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< in1 in »,i Tur. soil of Peru contains the largest number ot irin-rals of any known country. At Piuria, in the north, petroleum and solnhur; silver, lead, copper, ;:nd coal in the great mining basin of Cerro d8 P«seo, in central Peru; and phosphate, quicksilver, auriferous groundK, and borax at Arfquipa, in ths south. At tho present time the number < f mind being woiked is 2,500, employing 70,000 workmen.

CHINESE PROVERBS. Pioverbial sayings are part of tho daily language of every people, and nowhere more so than among the Chinese. The late Rev. William Scarborough, a patient and successful student of the lan ruag" and literature of China, published in 1875 a large collection of Chinese proverbs. The volume was issued from the American Presbyterian Mission Press, Shanghai, and is now exceedingly scarce. A few specimens from this selection will be of interest to our readers. ON MAN AND HUMAN NATURE. He who sits in the sedan, and they who carry it, we alike men. Man is heaven and earth in miniature. At seventy a man is a candle In the wind; at eighty ho is hoar-frost on the tiles. One evening's conversation with a superior man is better than ten years of study. It is easier to know how to do a thing than to do it. Any kind of life above the sod is better than to be buried beneath it. A man cannot become perfect in a hundred years; he may become corrupt in less than a day. It is harder to change a man's nature than to change rivers and mountains. It is easier to fill up the bed of a mountain torrent than to satisfv the heart cf man. An old man may have a young heart, and a poor man a noble spirit. A mind enlightened is like heaven; a mind in darkness is like hell. Who knows himself knows others; for heart can V compared with heart. øj.Wf.

THR ADMINISTRATION7 OF THE EDUCATION ACT: SUGGESTED REFUSAL TO PAY THE COUNTY PRECEPT. LIVELY SCENES BETWEEN THE CHAIR- MA AND MR. J. H. ELLIS. It will be remembered thtt at the last mnetin, of the Board objection w..s t.ikei to the payment of the precept ot the Flintshire County Council on the ground that it included a sum of two ponezi for educational purpose* which would not ba required in view of the action of the BlHrd ot Educatiou iu postponing the appointed dav for Flintshire. In the meantime thi County Councils of Fliatshire and Denbighshire had been communicated with. The Clerk to the Flintshire County Council wrote that the call from the Bourd of Guardians was required for county purposes, and tblil post- ponement of the appointed day in no way modified tleir requirements. The ohtlirmtn: Will anyone propose that the call be paid- Mr R. Griffiths: We understand that they are not going to spend the money for educational pur- poses. The Ch-tirman said a letter had also baea received from the Denbighshire County Council stating tb»t the Council would expejet payment of the precept AS the postpontimetit of the appointed day in no way affected it. The precept which became due in December was for intermediate education and coun- ty rate, neither of which was affected by the post- ponement of the appointed da"f.1 The Chairman said that the Guardians would be acting wisely in paying the call. They might depend upon it that tho Guardians would not mi»- apply th« money. So far as Flintshire was oon- oernod there was no doubt that the precept did include twopence in the £ for educational purposes. But a larire part of that had been already spent in bringing the Act into operation. They could not wait until the ht of January before makinir a stirt, for on that day they were expected to have over one hundred schools in the county. They bad to hold several inquiries, and the work had beea most laborious and expensive. Mr G. F. Gunner said if the appointed day walil to be postponed from month to month as seemed likely, he failed to sea any justification for collecting the twopeuce in the £ for educational purposes It was intended to meet the expense of those schools which the County Council proposed to take over, and if they were not taken over the County Council would not wa.nt tt)e money. Tbere were a great many large ratepayers in Rhyl who could ill afford to pay the twopence, tie failed to see if the schools were not tiken over on thit lit of February what the County Council was going to do with this two. pence. It would be illegal for them to use it for any other purpose. The Chairman: That will be a question entirely for the auditor of the County Council. The Cleik said it was rather hard on the County Council to keep back the whole of the money from them. The c.til was payable in two instalniouts. There could be no objection to paying the firiit put of the call now, and diacu^s this matter when it came to paying the second instalment. Mr Gunner: Once you pay them the money you will not get it out of them again. The Chairman aaid the subsequent rate would be much less if this money was not used. If the County Council had a -urplus in band thev would { certainly keep it towards the following half year's rate. Mr. J. Frimston said that as the one who brought this question forward at the last meeting he withed to withdraw his opposition. He raised objection to paying the call at the last meeting for the reason that if the Govermint was going to alter its policy with regard to the Education Act, and not allow the County Council to make use of this money, it was very hard that they should be culled upon to pay this two pence. They knew that with all authorities, both couuty councils and local councils, that if they paid money once into their coffgrs, they were bound to spend t. The Chairman That is not my experience of the County Council. Mr J. Frimston said that was the general experience throughout the country, and that was why be objected to the payment of this money. But if they could discuss the question on the pay- ment of the next call, and they would bo able to deal with it in the event of the County Counail not spending the whole of the money he would ba prepared to withdraw bis opposition for tha present. The Chairman said that there would be plenty of time to discus this question when the next call came before them. Mr E. Morgan said that they would remember that when going through the minutes, ho ask^d the question wnether the last call had not been paid by aseveral parishes, and that it included this two puc.. It would be a great injustice if some parishes paid the two pence, and other parishes not. Some parishes had already paid, and therefore it was only just that all the parisues should do iao. Mr J. Frimstou proposed that the first part of the call be paid. Mr E. Morgan seconded. Mr. J. H. Ellis said that; his attitude was ques- tioned at the last meeting and as bis contentiou was statod to be absolutely wrong, he now rose to say that the facts now stated by tha Chairman and by other meuiber- fully justified what he siid on the last occasion. The Chairman said that two pence was for eduoatioual purposes, and upon that state- ment the members took it for granted that two pecce out of the sixpence was for educational pur- poses and on that ground they refused to pay the rllte. He pointed out-that at the time that it was a very bad example to set. He was now very glad to see that they had cooled down.— The Chairman Order, urder. What I said at the last meeting, I say Hill. Mr Ellis is misleading the Board. What I sail] is correct; twopence is for educational purposes I said so over and over again. Mr J. H. Ellii I don't deny it. I merely said | that JQU stated that twopenco wa9 for educational j}urp:>9t3 The Chairmaa I still say it. Mr J. H. Ellis: Notwiihst inding that members who oppored payment at the last meeting are cov prepared to pay the twopence and if you had stated then that it was in consequence of the expense incurred by the Council in briuging the Act into operation there would have been no objection raised. The Chairman 1 did eay so. I will put the pro- position to the meeting; lye have wasted enough Lizae over this matter. Mr J. H. Ellis I don't mean to allow you to vote on this matter without giving the members cf the Board an opportunity of In-,r tboir VLa;vs. You are wanting in courtesy and justice by treating them in the flippant wa.y that you do. I do not think that it conduces to the harmony of this Board that you should take such an arbitrary way of putting members down who wish to express their view. Tna Chairman You are wasting time. Mr J. E. Eilis If it is wasting time, it is time profitably wasted if only to call attention to the arbitrary way in whioh you put down mem jers for expressing views at the last meeting, which I am glad fo see that you yourself actually agree with now. The Chairman (warmlj): I don't know how Jong you are going to tolerate this sort of thing. Mr J. H. Ellis: You said that my views at the last meeting were wrong, and now you admit that I was absolutely right. I am glad to see you assuming such a reasonable attitude. The Chairman (indignantly): Here is a gentle- man who come* heie about once in three or four months, and has got the cheek to lecture the Board and the Chairman simply becauso he does not get his own way. Mr J. H. Etiis: It just shows your discourteqy all along. The Chairman You have simply come hee to create a disturbance. Mr J. H. Ellis: No we come here to correct your views. The proposition to pay the firat part of thi c ;1! was then carried, together with another proposition by Mr Friinst)ii th t the fouttv Council he nhk 1 when they present the next precept to saj what amount of it was for County purposes, for iuter- mediate education, and for elementary education. MR. BIRCHAM ON THE REDUCTION OF PAUPERISM IN THE Sf. ASAPIl FNION. SATISFACTORY FIGURES. Mr. Bucham said that since his last visit to that Board twelve months ago, he had worked out his compartive figures on the basis of a ten year com- parison. The population during the last ten years hsd increased in the St. Asaph Union at the rate of 7 pai cent. la all England and Wales the increase was at the rate of 12 per cent. The rateable value during the te'n years had increased 18 per cent. in the St. Asaph Union, whilst for the whole of England and Walej the incrsase was 22 per cent. The rate of pauperism ten years ago per hundred of the population was 4.2 this year it was 3 3. That was a decrease of 27 per cent. (hear, hear). The decrease in all England and Wales had been 9 per cant and in North Wales 29 per cent, (hear, hetr). North Wales had made a very considerable decrease in pauperism during the l-.st ten years, and be thought it was due chiefly to improved administra- tion. In many instances the population h-td gone down and the wealth had not increased, and yet the number of paupers WnS considerably lisi than it was (hear, hear). The expenditure in the St. Asaph Unioi ten years tiJlO on the maintenance of in-door, ard out door was L7,150 a year which was a poll tax of 4s. 11;1,-d. Last year the expenditure was £ 7,333 which was veiy little more, being an increase of 2;V per cent. making a poll tax per head of the population of 4s. 8d. The expenditure in St. Asaph hid only increased 2/, per. cent., while the increase tor the whole of England and Wales was 36 p?r cent. In Wales and Monmouthshire the increase was 21 per cent., but in North Wales it and actually decrea-od 3 per cent. (hear, hear). While the percentage of paupers in England and Wales had actually aec-eased the expenditure in relieving thm iiid incre^el 20 per cent. Th.Ü was mainly dua to the enormous infirmities and hospitals built in tho great towns, and extra nursing which wa< now more than double what it used to be. The ILtnount of out relief was also considerably more per individual than it used to bo. So far as that, relief was confined to the deserving poor and made move adequate to their requirements, nc one would ba wriiage a peony of it. But they could noe burn the candle at both ends. The giving of ade- quate relief to the deserving poor ought to be accompanied by additional strictness with repaid to the undeserving cases. The number of paupers relieved ten years ago was 1,231; now the number was 1,050, but the expenditure was 2- per cent, more. The actual expenditure was more on 1,050 paupers than on 1,230. That showed that tie relief given worked out at a higher scale both for iu-door and out-door pauper. But the rateable value had increased Ancl a penny rate now yielded £ 750. Out of E2300 raised annually in rates in that Union only £ 10600 was spent on pour relief of all kinds, which was considerably letii than one- half the expenditure. Ia the term poor relief he included evorytbiug connected with the relief of the sick and the salaries of officers, maintenance of buildings, maintenance of lunatics in asylume, as well as the direct relief to the poor. The re- mainder of the money wis spent for county pur- poses over which the gutirdiittit3 ha.:1 no control. He hoped that the guardians would take the question of out relief seriously in hlind. Now that they were abodt to have a itood Infirmary connected with the house, they would be able to restrict some of the cases that could uot be properly looked after outside (hdsr, hear). 0§0 LL OFF NOW. "Yes," said a young man who holds do vn a. place in the City Hall at a liberal salary, and wears store clothes every day in the year, I was en^'ed to a Nassau County farmer's daughter and expected to be married on Thanksgiving Day, but it's all off between 118." Ff,und that you were not in sympathy, eh?" was asked. "No, not that. The sympathy business was all right, &n(i the mdiole family bowed down to my salary. They thought I could afford to light dollar cigars with 10dol. bills, and the old man bragged about me all over the county. A week or two iL-0 things be,-an to cool ot-i, and I went out to see what the matter was. My dear g:rl and all the rest soon let me know. They had their noses way up like millionaires, and they spoke of my income as if it wouldn't feed a cat." "Had they been left a I egacr ? "Not a red cent. The old man finally unbent enough to put a hand on my shoulder and say Sorry for you, Billy, but Mary has made up her rnind not to marry any common man. You and your salary was all right up to a month ago, but then I found out that 'taters was goin' to sell about as high as oranges, anfi that; I should have five hundred bushels of leiii to shove on to the market. Better look around for a cheap wife, lill;one who don't want seventeen servants and a bar'l of diamonds to start iu with "—Brooklyn C;*izen. Th(\ coroner's report shews that 125 muraer* arcurred in Chicago last year, but not one exe- cution. A second -itleii-p", to 11y tho Langley airship, near Washington, was a failure. The machine, when releasi (1, took a downward course, fell into the river, and broke in half. The operator was rescued. Lord Iveagh's gift of i250,000 to the Dublin Hospital in commemoration of their Majesties' rt-cerit visit to Ireland has been apportioned, and all the hospitals will receive their cheques before Christmas. The proposed amalgamation between Lloyd's Hank and the Manchester and Liverpool Banking Company has been abandoned. The late Lord Stair leaves to his second son £ 16,0C0; to Lis tiiir(I SOTL £ 12.000; to his daughter. Lady Jane Georgina Vivian, £ 6,000; and to each of his granddaughters £ 2,000. The American Line announce that from January 9th, 1904, their steamers will call at Plymouth to iand mails, passengers, and specie from New York prior to proceeding to Cherbourg and Southampton. Dover is to he opened as a port of call for the Hamburg-American Line in July, 1904,. It has been decided by the London County Council to inquire into the condition of the water- cress beds within their jurisdiction, and, if pos- sible, into the state of those outside, from which London is supplied. Dr. Stokoe, ot- t,f W;uldirigton, near Lincoln, died on Tm-sday. H" was the editor of the Revised Version of the Bible, with marginal notes, pub- lished in 1898. Various claimants to the.tones Tcrwinw evidence at Liverpool on Tuesdny. William j:)J1('S died intestate at Melbourne, leaving .250,COO. A Liverpool solicitor, appointed by the Australian courts, is now hearing the various claimants. A workman at Messrs. Darr and Sons' nurseries, Lr.ng Ditton, found the body of Clemnes Sonntag, a foreman, lying in a water-lily tank, with a fear» ful wound iu the throat. A table-knife was found at Ine bottom of the tank. Caspe County, the extreme eastern portion of Quebec on the Atlantic coast, has been swept by a violent snowstorm, accompanied by high winds. The inhabitants are largely fishermen, and it is feared that many vessels and lives have been lost in t)w Gulf of St. Lawrence. Eight men of the Hampshire Regiment and one Sepoy have been wounded in a smart engagement with the Kutebi tribe in the Aden hinterland. The enemy's loss was heavy. Lord Roberts is suffering from a severe chill, he has been compelled to cancel all his previous engagements for this week. Hary Ann Baxter, of Hackney, has been com- mitted for trial at North Loudon, charged with I stabbing her husband, John Baxter. The latter tried to throw his wife downstairs. In the struggle, stabbell hill), "We are a little apt to distrust flash-hotc men, you know," said MP. Ilopkin, at Lambeth, to a Southward horse-dealer charged with trying to get Z5 for a "Bank of Engraving" note. For a policy of Z40,000 011 the life of King Peter of Servia, one German insurance company asks a premium of £ 4,000. Thomas Wright, a spinner, of Dewsbury, tried to hang himself on Tuesday. The rope snapped, and he fell downstairs, breaking his neck. Cork County Council has passed a resolution calling on Mr. William O'Hrieu to remain in Par- liament and denouncing his opponents. The Messageries Maritime steamer Sydney, which wa:, towed to Aden in a disabled condition, has left for Marseilles in tow of another steamship of the same company. Ten thousand pounds is offered by the State of Texas for something that will extprminate the boll weevil pest, which is destroying the cotton crop. Ir. F. E. Kitchener, a cousin of Lord Kitchener, is to be presented with an illuminated address for his services in organising a scheme of education for Staffordshire under the uow Act. To avoid proceedings under the Congregation Law an ex-monk of Limonest (France) announced his death in a local paper. The fraud was discovered, alH I he has been fllletl £2. Five German Socialists whom the police dis, covered to be connected with secret revolutionory societies have been arrested. Acting on instructions, the British representative at Belgrade refused to receive the Serviau Govern* m.-nt's congratulations on the eccasion of Sing Edward's birthday. IKKOCLALM I Y I JJ ACCOTJ^-TT, One greaS advantage of regularity in aecountn ia that when properly attended to it will certainly operate actively as a caul ion against excess of expenditure in the whole account, as well as in the several items. Memory is treacherous, and it ia consequently safer to at once transmit accounts to paper and be independent of memory. TO CLKAV JEWELLERY. To clean jewels, some warm water, Castile soap, ft soft brush, and a little box of jewellers' sawdust are necessary. A few drops of ammonia in the Water will be a help. Scrub them very gently with the brush and a little soap. The brush will remove the dirt under the stones very easily. Kinse well with hot water, dry in a towel, and put, in your sawdust till needed. The latter will absorb all moisture that is left, and when shaken otY will leave the gems brilliant. Pur, them into it cacn time after wearing. They will keep clean for a long time, as the sawdust removes particles of dirt. Castile soap contains less ^reasie than any otiiek kind; hencs its use for this purpose. FOR A HAiW CORN. A glycerine poultice will soften and loosen the corn so much that it will easily tome out. To apply saturate a piece of lint with glycerine, lay this on the corn, tie a piece of oiled silk over, bandage to keep in place, and. if you pplv at night, keep on till the morning, if you are troubled With corns, get your shoemaker to stretch now shoes for you before wearing. WATER IX TAIN. There is hardly a kind of suffering known to man in which water may not be used to lessen the misery. Take a "felon "—that most terribly pain- j*il i <elling—and treat it with hot water, and your pain will gease in a short, time. You need not cut, nor blister, nor do anything except iiiiiiiers4 the linger or hand, or the entire arm, in water as hot as can be borne, and keep it there vo" can ta.ke it out and swing it back and forth without JufTering. The hot wJ.tr must be removed as often as it cools off. The same treatment will prevent serious results in cases of puncture of the fcot from rusty nails. There is nothing like it in such cases. NEW STOCKINGS. Alwaye have them washed before wearing. Wash- ing shrinks the threads, and the stockings will wear far better. Besides which, there is always the chance that an injurious dye mav br.va been usr-d in the making, and the washing prevents possible injury from this. PIE-CRUST PROMISES. A pie-crust promise, that is only made to h. broken, is at all times reprehensible; but, if possible, it is more than usually to be condemned when made to children, for the formation of their characters is largely dependent upon the influence of their elders. A child loses all trust in a person who fails to keep hi or her word. Moreover, (lie elder's example will very iifc«lv be followed b\ the child. Those in charge of children should not put, off their questions with siiiy, untruthful answers. Mother's word is law in the juvenile mind. Mo; her told me so, and whatever she says is true," said a liMJe girl to me the other day. SLUMP AS A MKO:C'.NK. It is said that, the cry for rest has alwavs been iouder than the cry for food, not that it is more important, but it is often harder to obtain. The best rest comes from sound sleep. Of two men or women, otherwise equal, the one who sleeps the best will be the most moral, healthy, and efficient. Sleep will do much to cure irritability of temper, peevishness, and uneasiness. It will restore to vigour an overworked brain. It will build up at-d make strong a weary body. SENSIBLE CLOTIITWO. Those who are engaged in hard ,.nual labour all dav make sufficient heat in their own bodies Cist they can do with very little clothing, but if they do not themselves tip after they leave off work they are particularly liable to take cold. On the other hand. those who follow a sedentary occupation, or who take verv little exercise. õesu. ,to be warmly c'ad. They do not make much heat in their bodies from wtrit of oxercise, and, there- fore, they cannot afford to lose it by exposure to the cold. It is well known that if we keep moving about during the cold weather we do aoC feel cold, whereas it we stand or sit about we won get very chilly. Old people and Very young children do not stand Ihe eol l weather well, partly because they can lke sulliciflnt txe-ciae to keep Vbemsclres H'arit- r.\ fto cocmrsnrr It was the second time that the ,ero of the had accompanied tho younjf lady home. She :1rsk him if he wouldn't come in. lie said he would. Sarah took his hat, told him to sit down, and J",c,\ the room. She was hardly gone before her mother came 13, smiled sweetly,and,dropping down beside the young mar»,said: a I always did say that if a poor but respectable young man fell in love with our Sarah iiii should have my consent." The young man started with alarm. "She has acknowledged to me that she lovett you," continued the mother, "and whatever is for her happiness is for mine." "I haven't stammered the young man. "Oh. never mind; make no apology. I know you haven't much money, but, of course, you'll live ia my house." "I had no idea of ——" he began. "I know you hadn't, but it's all right," continued Sarah's mamma, reassuringly. "W;th your wages and what the boarders will brill in we shall get along as comfortably as possible." The young man's eyes stood out like hatpegs, cad he rose and tried to say something. "Never mind about thanks." she cried. "I don't believe in long courtships. June 20th is my birth- day, and it would be nice for you to be married on that day." "But-but-but-" he gasped. "There, there. I don't expect any reply," she lauiihed. "I'll try and bo a model mother-in-law. I believe I'm good tempered and kind-hearted, though I did once follow a young man a couple of hundred miles with a broomstick for agreeing to marry my daughter and then backing out of the engagement." She patted him on the head and sailed out. And now the young man wants advice. He wants to know whether he had better get in the way of a 'ocomotive or jump off the nearest bridge. Philadelphia Telegraph. INSPIRATION. Where," she asked, when she had succeeded m ,Zettinz the brilliant young writer in a corner away from tiio crowd, "do you get the inspiration for all the lovely things you produce ? I suppose you must he in the habit of going far away from the busy throng where you can he all alone and commune with nature. The distant hills, the flowers by the v, ^adside, the setting sun, the murmur of the brook, y.vse, I suppose, put you in the mood for producing the charming things that come from your pen." "Well, no," he confessed. "I can't say that they do. It would be very pleasant to go out aud commune with nature, hut I'm afraid I wouldn't be inspired very hard. I get my inspiration right here hi the busv town." "Indeed!" she exclaimed. "How in the world io you manage it ? "Walking through the streets," he replied. "Wlien I pass the grocery I have an inspiration; in trout of the buvsher's another inspiration comes to me; if I chance to see the tailor looking out as I iiuryy onward I am inspired again, and a whole flsek of inspirations swoop down on me as I approach the dry goods store where my wife runs bills. The man who has to go out in the fields to be inspired is lucky, but I'm afraid he doesn't get right down to the heart of tilings."—Chicago Bf cord-Herald. A DOMESTIC JAR. Sere's a little dialogue that was overheard in a Oapitol Hill mansion one evening last week: She: "Why, oh, why, did I ever marry you He a "Because I was a good thing." She: "You are becoming positively coarse." He: "Association." She: "You pay no attention whatever to my little wishes." He-. What's the use of chasing a car after you've caught it ? She "I believe you have been drinking again." He: "No such luclc.71 She: "I'm in rags." He: "Well, we'll do a sketch. So'm I." She "I haven't been to the theatre for two weeks." He: "Yours is a sad story." She: Brute Be: "Ours is a peaceful home." She: "Are you going down town to-night? He: "If I can swing you for carfare. She: "I have only 3dol. in my purse." He: "Hetty Green." She "I saw a pair of high-heeled patent, leathers to-day, reduced to 8dol., that I must and shall havo." He: "D'je see any men's brogans for I -39dc-1. ?" She "Why don't you get shaved ? He: "Waiting for pav day." She: "Don't you know the rent and the gas w\\l be due this pay day ? He: "Then I'll cut out the shave." She: "I wish I had never left mamma, so I do." He: Others, others She: "I have a good notion to go right back to %er this minute." Wa. "Have you got an umbrella?"- xv inec-img or unemployed at luaaiora was toia oy one speaker that there are in that town 10,000 people out of work. Mr. Henry Cavendish has lodged a claim for Z25,000 against the estate of Benjamin Greene Lake, the solicitor, who is now undergoing penal servitude. For embezzling £ 260, handed to him by soldiers for safe-keeping during the campaign in China, Sergeant ]:usse, of the German Army, has been sentenced to degradation and two years' imprison- ment. An inkstand bearing the Papal arms has been presented by the Pope to the Itoman Catholic rector of Tooting. The inkstand, which belonged to the late Pope, is to be sold on behalf of a new church at Tooting. An elaborate swindle has been unearthed in New York, by which fire insurance companies have been defrauded of some 600,000dol. every year for a con- siderable period by a conspiracy between certain adjusters of fire losstis and merchants. *r.. An open veraict was returned at an inquest at Ií. Helens on the bodies of the twin children of Mrs. Priestley. They were found accidentally smothered in bed. The British Embassy at Washington has far- nished the State Department with evidence against crimps at San Francisco, where 638 desertions hava occurred from sixty-four vessels carrying 1,778 men. Six persons were killed and sixteen injured by the explosion of a bomb thrown by a man among a number of people at Arduing, near Rottenmann, Styria. The attack was intended as an act of revenge, and was aimed at the life of a railway contractor named Zanardelli, who discharged 500 workmen last week. Alfred Salter, labourer, of Westley, has been remanded at Shrewsbury, charged with maliciously setting fire to two stacks of hay at Westley, near Westbury. Merchant Taylors' Company have made a grant ot £ 500 a-year for five years to the bui^isjj fund of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. For stabbing a constable with ?. hat-pin Mary Ann Howe was sentenced, at Westminster Polica- eourt, to three months' hard labour. Barmaids in Western Australia receive, in addition to board and lodging, about £ 2 10s. a week in wages—a sum also received by female drapers' assistants. Posted in September, 1889. a letter from Seaham Harbour to a seaman at Bilbao. Spain, h:s just been returned to the sender through the Dead Letter Ofiice. Charles Warts, of Woodchnrch. Kent, who weighs nineteen stone, is 31't. 6in. high, and has a chest measurement of 48jin., has just reached his twelfth birthday. Able Seaman Davis was drowned in a boat which he and a companion had "b rrowed" at Portland to take them to H. M.S. 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THK ILA.UVRIF.0 APPLE TREE. It is probabfle that to the town of Douglass, Massachusetts, belongs the repntit ion of having a haunted apple tne. The tradition of tha town is that a foul murder was committed in the orchard many years ago, and that since then it flail been haunted by t',fW spirit of tho victim. As thtt story goes, a pedlar, wtioie custom it. was to sell goods from house to house from a pack, by down to rest at midday under a tree in the orchard, and before the day was ended he was found with a cruel gash in the neck, from which his life-Mood had ebbed away. Suspicion rested on the owner of thq orchard, and hn was said to have been constantly followed by the spirit of the victim. In an attempt to escape from its dreaded presence he moved away. Then the apparition became a terror to all who had occasion to uass over the road at niglit. So potent was its influ» nee—standing, as it had a hllhit of rioinj?, under the apple tn,n, with one hand at iti throat and the other extended as though seeking aid, and uttering shrill cries that could be heard half a mile avvay-that the location of the highway was changed, and it, is now a long distance from the orchard. Tho old tties still bear fruit, and the aoples from the one beneath which the pedlar was killed are said to be streaked with red, resembling blood, the streaks extending from skin to core.

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