... wrelb MOUNTAIN-GOAT HUNTING, BRITISH COLUMBIA IN most mountainous countries there are-to be found wild congeners of the ordinary domestic goat, and that part of British Columbia which is occupied by the chain of the Rocky Mountains forms no exception to the rule. All goats are fleet of foot, and fond of standing calmly on precipitous places, such as would try the nerve of the most experienced ...

... ?? SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1890. STAGE ACCIDENTS. The truth of the moral contained in the fable of the boy who cried Wolf ! has been exemplified by the feeling with which we first read the announcement of Madame SARAH BEcRNHARDT'S accident at the Porte-St.-Martin Theatre last Sun- day night. Madame BERNHARDT, who was rehearsing in the new play Jeanne dAre, had to ascend a funeral pyre, which ...

... 1 REACIERS FOR TO-MORROW. i. A t-.w- -Vrbeu&erv 3B. Revaoldos, 10. St. Paul's Cathndral-1r'bcendary D. Reynolds, o.0; Canon firegorv, 3.16; the l3itilon of London, 7. Westmrinster Abbey - Rev. L. Pirit, 10j Archdeacon Farrar, 3. Chapel Royal, St. James's-Rev. J. F-. INito. 12. Chapel Royval, whitehall-Rev. W. t;ge, 11,; Rev, W. 0. (ircen, 5.60. Ch. I 'o aif Savoy-lY H. Whitc, 11.30; Rev. Rul l ...

... t MMBE, BERNIfARDT AS JOAN' ME OF ARC, I t 4,ntROM OUR CORRESPONDrNT.) 1 PAitiS. Fhunar7 Nrsax. £no Jeanne d'Arc, with Mme. Sarah Bern- s rat4 s lardt in the titlecpart, was revived this evening a s at the Porte Saint Martin, with divers inodid- for cations and new scenery ar.d costumes. The Sto play is by M. Jules Barbier. and the music tin i which accompanies much of the action and Rai s ...

... ?? I- ~~ I;2>n+ THE LATE MR. BROWNING ON FAITH AND IMMORTALITY.- A correspondent of the Noncon/ormist sends it a letter from a lady who believing herself to be dying, thanked Mr. Browning for the spiritual aid she had derived from his poems, and expressed her satisfaction that so highly-gifted a man of genius should hold to the great truths of religion and to a belief in immortality. In the ...

... 0 STRME OF RAI1LWAY MEN. '1 (FBOM OUv CORBl3PONDENT.) DUBLIN. F:AT Nirm. G. to This morning the -men of the Dubliu, Wic po telowv. and Wexford Rtailway struck wsork. It was ex. op al pented during the morning that the directors would of id endeavour to bring about an arrangement, but though th in Sir Iliohard rlcatin (chairman), and other directors. s ,. with Mr. Payne, traffic manager, were ...

... TRAFFIC RETUN.% 0-., 1:^ D.. ?lIr.- rPM+ Miles PaS- Mer-' Total Total 5 EILALWAY Onen. seapers.chanldise, 1RR9. 1028. Week ending Nov. 30. £ £' £ - £ Madras ?? . 840 9,025 10,091 129,117 15,548 * Week ending Dec. 22. f Smyrna and Cassaba - - - 3,125 3,566 Week endinrg Dec. 28. Bom.,Bar.,&C.India 461 7,792 14,026 21,817 22,642 , ajpnutana-MdalwIa.1672 10,175 28,117 38,292 55,842 Week ending Dee ...

... TO-DAYS TITTLE TATTLE. 1lis friends call him Tom, which sounds just a leetle familiar for Oeditor of so serious a paper as the Spieaker, which speaks for the first time s morning. Mr, Reid was until recently ?? editor of the Leeds Mercury, one of She most solid and influential of the provincial newspapers. From Leeds WMr. Reid came up to London, and was gappolnted to the chief-directorship ...

... I-. -I I . .: -ass ?? F, ??ft A, i ty r j l Perigneux. A pihg youtEI;: ?? of death for the 1lub u murder an ol d couple nndd circumstancesof great el,,a' r pa strecuted on Sunday morning. O4ving mer, to his yothe. p e expted that his sentence would be marhh, om d e ndwethe executioner and attendant eroh licial ppealred in his cell, roused him froin his r, a sleep , and told him he must die, ...

... 0tucqWm's Qrfunmll. of of tmX death occurred suddenly on Monday nleht, at for the Hotel Viebori4, London, of Mr. W. ,i. *-igge, at ex sheriff of the Ciiy of London, and head r a large of firm of tea merohantr. for Flames broke out oa Tuesday morning at a boot )he shop in Cardiff, and, spreading to thcre, others, of destroyed them and their contents. Pertsons ritoplng aw on the premises had ...

... VISITORS to Switzerland with a liking for steep byways often complain in the newspapers that such byways are mere traps of extortion. The traveller is seduced by their pleasant abruptness. He ascends to a certain elevation, and then meets with a gate which bars further progress except under penalty of half a franc. Having, under protest, paid the money, he continues his ascent until, to his ...

... THIS MORNING'S , I NEWS. I The Queen has appeintea Miss Pertha.Lar- bart to be one of her Maids of Honourin Ordinary, in the room of the Hon. Frederics Louisa FlitzRoy, resigned. The Prince and Princess of Wales last night gave, in connection with their New Year's party, the usual dance known as the Tenants' Bfll, which in ordinary WOai5Oa is held during the week succeeding the Princess of ...