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The London Daily Chroni 31011an that Mrs. ‘ Maybrick i to be liberated shortly, as th‘ of the pressure brought to Mr. Joseph H. Choate. United Ambassador. GREAT BRITAIN. .Dg‘. Norman Kerr, the inebriate clahst, is dead at London. a Mr. Robert Cox, M. P., for .. Edinburgh, Liberal-Unionist, is d C.P.R. land sales in Manitoba were very heavy in May. Several 'days’ sales have run as high as 3,000, and on Tuesday the sales of the company reached the 4,001 mark, 3,000 acres be- ing sold in North Alberta alone. The Fish and Game Clubs of Mont- real which have leased waters in the Province of Quebec are greatly per- turbed by an order just issued by the Department of Lands, Forests and Fisheries at Quebec, imposing a li- “5» DUI“ knelve' Th.n Brantford Board of Trade has decided to have a grand reunion of all the former residents of Brantford at the beginning of next year, to usher in the closing year of the nineteenth" century. East Flamboro Court of Revision has exempted \Villiam Hendrie’s race horses from taxation, because they are bred on Valley Farm, where he car- ries on general farming. They were assessed for $10,000. u. Wu, wno nas Just returned from Eng- land, says he has succeeded in the for- mation of a company with 82,000,000 to construct the Ottawa and Georgian Bay Canal. '- gold mine, near Rat: _ . _\ ' Langsbire fell 45 feet and was k111_ed. He left. an invalid; near Coinwall is of one of thy} v disaster on Senna Th~ action of ex-Ald. Griffin against the )Lmireal Street Railway for $20,- 600 for injuries sustained while trying to board a car has been settled by the cr'mpany paying 83,000 and costs. Rudyard Kipling will be unable to attend the convocation of McGill Uni- versity at Montreal, June 16th, to re- ceive in person Hm LAM..-“ 3-- Beginning early in July, of steamers will run bet“ real and Bordeaux France pany wall be knoivn ast de havngatxon Franco-Cana< of LL. D. The Queen-Regent am Opening of the Cortes y the Spanish Government (”arolinns Palaos ansz to Garmany. The Bear Lake Mica Co. is asking for a site, exemption from taxation and water, if they establish in Kings- ton a mica refinery. \Vork was begun Tuesday on the Grand Trunk Railway’s new offices in Montreal. They will cost about half a million dollars. A committee of the Hamilton Coun- cil is to investigate the City Engin- eer’s Department, which is alleged to be out of date. A syndicate, represented by Mr. John Patterson, has made an offer to {urchase the Radial Railway of Ham- lton. The Manitoba Government may es- tablish four chairs of natural science in the University of Manitoba. The Canadian Canners’ Association met in Hamilton and decided to raise the price of their goods. Mr. W. W. Turner, a retired mer- chant, has given $100,000 to establish a Home for Incurables in St. John, NB. London Board of Health is investi- gating the prevalence of scarlet fever there. CANADA. Peterboro fair is to have a dog show. A Chinese joss house has been Open- ed in Montreal. Belleville has decided upon civic conâ€" trol of the waterworks. H-xmilton aldermen have declined to reduce water rates for baths. interesting [tens About On: Own Country. Great Britain, the United States, and All Parts of the Globe, Condensed 1'3 Assorted for Easy Reading. IHE NEWS 15 fl NUISPBL IE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. nsn Government has ceded the s Palaos and Marianne Islands y 1071110 in the St. Lawrence ’nwall isOpresumed to be that If the wctims 0 on September 6. f the bridge V 1.07.1214 in the St Regent announced at the al-Unionist, is dead.â€" ___-'â€" “L guy Cortes ygsterday that gold mine, near Rat Langshire fell 45 feet He left an invalid small children. “'I be British Med'iéél .ly Chg-onicle an- Maybncli is likely “1â€" - '- for South between Mont- the result y a ne‘v line e_ ___â€"â€"â€"â€" a kind of human aroh for mankind in general. His actual height in his bare feet is 7 feet 11 inches. When he stnetc-hes forth his hands to full length the measure is 7 feet ‘9 inches, His head is 31 inches long, and his foot % inches, while the palm of his hand measures one foot. Although 20 yearsâ€"of age, Ali is reported to be “still growing” hath in length and weight. to be just 2:2 inches high, a little un- der the height of aZ-foot rule. He is 18 years old and weighs onlyGl-Z lbs. At this rate Peter is the small- est of all midgets, and beside him even the remowned Tom Thumb was a very Colossus. Without a doubt the tallest man in the world is Hassan Ali. Chang was regarded in former times as a won- derful man, but Ali is still more so. He is at least 21-2 inches taller. He was born at El Koronfiel, a suburb of Cairo, and near Mousky, the cele- brated bazaar, of Arabian parents, and has for some fine made Cairo his home. , Hassan has no difficulty in forming] Tom Thumb’s successor, according, to vemoious authorities, is a Russian dwarf named Great Peter. He is said Lord Kitchener of Khartoum has been detained in quarantine at Trieste, Austria, on board the steamer Se- miramis, from Alexandria, where deaths from the plague have occur- red. The French steamer Alosia, from Marseilles for Palermo and New Or- leans with 233 passengers is at Algi- ers with her cargo of sulphur on fire. The cook of the vessel was asphyxi- n a't’ed and several passengers were burn- ed. The Diet of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in spite of several ministerial protests, will ask Prince Athur of Connaught, heir to the throne of the Duchies, to reside in his future kingdom and re- oerve a German education. German physiologists are interest- ing themselves in the case of a woman who iay concealed in acellar twenty- seven days with-out food or water at Lubeck to escape arrest. _“_â€"_v-w Vl‘ 914‘ British side of [begâ€"Transvaal border The winter wheat crop of Southern Russia has been completely destroyed by a protracted drouth. The spring wheat crop is also in jeopardy from the same cause. The arrival of Major Marchand in Paiis has stimulated an anti-British feeling, voiced my cries of. “Down with England.” Fifty agitators have been arrested. Russian Successor to Tom Thumb-An Arabian Who Sit-assures 7 Feet ll Inches. me The director of the Germania. ship- building yard at Kiel was accidental- ly killed while preparing for the launch of the battleship Kaiser Wilhelm. Since March 4 there has been 498 piague cases in Hong Kong and 436 deaths. The weekly average of deaths now is 60. A new discovery of gold in lower Califoynia is reported. The average yieid ts from an ounce to two ounces a day. The steamer Moscow has sailed with 3,50» Cossack emigrants for Port Ar- thur, China. The reported marriage of Paderwe- ski, the pianist, to the former Wife of Ladislas Gorswi, the violinist, is denied. Liberia is understood to be asking for an American or British promoter- ate. Over 4,000 factory employes are on strike at Le Creugot, France. The United States has reconstitut- ed the courts of the Philippines Is- lands, appointing a number of pro- minent native lawyers as judges and retaining the Spanish language. GENERAL. Fail River, Mass, has twelve cases of smallpox. The steamer Perthshire is missing in Australian wrsate \Villiam H. Holland, the bookmaker whc Shot Samuel Hoiler, ticket seller for Buffalo Bill's \Vild \Vesn show. in New York, afterwards escaping, has been arrested in New Ydrk. Six United States revenue cutters have been ordered to Behring Sea, to protect the seal from slaughter. Robbers wrecked the express car of a train at \Vilcox, W'yuming, with dynamite, but got little for their trouble. The engineer was severeiy injured. I Gamp With the Strolling Players." ‘ Although we first portion of the tale 1 was written it was never‘ published. Robert M. Murray, farmer, aged 60, of Bridgeport, Ont. fell from a trolley in Buffalo and Sustained concussion of the bram. There ‘3 ,talk of a consoldiation of Michigan railroads. The Nicaraguan Canal Commission thinks the canal can be built for $118,- 113,790. The Marquis of Londonderry has been asked and has consented to preside at a meeting in a committee room of th: House of Commons, when a state- ment will be made of a. project for consuucxing a tunnel' between Great Britain and Ireland. L\IIED S; ATES. A girl has died in Next Orleans of yellow fever. Harley House, Marylebone Road, London, once occupied by the Queen of Oude, who brought from india 2,600 idols. and was attended by a suite of 320 persons, is to be torn down LO make room for a new budding. TALLEST AND SM ALLEST. DURHAM CHRONICLE. June 15, 1899. There is no permanent cure for heaves in horses. It can be lessened. Lnextent by feeding nutritive material _-_ -â€"â€"â€"VJU qu of the objections of cropping orchards is the fact that to make the crops more stable manure is sure to be applieo than is for the best good of the tree. -v w-‘ keep on bearing so long as it has plenty of potash and phosphate, and be much healthier than if over sup- plied with nitrogehous fertility. One A: -1. bear, grows shoots more than 18 inches long, it should have no more manure, except potash and phosphate, until it begins to bear. In old trees a growth of 12 inches in shoots per year is as much as is best for them. At this ‘moderate rate of growth the tree will Whatever orchards are manured with stable manure, much of the value of the manure is not merely wasted, but worse than wasted. The effect of the nitrogenous fertility is to encourage a rank, sappy growth 0f wood, and in young trees to retard fruit bearing. What the tree main- ly needs is potash, and if fruiting some phosphate also. This will furnish the mineral material for producing a moderate amount of wood and plenty of fruit. The bulk of the wood growth if sound and healthy, is taken from the small amount of carbonic acid gas in the atmosphere, and elaborates in the sunlight by the leaves. If a young tree, but one large enough to; When dusting the chickens place a large sheet of paper on the table, and Lay the oird on its back. Then part the feathers and shake the pow. der well in, so that the whole of the skin is covered with it. Turn the bird over and rub the preparation well into the ends of the fliéhts among the quills. After they have been well dusted with the powder it should be knocked off the surface of the feathers with the hand, onto the paper, so that none is wasted. I More chickens are killed through the l t ' ravages of vermin than through all. the l c diseases put together. The birds are l 3 L80 weakened by these pests that they it I are very susceptible to many ailments, i C iand where chickens have been practi- o Ically killedby lice in some cases the Igall duct df 'the liver is found very full. When chickens have many ver- min upon them, their feathers look a; little rough, eyes pale and sunken,§ u there is a line underneath the eye which i I: gives the bird a peculiar appearance,‘ : l: as if the beak were too long for the g v~ head, crown head, and the wings too!a long for the body. Even when the ; tl chickens appear strong and healthy, it I A is well to catch one or two occasionally I I] and examine them very closely, and if I 1‘ there are the least sign they shouldl ‘ be well dusted with insect plowder.fcc Those that have a. large number of‘be vermin upon them should be dustedf “ with insect powder twice, the second: tr time from five to seven days after the : ti first dressing, also’at the same time};S applying a few drops of sweet oil on 5 fr the heads. ' -L S, ner, fill in the center with concrete and firmly pack it. These operations can be continued to any height de- sired. The boards should be planed, to prevent the cement sticking when the frame is removed. A tank any size or shape can be built in this manner and it will stand the test if care is taken in building. It is not practical to build a frame. and then lath it and plaster with cement, for it is not only hard to make the cement stick, but in a short time the wood will decay and the work is lost. The side walls should be at least 12 inches thick, 10 inches of the concrete and. an inch of the finishing coat on the inside and outside. A wall of less width than this is apt to spring if the tank is very large. The walls must be built inside of a frame and as soon as the wall begins to dry the frame can be removed. In building the wall the frame can be put up as the wall is built. After the frame is started, take some of the finishing coat and put an inch thick on the frame, so that when the frame is removed it will make both the inside and outside of the tank smooth. After plaster- ing up_six or eight inches in this man- HOW TO MAKE A CEMENT TANK. In building cement water tanks it is Preferable to make them either square or oblong, for convenience in con- structing the frame in which to mold the cement. For the foundation dig down until solid is reached, or below any danger of frost, and then fill this excavation with. small stones up to within seven inches of the top, or if ,the bortom of the tank is wanted above the level of the ground it can1 be filled up as much as three or four inches more. After this is done put on five inches of concrete, which is made of six parts clear gravel and one Part portland cement, just damp enough to firmly pack. This is a part of the work to be very particular about, as the firmer you pack it the better the job will be when finished. As soon as theuconcrete is put down, and before it dries my, put on a tap coat one inch thick, which is made of two Parts sharp, clean sand and one part cement thoroughly mixed and just wet enough to be like common mortar. MANURE IN THE ORCHARD. HEAVES IN' HORSES. USING (:INSECT POW DER. The ore, in ignorance of its real char- ; acter and value, has been largely used for roadmaking purposes. Three sam- bauxite in New South Wales may be' of practically inexhaustible beds of regarded as an event of the highest It has since been ascertained that variously tinted bauxite ores occur in enormous quantities in the district. In the southern country have been found iron ores containing a considerable quantity of aluminum, and which in some respects resemble the ferrugin- ous bauxite of W'ingello, passing by Chicago International Exhibition re- sembled somewhat the laterite ores found in the New South W'ales tin- mining country, in one part of which the laterite formation has a superfi- cial area of 11 square miles, 577 acres, and a thickness from\ a few feet to 40 feet. The beds consist at the surface of a red, dusty soil, passing downward The process now in vogue is an elec- trolytic one, and the largest item in the cost of production is power-â€" :steam, water, or otherwise. 'i he ores from which aluminum is obtained are cbundant in the mountainous country south of Sydliey, also in the northern districts and elsewhere, but up to the present, notwithstanding the richness and immensity of the deposits, have remained unutilized. Samples of ore from Wingello, in the northern por- tion of the colony, were analyzed by the New South Wales Mines Depart- ment, and found to contain a consider- able percentage of aluminia. DOES NOT TARNISH. It does not become tarnished like silver, but retains its lustre under al- most every circumstance. Cheaper methods of production have enormous- ly increased the demanl for the metal within the last few years. In 1886 aluminum cost $12.50 per pocnd, and the production in the United States of America did not exceed 3,000 pounis. In 1837 the metal could be obta;n-.=ti :‘or ls. 41-2d. per pound, and the same country produced 4,000,000 poun-is from bauxite ore. of the present in sufficient quantity to cause it to be of value as an iron ore. In addition to iron, variable quantities of silica and titanic acid are nearly always found as impurities. Depositis of bauxite have been dis- covered in the United States, Ireland. France, Germany, and are being ex- tensively worked as an ore of alumina. The value of aluminum in the indus- trial arts is very great and rapidly in- creasing. In appearance it resembles silver, and is very malleable ani duc- tile, approaching inon in tenacity and capable of high polish. It does 110C oxide, and is one of the brightest of metals. {sea In instake fur Roadmaklngâ€"Samplea Equal to Any 1n the “'orld-Oue 02 the Great Metals 04’ the Future-Inex- hausflblc Beds. The immensity and variety of the mineral wealth of New South \Vales has just received another illustration in the discovery by officials cennected with the Department of Mincs in that colony, of vast deposits of bauxite, which, it may be mentioned, is a hydrated oxide of aluminum, and practically the only ore used in the arts of manufacture of aluminum at the present time, having taken the place formerly occupied ty cryoliie, says a Sydney letter. The ore intan- ably has a certain quantity of iron associated with it, and this metal is DISCOVERY OF ALUMINUM. VAST DEPOSITS FOUND BY AUS- TRALIAN MINING OFFICERS. ? Wherever there is a crack in a Sta- ble floor where horses or cows are kept. fertility, which is really money, is constantly being lost _as the liquid excrement runs to waste. There are under many old stables several feet depth of soil filled with this excre- ment, which if drawn out on the fields makes the richest kind of manure. The stable floor should be solid, either made with matched plank, or better still, laid in cement, which will not absorb the excrement or rot as it lies upon it. in small bulk and more frequent ra- tions. All coarse feed should be avoided, such as two'thy, millet and clover bay. The best Wild hay is pre- ferable and it should be out fine and given in small quantities mixed with mill feed or steamed food. Feed ev- erything Wet.. Food and water should be consumed at least an hour before the animal is used for work. USED FOR ROADMAKING EN ORMOUS QUANTITIES SOLID FLOORS FOR STABLES. Uta-1 uauwuttnco '1‘; - women “. Ordinarily, however. 1 will}, supposed to shake hi?“ 3 ‘ when they are presented 29 :1ch31 holds good even at 8 1n “,5: 31 where a woman for .1113 ' meets the man who 15 to dinner. auanc Hal-IUD- “'omgn' . Any man presented M or M less he is decided” eldelllit‘ wage guished, must wait for hm th’isg movement toward shakmg t. when one woman presents it is‘ the man accompanying 119133 hosplv duty of friendship, as wel} acid] 3:4 ity, for the man to be mit dial handshake. _..,m are‘ A young girl introduced Woman should await the} elder, who, if kindly d1: shake hands. A hostess should shake 1 every guest who comes t0 whether her own friend or Of her friend both on am" Parture. WHEN TO SHAKE H Here are some simple I’ hostess to observe in the shaking hands;â€" Borarâ€"gogne’s mem‘d appeared In an Eng W1 Lax. There was a dog n of an old sergeant n Mouton’s pans “ere frozen dug several days Daub.- mun carrie his back this dog w ho had the regiment in Spain at 13551ng \V agram, Starv mg himself P9 [1 with the cold, Daubenton “0‘11“" the dog di’ _ . anm hfltfi Once, at Smolengak, he heard ml riotous, happy music. He 00““ believe that there were men 509 anYWhere in the world. H6111“! his senses were wandering. 302;? he discovered a church at 135131“ wretched troopers, singing 33‘? i ing and. playing on the organ,3 fire. had been lit. en the stone (30°; the nave. They were a]?! drums“! ing’ found some brandy 1n thec cellar. ‘ "A.“ I But Bourgogne lived to be Cii two years old. lrhree Tales or the Terrible mull ” Memoirs (.f Sergt. Managua“; I On the retreat of the Frenchat from Moscow Sergt. Bourgognet struggling onward to reach theBt sina, whose terrible crossingishistd He. says: “Unfortunately a terrible sleep! the certain furct'unner of deathbed to come over me. I felt exhausted! legs refused to carry me further.” fallen down half asleep severaltil' and had I not been roused each time! the cold all would have been overtl me. The road was here 00m?ieflj blockaded by dead men and horses; \Vhe-never I fell it seemed as if“ dragged down by the unfortunattl1 stretched on the snow. Often theseli would try to catch hold of the legl those who passed, imploring their”. and many, in steeping to give helpj themselves, not to rise again.” LUMBER. SHINGLES Alum GRISTINGA AND ‘ UHUPPIHB \Ve ar now rantifuliy i11a1<trntzd.1 - vsqientific "411241389 £15031: monihs. vomit 5003’ ON PAIESTS sent gimQalily patent:- coaadengxal. 01': in_ Amenca. W Anyone sending a she? NA POLEON'S RETREAT. ard Cine 3 am. prepared to do all of custom war}; alway on hand, MCKECHNIE ‘l. _,I) v.- graffiti] Only .four Swill/motors left m stock. becm'e gm and save vour trees as We} 3 Just received a large ship- mm of Harvest Toois. ficytnes, Snaths. Another consignment of Screen Doors and Windows just to hand, which we are selling very cheap. Even? farmer shouid have thonfi Our weekly supply of Ready-Mixed Paints Came tohandtn~day finfliouyg Bumv, Wagon, Implc- mevts, etc. You will SLLYQ bWO‘V. “Du Afresh aliiva‘ Of Cream Cans which 3.10 guL ofi‘lapidly on account (f) the price. Every person ad mits that we have ; Whewilififiza tacky 4 g2 Music Store 3.1.0301139 Dealei in Music and U11- sical Instruments of Z 2 8 c: o 8 2 all kinds, including 1 i c PIANOS, ORGANS \IO- LINS, Autoharps, Piccolos Flutes, Guitars, Acooxdeons, Gramaplxones, etc. ., all of which will now be sold at a slil;ht ad1ance on cost. Fina“; Manilla Brand In the Market. W. BLACK. mos, 0mm; and Gramazfixones RENTED for Concerts or Enter- mnments at reasonable rates. I'LL PROGRAMME TALENT “Rolled for Concerts on abort The Best Chum '. T. ORCHARD, McIntyre Block, Durham in the market. thrane’s 01d Stand