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BINDER- RWINE/ AND WUT
BUNCOMBE.
Some Huron county, Ontario,
farmere have been investigating the
binder ovine question and the rela
Live priced in this country and the
United States. While on an ex
eureion to Sarnia they made it their
business, as they state, to cross to
Pit Huron and make inquiries in
regard to the price of biudor-'wino.
Accordingly they visited the firm of
Anderson & Co, •who deal exten-
sively in that article, where it was
ascertained that the three chief
brands used in the United States
sold at 12/r, 13. and 14 cents, the
obliging merchant volunteering the
further information that binder•
twine was cheaper iu Canada than
in the United States. Crossing to
Sarnia, the store of McKenzie,
Milue & Co. was visited end it was
ascertained there that the three
principal twines used here are sold
at 10-1, 11• and 121 cents, facts
well-known to every farmer in
Ontario. It was also ascertained
in Port Huron that Silver Com-
posite or jute ovine is sold there at
9 and 10 cents, while in Sarnia and
other ports of Ontario, a better
article is sold at 8 and 8i -cents.
Yet in the face of these facts we
are continually being told of the
ruinous price of binding twine here
as compared with the United States.
When the question was up before
Parliament at the last session sever-
al Grit speakers declared the Cana.
dian farmer paid five cents a pound
more than the United States hus-
bandman.
These same Huron farmers found
also that the Canadian ovine was in
every respect equal to if not super
for to the American article. The
conclusions which' they arrived at
and which they present in a letter
to the Huron Expositor of a recent
date is that "the twaddle about the
cheap binder twine on the other
side is but the idle vaporings of
those who can see nothing cheap or
good at home, but are forever laud
ing things in another country. Dis-
tanee:truly lends enchantment to
the view, in this case, but close in-
spection reveals the rottenness of
the foendation that such fabrica-
tions are built upon."—London
Free Press.
ERROR FRANKLY OWNED.
Although the Beacon some days
ago made what it considered a full
and ample retraction of the term
"Yankee bounty jumper" applied
in a jocular sense to the editor of
the Hamilton Spectator, that gentle•
man considered it neither frank nor
unqualified. We therefore, now
desire to make it plain that we
absolutely and unreservedly with-
draw the statement, and regret hav-
ing tirade use of it, We'heve since
learned Mr. Freed, who is a native
Canadian, served in the army of
the United States during part of
tear, was promoted for good con-
duct and honorably discharged.
With such a record it was but
natural that Mr. Freed should have
resulted a charge of bounty jumping.
—Strrhtford Beacon.
The Beacon was led into the
statement it made by erroneous in-
forination. The retraction now
made is frauk and ample. It is
frankly accepted as the atonement
u .e:;„si'entan who was uninten•
tionally led into error, and who
does not desire to do wrong,—
Spectate?.
•—It is reported that the work of
constructing the "Soo" canal, which
is now being vigorously pushed,
will also be continued energetically
during the coming winter. shat
this statement means precisely has
not transpired. During the poet
two winters some work has been
done on the canal, chiefly in the
getting out of atone, but whether
more then this -cal be performed iE
the winter of 18923 is for the con•
tractors to say. The date upon
which the contract calls for the com-
pletion of the canal f8 to close 1894,
but as a result of the Minister's re-
cent visit of inspection and a gener-
al survey of the ground, it is under-
stood that Messrs. Ryan & Haney
have given assurance to the depart.
went that the canal will be ready
for nae by July 1, 1893. This in
itself is a big thing, and means the
gain of fully two-thirds of one sea-
son of navigation.
—The Esrl of Aberdeen is men-
tioned •to -succeed Lord Stanley as
Governor General of Canada.
ti•
DEATH cim.,(*p. TI -t Rola„
e had bean lying y. quiet for a. lonx�j
time, and the nurse at his bedside dozed
and nodded–,struggled, to keep awake, anti
finally slept in her ehair• Then a shadow
stole into the room and stood by the bed
whispering :
"Bight dress ! Back an the left
Front I"
The sergeant opened his eyes and looked
about him in wonder. His hair was titin
and grey, his face plile and . wasted, and
death had set its mark upon his brow.
"Attention to roll call f' continued the
Shadow. "Adams, Ancil, Artman, Averill,
Allport, Amsdon—"
"They do not answer," said the sergeant
as the Shadow paused.
"They can answer no more ! They were
byried in the trsndlies at blan:tee s. Bar-
nard, Baxter, Bobee, Burton, Bloom,
Bailey---"
• "I do not hear them," said the ser-
, geant.
"Their lives went out when 'McClelland
turned at bay at Malvern Hill. They died
as heroes die. Carter, Curtis, Claxton,
Coleman, Caitiff, Campbell—"
"Does anyone answer for them?" asked
the sergeant.
"Aye ! I do !" replied the shadow. "I
saw them laid in the shallow trenches at
Antietam after the roar of the battle had
ceased and the cries of the wounded had
been bushed. 'i'liey were following' Hook-
er's flag when they fell. Davis, 'benton,
Danforth, Dougherty, Deno Dilling-
harn--"
" Absent without leave?" said the ser-
geant,
"No ! Absent forever ! They crossed at
Fredericksburg, and there dead bodies lay
nearest the terrible stone wall at the base of
Marie's Hill. They could not win victory,
but they could die. Ena.rt, Eberinau.
Eckliff, Epstein, Engleman, Eckart—"
"They may be on guard," said the ser.
geant, as he listened for the sound of their
.voices.
"Then the dead guard the dead," replied
the Shadow. "I saw thein lying stark
and dead under the trees at Chancel-
lorsville, left to he buried by the victorious
enemy. Faber, Fenton, Foster, Franklin,
Fitch, Fitzwilliams--"
"They have been detailed for special
duty," suggested the old soldier.
"Their duty ended at Gettysburg. I saw
them lying dead after the Virginians had
been driven back and thousands were shout-
ing victory. Gray, Gorman, Gebel, Goa -
pert, Ganscl, Green—"
_"Where?" asked the sergeant.
"In the thickets of the sombre wilderness
where 10,000 men died without seeing an
enemy. When night came the songs orthe
whippoorwills were heard above the plaints
of the wounded. Hall, Harmon, Hennessy,
Hill, Hilton, Hurlburt—"
"And these, too ?"
"Aye ! every one of them. They were
left behind. Ingalls, Irving, Iahain, Irnrie,
Isabel, Ingersoll—"
"Ah ! I remember !" whispcsred the' ser-
geant. "They fell as they guarded the
trenches at Petersbug. I myself helped to
bury then,."
"James, Jenkins, Jordan, Jolly, Justin
"Dead at Appomattox !"
"Larkins, Lampton, Larry, Lennox, Lev -
ring, Loring—"
"Call no more. Only when the angel calls
the roll of the dead at the last great day
will the dust make answer. I alone am left
of my company 1"
The old sergeant fell back upon his pillow
with a moan, and before his dim vision the
spectres of the dead seemed to form in line
and await his order. •
"Sergeant Qrim !" called the Shadow.
The nurse £`yoke and cried out :
"Who has called hint ? He is dead 1"
"It was I," said the Shadow. "He was
the last on the roll and I can call no more.'
"And yon—yon—e
"I ren the Shadow of Deaths !"—New
York Stn.
So We Grew old.
A hroken'toy ; a task that helm away
A yearning child heart for an hour to play,
A Christmas that no Christmas idols brough4
A tangled lesson, full of tangled thought ;
A homesick Un• ; a senior gowned and wine ;
A glimpes of life, when, lo ! the curtains rise
Folli over fold,
And hangs the picture, like a boundless sea—
The world, all action and reality—
So we grow old.
A wedding, and a tender wife's ehress ;
A prattling babe the parents' life to bless ;
A home of joys and cares in equal part ;
A dreary watching with a heavy heart;
And death's dreiut angel knocking at •
the gate,
And hope and courage bidding sorrow wait
Or lose her hold:
A new -made grave, and then a brave return
To where the ares of life triumphant burn—
So we grow old.
A fortune and a generous meed or rause,
Or direful ruin and a tarnished name
A slipping off of week and month and year,
Faster and faster as the close draws near ;
A grief to•r1ay, and with tomorrow's light
A pleasure that transforms the sullen night
From lead to gold;
A chilling winter of unchanging storm ;
A spring replete with dawns and sunsets warm—
So we grow old.
Old to ourselves, hut children yet to Le
In the strange cities of eternity.
Medical Humbugs.
A yoeng Boston man had a slight cold and
so: e throat, and meeting his cousin, wlto is
a physician and something of a wag, be ask-
ed him what to do for it. '
"Oh, I'll writr`s a prescription for yen,"
W/1,8 the answer. He wrote it, and the gen-
tleman glanced at it before taking it to the
druggist. It ream : "Aqua pura—ounce ;
chloride sodium—ounce. Shake well be-
fore using and gargle with it every' half
hour."
"How much is it?'' queried the patient
as the druggist handed hies the bottle.
"Two doll re." was the reply.
Some weeks later the young man's threat
was sore again, and remembering the efficacy
of his cousin's prescription, he took the
bottle to be filled again.
Another clerk waited on him, and when
he inquired the price he was astonished ab
the cheerful answer: "Ods, we don't .charge
anything for salt and water."
He had paid 82 for an understanding of
two simple words.—Boston Gazette.
Ono of the Causes of Famine.
The wanton despoiling 'of Russian forests
during these last 30 years has led to such
widespread devastation in the woodlands
that industrial western Europe is at present
richer in woods than central Russia. The
havoc wrought in the forests has had the
result that the abundance of water in rivers
and inland lakes liar decreased ; that im-
mense masses of quicksand have been form-
ed, which encroach steadily upon the
cultivated land : that the Russian territory
is becoming desiccated and nature impover-
ished ;,that at the temperature in summer has
increased by 3' and decreased in winter to
the same amount. Prof. Bogdanow, who
has diligently studied these subjects for
years, predicts, upon the above grnur:ds,
that the metamorphosis of the "Mack
earth" into a desert will be accomplieried
within the next century, unless this de-
streetion of wends he proceeded against
wit h rut bless energy.—German Agrieul-
tnral .!onrush
rim PRINCE'S WAGER..
[lt is..easier to get arrested for nothing
than cue would at firs i lwagiue ; as is shown
oenctusivelY in this Amusing story, whirl} is
translated by 8ophlo ,Marl from t'ho French
at Iienri Page ,
Toward thep,1 end •
of the second Empire,
Prince Edmoxtd de 'Carinal. was one of the
most brilliant frequenters of the Boulevard.
s all
ie It one.
Very blond, pale and slender, impertuvb.
!ably phlegmatio,---a temperament touching
cero,—with the aid of hie enormous fortune
rte amused society by hie freaks and fancies
oven eondesceading occasionally to astound
the populace,
One evening he gave a grand dinner at
his own mansion ; the cheer was exquisite,
end the dessertwas served in a Whirl of
gayety.
"Very well ; let us wager," cried the
prince suddenly, replying to a challenge
from the opposite end of the table, "that
without having stolen, murdered, bijured
my fellow -beings in any way, without hav-
ing committed any sort of crime, broken
my law or regulation, I get myself arrested
when I please and dragged to a station like
a vagabond, rt thief, an assassin 1"
He spoke in an icy tone from which he
never departed, even when making the most
extraordinary statements or propositions,
and his words out clearly through the
laughter and conversation. Every one
turned toward him in surprise. During the
silence which followed he added :
"I wager two thousand louis--tvho will
take it up ?"
There were wealthy Wren around the
board, well used to heavy stakes ; but the
magnitude of the sum startled them. Be-
fore taking up the wager they wished to
determine the conditions clearly.
"There is no double-meaning?—.no play
on words, or anything like that?" queried
the fat Duke de Morvella.
"Not in the least," replied the prince ;
•`I give you my word as a gentleman."
"But," suggested another, "you will
probably proceed to do one of those actions
which, without. being classed as offences,
yet arouse the police. As, for example, you
will show yourself in public in such an ex-
travagant or remarkable costume that you
will be followed by a crowd of jeering ur-
ehins, and, to put a stop to the disorder,
an officer will be obliged to conduct you to
a station, where he will lend you leas con-
spicuous attire."
"You are quite wrong," replied de Karin.
cal; "for if I should get myself taken up
for wearing some extraordinary costume,
the otficer would know very well that he
had only to deal with an eccentric charac-
ter, an oddity otherwise inoffensive. No; 1
tell you they will grasp me by the collar
and drag me to the station, believing they
are conducting a malefactor, while I shall
he perfectly innocent of any fault or misde-
meanor, transgressing or enactment."
"Well, then, how will you go about it?"
exclaimed Gastambide, the banker, who
was very nervous and excitable.
"Ah, that—is my secret! You can un-
derstand that if I told you that beforehand
"Of course !" interrupted Gastambide ;
but I have it now ! You will tap a police-
man on the shoulder saying : 'Old fellow,
I'tn your man. I have killed all my family
in a moment of frenzy. Remorse is chok-
ing tee. Take me up, old fellow, let the
law do its worst 7"
They shouted with laughter. The idea
of the Prince de Karinval tappieg a police-
man on the shoulder, calling him "old fel-
low" and begging relief from his remorse
awoke the wildest nicrrirnent. The prince
alone preserved his cool gravity. Ile ex-
plained quietly to the impetuous banker
that his intention was not only to abstain
from evil-dping, but even to avoid any
words or actions capable of provoking his
arrest. And he repeated :
".Who takes up the two thousand louts?"
"I do!" cried Gastambide with an exuber-
ant gesture.
The next day, about seven o'clock in the
evening, when the boulevards swarmed
with people and the restaurants began to
fill up, a shabby wretch made his way
through the crowd with bent head and
watchful gaze, picking up, here and there,
the cigar -ends others threw away.
The man was still young, and had evi-
dently fallen from a higher rank, to judge
frcm the distinction of his pale, refined face,
his patrician hands, his general bearing.
Very tall and thin, he must have beep an
elegant figure in society. Now he was re-
duced—by what vice -or misfortune?—to old
shoes with broken elastics, down at the
heel and patched on the toe; to trourers
shiny at the knees, and frayed around the
hems; to a wretched coat, faded and worn,
which was buttoned to the throat to conceal
the lack of linen. An Feld felt hat which
looked as if it might have been fished
from the rubbish -!reap, slouched over his
head, and perhaps to give himself the illu-
sion of a shirt collar, or maybe under the
influence of old habit, he had tied around
his neck an old black silk cravat which
looked as if it might have been worried by
a family of playful puppies. .
Still, it was evident that this unfortunate
man was not discouraged or despairing, for
in all Isis misery there was a certain care
and cleanliness not usually apparent in men
of his class.
As he passed before Vigneron, a restaur-
ant then very fashionable, he stopped for a
few seconds to look hi at the clear windows
with their guipure hangings, through which
he could see the diners seated opposite to
richly dressed ladies, and dividing their at-
tentions hetween the exquisite viands and
their fair companions. At that moment •a
gentleman and lady got nut of a c-..... gc,
and entered the dining room. Through the
open door the -shabby nitin could see a
centre -table laden with fruits and
early vegetables, while toward hips
wafted that odor of repast, so
disagreeable to those who have just dined,
so delectable to the hungry,
He advanced, and before the door closed,
entered and timidly placed himself at the
first empty table.
But hp was scarcely seated when the
head-waiter,a very distinguished and stylish.
looking • individual, perceived him and
hurried toward him with an expression of
annoyance.
"What are you doing there, you 1"
"Why," replied the unfortunate, painting
to the other guests, •`I come to eat, like all
these people,"
He spoke err seriously tttat it Woe iinpoa-
sible to think he had been drinking. The
head -waiter concluded that he must be
weak-minded, and said sarcastically
"You have mistaken the hour and the
door, my good man ; the soup -kitchen is
around the corner, and the soup is dispensed
in the morning." He shook his napkin at
the intruder to chase him off, as one would
a troublesome fly. His appearance certain-
ly did not grace the establishment. But
the other did not seem disposed to quit his
Place.
"I don't care much for soup," Ise an-
swered, "and the food given out in the
morning would not suit me."
The head -waiter was struck with the pur-
ity of his accent and the refinement of his
tone. "This is no born vagabond," he
thought : "it is some man of position,
ruined by gambling.'
"And, continued the shabby rase, "there
$1 do 'erica *by.you sYt+rti (t nes 490:0 TOT
e
fai)tnar wham si m really to pay ler
x'heee - if you lave trig
pgoket hook," lIo s,pened his old coat, and
from an inside pseke,4 grew out a,.•iar',fkpt-
book stuffed with banknotes. 8'electiug
one, be handed ;it to the waiter.
"You may look at it closely ; you Will gee
it is not a oaunterfoit."
It was' it note for a thOUSa td franca ; and
there wore at,least fifty others iu the purse,
tojutlr
o from it volume. '
l s o The waiter took
It n scrutinized u !uteri it for several instants,
with -wide nostrils and meditative
frown, 'l'licn abruptly raising his
head, like a man who imtkvi
a prudent resolution, he returned tate bank-
note to its owner.
The latter made a movement as if to riga,
saying :
"New if you refuse to serve me, I will go
elsewhere."
But the head -waiter quickly bogged him
to remain.
"No, no ; stay. Give your order." Then
calling idle of his subordinate», he pointed
to the mum. "Take this gentleman's order,"
adding rapidly in a low tone, "Do not lose
sight of him. Do not let hips go out." He
presently disappeared.
Five minutes later•, • he returned, accom-
panied by a policeman:
All of the occupants of the restaurant
had opened their eyes wide when the 'aga-
'bond installed himself at the table, and had
watched him since then with market!
disapproval. No 000 doubted that it way
he whom the officer had corse to seek, and
every head was turned to see what was
going to happen.
Sure enough, the officer went directly
toward l,iii5. He continued to enjoy a
savory slice without seeming to notice the
sensation he had created. He even started,
like one suddenly awakened, when the man
in uniform touched his shoulder.
"Eh 7 What ? Is anything the matter?
He did not seem to understand.
They explained. Bank -notes for a thou-
sand francs were not usually produced from
such pockets as his. Tu have them ho must
have stolen them !
I -Ie defended hnself energetically ; but
his rotestations were in vain.
"I doubt if you can show a single paper
'or certificate of character !" observed the
agent.
"It is true ; i cannot. But probably none
of these people present can immediately
produce passports or proofs of identifica-
tion."
"No certificates. You have at least a
'lama Come then, who ate you ?"
"I tem the Prince Edmond de Karinval."
"Why not the King of England !" sneered
the officer.
"England is governed by a queen," began
the man.
"Enough, enough ! no need for further
explanations. Follow me !"
And grasping his shoulder with his large
hand, the policens:oi.forced him to rise and
conducted him to the station.
The wager was won.
Then, from the lower curd of the restaur-
ant, the fat Duke de Mor•vella, the lively
Gastambide, and the others, rose, followed,
and interposed, explaining the adventure to
the policeman.
He was so overcome with astonishment,
so eager to apologize, and so confused, that,
in his haste to bow them out, Ise thrust his
cocked hat through a pane of glass, while
bending low and murmuring indistinctly :
"Prince !--Prince 1"
The ,)rain or Nitrogen.
The fertility of soil may be said to be
practically determined by the amount it
contains, in a condition available for the
crops' needs, of eertain substances, of which
nitrogen is the most important from severaI
pints of view. cw. Iu countries like our own,
where an exhaustive system of husbandry
has long been practised, it has been found
necessary to maintain a heavy yield of crops,
to restore, in the form of artificial manures,
these fertilized ingredients, In the past
the chief artificial manures which have been
used for this purpose have been guano,
bones, mineral phosphates, and nitrate of
soda. Of these, guano has been nearly en-
tirely used up, and unless new deposits are
discovered—which seems extremely unlike-
Iv—it will ere long cease to he procurable:
The supply of bones has also been largely
diminished, although there is always a cer-
tain amount being annually rendered avail-
able for this purpose. It is many years
ago since Baron Liebig wrote :
"England is robbing all other countries
of the condition of their fertility. Already,
in her eagerness for bones, she has turned
up the battlefields of Leipsic, of Waterloo,
and of the Crimea ; already from the cata-
combs of Sicily she has carried away the
skeletons of many successive generations.
Annually she removes from the shores
of other countries to her own
the manurial equivalent of three
millions and a half of men, whom
she takes from us from the means of sup-
porting, and squanders down her sewers to
the sea. Like a vampire, she hangs upon
the neck of Europe—nay, of the entire
world! and sucks the heart blood from
nations without a thought of justice to-
ward, without a shadow of lasting ad-
vantage to herself-"—lilackwoods Maga-
zine.
All Flurried But Cyrus Yield.
Tho cheerful and indomitable character of
the late Cyrus Field is well illustrated in an
incident related by a correspondent of The
London Times. Only those, ,he says. who -
were ms the Great Eastern on August 2,
18605, can have any idea of the "shock''
which the sudden breaking of the Atlantic
cable that day gave to those who were in-
terested in the great undertaking that so
far had progressed without impediment.
Captain (now Sir) James Anderson, Mr..
Thompson (now Lord Kelvin). Mr. Virley
and the staff of electricians, the directors
and their friends, all on hoard the great
ship in fact, were so elated by success and
so confident of the accomplishment of tht
work that the sudden cessation of tht
strain on the indicator and the cry that
followed, "The cable is gone 1" produced
an effect not short of consternations on every
one save one man—Cyrus Field. He rush-
ed up on deck when the fatal announcement
reached his ears in the saloon, made his
way through the silent, despairing group
astern who were gazing into the sea in
which thousands of fathoms deep their
hopes were buried, satisfied himself that
the cable was broken,- beyond remedy, and
then, calmly surveying his associates with-
out a trace of agitation of his face, said,
"Well, it's so. I must go down and prepare
a new prospectus immediately. This thing
is to be done," and stalked quietly back to
his cabin, where he set to work to write
out the proposal for a new cable ere the end
of the other had well settled down in the
Atlantic.
Has no Show.
" When I want an evening at the club,"
confided Midgely, "I simply tell my wife
that I have night work to do at my of-
fice."
"Yes," sighed Widely, "but that won't
work with tee."
"It won't?"
"No ; yon see my wife has a telephone at
the house and rings me up every half hoar."
—Chicaga News.
monrgu. FI GIGS RATSMTG
• R1;O '.
QI,T,g OF ',',!lass 427'aotte d MfaN, Wil0
TISOAPur wiTlgeu1' 1115 occrrage ,
(Prom the 4tictnta Constitution)
J eoplo living au .the line of the
Chickamauga River are somewhat
excited over a Ilutnber of strange
and enormous frogs that infest the
neighborhpod. These frogs—for
they greatly reeenlble froge--were
brought to this county iron: the
1<Iissteeippi swamp in A. D. 1886
and put in Ilse Chickamauga River
near this place. They are said to
be of enormous Qin when grown.
These being very small when
brought are just now beginning to
show what they oan do. They are
doing some ,Mischief now. One
has been catching chickens and is
thought to have been driven to the
mountains for refuge during the
high waters ; and while on his way
back to the river, being very hun-
gry, hg caught a chicken to appease
his hunger until it reached the
river, where it could get fish, as
they live principally upon fish.
When driven away by high tide and
starved for a few day they will at
tuck a person,
They are said to be good food for
man, but have never been tried yet,
as they are very .hard to capture.
The one that passed through would
have been captured, but the man
had to go to the house for his gun
and the frog made one leap and was
out of reach of a fair shot, after de-
vouring quite a number of chickens.
The La Fayette Messenger reports
that M. M. Burrows, Mr. Manley
and his son William were out in
the bottoms a few days later and
discovered something living near
the river bank, which they thought
to be a large bran sack filled with
something—thought it had probab-
ly floated from the mill above, and
on going up for inspection found it
to be one of these frogs. They,
seeing the danger they were in, im-
mediately made au attempt to get
away. Mr. Manley 'being an old
man directed his course to an old
empty cotton house near by for re
tuge. Just as he was entering the
house the frog seized hie coat-tail,
leaving him almost breathless and
nothing but the shoulders and
sleeves of his coat. A few minutes
later Monroe came near the house
where Mr. Manley had taken re-
fuge, and, sexing the frog tussaling
with the fragments of the coat, said
to himself, "has the frog torn Mr.
Manley to pieces, and now is it in
iia mad career, tearing to pieces his
clothes 1" The next thought that
entered his mind was where was
Will—had he been murdered by
the mad monster?
Mr, Manley has been suffering
from the shock ever since?
While' some of the reports about
these monster frogs may be exagger-
ated, there is no doubt that they
aro dangerous. Their enormous
growth is a mystery.
CROPS IN ONTARIO.
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The Ontario Bureau of Industries
has just issued its August crop bulle-
tin. It states that with the ex-
ception of oats ail cereal crops in the
Province will be rather under the
average both in quality and quanti-
ty. Owing to heavy June rains
fall wheat will be below last year,
while the hot spells of July ripened
it too rapidly. Rust has attacked
it to some extent, and spring wheat
suffers even more from the same
cause, and midge is also prevalent
in some sections. The damage is
not sufficient to make the crop a
failure. June rain has also discol-
ored barley and caused excessive
growth of straw, beside which the
heat in July ripened it before the
graiu had properly filled out. The
oat crop will be al in quality and.
quantity. Rye, too, will be good,
but peas vary, being better in the
east than in western sections. Corn
will average fairly, and improve if
warns weather continues. Both
timothy end clover hay is a large
yield—considerably above the aver-
age. Potatoes are very varied—
excellent in some sections, practical
failure in others. Root crops are
late, but prospects are splendid.
Flax is only average. Fruit is poor,
small in quantity and inferior in
quality.
A BLIND FARMER GIRL.
NOTWITHSTANDING HER AFFLICTION
SHE IS VER] USEFUL.
Texas is en extraordinary state.
She has land enough in which to
hide several countries like Great
Britain, and produces some extraor-
dinary people. The greatest curios-
ity of late years, according to the
statement of a Texas paper, lives at
•Oak Hill, a post village. She i8 a
blind girl who has, from a few acres
of land cultivated by herself, clear-
ed about two hundred dollars each
season by the sale of vegetables.
She began, we aro told, without
capital on an unfenced piece of un-
cultivated land. There is now a
neat fence around her domain, a
well and pump in the centre, and,
in addition to purchasing these, she
has paid for a piano and a hack in
which to take her vegetables to
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twe.t7 f r tt'47s Avery
eve04 doting Lha 1y season she
Worsts a cousin. »timber of llaOtif,
until alae had, gooe ever;ib 0
9� old! ►a.
piece, when alis bugiue again alxd
goon over it itt the snore way.
Sho detects i' a et llfo, wo
told, by her acute sense of hearing,°
tnd grass and weeds} are easily alis
t
taguiphed by the acr,eltsve..fib ore.
4f the blind gardener,, fi
THE W,QRLD'S WHEAT CROP..
In a carefully prepared editorial'' -
the.N. Y. Sun of Sunday last, gay
the result of a thorough inveatlga.'
tion of the world's wheat 'crop of
1892. According to its figures the
wheat supply will be far smaller
than that of 1891 in the United
States, while iu other countries the
average will be about the same.
The total outturn of wheat in the
United States will be about 480,-
000,000 bushels, in 1891 it was
about 612,000,000 bushels, showing
a decrease this year of 132,000,000
bushels. or about 20 per cent. The
country will eat 8,000,000 bushels
more this year, thus making the ex-
portable supply 140,000,000 bushels
less than that of 1891.
India's crop is about; 60,000,000
bushels below that of last year,
South America's yield equals that
of 1891, as will Australasia's. The
harvests of Italy, Hungary, Spain
and Portugal are from 10 to 15 per
cent. below the produot of 1891.
In Great Britain the product will
be about 10,000,000 bushels lees
than last year.
Russia, France and Belgium will
have lather crops than last year.
America'a crop, although far below•
last year's yield, is about the aver-
age product based upon the harvests
of the past twelve years—!!Michigan
Fanner.
THE HOME RULE .BILL.
MAIN LINES OF THE MEASURE AGREED
UPON 111."111E GOVERNMENT AND
IRISH LEADERS.
The Chronicle gave last Thursday
the following as tite main lines of
the Home Rule Bill as believed to
have been agreed upon between
'Messrs, Gladstone, McCarthy and
Dillon :—
First, that the present land legiss
lation abaft not be disturbed for five
years; second, that the police and
judiciary shall be in the bands of
an Irish Parliament; third, that the
balance of the Irish Church fund
shall be at the disposal of the Irish
Legislature ; fourth, that the Eng.
lisp Receiver•Gereral clause of the
Bill of 1886 be dispensed with ;
fifth, that on the other Band th r
shall only be one customs depart
went
and that
the Irish , Its) n '
P Alam
t
shall not have power to levy separ,
ate duties ; sixth, that the only veto
shall be the royal veto, to be exer- ••
cised on the advice of the English
Ministry; selenth, that thirty Irish
members shall be retained at West-
minster.
The Chronicle believes that I%r.
Gladstone abandoned with great re-
luetauoo the idea of a receiver gene.
rad in deference to the wi.:.les of the
McCarthy itea.
—The Sons of England pie nit
at Grand Bend was a very success-
ful affair. The following are the
prize winners : Standing jump, lst
H. Spackman, 2nd Samuel Sweet ;
running long jump, 1st H, Spack-
man, end Ed. Bissett; hop, step and
jump, let H. Spackman, 2nd W. J.
Carling ; open race, 75 yards, 1st
Samuel Sweet, 2nd W. J. Carling;
married men's race, II. Spackman
and Ed. Bissett, tie, 2nd W. J.
Carling ; young women's race, lst
Mies Sarah Sweet, 2nd Mise Mande
Christie ; married women'a race, lst
Mrs. George Kernp, 2nd Mrs. Wm.
Dearing; fat ladies' race, lst Mrs. J.
Smallncombe, 2nd Ml•s. 1Vm. Dear-
ing ; men's (over 40) race, 1st N.
Dyer Hurdon, 2nd Thomas Stveet;
girl's race, lst Gortie liemp, 2nd
Flossie Jockell; boy's race, lst Gar-
net Grant, 2nd Wm. Crawford,
After the, games all gathered in
front of the cottage occupied by N.
D. Hu rdon and family, when each
successful contestant was presented
with their prize by Mrs. John
Spackman, amidst roars of laughter.
It has been decided to make the
pic-nie an annual affair.
—I had an excellent factotum who
was devoted to out interests, and
honest as the day. He know how
to read and write, but beyond this
his mental progress was blocked by
"notions"—the mixed result of ex-
perience and prejudice. Of cour
s
they were not halcyon days;
were so high up on the hilIs t
the spring was often very trying
the fruit trees. On one occasion I
asked my man what promise he
thought–tisere was for the apples.
"Please God," he•replied, "we shall
have a terrible fine crop, but please
him or no we shall have a goodish
crop." The honest fellow intended
no irreverence, it Ives only his way
of saying that a certain proportion
of the crop wars secure against ad -
verso weather.—Temple Bar.
—The British schooner Winnifretl
has been captured by the United
States revenue cutter Rush and
towed into Sitka, Alaska, for illicit
sealing.
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