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4~«‘.-\â€",-.»- A. . -V .-~.,._.â€"‘~\_V a... wâ€"p.â€"â€"â€".__ , , , “M â€".V.,., _A,__ .,. a “ “ ii THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD interesting Items About Our Own Country, Great Britain, the United States, and All Parts of the Globe, Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading. CANADA. London’s tax rate this year is 24 1â€"4 mills. Woodstock is considering an offer to buy the loc'al Electric Light Com- pany’s plant for $16,500. An English Specialty Manufacturing Company, with a capital of $5,000,000, may locate in London, Ont. The Canadian branch of the Pratt '8: Letchworth MLalleable Iron \Norks, of Buffalo, .was opened at Brantford. McMillan’s Wheat elevator at Elmer- son, Mam, burst. Over 2,000 bushels of wheat are spread over the railway tracks. The five youths who threw stones at the Jewish Synagogue at Ottawa. have been given the extreme penalty, $50 and costs or six months in jail. The trouble between the High school trustees and the London», City Council has led to a lawsuit: The city will not grant $17,000 for repairs. The Court will pass upon the legality of the refusal. " - The supplementary recruits for Strathcona’s Horse, which were enâ€" listed at Winnipeg, are all superior horsemen and excellent shots, and most of them have had previous miliâ€" tary training. \Vhen Mrs. Thomas, of. Ottawa, was told of the death of her son, C. T. Thomas, in Souilh Africa, she remarked proudly through her tears, “Well, I have six sons, and surely can spare one for the Queen.” Hamilton will advertise for offers for city debentures about to be is- sued: For good roads, $150,000; for the third main and the filtering ex- tenSLon, $200,000; and for the Board of Education, $30,000. The census of the Yukon for the purpose of local representationl shows that Dawson City has a population of 5,400, an increase of 1,000 since last September. 1,700, and American 3,309. Montreal City Council dismissed J. 0. A. La Forest, superintendent of wa- ter works, for using city material and labor for private purposes, and “’11- liam McGibbon, park ranger, against .‘whom there was considerable racial feeling. New Brunswick and Nova Scotia are attempting to_ secure the $5,000,000 which the Halifax award’ in 1757 con- demned the United States Govern- ment to. pay Canada as a setâ€"off to illegal fishing by Americans in Cans. dian waters. GREAT BRITAIN. "It is officially announced that the Lake or York will visit Berlin on May 6. , Sir Francis Marindin, senior inspec- tor ot railways in connection with the London Board of Trade, is dead. The Archbishop of Canterbur days that the «Church of England: danger is of excess and. want of tol- oration. The Duke of Argyle was reputed to be Ihe greatest landowner in h‘ngland, had 13 titles, wrote 100 b 0' shaved himself. 0 Ks, and Samuel & (30., an English firm, have OllilJld American and other foreign firms and secured the Formosa cam- :phor monopoly for ten years. Winston Churchill, the war corres- pondent, may be offered the Manches- ter Conservative nomination for Par- liament, to succeed the Mar i Lorne. qua OE W.ft l-S said in London that Lieut- Lol. Ross, grandson of Major-General Ross, who defeated the Americans at Bladessburg in 1814, will command the Irish Guards, the new regiment which is forming by order of the Queen. Sir John Bridge, the former police magistrate of London, is dead. He was born in 1824, was educated at Trinity College, Oxford; was called to the bar in 1850; was appointed a police mag- istrate at the Bow street Ptolice Court in 1872, and was chief police magistrate for London in 1880. In 1850 he received the honor of knighthood. UNITED STATES. There is a leprosy patient in the Bellevue Hospital, New York. The National; Steel Company’s plant at Columbus, Ohio, has shut doivn. Gen. Wheeler, and the widow of Geo. W. Childs are reported to be enâ€" gaged. 1 .Automobile omnibuses with a "no seat, no fare." rule will be run in Chi- cago. , United States 'Weather Bureau’s re- ports indicate large yield of grain and fruit everywhere. The United States Agricultural De- partment, in a circular, urges the im-' portance of good roads. ..United States coal production for ” 1899, is estimnted at 250,539,650 tons, an increase of 17.5 per cent. The price of morphine in the Unit- ed States has been reduced 10 cents an ounce because of competition. United States Naval Board of Con- struction has adopted plans for three new battleships, to be the largest in the navy. All Ohio man found his intended bride, whom he secured through a matrimonial paper, to be his missing daughter. The steamship Trite sails from wow York onMay 5th with 200,000 WNIWW owmwmmog bushels of grain for Indian famine sufferers. Romain Z-uffel; a bartender, com- mitted suicide at Paterson, N. J., by cutting his throat with a broken lamp chimney. - ‘ The Cuba; Company, incorporated at Trenton, N. J., with a capital of $8,â€" 000,000, will build railroads and tram. ways on the island. Permission was granted by the New York State Railroad Commissioners for the construction of an electric coal railroad along the line of the abandoned Delaware and Hudson Caâ€" nal. In a jealous mania Harry Matthewa a corporal of Co. 0., 15th Infantry, stationed at Plattsburg, N.Y., bar~ racks, fired 125 rifle shots through the Lakcview Hotel Sunday night, woundâ€" ed his sweetheart, Miss Stella Hamâ€" ilton, of Montreal. in the arm, and sui- cided. GENERAL. Receipts of Prussian railways are increasing. In the month of March 378Flllpinos were killed byqtbe Americans. A Turkish torpedo boat blew up in Beyrout harbour causing 211053 of 23 lives. Berlin financiers have subscribed 400,000 marks. to the Indian Famine Fund. The French Academy of Medicine at Paris hasacure for seasicknessâ€"com~ pressed oxygen. Over 5,319,000 persons in India are in want, and the demands for relief are said» to be increasing. Plague-infected rats, have been found ah the wharves of Brisbane, Auckland and Melbourne. The destruction of Panuca, Mexico, by fire rendered 11,000 persons home- less and, caused $2,500,000 damage to property. 'Lf Hung; Chung has legalized big lotteries at Canton by licensing them. Li Hung; will use the revenue in supâ€" preflsing piracy. Nearly every town in France has named a street after Colonel Villeâ€" bOis Mareuil, {whonvas killed while fighting with fihe Boers. -â€"â€"â€"â€"oâ€"â€" MODERN MINE SALTING. The Way This swindle 1. Artfully Worked In Mexico. “Mine suiting nowadays has devel- Br “71311 SUDJBGtS Dumber poped Into a very nice art,” said an en- gineer and assaycr who has lately re- turned from the inspection of some properties in old Mexico. “In former times it was done crudely. A rascal who wanted to give fictitious value to a worthless prospect hole generally bought or stole a sack of high grade ore and simply scattered it about the excavation, where the victim would be likely to pick up a few pieces for sam- pling. If an exposed ledge was to be dealt with, he sometimes filed up a $20 goldplece, loaded the dust into a shot- gun and fired it against the surface from which specimens would be taken. “But at present greater finesse is needed. The up to date purchaser in- sists upon having fresh ore blasted out from beneath the surface, where it could not possibly be tampered with, and seals it up in ii little canvas sack for the assayer with his own hands. It is then that the latest development, the hypodermic syringe, comes Into play. The scientific mlne salter has one of these handy little Implements in his coat pocket, charged with a solu- tion of chloride of gold. “He watches for an opportunity, and when one presents itself quietly thrusts the tip of the needle through the can- vas sack and gives the piston a gentle push. The consequence is that a few drops of the liquid are discharged over the surface of the ore. The quantity of gold in the solution ls almost infinitesi- mal, but it is enough to ‘run up’ an as- say $1,000 a ton. . “Meanwhile the victim is tranquil in the knowledge that he has selected the samples himself and has them safely sacked under his own private seal. Hypodermic mine salting Is all the go In Mexico at present. It beats the old method to death."â€"â€"New Orleans Times-Democrat. He Knew the Sex. “I understand you have consented to your daughter's marriage to that young Swiftpuce,” said the old friend. “1 have,” replied the father. “I guess you don’t know the young man," suggested the old friend point- edly. “0n the contrary, I know all about him," answered the father. “and I also know all about my daughter and a few things about the sex in general. If I had refused my consent, ten to one she would have married him anyway, but, having given it, the odds are easily ten to five that she will tire of him and throw him over before they've even set the day for the wedding.”â€"Chlcago ' Post. ‘ Curiosity Satisfied. Burly 'l‘i'umpâ€"VVOt’B th’ good of at little dog like that? Mrs. Ruralâ€"To keep ofi tramps. “He, he! Wot kin that little critter , do?" “He can bark. That will wake up ' the big dogs under the porch.” “Yes, mum. Good day, mum.”â€" New York Weekly. l l | Not Enough Pin Money to Go Round. Ostendâ€"Pa, I want a dollar to buy a set of teuplns. Paâ€"Well, you just don’t get it! It's all I can do to keep your mother in pln Richerâ€"Chicago News. iAgriculturalE ' PEAS AS A PASTURE CROP. Peas arev soWn along with cats or other grain to. furnish pasture for sheep and swine, They improve the quality of the pasture because of the rich flesh-forming and milk-produc- ing food which they furnish. The best soil. for peas is a mild, porous and meist clay loam, free from superflu- ous water in the soil. or subsoil dur- ing all, stages of the growth of the plants. Sandy loams are good if moxst but dry, sandy and gravelly lands de- ficient in moisture are poor pea lands. In preparing the; soil for peas, the aim should; be, first, to plough the land in the autumn unless where there are good reasons for not doing so; sec- ond, tinlough it deeply; and, third, to make: afine seed bed. In localities where the, winters are long, open and rainy, the land should not be plowed in the fall. Nor is it necessary when the peas are broadcasted and then plowed under. When. sod is plowed for peas, and. more especially if 10 is plowed for. them in the spring. the furrow slices, should be narrow. and laid atl an angle of: about 45. degrees. \Vhen pens, are broadcasted on land thins prepared, they. fall down 111 the depressions between the furrow slices. And when in covering the seed the harrowi is. run straight: along these furrow slices and, at one or two difâ€" ferent angles over them, it drugs down the earth into the depressions and in! this way covers the seed. When peas and cats are sown for Sheep pasture, about. 3 bushels of the combined mixture should be sown, but for some: sells a less quantity will suffice. About equal parts by mea- sure of each, kind of seed should be used, but; there may be reasons for varying these; proportions. The small varieties of field peas should be pre~ ferred, as they. produce more forage. The seed may be mixed and sown with the drill, taking care to bury it deeply as deep as 3 to 4 in. Sometimes the peas are first sown broadcast and the land is then plowed, as deeply on light prairie soils as 4 to 6 in. and then the. oats-are drilled in less deep- ly. But on the whole, the first method is £01 be preferred when it is the proâ€" per thing to, plough’ {the land in! the fall for the reasons, first, that the moisture is ‘better/ conserved; second, that the: labor is less, and third, that the harrowing subsequently given by way of cultivation may be more thorough than’ .wihen the oals are planted less deeply. . Peas should never be broadcasted and covered simply. with the burrow, except on sod land, the'narrow furrow slices of which are laid up as describ- ed, but it may be admissible sometimes to disk in. peas on properly prepared land. Peas sown for the grain they will produce, for sheep pasture and for swme forage had better be sown «'18 early. as the land can be, worked nicely in the spring. But for the two purposes lasti named, there may be good reasons for sowing them later, and as' a rule the roller should folâ€" low the seed drill. When peas, and cats are pastured by sheep, they" may be burned in.‘ to graze them down when they are from 6 to 10 in. high. The sheep should not be allowed to pasture on them. for various reasons, when they are wet. II, when' the past-uric is grazed down, the sheep) are shut away from it, the, grain will soon, spring up again. and vrgorously in' moist weather, and Will therefore furnish, pasture a second time, and, even a third time under some conditions. Peas and oats fur- nish an excellent. and a safe pasture for sheep and. lambs. It comes in at a season when “1110” milk is wanted for the lambs, and much milk is sure to be the outcome if the dams are grazed upon this pasture when it is succulent. And it is safe because no ill effects may (be expected from pus- tu‘ring the sheep upon it. If the pasâ€" ture should grow so fast that the sheep could. not properly utilize it, the residue could be made into hay. But when so used, the sheep should be removed from the p-asl'ure some lime DI‘QVIO'HS' to cutting the crop for fodder. Peas are past-urea by swmc either before or: after they are matured. \Vhen pastvured before Ilie peas are ripe, it‘, is common to begin when the seeds are- aho'ut ready to cook. If the swine are turned in at this time, they eat also of the g‘reen portions of the vine, hence the waste of straw is much less. Swme should not) be turned in and left, there for a long period at the first. There is danger that the green peas~ will derauge the digestion and that the] ripe peas will swell in the stomach so as to cause death through its undue distension. But after a lime the swine may forage up- on them at will, ' The strawi will he a total less so far as its food value may be concerned and can be. burm-d or plowed under. Autumn pasture may also be furnish- ed for swmc when moisture is present, by deferring llic burning of the straw or plowing. the field so pastureil. The shelled peas lhrii have been trodden into the ground by the feel. of the swme will quickly grew up. m A BAD HABIT. Of all the blunders made by some farmers, the greatest is the habit of cutting and slashing fruit li‘ecs.'Iirml< at that apple orchard. trees are. dyingâ€"and Many of lhv what is the cause iThe farmer did not under- stand his businessâ€"and has been cut- ting off the lowar limbs. The stub left: our the tree decaysâ€"and in a few years the rot: gets into the heart of the tree; and the winds break such trees down. Let us travel all over the country, and we shall find old orchards dying; some will tell us it is for want of pruning, but it isa mis- take. These blg limbs when sawed off of Oidl trees will not heal over, hence decay takes place. Trees, like children, should be prun- ed when' young, and then the chances are the wounds will heal over. If well done, the trees will grow lieathly and of symmetrical. form. If our farmers would devote a little more time in \pruning, and killing worms that are destroying their apple crop it would pay them. PUSH ’I'tllfi CALVES AHEAD. The calf makes the cow. If good cows are desired or stock is to be imâ€" proved, it .is through‘ the calves that it may be. done most effectively and cheaply. The spring calves should be confined to‘ pasture, and this gen- erally poory but should be fed with unstinted generosity. The rule should be to feed the calves with the greatest liberality wilhthe best food, and to push them! ahead the first ,year of their life, and never relax the generâ€" ous treatment until the old cow gives up business. The1 animal is the ma- chine through which the food is chang- ed from! achc'ap material to a much more valuable one. Thus the milk feeding should be continued to, the age of five or SIX months, some dairymen say all through the cow’s life. And doubt- less this ls, true, for why should‘ not the food» that makes avgvood cow be still employed to sustain her? It has been proved: by practice in. many dairies thatl the skimmed milk makes 50 per' cent, more return when fed to cows than by any other way of dis~ pos-al. But it is certainly good for the calves, tending to give them a, good strong frame, a wall-developed digestive function, ability to dispose of much food to advantage and well- developed Vital organs, thu‘s building up an animal fully suppliedwith every facility for making profit for her owner in her after lfie. But withl; he milk a generous allowance of grain food must. be given. uâ€"â€"¢-â€"__. BOER WAR BABIES. Names Chosen by Palrloilc London. One of the most interesting conse- quences of the war has been the readiâ€" ness of patriotic parents in London to give their babies names commemoraâ€" tive elf our great generals and vic- tories in South Africa, says the Lonâ€" don Daily Mail. Froun inquiries made at registration offices in all parts of the metropolis it is evident that the plrevailiiu],r taste in! the' bestowal of Christian names is martial. New Cross, for instance, has recently plroduced an Archibald Baden Lay, an Audrey Buller Lily \Vallace, :3. Harry llcdvers Doncaster and a Colenso .511 uart Dudley Middleton. In the lilolborn district, besides a Thomas Elands Laagte \Vilks, fond mothers have named their babies af- ier Roberts, Kitchener and Buller, while the famous deeds of our‘gallant soldiers on the hard-won mountains of Natal have (prompted other par- ents to call their infants Glencoe, Ladysuiiih and Dundee. liromley furnishes Lord Robert Kit- chener, Alice Pretoria and Amelia Ladysm-ith, while Greenwich has four Redvers, one Kimberley and one Pre- toria. liadyszinith \Vaghorn, who ap- pears on the Ilampstead register, was born on March 1, and Frank Kimber- ley Stuckey is the baby son of a Hamps- siead coacliman. The mother of a girl born in the same district on December I7, is the wife of a reservist, a gallant corporal in the Essex regi~ merit. Slhe named her baby Pretoria May, in anticipation of the month when the British army would be likeâ€" ly to enter the Transvaal headquar- ters. - mepstead has also a Cecil lledyers and a Buller. A Rollierhithe baby is learning ‘to answer to Louisa Pretoria, and St. George’s circus has a brace of sturdy little namesakes ofthe British com- imaiiderâ€"in-chief in South Africa. The Central Hackney register contains the names of five Commemorative be- bios-«Theodore Alexander Pretoria, Robert George Redvers, Cyril George Dundonald, Frederick Redvers and Henry Frere George. . Shoredivtch can claim a James Spion Kop Skinner, like son of a night- waicilnnan, while in the New Kent Road district there are Phyllis Mary Redvers IIalsail, James Albert Red- vers Kirby, Edward Redvers Gods- mark and Ilector Macdonald Matthew. The register at 128 Kennington Road has a William Roberts and a Fred- erick Redvei's; Deplford produces a Harry Glencoe and 3. Lily C'olenso; End Old Town contributes a Colenso, a Redvers, a Kruger, aTugela, and 1). Pretoria, while the register kept at 49 Amwell street, Claremont square, E. C., has a Margaret Ellen Lady- smith Angram. Bloemfontein as a Christian name has yet to find popularity. M PHEVV. Noggsâ€"My little girl is 2 years old and cannot talk yet. Raggaâ€"Don’t be at all alarmed. My wife was 3 years old before she could say a word, and nowlâ€" ' Parents In SOME INDIAN MAGIC. QUEER FEATS THE FAKIRS PERFORM IN BROAD DAYLIGHT. A Fire and Water Trick That I. Pretty Hard to Explain and on An- parent Display of Strength That Passes Understanding. The question of how the faklrs of India perform their wonderful tricks in a matter that has for centuries interest- ed scientists, und the best explanation that has yet been offered of the matter is that it is done by hypnotic powerâ€"- that is, that the faklrs simply hypno- tize the entire audience and make them think that they saw trees grow out of the ground in a second. Libraries have been written on the subject. In his book entitled “Quaint Corners of An- cient Empires” Mr. Michael Meyer! Shoemaker deals in an interesting manner wit]! the Indian faklrs. y In wrlting about the fakirs he says; “The statement has been made by such prestidlgitutors as Herrmann and Kelâ€" lai' that they had never seen any tricks: by these men of India which they could not explain. Be that as it may. these common street magicians of In- dia do some very clever things. “Certainly the performance before the Grand hotel, Colombo, this mornâ€" _ lug, under the blazing sunlight and not three feet from the looker on was re- markable.~ As to the mango tree trick, there appeared a strong resemblance between a tree grown yesterday and thence produced this morning. But It was in the other performances that the observers were most Interested. “In one instance the fakir tool: a small jar of metal and handed It around to show that it was empty. Then. placing a copper coin between his teeth, he began to blow, and smoke soon issued from his mouth and nos- trils. The jar, which was held aloft all the time, was found filled with wa- ter, which commenced to boil furiously. “Passing it aside, he opened his mouth and ejected jets of living flame. Indeed the whole cavity of the throat appeared to be filled with fire, which ignited anything with which it came in contact. We all saw the empty jar, the filled jar, the boiling water and the fire. but the fire never approached the Jar. “Another trick consisted in causing a dead and dried up cobra to come to life, or so it appeared. The snake is usually kept in a small, round, fiat basket with a closely fitting cover. This we saw was empty, and into it the faklr laid the flat, dried skin of a dead serpent. ‘ “Placing It not three feet from our circle and in the brilliant light of. the southern sun. be covered the basket with its lid and then made the usua.I passes with the inevitable cloth, about a yard square, which he held by two corners to show that It contained uoth lug. ' “His costume consisted of one gar- ment of the shirt order, the sleeves of which were tucked up at the shoulders, affording, it would seem, scant oppor‘ tunity to hide anything, yet when, after a few waves of the cloth, he removed the lid of the basket the dead snake was gone and in its place rose the ma- jestic head and neck of one of the lar» gest of cobras. “It must be remembered that when we see such work In England or Amer- lca It is done at a distance and on the stage, with all the assistance of stage lights and shadows, but in this case we were out in the plain air and near enough for the serpent to have stung us. “The last trick consisted of a display of apparently wonderful strength. A boy of 10 years of age was tied up in a large scarf. with its ends attached to two strong cords. At the ends of these cords were hollow brass cups about the size of an acorn. The fakir, raising the upper lid of each of his eyes, in- serted these cups thereunder, with the hollow side next to the eyeball, after which be pulled the eyelids Well down. “Then, with hands on hips and head woll back, he arose to his full height, lifting the boy a foot or more off the ground and swinging him from side to side, the entire weight of course falling upon the brass cups. It seemed a mar- vel that the eyeballs were not destroy- ed. “Perhaps those who understand these matters can explaln all that was done, but certainly no magicians on our stage have accomplished similar feats, and yet these men are but common street performers.” In the Crimea the British left 60.000 corpses, which are interred in 130 cemeteries on ground occupied by the troops during that long and disastrous Sweliod the Collectlon. A man came up to me one day after service in a frontier town and was pleased to address me in this manner: “Say. parson. that. there service and sermon was grand. l wouldn’t hays missed ’cm for $5.” When I suggested that be hand me the difference between the amount he had put in the collection basket and the figure be mentioned for my mls- sionury work. he stopped suddenly, looked at me with his mouth \Vllll‘ open and then slowly pulled from his pockâ€" et $4.90. which he handed to me with- out a word.~â€"I~’.~ev. Cyrus. 'l‘ownsciid Brady in Ladlea' Home Journal. . . .._s._ nan“