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introduced as chairman, declared that the repeal Falcon sailed from St. John's on the 15th ult and of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, unaccompa- during her voyage experienced rough weather, nied by its substitution by another measure, would Her decks were swept by heavy seas, and the the final destruction of silver money as a burros, or Colorado donkeys, which were taken on measure of value and its reduction to token money, since gold alone could certainly not aftord a sufficient basis upon which the amount of the circu- call for dogs at Upernavik, on Lieutenant Pearv is accompanied in board were killed by the cold. As no Esquimaux dogs could be obtained at Hopedale, the vessel will at Unernavik. on the Greenland ijiv ii lating medium required by the people of the country coast. could safely rest.

Peary is his expedition by five other her latter There was a very large attendance at Wednesday 's sitting of the Convention, which again met under the presidency of General Warner. Mr. Dougherty, of Texas, introduced a resolution calling for the appointment of a committee to devise a method for averting the peril which now menaces the interests of the country. The president sternly discountenanced anything approaching inflammatory discussions. All the speakers referred to the prospects of severe times for the labourers next winter.

Senator Stewart spoke with deep emotion as he drew a picture of the ten thousand men with their wives ami families who would be starving before Christmas. The stores are men, his wife, and an elderly Philadelphian calculated to last the Among other items are 40 The suspension of more American banks was reported on Portland, Oregon, one at Covington, Indiana, one at Kantakee, Illinois, one woman. party for two year, barrels of flour, 32 of meal, 35 barrels and 32 cases of sugar, of tea, and of coffee. There are 40 barrels of kerosene oil. One of the objects of the expedition is to endeavour to solve the problem of the disappearance of John M.

Verhoef, the geologist, who was last seen on the morning of Aug. 11, 1892, just north of McCormick Bay. Another purpose is to determine the size of the archipelago which Lieutenant north of the mainland, and Peary found lying to survey the unknown survey pendence Bay coast between Inde and Cape Bismarck, the most au Claire, Wisconsin, one at Baraboo, Wisconsin, and one Akron, Ohio. The managers of the savings banks in New York and Brooklyn have also been induced to act by reason of the large number of withdrawals which have taken place during tho past few days. At a meeting of the presidents of a certain number of these institutions it was decided to recommend the trustees and lirectors of the banks represented to enforce the northern known point on the east).

The cabin in which the explorer and his wife will pass the winter is to be made of stone about a foot thick, lined on the inside with red flannel. The height will be only 7-Jft. from floor to roof. It is to be lighted by electricity, the engine of their little steam-launch running the dynamo, while the boiler of the launch will be utilised for cooking. They are taking with them a phonograph with about 100 rolls of music, and 300 blank rolls on which Lieutenant Poarey hopes to secure specimens of languages hitherto unknown to civilised oars.

They take with them many books and a sowinir-n-achine designed tor Bixty days' notice clause of the Savings Banks Act, fastening together the tough reindeer hides The resolution adopted provided that a full requirement of sixty days' notice should be enforced igainst withdrawals of BOOdols. or over. For lesser Hums it was recommended that a notice of only thirty days should be required 6 SS A horrible scene took place on Wednesday in Recent events on the Pamirs and on the borders of Siam supply a theme for a vigorous article by the Hon, Geo, 0 Curzon, M.P., on 44 India Auburn. Prison, at the execution of a man named Taylor, who was recently condemned to death for the murder of a fellow convict. After the prisoner between Two Fires," which appears in tho Nine- had been tied in tho special chair used for execu- teenth Century.

The situation, as ho describes it, tioit by electricity, and the current had been turned is certainly not one to be regarded without uneasi on, the foot-rest of the chair suddenly broke- This ness, for India is now open to attack by Russia caused the dynamo to give out, and consequently a upon its north-west and by France on its north second current could not be applied. Taylor began east borders, lie strongly advocates the mainfcen to breathe heavily, and was carried out into the aneo of buffor States, for if they ceased to exist there would be increased danger of friction, a large and permanent addition to frontier garrisons would bo corridor breathing and groaning, while his pulse continued to grow stronger, Tho doctors in attendance express the opinion that he was uncon- necessary, and a consequent scions after the first contact, which was of 1,700 IT olts strength and that afterwards his condition man suffering from a was analogous to that apoplexy. About an hour after this unsuccessful attempt Taylor was given a doso of morphine, am was again placed on the chair. A- current from a dynamo used for the city electric light was then pssed through his body, and this time death was icavy urain upon a straitened Exchequer, and upon an already sufficiently taxed native population. The Indo-China aspect of the question is dealt with by Mr.

C. Boulder. An article, My Stay in Catherine of humorous touches, entitled ighlands," is contributed by jauy Dauiermo Milnes-Gaskelh Tho writer gives us some interesting and entertaining glimpses of life at this season of the year in a shooting lodge on the borders of Caithness and Sutherland shires. sketches of the neonle of the sympathetic "word fish are often found in large numbers off Strath are evidently true to life of Connecticut, and during the present 0 reason tho waters have seemed fairly alive with them, the local fishermen spearing great numbers ivom the decks of their small sailing craft. One smack, as the result of a four cruise, brought to harbour last week sixteen sword fish.

an example of Highland ideas of what hospitality demands. Her ladyship was in tho habit of visiting a poor girl lying ill in one of the neighbouring hovels, when the mother would ask, Is there her Leddyship would lik' to have wi' a drap o' whiskio and I ken by what the gude man Then in a lower voice she would naethin averaging and the following story is aayaits bonnie told by her captain of a struggle for life between afdd, 44 And every reason we have to know that the oho of his crew, Henry Cheesebro, and a wounded 1 maddened sword fish: Cheesebro had The old minister of the am J. J. KJA. XX harpooned a big fish off Montreal Point, and after waiting the usual length of time got into a small boat to bring the apparently exhausted fish to the vesseL As soon as the man approached him and commenced hauling in the line the fish awoke from his torpor and started to battle for his life.

He began operations by Cheesebro's boat fashed oursels wi' thinking we some diving, on so as to the to spear urface. coming It was now too late for Cheesebro to retreat, and defenceless, in the frail cedar yawl, he awaited the onslaught. He was not long kept in. suspense. When the fish shot out of the water once more he drove his sword completely through the boat from side to side.

The sword entered the boat about three feet from the bow on the port side and came out through the thin plank on the starboard side. Cheesebro had retreated to the stern of the boat in time to avoid the thrust, and so escaped injury. His plight was now seen from the schooner, and the vessel made for the scene of conflict. By constant bailing Cheesebro kept his frail and disabled craft afloat until succour arrived. A blow on the head finally killed the fish, and relieved Cheesebro from his perilous situation.

The fish weighed 3781bs. The steamer Falcon, with Lieutenant Peary and the members of the American Polar Expedition on board, has arrived at Hopedale, Labrador. The speritt's pure and fmeo" parish dieVh and the new one was in danger of unpopularity by reason of having married a. wife from America. were nae that plaized at said Jean, the housekeeper at the Lodge, 6 for it might be hathenish bodie that wad be corn in' to settle among 9 This same Jean tells a pathetic story of Georgie Humphrey, who was accidentally shot, and had to be carried into the house of Lenna of the Black Rock.

44 What troubled Lenna inair than a else when she saw the lad was like to gae was jist that he could only speak English. She said to Angus in her ain tongue, 4 Jist on the brink of eternity and nae word of Gaelic to get to Sir Richard Temple, in an interesting article in the New Review on 44 The Silver Crisis in points out that the specie currency in India has not always been silver 11 The early gold coinage of India, not only in historic, but times almost prehistoric, was extremely fine and varied. In those days there were rich gold mines in the southern part of the mountain range near the Bombay coast, now known as the Nilgiri, the Wynaad, and parts of Mysore. These were worked out so far as the accessible veins of precious metals were concerned; the more deeply sunken veins perhaps remaining. But the working of the latter veins, though much attempted in late years, has never proved profitably successful on any considerable scale.

On the other hand, silver came in large quantities from Central Asia. In the earliest times gold was the principal metal among the Hindus, though what is known in modern times as a single standard was never well defined. When the Muhammadans came into power they greatly developed the silver coinage, though they retained the gold coinage. As time proceeded, the number and variety of coinages and of coins, both in gold and silver, became inconveniently great. So things went on till the British epoch, up to the year when by the celebrated regulation of that year the East India Company put an end to the legal currency of the multiform native coins within its In 181-15 silver was declared to be the only legal tondor; and, according to Sir Richard Temple, 44 this is the change which lies at the bottom of all the monetary trouble in reads well throughout.

Mr. Julian Corbett examines in some detail The Tragedy of Mr. Thomas Doughty," concluding firmly that that unfortunate gentleman was an emissary of Burleigh's to thwart Sir Francis Drake's raid into the South Sea, and justifying Burleigh in sending him, Mr. J. W.

Sherer, writing of Mr. James Thomason, 41 A Forgotten the Lieutenant Governor of tho North-West Provinces of India half a century back, tells a good story of a visit of a native Prince who claimed and was allowed the 44 hereditary- right to smoke in the presence of the Suzerain 44 Mr. Thomason was not to ask him to smoke, but was to send for his own hookah, and then tho Send for his own hookah 1 yes, that sounded easy, but the staff knew that Mr. Thomason had Goethe 's hatred of tobacco. 9 Pr i ce mi gh call fo ni and that its cloud could not be admitted within his ips without producing such qualms and distresses as were calculated to upset the decorum of an He was himself consulted and thought something might be effected with the assistance of tea.

There was, however, no possibility of making tea emit smoke of any sort. But to carry out his wishes, a spoonful of tea was put in just to weight a loose brown paper bag, and this bag, rendered rough at the edges, was found, when ignited, capable of producing a distinctly visiblo vapour Society was saved. Tho Prince arrived, and was duly seated with ceremony. The hookah of tho British power was brought in tho mouthpiece was grasped, and the' brown paper, surreptitiously set sufficiently. Tho Prince then com on nre, mmoi manded his pipe, and tho whole difficulty ended it had begun- -in smoke Xt tl 10 and from tho excellent and lively fiction of Corn hill Magazine, 44 With Edged Tools" A Florida Girl pleasant variety marks the Some curious phases of animal ex- istenco are brought under notice in 44 Night Life;" i i 66 Home Coming is light and the gossipy Character Note" is a clever piece of portraiture iJarly Meeting-houses is full of the into- 44 Some resting mutter relating to Nonconformity in Northumberland in the eighteenth century; and Portuguese Sketches throws a pleasant light upon men and things in that part oi le description of the 'English Illustrated there is jyacnung, poaching, and slumming, aB well careering 44 Bound the Underground" on an engine, and ih 44 Belvoir Castle" by a Duchciui.

Letters give most glimpses of a great personality, ana and Liz Mr. Giesing draws a strong picture of certain aspects of the life of 'Arry and 'Arriet. 4 -W 1 -LAJ -T "I I ft Some interesting 9 Drury Lane Theatre is not to come down after all. Sir Augustus Harris himself has said it, and if any one ought to know, surely he ought. There is little doubt that when in October, 1804, the present lease expires, a new lease will be granted by the Duke of Bedford direct to Sir Augustus, and Old Drury may be expected to stand where it is for many a long year.

All things considered, it is comforting to have the assurance that Drury Lane Theatre is not to go the way of Her Majesty's. Sir Augustus Harris and Mr. Henry Pettitt are busily preparing tho now drama that we are to see at Drury Lane in September. The action is to pass partly in Ireland, where there will be hunting and other excitements, and partly in London and up the river. Some time next year, after the pantomime, Eobineon Crusoe," has run its course, we are likely to see an elaborate production of speare's 44 Henry It is some fourteen years since Mr.

George Rignoid revived this play at Drury Lane, and about twenty-one since the late Charles Calvert's splendid production at the Prince's Theatre, Manchester, when the triumphal entry of.