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AGRICULTURAL. The .rx< r . Ion It it inierenling to note bow the the ani- mal furm* and uses adapt themselves, or rather are adapted, almoat unconsciously, to ilia ever changing wants of modern . ml izatmn. When the rail-roads dispensed with tlie slag* co u<li the horses thai were adapted to the coach began to diauppear and the horse adapted to the heavy drays of the city put in lua appearance. When wealth acrumlated in th* citiea and there wo* money u> ipeiul in keeping up tylish equipage*, the modern coach horse began to appe or anil the old !>reeda were re v i v ed and adapted to the new demand t. When the fisheries began to decline and the whole world waa in need of light, the Uvcon hog became a bunch of fat, and when the rock began " to pour out riven of oil" bleeder* began to gather up the old bleeds on which they hail made their improvement! and breed for lean a* well a* fat. However fix- ed the form of the individual may be, the form of the various breedi and races is pintle in the extreme, an J, provided chang- ea are made gradually ami wisely, can lie moulded into any desired shape, tlreeil, election, uae and feed are lh means by which anv breed can be modified to suit the demand* of civilization % they may ariae. Although the time required may be lung- er, cattle a r e no le.'s flexible than any other tock. Climate, toil, breediug, feeding and DM are continually chai, ging and modifyiu ; the moat fised and established breedi, and it ii only a question of time when each lo- ealitiy can have what it really wants whether that ia really the best llung for it or not, and hence we find the type* nf cattle continually < hanging with the ohaagei in the conditions of agriculture. The Jersey haa driven the larger cow, of whatever breed, from the towns and cities, the lieef type of Shirt horn hai driven the milking type from the farms, where milk log is not regular, while the milking type of whatever brce'l, has driven the beef type from the districts where dairying is a spt- ialty. K*'-|i district of country is ac- >i lining its own type of cow. In the tiairy district where milk i< everything, and beef nothing, cows are selected for the special purpose of pro-ltr ing milk and butter, and everything else is sacrificed lo that. The calf M " deaconed, "sad though lit end for a creature out of place, and the entire ener- gies of the cow devul ;d to tint one end of production of milk. On the plains and in the corn and out tie country there is DO at- tempt to develop tlie milk flow beyond the amount needed tor the calf, and here again wr find what may be called a "special pur- pose cow," whether that purpose I* the production of a calf fit for the range or for fan. v beef. Ketwwn thee there is another "special purpose cow" necdei! and coming into existence-, wlu.-h, for want nf a better name we have called the "granger's cow." Unfortunately for thin row there is as yet no one breed so exrlusively titling the re- quirements of the situation that we can say, when the granger's cow is asked for, " Lo, here ; or lo, theie. '' There are appro imat ions to it from K-vsral suurcea, closely related types .m ma forward with the i-laim from several different directions. Kr example we have tbeeonimon grade cow of thr country. It i remarkable how the native cow of the juaite- . unl by the " native" wo mean the ouw of unknown bloo<l, generally a mixture of all bloods, develops in the direction of a milker. We have known scrubs that have li-en family rows for several generatinin that have developed milking qualities that would put to shame many individuals of the milking I. ni. Is with very long pedigrees. Wr i -r.e tins foot, with which many of our readers arc familiar, merely lopoint mil the mote un|i<irtant fact that tin- environment of the prairie is) a daily environment and that soil, < lunate and the grasses are wink- ing with the dairyman andnot agamm him. I'.ut the " granger'scow" must he more than a milker ; slie must have lieef qualities as well, and, in grading up to get these beef qualities, fariiirra have uwil sires in vthme clams there wax so lillle of the milking quality that they have, to use the common riprruhiii, " lire. I the milk uut as fast as they I > l.rc.l the lieef in." Sn long as dairying did not |ay this was a matter of hull iiii|>rtaiii . D.uryincii are now he' ginniiiK loiiud nut their mistake and hi -in the demand in all directions for bulls that mi l*ef and milkinc mutinies. The " granger cow ' must have si/e, for she lielnngs lo fat pasture* and will gel the SIM in lime, no matter what breed it select ed. She mint have refinement and beef quality, not in its perfection, for that 14 not to lie expected in an animal "MouMe merit, ny more than wr eipect the Merino tleeco on the CnUwolii, but idle must have enough heel quality to enable her calve* to bring very near the top of the market. The cow on the prattle* does not fetid on salt inanities nor '>n slough ttioas, nor does she lir.iwse for a living anil hence time will give IHT icline- ineni <<f form no matter what the breed, ). aiic she feeds on a fine giaMes an grow i. n! -if the will. Thereftiii: in selecting the material" mil of which to evolve the " cran sjer's cow" thtuM- twn thing*, n/e and refine.- mint nf 'mill, should lie Mciintd in the first |ili.- rrnin l.i-r make up >houlil he ex- < lulled the -in. ill Hiid the coarse and eveiy il. nj . l-e that militates agam-it the ol,j,-t rniik'hi In ! nci-nni|ilished. Fur example . sin - ili.mM not !< used that have been bred sway tinm milking lines, no matter what the hired or what other merits they may pns****. inn farmer* arc aiming at the formation nflhe "granger'* cow '' l>y iisingShoi I II... , hulls of i hi- milking type, when i: find I belli, on I Me nstive oowsof thu country. liiliTs are lining grade Short horn", that have lieen milked i .intinu.Mi-.lv for yeim and generation* with I he > last <if si res afore- said. Others are using Ked Colled sires .n tin lie-! i. .\\atli.y ran gel, while still ithrr* are using Holm. -UK. Whichever nf these mellmiln me pursued, and success may ! l.nin.l in either, I lie mi|.i liiirt p. ml is to milk, and not only milk, but to ir.i ih milk ol each cow, anil tin. I mil what rcniilu arc actually Ix-ing obtained. Witlnmi thm, all efforts will be made in the .link. I l,i- Knnl cannot lie emphasi/.ed too strongly, will ni. I do to judge by the quantity of tb- milk. Duality and (,iu.,i,in y are the poinU to he coniidered. It is imiNirtanl also to keep up the M/C. Thi> .an I dime by li'ed and that only, and tint nn| n im.t IXUMI in the feed is the quality of the pax tun. It is nonsense to talk annul keeping lip III* ri/.e i f en tt loon overstocked pav ui . - lirassnf thelxnt quality, inch an the prairies grow, ami enough of it, will In ,. up the I H. winter management i* at all .1 ; I.!. Iking and lesliiig and the reject- inn .; evet ytlnug of the blue-milk type and sea-it yield will do the rest. The "granger's cow" does not spring out of the ground, nor ia she the creature of ac- cident or chance. She is possible only on rich pastures and in the hands of intelligent, thoughtful men, who depend on their own skill and judgment more than on the magic name of any breed. She is the result of in lellignt selection of material out of great abundance, at hand, of intelligent breeding, and above all, of intelligent feeding; milking and milk-testing. In developing a " granger's cow" the wise man will use the labors of those who r-ave gone before him. He will buy even if he has lo pay what seems a high price, the cow that is nearest his ideal ; when he se- lects a aire he wdl disregard color if he ia wise, and buy something that has been bred as near as possible in the lines that he has been following. [tt'ixtnu Farm Jour- nal. The -i, i ,, 1 . 1 a. ,.i < ,,n I. The Municipal Council* are petitioning Parliament on the subject of the cattle ship- ping regulatious. Two petitions read on Tuesday, one from Wellington and the other from H. ill mi, represent that under the exist- ing rule five stockers, that is to say, rattle to be fattened on their arrival in Knglaud, are allowed the space on shiptoard set apart for four fat cattle. Stockers should weigh about a thousand pounds, but cattle averag ing fourteen hundred pounds are of ten mark- ed stockers, and occupy the same space as the leaner animals. The consequence is that the crowding injure* and bruises the cattle, and produces loss when they are sold. The councils want Carliaii'nt to order that all cattle, whether stockers or fat cattle, shall be allowed a space two feet eight inches wide by eight feet long on board ship, and they declare that the lequirement will prevent cruelty, and place thu oat tie trade on a more he. | thy footing. A BsTMlAW COUTH ABtCVTI'KE, tie Hss Ibrewsi um of a Wlatlew *ml Three Lawmll. Krssillesl. A most amusing series of lawsuits is now in progress in Kuisia in which that exceed- ingly gay young nobleman, Count Plato rUrialinsky, plays a prominent part, says the Marquis de rontenoy. It appears that some time ago the worthy inhabitants of Kictl, where he is stationed with his tegi- iiient, were startled to sec him suddenly fall from the lit *i floor of a house belonging to a rn-h Armenian merchant on the most fashion- able street of the place. Ho waa fortunate enough, however, to do himself po harm, for his fall was checked by a peasant who was passing under the window at the time, and who received on his head the weight of the young officer's manly frame, being near- ly crushed thereby. Public ctirios;ly was at one* excited, and was in a mersure satisfied by the commence- ment of three lawsuits, which furnish, to a certain extent, an explanation of the count's strange mode of egreis from the house of the wealthy Armenian irerchaot. The first of tlie actions wa that of the peasant, who' aummoned the count for damages inflicted on him by the fall. The count in turn sum miiiied the Arnieni in merchant for having thiown him nut of his window, while the Aimeiiian merchant commenced proceed- 1111411 for divorce againat Ins Iwauliful (enr^ian wife, iiieiitinning the i omit as IM. ii'li tit 111 the eiae. r'rom this it was clear what had taken place. The infer ence was too obvious to requite explana- tion. It was by no means o'lvious to the i:nuin how they should adjudicate the lenponsi- I. ility in each of these cases. It waa evident | that the poor peasant waa enli'led to dam : ages foi having been half criinhed by the j body uf the man who fell from the window. I in i he other hand it wai hard to make tin- j old t r responsible for tho result ol his jour- ney through i in- air, which he hod certain- ly 'aken much against his will. At the same time it WAS difficult to blame the lietrnyml ! husband for turning the count out of his house in the drastic manner sliove den. nU l Finally the courts after much deliberation decided lo make the husliaiid responsible for the damg, on the ground that by a uka*eof Kmpcror Paul I., bearing the date | I71IO, every man haa a right to throw mil of the window into the tieet any " useles* piece of furniture which may happen to be in the house, provided he takes the pre- caution u> call nut three limes beforehand ' to the paaer* by, "Take cure!" failing ! win. h he is liable to a tin" nf 'J"i rubles itml responsible for the ncctdnnta which his negligence may have occaiinned." The court hold thai the ennui was, al the tune ..f his nummary ejectment, " a useless ' and impel Duniin i ic e ol furniluic in the house of the Armenian merchant, but that the laller ban ruled before throwing the nobleman out ol the window to. warn the pedestrians on thr sidewalk as tequired by law. Accordingly, the court c. iinleinm- I ' I to pay tt.e lino of _'"> ruble* and 4,000 rubles damages to the peaauit Iwsules pay ing the coats nf Ihe \atlous iclloin, t x. vpt ing that ot thu divorce, which is not yet decided. I hear that the mer.-Uant has appealed, but it in doubtful whether the decismns al- ready rendered will I* reversed. Ostrich farming is one nf the important iii'liistnes in Smith Africa, which, as ye t l-ii ni-he* the bulk of the ...in h plume.) for the niarketH of thn world. There are pro o nldy 900,000 do*B*(Uo*>*es1 ostriches inCape < ..i. ny. Kaeh bird in sup|nn<cd to net hi* owner W<l per annum. A Washington di*pit<h which states that i In- I'ltt'ed Stt.* .-i niters will once moie sei/.n < 'aim.l'iin schooners inllehiing Sea unless the nni'/iii n. .'/! is ticce|iteil by the Hull-It (Government I* probably the n, 'ic nni .ime of the heated imag- ination of one of the staff of i norrespon- dent* w In l>e nine so iinineii.il* and made themselves and their patters so ridiculous during the Chilian troubles. The Aim-n- i. in t"i\ ei iiment at the demand of Ixird Sihi'...i s ceased from seizing Canadian seal- ers in I'.. In in/ Suit during a whole season prior to the signing nf the miu/u* liirntii, and ii is extremely unlikely that it will re- new a course which under tin- .iciimstancts ismani.'estly fraught with great danger. If the Ani'-iicaii (iovei'imeiii interferes with Canadian vessels it will run the risk of Hid ing the srlnlration treaty and will, )>esiilcs, have t) assume the responsibility of endan- gering tho peace nf the Knglish sinking world. I III SANK HI .H-oi ew a t1ur,|. r, - Was Psirssie4 > Na4- . a>4 !> alk j I uu.l Nesaesls. I had ridden nearly fifty miles with him iu the same compartment of the Pullman. snd neither of us had spoken since the start. He was intent on his books and papers, I on the ever changing panorama without. When I had first entered the oar he impress- ed me most pleasantly, and I anticipated a sociable viz a viz for my journey, and yet the stranger look no notice of my entrance or presence, paid no heed to a remark of mine about the weather, and seemed so ihoroughly taken up with himself and his own affairs, that I determined he should n main undisturbed. He was nothing to me ; obviously I was still less to him, and so we rods on in silence, I only noticing him as, now and then, he he would throw down a book or a paper and selecting another from his hind satchel, continue his reading. Hi* nervoni, uneasy u.anner finally oommunicaUidarestiveuessto me, however, and I was just considering a stoll through the train when my conpaniou broke the silence and changed mv plan*. He had at length pick* J up a newspaper which I myself had thrown upon the floor, and hurriedly scanned a page or twn, when 1 saw the color suddenly leave his cheeks, bis eyes stared blindly, and his hands clutched the sheet n^ivously. Fascinated by tho strange action, I watched him close- ly while lie seemed to be reading again and again a paragraph of uncommon interest. Then with a curse he leaped up, tore the paper in twenty pieces, and turning upon me, gasped out : " What are you doing with that paper, sir?' 1 'Nothing just at preswnt," I returned .1 ,11) . "You seem to have done all that is necessary. " "Oh, I beg pardon, I beg pardon for tear- ing your paper, sir," he apologized. "If you will permit me I will gladly" " That's all right," I said. " I was quite through with it. You were most wel- come." He made no answer for a moment, but stooped and picked up one of the fallen pieces of an inside jpage. He regarded it for an instant, and (observed the same ex- citement overcame him a* before, but said nothing. I had decided to let him do the talking. At last he approached my chair and, leaning over, handed me the paper, indicating, as he did so, a certain small and obscure paragraph. " Read it, he whispered. " Read it. " 1 complied, and learned only that one Henry Hitghson, a day laborer, had fallen down, broken a limb, and been removed to a hos- pital. "Well?" I asked. " Tbe name," he replied, " Hugheou do you know it ?" "Never heard it before." "Never heard it ' (Good <!od !" he ex- claimed how I wish I could say that !" ' What's the matter? I inquired. " IVin't yiui like it? Hoes it suggest unpleasant niemorie*!" " No, no," he returned. " It's worse than that worse than you can imagine. I'd give half my life to be rid of it once for all. " "Oh, I see," I broke in. It's your name then." "No; it is not." " Your wife's maiden name, perhaps ?" " I ii in iiiiinatr.ed." " Well, oow, my good man, how can you consistently wish to be rid of a thing to which you dvny all claim '" I protested. " lib, it is not that not that," he said " 1 will tell you." lie took the chair oppo site mine ami leaning forward went on in uu eager, breathless manner : " Knr a de- cade I have been haunted by this acx-nrsed name. Ten yean ago I wa* engaged to be mil lie. 1 to a Iwauliful girl limited Flora HuKhson. She died mysteriously on the eve of our wedding. Ugly rumor* wetti about bow I had at the eleventh hour learn- ed that the wealth which g;>*sip attributed to her wax mythical, and in dS|>erati"ii I murdered her to avoid nitmage. lint and he rudely seized my arm and bent to- ward me, " yon don't believe that of me, do you ?" My dear sir," I replied, rather ill it ease, "You will readily uii.lciiUml that 1 know nothing whatever of tit* case, and therefore " "Of course not, of course not, ha inter- rupted. Hut I sweat to you that it is all a lie -a terrible lie. Why sir," he went on "11 man who w mild I M' guilty nf sin-It a crime -h"iil'l have it I't.tii'lc I upon Inn litnw iu bit.-iinf bliHiil that all tli-i world ni'flil kn..M lii* misery ' ' Here he |utused for anin slant, as ha had spnken very lapidly and was out of breath, I held my (xiacu and at length he resinned " 1 tied from the rit linn," "and, brokenhearted, In-came a w in.lerer without home or haven, yet necking Uilh. 1 went to Kurope ; for a lime and soon after my retuin to ibis coun- try was start led more than one by what I then regarded as H most singular series of .'letices. K very where I went the name of Ilitglison cmif muted me ; il was in the |II)H'IS, on the hotel registers, on the: street signs always st.iriug me in eyes. Two years pattsnd and still the same thing ; tlttcc years and no change. What I had . misil n d as mere coincidences now loomed upas monstrous phantoms pursuing me, taunting me, cursing me, everywhere. I grew nfruiii nf the name 1 live to day in an abject Inn ror of those seven letters that nothing else, under heaven can equal. Here in tin* . ,u, I have partly lead a dn/en papers anil in each that awful name appeal s and Inirns it self into my sight like a brand from hell. I bought a hunk at randmn from a train hoy ainMiefiire I had read ten jugcs I found tlie untile of lliighxnn |U tilled there for my de- struction. I' is killing mi! -this madden ing terror ; day by duy I nr<i more ner vous, less hopeful. Il has gone on so fnr all tin-He wretched years hut, thank heaven, it cniiii it last much longer. 1 have often w.m dered if, when roliuf at length comcn, tin- iinil. ! Inker will not go by that cursed name of Hughttnn." He stopped then, as the train slackened speed for a station, and gathurcd up his lug- age. 1 made a few f<xili)i commcnti on Ins story, and ended by saying he hail neglect- ed to tell his own name. " To Ix sure," he replied, as no exchang- ed cards. " My name is Kemseii, Horace Ktmsnn ; but I must leave you here - ten to one tho first man I meet is a Hiighson," And wo |.n t. I lhat was two years ago. Yesteiday I ronl Ibis item in my newapxper : "ThclHvly of H well dtensel milt wa< found Minting in th* river last night. Ills identity!* uncertain for. although the papers on his person are addressed to Horace Rein- son, there is branded on Iu* forehead and in no less than *ix other plaoenou his body the name, Hughaon. " u mi I u One of the** days, U none of these days. ^lappioea* is no other than soundness and perfection of mind. Vows made In storms are forgotten in calms. Every man's vanity ought to be his great- est scheme, and svery man's folly ought to be his greatest secret. If you would find a great many Units, be on the look out; but if you want to find them in unlimited numbers be on the look- in. There are only two storts of men the one, the just, who believe tbemse've* sinners; the other, sinners, who believe themselves just. The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action U gone, like thu bloom of a soiled flower. To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to hear it when it happened. A good conscience is beteer than two witnesses. It will consume your grief as the sun dissolves ice. It is a spring when you are thirsty ; a staff when you are weary; a screen when the sun burns you, and a pi i Ii w in death. Those who would purify their lines most first purify their thoughts ; for if the ideal be vile and unworthy, the life must, to some extent at least, b* a reflection of it. The tear of what others will say and think, the phantom of reipe-'tability, will not always prevent the fountttii from pouring out its bitter water*. What a IHnninml Is. The diamond generally, and in its purest condition, i* colorles* and transparent ; yet at time* it ia found colored, but only slight- ly, with pile yellow, ochre yellow, light bottle greei, yellowish gr*D, blackish green blue, red, and from brown to black Next to yellow green diamonds are the most numerous : the blue are very rare and not of a bright tint. When the diamond is lietween brown audit ack its transparency entirely disappears, or is seen only at the angle*. Kulirely colorlcts diamonds com* from the mine* in India, Kra/il. the Cap* and Australia. One fourth of " pure water," with a stripe or spot of color ; and th* re- mainder colored The colored diamonds preserve their liuv ler and clearness best when they are cut ; especially the beautiful yellow ones, which by candle light almost surpass) in brilliancy the diamonds of pure water. Diamonds i can be grouped according to the shade of color. The diamoud is a non-conductor of elec- tricity, and this is the more strangs, as gra phiteand cruwroal, substances) absolutely identical with it chemically, are very good conductors. Hy friction, however, both in tl.e rough and polished state, it becomes positively electric but loses its ele'tri- city completely in the course of half an hour. ('hemically the diamond consists of pure ! carbon. Newton coiicluiied the diamond ! must be n combustible body in con<equence of its high refractive |x>wer. Koliert Boyle, b.'V. i wt, ktrnvc in vain to consume il in th I i nciMe I'm the purpose of investigating I this supposed coinl'UKtii'llity the Academy of thi tnent... at r'lorcnce, m the year lli'.ll Induced by tiiclliitlul l>llke Cosmo, III. fixed a diamond HI the tociuof a large barn inii il'.isi. The Academicians found lhat il I, coruscated, and at length disap- peared wiihout leaving a particle behind. r *rm n u.t Latest Triumph *r arleate ! ruralnf Waalc Things I* I >< The Refuse- Disposal company, limited, in London, is engaged in the ma* Jactureof paper from the contents of t*i dust Ui- of which .'( per c-.-nt. st least is paper and lags, beside* ijuite a 'jii.inii'y of straw and other rough material. The process, says the " I'nper World," is thus oescribed : The dust on its arrival at the works is shot into a large revolving riddle having a three inch mesh, through which the heavier and smaller matter finds its) way, while the paper, rags, Itrger U, tiles, tins, etc., are received at toe delivery end of tb* riddle and are duly sort- ed by hand. The heavier materials which pass through this riddle are received on a traveling band and elevated to a second rid- dle having a one and a half-inch mesh ; at the delivery end of this second r:ddle an air blast blows the lighter material awiy from tb* heavier ; tl.e lighter portion principally con- sist* of material suitable for making rough paper ; the heavier ^automatically delivered on to a revolving table, where it U over- looked by hoys, who separate th* bones, glass, etc , while the clinkers and organic matter are ground up in a kollergag. This ground material is sent out from the works for manure. The heavier and smaller pieces which pass through the one and a half-inch mesh of the second riddle are again received on a traveling ban! and mechanically lifted through a half-inch mesh which divides them into two qualities, ashes, which are automatically deliveied into barge*, and "breeze." This " bree/.e " consist* to a great extent of small pieces of coal and other organic material, and is used by th* company as fuel, being burned iu their boiler*. T prevent any disagreeable smell the draught for the tire* is obtained by ex- hausting with a fan and the products of combustion paased through au ordinary " scrubber," thus avoiding all nuisance. The paper making materials are at once ru iuto a common brown casing-paper on tb* premis-9. Never was a paper-mill with a 60-inch machine got into a smaller space. The company are now making about 1,300 pounds of brown paper in twelve hours. With tiore space ana by more judicious sorting and treatment of the materials to hand the company would without doubt be enabled to increase the value of th* papers which they make. The work* are suffi- ciently large to be capable of treating a load of dust in about six minute*. The refuse i received in the mornmu leaves the work as finished paper in tbe afternoon. n*vl( With Ihr . r It 11 sai-l that while at Copenhagen la*t siitnm- i the ( Var distinguished himself as a 1 1.. vet. boxing having become the favorite form of exercise of this imperial Hercules, writes the Marquis* >Ie Kontenoy. His great difti.-ulty is, aud always has Iwrn, to timl any one ready or willing to M.ind up agaiiut him and to respond to each blow by a counter one. Neither his Kin-mil brothers nor any dignitaries of his i .mi t are particularly willing to oblige him in -lii* matter, as thev dread not only the force nf his powerful fist, hut also fear of incurring his reicni incut in the event of I belt reiiKinding to hi* blows, I mlie.l. i lie only 111 in who venture* to put mi the gloves with him and to meet him fairly and squarely is his brother in law, young Waldemar, the aailor prince of Den- mark The other 'lay. il'iring the performance of one of W. i^nci's moat w*ari*ome operas, the Cur ami the prince withdrew to a vac ant room and had a good set to, which was mi lie point of ending fata'ly, for the Czar's huge fist struck I'rnice Unidemar's chin withsuoh foiveaitodaah him in the ground, where he lay for s quarter of an hour be- f. ic the C/ar and hi* attendant* could re tore him to c mscunianess. The Czar would do well to abandon th* gloves, for he i* apparently unable to rea- lise the extent of hi* trength, and doe* much damage with his sledge-liammcr blown. Indeed it wa* a blow such as thin which "'ML k his elder brother, the late Czarowtt/. Nicholas, on the chest, and which enabled Alexander nut only tn marry one of the most attractive princesses in Kurope, t ut also to I ''!. me the heir to, and eventu- ally the occu (wiit of, the Russian throne. a...iu D stallreasU ! the Male* A decision of great importance to Cana- dian railroads ha* just been rendered by Judge Allen in an Illinois conn on the in terstate commere law. This decision if sustained by the appellate tribunal, will have a very important effect on the inter- 1 state commerce law and undoubtedly reu- ! ders Canadian road* free from the provi- sions of this la w. The decision has also open- ed up anew the whole queslinn of Canadian competition with American railroads, and seems to l-vel>eeii construed by mai.y einin- 1 entlawyersas indicating the beginning of th* end of the interstate commerce lawr. (Gen. John McNulty.of Illinois, who wa* in Wash- ington for a considerable portion of last win- t*r as the representative aftheinterealoppoi- mg i ho Canadian railroads, nd who hasgi ven special study to tlie subject of tliel'anadian railroads, has this comment to make upon the decision of J udge Allen and its po**ible effect upon Canadian railroad* : " That no penalties could be inflicted by our courts for acts done beyond the territorial limits of th* I'uite.l States in contravention of the pro- visions of the act ha* alway* been coucedfd by everylwdy. This gav* an undue advan- tage and the coatrol of the foreign traffic to the Canadian road, whose officers might choose to In nt their operations to the actual payment of rebates, etc. .on the Canadian side of the border. This deciuon of Mr. Allen goes further and in effect says that the law doe* not apply to Canadian tariffs. In other words trutho manag- ers can make and alter such tariffs, | give n Kites, make disci limitations, ignore the long and short clause in a word, ignore the whole law at their pleasure on all traffic to and from Canadian points and port*. Tbe necessary sequence is that all roads a* I* means of *elf- preservation must do th* same of corresponding tratlic. This they muit do not only to protect their own in- terest* but to protect the general interests of tin American ports and business cen- tres, and especially New York, Philadel- phia and Rial imore and all inland ports ds- pendent upon those port* for imports. Otherwise traffic will be diverted from them to the full extent of the carrying cap- acity of the Canadian roads to take it. To hold that our own roads are bound by while the Canadian traffic is free ! from the restriction of this Uw, would b* ! simply to destroy our commerce, the power to do which doe* not rst in Congress. The power to regulate does not imply in, power to destroy. Although no penalties can be ! inflicted for acts done in Canada, the Can*- dian roads can be regulated by our law* if Congress so choose. There are no Knglish I or foreign ihip* plying between Chicago or Hnllalo, or any of our domestic port*, simp- ly because they arc prohibited by law. In tho same way our vessels are prohibited fr-im carrying trallic between Canada or Kngland port*. For like, reasons Knglish I r%iln>ads in Canada carrying traffic lo and j from points in the Cmied States should h* excluded. Or if permitted to do business on i. iir side nf the line they should be under a license revokahle for a violation of th* rule* which govern all American roads." I .MX Nllr*. An experiment iu telephony has been made in Mcll>iirne. The postmasters gen- eral of Victoria and South Australia, with the principal executive officers, *ucoeede.l m establishing conversation between Melbourne and Adelaide, a distance of ,'iOO miles. The government* uf th* two colonies) hav* erect- ed a copper wire (No. 12, or rather more than 4 inch in thickness), which is to be used tor a now i|utdi iiph \ telegraph instrument, and il was determined! lo see what could be done with the telephone over the wire. For over an hour an animated conversation was carried on, and the chimes of the Adelaide Post inli.-e clock were distinctly heard in Mtilbourne, and vie* versa. The instruments used at Melbourne were thelliiniuug, lici tb on, Heilmer and the Hlake, and the two former were fouud most effective. The V anil, rlii lun, . Near the little village ot San Jose, IVru, on the ihorek of the great lake, Titicac* the loftiest ln.dv of water in the America* > are three large pillars of stone. They are of iine>|iial height and shape, aud the black Illumine and gaunt figures of the condor* which may be continually seen perching upon them adds to the weird effect of th* solitude On one of these huge boulders the rude features of a bun- in face haa been en*, and the others are carved and chiseled with de- signs of various kinds These, carved sym- bols are all supposed to have some reference to sun-worship, which was the known prac- tice of the old I'eiuvian*. Although the ancient inhabitants of Peru were highly civilized, and probably had many mechanical appliance*, it is not beli- eved that thev were equal to the task of placing these gigantic monoliths in their present position ; the evidence rather point* to their Iwing erratic, or wandering IwuKJU ars, deposited by some melting glacier.