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AGRICULTUAAL.
Bees end Their Bobits.
The hive or the noney bee, as it is gener.
ally called, is the most useful to man of the
membrane winged inse3ts. It hosfour naked
wings, the upper pair being the larger. Its
eyes are large, composed of a great number
of six sided facets, thickly studded with
hairs. Betweerthe antenm there are three
small, bright,spots, which are supposed to
be oyes. From the fact of bees recognizing
their hives from long distances and flying
toward them in a straight line with the
greatest rapidity', it would seem that their
sense of visionis very acute, at the sometime
we see them running their heads against
the hive and actually feeling their way
into it. So probably their composite eyes
are fitted oxily for distant vision.
The muscular strength. of the tee is very
great and capable of being long continued.
A community of hive bees contains the
workers and a queen, which have stings,
and the drones, which have no stings. The
sting is a, very strong weapon with beets on
the end. The workers do not hesitate to use
their sting, and will fight until they die, but
the queen will seldom use her sting, except
in killing young queens. The sting of a bee
Is very poisonens, and cattle and even men
have died from the effects of an enraged,
colony.
There are two kinds of bees in this country
-the common honey bee and the Italian
tee, the latter differing from the former in
having white bands around the body and
having a longer trunk.
In winter the,queen lays few, if any, eggs,
but as soon as the workers begin to bring .
polIeu in the spring she begins, and, 111 a
strong colony, lays 2,000 eggs a day. The
eggs are of a bluish white color, and ea a
proper temperature are hat:dial in three
days. Workers may now be seen entering
the cell every few minutes to feed the larva.
The workers renaain five days in this con-
dition,the drones six and a half days, The
cell is then scaled over bythe workers. In
three days the larva spins a cocoon and
passes into the pupa, state andin twenty
days the workers come out, end the drones
in twenty-four; but when theyrpar a gueen,
she is fed on the royal jelly while in the
larva state, which so stimulates her that she
comes out in sixteen days. Although the
queen is developed the quickest she lives
the longest, generally from three to five
years; the drones live but a few months.
The workers live about six weeks in the
best of the season, but those which are
belched later ia the season live throagh the
winter. Bees will notswarm until the hive
is full of honey; then the bees -will take a
larva which was to be a worker, enlarge its
cell, feed it on royal jelly and in twelvedays,
if you put your ear near the hive, you can
hear the young queen piping in her cell, and
you will know that theywill soon swarm.
The young queen is protected by the work-
ers, for if the old queen could get at the cell
she would destroy the young queen. Bees
swarm only on pleasant. days. When all
things are ready the workers givethe signal,
and the old queen flies outof the hive, follow-
ed by %bout twothirds of the workers. The
queee still soon light on a tree, and the work.
ere will duster around her. If anything
happens to the queen the bees will return
to the old stock. Of course, when the first
swarm issues there are hundreds of workers
hatching out daily, and if the 'workers wish
to continue swarming 'when the young queen
comes out of her cell, theworkers will pro-
tect the other young queens, and in nine
days another swarm will come out led by s.
young queen, although the swarm is much
smaller than the first. Another swarm will
come out, in three days, and the workers will
generally let the queen, sting the young
queens into their cells ; but sometimes they
have been known to swarm eight them in
one season.
Sometimes a young swarm if they have
%large timber of 'bees sae small hive,
bill swarm ; we had one last summer that
swarmed, although they were but two
months old. They filled the hive withltoney;
also two fifteenspound box% and swanned
in that. time. M two queens come out of
their cells at the same time a fierce combat
Wows, the workers form around them to
witness a prize fight; but one always seems
to get the better of the other, and soon des.
treys her and seemstto worse for thestruggla
The swarming season ontimetwes the last of
hlitiand lasts until Anguet, but a swarm
which comes out after the middle of July is
tvorthiese.
Insecticides.
The Department of Agtieulture sends
Ibis out as the (mat forret& for a kerosene
omulsion to destroy sucking insects, such
the tree "bugs, plant lice and Neale
t tete. Diesolve a half -pound of common
veep or whale &A soap in e. galloa of water,
and heat it, to the boiling point. Then
turn it into two gallons of kerosene, and
churn by ttse of force pump and a spray
noerle for five or ten minutes. To tile for
tbe ordinate, facilities about tlae average
farm it is quite a fine thing to always make
the butter come hard and firm during hot
weather. The observance of a small matter
like the one mentioned will aid most mater-
ially in maintaining a uniform gilt-edged
butter polity.
It should be seen that during this dry
time the water facilities of the pastures are
kept wholesome and adequate for the needs
of the stock. Bunning the COWS from
pasture is the incentive for another species
of lacteal taint which develops principally
after the milk has been withdrawn from the
udder. Anything that is unnatural or
inhuman about the. care and treatment of
dairy cows is sure to directly or indirectly
damage the milk yielded by them. Salt
your cows regularly, or better yet, keep salt
by them, and they will yield more and better
milk and your creara will " come" into
butter freely and quickly.
It has been time and again demonstrated
that washing the milk from butter when in
a granular state does not injure its groan or
detract from its flavour. There is yet to be
shown one good meson for working the
buttermilk from the butter with a ladle. It
fs like throwing eggs into a basket, as you
would potatoes, to send to market. In both
cases an omelet is produced. •
Now Mlle time to test the quality of
milk of your individual cows, to establish
the per cent of the butter -fat yielded. If
you feel that you cannot afford to buy a
tester for your own use wholly, interest
your dairy neighbors and club together for
the purchase. Your aim shoule be to work
up the possessions of a dairy showing by a
practical tester 5 per cent of butter fat yield-
ed. That is, the use of the tester will open
your eyes so that you can weed out from
your dairy the 3 or 4 per cent cows that
keep the general average so low.
No matter where you milk your cows this
hot weather'in the stable or barnyard ; but
be sure thatthe surrounding atmosphere is
not tainted by any offensive odor. The
poison of bad air is indelibly photographed
upon the quality of any milk within its
reach.
In washing milk utensils in t'he dairy the
use of salsoda, should be considered almost
indispensable. It will cleanse the spores
and bacteria from seams and cracks. Its
use should de followed by a thorough after
scalding. -Prairie Farmer.
For Balky Horse&
Following are six rules for the treatment
of balky horses which are recommended by
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals. Persons who are unfortunate
enough to own such animals are recommend-
ed to give one or more of these rules a trial:
I. Pat the horse upon the neck; examine
the harness carefully first on one side ad
then on the other, speakingencouragingly
while doing so ; then jumi
p nto the wagon
and give the word go;. generally he will
obey,
2. A teamster in Maine says he can stoat
the worst balky horse by taking him out of
the shafts, and making him go around in a
circle until he is giddy. If the first dance of
this sort doesn't cure him, the second will.
3. To eure a bulky horse simplyplone your
band over the horse's nose, and shut off his
windeentil he wants to go, and then kb him
4. The brain of the horse seems to enter.
tain but one idea at a time; therefore, °ore
timed whipping only confirms his stubborn
resolve. Ifyou can by anymeans give him a
new subject to think ofeyou will generally
have no trouble in starting him. A eimple
remedy is to take a couple of turns of stout
twine around the f weleg, just below the
knee, tight enough for the horse to feel,
and tie a bow knot. At the first cluck he
will generally go dancing off, and alter
going a short distance you can get out and
remove the string to prevent injury to the
tendon in your further drive.
5. Take the tail of the horse between the
bind loge, and, tie it by a cord to the Saadlo
girth.
O. Tie a string around the horse's ear)
elose to the horse's head.
MOM° Peale
A white scale is a. commonpest on twat -
toes, eve the Cornell experiment bulletin.
The huperfeet 'meet is a small white scale.
like body. preying upon the under surface
of the leaves, and the mature form is it min-
ute lly.like bleed, which 'lies about, the
!mute. it can be kept, in cheek by fumi-
gating with tobacco smoke. A mach more
serious pest is a small spotted mite, seemly
larger than the red spider. Barring the
rose elide; it is the utostserious pest which
I have ever encountered. The mites feed
upon the under auks of the leaves, ceustteg
the upper thirfaeee to appear speckled with
white They attack many plank, but to.
teatime end etteumbers are favorites. Wo
have tried numbers of remedies with great
thoroughness, leak 1889.00 the only way
we could keep them in check WAS to syringe
with water so forcibly once or twice a day
scale, mix one gallon of this with nine of' as to knock them olf. By the time they
water; for other insects one gallon of it to were fairly resettled on the plants we would
fifteen gallons of water is enough, and one knock them oft' again. By this alternating
galls% in twenty or two -eV -five will kilt warfare, aided be picking arid burning the
plant lice. The same ettatISton, Otte gallon worst leaves, WC keptourplante in tolerable
in fifteen gallon' ef water, is used for order. Lately, however, we have found
grape phylloxera, and forgrubs in the lawn. that Hughes' fir tree oil is fetal to them, as
It shonld be applied liberally, and then the also to all kinds of lice and ttaIctt. For the
ground liberally supplied with water very mites, We WM a half toilet, of oil to two gal.
frequently for several day& lens of %teeter, and the material may be ap.
For phylloxera, they also recommend a plied with a syringe or knapsack pump.
mixture made by dissolving over the fire five
pounds caustic stela iti four gallons of water,
thou add 40 pound ef retie and boil until
resinn is all disitolved, then ',lowly add water For Mee, terpentinehtte proved my most
enough to make fiftygallons. To toe it, pat efficient remedy, :Aye a writer in the Coen -
the gallon of this to nine pilots of water, try Getitletretn. In feet, 1 believe it to be
end dig a basin six inches deep and two feet an almost tete prevenhve, if the chicks ite
across around the vine mid turn in five gal- taken in time and given a dose in their food
Ions of the diluted mixture. It is best kid° once every day, beginning, sty, when the
it tatty in spring before the spring rains, VI chicks are about ten dare of age. I put in
that it may be well soaked down arouhd the sta much turpentine as they will stand,
roots, giving it in their meriting meal when the
Alas' nests, which are sometimes very chicks are very hongry, and allowing them
troublesome, may be destroyed by turtneg no other food forseveral hours. They must
bi-sulphide of carbon into the nest and also be kept out of the dew, fed upon
cover them with a wet blanket for ten strengthenitig feed, and everything aroond
minutes. Then remove the blanket, and them be kept clean and wholesome. But,
with a torch (along -handled one, to keep the notwithstanding all precautions, sometimes
flame from the face) explode the vaper atthe a bad case Of gapes will occur; then I gen-
mouth ot the hole. If a satisfactory method orally persuade some one more skillful than
of applying it could be arranged, so that it myself to extrhets, theegape worms with a
would not be too expensive, this would be twisted horse hair wet in turpentine, or
aseful in destreying onion, carrot, and radish failing in that, put a drop Or ttiVe of turpen-
maggots, and perhaps other underground tine down their windpipes. After treat -
insects. meat, the little patients should be liberally
Paris green for apple trees should not be fed on bits of fat sprinkled with pepper, as
stronger than one petted in 2.30 gallons of their constant gasping has prevented them
Water. Mix the panel' with water enough from eating. I have also tried giving the
to make as thick as cream, and then stir chicks pure carbolie acid in their food as a
carefully into the water, as there is fear of preventive of gapes, but do not think it
injerieg foliage, as on peach and plum answered the purpose quite so well as tut.
trees. Add about five gallons of lime water pentina though it may be best used in cold
be the 250 gallons and that will prevent the or rainy 'weather when it is not safe to use
burning el the leaf. much turpentine.
v
Impossible.
Turpentine for Gapes.
A Travelling Dairy.
To the Hon. John Dryden, Commissioner
of Agriculture for Ontario, belongs the
honer of conceiving the, idea of sending a
travelling dairy through this Province to
give farmers, their wives and familiesprac-
tical instruction in buttewma,king. For
this purpose Mr.. Dryden asked a small sum.
of money from the Legislature during its
last session in March, and since that time
he has given the mater a good deal of
thought and attention. The work of arrang-
ing it progtainthe of meetings and carryingeut
the many details necessary to insure success
was entrusted to President Millet who six
years ago organised the Farmers'. Institutes
of this ,Province which he has ever since ar-
ranged and carried on yearly with great suc-
cess. President Mills undertook this work
with his usual determination and made such
satisfactory arrangements that the travelling
dairy bids fair to be a grand success and
prove of incalculable benefit to those farm-
ers who attend the meetings held in their
district..
The hon. Minister does not wish to do
anything either inopposition to or in com-
petition with the creameries or 'cheese fac-
tories. His object in connection with the
travelling dairy is to assist the farmers and
their wives to make good. butter for their
own use and for the local markets, to instruct
them in the feeding of cows, the handling
and testing of milk, the handling and churn-
ing of cream, the working andpackingof
butter, etc. -in a word, to assist them as
far as possible by simple object lessons and
lectures to make butter which will command
the highest prices in the markets, thus
proving a source of profit to those , who
handle it and a constant delight to the
travelling public, who are now compelled
to eat so much poor butter.
Mr. Dean, protessor et dairying at the
Ontario Agricultural College, who, by the
way, is a graduate of that institution will
take a leading part at all the meetings.
Prof. Dean has a thorough knowledge of
dairying in all its different phases, is a
fluent and popular speaker and a man well
fitted to stimulate the farmers to be more
careful and systematic in their work. He
will be accompanied by Mr. S. P. Brown
and W. J. Palmer, B. S. A. Mr.. Brown is
both a scientific and practical butter maker,
finishing his course at the 0. A. C. three
years ago. He then moved to the dairy
State of 'Wisconsin where he assisted in the
management of a dairy farm and latterly
has had. charge of the experimental depart.
ment of the 0. A. C. dairy where he has
made an excellent quality of butter. Mr.
Palmer, a graduate orate college this year
and who has since been giving special at-
tention to butter making and the manage-
ment of milk and cream, will assist Prof.
Dean, take note of the proceedings and re-
port at the different meetings.
The appliances for the travelling dairy
consist of :-One No. 2 daisy churn, one 20
bottle Babcock milk tester for testing
sainples of milk furnished by anyone who
desires to know the quality of their cows'
milk, one lever butter worker, cream can,
milk cams, thermonteters and other utensils
necessary for suceeseful buttermakieg.
Four or hve gallons of cream aud some ace
are required for each meeting. These are
arranged formed are supplied by some farmer
near athand, who, after the meeting is over,
gets the butter in return for hie cream.
The first meeting was held at Islington on
Tuesday, June 30th, and proved a success
in every way. Islington is a thriving vil.
lege on the C. P. B., about ten miles westof
Toronto, the centre of a rich agricultural
country and surrounded by prosperous far-
mers, some of whom have private dairies,
but most of theta ship their milk directly to
Toronto. The Town Hall being engaged for
the °melon, proceedings opened o.t about
9.30 a.nt. There was a good attendance at
this meeting, not a few ladiee being pre-
sent.
Prof. Dean briefly described the objects
for which the travelling dairy were Intel.
tuted, viz., to stimulate thefarmers to make
a better quality of butter for the local mar-
kets. One great, drawback, that farnters
have to contend with is that, thepriee of the
articles they sell is fixed and ale° the price
of those they buy. ruder these conditions
they must t--(1) lessen the cost of produe.
tion ; (2) produce a better article. At the
present rate of progress Canada maysupply
the whole British market with butter and
cheese, but to do this it tirstaelass article
would have to be produced. Ile then thew.
ad by means of ot chart the amount of fertil-
ising tretteria token item the farm by tire
mak of grain, compared with dairy produces,
after wheal he dwelt at length on the care
of milk and cream for butter -whin.
NAV Tiinte for Hot Weather.
Alter you have eream at a proper tem-
perature for churning, it is expedient that
you chin the interior of the churn b :y artise
of core water. Do this immediately prior
leerene the cream in the -harm With
" Could you make a water -color sketeh of
me?" asked Mr. Soaker. •
"All but the tom," returned Palette. -"I
couldn't get that color in wester any more
than you could."
supplied by different farmers were, then
tested with the Babcock tester, which also
proved satisfactory. The percentage of fat
found in the different samples were as fol-
lows 1-
1-8.5 per wont. 6-3.4 per cent. 11-3.1 per cent.
2-4.4 " 7-3.4 " 12-3.8 "
3-3.5 " 8-3.4 " 18-3.0 "
4-3.5 0-4.4 " 14-4.2 "
5-3.3 " 10-3.0 " 15-74.2 "
All the different dairy utensils were then
shown and their uses explained, after which
the meeting broke up, all expressing them-
selves.highly satisfied with what they had
heard and seen.
THE OIIY OF DEATH.
Standing rpm a Swamp, the Mexican Cap-
ital's Death Tinto is 37 in 1,000.
The deathrate of She City of Mexico is
very high. It is sa d that it averages about
37 m 1,000, and the only wonder is that it
is not higher. Were it not for the perpetu-
ally bright sun and the high altitude the
city would be amorgue, a vast charnel -house,
a Golgotha a plane of the skulls. Think of
a city which has had a population of hun-
dreds of thousands for manyg enerations
built upon arid over a swamp, with no
drainage whatever, and, let this city go
on with its accumulated mass of filth increas-
ing year by year and sinking down into the
soil, and you have some idea of sanitary
Mexico City.
A constant miasma riseshere at night and
the water is only thee feet under the city.
Is it any wonder that there is no place in the
world where typhus and typhoid fever are
so prevalent as here, and is it not surprising
that the Mexican capital is for many people
a favorable befall resorb? The climate is
so equable, the thin, dry air and the hot sun
suck up the juices of decomposition, and
such people as are careful and, sleep above
the ground floor are in little danger. Out-
side ot the city there is no danger whatever,
and if it had been built on high ground it
would be the finest heath resort of the
world. As it is, foreigners have to be very
careful of their health here, and the foreign
cemeteries contain many occupants.
A lady occupied a whole year in searching for
and fitting the following lines from English
and American poets. The whole reads almost
as if written at one time and by one author:
Life.
Why all this toil for triumplip of an hour t
Life's -4a sYhOurntgsUmmer-man is but a flower ;-
Der. Johnson.
By turnswe catch the fatal breath and die -
trope.
The cradle and the tomb, alas!so nigh !-[Prior.
To be is better far than not to beseleetvell.
J'bough life may seem a tragedy;-
Butfight cares speak when mighty griefs are
dumb-[Daulel.
The bottom is but shallow* whence they come.
-Mir Walter Raleigh.
Your fate is but the common fate of all ;-
[Longfellow.
Unmingled joys here to no man befall ;-South-
Nature, to cacti allots his proper sphere. -[Con -
grove.
Fortune makes folly her peculiar care ;-
[Churchill.
Customdoesoften reason overrile.--lllochester
And throw a cruel etneadite on a. fool.-IArm.
Live laver -tow long or short periatto heaven,
They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
Sin may be clasped so close we cannot see its
face ;Wrench.
Vile intercourse where virtue has no place.-
Tuen,ICCOP enell pa.ssion down, however dear,-
(Sontorville. -
-pgruillube
s" '
Thou twist a smile Ana tear ;-
Her se-Insurt1BY"suna. meta faithless plea -.urea
With crate and skill to rain and betrays--
Soar -notettroo"ljhth to fall, but. stoop to rIsta-
inlotelars:ingotroefr.
ot all that we despite.--
--SCrowley.
Oh, tterlien, rettriett.nce thatimplous seltesteette-
RIeltee have wings. and grandeur is a dream. -
(Cowper.
Think not ntnbition wise because lie brave -
The net of glory late but to the gram -Wray.
What is ambition? 'Tie glorlotte cheat.-
Davenant.
Only ddesketurt!ellve to the brave and great.-lAd-
Where all the gaudy glitter of a crown 1 -
[Dryden.
The war to blies Iles noton bottle of down.. (5'.
Quarlee.
How long we live, not year' but aetiont tell. -
Making.
That taut nves team who lives the that lifti
'Make. then, while yet re may, your God r our
friend -Mason.
Whom Chrietteute worship, eet nob eetteete.
haat- nun;
The trust thurs gam guard. atid to youmlf be
Seat -Marta.
For two boa e'er we tray, yet die we muse.-
lehakespearce
Meet-sato%
Questiont-When new milk Is worth 10e it
piton, 'Flue is skint milk worth per 1001bs.
for kedtng?
Prof. Deati-20c to 250per 100 lbs.
Question -Is ensilage injurious to cows
when fed in large quatetities
Pied. Dean -No. Not if the Ensilage is
well made and not too seer. We fed &telt
of our cows at the college dairy. last winter
50 lbs. ensliage, five lbs. bran, sox Ilse, clover
hay. per day.
Mr. Cologdort-I hetet fed as high see 90
lbe. per (ley per head witheut any injurious
decent.
Question -.What, is your ration, Mrs.
Agar?
Airs. Agar -Three gallone equal parte oat-
meal and peatneal, 40 lbs. clover laiy, one.
half bushel tnangolds per day.
Mr. Nleood-I feed one Walla cut tett
straw, clover hey aud one-half bueliel pulp.
ed mangolds_ four traits equal quantitie8.
pealtneal alta bran morning and evening, and
with one buthel mixed cut hay and straw at
item.
A Voicw-I feett only twice a day.
Question --Do you recommend brewers'
grain for milch tows?
Prof. Dean -No; unless- they are trade
wad then only in email quantities.
Question -What mutes ensilage to be-
come sour in the silo?
Prof. bean -Organisms floating aleent in
the air attack Lite corn when put itt the silo
changing the.platt sugar to weld.
Question -Is undetrpe torn more ape to
make sour ensilage than that more matured?
Prof. Dean -Yea; matured corn is not so
susceptible to these organisms as youeger
corn.
Question -If it takes e0 lbs. of milk on
an average for 1 lb. of 'butter worth 25
tents, it there not more money either in
cheese at 90 per lb. or in milk for consump-
tion at 10e. per olive?
Prof. Dean -Yes, more direct mob as
30 150. milk made into totter will bring
25e, while made into cheese at 9e per lb. it
would be worth about 27c„ or if sola
directly itt would bring 30t; but in butter -
making the skirn milk is retained, which has
a high feeding value and contains valuable
plant food.
While this discussion was going on Mr.
Brown was 'churning, and soon bad the
butter ready for inspection in the ante,
which, on being inspected by all who de-
sired, was washed thoroughly, then taken
out, -worked, salted, and made into neat
prints, which were greatly admitted by
OW, *A`kttertt. Sixteen samples of milk
Unhappy Haiti.
Raid seems doomed to factional fury and
terror. For a century it has been the scene
of bloody re•volution, with a pertain ,,grotes-
que paredy of civilized, goverairneht Tut
its sole contributor to history or to the
general interest of mankind is the character
aud career of Touissantl'Ouverture. He is
commemorated as a strikingly heroic figure
in Miss Martineates tale of The Hour and
the Man," in Wendell Philip, glowing
eulogy, and in Wordsworth's sonnet.' His
death was one of the crimes of Napoleon.
The latest incident in the annals of the
unhappy island is but a repetition of its
bloody story. It might have occurred in
1791, for the intervenieg century seems not
to have wrought any essential change. A
few months since President Legitime was
defeittecrby Getman Hippolyte who made
himself president, and dictator, and has,
ruled ever since. On the last feast of Corpus,
Christi he was attending the religious cere-
mony at the cathedral, when he was told, of
ad tnsuriection and an assault upon the jail
to release political peisoners. The garrison
at Port-a,u-P.rince, as near the cathedral,
and was, despatched promptly by Hippolyte
to quell the disturbance •A battle in the
streets followed, and. the troops of Hippolyte
carried the day. Then came the old story
of the French terror -a proclamation of
liberty, the most bloody butchery. If the
reports are even partially true, nothing could.
be more brutal and monstrous. A respecta-
ble merchant was sitting on the balcony of
his house, and, having denied the Mame of
Hippolyte that he was concealing arms, the
pictator said, curtly, to his soldiers, "Take
Bien to the court -yard," and he was instant-
ly shot. His nephew is alleged to have
been overheard by a spy to call the crime an
assassination, and refusing to deny that he
said it, the Dictator said, simply, "Shoot
him," and the youth was instantly dragged
out and killed.
It is curious that the States should main-
tain grave diplomatic relations with such a
barbarous parody ole republic, and it is not
surprising that) Mr. Frederick Douglass,
their minister, is said to intend to resign his
post and return. His residence in such a
country must be doubly painfuleto him as
a hideous caricature of free governinent and
as an apparent monument of the political
incapacity of the colored race. Tropical
republics are but names. There is no essen-
tial difference between the personal tyranny'
of a men who calls himself Emperor, like
.Soulouque, and one who, like Hippolyte,
calls himself President. Nothing could be
more different than tha savage license of
the tropics and the selIkeestrained liberty of
the temperate zone. To the islands of
the Gulf of Mexico and to its shores civiliz-
ation and the higher interests of the human
rare are little indebted. Hippolyte will
hold on with bis bloody hand. until another
hand, bloodier and stronger, overthrows
him.
Desperate Affray on Shipboaxd.
Advices from Brisbane report that the
British barque Riverstiale (Captain Farr)
had put in with several of the crew serious-
ly injured. When the ship was proceeding
from New California to Sydney a Oreek
sailor named Ohne ran amuck. Iro first
struck d own asailornamed W Mien: Broucher,
smashing Ins skull ; and, then drawing his
knife, he atabbed the carpenter (James
Carson) in the ribs and arm. Wm. Mahoney,
miler, rushed to the spot, and a desperate
struggle ensued ; brit the Greek, disabling
Mahoney, ran alone tbe deck and stabbed
the, ehiof mate, John Lowson, in the face and
head. Having stabbed two seamen namea
Williams and Jones, Ofano attacked
Captain Farr. The latter had been ill
for some deals, and attempted to de-
fend himself with 4 Week. Matto, how-
ever, 'dabbed hint in the wrist In the
course of a fierce encounter both fell to the
deck. Ofano overpowered Farr, and stabbed
hint in the right Nide. Farr, who vats Wett-
ing profile*, attempted to rise, and °fano
backeol hint about the head four times.
Part of Lae erew, armed with belaying pine,
knives, and an axe, approached Ofauo, who
immediately jumped overboard and disap-
peared. The men's wounds were dressed
by the carpenter, but kis feared some Call.
not possibly recover.
Carrots make a very palatable and 'valu-
able fond, especially for colts, mod with
greund adapted to them, it pays to grow a
few boo:theta as an appetizer for the horses
and colts, orass butter -color for the cowa.
Sundry belated British Columbian vtasele
heve just, started for Lehring Sea, and ate
credited with the intention of getting as
many sealskins at tamable there belbre
being formally ntotified by the eruhers to
kave the forbidden waters. It is doubtful
whether they veal run any smelt risk. They
go with knowledge of the +modes eicands
agreement and the Imperial order in Council
based upon it. in any ea.se they would find
roiled States !Avenue euttera already on
the spat and authoried to serve the notice.
What they are most likely to do is to hamt
for seals outside 13ehring Sea, wherein fact,
a very large part of all the Victoria catch
of last year tvas taken. With a guarantee
from the Imperial Government to reimburse
British Celumbian vessels for losses result -
mg from the execution of the modits rirendi
togreenoent, these vessels are very well cover -
ell 'whether they are auceessful or not ; but
it. would hardly appear wise for vessels
leaving Victoria now to venture intotehring
Sea and expeeb indemnity for toting ordered
Ottt.
A. Romance of the Prange -German War.
A gallant ofacer lute been taken from us
a, Coutinental contributor to " Hearth
tutil Home") by the death of General Suntpt,
the Governor of the Invalides. During the
war of 187050 was terribly mutilated, losing
both lois arms, and being otherwise very
much disfigured. A romantic anecdote Ime
transpired with regard to the desceased
general. In Jelly, 1b70, he Isemine engaged
to be married to Millie Velletau. lie mate
then a tarikingly handsome titan, tall mod
elegant, -with a smiling mid amiable, fem.
Before the marriage could take place war
broke out, mai Soompt was ordered to the
front. When he returned, many long months
afterwards, he was but s battereit torso of °
his former self. Ilis face scarred and
disfigured, his two arms gone, be presented
pitiable appearance. Ile at once proposea
to his fiancee t• give her bath her liberty.
Of coutse, you know tloe rest. It was the
old, old story. No true -hearted woman
ever had but one rattly for proposals of this
description. alone. Velletan said her love
for her betrothed was unchanged, and, af
possible, she loved him the more for the
bravery which had entailed so much sacrifice.
The marriage took place, and proved exceed-
ingly hsppy. Mdme. Sump, who survives
her husband, is a grand -daughter of lar,
Velletan, the physician of the great Napo-
leon.
At its Danghter's Great.
One sad little duty was performed bySit
George Grey an hour or two after his arrival
in Adelaide recently.. Worn as he was with
his journey hewent to the cemetery wherein
lay the grave of his only. child, a child that
died in early life, but so long agothatifit had
lived until now it would have been past
middle age. The old knights reflections,
says a local journal, as he gazed upon the
little mould ftesh-raised when the century
was nearly fifty years younger, muse have
been far too sacred and pathetic for descrip-
tion. When an ambitious young fellow just
off his exploring expedition in West Austra-
lia he was merried in Albany to a handsome
brilliant girl of sixteen, daughter of a highly -
placed Government official,. and the child.
whose grave Sir George revisited was their
only offspring.
The debate on the navy estimates sho ws
that the Britigh fleet lack 20,000 men.
The Bianiov Stoiu
, The village of Blarney islet the north o
Irelaud, about four tulles from Cork
Blarney Cattle was built by Cormack Mae
Cathy, "the *hong," fourth lord of Mus-
kerry, about tloe middle of tbe fifteehth
century. The ruins of the famous old fort -
rets are visithd by thousands of tourists
every year. This is largely on account ef a
tradition which has been attached for Salle
centuties to oue of the stones used in
building the 'castle. This stone it bald to
communicate to the tongue that tenches it,
the gift of gentle, insirmating speech, and
that has. given rise to the aceesation whert
any one Is of particularly sweetaccent that
he or she has 'kissed the Blarney stone."
A song written by Richard Alfred Millikin
itt 179S, refers to the local tradition in these
sta,nzas
"There is a stone there,
That whosoever kisses,
Oh, he never misses
To grow gunner&
=Tie he busy clamber
To a lady' chanfeer,
Or become a member
Of Parliament
A clever spottier
Hell turn out -or
An outeand-onter
To be let alone!
Den% hope to hinder hint
Or to bewilder him,
Sure he's a pilgrim
From the Blarney done."
DREAMED OF HIS MOTHER
An Ind dent or the laeld VOW.
It was in the early days of the gold ex.
eitement in the Black HUN that a party ad
us started ovbrland from Canada, beat upon
making Our everlasting fortunes We never
reached the ?Pal Sappo (as the Indians call-
ed our intended destination) and, as the
story is interesting,. I will tell you the rea.
son •
We came into camp one night at the bead.
waters of the Cheyenne River ewe, as wag
our custom, we had two or three nours of
story telling before we weatiped up in out
blankets and went to sleep.
On this particular night we had taker;
turns et yaan-spinning until old Tom Roberta
came next in order. He stood up, his face
lighted with a kind of halo by the flickering
on inp_ fire.
B •
" oye," said Tom, "I'm net goin' to give •
ye any wonderfuLstories of what I might or
might not bOvedone. No; I'ih 'goin' to tell
ye bout a dream I had last night.
"You remember where our last camp wasl
It was near a big marsh. The night was
jest as calm an' beautiful as there inglit
an' the crickets an' frogs sounded s 'Weepy.
like, an' the air was so wet wib dew an
smelled so fresb that, somehow, I vas 'mind.
est of my boyhood home 'way b 'h in Neer
England.
', 1 went to sleep thinkin"bout old friende
an' the happy times when I didn't know se
much of the world as I do now. I don't
know how long I slept but, all of a sudden.
I heard a tinklin' of bells an' I seen some
sparklin' little stars floating' towards me
through the slough grass. As they come
nearer, I could make 'em oue to be little
bye like my Aunt 'Mandy used to tell
about.
"They flew all 'round • -me, Ate one of 'we
says, steppin' out in, front of all the rest,
says she • •
Be you Tom Roberts?'
"'Yes, ma'am,' says I.
" Well, Tom, I've been watchin' you foe
gome time,' she says, can' I think you're q
good. deservin' feller.'
"'1 try to do what's right,' says 1, 'buti
miss it sometimes.'
"'No human is perfect,' says she, but
rm goin' to reward ye. I'll grant you the
dearest wish of your We, whatever theft
may be. Do you want a magnificent for.
tuner says she.
" No, thankeeee says I, 'I want to eare
all the money I gihe
"Then how about- power? Would you
like to be a ruler ? A king or something like
that?'
s ya I ; what would a feller like
me with no eddieation, do with a kingdom I
I'd be like a fish out of water,' says 1 -which
I would, motes.
"Then she says, 1 Supposin) I make you
as wise as Solomon?"
" "Twout do,' says 1, 'my head ain't
big enough to hold al that.'
"'Would you like to be the happiest man
alive?' says she.
" I can't be no happier theta am this
min%) says 1.
" 'Well, what can I give ye?" says she,
discouraged like.
"'Dl tell ye,' says 1; If yeivant to de
me a real favor-somethin' I'd like above
everythin' else -why, jest Opium a glimpse
of my old mother as Itts been demi these
forty years.'
England has annexed &buten Island,
Which is claimed by the Spaniard.
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irom Roberts paused n. moment and there
was a silence -a kind of speaking silence -
came over the boys. At last Bob Smith
paid:
4, Did ye see yer mother, Tont l"
" No," said Torn, itt a sad voice. " 15
was like all dreams, mates. They never
hold out. That fairy says, "All right, Tom
jest wine a Mae, au tlted he an' the rest
o' the fays disappeared rig. t. in the dark,
quick as a wink. I'd have given my life,
boys, to Intve her want that favor."
That was all of Tom's story and we weal
to bea directly afterwards, wrought up and
a little sad. A tad I dreamed, too the
night, of old titnes.
But I was wakened, suddenly, by a ter -
rifle yell. I jumped to my feet and tebeld
an awful sight. Our eanop bad limo sur-
prised byIndiens, Mal Tom Roberta was the
hitt man to fall by a, tomahawk in the hand
of it painted brave.
Taking ut my peril at a glance. I rolled
off into the long grass by the river. Then,
dropping noiselessly into the water, I swam
os under shadotv of the banka.
I was the only m.ua that eseaped and Ire.
member how, as I swam oirilown the river,
'looked up and tow the brightstars_ tad&
as a Huh, I thologht of Tone's Octant mil I
muttered, "Iti the Laud of Goa ; Tom hal
met hie mother."
Strange things have happosted outa are
happening in this world, ad the time, but
tins story of thelost camp and Toon Roberts'
dreain is the atrangeet I oPertatile mattes in
all my sixty years.
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Tallest and Shortest Reigning littorals
If the little King of Spain ba excepted,
the Emperor of China is the shortestof mate
monarchs, standing as he does only 5 ft. in
height. He must, however, 10 point of
Mature, tette second plea. eo our own Queens
whose stature is the insignilicatit but ituport.
ant height of 4 ft. 10 Ili. The house o
1-lolienzollern boasts the greatest number ot
men of big stature. Ti10 late Etuperos
William I. was 0 ft., and Prinae Charlet
Itis Inother, 5 ft, II in., but the giant of the
tonne is undoubtedly Prince Albert, who
looks Awn upon hie fellow men frem the
imposing height of 6 ft. 0 ht. the reign-
ing male noomarelve, the Emperor of Rossi'
rauks as the tallest, beim; 0 ft. Queel
Vietores, when seen standing, in a town,
lookereryinsignificant-onemightalmeetsay
, stumpy. When being photographeol, she
stands on * small dais or footastool, carefully
e neetled by her skirs and tram. There is,
, however, at 'clef., one photo extant, in whicb elt
a careful steatite, reveals the tatificial eleva.
tem.
. Tee rhght stir.
It seems wet eordieery to observe a. num
ber of bats in the evening flying tack and
forth through the trees with remarkable
rapidity, bet without erte Corning in eoutact
with the branches or heeling themselves.
Spallatzatti, the itelean naturalist, plataka
'bat itt a dirk trielesure, across which trete
stretthed a number of th mete awaits and
recrossing each other. The bat flew rapidly
hack and forth &yin to effeet lies estape, bite
avoided the threads with as much ease as if
hart not been in its way in the huts
Whether tins curious power vvas the retain"
of a sixth and tonkhownr smite was it pur.zle,"
to naturalists. To deciele tr% knotty paint -
Spaltazsani reeorted te the eruel exptdiene
of blinding a bat, ar.1 1eanathat it atilt feee
among the threads without, being to all ate.
peerances, any more ineonveaanuael then if
it still had its eyesight.
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George Parr, or solVoos MCai &MC:Alt sl
England's erickekee died lest, wear liter A
retirement of twenty :entre.
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