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Thrilha? Experience of An Imprisoned Hunter- Tke Deadly i.nllin e: Which Br Wa mm We had been camped on the Limpopo River, which forms the northern boundary of the Trannsvaal, South Africt, when Cap'. Jordon bad a fall from bis hone and broke, a leg. We fixed him up as well as we could, and then the paymaster set out o.-i horseback to bring a surgeon from Albasini, sixty milej to the south. It was on a Monday morning the accident happen- ed, it rau.ed heavily all day, but Tuesday mornm,' wa* bright and clear, ami the natives got out blankets and clothing to dry in the nun. At the same time 1 over- hauled the gun*, and all were unloaded when there wa* a sodden alarm in camp. One of the natives had discovered a large serpent lurking under some bashes, and the shouting and running Htampedtd the Captain's horse. He galloped away up the stream as fast as he could go, and thinking only of recovering him aa speedily as pos- sible I rose up and ran aft* r him, taking no weapons of any sort. It wasn't the most sensible thing I could have done, and yet it wann't so very foolish. I diJn't sup- pose he would go over half a mile, and though there were plenty of lions about we seldom ran across them on a bright, day. I ran up the narrow path about a mile before lighting the horse. He was facing me and had got over hia care, but as I came nearer he turned and kieked up his heels and trotted off. Here and there waa a tree, and there were many bushes scattered al.out, the soil was .HTXIUI.I AND KIX KT, and near the centre of the plain was a hil' which was little more than a mas* of rock. The horse passed to the left of this hill and I followed. He was not over 'JOO yard* away, head up and pawing the earth in p'ay, when a full grown mule lion made a long spring and alighted on hi* back. The horse uttered a horrible cry and sank down, probably having hi* back broken. It was not until he was down that I really knew what had happened. The lion stood there with his forepaw* on the floundering hone and looked me full in the face and growled menacing!). I began backing away and as the beast snowed no disposition to follow me I no sooner got two or three bashes betwesn us than I turned to run. There was another surprise party in store for m<* a* I turned about. Not forty feet away stood a lioness. I wa* probably the first white man she had ever seen at close quarters. Her head wa* up and her tail down, a sure sign of doubt on her part, and I mad* haste to get out of the way before he should take it into her head that I wa* an enemy. I had to go to the left, or to- ward the hill, and it was doubtless the fact of seeing a hole among the rock' about ten feet up that suddenly took my nerve away and induced me to seek shelter. Had I flanked tha lioness and gone my way all would have been well. I reached the hole in the rocks without difficulty and backed into it, never stopping to think that it migHt be the !irof a wild beast or a den of serpents. Th* opening would no', have let me in had I weighed I6U pounda There wasn't much space behind it only iitficient to enable me to sit down . 1 confess to bo- ing thoroughly rattled for a time.and never recall th* situation without wanting to kick myself. After an hour or so I began to realize what A FOOLISH TIIINI: I had done, and determined to crawl out and make for camp. I had my head and one arm out of the opening when a fierce snarl tainted my ears, and right in front of me and not thirty feet away I beheld both lions. More than that, a cub lion about ten month* old was frisking at his mother's heels. I wa* boxed up, snd the only hope I had was that if 1 kept quiet the lions would soon retire. The presence of the cb was proof that the lair was not faraway. Indeed, 1 got an odor now and then which satisfied ne that 1 had almost blundered upon it. lad the sun continued to shine the beasts Slight have laid up, as the bushes offered iut little shade, but the sky clouded over wd the atmosphere grew cooler. I wnitod an hour by my watch before looking out again. The lioness lay on her back, feet in the air, sound asleep, with the cub near by, but the lion lay with his head on hi* paws and his big yellow eye* wide open. He did not growl nor move, but his eyes shone like coals of fire at sight of me. While he could almost cover the distance at as. ng'e spring, 1 was not afraid of him. I had only to sink down to be safe. That big head of his was twice, too larfc'e for the hole, and the rocks wsie too solid to be moved. I got my watch up where I sould note the lime, and then mad* an experiment. At exactly 1<> J<i o'clock I caught his eyes and began Staring at him. It wasn't a question of how long he could stand it, but how long I could continue the stare. At the end of seven- teen minutes my eyes ached so that I had to close them. During all that t:me the lion never even winked, to lay nothing of hr-traying nervousness. I knew that ('apt. .lordon at the camp would ind some of the men out after a bit t" search for me, but as none of our black fellows knew much of the ute of firearms and were alo cowardly when there was no white man to lead them I did not anticipate that their search would extend a* far an the hill. About half an hour In-fore noon I heard them firing their mu*kets and caught the seunil of their voices, but they were a long way off. The noise KOI SDH IT THK I. IONS, and for to or three minutes thy evinced a disposition to tlink away. The lioness and her cub did retreat a few rods, but the male held bis grouud, and they soon return- ed. There v/ere sight natives in the party searching for me, and though their near unproich. might, have sent tho lions away, ff.e < ii.xncet wore at least even that they woul 1 h.ive been attacked. They returned to camp to r' port that they could discover i-o t race of me, and the Captain, who was ii lermg, had to be content with hoping ili.it I would come in during the day. I had eaten a very hearty breakfast and was not hungry at noon. Like most humors, I had restricted myself u to water n 1 oMilil go from fifteen fo twenty hour* without suffering. However, 1 began to , out- w tne situation soon after noon, and determined to aee what I coul.l do toward driving my jailers away. I was ten feet above the level, and the In. mi lay under the bushes about thirty feet directly iu front of and below me. Both were eyeing me, while the cub frisk- ed aiound and occasionally approached the base of th hill and growled at me lika an angry dog. I got hold of a piece of rock weighing al>uiit a pound, and with my head and light arm out of the hole 1 Hung it at the lions and uttered a yell. I Lad only time to sink back when the head of the male flopped the opening, and though I knew he could not get at me his snarls and growls so close to my face made my hair stand en end. The old fellow workoil away for ten minutes before he gave up, snd when I dared look out again I found him lying down between me and the bush. The lion- ens and her cub had disappeared, and for an hour I hoped that they bad been frightened away. Then they returned from the direc tion of the dead In me, and THE BLOOD STA1NH on their chops left uo doubt as to their err- and. I expected th* lion would now go away for his dinner, but be did not, and I crouched down in the cave and went to sleep knowing that I wan perfectly helpless in the matter. ! was dutk when I was aroused by the roaring of the lion. Unless routed out of his liar and hotly pursued the lion does not drink except by night, and then only after eating. He iuvariaoly roars with the coming of night, ami if he hoa laid by all day he sets out in search of game a soon as it is faiily dark. As my jailers had had no sleep I did not know how it would be with them, but I fully determined to make a break in case { they drew off. To attempt to reach the camp would be a hazardous undertaking, bat 1 would exchange the cave for a tree which stood about -1MI feet aay. I got my head out of the hole for a look around, and in the darkness I could make out '.he forms of the two obi lion*. The cub had probably been laid up in the near by lair. Lion* were roaring in different directions, and after a bit one fellow with a roar like half .1 do/.-n foghorns teemed to be coming nearer. Hi* approach greatly excited the pair before me. Had I possessed a little more nerve I think I could have crawled out and taken U> a tree, b:it I dared not chance it. There were a number of hyenas gilding about, and score* of jackals were rushing to and fro, and there was fear that they vuulil give the alarm, even if the lious did not observe me. The male scratched the earth and roared again and again, while the female circled about him and leaped over him and ottered a tort of cry which I construed was more of an encouragement than a menace to the lion approaching from the direction of the river. It appeared to me as if there was going to be a tight, and I got a* far out of the hole as I dared and was all attention. The str.uige lion ap ptoached very slowly. He might have) been a mile away when I first heard him, and be was a fall hour coming up. About every five minutes he stopped to roar, and every ' challenge wo* promptly answered by the ' male below me. Add to this noise the I Itl.WIJ.iKTHK HYENAS and the sharp barks of the jackal*, with the chattering and (cold ing of score* of monkey* in the tree top*, and you can un- ' agine the confusion which reigned for fitly 'or sixty minutes. By and by the sltange lion approached within a few yard*. I could make him out a* he left the cover of When we had finished the male, we be gan searching for the cub, and soon came upon ni'ii in a lair among the rocks. We had brought ropes and a net, and after an hour 's work we made him cap'.ivc. Hu wasabiut the size of a full-grown New- foundland dog and bad five or nix teeth. He wan eventually sent to the < 'ape and from- thence to London, and is probably alive yet. In skinning the male we found a bullet llaltune.l agaiuit the right shoulder biaN. Tbe mistile was from a sporting refle, and the w mnd so nicely healed up thai we found the bullet quite by accident. [i had proiisiily tii'klcd the old fellow a bit, but he would have run away after fifty bul- lets of the calibre bad been tired into him. TUf Brumh In tuglaa.!. While we have had rain in abundance, Kugland for a novelty has had nearly four month* of drought. A few showers have fallen in between time*, but the ub*ei|uent heat ha* more than undone the good result- ing from the moisture. A correspondent writing from London say* : " Saint <i rouse day (that i* August 1'Ji comes like an oasis in a desert in this baked and parboiled year of 1 -!>.'<. Ordinarily it finds London already emptied of its social ruleis and is of use in i he calendar as marking a stage of the sum- mer at which those who are not quite rulers, but are on vimting ter-js with them, now in turn quit the metropu.ia and enable the chronicler* to declare absolutely that no- body w left in London except, of course, a mere five millions or so who have no nun license*. But thi* summer of phenomenal heat and of weariness of flesh and cerve*, which aeeint to have been already ten times too long, find* London still unable m hi; IACINH IK TEN YEiRH. So Sari the Scientist. Alexander Graham Bell- In vein ,,r< Are Mow <> the Kliini Traefc Air -hiii. Will V.I K, Itall.inH. Hu man 1 1 ugi- r I l|i- .! llerlrlr LlgUU. Alexander Graham Bell, the great elec- trician ami inventor of the telephone, was in Montreal the other day, on his way to Cape Breton where he usually spends hi* holi- days. Mr. Bell is on his way from the World' Fair, and hi* view* on the elec- trical department of the great show are therefore of timely interest. " What struck me most." said Mr. Bell, "wa* theccntraat between this exhibit and that of the Centennial Exhibition at Phil- adelphia. At the Centennial the electrical exhibit was insignificant ; at the Columbian it is the greatest department of the Fair. At the Centennial a great Corliss engine on exhibition filled a large room with pulleys and belt* ; now power is derived from a similar engine for several rooms and not a TUB TO i IIOKI . BILB. Three Arab* 11 The WerM's Fair KxrrsKs) rsceanrr * t (< r A Chicago special says : A* a result of a wild night in the Wild Kit Show in- closure in Midway Flaisance this morc.'g four Bedouins were severly hurt, and tbcos of them are in the Woodlawn police Hallos. The name of only one of th* injured is known, because the managers of the show refuse to give information concerning the right . This one man is Haatab Abahd. He swore out the warrant ugainat the prisoners, Kaahad Ago, Mastaph Aba Ha. a, and Mastaph F.I Klabraa. When Abahd appeared at the police station hi* head was swathed in bandages. He declared that the three men had assaulted him without cause, and had used lance* and sword* on him. Just before sunrise the three prisoners stole from their bed* and taking one of ths hones arranged on it a harness, with a long rope dangling behind. Then they went to the tent in which Hastab Abahd slumbered. They bound and gagged him. One of the thongs waa passed under his shoulders. beK or puDey is vuible. Ye*, the science ' f o'g loop at the end. Through this ha* made great strides, but it i* not a mere lo P tht *P e WM "" ed * nd eur r y vulgar theory that it is still in iU infancy. " ' ened - The " Lne Many oilier theories set down by skeptics ""; bou I l th j as vulgar ha al*3 jinclione-i with the f " o ' Mn<>d lnu> stamp of scientific approval, not with the air of a great scientist, but m an unassum- ing yet DBCIDEULT KMI'HATIC War. For instance, he declared his belief, amount- ing almost to conviction, that the flying machine would be an accomplished fact before the end of the i. begin the holidays. Kv.rla.ting home , '^"rl the e*nd of U rule still cuaiiis tne Common* to their swelteting task at \\estm. inter aud holds the Lords in l.ash for their .hare of labor in ^ ,..;, , ucn mm .septemUer. Such a thing never happened Uj ' ,. |u ntor of lbe ' grtlt Maxl , peer, ibefore.and the, regard lit with amazed I rrofcllor Lwigley, of the S wrath as an insuflerable added mdigmty m . ti;ilM . The great difficulty , the home, With the Around and around da*ned dragging Abahd behind him. first leap of the hone one of hi* hoof* struck A bad s head, making a fracture on the sk ill three ir.che* long. Every lime the hone came near the avenging trio he was laahed, and he continued to dash around the ring. The up-nar aroused the sleeping camp, and soon -ne place was tilled with the cries of the dusky men and women. The. atten- hear her whining. Every hyena and jackal suddenly ceased his noise and stood still, and, though I could not see the monkeys, I thought they descended to the lower brancHes a* if to gut a clearer view of the conflict. For perhaps five minutes the lion* stood scratching and sniffing and ga/ing at each other. Then they began to move around in a nervous way. My lion seemed disposed to re- treat, and bad given up about twenty feet of ground when the other closed in on him. I was watching for this, but his spring wa* so sudden and swift that the pair had grap- pled before I knew it. Then began a fight similar to a cor.fli.-t between two maatitln, except that neither lion maintained a grip with his teeth. They stood on their hind leg* and struck and clawed aud bit and rolled about like dog* determined to finish each other. The fight lasted full a quarter of an hour. During the first ten minutes it was a pretty even thing as near as 1 could judge, though an they fought over at least half an acre of ground and were sometimes hidden by the bushes it was hard to tell which was having the best of it. At length one of them began to whine and howl, and I plainly other's t heard hi* bone* crack under the er's teeth. After that he turned tail anil ran away, and the victor stood there and roared until I wa* deafened. When he finally stalked orf. the neighborhood grei/ quiet, but a* 1 heard lioua in almost every direction, though afar off, I determined to pas* the night in the cave. At interval* of every half hour I w* disturbed by the hyenas or j*ckals thrusting their heads into the opening to sniff at me, but I hear. I no more nf tlie linns. I waited till the sun was fairly up and then crawled out and started for cam 11, which I reached without acci- dent. After dinner I took *ix of the black fel- lows and returned to the spot, hoping to secure revenge for the way I had been treated. Just in front of the cave, out of which a hyena bolted as wo came up, there were a Vlo/en tufts of hair to prove the severity of the itonilict between tho lions. I sent the men around the hill to the left to lieat up, and presently th lione** and her cub were routed out. She wa* too cowardly to make a xtand, but I got n fair shot a* she skulked away and bowled her over. The cub turned and ran hack to a mus of rock, and then the male lion came limping out. He neither ioard nor growl- ed, but tried to crawl away, and I ran for- ward and shot him at a distance of only lilty feet. Poor old chap ! It wa* no wonder he had no fight left in him. His left fore leg was uscle**, ONE IV* TvKN Ol'T, and he wai chewed to airing". Out of curiosi- ty I gave hia body a close examination, and had he been fed through a thrashing ma- chine he would not have como out in much worse shape. The wonder wa* that he was still alive I had not ovn the lioness mix in 'ho li^ht. but when we came to look her over we found that sho had received many bite* %nd had a portion of her tongue bitten \V hen she saw her liege lord getting the worst of it she had probably gone to his rescue, but the lion which came up was wore iliuu enough for both of them. from Gladstone and his Irish rabbl. Nor are the city magnate* this year in bet- ter case. With value* still shriveling out of shape and the whole world-wide net of Briti*li markets and investments menaced by the silver crisis in Asia and America they don't dare turn their back* on L >n- don. Legislator* and financiers alike this year are driven to snatch a hasty journey northward to the moors, hurriedly burn a few boxes of cartridges, and race b*ck agiin to town. Nobody will get a real vacation till September, if even then, and by that time everybody will be too faint and weak to move. It has now been sum- mer since the beginning of April, and it get* hotter and hotter a* the weary nooths draw on. The last week has seen the mer- cury rise above 80 every day with the sultriest night* anybody can remember in London. We understand that it is due to sun spot*, which Prof. Chambers say* have not been so big before in thirty yean. He has measured the largest zro'up of then spot* and tinds it extend* 110,000 mile*. century, at years. This great | tion of the surrounding villages wa* undertaking wa* no longer m the hands of I attracted, and soon the fence top wa* lined "fakirs"; it wa* engaging the mind* of | with Laplanders, Chinese, Uahomeyans, practical sciential*, uch men as Maxim, { Algerians, Viennese, and American*. Two xnn gun, and . turbaned men rushed to the assistance of Smithsonian ! Abahd, but the three Bedouins beat them back with sword and i.mce. The spe ctatorr. filed the air with terrible yells. Then from the tent* rushed a do/.en brave men. Half of them were armed with sword* and 'lavoneted carbines, and they descend- i ed upon the avengen with a yell that chine of the " future would have' greater , awakened three sleeping guards at the west specific gravity than the air. Of Uus Prof, i end of the street. Langley and Maxim were convinced, and on I A fiight followed, in which sabres were thi* principle one or Iwth will soon succeed. ' freely used and with bloody effect. The trio ' made a bold stand, but were beaten into subjection. Hashed Ago received a wound in the side. Blood wa* seen on the faces of great, difficulty in the past wa* that inventor* were on the wrong track. They had been vainly trying to make a flying ma. hiue on the principle of the balloon, lighter than the air. .Such a machine could never be properly steered. The Hying ma The machine need not have wing*. Nature was not.alway* a wise guide ; the steam locomotive got on well without legs. Indeed the rotatory motion wa* THE MOST BCOXOMICAJ. It wa* also a mistake to anppose that great three other men after quiet had been re- nt. .r-d. While thi* fight wa* in progies* the frightbned hone had been captured and power wa* needed to propel a body in high | the victim released. He wa* earned into air. It wa* absurd to suppose that a the Vent unconscious, but a doctor brought pigeon poKsesseti half a horse-power. Steam, ' him around. Trouble has been brewing m the Bedouin camp ever since it got a place on the Midway, The men say that the managoraent ha* paid them no salane* for Ih* Peace Ceacrew. The I 'eoce congress which held it* session in Chicago the other day afforded an op- I poit.mity to bring to public attention the absurdity of the method which has corns down to us from past ages of fettling in- ternational rifferences by the arbitrament of the -word. It wai fortunate that at an international dispute, by means of which a lne> the * e , P Ule< ' t 'y"> " ln inter- both parties were gainers, one in having I veoul g ir. ' past claim* for indemnity assured, the. other in having guaranteed to it the undisturbed posseitaiou of a great and profitable nidus lender, who, be says, ha* perfected, or al try. Two generations apo the quarrel over most perfected a telephone scheme which tho Behring sea fur seal fisheries wonld have led to a war, for it is inconceivable that at that time England would have en- dured the sei/.uro by I" m ted Suites cruisers and the condemnation bv I'nitod States court* of vemels belonging to English mer- chants and have gone no further than enter a verbal protest. At the conference it* president spoke of the great cost to the warlike nations of Europe of tho armies which they maintain at all time* ready for action, and contracted these with the small military force which the I'nited State* government maintains. It seems to us, however, that if the cause of j universal peace in ever to prevail it tm-.st be on other than economic ground*. \Ve do not believe in international arbitration, because any nation could save a hundred million dollars thereby, but becauce recourse to war in the settlement of these quarrels i* a barbarous, abhor- rent and illogical method, and has in reality no more justification than a physical encounter between two men. Force may be needed, but it should be the force of police rather than of the army. Indeed, it will hardly do for the American people to lake any great de- gree of credit to themselves on the score of their small army, for, if international conditions were the same on thi* continent that they are in Kurope our neighbors wonld undoubtedly have a standing army of half a million men and e sh.nild be straining under a load of at least one-fifth as many soldier*. America owes its immunity from this oppressive system not to the peaceful feelings of it* people, but to it* for'.uuate geographical posiijos. not electricity, would probably supply, the power of ths air ship ; at least until the ' storage battery was made perfect. As to the future uf the electn: lighting, several weeks. Mr. Bell believe* it to be vast, almost mfin- > Three day* ago five of them appeared be He. This was demonstrated by -he young for* Director-iieneral Davis and complained Russian scientist, Nicolai Te*ia, who before that because they demanded their wages a New York audience lighted a hall by they were kicked out of the show. The electricity pawing through hi* body, the three men who perpetrated the outrage on light emanating from his outstretched fin- Hastab Abahd weresmypatbuers with their ger tip*. Electricity ould, therefore, be | exiled brothers, and had been threatened to human health or life. , with exile. For this threat they belt the " Teala' plan," said Mr. llell, "is to con- ' victim of to-day's torture responsible, duct the current in a sene* of wave* by | Another fight took place in the Wild ever-recurring instantaneous cessation. He EMt J*"*" " r * o'clock to-night. The can fill the dome of this room with a cloud ambulance was called for, and the doctor of light, the supply of electricity coming * lne " ' two men - On " WM from two /.me plate* on eitheir side of the l*hed across the cheek to the bone. The other had a contused jaw. The first had been cut by a sabre and the second by tome blunt instrument. None of the Bedouin* would give information. A Columbian guard, who rushed in to main- tain order, said that no loss than five men and three women took a hand in the scrim- mage, and that swords and clubs were free ly used. Another electrician to whom Mr. Bell give* credit i* a Brmtford man named Cat- Hello girl." Brantford wa* for years gir ll's interacted in all things Canadian. Particu larly, he wa* pleased to learn of the success I ll. ie-1ri It I., i. Aigue*-Morte*,the French town to which recent occurrence* have given so sad and ominous a celebrity, is a place of some re- It is in the i the cansl miles south of the city of Nimes, and noted aa ths point at which Saint Louis embarked on his ill-fated crusade. Some geographer* argued that it must have been a seaport, bnt it i* now believed that the King enbarked in a sloop on a canal, the sea, then as now, . being some mile* away. In this part of ,nt*re*t because it repiesent* % . ,,,.% Jlaljm|1 worknl j n an) mDtll ^y em . ployed and rivalries between them and the French laboren are not infrequent. Bat of Allard.the old I'oint Levia blacksmith, in hardening copper Ilk. steel. This Mr. Bell regards as one of the greatest discover. ' marvel is, he says, that Allard should yet live in obscurity, a village blacksmith. AavlBC* f the reoplr That portion of th* saving* of the Canadian people deposited in the Post-1 >itice bank is of special good deal of the thrift and industry of th* smaller wage-earners of jhe country. The iBle ef ai. i.ir. An The heat in F.urope has not only had a disastrous *H.ct upon the crops and society, but men's minds have become seriously al- fectjd, for we are told that a strange mania fir self-destruction is seizing many victims almost daily in both London and Paris : the paper* contain columns about the sudden epidemic. The peculiar feature about the cra/.e is that most of the victims are young men and women under 30, who end their live* without any discoverable cause of the ordinary sort. Several boys of from 15 to IN, happily iituated in their own families, i in the po*t-ofnc<i syste'm. tendent of the Savings Bank branch, for the year ending June, ISH.'I, it just made public, and contains some facts of interest. The sum now standing in these bank* to the credit of depositors i* $ % _>4, 153, 19.1. Tn s, of course, does not begin to slate thj whole of tha saving* of the people. What aro known a* the <<overnment Savicgs Banks contains over $17,0(10,000 of deposit*, and the chartered banks of the country contain- ed last year over $170,1)00,000 of" deposits. The twenty-millions in the post-office and the seventeen in the .iovernmrnt banks are report of >Tr. David M.theson, the superin- mniniaa ,,edl y as that of recent late his occurred for several years. On the desperate quarrel last occasion when a desperate quarrel of the same kind took place, Marseille* wa* the scene of it and considerable excitement prevailed for a giod while in both coun- tries. It was only after assurances of protec- tion and expressions 'jf regret tromthe French Ijovernment that tho feeling of resentment in Italy gradually died out. It is much to be deplored that a fresh outbreak of national an tip* thy ahoulu have revived the old bitter, ness. 'I here seem* to have been deficient .,, po | Ic . or military, for checking largely the surplus earnings of f.rmers, ! lhe tggrwort ,( protecting the assailed working men au.l other careful people who \ i ull . n . Kormerly there was a aarrusoned and without any sign* ot despondency, des- troyed themselves hut week. A case which ha* caused fierce and morbid discussions in London is that of Krnest Clark, who blew out his brains on Monday, after writing a te mirk able letter to demonstrate that life i* not worth living. He waa i>, of high intel- lectual powers, surrounded with elements of happiness, wi'h no grievance or disap- pointment except a* to life as a wholo. His letter brought to th* newspaper* a great msts of comment from all classes, and it is sign ticant that larue proportion ha* b.'en iin indorsement of bin views and arguments in favor of the moral right, and sometime* duty of self-destruction. like to have their money safely depositud in institution* wuh the country's credit pledged to their security, and who consider that it is rather an ad- vantage to have money laid away where precipitate withdrawal* are avoided by the one or two days' delay in conform- ing to the present regulations. How much real thrift i* represented in these deposits is seen 5' Mr. Matheson's report. In the past year 1-tH.MiS deposit* aggregated |7,- .'^,-sS, so that the average amount of each person's deposit was $51.79. The total amount withdrawn wa* .*li,nl|],.">7\ which, it is satisfactory to note, is less than the totsl deposit* for the year, indicating that the steady growth of the people's savings is not alone to be found in the chartered banks but in the Government institutions a* well. A great deal of buiiness is done Las' year 'Jli. " acco-mts were closed and _?.!,. ">ii:i new ones opened, and the number of account/a DOW on the books of the bonk is 1 14, .'7:>. There- port of the superintendent ia confined to a bare recital of figures, but no doubt he could, if the regulations authorized him, add some very instructive particulars with- out entrenching on the privacy which is preserved tegarding the bank's business. For ins'anoe, a classification of the occu- pations of depositors would be of value and doubtless refute some theories that aro prev- alent. There now stands to the credit of depositors in the post-office hank the largest sum recorded since the institution was ' established. fort at the salt works, but, if there were any soldiers there at the time, they were 'oo few to bo of any service. The police also proved unequal to the du'.y of restrfimiri! the rioter* and defending their victims. There seem* to be little doubt that the latter were much more numerous than early reports gave u* to understand. Unhappily, the work of retaliation ha* be- gun in Italy and the innocent are suffering for the guilty. A grave responsibility rests upon the authorities of the Italisn cities, especially where there are French colonies, and it is to be hoped that they will do their duty. The chauvinist press in both countries find* its opportunity for reviving old grudges and deepening national antipathies. The tiuly patriotic and humane will leave no effort untried to calm the popular mind and restore trsni{inlity and good feeling. Bridging the Bosphorus. The building of a gigantic at Constanti- nople ha* long been under contemplation, with the view of connecting Km op mi- Turkey with Asia Minor by rail. Th* latest scheme is (says Invention) that the structure should span the Bosphorus a little to the east of the metropolis, approximately midway between th* 'iolden Horn and the western extremity of the Black Sea. At this point the strait narrows considerably, but even there the passageway would re- quire to be some tMfk) metres in length, at Buarly as locg a* the Forth Bridge. \