... MYSTERIOUS DEATlH oF A MANt- CHESTER'MAN IN NEW Y.ORk. A New York corresporident ?? Gee.' an Englishewan, eaged 52, met his death on Tuesday morning under mysterious ho circumsrtanceti. He is a member of the firm of Jones t.rt Brother-s, drapers, of Manchester, drnd came here a. to, mouth atro for health and also, on business., He was rss to sail for home, but at two o'clock on -Tuesday !r- ...

... THMXT'SSLs* INEl S. I I , ?? *~ SAMFETY dF;9IE P.A'7ONIA4. THE STORY 4F. agEB0 ADVENTURES. TERRIBLE ;XPERIEENOES. News reached. Lixerpiol on SaturdsY that tle Cunard Liner Pavomi w*fa safe at the Azores, having been-towed in thereey the Hartlepool steamer Wol- Viston. The gratifyiny itelligenee caused a scene of tremendous excitem=t in the Clunnrd office among the officials, high and loh. The ...

... ~No YPnACTICAL HINTS. fol, PIC (Si P0 9VRqJA t.GIDaNNrXG COsRB'ONDZIT. Jef anc WYANrTEfMUNMS: A TIMXLY WORD OF CAUTION. mo An able grower of vhrysanthemums gives what we E think :is a necemsary caution which amateurs will do gei wllto bei in mind. Ile says in so manv words thst --Nis tamei~ve feeding of the plants on the surface after the to buds have been ?? to employ the usual terr, lie ...

... I OW A PAINTER FIRST SAW THE HOLY I -110 CITY. A prominent feature in the Christmas number of. the Windsor Magazine is an. account of the life- work of M. Tissot, the French artist, whose pictures of the life of Christ creatod such a. sensation in Eng- land 'a short while ago. M-. Tisot's first glimpse of the Holy City is very characteristie oS the man him- self It was in 1886, an afternoon ...

... IA NHRHSTER' :SH-IP CAXAL. 1 ?? -. . ..C. ~ p. ., . _ ,. * A PWOSPBROVS HAl-YEAR. 1 - 1 LDCI REP ' M3E15TING. The twonty-eightlh brilinry yeneral meeting of the' 'Msnoheter Ship Canal Coiniwny was held yes-. terday in the essciation 'Hall, Peter.street, Mr. ?? ?? BYthell (chairman of directeas5 presiding.. He was Supported b:b the directors of the Companly, roreseuiting both the shareholders ...

... INTERFETING FACTS, According to Profeisor Moritz, writing in a German medical periodical, the most speedy absorption of a drug into the human system is seoured by administer. ing it with water oq an empty stomacb. In many oases, he says, a definite effect will thus be produced, -when no effect would be perceptible from the same dose odministered shortly after the taking'of food. Food taken ...

... INTEtRESTING FACTS. Dr. Sven Hedin, the Swedish eaplorer, who ha added so mudi to our knowledge of Central Asia, in. tends to start on another expedition to that intered, iug, and in some respects mysterious, ?? about t he middle of the present year. Ho is to he gone three years, and will try to spend a Winter in the Alpina regions of Tibet, at an olevatior of 15,00D feet. regins f Tbet ?? The ...

... ?? i no *.li 11z= f: ?? ?? ~ ~ M M ?? , ?? ri ?? | 'Veronicl',.'-,,i~rer :'all qu'es'na addres ed tO hes ?? tho toilet;,6dress n&dhusehold minagemeibt: .Ifefa'aho uld.. be caddru'sed' Veroni,.are ol Times, Manceatesr.' - Z vP mondents vain ?? their full nsme' axud ,ldres as a guarantoe- of gocd&With. A ppau.. n or'motto, for use in thkieply, should 'alobe' ,gIVen. , . .0 ' TH1E H!AIBi,. .. ...

... e- - LATEST NEWS. te_ ' TEXT OF THE BOER REPLY. of V :'Brussels, Wednesday, re The following message from Pretoria has been a- received at the Transvaal Agency here, and is ts the reply to the last despatch of the British Gov- ernmient, which the Transvaal Government handed on Saturday last to the British Agent at a Pretoria:-The Transvaal Government regrets i that Great Britain is of opinion ...

... The largest waves are seen off Cape Horn, be- twseen latitude 55 deg. south and longitude 105 deg. west, rising to ib feet in height, and measuring about 765 feet from crest to crest. _ :o:- Mfadrid was visited by a remarkable hailstorm on June 9 about 6 p.m. The hailstones were about as big as nuto, and the quantity enormous. Some trees iera stripped of their bark, thousands of windows rwere ...

... PLYMOUTH. AND ,THE PILGR.IM FAITHERS: I~ : - ?? 7 Plymouth (Massachusetts, ?? is far from the beaten track. It has its railway, its hotels, and its eleotrio light, and: it once had a summer school !which almost' dragged it intV the swirl of modern days.; hut' the spirit of the past has hitherto dofied, the handiwork of the improver and' the modernising touoh of the summer tripper. When you ...

... 7 - , I THE TRANSA4AL BcRS1SI BRITISI POLICY AIND BOER OBSTINACY. THE FRANCHImSE GRIEVANCE. 1lhannesburq, Saturday, Noon. The'following resolutions were adbpted at-a mass meeting held thee to-night:- : That this meeting affirms that'no slettlemei* of the constitutiohiil problem can be satisfactory which does not-pLovide..forthe. recognition of the equal political-rights of all white ...