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mTTT~n~n"|7''CI VV jjB. O i-ANADA. Canadian hackney horses recently told in London brought 60 to TO guinea* each. Recent rains have brightened lumbering prospects ou tbe Ottawa Kivir ami its branches. Samuel Allan, ga der at Sarnia, died the ! j.;jj 1;lll ',| ther ily. He was appointed to the TM- ;_ mi:-. -" r '"' " on - Prince George, arrived at Marlborough house from Saudnugh.vn lost week. Bolli are enjoying perfect lioaith. A despatch from I^n2->u nays the imports from C.mad.t showed the great expansion last month of 'Jl,Kjti, or over 4 per cent. a* complied wuh la*', year. M ,..r K.hiaril,, late of the Koyal Mill tary College, Kngfto*, a running f"f the Imperial rVrliaiuent a* a Socialist, m Dover, other tion in liii.'i. The total catch of seal* hy tlte Newfound- land fleet this year was 34S,ti-fJ. Driver Turcolte, of B battery, Quebec, was ki. ked by his horse oa Monday and died from the effects tbe following day. Because hi* parents refused a request Joseph Badjero, 12 yearsold old, committed suicide by hanging himself in his father's stable, at Urilha ou Monday. Referring to the Canadian fishermen, Sir Iladstone haa written a letter to his Midlothian election agents stating that he will lie in a postion to o*k i b>- electors for a vole of confidence ;-.t the polls at tho cud of June. The English Ci.urt of Appeals has con At NeiiMt/, H-mg&ry, on Thursday, s number of women were placed on trial elurged with pommlng their husbands and lovers witli arseui. :. (Jen. (,'resser, prefect of police of St. Petersburg, died last week as the result of an injection of vitaline, a quack medicine, which caused blood poisoning. Madame Verard, one widow of a former prefect of Isero, F ranee, boa linen murdered by a ooachman because she dismissed bim fioni her service. Deeming, the wife murderer, has bequeath- ed all bis property to his lawyer except one- tenth, which goes to M.ss Rouse well, to whom he was engaged when arrested. At a review ofthe troops at. Spanilau on Friday, the Kmperorgove a sudden order to George Baden-l'owell eulogises lliera as wl th criminally assaulting Mms I'rioe plucky, hard-working, and deserving. | compartment of a railway carriage on the firmed the compromise amusement arrived j the Mayor to close the schools ""1 J-" 111* at between Mrs. Pa rue; I. a* the soli- lieir of her aunt, Anna Mar. a Wood, aud the other claimants. Property amounting to over ill lll.iiWi WO.M involved. Hon. Patrick (>reville Xu(enl, charged in a Mr*. James McLaren, of London town- ship, ha* just celebrated her ICfJnd birthday and is still hale and hearty. Over 300 (German and Austrian immi- grants arrived at Winnipeg the other day to take up land in Manitoba, Pierre Langlsi* died at Windsor, Ont, recently, aged 77. lie was born and spent his whole life on the farm on whicn he die.!. Miss H "ie M. Kaker, B.A., of Kingston, ha* been appointed on the teaching staff of the public school* in Duluth at JttOO per year. The Sunday *ehool of Bridge stieet Methodist church in Belleville haa 7"."> names on the roll aad claioia to be the largest school in Canada. Mr. Thomas Jones, of Mitchell, has paid about $1 1 ,000 to fanners in that t'istrict lately for cattle and hogs destined for the British market. A despatch from Chicago states that the Canadian Pacific Railway Company i* ne- gotiating for the purchase of tbe Duluth and Winnipeg road. Many lian<!.< of French-Canadians, each in charge of a priest, are leaving the Prov- ince of (Quebec for tbe North \V est, where they intend tu settle. The mangled body of Victor Chaine was discovered near the railway track at Stoney Point on Saturday. He had evidently been killed by a M. C. R. train. Henry O'Neil, of Preston, was arrested in < ;lt on a charge of drunkenness. While in ( atwaultiiig a five year-old girl. London and Brighton railway on April 19th, |il<-nded guilty the other day to common as- a"lt and won sentenced tu six months at hard labour. Mr. Coschcn, Chancellor of the Kit-he- (pier, announced last week that. Kngland would accept the invitation of tin: United Stales to lake part in an International con- ference to discuss tbe silver question, hut in accepting the invitation the iiovernniert would not commit itself in any way to tbe principle. CKITKD STATES. Two more deputy marshal* have oecn kill- ed by cattle thieves near Buffalo, Wyo. The tenitoriul capital of Santa Ke, N.M.. wuc totally destroyed by tire on Thursday night. Loss, J'-'JO.UOO. A Presbyterian pastor at (jreecville, III, has a pulpit made of olive wood from the Mount ot Olives. An immense steel bridge across the Mis- sissippi at Memphis, Tc-nn., was formally , t , mn thirty years opened last week. Peter McKeever, a restaurant kueptr in Chicago, through excessive indulgence in coffee, his become violently insane. About 100 Cheyenne Indians are off their reservation in Oklahoma Territory nd are driving white settlers off their claim*. In th* country around Kingfisher, <). T., children attend tbe review, and within tit teen m. uutesj.OIK) children were on the drill ground. Dynamite fiends uro at work in Caracas, Venezuela, where a Innib was exploded with terrific effect the other evening when the streeU ware full of people. The explo- sion took place :it tin- residence of Kiuiune MiDMtcr Maltus, which vta* considerably damaged, but no one was hurt. The police iiavc raided a ucn where tliey found bombs, vitriol, et". lu ..! I '.i, t.. r II..I,, u.ii.i-. Notwithstanding the ravings of certain fire eating Yankees, there is) really a grow- ing feeling oi sympathy between KngUnd and the great Republic ou this i-oiitnn.ii', which owes all that it has of greatness to the principles of law and government received from the sturdy Auglo Sa.xons who founded i In- nation. The following from an article in the last nnmiter of Uiu C'/i/a>;/'aji is the testimony ot a thinking American 011 the good feelingand cordial relations which even now obtain between the l\vo great Knglish peaking countries : " It is difficult to-day to believe that Americans aud Kugluhmeii were engaged in actual hostilities within the memory of men still living and that there was talk of war between them less there are over five hundred negro families with starvation staring them in the face. Henry James, a mulatto, aged '--, was linched by a mob at Little Rock, Ark., for gaol be took an overdose of medicine and died from the effect*. It is believed that 48 miners wero killed in the Koulyn, Wash., mine exploiion of Mr. John Coulter, of Tormore. Ont., who Tn*dy- Fourteen bodies have been re- ent to Americus, Ijeorgia, after a legacy covered. W. F. Harris, s Baltimore machinist, has in vented a machine to propel waggons aud (Jeorgia, after a and was supposed to have been lost, lias re turned to his home. finMcl 4 an j commercial heart* of the f.-q countries have long been beating with a com mm pulse anil distance has been so annihilated by electri- city that the mere-haul* of Liverpool aud Loadoii, New York and Suit 1'rancisco may be said to meet daily in one common Ex- II.* lii.ll.in LuiMa U Urll> S,,l -.uinrlnr In l Hi- I mi.- .if .In mil... The id.'a is ve.-y generally held that the African elephant 11 not susceptible of being tamed and used a* a working animal like his cousin of India. This id*?a, howuvir, i* urroueoiiB. The African elephant U fully as intelligent and docile as tlio Indian ele- phant. Most of the elephants which arc exhibited in menageries uii.l circuses, many of them in a higli state of training, come from Africa. The auciuni historians tell us also that for more than 51 H) yeai* the Afri- can elephant was uaplured aud traitieil for Bervice in tbe armies and for use a* a beast of burden ami in circuses. Tbe period wh.-n the elephant of north Africa was most util- ixed for tln^e varioim purposes was between abcut -JS5 B.C. and -JSn A. D. Tin: African elephant is easily distinguish- able from the Asiatic species by the convex- ity of hm face, the great I.KM.Til UK HIS TfSKS, and particularly by the enormous size of hi* an. To-day he is not found north of the desert ot Sahara. When he was largely tili/ed by man, however, he was found in groat troops not only in upper Kgypt, bat alho in the forest of Morocco aud Algeria. It w.-i* somewhere between the third aud the seventh century of tbe Uhffctun era that the elephant finally disappear**! from uorth Africa. AH the early historian* have something to tell u* about the use of the Afr can ele- phant in warfare. It was 270 year* B. ('. , when one of the Ptolemaic ruler* of Kgypt useil elephants in war against tbe Indian elephant* of his enemy, aud at the battle of 1-Uphia the Indian animal showed his su- peiionty as a fighter t j his African relative. All thu elephant* iu the army of Egypt's ruler wr killed in combat with the ele- phants of Antiochus. The Carthaginians, seeing that Exypt was constantly extending her territory to- ward the west, deaired to place her army on a footing equal to that of Egypt s mili- tary establishment. They thereupon made elephant* of war a prominent feature of their force. If ui<irc<l." of men were sent into the forest* along Uie foot of the Alia* .Moun- tains, where great hunt* were organued for the capture of elephant* who were destined A young son of Mr. Samuel liarber, of Lucknow, Ont.. made a misrtep iu the fur- niture factory of Cliff & Fostsr, the other day, wa* caught by a belt and bud one leg torn off. From January 1 up to date Ifl.'A'S immi- grants b.;ve gone into Manitoba and the North-west territories. Fur the same period last year the number wai less than 8.IJUO. A man who was creating a disturbance at the Salvation Army barracks in Winnipeg on Sunday has his jawbone broken by the fist of one of the soldiers named William llrundel. An old man named Charles Honey was truck by an engine at Lancaster, Ont., M. in. lay aud killed. He was walking on the truck ud being 87 years old and lame, could not gel oil in time. M'tdanie I'edard, of B.iucherville, Que. , who has been deranged for some time past, threw her baby into the St. l-awrem-e recent- ly, mid before succor could be had the little thing was drowned. Tbe London Graphic calls upon Imperial Parliament to give Newfoundland a whole- nine lexncii, and says any further irresolu- tion on the part of the English C.uvcrnment will be regarded as weakness. A despatch from London says the Impe- rial Colonial Office ho* no desire to drive Newfoundland, but is more than ever con vin. -cil that the best interest* of the colony lie in acoidial association witii Canada. The body of W. H. Barlow, a farmer, was found in hi* shanty near Calgary, Alberta, recently. It is supposed he commuted suicide, as part of his head was blown away, and OK empty gun wo* lying beside him. The Salvation Army sent a detachment to Waterloo on Monday and the soldiers were , n, e pastor, pelted with stale eggs, the big drum and cither mill HIM. -iits were smashed, and the army presented a sorry appearance after the me Ice. street cars by means of a gasoline engine. At Portsmouth N. H., the other morning, Ca.pl. George F. Calder of the schooner Pain, while asleep, walked off the deck and was drowned. For the murder of t'ity Marshal MiiMtt, John T. Parker ha* been sentenced at Cor- pus Chruti, Texas, lo 99 years' imprison- ment. Paymaster Fox, of the Solvay Process Work* in Syracuse, N. Y., was waylaid lost week while driving out to pay the men and robbed of 3'-VJ. The robber who was shot in the attempt- ed robbing of the Redding and Shasta stage mi Saturday night was captured in Middle Canon Sunday afternoon. A caijc iu which three miners were riding dropped 7. r > feet in a mine near Helena, Mont. , killing two of the men and fatally injuring the other. Mis* Delia Winters, fifteen years of age, residing at Lowell, Mich., shot herself through the heart, the other day because of continued suffering through prolonged i lines*. The returns of maple sugar pronuccrs in Vermont under the Bounty Act show a crop approximating 1,7.'><>,'<00 pounds, on which it ts estimated $.,U"0 will be paid iu bounties. Marshal Carter, of Toco-a, Georgia, dis- covered four negroes drilling in the vault of t ic Natianal Hai.lt there ou Tuesday night. Ho entered the building and was beaten to death by the rascals. John L>. Rockefeller has donated .?:iO,00() to the endowment fund of Tabernacle Baptist church on Second avenue. New York, in fulfilment of a promise ma<l<; last Thanksgiving to the Rev. Daniel C. Potter, change. The old saying that blood is ] to play an important part in the two tint Punic wars. Much has been written about the role that African elephants played ilur- :nu the wars between the Carthaginians and thu Romans. We know that Hannibal crossed the Pyrenees with forty elephants, ami he had thirty-seven when he arrived on the bank* of the Rhone after this terrible journey. In ihe Alps hi* heavy La. leu els- ph. nits bad the greatest ditliculty in cross- ing the snowy pa wen along the narrow paths. < 'n one part of the route rilK AKMY MAI TED for three or four days while the xoldien were making a road for the elephants, and when the animals finally arrived in Italy they were so weakened by their hardships and privations that they could hardly stand. Hannibal, however, made conspicuous use of elephants in all tho big Iwttle* lie fought thicker thai, water Uacquiringa new signif- icance almost hourly. Kvery year the Noeini intercourse between the two peoples is becoming more intimate. Americans Ilix'k in ever increasing numbers to the mother country and the Knglisli tourist is a common object in 'very corner 'A th* L'mted Suites. Repre- sentative* of the art, the literature, and the science of the Old World and the N'exv give an international color lo the best society on both sides of the Atlantic, while in the greater worlds of leisure and fashion the communion i* constantly growing closer. Intermarriages are becoming more ami more frequent, each country i* quick to adopt, the fashions, the ImUti, the enleruunmeiila, the heroes ot the other, and every indication point* to the final establishment of the brotherhood that ought lo prevail among men of the same race, religion, characteris- tics, and instinct*. The Knglish in the United States aud the Americans in Eng- land are mutual pledge* of reconciliation apd hoxtage* for the preservation of peace aud friendship." Th. Mineral ealih ufTaaaiis. vaot mineral wealth of Canada in The Sir John M u-ilnn.ild Montreal Com- mittee has raised over *.II,<HIU to erect a monument to the deceased Premier, and will in a few days ask permission from the City Council to erect the monument in Do- minion square. Tin- two sons of Mr. Jo*eph Dedricb, "S!rikep*are, Out., six and eight years re A miner at Sabe (.reck, Iowa, missing rich amalgam fro,m his sluice box, kept watch, and having noticed a small calf di n.king from the box about the same hour every :iight he at last fired at the suppoe<l animal, and found it was a boy a thief. g boy and dixguined as a calf irl wh Tbe shot was fatal. IN i. I. \KH\l.. I as a was the The C/ar has signed a uka.sc permitting the exportation of oats tnd sp .-MM U .Mere playing with un old-fashion- | The sum of $10*J,UU<) was realized in tlie cd pistol ou Saturday afternoon when the weapon, which had been lo-tded along time previously, was discharged intothe abdomen rged i The c of the younger boy. Tne child died cm the following moruing. At a meeting recently ofthe Agricultural and Colonization Committee iu tlttan.i. Prof. Kol-crUon, th* Dairy Committiosier, stated that by feeding cattle with fr-v.en v> lie. >t fanners could obuin aa large a re- t;.i n for their money as if they li.td sold the 4: mm in good condition. A telegram has been received in Montreal fi om St. John's, NHd., stating that tl-e V w fo-indland (ioveriunent will admit the Canadians to free bail, accepting Canada's terms, their products duty free. The with- drawal of the restrictions will have- very little effect on Canadian trade with the colony this year. Sir George Haden 1'owell say* (Ireat Itritain was atone tine close upon war with the United State* over the Btliring ><... question, but they have now agreed 'n nettle tlie natter in dispute by means of arU'.ia tion. Tbe University of Toronto has decided lo confer the honorary degree of LL.D. on Sir R.di-i -I'^.-ll, M. P., Knl.ii-l ; A. Stave- ley Hi'l, M. P., Kr.land, and John Land- aur of BrnoswSck, tlerii ai.y, in it:-cgui tion of their Ki*)t4ikeia procuring Totuoiti for the new university lil.rary. URBAT BKITAIN. Tbe Prince of Wale*, accompauie 1 by hit two . Uya' sale ot the Hum i* art in Paris. The report that tiie Sultan of Turkey wa* suffering from severe nervous illness is otli cially denied. Schulu, the auditor of the Reich-flunk at licilm, who was arrested for eml^e-diiig, has bunged himaelf. The Roumanian crown in made of metal from the eunnou captured from Ihe Turks at. ovnaiu 1877. At rlueno* Ayres on Wednesday a largo skalin..' link iu course of coHslriicUon col- lapsed, killing 30 persons. The F:-e!ich C'ibinct has voted SOO.ftOOf. to p.iy indemnities for losses resulting from the ie --cut dynamite outrages in Paris. Th? Pope Ml again sent a message In the Catholics of Fiance enjoining obedience to the constituted (Government. A Hungarian brigand named Siinic, after & Ions; latecr of murder aud rubbery iu Stlu- \o-iia, has been shot (lead. '! he French forces operating against the K i)',' of Dahomey have occupied tho lH.ho- mi yau town of (JodoDiy, 18 inilus we: t of KO'.OIIOU. |.'ivo hundred unemployed workmen in S, -/c-ncitz, Bohemia, sacked a number of K!. op* on Thursday. The riot wus candied ry gondarme*. Kotty of 'he leading rioters in LonV, I'o land, including a number of Social- lui. ,,s. have been sentenced to ' in pi * sun. scarcely known to our own people, much less to tbe world at large. A summitry of the mineral production of Canada for I sill, jus'/ published gives some surprising figures but wlrcb are none the lens gratifying. ' 'oni paring the figures given therein by Mr. K 1). Ingall of ihe (ii.ii.'i;i. al Survey, in his nportlollietloveiiiiiii.nl, with the figure* ..I Iv>7. we obtain the folli; wing pleasing re- sult : HW7 4.7JS..V.IU I.ITX.'BT 1,218,780 I.IHPH.'IIU '70SJ18 7.7!,IT;> '.'.'.\IM4l I. IK I H. :>,!ii . (07.188 i7;a,!,78 I I'rixlnct Copper. A>he-t4M Building stone Con! Md Hotroleum I'iif iron |->rite ITlliM Salt lltUBM Silier 3J''.:il Nickel None The total value for 1881 i.i$M,(MK>.0<JO a* compiled with S I ."i.lJUO.lMJO in IHS7. The /;'!/ / in referring to this matter says : " Tho mcroased production of coal and pe- troleum, both of which we have in sufficient quantities to supply tho world, is marked, while tbe rise of nickel affords only a faint indication of what that great mineral will yet become to UH. Smelting works for Tor- onto, ami great mining centres and cities along the shore* of Lake Superior, are prob- abilities of the near future, and the T'l. (Ml, i MI tons of coul produced in Nova Scotia and British Columbia in the last 14 years warfare. Only a short lime before the lieginning of the Christian era African elephants figured upon Pompey's battlefields. The elephants be took back to Italy wero a feature of hi* triumph. Forty elephant* inarched before the dictator to Kome, and, as they passed through the street* of the capital, each held in his trunk a flaming torch. After the Koni.ni conquest of Africa the elephant assumed a more pacific role, though | be still figured in battles against gladiators ' and anim.ils such a* bulls and tiger*. He played his p in. in festival games and on oc- casions of speoia<rls and great ceremonies. The stories that some of the latter hictor- ian* tell of the feats performed in the circus by trained elephant* are almont inei edible. Pliny tells of seeing one day tour elephant* bearing another upon a litter. On another occasion anumber of elephants wore turned loose 11 a hall filled with people who were lying upon couches, and the elephants step- ped over all Ihe couche* without touching the occupant*. A lill/RS KI.KI-HANTX owned by liermanicus executed a charade in dramatic costiin e. TV males were clad in togns and the females in tunics. After the pirade a collation was served to thu elephant* in the presence ot a great crowd, ana the ipectator* were very much amused and astonished by the courtesy with which Ihe unimals passed plates from nne to an- other, and in other ways showed their good 1. 1 cc/ung. In the game* which Nero instituted in I honor of Agrippina we me told tht elo- . ph.inl* danced upon light rope*, and a , , I very remarkable story is told of an elephant are nothing to what the time to coino will , jn tn(J rej( , n o f (; a . hi i, which, in ch.irge of a * l.l,lxi. KID gal i tra j nerj mounted upon a rope extending from tlie ground to the top of ihe circuiand descended again into the arena along the same narrow pathway. Stictoniu.i vouches for the truth of ibis story. ,\. I n. m used elephants for TUB APBIftV BLBF94VT. | * T t K D> < 1 f 1 1 i no V n Ixlretnely IsHrreillsiK iitr.ils) Thai May Httpr Be 4aswere4. Ihe question of tlie duration of conscious- ness in tho iiriun of criminaUi after execution by hanging or by the guillotine is being dis- cussed witli greater inteiest than ever since Anostay, the murderer of Baronets I>d!ard, paid Ins dubl to society. It i* said that t in* remarkable criminal sent, to his brother a leltter on tbe subject an follows : The separation of my body aud that wbic-h constitute* my tliiuking bMng can- not so soou be accomplished. I believe there i* a survival of about an hour. Come then Leon, be present at my execution, and insist that my head be given to you. Call me wita your voicu uud my eyes will reply to you. This is but the repetition of a popular be- lief that ba- prevailed for centuries. There is a legend of a state execution in Knglanci at an epoch when the axe and block were in are, which sets forth that after ihe instru- ment hod fallen the person whoso head was on the block exclaimed. " Vou have missed me '" to which tho executioner replied with a slight kick that strut the head rolling lo a distance. The story never gained much credimce, but is still worthy of discussion. It* truth or falsity would depend ou the possibility of the instrument's being so thin and sharp that the walls ot the veins would not be displaced, in which case the circala- tion of the blood might continue for a few seconds, and whether .onsciousiie-s might continue for a moment after tbe vertebra; of the neck wo* severed. This last difficulty would be the greatest, since uttr nncon- sciousue** is supposed to be simultaneous with the severing of the spinal cord or the breaking of the nec-k. In any event, scien- tists who have taken the trouble lo study the faces of the guillc, lined for a few second* after the fatal stroke, or who have trade ex- periments with decapitated animal*, do not favor the theory. Several French physicians, and among them Dr. Paul Loye, now deceased but once professor at the Soruosne, have experiment- ed with dogs, using for their hanging or decapitation, machinery like that employ- ed in public execution*. The dog was chosen for th* experiment* a* having the most mobile face and bemt; able to reproduce the movement* which in rare cases have been observed in human subject*. Persons whom this treat- ment of dumb animals might revolt, are begged to remember that the suffering is much less than in vivisection, -nice these methods of execution are generally recog- nized a* producing the least pain. The guillotine employed by Dr. Loye wa* simi- lar to that used for the execution of ordin- ary criminals in Franc*. It consisted of a triangular knife or axe, surmounted by a mas* of lead weighing over twenty pounds, and falling over six feet upon the neck of the animal, which wa* severed at tlie third vertebra. Tbe phenomena observed were similar to those remarked by other French and by foreign navanl* whose ex peiunents have been leas elaborate. Al tbe moment the head was detached from the body the mouib opened wide, a* if the animal was making an extraordinary effort at inhalation. The tongue won ap- plieii to the lower part of the mouth, and finally crumbled, the Carthaginians agreed underwent a brief period of agitation. The in 'he treaty thy made with Kome that i eyelids were closet! with light contractions, they would never again use elephants in ' Then the eyes were openeil and rolled Iropi P in Italy, in Spain, and in Africa. in the year 'Mi B.C., when the power of Carthage petroleum produced between KM and 1SXM constitute the mereiit bagatelle compared with what our gieat .Mackenzie l'.:i..in can supply when British capital once begins to ll.iw in that direction. We may even look forward now to a preference in tho Brilish market over Russia for our petroleum, and then will be seon a " boom " indeed. Alto- gether, it is very satisfactory to feel that our progress in mineral production ba* been so excellent, and to feul that our future piov poets are still better." Cofl'ee planter* in Mexico make a profit of 100 to '2M per cent, on the amount of money invested. Vaucoiivei Island has juat completed its hundredth year aa a put of the British Kmpire. On the 30th et April, 17'J'J, minder Vancouver, of the British line-of- baltle ship Discovery, planted the Union Jack on the beautiful island. Seven thou- sand Indians, men, women, and children, assembled .m the coast to watch the pro- ceedings. All tho rights and privilcyu* iicijuiri-d by Spain wcic formally assigned to iiie.it Britain, and tho now possession, which was formerly Stuowu as Quadra, took the name of Vancouver. A survey of tho const was taken, which has since been vori- fied as accurate, except The Kmperor a more useful purpose in tho famous enterprise when In: showed the ability of the ancients to carry out works of great mechanical and engin- eering dilliculty. He employed eighty ele- phantn to move the famous Colossus of Nero and transport it to tho new lite he han selecttd f'ir it. Upon the backs of African elephant*, also, were Inn-lie iu haii<loine palanquins the images of ilia godu anil of the emperors upon great ceremonial occa- sion.'. Tho grand fetes by which the thou- sandth anniversary of tbe foundation of Koine was celebrated are believed to have been the last occasion on which the African eli pliant took part in great numbers in these public displays. It was about '-Ms A. 1). that the Koinuu (joveniinent ceased to sup- port thu last depots of ulephanUi it had maintained. From this time these animala appouruil uo longer in the amphitheatre of Rome. Charles (Jreen, who had been a first-class conductor on the Erie railway for .'<."> v u-, was killed by falling down w'rs at the Kessling hotel in I'incinnnli last ,.,. _ ,- that owing to _ . .... _ iciei I in the iimtrumeutH everything was j week. It is suspected lhat he was thrown one- degree oil U Among tho curious reiics .down the stairway. of th* pioe,n..c of tho Spanish otill prestrv- ! An aged nurse namod Meyr, reeidUlB at cd nre aoni'iiirasncaiiiiun, which to the peon- ( Backcnlieiin, a suburb of Frankfort, h.is liie ,:idians at Nuotka priy.o very j been arrested, charged with oauMUg the 'lhaiigh tho rccont centenni.il was j dcalh of fifty-eigh'. infants, ^ll is said that Ie tluiocc.iiionnf any special display | several wealthy Indies of Frankfort aie to it had recalled many valuable and Intersil- : b accused of complicity in the baby farm- ing lust.. 1 1,,.; icuiuiiJtcucvs. j ing criminal operations. side to side and top to bottom, the pupils in the meui time gradually contracting. At the name time the jaws were opened and violently closed, and the face wa* rapidly convulsed. This wa* followed by change* at ihe corner* of the mouth, vibration of the nostrils, trembling of the lips, and erec- tion of thu ears. Tbe ensemole of these movement* constituted a series of horrible gnmaccs like those seen on the face of the guillotined, and seemed lo express tbe mc>st intense agony. If the cornea of the eye wa* touched the eyelids cloned, but if an object, no matter of what kind, wo* placed befor* the eye t here was no movement. Neither did crying nor whia'.ling into the ears of th* dog appear to cause ihe slightest sensation. The pinching of the tongue canned a slight shrinking of 'hat organ. Although the pupil of the eye wss contracted, thr approach of a light rendered the orifice still smaller. These phenomena occupy about ten sec- onds, and are followed by a period of repose continuing to the fifteenth or twentiutii I second, during which t he mnuih jests dosed I *nd the eyes open and without moveiin'iit. 1 At the end of this time tho mouth op nn a. id close* quickly, tho nostril* dilaie .nd contract. During this timo, although me irri! ;r ion of the cornea has cause.) a slight winking neither whistling in tin- e.ir uor touching the tongue or nostrils with am- monia or cologne has Ixjen able to produce any effect. The opening and closing of the mouth resemble yawning, aud aie reprodu- ced a do/.n times, after which the motions gradually cease. Then the cornea loses its sensibility to the touch, (hough, half a nun tiie having alaptuvl, tho yawning is still active. Tbe pupil of the eye dihtes at the approach of light, hut doc* not contract, and the cornea (ones its glistening appear- ance. At tho end of two minutes lue yawn- ing and other phenomena have ceased, end- ing in mere contraction of the tihieH, and the head takes'icorpsc-like look. No experimenter has boeu able to decide whether the movements npecitied were iiivolnni.il y or alien. .cd with rune slight action of the will. No dog ever respon.le.l by special movement* to these efforts to excite bis senses. All perception of exter- nal objects has entirely disappeared, at the moment of decapitation, as far attu* obser- ver* have been able to di :-i nun", sjq^the movement!) have come, or appi -is*Vl to come, fro'n Iho prolonged activity of the nervous i.-entres. Dr. Loye obtained pre- cisely tho same manifestations from Mgi that ho bad plunged into a state of complete anesthesia. There seem*, then, no roanon to lii'liuve that any sort of . onsen. nsness . ..HIM uteil with the action of tbe will exists in tin) head of the person who Ii i been guillotined, beheaded with the axe, or ef- fectually banged, which will no', prevent the prejuilicoor the supers! ition to coin nine and have its effect ou cerium minds for long ng.-s lo come. dow Paralysis Comes Upou One- Waits " 1 tell you it makes n i.iun feel pretty serious to find himself threatened w:li paralysis." N '.u .Ion t iiiutu to say that In c, do you?" ^\ i Yes, mv my luit..|ier told me that if I didn't .lo somotbing for bim by t'ie first of tiio Mionlli he would paralyxu me." There ars ,10), (NX) commercial travellers ui tlie U lined States.