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GREATER IUUTAIN. r «• ALTHOUGH the epidemic of enteric fever at Subathu from which the Black Watch suffered so severely, has entirely ceased, the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry at Lucknow have had a large number of cases, some fatal. It is noteworthy that, as in the case of the Black Watch at Subathu, the regiment attacked is quartered in barracks rendered notorious by previous outbreaks of the disease. Inquiry should be made (as the Morning Post wisely advises) into the eauses irhich render BO many cantonments in the plains 'j ss well is the hills so insanitary. The plague -seizures at Bombay continued to drop with satisfactory steadiness until the middle of May, only about 15 new cases and the same number of deaths Occurring daily. At the end of an epidemic the ratio of deaths to new cases is always high, occurring chiefly among patients who have lingered for some time in the bospitalp, Among the deaths were those of Sister Elizabeth, one of the Sisters who volun- leered for hospital duty from the Bandora Convent; and Miss Home, who was sent to join the nursing gtaff at Cutch Mandrie when the plague was exL f bemely bad, and where Dr., Herein has gone from 93oinbay to-carry aut iinoculatiane with his curative Serum. IT would seem that in parts of Northern India the people were not in such a distressed condition froni famine as was thought. On the Agra-Delhi Railway, flow being constructed as a famine relief work, the workers on one section have gone out on strike for fcigher wages. It is true that on a relief work the Government only pays a bare subsistence wage; but that men can afford to go on strike rather than accept it is fair proof that they are not at any rate Starving.. At. the same time. J) toyed on relief worts throughout India in- creased during the week by 183,000, reach- ing a total of more than 3,500,000. As the failure of the monsoon would entail a recrudescence Of the famine, it was proposed that the Central Com- mittee of .the Famine Relief Fund should bold over a sum of 30 lakhs for eventualities. A majority of fy. the Committee, however, held that as the money had been subscribed for present sufferers from the famine, it should be distributed accordingly. If a fresh famine occurs India will have to make a new appeal for, help. On some parts of the North-West Frontier the spring crops, which promised well, have 6een utterly ruined by hailstorms, which did a great deal of other damage, the hailstones being described as of the size of large ducks' eggg. THE contretemps which occurred in Ceylon, where the King of Siam left the island in indignation Ijecause the priest in charge of the Temple where Buddha's "tooth is kept would not allow his Majesty to touch the sacred relic, has left the Buddhists in Ceylon more hopelessly divided than ever. It was laopedthat the visit of the only Buddhist monarch in the world might have led to the reunion of the rival Bnddhint factions under his headship, but the con- trary has been the case. A mass meeting of Bud- dhists denounced the conduct of the priest as dig ) courteous, uncalled-for, and wholly unwarranted." THE principal question of Imperial interest in the Contemporary interest of Canada (Says a writer in the Times) is whether the development of the channels of eommunication with the world, which as a relatively new country she is bound to extend tapidly beyond her borders, is to take place along lines of easterly and westerly or along lines of northerly and southerly direction. In other words, is the inevitable expansion of this great federal group of British colonies to be within the Empirb Mst and west or within the American continent north and south ? The fiscal policy adopted in its own interests by the United States throws the alternative into sharp relief. Much .-p aa we may regret that it should be so, we V are obliged to recognise that under present Circumstances development in one direction isincom- Eitiblp with equal and easy development in the other, he choice, therefore, llefr before Canada of ettengtheningthe bonds of union and multiplying the, channels of intercourse with either the Empire Or the United jStateB, but not with both. Upon the choice which is-mnde between the two the ftttura of I the Dominion depends. Far more than a local in. terest attaches to the direction given by successive I Canadian Governments to the developments over •rbich they are called to preside, and each sta^e in the construction of the framework upon which the history of .the Dominion is to be built has the importance of its prospective as well as its actual history of the Dominion is to be built has the importance of its prospective as well as its actual Value in determining the current of colonial life. XHK returns tor May show that the revenue West Australia last month Amounted to £ 221,501, as Compared with 4:171,217 in May, 1896. The amount .received from Customs was E86,518, against £ 77,636; from postages, commission on money orders, tele- phone receipts, and telegrams, JE18,847, against £ 15,183; from railways, E87,323, against £ 56,119; from land, £ 7724; and from mining, 97626. A WRITER in the Scotsman gives some interesting Particulars of the making of Adelaide, the capital of outh Australia. There is little that is new- fashioDed about Adelaide he says. It is laid out like a draught-board. Half of the streets run north and Bouth half of them run east and west. Mostly they are wide, AH of thenx bear evidence of careful thinking out on the part of the designer—a certain Colonel Light, whofrom all accounts was a masterful, as-assuredly-be was an able, man. The nature of the ground chpsen for the «ity lent itself to a generail design that could scarcely fail to produce a handsome and healthy town. High hills all but encompass Adelaide.From their base the land elopes "gently flown to the sea, which, as the Gulf of St. Vincent, forhis the western boundary of the plain. In some patis of this plain there were slight depressions, whioh in heavy rain-and, strange as it may seem, there is at tim^s heavy rain in Adelaide-^became swampy. Cotonel Light used these depressions for the formation of open placeo-B"ares, in fact. There is a great centre square—Victoria-square—bisected by splendid wide Avenues. • A> statue of the Queen adorlis VLtb tenu* of the square, where the bisecting avenues cross it. Beyond Victoria-square there is a quadrilateral Of squares formed some distance away -goe-on, tiae north-eamt and one on the sooth-east; one oo the south-west and one on the north-west. It would not have been good to have built housbs upon these spaces; art has made them most excellent breathing spaces and: recreation grounds. The original design contemplated the grouping of busi- ness premises in one direction and of' residences in another. Business premises and residences have re- fused as a rule to go to the spots indicated for them. They have grouped themselves as they have found dmost convenient, One result is that vou have busi- ness places where residences were to have been, and residences where business places should have been found if the original ideas of the designer had been 1 Carried out. It is not a matter of much importance I •—the convenience of the public has been suited. The visitor findB all for the best. He also finds Adelaide healthy. It is stlid to be the best-drained oity in Auttralis, And It ihas a plentiful supply of water from the Torrens river and the Okoporinga. In moit cities the tide of fashion runs to Lhe frest. In Adelaide it runs to the north. The Torrens divides North Adelaide from South Adelaide. The latter has most of the tuainess; the former is .mainly com- posed of the houses of the well-to-do. North Adelaide resembles a beautiful country town with an air of cathedral quiet about ft. Professional men live in it. The unfinished cathedral of the Episcopal. Church stands in it. Perhaps some day that cathedral will be finished. Several charitable institutions grace North Adelaide. In- the hills obotit,Aclelaide there ark many lovely spots. iMoet of the gullies have springs, and: in most places the Boll will grow anything. It was for my good that I was dtiven out to the country house of the first itkirytsr in Soxtth Australia. He-was not in forensic Costunre when I eaw hita there he was the country featleartn rejoicing In his' gardens and .orchards; fe showed; with^worthy, pride how apples; pears, •quifcceV$hlths, Oranges, lemons, chestnutsj walonts, and-- many other trees flourished. Tomatoes wefe weeds. Pumpkins were ahao* ag large as barrels Of beer. Vegetables of all kmda yielded three or four Crops a year. It-, was wonderful,, volumes j of the fertility of one part Australia. 1 In tange of hilla of wbich Moimt Xofty is thfe Chief is the summer house of THE GOVERNOR of thb J colony- Marble Hill. IT STANDS nearly 3000ft. aboyij J the level of the, plain below. Adelaide may bk I scorched with a, hot sun while. Marble HiU is fanne £ with aTjool breezeu <
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Do you think you could learn to lore me, MAUD? T «I don't know, George," she answered, softly, T I don't know, George," she answered, softly, A t might. I leamt German once." ) A VILLAGE cure at a wedding dinner held out his MASS after each dish was served, with the remark, My children, we must drink wine with this." At THE tenth repetition of the formula, Pardon, M. LE Core." said one of the guests, but tell me with what ^OOLD you not drink wine?" With water, my son. ivoom you not drink wine?" With water, my sm
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HOME HINTS. V ■ '■ RUSTY BOILERS are a great nuisance, and it is fat easier to prevent one from becoming rusty than to cleanse it after the evil has been done. When a furnace is in regular use daily, as in large farm- houses and dairies where a constant supply of hot water is required, it seldom happens that the boiler becomes rusty at all, for the,simple reason tJlat the water is not allowed to lie long enough to form a film at .the sides, and thus to sow the seed, as it -wemi of the patch which will henceforth continue to ?pi«;id! But in small places, where the boiler is only needed about once a week, the fatal mistake is ofletj com- mitted of allowing a little water to remain .at the bottom. This, as already stated, causes rust to begin at the edges, but whatjs still worse,as the watet shripks in volume, the rusty patch increases in size) and presently becomes so embedded in the jron that it cannot be got .rid of. All toilers should be wipedl thoroughly dry when they are done with if they are not in regular use, and rust will then bother no one. Some boilers are bad from,the first; these are best replaced at once before the linen is spoiled, i KITCHEN MUDDLES.—Many housekeepers find it necessary tq get into a" muddle" on baking days, or at almost any time when they do more cooking than usual. There are pots and pans everywhere the sink and every available chair and table are littered with knives, spoons, cups, and other utensils. So when the weary woman is through with her baking, her kitchen is in most discouraging disorder, and she must commence to put things to fi ghts. The dishes are hard to get clean, an the pans defy scrapihg and scouring, Now, bow much better it is to wash every, argele, so far, as possible, and put it away directly after it is used 1 If that cannot be done, they should be put into a big dish^pan ,fnil of water jmme^ diately after the contents have been removed, or after they are used. It will be found that any dish or pan is much easier cleaned then. No pans should be put back on the stove, or allowed to stand after usingj without first being filled with water. With but very little care, a kitchen need not be thrown into con-, fusion and disorder every time a cake is to be baked or some biscuits made. If everything is got into readiness before beginning to put the article together, there will be but very little trouble to clean up the place afterwards. DOOR STEPS.—The stones of a yard and door-steps frequently have a greenish look, which is very un- sightly. In order to, remove this, wash the stories with the following preparation: Half a pound of soda and tlb. of chloride of lime in 1 quart of boiling water. The greeness will gradually disap- pear. To BLANCH ALMONDS.—Pour boiling water on them and let them remain in until the skin may be taken off easily, then put the almonds into cold water to whiten them drain from the water, and wipe them. FIX OF SALT COD.-Put 21b. of salt cod ina basin" and cover it with quite boiling water; do this over night. In the morning throw away the water and put the cod in just enough milk and water, quite boiling, to cover it. Let it simmer slowly for 35 minutes, then take it up and let it get cold. Take off the skin and remove all the bones if there are any, and with a fork break it up in nice pieces. Well butter a pie- dish, and line it with slices of fried bacon, two onions chopped fine, a tablespoonful of finely-chopped parsley, a little lemon-thyme, and 1 pint of cooked, mussels., Put the ash, mueaete, and herbs ia layers in the pie-dish, with four hard-boiled eggs cut in quarters. Well season with pepper pour pint of milk, or the water from the mussels, over the fish j cover with a pie-crust or some nicely-mashed potatqea. Bake in a quick oven for half an hour. STSWBP RABBIT.-Well wash the rabbit in cold water, dry it, and cut it .in nice joints. > MeltaJump of dripping in a frying-pan, and fry the pieces of) rabbit to a nice brown all over. Cut up two large onions, two parsnips, two carrots, and fry these ai delicate brown. When fried, put them in a sauce-* pan, and lay the pieces of fried rabbit on tim vegetables. Put some boiling water in the frying- pan and let it boil to get all the glaze from the frying; pour this, well seaaonqd with pepper and salt, over the rabbit. A pint of water will be quite; enough, Cover close, and simmer for two hours. Thicken the gravy by mixing.a.tablespoonful of flour with a tablespoonful of vinegar quite smooth pour this into the saucepan, stirring well, boil for fivej minutes, turn into a hoL vegetable dish and sprinkle over a heaped teaspoonful of finely-chopped parsley, (PRESERVING FLOWSRS.—Some people are not aware that flowers will keep fresh much longer if the sterna are set in. a dish of sand than if they are plunged, Bimply into water. Put the flowers into a vase 8 usual, then carefully sift into the vase by means of a funnel. sufficient sand to fill it nearly to the top, shaking-it so that the sand will settle down amopa the stems. Gradually add water until it stands a very little above the top of the sand, and replenish, the water as often as needed.. To CLEAN GOATSKIN BUGS.—Goatskin rugs can be cleaned by rubbing them with a soft rag wet in naphtha. No gas enould be alight in the room when it is being done, and the rug should be hung in the air afterwards till the odour disappears. The task is best performed in the-open air, away from a' fire or artificial light of any sort. Too much stress cannot be laid on this point, for naphtha is terribly dangerous. SAYOURY BREAD PUDDING.—Pour boiling water over some "Staid bread; do thfs overnight, so that the bread, crust and all, may be well soaked. In the morning squeeze out every drop of water, and put the soaked bio0ad in a dry basin mix in a heaped table- spoonful of fihely-choped parsley, two oniors chopped fine, a teaspoonful of finely-powdered sage, two tablespoonfuls of flour, 2oz. of finely-ohoped suet, Or nice sweet dripping; season with pepper and salt, and one whole egg; mix well. Turn into a wellbuttered pie-dish, and bake for one hour and a half. This pudding can be eaten with a nicely-made parsley and butter sauce, or with roast pork. ROAST BEEF AND YORKSHIRE PUDDING.-Rout A piece of beef in the usual way, But about thitty-fivo minutes before it should be served sift one pint of flour with one and a half teaspoonfuls baking powder; add one teaspoonful salt, half ounce butter rub butter and flour together; add gradually one pint of milk and two beaten eggs. Mix all well together. Pour a few spoonfuls of the beef fat in a long, shallow tin pan brush it over the pan pour in the batter, place in a moderate oven, and bake from twenty-five to thirty minutes. In sorving lay the meat on a warm dish, cut the pucHing into square pieces and place around the meat. Pour a little of the beef jyravy over each piece and serve. RHUBARB, AND GINGER PUDDING.—Grease A pudding basin or plain mould, and line it with slices of breads Stew some rhubarb, with sugar to (aste" and a tea-1 spoonful of powdered ginger. While still hot, pouif tie stewed fruit on the bread, cover with a piece of bread, cut to siza of the top of the basin. Place a sauaer or small,plate on the top of the puddlpg, and press it. with a heavy weight. When cold, turd out and serve with a little plain custard. Lemon rind, chopped small, may be substituted for the ginger, if liked. JELLY ORANGES.—Cut AN orange in halves, remove the pulp and juice without marring the peel, and fill each half even to the edge with orange jelly made with gelatine and the orange juice. Fit the halves together and serve an orange, to each person. This is a dainty dessert for guests. 1 To EBSTORE BLACK CRAPB.—Black crape may be freshened and made to look almost equal to new if treated in-the following way: Layover the ironing table a piece of black cambric or cloth of any kiiid, and pin the piece of crape smoothly through to the blanket, stretching it out to its original size. Wring another piece of black cambric out of water and lay it over the crape, patting it down with the palm Of the hand. Now take hot flatirons and pass them over the Wet cloth, letting them just touch the cloth, but allowing no pressure to come upon the crape. When the cloth -has become dry from the heat of the iron remove it, but let the crape remain pinned down until all the moisture has evaporated and it is perfectly dry. The crape will now feel and look like new.. A long veil can be renovated in this wa", making sure that the papt redressed come* under the. edve of. the wet cloth. PLATED articles should be carefully wiped dry after washing them, or else they will rust off or canker at the edges, where the silver first wears off; and on this skceouat, also, they should be cleaned as rarely, Pooibla,, w ALL Paper-May be Cleaned first by dusting it with a clean cloth, and then by gently rubbing it with a stale loaf of bread; the crumb surface should be cut smoothly, the dirty face of the bread being cut away from time to time. A NICE LITTLE DBSSSWT DISH.—Blanch 2oz. or 3oz. of good almonds, split them in half, lay them on a II baking tin with a very little fine salt sprinkled over WIS. Bake them in moderate oven till they turn a ba colmr. To be eaten oold..
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'.1 LITERARY EXTRACTS. j 11 •• J .J 0 t f. A FIVISKTION STORr.-rrrSome yeara ago I was ad- mitted to the demonstrations of a popular anatomist at University College, the subject of the day's experi- ment being the localisation of the functions of the brain of the monkey. I found the professor in hit study preparing for the afternoon class. He bad a chloroformed monkey in his hands of the Macaque species. Having carefully skinned one side of its head, he'began chipping away its skull with a pair of pincers. The chips of bone flew all over the room, and. one of them nearly caught me in the eye. My heart bled for the poor monkey, which, nevertheless, I knew to be wholly insensible. a<Jt'on of the brain under the electric us stimulus had been exhibited to the students the pooi animal was brought back into the study to be des- patched. It was still under chloroform. It looked like a tiny wizened old man and its poor little face w^as So pale, so' ill, so human, that I could not represp a shudder at the sight. Stab it," said the professor in his matter-of-fact way to an assistant; and as tb, latter took a dagger and plunged it into the monkey's heart, I felt for the moment as if murder were being done. Why ? Because of the wretched animal's human likeness. That and that only! Had the professor's assistant killed a flea or a fly to order, my withers would have been unwrung.—J. F. Nisbet, in the Idler. DRAWBACKS WHICH EMBITTER ROYAL -,Livxs. As happy as a king ia a saying which aptly illustrates the popular idea, of the enviable position formerly occupied by royalty. Once upon atime kings could do no wrong. Governing with delightful, despotic irresponsibility, they found no caprice too costly or too cruel for their gratification. They waged war, rnade^ peace, levied tares, removed their Subjects' or wives' heads, bestoived honours, arid even betrayed their country for foreign gold—simply obeying the dictates of their sweet will and truly royal pleasure. The king ordains it was a formula seldom re- sisted. But we hav6 changed all this. Most rulers are now controlled by that trinity of powers—parliament, premier, and press. These all teach him-b* varying methods, but with touching unanimity that the paramount duty of a ruler is to obey his people. Thus the position of emperor, king or dueen is becom- ing decidedly irksome. Many monarens only consent to occupy their thrones from a strong dense of duty. Several have resigned, realised their property, and sought solace for their sorrows in Paris, Italy, or else- where. Thrones are frequently seen going a-begging. The Spanish crown was hawked about until it was accepted by an Italian Prince, who, after wearing it for about two years, abdicated and fled from Madrid in disgust. The crown of Greece was offered to: several princes before it was accepted by the present, king; who has since yearned to transfer it to his soil, so heavy has he found the burden,- so sharp its thorns, Tormented by a turbulent, quarrelsome people, an empty treasury, harassing family cares, and a ministry which does not always minister to his personal comfort or dignity, King George must often sigh for the comparative comfort and quietude'of tne uanisn oourt, where he was nurtured. Monarchs are selected as targets by all the anarchists, nihilists religious maniac?, and other cranks, whose imaginary grievances have turned their brains. During the present century twenty rulers: czars, sultans, queens,. and presidents, have been assassinated. Most reign- ing sovereigns have been shot at several times. Thus in their movements they are constantly shadowed by detectives, whose presence is not always hgreeable., Royal personages have often suffered from the care-i lessness of servants or the baleful effects Of a too! rigorous educational system. The injury to the German Emperor's film was caused by si carelees, nursemaid Who let him fall. The unsatisfactory state of the Kaiser's health is attributed to the: manner in which he was educated. In his early child- hood he had a tutor, a captain in the Guards, who applied to him the principle on which he had trained' his recruits: "Bead or break." The young Prinde was made to rise at 5.30 a.m. every day, and to com- mence immediately a course of gymnastic exercisès: and abstruse Studies too advanced for a mere child. To this Spartan rigime is attributed that nervous,* YIM restless, excitable temperament which has led the Emperor to astonish the world by so many pyrotechnic displays rhetorical, diplomatic, and telegraphic. Can it be that the feverish, furious zeal with which he has thrown himself into State affairs was only a plucky effort to banish from his mind the horrible spectre J of some approaching mental malady with which he knows his family blood is tainted? Again, what more tragical than the record of the Empress Eugenie's life P During long years she was the Bpoilt darling of- fortune for her the triumphs of imperial power, personal beauty and fascination, which attracted universal admiration. Admired and courted, by the proudest monarchs of Europe, she was the fountain of all honours, the medium of all favours. Her life was a constant round of pleasure; Suddenly her star paled. Successively she witnessed the rout of the Imperial armies, the downfall of the Empire, the captivity of the Emperor. She, the Regent of France, fled from her palace at the peril of her life, detbroned, execrated by a fickle people. Sueceedibg; years robbed her of her husband, her only child, her most faithful friends. She was exiled from the land over which she formerly ruled. Once she was threatened with arrest in the very gardens of the Tuileries-the scene of her former triumphf. Finally, there is the Czar of Russia. Physically weak, nervous in temperament, endowed with none of those qualities of will or that lust of power which en- able rulers to take a pleasurable pride in the work of government, he appears to be literally crashed by the overwhelming weightof his responsibilities. What could be more pathetic, more affecting, than that scene in the Council Chamber, when tormented bV the rival claims of interested advisers, he complete y broke dpwir, burst into tears, and exclaimed—"Do what you will: I am powerless!" The conditions under which he lives-the constant apprehension of danger, the presence of spies and detectives wherever he goes, the jealousy of rival rainisters-all these things, reacting on a naturally weak constitution, de- prive him of that peace of mind without which all his splendid surroundings but a bitter mockery.— CasstU's Saturday Journal. I e GILLIES. —There art gillies and gillies. The halflin' callant" who carries a fishing basket for you from the hotel which leases a strip of water from the laird is described as a gillie by his master, and charged for as such in the bill; but he is as little like a gillid as a sardine is like a salmon. He is a makeshift, wbd probably earqs the best part of bis week's wages by marking in the billiard room. The genuine gillie must be sought for further, among the fastnesses of Lorn, Arisaig, or Braemar, where the forests are big enough to engage him in large numbers, not for the shooting season alone, but for the greater part of the year. You can never mistake him for anything else than he is. A sinewy, tanned, tobacco-smoking; whisky-drinking, Gaelic-speaking man, be may be seen „ at x morning banging about the offices of the "Big Hoose^ waiting for the day sprogramme from the „head keeper, and till the law of from the bead' keeper, and till the law of Forbes Mackenzie closes the village hostelry at tyn at night, be maybe heard, after the day's work is over, beating time with his heavy brogues to Celtic minstrelsy roared out in Gaelic lyric 50 Verses long. He is the gamekeeper's most precious ally; for hp knows the linns in which, for the time being, the salmon are thickest abd the corri in which the herd is browsing. He can see further with the naked eyp than Gapson with a binocular at least, he can more ■ quickly pick out the ruddy hide of the deer againsjt the purple heather on the distant brae; he can ighallo in' a voice to be heard from one end of p glen to another, or, at your elbow, "roar you pis gently as any sucking dove with a Mark, my lord, a ro^al!" ;'and he can gralioch a hind and paunch her in the time a citizen would take to get the first cut off a sirloin at luncheon. Further, he can eat like a" Gargantua, starve like a monk, and drink like ft fish;'not water, but undiluted whisky which affects him no more than tepid tea would.—Globe. > ■ (
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M"—" ——- j 7 • Tits Rector of Caister recently ascended the tower of his church, and took a fine Bcotcb collie with him. On reaching the summit, the animal bounded over the ramparts, taking an involuntary jump of over 80ft. It was' found unconscious at the foot of the towwt, but has since recovered, and is none the worse, not, a bone being broken. IT is a remarkable sign of the times that women should be growing so proficient in the use of the rifle. At a recent meeting held by the officers of the 2nd King's Own Scottish Borderers at Rawal Pindi a number of ladies shot, and Mrs. W. G. Nicholson carried off the first prize with a very fine score at both ranges, Mrs. MacLeilan taking the second prize. Mrs. Nicholson is also an expert golfer, and recently won the gold medal presented by Lady Lockhart to the Northern India Golf Club.
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J t SCIENCE NOTES. L .g ï ,) A CANAL, is now, in prpcesa of building that is reckonedM among the triumphs of modern engineer- ing. Its length -1s28 miles and its purpose is to dis- pose of the sewage of Chicago by ppuring it into the Mississippi Itiver. It if. estimated that the water from Michigan will flpw tlupugh this channel at the rate of 10,000 cubic feet per,second. It is said that; so much water will flow through with the sewage that there will be no danger to the health of the towns past which it flows. This is a great deal. to promite, but it is one of the conditions on which the. enter- prise is based. AMERICAN photographers now track the bighorn and the" grizzly" to his lair -in the wilds of the Rocky Mountains as the trappers used to do in the days of our Mayne Reidian boyhood; and one of them has even gone a step further in making his quarry photograph itself. The arrangement was devised, by Mr. Charles Hughes, of Red Bluff, California,, and his first photograph was taken of a. deer as it passed along a trail of the Coast Range. The camera and its flashlight are eonnected to a species of trigger which 19 the animal pulls as it follows the trail. The photo- graph as reproduced by our authority shows the startled look of the deer as the light flashed out in the dead of night. AT the Franklin-Furnace, in New Jersey, an Edison plant is being operated with magnets for extracting ore. The magnets are arranged in sets and occupy a length of about one mile, the ore passing this line, The magnets are arranged in tiers of five, the first or upper-ones are very weak, but^hey gradually increase until those -at the bottom we powerful. It is claimed that the first set 01 magnets will extract 62 per cent, of the oxide of iron; the second set takes up about 75 per cent., and in some cases 85 per cent. has been secured. The ore is ground very fine and the experiment has thus far proved a great success. -ANDREE'S former plan for reaching the North Pole by balloon has only (according to a writer in the Globe) been modified in detail. The balloon has been enlarged to a volume of 300 cubic metres by cutting it in two and inserting a ring of silk in the middle. Its form is now somewhat elliptical, and it loses little or no gas through the silk in a day, though last year it lost one or two cubic metres (or yards) in 24 hours. Enough gas will be made to keep the balloon filled for six weeks while waiting for a favourable wind. Andree hopes to be ready to start by June 20, and thus be able to stand by for a good wind up to the beginning of August. It has been objected that, the drag lines might catch in the ground; and an in- genious cutter for severing them at any point has been invented by Herr Torner. It consists of a cylindrical case, sliding on the line, and containing two sharp knives actuated by an explosion of gun- powder. Dr. Jaderin has also provided a nivasex- tant," or level sextant, by which observations can be taken in the oscillating car of the balloon. Dr. Nils Ekholm, who has backed out of the adventure, as he thinks it likely to fail. has been replaced by Mr. Traenckel, a civil engineer. AMONG the improvements in tires are those with coiled wire springs, surrounded with sections of cork. The idea of a cork tire is not new, neither dues it seem practical for long distance or hard riding. For nearby trips and perfectly smooth roads they might work ail right, but the cross-country rider who takes wheel-track and foot-path, as the case may be, coming in contact with broken stoner gravel, concrete and. whatnot, they appear somewhat faulty in the way of durability. The sharp edge of a stone will take a piece from corlc as quickly as a. knife, and a few long trips would make short work of one of these tires if much bad road were encountered. Take it all in all, it is likely that a good rubber tire will be found the cheapest and best in the long run. THE, electrical heating of the dynamo room and offices of the great bpilding for generating electricity from the water power of Niagara is doubtless the most important application of electricity to heating purposes in the world. The heaters are coils of iron wire through which an electric' current is parsed to generate, heat in:,the metal. These coils sire enclosed in a frame or box of sheet iron, with holes to allow the ai* tp circulate through the. hot coils. Some 700 horse, power of electric energy are thus consumed m I heating the dynamo room.and other parts of the generating station during cold weather. The dynamos I themselves give off much heat, and when two of them J are working, all the heaters in the dynamo room are not required., LAiuprDuEsszs, housekeepers and men who are par- ticular about the looks of their linen, have been more or less worried because they could not secure the high lustre and finish to their collars and cuffs. An American scientist has put his wits at work to pre- pare a compound that will give the desired finish without injury to the articles on which it is employed. The results of this research are herewith given: I Heat together 90 parts of spermaceti, 50 parts of gum arabic, 50 parts of borax, 120 parts of glycerine and 750 parts of rain or distilled water, with con- etant stirring until complete solution is achieved. Let cool and fill into suitable bottles, which must be thoroughly stoppered. Directions: Take one ounce of good starch and. add just enough cold water to make a paste, carefully rubbing with a spoon until all lumps are broken down. To one pint of boiling water add five tablespoonfuls of this liquid, pour the whole over the starch paste and boil not less than half an hour. These proportions are intended for- collars, cuffs and iflne shirt bosoms. For other articles less of the liquid is required." ALL plants, even in tropical countries, require a period of rest. Some repose in the rainy, others in the dry, and others again in the cold or in the hot season. Herr Johannsen, a Scandinavian, believes he can abridge this period by intensifying the sleep" with chloroform or ether. Bulbs or buds exposed to the vapours of these anaesthetics resume their period of activity sooner than those not so treated. It has also "been observed that the tubercules of orchids placed near warming pipes, and thus more completely dried, began to spring sooner than others kept in the ordinary way. THBBE is an ingenious but troublesome woodpecker, in Oregon, United States, which makes its larder in the telegraph poles. Like the ant of La Fontaine, it lays ina stock of acorns for the winter, and chooses- for the purpose the tops of cedar telegraph, poles., After pecking a hole in the wood the bird inserts the nut, and drives it home with strokes of, its beak until it is countersunk. Of course, the trunks of dead trees are also employed for the purpose. In Norway there is a wood-pecker which is deluded by the hutnming of telegraph polos, and thinking, there- is a, swarm of insects inside, bores the pole through: and through ;to reach them. ACCORDING to experiments made by tho testing machines in the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, the, tests of beams and timbers ordinarily made by. builders has been dangerously low. In their work they have taken small pieces of-, clear stuff aod estimated the strength of great timbers by these stripe. The large beams have been proven altogether too weak to bear the strain to which they were subjected. Under the allowed pressure they often splinter into fragments. THE Bahr Jouesuf, or caoal of Joseph, which, according to tradition, was built by the son of Jacob, is still in us&, after 4000 years of service, and the life of a fertile province of Egypt is dependent on it to- day. It takes its rise in the Nile at Assiout, and after running parallel with itior nearly 250 miles enters a pan and waters the province of Fayoum. In ancient times it created a large lak& in the Fayoum, and modified the climate of the surrounding district. Thia lake has disappeared, but tbe remains of irriga- tion works abound. '-I'
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f A nitass memorial plate is being placed in tho church at Simla by a number of friends of the late Sir William Ellis, who died last year at Naini Tal while in Command of the Bengal army. SOYJI: years ago an enterprising Boston entomologist had sent to him for examination ei few gipsy moths, and he accioentally allowed some half-dozen to escape. These increased and multiplied in an alarming fashion, and the moths spread over a certain locality, and therein wrought considerable damage; it has cost the State of Massachusetts quite £ 100,000 in the attempt to suppress them. It is eiaimated that it will take a good E25,000 per annum to keep the moths from travelling outsidk the am which they presently devastate.
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- WILLS AND BEQUESTS.
WILLS AND BEQUESTS. By his vilt, which bears date Jane 13, 1896, Mr. Henry Churchill, of Fern wood, Claphaiii-eoninloij, J.P., formerly a director of John H6well and Co. (Limited), of 3, St. Paurs-cburchyard, warehouseniah, wh'6 died on April 7 last, aged 82 years, appointed as executors his wife Mrs. Elizabeth Churchill, Mr. Edgar Hedley Howell, of 3, St. Paul's-cburch- yard, warehouseman, and Mr. Horatio John Adamson, of 3, St. Paul's-churchyard, warehouse- man, to the two last-named of whom he bequeathed for the executorship £100 each. Mr. Churchill had purchased annuities during his own life from the Imperial, Gresham, Equity and "Law Life, Liver- pool, London, and Globe, and North British and Mercantile Insurance Companies, and he bequeathed to Mrs. Churchill all unpaid portions of these annuities, the balance to his credit with his bankers, on current account and on open account, and his fur- niture, plate, pictures, and household effects. He devised also to Mrs. Churchill his freehold estate, Fernwood, Clapham, and be bequeathed to her brother, Thomas Woodyatt Cooper, of Brigbton- Btreet, 'Bristol,. £300; The testator bequeathed all his shares in John Howell and Co. (Limited) in trust to pay the income thereof to Mrs. Churchill during her lifetime, and after her death to transfer 150 shares to the- Clapham Pension Society, of Which he was a trustee; 150 shares to the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children, Soutkwark-bridge-road, of which he was a Vice-President; 150 shares to the British Orphan Asylum, Mackenzie-park, Slough, of which he was Vice-president, and 150 shares to the South American Missionary Society, Clifforètø-in-o. The £5 shares in John Howell and Co-. (Limited), with £4 each, paid up thereon are now quoted at about £9. each,-so that these chijntable bequests litle, at the present value- of the shares, equivalent to about E1350 each. Mr. Churchill bequeathed 100 shares to his godson, John Henry Titcomby of ?ckhaiu House, Balhatn 100 shares to- Gertrude itcomb; 300 shares to the Rev. Hubert Cu*tie, vicar of the Church' of the Ascension, Malwood-road, Balharn 150 shares to Edgar Hedley Howell, 3" St. Paura-churcbyard 100 shares to the- testator's god- son, Percy Howell, 100 shares to. John Horatio Adamson, 100 shares to Edmund; John Spi IX., of ivy House, Clapham-common, surgeon; 100 shases to Muriel Undine Newbon, only daughter of the, teata- tor's solicitor, Joseph Newbon, Doctor's-commoas, and 50 shares in trust for sale and- for distribution among such of the testator's serTaats>. including Robert Knight, as were in his service ab the tiaia of hiA death, and shall be in Mrs. Churchill's service at the time of her death. The late Mr. Churchill; whose personal estate has been valued at 2,ûG:4, left all the residue of his property to hia odeon. the- said John Henry Titcomb. The will (dated April 15, 13D6) of Me. Lewis Thomas, the well-known vocalist, of 65,. Highbury New-park, who died on January. 02: last,, has been proved by Mrs. Jane Thomas, the widow, and LewIs William Thomas, the son, two of the executors, the value of the personal estate being. £ 65;.444>. The tes- tator bequeaths JE500 and his household f-urnknre and effects to bis wife,.and she is to, receive during her widowhood the income of one moiety of his Great Western Rail way Stock; £ 200to his nopliewfj-edericlc William Thomas;. £ 100 each, to his- niece, Mary Ann Thomas, and,.hiii grea-niece-, Florence Thomas; E300 each to his. niece, Maria Secka4,, and James Shearman; and some small legacies. He specifically gives and devises a very large number of freehold, leasehold, and copyhold houses and premises and rent-charges in and about London to his two sons, and upon trust for his- wife and grandson, Lewis Davy Clitheroe Thomas.. The residue of bis property he leaves to his two sons, LewM William Thomas and Alfred James Thomas. The Scots confirmations under seal of the Commis- sariotof Linlithgow, of tb. trust disposition and, set- tlement (dated July 26.. 1884), with three codicils (dated August 25,1894, and April 29 and October 18', 1895); of Mr. Charles Watson Robertson, of -Craig- binning, Linlithgowshire, formerly a merchant in London and Rangoon, who died on March 22, at Nice, granted la, David Robertson, William Graham Reddie, Charles Gairdner, Charles Findlay, Per Wright Simev and John Mitchell Anderson, itie executors nominate, has just been resealed in London, the Taliie of the personal estate in England and Scqt- land being 950,504. The will (dated May 12, 1896) of Mr. Thomas ') Parry, of 79, Oxford-terrace, Hyde-park, who died on MInck. 9, was proved on May 13 by Miss Alice Kate Parry, the daughter, Thomas William Parry, the son, and George Hope Hewitt, the executors, the value of tbe personal estate being £ 30,897. The testator gives £100 each to his executors, £ 100 to his SOD" and his furniture and household effects between his three daughters. The residue of his real and personal estate he leaves to bis four children, Thomas William Parry, Jessie Ann Parry, Grace Sarah Parry, and Alice Kate Parry, in equal shares. The will of Harriette Livingston Baroness Solvyns, widow, of 36, Grosvenor-gardens, who died on April 18, was proved on May 18 by Edwin Freshfield, the sole executor, the value of the personal estate being £ 2873.—Illustrated London News.
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IKTERKSTING correspondence has been published m tbe Government Gazette of India regardmg the wrecx of tbe Warren Hastings. T^ Viceroy ^aoas on record therein hU high sense of the ifUr°Sr8ntriking0of the V«se?. Thi. will go some way to mitigate tie effect of the wpnmand admim* tered u» the for th* MJigation whi<& M [ to the wRCk.
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THE DIETARY OF CYCLISTS. Dr. Lucas Championniere, of Paris, who has devoted a good deal of attention to the medical aspects of cycling, expresses his opinion that 600 kilometres in 20 hours, the time in the Paris- Bordeaux contest, was not too much for a healthy and well-trained rider. Dr. Championniere gives the following details of Riviere and Cordang's methods during the Bordeaux-Paris race: "They did not eat food containing azo te, and they were right. But though they did not eat they drank enormous quantities of liquid to replace the liquid or weight lost by perspiration. They dra=k tea, beaf-tea, and milk. It is useless to fat during violent exercise, but it is important to drink, and if the body is rn good working order the only result of the effort is a de- crease in weight. The effect on animals is similar." This, remarks the British Medical Journal, is right as regards the quality of food required on a long distance contest. Whether such a race be harmful to an exceptional rider, properly trained or not, we do not yet know. Our own opinion is that it does no harm to the one man of exceptional physique, but is most harmful to the many who are improperly trained."
THE RESOURCES OF EGYPT.
THE RESOURCES OF EGYPT. The annual report on the working of the Egyptian Daira Sanieh has been issued- for the year 1896. Mr. Hamilton Lang, who has, unfortunately, been com- pelled to resign the post of British Controller, on account of ill-health, may be congratulated on having been able to affix bis signature before leaving Egypt to so satisfactory a statement of the position which that administration owes largely to his energy and abJhty. The profits of the Daira Sanieh in 1896, after paying all working expenses and taxes, amounted to RE423,618 and, after allowing for the interest paid to bondholders and the sum paid into the Caisse de la Dette Publique oa account of economies from the conversion of 1890, there was left a net surplus of £ E119,810. Bonds to the value of E12,700 were cancelled during the year 1896, and the total debt of the Daira Sanieh stood on Dec. 81 last at £ 6,631,600.
GALLANTRY AT SEA.
GALLANTRY AT SEA. The Committee of Lloyd's-have decided to be.to,. the silver medal of the Society of Lloyd's upon Second Officer Archibald Wilkie, and the bronze medal of the Society upon Third Officer H. J. Claridge and A.B.'s John Mair and Angelo Burner, of the British steam- ship Scottish Prince, as an honorary acknowledgment of their extraordinary exertions in contributing to the saving of life on the occasion of the loss of the American schooner Elisha. Gibbs on the 6th of March, 1896. The Scottish Prince sighted the Elisha Gibbs during very heavy weather in a sinking con- dition, and with great difficulty the steamer's cutter, manned by the men. above mentioned, sueeeeded in rescuing four men. In a second attempt to rescue the remainder of the crew the cutter was capsized, and her crew "barely escaped drowning. A lifeboat from the steamer succeeded in picking them up, and in rescuing the remainder-of the crew of the Elisha Gibbs.
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PROFESSOR EUlER GATES, of Washington claims to produce a perfect vacuum by filling an mfuaible test tube with a glass melting at low temperature. When the glass is melted he inverts the tube and draws some of it out by suction, thus creating a void in the tube, which be believes to be a true vacuum. THE treasurer of Charing Cross Hospital in London has received a donation of £1000 from the Dowager Lady Loder, for the endowment, in perpetuity, of a bed in memory of tb late Sir Robert Loder, for many years a member of the council, and a generous benefactor of the hospital. TUB good-service pension of E150 a year, for captains of tho Royal Navy, rendered vacant by the promotion- to. flag rank of Captain Day H. Bosanquet has been awarded to Captain Edward F. Jeffery. THE lamp which caused the recent fire at the Bazar de Ia. Cbarite, in Paris, was what is called the oxyetheria light, used when gas is not available. In it vapour of ber replaces the hydrogen in the oxy- hydrogen lime light. Unless care is taken, the reservoir containing the vapour of ether can be sur- charged, and on opening the stopcock and applying a match to light up, a flame a yard long may be pro- duced. It was probably in this way t hat the calamitous fire bt#an. In any case users of this light should take every precaution against having an excess of ether in the reservoir.. TBB officials of the London Cabdrivers Ira » Union have resued accounts with reference o t e late strike of privileged railway cabdrivers, in which it was stated that the total costof the <e». lasted eight months, was £ 20,000, £ 19,000 o„ which was subscribed by the street cabdrivers. A GREAT bicycle sto/v is told by the Isiz, A lady used to keep her bicycle in a cellar, slung from the ceiling with ropes. nlt a mouse naa down the ropes on an exploring Mpedition, and presently landed on the front wheel. His weigot caused. it to revolve, and the harder he strove to clambes up, to the top of the wheel the faster it went round. In. the morning. when a servant entered the c»31aj, a g&unt, grey animal, with haggard eyes and despair engraved on every feature, was found still making strenuous efforts to attain its object. The whsel was still spinning, and the cyclometer marked 28 miles. The lady still has the bicycle to prove the truth of the story. THK German Chancellor has ordered all .f officials to report their experiences of foot-aQ -m disease, especially in other ani^ls Imperial Office of Health, which is preparing work on tb$tubject,