one person was killed and three were seriously injured. It is reported at Yokohama that Ha- waii has agreed! to pay Japan £40,000 sterling in settlement of the dispute which arose out. of the exclusion of Japanese emigrants from the Hawaiian islénds. YOUR LITTLE FINGER. The fact that the hand looks shape- lier and more graceful when the mid- dle and third fingers are slightly curvâ€" ed in and away from the index and little finger is shown by the models in the glove store windows, and while it is affectation to hold the hands in such a position, yet this exercise, to make the pose natural, should be practiced. Someone has said somewhere that the number of cultured generations back of an individual may be judged by the degree of curve in the little finger. Observation will prove this more or less true. When one sees a person holding a glass or cup with the little finger thrust out and curved un- til it resembles a hook, a little investi- gation will almost invariably show that the desire for culture has only just awakened in that particular family, and in its newness is somewhat over- stepping the mark: Affectation is a sign of lack of breeding. Someone has said somewhere that hands to perfection. Long, rounded hands, with slightly curved fingers and gently bent wrists, are characteristic of the women whose beauty they have made memorable. Sometimes, perhaps, the beautiful hands were those of some other model than the pictured one, but the painters knew that beautiful hands were as necessary as beautiful faces in order to make a harmonious picture. The people of almost every other na- tion have more graceful hands than we have; and those who use their hands most freely when conversing are by far the most graceful. The bands which make no superfluous movements, which appear to obey readily and easily their owner's will. whose movements are free, rhythmic and gentle, are the really graceful ones. My boy, said the Meanest Man, con- cluded to shoot no firecrackers this year. How did you stop him i” asked the other man. I told him that if he got a finger blown eff he couldn’t be a soldier when he grew up. The Duchess of Montrose. Lady Ver- ulsm, and Mrs. Faber are asserted to be the three most beautiful sisters in London society.- THE MEANEST MAN BEAUTIFUL SISTERS L'NITED STATES. A lingo Wave Swampml a S"! of Women and (‘ullclrcn llurled Into the Turbulent Wale-rs - Scenes and Brave Inc-«ls of Rescue. In describing the disaster that tended the launching of H.M.S. All; ‘u “call sums UHV V" 'â€" tended the launching of HM. at Blackwell, on the Thames, . 21. The London Daily Telegraph 533': All the preliminaries of the launc were conducted in the usual way. The” Royal Highnesses were taken into an inner elevated draped stand, and a Royal salute was fired. On a table there was stretched a silken cord of red, white and blue, Which held the i weights suspended above the two dog 1: shores. During the customary 3110” it religious service, performed by ‘thelt Ven. Archdeacon Stevens, vicar of St- .1 John’s Stratford, and the Rev. Canon ’1 Pelly, vicar of West Ham, the blows 3: of the hammer could be heard as the 54 men under the vessel’s keel knocked H away (the last blocks, until, whilst. j Psalm cvii., “They that go down to the ' 1 sea in ships,” was being sung by the 1 choirs of the two churches, all that held the ship was the silken cord. Aft- er the Old Hundredth had been given and prayer offered, a silverâ€"gilt knife. with enamelled bait, and design of York roses and May blossoms entwin-. ed, and the monogram V.M.Y., wasgj handed to the Duchess of York by Mr. i HillS. The blade was inscribed with’; the date, and set forth the occasion. With this knife Her Royal Highness,‘ at ten minutes to three, severed the‘ cord at a third attempt. Immediately: the heavy weights fell. knocking away the remaining supports, and the A1- bion was in such haste to get away ‘ that she did not give the Duchessl time to Christen her. by breaking the ‘i bottle of wine, which had a richly worked cover, that was afterwardsi‘ presented to Her Highness, againsti‘ the bows. It was Mr. G. C. Mackroww' naval architect to the company, who; smashed the bottle on the rail of the platform. But; the incident passed unnoticed in the cheering and general jubilation as already described. t S. Albion. ' on‘ June . 1 I a z _‘ ...h _A FORGOT TO CURTSEY. It seemed, too, that. the Albion,§ which went gracefully down the ways, forgot to curtsey. She took the watâ€"t er quietly, though the strain on the: cables was very great, as three oft them parted. But everybody was of; Opinion that it was a very successful launch, for its difficult cnaracter, owing to the narrowness of the creek, was fully recognized by experts, and| indeed, the point had been noticed “3" l the Duke of York, immediately he saw the ship. No one on the head stage was aware that the wave caused by, sudden displacement, consequent up-i on the launching of some thousandsl of tons of dead weight into a confined 1 area was overwhelming a stand occu-' pied by two or three hundred sight- seers. Certainly nothing;r was perceiv-i ed by the Duke or Duchess or by Mr. ‘ ,Goschen, with whom they remained; chatting for some minutes. There were I no shrieks, no Dries, no panic; but then the syrens filled the air with discordant sounds enough to drown any human voice. Very slowly the ele- . vate-d reserved enclosure, surrounding‘ the Royal stand, where the ceremony had been performed, was vacated, arid the guests retired to their steamboats laughing and congratulating each oth- er upon having witnessed a spectacle which, in the beautiful weather, seem- ed to be without a blot of any kind. SCENE OF THE DISASTER. But at that very moment, hidden from view by the newly-launched bat.- tleship. the terrible disaster took place A oridge across the end of an old' disused slip, and part of the staging beneath the counter of the Shikisâ€" htma, on an adjoining slip, had been crowded with sightseers, anxious to view the launch. This was in defiance of all the rules of the yard, and it 13 stated that on former occasions these wooden erections had been kept clear by the police,in accordance with the notices on the danger board in the yard. As the Albion entered the water. a great wave was raised in, the narrow creek, and the backwash caus- ed some eighty feet of this bridge and staging to give way, thereby immers- tng .some three hundred people. The staging gave one swerve, and then fell. outwards. A scene of terrible con- £03101). ensued, the shrieks of the drowning, mingled with the cheers of l the thousands who were quite unaware of the accident. The police boats in- stantly made for the spot, and, with the aid of several dockyard hands. a number of the peOple were pulled out, whilst many more scrambled ashore themselves. 'tl‘he unfortunate people who were thrown into the water ere for the most part inhabitants of the neighborhood. Several persons were . taken out in an apparently lifeless con- , dttion, and immediately conveyed away to the sheds in the yards, and , attended _to. _Then‘ several dead bod- l ies were hauled out, one of the first being that of a baby. During the next half hour eight bodies were recovered and taken to a shed, which was turned into a temporary mortuary. The half drowned girls and women were remoyed to the fitters’ shed. and there attended to by the firemen and sev- eral nurses. who were soon on the HEART-RENDING_ SCENES. Meanwhile heart-tending mm.- to the W "W --__ rendered their operations very difficult. One extraordinary circumstance at- 'n the disaster was that the chief tginegtsgon the stands at the head of the L-L-"I-- nififl‘lrfl r0 th9.f an was found to be safe. their assistants work as the tide was at its “(Saba U” Vuv slips were totally unaware that any accident had taken place, and the ma- jority left Blaokwall on the return journey without having heard the This was also the case of the Duke and Duchess of York, who left on the Beatrice. and arrived safely at Westminster about half-past four. THE STAGE “DANGEROUS.” In an interview with Mr. Hussey, secretary of the Thames Ironworks Company. that gentleman said to a Central News reporter: “There is always a return wave at such launch- es. find we invariably label adjacent. stages which this water is likely to reach with the word ‘Dangerous.’ To- day we followed the usual custom, but although police were posted about to warn people,and although the warn- V'w-â€" rv". ing word was printed in enormous let- - ters. about 200 people got on to this particular staging. and were washed. into the water. Most of them were women and the majority escaped. It. was a most lamentable accident. es-. pecially after such a successful launch. 5 The Duchess. I think. knew nothing of. g the disaster, unless she just caught a ; glimpse of the scene as she sped away in her steam launch; but that is not ' likely.” A p -' ‘1 o L g "1.3“! Lusty; Inw1886, when {Her Majesty’s ship Benhow was launched, the back-wash swept. nine people into the water, but all were rescued. TIMIDITY OF CHILDREN. The first natural duty of a mother is to protect her young; to create around it a shelter. in the midst of which the tender thing can grow, se- cure from shocks and seeing and hear- ing only what is good for it to hear and see. . . . By learning the signs of fear in a young child. and knowing how to distinguish true fear from wil- fulness, they will be able to exert a soothing and protecting influence at the right moment. and avert danger whose consequences are serious almost beyond belief in the case of our high- ly organized excitable. modern chil- dren. It is the mother, rather than the. father, who is called upon to securei the blessing of a second imagination to : her children. She ought to begin away ’ back in the beginningâ€"with the very: first surroundings of the new-born in-; fant. Let it find its early life peace-J ful, quiet and unhurried. And wheni infancy merges into that older period when young faculties are springing for- ward in rapid (levelopment, and each day the little one takes on more of the hue of its larger fellow-creatures. let her be doubly careful that no un- timely scare stunts its intelligence. It is said that to be afraid of shadows is an inevitable passing experience of childhood. Yet I know one small tod- dler who never has shown any such disposition. but whose great delight 1.8 to play with her own shadow and other shadows when the lights are brought in each night. She is apecul- iarly sensitive. sympathetic, little thing. and could easily be made timid. by uuwnse treatment. But, under the sheltering care of fond and judicious iparents. she is remarkable for not [knowmg what it is to be afraid; and although she is given to unpleasant dreams. as many young children are. and often awakened with a start. a low word or touch soothes her into serenity. Happy above others is the little child who thinks of his mother as a veritable refuge from trouble, a bulwark against danger and a sympa- thizing presence. Many new and interesting features will be offered at the Toronto Exhibiâ€" tion this year. which is to be held from the 29th August to the 10th Septem- ber. The harvest throughout the Dominion is good. and with the return of better times and the unusually low fares now being given by the railways. many will be induced to visit this great exhibition who perhaps would not oth- erwise do so. The entries in all de- partments will be great. and the et- tractions offered will be of a character to draw. Among the many will be realistic representations of the pre- sent Cuban-American Walt. the block- ade. bombardment and battles of Senti- . . V 18.88. mg a good deal. The exhibits wrll nclude many from Great Britain. France and the United States. whilst almost every section of the Dominion will be represented. CANADA'S GREAT EXPOSITION. AN EOXDUS OF RATS. and many touching when some lost one safe. The police and worked splendidly,but Lt its height the depth Bred their operations GRISTING AND SHOPPING FLOUR, OATMEAL and H THE SAWMII permanent relief is Whine?“ ”N Mrs. Andrew Jackson. Boughton lend! the following letter '0‘~ N Wild Sthberry. I purcha M and commenmzd taking it accor' t directions and was cured in 3 Wm “M time. I cannut. pram the Temédwu highly for what 1t «M for men ~ Dr. THE FINEST TIA I E" IN TH! WORLD 530M THE TEA PLANT 70’4“” IN ITS NATIVE PURITV. " Monsoon" Tcais put “P 'ualmfldl growers as a sample of the ‘eas. 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