Lucknow Sentinel, 1890-06-06, Page 31,
FARM AND GARDEN.
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Points that Every . Agrioulturiet
Should Know.
ENSILAGE 'FOR FEED.
Asparagus Culture—Brood Mares—Oeran-
lu
m
Growing Fertilizers — Health-
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„x•;r,..-.ar��r�
i e flosses --The *enure Heap—Other
Ensilage on Small Farms.
Ensilage would probably be an impor-
tant article of food on every farm but for
the fact that the farmers who own small
farms fear the 'coat of constructing a silo,
and labor under the anppoeition that it is
lacking in nutrition. Ensilage is nothing
more than green food preserved in a sucon-
lent condition by exoluding the air (as is
d ne, in a eertafn dwurao mitt, s..., a�
'Ane age as een preserved
in many ways, the farmers of France hav-
ing sim . y buried the material in trenches.
In this : +
try, where corn can be grown
in eve : eotion, it is found more eoono-
lmieal to use it for ensilage than any-
thing else, but clover or any of the
grasses may be put in the silo if preferred.
A silo may be a pit, a strong bin or any
kind of a receptacle that will sustain great
pressure and that is air.tight. A barrel in
a hogshead, the barrel surrounded by earth
or any material that eaoludee the air; .is
-one-kind of a-silo,-thougheiremall-oae;-and-
the corner of the barn or cellar, boxed and
made etrong and tight, answers the pur-
pose. Or the silo may be a trenoh in the
ground. It is whatever may be need, an -
owning, to the device of the farmer, pro-
viding it answers the purpose intended,
whetherfor preserving large or small
quantities of green food. Corn, planted
thickly in rows and cultivated until thenars
begin tolaze, ie used on most farms. It
te is out in AO fields and the stalks• hauled to
the ban where the stolen and ears are
passed through a cutter (in the same man-
ner &epiheii cutting oured(corn'fodder), the
stalks being oat into short lengths, the
shorter the better, and then packed
closely in the silo. When the si}o is full
heavy weights are placed on the material,
in order to 'firmly preen the ensilage into a
solid, compact mase. The weights, which
may be of atones, or anything suitable are
teitiesonethoserW-Vellia cover to ensilage.
As the contents of the silo begin to settle
the weight causes the material on the sop
to settle down more closely to the lower
portions, and all the epacea become filled,
until the mass is as compact as it pressed
with a mechanical preas. Hydraulic
presses are sometimes used instead of
weights. As ensilage may be grown cheaply
it will be found valuable to the farmer in
wwinter, even when he has plenty of hay or
grain, as it affords succulent food to stook
at a season of the year when dry food only
can be obtained. It promotes the thrift of
stook and increases the flow of milk in cows
by reason of its succulency, and serves -a
dietary purpose that renders it all the more
important. Where properly oonetruoted
silos, can be built there will be but few
opponents to ensilage In fact, opposition
to it seems to have ceased, and it only
romaine for farmers to give it a trial to be
convinced- of its advantages. ,
The Culture of Asparagus,
A .paper read before the Michigan State
Horticultural Society by Charles W.
Garfield gives the beet practice at the
present time for the culture of this table
vegetable. The great improvements made
by the Argentuil gardeners in France,
more than twenty years ago, which have
been gradually -extending since that time,
are fully adopted in substance in this essay,
and instead of the four feet dietanoes be-
tween the plants, both ways, of the French
gardeners, a single row, with the plants
three feet apart, extends morose the garden.
Five feet being allowed on each side, a
strip of land ten feet wide is given to the
row. A large crop of some other vegetable
may occupy a portion of this strip. The
plants in a few years will form crowns a foot
in diameter, with shoots an inch or more
in diameter. This accords with oar own ex-
periments. For planting, a wide and deep
trenoh is plowed, eo that when covered
,She crowns of the plants will be sir inches
below the level of the surface. The depth
will admit plowing over them in either di-
rection. Clean cultivation is to be given,
instead of the commonly recommended
application of t. As the plantation will
last half a cent ry, oare should be taken
that the work be well done at the com-
mencement. Mr. Garfield . has used the
refuse salt from a hidqracking establish-
ment, the large amon of contained ani-
mal matter adding to its effioienoy-the
more the &mount of the animal matter
and the less of Balt, the better.. One of ,the
beet fertilizers is barn manure. Two years
are required from the planting to the first
moderate picking. A knife should not be
need for collecting the shots, but they
should be broken off with the hand.
Among the cnemis of this crop . the
cutworm ie reduced in numbers or ' de-
stroyed by clean and-��ontinnona.oultivation
. in spring, and by autunn plowing.
Valve uGood Brood Mares.Good brood area are a fortune on the
farm. R4ep aU( fie good mares and con-
tinue to grade np, that each succeeding
generation will be better bred and raise
better colts. The mares oan do the farm
work and raise velnable cotta, while a geld-
ing or a male to a ns`elees expense on a farm.
'When all our farms are stocked with brood,
snares and greater care given to breeding
the -better class of horses farming will be
more profitable, for there is no product of
the farm that Belle for better money than
good horses, and the brood mares work for
their keep beeidea.-Western Agriculturist.
Cultivating Geraniums.
Geraniums must have any leading shoots
Ant back to make them throw out laterals.
Verbenas should be pinned down until
they have covered the bed, and any faded
flowers or rusty loaves should be removed.
A. bed of Verbenas should be kept very free
from weeds. Oolong being grown for their
color, massivenees and evenness of surface
mast be aimed at, and any Shoots that
show a tendency to run beyond the others
must be pinched back severely. The more
polling a coleus receives the better it will
Fertilizers for the Farm.
The value of manure or fertilizers de-
pends'not only upon i the amount of plant
food they contain but eye) upon the kind
end quality. Cowmereial fertilizers con-
tain plant 'food -'in a concentrated form,
while manure contains nearly the same
enbetancee in a balky condition, and they
may be nearly alike in oompoeition or
vary widely. Every pound of available
plant food in a ton •of manure can be
duplicated by the chemist, and in smaller
balk.
Sunflowers lea
dillikeia prance a ou aafriun or on
portions of lend fro= which irepuritiee
arise willabsorb noxious gages and thereby
'prove very beneficial to the health of the
people about. Besides being useful, those
plants are exceedingly ornamental if
arranged to from a denee bank. At the
rear plant a row of the ” New Primrose "
variety, next a row of the ball -shaped
kind known as globosus, then a row of the
California, and lastly a row of " Miniature "
eanilowere.
How to Kill Lice.
The Rural New Yorker ha
tobacco water, to Which a little sulphur.
has been added. Keep the tobacco and
sulphur in water near the boiling point°tor
twelve. hours, stirring it occasionally.
Apply the decoction to the poll of the head,
along the top of the neck and spine, on the
brisket and under the lege. Of course the
animals mast be kept in a warm plane
when treated in this way.
Salt for Horses.
A pieoe of rook salt should always be
in the box of the manger, so that the h
may-lick-it-wheneverthireappetite proii%
him. Salt is as neoeseary for animals
is to human beings, and this way
administering it is far preferable • to
universal practice ofputting a hen
once or twice a week in ecft feed. In
lowing hie instincts the horse will t
neither too much leer too little and will
it just when he desires it and need
most.
Lock after Hoed Crops.
-No -farmer ,can aafford to neglect
cultivation of hie hoed crops., It pays
begin early in the season to do the w
thoroughly and' to oultivete often. Sue
course will cause the plants to grow m
rapidly, hasten the maturity of the or
and oaaeed a marked increase in the yie
It will oleo destroy the 'weeds, and t
(melt
to get the land in good odit
for sowing when the hoed crop has be
rem0
The Manure Heap.
The farmer's progress may be judged by
his manure heap. The careful and jadi
oiona farmer takes advantage, of every
opportunity, not only to have and nave as
much manure as possible, but he alma to
prevent loss of volatile' matter in that
which he has aooumulated. • Upon the
management of the manure heap depende
the profit or lose.
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To Cool Cream In Churn.
The temperature when churning ie about
sixty-three degrees, though some churn a
degree or two higher or lower, according to
conditions. To 000l the cream in the
churn apply ice or cold water on the out-
side of the churn, or cool it in can before
churning instead of adding cold water to
the cream.
Hints and Helps.
The "pointe " for a Jersey cow are now
merged into one teat : How much butter
oan she make.
Butter commands a higher price than
any other product of oattle need for food
purposes in proportion to its bulk.
Peonies in large clamps should be divided
and new varieties set out as soon as the
weather allows.
kept
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get
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en
Do not sow small eeede too deep in the
ground. One of the many causes of the
failure of carrot and parsnip seeds to posh
through the ground is that too much earth
is placed on them. The lightest of 'cover-
ing will answer.
Never keep a poor milker as long as
there is a possibility of getting something
better. Ie is just as important to replace
a poor cow with a better one as it is to get
rid of a balky horse for one more service-
able, .
' Sheep are also used as dairy animals in
some oountriee. The oelebrltted Rochefort
cheese is made from the -milk of sheep,
and in many portions of Canada sheep are
regularly milked, and profitably.
Milk from oowe that have recently
calved is usually ropy, yet it is frequently
mixed in the can with the milk of other
oowe. Ropy milk is not in a proper condi-
tion to be used as food.
The bronze gobbler should be used for
improving the flock of turkeys. May is an
excellent time for hatching young turkeys,
as they "will thrive better than when
hatched earlier. •
The large Lima bean bee been made to
ameume the bush habit, and this will greatly
hid in the annual production of a larger
crop for consumption.
Salt is frequently applied to,asparagne
beds, 'but weaponde are better. Celery is
also benefited by liberal applications of
soapsuds.
Peat, and - oats are sometimes sown
together, and out as green food for the
cows se noon as the seed pods of the peas
are formed.
To make new ropes pliable before using
them in the stables boil them and then dry
them in the sun.
Early turnips may be planted this month
for table use, lint the main crop should
be later.
People Who Exist on Pills.
Repent investigation has •ehownthat the
people of Great Britain swallow over
5,500,000 pills daily, or one pill a week for
every person in the population. The pill
consumption for one year would weigh 178
tons, and would fill 36 freight care, whioh
it would take two powerful locomotives to
pull. Planed in a row the pills would reach
nearly 6,500 miles, or from Liverpool to
New York and baok again.
Mrs. Humphry Ward's new book cicala
with a young man who settles down to the
quiet contentment of the Elamere brother-
hood after tiring of the fade and crazes of
the thought of lite and finding them of the
indistinot order.
-easy is one of the dullest months for
wedding -cake sales.
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KEMMLEIt MUST nuc. TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
The Only Question Now is Who Will
Saved by a DOS.
About 4,000 anecdotes have been pub•
lisped under the above title, in whioh doge
have figured in preserving human life-• We
had a dog once noted for saving things,
but there wasn't a life among them. He
akept the thinge he saved -under the summer
ee kitchen, and his hiding plaoe wasn't dis-
covered for a long time ; not, indeed, until
of .it, became neoeeeary to tear up the kitchen
r- floor to 'find a good plaoe to deposit
chi r"d
m in a cholera of
e
of
h soli'
a
t g o a season
dog. ..
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G
t
• -facet: were a temple of kittens, a oat,
two or three rate and ohioken, all very
dead ; is large assortment of bones, the
remnants of an ottoman, for the theft of
which the beet hired girl we ever had was
disoharged ; a tomato can, a couple of tea-
spoons, a torn volume of Hoyle's games, an
old hoopekirt, a canary bird,, a nutmeg
grater, a planter of Paris pigeon and a cook.
book. It is rarely that there is so much
eaved by a dog, for they are generally impro-
vident. -Texas Siftings.
Fzeonte Ain
A Washington despatch says regarding
the Keznmler •case : The court says it is
urged in Remmler'e behalf that the 14th
amendment is a•prohibition on the Sta
of the imposition of cruel and nnuma
punishment. The origin of the phrase, th
court said, was in the English Act
Settlement of 1688, and meant that ba
barons methods- of punishment should. no
not -be sentenced to death by torture, ba
-.lid not L,
J ..:,.iwiu that es. y4o death penalty I...
was cruel. The change in form of death
was within the legitimate sphere of the
legislative power of the State. The Legis-
lature of the. State of New York determined
that it did not inflict cruel and unusual
punishment, and its courts have sustained
that determination. This court cannot see
that the prisoner has been deprived of due
process of law. In order to reverse the
fadgment this court would be compelled to
hold that the Court of Appeals had oom-
itted ane (n a(tnrr_a . a 41-
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one i n lona rights. The
court has no hesitation in saying it -cannot
do this.
An Albany despatoh says : The next
step: to be taken in the courts in the
Remmler case will be the argument of the
appeal from the decision of County Judge
Corlett, of Cayuga county, denying a writ
of habeas corpus, asked for on the ground of
the tinoonatitutionality of .the power con-
ferred on Warden Dureton in the execu-
tion of criminals, which power is claimed
to be veeted in the sheriff nt-the oonnty
wherein-the-conviction-isehad_The`appeat
will come np before the General Term at
Buffalo June 3rd. ' This appeal does not
affect the death penalty itself, or the crime,
or manner of the execution, and it is ex-
peoted the General Term will dispose .of it
in time to allow it to be carried to the
Court of Appeals at Saratoga June session.
Another iesne in the case will be the re•
quest for Judge Wallace to vacate the writ
to habeas corpus granted by him at Syra-
cuse, but on the condition that -he would
revoke the writ in case the United States
Supreme Court denied Lawyer Sbernean's
application for a writ of error. This writ
is returnable before Judge Wallace at
Canandaigua Jane 17th.
Mood In the Body.
The amount of blood in the body is one-
thirtieth the weight of the body, or five or
_si enarte,eoreelevesseor-twelve-pttiridee- "it
average man dies when he has lost one-
fifth of his blood. The heart with each
contraction ejects six ounces of blood from
eaoh ventricle, at a pressure in the left ven-
tricle of one-fourth of an atmosphere. The
heart sends all the blood around the body
of the average man once every thirty seo-
onda; or in &bout thirty-five contraotionsof
the organ. A deadly poison injected into
the veins kills in fifteen seconds on the
average'; injected under the skin in about
four minutes. A cubic millimeter of blood
contains 5,000,000 blood cells in the average
man, and about 4,500,000 in the average
woman. There are 300 red cells to every
one white blood ,Dell. The red cella have
an average diameter of ,1-3200 of an inch,
the white cells of 1-25000 of an inch. The
specific gravity of blood is 1.055. The fre-
gaenoy of the pulse in the new born is 150 ;
in infants 1 year old, 110 ; at 2 years, • 95 ;
from 7 to 14, 85; in adult man, 75; wowan,
80. The respirations are one-fourth as
rapid as the pulse. -St. Louis Republic.
First Glans Factories in America.
The first glass factory in what is now
the United States was erected in the year
1609 near Jamestown, Va., and the second
followed in the same colony twelve years
later. In 1639 some acres of ground were
granted to glaaemen in Salem, Mass. The
first glass factory in Pennsylvania was
built near Philadelphia in 1683 under the
direction of William Penn, but it did not
prove successful. The first west of the
Alleghaniee was set up by Albert Gallatin
and his associates, in 1785, at New Geneva,
on the Monongahela river. A email fac-
tory was established on the Ohio river,
near Pittsburg, in 1790, and another in
1795. The earlier attempt failed, but the
last was quite successful. In 1810 there
were but twenty-two glace factories,with an
output of less than $1,500,000 annually. At
the present time there are hundreds of fac
toriee, which yearly put over $100,000,000
worth of glassware on the market--St.Louis
Republic.
How They " Remove " Them.
The following table shows the standing
of the different countries of the globe to.
day on the capital punishment question : .
Australia—
The gallows
Bavaria The guillotine
Belgium The guillotine
China ' The sword and' cord
Denmark.--iThe guillotine
France ,.The guillotine
Hanover The uilotine
Holland . The gallows
Morocco The swore}
Portugal The gallows
Switzerland The sword and guillotine
Spain ,....,The garrotte
Prussia The sword
TurkeyTMusket, knout and gallows
Japan
Sword and bowstring
Jiam
apes The sword
Elephants, flre•and sword
India.. Gun and gallows
Java'
The sword
'Talk is Ndt Expensive.
" Doolittle is a very eloquent man. Yon
know he stamped the agricultural districts
for Harrison and Protection. He did eplen-
did work in the campaign, and his speeches
tickled the farmers."
" Yee ; I know that. But how did he
make all his'mnney ? He's very rich."
" Oh, he made moat of it by lOper cent.
loans on farm mortgagee."
She Couldn't Get Him to Treat.
Mary Jane (while passing theioe-cream
parlor) -Oh, I feel so thirsty and hot that
I am almost fainting
John. Henry -Well, let us take a turn
through the park. We can get a nice cool
drink at the fountain and then we oan sit
in the shade for a while.
---A, baked haddook should be stuffed
with the name herbs and thing° as a
chicken.
A F'renoh mechanic by the name of
Boll'ie has inventor a oalonlating machine
whioh adds, multiplies, and divides with
astonishing rapidity by the simple turning
of a wheel'.
.1Cor are of the Brain,
First, systematic exercise and regular
employment. Tne brain stands moat
abuse of any organ in the body. Ite beet
tonic, and etimulant is success. • The worst
and most depressing thing to it is failure.
The most ink:inane effects come by using
stimulants in early lite ; young people
should use no liquor, tea or' anything of
this sort. They not mostly on the brain
and injare its growth very materially.
Abundance of steep is necessary. '1 em
inclined to think eight •hours is not more
-than--•enbugh'-Sleep is the time of rela-
tively lowered expenditure and increased
repair. Learn to think straight and allow
no morbid fanoiea to remain in your
mind. They soon get an obstinate foot-
hold and are hard to remove, and may
make your whole life unhappy. -Dr. M. L.
Holbrook.
spontaneous Combustion of Man.
Diokene halieen very mnoh criticised
for -his apparent-aooeptence of the -fad -at
human spontaneous combustion, but the
late Sir William Gull testified to a surpris-
ing case before the committee of the House
of Lords on intemperance during the sum-
mer of 1886. A large, bloated man, who was
suffering from difficulty of breathing and
great distension of the venous system,
died at Gay'a hospital. At the poet
mortem of the following day there was no
elfin. Of deeomposi}inn hat 41, --he
distended withwhataw s thought to be
gas.
" When punctures were made into the
skin," said Sir Williahi, " and a lighted
match applied, the gas which escaped
burned with the blue flame of carburetted
hydrogen. As many as a dozen of these
little flames were burning at one time." -
St. Louis Republic.
Confeta Him Before Men.
The following will appear in Henry M.
Stanley's paper in " Scribner " for Jane
" Constrained at the darkest hour to
humbly confess that without God's help I
was helpless, I vowed a vow in the forest
solitudes that I would confess His aid be-
fore men. Silence, as of death, was round
about me ; it was midnight ; I was, weak-
ened by illness, prostrated by fatigue, and
wan with anxiety for my white and black
companions, whose fate was a mystery.
In this physical and mental distreas I
besought God to give me back my people:
Nine hour®• later we were exulting with a
rapturous joy. In full view of all was the
'crimson flag with the crescent, and beneath
its waving folds was the long -lost rear
olmmn."
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Read Latin and Greek at Four.
Connop Thirlwall, afterward Bishop of
St. David's, could read Latin when 3 years
old, and at the age of 4 read Greek with
an ease that astonished all who heard him.
At 7 he composed an, essay, " On the Un-
certainty of Human Life," whioh was
afterward printed in hie " Primitive," or
" First Fruits," published when the boy
was only 11 years old. The history ,of
literature perhaps does not contain the
name of another whose first book was pub-
liehen when the writer was not yet in his
teens. This book contains about forty
sermons, together with several essays and
poems. -New York Ledger.
He Had a Long Memory.
At a redent examination of the divinity
students in • England, one very dull condi.
date was so ignorant that the bishop would
only oonsen ' •to ordain him on condition
that letwouiid promise to study " Butler's
Analogy ".after ordination. He made the
promise and was ordained. He was the'
guest of the bishop, and 'so on his depar-
ture next morning the bishop shook him by
the hand, saying : " Good-bye, Mr. Brown ;
don't forget the Butler." " I haven't, my
lord," was the unexpected reply ; " I have
just given hila, five shillings." -New York
Tribune.
Varieties of Kisses.
According to America there are eight
sorts of kisses mentioned in the Bible,
viz
Salutation in I. Samuel, xx., 41.
Valediction in Ruth, i., 9.
Reconciliation in II. Samuel; xiv,, 33.
Subjection in Psalms, ii., 12.
Approbation in Proverbs xxiv , 26.
Adoration in I. Singe, xix., 18. "
Treachery in Matthew, xxvi., 49.
Affection in Genesis, xlv., 15.
The Largest Englishman.
Thomas Congley, of Dover, England, ie
said to be the heaviest of her majeety'e
many subjeoe. - He is an intelligent and
respeotable citizen, 42 years old, having
been born (of parents not above the normal
aim) in 1848. As a baby he was considered
email and not over healthy. His , present
weight is 40 atone (560 pounds) ; height, 6
feet 2 inoh ; measurement of waist, 80
inohee, and of lege, 25. -St. Louis Republic.
Por the Spec. '
Teacher: ---And now, children, you have
heard the story of Ananias. What lesson
should we learn from hie fate?
Tommy -Never to get naught.
Stanley's oboson bride was the snbjeot
of the femme refuting " Yee" or No ?"
And it happened .oddly that he didn't get
the " Yes " until his second proposal.
-A skirt=lifter for muddy mornings is
out.
An earthquake shook occurred at Bii-
linge, Mont., on Friday,
Attempts are being made in New York to
revive the.old American Salt trust.
John G. Carlisle is to take SenatorBsak's
place on the Senate Finance. Committee.
It is believed the German Army Bill will
be passed in the Reichstag by a vote of 245
�.:..to 152.
.mow-;:,.��-;^arm ..m:.. sem.
.����>,...`s,;•�(
emperor i1 is n will start for Peterhof
1 Attenat 14- He mill be the geed:. thc 0=rabout ten days.
Dobson Brothers' store and other shops
and offices in Bowmanville - suffered from
fire yesterday morning.
Herr Richter estimates .that the German
peace effective will `Before long be 614,000
men instead of 46$,000.
M. Santerean is said to have cabled to
Panama that he has contracted for the
campletion of the oanal in ten years.
The Dake nee Qnne nrlht aepel ewes- --
., on a ur ay
afternoon, and left there at noon yesterday.
Prince William of Saxe -Weimar has
been declared a bankrupt. His debts,
chiefly due to gambling, amount to 243,000
marks.
The negotiations between England and
Germany regarding territorial rights in
,East Africa are not making satiefaotory
progress.
Chancellor von Caprivi is favorable to a
ooneinuance of the English occupation of
Egypt as essential toethe_proeperity of that-
oonntry. ti
There is said to be a oonspirao , with
its oentre in Berlin, for the 'organization
of a rising agaipst for
in the Baltic
provinces.
The Bianchi Company's sugar etore-
houses it Cardenas, Cuba, have been
burned. The company has an insnranoe
of $340,000. . .
Emperor William, as if desiring to mark
e -strength of---the--entente with England,
celebrated the Queen's Birthday with un -
penal effusiveness.
The Italian Government has appointed
a commission to enquire into the Ravenna
riots, during which .a numberof peasant.
women were killed.
The Turkish officer and five students who
insulted two Russian ladies in Constanti-
nople h ve been sentenced to six months'
•T • rind nt -'a+'fth perpetual banishment
to Tripoli.
Rev. Father Stephen M. Barrett, of
Chicago, who was shot on the 'steps of his
church on Friday evening by a maniac
named Patrick Ready, died on Saturday
morning. -
Marquis Ungaro and - Count d'Aroo
fought a duel Saturday with swords, at
Rome. The count was wounded in the
right hand. The affair was the result of a
politioal quarrel,
•It is stated Emperor William is highly
incensed because Prince Bismarck has al-
lowed himself to be interviewed by foreign
correspondents. His Majesty . says. the
Prince ie only fit for a lunatic asylum.
Charles Shellington, laborer, St. Thomas, .
fell from a scaffold to the ground, a dis-
tance of eighteen feet. 13e was uncon-
scious for an hour and is seriously injured
internally, though no bones are broken.
The body of, an unknown man was found
frosting in the river yesterday- below
Longue Pointe. It does not correspond
with that of anyonemissing the past few
menthe, and the police are wholly without
a olne. .
The burial'
ground of the Indians of
North British Columbia, that is the forest
where they hang np the bodies of their
dead, has been.deetroyed by fire, and the
natives are terribly incensed against the
whites.
The British freight steamer Bayswater,
Capt. Taylor, which -left New York March
16th for Lisbon, is reported as missing .
The Bayswater was owned by E. H. Watts,
of London. She was of iron, and had a,
orew of thirty men. -
It is stated that ' the Czar has declared
that in the event of a Franoo-German war
he will noton any account interfere by
force of arms, and that he will neither
attack Germany himself nor enter into -
allianoee with France.
A young man about 22 years of age,
named James Henle, a West Toronto
Jnnotion grocer, whose parents reside in
Goderioh, was struck on Saturday morning
bkilled. The 1100i -
dent happ en betwa train and insta e�n High Park and the
rolling mills. " The body will be sent to
Goderioh for burial.
Saturday night Detective . Slemin, To-
ronto, arrested James McGinn,' eon of the
late James McGinn, Adelaide and Bay
streets, on the serious charge of seducing
and abducting Nellie Howell, aged 15,
daughter of Mi . Howell, who keep° a
barber shop near the corner` of Bay and
Adelaide streets. McGinn is, a married
man, and it is charged that he took the .
girl to a certain well-known boarding house
on Lombard street.
Mr. Michael Devitt has written a letter '
in whioh he expresses diegilet at the treat-
ment whioh a number of tenant farmers in
Ireland accord to laborers in their employ.
The Aehbourn Act, he.eays, has implanted
in the farmers even more than the usual I
selfishness, and an attempt to nettle the
land que°tion by transferring the ownership
pf land from the landlords to the formers
would only perpetuate and intensify
agrarian discontent.
The Holy Kiss.
Elder Ludwig, pastor of the Christian
church at Whitewater, was observed to kiss
one of the lady members of his congregation
good-bye in the presence of her husband
on the public street, and the gossiping was
severe. On the following Sunday he dis-
cussed the alibied, of kieeing in his pulpit,
and explained that the kiss given the lady
was of friendehip, a sort Of holy kine, and
that in all his life he bad kissed but See
women. After the close of hie sermon, ho
called for a rising vote of his congregation
on the sinfulness of his kissing, and the
audience arose ou masse and voted him
innocent of sinful osonlation.--Indianapolis
News.
-A pint of cream poured over a shad '
that is baking contributes much to ;its
,800ees.
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