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Volume 10,
Ontario Crop Report.
Tho summer temperature and sunshine
records of Ontario this year show oonsid.
erably higher averages than those of the
five years 1882-5, but the average of rain
fall is considerably less, Tho mean tem-
perature of May was 8 dogreas to 10 do.
groes higher ; of Juno, 1 dogroes to 2 de-
grees ; and of July 6 degrees ; while the
highest temperature exceeds the highest
in the five years by 7} degrees, the July
recordrauging from 00 degrees in Simooe
to 100 degrees in Hamilton. The sun-
shine for May was 40 hours and for July
41 hours in excess of the average of the
pest four years, and for Juno it was 30
hours less ; for the stations from Toronto
westward the July average of this year
was 321 hours, against 231 hours for the
four years. The rainfall of the three
iiaaan hs in the west encl. south-west, centre
and east and north -oast districts was 4
inches lose than the avorage of the five
yaws 1882-0, but only 1a• inches less in
the north and north -wort district. L1
the latter the fall of Tuly exceeded the
average by nearly aninoh, being 14 inches
more than in the eastern district and 2
inches more than in either of the others.
The general effect of the long period of
drouth was accentuated by the high tem-
perature and clear sky whioh prevailed
throughout the maturing stages of
*creole.
Fall wheat has suffered from a snood -
sloe of reverses extending all through the
growing season. First Dame the severe
night frosts and the cold dry weather of
early spring, and then the extreme heat
and drouth.of summer, whioh continued
up to the thne of ripening. The effect
cause the oro thin on t
was to ca p to grow the
ground, with short heads, and the graiu
under the usual aize. Generally, how.
ever, the grain though small ig reported
to be plump and bright, with the exoep-
' tion of a few localities in central western
Ontario, where it was shrunken by rust.
In other localities the Hessian fly and
the midge did some injury. Where
threshing has been reported, the yield
runs generally from 10 to 18 bushels per
acro, the average being about 16 bushels,
or 5 bushels lees than the average of the
past five years. The general yield will
probably not exoeed two.thirds of an aver-
age drop, the estimate being 14,430,605
bushels, against 20,635,843 for the aver-
age. Many oorrespondents, however, con -
solo themselves with the refiection that
after all fall wheat has been the best orop
of the season, the heat and drouth having
90 seriously affected all the cereals, Spring
wheat is almost a total failure in western
Ontario, and only a few districts in the
east report even a fair orop; the estimat-
ed yield is 4,500,000 bushels loss than the
average of the five years 1882-0. The
harvest come in unusually early, reaping
becoming quite general in the south-west-
ern counties during the first week in July,
and in the northern and eastern districts
about ton days later. The wheat was
taken off in most oases without a drop of
rain, and was therefore secured in excel-
lent oondition. The labor supply was
generally ample, owing to good harvest
weather and the inoreasing use of self.
binders and other labor saving impio-
monts.
Owing to the prolonged heat and drouth,
barley was ready for nutting almost as
soon us fall wheat. Some barley was cut
as early as the 8th of July, and from the
middle to the end of the month harvest.
ing was general. This early maturing
had its effect on the berry, whioh is im-
ported as rather small, and likely to
prove two or three pounds light in the
bushel. Early sown came out best, both
in plumpness and quality. The yield
runs oll the way from a half to a full
orop, and the straw was short all over.
In the extremes of Bruce iu the west and
the tit. Lawrence (aunties in the east,
oases of rust are reported; but elsewhere
it does not nppoar to have done any
harm. Tbe redeeming, feature of the
orop is the splendid condition in whioh it
was saved; for, though looking in size
and weight, the sample is of a remarkably
bright color ; in fact it is many years
since the barley crop of the Aroma: was
saved so free from discoloration by rain.
Tbo estimated total yield is 17,436,322
bushels, being 2,186,000 bushels less than
the average of the five years 1882-0, al.
though the breadth 10 orop is 500,000
acres more.
Saving it few fields of late grain, the
oat harvest was finished throughout the
province by the end of the first week of
August. From almost all the counties
rho reports are wall agreed as to the in-
jurious effect of the drouth. In the Lake
Erie, Lake Huron and Georgian. Bay
counties, and in the northern districts,
early sown fields matured fairly 1vell; but
elsewhere the general complaint is that
the grain ripened too fast, turning white
with the extreme heat. As a result, the
kernel is shrunken and light, while the'
yieldof grain is small compared with the
quantity of straw. In some places rust
has injured the orop, and in others com-
plaint is made of the ravages of grass.
hoppers. The estimated yield of the pro-
vinoeis only 80 bushels per sore, whereas
the average yield of the past five years
was 37 bushels. The total estimate is
8,000,000 less than the yield of last year,
and 5,000,000 legs than the average,
The rye crop, of whioh there is but a
small area grown, was porhaps not s0 ger-
iously damaged by the drouth as other
crops, from the fact that it was farther
advanced before the effeote of the long
o.ntinuod dry season boson to bo felt,
The gain, however, is more or less
shrunken, and the estimated yield loos
not reach one-half the avorage•of the past
five years.
01 no orop are more variable repetts
given than of peas. A vigorous growth
appears 00 have been made up to the
forming of the pods, when the drouth he -
BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, AUG. 26, 1887.
gen and resulted in their being imperfect-
ly filled, although.from many points a
good yield is reported. Early sowing was
the salvation of the orop. The straw is
bright is color, and will likely bo in great
demand for fodder, owing to the shortage
of the other straws. A few oases of in-
jury by the wire -worm have been men-
tioned,
on-do ned, bat the pea -bug is almost unheard
of. The estimated yield is nearly the
same as the avenues) of the five years
1882-0, and 8,000,000 bushels loss than
last year.
Indian corn will ,be a short crop, with
the exception of a few looalities, in moist
situations, or where the planting was
done unusually early. In many fields no
ears have formed at all, and the etaike
are stunted and partly dried up. Fodder
corn is also ver light. g hb. Beans ars alined;
everywhere a failure, owing to the exam -
sive heat in the blossoming season,
The prospect of the potato crop can be
fairly indioated, but the other roots have
arrived at a critical period, when every-
thing depends upon rain. The drouth
told severely upon potatoes, especially on
late planted fields, and the bug appeared
in unusually large numbers. As a rule,
the yield will be entail; there will bo few
tubers in a hill, and these will doubtless
be of smaller size than usual. Tbe fly
and the grasshopper injured the turnip
in several counties, already thinned by
the dry weather at the planting season.
Early rains may yet make an overage .
crop of turnips, mangel-wurzels and car-
rots, but otherwise these roots must be a
deoided failure.
Though the drouth has reduced the
bulk of the hay orop, its affects have not
been go serious as might have been ex.
peoted. The weather during haying was
of the most favorable oharacter possible,
and except that in some cases the orop
may have been a trifle oyer -ripe, is has
been housed in prime condition. As to
the aggregate yield, it appears probable
that owing to increased acreage the orop
will be little below the average, The
clover seed orop will prove as nearly as
possible a total failure, and mucic of this
year's seeding will amount to nothing.
Alsike withstood the spring frosts and
summer drouth much better than red
clover.
STATISTICS Or FIELD CROPS.
Total yield. Yfeldner sore.
Crops. Bosh. ' Bush.
1887 14,435,500 15,9
Rall wheat 11889.0 20,055.049 21,0
1887 6,080,440 12.1
Spring wheat 11889.0 10,030,081 10.1
1887 17,480,322 22.7
Barley 11882-0 10,572,730 35.3
(1887 50,004,890 30.1
Oats 11882-0 55,833,895 87.1
i 188 813,518 13.4
1 1883.0 3,100,453 15.0
j 1887 13,133,600 18.1
11880-5 15,084,374 91.0
( 1887 304,080 15:0
Beans 11882.0 405,148 22.•9
Tons. Tons,
)1887 8,000,010 1,80
Bay 11882.0 3,009,535 1.43
1887—acres-1882-0-,
Corn 103,808 183,979
Buckwheat ...,, 64,146 63,348
Pasture (cleared) 2,628,938 •.--
'Potatoes 140,283 159,238
Mangel-wurzels.,, 17,941 17,101
Garrote 8,110 10,101
Turnips 105,322 90,537
Bye
Peas
iluron County Notes.
Goderioh civic holiday on Friday of
this week.
East Wawanosh Fall show will be held
in Bolgrave on Tuesday, Oct. 4th.
1,500 barrels of Hammer apples hove
been shipped by D. Oantelon, of Clinton.
L. G. VanEgmond, of Seaforth, has
doubled up with Miss Vanstone, of the
same plane.
Inspector Paisley, of the West Biding,
has deposited, as fines collected in Scott
Act oases, the sum of 82,700.
Thursday morning Geo. F. Old shipped
from Goderioh station by express a con-
signment of plums, consisting of 242
baskets.
Richard Coad, one of the sarlyllsettlers
of .]last Wawanosh, was found dead in
bed on Tuesday morning of last week.
He was 78 years of age.
The Goderioh Signal talks out in
meetin' in this • style :-The champion
liar of Mitchell still carries on business
at the old stand, at the Advocate office,
when not employed auotioneering.
The barn of John W. Salkeld, Lake
Shore road, about ono and a half miles
from Goderioh, was struck by lightning
last Thursday afternoon and destroyed,
along with considerable grain, a valuable
mare. Loos probably over 82,000; insur-
ance, $1,000.
Hugh Thomson, importer and breeder
of Shorthorn oattleand Clydesdale horses,
of St. Marys, has purohasedd from W. J.
Biggins, l7lmhurat Farm, Clinton, the 4
year old cow, Isabella 10th, aired by
Crown Prince of Stratballan, dam Isabel-
la 4th, by young Mayflower, G. D. Im-
ported Isabella by Dipthong 8rd, eta,;
and the one year old heifer, Matchless,
of Elmhurst Otto, aired by Favorite, dam,
Matchless of Elmhureb 0th by British
Statesman, 2nd -G. 1l, Matchless 19th,
by Imported Statesman, oto., oto. They
are both fine show nnitna)5, the iheifer is
one of the famous Matchless tribe.
The Clinton N'ew Era says :-Iteoently
certain new regulating were issued by the
bead officers of the Salvation Army, but
some of the soldiers here, as elsewhere,
thought them too exaotibg and refused to
abide by them. Tho consequence wag
that the corps here was disbanded by
orders from headquarters, and a re -orga-
nization. took place on Friday night, of
all who were willing to accept the new
conditions, Divisional officer Burtchatt
and wife, of London, and Capt. Andrews,
of Goderioh, imperintending. Tho Capt.
mid Cadet hero remain as before, hot all
who worn soldiers under the old order of
things era not r000gnizod as such now,
although -allowed to partioipeto in the
meetings,
BASE 3ALZ1.
131r'riervvllt+,' "Y.0.4. Olin Coax .
Several years ago there was a bites ball
olub in Brussels bearing the significant
name of "Tbe Clippers" who dud their
work so well that like Alexander of old
they, sighed for other worlds to conquer,
bat in vain, so the club disbanded. Thal
town of Clinton has a team that has been
walloping all that same in their way this
year so a match was arranged between
them and the Clippers and was played
on Victoria Park, Brussels, last Friday
afternoon. The game was called at 8
o'olook after a good deal of kinking
against McHardy and Moonoy, notwith-
standing that the former was an old
member of the club and had played with
the Clippers both at Exeter and Wroxet-
er. However the game started with the
visitors at the bat, McHardy in the box
and Mooney behind the bat. Before the
side was out they had scored 5 runs,
largely by errors. Mooney was struck
on the aye by a foul tip whioh almost
used him up. The Clippers wore white-
washed throe innings in succession while
Clinton only made 1. and 0 in their and
and 3rd, J. Stratton doing good work be-
hind the bat for Brussels. The friends
of the outside team were jubilant and
Clinton stook went away up in the way
of bluff, one young man foolishly flour-
ishing a 86.00 bill in the faces of the
spectators. The snore stood 7 to 0 when
the Clippers took the bat for their 4th
innings but the boys got on to Turnbull's
pitching and pounded out 6 runs. Ex-
citement was high and from this point
dissatisfaotioe prevailed It was al-
together owing to the unfair and glaring
decisions given by Umpire Barge, who
hails from Clinton. As long as his friends
had a good lead he did fair enough but
when our boys pulled up on them he
gave himself away in a most ridiculous
and foolhardy manner. An excuse can
be made for an error in judgment on
close decisions but when a man, pofess-
ing to do the square thing, gives the
game away so as to become a laughing
stock to the onlookers, many of them
living outside of the town, it ie another
matter. The game went 011 however,
and in the 5th innings the visitors were
blanked while Brussels made 1, thus
staking the score a tie. In the 0111 Olin•
ton got 2 and Brussels 4 ; in the 7th inn-
ings, through more "monkey" work by
Barge, his favorites wore oredited with 6,
three of tho home team crossing the
plate. The visitors batted for 6 in their
8th innings and the Olippere followed
with 0 and the score was a tie again. It
WAS now alter 7 o'clock and the result
hinged on the last innings. Fourwas
added to Clinton's score making a total
of 24 and Brussels had 5 to make to beat.
One man was out and one on 3rd baso
when Shaw took the bat and struck safe
for 1st, Stratton getting home. Shaw
fell over the baseman and in his fall Um-
pire Barge gave him out because, he
says, he did not faoe the right way in
his upset. This was the last straw nee.
essary to break the camel's book, our
boys ageing it was no use to proceed, al-
though the Clippers were in a fair way
to make the largest snore of the game in
this innings, with such umpiring and
the result was a wrangle in which the
umpire came very nearly being Duffed.
Our boys say they can take a defeat as
well as any club and they give Clinton
credit 'with playing a good game but
they want at least a semblance of fair
play, and that they did not get on Fri-
day. It is unfortunate that a friendly
game should be marred by any jangle or
jar but the visitors may thank their um-
pire for the trouble. Some people make
bold enough to state that he was not re-
sponsible for I11e actions that day from a
cause best known to himself. He evi-
dently Dame determined that Brussels
team would be beaten as, we understand,
a largo sum of money was pub up by the
Clintoniansin backing their team, Stan -
bury, the catcher for the visitors had
one of his fingers knocked out of joint.
The following is the score :- .
BRUSSELS.
Buns. Outs.
W. Mooney, o dr s s., 1 4
H. McHardy, p 3 8'
D. Ross, let b ...... 4 2
J. Ross, 2nd b - r 1 3
G. Halliday, 8rd b .. , . 1 4
J. Stratton, e s i$ o ., .. 2 2
A. Currie, 1 f 2 4
J. W. Shaw, r f - 8 1
N. Gerry, o f 4 2
Total 21 26
OLI1'0016.
Turnbull 8 4
Scruten 3 3
Smith 4 2
Spaulding 2 3
MoGarva 2 4
Quigley ,.. 3 8
Walker 4 1
Harland 3 2
Stanbury 0 5
Total 24 27
Innings -1 2 8 4 5 6 7 8 0
Brussels 0 0 0 6 1 4 3 6 •1-21
Clinton 6 1 0 1 0 2 6 5 4-24
Noyes: John Barleycorn made one or
two persons act a very clownish part dur-
ing the afternoon, -As the Clippers did
not putpose keeping up a club here •they
woro ort of bats and although the Clin-
ton cattle]: was wearing the pad belong-
ing to the Mainlands some of the Clinton
team did slot of kicking beoanso our boys
attempted to use their bobs. -Tho Clip -
rem think they could have got away with
their opponents g0100 easily had they had
an impartial umpire, They are not in
the habit of playin against 10 mon, how-
ever. g
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lir 1. 001318 5AN''ON, M.A., 5.0,s., 51(08508031
Ot+ N88r84I 11348005 AND OEOLOEY,
In a former bulletin attention was di -
rooted to results in grape growing at th
College. I purpoin in this giving our ox
porience in fruit trees, and it will be ob
served that our eevereolimati000ndition
are as disastrous bo the orchard OR to th
orchard as to the vineyard. The site fol
an orchard was selected by a commitsao
of the Fruit Growers' Association in
1880 ; it embraced seventeen acres which
owing ba the failure of many trees, has
boon restricted lately to an area of twelve
aoree. This was planted with a great
variety of fruit trees, the apples thirty
feet apart, and aqui•dietant from each
other, according to what is usually call-
ed the hexagonal method. In the first
year nearly every tree grew, indicating
that the planting had been successfully
done, The following data aro important
factors in accounting for failures :
00ND1T10N8 Sm(RO0ND1Ne THE TEEE8.
Location : Latitude north 43038 min.,
height above sea level 1,100 feet, above
Lake Ontario 858 feet. Exposure : West-
erly inclined to north ; no shelter of anycc
amount as yet. Soil ; Clay loam and
somewhat gravelly on the north and
west sides ; partially drained. Meteor-
ology : Mean annual temperature of
1880.6 42.0 0 ; mean summer temperature
57.10 , winter 17.3 0 ; highest tprnper-
abure (1881) 98 0 lowest (1884) 85 0 ; av-
erage number of days rain fell per year
72,. rainfall, including snow, 24.7 inches ;
prevailing winds, southwest 48 per cent.,
northwest 81 per Dent.
5I4.NA0EMENT.
Crops have been grown each year in
the orchard, chitty roots, and a strip of
land three feet on each side of the line
of trees on which nothing is grown, but
the soil is kept well cultivated. About
five or six aures have been planted with
raspberries, currants, gooseberries and
strawberries, whioh are intended to be
kept until the trees mature ; this portion
is also thoroughly cultivated. In au-
tumn the trees are usually banked nine
to ten inches. So far we have been but
little troubled with insects or mine. The
whole was thoroughly manured the
third year with farmyard manure, and
the portion on whioh the email fruits are
growing has been manured a second time
-1886. At the time the trees were set
out a windbreak was plonted on the
north and west sides. This consists of
two rows of Norway spruce, eight fent
between the rows and twelve feet between
the trees, the trees of eaoh raw alternat-
ing. These trees are doing well, and will
soon be a great protection from the west-
erly winds which prevail here.
RESULTS.
In the following record of results the
figures in brackets are the total of each
variety planted. Pears. -65 varieties
were planted, and all have failed to reaoh
the seventh year ; the few that led a pre-
carious existenoe for a few yearn have
been rooted out. Plums. -28 variebiea ;
the surviving ones being Lombard 4 (5),
Purple Egg 3 (5). Oherries.-18 varie-
ties ; Olivet 1 (2(, May Deka 6 (7). Ala,
es. -64 varieties ; Swazis Bourn.
Arise 20 (50), Golden Russett 31 (50),
Rhode Island Greening 7 (22), Roxbury
BuseBused6 (20), Grimes' Golden Pippin 7
(25), Wagner 20 (26), Yellow Bellflower
27 (35), Baldwin 6 (40), Swear 5 (12),
Pomme Royal 18 (22), Fameuse 10 (12),
Lady 2 (2), King of Tomkins County 1
(12), Beauty 2 (2), Maiden's Blush 2 (2),
Ella 1 (2), Wealthy 2 (2), Tallman Sweet
22 (22), Northern Spy 3' (50), Ben Davis
6 (6), Mother 2 (2), Pewaukee 2(2), Twen-
ty Ounce 10 (12(, Beauty of Kent 7 (5),
Rambo 2 (2), Fall Pippin 12 (12), Ohl.
Dago 4 (12), Lady Sweat 2 (5), Alexander
34 (35), American Golden Bused 11 (26),
Dora 1 (2), Ribaton Pippin 22 35), Grav-
enstein 2 (27), St. Lawrence 2 (2), Crabs
5 (5), Keswick Codlin 2 (2), Early Har-
vest 2, (2), Summer Rose 2(2), Duchess
of Oldenburg 85 (37), Benoni 4 (4), Eng-
lish
n -lish Russet 2 (8), Bad Astrachan 5 (5),
Mann 8 (10), Shiawasse 9 (10 : 737 plant-
ed, 406 living, 881 dead. In all owns
where the trees have become sickly and
have died the bark on the south side
turned dark colored ; as soon as this con•
dition wag attained a marked change cm -
cured in the vitality of the tree, growth
seemed retarded and in a short time the
tree coaled to live. This condition Ap-
pears tb result from the effects of the
warm spring sun before the frost has
left the roots and a proper circulation
had commenced throughout the whole
tree.
Number 7.
space ; (2) You can cultivate between the
trees in throe ways; (3) The trees have
more light anal aft', 6. Orchards should
be well drained, sepeoially where the
ensnare is severe.
G
esaosx-ul News.
The cholera in Northern India is abet
e 100,
Two Russian families have been expel
led from Berlin,
A groat riot book place near Nanticoke
Pa„ on Sunday.
Emperor William is recovering from an
attack of rheumatism.
John Palgrave Sampson, the eminent
author and playwright, is dead.
A Philadelphia iia wr'
p Iter thinks all aa -
gine drivers ought to have telescopes.
A heavy white frost nipped the vines at
East Tawas, Mich., on Saturday morn-
ing.
Thera was an unusually violent storm
on the North Carolina wast on Sat r.
day.
Tho Canadians cricketers played a
draw game with the Leicester Gentle-
men.
Russia promised to the Sultan the joint
occupation of Bulgaria by herself and
Turkey.
The Bulgarian Government has order-
ed 200,000 repeating rifles from an Aus-
trian firm.
It is again reported that the Czar will
visit Emperor William at Daniels in
September.
Messrs. Wiman and Butterworth have
been invited to speak on Commercial
Union at Cinoinnati.
The Abyssinians have released the
Italian Count Savoivoux, who has re-
turned to Gen. Saletta'e camp.
Hassle has issued a circular to the
Powers declaring her inability to reoog-
nise the validity of Prince'Ferdinand's
election.
Tlie British steamer Modelle, from
New York, which arrived at London on
Saturday, lost, fifty head of cattle on the
voyage.
The Duke of Marlborough is a passenger
on the Cunard steamer Umbria, which
soiled from Liverpool for New York on
Saturday.
Advices from Afghanistan state that
the rebellious Ghilzais are dispereing in
discouragement, owing to the success of
the Ameer's troops.
Mr. Sexton will be inaugurated as
Lord Mayor of Dublin on New Year's
Day. Mr. Gladstone has been invited to
the inaugural banquet.
A new amusement is provided at the
London fairs, known as "bapeyturvy.”
Passengers are securely strapped in a
barrel and then rolled %bout.
The Moscow Gazette makes an abso-
lute denial of the statement that its late
editor, M. Katkoff, was a fanatical hater
of Germany and a lover of France.
Heavy shipments of arms and ammu-
nition were sent from San Francisco to
Honolulu last week and there are other'
signs of further trouble in the Hawaiian
Kingdom. •
At a meeting of the landowners in
Limeriok on Saturday it was resolved to
ask the Government to provide them
relief from mortgages, tithes, rents and
other encombranees.
Rev. Dr. Twitohell, of Hartford, Conn.,
has a large family of children, Growing
tired of selecting names, he dubbed his
tenth child "Tenny," a name as eupho-
nions as it is significant,
The steamer Wave has brought 8860,-
000 in gold. One million five hundred
thousand dollars has been ordered for
shipment from London and Paris to New
York on Sunday's steamers.
00110LUSIONs.
1, The olimato in this vicinity is too
severe to raise any but the very hardiest
of fruit trees, Our experience is borne
out by several in this neighborhood
whose orchards are yearly becoming
thinned out. 2. The varieties whioh(
have withstood our adverse surroundings
best are : Bon Davis, Alexander, Tall.
Man Sweet, Fail Pippin, Duohess of Old-
enburgh, Red Astrachan, Benoni, Weal-
thy, Maiden's- Blush, Pewaukee, St.
Lawrence, Early Bhrvsst, 3. The small
fruits have done excellently ; to these
'reference will be made it another bullet-
in. 4. All orchards exposed to winds
continuing largely from one direction
throughout the year should have a wind
break for shelter on the side from whioh
therovailing wind comes, and this
shoulpd beplanted as soon as possible,
Few trees are bettor suited for this than
the Nerway spruce, but it is not advie-
able to have them planted in .ono row
oloso together, for in such meg the
trees beogmc a harbor for Maeda, A
hotter way is to plant two or throe rows
in the manner already referred to, 5.
The hexagonal plan of planting, in which
the trees are in overt' vaso the some die -
tame apart, is preferable, because -(1)
More trees can be planted un tho same
The army of the Ammer of Afghanis.
tan now in the field is estimated at 20,-
000 regular and 30,000 irregular troops,
besides the 5,000 men composing the
garrisons at Ghuzna and Candahor.
The author of. "Grandfather's Cloak"
died recently in University College Hos.
pital, London. The song is better known
than the author of it, a E. C. Bertrand,
who tried again and again but never
afterward naught the public taste.
Frank H. Collier, of Chicago, has sua
heeded in obtaining an appointment for
an audience with the Queen at Osborne
House this week for the purpose of pre-
senting to Her Majesty the Jubilee ad.
dress of the residents of Chicago of
British birth and parentage.
Boston hoe not only produced the boas
pugilist and tho boss ball player, but the
boss beggar as well. Mary Smith, a well-
known professional beggar in Washing.
ton street for many years, has just died
in the Charity Hospital in Boston, leav-
ing an estate valued at $27,000.
The claims of the brewers and distillers
of Georgia for compensation for property
impaired by the prohibitory law have
been summarily disposed of by the Ss.
preme Court of the state. The Court
says (-"The, law does not take or damage
the property for the use public, but only
prevents them from taking or damaging
the public for their use,
The ohueohes have not failed to utilize
the press in heathen countries. The
Central Methodist Episoopal Church hes
in India three publishing agencies, locat-
ed at Luoknow, Oaloutta and Madras.
At these centers eight different petiodf.
eels are published. Last year 8,000,000
pages of books and bracts were sent dub
from the press at Lucknow, and 6,000,-
000 from the press et Calcutta.
A Rochelle, Ill., belle has a false tooth
set, en a pivot, and sneezed it out the
Other day while feeding the ohiokens.
The old hen thought it (vas 0.rain of
corn and swallowed it as soon as it streak
the ground. After along okase the fowl
was captured, behcaded,its orop opened
and the tooth found and restored to the
young lady's loath, wero it afterward
helped se masticate the old ,an,
John Parnell has arrived in Liverpool.
Thousands of cattle ore dying in Texas
for want of water.
The British Parliament is to be pro.
rouged on September 13th.
The Queen's jubilee pnesents are to be
exhibited in London.
The South Russian Provinces are un•
usually afflicted by the cattle plague.
Great fires, eupposed to bo of iuoendi.
ary origin, have occurred in Corsioa.
Appleton, Wis., which could have a
free postal delivery system deolinrje the
luxury.
During the past 24 hours there were 18
deaths from cholera in Catania and 16 in
Palermo.
The wheat yield in Germany is esti-
mated at 102 per cent. Russia also sends
out favorable reports.
Prime Minister Bouvier, of France,
will go on a tour through Switzerland.
He will travel incognito.
Archibald Forbes has cancelled his lec-
ture engagements. and it is understood
that he has not much longer to live.
It is reported that Germany will con -
gent to the Russian 000upation of Balser.
la on condition that the time and the
number of troops be defined.
The Prussian Ministry of Agriculture
antioipate the following yields :-Wheat
102 per cent. ; rye, 100 ; barley, 34 ; oats;
85 ; peas, 91 ; rape seed, 89.
During a baseball game near Poohille,
Madison County, N. Y., Otto Bronson, 18
years of age, was struck on the temple by
the ball and almost instantly killed,
The American Peace memorial has
been signed by 200 members of the House
of Oommons, including Mr. Chamberlain,
Mr. Mundell and Sir G. 0, Trevelyan.
Germany has reinstructed Baron Theil-
mann, Consul at Sofia, who has been ap-
pointed Minister to Darmstadt, to delay
his departure for the latter place till the
Bulgarian crisis is ended.
There is a watch in a Swiss museum
only three.sixbeenths of an inob in diam-
eter inserted in the top of a pencil case.
Ing dial not only indicates hours, min-
utea and seconds, but also days of the
month.
Mrs. Langtry's coachman is one of the
sights at Long Branch. He is only a lit-
tle more than four feet tall, and weighs
about 110 pounds. What little hair he
has is rod and ifs faoe is covered with
freckles.
There are now cables on almost every
sea and ocean bed, the total length of wire
laid being nearly 113,000 nautical miles.
There are nine cables connecting Europe
with America, the first that was laid dat-
ing from 1868.
.A floating exhibition of Spanish pro-
ducts will shortly leave Yolanda for
South America, and will visit all the
principal South American sea ports. The
object is to open up new markets for
Spanish goods.
The last census of India reported
a
population of 266,982,495. Of these 201,-
755,998 were in British territory and 55,-
181,742 in the native States. According
to religions the population is divided as
follows : Hindus, 187,957,450 •,Moham-
undone, 60,120,585 ; Aboriginals, 6,426,-
611 •, Buddhists, 8,418,884 ; Christians,
1,882,634 ; Sikns, 1,858,426 ; Tains, 3,221,-
897 ; Pharisees, 85,898 ; Jews, 12,009 ;
others, 962,029.
There is on exhibition in New 'York a
flower called the "insect catcher," Its
petals are white, and it is about the size
of an apple blossom, whioh it somewhat
resembles. Its interior information is
such that the proboscis of any insect,
searching for the flower's honey, once
inserted, cannot be withdrawn, and the
harder the oaptured insect struggles the
tighter it is held. One of the plants on
view held captive a butterfly, which, un-
less released, will be held till it starves to
death. It will then dry up and be blown
away by the wind.
Liverpool as a maritime centre may be
said to rank foremost among the ports of
the world. A day's shipping record giv-
en by a Liverpool journal shows that in
88 dooks, wibh their several branches,
and the five docks and branohos at Birk -
enlaced, across the river, there were 267
vessels. This does not include the ships
of all kinds, from American liners to
coasting schooners, which anchor in the
Mersey, from its mouth all the way up
to Runcorn. They are not enumerated.
On the same day there were 118 ships on
the ocean bound for Liverpool, beside
98 homeward bound to receive ordora on
arrival in English waters. There are
about 50 lines of steamers running out of
Liverpool, of whish 10 only are for other
porta 1n the United Kingdom.
A remarkable ease of dynamite explos-
ion is related by Henry Simpson, living
near Henderson,Ky. Simpson hag been
using dynamite for the purpose of blow-
ing several old stamps out of the ground,.
The other day he oarelesely left the dan-
gerous compound lying by the side of a
stomp, on whish he intended to begin
Operations. The dynamite was mixed
with sawdust, and gave an exceedingly
pleasant odor, whieh attracted the atten- '
tion ofotwo Of Simpson's hogs, whieh soon
bad sonvertod themselves into gigantic
oartridges. The stuff, when eaten, creates
a peculiar sensation, whioh annoyed one
of the hogs to such an extent that it en.
gored Simpson's Stable, and began Bubb.
ing its side against a post at the mouth
of a mule's stall, The mule remained
passive hat for a few moments, when it
gave the hog a terrific kick in the side.
., tremendous explosion followed, and
after the clearing away of tin smoke and
dust, the hog was to bo found only in de-
Melanie/its, while an en01'mnne apertare
marked the spot where it had stood. The
mule reooived a tremenelots shook, but
was still intact. The other loog la now
running 08 large, greatly to the terror of
the en0540 tneighborhood,