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 bi\ â- U â- *! r irn^ ^^^^â- 'â- ^;»i^ WEDDING CAKE Some Historical Stsjainlscecces cmo«xxt- ias is.â€" How It WorlQB oa the New- ly Married Couple, and te Youns and Cld llaids Wlie "Dream" on it- Pecmliar Cnsteins of the S«iDd«mcn island- ers. The origiH of wedding cake is lost*in the shadows of antiquity. Civilization is grad- ually thmsling wedding cake oatot common use, but the memory of man does not reach back to a period when wedding cake was unkdoWn. In Pompeiian houses have been discovered slices of a fabric o hard, black, and utterly indigestible that antiquarians have instaatly recognized it aa Roman wd- ding cake and it is the opinion of the best modem authorities that a peculiar substance frequently found in Egyptian mummy cases, and supposed by early Egyptologists to be bitumen in an amorphous state, is simplv wedding cake made iu Egyptian forges four or five thousand years ago. With the appearance of genuine wedding cake we are all familiar. We know the black cement in which fossilized fruits, spices, and slabs of yellow gam.sheUao are imbedded, and the plaster of Paris with which the indigestible and deadly edifice is crowned. Attempts have been made of late years to substitute edible and harmless cake for the fatal and customary wedding cake, but these at'empts, originating as they did in a total misconception of the nature and functions of wedding cake, failed to meet with any popular support. The true wed- ding cake â€" a small cube of which when placed under a maiden's pillow is so hard that it frequently causes a pressure on the brain, giving rise to frightful dreams of per- petual celibacy, and which, when eaten by a child under ten years of age, or admitted to any but a robust and pork-proof stomach, produces death in less than three hours â€" has nothing in common with edible cake ex- cept the name. What was the criminal purpose which wedding cake was intended to serve This is a question to which no satisfactory answer can be found in any literature. The " Ka- levala " speaks of " the fatal wedding cake of Siva," but it does not throw any light upou the subject which Siva had in view in its distribution. The learned Sanchoniathon describes as " the boldest of the Phoenicians" a soldier who ' ' delighted in the roar of the lion, and feared neither wedding cake, nor deadly serpents, nor the wrath of kings." The fatal nature of wedding cake is alluded to by a score of ancient authors, but they never seem to have thought it necessary to explain why so deadly a substance was sent to the friends of newly married couples. There is a custom prevailing among the inhabitants of the Sandemau Islands which may throw a little light upon the civilized use of wedding cake. When a cativy girl, whose exceptional beauty has broui,-ht her inany suitors, is knocked down with a club aid carried off by her accepted lover, the wjdded pair wrthia forty-eight lioursof the wedding send a cup of poison dis-.i ed from the hula-hula-tree to each and every one of the bride's former admirers. If any recipi- ent feels that he cannot become reconciled to the marriage, he drinks the poison and dies but if he decides that he will survive the loss of his intended wife, he throws away the poison, and feels bound in honor never to show the slightest sign of disap- pointment. By this admirable system the husband is spaied the pangs of jealousy, and is able to live on friendly terms with the surviving admirers of his wife. It is strange that the custom of sending wed- ding poison to unsuccessful suitors has nev- er spread beyond ths Sandeman Islands, but, as every one knows, each tribe or na- tion of Polynesians has its own peculiar customs, which are cherished with the ut- most care as badges of independence. Now it is quite possible that wedding cake was in its orifin precisely analogous to the wedding poison of the Sandeman 1 sl- anders. It may have been more swiftly fatal in prehistoric times than it is at pre- sent, and it may have been used solely with the view of securing newly marrieJ people in the posseisioa oi uudisturbcd happiness. At present it fails t© accomplish this pur- pose because no one ever dr'janis ot eating it. Of course an occasional child surrepti- tiously devours wedding cake and perishes ir.iserably, just as occitsional and entirely incomprehensible children lunch on corro- sive sublimate, or drink with apparent relish (juantities of sulphuric acid. So, too, in rare instances, determined suicides have compassed their nefa ious end with the help of wedding cake. Still, Id is entirely accurate to suy that no one to whom wed- ding cake is sent ever eats it, and it is high- ly improbably that the senders are ever actuate! by a desire to destroy life. If wedding cake was not originally intend- ed as a means of removing dis atislied lov- ers, it was in all probability purely symbolic. The Jewish custom of eating upleaveued bread at the Passover is an illustration of the symbolic use of food. Nothing more unpalatable than unleavened l.reail can well be imagined but this very peculiarity made it all the more efficacious in reminding the Jews of their escape from Egypt. They could comprehend how terribly disagreeable Egypt must have been u-.ider the nie of the National party, when the children of Israel were glad to leave it, even«t the c ist of having nothirg for supper except unleaven- ed bread. Now may not weddiagcake have had in the beginning a symbolic reference to the escape of the bride from the state of celib- acy By sending wedding cake to hef friends she may have meant, to say, "IwouM eat even this rather than remain single." Or the wedding cake may have been in- tended to remind those to whom it was seat that they had better eat it at once and per- ish, rather than to attempt to pass through life without husbands or wives. If we once assume that wodding cake was as much a symbol among those who first used it as unleavened bread was among the Jews, we have an explanation of an otherwise almost inexplicable custom. The meaning of it is, of course, utterly unknown tothosewhonow send wedding cake to their friends, but it is only one of many customs that have sur- vived their meaning as well as their useful- ness. ., _â€"*..•.-•â€" '^- Navigation is closed oa the Kcva, ' is blocked with ice. ., *. The anvoliDcament..tliat in .future Ae 'Prince of Wale«\rh(Bn in Scotland will not reside at Abergeldie castle, says the English journal Land, will surprLseno one who has any knowledge of that pokey stronghold. Ab«- gddie contains a multitude of very small bad- fy arranged and lU-ventilated apartments, and trom the point of view of convenit nee, it would be none the worse for being " turned inside out." During his future visits to the north the Prince will stay at Birkhail, his own shooting box near Ballaster. Abergeldie is the property of her Majesty, who merely lends it to the prince. Birkhill is finely sit- uated and commands magnificent views over the lower Deeside valley. It is a well-bn It and substantial house of a very plain style of arehitecture, and was erected not long be- fore 1715 by one of the numerous branches of the Gordons. The Birkhail esUte, which like the house is the property of the Prince of Wales,extends to 6,810 acres. It stands on the connty valuation roll as being of the value of £750per annumâ€" £230 for the bouse, shooting, etJ., and £500 as rent pail by the tenants. D uring the last three years his royal highness has spent over £20,000 in the im- provement of the farms upon the estate and in the erection of new buildings. On one farm alone the expenditure has amounted to £4,000, exclusive of the tenants outlay. Most of the farm leases have been renewed during the last two or three yeari, and it is saii tlat the conditions named in the lea^s were such as to be eminently satisfactory to the tenants. The result istbat tlie prince i3 very popular on Deeside, and the news that tie inieudsto pend some time everyautumn at Birkhail has eeu received with pleasure, by his tenants. 1111^ â-º-•♦^iâ€" TUo Russian Sentry. As a disciplinarian he was firm and strict. No point was too minute to be overlooked. SkobelefPs videttes were never caught nap- ping. His knowledge of the details of mili- tary duty was universal â€" even to sounding all the bugle calls. An illustration cf the discipline of his corps occurs to me. I had been talking with him cf military breech- loaders and discussing the marits of the var- ious systems. Taking a "Berdan," with which the troops were latterly armed, from a soldier, he undid the breech and lock and explaineil the mechanism with the precision of a gunsmith. Keturning the rifle to the soldier, he turned, andwalkinj up toasentry a few paces distant, he said, " Lst me see your rifle " â€" extending his hand as he spoke. The man saluted and replied, " I cannot, your excellencj'" ' But I want to see if it is clean, persisted the general. "I cannot, your Excellency," again said the seutiy, as firm as a rock. Skobelefif tmiled, pulled his ears, and walked on. I asked an explana- tion, whereupon he said that a ru e of war with him was that no sentry on duty was on any account to give up possession of his arms â€" not even to the Czar himself. " But," said I, " suppose the sentry had given up his ri- fle when you were seemingly so serious in asking it. What then ' '" He would have been shot," quietly replied the General, "for disobedieac? to orders in tlij time of war. â€" The Fortnightly Review. Utilizing Grass Grass is the cream of the soil. Every ele mert in this compositloa has been drawn from the soil and if that grass were returned, as it should be, to the hungry land, every leaf and stem would add to the productivene-s of the seed-bed. Yet a great many people who supervise the management of lawns and gardens direct every green thing in the form of grass to be cast on the beaten track of the highway, as if such plant-growth, if allowed to decay where it grew, would exert a perni- cious influence on the fertility of the land. There is no better fertilizer for lawns than the grass which the lawn-mower cuts down. The mown grass should never be raked nS" the lawn. If allowed to remain where it grew, every spear and stem will soan set- tie around the live roots of the growing her- bage, where it will decay, and thus provide excellent pabulum for the roots that pro- duced a crop. If the grass and weeds must be removed, let all such aecumlations be spread neatly around tie vines of straw- ber ies, or near rhe bushes of blackberries or currants. Jf weeds and grass ba collected in a pile, during hoi; and dry weather, every root and stem will soon die. All the grass, weeds, and grass-roots that canbs collect jdtogethei' should hi utilized for the purpose of mulching growing plants. Decajed giass will make rich land, und will keep the surface of the soil melbw. Don't allow grass to be wasted. â€" Ameiican Gar- den. 1 1 1 «â- Â»-»- Alive la tor Shroud. j On Tuesday afternbon last Mrs. W. L. Petiiit, wife of the teller of the first Na- tional Bank of Fort Wayne, apparently died, anl tlie undirtakar took charge of the body. Ar;-angements were making for the funeral, and watchers sitting with the sup- j)csed corpse. At ten o'clock at night a taint sigh was heard coming from the bodv. The watchers started to their feet with alar.n, stepped to her side, found her eyes were wide open, while in a voi. e that was scarcely an audible whisper the recognized th m and atked fcr her iiusbind. For a moment the atrendants were speechless with wonder at the resurrection of the dead • then, with the revulsion of feeling, they al- most screamed with excitement. The has- bond came in haste, and with joy unspeak- able elapsed again his living wire in his arms Ti,e doctor was sent for, and he was as much astonished as the rtst of the household at beholding living what in his medic J science he had df clared dead. He administered the proper restoratives, an 1 the patient rapidly recovered. Wantin; Protestion. From Moscow it is reported that since the Anglo- Afghan wai- English trade in Cen- tral Asia has made prodigious strides. To Bokhara alone two caravans are sent weekly from India with goods, and these are sold not only throughout Turkestan, bat even in the southern disteicts of Siberia, whence they «r3 gradually driving Russian productr and the merchants of Moscow have now pe- titioned their Govwnraent to establish a spe- cial prohibitive tariff for goods imported into Rossia ria Turkestan. '" " ' ., TT ^3^"si »teamers al- ready ply on the Upper Amu-Darja under the Afghan flag, and that these snpnlv the ' towns of 'Tâ€" ♦â€"» "• •'â- ^ -^^ ' 'â- " killed. lMMif«Bd her tiiiee *»**^ .r"*^ is the first pnd. awl sad •?^"?f*jt5^ W probably not be the last exhibition of a per- Wted ^d jangled mind, where gloomy and K imp^ have displacedthe s* eetest of temper^ and the most affectionate of dis- lovely woman, poaBeseiuj5gj»iw««»*- of both mind aid body, is transformed into a demon as hideous as Dante or Mdton ever '"sS"speciaUsts in mental diseases de- Clare that SanT* ^oWe man and splendid woman is walking on the edge of this ter- rible precipice over which they are liable at ^ymomeS to plunge. This critical state of the mental laculvies is one of the prices we areforced to pay for our finely wrought, hieh-strung civilization. It is a danger hap- pily not frequent, but still a threatening one which larks in excitable anddiseasea constitutions. Luckily it often proceeds from bodilv ill-health and is curable, but unluckUy,' also, may break out m some serious form before it is healed. An unaccountable desire to kiU, without motives of hatred, revenge or passion of any sort, is a common symptom of this derange- ment of mind. The victim may be the niosu loved and cherished friend or relative, ihe mo e the mother loves her offspring the more she wants when she kills herself to kill her children, so that either they may go with her to a happier realm or not be left to oear the evils .and burdens of a life which her melancholy has made unbearable to her. Often this temptation to kill, in order sim- ply to gratify an insane desire to kill, is fought and resisted. But some day asuden opp'ortunity carries them away. It is like tue love of intoxicating liquor, which the victim Knows is it rational, evil and destruct- ive, and which he resists for years, only to be overwhelmed by some unforeseen and tempting chance. It is pronounced by some specialists to be a pu:ely nervous disturb- ance, and is akin to that feeling which ner- vous and restless people experience when, confined too long, they are tempted to throw a chair at the head of somebody, who is dis- turbing them by talking, humming, whist- ling, drumming wit i the fingers, or in some other way irritating iriitable nerves. A writer in the New York Times tells of oae victim of this mania who lately confess- ed to Dr. Beard or Dr. Hammond that he came very near kUling his gardener. They had no dispute, but the man was at work iu the garden when his employer passed him. A spade that was lying near he picked up, mtending to brain the gardener the moment he turned his back. Luckily the gardener did not do so, and tae feeling passing off he escaped the danger. About a year ago a woman in Jersey City killed five or six of her children and then tried t:) commit sui- cide, but failed. It is seldom, says Dr. Spitzka, another specialist, that these vic- tims of melancholy ake a fiendish delight in these crimes. Their gloom and despair create compassion for those that they imagine must, like themsoives, be victims of this dark temper, and tiiey seek to put an end to the imaginary suli'cring. The wurst phaio oi this tragedy is its pub- licity. Those similifly alfecteJ w^ll read, hear and talk of it will compare with their own sympathies r.nd experiences, and be tempted to imitate it. It not unfrequently happens that such prominent events are fol- lowed by an epidemic or "carnival " â€" to use a much-abused word â€" cf sui ides and murder. Two Gho^t Sterlcs. Ghost stories, which have suffered an eclipse for some time, appear to be undergo- ing a revival. Here is one that is entitled to credence if any are. It is usually on y only servants or ignorant persons who see ghosts, but in this case theapparition was seen by two persons simultaneously, both of them possessed more than common vigor of mind. President Tyler had a sister who was reckoned oae of the most gifted women of her day. She was the namesake of Patrick Henry and the pet of Jefferson. She lived with her father, Gov. Tyler, at Greenway, in Charles City country, Va. One night, while sleeping in the be 1 with a cousin, a young woman of her own age, she awoke and saw her mother, who had been dead for soma months, sitting in the window seat. It was a bright night in summer, and under the window was the bed of a younger sister who was an infant at the time of her mother's death. The apparition leaned over the c ild and gazed intentlyon it. iViiss Tyler remambered to have heard that an apparition would remain as long as the eyes were fixed on it. She looked steadily at it without, the least alarm. Now comes the strangest part of the story. The girl lying by her side said quietly, " Maria, there is your mother." Then the form melt- ed away. Some years afterward, after Gov. Tyler's death, his daughter was at Greenway again. She was then m rried, and was visiting the first wife of her brother, President Tyler. He was absent at WashLn^uon, being in the Senate. One nii^ht one of Mrs. Tyler's chil- dren became ill, and her sister-in-law went to the nursery to help take care of it. She suggested that she should get a remedy from her own room, and, taking a candle in her hand, started for it. On her return, as she passed the staircase, she saw her father stand- ing before her. The same idea flashed into her mind that she could hold the apparition by her fixed eaze. She observed it careful- ly, aad recognized a certain suit of brown cloth which she had sometimes saen the Governor wear, and she was self-possessed enough to look for a mole on his forehead which was a birth maik. Mrs. Tyler after waiting some minutes, called to her to hasten, whereupon the figure vanished. An 'Address to a Barber. "I want $f' .jlose shave. I am in » hurry Do not put any o 1 or greast upon my hai' 1 ^ever use bay rum or cosmetics. Please comb my hair up and back. I do not wish my hair trumned or cat I do not want any hair tome or skin medicine. I do not want any shampoo or a bath. I have not heard the latest ns^s from Egypt., nor do I want to. I care nothing for politics, or criine, ot society. I do not care for stock or market reports. I am not a stranger in going to tbe baU thb evemno. am a professor m a deaf aad dmab ins I in not ^.T^l'^r.^t *^«i*7 «id H:^n*.. â- -â- â-  Hi Hr.lJ! !:*.JJ •aei*" Chicago HerakL â- i'i 'â- -"-h-Jt rn- '« ty/•J^f• ijifsf,., *â-  ..ln'rs-J^ fii«s1i as» " Hy!^:^«i-^;*-*:;j A A ILatxt kxws I Itgti. ••G^e words •Ba«teP» ee%' nised io this ^Wt Eg, ^tethe*- theiSt^wtich^fa above its fellows ;taaid, well ._ iuad 'prov- vratore to call _^_ Eet up i» L(mdon or New iffork. Anvhowfte use of them is in nofaydis- tiS^dy American iad«d the misuse of Sword province is, I f«»«y. «^"i^5 !«i in America, and it is certainly borrowed SSil^TS Bach Eide of the ocean nn- Kkflyids it easier to copy the ab«»«8 of the oSer side than to "tick to the ^b^ heritage which is common to both. What Sehas to say abo^t the pronunciafc on of the word "cerk" is woith reprodnctior. at ^^l^e W "clerk" is in England usually sounded "Clark," whileiaAmeiicait uj usu- aaWsounded -olurk." I say "usuaUy, be- SeTdid once hear "clurk" in England- from a London shopman-and bscuuse I was told at Philadelphia that some old people therestm said "clark." and-ya most impor- tant factâ€" that those who said "dark also said -marchant," Now it is quite certaxn that "Clark" is the older pronunciationâ€" the proaunciation whicli the first settlers must Save taken with them. This is proved by the fact that the word as a surnameâ€" Mid it is one of ths commonest of surnamesâ€" is al- ways sounded and most common y written "Ciark" or "Clarke." I susi;ect that " Clerk" as a surname, so spelled, distinct- ively " Scotch," in the modern sense of that word. Also in writers of the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, the word itselt is commonly written "clarK."or "clarke." But of course "clerk" was at all times the most clerky spelUng, as showing the French and Latin origin of the word. It is plain there- fore that the pronunciation "clurk"is not traditional, but has been brought in artifici- ally out of a notion of mak'Ug the sound con- form to the spelling. But "dark" is no more the true sound than " dark " the true sound is "clairk," Uke French " clerc," and a Scotsman would surely sound it so. "Clark' and "clurk" are both mere approx- imations to the French sound, and " dark " is the older and surely the most natural ap- proximation. The truth is that we cannot sound "clerk" as it is tpelled that is we cannot give the e bsfure r the same sound that we give it when it is followed by any other consonant. We cannot sound e in "clerk" exactly as we sound e in " tent." This applies to a crowd of words, some of Teutonic, some of Latin origin, in which the spelling is e, but in which the sound has, just as in "clerk," fluctuated b itween a and u. The old people at Philade phia who said "dark " also said "marchant." And quite rightly, for they had on their side both older English usage and, in this case, the French spell ng itself. The sound " mwrchant" has come in, both in England and in America, by exactly the same procsis as that by which the sound " d«rk" has come iu Amsrico,, but not in Englind. Sothschild's Start. Rothschild was the third s ju of a bikcr atF;ankfort. "There was not," he said, " room enoijgh for us all in the city. I dealt in English goods. One great trader came there who had the mar'sec all to himself he was qnite he great man, and did us a favor it hs sold us the goods. Somehow I offended him, and he refused to show us his patterns. This was on Tuesday. I sail to my father, 'I will go to England.' I could speak noth- ing but German. On Thursday I started. The nearer I got to England the cheaper goods were. As soon as I got to Manches- ter I laid out all my money, things were so cheap, and made good profit. I soon found that there were three profits â€" on the raw material, the dyeing and the manufacturing. I said to the manufacturers ' i will supply you with the material, and you supply me with ths manufactured goods. ' So I got three profits instead of one, and I could sell goods cheaprr than anybody. Iq a very short time I increased my £20,000 to more than £100,000. "My success all turned en one m,axim. I Slid I ca 1 do what another nian can, and so I am a match for the man with the patterns, and all the rest of them. Another advantage I hadâ€" I was an off-hand man I made°a bargain at oace. When I settled in London the East India Company had £800,000 of gold to sell. I went to the sale and bought all. I knew the Duke of We'lington must have it to pay his army in the Peninsula. I had bought a great many of his bills at a discount. The government sent to me and said they must have it. When they got it they didn't know how to get it to Portugal. 1 .undertook all that, and sent it through France, and that was the best business I ever did." Xiondon Pavements. Beneath, every square foot of wood paving in London there is a layer of concrete foun- dation five or six feet thick. it is very much like the macadamized road, oaly that it is very deep and very solid. It is made of fragments of stone rolled down ia cement and clay, and it makes a magnificent bed- rock for the blocks of wood to rest upon The way they roll their macvdam streeti here is instructive. Over tne various layers of broken stone and cement they run a steam bggest roller, which is quite as heavy as the raili^y engine in America. This goes back and forth over the same ground for days to- gether until it has mashed tiie material down so that when it comes to bs due up for fax ng street-pipes the only way to make any impression on it is with a drill and 8 edge-hammer, such as would be used m blasting a granite cliff. Making streets in London is mighty unpleasant for the neigh- bors, but when the work is dope it doe^'t fede out m a few days. One sees macadam- ,^i,'"°u f '^I^^^^ as a bUliatd table right ^L^ ' ?t heavy trafac. The streeti are dirtier here than they are anywhere else on eMiih. Ihey have nohe of oar street- sweeping machmss. and when they "sprmkie ' a street they dmplit flood it. lo that there is hotWng but ' of mud on tae. sottace ore^y flualjty „i„ -.1 r^"' ,?'*f*^3. To. ..-call £cnidon ch^, as tae natives alwfty.^c'SagwS and jpockinjf Bwcaiitti. To siv it Wti* K^ paved city M »» w^lA^lL^^^ unv^tpished tmth. ^â„¢"**â„¢i' JutteSDth, ISs: thiBir|kl '^^â- J^^ Sets' 3 -?;i ::i:. .-vtjjf' â-  On .Krh- r- lit«BlBg Flashes Bparks From ^dawes. ^iii liattii troQ The • Cholera is increasing in jj The German Govemme.ii, ihe Bey of Tunis. " The Servian Cabinet has in ^ce, the King having its resignation. Lieutenant Bove and scie t to the Antarctic expedifou \!^ Genoa, aU weU. " '« A violent earthquak'j h^ own vininity of Afntab, Not!:em Sv villages were destroyed. "' The Government has prohib'u ing of a conference at Antwenf' auspices of Louise Michel. The sensational statement London that Russia was prui j ' portation of horses is inconect" The Swiss Government Sosialist paper Freheit, ou part it f'ok in arousing the ;i^ ment in France Fortunately the majority of tK in the Lancashire colliery ^^w" plosion occurred on Tutsday « ground at the time cf the cilaniitv" A most violent storm prevaiitj I out Denmark on Sunday uight ^A morning. Much daniaye was dc Several shipwrecks are reported The Pultowa police attempted i 200 persons concerned in the cote cour^ging a revolt of tha pea: most of them escaped ' windows. On the London, Bri^liton ,s-, Railway, England, on -Moadava- train from Croydon ran into Eleven persons were injured ad; badly wrecked. Prince Bismark, with Princ;, and Reuss and Count ileuuster.iBj important conference on the Eas- tion, with the object of tj.iciaa;-! pean interests. The Swiss Federal Council, ^.C'ii representations cf the Fiendi uJ have made a thorough invest i satisfied themselves tnat there uvM ist Committee in Geneva can oa. â- J-'lie menacing language oi t press toward Spain in regard to fugees has caused a painful imp Government circles in MaJriu.a a strong feeling of in 1 ignatiaa r people. Uneasiness is felt m Copenba 'tii quence of the report that uoiaicJ northwest coast of Sibeiii had steil ed steamer, as the D iiish pck:] " Dymphna " is known to i.s i.t i that legion. Mohammed Khcsnauar has post of Prime ilinister of T;;s]i" I be succeeded by Selaziis Lley, w-.l â-  ways been favorable to Fraa.e. of Minister of War ai. J Z\I;iii^tir have been abolished. At Inverness on Saturday, .Mr. nounced the luaaue; in xmucj -J latloa of the Highlauiis wasgOiHg he said, was an insta: ce of tlie the land laws. He advocated tliea zation of land as a reineuy. The agency of the S juta Am;] tres has engaged Sarah Eernharc:! pally for the Brazils) for fifty rt-prt the salary being $165,000. ' Ji:.!; from Pans en the "iOth ot lu.x: -ta Will remain a'oseat 135 day;. Agrarian ciime is lite in ti.tE..: inces of Russia. Arn;ei b.mds oi threaten their laudloids fivm tl: Oae landlord has been shot dtai other has received a threat 'nia: I: the agrarian " Executive Cv-inmi: An election f.ir a meml-r of I' was held in Edinbur^^h on fii; Waddy receded S,454 votes aau liiiesta'J liinicfl. ^i .y la.^ niimbi" ton 7.71S. Both i:amiitlatL' Mr. Waddy considered the of the Scotch Church not a j while Mr, Renton favored tablishment. A riot occurr:^ en T:-.r " suburb of Vienna. A Jai-e men, joined by the mob, ttoiieJ and attacked and destroyed the tion.. wounding the "coni:ni£s: troops restored order. iHtivt and several police w ere inj.iad, ;â-  very se iously. Many riot. Ti v.; ed. Trouble i a Philipopoiis betwicr/- Govemment and tnerepresentativt'i 1 ;d to an open rapture, whicli iiava Governments, since it has boui cessary to send a special eiiioy t. tinople to explain the couditiur o the foreign abassadors and tiie I" trouble grew originally out of lo. oifferencej. We are informed tint tiie intend to establish a line o: -i}-l steel steame s upon the \\aters oi t- 1 lakes. If they do so the prop-.il"' " Asia 'â-  type will soon U"'oi:ie a the past. Those uange.-ou to; clumsy moEstiosities cf ^e«e's v- be able to compete Mith sticl ttca- thousand tons burden, drawing tii-' of water and provided with all tl-^^ ges of an ocean steame r. The pccp 'J countrj' will owe the Canadian T^'-J way a debt of gratitude if sv.ch a i brought about as a result of tiie ment of this line, Ve-se'.s of the! " Asia" are too dangerous to b-; "1 gretteJ. When Ir land had a ParliameJt lai Green the House of Lords consisieiJ peers of the blood royal, the LoraJI {or, four Archbishops, one Duke. ?] quisses, eighty Eails, fifty-si-^** eighteen Bishops, nine peeresses in" right, and sixty- fi ve barons, or at in all. The greater number of t-i^ peers maintained town houses on ' grea|; grandeur, with brilliant ret" cdrrft^ponding outlay. There is n"*,] lirish pofr â- jrho keeps a town boo*-] lower hoase was composed of 300 most of them also had tow u "^l .three descendants of the then now teprei^t Irish constituencieJ that veiiftften ip the cenlj-es ofg"!^ fettivitieg,^ now gloomy and r ittitawiSfi^teirtiKents. '"' 4ViC«»i*i4* t- J/^m^Mi^^i^^ .;^a