The Kingston Whig-Standard from Kingston, Ontario, Canada • 8

LOCAL BREVITIES. THEY WENT HOME EARLY MODERN SPIRITUALISM. itho form by a quick movement to ths left, THE GENERAL HOSPITAL. IS HANDSOMELY DEFENDED BY DR. FIFE FOWLER.

The Mud leal Vatedtotorteu Getting It all Around Dr. Malllvaa, Director of the Hospital, Sew'; bo Grounds for the Chargee Levelled at the InsUtattea. Tho monthly meeting of tho hoard of governors of the Kingston general hospital was held yesterday. Promt Dr. Strange, B.

M- Ittos, E. Chown, B. W. Robertson, E. J.

B. Prase, Dr. Sullivan and John Duff. Tenders were received for the hot water and oath service for the npper flats Jar. Baa-tow, $220 MoKelvey Birch, $220 N.

McNeil, The lost tender was accepted. A revised set of rales for nurse was reported from tha special oommittea, and Mr. Chown reported the ordering of a new range at a ooet of about $250. Tm contract for the rebuilding of tho laundry had been iven. The subjoined letter, received from 'r.

Fowler, Dean of tha Royal college, was ordered to be sent to tha prose with a request for publication i Kingston, April 80, 1887. To tho ohslrman and governors of Kingston General Hospital Gentlemen, In behalf of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons I beg leave responsibility foi to disclaim any tifiabla remarks made for thannjus- the hospital by Mr. James, at the recent eon vocation of Queen's university. The authorities of tho medical college are not consulted oa the appointment of valediotorian, and feel grieved that he should have spoken so offensively. about, tha hospital From my long oonneetiaa with the hospital 1 can bear testimony to tha untiring seal manifested by the governors in raising It to its present high state of efficiency.

I hsvu no hesitation In saying that I have found, on all occasions, the governors ready to furnish any medicines and appliances I considered Decenary toe ths comfort of the patients and for the treatment of their ailments. I trust tha governors will look upon that part of Mr. James address having reference to tha hospital se eimply arising from thoughtlessness. I have tha honor to be, yours faithfully, Fin Fowlxu, president R. C.

P. A 8. Dr. Sullivan added verbally that as one of the faculty he had personally stated to the vaiediotorioa the grave errors he had made, and would publicly have dons so had he been st convocation. He had every reaeon to endorse Dr.

Fowler's remarks, In reply to queries he stated that with tha instruments lately purchased the hospital was suffidratly well supplied the reoent shortage was probably due, as charged, to unauthorised loans to students. Bring shown the aooounta for medicines, especially that of $60 for April he could not era how any charge eoulu poaaibly bo made against tha medicines. The auoounta for talua supplies were proof of a first-class table. Ths students fete for the session just closed were $00 for eeaoion previous $360. A proposition for change of X6M wm placed in Dr.

Sullivan's hands to lay. before tha college board. Tq the proposal that Mr. James, valediotorianJje invited to give evidence of particulars at tho board regarding his charges, it woe stated that ha had left the city. Like a brave aoldier he had fired -and retired.

titi Dr. Hooper, whq has just returned from a two weeks tour through tho New York hospitals, takes chugs of the institution on Saturday, Miss Hall ie on narsing duty st Toronto sri Miss O'Hara at Ottawa. FRIGHFULLY HOT TIME THE FEATS At THE OPERA HOUSE FULLY EXPLAINED. Letting la a Little Daylight A Spiritualist Maya the Work of Hiss Fay Partakes of tko Nature of Legerdemain John W. Truosdell Tells What He Knows About tho Fay.

Kingston, May 2. (To the Hklitor) I wae at the opera nouse on Saturday evening sad I sympathised fully with Mr. Donnelly, when he rose to say that the rapping of the hand waa produced by electricity, the' battery in the wing being connected with the hand for a wire quite invisible to the naked eye and yet plainly to bo seen through powerful glosses such as those with which Mr. Donnelly had armed himself. Did you read "Spirtnalism bottom foots, by J.

W. Trueadell, of New York. Perhaps you hove but if notlsend it to you so that you can, by the Uluatrations it supplies, see just how many of Mdlla Fays "tricks are accomplished. Mdlle. Fay hss for years been before the people, and so has her assistant mediums, the ohkf one being C.

Brad-don, alicu H. MellevUle Fay, whose advertised feats are truly wonderful The hand Mils sent about the city here I did not see, but in New York, months ago, and before ths exposure of the methods, these peculiar people were announced to do startling things, to wit "While the medium is raised from hie st and floating in midair the many spirit forms that appear arunnd her are wonderful and seen by all present They stand beside a convene with yon aa in life, and shake i with their friends. These are genuine mediums endorsed by ths press sudtiie Spirit hands and fairies are plainly seen and recognised for their friends A guitar is played and pawed around the room by the invisible power. Flowers are brought and passed to the audience by hands plainly seen. Bells are rang, harps are played, and other teats of a startling nature tone place in the pretence of the wonderful audiences.

A large piano rises dear from the floor, and is played upon without a living soul touching ft. And many spirit forma that appear upon tho stage sometimes sight or ten st time-roof positive efthe genuineness of these urns. They bare been three years developing for the purpose of demonstrating the nets of spirit power in full And much mote to the same offset. The handbills are one thing, and the practical experiences in connection with the performances another. The Faye never yet gave what they advertised, and they never will, simply because they cant.

In New York, as in Kinsston, the medium was supposed to be tied for com mitteemen the elderly ones preferred with cotton- bandages one and half inches wide by half yard in length. Usually the tie is a plain double square knot, and as an evidence that they are intended to be permanent, the committee are requested to sow tlia knots through and through, which they do nntil fully satisfied that they are secure. The medium now places her hands behind her, and so clasping them that her wrists are but six inches apart, and politely requests a committeeman to tie the ends of tho bandages together. After this has been accomplished the dangling extremities ate cut off, leaving the medium firmly bound, with a short ligature between her wrists. The assistant now passes another cloth bandage about this ligature, in the centte of -which ho ties a plain double square knot.

Inviting the oommfttee-men to tie severad additional knots, which they sometimes dai (See illustration in the book.) The medium is now seated upon a stool in tho cabinet, facing the audience, with her back dose to a wooden stanchion which has been fastened to the floor. Tho ends of the cotton bandage an secured to a ring attached by staple to the stanchion at a point just above the stool on which shs is seated. A cotton bandage is then tied around the mediums neck, the ends of which are fastened to a screw eye, affixed to tho stanchion, in order to seenro her head. Her feet are then fastened together by means of cord passing around the ankles, the long end of which is carried outside of the cabinet, to be held by one of the committee. The curtain is then drawn and bells are rang, a month oroan blown, a glass of water is placed to her lips and held between her teeth, which you will no doubt describe in your report -The point yon may not make, because not aa familiar as soma with spiritualism, is just this i That everything done inside the cabinet is the work of Miss Fay, whose arms are long, and who has sufficient play on the bottom bandage to twist around ana lift things off her -lap and even knock the pail off tna committee mans head by tho aid of tho guitar, the key end of which, for the way, is always, placed moat convenient to her aide.

Dr. Pupnia felt hands touch him. Ha doesn't imagine, surely, that they were the hands of a spirit, which is ss unfeeling as it is invisible. Whose hands did heieu! Min Fays and he would have emerged from the cabinet a wiser man than he appeared to be if he had held her hands butted of her knees, or caught at ths hand that fumbled about his, wrote upon his shirt cufft, and placed a pencil in his hands. The tambourine flying out of the cabinet at the aperture, the fingek-ring transferred from the medium's lap.

to her car, paper dolls rat by the same invisible agency, the noil driven into board by ths same alleged spirit, carpenter, are not st all wonderful in the light i which John W. Trues-dell has been sole to pour upon them. The trick of Henty Mellenlle, Cummings, Fay, Foster, Mansfield, Braddon, is very mysterious until you corns to see the illustration 1 it in the book I send to you. Everything depends upon the great front-twist whio Judge McGuire waa not able to understand, simply because the business was new to him. "No medium, says Trueadell, with an ounce of brains, now believes for a moment that tha spirits can dlaintegrute a chair, a ring, or any other solid substance upon a mania arm, without resort to agencies oif tho existence of which there is no evidence.

No medium of ordinary intelligence believes that ths spirit can elevate a water-bucket from a woman's lap to the top of her heed except through the rid of some living physios! organism, notwithstanding that many mediums believe it and teach it for the good must ones of the cause, reveal to every iwHli rtngl able, through ths medium, to ranch whatever sothatherhips will pass the stanchion without moving her feet from the floor, the spirits are may have been placed upon her lap During the holding test no inch con tortious are necessary, as tha nbioultooi manager always takes good care to plsos tha neck of the guitar cum to the medium's hands. In tha Lyman teat, which Drsddon performs, ths spirltsemploy the grwt front-twist. Through tneir influence the mediums left wrist is made feet at his knee is in loop 5 flours slow, by permanent knot 1, (shown In the book). The right hand is inserted in ths open loop (6) and by twisting it once around, allowing tha tops to (til on the wrist, tha ipaoe between knots I and 4 cross 1 sod 2, forming the uompleti and intricate knot When the curtain is dosed the right hand esu be easily taken out of this tie, and replaced In an instant And these are the bottom foots regarding the great front-twist and the cotton bandags-tie. Mr.

Donnelly may sot have been exactly right se to the direction token by the wire, but that the rappiug hand is operated by electricity there is no doubt. It is sudd trick, and not at all to be compared for brilliancy to those performed here twenty odd veers ago by ons Anderson, whose electrics! experiments pined among main for mysterious spiritual manifestations. Ai-Hci DMBUG. Mips A. Fair's Bsancsi Oh, glorious night of "gods" suad bnalhlng truth ye raised a No wonder that the shades were raisd (Their anger was at least, none ora dray And If a captain of IheM tresh-wave eo Could but have shut Usayee, remaining quiet We might have isea the tew, and sstts and PfcEHp, and labelled thue, "Olid Nick, Go- But though the entertainment waa cut short, And we ww scares enough to make ue Upon that day whenwemnst pay our court soth proeonted, in those regions rondo i the whole I had a bir night's sport.

1 mw what filled my mind with giant won-doft For those groat men, the doctor and the Judge, 'Ifsdgo. Doolorod upon their wards twns not sill van talked, trials dark and Tlie doctor's courage psted ha woe dread. Far with an awful wsih-pall waa ho milked, And wrapped In Btyries darkness wae hie head Then for his ooat sad waistcoat was he asked. Great Coleus paled, he probably had read Those Christian young men's hand-bills about WltdlMe And trembled for ths safety of hls broeche On thlsphlloaopher I sued, and thought About Diogenes turned upside down I saw howne by Enas hsabeon caught As though ha bees some simple oountry down. And then, Judge I Is (ruth didst thoa fool not Of that "commotion strongs'' of old renown I Here I assort, Judge, you were not Infatuated -ire me chost Pygmalion his statue hated.

How often do we eoa the shrewdeat mind -Br love made simple si that of a child, And how the silken cord of lore can bind The fro ward one, orwlldrot of the wild. Ws'ro all aware, of oonne, that love is blind And by its object eseUy beguiled; And that to why the leernea Judge MoGulro Failed to perceive that Tory subtle Miss Fay hoe flown, there are two broken hearts, Tho learned lawyer1, and recondite leech's. Ah, unrequited love gives painful smarts, (To gain Mlso Fay's ons now would give his DTMOhMt) And now, although ye follow not twin arts, Assist each other (m the scripture teaches); The doctor can the lend rent-noart stitch While round the dec" let M. some rod tape hitch. E.

COLIBKOOKK HABVXT. No Bplritaallsn There. Kingston; May L-To the Editor) i am spiritualist, ud 1 was at ths exhibi. tion oa Saturday night, and I naw nothing that I would cedi spirit manifestations, saw what I would call lsgerdemain. I have era better tricks performed by legerdemain.

I know that spirits will oommuucsts with men. I did expect to shake hands with departed friends, but I ssw no one shaks hands with them. Yours for truth, Sfxs. PERSONAL MENTION. People WboH Hovssusts, Baying aid Dolau Attract Attention.

Mr. R. Mcllroy, of Chicago, friends here. Mias Nellie Moreland, of Pioton, is vieit-ing friends here. Mr.

Richardson, of Watertown, is visit' lng friends here. H. Cooper And J. Craig has been appointed conductors un the K. P.RR.

John 8. Miller, M.Ft for Addington, was in the city last evening, J. Donaldson and VV. McAdoo, of Pittsburg, left to-day for Esttieford, N.W.T. Miae Hooker, of Simooe, daughter of Rev.

LeRoy Hooker, is visiting friends in tha Kelly, vocalist, is now touring through Canada with Mrs. T. Charles' Watson, ths elocutionist. Rev. J.

B. Clarkson, of port Hope, ie so unWell that his congregation has suonly for him for toe summer. Mr. Meagher, proven live officer al; Alexandria Print during the winter, haa returned to the city. Mr, Hawkins, of Borne, N.Y., has srriv.

ed in the city and wuti to purchase sixty hones for tha American market. A McConrille, penitentiary official, has been appointed express messensrer on the C.P.R. between Feterboro end Toronto 8ir Alexander Canmbell will return to Canada by tjie steamship Vancouver, sailing from Liverpool on the 18th of May. Hon. 8.

H. Blake will represent the Young Mus Christian association st ths inter-national convention, 8u Francisco, on May 11th. Lord Salisburys tidset son will be married in the parish church of house commons on May 17th to the second daughter of the Karl of Ansa. Thomas McQuillan, commercial traveller, ie here representing tin new dry goods house of Wyld, Graeeett A Darling, Toronto, Mr. Grsuett is a son -in-law of CoL W.

N. Dollar; of Napanee, who haa hem appointed assistant to Prof. Macdonald, accountant, in tha Dominion business college, commenced his duties yesterday morning. John WanamakeTiPhlUdelphia, has of insurance on hie life, Pierre LorH-lard carries $250,000. Royal M.

Pulisfer, Boston Herald, leads with $250,000. Charles A Dana, New York, $120,000 George W. Childs, Ledger, $100,000, Lawrence Barrett Is probably the heaviest insured among the acton. He haa Rev, T. DeWitt Talmage carries Obliged ta Ks-Order.

Having had such a run on car first lot a 1 8eotch tweeds we her been obliged to reorder. This lot is choice selection of patterns, and those in need of suitingra may pend on getting something nice. 1 range from $13.50 to $20 suit. We guarantee first-class fit, Provost, New York clothing store. We do not advertise cheep furniture st James Reids, but ths best value for ths money.

Reserved seats for the reading eotiri In the oity hall on May. 6th now on sals st Hendersons books tore.1 is. visiting Coinfortablo Prices --The Fit tho Fochet California hams, lOo freeh eggs, 12o roll bacon, Oo sweet cider, 3Cto gallon. Jus. Crawford.

At tho Caeh Furnltnro Store Yon can purchase a beautiful walnnt marblo top bedroom aet for 43. Jaa. Reid, 857 Mneess street Freckle Lotion. Bolls lotion will remove tan, freckles, sunburn, pimples, blotches, eta Twenty-five cents st Wades drug store. Do Wot be Wedded to Old Ideas.

But buy. one of our California hams rolls of bacon at lOo lb. fresh eggs, 12o fine maple syrup and sugar in blocks. Jos. Crawford.

A Itlteh In Time. When first attacked with a cold In the head, droppings from the nasal passages into tho throat, pain in the head, any of the symptoms forerunners of catarrh, flOo package of Nasal Balm will cure yon. It Will be Erased. The market weigh house will be torn down se soon os as soon os practicable. The present lessee has the building until August, but it is thought he will gladly exchange his present quarters for those to be provided in the shambles.

Canon Farrar. The Archdeaoou of Westminster statee that he was much gratified by the songs and the manner in which they were sung. He was speaking of Herr Andres Alpine ohoir, City hall. May 10th. The Old Directors Appointed.

The annual meeting of the Water Works company oocurred yesterday. The old directors were re-elected. Hon. O. A.

Kirk- trick was reflected president, and Dr. tewurt, of Belleville, vice-president. The dividend (half yearly) of 4 per cent wae ratified. i -j A Meeting To-Morrow. To-morrow afternoon nt 2:30 oclock the stockholders in the Midland Agricultural association the company owning the new exhibition grounds meet to appoint directors and do other business.

It is highly desirable that every shareholder should be present. a Making 'Final Arrangements. Lieut -CoL Maraherson and Capt Heron, of the Governor-Generali Foot Guards, are still in the oity. The corps arrives hers on May 22nd, ana camps on the drill shed common. The men will probably be messed st the Windsor, the Gnmmson and Terrapin houses, nt 75a per day.

The offioers.will dine at the British American hotel. The Temperanee People In Arms. A meeting of temperance people was held last evening to consider the action of the commissioners in licensing two houses to sell liquor after two petitions largely signed had been received asking that the proprietors of the houses be refused lioenses. A resolution was passed unanimously which will be presented to the commissioners and afterwards published. Drowned In na Old Well.

A boy of five years, the eldest son of Richard Atkina aim the daughter of neighbor named Williams, of same age, were amusing themselves, it is supposed, by sailing sticks in an old well which contained about four feet of water the girl fell in and dragged or knocked the boy too, and both were drowned. They were mimed about two oclock and were not found until five "He Hever Smiled Again No "hardly ever about it He had an attack of what some people call "billious-neas, and to smile was impossible. Yet a man may smile and smile, and be villain still. still he was no villain, but a plain, blnnfe, honest man, that needed a remedy such as Dr. Pierce's "Pleasant Purgative Pellets, which never foil to cure biliousness and diseased or torpid liver, dyspepsia and chronio constipation.

Off druggists. Pollee Court Tuesday. The charges of assault preferred against "A batterymen were investigated at some length and adjourned until Friday. Two more soldier, 8smnel Field sndClandins do Chamard, are accused of knocking Tuttle down. Henry Walker wae remanded until to-morrow, Josle Wilson until Friday, and Thomas Fleming was allowed to depart with the understanding that if he was found drank again serious oonseqnenoes would fol low.

Cause of tke Deter. The express from Montreal, due about a.m., did not reach the city until after dinner. The delay was caused st Nash's bridge, into the stream near which a train precipitated some days ago and two men killed. The flood had undermined the abutments, and the careful watchman flagged the train. When the eastern bound express arrive there the necessary transfer was made of tho passengers and baggage.

The bridge will be ready for traffic to-night. They Would Not Keeelvo Thom. The statement wae made st the council lost night, after the adjournment, that the Governor-General's Foot Guard's had treater 14th P.W.O. Rifles very shabbily some years ago. The officers of the city corps wrote down that they would like to visit Ottawa and would be glad of any attention the guards oould show them.

The reply came that the rifles were quite welcome to visit Ottawa, but they oould not expect kindly offices from the. guards. The trip wee abandoned. An alderman said that had he known that such a thing occurred he wouli not have supported tho grant for their entertainment. Harty said that the city oould not afford to be ungracious.

If tbs guards had acted so that was no reason why the citisens of Kingston should follow their example. BURIAL OF MAGGIE USTON. Her Parents Heavily Bereaved Tha Circumstances Very Maddening. The remains of the lato Maggie Liston, daughter of Joseph Liston, who died of the fearful in dries she received through her clothes catching fire, were interred on Sunday. The parents feel the loss of their little daughter very keenly.

Said a little sister of deceased to-aay i miss dear Maggie very much. How old was aha Gh, she waa eleven, and papa and mamma loved her very much, and she loved papa and mamma very much too." She waa exceedingly amiable, and none can measure the anxiety of the parents while she suffer sod sank, and none can fully realise the bereavement which her death brought to them. Her vacant chair revives memories at wee tender and tnarfhL Deaths visits are ss St any time in this esse the experience is inexpressibly sorrowful. Childrens gloves sad stockings st Laid- lawa. ALDERMEN HAD LITTLE TOi QUARREL ABOUT LAST NIGHT.

i AChnitU the Lonitlon of the Weigh' Houm KtdomM Omit Mad to Give tho Guardi a Luncheon Only Two Opponents to tho Propoood Kntortoln- Last evening there vu a regular mooting of tho city con mill with the following in attendance Mayor Canon Alda. Drennan, Downing, Ouderaleeve, Uarty, Hobart, Mack lee ton, McIntyre, McOalre, Phelan, W. Robinson, Redden, Rees, 8mith, Shannon, 8nowdon, Thompeon, Wiloon. Shannon, 8nowdon, Thompson, VV ilmot, Vilaon. The mlnntea were read aud approved.

RXADIXOTHX COMMUNICATIONS. From Lieut -Governor Robinaon, thanking the council for the loan of the portrait of tho late Judge Hagerman, father of Sin J. B. Robinson. Mrs.

Robinson was deeply mate, ful for the kindnesa of the council. Fyled. From Sir John A. Macdonald acknowledging the receipt of a petition, asking for the establishment of a cavalry school bare. He would reoommend it for favorable consideration.

The minister of militia also acknowledged the receipt of the petition. Fyled. A number of communications, relating to taxes, were referred to the court erf revision. handing is thi rtridim. Ald.

Wilaon From Davy A Martin, asking for a rebate of auctioneer's license. Referred co the oommittea on licenses. Aid. Hobart From 8. Cox, asking for a rebate in the license fee on billiard tables.

Referred to the oommittea on licenses. jbesxntino runouts. The report of the committee on lfinanoe recommended the payment of the following aooounta i P. Lennon; atone, $1418 John Hanley, cab, $1 1 water works arbitration, witness fees, $28.10 tax remiaaiona, J. C.

Innee, plan wharf extension, K. P. $10 1 Hentig, stamps, pay list ending April 87th, $31L65 james Elliott, stone, $15'; C. Beddle, atone, $10 W. Delaney, atone, $80 John Lennon, general street.

$41.50) John Patterson, pound bailiff's salary, $20. Adopted. Aid. Thompison, in lieu of a report of the committee on streets, moved that the finance committee provide $10,000 to be plaoed to the credit of the streets' oommittea for public Aid. McIntyre was'' not prepared to endorse the motion.

The committee on streets should be limited in its expenditures. He did not want the committee to overrun its expenditure. -Aid. Thompson said that the committee would be as economical as the circumstances and the safety of the citisena, demanded. Last year the committee had an over-expenditure of but $500 or $800, and a large amount of money used was for the building of The motion prevailed.

-Aid. Gildersleeve Its when the next $10,000 is asked that the' test will occur. Aid. Thompson But this is not our last time of asking. Aid.

McIntyre Oh yea you are hopeless." A BETTER WXIOHIXO FLACK. Aid. Hisoodk presented the report of the Committee op city 1 property, recommending that a stall in the shambles be rented to hi. Conroy for $50 per year that two stalls be rented for $50 per year each that V. Robinaon rented property at the foot of OKill street at $1 per foot, frontage per year (that the stall on the corner of the shambles be fitted up as a weigh house at a cost of $200.

There was some opposition to the renting of city property to W. Robinson. It was saiilthat people wanted the made land beautified but others thought that a lease from year to year would not injure the pro-, party, while it be a great convenience to hlr. Robinaon, who had an excellent business and desired to extend it Aid. McIntyre, was opposed to having the view of the people obstructed.

Aid, Hiacock said that no buildings would be pnt on the property. The council restricted Mr. Robinson to twenty-five foot adjoining his property, Some id the aldermen urged the removal of the present weigh house. It was long an eye sore. Before the council was a plan of a new house to cost $000 and the finance minister was asked if the money could be provided.

He replied that it could not There was opposition, too, to a new on the market i scales hi the sham-very convenient The re port was adopted. THI LAST ONES CONSIDERED. Aid. Gildersleeve presented the report the fire, water ana light recommending that a fire alarm box be placed at the owner of Gordon and Earl streets, end that the finance committee provide the fnnds. Adopted.

Aid. McIntyre "Thats the first time, Aid. Gildonleeve, that you ever did the right thing by Ridean ward." Aid. Gildersleeve "And that too, at the expense of Victoria ward. Aid.

McIntyre presented the report a 1 the special committee on the entertainment of the Governor -Generals Guards, recommending that a luncheon be provided to the guards and 14th P.W.O. rifles oq Tuesday, May 24th, in the drill shed, the expense to be covered by private subscription. The council was favorable to an appropriation, to defray the expenses, and the finance committee was asked to provide $8001 Aid. Thompson was opposed to the' expenditure becausd it was illegal and because the city had not invited the guards here. Aid.

Rees was also opposed to tne grant. I any money were donated the 14th P.W.O. rides should receive it. Aids. Gildersleeve, Hatty, McGuire and McIntyre endorsed the grant The guards should be properly treated, they should be accorded the same goodly offices that the citisens would like the 14th P.W.O.

rifles 'to receive were it to go elsewhere. The presence of the note corps would be an attraction and would ad greatly to the enjoyment- of the holiday. Aid. GUdersleove went tin for granting money to any scheme which popularised the city. Aid.

Thompson said the grant was illegal, but Aid. Harty said it was no more illegal than woe the expenditure upon drains last year. The only two who voted against the grant were Alda. Thompeon and Rees. The council adjourned at oclock.

The K. A P. Ks Best Friends. Roawqjl P. Flower hss sailed for Europe, for his wife, daughter, am llw.

Emina H. 8chleyr wife of the late Schley. A grand ovation awaitei Mr. Flower when he arrived, at the pier. Delegations of friends from Watertown, from the Stock Exchange, Tammany Hall, the County Democracy, were on band to wish their distinguished oolleagna a pleasant trip.

The saloon of the steamer was filled with beautiful and costly flowers. The Stock Exchange sent a large floral steamship. It was made of whits flowers, with the name of Roswell P. Flower inlaid with violets on each sida ay yon to call and examine prices before purchasing I a Reid. Candles That Were Landed up the Other Way Groat Apart.

They were nearly frantic I This woe the condition in which many aldermen were last night We have seldom seen them in a hotter mood and yet complacently contain themselves. What made them hot Cayenne pepper I And well tell you how it wee. The oonfectionary department haa lately been quite profuse in its supplies, and last night it csbm down ss usual well The meeting was nicely under way when the aldermen begged for candies, and of course the package was sent around. There were a few men the plot and they patiently awaited results. Harty deriined, but Gildereleeve didnt.

Harty asked, "Ie it hot? and the steamboat owner said "No yea it is hot as well he said no more, gulped down the oandy as he had many other diaoomforting things, and with imper-turable face watched tha others. ALL Wilmot got his tooth on a hot spot, gasped for brmth, and washed out his nth. Aid. W. Robinson whistled "The Boyne water" in a hotter way than ho had attempted it before.

Tha candies had got round to 8nowden, uckleston, Drun-nan and McGuire, and they pleasantly nibbled at them. Then Muraleeton wae going to speak, and he jammed two drops into his mouth. When he felt the pepper he spat them out, and looked at hls friend Snowdon, to find him brave but in tears. Muckleston was pained also and wept McGuire and Drunnsn were endeavouring to look but the judge couldn peak and looked unutterably wild. Then there wae a demand for water, and dosena of glasses were drained.

By this time Aid. Thompson bod tasted of the candy and got red away over to where hie forehead merges into the bock of his Head. Aid. Wilson, who had been talking about the weigh house could not understand tho cause of the suppressed laughter, so he picked up half a dosen chocolate drops and tha- merriment And watoy drinking were continued. City Clerk Flanigan had been hard at work, so that ho had not up to this print engaged in the fun.

Presently he readied out nie hawrl for the aandiee ana was fairly loaded down. The reporters wen bursting with laughter, and tho dark, Mushing, asked What's all the hilarity shout And they printed to Harty. The city clerk had not yet had a hot one. He wee given some more, and he dieraseed them. Soon his face changed) he looked mad, got very rosy, and tears poured down his cheeks.

Thai the laughter could not be suppressed, and it rang wildly through the chamber. It was socel-crated as the venerable official asked for water, and Aid. i Thompson remarked "Thats tiie first time, Mr. Clerk, I ever saw you drink water at a council meeting. "Oh no, he replied, "not the first time; but I am very The finale of the hot time was amusing and entertaining.

But the ooundl was broken up quite early. F. i Having' purchased our. entire stock for -cash this year, we are now prepared to sell furnitnre 10 per cent cheaper than -any other house in the city. Jaa.

Reid. spirit-friends manifest wholly through the in the cotton-bandage tie, a foot which can be further substantiated by a little explanation. By tho peculiar manner in which tho medium nolds her hands, while submitting to the tying process, the spirits secure a ligature of knotted doth, between the hands, at least six indies in length. The bandage, attached to the centre, allows at least two inches pity between the centre of the ligature and the ring to which it is fastened. This ring is two ud a half inches in diameter, ud is secured to tho stanch km by a half-inch staple.

All this gives the epirite clear leeway of pelhaps fifteen inches. The moment the curtain is closed the medium, under spirit-influence, spreads her hands for apart as possible, act which stretches Weather Probabilities. Fresh south and. west winds, fine and warm. 1 Prints and ginghams, splendid Maori' moot, lowest prices st Laidlaws.

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