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if v a [ll NEWS ii iii SHELL ms VERY firssr FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. 25 hater-eating items About OurOwn Country. Great Britain. the United States. and All Parts of the Globe, Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading. â€"â€"o- 'CANADér' "‘ Forty cases of measles and one death- are reported at. the \Viunipeg quaran- this. The steamship Livonian. aground for ten days in the St. Lawrence has been floated. l Mr. A. H. Harries, traffic manager of the Canadian Government railway system has resigned. Premier Warburton, of Prince 'Edâ€" ward Island, has accepted the Kings County Court judgesh-ip. There .is acoaJ war on among the dealers of Hamilton, Ont., and prices have taken a big drop. James Allison. inmate of the Otta- wa Old Men’s Home, tried to end his life with laudanum. He took too much. Thomas Parsons, burglar, incendiary and jail breaker, was sentenced at Belleville to fourteen years in the penitentiary. The report that grasshoppers are prevalent in some parts of the Northâ€" west. is, after careful inquiry, found to be incorrect. The Militia Department will estab- lish a provisional School at Carleton Place for the instruction of infantry officers. 1 John Johnston, son of Mr. Brent Johnston, Hamilton. committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart with a shotgun. The duties collected at the port of ,Toronto during the fiscal year ending '- J une 80. 1698, show an increase of $526,480.96. W. Kring, blacksmith, Vl'ebbwood, Algoma and A. Miller celebrated the holiday by going hunting. Kring mis- took Miller for game and shot him dead. Peterboro has abolished the ward system. limited the number of Alder- men to one per thousand inhabitants and will select them.- by ageneral vote. An office of the Great North VVest- ern Telegraph Company. has been op- ened in Victoria, B. C. and direct com- munication established with that point. It is said that the Standard Oil Com- pany has effected the purchase of the mperial Oil \Vorks. and has leased every other refining plan. in Canadd for five years. ‘Al bishop in England has a son in Canada residing a short distance west of Winnipeg. The other day he wrote to 3. Kingston lawyer and requested him to invite his son in to dinner oc- casionally. ‘ Captain Philippe de Perron Casgrain. R. has been nominated .by Lord Lansdowne, Secretary of. War, as Quartermaster-General of the Canadian forces. in place of Col. Lake, who re-I tires to rejoin his regiment. News has reached Halifax of a drown- lng accident in the Straits of Magellan, by which four seaman of the Halifax steamer Alpha and a Straits pilot were drowned. The men were lost by the capsizing of a rowboat. A mare belonging to George Howe. of Ottawa, ran away towards the build- ings. jumped the cliff at Lovers’ Walk. a distance of sixty feet, and rolled down to within a few feet of the wa- ter's edge. She was practically un- injured. ’l‘he Royal Canadian Humane Assi- oiation have awarded a bronze medal to J. C. Sully of Guelph for prompti- tude and coolness and conspicuous bra- very in (saving Charles Clendennan from drowning in the River Speed at Guelph on May 26. A private letter from a member of the Yukon force states that the Fred- ericlon and St. John, N. 8., company mutinied and refused to carry packs weighing from 70 to 80 pounds. The writer complains of the fare and. charges the officers withalack of con. sideration. Mr. R. 1". Situpart. director of the Dominion meteorological survey. is at Vancouver, is to make arrangements for the erection of a time signal ap- paratus at Brock’ton point for the bene- fit of shipping and the harbor oil Vanâ€" couver. It had always been understood in Quebec that the late Senator de Blois intended to allow his interest in the de Blois estate. as well as other proâ€" parties, to revert to that estate. and Sir Adolphe Caron would be one of the principal beneficiaries. It appears, however. that a few days before his death he. made a will leaving every- thing to his wife. Peter Cline. a foreman, of a construc- tion crew on the Crow's Nest Pass Rail- way. who shot an italian named Anglo Circonni near Kuskonook on April 9'. has been tried at Nelson and found uilty of shooting with intent. to maim. he sentence of the court was that Cline be confined in the provincial pen- itentiary for three years at hard la- bar. GREAT BRITAIN. Lord \l’olseley, commander-inohief of the British army. has joined the Angloâ€" American committee. Which is aiming to cultivate an entente. ' At Liverpool. it is said the United States had purchased six of the At- lantic Transport Company's linersand 333 National liner Michigan for £800.- The English artillery team. which is coming to Canada to compete with the Canadian ariillerymen. will prob- ablymsail for St. John. N.B., on Aug- ui . A t the Old Bailey in London on Mon- day \\’. Manuel Collins. an unregister- ed doctor. was placed on trial charged ______________________.â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€" with causing the death of Mrs. Emily Edith Uzielli, by an illegal operation. Mrs. Uzielli was well known in seceity. UNITED STATES. The Western Rubber Belting Com- pany, of Chicago, has collapsed. Three companies of the Eighteenth Regiment Pennsylvania. (Volunteers. have arrived at Fort Brady. Mich. to guard the locks of the Soo Canal. Anna Forrester. aged 23. committed suicide at Bedford, a. 'suburb of Cleve- land. rather than marrv. She poured oil on her clothing and set fire to herself. . Many new victims of the storm which blew down acircus tent at Sioux City. Iowa. were discovered Sunday. The dead number three and the injured 33. Ut the latter ten pre critically hurt and may die. The Great ,lVestern distillery at Phoria, 111., the second, largest in the world. was struck by lightning on Sat- urday and everything was burned ex- cept the bonded warehouse. The loss is estimated at $300.00l1; fully insured. Three men were drowned in the Chippewa river at the half-way dam. near Mount Pleasant, Mich. on Satur- day. The party were fishing, and had prepared to return home. when Thomas Francisco, aged 16, and Sidney Caster went in bathing. The father, Harvey (Francisco. plunged in after them. and all three sank in: thirty} feet of water. Captain Joshua Slocum has arrived at Newport. R. I,, in the sloop yacht Spray. after a voyage around. the world. He left Boston on April 24. 1895, going in Gibraltar and South Am- erican ports. and from there to. the Straits of Magellan into the Pacific to Australia. Tasmania and Juan Fernan- dez. He sailed into the Indian Ocean and visited Natal. South Africa; Cape Town. St. Helena. Ascension Island, Grenada and -Antigua, and thence home. His cruise of more than three years was made in a sailing craft 33 feet long and 14 feet wide, and 12.70 net tonnage. Captain Slocum made the voyage entirely alone. GENERAL. The new French Cabinet has been formed. Martial law has been proclaimed in parts of Austria. l The new French Cabinet is not favor- ably received in Russm. The Newfoundland Transinsular Railway. is completed and. the first through train acrossthe country made the 548 miles in 24 hours. The Archduchess Elizabeth, mother of the Queen Regent of Spain lies ser- iously ill at Madrid. in consequence of the present excitement. In resigning office, owing to his fail- ure to form a party government. the Marquis Ito expressed a desire to re- nounce all his ranks and decorations. An edict has been published in Hav- ana providing for the burial of the dead. City carts will collect the bodies at certain hours. A heavy fine is impos- ed upon citizens who conceal bodies or keep them in houses more than 24 hours. The first street railway work in StJohn's, Nfld., will begin in a. few days. Men are now employed quarrying the stone to pave the streets. The fishery prospects in Newfoundland are fair. Lobsters are reported scarcer than last year. Chief Mahomedal‘i 'Khalif and five other ringleaders of the attack recent- ly made by 1000 natives on a Russian post garrison by 300 infantry. at the town of Aodijan. Province of Porg- halna. Turkestan, in which twenty of the soldiers Were killed and eighteen others were wounded. have been public- ly hanged. ROMANTIC, BUT UNHAPPY. A Chinaman, on being asked why it Was the custom of his country to mar- ry. persons who had not yet come to years of discretion, replied: "If you wait until they come to years of dis- cretion they will never marry at all." It is the old storyâ€"in youth it is too scan, when youth is past it is too late. And yet there have been many ’who have plighted their troth in youth and have been happily united in maturer years. How many romances have turn- ed m long betrothalsl How many balâ€" lads have been sung of brave knights who have gone forth to prove their valor, and have returned after a. year and a dayr‘ or even after several years to find their ladyloves faithful or faithlesslThe ancestor of the house of Lennox, Duke of Richmond, was the‘ son of Charles II. and Louise de Quer- uaille, Duchess of Portsmouth. This peer married a daughter of Lord Brud- hell, and his love of gambling eventuâ€" ally involved him. largely with his wife's brother, but he hit upon a novel way of paying his debt. He agreed that his son and heir, who at this time was an underâ€"graduate at Oxford, I should at once marry the daughter ofl Brudnell. though she was but a. child.‘ On December 4, 1719, Lord March was brought from college and the lady from the nursery for the ceremony. The bride was amazed and silent, but the bridegroom exclaimed. says Napier: “Surely you are not going to marryi me to that d0wdy 1" Married he was} however. and his tutor instantly carri- . ed him off to the Continent. Threei years afterward Lord March returned; from his travels an accomplished' gentleman, but with such 3. disagree- able recollection of his wife that he avoided home and repaired on the first night of his arrival to the theatre. There he saw a lady of such fine ap- appearance that he asked who she was. "The reigning toast. the beautiful Lady March." was the reply. He hast- ened to claim her. and they lived to- gether so affectionately. that one year after his decease, in 1750 she died of : grief. THE BOASTS OF LOVE. My girl's hand is as white as the! driven snow. l Pooh. that's nothing, my girl's heart is as deep as a. driven well. itiflfll‘x’MWh‘I'M'mi Wcmm'm‘l’rg Agricultural E CONSTANT CULTIVATION PAYS. Sometimes I am almost persuaded that weeds are a positive benefit to the small planter. and if to him. why not to every farmer? writes F. H. Sweet. Nearly every occupation has some way of indicating pressing need or want of attention. and weeds are the alarm- clocks of the agriculturists. No mat- ter how ’much a. man may like his craft. he is apt to procrastinate rather than anticipate its wants, and while he is willing‘to supply them. he has too much else on his hands to meet them more than half way. The fundamental need of farm crow is cultivation, a constant loosening and stirring of the soil. The roots need air quite as much as they do food and water and if com- munication is closed between them and the source of supply. not only are they cut off from this primal ne-- cessity of their existence. but .even their food becomes sour and unassimil- able and their water is lost for want of a mulch. Many choice crops have been des- troyed by weeds that the over-pushed farmer could not find time to meet. but on the other hand, many and many a finely started field has come to naught for wantof warning from these weed vagabonds. The crops have come up well and given signs of an abundant harvest, but for some rea- son or other the weeds have not shown their usual strength and pertinacity. ‘The farmer goes through his fields oc- casionally, but his alarm-clocks are dormant and he neglects or only half does his cultivating. The ground beâ€" comes hard and baked and the starving crops grow more and more slowly and finally turn yellow and mature asmall yield. It matters little how rich the soil, or how well watered, if no air can penetrate to the roots of the plants they will of necessity be smothered in their sun and windâ€"baked coffins. Plen- ty of manure is good. proper irrigation is better, but cultivation exceeds them both. Crops can hardly be head too much. The onion bed should be gone over most frequently; and yet i wonder if there is an onion raiser who does not time his work by the size of the weeds. And so it is with beets, carrots and other fine crops. “hen the beds get foul with weeds they are hood and when the weeds return, the hoes are again brought into requisition. Occaâ€" sionally I notice that the alarm-clocks are signaling for a long time. and are able to bow to one another across the tops of the crops before they are taken heed. oil; and I wonder what the cul- tivation would. have been if there had been no weeds. - The farmer has so many things to do. so many small details to remember and look after. that he has unconsciously fallen into the habit of watching his weeds as some people do their calen- dars. They tell him what to do and when to do it; and without their fre- quent reminders I am almost persuad- ed that he would feel lost. even on his own farm. Indeed, if weeds were perâ€" petually banished. I believe there are many farmers who would have to learn their calling over again. But now and then we find a man who seems to have an innate love for the soil. He does not concern himself about the weeds. for they are as rare to him as they are common to his neighbors. He may be a. large farmer, or the gardener of one or two acres. In the latter case he probably does all his work and the neighbors can hear the click. click of his hoe long before the sun has cross- ed the line of eastern hills. And so it continues, day after day, and week in i and week out. As soon as the plants show themselves above the surface his hoe is_at work and a weed has about the same chance on his place as awood- chuck or rabbit. He does not think of the number of times he goes over the ground; but does it just as often as he canâ€"as many times as there is oppor- tunity between dark and dark. His idea is to keep the soil constantâ€" ly mellow and friable. (if it rains. he is out: with: his hoe almost before the clouds have left the sky. (If it rains again inside of a. week he goes over the ground again wilh his hoe. Over and over and over! And how his plants grow! There are none like them in all the country round, and the neigh- bors wonder and say that he has the "knack of such things." He manages an acre and a half, or two acres. with no special effort; and his ground is al- ways clcan. neat and free from weeds. The market gardeners around him are well satisfied to allow a man to an acre. and even then are always behind I with their weeds. And that is just it. He takes possession of his ground be- fore the weeds come and refuses them admittance; they wait until the Weeds have fully established themselves and then try to drive them away. It is on- ly another exemplil’ication that posses sion is worth nine points. SOME DON'TS FOR FARMERS. Don't forget Poor Richard's maxim: "He that by the plow would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive." Your hired bands are doubtless all right; but you should be at the helm. Don't leave your farm tools exposed to the weather: it is a bad plan. Don't let your hogs run at large un- fed. if you wish them to thrive. Be- sides they will grow breachy and get up trouble between yourself and neighbors. Don't put off till tomorrow what should be done toâ€"day. A few days growth of weeds may make an extra day's labor. for your force. Don't grow up a crop and'ihcn let it go to waste before harvesting ll. Don't allow the boy who drives your cows to and from posture to throw stones at them. or to run them to see which cow is fastest on foot. Don't. try to chop with a dull are: you can't do it. Just go and grind it. Don't go aâ€"fishing when you should go a-field. _ _ . Don't fail to mix a liberalvporticn of whistling with your grumbling. Don't forget these don'ts. POULTRY HOUSES ON THE FARM. In building a house for your poultry place it. on a high. dry spot and have it somewhat sheltered from the cold winter winds if possible; have the front of the building to the south and be sure there are plenty of windows in it. It is best not to have it connected with the stables, as the fumes from them are more or less injurious to poultry; and if they, through neglect. become lousy. the cattle and horses will be alâ€" most sure to be affected. As poultry can be kept more cheap- 1y when running at large than when confined, it would be better to put the chicken house at some distance from your own dwelling. so that they will not litter up the stoop or doorstep. If they have good quarters they will not bellikely to bother much if table scraps and fool are not thrown out of the back door to attract them. To save all risk a light fence of lath or wire netting may be built about the dwelling. “’hen you have your buildings and breeding stock you are ready to begin business. Do not expect eggs too soon if the fowls have just been bought, as moving usually disturbs them. and it takes sometime to become accustomed to their new quarters. If your bu1ld- ing does not contain arrangements for separating the sitting hens from the others, take pains when a. hen is set to fasten her in. with laths so that the others cannot disturb her, and when you let the sitting hen off to fed be sure that all others are shut out of the house or some may enter the nest to lay, and the "sitter" on returning make such a row that the eggs be broken or she go to another nest, and when the laying hen comes off the eggs become cold. “here several hens are set in a row of nests all alike. some advocate painting them different col- ors to assrst the hens in finding their own nests, and they assure us that they have much less trouble with than when there is nothing to tell the nests apart. Sitting hens should be alloweds to come off every day, but do not disturb them if they do not seem inclined to leave their nests. Some hens will not feed oftener than once in three days. Have plenty of grain and fresh wat- er at hand. â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€".â€"oâ€".â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF COFFEE. â€"â€" A Medical Journal Thinks It Is Prefer- able to Ten In Its Sustaining Power. A woman writer who gave up coffee recently found that she was unable to continue her writing with any success until she had resorted algain to the stimulating beverage. Without it her mind was logy and heavy. The Medic- al Times quotes an authority on the subject of prescribing coffee as a. med- icine in certain states of great debility, and. adds: "Tea and coffee seem to be much alike in many respects, but the latâ€" ter is greatly preferable as to its sus- taining power. It would be a great ad- vantage to our working classes, and a igrcat help toward the further develop- ment of social sobriety, if coffee were Ito come into greatly increased use, and 1f the ability to make it well could be iacquired. As an example of the differ- ‘ence of effect of tea and coffee upon the nerves, the writer notes what he believes many sportsmen will confirm, that it is far better to drink coffee than tea. when shooting. Tea... if strong or in any quantity, especially if the in- dividual be not in very robust health, will induce a sort of nervousness which its very prejudicial to steady shooting. Under its influence one is apt to shoot too quickly, whereas coffee steadies the hand and gives quiet nerves.” STEEL HAIRPINS DOOMED. The attack is now upon the steel hairpin for specialists declare that the shell or bone pine is better for the hair and that many women have suffered martyrdom from nervous headaches without once suspecting that the cause lay in a metal hairpin. But what shall we do without the little implement which might be call- ed "woman's best friend ?" How are We going to supply the 75 demands we make upon a hairpin? We use it to button our gloves and. our shoes, to Open the drawer whose lock is gone. to cut the leaves of our books, to clean ’ “1‘ “1‘1 our husband's pipe. to pin on the ex- tra wrap, to draw the cork when the corkscrew cannot be found. to wedge a rattling window sash. to stone rais- ins, to fasten a card to the bell pull in snow time to do duty as a bodkin: and render no one knows how many little services of this sort. or told a lie, Tommy. hens getting on their neighbors' nests . l l l l SUMNER SMILES. -!.-'| Doctor. do you treat rich and poor alike! No; circumstances alter easel. Auntieâ€"\Vhen I was your age I nev- Tommyâ€"When did you begin. Auntie? Fond Parentâ€"That child is full of music. Sarcastic Visitorâ€"Yes. What a pity it is allowed to escape. Soulful Youth (at. the piano)-â€"Do you sing ‘For Ever and Everi' Matter-of. Fact Maidenâ€"No; I stop for meals. A Questionâ€"Mikeâ€"Ut's twins. Pat: wan bhoy an wan gur-rl. His brotherâ€"- Begorrah. thin am Oi an uncle or an aunt, Oi dunno? Too Inquisitive.â€"Sheâ€"- And would you go to the end of the world with me? Heâ€"Which and! Now she treats him as a stranger. Husbandâ€"I have just had my por- trait taken. \Vhat do you think of it? Wifeâ€"Beautiful. dear, I wish you would look like it sometimes. Hicksâ€"I have only this to say again- st Charlcy, that the only enemy he has is himself. Wicksâ€"Oh, he would have other enemies. I suppose if he was worth it. My dog is almost as intelligent as I am. remarked Squildig. Are you go- ing to have him shot. or will you try to give him- away? asked hchwllligen. Askinsâ€"How is your cold to-day? Coffinâ€"Much better. thank you. I cough only all the time now, while before I had to stop coughing every now and then in order to breathe. His Real Meaningâ€"When a man as- serts that he is just as good as any- body else, do you think he reall be- lieves it? Certainly not. He he levee he is better. Mina, I am getting jealous of that man over there. \l’aitressâ€"Nonsensel I scarcely spoke to him! Yes. I know, but you gave him larger .dunipling than you give me. Tommyâ€"Paw. what is woman’s in- tuition? Mr. Figgâ€"It is that quality of her mind that. enables her to say. \Vell, I don't care; it ought to be so, anyhow. ‘ In Earnestâ€"Do you think their on- gagement really means anything? She says it means more tandem rides and ice cream than the last one she man- aged or it will be broken off. Hanleigh~Do you enjoy bicycling I Footeâ€"Cun't say that 1 do; but then the only experience I have had is in being run into. Perhaps if I should learn to ride I might enjoy it better. Boyâ€"Mr. Smitters wants to know if you’ll lend him an umbrella. He says you know him. You may say that I do know him. He will probably under- stand why you didn't bring the umâ€" brella. Bertha-These men are troublesome things! Edithâ€"Why, what’s the mat- ter with the men now? Berthaâ€"For the life of me I [can’t make up my mind whether to let Fred or Charlie fall in love with me. Hiramâ€"That’s the darndest mistake I ever seen in a highâ€"class newspaper. Mandyâ€"What is it Hi? Hiramâ€"Why it sez, ‘Bhe’s a man-ofâ€"war,’ instid uv sayin' she’s awoman uv war' or ‘he's a man uv war.’ What do you mean by forcing the price of bread up? inquired the philan- thropist. I didn't force it up, replied the speculator, with a look of injured innocence. After I got possession of all the wheat it went up of its own accord. True Soâ€"VVe wanted to call the bat- tle off, but there wasn’t a white flag in the army. What did you do? Got a piece of wedding dress from abrlde who was visiting and waved that. Re- gular flag of trousseau. Mrs. Innocentâ€"“fuel: did on enjoy most about your fishing tr p,-. dear? Mr. Innocentâ€"I got most excited when I was reeling in, my love. Mrs. Inno- cent (bursting lnto tears)And toâ€"toâ€" th-think you promised me y-you would- n't d-drink a dropi The way, said the Sweet Young Thing, to a man's heart is through his appetite. Is that right? sharpl re- sponded the Savage Bachelor. Iywant to know who it is that expects the other of the couple to ‘buy ice cream, :andjlr and all that sort of eating mu.- erm. . An angry small boy was pelting stones at a. noisy dog, when a vener- able paseerby stopped and addressed him. Little boy, the stranger rexnon- strated, don't you know you should be kind to dumb animals? Yes, replied the angry‘ boy, but what's dumb animals got to do with yelping dogs? hire. Fetterâ€"Did you see that? Dix- on aeized the rocking chair. and was into it before his wife had a chance to reach it. And on his wedding trip, too. Mr. Fetterâ€"J ‘hat’s just it. There's whore Dixon is smart. Nobody will suspect that he is on his wedding tour, didn‘t you see? And besides, he gets the c an. DANGER. T0 SPIRIT LAMPS. It is frequently charged against wo- men that ihcy are deficient in the sense of moral responsibility. Perhaps nothing lends more color to this charge than their inconsiderate, one might almost say conscienceless. use of spirit lamps upon public con- veyances. Awoman will boil her baby's milk. or. worse, curl her hair on a train rocking 1hJough lhc mountains, or a ship lurrhing aL sea. although by so doing chi: risks the upsetting of ihu lamp and the consequan peri to her- every other ismseugcr on board. Spirit lamps are prohibited on beard transatlantic steamers and are ruth- lessly confiscated wlvemzvur found, all“ the fact remains that numl‘cra of ih~m every year cross and recums in cabin baggage, and «are successfully hidden while in use. The wonder is lhit anci- The shell substitute is good for none ‘ Giants are so rare. of these things. and, if it be doomed to crowd its hummer relative from the; market, we can only exclaim, “Though ; first book; for “L'As-lommoir“ hn- rc- lost to sight. to memory deal-l" l â€"-â€"â€" ann. mrived the sum of £3!“ lnl his solved 116.000. ; i a i l l m.â€"