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THE WEEK'S NEWS. CANADIAN. Thoiua* I. ilck fell from a train at Durford, dm. , on Saturday, and had both legs taken off. An eight- year-old boy Basted James Daly was run over at Hamilton on Saturday, and sustained fatal injuries. On Saturday one hundred thousand pounds wa* withdrawn from the Bank of Kngland for shipment to Canada. It : announced in London that the Que> lc ( eutral railway is inning one hundred thousand pound* worth of five per cunt, prior lien iioiids. The employes of the Manitoba and North- Wester i Railway Company have struck for payment of hud wa^es, aud consequently the road is tied up. Tbere are several more parties of Dr. Barnardo's boys coming to Canada this sea- son. A party of two hundred bays left England lost week. Mr. George Spots wood, of Kingston, (int., has shipped Irom that city to Chicago a sample of pure galena from Frontenoc lead mine that weight -JU Int. The Dominion line nteannhip Sarnia Is reported to have been psstrd on the 7th inst. a'lout five hundred miles east of New- foundland with her machinery disabled. Alfred < irmsby, a car repairer, was crushed while coupling can at Allandal* ll on Friday, aad died of bis injuries at the Toronto General hospital in the evening. Mr. Robert Turner attempted to get un a moving train at tho Foresters' picnic at Urillia on Monday, aud fell under a car, one of his legs being cut off jutt above the knee. Valeria Kilwards, ten year* of age, while driving with her father at Hamilton, Ont., on Sunday evening, received a kick from the horse which fractured the bi ck of her head. She died at the hospital. Michael Ticrney was struck on tbe head by the broken end of a boom in Vertnillion river, at Palmer Rapids, OnU, the other day, receiving injuries from which be died short- ly afterwards. Others were injured also. The mill owners of the Chaudiere have refused to accede to the request of the hands, who recently petitioned for a change from eleven to ten hours a day. Owing to the advanced period of the season a strike is unlikely. The Canadian Government has eitended a further invitation to Knglith tenant farm- ers to visit this country and examine into the condition of agriculture, Sir Charles Topper is now selecting twelve representa- tive men. The competition for theSir John Macdonald memorial for Montreal was won l>y Mr. Geo. K. Wade, of London, Kiig. The price it 120,000. Twenty-five sculptor* entered th* competition. Foreign and local expert* were consulted before the final decision. A great M.isum.' jungress, including dele- gates from all parts of the United States and CanaiU, is in seuion at Chicago. A special from Omaha, Neb. , states that the body of Captain Kussell, late of the British army, has been found in the Minn- ouri river. Foul play is suspected. A lire occurred yesterday in the Senate hotel, Chicago, and eight persons lout their lives by jumping from windows or by being suffocated. While temporarily deranged Mr*. Mon- ra.l Fix, 74 years of agf, of Monroe, Mich., poured kerosene over her clothing and set fire to it. She was terribly burned and died shortly after being found. '.i MEKAl. Vellow fevsr is epidemic in Honduras. The Italian Adriatic coast has been visit- ed by a severe earthquake. It is expected that many livs have been lost. M. Lockruy, an ex-Cabinet Minister, was Dm. IK I r.-inri-. New mtuMtr I* E|laB*l ! llll.l.nii.llr Ultiory. ID the lut dtys of the second empire a young Parisian barrister, who hail read in chambers with the well-known M^ltre Kouxe, occupied a mode*t lodging on the Quai Voltaire, and scrapod along an bent he might with the aid of a few pnpili and itill fewer briefs. Then came the 4lh of Sep- tember, and, abandoning jurisprudence for politic*, the struggling advocate cast in hu lot with M. Thieri, acrved on that states- man's electoral committeee, and, aa a re- ward, was attached to M. lac-hard'* mission to Brussels. The mediocrity of his chief gave the bud- dinif diplomatist a chance. M. Decrais, for it is of him we speak, wu not slow in using fur the benefit of the Government of Nation- al Defense Uie information that flowed mu> the Belgian capital a* to the progress of on Sunday shot at and wouuded in Paris by | military event*. In this way his natural a desperate Socialist named Moore. News hat been received from Kcuador that the Government hat suspended the payment of interest on the foreign debt. I gifts helped him not a little. Kngaging, | persuasive and supple, with a sympathetic voice and distinguished manner*, he had I bat to show himself in order to win instant appreciation. 1871 tho armistice left M. The Spanish Government bos authorized Thiers master of the situation, and his lint the floating of a new loan of $6,000,000, to be uaed in paying off the floating debt of Cuba. The French steamer Octeville wa* sunk on Friday in a collision with the French transport Drome. Five persons were A cloudburst in Hungary on Sunday re- sulted in the drowning of 50 people and the destruction of one hundred houses and several bridges. A special cable despatch from Odetta states that there has been a great increase in crime in Russia. There were 2,401 murders last year. The difficulty between the Khedive of F.gypt and Ki*z Pasha, hi* Prime Minister, has been satisfactorily settled aud the Min- isterial criii* i* over. Tiie Rutaian Government has decreed a severe code of punishment against duelling, which, it is thought, has become too com- mon in the Ciar's domains. care was to appoint prefects who might by their influence counteract the policy of the raving lunatic," as he sty led Gambetta. Though but just .T-', M. Decrais was intrust- ed with the administration of Indre-et- Loire, the department that had been the headquarters of the Provisional Governmeu'. and he remained at Tours four years without attracting attention. After his patron'* fall he pursued the even tenor of his way, pausing from Tours to Nice, and from Nice to Bordeaui. He resigned dur- ing the elections of 1S77, but speedily re- sumed his functions until he was railed two y*irs later to the Council of State. HU rep- utation then was that of an intelligent but emsy-going official, tree from all exaggerat- ed ' seal." He got through business well enough, but he never went out of his way to find it. So larpe and so rapid a measure of success did not, however, appear to satisfy the ambition of M. Decrais, whose leaning was rather towards a diplomatic than an admin The flood* in Austrian Galicia have done < istrative career. When, in 1&90, tbe post damage to the extent of many millions of } of French Minister at Brussels became va- florins. At Ryemanow sixty persons are cant, he applied for it, and his application rt ported to have been drowned. I met with a favorable reception. Tbe poti- There is a great scarcity of small silver llon .' 1 8rally regarded in the Fren in Italy owing to the rise in the rate of ex- change. Some firms are issuing tokens which are generally accepted, while others use lira no:es and postage stamps. According to a report by the French Min- i.usr of Finance, US, SOS families in France , fii . ^ rec alled~th. following year bv M hav. claimed exemption from certain taxes > v ;_*,,. r^i.; . . .i. i':_ service, as it is iu it* own, as the stepping- stone to an important embassy ; and this fact, no doubt, was not without weight in M. Decrais' favor before he urged hit suit. He made himself very popular at the Bel- gian Court, and general regret was felt on ^ __ , , . ... , his being recalled the following year bv M. tFTZft.""? l , T 1 """ 1 ; FreycincV. Cabinet to assume the political ^f'!?J!^- by .- h ^. 1 ^ r i 1 *?f." t - ll ' OCOUIlt i direction of the Foreign Office. At the (Juai d'Ursay he was decidedly oot of place. of having seven or more children. It has been decided by the Leipsic Imper- ial Court of Justice that newspaper pro- prietors who give false statement as to the i th trial Uij of the Lucania, the new Cunard stnamship, a apeed was registered of twenty-five and half miles an hour. A train on the Taff Vale railway, en route to Cardiff, Wales, ran off the track on Saturday, causing the death of seventeen persons. Another death from cholera hat occurred at Grimsby, Kngland. Two deaths are re- ported from New York at the Swinburne Inland hospital. The shipping tonnage of the port of Lon- don bi declined lUO.OOO tons annually. This result is said to be owing to the great dock strike of five years ago. The appointment of the Duke of Con- naught to succeed General Sir Evelyn Wood in the command of the Aldershot district it officially announced from London The Britith steamer Ardongorm, ( 'apt. Kinley, from Norfolk, before reported aihore at Carrock Head, in the Clyde, hat been floated. Her fore compartment is full of water. Three women have recently been myster- iously murdered in the suburla of London. In each rate the victim wat stabbed with a knife. It is feared that Jack-the-Ripper ia at his work again Bombay, India, was on Friday trre scene of fatal religiou* riots between Mahomotai and Hindoo*. Muny persons have In. en killed. The military were called out, anil fired upon a mob of rioters. A special cable desj atch fr un London says that Great Britain wa* on Wedne* day night viiited by tumble rain and thunderstorm*, which did an immense amount of damage throughout the country The Allan Steamship Company has won an action for libel and been awarded two hundred pound* against the l.omlim Fire- men'* Union, which charged the Allen* with oppressing the men iu their employ, and alto that they employed incompetent men. The llebring Soa Tribunal of Arbitration at Paris made have their liacition public. Briefly stated, thu five point* in regard to jurisdiction are snttlinl in favour of (Jreat rlritain. A protected /.one ol sixty miles oronnd tbe island is etlablinli.'d, ami a lose season frnm Muy 1 to .lulv Ml is lered. The decision, it is thought inakcn United Statet liable for damages for ire of Hritith and Canadian vessels. Tl batt lexliip Truimpti, the port guard tklp .. i hiat'iistown, flyiUK the (lag of Rear -dmti i -i. l.ihn, arrived. ii Portsmouth, P|l*n. on Saturday from Malta, having inosrii most of the survivors of the Vic- 1 'Sllie 'lauhi|iiif 111" I'.niHli Mr. In. T ' """W sou., linn, win. li was recently nunk in . "HisVsB wi' 1 ' the tv.imlnp Ctinperilown, oil Tnpsjj^lyria. The Triumph was des ' to s(Ju shortly alter the disaster the po^^^ of conveying the survivor* Wisconsin Match w<x>d Iti* announced that the Government of! Spain intends to order that payment of i eessoi. l'iist-mi. dutif t be madj in gold. Thi* ' Hi* relation* with the (Juirinal, if per- will b equivalent to . -in increase of '.M per *nally smooth enough, can hardly have cent, in the duties. The rinal decision in lwen pleasant as his early Belgian exper- the matter may, however, be reserved until lencet. The expedition of Gen Logerot lit United States Government determines what action it will lake in regard to silver. oloMil It* Mttlnct nn Saturday. Ket dntiont were adopted in favour of legis- lative protection for women and girls, a ten hours' labor day, concerted international action on trades questions, and universal He had neither the eiperience nor the tem- perament for a task which eaJU far a pro- found knowua < ** jcrop~- eh r~: r.l i>.l Hor.l lillte loop* lreiit\ire mprovtaatlon. <"Sim!ni{ after two tuch lecesaors as M. Deprez and M. da ' .our I. he proved a comparative failure. Pot- Duller. ii and M. Dsvelle in Pwu. Hu countrymen do not look for great thing from M. Deem is, whose function* are under stood to beratbcr decorative than operative but th i fact of his appointment must be taken a indicating a deiire to preserve a modus vivendi between the two nations. circulation of thuir jiurnl Kll ' | vo M *0 tH (...n.l ti. toK.o K to Ir.uJ. \ or I h. lnlrniloi..l Ho.i.l..t OonSTrewi at'pre ' eel, sibly he was conscious of his shortcoming!. Perhaps he merely accepted the office in order to further hi* ulterior views, any case, when the Marquis de Nuailles in 1H82 definitely resigned the embassy at M. Decrais was appointed his sue- and the establishment of tectorate in Tunis had the French pro- not unnaturally _ aroused Italian suspicion* and given good Time B r<UI ls for charges of broken faith. For a I represent**^ O f r >n noe no course remttio- throne the i e ,l poasiMe exrep ^ tarn engaged , provocaliont, and tohoi* ( , e . ow fi , , Ihi- tlr rrh-inl Navy In |n .-n llri. \Vben Kli/.ahetli came to the whole merchant navy of K.ngland n lawful commerce amounted to no more but without exasperating his than ">. 1,000 to^k. Younuysee more now i hs,s. M. Decrais managed to st passing every day through the Gulf Stream, j safe course; and he warned hi* Gov Iu the icrvice of the Crown there were but o f the fatal attraction that must bring the a nd Germany closer and closer together in The youngest trunk railway in Great Britain, the Midland, ha* been noted at .1 pioneer in introducing arrangement* for the safety, comfort an I convenience of the tra- velling public. Some twenty year* ago it began this plan by contracting for Pullman drawing room, deeping and dining car*, which have been in ute ever since. It has recently added many little conveniences for ita third-class passenger*, who form a very profitable part of the traffic of any British line, and now adds still another inducement in the shape of a ;hird -class dining car, or rather a dining car having seats for thirty third and twelve first-class passengers. The table* are arranged along each side as in our dining cars and are separated by an aisle about -> feet wide. The first-class kitchen has a gat range, while the third -clau con- tains merely a warming stove. At one end of the car is a smoking room od men's lav- atory. At present these car* will be used an trains made up with the usual British type of compartment car.' and access to the diners can only be obtained at a few sta- tion! where stops are male. The use ot the Brooklyn bridge by the residents of New York aud Brooklyn in the decade since it was opened ht>s far surpass- ed all the calculations of engineer* and others in advance of the completion of the structure. The wisdom of the men who widened the bridge, so that room was af- forded on the roadways for teams to pass each other and one slow-moving load could not set the pace for all the traffij, has been ampiy vindicated, and the policy that rais- ed the height of the trusses so that cars of standard size could be nsed, instead of the squatty ones it was first proposed to run, has also been shown to be wise. The grip in use upon the bridge cars has been shown by the succets attending its constant em- ployment to be admirably adapted for the use to which it is put. the life of a cable being much more protracted than if the grip used with ordinary surface cable cars were employed. The system .of switching cars at the terminals has proved successful for a far greater traffic than it was expected it would be called upon to handle. In the tan year* the receipts of the bridge from all sources have been about 8lO,000,OUO,accord- ing to the figures furnished the New York Post, and this sum has been nearly equally divided for maintenance* and improvements Tbe original cost of the structure was f 15,- 000,000 and tbe total cast up to the present time about *,000,000. There have been about -_N !,<)., iH> passengers carried in the cars siiue the railway wasput in operation. the number incraiu frau* sj.uus\s*s> i IHII to vr i.o>o,ont> loot ye*r. At first tlie i.>ir fare wa* .~>c, but -as reduced to 3c a few years ago. Foot passengers were originally charged Ic and later one-fifth of a cenf, but in 1891 the promenade was made free. The earnings from carriage tolls, now only one half as high as formerly, are about t-SO.OOO a year. The canal across the Isthmus of Coriu'.h, which is now practically completed, is one of those great undertakings first begun by the Roman emperors. Like the removal of the obstructions at the Iron Gate on the Danube, firtt begun by the Kmperor Trajan and now being pushed to completion by the Auttrian Hungarian Government, the Cor- inth Canal, first begun by the Kmperor Nero, hat dragged along a course as peace- ful and (low as that of a claim against the Governmcn', From orfi -ial figure, it ap- pears that this canal is about 3. 9 miles long and has a minimu'.u width at the bottom of ) feet. It does oot cross the isthmus even revenue 'Tuiter* in commiision, rTSil* 1 * * l ' ho n rrowe " lowest place, but along >vernmeBtlta*S C >0cho *" n that the tar ' lk0 drainage inntf Iuly'avra^!T w i : i'^ " {Jj* _'*" possible. The largest I'.'O tons, witli eight merchant brig* lp jt of any diplomatic interference. But altered for fighting. In litibour there were be was not destined to take a personal in- itill a score of large ship*, but they were terest in the further levelopment of these dismantled and rotting; ot artillery fit for | events ; for in IsH'ithe retirement of Count tea work there was none. T*>e men were Foncher de Careil iuvolvetl his promotion not to be had, and, as Sir William Cecil to Vienna. This transference, welcome as taid, to fit oar ships without men a to it probably was, did not quite mean the substitution of a bud of roses for a path of thorns. With Austria there existed, it is true, no immediate and pressing tonne of set armour un stakes on the sea shore. The mariners of Kngland were otherwise engag d, and in a way which did not please Cecil. He wa* the ablest Minitter that I lU-tb had. He saw at once that on fet, feet. at all places. Tne cut about JtiO The canal blue marl principally, but in some there wat some rock encountered. When work was fint li ;un the sidet wro left nearly vertical in muy places, but it was foiimt that ih*re was danger of caving or sliding, and the increased expense to slope the *iden proved too much for tho company. Additional capital WM secured, another misunderstanding, but the limits within j company tor me j, and the work of widening I whi3h friendship sould be cultivated were | "as now been completed. A wall runs the navy the properityande> en the liberty l.tnctly circumscribed. The two Kaiseis | long each ide of the canal for practically nf Ku^liind must eventually depend. If Kiigland was to remain Pntet . > hail already concluded a compact, binding i its entire length. Long !>rcaV water* at each entrance keep the mouths from lilt uniformity that she could be saved without ' O r mtpport Fianci in n attack on G llcrt at the back of them. Bui he was Thes. term*, therefore, did not old-faxliioned. He believed in law and testant it i their two ccuntries to concerted action if wat not by articles of religion or act* ot Russia should violate the treaty of Berlin ermanv. directly menace the republic, but got at her only through I'utsia, and so left a margin with- in which the tact and conciliatory temper of a nkillful smiswiry might bo exercised with advantage. M. Decrais it admitted on aM hands to have done everything that coul.l lie expected of him. He contrived to win tbe respect, and even the sympathy of in order, and he has left a curious paper of re il .11. n on the HI; nation. The ships' com- panies in Henry VI 1 1. 's days were recruited from tbe fishing smacks, hut the Reforma- tion itself had destroyed the 'isliiug trade. In old times, Cecil said, no flesh was eaten on fish days. The King himself Ti\i, oy..! n of 1 Mli Dest.uctive and Mi. hi,n. has bean ilnit Yellow fe BrUMviok, Georgia, a ready lieon reported. niitwoi th grai laruest in Bufftlo, w.i* with ill. .in VIIHP liinhels S.iviT.il niilU, in different BtktN, whloh have been some time, ure rriumiii|| o| ing up and pro'C'-t the vessels entering the canal. There will be two large electric lights at i-nch end and numerous small ones along its bank*. It n propated to lay a railway along .* -!i of th ! bvnks and run light locomoiivts on them for the purpose of '.owing the vessels. c.iiild not have license. Now to eat beef or the Kmperor Fr.ki.cit Joseph ami his "ad- mul ton on tiah days was the test of a true yiters, nml he ii credited, moreover, with ,, introduced in Great Britain. I believer. Tbe Knglish Iceland fishery used to tup- ply Normandy and Brittany at well ;i< Up- land. Now it had panned to the French The Chestjr men used to tiih the Irish sets. Now they had loft them to the Scots. The I'nli.-iiinm had taken to privateering, be- cause tho fails of the Church were neglect- ed. Hu saw it w.i* so. He recorded hi* own opinion that piracy, a* he called it, wa* detestable and could not lost. He was t,' rind tliai it could l.ttt, that it was to form the special discipline of the gsusralion whore business would be to flglit the ..trds. But he struggled hard again*'. the unwelcome conclusion. He tried to re- vive lawful trade by a Navigation Act. He tried to restore the fisheries by Act ol Par- liament. Cecil introduced a bill recommending godly abstinence as a means In virtue, making the eating of meat on Fridays and Saturdays a misdemeanour, and adding Wednesday at a half fish day. The House of ('omnium* laughed at him aa bringing Uck Popish mummeries. To pleas* the Protestants he inserted a clause that the statute wnt politically meant for the in- 1 crcAso of fishermen and mariners, not for i any superstition in the choice of metis ; but it was no ute. The act was o.illed in mockery "Cecil 1 ! fast," ami the recovery ol the fisheries had to wail till the nitural in- clination of human stomachs for fresh whit- ing and salt cqfl should revive of itself. d''i" i I. in Longman's Magazine, A 'ferrl 4r' Train. \\ hut in called a. "corridor" train hat having impresed on the triple alliance it* '; 8onie resemblance to the American veitibul purely defensive character. In the somewhat severely arittncratic so- ciety of Vienna, tho RipuMicaii Knvoy made himself a place, and hit wife, .t very agreeable and attractive ldy, was equally well received. Tiieir receptions were bril- liant and successful, and their departure leaves a momentary gap in the circle where -i Vugus'.iis and Lady Paget are ao pain fully missed. M. l> -crais, when he appears a week hence at Albert-gate, will no |..i be the slim aud smart gentleman who mdo tn li a marked impression in Brussels in I Home, ami even in Vienna during the earlier days of Im sojourn. Hi* frock coat has of late yeirn been let out a little alioni the waist and his f ur hair and beard are l>ei;in- nun; t ahnw streaks of silver. He i* said, I, to look like an underttudy of M. with the addition of a certain air of solemnity not pnstessedby his foituitiou prototype. Knthuism it not part of hi* stock-in-trade, and he bring* little of is across the Chaninel. Ho was in all probab- ility selected * th a view merely to sofim- iwn asperitiet produced by M. Mille- ' sham revelation*, and by the com- of a certain section of the French press. It was thought, too, that his suave UK) propitiatory methods might have the way to a better underxUnding as regards Kgypt. The difficulties that h.\ve nine cropped up in Siam will make a further call upon lilt talents as a o belweun, though the issues will really be fought out by Lord ed train, ,uul is said to combine the best features ot the British and Amcricau syt. terns. Instead of the central aisle, usual in American trains, and on some continen- tal lines, a corridor runs throughout the train on tho left or platform side of the carriages. The space not occupied by the c 'iiiilin it devoted to compartments, con- structed for four passengers, fitted in the niu.il Knglish fashion, hut shut otl from the corridor, and each provided with a doer opening on the corridor. The continuity of the corridor is effected by an admirable arrangement between the carriages, con- sisting of a weather-proof gangway of ttout and flexible indis-rubber, lilted to metal collapaible fmniet, by which an un- impeded transit may be made from one end of the train to the other. Thus, says the Saturday Review, tlie traveller by the "corridor" train i* secure of his comfort in tho carriage, according to r.i- ii'cas, and commands the advantage of free circulation through the train, with know- ledge that the right of way cannot leaito any infringement of his own right to the seclusion of his carriage. He is in the position of tho man who it free to stay in his room or walk out into the street. There are openings at the ends of the cars at in America, and openings at the side ss in Great Britain. The American conven- ience, of dining cars has also been introduced, for third-class, as well as 'or 6rst-cla<i pas- sengers. I ;l it r. I i H ..<-,.!.. AHfBsTITLTB FOB I.KATIIIwK. A new material is proposed a* a substitute fcr leather. It is ctlled " rlexus fibra," and is derived from Has, suitably prepared and oild. It has the same appearance as leather, is particularly supple, and takes * polish equally well with the best ki-id* f calf. The material i* said to possess gr& t tenacity, while affording great ease ar.d comfort to the foot when made into shoes. Flexns 6bra, bein< of vegetable origin, is calculated also to facilitate free ventilation, and thereby to obviate the discomfort aris- ing from what is called " drawing" the feet. A rsni-Ti. IMI-I.<(MKNT IN SVI-ADKOX WORK. Prince Louis of Oattenberg. Naval Ad- viser to the Inspector General of Fortifica- tion in Kngland, ha* invested a useful little implement for facilitating calculation, and lience saving time. It will mutually convert speed, time and distance, both for single ships and for two ships working in concert, [t also contains in a handy form, scales of British and metric linear measurement. There are three scales on the face. In the center is a time scale marked in hours. Above and below this are two revolving distance scales, giving the distance in nautical miles run for every three hours at ail practical sea speeds. 1 he upper one is marked from five to twelve knota, inclusive. Directions are given : To find how soon aftei starting a slower ship will be over- taken hy a faster one, both speeds bsing given ; to find what spe-sd a ship mutt go to overtake a slower one within a given time ; to find how long a ship can remain behind and yet overtake a slower ship within a given time. The problems are not solved with mathematical accuracy, but sufficient* ly for the practical purposes of squadron work, when a ship may be left ben ml to follow up with dispatches. Using only one listance scale, the observer it told how to find the distance which will be run 1:1 a giveu time at a given speed, to find the time required to run a giveu distance at a given speed, and to find the speed required I > run given distance in a given time. These last problem* can easily be worked out ith a pencil. THE PXOTUI 'Tin* OF MICRO-OKliANIHMH. ' One of the simplest ways in which micro- organisms can be removed from water is by the addition of alum. F.xperiment prove, that the addition of one-half a grain of alum to a gallon of water reduces the number of microbe* by 99 per cent. It is found that in all case* after agitating water to which a small amount of alum hat been added an absolutely sterile liquid is obtained, though as many as 1200 microbes originally existed in a cubic centimeter (.00 cubic inch). Scott Moncrielf, who has been engaged in eimcai and bacteriological investigations in KugUuid, especially ia connection with a ystem of purifying sewage, oat diooov~.il u j n-~ ---*- micro ort'Miitms ful- fil a most valuable mission in nature's lal>- oratory. In paint of fact the disappearance of the organic matters, in tbe process of punfyirg sewage, is due to the action of such micro-organisms. These organisms have been identified aud classified, and there is no longer any reason to doubt that they are in reality " nature's scavengers." They have Ions been known to bacteriologist* a* non-pathogenic, or harmless bacteria, but it was little suspected that they could carry on the vast and beneficient work of which they are capable when cultivated unler proper conditions. It wa* reserved for these apparently insignificant organisms to accom- plish what has hitherto ballled the most elaborate principles of chemistry and me- chanics. MUtt Mil MltKli* \\D400\S IMTBs> A Tallrerala ladlsjsi Tale I a-n . ih.-.l with a skrlrluB. A few days ago, says the San Francisco Chronicle, some men opening the iiuarry of Contractors Flynn .t Sullivan at the San Clemento station, near the Keetl ranch, dug o'lt an Indian mound. About five feet be- neath the rurface they disinterred a skele- ton in good preservation, which was pro- HpgJ by Dr. Windele, one of the party, almost' fortJSHfti 1 "' "' "'' Ind'an woman. An revived by this i n 'ttlt<l^*n<!'nt history is Early in the "thirties" *^_^ neighborhood was the abi 'ing'jmiJIP'l Jta tribe of California Indians who were kno'wtk as the Shark Indians, because of their habit of ornamenting themselves with tbe teeth of the sharks caught off Tiburon, itse'f translated meaning shark. Raccoon Strait* was then infested by those ferocions mon- sters, and on the present site of F.I Campo was another Indian tribe, tho Coon Indians, whose head piece was thetdtin of the coons. The numerous Indian mounds found in these localities indicate that their popula- tions were unusually large. Between the Shark* aud the Coons a hitter feud existed, which led to frequent battles, in which the Sharks were almos alway* victorious. Kirkshaw* Island, or, as it is now known, Uelvcilcie, was the favorite battleground. Ou the northern end of the Island one may pink up a do/en flint arrow heads in an afternoon, and at the beginning of the ris- ing ground from the meaa that stretches to the bay it au immense mound, perhaps the largett in California. An aged half-breed now employed on the Reud ranch is authority far the legend that through the milniineu'.ality of a clever squaw of th Sh irks, the warring tribes were finally re- !! tkiid became fast friends. Shewat, according to the Indian idea of loveliness, by far the most beautiful womsn in north- tlif'iiiiia, and she permitted herself to be captured by a young chief of the Coon* while fishing -n her canoe in the straits. He led her in triumph to his wickiup, but the beauty was obdurate, and declared that unless he made overtura* of peace and alli- ance to her people, the Sharks, she would never be his bride. The love smitten chief obeyed and a union wot the result, which to strengthened these tribes that when the Sonoma Indians came down to Tiburon for a lilvle righting aud sea bathing they were promptly whipped back to their valley by the Coon-Shark com bination. When the wise worn in died, full of year* and honors, she was buried as S t i Clemento and this mound erect I ;) ho. memory. Truth it like a clear mirror, which, when it it not cracked or tampered with, gives a true image ; but whon it is, distort* and gives n wrong expression to th. object re- floctf-d.