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"HEWSINANUISWL adian commissioners to the Paris Ex- hibition to procure 1,200 ft. of addition- al space at the \Vorld’s Fair. This has been rendered necessary largely by the demands of the Canadian bicycle man- ufacturers. who seem anxious to Second or Vancouver Battalion of the Fifth Regimmt, Canadian Artillery, mm a rifle corps. - It has beconv necessarv fru- n... n..- v“ .yycu 436,000, tons of coal to SéowFrancisco, Los Angeles. Alaska, Puget Sound points and China. During July 58,000 tons were exported. Four of the principal hotels in Stratford, the \ 'Lndsor, Albion, Ar- lington and Gladstone, have beep com- pelled to close their bars owmg to the .action of the ' ' ' During the save] Vancouver Island 436,“, {OILS 0f 00; Joseph Martin’s office safe at Van- couver was blown Open and $200 and some papers stolen. Mr. Martin as- sens that the papers are valuable in his political affairs and hints that a political enemy got them. 'l‘here has been an epidemic of drowning at St. John. N. 8.. James Sinclair. a noted swimmpr and nan“... drowning at St. Johnâ€"V: 1-3“ A Sinclair, a noted swimmer and fisher- bl, was drowned from a schooner- Mrs. Eliza Varney an accompanied by Mrs. \V burn, leading Quakers f: ed States. have visited t and Doukhobors, the l: in Manitoba. Hon. Peter Mitchell is out and about as usual. His physician states that beyond, taking necessary care of his health, Mr. Mitchell's recent illness will have no effect. Lord Minto and Sir Wilfrid Laurieré are to be invited to attend the laying‘ of the come stone of the new post office at Chicago, Oct. 9th. ’ The C. P. R. Land -sales in [be North-é wast for J uly were 47,402 acres. forf $149,546. For the corresponding peri0d§ last year the to for $123,010. tals were 3,951 acres Robert Noble, an Elginburg farmer, while driving into Kingston was so badly injured in a runaway accident that he may not recover. The telegraph line to Dawson City has been completed from Little Salmon to Lake Bennett, and will reach Daw- son in October. M British Columbia’s exhibit at 116 Paris Exhibition now being prepared will be the best ever sent to Europe from there. 344.000. Contractor Grant of Toronto has se- cured the contract to build the Lon- Son waterworks dam at a cost of A AAA The Thousand Island traffic has new er been heavier in the history of the St. Lawrence, than it. is at the present tune. cap. The labor organizations of London, by systematic giving, will supply 8600 a. week to the striking street car men. Mrs. E. B. Habbs of \Voodstock is dead of blood poisoning, due to a fall on a rake which penetrated her knee The Hamilton Cit y Council has post- POned the proposed reduction in the salaries of several civic officials. Klondike Commissioner OgilVie reckons that the output this year will be little short of $20,000,000. Major Girouard, who took part in the construction of the Soudan Rail- way has returned to Montreal. Hamilton ratepayers will vote on September 7th on a proposal to buy Dundurn Park for $50,000. G. T. R. Freight Agent Dalrymple, pf Hamilton, has been transferred to Detroit. 7 Four horse stables at the Winnipeg Fair grounds were burned Sunday. Fire has destroyed the electric light lant of Wolfville, N.S.. and the town in darkness. - The remains of Lee Yang, who died lwo yeam ago at Stratford, have been taken to China. iterating Ital: About Our 07: Country. Ail Parts 0! the Globe. 0 mad for Easy Reading. ALL THE WORLD OVER. :1 announced that 0 made in the Sam on account of sea u‘ney and Job Godley, Mrs. W. F. Lloyd 09- uakers from the Unit- visiped the two thous- CANADA. J vw- collieries__ shipped that it latest arrivals - _.._.,-, u5vu 0‘, 1113 i 3cm Albert. aged. 8, and Chrtstian Ost- terag‘e. Kampt's bL‘OLher-in-law, 30 years old, were dro '> Frank Kuooer and has begun a suit in his own behalf and; also in behalf of the otfioers and enlisted men 01' the ships of the North Atlantic station who took ' Imago an gthe subsequent captures, for ‘ . . _ prize monev. The 511: IS suntiar to that recenh)’ entered by Admiral Dewey in about) 200 people were denly gave way, of nhe spectators into the water. In Frank Reynold; an aerona A threshing machine engine explod- ed near Big Prairie, Mich, and Chas. Haight, Charles Crabtree, Geo. Over- ly, C. Presit and Raymond Howe were killed. Oscar Evans and Geo. llaight were severely injured. New Bork, who on J ufie 10 stole gold. much and chain and two lock- ets from the body of CaptrG. I). Broads, who was killed on that day by an; electric car, was sentenced to four years and three months in Sing- Sing. Marcus Daly. president of th algantated Copper Company, h says {that two: men of that city : othev gold-seekers have been drt at Cook's Inlet, in the Klondike. At Alexandria Bay the beat yacht, Consula, owned. by MJ'. Rafferty, Pittsburg, Pa... was .0 to the water’s edce. The yach $10,000, and was one of the fast: the river. 9 Percival Spencer, the famous aero- Inant, with a companion, started in a ' balloon from the Crystal Palace Lon- ‘don, at 12.30 o’clock. Saturday after- ‘noon and arrived near Dippe, France, a mile and a half inland, at 8 o’clock in the evening. The balloon reached am altitude of 12.000 feet. L'NIHIED STATES. six women. all but two of whom are saigl to be now living, was arrested at Chicago on Monday. l Former Speaker Reed, of theiUnited {States Congress and Ambassador ’C’hoate occupied seats in the distin- Iguished strangers‘ gallery of the Bri- ; tish House of Commons on Tuesday. I l Geo. Colquhoun, a Glasgow lawyer, {has been arrested on a charge of em- : bezzlin-g funds belonging to his clients. in5 liabilities are said to be over F £100,000. Colquhoun was formerly city ‘ tneasurer. 111-953 are 30 cases of supposed .yel- lpw fever at the National Soldiers' Home, near Hampton, Va. The steamer Dromedary on Monday night, off the coast of Scotland. ran into and cut down the .yacht Ven- detta. The yacht reached shore in a. crippled condition. The chairman of the Metropolitan railway has announced that at the beginning of October electric traction wul be installed on the lines of the company in London. Bryson. Jameson Company’s tim- ber. yards and Saner Company’s gram warehouse at Hull, England, were destroyed by fire. The loss is $600,000. The Opposition has decided no: to raise the Transvaal question again during the present session of the Brit- 3311 House of Commons There are 30 Mr. Davitt brought the Maybnck case up in the Britisn House. of Com.- mcms without gaining any satlsfactory answer. Lady Salisbury‘s condition is still serious. The Marquis spends much of his time at Walmer. The Northern Pacific Railway crop report of Monday gives a very favor- able account of the crops. . Brandon will have 30 bushels of wheat to the acre ouan average. The weather for the past week has been very warm and showery. All kinds of craps are doing well. Farmers say that the wheat crop is a few days behind. as compared with the corresponding period of last year, but with good weather it will be harvested as early. GREAT BRITAIN. Sir Philip Manfield, ex-Mayor of? Northampton, Bag, is dead. but the Sheena River pack will be about the average. The Fraser River pack will not be very large, unless the run of fish materially improves. '81“ GEN ERAL. uuuurg, ra., was burned r's edae. The yacht cost was one of the fastest on er Alice is at Seattle, “330,000 Klondike gold. ,t Pittsburg yesterday 3 funeral carriages and I the beautiful by 304'. G. 1‘. been Browâ€"had a- despa Lch closing 1 John Tapsoott, of Dallas county, Texas, tells the following story of the ~5death of a woman who was a cousin _l ’of his mother, then living in Ilfarcomb l r? L! x 0 was uyon her finger a valuable dia-' mond ring. The sexton who officiated iat her funera‘. was aware of this fact, _ land it excited his cupidity. He reasoned ! ‘that he was poor, the lady was dead; and the valuable jewel could be of no§ possible use to her down in the cold’ dark tomb, but. could he possess it theI cash it would bring would buy many, ,comforts {or his wife and little ones: :He resolved to disinter the body and ‘steal the ring. About the hour of; imidnight following the burial he steal-f thily exhumed the lady, opened her; coftin by the pale glimmer of the wan-5 ling moon, and, lifting the white. dainty § 3 and, attempted to take off the bea'u-’ 1 titul ring: It fitted so tight, however . that he could n0t remove it, and desir- ing to get through with his grewsome' task as quickly as possible, he took outi his pocketknile, intending to amput- WORTH ITS W; The Government of India has de- cided to adopt the report of the In-J dian Currency Committee and that the policy of keeping the Indian mints closed to the unrestricted coin-é age of silver Will he maintained. British sovereigns will be made legal; tender in and the current coin off India. The mints will be opened to; the unrestricted rzainage of gold,‘ and the permanent exchange value of the; rupee will be one shilling and fouri Queen W'ilhelmina, who not long ago objected to the portrait of herself appearing on the postage stamps of the kingdom because the hair only fell to her neck has now requested the with- draw! of the present coinage, on which her effigy is that of a child, and the substitution of her present likeness. A despatch from St. Petersburg states that Gen. Abdul Chakim Khan and three other high Afghan officers have been publicly shot. by order of the Ameer, in the market square at Cabul for the embazzlement of money intended for the payment of the sol- diers. King Menelik has written a most cordial letter to Gen. Lord Kitchener. Sirdar and Governor-General, ex- pressing his willingness to define the froniier between the Egyptian Soudan and Abyssinia on friendly terms. Four women brigands have been captured near Benevento. Italy. The women are charged with one murder, three attempted assassinations, three cases of serious wounding, and a num- ber of robberies. * - Mme. Couldere is under attest at Paris. charged‘ with poisonlng her cousin. There is a report that the act is connected with the Dreyfus affair. There are fears at Borne that the arbitration compact adopted at The Hague may cause a re-Upening of the question 01‘ 1he Papal sovereignty. The British warship Buzzard is driving colonial fishermen out of the treaty ports on Newfoundland. at the complaint of French fishermen. The brigand leader. Mani, the terror of Sardinia, is still at large. so far the anLi-brigand campaign has resuft- edin the capture or killing of 80 brig“ ands. according to :1 Rome report. It is‘stated that Caét. Pastorio. of R0198. has discovered a means at ren- dermg acetylene gas non-explosive. In consequence of the rioting at the bull-ring on Sunday night. the Mayor of Marseilles has interdicted bull fights and closed the arena. - .Major Marchand s journey across At.- nca cost France $600,000, a somewhat expensive scxemiflc expedition. The arbitration and mediation.trea- ties at The Hague have been sxgned by sixteen of the powers. A . Disorder in the neighborhood of Can- ton is seriously interfering with the silk trade. Port Arthur and Ta-Lien-wan travellers. EU at L nousenold. The p60} 8 t only not prosecuted for I, buy the gmteful w BEJEWELED FINGER CUT w- -u “ L - and supposed to' be dead. the sexton’s knife en. ash her nervous system ith the rapidity of tele- circulation started up and »breathe. The cool night 191' Dun-‘m‘n g-.. ‘ I known to F that it w' .upright in her coffifi. .exton, frightened almost with the speed of a can- Ta-Lien-Wan to 1n .__.... wuuauuoewx~l wonder What . . . ‘ "or of glrls“ waxsts this season ‘ ' "' 'VV VLu. . Girl's don’t marry i Will Thorn: pered by an engagement. We know of one instal courtship extended over fifty-two years, and the} gentlemen was seventy-1 lady two years younger, to give the whole thing they were too old. Her friends are married long ago, and have homes and babies of their own; and no matter if they do have domestic squalls now and then, it var- Nine times out of ten an engagement that runs along for a term of years partner in the business generally never amounts to anything. The male marries somebody else who has “sand" enough to bring him to terms at once, and the waiting woman is left to vain regrets and hopeless old-maidism. No girl should ever consent to wait‘ an indefinite time for a man. Leti . they choose to wait, that is their business; but a wo- ; married on and flirting with some oth- er girl to keep his courage up. A 1 After two or three years go by peo- gple begin to say' “Oh. he'll never {marry Angeline. He’ll find somebody Eelse he likes better. f And they are generally right. Pro- bably he doesn't mean'To unconstant, .but it is an‘ awful strain on a man to ' be engaged tor a term of years and be- _ have and pose as a model meanwhileâ€"- ;especially if he meets many young wo- fme'n who are quite ready to help him iforget he is engaged. } INSUFFERABLY MONOTONOUS i No, we don ' Vwr'V"V "IV“ 0 Alan” Her liberties are abridged. her en- joyments are curtailed and all she can do is to waitâ€"end hope. She is an odd number everywhere, unless Dick happens to be around to attend to her, but he is generally away somewhere, earning the money to get Mnumi-.l _-__ _ - | p.- An engaged girl is practically no- body. She cannot go here, or go there; ‘ she cannot do this, or that, as a girl? who is free can do, because he might not like it. Young men stand aloof from her because she is Dick's property and they respect Dick’s rights. YT-__ And we have all sighed over the woes of Angelina and Frederick, as their ,‘youch waned, and the old aunt still "continued, and the marriage had to be I deferred,and Frederick grew baldhead- ed and rheumatic, and at fifty was able to bestow the remnant of himself on the faithful Angeline, who had got to wear- ing spectacles, and false teeth, and had turned corners. It sounds delightfully (romantic, but to live through such an experience is enough to break down the nervous system of the strongest wo- !man in existence and make her wish; I there had never been any such institu- ' tion as an “engagement" to anybody.‘ WRONG 'l‘O BOTH PARTlES. A self-respecting man has no right 5 to bind a woman to a long and indefin- ! ate engagement ; and a girl is too soft- fheaded to be of much consequence in ithe world who will consent to be so bound; It is wrong to both parties. Life is not long enough to be passed in i such an uncertain way. Marriages‘ I contracted in middle life may be happy â€"oftentimes they are; but youth is the time for love and marriage. As a man or woman grows older, principles and opinions, as well as habits, become more fixed, and it is much more difficult for either party to yield a point, and there has to be a goodideal of yielding by somebody if married life is to be harmonious. . The story of the girl who is faithful for fifteen or twenty years to the lover of her youth and who waits patiently for his father, and mother, and grand- mother, and bedridden aunt, and larne brother to grow old and die, reads well when the skillful novelist tackles it and writes it up in good style, and it has been hushed and rehashed, like cold roast chicken, until it has become a chestnut in literature. No llonorable Han th Bind a Girl to an Indefinite Engagementâ€"Long Court. ships Generally Never ‘Jlaterlallzeâ€"Snx. pense is We. ring. Do you believe in long engagements? Well it may be “that patient wait- ers are no losers," but no woman can afford to fritter away the best years of her life in the dismal state of un- certainty in which a long engagement places her. YOUTH THE TIME FOR LOVE AND MARRIAGE. n marry youâ€"some time the indefinite future.- A FASHION Nam LUNG ENGAGEMENTS. on't marry in haste to repent a but don't himl yourseif to Tom, Jon or Peter to get 1 was seventy-nine and die years younger, they decided 1e whole thmg up because +An AI -‘ 31.13 mm to terms at once, Eng woman is left to vain hopeless old-maidism. 1 men an engagement for a term of years business generally anything. The male instance whe re (“ha I. e ar'av JUSt before W. V. Smith. places his heard in a mushn he has entered :he bed he bag finder his pillow. His b I! eight feet long. 9411‘ were all naLiveo', mama imnuc eumw to @0390. for the insects, angry at havmg been thus rudely disturb?!- attacked Lhem furiously. " gentleman, yelling With 211‘ , most undignified retreat, ‘ ' “'87 Of a back somersauix. over the .919' Phants tail, while the mahouta dim" 19:31”: from his perch into a 111855 9‘ undergrowth, where he made frantic attempts to free himself from his ven- omous attackers. [be two of . remaining natives, quer danci’." Wildly 0n the pad, paWing . -thrashing themselvas, and 1113le cher efforts to dislodge Lhe imx‘udef‘v finally Slid down the Side and bowed for assistance. As for the claimant' Which by virtue of ins mug hid9,wu {mt-proof, it swod compiacenili 100‘“ In on. and. doubtless wondering What Could have occasi-med the, wall“ aptics of its riders. IL took us 3 1°.“ tune to clear the pad {)5 we red E”? ‘v‘ade.rs,- which lite-ram! 00“”me Liseb'. ‘ “I While as for the bitwn 11;: .0 for hunt‘ pad 108‘; all further appetit. “13» that day! Wu$l~u5 the b ”‘va‘ g oughs ' w “y" “" ”- finely a. Coloovemead. August immedi- ny 0" red ants descended he un- m a B ' bower on the heads of t uddee, 0’ t‘s pad lively who for: Garfixgi Qccupa-ms 01' L116 g The Scene fi' (in the Blepnan and excitin L ‘Olluwe‘i Was a yore all 112.? 911e, 1116 victims, » .. ”96.. made iranLic efforts mum at one of the Most Annoying Posts of the Indian Jungle. The red. ant is a born fighter, and is one of the moss annoying pest! at the Indian jungie. SOL only is its bite extremely painful, but in; tenâ€" “it! is such that, inning once driven its mandibles into your flesh, it Will :allaw itself Lo be. pulled to pieces sooner than quit its hold. A traveller. who recently speni some Lime in India. writes: I was on one occasion Wit- ness Of an encounter with red ants that, although serious enough for those direcLly concerned, had its amud' ill-3‘ side. h bile out with a forest Shooting party 1 observed the 810‘ Phant immediaLeiy in iron: of we 0110 1 was riding tear down a long 0‘89 hanging creeper that depended from TAM IHAA'IC Remember Mllburn's Heart and Nerve Pills cure the worst case. after other remedies fall. AND THOSE TROUBLED WITH Palpitation, Throbbin or Irregular Beating of the Hearg, Dizziness. Shortness of Breath, Distress after B x er t io n . Smothering Feeling. Spasms or Pain through the Breast and Heart. Morbid Condition ofthe Mind, Partial Paralysis. Sleepless- ness, Nervousness. Anemia. Gene- ral Debility. Afterâ€"Effectsofcrinm. Loss of Appetite, etc. LIVER PI LLS Laxa-leor PHI: cure Constipation. e every respect. 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