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THE WEEK'S NEWS Mr. .lain-j* Harris has just died in St. Catharinea at the advanced age of 93. A man giving the name of Frank (.a Page ihot himself through thu head at Ni- agara Falls, Out., Sunday, and died in a short time. Mr. Richard Hull, a prominent Freemason and wall -known resident of Hamilton, is dying from paralysis. The tailors' strike in Winnipeg is practi- cally ended by the arrival from Toronto and Montreal of a number of workmen to take thr place* of the itrikui*. Rev. A. D. McDonald, D. D., of Sea forth, is appointed a member of the advis ory board of religious congressei of the Columbian Kxposition, Chicauo. Brantford's rate of taxation this year is 17 null* on the dollar. The Montreal Board of Trade at a recent meeting adopted resolution* in favour of fast Atlantic steamship service. Capt. Jonsjwon, a prominent Icelander io Manitoba, has been appointed immigration agent for the province iu Iceland, and will leave for thai island al once. The body of Mr. Welsh, an old resident of Dundas, lint., was fqtyid in tbe marsh near that town Tuesday. As there were marks on tbe neck of the deceased foul play is su><pt-< tr.l, and an inquest will be beld. The census record show* that during 1801 23 males and I 1 .' females died who were over 100 years old. One roan lived to be 1 Is and ode woman wan 1 1 1 .'. Mr. Zaccheus Patlison, for fifty years a resident of Hamilton, Out., and one of its leading business men, died in that city 01 Sunday at ibe advanced age of eighty-one years. On Saturday afternoon fire broke out in the woodworking shop of the Central prison, Toronto, and from the inflammable nature of the material great difficulty was experi eneed is suppressing the (lames. Damage to the amount of $55,000 was caused. Lieutenant-Governor Royal, of the North - West Territories, stater that the Territories have now a population equal to that of Brit usli Columbia, and that the white population of the former iia great deal larger than tin white population ot the latter. In certain localities in the North-West, he asserts they ore asking for a re-arrangement of the districts so as to obtain an increased repre sentation in the Hous* of Common*. It is stated iu a despatch from Winnipeg that it i* probable a motion wiU be made by ion* in the southern states and much dam- age has been done to properly, while a nuin- wr of lives have Iweu lost. The Marine Kngineer*' Association of America are endeavoring to prevent the ioensing of British subjects as engineers of the newly Americanized fast steamers New York and Paris. Anothsi exploring expedition into the in- terior of the Australian comment is soon to lie equipped by Sir Tbomoa K'der, and Io tart under the leadership of Mr. David Lindsay. The Salvation Army paraded tbe streets i.f Saginaw the other day carrying only a British flag, and aroused the patriotic ze*' of Police Clerk Wentworth, who told the oitu-eis inmost emphatic terms thai they must carry the American Hag along with the other. News has reached San Franci*co of the loss of the barque l^uly Sampson, bound from Sydney, N.S. W., to Honolulu wilh coal. The captain, his wife and part of the crew leached Honolulu by a small boat, and were almost strrved to death The balance of the crew are supposed to be lost. It is not believed that the Cleveland ( * bluet will take any immediate >teps look- ing towards the annexation of the Ha- waiian Islands. It has been decided that the , Commissioner* from Honolulu, the repre- j sen ta lives of tbe det horned Queen and of tbe heiress of '.he throne, shall all be beard before action of any kind it taken. l.CNF.R.U. Typhus fever still prevails in mo*t of the Urge cities of Mexico. The Lower llouae of the Prussian Diet agreed yesterday to the creation of five courts to arbitrate upon difficulties between miners and mine owners. The editor of a Herman journal called The Future is to be prosecuted for insult- ing the Kmperor in an article criticising his acts since his accession to the throne. Ali Bin Said, Sultan of Xan/iber, is dead. His son Kalid attempted to*ei/e thethrone. GREAT SUFFERING AT SEA. Klilttw reeked ftullor* Travel CHrr l.ee lle> In m ftntall Heal. A (lory of wreck and hardship under a tropical sun in an open boat was brought to San Francisco the other day from 1 ' lulu by the steamer Witzeman. Thr wit -k- ed vessel wa* tbe bark Lady Lsinnon, bound with coal from Sydney to Honolulu. She ran on a coral reef about forty miles from Palmyra Island early on the morning of Jan. 16 and immediately began to till. The crew took to the boats, but only one boat's company reached land, i he survivors were ('apt. J. 1'elergoii and his wife, Second Mate Charles Brown, Cabin Boy VVilhe Weedou, Cook Frank Nnoe*, and Seamen Carlson and Kversoo. They were twenty- six days in a small boat, weathered one heavy storm, and were subjected to terrible mental strain, a* the mate, whose brain was evidently turned, wanted to kill and eat tin cabin boy. The bjat would never have reached shore but for the Captain's nerve and courage. His wife had u-ompanied him on bis voyages for three years, but the misery and anxiety of this experience reduced her to a living skeleton, and she wouldn't have survived many days longer. The missing men arc- First Mate R. M oiler and Seamen W. Snyder, J. Jorjen-'on, Oscar Mugnuscri, and Martin. It was quite dark when the vessel struck on tbe reef, but the Captain, who was be- low, saw in a moment that she was doomed, as the keel wi ripped or! and floating, In five minutes she began to go down, and only the fact thai she nated upon the bot torn after sinking a short distance prevent ed all on board being drowned, without the possibility of helping themselves. All hands being called on deck, Capt. Peterson gave order* for the two boat* to be launched The Captain, bis wife, and five others took oie boat while the first matn and four seamen jumped intoanother, which was smaller. They expected to reach coarene*s on th lUge. Some play builders item unable, to I more than a do/i< lines without I ing" something or somebody damn Johnson," or clever ri.e ilan.o- "Ob. Ob, damn that are such common expressions on the stage that the habitual playg.er thinis nothing of them. Hut they are shocking u> many people who, lu 1 . for them, would enjoy an occasional evening at the play. The com- rnai-.-1'nen' " THOU shall not take the name ofth ; 'x>rJ tiiy tjo.l in vain " is violated over and aver on the stage with the utmost mm chalance. Witnesses in mock trials profane- ly take a solraen oath U> tell the truth not even omitting for decency's sake the word* " no help yon <io<l." Mock prayers are offered up on bended knees, and all sorts uf irreverence toward the Deity and dis- regard of religions sensitiveness are exhibit- ed uigl.t'.y. People denounce the church for withholding its sanction from the theatre. Wl.y nhr,nld the church patrouue ait institu- tion tint treats it with contempt ; that iiakes a mockery of those things it holds sacred ; that burlesques its ritual and mingles its solemn forms of worship with the rude jest and the course merriment of the fares and tbe vaudeville? When the stage shall cease its profanity and irrever- eice it will be time to berate the church for not exhorting its members to attend '.be theatre. but th British troops, under the command p a i myra , a '( ew hours, and in consequence of (General Matthews, promptly intcrven- | but .,, gm ii ont { w t er, twenty pounds ol ed, ejected Kalid from the palace, and Hamid was proclaimed Sultan. The negotiations between Kmperor Will- iam and the Duke of Cumberland have been conclude.). The Duke will return tbe (uriph Museum and the library connected with >t, while he trill retain the gardens at > stad of carying them to their dentination ship bread, and six tins of canned meat were taken, as both boats were heavily laden. When they rea-hed tlie open sea the weather clouded and the storm increased. The wind, which was blowing a gale, was not favorable to tbe unfortunates, and in Hanover, which will be kept a* heretofore for the benefit of the public. 1% l< I I 1M. i What <-.. in. il, ..M. ,11,1 r,,.,, I. 4 line I- AlMMl asi ley sVaert Tbe peculiar configuration of Iceland renders intercourse difficult, and.alou^ with a member of the Opposition in the Local , tn bcirrenness of the soil, makee the con Legislature to rxlure the sessional indemnity to Tour hundred dollars a year. Mr. H. A. K-.T It, vice-president of the Montreal Sinn Railway Company, is likely to become the president of the Consolidated Railway Company in Cleveland, Obio, with a capital stock of eight million dollars. The transfers of the International Coal dilions of existenc* strangely bard. Pro- pie with so little to make life attractive might be pardoned if they were to sink into a stolid indifference to everything but Ihe struggle to keep alive. The *ize of Iceland is greater than lhal of Ireland, and the population numbers 70,0*10 jonl* ; but the only inhabitable portion is a narrow strip of pasture land extending like a green girdle oinpany and the Black Diamond Steamship , rouu a tne COMt and lhe de , p> narrow Company to the Dominion Coal Mining | tjorda. ( nmpany have been ratified by the share- holders of the shove companies, and these properties now belong Io the big coal syn- dicate that controls the Nova Scotia mines. Mr. (jeorge Forbes, the celebrated electri- cal expert from London, Kng , is at Niagara Kails. He is the consulting engineer for the Cataract Construction Company, and in an interview gave it as a probability that tbe wiies conveying power would be placed under ground. I.KITHII. The inferior of the country is a howling waste of sand and ice, traversed by darting glacial river's, and utterly incapable of up- male- shouted : porting more than a f"w scattered inhabit- I ants, lirasa ia the only considerable crop. The bill* and valley* are treelesi and afford at best but scanty pasturage, for ho'-sei.cows and iheep. Loads and bridge* scarcely exist. A Danish merchant at Reykjavik has a whet led carriage, but in the interior it took them in an opposite direction. The boats were continually shipping water, and to add to their misery the bread became soaked with sea water and unlit for food. During the storm which lasted for several days the Captain's log bock and extra cloth- ing was thrown or washed overboard. For four days they had nothing to eat, and fin- ally their meagre supply of water gave out. The storm had subsided, and both boats were drifting about, no one knew where. It was at this time that the second mate began to show sign* of lunacy. H* began muttering about men being unable to live without food. Then he would fix bis eyes on the little cabin boy and the Cabin's wife. The Utter had the boy asleep at her tide, and (he and the Captain stood watches in order to prevent the mate from murdering the boy while they wereatleep. Finally the men proposed that they draw loi* to see which should lie killed and etten. The We must bsve food '. S<>, if you won't agree to kill the bay, draw lot* and let chance decide, but I am bound to have some- thing to eat ;" The other member* support- ed the (aptain, and refused to permit any casting of lots. Then the mate began Ulkingabont killing Although there are wily nineteen Jewish soldiers in the Knglish army the Minister of War recently appointed a rabbi to conduct services for them. iienerat Wolseley, commander in-chief of the army in Ireland, is, a special de- pat, h states, tbe object af severe criticism everv P*" of 8 lM . v "y blt of wooden l.y Radicals an.) Liberals on account of hiu flooring, every insignificant bit of furniture has to be transported laboriously from ono of the seaports to its destination. That the Icelanders ire poor goes with- There is little or such a conveyance .* unknown, and would be uncles* if known. The back' of horses are tbe only means of transportation across country. Small boats carry travelers over danger- ous river*, while the horses swim on ahead. Hardly anything that ministers to comfort, to say nothing of luxury, is produced in li e land, Kvery nail in an Icelandic bouse, uppned friendly-attitude towardsthe anti- Home Rulers of VlsU-r. Flying foxes are distressing the agricut t mints in some parU of Australia, and a ln.-al paper sayi that at the present rale of increase, it i* greatly feaied they will soon become almost as great a menace as the rab- bit pest. There is bail bK.od between Col. Sann derson, the North of Ireland Orangeman, and Mr. William Redmond, the Parnellilr. member for Kan Clare, and it is said that ( '<!. Saiinderson has challenged Mr. Red- mond to fight him on the Continent. The election held on Monday in (-rimsby to fill the seat in I'.trliament made vacant by the resignation of Mr. H. Joss*, Liberal, resulted i* a victory for the I'nionist, Mr. I-M ward Heneage securing the seat by a majority of nearly a thousand vote*. I MTKI' HTl Kx- President Harrison was warmly wel- comed in Indianapolis. Russell Sage has announced hi* intention of building a dormitory for the Troy female seminary. The police aiitlmriu. i of Brooklvn have decided to prohibit professional boxing matches. A report is current it Chicago that an invitation will lie extended to Rev. Dr. Talmage to give hi* nrrinon* in the Audi- torium during the World's Fair. John (ilaspit, a millionaire lumberman and horse owner of Stlllwaler, Minn., was killed in a railway accident on Saturday night. The Big Four's switchmen's strike ha* practically ended by the men declaring the strike oil". It is a victory for the railroad*. Dolly Johnson. Mr. Harrison's coloure-t i n. .k, is to remain in the White House kit- chen under Mr. Cleveland. In the North Dakota Legislature, put ail|ouiueil, no fewer (ban fifteen important bill* having paued bcth Homes are miss- log. iivi-r .WO families were rendered homeless and destitute in two districts of Lauderdal* niy, Miss., by Friday'* eyolune. The Derr.ocrst* have a majority of ftOover all in the Washington House of Representa- tives, hut tin senate is pretty ivonly bal- anced. \ bill ha* Inen |taud by the Oklahoma legislature making any kind of gambling; a felony and prohibiting progressive em-hre part.es whore prints are offered. Cy- lone* hats already CQ<s\menc*d opera- the wi man, saying she couldn't live many dsys and might as well die. This was more than the Captain could endure, and he swore an oath that if the fellow didn't quit his can- nibal talk he would throw him to the sharks. As thr ( 'aptam wae very powerful and fully able to carry out his threat the maleaubsid- e,l. On the ninth day the wreck was *gaiu sighted and tbe caetaways lost no time in making their way back to her. At great peril they got over the breakers. There was plenty of food and water on board, and both Imats were now provisioned. Theu thr boats again put to soa, this time heading for Honolulu. Two days later they separ- ated, the mate taking a more northeasterly course, after which the Captain saw no more of him. lit- kept on his way as he had at first mapped it out, and during the seventeen days run met with few further adventures. re>Kiw.tv Ilir (vnnirt reol reromlSK a Nation at M*rk*sisris. Had the compilers of the last census given the same attention to collecting the statislics and data of tbe sportsmen as they did to all branches of trade, the resull would have furnished some startling infor- mation, bordering on the incredible. It is safe to say that there is more wealth among the fraternity, morecapital invested, more money spent annually, by the sports- men of America thin by any guild, society. order or whatsoever incorporated body in the United States. < tr i>o< rc.u. A Merr r teaae Waifs and Mra> . la Id lodc Anyone crossing .St. Jarr.es' square be- tween York and Charles streets, London, is pretty certain to notice juel insisl? text riilings of the little park from half-a-doicai to fifteen -IT more cate of all sues and con- ditions, sitting there bunched up together on scrap* of old carpet spread under tike bushes. If the passer-by s curtosily stops liim to wonder what brings them there, he will observe an old camp-stoel and a cewpli of little tin paus on the ground near them, and, likely as not, a small milk- can and an old marketing bag hanging oe the fence. There is sure to be a tidy little old woman not far away sweeping tbe path to the Charles street corner, and no one would be lone conject'irmg a connection. Soch a droll mob of uaagy, ragged aid ton u and tabbies ! Some of them, with their shabby coats and bleary eyes and gen- erally dilapidated appearance, invite easy comparison wilh the human strays that turn up at the Io luing houses. Cats have a great distaste for standing about in the wet and sleeping on cold stunee as outcast men, and it's fumy to s*e hew close they all huddle together on the scraps of paper and rags of carpet given them by ibis com passionate old crossing-sweeper, who has been looking after and feeding and protecting these feline waifs during the eleven years she ha* held her post in the square. This personage, the morning I first dis- covered her and her pets, says a writer in the ' Westminster Budget," having swept the path bare and dry, and trimmed lie edges nicely, came back to her piece of board on the pavement, and I opened the conversation by demanding, " where in the world she had gathered them all from V "They've just cone to me themselves they're stray*, sir that have been turned out or got lost, and when I seee them about here a-starving, 1 give them something to eat, sndthen they most always stay around here with me on and off afterwards. There's only nine about now sometimes there's been twice as many." " Have you had any of them very long ' t queried, hoping to draw her out. " How long will they li>e out here in the wt and cold ?" "Oh, they are long-lived creatures, are cat*. There's Salisbury Joe. now" (point- ing to a brindle yellow old veteran with a tremendous) jowl and a lop ear), he's at least fifteen, and will last a lng time yet, too." " Salisbury Joe I Where did he get that During the last ten years w*9 increase and development of the sportsmen have been phenomenal. A decade ago only the Urge cities had gun clubs. To day it is a small town, indeed, that does not boast of its "fine team." In fact, the modern gun club seems to have taken the place of the old-fashioned debating society, and the crack of the double barrel has drowned the echo of sky xcraping eloquence. The make oi fine gun* in this country could be counted on the fingers of one hand ten years ago ; now they are numbered the score. The guns turned out by these factories. in which million* of dollars are in vested, are the very best, with all the latest improvements, and it is needless to add lhal the American manufacturer keep* pace with the world. Of late the manufacture of fixed ammuni- tion has increased. Formerly most sports- men preferred to load their own shells, but it became apparent that the trade which made a specialty of that business could by - buving tbe ammunition in large quantities. to . <* bird and had to come out here furnuL the shell lo^ed cheaper than the re- ! * th " l < em , ^ h ' ' Vi'7 LT tail buyer could obtain the material to All , "i << *" " T '^ b >. . A ^ '" r **\ ''.en* in the harea at 31, tbe Duke of -- s Why, he used to be the Salisbury Club cat, and when they moved away, poor old Joe was ' turned out,' and he had to come to me. LoU of them have had goed homes and bringing up before they went on the street*. There's Tibby. now she was bom. in the harea st -I, and was took in by the servants anil kept till she grew up and tried to get the bird, and had them, to say nothing of th-iime and labor I expended. It i exceptional now to see any one who lives within reach of a railroad at- tempt to charge his shells, and even the small c tuntry stores offer loade 1 ones for sale where oni-e only powder andihot could . be obtained. The amount of ammunition ; 'etching them and thought she bad a there, about six weeks ago, and, know in' they would all be drowned in the rain, she took and brought them here to me ? ^ ln h " "~ h ." oou l d <?" ln th morning. A gentleman as saw her out saying. There is little or no home market, for every Icelander ho* the same pro. I nets to sell as his neighbor. The cir- ctilati'in of money is, therefore, very small. If a farmer has direct dealings with the agents for foreign markets, and is sufficient- ly prosperous to have a little surplus each year he may handle a little money, but in general the trading at the seaports i* liter- ally trading. An Icelander barters a cer- tain number of horse* or sheep or rolls of ilrieil fish or bale* of hay for a iiipply of groceries and other necessaries of life. - never left the tiller during the entire \ -\ ., . age, and when he slept it was but for a few Proceeding westward from the Iris, coo*t n f onienU . t . ti * htu Mvn iWlll , noM the ocean lied deepens very gradually: in . more fact for the first ^> miles the gradient is w , rf UMli ].| nil t l,, castaway. b six feet to the mile. In tfi* .next -.1) , .wamped by a ,uall. Finally miles, however, Ihe fall m over K.OOO feet, and so precipitous i* the sudden descent used annually by the gun club* would sup- ply the armies of all h urope. Ail this has awakened an enthusiastic love of real sport among the people. The time when the city youth fond of sport had to steal through the dark streets on his way to or from the country has passed away. The young man who confesses to a love for hunting is no longer pointed out asa "ne'er- do-well." America is fast becoming a nation of marksmen, and if there should ever b* a war wilh foreign powers, the spectacle often witnessed on the late battle-fields of Vir- ginia, where fully one third ot the muskets borne were overloaded, underloaded or iu some way wrongly loaded, would not be repeated. ri i< i 1:1*1 *>i MK\ Very l*|mrti and .rallfilu Nrw Hronihl !>* the I'ar \orib. A Retina. N. W. T., despatch says : -A gave me two shillings a week to take them home and raise them, snd find homes for them : two of them's already gone. Just then the cat's meat man came alette with his boiled horseflesh packed in au oM perambulator. Kvery man-jack of the cats new to the fence, and stuck his head through the bars. " Don't jive them any PTbey've just had an 'addick from No. , and don't need any," and the cat *-meal man went on with hi* baby -carriage, and the cats return- ed to their carpet, tucked their toes in un- der their fur, and pulled their tails tight resumed. " Most anywhere - under the little sum- mer house inside there those a* is acquaint- ed. Sometimes they get chased away at night, and are a long time getting back, but generally find their way here iu a day or so. " Boy* and Jngs, I suppose "" " Yes, and sometimes old people a* ought to know better. One of my best cat* had al', '.he hair and whisker* burned off her face that in many places depths of I. .INI to l,i;m fathoms are encountered in very close prox- imity to the 100 fathom line. With the depth of l.siH) to '.'.(NX) i.itlionn the sea lied in tli is part of the Atlantic becomes a slight- ly undulating plain, whose gradients are so light that they show but little alteration of depth foi I, '.MO miles. The extraordinary flatnes* of these submarine prairies renders the familiar simile of the* basin rather inap- propriate. The hollow of the Atlantic is net stiictly a basin, whose depth increases regularly toward the centre ; it i* rather a saucer or dish-like one, so even is the con- tour i.f its bed. The greatest deptb in the \iUntic has been found some. KM) miles to the northward of tbe i*land of St. Thomas, where, sounding* of the .'I,s7.'i falhumit were oStainod. The sea* round (ireat Britain cn hardly be re-unrded a* fu-n.ing part of i he Atlantic hollon-. They are rather a part of tl.e platform bank* of the Kiirnpean loiitiiient which t lie ocean has overflowed. An elevation of the sea bed 100 fathoms would sullice to lay bare the greatest part ol North iraun 1 join Kniflaml to Denmark, Holland, Belgium and France. A deep channel of water would run down the west coast of Norway, anil with this the ma of tbe fiords would l rnnm-rii'il. A groat part of the bay of Biscay would disappear ; hut >pain and Portugal are but lulls re- moved irom the Atlantic dnpreeslon. The 100 fathom line approaches very neir the west coa*t, and soundings of l,tKi fathoms ran be made within JO mile* of cape St. \ i., int, Mini imicli un-Mri depth* have In rn Hounded at distances but little greater than tin* from the western shores of the Iberian peninsula. [Nautical Maga/iu*. settler from the far north Peace River (country, in ire person of Mr. T. in the boat suffered greatly from cold, ' A. Brick, son of the Rev. Cough their clothing being continually wet, while Brick, an Kpiscopalian missionary, came . - tl.L 1 1. -II, 1 * J , 1 . ti uul. J <ml\' irr the cramped positions in which they sat.j down into civilisation a few days ago, and , j ee .p'h, r alive but I and the impossibility of taking exerrise , the information he give* concerning that an a Imcktbo: u', and it caused them great suffering. The Captain region is interesting. Hr started from Shaftesbury mission on Jann.iry IS, travel- ling for three day* with a horse and sleigh, wlii.h be changed at Lesser Slate lake for dog trains. With the dog* and two men ho travelled the whole ilisttnce to Kilinon- ton, camping out every night, but not being Ihey reached Honolulu, having made over I in the least degree frost-bitten. When Mi. I, IM10 miles When they landed all except Brick left Peace river the weather wa* very the Captain were so weak that they walked ' warm, but as he came south it grew colder, like little children. The Captain's wife was and when near Kdm< nimi it was r terribly emaciateil. I ut her courage had ter. an never given way, and her companions x; oks . struck in high terms of her bravery and cheerful ness. She, as well 01 the Captain, lost everything they had. The fact thai the Creator has denied to most of us the power " to see oursel's a* it hers see us " is su:li.-ient excuse tor mortal* to occasionally tender one another a bit ot d\ii-e. Availing itself of this situa lection juite bit cold spell having just the whole country Mr. Brick! Mown wilh him a large col- ef Peace river product* for ex- hibition at the World'* fair. The samples of grain produced at Shaftesbury nu*<in are most excellent. They were not specially selected Mr. Brick *y, but are fair sam- ples, and woithy of talking a place with the best the North-west or any other country can produce. The nample* comprise half a bushel earn of Ladoga wheat, red fife wheat, and Kn^lish two rowed barley, with a live , , ., i . , Mini r.ii^iiMo m 1*11*1,1 uniiry, Wllll a nve lion we would ofler a won of counsel to , nm ,,, whjte , iff> _ *J^ ,. { lh<t! lainn knil t-AflTMU-t&hle litlmnn isilitln. . \ largo and respectable human cimtiu Kent known as "I he stage. " This includes those who write plays and those who act them, ami those who bring them to their theaters. Beware how you offend the religion* sentiment of the age in which you live. Your art, craft, calling, profession, or whatever it is, has trouble unough with- rut continually inviting tho hatred of the .l.ni.li. It i* nnden.ia.ble that while the contains many hypocrite*, it also a larger ratio of the best men and women of the community than any secular organi/ation. These good people, or many of them, iu our day, are trying to l-ieik away from the prejudices of their fathers against the play. It is not an un- common sight in some places tote* a clergy- man o<- iipying * box in k theater in company with hi* family. But to the shame of the theater it must re sai.l that the clergyman is not alwajs able to get through the even ing without having to blush for his presence, on account of some exhibitiou of the grain could not be excelled, particular ly in color, w hich was a* perfect as wheat could be. The weight* of the- grain were I as follows : Per half bushel U-loga w heat, :C> , n i. : red rife wheat, :t.V, Ihn. ; two-row^', barley. 'J7J lb*. These samples prove con- clusively that tin- flats of the Peace River valley are quite adapted to grain growing. Asked alwut what the past season had been like on the Peace river. Mr. Brick said the mission farm yiel.lrd I. UK) buthels of excel- lent tjr.iin. principally wbeat. Six acre* of wheat yielded IVS bushel* to th.-> acre. Out of P.' half breed settlers, who are cultivating *m%ll patches of land near the miuion lOhau an average of -JO bushels of wheat each. Mr. I'.r k, after enjoying a few day ot the Com- forts of civili/alion, returned with bis dog train to hi* far northern home. Aga. -i, cathier of the bank of Uoine. ha* been *rre*te,l for having ember- ".iKHi fiaui-s two years gc. by the cabmen one night white I wst away did i' with matches, I suppose the 'ru'e ! She was a sight ; poor thing ' K very body SHU! a* how It was a ply to gave her castor-oil came out a^ain sU iij(ht. and you'd never know it." " Castor-oil and buckthorn T I never have heard of thai a* a hair producer. How did you get her to take it '" "That'* what I always give, them when they're ill, and they mostly get well with it. Castor-oil and buckthorn what you gives to babies with the whooping-cough a pennyworth of each in a bottle. You rub it on their backs, and they're bound to lick it off. The buckthorn i* good for the fur, and then castor-oil forjtheir inside*, Thai remind* mo, I ought to bo ph ym.-kmt! them now. There's a hepidemic among the cats just now same as with the horses go off in lit* and die all at once ; so if \oull ex- cuse me, sir, l'llg> to tli* chemist's now before I go bo-ne. (' >od day, sir thank ye kindly, ir : lW> Te> MM K*. T Men lH-i<itil> Killed Mr a Beller r *>le*la Krar Felrelea. A Petrolea ile.ip.t-li says : A terrible .1. vi. lent occurred at Marthaville to-day about 10. . 'til a.m., m which two men lust their lives and another man was seriously injured. A machinist named McKenzie was at the oil well* known as the Menzie prop- erty, and owned by .'..me* Duncan, doing some repairs ou the engine, and by some means at present unknown the Unlcr ex- ploded, killing instantly James Duncan, who was on the spot looking after tb* re- pairs :<lso.killingtlie engineer. Mr. I.eggatt, and seriously injuring W. Mi-Kec.'ie, the machinist. Sir. 1'unm has been a reside ut of th. town for a number of years and has sat in the Council for a long time, holding ilirTeri-nt position*. He is married, ana leaves a small family. Leggatt is mai and also leaves a family. Ruth nit i were killed instantly and never spoke - wor<i. The body of LeggMt is iu a fiightti cond-| lu-ii. luerally blown to pieceav