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THE WEEK'S NEWS (UKaPlAW. The pi' >.s on the St. Lawrence predict a late opening of navigation, possibly not before May IClh. The people of St. John's, NHd., intend to profit by their recent disastrous experience, ami propose to orgam/e a first class fire brigade. The Montreal Young Men's Christian Association intend to endow a Young Men's iMi 1 1 an Association among the Cluistian c< nil-its in China. Inspector Huot, of the North-West Mounted Police, died suddenly at Duck Lake on Thursday night from paralysis of the heart. B.IHIICW circle* iu Montreal an interest- ed by a report thai a i-omHne uf Ihe princi- pal oolleii mills in Canada, to regulate prices snd output, is proposed. Rev. J. B. Silcox, of Oaklr.nds, Cal, form- rly ol <.lie Western Congrei I'miul church, Tor- lc, has received a cai. from the Km- manuel I 'ongregational church, Montreal. Another riid against the Montreal pool- rooms has been instituted by Mr.O.inn. the Crown prosecutor, and five meuiliers of the Turf Commission Company were arrested. Tin- death is announced at Bath, Kng. , of Mr. Alexander Kuntm, of Valleyfield, <jue., one of the largest piper manufacturers iu Canada. He was seventy-two years of age. The Allan Line steamer Pomeranian, which has met with misfortunes of a more or less serious character during her recent trips, ha-, an i veil at Halifax in a disabled condition. Mr. Michael I).. Ian, night-watchman at A bill was introduced in the Minnesota Legislature ou Saturday prohibiting China men hereafter " from wearing their shirts ..i.iM.le of i heir pant*," and requiring them in " .liess the same a* other citizen*." Irving Lat nner, the matricide, escaped from the State prison at Jaokson, Mich It appears he administered a powerful drug to the night guards, took their keys, let him self out of the front gates, and escaped. A despatch from (Jriuid Kapids, Midi stales that parties iu that place are being sued by the Molsons Bank ut St. Thomas for 9300,0011, theamoiin. of an alleged in- id l>ti ilress to the binl.. There is every indication that the fight 1. 'tween Ihe Uniled (iarmunl Cutters ami the Clothing Association, of New York, will involve the entire clothing trifle, and that ultimately ten thousand men will be thrown out it work. It is probable that John C. Kno, the de faulting president of the Second National Bank in New York, who iu ISM fled lo Canada, and who recently returned lo New York and surrendered himself for trial, will get oil, owing lo technical objeclions to the indictments raised by his lawyers. Th* two hundred and fifty employe* of Boutellier Bros.' dry goods store in New k'ork were kept under lock and key for two hours on Saturday while they were search- ed for $1 ,.">ii which had mysteriously disap- jteared just before closing- hour. No trace of the money was found, and the employes were very indignant. The Chinese Vice-Consul at San Francisco denies the report that tho Chinese intend offering armed resistance tothetieary law. He says that arrest and imprisonment will be submitted to, but that on the first arrest Iwmg made a case will at once be taken lie- fore the Supreme Court to test the consti- UMIIO o\ THE llli.ll SEAS A Plot to Seiw the Sliip and Mk- Her a Pirate draft the Parliament building*, Ottawa, diedsud- lutionalily of (he law. den!) the other evemne a few minutes after coming on duty. He wan sixty-three years ot age. Hon. and llev. Keynol.ls Moreton, from In- pulpit in St. Jobn'i church, Hamilton, on Sunday evening, strongly assailed the practice of card-playing, referirng especi ally to the whist players among tne mem- bers of ladies' clubs. There was a big fire in Mortreal Monday night, and for thv fourth urn- in ill exist- cnce the Herald w.is complexly burned out. The cene of the lire wai the ohl /urn diur. I. building, which ha* hern occupied by the Herald line* iti previous tire. Lieutrtiitnt-dovcrnor Chaplcau, prior to finoai Umg for 1'aru, told a New York re purler t:,at there was absolutely no feeling in < ai a.la in favor of annexation. The toaiitry, he admitted, was anxious for a fiscal change, but would not become part of the I'n i ted State*. At the Hireling of the Agricultural Cum milt -e ID Ottawa a resolution was pa*sed urging the (lovernmei.t to place Prof. Rob- i-rnnii, wh'i h*s rendered such valuable assistance to the Jairy iutereiU of Canada, upon the permanent staff of the Central K perimenul Karm. \> *art !:!, I, the four-year-old son of Mi .1 >. Kci.l, Hamilton, Out., when at- i nip: inn to pull a wnp from a load of hay yesterday morning, slipped and fell. A wheel of ill* heavily-freighted waggon pat*- 'I 'iv-i his head, fiocturing hi skull, and killing him instantly. Mr John Weir, bockee|r for the Wind- sor (Ont. ) Truck Company, ha* disappear- 1 under circumstances which lead lo the aiippotilion 1 1, at he liui committal suicide. No defalcation is hinted At, but ho had been I.ISKHU.. M. Alexejelf, Mayor af Moscow ,-vho was hot by a suspected Nihilist on Tuesday, died yesterday morning. It is reported that Prince Bismarck free- ly tells his visitors that he will not stand for a seal iu the Reichstag at the nsxt elec- tions. While workmen were excavating at T)ur- ango, Mex., on Tuesday, they came upon a large earthen box burird five feet uuder the surface, filled with old Spanish gold coins. The French Senate (its elected M. Chal- lemel-Lacour as President of the Senate, made vacant by the death of Julea Kerry, M. Kl. MI. tin, sentenced lat Teusday to two years' imprisonment in connection witn the Panama frauds, is suffering from incipi- ent paralysis, and his physicians aay im prinoniiieiit would kill him. On Saturday evening as King Humbert was returning from the Villa Borghese, and while passing through Koine, sn Italian threw a stone which nearly struck his Majesty. Amid greit excitment the man was arrested, and it is believed that he is insane. Msklialk SfsMervasiee. We are staunch believers in the delight- ful calm of the holy Canadian Sabbath, but we aUo note, sometimes with regret and sometimes with pleasure, the manner in which the day is spent elsewhere. If no machin- ery were run, no hands played, no lieer or popcorn sold, much of the objection that is felt to the opening of the Chicago exposi- tion on Sundays would be removed, altogeth- er the visitors' minds might in some in- stances lie diverted from sacred things) and threaten his own life. A letter IM i ans of travel would have to be kept in .1 among hiienVl shows that he was I full swing to transport the people. In this ' connection we cannot help noting that the related .o Lonl Ixmsdale. A resolution was passed at the meeting Dominion Anrii-ullui.il Committee rroomm 'Tiding the appointment of a compe lent veieimery surgeon, whose duty it would be to look after the health of the live iock of the country, lo whom all 'onimunications could he addressed from persons who had reason to believe that their herds were in any way affected. I i- Andrew Robertson (iordon, K. N , has just died at his residence in Ottawa, at the age of forty two years. He was a victim to consumption. Retiring from the navy in 1*7.1, hi- camu to ( 'anada, and was for some years commander of the fisheries protection service. At the time of his death he was nanliral adviser to the Marine and Fisher- ies Department. IIKITI-H. Lord Hastings was fined on Friday fifty ooumls at Miirylebone Police station for ' iiu' ' ted indei-enlly towards a girl in It-gent* Park. An agreement has bren reachid by which the I.MI-J|II oi ton operatives will ar- i reduction of seven |x'i>. in the pound, and ihr great strike has terminated nnd the nulls have started. _The London coi retpondent of the New, Yoik \\ orl I says that unexpected opp..i- iii.n nf a very serious kind has arisen to Hems Rule, and that the patsaga of the bill e\en in the House of Commons is by no tne.ini a-surcd. l-MTMi STATUS. A slight earthquake was fell in Montana Friday evening Tin- n interment of the remains i,f .1, !!,-! son DIVM will tk pluce in Hollywoud . i-iin-iiTy, at Itii Inn. MI. I, on May .'tilth. The <lamsi;e done to property in the Alissusippi valley l>y Thursday's cyclone is calculated at twa inilliou dollars, nu.l it is known that eighteen lives were lost. The management of the Canadian Pacific railway de:<ies the report thai tin company is negotiating to secure an entrance lino of it* own into New York city. Indiitn* iohn, the once famon* chief of tl e I'lilun.lii.i river Indians, who has reach- ed the agn of one hundred and twenty-five I, K . ..inmrti'.l lo the poor l,o use, at I'm !l ami. Ore , mi \Vi.lnrsday. The town of Purvis, Miss., was destroy- ed by incendiary files on Tuesday night. I I., n.. cndisries weru negroes, who fired I he tiiwn in revenge, the, white people ^ BV ing i4ii-i.il the Hrres' of their coloured |-i'- clier. The rlcv.il ion of tin llntish legation at Washington to an Kmhtssy makes Sir lulun P. iiin.vf.it.-. I lie Kngltih represents- i ' .in ..f the Diplomat!. Corps, instttad 01 IU;ui. lav.i, from Italy, who he'd it liy . in-. my .( appointment. it is mi. i. -I., 1 . i. ..I at Washington that the Pi.-m-ii i. 1 ' . '! uiilely determined lo send ilelig.it'" " I lie InliTii iliimal Monetary i i.nfei. i e, wlii.-li will i eawiiihle at lirus- -I on M-;- tendency of the times is towards what in i-alled " liberali/mg " of the ilay. However much we may regret this slate of things, we cannot overlook the fact that it ex- ist*. After all, it is doubtful if there is any cause for wonder that the common -peo- ple should be growing more lax in the ob- servance of the Lord's day, when the highest iu the empire and " the defender of the faith ' thinks it no sin to be present on Sun- day afternoon at what ma)' fairly be con- hi.leie.l a public concert. Says an Knglish taper: "The. weather lieing exceedingly fine on Sunday afternoon, March I'. 1 , about In, (XXI residents of the Koyal town and visitor* from the metropolis and its suburbs were, hv tho Queeu's permission, admitted to the Kast Terrain and liar. leu at Windsor Cast'e. Tho Kmpress Frederic, Princess Henry of Hattenberg, (iennral .Sir Henry Ponsonby, Lord Acton, Colonel the Hon. M. H\M., Count Seckendorff, and other inemlxMS of the Court were present. The band of the lirenadier (Juards, under Lieu- tenant Dsu (iodfrey, and that of the 1st Drsgoon I mar. Is, alternately played nppos it.- the Koyal apartments, in which her Majesty listened to the musical selections. Denserralle Tarl* fkaafei. We do not know on what authority a correspondent of THt Kin/nrr submit* the following as the details of the tariff reduc- tion bill that ths Demo, i! will submit to < 'ongress with a comparison of the rates now existing and the propose.! new onen for articles w hid, enter into the United States oftenest along I ho IxMindary from On tario. Present Kate. Pioposed Bate. 1,1* I- i l.il-ll III |,.-l f. 1,1 ! lll< \ -.28 " Pur aifs V> p ( valiM 3S li-i-li). 5U " r.. II, [.til. . U |H I I.I I ," :":,< V . . '- I | . , ' II I II. -I II. I I. In" I . i<l ' . SI,, II I. 411 ' \ tgi iiii,i,- as ' i .. as ' t: III I I. ,11 JO " ' W is le 10 l* in rn-n Krr, (MM I IS |*i i-fiil ..( ,.!.,,- 10 I J*. |, . i.l , , r r.gtai'ln 28 v,-j. 10 i ... r!li I'.irk. f > [-. 1 ll I/ . I. , r Igl |l M|H r I, il It ii undoubted that if the chant; us proposed are made they will greatly extend international trade along the frontier. The average reduction, it will Ira noticed, is from I.", to '_il per cent. It is one thing, however, In draft an idea and another lo get il tluough congress. An adoption by our neighbors of such a tariff as il here proposed would do more to bring .ill. .111 a satisfactory feeling between our- selves and them than a thousand years of McKmlsjltm could. I he risn Mlikl Have Mneeee<1ed Hud Net Ike oilier- Weakened -The Mutineer* ii i ... 1. 1 te turn i i n. i.. ., la lr*s. In the month of December last the bark Husper left Newcastle, X.S. W., laden with coal for Honolulu. .She wa* in charge of '.'apt. J. K. O. Sodergren. Nothing hap- pened to mar the pleasure of the voyage until the night of .1 1 >. l.'l, when Morris raid, the second mate, was nrirdered by Thomas St. C'lair, a seaman. The mur ler wan the result of a plan concocted in the forecastle to slay the Captain, first and se:ond mates, slid carpenter, and convert i he ship into a pirate. St. C'lair was the leader of the mutijecrs. The sailors in the plot with him were Thomas lireen, Herman >p ,rf, Kdward Larsen, and Hans Hansnn. St. Clair is a Now Yorker, born of Irish paieiits. Sparl is a swede,, lireen is hoglish, Hanseii is a Dane, and Larseu is a Nor- wegian. When the Captain became acquainted with the facts he caused the five mutineers to be placed in irons and made all sail for Tahiti. At the port of Papeete he landed the mutineers, who wjre placet) by Unittd States Consul J. Lamb Doty on board the barkentine Tropic Bird, which vessel brought them to Sun Francisco, and they were handed in;o the custody of United States Marshal Long to await trial on the charge of murder. The H e>aper proceeded from Tahiti to Honolulu, where she discharged her cargo of coal, and is now supposed to be en voyage to San Fran- oinco with the witnesses against the muti- neers. The murder was one of unparalleled fer- ocity, the result of a fiendish plot on the part of some of the crew of the Helper to murder the Captain and officers and convert the bark into a pirate cruiser on the coast of China. Shortly after the bark Isft New- castle a feeling of unrest began to manifest its-lf in the forecastle. The cause of the discontent was this man St. Clair, a low- browed, ignorant looking man, iiiti'TiMi IN VATI KE and of a low order of intelligence, but with a tact for moulding his shipmates liko dough in his finger*. It was a species of hypnotism that he exercised over those men whose intelligence was inferior only to his own. Artfully this ootan conspirator felt his way among the men until he felt sure that four of them would assist in the plan he had conceived. Then St. Clair unfolded to them the idea that was uppermost in his br.iin. He told them of the schem* he hsxl mature. I to murder the officers, gain pos- session of the ship, sell the cargo at some convenient port, and then range the ocean as a freebooter with himself in command. It was St. Claim plan in intercept and loot the small craft plying with specie between the ports on the China coast. InHained by the picture of a life of ease and luxury so vividly painted by St. Clair. the four men whom he had chosen readily consented to become his confederates. A favorable lime to assassinate the officers of the Hesper was awaited, and finally the night of Jan. 1.1 was selected. No bet'er occasion for such a deed oould have been chosen. A gale was blowing, causing the billows to thump sgaiimt the side of the bark with a noise milticient to drown the sound of any ordinary commotion on board, while the rain streamed down on dcrk in a drenching torrent. It was about In .iiio'clock at night. Kdward Larsen was at the wheel, and forward were St. Clair, I!- i M ui Sparf, II .IM Hsnsen, and Fit/ K. Till. I. Suspecting nothing wrong, Kit/ gerald, the mate, was gi\ ing order* to Larsen how to steer the vessel's course. St. Clair, with his fellow conspirators, stealthily left the forecastle and cirpt on deck. Turning to his followers St. Clair brand ished aloft an axe. "Come on," he whis- peind; "now is the time." He gave a leap and then was heard the sound of the steel crushing ihrmigh the mate's skull and the fall of the Imdy on the deck Brought into ihe very piesence of this awful crime the sailors had no stomach for it and they shrank back in terror as they listened to the thud of the axe while St. Clair rained blows on the already lifeless form of Mate r it/geral.l. One more sound was I card. It was the harking of the ship's dog awak i ne. i by the fall of the male's body. Having finished his butchery of Kit/- gerald's body the seaman became fren/.ied, and leaping from the corpse he cried : "Now i> the tune, boys; let us finish it. Now for the Captain, mate, and carpen- ter." Me Mpokc to the winds: his allies, sicken- ed by the spectacle of the mangled ob|i-> t lying on thu deck, were deaf to his c..m- mands. The murderer raved and cursed in vain ; not an arm waa lifted, not a body stirred. Swearing tit hn chickun-hearled accomplices, St. Clair ran aft and ordered l-arnen lo go into the cabin aud awaken the Captain. The msn at the wheel refused to do Ins bidding, and St. Clair proceeded for- ward again and implored Hansen and Spaif to help him finish Ihe bloody progiamnio they had mapped out. His entreaties were uddreased to deal ears. For nearly an hour he argued aud pleaded with them in vain. Finally, seeing that he wss deserted, anil ' knowing that before long f'int Mate Lucas would appear on deck and discover th* crime, St. Clair implored tho others to help him conceal all evidence of it by throw- ing THR I'OKI'SI I\H1BOAR1>. and scrubbing th* red stains from the deck Fearfully tho mutineers approached the cnrpxe, and tremblingly they lifted it in their arms and dropped it over the side. A few minutes later Virst Mate Lucas ap peared on deck. Hut for the man at the wheel the ship was deserted. Surprised at finding nobody to relieve, uucas asked Lar- sen what hail become of Fit/gerald. " He went forward a few minutes ago," was tho reply. An. i waiting for some time and perceiv- ing nothing of FiUgerald, the first mato searched fur him, thinking to find him asleep on the deck load. Not finding him he* railed ('apt. Hodergren. The crnw was aiotiaeil and tho ship searched thoroughly, Init, uf - muse, no trace of the mmJeit .1 man was fmind. \\ hen daylight came, however, those awful stains were found on the deck, and the ( 'a plain ill v mud what had happened. He imported bis suspicions to Lucas aud to Carpenter Hradshaw, who agreed with him, and i|iiiok action was determined upon. All three armed themselves with loaded revol- vers and the crew was called on deck. Larsen, the man at the wheel on Fit/gerald's watch, was accused of knowing something about the crime, and when directly charged with the murder he confessed all he knew. All five conspirators were placed in irons and the Hesper'* course was shaped for Tahiti. I'po.i t heir arrival at the islands the mutineers were turned over to I in led States Consul J. Lamb Doty, who placed them on the Tropic Bird in charge of two French gendarmes and a special I'nited States marshal en route lo San Francisco to stand trial for murder. The Tropic Bird might easily have been mistaken for an old-true French convict ship when she dropped anchor yesterday. On her deck paced two men, Jean Pierre i Msvrni and Felix Bouclie, in the uniform | of the gendarme of the French (iorernment, while between decks, just over the cargo of cocoanuts, the mutineers were penned in their improvisioned priton quarters. Fivu compartments had been erected along one side of the barkeniine. each of which was just longenough for a man to lie down in and high enough for him to sit up in. Upon one leg of each of four of th* men a chain hail been riveted, and the other end was fastened to a long iron bar that extended the entire length of the five compartments. The arms of all of the men were secured with wrist irons. One man was deemed of sufficient importance to be worthy of having both legs ironed. Tais was St. Claii. He is sn undersized man with RAMCV BI.Ai-K II UK, deep-set eyes, a thin, straight nose, thin lips, pinched face, and almost pallid com- plexion. His face bore a long moustache and several days' growth of acrsggy black beard. Like his companions, he wore clothing of poor material and very much the worse for wear. The countenances of the other four men betray a very low order of intellect. They are light-complexioned men with brutish faces, and look a* though murder would bo a simple pastime with them. Two police officers and United Stale* Marshal Long, accompanied by a couple of deputies, went on board the harkentine and demanded the mutineers. They were met by n decided refusal on the part of the French officer" to give up the prisoners. On board was John Biander, a Frenchman, who had been intrusted by United States Consul Doty at Papeete with ihe duty ot delivering the mutineer* to the authorites iiiSanFracis.o It wis some time before Long c.Mil.l convince Bran. ler of bis right to re- ceive the men, and he in turn had mnch trouble convincing the French officers that all was right. The reason for their extra- ordinary care became apparent when it be- came known that under the law of Tahiti each would have been subject lo five year*' imprisonment had one uf th* prisoners escaped. \\hsn the United Stales Marshal had finally convinced the Frenchman of hi* authority to receive the mutineer* the hackles of the prisoners were struck from their legs, and all hands boarded the rev. enue tug Hartley. That is, the irons were struck from all but St. Clair. As th* chief mutineer he was considered desperate enoupn to keep shackled all the way to the Marshal's office. "Yes, I killed him as he deserved to be killed." Thomas St. Clair said that in much the same manner as ho would have related that he had taken the life of a sheep. No re mono for his act, no fear of the consequenc- es lo himself, nothing but complete satis- faction with himseli was shown in his ten* and expression. "He trealed us like dogs, and we didn't think it was wrong to put him out of th* way. These other men lie when they say I led them on. It waa they who first suggest- ed it to me, but none of them had the nerve to carry it out. We agreed that night that Kit/gerald should die first, and than we intended to call the Captain and carpenter from below and get rid of them one at a time. We did not intend to harm the woman. That was due to me. The o'licr men wanted to ktep her on thu ship, but I said that she shouhl go ashore at the first port we anchored in. On the night the mate was killed we left the forcastle very quiet. F.very man had a bar or weapon of some kind, and I had ths ax*. It had been agreed that I should hit the mate first and ihe rest were to finish it. I hit him and he fell. Then the others came up and helped me to finish it. 1 think everybody hit him although I am not sure. 1 know that two or three struck him. I asked them to call the captain and the first mate, but they would not do it, and seeing that they l-a,i lost their bra very I got them to throw Ihe body overboard, and then we all turned in. Next day we were put in irons." TNF. >H1II III II I VK.KIIV The grain trade throughout Ontario is in a most unsatisfactory state. Stocks of wheat and flour are much larger than usual while there is no export enquiry. Tlie Naval Hydrographer calculates that in recent years there has been an annual total lorn of -'.IT- veraels, representing in value about $100,000,0111). The annual loss of life i* placed at I'J.iMM). The largest sheep ranch in ths world i* to be found ii> the countie* of Oimmett aud Webb, Texas It contain* upwards of 400- OOO acres, and yearly pasture* from I,'*" 1 ,- 000 to 1,000,000 sheep. Mo->7 i.1 Toronto and Montreal con- tinues firm, with rains I per cent, higher than at this time I ut year. flood author- ities state that it is not likely to last long ; but while there is % decline in New York drafts the sterling exchange market remain* s'.rong. The condition of trade in the United States this week is less altered thtn might be expected in view of the extraordinary weather for the seanon, the scarcity of money aud other disturbing influences. The stringency in money markets is largely dii* to slow collections, which appear to result rather from severe weather than from any form of commercial unsoundneas or in- ability to distribute products. Failures during the week were -IT. In Quebec city it is estimated that he- tween 450 A 5(0,000 barrels of tlrur are an- nually sold by our merchants here. Stocks have lieen pretty heavy for some time past, but a fair quantity has been disposed of, and dealers do not appear over anxious to ell without a fair margin. Ontario mill- ers also appear to be holding off, and while prices are not very high the market cannot be said to be really iu a bad state. Tan- ners, curriers and boot and shoe manufac- turers continue in a state of activity. The near approach of navigation will no doub t give an impetus to trade generally. One of the recent industries added to the already numerous manufactures carried on in Chemnitz, Saxony, is the production of curtains made of India rubber as the mam ingredient. The material employed for this purpose consists of ?."i per cent, of India rubber, ."i per cent, of wool dust, ."> per cent. of pulreri/ed fruit stone*, 10 per cent, of bleached amber varnish and "> per cent, of bleached leather waste, to those being also added, if deemed necessary, a quantity of infusorial earth. Ths various substance* thus named are together worked up with the bi-sulphide of carbon in the moat perfect manner into a thick mass ; and from this are rolled out thin leaves, which are cap- able of being decorated with the greatest variety of ornamental patterns, and several of these leave* are combined lo form a cur- tain. Some uf the best specimens of oak for decorative woodwork aie now obtained, it i* stated, by fumigating tb* material with ammoniacal vapor, which effectively pro- ducts the dark coloring so much desired. In accomplishing this the method consist* in placing the material to be darkened in an approximately air tight rm in which no lignt enters ; or for small work, a pack- icg box will suffice , the joints or cracks to b* well pasted over with the paper. In this roi,m or receptacle for depositing the furniture or other articles is placed a flat porcelain or earthen ves**l filled with am- monia, the vessel containing the liquid being, of course, set on the giound or Haor, that the fumes or vapor may strike t" .1 1 vantage the articles to be darkened ; if Wiu apartment is large, two or more vessels co- taining ammonia may be employed and al. lowed lo remain until the desired effect is cured. The ammonia does not touch th* oak, browning it so deeply that or two may actually lie taken a removing the color. The depth depends upon th* quantity of ammonia used and the duration of exposure. ; R4 MM. ftTONKM. 4 < in tun anlc rkste Ike <!. Ike U.>k .r When the engineers were surveying the Congo Kiiilrnvl they found on the bank of j the river a curiously shaped stone, so poised .n several smallei bits that it rocked H.H" nne side to another. The rock bore a strik- i mg resemblance to the remarkable monu- ments still found iu Franc* ai.d Knglaud which were used as altars by the Diui.lt about the beginning of Ihe Christian era, ll was on such allars that the Druids ofl'erud their sacrifices. So on the bauks of Ihs Congo was found a counterpart of the L'ol- mens of north F.urope. The rock was in the way of th* railroad track and was therefore, removed. It never was Dolmen. It fantastic outlines were never fashioned by human hand* ; nor wa* it placed upon the supporling stones by human gency. At least the geologist, Mr. K. j Dupout, who visited th* Congo to mak* a study of its geology, says w* have no proof of tho existence among th* people of the lower Congo or their ancestor* of a state of civili/atiou that would justify us in at- tributing to their handiwork oven so rude and primitive a monument as a Dulmen. There are in this part of West Africa a number of examples of tottering rocki like, the above. They are all of natur- al origin, and show the plainest evi- dence of erosion. Mo.-t of them have been cat \ i-il by tho elements out of mica schist*. Tln.y contain veins of ainphibolitio gneiss or quart/, much harder than the sclnsts.and hare and there some uf the softer rock above the hard quart/ veins ha* been worn away, completely severing th* connection between the once united uppur and lower part* of the mass, and so Ihe upper portion is left to balance and totter on the rock or rocks bensalh. Hake Ike Brand fc.w. KtTorls are being made to induce the Im- perial government to enforce a law for marking I 'anadian meat* so as to show they are not British. A class uf officials who look sfter adulterated goods are aake I to b* given authority to compel our meals lo be marked. The idea is Iu discriminate in the meat market* against our aud all foreign meats. The jealous temper i* seldom a wiso one, in this instance its tolly is conspicuous. Fancy all chops and steaks cut. from Cana- dian cattle being compelled to bear t label! Kngland has profited far u.ore from foreign importations of meat than Canada has by her cattle exports. But for foreign sup- plies th* price of heel and motion in Kug- land would be _'." per cent, higher than at prevent, and every family'* expenses would consequently be much larger. The import* into Kngland of live animal* have nearly doubled in -1) years, and dead meat import* ar* five times a* large as in 1ST'.', the figure* being !i'.l,.~>lHI tons aud iS'.l,.~>00 tons. Tins indicates how elastic is the British market, the more ill* supply the greater the demand. Fach head of ihe population of (!nt Hi it.iin now eats 34 imported eggs per an- num ; in 1ST t he ate only 111 ; then he on- sumed only Ti pounds of imported bacon and ham, now he eats 14 pounds. Th* truth is that population in Crcat Britain is increasing at a great rate, and her food productive capacity is geographically limit- ed, so thst the demaud for foreign food products must necessarily increase with the growth of population. Those, then, who are jealous of the foreign meat imports are resenting the introduction ot food necessary for the sustenance o* the people. While this feeling exists, however unreasonable it i*, Canadian exporters of all classes of food need, in their own interests, to disarm th* prejudice by marking the brand, " Cana- dian," which of itself will be a special rec- ommendation owing to the excellence ol our product*. A leading citizen of Toronto who ha* been South writes : " If tho discontented in our community could ouly have travelled with me during ihe pasl forty-eight hour* through the South eastern and Southern States and witnessed the poverty stricken and miserably fad and clad soliciting aim* at the different railway station* they would b* mnch better satisfied with lhir own country, and there would b* leas talk aboak anti*<ation. On my arrival at Jacksonville I Bod it A very pleasant city iu great many ways, but it put* me in mind *l To- ronto furly years ago dirty streets, dil- apidated sidewalks, and everytfciey *ln ia a very primitive state." I f i reu eneci is ot touch th* i t a shaving off without I ith of shade ' \