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3,... as“, ,. . V, i g i llltllilli it i ll] Still. ms VERY ETEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. l as harming items About Our Own Country, Great Britain. the United States. and All Parts of the Globe. Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading. nâ€"I'. CANADA. Crop reports from northern Mani- toba are gratifying. The price of bread has been reduced to 11 ctnts a loaf at Ottawa. The Presbyterian General Assembly will meet in Hamilton next year. The capital of the Union Bank of Quebec. will be increased to 81.500.000- Hamilton has closed a contract for goal} for its public buildings at $4 per on. 1 Senator Macinnes offers Dundurn Park to Hamilton City Councxl for $65,000. A rich placer gold field has been struck at Two Year Creek, abranch of the Stik‘ine. DIiners in the Klondike district are protesting against the existing trail and! transportation facilities. The Town Gouncil of Louisville. Que- has 'decidel hot establish a muni- cipal wine and older factjory. {At Gamel'pih, David Irvine, a noted burglar, was sentenced to fourteen‘ years ‘in the Kingston Penitentiary. 'l‘wo Hamilton Klondikers have re- turned home disgusted with their ef- forts. to reach the land of gold. The Provincial Board of Health of Ontario has been notified of an out- break] of smallpox in New York State. According to a report that has reach- ed Vancouver, 8. transfer boat of the C‘. P. R. has been wrecked on the Skeena. river. Caterpillars are rat-aging the fruit trees/11nd berry‘bushes in the vicinity of Kingston. Whole orchards have been stripped. Four per cent. 40 year city water bonds of St. John, N.B., sold for 106 1-2. the buyer being the Bank of New Brunswick. l'l‘hree men were killed by an exploâ€" sion and fire at the Asbestos 8: As- bestic Company works near Danville. Quebec. (1‘he Ontario Government“ has issued instructions for the seizure of all fruit hm which there is any sign of San Jose scale. tAt Kingston a vicious Newfoundland [log attacked the youngest. son of Lieut. Del. [Drury and tore- the flesh from his face and jaw. The absence of Senator Sutherland of Manitoba for two consecutive sessions has caused another vacancy in the Up- per Uhamber. Edward Lyrics, caretaker of the Ber- lin postofflce, has been arrested charg- ed with stealing a registered letter containing money. Lord Strathcona’s herd of buffalo from Silver Illeights, “'innipeg. has been safely landed at Banff in the Canadian National Park. In connection with a fatality, the coroner's jury censured the Hull El- ectric railway for not properly pro- tecting highway crossings. The body of Fred. Cope. ex-Mayor of Vancouver. B.C.. who was drown- ed: last winter on his way to the Klon- dike has been recovered. The body of young Patterson of Hamilton. who was drowned on Au- gust 31 last en route to the Klondike. has been found near Edmonton. Mr. Archibald Blue, Director of the Ontario Government Mining Bureau. says that the recent strike of oil in Kent. (70.. Ont, is the best made in late years. » Mrs. W. A. Mitchell, of Kingston. parlook of some sliced cucumbers which caused such a violent illness that sh- lnrst a blood vessel and died of h-‘mnrrlngc. (‘h'irlcs Moyan. an old Toronto boy, wh) is now a gunner on the cruiser New York. writes to a friend in that city, “ You will all hcanof the end of the war in thirty or forty days. A proposal is to be made to the City Council at. St. John, N. 1%., to secure legislation to expropriaie the pro- perty, privileges and franchises of the St. John Street. Railway Company. to be conducted by the city in. lll“ inâ€" terest of taxpayers. _ The Ontario Government and the. les- 800 of the binder twine plant at the Central Prison have made arrange- ments to add to. the plant. at the les- see's expense. sufficiently to establish a rope walk, and. rope will in future be made almost exclusively. Mrs. Constantinides. wife of Dr. Con- stanlinidcs, ywas stricken with apo- plexy while \nilking in Toronto on Monday, and was taken home in an apparently dying condition. She has materially improved and her condition affords hope of recovery. G RFan BltITAl .\'. John ded. the insine Englishman who shot a German Count in London. mistook the latter for Colonel John Hay, the American Minister. Lord William Seymour. uncle ofthe Marquis of Hcrtford. has been gazeb- tcd commander of the British troops in Canada. to snccucd I.icui.-Geu. A. (l. I Montgomery .‘Icnrc. 'l'h'~ Marquis of l.-:n~:doavne announc- es that all the officers {nullicated in (hi Transvaal raid. with the exception I of Col. Rhodes and Major \\'illough- by, will be reinstated in the army on ' half-pay. The owners of the British steamer maria. “bich on February 27 last tow- ed the disabled slran‘cr La Champagne of :h‘ (‘ompugnlc Genomic Tran’sat-y lantique. into Halifax. have been I a order! £15m” salvage by the British 3 Admiralty Court. I UNITED STATES. l The yellow fever epidemic at Mc- Henry. Miss, is abatlng. five men were killed in a mine dis- aster at Staats City, M0. The Masonic Grand Lodge at Seattle will recognize negro Masonic lodges. This is the first American lodge to do so. John Herman \Venzel. late of Tavi- stock. .Ontario. shot himself through the heart in Ddtroit. {He was out of' \ OH: and despondent. ,A general order has been issued to the effect that no native of the Philippines shall he enlisted in the army of the United States. , . ‘ - Ides tch from San. Francxsco an- Uofincesp‘the dealth there by suicide of "Sir Hugh NV. Wzilliams. Bart.. F.(x.§., '.\LI.C.E.". No such name appears 1n the baronetage. . . (SIl‘ Julian Pauncefote the British Ambassador at \Vashington. has been notified "that he will remain, there an- other year to conclude certain matters of importance that he has in hand. IA murderer was lynched on the pub- lic Square at Great Bend, Kansas. 911 Monday night by a mob. The victim was John Becker. 'He killed a girl 16 years of age on. April 8. _ The New York financial concerns have offered to subscribe for the en- tire 8200.0U0,000 of bonds authorized. by the United States war revenue bill, or such part. as may not be subscribed for by the public. . LAnton Drehcr, the millionaire brew- er of Au :tria. i; is stated-has announc- ed that he intends. establishing in 111:.- waukee a $7 00 000 (700 branch of his busi- ness. Drreher owns four big plants in Au ‘tria and Bohemia. ' The death sentence of Salter D. \.\ orâ€" den will be commuted to llfe imprison- ment by the Governor of California. \Vorden is the man who. during the great railroad strike of lSEM helped to wreck-a Southern Pacific train. new Sacramento, killing an engineer and three soldiers. Insanity IS the cause of this move. _. The engineers, stokers. and ordinary seamen who have been in servrce or; the scout ships Yale and Harvard evil refuse to lgo to sea on the vessels_when they leave Newport News as auxxliaiy cruisers. These men were in the em- ploy of the American Line when the steamers were leased by the Govern- ment and they signed articles of agree- ment for one year, but charm they. did not enlist in the navy. and therfme '0 cannot be cox bled 'go into ser- vice on 0. “again especiallyhs most of them are subjects of foreign pow- ers. - GENERAL. Thirty lives ware lost by the collzupse at a illuildilng in Blot. France. - An English syndicate will workYthe liron deposits in Bay de Verde, )1). hew- foundland fishing settlement. A revolution which has existed. in Venezuela for the past six months is at an end, Hernandez, the leaderofithe rebels having been captured. and his forces defeated on Sunday night. 'An English company with a million dollars capital has been formed_ to work the iron deposits of Baylde Ver- des, Newfoundland. These deposrts are regarded as the best in the‘ world. The new German tariff excludes Can- ada from the most-favored-nation priv- ileges. The inference is that Germany is attempting to revenge herself up- on Canada for upsetting the Anglo- German treaty. .__.â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" AN INTELLIGENT SHEDP DOG. Would Steal Sheep for Ills Master and Drive Them to n Secluded Place. The Collie is a wonderful dog. the most intelligent and.,faitl:ful of the race. I will tell you an anecdote illus- trating the sagacity of this friend of the shepherd and his flockâ€"thorough- ly authentic. but. marvelous beyond be- lief. It was 10mg the custom in the Scotti-h Highlands. says Sheep Breeder. to mark the sheep by impressing with a hot iron a certain letter upon their faces. The shepherds of Tweeddale had folr a lclng timet been missing a few of the choicest of their flocks, and one day a blackâ€"faced ewl returned. to her lamb from beyond the river, with the , letter O burned iovcr the T that was her owner's brand. A farmer living in a wild and secluded glen, shut in by crag and mountain, where the mist came down like darkness and the eagle scrutined. above the cataract, was known to use the letter O as his "I irn." The glen was searched. and 650 stolen sheep recovered. llie confessed his crimes and was executed in the city of .l‘ldiln'Uurgh Gin 1773. “Upon the pre-‘ litense of buying he would visit the tense of buying he would visit the} flocks in the vale of Tweed. accompani- l cd by his Collie Yarrow. and point out. those sheep that he wished him to drive ' home. Then he would ride off to his own glen. passing through every ham- let and calling at. every ion on the way. Yarrow, concealed on some bill- :sida among the heather, would wait for the darkness to come and hide his evil deeds from the light of the sun: then he would select every sheep that his mar-th had. pdmlnli out: to him and derive them rapidly by mfrcquented paths over mountain and moor to his ‘own dark glen. before the weather gleam of the eastern hills began to be tinged w'th the brightening dawn. ’l here th "him" was canceled by the letter O in an enclosure in the hollow of a hill. Yarrow keeping faithufl gum-d outside and never ailing to notify his master of the approach of strangers. ....»...â€"«-â€"-¢-â€"uâ€"â€"»~_ A _ - .. §' ‘ i -- ‘1" LARGEST PUBLIC DEBT. The public debt of France is the larg- eai En the world. and amounts :0 £1; WWfiWIm MW‘WI iAgricultural ’l‘HlNNfNG FRUIT. \thn fruit growers, generally. re- cognize the fact that thinning fruit is as important as cultivation, pruning. etc., there will be not only more and better fruit grown. but there will not be so many "off years." All varieties that have a tendency to overhear should be thinned, and this is especialâ€" ly true of fruits that set. in clusters. A tree. vine or shrub has duly so much vital force, and if it. expends it upon a limited amount of work. the work will be well done, whereas if the power is scattered over a great deal of sur- face. none of the work will be more than half ’d'one. N0 tree, says “'is- cousin Farmer. should be permitted to be so loaded as to require propping or to cause the branches to bend materi- ally, or the growth of the fruit will be checked and its quality injured. With the grape the desired result is reached by pruning back severely. and no one expects to have good grapes without it, but with fruit trees this is not practicable. and resort must be had to thinning. Every time a tree is permitted to overhear, its vitality is reduced to such a degree that it must. rest for two or three years, or worse still. its growth is checked and it is permanently injured. Moreover, an overcrop requires the tree to mature. or at least try to mature. amuch larger number of seeds. and seed PI‘O‘ duction is the most exhausting work that vegetation has to perform. The seeds that a propped apple tree makes are a. greater tax upon its vitality than lit is to make the fruit. There have not been many extended experiments at ex- periment stations to ascertain precisely how great the advantage of severe thinning is. but there have been enough to make the fact; that it IS profitable, apparent. Such experi- ments have been tried in a limited way on a number of kinds of fruit trees. such as plums, apples, peaches. etc.. and ‘even currants are improved in quality when the tips of the fruit clusters are clipped off. In the case of currants it is not regardedas proâ€" fitable to do the work, but the fact that!) it has been experimentally done with the results stated, is valuable be- cause-it proves the universality of the principle. In a great many com- mercial orchards, particularly in peach orchards, thinning is practiced as re- gularly as any other detail in man- agement and is always found profita- ble. The advantages resulting from thinning are many. in the first place the size of the fruit is increased. it has a. higher color and heater flavor. In other words. the tree does better work when it is not overtaxed. Next, it reduces the amount. of inferior fruit and windfalls. We often have a good deal of complaint about trees dropping their fruit, but the evil would be greatâ€" ly diminished if thinning were regu- larly practiced. It is especially neces- sary in the case of all varieties that have short stems and grow in clusters. :and on which, on this account, the in- dividual fruits so crowd each other as they increase in size that they actually “pull each other," so to speak. 'J‘hin- ning also decreases the amount of rot. particularly in the case of peaches and plums. because the disease can spread less easily when the fruits do not touch each other. if the thin- ning is done by hand. those fruits that have been attacked by insects can be removed. and insect injuries are thus reduced. The vitality of the tree is spared by thinning. it is longer lived and is a more regular bearer. The better developman of the fruit al- lowed‘ to remain on the tree generally makes a larger total yield in bushes, and the better quality makes it bring a higher price per bushel. The Missouri Horticultural Society announced a couple of years ago its belief that if from a heavily loaded tree, a half or even three-fourths of the fruit were removed. the product in bushels would be greater than if all were permitted to remain. besides being of better qu:ility. As to the time when the thinning should be done. the purposc being to prevent the tree from wasting its vital force. the earlier the fruit be tak. n off the. better, provided it be de- layed until the danger of dropping through lack of pollination. frost. ctc., is past. Plums are usually thinned whrn about half grown and before the pits hardcn; peaches at about the same stage and apples when they are {about the size of hickory unis. it should be thorough enough to leave the 1 individual fruits not. less than four in- ches apart. If the reader doubts the advantages of thinning or thinks he has not time to attch to it, let him select a couple of trees and do a little experimenting. Lct the trees select- ed 8be of the same variety and such as have set a large amount. of fruit. Thin on:- of them quite severely. leaving not less than four inches between each fruit. and leave the other untouched as a check tree. and then watch the results. The results he may expect. are more and better fruit from the thinned tree. with a good cmp next year as well as this year. when the un- thinncd tree will probably be resting. KEEP FENCES GOOD. One of the most common causes of breachy animals on the farm is poor get loose and sag down, and stock get tangled up in them and injure them- selves much worse than they would if the fences were kept up properly. l Low tumble down fences are a constant ltemptation to stock to break over. and .once they get started it will be much lmore difficult to restrain. The set- ‘est plan in all cases is to keep the lfences in a good condition. as ecially those around the pasture. f the stock are to be changed constantly from one pasture or field to another. provide good gates. as laying the fences part way down and compelling the an}- mzils to jump over what is left up- ‘3 S“an them the first lessons in jumpâ€" lmg or becoming breachy. If an ani- mal seems inclined to be breachy. get rid of it as soon as possible, as one mischievous or breachy animal on the [arm will soon teach the greater Part of the others to be like them. With Wire fences properly built. care being taken to have strong corner posts well braced, it. is not much work to keep them in good condition. But no mat« ter what kind of fences there may be on the farm it is good plan to go over them every few weeks and see that. they are kept in good repair. \VRAPPLN G CHOICE FRUIT. In this age of strong competition the fzu‘mer and fruit groner must be up-- toâ€"date and take advantage of each and everything that promises to give him a better price for his product than U)? average market price for an average “FOIL If the grower has a cropof ex- tra fine fruit or vegetables it will cer- tainly pay to spend some time and money in putting- them on the market in the most attractive form. Take early tomatoes. peaches and. plums for example; the choicest specimens can be wrapped carefully in tissue paper. Put up in small packages and sold for a fancy price. Extra fine specimens of strawberries and other small fruits could be attractively packed in the ordinary \\ ooden butter plate. for a n-ovolty. after first covering the plate With tissue paper, or they could 'be pacle in the ordinary basket or box. which should be new or clean. and by being made attractive bring a high price. In this day of large shipments of the ordinary grades of fruit and vegetables it will not pay to put a choice lot of stuff on the market in the ordinary way. for nine times out of ten it would only serve to bring up the price of the medium grades rath- er (than gain for itself the extra Price it deserved. 0n the other hand. the care and small expense necessary to put this extra fruit on the market so attractively packed that it will attract the attention it deserves, will be paid for many times over. SPRAYING FRUIT TREES. For five weeks agents of the Ontario Department of Agriculture have been giving instruction in the spraying of fruit trees at thirty orchards in difâ€" ferent parts of the Province. Reports sent to Dr. Orr, superintendent, in charge of this work, have just been re- ceived at the Department, to the ef- fect that fungus is now appearing upon apple and pear trees, and threatens to do extensive injury to these crops unâ€" less checked at once by spraying. In- sect enemies also are more numerous than usual this year. Apples. with the exception of the Spy, have set well, and where properly cared for, lhcre is promise of a good crop. In spraying apple trees to check or prevent the spot, use the Bordeaux mixture, made as follows: Bordeaux Mixtureâ€"Copper sulphate. 1 lbs; lime. fresh, 4 lbs; water, 40 gal. Suspend the copper sulphate in five gallons of water. This may be. done by putting in a bag of coarse material, and hanging it so as to becovercd by the water. Slack the lime in about the same quantity of water. Then mix the two, and add the remainder of the forty gallons of water. \Varm water will dissolve the copper sulphate more readily than cold water. if the lime is at all dirty. strain the lime solution. HONESTY NOT THE BEST POLICY. He was an honest young man, un- used to the ways of society and making a call on one of the most stunning young ladies of the oily. llow Ilovc beauty, She said. ll seemslio inc I would give almost any other worldly possession in exchangc for lieauly, Don‘l mind if you‘re not handsome. he. replied, it's mlb'h better to be kind 'lnd good. ’l'hcnlhe went home wondering whai had give-n him a chill, sumo-:1: SILLINESS. At. last I have discovered it, grinnvtl lb.n young man at the theater, lmfnl'c his best girl had yut time to rcnmvc h-r llll. You see before you an air ship. Pardon me. but i see nothing of lll“ kind. 'l‘hvnylook at the stage. It has wings and flit-s. -â€"-â€"-â€" SHA KEEPEAILE'S LIMITATION. lt beats me. mused the modern the~ litre-manager. This here William Shakrspeare wrote the play of Hamlet. in which Ophelia gets drowned, yet he leaves the drowning scene out. . It dare seem queer, observed the stage carpenter. with a touch of van- ity; but. maybe he didn't know how to make a tank. CONS] DEBATE VOCALIST. lences' and we may go further and “y .The birds are singing light and free gthiltagmd 93” or m" injury to “look: “'ith charm that never fails: ‘from barbed wire fences. is due to a ; Tth never struggle for high 0 poor condition of the fence. The wiregl Nor run chromatic scales. L. ABOUT mantian ITS OVERWBELMING EFFECT UPON A BODY OF TROOPS. What Rapper-led When a Stale Projectile Suddenly Bursts Into Two Euride Piecesâ€"Hrs: feed In the Bruise Scr_ "Ce. One of the most. effective of modern projectiles is the shrapnel. It is one of the forms 0 fcase shot. The others of the forms of ease shot. The others were the old-fashioned. grape and coni- ster. :A case shot. may be said. to be a collection of missiles in a case. which breaks up either in the gun or at some point in flight, thus setting free its death dealing particles. As soon a sthe case is broken. each of these juiriiclcs goes on a separate path. and it’s a sorry day for the man struck by one of them. All of these falling upon a piece of level ground would mark out an irregular oval. whose area varies with ddfforilng conditions. I't has been found that the best point to burst the shrapnel is about six yards above an dfifty in front of the enemy THE 311 RAPNEL. Colonel Shrapnel, of the British ser- vice. first invenlcd shrapnel in l803. This early form consisted simply of a spherical shell filled with bullets and ' bursting charge of powder in the space letwecn. This was a crude invention which scattered the fragments ttoo much and wa sliablo to go off when not expected and. not to do so when desired. This form was improved upâ€" on, and the. modern: shrapnel can be considere dthc most dangerous of all life destroying projectiles. Lt consists of three partsâ€"aha tube, the base and the head. The powder charge is in the base, which is firmly attached to the body either by electric welding or by screwing. [Lezulinog from the» base through the cenltre of the body is a tube which is also filled with powder. which is ignited by the fuse at the point of the shrapnel, an dcarries the fire to the main charge. Betweent wo hundred and three hundred bullets rest upon a diaphragm just over the pow- der charge. These are held in place by a matrix of rosin which is melted and poured upont he bullets when in place. A skeleton cos eof cast iron contain< fog receptacles for each bullet. is sonic~ tunes used instead of the rosin. The head is put on in the same man- ner ast he base, and when the fuse is inserted the projectile is ready for use. Some shrapnels have the bursting charge in the head instead of the base, The fuse used is rather complicated. ft m a time fuse and in actual test has shown its reliability. These fuses are slight modifications of those used a few years ago. I'I‘S HIGH COST. It can readily be seen that one great objection to tho shrapnel is its high cost. The fuse alone costs about. $2.50. The same gun is usually supplied with three styles of ammunitionâ€"tho solid shot. the shell and the shrapnel. Some lotteries are also supplied with canis- ter for use at close quarters. The bul- lets in the canister have a wider dis- persion, because the case breaks up in the gun. The shell is used. to destroy inanim- ate objects as well as animate ones. It consists of a hollow cast. iron shell. With a fun mud; bur-ding clrirge of powder. The famous shot. fir” l during the cutting of the cables at (L‘ienfucgos {1-) a good example of its use. The Span- iards having taken refuge in and lo- hind a. lighthouse. a shell was fired, which striking il fairly, burst. and ut- terly destroyodl. he strut-lure. killing terly destroyed the struLlurc, killing many of the soldiers. ADVANTAGE AGAINST ANIMATE ()liJ l‘XVl‘S AJIJON E. llut against. men in battle formation the shrapnel is the mar eeffcolive. It :(nrds a perfect. shower of missiles which. falling in the midst, of a com- pany. would almost annihilate it. Many tests have been made to show this. Shrapnels fired from. a gun a mile away in one instance. and a mile and two-thirds in the other. were made to strike a board target. one inch thick. The fires were set off by the contact, and burst the pl‘ujclzlllt! into two or three hundred parts. each of which was capable of dealing death to any living thing in its path. Screens were plum-d. at indicated di~Lauces from t he forgot. Them may be mnsidorort as representâ€" mg a battalion of infantry in column of companies. From the number of hits upon all of. them the efficiency of ation may to judged. .1." one. shot 15:: hits were made by a ringle shrapnel. in another 215 hits are recorded, but these are not so wcll u-a‘tlered. lmagino.‘ ‘llien, the effect OT a. null placed shrapnel upon "group of men :llmll its is here represented. The rezuler can readily umlcr~tand why wars are now waged at greater distances and “by hand to bind con- flicts are. almost. unheard of. it bi re- ported that the shrapnel of the liriii--h simply annihilated the hordes of der- vishes during the rel-cm; advance up the Nile. Najmlcnn said that l‘rovirb once is on the side of the heavier batta- lions. .lfiutinlinns are heavier by rea- son not. only of more "101] but in hav- ing Letter armament-me instance a bountiful supply of shrapnel. LAZI HST PEOPLE. The Svantlaos Who live in the lanes. bible nymnmin range belmecn the Black and Caspian Feta. are probably the laziest people in the world. 'llmy have maden 0 advance toward civiliza- lion in 2,500 years. It is their invari- able rule to olmrva holidays {our little! a neck. with (Shinto? days a aunts.