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GENERAL. The condition of the insane King Otto of Bavaria has suddenly- become worse sad it is feared that he is dying. The worst snowstorm of the season aged on the Newfoundland coast on nondsy. Ll" rsilroads are blocked. md eteemers hove been unable to lesve '7- vâ€"v“ V UNITED STATES ; promise. Engagements l: {60:11, Irather Work has been suspended in all the , sues. coal mines of the Ohio district, because; the ten per cent. increase in wages; TOO SLOW. egreed upon by the miners and mine r 810 ment didn’t come of“ owners at Columbus and Chicago has; You pe , No; the wretch asked) me to fly with not yet 133°“ nglled to “1° common i bin, and then told me that he thought hborers in the mines. ! be or PFNEDAT l--...:.._L-L|- LL--- 1 . m e hawk has been ordered 'to Haliftix. She has a speed of thirty knots. .A portion of the new bridge on the Crow’s Nest line of railway over the St. Mary’s River was blown down, and with it eight men. A man named Fer- guson of Renfrew was killed and the others seriously injured. The men tell that 60 feet. GREAT BRITAIN. Manchester has subscribed £350,000 to provide a new steamship service to Montrui. The Department of Trade and Com- merce at Ottawa has been adzvised that merchant ships of Japan will be afford- ed the same facilities for dealing with deserted seamen in British ports as is now accorded to British vessels. One of the main featmres of the ce1e« bration of the Queen's birthday at Kingston will he the placing of bronzes on the lmse of the monument, erected in the City Park in memory of Sir John A. Macdonald. 'J â€"â€"â€"â€"\. .n‘“.§ way for their freight business. They will he delivered during April and May. ' Rev. Dr. Carmen. General Superin-f tendent of the Methodist Church, has; left Toronto for Vancouver, on route: to Japan. where he will visit the vari- ' ous missions of the Church. 1 The Inland Revenue officials at Que- ; bee have seized two barrels consigned, to a. merchant supposed to contain' flour. 'Lhey had 338 pounds each of; very fine American plug tobacco. ’ Sixteen Mogul engines have been pur- l phased by the Canada Atlantic and 0t-} tawa. Arnprior and Parry Sound Rail- f The Grand Trunk 13 mauguratmg a new fast freight line to operate over the Grand Trunk Railway system in conjunction with the West Shore Rail- way. 1 ( l E G. L. White, representing the Van Camp Packing Company, of Indiana- polis, was in Quebec on Sunday, beâ€" came insane. and had to be placed un- der restraint. 'Dbe British Government is sending 2,000 troops to reinforce the garrison of Jamaica. The second iattal'mn of the Leinster Regiment. now stationed in Halifax, have received orders to pre- pare to embark on May 5. Mr. S. E. Wilkins, a Hamilton mer- chant, was fined one cent by the Police Magistrate for violating acity by-law in selling a pair of shoes after 7o'clock in the evening. J, w. Harkom, master mechanic of : THE NEW HANDKERCHIEFS. ' the eastern division of the G. T. R.I Daintiness appears to be the charac-: a stem will he assistant mechanical . . . _l myiperihtemient of the c.) P. R. lfi’:t‘ctfi‘“i?re, 0f fthl‘.’ new band?“ _ A ‘blaze in the Star Theatre at Ham- lc “‘3 S“ , e ”1"“ 0, men an“ ““3“? ilton destroyed a lot of costumes be- , lawn Leing “38¢ Wit-h 1'93"- lace and; longing to the troupe playing there, be- i delicate embroidery by way of orna-g sides doing other damage. , IDBIDtatiOD. l The new sevenâ€"pound guns of A Bat- A pretty specimen is or sheer olinen terynvere given a satisfactory test at jca-mbnc, square "1 shape, and {1111311' the Royal Military College by Capt. ed "”Ph .3 very DQI‘TOW hem-stitched English in the presence of the cadets. liliemmmglrd‘idd “’RICht}PIJ-D§ ameehoé Mr. s. E. Wilkins, a Hamilton mer-' P" m 0 ery- ”0 ”e" ‘3 m}? e chant. was fined one cent by the Police 311.”; thhe narrow fiem alone,- vvhiie a. Magistrate for violating acity by-law n as e Sm hem, and m “Ch . . .- . corner a. delicate embroidered design. :3 :elilélggeaniiitglf Of shoes after 70 clock ; An attractive one has the favorite nar- . . , , grow hem, and in one corner an ar-l 'I‘he BrltelSlh Government is sending 9 tistic embroidered design, circular in" 3.000 troops to remforce the garrlson of outline, with an initial letter in the! rJar-name“ The second lattalion of the centre. 1‘ J. \V. Harkom, master mechanic of the eastern division of the G. T. R. system will he assistant mechanical superintendent of the C.» P. R. Two thousand visiting troops areex- pectod in Ottawa on the Queen's Birthday, including the Queen’s Own Rifles. 700 strong. from Toronto. The Minister of Marine and Fish- eries announces that the Government are considering the advisability of es- tablishing a naval militia corps. It is now [imposed to raise by 25 cent 1 subscriptions the 8 2,0000 required for! the proposed monument to the latei Premier Mercier. ' McNamee Simpson, of Montreal and Toronto, have been awarded the contract for dredging in Toronto har- bor this summer. Diver Kilker of Montreal was caught in the gates of the Canada Paper Com- pany’s mills at Windsor mills and lost his life. The Government is reckoning upon an expenditure of $250,000 to transport the military contingent to the Yukon. Mr. E. P. Davis. 0.0., of Victoria, B. 0.. is mentioned as likely to be appoint- ed Chief Justice of British Columbia. A syndicate of Hamiltonians will shortly make the experiment of trying to acclimatize English game in Canada. Mr. Ira J. Flatt, ex-M.P.P., is said to be heir to a Philadelphia estate, 1118 than amounting to $700,000. The Quebec City Council has declded to tax all telephone and telegraph poles 25 cents each. Fall wheat is reported to be damag- °d by the recent frosts in several sec- tions of Ontario. THF VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. The Bank of British North America in to establish a branch in the Yukon. -nterestin¢ Items About Our Own Country. Great Britain. the United States. and All Parts of the Globe. Condensed and Assorted for Buy Reading. CANADA . Sparrow comfortable thafivé tancigfi; What‘f Erica the posted one, Why. he has been sued twice for breach of gfqmiae. Engagements! Well, Irather It is true that he wears the uniform of a soldier, said the doubting one. but I understand he never has been in any reg} engagement. buds, or a vifie of delicate ‘pi_nwk tâ€"r-aiiE- ing arkmtus. These silk handker- chiefs come also in plain white. l A dressy Specimen of this kind is edged ,uith narrow Iaoe overhanded on the ilinen, there being no hem. About an 1inch from the edge, on all four sides, {is let in a band of laoe insertion, in ; one corner is a handsome initial work- .ed. and in the other three corners an :emlmoidered Spray. This is Valued at ,forty-eight cents. One of fine qualâ€" i ity,‘ lace-edged, and with an initial let- l ter in one corner, is found for twenty- :two cents, while the same thing is eforty-eight cents where the lace edg- ing is the real article. These two hand- kerchiefs are exceptionally good for ' the price. Colored handkerchiefs, which a few years ago were so much in vogue, have entirely disappeared, except in a few examples seen in the silk China. crape. These are used for “dress-up” oc- casions, and are ornamental. They come in pale pink, green, lavender, yel- low, and blue. and are embroidered in floss-silk of the same color or con- trasting colors. For instance, a blue one has a blue embroidered edge of ‘scallops and.garlands_ of pink rose- __â€"-â€".,- , The unlaundered hand-made hand- ‘kercl'lief is much liked, and is more 1 reasonable in price than the laundered article. It rang-es from seventeen ‘cents upward, and for fifty cents one gof excelient quality (an %;e bought, ;either lace-edged or plain hem-stitch- ; ed, with the initiml ietter in one corner. Lace is in high favor,» and is seen on more than half the new handkerchiefs, from the finest real point and Valen- ciennes to the narrow and serviceable imitation edging. 'A noticeably pret- ty article is of finest qua‘ity, has an embroidered edge of tiny pointed scal- loys, inside of which runs a narrow line of embroidery: and set under the scallops a. full edging of lace about an inoh in width. A third is scalloped, and insile the edge runs a line of embroidery. 'l'l One, square in shape, is embroidered all about the edge is small scallop8.; another has the edge in large scalloys, emh _one formed of three small ones. Thus, in the notable case of Bichat. one of the foremost anatomists of his day. one lobe of his brain was found markedly smaller than the other. He Iwas, in fact, deficient in one half of , his brain, and yet his mental and phy- 'sical life was in its way notably of a ;high order. In another case, reported 5 by Cruveilhier, a man died in the hos- I pital at the age of 42 years from heart ; disease. He exhibited no lack of intel- f ligence, yet after death it was discov- Pered that his left brain was practical- : ly destroyed and replaced by awatery 'substance. Another case, reported by Andra], was of a man who died at, the ‘- age of :28. He had suffered from afall ’when 3 years old, and as a result was paralyzed on his left side. The right .half of his brain had practically dis- appeared, so that the parts below this half constituted the floor, of an empty space. Andral says of this man that he “ had received a good. education and had profited by it; he had a good mem- ory; his speech was free and easy; his intelligence was such as we should ex- pect to find in an ordinary man.” . ltrll mm Mam “ho m-l Mung “I": only sin” a Brain. l Without the connecting structure there can be no exact coeoperative ac- . tion of the double brain. Now there is ‘ample evidence to show that deficiency of the corpus callosum has not neces- fsarily been attended with the effects. w hich, on the theory of t“ .9 single na- ture of the brain, we should have ex- pected. In instancesinwhich it was dis- covered after death that the connect- ing bridge between the hemispheres was entirely wanting, neither derange- ment in intellect was observed nor any other abnormality of life in the way of movement or sensation. l A SOLDIER \VITH A RECORD. A rumor is current in Paris that Al- fred Dreyfus, the former Onptain of artillery. who was sentenced to im- prisonment for life after having been convicted by courtmsrtial of having betrayed important military secrets to a. foreign power. is dead. FORCE OF! HABIT; WERE NOT DERANG ED. â€"-â€"v.-v-.v UV ”bull-1| 'SIUVV- fers that any other one cause. Every , fruit grower knows that different vari- ieties of plum trees require different Streatment. For instance, the Bur- ; bank. being naturally of a low, sprawl- .ing habit requires more side and less f top pruning than the Abundance, which ,is an upright grower, and should be {severely tOp pruned to spread the top 'as much as possible. If large trees are bought from the nurseries, the heads will be formed too high and the tree 'will never be of the proper shape. To ’suit me it would be hardly possible to 'get too low a head on a plum tree. A plum grower, who, the past season, not only lost his entire crap of plums from over one hundred trees, but lost his, trees as well, from overbearing, said to ' me: “You could thin your fruit, for your trees are so low, but how could I get into hh etOps of twenty-fgive or thirty-foot trees to thin them 8" True, he.could not, and thus his orchard was fruit. High prqningghas caused more 088 and disappql‘ntment to plum grow- DFO +.lfin4 nâ€"â€"- T. My first illustrated lesson in prun- V ing came to me thirty years agn- My father bought a farm of a man who ’ was quite a horticulturist, in his way. ' the same as a great many other people 3 are; that is, he would buy trees, set , them out on land that was worthless ' for any other purpose, and then sit ' down and await results. He had ' bought a few plum trees, about eighâ€" . teen, some of which were put out at {the back of the house, the balance be- "ing planted within about a foot of a ,D‘ricket fence at one side of an open lane where his horse and cow were bastured. You can probably guess the INSUIL says a writer, not a single Sprout from one of these trees got above the tOp of those fence pickets. 'At the end of about five years, when [my father took the farm, the trunks of ’those trees were some three or four. ’inches in diameter, with not a branch! ‘over four feet high, but the head was? ibrowsed off as square as it cut with! lthe Pruning shears. My father get the ltence back several feet from the trees 3 and the growth those trees made was} {truly wonderful, with their low, wide? i branching heads. Those trees gave an- ; inually large crops of the choicest plums f i1 have ever seen. In the fifteen years § ; that my father owned this farm there : 2 was only one off year when these trees ‘ 3did not produce a money crop of from 3 .850 to $100 yearly. l have always look- 38d uPOn this as horse sense in pruning iplum trees. My method of pruning; ‘plums can be told in a few words: To ’ icut back two-thirds all new wood; that f gis, all the new leading shoots are cut? iback at least two-thirds of the entire, liength. This is my rule, and I follow, ‘ Itoas closely as circumstances will ad- f fmrt. I would not dare send a man into W my orchard with instructions to follow :1 this rule to the letter. For there is ~ 90% cannotbe, any set rule for prun- i. 1113‘ trees. My ideal shape for a plum ‘1 tree is a low, spreading, well-balanced 1 head. I buy small trees from the nurs- ; i cry, and by cutting back severely at g the time of planting, then cutting back : one-third of all new growth each year, 1'secure my ideal shape. Such trees: give me well-ripened wood, bear better ’ crops of better fruit, are more vigor-‘ I1 c 6""! «fitaic'lil‘l'ilw'fé ‘ PRUNING AND THINNING THE PLUM. fund a ready safe fdf hiCheat: market price. i uub we mam point is 'clean piece of turf in the sod. If seed is bluegrass makes a. nit ‘special lawn mixtures :varlous conditions. 0 a ! waked up by others they haw ed as a reason that they di‘ spond quicker that they did the can. (t is as clearly 1 Undertaking “and Embalming “'Iu-u 0m- ”ream“. Esq-cause "roams I‘on- lrol the ”ruin. ing a night to that extent their sicep is interfered with,” says a well-known physician; “and it is a frequent thing to hear persons say that they dreamed so much during the night that they did not sleep .or rest well. Now, the erninl In“... _.:J_;, ’ but the ! FORMATION OF SMALL LAVVNS. I Sodding is most satisfactory. Suc- cess depends upon the thorough pre- Daration of the soil. This should be spaded up deep and made as rich as possible. In laying sod, it is important that the pieces are cut with a. sharp knife and made of even width so that vi. vâ€"v ' §sown. It will not hurt the grain to barrow the ground after the wheat is fup. Wheat that is four inches high gwill not be injured by harrowing with fa peg toothed barrow. If it rains aft- ;‘er the wheat is seeded and before it is {flour or five inches high, harrowing the ’ground after it has dried sufficiently jwill usually prove beneficial. In that case the barrow loosens the surface of the soil and prevents the loss of water by evaporation at a time when the :wheat, is not high enough to mulch and shade the ground well. ’ Shoe drills can be divided into two classes, viz., the shoe chain and the ‘shoe press drills. The shoe like those ,of the corn planter and garden seeders 7'opens a furrow in the ground and drops [the seed into it while the sides of the {shoe hold the dirt 11301:. When the gshoe moves past the point where acer- gtain seed has been dropped, the loose {dirt falls in, covering the seed more for less completely. Following the shoe 513 a short, large-linked chain in the fease of the shoe chain drill and a small ; wheel in the case of the shoe press drill. ; which covers the seed more completely. jIn addition to covering the grain the 'Dress wheels compact the ground over ; the seed, which tends to mauke moisture irlse into the soil which surrounds it. gThis firming of the soil tends to pro- 'duce one of the necessary conditions for growth, viz., moisture. A SPECIA If! DURHAM. -' 01w. condition after the ground has warm- .ed sufficiently for the seed to grow. iseeded in drills a bushel and tour Quarts to a bushel and a peak of seed have given best results as a general rule. The amount of seed which will give the best yield will vary with the season. A season which favors the stealing of the plants requires less seed ' than one which is unfavorable to their . stooling. The shoe drills are preter- able to the hoe drills or to broadcasting wheat. The shoe drill puts the seed into the ground and usually into moist ground, and covers it over, ready to grow. The broadcast seeder and the hoe drill ar emore uncertain, as some of the grain is covered deeply, some shallow and some of it not at all. if the reader will bear in mind that to sprout or start growth every seed re- requires a certain degree of warmth, moisture and air, he will understand what he is required to furnish to the wheat kernels to induce them to start growth. ' Dealer In all kinds of n that they did not. re- that they did not hear is as clearly proved as be that persons who are A-JQL? :g 18 as much rest or on as actual sleep in though it may not ap- thought. It is hard to Li'tuai experiment, be- us are so difficu t is a certain amount are adapted fox" much ha rd- .re‘ s 'eeping, . however par- 80-111“. is t remarkabl) cm I was jut tukmg to Sheâ€"But iln’t it rather bar IIP with hurt Hoâ€"‘l‘ht'l it. I can't wht u nth! win to meet you- ”18“” J tokap tell y“ A UNDERITAKI N a . 1 ALL 0000 GROCERS KEEp " “your grocer does not keep it, tell 'r 77‘- "Monsoon” Tcais put up by 2 gmversun sample of the best qua “'3 Therefore they use the gun. selection of the Tea and its bland. I! that it up themoelveo and sell it 0:35 guinea. thereby securing its purity "t “P in lb. 1 lb. and lb. pack-1 SOIdia' .g 0 S TH: FINEQT Tc; IN THE WORLD FROM THE TEA PLANT '2 THE TH: rINES‘I’ TEA N THE WORLD FIRsT-CLASS BEARSF. IN FLOUR, OffiTh GRISTING A? FURNITURE n' I u teen running sores t On” from my knee to the tOp of m” A“ the medicine I {00k didh good, so I threw it aside and: B. B. 3.; when one-halfthe born. gone, I noticed a. 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