... ILORD ST'RATCONA'S BI3TRAIPLiACE. This is a sketch of The Got-tage, Archiesiton, i Craigellaohie, which is generally regarded as the 2 birthplace of Donald Smith, now Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal. The Cottage. which is off the bungalow or colonial type of residence, was built last century by a wealthy returned planter, ! s aud then it passed into the occupation of the Smith family. ...

... OIur LONDON LETTERj BY -J0URNAL' SPECIAL WIRE. BOM OUll OWN CORRESPONDENT.) G :NEv Biuuims SrrRcite. SSunday night. Mt Pirie i lVcer Tery 0o11g in tile House of r miakiiig his presence felt, in 11otiter. 'litretixtnedt fromn flit, orw iilii. le id d Scotland lislt week, anid iomaini quiet dur- jo° t\e ' 9-iiOtl of tile Food and Drugs Bill, 3n~ 0lll hd tleAo-iul Estimaltes been rcirlted I in ie ...

... ILAASIEO AND TIHE PHRDNOLOGIST. _I I HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A CRICKETER. Lasker is all surprises. He commenced cracking chess-nuts (says a writer in the 'Pail Afall Gazette ') at the age of 12, though his father's intee.5t in the game was confined to scanning his son's scoring sheets. But the greatest surprise was yet to come. We talked of the diversity of eraniums an:ong the chess- players ...

... SUlmME - - LISTS] i :. h'. I -'. 4' - I w - I We Gere Shpiher tq p wbinah we e during te oafa-sow lists oi, an f r vittors at various hie~It andc haliday reaort3.: in t fiO. North. -: IRRSIDE. . Mr oeor~ Caisherd wine anrd fta, ad family 1 -Woodends Ora. - I I. I. Bx.Baillje'Diusi and fianily-AIeybaak, Cva~hea' Mre Capta-in S'tewart and family. .Fernbaink,1 C1rathes. Professor Cash and ismily ...

... PANICS GAME,&X : , '-,,, i 'tt , .}', ,. Theaaa c~i ion picni ~f~Children. attendigthe sah;ool fGlen Taae foseto ad inord we ed't GTissitrdy ¶9he weather was delightfislbaiid .leh~hf arrangements ndfo-thir ltl~get r'i Williami and Ld ulfeBokwo'~ae 'take a special itrsiteeet'o.td h occasion mostenoaltovo ..sciidn respeotive teacher.M'm akrtie-rei and piopular hajatr'f Ge''a. wals m chief ...

... -TRE. WEATHER. , Thermometer and :Baronicter. | EJlADOS AT 2 Am. To-DAT. I lu SUN,. . ON. - 17i~e3.,.. 321 L~d,. 11'36 . _ Sea.: 9*4 2.38 LI.M. _ tk Vxo~r at. Aber-t 2.*N - :. .,ig 'A~4r . iJI~r.) 7 SlyThe bioneter has fafeDn, _ Iandt.the wtahi& IY unaeted, * :Y-.DAY . - (Jnly l 109.) TO-DAY.- FOEXUST1S FOR TO-DA.Y. *.The following forecaste of weather for co.day were issued from ...

... TO.MORROWvs' CHURCH SERVICA CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. .t.. 21.0 11ev. It. Hi. Fisher. . 6' it Rev. Wi P. Craidg Blburn (St Nicholas U.C. Church).., ., 11-0 llev. Dr 1IClyiiinIft. 6.0 llev. Dr bPClymmout St a1eorge's-inw-i6e.'V 11-U Rev Jos. Snith. 6.0 Bev. Jas. Smith. FRE SHUORCB. Bast .. . 11.0 2ev. Chas. El. Todd, 6.0 R1ev. Clas, 11. Todd. S0,a h. .,., 11.0 1ev, J. W. ...

... Wmmmgt= mzumm Asso. ?. - I- ?:?`CUMO-GAWM.:' GREAT GATHERINB G AT :KING'S COLLEGE The tenth annual Highland gathqrsog and game of the Aberdeen Highland Assqciation were held at King's College grQuudn on Monday after- noon before a crowd of upwards of W904 spectators. On the whole, the weather conditio9s wera f&%vgu5- able, and, despite heavy thunder 4hQwQr@ Juet before the cpmmencssent at qee ...

... 'OAlTiN ACCIDENT ON THE NEM1% bI1 AN EXCURSIONIST DROWNED. t NARROW ESCAPE OF.TWO COMPANIONS. t On Saturday afternoon a sad boating accident ` occurred at Inverness to three excursionists from V stirling, resulting in the drowning of one young man and the narrow escape of the other two. A party of 1500 excursionists from Stirling visited Inverness for a day's holiday. Three young men t of the ...

... REV. MfR LORIMER'S LETTER. ____ a Sir,-From Friday's issue of the Aberdeen b Journal, it would appear that the Rev. Robert Lorimer, P.C. minister, Dundee, ha, become a, bitter assn:ilant of Lord Overtoun. His lordship's reply to the charges are, according to the clerical judge, thoroughly unsatisfactory. lie -feels that the money he had received years ago was made by the oppression of the ...

... THE MYSTERIOUS MLSTONE. At one thie fairies played an important part in the social life of Caithness. There were persons who professed to see the merry people, and who could play or whistle the tune to which they danced as they disported thsemaselvee oun some knoll or ruined dyke. I widl not (writes a correspondent) say that he was not a local man that -was sent for a keg of whisky in ...

... : . . -r EWMNLtlPONbAL F[S HRIM C FEZ MNCE AT -BUZ. - I Particulars are now issued of 0 the lt. national Fisheries Conference to be held A Biarmtz, from the 25th to the 31st int ThA hon. -president ii Admiral C. Fournier, a the vice-presidents include the principal members of the various natural history and fisheries societies of France. Upon: the foreign committee uaerrmnly, -Englaid, Scot. ...