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BUTTER MAKING. < How the Article Should be Made on the Farm in Summer. The following ulicle. by H. II. Dean. 11. S. A ,l'rofesor<f Hairy Husbandry, Agriciiltur al i '<>llpgn,(!uelph, 11 now being published by the Department of Agriculture, Toronto : Many enquiries have recently t>een received by llni detriment at to primed matter dealing wit)\ butleriiiakiiip.wniclisliowathat there in a desire for something of that nature. TII anl the overworked farmer*' wive* and daughter* in the difficulties wln-h constant ly arise in the handling snd care of milk and cream, and ala<> in the churntni; of the butter, we thought that we could not do better lh in to give a limple outline of how our dairy at (iuelph ii managed in the summer time. We might here .iy, however, that we think it would be far better far our butter making industry if the manufacture of the butter were done more largely in creameries or factories ai in the caae ol cheee. The chief advantage* of inch yitem are. a more uniformly good quality of produce and a letweuiug of labor at the farm. Our dairy herd at the present time nuin ben 14 cow*, 1J of winch are now giving milk. We are raising 8 calves, which are fed chiefly on warm nweet skim-milk con- taining a little ml cake. K h calf ha* a mall box in which dry oatmeal and oil cake aro placed, and which they soon learn to eat with a relish. Snmo cut grass fed in the table completes their ration. IN rue STAIIIJL At present the cow* are al pasture. Night an 1 morning they are brought into the stable to be milked, and are fed a small quan- tity of bran alioul one pound a day. At the kideof each inanger in a small box, which i* kept full of sail, ami in front or each am- mil is a water trough .where they may obtain drink at wilt Before commencing to milk the uvu wah their handi, for winch pur- poee we keep a wash baun, soap and towel in theiuble. Milking begin* at 6ve o'clock morning and evening. Kach cow's udder m well brushtd before commencing to milk, and the milking is done a* quickly and quietly as possible. As soon as the cow is milked her milk it weighed, and the weight recorded on aahoet. (Twice a week morning and evening, each cow's milk is tested for the per cent, of fat or butter in her milk.) The milk is then strained in snot gun can* through a gauze strainer having three or four t'nckiii-f * s of butter cloth fastened on the under side by means of a tiu ruin, which lip* over the rim on the bottom of thestraiu- er, thus securely fastening the cloth, and making an almnit perfect strainer. The milk is moved from the dairy a* quickly as possible after it it milked, and again strain- ed before it is run through the cream sep- arator. When all the rows are milked ' h> y ar<- taken to th pasture. The liable is thoroughly cleaned out after each milking and th Door sprinkled with land plaster, the windows and doon being kept open as much as possible to give the stable a good airing. Later in the season when the pastures be- gin to dry up we shall feed to each cow in !'' from 'JO to :V> lh. a day of green peas and oat*, ot which we have about three- qnailrrs of an acre growing vigoroimly at l.ii.-r the present time, about the same. tares and oats, about an a.-re and a quarter. we quantity of whicl hall feed of green we have sown ten or twelve days after the peau anil oats. Later till we shall feed green corn, of which we have about two acres. We an: thuH pre- pared fora dry seanon if it comes, and if we <lo imt require these to feed in summer they will be cured and kept for the winter. We have been using a Laval "Baby "Sep- arate, No. -' (hand powr( for over a year, 1 like it very murli. Recently we have purchased an Alexandra, No. H, and although we h*vc not yet used U a similar machine ha* In "ii in u-e at the farm for some time, and H giving good satisfaction. It is a cheaper machine than the (.aval. Our melh- oil ol using is as follows: After the speed of the IKIW! has liecn attained the Utp is opened from the supply can, and ti.i warm milk allowed to flow into the machine. It U very important to attain the normal peed of the machine liefore allowing any milk to (low into the liowl. Some have had trouble from lack of care in this particular, \Viirn the last of the whole milk is out of the supply can we run .thonl a g.dlmi of skim milk through, and lastly about the same amount of warm water, to clean the cream out of the hwl. The cream is then cooled down to alxnit 49 Fahrenheit, the machine aVl all utrnails thoroughly wash- exl, ami th dairy made neat and tidy as every dairy should be. The skim milk is then taken Iwck to the stable for the calve*, and the cream put into the cream pail and kept cool until twenty-four hours before w wish to c hum. I may say that I think a preferable plan would be la have a neat, clean room in or near the liable, where the separator might be set, and when separated the crcsm could tie taken to the dairy or cel- lar, while the skim-milk would be where it is wanted fr feeding. The cream in kept in one large (10 gallon I 'in can, which has a tin s|>oon in U for stirring at every addition of fresh cream, and also for stirring when tne cream : either cooled or warmed .Some'-intes the milk Inset in deep can* or creamer*), in cold or Icn wat'-r. When tins also be set to ripen earlier if necessary. This) matter of ripening or souring of the cream is a very important one in preparing butter for the prtTent market, and to get a j.i ..tiuMe yield of butter. The only rule that 1 can give at present an lo when the cream is ripe or sour enough i* that a* soon a* it geU about as thick as good maple syrup, tailes slightly sour, and has Iwgtin lo separate into small particle* it is ready to oourn, and we then churn it without al lowing it lo stand any longer. Our average tem|>erature for churning during summer i* , r >H ranging one or two dcj i e, i higher or lower according to circum- stances. The cream in broughl to this tern- peratere in a manner similar to preparing it Renfrew, Out., costing ten cent* ; and also a publication by brockville, On',., Mrs. R. costing cents, which is now in press. M. Jones, ol about twenty for ripening ; it il then weighed an J strain- ed through a perforated tin strainer into the churn. The cream can is then rinsed out with a liltle water. For every 10tU of cream we add one drain (about half a teixpoonlul i of Hanaen'i or Yorkshire but- UT color. This is done before Blurting the churn, and for the purpose of imparting a " June graas color" to the butti r. The churn we use is a No 6 " Daily." Two or three time* during the first ten min- ute* of enuring the plug al the bottom in re- moved lo allow ihe gas lo escape. Churn- ing usually occupies from fifteen to twenty minute* seldom over half an hour. The churn revolve* at the rate of 60 or 70 turns to the minute. As soou as the butter " breaks," which we can tell by the swishing sound, or liy the clearing of the jlass in the cover, we add a quail or two of water for each pailful of ci e-ini, the temperature tf the water vary mg with ihe day and ihe condition of the cream. On a warm day one can (oarcely have ihe watertoo cold,** itwill then chill thepar- tide* of butter and makv them firm, while at the same time the water dilute* the butter milk, allowing a more perfect separation of the butter. Thechiiining then continues until the butter granules are about the t./e of grains of wheat or little smaller, when the churn is stopped, the butlermilk drawn off from below and slramed through the strain- er previously mentioned for Ihe cream. This strainer serves to catch any particles of butter which may come out with the buttermilk ; but if the separation has been complete the butter will float on the top and none appear in the butlormilk until the very last. We next add either cold water or weak brine in quantity sufficient to float the butter and wash out the buttermilk. We usually half fill the churn with water, jire it a few rapid tuins, and draw off the milky water. The operation is repeated it h pure, cold water, which generally comes away clear. If it is not clear, water i* ad- ded the third line. The butler is them al- lowed to drain tn the churn for fifteen min- ute* or half rn hour, and sometimes the salt is added while Mill in the churn, but a* a rule the butter is removed from Ihe churn, placed in a butter tub and weighed. Il is ihen spread upon a "V" ihaped worker lhat slant* toward* the front and has a lever fastened at the lower end. Fine salt at the rate of one ounce for each pound of butter particular ward in Philadelphia. Th a* it comes from the chnrn i* now sifled on chart* show in some houses ten or twelve by means of a hair sieve. After sifting on | cue*, while in the adjoining dwelling* the about half of it the butter and salt are gently , disease has not been found. Dr. Flick is eat of the salt is added, well acquainted The Tea Enterprise m i . > I n The enormous and rapid intension of tea cultivation iii Ceylon and many part* ol India was, we know, the result of two special motive causes, the on* being the dis- satisfaction felt with the quality of the tea imported into this country from China and the other the failure of the coffee enterprise owing to the ravage* of what was too fami li.ii ly known at the leaf disease, (Uemelia vastatrix.) The quondam coffee planters faced, their trouble* with a patient penever an. i- which merited a betler reward. For not only did they fight with hopes. delusive ly renewed eve; y year by the apparently returning vigor o: the plantations, (whose leaf crop was never more glossy and abun- dant than just befor; a fresh attack of the fatal disease,) for the preservation of their coffee trees, but they successively tried the planting of cinchona, cocon, van ilia, and other product*, which one by one failed them in the very hour of anticipated success. Then they sought to retrieve their fort- une*, already sorely shattered, by the plant- ing of tea, a shrub or tree known lo be indig- enous in many part* of India, and little exacting in its demands upon the soil on which it grow*. It formed, therefore, a ready and convenient substitute for the dis- carded coffee tree*, and money Iwiug a very essential consideration to men whoso resour- ces had been exhausted by their protracted struggles, lea plantation*, especially in Cey- lon were first formed on Ihe same ground thai had been previously occupied by coffee. The product thus originally adopted as a last resource or makeshift has formed in that island it* staple industry, so that while in I HT-'l the export* of tea growers in Ceylon amounted fo no more than '23 pounds, they were expected in 1890 to exceed 48.00U.OUO pounds. My readers will be betler able to grasp thin astonishing fact when they re- im-mU-r that it take* from three to four year* to obtain any produce at all from the tea plant. In the third year, that i* to say there is a small return, but practically the planter lias to wait till the fourth year for the fruition of his labors. Thus it happened that the tint tentative attempt at growing tea having proved unexpectedly successful, the rush into more extended coltivation wa* immediate and simultaneous. ran I ouHHwipllea be Cared Can consumption lie prevented? is a ques- tion which some physicians answer emphat- ically in the affirmative. The careful and thorough enquiry of a Dr. Flick concerning theca*esoftuherculosis in one ward of Phil- adelphia during the last twer.ty-five yeurs ha* led to the organization in that city of a Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis. l>r. Flick has made chart* or map* of this stirred, when the test i and the butter worked by mean* of the lev- er. We work sufficiently to removo the excess of water, to thoroughly incorporate the salt in every particle of butter, thus preventing " streaks" and making a firm, compact body. The butter is then pul up in IM nits made by moans of Carver's i. utter mould, or ft mould made by Moyer \ Son, Toronto. These may l>e gauged so as to print a pound quite accurately, and llnnr us* save* a great deal of l.-ilmr. Kach print is then wrapped m parchment butler one .-beet wrapping a ji .nnd. On these sheets is printed, m such a way that when folili- 1 the words uppjar on the lop of each block, Ihe following, which serves s* an advertisement : i LISII 111 TICK made and put up by the KXrtKMIKXT.il. IIAIKV, 1:1 r.i.i-H. We never bad enough at one churning to make a shipment, so the blocks of butter are pul in the liox. This box is made of wood, containing fmir inxx/tn trays, with an opening down the centre in which is placed atin vessel tilled with ice, and the whole is ki [it in a cool room until the box is full, when it is taken to k commission merchant in the city of (iuelph. There are perhaps fifty way* of muking H . ill i.iiiu i , and I do not claim that ours is the best. There are scarcely twotxMsons lli.ii pursue exactly the same method in all tin- letails, but I Ihink tliu plan here out- lined will, if curried out in any dairy, give linti'T tli it no one need lie ashamed lo have a buyer examine. TIIIVII* WE l>i> NOT i><>. 1. Vi'o d i not consider that we kmw everything al'out butter makinu, its some- thing now 'is being dis -ov.-re.l i-vcry month. Nut only from our own work are we con tinu'il'y learning, hut als.i from the obser- vation and research of other*. 2. Wo do not keep a cow that make* less than '.' pounds of nutter in a year ; .'). Nor put the dry cow on a starvation 1 .11 i. .n : 4. Nor expect a cow lo make, something out of not lung. .">. Nor keep our cowl in an ice house, hog |ie n m dungeon ; Ii. Nor allow them to go a whole year without carding or bmihulg them ; 7. Soi' depend iiiH.n pas' me alone for a supply of summer feed. s. We do not allnw milk tn stnm i ... -tin- milk il put in 1 1. e miii while warn,, and cooled t-> at least 45 K.hren ,. ^ a((o nnl ft(low , ,,, U-it l*,ore.ki,nm.ng. which I. usually done , ; thfl >u ,. |u t<> ^ f<> ^ fi>|l , ,,,,.. at the end of twelve hour*. After .kirn- W( . ,, n()( , C(;t , 1(rai |Ue ming the cream is handled In the sime way I ,00 e I, ,t being already cold enough I huso who still use Iho small shallow pin *hould3t wharc the air is pure, the tem- perature even (fifty toaixty di;rrea), and kini, always, before the milk becomes tin U I lo not be afraid to take off some kim milk along with the cream. rill i. MM.. \\'f rlmni three limea a week Monday, \\ r. <ne*day and Saturday. The night Ira- fore we ciiiur n the cream is WAI med to about 00 by nti mi; the cream can in another Teasel contain) ig water at about !K) to lim We use a large <an, hut a washtiili will answer the purpose very well. The cream i* kept stiried until itgeUlothe proper temperature, when it it either plax-i. I in a "Koyd Ki|MMiinv \'at" or set in a loom where the leinper.mire i about the m.i.ir as the cream. Tlie next aflernoon the churning is done, but when the weather become* very warm we shall churn in the morning while it i* cuol. The cream will very ming the cream w h.n.lle.1 in the urn. way | ,. a( ,,. r mllkln "?.'."',"' A''f *. P . Wr f > - t f > - r i. e '* l ? t -!; h . S - L lt " " Ot I l<>. Nr "-I t^ :mlk in ,ieep can. in well water wiliioiil changing ihe water at least twi.-e, or with. ml ice ; II. Nor inn sweet cream with cream to be chnii- 1 i I 1 - III in IwelM houis churning. (The cream is M|ien,.d before in one for a whole veMel w'lich holds Ihe eicaui ubiirmng.) U, Nor add scalding water to the cream; ni>r guess at the le.nperalui* with the finger, nor take two ur llirca hour* lo churn. I.I. Nor gather the butler until the " dasher stands on top," and theu dip it out of the biitlennilk. II. Nor add coarse salt by gues* ; nor work the butter into preasc. I. And finally we do not lend our but- ter to m.rke( wrapped m old rigs that may have seen oilier service in Ihe homo. To I hoie who wish something more *x- tensive than can be presented in a bulletin, I have much pleasure, in recommending a . with the medical history of the ward, and his chart* support the con- clusion derived from liis own observation and experience, llvit a great many cases of consumption in lhat district have hern caus- ed by nil.-, lion through the agency of hous- es and rooms in which consumptive* have I.e. ;i ill and have died. The houses in which there have been many fatal cose* during the last twenly-fiveyearsare ihose in which ihere has licen a succession of tenant* fol- lowing a family in which one or more per- son* succumbed to '.ho disrate. Thorough lixiiifectionmighlhave made thehousc harm- left*, but without such d'.-infcction it was a trap for succeeding tenants. Fully one half of the case* of consumption in the ward are believed to lie due to liv- ing in infected houses. A family unsus- pectingly move* into one of the houses which on the map are marked with black lot- This house has just been vacated by a family in which death from consumption has occurred. The weakest mumlier of the in- coming family sii.-.-uinlw to the disease, the infection spreads lo new victims, and death .pa a greater harvest. The new society will do the greater part of it* work among the poor. It will leach them how consump- tion is communicated by infection and how thia infection can he avoided. It will cause all canes of consumption to be reported !<> the Hoard of Health and to be registered. We presume it will urge the health officer* to provide for the disinfection of houses and rooms in which consumptive persons liave died, if this precaution is not taken Uy the occupants themselves. The Herman Kmpcror belittles himself by exhibiting abnormal jealousy of his greatest biibjert. The demonstrations of popular interest which are attending I'rmee limmarck's journey to Vienna are resented In. in the throne as a personal affront. A chorus ol deiuim iation has followed from the 1 in). e : ml ist press, and tin- Kinperor has indicated his displeasuie in unmistakable terms. The sovereign ' grandfather wa* so great a ruler that he could honor both I'.is innrck and Moltke without compromising his own d'tinty. He invariably contended that his einei title to ilisiinclum was hi* ability to discover thn two men who could rentier (icriuany the most valuable ier\ >.-. Din grandson evidently consider* lhat a sov eieign cannot remain great if the states m.tiiship aud pre-eminent qualilies of any subject are n-.-o^ni/ed by the nation. That is an exhibition of envy which tends to dis- credit sovereignly. Kussian Poland is ordinarily credited with suffering oppression mid nothing else under Kussian iiilr. This isprohihly true, a* far us the old aristocracy is c .n crncd, which wai and i treated with revolting l.ii l.antv; but after the last revolt, in I Mi.'t Alexander II freed Ihe pea-ants and gave them the laud, confiscating the territorial rights of the no'des. Peasant proprietor- ship and the railroads built by Russia for strategical reasons, with a protective tariff, have greatly slimulated manufactures, and Mr. Leo \\iniavsky [mint* out, in an ar- ticle recantly published in a Norwegian periodical, the Bergnn Samtiden, that the industrial output of I'oland lias risen from lift, 500,000 in IH.7. to fcUl.fim.Ots'l in Is;.', and $ft-),"7o,000 in IHM The n,6'J7 factor- ies in 1870 roue to 7,'MU) in Iss-.', and while the factories were leas in number in I8H4 their output had risen one-half in value. Out of a population of H.OOO.OOO all but 1,600,000 live on the land they own. It i* really the rapid industrial development of Wi'stern Russia and the gradual exclusion, in consequence, of (ierman maun fact lire* and trade, which has stimulated Herman pamphlet published by Sniallfield A Mom, Jialike cf Kuasian progress. W 111 III HUM. I I I I - the Aacssls* Which Ihe Neasl <uB>r- After !>..- ,,,!! ,l|..o The doable execution by decapitation which took place Saturday, April 23, at (oerlitz, Germany, of ihe two murderers, Knoll aud Heydrich, caused serious discns sion of the anachronism of intlicliug death by beheading. This brings to mind that one experience wa* left to be added to the glorie* of hypnotism. It had never been ihuiiifhl lo transmit a suggestion to an in- dividual abcnl to be beheaded and then ac- curately observe, the sensations felt at the moment of torture. The celebrated Belgian painter, WierU, whose works are collected in the Musee Wiertz, Kruxelles, must be considered a pre- cursor of such a test. Wiertz wa* not an adept in occult iciences. His investigation wa* impelled by generos- ily of sentiment rather than through vain curiosity. What occupied his mind was the legitimate question of the death penalty, and he wa* ceaselessly haunted by the de- sire to penetrate into the mysteries of dealh through the torture of the guillotine. Is it true that ihe anguish endure* but a second ? What doe* tne cnlprit think 1 What doe* he feel at the fatal moment when the deadly knile fall* heavily upon hi* neck? All such questions harassed the mind of the artist. Wiertz was a close acquaintance of M. M -, the physician in attendance at the prison in Itruxelles, and was likewise an intimate fnecd f Dr. D , a scientist, who hod for more than ihirty year* de- voted himself to the study of hypnotism. The taller had of ten hypnotized the painter, who had already proved to be a wonderfully susceptible subject. Wiertz, favored with the permission of M. M , the prison official, aud the consent of Dr. D , determined upon Ihe following experiment : He would place himself under the guillotine, where the severed head of the condemned roll* into the bosket, and there be allowed to be pat to sleep through hypnotism and ordered to penetrate the mental and bodily sensations of tboee exe- cuted. Preparatory to this test, a few day* before a decapitation occurred, he submit- ted to be pat lo leep by Dr. D , who ui llaenced him to identify himself with differ- ent people in order to read their thoughts to penetrate their very wills and con- science* so as lo experience all the senti- ment* which agitated them. Wiertz proved a most fitting pcrscn for so delicate a mi* ion. Abont 10 minutes previous to the arrival of the condemned the day of the execution Wierlz, accompanied by hi* friend. Dr. D , and two witnesses, proceeded to the guillotine, and there placing themselves close lo the fatil basket beneath the scaf- fold, but unsuspected by the public, Wiertz was hypnotized by the doctor. While in this condition, I'r D obliged him to identify himself with the victim, to follow minutely all his thoughts and to feel and express aloud the sensation* affecting the criminal just at that moment when the knife entered hi* neck. He ordered him finally, JUKI as the head fell into the basket to make an effort to enter that brain and analyze the last thoughts there impressed. The three friends who accompanied the painter stood there in breathless silence anxiously awaiting development*. The tread of feet overhead warn* them that the condemned is being led by the excutioner to the death-dealing machine. The culprit ascends the scaffold : another nstant ami the guillotine will have accom- plished it* bloody work. The doctor wat he* Wirrtz and notices that he i* extremely perturbed. He suppli- cate* piteously to IMJ awakened. The an- guish oppressing him is intolerable. Hut it * too late the knife has fallen. " What do you feel ? What do you see ?" question* the doctor. The painter, struggling with convulsion*, answers, mouiing : " A lightning ! The thunderbolt has fallen ! Oh, horror ! The i.l Ihinks. the bead sees ! ' 1 1 sutlers horribly ! It hears, it feels, il thiuks but cannot comprehend what has happened. " It looks for ill body. It seemi as if the body mud come and join it. Il expect* the final blow. It await* dealh, but death ill not come I" While Wierlz wo* giving utterance to these shocking sentenoesthe other witness**, who had noticed the head falling through the b*g to the bottom of the basket, crown ', downward and bleeding neck upward, oh s, rvidth.it il wan looking at them with mouth widely distended and teeth lightly I i1inched. Tlie arteries still pulsated palp -I ably where the knife hail severed them, and the warm blond spurted out, spattering the eyes, the face, the hair. The painter continued hi* woful lamenta- tions. Ah ! what hand is this strangling me * An enormous, merciless hand. Oh ! this pressure crushes mo. Nothing bul n large, red cloud do I see. Shall I ever lilM-rate my- sclf from this accursed hand ? Let loose, you monster ! Vainly do 1 struggle with lolh my hand*. What is this I feel ? An open wound and my blood flowing. I'm nothing but a he. id rei.t from Ihe body !" t was only after long suH'ei ing that must have neennd endless in ill endurance that tl.ti dec ipit tied head realized ils separation From the Inidy. Wiei't/ hvl again subsided into somno- lence, and Dr. D continued his interroga- tories. What do you see now! Where are you ?" The painter answered : " I liy into open space like a wheel through a fire. Hut am I dead ? Isall over with inc.' (Hi ! if they would only join mv body with my head again 1 Oh ! men have mercy ; restore my body to me and I shall live again. 1 still think. I still see. 1 yet remember every- thing. There are my judges clad in dark robes. They ntt*r my sentence ! Oh ! my bereaved wife t My wretched, unfor- tunate child ! You love me no longer. You tli, union me. If you mly would unite mo with my body 1 should lie with you again. No ! You are insensible to my entreaties. Hut I love you (till, my poor darlings. Let me but embrace you one* again, ,'ome, my little child. Nil ! You shudder with fear. Oh ' unfortunate, you are stained with my blood. When will this ghostly racking end ? I* not the criminal doomed to etern- al pumahmenl ?" Win I ile the sleeping artist described these frightful sensations the bystanders noted that tin' orln in the severed head were immensely dilatd and expressed a look of i i ib'itde agony and intense pleading. The liewailing continued : "No, no, such torture cannot lust forever ! d"d i* merciful I Now all belonging to eailh fades from my sight. I NC afar in the remote distance a star glistening and scintil- lating. Oh, how restful it mu* be there ! II. .w relieved I feel. My entire being i* soothed by the gentle balm of peaee and c&lmnew. What a tranquil slumber I shall have. Oh, what ecstasy !" These were the last word* uttered by the) hypnotic subject. Although still in this) sleep, he failed to answer any further ouea- tioning. Dr. D at this point examined tba head in the basket, touching its forehead, it* temples, it* teeth ; all wa* icy. The h*d wo* dead. BOBSC Queer TkJeve*. As thievee the Bheel* still maintain their old prestige a* the most adroit professional* in thai branch of industry in India, a land abounding in many type* of roguery. End- lex tales arc told of their skill in stealing, and in escaping pursuit by trick* which would put the moit knowing '.hieve* in Eu- rope to the blush. They have been known to steal the blanket from under a sleeping man, who had been put on his guard mat Ihis would be attempted. The feat was simply accomplished by the thief tickling the face of the sleeper and a* involuntarily he turned himself under this (light titillation, the blankel cas gently pulled bit by bit from under him. Naked and oiled all over they move about noiselessly, and if grasped will eel-like slip out of the cap- tor'* grasp; if not, he will probab- ly speedily feel drawn across hi* wrist the sharp razor-like knife, whuh il always hung suspended round the thiu/' neck by means of a string. They have a trick of dropping poison on the leaves of the plaulam bushes among which, the cattle lhat they are not able to capture are grazing. In the morning tba cattle Deing found dead th-, carcaues are thrown away by the Hin- doo owner. This quite suits the thieve*' designs and calculations, for they imm*di- ately return, flay the dead aunnaU aud sell the skim, which was what they were desir- ous of obtaining. The Hint-Is, on being pursued, have been known to escape among the burnt stumps which, owing the preva- lence of forest fires, cover considerable tract* of country in oertaiu part* of India and allow the pursuing partin* to pass them within a few yards by the expedient of throwing their black sinewy limb* into such attitudes that they would be mistaken for the scorched stamps among which they were hiding. An amusing (and possibly even true) slory in reference to this trick of theirs i* often re- lated. An English officer with a troop of cavalry was on one occasion pursuing a party of thieving Kneel*. The soldiers al- most overtook the savage*, when suddenly they Ion sight of them behind a rock, and Ibough a strict search wa* made until dusk they failed to find them. Th< day had been hot and the sun exbaoiiting. The officer, imagining that in an open piece ol counlry like this the Bheels could not es- cape very far, orderH a halt near a clump of blackened stumps. Exhausted he threw himself on the ground, hung his helmet on a scorched branch, and leaned hi* back against a stump. To hi* astonishment the lumps seemed to become alive before hi* eye*, load chuckle* came from them : in about a second or two he found himself thrown to the ground by the itump on which he wo* leaning, aud his helmet seized by the very branch on which he had hung it. At the sa-.ip time the other (tumps be- came as suddenly metamorphosed into men, and before he or his men could recover from their astonishment tm-y hud disappeared, carrying off the officer's helmet a* the re- ward for their exertion* ! What he bad taken for a clump of bl ickc.ned stumps wan the party of Hheel thieves, who had skill- fully, after their usual maim uvre*. thrown themselves into tne altiludes which had imposed upon their pursuers in so ludicrous a manner. I u ui I lie al Me*. Much il written on the question of live* lost al sea, and though we do not wish to check the zeal of men who have done noble service in safeguarding our sailor* from the practice* resorted to in the past by rapa- cious ship owners, we think the great im- provement of recent years is too often ig- nored, and the tendency to over-legislate very great. In ten years ihe number of live* losl ha* decreased by nearly one- half, and when it il noted that the BrilUh Meet ha* in that period increased from i to II 08 million ton* this result is even more favorable Our ailing ships arc being improved in design, so as the betler to withstand great storm* and the adoplion of sleel minimizes ihe danger of standing. The small old wooden vessels are disappearing at the rate of about 1, 0(K) a year. These facts indicate a cause why the proporliuu of lives losl to the total tonnage entering and clearing our portals ha* decreased from 4. 17 per loO.OUO tons m 1SSI to'.' 06 in 18110. Thii represent* a decrease according to tonnage of one half. In the co*e of stuamors the increase in t rurlia is equal to 43.0 per cent., aud yet there i* a decrease in the nuuiW of live* losi of -H percent. In oth>r words, the lives lost were equal to 0. 57 per 100,000 tons of teamen frequenting our ports in I SSI, and in Is'.mu.ll per lUO.OOOtons. In IMS'.' the rail . was 1.4.i am) in Isnti 0.16 per 100,0110 tons. Theee were the highest and lowest in the decade, and indicate the possibilities of great fluctuations due so extraordinary dis- aster*. The tendency, however, is Inward a substanlidl decrease. In ten years the deaths among masters and seamen from all causes decreased from '23.'2 per 1,000 em- ployed to I.T Iper 1,000. F.l.Tlrlr MI.., I.. A despatch from London says : A flaih of lightning causeda sudden transformation in the dining room of Col. R. Lewis' rcsi- ileiice, yesterday, during the slorm. The ligthning ran down the chimney, smashed the mantelpiece, and broke things up generally. Several pictures were shiken off the walls, and the frames demolished. Fortunately nobody was injured. Lightning also struck Ihe barn of Mr. Kd. Vincent, London West, aud killed one of his horse* and a pig. It also prostrated Mr. and Mr*. Vincent, who were iu a house near by. \\ 'nle Meairs, Levi Smith and lieorge Temple, of Waterford, were working yesterday in a barn owned by the former, the building was (truck by lightning. Tem- ple neeun only to have been stunned, bul the shock sustained by Smith was a severer one. His clothes were torn from his body. Hi* recovery ii reported doubtful. MisUarley, of Piccadilly street, had her face somewhat l m ned and hor hair singed by a Hash of lightning during the storm, Tbe chimney on her residence wo* *b)o i! imaged, &ni] ihe firniture in on* of the rvoins considerably.