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BRUSSELS,
ONTARIO,
FRIDAY, FEB. 14, 1890.
Number 81.
The Intensification of
Agriculture.
farmers of the county of Wellington
could grow oats quite as Successfully ae
wheat was grown in Huroo, but with
thorn to grow any other amp was, like-
wise, an equal failure, what would be
thought if the farmers of these two coun-
ties were to build a great wall along their
boundary and time prohibit an exchange
of aommodibtos. Would it not be bettor
for the farmers in the county of Huron
to devote all their land to wheat, without
regard to anv other orop, and when they
required oats to buy fromtheir neighbore
in the county of 'Wellington ; also the
formers of Wellington would find it to
their advantage to grow oats and buy the
wheat whioh their needs would demand.
Probably so extreme a case as I have in-
stanced is never found, but the prinoiple
is the same. It is a wrong policy to at
tempt to make a proper produce of that
for which their surroundings is not
adapted and which ea0 never be profit-
able. It greatly hinders the development
of those branches of industry which would
yield a remunerative profit.
At present I know of no eyetern, the
adoption of which will so thoroughly ad-
mit of my view of working lees land with
greater thoroughness and also retain the
fertilizing material on the farm, as that
of the silo and giving espeoiel attention
during the winter months oeitherdairy.
ing or the production of beef or pork
when the animal is at the age when these
can be produced with the greatest profit.
One great benefit which would result
would be a better distribution of work
over the year ; as it is there is a great
rush during a few months of the summer
and nothing to do in the winter. Bat
with the adoption of the silo and the
devotion of a large area to the produotion
of corn the work would be better distri-
buted. Along with this I would intro-
duce a better class of animals on the
farm — animals which would yield a
greater flow of milk or lay on more flesh
to the feed consumed than is now gen•
orally found. It is not necessary that
these should be thoro'-bred, but a arose
from any of the imported breeds would
do. Then I would seed down one or two
fields and havo that mnoh additional
pasture for the same number of cattle.
Also I would have my cows come in dur.
ing the fall, which would be an advantage
for many reasons. It would bo an ad-
vantage to the calf, because then it would
receive good sweet milk during the win-
ter and better attention in outer ways.
It would then be turned to the green pas
lure and the advancement wonld be
regnlar. At present the calf is usually
fed some milk or whey during the sum•
mer and in the fall when this is taken
from it the ordinary way is to feed dry
hay or straw, for which its etomach has
not been prepared. The result is the
system of cattle produotion which I have
previously referred to. The adoption of
this ayatern would also result in a direct
benefit. At present the cows only milk
fur about five months of the year, from
April to September. The result of this
practice through many years has been
an inherited predisposition in the oow to
go dry after milking that long. But were
they to begin milk in November or De-
cember they wonld give au excellent flow
of milk daring the winter and butter
could be made when a profitable price
could be realized. Then just when the
cow was getting ready to dry up they
would be put on a rioh pasture and four
months more milk got in spite of them.
Then with an average crop of corn as
much feeding value can be got us from
five acres of boy. It also offers excellent
opportunity for keeping the land clean,
and will give a greater quantity of
manure, which, if properly taken care of,
will be worth twice or three times as
much as the manure carted to the fields
at the present time.
It ie beyond the scope of this paper to
discuss this question at greater length.
I think, however, I have said enough to
point out some places where improve-
ment could be made. There is one more
requisite essential to success in this line
or in fact in any line of agriculture at
the present Mime. I refer to a better
knowledge of the principles of agricul-
ture. Competition has rendered it such
that without this success is almost im.
possible. Through the influence of a
better education Denmark has achieved
remarkable results in the lino we bave
indicated. Wisconsin is acquiring emi-
nence through her silos, and other
countries are fairly in the race. I think
you will agree with me that Ontario pee.
BONN facilities not surpassed by any.
It only remains with her farmers what
will be made of them, and it has been my
object to indicate where some improve.
went could be made.
}r w, LLUSCELL 111e11101., Or Oilfir 1'OWNSHIIP.
• (CONCLUDED FROM LAST wenn)
Nothing could better illuetrate the dif.
torenee between oaltivating a large piece
of ground in a slothful way and a smaller
piece more thoroughly than a statement
of results which has actually transpired.
There arobonude, however, beyond which
it would net be prudent to pass. We will
illustrate this in another way. If in
reckoning the comparative coat in manur-
ing a small piece o! ground generously
and a largo plum insufficiently we let a
definite number of pounds of manure
absorbed stand for one pound of grain
the oan welly arrive at a more cortain
conolueion. It is admitted that every 10
pounds of manure absorbed stands for a
yield of one pound of wheat. Cense•
quently if wo apply to a half -acre live
tone of manure, and it be all absorbed,
the yield will be 16# bushels. If on an.
other half acre we apply 10 tone of
manure the yield will be 33k bushels.
Now, admitting also that the manure
costs 50ate. per ton there will be a coat of
$2.60 against the former and $6.00 against
the latter. The cost of a crop does not
depend alone upon the coat of the maunre.
There are a number of other items to be
=ken into account, such ae labor, seed,
ground rent and interest on capital em-
ployed, The cost of all these items will
be nearly the same whether the yield be
a good one or not. Consequently if it be
a good one the cost par bushel of grain
will be much reduced. Besides, there
will be a heavier yield of straw on the
heavily immured plot, which, taken at its
nominal value, will further reduce the
cost of producing each bushel of grain.
Moreover, the grain on the heavily
manured plot will in all probability be a
better sample and command a higher
grice. If all these be reat difference willplaced
be seen to together
in
bbe coat of the production of wheat,
which greatly increases the profit from
manuring sufficiently. A prominent
farmer in Franco has hat
he could afford to sellwheatrecently stated t
t $1. 3 the
bushel when the yield was 40 bushels to
the sore ; at $1.83 when the yield was 84,
and at $1.60 when it ie 28 bushels. At
the same time American wheat could be
landed in that country at 81.12.
There is another point 10 which I wish
to draw your attention. In my judgment
it would bo better if it were otherwise.
I rofer to the manner in which cattle are
prepared for the foreign market. It is a
feet long ago clearly demonstrated that
an animal under one year old will in-
crease in weight more on 100 pounds of
feed than an animal over that age will do.
The older an animal become the more
feed is required to lay on a pound of
flesh, Consequently the most profitable
time to feed cattle is when they aro
young. But the men who at present are
making money at the business are the
men who are feeding cattle at two or
three years of age. These men find it
more profitable to buy cattle from the
ordinary farmer than to raise them.
These cattle are usually so low in condi.
tion that the shipper cannot handle them.
It may be'said that a better quality of
manure is obtained by feeding aged cat-
tle, but it ie not from the manure that
those men are making their money. If
the others are suffering from a poor
quality of manure it is not because they
send the boat part of it away onthe backs
of a score or more of fat steers every
Year. It maybe that shippers aro mak-
ing money by buying 700 pounds at 2 or
3 cents per hound, and selling it, with
600 in addition, at 7 or 8. Then if the
increased weight at 7 cents per pound be
worth the grain fed they have tho gain
resulting tram the increased price of the
original amount of beef bought. Would
it not be better to feed well from the
time of birth when feed will produce the
greatest results, and have them in such
a condition that the shippere could not
afford to take the trouble to feed them
any longer.
Intensification is also a means of con-
servation. Indeed, it is as a means of
conservation abet it is most effective. To
produce those articles which, While they
yield a fair profit, remove only a mini-
mum amount of the fertilizing material
is no small part of the farmer's business
at the present time. The all absorbing
question at present in the laboratory is
how to render the nitrogen which exists
around us in such abundance available
for the plant. I think the first thing the
farmer should do is to learn how to keep
what he has got. Until he can do this
he ebould not expect a more abundant
supply. It may be that the Great Giver
of all gifts ie, in His wisdom, withholding
the one until the farmer knows how to
use the other. But if these fertilizing
materials are to be allowed to flow on
down the St. Lawrence it is little use at.
tempting to retain them in the first in.
stance, i. e., by =Ring concentrated pro-
ducts rather than the raw material. It
is here that intensifinabion will prove a
great means of aoneervation.
These are illustrations taken from ex-
isting modes of farming. If I have suc-
ceeded in making you feel that the roe.
ant forme of management must be altered
in order to secure success, and that this
alteration must be in the direction of in-
tensification, then I have accomplished
all I wished in this part of my paper,
and now if I oats indicate how this in..
teneiflcatiou oan be acoompliehed and
that there is sono probability of its re-
sulting in batter satisfaction then I will
have accomplished all I wished when I
begat:,
We have stated that this intensification
ehoald bo along the line of each man, and
each county devoting their energies to the
production of that article or artialoe for
wbioh their natural faoilitioe seam moat
adapted; also that any barrier standing
in the way of this is a binderance to the
advancement of the People and should bo
removed. Thus if the oonnby of Huron
Was a0 ordered that Wheat could bo grown
by the farmers of that county with un-
equalled amens, while no other crop
would wetter if the soil was over So well
prepared; anal et the ether hand tlio
FROM HONG KONG, CHINA.
uz OLIVER 0Mrrn,
[CONTINDI(D FaOM LAW W010.1
The city of Viotoria, Hong Kong, is
situated on the island of Hong Kong,
and is a port of no little importune,
ranking fourth with London, Liverpool
and New York occupying the other three
planes respectively. Hero you can see
vessels of the following lines at env time:
North Gorman Lloyd, Austrian Lloyd,
Occidental & Oriental, Peninsular & Ori•
ental, Canadian Paoifio, Lambert & Holt,
Alfred Holt, Wilson's London, Jardine's,
and a lot of coast lines running to all
ports on the Chinese coast. Hero to you
will find that class of meets called
"tramps" which are ready at a moment's
notice to carry anything anywhere.
Crowds of junks, sampans, and all man-
ner of Chinese craft make the water al-
most Paola not to say anything about
the fleet of steam launches, eaoh comp.
any having one or more as well ae any
merchaut of importanoe. Boat olubs are
numerous and every evening it iscustom-
ary for them to take a spin around the
bay. We have a race boat crew here
and a couple of days after when the boat
was lowered they raced with ono of the
best steam launches and were not beaten
a boat length (it was only practice they
were after), and now they cannot get a
race with any club or navy boat. Our'e
is a regular man-of-war boat (our first
cutter) and weighs 3,200 lbs. A racing
shell, snob as the clubs use, weighs not
oyer 200 poems. One of the principal
signts of the oily is "Viotoria" peak. I
forgot to mention in the first part of my
deecription of this plane that the island
is a summation of high rocky peaks of
wbioh the above mentioned one le the
loftiest -1,840 feet above sea level. A
nice asphalt walk leads up to the top
which is surmounted by a signal station.
The view from the top is immense.
Everything is seen from a bird's-eye
view, the entrances, invisible from the
vessels, up here they (8 of them) are all
in plain eight. Canton river is seen
=retching like a snake until it is lost be-
hind a range of hills. A. line of river
steemera rune up to porta along the riv
er 100 miles above Canton. A cable rail
road also runs np the hill aide affording
an easier mode of ascent than the labor.
boas ascent by foot. The cost of the
round trip is, to oiviliana, 30c., and to
soldiers and sailors 15o., Mexican coin-
age, amounting to 22e. and 1La. American
coin respectively. No railwaye are on
the level of the lower town, the mode of
conveyance is either in a reksta (a two -
wheeled rig, drawn by a Chinaman in
the =nits, cushioned seat, back and arm
rest, with a Dover on as a protective
against the Bun) or a sedan chair. This
latter conveyance ie the only one allowed
to ascent to the upper town or enp on
top" as the people here say. Yon al.
ready know what a sedan chair is, it de-
scription of them is unnecessary. A
great number of English soldiers, sailors
and marines are in sight, always ashore,
and a regiment of Highlanders, the 93rd
Argyle and Sutherland, is stationed here.
[TIER END.)
of 7,852,171. Melteuree for the improve -
went of the national guard, which le the
workingorganizabion of our militia, aro
en foot and it le hoped will be porfoobed
by the present meetingof the aeooeiation.
New and bettor militia laws have long
boon needed. While everything else pro-
gramers the militia statutes are those of
the earlier days, when wealth and popu-
lation were small compared with what
they are now.
The Supreme Court is the great pre-
server of antiquity in this country. The
old, dignified formalities, the old style of
flowing pnowue, even the old furniture
that wax 111 the court hone° almost at its
birth, are preserved with religious care.
The new appointee to this court is cloth-
ed with the dignity, the antiquity and
power which ie handed down from one
generation of )oetioee to another, and
when the robe of office falls on his
shoulders be is raised out of the world of
ordinary man, with their oommor. preju-
diose and passions, Ile becomes a part
of a permanent and infallible branch of
the governmonb, from whose decrees
there 1s no appeal. The justices of the
Suprema Court aro the simplest of
citizens in their every day life and the
most inexorable of judges in their robes.
The Senate spent a good deal of time
Wednesday in wrangling about aha Capi-
tol berraoe, as though it were nothing bub
a glittering show and of no praotioal use,
now that it is finished. It will strike the
average, unetatesmanlike mind that the
better time to have discussed this quer.
kion was before the construction of the
terrace was authorized.
It its no longer in order to complain of
the Cspitol being too small for the male
of the oountry. Both the United States
Senate and Mr. Halstead were in session
in the building at the same time yester.
day.
The beautiful expanse of bald head of
Mr. Smith, the new member from West
Virginia, ought to entitle him to one of
the front seats in the House.
The influenza epidemic is increasing in
Mexico:
Tho Duko of Iliontponaier• left a fortuno
of $20,000,000.
Malignant smallpox has broken out in
Anna City, Ill.
Austria fa about to grant religions inde-
pendence to the Jews.
The British Government has ordered
50 guns of the Zalinski pattern,
The young Duke of Orleans was sent -
mood to two years' imprisonment.
New York capitalists have arranged to
start a sugar refinery in Vancouver, B.O.
Henry M. Stanley has been cleated a
member of the Russian Geological So.
Misty.
The glass manufacturers of Gummy
have formed a convention o advance
Prima.
Six thousand people attended the romp.
Hon to Rev. Dr. Talmage at Brooklyn, N.
Y„ on Thursday night.
A Boston newspaper, noted for its ver.
acity, says that a baby nn that city has
been named "Grip Ibsen McGinty Rob.
intim"
Andrew Oarnogie Ilea offered to spend
$1,000,000 for a central fico library and
branebtefor 'Pittsburg, provided the city
will maintain them,
The European infantry in India is to
bo armed with the magazine rifle, and a
first aupply of 8,000 is about to bo sunt
out, toward the total Of over 50,000,
Which w111 be rerfuilod to complete the
armament. Native treoels ale still being
a11na Willi the Martini • at.nry,
4Jnnadban Newel.
A poor widow in London has fallen
heir to $40,000.
A. convict in the Kingston Penitentiary
was demoted trying to escape on Friday
evening.
J. S. Ralston, of Hamilton, has drawn
a prize of 100,0,2an
0 frame, or 920,000, in a
German lottery.
The will of the late Senator Mae-
donald is published. He left an estate
worth $1,600,000.
Berlin people are kicking against high
insurance rates and declare there is a
combine among the companies.
Ontario Electoral District Agricultural
Sooietiea will ask for a Government
grant of $20,000 for county shows.
W. R. McRae, of Owen Sound, former-
ly of Belleville, has been left a legacy of
$75,000 by a brother, who died lately in
California,
The Third party will convene at
Wyoming on Feb. 26th, to nominate
candidates for the two Lambtone for the
Local House.
The official declaration gives the stand-
ing of the political particle in Prince
Edward Island at 16 Government and
14 Opposition.
• The Ontario Government is to be oak.
ed to take steps to extend the operations
of the Torrens system of land transfer to
the whole Province.
Mrs. Murray, wife of A.L. Murray, ex -
Reeve of Zorra, has had the misfortune
to lose the use of one of her arms through
the effects of la grippe.
Each of the volunteer companies in
the County of Essex, including the
cavalry troop, have been granted $500
by the County Council.
A meeting of Prohibitionists was bald
in Ottawa recently and it was decided
nob to press a prohibition resolution in
Parliament this session.
The Hamilton Railway Committee has
decided to recommend a bonne to the T.,
H. & B., but refuses to consider the de.
mends made by the C. P. R•
The coontycouncil of Wenbworth is at
present a headless body owing to the res-
ignation of Warden Ferguson, who by
this move forestalled the proceedings in-
stituted by T. W. Townsend to unseat
him.
Andrew Sohario, a twelve -year-old eon
of Win. Sobario, Guelph, while hunting
a squirrel on Sunday afternoon, fell from
a tree a distance of about 35 feet and
sustained each serious injuries that he
died Tuesday morning.
The corporation of Owen Senna paid
in 1889, $1,000 for injuries sustained on
the town'a thoroughfares, and the first
letter the new Council had to consider
was a demand for another $100 for in.
Judea euatained.by ono Jas. Carroll.
A Montreal man has been condemned
to pay the sum of $1 as damages for hav-
ing called upon a person in a factory
with a view to collecting a debt. The
court held that the domicile of the de tor
is the proper place at wbioh to de 'tnd
money that is owing. It further declares
that to ask on the street for money that
is due constitutes an assault.
A great discovery of zinc oro has been
made near Field, in Manitoba. A Own
adieus Pacific Railway tunnel is driven
right through the lode, which is simply
one solid body of oro. The ore has al-
ways boon mistaken for red granite, but
it turns mit to be a very rioh body of
zinc. It is at least 100 feet wide. The
ore asset's 05 per mut. zinc, 10 per cont.
iron, 9250 in gold, and $150 in silver to
the ton.
The German Government have for
some time past boon adeortising for the
heirs of ono Jacob Fisher, who left Ger-
many about fifty years ago, and there is
every roason to believe that the Kilmer.
dine family of Fishers are the ones want-
ed, A meeting was held n Goderioh re-
osnbly by the mbertsted ones et which
L J, and S. Fisher were present, when a
reprosentativo was appointed to ihvesti.
gate the matter and if nocoesary proceed
to Garrnany to lay °taint to the fortune,
„hieh =Mounts to the Memento sten of
51,000,000,
The debate Wednesday on Mr. Me-
Garthyy's bill to abolish tba official use of
French in th0 N'i time. wan quito ae
Washington Letter.
(From our Regular Correspondent.)
WASaINOTON, Fob. 7, '00.
The peaceful and harmonious spectacle
of the House Democrats and Republicans
in placidly proceeding to business yester-
day with Speaker Reed cheerfully enter-
taining motions from the Democratic as
well as the Republican side of the
chamber was in strange contrast with
the wild and tumultuous oharaoter of the
proceedings a week previous. The Demo-
orets had. maintained that their opposi-
tion was mainly that the rules should be
reported, under which the Speaker would
be obliged to rule uniformly. This bad
accordingly been agreed to and the Demo.
crate had no desire therefore, to resume
their opposition to business. On priner-
ple they demanded the yeas and nays
on the approval of the Journal, but this
practice baa lost much of its picturesque -
nen.
There is some difference of opinion
among the Democrats as to the way in
wbioh the new code should be received,
but the course indicated at a caucus
held Wednesday night was to consider
and discuss the oode in good faith, doing
nothing that might delay aotion. Their
reliance will be on their ability to show
that the code is a bad ono and ought nob
to be adopted without ameadment, and
they will then be satisfied to let the re.
sponsibility for any evil that may result
from too great liberty of action rest with
the majority. When it comes to the
final vote, on the code as a whole they
may nob vote, leaving the Republicans to
adopt the rules by their own votes. This
latter action will not be to make delay,
but merely to empbasize their protest if
the code fs not amended as they desire.
The Democratic oritioism of the new
code of rales is very severe and they will
attack it savagely in their speeches, but
it is expected to be adopted about as the
Republioan caucus dacidetl Wednesday.
Mr. Randall will not be able to be in the
House to speak on the subject, of conreo,
bub it is understood that he ie preparing
a etateneent which he will give to tate
country. The Democrats think they
have a victory in getting any code re.
ported, and that the node is ae bad that
its operation will injure their adversaries,
who have the responsibility. The re-
porting of the rules has had a wonder -
telly soothing effect.
The meeting in this city Wednesday of
the National Guard Aseociation is an
event fraught with interest to a large
number. Tbis gathering of the leading
spirits of our citizen soldiery ie of im-
portance to the whole American people,
tvhoso reliance for protection ho times of
war and riot le in the national guard and
not in the mite of a standing army that
wo keep as a nucleus atoned which to
form an effective force in oase of foreign
or domestic tyer. Theta are in the
tnilitia of the United Stator, including
the District of Columbia and the tad -
take, arand total of 8,062oflaroro,108,.
200 enlisted mets and an availal l,. terse
lively as was anticipated. Mr. Davin
moved his amendment relegating tate
gneetion to the Legislative As embly of
the Territory, with the proviso that it
shell not be dealt with until a general
election in the Territory. Mr. Beausol-
iel offered an ameldmenb to the amend-
ment, declaring for the continuance of
the dual language system. The Bleue
have bolted, the Fronoh Liberals may
join thorn, and no one can tell what the
outcome will be.
Prof. Woodward declares that in
about 2,200 years the rook over which
the waters plunge at Niagara will be all
worn away. The area of the rook worn
away at the Horseshoe rails between the
years 1842 and 1876 was 18,500 square
feet, equal to 4.25 acres ; between 1875
and 1886, a period of eleven years, 60,000
eq. feet, or 1,36 acres, were worn out by
the monster cataract. The main length
of the contour of the falls i0 2,800 feet.
The time required to recede one mile, if
the rate is 2.4 feet per year, is 2,200
years. Before this catastrophe is duo,
doubtless, provisions will bo made to
confine the waters of Lake Eric, so that
a disastrous inundation will not take
phaco. What wonders will bave Dome
and gone before the 2,200 years elapse 1
The Montreal Witness Bays :—The
Medical students of Kingston have
brought deep diegraoe upon their school,
u} well as upon themselves, by resorting
to grave robbery for the purpose of ob-
taining subjects for the dissecting table.
It is impossible to believe that a few it,
responsible students could, without
arousing the suspicion of the rest of the
students, and even of the professore, ob-
tain bodies for diseeotion in irregular
ways. It 000050 to US that the Faculty
of the school aro called upon for au ex-
planation. That schools should be sup-
plied with all that is necessary is true,
but it appeals were made and the neces-
sities of the case oat forth there is little
doubt that they would be mat in an nu-
objeotionable way. A law making . grave
robbing a felony should be passed.
The Ontario report of the Registrar -
General for 1889, relating to births, mar
riages and deaths, wee brought down in
the Legislature last week. Tho total
number of births registered in the Pro-
vince was 46,963, an increase of 1,049
over 1887. There were 54 oases of twins
and 8 cases of triplets. The marriages
registered numbered 14,651, an increase
of 9 over 1887. There were 31 persons
married at 70 years and over. The old-
est bridegroom was 84 years of ago, and
the oldest bride 72 years. The united
ages of the oldest couple married was
148 years. The greatest disparity be-
tween the ages of any couple married was
that of a man 84 years old, who took for
his wife a girl of the age of 17 years.
Another bridegroom was 73 years of age
when married, and his bride only 21
years. Nine girls were married at the
early age of 14 years, and 25 at 15 years.
No youths were married at those juvenile
ages, although two were married at the
age of 17, and 7 at 18 years. The united
ages of the youngest ample was only 81
years, the bridegroom being 17 and bis
bride 14. The number of deaths was
23,784, being a little lower than in 1887.
The number of oenteuarians was 21.
One is recorded to bave attained the age
of 1.1.0 years.
divided $136,000 among seventeen charit-
able institutions of the city.
Between 800 and 1,000 Indians credit•
ed to the Devil's Lake ageney in North
Dakota are wholly destitute of clothing
and in the last stages of starvation.
Jacob Hellman, Gadshill, G. G. Mc-
Pherson and John Way, of Stratford,
have been gazetted license commission•
ere for North Perth.
While skating on Victoria lake at
Stratford ons day last week, Michael
Walsh, a 0. T. le, yardeman, aged 23,
broke through the lee and was drowned.
The law firm of Smith & Clark, St.
Marys and Stratford, has been dissolved
by mutual consent, Mr. Clark carrying
on the business in St. Marys and Mr.
Sydney.Smitb the business in Stratford,
Burglarsohob and killed Ransom Floyd
and bis wife at Westport, N. Y., Friday
night. The scoundrels secured $0,000,
the proceeds of a farm just sold.
The own of Burke, in Idaho, was al.
most destroyed an Tuesday by an ava•
lanche. Three mea wore killed and half
of the business houses are in mitts.
The Uuited States authorities bave de-
cided upon Governor's Island, New York,
as the landing place for immigrants. Suit•
able buildings will be erected there.
Emperor William has caused an order
to be iaeaed prohibiting the exhibition
of portraits of himself, his ancestors or
any of hie family without his sanction.
A member of the Dakota Legislature
says twenty members of that body will
sustain the veto of the lottery bill. The
whole state is agitated over the matter.
The Emperor William is about to send
Captain Plueskow to Constantinople with
a present of 24 drums for the Sultan.
Hitherto drums have not been need in
the Ommy.
Mr.ttoCarnegieanar, the iron millionaire, has
promised to spend $1,000,000 for a Cen-
tral Free Library, and branches, for
Pittsburg, Pa., provided the city will
maintain them.
Gayarre, the Spanish tenor, who died
recently, left 4,000,000 francs. His fun-
eral at Madrid brought the whole pope.
Mien to the streets. His funeral car was
covered with flowers.
John Graham, indicted with others for
attempting jury bribing in the Cronin oase
at Chicago, has disappeared. He was
under $1,600 bonds, and hie case was to
have mane up Monday.
Grave fears are entertained by the
settlers of San Juan county, Mexico, over
the demonstrations of the Navajo Indians.
The trouble is owing to a rancbman
named John Cox killing a Navajo.
At Ironton, Ohio, on Sunday, a young
man named Farrell interfered to protect
his mother against bis father. The
father attacked the boy with a poker,
and the son broke his fathers neck with
Ca chair.
A. Walton, clerk in the Pacific Express
Co.'s office at Dallas, Texaa, is reported
to bave skipped with a $35,000 package
of greenbacks consigned by the City
National Bank of Dailas to the Commer-
cial Bank in St. Louis.
It is rumored that a mob in Marion
county, Alabama, otripped two Mormon
elders, covered them with tar and feath•
ars and set fire to the tar. The men
were terribly burned, but extinguished
the flames in time to save their lives.
A woman in Siberia, being insulted by
a director of the prison, slapped his face.
He bad her stripped ani publicly flogged.
She committed suited(' and other women,
fearing outrage, followed her example.
The men revolted and were shot down
like dogs.
A bill asking for permission to bridge
the Detroit River hes been thrown out of
the U. S. Senate. The influence of
those interested in lake navigation has
proved too strong for the time being, but
the current of public opinion is with the
river scheme.
Alabama's Supreme Court has decided
that a school teacher has no right to flog
a pupil while anSry. Hereafter Alabama
school teachers will wear amiable smiles
on their oouutenances while wearing out
hickory switches on the jackets of recal-
titrant possessors of young ideas.
There is no country like France for
starting journals. During 1889 no loss
then 950 new newspapers were brought
out, of which not one remains in life. On
the other hand, The Petit Journal now
claims a circulation of 1,095,000 copies.
Daring the same period there were
printed in Frame over 15,000 new books,
intending 5,900 new musical pieces.
There has long been a tradition its
Japan that onoo a treasure of gold bars,
worth now 9800,000,000, was buried far
beneath the earth somewhere in the en.
closure of the castle of Yuki Harutomo.
Three attempts to dig it out were aban-
doned on account of accidents to the
work. Last May exoavatione were be.
gun again, and the workmen have coma
to pieces of boxes covered with plate iron
and other indieatione of what is believed
to be approaching =meas.
Forepangh's show is the latest Ameri-
can inettbution which has passed into
the handset an English syndicate, Ns.
gotiations for the sale were commenced
before the late Mr. Foropaugh's death,
and the oiroue and menagerie belong to
a company with a capital of $1,900,000,
the English capitalists bolding two•thirds
of the stook and the ForOpaugh estate
one-third. Owing to his intimate know-
ledge of the show business Adam Fore-
paugh jr. bas been retained as general
manager of the vonoorn, while his broth-
er-in-law, Fred Stetterloe, will represent
the Tngliah syndicate. It is expected
that the show will visit Canada next
Summer.
Nellie Patterson, of Mount Carmel, ie
the only women meohinieb fu Conneoti•
out. She is n handsome girl, bright-
eyed, quick in motion and very popular.
She ie employed by the Mount Carmel
Belt Company, and is a full•fisdged
reaohinieb, having served her 1011 time at
the trade and =sterol it in all its de -
Mile, blies Patterson can bleak up a
piece of work on a planer or turn up an
other or any other product of a lathe as
well as any man In the employ of the
Com any, She earns a mans wages
and is in lave with her work, At first
elle had to meet with jealousy front her
fellow -workers, bat her pleasant ways
have made '-er a genteel favorit ,.
General Wow*.
The Dakota Iottery scheme has col-
lapsed.
They are talking of a world's fair for
1897 in Berlin.
Bismarck is talking of relief from
official burdens.
The Queen will leave Windsor for Aix
on March 26th or 26th.
Ib has been decided to establish a Rus-
sian legation in Mexico.
The pope bas decorated the shah of
Persia for bis kindness to Catholic mis-
sions.
There is a revival in Portugal of the
demonstrations against England and the
English.
Henry Cunningham, of Clark county,
Ill., has lust sold a hog that weighs 986
pounds.
The corner stone of Rev. Dr. Talmage's
new tabernacle, in Brooklyn, was laid
Monday.
The Gentiles defeated the Mormons in
the mnnioipal elections of Salt Lake City
Monday.
The preoidenb has signed the proclama-
tion opening the Sioux reservation in
South Dakota.
The Rothsobitds, of Frankfort, have
contracted for a Hungarian loan of fifty
million florins.
A cable says four millions sterling of
one pound silver notes are being printed
by the British Government,
King Carlos, the queen and dowager
queen of Portugal bave subscribed 986,-
000 to the national defence fund.
Nasr-ed•Din, Shah of Persia, hes 60
wives and 19 living children. No wonder
be takes a foreign trip every now and
then.
An explosion in a colliery in Mon-
mouthshire entombed three hundred
miners, and it is estimated that 150 were
killed.
The Burns Mausoleum, at Dumfries,
has been lased to a gravedigger, who
sells in it ouriosibise and relies of the
dead poet.
The Grand Pacific hotel in Chicago
has been sold for $400,000, and is to be
torn down and reptaoed by better paying
property.
The corner stone of Rev. Dr. Talmage's
now tabernacle in Brooklyn was laid on
Monday in the presence of a largo con-
gregation.
Portress Monroe is the largest Bingle
fortification in the world. It has already
cost the United States Government over
$3,000,080. ill visit
The i'tinoe of Walter w Berlin
on Maroh NIA to be present at the
festival of the Order of the bleep Emgel,
established in 1701.
Mr, Gladstone has again refused au
offer made by a firm of American tub.
tishere of 46,000 yearly for everything
he writes for the public,
The widow and Children of the late
Conrad Seipp, brewer, of Chicago, have