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x^ ll HEE VERY LATEST FROF ALL THE WORLD OVER. So Ur this year 75,240 acr« bare been taken up in the t>v fatere<Ung items Aboat Our Own Comttr, Qrcat Britain, tJM Uaited 5t«te«. af AU Parts oi tlw Qlobe, Coodaiucd uii AsMrtad lor Baay Keadinf CAKADA. A colony of S.OOO Rostuans will set- "tle in th« Canadian North-west this fall. The oat crop in many of the parish- es around Quebec is a most discourag- ingr one. Ouiada will have only 30,000 square feet of the 75,000 asked for at the Pari* Exposition. The laat of the four children born a xnoDth a^ to IkCrs. Bowman, of King- ston, is dead. Haoulton and Winnipeg^ have each â-¼oteid fSOO to the fire sufferers of New Westnunstex. The total revenoe of the North-west territories for the year ending Aug. Slat, was $542,772. A garrison church parade will bQ beld in Toronto on October 9. wh«n Major-General Hatton will be present. The by-law to extend the Hamilton Street Railway franchise for fifteen years was adopted by the City Coun- cil. The first consignnient of Ontario fruit, packed according to California methoda was received in Winnipeg in excellent condition. The Toronto Board of Coacrol has vot«yl fLOtJO for the relief of those thrown into destitution by the New Westminster fire. Fred. Wade, registrar for the Yukon. has arrived at Vancouver. Ue says a cooaervulive estimate of the output of the district is f8,0CO.UU). A scheme to build cottage hospi- tals in the vicinity of Ottawa for con- Bttmptives has been proposed by Dr P. U. Bryce. proviacial health officer The sharehuliiers of the iiank of Hauiiltou have decided to increase the capital stock from ♦llSO.UOOio $1,500,- 000 by the issuie of 2,500 now shares at f 100 each. The Uepartmeot of Indian Affairs at Ottawa ii considering the question of providing counsel for the Moses broth- ers, awaiting trial for murder at Port Arthur. Boiler makers who have been engag- ed on the C^uiadian Pacific Railway BteauL!ihip Athenian at Vancouver for several weeks, are out on a strike for an advance of wages. cres of land up lu the Swan ttiver district of Manitoba for settlement. This district is just being opened by the exteo-sioQ of the Dauphin railway. The Rathbun timlier limits, 127 square miles, on the Mattawa River, in Quebec, were solil liy auction at Ot- Uwa to iLr. J.R. Booth at $*jO per mile, Ih.' luice aggregating sutuething over $44,000. The Northwest Assembly has adopt- ed a resolution offering to assent to the ceding of a portion of the No.th- we.-'t Territories, north of Manitutia, to Manitoba, and eimilariy in regard to Uriti-h Columbia. The Department of Railways and Canals hive awarded the following contracts, vij., £or 150 box cars, and 100 flat oiu-8, to the Rhodes Coiut'anv. of Amherst, Nji., and for 150 box lars to Cnxssen Company, of Cobourg. The British crui'Mr Talbot arrived in Halifax on Mk>nday from the West In- dies. She was on active duty continu- ously in West Indian waters from the beginning to the end of hostilities be- tween the United SUtes and Spain. Surveyors of the South-Kastern Batlway of Mauito'Ki are beading to- wards the internali^mal boundary, and It is understood that the line will reach Rainy River around the touth end of the Lake of the Woods, through Min- nesota. The Montreal Board of Health states thai anyone who patronizes a barber or iiairdresser, whose establishment is open to all comers, run* a great risk of becoming infected by di.ease from the razor, shaving brush, scissors, olipper.s comb or hair brush having been pieviou.sly used on a sick person, or even on a corpse. GREAT BRITAIN. The Queen is taking great interest in the wireless telegraphy e.xpetiments being conducted at D^Lorne House by Marconi the inventor. I NITED STATES. Maine State elections were a triumph for the Republic^ius. The diamembeied b<idy of Rachel Warner, a trained nurse, was found in the mud flats at Bri>lgep^>rt. Conn. Joseph and Morton H. Marshall, 0I>- 8e«fo. Mich., gold se«>kers, have Jeen murdered in the Yukon, according to reports at Niles. Mich, A Rock Inland passe>uger train struck a carryall at Wichita. Kansas, on Tues- day night, and three U the occupants of the latter vehicle were killed. The I'nited States, it is said, has re- pliett to a recent note of the Turk- ish Government declining to accept Turkey's repudiation of the responsi- bility for .\merican losses duriujr th- Armenian troubles. Charles Spinks. a very wealthy coal dealer, and sirtet pa\ing conliactor of Newport. Ky.; is misainK, ,in' i believed to h:ive been drowned v.hi ( inspecting hi.s ci>«l Ivirge. He carric.i $12.5,000 life insurance. The California Powder Company and the Duponl Powder Company have been awarded the contract to supply the Cnited Statss Navy Department with smokeleai powder. Ktirh company will supply half a milli><ii pounds. Jad|^ Thomas F. McCormick, of Eliz- abeth. NJ., committed snicide Tuesday by shooting himself through the right temple. His body was found lying un- der a tree in St. Mary's Roman Catho- lic Cemetery. No cause can be ascrib- ed for the deed. The certificate of incorporation of the great steel trust, to be known as the Federal Company, was filed Friday in the Secretary of State's office at Tren- ton. NJ'. It is the largest company over admitted under the laws erf New Jersey, ita paid up capital being $200,- OOO.roi. The incorporation tax amounts to $40,000. Rev. Hannibal Goodwin, after strug- gling for twelve years to prove that he is the originator of the kodak film, has at last been awarded the patent by the officials at Washington. This means an immense fortune to the pat- entee, who will now have a seventeen years' monopoly on the m-inufaoture of photographic film. GENERAL. Mount Vesuvilis ia in a lively state of ernptton. It is said that a revolution in Cen- tral China is unavoidable. As a result of the introduction of modern sanitary methods, the health of Santiago de Cuba has much improT- ed, and the death rate has fallen. A?uinaldo, the leader of the Phil- ippine insurgents, is becoming frigh- tened, and removing his headquarters to Molalla. his present position being too much at the mercy of the .\meri- Njis. The Spanish bishop of the Island of Luzon. Philippines, was cruelly treat- ed by rebel 8ymi>athizers. The prelate was beaten with clubs and compelled to di.sclose the hiding place of themon- ey belonging to the church. General Folaveleja, formerly Gover- not-General of Cuba and of the Phil- ippines, in a manifesto declaring bis readiness to place himself at the head of a neutral party in Spanish politics, advocates a complete reform in Span- ish govern}nt\nt. Sir J. S. Hay, Governor of Barba- does. has received an anonymous let- ter which threcLtenii that he and five other officers of the island will meet the same fate as Speaker Pile, of the Bart>adoea Legislature, who was re- cently assassinated by a negro. There is an acute industrial crisis at Antigua, W.I., owing to the shut- tinar down of the sugar plantations, constraining the Government to inau- gurate relief work in order to avert a threatened outbreak of riot and pil- lage among the idle and starving la- bouring population. The sum of £10.- OOO has been appropriated for the im- m'ediata relief of the crisis. Je,-ui Louie, who was one of the chief witnesaes in the Tichborne trial, died in the Liverpool Benevolent Asylum Australia, of senile decay. Louie was steward on the Bella, in which Sir Roger Tichborne sailed from England. I'ntil a short time before his death he stated that he firmly believed until the close of the trial that the claim- ant was the real Sir Roger. H.M.S. Porpoise, one of the Austral- ian squadron, recently reiurneil to Suva from a cruise among the islands with thd news that the Falcon Islands, situated midway between the Tonga- tabu and Haapai groups, and immedi- ately opposite the Nomuka group of isles, some 27 milei to the westward have lately disappeared Falcon Island was of volcanic origin, and half a mile or more in diameter. THE FIRST "STRIKE." li •«-iirre« Tklrty-Threr t'ealerle* .!(• naa CaKjted Pkamah a rr«k »f TniaMr. Labor day may not have been the day set aside by the lalnjrers of Pharaohs tiuM. and there may not have been or- ganized trade unions in those days. 1450 B.C., but Pharaoh found the work on his Temple of Thebes effectually de- layed by a strike and as serious a situ- ation to face as ever a mauufaclurer had to confront. ihe temple that was to astound the world and stand as a monument to ligypfs greatest king was under-way. Us graceful outlines were well defined, even its gorgeous interior decorations were begun, the alabaster walls, inlaid with jewels representing the fairest flowers on the banks of the Nile, were ueaxing perfection. The masons whoso magic hands were erecting this archi- lectoral wonder received little cash, but large supplies of food the first of every month. These supplies were to last them a whole month. Hut even thirty-three centuries ago things went wrong in the commissary department and contractors grew rich. lime af- ter time the food gave out before the month had passed and the builders suf- fered. But onoe w hea the supply last ., .nnti,.«mi«.m,.ii,, ,â- Â«..... It. ..«,»ittii â-  I Agricultural I i I 'atuaUlftAUAAUUllimiUAJUUAUUUUUJUUUAlJAItfi' ^rrrfTrrfTrixTrwTm viivviiufT* '•TTTrrrTi.'TTFrrrrrfT- CLEANING GRAIX FOB SEED. Too many fam^ers forget that as they sow so shall they reap. When -leed time comes they use whatever is most convenient, and pay very little attention to its being properly clean- ed and selected. This is a good time to begin lo<jking after the seed wheat you will need next fail. First, says Farmers' Guide, look around and see what vajriety has done best in your locality, and if you have not grown that variety find out where the best seed can be obtained. Get it when it has been threshed by a good machine, where grains have not been cut. and as clean as possible. It is best to pro- cure your seed from grain that has been stacked and gone through a sweat, as it will be plumper and better every way. Store it in a dark, dry place, if you have it about the barn, and sometime before seeding give it a thorough scouring, and cleaning- See that there is not a single grain of anything else in it. Very few fan- ning mills are to be found on farms these days, which is probably the rea- son why so miu°h poor seed is sown all over the country. But it will pay any farmer to keep a wheat fan of modern pattern if for no other use than to clean his seed wheat. If you do not own a fan. arrange to have one for a <i^ this season in order that you may have clean seed once more. If you can not do better take your wheat to the neaj-est mill, where you can have it scoure<l and made perfectly clean for a very few cents a bushel. It al- ways adds to thi ready sale of a wheat crop to have it clean and nice. And if you will look around you will find that the vaiy few farmers who have the reputation of growing nothing but pure, clean seeil wheat can motit always ilispoee of their crop at an advance over regular market rates among farm- ers who desire to chajige their seed. Some farnirers make it a rule to buy their seed wheat each season, procur- ing grain that has been grown Ut^n land different in formation from, their own. Thus the farmer on clay laud will go to the farmer that grows wheat on sandy soil and vice versa, but whe- ther or not there is enough in this sort of exchange to pay for the trou- ble, we will not slop to axgue. At any rate, when seel is procured from abroad, particular attention should be paid to cleaning same, or you are like- ly to get some sort of weed pest on your farmi that you io not care about. Have your seed particularly clean of smut. A very successful wheat grower once told OS thit he never bad smut for the rea^bou that he always wanted his wheat to get ripe before it was cut, and when be did this be never had any sign of smut in his crop. If the price of wheal is to remain low we mu-st work up to better crops if w-e expect to cuake a profit, and begin oar next crop with is perfect seed as possible. BRAN A3 FOOD FOR SHEEP. In regard to its nutritive elements there is no better food for sheep, or in faot any of the farm animals, than bran is. Its elements supply the most needed nutriment for growth of the young, and to sustain the strength of the old. But it is sometimes injuri- ous on account of its mechanical ef- fect on the bowels. We may be sure, says a writer in American Sheep- breeder, that the exceedingly ten*r mucous membranes of the Iwwels will be injuriously affected b^ whatever may roughly scour them, and thus the healthful action of the whole of tt^s dijjestive tract may be disturbed in a serious manner; indeed the well- known laxative effect of bran. as given in the i-ommon ordinary bran mash, is wholly due to this mechani- cal effect on the lining nxembranes of the stomach and bowels. .And this is to l>e taken into account when bran is feil to lam^s. who are not yet able to sustsrin this irritative result of this otherwise excellent food. It is on this ed only two weeKs th« proverbial worm aocount that bran is usuallv given in doubled in its 'ra*-«s and the oppressed ^ ^^^j^ ^j^^^ ^^^. ^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ rtoae in wrath. Ihe contractor like all : ^ . , . his kind, was obilui ate. He declared ; •>"' "a**"" for some hours, and even the men had wantonly wasted their j then it has its laxative results. If. rations and should have no more. | then, we may consider bran to be The tx>Jy of workmen marched to the i» _„»:,... . k j j « " . â- '. , , .. ,, . 1 .. I,;,. , 'axative when so prepared, and for m.a- contractor s hotise and squatted at his . k k » • pala<-e gate and vowed they would stay ! '«''^ aninwls. much more may we think there till they had justice. I'hey j of it as altogether too much so for spoileil the view, their noi.se disturbed ; the young and tenderer lambs. And the contractor, and he weakened. , if it is fed Svithout sufficient caution When he offered to compromise by Uiy- ; discretion, and knowledge of its char- ing the matter before Pharaoh the mob j acter and results, we may look for knew that victory was theirs. They ; troulde among the lambs. When grasiHMl the faot as fully in those days ' given medicinally in the form of a as now. that when a contractor yields mash to oM sheep it should always be an inch the King of Labor can sweep i mixed with the .soft mucilaginous lin- him 11 mile. ' seed or oatmeal. The former Is the rharaoh wanted his temple. The better of the two. For lamlw about iiagalelle of a few million sacks of re;vdy for weaning, bran rightly used is corn was nothing to him. Pharaoh an exc«'llent food, for it contains pre- i)rilercd the request of the workmen ci-«ly the right kinds and proportions .^ranted, and all went well for a time, of the l>one and flesh making elements I'.ut the same thing occurred next of fo<vi. The writer h.asfed a lot of month. The men. encouraged by their sucking lambs in preparation forwean- previous successes struck again. But ing them with a ration of four oum-es igain they were victorious, and the of mixed cottonseed meal and bran, liig granaries had to be drawn upon Hut the precaution is taken to run the liefore they would resume the work inixeil feed through the mill to grind that was to be l^ypt's pride. it finely, and thusgvt rid of the irrita- So from the beginning success has tive effect of the .sharp scales of the lieiche»i upon the liMiner of the bran on the intestines The cou- strikers. I stipatlag effect of the cottonseed meal seems to avoid every tendency of the bran to cause looseness of the Imwels. ground freezes. This being the case, late autumn is the time to water, and by so doing the trees will come out in good shape in the .spring and make a satisfactory growth. If allowed to freeze up dry, the severe cold during the winter impoverishes the trees and next ^ring they are puny and sickly with not sufficient vitality left to carry them through the summer. The best way to apply the water with the least waste is to select a solid stick of timber two feet long and about four inches in dLunater and sharpen one end to a point tapering back to within six inches of the top. Drive this dowTj about 18 inches close to the main root of the tree. Remove it and fill the hole with water. Repeat every evening until the roots are thor- oughly soake<l. The hole should be covered with a stone to prevent evap- oration and filling op. After the process is completed fill the hole with earth. The best time for doing this work is the latter part of October or the first week in November. This may seem like a great deal of work, but it is better to do this than to see groves and orchards die. ITEMS OF INTEBSST. â- eadaMe Paracrapka Vwwm the Vear •â- â- rten aflke Cleke. Camel's milk Is said, to be very hel(>- ful to consumptive*. It is palatabia and ncurishing. A agn before the dooir of a dent- ist reads thus. "Teeth extracted whii* yoa wait." The ccoatant labour of four persona, for an entire year, is required to pro- liuce a cashmere shawl of the beat quolity. Sharks are patronizing the Suez Can- al, and are making their way through it. frrjm the Red Sea to the Mediter- ranean. A curious Ijotterfly exists in Indis- The male has the left wing yellow and the right one r'»d; the female has these colors reversed. A rhinr>c«rus bird, about the siae of a turkey, which wna recently shot oa the iaiand of Java, had in its craw a rim from a small telescope, and three brass buttons evidently belonging t» the uniform of a British soldier. Adelina Patti lately sang '"Hie Night- ingale's Trill," at a London concert. At the close of the song she was the reoi{>- lent of a unique gift, a flower-cover- ed cage containing a nightingale, which gaily hopped from perch to perch. Gold nuggets to the average value of $5.20 were found in the gizzard ot each duck sold by a rancher in the vicinity of Ellenl.nrg, Washington. Now gold-seekers are haunting that man's ranch with the h>pe of finding a gold mine. B<iBton housekeevers are in distress because of the frequent stoppage of the water-pipes by eels. The fish, when young and small, pass through the strainers at the reservoir, buj. they quickly grow big enough to become ob- structive. Wife-beaters in Butte. Montana, re- ceive an extremely suggestive hint. ii,â„¢ â-º . .u w: ji . ^^''" one of them sees a piece of crape Always treat the cows kindly and y,,,-- „ u: j .c^- -„if. .k .... i„...i i.n.: Dung on his door SOMB GOOD DAIRY RrLES. Keep the cows clean and wash the udders before miU^iag. Keep the barn clean, with walls and ceilings whitewashed ; have it well light,3.1. ventilated and free from dust at milking time. .Always make a clean toilet before commencing to milk. Keep utensils clean and bright. Remove the milk from the stable as soon as drawn, and cool at onoe. Never expose milk to bod odora Do not mix fresh, warm milk with that which has been cooled. Give Che cows only good wholesome food and pure water. Never add anything to milk to pre- vent its souring ; cleanliness and cold are the only preservatives needed. Milk regtilarly. quickly, quietly and thoroughly. never excite them by loud talking. , h^f'^."'* •**^'' •>' P'"°n?nt'y ^'nP'T hard driving or abuse of any kind. i^',h.^J ^^*? """V. "« ,'*^t» H." *f'.e there will le i funeral and the WRECK OF AN EMPRESS. wife-beater will le the corpse. -An ing-^nicus gentleman, of Hart- ford. Conn . has invented, for the use After more than six msnihs' absence "^ 'h^ army, a concentrated food which the Empress Elizalwth of Austri.i h as i l>^ calls " biuill in capsules." When a returned to Vienna, and has taken up i soldier needs a hurried meal, he swal- her residence in her lovely viila at Laiaz. built in the old deer park, to let her indulge in her whimsical love for solitude. We do not think it will be long be- fore the world will hear something of her. for sho has come back an aged and broken woman. Though sh; is 61 years old. her hair to which she has always devoted the greatest oare. kept until now its fine chestnut color. Now it is grey, her nose is long and sharp, and her complexion is sallow always and sometimes yellowish The Empress is enthusiastic where flowers and plants are concerned, but not always quite reasonable. She wants her Vienna gardens to be as lux- uriantly grown IS those of the Riviera, Her apoatmeuts display an unequalled wealth of flowers from the Imperial hot-houses. H«r bedroom and toilet- ruonis. bathing-room, and IwuJoir have hundreds anl hundreds of pots, vases, and glasses that aha tmys indiscrimin- ately in her travels, ani all are filled with fresh flowers every day. In her bedroom, just oppo'^lte her bed. where she can see it whenever she wakes, is a most uncanny statue of Niobe. veiled and weeping, made of bronze, covered with green patuia. This statue is en- sconced in rare plants an 1 shrubs, be- hind which green incandescent lamps give a fairy light The servants who meet her Majesty in the hovtse, the garden, or the park, are ordered to look away and let her pass unnoticed. She must not be bow- ed or curtsied to. As to seeing her. that would I.* difficult, since she al- ways holds up an old f;in that has serv- ed her for years when anyone ap- proaches She is to be followed in her lows a capsule and then jjrinks twe or ih.'ee pints of water In a few mo- menu his stomach is -full of soup. The transportation of prisoners te their own country by the victors is not a novelty in warfare. In IMW, af- ter the defeat of the French at the luttle of Vimieiro. Portugal, the vic- torious English deporte<l 22,000 French prisoners, with their equipments, from P')rto and Lisl.^n. and landed them at Bretjt. The smallest republic in the world is the little community of Gaust. com- prUing 140 souls, who exist o* the flat top of a mountain in the Pyrenees The miniature repullic is only one mile in area, has existed since 1848. anl ia rec.^nized by both France and Spain. It h:uj a council of twelve, who elect tbeir president. Books used by the blind are very ex- pensive. Moat of them cost alxjuf four dollars each. The Bible, in raised let- ters, is comprised of forty thick vol- nms. the price of which ia twenty-five dollars for the set. This is an excep- tionally low price, because the Bible seems to give more solace to the blind than any other book. John De Baun. agea tnirteen. of Tow- er Hill, N J., aiur a man in a circus eat fire. Some days later, lefore a few comrades. Johnny tried to prove that he Could do the trick. He filled hU mouth with kerosene and set a match to the oil. In an instant there was an explosion and Johnny lav roaring on the grotind, with burns deemed to be fatal. In the chief cities of Japan .-"everal of the streets are devoted to the sale of certain lines of merchandise. In one walks by her Greek master, who walks j street you will find nothing on sale close enough to her heels to be able to but w<w,1en shoes; another is devoted read to he>r. b'or this reason, and '*- ATclusivelv to w.',.vr).>., .„i n cause the strain of holding up a gown ^^'^^ J ^^Tlan ter^, km *'"*• U too great for her. she wears ^^^^''{l^reei r^Z^lZ\ Tr^l*' Tk k"" that d5 not touch the ground. Sb^ UZll thTx^^-.nA.nfT l^'""".'^- does not wear a corset, but over a deli- * e «.ld """^"''^ °^ ^'"'^ *'-'"^»~ cate cambric jacket a skirt with braces •'.,.- ' and over thU a black silk lined jacket. | me residents of a single square block always the sam(> lo shape, but of an in New York city. l>etween Second and endless variety in thickness and warm th Her hair is plaited, and the plaits lie round h>r head in the ^vay Tyro- lese maidens do their h;ui. Though so delicate, the Empress goes unaccompanied into the deer park of I.ainz, whi-h swarms with deer, mouf- flons and wild Ixmr. She carries a rattle, and wh'n an animal approaches she rattles to frighten it away. Her health most likely broke down Third streets and Avenues B and C, numlier 3.358. The average incimie of each of these people is only $14 a year. On another square b|,»>k. bounded by tifth and Sixth avenues and Fifty- third and Fifty-fourth streets, there are only ol4 persons, and their wealth aggregates $400,000,000. \ perilous feat was performed by a on account ot the unreasonable diet , Cossack in a men.agerie at Moscow. He she keeps. She will not allow ''^'' j *:•« directed to clean the cages of some weight to change; her waist miist be j ^,f the ta fifty centimetres always, even without a corset. She therefore avoids all solid food, and lives almost solely upon milk, The orange diet she prescrilied for her- ame, anim.als and sponge the brutes. Bv mistake he entered the cjge of a aav;ige tiger, with a I ucket of water, and coolly proceeded to waih self years ago. when tor three months I the animal. The tig.-r liked the novel she ate nothing but re<l oranges, nearly ) sensation ;ind quietly submitted de- killed her. She has acquired a fine lightedly turning everv part of IisIkmIv taste for milk, and can always tell ' to the Cossack, what cow the milk sh.- drinks comes I a -^ ,j- ,^_ „ „ .,., . ,, , from, and anv change in the diet of a ! -^ ^ "^ "^- P S. Mitchell, of Atchi- cow makes her object to the milk. Sh- i *""• *>->n-- w«s eager to go to the wor has an armchair by the side of h-r l>ed. ; with si^uie comrudes of that citv The which U really a weiphing machine, ! father ..pposed th- idea and "to r«- ,and there she registers her weight I ~ , u„ _„ , , . ',, ' "^ every morning and everv night. I '^""^ 7*^ *'" f"^"'" '1>^ 'nfluenre of his Just now she haa h-r daughter Marie ! <^'^"»rades, sent him to Wade, Mo After Vil.^rie with her at l.ainz, onlv two I he h.ad lieen in the latter place (wo of her grandchildrenâ€" the small ones ' weeks he telegraphed h me that he were left tiehind. as th'ir presence had just enlisted for lif> in the m.it- would 1* ti-Ki much for the nerves of j riiuoni >l army. That young m>n -vaa the Imperial grandmother. | determined to find trouble y kk i..'**,- 5* .'<S»S^SL..fSli;-t,'U!>^j.»,v,!(Sk.v '-../.-<«"«»». .â- Â». i