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 s[ews summary. I ill"' SAPF. xJ ,,rp4iiiu Items from all Parts of the World. CAXADIAX. ^jj, Howe, a son of the late Um. .Jdseph .ye ot Nova Sjotirt, die'l in the Prctebtant ..rit;il 't-^ Ottawa, a few days ago. i.rcbbi^hop Lynch of Toronto ha? occapied pnsriit. pu^icion lor twenty-four years. --e aunivetbary was celcbiated a few days â- ;, lu Toronto. rhe old Zion Cjugregacional Cjuich, on i-liide stii-et, Toronto, having been aban- '.^(1 fur a new church up- town, has recent- â- jeen let for a variety theitre. Ihe Kingston Cotton Company have au jer lioni Scotland for a quantity of plain -.uB. The tirat thipment « as made a few J^sago. Are the tables turaing? •'atrick Gardner, an old mtn of Smith's =. died as a pauper in the Kingston jpital, and in his clothes was found a de- :: receipt for $1,380 besides $14S in. cash. jhe "ttawa Parliament luildinga aie to i ohttil by electric light durinj^ the com- session The United States Electric ^hticg (J joipany are low puttirg up the •;araiu8. -:r Charles Tupper reports his health very ;Timpioved since he took up his residence I ir.flar-d He will probably soon re'urn p.^rake part in the next session of the House I jniiiiOiis, ITnc Km;riJd I'nosphate mines near Buck- am, ou tlie Ottawa rivt-r, hii.^ been sold an ATiericin company for §125,000. ritioii^ will, j-obab!y, be Cirried on on -7L- :a.le. A pr'/! li.^'lit took pLce at Manotic, near raw a, a tew days ago between a man ».:.-.L-ii Clarke of that village and Beaudry, a :.a.'o bully, for *-'50 a side. Clarke had s .:iri;i broken in the fight, and Beaudry .ieoli tor Chicago again. Le lirst annual Fat Stock Exhibition |i;r the auspices of the Provincial Agricul- t.-,l and Arts Association will be held in f â-  Dto on the 14th and 1.5th of December. t .arge sum of money will be distributed in fc: '.!, and a large attendance is e.xpected. 1 Act will probab'y be asked for of at jui ug session of Parliament in Ottawa :ntniing the Union of the Methodist irciies in (Canada, This is deemed neces- y in order to secure the validity to the .â- i deeds of the various churches, colleges, Mother property. in Asylum for Orphan Children and (flit's lias been in existence near Ottawa for jfcr.e time, and (f late it has been reported fci: ovtr three-fourths of the inmates died â-  ng the year. A medical ecc^uiry was ftcreil and the eiujuirers recommend that prtstablishinc at be closed up, .;ha.s, at last, been decided that the trial ^retiard tu the validity of the election of â- : .1.1. ilav.kins as M.P. for Bothwell jLl tike p'ace on \Vednesday, .January ;^;, bLiore .Judge Gait, at Chatham. The is to determine whether .7. -T. Hawkins brr. 1). .Mills is entitled to the seat in tIjUae. .ifL^es liave been made against Mr. 4aesuii, SherifiF of Frontenac, Ont., for 'jct cd duty and over charges of fees, r.- was an investigation at Kingston, f- week, and he was acquitted. There are â- : i.liargcs against Mr. Corbett, Gaoler of a:-ton, but the investigation into them '.« ' a mdetiaitely piostponed. .iir.atthe Central Prison premises re- S!;. 'iestroyel one of the large workshops. .u,.- wa-s about â- 'r^l)0,OO0, covered by in- jt.air m several companies. The origin 't r :ire was not known but it is supposed ||,ivt; been accidental. It occurred short- 1;.'ter the ".70 prisoners had been locked in c-Jls for the night. a meeting of temperance men held in S.;erford, Norfolk County, it was decided â- like steps to have the question of the llrtiou of the Scott Act submitted to tha P'.ors of that county at an early date. It Si ;Uo soon be submitted in Oxford County, ?*:cessary number of names having been §(.-â- '1 to the petitions, ' n, x\(iam Crooks, in consequtiice of "^ocatiiiucd ill health, has been compelled ♦ iica lu3 position as ^Minister of Educa- :n the Provincial Cabinet, Geo, W. I'.-.j late M.P. for West Middlesex eiu appointed in his stead. Mr. Ross p:;..tical knowledge of educational having beeu a school teacher and â-  inspector for many years, â-  liuil'.do Herald says that at Calgarry, 'â-  T., the population is chiefly from the " •- '^•.ates and the man from Ontario is ' n.iiuirity, but as distance eastward is ' 'â- " incrtase-i in numbers and influence it 1; -ina, ainl from that point east- â- .s all pervading, and the leading »:oa between strangers is. "What part ^â- -tario (lid you come from? ' P-;:i:i'pg is said to have struck a train ^et'i^nd Trunk Railway near George- ' 'lit. during a recent storm. Two -n-.eu on the top of the cars were para- ind laid flat on their backs. The |-^tr and tireman thought, at the time, â-  e boikr had exploded, and their flesh â- - paralyzed to their bones. They all pred in a few minutes, but hive a vivid l-brance of their experieDce. â- be recent great Chicago Fat Stock ition the manager of Bow Park farm, Brantford had two animals from â- 'li en exhibition, which carried oflFthe ;j"'Ze in two year old short horn steers, as first prize in short horns of any iiso first prize on grade cow and first â-  â-  the best female in the yard, com- i against all heads. Bow Park farm -e property of the late Hon. Geo. ' who first established the herd -sputation of representatives of the -g banks and money companies of To- ••autd on the Hon, O, Mowat a few •b' asking for the (iovernment to take B'o encourage the immigration of ten- Jitmers from Great Britain to tnisPro- Hon. Mr. Allan stated that a com- e represented had, during the past l^r ao, brought out 100 substantial set- *liO£e aggregate wealth was supposed ibout S40,000. The Premier readily r-edged the importance of the ques- "i- asked for suggestions about the *ay to proceed. "^tcese and butter businete of Canada 18 assuming an important position amon? the industiies of the country. Already this year nearly 900,000 boxes of cheese have be« exported from Montreal, an increast; c f nearly 175 000 boxes over last year. It is estimated that about a million b x^ will be exported altouether this year. This is ihe largest quantity ever known in Canada. Over 100,000 packages of butter have also been exported, being an increase of over 3.000 packages over last year. The total value of butter and cheese for exportation from Canada this year is estimated at 87.- 500,000. Notwithstand ng that the Eng'iih Bible Christian Conference withheld their consent to the Canadian Bible Christian Conference entering the union of Cinadian Methodism, it appears that the English body will not op- pose the union. A portion of the Horton street congregation, London, decided to rt- main out of the Union, and to send to Eng- land for a minister. The Eaglish Confer- ence have declined to fend ont a mini*te,-, and advised the London congregation »o enter the Union. It has been deoided to have a centennial U. E. Loyalist deb. atiou iu T( lonto nexs June, to commemorate the landing of the U. E. Loyalists in this Province in 17S4. A meeting was held in Toronto a few days aeo to make the necessary arrangements, and a number of the decendants of U. E. Loyalists â- were present, including Lieut- Governor Robinson, Dr. Pyerson, Rev. Mr. Withrow and others. Dr. C'lcniff was ap- po:nted permanent chairman, and arrange- ments for the demonstration will at once be made. The time selected will be during the week of Toronto's semi- centtnnial cele- bratior. UNITED STATE.S. In Maine niarly five millions cms of corn were put up in the canniers during this year._ It is said that tt.e butter production of Iowa has been worth two mi lion dollars a month during the past season. A new grand mausoleum for the Vander- bilt family is now being built ou Staten Is- land near New York, at a cost of over seventy thousand dollars. Ex Govei nor Coburn, of Maine, recently sold §800,000 worth of western land in a single lot. This is said to have been the largest sile of farming land made by one person A law has just been enacted in Washing- ton Territory extending the franchise to wo- men equally with the men. A similar law has been some years in operation in Wyom- icg Territory. I |It is reported that white atts, in large numbers, have appeared in the State Honse at Boston, and fears are entertained that they have attacked some of the important wood work of the building. A very serious railway collision took place near Streator, lllico's, reioatly inst. A rear passenger car was demolished and a number of persens instantly killed, while several others were terrible wound- ed. Colored women in parts of G^^rgia have been discovered leaving their newly-born infants in the woods to perish. Two which were found were being attacked by flocks of buzzards, and their cries led to their dis- covery. The old Lincoln homestead at Springfield, Illinois, has b-jen leased for a term of years, the lessee's intention being to preserve it in the same condition as when its former own- er lefi it to assume the Presidency of the United States. â-  There has been so much trouble and com- plaint about the American "trade dollar" that it is now proposed to call in all the sil- ver coin of that denomination, and order it recoined or melted into silver bars. The trade dollar is intrinsically worth less than one dollar, and it has never been popular. The paper manufacturers of the United States are beginning to feel the effect of the busiuess depression. Fifty different paper mills throughout the North-western States are reported as closed down for three months, and more than two thousand oper- atives are idle in consequence. In consequence of the depressed state of the iron trade a large number of the large rolling and other iron mills, at Milwaukee, Pittsburg, and other grra,t manufacturing centres are being closed. Tens of thousands of men are reported to be thrown out of employment in consequsme, and the out'ook for the winter is a gloomy one in conse- quence. There was a sensational wedding of two of the Salvation Army officers at Kingston in connection with the opening of the New Barracks in that city. Capt. Addie, of St. Thomas, and Lieat. Miss McLiughlin, a Hallelujah Lisa, were united. The wedded pair was drawn through the streets to the City Hail by a pair of white horses and there was a wedding feast. The Witness says â€" One of the most shocking fruits of inflammatory novels ever heard of is the attempted robbery and murder of a car driver in Milwaukee by two young cranks, made such by light reading. Men- tal poison that is known to have an enor- mous consumption must work untold harm in the minds of a rising generation in gen- eral when it proves its liability to break in- to such atrocities as that reported from Mil- waukee. GREAT BRITAIN' A large number of the British soldiers ai e being withdrawn from Egypt. It is under- stood that the Government in';end to reduce the troops in Egypt below 3,000. It is estimated that the average number of houses now built per year in Great Brit- ain is about 80,000. This is double the average number of forty years ago. The celebrated Tichborne claimant will,it is reportel, be released from imprisonment next year as a ticket-of-leave man, and his friends propose to set him up in a public house, and he will be pretty sure to "oraw." It is understood that the trial of O'Oon- nel, the murderer of the informer, will be postponed till next February, as the lawyers for the defence are a#kiog for more time. Mr. Sullivan, hi» principal lawyer, is seri- ously ill. The evaoeelistic meetings of Messrs. Moody and Sinkey in Lonaou are reported as very successful. Great crowds attend, and there is much good being acjoinplished. The meetings are expected to be continued about six months. The Duke of E linbur^b, like a stj sible man, has announced his intention to give up fiddling and sea going, and turn bis at- tention to agricaltnre in future. It would be a capital thing if a good many others, similarly situated would do the same thing. An Eaglish paper sa j s that only one for- est in England belongs to a private owner â€" S.ivemake, Lord Ailesbury's, in Wilts, of fou r thousand acres. It is full of splendid old trees, and what is known as "Grand Avenue," four miles long, is lined with beeches, in some places eight or ten feet deep. There seems a determination in England to have a second Saez Canal. A syndicate of London bankers oflfer to furnish the money if the Government will go on with the work. De Leisseps advocates construct- ing a second c»nal alongside of the original one, with a suffi lient amount of space be- tween. Vessels can pass in through onie and out through the other. Admiral Porter has just been reporting that the present United States Navy is total- ly inadeqaate to afford any important pro- tection to any one exposed city, in case of a war with a naval nation. He recommended the building of a number of war ships at once, and that two or three of them should be on Lake Erie, so as to at once destroy the entrance to the Welland Canal in case of difficulty with Cinada. The carrying of fire arms and shooting appear to have become common practices in the South. A few days ago at Lynchburg a boy of 16 named Richard Spooler shot and killed another boy of 17, named Richard Newcomer, The latter asked for a chew of tobacco and Spooler cooly replied, "I'll shoot you for asking," and drawing his re- volver fired a deadly shot. Study the Bible. Of all poor excuses for neglecting the sluiy of the Bible there is none poorer than that of the man who thinks he knows so much of what is in the Bible that he has nothing more to learn through Bible study. Wher- ever you see a man who thinks that he has got beyond the Bible, you may be sure that he is one who knows little â€" very little â€" of the real facts or teachings of the Bible and what he stands most in need of is a new and thorough course of Bible study. Many a man, otherwised well versed in science or literature, has, for a time, committed the mistake of supposing that the Bible is a book which, once learned, is all learned but in after years, when other literature had palled upon his taste, he has come back to the Bible to find in it, with delighted sur- prise, all that is newest and truest and most worthy of all, iu what any man may know. There is no other book which so well repays continued study as the Bible there is no other book which is at once so old and so new there is none other which contains the words of eternal lite in God's own setting. And, it may be added, there is no man more likely to do a good life-work effectively than he who knows the Bible intimately. â€" ifleri--(l. He Felt no Effects- Uncle Abe was fond of 'possum. Having caught one, he got his wife, Dinah, to cook it for him, and requested that it should be placed in the cupboard until morning. The favor was granted, and Uncle Abe lay down before a log fire and went to sleep. His son, Mose, coming in late, got the 'possum and ate ic, laid the bones down at Uncle Abe's head, smeared the old man's face and hands with the grease, and went to bed. The following morning Uncle Abe awoke and asked Dinah "Whar's dat 'possum " " In de cupboard," which she explored and found it missing. Resuming, Dinah enquired "Abe, when did you eat dat 'possum Dar's de bones at your head, yer face smells of 'possum, and yer ban's are greasy." "Maybe I did eat dat 'possum, but if I did it did me less good dan any 'possum I ever et." In the Parlor* " What does your sister say about me " asked a young man of the small brother of the maiden he thought he loved. "Oh, lots!" sententiously exclaimed the precocious boy. " Well, tell me," said the youth, in a coaxing voice. " She says you've got lots of money." " Well, what else?" "I don't like to tell." " Oh, come tell me and I'll give you some candy." "Well, she says that if she ever married you she'd loan you to Farmer Cornstalk for a scarecrow." A A'oble Kevenge. Robert Louis Stevenson, in the conclud- ing part of his "Silverado Squatters" in the December Century, describes an eccen- tric poor white and fiis story of a revenge: "A man, he told us, who bore ,a grudge against him had poisoned his dog. ' That was a low thing for a man do, now, wasn't it? It wasn't like a man that, nohow. But I got even with him â€" I poisoned his dog." A young butcher was presented with a pair of twins. Wishing to inform his pa- rents of the occurrence, he sent them this short, if not very lucid note â€" "I have just become the father of twins. More next time. Form your son A â€" " I once gave a lady two-and-twenty re- ceipts against melancholy one was a cheer- ful fire another, to remember all pleasant things said to her another, to keep a box of sugar plums on the chimney-place and a kettle simmering on the hob. â€" Sidney Smith, People who in their normal state of health are free from consciousness of their nervous systems, sometimes learn sympathy with their fellow mortals who are less blessed, during the period of convalescence that sac* ceeds a fever like the typhoid. A physician told me of himself, that months after recov- ery from this fever the noise which the clock makes before it strikes used to irritate him to such a degree that he would rush up to it. shake his fist menacingly and exclaim, "Dj that again if you dare I" He was per- fectly aware of the foolishness of his course, perfectly sensible of how it looked to other people, but the recurring noiae was too much for him, and at last, in self-defence, be hai to stop the clock. WOMAN 'SCOLUMN. A Stadr of Hnsbands. " We hear much about the art of winning a husband," says a female wiiter in The ArgoncnU. "Let us take a step further and make a study of keeping a husband. This is a wicked world, and man is dreadfully mortal. Let us take him just as he is, not as he ought to be. In the first plscd, he is very weak. The wife must spend the first two years in discovering these weaknesses, count them on her fingers, and learn them by heart. The fingerft of both hands will not be too many. Then let her study up these weaknesses, with a mesh for e/ery one, and the s.cret is hers. Is he foad of a good dinner Let her tighten the mesh around him with fragrant coffee, light bread, and good things generally, and reach his heait through hi jstomach. lohefond offlatte: yabo'Jt his looks Let her study the dictionary for sweet words, if her supply gives out. Does he like to hear her talk about his brilliatn intellect Let her pore over the encyclo- pa^lia to give variety to the depth of her admiration. Flattery is a good thing to study up, at all hazards, in all its delicate shades, but it must be skillf ally done. The harpy who may try to coax him away will not do t absurdly. Is he fond of beauty Here's the rubâ€" let her be bright and tidy that is half the victory. Next, let her bang her hair metaphorically and keep up with the times. A husband who sees his wife look like other people is not going to consider her ' broken down.' Though it is a common sneer that a woman has admit- ted that her sex considers more, in marry- ing, the tastes of her friends than her own, yet it must be considered ludicrous that a man looks at his wife with the same eyes that otlier people do. Is he fond of liter- ary matters "' Listen to him with wide open eyes when he talks of them. A man doesn't so much care for a literary wile if she will only be literary enough to appreciate him. If she have literary inclinations keep them to herself. " Men love to be b'g and great to their wives. That's the rsason why a helpless little woman can marry three times to a sensible, self reliant woman's none. Culti- vate helplessness. Is he curious Oh, then you have a treasure you can always keep him if you have a secret and keep it care- fully. Is he jealous Then, woman, this is not for you cease torturing that fretted heart which wants you for its own, and teach him confidence. Is he ugly in tem- per and fault finding Give him a dose of his own medicine skillfully done. Is he deceitful Pity him for his weakness treat him as one who is born with a physical defect, but put your wits to work â€" it is a bad case. It is well not to be too tame. Men do not waste their powder and shot on hens and barnyard fowl they like the plea- sure of pursuing wild game â€" quail and grouse and deer. A quail is a good mode! for a wife â€" neat and trim, with a pretty, swift way about, and just a little capricious. Never let yourself become an old story be just a litcle uncertain Another important fact is, don't be too good it hurts his feel- ings and becomes mo;;otouou:. Cultivate a pleasant voice, so that this vtry mortal mm may have his conscience prick him when he is m jeopardy its pkasaut ring will haunt him much more thau would a shrill one. Ic is hard to do all this, besides taking care of the babies and looking after vexations household cures and smiling when he comes home; but it seemes nece sary, 'To be born a woman is to be bom a martyr,' says a husband who for ten years had watched in amazement his wife treading the wine- press of her existence. It is a pitiful sight to some men. But if a wife does not mtike a s^dy of these things the harpy will, to steal away the honor from his silver hairs when he is full of years, and the father of sons and danghters. A% the sauie time, good wife, keep from tryine any of these things on any mortal man but your own. Tnese rules are only evolved m order to ' keep a husband.' The poor, weak creature would rather be good tnan bad, and it is woinati's duty to hold hira b.' eve.'y aeuis in her power,'" Dress and the Sex. A lady recently asks us, says a writer in the New York Eveni7ig Pool, if it did not seem a usd, sinful matter for people to waste so much precious time and thought on drees snl personal appearance. Taking herself the affirmative of the question, she gave an interesting review of her personal history, and confessed that to her the retrospect was a bitter and sorrowful picture, over which might well be written "Vanities of vani- ties, all is vanity." Opportunitiss for men- tal improvement and moral and spiritual growth had been lost past all recall in her devotion to the culture of personal beauty, and the study of how best to adorn herself in attractive attire. No one who heard her was disposed to quarrel with our friend in the valley of life for complaining of the glittering sunshine and glory that dazzled ner young vision on the nether side of the hill-top. But it might be suggested that if she sinned at all, it was in neglecting one gooel thing in her absorbing love for another. Every good gift, we are told, comes from above and if a wonan has beauty as a natu- ral bestowment, the right, a} e, the duty, go along with it to prizs and cu'.tivatj it with all possible and rational means, jus: the same as she would her mental gifts. were they great or small. She is equally bound to regard their culture as an obliga- tion not to be overlooked or neglected, In- stead of railing against regard .-r beauty of person and personal adornment, it would be lar better to study how we can best i.se each and all good things without abasing them, and estimate them at their true value, and to let the outer and inner f;raoes be cultivated together, Self-reproach and bit- ter regret will ne\ er then be thorns to vex us at the end. F«uiinine Pleasantries. A young man began to read a paragraph about a mine to his sweetheart, commencicg " Youba mine," when she iuterrupte-i him with, "i don't care if I do, .Tohn." •'I am never missed a 'v more when I go off on a visit," tighed a W'esc Wayne street lady. "Why not?" asked her friend. "Because since I got married they all call me Mrs." " Thit lady has very ui^h color," .=ai I a nan speaking of a custimtr who had just left the drugstore. "I dcn't call it high," wa-: the druggist's rep'y; "I sell it to her at •25 cen's a bottla. Su-e'y that's cheap enough." "I remember J cu very well," said the hotel-keeper, "but your wife has grown very thin. "Yes." ",She was taller." "Yea." "And lighter complexion, was she not?" "Ye?. Besides, you know, it is not the same one." WHO 18 UNACQUAINTED WITH THE HEOCRAPHY OF THIS COUNTRY, WILL SEB BY EXAMINING THIS MAP, THAT THE Chbcago, Rock Island Pacific R'y, Belnc the Great Central Line, afTords to travelers, oy reason of Its unrivaled geo- â- mphloal position, the shortest and best route between the East, Northeast and Southeast, and the West, Northwest and Southwest. It is literally -»nd strictly true, that its connections are all of the principal lines Of road between the Atlantic and the Pacific. By Ks main line and branches It reaches Chiaago, iioi:et, Peoria, Ottawa, La Salle, Geneseo, Mollne and Rock Island, in Illinois; Davenport, Muscatine, Washington, Keokuk, Knoxville, Oekaloosa, Fairfield, Den Moines, West Liberty, Iowa City, Atlantic, Avoca, Audubon, Harlan, Guthrie Center and Council Bluffs, IN Iowa; GaHatln, Trenton, Cameron and Kansas City, In Missouri, and Leaven- worth and Atchison in Kansas, and the hundred: of cities, villages and towns mtermadtate. The "GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE," As It Is familiarly called, offers to travelers all the advantages and comforts maldent to a smooth track, safe bridges, Union Depots at all connecting points. Past Bxprees Trains, composed of COMMODIOUS, WELL VENTILATED, WELL NBATBD, FINELY UPHOLSTERED and ELEGANT DAY COACHES a line of the â- oar MAGNIFICENT HORTON RECLINING CHAIR CARS ever built PULLMAN'S MMat designed and handsomest PALACE SLEEPING CARS, and DINING CARS that ara acknowledged by press and people to be the FINEST RUN UPON ANY â- OAB IN THE COUNTRY, and In which superior meals are served to travelers at Ml* low rata of SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS EACH. THRH TRAINS each way between CHICAGO and the MISSOURI RIVER. TWO TRAINS each way between CHICAGO and MINNEAPOLIS and ST. PAUL, via tfts tamous ALBERT LEA ROUTE. A Naw and Direct Line, via Seneca and Kankakee, has reoantly been opened, between Newport News, Richmond, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and La Fayetta, and Council Bluffs, St. Paul, Minneapolis and intermediate points. Ail Through Passengers carried on Fast Express Trains. For mora dataiied information, see Maps and Folders, which may ba obtained, as wall as Tickets, at ail principal Tloket Offices in the United States and Canada, or of It. It. CABI.E, E. ST. JOHN, Vioe-Pros't A GenM Manager, Cen'l T'k't A Pass'r Ag'to CHICAGO. 1^1