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The Exeter Advocate, 1888-5-3, Page 3IrAR1111. When the cattle are put on the grass too early both are injured„ The note that is not due till two years will be harder on you, than the note due in a year. The tocceesful fanner is the one that, mal;es ten per cent, meths money he has lost through mistakes, None but a good farther can make eight per cent. on borrowed money; and he is the last farmer to do it. The horse with plenty of currycomb out- side and, nate inside doesn't how lila ribs before What dait profit a man if he keep.% the weeds down on hie farm, and allows them, to grow on the highway? Bad-temRere i geom. ;lull Veen ami weak fences ought to be evils unendurable, for they are not immovable, It is a peer rule that won't work both ways ; nevertheless, both lending and bor- rowing are unprofitable. The man who allows the rival* to get hie manors is always sire that the govern- ment is robbing the people. Exteered the. hooaecleaning the cellar, med. make he, work mere thorough,. wI re aahirkiug weed be least seen. Better have your heart in your work and eighty acres, than a quarter -station and be at odds with your oeanpatfen. There arc now a hundred rivulets on the farm, yet it lea ebeapier #o give tete animate &lee Item a well pretested :from eurfeee water. Itis ak intoe uotfora that is responsible for grievona aril, that a cheap teacher is good enough for the summer term, because all the pupils; are email. It is better to take a, little liver medicine than to ,grumble and feel blue, and the rtla who has had iruita during the winter will rsot steed the medicine,. The average farmer has no dune to act ae nurse to pally planta and vines. For tide reason only hardy and prolific sotto are eat, able for ,plautiug in the farm garden. Good highways .are impeseiblo as lotag aa the highway tax le worked out by the ter. payers. Voilect the tax in money and let the work publicly to the lowest reeponsibl bidder, At the Ontario Agricultural College are• semi experiment wi peas spewed that i took thirty-five pounds more of cooked than et. uncooked nem to make I(it# paunch of pork, live weight, tome one AAP, "" A good knees et cooked turnips, fed warms, will be of more benefit to the pike on cold days than any quantity of caro," It would be atilt better to warm them and feed them saw. Itis beeemiog clear to the leant obaervaut farmer that; not only must he mix hia crops, but become a Week farmer, if he would m aiutain the fertility of his; feud and leaven the erudgery of his occupation, The gronud. may be plowed at any tune After the frost shall be out, The value of good harrowiug la often overlooked. The harrowthould be pleased over the ground deem times, if =emery, as the finer the seed -bed the better. Tho last session of the BRIMS State Leg- islature made provfaion for a State Serbor' nay, the date to be announced by proclaim - time by the governor of the state, to be capecially devoted to the planting of trees by the people of the state. 1n accordance with ouch legialative actiou Governor Oglea- by has designated Friday, April 13, next, as Arbor I)oy. A farmer in Weatern New York whose land is level or only slightly reeling, draws manure in winter as ;fast as made, and broadeaata it upon bare ground or not more than six inches of snow in fields intended for hoed crops next season, Isle has pennate cd in this praotiee for yearn, and rn dkes the remarkable atatement in Farm Life that "" one load so spread is equal in oileot to three, at least, spread in spring." More- over, he gets just so much work out of the way during a comparatively slack time. According to the Inst report published by the Comptroller of the Currency, dated Dec. 1, 1887, there are in the United States 66t savings banks. Of these 580 have no capi- tal, while nighty -four ]rave capital aggegrat- ing e6,091,166. The'whole surplus and un- divided profits of the 661 savings banks amount to n120,1S7,883, and their deposits make a total of $1,157,867,453. Of the sav- ings banks that are not required. to make re- ports to Iocal authorities there are twenty. They have a capital of e3,000,000, with aur - plus and undivided profits of $6,712,360 and deposits amounting to S77,86S,586. The Prairie Farmer says : " Oor older readers need to be strongly reminded, and new ones thoroughly informed, of the facts which have been so often urged upon the attention of the readers of this journal. Seed corn that will sprout and grow may be very poor seed, even if of the best varieties and well selected ; just as a weakling calf or colt or lamb or pig, is far leas likely to produce a large, strong, robust, profitable animal, than a healthy vigorous suckling. We want aced with healthy vigorous germs, Rhich will send ont the best roots and leaflets ready to appropriate sap from the ground and food from the atmosphere, in great abundance,. The Farmer's Review says : " As the winter gives place to the spring winds, rains and sunshine that awaken life in the fields, we commence again to appreciate the bene- ficial influence of the drainage. Observe in any given neighborhood which fields become firat plowable, and as a rule they will be found to be those that are underdrained. Sooner on to the land in spring ; sooner on to it with the harvester ; these are three ad- vantages that argue in favor of drainage. It is the progressive farmers of the country who are draining their fields, and their so doing leads to more progress and better profits. There is a hint in this paragraph that every fernier may elaborate for himself at his leisure. The Hissing Link. The true and only genuine missing link has at last been discovered by Mr. Alfred Carpenter, of the Marine Survey office, Bombay. He reports having seen a species of monkeys. opening oysters with stones. They carry, he says, the stones down from high-water mark to the oystsra at low-water mark, and strike at the base of the • upper valve of the shell until it opens.' They then either extract the meat with the. thumb and finger or take it directly with ° the mouth. Here is a decided use of the fore feet as hands, and a long stride on the way toward, not only the upright ,walker, but'the tool - user and tool-maker. _ CONFESSION OF A. LADY BEN. DEB, A.. lair Conterttonist earibeeteen Tata leow She Learned to Contort. The other day I called on a bender, a lady, nob a gentleman, who is well known as a most serpentine contortioniat I wished to ask Mile. Vonare a few questions about her art, with a view to throwing acme light on the training of little boys and girls far the pproteasion, The lady was; sitting before the Are, with her sister, ;who has abandoned. beading herself, and exhibits a troupe of highly educated poodles. A huge 'wicker basket contained her dress and. other stage habits, Rout its depths she produced a bundle of photographs of herself, tied and knotted lute all manner of csurious folds, That is the bnsinesa of a header. The needy is thrown into a score of unnatural posteres, which appear to the audience to he achieved by dislocating every joint he the human frame, and to be effected at great risk to limb and life, Artists are generally enthusiastic about their ca'ilioga, and I =at say that ;hien Tonere deolared she would rather be a. bender than a queen, or some- thing to thea of set, She began at four; at five and a .half abe wan before the public, and remains a bender atilt, "" My father saw a contortionist. ane night on the. stage, and he asked himself why he should not teach, ine, aged 4. 1 waa pat to training at once, and enjoyed the fun, as a child will enjoy any- thinanew. Waal beaten 9 was I starved I\o, aeeeled to take to it like a duck. taken to water. You see, we were a fatuity of athletes, and, beaides,l wan a daughter and. not an apprentb:e, If thee father is the trainer r he any not apnre h rod, but he is cruel only to be kind, My ex,erienee is that leas rod and more kiadnesa be the beat plan, father lined to bribe one into doing Plan the different tricks, To be successful means yearn et hard work, practice and perform, once. Tate nineteen now, and my perform- once keepaane in capital training. In the beeineee of oontortion the first lea. lea - CM is the beckwaertl bead, And with the ono, anti then without, . You stand on a long mattress, so that there is iso danger, and at first your teechercontrola your move - menta with a belt. It is much the same with other forms of aerobatie work, and the o cruelty often takes the form of taking away the mattreaa, which ereetea a tort of panda in the pupil a mind, If he has really tried t hie beat and failed, be is as terrified bat lse to almost certain to fail nnleaa be baa a great deal of pluck. If he has only been sulking, it'may being him to hie bearings. Of eeurse children are otter, stubborn, and try the lnatienee of the teacher to :its utmost Blunt "' The aunt of contortion,,' continued MIaa Vonore, " is learned by degrees, First the backward bend, then the 4 disloeetion,' theca the'aplits,' and so on, What we call "clone- Hasa" distinguiahea the beat bending, To the audience bending seems meet difficult;; But I experience n4 discomfort or inconven- ience. 1 was a puny child. Yon no me now," The lady bender wan certainly moat healthy and cheerful, stout in body and rudi- dy In complexion, and she strongly mein - tains that all women would be greatly bene- tlted if they took to bending. " It is quite .a mistake to think that we wirer from tho curious =titre of aur performance, Of comae, after ono or more difficult positions ono may suffer a little pain, but it goes in no time. In some attitudes 1 can only re- main for twenty seconds, as the breathing becomes difficult, Bot these are trifling in- atinvenioncea. x practise a few minutes every tiny to keep myself loose hero in my room, and that is about all I need do," Australia—The Beginning. • The only object aimed at by the Britiah Government in settling Australia was to get rid of the convicta. One can scarcely bee lima oven that it• was expected the couviota ahouldt do more than drag out a brief and miserable existence under the rigors of a rule designed rather to hasten than prolong their end. The arrangement under which Gov. Phillips was dispatched did not con- tain a single element of permanence. Not the leant startling part in connection with this point is that of the total number of 1,030 persons wbo landed from the volatile of the expedition, only 135 were women. The other "live stook" consisted of 5 horses, 11 cows, 1 bull, and 12 sheep. while the expedi- tion was so badly provisioned that from the very moment of landing starvation began to stare the settlers in the face. To .redress the balance of the sexes, theBritieh Govern- ment, in a dispatch, of which a copy may be seen to this day in the Record Office, au- thorized the Governor to send a transport to one of the neighboring Friendly Islands and kidnap 200 native women as wives dot the unprovided males in the colony. This gives a good idea of the views which the British. Government of that day held as to the future of Australia. But badly off as the settlers were at the first, their condition speedily became worse. One characteristic misfortune and its sequel may be mentioned. To the distress of the little community, it was found one day that the bull and four cows had escaped from the enclosure. Search parties were sent out, but in vain. Several years passed by, and then rumors reached the settlement that a herd of cattle had been seen about 40 miles in the interior. Again parties went out in search, and to the delight of the people they discovered the lost cattle now increased to several hundred. The place where the herd were grazing is now called the Cow Pastures. This story is enshrined in the most cherished traditions of the colony ; it is not for me to cast doubt on its authenticity. Here, then, was the ugly duckling out of which the swan of the Southern Seas was to grow. Branded from the first with the'stain of conviotism ; aettled by the scum of the criminal classes of Eng- land, who would seem to have been equipped rather with the hope that they would fail than that they would succeed; regarded by the Home Government as an almost unin- habitable and altogether useless country, save as a convenient hole into which to throw human refuse—Australia has risen to a commanding height of prosperity and influ- ence, thanks to her natural resources, to the industry of the race she has so generously nurtured, but mainly to the extraordinary genius, energy, and forethought of anunbrok- en succession of great men. • As Henry Mills, a commercial traveller for ` a Lynn, Mass., house, stepped off a. Burlington train at Omahathe other day,• a sparrow flew blindly into his right eye, and tho sharp bill penetrating the eye -ball, itwas ruined. The sparrow itself' was blind, having had its eyes , plucked out in a fight a short time previous, Secret Chambers. It has often'happened that secret.chantbera have been loan sight of er their exact where- abouts forgotten. Thus it was at Danby, the seat of the Scropee in Wensleydale. About the eadof last century two hiding-pleeea were discovered there. In, one of there, which was near the fireplace in the entrance -hall, were found the complete, secoutrements for a troop of fifty horse..—saddles and bridiee of untanned leather, long cut-and•thrust swords, and pistols. 1These tbiuge were sup- posed to have been placed therein prepara- tion either for thea'l5 or the '45. After its concealment of air least half a century, the saddlery was aafficientlysound to be utilized fpr cart -horse gear, Avery aimilar "" find'" wan once made at Eaat Rewired House, in Berkshire. Perhaps the moat dramatic die- eovery of this kind. _wee at the manor -house of Bourton,en-the•Watere now demolished. Nearly a century ago thepapenhangers were stripping a wall upon a landing.place on the seeond•iloer when the entraneo to a secret chamber was laid bare, The room, which was only eight feet aqua_re, evidently reenlist.- ed eenlin• ed exactly as the last occupant had left it, Upon a small table. were the remains of a meal, with a tea-pot in which the leaves bad long since ernrnb ed to. dust, -and ak cup that stilt held silver :Two, ,ti.prrest'a blank cas- sock wan cuttingly met over the lack of the only chair. Hiding -places were frequently contrived `beneath atairemes, and were enter. edby the removal of a step, Few secret sham. bore have been more ingeniously masked thati ane that was discovered ar schen iali, in Lincoleeltire, One of the chimneys int e eta* was obaaers'ed to ban quito uueullied by smoke or Root ; upon which the conjecture arose that it w aenot a true chimney atoll but a shaft for the supply of Iight and air to a secret chamber. Atter many fruitless iuve- tiigations,ebean b�ehindaairmlestepbetween two servants' bedroounewss removed:, and the entrance to the hidwieg-- late was rowel. ed Behind the board aa>a Parcel, wherein was tired RI iron tube, through which eon- varsetion could be carried on with the con. cealed pereou, The roost want d bt feet lou by five wide, and waa� just high enough to allow a Haan to etanduprtglet. The poeitioue of these iegen-toushidling•piaees are as various as their dimexmlona, One at Worksop Manor -Hone, burredado the in 1701, was reached from thereof, and trap-door that gaveadmiseion to it was entered by lifting orae of the pieces of lend with which the net Wass covered. This wan an unusually large apartment, with a ilreplame *rad abed, Ooe cAke to en record be which: a hiding -niece wan turned to base uses in moa1errt titueat. At Biabop'mMiddlebernapr+ feteed wetsrdrink- er died from the effects of %centdrunkeaness, Beneath tee door of his bedroom was a ""priest's hole,"" whiebbe bed converted into cellar, and after bis death it waa foetid to be Ind of empty brandy-bottlea, Free of Duty,. Tho Damiuion, government bee lamed a proclamation announcing that from Opril nth the undermentioned are entitled to enter Canada free of duty ; Green fruit and eatable berries in their natural condition, vii., apples, apricots, ban- anas, eherries, olives, peaches, pineapple, plantains, plums, pomegrauates, gwnoes and shaddocka, blackberries, cranberries, gooseberries, raspberries, and strawberries, Secede—Clover, gram stud flower seeks, canary, ahia, eattou, Into, mustard (brown end whitte), aesamo, anger bolt, augar•cauo, sed end aceda of fruit and forest trees, Not eatable needle—Aromatics which aro not eatable and are in a etude state, and not advanced in value or condition by refining, or grinding, or by any other process of manu- facture (ire addition to those already on the free list), viz., star anise, cinnamon seed, Ton pin beans. Trees, ahrubs aad planta—Apple, cherry, peach, pear, plum, quince medal other fruit trees and aeedhng stock of the mama; black- berries, carrnntn, gooseberries, raspberries and rose bushes ; grape and atrawberry vines ; shade, lawn and ornamental trees, shrubs and plants. Vegetables—Citrons, mangols, melons and yams. Wonder IC:ill. The Am. Agriculturist has a suggestion for the busy fingers of some of our little folks. AU wonder ball is a charming prea- ent for an older sister or for mother. It is a favorite birthday gift in German families, and is made by winding a skein of yarn or worsted into a ball, and hiding little pres- ents here and there. Select yarn that you know will be useful ; take the prettiest pres- ent for the foundation, wind until itis cov- ered ; then put in another, cover that, and so on, until all the presents are hidden. Of course they cannot be found until the yarn is knit off; hence these balls are sometimes said to be for lazy people. Certainly the stocking or mitten grows much faster when every little while a pretty gift drops out. Such a ball usually afford amusement for the whole family, especially if the gifts are from different individuals, and no one has seen any except hie own. The Senatorial Committee which has been entrusted with the inquiry in regard to the climate and resources of the territory drain- ed by the Mackenzie River and its tribu- taries, is pursuing the investigations with commendable vigour and eliciting informa- tion of much interest and valve. Few Cana- dians even are aware, probably, of the ex- tent and value of the arable and fertile lands in, this vast region of the great North-West. All the evidence thus far adduced goes to show that the tract fit for cultivation and settlement in that region is immense, and that a considerable part of it, especially the portion constituting what is known as the Peace River District, is a megnificant coun- try, capable of great future development. The facilities for internal commerce afforded by the Mackenzie, Peel, Great Slave, and Liard rivers, are already used to advantage by the lauds= Bay Company in the collec- tion and export of the valuable furs with which the coantry abounds. Tho report of the Committee will, no doubt, be a docu- ment of great interest, and will do much to direct attention to the resources of the region, and eventually to turn a current of immigration in that direction, A Congressman dead against woman's rights was talking to a delegate to the In- ternational Council of Women, "Why," he said, " You women can't be men, you can't vote and you can't , fight." "Can't fight, can't a c ?" she said with a cold glare in her eyes. "You are a bachelsr, ain't you 1" he Aly first Moose Hrgiet• 13. ¥ott writes It wasduring one October that I had the satisfaction of seeing my drat noose and of aiding in bagging it," said a well-known New Fork sportsman.. "Ie was far up in the St, John Biver region, in the north-western part ofdaine, and only a few milea from the line of New Itrunswick, My gellde, a a t told young fellow named g Wing, old me one ctay that he had neem abundant signs of mooaae int the woods, and was mire a bell moose was near, It was then the rutting season for moose, and they were in their very .finest condition, -At thin time of the year the cows came out of tha ridges and call fora state, and as their cry. can be heard for two miles at least, Wing was of the opinion that none was near us,. I was anxious to go out and give chase to the bull, whoaa presence ire suapeeted, but he said that such a coarse wgnld be useless, and that he would go out that night and call' it It would lovely answer the call if it was in the neighborhood, and we would gat a shot at it at ahort range. He produc- ed from among hie kit of hunting and trap- ping accoatreutents something that resembl- ed a dinner -horn, exeert that it was made of birch bark. It was about an inch in dime terat one end, and perhaps five at the other, and nearly two feet long, It hen been a goal while dime I had oceaaieu to use this; said Wing, "and I don't know but I've forgotten how.' " Ile blew upon the peenlier: trutmPet and produced a wild, moduteted penetrating Fry that made the woode ring, "" "1 haven't forgotteu,' said Wing lain the horn dawn with a emetented smile, "anal if there is a name within round of this eall. to.nigbt we'll get him.' " At madmen we started with our rifiea for a barren ridge that lay off.' two miles to the esat Itwas dark when we reached the epee, a high locality, surrounded, by deans Reed. Tete Stride placed me in ambush be. hind a clump el 'Welles which, commanded the barren apace in every direction. He then sele_eted a tree aataandling by itself a few feet away, end telling ore if be succeeded in Wilzig a inose to the .spot to take good aim at it back of the shoulder if I o oald, and to fire the instant it stepped 'into the opening. Ila climbed the tree until be was hidden to the lower branches, drawing his rifle after him, butt end fnrat, by a twiune wbicl be bad attached to it. Presently, out on the still, emiap, October nighteir rang the weird call of the cows momao as irritated by Wing on the birch•bark trumpet, 1 lied thought it penetrating before, but the experiment cry the guide bad made at the camp viva nett and low as compared with this "call' that meant bushwes. It seemed to go down lutea the valley in long waves of sound, and liargored en amazing length of time on the air before the last reverbration died away, The novelty of the mituatiou amouted me to the highest pitele of excitement. Ona mo- ment 1 wase turning with fever and the next ;;sew ao cold that my teeth chattered, Ie afew minutes Wing gave another bleat on his trumpet. When the sound died away the Oiliness seemed to grow more profound and my suspense was becoming almost un- bearable. Then a sound aa of castanets heard in dancing broke the stillness off to the right of rhos opening, and a series of amort guttural sounds, like the low bellow - lug of a ball, memo from the tame direetiou, •"' Intake ready 1 Iles coming 1' Wing signalled to me. "" I began to shako like an aspen, but I shoved the gun around the bushes and had the entire opening before me, My hand shock so that 1 gave up all hope of bitting the .moose, even if he saute within twenty feet of xne. But I had abort time for reflec- tion, for trona the close of the forest, plainly visible in the starlight, came the majestic moose, drawn thither by the falai love call. He came prancing into the opeuing, his great untiered hone lifted proudly and. thrown grar:e ully back as if to excite the admiration of the mate .he came to meet. Aa he came with stately tread :into the oponiuq he uttered several short, low, mel- low cries and stopped. Ile was not twenty paces away and his great aide was turned aquaroly toward mo. My bandit could not be controlled and, despairing, I cloned my oyes and fired. Opening my eyes 1 saw the huge animal lying on the ground. Tho next instant he was on his feet and turned to dash into the forest when the truer aim of Winer laid him low again. Once more he essayed to rise and I fired again at random, bnt through good luck hit a vital part. My first shot bad hit the moose in the neck and knocked it down. Wing's shot struck it back of the shoulder. My second shot passed through the moose's kidneys. I never saw a handsomer animal than that moose. Its akin was as glossy at satin, and Re antlers, which were four feet long and over a foot wide, were polished like ivory. The moose polishes his antlers during the rutting season by rubbing them on mossy trees. To get the moose's carcase down from the ridge we were obliged to call to our help some guides from a neighborine camp. It weighed 800 pounds, according to all their • estimates. The antlers alone weighed 50 pounds, as I afterward learned in having them mounted. " The castanet -like rattling that had first attracted my attention that night when the moose approached was made by the horny points on the animal's long and slender hoofs clattering together as he bounded along. This clattering of the points fre- quently reveals the presence of moose to the hunter, as it can be heard a long dis- tance in the quiet of the woods when the moose is at full speed." The election of General Boulanger, by ,a majority of nearly 100,000, marks a new stage in the singular Boulanger excitement in France. It is very likely that the mean- ing of this triumph, apart from the humil- iation it inflicts upon the Fr ench Ministry, has been greatly exaggerated. That it means war with Germany, or, as the "St. James Gazette" seems to forebode, possibly with England, which is said to be the object of M. Boulanger'a special dis- like, is highly improbable. There is, it is true, a large element of uncertainty in the problem, dependent mainly upon the kind of man this General Boulanger may now prove himself to be. Unless he disappoints the general expectation, outside his excited partisans, hehas neither strength nor ,capa- city for leading a great nation in a crisis, and has probably discretion enough not to attempt it. But the public can now only await developments. If he is really a Napoleon in disguise the world will find it out all too soon. atm who seems to know says there are 172 species of creatures that are blind—in addi- tion to leveret. dein mid Adam, la, To gather gear is all the rage, By ony crook or wile; No legal dodge seems to our age Intolerably vile; But ne'erby,giving way to greed,: Tree ba ppiueaswe 11 win ; Ajar, the =tat o' ua bee need. To rein auld Adam in 1 To us the money -getting art Is but the one thing real, We ,seldom cherish in oar heart A holy high ideal; 4.las, alaa 1 to a' beside 'Von puir riolt Alan is blink ; When tempted never has he tried To rein anld Adam he; He never strove to rise above Mere little paltry pelf ;. No, never had he aught to love Beyond Iia shabby self Fever man, he's always ore the hunt 0' profitable sin, And far awn' beyend affront To rein Auld Adam in. The social heigbte he's reached to here Through moray 4 aaaub and thaw ; One loving kindness wi' a tear„ Would far outshine them a'. Be plota and aohetees to filch the pelt' With ne'er a aense a' sip, -Altheugh a wee bird in the sir Singe rein auld Adam IR," And yet for all that he is worth His moral manhood's rektor), Awl seen as he's laid in the earth Then he'll be quite forgotten, Then alwaya when we're on the brink 0' acme delightfu sin, Pause for a moment, stop and think, Aad rein euld Adam ie. With self the iaattlo uauet be fought That right may wear the crowd, And never, never eberi:eh aught To drag our ;mauhocd down, Still let us cherish faith and hope That heart at tact shall win,. Find give the Godwithin ne scope To rein auld Adam ia. .d,t;8X4t;7ma I�QidGxiF.A2�". a9. Oo*aitriplitan Wo osza, Sbeweuterount quadcoked. tubseriptioas For the black Be tiaras Arad. the Terra del Foegiaans, She did ; For the tribes remind Athabasca, And the men of 3fadegaseer, And the poor mile of Alaska, So she did; She longed, she said, to buy Jelly cake, and jam and pie For the Anthropv hagi, do the did. Ser heart ached fcr the Auatratilianar And the Borriobocli Menem, And the poor, dear A.mehaggar,, Yes, it did Anti alae loved the black Numidlan,. And the elven Abyaainicn, And the charcoal colored Guinean:,, Oh, she did I And oho said she'd arose the seas With a ahip of bread and eheeae For those aterving Chimpanzees, Sure, she did. How she loved the cold Norwegian And the poor, half -melted Feejeean,, And the dear .elolucca Wander, She did; She sent pie and canned tomato To the tribes beyond the Equator, But her hnaband eat potato, So he did ; The poor helpless, hareem thing, (My voice falters as I sing) Tied his clothes up with .a string, Yea, he did. ----•�0--•�a�+�- ice+ Remarkable Showing for Iiiorw- mondoan Tho great bulk of the people of Utah are agriculturists. Their pox mesion, aro in lands and horde. The atatistioa show that 00 per cent. of Mormon families own their own homes. There is io other com- munity on earth which will make a like showing, There is not an almshouse, or the necessity for one, in any of the ex- clusively Mormon settlements. With the• exception of the mines, every other in- dustry in Utah is kept alive by .Mormon labor and Mormon patronage. The Mor- mons supply the most reliable non -striking; class of laborers in the whole inter•monn- tain region. The agricultural and pastoral products of Utah for 1887, according to the estimates - furnished by the governor of the territory, were sufficient to produce a total of more than $5,000,000.—Delegate John T. Caine. .313-.00/1111.-1111 One of the results of the recent changes in the political situation in France is the consent of the Chamber by a vote of 29D to take into consideration the principles' of Mr de Lesseps' proEosal of a Lottery Loan for • the Panama Canal. The Government stood aloof from the discussion, and the resolve to• consider doesnot, of course, necesaarilyimply the passage of the Bill. But the decision of the Chamber to discuss the measure which' theformer Government refused to admit, is a proof of the influence of M. de Lesseps and his admirers. This influence may inhere largely in the pressure brought to bear by the French investors, who have already contributed vast sums to the enterprise, and who must now either consent to iegard all previous investments as wasted, or aid the bold and determined projector in secur- ing the immense sums still necessary, ac- cording to even the most sanguine calcula- tions, for the completion of the project. To invoke the aid of the lottery, in the sacred name of charity, as the French have long, been accustomed to do, is bad enough ; the proposed resort to it in aid of a great indus- trial enterprise must be, if done with Government approval, even worse in its effects upon the public morality.. , . pretty spring gown has a plain petticoat of seal -brown plush and draperies of ;mastic' colored ladies' cloth, the edges of which are finished with pinked scallops. They are rather short and not very full. The bodice is of the ladies' cloth, with a plushwaist coat, Est beneath pinked edges;ot the; cloth. In the back are set two square tabs of the plush, the edges ;of the postilion folds of the cloth coming over them and permitting, them to appear beneath the pinking.