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J^ \ THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. ill*«rMtiiic It*m« About Our Own Country, arcat Briuin, the United State*, and All Part* of the Qlobe, Coadeoacd and Aaaorted for Ba«y Readlns. CANADA. The curfew by-Jaw will be enforced in HamiJiton. The strike at the SpringhiU, N. S., mines has been settled. The iEastem portion of Lake Erie is reported to be frozen over. Mr. John McKergwv was elected Pre- sident of the Montreal Board of Trade. A Chatham syndicate is reported to have struck a rich flow of oil at Both- well. tThe Hocheila«a Bank will Increase its capiul stock frogn 1800,000 to |1,000,- Hoo. J. I. Tarte has coimpileted ar- ranceimeats for the surrey of Fraser River. The Montreal Patrie says it is ru- moured that there will aeon be a Papal •Uegate in Canada. It is considered probable in Montreal that there will be an early dissolution of the Quebec Legislature. Immigrants who arrived and settled in Canada last year nutnibered 25,478, against 25,571 in 1895. The steamer State of Georgia, 34 days out from Dantziu for Halifax, has been given up for Jost. WWliam Tisdals, who lived fourteen mi'les north of Pilot Mound, Man., was frozen to death last week. The amount of money at present de- Soeited in the Domijiion Post-Office and avings Banks is 157,875,775. The Ottawa Electric Street Railway Company laat year carried more than one miClion and a half passengers. At a meeting of the Manitoba Cabin- et on Thursday it was definitely decided to call the House tog«the>r on the 18th of February. Mr. H. Beaugrand, ex-Mayor of Mont- real, and proprietor of La Patrie, is slowly recovering, and is now quite out of danger. Lord Aberdeen has presented ex- Mayor 'Borthwick, of Ottawa, with a ail>ver inkstand, as a souvenir of bis term of office. A xiew morning paper is shortly to appear in Montreal. It will be a lour- pa«e, one-cent daily ,and will be known aa the Morning Despatch. EvangelL'rt H. Clarence Ramsey, of 'Poronto, hart left for China, where he is to engage in missionary work for many years. The Donaldflon line steamship War- wick, which ran on the Yellow Muir ledge. Nova Scotia, two weelM ago, has disappeared from sight. The Ottawa branch of the Canadian Federation of Labour has declared for an Alien Labour law, and reciprocity in labour with the United States. Bricklayers on the sewer works in Ixxndon are on strike because Foreman &mith xefa<!ed to pay a fine of ${25 im- posed by the Toronito union. The fourteen-year-old son of Mr. Hen- ry Tripp, of Ridgeway, Orit.. wes drown- ed in the lake of Windmill Point last Wednesday while sleighiug on the ice. Mx. James Mussels, a U.T.R. yard- man at Niagara Falla, was caught be- tween the draw-bars of two cars while coupling, and instantly killed. The profits on the silver and copper coinage accruing to the Dominion Oov- erument during the past year amounted to seventy-six thousand dollars. Premier Laurier has declined an in- vitation to .speak at the Washington birthday celeibration in Chicago on 5'eb. 22, owing to pressure of buaiuess. The directors of the Central Canada Fair, Ottawa, intend enlarging the fair grounds and reconstructing the main building during the coming sum- mei. A shortage of about ItO.OOO has been discovered in the funds of Brant County and lowu.ship, of which the Treasurer was the late Mr. W. S. Campbell. Hon. Sidney Fisher announces that he has completed arrangements with shipping companies at Montreal for cold sitorage for agricultural and dairy products. Capl. Collier of the London Salvation Army, in speaking of ' Worliily Aui- uaements," condemned skating, but ad- mitted he had never been in a .skat- ing link in bis life. A convict named, tiorrigan plunged a fork into the arm of a convict nam- ed McDonald in Kingston Penitentiary on Wednesday, ilorrigan was sent to the prison of isolation. Premier Laurier has replied to the British Consul-General at Brazil, guar- anteeing the expenses of returning ele- ven more Canadian families, compris- ing forty persons from Brazil. Capt. McNeil, of the Donaldspn SS. Amarynthia has been condemned \a pay to the wife of Dr. De Clow JVOU for the contents of a trunk stolen from hia vessel in July, 1895.' According to official returns the pro- duction of pig iron in Canada more than doubled during the last fiscal year, 84,- 607 tons havinjg 'been produced, as against 31,641 in the previous year. London is supplying food and cloth- ing to a band of 30 gypsies, men, wo- men and children, who are encamped outside the city, and who are unable to leave their horses having strayed or been stolen. James Mackie, station agent at the G. T. R. junction, near Kingston, and for 30 years cunnect.e<l with that rail- way, and Robert Thompson, of the freight department at Kingston, have been dismiissed. Pilotage commissioners at Halifax, St. John, Sydney, Victoria and other ports have been asked to refund to the Government tees appropriated by tliem duri.ng 1890 which were not allowed under the statutes. who died List week, was cremated at Woking on Thursday. It is understood that the Prince of Wales will attend one of the> series of farewell banquets that Ambassador Ra>>ird wi'J give to his friends at the Embassy. Lieut.-Governor Kirkpatrick, who re- cently underwent an operation in a London private hospital, continues to make favourable progress towards re- covery. The British and Foreign ArLvitration Association has cabled to Washington a petition to the United .States .Senate in favor of the ratification ct the Anglo-American arbitratiin irouly Mr. Joseph Chiml)erUin, in the House of Commons on Wednesday, said that be was not in a posiltijon to state what progress had b&en made towards an im- proved Canadian mail service, explain- ing thoit the Dominion Government is still considering the question. UNITED STATES. Mr. Gladstone has gone to Cannes. The National Bank at Potsdam, N. Y.. has closed its doors. Gilbert Rud, aged '.'S, was frozen to death at Spring Valley, Minn. A father, mother and three children were frozen to death near Little Rock, Ark., yesterday. â-  The heavy ice in the Ohio River has caused a total sfispension of naviga- tion. Buffalo is suffering from a water fa- mine, caused by the mtake being chok- ed with slush ice. The lumliermen of Tonawanda, N. Y., are a unit in demanding a protective policy on Canadian lumlter entering the United States. Capt. John CampteH, of the barque British-America, was frozen to death two miles out of Mobile, Alabama, on Tuesday nighJt. A fire in Philadelphia destroyed a million dollars' worth of property. Mr. John iWanamaker's store was (sne of the buildings damaged. According to (-tatistics prepaj-eti in Albany, N.Y.. the ave^ag(^ of wages paid in New York State to working- men is $43(1 a year, compared with 9551 in Ontario. The lietrothol is announced in Ixin- don of Miss Alice Harper, daughter of the late Henry Harper of Philadelphia, to Captain Phillips, of London, for- merly of the 13th Hussars. Secretary Adaui. of thei British Le- gation at Brussels, has ho/s-m a|)point«d to succeed V^iscount Gougb. secretary of the British Embassy at Washington, recently appointed secretary of the Em- bassy at lierlin. The new timljer dry dock and the largest in the Brooklyn. N.Y., navy yard, is re^iorted to be two feet shorter and four inches shallower than the specifications called for. It has already cost the Government $538,679. It is gemi-officially slated that nego- tiations for a treaty of gen<Tal arbit- ration between France and the Unit- ed States were commenced about a year ago, liut were only resumed when it wais announc-ed that th;^ .\nglo-Ameri- c^an treaty had been definitely conclud- ed. The condition of husine.ss in the Unit- ed States, ai'cording to i h« cominerci.il reports of Messrs. Bradsireet and Dun, of New York, show litlle or no actual change. There are trade fluctuations here and there, and a tone of fair con- fidence in the future appears to exi.st among commvroiul men. Asa rule trade is dull and prices continue low; thn month is called a disappointing one, for thi? simple reason that expectations as to the amount of trade likely to be done to the amount of trade likely to he done at the beginning of tb«' year run too high. Some woollen mills have .sloii- ped during the week, but a larger num- ber have started, and more still are pre- paring to slart at onc«. While then- is no actual improvRment in trade, the conditions are tmc^Ii, as to inspire justi- fiable confidence. , t UJJNERJAL. The reported illness of the Czar is again denied. l>r. Zedekauer, the Czar's private phy- sician, is dead. FATAL FIRE AT BERM THE GAS WORKS WRECKED BY AN EXPLOSION. .Wr. Aldrieh Kllled-Hecrelary Brellhaapt and Mr. Weller, a Wurkamn, Very ScrlOHKly Injared. A despatch from IBerlin says: â€" At 7.20 on Tuesday evening the citizens of the Town of Berlin were startled by a loud report, and on investigation it was found that the Gas Company's works had been blown up, killing Mr. Aldrioh and badly burning Mr. E. Carl Breith- aupt, Secretary-Treasurer of the com- pany, and Mr. Weller a workman. Ow- ing to the combustible nature of the material the firemen could not do much to quell the flames. A ory for help was heard, and when the firemen dir- ected a stream in the direction of the sound it was found thut Mr. Aldrich was pinioned between tibe briok wall and the t.ank, with a pile of burning boards on top of hinx, but when they reached him be was burnt beyond re- cognition. Two heroic firemen risked their lives to gave Mr. Aldrich, while the other firemen played the water on them, but he was dead when brought out. Mr. Breithaupt now lies at the residence of Dr. Bowlby in a precarious condition. He had been blown on the top of a roof on an adjoining building. His face, hands and body are horribly burned, and his back badly injured. Mr. Weller was blown through the door and was found by a woman who had him moved to her house near by. He will likely lose bis eyesight. It is impossible to say how the ex- plosion occurred, a report going the rounds that Mr. Aldridge looked into one of the tanks with the aid of his lantern and in some way caused the explosion. Another theory, and one which is believed to be the correct one. is that one of the men had a lighted cigar, which dropped into one of the tanks. Mr. Aidridgn hod l)een in the employ of the gas and electric works here for ten years, and was looked u)^ on as thoroughly acquainted with hiB work. of carcasse.s of animals being devoured by vultures. There are many gangs of robliers engaged in pillaging grain stores whenever an opportunity arises, and the prisons are full of thieves who have been captured while stealing grain or in attempting to do so. Among the masses there are many cases of illness arising from lack of proper nourishment, and it is regarded as certain that cholera will reach this district sooner or later, owing to the carelessness of the people, who dread being taken to the hospitals provided for their care, lielieving that they are certain to die within a fortnight if they enter a hospital. IJeyonrt doubt the utmost resources of the Government will lie taxed be- fore long in the efforts which will have to be made to cope with the steadily increasing distress. A despatch from Jubbulpore to the London Chronicle, regarding the Indian famine, says:â€" "Relief measures were neglected in the Central Provinces throughout 1896. The latest statistics up to the end of Octoljer give as the ex- cess in the mortality over the previous ten years 82,388, Inclusive of cholera cases. Most of this excess is due to famine." , CALM IN FACE OF DEATH SPLENDID DISCIPLINE ON WARBEN HASTINGS. THE GREAT BRITAIN, The battleship Monarch was placed in commission at Chatham on IXiesday. She will go to South Africa, The body of Isaao Pitman, the invent- or of the Pitman system of Shorthand, Bombay ha.s had 9,836 deaths since the plague broke out. ^ Senor Canova.s del Castillo, the Span- ish Premier, is slightly indisposed. Italy has ordered six battalions of trco(ps to be put in readiness to start for Massbtvali. The Chilian Govemment is lieing de- frauded annually of mmro than $10.- 000,000 through smuggiilug. It is announced i hat two uii'llion peo- ple are now employed upon the re- lief works in the fajiiine districts of India. The officials of the Japanese Lega- tion in St. Petersburg confirm the re- port that the n.'agTie hu.s broken out in the Island of t'ormosa. It is denied at Ma<lrld that negoti.* ations are pending for a new com-' mercial treaty between Spain and the I'nited States. The Grand IMichess Xenia. sister of the Czar, and wife of the Grand Duke Alexander Miohaelovitch, has given birth to a son. Advices from Havana says that Ihef conflict lietween the sugar planters and W>yler continues with more Utterness than ever. The. proposed visit of the Czar and Czarina to Romt and London oA. the end of April has lieen cancelled, owing, to the health of their Majestiea Tht betrothal is announced of the Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg, th*( eldest son of the Duke of .Edinburgh, to Princess Feodorc of Saxe-Meiningen. (A Madrid reijort says that General Azcarraga, Minister of War, is to b« appointed Governor-Generail of Cuba, and that Gen. Weyler is to be retained as c<>Dmander-ln-chief. A battle is re^iorted to have taken' place on Tuesday between Brazilian troops and religious fanatics in tha State of BahJa, Brazil. The loss on both sides was 250 killed. Lieut von Bruzwitz, the German offi- cer who some time ago ran a laboring) man through the I)Ock A\itha8word for knocking againat bis chair in a cafe, bad lieen sentenced to tibree years' impris- onmient. Advices from' Agordat say that the dervisihes, who were believed to be ad- vancing on that places have abandoned their fortified cam^ at Aimideb and aro retreating in the direction of Aimoiisa, pursued oy the friendly natives. Tke Troop* Full In Below While Ike Wo mm aad Ckatlrrn Were Laadrdâ€" All Saved. A despatch to the London Daily Tele- graph from Port lyouis, Island of Maur- itius, furnishes partii-ulars of the wreok of the British Indian troopship War- ren Hustings, which was wrecked off the Island of Keuiiion on Thursday. January 14th. It apptears she ran ashore at 2.20 a.m. It was pitih dark, and torrents of raiji were falling. She had on board soldiers and crew to I he numiber of ,1282 men, in addition to a number of women and children, the families of the married men of the mil- itary force. AVhcn the ship struck the troops weire ordered to retire from the upper deck to which they bud flocked on the first alarm, and to fall in l>e- low. This they did promptly, the most perfect discipline prevailing, although the men weje fully conscious of the danger which they were in. They were quietly muslered on the 'tween decks without confusion or excitement. Ow- ing to the fact that Ihesuj-f-lioals could not lie used in landimg l.he troops, two officers of the Wan-en Hastings were lowered from the ship's Ihiws to the rocks.and when it was found that a land- ing could lie effected in this way the dis- embarkation of the soldiers was com- menced at four o'clock, Commander Holland hoping it was safe to retain the Women, children, and the sick on board until dayligbtj Hut the steam- ship was soon found to l>e heeling over so rapidly that everyone was ordered to the upper deck, the danger of cap- sizing being imminent. Thereuiwn Commander Holland ordered tlie land- ing of the troops to be slopped in or- der that the women, children and sick per.sons should lie landed immediately. This order was olieyed with admirable discipline. By five o'clock the decks had heeled over to an angle of fifty degrees to starlward, and the Ixjats were all swept away. The good swim- mers were then permitted to swim ashore, carrying ropes. By these mk-ans many others were landed, and the dise<mli.arkation of all on Ixiard was completed b,v 5,30 a.ui., with the loss of only two native servants. Many acts of gallantry were recorded. The French officials and inhabitants of the Island of Reunion gave the shipwreck- ed people every assistance possible. THE INDIAN FAMINE. (â- real lUittreaH In the rrealdeucy or Honi- bayâ€" An Oulbreah or Cholera Fenredâ€" KxceMlve Morlallly From Ihe Placiie. A de,spatch from Bijapur. Presidency of Bombay, says:â€" The special corre- spondent of the Associated Press who Is visiting the dLslres<(ed provinces of India has arrived at Bijapur, about 245 miles south-east of Bombay, and finds in this district the keenest dis- tress, especially among the people of the lower castes. The latter are on the verge of starvation, and are only saved from it by the Government re- lief work, which enable.s them to earn en«ugh money to at leas>t keep body and soul together while awaiting the brighter state of affairs which receait rains are expected to provide later in the year. < It is estimated that fully one-tenth of the cattle in this district have al- ready perished from lack of fodder, and the number will undoubtedly be considerably increased between now and the advent of the new crops. In the tieldi< ca« be seen lyinff numbeiB UTOPIA OF THE SOOTH SEAS. Interview With a Prri>ldrnt Who Krprf Keulii ia« rrople. The captain and crenv of the missioo- ary brig Pitcairn, just returned to San Francisco from her fifth annual cruise among the islands in the South Sea. An interesting official camo up on the Pit- cairn in the person of J. B. McCoy, President of Pitcairn Island. He is the ruler of that littie colony away down south, and his word is law. Presi- dent McCoy has 130 subjects under him, who are ruled by a Parliament of seven men. These men are eiected every year, and they elect the President. The Parliament makes the laws, which are then approved by the President. Be- sides being President, Mr. McCoy is Chief of the Department of Justice, and passes on all casi-s. where there is a controversy. All his subjects are Ad- ventists. Everything on the island is carried on by the co operative plan. The President was born on the island, and has been chosen ruler for several years. When the mittsionary brig landed at Pitcairn. President JlcCoy. who is en- gage<i in missionary work, left affairs of state in charge o< the Vice Presi- dent, and made the tour of the island with Capt. Graham. It was his inten- tion to land at the New Hebrides or the i-anta Cruz Islands and establish a mis- sion ther«' among the natives, and then work hia way liack to his oid home. It was learned,, however, that the wild men of the South Sea still consider white people an EXCELLENT AR'lICLE OF DIET, so President McCoy postponed bis stay one year. President McCoy found that the Kina still reigns on Palmerst<m Island an<l all his subjects are members of tha royal family, In explaining his discov- ery on this isiiand Mr. McCby tells an interesting siury. The isJand is a long distance from any group and is very lonely. The Pitcairn dropped an- chor and a party was sent ashore lo ex- plore the island. They had lieen on shore but a .short time when rresident .McCoy 'net the King, who announced! that he was the ruler of the island. He is a fuiil-blooded white man, and what was more astonishing to the ex-. l>JorerH, they found that everybody on the island could .>(()eak the English' lan- guage. The King was fonnJ to be a hale and hearty, jolly, good t.-llow, and his subjects were a.!! prosperous. They tilled the soil and are a self-sustain- ing people. There were forty-five men. women and chiJdreu on the roll .-vs sub- jects of the King, and this included everybody on the island. Strange to say, every subject is related to Ihe ruJer. "The story of how this old fellow came to rule on this island is a queer one," said President McCoy. "I have the story frotu his own lips. M.tny years ago he left bis home in England and knocked alx>ut the worl.l as a sjiilor. Finally he deserted his ship and took refuge on 0(iie of the islands where a refuge? on cine of the isl.auds where there were a few natives, lie learned the language and Ijecame a great fav- orite with the pwiple. One day he .se- est island and got themselves wives, and with them he J<xMte<l on I'almers- ton lslan<l. The.v were the first inhabi- tants of the island so far as 1 know. The old sailor went to raising cocoanuts. His Sims grew up and they wanted wives. Their father fitted up a .sum II vessel and away these sons went to the near- eest island and got themselves wives. The i'OPULATlON OF TH'K ISLAND Commenced to increase very rapidly, un- lU now of Ihe forty-five inhabitants every one Is King. "Down the Pilcaim where I preside as President and Chief of t he i:)epart- , .,-,., ment of Justice everything K"es along much disturtjed lo find that the stop- snKxytMy. i. ^ -.â- -!â- - â-  . - , .^ -^ â€" pie to live, tor his neighti seven makes the ^.aws and elects a President. I'here Is no salarie*! of- fice on th«' island. In f.acl. we do not deal in nn>uey, and there is no circulat- ing medium on Ihe Island. One man does all tlie trading, .and iheii a divl sion is ma< al lo^ve<l While we fly the English related to Ihe .sailor EUEOPE FEARS PLABFE NINE SUDDEN DEATHS GBEATLY ALARM MARSEILLES. Manltar]' Ofllren Very 4rtlveâ€" â- oclar* CoU Itae Ulneaite " lufeetleiu Paeamonla,** But the Pnbllc In .\ot Convinced- France AdupU Drastic Meaiiures. The greatest alarm prevails at Mar' seUIes un account of nine sudden deaths in one street. A report was circulated ten days ago that a case of bubonic plague had beui discovered. This was promptly denied by the health officials, but the precaa« tions taken to guard against the plague were redoubled, e.specially in the vici- nity of the old and nenv forts, whera sailors congregate from all parts of the world. The health officers declare that tha nine deaths announced to-day were froaH "infectious pneumonia," but the public is far from being satisfied with the *ar pjauation. I>espatches from Paris show that the Government is aJive to the danger. De- crees have been issued forbidding pil- grims from leaving Algeria, Tunis and Sene-gambia this year for Mecca, and mercuandise from India must be im- ported through five designated ports, of which Marseilles is one. At these porta of entry Indian merchandise will only be allowed to be landed after having l«en thoroughly fumigated and other- wise disinfected. Quantities of anti-plague serum ara being sent to Marseilles and to other French ports, and ail ships from the East will he carefully examined and quarantined if necessary. ENGLAND FEELS SAFE. Eng'lishiuen think the chance oi. the plague getting a foothold in Great Brit> ain is remote, owing to the excellent sanitary conditions. But on the Contin- ent the alarm has increased and tha contiuentai press demauilh the moat rig- orous insjiection of everything imported from India. Some excitement was caused in Paria lost week iiy the stepping of a small â- teomiKiat bound from London to Paria at Uougival, a village on the Seine, about lour miles north of Versailles. A rumor spread that the steamer was in- fected with the piugue. It leaked out that she had on ^ard carpets and lieddlng from India, but it developed later that they had been stored in Lon- don fur six months, so the autboritiea allowed her to proceed to Paris. Along the unsanitary pons of the Mediterranean grave fear is expressed that the plague will be introduce^ "O steamers from India. The French Minis- ter for the Interior, M. Barthou, has ordered large quantities of anti-plagua serum prepared and sent: to the b renoli I ports. At a meeting of the Council of Publio Assistance in Paris a note of alarm was struck in a remark that infected 1 Indian carpels may have been brought into the Fnncb capital already. Dr. Brouardeil moreover asserts that the danger of the plague reaching Europe is imminent, that preventive means in France only exist in RUDIMENTARY FORM that France could do nothing to pre- vent the entrance of the plague and could do little to coml.at it. These remarks have created a deep impression, and at the Cabinet â„¢uncil' held at the Klysee Palace, the Min- ister for Foreign Affairs, M. HUnolaux, and the Minister for the Interior communicated to their culleagues and to the President the sanitary measures adopted by the Government. I'hese include forliddiiig pilgrims from leaving Tunis. Algeria and Sene- gambia for Mecca this year, and Presi- dent Kaure has signed a decree impos- ing severe penalties upon the importa- tion of merchandise from the infected porl.s of India through other ports thao Slarseilles, Pauillac. St. Nazaire, Havre, Dunkirk and .Algiers. The Italian Sanitary Council has con- sidered the sit mil ion and it is under- stixid that it advises against a generaJ quarantine, as lieing eommerciaiUy ruin- oii.s and inefficacious. In t^rmany the plague is viewed through Ajigiophooe glasses. Great Britain is attacke<l tor allowing her- self to lie lulled into a feeling of false security by the Indian authorities and the B«>niliay press, which is charged with trying to conceal the danger. A NEW BULLET. TliP nrtllnh War IK-piirlnieiU Have Adep*. rd a TrrrlOr MiMillr of War. The British War Department waa It is the ideal wav for peo- pj^g powers of the bullet of their ser- , for it is a .use of Bverylx.dy | . ;,-, ,^ Lee-Melford, is so feeble ighlior. Our larliament of "^ . ', " , . , â-  ., „„â-  that in the Chilral campfiign the sol- diers lost confidence in their weaponai The bullet had great [lenetrative pow- er, buila greail many of the tribesmen bit by it advanced as though untouch- aa<ip. INo one on the island is i gj and it couiiiarai ively .seldom caus- rflfth:Xtli^h^i:g:"s',1l";T.'e<» i-^am death, one tribesman, who receive mo instructions of any kind , had been hit by six bullets was treats from the English Government. " "I starte<l out to make a missionary trip and went to Tahiti Island, Rara toiigo, Palmerston, Somoa, Tonga, l'"iji. New Hebrides, Banks and Santa Cruz Islands. 1 intended to establish a mis- sion at New Hebrides or Santa Cruz, but I found the people too wild. "There are only two white men on the whole group of Santa Cruz Islands. A Mr. Forest started a mis^im. but he has given it up and has gone into business. He has an assistant, and lx>th of thorn: have had many narrow escapes fron/ being killed by the natives." ALL SEASONS FOR ITS OWN. Ice is an awfully ruinous thing, sighed Chci'.ly. In wuiler whole towns are bankrupted by ice gorges and in the suinuner the young men are bankrupt- ed by ic*-crea!m gorges I ed in hospital, and made a quick re- covery. Steps were soon taken by the War Department to devise a more de- structive missile, and experiiiieuts have l)een made with a bullet having a met- al-covered point made thin, with a lead tore slightly exposed. While the flight of the oullet through the air is nut interf erred with, as it strikes an ob- ject it spreads out, and has almost the terrific power of !a<!eaation of the ex- plosive bullet. A French officer has en- deavored to make a compromise l>e- t\veeu these two forms of projectiles by inventing a bullet having the maxi- mum xjower of disjvbling, and the mini- mum power of killing, il is made of pa- per, with a thin shell of aluminum, ft has 111!' S!inie precision as the ordinary bullet, but produces a perfectly smootjn wound. Tho Austrian War Office is notv making trials of thei iuventioo.