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Va..- -.. a": vweva wv« l l’i ll ll THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. interesting items About Our Own Country, Great Britain, the United States, and All Parts of the Globe Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading. CANADA. The price of gias in \Vinnipeg has been reduced from $2.50 to $2.25 per thousand feet. The Hamilton Board of Health re- quests that all school children in that city be vaccinated The Manitoba Legislature will be dulled some day during the week be- ginning March 12. James McShane, exâ€"M. P. for real Centre, has been appoints bovurmaster at Montreal. Brantford hopes to have a new inâ€" dustry in the shape of a branch of a United States electrical concern. A pro-Boer workman at Brantford was compelled by his fellow-employee to knee] and apologize to a B- ills-h flag, and was also Soundly thumped. It is probable that the Lcinster Regiment will remain on garrison duty at Halifax, so the Canadian of- fer to supply their place will not be accepted. There will likely be a: new election in Quebec before the Federal elections. The estate of the late George E. Euchett, of Hamilton, amounts to be- tween $800,000 and $1,030,000. Montreal Harbour Commissioners are asking the Government to estab- lish an Admiraly Court there. G REA'I‘ BRITAIN. The British minister in Persia. has invited the Shah to visit E-i.1gl-zind-. Dr. Charles P. ‘Sznyih, aiiotcd‘, as- tronomer of Edinburgh, is dead. at London. ‘ g. H. D. Traill, well known, English newspaper man and author, is dead at London, ling. By avote of 161 to 32 the British Commons adopted the Government vote for the addition of -12,t00-me-nt_to the army. . 'An. army order issued in London. in- ont~ har« [vie-s the reservists to rejo .11 lb 5 col. r3 . for ayeur for home dBLti'llce, and, ofâ€" fers £22. bounty to those who do so. In answer Lt) aqueSLion in the House of Commons in regard: L0 the Pacific cable, Mr. Chamberlain replied that he understood that the chberations or. the committee would soc-n be complet- ed. UNITED STATES. iA caSe of yellow fever has reached. New York harbor.» Win. Wickes, ‘che pioneer in the ‘re- frigcraiing our business is dead at Brooklyn, N. Y. Untold. Spa Les Democratic conven- lion will be held on; Kansas City on July 4th. ~ Tragic on railway lines at Ithaca, N. Y., has been suspended, owing LO tloodls. . . Dr. Leslie 10'. Keeley of "Gold Cure" fume (med suddenly at his Winter home near Los Angelcs, Cal. Coal minors in the ,mines between Jackson Center and Sandy Luke, 8a., have Sl'l‘llClS for higher wages. ENGLAND. _â€" llcr Present and Fuller as Seen by Lord limohrry. Though 1 read with the greatest in- terest the criticisms of the military experts on the Continent, and read with a considerably greater interest" the deductions they draw that the sun of England is setting, and setting Sorever, I am not! aware that any other country in the world has ever ..ent an army' of 120,000 men to fight 7,000 miles away, from its base. If that be a fact, as it is a fact; we need not think the importance of England is so great' as it is supposed to be on the Continent. l ' There has been a great loss of prestige. 1 suppose that at the end of 18.8 the prestige of England stood higher than it has stood since VVatcr- loo. I am afraid that this war has dispersed a good deal of that sentiv- ment; but I ask you to remember that, if it; was ill-bounded, it is in- finitely better that it should be dis- pelled now than that, resting on a molten foundation, it should lure us by its dream of power into enterprises which might be much more disas- trous. ' 'l‘hat prestige, I venture to predict, will be recovered without much diffi- culty. What We have to do is to set oursechs, with as little loss as may he, to recoverall that prestige. When the war is finished, if we set. ourselves earnestly to do the work of recovering have lost by our military operations in South Africa, we shall be infinitely more powersil, infinitely stronger, in- finitely more formidable than at any previous time of our history. 3 This country has two supreme as- sets, to a [degree which no other country in the world possesses; there- fore I venture to use the word “suel preme.” capitalâ€"weapons of enormous im- Ilil‘lIIII/b ‘Wfl'l memmwmmw’r CROSSING BREEDS. It may! be stated as a principle that the crossing of opposite or anâ€" tagonistic elements is rarely i3 ever a success. The man who attempts to combine the beef qualities of the Here- ford or Polled-Angus with the milk and butter qualities of the Jersey or Guernsey Will almost universally find his eiforts ending in dismal failurerle will spell the beef qualities of the one and the butter qualities of the other, and the neutralizing effect of the cross is the production of an inferior animal, both beer and butter consider- ed. ‘ ' .Cross breeding is never advisable, unless the animals sought to be imâ€" proved have them desirable elements in common, so that in these there :is concentration of common elements instead of neutralizing chui'acteiistics that are cppmiie' each other, as speed and size, or beer and; innk and butter. The thoroughored running horse may be, and often. is, crossed With advant- age with the standard bred trottcr. .UiJLh have much in common. Bessie-1y the blilo‘l‘Lth'n and. lici-eiord might-to plant Oi one; would supply, a WL‘mK p'J'-u_I. in the timer, and still retain the i ocei'qualiiies on both. i , , I the reputation which undoubtedly we in ammo“ whm the umbwm. The Jersey and Guernsey have little Each nus. been bred, in UN main, nor cen- Luries ior uiiiercnt and largely oppo- si.e purposes â€" the Jul soy and Guern- sey Lor m..k of concentrated character 101‘ fat, the Holstein for large frame, and a large new of milk with less re- gard for the. quality. 111:) cross neu- tralizes the results of centuries of breeding for these purposes, and ‘ im- proves neither. The admirer of 1101â€" sieins, ii he be Wise, will never at- They are our Navy and our tempt to cross them With any other breed. _ He may use a Holstein bu.l With his native cows to improve the mraaw mm}.- Agricultural ‘ ~".l‘hle portance in time of war and instrul- herd my mik by adding Holsten . _ . 4. ‘ A i ments “aenormo‘fsv Weight m‘ume 0‘s I blood, but he, will not. go beyond, this. peace' .lhese me “.13 suplem‘? .ab' ’l‘he Ayi‘..h.re, Jersey and Guernsey sets which we have in a. condition I have much m kmmmon . ‘All are S'liperwr to a“ > other natmns’ an?” moderate in size, and all bred for .thc ,wuh- that start of a Navy and capiâ€" ; pmmuucuon 01. milk and but“ in .ml’ we Shank} n.0t be long m bulld" which quality. as well as quantity is mg up'uur p1?511ge' _ ,. 1 sought. All of those breeds have We hm]? “lather asset’ hint ‘t W0“ d their weak points. as breeds, but they 'be offensrve to other nations to say do not he in the same dime-Lion For we have it in a degree superior to any i hardiness m cunsutuuon’ ‘ the Ayb 9th9rs’. and thel‘dof‘e’. Iwfli not. .say lehire is perhaps surpassed by no it; I w111_only say it IS solid, VlSlllle l Dream This m the walk, pmnt or the and tangibleâ€"I mean the character of other two breeds’ and the refluu’ of successmiiy crossed When the HLIUlLfl 0111‘ People- I‘llhlnk thth milnyl Off” i the cross is an animal'with tho hardi- of late years, in watching the maich . hood 0,- the Ayrshire “LL16 if any 0f prospenty’ the march ofiluxury’ldiminished, and an increased flow, the march of ease in this country, the: .. J r- , . ’ .x V, __ heedlessness with which we were as- I! {Eifieihe quality 01 thc’ Juwy r.“ ls'ummg . enommous refipol‘s‘b‘l‘liji The animal the result of this cross nbrotnld wfiléiout really tehmtlzmgsussihi; is larger than the. average Jersey, be? men. y o ow we wer . handsome m , N ‘.,». . . t h. 1 ier rounded, and as ' gléi‘etgegptniaglt‘ :12: 3‘30“ #52:“ 718; form as one' could wilslii to see. It is .' .7 ,1. FM ., . ‘ suffering from fatty degeneration of l. “lmply the stu’n‘g mm“ m thb one ‘ _ _ . . supplying the weak point of an- the hefnt’ that {he “5mm? m'ghtiolher \VLl.h a concentration." of the PTO” Itself “0‘”th 0f “'8' high .de’s" I desirable elements of; both that) are in hm" thnt.” hn'd.hndl too Racy a t1me"common. It is in cattle much what and that it required to be braced up} the cross ofthe thoroughbred with End fgsl'ed lby (1“?Vet1‘5iltll" V q‘dVe hfive the standard bred is among: horses. Of 80“ “mm M" 0's e‘ n " YerSl‘-V"'oou.rse in this cross, as in all other I venture to think that if that worki - - . . . , . , :kmds of breeding indiVidun.li-.y of whch ended W'llh the. battle of the i an- 211 must no], be’ disregarded. Crass. Tligeh had been passed in; “We coun‘ l of Holsriein Or Shorthorn and Jersey fries mm “mm”: Some peoples If would' i may occasionally result favourably, revolu- | The members 0f “18 New Yprk Mer' have endedâ€"perhaps not in Gandhi E‘Lcnm’ge 12""."UL‘ thajw‘i’uw’owl lion, though not impossibly in thatâ€"l “anal ’m'f'q‘umment m the bull?“ ‘_ iyet in such disouiet, such mortificaâ€"l 'Wm- 3‘180d01131d, ,3 “Oi-8‘1 C'allformanr tic-n. such accusations of betrayal and i buSSO. ids Paul-13's“ 0f “1‘? Jaw, .Lhe‘l treachery against their chiefs. Vihnt‘g “5”,” 01: 3 b9“ won“ an“ ‘5 dymg i the end of the nation might have been I M 58111413110150”- ' _ - visible. T, for my' part, was never so? Leander J. McCormick” of thelpro-url of my country as at the end‘ and founder of the Leader McCormick of that “Yeka There was a passinnnfe lf-aiher and mother, and ihe’ strength- Observatory 0f the Universuy 0f V11“ resolvo to pour ,out the last shilling: and founder of the Leader McCormick giuia, is dead. GENERAL. . Fire has deStroyed 320 houses in Alaquines. Spain. I The bill extending ihc modus vivendi on in: French treaty shore has pass- ed the final stag-es in both Houses of rho Newfoundland Legi.~.laturc. According to a despat'ch from Rhymes, France, (i factory there. has rev celved an order from the Transvaal Government for $0,000 artillery shells. Gales swept, the Spanish coast, 24 seamen have been drowned, 8vessols are missing and two ships with 48 men . on board are believed Ll) have founâ€" dered. 'A Monte Carlo pickpockei recently relieved Sir Charles favorsâ€"Wilson, president of ili’e Grand Trunk Railway, of his pocketbook. containing $1,200 in cash. and some valuable papers. A‘ Leipzig cable says a new subsii- sute for brass has been invented, be- ing a new method of planing cast iron :w-iah brass by a galvanizing process and the last man to assist the. coun- try in her 11er of need. \‘thlever foreign nations may think, they have 1 not got to the bottom: of Old; England lyet. Prolonged cheering. -â€" London Times Report. of a speech. -â€"â€"-o-â€"â€"1b-â€"--â€"â€"â€" TOASTS T0 QUEEN VICTORIA. '0... Regiment Whom- Ilcr iiennh ls Not Di-z'iilimfi. ersli Toast. There is only one regiment among those in the British army which does not toast her majesty at mess. This ,is the Seventh Fusiliers, mud the reâ€" ? giinient is extremelly proud of its dis- binction. It see-ms that upon one oo- casimi, in the long ago, some king of “England was dining with the of- fii-oeirs of the regiment, and said, after dinner, that the loyalty of the Sev- enth .w-as sufficiently well assured without their drinking the sover~ eign’s health. It is a curious factâ€"the origin of which is not knownâ€"that the queen’s I health, on shipboard, is drunk by the officers sitting, instead of standing, The. planing is so thick thit :l casting as is customary elsewhere. from solid brass. _._..._.,._.__ NO GAME GETS AWAY. ln killing game the Boers use a bullet of which the lead point is ex- plcced so that it "mushrooms" when it strikes. On entering the bullet expands and tears an ugly mole. If it strikes sidewise‘ the effect[ is horri- ble. QUITE NATURAL. Baldâ€"Leaded Customer-4 want a brush. » Clerk, bringing out a lot of clolth‘es brushesâ€"Yes, sir. , Customerâ€"Gist any other kind? It's a ~hair brush- I want. Clerk. awkwardlyâ€"0h, I beg your pardon. Of all the regiments. the Welsh Fu- siliers have the most. curious army _ toast. It forms part of the cere- mony of 1. lie grand dinner given annuâ€" aly on St. David’s (lay. A'ftelrlthe dinâ€" ner, the drum major, accompanied by the goat. the mascot of the ’Fusilieirs, bedockod with rosettes of red and blue ribbon, marches around the table, carâ€" rying a plate of leaks. Every officer ctr (guest, who has never eaten one be-' fore, is obliged to do so, sbmmling on his chair, with one foot on 'tbe liable, 'wh‘ile the drummers beat a roll be- hind his chair. He’is then considered a. true \Velsliman. All the toasts are coupled kvith the name of St. David. It is in much this rwl'ny that the toasts with Highland hone-m is drunk. Encli guest stands with one foot on his chair, one on the table, and: the piper-s aâ€"fiping parade the room. . Lui. as a rule is a failure. Concentra- tion of desirable elements common’ to ening some weak: point iii. one or the! other, common to the breed, is the only inducement to cross-breeding As a rule itis not desirable, and should never be done but in the in- stances and for, the purpose cited. UTILIZING A MUCK SWAMP. ' My advice to one owningr a muck] swamp which he wishes to use forl fertilizing purposes would be first to send a fair average sample to his experiment station for, analysis and advice, writes Mr. E. C. Birge. If/ the report is encouraging, the next step would be to drain off as much. water as pussible. Muck swamps are gener- ally drowned in water. It is not advisable to muck very far. ‘ If insteadof carting from our five-acre muck swamp, so many green loads down to the barn. to compost with manure, had spread" it on the field. where the compost was subsequently applied, and had caquJd up the manure and sprinkled it on top of the muck, much labor would have been saved, and jus‘d as much. can. ripening would have been given, LO-ull green the material by its exposure lying upon the field, as it could get in’ the compost. in another case where we composted green muck drawn from the swamp and manure drawn from the stable on the field midway be- tween the two points and; near where it was to be applied. later, it' is doubt- fulif the trouble of ,piliiig and turn- ing paid. It were better,,,as in the previous case, to have spread both together. on the lland as carted, and to have left the decomposition to be. carried on by the weather. It is doubtful if it. will pay the dairy farmertc- d‘ump muck: upon the uplandeto be partially dried and pul- verized that he may afterward cart ii; half 21 mile to compost with manâ€" ure. It may be a profitablepl'nclicc for greenhoum work, and, perhaps, for the truck grower, but other methods are better for the dairyman. But when good swap muck can be so dried on the upland that a 40 or 50~bu load is not too heavy for the team, any farmer can well afford to haul it two or three miles and. perhaps .uriher, to be used when further .dr;ed as an absorbenli‘ in the stable to take up liquid manure. If the farmer wishes to increase the bu;k of his manure pile, as be certain- ly should, let him use plenty of absorâ€" bents and keep the manure away from detrimental action of the weather. Add light composting materials that will not, as much as he wishes, but do_ not let him? cart very much dirt into the barnyard. THE MONEYâ€"MAKING PULLET. A pullet that lays early is your money-maker. Watch her, note her, mark her with a leg-band, and do not lose track of her. If she lays early and regularly, Edie will look it. She will be bright, first as to her head: she will have a fairly long body and will haven quick business air about her. She will be active and impor- tant; she will be hungry and will meet you when you come wiih; the feed puil, Glance around at the rest of the pen â€"y(m wi.1 see dump-ish, stupid locking pullets, pale in comb and ruffled in plumage; these are not laying, and the contrast will surprise you. Take out. the dump-hh ones and pen them Sipar- ately and leave the bright ones alone to continue laying. The dumpi:.h pallets are out of conditon and nech upecizal care. They may be brought around and wiil lay later perhap: , Lut do not let them hamper your early layers. MENDING A BAD JOB. “ English Military Surieyors llurricd 0!! lo the Front. . 5 English officers have been urging: the authorities for years to make ai {vstematic survey of South Africa. reply was always the sameâ€"l “That’s all very well, but who’s toi pay for it?" so the work never ’goti done. _ . Now that the BritiSh Army is walking into traps all over, the place, and putting themselves at the mercy of guides because they have. no record i of the lie of the! land, it has: occurred [ to the authorities that a survey and maps might: be of some value, ,after all, whoever pays the bills. There-i fore two officers and a .staff of men ’ have been sent 'to South Africa to: make the best! of a bad ljob, and :sur- vey as much‘' as they can ot.l.he coun- i l ! try while the enemy is in force upon. it. ' , Those officers, Captain Close and‘ Captain Jackson, of the Engineers,g are now on their way to the Cape; Both have had: experience in ludiafi, where Engineers not only measure; fields with chains but make maps of; wide stretches of unknown country? Captain Close has also worked in! Africa. He was one of the commis-l siioners who m'illked- out the Angloâ€"l German boundary between the Nyussal and the Tanganyika. ' In South Africa there are practical-1 1y no maps to work on. Such: as exile are deplorany inadequaie -- "aboqi minable, disgraceful, such as no‘-~ nthctnl country in the world would standl“ is the verdict of a distinguished offic- er of Engineers. Sir Thomas Holdich, R.E., who for years was at the head of the Field Survey‘ Department in India -(:peiied the eyes of. the War Office to the urgent need of surveying in South; Africa. The \Var Office asked: him to E issist them, and the despatch of lhel Ewio captains is the result of their? deliberation. Sir Thomas‘is of opin» ion that Lord Roberts .will insist onl the officers having their own men Lof help them;- from India â€" natives who; have been trained in the work for‘ years. - "General Gaiacre's reverse,” says; Sir Thomas Holdich. "was simply due to the fact that he did not know where he was going. On the Indian frontier we never trust to guides. “’6' have our OWn surveys and our own: men, and so" it will have to \be, in South Africa. - ' l "Now that WC! are going to take up South Africa, I shall suggest when the war is over, that a country be made For that purpose intelligent natives would. make the best workmen. They might: be sent to India for their initial training." a..â€" W HIS ADDRESS. The following, from an English pa- per, will be enjoyed by Speakers who have found themselves called upon to address audiences already wearied by excessively long speeches: ' A certain man was invited to speak at: a local gathering, and. being nobcd y in particular. was placed last on the list. of speakers. lMoreover the chair- man introduced several speakers wh'cse names were not on the list, and the audience was tired out when hes aid, Bones will now give us his address." introducing the final :peaker, "Mr. “My address, said-Mr. Bones, ris- ing. “is 55l Park Villa's, S. W.) and. 1 wish you all good nigh-g." m A STROKE IN ECONOMY. Wife. where are those new handker chiefs I bought? Why, Edgar, you already have so many that I put them away to give you on your birthday. . complain 1 wax. topographical survey of the whole we can be more successful in increasing NOTES ABOUT CUBA. Three out of four Cubans are illiterate. Cotton plants grow 15 feet high in Cuba. The average Cuban is short mil sparely built. Cuban ladies smoke long and strong cigars. The Cuban’s pet word is “manana.” (tomorrow). Area. of Cuba is 46,000 square miles It counts 850 rivers. The present population of Cuba is esti- mated at 1,000,000. Cuban soil produces three to five crops of vegetables a year. There are 1,000 miles of railroad in Cubaâ€"one mile to every 1,000 p mple. Cuba’s rainy period is from May to Co- tober. Her dry time covers the rest of the . year. Cubans have been paying $25 per capita in taxes under Spain exclusive of local taxation. The Cuban woman is a beauty and mar- ries at 15, at 80 is a. portly matron and at 40 is old. ‘ The Cuban gentleman dresses in linen and creases his trousers at. the sides. The Cuban holds up his trousers with a. belt. The Cuban business man gives only four hours a day to business, sleeps from noon to 2 p. in. and spends the other 18 hours‘in eating, resting and social pleas- urea. PERT PERSONALS. Cecil Rhodes wants universal peso broken probably by brilliant flashes o Jainescnian raidsâ€"Baltimore American. The girls may have kissed General Shatter, but you may be sure they didn’t clasp their arms around his waistsâ€"1308‘ ton Globe. The greatest wonder of this great coun- try is to see the Hon. Tom Reed wheeling down Pennsylvania avenue smoking a cigareet.â€"Memphis Appeal. It; will be an interesting meeting when Senator Beveridge of Indiana discusses the situation with Representative Booze of Marylandâ€"Minneapolis Journal. Miss Mamie Witless and Henry Foolfel- lcr were married in Lincoln county last vccek. Heaven will surely smile upon such a fitting union as that.â€"Denver Post. Dr. Mary Walker wants to lecture. be» fore congress. It is believed, however, that- congrcss will practice self denial In this matter ‘. ‘ 1‘- ' ' CURTNN Rmseas “The dramatic breakfast" is the latest fad in New York. ‘ John Philip Sousa has completely recov- ered from his recent; illness. London is to have the first View of Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet. . 5'1~ lligby Bell is rehearsing “Joe Burst», . Gentleman,” a. play by Mrs. Hodgson Burnett. , Neil Burgess has returned to America and will go into vaudeville with Louise Tliorndylio Boucicault. Perosi, the priest. composer, has been appointed director of music at the Sistine % chapel by Pope Leo XIII. Minnie Palmer, the veteran soubrctte, shortly returns from Europe to make her flcbut on the vaiuloville stage. Walter Jones is now solo manager of the "Yankee Doodle Dandy” company. He will produce it in small eastern towns. There is some probability that "Rupert of Hentzau” will be given in London next season with James K. Hackett as the two Rudoifs. - Julia Arthur has secured the American rights to Emile Bergerat’s “Plus qua Heine,” in which Jane Hading will ap- pear soon in Paris. Two actresses and one actor of New York, with liabilities of $122,000 and scarfpiiis and stage jewels as assets, have been adjudged bankrupts. Yvette Guilbcrt, who has been sufi‘crlng from rheumatism, declares licr ailllction is a blessing in disguise, as it prevents her from using superfluous gestures. Paul Potter is at work upon a romantic drama of the Anthony Hopeâ€"Stanley chinan type, and Madeline Lucctte Ryley is putting the finishing touches to a play which has an English poet of a cen- tury ago for its hero. .. Most; of the successful plays of late are draiiiiitlzations of novels. Among them may be mentioned "The Manxman,” “The Christian,” “Tho Little Minister,” , “Under the Red Robe,” “The Prisoner of yI'nmda.” and “Rupert. of Hentzau." ‘ THE HONEY MAKERS. An apiary is host located on the south or east side of a. slope. , Worthless queens may be detected by the broods they produce. ' Foundation for comb honey must be made very thin and of the best; quality of the stock of bees by managing to have a surplus of queens early. . I It is necessary as soon as possible to unite all weak colonies that Will be un- able to build up into strong ones. i In many cases to make the most out of bees it will pay to sow a patch of buck- ' wh eat and clover especially for them. It is a heavy loss of honey toiillow bees to manufacture their own comb. The more economical plan is to ‘ buy founda- 'tion. Care should be taken to save all young brood and the brood combs or those con- taining brood, putting them together in the center of the hive. When the bees are kept in ordinary hives and wiiitered out of doors, shading during the latter part; of the winter will be bone- flcial.â€"-St. Iii)“.le Tl.t-“‘17'~7iI* UNGALLANT FRANCE. So there is to 139,110 woman’s depart;- ment at the great. exposition in Paris next year. The French don’t syiiipathiac with that sort of “newness. "â€"New York Sun. ~~ France will have no woman’s depart.- ment in the 1330 affair. 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