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AGRICULTURAL. nr l>lr> froilari* Professor Maunders, director of the Dominion experimental farm, at ths an nual meeting of tbe Outairo Dairymen's Association said that the dairy pro ducts of Canada had made fot themselves a name and a fame of which this association and the coin try generally might feel proud, especially Canadian cheese, ol which we now export annually about K0,</00,OOO pound*. From a very small beginning our energetic cheese makers have, wiih the help of the fanners in their districts, limit up in a few years a very large foreign and home trade, and by association of effort and careful at tent ion to details have brought ths quality of I >n tario cheese to that degree of advance- ment which leaves little to be desired. We have not, however, quite reached perfection yet. There are many cheeses sent every year to Montreal, whVh the hoard of in- spectors there will not allow to ho shipped, fur the reason that they fall below the de sired stn. laid of quality, and the rigid and commendable determination among the cheese exporters to maintain at all huarda tbe reputation which Canadian cheese ha* *o deservedly acquired, this has one objection able feature that it throw* back on the home market all the "cull." and inferior pro ducts, and we are obliged to submit to the hardship of eating op all this poor stuff our- selves. It i* hoped this will be remedied before long by our dairymen being so thor- oughly conversant with the practical de- tail* of their work that they will make only good cheese when we, as home consumer*, shall be served as well and a* satisfactorily as our customers in (ireat Britain. With regard to another very important dairy product, butter, much could not yet be raid in praise of the Canadian article, since so much of what we have made in ths past hat been of inferior quality. Inferior goods of every sort are hard to sell, ami, while Great Britain is glsxl to have our theeae, and buys from us nearly one half of ill she import*, she decline* to buy poor butter, and out of the 1216,000,000 worth which the motherland imports, we supply a'jout - J millions, Here i* a market which i: worth catering foi, and most of our lead- Hgdairymen, while pushing the chcrsetrade rloog as vigorously as ever, are preparing lo storm tne Knglish butter market also. In i imping away to the other countries our I'ain, bay and other course farm products, we ship out of the country in them verv con- liderable quantities of the elements of fer- tility, which, sooner or later, we must in part replace ; bnt in exporting animals and llieir product* this loss is minimi/ed and lutter contain practically none of those use- ful consul uente which it is important that e should retain at home, and have been <ery aptly designated materialized lunsbine. The sneaker remarked that there were si.uiy subjects apart from the practical work vf cheeoe and butter making which would l quit* appropriate to the occasion. The i.nunali from which our dairy products are ..htaujed must be fed on suitable plants, and these in turn cannot thrive unk-ss they tin. I ,iio|M.r nourishment in the soil, hence some alM lion might very properly be given to oli.li, their competition and how their fer- Milf may he be*t improved by cultivation and manuring so as to produce increased crop*, axil at the same time prevent un. In.- cx.iauiuon of the soil. The composition of these different food plants, their individual p<-i-iilii,jitie and requirement*, the impor- tance of go'd, xiiuid and well dev -loped <l, PIM,K'I change* of seed, and the in'ru- ducing fr.iin '.line to time of such new sorts as may give promise of greater vigor and pro- ductiveness ; to these may well be added the study of the best and most economical j combinations of food for the production of milk or beef, also that tare in housing and feeding so conductive to the health of the herd. It will be seen that the field is a wide one and I have touched thus briefly on a new of the prominent features in this work for the purpose of calling your atten- tion to th. fact that all these subject* arc being investigated at the set era! experiment al farms, both Dominion and provincial, and to endeavor to imprest on your nun. Is that these institutions have U-en organized, and are being carried on in your interest and for your benefit, so lhat you may obtain without direct cost to yourselves that infor- mation which will enable you to carry on your farming and your dairying witb greater advantage and profit. Prof. Sauuders gave a brief outline of tin system of experimental farms for the Dom muni, and norc especially of those features in tlie work of each institution which had a practical liearmg on the dairying in. Ins try of the Dominion. He referred to ths different breed* of dairy stock with which each of theee experimental farms had been provided, of Ilia experimental working pro- cesses, and of the remit* which were al- ready being obtained. He next proceeded to explain to the as- sociation the general plan of dairy work which has been organi/e.l l.yl'rof. Hubert- mil, w ho he regretted was prevented from being here to speak for himself. During i 1 - ' i seven dairy instructor* hail lieeu em- ployed in different part* of the Dominion. Two of these had been Wurking iu Ontario, one in Quabe?, two in the maritime provin ess and two in Mann. I* and the North west territories These instructor* were sent to the principal cheat* manufacturing centre*, and carried on their work at one of the factories. All the cheesemakers and milk pit IMII- in the neighborhood were in- vited to visit this factory to gain such in- formation as they needed in regard to the most improved met h-xls of manufacture, a* well a* to the proper care and management of milk by introducing everywhere the best practices. It is hoped lhat in a short time a greater uniformity will be secured in the da'iy products of the Dominion I itructor* went from point to p.. , . <|-nd ing such time as was nerdeil to u". . tin information desired in each locality, and by this plan many of the more important cheese making centre* have been visited. After the travelling and general instructive w rk had Lien covered, special investigation* were carried on at two factories in Ontario and one in Quebec. First, aj to the proportion of rennet which it wsj il"tralile louse in cheese making, and concerning which tlwo was a great di- versity vt opinion. Kxpcrimeiiis were tried witn the ct tract of rennet, Hlandarilslrenglh in the proportion* of two, four ami six part* per 1 ,000 of milk, an.) three six and nine part* per 1,000. Very lilt Indifference .ul.l be perceived, and it would seem that the proportion of rennet does not materially affect the quality of tlm cheese ; hut, when milk is brought in over-ripe, a decided oil is gained h., ' use in large pro- portions. The principle line of work was in determining the quantity and quality of cheese made from milk with different per- centage of butter fat, beginning with i:.iU having not less than 3 to 4 per rent. Every iii' iej<" of two tenths of one per cent, of butter lat has brought aa mcieaae of three- tenth* of one pound of cheese for every 100 pounds of milk used. The ch<*e also is of lietter quality where the milk is rich, and it seem* only fair, and just to take the pro- portion to butter fat in the milk as a basis for its value to the cheesenuker. A large numlier of test* have been made to obtain the average given. It ha* lieen found a* the remit of a very that corn cut at the period of lasseling con- tained about 4.220 Ibs. of digestible mattei per acre ; at the time of silking the yield was :>,(*<) 1U. ; in sail v milk it was 6873 Ibs. ; in late milk 0012 Ibs. : and when the corn had reached tlm Blaring stage the yield was 7,308 MM. digestible matter. Tlitse tests show that when corn has reached the glazing stage it is in the most favorable condition to supply cheap food tor stock. The best results had been obtained at the experimental farm at Ottawa by sowing from the '20th to the 25th of May in rows of three feet apart, witb a distance of six or eight inches TMtween the plants. Cultivated in this way from IS to 40 tons large number of tests that no prove** of set- i per acre may bo raised a* an average crop, ting and skimming milk will yield as large a which would be equal to five to Aven tons percentage of butter fat as can be obtained of cured hay. by the use of the Centrifugal Separator, while under the most careful and approved management not lea* than one half percent. of butter lat will be I. ft in the milk after skimming. Only one-tenth of one per cent. will be found in the milk which has been passed through the separator. This, then, is equal under the very be*t methods to a lossot about ten percent. Milk was set in pails in ice water for eleven hours and twenty two hours. The additional loss in skimming at eleven hour* was nine per cent. of butter fat. Milk was set at different temperatures at !s and 88 and 78 Kahrcn heit and all cooled afterward* in cold water to 49. There wa* no perceptible difference in the results. The cows being milked were divided into three group* as follows : First, those which had ral-'ed within two month* ; second, those between two and six months C raises. I'rof. Hletche- delivered an instruct ive ad- dress on grasnes. He pointed out that there many grasnes. were no less than ,'JOO varieties, many of them no good. The lime would soon come when Canadian farmers would grow their own graas seed, or see that the secdmeu did it for them. As it was, SO per cent, of the grass seed which they bought was of no earthly use. Different grasses grew better in ilnlfri nt section-. In this connection the Dominion Kxperimental Kami had distri- buted a number of seeds, and it was the in- tention of the Minister of Agriculture to go nil more fully into this matter, and to fully anccrUm the best varieties for various districts. As matter of fact there were many native grasses which presented highly nutritive and succulent third, those between six and nine months or qualities, while they possexsed a hardiness over. When the milk was set in ice water , just suited to the climate. The seeds im at .'W there was found on skimming lo be ported were for the most part gathered in a loss as compared with the milk treated in the mountains of (iermany by children or "he separator in the first group of hi per small farmem and in this way weed seed* rent. ; in the second, 'JH per cent,, and in were often mixed up with them. The speak the third 14 percent In other experiments ' ''' dealt with the various kinds of grasses, the milk was repeated ana set in ice water ! tti"g, for instance, that the Kentucky at 38 . The loss in thi* cue was 14 per l ' 1 '"' grass was nothing more than Canadian cent, from the first group. 29 per cent from ' UIIC g r *, which farmers held in contempt the second and 41 per cent, from the third, i ''* which was splendid variety. Different In setting milk in cheese factory milk cans ' sorts of grasses should be mixed so as to l. r > inches in diameter as compared with the j lo n ve different variety reaching matnr shotgun can it was foun-l that 7 per cent, i'y throughout the year. They might say, additional fat was left in the milk after what did it all amount to? What could be skimming In the large ve*sel as compared better than timothy? Well, timothy did with milk *et one hour after milking. The ""' supply all the requirement* and several delay of one hour caused an additional loos , valuable grasses were neglected. All grass- of ID |>er. cent. Those conditions arc the v * should be cut directly after they flower- average of not less than 1*2 tests in each case, i *J nj it w " mistake to suppose timothy With milk set in > hallow cans many of these j fl'iwrn-d twice. Meadow Pocue was a great differences were not observahlc. 'grass to strengthen other grasses, and he A creamery was started at Mount Klgin I woirecommendingit throughout the eastern under the cupervision of Prof. Kolwruon , section, early in the season with the view of demon- strating the advantages of winter dairying. i i in i\ I. i HI IE. The rw*si I'rali Ikal ' Be Mrra Mile* Away iu ih i-*. in. II* In March last year Mr. H. T. Munro, an In answer to querien, Mr. Fletcher stated that they would be only too glail to give all Up to about the middle of December the tne information possible at Ottawa. Queries milk supplied l.y patrons was from 7,000 to ' should simply be addressed, " Director Kx- H.OOO pounds per day, turning from .'MO to i penmcnta! Farm, Otawa," and he would 400 pounds of butter per day. In the early , ffe l al tlir > were sentt to the right depart part of the season tho milk averaged 4 per nient*. cent, of butter fat, later on 4f, the latter producing about five pounds o' lutter from every 100 pound* of milk. The milk from every portion i* tested every day, the pro- portion of butter fat ascertained by tbe llalx-ock tester ami the milk paid for in pro portion to it* butter fat A change of 3 .nit* per noun I on the butter is made to 'v er cost of making and marketing, r.nd at the end of each mouth an advance of I. ~i cents, per pound is made to all the patron*. It i* ("In-veil that '2 cent* will be ample to cover freight to Kngland and commission!, and it is expected to net the patrons about '12 cents per pound. All moneys received I- Hi. l'n,|... This being Leap Year the question "Shall (> iris Propose" is again receiving ome attention, and is bringing forth i usual quota of humorous paragraph* and inconsequential talk. Hut the subject has been invested with a degree of new dignity in a volume written hy a nameless " Specu- lative Bachelor." It c.mnot be said that tbe familiar arguments advanced b> advo- cates of women'* rights in favor of this particular and delicate privilege are at all zz cenia per pound A mnevs received T , r t_ .V over and aWc. and the sum advanced and > v ' nc 'K- *or '" "t.er much that _ Queen > irtoria was compelled by royal prc- ing t calv* expenses equally divided among the patrons when the returns are received. By this method it is expected that patrons will rt ceive about $110 per 100 pounds for their milk, with the additional advantage of hav- the sweet skim milk for lei-din^ their Ah.. nt 10,000 pound* of this butter, * Inch ;* equal to the best Danish in quality, I will lie shipped next week for Kngland to be followed ny additional shipments every two or three week* afterwards. A large number of cheese maker* have within the past two weeks applied to the I). .iiiini. >n Dairy C/ommis*ioner for infor- mal im as to the best methods of changing their cheese fartor.es to crcimerio* dunnf the winter. Not more than three to *ix cheese tinkers have liecn present all the compelled by royal pre- script ionand etiquette to take the initiative in marrying Prince AlU-rt :ort'i*tMviemoisclle I'M. a courted M.de Lesscps ; or that Pris- cilla asked John why he aid not speak for himself ; or that Mrs. Hopkin*. a* we have learned, proposed marriage to Mr. These isolated instance* have carried weight as precedents nor hi* the conduct of the women concerned been eiteemeil by the sex as exemplary. "I believe,'' say* our Speculative Bachelor, " I have askcit nearly every prominent lady lecturer on belialf of women rights if this is not a state of thing's that need* as much reforming as anything else, and in .very i. istance I got an affirmative answer. lint ask almost all othei women and you tim7at Mount"Kigl.7le7ning r buUer V |n7kmg , |U f ' vl'" ''P' 1 " '"""'!." There'. wul, th, int.ntion of carrying it on next lher "' > ; M"iageal,le wo,m-n it would ap- winter, riiev ,:ame al their own expense. ! P? r ' ," to ** , W " ^ WOO "T r "7 ' { like tire process. I* It possible that only >men with to woo ? ask. Dean Swift be reason so few marriages are happy i* " because young ladies making net*, not in however, i* neither the impoilaut impli factory up to tho middle of December was i c * tion th " ll ls th_e_wonian. after all, who from 'J75 to .'KNJ pounds per day. Thin cream also is tested and paid for in proportion to : hy indirection it is none the less effective. the butler-fat it contain*, the cream being poured three times from one vessel to anoth- er before the sample is taken. The fat is de tertnined by the oil-test churn. In view of th* general results obtained, it seem* quite >v i \Ve may think and speak of the demure maiden a* a passive creature patiently a'nd- ing tho arrival of her knight. It is a pleas- ing fiction, the very simrntme as it is the source of romantic love. I'.ut if no direct >lll:<l, .1 .-- lln Il.llll , . g . I- r I safe-to say that were creamerio, organi/ed P r ''PO"' '" from th l P' the paSMve all over the dairy districts of Canada, and g' rl ; : wl ", t '_L' ^ VOC *'' * r th ' lnviutlon ' the cream separated with the centrifugal se ( >artor, the gain to the individual farmer ..nl. I be not leu, on the average, than -.11 r cent, in the quantity of l.utter he would T" " lr """" I01<1 ; . , J " r P ** " , r ,""' t . l>tain from the milk and a higher prico per i ' 1>out ' *?. we hmv ? 4ld ' 1>ul ll " w ^ ol| y e "' r.,ind. Further, the farmers and their I T?' \\ "men ,fc. propose, and their waj her eyes, the pretty proffer of ftiittering band, the engaging flatter}- of would be not I,'-.,, on the average, than -_1 |" r -lorl)e.r attention so cleverly count,-,. per cent, in the quantity of l.utter he would ' '?'' ' 8O '""' ubl ? . . Th ' procea. is round obtain pound. Further, the farmer aiid tlieir I T"? 1 '- " < "" l;I "*" propo**. "" their way iv. t would 1 M saved all the labor connect- ' T ln ll 'exqmsite -themost potent nnd ed with, elling, skimming, making and mar | clul " v of their immemorial and nnpre- te,,,,^ trriptihle right*. To ciisturli in any detail their method of proposal would be to pollute I uilili r < ora imri Kntllair the very npringn of romance. As a matter Subsequently, Prof. Maunders addressed ' ' act > ' ew women, but many men, would the memhen on the important lubjoct of care *" see this dune, l-'or there is no deny fodder corn and ensilage, in which he show \ '"K a "'rtain piquancy in thv prospect of the e.d the advantage- which farmers every where l terner sex receiving with averted head and are deriving from the cultivation of this ! downcast eyes the passionate pleading of crop. He p-.mied out that by growing corn ' ''" manripated girl of the coming period, they could prodncn far more nutritive food I Tl " n the sweet revenge of growling: "Step per acre thon could be had from any o her pj e *e ; it cannot lie ; you only distress me. mountain cliinlmr, ascended the famous peak of Teneriffn, in the Canary Islands, from the little town of Orotava at iti northern foot. He weit to the top and back in a little over twenty four hour* with- out sleeping on the way. It is doubtful if this feat lias ever been c. omplnhed before. The peak of Teneriffe is not very formidable to mountain climber*, but they usually spend a night in hut far up th mountain'* flank. The island i* sixty mile* long and its great- est breadth is thirty mile.. The peak of Tenerife with its supports and spurs occupies almost two thirds of thirds of the islands. Only about one-seventh of the area of Tcne- rifle is under cultivation. The mountain ha* a double top, the higher peak, El 1'iton, being r.YJUO feet above the sea, while the second peak, Chahorra, which i. conected < <<! '> a i*ii mil No, ma'am, she isn't culled Polly. Her name is Irtta. I've had her a long while. A gentleman gave her to me. .She is very old, and I'm fond of her, for she saved my life. I ssc.l to be a stewardess, and one rin I took care of a lady who tell ill tn the voyage, and her husband was so gratoful to me that he gave me a present of money, a gold watch and chain and a new silk dram. And at I'd fallen iu love with the parrot, be sent a boy to take it down to a steamer to me the day I sailed. I was fond of hi r from the first and lhe picked up talk for herself just wonderful. She only needed to hear a thing two or three times to say it without asking ; and when I left off going to sea, and settled down in s little house of my own with my nephew and his wife why, there wasn't a calf in the street but she'd catch. I am sorry to say that all my neighbor, were not quite as respectable as I'd Tike to have 'em. There was one person that quar- relled with her husband most disgraceful, with the first by a short, narrow ridge, has I and when he beat her she ran to the window a height of 9.KKO feet. Neither peak reaches i and yelled out "Murder! Police! You'll the height of perpetual snow remain* upon the upper part of the mountain about four months, and in a natural cave 11,050 feet above the sea snow i* preserved all the year round. Steam and lulpnurous vapor issue from the craters at tbe summit of both peaks, but within historic times there has never been an eruption from these crater., through lava streams have flowed from several vente along the sides of the mountain at different periods during the last century. All of the Canary islands are visible from the top of the mountain, and the horizon is 140 miles away, but neither the coast of Africa nor the Island of Madeira is within the range of vision The ascent is usually made from Orotava on the north side of the island, and during the climb the mountaineer psssos through every variety of climate, from semi torrid to sub-arctic, or arctic. There is one particular guide named Lor- enzo whom m..st of the c imbers have re- garded as indispensible. Mr. Munro, how- ever, got along with other guides on his two ancent* of the mountain. They gave him hang for this, John !" This happened often. And it wasn't loi.g before Loretta caught it and could say it as well as the woman her- self ; but the landlord turned these people out, and the parrot seemed to forget hsr ac- complishment. I think she hadn't said ony of these words for a year, when one evening Joe Petiugil, my nephew, took his wife and child to the circus, and I stayed at home to keep house and have a bit of supper for them. Well, it was just nine o'clock, I remember, and I'd put Loretta s cage on top of the dresser and thrown an old green veil over it, and wa* just going down the cellar to get some pick- led pig's feet when I heard a queer noise in the little l>e<iroom behind the kitchen and, looking up, I saw a face I shan't forget if I live to be ninety. Twosn't a face any de- cent man would have. I knew it was burg- lar at once, and I made for the door to call for help ; bat before I could get there he had caught me. " You needn't try that, you old wench," said he, and held a pistol to my ear. " If much satisfaction, and he says they were : you -alue your carcass, you'll tell me whera more agreeable, being leas dictatorial and | yon hide your money jest about as quick as the you can speak. I know it's in the house." I said to myself. " I was a fool not to listen to Joseph, who always wanted me to deposit my money in the bank." I was afraid of banks coming to grief, and kept my cash in an old iron box in a hole in the cellar, with a stone a top of it, I bad made independent than Lorenzo. Guides, how- ever, as the word is understood in Switzer- land, are not to be found inTeneride. They are not mountaineer., In fact have a decided repugnance to cold and snow, and are like- ly not to reach the summit, unleu their em- ployer makes their pay dependent upon at- ' taiuing the top of the mountain. When _ w __ ... Mr. Munro ascended the peak of Teneriffe a good deal, and I had worked hard for iu. in March, I Mm, tho mountain summit was ' I hail left it in my will to Joe, and to give covered with an unusual quantity of snow it up seemed more than I could do ; out and the mercury sank to 14 - below /ero. the man held me by the throat, and his pis- Mules are taken part way to crry provisions tol was against my head, and so, after I'd or for the use of ladies when they climb the held out a* long as I dared 1 said, mountain. Mr. Munro says that he has seldom suffer- ed from cold more than on his first ascent of Teueriffc, and he felt the rarih'cation of the air more than he had done on cither Mont K! .11.- or Monte Rosa, which are 3,500 and 3,' 00 feet higher. He carried an ice axe, I hut had no occasion to use it. Startin/ at 7 o'clock in the ni|;ht, the party made their H.iy -ip the grand mountain by moon- light, and, reaching the summit just after sunrise, he was in time to enjoy the glorious view and the world-famed Well, if I must 1 must. It's in the cel- lar tinder a big stone, but don't take all a poor woman has earned by the .west of her brow. " " Don't you preach, ' said he. " Under a stone in the cellar?" Ye." "Inawbx!" "Yes." " Swear it isn't a lie." " I swear." Tiicn he turned round and said. I'd a* toon kill a woman as I would " Shadow of tho Peak." On his second ' dog, and I'll soon put you out of the way of ascent, ten days later, he was accompanied hy a friend and two young Knglish ladies, one of whom was only 13 years old. They uptnt the night on the mountain, and Mr. Munro was the only member ol the party who walked where it was possible for mule* to travel. crop, and that this food when preserved at ensilage furnished an abundance of nourish- ment in a nn-'culent and easily digestible bondilion The varieties of corn named a* molt deal I al Ontario were for cultivation in western the Mural, Thorough l!n I, \Vlnte Flint, Longfellow, Pearco 1'rolilic, and Canadian > ellow. Mitchell'* Kxtre KarlyKlmt wa* also spoken of a* very use- ful irt to plant in i hme district* where the season is short, as it ripen* very early. The speaker stated that the Urge varieties of Dent corn, whidi produce the greatest weight of crop per acre are not always the most profitable sorts to cultivate for the reason that these rohnst growing kinds do not reach that stage of maturity in this cli- mate to be at their best. As results of te*la and'analrse* mode, during the past year by Mr. K. T. Shutt. ahemUt, of the Domin ion Experimental Kami, it had been found But I'll be a brother to you."' Thr argument that women do not appre elate the ballot dim* not hold good in some place, al least. In a village in New Jersey there was a fight over the location of a new school building, and the male voter* got together to decide whether it should l>e on tbe east side of the railroad or on the west side, each division being unxious to have the school where their children would not have to cro*. the railroad tracks. The west siders counted nose, and saw that they v, i re i. in mini In led. They sent out runners, got every woman in that section out of bed, brought thorn to the election, and won. When wnmen get up, dress, and go to the poll* at midnight to vote it ought to he a conclusive answer 1} the argument that women can not appreciate the nallot. I I II K VI I til (1C 41. V I 4 -IU r Mas .teed Wiirh IM.rln j H.. Fvlle umi -IMI i . :. Bluer Tewnrd t iui.,,,,i. t 'ot.oviu. i, Feb. 5. A correspondent tlm morning had an interview with Ahmed Arabi, otherwise known as Arabi Pasha, the Kgyptian leader who caused so much trouble: to the British in IH8I and 1HN2, and who i* now :n exile here in Ceylon. Aral.i 1'aidi.i looks much older than he would be e\|i--.-ted to look. He may bo said to have aged twenty year* in the ten yen* he ha* pause. 1 in banishment upon this island. He i. wi ll*ion>ed, well fed, well dressed, and well attended. He has all reasonable lux- uries at bis disposal and wander, almost when and where he pleases. But he is a prisoner still. Arabi Pasha said employing (Jen. (Jordon as a soldier was a mistake, and that a orient only should have been Sftnt to the Mahdi. lien. < ;ord..n's death, according to Arubi Pksha, " lies at the door of the foolish ( 'ah- ine'. " The Egyptian exile added : "The voice* of your wise men have been like the brcying of wild assi'S in their dealing* with Kjrypt. It wa. a sorry day for Egypt when the r.nii.h soldiers landed upon its soil. Their presence caused the Mahdi to grow in im- portance and in might, and enabled him to gather together large forces which he could not otherwise have controlled. Kngland has deliberately wasted blood and treasure in Kgypt, has made Franco her bitter, unfor giv in:; foe, and ha* gaine 1 absolutely noth ing by so doing. Without British interfer- ence we should have had a united Kgypt, without corruption, and now that dream i* a thing of the past, an impossibility in the future. My days are closing. I have no heart for further fighting : but," he said with heav- ing breast and moist eyes. " I have a deep, longing desire to once more breathe the > of my native land before being gathered to my forefathers. ' Arabi Pasha added : " So lung as Krisi ish soldiers remain in I ..-v pi it will bo impossible to reopen trade with the Soudan. The Soudanese hate the Hi i. mh and are hostile In the Kgyptians be- cause they allow the Kritish to remain in naming me. Then he crammed his handkerchief into my mouth and cocked hit pistol. I knew my life wasn't worth a rap, ind I wa* trying to say my prayers, when up in the air there cams a voice, hoarse anil furious. " Police ! Police ! Police :" it called. The thief stood still and stared about him. I knew it was Lore'.ta.but he could see notb- . '"li- " Murder ! Murder ! Murder ! shrieked the I. ud. And then, " You II hang for tlm, John '. Police ! You'll hang for this, John ! Murder! Police! You'll hang for this, John'. ' And such a shriek ! And then the door was banging wide open, and the burglar was gone ; I could hear him tearing down the street. As soon ss I could get the dirty handkerchief out of try mouth I screeched police ! myself. They caught him. Il was auecr enough but his name happened to be John, and that was what frightened him most, for he sup- posed some one knew him. Anyway, Lor- etta saved my life, and we are all very fond of her. Of course I put my money in the bonk after that, and took care to let fclks know it, too. I linking fur Ihr \nrlli fair. The bacillus of influenza, said to have been discovered by Dr. Pfeiffer, the son-in- law of Prof. Koch, is the smallest bacillus yet discovered. It need not be said that it is also the meanest. Perhaps it is the very minuteness of the beast that enables it lo be so all pen-a*ive. K.ir the first time since Arctic enterprises began, two expeditions thi* winter are spend- ing the long night on the coasts of Greenland far from the white settlements. The good nws wa* receive.! a few weeks ago that Lieut. Ryder, after being battled for a month by the ice that presses against the east shore, reached the coast late in July in about late tude 71' north, near Scoreshy Sound. It was near this point twenty-two years ago that the Hanxa sink, and her crew began the remarkable drift on an ice floe that lasted all winter and brought tbe castaways to a place of safety in the spring. Here Ryder doubtless began, during the ten weeks of daylight before the win- ter night set in, the exploration of the 'J5d miles of unknown coastline, south of h>s winter quarters, which is the purpose of his expedition. The other party is the Peary expedition in McCormack Bay, on the west coast of Greenland, not far from Smith s. inn I. If good fortune has attended Lieut. Kgypt. Withdraw the British troops from 1 1>e * r y nc ha entirely recovered from the Kgypt and then the Kgptiani and Soudanese accident which disabled him last summer, will mingle together in harmony, and we shall have a united Kgypt.'' Well, h. ..ui.iM i ,, r . it Cheap. Newspaper Manager Why, what's the matter with our advertising rates f Patent Medicine Man They give me that tired feeling. Persian advices, report the existence of much anti foreign feeling in Persia, due to the belief that the Knglish arc responsible for the tobacco monopoly. The Knssian I Government proposes to introduce the hard labour system in Russian priwni, by which it is hoped to better the condition of the piisoner* demoralized by laziness and herding together. and is eagerly awaiting the rising un which will usher in hi* .eason of sledge work on the inland ice that stretches away from the summit of tho highlands above his house. Roth these ventures are comparatively inex- pensive, and only six teen persons are engag- ed in them. May good luck attend them both. i. . II Wa* . He (accepted) you say you were never engaged before " She Yes. He How does that happen T I thought all women usually ha I three) or four en- gagement*. she (guilelessly) -Well, I presume I shall too. You see this is 'J.o first chaucv l'v