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Mc on ecngee c nout oTucmctions Leot~â€". 2e ie t I8K I I MSE Interesting . m~ About Our C BE DT ERITTCC The montreal drug clerks ara agitatâ€" Iing for shorter hours on Sunday. Halifax citizens have subscribed $5.â€" 000 for the Windsor, N. S. fire sufâ€" to meet for the i on the 23rd prox The wa'-ter'of the Ottawa river is very tow, and there are many cases of tyâ€" phoid fever at COttawai Rev. Canon -R;;icot has authorized the priests of the Archdiocese of Montâ€" real tm pray for rain. Jubilee stamps will soon be at a preâ€" | mium as the Postoffice Pepartment supply has been exaausted. ‘ The byeâ€"elections in Temiscouata, Riâ€" :muski. and Drummond and Arthabasâ€" a are fixed for November 13. The Canadian Thanksgiving day will coincide with the United States festival and be held on Novamber 25. It is learned that neariy one hbalf of the Canadian loan of ten million do1lars will come from Canadian banks. The Dominion Government will this winter improve the Rideau canal, with a view of lessening the liability of floods at Ottawa. The amoun;-of property exempt from municipal taxation at Ottawa is estiâ€" mated at over $15,000,000. Mr. A. Pepler, agent of the Dominion Bank at Gueliph, will be trans{ferred to Napanee, Mr. Stanton of Toronto mucceeding him. It is reporied from Halifax that Sir Hibbert Tupper has decided not to reâ€" sign his seat in the Commons when he reamoves to British Colmmhbia. There is a proposition tefore the Govâ€" ernment from the Rathbun Lumber Company for the manv{acture of wood alcohol in Canada. Mr. W. H. H. Ponton, recently bank te ler in the Dominion Bank branch at Napanes, will enter suit against the bank for $50,000 damages. Mrs. Kitson, wife of the commander of the Royal Military College at Kingsâ€" ton, injured in a runaway accident a month ago, is stil dangerously ill. Mr. Tarte proFoses next session to ask Parliament for. a large vote for extending the Government teegraph Senator Forget. president of _ the Riche.ieu and Ontario Navigation Comâ€" yany. states that the company‘s new oats wil be constructed in Toronto. Co.umbia. A bulletin will soon be published by the Inlund Revenus Department emâ€" bodying the results of an analysis of drinking waters from various parts of Canada. The services of Mr. Thomas Gishorne, superintendent of Government te.eâ€" graph lines in the Northâ€"West and Briâ€" tish Coumbja, have been dispensed with on the ground of economy, The Minister of Agriculture has apâ€" pointed Mr. J. E. Starr, a Nova Scotia fruitâ€"grower to go to England to inâ€" vestigate and report on the extent of the market offered there for Canadian {ruit. Thomas Lapierre and his wife, of sherbrooke, Que., found guilty of an attampt to cause the death of the formâ€" er‘s Z*tl]e daughter by means of illâ€" treatment, were sentenced on Sat« urday to five years each in the peniâ€" tentiary. Dairymen throughout Canada have begun to take advantage of the Dairy Aot passed at the last session of the Dominion Parliameat, which provides [for the registration of cheese factories and creameries. The Quebec Legisaturse The Russell County fire fund now amounts to nearly $22,000. Itis said that about $50,000 will be required if the Central Committea is to be enablâ€" ed to carry out its plan of giving the sufferers money or lumber with which to rebuild. Mr. W. W. Ogilvie, who returned to Montreal recently, expressed himsel{ as greatly impressed with what he saw in the Northâ€"West. He says the farâ€" mers in Manitoba and the Territories have this season had the greatest good fortune in a magnificent wheat crop. [E VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. A cablegram has been received by the _ Dominion Government, saying that on Lord Lansdowne‘s instructions a meda! will be issued for all who parâ€" ticipated in the repuse ofthe Fenian raid on Canada in ‘66, and in the Northâ€" West expedition of 70. The liberaility of Canada‘s subscripâ€" tions to the India famine fund was officially mckpoowledged on _ Friday, when Mr. Courtney, Deputy Minister of Finance received a letter from the Chief Justise of Bengal, who says that with the exception of the United Kingâ€" dom, the largest contribution â€" has come from Canada Mrs. Liy Langiry hbenefits to the extent of three hundred }mumla yearly by the desth of her husband. In connection with the increase of the strengch of the British army, the colonies wilt be asked to augment their forces. GREAT BRITAIN. Lord Salisbury emphatically denies that he has any intention of resigning his portfolio. Assorted for Easy Reading. Sir Edwir Arnold, author of "The Light of Asia," married a Japanese lady in London on Saturday. The Queen has conferrel the Right Hon. Sir Nathaniel Lindley, Lord Jusâ€" tice of Apweal since 1881, as Master of the Rolls. There was a sudden influx into Lonâ€" don during the past week, and most of the large residences are now opert for the winter season. Lieut. Winston Churchil1, son of Lady Randovh Churchill, is acting as war correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph in India. The British engineers claim to have won the fight for an eightâ€"hour day, and therefore decline to allow that point to be arvritrated upon. Archbishon» M.achray, _of _ Rupert‘s T and. who atterded the Lambeth Conâ€" ference. is serionâ€"ly ill in England, and his resovery is very doubtful. It is anvounced that the marriage in ths Northâ€"West and British ; Itemg About Our Own Country, Britain, the United States, and 3 & y EP Legislature is summoned the despatch of business comamuniet uns o omnoenneniie w nerentcomentorens marnpeneive y CANADA. has been arranged The Pall Mall Gazette laments the competition of the United States, and says that everything points to that country remaining the cheapest steelâ€" producing country in the world. The statement that Mr. Langtry. the busband of the actress, was penniless at the time of his death is not true. 23 Mrs. Langtry made him a regu‘ar alâ€" lowance through her solicitor. OS UOUI dPPPRRNECR NPR CNO CCC T take place between Lord MountStephâ€" en and Miss Glan, dauThter of the late Robert George Tuftnell. 3 The genera‘ disposition to increaso naval armament can be gauged by the fact that eightyâ€"seven warships are beâ€" lmer Initt in â€" Amuuk Rritain 11006, of It is understood that Lord Strathcona and Sir Edwin Dawes. of the British India, Steam Navigation Company, have joined the Board of Directors of the Petersen Fast Atlantic Company with the Margquis of Lorne as chairman. It is in asserted that Lord Salisâ€" bury w:‘afa shortly resign, and that the strugg‘le for the Premiership will be i';;{ {;1{17§ in Great Britain alone, OLf which thirtyâ€"four go to foreign Governâ€" ments. 200 CBBEC L176 CHO E PORMRTUERACE N , OO between the Duke of Devonshire and Mr. Arthur Balfour, and that the latâ€" ter will have all fir. Chamberlain‘s in« 40077 APPDCGIES 110MS LORL W TCT S from yellow fever since the outbreak. A monument to Robert Louis Stevenâ€" son, the novelist, was unveiled on Sunâ€" day in San Francisco. Exâ€"Tax Collector Wm. Millard, _Of Peoria,. I!ll., has hbeen| arrested. His deâ€" falcations amount to $20,000. â€" Three Cuban patriots have been !D 8St. Louis the last fourteen days PTOâ€" curing and shipping ammunition for their compatriots. § s The jury in the case of Luetgert, the Chicago sausage manulacturer who was charged with the murder of his wile, has disagreed, standing nina for conâ€" viction and three for acquittal. During a revival meeting in Richâ€" mond Va., the Rev. T. H. Leavitt prayâ€" ed that two women who laughed dut= ing the service might die immediately and go to hell. e id Zeb Rudo!ph _ the father of Mrs. James A. Garfield, the widow of the late President, died on Wednesday eVâ€" ening at Lawnlfield, the Garfield home. He was 94 years of age. c s A short time ago. in a fit of displeaâ€" sure at his twin sons, George M. {’ull- man made a will disinheriting them, little thinking at the time that death was so soon to give permancy to the legal document. [The ce hundred and fiftyâ€"first anâ€" niversiry of Princeton University was celebrated on Friday. â€" Among the speakers were _ exâ€"President Grover Cleveland and the Governorâ€"General of Canada. According to commercial advices from New York, the business situation is fairly satisfactory, though not . as good as was expected in many lines, Business is irregular, and there is a falling off in demand that has . not been made up by speculative activity. Warm weather has interfered considâ€" erably with the movements of seasonâ€" able goods. Cotion goods are dull, and rain in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Nebrasâ€" ka has somewhat improved the agriculâ€" tural prospects. _ Collections are reâ€" ported as " weak" in _ several diâ€" rections. _ There is an advance _ in hides, window glass, and lard. Prosâ€" pects are generally encouraging. GENERAL. Yellow fever has broken out in Jamâ€" aica with unusual virulence Li Hung Chang, the Chinese statesâ€" man, is about to retire from public life owing to illness. The Abyssinians are _ devastating Somaliland and cormmitting horribla atrocities upon the prisoners. ‘The peace commissioners have adoptâ€" ed cight «rticles of the permanent treaâ€" ty of peace between Greece and Turâ€" key. The Germain Government, it 18 understood, has decided to reâ€"arm the entire infantry with new sixâ€"millimeâ€" tre rifies. The Japanese in Seoul, the capital of Corea, are using money quite freeâ€" ly in order to Foster an antiâ€"Rusâ€" sian spirit. China has a gold excitement, too, the precious metal being reported to have been discovered in the Chang Mountains The cruiser Kostroma, belonging to the Russian volunteer fleet is aground off the Fita reel, according to reports from Suakim, Egypt. One man was killed and a number wounded in a â€" riot om the occasion of the funeral of a leading socialist in Florence on Monday. T The British steamer Clan Gordon has been wrecked _ off Umlazi, _ between Natal and Delagoa Bay. The crew and passengers were saved. Recent despatches report a devastâ€" ating cyclone in the Phiippine Islands which, in addition to the destruction of much property, killed four hundred persons. ‘The commission appointed to enquire into the disaster of the Hodynsky plain, in Moscow, in May, 1896, report that on that occasion fourteen hundâ€" red and twentyvâ€"nine lives were lost. An Italian magazine article, which is supposed to voice the views of leadâ€" ing statesmen, advocates the withâ€" drawal of Italy from Dreibund, and the forming of an alliance with Great Britain. It is understood that the Spanish Government will protest dgainst fil}â€" ibustering expeditions from the Unitâ€" ed States, and will hold that Governâ€" ment responsible for a breach of inâ€" ternational law. A patrol _ of dervish borsemen on Saturday aitacked a village near Berber, killing eleven men, capturâ€" ing many women and children, and carrying off cattle. A detachment of _ Angloâ€"Egyptian cavalry overtook and routed ihe raiders with great The Madrid Imparcial. protesting against filibustering parties for Cuba from the United States, says it is impossible for Spain to submit to such humiliation. ©The Government must act with energy towards Washingâ€" ton omen Sb t nneane copinge + mtc P uS Ch oC9F UNITED STATES. and is shortly to Opening of the Provincial Legisiature â€" Spcech From the Throne. A despatch from Winnipeg, says:â€"‘ The third session of the third Legislaâ€". ture of the Northâ€"West Territories opâ€" eneil at Regina, on Thursday. There was only a small attendance of memâ€" bers. Licut.â€"Governor Mackintosh, in bis speech from the throne made reâ€" ference to the many expressions of loyalty througkout the West to her ‘Majeaty during the month of jubilee. He was happy to be able to congratuâ€" late them upon the many evidences of prosperity to be seen all over the Terâ€" ritories, as a result of a bountiful bharvest, and the sound condition and good prospects of all our important industries. The wonderful discoveries of minerâ€" al wealth in hitherto unexplored parts of the Territories, and the almost abâ€" solute certainty of establishing ready means of access to the new gold fields from the settled portions of the counâ€" try, promise most beneficial results in the ~way of opening up new markets for our staple products, while the building of the Crow‘s Nest railway will enable stockâ€"raisers and agriculâ€" turists to avail themselves of the conâ€" stant and increasing demand for food supplies of all kinds from the rich minâ€" ing regions of the neighbouring Proâ€" vince of British Columbia. o Continuing, His Honor said:â€"‘"Since the last meeting of the Legislature imâ€" portant changes in the constitution of the Territories have hbeen made by the Act passed at the last session} of the Federal Parliament. In accordance with the provisions of that Act I have chosen an Exeoutive Council, and can now congratulate the Territories upon baving obtained a completely responâ€" sible system of government. In conseâ€" quence of this change a reorganization of the offices of the Government and the creation of public departments for the carrying on of the public service will be found necessary, and measures having those emds in view will _ be submitted for your consideration." One Man Killedâ€"Several Men Seriously Inâ€" jured â€" A Four Storey Butllding Wreck:« ed. A despatch from Detroit says:â€"The boiler in the Detroit Cabinet Compâ€" any‘s factory at Hancock avenue and Riopelle street, in the northâ€"eastern part of the city exploded at 7.30 on Friday morning with fatal and disastrâ€" ous effects. At least two men were fatally injured, one of whom has since died, and ten men were more or less seriously hurt. _ _ â€" * Deadâ€"Lamente Tunney, foreman in finishingâ€"room; died in Harper hospital. Dyingâ€"Moses Peltier, engineer, skull fractured; unconscious, at Harper hosâ€" pital. Seriously injuredâ€"William H. Beckâ€" er, cuts in head, neck, scalded badly; Wilbur Kraus, ribs broken, body bruisâ€" ed, may be injured internally; John Nonninger,. cabinetâ€"maker, legs and breast cut, bad scalp wound; Herman Kreinberg, packer, badly bruised all over body, may die, Carl May, cabinetâ€" maker, and Barney Trombley, band sawyer were also burt. _ o The cause of the explosion is not yet ascertained. Both the front and rear ends of the fourâ€"storey building were blown out entirely, and the brick walls are in ruins. No fire resulted from the explosion. The concussion started the whole northâ€"eastern port‘on of the city; and many windows were broken. The damaged building is a brick structure 150 feet square, four storeys high. The floors were practically uninjured. Divergent | Views _ Regarding _ Ireland‘s Condition. A despatch from Dublin says:â€"There are two sides to the question of the famine in Ireland. One side is that of the Government which claims the faâ€" mine is exploited by politicians as an argument against the administration of Ireland. The other side, held by many of the clergy, politicians, and peoâ€" ple, is that it is certain there will be great distress through large sections of . the country. <= °. s A meeting of the Roman Catholic prelates was held at Maynooth last week, and those present adopted resoâ€" lutions that the archbishops and bishâ€" ops of Ireland deem it their duty to present to the Government a statement of their conviction, formed on the perâ€" sonal knowledge of seven members of that body, that the failure of the poâ€" tato and cereal crops in many districts, particularly on the southern and westâ€" ern coasts, must lead to great distress, and unless speedy measures of relief are adopted, _ to disastrous conseâ€" quences. Meetings are being held, the parish priests presiding, urging the Government to start relief works beâ€" fore the people are actually suffering. The Government officia‘s insist on keeping themselves fully informed reâ€" garding the conditions prevailing, and will be able to cope with the distress, but they say they are unable to anâ€" nounce at this time what districts or how many people will be affected. NORTHâ€"WEST TERRITORIES. Jnpan and Russia Preparing for a Conâ€" Atet, The steamship Empress of Japan brings the folowing advices from the Orient :â€" A correspondent in Corea, writing to a Shanghai paper, takes rather an ominous view of the state of affairs in that country, stating that there is no doubt that Japan and Russia are both preparing for war in the near fuâ€" ture. The Japanese are surveying the southern coast of Corea, while the Russians have obtained asmall island off Fusan as a naval coaling station. The Japanese also are building barâ€" racks in Gensan that will holg 5,000 The Japanese in Seoul are using money quite freely in order to foster an antiâ€"Russian spirit. t > only 3,000,°00 was subscribed in Japan. The Japanese Government will ‘be forced to %u abroad to float a public industrial loan. Out of 67,000,000 yen, It is rumoured in Hong Kong shat 16,000 riCes have ‘been shipped to the Philippine rebels. FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION WAR IN THE NEAR FUTURE. AN IMPENDING FAMINE. ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO B Grend Extensive Fire in the City of Brantford â€" Two Firemen Scriously Injared. A despatch from Brantford says;â€" The most disastrous fire in the history of Brantford took place here on Tuesâ€" day, resulting in the serious injury of two firemen and the loss of property to the value of $75,000 to $100,000. At 5.30 the 220 hands at the Verity Plough Works were busily engaged at their work, and there was not the slightest sign of impending danger, when sudâ€" denly the men in~the big painting room on the third storey, at the _ top, were startled by a column of fire, which seemed to leap as if by magic from a tank of composition, composed chiefly of benzine and other inflamâ€" mable stuff. _ They ran wildly Imm3 the room, one man named Eacretl being momentarily overcome, and anâ€" other man named . Dyson jumping from a second storey window, and reâ€" ceiving painful in juries. f In an incredibly short time _ the immense factory was in a sheet of flames. The whole force of the brigade was quickly on the sceneand pluckily set to work to conquer the blaze. Tho fire hadn‘t been long in progress when one of the walls of the main building fell in, hurling Fireman Allan and Fireman James Finch a distance of some 30 feet. They were rescued from the debris, Allan in an unconscious condition, and taken to the hospital, and Finch to the fira hall, where his injuries were attended to. _ ____ .. _ Wuos Aramdona is tA is 400. 4. tw actc ts th o a x Under the direction of Mr. Verity, the employes managed to rescue & !a{'ge amount of manufactured materâ€" ial. The buildings were completely gutâ€" ted. The Veritys, have been working day and night for some time, and there was a very heavy stock of ploughs on hand. Mr. Verity states that he valuâ€" ed the buildings and contents at $100,â€" 000. _ They carried $50,000 insurance. A good deal of ironwork will be much damaged. _ A loss of $75,000 will no doubt cover it. , Among the companies interested are: â€"Northern, $10,000 ; Calendonian, $10,â€" 000 ; Waterloo Mutual, $12.000 ; London Assurance, $5,000; Manchester, _$3:()(')0. The fire was nearly extinguished by 8 o‘clock. The buildings destroyed are those which the city was going to buy from the Veritys for $15,000, the firm‘s business demanding larger premises. The Mayor has offered the Veritys the old Waterous building A Woodstock Lady Mas Won a Very Importâ€" ant Suil. A â€" despatch from ‘Rochester, N.Y., saysâ€"Justice Warner has rendered a decision for the plaintiff in the case of Susie M. Vanderventer, of _ Woodâ€" stock, Ont., against Etephen W. and Albert Vanderventer, both of Penn Yan. The action was brought to enâ€" force an alleged anteâ€"nupt al contract made in 1832, in which Stephen Vanderâ€" venter agreed to grant a certain parâ€" cel of land, and also $23,000 to Susie M. Vane, nmow Susie M. Vanderventer, providing she marry him within one year after the death of her mother. The plaintif{ was married to the deâ€" fendant in July, 18§5, in fulfilment of her part of the contract, and soon after demanded of the defendant that he fulâ€" fil his part of the contract. Instead it is alleged, the defendant transferred all such property to his son, Albert R. Vanerventer. j On the trial the defendant denied that he ever executed the contract, and testified that on the date it is alleged to have been executed in Woodâ€" stock, Canada, he was in Penn Yan. The decision rendered by Justice Werâ€" ner gives the piaintiff $20,000 with inâ€" terest from the time the money was demanded and the property. it also restrains the defendant from dispo:ing of any of the property. The Food Supply in the Â¥ukon District 1s Not Half Suffictent. A despatch from Washington says:â€" Captain Hooper, commander of the Beâ€" hring Sea patrol fleet, who has arrived in Washington to attend the seal conâ€" ferenvce, says that the reports conâ€" cerning the scarcity of food in the K‘ondyke region are not, in his judgâ€" ment, exaggerated. In the neighbourâ€" hood of Dawson City there are, he said, about 5,000 miners whose supply of provisions for the coming winter is nogreater than would barely suffice for hall the number. Great suffering will be the inevitable result of this searcity of food. _ Although some of the more vigorous among the miners might aittempt to get away on the ice to the Yukon, the chances were, he thought, that a considerab.e number of them would perish from hunger and exposure. Well, sir, exclaimed the millionâ€" aire, what do you want this mornâ€" _i‘ve come again to ask for _ your daughter, said the poor, but ambitious, young man. Riy $ Pn R # ing? Haven‘t L told you six times now upon as many different days, that it‘s out of the question‘t â€" What do _ you mean by bothering me in this way ! Y(l);l are making a nuisance of yourâ€" self. If I seem to be more persistent than _ vcircumstances warrant, 1 must insist that you, sir, are _ to blame. 4 There, said the man who loved hbis daughter, as he pointed to a _ motto over the banker‘s desk is my excuse‘or coming here day after day: If at first you don‘t succeed, try, try, again. Do you believe in that sentiment or have you put it up there simply to deceive people? _ _ _Me! shouted the indignant old man, L don‘t understand you. _ _ $s _ After be had scratched his head a while, the mean old plutocrat said: Yes, L believe in that. I haven‘t succeeded yet in making you underâ€" stand that my daughter shall not beâ€" come the wife of a fool, but I‘m goâ€" ing to keep on trying till 1 do. Good morning. And that time he did it. CONTRACT BEFORE MARRIAGF. PLOUGH WORKS BURNED PROVING HISs MOTTO NOT EXAGGEA&ATED. TROUBLE IH WEST AFRICA French Intrading on Terri@ry ®2 ENCCT Rritain â€" Complications Imminent â€" Kritish Officers o the Front â€" The French are Ordering Rcin ‘oreements to the Lagos Hinterland. A despatch from Lagos, West Coast of Africa, says:â€"A detachment of the West India Regiment, stationed hbere, has started for the frontier of the Hinâ€" terland. m > T.anal CC T LORENL+ A Paris despatch says :â€"The Jourâ€" nal says grave news has reached St. Louis from the Dahomey Hinterland, to the effect that complications are inaâ€" minent at Nikki and elsewbere in Borâ€" gu of which territory Nikki is the capâ€" ital, and which, it is claimal in Engâ€" land, belongs to Great Britain, by virâ€" tue of a treaty concluded with the King of Borgu prior to the treaties made with that monarch by represenâ€" tatives of France. It is added that on receipt of the news referred to M. Lebon, the Minâ€" ister of the Colonies, who is now looking after French interests in Senâ€" egambia, immediately despatched re‘nâ€" forcements to Dahomey. A semiâ€"official statement regarding the reporied trouble in West Africa was issued this evening. It says:â€" "The news from West Africa foreâ€" shadows great difficulties at Nikki and in Borgu. The Niger Company, Britâ€" ish, is sending officers there to incite rebellion and distribute arms to the natives. In view of this situation French troops have been despatched to that district from Senegal, as a preventive â€" measure. _ Moreover, (hel British negotiators for a sett.}ementl of the Niger question have been in Paris for more than a week, and. everything points to Great Britain seeking to let the matters drag. Seemâ€" ingly she does not intend to discuss the question, but means will undoubtâ€" edly be found to foil these tactics." A despatch from London says: â€"Reâ€" plying to the semiâ€"official statement concerning the dangerous state of a(â€" fairs in West Africa, issued in Paris on Tuesday evening, the British Colâ€" on‘al Office officials declared that there does not seem to be any reasâ€" onable fear of complications at Nikki, "provided the French Government beâ€" haves reasonably." But, it was added at the Colonial Office, Great Britain has taken the determination to police more effectually her territorles, "and if the French persist in trespassing | complications will naturally ensue." It now transpires that Major Northâ€" cote, who sailed from Liverpool recentâ€" ly, is going to Lagos, and not to the Gold Coast, so that it will be in the Hinterland of the former colony that he will occuny the position of Comâ€" manderâ€"inâ€"Chief. Captain the Hon. C. G. â€" Fortesoue, of the Rifle Brigade, went with Maior Northcote to Lagos, while Cantain Gifâ€" ford also proceeded to Lagos in the same steamer. Two â€" Elegant Ronts: to . be Butlt in Toronto. A despatch from Montreal says:â€" The Richelieu & Ontario â€" Navigation Company has decided to build two new steamers, at a cost of $275,000 each, modelled on the lines of the Priscilla of the Fall River Line. The designer of the Priscilla, Mr. Haggenstrom, will assist Mr. Bertram of Toronto in the construction of the two boats. _ Col. Henshaw, one of the R. & O. directors, left in the spring for a thorough inspecâ€" tion of the boats in American waters, and after travelling on‘ the Fall River, the Albany and the Champlain and New York steamers be returnedwith a report in favor of the Priscillia. The new boats will be 277 feet in length, just Nikki, the town which is said to have hbeen occupied by French troops, is in the Hintérland of Lagos, and of the French Dahomey territory. It is known that the French have been in Boussa ever since the Niger expedition to Bida and Horin, while for a long time past the French have | disputed the right of Great Britain to Borgu, of which Nikki forms part. seventern feet shorter than the steumâ€" erQuebec. They will have sleeping caâ€" pacity for over four hundred people and will be licensed to carry fifteen hunâ€" dred. The dining room will be on the second deck, and walled with plate glass, so that (the passengers while dinâ€" ing can enjoy the prospect as they glide on the water. The specification call for a maximum speed of twenty knots an hour and a minimum of eighteen. This means that the boats, instead of leaving Toronto at 2 o‘clock in the afâ€" ternoon, will swing out of the Yonge street wharf at 6 o‘clock, just four hours later, and arrive on schedule time at Prescott. There will be fifty thouâ€" sand dollars spent on interior decoraâ€" tions on each boat. The first steamer will be ready by July ist;and the secâ€" ond three weeks later. j 4 Column of Troops Starts Under General Hunter â€" Bervishes‘ Revonge on the Janlin Tribe. A despatch from Cairo says:â€"A colâ€" wmn of troops commanded by Gen. Hunter, it is announced in a despatch from Berber, on the Nie, has started to drive Osman Digna, the great derâ€" vish General, from the Atbara River; but, the despatch adds, it is feared Osâ€" man Digna wil not wait for the Anâ€" g.oâ€"Egyptian troops to attack him. _ Detals just obtained of the revenge of the dervishes uwpon the Jaain tribe, caused by their refusa! to join the forces of the Kha‘lifa against the Britâ€" exireme. The left hank of the river beâ€" tween Berber and Met&meh was practically depopulated. dervishes butchered every male member of the offending tribe, and took the pretty women to their harems, after sending 150 selected virgins to the Khalifa. The dervishes, in addition, threw many woâ€" mem and chi‘dren into the river. NEW R. & 0. STEAMERS. INDIA DETACHMENT THE FRONTIER AFTER OSMAN DIGNA. it tohave been terrible in the &‘he left bank of the rivert')o- CEIKA AOLBS T0 EER WaTS Though Riding Whecis with H:â€"mpon Tires, the Chinese Cling to Their superatitions Regarding Fawilly Bopes and Teach the hertmnrtidonr un i® EP( 0/ h c c c HER ANCIBNT CUSTOMS NOT cHaANG ED TO SUIT PROCRESS. Many curious instances of the spread of foreign customs and the absorption of European ideas are found in the English and vernacular newspapers® of China. Reforms are adopted very slowâ€" ly in China. The law remains as it was ons thousand years ago, and all the customs that pertain to the worship of ancestors and the uphold= inz of paternal authority cannot be altered by so much as a hbair‘s breadth, without provoking a storm of protest which not even the hig .est a2ULBDA!®Y could afford to ignore. A css illustrating the romarkalle hold that superstition has even on persons of wealth and in elligence, comes from a place south of Canton. It seems that the persistent illâ€"forâ€" tuns of a respectable family of some wealth was trased to the {act that they had selected an "unpropitious" site for the burial of the bunes of the bead of the house. ‘The Chinese cusâ€" tom is to exhume the coffin after three years, and to wash the bones and put thom in a large jar â€" This _ jar is then buried in a shady plave, usue ally 4 UNDER A TREE, and over it the sons do ancesiral worâ€" ship that assures the happiness of the departed. The son of this unfortunate family dug up the two jars containâ€" ing ancestral bones, cleaned them, carefully and then reburied them. But recently a neighbor by chance exhumâ€" ed the jars while he dug for some!hing else. This was regarded as a bad zen and the jars ware taken out and cleanâ€" ed for another removal. Te The wiseacres of the town said that several misfortunes which bad befallâ€" en the family were due to the unproâ€" vitious site selected for these jars, and when the Eugropean who resords this incilent visited the village he found the relatives and friends engaged in soleran discussion of the proper place to rebury the hones. This {amily beâ€" longed to the respectanie, _ educated class, yet belioved in these gross suâ€" perstitions, as fully as any igneorant c00lies. Paternal authority is still supreme in Chin«, and when the old faumily law comes into conflicl with the State law it is the State that must yiecld. _ An invident illustrating this comes from Hunan. A doctor named 1.u w ks found dead on the highway. All the evidences of a deliberate murder were present. _ But while an inquest was being beld the doad man‘s father apâ€" peared and coolly decliared that be had slain his son because of the yonu{ man‘s unfilial conduct. It seemstha the son had beaten the father, as well as other moambers of his family, and he had even chastised several elderly men of his clin who had gone to remonâ€" straite with him. . So the father bhad killed him, as the law empowered bim to do The magistrate referroed the whole case to the Board of _ Punishâ€" ments, as he did not feeil wuthorized to condemn the father, especially as the grayâ€"beards of the Liu clan testilied that the son bad RECBHIV ED ONLY HIS DUK, Another recent case of the punishâ€" ment of a rebellious son was recordâ€" ed in the Feking Gazette In this case the Empress Dowager imeted out tie penalty. _ The offender was Prince Isoi Shu, the eldest son of a widow. He showed open contempt for his mothâ€" er‘s wishes by feigning iliness when her birthday anmiversary festivities occurâ€" red. . To coap the climax of his offencas he failed also to return thanks for the Empress Dowager‘s giftsto his mothâ€" er. The matier was referred to the Empress Dowager, _ who _ prescribed eighty blows with the rattan and the perpetual imprisonment of the undutiâ€" ful son "within the four walls _ of an empty â€" room." . The _ Emperor confirmed this cdict, so the son will have ample leisure to repent of lis offence. The Shintung Peninsula,. on which werse the fortifications of Weiâ€"haiâ€"wei, and which was overrun by the Japanâ€" ese in the late war, is the last place one would look for evidenses of foreign improvements or inventions. Yet _ a letter from Weiâ€"haiâ€"wei says that in the interior of the province the hicycle fever rlngu among the wealthy naâ€" tives, «and no fewer than 200 wheels have been imported. _ With great inâ€" enuity some native gunsmiths â€" and gl:wksmit,hs have turned out imitaâ€" tions of the foreign wheels, and these are said to do good service. instead of the pneumatic tirese these Chinese wheels have solid tires of plaited bhemp covered with rawhide. oUTWITTED THE LAIRD. lp the absence of a family, _ the private grounds of a ceriain Scottis» lord were often used by ihe natives of the two neighboring villages, as thereâ€" by a saving of fully a mile was efâ€" fected. Occasionally, too, when his lordship was at home, attempts were made to run the blockade, tor, whenever any trespasser was caught by his lordâ€" ship, he bad to obey the command, to go back the way be had come. _ Mrs. Waf:â€"’l'lut costume is vu" beâ€" coming. has a busband who likes to see a woman thoontl& dressed and itn‘t too mean to pay for it." A jlocal hawker, when _ cautiously wheeling bis barrow along the forâ€" bidden path one day, happened to see his lordship before the latter saw him, and coolly turning the barrow round sat down with his back to the dreadâ€" ed laird, who, coming up, gave hbim a severe reprimsanding, and then orâ€" dered him to wheel about and go back by the road by which he _ had Mr. Wiggs, admi â€"Mrs. Hansom l_ogk_- as pretty umn this afterâ€" The wily bhawker did as he was bidâ€" den, thereby turning his bharrow _ in the direction in which he wished to go, and so effecotually outwitting the un suspecting laird. 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