THE FARM 'Useful Hints for the Tiller of the Soil 4 \ J = i WINTER CARE OF HORSES. Why do so many. farmers neglect their teams during the winter months? By neglect I mean, why are so many farm horses kept shut up in close stables when nat aetive- ly at work, fed a heavy allowance of heating grain, all the forage they ean stuff and only given exercise when actually at work in the field or on the road? writes Mr. J. M. Bell. In a natural state in any clime the horse, like al] animals, must necessarily take exercise in seek- Ing a means of subsistence, there- fore a horse which is kept by man must have exercise in the open air (whenever practicable) in order that he may be able to give his owner the full equivalent in good honest work for the feed that he eats. Farm teams are used to working hard all spring, summer and fall. The dull season for the farmer. is when inclement weather prevails. Outdoor. work. for the faithful farm team will be uncertain. Don't let them stand up in the stable for days at a time, fed heav- ily on heating food, breathing only the vitiated air of the stable. Under the most favorable condi- tions the average farmer's stable does not furnish pure oxygen to needed daily exercise at irregular intervals and in consequence suff- ering from many ailments incident to close confinement along with heavy feeding. The writer was well acquainted with one of the most successful breeders of horses in this country, & man who owned at one time over 100 head of thoroughbreds, many of them horses that are known from the Atlantic to the Pacific for their suceessful performanees on the turf. It was his invariable custom to let all of his studs have exercise in the open air whenever the wea- ther conditions permitted. Brood mares, stallions and eolts were all turned out to run about and get the benefit of fresh air and exercise, sometimes even when the weather seemed unpropitious. Oftentimes the stallions were tiken out and ridden from ten to gibeen. miles a day. They would get muddy and dirty, but retained their vigor in the stud until an ad- vanced age. The brood mares and colts of all horses or cattle that are kept up| constantly, only getting the much! ne ages were kept in good condition by being allowed to run around in paddock or field, gaining strength and vigor all the time. . The farmer's team needs th® same reereation as does the race- horse and will not be ready for the heavy spring work unless he has the proper eare and attention dur- ing the winter months. In the Far West or North there are, no doubt, days when the farm- ers' teams must stay in the -barn. Let them be as few as possible. remember that an hour's exercise, | turned loose in stable lot, paddock lor field will start the blood to coursing, take the swelling out of stocky legs, fill the lungs with pure, fresh air amd in the end saive vet- evinary bills. BURNING THE ROADSIDE. A great many people have the mistaken idea thatthe time to burn the roadside in order to: kill the many insects that winter in these places, is in the early spring of the year. - If you will watch closely at such a place where the roadside has beer burned in the spring you will see the insects coming out of the ground very thickly on the warm days. This proves that the insects were not killed. Most of them are in the ground and the heat of the fire passing over them does not harm i them and the trash burned from above them makes it all the casier for the insects to come forth. While no doubt a few of them are killed the majority of them are unia- jured. ' The right time to burn these road- sides to do effective work is in the late fall of the year, after the cold weather has already set in and all the tender vegetation is dry. Then, if the roadsides are burned, the insects in such places will be killed by heavy freezing, as they usually do not go very deeply into the ground, but seem to depend on the covering of trash to protect them from the cold. This is a great bit more effective in the killing of hte insects thin the spring burning. Not only does the fall burning of the roadsides do good by the kill- ing of the insects that winter there, but it also helps to keep the road in better shape by allowing less snow to collect in the drifts as it usually does in places where there is much grass and weeds. | } | FROM MERRY OLD ENGLAND NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE. Occurrences in The Land That Reigns Supreme in the Com- mereial World. One North Lincoln taxieab com- pany has no fewer than forty-sev- en members of the Salvation Army - employed as drivers. Two hundred tons of wood pulp are required by the London County Council for. making next year's supply of tramway tickets. Only one birth, one marriage and one death has been recorded in the city parish of St. Andrew-by-the- Wardrobe during the past year. Sir Joseph Lyons announced that the Strand Hote] Company is about to build in London an hotel which will have a thousand bedrooms. Fight cows were burned to death and all the hay and farm imple- ments destroyed' by a fire whieh eceurred recently at Eastham's farm, near Clitheroe. The Rev. J. B. Figgis, the old- est Nonconformist minister in Brighton, has been presented with a cheque for $5,000 in commemora- tien of his fifty years ministry. Isaac Morgan Harding, who has just died at Whitchurch, Cardiff, at the age of seventy-seven, roe in the charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava. When two boys, aged ten and eight, were remanded at Newcastle, charged with putting lighted match- es into a pillar box, it was stated that forty-five letters were burned. Mrs. Dollensén, the wife of the eaptain of the Rochester Christie, gave birth to triplets--all girls--while the craft was off North Woolwich Gardens. Mother and ehildren are deing well. Fer the provision of new schools | necessitated by a reduction in the size of classes, the Education Com mittee of the London Gounty Coun @il have: adopted +a scheme 'four and a half millions spread over a period of fifteen years. _ Losing bis balance when cleaning windows recently in West street, | Neweastlc-on-Tyne, a man pamed © furnhull elitched his companion, = = Ldward Harvey, and both were im-| paled on railings, 18 feet below. | They were taken to the hospital in aw serious condition. Pi isinsaphgiieaden to Gost Luck consists of getting what some other fellow wants. A woman waa upbraiding her husband on his drunken habits and saying he was ruiging his health. "Don't be alarmed about me, my dear,' he said. "Tho doctor says J'm in the pink ef condition." "Vou should have asked the doc- tor to leok at your tongue, and not yor nose," retorted his wife. barge COCKATOO 112 YEARS OLD. Owned Near Sydney, New South Wales. Was Coekatoos are well known to live to patriarchal age, and probably the oldest bird in the world whose age can be traced with certainty flourished in a well-known hostelry at Tom Ugly's Point, near Sydney, New South Wales. distinguish his species he was re- When he had feathers enough to} INOIA'S WOKEN ARE FRE "MORE INDEPENDENT AND MORE HONORABLE." An Inspector of Seheols in the East Makes Some Interesting Comparisons. | Flora Annie Steel, an inspector er schools in India and author of many Indian tales, has written in the Londen Queen an article about the women and children of India which reveals them in a new light. Her very first sentence is astonish- ing, for init she-compares her sub- jeets with English women and as- serts that the position of those in the east is "more independent and more honorable." Then she pro- ceeds to preve it: °*The fact is indubitable that sex in India is not nearly sueh a dis- qualification as it is in Europe. The cause of female infanticide, for in- stance, and The undoubted disap- pointment at the birth of a female child is not so much due to any contempt of the sex as to a recogni- tion of its greater claims. <A girl has a right to marriage, and mar- riage is hard to compass in the clan; unless artificial means are taken to reduce the proportionate supply of brides. MOTHER WORSHIP OF RACE. "But deep down in the heart of every Hindu---and they make up two-thirds of the total population of India--lies an almost passionate devotion to the Great Mother of all. Their very mythology proves this. Every gohd is bisexual; the Sakta and Sakti unite to form the perfect whole. Again, the relative | posgtions of Hindu husband and wife show how strong a hold they have on the truth that sex is ephe- meral, that both man and woman are working upwards to a future when there shall be no male or fe- male, no marrying or giving in mar- riage. For life to the husband is incomplete without the wife. He cannot even say his prayers purely without her; the tie between them is indissoluble; together they make the perfeet human being. This fundamental belief is fostered by the fact that for one prayer which is put up to a god im India, there are about 1,600 to a goddess. All the local deities are female. Sitla is the most petitioned goddess of smalipox. Not a village is without her shrine; scarcely a mother in India, no matter of what sect or faith, but does not bring her of- ferings. And Sitla or Mahadevi, Kah, Durga, Bhawani, all names of the one dread Goddess of De- struction, are at the heart of every worshipper, male or female, in In- \dia. This being so, we begin to understand the widespread cult of motherhood as the great fundamen- is, as found, the religion of India. |estimate of the eastern woman's position, and the eastern woman knows it. It gives her more con- scious dignity than is to be com- ; passed by her western sister, who i has behmd her the ever present consciousness of being classed with children and idols. WOMEN HAVE FREEDOMS. "Riven in the matter of seclusion cognizable as a lemon-crested cockatoo,- but as he had been "ander bare poles" for half a cen- tury, few living people can remem- ber when he had more covering than he shows at present. He was owned for eighty years by a well-known-master mariner © tain when the latter was nine years of age, and he was then informed a Mrs. Bennett, of Sydney. she did not get him until 1891. that peried the bird has lived at) George's River, within sight of; where Captain Cook landed, and | where "the first fleet'? anchored | about the year of his birth. None of his faculties is weakened, and he is as loquacious as young sters of his tribe who may be a hundred years younger. In hilari ous moments he will flap his stumps --you could not call them wings- and yell, "Ill fly--V'll fly! . By] gee, Vl fly !" a palpably -- ous statement. reais acai eer QUEEN OF PIPES. The Queen of pipes belongs to the Shah of Persia, ) chieftain of pipes a queen? | P jably because ;a pipe is a feminine fnoun in French. The little Shah's | | pipe: was smoked by his father be-| ifere him, and by his uncle and by | this grandfather, and how many! more of the rulers of Darius' king- dom Tip knows not. « The pipe 1s adomed with all- the. precious | stones, and is-said to be worth Ii is constantly guarded: 850, 000. by a ligh court funetionary. for | Why is the great.| Prob- | i ionee upon .a time a Grand Vizier was Caught trying to. pry out a} stone from. the - pipe with , his} poirard. He was immediately be- | headed, and the brave soldier who | prevented the theft was made guardian of the pipe, with a pen- sion for life. CS SERIOUS COMPLICATION. "T know how to sympathize with you, Mrs. -Polhemus," said Mrs. Lapsling.. "My left eye was af- fected once just as yours is and I had awful time with it.> The sdoc- ter said the trouble was that the xubjuctive was granulated." Many a man who is always talk- ing about what a foul ba used tu be, isn't very old, Sydney, who died at the Solomon j Islands in 1887, aged eighty-nine. | The bird was presented to the cap- | pause that Cocky was just the same age. | The bird was left as a legacy to} but | | less favorable. ' forgotten that the urban popula- {tion numbers as yet but one-teath lof the total. {the ideas of the average English | person are absolutely at fault. Two- |thirds of the total population of | India is agricultural, and all agri- | cultural women help in the work lof the fields. They are free, there- ere, to come and go. A _ village | woman, or rather a group of vil- | lage women, since there is safety in numbers, will think no shame to in their homeward way to laddress the English magistrate, who, in camp hard by, is taking a stroll after office is over; aye! and to tackle him, too, on local af- Since | £4278; and tell him he should con- ' cas ' sult the women as well as the men, since half the welfare-of the town- | ship depends on them. | "Doubtless in the crowded, sun- less alleys of a town, 'especially | | ; among the poorer and genteel com- | munity, the Indian woman's lot is But it must not be Whether, as a high official lately remarked in Parlia- ment, this is a matter of regret, since the 'forces of civilization can- not be brought to bear so well on a sparsely-populated district as on a crowded town,' is a difficult ques- tion. Certain is it that the lot of the townswoman is far harder than that of her sister in the villages. So far, indeed, as womanhood is | coneerned, one may speak of the submerged tenth of the towns. It is from the ranks of these that. most Fnglishwomen and Englishmen de- rive their estimate of 'the women of India; but despite the fact that a recent book says naively: 'So far I have given instances of the life | of ladies of high rank, but they are all,' nothing could well No one who typical of be more misleading. has been inside a wide village court- | yard, where the buxom village wo- men. sit spinning and suckling their babies, while sons and brothers, fathers ~ and , grandfathers--aye ! even a cousin or two--pass in and out, can help smiling at the picture drawn by those who firmly believe that because a woman does not choose her husband her life must be a barren wilderness. MEN- BOW DOWN TO THEM. "T was once received by five gen- erations of women. They had all their sens on show, and a godly regiment they were, from tal). stal- wart men of sixty-five to a six months' eld baby. ~ How many there were I cannot tell; but the courtyard seemed full of them, and great-grandmamma--she was a wi- tal unalterable fact lyimg at the) bottom of all human effort, which| They are 600 to 800 feet in width, | | | dow--ordered them about, and they | obeyed | "So the Indian woman is not al- ways 2 slave. "Ne one who has seen a stout Mohammedan gentleman with four orthodox wives, and maybe one or two more understudics thrown in, being received in his woman's apartments would ever dream of applying the title siave to the fe- male element. Fhe poor gentle: man's position is positively appal- ling; especially if it is a day on which his beard has to be dyed blue! = MEN DO THE WASHING. "There is one point en which the Indian woman certeinly has the pull over her European sister; she is never subjected, even in the streets, to coarse words or famil- arities; no one ealls her Polly, or passes remarks no her looks: or dress. That would be an 'unpar- donable offense. She is 'mother' even if she be young, to all men. Of course, she has often a hard time of it, but she has not, as a rule, so many childrens, and nobobdy-- not even if they are poor--does the washing at home!' Eyen the out- casts employ a washerman. Then behind all their trials, behind all the drudgery, even the dresriness of life, lies the knowledge that In- dia. worships the woman, that the common proverb of daily life savs: 'A man owes his life to his mother.' And nearly every woman is a mo- ther. "Whether, as a matter of fact, they are good mothers is rather a moot point. They certainly carry kindness to extremes, and cruelty to children is almost an unknows offense in India. "The pereentage of infant mor- tality is very high in India, even now when we think we have seotched- female infanticide. This is scarcely to be wondered at when we consider the absolute lack of knowledge on the part of the mo- ther. "Female education is doubtless doing something to dissipate the almost inconceivable ignorance of the Indian mother; but it must be remembered that such education gauged at its highest--and how bad these so-called' girls' schools ean be, I, as imspector, know to my cost--only touches four per cent. of the total female popula- tion. "For Indian girls and Indian ehildren generally are almost alarmingly assimilative. You can teach them what you like." pe ee ee NEWFOUNDLAND'S WEALTH. Large Denosits of Slate, Marble and Garnets. A report of the United States consul at St. Johns states that the slate deposits of Newfoundland for roofing amd other purposes are at Trinity bay, about 120 miles by rail and steamer north of St. Johas. land extend for miles; 75 per cent. That it is overlaid with much that] of the slate is a bright purple and | gives color to the general western; the remainder of an attractive grayish green. same geological formation (Cam- brian) as those of North Wales. The geographical position of these deposits, being so near the Atlan- tie steamship routes, commands an exceptionably favorable position for the export of their products to the American and European cen- ters of consumption. A large deposit of marble occurs within a few miles of one of the arms of Bay of Islands, on the west coast of Newfoundland. The de- posit is 250 feet or more in width, and extends at least two miles in length. The marble is of a beauti- ful cream color when polished, and has been pronounced by competent marble workers to be equal to the best Italian. A garnet deposit of exceptional possibilities has been discovered on an island situated in St. Michael's bay, seuthern Labrador, -- about thirty-five miles north of Belle Isle in the straits. .The island is about a mile long, half a mile wide, and 200 feet in height. The vein occurs on the south side of the island near the edge of a cliff, and is exposed for about 330 feet in length and 11 feet in width. It is composed of crystals of garnet about the size of large oranges, with sufficient mat- rix (a flinty quartz amd mica) to hold them together. On the north side, about 60 feet from the solid vein and- running parallel with it, are smaller crys- tals, but much farther apart. Be- yond the 330 feet in length the rock is covered with sod, and it is as- sumed this sod covers the exten- sion of vein. Over the south side edge of the cliff, which is almost perpendicular, the large garnets are profusely exposed. down to about sea level. This shows that the supply is almost inexhaustible and that they ean be quarried at a minimum of cost. This garnet has been tested for abrasive work and pronounced su perior for that purpose to any found elsewhere. It is also thought that Ever since October 26, when eventually cempelled to draw GAS 8, vance is the famou depicted the culmi the Turks and Arabs. = ENGLISH COMM UNITY IN BAF- FLING MYSTERIES. Ghjects Are Moved--Spirit in At- tendanee Furnishes Musie and Entertainment. The correspondent of the London Daily Express, writing from Tun- bridge Wells, seems all worked up over some remarkable domes there, and well he may be if the tale he tells is true. This is it: "Tf ever there was a placid town a few months ago it was Tunbridge Wells. If there is a palpitating, hair-on-end, quivering, hoarsely whispering community, it is Tun- |bridge Wells to-day. Things have | been happening in that respectable town that one can speak of only with bated breath. "There is a house of mystery in Tunbridge Wells. It does not look | the part. ; |deubt, from its looks, if it has aj }dungeon. Certainly there is no jembattled terrace on which a blue ilady could do the one-step in the (chilly hours. In fact, it looks just the ordinary, desirable villa, wa- jter_(h. and c.), ete., which figure iin the advertisements. | "But inside there is a@ room where spirits revel. So, at least, who have been inside. in pitchy darkness, it is nidents There, on a little the fender Tongs fall} | mantelpiece and land round table. There, does a pas-de-ballet. from space. Violins are played, by NO HUMAN HAND. "The occupier of the house lives there with his wife, son and daugh- ter. Each of them has told me of | extraordinary have been growing m wonder and) intensity for nearly a year, and are how so marvelous as to baffle the! keenest wits of the town. \ '(Phe experience always: begins | with the table rocking violently,' | said the oecupier. Then we ask) the spirit--we have no idea who or: what it is, but we always address, the unknown power in the room] as the spirit--if it will kindly move! something to the little round table, | around which, with our fingers | touching, we four; @ith generally a few Visitors, sit. "Things have happened which I ean not possibly explain. On one occasion the marble clock glided gently down to the - table, ticking all the time. On another a'tam- bourine floated from high up on the wall, ard banged us each lightly on the head. ' 'Once a violin which lay on the chest of drawers, began to play --not in tune; still, it played, and then the bow fell to the floor.' "Tam quite unable even to think how all these things happened,' said his wife.- 'One time there the tongs. We had missed them all day, and so we asked if the spirit would bring them back, and sire enough back they came. on the table. Woolly rugs came from the floor and curled up round my head and my. -husband's" during one seance--for sometimes --the -- spiritd will not bring what vou-ask, but} dreamed of asking for. "T went, quite disheliews slabs of any size and thickiiess can be cut and polished. If so, it iubee be interesting to building trades, | as they would be exceedingly hand some, durable, attractive and new for bath inside and outside orn. | mental work. Shipping facilities; are excellent, the being | deep, and there is perfect security | for the largest ships. | water ve. wa Se se DISCOURAGING PROGRESS. "Vouwre not doing as well in your mathematics as you ought, to be, Johnny," said Mrs. -Lapsling ; "at your age your cousin Horace was half way through differential ealipers."? Tf there is any one we wold like to impose upon, if isthe chap who is forever trying to get something for nothing. | OF} spirit powers said "My, of, the »lerdiuge 'drapery s! ment of the town, to me, eT "rela an electric ~switeh in. my -- hand, which. otr hast's son had" fitted iup, so. that we visitérs could keen the watch for ANY» HUMAN AGENCY. i "And when I suddenly switched it-up, and saw a tambourine, which i had heard jingling, drop from space, I tell you [owas astounded. I can not explain it all.' ! ss : Mr. Pearn, "keeper of a local) hotel, 1s equally emphatic. | "Phere was agteat noise one | evening,' "he said. 'We switched | on the light--for. the' room isin} somplete darkness, with even. the} windaw barred up with cloth, dur-/ ing the seances--and there was the! fender on the table. "Now, we had all been sitting | round. and itis only a emalltable: | How the fender could have been | iyited over our heads without touch ing us is a mystery.to me. "I can A BATTLE OF HONOR: ITALIA NS RECAPTURING of the sheltering area of the palms. tober 96. After a rapid' advaace seized the fort in: the afterncon, they shelled the encmy in the oasis. It has no moat, and I} ; Ve i say guite a number of respected re-} They belong to the | ; : ; ; either. said, marble cloeks float from the! funtil 1 in the will bring something you have never | Si 3 f; cae Saas We Ae the Italians, over broken ground, the Italians, ; A LOST POSITION IN TRIPOLI Tta after furious fighting all day along their entire line, were im' their line of outposts; the one aim of the invaders has been to. reoc- cupy the lost ground and, incidentally, to avenge the setback.. The dominating factor in an Italian ad: and the move of November 7, of which the London Graphic. artist has here ing moment, was part of the campaign to drive the Turks and Arabs completely out « The scene is the recapture of the. Hamidieh Fort; abandoned on Oc- zided by the fire of the warships, and occupied it with a mountain battery of machine guns, with which They fought with great dash, and not think that any human powe did it.' Mr. Wymark's two sisters have also been present at seances and have expressed their absolute won- derment. A local solicitor told me that he had been at the house when a heavy drawer, out of a chest, was lifted out and placed on the table. ; "Yet, had one of the party taken his or her hand away from the table," he told me, "I am sure it would have been more than one hand could do to lift that drawer out. And I really believe that ;no hand had moved, for when the light was switched on all were on the table." Another resident told me of an even more difficult test which thb mysterious power had fulfilled. "T went quite as a skeptic." he, /said, "and I placed, in avase, pen- | knife and a pencil case, among a | lot of other tmngs. Then we ask- jed if the spirit would bring them ; back to me, and the next moment |I felt the penknife slipped ~be- | tween my fingers as I held them on ithe table, and the pencil case ar- rived ;}ON THE BACK OF MY HAN). | "T earried an electric torch, but , though TI switched .it on time and again, there was no sign of any- body moving, We all had our hands on the table. | 'And I am sure there was- no- | body else in the room. The door) was locked. I had inspected the! | windows, one of the ordinary kind, | | which could never have. been un- ! | fastened without our. knowing {There was nobody under the sofa | It is a mystery to me. |. "One evening a bex of cigars was iput on the table, and the spirit, at the request of one of us, put a | cigar into every man's mouth. © Tj was flabbergasted."' Similar opinions --all in bated ' promient ents. The were expressed | breath---by other tradesmen and. resid- | seances, I learn, are never | experiences, which} very successful until about 10 at) night, and they frequently go on morning. Not a} single person of the 30 or 40 who}; have been to these psychie evenings can explain how any human agency could possibly be at work. The owner of the house is in quite a comfortable financial posi- tion. I am assured by all who have been that there is no suggestion | of payment. The meetings are | quite private and only personal friends are asked, " ROYALTY ON SHIPWRECKS, A Spanish Prince ard His Wife Cast Ashore ow English Coast. The Duchess of Fife. and her daughters appear to be the only royalties of recent years. to under: go the ordeal. of shipwreck, with the possible exception of the Arch duke John of Austria, who, accord. | ing to one theory, lost his life at sea, says the London Chronicle. Prince Henry cf Prussia, however, who circumnavigated the globe twice before he was 20, has on two ecensinons brayed a watery gravé When he was.a leutenant his ship a vivlent and me of the sailore roard, Prince Henry plunged af ér him. and despite the heavy sea, i ip? } was cang@ht in squall fc ar Was washe VOr } { effecting UCeceeie: LON nae Dy Oia ars 9 U2 tab we FY Ce j ' ore 12 OStOGe WS, Dorsetshire ast avinw vce to Flanders ; at StOPNL. CASt- Wem We 5 ) eAAVel nate, r xt Henry: Vian; the .Prince to Windsor, adding that he would take no refusal. The Earlof Arundel, | with a troop of 300 horse, escorted | Philip. to the royal residence, where | wns entertained for about al ortnight: . Henry took 'advantage| of the enforced yisit to oxtort some from. the Prince on -matters at issue between them, and then gent him to: Spain by way of Falmouth: : ' ted he eANCESSIONS SS TOR SaaS, te Pere a Tt ig humene to pit seme tli outdo ther misery. shattered 1090s Poy setae, ikea Guardians the other i which repelled several counter-attacks by " The Hamidieh Fort is the key to the Italian eastward front--hence its import- ance in any operations to clear the oasis, which is seen on the right of the picture. WONDERS OF THE UNSEEN "ROW ERW'S GREEN. ISLE NEWS BY MAIL FROM IRE. LAND'S SHORES, Happenings in the Emerald Isle ot Interest to Irish. men. A portion of aclay bank at Tyrone brick works, at Dungannon, ae and three men were suffocat- ed. Damage amounting to has been done by field Laundry, Dublin. Mr. John Smith M'Coy, sub- sheriff of County Donegal, fell dead in the street at Londonderry from heart failure. On his retirement as master of the Clare hounds, Captain O' Grady has been presented with a handsome silver service. Four employes of the Northern Flax Spinning Co., Ltd, Falls road, Belfast, were injured through the explosion of a boiler. In memory of Sir Robert Hart, a memorial in. the form of a "Hart Scholarship'? is to be established in Belfast University. The old oak, known as Tom Moore's tree, at the meeting of the $20,000 fire to Bloom- Rathfarmham, , Waters, in the vale of Avoca, which was blown down on 30th August, has been erected on a concrete base. At the age of 110 years, the death has been reported of Mrs. Dolan, of Clorce, County Monaghan. She had a vivid recollection of all the stirring events of the past century. Rapid progress is being made at Belfast in the construetion of the White Star oh screw steamer Litanic, sister ship of the Olympie, | 45,000 tons, the largest vessel in the | world. Luxury is finding its way even to the Irish poorhouses. The Limas- day de- | eided to clothe live paupers in Trish tweeds and bury the dead ones in draped coffins. There is every indication that this winter will be one of exceptional severity for the poor of Dublin. Unemployment has become wide- \spread as a consequence of the re- eent strikes, An enormous sunfish, stated to weight five or six hundredweight, and measure from tip to tail about eight feet, and from the upper fin to the one below a similar length, was washed into Bayor Bay re- cently. : At tne Limerick Gaelic League the Rev. M. Hayes, the president, said they would insist on Irish be- ing taught to every child while attending a national "school, The Board of National Education was blocking the way. Within the past. few weeks en- ginecrs have been at work prespect- ing for copper and sinking a new shaft inthe old copper. mines at Graignenagin, Ballymacarberry, eo, Waterford. These mines were worked some. fifty. or sixty years ago, when it was understood they yielded a large amount of copper. The mineral rights belong to Lora Ashtown, he CHINESE COMPLEXIONS. Tho exquisite. complexion of tho 'lyoung Chinese women is dite not to /enamelling, as has heen suspected,' "bunt to eareful manipulation of the by expert. massenses, They begin by agentle pinching of ihe cles hetween. the tips of thoip fingers, which lasts fully ten minutes: then apply lotions on absorbent. cotton, then an inguent, and: finish by kneading the cheeks with an extreme delierey of toveh, always proceading from' the 'nose snd cammisure's of the dips toward the enrs, This is alimrmisss andl physiologically correct process can be recommended in cases, rarer than they should he, where the. physicianvis consulted concerning » faded or otherwise unattractive complexion. ts wen cen He loves best whose love lasts. 'Why dé you always carry your umbrella??? remarked the wors' bore in town. "Reeause," moaned) his vietin, "my wnibrella' canne ? And: purple silence en fa for a shor walk. veloped the lan Space: