LD'S RICHEST MANI
áistics for 1898 published in New give some idea of the amazing wealth possessed by air. John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Dil Kings. He has a yearly income of £1,000,000, 200 g me
Mr. Rockefeller is ExD
expected to be a billionaire before he diesHe is worth about a third of a billion already, and his fortune is growing by leaps and bounds. He admitted before some investigators not long ago that, he could not toll within ten ar a dozen millions how much
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Gasqucts The Admira that the ship walotali
light they
put forwání, bé on shore somewhere, I wreck, but not yet to pieces. But the Falclund and the 7p could and nothing but wreckage. From their searches and inquities, however, it was shown finally fbat the ship had gone down with all on board, and that the Roque Noire of the Casquets, the Black Rock, was the spot on which the Victory had struck and gane to pieces, But not a single dead body was found, it happened strangely, hor were any bodies picked up on shore afterwards, thou
though large ware offered: dans
WENT DOWN.
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WHAT CRIMINALS COST ENGLAND.
SOME FIGURES.
JHH AS SHE IS
Chock, and Jela tunderstood and spoken, by thể; better class al servants.TM/it- the official language, but French my be usedí, oxn in the legislative councit, the law courts, efe
Formerly the climate was renowned for itsady 'should be salubrity tits deterioration is probably due to she refused to my
IGN TOYS AND GIRLS WHO CORRES POND WITH THEIR KIND IN ENGLAND The headmaster of Leeds Higher grade school has for some time been teaching the pupils at his school foreign languages by means of the interchange of letters with the the great increase of the population, and to the modation. It was also main pupils of schools in Franco and Germany, cutting down of the forests to make room for exclusion from the Colleo Room As a rule each scholar writes half his letter the cultivation of sugar. The hot and unheal-ranted, and that there was not in his own language, and the other in that of thy season is from December to May the rest such an invidious distinction to the rucnts lady promptly declined the the boy or girl to whom he is writing, the the year constitutes the cool season, during detriment. Thie
which the temperature is moderate, varying proffered entertainment and left the churlish
landlady, to seek refreshment returned. · Here is an extract (says the Verbi
alsewhere. The Hire Warply For from a latter written by a
the direction and strength of the wind. The Gennan pupil to his unknown correspondentsional showers fall throughout the year. The and that she did not presume to pass judgment mius coincide with the hot senson, but occa conduct of Lady Huberton was unimpeachable, in Loads
ns to the propriety, or otherwise, of her costume. But "fine words butter no parmips, and the- fact remains that Lady Haberton was forced to accept the hospitality offered, or go empty away? The jury found the lunkeeper not guilty, hence-it must be concluded they deemed.
he was worth, GA WARHOSE WHO W Fow people adequately realise how costly theitern being subsequently, corrected and according to the cloudiness of the.weather, andaufendant admited in her, evidence, that thes
Mn Rockefeller is said to be worth more than the combined wealth of tho - Astors," Vanderbilts, and Goulds, Criesus was poor compared with this man, in whose hunds rests. the destinies of thousands of man.". They are prosperous or penniless, as he dictates
Here are a few of the forly different kinds of stock held by Mr. Rockefeller Standard Oil Trust and Subsidiary Companies: 160,000,000 dols. Northern Pacific bonds, 15,000,000 dels Natural Gas Enterprises in Ohio, 15,000,000 dals. Lake Superior Iron Mines, 15,000,000 dols and Ohio: Barbed Wire Company, 10,000,000 dols. The aggregate stacks held by Mr. Rockefeller represent the sum of 319,300,000 dols,
In the Victory there perished our most not able naval commander of the day. Admiral Sir John "Balchen, Governor of "Greenwich Hospital, a vetemn of great distinction, and an officer who had fought as a young man under William III. and Queen Anue. What was still sadder even was that from fiky to a hun dred boy midshipmen, all of good family, had been specially sent on board the Pictory for the cruise, with the idea of their beginning their naval, careers under a veteran of auch high reputation. The ship's crew, 975 in num- ber, ner counting the officers, were, every man, of them, picked seamen, specially drafted into the Victory for the cruise from the reserve -His yearly income is, 20,000,000,000. dola, ships of the Channal Fleet left al Spithead to which works out at 1,666,666.66 dols. per hold the Channel when Sir John Balchen month; 55,553.33 dols, per day (including Sunsailed,he Pictory had only been launched day}
dols. per hour.
six years, and was considered to be the finest Jolin D. Rockefeller began his business piece of British naval architecture ever seen to career as a book-keeper at a salary of fo dols. that time, r's well as being the biggest ship so
asserted, that O. H. Rockefar, built for the Royal Navy. After the catas a month. It i feller, who claimed to be the coming billio trophe a model of the Victory was made for naire's cousin, died of starvation, in a wretched the Admiralty. It is now at the Museum at lodging house in Chicago.
Greenwich Naval College, and is the finest and largest model there.-Daily Graphic.
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Mr. Rockefeller is described as being as hard to approach as the Emperor of China, but a few weeks ago he was seen riding, in a' Broadway tramcar. Hardly anybody knew him. The New York papers in their own novel way are speculating on what Mr. Rockefeller will be able to do when he becomes a billio
naire, the first the world has known. He could, if he wished, fight'a war like the recent one with Spain, pay all the expenses of both nations, all indemnities, pensions and dama ge, replace destroyed ships, and give the widows of the killed £1,000 each, and remain among the richest men in the world.
There are only half-a-dozen nations in the world whose dehts amount to, more than a
DEATH OF AN ENGLISH HERO.
AN EXTRAORDINARY CAREER.
There has recently died at Coquimbo Captain James Hart, a native of Durham, England, who, in the course of an adventurous career had saved, by personal acts of bravery, more than fifty lives. The following particulars of his achievements are vouched for by persons conversant with the facs
On December toth, 1864, he rescued Charles Levitt, at Seacombe.
On October 28th, 1868, he saved Samuel Cairns, belonging to the transport Queen, No:
in Hannesley Bay, Abyssinia. On February 18th, 1869, he rescued James Cavanagh, belonging to the vessel White Rose, from Birkenhead Dock.
billion dollars. A billion dollars is three times as much as the total revenue of the United, States of America during any ordinary year,
Mr. Ruckefeller could pay the salaries of all -the "rulers' of the world, and yet have left a larger income than any of them. He could give President McKinley his salary of £10,000 every day, and his remaining income would be £300,000 a year. He could easily, buy a little kingdom of his own and have his own govern ment
THE MOST FATAL SHIPWRECK ON RECORD;
THE LOSS OF THE VICTORY ON THE CASQUETS.
It was on the very same "Black Rock" of the Casquets, on which the ill-fated excursion steamer Stelle came to so terrible an end that the most uppalling man-of-war disaster-to a single ship, at least in the annals of the British Navy took place. The disaster was a worse one, indeed, than the oversetting of the Royal George at Spithead; a worse one than the foundering of the Captain or of the Eurydice, awful as these catastrophes were in more terrible tragedy of the sea even than the fearful calamity of the of the Victoria, six years ago. In the
Bartling and unexpected nature of the disaster in between all these, but in the dreadful in each case there may perhaps be little loss of life that took place the great Casquets catastrophe is unparalleled. It may be said to have been probably the most fatal shipwreck
recorded in history,
THE FINEST FLAGSHIP OF THE FLEET. For ourselves there is no sadder page, in fact, in all our naval history, from the very earliest
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On May 21st, 1867, he saved John McQuilty, carpenter of the barque seulse, in Valparaiso Bay.
On June zyth, 1869, he saved Hans Bersholts, of the barque St. James, in Pisagua Bay.
On July roth, 1869, he saved Jaines King, a sailor belonging to the barque deuso, who fell overboard two days after that vessel left Piragua. For this act he received the gold medal of the Royal Humane Society.
On November 27th, 1869, be rescued the captain of the hulk Jane from Salthouse Dock, Liverpool. For this he received a diploma.
On December 4th, 1869, he rescued John Adams, belonging to the ship Melaber, from the Albert Dock, Liverpool.
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criminal is to the community. If he be murderer, the State has to expend something like £200 or £350, exclusive of indirect costs, in hanging him. If a professional thief, the public is obliged to keep him all his life, when he is out as well as when he is in prison. What ever his specific time, in fact, the criminal is an expensive burden to taxpayers. During his earthly span even the ordinary pattifog ging thief rphs, the public of a consider- able up a list of fifteen pickpockets whom he sam. A prison chaplain once drew knew intimately. Making the lowest possible, estimate, he calculated that the most notorious of these men stole £8,000 in twenty years, and that the whole of them fiiched no less than £31,000. The Governor of a certain gaol in this country same years back arrived at a still more startling result. stated that a single family, of criminals had cost the State, in one way and another, between £40,000 and £50,000, tire
in the possession its members as the proceeds of frauds, befg laries, &c. It is probable, therefore, that even a fairly skilful thief robs society of some thou- sands of pounds in the aggregate. And the fairly skilfisi alas are many,
He
Zu-day it la vary illitas in, becsuka two sisters of mu are not at home, Our family cumlata gut of pix persons, my parents, three sisters, and me. In the morning 1 tite at 95 o'clock. When I ara dremad my friend whistle on the airEQİ and when I am ready, we go together in the school.
o'clock contes fosfata. At the o'clock the school will he but, but at Wednesday and Saturday the school will be shut
At 9 o'clock bagina the school and who is not there a
at three o'clock. It is very late and must finish the latter Please write noon at na-With kindly compliments,
French girls are among the best correspondents
coast-line and lower levels are much drier than the upland, and the western half of the island. is drier than the castern.
pupils have received are very interesting. The in the world, and some of the letters the Leeds tance. fallowing are a few extracts
I do not speak to you of—, my natal town, for is must resemble sa landa, where you diall, My family is not namurous, only four persons, my father, my owiber, may
inter, ker than I of three yCHYS.
I should have liked to have brother, but I have not any. And you, have you brothers and sisters 2
You can see that I de nor know much English, but I desk to learn It You would must, much indulgence to read my
Mauritius is principally valuable to England as a coaling station, and as a store-depôt between the Cape and Indin, from each of which it is distant about 2,000 miles; in the would become at once of paramount impor evant of the closing up of the. Sure Conal, it
this colony from its geographical position, it In connection with this view of the value of must not be forgotten that on the ontbreak of the great mutiny in India, the first arrival of British troops was that of the 1st Battalion 5th foot, the Northumberland Fusiliers, despatched in all haste by the Governor of Mauritius, and which distinguished regiment arrived for the relief of Lucknow long before succour could proved communication of the present day, the opening of the Suez Canal, and the better system of moving troops, this may not occur again, but, midway between India and the South African colonics, Mauritius should ever be considered an important link in the chain of the Empire.
sun had, of course, been cater part of which, Anything mare interesting to the pupils, or reach the place from England. With the in
of
The
Since, however, the bauls of the predatory fraternity have not yet come within the survey of official statistic compilers let us see to what extent the criminal is a tax to the country when he is under lick and key. Last year the English gaols cost, not taking into account new buildings, £537,176 os. 4d, or an annual charge per prisoner of £30 18s, 4d. highest average expenditure per head for main tenance only-10 198, 7d-was at Dorches ter the lowest-5 16s. 3d, a great difference at Birmingham. Obviously, a sovereign's worth of gruel goes a long way in same local bastilles. Ilut from the gross total a deduction has to be made for the value of prisoners' labour. Of late years the amount appearing under this bead has materially increased, because work of a useful character has been taking the place of such unprofitable industries as oakum pitking and of unpro- ductive crank labour. What this means can
seen by a comparison of prisoners' average daily earnings, calculating the value of the laboural trade prices, at various employments; Oakum, jd. to 20 ; knitting, 3d. to gd:; needle- work, ul. to 8d.; mat making, 7d. to rod.; weaving, tod. to 18.; basket anaking, 19. d. to 15. d. shoemaking, is. 3d. to 15. id.; tailor ing, 15. 4. to 29. gd
It is on this basis-reckoning work to be worth what it would cost outside-that prison labour is estimated, though goodness only knows how the "trade price" of oakum "Worry- ing was obtained. There is an Amalgamated Society of Dakun Pickers, and such of its On February 14th, 1870, he saved Harold members' as are not chained to one spot by Olsen, belonging to the ship River Forth, who force of circumstances are very keen on the fell overboard as that vessel was leaving the union rate. But they are remunerated in kind, Mersey.
not in cash. The average earnings per head, On May loth, 1870, he saved James Harrison however, are put down as £10 165. 6d. in local in Carrizal Bay,
prisons, Las 75. gd. in convict prisons. No On August 19th, 1871, he saved Patrick Da account is taken in this calculation of those vaney at Guanape Islands, Peru
who did not work, nor is anything debited On October 16th, 1871, lie rescued James for employment in the service of gaols. Alto rican ship Cera in latitude to degrees South Urquhart, who fell overboard from the Amegether, the inmates of the silent world thus and longitude 31 degrees West.
On December 15th, 1871, he saved a boy who fell overboard from the German steamer Mostrona, as this vessel was leaving Rotter dam..
On February 19th, 1872, he rescued Hairy Warren, who fell overboard from the schooner Lizzie in the port of St. Nazaire.
On March 7th, 1872, he rescued a girl from the river Bilbao, Spain, and for this action he received a medal from the Govemment.
contributed towards the cast of their old maintenance the sum of £120,817 25. 11d, which, with incidental receipts, left a balance of £403,179 75. 3d., a net annual charge per prisoner of £23 125. 11d. Of course, this sum, large as it is, does not represent the annual direct cost of crime to the State. We have to pay for new buildings and alterations in exis. times, than that on which is told how the mag-
ting prisons we spend a large sum per nificent three-decker Victory, of 110 guns, the
annum on Broodmoor; we maintain a num- newest and best first-mate of our nory, the finest
ber of juvenile offenders in industrial schools, in the world in the days of George the Second.
to which we contributed during the last finan- the immediate predecessor on the Navy List. On February 22nd, 1873, he saved Richardcial year no less than 284,507; we have to "of Nelson's Pictory, was wrecked on the B. Standford; at Panama.
keep standing police army; and among Casquets and went down with an admiral and
On March 19th, 1873, he saved Edward Wil- other things, we have to defray the cost of 1,110 officers and men on board, on the night son at Callao,
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officials, necessary because of the existence of criminals. These expenses vury largely frum year to year and as there are included in them items concerning quasi- criminal acts, it is impossible to arrive at the total direct cost of crime. Only this can be said, that it is millions sterling-Cassifs Saturday Journal.
the idioms of a foreign tongue, it is difficult to more calculated to encourage perseverance with.
conceive.
MAURITIUS.
HOME CYCLING,
the
entertainment offered reasonable and
sufficient,
Extreme pleasure was manifested by visitors. (London) on Good Friday when Ji Platt Betts to tlie Catford Club's sports at Calford Bridge re-appeared on the track before the public. Betts rode half a mile from a standing start in 58 -5 secs and a flying half in 53 secs. Conv sidering the adverse circumstances these were good performances,
THE LAW OF RATIONALS.
THE LADY AND THE INNKEEPER
AN AMUSING CASE:
the keeper of the Hanthboy Hotel at Oakham, Lady Harberton has brought Mrs Sprague, into court for having without sufficient cause In a short descriptive account of Mauritius,
and not regarding your duty as an innkeeper, published in the Royal Enginters Journal for March, Colonel Jessep, R.Ê., gives some in-.
wilfully and unlawfully neglected to supply Frances W. Harberton with victuals, which she teresting information respecting this dependency of the British crown, which is worthy of ingre
then and there required, and was able and LONDON, 7th April notice than is usually bestowed on it,
The first great wheel holiday of the year has
ready and willing to pay for." Lady Harberton wears rational dress when she cycles, and she Mauritius is an island in the Indian, Ocean come and gone, and certainly has afforded was so attired when Mrs, Sprague refused just within the tropics, in lat. zo S., and long. ocular demonstration of the unwavering popu- 57 31. E. lis extreme length is about 39 miles, larity of cycling as the great national pastime.
to supply her with luncheon at her hotel and its breadth 28 miles, its aren being 700 One railway alone carried 1,100 cycles on the
Some amusing evidence was given when the square miles, or about equal to the county of Thursday" preceding Good Friday, and the Quarter Sessions, It
case came up for hearing at the Surrey Dorset. It was captured from the French in other milways have no doubt carried their pro- Lord Coleridge, who appeared for the pro
was explaindby 1810. The capital, and only large town, is portion. During Easter everything in the secution, that there was no notion of meting Port Louis, with a population of $5,000. It is semblance of a cycle was in evidence on the on the north-west of leeward side of the island,great main roads, from the old ordinary, routed desired to make it clear that an innkeeper was out punishment to Mrs. Sprague, but it was has a good harbour, and is the only commercial out no doubt for the occasion from the lumber not to select his or her guests and that every port of the island. Since the visitation of shed, through the various gradations which one coming and conducting himself or herself malarial fever in 1866-8 almost the entire white mark the evolution of the cycle throughout the in a proper manner had a right to be received. population has gradually removed permanently last two decades, down to the present machine The jury might think bloomers were be once fashionable suburbs, massive stone gate. It is remarkable how the pastime makes ofevery to be considered was whether they were up country, leaving, as relics of the past, in the de luxe, dazzling in faultless plating and enamel. coming or unbecoming, but the real
question ways and avenues which now, lead up to rider an integral part of the great universal indecent or improper. Lady Harberton, in ditipidated Indian huts.
brotherhood of the wheel. A great wheel giving evidence, said that when she called at holiday affords occasion for the interchanges the Hautboy Hotel, after a morning's cycling of those little courtesies of the road, slight and asked for lunch, Mrs. Sprague replied personal sacrifices of time to belp a less fortu"No, I do not admit persons in that dress." nate rider out of a difficulty, which are fre- Eventually Mrs. Sprague took her to a back quently solicited, and, of the trite wheelman, room with a bar where men were drinking and smoking, but as the place smelt so horribly Lady Harberton left, threatening to complain to the Cyclists Touring Club about her treat ment. In her cross-examination by M. Avory, who appeared for the defence, Lady Harberton said she had walked in Regent St.in bloomers" and had cycled 4,000 or 5,000 miles in them but she had never been to church or to a theatro in thens. The dispute with. as to whether she should be received in a dirty, Mrs. Sprague was: recking bar-parlour.
The principal seulement for French resid ents is Curepipe, with a population of over 20,000, it is distant 13 miles from Port Louis and is 1,800 feet above the sea level. Curepipe is on the line of railway from Port Louis to Mahebourg, the old capital on the east side of the island, which reached in about an hour and a quarter by train,
There are various other settlements along the railway between Curepipe and Port Louis, the principal of which are Vacoas, Quatre Bornes, Rose Hill, Bassin, and Maka, The lastmentioned is on a branch line of railway about three miles from Rose Hill, and con- tains the country residences of the Governor, the Bishop, the Colonial Secretary and other officials. Up to 1892, the General's residence: also was there, but the house had to be taken down after the cyclone in that year, and has never bean rebuilt. The site is how generally Sloping Bach way to the sea. Along the coast, regarded as unhealthy,
The interior of the island is chiefly high land,
almost encircling the island, are plains, in some parts narrow, but extending far inland on the north and cast. From the central plain the six principal mountain ranges diverge, one of them surrounding the Port of St Louis. They have curious jagged outlines, and peculiarly formed summits; of which, the Pouce and Pieter Bath, the most striking, have an altitude respectively of 2,650 and 2,685 feet. The highest point in the island is Fiton de la Rivière Nolee, 2,711 feet, in the south-west portion,
The greater part of the island is covered with sugar cane plantations, and where cultivation of a tropical character, Formerly the island was entirely covered with dense forest, but this has now been nearly all cut down, and inost of what is left is destitute of large timber. The rivers and streams flow over stony beds, through deep and picturesque ravines, forming beautiful cascades in their course, but they are of in- significant size and in the dry season many of them cease to flow. The general physical aspect of the island is, in a high degree, strik- ing and romantic.
never in vala.
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There seams to be a great deal of mis conception among cyclists as to the proper degree of hardness to which tyres should be pumped. Many riders are disposed to ride them too slack, and, when so ridden, the ten- dency for the tyres to slip on greasy roads is very much greater than when they are pumped hard; they are also more liable to puncture, and to wear out much quicker.
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The cycle trade in the. Midlands is evidently booming again, judging from the following wire from a Birmingham correspondent of the
at Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Financial News just after the Easter holi- day Reports from all the cycle trade centres
and Redditch show that the cycle trade is undeniably booming. The splendid holiday weather has given a decided impetus to the demand for machines, and the principal manu- facturers have been unable to compete with the abnormal requirements, stocks having been depleted during the long period of depression." This is certainly good news,
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of October 4th, 1744. The Victory was flagship On-June-27th, 1873, he saved Albert Niem-judges and other the salaries of a host of is not carried on there is luxuriant vegetation, would not be an unmixed blessing for, the right to select any particular room for his or
ver, who fell overboard at sea off Pisngua.
on July 6th, 1873, he saved Jack Daggart at Mejillones, Peru.
On October 12th, 1873, he saved James Reid at Guayaquill,
of the Chanel Fleet at the time, and was returning from chasing a French fleet from off the Tagus and rescuing a British squadron with a number of storeships and transports for the Mediterranean, which the French had driven to take shelter in that river It was. On December 19th, 1873, he saved Alexander during the war with France and Spain between Hurst at Palta. the years 1739 and 1748, sometimes called from On April 9th, 1875, he saved Ernest Guill one of the incidents that led to it the "War | more at Bombay, of Jenkins Ear
THE "VICTORY" MISSED. Returning home at the head, of the hannel Fleet the Pictory was separated from her con. sort in a terrific storm-one of the worst of the last century of the Scilly Islands, and was -növer seen again. The rest of the feet, twenty- 'two men of war in number, reached Spithead in
ON. THE C. P. R.
On Augitat 10th, 1875, he rescued John Adams, who fell overboard at sea from the ship Zeme. For this action he received the Royal Humane Society's gaid nedal, and a gold watch and chain subscribed for by the crow.
On April 4th, 1877, he saved Janies Lancaster at Arien.
On April 16th 1877, he saved John Ryden safety, some dismasted, some with several feet at Iquiquary 19th, 1883, he saved Private
On: February heard of the Victory anywhere: She was last Gonilez. of the Curico battalion, in Callao and its manners are exceptional the Prin distant, has an activá volcano,
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produced an agreement with Mrs, Sprague, The Secretary of the Cyclists' Touring Clab which provided that she would at all times, receive and entertain as ordinary coffee room
been cancelled and this action undertaken by customers members of the club whether they were ladies or gentlemen. The agreement had the club. There was nothing in the agreement about rational dress. The barrister and legal adviser to the club said he had seen the bat lunched there, Mr. Avory: Well, parlour, and he should, not like to hay been there (laughter) years ago newed laughter) it was quite good enough for me. The Chairman Were you there in rational dress 7 (Laughter) M The universal-cheapening of machines has was (Renewed laughter.) The learned, so far proved itself to be a great success al counsel contended that at the most there was though certain pessimists thought that a cycle a refusal to supply food in a particular room, within the compass often or cleven guineas and that a person visiting an inn, had no makers. But the remarkable revival of trade her accommodation. He argued that the which ushered in the Easter holidays has been
law, as it had been explained by Lord mainly the outcome of the demand for the Coleridge, was hid to apply to
to a time when popular priced moput Nor does it appear Dick Turpin and Gentlemen of that ilk were that this demand for a cheap mount will mili- the terrors of travellers. It the learned judges tate against the sale of better class machines. who laid it down, could know that I was Those who have the money to spare will in being used for the purposes of this most cases be persuaded to buy the better class it would make them turn in their graves.
prosecu mount, especially as first grade machines can (Laughter.)" The object of this prose now be purchased of the best firms at the cution was nothing more or less than prices formerly paid for second grades. A con an advertisement for the Cycling Touring The formation of Mauritius is volcanic. The tinuous demand for popular priced machines and the Rational Dress: League I have just alluded to the despotism of the prevailing rock is basalt, except at the coast, will enable the vast sources of machinery and that league had been advised not to coloured attendant. This, young man is the where coral appears. Nearly the whole surface means of output of the big firms to be fully hearing, and Lady Harberton sug autocrat of the sleeping car in Canada as in of the island is scattered over with large boul utilised, and the disastrous system of carrying this advice was offered because it was feare the United States. No one, by the way, seems ders which, in the sugar cane plantations, are over stocks, with the auction room as an un- that the costume would so bewitch to be able to explain why only lads of colour piled up forming low walls between rows of pleasant alternative, should no longer cast its that they would not be able to give an should be employed, that it always ha canea. It is obvious that this region must, at baneful shadow upon, the however, the colour is of the lightest hue, velanic disturbance, ton, however, 415 miles between Tom Linton and A. A. Chaiq was the themselves to ridicule if they app been so on the Canadian Pacific Railway, some time, have been the scene of intense
industry.
y verdict. (Laughter.) If ladies-who
the court in rational costume mig ceased AL
ood Green, London a ten miles-match themselves to ridicule they might a Wood Green good, being
The island of Reunion, cess Louise travelled over the line one of the encics, of which Rodrigues and the Seychelles mins. $3.3-5th sees. F. W. Chinn secured the not be admitted to the familiar rather than offensive.
principal item at the Gamage C & A C. meet public room of an inn or a hotel Mauritius has some five-and-twenty depening on Good Friday-Linton won easily in 18 be for their benefit that "coloured boys," in his good-natured simpli city, was anxious to unke his conversation in-group are the most important. The harbour ten miles professional scratch, T. J. Gascoyne
- teresting to Her Royal Highness. When tise of Diego Garcia, in the Chagos Archipelago, the half miles pro, handicap sa present state of public opinion on the
subject of diy
divided akinta,
ta; + (Laughter.) Somo train, for instance, was passing through a tract is about 1,300 miles from Mauritius.
the half mile amateur handicap. At the Crystal men were narrow-minded enough to think that of land, about which there had been some dis- The curious intermingling of European and Palace on Easter Monday R. Palmer beat Chase the mere fact of a lady showing her legs was pute between the Government and the railway tropical plants and trees, at once strikes the in a 100 lap race (equal to 33 3rd miles) indecent and improper, however biggy the company, he remarked;" You should give a look
balsams, vertienas, cammations, chrysanthemums,
were demoralised enough to think it a fine op-- had a law-zuit about it." Another characteristic etc., flourish exceedingly, and there are many
ponunity for making Jokes at the expense of From a document signed by E. del Canto in story is told about the attendant who travels in beautiful specimens al begonias, crotons, and A novice has been analysing the causes the lady who appeared in that costume about Lima on February 26th, 1853, in his capacity the sumptuous car belonging to the President of dracenas, Several yarieties of palms are com which to his way of thinking impart pleasure her ankles, and so on. (Laughter. Da shou of former captain of the Zapadores brittalion, it the railway, Sir William Van Horne. Sir mon. There are about forty kinds of colonial to cycling and render the pastime so popular, grounds he submitted that Mr Sprague appears that James W. Hart, ex-captain of the William was entertaining a distinguished visitor wood, but nearly all the timber used for build and has printed his reflection. He concludes exercised a perfectly sound and wise discretio British steamer Arauco joined the said to Canada, and after dinner asked his guest to ing purposes imported. Tree ferns grow from his observation, that the first charm of in the interests of her own house and is battalion in September, 1877, at Antofagasta as have a cigar of a particularly choice brand. freely in the forest districts.
wheeling of which the tyra becomes conscious interests of the lady herself, who could A private soldier, and that he refused to The attendant was rung for and told to bring The Botanical Gardens at Pamplemousses is that of having accomplished a certain Journey believe that no one would object to her oper accept any pay At the end of October he left the box. Sorry, Sir William," nonchalantly contain specimens of most of the rare and at a good pace, by his own unaided efforts, this ing in bloomera, with the expedition sent to attack Piaagua, replied the iad of colour, "but I'm just smoking beautiful trees, and an infinite variety of the particularly applying to the traversing of lengra. Sprague stated when Lady Dolores, Tacna, and he retired voluntarily in the last of that brand myself". The autocrat shrubs and Anwers found in the tropics, thy distances from one town to another, which, was invited into the bar-parlous the June, 1880, In consequence of General Urrutia asserts himself in many ways. He begins by Cotton, nutmeg, cloves, and other spices were without the cycle would have rendered him three gentlemen there one a retired having requested him to take the position of deciding what baggage you may be allowed to formerly cultivated extensively, but the trees dependent upon the railway. The next, is the another a retired gentleman adjutant to the captain of the port of Arica, and bring into the car, and how it shall be disposed have been cut down to make room for sugar sense of rapid motion with fatle apparent effort, whose appearance no objection that of harbour pilot. In the document referred af. He talks to you whether you wish it or not, canes, the one staple product of Mauritius and this, he thinks, more than compensates for Witness did not say that Lady One returned on October 24th with the into it is stated that during the time he was He appropriates your newspapers and reads being sugar. The quantity exparted in 1895 the expenditure of energy necessary to sur behaved in a improper and indet formation, based on reports from fishing boats, attached to the Zapadores Captain Hart your books. But his greatest prerogative con-was-151,014 tons, but India is now almost its mount the hills one meets with in the course of As an innkeeper i have no
retkage had been found washed ashore observed good" conduct, and that he dia bists in sending his passengers to their respect only market, and, in consequence, the condition one's journey. Above all, he cautions the rider Mrs. Sprague) to make any- Aldeméy, but with ya' particulars, – The next charged the commissions confided to him with tive slumbers as soon as he fiimself feels the need of the
be said to be satisfactory bestowing more attention upon getting over a any pecullar views of my own, On May 18th, 1882, Capmin Hart saved two with the ladies, who prove docile enough, under The crop of 1898-99 Exceeded 170,000 tons, certain tract of country, and putting a certain terests of the business, lighters containing Chilian troops from being the impression that they must retire into their but prices have been low. About 40,000 tons pre-conceived mileage to his credit, rather than her followers are bayned, r capsized in Callao Bay. During the embarkck- ^* bunks," and behind thick curtains disrobe † have this season been shipped to the United
of two lighter
tow as sugar enjoying that
CAFES FREE class of persons on a
who would absolutely ruin my fouled in the screw of the tug and the craft men are able to leave the smoking room and Continent le imported, subject to an extra duty. The great "Rational" care of Regina vin skin-tights, for instance. were in imminent danger of being capsized, seek their night's repose. I have since learned in this respect india has recently followed this Sprague has been at last decided and one them. I should lose all the peo The occurrence was witnessed by Captain that the coloured gentlemen have some region example. It remains to be seen whether the carlot, but view the decision as unsatisfactory, the trouble to get. For thi Hart, who, without a moment's hesitation, on their side, inasmuch as they are on duty from Imperial Government will, in like manner, seeing that that matter was decided oppa drawn the line at knicke
umped the water swam to the tug, dived, the time the train leaves Vancouver till its assist the sugar-producing colonies of sasa side issue, leaving the important question as are covered by a and cleared the screw, and this prevented a arrival as Montreal, and have only the smoking. Empire, on the Mauritius compot na to whether rational dress in to be considered. After hearing further
war with the allied Republic the broken by stoppages at stations, where passform Population of the Mauritius is composed as coming under the bar, af censure from the jury found Mr Spr
a sleep that is frequently The
njany different nationalities, and on the stai strickly moral standpoint, wholly without jon which was received ptured the Chillan transport | engers are embarking or disembarking. But | December, 1997, was estimated at 377,856 of judicial solut when the Peruvians abandoned to be sent to bed arbitrarily, whether sleepy or which number: 266,743. were Indians to This conceiv
the battle of Chorillos wakefully in tyranny whi
arck, willin
1.5th. sacs,
1
(should;
in tho
a week after that no news of her could be got at Coquimbo,uel Oleda, to this part of the country, Princess. Your fat eye of the 'new-comer' Roses, geraniurds, † covering the distruge in the good time off hry knickerbockert egin be (bagian Auth.
of water in the hold but not a word could be
about half-past three on the afternoon of soldiers in the engagement off Chancay. For seen, as the fleet passed St. Martin's Scilly, Bay. On March 20th, 1883, he saved two
October 4th shortly after which it came on this he received three medals: One from the thick with mist and continuous driving squalls Masonic Union of Peru, another from the Then, at nightfall, the storm grew worse, jolow. Chilian: Army, and another, from the Chilian ing up harder, and harder from the southwest and other foreign residents of Lima. Besides until a little after midnight,, when it was at its | saving the two soldiers in question, he swam Worsh
Off with a line to the s
the launch, in which FOR THE FIRST ALARM,
were thirty-four men The Victory was missed at Spithead, and for :: Or Matchs. 2nd, 1890,
anywhere: Inquiries were made up and down the coasts and ships were sent out to search the Channel, but no information was to be obtained. Then the news came by a vegetable boat from Alderney that this fishermen there. about two hours after midnight on October 4th had heard the "betming of heavy guna as front a big ship in disress from the direction of the Casqueti reef, and had also at the same time seen the flashes of cannon from near the same place. The admitally refused to beliève it could be the Witary but they sent two sloops, to make inquines
WRECKAGE FOUND,
day the olbar sloop came in with news that the valour, energy, and rapidity of rest. An hour or so after dinner he begins cannot By from a financial point of view from becoming the slave of milestones, and one's dress, This has not
ockage had been identified. Spare stamped "Victory had been found, it was stated, and several wooden quarterdock gun carriages with
Yute's topmast khu fragments of carved and
that which is to be seen en route, part a ral-
man
akme
room in which to obtain s
nglishmen will gives over
hru - The, language:
habitants to the
miles Ha thejsland for general fatore said to be almon ent French-The
that after
to prespectators in Court Viscountess: The Rations ised admit on to the "undmu
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