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 ^Wwm^f^^^m^^^^^m^ ^^Pii^PP!^^^^pr^nr^*^^^^^iW^ Us IN A J A NUTSHELL. f foreign. Domcskle and W.r ;\-ig2iDS IS to lecture m Quebej 11 aid see'l show has been held wells have been sunk in short distance from Marsh- â- gction has been declared void rTavlor, and the contest will have '•it over again. 'â- ?«i,el sheriff of Arthabaska, Qae., ^?£;„r for S-2o,000 damages for â- i,„ a defaulter j3 in Manitoba carried away a • bridge of the Canada Pacific rail- ..Jswift current Creek. K, V Manns, who shot the girl Emms 3 b«en committed for trial by the '^tes of Stonewall, Man. sidents of the Grand Trunk and Pacific Railways will instruct uadian oliicers to, prepare an „nt which shall settle all pending 'jes between those two corporations, ;„preme Court of Alabama holds that veiiu« law vassed by the last Lei^is- ia void. nffahh, the suspect whom it was • to extradite at Havre, has arrived at EVork. Democrats have nominated as aca'ndi- .-jriiovernor of Georgia, H. D. McNeil, jiton County. ,-s:oQ mariners are dissatisfied with "joi the clauses in the new "Master ;es" Dominion Act. failing and sheet mills of the leading irorka have been olose J on account of [iillness of trade. i;siJerable opposition is being develop- â-  Lreisiiua to the policy of closing some (natural outlets of the Mississippi. jManiuis of Lome has left Ottawa and iat Boston. The British Consul there ;cd the police authorities to take pro- jtcautions to guard against any vio- (iENEP.AL. il'pper House has passed the Austrian It nier Beuoit, formerly French Consul Di'hai, has suicided. J stated that Count De Chambord tog from incipient disease of the jjaatious looking to a treaty of com- I benvct'ii Germany and Italy are in e trial of Xihilists in St. Petersburg, Eia, one of the prisoners, is said to have li approver. 1, Italian, implicated in the murdtr vou 'zekhely, has been arretted sa. (military bake house at Bordeaux, and eiiaantity of provisions and military uas been burned. English Government contemplates KDg a vote in the house of Commons lijrant for extra compensation to the I police. s abandoned barqce whose crew were It London by the steamer Craigton Norwegian barque Gitana, from stoMaryport. r's jury at St. Thomas, found jlFrankor Fraun, of Port Huron, per pi an abortion on Sarah Coleman, of wa, deceased, daughter of Miles Cole- "â-  Petrolia, and that John A. Lawson, teitthe store of W. W. Laney, of that â- ^^ wed him to do it. • Harper, manager of the Merchants' •Prescott, has been transferrsd to Mayor, of Brock ville, freight •^ttoron the Grand Trunk line for 10 -iSes to the North-west. I'P-emen of St. Catherines arc to make ^1 demonstration in August. A Chinese Story. f â-  ao-olutely impossible to realize the P"fe poverty which exists among the '•â- '"al population of Northern China. i^^'e no food bfltrice and water, and *«ough of that. There are hundreds ^â- inds of them who do not possess ' i^ents in currency in the course of '-f" iamine c^mes â€" and it needs but ' 'lilure of the rice crop to produce -they are reduced to live upon ' grass. Lots are drawn to find |: " the children shall be sacrificed j^others, and the victim is brought r?" the town and sold for fifty cents fp^e, the parents parting with it piet onil despa r which are, I be- ^enuine. Sand ' infants are strangled at birth in er,' because, the parents aver, ,1„ i._ r I i^ J J* •P'y impossible to feed them, and it t tor the- "â- " • ^f them to Tiie in this way' than by 'j^. JO" of these extreme conditions of ' to make you understand my once went with some English offi- ' ""^nootmg up into these barren i«coming separated from my 1 lost mv way. lions, •"^^ of one of my way, and asked the jf the poorest of these ,1 n^-e planters.' He left his work f' ^d with the smiling, friendly °i. which, by the way, one is al- g in the poorest Chinaman at i,8ea, f^'^ained ^^'^^^ "" from nojn tiU jj^ "^omg among the winding creeks I ,. "^^phes for my companions. 1^ naa found them I handed him J)lv ,J^^ larger than he would own ';t no °" "'^^e years. He re- J^iin tA';°^^' ^11 'ny persuatioLS in Kgtr'f^"" l^e said, 'bids me to be liile com ^^â- ^' ^°^ *^® chance to obey l^trov 7! ^^ ^° seldom that I dare â- â- â-  J' tne good deed by taking pay "in hn!?^ .Christians might learn a 'ollou.l"*?lty and faith from this ^^ of Confucius " There u a distinctiMi h^d^.^ !»»«««. according io^iSr'" «*'*^ when iiua«»d l£j«.^r^*"*^ "Web, come in tCaeSS^ni!^^- 8«tl«nai" be- plied. andtKZJifâ„¢^ whennUaap- wongtcmatS?^^ •PpHcation of tbe thouXh» "'*•' r^ " » gentleman. X the o'ltil l' "Z °'**°*'" **â„¢^ the on; than T^ â-  8«'»«emaH. In common parlance gentleiBAn to a woman he is (Sccasionally a man and occasionally a g.ntle^.n but I man would far oftener term a woman a w man than he would term her a lady. When of a lady he almost invariably calls woman, lae term young Udy jtives place as far as possible to the term girt, although it greatly depends upon the amount of intimacy exist- mg as to which term is employed. Now to turn to the really tabooed words, " stylish" and "genteel" are relagated to the show- room, where they are very much used at home in each other'b company, although considered decidedly vulgar when met with elsewhere. "Stylish" being bred in the show-room is the right word in the right place but it is hard on unfortunate "gen- teel" that, conveying in itself so much, it should have met with such a fate. "Nice" bids fair to follow in the footsteps of dis- carded words standing alone as an adjec- tive, though passe, it still has its admirers, but when to nice is added either "awfully" or "too," then nice is altogether out of favor. "Jolly" is well enough on the lips of a schoolboy, to whom it now of right belongs â€"a right which no one disputes but slang proper is and never can be anything eUe than vulgar, and those who delijjht in its use for the embellishment of their speech to all in- tents and purposes intend to be vulgar. The word "fellow," however much in use it may be between men, sounds very objec- tionable from the lips of women and some women are given to the foolish conceit of speaking of every man they may happen to know as a " dear fellow," a "charming fel- low," a "handsome fellow," a "clever fel- low." "Beau" and "belle" are terms now no longer in use and for beau no equivalent has as yet been discovered, although the " beauty has replaced the " belle." Out of the nursery it is not customary for children to style their parents other than by the good old-fashioned reverential names of " father and mother." " Papa" and " mam- ma" are now nursery names only, but " pa" and " ma," those unpleasant abbreviations, are now happily quite out of date. The courteous " thank you" has in a measure replaced the uncourteous " thanks," and it is no longer considered very fine to make this curt curtailment. Gas tor Notblng. Scientific prophets have foretold that a day will come when the " residual produce " resulting from distilling coal will be bo valuable as to reduce the price of gas to a mere nothing. That good timebas not arrived, it must be confessed, but if we may believe the confident assertions of a gentle- man at Chester, there is already in existence an appliance which goes a long way towards fulfilling these predictions. He claims to know a peculiar description of oven for making coke which, without the help of a high chimney, enables those who use it to drive steam engines with out any expense for fuel. Every toi* of coal consumed in the oven yields coke worth la., and tar and ammonia worth 43., in addition to 14,000 feet of gas. If, therefore, say the London Globe, the first two products are sotd, the price â€" lis â€" ^more than pay fo»*he slack coal from which they v ere driven, as well as for labor, wear and tear, and interest en thQ capital sunk in plant. The manufacturer consequently gets 14,000 feet of gas for nothing from every ton of coal subjected to the process, and this he can use instead of fuel to generate steam. It is certainly a bold claim to put forw* rd, but it may per- haps, be justified by the present pirices of coke, ammonia, and tar. If, however, these ovens come into general u^e, the market value of such .products will assuredly fall heavily in proportion to the immense enhancement of supply, and in that case the price fetched would not cover the cost of materials and labor. Newspapers as Investment*.,* Some people imagine th.it there is a fortune in the publication of an ordinary weekly newspaper under anything like favorable circumstances, while other* are at a loss to know how funds and labor expended in such an enterprise can yield iair returns, unless in case of leading daily journals of large cities. Both opinions are matenally wrong, although the latter comes near bemg correct. There are perhaps no enterprises where commercial success is so rare as in conne«jtion with the country newspapers, and a lawT proportion of those all over this conti^ntarV looked upon as a class of literary supers or local parasites, which must be iilowed sufficient patronage to ex«t upon. Then there is another class who d^d upon the bonuses of ambitao^towns or WQlent politicians, and when these cease Sagiong^a miserable dead and alive Sier. At a rule the .Journals on thu ^Sent bound up by political ere*** J»T« not been commercially successful, even m ^y prominent instances, and those which now pay their publishers best, have fnZJthle made ^Utics a secondary con- sSStion. In co^ection with newspaper puSon one or two Bennetts may .prmg So in^b generation, bat the rank and file cfthe press^ not usuaUy in over ««? cLcmnKces, and the«.«re i-^^J^f'^l retired newspaper P«^liA«^°^^y other profeaaon known m America.- WtnM jyg Comrnfr ciai- â€" ,,^ aS?w time table^bas come into effect. 7S OMKa «k -^Wlte is •«KM)b«a es to Morris oats, 40 to 45 cents. Tl» mah of business at the C. P. B. "^VA station has rendered it neoaaauy to pat on a night stafE. A magnificent lot of otter and brar fHi» were brought in to Selkirkfrom Lake Winni- per this month by a trader. Port ofl^ have baen opened at Chater, MoliM and SheppardviUe in this Province. Ihe ^^ at Grand VaUey has been dosed. "T^Aamfor the' new Selkirk registry MHc^^febeen approved by the members ot pabHc works and tenders are asked for. BoriBess at Selkirk is improving. Mer- chants and traders generaUy are in good spints and looking forward to a largo sum- mer's trade. "Die lowest reading of the thermometer at rort MacLeod for the week ending March 5th was 12 duress above zero the highe=.t It reached was 75, Bnnness at Portage la Prairie is improving and the money market is easier. Wheat is worth 70 to 75 cents oats 38 to 40 cents barley, 35 to 37 cents. The North-west Land Company has noti- fied Its shareholders that unless the call due on the 1st inst. be paid the stock of default- ers will be forfeited, A petition is being circulated at Fort Mc- Leod, praying the Postmaster General to contmue the mail route between Benton and that place, even after the C. P, R. has pass- ed Calgary. Selkirk has been made the county town for the municipality of St. Andrews, and the town Council are building a registry of- fice and other public buildings. The county court will in future be held there. A survey of the Little Saskatchewan at Rapid City shows that between the eastern boundary of the McLaren estate and Balk- will's mill, a distance of two miles, the. river has a fall of 16 feet nine inches, affording an immense water power. The merchants and other patrons of the C. P. R. are anytt^ng but well pleased with the recent advance in rates. Tne car- load rate from Winnipeg to Selkirk is 10 cents per 100 pounds, of 920 per car, while you can receive a single hundred for 12 cents, A special fast freight train from Montreal to W ii,nipeg is to be run weekly by the Grand Trunk Railway, This is in addition to all special mixed passenger trains, "The Merchants Express Fast Freight Train," as it is to be called, will leave Montreal every Monday morning. The Emerson International of a recent ditesays: "We were to day shown one of the finest samples of Red Fyfe wheat that it^has ever been our privilege to see. It weighs over 66 pounds to the bushel. Every one who has seen it says that it is the best Manitoban wheat yet," The Rock Lake Herald of a lecent date says Last Tuesday night, at precisely teu o'clock, the western sky was brilliantly illuminated by the falling of a large met- eorical stone near the boundary line Mtween ranges thirteen and fourteen. It fell from the zenith of the heavens toward the west and was observed falling three minutes be- fore passing below the horizon. The Emerson International stock adver- tised for sale by the sheriff has been held over for a week. About half an hour before the auctioneer was to start the sale, a telegram was receivedffrom the sheriff in Winnipeg, postponing it for one week on the ground that it had not been properly advertised. It is reported that quite a number of intending purchasers would have bid. „ relation to thepeo pi of Japan that iriieat doea to tiie Weate â- '»-•♦â-  Tlie Face of tbe Globe. It is estimated that the proportion of the surface of the globe covered by water is to the land suriace as 278 to 100, and that the average height of land or continents over the world above sea level is somewhat less than 1,000 feet. The great mountain chains by which the continents are more or less traversed form narrow ridges, which rise in no case more than 29,000 feet, or say about 5 1-4 miles above sea level, and add com-, paratively little to the mass of .ground above th« sea level. On the other band the contour lines of the oceanic basins tell a very different tale of the great submarine depres- sions. The soundings made on the recent voyage of the Challenger in the North Pacific Ocean have shown that its mean depth is not less than 15,000 feet, and that of the South Pacific about 12,000 feet, while the mean depth of the North Atlantic is found t(^be 14,060 feet' ai.d of the Soath Atlantic 13,000 feet. It is only in high northern latitudes, in the North Atlantic and North Pacific, that the soundings give evidence of shallower seas â€" cf a mean depth of about 8,000 feet. Thus it is extraor- dinary how small the mass of land projecting above the sea level is, compared to the mass of waters filling the depressions beyond that IgvgI Takiog the average depth of the seas and ocean at 10,000 feet, and the height of the land at 1,000 feet, the mass of the land above water as compared to the mass of waters filling the ocean troughs is nearly in the proportion of 1 to 30. It is curious that the deepest sounding recorded by the ••ChaUenger" in ,-the N. W. Pacific regis- tered a depth of about five miles and a- quarterâ€" a depth which closely corresponds with the elevation above sea-level of the loftiest point of land, namely, the summit of Mount Everest, in the Hmalayahs, which is 29,002 feet, or very nearly five miles and a-quarter. We must remember, however, that the ooojpieaaarement is that of a mere peak, w«fts the other probably gives the depth of an extended tropgh. We may thus realize h«it frregnlar arc the contour lines of tie globe, and how deep the depressions and abysses concealed from our view by seas'and oceans. Could all these waters be dnuned off from the surface, our earth would present the aspect of a solid sphere everywherti wrinkled and deeply pitted. Nevertheless, its actual dimensions axaw great that motmtains five miles high and ocean troughs five miles deep bear no great- er relaftioa to the bulk of tiie f lobe tlian the iiregulirities on tteskit of aa orange. ' ftod, «!â- Â» •vwy-day to known as aoie^ an aleohoKc Bmior B tan ai ad by fermantatian. A booatifnl yMd otrioa brings ganaral prosperity, whflttlMfaifan* of the erop naulB fa povjarty and nuMry. TheaeMBSoakadm water from two to tiirae weeks, and dried in tiie ann for a few days triiile drying it is covered with mats in the aftemom, in wder to retain the re- quisite heat for sprouting. When s^trouts begin to appear, the rice is ready for plant- ing in bads. Tt^ese beds are carefully pre- pued and liberally manured. Repeated ploogUngs are given before the beds are ir- rigated, and repeated Ittirowings make Uwm ie and mellow. The seed is sown broadcast, as evenly as possible, at the rate of forty bushels per acre. The sides of the beds are embanked with sods, which serve as afootway. Abouttendaysaftersowing.young plants will appear, when the water m drained off alter a day or so it is allowed to cover the beds for an inch or^so. Frequent draining and irrigating in this manner are practis^ until tbe plants are ready for transplanting in the fields. In transplant- ing rice, farmers take advantage of the wet season, which is usually in the month of June. The fields receive thorough prepara- tion for the reception of the young, tender plants. First, a liberal quantity of barn- yard manure is applied, tither the previous fall or early in spring, and the fields are re- peatedly plowed. About ten days before transplantmg, the fields are irrigated, and all lumps of earth pulverized. In Southern Japan two crops of rice are harvested, or, after harvesting the rice, winter wheat is sown but in Northern Ja^uui, a somewhat colder climate prevents this practice, and the rice fields are used for no other purpose, and produce only one crop. â€" American Agriculturist for May. An Actresa* Costnine. A well-known actress is described by the Boston Seralfl as wearing in the street a dress that made everybody in the throng turn and gaze at her. "Tbe cloth of the suit was very light in color, and s9 much nearer bright yellow than sober drab that a sensitive person might have grown seasick in looking at it. Its make-up was not less peculiar than its hue. It fitted her splen- did form with painful snugness, not only as to the waist, but all the way down to her ftet. The surface of the bodice was corded lengthwise at half- inch intervals. The trimming consisted of wide bands of natural beaver â€" a fur as yellow as the rest of her surface. On her head was a hat made of the same cloth and fur; her gloves matched them, and, to complete the aurilerous as- pect, her auburn hair was bleached to pre- cisely the prevailing shade." Speaking of actresses and dress, the New Haven Regis- ter says they have set a fashion of wearing wigs in private life, and other women are following their example. "I meet an ac- quaintance one day," says the writer, "and she is a light blonde, the next and she is a dark brunette, and the third she is as red- headed as a cockatoo. Her wigs are so fine- ly made and so neatly adjusted that a casual observer would not detect the arti- ficiality. Indeed, it is only by looking critically behind her that the question can be decided, for over the forehead and in the nape of the neck the false locks are so ad- justed that they seem to have grown there." • m •• !â-  1 A Financial Dlotlonary. The New York Wall Streee News is res- ponsible for the following, which it heads the "New Penal Code: " Although the new code does not strictly define the different degrees of theft and embezzlement, the ad- ministration of the laws and public censure would seem to classify these crimes accord- ing to the amounts stolen, and somewhat as follows: Taking upwards of ?5, 000, 000 is called re- organization. $2,500,000 Great financiering 1,000,000 Financiering 900,000 Softening of the brain 800,000 Mismanagement 700,000.' Misfortune 600,000 Irregularity 500,000 Breach of trust 400,000 Defaulting 300,000 Embezzlement 200,000 Peculation 100,000 Dishonesty 50.000 A crime 25,000 Larceny 10,000 or under Thieviug Just Iilko Brotber's PIk. We heard the following a few days since from a "young bloomer," who had been seated between her oldest sister and her sweetheart during a drive in the country. On her return sheaccosted her mother thus: "Ma, Ma! I won't ride with sister and Mr. any more, for he kept a hugging, and a kissing her all the time. Now just see how she has 'mashed' my new hat." "My child, how can you talk so " said the fond mother. "It can't be possible that your sister will allow Mr. to take snch liberties." "Yes, but itis possible," was the reply of the mischievous bloomer, "and. Ma, Ma I tell you sister likes it, too, for she leans up to him just like brother's pig does to him, when he scratehes it." Just about this time "we" were called off. â€" Irunnton (Ga.) Appeal. More than $1«MM in an out Coat. Antonio Lnggi. an Italian sailor, who has been staying at the "Seaman's Best," made the ascoundiag disoovny that instead of be- ing almost penniless as he supposed himself toloe, he was the actual possessor of ready money to the valne of nearly $125,000. While overhauling a bundle of clothes, be- fore starting with two other sailors for Gir- aird Point, to go aboard the bark K A. Sanchez, which sailed yesterday afternoon for Havana with machinery, Luggi detected in the back linin|; of an old coat what seem- ed to be a quantity of paper padding, and a convenient rent in the garment enabled him to bring to view what was indeed paper, bnt.pifar in the shape of n«tes of tile Bank of France tiie ce value of wfaidi added up tiie startiing total of 619,000 francs, or $123,- 80a Itis needless to say that he did not go to sea. â€" Philadelphia' JSeeord. the Battaapa. Xhe fin* rownff ajriagâ€" the shad's. A baUoaa iafividaalâ€" tha coOaetor. Hm Amarioaa pw sa th e eonat. Has nriliim nill gathers no mots, â- non the UB of tha plambw issues chirp of the robbm. No Ubniy ia completo without it"â€" the feather duster. The Oil City Blizzard supposes that Mac- duff was a hen, because he was told to lay on. Smithers says there is just "no" differ- enoe between right and wrong. The aristocracy of Pennsylvania draw the line at Dukes. The prosperity of the book agent prove.s that falsehood is mighty and wul prevail. A Mormon with a plurality of lean wives, speaks of them as his "spare ribs." "Ijiever was better in my life," as the man said when asked to take a wager. A Texas horse thief knows what it means when he is serenaded by a string band. Roped in Principals in a prizefight. A piece offering "Allow me to help you to pie." When arc two tramps like common time in music? When they are two beats at a bar. The watch that fell out of a drunken man's pocket and smashed on the pavement was off its guard. "Board wanted" â€" as the young lady said when she came to a mud puddle in the side- walk. Marriage is a lottery, but we have not heard that love letters are denied the privil- ege of the mails. The poets have always sung of the charms of country life but who ever heard of can- ning mosquitoes for city use What did the Qaeen of England put on her knee when she hurt it â€" E(Jith. ^^'hy, court plaster, of course. Old Crusty says the new gable roof poke bonnet should be called the gabble roof, tbe ladies talk so much about them, A man needn't flatter himself that he is- working like a beaver simply because he throws in a let of unnecessary damup. Talk about eating sixty quails in thirty days, we know a man who has lived on a single lark lor a longer period than that. A boy in Vermont swallowed a handfuK tfbirdshot to cure boils. The boy died, but the effect of ths dose on the boils is not stated. When the depraved machine that meas- ures gas in the cellar bscomes out of order and prostrated, it is not a case of gas trick fever. Ssven millions of rabbits have been killed in one year in Austra ia, and these are hard- ly missed. With an Australian it is only his dead hares th-xt are numbered. A Peculiar Case of Blindness. The ca?e ot Christopher Lynch, who is at present confined in the St. Mary's Hospital, is the most peculiar ever brought to that institution tor treatment. Lynch was working last month in a field at his home in Butte county, when, without apparent cause, he became in an inst-nt totally blind. As he never experienced any former trouble with his eyes, the physicians were at a loss to account for this peculiar artlictior, so Lynch was sent to Dr. McCarthy at the Hospital in this city for treatment on Feb. 26, where he has since remained. The Doctor made a careful diagnosis of the case, and found that the blindness was caused by a sudden hemorrhage at the junction of the optic nerves where they pass from the brain to the pupil of the eye. There is only one other case of a simlar nature recorded. â€" From the San Francisco Chronicle. An Important Ceremony. The most important religious ceremony after the coronation of the Czar will be the inauguration of the church consecrated to the Saviour. The foundation of this church was due to a vow of Alexander I. during the French occupation of Moscow. Begun in 1817 on Monks Hill, the only eminence in the neighborhood which breaks the dead ev- el, the works, after having cost an immenee sum. were brought to a standstill after eight years, by reason of the discove;^ that the foundations were gradually sinkmg into the sand. A new site was then selected not far from the Kremlin. The work was begun in 1839, and is just on the eve of completion. It is in the purest Bizantine style. The material is as far as possible Russian, work- ed by Russians, the only foreign matter be- ing certain marbles. ^1 â-  » I fc Uability of Bank Directors. The Circuit Court of Macoupin Coimty, in this State, has lately decided that bank Directors are personally liable to depositors for money deposited after the bank had be- come insolvent, and that their individual pro- perty can be levied on to make good the loss suffered through their failure to detect or make known mismanagement. We do not yet know whether this decision will be appealed to the Supreme Court; at all events it ought to be, for tbe principle involved is a very important one, and, in fact, essential to a sound banking system.â€" CAicafl^o Herald. A bill has been introduced into the Penn- sylvania Legislature preventing the per- sonation of Jesus Christ in theatrical per- formances. During tbe past season 104,200 tons of ice were stored by local dealers, brewers and pork packers, kc., in Toronto, at a cost of $13,000. This work gave employment to 400 men and boys and 130 teams of horses for forty-seven days. A meeting of those interested in ^e pre- servation of the preset military burying ground, now in a oilapidated condition, was recently held at Toronto. Amotion to the effect tbat the remains be removed to Mount Pleasant Cemetery and a monument erected over them was voted down. The question will be further disctused at another meeting. Mr. J. B. Derome has been wpointed Chief Engineer of Public Works in Quebec, in the room of Mr. Pierre Ganvreao, super* annnatcd on account of ill-health \:V 'W m H I â- J r" 6 t i- I ill l\ I I â- ff'^;"!;! I .; ' ^ji^jMrnc^ism