Aberdeen Weekly Journal and General Advertiser for the North of Scotland from Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland • 3

THE AB1 WEEKLY WEDSmBAXt JTJEf 24, 1889 3 GENERAL NEWS. Mewoan Town Dkstrstsp bt a Watibbfoot. The Mexican town of Ohilapa, which Kes about 60 Sir E. British Ambassador at Berlin had an interview with Lard Salisbury on Thursday. Ten crow of the barque Cupido, whioh was abandoned at sea, bat been landed at New York.

his letter, in ewtnpany with another man, with wboas be appeared to be on tho moat cosSdential karma. 1 watched the pair until they left the place and went together to Johnson's hotel, where they remained, eon versing and writing energetically until about 8 after which they posted some letters and spent the remainder of the evening at a low cafe i Xhs Queen and Princsra Beatrice left Windsor Castle shortly after ten s.m. on Thursday for uaoorne, Pbwob Axbkbt Vrcrroa or Wales on Tbareday ononed Harrogate Baths Hospital and Convaieeoent Home, which baa been erected at a cost of 82,000. Last week Wilbelmina Allan, seven, was fouud drowned in a bot water pond at Bower Mill, Blins- W1 Sne had joto th ud tAimn ia tn in All Rnuoa IteuttvKaV STORIES FROM SCOTLAND YARD. SOME STRANGE TALES OF TO-DAY.

nc MAURICE MOSER, an iKwaoMR, Obukkal Intbsimatioh Bmaet-Mstrr, Gbbax Scotland Yajkb, AMP OUMNIOUro BT CHARLES P. RIDEAL, Author 0 TeoPLB Wa Mjwt," hcc, the mill, haa just transpired that the Duke of Sutherland, London Umivbhsiti Mahtiodiawdk. Of the 26 through his secretary (Mr Henry Wright), bas de-candidates who were examined at the Heriot-Watt olined to receive the deputation of the Town Council College last month, three have passed in honours, of Dornoch appointed some weeks ago to wait on hia 13 in the first, and three in tbe second class, htlo Grace in reference to certain portions of land witbin seven have failed. Among tbe soecessful candidates the burgh to which, it is asserted, the inhabitants of are: First Class James Crawford, Elgin; Wui. tne town have a right in terms of a decree of the A.

Crnden, Inverurie Archibald M'Callum, Fort- Court of Session, dated about 100 years back, in the Tbe title to be conferred on Lord Fife will be. tbat of tbe Duke ot Inverness, bnt it is said tbe Queen ia extremely anxious that Prinoe Henry of Batten berg abouid become Duke of Kent. Lord Salisbury goes to Windsor tbia week to confer with the Queen on the subject, "World." Rbal Ebtatb ik New Yobk. Tbs total valuation of real estate in New York city ii stated at 1,331,578.291 an increase over last year of 28,759,412 dola. The total valuation of personal property is 272,230,822 dole, or 21,637,270 dols.

more than that of 1888, ScrrosBD Captcbe op an Ekoushman Bkioands. One of the secretaries te tbe British Embassy at Constantinople baa disappeared near Bronasa, and fears are entertained tbat he haa been captured by brigands. The ambassador baa consequently sent Mr Adam Blaok, one of the dragomans, to make inquiry. A kakmsb at Angharanna, named Howard, on Wednesday lowered a lad named Wilson, in hu service, to the bottom of a well in order to recover some buckets. The lower portion of the lining of the wall oaved in, burying Wilson alive.

He bad evidently fallen into tbe water at the bottom of tbe well nod been drowned, as the body whoa recovered showed no sign of injury, A Cabnivorocs Tbods Those who make fkh and their habits a atudy will be pleased to bear of something new in reward to their food. The other day, while fishing in a streamlet in tbe Aberloui district, an angler caught a iron! of about a quartet of a pound in weight, and fouud it was about to swallow a young bird which it had in it mouth. The bird must have fallen from its neat. It waa only few daya old. A Pair oj Fbaudulint Skabbbbokbes.

Henry Crowther Bowman and Albert Thomas Bowman, stock and share brokers, were each at Manchester Assizes last week sentenced to five yearn' penal servitude for fraudulently converting to their own use moneys entrusted to them by clieata. To cover disastrous speculations they bad recourse to dishonest expedients, and lost 14,000, which was now due to 51 different persons. Great indignation and disgust are expressed ia Royal circles at the rumour which was in circulation, that the amount of the Qneen'a savings ia to be communicated to the Committee on Royal Grants. The Queen will not hear of such a thing, and it would be most' unreasonable to expect her to permit it. She tunst have saved very largely, for she baa had several smalt windfalls, besides the very large legacy of over 200,000 she got some years 8.20, The Prince Consort also saved, and left everything to tha Queen.

"World." Dynamite in Candles, Kioto, in Japsi, haa just been the scene of a dynamit outrage. A few weeks ago tbe Higashi Kongwanji, one of the most famous temples in the country, was restored, and among other presents sent to celebrate tbe restoration were GOO candles. Two days later one of these waa lighted, and aIdmmS immediately it eyplodad with aloud report, filling the building with smoke and flame. On examination it turned out tbat all tbe candlea were filled with dynamite. Fortunately the beautiful ceiling was not injured.

The Qneen takes the greatest interest in Princess Lady Suwieid is suffering from measlos, which of late had been very pemUeai in tbo West End of hooOoa. Niwoastlm Gu.D8TOrfus and Mb Fasnbll, At a meeting of the Newcastle Liberal Association on Thursday, a resolution waa nnanimonsly carried warmly approving of the action of Mr Parnell and tbe Irish Parliamentary representatives iu withdrsw- ing froB lho inquiry, TW TWr, Ti binds of the Duke of Sutherland, A Ssase Raob. An exciting adventure in which a big rattlesnake and Jesse Grigiby, of Grizzly Canyon, occupied tbe chief roles occurred a few days aqo near tbe home of tbe latter. Jei-te was strolling around the hills, when he stumbled upon a huge rattler tbat at once assumed hostilities, and striking at the intruder hia fangs became entangled in a leg of his trousers, and there he hung. About that time Jenao thought of some business he had at the hous, and being in something of a hurry, he started home on the double-quick without taking time to release bia Biiakeship.

It was a o'iobc race between Jesse and tho rattler. For one-half tbe distance the snake was in the lead, and the other half Josse would pull ahead, and thus they had it until the house and aosistance were reached, and there tha serpent was killed. It is quite safe to say that neither Jesse nor the snake ever made any better time over the same distance, Anothib Balloon Disastbr. The captain of a pilot boat reports that he saw a balloon adrift 150 miles east of Atlantio City, New Jersey. The oar was dragging iu tbe water.

Before tbe boat could reach it the gasbag with its tear tore aud floated away, and the car sank. Probably this explains the fate of the aeronaut Hogan, who ascended on Tuesday At noon from Brooklyn in Campbell's air ship, which, by mechanical devices, chiefly consisting of propellers wotking in various places, was to solve tbe problem of the ascending, descending, and steering of balloons. Hogan had ascended 400 times, and bad made 32 parachute jumps in 28 years. He ascended on this ocoaBlon without food or extra clotbinir, expecting only to be absent for a short time, and to ascend only to a moderate height. But at tbe instant of starting the apparatus broke, and a part fell to the ground.

The Aerial Kxhibition Association bas announced its plans for constructing an air ship of steel on Debausset's vacuum principle. It is to coat a quarter of a million dollars, and to have accommodation for 200 passengers and 50 tons freight. Ah Anoiest Abt. One of the oldest arts in the world is that of sewing. Bone needles have been found among the remains of tbe Swiss lake and in the caves of France and Gr at Britain, which were frequented by man during the Reindeer Age.

Some of these early needles were perforated in the middle, which was the thickest part, aud others were pierced at the larger end, A French cavern has yielded needles much superior to those of the ancient Gauls, and also tu the ivory needles of the modern F.Hquimaux, special skill having beeu applied to tbe boring of tbe eyes, whioh must have been done witb a fine flint drill, Tho Swiss lake-dwellers used linen thread or bark fibre for Bewintr, and made garments from woven fabrics of linen, aud bark, as well bb from the t-kins of animals. The cave people employed a thread made from split tendotist and perhaps strings of gut and the fineness of some of their needles Ijab suggested the probability that they performed some more delicate work than the sewing of skins. Baby-Farming ih Franco. Baby-farming, according to the statistics which M. Lede has recently put before the French Academy, does not answer in France.

Of 5319 children born at Paris and farmed out, or places en nourrice, in five different departments, 1241 legitimate children were given into the charge of women who under took to feed them on human milk 401 of the infants, none of whioh were more than a fortnight old when they were "exported." were taken back by their parents in the course of tbe first year. Of 1840 who remained in tha couutry 228 died. Besides these, 1487 legitimate children were farmed out to be brought up by tbe bottle 297 went back to their pareuts after a few months, and of the remaining 1190 bab es 525 died dutnii! the first year. Among the illegitimate littie exports the mortality is still greater, amounting to ever 35 per cent, of those fed on human milk, and to nearly 40 per cent, of those brought up by the bottle. With figures euch as these confrontiug them, scientists need no longer search for tbe unsatisfactory decrease of the population of Paris, A New Substitute for Glass.

The new translucent bubstsnce intended as a substitute lor glass has been satisfactorily adopted in some of the public buildings of Loudon, and various advantages are claimed for it, among these bein such a denree of pliancy that it may be bent backward and forward like leather and be subjected to very considerable tensile strain with impunity it is also almost as transparent as glass and of a pleat-ant amber colour, varying in shade from very light golden to pale brown. The basis of tbe material is a web of fine iron wire, with warp aud weft threads about one-twelfth inch apart, this being enclosed, like a fly in amber, in a sheet of translucent varnish, of which the base is linseed oil. There is no ream or gum in the varnish, and, once having become dry, it is capable of standing beat and damp without undergoing any change, neither hardening nor becoming sticky. Briefly, the manufacture is accomplished by dipping the aheeta edgewiie into deep tanks of varnish, and then allowing the coating whioh they thus receive to dry in a warm atmosphere. It requires somewhat more tban a dozen of these dips to briug the sheets to the required degree of thickness, and, when this has been accomplished, the material ia stored for sevoral weeks to thoroughly set, A Professional Tattoobr.A Hong Kong journal gives an account of a Japanese wbo nas lately set up that colony as a professional tattooer of pictures and designs on the body.

in a room, decorated with fans, hanging pictures, and scrolls, the visitor or patient is received. Id a conspicuous plaae is hung a notice in the following words: "I do not business if fuddled." Sample books are first produced for inspection and selection they are filled with coloured drawings ot dragons, birds, insects, and Bcenes comic and serious. At the bottom is written the cost of tattooing each, the pi ices 12s for three butterflies group for 20. The bin designs from the varying from about to an elaborate customer chooses pattern-books, the operator draws it on the part desired, and then witb a large bunob of neodles for the heavy black and a small one tor tbe fine lines the colours are punctured in. No blood is drawn, and the pain is very little.

A dragon, which would be tattooed for 4, would take five hours on account of the number of soales. The part is then treated with vaseline to allay the inflammation, and tn a day or two the skin would come off. After that the marks would be indelible. The Hong-Kone operator tattooed the arm of an English Prince, and iu Kioto was engaged for a whole month reproducing on the trunk and limbs of an English peer a series of scenes from Japanese history. For this he was paid about 10U.

Jtle nas also tattooed English ladies, and seems to be especially proud of one picture, which waa a tiny fan about the size of a halfpenny, on which was a complete landscape with figures well defined. His income from tattooing in Hong-Kong ia about 1200 per annum. Mb Hobslbt, R.A., on Cbinolinks and Dbess Iwpbovkbs. The Midsummer festi val of tbe College for Working Women, London, was held on Wednesday evening in the Maurice Hall, Mr G. Fitcb, LL.

I presided. It appears from the annual report for 1888 that the number of students in that year was 409. After some remarks by bir Owen Koberto, and pre sentation of prizes by Lady RobertB and Mrs West-lake. Mr J. C.

Horsley, K.A., addressed the students on dreBs-cutting, with which be said as a subject painter he hod had an immense deal to do all his life, either personally or through efficient aid. Amid freijnent langhter from the audience, he went on to say he did not see why sensible, well-educated women should not put their teet down and stamp out the atrocities of fashion. Crinolines and dress improvers were among tbe most atrocious things ever invented, xle wai bappy to say that his wife aud many IadieB of hie acquaintance never expended a halfpenny on crinoline. There werehorrible rumours that it was going to be revived, If such a design could be brought home to anyone, whether he lived in Fans or elsewhere, he ought to be hung higher tban waaHaman. (Langhter.) As to that dreadful thing called a dress improver, it was entirely again-1 nature.

It might be an exceedingly good thing for a woman with a Targe family to carry a full-grown child upon, or as a bracket for a lamp. He had hoped soon to see an end of it, bnt only the day before he Baw the most atrocious example that he ever met with in his life. He would not touch on that horror of horrors, a small waist, the eight of which always gave him a positive pain in the heart. (Langhter.) Nothing was more charming tban to see a well, reasonably dressed woman bot dress was intended to clothe form, not to ignore it, and the moment they aaw a fashion tbat was against natural form they may be Bure that it was wrong. (Cheers.) WiMruta.

When asking tar Cocoa tie carefnl tc avoid Koanas Cicoas sold as pure, whioh are adulterated with alkali. This may be detected by tbe dari colour awl tb losat ffbu a tha is freshly opensd. miles to tbo north-east of Acapnia), bas been pretty nearly effaced by a waterspout. The Ion of life most have boon great, bnl its precise extent ia not yet koown in New York at anyrate. The Phisicai Stbength ov Aubk)ans.

Mr William Blakie, a well-known American writer, baa cosre to the conclusion that the physical strength of Americans is declining. He says that a hundred years ago, or ess, tw per cent, or toe population tbe united States were iarmm(r, uuuwmr, aou nsumir. Now hardly 10 per cent, are engaged in those oo oupatioua. A Ssicvics a Coal Miss. During a mission hold at Pelsall the vicar and a missionary descended one of the deep coal pits aud beld a service, which was attended by over one hundred miners, who congregated together in the depths of the earth and sang with much heartiness When I survey the wondrous Cross." John Bmoht's Parrot.

The lata Mr Bright, it is well kuown, was very fond of animals. Among hia pets was a parrot, whioh freq uently was the of his journeys. On one occasion the cage, carefully inclosed iu wraps, stood on the platform at Roab.de.la Station, awaiting the train. A porter pioked it up, exclaiming, What's this He waa startled by hearing a voicB from the interior ot the package, "I'm Jnhu Bright's parrot Wohkn IN BDBl'LlOEa. Women have long taken part in church singing, but they have never yet worn any distinctive dress men ohoriatera do.

An attempt, however, has recently been made to introduce ao ecclesiastical vestment, and at a harvest festival in Yorkshire tbe new costume was seen for the first time. The uingera wore surpiioes of Scotch lawu with pleated backs, which in Bhape were not unlike an M. gown, while purple velvet caps similar to those worn by D.O.L.'s completed the attire. PitoiniHBD Visit op the Qcben to Ihklakd. Efforts are beiui; made to induce the lueen to open the new Science and Al Buildings in Dublin, which will lie completed early next year.

The Dublin Chamber ut Commerce and the Koyal Dublin Society are taking measures to have the matter brought before Her Majenty iu tbe hope that she will visit Ireland the ensuing spring, and it is understood that the Science and Art Department will also do what they can to attain this desirable object Tin Actress and tub GioAMfrre Box. Miss Graoie Wade is one of New York's pretty actreesef. She has now sprung into a no doubt deserved celebrity by bringing a suit against a cigarette firm for libel. This firm took a portrait of Miss Wade's ollsrming face, and attached it to the body of a skirtleas ballet dancer then turned the com lunation into a ohromngraph and gave it to thn public. Miss Wade uuyn that the face is hers, but Unit it is scandalous to rcpiesent her with so little drapery, and that she has never authorised any firm to uiisrepreeent her in thix style.

How to Tkli, Hsr Ana Girls of a martiugeablo affe do not like to tell bow old they are, but you can find out by followine the subjoined the young lady doing tbe fignrine leU her to put down the number of the month in wlroh she waa born, then to multiply it by 2, then to add 6, then to multiply it by '0, then to add her age, then to subtract 365, then (o add 115, then tell her to tell you the amount she has left. Tho two (inures to the right will tell you her age, and the remainder the month of her birth. For example, thn amount is she is '22 years old, and was born in the eighth month (August). Till! SllOHTIST SORNAMS IN TBI WoBLD. A merohatit appiarcd the other day before the Maire of Gagny, in the French department of Seino-et-Oie, to inform the functionary of the birth of a son.

During the registration the Maire asked the father what W6B the name of the mother. "Rose he replied. said the Moire how do you write the name with an ey, ai, or mi I With neither," the father answered with alone." It was only after the production of family doouments that the mac was able to convince his Worship that the surname of hia wife's family for generation- past had been written with the Bohtary letter B. It is probably the shortest surname iu the world. Mr J.

'Kelly's Carbsr. Justice Haunen showed an interesting ignorance as to Mr O'Kelly's journalistic work. But even outside of this there is hardly a more remarkable man in the Parnellite party. Frequently, when there ha been sinco the Fenian days hot, desperate work going on in tbe world, Mr O' Kelly has beeu in the thick of it. For a man of 44 he has passed through most varied and wonderful adventures.

He has fought iu the Franco-German war he has been a Fenian leader he has fought on the Mxioau border againt the Sioux Indians, who did their best to lift his scalp he fought in the Cuban insur taction and in spite of the vigilance of Sir Evelyn Baring and the Egyptian, authorities, he all but suoeeded in reaching the Mahdi. Two Bai.loonisto Misbino. An mronant and inventor, named Campbell, has been (says a New York telegram) for some time past at work upon a new kind of balloon, which he was confident would solve the vexed problem of aerial steering. A sample balloon was completed last week, and "it was piblioly announced that the inventor and Mr Hogan, a well known aeronaut, would R'oend and demonstrate practically its steering qualities. The asoent was made at noon on Tuesday, from Brooklyn, but when an attempt wiw made to uae tbe steering apparatus the rudder bvime detached and fell to the ground.

The balloon then became unmanageable, and drifted rapidly away a aonth-easterly direction. Nothing has since been heard of it, and it is foared that the occupants will naver again be aeen alive. GABriiss Parties fob trs Pooh. A lady in London suburb opens ner grounds in tne summer to garden parties of women or of work-girls from Bethnal Green and Whitecliapel. The girls find the garden full of surprises aud interest I did not know strawberries grew like that, said one, on finding them nestling near the ground and not hanging upon bushes, I wish I might sleep up here jnst one night, said another, not knowing that the some lady had a home olose by, to whioh she rect-ived ailing girls for a fortnight's holiday and rest she is 1 i Ir el ts have an invitation.

It was proposed to have a game at blind man's huff on the lawn, but this is objected to with a pathetic touch, Oh don'i lot us shut our eyes while wo have these trees and flowers to look at." That one word must have repaid the hostess for oil her trouble, only she is one that does not eoek repayment. Loud Woi.iii.T on "Drink. "Speaking the other evening at a gathering of the Murylebnne Temperance Federation, held at tbe Crawford Ilooms, Viscount Wolseley spoke well of the work done among those fn the army by temperance advocates and reformers. An army to be efficient) must have good soldiers, and the way to have good soldiers was to induce them to do without intoxicating drink. If there was orime there was liquor, and if there was liquor, there was crime, He had been at, the head of a regiment who did not take drinki and they performed their work better than others, and were healthy and strong, and there had been no punishments administered to tbeia for crime.

As to the amount of punishment in the unny, there was lees last year than previously, and it had thou gone on for some years continually diminishing. The idea of years gone by that men uinst have rum was absolutely wrong, and what was good for tbe army waa good fur all classes. No WmTiistt will affect the stiffness ot Linen dressed with Orlando Jokes' Cold Wats Starch. CuRioea Fact. AU Laundresses, in spite of keen competition, use OniiiKso Johxb' Cow Wathk Htaucji.

Orwsdo Joins' Colb Wats. Staooh has obtained Three Gold Medals and the Highest Awards wherever exhibited. The Boiider Gipsies ahd thb Bltthi Muxtonb. A Melroae correspondent writes i It waa recently stated that tbe great trial whioh is to settle the question of who are the heirs of the dead millionaire. Thomas H.

Blythe, had been fired for July. But delay and the law seem to be intimately associated in Amerma, It is now more than six years since Ulythe died, and the question involved in the division of his estate seems as far from solution almost as ever. There is likely to be further delay, principally on account of the death of two important personages connected with thecondnct of the case. It isannoonced by those who are interested in the case on behalf of a number of tbe Soottish claimants that the leading counsel for Mi.is Florence Blythe has died, and that Publio Administrator Roach is no more. Ho mamtold and intricate are tne details and important the issue that the successors of the two deceased gentlemen will require time to get thoroughly posted in the caso.

The claimants, of course, grow more and more impatient and less sanguine as to tbe result of tbe trial, and some are said to be willing to compromise on terms whioh soma time ago they would not have entertained. It iB said that two years ago Alice Edith Dickeraon, who claims as widow of tbe deceased millionaire, and in whose presence he died, was offered 250,000 dollars and payment of her attorney's cost if she would give i i lnira.1 AriviaArB. flli mint'tad the offer. The oirl --r, 1 Florence, now 16 Tears old, ia now staying at Oak. land with her grandfather Ferry.

GOOD MORNING I Have you used Soap? PEARS' SOAP for Toilet and Hnreery, espeelaUr preparer! for the delicate skfai ot Ladies and Children and ofcfcers ne i live to the weather, winter and summer. Prevents redness roughness, and chapping. Sold everywhere ia lars Scented Eahlats, la each trouller (onecentedh 6d. GOOD IIOBNIHG I Have joo used Oujat Soap Two boys ware drowned while bathing at Cardiff last weak. Pribo Qxoboig or Walk last Wednesday laid the foundation stone of tbo new Royal Naval School at Kltbam in presence of a distinguished company.

The Archbishop of Canterbury assisted at th. rwinnniiv Htdbophobia rEQU A Cat week Mary tomhw, atjed 70, residing at Adlineton, near Oborley died from hydrophobia, canned by oeing uicten ov a oat two inrams ago. The wound bealecl at tbe time, but the woman died in gnat agony after three days' illness. A Manckiutkii telegram states that Professor HigginB and an assistant earned Lennox made an aweut in a ballotm from Manchester last week. Biggins descended safely in a parachute though fell into a shallow pnol, but the balloon, collapsing, fell with Lennox, who waa instantaneously killed, Till EUfFBL TOWKK at us Tallkt, Ho who aacends the Filial Tower towards 2 p.m.

gets higher than those wbo go up earlier or later in tbe day, because then a temperature of 112 dec F. (SO is frequently reached, when the tower of 00 metres is as near as may be five inches higher than that, A Bot Strai a Bag or Gold. At Leeds Assizes last week George Pickles, aged nine sent to a reformatory for three years for stealiug a bag containing 100 from a shop where he was in the habit of delivering newspapers. The bag was on the counter, and was stolen while the shopkeeper wa engaged with a oustomer. The boy's mother was charged with receiving the money, whioh has not been fonnd, and iras sentenced to eight months' imprisonment.

Tub Gbsat Lottbbv Prim. Melohoir Farkae, the man who won half a million florins in thn lottery at Temenar, in Austria, baa been examined there by the Commission whioh was appointed to investigate into all the circumstances connected with the extraordinary event, It said that a most serious swindle waa discovered. He is detained in prison, and two of the lottery officials huve been dismissed. Disamtriouh Firs in London. About two o'olock last Wednosdav morning fire broke out at the International Hotel, Arundel Street, Coventry Street, and quickly spread throughout the ex- tenmve nreiinsei'.

A dozen fire-engines were soon upon the sK)t, but the fire raged for three hours, and was not subdued until the hotel was completely gutted. At one tune two hotels ndioimng the Inter natioual were seriously threatened, but, thanks to the etforts ot the firemen, escaped with slight damage. The total amount of damage is estimated at about 20,000, Mil OiUlJBKRLAIN OK TUB Staos. One venine last week Mr Chamberlain presided at banquet given at Whitehall Uooms to Mr and Mrs Kendal, prior to tbeir departure to America, Ii proposing the toast of the evening, Mr Chamberlain auid there competition between St Stephens and the legitimate drama. When the lireiolature con cerued itself with the dramatis profession, it did so in a spirit of criticism aud suspicion, Ihey had in stance Of that recently.

He condemned the state ments and arguments of moJern Puritans who thought tbe stage an ante-room to a warmer place, He considered the stage a great educational tiintru- meiit. During the evening Mrs Kendal waa presented with a magnificent diamoud star. Dkath Rath in Scotch Towns. The death-rate in eight principal towns of Sootland during the week ending with Saturday, tbe 13th July, 1889, was 1S'6 per thousand of estimated population, This rate is 2'fi above that for the cor. responding week of last year, but 2'7 below that for tbe previous week ot the present year.

I he lowest mm tali ty was recorded in Perth, 9'6 per thousand and the highest in Paisley, 233 per thousand. The mortality from the seven most familiar zymotic diseases was at the rate of S'6 per thousand, being 04 above that for last week. The deaths from bronohHiH, pneumonia, aud pleurisy amounted to 63, or 20 below tbe number tor the previous week. The mean temperoturo was bi'-'V, being i'7 below that for the week immediately preceding, and 0'4 below that for the corresponding week of 1888. In Aberdeen during tbe week there were 63 births, 39 deaths, and 14 marriages.

Bkttinq in Peancb. When the French Government in 1KS7 suppressed the book makers in favour of the pail mutuel or sweep stake system, working under Government oontrol, it was decided that 2 per osnt, ol all moneys collected on the suburban racecourses should be handed over to charitable objects, to be specified later by the authorities. Since then bookmakers have been allowed to return to the racecourses, while the pari mutuel has increased enormously in public favour. Tbe Minister of the Interior lias decided that two-thirds of the proceeds of the tax collected at Loniichampa, Auteuil, and Vincennesin 1887 and 1 888 are to be handed over to the Municipal Outdoor Relief Fond. Thi6 grant, amounting to S6.000 for 20 months, represents a sum of 2,700,000 which has changed hands dnrini? the same period on three racecourses alone, not including bookmaker's transactions nor private bets.

A Vkiit KBSIARKAM.1C StoiiT Of the remarkable stones of the members of onr Royal Family and English people which creep into French newspapers, the following from "Gil 13Ub" is about the best It is well known that in Knland there is a class of usurer that under the name of "pawnbroker" exercUes hia trade in perfect security. These men have clieuta among the highest people iu society within the United Kingdom. A short time ago one of the Royal Piinoea was obliged to have recourse to his pawnbroker for a loan. The time fixed for the repayment of the sum borrowed having expired, lie considered it his duty to remind his lioyal client respectfully of the terms of his agreement, but ilia ltittor haughtily refused to see him. That same evening a placard appeared in tbe usurer's shop as follows John Pawnbroker to H.K.H.

the Prince of X. The sum borrowed was repaid a few boars subsequently. 0. ToDAccoNiSTS OuMHKNOtiiu. Write for IllustraLni Rui.lu (Tree) How to Open llc-pcoUililv, 23 to I0J OutlUtisg Comp.tuy, hVooh Suaet, E.G.

Mamircr, 1L Myres. Daibtiku Nohth Walis. A most successful serieB of lectures on butteruiaking have been recently given by Mr Charles H. Valentine, of Ludlow, under the ampices of the BaDgor University College of North Wales at the Townhall, Pwllheli, on three consecutive Wednesdays, in connection with tbe South Carnarvonshire Society of Agricultural Eduo tion, under the presidency of Mr H. I.

Ullis-Hanney, J. P. The chair was occupied at the first lecture by Mr Owen Evans, and the subject was Introduction Selection of Breed Eeediuz and IVpntmifnc The Cow-house Milking The Dairy. Mr E. W.

Lluyd Edwards, pressed at the second leoti: re, the siibjeot being: "Milk, Cream, and their treatment in the dairy, with praotical illustrations on the most mudern systems of cream raising." The chair at the third lecture waa taiten by the Lord-Lieutenant, and the lecture treated on "Churning, showia? practically the must approved method of churning, working, undl aking the butter. Principal Keiohell, M.A., Professor Dohbie, D.Sc, M.A., and Mr Oadwalladr Davies, of the University College, also addressed thg meet ing. There was a very large attendance at all the lectures, and much interest was taken. The University College authorities have arranged similar oourues at other centres in North Wales. Mas S.

A. Au.bk's World's Hair Restorer never falls to restore (rrey hair to its youthful colour. It acts directly upon thurotsof the hair, in viyorating them, oleanses the scalp, rcniovinif d.uulrutl, rendering tlw hair sott, silky, and glossy, oriel disposint; it to remain in any deBircd position. It has hosts of male and female, young and old. Bold by Chemists and Perfumers.

SiioitMA'tEHB Dvino Our. Talking with an old-time shoe man concerning ecarotty of competent help in the shoe factories, he said, a contributor to the Boot and Shoe Trades Journal writes It is because there are oo few practical Biiocruakers nowadays, Of the old Bchool workmen who laboured in 'teamB' nt the factories ten or Gfteen years ago, 1 think it ia safe to say that not 5 per cent, are shoemaking now. Tbe abolition of team work drove them out of the factories, for few of them, compare tisely speaking, took held of the machines. They were too old for such new-fangled notions, and tbe young men stepped in and took their places. On Saturday there was many an old shoemaker labouring with pick and shove), or at Borne equally menial and poorly paid employment, while once in a while you will run across one in a shoe factory.

But tbe praotical Bhoemaker, tbe man who can cut, fit, sew, and finish a shoe, has had his day, and in hia place stand the various pieces of machinery, each operated undetgtanda hjB own pnrt( and nothing Th owtd 0f m0hinery in the shoe maun focturin business has been, perhaps, more rapid than tM of any oth FHL- Vnnon 1m fnat. mtMintf suueiune.or i awav to be replaced by an automaton in the shape of I a machine. Though you Rub! Hub I Bab! And you Scrub 1 Sorobl Scrub I You'll find tbat It's not In your power In tbe old -fashioned way To do ia a day What HUDSON'S Will do ho an hfrar I f3r Linen, Shirts. Collars, Sheets, Tjtirte dotha, keep a pood ooloar It washed rejpriarly with Hudson's Soap. A pure dry Soap in tine powder'.

Uuiisos'a leaves ao finaO. onantant la one of the snbnrws about two mile and a half sway. Johnson saw bis friead, wbo got "well on in drink, safe to bis apartment in tire Qoartier It.atmdnigbt,and went b0me. in neia mu.r.g pus on anmam kmdiy jmioea at my uiapoaai ov tue raris jfoiice, tor a r. ixmv main, uwy uru everything Hi tMir power to assist am- investigations, and proceeded to lie in wait for the friend rather thanMr Johnson himself.

About eleven o'clock he made bis appearance, and viaittd a firm of produce brokers in the commercial portion of the oity, and there held a leng conversation with some one respecting, as far as I oould learn, the shipment of some goods upon whioh transaction being apparently satisfactorily concluded, he took his departure, and joined Johnson at his hotel. This sort of thing went on almost daily for the greater part of a fortnight, and although I could all the wnue perceive that important negotiations worn being carried out, yet actually things appeared to get no forrarder." One feature nevertheless nttrraoted mv attention considerably, aud that was, instead of Johnson himself calling for the letters regularly at the post ofhoe, the friend or companion was entrusted with tbe duty, which ho carried out daily. They worked cautiously and oarofully together, with evidently the view of makinir a ooup of some kind, and one very noticeable foot was the increase of their Knglieh oocrepoarienoo, tbe oare of which they bestau to bs extremely anxious about. At this poriod I found it ucoeaaary to get still further help in tbe work, as the anxioty of watching waa beginning to tell upon me, and I waa getting fagged out. The extra assistance was granted to me, Btid I found it a very grateful relief.

The great point I had in view was, as at first, to try and secure some of the correspondence, and to discover its purport or intent, if "possible, without raising suspicion, I puzzled my brains very considerably, because the slightest thing would have put these men upon their guard, and frustrated all my endeavours. I at last hit upon the plan of contriving to (ret my assistant acquainted with Johnson's friend, which, after about week or so he did, having met him apparently accidentally and unauapentedly on several conseoutive mornings. Thay got oven further than this, and, what was more to the purpose, upon drinking terms, and pretty regularly the pair wout into a cafe together and had a quiet game of vingt er, utt. Ho well Hid my assistant arrange matters, that one day, by plying Johnson's companion with drink, drugged not a little a morning when three letters had been received by him at the post office he succeeded almost beyond hopo mnkioi'' the man irretrievably druuk, leaving him fast asleep in the cafe whilst he oacne out to inform me of the result. Wo went in together to thn sleeping individual, and in a vary few moments had tbe letters out of his pockets, opened by the aid of a jug of hot water brought to us by the copied in pencil in my note-book, refasteued, dried over a spirit lump, and replaced iu the drunken man's pocket, whom we left sleeping out hu dobimch.

The third and last letter we opened was one whioh even surprised me, although I had begun to tbink that something very unuenal was going on in the Fenian world, It waa worded after this fashion 85fiA Bishopsgate Street, E.G. Dear Send the stuff packed iu hollowed-out Bdgae loaves. In a very few seoonda I had wired Scotland Yard' asking them to keep a watch on S5tU Bi-hopegate Street, and described what I had discovered, and then waited the further development of matters, having caused a very careful watch to bo kept upon both of the men. Johnson was fnminir greatly at the delay of his companion iu not bringing his letters, aud when the fellow reeled into the hotel, atill sufferine from the effects of his intoxioatiou, some hours after, he was soundly and roundly abused by Johnson, who roughly took the letters from him, read them, and then packed him off to Ins apartments iu cab to get sober and come again to-morrow, Before anything further waa done, I deemed it advisable to take some action, and therefore paid visit to Johnson about ten o'clock in thn morning at the hotel. 1 sent in my name as Mr Chambers, from Brooklyn, U.S.A., whioh had tbe effect of bringing him at once into the smoke-room, where I was sitting alone waiting him.

In a very few minutes I explained who was, that I had been watching him and his companion for some weeks past, and that if he had any dynamite or "stuff to forward to London he bad better not end it oer iu sugar loaves, for it would fail to reach its destination besides this, 1 told htm that I felt convinced that 856a Bishopsgate Street was attracting the attention of some of my brother officers in London. I never saw a man look more dropped on in all my life he could hardlv rut-traiu his surprise and confusion, and never once fairly looking me in the face, he left the room without aaviui; a Binirle word. The next day he left Paris for America, taking his co-blackguard with htm, NEXT W1CEK aristocratic wuongdoeh CRAP S. Laziness rusts, but poverty, like acid, eats il. Of what ought a kite to be made 1 Of fly-paper.

When is a wife like a great-coas When her husband is wrapped up in her. When a man has tried everything, and tonna it will not answer, let him go where there is an eoho, and try that. The covetous person lives as if the world waa made altogether for him, and not he for the world to take in everything and part witn notttmg. Mealtime caller "When do you dine! rre- cocious little dauehter We always nave to wait till callers go. I'm getting awful hunsry.

Kequested to define the word "dentist bapnir anid He is man who pulls out other people's teetb to eret something for his own to bite. She' What do you think of this fad of having the hand photographed I' He "1 think a pretty girl can nave ner nauu taKen wimour, uuiug mi wio photographer Jt we were to choose the most appropriate Bymnoi of the the evanescent, the perishable, tbe decaying, tbe here to davand gone-to-morrow, perhaps it would be a pair ot boy boots. Wife Here are my new photographs, dear Don't you think they look just like me." Husband Yes, they resemble you strongly, but if the artist could have (riven them a more talkative expression about the mouth they would bo complete! They are too statuesque, as the critics say, Inquisitive man (to old man wtio always nangs around a blacksmith Bbop) "How is it I always find you loafing here Should thmk you would get tired of the place." Old man It is a little tedious, bnt you see I'm outof haltb. I'm just putting iu my time here to get iron in my system." A friend told Mr O'Flanmean the following anecdote oMcaac Bnrke Bethel, an old member of the Bar, who was ever ready to accept any mealB he could get, or tmke any fee that was oll'ered. On one occasion, when engaged in a proseoution, be said very poinpoUBly, "I appear for the Crown, my Lord.

Oftener for the half-crown," wliipared a wit, who knew Burke Betbel'a line of practice. Wifn "Augustus, do you know what time it was when you got in last night?" Husband "Nearly one o'olock, 1 think, It was after midnight, my dear, when I got through balancing my books. Well, well, this ia curious here's my hat under the chair I It must have fallen down." Wife "Probably." Husband "Where aro my boots'!" Wife On the hat-rack. Two younc ladies were sitting together in an omnibus. One of them was very pale and thin and seemed to be snflering.

At the next corner the invalid got up and left tbe vebiole. A gentleman wbo had been sitting opposite said to the remaining lady "Excuse me. 1 am a doctor. I perceive that your fiiend is an invalid." Yes," was the reply, she had a heart trouble." Probably an aneurism." 'No, a naval lieutenant." Mr Boodle wae lolling in an indolent way in an easy obair, and was monopolising the conversation. "Mv dear Mi'sb Smyths, how very few young ladies know tbe slightest thine about cookincr.

Young wives build deatbdealingand stony, inrlexible bread, and then wonder in a mild sort of way that their huBbands shoald be dyspeptic Now, boido men are quite adepts in tbe culinary line. For instance, last summer when I was home, nrw.lr was niiifce ill for three days, ao I volim- teered to get up the meals. Now, what do yousuppoee waa tno principal nog i Jimmy, who happened to be in the room, piped up and said" un, kuow JUu Clara said so last night. Then ailenoe your panic. an won could hear it running into mo cistern, r.lr treated Jimmy to a frigid stare that froae his young caused him to retire precipitately to bis raotber with the startling intelliffence that he gueased Clara was going to havo aaothe of them fits aho looked bo queer." A Important discovery is announced in i the irii iriiraro of a valuable remedy for nervous debility, and kludred complaints.

The discovery 2ad bTmSSororj- in Old Mexico it raved him from rtosrabls existence ond an early grave. The Rev. HolruMTBIoomsbory Mansions, Ulooinslrary Square, London, wWSSUiptta, Ie of charge, on receipt ol SdrW stamped envelope. MeoUoa tods payer. William David M.

Smart, Arbroath, Thb RieuitDr Wouss thak th Disbabr A new discovery has been made for the cure of neuralgia. It ia very simple, but tt is doubtful whether most people would not prefer the pain to the remedy. A bunch of freeh nettles boa to be procured, and tbe faca vigorously pricked with it until the neuralgia is removed. Tbe weak point seems to bu tbat there ia no limit to tbe duration of the application. A OitMitrBrty Sdicidbs.

There is a small cemetery for suicides only near Berlin, where are buried all those who commit snioide in or near tbe German capital, whnse remains are not claimed by relations or friends. Tbe rummer of burials in this small cemetery has been higher than ever before during the last week, when five graves were dug and duly filled with the "unknown dead." Starvbd Hbhsklp fob a Fine Fpmbral. After Catherine Keating, a widow of 70, of 41 Sophia Street, Poplar, was dead, her relatives found a purse of gold under her bed. The woman was very indigent, but her ater said sbe expected the money waa saved by deceased for her funeral. Dr Harvey deposed that the body was very badly nourished and very thin, the woman evidently thinking mure of her fnneral tban of her life.

Thb "Lcbii Pbovost or DuNtisa. Although the Lord-Advocate-tbe otber day refused to ooncede the title of Lord Provost to the Chief Maaistrate of Dundee, the Crown Office appears to have uo such objection, A Parliamentary paper just issued containing a list of all the ex oilioio Commissioners of Supply in various counties gives the Lord Provost of Dundee as one cf the tCoinmissionera for Forfarshire. Perhaps, now that the Dundee Harbour and Tajf Ferries Bill haa passed the third reading end is therefore Bfe from amendment, it may a)Bo be mentioned that the Lord Provost of Dundee" is also referred to therein. Loudon cor, AllISTOCBATIO Beggars in London. The neighbourhood of llelgravia, London, was roused after dinner the other night by a band of musicians and singers wbo along the streets sinking of various kinds, frm claftsia Italian melodies to nigger ditties, to the accompaniment of guitars aud mandolins, Only the few who were in the aeoret knew tbat the shabbily dressed party included the Marchioness of Bristol aim the Ladies Hervey, Miss Maxwell, Mr Walter Hervey, who collected from the passers by, and several other aristocrats.

They perforin only once a year, and the proceeds of tlio evemng's work go to tho Hospital Sunday i' unas A CcBioua Stokt Of British Mbdals. Tbs "Japan Mad" states that it was recently determined to break open a safe thot had stood closed for years in the British Legation at Tokio. tin key having been lost, Tbe deed was done, and in the safe were found the accounts of some of the Consulates, and a box of gold and nil ver medals which had been sent by tbe British Government for distribution among the Japanese wbo defended the Kritish Legation at Tokio against the attack mad on it in which tbe late Mr Laurence Uliphant was wounded on the 4th of July, 181)1. Those medals have been entirely forgotten for years, and the difficulty now is to find the men for whom they were intended. Tkk Stuabt Exhibition.

A geuera! meeting of the committee of this exhibition was held at the rooms of tbe Society of Antiquaries, Loudon, on Wednesday, the Karl of Ashburnham in the chair, to decide what should be done with the surplus receipts. The total balance, after the paying of all expenses, amounted to some 1800, which by the terms of the agreement was to be divided between the committees and tho proprietors of the New Gallery i bus a sum of about 900 remained to be disposed of by the committee. About 300 was awarded to various officials, who had given time and trouble to the preparation of the exhibition and on the motion of Lord Wharncliffe, seconded by Mr C. Magniae, it waa areed to divide the balanoe ot 600 anion? the national portrait galleries of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Dublin to receive 100 and tbe other two aboat 200 each. Thb Lord-Advocate.

Conservatives, both in Scotland and in Kugland, are greatly impressed witb the Bkill which Lord-Advocate Kobertson has exhibited in piloting both tho CJniversitie Bill and the Local Government Bill through the House of Commons. This impression is, doubtless, accountable for the report which has been in circulation in Kdinburgh for the past few days, to the effeot thst an abteinpt will be made to induce Mr Robertson to abandon a Scotch legal career for a British political one. If the attempt should be made and meet with success, I have not the smallest doubt that Mr Robertson would be offered Cabinet rank. Lord Lothian is not enamoured of the Scotch Secretaryship, since it has not brought bim a seat in the Cabinet, Bnt it may be doubted if Mr Kobertson, who seems morally certain of the reversion of the Lord Justice Generalship, will follow in the footsteps of Sir William Hsrcourt and Mr Henry Matthews. "British Weekly." A PaiaON Kbxfbb's NsayE, A shipmaster who has been very successful as warden iu mora than one penal institution told me that be once heard that a criminal confined under his control had said that he would kill the warden at the first opportunity.

Captain E. said nothing, but the next afternoon, when be had an hour's leisure, sent for the man. Bill," let us call bim, found the captain strapping his razor. "Ob, is that you 1" exclaimed the warden. Well, never mind, oau you shave The man replied that he had often shaved his companions, "All right, suppose I see what kind of a barber you are." With that he took a seat in his chair, handed the criminal a razor, and was shaved, Bill went faithfully through hie duty, and when he hud finished the captain said" They told me that you were watching for a chance to kill me, ao I thought I would irive as sood a one as you could ask for that WflB all." Bill alunk sheepishly away, and from thence the eapain had no firmer friend than the desperate criminal.

Ladt Abkbdksn and thb Donkei-3 The eoldeu hall of the People's Palace was full even to tbe galleries when Lord and Lady Aberdeen and their little daughter mounted the Uower-decorated platform and faced six long rows of the exhibitors of donkeys and ponies as toe annual snow. itwaaa most interetine ceremony. Some two hundred rough looking KaBt-enders, including a few ladies, marched up to the platform, and filed past the comely (Jouutes, who presented each of them with a beautiful certifi cate of merit some for pietty donkeys, some for rough donkeys, some for clean donkeys, and some for donkeys without aoara, and some lor doukeyswno had never heard an oath in their lives. You should have heard what is, we believe, called the "chiaokiua" that went on during all this. Lady Aberdeen said a pleasant word to each of the exhibitors, and return they pulled their forelocks and bowed.

One clean halted, and kissing the certificate btew the salute towards the Countess, although Lord Aberdeen looking hard at him all the time. There was a lot of speeohifying, and the climax was reaohed when a lovely donky, decorated witb many coloured rosettes, was led up on to tbe platform. It was a present to tbe Countess, whose little daughter was lifted on to its back amid the cheers ot the people. An Aibdbik Divobcb Oasib. Lord Trayner heard evidence in the Court of Session on Thursday iu an action of divorce at tbe instance of Aitnes Brown or Simpson, 3 Albers Place, Airdne, against James Simpson, sometime coalmaster, residing at 'A Albert Place, Airdrie, now in New Zealand or elsewhere.

Pursuer stated that she was married to defender on 7th February, 1861. Her husband was a colliery master in Airdrie, and there had been 12 children of the marriage, nine of whom are olive. In July, 1882, her husband told bar be waB goinu to Kimberley, Sonth Africa, to ace their son, and that be would bo back in a few months. Before he went away he gave her 80, but of this she had to expend 20 inpayment of accounts. From the 12th of July tbat year, when he left, abe had neither seen him nor received any money from bim, In August of that year she received a letter, but had no word from him since then.

Abont four months before he loft de fender sold his colliery for 3500, For Borne time before that he bad been given to drink. Since her husband's departure, pursuer's father had maintained hsr and the family. Further evidence was led to show tbat nothing was known of defender's wbere-aboots, and his relatives knew nothing of him. His Lordship said he had no difficulty abont tbe desertion, if the gentleman waa alive, Deeree, however, would not do auy harm, Deeree ol divoroe was pro nounced. DetmxrwBBH drank A Wealthy American Lady wbe only son far years was a slave to Intemperance, Mervaus Depression, and Exhausted Vitality, after seeding in vain for a care, and trying all known reroartJta, at last found a simple means that oured and saved him frocu a dnuikard's frrave.

Anyone soflerlcg or desiring to help others in this worthy cause, by sending a elf-jdireseed sUmrnd envelope to Mr James Holland, 25 Hart Street, High Botbom, London, Till reoeivt this inlorsuUloa, fm si Mento tttapapw. AN INTERCEPTED ORDER. A FENIAN KPISODK It haa been my lot, luok, experience, or whatever it might be teemed, to have bad to deal with, in roauy different ways, the doing of Feniaua, and a very large number of startling incidents oould I relate oj the cnaiitvuvres of the lawless individual composing this body, whioh for a great many years haa beld aueh a territfe away in the region of political mattere that 1 1 political matter can, which I doubt, pes aibly be associated with the ruffianism and black guardism exhibited by the gang who have banded taomeelve together under the flag of Feuianiwu. in my bumble opinion, take it that where wrong ie kuowu to enst, it is the bouuden duty of every law-abiding person who wishes bis country well to agitate by all tbe powers (legitimate ones, of oourse) to get that wrong righted but when that agitation ia taken advantage of by some of the off soourings of society, and made the excuae for the preaching of sedition, the prentice of the assassin's dagger and the dotard's dynamite, 1, with thousands of others, who on general principle sympathise with the sufferers of faulty losrifclatiou, or whatever it is, nay, with all emphasis, that there the line should be drawn, and the same energy which is displayed in the attompt to rectify tbe weaknesses of auy par ticular rystem should be ut once exerted to suppress, at any time, and at auy puce, and upon any occasion, an tendency to the cowardly lawlessness and the villainous prococdinsrs which have hitherto die tiugniahed the work of those who seek to undormino tbe constitution by the mam of gore and gunpowder. Nothing can possibly be more contemptible, nothing more brutal, nottiintr more loathsome, than tint under tho exousd of patriotism or the ems or politico.

innocent lives should be ruthlessly sacrificed, valuable property destroyed, and treason indulged in for the sate ol gratifying the lusts ot a tew a mere Handful at the most ot thtueoutcasta who, on any occasion neceasitatine the sinlhuc of blood and tbe apoliation of homes, seem always ready to come forward and take tbe dirty and horrible work in band. I do thoroughly believe this, and I am solemnly writing now with a personal knowledge and expert enco of a large number of Fenians, which include Stephen, Hvrnr, Tynan, Coleman, Mooney, and others of the so called, but wrongly-termed, "advanoed party," whom every honest man's gorge must, when these iniquitous proceedings aro remembered, rise at. that when the exact faota of the unpleasant matters nw before the country are elicited, no one more than true Irishmen themselves will regret that their beautiful country should have been the cause of so mnoii that is guilty and reprehensible. For obvious reasons I cannot enter more dearly into the whys and wherefores of the agitation, nor can I proceed to deal with any portion of the subject new undergoing inquiry indeed, at the present momeut I feel my elbow nadged by tbe eentieraan wba ia relating mv experiences, and who is looking at me with a look suggestive of repioot, which as plainly aa possible expresses, lion you think you nave gone quite far enouirh already and as my proper province in these columns ia to relate aud not to opinionate, I will take tj heart the warning glauoe, and proceed with my narration. I was in Paris at the time, watching on behalf of our Government a number of well known men who had taken part, more or less, in the various outrages which from time to time rijhtly formed tome of the most startling horrors this couutry has ever been fur nished with.

I had one man in particular to look after, and to whom I eave tbe bulk of my attention, as per instructions from the "Yard." He had recently arrived in Paris, having left London, fortun ately for himself, at a very short notice indeed, finding tbe police had just got upon bis track, and were within an ace of arresting mm. He, owing th temporary rupture of England's ertraditionary arrangements with France, was, of course, going x-twut visiting bis former chums in Paris without any cause for fear at all, feeling perfectly secure in the asylum which that city at that time afforded. JIb was a powertully built man, originally a mechanic, but oue of the most brutal-locking it has ever been my misfortune to come across, and had a very unwholesome pediureo. He was wanted for more tban one offence, and left England some years before the date of my re acquaintance with him to escape the hands of justice, and went to America. There be joined thn O'Donovan Koasa party, and after a time was despatched by that gang to visit this country again, 'to carry out certain infamous transactions winch I should not be wise in making known here.

We will call this man Johnson." That was not his real name, but I have a special reason that it should not at present appear. What Johnson did at Paris, and how he conduoted and occupied himself during his residence there, are told in a very few words. He did just what his fellow-sonspirators did, engajeil in all the devilish work he could possibly place his hand in, order to carry out the infernal schemes be had in contemplation. Personally baffled by the Kngliah authorities, he sought by every means in his power the opportunity of corresponding with those he had left behind, in the hope that, after all this, effect might be eivui to his plans. I followed him about in various disguises, and took a great amount of trouble to keep myself thoroughly au fait with his movements, and, after about three weeks' close observation, made the discovety that he was engaged in a correspondence, a pretty voluminous one, with some one in London, letters being received by him, care of Post Eoitante," pretty frequently, and how to intercept thwie communications, and to make myself acquainted with exactly what was going on, waa not a very easy matter.

One day, however, I made bold enough to go to the post office, and oak, in French of course, for Mr Johnson's letters. The official in charge of the particular department stored at me when I made the request, and remarked, Why, you are not Mr Johnson," This waa rather a staggerer for me, and I felt a little foolish, but, however, managed to blurt out, with all the coolness I had at my command. "No; Mr Johnson is not very well today, and has sent roe for his letters." Kyeini? me still more closely, the official handed mo no leas than five communications, all bearing the London post mark, upon which I rather eagerly. made for the door, feel-iui; hiebly gratified with my success, when, to my eurpriee and horror, who ahonld I meet face to face but Johnson himself. Of course he did not in tbe least know who I was, bat all the same it flabbergasted me not a little, tbe suddenness and unexpectedness of bi appearance taking lae quite unawares, particularly as knowinr bim to be a desperate character, who had proved himself a very tough one to tackle on more than one occasion and would stick at nothiner to achieve any particular onds be might have in view a great hulking fellow who could easily have twisted me up almost into knots had he chosen to do so yet here I was, brought right into the very teeth of this huge unmerciful brute, perfectly unarmed, not even walkingstick with me, with liis letters actually in my hands, but which, on bis appearance, I bad managed to turn tbe addresses of downwards, bo that they tnieht not attract his attention.

Iu less than half a thought I grasped tbe situation, and quickly recovering myself from tbe khook which the unanticipated sight of Johnson caused, I turned round and hastily went back to the official who supplied them to me, and throwing thelecters down upon the counter, remarked iu a tone simulating anger, Theae are not the letters I want." "Well, whose do you wantt" said the man. "I want the letters addressed to Mr lCdward Jehuson. These are addressed to James Johnson," "We, have none for any one of that name," surlily replied the olioial. Then, catchini' sight of Johmon, who by that time bad himself got up to the counter, ami remarking balf apologetically, as be banded tbe letters to that worthy These must be for you, sir." "Yes," Erowled Johnson, takiae them up, and, with a most (uiziical searcbinz (fiance at me. whioh 1 managed to bear very well, having thoroughly made up my mind an to the part I should play.

remarked, "When you come for letters for your master, young man, you should be sure that you get the right one before you leave the counter, I begged hia pardon the best French I could command, raised my hat, and went away, not altogether pleased or displeased with the result of my work bo far, but extremely triad that I had not aroused his suspicions. I rushed to my lodging, put on a fresh disguise, aud in balf-an-bour or so after he occurrence I have jnst related waa sitting in tbe Ame cafe aa Johnson, wbo bad gone there to peruse Louise of Wales's marriage, and all the arrangements for the ceremony she has superintended with great care. The chapel at Buckingham Palace is very rarely used the last marriage which took place there waa the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg's, Princeca Louise of Wales was christened in tbe chapel, and so was one of Princess Christian's children. But in order to have the marriage celebrated with as little state and as much economy as possible, it was arranged to take place in tbe Palace, the Prineets also wishing it herself for had it been celebrated in any other church, it must have been on a much grander and more imposing scale," World." Cdbioub Action of Pcttiko.to Siknob. In the Court of Session on Tuesday, Lord Wellwood heard evidence in two actions between Mrs Louisa Prosser, or Gasper, or Davidson, or Watson, 39 Dunmore Street, Glasgow, and Alfred Charles Watson, cigar merchant, 90 Argyle Street, there.

In the first action the female pursuer craved reduction of an agreement datod ia Marcs, 1883, which bears, inter alia, that the parties had for some time past been residing at 41 Cumberland Street, Glasgow, in concubinage, and that they had mutually agreed to terminate tbat connection, of which connection there had been bom a female child. Whether this agreement were reduoed or not she asked tbe Court to declare that she and Watson are married persons, and to ordain him to adhere to her as his lawful wife. Otherwise, in the event of its being found that the pursuer waa not married to the defender, she claimed 1000 iu name of damages for alleged breach of promise and seduction, Watson resisted the notion, and contended that pursuer was his mistress, and tbat he broke off tbe relationship in the beginning of last year on account of her drunken habits, Bemg desirous, however, of making provision for hia daughter, he employed a law agent to offer her an allowance. Tbe pursuer was aaid to have signed the agreement deliberately, and in full knowledge of its contents and meaning. In a counter-action Watson asked declarator that he ia a free and unmarried person, and tbat DavidRon should be pat to perpetual silence thereauent in all time coming.

In answer to thisit was pleaded that she being tbe pursuer's reputed wife the notion was untenable. After proof as to the relationship between the parties Lord Kinnear assoilzied Watsan on the ground that parties had been living in a state of concubinage, and in the counter-action granted decree of putting to silence. A Scotsman Rodbsd op 1900 in Writing on July 13, a correspondent says A Scotsman from Glasgow, who holds an important position as a marine engineer in the Arsenal of Venice, has jnst been robbed of 1000 sterling. When he and his family were at church last Sunday morning, thieves entered bis bonne and committed the theft. Admission bad evidently been gained by means of false keys, as the doors were found locked by the family exactly aa they had left them.

Evidently knowing that the family would not return before a certain hour, the thieves had acted very deliberately and coolly. They ransacked the whole house, opening all bags and boxes, and turning out all clothes found, in order to search the pockets. In this way they secured 20 or 30 in Italian money, and deposit receipts on the British Linen Compay'a Bank, Edinburgh, for about 950 sterling. On the discovery of the robbery the bank was immediately communicated witb, and it is not likely tbat tbe receipts will prove of any use to the thieves, It is fortunate tbat the b'dk of the money was in that form. One or two articles of jewellery were also taken, although a gold watch banging on tbe wall was left, When they bad finished their work the thieves coolly refreshed themselves by taking eggs, which they bad taken time to eat before making off.

The Venice police are doing everything in their power to discover the thieves, but up till now without any success. This Scottish family baa been in Venice for nearly five years, and all its members are held in high esteem. The war vessel the Morosinic, tbe fitting up of the engines of which this Scottish engineer bas been superintending lately, is almost ready to leave the Arsenal, when he will proceed witb it to spezia, and remain on board of it for one year to guarantee tbe efficiency of the machinery, It is thought that the rubbers knew this fact, and tbat the family being ehna soon to leave Venice they carried out last Sunday a plan they may have formed some time before. This family, along with several others, were sent out to Venice by Elder in connection with whose firm they wrought in the Arsenal here, although lately this engineer has had direct connection with the Italian Government. fTEALTH, STRENGTH, ENERGY.

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