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â- IW. H"* f 'I^W"^' T^^^ TSP V ^ Till LBGIS ami The following BilJs werearroduced read a tiiHt time ; ToconsoHdate the debi-mn. debt of the -Mr. jibson (Huron 1 (jther .„uup, „n ,aKeH »a nwr.q. M Murrav township of Howick '^ pcctiiif.; the di timber on lakc-H '^»d y. ReBpeoti.iK the Fort Geffie Assembly, to be henoeforth known ashe Niagara As sembiy-Mr. Garson. Respeotinf. the Gore Djrict Mutual Fire To8nran.:eCo.-Mr. (;>b* (Hamilton) -lo amend the charted tlie T^^^,..„ the .Msmcnt Act -Mr. -Mr. Gib. iiu.xt Mill li\e sitock ill Act mid Thn r^,,. »are<l to let i he Government was L,t h1,„™ w...e,uestionwU,,r"trhe Jir. Gibson Ham .u wmilil lib » ' , " the ciiiestion, iTavi 1 1 V "^^ ''I'thv with the mover 01 tlU! resoliiti i .. i . u this toll-Kate niiisa ,i '"*'"|»«'' '" '»' a sellout evi an>," '"-"« "» previous occasions ^ , l'>«'?"<'''^'« against it, it was ,, f""- '^e (.overn- '"ent to deal w t'"" .'''"Y"" ^''°"! which he came wa '*•"â- '""«'>â-  '''i>"-«d by this imisaiire %"â- "" "'** f'"" """* a difficult iiuestio/'"' ""«"'" ""'"•â- â- â- " <>f the roads weraT "'""T' ""' 'i"?" tion would be m< ''^ ^-^^tied. but the stock having clia"""'" *"** """ "'"P'''-*" ^«uting sums fa/""'!.'''; "^l*"-" T* ,°^ tbe roads the câ„¢' '* ""â- '^' ''""*i'" ^''•» road8,mus't p^ "bat was m tact simply watered stock - '="""'y ^bould not, as the mover of /<'**'''"tio" bad said, be called upon to ""' â„¢*'''' "" "'" ""'^ means of ser"'' bu-ause there were parts of the A^'* '" •'^•""y "*'**' whii:h were not inti^ '" *''" P"'''=base. A plan might be pr^** "'"''^'" *'"'^'' "'" P""" cliu.se could ccompanied by concessioiiB to those pa;' *'*'' counties which got less advantages'' others in proportion to the amount tj,oiitribiitcd to the purchase. Mr. Mefb suggested that the motion be referre' ''"* Municipal Committee. Hon. (' I' raser said that the hon. gen- tleman -• bad moved the resolution might i„du<« a Bill. Mr. ]yM'tb said that this would be casting.* Pi'^i'te member a duty which should J i""'f'"'"'^'d by the (Jovernment. The (;^.nment miglit have devoted to this siijiit * little of the time they had given <the Mominioii elections. Thu matter >d been under consideration for several *ars, *'"' '' ^^"'^ admitted that there *>* a grievaiii:e. He thought that the miter should be referred ••itlier to a select 0'>""'ttee '"' to the Municijial Cmii- niittf* llii. (). Mowat said that the leader of the rjjposition had been in the House for tiftcli years ; he th'iuglit there was a gricance ; and yet with all his ability and astlteliess he was unable to suggest a nii'jedy. He (.Mr. .Mowat | was not prepared to rfty that iJiere was a remedy. The gen urai apprehension seemed to be that tliey couH nof by any general measure get rid of toll-^ates. Anything that it was possible for a Oovernment to <lo they were in the habit ol doing. Mr. GUmour said that although he was deeply an.tioiis to see some system devisinl forgetting tid of the toll-gates, he objected strongly to the scheme proposed by Mr. Gibson, iiainely. that the municipalities adjacent to the road should be assessed. In West York, for instance, the effect of such an arrangement would be that the muiiici palities lying near Toronto and having the larger assessments would have to pay an unduly large share. Hi' was fully alive to the grievance. His opinion was that they retarded the progress and development o' the ct.i'Mtry. Hon. A. M. Koss suggested thai the hon. gentleman should move for a return show iiig the toll-gales now in existence and the revenues derived therefrom. Mr. Wood said he thought the main dilh cult\ ill the piiiciiiiH< of these roads was in *.lie people who wanlJid to buy Iheui In HaMiiig*, wiierc he believetl tlifV had the longest lines of gravel roail in the I'roviiice, the county and the city of Helleville hail agreed without diHiculty lo the purchase of the road, and had cMendid llieiii into the smaih'r, more distant aiut less wealtlu iiinnicipalitii'K. II in other cases the conn ties would extend the roads the greater part of the liilhcultv wmild disap|H>ar. Mr. McMahon o.xpressed pleasure at having this nialter brought forward. The fault, ill his opinion, lay to a gn-at extent with the ('ouiily Councils. He mentioned the caw* of the l>undas and Waterloo road, which was sold by the I >oiiiiMioii Govern ment to a private individual, the county not tendering for it. He thought that if ii (Hniiiiiission were appointed information woiilil be elicited which would be of ser vice in the settlement of the dilhiiilty. Mr. Waters said he could see no dilliciilty ill this >|uestioii, these i:oinpanies owning roads olX'lated iiiuler the Komi Companies' .\ct. the provisions of which Here dear It provided that for twenty one years the companies might hold the roads iiiidis tiirlK'd. .Vftei that the County Councils were aiilhori/.ed to buy out the roads al a price to be agreed upon, an J if they could not agree the settlement was to he b>' arbi- tration. If the Government shortened this term of twenty one years the companies would have an ei|iiitahle chum for conse- i|iaiitial damages. He thought the (iovern ment would not be jiistilii'd in interfering ill the matter, as tile case was alreatly pro- vided for iiiuler this .\ct. anil the County Councils had full power to deal with it. i\lr. Meredith said in the county of Mid- dlesex all the roads, with one exception, were owned by the county. On these roads the tolls had been abolished, but in the township of London there wasaii important road owned by a private corporation on which tolls were still charged. The last speaker said the ( 'oiinty Council had full power ill the matter. That was just the ditiiculty. I'he township of London was still living under the mediieval system of tolls while the rest of the county had free roads. He hoped that without quarrelling as to the terms tne House would recogni/e this as an important i|ucstioii to be dealt with, and would agree to the amendment. I'ersoiiM connected with those roads could then be subpienaed and the facts brought out. Ho hoped the mover would not press his resolution, as it was evident from what had been stated that the Government would vote it down and some practical good would be achieved through theamend- ,, . the chartool the Toronto Bcbool of Medicine. -loronto To incorporate the outhern Central Rttjlway (Jo. -Mr. McKt To amend the Act infporating the On- tario (t .Siuili Ste. Maririailway Co -Mr Leys. Respecting Kno.i Ch;:h Cemetery, Ayr -Mr. (iibson (Hamin) for .Mr. Mc Master. To amend WyJie. To incorporate the times Valley Rail- way Co. -Mr. Tocley. To amend the Asse^ent Act- son (Hamilton). To incorporate th«)teriiatioiial Ferrv Railway Co.â€" Mr. >Bi. To allow the corption of the city of I.«ndon to borrow c«in moneys for school purposesâ€" Mr. Merei- Mr. Wood (Hastii moved for an order of the House for a ifn of the number of standard logs cut b'cal mill owners by authority of the Iff Lands Department from the timber ofiit holders during the year IKHIJ. Such rtfi to give the lication of mills, names iiillowners with the amount each paiif^vay of dues to the I>epartment, and 'lie owner of limits with a copy of thiepartniental Regiila- tions alfecting tjame. He said there were no complain) far as he kiew as to the administratii; this rule, bit there were complaints «e principle aid terms upon which theve granted. Hon. Mr. I'a) said he wai glad to have the hon. feman say tiat there was no complaiji'le respectiuj the ad- ministration of -xystem the objection being simply toprice. The limliernien paid 7.")c a thoivfeet on the limber cut The local mipier paid »'..">0. which covered the 7.?at had to te paid to the Governm«*'i<) 7-')c fir the limit owner himself? (Mr. I'anL-e) thought the mover of resolution loiild hardly have examinas i|ue8tion fully, or he would have 8 that the luni paid to the limit own^as as low as (lossible. Out of that 7f 8 the limit owner had to meet the boiiJround rent, interest on inveatment. i While the hon. gentle- man was ui a reduction, the limit I'wners were ig an increase, which was pretty good «"^'e that the (iover:iment had struck tJPpy medium. The bonus in some catJnounted to 7.') cents a thousand fgWould it be right to say that the locill owner should be alloweil lo take it fo» ' <Jf course there was no objection Kj return, and it would \>v broQgbt dot Mr. Woo«'li« briefly in explanation, stating tha did not propose that the local mill g should be given unlimited access to ijl'' markets, but that under proper rest^uis he shoiiltl br ..Uvr-voQ v^, reali/.« on ler cut. even if he had to go beyond tli#iids at present allowed him to do It. ead of an arbitrary price of I'"! cents ijmlard log, the value to the limit holiihoiilil Im' ascertained and a fair sum »' dcnianded from the mill cwner. f>is making no i-harges against the Miiii»for so t»r a.s lie iMr. Wood) knew thttder ill Ci'iincil was adiiiinis- terpii witliriicKS. The re>»ioii WHS adopti-d. ;iill( Ks 111 MOTION. Dr. Wiighbv O.o Friday 'or the ijiovemeit of < hitario. Mr. I'rpii "II 'Viday next Hill en titled an .t to Ivxteid tnall Laiidlmlilers Sons the inicipal Iranchise. Mr. Hicli On Friday next respectin^Biidholdrs and tenants distress. The fohviiig Bil» were introduced and read tht^ist tune. Hespeijig the ity of Stratford - Mr. Gibson (hiiiilton) To aut»ri/* W.'. Cade to practice as n dental irgeoii i Ontario. -Mr. Ciihson (Hamilt«). Mr. Lis ni«''e^That in view of the â-ºtrong filing thrJghout the Province in favor if iaving thtolls abolished on roads I'eld bv joint slik companies, it is the â-  pinion •f this Htse that the Goveriiiiient should tike the *tter into consideration and introduce »ui legislation as will load 10 the abolition iPuch tolls. He said that Ibad brought the matter lip in tlie form rn resolution instead of introducing a ll. because he hoped the (iovernmeiit wJd take the matter up, and that th* was a better I'hance in that wa- o£ his object being attained. Ti system now in vogue had been esblished at a time when It was diDiciilW get roads built and kept in repair. andJompaiiies were formed for the purpos* a> allowed lo -harge tolls. It was time nowhat it should be abolished, as it was ipiit behind the age. He was not in favor â-  abolishing toll-gates with- out compensiing the stockholders in these companies. Several methods of compen- sation had bin suggested, one being that the paymei* to be made to the stock holders shoid be spread over a number of years. Hon. Mr.-'raser said the hon. gentleman had not for>he first time introduced this ijuestion, hving evidently given it great attention. Vet the hon. gentleman ad- mitted tha the nuesti-sn was hedged about I ment with manisst dithculties, so great and so Mr. French formally preaented his numeroushat he (Mr, Lees) himself had ' amendment, whichprovidedfortheappoint not come o any conclusion upon it which ment of a comiiiltteo consisting of Hon. he was ale to put in the form of a mea- I Mr. Fraser, Messrs. Lees, Wood (Hastings), sure to k presented to the House. He Balfour. (Hon. Mr FraHer) did not suppose that the Hon. Mr. Fraser said that committee hon. genleman sought to call upon the ; would be too small. The Municipal Com- Hoiisc toplace the responsibility u|X)n the j mittee would be too large. He suggesteil a Governnent of introducing a Bill without postponement of the ipiostion so that a regard the Government's views on the committee could be agreed upon, and moved question What the hon. gentleman de- iihe adjournment of the debate. The resolution was adopted. Ontario.â€" Mr. VVlM.oughby. To consolidate the debt of the city of Guelph and for other purposes. â€" Mr. Guth- rie. To amend the .\ct incorporating the Home of the Friendless.â€" Mr. Gibson (Hamilton). To change the name of the Thunder Ray Colonization Co. â€" Mr. Harcourt. Resiwcting laiidloids, tenants and dis- tress. --.Mr.Clarke (Toronto) for .Mr.I'rench. Respecting a certain agreement between .John D. Ronald and the village of Brus- sels. â€" Mr. Gibson (Huron.) To amend the .Vet to incorporate the Trinity Medical School.â€" Mr. McAiulrew. To incorporate the Township of Keewa- lin. â€" Mr. (iibson (Hamilton). Hon. Mr. Howat, in moving the adjourn- ment of the House, announced that the Treasurer would probably make his Ihiaii cial statement on Tuesday next. .\ftter a brief discussion on a (luestion asked by Mr. .Meredith as to the time of calling the Public Accounts Committee, Hon. Mr. (,'larke announced that a meet- ing of the committee would be called for Tuesday morning next. sired, dcubtlcss.was to have the matter dia cussed *ith a view to enabling him to pre- pare a measure on the subject. This was a matter of municipal regulation, the coonties having power to deal with the whole matter by purchase of the roads. .4 HEK IN HIS NH1HT-C.4F. A Slighted Sumnamliulist Sbueks i> Card Party l.ikeii liliust, A progressive euchre party at Mrs. Kemble's private boarding house on Naudain street, Philadelphia, was broken up very unceremoniously oii« evening last week. .411 the boarders except one liad been invited to be present, and a number of outside friends of the family had also received and accepted invitations. The guests had had a very enjoyable time and v/ere about to go into the supper room for refreshments when anajiparition appeared. The slighte.1 boarder, Mr. Henry (^lieese- hrongli, who is a clerk in the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's employ, caniu ilaiicii»g down the stairs and jiresenttKl Inmself in the parlor doorway in what may lie modestly described as undreKS iiiiiforin. Resides his nightcap only a single gurinent clothed his |)ersoii. i'he ladies were startled and screamed, and before the geii- tlemeii could arrest the intruder a panic had ensued. Out! young wiiiiian fainted and two or thri* others received scratclies and bruises in their ellorts to make an exit through a rear window into the yard. Mr. Cheesebroilgh was seized by Mrs. Kciiilde's son and one of the visitors and hurried out of sight, being carriwl bodily upstairs to his room. T'hough his eyes were wide 0|i«ii, he stoutly declares that he was asUwp, and says that le is subject to these lits of somnambiilisni. There is a suspicion the boarding-house that his action was a trick to revenge himself for the slight of not favoring him with an invitation to the party. SHE WOULDN'T WKAR TIGHTS. De Lilssan's ReftiKal DiHrupts the llosKin Ideal i:om|iuuy .She Will Nut I)u uii the stuK« What She Would Not Do iu a Parlor. The celebrated Boston Ideal Opera Com- pany is blown to pieces by an explosion of jealousies. Its career will end with the season. Barnabce, Tom Karl, W. H. .Mc- Donald and his wife (.Marie Stone) and Samuel L. Studley, the leader, have given Manager W.H. Foste- notice that they will only comiilete the present contract. Bar nabee, Karl and two or three others will form a new company. l''oster will have another, retaining Zelie de Liissan. She is the prime factor in the deiiiolitioii of what was once the most harmonious and coUec lively strongest light opera company in this country. The trouble began when -Agnes Huntington was forced to withdraw from the Ideals ; it cnilminated when Barnabee, who had held a linancial interest in the trip, managed to clear himself. Practically there svill be no Hoston Ideals next season, even though Foster retains the title and though Karl and the others form a similar trou|)e. But the immediate cause of the disruption LATE SPORTING NOTES. t The following Hills were presented and read the first time : To amend the Act relating to the Long Point Company. -Mr. Monk. For the improvement of live stock in Why the ltriile|{r<>»iii Wept. Hon. (;haiiiicey Mitchell De|»>w delivered at Canajoharie, N.Y.. the other day a lec- ture on â- â€¢ Glimpses of Life Abroad. " In the course of his travels in Scotland Mr. Diqww had this little eX|M?rieiice ; â-  (Jn the hanks of the I'ooii I came across the inevitable .American tourist company. It was a bridal party. She was young and he was past middle life, and with theiii was his friend. The bridegroom was sobbing and wiping his eyes, and his bride was vainly trying to coniforl 'um. I'linilly Ins mend U^i him *4» «»»e lii ' ..«.»».) neur me. and said : â-  Don't take im so, old mail ; elieer up. Von are making your wife fi'el bad and spoiling the trip. What on earth IS tlie matter ' Oli,' said lie, â-  Siiiii. this whole thing reniiiiils me so of in\ second wife She was so fiiiiil of buriiH.' " l>o%v II III! f Im - I rreuHlar^." of tile Medic \t a recent ii ting of i lie Mediciil ( (inn c-il of (liilano. Dr. II. II. Wright, of Tor onto, i'resiileiil iif the ( oiiiicil , Dr Dav.of TriMiloii ; Dr (ieikie, of Toronto ; and Dr. liiisbaiid. of Ilamiltoii, were a|ipointiMl a coiiiiiiittee to wait upon the <;overiiiiieiit and lay before the Ministers the principal aiiieiidnieiits which were being asked for. I'lie most important one, iiml that which is likely to ariiiise the greatest discussion, is a pro\isioii under which the Council shall have authority to erase a doctor's name from the roll, and thus cut short Ins right to practice, when he shall have been found guilty of infamous or iinpioressional con duct, npjieal being allowi-d from the Conn cils decision lo a Superior Court .liiilge. â- loll«H HIhHs the.liiili'iiallHtii' Midr. Sam .lones says: "If I wanted to get good square jildgnieiil on something I hail done 1 had rather go to u newspajier ollice for it than any other i;oiirt of justice. I know the juHticeof journals, their integritv and jiiirity of their motives. I know that they probe into men s i liaracters. No mail whose character is luire need fear all the press in .•\niericii, llie way to be safe from so-called newspaper attacks is lo be a Christian. The reporters are the best detective force in this country. They have brought more criininalB to justice and punctured more sliains tkan all agencies coniliined." .Vciii Yiirk llmilil PayliiK BiisiiM'KM, He had been saying he uoiild like to get into some [laying business which rei|iiiieil only a small capital, when the squint eyed man beckonetl him aside and said : " You seem to be a piiity good sort of a man. and I'll put voii on to a good thing. Move out to Dakota ami sell your wife." " Do what ! " " Fact. I've sold threiand am cast after a fourth and not one of tiicm fetched less than 9100. (io olf like liot cakes out there, and the climate agrees with em." How it Wiirks. A stateainan yesterday asked a promi- nenl railroad man for a light for his cigar and was handed a card, on which the fol- lowing words were iiriiited : "Would be pleased to comply with your reijuest, hut cannot do so on iiccoiinl of commerce bill. " It sei ins can receive no favors frmii OrleiitiK I'iaii/iiiii'. the inter-state that statesmen railroads. -.Vcic A IlHliffur ol' (;reiiiation. Medium â€" Did you wish to inquire of the spirits, madam '? Widow â€" Well, you see, 1 have always suspected that thoy mixed the urns at the crematory, and 1 want to know if 1 have been weeping over the right urn for the last three years, -.hxideiil iViics. HaiwDKll. Uochesler has signed Troy, of last sea- son's Hiiigliamtons, lo play second bliue in place of McKean. I'lie Metropolitan Club management have iieeii working all winter to prevent a conllict of dates with the New Vork Club, and just when they lliought the) had every point satisfactorily covered the League adopted a schedule that upset all their plans and gavo them about twenty-three condictiiig dates. Sam Bittle, the ex (nigilist of Toronto and now baseball pitclur. was trimmed for Hi lilts liy the Mobile Clnb.al Mobile, Ala.. on Mmiday. .\i a meeting of the Board of Directors of the American liaseball .Association, held in Cleveland, Section .'tJi of the coiiBtitution was amended by this addition : " Aiid in case any player under reserve shall wilfully hold olf and refuse lo sign a regular ('on- trad with the club which has him reserved, for the purpose of harrassing the idub or compelling it to increase Ins salary, or shall liv aiiv means, diieclh or indirectly, se 01 tlie aisruption is ,,,nieavor to" attempt wilful extort.ni from t IS artistic, and ri.liiles i),e dub which has him reserved, he shall, ujion complaint and satisfactory evidence being furnished by the i;lub soaggrieved, be placed upon the blacklist by the President and Secretary, and notices issued to all clubs, as provided by this constitution and the National .Agreement." In future ball players of the American .Vssocialion ,will have to take what's offered them or slop playing hall. 'file League clubs will open the season lOas 1 -i. I'jast and West vs. We^t instead of lOast \s. West, as in former yt;ars. New York opens at home with Philadelphia. Hoston opeiisat Washington. Chicago opens- at Pittsburg and Detroit at liidiaiiaixilis on April JHih. To .lump 111** i-'alls. Pal MacAuley. who calls himself "Signoi HIadder. ' the champion |iimper of the \vorld. was at St. ( 'atharines on Monday last luraiigiiig to inn p over the -Niagara Horseshoe Full. He says that on the cele- liratioii of the Queen s jubilee. May 'Jtith. he will encircle himself with bladders and a thill inllaled rubber suit, sail down the river from Chippewa and make the trip. .After lie has done with the cataract he avows Ins inteiitioii of jimiping from the Cantilever or Sus|ieiision Hridge. ami will go tliiough the rapids to Lcwislon. rhe Oar. Kd. Hanlaii tehigraplied yesterday to liiti Hoston boat builder to hurry forward the completion of his shells, as he projioses leaving Toronto next wi«k lo commence training on the (.'harles River course. Tlie Tiirl. Tile aimouncetneiil in the .New York .Sioi of a week ago that the great Fiiglish stallion ( Irmonde had turned roarer ap|iears more fully in the latest EngliKli papers. It si'enis during the winter that Ormonde, among other horses trained at Kingsidere, was sei/.ed with strangles, which Candle- mas was supiKised to have lirought into the stable after visiting Derby races in Novem her. and, although for weeks liack there had been a clean bill of health in Porter v eslahlisliiiieiil, and the majority of the liorses were gelling into work again. Ormonde s«'eiiis to have gone wrong in hiii wind )H-rmaiii'iill\ . It will not injure hip stud proi^pec.ts, though. The KiiiK. A ^ili-roimd tight took [ihice last night lu a liall III Westerly. K.I., lielwneii Ike Weir rhe â-  Belfast Spider, and lack Williams, both of Hoston, the former being thcMctor The tight was for a purse of •;4(l(l and an outside purse of ?."i(IO a ^ide Itiiliald Itlliiiie. rim famous Scotch iithlele, Donald I'm llie, lias become proprietor of a liquor store 111 a small town in Victoria, .Australia The following paragraph from a .Melbouriii ))aper shows thai he tiinls the law in .Aus- tralia to be .juite as tickle as lie foiiiid it bv hard experience lo be in S<:otlaiid " Pool Donald Diniiii s leputalion for cannmess. based upon Ins wellknown caution in the scattering of small siller- is irrelrievabh ruined. I'oiiald kept possoBBion of snme body's horse for a disputed debt. I'he tiery steed grazed in a paddock atlaclied to Donald's rural juiblic house al Alphinglon, and for a time the braw Scot seemed to have the liest of the deal. Thencoinmenceil a long wrestle between Donald and the remorseless law. .After about six trials, sundry executions and a few siiinmonses for assaulting baililfs, Donald had to part with L' It) odd of accuiniilaled |>eiiallies to keep himself out of jail. At latest Donald was still guarding those bones of contention which constitute the horse, and another trial was pending. The quadruped is valued at CIH. " not commercial principally to a dispute over the reason why Zelie de Liissun, the prima donna, declines lo appear in lights. She has re- fused to take any niU- reiiuiring the absence or immodest shortening of her skirts, ad- vancing the theory tliat no woman is juBlilied in doing on the stage wl at she would not do in a polite parlor. Somebody in the company sent to a theatrical journal an aiioiiy moils letter charging that her real motive waH the concealment of kiio<-k knees. This insinualioii was obscurely piiblisheil, and it brought the internal troubles of the Ideals to such an earthquake that only the |)ieces are ke))t together with dirti<:ulty to the close of the tour in March. Zelie de Lussan, who has caused the trouble, is the young and strikingly pretty daughter of a vetijran opera singer. She was liorn in Brooklyn, and was educated musically with the ulmosl care liere and in ICiirope. Her liome is with her inolher in a pleasant tlat in West i''orty-iiiiitli street. She sang in i-^oncerts oct:asiunalh . bill her tirsl work on the opera stage was al the commencemiuit of the present season with the Ideals. She has btHiii a success. All ac.counts from inside the company agree that Manager I'osier fell immedialely in love with her. and the opinion is that the pair are engaged to marry. Fvery evening an enormous ipiantity of dowers are Ills gift across the foollighOB, and the daily 'ost of this olfering is estimated al iUnt. The other soprano, Miss Stone, demurred at tins forcing of attention upon Miss de Lussan, and the row began. Miss tie Liissan's ridnsal lo don any other than seemly feminine cos- tumes was indorsed by her niolher, but was ridii-tileil by her fellow artists as foolish (iriidery. During a whole month, it is said, the other {irincipals of tl;e party never exchanged a single word with her, except 111 the mimicry of the (day , and the mock devotion of Karl, as her operatic lover, though accompanied by the stipu- lated caresMfs, thinly overlaid a mutual hatreil which would have appropriately l)eeii expressed by bites rather than kisst<s. In this way the tour of the Ideals iiears ils ciii'iouH eml. .Vrii- Yiirk Sun. MU&Mle>- III) HIhOwii fuilvemlfiit. " I have been in .Vfrica for seventeen years iinil I have iieNer met a man who would kill llie if I folded my liuiiiis. Whal I waiiti'd and what I ha\i Iteeii endeavoring to ask for the poor .Africans lias been the good olhces of (.'hristians. ever since Liv- ingstone taught me during those finir inoiitlis thill I was with him. In Ih71 I went to biin as prejiidiceil as the biggest atheist 111 Loudon. I was out Ilieie away from a worldly world. 1 saw this solilary old man then- and asked myself, ' Whv on earth does lie stop here '' Kor months after we met I found myself listening to luiii and wimdering al tlieold inancarrying out all that was said in i he Hilile Little by little Ills -.Miiiiathy for others became contagious. .Mine was aroused. Slicing his |)ity. Ins gentleness, his /.eal, his earnest iiess and how he went quietly about Ins InisineHs, 1 was converted by him, although he liail iiol tried lo do it. ' linm ll lift f III I iilt'n It It . .ttelkmlisl (liiirih Nol<-ii. The Transfer Commitlee, under the aiTangement of the (ieneral (.'onference, will meet on Thursday, April 7lh, al II o'clock a. 111., ill the parlor of the .Metropoli- tan Church. Toronto. The Hritisli Coluiiihia ( onference will meet for organi/,atioii and business ill Wesley Church, Victoria, H. ('., on Wodlies- day nioriiiiig. I lib May. at 10 o'clock. The examination of piobationers and candidates for the ministry in connection with the Niagara Conference will take place in the iVletliiKlist (_'hurch, Paris, on Wednesday, April 'iOth, at 'I a. in. Hei'll Till' re Hi-fore. • .And do you doubt my love.'" he asked, passionattdy. " No, George,,' she answered with adiiiir. able poise, " but when you say that the day you call me yours will usher iii an era of lifelong devotion and lender soliciliide, you pardon me, dear you put it on a Irille loo thick. You seem to forget, (ieorge, that 1 am a widow,'' Niif Yiiik Sun. Worse Than Mlslll. man (whispering to Young That engagemenl ring yesterday - Jeweller What's the didn't it (it. Young mail (cautiously) have a chance. Gimme or it. jeweller)-- houghl of you matter with it ; Sh ! It didn't collar buttons \ Wimmn's KeMtrt, A woman is boiiinl to have the last word. When thoedilorof the /'cnnNiromonatrated with the principal contributor to the Poet's Corner of his valuable sheet for writing on both sides of her paper, sheqiiielly retorted : " Well, and don't you print on both sides of yours ?" â€" Bontun Tratucript. Site Made the Must of It. "Got a dollar '?" Hiisbai gave Wife" Got a " Where's that last dollar I gave you "Gone." " 1 thought 1 told you to make it go as far as you could." " I did." " Doesn't look like it." " Well, 1 did ; 1 sent it to the Fiji Island heathen.' Jndge. Why Shoes are Throw 11 al WeddiiiKn. The ciis'oiii of throwing oiiii or mori! old siloes after *he bride and groom, eilliei when they go to church to he married or when they start on their wmldiiig joiirinn. is so old that the memory of man stretches not back to its begiiiiiiiig. Some think it lopresenls an assault, and is a lingering trac4.* of the custom among sii\age iiatiouH of carrying away the liride by violence others think that it isa relic of the ancient law of exchange or imrchase, and that it formerly implied the surrmider by the parents of all dominion or authority over their daughter. It has a likeness to a .lewish custom mentioned in the Hible. Thus in Deuteronomy we read that when the brother of a dead man refused to marry his widow she aaserted her independeiice (if him by " loosing his shoe." Also in Ruth, when the kinsman of Boa/ gave up his claim to the inheritance of Ruth, and to Ruth also he indicated his assent by pluck- ing ol his shoe and giving it to Hoaz. It was also the custom of the Middle .Ages to place the husband's shoe on the head of the nuptial couch, ill token of his domination. .ivieiirun Ilitiinlir. Very Kusily Aiisuereil. Mrs. Ha>vkiiis- " Well, bath ready "' Mary ' "matter with the hot What is the matter with It is cowld, mum .''' St. Marv. What water, the hot water I.ituiy (.'hittnifli'. 18 my is the mum." It is considered almost oertain that Toronto will be chosen as the headquarteru of the new cavalry school to be ostabliahod. There is po danger of the young man who goes to see his girl ^trikiiigfor shorter hours. /