GENERAL NEWS.
Chineze Educational Conference. The petition of Chang Tsc-lini, Chairman of tho Provincial Edu entional Association of Chibli, to the Ministry of Education, re questing the portaission to call for an educational conference to be participated in by all the pro vinces has been approved. The Chilli Educational Association has sent out a ciroular letter inviting the provinces to send delegatsa to the conference which will be held in Tientsin on the 20th of next April,
." An Actor Story,
Mr. Victor Bridges, the author of 'Another Mao'a Suoea, relates in the Boston Transcript a laughablé inoident of his prù. fessional exporience. He had been on the slage for five years, managing by tome delightful miracle, he sayë, tɔ make enough
to live on. On one ocossion he was playing the part of the tor furer in a version of "Notre Dame," produced by Charles Cartwright. He was made to look as pleasant as possible, and among other duties he had to rack the heroine. After the operation had been performed, and she was lying a crumpled, mangled, very lightly clad heap on the floor, hef had to advance, and, pretending to kiok her, observe brutally, Stind, heretio!" At the first matinee at Islington, when he brought out this rather callous command, a dear old lady with violet boodet strings, who wOE sitting in the front row of the stalls, leaped to her feet, darted up to the footlights brandishing an umbrella, and yelled furiously: Give her a chair, you ugly little ewine!" It was an amusing tes timony to the excellence of his
acting..
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force of several hundred tons a a hue of greenieh gold, dart up- of Americe, Mr. C. Buxton and word from the miten mass. aquara inch. One hundred and Dr. Tempest Anderson passed
The scam removed, travelling twenty miles of wire, varying in through the States.
crane of many movements slides layer from fifteen at the muzzle to A Loyal Agitator.
up. Down drops the cranc-hook eighty at the breech, are necessary The Indian agitator Mr. Tilak, from the jib, and, paffing and o "lap" a 127 gua. who was sentenced to six era ancrting, at arm's length, as it
It is then fired vertically on a transportation, in 1908 for weir, away it bears the scothing freme, and the outer coils, streng publishing seditious articles and metal to the sand-pits.
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"Lower away. Down it expanded by laat, and ehrunk speech in Poona recently urging comer. "Steady!" Another move-into position. Finally, it is floc- bored and chambered, and every one to support the Clovernment of the crane. Careful now, ment in every way possible. The leat any of the fearful liquid be finished off with lead and emerg present, he said, was not the time spilt. The crucible filia, and, powder, leaving a surface smooth to press fer reforms. They must hissing, gurgling, simmering, as glass.
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Dilling mactiuse then prepare it like last for revenge, and will nations; it would be still batter mould stire sad stire, fill "naught for the cookets, sighte, mountings, appland Mr. Churchill's admi--if their Governments would unile YOU CANNOT A San Francisco telegram to but pure metal remains, and the to. The breech fittings; looks, ablo plea that we should fight in instructions to their troops, the Nichi Nichi, dated November cast takes form: When at length and wonderful electric firing gear like gentlemen; but thera is expressly forbidding acte of in 3. Baye-President Woodrow the cooling racesa is complete, are fitted and then at last already evidence that in some itiative vengeance, and so leave, Wilson has decided to offer him the solid ingot, the ncolens of a the finished gun, perfect as quarters a clamoor for repriests in the smouldering and desecrat- self as a Democratic candidate cannon, is hoisted out of its bed buman skill can make it, is ready may arise. From Russia comes ed towns of Belgium, an isolated for re-election in the coming and placed in a huge foraace. for mounting, and testing at the the utterance, God help them monument of the ethics of Pras presidential election,
When white-hot the glowing targets.
when we get into Berlin,' ansian militariam." Interesting to
to Stamp Collectors, mass is transferred to a movable
from a lerraad English historian Acting on a suggestion made anvil, and, with swift, titanic by M. Gaston Thomson, the strokes, a mighty steam-hammer Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, roughly forges it into shape. the French Government have Again it is heated, and yet again, authorised the issue of a special hydraulic presses each time 15 centimes postage stamp, equeezing, shaping, forging it as having an actual postal value of easily ass baker kneads doagh. 10 centimes, the balance of 5Then comes the first annealing centimes being for the benefit of process," to eliminate strains.
London, Sept. 18. the fonds of the Red Cross Thence to the lathe chop, an im- Sir Edward Ery write to the Association. It is expected that mense building, the roof full of Times, Faying
• Pros of England, of France, and enormous numbers of these shaiting, pallies, and belts, someThe official adoption by the of Russia should alike show atera stampa will be sold and that by swiftly revolving others just German Army in Belgium of the self-control in the
repression of
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