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L IHE VERY LATEST FROW ALL THE WORLD OVER. InteruUnc Items About Our Own Couatry. O'eat BriUIn, the L'nited 5(atei, and All Parts of the Qlobe, Conileni^ aiuf Assorted lor Eaiy Reading. CANADA. Hendji'ie at HamiUon is Mr. John dead. H«nrietta Ret- ves, aged 81, waa Kurnt to death at Moatreal. Berlin d«i'iil«il l)y vote to purchase the locskl waierw(>[<1o9. JoJin Uillou of Montreal believes he la heir to the Earldom of HoacommoD. The Montrea.! Httraid is charged with criminal lilwl by Chief o£ Police Hughes. John Jenkin.H, a six-year-old boy, w as run over and ItiUed in Toronto oo Wedin«3da.y. Two thousand five hundred rorda of wiiod were dent roved by a ;>rairia fire At Elm River, Man. At BrockviUe. Cyrm Seymour, horse ih it and bigaimiat wa^ given eight years in the ijemitanti.iry. The Ogilvie Milling Oo. have Ijought S. Nairn's oattaeal milla al Winnipeg »nd will doul)le their raipacity. .V young man named Oak.ley. sutpos- ed to belong to Toronto, was seriously Injured on the C, P. R. at Souris. Mary Ann Ulaclcwell, i> years old. loHt the sight of her right eye at Lon- don through contact with a fire- cracker. Water niieteri> are ti> be placed in Hamilton cialuuns, livery stables and other places where uiucb water is used. Vba King.'iton iiuard ot! l'rad« has re- queiibed the Govurnmeat to close the c«nals oiQ Sunday only I'rom 5a.m. to tt fMl. At Xoatreal I'runcis X>>naeUy climb- «•! au electric light pole to look) at the river. H)e touched alive wir« and was '•lectrocuted. Al London the Utile child of Ur. TltoM. Copeland, who aicideutully drank % quantity of carbolic acid on iSatur- diy, died from the effects. The actor rhuim,ad W. Keene was eo 111 at Uaoiiltun that he had to cancel bis eoga£;«(uenta and go to New York, where an operation for aypendicitia wlII ba perfoiimed. cjome of Ihe peach trees in the Mi- l^ara district are affected with curl- ed leaf, the leaveg curling up and fin- •liy dropping off. It is ieured the crop miy be injured th-reby. The Governiutjut grant to th« city of Ottawa in lieu of taxation on Gov- •rntunnt property by the city is to be iucrv^aaad, It is aauouaced to |(iO,000, Berelufore it has Itevu aliout f^S.UOO per annum. Wiiil« moet of the Indians from the Kyned.se reserve, in CV>w'iciian, were in Victoria, B.C., to participate in the Quien's Birthday celebra,tion their set- tlement was entirely destroyed by fire, and ain old woman of the trilw burned to death. Ihe iSt. John medicti! mea, who some m'^nths ago had one llarry Roberts, of Bt. George, Uermuda, sent to Tra- cadie as a suspected leper, have re- ceived word of bis arrival home, the Tracadie authorities finding tliat the man was not afflict<'d with leprosy. I>uring Roberts' detention at Tracadie be was not an inmate of the Lazar- etto, tb«i medical officer there hav- ing suspicious that his was not a geauiue cooe. GREAT BRITAIN. The Queen has granted a royal char- ter to th« Victorian Order of Nurses Xor Canada. The Irish Local Government passed tb« committee stage in HoUiHe of Commons on 'I'uesday. The report that Great Britain seat a note to Spiiiu, a.sking an explan- ation of the cou<«ntralii'D ni troops in the neighborhood of I'iDiaitiir Is of^ (Icially denied UmriiD BTAXJiS. At Salisbury. Md., Carfield King, a Begrok aged aAM>ut IB, was taken from gdolx hanged to a ttea. and shot to piece.'*. The United States Suprame Court has decided oonviotlaus under the oleo- margerine laws of Ponusylvania and New Hainjxi'blTe to be invalids thus holding the laws tbnconslitutional. C'has. ji. Cramps of Philadelphia, de- nies absolutely that there is any truth ill the rei>orted consolidstiou of the Ciiwiip Company and Vicker.H. ,Son.s & Blaxiui, of Bar row -.>n.<K unless, Eng- land. Rev. Daniel L. B. Libliey, of Water- town, w>ho bas been toufinod to the St. Lawrence State H<>si>ital, at Ogdens- burg, einninltted suicide on Sunday, banging hiiuselt in hi.s room wiib a «beet. Hon. John Sbnrmau. until recently L'tiited Slates Secrelaj-y of State, will leave Washington thi.s weeJc in com- pany with Mrs. Sherman tor a tour of the West. They e.vpect lo travel, as tar north as Sitka, .Vlaaka, and return a'M<>ut the I#st of Augu.nt thiougb Oin- «da. The consojidalion is luinouncnd of the Cramp Shipbuildiing Couipajiy of Philadelphia and Viokf r.<t' S<;na & iMax- loi of Barrow on Furnesa, Ifing., into KQo great shipbuilding concern. This Iklliance, if perfected, will maica one of the moet powerful corporations ot its kind on either continent. GKNER.\L. Thirty bddleis have lieen recovered from the Zolle'ro mine disaster in Prus- sia. The Republio of Hawaii has offej-ed twrHelt unconditionally to the irnited abates..^ ,. Benj^Kliftic)',! ',l9i:ijf ... .1^*1 r.'* (nwector- General of Naval Engineering and iSfln- i.ster of JVIariue is dead. The nntional subscription to Increase the suength of Sjjantsh naval forces has now reached twelve million peset- as. $2,4ni),l)00. There are lO.OOJ tana ot coai at Cadiz, and 30,000 tons mure, are exported this week. One firm has contracted for 150,- 000 tons for Cadiz. Gustavo Bock, the mlllionaix-e Havana cigarmnker, who ha<i ljee,n trying to get throtigh the blookade Into Qavana and wbti is alleged to be a colonel ot Spanish volunteers, will not be permitted to g" Accoivi'tiig to a despatch from Gil>- raltar the Austrian cruiser Jlaiser Francis Joseph I. has arrived there, audi on Friday vrill sail tor Culmn wa^ lers. \vith ilw armored cruiser Kaiaer- ine Maria Theresa. Tie (Tnited States Government is con- 8id«rably embarrassed In the sending of reinfor(»m«nt8 to Admiral Dewey, ow'ini? to the liu-k of transports on the Pacific, and may have to impress ves- sels for that servic«. Efforts are being made by the au- thorities to provi<le an ad^equate 8U(>- ply of footl foi" the residents ot Hav- aiKi and the soldiers, provisions having Iteo.ome scarce since importations from the United States ceased. MAGNANIMITY IN WAR. Aa InrMrat of Ike Rultle oa the IMnlnsol .Ibrnhaiu. An elderly lady, now living in the vicinity of Boston, relates what she heard from lier grandfather, who was a .soldier in the English army which I captured Quel>eo in I7.'i9. The hostile I armies were drawn up in battle order I on the plains of Abraham, before the j city. I in the otJ«n space between them, and J in full view of both ranks, the oppoa- ' ing generals, Wolfe and Montcalm, 'rode toward each other, saluted by raLsing their hats, drew- alongside, and silently clasiied bands like iriends and brothers; then wheeled, rode back to the head of their respective forces and gave orders to open fire. A few hours later, both lay mortally wounded. j The men were loyal to i heir sover- eigns and acting under orders. They ' followed the military profession as gal- I lant and chivalrous gentlemen. 'To- : ward each other ther were Incapable of iil will, and at heart they were not enemies but comrades. It may seem almost shocking to add that in creed and profession both were Christians. .Vr« not International courtesy and matrnanimity jios-sible, even in time of I w ar ; So long as nations, for any reti- â-  son or for laok of reason, will still I resort to arms for the settlement ot ' dis,>utea, may not the dreadful duel go , on uithnat setting on fire the ugly passions of hatred, cruelty und re- I vengwf "In the midst of arms, the laws are silent," says the old Roman maxim. ' But are the laws of Gotl ever silent? \ Is tlM gospel ot Uis love ever suspend- ,edlf If tight we uiu'tt, let us fight only for jUBtloe, freedom, human wel- j fare and looting peace. With these . motives dominant, though we strike at i human forms, we shall aim our blows I only at real wrongs; we shall pity I those whom we slay, and shall regret 1 the injuries we are obliged to in- flict as well as those we are obliged to ' suffer. bill the had DEATH-DEALING. TarrlblA Drutmrllve Puwrr wf Modern !â- !• I»r»ve«l Ellll««. The war between the l'nited States and Spain provokes curiosity lis to the dastructive effect ot modern rifles, which will now bo fully tested for the first time on a large scale. The Krag-Jorgensen rifle, with whi<'h the United States soldiers are armed, ai'pears lo be a remarkably de- structive weapran. Its cnlilier is only 90. and the long, Hteel-<;ased bullet, of the thickness of an onlinary pencil, will penetrate a lutiu's skull at the thickest i»art at a distance of half a mile. At a very short range it bores a hole through the stoutest bone, as clean cut as if it were drilled, but be- yond a ningo of l00-yard» it assumes a lateral mntion, which makes It as terrible as if it ware un explosive bal- let. A short time ajjo a man was shot with 006 of these bullets while at- tempting to escape from. Kt. Sheridan. The baUet weul. Ihi-ough the man's hea<l, shattering his skull into '^0 pieces, »n<l, continuing its flight, bored its way thr\>ugh the thick trunk ot a. tree and finally eiuljedded itself some dis- tain<fe away, two feet in the ground. II is efltima|te<l that within u ran^e of GOO yards the small caliljer rifle o£ to-day will kill as many men as it wi>unds, anil l)e.yond that range the nuuiliers woulded will exceed the num- lier killed. With a killing range, of three quarters of a luile, .with smoke- less powder, and firing 10 shots for every shot fired by the old-time rifle, the slauglHer in iuo<leru warfare will be infinitely greater thiin any yet re- corded. Happily, suigory >i8 also made great strides, and the skill that heals can compete Iwtter than ever with the skill that wounds. A WISE MAX. Flossie .Flickersâ€" Did you ever ran for office f Mr. Tue.goodâ€" Yes. Flossie Flickersâ€" WTi'at. office? Mr. Tuegoodâ€" The postoffice, when I found I bad been carrying one ot my wife's letlsra kround a week. I Agricultural I WHY BUl'TER WILL NOT COME. A clergyman's wife once wrote to the dairy editor saying that their cow was expected to calv» in two or tliree months, but still gave quite a mess of good mi'k which was very hard to churn. She treated her cream as she had always dotie, and churned at the usual t«mi>erature, but the butter would not come. The editor replied thHC it was a common complaint that the L'ream ot cows which had Iwen .i long time in milk, was hard to churn. that there were several remedies w hich dairymen l«lii!V9d to be more or lesM effectual, but her best plan was to trade her cow with one of the deacon.s for a fresh cow. If the deacon ref us- e<l to trade, then try some of the world's people, The story ends right tlu-re, but if the w'onxan succeeded in trading for a fresh cow she probably churiiejt in fifteen minutes or less. In our own da-iry, says a writer, wo nev- er hud any difficulty in churning even when we htut no mure tlian one fresh cow in a herd of fourteen. T'he one fresh cow 8upplie<l the " leaven to leaven the whole liunj>," or more pro- perly speaking, furnished the butter globules which were sticky enough to make all the others a<lhere together in a .solid mass. In our experience with hard chuxuings, the butter " comes or sepH rates from the buttermilk, but will not "gather" â€" the little particles will not stick to each other, but re- main flouting in frxlh. We have had cases where the butter globules, near- ly as large as bird shot and as round, would not a<lhero to each other, and I skimmed them out into a clean pil- low case, squeezed out; the buttermilk, emptied Ihe butter out into the but- ter bowl and worked. It with the ladle into as fine a roll of butter as was ever seen. Keeping the cream until it is lojipert, or very thick as well as sour, and then warming to .seventy degrees before churuing, we have found to Ije an advantage. The butter will lie whiter tor churning so warm, but a little butter color put in the cream i before churning will make it yellow enough. The nld remedy for a hard churning, when witches were believed t in, was to throw into the churn a re<i- j hot horHe-.shoe. A neighlx>ur says that i a quart ot boiling water will answer I the purpoee just as well, and is hand- I ier thun a horse-shoe, Mr. Geo. K. I Scutt suys that in some cases the feed ot the cows is more responsible than I anything else to prevent the proper j separation of the butter, and that mix- I ed hay, corn fodder, beets and pump- kins is not a well balanced ration. It is not well balancetV if too large- a pro- |>ortlon of the l)eets and pumpkins are f<Ml, they lieing too laxative, but ac- cording; to mj' exiwrience there is no l>ell«r fodder for milk production than well preserved I'ornstalks, and beets and piumpklns fed in moderation are just the tbinsg to supply the succul- ence which Ihe row.s crave after they ,irc taken from grass and put upon <Iry feed. Moldy, hnlf-rotten cornstalks might affect the milk injuriously and make the butter hard to come. I agree with Mr. Scott th.at corn and oats ground together and mixeil with wheat brau is e-tcellent t« foe<l in addition to hay an<l corn fwlder, and when fed in moderate qunntitinn will more than re- pay their cost in the increased quan- tity of milk. Mr. .S.-ott thinks that too much ripening .i^fe may cause the hard churning trom the two cows near- ly <lry, and suggest h churning at least { twice a week. If creujn is kept in a ' cool place it can l)e kept a week wilh- I out riiwning any too much for easy ' churning, and in tbtv winter must l)e I brought into a warm room for a day ! before churning in onler to get it sour j enough. "Who shall decide when doc- I tors (li.sagreeC Mr. Soott says: "Wilh- I oul the chief basis of milk a liberal : 8U|)ply of [irolcin, it is out of theques- j tion to produi^ a cl.iss of milk that j will churn out, even under the best care.' Prof. Wood«, of Ihe Maine Ex- ! periment Station, soys: ' .V pound of I butter contains no protein, but is 82.4 l>er («nt. fat," and "whole milk is 87 Iier (.-ent. water, 5 jjer cent, fat, and ' 3,1) |irol«^in," The twxi doctors are not I agreed as to what uuistitutes the chief basis of milk, PLUM CULTURE. 1 'I'be signs oC attAck of the caroulio i aid I he course to l»e pursued for its riddant» are well known, but contiuu-J I ed inquiries as to t h« cau.se of decay of immature plum fruit shnw the ne- cessity tor repetition. The chief ene- The signs of atta*;k of Ihe c.urculio and its ravages for a while caused a cessation of planting this fruit in many sections, but with a little attention, such 'AS all fruits will require, sorioua trouble can be avoided and perfect fruit had. Perh.ips the oldest plan for ridding the trees of the i>est \h to vio- lently jar the trees, with a small, pad- died log, from timte to time after thei leaves have apjieared, when the in.setyls would first ap|)ear, A sheet arrang- ed lieueath the trees catches the in- sects that fall by the jarring, and they are thus c^illeoted and destroyed. At this period, the mature inaect, in ihe formi of a beetle, ia ivt work feeding on the leaves. If let alone, the real des- truction is l>egan,as tjqflfvuit is set, when eggs are depo9it'eii thei'ein ii;^ great nu,iii>ersâ€" it Is.^id at the rate of . SoLOitti^soF mc. BiiiiPPiMC, â- SPAIN'S FIcm'ERS IN THE EAST. Native trooijs in the Philippines are 'ulisted under the banner ot Spain to the numlier of many i housands. Their service Is described, however, as not a,ltogether whole hearted. But the dls- •ipline of an enrolled l)ody of men i« not lightly thrown off. The S|ianir>h 'lattalions, loo, are a corrective again- st r»!volt on the part of the native soldiers, whose syini athies naturally lie with their brethren in rebellion. Good treatment ind good imy \a ctilt rule al.so (or native soldiers in thU Philii»plu«s. As to the high charoioter ot the fighting (jualities of the native .soldiers, there is no question. Thef are game to the last. When Great Britain captured Manila over a cen^ tury ago, the native fighters resisted desperately the final assault, and in • sally which wis ma<l«-. it Is slated many of them, in their dying :igony\ bit .savagely ii. the .steid bayonet by which they woro transfixed. ten a day by each female. Even in small, privai.' orchards it is now be- ing found udvantageiims to resort to the spraying of all fruit trees, and l)y many it will be found equally oon- veuient to use this method ot destroy- ing these insects. A solution ot the well-known Bordeaux mixture and di- luted Paris green would lie effective in this cose, and would at the same time act uixin any fungus that might !« present. Many of our private gar- dens lack the plum, one of I be most delicious family fruit.s. merely Iwciuse of this little difficulty, which is real- ly not as great as is usually considered. The advent ot the Japanese varieties, which have not thus tar lieen found out by the curculio, has, to a degree, lent encouragement to the planter; but there are some of the old varieties that could not lie well replaced, and It will be found profitable to give a little care CO them rather than sacrifice their good qualities. I Al'PLE TREE BORERS. When the Ixirer has entered a tree it may l>e cut out or desl toyed with a pointe^l wire, but it cannot always lie reached in any way. The female may l)e prevented from laying her eggs on the tree by covering it with strong alkiiline ivashes, as strong lye, soft Boap, etc.. Dr. Lint ner recommends i wash made as follows : into a gallon ot common soft soap thinned with a pailful of hot soft water, a itoiind of crude oarlxjlio acid is stirred. To this is added, after it has stood tor a day or so, 30 gallons of cold water, making a barrel of liquid. This material is to be bruslied ovsr the trees trom the surfaoe of the ground up tor at least two feet. The wash should be applied alxmt the middle ot June, or a little earlier, ami the trunk must be kept well covered with the wash during Juno and July. A simple remedy is de8cril)ed in the " Count ly Gentle- inan:" Fobl a newspai)er three or four thicknesses, remove the earth at the foot of the tnee two or three inches doei> and wrap the paper from the l>jt- tooi aljout the stem for at least a foot above the gniund, crushing thi; paper in so as to fit all dejiressions where the insect might ct^ep in. Tie all tight- ly with a string frail enough to bi^eak when the stem .shall expand in mid- summer or luter, and bring the earth back and trapij) it in at the foot ot the tree. This simple plan I have fol- lowed, for some six sea.sons, and no Ixir- er has entered a tree thus guarded. The wrap should l)e put on early in May and need never lie touched there- after until Ihe same time the ensuing spring, when the protection is ranewed. coffee lieans, which she ptoceedsd to roast, one by one, in a small iron spoon, to the a>'companlment of vaAt care and solicitude. When they were cooked to her taste, she bruised them to coarse fragments l>etween stones, and pat ths result, with water, into a copper kettle, which had one lid in the usual place, and another un the und of the spout, to kee|) out smoke and feathery wood- ash. 'Then the whole mixture was lioiled up together into a bubbling broth of coffee fragments and coffee extract. She cleared it by an old trick w-hich is known to ramiiors all the world over. This wis to throw In- to the kettle a small splash of cold WiitiT, when th' coffee grounds werjL promptly precipitated to the bolt«HB. Tlien sJie poured the clsar, t>rf»w.n, steaming liquid -into a bluckamid bowl of birch-rout, and handed it to the good-man, her husband. .Vfter he had liken the Ixiwl In his fingers, the woman hunted in a leather knai>sack, and produced a lump of l)eet sugar wrapiieil in ,a careful fold of skin. The host liil a, fragment from it, and lodged it in his leeih, I h-n ho lifted the liowl to his lips and drink. In a more civilized man this would. of course, have l>e<'n rudeness; in % savage it w,as .1 simple act of courtesy, it was a jilain a.ssuranoe. that the bowl contained no poison. Then lie handed it on for us to drink in Jur turn, and I du not know that I over tasted more perfect coffee. CAMP COFFEE. The I4IPIIK TlioroiiKhly I iKlrnlaiMl How to Make Ihe Krverase. 'a traveller in Lapland gives the re- cipe for making coffee amo Lapps, when the^jyyj^jk to 'â- ps.V^intfaii. Dinner was eaten inut- ot>.yoors, and the one dish of the meal c<insi8t<*d ot roast lemming,s, little creatures something twtweou a guin- ea-pig and a rat. and as the writer confesses, "exquisitely nasty" as to their flavor. He says: We squutied in a ring round the fire, wat<jhing the roasts, all e.xcept a wrinkled otd woman, who good soul! was intent v^nn m more 'tedious oere- m^ny. Oat of a e^in kaai«»„ii she h^ taJcen a small skin bag. Ciitite bbiA sba extrMted aawa^ twelve green PAGE OF HISTORY. I'hrlsllua Tried lu m-II (iiltn nii<l Ikft rhillpvlMr* Knr )M.<MM,IMMt. Manila was built in 1581, and has for over three centuries been the aeoit of Spanish government. But tenaci- ous as her hold u|k>u Ihe I'bilippines and Cuba has bsen, last relics, a linnet, of her once world-empire, .Spain came near parting with lx>th t,he»e posse8.s- iiMis during this very century. Queen .Vlaria. Christinaâ€" not the present wid- ow of .Vlfon.so XU., but the wife of Ferdianud VII., was noted for her greed. On her »u»cestiioJi lo the throne .she found ihe Spanish treasury so depleted that she mdiemed to sell lx>th the Philippines and Cuba to France. She forced .Senor Camiiazauo to undertake a mi.sction that was ex- tremely distasteful lo his Spanish pride. When he . opened Christ ii pi-Oiiotiitiim to Liiuis Pliilipiie, the] don struck the table a heaw iji muttered a curse, posed to hand iivej the Island to the I' _^ UII.UOO, _ UWr Puerto Itici 'ortunnte asi aiiiuil 81,000,01)1), V 311,01 III. IK ri'iii*, iii\M>in'/ 1 l.vill. >.oou all. Louis Philiiipe .ram enough !o pay the pii.e f,,r c.KJ'^jng objecled to the sujii asked for nt*^ Philippines. "Several millions of real v IS my offer," be romarked, â- .,. i-ise t ,« <!*mtract must he thrown iuiu ih,. fire •• Tallyrand, who was present, w is , i,u» to remon.sl rate ; but as ho stvt,ii,-,i forth his hand lo take the Queen ., ..i- im: Campazano leaped to his iVei .seized the coniinct, crumpled it in his hands, and exclaimed: "Your Majesty IS right. The contract i« worthless v only fit to be throun into the fire" An.t with these words be flunM, the paper do«wn upon the fire and beat lnii» 'Y'","*' ''^l""-"* «'<•!» the tong, ,ij»t4» »>Ui.k.e.u.>d frragmeuu*. ..V