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TBI.EGBAPHIC SUMMAYR. Big Bear has been released from Stony Hotmtaiu Penitentiary. Trains are now running on time on the Canadian Pacific Western Division. The new depot of the Canadian Pacific in Montreal is to be erected on Windsor street, near Dominion Square. Candidates for positions as Dominion and Surveyors will be examined in Ottawa by the Board of Examiners on the 1.0th inst. The Quarterly Board of the Elm Street Methodist Church, Toronto, decided last night to invito Rev. D. G. Sutherland, of London, to be jmstor of the church. The annual meeting of Ht. George's Society, Toronto, was held last night, when most satisfactory reports were pre- sentetl. Mr. George Beardmoro was elected President. James Peatt, an employee in Scoone's auction room, Winnipeg, was found dead yesterday morning near Manitoba College. He had been drinking, and lay down and was frozen to death. Wm. Kingston, an employee of the Department of Agriculture, at Ottawa, died on Thursday, aged Id years. The deceased was for several years one of the staff of professors at Victoria College. AH talk as to the possible successor of Col. Miller as commandant of the Queen's Own Hifles is set at rest by the announce- ment that Major D. H. Allan has been pro moted to the vacancy. Thomas Newman, living ou the fifth oonoession of Romney, felled a tree yester- day, which in fallinfj struck a limb of another tree standing by, and the limb fell on his head, killing him instantly. Mr. Acton Burrows has rcsignoi the position of Deputy Minister uf Agriculture of Manitoba. He will, however, still retain the secretaryship of the Boanl of Agriculture. It is said Captain Clarke will be appointed to the vacancy. The survey of the route for the Central Ontario Bail way to North Bay has been completed, and the surveying party have returned to Belleville. 'They report the Und fairly level and well timbered. Canadian capitalists will apply at the next session of Parliament for power to build a line of railway, about 85 miles lon^;, from Goderich to Wingham or some other point which will give the Canadian Pacific an oiAlet on Lake Pluron. York County Council at yesterday's meeting took the initiative towards the abolition of toll-gates by deciding that after the expiration of the present leases four of them shall not be renewed, and that the remainder shall only be leased for one year. It is understood that the application of certain regiments of Canadian volunteers for permission to go to England next summer to take part in the Queen's Jubilee celebration, has been referred to the Gov- ernment by the Militia Department, and that no decision has been made yet. Lieut.-Colonel Henry K. Smith, Deputy Sergcant-at-Arms of the House of Com- moni), has been appointed by the Govornor- Oeneral as honorary A. D. (;. on his staff. This is the first appointment of a Cana- dian officer to the ix>8ition. Lieut.-Colonel Bmith is universally popular and will prove an invaluable aide. The Pope has decided to recall the pre- sent Nimcio at Paris and to appoint in his place Mgr. Ferrata, who is now Nuncio at Brussels. The Marchioness of Londonderry held a drawii.g room last evening in Dublin, when 1,300 persons were prosented to her. The attendance was the best seen at the Vice- regul lodge for 10 years. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain writes to a Unionist : " I believe that the time is favorable for an unprejudiced consideration of the Irish question, and I hope no personal feeling will interfere with such consideration." A service in Lambeth Palaoc Chapel, London, to commemorate the consecration therein in 17H7 of the first Bishop of the Episcopal Church in America was held yesterday. Among those who took part were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of London and Winchester, and Bishops Potter ami Lyman, of America. The Dean of Windsor performed the service. Instead of a sermon, Bishop Potter delivered an eloquent address, sketching the history of the Church in America and its connection with the Knghsh Church. The Archbishop of Canterbury celebrated Ine communion. Minister Phelps and many other Americans attended the service. Sophia Congdon, of Willimantic, Conn., died on Wednesday at the age of 110 year* and 7 months. Her age is vouchofi for by her family and the records are said to prove it. During a tremendous hail storn< at Oliver, a small town fifteen miles west of Torre Haute, Ind., on Tuesday afternoon, an aerolite descended and exploded near the ground. The earth was torn, windows shattered and a large tree deniolishe<l. The explosion was heard six miles away. The railroad companies having head- quarters in Milwaukee have recently made ont, by request of the War Department, a list of their rolling stock and statement of their ability to convey troops to points on their lines. The statements were sent to the War Department. Treasurer Jordan admitted to-day that Secretary Manning is to bo President, and thatho(Mr. Jordan) is to be Vice-President of the Western National Bank of the city of New York. The resignations of both officials aro in the hands of the President, and will be occcpted in duo time. Charles Ogden Ferris, ii/md Sir Roger Tichborno, convicted in the United States Circuit Court recently for fraudulently oh taining a pension from the Government upon a false claim that he had been wounded in the army, was yesterday sen tenoed to five years in Erie penitentiary. Mrs. Mark Donaldson, of Lymca, N.H. aged about 50 years, was shot and instantly killed at her home yesterday by Stephen Lamphir, who immediately after killed himself with the same weapon. Lamphir was about (JO years old, ftnd had boarded with the Donaldsons for two years. Ho had been considered slightlv msane, and this is the only known cause for his act. A Canadian poet recently fought duel, but, an avenging Nemesia being tem- porarily overworked, it was the other fellow that got hurt. James Reid has secured the contract for Jhe Canadian Pacific Sauit branch. The Montreal winter carnival wbb opened yesterday, the city being gaily decorated and crowded with visitors. Archbishop Fabre, of Montreal, has issued another circular to the clergy of his diocese calling upon them to forbid their parishioners holding ortakingpart in politi- cal meetings on Sundays. Word was received In London yesterday that Miss Walker, daughterof Col. Walker, of that city, had been badly hurt at a Mon- treal toboggan slide, having sustained a fracture of the leg. The Vice-regal party left Ottawa yester- day for Montreal, and met with an enthusiastic welcome on their arrrival in the latter city, where they will probably remain for a month. It is understood that the Government has definitely decided not to grant permis- sion to the Queen's Ows Kttles, 'I\)ronto, and the Royal Scots, Montreal, to visit England next summer to take part in the Queen's Jubilee celebration. It is asserted the English Government has adopted the Lee- Remington American ritle for the use of the army. The Post-office authorities are making extensive experiments with a view to con- nect the whole of Germany by telephone. Dr. Windthorst, leader of tlje Centre (Catliolic) party in the Qermaii Keichstag, refusoe to submit to the Pope's dictation regarding the Septennate Bill. A despatcli from Madras annoances the death of Major- General Sir Charles Met- calfe MacGregor. Ho was only 46 years of age. Stories are again cnrrent in London, appa.-ontly without much fonndation, that Ruskin's mind is giving way, and that he is about to join the Catholic Church. Herr Baetsch, editor of the I'oUdamer Sachricten, in whose paper the story was first printe<l that the Czar of Russia had shot Herr ViUaume, a military attache of the German embassy at Ht. Petersburg, 8 been condemned to six weeks' impri- sonment for publishing a falsehood. A Xiondon newspaper vendor. Smith by name, got drunk on Saturday. After a while he found he had lost his money and tried to drown himself in the lake at St. James' Park. He was pulled out and an emetic wag administered. Smith promptly vomited up all the money â€" four shillings, a sixpenny piece and a halfpenny â€" which he had mysteriously swallowed while drunk. Yesterday in Bow street there was only a charge of attempted suicide to mar his happiness. The inhabitants of Baku, the centre of the great Russian petrolenm tields, arc much alanned over a subterranean explo- sion which shook the houses and caused otuisiderable damage. At the same time a volcano burst on Lakbatan, ten miles from Baku. For two nights the volcano threw a column of fire and mud SnU feet high, illuminating the country for miles. The mud emitted already lies from seven to fourteen feet deep over a wiuare mile of territory. A NOVKI. INDICATOR. Uow Married Men Can Htormii. Avoid Uoinmtic •UtT FOR A POUND *» OOAU A Canadian Farmer's Adventurv WItli New York Confidence Men. A despatch from New York says : A tall countryman carrying a gripsack went into Chief Drummond's office, in the Postoflioe building, yesterday, and saiil that ho had come liero from Canada, and that he had been swuidled by a young man from whom he liad bought counterfeit money and who had palmed off on him a bag containing paper. "I'm sorry he didn't give the counter- feits to you," Chief Drummond answered consolingly, "for then I might have locked you up for having them in your possession." At this the (Canadian hurried away with- out even telling his name. It was learned later, however, that he is Henry C. Hill, whose home is near Stratford, Ontario Canada. In summer ho is a farmer, but sells jewellery in the winter. Not long ago he got the regulation letter from the "green goods" man offering to let him have some beautiful counterfeits for almost nothing. He answered it, and got a second letter directing him to como to this city and put up at the International Hotel. He came on the West Shore road. At the ferry a man dressed as a policeman asked him where he wanted to go, and when ho said the International Hotel took him into a side street and pointed out a saloon, over which was a lodging house. Hill was met in the office by two mon, who took from him the two letters, and put him in a (»b, which took the whole party t<i another saloon. There Hill thought ho saw one of thoni put tSOO in greenbacks into a small liand Hc.tchel. When it was handed to him he gave tho man f 127. " The best thing you can do," the " green goods" man said, " ia to drive to the depot and got off for home, and don't open the bag unti' you get there." "They bundled Hill into the cab, which took him to the depot. There ho opened the bag. In it were two old newspapers and about a pound of hard coal. Pointers for Adv«rtiii«m. Don't expect an advertisement to bear fruit in one night. You can't eat enough in a week to last you a year, and you can't a<lvertiRO on that plan either. People wlio advertise only once in three montliH forgot that most folks cannot remember anything longer than abont seven days. If you can arouse curiosity by an adver- tisement it is a great point gained. The fair st'X don't hold all the curiosity in the worl.l. Quitting advertising in dull times is like tearing out a dam because the water is low. You should never judge a man by tho umbrella he carries. Nine times ont of ten it belongs to somebody else. A Stuttgart inventor has perfected machine for deadening the sonnd of liinno. Ho will rank high among the philanthropists of this generation. It in supposed that tho man who com mittod suicide by jumping from the Suspension Bridge at Niagara Falls is a yonng bookJieepcr of Buffalo, named Catting, The latest genius who has applied for a patent is the man whe has invented what is known as " tho married man's indica- tor." It is a wonderful sensitive arrange- ment of the ordinary thermometer in con- venient pocket size, and is graded to a scale of cabalistic marks which show the exact state of the domestic atmosphere at any hour of the night. The hard- worked and belated husband arrives home, say, about midnight. Ho takes oat the indicator, thrusts it in the keyhole and lets it remain there a few seconds. Pulling it out (juickly, he scans the dial by the moonlight's fitful gloaming. If it marks "8. A." (sound asleep) the poor husband pulls off his boots noiselessly, uses the night kty with bated breath, gives the door a qaick pull to keep it from creaking, steah trembling to bed, aud when his dear wife wakes up about two seconds afterward and wants to know how long he has been home he is sound asleep. If the indicator scores " A., A. C, B. D. N. K. W. T." (awake, awful cross, but does not know what time it is), tho husband puts a few more grains of coffee in his mouth, opens the door boldly and walks in with a slambau^ air, bits his boots inten- tionally against the chair, wants to know- why the devil chairs don't keep out of the way, gets desperately mad on general prin ciples, scares his wife clean out of her crossness and curtain lectures, refuses to lei h<-r got up and strike a match never did like a light at night ai>yhcw, remarks grufHy in reiponse to a timid query that it's about twenty minutes after 10," and then turns into bed with lucb an apparent awful state of mind that the wife of his bosom is afraid to si)cak to him, at which he is very sad, of course. There are other marks on the indicator showing just where it will do t<x play the lodt;e dodge," or the "sick friend," or " been standing on the corner talking to so and BO for more than an hour," or " Gene- ral or honorable this or that, from you know where, was in town, and had to go away in the '2 o'clock train, and he insisted so strongly that the whole party stayed up to see him off, although he was a great bore, anH we dnly did it tliroufjb courtesy." But the most awful of all cabalistic signs is the one on the top, abont two marks above boiling point. When the weary husband comes home about i a. m. from the direction of the butcher shop, with a roll of luoat held high in the air, so that every one who [Msses cannot fail to sec it, and stick* the indi- cator in the keyhole, he is almost too weak to draw it out. With hair on end he reads it by the faint light streaming in ui>on him ^rom over the eastern hills, and sweat breaks out upon his noble brow in drops as large as walnuts as he sees tho bulb of the indicatorjammed smack up against " It. H. S. W. F. Y. I. T. D." (red hot, still waiting for you inside the door). The in- ventor of the instrument says that when a man has this terrible misfortane W over- take him he feels there is nothing left in life worth living for. He slings the meat into the yard and braces himself for the t-uiing fray, but Hays nothing, for nothing can be said. Be he ever so gifted a liar his accoTiplisliment is mcur« than valnalufs. No jfyJE" "^ sic'' friend, no talkini; on tho corner, no sitting up to see the general off, no swearing that he will never do it again in fact, nothing; will prevail. It is an indefensible case. He ia canght. Even the ghastly gayoty with which two hours previously he had said to tho boys he guessed he would see i4 out â€" " might as well be killed for a she^ as a lamb" â€" had all vanished. Tho indi- cator having told him tho exact state of things, he knows exactly what to do, and that is nothing but get in bed at once and wrap the irapcry of his couch about him, pull the pillow over his ears and wait for his wife's breath to give out. It's awful while it lasts, but it has its use in relieving the unfortunate husband of his groat load of anxiety. The indicator is a great inven- tion. â€" iMiuion Kxckanije. THE IRON HAND. How a Would-be Robber Found a Friend In Ufa InUndeU Victim. John Reamer, of the firm of Kern & Reamer, poultry dealers, is a strong, active, and wiry young man, whose right hand was uflr:^ â€"Uted at the wrist, writesa Toledo correspondent of the .St. I,oui» lUobeVenw- crat. In place of the original member he carries a heavy iron baud, which stood him in good turn recently, preventing his robbery aud probably murder, and, as the sequel shows, causing him to turn philan- thropist under peculiar circumstances. There has been bht a brief reference to the matter in the Toledo dailies, which have neglected an opportunity to give particulars of a very interesting case. The night was dark as Mr. Reamer walked down Cherry street on his way to his home in West Toledo, with a consider- able sum of money ou his person. When he reached a lonely spot in the woods near the Metropolitan Park he was halted by a man who demanded his money or his life. Mr. Reamer instinctively dropped a small basket which he carried on his left arm, so a.s to make resistance, when the highway- man drew a knife and thrust it at him, gra/cing his body and passing it under the arm and partly through his intervening clothes. Mr. Reamer struck his assailant a terrific blow in the face with his iron hand, felling him to the ground, and followed this up by pounding his prostrate antagonist with all his might and main, until ho finally groaned and cried -for mercy. Presently he left the man leaning np against a fence, and with the remark, " I wasn't fixe<l for you this time, but next time I will be. ' started out on tho road. But before he had gone far he felt the blood trickling down his left side, and the thought that after all he might be seriously if not fatally wounded so enraged him that he startcnl back to further wreak his vengeance on the would- be-road agent. The latter saw hira coming and, making a desperate effort, succeeded in gutting away into the woods and dis- appearing in the darkness. Some days after the encounter Mr Reamer chanced to hear through a physician about a man being very sick in tho vicinity of Tremainsville. His suspicions being aroaseil, he went to see the man, and found him dangerously ill in a hovel. Two persons lay on a wrelc'ned couchâ€" a man and wife â€" both very low, the attendant told him. As soon as the sick man saw Mr. Reamer he tried at first to hide his features from him by turning away, but his visitor thought he reco(»nized the face of the patient, swollen, disfigureii and black-and-bluc as it was. Tho sick man, with great emotion, said : " I see you know me â€" I will have to confess." He then told Mr. Reamer how he had seen him dis- play a roll of bills on the eventful night, and that he hoard him tell someonothat he could not get back from a ci>rtain place until late that night. He a<lde<l : " My wife was sick, my children hungry, end I out of money, and I detormini^<l to lake this chance of making a raise. How I have been punished, God knows. You certainly will not inform on me, will you ?" Mr. Reamer was deeply affected. Kubse- c|neiit inquiries convinced himthat the man was driven to the detd of deHpt-ration by poverty and sickness, and h« decided to Balp iiim. From intended proMcotor he turned friend, and is now helping the miserable family daily. A BUHOf h, HI« COFFIN. After Lylnc OmmI TOO Yean, aa OM Charrhfnan'ii Body is Fonnd. An intci^sting account is ^iven in somft German pa|K'r8 of the discovery a little time ago, in tho Cathedral of Worms, of th* body of a medieval bishop, who has been identified as Conrad de Sternberg, who died in 11.54, being a contemporary of our Henry II., and of the great German Emjwror, Frederick Barbarossa, Says the London Timet. During the progress of some restora- tions which are being carried out in the cathedral, a stone ooflin was found dee|> Budcr the floor of the choir. It was closely cemented, and on it* l>eing opemnt in Iba presence of a special commiuiion the body was found in perfect preservation, ana arrayed in vestments denoting episcopal rank. On the head is a low miter, tho low border of which is formed by a baud of thick gold embroidery, of a lozenge-shapai) pattern ; the fillets of the miter are composed of the same sort of work, with deep, heavy gold fringes. The p^ak* of the miter have their edges adome4 by similar embroidery. The alb and amioo are made of thin linen, very openly woven The chasuble, of the old bell shape, made of very thick twilled ailk, and fall long folds around the body, forming of pad round the neck. In the usual way a richly embroidered band runs perpendicu- larly down tho front ; it has no special design. The edges of the chasuble are simply hemmed. The tunics under the chasuble are also of silk. The upix;r one ia of lighter texture ; it shows a pattern con- sisting of lozenges connected by rays. The under tunic shows a very fine interlacing pattt rn of geometrical design. The stole H worn crossed on the breast, the lower por- tiouH being broader than the up(>er. Its ornamentation is a pattern of scalc-likd design, which shows alternately figures of lions and birds set in a pattern of fine- traced leaves. The girdle is of silk, but only long, untwisted strands remain. Tbo feet and legs up to the knees are covered with silk stockings, which seem to bo of a fine network texture. Three broad paral- leled bands and as many smaller ones ara wound round in spiral fashion and fasten them. The shoes, nhich comes up abov» the ankle and have two deep slits, are mad» of gold brocade; they aro ornamented by circular embroideries, sewed on. The soV* of the shoes areiof leather. The pastoral staff lies in the arms, from thu right shoulder to the left foot. It is of soft wood, endiiiK with a ferule and spike ; at top there is a spherical ball and hammered bronze, out- of which issues a crook of soft wood, whiob ends in a bronze Illy set in a socket. At the feet stands the chalice, also of soft wood, very finely turned ; the cup is a hem- isphere, and on it rests the patina. i A YOI'NCI NOMARCH'M 5,000 8I.AVK.S. Th« IIoKt Wbieh Onnrd* tlie Harem of the ClilneKi^ Kmperor. I have lieen told that there are about 5,000 slaves in the C'hinese Kinpcror's Pal- ace, a figure which it is, of course, very difficult to control, says the I'ekin corres- |)ondent of a Paris paper. The number, however, must be large, sinc« that class of individuals is alone called 'qion to fill )K>sts which everywhere else are usually given to men. Their business is to keep sharji watch over the EmiK'ror's harem, an institution of no great service for tho time being, since His Majesty is yet a minor, but in view of its becoming service- able Honio (lay, and to pay meet homage to tho rites of religion. The Empress selects the young beauties a<lmitted into this Chin- ese seraglio, and she has to renew the per- tonnel every three years. Those young girls are recruited among the families of the Mandchou officers, who look upon the honor of hf ving tho prettiest of their doughters in the Imperial harem as a means of attaining high rank. These yo'ing ladies make their dehitt at tho age of 14, and remain inside tho harem until they are 'Hi years old. If in the interval they give birth to offspring they by rights become "daughters of the imperial blood," and remain bound with tho fate of the child, for he may l)ocome a " son of heaven," and sovereign heir ta 10,000 kiii),'doms. If, on tho other hand, tho young lady reaches the age of '2,') without yielding increase to the imperial lionsohohl, hIic is sent homo to her illtistrious parents, and honestly weds a mandarin of the place. Maiiame nr. Montiiolon, widow of the celebrated Count Charles Tristan de Mon- tholon, who accompaniml the first Napo- leon td St. Helena, has just died at Bordeaux. She was H6 years old. Her husband helpe<l Napoleon in most of his bold scrokes of business, such as that of the Eighteenth Drumairo and the return from Elba. The Comto do Montholon also aided tho late Emperor Louis Napoleon in his famous Boulogne escapade, and was iin- priShned with him at Ham. M. de Mon- tholon had received about 8400,000 from tho first Napoleon, who made him a Count and an Imperial (Ihamberloin after the battle of Wagram; but most of this sum was wasted in bad speculations after tho Count had retired into private life. A ProiprewilTe Donkey Parly. Yoo cut a big silhnaette of a tailless donkey out of cloth or paper and fasten it to the wall. Each of thu guests receives a cambric tail ami a pin, and is then blind- foldc<l aud placed in a corner opposite the (lonkcy. After whirling around three times he starts out to pin the tail to the donkey. Wherever he strikes the wall, there he must pin the tail. The result generally is a still tailless donkey surrounded with a galaxy of tails and !ots of fun.â€" Spriniilield t nioii. A Royal Dlvorr« Talked Of. A London cable at^t: The actual presentation of thecoi i; laint for divorce of Her Royal Highness the Princess. Louise against her husband, the Marquis of ^rne, has been stopped, for the time at least, through the {wrsonal efforts of tho Queen. But the strain existing is so severe that it is believed that before long, despite tho scandal it would create, application will be made for divorce. " What is tho best way to manage a man .'" asks a feminine correspondent. Marry him. â€"Sarah Bernhardt is growing fat. She is said to have filled every theatre in which she has recently played. â€" Mary Baker, tho fasting girl at Morrow Ind., is still alivo and coiikcIous on th( lOfitli day of abstinence from food. â€" A good day for youhg ladies' cooking club to meet Fridays. A gootl day for monibora to eat tho viands they cook â€" Chowsdays. â€" It is an old saw that " all signs fail in dry weather." Probably a new saw would be appropriate to the effect that all progn'^<! tications fail in foul weather. â€" Since tho formation of the Baptist Union in Sqptland, eighteen "ears ago, 31 new chapels have been bi. It. At the present time there are in that country 85 Baptist churches, with 77 Sunday Schools, and lO'i preaching stations and cottage nuHitingx. Huvt' you paiil yotir \itlU' bills? Ki'tHil (Irli'K art! wtiitlt^Holt) ilU; 'Cnnlv pAviiKint criHltt IcUIk, llcttiir pay your littlo l>illH. IrfiUfttT tUiux hcavUii; billows On (Irt'ful Niagara's roar, (iues up the (iiorus tlirough the laud : " Confound ye, sbut tlmt dmir!" - .At a recent diplomatic dinner at tho Washington White House Mrs. Cleveland wore a gown of pale blue silk, brocadeil in rosebuds, with a front of blue tulle bor- ilered with ribbons; the body was cut s(|nare back and front and finished with lace ; blue feathers in her hair wore held by a diamond ornament. â€"Detroit has forsaken standard time and returned to the old mctho<l. A resolution was recently passed by tho Board of Alder- men to tho effect that on and after 12 o'clock midnight of January 1st, IHH? meridian time should be establishni and standard time abandoned, and thattho ('ity Hall clock and all tho city clocks should be changed accordingly. a sort , ' W A WHAT WE WOULD DO. \ Cliii-ajco Cutiiirk Kx|m>im-n tu a Terrlllei^ Nation <lur rian of Campalyu. What would Canadians do in case of war with the United States ? Why, they would fight- fight as their ancestors foughtâ€" fight like devils ! And what would they do to inaugurate the campaign â€"to give it tone, as it] were ? They would enter th» field 08 if they had been prepared for snoll an event for the past twenty-five years. In twenty-'otO" hours they would have tho twenty-seven miles of Welland Canul com- pletely guard«l from one end to the other. In the neighborhood of that im- jxirtant public work would instantly be placed several field batteries, and ton thoasau>l picked men from the forces in Ontario. Early tho Bec<ind day of tho war a couple of batteries, after the ilcstruction of tho bridges at Niagara Falls, woulil turn their attention to poor, ex|x)scd Buffalo. Its big brewerie*- and malt houses would topple over liko nine pins under the accurate shelling of the Canuck gunners, who would also wipe tba water with the shipping in the harbor, and even play havoc with the historic spot of ground upon which Col. John Finnerta stood watching the Fenians run in the raid of 'f*. About the tinu' that the Toronto, Hamilton and WelUnd tield hatterie* would be taking care of Buffalo and vicin- ity, the London and (iuelph batteries and ten or fifteen thousand burly Scotch- Canadians from the counties of Oxford, Huron and Bruce wouM be oppo- site Detroit, razing that pretty city to tho ground, shaking it np so badly that Bruddor Gardiner would not bo able to find a brick of tho celebrated Lime-Kiln ('lub; all of which would vividly remind Dctroiters of a certain warm inci- dent of the warof IHI'2. With the Welland t'anal open, a few Canadian gunboats would soon anchor off Cleveland and Toledo and bring to time, in short order, about '240,000 of those rampant Uhioans (not for- getting Petroleum V. Nasby), who now want to invade the Dominion. East ol Toronto everything would favor the Cana- dians and not a foot of territory from Toronto to Halifax could bo successfully attacked by thu .\inericaii forces. On tDB other hancf Ogdensburg and Oswego woidd have to go down before the rattling fire ol tho Canucks ; and thus it wculd go alf along the line.- Oh, the carnage and de- struction of property would be frightful. â€" Canadian American. Beyond the Court'* .lurlndlction. Judge Hall, of North Carolina, bt'came terribly sea sick when going down. the Chesapeake Bayou an excursion, tho wind being fresh and the wl.itocaps tumultuous; so ho spent most of his time leaning on tho bidwarks. 'My dear Hall, "said Chief Justice Waife, who was one of the party, and was him- self quite comfortable, " can I do anyu thing for yon? Just suggest what yo» wish V "I wish," groane<I the sea-sick man, that your honor would over- rule tbi» motion." Under a new rule at tho Unittxl Statt« Penitentiary at McNeil's Island, Pngot Sound, every convict brought there has too hair on the right side of his lead shaved off. The other side is untouched. A ncwspapi'r was roceive<l the other day at the Boston Post-otfico addressed " My. George H. Handel, care of the Handel and Haydn Society." Some thirty years ago there came to tho society a letter addressed " Messrs. Handel and Haydn, inusiciana" and there was tho same iiernlexity as to its disposition as there is now about tho news- paper for Mr. Handel. ^^^?T y yi â- V (h I d