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\ â- XTBEMK MORTHWB8TIRM CANADA. KspIorerOBllvle't Re*earchrs In the Ynkon and Mukriiiln HlTrr Dlitrlcta. A Winnipi-ii dugpatch laya: William Ogilvie, L> L.B , who hsi be«n engaged â- iace 1887 iu exploring in extreme North- WMtem Canada, arrived at Calgary yester- day via Lao la Biche and Victoria. The xoota patBoed by the party was from the PAoiflo coast up Chilcat Inlet by steamer, over the Taiug Pass to Lake Lyndemao on Lewis lUver, a lart^H branch of the Yakon, and dowr< the Lewis Kiver by canoes to the iaternational boaudary line. It bad always been supposed that the Lewis was the main stream of the Yukon, bat the Hootilenqaa, whiili joins the Lewis from the east, about 20O miles from the coast, is the maiu stream proper. The party went into winter oamp ou the Yukon, near the international boundary, in the latter part of September. The greatest cold was in February, when the tbermumeter registered j>7° below xero. Camp was struck on March 4th, when the party descended the Yukon 35 milus, to where a small creek runs in. They ascended this to the bead throa(>h a pass in the Nehaunie range of mountains to the head-waters of the Porcupine Hiver, another of the princ ipal branches of the Yukon. This pass is H,2U0 feet above sea- level The I'orcapiue was descended twenty miles, when on April lOtbcamp was made until the ice broke in the spring, which was on May 18th. The average depth of snow during the winter was about three feet. The Porcupine was descended to its continence with Bell's River, coming in from the east. This was ascended to a pass in the Rockies about eight and a half miles long, with nothing to prnvent a ttrst- class railway being built through it. From the east end of the pass a small mountain â- tream was followed to its junotion with the Peel Kiver, (lowing iuto the Mackenzie. On this stream coal of gocd quality and an abundant outcrop of aubestos were seen. The distance from the foot of the Rockies to where they entered the Peel was seventeen miles in a straight line. The total distance travelled from the Yukon at the boundary to the Peel River was 318 miles, crossing two mountain ranges, one in winter and one in summer. McConnell's Keological survey party was met at the Peel. The ascent of the Mackenzie was begun on January 27th, and the survey contiuued until it combined at Chippewayan with the â- nrvey of the Peace and Athabasca Rivers, made )>y Mr. Ogilvie in 1886. A distance of 1,417 miies was covered. The only real obstacle to navigation in this distance was the rapids at Fort Bmith. Wheat and bar- ley are grown every summer at Fort Provi- dence, iu north latitude Ul. A sample of wheat grown thire was brought out and makes good flour. Mining is carried on on the Yukon and tributaries and pays during three monihs of the year. Forty-mile Creek, ihe scene of the Kold excitement of 1887, unites with the Yukon about forty- one miles from the boundary. Twenty- three miles of this creek is in Canada. Mr. Ogilvie and his party left Edmonton for Calgary by team on Christmas Uay. FBOM THK FAK WEST. A Woman Fonllj Mnrdercdâ€" TracklajrIOK oath* FortHge Kxieokltinâ€"4itber Notes. Archbishop Tacho left fur Montreal yes- terday. Crossley and Unntur, the evangelists, paused through the city for the east yester- day. Hr. Ogilvie, D. L. B , left Edmonton for Winnipeg and the east yesterday. The party enjoyed excellent health, but was de- layed by ice for Uve weeks at Chippewayan. It was alse delayed one week on the Mac- kenzie River b> bad weather und another two weeks on the salmon stream by in- creased work over what was estimated. Mr. Ogilvie found that the Mackenzie River was 200 miles longer than was reported. Fire at iha VValrond lanch, near Mac- Leod, destruyed several buildings and about 40 tons of hay. A. J. Uutii III left Uollsiid, a small village on the Bouthwebtern branch, yesterday at noon for his humu, near Nur<|uay, carrying liijuor. llid wife and three small children ran away on hiii appearance. He drove on to Nor>|UBy and returned home this morn- ing with iieighDors to And his wife lying forty foet from the door, dead, with her (ace fearfully mutilated. Ue says he only â- truck her with his hand. The Christmas dinner stood on the table as prepared, un- touched. HofTield has been placed in cus- tody at Ilollnnd. Mr. KeiidrickH, chief ocginoor for the Northern Paoitio Railway, arrived in this city this evening. It is understood that he will look into the <iuestion of pushing the work on the Portage extension this winter. Fun for the Iteitr. A Chicago despatch says: (Uty Treasurer I'lautz has had some exciting adventurea with a bear and a monkey which he won in a raflle. He endeavored in vain to in- dane the Park Commissioner to take the bear off his haads and th-in gave it to hia brother. The brother enjoyed the society of the Hiimal twenty-four hours, and iu that time the brute ripped up a carpet, pulled sorae farniture in pieces and hui/ged his new \ keeper almost to death. Yesterday the bear was returned to the City 1 reasurer withoot thanks. Id an traur he had fproed his way out of the shed wbere he was cnnflned, and began 'Ao make (reo with Mr. Plautz's little boy. ^B tore every shred of clothing from the l%rified youngster and then held him up to tlv keen l)u(^mbftr wind. Mr. I'lautz natned hi^son v^h some difficulty and now\keeps the bea^in a cellar.- No Worn Tli«Ktrleals In New York HMnglnffs. (to condemned mnr- balr. Bay yonr pray- I it. The electrician [Won't there be no |m step ar the gal- ' chanoo for me to /fi game ?" ftht here." •"Oh, my I Iâ€" I wish I A SUIPIFKI BmI Story of Suff^ A Halifax despati of Tremont, Me., master of the sobooner Montezuma, of Calais, Me., has arrived at Yarmuath with three of his crew and details of the loss of his vessel as follows : The schooner was of 78 tons and 38 years old, and owned by Boardman Bros, and the Eatons, of Calais. She left Calais un December Btb with lumber for Boston. On the 14th she left Maohias for Boston, and soon after, during a heavy north- northwest wind, she was struck by a heavy sea, which carried away the only boat. The vessel began to leak badly, and the deck load, being frozen, could not be thrown overboard. The men were driven from the cabin. All their fresh water became salt, and they had to bang their provisions to the main boom, which got under water. For seven days the only food the crew had was a quarter of fresh beef only partially cooked, and the only water was a little caught in a bucket dur- ing a rain shower. The captain and two men had their feet badly frozen by the intense cold. Un the second day of the storm the stern was washed away, with the rudder and hawsers, and the sea washed through the deck-house. Un the 18th the head stays gave way and both masts went overboard. On the 21st the schooner Edward 1>. rescued the helpless crew, and carried them to Yarmouth. The rescued men are T. G. Lunt, of Salem ; T. Lunt, Fred. G. Commice and Harvey Herd. The captain and Unrd have their feet badly frozen. The crew saved noth- ing from the wreck. KAT.VL FIUHT OVKR CHICKENS. llloudy KucuuDter Between Mennonltes and Americans. A St. Paul despatch says : A riot occurred yesterday morning near Tripp, Dak., between Russian Mennonites and Americans. A public sale was held at the farm of a Russian named Sink, and an American farmer named Merchant pur- chased a dozen chickens. When ready to start home he found two chickens missing, and complained to Sink, who told him to take something of equal value. Ue selected a goose and started for home, but was overtaken by a party of tight Ituseians who claimed the goose as their property A wrangle ensued that attracted others to the scene, and soon a general light was in progress, in which some twenty men were engaged. Two brothers named Johnston, who wtre passing, joined in the melee with knives. .\ Uussian named Mayer wa. stabbed, and hx in turn split Charles John- ston's head with a neck yoke, inflicting a fatal injury. The same weapon broke the arm of George Johnston, and knives were used to Hlash up three other Russians badly, but not fatally. The Americans found the force opposing them too strong and withdrew from the Held. The wounded Rusaiaua were taken care of by their com- panions, and nothing could be learned from them owing to their clannish customs. The affair has civated intense excitement in the neighborhood. FlUUT WITH AN KAOL.K. The Thrllllui; Adventure of a Urufftlat li Itrlilgispurt, CouD. A Bridgeport (Conn.) despatch says Fred. B. Uubbard, a druggist, had a battle with an eagle last night and after a severe strugKle captured it. He was walking at the West End when suddenly he was almost knocked ilown by the huge bird, which lighted on his shoulder and buried its talons in his flesh. He grabbed the bird, which then fastened its great beak in his hand, inflicting a severe wouiul. After a lively tUbulo the bird was made to break its hold and was thrown to the grouud. In an instant it jumped up and fusti-ned its beak in the fleshy part uf Hubbard's leg, jtist above the knee. Hubbard managed to get a tlrm grip on the wiuga of the bird and thus held it a prisoner. He has three wounds, but has the satisfaction of ha\ing captured a live eagle. Alirlelil AdvertlHtug, It is afl'irmed that the flrst newspaper advertisement appeared in llil2, during the civil war in Great Britain. In Greece it wus the public crier who an- nounced sales (ir bid the people come to the theatre or visit the public baths. In England the lirst printed advertise- ment was gotten up by Caxton, the cele- brated printer, who announced the com- pletion of "The Pyes of Salisbury," a book containing a collection of rules for the guidance of priests in the celebration of Easter." The advertising card is of entirely modern origin, although the Kgyptians, Greeks and Koinans knew something about advertising. They acoomplisbed the de- sired results through the medium of posters, SH seveial bills, painted in black and red, were discovered on the walls of the I'ompeian dwellings. The lirst authentic advertisement was published in the Meraurins Politicus, of 10,52. In the year 1057, a weekly news- paper, devoted to the interests of adver- tisers, made its appearance in London. It was nut until the eighteenth century that newspaper advertising became the recog- nized medium between the manufacturer and the buyer. Ur. Orlflln'a True Nttiiie. The Viiitoria (It C.) Tima says: "Col J. H. Mahoney, the San Franoisoo detec- tive, has been in Los Angeles \h\i week. Ho declared Uriflin'a true name to be Griflin la Blanche ; that he was born iu Cuba some 40 years ago. The detective showed a nninber of letters and other documents, which he said were La Blanche's private papers. Home of thum are written in Greek. They were dug Did you ever see a oatt«ry take positiou / It hasn't the thrill of a cavalry charge, nor the grimnesi of aline of bayonets moving alowly and determinedly on, but there is a peculiar excitement about it that makes old veterans rise in their saddles and cheer. We have been fighting at the edge of the woods. Every cartridge box has been eoaptied once or more, and one-fourth of the brigade has melted away in dead and wounded and missing. Not a cheer is heard iu the whole brigade. We know that we are being driven foot by foot, and that when we break once more the line will go to pieces and the enemy will pour through the gap. Here comes help. Down the crowded highway gallops a battery withdrawn from some other posi- tion to save ours. The field fence is scat- tered while you could count 30, and the guns rush for the hills beyond us. Uver dry ditches where a farmer would not drive a wagon, through clumps of bushes, over logs a foot thick, every horse on the gallop, every rider lashing his team and yelling, the sight behind us made ua forget the toe in front. The guns jump two feet high as the heavy wheels strike a rock or log, but not a horse slackens his pace, not a can- noneer loses his seat. Six guns, six cais- sons, UO horses, 80 men, race for the brow of the hill as if he who should reach it lirst would be knighted. A moment ago the battery was a con- fused mob. We look again and the six guns are in position, the detached horses hurrying away, the ammnoition chests open, and along our line runs the command : " Give them one more volley and fallback to support the guns." We have scarcely obeyed when boom I boom I opens the bat- tery, and jets of Are jump down and scorch tbe trees under which we fought and des- paired. The shattered old brigade baa a chance to breathe for the first time in three boors as we form a line and lie down. What grim, cool fellows those cannoneers are. tvury man is a perfect machine. Bullets splash dust iu their faces, but they do not wiuce. Bullets sing over and around ; they do not dodge. There goes one to the earth, shot through the head as be sponged his gun. That machinery loses just one belt, misses just one cog in the wheels, and then works away again as before. Every gun is using short fuse shell. The ground shakes and trembles, the roar shuts out all sound from a line three miles long, and the shells go shrieking into the swamp to cut trees short olT, to mow great gaps iu tbe bushes, hunt out and shatter and mangle men until their corpses cannot be recognized as human. Yen would think a tornado was bowling tbrou^b the forest, followed by billows of fire, and yet men live through it, aye, press forward to cap- ture the battery. We can bear their shouts as they form the rush. Now the shells are changed for grape and canister, and guns are lirud so fust all reiwrts blend into one mighty roar. The shriek of a shell is the wickedest sound iu war, but nothing makes tbe flesh crawl like the demoniacal singing, purring, whist- ling grape shot and tbe serpent-like hiss of canister. Men's legs and heads are torn from bodies and bodies cut in two. A round shot or shell takes two men out of the rank as It crashes through. Grape am! canister mow a swath aud pile the dead on top of each other. Through the smoke we see a awarm of men. It \i not a battle liue, but a mob of meu desperate enough to bathe their bayo- nets iu the flame ef the guns. The guns leap from the ground almost as they are depressed on the foe, and shrieks and screams and shouts blond iuto one awful aud steady cry. Twenty men out of tbe battery are down, and Ihe firing is inter- rupted. The foe accept it as a sign of wavering, and come rushing on. They are uot ten lect away when the guns give them the last shot. The discharge picks living men utf their feet and throws them into the swamp, a blackened, bloody mass. Up, now, s the enemy are among the guns. There is a silence of ten seconds, and then the flash and the roar of more than 8,000 muskets and a rush forward with bayonets. For what ? Neither on the right nor left, nor in front of us, is a living foe I There are corpses around us that have been struck by three, four aud even six bullets, and nowhere on this acre of ground is a wounded man. The wheels of the guns cannot move until the blockade of dead is removed. Men cannot pass from caisson to gun without climbing over wind- rows of dead. Every gun and wheel is smeared with blood ; every foot of grass has its horrible stain. Historians write of the glory of war. Burial parties saw murder where historians saw glory. â€" Vkicago Tribune. up in the yard in the rear of E. I'. Byram's house, on C street, in Loa Angeles. Maiioney stales they were placed there by La Blanche when he lied from that city. It is thought that L.^ â-  documents dugnplightmay bethrown IP''°8'88S on the convict's many peculiar transao tions." A l.uu|( Cuurtdhlp. For thirty- five years John H. Buttrick, of Lowell, has been courting Miss Catha- rine Teressa MoEnry. Mr. Buttrick is the head of a drug firm ; he is also iu the rail- road business, and, what is more to the point, is wealthy, as well as well connected. iliai McEnry is .50, is well educated, and it is said that when Mr. Buttrick com- menced paying attention to her that she was beautiful and much sought after by the youth of the town. But after the waste of so much sweetness on the Lowell air, after the coming aud going of ho many years, after the fleeing of thiriy-Uve sum- mers, with their trysis and their kisses, and the alleged pronii8» of Mr. Buttrick to marry her uufuliided. she is naturally dis- couraged, and has sought redress for her wrongs and balm fur her wounded heart in the law. Bho has secured the services of that gallant old warrier. General Benja- min F. Butler, and the demand is tor $75,000 damages â€" a moderate amount to be sure ; scarcely more than 92.000 a year for the time that the courtship has been in ' a duck of a bonnet Feo much bill to it. Cnnldii't Stand KverythlDa:. A San Francisco gentleman owns a dog, on whose collar he has attached the follow- ing legend : " i will not bo responsible for the damage done to people who persist in discnssiog ' Robert Elsmere' in this dut;'a hearing. He can't stand everything.' â€" N.y. Tribtne. 8lo TranKlt. . . . A few days ago there di«d at Saint- Etionne an old man named Petroviski, Count of Blanckoniborg in the Polish nobility. The aged foreigner was reduced to abeolute beggary. He was born in War- saw in the year 1789, and wont thtough the campaign of Napoleon I., after which he occupied a position as engineer in the dis- trict of Lyons.â€" Figari). Very few persona E ^i^ifHlt we Ead living in Windsor a grtf^d>ui;hter of that prominent chara:)ter in the lievolutionary War, Benedict Arnold. Tbe lady referred to was Mrs. Shipman, widow of the late Stephen Royce Shipman and daughter of Richard Arnold, eldest eon of Benedict Arnold of revolutionary fame. She waa born in the township of Augusta, near Brockville, Out. Her birth is registered iu her father's family Bible in hia own hand- writing, " Born the 25th January, 1814, Charlotte Arnold." She waa tbe fourth daughter of a family of six dauKhters and three sons, all of whom uruw to be men and women ; but now only two sons and two daughters are living. The deceased, in her younger days, received a very fair education having attended the County School very near her father's residence. For tbe times this was considered a good school. After wards, with an elder sister, she went one year to a convent in Montreal. October 3Ut, 1H37, she was married to Stephen Royce Shipman, and removed to the Township of Ramsey, where her husband waa engaged in busineaa at a small village then called Shipman's Mills, named after the father of her husband, but now the flourishing town of Almont. Mr. Ship- man disposed of his interest at this place and removed to the County of Hastings, near Belleville, where he erected a griat and saw mill. Hn resided some seven or eight years there and then disposed of the mills and removed to Kingston and en- gaged in mercantile pursuita. He died very suddenly on the 9(h of Dec, 1847, at hia son-in-law's residence, Sarnia, aged 70 years, leaving a widow, i ' ee sons and one daughter. After Mr. Bhi^imau's death the widow, with the family, moved to Brock- ville, where she had two brothers and other connections living. After the mar- riage of her daughter she removed to Windsor, where she remained a while with her son-in-law aud danghter. She then purchased a house and lot and com- menced housekeeping. Tbe last two years her health has been failing, but no one supposed her end was so near. A couple of weeks ago, on the advice of her pbjBiciaus, she was removed to Uarper'a Hospital, where it was thought the facilities for nursing and medical attendance were more suitable. Notwithstandinti the best medi- cal attendance and all that loving friends could do she (juietly sank to rest on Thurs- day last. The Rev. John Grey, pastor of the Windsor Presbyterian Church, which the deceased attended, visited her at the hospital and administered Christian con- aolation during her illness. The timeral took place on Saturday from her grand- daughter's residence, Windsor, to the i'rotestant cemetery. â€" Uecorii. The Miseries of High Life. Mrs. Westend Ub, such a time as I do have with nurses! I've discharged three this week for not keeping the children quiet, aud it hasn't done a bit of good. Mrs. Tiptopâ€" I uotiot) the noise from the nursery is terrible. Well, I have the same trouble, and my husband, who is getting deaf, actually refuses to be treated for it. I can't seewhat lort of creatures these child's nurses can be. They dou't seem to have a bit of sense. I Mtuallv oaught one buying cheap candy with her owu money to keep the little angels quiet. Jnst think of the impudence of the thingâ€" putting cheap candy iuto the delicate stomachs of my children. Well I said I'd discharge her if she repeated the offeuxe, and what do you suppose she did next.' Why, when they began to yell and kick at her fur not buy- ing them a locomotive and oars big enough to ride iu she actually threatened to have their father whip tbem, just as it she, a common, iguoraut nurse, had a right to keep their father, my husband, at her beck and call. No wonder the children laughed and tjien yelled louder than ever. Even they could see the effrontery of tbe thing. Mrs. Westend â€" Well, I'd send her flying. Dear me I What a racket ! Hark ! Ah ! I understand it now. That miserable crea- ture who calls herself a nurse is trying to stand little Billy in the corner tor some- thing. Isn't it awful. Now, it she bits him I'll just send for the police â€" I just will. I shan't be contented with a sim- ple discharge. It's high time these crea- tures were taught a lesson. Mrs. Tiptopâ€" I think so, toi. No won- der the little dears Irarn to yell and kick and bite when they have such examnlea set them. They see it's a mere qnestion of physical strength â€" brute force â€" of course they do. Why don't these nurses keep the children amused ? That's what they are hired to do. Well, I must hurry, for I have an engagement at the iutelligence office at this hour. I want if possible to get a nurse to replace the one I have now. Since dear little Bobby kicked her shins black aud blue she has hated him so she won't buy any more caudy tor him, and it almost breaks my heart to hear the poor little fellow cry. Philosophy Under a Lamp Post. Not mtuy evenings ago a sedate in- dividual, braced up against a lamp poat on Bold street, was heard to murmur softly : " Yes, health is valued only when one gets sick ; if there w*s no poverty iu the world, riches would be a drug ; it is only when a man is iu trouble that he understands the true value of ha|ipinesa, aud we would never realize the grandeur of the electric lights if we had none of these blamed coal oil lamps in the outskirts of the city." Valuable discoveriea have b^^ made and valuable inventious suggested b^the veriest accidents. An alchemist, while 'inking to discover a mixture of earths that would, make the most durable crucibles, one day fouud that he had made porcelain. The power of lenses, as applied to the telescope, was discovered by a watchmaker's appren- tice. While holding spectacle glasses between his thumb and linger he waa startled at the suddenly eiilarged appear- ance of a neighboring church spire. The art of etchiug upon glass was discovered by a Nuremberg glaascotter. By accident a few drops of aqua fortis toll upon hia spectacles. He noticed that the glaaa became corroded aud softened wbere the aciabud touched it. That waa hint enough. He drew figures upon glass with varnish, applied the corroding fluid, then cut away the glass around the drawing. When the varuish was removed tbe figures appeared raised upon a dark ground. Mezzoiinto owed its invention to the simple accident of the gun barrel of a sentry becoming rusted with dew. The swaying to and (ro of a chandelier in a cathedral suggested to Galileo the application of the pendulum. The art of luhograpbing was perfected through suggestions made by ac- cident. A poor musician was curiona to know whether music could not be etched upon stone aa well as upim copper. After he had prepared his slab his mother asked him to make a memorandum of such clothes as she proposed to send away to be washed. Not having pen, iuk and paper convenient, he wrote the list on the stone with the etching preparation, intending to make a oopy of it at leisure. A few days later, when about to clean the stone, he wondered what effect aqua fortis would have upon it. He applied tbe acid, and in a few minutee saw the writing standing out in relief. The next step necessary waa simply to ink the stone aud take off an impression. The shop of a Dublin tobacconist by the name of Lundyfoot was destroyed by lire. WhUe he was gazing dolefully into the smoldering rnios he noticed that his poorer neighbors were gathering the suulTtrom tbe canisters. Ue tested the snuff tor himself and discovered that the fire had largely im- proved its pungency and aroma. It was a hint worth profiting by. He secured another ehop, built a lot ot ovens, subjected tbe snuff to a heating process, gave the brand a par- ticular name and iu a tew years became rich through an accident which he at first thought bad completely ruined bim. The process of whitening sugar was discovered in a curious way. A ben that had gone through a clay puddle went with her muddy feet into a sugar house. She left her tracks on a pile of su^ar. It was noticed that wherever her tracks were the sugar was whitened. Experiments were iustituted, aud the result was that wet clay came to be used in rttiuiig sugar. The origin of blue-tinted paper came about by the mere slip ot the baud. The wife ot William East, auEngii4hpm>er maker, accidentally let a bluH bag fall into one ot the vats of pulp. â€" London Tidbit). '.â- ^ N.. Cured of a Curious Delusion. " That is a ((ueer freak," said oue of the newspaper meu when tbe woman had de- parted, " but 1 know of a case stranger than that. It happened in my owu family, aud the victim of the halluciimtion was my uncle. He was a farmer and a wealthy man. When the war broke out ho enlisted aud fought bravely to tbe end. He had not been home six mouths when the strange fancy seized him that there was a small drum secreted iu the top of his head and that he would never mure have peace. Ue was sent to a private lusauu asylum. Except tor this peculiar idea be was appar- ently as sane as you or I, and his conversa- tion on any topic but this was rational. Finally the physicians hit upon a happy idea. They told my uncle that they would perform a surgical operation and take the drum out. So they had a miniature drum made, aud ore of tbem kept it iu the palm of hia hand where the patient could uot see it. They then cut the scalp on top ot his head until blood cntne, and the physicians pretended to draw out the drum through the top ot his head, stitching the wound after doing so. My uncle was cured the minute he saw the drum- â€" Milwaukee Sentinel. Brieks fur â- â€¢ Pillow. A correspondent of the Shanghai Surth China Herald 8»y8 that to the average Celestial it is a matter of iudifforence how long ho remains in one posiiion. Ue will write all day like an automaton; he will work from morn to eve without any varia- tion, and apparently without any cou- soiousnesB of the monotony. The Chinese ' school children will undergo any amount of oonlinenient, unrelieved by recesses or' obauges of work, which would drive a West- ern pupil to the verge of insanity. Ever Chinese infauts are said to remain aa im passive as " mud gods." To the Chine^ exercise appears to be superfluous, M they can sleep anywhere. With a brik for a pillow the " heathen Chinee " came down on his bed ot stalks or mud bricki.>r rattau and eletip the sleep ot the just, v'b no reference to the rest of creation. Masonic. Over S30.000 have been raised toward the new Masonic temple at |Grand Rapids. Masonry knows no bounds. A magnifi- cent UBW temple for the fraternity has been coLstructed and dedicated at Karaloops, in the Rooky Mountains. I'he building ia an imposing structure. It is 52x34 feet, aud two stories high. The Grand Lodge ot British Columbia conducted the dediotury ceremonies. HegluuiuK the Mew Year. " Come, hubby, you ought to take nne to tlio theatre New Year's Eve, seeing you didn't )(ivB me any Christmas present," said a newly married wife to her husband. " Nonsense ; I've only got one ticket, and we don't want to begin the New Year 6(iuandering money. Wo must learn to econonii/.3, now we are married," replied the brute. Keiuarkable Vlaor For His Age. Rev. I). Sutherland. Gabrus, C.B.,«'iteB to the mtneu : " Malcolm MoMilW. of Catalone, C. B., a native of Looht>ddy, North-Uiat, Scotland, is 101 years c age: and all his senses are aa good as n^n lie was in hia teens. A few montha at^e cut aud sewed a pair of millcloth trooTS for himself. Last autumn he mowed»y on the same field with his son, hia (»ndBon and hia great-grandson and hia da< work was equal, it is said, to the best of *m. He was 40 years of age before he ever*w tea, aud 43 before ho ever put a tobao P<pe >â- > hia mouth. He never lost a o'h. »"A 'i does not know what headache oi^o'li'che ' is. He is, best of all, a child of od and a Presbyterian, and has not been "' of the house on Sabbath for '20 yearaply to go to the house ot God." Qoinic Uown BUL Little Bobbyâ€" Don't you ft 'o take me up to the toboggan slide vP you aome day, Mr. Jinks? Mr. Jinksâ€" I never go to By toboggan slide, Bobby ; never even as » toboggan. Bobby (a trifle nonpUed) â€" That's f nnny ; I heard pa aay aometns shout youB going down hill at a furiou^te. . ..!» / X t .â- l(^^ ,;*#•