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CVRKEXT XVTfS. Man is at best an envious animal. -ati-iied with the mn-ny modes of l'--'ii. .! i ,n open to him, he must try and emulate the binU' one and only way of getting about. Although he can walk, run, slide, skate, toboggan, bicycie, ride, drive, sail, hustle behind an engine, and cleave the upper air in a balloon, every now and then man breaks out in a spasm of discontent be- cause, he has not wings, and breaks his neck inventing flying machines, or. rather, trying to fly on them. If Icarus and Daedalus soared near enough to the sun to melt the wax on their wings they did infinitely better than more modern aspirants for bird- like honors have done. For not one of them has been able to fly at all. One of these. Herr Lilienthal, who baa provid- ed himself not only with wings but a tail , mounts a high hill and throws himself with great force agaiust the wind coming up the hill. " He then slides down like a flying squirrel, or a boy on a sled." The movement has nothing particularly inspiring about it, and the boy on the sled, as well as the flying squirrel, has the comfort of knowing that he may not be shorn of his power and come down bump at the dying out of a fickle gust. The winged and tailed Lilienthal has not this con- solation at all, so that his triumph as a soarer can hardly be called complete. Professor Langley, another aspiring spirit, has made small flying ma- chines, "said" to fly a few hundred feet. U is safe to infer that no one has seen them do it, from the non-committal character of the "said." " A you^g man by the name of Phil- lips" has lately made a machine "which , rested on three wheels And was driven by a steam engine." The measure of his flight is not recorded, so that be can hardly be considered to rival the eagle THE NEWS 15 A NUTSHELL THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL OVE3 THE WORLD. m **! rwaCtry, All r ri. ; Ik* IUk. r. CANADA. Typhoid lever is prevalent at Hamii- ton. The Sorel bridge over the Richelieu . will be built. Nearly all of the St. Catharines drug- gists are engaged in a cut-rate war. Mr. Baker. M.P. for Mississquoi, will succeed Mr. Curran as Solicitor-Gen- eral. Mgr. O'Bryan. who has been ailing for some time, dropped dead at Mont- real. Mr. John C. Nelson, C. E., over- seer of Indian reserve surveys, died at Winnipeg. An English company has been formed to purchase mining properties in Fron- tenac County. Mrs. Laframlxjise was acquitted of the charge of murdering Miss Jones at Baskatong by a jury at Hull. Wm. Turk, a labourer, was fatally in- jured on Wednesday in the T.. H. and B. tunnel at Hamilton. Mrs. Sneffel of Buffalo was killed while attempting to pass under a tram at Port Colborne. Chief Bull of the Carcee Indian tribe was arrested and fined I- at Cal- gary for drunkeness. The water in the Ottawa river con- tinues to recede every day, and pros- '. ents a growing menace to navigation An inquiry into the working of the Hamilton police force has been deter- mined upon by the commissioners. Wm. Cummina was sentenced to ; twenty years' hard labor for attempt- ing to assault Mrs. Dormer at St. Catharines. Mr. Uaggart states that the report for the Intercolonial railway, which has just reached tbe department, shows that last year tbe railway was aelf- sustainiug. yet. Mr. Hiram S. Maxim, who is a wild enthusiast on the subject of "aviation," as he calls it. devotes a fraction of his time to flying, being (providentially) engrossed in large business affairs the rest of it, and he evidently regards the perfection of tbe { erauuuulion. will be, retained in the flying-machine as the crying need of ; service of the departuienl as technical the age. Mr. Maxim writes to the j North American Review an account of | bis owe experiments, as also the short histories of the other recent "flyers" The Manitoba Patrons of Industry have asked Mr. J. Korsyth. the only Patron in the Legislature, to resign all oi f ices in their order because he has accepted railway passes. U is believed that Mr. John Lowe, the Dominion Deputy Minister of Agriculture, who has applied for sup- above noted. Mr. Maxim's apparatus consists of three kites one huge affair, and two smaller ones acting as wings. The ma- chine, anchored, on a level surface, weighs 8.000 pound* in a calm ; in a wind blowing forty mile^ an hour it weighs nothing ; while if th wind bad achieved the velocity of forty-five miles the Shuawap district. British Columbia. He states that the diatnci situated on the Thompson river watershed con- tains splendid agricultural land. Lieut .-Col. Gibson has retired from the command of the 13th of Hamilton, and the Militia Department to show ap- preciation ol his long service, has allow- ed bun lo retain the rank of lieuten- ant-colonel on tbe active force. Tbe validity of the will was found in a Thomas Young of Hamilton is being quesiioned. 1'be will was tound in a clock tbe other day, and the witueas- who are unknown except by name. an hour it would raise the whole ma- i are urged to come iorward and prove chine and 2.000 pounds additional weight into the air like a kite. As the wind cannot, however, be depended upon to blow forty-five miles an hour regular- ly, and indeed, hardly ever does, the scientist has provided himself with one railroad track in the ground and an- other inverted over it. ' Two large and well-made screw propellers," "a very powerful and light team engine." "outriggers and I on the dangerous places. it. Mayor Knowles of Duudaa as as- saulted in liis oil ice by John ilacdou- ald. a tramp, who was arrested and promptly sent down for six mouths. Ihe Mayor's buathouse was burnt down, it is supposed, by friends of Macdonald. Owing to the recent loss of two valu- able ships in the Straits of Heile Isle, the marine insurance companies ot M.m tresl nave petitioned the Deputy Min- ister of Marine to provide telegraphic communication and lo place lighthouses wheels," form part of the parahera- alia for tbU elaborate and mysterious device, at which, if they could do it. the plainest and most ordinary birds would laugh aloud. The result of Mr. Maxim's experiments has been thus far. judging from even his own published accounts, insignificant. He has been obliged to lift and propel his machine at enormous trouble to repre- sent the wind and to coerce various powers in many laborious ways. "His experiments," however, he assever- ates, " have led him to believe that the flight of man is possible even with a steam engine and boiler." Mr. Maxim predicts great advances in " aviation" devote their when young engineers thoughts to petroleum motors as drivers for flying-machines, and solemnly advises such devotion. It is to be hoped that young engin- eers, except such as are free from family ties and morally unshackled from the community, will turn their thoughts in no such direction. There are plenty of ways of being killed without such expensive preliminaries as Mr. Maxim's. And, even if by dint of enormous labor and expense they do manage to hoist themselves a few feet from the earth and stay balanced there a minute, they will not even have approached the meanest mosquito in accomplishment. One Thing at a Time. A French journal furnishes this in- teresting colloquy between a housekeep- er and her new servant : Mistress Hi Idy. run and fetch me t'i" plum-tart out of the pantry. Middy (returning! Please, ma'am, it -isn't there. Mistress Perhaps it is on tbe side- board in the dining-room Middy -1 can't 1'i'id it. Mistress Then it must be io the n u Biddy I don't sue it. ma'am. Mistress Then most likely you have eaten it. Biddy Yes. ma'am. Itis good time to Hodge wliOD a womar egini to talk in a high key. Some astounding details in connection with the Montreal arson cases came out on Thursday. Counsel for ihe prosecu- tion stated that the firebugs started the fires by allowing sulphuric acid ttt on chlorate of polaau, causing combus- tion, and also by uioaus of clockwork. Premier Greenway has announced that the Manitoba Government will demand compensation either in cash or lands for 35,337 acres of swamp land which Mr. T. M. Daly, Minister of the Interior, says it is impossible to transfer from the federal to the local authori- ties, they having been disposed of in other manners. Mr. Robert Kerr. the general freight agent of the Canadian Pacific railway, estimates that before tbe close of navi- gation on the St. Lawrence river 50,- (HH) head of cattle, will have been shipped from kets. the West to the Kuro|>ean mar- Last season the number was 30,- 000. He believes this season's shipment of wheat will exceed five million bush- els. GRKAT BRITAIN. Canadian apples are selling well in Liverpool. Jabez Spencer Balfour and the other defendants in tbe Liberator Building Society frauds are on trial in London. Tbe Marquis of \Vaterford killed him- self while temporarily insane, according to tbe verdict of the Coroner's jury. The Liverpool Post claims to have found tbe head of Oliver Cromwell in the possession of the Wilkesou family, of Sealchart. Kent. Sn Charles Halle, the well-known pianist, conductor, and composer, died yesterday at Manchester, England, at the advanced age of seventy-six years. The Dublin Freeman's Journal an- nounces that Mr. John Dillon, the well- known Irish leader and member of Par- liament for East Mayo, will be married at the And of November to a daughter of Judge M ii hew Sir Charles Tupper, the High Com- missioner in London, cabled yesterday to the Dominion Government (hat the British Columbia frozen fish question ia settled in a manner satisfactory to the imoorters. It is expected that at the beginning of the year Captain Jos. Ritchie, who has commanded the Allan steamer Par- isian, and who has been thirty years in the service, will retire and settle down in his home in Liverpool. UNITED STATES. Ex-Covernor Oliver Ames of Massa- chusetts is dead. Burglar-proof cars are now carrying the mails between New York and St. Louis The Carnegie Company has a large, contract for supplying armor-plate t,> Russia. Charles Oscar Yale of Rome, N. Y.. a hank lock expert and inventor, is dead in his H4t h year. Mi-is Frances Willard was again elect- ed president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union at the annual elec- tion held at Baltimore. Md. Miss Frances \Villard carried the W. C.T.U. convention at Baltimore with her in a broad movement to include in fraternal relations Roman Catholics and Hebrews. The liody of a woman found in the >M roit River on Septemlwr 30 has l>een idem ifieil as that of Miss Carleton of ~i Chin Michigan. Murder U strong- ly suspected. Tbe Pennsylvania railway baa com- menced to charge for carrying bicycles. The weight is placed at one hundred pounds, because machinery takes up more room than ordinary freight. A young mar. who gave his name as Andrew Scott of Guelph was found struggling in the river at Detroit by a policeman. He said he was knocked insensible and robbed by a colored man. Capt. Lamonth. of Mississippi, who claims that he owns the present site of London. Ont.. by virtue of a deed given to his father, says that he will soon go there to establish his right to a large portion of the city. There was an unconfirmed rumour in Washington yesterday that Secre- tary Olney is contemplating retiring from the Cabinet, owing to his not lie- ing in touch with the President on quest ions of foreign policy, more espe- cially regarding the Venezuelan diffi- culty. The world's record for railway sj>eed over a great distance was broken on Thursday by a special train on the Lake Shore, and Michigan Southern railway, which ran from Chicago to Buffalo, a distance of five hundred and ten miles, in four hundred and eighty-one min- utes and seven seconds, an average speed of 63.00 miles an hour. Vci nrding to commercial advices from the I'nited Slates cooler weather has somewhat added to the trade movement in many lines, hut in ot her direct ions the amount of business is considerably below expectations. In dry goods gen- erally, clothing, boots and shoes and head gear there has been only a fair demand, though exceptions to this are reported from New \ork. Chicago. Kan- sas City, and Duiuth. The sales of cotton for tbe week have lieen phenom- enally large, and no failures are report- ed of importance Retail trade in dif- ferent parts of the States is better, and the purchasing power of wage-earners is usually stronger than it was a year ago. Lalwur disputes so far have had little adverse effect on trade. GENERAL. Ruggiero Bonghi. tbe Italian states- man, philosopher, and author, is dead. Sir Henry Parkes, ex-Prime Minister of New South Wales, wan married on Thursday. He is 80 years old. The one hundredth anniversary of the third partition of Poland was ob- served as a day of national mourning throughout Ualicia. Rio Janeiro despatches state that the British Minuter in that place has in- formed the Brazilian Government that Kngland intends keeping the island of Trinidad. Tbe Gazette de Lausanne says that, although it is not true that the Potw is dying, he is losing his strength rapid- ly, and it i.s not expected that he will live throuuft nit the winter In tbe French Budget Committee the naval credit asked by Admiral Besnard. involving an annual outlay of twenty million dollars for the next twelve years, was rejected. A despatch to the St. Petersburg Nov.ie \ reuiya from Vladivostock says that the Japanese ports of ShimonoHoki. K. kk.urhi. Tukio. Aomori. and Otaruni will shortly I* opened to international trade. In taking farewell of Sir Edward Malet. tbe British Minister, the Em- peror of Germany referred to tbe many ties between tbe English and the Germans, and said they could not be drawn closer. A plot has been discovered among tbe officials in tbe Sultan's palace in Con- stantinople, and in consequence numer- ous arrests have been made, and the residences of Ihe Ministers are now guarded by t roops. The Blackfliig chieftain who has Iwen holding Tai-Wan-Ku, the Chinese capi- tal of the bland of Formosa, against the Japanese forces, has fled, and il is said that his followers will now lay down their arms. Fierce disturbances, accompanied by serious bloodshed, are reported to have laken place at Erzingan, and sixty Ar- menians are said to have been killed. The Turkish Government claim t he out- break was provoked by the Armenians. According to the news received from Adana and Aleppo revolutionary agents are traversing the country and enrol- ling young Armenians, while quantities of arms, ammunition, and dynamite are being smuggled across Ihe frontiers for their use. How the Chinese Brew Their Tea. If you want to drink tea properly it is absolutely necessary to get a tea- pot of Ni-Hing. a variety of baked earthenware that is unglazed on the inside. So all tbe tea sharps say. and they state it upon the authority of Gen. Ichheng Ki-Tong, a celebrated Chinese writer on gastronomic sub- jects. Vjtfrr are many other points to be taken .into iwount it tea is to he chosen at its very best. For example, it should be mixed with rain or spring water heated to a certain point. The boiling should only continue a few mo- ments, the water having boiled suf- ficiently as soon as bubbles appear on the surface. Green tea, according to this authority, is a tea that the rich Celestials give the highest praise to. In green tea tbe tiny leaves have hard- ly come from the bud before they are gathered and dried in the sun. Black tea, on the other hand, is made up of leaves that have reached a state of maturity and have then been dried in front of % fire. Should Not Sec Them. Wifie Does It hurt your skin when I pull a gray hair from your beard / Elderly lln.sbancl No, but it hurts my feelings. KLEPTOMANIAC WOMEN, DIFFERENCE BETWEEN KLEPTO- MANIAC AND SHOPLIFTER. A rrnt r *.,ral IK.KBK T - A ! 4IM..I Brrrv I tortilla **r Cnl<t lar Naa4> What I* < tiir.l i...,,.i . i. i > Shop-lifting by women is a practice that prevails to a remarkable extent in tbe great dry-goods stores of large cities. Detectives are employed to watch for this class of offenders, and arrests are of daily occurrence. Some of the shop-lifters are no doubt thieves, but others are so respectable, and the things they take so worthless in proportion to the risk they run, that it Is hard to believe them responsible for their actions. Women of the lat- ter class are commonly called klepto- maniacs. It would lie interesting to know just what tbe kleptomaniac condition of mind is. Dr. Forbes Winslow. the Eng- lish insanity expert now visiting this country, gave a reporter an interview which throws much light on this sub- ject. | " What do you understand by klepto- mania?" asked tbe reporter. "I have gone into the matter very fully during late years," replied the spe- cialist, " and I will gladly tell you all I know. In the first place, kleptomania is a well recognized form of moral in- sanity. Those so afflicted are seized wit ha sudden impulse to stoat and care- fully conceal what they steal from 01 hers. Such individuals are tound not only at large, but within the precincts of asylums. Scores of such cases have come under my notice. Kleptomaniacs in asylums steal from their fellow-vic- tims things which they can nut possibly make use of from ihe very force of circumstances." WOMEN ARE THE KLEPTOMA- NIA " In which sex is the complaint usual- ly most common f " " It is far more common among wo- men than among men. Kleptomania in miles is exceedingly rare. It is often found in school I wys ; but no criminal charge is formulated, for the simple reason that upon examination the ir- responaihili: y is proved beyond doubt. I have been engaged professionally in more cases of kleptomania than I can possibly count, but I cannot ret-all a - m-i-isi-.n when I have been called upon to defend a mm ' " But why should the disease I* more prevalent in females than males ! And. by the way. how do you substantiate the existence of kleptomania when it is only disclosed yean after the disease which was supposed to have originated n ' ' " Kleptomania is connected a great deal with hysteria, which, of course, is more frequent among women than mi ntf men. As regards the lime dur- ing which the complaint may remain dormant, that varies. When the brain ranged you can't tell what kind of insanity may arise. Twenty years may I ip.se after the occurrence of the pri- mary complaint and yet a new form of lunacy 'Teak out. At one period a per- son wit h a deranged mind may be a homocidal lunatic, and years after klep- tomuiia may reveal itself." In what conditions of life are klep- tomaniacs generally found ', " USUALLY FOLND IN GOOD SOCI- ETY. " Asa general rule they move in good society, and at tbe time the crime is commuted they have sufficient means tu purchase the articles they have appro- priated. With every luxury and plenty of money to satisfy every fancy, the im- pulse to steal seizes them with such an irresistible grasp that they find it a physical impossibility to wit hst-tnd the innate desire. It is quite impossible for them to overcome the impulse which eventually lands them in the dock. I have known a woman who pul her hands on every umbrella that came within her reach. She had scores of umbrellas in her bouse which she never use I, no withstanding tbe vagaries of the British climate." " Except, tbe one form of picking and stealing, is the average Klepto- maniac considered honest by her friends/ " " Emphatically so. Judging from my experience the average kleptomaniac is both intelligent and truthful. There is simply the one failing; in all other respects she behaves as a law-abiding nuzen. Moreover, I have found that this kind of stealing is not usually pre- meditated. It is purely impulsive, and the crime and its consequences are never realized at the time, though strangely enough, after stealing the klep'ommiac is fully aware f the crime she has beau guilty of. Of course, there is sometimes a good deal of method in it. There are methods and cunning in mad people, and this is why one. finds capacious pockets in tbe clothing of kleptomaniacs." " What are tbe maladies with which kleptomania is generally id.-ni iii.-t ' " " It is often associated wit b physical weakness and disorder of the nervous s\ stem. bos.des hysteria, which I have already mem ioned. There is also no doubt about its being hereditary, the same as ordinary crime. I heard the other day. by the way. of a family, ten memlwrs of which, besides the parents, were convicted thieves." A FORM OF MORAL INSANITY. " Is it in your experience that klepto- maniacs suffer from other forms of moral insanity t " " The mania for stealing is a form of moral insanity in itself. A person may be very wealthy and not the least ad- dic' d to extravagance, and yet she will A, comparatively worthless pieces of si>% and even bits of bread from the table. Are there any conditions of ab- normality t Yes, I think so. It is of ten seen in abnormal conformations of the head, accompanied by weakness of in- tellect. Those who are ill-organized or of rickety and scrofulous constitution fre- quently exhibit such propensities. Pine, one of the greatest authorities of form- er days in mental disorders, especially draws attention to the fact that some maniaos who in their lucid intervals are justly considered models of probity can- not refrain from stealing and cheating. Gall again mentions tbe case of two persons confined in an asylum at Vienna who. becoming insane, were distin- guished in tbe hospital for their extra- ordinary propensity to steal, though previously they had lived irreproson- ble lives. They wandered about t he house from morning till ninht picking up and biding whatever they came across, not even disdaining rags, clothe* IIM straw. This sort of thing is very common in lunatic asylums." " At what age does kleptomania gen- erally show itself i" " That quite depends on circum- stances, but it rarely breaks out lie- fore tbe age of adolescence, except in parsons who are absolutely imbecile or insane on the surface." " Is it really possible to distinguish between a case of genuine klepto- mania and one of stealing pure and simple 1 la t uere any haru-and-fasl rule to distinguish between wilfuJ stealing and kleptomania f " "Certainly, it is possible to distin- guish between Iwo such cases. Speak- ing for myself I have adjudged on hu- dreds of kleptomaniac*, and 1 have no reason to believe that 1 have ever de- clared a case to be one of kleptomania when it was one of ordinary theft. " As for any hard-and-fast rule, that is exceedingly difficult to define, even if there is any, which I queslion. Each case differs so much in its nature and surroundings that there U no line laid down to guide us in our opinion. K.ich cose must lie judged on its merits, if I in iv use such an expression in connec- tion with kleptomania. There is no law regulating any one complaint, and the same remark applies to kleptomania. I tin tr mention, however, the hereditary side of t be matter, the alwenoe of mo- tive, the absurdity often of what has been stolen, and the history of the ante- cedents of the victim, the existence of fits, the presence or absence of delu- sions, the general mental condition, whether excited or depressed, whether of a quiet and moody disposition, of jealous or suspicious nature, whether liable, to acts of extravagance, whether the feelings and thoughts are so d. dered as to incapacitate from the ordi- vocations of life all these phases must >M> investigated in drawing a con* elusion, and it is often a most exhaus- : ive business. Lastly, there is the im- ponant queslion, is there any he.rrdi- tary insanity in tbe family and what is its nature? As I ha-ve just said, steal- ing is bereditarv both among those re- sponsiide and those in whom the. plea of irre.spunsil'ilitv is raised, therefor* tbe question of heredity plays a most important part in the process of ex- amination. It is also necessary, by the way. to inquire whether t ner U any li'.iiility to blind impulses, which ;n bt ueii her regulated nor controlled." RUBBER TIRED CABS. The L4nrr * faliUr. Trr Ike Streets ii bm a Jar. Dancing has been described as the poetry of motion, and perhaps it was at the time the description wa pen- ned , but t hat was some time ago. writes an American correspondent in London. To-day the poetry of motion is found in driving a rubber-tired hanaoui cab over a wood-paved London street, for miles you glide along, scarcely conscious that you are moving until your course is arrested by a blocking of teams near Uydc Park corner. No conversation is ever interrupted by a drive in Lon- don. Indeed, it' you want a few quiet words alone with a friend, the best way to get them is to taks a cab. There unless there be something in your manner to excite the driver's curiosity or suspicion which may induce him to open the trap door in the lop of the cal) and listen, you are as secluded M you would be in your own lioudoir. I don't know how many hansom cabs there are in London, but I know that there are at least 15,045. for 1 saw that number on the back of one. So that you are never at a loss for them. London cabbies, as a rule, are very amiably deaposed toward their "fares." They may some tunes overcharge you ; but they do it with a deprecatory air that makes it possible for you to re- fuse their demand. In this respect they are very different from the Kronen cocber ; be takes you by the throat, as it were, and it is your money or your life. 1 never met with a rude cabbie in London, though 1 would not go so far as to say that none are to lie tound them. They will always lake you where you want to go, which is more than they will do in Paris. It's as much as you can do to get a French .-oilier to drive you to the bois. They don't like long trips for they are paid by the hour for them, and they prefer lo be paid by the " course." which is something that only they know the mysteries of. A London cabbie, whom I asked to lake me a five-mile distance one day and suggested that 1 engage him by the hour, expostulated with me so gent ly yet so convincingly that I at once yielded to his superior wmloni " > on won't gain not lung by engaging us by the hour." said he. " When we has fares we loafs, but if you take us by the mile we don't waste no time j>*i- m there." 1 liked his candor and there was something about the editor- ial "we" that divided the responsibil- ity of what otherwise might have .-.-n regarded as a personal peculiarity. which was reassuring. Being in a hur- ry, I agreed to his terms, and I am sure that I profited by the arrange- ment. There is talk in London of furnish- ing every cab and four-wheeler wit ban indicator, t lie. invention of an unsyna- jiai hei ic German, which will not only indicate the number of miles travel.- '. l ut the price that should be paid for the privilege. The indicator is said to lie infallible; but I think that there will be occasions when the cabbies will dispute its infallibility. But then there is always Mr. Aaquith to arbit- rate. It is also said that the indicator is to be introduced in Parts. It will lie a bold man who tries it (her?. 1 see a revolution ahead when it is alternat- ed. Making* Sure Housekeeper The potatoes to-day were so salty we could not touch them. New Girl Well, mum. it was this way After they got to cookin' I couldn't re- member whether they was salted or not. so I put in a double quantity t* make sure.