abhor haha a va ae with Reatteatice aie “do some- FUNNIGRAMS. ar es "he season is not indifference wil = , uncertain as ae ind, = was to] DD’ ; Y to mae no sign, and se varata , THE: FARM. - Royalty S Wormwood. the (ring by awakening him from his te tus rey fon Jt at caooa| BRITAIN HOLDS THE THAD | Sete 22° to frantic amateurs, who pes- “TEENS WAIL, | a i Ls i nelapeg surgeon, is dead at St. Paul | - ‘THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. pgeoeting Items About Our Own Councfy, eat Britain, the United States, and|in Li All Parts ef the das any and usorted for bd ey Readi Mai ontaee ensallpox cade’ has) develop: | Montre: -y American bills are stern Ontario: new elevator ae the Montreal Transportation: at Kingston, ecording to reports from Juneau, ims of the Yukon inion aie faa soi str apie in maels to, estan flouc mills ab. thie Chaudiore pid plone: th line of the Parry So aye fate “Experimental Farm authorities are sending out samples of hew.and} improved oon seed for “testing by fawmer: fi) Julian’ ‘ant Finn, ‘a’small boy, who w as! pe ted on at the Hamilton Hospital’ for ipesitonitis died just after the op- Melb Dawson, director the’) Geo- ) logical Survey, estimates the ple taken out of the Yukon last year at $2,500,- 00 ‘The Messrs, Abbott of Montreal trave} withdrawn from the negotiations for the sstablistiment of their industry at Kingsto Tris Gl steak Ton running fro i cs ot lg to Nanaimo, has been age ‘tered by Mr. Mann, the Stikone rail- ee eae is being cireulated for { alemene ency for ae Nulty, the convicted mur- hree sisters and brother, indsay,, when sen- d to the Central Prison for’ one year a for stealing some Hist hia! settenes be; changed to, bang: The bill in connection with te pro- posed railway from Winnipeg to ‘Lal ake Superior will be considered. by /-Manitote Legislature early. inthe a ane Ty Be man and others ha London are asking power at Ottawa’ t build a steam or electric Eeivest pe whi London an aie near Grand Bend on 1a revived thab the CB. m bushel elevator at season’s trade, being entirely too Yestels carrying passengers and freight to Al = ising. formeriy of thd Do- tic servants from Britain to Manitoba and the Territories, © Canadian Pa- me 4 per cent. for the The Baptists of Toronto will honor of sending the first Se sionary, if not the first. r sionary, in nto the heart of Boll A. ¢ many who just “Finished” hla aileet at McMa .| infectious «i. e. they are die in~ fon int the body of @ suscept! vi ible ingivigual of @ living gem. The Journey wil GREAT BRITAIN. im’ ‘The British Government has invited 8 for four first-class armored en rs cruisers of in pire sentenced mt at a “he saanieiee, ‘his Y, Lor Conservative, as been returned ithe out opposition. had nothing to add e imformation alread in the pos-| fh, of the Hou 1 the properties and scenery of half a dozen plays belonging to Sir keen destroyed way ander the London, " near the Laine Hill station Which are, however, whi London Daily Chronicle’ puly- riimor that 1283, will erial Be etare of State for Foreign Affairs after th capture of Khartoum by Ang! CANADA. : The Manitoba Legislature will meet’, Teh 1 castings, asked fs id ,| The Difference Between Conta Infee e is a [proportion of the eases of © be ust Ringling, father of the Ring- Niner dbvostatal lob oiraam fame; te dead at Baraboo, Wis. ‘American labour leaders will make a dpmand about May 15th for an eight- hour work da; For the first time this winter the ice i¢higan is giving the across the lake boats considerable trouble, mn committed » because, Laie has discovered a new counterfeit §10 National Bank note, i | Ban! Forty thousand Cubans have) gone from, their ative country, during Hie pat fey yeate to take’ up) the to: co business in Flor | rederick ee ae r of a office 'm: ty ier ri tried for perju idliam Riley Fi eared eye took’ with biwh who, after years of search Ry Matec lt ova chamonlinies an: } vested’ in! Paris on October 24 last, has Hen brought coed to New Yor RAL. | eri tee i bas s2a0000 of (gold in reulation.. | 2 Rei gravee t ts (have heen brought an im. to strengthen the ees of Par: ime. Wlorence Morgan, the superin- | tendent of the Prague posaitl at Bom. Vs Ths ead giak Nicarag thorized Preside mt Zelaya. vo" “collect 500,000 pesoes by forced loa A ‘The Oceanic ss i Con ny’s steamer Sydney, N. S. W., Tont@icooy araylane, £50, 000 in is some talk of the betrotha\ ba iste Withelmina te Prince baa leon, new colonel of the Czar nae im the qT cial ernment fang. cord Prince | Te | Henry of Prussia “i in every respect a worthy reception. , M. Papinaud, editor of La Libre Par- ote of Pairs, has dhallenged M. Jan ler, to a duel, ovine Zola trivl Reports from Odessa say that a iAP coaroU oldarenat ity Hhs revealed a sensational scandal in connection With the Foaling of the Black ea flee ee from Port Said report that the, Vie wary i aore outside the bar while, entering tha All the details have toca vetted for des 000,000, the amound A capital nsoted: The British brigantine Phyllis, Capt- Giles teaely ne) ee ins ine late Satur- doy evening in Singaton, Jamalea, to idnap Brite ‘Glatiogs Ronny chief of £ Hvinglikhere aa a ish Government. lieved to have been the result of Nicary aguan instigation. NOT SYNONY vy Hous TERMS. Dixeanes Expiuined. tran ek {a the weil by. ety 1a com: tion or contact, more or less in- timate: endl all contagions diseases ong “the i mn are not contagi- ennll-pos, srarlet ‘feren, imearie les, diphtheria, influenz: ciroumstances, and t) wes jon with Mere dis- ases aS a yaks of such etioate asocia- ba or cont The generali zation that all infectious di due fect however, rid euoll pos: itive demonstration has yet Bgyotian expedition. meningitis, etc. cebro-spinal ton quatre: fchaie tes ror out of the . dark soils of thé South. It also suc- s|clay uplands it succeeds well if the | larly, it can be made to pla; -| the second year after sowin FOOD AND CARE OF FARM HORSES. It is mot every farmer who is the for- tunate owner of a stable of good horses but improvement.in feeding might be employed to advantage for the well- being of his stock and to his own in- terests. The feed for the horses oi the average farm consist of a rack fill- during the months of the year that the | horses are worked and kept, in the,sta- | le, and while a good condition of flesh healthy digestion ‘ah ee, os sin the firs’ the ing of it test Ene ites farm Be dicce’ Suitable for his food; e ri much of the elements of nutrition and nitrogen ‘as possible. In England it is | the custom to feed farm horses, w! hen | at full ete on yetch seed and beans, the latter crushed, these containing i r nitrogen, mixed with vran, this alternated with poats, either crushed or whole, makes al- mos hi verbially Hee fat and re rounded the stomach of e horse is very eigl nine hours without abreak; the stom- and in cae are ate more/or less, with gas, when tl uey, often followed by am attack a gripes or colic. Whenever a term of work of unusual n his regular me d hay stands Raided first in a. atone, others, again rn-fodder and straw, and if t intained, that cannot be im- ue “sta, ny fed alone, however, and free to hes doing nothing, than. the Creans of digestion can dispose of, and then more trouble ensue: CLOVER FOR VARIOUS SOILS. Clover succeeds ai on al where there is svuffici tern a central Mindce and as far north as Minnesota, but suc- ceeds best on the heavy clay lands and ceeds well on soils tod poor to produce any other crop of value. On our cold surplus water i§ Femoyed by tile drain- age. It grows more Inxuriously in dark, loamy soils with a gravel or sand drainage, not too close to the sur- face, Still by artificial drainage, and the application of stable heavy crop on stiff clay lands. In any system of first-class farming, on soils that will produce grain crops regu- an. im> portant part and produce profitable successful growth in the e lack of e question to grow it on soil too wet or too dry. It can be grown successfully im rotation in demand. Suffice it cannot get too much ol farmers are satisfied ith tos fie hy le degree. Tt should be understood tte farmers that in our reaches the highest state of pertection ing it to Nad wd < ae longer ita ea! Tesi ‘ery seldom is Roel ont you? And did he talk business? m bis ae geen thinks oq cannot grow eae the to nown agency wi ‘ish as well and i eatenth ly. MICE-GNAWED TREES. When the bark of young trees gets | Snawed off either by mice or rabbits if taken in time, ne the bark gets too dry, they may be bark is not cut off c the tree, says an eachange, one of the st of saving it is to’ take ra- thee ba cow manure, mix with itsan 'y_ soi t up ency of thick paste and spreadvit entirely over the wound, cov- Jering and tying on with a cloth, and |Jeave on till rots off. If the wound ex- jtends clear around the tree so that sap circulation is entirely cut off,three or four scions can be inserted, | tak- |ing care tc see that the inner bark of the scion and tree Use grafting wax to hold in place a |then wrap with a cloth band. A ite [care in this way will often’ save | tree that would otherwise be lost. tt | will be foun ed. When the hans Meee tih foe then eon eneey, ORDERING FRUIT TREES. Maes is likely to be a good deal of ti mnths of all kinds the If all orders for trees mt until you desire them, iB the nursery man, if he understands is nough advanced to make it pos- the ao plant sede when re are re- THE FARMERS’ HEN. ‘The farmers’ hen is yery apt to be fact that on the majority of farms the poultry are treated with less attention than any other living being about the the care and attention which were given these m would be no than a cow CENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS. is year’s crop of centennial cele- rdi, by, an ‘and Paris that of Micholet, the his, HOT SAND. anything else. A woolen Re fill- ig or a brick. i NO MONEY IN IT. ‘ks—So you asked fath- Two of a | kina I told my cmploser I had only ten cents to my name did he say? He tried to annul itt "heats Enjoyment.—Are your cuit fond of reading :? I should sey 50, there isn't a book in the house that has a back.on it. Your husband is ae to die fore morning, Oh, doc by Nettar Hirai canen ea sca AEE would 1¢ avail). Oh; nothing would be certain. An Rigen) —The Minister's Wife a around} tor Poser seems pe be broad views. iges— don’t believe it a possible up a question that he can’t straddle. The Early Christian. — Teacher Jobnny—How auntie? Aunt—Nine hundred years: old. And how old are yi ‘ou, auntie? hea tynmy, child. Then rapa réckoned W by id‘you were as al BE eines: i I remember your wife as such @ dainty and a Tittle thing, Humly, ai nothing. Sinecure, eh? I don’ ire you call it, but Menial Work- _Dia you hear how --| young Cadlets made love to Miss: Duck- ets? No; how did he? He sent his valet T cannot speak my name. that, she began to, regret ever having married the Russ oe oe - Yen itis alae that he makes people tncomferae, ee a very profound suggesti he Se ieena | pre bay Seoul + have a chance to f Laid meet iim Twouldet HEGSraEABSL pa MRS. anaes Thought smb a Difference, and Wamsley Recon with Wamsley got up to get his pipe from the mantel the other evening and care- He made no apology and Mrs, Wamsley id: Well, Henry W: amsley ?” “Well, what ?” “You haven't anything to say, have yout” “Anything to say akont nnd About nearly crushing my foot to y jel oon hat should I say?” ask, if I were you, Henry Wams- 4 Slaten Mey howe “you gize! You'd -b ‘A sandbag will hold heat better than] \rate ed with fine éand and heated in an| 2) | oven will retain warmth twice as sibag a al the te marriage a an awful difference! Indeed oe e third earn oD as good as the could give was his con. d De Liverus—No; prs said all he OT honda way it it did.” mpmbled Wam- sley as he lighted vise os old was Methuselah, “AS bappy asa queen!” do realize the eels of| this time-worn and rather Sa ex| g e pression when reading of some th earlier European queens. What fonts histories were recorded in their sad, most abject of slaves to the decrees and customs, perhaps centuries old, of their i simple life of the common-born of thé earth in their lonely and somber mag- nificence. ‘ ‘There are few stories more sadly in- and sehen thea that of & thie wife of Char-| !tt je Louise, niece | mm les IL, of Spain, Mai of Louis XIV., and eulinnsiee of Charles I.of Solio a fair girl fore ed to marry a man w! seen, but whom she oe too wel most repulsive in appearance andwith mental qualities little above idiocy. "| intery’ The mes ‘ost persevering enemy of Agmes| cot young queen went to meet her at Quin- tanapalla, a wretched village of a few peasant huts, and he decided to have the papa? take place there. Marie} o! w him arrive from the baleony e is thus feet ambassador: ‘The| ? d knees swell, his eyes low; the whole crown of his head bald.” This was the man who rushed up the steps leading tothe roomin which sat brief existence; a life combining the jealous feclusion of the harem, the lugubrious monotony of the cloister and vi w keen-| inspired all the ym she had never | Known. preci a Agnes Sorel, nam- ie Beaute.” te.’ was mae ae Geeta came to regain his midst of the sadness were shown the sul that ee oe shadows to these ee son. of Charles VII.. eventful and in resting life holeft her simple village home for the Rare aah! elreumstance and | © Glitter of the Parisian cou The appiest days‘ of Marie Antoi- assed at Little ‘Trianon. OF the na ton Were teen ulewous the people who the streets had reached the pitch of tnaignation and fury. no bread in Paris.” they seek the baker at to Versailles, kindness and in response to thelr clam fem ah order for pro. and traversed Pari insults threat them, “We will stifle you in another way,” cried the maddened rab! “Why do you insult abt asked the Iaueen of you the rest. ut have caused the misfortunes of the iron tyranny of Spanish eti-| ful The gloomy, desolate palace a anything. no woman ever had more of Her dried life lasted ten years, the beautiful queem A itn horeibe prison, the and after hersudden and ae ae rea, by cholera, the deeper into a melancholy eee By. Not long after her death, the strange long- re. her ise was opens id still charm- ures of her Wid (cad brighten- it” for Larhite! and he rms on the lene wheh asleep upon fe bed of Ueeat ey en and for whom the world’s treasures Cesc chias October “i, 1793, her at latory ; ea a year is past T] 6 ou.” Surely this visit of the n heming brain of eraaly suffered. * fea he last descend- | ¢¢'t, treats as she passe x pity nor compunction, and tebe mnt hey tale faith utmost com 2 of Queen Marie, aaa: id the pomp their court lite she carried 4. hes Her brother's wife had brought to|4 the h |S Mans had the sweetest spirit was so’much beyond | count * ae “her eleal ‘The brilliant, emeaind eccentric and len es es Gea phar a: that she was look-| achie ful Antelligdace: and’ execs ing | waywas ree of steadiness of ES that no jance could be placed in her, and “a: |erowns to recover Normandy by force | 1 vhen they bowed as the Be fhayer othe Ao ot ia ing presented a castle with all air, the young i eieeintea ene) fidelity Seats able ftu.| distasteful matters of state entirely to t e ial arhhawnyreens Christina determin- to become Ag “Tittle Cea of them trayeled| °! a) ont he "1790, the cee family jeft Trianon PI ng woman, bolder than it ve that Grates ‘Adpiphius ae Pilbwed “| they never for retext of | Da expect ity involved ‘her in a pecuniary dittical, e pees qT statesman an e troublesome and him le herself for her uncongen- patroness oPlearning, ed) Phe only question was whether Russia |; i e continuance of war | ian ‘and eush hpradigality. was unheard of. Besides was to re-| 5, is embassy, a wards offended her so deeply that she y banished him forever from asa “| servience to. as a, Sweden, where I ihope never to return.” phe following year she abjured the Lutheran faith, and by this act, more rarned aside religion and The freedom of private » life which she Toga Hate witch sho Bet cash, aside often itself, Ie uced her to re- turn to Sweden with the view of 1 her crown, but the Swedes gave had signed a formal act of renuncia- tion to mu claim to rone. She thought it pru to return to Rome; salons were frequented by the learned men of all countries who indisereet la: nd unmourned at the eS HOUSE PLANTS. i the plants, it is perhaps sufficient ‘ta say that what in this respect is healthful for human lungs will suit, the plants. But do not forget that the plants cannot take a walk on a_ pleasant day, hence ae We. should frequentiy Le admitte them from the wind my ature all trees Wnd plants have seasons of growth and on bri t be obser may take antage such kinds as Paptiina | feats why yd- and repot the alanta,. into earth. CIRCUMSTANTIAL ‘EVIDENCE. Judge—You Soa d you pas rhs this man wandering abot e eyard last Oi found ket, Yer language having caus-| with caus When theretore is of growth | fo THE GAME NOW BEING PLAYED m|é - THE FAR EAST. Russta’s Aspirations and G fore the iw yereht ae ee) e and Wealth, White, writing in Harper's idea u the situation in the far East projects in the far ne fin thetn deadliest opfonent in Jépan, War Cat the two powers tant date seems inevitable if both main- | the Pacific to which they are commit- ted. Upon Japan fell the costly burden could be provided for the latter power. or Japan would first be ready for the formed that the Russian hand -has been forced by the discovery that the Siber- railway will not, be available for the transport of troops until after ehwoion, the sie paige tat the seizure un ‘Port Arthur, and the aa If Russia considers a struggle Japan inevitable, it is obviously a Uent to foreeit on while her foe is weak | rather than wait until she is strong. Prince Henry's certain eventualities, is pro- possible defection of France, France is by no means out of the ques- tion, RUSSIA’S IMPOTENT mb Germany’s motives for pu her r in the pie are pitting clear. Whether they are wise in her own in- ts is amother question. Headed off in South Africa with a’ few valueless 1660 the death of} ¥ re she| Whether the German Government can China might have hi tose. As ieis,Bngland bas good cards, and Lord Salisbury knows how to play bie INTERESTING COMPARISON. Why to wil think] he intended | san‘ rnold Weekly, contributes the ee lucid | n tain pretensions to the predominance in | carry Winans PRP eN Oty an: mailed fist” against Shi on Russia, has igea ta led to fhe |# Teaction against an alliance which | an of tl e ia costly tropical irstrne ean Prussia and hi ard the De tse con supplied D stations. To, reach China, he and, Bie mailed Gb are absolutely der 1 yf the British. To he brooked: | that’ tate ie is Hasse ible e mouth of the Yan, idly bet ooatpisd tain. iBrisaia' Was already one chu in 1841. with China any fore re 00 go versio sombitiong ngland success. Germany must alter her ways before she cam beconte a great colonial por & er. HINTS FOR SMOKERS. in| 4 Famous Doctor Tetts When and How to ms » Smoke, Generalarzt Dr. Scholer publishes a collection of “Hints for Smokers,” Doe: -|which are founded, as t © | states, upon his professional observat- f ions for many years of the mouth, teeth, stomach, Juste heart, and skin of the devotees of The first and foremost rule is inert to smoke lowing the nose; never inhale it through the nose. Keep the amoke as far as possible S| from the, eyes and nose}, the longer the pipe the better; ‘the use of a short nex| ette ys inaaet Always throw away your cigar as soon as you have smoked Tour-titths of its The last, end. of it is the mos the poison lurks in the tai ettes are bad, but a cigarettes the worst, for they are almost alway: yun veral ti test rinse for the smoker,is a glass of water teaspoonful of table-salt has been dissolved. It should be used as a gargle at night, and care tak 'g proper vd aensty in the lips or teeth.