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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1890-10-24, Page 1rr ry 1i Volume 18. BRUSSELS, ONTA,RIO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1890. Number 18. Corn Ensilage and Roots as Food for Swine. B.' n0MA8 81I w' P OFE890a n AOIII aL t By 7' A, n r C TUl E, ornate AanmOLTaaAL common. This experiment was oommoneed on January 10th, 1888, and terminated on March 68th, thus covering a period of 77 days. Its primary object was to ascer- tain the value of corn ensilage and roots, both essentially and relatively, when used as food adjuncts in feeding twine in the winter season. Several other facts of great interest and much value to the farmer were, however, brought out in the experiment, such as the large profits from the judioioua fending of swine, the rate of the daily inorease in weight which re. sults from such feeding, and the extent of the mistake in keeping them simply on a maintenance diet. The animals chosen for the experiment were grade Berkshires, bred upon the farrn from a pure sire, and ont of three cif• ferent dams from the same litter. They were divided into three groups. Eech group oontained three animals, two bar- rows and one sow. The individuals of each group were from different dams, and one of each of the three was in every in. stanoo from the same dam. They were all iu good store condition. The condi. floes, therefore, at the outset were very similar. Two weeks prior to the commencement of the experiment each group was put in a separate pen 6 Is. by 10 ft. (all the room available), after having been cnrefoily weighed. They were at once put upon the food rations whioh was to be given them throughout the experiment. At the commencement of this period the pigs in group 1, fed on meal, weighed 0181 Ib. ; those in group 2, fed on roots and meal, weighed 6B81 lb., and those in group 3, fed on ensilage and meal, weighed 6021 Ib. During this preparatory period the pig; in group 1 gained 37 lb., those in group 2 gained 12 lb„ and those in group eloot 12 lb., as they did not take kindly to the ensilage. The pigs in group 1 were fed 18 lb. of meal per day for n time. Toward the close of the experiment tine was increas- ed to 191 Ib., which, however, proved a Urger quantity than they would eat Olean and 80 cloyed their appetites that the quantity had to be reduced to 12 Ib. per day. The average amount fed per day throughout the experiment was 151 lb. This meal ration oonsisted of ground oats, ground burley, ground pease and wheat middlings, in the proportions by weight of 1, 1, 2 and 1 respectively. Those :iu group 2 were fed all the sliced turnips they would eat clean, which was 60 Ib. per day on an average. They took rather more toward the close of the experiment than atthe outset. To the roots was added a meal ration similar in kind to that given to the pigs in bhe first group, but only one-third of the amount. It averaged, therefore. 5k lb. per day, and when fed it was sprinkled upon the sliced turnips. The pigs in group 8 were fed daily 85 lb. of ensilage on an average. The meal fed was similar in quantity and kind to that fed to the pigs in group 2, and was likewise sprinkled upon the ensilage. When feeding, the ensilage was masticated by the pigs, but a large pro- portion of it was nob swallowed by them. It lied been out in 1, inch lengths, which is manifestly too coarse for feeding swine. The food was given in three feeds per day and all the water was supplied that the pigs would take. Those fed on roots took but a small gmtntity ; those fed on ensi- lage required more. The water given to the pigs in group 1 was poured on the meal when it was put in the trough. Estimating oats to be worth 28 gents per bushel, barley 40 cents, peas 55 cents and wheat middlings $15 per ton, the average value of the meal ration per pound was seven -eights of a cent. The roots were valued at 8 Dents per bushel and the ensilage at $2.50 per ton. The following table gives the relative increase in weight and the cost of food during the experiment for each group : Group 1. 2. 8. Weight at eommerce- ment 70051 lb. 6051 5901 Weight at close 020 735 071 Total gain 2701 1x01 801 Average daily gala of one animal 1.170 .804 .848 Cost o1 feeding for 77 day. $11 11 2 87 7 07 Cott of food for ouu. animal per day 4,810. 4.27 3 00 The next table gives the relative values at the beginning and at the close of the experiment, and the net gain or loss - Group 1. 2. 3.. Value at oommenoem't.„329 50 $20 80 528 57 Valeo at close 48 01 30 75 81 8. Advauoo lu yaluo 19 11 9 55 5 30 Net gain 800 08 Net loss 1 77 Tho pigs were all valued at 41 cents per pound live weight at the beginning of the experiment, as this was the price given for such pigs at the time in the Guelph market. At ite close those in group 1 were sold at 5i• mints per pound live weight; thane in group 2 were valued et 5 cents per pound, and those in group 3 at 3ee cents per pound. It may be well to note here that the direct profits arising from feeding the pigs in group 1 for 77 days were no lees than 27.11 per cent. on the investment, while the dared profits on Tattooing the steers referred to in Bulletin else. was only 9.69 per cent. • on the investment in 119 days, The value of the manure made in feeding the pigs would considerably more than pay the dost of the labor. The pigs in groups 2 and $ were fed for 41 daya after the close of the experiment. They w era given the s o ams meal ration as before and a Ch group • t took on an average 2 2lb, er da . They were sold at 51 ent8 perp lb. live weight en May 9th. During this period thin ,pigs in group 2 increased in weight 01 the rate of 1.58 lb. each per day, and than in group 8 at the rate of 1.05 lb. aaoh. Those in group 2 were ripe sooner than those in group 8, and this may so - count for the loss rapid gain per day of the former. The total profit on tho pigs in group 1 for 77 days wag $8.00; that on those in group 2 in 118 days Wasfn$r4, 11, and that on the pigs in group 8 days wee $6,28, Is the fist instance the whole percentage of profit was 27.11 per hint.; to the second 15.63 per sent., and in the third 28.88 per cent, Tho following oonolusione may be fair. ly drawn from the above experiment ; 1, That it pays the farmer handsomely to fatten store pigs in winter on a meal ration such as that used in this expori. meat, when the prices of food and pork bear the same relation to moll other. 2. That it does not pay the farmer suf- ficiently well for the trouble to feed store pigs on a ration of roots in winter when the meal ration need is a small percentage of the whole ration. 3. That when store pigs are fed in win- ter on corn ensilage and a meal ration, which is but a small percentage of the whole ration, they are fed at a toss. 4. That it will pay better to use a meal ration in winter that will ripen store pigs for merkot in 77 days, than to first use a ration which tends mainly to develop bone and muscle during that period, fol. lowed by a meal ration that will ripen them for market in 41 days. 5. That in fattening pigs it is a serious mistake to attempt to beaten the process by giving any more food than will be eaten Olean when it is given. UN '1'11E IWPE. The Owen Sound Advertiser of the 17th inst. Bays :—Talk all you like about the ueelessneas of physical feats performed at the risk of life, simply to win money or applause. Jost as long as within one man's frame can be found the iron muscle and the perfect nerve that enable him to defy gravitation and trifle at ease on 8 thread swung between heaven and earth—so long will the people come out as one man to see him do it. It is human nature. If there ie any philoso- phy to it it may be that we are so ham- pered by natural forces and conditions, that when we find a man able in a great measure to set them at naught, we look upon it as a march stolen on Mother Nature, and triumph accordingly. However we amount for it there was a great crowd out to see S. J. Dixon's two performances on Wednesday. The lithe photographer had his shingle hung out here for several months just eleven years ago, and did good work too, so there was to a sort of renewal of old as- sociations in viewing his airy journey across Pouletb street, The rope was stretched from a window of the Paterson House tower, above the fourth story to a fixture of corresponding height on the roof of the block opposite. Shortly after three Dixon stepped out on the rope in tan-oolored tights and leather shoes, carrying a heavy, limber balance pole, the same that did duty in the Niagara exhibition. He walked out a piece, tied bis polo acrosa the rope, sat down on it, and went for those in charge below in spicy terms beoauee the stay ropes were not properly fixed. Much of the reproof administered from this lofty platform was lost in thin air, but the ropes were tautened up, and the exhibition proceed- ed without a ltitoh. Dixon walked out to the middle, 000asionelly standing on one foot, going on one knee with bis pole balanced on the other leg, and one hand in the air, with other difficult man- muvres. Near the middle of the rope he tied up his polo again, produced a roll of dodgers, and kneeling on the rope scatter- ed them in a shower to be carried north- ward by the wind to the thousands of spectators lining the street, Everybody grabbed the aerial masseuses as they came fluttering down, and everybody laughed to find them only a new evidence of the business bustle that actuates J. C. Ryan. Having made an impartial dis- tribution of the dodgers Dixon continued hie trip to the top of the Paterson House, first untying and sending down to the street the big flag of the hotel, which he bad hung out on a trial trip the night be- fore. On the return journey he lay down on his bank and folded hie arms across hie breaet for a moment like a statue of repose, This feat was warmly applaud- ed as well as others equally difficult that followed. He then walked about a third of the way across with a hoop round his ankles, and returning backward to his perch over the roof did himself up to the waist in.a big amok, and thus skirted made the trip half way across. Untying the waist string with a jerk he stood with the pole in both bands and got rid of the sank by violently skaking his body, a most dangerous looking porformenee. Sitting astride the rope he fastened the polo again, and lowering himself off hung by his hands. Then swinging bis feet up behind him he hooked them over the rope, civ and reversed the motion,bis body revolving like a wheel. his Drowning performance, wbioh was warm- ly applauded, closed the afternoon exhi- bition. In the evening there was if any- thing a larger crowd out, and the dimly seen body of the athlete as he repeated his hazardous peformanoe, was the centre of an interest that in most of the ladies at least was nothing short of paiu- Inl anxiety. The C. O. B. played on one of the Paterson House balconies. On his first trip across Dixon took out and fastened over the middle of the street a mysterious looking bag, which created much speculation until he finally perished himself beside it and proceeded to draw out and set off with lightning swiftness a first-olass set of fireworks, The effeot wee fine, and the immense audience, having seen the daring performer safely off the rope, dispersed well pleased with Dixon and the committee who brought him here. Footpads are numerous in the bank streets is of Kingston, i t n Ont. has orad for an ex. Learn n o v g i tr f 16 000 for water works. pond tt e o $ , Peterborough carried the Edison by. law (80 acres of land) by a vote of 650 to 11. The parcel poet arrangement between Canada and Japan has been completed, and takes effect immediately. Samuel Slater, of Hamilton, was se. eidontally shot dead while on a hunting ;x011051 n near Never, Muskoka. Another Milt line boon taken in the mann at Winnipeg to test the eon. etibntionaliby of the Manitoba Mani law. Murk Nicholl, ngea 70, a widower for a year past, and Mee, Rubel Benedict, a widow, aged 72, wore married at Mara mora on the 9th. The Town Band. gained at the resent election, a victory re. o gained Of the fair and equal justice bineted a out to all classes and crsods, anti wo Module the Libnrai party of beet Hurau to n aoatlnned Mn, LmTon,—Our town Band appears to bo in financial difficulty, could there not be some light thrown on the subjeot or some means devised to carry on our Band ? It ie too bud to see an organize. tion that has attained the proeoieney that the Brueeels Band has, broken up, and $700 worth of instruments, uniform, and equipments left to decay. When Mr. Whitely loft Brussels the Band sustained a loss that is hard to repair, for two rea. sons, 1st, He was a good musician In brass and string, and 2nd, The Band had his servioee for $150 a year, wbioh, had he not had work at his trade he could not have taught the Band so cheap. I don't think the Brueeels Band is the staff to give up the ship bowline they have loot one teacher but the boys are not wealthy and can't afford to pay a toaaher a very high salary, eepeoially if part of it has to come out of their pockets as it would likely have to if they engage a teacher at present. They require a good teacher ae n poor one is of no nee whatever to the Brussels Band, and to intimate that one of the bandsmen teach the band is only folly ae it never works s0ocesefally to place one scholar above another or to get ane scholar to dictate to another. A teaoher the band wants and a teacher they must have if the Band is to exist. They also want a set of rules and regale - tions printed so that every member may abide by them and have good discipline in the Band, as the best bands are those who have the strictest discipline, a good teacher and attend well to their practice. The winter is coming on now and that is the time for practice, and if the Band gets right down to good solid practice this winter, under a first-olass teacher, there is nothing to stop them from tak- ing some good prizes at some of the Band tournaments next summer. How aro the boys to get a first-class teacher and support him ? This is the question that is puzzling them at present. The town gives $100 a year and that is all they can afford, so they say, but that ie a small sum when a good teacher can't be got for less than $800 or near that, and music for the Band for one year costs about $50 more, and then there are repairs of in- etrumento and other expenses, so you will see it costs money to keep up a band. Would it not be possible to economize as our American cousins do and let some master mechanic step forward and tell the boys of some artizan 'that be may want in his shop or factory and that he can furnish steady employment the year round and then advertise the job in con- nection with teacher. In this way the town can aid the boys. The Amerioana have another plan, that is to get a muai- oinn to come into their town and start business of some kind and in plaoe of trying to rim him out they will go to his store, buy his goods, pay for them and allow him to make a living among them, and by doing that and giviug him a small sum to teach, he is able to get along. The last plan is harder on the boys and it is possible it might never be adapted, is to re -organize the Band and charge dues, say 25o. a week to each member and by so doing raise the money to pay the teacher in connection with the $100 grant, and then when the boys get up a concert to re-imburse them for the out- lay, I believe the music loving people of Brussels will turn out and give them a bumper house, for there is no one in our town who bus any music in their soul who wants to see a Band like the ono we have had in Brussels go down. Thank- ing you for the apace la your paper, I re- main, Yours truly, BANnso,ur. East Huron Liberals. A Oouvettion of the Reformers of the East Riding of Huron was held iu the Town Hall on Friday afternoon of last week. In the absence of the President, E. E. Wade, who recently removed to Owen Sound, the chair was occupied in a haptpy manner by Samuel Graney, of Wingham, 1st Vias -President of the As- sociation. The subjeot of bolding a public meeting in the Riding for the purpose of having the questions of trade relations between Canada and other countries din. tamed, was considered. It was decided that a meeting be held in the village of Wroxeter some time in December, the date to be arranged later. The election of oiloe-bearers for the ensuing year was taken up with the fol. dens Archibald His - lowing result :—President, r sidont S. Grate lop, Gray ; let Vice P e y, Wingham ; 2nd Viae -President, T. W. Gibson, Wroxeter ; Seoretary-Treasurer, W. H. Kerr, Brussels. Chairmen of Municipalities—Hullett, Robert Scott ; McKillop, Geo, Murdie ; Blyth, N. H. Young ; Morrie, Wm. Isbiater ; Brussels, John R. Smith ; Grey,' Jas. Ferguson ; Tnrnberry, George Fortune ; Wingham, Jas. A. Cline; Wroxeter, Wm. Robinson ; Howiok, Thos. Gibson. It was decided that the executive of the Association con- sist of the President, Vice -Presidents and Seoretary-Treasurer. Atter discussing some local questions of interest to the Liberals of the Riding short addresses were given by Thomas Stream, of Grey ; John Molblillan, M.P. for South Huron ; Dr. Slone, of Blyth, and Thee. Gibson, M. P. P. for East Hurau, on oommeroial reciprocity, the result of the protective tariff of the past and the influence of the McKinley schedule now in forte on Canada and Oanadien products. The substance of l pithy e eeoaes was that protection these v 1 Bombes t to lest •that the ex• mfle n from is wrong ` managing the at- tain to f p. re haat etdttu g g fails of this Dominion is exceeeivc and far beyond the requisite domande ; that the farming community must look aftor in the their interests, as w eines, bettor future than they have in the past, and meet bring the pressure 0f votes to boar in the right quarter and at the proper time. Dr. Meadonald, the talented and worthy representative of Last Huron in the Goatee of Commons, was table to bo present at this mooting owing to pressing profession• al engagements at Wingham, Tho following resolution was pnosod ttnauimonsly by the Convention : Moved by Dr, Mono, easondod by John Matra° that 760 cougratnlato 8ho Mowat Government upon the splendid victory minding to the honor of the bones and eoonumioal administration pu o a gHendld reoord ihe n the past la the obeet guar- antee of the good result of their statesman- ship in the future. Mr. Gibson, as a supporter of the Mowat Administration in the Legislature, spoke briefly to the motion. Tho meeting was brought to n alone with rousing sheers for the Queen, Mr. Mowat and others. If Huron County is not gerrymandered again it will give a good account of itself in the Dominion elections when they come round. Washington Letter. (From our Regular Correspondent,) WAanxaavoa, Oot, 10, 50. The decision of oontested elections by the American mode is apt to leave a sting and work an injury in the repetition of whatever evil may attend the decision. These deoisions have been so frequently in ucoordance with the bias of the party 000trol that a large portion of the public seems to expect nothing else. The party feeling is often high and it always exists. If possible in a Republic it would be de. sirable for the citizen to be free from predeliction in favor of some party. And the prejudice that exists in other respect; is apt to exist in the matter of deciding upon the right of a member to a seat in Congress. It is not a proper feeling never to consider the merits of the case but to determine all points blindly in favor of one's party. It is natural for an honest man to study the outlines of suob oases and then to give his owe party the benefit of such donbts as remain after enoh examination. It has been suggest- ed many times that the Congress of the United States should follow the English method of submitting election contests to the law courts. To this there is the suf- ficient reply that the habits and thoughts of the two nations ars now very different and that rho constitution of the courts is also very different in the two ooantries. The American courts are more political, that is, they are constituted by parties, but not as a rule to be the implements of party. There is, however, a certain re- pugnsnoe on the part of our people to place the judiciary in any position where its candor and purity would be impeach- ed or strongly suspected. Hence, in spite of the evils of the preseet system, the decision of election contests is likely to remain where it now is –with the houses of Congress. The rumor that the Senate contem- plates a reorganization of a greater por- tion of its force is again revived. For some years past the try of "wolf' has been regularly raised sad bas generally been laughed at with considerable un- animity. Somebody cried"wolf” in eon. neotion with the aloe of sergeant•at• arms during the early part of the session jest closed, and, as usual, he was laughed at and his warning disregarded. Then came the wolf. Col. Candy was the vic- tim and the vacancy was filled by the election of Judge Valentine. And now Domes the story that Senator Quay, un- daunted by 'tis failure to put a follower in Col. Candy's,) proposes to make a fight for at least one adherent. The Pennsylvanian took his defeat in the sergeant•at-arms' fight in very good part and won over a good deal of influence in that way, and it to said that western Senators, with perhaps two exceptions, have tacitly agreed to stand by Mr. Quay when be next tries to find an office for one of his friends. At present the Sena- tor is giving an imitation of Bre'r Rab. hitt, and when the Senate comes together in December he will explode the little bomb, The Congressional Record has finally struck the path of progress and the issue of Tuesday (the last) contains a number of full page auto illustrating Gen. Wheeler's speeob on the "Rivers and Harbors." Naturally the topic is not one to produce sensational results through illustration as the artist has not exceed- ed his subject. It is unfortunate for the truth and clearer develop of history that the Record bad not begun its sketches several weeks ago, when the subjeot matter in the House at least was more meatier and the genii; of the artist oould have found a wider field of expres- sion. What is past i; past, but there i; a session yet remaining, with Mr. Reed in the chair and the minority as Demo - gratia as usual and the Record may still redeem itself. It is interesting to note that when the new naval vessels aro completed the ef- fective tome of the U. S. navy compared with European navies will be as follows : United Status, 42, Of which 5 will be battle ships and 19 other armored yea- •sels ; England, 76 armored, 291 nnarmor- ad ; France, 57 armored, 203 unarmored; Russia, 49 armored, 119 unarmored Germany, 40 armored, 66 unarmored. But the comparison with these greatest powers of the world is more flattering than that with the smaller naval powers, enoh es Holland, Spain, Italy, Turkey, China, Sweden and Austria ; for we are surpassed by them all even with the now Mips added. Cabot Lodge has written another long dieertatiou on the force bill. Mr. Lodge is evidently trying to out -Bellamy Bella. nay. The Republioan orator who attempts to make the forma bill an iesuo in the resorthisr Yr o nt a'8 n will not make votes p for arta t a , There is fully as much speoulntion sinoo bhe passing of the tariff late as there was when the schedule was being pre- pared. Wife AlnrdoiorDay still hopes to have his sottotoo changed. P. 3, Close, of Waterboo, Ont., solei in Detroit ou Thursday a steer weighing 4,060 polfads. A Russell County farmer was arrost0d at Ottawa Friday on the charge of offer- ing to pur0haso counterfeit money. The aunt of $2,500 has been given to the Protestant Teacher's' Assoolation of Quebec to ho offered in prizes for the best three Canadian histories, Wit. O'Connor Home Again. After a journey of two menthe frum Sydney William O'Connor, America's champion oarsman, reached Toronto at noon Monday, completing the journey around the world begun last January, when he left westward bound, He looks well and strong, but is naturally muoh depressed over the death of his brother, Jobe 3., with whom he had made his home for some time. Siooe he was in Toronto last both hie brother and his brother's wife had been carried off. The bereavement Pao upset all his plans, sad for the present be will remain in Toron- to. He left Australia August 18, and on September 26 reached Naples, from which port he journeyed overland to England, visiting Rome, Florence, Switzerlandand Paris on the way. "I found Australia very hot when I reached Sydney in Marsh," be said, "and went to the mountains for a few weeks. During the remainder of my stay the climate agreed with me perfectly, and I was in the best of health. I was a long time and bad muoh difficulty before I could get a race. They were rowing and making matches with each other, and didn't pay any attention to my ohallenge until the newspapers and public opinion forced them to. I was very near coming away without a race, a few days more would have settled that way. At last I got on the race with Stansbury, as ynu know and that was not for the champion. ship, He's a big, strong fellow and a great miller, though he bas a peculiar style. He can strike very fast. He rowed one trial there, going 43 in the first minute and finishing at 94 strokes. The high rig, of comae, aids in fast strik- ing. I took to that style when I went there, and when I got into condition, it was too close today to make a change to my old style, though I could have done better and felt more at home in the old way." "The high rig," said Hanlon, who was one of O'Connor's callers, 'balls into play different sets of muscles, and a man can't get the full benefit of it in months. You'd have done better to stick to your owe style of rig." "The Parramatta," continued O'Con- nor, "is a poor course on account of the tide that rushes out of its bays. You can't see half a mile ahead of yon at any place in it. I was in good shape when I rowed. I never did more work for a race and I never had better boats or more of them. They haven't much to learn out there about sculling, building or rigging boats or making oars, and nobody eau go there and beet Kemp or Stansbury. I think Peter Kemp is the better of the two. He aertaiuly has more pace, He beat MoLean pretty easily, but I don't think John is quite first-class. The Spencers, who booked me, think MoLean, when better boated and well trained, can beat Stansbury, but I doubt it. He's big and strong and oan go all day, but he leaks the speed of the others. "I was saying they are in no way be. hind in getting ready for a race. Neither are they finding out what the fellows are doing. I couldn't go out for a trial at any time without being '•touted." Math- eson and I waited all one day for a chance to make a trial unobserved, but when I did get away at dusk there was a man on horseback watching me, ready to gallop to the finish, and a gun fired at every mile as I went by, I finished in the dark, but they naught my time, and it was in tine Sydney papers next morning. The time beat the record over the wane. Stansbury did not row a trial over the full course, but only a couple of miles. That is the general practice there. "Komp's coming visit to America arises out of a speech at the banquet they gave me just before leaving. I was say. fag that if any of the Australian smilers came to America they would have fair play, and I would like to meet them on American waters. Kemp immediately got up and said there was plenty of water in that oonntry, but if that didn't snit me he would row me in Amerioa. So next day we made the match for a rave to be rowed on the Pacific coast in Marsh. Stansbury, I suppose, will some with him. They will certainly be somewhat handicapped on American waters, and I ought to do better, though I don't think I was ever faster than I was in Australia. They won't come till December or Jaen. ary, I dare say, as it is only 26 days from Sydney to 'Frisco.' LETTE88 HOOH CIJEEFO. 01218.4. To the Editor of TER Poem. Cheek) is a port situated on the Shan• bung peninsula about 450 miles south oast from Pekin and is a place of no little importance. The city se really three pities stretched around the harbor, which is from one half to three mike in width. It is the sanitarium of China, and every summer all who oan afford it come here. The bluffs are crowned with villas and all around the beach are bathing boxes. The European parte are clean, well kept and have an air of prosperity, while the native parte of the city are loud emelliog, narrow, dirty streets with puddles at ir- regular intervals, generally with their quota of hogs ; numbers of thorn have been appropriated as sewers and all the filth finds an outlet in haat manner. Children are allowed to run naked and almost all look as though soap end water Them are e era r se were unknown. The several this. s sinus, all in a flourishing ourishin; condition, two o Roman OaUolia chapels, one English and oto A,uorioa 1 Presbyterian oltur:bee, an Anglican and a Methodist chapel form the planes of worship—trot inoluding jost houses of eonrso—for about 900,000 souls" The English Prosbyteriene bave a very largo mission collage where missionaries aro htotruotod in the various dialeote of northern China and in tnedioine, for a missionary must bo a Dr, in addition to his other Matfett. On the 6t1 wo buried ono of our mamba in the Americana Cemetery horn. A party of marines fired three volleys over the grave after the funeral gavial, and then "taps" was sounded on the bugle, a very appropriate With t0 a Bahama servios, Cheat), Caine, Sept. 7, Oievitn Sorin, Osantadiuu Nowtg. E. M. Proctor, registrar of LamLton, died Monday. Bousbeod has resigned his seat in the Toronto City Council. A fierce gale made things lively in Port Arthur harbor Monday. The new G. T. R. citation and offices at Lindsay were opened Monday. The Manitoba Snhool Acts are now un. der consideration of the Ottawa Cabincb. The receipts of the Northern Union ex- hibition at Orangeville amounted to $130. Twenty-one Chinamen have been sent from Seattle, Waeh., back to Victoria B. 0. Benjamin Hulitt, colored, has been ap- pointed to a clerkship in Windom' post - office. C. Kemp, barrister, of Woodstock, won the silver tea set offered by the 'Canadian Queen' for their word watch. The Kappele tioket won the contest over the Oegoods Literary and Legal elections at Toronto on Saturday. The Provinoial Board of Health has been notified that there is e.n epidemic of diphtheria at Belceul near Montreal. A. Stanley, of Wolfe Island, has an a letree 4 Pp 0 feet high. He has just con- cluded picking 40 bushels of apples off it. A new Dominion Line steamer is being built at Belfast. She will be the largeat steamer built for the Montreal trade. Rev. Dr. O'Connor, formerly of Sand- wich, was ooneeoratad Sunday as bishop of London, in succession of Arohbishop Walsh. The Cape Breton railway was formally opened by the Governor-General on Saturday amid the rejoicings of the is- landers. Silver poplar, balm of Gilead, cotton trees and willow, with chestnut and ash are to be excluded from the public streets of Toronto. William Mulligan, a boy of 13 years, Use been captured, and oedemas that he robbed the Winnipeg post.offioe last Tuesday night. W. A. Bishop, barrister, of the law firm of Bishop & Lucas, Owen Sound, has been appointed police olerk ata salary of 3400 a year. The coroner's jury on the curse of the death of Mrs. Truesdale at Port Dover brought in a verdict of poisoning by an unknown party. Miss Bella Forestalls, daughter of Mrs. Forestalls, of Cornwall, and niece of P. Parnell, M. P., has eloped with her uncle's bookkeeper. Nora Clench, the talented Canadian triennial, will remove to Buffalo, where she has been offered a position as leader of a string orchestra. John Truesdale and his son Watson, of Port Dover, are under arrest oa the charge of poisoning Mrs. Truesdale, wife of the elder and stepmother of the young. er prisoner. As an evidence of how the grape orop in Essex turned out it may be mention- ed that Eugene LeBouel, of Windsor, sold $4,000 worth of the fruit, the pro. duct of 90 acres, The Gloucester fishing schooner which saved a British torpedo boat in Nova Scotia waters has been awarded 2500 for salvage. On Friday the warship Buzzard tried to tow the torpedo boat to Halifax but lost it on the way, and it is supposed to be gone for good. A. A. Zimmerman of the New Jersey A. 0., and W. W. Tavis, of the Sahulyl- kill Navy A. 0., of Philadelphia, broke the world's 5 mile tandem bicycle road reoord on Wednesday of last week on the Lanoaster Turnpike, near Philadelphia. They covered the distance in 14 min., 82 mos., breaking the best previous reoord. by 15 seconds. The effeot; of the McKinley Bill were quickly felt at Essex Centre station by the shippers of milk in that neighborhood. The daily shipment from that point to Detroit amounted to one hundred gallons. The price paid by Detroit dealers ran from 9 to 13 nuts per gallon, a000rding to the season, and the duty of 5 cents a gallon, together with the entry fee, makes a practically prohibitory duty of 60 per cent. Tuesday afternoon, while J. H. Cam- paign was driving along the road leading north from Louoks' mill, neer Flesher - ton, his dog began making a fees. Upon dismounting and entering the bush to find the cause be discovered lying between two cedar trees the emaciated body of a young woman, probably about 25 years of age. After considerable effort he eno - needed in arousing her. She was assist. ed to the buggy and driven to Mr. Louoks' residence. Itis supposed that she lay out in the storm all night on Menday, as her clothing was Completely. saturated. She gave her name as Maria Irwin of Walter's Falls, and explained the cause of her terrible 000dition by saying that she lost her way, took sick and was un- able to go further. She cannot live. The judges on the ratio—Justioae Mao. lennan, Ferguson, MaoMahon and Pal. oonbridge—have Axed the times and pbaoes for the trials of eleotion petitions as follows :-1, North Renfrew, Pem- broke, Tneeday, llth NoV. ; 2, North Essex, Sendwiah, Monday, 12th Nov. ; 8, South Essex, Sandwich, Monday, 17th Nov. ; 4, Kingston, Kingston, Mon- day, 17th Nov. ; 5, Frontsnao, Kingston,, Thursday, 20th Nov ; 6, West Kent, Chatham, Thursday, 20th Nov. ; 7, East Hastings, Belleville, Monday, 24% Nov, ; 8, West Middlesex, Strathroy, Monday, 24th Nov. ; 9,East Middlesex, London, Thursday, 7th Nov. 2 o .t 10,Flee Durham Millbroolr, T1m redaY" , 27th Noe. ; 11, South Ontario,Whitby, Monday,let Dec ; 12, East lgin, St. Thomas, on - day, let DSO.; 18, West York, Toronto, Thursday, 4th Dec. ; 14, South Norfolk, Simooe Thursday, 4th Deo, ; 15, North Perth, SStratford, Monday, 8th Doo. ; 16, Welland. Welland, Monday, 8th Deo, ; 17, North Grey, Owen Sound, Thursday, lith Deo. ; 18, Hamilton, Hamtltnn, Thursday, 11th Deo. ; 19, South Went. worth, Hantilton, Mouday,16th Dee. ; 20, North Brace, Walkerton, Monday, 16th Deo„. 21, Lincoln, Sb. Oatbarinee, Thursday, lath Doe.; 22, Muskoka, Braoebridgs, Tuesday, 5611 Jan., 1891. In each sass the trial will oommenee at 11 a, M. On the day named.