A Disputed Boundary
lidian are wrangling industriously over the northwestern boundary ot Oatario, whieh has been in dispute for several yeare. In 1878 the matter was referred to hir Edward Thornton, Sir Francis HincKS and Chief Justice Harrison as arbitrators, and they fixed the boundary on a line running due north f rom the north west angle f rom the Lake of the Woods and northeast along the Albany river and James bay to the west line of Qaebec. The Dominion parliament has, however, refused to rati'y theaward, and in case it is set aside the norchwestem boundary of Ontario will be a line running north from Thunder bay and eastward along the watershed between the great lakes and Hudson's Bay. The territory in dispute embraces 97,000 square miles, or nearly twice as mach as the whole state of Michigan. With it Ontario will have 126,000,000 acres; without it only 64,000.000. Should the award of the arbitrators be repudiated, which seems probable, that part of the disputed territory west of Thunder bay will go to MaƱitoba and the rest revert to the Dominion, and this will leave Ontario the smallest of all the provinces. The Toronto Globe flgues out the loss to Ontario as "an average of $65 to every man, woman and child in the province." A few years ago it was the custom in Ohio for enterprising road supervisors to deadeH every tree that shaded the country roads. Millions of beautiful trees were thus sacrificed. The people of the state have wisely resolved to btop all this, and begin to replant. Engineers have examined the end of the Coney Island piers, with a view of trying the experiment of having the electricity for the lights upon the piers generated by the action of the waves upon an apparatus devised for the purpose. The Itev. Mr. Swing says "that a novel is the world's truth with a beautiful woman walking throughit" Generally, we may add, with a man after
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