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In The Linen,
The geed housekeener hats the best yoga-
ble weerant for keeptng her linetwroom stip-
lolled with the choicest products which her
rem will elle% for " fine Unen, clean and
*bite*" is& biblical. synonyra for righteeos-
meal a.ntl purity. Ale a febrig it commands
admiration, for int fieeneenefirmnots axed aurae
bitty. Teethe moat ahreates o Scotlaael and eeenese gramma, end other Empre eaig
'Ireland the- best flax its groyne, le lea tough These 'mottle me shown in edema% Moe, rose,
and vi genet( Itttle plent, emeetienee growing pale yellow, antique greenh. the new ruse
M high as thirtIr fortY inebcs, tPul hews ehade and olive colors. Deco with deep
Aswan, bine floWer not unlike -the forget- v,xicifte, pante ere freely- eleewn ahem -
embroidery hi often in trills be metallic color,
but Tory little metallb 'rnbr'ide'Y b '486°' gel gp en fo. wh xm' eoirt eadulaixridth—rthe otuasgPliblyalilinoaonra-
TovelY gwwrio In the IS•Tew Qrlet938 b114°/' eorated with. each other, will, meld hag
Vandyke red or in rust oolofare aleo aten „„lese„
Eisen with a trimming of bleck velvets wrought, ^t tthn
me a wool background, or erabreideries of PaPier'mache articles ehould be chimed,
bleak, with or witheut a elighe 13raidy pat- with soaP and waraiwatori auddnaly poliaa-
ohno, some exereisses weseena are iss the quentity of beetewex has been melted.
eeeigo ene 3 eci with sweetatil in who hat the
tern wrought ehrough the
diet patterne of bottercepeetinY Levenderevater. st, meet n ft 1,0
e
• se us aejuno.
the teilet,.la made by adding me ounce of the
essential od of lavender mid two, drachma of
eethergrie to a pint of proof 'Oat of wine.
Place in %mart bottle, and Oahe the miz.
titre longs:el vee1l. atiould not be used
for a day or two.
toomet. alesorlet'the steer gth of the soil windows le fine poterna of Irbil, oroeheo
wblela it grows. to bud, an eetent thet the
following ereh, jende little debut, ide, The and other effective levees,
fine, delicate stake, not mech exceeding in
Intimate; an ortlintwy nin, contein the elend-
TELEGEAFHICS
er Momenta which form the linen threw),
Thevre pulled from the ground carefully,
Three riemitngand the aralha are then plac-people diceppecl dead et Quebec on
, e
tifle he we or 'made taken off br a Pomo seeeraev.
0.3 Ise a fiax.pie where they are kept under wine vapour, were killed by lightniug in
water for it mouth or mores until the touch
e Georgia on Satorday.
woody heart begins to itoften. They are then
"Fend gently en the grass and the sun lends Hamilton grain lowers will buy only by
hie iefluenoe and bleachea end. recidera brittle the teeter in the tuture.
the tough little pith, whiele le broken up and
are fmegy removed by the eeuneing preeeee The Menitoba nOffici „s zette" has a
in tile mill , ito aM
ppearance R ken ouly.
The best at longeet fiber le 'selected to The detalle a the explosion Arid are at
=eke the beat linen. The thort idolise which oeetwere, are iswfid-16Q dead, 5rA wooed -
w in a dry agawn or on poor scalars med. eg,
or the poorer meanies. The tiny threads Mr. P. S. Steveneon, Taw:Went of the
are Iiire the etroiageat elk. New Br:mewl* ra)lway, died at Montreal
Neweet desigue en 'Wale linert are beenth
fa and ertietie area fre general like deeerta
tlone
in ell department* of the howiehold A tidal wave etrinik Ree'kewey Beech, L
thie leenleWileit larger than hereto. 1,, yeeterdey* drenching eeetlrei thettelind
lore. Alleen the choiceet may be maned pereouti,
tbe wah.leat kettern, the corn flower, largo Inveuter Thomea A. Edison le attemptiog
cluetereendvinea of wild rosea, the red olev- to intim Canada under the petene conven-
er, lea and. Bleat:one, 'large lezeogee,elnitera
et lily of -the -valley and great Tenni lillea
Seating en a fine gain demeek earfece, all
a Patera size, Same hetsdeartm plehneur.
face '0004 were Shown with A large niedelt
lien oepter and a border to inateli, Others
were entirely without decorations, except a
eleep tender representiug a waning otin
ribbon or a eucceesion Of fine tetin Mime
Tbe cheaper gredee at clothe are good end
firm awl artiatic pattern; while the eatin
&maths are thlege of beauty.
Vox. lunch and tea clothe, the delicate -
valved aprettda are altill med and are aherill
1 n rxceodingly rich pattern*. The pink,
bine, *teem, buff, eelu and pea-green covers
ere either frieged er deeply hetnteleed.
SeMe flee baud embreldered inwide pattern*
Ob perfectly plain grouuda* others diepley
severe' rows of Mexican work, Par the
bentstitelied burden the bent is two inched
wide, and for the napkies accompanying
the set, One inch ha width,
We may glance at the elegant ;it warp
See= which are among** meat beautiful
iebricelet atiewri. Rae is a delicate but
decided malmorecolored lipreed richly cov-
ered with Egyptian dodges a ambient;
obelisks, pyramids; and ether strecgo
theme each Attending out plaioly from the
brilliant ground. A gorgeeua orange tover
bee large floral patterne witb ilovea flyieg
among the Sower,. A rcee-cnier cloth hae a
mole border at wheat and for.get.r.c.note
drewu with artistic ageuracy, end n Pretty
ember cloth is crowded with deueing figure;
of squints and other graceful figure'', while
still mother repreeenta scenes in a Bennis
charlotlace. Of comae for many elega.ut
luncheon, the centre -piece* alone aro used.
Theee are shown in all the etylee and coitus
tion et 1883.
Sefficieut moray bee been solitserthed at
Johootown, Pa. to carry on a Imo aggest
the south. Ferh4 riehIng Club.
The eteatner St. Leverenee emaislied her
eellieener while epproaehleg Iter dock at
Kingeten ou Seterday. The damage iLaQ
airbus that the boat cannot be uged again
this season.
Shooting tbe Cataragte.
There le ;lathing Wee emphaeizing the
Malty ef an eedertekleg for the purpose
et ailing etteritien to Ontl'it Oten prowess' in
grappUzig with It. A party of t.revellere in
gypt, whese adVentaree are nerraled in
reuPharaeti tn Volleb," were on the
relate to Philae, and expeeted to eltoot the
cetersebt by tbe'way. AN they approached
the mere dertgerous pent oi the river, the
beet wee pulled to the shore, *hex° a group
of donheyhoee were walfeng with their
aulreein and the guide declined the project
to be too daegeroua to attecopt at that
ilmon, of the year,
"Tell Wm te g000 at QIICe I" cried Om of
he laxly.
Then the two Egyptian boatmen iell on
their keen, and begged the trovellere to
abandon enth *wild attempt, They were
the elavee of hie excellency, the paella, who
accent peeled the party; trey would die for
Wm, but would not go down the cataract
with biro,
"Thie iv all rubblah," cried the pethe,
exesperated ; " bundrede do it every year,
and we meat do it."
li.nother egouized convereation followed,
and than the latepreter reported. " Well,
mentioned for cover; anti emoeg the newest your exeelleuisa he lay not mind kill other
aro thole' whirl aro llearil.00rerod with tho gentlemen, if they give him certificate they
open-work embrolaery. vv ben the eerare- don't mind, but he say if he kill your ex -
boa hosed, the remainder of the table„ to eenmey bo heoaga.o
the depth of eight or tea inane, is hand- "Tell hint wo have decided to die to
-
lamely busked with amens and fern*. gather eau one.
Among the most serviceable end, at the 44 Tell Mtn he shall have four napeleone,"
slime time, the newest oentrellecee, dollien anotbse.
a,od carving cloths are those which ar1 The Egypt -hues eyee twinkled.
flubbed in the Gerratin Spaehtel work. f simake ib evep he void.
This le a strong crebreidery on the linen j to You go at once, or you, shall be hanged
whicbebeing cue ant, leave; a handeorno, whether I um drowned or not," announced
durable opezowork embroidery. This QM,
'braider; le a favorite ornanientetion this
season, and appears on bedespreade and pil-
aw -slums, as well.
Napkhut
are of the ustuel sizes and nuttob.
the cloths endoentre•plecerwith whith they
see to be used. But the doilies, whether
/or finger -bowls or ordinary tee.dollice, are
exquisite worke of are. They are In greet
-variety and one looks tor their pretty
designs, at a grand luncheon with as =nth
interest ae for the choice china which the
bootees displays. Soule are mere Iscreps..of
white, pink, blue, bat or green satin ale
Trask, with A angle pond lily, rose or da-
odil spray stamped on their ;smooth aurface
and with fringed borders. Then there, are
the squares et rule linenlawn, a mere breath
of fabric's. hematitehe or embroidered into
delicate pink or blue wallops with a anal'
eyelet hole in each goallop. Others are of
fine white or oream-china sillr, hemstitched
or fringed, and painted with bits of color
taken from Japanese fasee--here an odd
tower, there a mandaxin or a strange for-
eign scene. Or you may choose a faint;
shade of pink or bine faille and, after finish-
ing it nicely with a hemstitched border,
pahat quiet' bit of iandscape with a few
dainty -conches, in monotone if you please,
or a Bete view, e snow scene, or a branch
with a bird or birds in any possible arrange-
ment, and you will have a set of doilies for
which tbe dealer -charge' live dollars per
dozen, asdellght to the eyes of your guests.
Berwool-teeth, especielly the better
colour; is very apt to catoh the diet; but hi
may be (dewed, by dipping said agitating it
irk aospe, lather. It met on no aceount be
rubbed or wrung; tied, when the dirt hail
been extracted be this Paeans, it meet
be well reload in plenty of water
huug to drip, and then pulled. into shape and
stretched to dry.
Tbe Italian Admiralty have recently oar-
rieel out a number of experimeate with a
view of testing the comparative merite of
ezter•eil and eliveleil for lubricating pur-
poses" OA beard ship.- on the remits oh.
taped, they have given, ordera that hence.
forth all exposed parts of machinery are to be
lubriceted exclusively with caetor-ofl, while
mineral elle are to be Urea for oylinder aud
alectiler lubticatiou.
Oaet often reade pethetie stories of pee
bird e that dieamulteneeettly with, or alertly
after their childsownerte It eounde pretty ;
but the ample moo of the metter °ben ie
theet the owner; lufected the We, Canariee
and other mongetera will Cat011 isearlettever,
nmealee, diphtheria, or ammo) any other
human dieease, and, if left in the sion-room,
they are almost Etre to be infecteds Ihst
cats and small dogs, too, are ofteu sacrifieed
in the eme way ; and in their case there le
else the risk that they. will go out and
become the unwittiug Instrument(' of die
trends:sating dieeeee.
Cherry etain ; Mix together, by etix ring,
one qtlaet 01 Spiribt of turpentine, one pint
of japan, one pound of Venetian red ground
• In ail, and tire OtEnCea of dry burnt umber.
Apply with a brush, goad wipe off with a
elotte ; /Web with one coat of Shellac and
two con% of varniela 4 tl4z solution of
pereariegthate ef vetoes% in hot water will
make a good walaut colour. Apply several
oat; ialowing plenty of time for drying
between meek erett. Belled oil may be used
ean polish. If a little turpentlue le stifled
to the oil, it will work easier. A very fine
mahogany etein la made by barb& eight
manes at fettle in cue gallon of water. Tho
old rule is to streek the wood before ibb
quite dry with bile* stain to produce the
grein of matagany.
How to Cook a Steak.
Now if you only knew how to cook
s. steak Wreaks it good that; would do, but
it always makes me sick to see a woman
look a steak. She invariable puts her fry-
ing -pen on tbe stove, and puts in a chunk
of grease about as big as my fist; and when
it is hot enough to begin to crackle, sherbet
in her beef, and never thinks of coverbg it.
The smoke arel steam Worn it goes to the
-very (selling. After the cooks it this way
until it begins to look like an old rubber shoe
sole, the calla it done. When you go to est
it there Is no more taste in it than a chip.
Novr, if you want a good bit of steak, have
a clear hot fire, set your clean empty pan
on a spot, cover it up, then pound your
steak, and when yore pan le very hot lay
i'n your steak, and cover quickly. As soon
as It has crisped though to let go its hold
on the pan, turn over and cover quickly;
turn again as ab Oran and continue to de;.
about every two minute's until you have
turned ib about six or eight tfmes. Have a
hoe buttered dish ready for it and lay it In;
add a eprinkling of pepper, salt and sumer,
and cover tightly. Now, if you wish a gravy,
pat a bit of butter in your pan. iihhen hot,
rub in a phsoh of ;flour, add :a email teacup-
ful of boiling water, let it boil a few min-
ute; then pub in a gravy boat Instead of
putting:it over your beet ;to draw out the
jace. Now try this plan , just once, e.nd
you will eee you women know nothng
About cooking et good steak.
Tea GoWno Negligee^
Dainty and charming gowns for house are
imported cashmeree yarrows bright ehades7
We have lo the ereas of electricel waves
Due a who a dieturbance °abide the wire
and A current withia it ; end the equations
of 2tleXwell Allow ea to calculate thole 'with
perfeet eceeraoy and give eti the tam with
veapect to them. We thus find, nye Mr.
Ak. Rewind, flat the velocity of pro-
pagation of the Waves Meng a wire, bungler
a Ay from other bodice and made of good
condualug material, is that of light, or Ana
boated end eighty-five thougaud mike per
tecond; but, when it ia hung neer any
eaducting elector, like the earth, or
encloied in a cable and sunk lute the see,
the velocity become Much, IOU. When
bung in owe, away from other bodies', it
forms as it were, the coo of system qf
wove; iu the °thee, the Amplitude at the
disturbance becoming lea and less as we
move array from the wire. But the moat
curious feet le that the eleatio current
penetrates only a short Mamma into the
wire, being mostly confused to the thaw,
especialln where the number of oscillations
per second is very great,
LATEST FROM EUROPE,
Incidents of the Antwerp Horror—Scotlepds Bcirning, Min—The
Brown-
Ueqnard Prooese.
It is now estimated that two hundred and
fif ter pereera were slightly injured by the en-
plorsion. The firemen and troops worked
rhough the eetire night on hiYarlY Shift!.
AlArly Ot them enceombed to the heat and
smoke and had to be conveyed to hospital
insensible on stretchers. All the week
era lane bleokned faces aod bear ea.
dehoeit of the lfickeniug eflectee Work is now
entir' ely confined to keeping the fire from
• lipreading beyond, the ebeelli and faotories
within the dry dock. The wind still oen.
time! favorable.
• Sin million Hem of petroleum are in
fame's. The oil, it is expected, will con-
tinue to burn at least till next Monday.
euniteri TO TIME DEATH.
At the moment of the exploeion many of
the workmen jumped into the Scheidt in
their fright and were drowned. A neither
of sailors and eneterna offieere were hilted on
hoard alive by the flying bellete anti shine
were xiddled by the unesilece It is estimats
ed that two thouseard tons of metridges OX-
ploded. The noise was heard thirty railea
Awey,
nun soon= 31rtiE niaLexen.
At laiaurithwood Pits Pe:Attack, beyond
the alight noille Ceneed by the monotonous
clank of the eogine, ell wee quiet, and where
yeaterdey etood. large &troupe of the relatives
and friends of the entombed miners, eagerly
elingiug to the faint hope thet was then
held one, only * tew, drawn by ourlaeity,
are preeent.
Before dewel. eix other bodies were brought
up, melting twenty-seven recovered in all.
A (*pieta supply et water le kept on the
burning coal, but it is evident thet little
progreaa is made in reducing the flame; the
drehoviag got hold of the eaet Aide.
wenneln leatnXii Pletlentleallee,
The bodies were found lying on an elevat-
ed portion of the working, and the only
Way an which tbey could be raised was by
placing them three at a time in a hOX and
floeting therie along on the water to tile
mouth of the incline. As an inetauce of the
clifficelty experienced in geareisiug the mous
log put)? State that they bed to Towle
through water for fully it enuatem of an hour
before they ewe upon thevorpsee.
At five edaloole in the morning the weter
Ma four feet deep ma wee riang at the
e of three bailee an hour. Consequently
11 was deemed advisable to MOM searching,
At this time the fire on the eastern aide Velta
burning brightly, and the hose their was
beteg pleyed oven it had little Effect
ere YnetTlielt FOIL SIX WRICXe.
later in the day a congultetion of mining
experts and the manner of the colliery wan
held, at which it eves resolved to (temp down
the mine, and this haviug been done there
will be no further operations probehly for
eix weeks.
It le eatinated that there are thirty
widows and aeventy fatherleta children, and
that £20,000 will be neeclea as e rellet fund,
toward. which, several of the leadiug collieries
and landed proprietors have already (mita,
lotted, Shottti colliery giving £500 and the
Marquis at Lothien Z100,
A method. of treetnient for foreign bodies
in. the stomach, which appeara to be
Practised with almost uniform mom in
the pule, and tinchng that he meant bush both &gland and on the Continents, congas'
zees, the guide aceepted the ablation.
Up the stream goem tbeloan cautiouelY
approaching the told enrrent a few beton at
o atroke.
"Hold tight!" end suddenly, with a
Awing, the heath bow wheels round twlee,
end we are 101E111 steam. Very gently move
the care now, for they are not needed, and
only keep near the water to ateady her.
Quick fibs the boat, and the whirl of seater
belies angrily against the black botddera on
either aide.
olleb ye, Abu Bab 1" cry the sailors in
monotonous chent, and the old guide sits
grim and black in the stern, with watchful
eye on hie Men and grim outlet* ahead.
" Great Ammon 1" look at that rook
ahead 1" whispered the pasha.
It grew tearer, and the guide, apparently
frantic with anxiety, ecreamed his direc-
tione at the top of his yoke. Back eoreamed
the sailors angrily, es 11 10 mutiny.
"Allah help us 1" Great Bab help us 1"
rise in agonizing cries.
" We'r in it 1" said the pasha.
." Don't waste your etrength fighting with
the stream," sad another, quietly, as he
slipped Ws arm out of his coat. A big wave
Beamed to lift the boat in air, and Co be
about to data in on the black rack. A look
of horror came over the guidees face, and he
uttered one despairing shriek, as akimming
tbe crest of the breaker, the boat gave a
tarn to right angles, passed the rock at a
yard's distance,turned esompletely round
twice, and was riding placidly in open cur-
rent.
" All finish I" cried an Egyptian, and the
guide added, solemnly. "Very clever 1
Plenty bekeheesh
His fear and horror had merely been the
proper dramatic: accompaniinent to bhe
situation.
A Very Sudden Death.
Tonoateo, Sept. 19.—Shortly after nine
&cloak the other nighe David Cleary, an
Elizabeth street grocer, rushed into No. 1
police station and informed the sergeant on
duty that a drunken woman would be found
lying on Jarvis street in a moat helpless con-
dition. The patrol wagon was immediately
sent to bring her in. When the reached the
station she fell upon the floor apparently in a
drunken etupor, but when the pollee ab -
tempted to move her they found her dead.
Mrs. Adam'
s the matron, thinks that the
dead wouninis the notorioue Annie Kinny,
but is nob positive.
Her Pa Was Engaged.
Fond Lover—" If your pa in, Addle ?"
Gentle Maiden--" Yes, but you may come
F. L.—" I don't think he likes me, and
he might—"
G. M.—"There's no need of being afraid;
h engaged."
F. L. "Engaged, is ?"
G. Mehe" Yes. He otayee out till after
twelve last night and wout off thie morning
without geering ma a chance to talk to him,
She is talking to him now and he won t be in
this part of the houee for the texts three
hours, aeCome eight hi.",
in the administration amply of largo
emonnte of potatoes, to which the diet
should be restricted. Potatoes, as is well
known, aro composed of nearly twenty per
cent. of carbohydrates, eighty per cent. of
the solids being ataroh and °abbe°. On
account ofthis large amount of carbohydrate,
a great portlon will resist the action of the
digestive juice& The oelealose and other
carbohydrates increasing greatly in volume
from imbibition with water lead to an accu-
mulation of an immense amount of indigesti.
We residue; consequently the intestinal
tube is, throughout the mare time of the
administration of this food, owl with large
mines oltionmintorbable matter. The folds
of the intestine 'become obliterated,
and fixation of the foreign body in
the intestinal tube is thus avoided. It
seeing their from five to nine daye, or even
longer, are required for the evacuation of
the foreign body; and in every case whish
does not gem desperate a trial of thie aim.
ple planed treatment should precedeprecede
resort to gastrotomy. In fact, at a recent
meeting of the Vienna Medical College Pro-
fessor Bilked' said that since tbe introdue.
tion of this procedure gastrotomy for foreign
bodies should become an obsolete operation.
Recovered for Spite.
The chuckling and ether symptoms of sat-
isfaction led the Oxford County .man to tell
another story, nye The Lewiston (Me.)
Journal.
"A woman up our way was very sick,"
said he. "She grew worse and worse, and
the doctor finally gave her up. She had
fought is good fight for life, but at last made
up her mind that she was going to die and
said her parting words to her friends. Last
of all the had a talk with her husband.
"'Yes, Miranda' gad he, dropping a
ear.
'I ain't like some women, John. I want
you to be happy and have a companion
through life.'
" 'Yes, Miranda"
"'Yes, I want you to marry again, and
I've been thinking that one of Mr. Smithes
siirle would make you an exe.ellent wife
"'Yeo, Miranda I've been thinking of
that same hieing myself.'
"roe. have, eh you brute 1 You better
wait till I'm gone before you .pick out an.
other wife 1 Oh, you wretch 1 Fixing your
heart on another -woman before your first
wife's under the ground 1 Bus you ahana
have her. I'm going to get well just to
rapite you and Ann Smith.'
"The woman WM true to her promise. To
everybody's astoniehment she recovered, and
lived to attend her huthandes funeral." .
The popular Cronus of Spain hass junt
died in the }moon of the Marquia de Urquijo.
HiEl executers have paid into the Spanish
Treasury succession dutiee mounting to
£96,000 on his fortune, which exceeded five
mililone eterling. Thb was mined fifty
yeers. The owner had begun ifs as a Basque
village lad, and died it Senator, grandee, and
ex Mayor of Madrid. He left £180.000 in
bequeete to charities in his native provinee,
wetly of wbich he forinded himself, and £20,-
000 for masses for himeelft
The Worn -ant Potato,
Few the lack of frequent heathy oresemg
the entire vitality of the ram has been slow-
ly dissipeted ;the entire stock las grown old
together, and we atand now face to face with
the awful poseibility of a pobtolese universe,
But why can't we go baok to the fountain.
bead onoe more and abet afresh with brand-
new potatoca trota their native foreet Ay,
thereti the rub, as Hamlet justly puts it.
We can'b discover the fountainhead any
longer. Nobody knows where the potato
comes from; the native forest iteelf is dead.
The aboriginal wild -potato seems as extinct
in our day the wide world over as the dodo
or the deinotherium. This is often the way
with important food plants. Nobody can
trace with certainty the ancestor of wheat
or Indian corn, the primitive father of the
plantain or of the banana. The fate is,
whenever a plant lays by these rich stores
at =Acrid for be own use, either as seed or
root or bulb or tuber, man, greedy man, is
euro to divert ib to hie own purposes as
ruthlessly as he robs the bees of their honey
and the cows of the milk they have prepared
for their calves in their own udders. Every
important human foodstuff is essentially at
bottom a. seed or a tuber, eggs in the animal
world answering to the one, fatted beasts
answering roughly to the other. Wheat,
barley, Indian corn, peas, beans, dates, and
cocoanuts ereinstauces in the first direction;
potatoes. turnips, yam, beet root are
instances in the second.
From the very firth moment, then, that
the ancestral potato began to lay upstart:thee
and foodstuffs for itself in its own under-
ground tissues vremay be perfectly sore that
rodents, monkeys, and other animal enemies
did thew level beat to circumventits innooent
(ledge by digging them up and incontinently
eating them. Presently man, ae the red
Indian, arrived upon the goalie and subjeot-
ed the incipient and starchy potato to some
rude cultivation. In ono way he was lees
destructive, no doubt, than the rodents and
monkeye who had gime before him, became,
while he rooted up and grubbed out more
indefatigably than they, he kept is little
back for "seed " for the future. He out up
Ws potato into many small Fleece with en
" eye " in each, the eye being in facts an
undeveloped leaf -bud, whence branches,
would issue in another season. Thu he
husured in some way the continuance of the
plant; but alas 1 he only cared for his own
equaive and papooaes in the unmediate future
and took no thought for the convenience of
the intruelve white man in this then remote
nineteenth century. And considering how
little the white man thought of his congeal-
enoe some ages later perhaps his remittances
In this respect isnot to be wondered at. At
any rate, what the red Indian wawa to have
done was haat this: As in almost every
other ease of primitive agriculture, he
brought the Wild plant into caltivetion and
improved largely its 'special yield, but in so
Whether he grubbed up al e wi owes
and ate them on the epot or whether he
merely encroached upon their open feeding
grounds and so crowded them out,. as farms
and fences are orowdbig out the buffalo in the
far west, dew( not appear ; but what is certain
is that the wild potato itself doe's not now
appear either. We have loth all count of
the primitive stock, eo that we can't go back
to it to (noes it with its own degenerate
descendants or to develop anew from its bar-
bario tubers the encoulent regent or the ash -
leaved kidney.
Bee Battlers,
At a recslet meeting of the DabliniPhiloso
Phieal Society, Mr. J. M. Gillies read an
intereating paper on hilatefiattles"—of which
the following is a oondeneetion
Standing in froot of a bee hive ou a sum.
mer afternoon, when the flow of honey hag
been somewhat cheeked by the advance of
the Season, one observes several bees wait-
ing about the. entrance. Oa the snivel of a
would-be entrant, one of them steps forward
and extendits tongne. The new coiner, in
reply, extends its tongue With le little honey
taleen froin. be hooey -ease and the wimple
being found gatiefactory, it plusses in.
Should, however, the new arrival refeee the
conetersign one may satsuma it to be a
robber, and such a enese the sentries will
immediately attack it with an angry, deter.
mined buzz. Should the intruder be alone,
the eonfilin will be short, and the opere.tion
of throwing the memo of a dead bee from
the edge of the flight -board will soon be
witneeeed. If, as mese likely be the cave
the attack be preconeerted, tae position will
have been carefully reconnoitred, and ad-
vantage wiu lemediately be taken of the
confusion by a strong force of bees, which
will endeavor to effect an entrance at another
part of the openings The firth sign of wen.
fare will bring down the whole force of the
hive, and unless this be inadequate to realist
tlae atteclibg party, the result indicated
before will be repeated on a barer
The outcome of the beetle will net
altogether depend upon the relative sizes
of the contending partiee. Defensive ar-
rangements have a good deal to say
im the mato. A hive genii opens ite
Winde width wetild probably be lompletely
et the moray of *angrier fere; but as the
outranoe la narrowed the stratgeticacivautege
tondo to the defeudere until te„ point is reach-
ed where, in the worde ot Macaulay, "
thousand may Well be ',topped by three."
When elle akillod beekeeper observes wer
in progrese, he stands ohne to the hive with
allover dredger in hie heed. The lace are
00 much excited to =ace bbs presence, and
he quietly degas tbenl ea they pees in and
ent. Thisenables biltt to trace the citteat-
lug party to its stronghold, and a few pith
of emokeadminiatered in the enemy's camp
frightens the bees within door's and keeps
them there in a state of alarm, which le com-
municated to each returning °matador until
the whole colony is at home in a 'date if
terror. The entrance of the laeleeeured hive
ia then nerrowed down, or it may be %Wo-
bbly °lona with a pieta of perforated dee.
Wheat Obtuse beau Oone, a pieta of cloth,
maturated with carbolic aoid, hung ale inch or
two from the entrance, will prevent stemma
of hostilities. The boo' dislike the emelt of
etiebelle acid. Tim regular lambitenteaf
the hive will peat it, beceuee they none do
ao to reaele their home, but the etrangere
aseatellates the odor with dapple and retire
when they znel1 it. Observations on the
weather and the :rectories of pleuts will
generally enable the bee -keeper to anticipate
theta ettatike or their renewal.
As to the tectice of the beets 10 wrier°, it
10 aoraceibet difficult to epeak, on aCCOnnt of
their mold proem:buts, but the piste .001110
to be, when possible, to detaxis two bees to
deal with each one of the opposing force. An
intruding be, when Rebated by only one
other bee aeldom mount* the effensive. itis
one ohjecl 10011111 to be te get into the hives
and when "razed he gathers up his abdomen
into a email oneness ea as to prevent his
bang *tang between the rings of his body,
the joint's being apparently his °ply valuer -
able -pinto. By oath:dog him, and following
him About into various contortions, the de-
fenders, eapecially If they be two to one,
eventually manage to discover an unprotect.
ed .pots, and then he is very rapidly etung
to death Ono bee is Able to 'sting another
bee .102d withdraw t.he eting, which it
seldom able to do when it stoma a man.
To ding a roan, the extremity of the
body, and frequently even the entrails, are
left elm; with the sting by the unfortunate
insect. The combat, like limey gathering,
is invaribly conducted by the worker bees.
In 'the event of the attacking party proving
successful 10 aohlevitsg an entrance by force,
they then ammo the offensive and :daughter
the inhabitants. Apparently in order to save
themselves frora this fate, when tbe idve has
been Overcome, the remaining inmates will
make comtnon astute with the ateallente, and
even display vigor in tarrying off stores to
the enemy's hive, which they permanently
loin. The attaoked hive, unless very light,
*Ill take one or two day; to clear, excepting,
indeed, as frequently occurs, the robbers be
joined by other hives who wish to share
plunder, and then the store disappears with
greater rapidity.
Reference has been made to the rapidity
of the movements in what may be called
hand -to hand encounters. This exceeding
activity is intimately associated with the
formation of the sting. 11 has a series of
barbs, there being about nine pockets form-
ed by these on each side. The aeration
on one side comes opposite the barb point
on the other in such fb way that although a
bee is usable to withdraw its sting, by means
of a direct motion, 11 is able, by making
nine turns, to screw tbe sting onteeand thus
free itself. Thics supposes the siting to have
been driven in up to the hilt, which is not
usually the case. Numerous other questions
intimately assooiated with this fighting
occur, but they would gradually involve
rthouenednintirgee.eoonomy of the bee mad its sur -
The drone has no stint and, therefore,
cannot fight. The stinging to death of
the drones, when they are no longer required,
were it not for the very positive assertions
of Huber, would now be considered a myth.
Apparently they are not stung, but simply
(heeled from the hive, their Mega being
frequently nibbled, until, weak and ohille&,
they .drop *mat:anted. The pathos ex.
paneled on the subject of the slaughbered
voluptuaries of the hive is no wasted,
although somewhat shaky as regards its
foundation in fact. ,
We now (some to the "battle royal."
Under peculiar oireumetances cases have
been occasionally found of two queens exist-
logIn the same hive, though generally no
hive can have t wo queens, but the addltimoena
°courts in nature when a second queen oo
out, the previous queen being still alive, and
artificially, when the agriculturist throws
tee weak swarms together to mate a strong
one. The peculiarities of title eecoonter are
that the two are left strictly alone to fight
the matter MI, and by no chance are both
mesons killed; the aurvivor is never known to
• STATISTICS.
Of 51,857,775 lbs yarn imported into
India bet year all except about 500,000 lbs
came from the United Klisedem,
In Ireland lest year the. cope -amps goner -
idly showed an inereesed‘ aceeege 114 8,714
acres, the ingreese in wheat being '.483,204
acres and in barley 3,780 iietes, whilee oats
the newt important oorn-orop in Ireland:
were lees by 35,190 notes.
The issue to the publto of specimen' coins
of the new design? adopted in 1867 Elaci:ot the
medal's struck in commemoration of her
Majesty's dobilee bowel in June, 1887, and
was, brought to a cloth in December last, No
lees than 1,084sete of (meant= cans—beside
individual plecee—were sold, and 7,490
medal; of which 944 were gold, 2,289 ailver
and 4.257 bronze.
The coal -producing area of the world, so
far as.knewn, is about 400,000 %Mire miles,
Of which. about theee-fourtha. ie to the Unit-
ed States and one fortieth in Great Britain.
But Great Britain is eatimated to poems
240,000,000,e00 tons of fossil fuels. At the
Paine rate, Wel:Jailed States poeeesees 4,000,
000,000.000, and the world, it is preeumetit
about 6.400,000,000,000, tome allowing for
ait yet undiacovered deposit*
A study of the atatietice of urban impute
-
tion shows that during the put 40 years the
rate of increase in the poi:subtlest of the
pricipal cities of Europe and ierneriett hae
been ranolegreater then that of thepopulation
of the globe. In this period, nearly every
large community which poeseseed fair natural
advantagee has inereesea ite population from
100 to 290 per acute, while the total 11140040
of bahabitauta la estimated at 40 per eel*
In a large portioned Europe, from ono -hall to
two thirda of the population is crowded into
cities. In the United Stetea the older Stabil
exhibb coaditieue
The horde of the Australseden celooles
furnieh $84.400 cattle for eleughter ennuallys
of which 743.980 are required for home-coue
aumption, leaving 141,000 avaleble for ex.
pork Ati the populatioa bermes by 4 por
cent. annually, 'while the herds borealis> only
1 per cent, the demand is expected to over,.
tam the emptily in sin yam. The liaoke
furnieli 11.951.886 eheep for slaughter anet
nuttily, 5,716,000 being required in the
colonies and 6 236.886 being avellable for
export. The 'acreage in sheep is 3 02 per
ceut, per anneln and At this rate the, our.
plea will note it is eatimeted, be treuelord
epee. In 1888 only About orreesixtlas of this
eurplas was exported as frozen meet.
Strongly Beaded.
Sir 0. Baden ixt a vigorously writ
ten letter to the London "Times," defends
the new Canadian route to the eilt egaltat
the (mitten:1r( ef Sir George Caraptaii and
ether*. Ile paint; out, 'A the first place,
that 1010 ta be supplementary to the Perlin.
eider and Otientil company's route, nob its
rival and shows by figures haw ulna can be
itaid ite fever. To japen. for instance,
the journey will be inane in 22 dept, instead
of 4‘1, as by the P. and 0.; to Shanghai, in
28, inetead of 34. It will reach Kong
Kong SO011 as the other route. Buie
adds Sir G. Radon -Powell, "comperisons are
°diem' and unriecsaaery,° ana then he pante
out, that, owing to the rapidity with which
British trade In the Paoida fa redvanoing.
"thole isnot only room but positive need
for inoreased accommodation for the in-
creased traffic." Refraining from saying
anything of the new route's military bud&
Wes, as °below', be paste out the advain
testes that it will offer for mails, pateengere
and light truffle; bow it wilt open up Cin -
ado, including British Columbica and the
whole Pacific to Britieh trade, bring us near.
or to our kinsmen in Aunt -rale and give an
alternative trade and mart route that will be
Imply invaluable in 000 of a European
war.
doing he destroyed its native e alto ether., bebiuredi ao mic%rhe assumedtthat the first
Men eet up the drinks and the drinas up-
set the men, Here's only a slight ciifforenoe
but m large and growing distinction,
advantage attaine b either is takon had of
The Kissing Compact.
Thus writes the author of Girth Gossip in
London Truth :—Why can we not do as men
do, and write to each other only when we
really Jaye samethiug to atter? And why math
we kiss each other every time we meet I
Elam are really nob agreeable greetings to
exchange. Very few people know how to
bestow or receive them in a neat and Bathe
factory fashion. A slovenly kiss is really is
deteetable article, and makes ono dislike and
despise the beatower. Of all my girlfriends
who Wes me when we meet, there is only
one from whose mulatory greeting do not
involttutarily shrink. Some butt at the
kbees with lips made into a hard ball for the
purpoee. These almost give one the tooth-
ache. Others bestow their dewy lips upon
one's cheek Ino way that makes the reelpi-
cub grope hastily, buts furtively for a pocket -
handkerchief. third contingent kiss in a
cold and chilling way that says plainly
enough, "I Ides you because I suppose you
expects it of me." I always sympathise with
thee; and would gladly fall tie with their
views. Amy, do let us make a Non -Kissing
Competes Company, and see how many of
our acquaintances wiU join it. The rules
would not forbid a kiss after a long absence,
nor would fa interfere with lovers' kisses or
anything of that sort, but only combat the
custom of daily greetings by osculation.
I feel quite sure that woman's friendships
would be firmer and more durable if they
would. abandon &Usual:. heavy demands upon.
it. Do you agree with me?
with a vengeance. When the two , queens
gee into such position that both 'might be
simultaneously killed, by common consent
• they with draw and:renew the battle with
their start, ebiotly according to,"Queena!
bury rules." • 8. B.
,
Chromo,...Perhaps. <
" Do yeti see Oat) young woman over
there 1" Said a young man to Miss Sharp-
leigh.
46 yme
"She's as pretty ea a picture'isn't she ?"
"1 don't know that I can contradiat you.
Even combo valentinee are known as pie.
tures."
Seizure in Toronto.
Oeeswe, Sept. 19.—The seizure of the
valuable landau made at Toronto wee under
peculiar ciroumstances. Recently a Toronto
millionaire ordered a earriege from a lead-
ing English firm of carriage builders, the
price agreed upon, including freight and
duty, paid. The landau was duly shipped
to Canada, and a Toronto bank was commis-
sioned to close the transaotion £200 having
at the outset been paid by the intending
purchaser on account. The bank placed the
matter in the hands of a broker, who, in ae.
cordance with the leev, had to get the in-
voice verified, and when it was presented to
the purchaser he at once stated that there \et
was a mistake in it. that the price charged
was $500 less than bad been agreed upon.
It was therefore sent to England to be veri-
fied and came back attested by a notarial
statement, the sum charged being the sante.
The mattedwas represented Mahe Customs
authorities and sazere followed. Consider-
able speculation exiets among the Customs
officials here as to what induced theEnglish
firm to act as 1± hae done, causing annoy -
awe both to the would-be purchaser klud the
bank weith acted as ite agent.
The Volume of NitiAltra Falls.
The 4p-ioimp a water paining over Niagara
Falls virlea with the height Of the river.
Prof. W. D. Glanning.eetimates the'everege
amount at 18,000,000embie feet per minute.
Allowing 62t pounde to the 'outdo foot; thie
would give a total.of 562.500 tone, per Minute,
or 25,312,500 eons in 45 minutes, of which
aoenevehae more than two-thirds passers over ,
the Horseshoe Falls. °thin, estimates plane
the total amount •peeeing' civet botb laillaft,
high as 100,000,000 tons per hour, in com-
parison, tho recent) flood at Johnstown was
O gill.