HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-6-12, Page 7FOR THE FARMER,
Thiogs Which Every ioltirit Ought
to Know.
WU& AND GAB,D4N JOTTINGS.
Green Things Growing.
Db. tho green things growing, the greentbinge
gro wangt
Vhe faint sweet smoll of the green things
growing I.
should liko to live, whether I smile or grieve,
joist to watch, the happy life of my green things
growing.
Db, the fluttering and the pattering of those
green Mingo growing l
Bow they talk each to erten when none otos aro
knowing,
In the wonderful white of the weird moonlight
1i) r the dim, dreary dawn, when the cocks are
crowing.
1Iove, I lovo the so—my green things growing,
And I think that they love me, withons false
showing ;
:For by many a tender touch they ocanfort me so
nauoh,
With the eon, mtite comfort of green things
growing.
And in the rich store of their blossonas glowing,
Wen for lane I take they're ono me bestowing ;
‘Cla, I should like to see, if God's will it away be,
:Many, many a summer of nay green things
growing 1
Ent if I nageb be gathered for the angel's sow-
ing,
Bleep out of sight awhile, like green things
growing.
'Though dust to dust return, I think I'll namely
mourn,
M Inlay change into green things growing• 1 ,
—Dinah Mitloolo Grath.
Salt ae a roma:time
4' Salt is good." This is averred by the
very laignest authority. it is good for
rand. It is really- a fertilizer, as it suppliee
ie noee and ohloriue, whioh is found in every
plant. It is good for ail ceopa. It dis-
Moue:ages fungi which infest the most
valuable crops, as tust, smuts, etc., and it
ilificourages =mote which daraage the roote
of plants. It has a remarkable effect upon
and clover, at times doubling the
wield. One of the best and most prosperous
sfarmera in New Jersey applies 1,000 lbs. or
It every year to his pastures and meadows,
and although he sells at times near° than
ei500 per acre of merket aorta from a part
a his farm he avere that his grass pays
name profit to the aore than his
=alone, othbages or tomatoes. Any
lamer who is troubled with soab on his
potatoes should try a liberal sprinkling of
salt along the rows before dropping the
seed.
&bout the wk.
Study the silo; the prooess of ensilage;
the beet crops for it; the great economy ot
St; end then go to work to make a silo and
grow trope to All it with. It makes one
sore produce as ranoh animal food as three
acres can do withont it, and it solves the
problem of how to keep one oow or one
steer kr every acre of the ferna.
Retching Time.
As a rule, for the hatching of thickens
21 days are required; for peatridges, 24
days; for pheaeants, 25 dap ; fax guinea
hens, 25days'for corcimon ducks, 28 days;
kr pea fowls, 28 days; for turkeys, 28
days; for barbary ducks, 30 days, and for
geese, 30 days.
weed -Haters.
Ido crops hold their own againet weers
better than millet or Hungsaian grass, and
tespocially the hitter, the frequent =wings
benefiting the crop and lessening the num-
ber of weeds. As the seeds soon germinate
and the plants grow rapidly, especially
-during the warm deys, they aeon take fall
ponession of the ground and crowd down
the weeds. A crop of Hungarian grass
will clean a piece of land of weede as well
se though cultivation had been given, and
after the final mowing, the crop be
turned under and a dressing of lime
implied to the plowed soil the labor of cal-
tivatieg the land the following season will
be materially lessened, while the land will
befit or almost any kind of crop.
A Valuable Sow.
A. sow that tenderly cares fax her pigs
remora valnable as a breeder than one of
better breeding bat oareless. The number
of pig,s annually lost by careless sows is
'very large, and it is important to observe
tine disposition of a sow with her first
bitter. Some sows, however, improve with
•age, and an old sow should never be re-
placed by a yonneer and untried one until
het 'ankh:tees is impaired.
The Cara of Manure.
If manure is thorongbly composted with
makings, sod or other refuse, is will be of
better quality than if heaped and allowed
to decompose rapidly. There is soraelimes
tquite a loos of ammonia from manure that
= exposed, or that is too closely packed,
and the addition of subeteinces which
absorb the gases and prevent overheating
mot only prevents loss lent improves the
' etiow to Ciet Good Milk.
The milk from cows fed on wholesome
grain and good pasturage ia of better
guality for food than that from stall -fed
animals that are permitted to eat refuse
trona granariee and factorise without
xegard to breed. Choice breeds to produce
s choice article must be provided with food
of the best quality for that purpose.
Hoe the Melon Patch.
Melons should be well hoed and mini -
mated until they begin to run. The very
woung plants znay be hoed with advantage,
hut utter that time all cultivation should
be done without disturbing the hills.
Melon -growers hoe in front of the vines,
at among them, as they soon cover the
,ground,
A Bad Plan.
Breeding from immathre atm* every
year will sooner or later tend to deteriora-
tion. It is better to Me animals in their
prime than to replace them with young
stook. If a change in cleared reserve the
woonger stock until each is =inured and
tally develoned.
Look After Tho Weeds.
"When moisture is plentiful and the raine
•some at the proper times it must not be
Mverlooked thot ties Weeda are benefited by
the favorable conditions ati 'well fig the
crops. The rains itusreaSe the Work of
destroying weeds, but much of the labor
•may be saved by using the cultivatOr after
each ink so se to destroy the weeds as SOOn
ItS *bey appear above ground.
Plant Small Trees,
By plantirg sma1l tee= they oan be
bettor eterted and will be leen liable to the
Affects of drought, compared with older,
'trees. Too Mort top on young tikes is a
ftegtient Cense of loss, they not posseeeing
iterffiolent roots to notrish the many new
alioots that are produced on tboopS that
bevel not been ant beck.
Planting Too Early,
V the ground is too Cold nothing will be
gained by putting seeds of tendet plants-,
such as bOantl and inelone, in too Carly.
The plant that etarte a little lister in the
Stia00n, and wile% e nntheoked, will over,
*alio in get:Seth the earlier pleat ibM bile
been subieoted to cool nights and leek of
wernith in the eoil,
reeding grain to now.
Grain may l= fed liberally to cows when
they are in full flow of nailk, but if tite
cows are drying off previous to calving it
better to withhold all grain if the &tamale
'are in good condition, in order to avoid
milk fever at calving time. Plenty of gross
finfficient for dry cows, grain being un.
noomary.
Hints on Horeetinoeien.
Never fit the foot to the lame, but fit the
shoe to tbe foot.
Never put a not eine to the hoof; many
good hoof e has been ruined by burning.
Never are the irog.
Never twiet off the nails; use nippers
for cutting them off.
Never drive large nails.
Never drive the nails too high in the wall
of the hoof.
Never trim tlae hoof more than is neon -
eery.
Tin art of 8110eing is important and
ildould be understood by the owner of the
horse. Moore good hoofs have been spoiled
by hot sheep than in any other way.
Burning stops up the pores of the hoof
wall and retakes it lerittie and the horse
tendee footed. D. E. Asnss.
Farm and Oardeu.
It is a raietake to eunneee that peas/
beans and corn should be covered heavily.
Asbes inareaSe the quantity of the sthatv-
berry map and make it better,00lored and
firnaee,
Have your seed ready before the day
you wish to plant or sow. Only use the
best and purest.
Smaller seed of a kind germinates &at
but are afterward elower in development
than the larger ones.
The A.gricaltaral Department will sup-
ply sugar -beet geed to farmers wishing
thera, in small quantity to each.
Many animals appear sick and refuse
food, when tbe cause may be dos to the
toothache.
As it precaution against weevil in grain
the granary ought to be entirely cleared
every year and old grain stored elsewhere,
The difeoulty when cream will not raise,
in nine cases out of ten, is the temperature.
Byer), butter -maker should use a tb.er-
motneter.
Of the new variety of oantaleups the
emerald gem is one of the best. It is of
medium size, and drops away from the
vine as soon as ripe.
pound of bran makes within 17 per
cent. of as much mint as a pound of corn-
meal, which usually costa muoia more; but
oorn-meal makes richer milk.
A Rhode Island farmer raises veal calves
to weigh 190 pounds when four weeks old
by allowing them warm elthinnailk and oat-
• meal gruel. Sttah calves should pay well.
Mix one level teaspoon of gunpowrer
with a (pare af oornoneal, after the latter
is scalded. Feed once a day for three days
to mire gapes in ohiokene, and again five or
six daya.
The milk from cows fed on wholesome
grain and goodpasturage is of better quality
for food than that from stall -fed animede
that are permitted to eat refuse from
granaries and factories, without regard to
breed.
It hos long been observed that sheep
prefer a bill to a plain on which to apend
the night outdoors, but if they graze on
hilleine they will invariably olaoose
southern expoeure—probably the gran is
more palatable to them.
The more frequently the grass is out the
greater the tax on the land. Use plenty of
manure on all land intended for grass next
season. First kill out the weeds by oulti.
eating the iana with a crop requiring the
2160 of the cultivator.
Victoria College.
As I write this, I am aware that some
estimate colleges just as they would a face.
tory. They see only the financial aide. To
them a auccessful college is a rich ane; and
poor Victoria is in debt. True; but as her
debt has been growing there has grown up
side by side with it something that wealth
could not purchase. To tens of thoneende
her name has beoome a household word.
An esprit de emps has grown up among
thousands that have met in her halls or
filleci her chairs. She has become a mond
home to tnultitudes of young spirits whose
ambition to tread the higher walks of learn.
ing was first kindled by the inspiration of
her teachings. She may be in debt; but no
amount of debt could dim her glory to the
hundreds of the brave alumni, vtbo from
the Atlantic to the Pacific,
and away to remote Japan, and on every
continent, have proved the value of her in-
struction, and rejoiced to oall her Alma
Mater. Her debt may have grown; bat at
a far more rapid rate has grown something
of irameasurably greater importanoe to
the Methodist Church—namely, our famil-
iarity with matters of higher education,
our status among the sister churches on
this subject, and the faith of the young
men of our dearth in oar own institutions.
To this last I attach spaced importance.
It will be a dark day for our church when
our sons fancy that a diploma frorn a non.
Methodist source is better than our own.
The splendid work done by Victoria has
given honor to our dearth. Her alumni
everywhere look upon her RS the legitimate
offspring of our system, a plant
watered' by ' the tears and sacri-
fices of a generation of men who
believed in ,the union of knowledge and
vital piety. The name " Patine:list " sits
comely an Victoria, and the Methodist
Churon is honored wherever Victoria is:
known. 1 glory in her record; she has
made no all richer; our many straggles to
embody in her our ideals of higher educa-
tion has given to no inteileotual otainina,
taste, ambition and rank, which, but for
her, we should never have known. Victoria
owes nothing to our Church. She has paid
as many times over for all that the has cod.
To talk about debt in the light of the heroic
support given by our fathers to Victoria,
and the magnificent =kens she has made
for that undying attachment to her inter -
este, name like trifling with ;hinge sacred.
If she bag not a dollar towlay she is rich,
and our church is rich through her.
A few weeke age the whole Dominion, as
by a common sigh, laraonted the destruct
tion of, 'Toronto University. And our
sorrow was reasonable Lula sincere. But
no fire could destroy that institution. Had
her nine not been lighted up by one dollar
of inimrante and bad he endowment also
gone down IA the flames, elle was etill rioh
in that which no wealth cenld purchase nor
Parliament confer—rich in the lova and
loyalty of her sons, in the etymon of her
Blithe her Mosses, her Retire:ye, her
Fraserte, her Kerre, laer Sullivatis and a
host of othere, whose brilliant records have
enriched the whole Donairdon. Rise she
Must, and no Government would be worth
a weekni plarchinle that would ranee to
afield in her complete restoration,
So with onr own Viototia. Hee success
comae= not in the wealth she hae tnicrimu-
lilted, brit in the grand record she hat made.
In title lie the prophecy and the gnarentee
ofher permattency.—Rev. .Dr. Burns
Methodist reties.
if a friend "goes beck" on you it II
always a setisfitotion to be table to Odd his
name to the list of Vette eneiniee.
CALLIKD DIM AN ORANGLMAN.
To Damage Mle Chances of Election, and
Ow Pays for It,
The Quebee Court of Review rendered an
interesting judgment fdaturday in the
010,000 action of damagee taken by J. ,P,
Nyee against Le Monde, or: the ground nf
libellous articles published during an elec.
toral campaign in which Noyes wag a can-
didate. The libele consisted of terming
him an Orangeman and Freemason. Chief
Justioe Sir Freud= Johnson, 43, rendering
the judgment hold that the statement of
being a Freon:mon brought against the
plaintiff was a true and justifiable one. On
the other hand, the charge of being an
Orangeman was false, and by publishing it
the defendants inoarred a direct. liability.
The court held, however, that no snin
stential damages bad been proved, and the
defendant was coneequently liable for
nothing more than a violation of the law in
publishing a fat= statement. For these
reasons the judgment of the Saperior Court
granting 0500 damages would be reduced
by 0100 witla costs.
Make Daughters Practical.
We read and hear a great deal about the
bnportanoe of ;making homes pleasant and
attractive for the sons, so that they tiny
spend their evenings at home rather than
elsewhere. But we do not hear so much
said about the influence of a pleasant home
upon the daughters. It may be for the
reason than girls are naturally more domes-
tio than boys, and so it is taken for granted
that no great exertion is necessary by
father and mother to make the borne a
pleaeant one for themnI think theinfluenoe
of a home hag juet as renal and perhaps
more to do in shaping the future of the
daughters as of the sons, for it is :the who
has the most important part to perform in
making a home for hereelf after ahe has left
the parental roof. Now there is a groat differ-
ence in the ideas of whet constitutes
a pleasant home. Here, for instances,
is a young girl surrounded by all the
luxuries and privileges wiaigla money can
prooure. She has servants to come tend go
at her bidding. She has no oare put upon
her y nun; shoulders; she is taught to play,
sing, paint and embroider. To be sure,
she do= nothing for the pleasure and hap-
piness of those around her, but what of
that? She ie acoomplished, and is not that
enough? • When she is of a suitable age
she makes her debut in society. • Then, of
course, her time is occupied with all the
pleasures which sooiety gives. Thus she
grows into womanhood. Is this true
womanhood? Is she now prepared to
figbt the battles of life and win the victor's
crown? If adversity conies to her, as it is
liable to come to no all, will she be pre-
pared to meet it as she should? Ah, no.
lt would have been fax better if ehe had
been taught more o1 self-relienoe and self -
culture.
Put some care upon your daughter. It
will do her no harm. It will naake her feel
that there is some responsibility resting
upon her. Teaoh her that charaoter is
higher than intellect and that by practising
a little self-denial once in a while ehe will
not only make others happy, but will in-
crease her own happiness and will become
less eeldeh.—Domeatic Monthly.
How "Pinafore" Was Written.
W. S. Gilbert, the dramatist, writes in
the small hours of the morning, beginning
work at midnight, and often keeping on
until after the sun has risen. Line many
literary men his vein of composition will
not flow by day, requiring candle light to
stir it into activity. In preparing a libretto
he goes slowly but surely. Hitting upon
one of his characteristic; ideate he tarns it
over in his mind during many long walks
and solitary cogitations, adding arcane-
stenoes and inoictents as they occur to him.
Then he makes a rough eleeliaton sketch
of the plot, which he puts away.
A few weeks later this skeleton is
carefully written out in extenso, with
such additions and improvements as
may have occurred to him meanwhile.
This, too, is shelved for a while, but ulti-
mately the perfect framework is made,
which only needs—if such expression is
allowed—the wedding to it of the dialogue
and songs. It is at this stage that Sir
Arthur Sullivan oomes upon the scene, for
the writer ha e to keep the musician's needs
in view, and the oomposer must bear the
writer in mind. The welting of one of
their famous operas entails much labor and
endless consultation upon the collabora-
tors. Playwright and composer often see
the morning come in at the windows while
they sit over cigars and cigarettes, discuss-
ing with the most anxious care points
which to othere might =eon of little mo-
ment. Bub it is to this walking industry
and care that they owe much of their 8210-
cess.—She9leld Telegraph.
Dangers of Travel.
If one wants to get a lively sense of what
it means to teeth through epee at fifty or
sixty miles an hoar he must get on a loco-
motive. Then only does he begin to realize
what trifles stand between him and
destruction. A few weeks ago a lady sat
an hour in the cab of a locomotive hauling
a fast express train over a mountain road.
She saw the narraw bright line of the rails
and the Wender points.of the wit oh e . She
heard the thunder of the bridges, and saw
the track shut in by reeky bluffs and new
perils suddenly revealed as the engbae
swept around sharp curves. The experi-
ence was to her magnificent, but the sense
of danger was most appalling. To have
naade her experience oorapletenhe shouid
have taken One engine ride on a dark and
rainyinight.
In a daylight ride on a locomotive we
come to realize how deader is tiae rail and
how fragile its fastenings compared with
the ponderous machines which they carry,
We see what a trilling movement of a
eivitch make, tlee difference between life
and death, We learn how short the look
ahead must often be and how close danger
sits on either hand. But it is only in a
night ride we learn how dependent the engi.
neer must be, after all, upon the faithful
vigilance of others. The head -light reveals
a few yards of glistening rail and ghostly
telegraph polee, and switch targeta. Were
a switch open, a rail taken up, or a pile of
ties on the track, we ociuld not possibly see
the danger in time to stop.—H. G. Erma in
Scribner's.
Engaged at Sight.
Young man—I understand you want a
young man to help edit your paper?
liditor—Yee; sir; have you, had any en.
parlance?
Young men—I have taken one term in
journaligm at Cornell University,
ana --
Editor—T.11M will do. You may take
my doek land go to work and I'll ran the
eleveter. Pease be as kind to the rest of
the staff as you can.---,Tudee.
MeMaster Univeteity.fieliate ie in cone.
=Initiation with preiniinetit Beptist then.
legieng With 8 itieW 10 flulng five professott
ships in Mielleater glint
Hebert Herdic, it LoinAngelee lawyer, and
lila Frei:tole Hayed, of X3 ao phis,. Were
Aged elpote by ,eiestile Atettelieti
Hardie Wee killed.
A MODLIIN BATTLE a.T SGA.
te stir onTioaradallamr yS,b11) on Sighting
n
Ends VOSSel Will Wear fax action as soon
as the other is ciimerned--perhaps five
miles away. Eat& will probably Wow down
at tint, in order to gain time fax propene -
tion, and avec:jelly fax getting the mane
pressure np to the highest point, writes
Lieutenant Fiske in the Forum for May.
Forced draft will an once be ptaeted and the
eubdried roar of the air being drivee
through the furnace, to accelerate wenn
buStion, and the whir of the dyintmos, will
be added to the clang, of the gun breech
blooke as they are swung open to admit the
projectile to the breath, the hum of the
amunition.hoiste railing powder and Abell
to the decks, and the quiet, firm grders of
authority, On deck, the getting awes
and revolying cannon, and the rapid-
fire guns in the tops, are got noislessly
into readiness; the oiaptain takes his place
in the art:mired conning tower with the
thief geartermaster and his aid ; the one-
ontive °Meer asetunee charge of the battery
and rernailaS near at hand to take the
captein's place in cage of h= death or dia.
ability; the range-findees are got into
position, and the :Ater in charge begins to
report from Ur= to time the distance of
not
eansehrnoy,
t wnionwbeafirazzdingunotliorieeth.isProbablyairitanee
ie reduced to 2,000 yards, and probably
both shis will keep pointed toward oath
°thee until that time, But now what will
the Contestants do? It bas been held that
both will advance steadily toward each
other—teeth commander hoping that
intorno false move On the part of his
adversary will enable him to rush
orwerd, disoleerge his bow torpedo at
500 yards, and perhaps follow it up
with hie rain and end the fight ot once—
nail they Wive approathed so close, say
500 yarde, that neither dares to eveerve
lest he himeelf be rammed, so that the
thips will at iength oollide end on, and
may be both sank! The various inventions
of the past few years—rapiddire guns, high
explosives, torpedoes, submarine boats,
dynamite boats and range -finders, the in-
creased power and perfection of steam and
electric mathinery, the improvements in
powder and in steel fax projectiles and for
arinor—have not revolutionized naval
Baena: so much as they have broadened
it. • The principles of strategy remain the
same, and so does the necessity fax the
seaman's skill. Engineers construct, in.
ventora invent, experiments are tried, sham
battles ere fought and heated discuesions
agitate the naval mind, but the only thing
that oan determine the real conditions of
modean naval ',Arnim is a modern naval
war.
"my mine."
GUIs, wait a minute! What ao you think
I have been doing for the past year? Why,
I have been riding a bicycle.
"Well, that's nothing," I hear a hundred
voices say, "50 hove we been riding
bicycles, and flue fan it is, too." -
Now, if you would just give ras breath-
ing space, my dear enthusiasts, I would
tell you that what 1 was going to say was
to those who don't ride and who "don's
quite know whether to try it or hoe"
Ali 1 thanks—now I will proceed.
The idea of riding abicyclenever entered
my head notil early last summer; and this
was bow it finally got poesaesion of me. I
had several young men friends who rode
and as they reigned to MO the delightful
adventures and exciting incidents of their
many little rims, I became suddenly fired
with the idea that I too might enjoy these
sports, "if I only had a bloyele."
li-,"wcWwieer enough to oonstilt the family
phylician first, and trembling with im-
patience, after boldly stating my project
(that of learning to ride at onoe) I awaited
his answer. "Certainly—go ahead and
ride," he said. "1* will do you good;
only remember this, it is not in the use
but in the abuse that it will harm yon."
At the riding school I learned to manage
•the wheel in twO lessons, and in ths. third
accomplished the most difficult part, -that
of " mounting."
next pttrottased "my bike," and then
came the fan.
I rode over all the good roads, of which
we have quite a number, and found that
the sight of the shining spokes, the easy
saddle and the tbought of the delightful
motion (which cornea nearest to flying of
anything I Can imagine) would often tempt
me out in the fresh air when otherwise I
would have spent my time indoors in lazily
reading or drawing.
Then carne the bracing autumn weather,
when 1 woald go spinning along amid the
failing leaves, and as 1 whirled over the
hard ground, and breathed in the cool air,
it sent the blood to the very tips of my
fingers and toes, and I felt as though I
could scarcely refrain from singing, in
sheer eitiberance of epirits "The cares I
left behind me."
And now oomes spring, gentle, balmy
spring, when the air is filled with the
odor of apple-bloesome, a dreaminess asals
over our senses, and we long fax the sea
air, and a lonely spot wherein to indulge in
the delightful deice far niente—but no!
In the spring the brilliant sunshine
Lightens up the shining steel;
In the spring the youthful fancy
T.arns unto the faithful wheel.
Yes—Girls, rouse youreelves I now is the
time. Get a bicycle as I did, learn to ride
and you will never repent ib.—Z.
letin.
The Demand for Fancy Stones.
It is surprising bow strong a hold the
revived taste for °steepen emeralds and
opals has taken. It is reported from Lon-
don that tho Queen bast ordered from a
well-known firm of Bond street jewellere a
neoklace of opals and diamonds, the centre
stone being an opal of great beauty and
size. This is presumably intended as a wed-
ding present for the Princess Aline of
Hesse. Thistaken with the fact that the
Prince of Wales' favorite pin of late has
been an opal set round with diamonds
should =rely sound the death knell of the
old superstition relative to the Onluoky
qualities of the opal. And again we read
in a sooiety journal that at a recent ball
given et Buckingham Palace Lady Ampti
hill wore a necklace of catseyes and dia-
monds of great veins, the recent gift of her
htisband.
Murdered for dDs 88one9.
A Chicago divan% says : The dead
Teddy of an aorobat named Murdoch, who
had been missing dem Friday, was found
to.day in the river. Five ugly wounds on
the head indicate manatee. Piltirdoola's
tistoh and a large sum of money Said to
have been in his poseession are missing.
The disappearance of Murdoch Was
promptly reported by hi g partner West.
The latter left the oity saying he Was going
to Racine. The police hove telegraphed to
that city asking that West be arrested.
Count Toletoi has a =Deily of nine child.
ren, the eldest of Awl is e pretty girl iof
eighteen. All the 1110inbers a the family
speak linglitth fitteritly.
Williard Bully, a Grand Trunk brake-
man, had both legs fen neer by a flat car
on Eltuaday morning at,Bellevillei He is in
a °Mice' Condition.
TELEGR4,-PJa10
SUMMARY.
Theleoen oh Govermaaent Labor Pill fixes
10 hours daily as the limit for men's labor.
Large quantities of ginand whiskey have
been Beized by the Customs authotities at
Qb
20, P. R., was almost wiped out by flre last
ievening. el 1,age of Mountain Grove, on the
Baigeria, has been almotat destroyed by a
The northern pain of tine oity oi Sofia,
The anniversary of the engagement at
Ridgeway in '66 will be commernoraled iu
Toronto to.a ay.
The Argentine Republic has deternained
that in the payment of Custonas rues one.
halt the amount merit be payable in gold.
0. C. Beown, a millionaire banker of
Marinette, Wit., committed suioide Sane
-
day by shooting himself. He had 'been ill,
and Was temporarily insane.
An official inquiry is being mede eon.
awning the frequent oases of starvation in
London, England, the object being to
oitimbtaeut,
ininforrth
aation for e benefit of Paz
l -
Owing to a leak in a gas -heating stove in
his room, on Friday morning, Mr, George
lid. Colborn, proprietor of the Clifton house,
Niagara FaIis, had a narrow esoepe from
death by aplayxiation.
An attempt wan raade on Saturday to
wreck the feet Irish mail train at Castlebar
The obatruotione, a couple of gates placed
aorta= the track, were discovered in time to
avert a disaster.
Judge Dugas, Police Magietrate of Moue
trear, bag been ordered by the Attorney -
General of eratheo to oommentie an in-
vestigation into the cirounestances attend-
ing tiao death of the Englishman Kimber.
Another stage in the case of the Jesuits
vs. the Mail was remelted on Saturday at
Montreal, when the couusel for the Jesuies
filed their answer tit the defendanta' plea.
The arguments on the plea and answer vrill
be heard at an early date.
The crop prospeots in Manitoba and the
Northwest Territories are reported to be
better than they have ever been at this
season of the year. In Manitoba itself there
are 1,000,000 acres tinder cultivation, of
which 800,000 are in wheat.
The body of Ida Doherty, who was one of
the victims of the boating aooident on the
river at London, last Monday, was found
&bout 9 o'clock nunday morning near the
Byron dean. Adam Johnston's nook was
broken, it is sapposen by coming in conteot
with the timbers in the dam.
The new ocean greyhound Nor:nannies,
whiota arrived at New York on Friday, had
a remarkably narrow °nape from destruc-
tion. In ehe midst of a dense fog her cap-
tain sriddenly eighted an immense iceberg
right in her path. His presence of mind
and prompt motion enabled hire to turn the
steamer in each a manner that she only
grazed the iceberg.
Mrs. Parsons, Chicago, in a speech
Sunday at a meeting of the n Arbeiter
Bund," said dynamite was to be tine
liberator of the human race. Not that
people should go round with bombs and
dearoy human life, but that as gunpowder
bad abolished the power of the feudal
barons, so would dynamite in the hands of
the working ()lasses render the armies of
the ospitaliets melees in a street fight.
'What will probably prove to be a mur-
der happened in the Brooker settlement
near Windsor on Wednesday zieght. Two
farmers, Jones and Speechley, got into an
altercation about a cove. When Jones started
to take the cow off Speethley's farm he
was set upon by the hitter's wife and son,
who used pitchforks. Jones' body and
head is frightfully mat, and his phystoians
heave grave doubts of hisrecovery.
The stearaer Exeter City, from Swansea,
last night brought to New York the captain
and 11 men of the crew of the Norwegian
berque Loeisi which eprunk a leak and
sunk off the Irish coast May 191h. The
barque was bound for Quebec. The orew
passed three days and three nights at the
pumps before they were rescued. The work
of rescao was difficult, as a high sea was
running. Captain Heffermehl of the Louis
was struck by a WaVe and injured.
Keenan, the beanie alderman of New
York, wen relemed yesterday on 040,000
baiSLilva Porto, a Portuguese explorer of
fifty years' experietoe, has committed mei-
census enumerators commencedtheir
work yestaroay.
The International Typographical eCon-
vention will hold ite meeting at Atlanta,
on the 10th inst.
The coal -heavers of Montreal are out on
strike. They demand 35 cents an hour fax
both day and night work.
Arolabishop Fabre has =sued a circular
calling ution the members of the Church to
observe raore faithfully the Lord's day.
Londoners ars speculating at a lively rate
in shares k Kentucky and Tenneesee land
companies, and many of theta are likely to
get bitten.
A couple of innatice who escaped from
Longue Pointe Asyluin during the lire were
captured at Ottawa yesterday, and will be
sent back.
The sentence on Kalobkoff, who was
found guilty in the Panitza conspiracy
trial and condemned to nine years' imprisi
onmeht, has been commuted to exile.
The French Minister of the Interior has
prohibited the sale of the Paris mutual
pool tickets outside of racecourses, and
also prohibited all intermediary betting
agencies.
The voting on the foundry beataw in
Whitby resulted in 188 for and 100 spina,
na enough to carry by a few votes, unless
the names of dead men on the voteee' list
can be strtuak off.
Aix earthquake °warred at Liina yenta -
day morning at ten minutes to 2. It was
the severest ehook experienced fax many
years, and was followed later by two
otherin which, though much milder, were
of more than average strength.
A Special despatch from Witehingioxi
states that the Canodiart railway com-
panies which have been granted the huffing
privilege have been charged with violations
of the United States Treaeury regulatione,
and that in consequence an iiiquiry in the
whole matter has been proporied.
A Paris correepondent says a number of
offioials at naitior German ooatts ate
threatened with dismieseil fax intriguing,
at the iostanoe of Comet Herbert 131a.
matok, to obetruot the Emperor's policy.
It is said that the Emperor has informed
Peittce Bierearok that if he &tee not stop
hie press titterings the malt will be seen
one.
A whole family Monied dampen, living
at Lake George, in Prescott county, have
heal poisoned bie eating the root Of the
wild parthip. Four members of the tardily
have died, and the =ooleery of the othees ig
donbtfal. These unfortunate peeple were
raigerithly poor, and gathered recite in the
woods for food,
A young son of Mr, Beringer, Market
S(Initret Loudon: WitS run mew oesettirdep
afternoon at Cm corner of Riohniond ined
Zing streety a ilearel gavel woggen.
The led was orossing tiee street vita% he
was knooked down by tho norse:7, one
wheel of the waggon pas/sing over hio iteek
and another aCro95 his batik. The led wine
coeveyed to Lis eatherei residen on in a
critical condition.
.4. Calgary dovetail says B. Ile Slotwi
proprietor of the woellen mil= at
Creek, we, arraigned belorenuperintersdent
3latallree at the police =armies 'yet:to:day
charged ninth disturbing a ublio woettleip
iu the Ohnrcla of England, Fieh (Week., by
smoking bis pipe. Show claimer bum did
not smoke while the Beryl= was eolnie on,
bat when tiae benediction eves being Teen
rioanced. He was =Menaced to ,pey 01,0
and costs, or touter:la days in Jail, lie
took the latter.
A. Swift Current, N. W. T„ deepetc1x
says an attempt was made to roil the Bain
tleford mail, due there to -day, wiaile lying
up at Otter station en Saturday nigbb, Tim
would-be robber ova:battled two neoke or
newspapers and demanded then the gottrieri
E. Woodcock, open up the registered and
other lettere, which were inziae. wood-
cock pint through the door, and Um :caber
lied, shrieking with pain. The roe/dared
and other mail paokages are believed to be
0, X.
The labor troubles in Alla0Cia are befog ro-
flawed and numerous fresh ettlkes are reportal,
It is expected that the first section of twelve
miles on the Nicaragua, Canal will be elearod bY
the end of July.
lir, Paul Peel, of London, Ontario, hen; been
a:warded the medal of the Paris Salon for his
picture " Apres is Bain."
The German steamer Ohio, from Itio, Jazzier°,
is quarantined at Lisbon wit/a four cases of
yellow fever on board.
On Monday night a fire broke out In the
village of eb. Sacques de l'Aohigan,near Montreal,
and destroyed 28 dwelling laouses, rendering 83
families homeless,
The incorporation of Chester, a suburb of
Toronto, was quashed on the Fsround that the
incorporation was obtained by a fraudalent
°EMBUS.
The stonecutters' strike at Toronto is ended.
They were getting 88 canes per hour and struck
for 47 cents. The masters consented to give them
43 cents per hour.
The Cossacks have had a fight with brigands
at 018, on the Asiatic frontier. Two Cossacks
were killed and three wounded, and four robber
were killed and eight wounded.
At the inquest on tbe bodies of the vigil= et
the Oakland disaster the jury returned a Yoram
manslaughter against the engineer in oharge ot
the train.
Louis Israel Roy, of TetreauvIlle, a suburb of
Bull, 'while walking on the 0. P. 0, track YOSter-
clay was overtaken by the Aylmer train ana
I instantly killed.
The Attorney -General of Quebec has ecided
to appeal from Judge Belanger's decision declar-
ing that munieipalitietilutve no right to prohibit,
the issuing of licenses.
The delegates to the Anti -Slavery Conference
at Brnssels have all,with the exception of thorn:,
representing the United States, assented to the
Congo tariff as defined by the convention.
The Royal Commission to investigate Cori,
tractor Whelan's boodling charges will meet to-
morrow at Montreal. A number of subpconas
have been issued to members of the Legislaturn •
of )3oth parties.
The Exchequer Court at Winnipeg yesterday
commenced the hearing of the snit of the North-
west Navigation Conaparty against the Dominion
Government fax 3116.61, claimed to be due for
the transport of troops after the rebellien irera
Grand Bapids to Vi7inmpeg,
The celebrated suit of Sohn Ross, the con-
tractor, against the Canadian Pacific Railway
for 380,000 balance of an account for tbe eon-
struotion of the Lake Superior section, was
amicably settled out of court yesterday at
Montreal. The oompany will pay the $80,000
and wIthdre,w their counter claim for ON ran -
lion dollen.
Boner to Women.
The eaored books of India ocattain the
following praiseworthy raaxims
He who despises women nespisog Wix
own mother."
"Who is aimed by women is oureen by
God."
"The tearer of women call down tbe dee
of heaven an than who raake them tioc,,,:.•
Evil to him who bugle at woragazi'J
sufferings; God shall laugh at bit
prayers."
n It was at the prayers of a woman *bee
the Oreatorpardoned man. Cursed be he
who forgets it."
"There is no orime more alone than to
persecute a woman."
"When women are honored the trivia.
ties are content; but when they are not
honored all undertakings fail."
"The households cursed by worrien to
whom they have not rendered the hewiage
due to them, find themselves weighed down
with rain and destroyed as if they had
been struck by some secret power."
"1* is time to appreciate all things at
their true value."—Daughiers of tifnerrt'a.
itemperor William MountGuard.
A little tire= ago, wishing to realize the
sensations of a soldier on guard, the Ger-
mart Emperor put himself on duty foe
twenty-four hours in an extemporised
guard -room within his own garden et
Poteciam, and stood sentryduring four
spells of two hours each during that time.
Ere wore the uniform of a private giddier,
carried a rifle, and ate of the soldia's
ordinary. But unlike Peter the Great, who
did the= things often enough in real earn.
eet—mixing with other soldiers and lying
down beside them—William II. took hie
little diversion all alone. No officer came
to relieve him, and, in fact, only one or two
'persons of his entourage were aware or
what he was doing until he had dote it.
When the whole thing was over lie was
&eked how he had enjoyed standing liontry
at night and he answered: "1 wag think-
ing all the time how many millions of poor
wretches have gone through the drudger/
of military life while loathing it, and have
got killed in wars for the 01121509 of which
they did not oars & button."—Loncion Star.
The Land Tax in South A.ustralia.
The progressive land tax which is pro-
poged by the Ministry of South Australia,
and is 'musing great controversy in their
colony, begine to rise at £5,000, twina.
proved value. Land held to that amontit
by any one tax -payer inasseszed abpreeene
at a halfpenny in the pound. 1* is pro.
posed that on estates of greater valup elle
tax will be increased by steps of 1 farthing .
tin a minimum of 3 pence in the pound is
reached on estates of A100,000 value. The
owner of an estate of £100,000 will nob pay
3 pence on the whole value, but a halfpenny
on the fillet 5,000 aoreet, 3 farthitige on tho
next, and Flo on. ---London Daily Keys,
Mr. Jainee Taylor, of Winnipeg, had aix
interview with the Deputy Mielater ot ehe
Interior urging the claims of tho white tra,
lere who wont to the Red Rivet cow:10y
after the year 1885 to receive riorip eiroilat
to thattgented to eettlers Who weut there
between1818 and l835;
0 la a a au* s th h
-tie int re en itty co c gine elle
Orphans' Hoi44.
readlea X3e*ViiitVArOkiri the Edinburgh
The claymore t
the
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MacGregor, of Broolel toy,
net Attu eoteh bandit, is it
neighbors.
—Life would loge lOte 0
were not oheered by tile nos
In a sermon on Sunday in Win
Revi Mr. OrtrWe denottneed party pOlikaa
as—next to the liquor traffic—the gremeot
earn in Canada tinder.