â- "^PWT CURRENT TOPICS. Fbencb (tatistioi ol 1886, which have ^t been pablubed, are, to ase tha words of a contemporary reli^ioas joarnal, " truly alarming." Year by year the narober of birtha fjoet ou decreasint;, while the death rate increaaes. In 18U0 tb«Te were 74.5.12 illei{iiimate births, aa afjuiiwt TO.OT'J in IHt^l. The total iricresiw of population was iu H86 ii.&iM, in litUo it was dH.iiH, and in 1881 it WM 108,221). FaorESbOB Mai MctxxB has been re- quested by liis Ul^hness the Maharajib of the French revolation. Next year it * 'W be two hundred years since James the Becond was compelled to flee for refuge to a (oreiiin land, abandouinc the throne of his anceatora, and sinoe William of Oraoge and hia Queeu mounted the vacant throne. TH£ D£AO AIAACHIBT'B 8W££TH£AKT. Nina Van Zsodt'a Fatber Telli What Ba Kbuwb Abuat tier Infatuation. James K. Van Zandl, th« father of the wretched Nina, tella a reporter of the It is called " the glorious revolution of Chicago Trtbune that be is a bard working "'"''" '" ' ' . - . - chemist, who has no sympathy wiih me visionary dreams of either .S.^iciulists or 1088. ' It baa been glorified by many writers, but chiefly by Hir James Mackin- •tuaii and by Lord Macaulay. It id called the ProteaianI Revolution, because it estao- lished and confirmed the Protuatant suc- ceaaion. Arrant'ementa have been maHe by the Protestant Alliauceof Great Britain to suiubly celebrate the event. The bioen- IWUHH WOOI.I.KN8. Kathoslaatle Taatlstony to Their Merita. Sincerely do I hope that the proposal to have an Iruh section at the Glasgow eiiii- bition will be carried out, says the editor of London Truth. What the Irish woollens v*ant most â€" m fact, the only thing they want â€" is advertisement. If the Kngliah ALMA LADIES* COLLECT â- T. THOMIS, OTASIO, Has Students from British ColamUiw Texas, .Arkansas, Otuwa, VJianipen, Chi- cago, Duiutb. New York and other distaal points. Its low rates, excellent staff ol teachers and fine accommodation have ao tille<l its halls that a new building to coat Anarchists. Ue became convinced that his lower middle claaa â€" the people who have 120,000 will be erected next year. Studenta Armada. Vizianagram to publii.h a new edition of ll^^-^J^^^^^.V^^tth^i'-" ^*'''"°^ the sacred book of the Brahmani, the Big Veda, uitb the commentary of Sayanacb- arya. The Maharajah will bear the whole expense, and the book is to be printed at Oxford I'uiversity press. The drat edition has been out of print for some time. It consisted of six quarto volumes. Mb. EmsoN baa completed his phono- graph, and unless he talks at random it is the most marvellous of his inventions. The phono;jraph will be about the size of a type- writer and will work automatically by a small electric motor, which i^ uoiiteless, and stops at the touch of a spring. These wonderful instruments can be manufac- tured so that they may be sold for }60, and 500 will be on the marketwitliin two months. A HmiiCL.tR petition has been addressed by a group of Vienna citizens to the muni- cipal council. They propose that in order to procure permanent relief ior pauper school children there should be a tax on daD«hter was in love with Spies with her [ ten children, and expect each boy to weair mother's support and sanction. He knew his elder brother's knickerbockers in sue- that to op(jo»e the girl's folly would drive , cession until nothing remains but the bot- her from his house, and he wou^i thus lose tons and bra<;e8 â€" knew the indestructible entirely his inlluence over her. He urgued ' 'i-iality of the Blarney tweeds and friezes, with both mother and daughter until ojn- } there «buld be such a run on Blarney as defeat of the Spanish vinced that it did no good. Then he ' would double the population of the place in a An effort will be made to make decided to do nothing, refusing to talk whh fortnight. Unfurtunately.theBlarnev people can enter any time. 65 pp. calendar Address, Principal Austin, B. fr D. tbo* 1888 a jubilant year throughout Great newspaper men and trying to induce hid dontadvertiaeinthewaythat many JEuglish I *>"'*' Cold Comrort. Customer (in restaurant} â€" Waiter, ar<> Very small oysters for the price. Waiter â€" Yes, ^nh. Customer â€" And they don't look very niaa^ Britain Ph I>Ei,An*YE, in the Rtvexur IndntlritlU, describes some experiments recently made in Germany, on the aciion of cold ou hydraulic cements. The stones used were 2j.inch cabes. borne of the stones were joined with the cement nHxed with pure water, others with cement mixed wi^h water which contained two per cent, of wife and daughter to adopt the same course. He did, however, join to some extent in the etfurt to save Spies, not because ha sympathized with him, but to avert au overwhelming grief from bis daugh- ter. But, as if the state of thinijs in hid household was not bad enough, the newspapers, he says, have perbioieully manufacturers do. The Irish manufac- turers deal only " with the trade, " and they take no steps to bring the e.vellence of their wares home to the individual. They do not seem to have realized the im- mence opening which the parcel post has made for them. The excellence of their goods is only known in this country to printed false reports about it. X.'iegirlis tailors and haberdashers. We buy the Irish I parted not only friends but lovers. It, and others again with cement mixed i^o' "-on'en'plating suicide and is not starv- 1 goods without knowing them to be Irish, " '"" ' ' She is perf.;K;tlyaaue, I wonder why they wear so well, but don't with water containing eight per cent, of salt. While the cement was aiill frtsU the stones were placed out of doors, and left exposed twenty. one days in a cold of 20 = to 32 2 Fah , after which the stones were kept in a warm room for a period of seven lug herself to death. and time and reat will cure lier o( the know what to ask for the next time we prostration under excitement and grief order a suit. I have â€" not, indeed, in my from which she suffers. A reporter re. actual possession, but within reach and cently got into the house under falae pre- easily accessible, if wanted for exhibition or tencfs aad worked upon the feeiiniis of the other (honest; purposes â€" a specimen cf Waiter â€" Dec dey is all de betab, aah. Cor bein' small. An OflTeDftive Breath is most distressing, not only to the persoB aiHicted if he have any prile. but to thosa I with whom he comes in contact. It is a ' delicate matter to speak of. but i: baa Bad breath and catarrh are inseparable. D& SasjBS Catarrh Remedy fures the worst cases as thoosands can testify. days. .\.t the end of this time it was found ^*°'"*'' """^ '^""J' talked unreservetily, not that the cement mi.ied with pure water was completely disintegrated and had no holding power. The cement contain ng two per cent, of salt 4ka in a better con- dition, but not tiood. Whereas the cement bachelors. This tax would only be applied ; ,he water of which had had eight per cent. to unmarried men in a poeition to keep a ^,, ,^„ ^^ „„, ,„a„^ ,„ ^^^ f^^^,^ family. The petition says : " If all those who are exempted from military service on account of physical infirmity are obliged to pay a tax why should those be spared who voluntarily shirk other obligations to the State'.'" Lauy vocalists and others will be glad to know that tea, coffee and cocoa are three admissible drinks, but none in excess. Fo' KxcE.YT telegrams from Russia show that the Government of that country is still pur. suing the policy of arbitrary and despotic repression which is described by Mr. Ken- nan in a piper entitled " The Last Appeal of the Kusaiau Liberals " in the November I " Century." A number of younu army and . navy officers iu St. Petersburg have just been sentenced to penal servitude in the dreaming that he was a newspaper man Even what they did say he grossly exag- gerated, representing the girl as crying fo» blood and vengeance. Uer father says that both she and her mother were as much <WO