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f;. MHUmMmh^mm* On the Farm. ^1 I I i*. 'â-  %\ : ( VJ \ FAHM MBAT SUPPLIES. Most teroiorB ruisa ment Hupplien, •nit without thinking whothnr it is good muo.itfemenl. sell the carcass and buy ut reiail far family use, 'Jhe story is tolil <A a farmer who sold beef to tbR Ijutcher, agreeing to buy back u quarier for bis own use. He found himself in debt to the butcher, for ihe ri'lail price of what he bought wus more than the wholesale price of the whole oarcass. Whether the story was true or not, It is true that the price i)er pound on the coverinff. If there is any dnn- which the farmer gets for his beef B«'".o' freezing through this opening after it is dre.ssed and ready for in the field Is quite Batisfactory. The roots will keep perfectly, but of course they »ir() ner^ssarlly some distance from Ihe slock (ind aiuch more loboi Is required in feeding. Select a high, ilry s|>(it, m;ike a Mlight excavation, pile up the beets carefully und coTer directly with earth. Make the cover- ing slight ut first, but as thi< rold in- creases deepen the layer of Koil. Some prefer n layer of straw, loaves or hay next the roots, but this is not neces- sary, particularly with beets and ruta- txigas. In either case always provide veniilation for the pit. A large wisp of hay reaching fiora the roots to the (lulsiile of the covering will answer very well. Possibly a better plan is to make a. ventilator by nailing to- gether four pieces of fencing boards in Ihe form of a chimney. Insert this in the top of the pile of roots about a ff)ot and bank up with soil when putting nffi VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. •murkot, is always less than he has to pay at retail for the poorest and Iwni- •st portion of the same beef. Why the butcher should get more for cutting up and selling the beef than the far- mer does for the years of care and the tons of produce th.tt have gone tu its making, ia only one of the unexplained uysleiiea. On the furm undue expen- Ms of this nature may be greatly les- â- ened. and the family be as well or better served by a discreet use of the supplies to be obtained from the farm kaslf. Poor indeed must be the manage- ment ot the iKiullry yard if eggs in Kbundanca cannot be had most of the . L Iduring a spell of extremely cold weather, pack the ventilator full of straw or hay. This will not prevent ventilation, hut will keep out the frost. I EWES IN FAM. AND WINTER. A vigorous, healthy condition at I breeding time, usually in October and ' November, is favorable to a large per- I centage of lambs, and the ewes are much more liable to remain free from disea.se during the winter and early spring. It is certoin that the ewes (nn be gotten into this condition much more evisily and cheaply in early full than at any time later. As the ewes will naturally be thin us the breeding season approaches, it is advisable to year, and at least a few during the f ^"; '^*^"^ *"'' » »»«^"<1 '^»«" "»»» P«^ head daily. Keep some fresh iiasturage for late full feeding. Eierci.se in fall is pro- ductive of thrift In winter uud spring. Prof. J. A. Cruig thinks that in north- ern climates ubi^ep aie hou.ned too much. The ewes may obtain uiore food seasons of greatest scarcity. The fowls, loo, are a never-failing source for meat that is both healthful and palatable. Besides the deliciuus "broilers," there uie many ways of serving mature fowls in attractive, up- pelizing form. .\d occjisional cuif, ' ih.in would be supposed from a fit Id of lamb or fat sheep may be killed during fresh bluegi^ss pasture Ihit has been the summer, and if ihe family is small |" '"''^ retained for them. Most shep- > .>.,..ii„„ _ I II . -1.1 herds do not advise putting ewes in a po.tion may be sold t o a neighbor, clover aftermath, as they are more dif- Who m turn may kill one himself and t flcult to get with lamb and in addition return Ihd favor. .\Iuiion. esjieciaily, | (he Hheep m.iy bloat on it. The best takes salt kindly, and a portion may ^ plan is to save the second crop of clov- be plai:«d in brinu for a week or er for the lambs. To prevent bloat in two. rold. Imiled mutton is an excel-] the lambs, [wstura them for a part of lent dUh. (ho day on bluegra.s8 pasture, and after A.S autumn approaches, an occa.sionar ihiii appetites have U'en satisfied to turkey will give viaiieiy and relish to some extent, cbinge them to the th" lilll of fare. It muit not be looked i clover. upon aean oxtravBgsnoe, for the home During the winter give sufficient grown turkey i.^i ch»,ipcr and better in f»ed to keep the ewes in first-rUiss •rery way than the average bref. The condition, but do not allow tb-'m toTje- nouy Liuime« fowl with his clamorous come very fat. Diight coin stover is oull for -buckwheaf i.s not to be an excellent rough feed. Clover hay. omitted. When oarefuily "coiked timothy, bean straw, are all pood. Try down in the pot with a slice of pork." to miike oits a part of the grain ration l^ the lime- honored wiy. it makes a and givo some hucx'ulent feed, as lur- «ith unexcelled by anything of the nips. In shedding the animals avoid iMthered kind, lor it ctjnibines with orowding and rough handling at any the B'jttJtry flavor a certain suggestion time. Rich animal requires 10 to 13 •f Wild gnmc that is enjoyable. , g,,. ft. of spaoa, and 1 1-3 ft. at the feed- Few huusokeepers caro to prepare , ing rack. A 150 lb. ewe requires about foi family use the erstwhile ixipiilar 1-;^ lb. grain, 2 Ib.s. of sucrulent food rfKist pig. BO great a favorite in the and the .same weight of sucJi dry fod- biiok oven age; yet there are few iiinre der as clover hay or cut corn fodder delightful dishes. .As cooler nights Ah lamling time approaches give twice oomt on. the prudent housekeciier wi I the alxivo amount of grain. dr»M u pig of more advanced age, fur (h* "ioasler" proper \i a auciling. Se- lect on* not too fut. which will make fifty or sixty pounds drea.sed weight. MATRIMONIAL STATI.STICS. Widowera are more inclined to mar- for Mttunan iiw. ."^uch •: fix v.lil' fur- ry than bachelors. Widows are more in ai»h oo,-.»ut*«il.le variety. Ih» liver is' u.^j , „ .. . . „ . «qual to oalfs llvar for frying with '='"'"* '" """''J' """» "Pin^l"* Both Uicnn. and the swoelbroad ond tender- i '•"'• â- â- â- â€¢ eloquent in favor of the com- nterestlng Items About Our Own Couotn' Great Britain, the United States, jm Ail Parts of the Qlobc, Condense< ao'< Assorted for Easy Reading. CANADA. J. B. Tyrrell has resigned his poiii- tif>n on the Geological staff at Ottawa. London hopes for the establishuient of glass works shortly by expert Bel- gians. The Montreal Corn Exchange fa- vours the retention of tolls on the Welland canal. A party of seven Californians is re- ported at Victoria to have been lost in the Yukon. Navigation has closed on the Upper Yukon, and all river steamers have gone into winter quarters. Major GenenU Hutton is favourable to the e8tabli.>ihinent of a provisional military school at Belleville. Fred. Newmau. of Winnipeg, has been apriointed divisional superintend- ent of the Crow's Nest Pass Railway, A report is in circulation in Toronto that the Government is looking around for a. site on which to build a new post office. A dozen river steamers are reported to be frozen on the sandbars in the Yukon river. All will likely be wreck- ed. Customs collections for October for the Dominion, total 91.993, 271, as coni- imred with $1,714,127 for October of last year. Montreal authorities are making a determined fight against lotteries, which are said to be making two mil- liim and a half dollars yearly. The returns of cattle exported from Toronto for 1898 up to the end of Oc- li>l)er show a total of 124,225. as coni- pai-ed with 120.307 for the same period last year. The Customs Department has seven v«H.sela under seizure down on the Nova Scotia and CajM* llreton coast for lunuggling tol>acco und whiskey. The Canadian Accident Assurance Company will ask next session for an amendment to their charter to per- mit their engaging in insurance against sickness. The Dominion Alliance Provincial Kxecutive says that grave and exten- sive frauds were perpetrated in con- nection with Ihe voting in the recent plebiacite in Montreal and other Que- liec cities. The Dominion Cotton Mills Company are willing to proceed with their part of their agreement with the city of Kingston regarding exemption from taxation at once. The annual meeting of the Consum- ers' Gas Company, of Toronto, was held on Monday. The receipts were $fl'.'8.4ir..03. the expenditure «37H,.'-)l7..'i2. 'I'here wati fl^tl.IMM) paid in dividends. H. <J. McConnell. of the Geological .Survey, has arrived in Vancouver frou' th«. Klondike. He traveled a good |K>rtion of the Yukon, and will make an extended report to the Department at Ottawa. Mr. Thomas Joy. wag knocked down in front of his own residence at St. loin are morsels for the gods. There paiative ailvantages of matrimony. For Catharines. Ont . on .Saturday night by wl 1 !)• pork steak «pare-rib roast, ^ue bachelor that marries between the bains and sausage, all of th« finest, be- , r/. â-  rr ouut* lh« animal is young and tender. "'"^ "' ^ ""' ^ '*'"'° "idowers re- D'lt to raenlion the nppetizing side tnarry between thnse ages. These are dinbes. like sniokod chop, snuw .and niarriagi«a out of equal numbers of each "minister's face." so much appn'cmled clas-s. The actual number of bachelors by former geneiiilions. linsiiles th se. ; married will be greater only in pro- there wi'l be small cuts from I he sides poriion as they exceed by seven to one t<i be pl.ioed in lh» brine for a week or two. when they will furnish pieces for cooklni? with bfins. .*> su|Kirior to or- dinary side pork as hardly to be recng- olxsd. the actual nuiul>rr of widowers living at Iheae nges. Under the same con- diliiins. for every spin.ster married be- tween 30 and (i.'i two widows are remar- ried. Inasmuch as the total number of spinsters far exceeds that of wid- ows, and the figures given refer to marriages out of equal nuiiiliui.s. (his disparity is not so noticeable. Its ex- istence, however, is beyond dispute, tr beets, tuinipH, potatoes or artichokas I ^â- â- "'â- ''"''y ""' "f "" equal nniiiber of STORING RtX/fS FOR WINTER. Roots inten<led for stock feed, wheth- sbould ba stored close to the feeding place. A ham cellar is undoubtedly the be.st for this, and if it is a base- ment Ixirn .so much Ihe letter, as the feed will t hen be on a level with the aniinsls. thus rei|uiilng a minimum amount of work in feeding. If sloied so Ih.it the ventilation is good and frost i-.innot reach ihe bins, the roots! will keep from the late auuinin until grass comes in spring, fiii ni.sliitig 1 throughout Ihe winlur raonihs the' succulent feed nece.ssary lo secure best result h wilh dairy cows, sheep and hogs. The chief point lo observe is to pro- vide as nearly perfect ventilation ns posMilile. There is much moie danger from heiat than from cold. After de- ciding us to the location of the root bin.s, build them so that the botloniH will be at least six inches from t he floor and the sides the same distance from Ihe walls of Ihe cellar. It the bin is a large one, provide parlilions every six or eight feel. Make these â- srve OH venlilalors al'o. This can be accomplished by constructing them us follows: Stand 2 by on end for studding. On ivich side nail narrow bo/irds. two or three im lies ap.iil. The floor should also bo niiiiply slatted, the size of the crack depending upon the size of Ihe roots lo be sioieil. Keep the windows and doors of Ihe liasenieni oiicn until I hers is danger from freez- ing If .1 warm day, or several of them, should oi'curr, close Ilia win- dows and doors during Ihe daytime ani open them at night. The roots are thus kept cool and in good i;onili- tion. If a osllsr (s not available. pittinK widowers and bachelor.s lielwcen 25 and 30 yeara of age. 30 widowers remarry for every 13 bachelors who enter the bonds of Hymen for the first lime. A SRVKRK WINTIIR COMING. All I lie indioiilions on which great reliance is alw.iys placed point lo a long and severe winter. In Ihe first place, there is the giio.w bone. For the first time in eight years it is very wide .and nearly nil while, which is a sure hign of early snow, deep snow and snow of long duijiti Then ihere is the ragweed. 11 i.s unusually tall. Thus does nature piovide for the feed- ing of the. non iiiigiatory birds when there is to be deep .snow. Moreover, examination of corn busks has dis- close<l that they are unii.sually heavy. That i.s another sign of extreme cold. The woodchuck. furlhei morn, oorrobor- Hles thi olhi-r »'vidciicc wilh fur of tin- usual lliicknesH. Tliit Is u sign that never fail.s. even ,\vhi'n olh^rs do. Last- ly, there is to be ciinsideii'd I hit Ihere is u surplu.s of leiiiperal ure which will Imvo to be wi|»ed out by a coi respond- ing deficit. These indiciii ions will con- vince oven the most skeptical and in- duce them to make wise provision fo'' one of Ihe severest winters ihit have been experienced in a long time. COMPLACKNCY. What is your idea of a literary clis siof asked Willie Wishington. Why, something llwil finds appre- ciation a long time after it is writ- ten. V Well, I've produced a lot of them. I've conip<>He<l things that won't Iki published for years. l»i> men and robb<'(l of his wntch and 930. When found he was unconscious. Burglars entered Samuel Hare's re- sidence at St. Catharines, Ont., on .Suiuliy morning, and stole lorty dol- lars from .Mr. Hare's ixin's pockets. They also secured some money out of a child's bank, and had a go<id meal ln'fore de|Kirting. Engineers investigating Ihe cause ot Ihe recent txillaiKsi' of the New York «!t Ottawa Railway bridge at Cornwall rejHirt that the pier was liuill on hard- pan of insufficient strength to stand I he huge weight. Since the Ilimilton City Council de- cided to gr:iu partial exemption from taxation lo the two [sirk factories in Ihe city, it is said various iniinufac- turer.H in other lines will have to lie lie lied sliiiilarly or there will be ilueatH of removal. .\ [Kiiier published acntss Ihe border Mays that as a precaution against smuggling the customs officers at the Cmidian " S<io " require iril ladies go- ing to the American side to be weigh- ed on the official scales before going and again on returning. Alil. Campliell, Chairman, of Ihe Ot- tawa Waterworks Committee, states Ihit the practicri of giving rec.i-ipls lo (citizens for payments of water rates and not making relurn.s of ihe moneys IKiid was prevalent amongst Ihe offi- cials of Ihe deiKirtmenl. The annual ie|M)rt of the .\cadia .Su- gar Refinery CoiniKiny, of Halifax, N. .S., shows a profit on the year's 0|H»r- ations of 9lll),2l!). of which 9H9,4.1l5was u.sed lo provide for the deficit of the ye.;ir liefore. A divi<Un<l of three i>er cent, on Ihe preferred shares is to be tleclai-ed. Ex-Mayor Fleming, of Toronto, has received a letter from a window glass blower of Hausait, Bi>lgium, saying that a niimU'r of his fellow workmen would like Iti emigrate lo Canada. He suggests Ihil cipilalisls interest th.'in- selves in ihe mailer and oiK^n a fac- tory. The workmen, he siiys, will guar- antee a six |ier cent, dividend. It is sl,ite<l in Ottawa that Ihe life assurance companies doing business in Cinida have come to an agre 'iiienl lb II llioy will n,;t take any more risks on Ihe lives of married women, cxcepi IxMhip.M, in very exceptional cases, where Ihe huslund is incapacitaicd f 1:1111 w-ork, and the wife is, the bread- winner i>f I h". family. This action is Slid to hive been ciusnl by the Katie Tough and other cihcs wher • t here was SI i<,ng suspiiions ihii I lie wife was got out of the way for the purpo.se of the husband getting the insurance money. GREAT BRITAIN. The condilion of Sir Henry Irving is critical, reports to the contrary not- withstanding. A Frenchnuin has lieen arrested at Dover for atlem[iiing to enter the .big gun turret on the Admiralty pier t here. The a|>pointment as iiovernor of Khartoum of Col. Kitchener, brother of Ihe .Sirdar, General Lord Kitchener, is announced. Strong tides restrict the work of aal- vijige on I he Atlantic Transport steam- er Mohegan. wrecked on the Lizard some days ago. Only a few bales of merchandise have been saved so far. The Pacific cable question is as un- settled OS ever. The proportion of cost wus to lie: Au.stralasia four-ninths and Britain nnd Canada together five- ninths. No progress b.'is been made since these proportions were fixed. UNITED STATES. John Â¥. Phillips, treasurer of the Chicago, Rock I.'iland and Pacific Rail- road, is dead. Many deaths from typhoid and small- pox are reported among Ihe United States troops in the Philippines. .\ postal treaty arranging for a par- cel post between the United .'•'tates and Trinidad was signed at W.a.sbington on Saturday. A compiiny of rhicag<i and eastern capitalists is ^leing formerl with a carl al of $10.000,IHK) lo build electric niilways throughout Japan. Rowland Leigh, son of Lord Leigh, of Warwickshire, and Miss Mabel Gor- don, daughter of Gen. Wra. W. Gordon, were married at Savannah, Ga., on Tuesday. Gideon W. Marsh, the fugitive Pre- .sident of the Keystone N«ti(>nil Bank, returned to Philadelphia after an ab- sence of .seven ye.irs and surrendered lo his bondsmen. The fishing season for Gloucester. Miis.s.. schooners is al out at an end, Fourteen vessels have tieen lost this year and 82 men were drowned. The monetary loss approximates about 8100,000. Lamliert Wilt, the alleged abscond- ing teller, ot a savings bank at Jung- hun/iriu Bohemia, was arrested at St. Louis Mo., on Monday. He and bis wife have been slopping at the Rozier Hotel. The combination controlling the production of white, black and salt glazed stoneware in the United States, hive formed a trust along the lines of the nail trust. Twenty-six concerns ire interested. The police in Canadian cities have lieeu requested to look out for Samuel Levy and Isadore lleikenfeld, who are charged with swindling the Contin- ental National Bureau of Chicago out of sums of money said to aggregate 828.560. John Dillon, at New York on Sunday closed up a folding bed on which his infant nephew was sleeping not notic- ing him. When the mother returned .and asked where the baby was the man tore open the folding b6<l only lofind the buby dead. He has been arre.sted. The rnite<i Slates Post Office De- partment has ordered an innovation in the postal service by the experimental establishment of a 'iiost office on wheels" to oiierate in the vicinity of Wcaimin-ter, Mjiryland. If the e.xperi- ment is ^ucce88ful, it will be extended generally. Some friendly Chinese of San Fran- cisco have warned l!ev. Dr. Garner, in- teriireler of the Chinese bureau, who ia making an aggressive campaign against the trade in slave girls, that I be Highl indera have decided to take bis life on Ihe first opportunity if ha persists III bis rrusjule. A Supreme Court judgment delivered for office. The majority of them ix* now living from hand to moulh/ antt the United States will only serve ra- tions to those who unwaru themselves The St Petersburg Novoe Vremya ex» pres.sed jealously of Ihe facilities grant- ed to English companies now working in the oil fields of the Caucasus. It suggests that the American Standard Oil Company "may he buying Russian competitors at Baku behind un English mask." IS EUROPE THREATENED. .4 Qnexllan Bncgented liy the rreseaee sf Knboiilr riasar In VIenaa. The terror in Vienna which has fol- lowed the outbreak of Bubonic plague there, and the deaths of five persons in addition to that of Herr Barisch. who first contracted the disease from the careless handling of germs under cultivation in Prof. Nothnagle's bact- eriological laboratory, is not without foundation in the possibilities of the disivisc. asftle from the effectiveness in a highly civilized community of mod- ern methods of isolation nnd antisep- tic treatment. ITor the bubonic plague whieh still devastates India and other Oripnt.al countries, is Ihe same disease which for centuries periodicilly devas- tated Europe, appealing in Kngland as lute as l(Ui5 and only retiring from the Continent within the century. The earliest historical record of what ia believed to have lieen the bul.onic plague carries it back to 707 B.C. In 446. A. D., it invaded England, harilly leaving enough living to bury the dead, according lo old records, and in the fourteenth century the whole world w;ia swept by the worst deva.sta- tion that has ever afflicted mankind, the black death which in its main fea- tures resembled the modern liulonio plague, and in spile of certain differ- ences, is believed to have been the stime disease. In Europe 23.l)0:>,' 01) persons died of it between 1347 und 1350, and in Asia 25,000,000. Its last vi.sitation in England, the "Great Plague" of London, in 16<i5, carried off 68.500 persons. In the seventeenth century a gradual lessening of the area in which the plague was preva- lent liegan, with lessening frequency, too in its outbreaks, in the eigh- teenth century it continued lo letire. and in the first third of this century it was confin.'il in Euro|)e to European Turkey, ceasing altogether in 1841, with the exception of an outbreak in Cis-Caucasian Russia in 1K79, which was regarded as having the chief char- acteristics of the plague, but only af- fected a limited area. Observations of the long intervals between pre.iius visitations h;ive. how- ever, led some authorities to l»>liuve in the possibility of a recurrence of ths disease in epidemic form in Europe. In general ii is h.-l.l that civilized condi- tions un 1 the modern methods of cars for public hoal.h prevent »uch ihi possi- bility. The bulx)nic pKigue is a contagious fever, chiefly rh:iracterized by swell- ings. usu.i!ly confined to the glands of the groin, armpits and neck, but in violent oases occurring all over the body, which after death are often of « dark color, thus giving Ihe disease its title of bl:ick plague in .some of its epidemics. In some oases it begins with swellings, followed bjr a mild fev- er, with po.ssible recovery inside of two weeks. In its most violent form it is followed by death within a few hours, preceded by a vomit of blood, and with- out the occurrence of the characteristic swellings. Of its origin, methods of transmis- sion and cure, little is known. It i« believed to arise in closely crowded Himmunities living in a moist, healed sporiidic cases it is not believed to lie transmissible. In its epidemic form It follow;, close association with the al- I 'eady infected, breathing the air af- fected by ih"ir effluvia, and handing clothing. The di.sease is known to have been cjinied by rats, an epidemio among them hiving been followed by the plague among men. This ia said to have lieen the cjise in the recent epidemic of the bulionic plague in In- dia. it Washington give's a right to insur- ••'""''P'i"e in a condition of filth. In «<l people lo freedom of travel The ° ' case in point was that of the Knights lempbir and Ma.sons' Life Indemnity Compiny against E. Converse. Pay- ment wa.s resisted on the ground that death had resulted while the insured was traveling outside the limits allow- ed by the l>olicy. The Cleveland, Ohio, City Council re- cently passed ordinance imposing a f.mr scent fare on the Imr and little consolidated :treet railway system Moth companies have entered suit in the United Slates Circuit Court ask- ing for an injunction preventing the Pity from carrying the ordiance into errect. The ground taken by the com- panieM is that the actiim of the City Council amounts »o an attempt lo ar- bitrarily seize private property. GENERAL. Salvador. Nii-aiagua, ind lloiuluras will hereafter be known as the United States of Central America. A leriific hailstorm visited Mentone France. .Monday, Ihe stones iinmen.se size. The olive crops have l»en ruinetl queniM). In Ihe Cai* Colony A.saemhly Hi. W. P. .Schriiiei. the IVemier, intro- duced » bill proiiosing an annual con- tribution by the cidony of i'.SOOOO to the British navy. Fire in .Serina«ir, one of the Capitals of <ashmere. destroyed all ihe public buildings and many residences. One man was killed. The damage is es- maled at half a million dollars. The Imperial .Stat i.stical Office of Ger- many his issued tables regarding the German trade for the first nine months of the pre,seiil yeir, which show a to- tal increase in exixirts of nearly S14 - |lill.7.il) as Compared uith 1897. The only sister of the great Germ in IMiel llvinrich Heine, who is familiarlv known as "LoUchen." enterel on Suii- on her ninety-ninth year. .She is the Frau Charlotte Embden, a hair and hearty old lady.who still rel.iiiis lierf.'ct sight, heiiiiiig and ineinoiy. The I'niied , States now his a. prob- lem to iiusolve in Cuba. 'Ihe insur gcuis olijeci til lay liown tli.'ir arms and alxiut 2001) of ihem are calmouring were of and lemon >s a consr- DE.STROYERS FAIL IN SPEED. The failure of some of the new tor- pedo-bo«t destroyers to attain any- thing like the sjieed recorded of them while on their contractors' trials is en- gaging Ihe serious attention of ths British Admiralty and of nival engi- neers. The difficulty has existed ever since the adoption of the 30-knot de- stroyers, but il has been especially no- tice.ible In the c.ises 'f ihe Earnest and the Griffon, which only a few inouihs .igo, while undergoing their contractors' t rials on i he Clyde, exceed- ed a mean .sjieed of thirty knots on a continuous thiee hours' run, the en- gines in each c:ise working ,it 6,000 horse (Kiwer. Since they have lieen at t)even|)0rt e<impleting for sea they have lieen subjected lo no work what- ever, yet on a two hours' trial, with the engines working at an even greater rate then when on Ihe Clyde, they bare- ly exceeded twenty-six knots. Such a great reduction ot siieed in new ves- sels is regarded as surprising, :ind even alarming, and itt is likely to form the subject of close inquiry. ARRESTINCi BLEEDING. By the electric hemostat of L.iwsoik Tail bleeding is arrested wilhoul the use of a ligature. It is practically a p.iir of forceps for nipping the artery, but the forceps contain a plalinum wire heated by electricity, and Iho compre.saed artery is r:iuierizcd in a few seconds, thus preventing fu:theK. escaiie ot bUioU.