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 and n it Was ronch under 'yatem of strepf ^ous loads ' °{ the stteef •er 15,000 ^^ [^P^aa^Rrania fnachmC The ^the collierv 'i by wires to ^â- as doing itg ' '200 pounds 1- Atthetiiai; â-  mile trom the undercut four and four feet- seconds. The motion with a â-  IS clean and id that anew ritiiented with g at a rate of eet. "Inch technical â- ing improved, L-lirew Techni- itliy of notice, -iiiglit in that y and practi- iiamo machine all electric la- eessary instru- 'ies range from leconiing con- pplications of which has just trician showed !iled in both Jtricity, one of nplete dynamo drawing? and ave been the 3 for overeom- i employment he Committee stated at the i\"ater Works a boiler in a he boiler was ' a limestone to tlie eye and npurities, but )e of unusual magnetic pro- iaping shorel- i.le was taken f more weeks i of the same trie motor are flavor of the s now being rising practi- e, Ky., who y the pound- cess might be to him. In a limself of the ow all he has meut ami to i never-tiring m. ke J over that 1 so highly, shutters half he cellar full e honse is in, L of itsadvan- :U block." â€" "Hello, rsonally con- has left me with ii?" People will srstand, Sor- |,it of taking your lunch- y of water is evety little rill come this ler. ler. mean " that money t a few days /Irs. Hansom af tei^noo**- is very be- o likes t» see nd isn't too ck. ^ou, sir.foP â- ^cannot live |r it. K*"" young =»»»•; â- __«« Urnâ€" *â-  Trip, your ney. tiM^ Publi GAMMI DGE'S GHOST, shed by arrangement with the publishers from advanced sheets of Chambera's Journal, 1 The Well, we reached the 1)011001 of the stair- case. It, jras a very long one there must have ^^en^early a hundred steps in it. We went along a paved passage, tne walls and roof of which I touched with my hands as we traversed it, the Friar still going before, and I, attracted by some strange magnetism, following dutifully behind. Suddenly a door opened in front and a half light, half mist, broke upon us. The Friar passed through, and I followed and looked about me. AYe were in a vast church, light- ed by I know not what strange means, out with neither windows nor sunlights that I could see. The great pillars supporting tbe roof were loit in' the nftighty blackness over- head, great aisles stretched away into dark- ness xm every side. But in the channel there glimmered in the misty light a few tapers, a,nd right in the middle a blood-red lamp swung to and fro, as though with eddying gusts of windr I leaned sigainst a pillar and gazed. As I became accustomed to the strange light, I saw that here and there were placed enormous tombs â€" tombs of cru- saders in their armour, knights kneeling in fine ladies with enormous ruflfs. While I gazed like, the' one who had conducted me, enter from the door we had opened. As' he came in he threw back his hood from his face and head and bowed profoundly towards the CHAPTER n. j housekeeper led the way up a long flight of stairs, down two Or three great c(»:- ridors, all sounding empty and hollow, to a door which, being opened, disclosed a bri"ht fire in a pretty room. A bedroom owned off through another door. •'Does any one sleep near this room " I iisked as Mrs. Johnson turned to go. I was somehow struck with a sudden sense of lone- liness. "Well, not very near," she began. "Oh, it doesn't matter at all. It looks verv comfortable, and I'm not nervous, so I shall be all right." "These are Captain Penrose's rooms. I put you in them, thinking you would- be comfortable." • :.' • "Very good of you Mrs. Johnson. Oh, I shall be all right." â-  'I don't know whether you smoj^e, sir," she said "but if you do, there ate some cigars of the captain's in that little cupboard by the tire which I am sure will be good. And 30 I'll say good-night and if you should happen to want anything, â-  you'll please to ring-" "Yes thank you. I shall not want any- thing â€" Good-night, Mrs. Johnson." As soon as-I heard her last heavy foot- step die away at the end of the long corridor, i locked the door then I took one of the candles and went into the bedroom, which, as I have said, opened into the sitting-roo-n. I now found that it also had a door opening into the corridor, so I locked that, and then hail a look round. The bedroom, like the sitting-room, was old-fashioned as regards furniture and appearance. The walls were hung with some sort of tapestry stuff of peculitir pattern. I swung this aside here anil there, and found the walls to be paiitlled in very black oak, the panelling reitohing up to the ceiHi^.' The bed, a huge fompister atJair, was also tapestried, and Iddked solemn enough to lay a king out in. I went back to the sitting-room and examin- ed th;it. It was hardly so funereal as the bedrcom there was no tapestry but it, ton. was panelled in dark oak. There were no pictures, two or three books of somewhat heavy material, no newspapers nothing to wliik- an hour away before retiring. '"The Captain doesn't, have very lively (|iiarters down here," I sjiid to myself. 'â-  However, Til see if I can't find his cigars. " I loiiked for the cupboard which Mrs John' son had spoken of, and found it at last in the (lak panelling by the side of the fireplace: Inside reposed two or three boxes of cigarsy wiixli melt particularly fine and above the Ihixcs lay a couple of novels, which I seized on eagerly. I looked at. all three boxes before choosing a cigar. You see, 1 didn't often MMi'ke cigars in those days, and one gains a lot of pleasure in dallying with rare ilelights. I looked at them all, and smelt tJHiii with the air of a judge, and fiiiallj' I lighted one, and niade myself comfortable in an casy-cliair with one of the novels in my liiind. You may guess I felt tjuite luxur- ioi-.s, and blessed the chance which had lir.)Uj;ht me to such grand quarters. If only Alicia had been nearer, I should have been perfectly happy. So an hoilr passed away. The cigar was s]ikudid, the novel but so so. I have not read many novels in my life, and when I do iead, then I like them strong, that is to saj' sfiisatioual. This novel was not v^i-j- spn.- sational. and at the end of an hour it ceased ;i chain my attention so I lighted another 'igar and began to think of Alicia. What was she doing? Asleep, probably. Then, was she dreaming of me Was she dream- ing (if that little house which we were to take at Clapham when I had saved some money and s'ne was twenty-one, and wl) jre we v.'ere to be as happy as the day is long? Dear Alicia What an angel she was, aud how When I had got as far as that, a great clock somewhere about the Abbey be- gan to strike the hour of twelve. Now I have said already that I am not ner\ ous. I was not nervous then, but that clock made me jump. It had a deep sepulchral sound which reminded j'ouof hobgoblins and 'ghosts and all manner of unpleasant things, i cirnfeasr that at its first, stroke I. dropped ni y cigar and started up from my chair inâ€" Well, in something like a fright. When it died away, the silence was really awful. ••ril go to bed," I said. "There is some- thing decidedly queer about the place." I went into the bedroom and locked the dHr. In five minutes I was between the the sheets, with the candles out and the moonbeams struggling in at the diamond- paned windows. I suppose I must have.been tired, fori 'was soon sound asleep and' ob- livions of anything in the material world. Hov.- long I slept I don't know: but what I do know is that in the course of the night I found myself sitting up in bed, looking at something which stood at the bed-foot look- at me ' I felt, a cold perspiraition steal over me and perhapsfliy hair grewerect. Thieriibon was hid behind a cloud when I woke, and I could only see the outline of the thing that was in my room. Suddenly the moonnght flashed j .,, -, ., ..,i »- r ,, in again with redoubled radiawe.and I saw t !?" " ^i^^^jrobably be a long standing at the foot of my bed atall figure f*^P ^^'^^^ ouH nferrfage. I don tbelieye clad in ' ' brightly from the Black Friar What happened next I don't quite re- member but I know that I got out- df^ bed and went after the Friar, who receded to- wartls the tapes tried wall, beckoning me to follow. There was no doubt about his being there. I rubbed my eyes, and saw him more clearly. He had on long sable robes and sandals a large cowl hid his face but â- wr- ".•â- ; ;o -gijM • ' " '»iyM B "The long and short of it is, ma'am," I said riaing from the: Ih^fttt table, "I'm going to look for my tgpiT and Miaa Pen- rose's will. '^7 --m.r* -•'^mi^K =^ "I hope you may. find them," said the housekeeper. • â-  " I hoped so myself and it was because I was.so very, much in ieamest that I deter- mined to inake the search a thoroiigh one. I put my line of attack on a .good basis. To begin with, I had gone to sleep on the previous night in I a bedchamber supposed, in common with the rest of the honse to be haunted. I was not in a very particularly nervous state of ihindi nor had 1 drunk too much -wine or smoked too many of the Captaiii's cigars. I had dreamed dreams, or seen visions, or had 'a nightmare. I had wandered in my dreams through underground passages and when I dressedjin the morning, one of my slippers was gone. Ergo, somewhere in my dream the bounds of the unseen world had been broken in upon by the rude foot of reality, cased in a scarlet slipper. "There is a secret passage in this room, I said to Mrs. Johnson, as we stood in my bed chamber, "and we must find it." " Hurray " I said there's something here, ma'am. Come and see." Mrs. Johnson came to my side and tapped the panelling. "It certainly does sound hollow," she said. "But jfou see there's no knob, or any indication of a. Jatch or Late Foreign News. prayer, tine ladies With enormous ruHs, and .. .. .. children in curious formal-looking dresses, anything, so I don't see how we can get in." ed, Isaw another Friar, habited f " There's no indication of a door at all, fpr the-matter of that. But as long as this is hollow, I'm going to see \*hat lies behind, even if I have to fetch a carpenter." "Itv,ould be a pity to spoil the panel- there is sure to be a door and open it." " Then we niust find it," I said, beginning to feel amongst the curious knobs, and pro- jections of the carving for anything which would prove an open sesame. â-  We worked on for' quite an hour, examin- ing every little, angel's wjngi, e^ery little demon's, body, screwing, or trying to screw them about to see if they concealed springs or dopr-. handles; but all with success. At last, tired with the unwonted labour, I leaned against the panel- ling and fairly groaned. "It's no good, I'm i afraid. WeT â-  " ' This Hillo '.? There was a faint chancel. Others followed in rapid succes- ling," she said. "If there is a, passage, sion,iti)l: at length the, chancel was full of there is sure to be a door and a spring to dark-rpljed Friars. Presently they began to sing. "Oiie of them had a magnificent tenor vpice, and as it went A-ibrating into the vaulted roof above, with the voices of the others answering it, the effect was really delightful. The singing was a somewhat lengthy performance. One psalm succeeded anotlier, till, despite the charm of the voices, I got tiredi" I. looked round me fcaa seat. A stone bench" war placed a little distance away, and towards tliis I moved. I sat down, and " W«llv I was eonseious of fsJling. down, down, down through apparently, limitless space: I yelled out something in my 'hor- ror, and suddenly awoke. The Friar, after all, was only a dream â€" or rather a night- mare But the strange thing was that I felt cold, asif I Jiad'been'.QH.tof bed. i I gat up, lighted my candle, and looked round. I c6nfess that the drearn ' hjid left such an impxession «n niy.nrind that; I ex- ainined the wainscoting rather narrowly for traces of the staircase. I found none so I turned in once rHore, and was soon again asleep. When I woke it was morning, and the sun was shining brightly through the win- dow. • -I sprang out of. bed and began, to dress,, at the same time thinking about my nightmare or vision of the previous mid- night. " Hillo," I said to myself, " where 's my slipper " ..For of the slippers that I had left standing by my bedside "the night be- fore, th«re was only ' on6 left. I hunted round the room for the other with no result and then I suddenly reineml)ered that I had slipped tnem on, with -admirable foresight, when I had followed the Friar. I laughed to think of it but, laugh or not, that slipper was lio where in the room " Mrs. Johnson," I said, three-quarters of ail hour later, " that ghost of yours is no iihaginarj' personage. " Mrs. Johnson stared at me, and a faint flush rose to her already rosy cheek. "Indeed " she answeired. "You don't mean that â€" that" "That I've seen ?â€" Yes I do. I saw him last night." "The Black Friar?" " Not only one, but two, three, ten, per- haps twenty Black Friars â€" a whole monas- tery of them. Fine voices they had, too, all of them." Mrs. Johnson looked at me suspiciously. "Now, you're, joking," she began with soihe- tHing of **#eproach in her voice. "You say you saw him " "Yes, I can't come to any other conclu- sion." I didh'tu-belisrs in ghosts but Alicia's inainma did, and I had heard so many spirit- stories from her in intervals when Alicia was piakingherselftidyorputtingonher hat anil shawl, that I had 03me to look upon them as 'oeing something familifir. i^'Ypu seej." I cantinued, "the Friar not oiily appeared to me, but he proved himself a burglar into the bargain he prigged one of iny.. slippers. f ' 'Now, " said the hous •"keeper- indignantly "you'are making fun! Who ever heard'Of a ghost stealing slippen " "Stop, stop !;'{;Lcrifid« "Let me teU yon all about it, Mrs. Johnson. You mustn't condeinn me unheard.*' Sol told her all .,1 could remember â€" and there was preoiousi little that I couldn'tâ€" of my "no'cturnalH-isitor. I never saw a wo- man so,complet«ly flabbergasted in my life as when I came to the slipper business. " Now, ma'am," I said in conclusion, "I'm a plain sensible young man;'Tm engaged' to as nice %girl as eve5.^jfgu saw, and if I can find that wfll, it wiT " A;KEw BfimSH OSUISER. New Fse for Ele^tricUy. Xxtiaordinary Surgical Operation. The Paris dinner hour is now 8 o'clock. A new lawn game entitled "cozzare" is an enlivened croquet. ' The stage censor at Prague has forbidden the performance of "Macbeth" with the sol- diers clothed in the Austrain uniforpi. The general manager of the Magazins du Louvre in Paris gets a salary of §30,000 a year, with a percentage on the profits. "Camot, Organizer of Peace," is the title bestowed on the President of the republic by the French colonists settled in Mexico. The latest revelation is that France pays $400,000 out of the public funds to subsidize newspapers for the support of the Govern- ment. The .Athenoeum has this advertisement: " Writers of fiction (ladies especially) maj' be supplied with new materials of exciting and romantic character; " ' A gentleman who drew out his pipe for an after-dinner smoke in the Grand Hotel, Paris, was immediately told that the rules of the house did not allow pipes. The employees of the British Admiralty, War Office, arid Post Office hkve begun the formation of aunion of Government Tvork- men,. fop: strike or other purposes. The only Jewish daily paper in the world is said to be the, 6' Ptterahurg Hamelitz, pf which Mr. 2ederbaum is thfe editor. Diffi- cult as his task is he carries if on. Some practical but iiiartlsfcic German has made up aicompaund of sugar and condensed milk, aud tea, ' from which a cup of tea can be had by simply pouring on boiling water. .. w i H. M. T. Blenheim, just launched, will be U ell have to try somewhere else, the kine of cruisers. She is of 9.(KX) tons displacement, 20,000 horse poi^^er, 22 knots speed for tour hours, unannored, with steel deck. Qi. inches thick, two 22-ton guns, and other small arins. A search light Xidvr costs about 810, 000" and weighs 1,000 pounds. A new search light weighing 130 pounds, of 4,000 candle power, and said to be able to peiietrate the thickest fog for the distance of one-eighth of a mile, costs less than §500. An amateur photographer has met with a serious accident. An enthusiastic artist, the head master of Harrington School, while trying to photograph a rustic bridge from a considerable height, fell to the rocks bekiw aud was killed on the spot. A system of steno-telegraphy has been shown to the Chamber of Deputies, invent- ed by M. Cassagnes, by which shorthand reports of speeches can be sent any distance as they come from the stenographer. The speed of this instrument is also said to be unparalleled. At Neuendorf, Prussia, the lightning fired the gable end of a barn where a pair of storks builf their nest for years. The flames soon click behind me, arid the wall seemed j-ield ing to the weight of my back. I uttered a cry of joy as 1 saw a goodly portion of the wainscoting turn slowly inwards, revealing a dark oavemwus-Tccess. Mrs. Johnson utter- ed a little scream. "Here's something, at anyrate," I said triuhiphantly. "Quick, " ma'atii â€" those candies Hold a light. " She held the light up, and I went boldly in. I soon found that the place was a sort of closet, a few yards square, and evidently intended us a hiding-place in the old times. My feet slipped pversomething I stooped,. and picked the object up. It was my red slipper AVell, to cut a long story short, I may as wellsay that in that little box of a place We found a small chest, in which the ancient iliss Penrose had deposited papers of immense value; not to speak of the missing will. The Captain got his rights, and he and Miss Stanley were soon afterwards married. I think it was on the morning of their wedding-day that I re- ceived an envelope containing a cheque for sable robes, whose eyes shone ' '»'8hÂ¥^»:^h«^^^ you.do^.B^t I'll tell rom under a heft^-y cowl. It was ^^^^ "^h^^}^ dfteheve t got sleep-walking two thousand pounds, There Wcis another j caught the nest in which the brood scream- M'eddingsoon after, at which Alicia and I assistetl, doing the principal parts. And Alicia's mamma insists to this day that the Black Friar influenced my search for Miss Penrose's wilL [the EXb.j SUMMER SMILES. last night, and left my slipper behind m some cold.passage. The question is^ do.you know of any secret passage leading from that room where 1 klept V Mrs. Johnston considered. " Well," she said at length, " I can't deny that there are secret passages in the. place. There are in all these old nouses. At Lord Plantagenet's place in Devonshire there were several. I rcoulTcatch ilim^"iii^V"'anr"h^"of hi^i ^«'^,?^y^«* situation there, you know, sir. bright eyes. He went with a strange' glid ing motion towards the wall and orushed the hangings aside then he placed his hand on the panelling, and, to my astonishment and surprise, 1 saw a door open and disclose a flight of stairs which led down into dark- ness. The Friar turned, beckoned, and began slowly to descend the staircase. Somehow, though I struggled against giv- ing way, I had to follow hini. I was in scanty attire, and the nights were chilly, and I remember how I shivered as my bare foot touched the first of the worn stone steps. They were so worn that they dipped in the middle. The Friar went, down, down, and I followed. Very soon the moonlight from the window above ceased to give any light, and we were in darkness. Yet even then I could siee. tl],e dark figure 'I know. But this and" "Yes, yes," I said; one?" " My late mistress knew them all," she replied, " and I know that she used to wan- Aer about them now and then." "Ten to one, she's hidden that confounded will in some of them " I said. "We may hunt for a month or a year and never find it." "Miss Penrose used to spend a deal ,of time in the Captain's rooms when he was absent," remarke»i the housekeeper, after a pause. j^ "Did flhe Then perhaps she hid the will somewhere there." '5 'You seer said Mrs. Johnson confiden- tially., "when my poor misfe^ss was dying, she tried t^rd, to tell ua where ^e had put before me in a sort of luminous haze. Every I the -wUl that you speak of. At least so we now and then he turned and beckoned with thought â€" Miss Stanley and myself. It was a white hand that looked just as transparent mentioned afterwards, and we were laughed as a ghost's hand should be. j atâ€" by the other side." The man you meet going down hill was at one time higher than you are. Quimby thinks that an ocean greyhound should be barkrigged. Even the pat«nt labor-saving, self-bind- ing reaper goes against the grain this hot weather. ,A new play for next season is called "The OjitW? Without much doubt the hero is a teamster. â-  "Charity begins at Iiome" remarked the father as he gave away his daughter at the marrifige altar. It "is pi-'^iithedtli^ttirhein' a spirit gets to the pobit of disregarding the summons of the niediuin^t doesn't, care. ' 'a rap. " TomdikT^T.h^ w,oioen' of the present day can't â-  make such pies as our mothers did. McClammyâ€" ^^o, it's alost' tart. The great soda-water trust in the United iStates contemplated by an English syndi- cate has turned outa ocmplete-fizzle. We suppose a beaming- smild is one that is drawn :. from the wood. :.:;..: The man who keeps still when he hasn't anything to say is .a public benefactor. Debtor "I want to pay that little bill of vours." Creditor All right, my dear hoy." Debtor "But I can't. " Mother "What makes you look so sober aft«r fehing all day ♦" j"ohrihy "Because I cai^ht nothing but pQutsi. ".-.â- â- â-  Book agent (returning) after having'been fired down one flight, to irate broker) "Bu now, jokingaside, won't you take one copy ' â- â-  i-i __ ^i_ ^. â- â-  â-  " Too Heavily Lcade?. Prisoner â€" Yer Honor, would yon be kind enough to discharge me. I want to gooff into the country. Judge^I am afraid to discharge you Sullivan. You are too heavily loaded. Wanted Proof; Tommy (down in the street)â€" O, pa, put your head out of the window a minute. Pa (putting his head out of the window) â€" What is it. Tommy Tommyâ€" Nothing, except I have got a bet with Johnny Jones that your bald place is bigger than his pa's bald place. Gonfinaed and Explained. "Why did yon say she was a woman -)" nag So she is. She belongs, to the Decorative Art Society'.!' u LastWoida. 'What were McGinty's last wor^T' " 'I don't know. 'Imp me a line,' mg, but tlie mother t-tork, refusing to leave, spread her wings over the young outs and was burnt alive. • The vse of electricity is offered to the lion tamer in the form of a light wand, with an insulating grip for the hand, connected by a flexible wire with a battery of which the power can be varied at will. An experiment with this form of applied science has been successfully made. In Brussels there is soon to be a meeting of the "Giants of the North." Malines, Dunkerque, and Douai will be represented. Gagaut and- Papa Reuse and Janneke- and Mieke will meet and embrace each other in imperial fashion. It will be a great affair. The giants are thei mythical founders of their towns. • The Roumanians havecompleted the erec- tion of a statue at. Jassy in honor of a journalist named Asaki, who was the first to bring out a newspaper in' Moldavia, and who also founded the first theatre and the first music school in Jassy. He was a civil engineer, an architect, a painter, a mathe- matician, and a dramatic author. John Hope, a well-known and rich gentle- man of Edinburgh, has exeoute'd a trust deed conveying £84,459 to trustees of which he himself is one, -for advancing the cause of total, abstinence art home and abroad, from liquor, tobacco, and opium, and for "dissem- inating a" knowledge of the ariti-Scriptural character of the Church of Rome." The St. James's Gazette makes the state- ment that there is. a schism in the- English church as to what one's ghost is, one ' .side holding that it has an existence of its Own, and can walk abroad as it likes, the other party thinking that it is begotten by the relation between the minds of two .living persons â€" that it is, in fact, a "cooperative hallucination." A French coinpany has been formed ior the purpose of setting iip ;. second ^Monte Carlo on the Bosporus, at Scutari, which will be paved, beautified, and electric light- ed. The Sultan has always, in response to diplomatic pressure, refused to allow gaming tables at Constantinople, but there exists hope that he will relent for the otbei: side of the Bosporus. Berlin has a stenograph with a unique specialty. He attends all funerals of prom- inent persons, and'takes down verbatim the addresses of the officiating clergymen. Then he prepares highly ornamented copies of the addresses and sells them to the friends of the eulogized dead. His business is so good that he has taken one iissistant and has adr vertised for another. By the English law heirlooms are exempt from probate duty, so the Duke of Hamil- ton paid nothing enthe treasures of his pal- ace when he came into possession in 1863. But when he sold them they ceased to be heirlooms, it appears, and the Board of In- land Revenue has shocked his Grace with. a sudden demand for £18,060, or 3 per cent, on the 1(600,000 realized from the Hamilton Talace sale. A revolution is taking place in the drink- ine habits of the Japanese. The ricebran^ called "saki," which has long been their nationals beverage, is being supplanted W beer brewed afr the Gwman method. £i Osaka the number of beer saloons haa increase ed from thirteen to almost 600 in the last four years, while thenumber of resorts where saki u sold has faUen off. Years ago the f^ T*.^ '^°°* *® «l™»t 130,000,000 gaUons of "sak^" annually. A ch€«r is due the Dntehmen. When the Prinz Frederik collided with the English «hipMarpe8saon Jttn^25, the coa||tiander of a d*tachment of Duteh colonial- troops which happened to be on board immediately Ofdered^ assewWyapundedj and the men fell m on the deck like clockwork, in the face of certain loss of the ship. Their con- duct was an invaluable example to the passengers and crew, for although the entire company were then transferred to the boats with perfect quiet and despateh, the Prinz Frederik went down as the last boat left her side. She carried with her six Dutch pri- vates and an officer, who doubtless had been Q%-erwhelmed by the waters rushing in M the point of collision. In the years 1879-1889 there were 2,759 duels in Italy, 2,489 of which were fought with swords, 179 with pistols, 90 with dag- gers, and 1 with revolvers. Fifty duels re- .sulted fatally, 1,060 in severe wounds, and 9,^1 inmerp scratehes. Nine humlred and seventy -four duels were caused by newspa- per and liter^iry quarrels, 730 by oral quar- rels, 359 by political differences, 183 by sec- ret dissensions, 278 by premeditated insulte 29 by religious discussions, 19 by trouble at games, and 162 by unknown causes. The greatest number of duels was fought in Au- gust, 326, and the smallest number in Dec- ember, 62. In 1885, 16p. of thei 1 principals wereauthors, 64 lawyers, 156 officers, 14 Deputies, 14 peSti ssors,' and'the rest lodnk- rers. Judges, and one singer. The Reverend Spurgeon advances a some- what radical view in Sioord and Trowel: I 'In the matter of faith healing health is set before us t s if it were the great thing to be desired alwve all things. It is so? I ventured to say that the ^etitest earthly blessing, that God, can give to any of us is health with thfe'e.^fception of sickness. Sick- ness ba» frequently been :of more use to the ^saints pf God than health. If sojne men that 1 know of could billy be faAWcld with a 'month of • rheuoiatisjn, it would :i»jellow .them marvellously by God's,., grace. As- •suredly they heed something Wetter to ipreach than what they now give their people, and possibly they would learn it in the chamber of suffering. I would not wish any :man a long time of sickness and pain, but a .twist now and then one might .almost ask 'for him. A sick wife, a n^W made grave, ipoverty, slander, sinking of; spirit^ j might teach lessons nowhere else to be. learned so well. Trials drive us to the realities of re- ligion. " â-  ,. :â- , Probably the most extraordinary surgical operation on record is reported from ^aris. Dr. Lanuelongue, an eminent specialist in the Chilflren's Hospital, has just succeeded in the effect to give intelligence to a poor little idiot. The ;chil4. a little. girl, 4 years old, had a deformed head, only about one- third the size of an ordinary little one of her age. She never smiled, never took notice of anything, and she could neither walk nor stand. The Doctor became convinced that the condition of the little creature was due to the abnormal narrowness of the head, which hindered the naitural growth of the brain. About the middle of xVlay last he ttiade a long and narrow incision in the cen- tre of the skull and cut a portion out of the left side of it, without injuring the dvra maff.r. The result of this operation was s jmething astounding. In less than a month 1 1 he child began to walk. Now she smiles, iiterests herself in. everything around her, ' a 'id plays with a doll. A tolerably bright li .tie child has taken the place of the idiot. A Sailroad Under the Ghannel. Sir Edward Reed, the distinguished English engineer, has devised a plan for running a railroad under the English chan- nel which he believes has all of the merits of the tunnel without its defects. What he proposes is to lay on the sea bed on proper suppfirts two parallel tubes, sinriilafi ih'con- struciion to the double bottowi of a large ship^ the space between each of the double $overings to be filled in for the most part solid with Portland cement, which preserves iron and steelf or a long period. â-  These tubes are to be sunk in sections of about 600 feet, and to have strength to withstand the tidal fVCtipn. The- bed of the channel ijs said to be sufficiently smooth to admit of this copstruc- tion,' which would require, in the bpinifln of Sir Edward, a period of five years' time, and involve an expenditure of about 375,- 000,000. The merit from a national point of view that the, tube has over the tunnel is that, in case of war, a dynamite torpedo could be let down upon these tubes and en- tirely destroy them, so that there would be no 'danger of their use by anuivadingarmy, while in the opinion of their proposer the submarine tubes would have all the merits in carrying two lines of railway track thatr would be- -possessed by a tunnel. There is a possible defect, -however^ which does not seem to have suggested itself to' those in England who have been com- menting upon this plan, and this is the possibility that the tube might be broken in the case of a railroad accident. If the train, through some defect in machin- ary, the breaking of a wheel or axle, should run off the track in a tunnel, the accident might result in some damage to the passen- gers of a train, -as a similar -accident under ordinary conditions, though, in all probabil- ity, of a less serious character. But it is to be feared that an accident of this kind tak- ing place in one of these prppo^ed tubes would lead to the ntpture of the "ehcrosing covering, its prompt filling with water, and the immediate death, not only of those who happened to be on the wrecked train, but those on any other train which was at that time goLqg in the. same direction between England and France. Giosa Ezags^oations. Ottawa, Aug. 6.â€" A sensational inter- view with a Mrs. Rigby, who claims to be the immiCTant girls' friend, is telegraphed here from New York. The attention of Mr, â-  Lowe, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, wag to-day called to the despateh. "I am satis- fied,* said he, "that Mrs. Rigby's state- ments are gross exaggerations. The allega- tions in this article are mere generalizatun and they do not contain a single specifica- tion on which an enquiry or test could be made. The statement that the church of England clergymen are leagued, with b^nevp- lei t societies to send oat mimoral girls is a libel and is not sustained by on6 qtedifo fact." He would not say bat .that gii d- whose character was not as p^ect as ooold be wished might have come to this coimtry, but he knew of none who were sent frxMn any criminal instituticm or who were in* carcerated after coming Jtere. I' m ;/:?.: "TV ' itiSiiailSMtttmnwi^' fium. â- riia^^Mitf^ ^iMMiiilili^ â- iUUtiiiiaiiiwM riilHlli iilliUiiiilliMHiilHliHifi â- MBMiiiBliii