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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1887-8-26, Page 1ii 1.1 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 • 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,