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oev rsHSsm â- 3aE ass y THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. WterMtlog Itenu About Our Owa Country, Orsat BrIUtn, th* (Jnlted SUtiia, and All ParU of tbe Qlobe. Conde '.jcd and Astortad far Ba5y Reading. CANADA. The Bank of British North America Is to establish a branch in the Yukon. Fall wheat la reported to be damag- ed by the recent frost.s in several sec- tionn of Ontario. The Quebec City Council has decided to tax all telephone an<l telegraph poles 25 cents each. Mr. Ira J. Flatt, ex-M.P.P.. is said to be heir to a Philadolphia estate, his share amornting to $700,009. A syndicate of Hamlltoniana will shortly make the exiierimeat of tryinj; to aucIimatizB English gauuj in Canada. Mr. E. P. Davis. Q.C., of Victoria, B. 0., is m«nrioned us likely to be appoint- ed Chief Justice of British Columbia. Tha Government U reckoning upon »n expenditure of $250,000 to tran.sport the military contingent to the "iukon. Diver Kilker of Montreal was caught In the gates of the Canada Paper Com- pany's mills at Windsor mills and lost . bis life. Mi'Namee & Simpson. lOf Montreal and Toronto, have Iwen awarded the contract for dredging in Toronto har- bor this summer. It is now proposed to raise by 25 cent subscriptions the $20,000 required for the proijoaed monument to tbe late Premier Mercier. The Minister of Marine and Fish- •riea announces that the Government are considering the advisability of ea- t»blLahlng a naval militia corps. Twothotisand visiting troops are ex- acted In Ottawa on the Queen's Birthday, Including the Queen's Own RifUA 700 strong, from Toronto, «r. W. Harkoni, ma3ter mechanic of the eaAtem division of the G. T. R' aysteox will be assistant mechanical Superintendent of tbe €j F. R. A lilaze in tbe Star Iheutre at Ham- ilton dastroyed a lot uf costumes be- lenging to the trouiie playing there, be- sides doing other damage. The new seven-pound guns of A Bat- tery were given a, satisfactory test at tbe Royal Military College by Capt. English in the preseni:t! of the cadets. Mr. S. E. Wilkins, a Hamilton mer- chant, was fined one cent by the Police Magistrate for violating a city by-law in selling a pair of shoes after T o'clock la the evening. TtM Brltiah Gawnnuient Is sending 2,000 trocf)S to feijiiorce the gairrison of Jamaica. Tbe secomi I u(.taliioin of the Lsinster Regiment, now stationed in Halifax, have received orders bo pre- pare to embark on May 5. G. L. ^Vhlt•, repreaentlug the Van Oatup Packing Company, of Indltna- poLLs, WHS in Qu^lwo on Sunday, be- caoojo insane, and had to be ylaced un- djsr restraint. The Grand Trunk >» tnauguratlnff a pew fast freight line to operate over the Orund Trunk liallway system In Oocjuuctlou with the Wast Shore Rail- Way. R«v, Dr. Cairmeni, General Quperln- t«adent of th» Medhiodi:;t Chu'rch, has Iftft Toronto for Vanaouver, on route to Japan, wluare be will visit the vari- ous missions of tihe Church. Tl)« Inland Revenue officials at Que- lt)ec tiave seized two barrels consigned to a menhant suppoeod to contain (louT. Tibey had 338 pounds each ot â-¼e'ry fine American plug tobiusoo. Slztenn Moguil enginaii havu l)een pur- chased by tha Canada At lantio and Ut- tswa. Arnprlor and Puiry Sound Rall- iray for t.heir freigh't Husiucaa. They %ill l« dsliveTed during April and May. One of the main features of the cele- bration of fbfi Queen s birthday at EinKslon will be tbe phuing oi bronzes <m uu» base o| fhe monuiment. e^rscted in t.he City n^rk in inomory of Sir Joihu A. Macdonald. Tha Department ot Tirade and Com- pierce at Ottawa has Ijeen adivisad that tnercbaht ships of Japan will l>e afford- ed the sane facilities (ur dealing with t^fserted seaman In British ports as is now ncoorded to British vessels. A portion of this i)ew liridige on the £ row's Nest line at jruilway over the St. iry's Ri'V'wr was blown diown. and ivltih it eigiht mem. V^ main named Fer- (u»ou of Renfrew was killed ami (ibe ©tiers se,riously Injured. I'lie men fell kbouit r>0 feet. GREAT BRITAIN. Manchester has siubscrihed £350,000 to provide, a Alontreal. The torpedo-boat destroyer Sparrow Hawk 'has been ordered to Halifax. 6he Las a speed of thirty knots. TUe sudiplcion Is confirmed that it was the German steamer Magnet from Plomaron, March 01, for Stettin, that \ 8 as sunk on JVlarcb) lb, in collision off! abbard Lightship, Euglandl, with the} jBritixli barit, British Priuieas. Captain goott, from Leith, for Liverpool.' Kigh- teen ot the crewi weri> drowned. UNITED S'l'ATKS. Work liEkS been sus[i«n(led in all the coal tiiineo of the Ohio district. becau.so the ton ver cent, increase iu wages •gre«d upon by the miners and mine owners af Colaml)Us and (..'liirago has not yet l)een applied to tbe oomtnon Laborers in llic^ mines. GJiNRRAL. Tbe condition of the injaae King Otto of Bavaria ha4 siuldenly l;ei'ome v«>kse and it is feared th it he l<< dyitig. rho worst snowstorm of the season raged on the Newfoundland coast on " loKifty. Tihe railroad^« are blocked. raod steamers have been unable to leave ,'l»rt , A rumor la carreat in FarLs that Al- frad i>reyftiA t^e former C'uplaiiv o( artillery, who Was sentenced to imr- priaouoant for life after having Leea convicted by oourtmartial of having retrayed ImpurtAnt military Becrtjts to a foreign power, is dead. PRjU/^ING THE WERE NOT DERANGED. ertlilnBl MPB Whp UH Alang WKk Only â- air n Brala. Without tha connecting structure there can be no exact co-operative ac- tion ot the double brain. Now thero is ample evidence to show that deficiency of the corpus callosum has not neces- sarily been attended with tbe effects, which, on the theory of the single na- ture ot the braiji, we should have ex- pected, in Instaniies in which it was dis- covered after death that the connect- ing bridge t}etween the hemispheres was entirely wanting, neither derange- ment in intellect was observed nor any other abnormaUty of life in the way of movement or sensation. Thus, in the notable case of Biobat, one of the foremost anatomists of his day, one lobe of bis brain was found markedly smaller than the other. He was, in faot, deficient in one half of his brain, and yet his mental andi phy- sical life was in its way notably of a high order. In another case, reported by Crurellhier, a man died in tbe hos- pital at the ac<e of 42 yearg from heart disease. He exhibitad no l.xck of intel- ligence, yet after death it was discov- ered that his left Ijrain \v,as practical- ly destroyed and replaced by a watery substance. Another case, reported by Andral, was of a man who died at t^ie [ have ever seen a^e of 28. He bad suffered from a fall when 3 years old, and as a result was paralyzed on bis left side. The right half of his brain bad practically dis- appeared, so that the parts below this half constltutod tb^ floor, of an empty space. Andral says of this man that he " had recei-vad a good education and had profited by it ; he bad a good mem- ory ; his speech was free and easy ; his intelligence was such as we should e.T- pect to find in on ordinary man." THE NE'W HANDKERCHIEFS. Uaiotlnesti appears to be the charac- teristic featuxs of the naw handker- chiefsâ€" tbe finest of linen and linen lawn lielng iiaed, with r^al lace and d«ll:'at« embroidery by wajr of orna- mentation. A pretty apecim«>n is of sheer linen cambric, square in shape, and finish- ed with a very narrow bam-stltched iijem, inside of which runs a vine of fine embroidery. AnoUier is (InLshsd with the nsxrow h«m alone, while a tbird bos tbt- smal: hem, and in ea<'h aorner a delicate embroidered design. An attractive one has the favorite nar- row bam, and ip one corner an ar- tistic embroidered design, circular in outiime, with an i;iitiAl letter in the ceotre. One, si|wiro in abape, is embroidered all aiiuut th/9 ed^e Is small scallops.: another bus the e<Lia in large scallops, each one form.ed n three small ones. A tbilrd is scalloped, and in:'^i<le the odge ruus a lane oi sml»roidery. Tha ualaundered hand-made hand- ksn^hief is mach l|ked, a,nd Is more reia»onal>le in pnae Chan tbe iaundarsd article. It ramges from seveataen c«>t8 uywajrd, and for fiity cents one af excelleint quuliti can be bought, eithar Iace-edge4 of Piain hem-stitih- •d, with, the Inltiail lewj in one corner. A dressy s^^cimen of jlpls kind is edged with nuraw laL'e ovjllhaniled on the llaen, tloen being no hem. About an inch froci the edge, On all (our sides, is let i°o a band of iaco iiuiertion, in one corner i^ a 1 andt>um« initial work- ed, and in the other three corners an embroidered Hpray. This is valued at lorty-eiaht cents. One of fine qual- ity, Lsce-edged, and with an initial let- ter in one corner, is found for twenty- tw^o cents, w^hile tbe Booae thing is forty-eiyht cents where tbe lace edg- ing is the real artUde. Those two hand- kerchiefs are exceptionally good for the price. Lace is in high favor, and is seen on more than half th^ nf.v handkarchiefs. from the finest real point and Vaien- donues to the narro.v and serviceablr imitation edging. A notit-t'ably pret- ty article is of fin«!iit qua ity, has an embroidered edge ot tiny T'ointed scal- lops, inside of which runs a narrow iln.? of embroidery, and set under tbe AND THINNING PLUM. My flxat illustrated lesson in prun- ing came to me thirty years ago. My father Iwught a farm of a man who was quite a horticulturist, in his way, the same as a great many other people are; that is. he would buy trees, set them out cm land that was worthless for any o*iier purix)ee, and then sit down and await results. He bad bought a few plum tareea, about eigh- teen, some of wbicih were put out at the back of the house, the balance be- ing planted wibhin about a foot of a txricket fence a;t one side of an open lane wlhere his horse and oow were pastured. You can pro* ably guess fhe result, says a writer, not a single sprout from one of tihese trees got alxwe the top of those fence pickets. At t^e ond of about five years, when my father took the farm, the trunks of tiboee trees were some three or four inciea in diameter, with not a branch over four feet high, but the head was browsed off as sqviaire as If cut with tie prujning sheajs. My father get the fence ba<!k se-verul feet from tIhe trees and the gro^vth those trees made was truly wonderful, with their low, wide brani-hing beads. Those tarees gaive an- nually large crops of iihe choicest plums In the fifteen years that my father owned this farm there was only one off year when these braes did not produce a money uxop of from |50 to $100 yearly. I hojva always look- ed upon tlhis as horse sense in pruning plum treea. My method of pruning plums can Iw told in a few words : To cut back two-tbi'rds all new wood; tbot is. all tha now leading shoots are cut back at least two-thirds of the entire lengti. This is my rule, and I follow it as closely as circumstaaiCHS will ad- mit. I would Dot dare send a man into my orchard with instructions to follow this rule to tbe letter. For there is not, cannot be, any set rule for prun- ing trees. My ideal siiape for a plum tree is a low, spreadimg, well-balanced bead. I buy small trves from tbe nurs- ery, and by ouUing back severely at the time of plaintiog. then cutting back one-third of all new growth each year, I secure my ideal shape. Such trees give me woll-ripe<ned wood, Ijear better crops of better fruit, axe more vigor- ous. Icngor lived, and do not cost more Chan one-half for the lalxiir uf caring for ihem,. or for gath<Ting tne fruit, l«- cause it is l;orn • linv down near tbe ground. The pa.sl season bus quite fuily demonalrati-d the advantages condition after tha ground has warm- ed sufficiently for the ssed to gxonr. The last part of the growing season is the uncertain one for wheat. When •«eded in drills a bushel and four quarts bo a bushel anl a peok ot seed have given best resalu as a general rule. The amount of seed which will give the Iwst yield will vary with the leason. A seasfm which favors the "tooling of the plants requires less seed 1 than one w.hicb la unfavoraljle to their stooling. The shoe drills are prefer- able to the hoe drills or to broadcasting wheat. The shoe drill puts the seed into the ground and usually into moist ground, and ixjvers "it over, ready to grow. The broadcast seeder and the hoe drill ar emore uncertain, as some of the grain Is cofvexed deeply, some shallow and some of it not at all. If the reader will l)ear in mind that to sprout or start growth aivary seed re- requircs a certain degree of warmth, moisture and air. ho will understand what he is required to furnish to the wheat kernels bo induxje them bo- start growth. Shoe drills can !» divided into two classes, viz., the shoe chain and the shoe press drills. ffOPESM, BLDJD BffiL HAS Gipi OF SECOND SIGHT AND SEES INTO THE FUTURE. The shoe like those of tbe corn planter and garden seeders -fan. 3, 1884, so that open.s a furrow in the ground and drops fourteen years old. Th« WlM are Pu/j'.lril, Ihr Isaorant Venr â€" â- â- I Maboily Uuowii llie Hrertt »t UtW Poweri, Wkleh are tha Talk ar Ilia Voniilry Whrr« )«lie Mvtts. Poople who believe in the signifU ounce <xf dreams and in the power of j "second sight," may find strength foB ' their ofiinion in the case of Utile Lucy Starling, the blind girl of Oldtown, , Maine, whose wonderful gifts aatouisK , all who know her. { Four years ago little Luoy began ta ' conjure up, with startling atxuraoy, j dream pictures of past, present and j (uture events, and since then her fame ! as a prophetess has spread and brought many curious imrsons to see the won- ; derf ul ohild. All who know ber or bear about ber agree that she is inspired. and the simple folk among whom shs lives believe that heaven has given her this gift of second sight to cou|iensuta I for the loos of her own precious eye- slgbt. Lucy was bui-n in Oldtown, Me., ok she Is now just She is the only th« seed into it w.hile the sides of the ,, , , , , i • f„i!,. . h.. *oe bold the dirt bacJc When the '*''"*f'i'*'' "^ ?<""• '"''onnK folks; her shoe moves past the point where a cer- father being a retired seama*. h rom. tain seed has Iwcn drojjped. the loose lier birth Lucy biS been a delicata dirt falls in. covering the seed more chiid. and. as they watched the develop- U ':':^'Slu^^^^:^ --^ ^^ ^belr omy daughter, the anxi case of the shoe chain drill and a small I ""* parents feared that the spark of wheel in tJie cose of the sluie press drill, , life which flickered in Lucy would suoa whioh covers the seed mure completely. | go out altogether. When she was taa IB addition to covering thi! grain the i u , jj , i press wheels compact the ground over y«"" o^^ Lucy suddenly became the saad. which tends to maJie moisture TOTALLY BLIND. risa into the soil which surrounds it. t<u ^ ,. ,„â-  â-  This firming of the soil tends lo pro-r^** """^ â- Â»' »""â-  a"'^'^^^""* ''"'' ^"^ duce one of the necessary conditiims ' enigma to the doctor, but they all for growtjL, viz., moistuire. i agi^eed that she would go blind to the tli' JL"''.*°».* g'Jod plan to harrow ] end of her days. The sorrowing parents tb«! ground oftftr seeding if t has not â-  ., ,,,,â-  -t jTuin.i.^ l*.-n fined enough before the wbea«: w,i» I ^''"'»«'^'^ ''"^ "»*" 8"«^ ^"'"''^ "'" ^^^ soivn. It will no^ biurrt tlie grain to ' 8li"l. ''Ut she appeared lo be resigned to harrow the ground after the wheat is 'â-  ber lot and soon Ijegan to show signs of up. Wheat that is four inches high I tbe marvellous power with which she will not L« injured by harrowing with is gifted. a peg toothed harrow. If it rains aft- On the night of Nov. la, laUS. I.ucy er the wibeat is seeded and befexre it is tour or five inches high, harrowing the ground after it has dried sufficit-ntly will u.-sually prove beneficial. In that case the harrow Icosi-ns the surfa<:e of the .soil and i>revents Ijie loss of water by eva^xwatiun at a time wh«n the dreamed three limes of a ship in dis- trees going down Into the slough of the waters with all binds on board. The dream loft vivid effects upon the child's mind and frightened her s» much that she called her father to her bedside, the man tried to sooth bur, imt in \aiu. at FORMATION OF SMALL LAWNS. Swiding Is m<«t satisfactory. Suc- cess depi-nds upon the thorough pre- paration of the soil. This should !» spaded up deep and made as rioh as possible, fn laying sod it is important l.hiit tbe pieces are cut with a sharp my olo.ie pruning system aver the more knife and made of even widl.h so that Lommcm metiiud of letting the trees take cure of themselves. While my own orchard was laden with fruiu not a single tree was in the least over- soalloiJS a (u) I e<lging of I a^e about an iuoih in width. < Colored handkerchiefs, which a few- years ago were so imifh In vogue, have entirely rlisaijpeared, except In a few ejcamiples seen in the «iik China crape. Tlieee are u^ed for "dress-up" oc- casions, and are ornamental. They come in pale pink, green, lavender, yel- low, and blue, and ar« embroidered ia floss-silk of the same color or con- trasting colors. h'oT in.stance, a bluia _ one has a bluiP embroidered edge of new steam!»!up servUa to : »^*"oi'-'* '>â- "'' garlands of pink rose- I Inids, or a vine ot delicate pink trai'- ing arbiutus. These .>ilk handker- chiefs comie a,I^o in plain white. A SOLDIER WITH A RECORD. It is true that be wears the. uniform of a soldier, said the doubting one, but 1 understand he never h.is been in any real engagement. Whatl cried tbe posted one, Why, he has beejj sued twice for breach of promise. Engagements I Well, I rather guess. TOO SLOW. Your plo[ement didn't come off? No; the wretch asked! me to fly with hLtn, and th?n told me thai he thought a horse and buggy would be more comfortable than a tandem. FORCE OP H(ABITj What makes Bigly bolt his food? He's juat ba'ic from the Klondike wliere they had to bolt and ivadlock tx)fch, in order to keep aay thing to eat. cropped, and not a prop was used in my orchard, the tall, slim, umpruned trees of my neigiilxrrs were bending their long, willowy branches to the groujud with their overload of fruits, which were so small and poor that they could not Ije sold at any price. Thou- sands of these trees are nuw dead, ;iiid all of them more or less permanently injured. A plum tree well pruned will have at least three times tbe amount of bearing wood ot the unpruned tree. The advaniages of low over high prun- .ing are: The low brunches prevent the trunk and larger limbs from becoming sunl>urned and infested with borers; it brings the fruit nearer the ground, thereby saving at least 50 per cent, in the cost of gathering; the trees and fruit are l)©tLer protected from burd winds, and tbe lower brunches being the oldest will produce first, A low- spreading tree is better balanced, and in seasons ot heavy yields will not need propping up, und the fruit will !e more evenly disuibuied over the tree, A tree at a given age will have a larger bearing suirface it trimmed low than the .same tree wouil<l have had with a high head. Still another advau'age of tbe low head is, that it keeps th« plow- and cultivator farther from tbe tree and thuB Siues many of the roots that would otherwise be in- jured or destroyed. A low head is usu- ally an open head which admits of more sunlight, and therefore lietter colored fruit. High pruning has caused more loss and disappointment to plum grow- ers that any other one cause, hyvery fruit grower knows that different v;iri- ties of plum trees require different IJiey match well, making an uninter- rupted turf whiich should \m beaten down with the lack of a Hpa<le firmly, afle.r w.hich it should be thoroughly wat«>red. Of coar.se If there are any roots of oerennial weeds in t,he sod, tliey *luauld l)e reiiiaved before laying, but the main iK>int is to select a good, clean piece of turf from whioh to cut the .sod. If seed is sown, Kentucky bluegrass makes a nice lawn, but the special lawn mixtures are adapted tor various conditions. w-heart i« not Ihigh enough to mulch She deacrilied w hut she had seen down and shade the ground well. to the minutest dotaiL and insisted that she had reuogni/.ed her absent brother's face among the drowning sailors. H«;r father asked her if she could discern the mmo of the ship, and learn- ed to bis surprise lb it it wa.s the 'Prin- cess." Although she bud never seen the Princess, she .iescrilied the vessel so accurately that her father was tilled with wonder. .\. .short time afterward the newspapers reported tbe los.s of the Princess, of tjunderbiud, England, on the nife'ht of Nov. IsJ, 18'J8, off Kl.imbor- ougb Head. Lucy's broiber, .lohu .Slur- ling, had left homo some years Ijeforo to serve before the mast, and nothing bad been heard of him. it wiis ascer- tained, upon inquiry, that he wuM among the crew of THIi ILL-FATED I'HINCE.SS. and thus the child was fouu<l to be correct in every piirtioular. Not only do»i» Lucy dream of iha present, but of the past and futui^ Her parents say that she prophesied the devastation of St. Louis by the great tornado of a year ago a month before it occurred. Although she could not name the locality 8h(% described the city of her dream so exactly that her pai-ents, who knew St, Louis well, were not surprised to hear, some time after, of the havoc the tornado played with Ihnt city. The blind girl bus given many evi- dences of her strange gift, and she is .Slid to have foretold the death by burn- ing of a nuiglibor, desirribiug tbe arci- dent exactly as it afterward (x.cur- red. These revelations invariably come to tier in the form of <lre<iuis or vtsions, nnd when she aw-.-ikes she remembers what she bos lii-eamt to tbe smallest detail. Lui-y i.s a beautiful child, with blue eyes and long golden hair. In spite of her affliction she attends the village school. ,ind is said lo 1)« advuncerl in her studies. She is of a i-hoerful dis- pueitiou, and is able to do lols of things that other blind people cannot do. SLEEP IS SOUNDEST WUcn One Urrnins Bieiiii»« Urenm* foii- Irol ihf llrnln. "I'he popuar idea or impression is that when persons dream mu/h dur- ing a night to that extent their sleei) is interfered with," .says a well-known physician; 'an.l it is a frixiuent thing to hear persons .say that they dreamed 80 muvh during the night that they did not sleeii or rest well. Now, the fact is, dresjuiing is as much rest or mental recreation iis actual sleep in some respei'ts.a' though it may nijt ap- pear so on first thought. It Is hard to prove this by a?tual experiment, be- cau.se the conditions ar* so difficult to produce, Tliere is a certain -imount of evidence which can be used, however, to prove the proposition. 'Time ami ti,»ne again when |)er.sons have been waked uip by others they have explain- ed US a reason that they did not re- spond quicker that they did not hear the call. (t i« ,as clearly proved as anything ran be Ih.it ijer.sons who are 'n a' dreamy condition are much hard trealnent. I'or instance the Bur- ;„ to wake than tluee who are sleo,.i„g. lunk^ being naturally of a low, sprawl- they supiK.se, sound N- rake up"?: .ng habi; requires more side and less ,,„t, for in.stance a mother, when .she top pruning than the Abundance, which i, sleeping .soundly, a.s .she ihin;.s IS an upright grovver. and should be ^he can hear her child when it turns severely top pruned to spread the top I over or moves in its crib Non- as much as possible. If large trees are bought from the nurseries, the lieads will !e formed too high and the tree will never L>e of the proper shape. To suit me it would l)e h.irdly im.ssible to get toci low a head on a plum tree. A plum grower, who, tjie past season, not only lo.st his entire crop of plums from aver one hundred trees, but lost his trees us well, from overbeariiU'g. said to me: "You could thin .your fruit, for your trees are so low-, but how lould I get into th etops of twenty-fgive or thirty-foot trees to thin them?" True, he could nob, and thus his orchard was ruined I If we train our trees too low, spreadimg heads and proiierly thin the fruit, taking off all inferior, wormy specimens (destroying the same), and moke it a rule never to prop up a tree, we will have few off years an<l will always find a ready sale for our fruit at the highest market prices. SKEDING SPRING WHE.\T. ll i.s usually adivLsalile to .seed spring . the .same par«?nt in a dreamy condition would hardly hear a knock at the door or other loud noi.se. The drc-wn .so con- trols the brain that during its jien- dency the sense ot hearing is blunted," ONLY WOUNDED MONARCH. Humbert L. Kiug of Italy, Is the only Eurofiean monarch of the present time who has been wounded \n warfare.. The occasion was (he hatt'e of Custozza, which, tor tbe lta'ian.s, ended so dis^ astrously. T\w AusI rians, under Arch- duke Albert, Avere victorious. N.4TIVR SHUEWJJNFaSS. In the recent Abyssinian campuiKn an Ita'iun Caidnin wbo wore a glass eye was accustomed to remove the counterfeit optic every evening, and put it in hia purse before refirinw for the night. Seeing this the natives de- c'ared llNit he took out one of his eyes and left it ti look after bis money and wheat as earlv as the soil is in g^iod i l"''"'''^"'- anybody* from stealing it. EUROPE'S POPULATION, While tbe population of liuroiie which was esiimat6<l at 17,5,000,0110 in the beginning of the century, rose to 210(K)O,(lOn in IH.'JO increasing lo 300,(100,- 00(1 in IS70, and i.s now nearly ;S70,000,- 000, thei-e has been a still more re- markable in -reuse in the niiuibei of towns with over lOO.IHIU iuhaiiitiinls. There were only 21 of those in 1801, with, l,'>OO,00ll inliuliilints, 42 in IH.'iO, 70 in 1870. with 20,0i;0.00() inhabit mis, and 121 in I8if0, with about 37,000,00» inhabitants. AFRICAN I'KLEGRAPH Cecil Rhodes has now got his great African telegraoh line working from Cape Town lo Tete on tht> Zambesi, and poles up as f.ir as Lake Nyu.ssa. That brings bini within 1,000 miles of Uganda. I'lu! Sirdar is al'oiH. to move on ICbarioora, larryinf; a telpgrup'h line with him. Another year, therefore, may easily see an unbroken line In working order from the de'ta to the cai'e. APPRECIATION. Heâ€" That is a remarkably bright girl f was just talking to. Sheâ€" But isn't it r.itber hard to keep ui> with ber? Heâ€" That's .just it. I Min't teil you what a relief It was to meet yuii. ? r