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NC *3 % R4 A cement floor in your try house will mu.‘hv‘-n:u-s.’““y !11 hard because their .mh Jounlowtgpwh?. Eid oo ied ce c ts n ce P e d a _ the most perfect seedbed. ‘The man who plants late must take special Etll.ll. The soil must not be touched until it is dry, for nothing is gained, but _much loxt,rzy attempting to work a wet soil ; but when il is in .. a condition to work, it % Sld thoroughly tilled â€" as., to makeâ€" the seedbed fine and Hfiht,.Ior this will assist ination, and will let in Mnkndmmm forwArd _ the B‘m.â€"__q-v_"fwâ€"' PA e ‘;r“:d'p“w T anie should be heps oi w b}i.mdm |d."$. can ;fhp be _ plant.â€" It is, of course, possible that p e arme ie ameranet uickly, causes some pieces of ground to Ec“h:; until the t;:“ is far advanced, is cause, it manifestl becomes Mm hnkunrytbing,be,nx to the rapid growth ‘of the crop after it is planted. It is unfortunate that the very cause, wet, cold: land, which operates to keep crops from being {lmoed in good time, operates also to keep them from growing rapidly after they begin to g::mn_&tg,h for land that is hvet. and vy in the spring is not, without great éffort, put igp:uot order as to provide mfi-lfim'--u.-m’.'ne field can be eeety:. Phprough meshaniest propars‘ necessary. mechan tion and care of the soil is needed in z'hl Ph:?nn i ietngee rrady sad, tapht purpose intaining a y and: rapi growth, but even 'liln'g' the land is h&y :dn-d, it is advisable to make use of eoncentrated and quickâ€"acting fertilâ€" zer at the start, that the crops may be able to make up, to some extent, for lost time, that full maturity mm{ be had before the artival of the early fall frosts, and for this deal of pruning and are benefited by it. R m i’ut_ berrica, srries and dé best when y peunâ€" ed. ~Stakes are unnecessary for any of )‘n;y persons do not grow fruit on their farms, thinking it is ”St:“" possible to. control the ravages of insect, pests. In/ #his they are mistakem,â€"for at ~present alâ€" most every form of insect may be quite: E'fnd'y @ontrolled. The fruit trees should examined every spring for the egge of eaterpillars, and then by unxing the earth â€"away for a few inches around the trurk of M{fii.';-'oi should be made for borers. If the mfid it keptâ€"loose and free from «weeds about the trunks of trees,and heaped up: three ‘or four inches. at the base of each trunk, there is usually very little trouble from borers. The current worm is easily combated by. dusting both the, currant and fih‘%« LM wi wdered hellebore. su «destroys the worms comâ€" mly. and is not poisonous to fuman be‘ For the:curculioand the codlinâ€"moth Qhoml.nn &hw‘?ny‘tha trees just, the fall in spting, and wo or three subsequently during the In this way these pests cun be kept if control. Some growers still practice j thet insects off the trees upon sheets ad upon the ground to reâ€" ceive them, C these bushes if the young shoots are out off when they reach the height of two or three feat. Extra fine crops are to be socured suly through the use of flng)flnini‘knih. ‘The soil in the fruit garden should be fairly good before the trees have been set. _ Afterâ€" ward the stable manures sbould not be used in large quantities except on the berry The usualâ€"r for delaying the plantâ€" tng of a cropmm the uan hgblmf m some relable commercial fertilizer, dressing, . or . some specially v *~and . wellâ€"rotted / barn will be found most excellent. o stable manure, as food for lateâ€" planted crops, is decidedly unsatisfactory. . ‘The best plan of pruning trees is to I whenever it is seenâ€"to be of ar to be crowding others. â€" The ogine is tht oo ies bee There is $ tree. ere is probably not -2 difference as to the time when. a regular rmm' is given the orchard." Some ‘er the spring to the autumn, or T'hr; n-fl;fi.. early Plp.“fl&c.'-; "time for this work. trees need very little pruning, and cherry trees do not endure ievere pruning . Suckers must be carefully removed from the apple trees. Peach trees may have from â€"tnird to one‘half . of each your‘s fi:-‘."d with profit every _ spring. Peach trees, like gtape vines, stand a good bushes. .. Wood â€" ashes, bone dust, and the salts of potassium will fi“ the best mnhlu to gra apples, r8, es Td pramx: Phow pingirave Iintis bepofited by Stable manure, as wood is produced at the expense of truit. ... h ow or .because the land is wet, and is slow in getting into a sufliciently dry condition to :”:“ ouind kept entirely free from wood, if eeerae m ea hearnes the a groua ween t s may.very profitably be occupied by erops. of vegetables, as potatoes, or sweet corn, the only precaution mflw being unpr.o. with all which such crops may extract ooo eee in Nee the ptringhh t fls s Reciprocate the milk of kin with the milk of haman Kindness, " * poorly as meeting :,"-’.::.mi:&" -'-afir,-ouu of felt boot to put on hearts to keep them from freezing ! ‘He that works always with his hands and never with his brain, will ever be a poor The greatest misfortune that ever befails x” is the receipt of a government penâ€" A look into the swill pail will often reveal the resson why some mortgages are foreâ€" Masses of accurate knpwledge existed in the world before books‘ â€"witnoms the older «fi-,n,a mm....a w..â€"-‘nflo“twh-'::du hmb w# sec. state _ of m‘ cattleâ€"breeding _ are now, without writing at all. Even ‘m%h-.chmm, to men in all departments, % than create it, while effiâ€" dn aininaimert to niong o thome whno * mam‘c s _ c s mian who never speaks gently to his fihm same man who never speaks kindly to his wife, or to his children. . . &‘0@ road to wealth is seldom safe to KA * goldâ€"brick" doal always has a rascil <bin ~c0 .,'g atoes .when he deâ€" .m-n’ The trees should on PR L KA Books do not Make Men Lateâ€"Planted Crops. aa_u*in‘u fivg years, when ‘the ground ‘may be secded but the small fruit must be culâ€" Short Furrows. the same way as the farmer »â€" or potatoas . when [n do- ve been planted they ; and frequently oultiâ€" fruit gardenshould be * Ao Lagtand Tess mtected for her by law. * _ Who Ruler of Greeeé is Weary of Mis £ Threnc. ‘Next month will witness the departure from Athens not ouly of King George and Queen Olgs, but of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess, this being the first ccom: wion ch which the sovereign snd his heit ‘have been absont from the country simulâ€" tansously, The regency is to remain inâ€" vested, not in the Sailor Prince George, 48 might have been expected, for the latter is also leaving the Kingdom, but in the hands of Prime Minister Tricoupia and his Oabis not, who are to constitute a Board of Reg» ency. «1t is very evident from ghis‘ that King George is heartily tired of his Wellenic throne and would be gladly rid of it He has been on the point of abdicating several times and has only consented to remain at the pressing request of the great powers of ERurope, who teared that the popular outâ€" break whick wouldâ€"inevitably follow might lead to European complications, for it is certain that were it not for the curb main« tained by King George upon the Pan: Hellenist movement of ‘his subjects the latter would immediately invade Crete or receive so kindly a welcome as Mdk:fi George, who knew that in their case he cou not be acctised of favoring one fil.iuu..l rn{ at theexpense of the other, a charge which have even known to be made against him on one nccasion when he had given a chilâ€" dren‘s ball at theâ€"palace and had been illâ€" advised enough to invite to it the young sons and daughters of several of his Cabinet Ministers, as well as of"â€"the opposition leaders. f They Blew Horns and Wore Signs on Their }._ pugarâ€"Loaf Hats. In the when the present century was in n-d‘l'in{; clothes no ragged and dirtyâ€"faced urchins dogged the atepa of London pedestrians howling, ** ‘Ere‘s yer hextry | All about the ‘orrible and hawful news from Hamerica ‘ Persons of more mature years, though doubtless of less. exâ€" perience than the present disseminators of daily literature, were intrusted with the rul- of papers. â€" They did not depend solély upon their vocal organs in announcing to the public the h-prning- of all clime#. _ Each man armed himself with a copper horn FOMENT . AN . INSURRNCTION there leading up o stern ‘reprisalson thd part of Turkey, which again would probably entail the interference of Russia on beâ€" half of her Greek coâ€"religioniate. ~ / _ . half of her Greek coâ€"religionists. jOf course it is inpoulgb to prediot any: thing with certainty in a country so politiâ€" &lflow";?“; his throne by the end of fi!llur'll e fulfills hbh;-’mlbult- ing himself at the same : time as his two {rrowielipy fahk, "0 0 53000E C 00000900 .0 bddcas Bows 1t mubt be remembered that M. Tricou pis is no friend of his, and was forced upon the King much against the latter‘s will, and after the statesman : had ‘been bitterly asâ€" sailing the sovereign in speech and print as having exceeded his prerogative and acted io an uneonltimcionnmnngr.~ There is no love lost between the two men, and Tricouâ€" pis more thas once, when last out of office, expreszed the opinion that unless the King maintained his observance of his constituâ€" tional oath the country would be able to dispense with his presence. .. ... ... among the people of the country. King G‘ol'(.c. aware that his predecessor, the »Bavatianâ€"born, King Otho, lost his crown nearly two feet long, and at intervals of thirty seconds blew stentorian â€"blasts upon it. T{., mh wonld meet individuals who wore JNL: fastened a big placard on his hat, ring the name of the paper.. he . was nllL’ and the‘ edition thereof. .So the " newsy" of our English grandad was prepared to do busiâ€" ness with all except;blind people, and they had no use for his wares., ‘The costumes of these individuals were almost as peculiar as their methods of doing business. ~The hat on which '.h;“rhurd was fastened was of an abbrevicted sugarâ€"loaf pattern, â€" the,coat â€"Unfortunately for the King, identically the umou::m-{ has been nus_'o about him in consequence of the jealoasy which his practice of mflmin,’udnc favoritisnt to unworthy{courtiers of Greek nationality had excited, demr.d when he first came to Athens to wvoid making the same error, and with this object in viewâ€"decided to hold aloof from personal and intimate inâ€" tercourse with any of his new subjects, aware that they bolonged either ‘to one political party or the other, and that any graciousness of the members of one would iui‘:.hbl{ entail the ill will of l.hi:&hal; 5 only le whom he may be said to have 'u!mlm,l to personal intercourse throughout his reign have been the foreign diptommutic corps and ‘strangers Visiting by M. Delyanis, the leader of the opposiâ€" tion, whose parliamentary following is almost equal to that of the Ministers, and _‘kg bitterly resents that for the mere sake of personal conveniences the King should ‘vest the regency in the hands of his political was‘Jong, enerous‘in other dimensions, and always of a bottleâ€"green ; skinâ€"tight knee breeches wore just as certain to be a bright yollow as were the buskins to be just aboutas white as it is possible for nfhh‘bbt in ’m The wearer was often as unique his costume. . He came from all walks of ‘rfiull;, it must be taken into considerâ€" ation that neither the King nor the Royal Family have what may be called any kind * A TIRED KING. t hospitable and accessible. °. court in Europe where f« "Mysterious Seare" in India. QUAINT OLD NEWSMEN. To these he has invariably been PERSONAL FOLLOWING are against Kivg e by the end o‘ ~| THE DOMINION to SEVENTH _ PARLIAMENT â€" FC SESSION AT OTTAWA. To incorporate the ‘French River Boom Companyâ€"â€"Mr.. Comtewerth. . . . __â€"_â€" Mr, Foster said |h:hduu on stearine was| 80 per pound under the old tariff. ~Itâ€"had | ; been changed to 20 per cent., under the im pression Ih,rpbl: was not manufactured in ; this country. re was, however, & w factory of stearine in the oit{ of Mon is . which . capitel wes . leverted, ~ Qut ‘The following bills were read a first time :â€"â€" 1C t M Respecting the St. Lawrence Insurance fismvflr- White (Cardwell), _ which had been in operation for s0m¢ UGI® | pge manner of Ovening the Public Lands time. HHe believed the (ectory was a beaocl | * *J C029 Aetiiement .. â€" . of w Ne o nm, e propos w, j :ndoroth.o ci;onumm to make the|â€" There ,o: m:i‘- l:‘ _Am :d.:i uty 2o a poun thousands of acres of public CaNKED vEQBTARBLE®: , | ‘the Government to. be thrown open for setâ€" Mr, Foster said that the duty of 1 1â€"4 | tlement as the growth of the country may ooo ce cligh oo in uesn ky Portions of this public domain vegetables, including corn an e as, * C L4 drop from 2cin the old tariff, This | Ar€ Settled every year, and the whols u?:f was thought to be too sweepiog a reduc. | try is being graduaily and systematically tion. . He propoug theâ€" duty should be 1 | occupied. . The. ian method ef openâ€" 1â€"2 ceuits per pogud. # ing land for oecupancy has some ‘The ncz.puud as amended, itb 7 aeal ns i newnmwna oo C o â€" . _ J poihte of excellence and many of interest. To incorporate ‘the Alb Southern .. NP prirpaenle the Atbitts Southers CANNED VEQBETARBLE® , Mr. Foster said that the duty of 1 1â€"4 cent per pound on tomatoes and other vegetables, including corn and baked beaus, was a drop from 2cin the old tariff, This was thoughs to be too sweeping a reducâ€" tion.. He propored the duty should be 1 1â€"2 m::« posad, £¥ _ ‘The item pazsed as amended. cce earthenware and stogeware, yiz. or juge, churns or orocks, to 8e Een " cmeutitle n No maun o n Alaiih Ti aile rerute Imodieg in whar en JeF the old & i€ A Mm uty of 20 would have destroyed the industry, " _ The item passed as amended. m 99 AMEXDED DUT‘ks. The following‘ items were. amended to read as follows :â€"Plaster of Paris, ca‘â€" cined or manufactured 400 per barrel, _ .. and “.756 local ; coal, per Fro- ton, from Hydney to Montreal,§3.51 ; from New Glasâ€" gow to Montreal, 3‘!.50; from Springhill to Mr. Charlton, in mvin%:he second readâ€" ing of the Actrto secure a better observance of the Lord‘s day,commonly cailed Sunday, hoped the subject would be approached free from party or personal influences. Heatkâ€" ed that the measure be considered #imply upon its merits. On some occasions the promoter had been called a crank, a fanatin, a Puritam, and a selfâ€"righteous man. He disclaimed any pretensiuns save that he de sired to promote the weifare of the comâ€" munity. â€" meidls i To DISFRANCHISE BRIBERS, Mr. Weldon moved the second reading of ‘;bibl:'h disfranchise voters who have ufin ribes. + Slate puéfl’-‘.’éé}i-} cent. ; slates, roofâ€". ilg slates, when IS it or dressed‘on‘y, also school or writingâ€"slates 30 per cent. â€" _ > Coat oH. Mr. Davies objected to the duty of 7 1â€"5 cents on coal oil. . He cn:undod‘ that ;::oh was a special tax upon the ~Muritime â€" Tt s in d h TRRRITORIAL EXEMPTIONS.â€"â€"â€" Mr. Daly introduced a bill to ngoll, the Hom eltnx Exemption Act in the Territerâ€" ies, which gives Qfic Térritorntt "Ausembly full power to deal with homestead ‘exempâ€" tions, The provisions of.the Homestead Exemption Act conflicted with the provisions of the;Real Property Act .Chap 25 of the ordinance of 1888 provided for exemptions up to $1,500, but 5:::~-nrn had beld that this war not within th. jurisdiction of. the Territorial Assembly, and it was desired to :;gdn this power, :I.yh. bill is to accomplish i8 e Th:gill was read a firstâ€"time. ho mtcied FREIGHT RATES; gave the following freight rates on the Inâ€" tercolonial lmdn( roads :â€"For finm, by carload, per ton, to St. John, N ., from Montreal, $3.60 ; for export, $4; local to St..John, N.B., from Toronto, $4.30 for export, $4.50; local to Halifax from Montreal, $3.60 for export, and $4_ local ; to Halifrx from Tororto, $4.30 for export, Mr. Foster said some relef had hbeen given this year by the reduction of the duty on the barrels. ‘The Goversment proposed to give a still further relieve by reducing the duty to six cents per imporiJ gallon. The item as amended was carried, L CRUDE PETROLEUNM. Mr. Foster moved that the item of crude petroleum, etc., 3 3â€"5 tents per gallon, be amended to read :â€"‘*‘Crude petroleum feul and fiu oil, other than naphtha, benzine,or gasoline, ‘when imported by manufacturers, other than oil refiners, for use in their own factories for foul purposes, also manutacture ot !.u, 3 cents per gallon." > he item as amended was adopted., Mr. Martin moved the second reading of m bill to extend the ballot to the Northâ€" West Territories. Mr. Edgar moved the second reading of a bill to reduce from twelve to seven the number of grand jurors necessary to find & true bill in the PJrovinu of Onm{o, The bill was read a second time.\ soRar Row. BA Mr. Foster said the Government had to oo:nd« first how to ::{ the protection and encouragement °w was necessary for the iron industry as a whole ; secondly how to reduce to the maker of iron a..* s "'. w opr‘y how to the fui rk of silk on 1 flv%:«n-’wdv es ,.mi m ‘: â€" Pluc Sn s s ue ET 494 C000 id mt y »..pi,,--fiq' 3;~.-;’ i ib nfvars $ ake 4} Revter esc fangitinn‘ an "Aabe scrap iron, flhlw%’u â€"& as possible by %& duty n'z, ton to the end of pecsent year, and thereafter having a uniform duty of $4 per ton. / This, it was hoped would induce manufdoturers to make a better quality It would provide that refuss iron, of which there was a flren deal in this country, and which ahould not be allowed to go towaste would not go to warte. t 3 Mr. Lanrier said he would like the Finâ€" ance Minister to tell the House about the remonstrances he hud réseived from the users of scrap against increasing the duty How could the Oo:;rn‘mnl defend the licy of increasing the dity on raw materâ€" m 34 reducing it on -#:Ztltml impleâ€" ments from 35 to 20 per cent. * lx Foster said his hon. frieed must Woed meaerap. They ated ‘pQ, hom, aed no sot there was -?m on m’ n They used, also, bar iton, on which thers wasa reduction of $3 a ton. On nothing which entered into the manufacture of agricalâ€" taral vufim& was the duty incressed. z.'hcnn gd;hdflym::apml‘ not arged as a ip im respect. The item mm Â¥ PERROâ€"MANXC A NRS . Mr. rm‘:nc'l to m..‘m-.. ganese from 10 to cant valorem. The item as ..-.m was carfled. h. 3 ie yar Rops, Mr. Foster moved that " Swedish rolled wnfi. not more than oneâ€"half inch , for the manufactare 4 horse nails," be included in the item of ‘"Swedish rolled iron rods under }â€"inch in ‘ml Be placed on the free lint. DEMIJORNY, & Mr. Foster moved to change the duty on. ontreal, $2.49. The bill was read a second time. Mr. Ho t, te to Mr. ive the lollowing 7::::{& rates 0 Tee bill was read m second time. I soomrinincidesr»n lig tad ,ulm;u"’i mfety, j h“ Mr. Chariton thought barbed wire 6K.Ctience in p”&g'-m GRAND: JURORS IN ONTARIO BALLOT IN: NORTHâ€"WEST. BILLS INTRODUCED SUNDAY OBSERVANCE $TKARIN® The lessee is equired to cultivate and im prove the land, nnld if chal:oh requirements are properly complied with he may scquire | & clear title to the land at the expiration of the lease, Persons desifing to #ettle on the land are required to file an qglicu- tion with the Governmestt Land Office. These applications are considered by a local Land Board presided over by a magâ€" istrate, which investigates as to the suitâ€" ability of the applicant,â€"with â€"the especial ob,iuud.findin* out if he is a bona fide settler and likely to prove a suitable one: iluu is no weary waiting and . wasting of WOI Wns ‘Shat I i chance with the strong. > ; _ _ . _ %Mknflfid md*u&pdout in allotments, y"nyh! ‘\n size: with the charâ€" acter of the iand, but rarely exceeding 600 acres. It is allobted to settlers first on & system of lease, at a nominal rental, usualâ€" ly about twelve cents an acre per annum, Remarkable Additton Recently Made to the London Zoological Gardens, A unique addition, and oneâ€"of iincommon iuterest, has just been made to the insect house in the London Zoologica lrgrd.lu. The new arrival it a specimen of the Goliath beetle~ from west Africaâ€"s giant even among its cwn kind. . There® i8 ‘little to appreciate in the too familiar specier of ovur own household bestle, but visitors to the Zoo will not fail to admiré ‘the: splenfid proportions and beauty of color of the Goliath. Specimens of this genus are exceedingly rare, and are in consequedce much prized b{ coliectors, ‘The newcomer at the Zoo is the first of it kind to make its home there, «nd is believed to be the only living speciâ€" on." . The latter J;&;h:un referred. mainly to the inerndicable plague of rabbits that afflicte Australia. lwnr-lud â€"m public society in the worl It i:éig%fii &Eiviofi Kv‘iln‘:d six inches across the body, and if the legs were extended to.their fnlyl the total measureâ€" ment would be some nine or ten inches. The home of the genus Golisthus is in tropical and central Africa. ‘Related genâ€" era also occur in South America and tropiâ€" cal Asia. One o?th*pooin in South Ameriâ€" ca,is roasted and eaten by the natives, who are said to regard it as a great dainty. The new beetle at the Zoo, which, by the way, is a male specimen of thé largest form, Goliathus Druyri, has béen placed uprro- rhuly enough next to the giant spider rom South America. It is sapplied with food chiefly in the form of melon. e en eP P 0O When all the .ppfienion- are passed upon, or, if there is a rush for the land, at an nrpoimpd time every allotment is ballotâ€" ted for separately, Each suitable spplicant is mfithf.tz.l chance in the ballot or lot drawin, hi-voty allotment, provided, of oonrlé,io as not already been_successful in a previous drawing. §ov. more than one allotment is granted to one person, andâ€"no rson: is #ligible to participate in the halâ€" m who tlu‘dg has an area of public land amounting to 640 acres. . He may,however, make up his holdings to this limit. _ In the colony of Victoria th* Governâ€" ment found work for many of the unem ployâ€" ed during the hard times of the last Australian winter in clearing public land. Som ofâ€"the landeâ€"thuseleared were thrown open for occupation a few weeks ago, and succesaful applicants were required to_pay five shillings an acre on their allotmentssto Emng the Government.for its outlay in beâ€" alf of the unemployed. m ‘The tenure of the lease on these particâ€" wlar lands was set at nine years and five months, and lésmees . were, required to «* cultivate â€" and â€" other wiso Rnprove their land, and aiso to deéstroy all vermia thereâ€" tIuA "::-n wi’::dcw over t.h': :iuu.h -:og. wnich hay is pitel with difiâ€" culty, is avoided Zy a fluk in the roof, which is shown in‘the accompanying illus» tration (Fig. 1), giving room for & door of generous size. . A box stail ought to be pro: vided in every stable, as it will be found Mlfiul for the occasional use of '.:7 horse and cow. ]t thay take the place the extra stall ‘\*h-' au?ht always to be previded for the horse of a visitor, so that there is but litcle extra room called for. Where a callir;or the storing of litter can be provided, such an arrangement of sthils Where tha thrown ant # different found mose Sarat FIG. 1. PERSPECTIVR VIRW OF VILLAGE STABLE railro=« traoks the Crar travelled over were HOMESTEADING IN AUSTRALIA. A Convenient Village Stable RARE "GOLIATH" BEETLE Puol Jablo hroff, the inventor of the ric _candic,". who died recently in 9. Ransa, +a diféetorâ€"gemerat ol the nosesmary a Tig. 9, will be convenient. be‘ding apd manure must be f doors, which is unfortunate, arrangement of stails may be veel ..“:.:.‘.".' ‘duty w;-m;-:b geen lt to Doings~Matiers ..ld sheots, -flh was of Mement and Mirth GCathered From Mis 0 pounds. Dally Record. a carried. The industrial revival in â€" Alabams conâ€" grRIO APPARATUS timues. a reduction of duty, . To -:"0,1 the in the indus ITEMs OF INTEREST ABOUT THE BUSY YANKEE . A ~~ Over 90 per cent. of Tenuessea labor in native born. * Natives of the Adirondack region name all. visitore "sporte.t «. ... 0000 00 br%l-finolhhrhn raised wages $500,000 a year in Boston. v‘lh"“rm_"!'_.'s;&)b.oflâ€" bachelors in the United States over 30. A man in Detroit was fined $55 for cutting a tree on one of the boulevards. ‘The name of the map who lights the statue of liberty in Washington li;htly‘ is Mr. America. s> £ A Bangor man has invented an adjustable broom for the easy sweeping of corners. The New York Centraleast bound fréight track will be relaid with 80 pound steel rails this year, * Mrs, Culbertson, the librarian of theâ€" New Orleans State Library,has held the position for eighteen years. _ . j 5 Burt Pod?un, Canton, Pa., in & ~fit of jealousy, seriously wounded his sweetheart and committed suicide. + Georgia‘s superior criminal court has ‘disâ€" continued the E;uln of the.Bible in the administration of uzha.- # A number of independent oil comp§nies of Pennsylvania have combined for the purpose of fightiug the Standard Oil Comâ€" pany. 8 The average weight of twenty thousand men and women weighed at Boston, was men 141} pounds, women 124} poundl. As there were just thirteen marriages in Henniker,â€"N. H., last year, the brides are all the objects of superstitious solicitude. Cardinal Gibbons has sent his rortnie of exâ€"President Harrigon and President Cleveâ€" land to the Pope at the latter‘s special reâ€" quest. e + Out of fortyâ€"two cities in America, with population sranging from 200,000 to 500 000; all but one are using the (electric railway system. t Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, wife of the standard" oil tm‘lsm". mh-; l:;gm of oung men, of which her son, Jo 4 > I.yl a g_umb;r. Q‘h! ts * ' The oldest noTpor in America is the Newportâ€"(R I.} Mercury. It was estabâ€" li;gssd by Benjamin Franklin in the year 1 y h â€"BDubpont‘s power mills, in Wilmington Del., are furnished with. hinged roonfl, so that in case of an explosion the damage will be minimized. k C By the will of Mrs, Kate Johnson, of San Francisco, widow of R. C. Johnson, that city, under direction of the Catholic charch, gets nearly $1,000,000 . for a :free hospital. ‘Twentyâ€"three Pittsburg firms manufacâ€" ture flint and lime glass. The annual produstion exceeds 24,000,‘ pieces of tableâ€" ware alone. w Iâ€"»rvh;;;n;lmi'd'ngh%.ss years in one western State the number of mortgages executed was 200,000, ‘and their.nominal value is $180,000,000. f Mrs. Thomas A. Rdison, has literary gifts. She is a niece of Emily Huntingdon Electricity is to be the motive poWer on the system of elevatéd roads‘to be built in Chicago; it will be the most oom&;fiooy-um in the world and will cost $15,000,000. Washington has salmon fisheries. . worth $1,500,000 a year, and catches 10,000 fur seals, It exqoru $3,000,000 worth of. lumâ€" ber and ‘coal and raises 15,000,000 bushels of whent. _ A bill has been introduced at Albany, limiting telepkione clnr%u $78 per arfnum in cities of over 1,000, population, and grading down to $27, according to the size of the city. i ACOERia ies TERCie ballld creatares, nearly, all of which are mostly white in color. a remurkable piece of engineering nu.’rly'l.m mcres of salt. meadows . at Bridgeport, Conn., have beenditched, diked against the tide, and are rapidly being got into upland grass. 9e Miller, at one timé the wellâ€"kmown editress ofâ€"several juvenile publications. 2. Only four men in the world understand how to operate the geometric lathe, with which the Government‘s paper money is so delicately engraved in ‘diamond point, ‘l‘fio‘&iuing ofany bison, ‘buffalo, quail or Chinese pheasant is forbidden by. lawâ€"in Montana for ten years, and the ‘killing of any moose, elk, otter or beaver for six, A Watertown, N.Y., rag picker while at work found two rh'p. A jeweller valued one, a cluster of fiftsen diamonds, at $150 and the other contained one digmond, a garâ€" net and a turquoisa, > We ‘A coon, with a lesther strap around ‘its neck, which was lost by .‘youu woman at Chester, W. Vs., about fifteen years was found the other day a hunter h:g:', woods near Chester. Mrs. Samuel4, mother of the James boys makes a small income by ebu{:' curious visitors 25 cents apiece -m;.r-nd Jeswe James, which is in the y of her house in Clay County, Mo. â€"~Chief Arthur, af the Brotherhood of Locoâ€" motive Engineers‘is the owner of real estate in Cleveland valued at about $85,000, A.burning mountain is visible near Conâ€" eord, Ky,â€" 1t is supposedâ€"to beâ€"fedâ€"with of that cozes from a orevice in the mountain. Charles Barney, 13 years old, of South. Camden,â€"wasâ€"badly burned _byâ€"some‘ boysâ€" who tied him to a stake and set fire. to his clothing while playing Indians. , Andrew Carnegie will have to give Pittsâ€" burg $125,170,72 to make good his promise to d'upiie‘to every dollat raised from other sources during January and February. Commissioners‘ spsoinhd to investigate the Norwegian and Swedish system of liquor selling report that ti;:lu is a good one and ought to be introduced in Massachuâ€" sette. ratorn slope of agoy Same ane x, of Munâ€" the southern ertension of the All-*--. cie, Ind., awallowed a water bug. A postâ€" and the western slopes of the Sisrra Nevada “;u-hub-rvwflodthcfutthn and Cascade ranges, in California and Oreâ€"| his heart had been eaten away by s® inâ€" A closed bank in Arizons has issued the fundir h ower the people $30000; the yoor bust ‘owen ; > n-';“mx nno...r.,u.m':- ; when they pay wa‘ll pay." A oral shutâ€"off.of. ailver mings i® Ared in Colgrado, owlog 16 the continued im yA Mood] the nearest in the universe. It weighs twice as much &s the sun. . To the naked eye it appears as a single bright star, byt with a telescope one can : see the two stars composing it. Oue of them is seven or eight times as bright as the other, But the little star is evidently as heayy as the big one, for they slowly "cirole, hoph’ one another at arm‘sâ€"length, around. a point halfâ€"way â€" between | them.â€"~ Astronomers have long known"these feets, but lately. they have extended and . reotified their knowledge about Alpha Centauri, It now appears that the period in which those twit stara revolve around one another is cightyâ€"one yearsâ€"half the:time required by thé planet Neptume to go areund the sun. ‘Their orbit is very eccentric; they closé to within a distance. of 1,000,000,000 miles apart, and then swing away from one anpther until they are separated by 8,340,â€" 000,000 miles. . It must be remembered that this is the extraordinary condugt not of & pair of celestial ug‘rh, but of two im« mense suns, . When a little planet like the earth goes round a gigantic orb lika the sun the thing is quite .mmpleâ€"; the m“ ons noe i oo pottn weoll pu y practivally, still with fespect ‘to it. . But In either case, what of the world‘s beâ€" longing to the suns of Alpha Centagri? Astronomy furnishes no direct proof that worlds, planets like ours, exist there, and it fumilzn no proofthat they do not exist ; but it does prove that the law of gravitation is obe{ed there, and that consequently on a world having the same mass us the earth has a man would weigh just as much in the ‘Alpha Centauri system as he does in the solar |{nem. Astronomy proves also that the light of Alpha Contsuri resembles the light of the sun. Has. it not the same vivifie force also? We know how the sunâ€" beams clothe the earth with life. ~~â€" > What & picture is presented to the imagâ€" instion if we choose to lu‘fpou‘thut such worlis exist!â€" Under: the dominion of two equally powerful suns the orbit that such a world would travet in could not be a smooth elliptical track, but it might be & labyrinâ€" thine marvel.© . Now around one of the twin suns, and now around the other, it might go whirling. _ Suppose it to be situated so close to one of the sut@"that‘its centre of revâ€" olution ~was never cbuugod to the other, -nl imagine the alteration of conditions affecting its inhabitants, as, in company with its solar master, it firat retreats more than three thousand ‘million miles from their blazing nd*hbor, and: theh, turning, rushes back, until the glare and gush of the light and heat of that\other sun pouring wpon it are increased to W tenfold intensity .. . But even if one caphiot reconcile the Centauri with his conceptions of the r« quirements ofhabitable worlds, his mind mus be impressed with the spectacle preserted The convenience of a refrigerator ori6t chest is teoâ€"apparent to need mention, bue many who would like to avail themeelves of the advantage of tmnnrvlng and makâ€" infi palatable the that comes to their tables in the hot weather are deterred by the expensiveness of the factoryâ€"made articles. A ;ory l;'i-fwto:{lnbllt‘[::udnn be@made at home by procuring a e * focdl box and flttinn nna!ftt box in-fi. t directly upon the bottom, but with a space four or five inches all around it, which in to be filled with sawdust or other similar material. The inner box shoold. project an inch above the outer oné.. A. â€"box cover should be made to fit the outer box, so that there may be a nonâ€"conducting Space above l-'admunq\fiohwfm-fn tmade to place the ioé in, or if the ‘ chest is to be placed in a (shed, a hole may be bored through the bottom and the ice set directl on the boards. _ It will "spend" . better H wnpm in butlap or some closer cloth. Movable siat shelves are fitted into the other end of the inner chamber to plase food upon, The inside should be shellacked before using, or the pine wood may give a flavor to some articles of food: particularly butter. It must be kept cleas, and octa« -l:lnlly thoroughly sunâ€"dried to kill the mold. L Three lade, wh‘n‘r-l through Rochesâ€" tet Mews, Camden on:'ndn, England, on Monday, were hortified to see the head of a man lying in the gutter. An alarm was raised, and the head was conveyed to the Kentish Town Police Station. The police are now endesvoring to find the trunk, _ The head is that of a mas between fl'flflmd@.dfi‘vfl, with black moustache and biack bair, 1.:::‘._‘“.1-,“ h:.mhn y very recently, blood on the :-’h":qflhhn\. .?r bead seems to a forsigneor, appesrances in dioate that it was hacked from the trnnk with a blunt instrament. Horrible Discovery in London Homemade Ice Chest. the naked | _ tween the Colontcs and the Fmpite: _ s star, byt| _ ‘The Hon, m‘mm&w e two stars | yeurs Minister of: Defenpe dor Vi s sevem or | addressed the Montreal Board of Trade the . But the| other day on trade prospecte between Can: as the big | ada and Australis. Mr. Reid commenced eeping one | hi speech by saying that the least the d. a point| Australian colonies ‘could do was to grasp atyonomers | the hand of fellowship that had been oferâ€" but lately | ed so recently by Cansda in the person of tified ‘their | her Minister of Trade and Commerce, He ri, 1t now | then went oh to describe the work of edu« hich those cating the British mind and British politiâ€" > another is\ cians, in‘ which the hon, gentleman bad e required | been engaged duridg his sojourn in London, areund the| The different Australian colonies were itric ; they | rapidly realizing the importance of the gonâ€" 000,000,000 | vention which: was to open in Ottaws on y from one | the 21st of June, and, although thflp“for i by 8,340,â€" | would not be able to remain himself, the emembered | Government of Victoria would be‘repreâ€" ondugt n6t| sented ‘by three of the ablest members, of two im | whileâ€"New Southâ€" Wales had toâ€"day fallen net ks Wue | toto line an d had decided to send &deleâ€" "the planet| gate.. Hon Mr Reid felt that England un {ndly and Anogsm h:np.:u money loag enough Nee nmtion Arrprpiicd. e. (t. frat | meablich 6 mht reble t the ies wiireake hn | vent the free int go of ‘ goods "beâ€" tween the . mem ofcone great family Before goi:flm tails as to the cost and prospects of such a cable, the speaker said this new route to the east hadâ€"taken a nm,hold upon the British mind. The: inister kazarded the opinion that : if the conference adopted prntrnnmloflm.'u ; he had no doubt they would, E-ofiublo and quick resuits were sure to follow, Not the least incentive to the work of bringing Canâ€" ada and. ::ltnln intocloser trade relationt was the red strand‘ of blood rllst.luiuht?. *‘For our pa=t," continued the hon. gentleâ€" man, ‘"i* is a disgrae to us that we have not fo‘lowed your example; and unite oor seven‘coloniâ€" s into one atrong oont.dcrudy._ We have, however, paid dearly for our deâ€" ‘lina:nency, as ~ur bouds and securities are nothing like as i”d as yours, and you can borrow at a much ‘greater sdvtnug: than the Governmentsof Australia," He believed thereâ€"was great room for‘ the interchange of trade, and in â€"fact it was time . the peoâ€" le.of the British empite began to deal more Fugnly with each other. British trade, in a word, must be distributed amongst Britâ€" ish citizens. Hon. Mackenzie Bowell was next introâ€" duced, and made atost busneselike speéch, The hon. gentleman told Montréal‘s merâ€" chantâ€"princéswhat there was before them in this . +Australidh ~trade, and. .strongly contended tor a consolidation of the empire md-Comnq' rce said it wasâ€"timeâ€"England, learned* thatâ€" the bzt interests :? ber colonies were inst the fayored nations clauses, and ll:mgh Mr.â€" Bowell did not intend to give away Cabinet secrets, he could say, that the ~Government had asked that theweâ€"be tenounced, and they would > keep a+ it until our views prevailed on the minas of imperial statesmen. . He remem:â€" bered when old Canada had given a subsidy of £100,0©00 forâ€"aâ€"slow line of steamers, and surely, he said, the Dominion can now give been yr‘rnd. We baye not felt one particle of odi ation in th*b-l;ldi’nq of the Canadiap Pac#fic, and the same wil be said when the f# line starts and rapid communication een Great Britain and Australia via ada is completed. . and swims around fishing ‘bos hours, awaiting. a chance to n‘niuu 10?;0:1 fish fl- relatives switn straight as an arrow, t he wriggies along and splashes with his EO Fa s ! P One day Mr. Bright said to him when sitting, ‘" Now what does it cost to set an artist up in business * I cuppose a temnâ€"or Imty&nnd note would do it?" â€" Mr. huropllclh"‘gh. yes," «"Well," said Mr. t, *I thinkl“.yn ht to consider yourself a very m'cv to earn five ot six thonsand pounds : year on a twentyâ€"pound plant," Mr. W. W. Ouless, R. A., tells» oupftal story of the time when he was painting John Bright‘s portralti s (0 000 3.00 09 back out of. water. . He is very quick when hunting his préy. + Good Returns. for Capital Invested. Miss Lilias Hamilton, attached to the Dufferin Hospital st Caloutta, gdes to Kabal to attend the Judies of the Ameer‘s house» bold, and while in Arloh‘.! «he is to have a personal guard of six soldiers, three of whom will escort har when she goes out. :f;jha; will escort her when nhhmm. She is accompanied by a native worâ€" «ant: . The l‘!&!"!"!.!t,"! _dinâ€" hnmvim‘rlrflul’fififl A% the same time, Mr. Clemence, tenâ€" dent of the Ameer‘s stadd, is taking wp his wif« and a Earopean nurse to h y The LaQy Doctor in Afghanistan. HON. MB, BOWKLLS TDARKS WANNRRITRADED SHAREKL Ships\pn Whoels. bave not felt one* d y U H2 0 k NC CR nc