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The Brussels Post, 1893-3-24, Page 66 tit 7SSELS POST. AGRICULTURAL what t 11P soya of wood Babes Ns ,r pervert I complement to clover, " F'arnters should I -.._ hoard every shovel -full of wood ashes as a miser wards his money. bluffed of title they are apt to sell it, as the saying is, " for an old sung.' to the itinerant ash pedlar, It te 0 ecnitant eyesore to me to see in that some 1.'mu+',•y r:,rditetae, which publishes \1r, Gregory s article,, standing (anertia°. Them Yeller Pipping,• There ain't an apt'lus Like th' I,1tt yeller apple- At growed on Of tietrots down in til comer 0 tit' lot. There aini enc pipping.. Like them big gulden pipping Ith out a single wormhole yr a rotten speck er knot. 'eh' branches bent over t e 1 Uta atnrer ' y i11 too dipped h f 4n tit Iranli was Sea a+ct•ooked u:: nen apple tree could grow. We oluntb till about it, Ati we all tumbled ...it It• Me and Silly. Fred and Hatu•y, Walt an John- ny, frank an' Jou. 'At tree wuz so big it Did for poste an' frigate, Viten we hollered "ship ahoy!" was- up in ata branches deme. Ant poured it hot volley Through th' buckyneer Polly. Ttllber crew wits area t' bo.teh nor on 1caial- ly:i picket tencc- An' when war erne ended Sharin'booty was eplmtaid! No monkey t akebe love dubloons from some pretendht' chest; Coo each lolly feller Got a bustin big metier Yeller pippin—tai of pippings thein ' ere pip• pings wuz the best. Dings! how we 311(1 frolic,' Nee thor wuz nary veli, 2n them apples least wise none of us boys ever had tb cramps : Woes till our sromitrks Stuck out like little munntieks An' we never wuz the wits for it -Lor' bless the hungry scones, mit tai of tree's YAM'. An' abetter It home ease. E'er ire ahelttar for their IleaPea in th -early spring in vain; An flier nano any apples Like then big yeller al. ,los So th' mintier of it lot an' tl,cr arm': n .ver '..e again. Clayer and t'!:1. C. i Ptr• Mr,.7,J, if, 'ire:ory a:: •:e -i r:gn.. in a recent n::tni,er 1'r t m•' ren! r: 1 .mole. Inas, dis..russes the ooset. 10 Tooke there ma great :- ,vontri, bate their ut•. ., :trtail:10. lie con -pie .. � •au: pent: to be stad-,d :r. ioe toa, ':at ,1::y. in view 0: ..in iv two plat are a,. _ 1:,111 source independLv..: .. r-.., nn.:nire that may .,ter aer, ..tr ..t,1 t Not many pt.t.::.,. ., r:r.. t 0 few • agrieula ra. c. - ,.,hiy Marto the se::ie•: ia.", v.. wht.^i 11:•, 02rogory Mind,. Indeed. iv. :a 01.;0 re root;r, as�tile result ,f tee re e:a., re,,.: t mu. •:.:antis; s, that it l astute den os 00 lie tact at alL Tile ,iiseoreriel of lir. Voeloke• in re - genii to time value of clover as it fertilizer • -seg;es:e,1 that this wonlerinl plant was . able to collect nitrogen dire'tly item the atmosphere, but even imelttgent agrienl- tttrlets were Mow to believe. that this was the case, in the a1:Aence of poattive proof to that effect. Now that the positive proof is at !rant!, there is no longer any room far I doubt, and as Mr. Gregory well observes, the matter nay be regarded tt, "outside the province of discussion." Clover and its Kindred leotfmiuons plants bring tip from the sit -soil plant -Enol by means of their extensive roots, and matte it available for the use of surface -feeding crops. Clover is especially potent fn this line of operation, because its long tap -root, ramify - inn into a multitude of strong fibres, goes down to such a great depth in the earth. Bat, while these roots rolleet the plant -food Already in the soil, and while the leaves con• zinuaily collect nitrogen from the air, all crops raised nt turned under clover and other legumes, must of necessity decrease the stook and store of potash and phosphoric acid in the soil. Hance, if clover only is depended on for enriching land, it must in due time become improverished and fail to produce remunerative crops. Hence comes the condition known to agricultural science as "clover sickness," It is caused by a lack of potash. Dr. Storer, iu his excellent work on agricultural chemistry," shows that those farmers who have aptilied Stassfurt potash to land that was formerly clover - sick, have eucceeded in raising splendid crops of clover again, They have also found that their clover is no longer thrown out in the winter months, a'waa apt to be the case before potash was used, doubtless, becalse the plants now get a better development of roots before frost sets in, Mr. Gregory shows very conclusively that we caonat in practical agriculture substi- tute one element for another any more than in building a house we can make up for the want of nails by an extra supply of hoards. It is useless t0 stuff land with nitrogen as en offset for a deficiency in pntash or phos- phoric acid. However abundant the origi- nal supply of these two elements may be, the constant consumption of them without renewing the supply will leave the land in the condition of a "squeezed lemon," It will be in a state of impoverish=nt for want of one article of plant-foud. The following paragraph from Mr. Greg. ery's communication contains the practical pith of the whole matter, and I would ear. neatly call the attention of all farmers who read the 1Vitxess to these truly golden sem fences :— A perfect complement to clover is un• leached wood ashes; this onntnins every- thing very thing but nitrogen,and each element in just the right proportion, while the clover sup• -plies lust the one element wanted to make a manure not only complete in its parts but perfect in its proportions. It is Rafe to say that by using these two combined, there cannot be any snoh disease as " clover sick. noes," and that land so fed may be cropped for all time without any danger of impover. ishtnent. Where clover is winter -killed, which is not rare in the north, its place as a nitrogen collector can be admirably filled by planting the how -pea. Thin cannot be relied upon to give a ornp of ripe peas (or beans, as we northern people would call them,) but as far north as Central Mosso. chusetta it will vine most luxuriantly, which is all that is needed to replace the :•lover. There is no necessity of substituting the cow•peh for clover to avoid winter killing, if only the clover be sown sufficiently early in spring to give theroots time for full (level. ..ptnent, before the Dotting of winter, 1t is the old ( two year old }, and, therefore, matured and dead glover roots ; together with the weakly, grain checked or self -sown clover plants, that are heaved out by frost, A Seld of clover sown alone, and permitted to have the whole Reason for growth, is never winter -killed. It ie the ill-judged parimony that insists on having two oropa occupy the land at once, which is re• sponeihle for the killing out of the clover by the frost of winter. Surely, it is wise, m view of the double value of clover as a prod not and a fertilizer, to givo it the whole oacupanoy of the land during its first sea. son. It will yield ample returns for this generosity by its performance the second season of its history. Bit to return to the wood ashes, Aar. Gregory done not exaggerate in the least in coos tin• ' a • Illi moat e s4he 4 .t 1 t] elle 0 1 arts l meets nous places, of "Canada t.'nleaehn l Ashes. ' r Mr. Gregory, and hosts of other New l:ng- Iand furthers are tutting for the entiolmtunt of their land these tunleaehed ashes by the carload, which tiro farmers of this country are selling for a trivial enasidsratintl. Why, right Incr, in the city of Guelph, au ash- ery, that ter maty year's did a thriving Lusiuees in manufacturing the potash of ootmnerce, has quit boiling lye, and dmutes itself to the collecting end shipment of unlearhe.l asheo to the American market, This, in the far -fantod County of Welling- ton, and ender time very eaves ottno Ontario Agrtcu,t,.ral College: hand where plants havo been mut by them, TO FIGHT THE OHOLERA. An effective method' 1 saving a crop from ; their ravages is by poiaittiml them 'before the punts are set ora emit like earn canes up. To do this, grass, clover, cabbage or turnip leaves aro dipped in Parse green water mid scattered in small handfuls over the gar len or field. A Moue nr pieen of wood laid on it will. keep the poisuncd trap from dying out or blowing away, The green voted Ins. Allttl'tita)' bo moistened cud pot. t p to or flour dusted over it. Of (nurse Itry anti tunimais that will br injured by acting the poisoned green must he Rept oat of the field. Kerosene emulsion has been elteteaefully toted for destroying rnpt•eating grubs in grass grounds. and would, without doubt, prove as effect in trilling cut -worms under allllllar fll'e lllllelalees, The places tstle reed were thoroughly dretcheil with Ito emulsion of kerosene in the proportion of one to six- teen, and tho ground then well Cratered, Where this enninlaimt 11%18 heal the grubs immediately ceased their depredations, penetrated further into the ground and not o live one was afterward found, Foe this emulsiuu dissolve is quarter pound hard soap in two (pl arts boiling water, add one glut of kerosene and churn violently until the emulsion" comes," Add to this two gallons of water. Before sprinkling the sod ['Huta as above. Cutting Ray. (:rasa is the most perleot food for n cow But as the Aeasen advances, it hegolnea changed, and becomes a otesidell ratio and we know it won't malts milk. This shows we must, cut it early, not in August or Sep. tember, lint while it is yet groats, while the sun of June is shining, then itis good, I vis- it that C • n whose reverts in tl ,. OC4hnna vis- ited old G It an direction will he interesting, He took one cow as a test and the first year he obtained 504 potnhs of butter, the next year 033 pounds, the third year 524 and the fonrth1 550 pounds, He fed 2u pounds of hay,, per day with six or eight quarts of potatoes: Here's the way ho made his hay : He sets apart a field in the spring which had been ottltivatad the season before, manures it well and pulverises it, seeds it with! haif a, l half of glover seed and ! grass, r.boet a bushel and a peck to the sere, It, June he motes it, takes' ti;ebeg:a.re 1 wring the orop and gets Chia two bis lain. ]ic guts it three or lour times mid gets several tuns from an bore. By early cutting you lose nothing ; yeti 5aim, if the tertdity is gond you will get all that hay that is in th t ground, if drought 001000 in theoarty snuuner 1twoti t be t it it ,.I ttu'1 the unit cutting you will get mere. -:pore in the two thus ate world yield. The Dairy An AnpenInde• A- 1 go n)mnt this winter in institute wet i;, 1ern fairly amazed at the mind er of men 1 meet woo actually keep cows •nn„t7'th'10 constitute 0 paying dairy, lord yet iodize very little from them ; and from the foot that time dairy is made the ftp• pem3:tge to the farm kite instead of being; made the kite itself, there seems to be no order or systemaboat elle way the cows aro handled, They neither tome in, in the fall' or spring ; Lund the milk is only cash a short, time in the summer when lowest. The milk of the oarly spring and late fall goes for butter ntaking, and 0 sold the usual way. A few calves are vealed, and before winter has fairly net in, the cows are dried eft',) and remain nnu-prorb,otivefor months. outside' oath of the cows is 0 matter of seem - I iugly indifferent ooncern, and they are looked after and milkedwneu it is too dart: I to nee to do anything else. In some respect ! there seems to be a blind groping to reach out for something better. Said a man yesterday, "'ly dairy does not pay me 1 scarcely anything. 1 had a fair dairy of common cows, and crossed 'en with the Holstein, and the hcifm's were no good. Then I got a Shorthorn bull, end raised some heifers, and that was no go, and now I have a Jersey bull, and have some nice looking calves growing. Now what do 1 went to do, get a cold deep setter, or a [Baby cream separator?” What could I say? Ho knew that a good cow was born but seemed to think that she would pick up her own living, and develop herself to I the line of normal limit production if she , was milked now and then for six months,— [John Gould in Hoard's Dairyman. 1 All About Gut -Worms. The term cutworm is very loosely used, being afteu applied to the larva of the June bug, msltthe leetsich cut ' ofs tho snapping roots sna in t e beetles, ire I wes ' and ,vel to the. borers that but channels in woody (.151118. The term cutworm is prin- cipally confined by entomologists to lame of the Owlet Moths (Noatuidu•), that have the hold t of hiding just under the surface of the ground during the day and feediug upon , the roots, stem or leaves of plants by night. When the larvae climb high and feed upon the foliage of tall phots or trees, they are loaned climbing cut -worms. The cut -worms may be known by the following general characters : The moths i known as Dart Sloths o1. Owlet Moths are deltoid or triangulnr in shape when the wings are closed, and usually fly at night, and often enter roosts, being attracted by the light. The worms when full grown measure from one to two inches in length, have sixteen legs, thick bodies which taper somewhat at the ends ; without hairs and greasy looking, brown gray or greenish with indistinct longitudinal or oblique markings ; head, long, shining red or brown, head and anal segments armed above with a horny plate, darker than the remainder of the body. On oath segment aro six or eight dark colored humps, each bearing a hair. When disturbed the worms earl themselves into a ring, There are upwards of three hundred species, ono of the most common and destructive is the greasy, or blank cut- worm. The larva, or wormawhen full grown is about an inch and shelf long, e. dull red brown color. With five paler stripes run. Hing along the body, the under side of the body beingpale greenish yellow. The moth has do.tk fore wings with a bhp ish tinge on the border and with a dark brown lance.shaperl mark running from the posterior portion of the kidney -shaped spot in the middle of tho wing. Hind wings pearly white and semitransparent. There are two broods and the moths aro on the wing from April to October. The natural enemies of cut -worms aro various species of parasitic and predaceous inseots,Ibnrde like the robin, blackbird, cat• bird and poultry, and animals like tho skunk and mole. Among artif]ohtl ronedles wo name pro. ventivo measures, a handful of salt on the surface of the plant hill, tobacco dust about the stem of plant, paper, burdock or walnut leaves wrapped around the stem of the plant, paper or tin taboo slit at ono side slipped over the ,tem, or ducting dry pow- ders Niko hellebore, nir•slakod lime, aches and pyrethrum about the atoms and on the foliage of plants. Among destructive measures we name early fall plowing which throes ftp the food of the young worms and loaves thorn to starve, 1 to fall and winter plowing whish exposes them in their winter quarters to perish, ,lipping plants to bo satin a solution of hellebore (ono pound to ton gallons of water), or Paris green (one ounce to eight gallons of water), digging out worms by CANALA'S RIO B.MINES. ]Zr, 5..1. Itllcbi,' :Rix mon ori Bring to Light Soma Intert•ating Vats, Adespetch from Cleveland, says;—Tate entry of dismissal ordered by ,fudge Hut. chins on Monday in Comma.: Plows Court in the oases brought by Samuel J. Ritchie, of Akron against the Canadian Copper Com - pony and the Anglo-American Iron Com- pany practioally ends litigation that started on a very extensive bests. In 1810, largely through the efforts e) Mfr. Ritchie, valuable deposits of copper nnd iron in Canada were brought to lit' ht and set eral wealthy Clevehtnd capitalists W01.0 induced to become interested in Oho project, Two companies were formed. One was celled the Canadian Copper Com. pony at i proceeded to develop the Crich de• posits of copper and nickel at Sudbury, Ottatrin, a tom. on the Cana Ilan Pacific railway some 200 utiles east of Sault Ste. \Torte, Thu outer corporation was rho Anglo-American Iron Company, whicli operated iron trines nom Piuton, Ontat•fo, in the Lake Ontario region, The lending capitalists in these communes were H. B. Payne, Stevenson Burke and Cl, W. Bingham, of Cleveland, and the late T. W. Cornell, of Akron. \Ir. Ritchie at first held oto -fifth of the capital stook in these corporatmns, but falling into linnueial difficulties he lost this stock, Just how he lost this stock is a leading question,, and the dismissal of the suits prevents any light on the subject, Afl'. Ritchie made charges of various kinds and entered suit against other members of the companies. Under the law a stockholder of any corporation holding one-fifth or tnitro of the capital stem has the right to petition the court for adissoln• tion of the company. This was what lir. Ritchie slid, but his attorney's, recognizing that he no longer held the requisite amount of stook, allowed the case to be dismissed. These suits involved a very large amount of money, numiug into the hundreds of thousands. The hopper company is proving a t•iclt in- vestment for the stockholders, as the mimes yield not only very good copper, but also nickel. For many years the famous Calumet and Facia mines on Lake Superior have been the greatest producers of copper an the world and made millions of dollars for the fortunate investors, Within later years, however, the Anaoonrla mines around Anaconda, and Butte, Mont, hove been producing better than the Calumet, The Canadian Copper Company Iran entered into the field in 0 smaller way, lett is making steady advances. The 01'0 is first smelted to about 05 per Dent, pure at the mines and then brought to this city, where it is refined at the company's large works near Brook - There are still pending in the United States court two suits against Mr. Ritchie, brought by James B. and George W. \lc - Mullen, of Peron, Ontario, with whom Ritchie had a railway deal, as a result of rvhioh they obtained a judgment for $205,- 307 against him, but have never been able to collect it. Owing to Ritchie being con. noeted with the two companion the other stockholders were brought in as defendants, no that litigation seems almost endless. However, when all legal entangletnents are swept aside, as Judge Burke, who never stops until he wins, declares they noon ,hail be, the companies will have two fine prop- erties in an almost unoccupied field to feward them for their daring investments, A Shameful Trail°. A St. Petersburg correspondent statue that the Russian Press has called attention to the existence of to shameful tratlio that is being secretly carried on in the eastern provinces of the Empire, The practice is to abduct young and inex• perienced girls from their homes by paid agents, who, under tattoos false pretexts, induce their victims to Leave their native oounlry, It is hardly necessary to state that the majority of those tubo are so fool• ish as to put themselves in the bands of these agents never see their Mimes again, and are decoyed over the frontier, where they drag out ashaneful existence in houses of ill -fame in Austria, Roumania, Turkey, and other countries. The it"arsao Courtier, alluding to the subject, states that many simple peasant girls in Poland have been decoyed abroad by agents,who systematical. ly visit the villages, and hold out to theirvictims, amongst other tempting offers, remunerative situations at the Chicago Ex- hibition. A few days ago one of the agents employed in this "business" was arrested by the police at Klahino6, whilst in the act of oonveying two young girls into Austria, whom he had promised situations in a cig. aretto manufactory in Odessa. • A lioly Oil. The love of the marvelous in the thirteenth century was not less remarkable in this ago than in those which had preceded it. In rho old Fronalt account we read of now won - dors in Palestine not mentioned before, and of the Sinai Convent wo learn that " There lies Saint Catherine, virgin and martyr, in a very fair marble tomb, witioh tomb in so holy that a sort of oil from it heals many ills, and the grace of God is shown, in that many wild beasts, which are on that moon. tain, live on nothing save by licking the tomb of my lady Saint Catherine, and by the manna whialt falls on the mountain." At Tortosa also was now shown St. Luke's portrait of Our Lady, and at Sardonai, a Syriac monastery on a role north of Dames. the, was the miraenlousimago of the Virgin which distilled ori from its breast, By special treaty the Template were allowed to visit the shrine and collect tho oil, which was In highs repute and sold for a great price in Europe. It is often mentioned it the inventories of churches in Franceas one of the trotssuroe of the thumb. What Cnntala Should de--4'Io'b'Cr 01' the 3eet'i•lary or the P1.40110111 Board of Health. Iu view of a probable ontbreak of Minions this year in Commie, the faculty in t'ounee. tint with'Poronto University here flooded on tt special therm, of lectures. _ eu Intest wete gi ve the nl5et afternoon in tho Biological department of the Cniver• sity. .l'here wits a *tumorous attendance of stu leota, 1h'. llryce gave an address replete ae!lh informntton on the subject, As secretary of the Provincial Board of Hetdth ho ,apoh•0 with authority on a subject he had titin hast autumn investigated, lie desired to have the medical profession in touch with tato board, in view of a probable ouihreuk of oholera this year in conueicion with the World's fair at Chioago. Ho told his in. throated audience that cholera is not the most contagious of diseases. Ho pins in New York last Septetnbee when the first rase was reported there. There was the cnnsequout panic, which really was unrea- sonable. He quoted Dr. Bellew that cholera in India is not regarded as contag- ious except under special oonditiona, The decisions of the Constantinople conference of 1880 he cited, the ohief of which pins t)tat 10 w'aa sea voyages was the great moans of transmission of the dire disease. Then he sketohed the inception of the Indian ontbreak of 1887 froin the "holy bottling" of pilgrims in the Ganges. No fewer than 40,0110 deaths front cholera resulted. Last year the sane course of procedure occurred and the scourge spread to Europe. By a chart 11r. Bryce showed the pro• grass of the cholera on the European (non. tinent and its progress to America. rho renarkable feature was that it did not go by land, but in every case by lines of steamers, .late doctor gave the history of the transmission of the disease front ,newish etntgranty from Russia to the New York landing•place, He censured the crowding of the emigrate ships and the use of water infected with the effluvia of the disease. Steamslap companies had emelt to answer for in this respect. Cholera would only come to this continent this year, Ire contended, by cleans of enti- grouts, Lost. year 44,000 came from li,ussia, front (lerno ny 130,000, Sweden and aorw•tty 37 11(10 England 113,000, including all nationalit!rs; holy 110,000. Altogether 487,000 emigrants were landed in America, 45,000 of wham cone by way of the St, Lawrence, Tho danger to Canada, espeeinily Ontario, Dr. Bryon pointed out, and ho enlat•ged on the need of extra precautions in the way of disinfection of emigrants and their baggage. 'the present system he showed to be defec• tiro to mony respects, The baggage was the most serious objection. He enforced more stringent quarantine regulations. At present there were more nominal than practical. 1, the United Stator the Stettin - ship companies heed practically captured the Senate. In Canada there was the power to dentin suspended vessels 20 days. Only once or twice had this been dune. The most serious potnt was that there was no absolnte order to have baggage disinfected, Then the doctor showed how easily chol. era could be transferred from New York to Ontario, 1f the disease obtained a foot- hold in New Von or Chicago it would soon be transferrer] to Toronto. Last \ear 02,000 emigrants acne into Canada lay way of the United States, 43,000 by way of Niagara Falls, Here is the danger of infection. This year the Clanger is greatly increased owing to the World's Fair. If cholera comas to Chicago it will soon be in Torotlto. Chicago cannot handle the anticipated half.rnillioo of visitors in addition to her great population. The remainder of Dr- llryoe's able ad• dress was the enforcement of how Ontario should deal with a prospective outbreak of cholera. A corps of medical men should bo organized . A board of inspectors should be appointed. Local Boards of Health would require assistance and to 010011fy for such the advantages wet pointed out of joining the classes which Toronto University initiated. A Strange ICeepstko From a Countess. The Paris Temps is responsible for the following remarkable story apropos of the death of the well known French astronomer, M. Camille Flannnarion. Some time ago F lammarion received a curious keepsake from a lady admirer. A young countess, much interested in scientific studies, who was particularly fond of lolaoinariot's works, invited ltinl last summer to spend some time with her and her husband at their country house. The scientist accepted the invitittion of the lady, who was much younger than her husband. She was of a nervous sentimental disposition, believed in the plurality of worlds, and talked with the greatest calm of death, which was quickly approaching, since she was in the last stage of consumption. The evening before Plain - motion left the chateau the countess said to him, "1 am going to send you something presently which you moat not refuse to ao- cepl', If you do I shall bo greenly offend. ed." The astronomer had forgotten all about the mentor, when one clay a small parcel arrived et Ido house accompanied -by a black edged Letter. The parcel contained a piece of beautiful white skin, " which when towelled emitted it kind of eleotric stream." The acootnpanying note ran as follows :— " Dear Master,—In sending you this I only obey rho wish of one who is dead, and who had the greatest adnniratiou for you. She tingle me swear to send to you after her deaththe akin of her beautiful shoulders. Her further request wag that you should have the next work you aro publishing after her death bound in this shin. I send the relic to you in ao- cordisroe with my sacred promise to the dead.—Dr. V." What was ho to do with this "keepsake?" was Flanmarion's first thought, Should 11e refuse it? "At first I felt very much inclined to do this," he wrote, "but after a while I said to myself, why elmuld I not grant the request of a woman whose memory is very pleasant to toe? Consequently I had the satin very carefully prepared, a process which it took three whole months to accomplish, At last it Dame bank unhurt. My book, ' Terre et Ciel,' was just corning out. I had one copy of it bound acoording to tine wish of the deceased lady; it tnada a beautiful volume, The edges Were rod, spangled with golden stars, iu memory of the starlight nights during my may at the chateau in the Jura, On the binding of white skin it had the words printed in letters of gold, " In mem- ory of ono wlto is deed," Referring to the strung» feeling he experienced on first touch- ing the skin of the dead woman, Flammarion expressed it as his firm oonviotion that there is a kind of human eluotricity of Which seine knows nothing as yet. A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION, rotarrersons Seriously lrrinrod 01011 Tara able Property Greatly flansgrd. A Niagara k'alle despatch eays:--A ter- rible explcston mien root yesterday altornonu in the nuunnfaetory of tho Ontario Silver Company at lluntl ototnne, Nittt[ral gins io used for Reel in the tttattufactory and it woo due to etrelessun-e that the accident happen• rel, Four persons were seriosly injured and one probably fatally, Natural gas is used in the furnaces. Owing to the change in the weather the midst me un gas pipes and meter occasioned considerable trim btu and while flushing the regulator quail t i t i es of gas vamp- ed into the factory. is waft tittnghtthat. 01 the burners in the retorts ltd been extin- guished, but welt proved not to be the 048e and suddenly, without w'a'ning, a terrible explosion oeaur•od. Those igjured wore : Leotard \I,Glushao, manager; Dollard Utt, engineer of plant, of Humber. stone, and 'Bert Fraser, a bay en• played in the works, elan a ale, Bell. ford, an insurance agent, of Hantberstone, who had called to 000 Mr. Mct31aslton, The men were all burned abbot the bond, face and hands. Mr. Meltlaslton was fright• fully injured. His hair was all burned elf and his eyes and features were swollen up to twice their usual size, It is feared he oannnot recover. His arms up to the elbows are a mass of blisters. Utt, the engineer, escaped with the lightest injur- ies. Belford and the boy Fraser, are (en- ticed to bed to'da'y and are suffering great agony. \1r. MaGlashen's wife is with him std every effort is being made to save his life. The damage to the building, which is a large one, is quite extensive. Io was lifted from the foundations and moved several fent. (':very window was broken and the interior badly wrecked. The plant most over 375,000, it fs thought, however, that the t•tdnablo machinery is not meth injur- ed. Dr. Clark went to Hunhoratono to. day aid on his return reported the sten as very se;iotsly injared. Romantic Mar:iagos• On Sunday a marriage took place in Vien- na which a uorrospondefit describes ao being one of the most romantic that Inas happened Where fora ion;; while, Baron \lanriee Kuuigsw•a•ter, ono et the 1'rn+'tusos of Viert- nit, s tew years ago, refused to a nsenc to his eldest spins marriage with a young ant - 1 yeas of the Borg Theatre, Fruuleiu Margaret . Formes, 'flee pair married it, spite tithe t t father, and tow live happily at Hamburg, jBaron loonigetvarter's only daughter, bring 1 the heiress of much of the wealth which the I eldest son had thus jeopardised, was a great . deal sought after, and her father wisued 1 her to marry Herr otrauss, his confidential than of bnsutess. But the ymtng girl had already pledged her troth, and the father's consent being refused wort sl for years for the man she laved. She attainted her uta. ;jnri 1 ty e. few weeks ago, and on Sunday Mar. 1 rind Herr Max Schief,• the son of to Vienna banker, Baron Kotigswarter was so indig- nant that he left Vienna, looked up his palace, and made his only daughter nnarry trout the hoose of the bridegroom. Accent- ing to the law ho must provide her with on ; outfit and dowry, proportionate to his means, and the outfit, lett entirely to the choice of a famous house, was certainly:the finest show of beautiful and delicate thnugs that had boon put together for any bride for nutny years, Two feeehold premises atCondi ill, oppo' site the Bank of England, wore reoently offered tor sole, and the bidrlings reached 4167,000, When the auctioneer bicl 4100,• 000 on behalf of the vendor, and Olv estate was declared not sold. Mountain and Reath Land in Britain. An interesting inquiry has been instituted by tho Board of Agriculture into the amount of the extensive but only partially protium tits area of sheep "r ins" and what are called "hill grazings" beyond the pennon - ant pasture which it has been customary to record annually in the Poard's Agriculture Returns. It appears from the facts now for the first time published that the rough hill grnzings and unenclosed mountain lands, over which sheep end other livestock range, and wherecn they obtain a more or less scanty subsistence; cover approximate. ly a territory of over twelve million acres, or more than one•fifth of the surface of Great Britain. More than three•fourths of this estimated acreage of rough pasture have been rocerded in Scotland alone, The counties of Argyle, Inverness, Ross and Cromarty, anti Sutherland alone return more than five million wares of the Scottish total, while the entire cultivated surface of those counties is lose than half a million acres. The English hill gratings not before acoonted for ars naturally for below the ouptifigures for Scotland the esthnato eel raching 1,8(32,000 arses, whereof the coun- ties es of Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and York furnish tnore than two thirds, Tho Welsh }till ,grnzings not previously enumerated would appear to cover approximately 053,000 acres, A Romano, of The Lottery. On Saturday afternoon, at the quarterly drawing of the Credit Fancier Lottery Bonds in Paris, and a few minutes before the wheel of fortune was to besot In motion, a lady appeared with a bond of the 1880 issue, upon which she wanted to pay the calls due in order that it might bo eligible for a prise. The clerk said 11 was too Irate, as the drawing was about to commove, add- ing the conventional phrase of regret. The Indy, however, bogged hard, and the clink consented to subnut iter case to the board of directors who had to attend the drawings' Several numbers, says a Parte eoresponden t had already boon drawn while the directors were considering whether the lady's offer could be aowpted—a matter of a few francs —when, ole 1 freak of fortune, the number of the very bond whose fate was in susponee carne out for a prize of £4000. The board ultimately ruled, that as the number had come ono after the lady's offer the latter would be entertained, The clerk wont down, and after receiving the lady's money and handing her a receipt for it, announced to leer that she was :114000 richer. The weight of the King of Denmark as a ruler may be insignifioant in the connuils of Europe, but to his own subjects he bears the same paternal relationship as does, or used to do, the wealthy squire to the people of his own parish. Christian IK. walks through the streets of hie capital osoorted only by his favourite dog ; while the Crown Prince so far joists In rho amusements of the humbler citizens, as to take hie children to the theatre in the Tivoli Gardens to witness a variety entertainment, consisting of jug• ler songs, and acrobatic feats 1 the only ceremony being the reservation of some front scats (pride one shilling each) for themselves and their shite, the playing of the National Anthem on the arrival of Oho party, and the firing of a toy cannon out- side, which latter porfortnaneo necessitates tate opening of a window, whether to pre- vent the breaking of 1 -ho glass, or to enable those in tiro house to hoar tiro report, is still an open question. As the Royalties enter, the audience rico and uncover, bat. as soon as they aro seated, has aro at onoo put on, and cigars and ptm011 atone() mum. ed. ATABciII 24, 1893 MANITOULIN RAILWAY. 'l'n, Engineer Ihaibl net For Weird the 11'41010 With Vigor -11,01.5110 11rwe. le it. The engineers who have been of since the let of Sept inter on the laud to oatiuu of Ilse dlantt titin and Nara h `horn railway have just rum pint ed their work and are now Imey preparing the pinna ani profiles with rt n ' ane I 11 ell 0 1 �' c 9 L., company tri h Lsl l 4 I P P mons buihdint- amly in Ole Spring and lntalt rho work In completion with all rigor, The road rums front the town of Little C'tttr- rent oil the Gland Manitoulin ie s nnrth- t craaorly dire,/inn In Nelson station. on the Sault branch of the C. P. R., a dist;mfco of 10 utiles. Great care has both taken in lo. Too lug this read so as to find the bent pas. sible route, The 001111)11)' havo not spared motley or time, and one has only to exantute Oho plans and profiles now being prepared to see the result of the work of Chief hmgi- neer Collins and his efficient sta0', and it will bo n surprise to time penplo who are not familiar with the geography and resources of this great island to learn that only ono bridge of 450 fent is re'}nired to connect the Island with the mato land - As yell os giving an outlet to the great oonmerco of this vast island, it will open np a very large and rich trent of mineral, lumber atcl agricultural lends on the north shore. As rho road runs through the centre of the groat mineral belt it will give nehort: outlet to n svigable waters for the shipment of nickel, iron and other ore and will also afford a short and oheap transport for coke, which is largely used in the :manufacturing of nickel. Maty of the Jorge Mining enm• ponies of Chicago and St. Paul are anxious to see this road completed, as it will greatly (mist in developing their mines. This road has been hennaed by both the Provincial and Dominion Government to the extent of $ti,_ot) per nude for 30 miles, and it is prom- ised by both Governments that the re- maining 10 miles trill be antisfdized, which is expected Oda :session. Murdered by a Boy. Fa Berlin correspnnden t bays: --Some weelts ago the wife of a workman who kept a shop as it small provision dealer Was found, with her little child, murdered in a room behind the shop, and part of her valuables and motley melee. vin Senility the murlil.rer was lis.. -timed in the 101011❑ of a boy of 15 yearn el age, the son of a wet -know who fat', ely lived in the same house with the murdered woman. He roused sunpi:•iofe oo 1110 part of his parents by giving thein prem. outs of looney and incurring towboat ex- peuoes. He pretended to hove earned the money in his new situation, lint his mother could not rid herself of her doubts, and ex- pressed them m conversation to neighbours, Prninibiy through the latter an anonymous eon nunieation Aso male to the police. At first the boy tried to deny everything, lint at last confessed his crime, \l'ith cynical coolness he related the details at the nntr- er, which he had made up his mind to com- mit on New 1 ear's Day, but postponedtil he had no money. He murdered the wom- an exactly as was described in the press. He kno"ked her down with a blow nn the head front a mangle -roller, and then stabbed her in the neck. "And then ?" the young murderer was asked. "'Then it was the child's turn. After that I looked about for money, and found it, and now 1 have noth- ing more to nay," When asked why he murdered the little boy, It e coolly answered, "Oh, it screamed so." What is Eleotrioity? As far as the writer is able to understand the matter now, elect rlcityissimply notion of the molecules of the different anhstances winch are the subjects of electrical action just as hoot, light, and sound are, and the only difference between these forces is the rate of the motion. The motion of sound, as we all know, is comparatively slow ; that of heat and light are very rapid. That of oleolrieity would appear to be somewhat between the slow motion of sound and the rapid motion of those heat -waves whose mo- tion is slowest. And it would appear that the wonderful adaptability ,rhinh electricity shows for every kind of work is due entirely to the position which its rate of motion sea cupies in the scale of the energies. .it would also appear that the reason this wonderful agent laid dotnnatt for so many ages, and is even now only partially developed, is, very largely at any rate, because we have no souse which responds to the particular pe- riods of vibratinu comprised within rho elec- trieel range. Heat currents would be far more ei]ioient than electric currents if we could make use of them as we do of the lat- ter ; and, as before remarked, the reason electricity is such a useful agent appears to be become its rate of vibration is sufficient- ly High to admit of rapid transmission, yet not sufficiently so to be destructive. 1.0 only Genomes destrnotive when it is transformed into heat —[Eleetrioal Review. Glass Eyes and Their Makers. In Thuringia there is 0 whale district which is dependent for its support on the manufacture of artificial eyes, husbands, wives, and children all working together at this same moans of livelihood. And yet, though these simple German village people tarn out their produce by the dozen, no two eyes arc over the same. No artificial eye has its exact follow either in Dolor or in size in the whole world. The method of the tnauufaoturo is not very complicated art. There aro firstly glass plates, whfuh aro blown by goo jets, then moulded by hand oto the form of an oval-shaped oup. Then there is the coloring of the eyes, whialt is effected by the means of tracing with Otto needles, the tints being left to the taste of the individual worker, though tho scope of their taste io necessarily limited to greys and blues, and browns and blacks, which colours axe assorted together before being eventually despatched to their various destinattone,—[London Hospital. A Curious Transformation of Brass. A curious incident has been noticed in eon- neotion with the brass condenser -tubes of a foreign cruiser. The pipes, after being in use for more than 12 tnonbits, were found to have experfonced a peculiar chaugo. Its many planes the metal had been, it appears, 00n- vortod into alrnoet pure copper of a spongy texture, the zinc of the alloy having com- pletely disappeared. An investigation which was made showed the probable cause of the feature to Move been an electrolytic action between the tin lining of the tubes and the brass, the eel water ciroulatiug through tho oondonser forming the eleotro- lyte, Had the tin coating remained porfout doulaleee nn oorosion would havo resulted but Olio mud and grit conveyed in suspon- atop through the condenser carried away rho tin coating in spots, and it woe at these points that the transformation of the meta' matured. Itis canoluded that if the pipe had not bow, sinned at all they would have remained imIP' C. Decency aril external minseieltoo often produce Mailer onside than is warranted by the status wtlhitt.