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HEALTH. iw Long We a to Lire According to the tables used by life-in- companies in calculating rate* of , a penoo one year old my expect to lire tbirty-nioe yean longer; of ten years, fifty-one : of twenty yean, forty-one; thirty years, thirtv -four ; forty yean, twenty- eight ; fifty yean, twenty one ; sixty years, fourteen ; seventy y aars, nine ; eighty ymn four. Our readers will ea_..ly gather "iroin the abore tabulated itatement the number uf yean to which their lives, according to tl.e law of averages, may reasonably be ex- pected to extend. Health of the Mia*. Mie Alcott used to relate 'the following concerning Kmeraon : " When ha library wu burning in Concord, I went to him, is be stood with the firelight ou hi* strou K . eweet face, and endeavored to expreee my ympathy for the loss of his most valued possessions ; bat be ainwered cheerily : 4 Never niinJ, Louisa ; see what a beautiful blaze they mako ! We will enjoy that now.' Tlie leeaon was never forgotten ; and in the varied losses that have come to me, I have learned to look for something beautiful and bright." The Way to Heat- !'> uodentand this, is uf more importance than to know bow to work. The latter cau be learned easily ; the former, it take* yean to learn, and aome people never learn the art of reeling. It is limply a change of scenes and activities. Ix.afing iuy not be reeling. Sleeping i* not always reel- ing. Sitting down for days with nothing to do, is not restful. A change is needed to bring into play a different set of faculties, and to turn the life into a new channel. The ir.an who works hard, rinds his best lest in playing hard. The man who is bur- dened with care, finds relief in something, that is sotive, yet free from responsibility Above all, keep good nalured, and don t abuse your best friend, the srumavh. do not indicate a diseased condition of the nerve center, they mean a diseased condi- tion sumewhen else. A vast number of nsses of theaa reflex action* of the nerve centers come from disorders of the boweln, stomach, and spleen. THE LI4.BT Ml ._. The -. i j||.-<i .nsi_-_i..i UuiiuB lii Brally \OTt> u> .!._ 4N_ IMMMBI Navigation of the air is a leading problem of the age. and in spite of the practical dilficulties remaining nasamosintad taere is confidence that man's inventive genius can devise some plan of conquering the *~*"" of the earth's at-nosphere. An ex- planation of the mechanics of bird-Sight clearly points to the conclusion that aerial navigation depends for its satisfactory solution on application of the asms princi- ples. Flight involves wing-urfa.ee(pressnre- surtacesi which must be both large and light. For example, a body weighing loJ pounds will require approximately 12 square yards of wing-surface The wing-surfaJes of birds ara supporting-surfaces, lifting- surfaces, and, relatively, gliding surfaces. These wing-surfaces an approximately about one two-hundreuths of the weight of the bird. The down-stroke of the wing is rapid and resisting, the up-stioke slower. There results a quick lilt, and as tht upper surface is very smooth and gently arched, the up-slroke meets with less resistance, j From the effect ol the down-stroke results , An interesting explanation has been made to the British Association of Science by one of ita members of the Kresnel lens for trans- mitting light in one beam horizontally, sod now, of the construction of a glass appar- atus, which by reversion serves as a diffuaer ot light. Experiments show that tbe amount of light absorbed by ribbed glass is ton per cent., and by clear glass eight per cent that is only two per osnt. difference in the obstruction of light belween a double thick German clear and a tine-ribbed plate I u ^ -j-| ie of the same thickness. Sew, through plain i , uu i,, n ,. & glass no diffusion is obtained the light on the floor, and the cleat and the weight of vastly lea than in sny other besides this, the <-arbonic acid gas employed hinery required are system. with danger, is inodorous, Kin M 1 1. i K i sunlight falls upon tiie looms or dames in a factory, making dart: siiadows, while with llie ribbed glass a diffusion it secured with- out a glare, no window shades being need- ed aud there ard no dark shadows. Thus in the practical use of light, there is ob- tained a vast deal more from ribbed glass without window shades than is possible f rim clear glass with the window shades which are required on the socth side. This principle has just been Applied it seems to a conical glass for placing under the arc light, thus doing away with glare and shadow. The dispersion of liglit through ribbed glass is found to be, relatively *4 P* ?* >" t*I planes to per cent. lu P lmjn '** The introduction of another cement is the possibility uf rising the lifting power. . mentioned, of spevia'.lv valuable properties A drawing of a bent bow shows the wing for steam pip**, ia filling up small positi.n with the action suspended during flight. As ths wmg-aurfaoe from the begin- ning to the end of the stroke makes asoovel- shaped or scooping movement, scooping the air from above forward, and striking downward such as * blow hole in a casting, without the necessity of removing tbe injured piece; The cement in question is composed of ti\e pounds Pan* white, five pounds yellow it ' '>chn, ten pounds litharge, h ve pounds red and backward, by which the ' lead, and four pounds black oxide manga wing-surfaces describe a partial twist on ths ' neee, these various materials being mixed long axis -identical with part of a screw- i with great thoroughness, a small quantity stroke there results a combination of two ' of asbeitoe and boi'ed oil being afterward operations, a raising and s forward pusning ; added. The composition as thu prepared movement, which constitute together one ' will set bald in from two to five huura, and opera-ion of flight i ill The so called hori- | possesses the advantage of not being sub- zontal flight is not actually in a straight line, ' ;ect to expansion and contraction to such but is undulating. Supposing the bird , an extent as to cause leakage afterward : I 1 IBIS from the ground, he holds his and its efficiency in places d.flicult of access body obliquely, and rues in an oblong course by t apid strokes of the wing. On ranching .t desire fight he Unngs his body prejudice to the horizontal uirection by means of his ttruct , on presenting Ike sinking feature of craases of the elm's or chestnut's bark : if for which . steering appliances, and pursues hi* hurt- lne suUtituiioo for the usual solid lube m it be a maple, or beech, or ash. the ice is is n i /.ontal courav. accelerated by the influence ^^ .^wer _ a noo of a number of lougitud- emocth and polished. Everything stands ved its of gravitation. The bird is continuously in Ji , tM | jegments, aiound these being out glistening, aad when the spray has TomatOM ire Wholesome- The widespread and silly prejudice against tomato*, a superstition the exploded doctrine of signatures po-ssiole, ought now to have recei death blow. Writing to the London 7*i'm i subject to this foroe, which it overcomes on behalf of the medical committee of the I with every stroke of tht wing, and the Metropolitan Cancer hospital, its chairman, ! quicker the operation the more rapidly tho I>r. Alexander Marsclsn, stales that he and bird ihoote forward. For an intelligent his colleagues, during the la-t two yean, horizontal .light the steering appliances of hare been inundated with letters of inquiry as to whether tomatoes are an exciting cause of cancer. The answer, which he pub- lishes for ths behoof of such as an anxious on the subject, is " that tomatoes neither is of special importance. The segment..! wire gun is the latest nov oily in the line of artillery science, the con f aararler ** Rarely indeed is Nature in a mood of lavish display like that to which this Winter she has abandoned herself at N.ag about ihe ureat cataraAt la ^. w it is unique. Other aspects of in other quarters of oar wonderful earth may present, pictures of beauty and grandeur. But their very permanence, whether in mountain, or forest, or sea, robs them ot certain fascination which ws feel in looking apon the fleet ing splendor with which M inter (us clothed Niagara. If every recurrence t t _ason of frost brougfa: tbe war millions, we might not be so meted ay 1a.m. Bnt net once in a decade is there vouchsafed to us so grand a spectacle a glimpse so suggestive of the age of ice. The Americui Fall is 104 feet h:gh, and piled up before it, so thai the sound of its thunder is muffled, is a huge barrier of ice. Belween the inclined railway and the edge of the fall j, round lull of ice rises, quite IUO feet in height, white and glassy. Farther along and nearly opposite Luna Island rises another mound ot solid ice aad snow, quite 135 feet in height, and of immense thick Bess. Between these are other bills and hammocks only less majestic. Near the foot of the Horseshoe. on the Goat Island side, is a dome of ice. some JIM feet long and wide, hundreds of icicles ***^f ttn from its under side. These an but the prominent features of the ice formations. As one enters Pros- pect Park, or walks through Goat Island toward the brink ol 'he tall, the trees present the appearance of trees any when in Winter. But once get to 1'ro.pect Point, and look back, or to the walk lhat leads over the Horseshoe Kocks from Goat Island, and look up, and every tree stands out pure white. The ice lakes oa Ihe texture of ihe spec-al tree to which it clings If it is an elm or chestnut, the ice shows the predispose to nor ex.ite cancer formation, and lht they are not injurious to those suffering troin this disease, but, on the con- trary, are a very wholesome article of diet, particularly so it cooked." A Strong Diet Those who imagine that grains and farinaceous foods are what is communly called a " light diet," or are lacking in the elements calculated to produce bodily strength and vigor, will be surprised at the following, which we quote from a recent writer believed to be authentic: " The Japanese have made a rare of giant men t race of wrestlers. These wrestlers often weigh -JOG, .'WO. and 400 pounds. At the Imperial hotel, in Tokio, they brought their champion wrestler to my room. He the bird are. however, of first-class impor- tance. Tliss* an tho head, the neik'and the tail, and. if the last is wanting, the out st reuhed legs. These together balaace the body for horizontal -light, r.') Linear hori zontal ssiling without "beating of the wing* is only the continuous motion following powerful wing strokes which give the body a forward impulse, in which it is supporter! by the stiff out stretched wings gliding o.er tbe vsta-M of air winch prssses upward against it. 1 he direction of sailing .s only apparently horizontal and persists only so lone as the force of propulsion overcomes th>. attraction of gravitation. The bird must then renew his stroke or lie will glide gradually downward. If bird (.oats a con- siderable distance without beating his wings or descending, it is in consequence of a re- sisting current. Krom such simple princi- ples is gradually being worked out the problem uf air navigation. A dirigible fly- ing machino. it is thought by many scien- tists, can be constructed, provided, of course,* tberw be an intelligent application -gmeota, wound strips of metal layxra of square steel wire subjected to a constant tension of 130, OUU pounds to the auuare inch, and which, so hold together ana -overed with an ex- ternal tacket of steel, form the tube of the aad pine it has gradually of he evergreen feathery fronds, and the tree looks like * strange exotic, the production of a botanist dalight ing in fantastic growths. ew of all gun. the claim made for this method is Perhaps the most complete vie that ths inner core of the gun allows of a that combines to make Niagara splendid m higher physu vl condition and d< g- <e uf special elasticitv than it is possible 'o pro- duce in the larger masses ol metal hereto- fore used. In the breech block of this gaa a ontmuous thread is used, an I. when the block is thrown open for charging a latch Winter may be had from the stain leading from Goat Island to Luna Island. Looking ovi-r tbe ruling one can catch s glimpse of was prodigious in size and as fat and f-ur as o f the 'flight enerating force of rationally . !._!... l_ _.. . J^_...IA .H AlKA.._.tk " a baby. He was a Hercules in strength, but looked like an overgrown cherub ot Cijrreggio. What io von sat' I asked. ' K;oe nolning but nee.' " ' W by not eat meat ?' Meat is weakening. Beef is TO per cent, water. Rice is $0 per cent. food. I ate lean beefsteak oace, and my strength left me. The other man ate rice and threw tadowa.' * My courier said : ' This wrestler is the Sullivan of Japan. No one can throw him. constructed pressure-surface*. locits it, so ibat it cannot be turned until it enters the breech. This ensures proper centring of the threads under ail circum- stance*, aad a cvmsen'ient minimum of wear. At the breech of the gun the steel segments are oo\ end by more than thirty layers of the square wire, the number increasing as the mil/ .'Is is reached. The ordinary charge will generate .X>,"UO pounds' pressure, aud 60,00)1 pounds per square inch can be rea h- with entire safety. That vast and important public work, the Siberian Railway, is now in process of con traction the Baikal Una, as u is termed, being the commencement. It starts horn the flourishing town of Tomsk, situated on the navigable river Ob, proceeding Horn here to the Government town of Tobolsk, thence to Krassoojarak, and from here ap- proaching the Chinees frontier to the left of the forest mountains of Sajan. win :n ara so rich in gold and other metals : next it the great fissures or well* of ice into which the river pours its divided torrents, with wind aad spray beating against the scarred inner walls of the barrier, while jets and c'ouds of mist shoot upward aad are borne away by the win J to rain dcwa and again on the crust of the ice mo beyond. At a distance, beyond lh Anv r can Fall, is Prospect Point, with no black, moving specks of humanity. Behind these risee the white-robed wood, shading off to brow-am the distance. Back of tbe glistening treesist tie sky. a* purely blue as ever it bent over Venice or Florence, while between, rising from the misty cavern at -he fall - foot, and arching upward acron the river, across tbe distant clump of ice-ciaJ trees. HEBE IS A MODERN JAPHET. For 18 Yoan HeHu Been in Mwoh of 4 Father. Mery Cousins, a salesman for the Canada Papsr Company, who resides at 247 Brans- wick ..venue, Toronto, would like to find his Mr. Cousins apptan to bs about -1i yeart ol sge, u a blonde and a little peculiar aud vagae ia ** tnaaner *"* statements. He said : " I do not know who I am. I remember oae tune to hare been playing im a street with my brother, when two me* asked us to take a ride m a wagon. Alter they had gone a little way they stopped and sent my brother away, but took me oa with them, sad some time afterwards 1 waa turned over to a ruaa with fiapc nelnrod whiskers, who kept aw, ami with whom I traveled ia various part, of the world. His ho-Bs seemed to be IB France, ss we stopped there longest, and there I wan baptised. The man's name was Coma or Cousin in English, and he had two ssas. whom I call- ed brothers, aad I. of course cailad the (Ban my fat bar. After much wandering from place to place we came one day to East- bourne ia Kng-aad. where we stopped at a hotel. During the day a company of sold iencnme marching through the town, and in my boyish enfknaisssB, I followed than oak of the city, being ceaspletoly lost, sad was at last picked ap by tbe police IB a tosrn IS miles distant. I wasat that time perhaps 1 1 years of age. I was seat by the poiioo t . a photographer in Hastings, Kngiaud, named Thomas, at 45 George street, that photographs ,__.!.. M made of me and sent to various otb*r -.ties so that, if passible, 1 -night be ntarned to Mr. Cousin. The me I was given in charge of Hz. Will- iams, who brought me to Canada. Mr. Williams now lives just above Hamilton. anil with him I ma.ls my home unlil 1 -imt to Toronto a few yean ago. " Alter issnliag here some time I was in- vited to the home of Mr. George K. Stoph- enscn. barrister, thro ugh church associations, and during the evening in answer to an inquiry a* to my parentage I told hist what I knew of my past life and my abdncuoa from home. He was much interested aad told me the story of Charley Roes, which uatil then I had never known. " After some time Mr. Stepheneon COB- eluded to write to Mr Ross, sad toll kin the story of my life, which sssaisd to cstn- oide in so many particulais with that of nis son. Since then Mr. Stephensoa hes bad several letters from Mr. Ross. I have also correspond*! wi'h him myself, and I have concluded beet to take a trip to Philadel- phia and if uoseibie solve the mystery of my *e." even ln .,^ . appean ia the atains ' dian uist ilute. i \atlsallen. paper by .Mr Saud- navigatiea the Cana A very interesting ford Fleming on ocean ste proceedings of Mr. Floating refen to accounts given by Mr Archibald Camp- bell of (Quebec aad Mr Kivas fully of Tor- onto on ths pisssjp of the Atlaatic tnada by the sleemship Royal William about W yean ago. * From these and other sources of information Mr. Fleming regards it as established that the Koy J William was '.he tint steamer to make the voyage. It was a distinctively Canadian enterprise. It was designed by Mr. James Uoudie of (Jvsbec : igainst the deep bine of the sky. and fading U was buill by a joint stock company IB away just under the gibbous moon, is a bow i the yard of Campbell 4 Black in Quebec, of the ric-iest prismatic hues, now deepen- in IS-W-.'M the engine, boiler and machin- 1 by the t Klerlrle Barr Track. One of the most attractive of the .. so ncn in gum ami ouioi inw<_>- . u- n , popular features of tbe Frankfort Electrical toshes at BaUgaask. thn it proceeds to " Exhibition of ISI was the electrical race tn , prosperous town of Irkutsk, and in its track, on which dun. my horses were pro- f urt her course will connect wilh a great many other business localities and rivers. The undertaking, though remarkable in its ' character, presents, according the Uns- ing faint, a' the spuiy is blown this way aad tint. Such is the scene, not always with tbe moon a fealuie of it, at Niagara in the clear afternoons, when the atmosphere softeiis _md subdues all '.he poiled at a speed of about ten miles an hour, and which afforded the riden much of the excitement of a contest with living or Mnmbnew The sensation* of creeping, crawling, and prickling, and a variety of other sensations which are known to neurologists as "par vslhesia," are of very little consequence as regards the question of paralysis. They are very often preeeut in those forms of paralysis in which there is a destruction of the tissues in the spinal cord, but not pres- ent when there is no such destruction going on in the spinal cord. They are not, in themselves, indicative of disease. I have met perhaps a thousand cases where per- sons ha\ e said to me, to have paralysis : inj side of me is numb: my mounts. An electric race track, for which this installation hai served as a model, has been constructed is Montreal, where it h*s greatly .aken the public fancy. Practically, ; it is a kind of glorified " merry-go-round, with the added attraction of uncertainly m the relative position of the horse of the rider until the winning poet is actually reached, ' l>n. its construction has involved the work- ' ing out of many important details. Ths track coiisistu of an oval wooden platform ' about l.VO tWt long by Its,, feet wide, and 4 feet above the ground. Kxtendiug around the platform is an oval track some .'til feet in width. divided into eight parallel courses. upon each of which are two lar^e hobby horses coupled together, one behind the oth'-r. These horses are propelled by eloc- around the track along sian engineers, absolutely no ditticullies, as , Britain. Brllal. The Gladstone Covcrnmeut Ins kept us pleuge to the friends ol' prohibition in Great Sir William Harconrt has inl.o- there are ao swamps of importance, and the , duced a bill providing tt-at tbe luentioa, rivers which have to be bridged over are but whether, or not. hcnse tossll liquor at re- few in number. Thecost of constructional tail-shall hi issued m a given c-jmmuaity, a moderate calculation, is placed at J-t.OOU "ball be submitted to the voten of that roubles oer ver.t. community. I'util *e see tbe text of the bill, the of jets designed with a special view to * *** W . P 1 ? m - '*. the , moke nu,..,. Iu one . : 1 *rU the unit while a boiough or city, n.i matter what its of paralysis. When a patient says this, I apply an 'stliesiometer (an instrument having to points which can be approached or separat- ed, so as to indicate sensibility.) It is pos- sible lo feel these points separately, in a state of health, at certain distances. For example, if the skin is sensitive when these are approached to within one tenth of an -..i-l'.K'r ^luIstrtepaVr, *< P'^-by^nsof upright iron, -ar, moving independently of its aeighboni seems to be taking part in a real trial of speod. At one moment certain pair is ahaad, then another takes the lead, and this, iu turn, may be passed by some other horse. In this way the excitement aad l are mounted upon truck*, which are under one fourth of an inch before they can be distinguished as two points when the eyes are closed, then; is a loss of tactile sensibil ity. But the condition to which we have referred is sitnbly one of morbid, per- vert sensation, and ihr c perversions of sensation frighten many people : they fear they are going to have paralysis. Some tune ago a gentleman came to ire as a patient who had been having sensation.* of this sort for ten years. "Oooior," said he. "lam in immir.cn! danger. 1 have been having those numb, creeping, crawling sensations for tsn years. I have never toM iny wife or children about it. Imt for the last ten yeni> 1 have lived in constant ex- pectation of being paralysed at any moment. H had been very brave : he had kept all his burdens and tears to himself : an the poor man was simply frightened. There was nothing in the world the matter wilh him but a dilated stoiu*ch. A dilated stomach affects the sympathetic enter which is at the back of tho abdomm the truck consisting of an oolong iron frame provided with two wheels, one before the other, as in a bicycle. I'pon each citoulnr track there are two trucks uouplotl together. C|>n the foremost of each pair is an ordin ary two an. I one-half hone-power series : motor, which drives one of tho truck wheels by means of a si-iglt. reduction gearing connected with the pulley by a belt. Ciirren' 11 .meyed to the motois 1>\ per wires fastened to tbe lower side of the platform, contact l>eing made by an ordin- ary tr.lley wheel, mounted on a short arm. Hint the mils are used for the return. A loo-volt shunt-wound geaerator supplies the current. MKtt IFs -KMt 01. 1 Idler ftsppear4 le be Wunlerr*. A Uundaa despat.h says ; -The ruinoi that the body of a man b.u been found to- day in th* marsh nsai this town, proves to be only too true. The unfortunate man i waa aa an old resident of the town, M cavity, and produces these perverted j Welsh, and an old soldier who has been tetiona through aa irritation of this through llii. Ameiican war. great sympathei -n-1 by a reflex action of the sympathetic center causes an Irritation of the sensory center in tbe brain II I llll*>ll UI me I*VUVI T W*WB ' " I Oil VIIV IIOVK. Blip r spinal cord. \fc_X seiiMtioas, however, I ahl to foul pl I'ho Ixxly will l>* bron^h' > town \ndn imjueet hold, as there are titnor* of nixrks n the neck, supposed t<> ' e, perhapo, tn.V i coming the i the difficulty is met by a jet somewhat burner type, aalu i> batteries of flue koed above the fire doors and low the boilers and, though the fuel is slack, yet almost no smoke is visible.even during heavy firing. In another case, steam jets of a d.rferenl, but effective, design have been applied to puddling and , healing furnaces. In Ibese the ash pit is " made light, tbe steam and air enter below the grates, tile fm naoes being also of the usual type, except that special openings are made for air above the fire and through the bridge wall, and, when the fire doors aro closed no black smoke is visible while steam jets ara in operation : the smoke ap- pears above Uie slack whenever the tire door is opened, but disappears immediately I on closing the door. Kach puddling fur- nace bos two jets of steam, and each beat- ing furnace five jets, all about one- tenth of an inch in diameter. Witt, this arrange- ment nut coeTcau bo used in tho healing furnaces and slack iu Ihe puddling furnaces instead of an formerly, lump in both -the .|iiantity of fuel required Wing also much population, will be permitted to detenu. ne '" whether liquor can be sold within the municipal pre< int*. To divide a ci'y or borough for the purposes ot a Local Option set would obviously fail to meet tbe wishes of the prohibitionists. This bill takes no account of ths agitation, which of late has acquired considerable momentum, m of .idoptni-; in Kngiaud the so- called Gothenburg system, under winch all retail sales of li<mor are made by mimcipal officers for municipal account. Although most conspicuously a_>si>, with the Swedish town of Gothenburg, JY,^ this plan has been tried in many other .trtres of urban populat:on, both in this plan, and especially ||Q^ Utd a>lmilte>l The new system of refrigeration by of carbonic acid gas seems likely to come into quite general favor as a substitute for the processes heretofore resorted to. Tbe >|i|rtu., in iu improved fm in, consists of MI evaporator, of coils, within which the h.|UfieO carbonic acid is caused to evapor- ate, being afterward drawn into a compres- sor and raised to the liquefaction pressure ; it then condenses into a liquid within the ils of . condenser, wheme it flows into the evaporator, and so ou iu a closed cycle. Li>iuetied carbonic anhydride evaporates under atmospheric pressure at about one hundred and twenty degrees. P., below cero. In the machine, however, it is eva- porated at ten deg*es, F . according to the temperature it is required to produce, ing the brine surrounding tho evau,xator coils to within a few degrees of it!M>lf : the brine thus cooled circulates in the freezing rooms, chill r<x)in*, cold stores, or between the ice moulds in ice factories, bstr. un< also the heat from the water or goods to he frjaea or chilled. The coal consumption ting : but it is f recognize a preponderance of testimony on its behalf. Th* sooial benefits of the sys- tem would have to lie unmistakable and im- pressive, to counterbalance the political objection to a tremendous increase of the powers vested in municipal and parish authorities. We may I* sura that '.his objection would outweigh all counter con- siderations m the mind of an adherent of the .'Vvf -fin principle in government such as Sir William Harcourt is known to be. He base* his argument, however, for the direct reference of tho prohibition ques- tion to tbe voters of a community, on the noc existence of any local authorities com- petent to decide it. He pointed out that ths present Licensing Boards did n.> maud popular conridt-K*. aud the County Councils, in his opinion, could not propeily deal with the niattei of i truer* aptxueut- ly because their juried it. tion extends over too wide an area. Celsl In l'r>r. At the l4tMiin.il,; of IvVi lucre were l,7ll.lM).0) franc, in gold anJ I ' '. KHi. UOO frinos in sil\er in the vault* of lh Hank of hraace. It would require 693 can of a capacity of ten tons each to move tho cry were furnished by the Montreal works, St. Mary's foundry, whereof Chaa. William < -rAot." Baron d Lonfaeuil, was proprietor ; and tbe baron's descendants say that he put about $40,000 of his pit vats means into the venture. Among tho own en were the Cunanls of Halifax, and a great aumber of Canadians held stock. The veeael was launched at Quebec ir. I vil in presence of the governor of the province, and %f his wife. Lady Aylmcr who christened ;!i.- vessel after the reign- ing king. W:il_ani IV. The dimensions, of the boat wen - Length. 160 feet : hold, 17 feet '.I iiK.ns : breadth outside. 44 feet : breadth between paddle bjxee, Js feet builder s measurement. 1,370 tons: there . were three masts, schooner-noged. The accommodation was for tlJ passengers, but on iu fi-u voyage U carried only seven. The Koyal U iliiam left Quebec for Louuoi _;iist 3th, IH33. called at Pictou ^ - . to receive coal and overhaul machiu ery. aud setout I h<]noe again on August Mth Off tho banks oi Newfoundlaad mere was a terrific gale, which disabled one CM the engines: aad the voyage from TVtou u London occupied -'." days. Alter a short service tinder the Portuguese government, the vessel was sold to Spain, aud under th aew name of Isabel Secuuda was employed against Don Carlos. The lato Mr. Alu audcr Some-mile said that the Isabel " wa> the earliest sleamei of war in the history of nations to deliver a hostile shot. ' KeiOf seat, after some years service, to liordeu> tor repairs, it was found that her tun Mr- were somewhat decayed, and tiie hulk was left there, but tho engines were good. an. were transferred to a new Itabel Secunda to fin m part of the Spanish navy. This, aceoriing to Mr. I ampbeil, Mr. Tulley and Mr. Fleming. wan the pioneer steamer of the Atlantic. It has bees claimed that an American steamer, the Savannah, made tho voyage at the mj.-li earlier .late of ISK But the three gentle- men named have come to the conclusion that the Savannah was simply a sailing ship, and that tho pad-lie wheels diiven l>v team were minor aids to navigation. Ihe wheels were taken off when the wind was favorable., and the Popular Science Month- ly says that in a voyage of : days 1 1 hours, from New York to savannah, steam was used for only <li hours. Further, it IK de- clared that the Savannah's effort not only did 11. t encourage but discouraged steam navigation, and thereafter there were built the magnificent " clippers," sailing \rseels purely, which often made tho \oyav in le.-s than half the Savannahs tiaie : while the Royal William was tho forerunner el tli 9 Cunard line, aud " as such he was equally tho forerunner of tht .14 lines which to-day run regularly between America aad Euro;'- ' i the year ending lat of r. I**!}, the Atlantic was crossed by stein-ships no fewer than :i *O 'ime^ _^ average of more than in per day M". Flrm.ii-; thinks that in the parliament buildings at C>ttawa there should besoms ond'iring re-ord of the voyage of the Cana- dian \eaeel which led the wav ( irii * system of oavigatiea.