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/ %r > I *«>lf1k^ ^VTi- .1,1. Or: *< â-  JiuijU r I I I' -J..:- BIO AND ULTTVK HKAD8. An laTMtlsstor Who 8ay> Slw Hai Motfc- InK to Do With IntelUcence. A tall, broad-Bhouldered man, writes a Nev; York correspondent, with gray hair and whiskers, and the general air of a worldly, innocenco that characterizes the scientific person, visited the Aztec Fair. The matador's swords and caballero's spars failed to attract his attention, and he was not interested in the frying of tortillas by buxom female descendants of the Monte- zumas. Adjusting his spectacles across his nose and taking a brief survey of tlie hall with his beaming blue eyes, he rubbed his palms together, and in a gratified way softly murmured, " Qk 1 this saves me quite a journey," and drew a note-book and small steel tape from his pocket. Marching up to the nearest hombre, who was industriously fashioning silver wire ioto delicate jewellery, the tall man gently but firmly drew the tape-hne around the astonished greaser's head, carefully noting the measurement, and made an entry in his note book. Smiling blandly and reassuringly upon the exhibit he pro- ceeded to measure the Mexican's head in various ways and make notes. Before the bewildered fellow could collect his wits the tall man had moved around to the next booth and slipped his tape around another skull, serenely oblivious to the sensation he was creating among the puzzled Mexicans. At last he tackled a va<iuero who could talk English and wanted to know the par- pose of the measurements. The investi- gator explained that he devoted his v hole time to travelling over the world measuring people's heads, and some day he would write a book about it, showing what folks had the biggest heads of the lot, not count- ing promising young actors or newly -elected Congressmen. The va<]uero was disap- pointed to learn that the tall man was not an eccentric American philanthropist with an amiable desire to present new sombreros to the whole crowd. The gentleman was Dr. Sims, who long ago retired from prac- tice ,and took up theorizingand investigating. In reply to my (juestions the doctor said : "These chaps, I find, have very small heads and oonsefjucntly small brains. They are not Aztecs, of course, but belong to the mixed Spanish and Indian race of Mexioo. The fact that their head is small is only another proof of my theory, or rather of my gene- ralization from long observation, that the largest heads are in the cold countries, and the siae of the skull and weight diminish as you get nearer the equator- I have measured heads from Lapland 'o Egypt, and from India to New Zealand, and the results prove the tmth of the general state- ment. The Laplanders have the largest heads and tbeor|uatoriaI races the smallest. But the Laplander is by no means a prodigy of mental activity. In fact, he is indin^ to be rather stupid. Now, I have discovered that the brain has nothing to do with the operation of the tliou^t. The mind, *« it is called, is not located in the kiain. The brain is a vital organ like the heart, and supplies heat to the body through the nerves. Sever the nerves in a sheep's neck and the heat of the body diminishes in regular pioportion so many degrees a minute. The experience of Arctic explorers has shown that men with big liead« endure the cold best. The brain ia a life- giving organ. It ia the dynamo that sends heat and electrioity along the nerves to all parts of the body. In cold climates more heat is reqoired, and heart and brains are larger than in warmer climatcH. Poople living near the <><|uator require little body heat, and their heads arc small. Hut the intellect is not affected by the size of the head. Big men have big heads, but the snfart men are by no means big. The big- gest brain that was ever weighed was that of a congenital idiot. The next heavioet was that of Ivan Tourgieneiff. The latter was Russ^n, and the liuxsians have big heads because thieir itountry is cold. 1 oonld cite facts by the hour to prove my theory, and some day the anatomists will all agree with me that the old notion of brain power is entirely erroneous." The doctor sighted another foreign head across the hall, and, wliipping out his tape-line, he disappeared in the crowd, walking over small people without noticing their pro- tests in his anxiety not to lose sight of the new specimen. FKOM FAME TO PAVPERISH. A Great Orator Reduced to Beg for Alma in Hi* Old Age. A remarkable and even pathetic incident occurred at Kalamazoo, in this State, the latter part of last week, say? a Detroit despatch. A very old man, past 80 years, appeared in the office of the Superinten- dent of the Poor to solicit public assistance. He had no overcoat and was dressed in a thin, threadbare suit of bUck. The silk hat on his head, like the white hair beneath it, had seen the storms of many winters. He carried a small parcel and two canes with which to support his steps. It was with difficulty that the official, after the aged man had told his name, recognized in him the famous Augustus Littlejohn, an orator of such splendid ability in his prime, forty years ago, that no one who heard him ever forgot the almost irre- sistible magnetism of his elo<juence. Arriv- ing from Niles Mr. Littlejohn had applied to the poor authorities for assistance to enable him to reach Schoolcraft, which place he desired to visit. The assistance was instantly furnished him, as one whose talents and past services to mankind entitled him to soinething better than miserable [OTerty in his old age, and armed with a pauper's ticket he left for School- craft that afternoon. Augustus Littlejohn was a great man among a generation now passed away. Ue was the tiough of the forties. Old settlers who have heard him repeatedly say that he surpassed Gough in the vividness of his descriptions and the wonderful and alto- gether indescribable dramatic force of his uttsrances. He lectured repeatedly all through Michigan and Indiana on temper- ance, with enormous crowds attending his lectures everywhere. He was known also throughout the east as well as in the west. Thousands all over the country were re- claimed by him from intemperance. He was of the noted Littlejohn family, of Her- kimer, N. Y., a family distinguished for its talent. Bishop Littlejohn, of Long Island, and the late Hon. De Witt C. Littlejohn, of Oswego, N. Y., were nephews of his. Now in pictarea(]ue, but nevertheless miserable, poverty the old man is obliged to ask for public alms. It will be startling news to most of those who knew him in his prime, or those who are only acquainted with his splendid reputation, to hear that the matchless orator of nearly half a cen- tury ago is still alive, so long has he been hidden away from public observation and knowledge. Braln-forelnK 'â- > Chlidren. At its meeting recently the Nineteenth Century Club listened to a discussion on '• Brain-forcing in the Education of Children." Dr. William A. Hammond said that a little girl was bronghtto him with St. Vitus' dance. In her school sat('^el were books on English gram mar, arithmetic, geography, history, primary, astronomy, temperance, physiology and hygiene (•• whatever that may mean." ho interjected), French gram- mar, French reader, and a book on "Science." He fcund the child had six and a half hours to study nine subjects ; it was using its brain capital faster than its rooeipts ; it had intellectual bankruptcy stariii;; it in the face. If a child should not look at a book until it was 10 yeais old it would read better at 1 1 than a child who had studied its letters when it was H years old. " It would be much better if a child studied two or three subjects instead of twelve ; grammarshoald be banished until the senior year of a university course ; no child ever learned good English from a grammar. Orammar is the most ingenious device ever known for driving poor little brains into permaturo decrepitude. The only reason why it do?s not do more harm in because nine-tenths of the people don't know anything about it." Miss Mary K. Tate, Principal of Gram- mar School No. 4.'i, defended the present system in this city. 8he said that â- â-  over- work " was due largely to mothers an<l doctors. " A doctor knows there is no way to reach a mother's heart," she said, " so soon as by saying, ' Tour child's brain is too active.' A physician said that of me, and my mother told of it with ptido." â€" Seie York f^tm. JoluiBy'* flpelU>K. " How do you spell knee, mamma?" said a small boy, looking up from liis slate. " K-n-e-e, Johnny." Silence for several moments, while the letters were going down laboriously. And then he asked : " How do you spell grow. " G-r-o-w." Vore scratching with the pencil. " Now I've got itl" Johnny exclaimed. " K-n-e-r, ne, g-r-o-w, gro â€" negro !" -- Youtk't ComfMnion. ♦ Thf Man For the ilob. Bimpaon â€" Well, Muggins, how's business. Muggins (our artiBt)~Oh, ripping 1 Got A commission this morning from a clergy- man. Wants his children painted very Ijadly. BimpsoD (with that pleasant way of his) â€" IVell, mjr boy, you're the very man for tbejob. They don't speak now. â€" Judy. L«t tbm Children Try Thia. I tell yon a cure for dyspepsia that neither patented nor original : " If the white bootblack blacks the black bootblack's boot, will the black bootblack's boot bo blacked ? If the white bootblack blacks but onoof theblaukbootblack'sboots, what will tho black bootblack do?" Directions â€" Draw in a long breath and then repeat the above cure as rapidly as possible. â€" Itotlon Glohe. bar. The Jadce wan No Jsker. Police Magistrate â€" Prisoner at the have you any children ? Prisoner â€" No, Your Honor. P.M.â€" Why not? Prisoner â€" Well, I am not married. P. M. (who hates a giggle at bis expense) â€" That's very fortunate for your wife. â€" Jiotton Beacon. An Unmistakable .Symptom. A new baby had arrived at little Johnny's residence, and the youngster was admitted to take his first look at the little stranger. He surveyed it calmly for a moment, and then looking up exclaimed enthusiastically : " His face is just like the color of Dncle George's. Gosh, but he must be a hard drinker !" â€" I'iUtbunj Pitpatch. In current British Parliamentary man- uals a blank is opposite the designation of Baron Gardner, of Httoxeter, Stafford, the pcerentitled to the place being missing. The •lank wilt now be filled, as it is shown that tho rightful fourth baron is Alan Hyde Gardner, who, with his father, gained eminence in resisting the Sepoy Mutineers in 1B57. He was born in India of a native mother. Mrs. Collier, of Oakland, Cal., has brought suit for divorce against her hus- band beoause ho frequently went fishing, did not supply her with a sufficient quantity Prof. Ildson, a violinist of Warren, O., was engaged to Miss Jenny Thompson, of Copenhagen, when he (juit that city for America. A few weeks ago he sent for her, and the day after Christmas she arrived in New York city with her grand piano and many trunks. She was met by her loyer, who took her directly to Warren, where three days later they were married at the institution where the husband teaches music. Cornelius Drisooll, of Lower Cove, N. 8. is 101 years old, and hale and hearty. He dats well and daily docs light work. niE TOUOOCAN (RAra. Th€* rinktam lias vaniBhed, ^^"^--.^ Tho flkatnm ha« tlod ; Tho rollutn ia baniahod, Tho whoeluni la doad. TolK>f;'H now tho dalay , That iiiiw ruloa the day ; , Liot'a toboR tin we're craiy Bi-tu-ral-li-la ! What is tho difference between a dnde and his boots? One ia calf skin and tho other is calf's kin. Bill Nye writes : " Can yon suggest a title for my new comedy ? I want some- thing catching." Why don't you call it •â-  Only a Case of Measles ?" There are two things in this world that I TELEfJRAPHIO SUMMATnfc There were 34 deaths in Kingston last month, eight of which were from consump- tion. Owing to a rumor that Dr. AbWIt, of Belleville, who died suddenly recently, had come to life, an investigation showed that his remains are still in the vault there. Ottawa is likely to prove a formidable competitor with Kingston for the possession of the proposed School of Practical Science for Eastern Ontario. Mr. W. Peters and his family, of Kings- ton, came near losing their lives on Thurs day night by suffocation from coal gas. The members of the family are confined to bed. Two Civil Service employees got well thrashed in the Windsor Hotel, Ottawa, on Thursday night, by a stranger, whom they insulted because he would not shout for the Tory party. A special meeting of the Tororto City Council was held yesterday afternoon, when the legislation to be asked from the Ontario Legislature at its present session was con- sidered and adopted. Miles Dempsey, wholived near Demorest- ville. Prince Edward County, was instantly lulled on Thursday by a kick from a young horse which he was breaking. Deceased was 35 years of age and married. An old gateman of the Grand Trunk Railway named John Woods lost his life at Montreal yesterday morning, being run down by a locomotive during the heavy snowstorm. He was an old employee, and attended the switches and semaphores. McGill Graduates' Society Executive Committee offer a prize of S.10 for the best ode in honor of the Queen's Jubilee, to be read at the annual University dinner at the end of .\pril. The competition will be open to all Her Majesty's subjects, manuscripts to be in before the 15th April. Mr. James Foot, who was taken from the second story window of his house at St. Thomas in a boat during the recent floods, while suffering from a severe attack of inflammation of tho lungs, died yester- day from the effects of the exposure. Deceased was '/I years of age, and had been a resident of that city for the past fifty years. Mr. John Lytle, of Amherst Island, while driving home to Amherst Island, accompanied by Miss Wilson, broke through the ice. He managed to get out upon the ice, after which, with much diffi- culty, he seized the young lady by the hair and rescued her. The valuable team of horses were drowned. Miss Wilson is very ill from the effects of her wetting. Edwin Sales, a hotel keeper at Court - land, a few miles from Aylmer, has been in poor health and also financial difficul- ties for some time past, anc on Thursday night he made a most deter-nined and suc- cessful attempt at suicide. Taking a loaded shot gun and lockini; himself in his bed-room, he placed the muzzle to his fore- head and fired. The whole top of his head was blown off, and his brains scattered over the walls and floor. The report of tho gun was hearu by tho family, and when the door was forced he was found lying on the floor dead. A razor wasfound in his pocket. He was about 45 ytrnifl uf tkf^, ana leavSH « \yifo aiiii fou children. The .\narchists threaten a dynamite campaign in France. Four hundred houses were destroyed by Are in Rangoon yesterihy. The proposition whi(h has been put for- ward, that the Pope skall bo accepted as arbiter in the Bulgarian dispute, is strongly oppo8e<l by Russia. A despatch from 8t. Petersburg states that the Russian Mrtiterranean fleet has been ordered to renlczvons in .lapancse waters, where Russiaintends at the earliest possible moment to anemblo a considerable 8<|uadron. Tho Prince of Waes has notified the Governors of New Soith Wales and Vic- toria that both himsilf and the Princess find it necessary to r>call their acceptance of an invitation to ' vimt Australia this year on the ocoasionof the centenary cele- bration of the two Irovinces." The letter says it will be impoaiblefor thePrinceand Princess to leave Eigland during tho next twelve months. Sir Michael Hicls-Beach, Chief Secre- tary for Ireland, intho House of C^onimons last evening, ir answer to inquiries affirmed the truth )f reports that Moon- lighters hiul attackKl tho houses of three farmers in Mill Sleet, county Cork, and cut off tho hair of aery womau met in the houses. The only -eason given for theout- rage. said the Chit Secretary, was that the women had beo seen speaking to the police. Sir Michail also said tho Govern- ment would not rioase the Crossmaglen convicts. Court circles aren a state of enthusias- tic expectancy withregard to the coming celebration of Quee. Victoria's coronation. The greatest social feature of tho J ubilcs will be a magnificeit State ball in costume. The last State ball, which took place in .lune, 1851, more thn ten years before the death of the PrincxConBort, was a costume affair. Tho drcsse werein imitation of the time of the rcstoraion of Charles II., and it was the most spnidid court 8i>octaclo of the present reign. It is hoped that this year's ball will be uite as grand, and every effort is being put }rth to make it so. It is stated that the (ueen designs that the costumes to be wo» at the June ball shall be in the style of to middle of the reign of yneen Elizabeth, c- about l.OHO. William Robinso, who was bitten in the lip by a Strang dog on December '28th, died yesterday in he agonies of hydro- phobia, at GreenwJi, Conn. ThoH. F. McGown, a well known citizen of Luluth, fell frona private box to the orchestra in tho Theatre Comiqne on Thursday night an was killed. The coroner's jur has returned a ver- dict that the deathof Raymond R. Bel- mont, who shot hinelf in the basement of his father's house i New York, was acci- dental. The Council of Dtota yesterday defer tsd by an emphatic trjority tho bill giving incorporated cities lo exclusive control of the li<|Uor traffic witin their limits. The ^_^ _ _ ^ can't understand ; one is, that you catch a orbiitterTnd"' eggs and often complained ' cold without trying ; that if you let it run j 33 to 10 because he had to eat acoJd supper after a en, it stays with you, and if you stop it, it Freight traffic on he railways has been .day of piscatorial sport. goes away.â€" /lurd^ff?. 'completely stoppedn Eastern Ontario by the severe snowstorm of last Friday, and passenger trains have suffered considerable delay. The Montreal winter carnival was brought to a successful close on Saturday night. Thirty-two cases are inscribed for bear- ing by the Supreme Court, which meets to-morrow for its first session this year. The old settlers of Manitoba have for- warded to Ottawa a petition forty-nine feet long regarding the settlement of land claims. The commemorative medals and diplomas to be presented to exhibitors at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition were received by the Department of Agriculture at Ottawa on Saturday. Mrs. Morse, the lady who was injured a few days ago by the falling ice from a roof on St. Catherine street, Montreal, died yes- terday morning at her home, Burnside place. An interesting debate on the subject cf Imperial Federation was held in Kingston on Saturday night between students of Toronto and Queen's Universities, the latter arguing in favor of and the Toronto men opposing the idea. The judges decide<l in favor of federation. A young man named .'^rnold, just re- leased from the Central Prison, sprang upon a soldier, who carries the mail to the Royal Military College, Kingston, on Saturday, on the principal street, and seizing him by tho cheek with his teeth took a piece out. The soldier was passing ijuietly along the street at the time. Two or three girls belonging to the Sal- vation Army were brutally attacked on St. John street, Quebec, yesteiday afternoon by a crowd of respectably dressed rowdies, who pelted them with lumps of snow and ice, knocking one young woman to the ground. The victim might have been killed but for the timely arrival of the police. No arrests \ere made, though the street was full of people at the time. On Saturday morning, as Sarah North, aged about HO years, was attending to her usual work in one of the .-Vsylum cottages at London she fell down a cellar in the house and fractured her skull, from the effects of which sho died in a short time. She had been in the institution about ten years and belonged in the neighborhood of Stratford. An inquest was held at 4 o'clock and a verdict of accidental death returned. Mr. Daniel Cook, of McLeod .V Cook, saw millers, Teeawater, was crushed to ileath while unloading saw logs at the mill on Saturday afternoon. Nobody was in the yard at the time, and when the body was found life had been extinct for some time. iJeath must have been instantaneous, as he was lying beneath the saw logs very badly crushed and his spine broken. It is sup- posed that he slipped and fell, pulling the logs on top of him. Ue leaves a wife and young family. The Limerick hunt had to be abandoned on Saturday, owing to the poisoning of the fox-hounds. The British troops in India will be armed with repeating rifles, and the Mar- tini rifles will be transferred to the Sepoys The British .\dmiralty Department has ordered two additional gunboats to Halifax tn protAct th« (Canadian ftsheriss. The Paris l.'lhiiijtn announces that the Papal Nuncio at Madrid, Mgr. Rampolla del Tindaro, has been appointed Pontifical Secretary, succeeding Cardinal Jacobini A Russian lady, said to be the divorced wife of a consular official at Philadelphia has committed suicide at Wiesbaden by shooting herself in n cab. A LyonK lirm has received an order for twenty thousand gross of white silk hand- kerchiefs, stampod with tho Queen's head, to be sent to India as Jubilee presents. The Englisii Court of .\ppeal has ren dered a decision upholding the validity of tho Twand-Edison-Cheesboro patent for carbon filaments for incandescent lamps. A project is ou foot in London to send 5,000 Jewish colonists to Mexico to be dis tributed among tho agricultural districts. The proposed colonists are the victims of Russian peri?e(fntiun. Tho election in North Antrim to fill the Parliamentary -v^ai^ncy caused by the resignation of E. Macnaghten (Conservative) resulted in the return of C. E. Lewis (Con servative.) Referring to tho Home Rule i|uestion Mr. Gladstone soys he is desirous of retain ing tho present number of Irish reprcscnta tives in Parliament to deal with Imperial affairs Tho Spanish (iovcrnment has assented to the financial autonomy of the Basque Provinces on the basis of their contri bution of 50 jier cent, extra to the ex chequer. Advices from Maudalay say tho rebel loader Thanbwa, of Woontho. refuses to surrender, and is destroying villages whose inhabitants are suspected of inclining toward the British. At midnight on Saturday gangs of Orangemen and ' 'atholics peltcnl onoanother with stones on the Falls road in Hnlfast. They were dispersed by the twlice. One man was stabbed and some policemen were bruised. Son>? Socialist speakers addressed a crowd at the MeNon monument, Glasgow, on Saturday, on behalf of the Lanark miners. After the meeting the crowd pelted tho mounted j)oli;,'omen with mud and stones. The policemen charged and scat tered the mob. At Loughrea yesterday two hundred police were rtfused foot! and shelter. Michael Davitt arrived in the morning. He refused to accept a copy of the Govern- ment proclamation prohibiting the pro- poeo<l NationaliKt meeting. l)avitt ad dresstnl the niottiiig in the afternoon in the League rionif, which wero barricaded. He spoke at Woodford in the evening. The meeting announced to bo held at Voughal, Ireland, yesterday, and pro claimed by the d'overnment, was held at Terry Point, Waterfonl. Mr. Tanner spoke. Tho crowd burned copies f.-i the proclamation amid cheers and groans. After the meeting tho crowd returned to Youghal and had some encounters with the police- ; , ..J »v T 1 »«_.• -D-n u Mrs. Horace Mann, widow of the great same body passed t) Local Option Bill by educator, died in Boston on Frid-^y, age<l 80 years to advance the wholesale price of anthrarrta coal fifty cents a ton. On Saturday night in a quarrel Robert Wilson, aged 17, of Corning, N. Y., sho* and killed George Woods, aged '21. Thomas M. Joseph, of Galveston, Treas- urer of the Grand Lodge of Odd-fellows of Texas, is said to be »30,000 short in his acootmts. Wm. Teed, aged 14 years; Eugene Gritt- nger, aged 14, and Henry D. McTigbt, 13, wer drowned in Garden City Lake, L. I., yesterday afternoon by breaking through the ice. The N. Y. Tinif.' Washington despatch says several army officers within the past few months hive duplicated their pay ac- counts, but settlements have been effecteJ without disagreeable notoriety. On Saturday evening, during the absenca of his wife, John Jacobson, of Oniah*. Neb., strangled his infant child to death and then hanged himself. Temporary in- sanity was the cause. On Friday night, at San Francisco, George Messmer, a laborer, shot Frederick Muller and Mrs. Muller, the sister of -Mess- mer's divorcetl wife, then shot himself and will die. Muller is fatally wounded, and Mrs. Muller seriously. The officials of the Northern Piicifio Railways are having built at Ht. I'aul, Minn., an experimental iron car intended to supply heat, light and pure water to pas- senger trains. The car is to immediately follow the engine. ♦ The L'«- <>r Word*. .\ Canadian says the word •' tobo,:;;iit»" should be pronounced with the secomt o." long, as in open. Citizen! of Depere.Wis.,are about lofske a vote to determine whether tho noinH oi their city shall be sjHjIled with a sni^.U or with a capital P. A student of Indian tongues declares that the word "Chicago" was used by tho T'otia- watomio Indians long k,;o to designstrta place where wild onions abounded â€" liter- ally, ai. onion patch. The wokI "polyg " is in constant nsa among tho people or Utah in conversation and hi print to designate a Mormon. ' Oo- hab " is applied to a person convicte>l ai imlawfui cohabitation and less fre<iiiently to a person of improper habits. The verb " to jounce " and the substan- tive, " jouncer," are becoming current in certain sixiety circles as terms by which to denote respectively " mash " an« masher.' 'The idea involved is that a# the reduction of the victim to the condition of jolting helplessness tpjiftetl bv the jelly- flsh. The term "pigeon English,' nse<l to designate tho liwjutt franca which p««s«i current between English-speaking (KOpto and the Chinese, ia said to be a corruption of "business English," the word " pigeon" being tho nearest approach that a China- man can make to the pronunciation of tho English word " business." Miss Fortfscue, the actress, told n Chi- cago reporter the other day tliat the adjec- tive " elegant " ia never use<l in Lond>':i in cultivated conver lation. "Over here itis rightly, and I notice frojuently, uxed,'' said she , " but in England we use it but for one thing 111 the whole world, and wnat do ^'3u think that is? In advertisenunta of flats, 'elegant new tiats to let,* yoA know.'' It i" tho proper thing in St. Paul ard Minneapolis now to call a dude of a certain class a "fade.' To come strictly under this designation a dnde must be not too old nor too stout, and his most prominent liiar- acteristics must be a melancholy mien aii(ft a habit of profound silence where spoch i» not absolutely necessary. He shoulil Kmilo only rarely, and in taking leave of a jvivori should vanish gently as if fading away. If eatlnK Three Kuoina with One Stovtf. .V correspondent in Indiana, who fa\or4 the readers of the New York Metal Worker with an occasional letter, sends it the fol- lowing communication containing smt'^e*- tions which may be of value to uwy of ou:' readers having similar work to execute and which we gladly reproduce: A doctor had a new office built last summer, with three rooms on ground floor. Theso he was dcsiroui- of heating with one i,tova and sheet-ircn drums. I told him -I v.oultY do the work under his directions, he beSatf responsible for the results, which ho aj^itoS to. The stove is a base-heating wood burner, which was placed in the waiting-room. A pipe was run from the stove in the wail- ing room through the partition into ilio consultation roo.n, and connected with the drum therein. .V pipe also connected t^o drum iu the consultation room with tho drum in the study, and from thence was carried into tho chimney near the cc.licg. In the pipe running from the stove to tho consultation room was a " T," from whidk was run a pilH) to the chiir.n<iy in the waiting room. This pip'' wa» provided with a close damper just [iuod above the T. To my amazement and surprJso he reports it works nicely oven with the iiv- direct shaft on the stove. The drums uero of ordinary pattern, having a divis{oi» rnnninf^ from the top to near the !>ottom. The building is one storey, the chiuiiiey not more than .50 feet high from the groundl It impressed the fact on my mind never ft* be too positive about an untried scheme. But I should not have done the work oiuny own respon.'jibility, nor would I want tc .l* a similar job and warrant it to work satlb- factorily. The Chicago Coal Kxchango has resolved An Oregon huntress, Mrs. Lillic I'rofc, of Olalla, has killed seven bears tM» winter. Therc'c no danger of the young mai: r.fio goes to 81-e hii» girl striking for shorter hours. Daniel I>anner, of Mattiton, Mich., lost pet »>iuirrol over two years ago. Tfto.i other day it returned and resumed r« ol(> relations. A yearling calf harnessed to a good -^i.-inV hand sled, and trained so that it will obey every command of its driver, is one of fho attractions at Sioux City, Iowa. John Penzel, of Jackson, Mo., an aged German, has made two sound and »cr\-ic«- able coffins, one for himself and one for his wife, and they stand in his honse ready for use. Wh6n his own was finished he iried it on, and found that he hadn't allow: d tor his left leg which is bent at the knee and stiff, so he made a new cover, which per- mits him tn lie comfortably in tho coffin after it has been closed properly. *:>..:'â- -â- -/' â- 'â- â-  â- %â-  ^ttoyM^^li