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Lord George Hamilton, Secretary of sum to; India. has again been men- tioned in'v’connootlon with the Govern- Btron Lyon Playfair. the distinguigh. ed Purlinmentarian, died in London, James Prentice. section foreman of the Grand Trunk between Parkdale and Toronto. fell from a gravel train on Tuesday night. and was instantly killed. his head being out off by the wheels. He was married, and leaves a family of ten children. He was 55 years of age. David T. Hanbury. of London. Eng.. has left Winnipeg for the far north on an exploring expedition. He will ascend the inlet to Baker Lake. which is him territory. but beyond which is a broad field of hitherto unexplored territory. Here Mr. Hanbnry will spend the remainder of the summer. returning to Edmonton after the lakes freeze over. Premier Greenway of Manitoba, who is in Toronto, says that the prospects for the farmers in Manitoba never looked brighter than they do this sea- son. The pomlation of the province will be increased by a large influx of immigrants. Petitions are being circulated in Hamilton for a pardon to A. M. Road- house, committed to Kingston peniten- tiary in 1895 for seven years for as- saulting II. M. Arthur. Joseph 0rd. 86 years old, living near Oriuia may have to answer to acharge of murder. During a. dispute he stab- bed bus stepson. \V. H. Lawrence. whose life is deapaired of. The Attorney-General has been ask- ed for 9. rm to alsuw an action to .be brought against the Kingston Street. Railway Company for running its care on Sunday. R. F. Robertson, of New York, has accepted the post of Government. min- eralogist 101' British Columbia. He is As soon as the Vi'torian Order of Nurses Committee for Kingstpn secures 3700. it will engage a district nurse. onsiderable owusition is met. there to the scheme. a Canadian, and highly recommended by Dr. Dawson. Madame Dandurand, wife of Senator Dandurand, and one of the cleverest of French-Canadian writers, has been appointed an officer of the French Academy. The Winnipeg City Council will call for tenders for the supply of pump,- ing machinery capable of furnishing four million gallons of water per day. add Canada The carpenters of Winnipeg have commenced an agitation for an increase in their rate of wages. The highest rate paid at present is 25 cents per hour. In Kingston the Civic holiday is fill- ed for August 8th, when bicycle races will be held, as well as the annual races of the Canadian Road Club. The officers of the Ottawa and New York Railway expect to have trains running into the Central depot, Otr- tawa. before the first. of July. The War Eagle Mining Company has declared a dividend of one and ahalf per cent. per month, which is equal to 18 per cent. per annum. August 8th has been chosen for Belle- ville’s Civic holiday. The Sons of Scot- land will have a large demonstration on _that. day. The Customs returns for the port of Montreal for the month of May am.- ounted to $601,075. against $408,248 for May. 1897. A report has been sent: in to the De- partment of Forestry of Ontario that a bug is eating up the boxwood maple in Eastern Ontario. Dominion Bank notes supposed to be a portion of the proceeds of the Na,- panee bank robbery, have turned up at. M'innipeg. Miss Brown, aged twenty, of Poplar Point, Man, took strychnine in mis- take for salts and died in a few min- Ines. The Montreal police raided bicyclists who were out without lanterns. Twen- ty-five were gathered in at one police station. Hamilton license holders who were on probation will have their licenses extended for the whole year. A disease resembling leprosy has made its appearance among the In- dians of the Rainy Lake country. Hsmilton Council has decided to take steps towards securing the control of the local street railway. The Irishmen of Ottawa are tgking Steps to relieve their famine-strlcken countrymen in Ireland. Actor Emerson. who shot and killed James Tattle, at London, will be tried at the fall Assizes. St. John. N. B., bakers have advanc- ed the price of bread one cent on a two-pound loaf. William IMcDonald, a. Buffalo sport was robbed of 3430 in Hamilton on Monday night. Mrs. Elizabeth Crysler of Allanbm‘g was fined $150 for illegally manufac- turing cigars. out :bont $55,000. Gold in paying quantities. has been found in the Peace River district. "HE'S IN A WISHfll Interesting Items About 0.! Own County. Ora! attain. the United 5!“. and AI; Parts of the Globe. Condensed 5nd IE VERY LATEST PROF: ALL THE WORLD OVER sorted for Easy Reading. new hospittl at London will GREAT BRITAIN. CANADA. our] her hiir nnk era to show for it. Mynwife is a. great business wo- man. remarked the man W110 is studi- ou§1y jooose. - Takes can to preserve documents and that sort of pthingf You. My y. that woman won’t even our! her hair unless she has the pap. that. in the way of moderate and well- timed bicycle riding, what's good for man is also good for his companion. In other words, in her battle for the bicycle she has won a victory over the pessimism and sticklers for old-time straitlaced decorum, and to quote one of her number, “good health and con- tentment among the bicycle girls now appear to be contagious. To supplement the anxiety of the household, clergymen averred that their congregations had been seriously diminished by the bicycle's popularity, and that sisters who had formerly oc- cupied front seats in the churches were to be seen decked in blouse waists and abbreviated skirts hurrying past the sanctuary. Theatre managers charged the wheel with diverting the attention of young ladies from the harmless am- usements of the stage to the doubtful attractions of suburban groves and retreats labelled “Ice Cream and Soda." Other dissatisfied persons, in- cluding. dealers in f‘urni'ture, vowed that, with many housewives. comfort and aesthetics in the home had become secondary conditions since the thought of femininity had been given to hose- pipe tires and sprockets. Physicians frightened wheelwomen who wouldn’t discard their steel roadsters with threats of paraesthesia and paresis in the interossei. lumbricales and adduct- orrpollicis. In the last year or two wheelwomen have shown a decided liking for cen- tury runs, and for that they have been vigorously scored. A few women have exhibited bad taste by engaging in long club runs composed of men with whom their acquaintance was little‘ or nothing. Happily, such imprudence has been rare, and the examples fur- nished. have resulted in better judg- ment Obeing exercised _b_y others. v_v-v-wu ”J uuuosa. Having endured criticism. reproach. and discouragement for so long a time, the wheelwoman now rides with a light heart. She has succeeded in showing ‘kn‘ :‘ ‘k- ___- -_ ‘ It was estimated that the force need- ed to prOpel a wheel was greater than the average woman could supply. That was the first objection to women be- coming cyclists. Then it was asserted that wheeling was too unbecoming and immodest to be practiced by the gentl- er sex. VVhen those arguments failed to dissuade women from taking their daily spins they were assailed and ap- pealed to on the ground that the wheel was the personal and favorite instru- ment of Satan, and that cycling “had a tendency to lure young girls into paths that lead directly to sin." Moth- ers were cautioned against permitting their daughters to ride, and husbands became uneasy lest their wives should wheel away. TRIUMPH OF \VHEEL-\VOMEN. For more than five years that ex- ample of progressive graciousness, the wheelwoman was the recipient of all sorts of harsh abuse for the reason that she liked bicycling, bought a wheel for herself and insisted upon riding it. Years before she even thought of that exercise for herself men had enjoyed cycling, and it had increased their vig- or and prolonged their lives. Scarcely more than ten years ago safety bicy- cles were in their infancy, and mak- ing them for women’s use was an ex- periment undertaken with more or less misgiving. Five hundred Mohammedans, who were taking part in a procession near Bombay were ordered to stap. They re- fused, and attacked the police. The head constable was fatally injured, and several others received severe injuries. Prince Kung, brother of the late Em- peror Hienfung, of China, anl President of the Council is dead. He was born on January 11, 1833. For twenty-three years, from 1861 to 1834 he was Prime Minister of the Empire. Then he fell from power, but later became again in- finential. The provinces of Taena and Arica. long a subject of dispute between the Chilian and Peruvian Governments, will be submitted to arbitration. 'A band of Indiana has been found in Northern Minnesota. suffering from a malady resembling leprosy. As Canadian Indians have been mingling with them. an investigation will be made by the Indian officials at Win- nipeg. The new Italian Cabinet is a color- less combination. and is likely to have difficulty in finding a majority in the Chamber. By the explosion of the boiler of an engme on the Hoosatonic tunnel and Wllmington. Vt. Zephath _I‘)ou§laS. A trade treaty between the United States and France has been arranged. The steamer City of Worcester struck a reef in a thick fog on Sunday in Long Island Sound, and had to be beached. The directors of the New York Mer- chante’ Association have passed a re- solution affirming the necessity of im- proved trade relations with Canada. Mrs. Sternaman will begin an action against the Metmpolitan Life Insur- ance Cpmpany to get possession of the 3,039 insurance on the life of her hus- n . the edgvihéei'. anâ€"d Eient T. Faulken- Den the fireman. were killed. Several persons sustained minor injuries. Prince of Walesja also discussed inthée DIETHODICAL. UNITED STATES. GENERAL. White arsenic in a soluble form, costs about one-third as much as Paris green, and gives no trouble in the way of set- tling. Dissolve two pounds of commer- 0i“ White arsenic and tour pounds of carbonate of soda, washing soda) in two gallons t2: wate(r and use one and If allowed to settle at all. the distri- bution is not uniform, and injury is likely to result to the foliage of some plants, while the insects on other plants escape. Moreover, it is unduly expensive, whether used dry or in the form of a. may, Paris green is a good insecticide, but is somewhat troublesome to use in liq- uid form, as it does not dissolve readily, and needs constant agitation to keep it from settling. A well in which water rises sudden- ly after a heavy rain should be re- garded with suspicion unless the sur- roundings are scrupulously clean; for, as Professor King states, “a sudden large rise and fall of the wat- er level in a well, associated with heavy rains, can have no other inter- Pretation than that water reaches the well without being filtered through a very large amount of soil. An abrupt rise and fall of a few inches might have no significance, but where there is a rise and fall of a foot or more there can be no doubt but that the well is liable to yield at times, unsanitary water if the surface surroundings are such as to permit of it. A SUBSTITUTE FOR PARIS GREEN. rats and frogs from entering. The household slops, garbage, etc., should never be thrown on the soil in the neighborhood of the well; their proper Place is the compost heap. Finallv, the well should never be used as a. cold storage receptacle, nor the dairy or other vessels washed at the well un- less there is an ample proviSiOD by a well-constructed drain to take away the wash water, The well being sunk at a. safe dis- tance from possible sources of pollu- tion, the brick and stone work should be coated to the ground line with a cement impervious to water. This will protect the well from infiltration of drainage from the upper layer of the soil. Further, a tight-fitting tap should be provided, rising to the height of nine inches or one foot above the surface of the surrounding ground. This will prevent surface water, mice, In the majority of instances the pol- lution as shown by the chemical data, is derived from the drainage of the farm buildings and barnyard, and is consequent upon causesâ€"the location of the well and. the dirty condition of its surroundings. \Vhen that most per- nicious practice of sinking the well in the stable or barnyard is followed, pro- vision is really being made to collect, as in a cesspool, liquid manure. The amount of‘manure, the rainfall, and the porosity of the soil are the chief factors that will determine the rapid- ity and extent, of the contamination of such wells; it is only in very exception- al cases that they can escape pollution. Let those about to sink wells, there- fore, remember that they should not be dug in or near the barnyard nor under the farm buildings. Not a lit- tle of this rural well-water pollution is due to the filthy state of the build- 1n_g_s and yard. class butter, we would say that it is of primary importance that the water supply should be from a. source beyond suspicion and that this source should be carefully guarded against pollu- tion." This statement says a bulletin of the Agricultural Department. The experiment stations have made thous- ands of examinations of samples of drinking water, and these have shown that a very large proportion of the water used on farms, especially well water, is polluted and unfit for use. ' ' $4 §4AWIMWMPWf.‘.‘.‘.’.'.‘f.’.'.Â¥h‘”MWI“‘4 PURE \VATER ON THE FARM. “To those who value their health and that of their family, to those who would have strong and thrifty animals, to those who desire pure miLk and first- §Agricultumi mmw Kbhmmav‘fi m...m>gmmâ€"Mu PEPâ€"Wm. \Dll' ..... .oan I... o 1" .it'c' I'tuuuznun: ufllcwu‘ltuzdl '55 um cunt"; a gallon of b 1‘ "~14? .' CONTROLLING PLANT LICE. fportant of the injurious insects. They lmay be found every year in the orch- ard and garden, but seldom in such numbers as during the past season. They do not devour the tissues of the host plant but suck the sap by means of their tube-like mouth parts. They swarm upon the Open leaf buds and on the under surfaces of the leaves, caus- ing them to curl and to become other- wise distorted. These insects multiply with great rapidity, but are held in check to a certain degree by numerous predaceous and parasitic insects. In most species the young are born alive during the spring and summer, eggs not being produced until (all. Nitrogen is a very important ingred- ient in all fertilizers and is at the same time the most expensive ingredient, hence the value of nitrogenous feeding stuffs for manure is an important fac- tor not to be overlooked. \Ve see this demonstrated in the older parts of our country where the fertility of the soil has been greatly reduced by long cropping. Nitrogen coats three or four times as much per pound as potash and two or three times as much as phosph- oric acid. The real value the farmer is able to realize from his fodders in the form of manure depends upon the composition of the fodder, the kind of animal, the use to which the animal puts its food, but most of all depends upon the care that is taken of the manure. Clover, vetch, peas and oth- er Ieguminous coarse fodders are of more manurial value than fodders of the grasses, corn stover, corn fodder, etc. The amount and proportion of the fertilizing ingredients to be obtained ,from the fodder, depends to a great extent, upon the animal and the use it makes of its food. A large amount of protein for the building up of musâ€" , cle and considerable phosphoric acid for the formation of bone in the young l growing animal is necessary; while in ‘ the case of mature animals that are be- ing fattened, nearly the whole of the fertilizing value of the fodder is re- turned in the manure. In the feeding of milch cows it is estimated that only about 25 per cent. of the fertilizing va- lue of the feeding is used by the ani- mal, while fully 75 per cent. is return- ed to the manure. A vast amount 0 ing liberally, feed rich in nitrogen, it Wlll only be necessary to purchase for the farm, fertilizers which contain ma- ' terials furnishing phosphoric acid and potash. This combination has been fully tested at the Ohio Experiment Station. to which institution we are indebted for the information given in this art- icle, and found to be quite as effec- tive as the Paris green and Bordeaux mixture combination. and for the rea- sons given above is much to be pre- ferred. One and one-half pints of this solu- tion to each barrel of Bordeaux mix- ture is sufficient to use when spray- ing for potato blight and potato bugs, for apple scab and apple worms, or for any other purpose where a combination mixture for fungi and insects is re- q'ui red, boiling water and keep boiling about, fifteen minutes. or until a clear liquid is formed, and then dilute to two gal- important FEEDING FOR MANURE. qt véater will .1100. 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