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The Exeter Advocate, 1890-6-5, Page 3FARM AND GARDEN. Pointe that Every Agrioulturiet Should Know. ENSILAGE FOR FEED. Asparagus Culture—Brood Hares—Geran- ium Growing — Fertilizers -- Health - giving Suntlowers—A. Lice-Riller—Salt llorses—Tho Immure kleap--Qther Notes. • Ensilage on Small. Farms. Ensilage would probably be an import bent article of food on every farm hut for the fact that the farmers Who own email /arms fear the cost of constructing a silo, and tenor under the summation that it in lacking in nutrition. Ensilage ie nothing more than green food preserved in a ammo - lent condition by excluding the aer (ite is ono, in a certain degree, with oanned goods Df all kinds). Ensilage has been preserved in many ways the formere of France ham ing simply buried the material in trenches. In flub; country, where corn can be grown in every section, it es found more etiono- ;anima to use it for ensilage than any- thing elee, but clover or any of the grasses may be put in the silo if preferred. • A silo may be a pit, a strong bin or any kind of a receptacle that will eustain great pressen and that is airtight. A barrel in hogehead, the barrel surrounded by earth or any material that monocles the air, is one lied of a silo, though a small one, and the coruer of the barn or cellar, boxed and Made atrong and tight, answers the par- ' / poise. Or the silo may be a trenole in the ground. It is whatever may be used, no - cording to the deice of the farmer, pro- viding it answers the purpose intended, whether for preserving large or small quantitiell of green food. Corn, planted thinatly in rows and cultivated urnl the ears begin to glaze, is need on most farms. It ia cutea the fields and the stalks hauled to the berm where the Males and eare are passed through a cutter (in the same man- ner as,when cutting ouredicorn fodder), the Welke being otit into abort lengths, the shorter the better'and then packed closely in the silo. When the silo is full heavy weights are placed on the material, in order to firmly press the ensilage into a mild, compact mass. The weights, whit& may be of stones, or anything suitable, are laid on boards which cover the ensilage. As the contents of the silo begin to settle the weight causes the material on the sop to mettle down more closely to the lower portions, and all the spaces become 'filled, lentil the inass is as compact ea if pressed with a mechanical press. Hydraulic preens are sometimes used instead of weights. As =tillage may be grown obeaply it will be found valuable to the farmer in winter, even when he has plenty of hay or grain, as it affords succulent food to stock at n season of the year when dry food only cam be obtained. It promotes the thrift of stock and increases the dew of milk in ()owe by reason of its suconlenoy, and serves a dietary purpose thee renders it all the more important. Where properly constructed silos eau be built there will be but few opponents to ensilage In fact, opposition to it -seems to have ceased, and it only , remelting for farmers to give it a trial to be convinced of its advantages. The Culture of Asparagus. A paper read before the Michigan State eltIorticulthral Sooiety by Charles W. Garteld gives the best practice at the p_eseettime for the culture of this table vegetable. The great improvements made by the Argentud gardeners in France, xaore ehan twenty years ago, which have h en gradually extending since that time are hilly adopted in substance in this essay: and instead of the four feet distances be- tween the plants, both ways, of the Frenoh gardeners, a single row, with the plants three feet apart, extends across the garden. Five feet being 'allowed on each side, a 3strip of land ten feet wide is given to the wow- A large crop of some other vegetable may emoupy a portton of this strip. The plants in a few years will form crowns afoot in diameter, with shoots an inoh or more diameter. This accorde with our own ex- periments. For planting, a wide and deep trench is plowed, to that when oovered the mama of the plants will be six inohes below the level of the surface. The depth will admit plowing over them in either di- rection. Olean cultivation is to be given, Metes& of the conarnanly recommended appliontion of salt. Ag the plantation will lam half a century, care should be taken That the work be well done at the com- mencement. Mr. Garfield has used the refuse salt from a hide-paoking establish. ent,the large amount of oontained ani- ma) matter adding to its efficiency—.the more the amount of the animal matter sud the less of salt, the better. One of the best fertilizers is barn manure, Two years ars required from the planting to the firet moderate picking.' A knife should not be used for collecting the shots, but they el:multi be broken off with the hand. Among the enemies of this crop the =twerps is reduced in numbere or de- etroyed by clean and continuous cultivation in spring, and by autumn pleasing. 0, Value of Good Brood Mares. Good brood mitres are a fortune on the farm. Keep all the good mares and con- tinue to grade up, that oaoh succeeding generation will be better bred and raise better °oho. The mares can do the farm -work and raise valuable colts, while a geld- ing or a male is a useless experige on a farm. Viben all our Mane are stocked with brood melees and greater care given to breeding the better clam of horses farming will be .more profitable, for there is no product of the farm that sells for better monoy than good horses, and the brood mares work for their keep besides —Western Agriculturist. Culti eating Geraniums. Geraniums must have any leading shoots out back to make them throw out laterals. Verbena:3 should be pinned down until they have covered the bed, and any faded Sowere or rusty leaves ehould be removed. A bed of Verbenas should be kept very free from weeds. Coleus being grown for their color, massiveness and evennese of surface most be lamed at, and any shoots that ehow a tendency to run beyond the others must be pinched back severely. The more pinching a coleus receives the beater it will look. Fertilisers for the Farm. The value of manure or fertilizers de- pends not only upon the amount of plant ;food they contain but also upon the kind and quality. Commereiel fertilizers con- tain plant food in a Uncontested form, while manure contains nearly the same nithstences in a bulky condition, and they amity ba nearly slake in composition or varY widely. Every pound of available Went food in 5 ton of rnantire mu be aupliolited by the °hernia, and in etnaller hulk, Sunnoweesenealthy. SunfloWere planted shout a drain og on portions of land from which imknritiee nem will absorb ncialpue ow, and thereb pone nary heriefittial to the health of th people about. Besides being useful, those plants are exceedingly ornamental if arranged to from s denee bank. At the rear plant a row of the New Primroee variety, next a row of the ball -shaped kind known Lee glaosus, then a row of the California, and lastly a row of " Miniature" sunflowers. How to Hill Lice. Tae Rural New Yorker halt never found anything better to kill lioe on cattle than tobacco water, to whioh a little sulphur has been added. Keep the tobacco and eulphur in water near the boiling point for twelve hours, stirring it occasionally. A.pply the decoction to the poll of the heed, along the top of the neok and spine, on the brisket And under the legs. Of course the animals must be kept in a warm piece when treated in this way. Salt for Horses. A piece of rook mit should always be kept in the box of the manger, so that the horse may lick it whenever hie appetite prompte him. Salt is as neoeseary for animals as it is to human beings, and this way of administering it is far preferable to the universal praotioe of putting a handful once or twice a week in eoft feed. In fol- lowing hie instincts the horse will take neither too much nor too little and will get it jut when he deeirea it and needs it most. Look after" Hoed Crops. No farther can afford to neglect the cultivation of his hoed crops. It pays to begin early in the season to do the work thoroughly and to oultivete often. Such a oourse will cause the plants to grow more rapidly, hasten the maturity of the crop, and mewed a =irked int:ere:tee in the Yield. It will also destroy the weeds, and thus tend to get the land in good condition for sowing when the hoed crop has been removed. The Manure Heap. The farmer's progress may be judged by hie manure heap. The careful end juin demi farmer takes advantage of every opportunity, not only to have and save as much manure as possible, but he aims to prevent lose of volatile naatter in that which he has aoounaulated. Upon the management of the raenure heap depends the profit or lose. To Cool Cream In Churn. The temperature when churning is about sixty-three degrees, though some ohurn a degree or two higher or lower, according to conditions. To cool the cream in the churn apply ice or oold water on the out- side of the churn, or 000l it in can before churning instead of adding cold water to. the oreara. Mots and Helps. The " pointe " for a jereey cow are now merged into coe test: How much butter can she make. Butter coramands a higher price than any other product of cattle used for food purposes in proportion to its bulk. Peonies in large clamps should be divided and new varieties set out as soon as the weather allows. Do not sow small seeds too deep in the ground. One of the many causes of the failure of carrot and parsnip seeds to push through the ground is that too muole earth is pla.oed on them. The lightest of covet- ing will answer. Never keep a poor milker as long as there is a poesibility of getting something better. Is is jut as important to replace a poor cow vrith a better one as it is to get rid ot a balky horse for one more service- able. Sheep are also need us dairy animals in some countries. The celebrated Rochefort cheese is made from the milk of sheep, and in many portieres of Canada sheep are regularly milked, and profitably. Milk from cowe that have recently calved is usually ropy, yet it is frequently mixed in the can with the milk of other cows. Ropy milk is not in a proper condi- tion to be used as food. The bronzewobbler should be used for improving the flock of turkeys. May is an excellent time for hatching young turkeys, ae they will thrive better than when hatched earlier. The large Lima bean has been made to assume the bush habit, and this will greatly aid in the annual prodttotion of a laxger orop for consumption. Salt is frequently applied to asparagus beds, but soapsuds are better. Celery is elm benefited by liberal applications of soapsuds. Peas and oats are sometimes sown together, and out as green food for the, ooWS as soon as the seed pods of the peas are formed. To make new ropes pliable before using them in the stables boil them and then dry them in the sun. Early turnips may be planted this month for table nee, but the main crop should be later. . Erigbtening Children. Some three or four months ago a young son of Mr. Lewes, hotel keeper at Bother- land'a Corners, became terribly frightened at an ugly false Moe worn by another boy. The fright was immediately followed by brain troubles. The boy is net around again, but to their sorrow he has been left completely deaf. Mr. Lowes was away to Toronto last week, but the experts there say that there is no remedy for his son. This ehows the folly of. trying to frighten children.--Orillia Times. Varieties of RiS8130. Accoraing to America there are eight sorts of kissee mentioned in the Bible, viz: Salutation in L Samuel, xx, 41 Valediction in Ruth, I, 9. Reunciliation in IL Samuel, sly., 33. Subjection in reahns, ii., 12. Approbation in Proverbs xxiv, , 26. Adoration in I. Kings, xis., 18. Treachery in Matthew, mien., 49. Affection in Geneein xlv., 15. People Who Exist on Pills. Recent investigation has shown that the people of Great Britain swallow over 5,500,0,00 pills daily, or one pill a week for every person in the population. The pill consumption for one year would weigh 178 tone, and would fill 36 freight oars, which it would take two powerful locomotives to pull. Planed in a row the pills would reach nearly 6,500 miles, or from Liverpool to New York and back again. —Violet bak is faddy again. —Arotnatio vinegar is nice to scent e bath. —A bag of almond meal tuna into a bath tub will eoften the bather's elein. —Tho qttickest way to become convinced that there is a devil id to try to live a Cheistian. Jinks-- I say, Janke, cab you tell me how to Make 5 dollar or two? Jenks --- Yee, hut it wotild be dangerous try to page them 0 --The .Tester. Ex.Prieet Meetly, whose didappearanoe from Montreal caused a sensation some Weeke Ago, rettIrreed to hone and family On Friday. FATAL STABBING CASE. A Et. ,Ifehu Hatt Struck 'menu on Ii s own Doorstep. A SteJohn,N.B., despatch Monday niglit eveye : Samuel Torrie, a resident of the north end, was fatally etabbed on the thres- hold of hie own door last naidnight. Shortly afterwards the police otheere in damp of the station in that seotion were informed of the crime. On investigation it was found that a most cowardly and unprovoked mur- der had been committed, anti before med. ioal assistance could be summoned Torrie breathed his last. A gaping wound to the right of hie heart neariewthe epot where the knife of the murderer had entered, and the well-worn garments saturated with blood give evidence of A flow of the life current which nothing could stop. Capt. Rawlings, in charge of the police, placed under arrest several young men who were in the house at the time. From them the following story was learned : Near midnight a knock vras heard at the door, and Terri° answered it. Two roughs, by name Theodore Watt and Wm. Gray, were there and Naked for a drink of water. Torrie told them to be. gone, and the next moment those sitting within heard hina ory out, "My God, I'm stabbed I" Tonle fell into the arms of his friends and expired within ten minutes. Chief of Police Clarke was immediately notified. It took but a short time to die - tribute his men about the city, and he further placed a guard on every road bead- ing out of town. Until 6 o'clock this morning the officers kept up a diligent Bearish and watch, and their efforts were rewarded. It was tut 5 o'clock when 0111. ems Lykey and Hamilton, stationed where the suspension and otntilever bridges crime the Douglas road, saw figures appeouhing. 1 hem proved to be Gray and Watt, who, on being arrested offered no resistenwe. Watv turned to the officers and mid, "1 did it, but it was an aocident." He is the youngest prisoner, is eighteen yeare of age, and has a widowed mother, a very reputable woman. Torrie was a man 40 years of age and leaves a widow and two children. He has been drinking heavily lately, and was in the company of Gray and Watt early Met evening. Your corm. pendent had an interview witle Watt this morning and ha confessed to having com- mitted the murder, :Although unintention- ally. He, Gray and Torrie had been together during the evening drinking. About 11 o'clock Torrie returned home. They followed him and knocked at the door of leis house, asked for a drink and were ordered away. They knocked again, and Torrie oame to the door. "1 was standing on the stoop cutting tobaccio," said Watt," when Gray demanded a drink, and Torrie sprang forward and struck him, knocking him down. I raised my knife plunged it into Torrie's side, and we ran away." They hid in a barn for some hours, and were making the best of their way out of the city when arrested. TUE W. O. T. U. The Annual Convention at Ottawa This Week. The Dominion Women's Christian Tem- perenoe Union will opened its annual con. vention at Ottawa Wednesday under the presidency of Mrs. S. W. Foster. Miss Francis Willard, President of the World's W. C. T. U., will attend the convention, which is expected to be very important. The following delegates will represent Ontario at the convention: Mrs. Breedwin, Brantford; Mrs. Branscombe, Patton ; Mrs. Cunningham, Preston; Mrs. J. ()avers (Doininion auditor), Galt ; Mrs. D. C. Cowan, Gananoque ; Mrs. T. Coats, Prescott; Mrs. M. S. Fawcett (Dominion Vioe-President, ex -officio), Toronto; Mrs. Hutchinson, Hamilton ; Mrs. D. V. Lucas (Dominion superintendent of heredity and hygiene), Toronto; Mrs. Gorman, Toronto; Mrs. Manson, Bnrgeseville ; Miss Murphy, Renfrew; Mrs R. EL MoEwan, Arnprior ; Miss MoDonald, London; Mrs. McDon- ald, Toronto; Mrs. J. R. McMaster, Campbellford ; Miss Minnie Phelps, tem- perance lecturer, Massachusetts; Mrs. R. H. Perry, Fergus; Mrs. P. Rutherford (Dominion and Provinoial Recording Secret tary),Toronto ; Mrs. J. Rockwell (Dominion superintendent of legislation), Kingston ; Mies Mary Scott, editor Woman's Journal, Ottawa ; Miss D. Smith, Hamilton; Miss M. Stone, Athlone ; Mrs. R. K. Scott, Port Hope; Miss J. Tilley (Dominion Corresponding Secretary), Toronto; Mre. J. Tilton, Ottawa; Miss Bertha Wright, the Hull evangeliet, Ottawa; Mrs. W. Wylie, Carleton Place; Mies Johnston ("Y."), Ottawa. Confession of Murder. A Manchester, Eng., cable says: The despatch from Cbioago stating that a man named John Williams, aged 31, had surrendered himself in that city, stating that he had murdered a girl named Emma Roberts, in Leeds, in 1879, was shown to- night to the police officials of Leeds. They discredit the etory, nothing whatever being known of the alleged crime. Here, however, ten years ago, a womannamed Sarah Jane, not Emma Roberts, a domestic servant, eves brutally murdered at the house of Ur. Greenwood, where she was in service, in Weetbourne Grove, Efarpurhey, Man '- chester and the murderer was never nig - covered. Williams' confession may relate to that murder. oonehrteney. " 1 consider it a burning shame," re- marked a lady, " that the overworked clerks of this city are not allowed a half - holiday on Saturday." "1 see that Smith & Smith close at noon " said another lady. "1 know they do. I went down there last Saturday afternoon and found the place closed. I was too provoked for any g."—Texas Siftings. A Case of Ingratitude. " If I eaw a woman drowning I wouldn't try to save her," said Jenks. "They are milder° grateful. I saved a woman's life once—vvell, now she's my wife." "Do you oall that ingratitude ?" "Oh, but you gee, she often tette me she wishes X had let her drown." Not for occripation. Mrs. Fangle—I didn't know your bowie was too large for you, Mee. Gazzam. Mee. Gazzam—Why, it isn't. Mrs. Fangle—Well, now, I thought it wasn't ; but Mee. Larkin said you hed lots of tonna to rent in your tipper story. Tiffany, the millionaiee jeweller, never weers a diamond. His favorite gem is the opal. Baseball and minstrelsy hevo made he diamond very con:anon. Grace Greenwood is described as a woman with large featured and vete, dark hair, which she censibs down over her Isere in en old-fashioned way. In a Berlin cafe the ooffee is not only boiled by electricity, but a small eleotitio railway carries it to the varietal; tables, no that the gueets may help themselves to their liking. Mr. Barnum hes written 61100,10T book Which Will be published this week. Xt includes every funny story he ever heard, 262 in all. Tau wErtrrarmanat co arzparom A Plait for lie:vision or the standards Adopted by Ulm U. 8. Arisombly. The General Assembly of tbe l'reeby- terian Church at Saratoga ore Saturday came to en agreenteut on the revision gum - tion. A revising committee is to be given charge of the work, and they are to be limited by histruotions not to impair the Celvimetto system of decttine. Dr. Erskine, 5C81::::::of the Committee on Method of Revision, reed the report of hie committee AtioXimobilleyTtor and Members of the General Your committee respectfully report that they Iphoralevi caeri utbhul eae ysi lima° ncoodui aye Besot! dur et: ieodn su, p othn e tbeadoptionfcl o nogi Whereas, The last General Assembly directed an overture to be tranemitted to the preeby- tenet, in then, worde ; First, do you desire revision of tbe confession of faith? Second, if 00, in what respect and to what extent? Whereas, 1t appears from the report of the special oommittee appointed to COZIVaSt the answers 01,ae,presbyteries to said overturethat 184 preavecernee have answered "'yes" to theferst mention; therefore, rem eyed (1) That committee composed or orte member motitnhieett?rssateneamnblyte1 de, b cohsynod,apptooiwntitca,uibuythe moderator to nominate to this assembly a core - mate° eonsisting of fifteen ministers and ten elders, which hall be called " wise Assembly's Co.timittee on Revision of the ocawevidon of Faith"; which committee, when constituted by the general assembly, obeli consider the alleges- tiona made by the presbyteries in their answers to the second of the above questions, and formu- late to the general assembly of 1891 such altera- tions end amendments to the confession of anteistierabeiso,te :nen judgment may he deemed (2) This Committee of Revision shall meet at the call of a temporary chairmen, to be named by the moderator of this general assembly, and shall, upon meeting, appoint tneir own per- manent chairman, and shall have power to 1111 vacancies, (3) This Committee on Revision is instructed to meet at an early date, not later than October Mst, 1890, and diligently to pursue its work, that xuay report promptly at the meeting of the General Assenlbly in 1891. Whereas sixty-eight presbyteries have answered " no to the nret of the above ques- tions, and sixty-nine presbyteries of those answering " yes "hare expressly said that they desire no change in the confession of faith to be made that impairs the integrity of the system of doctrine taught therein; therefore, Resolved, that this Committee on Revision be and are hereby instructed that they shall not propose anyalterations or amendments that will i in any way impairthe Integrity of the Reformed or Calvinistic system of doctrine taught ix, the confesbion of faith. All of which is respectfully submitted. Signed by Ebenezer Erskine (Chairman), Henry McCracken, Francis L. Patton, Everard RHeTni,pk. ry Day, George Graham, James vanquished. She talked to him of Plato and of Tswana and Cato; spoke of 2Esop and idogenes with tears in her blue eyes, Asked him what he thought of Homer and of ' Healed the roamer; how the jokes of old Hierocles compared with William Nye's. Her breath came short and scanty ais she flew along by Dante, but she pulled herself together and she got her second wind; She mentioned old man Chaucer, Milton's wife, and did he hose her; and dwelt on Burns and Byron, and the dreadful way they sinned, He sat quite mins, though frowning, till she settled down on Browning ; and, deeming 5110 meant Peter, he said he thought per- haps She would like to hear of Ewing and what Brother Ward wal doitig, recalcitrant old eitE1011.and of Kelly's tender taps. He could tale baseball, he stated, and with elo- quence related the history of every game down to the present year. And when his tale 'WM ended she said he was jst splendid, as she got down upon her knees to adore him as her peer. --TomMassontn theNew Yor7c Sun . • Prince Bismarck's Home Life. If little is known in England of Prince Bis treit'h hrivate life still less, says Mrs. rEt14, d of the lady who for more than forty-two years bag shared his home. The Princess Bismarck is deeeribed as the very model of a practical, methodical, Ger- rosn matron, with an eye for every detail of household arrangement and economy. It was at the wedding of a friend that Bis- marck first ruet with Fraulein Johanna von Puttkamer. She made there an im- pression wbith culminated in an offer of marriage three years later. The key to the Princess' character is to be found, says the same biographer, in her words: "That my husband is a public charaoter is a fact to which I often find it painful enough to reeign myself. But as for me, his wife, what lahve I to do with publicity? I do not exist for publicity, but wholly and eolele for him." In a letter whiola the Prince wrote to the Princess from Biarritz, he said " I have a bad consoieue,becanse I am seeing so mach that is beautiful with- out you. If you could only be carried hither through the air, I would go with you thia very Moment beck to San Sebastian." —Pall Mall Gazette. Out of Labels. "I've brought you a box of oigare, George dear." "Thank you love. Are they Havanas?" "No, dear. I asked for Havanas, but the man said he hadn't any Havana labels on hand." —A dripmut forumbrellas is new. —Plaids look best on slender figures. —Lime juice is lovely on a salad. --Reversible bonnets have no strings. —"Chips" and "shavings" are the names of new candies. —No matter how plain looking a drug °kirk may be in warm weather, his fizz in always attractive to the girls. —The Yonkers Statesman says: "You never see the mem who dozes in °hunch going to sleep at a baseball match. But then there is °rite a difference in the style of delivery.' Lady Henry Somerset, of East Noroastle, England, who is mentioned its the probable successor of Margaret Bright Luau au preeident of the British Wornen's Temper. sue aesociation, is a loyal white -ribbon woman and an active worker in the World's W.C.T.U. Although a lady of wealth and rank, keeping thirty or forty servants, she devotes her great soda' influence as well as her unusual intellectual abilitesi, to the farthetance of the temperance reform, and her voice is often heard in public advocaoy of the principles she believes in. Princes Pauline Metternich is a clever erasteur soirees. At a performance in Vienna she walked about among the audit ence in the costume of a washerwoman, "reoeiving compliments and asking advice." Rev. Anna Shaw is one of the best speakers in the service of the Women's Teroptsrance Union. She was for a time pastor of is ehurish on Cepa °mi. Frances E. Willard, in her walks about Chicago, hes discovered women who make shirts for 75 cents a dozen and furnigh thole own thread. She also finds children working twelve hones a day for a dollar a week. If people could only buy their ealvation, the road to perdition would soon be graert grown. The reason vthy women talk more than Men is that when they think at all they think aloud. Many a pleasent heur has been lost by enforced ettendance at stecalled social gatheringe. Princess Lonnie val Of Crown Pr'XiCe rrederia Of Denmark, has given birth to a daughter. TELEGRAPHIC SUbetaARY. • An earthquake shook ooctirrea at 1311• lingo, Mont., ore Friday. Attempte are being made in New York to revive the old American Salt trust. John G. Carlisle is to take SenetorEeolt's eiene on the Senate l'inance Committee, It is believed the German Army Bill will be mimed in the Reichstag by a vote of 245 to 152. Emperor William will start for Peterhof Angina 14. Ile will be the guest of the Czar about ten days, Dobson Brothers' store and other shops and officee in Bowmanville suffered from fire yesterday morning, Herr Richter estirnittes fleet tbe German peace effetely° will before long be 614,000 men instead of 468,000. M. Sautereau is eaid to have (Waled to Panama that he has contracted for the completion of the canal in ten years. The Duke of Connaught and party arrived at Banff, N. W. T., on Saturday efternoon, and left there at noon yesterday. Prince William of Saxe -Weimar has been declared a bankrupt. His debts, chiefly due to gambling, amount to 243,000 marke. The negotiations between England and Germany regarding territorial rights in est Melee are not making setisfaatory progress. Chancellor von Caprivi is favorable to a centinuance of the English occupation of Egypt as essential to the prosperity of that country. Thera is said to be a conepirao , with its centre in Berlin'for the organization of a rising egainst Russia in the Beate provinces. The Bianchi Company's sugar store. houses at Cardenas, Cubes, hem been burned. The company has an insurance of 5340,000. Emperor William, as if desiring to mark the strength of the entente with England, celebrateu the Queen's Birthday with ma- mmal effasiveness. The Italian Government has appointed a commission to enquire into the Ravenna riots, during which a number of peasant women were killed. The Turkish of6.oer and five students who insulted two Russian ladies in Constanti- nople have been sentenced to six months' imprisonment with perpetual banirshraent to Tripoli. Rev. Father Stephen M. Barrett, of Chicago, who was shot on the steps of his church on Friday evening by a maniac named Patrick Heady, died on Saturday mornmbis Mager° and Count d'Aroo fought a duel Saturday with swords, at Rome. The count was wounded in the right haled. The affair was the result of a political quarrel. It is stated Emperor William is highly inceneed because Prince Bismarck has al- lowed himself to be interviewed by foreign correspondents. His Majesty says the Prince ie only fit for a lunatic asylum. Charles Shellington, laborer, St. Thomas, fell from a scaffold to the ground, a diet te.nce of eighteen feet. Re was uncon- scious for an hour and is seriously injured inteinally, though no bones are broken. The body of an unknown man was found floating in the river yesterday below Longue Pointe. It does not correspond with that of anyone missing the past few months, and the police are wholly without a clue. The burial ground of the Indians of North British Columbia, that is the forest where they hang up the bodies of their dead, has been destroyed by fire, and the natives are terribly incensed against the whites. T.he British freight Mesmer Bayswater, Capt. Taylor, whioh left New York Marten 16th for Lisbon, is reported as missing. The Bayswater wee owned by E. EL Watts, of London. She was of leen, and had a crew of thirty men. It is stated that the Czar has declared that in the event of a Franco. German war he will not on any account interfere by force of arms, end that he will neither attack Germaxly himself nor enter into Alliances with France. A young man abont 22 years of age, named James Eleale, a West Toronto junotion grocer, whose parents reside in Goderich, was struck on Saturday morning by a train and blatantly killed. The acci- dent happened between High Park and the rolling mills. The body will be sent to Goderioh for burial. Saturday night Detective Slemin, To- ronto, arrested James McGinn, son of the late James McGinn, Adelaide and Bay streets, on the serious charge of seducing and ebdacting Nellie Howell, aged 15, daughter of Mr. Hovvela who keeps a barber shop near the corner of Bay and Adelaide streets. McGinn is a married man, and it is charged that he took the girl to a certain well-known boarding house on Lombard street. Mr. Michael Devitt has written a letter in which he expresses disgust at the treat- znent which a number of tenant farmers in Ireland accord to laborers in their employ. The Ashbourn Act, he mem, has implanted in the farmers even more than the usual selfishness, and an attempt to settle the land question by transferring the ownership of land from the landlords to the farmers would only perpetuate and inteneify agrarian discontent. The Duke of Connaught will arrive in Toronto on Thursday. The Royal Society conamenoes its annual meeting in Ottawa to -day. Mr. Gladstone will address a large gath. ering t Hawardon to -day on ;political questions. Ilia said that it is likely a Protestant congregation will be found for ex•Priest Martin in Montreal. Premier Meroier yesterday stood god. father for 118 children at the Grey Shep- herd Convent, Qnebeo. Walter Mackenzie, clerk of the York County Court, who was one of the oldest public officers in Toronto, is dead. Father Mellor, of the Jesuits' College at Mangaloe, India, Gays he has cured several lepers by fount Mattei's system. On Saturday a note tied to a stem was fund in the Courtyard of Marlborough house, addreseed to the Prince of Wales. The note said "Give us bread if you would reign," and was signed " Thousands of starving Eriglislextene A girl 21 years of ago committed enjoin() yesterday in Perla by leaping from the tower of the oethedral at Notre Darn°. It Weal stated at the Toronto City COunoll last evening that the rato of taxation would be 18 mills on SA aseesentent of S136,000,- 000. The Department of the Interior has mut 8,000 trape to the Notilaevest, designed to catch gophers, whieh threaten to become e pest in that country, judge °emit, of Quebec, hag decided that the Maitlitipal hy-lette passed in March, 1889, imposiug taxes mu the gae and tele phone companies la illegal. The General Assembly of the PreettP terian Church be Cane da meets at Oitievat on the Ilth June in Knox Church. Rev. ltriricipel Grant is neederaten The Rome Tribune gays that General Sir Adeian Dingle, l'resident of the Court of Appeele of Ithete, bas been appointed Eng- lesh Anthaseader to the Vatican. The Lieut.- Governor has received word thet the Deice of Connaught and party will arrive in Toronto on Thursday evening and leave for Nie.gera Palle on Seturday. .Tiee police believe Anarchists ate agita- tors are arrenging for eaplosiene in Lon- don. Additionel precautions are being taken for the protection a paint: build. ings. Diplaberia has broken out in Ottawa East, and one child has already euecumbed to the disease. The Public School has been closed and the Board of Heneth ?nave taken up the matter. Archbishop Fehr°, in a pastoral letter on Inc Longue Pointe fire, Beggests that the terrible disaster may have been a divine chentieement to enforce a better observance of the Lord's day. George Francis Train completed his trip around the world Saturday evening, arriv- ing at Tacoma at 7 o'olook. The tiniefrom start to finish was 67 days, 13 hours, 3 minutes and 3 sounds. The annul meeting of the London dist trict of the London Contereace of, the Methodist Church commenced yesterday. The Benton was principally taken up with the examination of probetionere. Morn, th,e Montmagny murderer, has secured another lease of life, as the writ of error taken out on his behalf will not be argued until the October session of the Court of Appeals sitting M Montreal. Severe storms, followed by flood, are reported in various parte of Germany. At Alveneleben a house wae undermined by water and sixteen of the occupants drowned, At Suplinger five permute were killed by lightning. The supreme session of the Knights of the Golden Eagle opens in Pittsburg, Pa., this morning. There will be a full dress parade in the afternoon. Sir Knights J. J. Ulley, of Montreal, and A. Hudson, Of Ottawa, are the Canadian delegates. The girl named Royer, aged 14 yeers,who was severely burned at Levis a few days ago, has died from her injuries. Dr. Bel - lean, district ooroner, was notified and held an inquest, when a verdict of death from rneetruvrenuesa.shook caused by a burning was During the heavy lightning and thunder storra that passed over St. Catharines on Saturday- night, Mr. W. C. Butch, who lives a few miles out, had two valuable horses killed by lightning. The horses were found dead under a tree without a mark on either of tbem. The ninth annual meeting of the Royal Society commenced in Ottawa yesterday - Abbe Casgrain attacked the theory of evolution, which he called the worship .of death, and advocated the belief in epeeist creation. Principal Grant reviewed the progress of the Australian colonies in the direction- of nationaliem and presented the claims of Imperial Federation. The Automatic fire extinguisher on the third floor of one of the Globe woolen mills, lJtioa, burst about five o'clock yes- terday morning and flooded the noon be- low. The valuable machinery and fabrics in process of manufacture were greatly damaged. Loss, $50,000 to 60,000. Marion Wagner Taylor, aged 16, grand- daughter of the late Senator Wagner, and daughter of J. D. Taylor, of the Wagner Car Company, was knocked dovett" and fatally inured by a United States mail waggon in New York last evening. She lived but three hours. The driver of the waggon was arrested. J. McMahon, Green Isle, Minn., quarelled with his wife last winter and the woman returned to her parents. On Friday Mot Mahon visited his wife and tried to per- suade her to live with him again. She re. fused and McMahon shot her twice near the heart. He then went home, lay down on a bed, and shot himself three times. Both are alive, but not expected to live. Inspector McGibbon, orthwest Mounted Police, was married to a town belle at Morden last week. Her brother, a parson just graduated from an American college, performed the ceremony. The couple spent their honeymoon in,Winnipeg. After being there a few days, the brother and a lawyer, having discovered the marriage to be illegal, prevailed on the couple to get re- married. Ronald Gagnon, notary, of St. John's Qua, disappeared on Wednesday evening lent and did not return to his home. Hie friends supposed he had come to Montreal, but as he did not return on Friday inquir- ies were made, and it was ascertained that he had been drinking during the evening. The worst fears of his friends were realized on Saturday on the discovery of his body in a canal leading to the river. Whether he committed suicide or fell into the canal when under the influence of liquor is not known, probably the latter. An unfortunate accident occurred to the yungeet son of Mr. James Sinclair, 69 Bellevue avenue, Toronto, Monday event ing. The child, who was 2 years and 3 months of age, was playing in the yard near a, cistern, the cover of which heel been removed. The child was soon missed, a searoh was made, and the body was found in the cistern. Dr. Moore was summoned and endeavored to resuscitate the child, but without success. At the Port Lambton Quarterly Board meeting of the Methodist Church, held re- cently, it was resolved, on motion Of P. W. Merritt, seconded by Stephen Lane, "That We ask the Chatham District meeting to arge upon the conference to demand a lost share of the Government great to Indien schools, or to refuse to accept the miserable allowance to the Methodist In- dian schools, viz., 0253 per school, when the Roman Catholic Indian sohoole are grented $2,582each on an average." In Montreal yesterday the Mail filed We plea in the Superior Court in the case oZ the libel suit for e50,000 taken against that paper. The Mai/pleads that the alleg id oath ascribed to the Jesuits was copied from another paper, La Semaine Franco. Amerieaine • that the substance of the oath republialeed is included in the vow of obedience which every Jesuit takes upon entering the order, and is in hermony with Jesuit dui rine and teaching. he Case will shortly come up for hearing on ita Merits. Chinamen were detained at Malone, N.Y., on Saturday on the complaint of United Statou Coranaissioner Willard for Violating the exclusion law in itrossing the Canadian frontier into this Stet°. The prisoner's admitted, thet they had mho from Montreal. Two Alterielile eatlid with them. One wag arrested, and it is believed that he is ono of a gang that has a contract to smuggle Into the toiled Staten 200 Chinamen. The other American °seeped. The Chinamen have no Vamped% and Will be mart back to Canada.