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v THE WEEK'S NEWS CAtUDIAM. There have been five fires in Hamilton sini-e Friday. Two of them were of a se- rious nature and caused considerable louses. The Montreal detective* have succeeded in arresting a youth of eighteen named S. W. Be tie, alias John Leicester, who is wanted i.i Ottawa and Toronto M an expert burglar. The sealing schooner Geneva arrived at ' Victoria, B. "'., on Wednesday, bringing two thousand and sixty seal skins, ef which more than half were taken in Japan seas. The Sunday School Association of On- tario has accepted an invitation to hold its twenly-eighthannval Provincial Convention in Toronto from the 24th to the -'Oth of October next. The K >yal Mail steamer Sardinian, with the Karl and Countess of Aberdeen on board, arrived at Quebec at two o'clock Monday morning, and at nine o'clock the new (iovernor-lieneral of Canada made his official landing. There is such a hopeless difference be- tween the geodetic surveys made of the Alaskan boumUry by the American and Canadian parlies that it is believed the question will have to be submitted to ar- bitration. The Council of the village of Crimsby has refused to consider the Hamilton, Orimsby, an I Keamsville railway bydaw because there is a feeling in the neighlwiirhood that an electric railway through the village would divert trade to Hamilton. Mrs. Beaton has served notice of her in- tention to enter libel suits against the Cana- dian newspapers which lepubliihed the sensational article in the New York World about her and the death of Cicero Harrison Case. The non-commissioned officer* and older men, twelve in all. of " F" Company, 1 Ith P. W.O. Rifles, will be summoned to appear before a magistrate in Montreal Inanswejr a charge of insubordination, in refusing to obey the order of the commandant on Do- minion day. The Soo extension of the Canadian Pa- cific railway has been completed by the lay ing of the connecting link with the main lini at Pa'|m. The regular passenger service will be inaugurated next Sunday. The inquest touching the death of Angus McLeod, who was shot dead at Napanee by a burglar, was resumed on Monday night, ami Frederick Somervills, who was arrested on suspicion, proved an undoubted alibi, and was acquitted. The Courrier de St. Hyacinths makes a bitter attack upon Mr. Laurier, because he said before an Ontario audience that he could see the day spproaching when there would be union between all men speaking the Knglish language. Prof. Macour, naturalist of the Ceoloc ical Department, arrived in Ottawa on Monday, after spending five month* 011 Van- couver If land. He has brought back with him a fine collection nf the birds, flowers, grasses, insects, sea-shells, fish, etc., of the country. Some unknown person fired a shot through a window in the residence of Mr. Filial rault, editor of the Cauaila Revue, at M on t real, Sunday. The bullet pawed close to the head of Mr*. Filistranlt, but as her husband has of late received threaten- ing letters, it is supposed the intention uras to kill him. RRIT1NII. Ths Hritish Association has elected Lord Salisbury president, to succeed Sir Archi- bald Call. The police have intimated to all the Lon- don hanks that a gang of expett American forgers are now en their way to London. The miners of Lancashire and Yorkshire '.- vottnl unanimouiily againit accepting a redaction nf cages or submitting the dis- pute with their employers to arbitration. The Ameer of Afghanistan has informed ths Indian (Government that preparations for the reception of the British mission are complete. The lirilish envoy his started from Simla. It is asserted that the Clatlstone Govern- ment has promised the Welsh members of the House of Common* to make disestab- lishment of the Church in Wales the prin- ciple nf a bill in the autumn session. The press of Paris anil a number nf the provincial newspapers continue the com- paign against tin- British Niger Company. The newspapers also comment with a critn- ony upon the visit of the Hritiih Meditcr- rsnean squadron to Italy. The London section of the National Liber- al Federation, at a meeting held the other day, unanimouily adopted a resolution de clsring in favour of the abolition of heredi titry legislators. At the animal meeting of the lirituh Association, held in Nottingham, an invita u MI for the association to visit loronto fct the earliest convenient date was read and favourably discussed. The London Chronicle yesterday morning, commenting on the appointment of the Hoyat Agricultural Commission, said thst Canada is one of the most conspicuous example* of State education to the farmer, and that it was certain similar instruction to the farmers of Rngland would be greedily received. There WAS a railroad accident on Satur- day near Hath, Kng. A tram from Pad dington on the (treat Western railroad, ran off the rails in a tunnel near It 1 1 h. \\ .ile in this predicament a train hound for P.iildmgtou ran into It. No lives were lost. A detachment of Huisars have arrived at Holywell, Flintshire, in order to protect the miners, who have gone to work in the llettaheld and 1'iiinltifayre collieries, in : mil. The strikers are threatening to make a desperats assault upon the man at work. Sir (ieorge Trevelyan announced that the KriUsi i. v.riim-ni had decided to abandon l\ efforts in ;>, diwoMosj of State OolobUaUnir'as the tenth of ths expenmi nl With the HallcoaU ami K illarnsy settlers in ths Canadian North- West wai cxtemely HUN*'' The croftorn invt m,t ,,m,i hack any instalments if tint money ,i. vanceil them, mid liad not even [mid their municipal taxos, I MTKJ STATE*. The new While House baby will be otnistcne , President Cleveland has nominated Mr. James. J. Van Alen, of Rhode la'and, a> I'uiteil States Ambassador to Italy. Terrible forest fires are raging around Mashfield, Wit. A number of lives are re ported to havj been lost, and forty families are homeless. The great draw span of the new bridge across the Missouri river si Omaha, Neb., the biggest and heaviest In the world, was swung into pla-e on Thursday afternoon. Henry S. Cochran who stole five thou- sand ounces' of gold from the Philadelphia mint, has been arrested. Five oases of smallpox and seven suspect ed cases were reported the other day to the health authorities of Brooklyn, N. Y. The Sovereign Orand Lodge of Odd- fellows, which lias been in session for the past few days at Milwaukee, will hold its annual meeting next year at Chattanooga, Tenn. Tke proposition to charge twenty-five cents admission to the World's Fair on Sun- days, and to admit Chicago school children on certain days for ten cents, was voted down by the directors on Monday. All except four hundred dollars of the seventy thousand dollars stolen from the Mineral Hinge train on Friday last has been recovere I, and seven persons are under arrest in connection with the rob- bery. The fouiteenth regiment of Ohio National liuards on their way to the Chicago Fair, when the train stopped on Friday night at Lima, O. , raided the restaurants and saloons and stole everything on which they could lay their hands. The town of Villa Canas, in the Province of Toledo, Spain, has been devastated by floods, and about forty lives have been lost. It is reported that the Brazil rebels have zaine J a foothold in Rio, and that President Peixoto has retired. A despatch from Kisiingen says that Prince Bismarck it muoh bolter. There was only one case fjf cholera report- ed throughout Holland on Saturday. The Petit Parisien says that an extensive coal strike is pending in the Pas de Calais Ruin. The Paris Figaro nays that the French Government will decline the lirilish de- mands ior the creation of a buffer Slate in Sum. A soldier in ths camp at Bonitza, near Belgrade), has been seized with cholera ; this ban camed so much alarm to the mili- tary authorities that the Servian army manoeuvres have been postponed. It is reported that work on the Panama canal will be resumed ID November, and that an effort will be made to organize an- other French syndicate to complete the work. The result of the bombardment of Rio on Thursday by the rebel Brazilian war- ships was insignificant, largely owing to the fact that President Peixoto had been secretly informed of the contemplated at- tack. Kmperor Francis Joseph, with a retinue of two hundred and ninety-two persons, arrived at (lucnt on Saturday night, to be present with Emperor William at the mili- tary mantriivres. A Paris paper utates that France has on-. anted to let Kuuiu use Villa Tranche, near Nice, as a naval station for the squad- ron which the Cxar proposes to place in the Mediterranean. A special despatch from Brisbane, N. S. W., states that the Prime Minister recom- mends that a twenty-five thousand dollar aiiiiual subsidy be granted to ths Victoria, It. (.'. , mail service. The miner's strike in the Dipartmant of Pas de ( 'alais has already begun to sprsad to other districts of Francs. ulroubohla nml u, Trrnlmrnl. The official account for the put year of ths persons treated for hydrophobia in the I'Mleur Institute in Paris l.as just been published, and considering that England stands second on the list of foreign contri- butors in point of numbers, the statistics should be of especial Interest to this conn- try. Although popular feeling has not per- milted the establishment of an institute in Knglaud for ths treatment of rabids. such institutions having been, however, founded in Bra/.il, Mexico, Russia, Turkev, Si. My, Ac., no fewer that tewenty-sit of our coun- trymen crossed the Channel last year to flace themselves in the hands of M. Pasteur. i is satisfactory to leatn that out of a grand total of 17110 persons bitten by rabid animals treated in Paris ahne only four me- cumbed to rahtcM, and if we remember that the uiual mortality in such cases when not submitted to treatment m from I.i to -J I per cent, this result is the more gratifying and reassuring. Among the arrivals at the insti- tute was a Sister of Mercy from Madeira, rabies having made its appearanci in the island for the first time at the end of the previous year, a dog from Portugal having bitten several dogs which subsequently went mad, one of which bit the patient in question. One point of particular interest ami importance is brought out in the report, *nd that is the decrease in the number of cases of hydrophobia se'it to the inst from those parts of France where frish unitary and police measures had been framed and strictly enforced in concquenoe of the disastrous manner in which ruble* had previouily asierted itself and taken hold of the district. W mm n M. li.K-l.lnrk.. A custom is rapidly gaining groun.i in France, and especially in Toulon and cer- tain other towns, which, it may safely be prophesied, will not find much imitation in this o niiitry. This is the employment of women ae street shoeblack*. The French women shoeblacks r* most J Hellishly gotten up, and as to their caps frills have somewhat the appearance of hospital nurses, ami it is surprising that though their occupation is a tolerably diri\ one, they always seem clean and tidy, some of them are doing the polishing in gauntlet glovis. In the towns in which they are employe.! they certainly are a sucwess peotimikrily, especially where Kuglish and American iUr, who generally seem to treat the whole 1 au r M R00 d joke, are numerous. ixigio worksTWa^hyslci oouHmptatei Thinking ii the talking IU . , ou , mi(ll Itself. DESPERATE LIFE STRUGGLE Kn(l|j>hw*B>an' Terrible AdtealHre M Hii r little*. The schooner Mandarin, one of the coast- ers owned by Duff, Urowo, ft Co., at Amoy China (Capt. Clinton), carried a mate and four men, a cook, steward, ami a boy, mak- ing a total crew of eight. Captain Clinton had married an r.nglinh girl living at Amoy, and the voyage was a bridal trip. She was a good-looking, brave hearted young woman t boat 20 years old. For the Chinese tn.ite hail been engaged. voyage a He cooid ercd that she was drifting towards the island or oat into the track of the larger craf i, and he had let go the anchor to lessen the chances of a rescue. The ruffians di- vided thrir force, and one partyjwas to break in the window already alluded to, while the other attracted our attention by SMA8HJNO T1IK 8KYUUHT. I told Mrs. Clinton of the plan, and she watched the skylight while I went to the room. It was the steward who got the contents of ir.y musket this time, but he was hit in the shoulder instead of being killed. The other party used oars and capstan bin to smash the skylight. Mrs. Clinton got light of one and tired at him, bat without effect. If the fellows had leaped down, they would hire had us for sure, out they lack- ed nerve.and Li Smg being disabled from not speak English, but the captain could speak Chinete. The ship had as cargo rice imn, and tinware, agricultural implements, 100 kegs of nails, shoes, clothing, and cot- tons, and more or less money about 40<). Thisi was in Chinese coins, in bags, and all the crey knew about it. Tho schooner was provided wilh a dozen muskets, as many boarding pikes, and six or eight cat lessee. All wondered why Capt Clinton had sbippe 1 such a fellow as La Sing for mate. He was a powerful big fellow, with an evil face and a treacherous look, and on two or three different occasions he had visi- tors who looked to be tough citizen*. The ere v were all aboard the evening before wo sailed, bul the Cplaiii and his bride were not to coma off till next morning. On this night( writes a member of the crew who de- scribes the \oyage) while I was loitering on deck Li Smg was conversing in a con- fidential way with two of the sailors, snd I caught enough of their talk to satisfy me that THKRB WAS A PLOT of some kind on hand. We called at sev- eral of the islands off the coast north of Amoy, and Ihen shaped our course for the Island of Hal-Tan. We bad disposed ot some cargo, bat no money. We had been out, a* near as I can remember, 15 days, when we bore up for H -u Tan. We had a run of only 70 miles to make, and we were within '20 miles of the island when it fell a dead calm. The wind died oat with the sun, and the night came on as quiet and peaceful as one ever saw at sea. It was the Captain'* watch from eight to twelve, and be and his bride i\t on deck ;md play- ed Ihe guitar and sang. 1 slept from 8 to 11, and from 11 to 1*2 listened to the play- ing and singing. Al midnighl I was sent to call the o-.her watch, and, as I started forward, Mrs. Clinton went to the cabin. In passing forward I found Li Sing and his watch at the capstan. Tim was a bit sur- prising, hue not exactly suspicious. As I I tar led aft the mate called to the captain, and as I descended the cabin steps Captain Clinton was going forward. I did not catch whaMraa said, bul got the idea that | the lookout had espied something, snd the ' year to get aboard the Mandarin. The captain had Urn called to inspect it , villains refused to come out of the fo'castle through hit night glass. I was only fairly ! for several hour*. We drenched them, in the cab when I , tired .down upon them, and finally drove taking active part also had its effect, came daylight soon after they drew olf and we felt we had a still farther advantage. A little before sunrise, and while we were snatching a bite, the cook was sent aft with a flag ot iruce to say lhat if we Jid not mi-render ibey would fire the schooner and roast uj in the cabin. I re- turned answer that we refused and five minutes later held the key of the situation. The crew were all forward. From ths win- dow of Mrs. Clinton's room I could com- mand the decks. Our only boat was on the davits, and they muit come \'.l to get her. When 1 called the lady lo c.ims and view the situation she said : " Bo'i, they have cruelly murdered one of the best men on earth and left me a widow ! (jod forgive me for my hardness of heart , bul I Ihirst for revenge. They are in plain sight. Let me have a shot at thVm!" I bfa/ed away and dropped one of them with a bullet in his thigh. The others must either go over the bows or down into the fo'castle to find shelter, and they chose the latter place. The last head had scarcely disappeared when I worked my way through the window, seized a musket handed oat by Mrs Clinton, and then ran forward and closed the sc'ittle and fastened it on the mn. The steward had gone with the others, but the man wounded in the hip LAT I.R.MMM: ON DICK, and the dead man was lying where he fell. The wounded mutineer en peeked instant death, but I simply removed his knife before returning to the cabin. When the barri- cade had been removed, Mrs. Clinton came on deck. Hai Tan Island was cow only about un miles away, and three native craft were in plain sight. I set a signal of distress and discharged two muskets, an I in aboat half an hour we had plenty of help aboard. The fellow on deck, being wound- ed uuto death, confessed that every man aboard except the cook wag a desperate character, and that they had worked for a 1I1AKD A fit II CRT, followed by a scuffle and a splash. It came fo me in au instant that the captain had teen done for ami thrown overboard, and bor what followed I deserrn no credit, as I acted entirely on impales. I wheeled about and bolted the doors, and then rin to my room and brought out two loaded n uakels. of insanity. lust as 1 appsared with them Mrs. Clinton came .from ner room and enquired what was tin- matter. I was about to explain, when there wi.s a rush of feet ou deck and loud curse* at the cabin doors. Mrs. Clin- ton m.iantly divined what had occurred. She flung up her arms and tottered about, i meot f or , and her face grew whiter than snow. 1 expected to hear her scream out and to see her fall to the floor in a faint, but with a mighty effort she pulled herself together ami advanced close to me and whispered. " B in, have they killed my hushand ?" " I believe they have," I answered, fear- lime to concoct an evasive'antwer. " Wa* theie a quarrel?" " No, This is the work of Li Sing. The object is tu get money." " Then they will kill us too?'* If ihey can." them out with a Chinese stinkpot, procured from one of the native crafts. As fait as they appeared they were shot down, and when all were dead their bodies were flung overboard. That'i Chinese justice on the high sea*,iin<l no one ever hears of courts or officials taking exception. We got a crew to work the schooner back to Amoy and for long months Mrs. Clinton was on the verge the Pritrllrul tiilur of Ike Bl<-i-lr. The practical value of a bicycle an an im- portant aid to locomotion, apart from its use a* a means of recrealion, and as an instru- iporting purposes, u constantly bs- I ing exemplified. It is used for a variety of , business purposes, more especially in rains I where the saving of lime is of importance. I We have watched with considerable interest ; the progress of a lamplighter who has pressed the machine into service, and who, although encumbered by the awkward implement by he "My Cod: My (iod !" she cried, as she covered her face wilh her hands. " Ken, do you believe wo can escape?" "1 told her of the firearms, and added that if she would help ' manages not only to get expeditiously from ilding on t lamp to lamp, but, by holding on to the lamp-post with one hand, succeeds in light- ing the lamp with the other without dis- mounting. Workmen of all kindi may frequently be seen riding about with allsorM of implements. Thsir mounts are generally machines ot obsolete patterns, but even the old fashioned high bicycle is not despised, tat , se wou en ~ out of the cabin until some craft came to , v , i \\alefl, tlie bloyoM is beintf e o rescue. Her heart must have been > our rescue. Her heart must have been 1 breaking, and the look of terror and dis- tress on her face 1 shall never forget, but she seemed to crowd her own imlentity atide and become another person as sho answered : " I will help all I on. I will bring out the guns and do just ai you tell me." At this moment Li Sing called upon me to open tho cabin doors, saying the captain was sick, and they wanted lo bring him down. I riplied that I knew whal had occurred, and that the Hrst man who laid hands on Iho doors would get a bullet. The main began at them wilh a capstan bar, and 1 tire) at random. They were good thick door*, but the heavy bullet paused through the wood and struck Li Sing on the right knee, shattering the cap and thereby at least partially dib!ing him. No one ever made a luckier shot. He was in such pan, lhat all his plans were upset (or the next two hours. Mrs. Clinton naiii never fired a pistol or gun, but I showed her how it was done, and she expressed her determination not only to hold the cabin, bul lo fully avenge her husband's death. Our point of danger waifrom the skylight, or It would have been if the fellows had been piovided with firearms. We could do Lotting to Utter ourselves in that direc- tion, and after finishing the barricade sat down to await the next move on the part of the enemy. It came at about two o'clock In the morning. The fellows i RKIT AfT IS A rtlltlV, and all of a sudden one ol them oegan chopping at the doors with an axe. We pushed our musket barrels through the barricade and bla/.ed away, and they at , extensively em- ployed by the younger colliers as an ex- . prditioiM means of communication between ' their homes and ths collieries, which are often some distance apart. Those who use bicycles gain considerable in time, leaving later in the morning and arriving home earlier than thoie who travel on foot. In some cases, it is said, the miners have to walk five or six miles to their work, so that, given a very low rate o( travelling, thosj on wheels can easily save an hour a day. The majority of the riders observed about during the working hours of week days are engaged on business of some kiud. The great army of pleasure seeker* issues forth ouly on Saturday afternoons, Sundays, and ths occasions of general holiday*. t Newcastle Leader. A IHU..J A King over i man i ing the * ,irrrdrr * a telfgrin says that while M ""-..ag on S*turdy mountain to Mohitsa, a Pproched the Royal Carriage wh a pistol in his hand. The escort hastened in alarm to the carriage to protect bis Majesty, when to their aston- ishment the intruder threw himself on his knees and exclaimed, " My lord and king, I am Xsuinica Dragics, unon whoee head a price of three thousand francs has been set. No one has succeeded in capturing me. Now I voluntarily place my life in thy hiid.'' The King, who was at first great- ly "turtle I, speedily regained hie compos- ure, and told tho notorious bandit that he must nurrender lo the gendarmes, and the man allowed himself to be taken captive without reiiietacce. With his arrest dis >>n,'e i etreatsd. Mrs. Clinton's room looked | appears the last of the brigand chiefs of out on deck forward, and the swinging Seivia, sash was only defended by a Ii, ' ' ' a light blind. After Ihe mutineer* relroatcd I entered this room to observe them Iron, the window. And it was a lucky thing I did. One of thrm h.id crept along the deck to the win- dow and wo* there engaged in cutting ihe slats oul of the blind. While il waa not moonlight outside, I could see him plainly, and I rested the. mr./rle of my musket on the sill of the window and gave him the '.-cuts. The cartridge WHS made up of a bullet and four btuksliot, and the villain ..: knew what'liurt him. Fifteen min- utes after my *h<" we Mr ml tho splaih of Ui* anchor. I.i -.; g ind piolwbly discov- t Pl.iani- ul Vlprn Vipers swarm this year in Ihe rocky and heathery parts of the Fontamebleau For- est. Au alpenstock is a good precaution againit them, as it enablej one to grope one's way, and so reduces the danger of stepping on one of these noxious creatures. The venom under the tooth i*, it appears, secreted more plentifully in hot than IV>gs are constantly bei in cold weather. IV>gs are constantly being bitten, and with deadly elTeet. An adult would not be likely to din from a viper's bite, but he would be in a b ,d way for at least six months. ASIBF.KIO A aelimdr Whirls ake Ike sValu The St. Petersburg correspondent *rf t.'ie London J>,tUy T>l<jni^h. writing of SiU.ria, ays : The vastness of the country is a hindrance to description norlh bemg total* ly unlike south, and east possessing little in onmiin wilh west. One of Ihe moat striking characteristic* of the country, next to its mounUins and rivers, is its virgin forests, so utterly unlike ihoae of Sweden, Fm'_n,!, or lirazil as lo need a class all to themselves. The taiga is a sight to be remembered with awe for a lifetime ; the mere recollection of it partakes of the nature of the nightmare bristling with the grotesque horrors of disordered dreams. The air there is clogged and damp ; the noonday light dimmed to dusk : vegetation matted and dripping ; an 1 the |>ungenc smell of must and mould pervading and permeating everything pierces to the inmost soul grown irrou enough 'o perceive it. Thickets of moss-covered mildewed spruces, interlocked m deadly embrace, vainly weslling with each other and with pines and cedars for the life-giving light of ths genial sun, are warped and wjven into one wide wall of appalling thick- ness. Nor U it sheer denceness alone lhat renders the tfcig impassable : a no less ef- fectual hindrance consists of the wicker- work of storm-felled cedar*, birches and firs, twisted into the general tangle amid mounds of dead leaves, gnarled root*, and musty masses of slowly-decaying vcge- t.ition. , And the farther you advance the sadder your surronndings. Wind* that would tough and wait through the trees of a Kt.ropean forest glide noiselessly by in tho taiga. If unusually violent, they may sway and bend and break the tops ot tower- ing larches and tapering cedar* eighty or a hundred f'et nearer to the clouds ; bnt they st ir no goisamer thread of lenar ties* web down in the dixmal depths below. For, in truth, you are at the bolt jm of a sea of rank vegetation, the face of which may b* ploughed into furrow* and wave*, while all is calm and stagnant in the slimy depths beneath. Nor con the most creative fancy take this uncanny stillness for the soft hush of peaceful eventide or the " solemn midnight's tingling silentuess." Silence and twilight keep their noonday watch here, sailing slowly among the shifting shades like vaporous shape* half-seen. The modulated murmurs of the air and the musical motions of forest and glade are not slumbering only, but frozen and dead ; the birds and bees have flown to far-off nest* and hives ; the winds seem to be pent-up in ramparted caves, sunlight to have found a gloomy prison, and life an everlasting grave. A Russian friend of mine (the eorresuon- dent continues) assured me that when nid- ing for the first time, alone and by night, in the tangle of the taiga, terrified by the sound of his own fitful movements, his ~ brain began to give way as he "ate the heart out of his own humanity. " A novice not yet hardened to hope, insensible to fear, he was seeking refuge from keepe;* who had plucked up mercy by the roots; snd yet be yearned for the report of their mur- derous guns, for the blood curdling growl of the pack of hungry wolves, for the dread trumpet of the Archangel calling rien to judgment for anything, in short, tu break the spell that was fait creeping over him. And thousands of ill-starred wretches have felt like him as they erred hither and thither in these chaotic wilds and, looking sadly sip at the leafy roof above, descried no chink through which the light of the polar star might shimnter to guide them. These vain strugglers with ruthles* destiny when they have fed the flickering flame of life a short time on whortleberries and cedar nuts, and slept in the hollow* of mouldy trees, soon lay down their bone* for good among the withered leaves, the broken stalks, the dank moss and the trunk* rotting into the clay. In springtirr.c, especially, death's harvest is abundant among brodyags the fugitives who flee from Tnvict gangs and settlements many being buried in drifts, engulfed in seething torrents, or strewn upon the still frozen snow by the side <>f t'iai.1 pines, their death dirge sung by melancholy winds, after a life which is but a feverish dream of stagnant woe. A (iralefsil Car. The Zoophilisl reproduces a good dog story from a Roman paper. " A ten-year- old little girl had fallen into the Tiber that day (July 21) from the parapeu of the Ponte Margherito. The crowd who witness- ed the accident merely ran hither and thilher on ihe bridge and t!ie banks calling for someone to help the child nobody dar- ing to do so. Two policemen spent the time m making inquiries as to whether 'st was a case of murder or suicide ?' The child* meanwhile, was visibly drow ning, when a dog a workman's miserable dog, deotmed to end a wretched day in the Stabularia Muni- cipals (l<wt dogs' yard) leaped barking into the Tilier, under the eyes of all the 'cream- ing {but useless crowd. The poor beojt, >med to feed upon street orl*l and to sleep in any shed it could find, IWMII out to the little girl in peril, cau-ht her drens.and drew her to the shore. When he saw her in safety, the dog jumped and bayed foe joy, lickine the child's face and hands. It appear* they bad been friends. The child had known the dog in a manufactory at di Castello, anil tho poor auiiral was grateful to her for some crumbs or cm esses. The crowd then tried to catch the dog to see how an animal more brave than 10 many men was made ; but it ran through their midst and disappeared." A Mraesje lurltl. IK I'V'i-e were nviny strange incidents in connection wuh the sinking of the "\i - .oria," but perhaps, says the Pall Mall Gaxette, the strangest of them has not yet been recorded. After the snip foundered, two articles which had been lying in Ad- miral Tryon's cabin were picked up, auJ have been brought home. One of these articles waa the Admiral's telescope ; the other was his despatch box. Now this box was of a peculiar construction. It was made according to special service regula- tions in order to contain the code of signal*. It is tssential thst these signets should not fall into ihu hands of an enemy. The box is therefore lined with lead and perforated with holes at the bottom lo ensure its sink- ing as soon as it is thrown overboard. But what happened? The great hip. ed with all the ingenuity of inivlero science on inn pose to float, sank like a stone The lead-hue. i, performed box, ipecially creat- ed tosit.k, Moated ami now lie ai White- hall, a testimony to the fallibility of two afi of designers. 1