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THE KPI80DE. I>r. TKBoer Explains to the Commoo* Wbr He Uied "Cuh" WardB. A last (Thursday) night's London cable •ys : Dr. Tanner (Home Knler) appeared betore the House of Commons this after- ooon in obedience to its summons, to ex- plain the charge made by Mr. Long (Con- â- ervative), that the doctor had in the lobby and in the presence of several members called Mr. Long a " snob," and used other improper language. Dr. Tanner said he regretted the trouble the House had been put to about the matter. Mr. Long's manner and language when he approached him (Dr. Tanner) were part of an arrange ment to annoy him. Mr. Long twice importuned him, and said in reference to his exclusion from the division (a matter over which he was still very sensitive) "That was a nice sell you got." Dr. Tanner said he wau sorry for replying to Mr. Long as he did, and withdrew the indecorous eipressions. Mr. Long arcse and denied Dr. Tanner's â- tatements, declaring he did not make use of the alleged words about a sell. Messrs. George Uawkesworthe Bond and James Bigwood (Conservatives) confirmed his statement. Mr. Patrick O'Hea (Home lialer for West Donegal) said ho was also present and that he heard Mr. Long say, " That was a nice Still you got." Mr. O'Hea added that Dr. Tanner was jeered at by Mr. Long and his comrades. Sir Julian Goldsmid (Liberal-Unionist) urged that the House let the matter drop. Mr. W. H. Smith said he regretted that he was unable to accept Sir Julian Gold- smid's advice. Dr. Tanner had offered no explanation of his failure to attend the House last Monday when the matter was first brought up. Parliament must mark its sense of his misconduct in some manner. If a month's suspension was too long, the term of suspension would bo shortened. . ♦ OKKAT K.XI'LUMON. Powder Ilourie .'Strut-k by LlRlitiiluKâ€" Greut Destructlou of l*ro|»«rly. A Btreator, III., despatch says : The powder house of the C. W. A V. Coal Com- pany was struck by lightning at 2M a.m., causing a terrible explosion, killing one man and wounding many, and demolishing ali the property for blocks around it. There was not a window left unbroken within halt a mile of the explosion. Not a veatige of the powder house remains, while where it stood is an excavation about sixty feet long, forty feet wide and twenty feet deep. Uescuing parties were speedily formed and the search for the dead and injured began. Strange as it may seem, only one fatality has been reported, but a large num- ber are seriously injured. Among the wounded are : Mary Lone, right hip broken ; James Blackmore, hurt in the back ; Mrs. Biackmore, several ribs broken ; Mrs. James Sheldon, three ribs broken ; Mrs. Thomas Birdwell, badly cut by tlying glass ; Mrs. Ilattie Ueaschon, an aged widow, struck over the eye with a brick and badly injured. A tramp who was sleeping on a car near the (lowder house was fatally injured. The number of minor casualties will reach 100. There were forty- five dwellings almost totally demolished, and there is not a plate-glass left iu the business part of the city. It is impossibU ai this time to rHtimatethe lusa, bat it will probably reach » 100,000, Ij>t« Hc'ot<-li NltwK. Mrs. Dingwall Fordyce, widow of the former proprietor of Brucklay, died a few days ago at Dlairgowrie. The will of the late Mr. J. Graham, of Bkelmorlie, has boon registered. The amount be<|ueathed is over £300,000. The death is announced at Kdinbnrgh of Mrs. Livingston, of Drumuynie, Argyllshire, a great grand-daughter of Flora Mac- donald. Victoria Public Park.Partick, wasopened on the 3nd inst. by Sir Andrew Maclean, Provost of the burgh. A new park was also opened at Coatbridge. Mrs. I). O. Hill's statue of Burns at Dumfries has been lifted from its pedestal, which is to be heightened so as to enhance the effect of the colossal figure. One of the markers at the butts at the Aberdeen Wapinschaw, a private in the Gordon Highlanders, was on the 5th July killed by a bullet which glanced off the target. Alex. Adams, who started to walk on stilts from Dundee tol,ondon, was brought to mother earth with grief and an injured leg, through a collie attacking his stilts at Stirling. The Duke of Buccleuch is aboatto erect a memorial to his son, the late Karl of Dalkeith, on the spot on the hillside at Achnacarry, Inverness-shire, where the lamented young nobleman lost his life in the autumn of last year. The King of Saxony arrived at the Alex andra Hotel. Kdinbnrgh, on the .SOth ult., aocompaiiivd by the Karl of Ilopetoun. After seeing the sights and visiting Forth Bridge he left for the Highlands. Uev. Dr. Burns, Kirkliston, was enter- tained to dinner in Darling's Hotel, Edin- burgh, recently, by the Free Church Pres- bytery of Linlithgow, and presented with an address, on occasion of his jubilee. I). Thomson, Bervie, Kincardineshire, has been giving Alex. Orchardson, Grange, a thrashing, for trying to take his sweet- heart away from him, and the Sheriff said he likely " got no more than he deserved," and BO let Thomson off with an admonition. The acreage of Edinburgh is stated at 6,00'i, and the length of the streets IHO miles. There are 4'2,>11!< inhabited houses. Fifty constables are employed in special duties, and i'.VA in ordinary duties. The total cost nfthe|>oliceis.i:46,040, but £,l,'.tH'i is received for special services. The following is the inscription on the monument at Kinghorn to Alexander III.: " To the illustrioMs Alexander III., the last of Scotland's Celtio kings, who was acci- dentally killed near this spot, March XIX., Mcclxixvi. Erected on the sex-oentenary of his death." cart The The Princess of Wales is having a bnilt specially for tandem driving. Princess is an admirable whip. Beaufort Castle, Lord Lovat's pictur- e8<ine seat in Inrerness, has boon leased for two months by W. K. Vanderbilt at a rental of 110,000. It is the finest sporting Mt*te in Kugland. HEADINO FOB OABADA ? The Chief of the ChlcaKO Boodlers Etcapes from the SherllT. A last (Sunday) night's Chicago despatch says: W. J. McGarrigle, the convicted boodler, has escaped. All day to-day every available policeman and detective in Chi- cago are trying vainly to find him. Tele- grams have been sent all over the country in the hope of heading him off, but little hope is entertained that he will ever again be in the custody of the people of Cook County. Last evening Sheriff Matson drove up to the county jail in his buggy, got out and dis- appeared in the building, reappearing in a few minutes with McGarrigle. The two entered the vehicle and drove to McGar- rigle's house in Lakeview. Upon arriving there Sheriff Matson and his charge dis- mounted and entered the honse. McGar- rigle greeted his wife and children very affectionately, and all entered the front room. In a few moments McGarrigle went upstairs to see the baby. Sheriff Matson remained downstairs in the front room. Although McGarrigle was out of sight he was not out of hearing of the sheriff, who heard him talking in the room upstairs. Presently he descended and said ho would like to take a bath. McGarrigle went into the bath-room, accompanied by his wife, closed the door and Sheriff Mat- son heard Mrs. McGarrigle tell the domes- tic to bring some clean clothing for Mr. McGarrigle. Sheriff Matson could hear the water running into the bath-tub. He waited a liberal time for the bath and then asked McGarrigle'8 little girl, who had re- mained in the room with him, to tell her father he must hasten. The child went to deliver the message, entered the back room and did not reapi)ear. When after a consid- erable time the little girl had not returned, the sheriff for the first time grew suspici- ous that Bometning was wrong, and step- ping to the door that separated the front parlor from the bed-room knocked and called " McGarrigle." No response was returned, and upon entering the bed-room Mrs. McGarrigle said that her husband must be still in the bath. The sheriff at once made for the bathroom, and upon entering saw that McGarrigle had not changed his underwear and had not been in the bath. Then came a hasty search, but McGarrigle had disapfwared entirely. The sheriff ran out of the house, searched the yard and the outhouses and finally roamed throughout the neighboring yards, but ho was un%b1e to find a trace of his prisoner. He finally liastentA*. to the near- est station, the police ol the entire cit^ were soon warned, dctect;veB by scores begun to scour the city and every police- man was ordered to remain on duty inde- finitely in the hope that some of them might run across the ex-Warden. The reason for taking McGarrigle homo from jail is found in the fact that States At- torney Grinnell, for reasons of his own, has had f reijuent consultations with McGarrigle, most of them outside of the jail. It was arranged that the two should meet at Mc- Oarrigle's house. The State Attorney, for some reason, could not keep the engage- ment. McGarrigle was convicted a short time ago for having been engaged in the wholesale robbery of Cook County, and was sentei.ced to three years' impriiion- nient, and was awaiting the result of a motion for a new trial. He was formerly chief of )>olice. Although McGarrigle was in the custody of the sheriff on the case for which he was tried he was still under bonds of over 960,000 on twenty other indictments. DANCING NAKEII AKOl'ND THE FIKR. Kxtriturdliiary Cwmi of Kellsloui Frensy and HiiperHtltloii In Spain. A Paris cablegram says : A very extra- ordinary case is about to come before the high tribunal of Malaga. A few months ago, a woman belonging to the village of 'I'or- ro\ declareil that the Virgin Mary ha<l appeared to her and had ordered bur to preach a new gospel for (Ho salvation of mankind, as the end of the world was at hand. The woman's story was believe<i without hesitation, and soon the whole vil- lage was in a state of religious fren/.y. The woman preached in favor of the abandon- ment of earthly possessions, and advocated a return to the n>o<le of life and habits of primitive man. During the height of the frenzy a large fire was lighted in the village, into which the converts to this fantastic superstition threw their valuables, furni- ture and clothes, men, women and children dancing and shouting around the fire in a state of complete nudity. Warned of what was going on, the local gendarmerie arrived only just in time to save the infants from being thrown into the fire by their frenzied mothers, and to prevent the houses at the village from being set on fire. Mr. Wall Oets a Testimonial. A New York despatch says: Mr. John M. Wall, of the New York Trihune, was the recipient this afternoon of a che(]ue drawn on the National Broadway Hank for 91,0.S0 by his Irish-American friends. The pre- sentation was made iu Cafe Park Place. "The testimonial was presented in recogni- tion of his suffering as a patriot in Kil- mainham Jail, Ireland, as a fellow-prisoner of Charles Stewart Parnell, and of the injury he received when visiting C'anada with editor O'Brien. He was struck in tho head with a stone and badly cut in the temple while in Toronto. After the pre- sentation a collation was served. Together In ileal li. A Providence, U.I., despatch says: Giles I<uther, an aged resident in the outskirts of Warren, loft his invalid wife at 11 o'clock last night to get a neighbor to go to town for n doctor, as Mrs. Luther was failing. On his return he walked into the Kiokimuit Hivor, four feet deep at that place, and, be- ing much fatigued and partially blind, was unable to get out. Kearching parties found his body this morning, and his wife died while they were bringing it into the house. m â€" Sara Jones recently preached four days in Henry Coanty, Kentucky, without mak- ing a single convert. At the close of his last sermon he remarked : " The sermon which I have just preached at you was the one which oonrerted Sam Small. I there- fore thought it onght to make at least one convert horo, but I had forgotten that this congregation is composed of citizens of Henry Coanty." A BRIDE FOB HEAVEN'S SON. The Way the Wife of the Tonne Chlnaae Emperor Was Chosen. In the San Francisco Chronicle of July 3rd was the following : The Chinese resi- dents of this city were somewhat anxiously awaiting the arrival of news relating to the approaching nuptials of His Imperial Majesty Kwong Sney, " Son of Heaven " and " Lord of Ten Thousand Years," etc. A despatch received in this city yesterday announced that a bride had been selected for the young Emperor, and that 95,000,000 would be expended in the celebration of the most auspicious event. As soon as it becomes known when the imperial affair will take place the Emperor's wealthy and loyal citizens of this city will prepare for the proper observance of the event. The day will be made a holiday, the dragon flag will be floated, feasting made the order of business, and perhaps a procession and other exercises will be held. Bat as yet the date of the marriage remains with the fates, which the astrologers of the Empire must divine. The first ceremony of betrothal has now been observed This is the choice of the bride. A Chinese Empress is not chosen for nobility of family or reputation, althoagh generally she is taken from the nobility. Her per- sonal beauty is the almost exclusive re- quirement. The mother of Hien Fung, a former Empress, kept a fruit-stall. 'The Emperor himself has nothing whatever to do with the selection of the Empress. The present Empress-Dowager, who is a very able woman, and who has reigned as Uegent, some time ago issued an edict through the I'ekin Hazette that the Em- peror shoald marry, and set a date when a reception should be held to candidates for the high honor. On the appointed day the Mongolian papas and mammas took their fairest daughters to the Empress' palace. The Empress, with her ladies, then chose the handsomest virgin. She should be Empress. But the Emperor is also legally entitled to eight Queens. Consequently eight other handsome virgins were chosen to fill these high ofiices. The personality of these selections has not reached this city, but the next mail is expected to fur- nish the particulars. It is now the duty of the Imperial Board of Astrologers to consult the stars and determine the lucky day when, if the marriage takes place, all will be well. If it does not go well all will go wrong with the astrologers. They are consequently very careful, and consult the stars and wrious deities favorable to matrimony. The date of the marriage being discovered, other ceremonies ensue, such as the presentation of 100 cakes to the Empress-elect. If the Emperor shoald die befiire tho wedding takes place it would be (juite the proper thing for the fiancee to commit suicide. At any rate, she must go and live at the palace and remain a virgin. When she is 01 years of age she will be rewarded by thu reverence of her relatives. The Emperor Kwong Suey, from all ac- counts, is a commendable young man, and has considerable infiiience with Confucius and theother godu. On May 4th, for instance, he prayed for rsin, the China papers re- late. On May 13th it rained. All China fell down on its knees to express thanks for the beneficent hearing of Kwong Suey's l>etition. Suey was born in 1871, and was crowned at the age of 4. He is the son of the seventh brother of the Emperor pre- ceding the last. It is expected that after his marriage the Empress Dowager will hand over the reins of government entirely to Suey. l4itei>t Olil London Ooulp. Mr. Chamlwrlain is not well. He is get ting too fat. Orientalism is to replace Japanoseism in decoration. Tandems are on the increase in London. A new tandem dob has been started. It is proposed to import a supply of pom- pano for introduction into British waters. Buffalo Bill and his entire troop of Indians attended church the other day in full war paint. Some of tho most aristocratic houses in London decorated their balconies on the day of the Jubilee with carpets, rugs and colored be<l-i|ailts. At the laying of the foundation stone of the Imperial Institute the Queen used glasses in public for the first time. The lenses were no larger than a shilling piece and set in a plain bit of tortoise shell. K French philosopher shows that Alsace- Lorraine should ready belong to France, for the reason that there are many more brunettes than blondes there, and hence it is more French than German. The casualties of the Jubilee procession foot up about six hundred. Three hun- dred were cases of fainting, over twenty of sunstroke. There were several broken legs, arms and collar bonej, and disloca- tions. Some people suffered concussion of the brain, some had their chests crushed, and others were kicked by horses. TEST FOR THE ETB. An Instrument That WUI Tell a Woman's Exmot Agt. At the French Academy of Medicine, according to a cablegram, Dr. Javal pre- sented an optometer recently made by Dr. George J. Bull, son of Mr. Bichard Bull, of this city, who has attained a high position in his profession in the Old World. The design of the optometer, which it is un- necessary to describe in scientific language, is to enable an oculist to tell instantaneously what glasses are required by far-sighted or near-sighted persons. The inventor has had in regard to it a peculiarly happy idea, especially suited for French practitioners and patients. The figures marked upon the graduated scale at which the subject has to look through a lens or a simple aperture, according to the more or less deteriorated condition of his eyes, appear, when the instrument is held as one would hold a sheet of paper, to be a series of irregular, elongated figures, but when viewed through the aperture with the optometer held as one would hold a teles- cope they resolve themselves into small dominoes. These dominoes are arranged in such a way that the sam of the dots on the furthest domino seen indicates the degree of far or near sightedness, while tbe number of dominos distinguished indicates the focusing power of the eye examined. There is another extraordinary feature about this instrument. The focusing power of the eye diminishes as age advances, the change commencing in early childhood. This axiom has been borne in mind and applied to drawing up a column of figures along the line of dominos. As soon as any one tells the number of figures he or she sees distinctly, his or her age is revealed beyond dispute. The laboratory of Sor- bonne charged itself with some expensive engraving necessary for perfecting Dr. Bull's instrument. Hound the Globe In Sixty-Nine Days. A London cable says : The Timet to-day announces that a copy of one of its issues has made the circuit of tho globe in sixty- nine days. Its journey was made via the Suez ('anal route to Yokohama, and thence to London via the Canadian Pacific line and Atlantic oonneotions. This is the shortest time is which the circuit has been made under the British flag. Influential metropolitan and Provincial journals con. tinue to urge the importance of the recog- nition of the Canadian route to the East. The press is practically unanimous in favor of a subsidy to the Canadian service. . « Those Dear Horse§. A London cable says : Tho statement by the War Secretary in the House of Com- mons on Tuesday night, that the Govern- ment had decided to purchase no more (Canadian horses tor the army owing to the price, show that the influence o: the county members and the agricultural societies, in favor of using the home supply, have pre- Tailed. It is thought here that the Canadian Government could meet the objection as to cost by initiating horse fairs at recognized centres, so that the expenses of officers iu scouring ('anada for good animals might be avoided. The Best Card. " I am king," remarks Kalakaua, majestically. That may bo so, but the Honolulu rifles appear to be the ace.â€" 5«n Franciseo I'ott. DIPHTHERIA AT LEVIS. Some Hrrrulran IVork for the Provincial Health Board. A Quebec despatch says : The recent oat- break and ravages of diphtheria at Levis are more than accounted for by the state ments communicated by a resident of the place. Some time ago the authorities re- moved all the bodies interred in the old Levis Cemetery to a new one. Curiosity in some instances and accident, or the work of exhumation in others, caused tbe open ing of the cofiins removed, and crowds of children were permitted to gather around and to peer into the receptacles of the dead, despite the stench arising from the decomposed remains. A merchant of the place who lately lost a child by diphtheria kept the body two or three days in the house, which was open as usual for the neighbors and children to visit and pray around the corpse. When told the risk that he was causing his own family and that of his neighbors to run, the bereaved father simply replied that if others were to die of the disease it was the will of the good God, and ceuld not be helped. Four little boys carried the coffin to the grave, and a few days later another child was buried from the same hoas«. Don't Dtwplse Onions. A mother writes : " Once a week invati- ably, and it was genexally when wa iutd cold meat minced, I gave the children a dinner, which was hailed with delight and looked forward to ; this was a dish of boiled onions. The little things knew not that they were taking the best of medicines for repelling what most children suffer fromâ€" worms. Mine were kept free by this remedy alone. Not only boiled onions for dinner, but chives also were they encour- aged to eat with their bread and butter, and for this purpose they had tufts of the chives in their little gardens. It was a medical man who taught me to eat bpiled onions as a specific for a cold in the chest. He did not know at the time till I tcld him that they were gootl for anything else." The above ap|ieared in the Lancaster New Era, and having fallen under the eye of an experienced physician of that coanty, he writes as follows : " The above ought to be published in letters of gold and hang up beside the table, so that the children could read it, atul remind their parents that no family ought to be without onions the whole year round. Plant old onions in the fall, and they will come up at least three weeks earlier in the spring than by spring plant ing. Give children of all ages a few of them raw, as soon as they are fit to be eaten ; do not miss treating them with a mess of raw onions three or four times a week. When they get too large or too strong to be eaten raw, then boil or roast them. During unhealthy seasons, when diphtheria and like contagious diseases pre- vail, onions ought to be eaten in the spring of the year at least onoe a week. Onions are invigorating and prophylactic beyond description. Further, I challenge tho medical fraternity, or any mother, to point out a place where children have died from diphtheria or scarlatina enginosa, etc., where onions were freely used." Latest from Ireland. Hev. Thomas Waugh is conducting another evangelistio campaign in Belfast. An addition of 339 was made last year to the membership of the Irish Methodist Church. A circular has been issued to the Royal Irish (Constabulary conceding special favors to them in connection with the Queen's Jubilee. In con8e<iuonc« of the great scarcity of water in Belfast, caused by absence of rain for nearly six weeks, several large spinning mills have partially ceased working. Mr. Justice Harrison, in opening the Kildare Assizes on tho 7th Jaly, congratu- lated the Grand Jury on the state of the county. There was nothing in the statis- tics of the county, or in any of the returns, that calle<l for special remark. Mrs. Kennedy, who has just finished her honeymoon, was bathing in a lake at Moyree, County Clare, with several com- panions, when she suddenly disappeared and was drowned. At Cara Lake, near Glenbigh, three cattle drovers bathed in a lake at tho side of the road. Their clothes not having been removed a considerable time afterwards, a search was instituted and their dead bodies were recovered. THE BANE OF ENGINEERS. What Happened to a Train on a Hoonllcht NlKht. " Moonlight nightsâ€" they are the bane of railroad engineers," remarked a head ofi&- cial of the Baltimore >i: Ohio Railroad to a Cincinnati Commercial Gazette reporter. He is a gentleman who knows every branch of railroading. " I would have thought that the train- men would be glad to have moonlight nights," interposed the writer. " No, sir ; all engineers dread moonlight nights; they try the nerves of the engineers to the utmost. Engineers like to run on dark nights. On a moonlight night the trouble with them is no trouble at all â€" shadows. An engineer, looking out from his engine sees before him all manner of shadows. He is sure that the shadow across the track is a man, or a rock, or some kind of an obstruction. He doesn't know, and he is kept in a state of nervous excitement all the time. Going around curves, along hillsides, very curioos shadows are outlined aroand the track, and very often an engineer is so worked up over a night's ride that he is scarcely able to perform his duties. Some years ago, when I was going over the main stem of the Baltimore & Ohio one night, there was a freight wreck ahead of us. They were running freight in convoys then, or as we now call them in sections. Our train was stopped and I went forward to see what was the damage. Lying in a cat was about the worst freight wreck I have ever seen. I went forward to see what the trouble was. It was a moonlight night and when I got forward I saw the engineer. He was shaking all over with excitement. He was one of the oldest and best engi- neers on the road, and I was surprised to see him so nervous, as he escaped unhurt." " ' What is the trouble, Tom ?' I asked him. I could see nothing wrong." " ' It was a rock,' replied Tom. ' I was coming round the carve when I saw it. It was a big one ; big enough to smash a whole train. I reversed the engine to avoid a smash up, and the cars coming down tbe grade just piled up in the shape you see them.' " I looked around, but could see no rock anywhere. The wreck was cleared away that night, and there wasn't the sign of an obstruction near the locomotive. We all were curious to find out what had caused the trouble. The next night a railroad man went to the cut, and there in the moonlight he saw a perfect image cf a big rock lying across the track. He looked up on the hillside, and there was a big roc> throwing its shadow down on the track that caused a wreck that cost the company thousands of dollars. No, sir ; if an engi- neer wants things to suit him, he don't want moonlight by which to run his train." It* Symptoms SUNSTROKE. and Its Best Treatment. Method of A physician gives some valuable and sea- sonable information about sunstroke. During the hot weather, when exposed to the sun, headache, giddiness, nausea and disturbance of sight, accompanied with great prostration of the physical forces, are indications that sunstroke is probably im- minent. The best plan is to immediately rettr« to a cool place ani sppir some attn- plo restoratives as aromatic ammonia, and it can no doubt be prevented. Those ex- hausted with the heat have a cool, moist skin, a rapid, weak pulse and respiration movement, and the pupil is dilated. Im- mediate unconsciousness fretiuently results from heat apoplexy, and is likely to prove fatal. Hot foot baths, bleeding, etc., is the best treatment in such cases. In thermic fever the patient is unconscious and con- vulsed, and the body .temperature may be 10 ° above the normal state, and the skin is very hot. An application of ice to the head and cold water to the body is the best treatment, as the object is to cool the body immediately. It is always best to obtain medical advice in serious cases. Milk l^reservatloii. Pure air is indispensable for the preser- vation of milk and the place where milk is kept should be as free from taints of all kinds as possible. A writer in the Country Centhnuin has found the common moulds in cellars to sour milk quickly and to pro- duce the special fungi found upon sour milkâ€" a blue mould and a bright red one, which is much like the round cluster cups of rust in form. As mould and mildew are abundant in damp confined places, and cel- lars are usually close and damp, they are not suitable places for keeping milk in. The easiest way to keop milk sweet is to bottle it, using a perfectly clean bottle, and to plunge the bottle in a vessel of cold water ; or if there is an open well, to hang it in the well near the surface of the water. If the bottle is set, with the cork or cover loose, in a pot of cold water and this is then brought to a boiling heat, the milk, if quite sweet, will then keep a week if immediately closed up and kept in a cool, airy place. An ice closet is not a good place for keeping milk on account of its dampness, which causes a disagreeable odor and impure air. A refrigerator may be purified most effect- ively and the air kept dry and sweet by keeping some fresh (luicklime on a plate io it. The lime will absorb one-third of its weight of water and thus dry the air and greatly increase the effect of the coolness of the ice. â€"Two clergymen, well known in the Diocese of Niagara, are devoting a portion of their vacation time to laying a floor io a little English chureh in Muskoka. A Lurky Sub-Inspector of Police. Mr. Blake has been transferred from tho (rovernorship of tho Bahamas to that of Newfoundland. Only a few years back Mr. Blake was an humble sub-inspector of Irish constabulary, and he has certainly played his cards well. From the day he married Miss Bernal Osborneâ€" the Duchess of St. Alban's sisterâ€" his life has been one suc- cession of leaps up tho ladder of fame. Tho late Mr. Bernal-Osborne was furious at his daughter's marriage with the " green lieeler," as he contemptuously termed him, but had he lived to see the progress his son- in-law was destined to make in the world, he would probably have been more than reconciled to the match. Mr. Blake is cer- tainly a rising man, and one of the big governorships will assuredly be his in due course. â€" /.o/idon Life. The Toronto city assessors have obout completed their labors and it is understood ] there will be an increase in the assessment of about 913,000,000. This will bring the assessment op to about 996,000,000.