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AGRICULTURAL. Wintsr Batter Making Have the following rather revere remark* from an American paper any application in ''tnada? Here wv are to-day with the prices of butter and cheese way up, ami not one dairy farmer in a thousand in the Unit- ed Slate* i* in any shape whatever to take advantage of the situation. It has been running just thi* way for thirty year*, yet what have these men learned from >' Comparatively nothing. Here they *t u d facing one way. and tbe market faring tne other. Preach tu them, labour with the" 1 . try to stir them out of their ontlnnki"& Little red aots may be destroyed to a certain extent by saturating small sponges with iweeteneil water. The ants will col- lect in these, whicb may then be dropped into boiling water, thus destroying the insects. Trial* which have been made by spread- ing marinre on snow for the coming corn crop have retailed in tine cropn and the best success. results from sataaows. Equally favorable art the wsJB UK. ti Tic tUs\ fasts. *' riurk I na-nird ! 1'rewsl of Threatening alitr. Capt. K. (,. Dundas of the Royal Navy, who has jut returned to England from his exp<',ition up the Juba River, tell* of the danger he faced among the Somalis, who are perhaps the most inveterate enemies of the white race in Africa. The Captain a*- ' the winter top-dressing of [cended the river for :JHO mile i on the little i steamer Keni v. It is the first .ime thi* For horse feed nothing can be better then silage. It keep) their towel* in the beat possible order, makes coats sleek and glos* y, and makes them feel like colts. Especially is this true of trending mares and growing stacks. Do not pour water over the ice as it is be- ruts, aud get them to see that they ought j jng itorei p ollrl ng wateroverthe whole to free/e into a solid mass will aid materially to make their farm practice act in coojuuc tion wilh tne market ; in fact do anything w* can, (till there they are, handling their cow* just a* they did thirty year* ago. It i* limply ama/mz that farmers who call themselves really intelligent should continue in such wasteful and unprofitable ways. \Ve never heard of a man who was engaged in winter butter making but wfiat was earnestly in favour of it a* the most profitable way ot making cows pay. This ha* been told aud re told for yars and year*. Still these men are unconvinced, or if they are convinced, they haven't energy enough to put their judgment into execu- tion. i Hoard'* Dairyman. A Word for the Fanner- The Canada Presbyterian, a religions journal, speak* out unmistakably against tke unfair contention of those who charge the farmer with extravagance. It says : There i* so net lung cruelly absurd in tell ing farmers that if tby lived now a* they lived fifty yean ago they would not find any difficulty in paying their way. What othr classes of people li\e now as they lived tif in keeping it from melting, but it will make it difficult to get the ice out in suitable chunks when it is wanted. Farmers (harpen their intelle cts by read i ing. Tiiey get new idea*, learn all about new methods and improvement* in agiicnl- tun, and the literary part of their leading make* them better writer* and talken something greatly to be desired in thi* age, when our farmen are coming to the front in public affair*. if you think your boy is getting so much education that he will not be satisfied to tay on the farm, give him considerable more, and he will *ee that it is to hi* in- terest to *lay there. To give a boy just enough education to make him a $10 a- week clerk, or a jack-lawyer, or a "plug doctor," is a certain way uf rendering him dissatisfied with hoeing corn or mauling rails for a living. Combined Stack Yard and Hanger- Most farmers utilize the straw more than journey ha* I.een made since August, ISoo, Then Karon von dcr Itecken attained the same point. Hi* vessel was wrecked there, and the Baron and five of his European Twe Mew iswlera Barllll Ui<-trrr kt >rir. r..-ll,l> a rased 7 A Si. I'eteraburg correspondent wrires : " A uew theory of the origin of choleraic in- fection has just been expounded at a special nutting ol Hie kuMiaii Medical --ociety of St. Petersburg by I'rut Nensky . This gen- tleman, although not widely known, even in KusHiau medical or scientific circles, has lor the post two year* been investigating the subject from all conceivable point* of Mew and under very propitious cir um stances, for he is Director oc the Bacterio- logical Laboratory at the Institute of Kx colleagues were murdered by the Somalia, : perimrntal Medicine which b-longs to his only two of the party escaping. When the British Admiralty wa* conduct- ing sounding* and mapping tbe coas; line of East Africa, the indomitable Somali* sat by thousands along the beach, silently watch I ing operations and making no hostile ipove- ' ment unless the white men undertook to land. On such occasion* the Somali* plain- j ly told them that if they landed they would ' m t M ItOStl I\X irn I >(. tow This < tl; walrrial Is larvesl lelo There are no' above eight or teu ivory carvers of approved skill on this continent. The men who do such work ar* paid high wage*) the year round, whether buy or idle. They ar* Frenchmen, tjertuau*. and Italians. Uf the three th kalian* are perhapi the most skilful. since ivory carving baa been an art in a high degree of perfection among the Italians for centuries. The most famous ivory carver living, however, i a French- Morsau Vauthier. Ksw of h'S master- pieces have been seen in this country. The ivory carvers of thi* country do little or nothing in the Kast Indian or Japanese manner, nor do they occupy themselves with nighuea* Prince OMenburg. This institute despatched four physician* to Baku and Astrakhan wnile tne cholera epidemic wa* .; -.- at its height in thoee cities, with instruc ^T i *f employment is in uoo. toopenabacieriologic 1 .tauon mel-n r^m 6 'corauv. toilet and stationery tor the , articles, lha rage for stained and carved ' 5 cnolL^ '"*""*'* i> I ivory ieef recenTgrowth u, the I'm led .< cholera, ,u origin aud cure, 8ule% ^j the demand for such article. - subject oi cnoiera, it* origin 1 hese are the cities m which, while the doc- s went about preaching the necessity of be killed to a man. It wa* the *ame people killing the bacilli, the people were *till whom Dunda* and hid little party they did twenty yea's ago, and many of ' shore moving among the trees. tered a* be a*cendeJ the Juba River in July last. When he reached Berdera, his furthest point, he found the w'lole bank swarming with native*. Hi* crew, in ter- ror, begged Dunda* to turn back. He made the boat fast, however, to the right bank and sent a Som%li interpreter to talk with the excited crowj. The natives rushed down to the landing place, brandishing their spears and threatening to kill tbe interpre- ter 1 1 he came ashore. So Uundas ordered him to return to the vessel That night the explorer beard that a large body of natives was to attack the vessel in a few hoars. He accordingly pushed hi vessel out from the shore and anchored in raid-stream. At II p.m. a large number of native* were seen on the Suddenly swam to- straw to be worth, for feeding purpose*, ' ward th* vessel Jaat as they were clam- quit* as much as over-ripe clover, or , bering oo board, intending doubtless to kill 1 every man in the party, Duudas tired a sound signal, the novelty of which he hoped would intimidate th* savages. The signal wa* molt effective. It burst in midair with a loud report, and the aativ** made for the bank* in terror. N'extmoruingCapt. Dundat adopted an expeiient which probably not one man m many thousand* would care to carry oat. He suddenly landed among the Somalis at their big town. The interpreter wa* wi'h him and both men were unarmed. He timothy hay, and. pound for pound, worth pned through the threatening crowd to fully hxlf as much as any good hay. Hence, lh in ' k - "P^tmg half dooen spear* instead of wasting the traw by building through his baci every moment as the rial topped stack, aud allowing the cattle "tive pressed around him with weapons aud other stock to have free access to them P'**i- He walked up to th* sheik, who more isialous and enthusiastic in propagat- ing the necessity of killing the doctor*, and on- of the latter l>r. Blostem. deserves great credit for the calm industry and energy with which be persevered in his investiga- tions t; 11 he arrived at whai now seems a satisfactory result, calculated to impart a aew and fruitful direction to the effort* of bacteriologist* to discover the beet means of leen years or even twenty years .go T Is a j tbern^ coosider^ good Bright oat and barley the yi da*uedjnto '-he river and farmer never to be allowed to increase the comfort* of hi* home? It may be quite true that it a farmer live* in a shanty, and drive* an ox-team and make* his own boots and eat* little but pork and potatoes, hi* expen- se* will be lighter. A manufacturer, or a merchant, or a doctor, or a lawyer, could easily reduce his expenses in the sain way. Why should not a farmer be expected to improve his position a* well a* any other member of the community * Is there any raaaoo why hi* wife should not drew well, or his daughter own a musical instrument or hi* son dnrckgood hoist" ? If allthereclof the community ar* ready to go back and live a* people lived in thi* young country titty years ago, farmen may not object, but there is something cruelly absurd in asking one class to live a* much like Indiana a* possible aot large, as they are more costly than the same articles in silver would be. They were produced to tickle the jaded .esthetic palates of the rich and luxurious, and only those who may trifle away what they will, indulge themselves to any considerable degree m carved ivory. In all such articles tne cost oi the raw material is small in comparison with that of the labor. Billrard balls arc costly because they contain large quantities of the finest doing battle with the cholera. " Whenever Dr. Blostsin inoculated ^ r y ^f t turned by animals with cholera infection by injecting , Tniu lt oftan ^ an infusion of Koch'* bacilli under their rtlc i ei richly skm they continued to live and enjoy lhm qaantit ivory cut from the best part of the tusk. The labor oust of billiard ball* u trifling, a* heppewi that"* *inzie stain*! and carved, wi five Um-< o milch ill cost contain nany ef the opponent* of tbe bacillus system did after tbey had swallowed whale of carver* of ivory use much th* same tool* a* th* wood carvers, but of lighter and more I delicate make. The work is extremely tediou* and laborious. The carving is usual- ly done m low relief, and th* subjects are i such as an suitable to thi* treatment Persian designs in delicate curves, the cac- tus with some varieties of palm, and hint* DM' I >OK I l;\I<T|V<: ATE IN FIEDIM). in order that the other* mav live in comfort a yard U built around th* stacks, and the appeared too astonished for words. "Aman." raid Ihindas. The word meant "peace. and many of them in elegance. This is sound sense and a practical em- Iwdiment of the doctrine* of Christianity The farmer* have a just right to share in the prosperity that they largely produce. good Practical Better cultivate three acres with crops than five with half a crop. To be palatable a food must be varied and attractive to eye, taete and smell. Do ail work according to its organic law. If yon sow rye a', the same season you plant corn, you break llie law ef rye. It the farmer pays for his place, and ha* a surplus of a few thousand dollars $5,000 straw fed oat a* rekularlv as hay or grain. To make all secure, a log pen i* built, like H told hl> interpreter to tell the chief that he one in tbe illustration from a sketch by , meant him no harm and wuhed to be a I. D. Snook. The logs rest upon a founda ** tion of .tone or wood, the lower log being "How dare yeu come among u* unarm one foot from the ground, and three Tog* on * a "" " ld lhe th lk - *"' "O J >t . vch wde. tbe extreme height of fence being kno " lh l Tou completely in my power not le*-. than four and a half feet. On the *& lh * l c * Mll y * " nd of y * leeward side of the stack pen a permanent i P ' Dadas replied that he might do *o and durable manger can be easily made if be liked, but he had done th* chief and from small poles. Thi. may extend the en I 9*^ "arm. * nd h y th ' v tire length of th* pen. and be built upon Bot * '"ends. " the Imperial hast one or more sides. The straw i. thrown *' Company had desired to sei the into it directly from tb* .tack. aad. if a Sooiali walry. be wosjld have oome with ration of hay or straw b* ted at noon, it >* forc "tead ef a handful of men will prove euually a* valuable, the only ob- I Th *' w apparemtfy dumfoonded by jeotion being that it u located <.ut of doon. th hardihood of his visitor. After a few However it is more convenient and cconom ""oute* he said tbeie should be peace, at H* aad wait the result. At the end t>f five hsnn the chief suit a present on board as a token colonies of Koch's cholera bacilli. But whenever, instead of th* artificially culti- vated bacillus, the subcutaneous injection consisted of a portion of the patient's dis- charge*, a speedy death with all th* usual i. npioms of Asiatic cholera wa* th* result. Now. a* Koch s bacilli were present in the ^"n't'from "those" marveflousTy simple but former species of injections. Dr. Biostein arti-tw carving of th* Alaskan Indians. The argued that, seeing that they were likewise lvor _ j, .t^ed slightly so a* to bring out active in the latter kind of injection, it fol- ' the j,, ^ ^ penmu.^ to ,beork. inois- lowed that something else, probably some lart> whlen lt r^,), Jo,., m order u, g;T , other kind of bacillus, must be present in lt that Irein ioo ^oauno,, m Mw ly manu- the discharge* to account for the difference feared articles of ivory. The art of stain of result. And it was to determined the ln g 1TO ry is a secret guarded well by the value of that algebraical V that he next carvers, directed bis Boris. After a tims they proved successful, and the persevering in- vestigator discovered to hi* joy two per- fectly new saicro-oigomsma, the influence of which he very coon determined. When- ever be inoculated an animal with supposed cholera vims' consisting either of Koch'* to u t , t , ihat material may fetch as high hecilli alone, or of the two newly discover- M |S,IQ. The American climate, with it* of beat and cold, about their business as usual without a hitch, and seemed a* little affected a* if he beet- root sugar inrtcad of cane sugar. But he bad only to | unit* all three bacilli in one infusion, inject- ing thi* under the animal'* skin, and th* latter sickened and died uf Asiatic cholera Some notion of th* cost of ivory carving may be had from th* fact that while a hand mirror framed with plain ivory may be had fort 10 or Hi a mirror in carved ivory may cost f 100 or more. The *mall article* in carved ivory oust from IS to $-">, and a ed organisms, the inoculated animal* went . ltrTOW , of heat aad cold, very trying upon ivory, and ivory backed mirror* cf European manufacture almost invariably had given them a lump of beevroot sugar er^-k across the back after a few months al thi* side of th* Atlantic. SB A r*isal * a Trratle. .in a very short time. The conclusion wuald *~m to be that Asiatic ohoUr. is the f!**l*HV'&+~Sf+SR rwult of th rave.**** of thrv different , microbe,*, which mutt be pr*venl m the . Hence Pet many others ' swallowed with impunity whole colonies of locomotive engineers, as u well known, re subject to many and various experience* of every nature daring their trips. This was fully realized on a passenger engine on the Grand Trunk a tew days ago. A train while on its way along the line approached a trestle, aad had almost reached it when a mule and a bone were seen just ahead. for instance he is a succ^a*. i ---- .- , - - _.. .__ - i In the winter care of th* stallion, goxl ical thanto ihiow the food upon the ground "' "' " bad --onsulted his chief*, heallh depend, a. much upon .xercT ' or , the neare.t fence corner. "a,le. *_ . *" d _ h , *Ti upon the proper food. Driving *ix or eight [ m mile* per day would give proper exercise. For storing tools a long shed open to the Ttor rl ' aslverisslnc. south and if po*ible beside t tie lane -.s brat. Inarecenliwue the Montreal V\ itne** had Let the ground be a little higher under the the following cominonsens* remark* ou the bed than outside, so no water will settle art of alvertuing : The past few week* Koch's bacilli U n._x-ompanied by t! other T fngb-Ue-d M the rumble of the two : hence also Khavkia* inoculation of pauenu was ahaolatcly fruitless. " (Experiment* are BOW being made for heis. Man in other occupations is frequently subjected to extreme want, but out of .V, OOO,(K>.> people engaged in farming whoever beard of one who went to btd hungry. -(Prof. I. P. Robert*. If it be true that it i* not wliat we earn but what we save that make* us rich then it is <X|nally truthf-il that it i* not how much we raise but at how great a profit w* market it that makes the farm pay. More agricultural education should be taught in our district schools, and will IMS by and by, when teacher* are employ- ed who know a turnip from a thistle, or a cabbage from a crab apple. The day of the whipping post formerly sed upon th sla'.Iion has pissed away. A lump of sugar, a potato, apple or some oihsr palatable article of food is by far more effec- tive m securing submission. The horse quickly learn* to associate a that they would be friends. He said he did not like white people, but he rather liked Uundas personally. After aome day* tbey bsca-VM great friends. . - ... Capt. Punda* went up the river a few hav* witnessed a gnat devtlopm.nt of ad- ,,, to th , _,,!, wh * n 1^^ ..>., v.r Using enterprise and .very year gives D,,.),,,.'. ,11 fated veasel. th* Uuelph, had evidence of increased intelligence d.vo-.ed bMD wrecked twenty seven veare before, to that department of business. The best H* found b*r lying on h*r .larboard side. ingredient in advert.sements is brain*. Some tb e funnel still .landing and two tree. think that if they can only get large space frowlnf up beside it. Daadas say* the or v.ry Urge and black type they will have Somali people ar* extremely proud J I lhat accomplished their end. while others make , k , y j,,^ on ^. .ccountibow the .light train, ran into the trestle, followed by the hone, but soon fell through between the cross t IBS), catching by the body, and he was hardly down when the bora* was in the sam* predicament, down between the tiea The engineer applied hi* brakes and stopped at a safe distance. H* roold save run the stock down bat it would hav* been at great risk : eveu if his engine had net derailed it would have been badly damaged. So th* neit cosui'ieration wa* to rind some plan to medical circle, of St. Petersburg and Moe- ^ thm ^ thc ^^ -^ the purpose of discovering whether inocula- lion, if the subcutaneous injection contains all threj micro-organisms together, will guarantee the patient from infection, and, if so, for how long. The results of these experiments, which may posaiblv ntean the rinal extirpation uf Asiatic cholera, are looked forward to with impatience in the cow. a point of getting next the reading matter, thus c mfesaing tne weakness of advertising **t astonishment at anything. Mot even when the engine* and Maxim guns were to draw attention a* compared with th* %j , , holrn to ln , m ,(,a any expression ot woud.r dinary reading of tbe paper. There ar* som. ! crOM th . lr hettf -f^ y wtn ,j, Kmv i ad ve, User, who understand thc business, j wllh i ong .p^,, a . n ,; rt .ubbing knife. Any reader could mention their names if 4n ^ , sausU shield asked. They are those whoceadveitMinents I c , pt . Ihmdos say* the climate i. excel he reads and remember* and hear, talked , i tnt< an a h regard* the country as adimr about, lhat is, if their annoancemeut* not ! , bl y , U pied f jr cultivation and European only draw attention, but draw it to their , n terprise. TIM population along tbe river place and wares. A big looking glass or a ha* increased to an enormou..xteat. Whre big clock in the middle of a win- f ormer | y ihere were only a few hamlet, dow would draw a good deal of alien- (hen ' sound with a certain action. If by accident j learn the time or to . tion, but a nun might look in every day to or what wa* sold there. In like manner, attention may be successfully drawu but yet in vain. One inch of matter lhat people will look for and read i* worth to the ad- vertiser more than themo*tagi;re**iveipread rge type, the advis hnrself as others see von say whoa when you don't mean it do not him, without knowing whose window it was Ml him know it. When he stop* you shoui.l act a* if it were all right, pretend yon (top- ped for some purpose, and Ihen go on. If your farm is*o large lhat you cannot work it in good shape seed tke poorest of it with some good gras* mixture aad have it for meadow or pasture. If lhe koil is much exhausted, sheep will keep down '.he weeds, aud fertilize the soil, spreading th* manure evenly ou th* surface of the ground. Said the director of onenf ,ur experiment elalious the other day : "The great trouble i* that so few ol our farmers hav* any faith in their business, or can to invest a cent beyond the point where they can see an nn mediate procpwt of telling something. They are wonderfully economical at lh paeaeagen. _ by Una time, were all on th* scene, aad J " " I many were the plan* proposed and discuss- Lsstro Trade. ' ed for clearing the road. Bat all were un- it is to be regretted that so few of our I av-i-UMe. until a passenger asked if ther* Canadian boy* team any trade, or are will- ' a rope about Ih* train. A bell cord ig to serve as apprentice* for the t*rm of , * procured from th* engine, and the four or five yean. Almoit any good and gcntkman proceeded to carry out hi* plan. mart bey -au procure employment m *oroe " h or *** '**>t were tied fast together, one of the hsnjred skilled industries that *er considerable resistance, and they wen ; an earned on in thi* city: and th* boy who th n PHd '""> between the crossties and serves hi apprenticeship faithfully get* a i ni x* 1 ! l *>* brosdwde on th* track A rope wa* tied several time* around his body, and a doswn stout hands soon pulled him to th* embankment at thr head of tbe tre*tl. With the mule a more difficult ex- perience was had owing to the itubborn nature of th* brute, but finally he wa* secured in th* same manner, and tbe track was cleared with only a slight delay to ths npil* while their ultimate profit* are flowing iway at the bunghole. " In connecting the laterals with lhe majn* 'n underdrawing thsy shoui.l not be at right angles to the main. If it is ne -exary for the lateral* to run at right angle* to lhe main a few feel before Ihey reach ibc main tbey should be given inch a direction as will make lhe connection at an acute angle. The lateral should enter the main in men a manner as to hav* the top of main and lat- eral on a level, or nearly so. This gives tbe water a fall after it leaves the lateral. It add* velocity to the flow lessening the pos- :lnlny of deposit. Rem*mber that ma'ter i* alwav* con- trolled and subject to mind aud that the snoaey you put into education aid mental training can never \<v lost. A hone will never stand facing wind in a pantnn, but will alwity* turn his back. A hone heated by driving nan be fouudei td in a lew minutes by standing fauinp tlic wind r in a draught. Men with small capital should beware of (living too much laud. 'IW fixed charge* will continue whether te* crop* are gut-dor poor. A tew beU ati*(a thai the adviser doss not expect people to read unless he forces them to. It might seem a* though a newspaper wa* speaking against its own interest in advising adver- tiser* to put their lime or -!* ti-ctr money into brains rather than spend money on space, bat looking deeper this is not so. for il i* the first interest of a newspaper to be interesting from ewl lo end, and beside* il must be remembered that unlesx advertising pay* lhe advertiser lhe newspaper will not get it, whereat if one inch can be made worth more to th* advertiser than *ix thj newspaper will in process of time be ahle to get as much lor the on* u-ch as it n. w doe* for th* lix or els* to work up the difference in business which it does not now get. It is therefore to t lie interest of all parties that brains be put into advertising. Tbe French just now are aol very kind ly disposed toward the Prime Minister of Madagascar, ihoiigb he is perhaps theonly man in the world who has the distinction of having been thr hustmid of l-hrcc \>.;cena It would seem to be one o: the n..>u im- i porlant dutic < of th* Prime Minuter to wed I the tulcrof hi* country if that potentate' hai>f en to be a Vjueeu. At any rate, th- eldeily ialwtna.u wko is ths huslnud of lhe ' prereut (Jueeu. a lady wli bv n ; y*t ' reathed middle life, was also *i hiubaud of her two nn mediate the throne of the Uova;. so aroutlttuiod to guard with j*k>ua oar* th* right* uf hi* ry! stiauses that 've ***m* i.' , ryot the (act that tho island is now a are now imall towns with AK) to 1,000 people. At on* village he saw cotton growing and men spinning it with a wooden loom ami shuttle. The Somali* are vry strict Mohammedans. Th* yonnger girls aaJ women are mo*tly pretty, with large black eye* They arc jealously guarded by the men, aud K.urupearu are hardly per- mitted to look at them. nil sttX A Vatican Bibl* is worth The SUM i'aaal cost HOO.lXMi.OOO. Mr*. Astor pousescd a $!:-." dree*. Police duly employs 39,001) Britons. Jews number less than 7,i>,UOO soul*. A ton of steel makes 10,000 gross of pens. Thr U. S. used I'.'.OHO.OOO.OOO stamps last year. Kleven pounds of nails will lay 1,000 lathe. Nearly one hundred different machines have been invented for luring rock. Apples were worth from oue to two hill- ing* each in the reign of Henry VII. The moat valuable bit of ore ever melted in the world, so far as is known, was a lot containing '.200 pound* of quart/ holding gold at th* rate of 950.000 per too, and wa* found in a mine at Isbpeming, Mich. A single sheet of paper six feet wide and seven aud a-half miles in length has been mad-- at the Watertown, N. Y.. paper works. Il webbed -Y-M7 pounds, ana wa* nitde and rolled entire without a aingk brtak. Klectri -ity, where un retarded by atmo*- phano influence*, travel* at th* rate of 488,- 0<X) xties a second. Along a wire it is, of ouarse, vaitly slower : a perceptible period cf tm.t i* occupied by the eUotric current in sending trl*gram* over long distances. ! training that will be advantageous to him ' all inrough life, and that will very surely ! eaable him to earn a living as long as he ; live*. We should suppose that any real sen- sible boy would like to think of Incoming a skilled workman in a good trade ; would . like to look forward to the time when be could stand up as an independent jonmev | man, for example, in the carpenter's traJe, ' or th* braseworker'*, or tbe tailor'*, or tke ' stonemason's, or th* watchmaket'*, or th* bookbinder'*, or '.he fresco painter'*, or the weaver'*, or th* printer 's.or th* smachmisl s. or Ik* locksmith's, or the gilder'* or some other trade worthy of hi* mauhood. Il is a plendid thing for a young fellow to start oui in the world with a good trade. H* can b* a* stiff a* be pleas**, and doesn't need to knuckle down tu anybody, neither te the boss nor the foreman, if he mind* hi* own business and (teen clear of gallivanting. H* can nearly alway* get a job at fair par. ' and can often have a chance of travelling to ' some other part of the country to look for a I better job at higher pay. What long-head ! ed boy would not like to have such a show in i life ' Yet a vast number of our boy* don't I want to learn a trade. They are anxious to | be office boys, or counter jumpers, or sales ! boys, 01 clerk*, or something of that kind. Stupid fellows, when they can get a chance ! to become skilled mechanics ' We *ay that boys who need to earn a living do well to Irarn a trad.' and tnou strike oat in life, ires as the air they breathe. tiain. n i * MsVsltSMI tor a sMndee tied. An KnglU. i gentleman at an auction tale of Eatt Indian relics paid ll.'t.OUO for the famous Hindoo god Ungatn. Liiigam is only a trite over a foot in height, but he m said to be worth his weight in diamond*. The base ot the figure is oi pare hammered gold, and aiound it ar* **)t nine gems a diamond, rubr. sapphire, chrysoteryl. cat's- eye, coral, pearl, hyacinthe, garnet, emer- ald, aad moonstoo*. Tbe apex ot the figure, which is in the shape ot a pyramid, M encircled IB a plinth set with small bat very fin* diamond*. Th* pinnacle of th* pyramid is a top*/ on* el an inch and ten-sixteanths h in length and tune sixteenths of aa inch in depth : thi* i* in th* chape of a boneehoe. tse centre being a cat '*-eye ef exceeding brilliancy. When the " Bad ^hah. ' la*'. King of Delhi, was captured and tilled to the Anda- man Islands, nis l^neen secreted this idol, and it was never seen again until recent research brought it to light, whereupon it was taken tu London. i grievance af waMia the FrtKcb complain Unuia has decide.) tiiat it* soldien shall lies the b supplied wilh haudkerchiefs, at the i- 1 p*us* of the government. France drink* 1.548,000 bottles of cham- pagne a year. It requires a long time adequately to map a great lake Ilk* Victoria Nyunza. { It* present outline* have little resemblance 1 to taos* Spekc gave it.and ne * nxploi ers are making change* every year. W hen Staa | 'ey waf hut there he reported a prolong- Iatien ef the *outkwe*t corner, which some time after was mapped by Father Sec; use Then Capt. StiHIiaana made important I i changes m Katk*r Sv-hyoe* s nap. and that j 1 corner at *h lake i* at leat suppcxvd to be [ , fairly well mapped Last sinnsm. !>r I Ranmano ? V* wort, ne, th loutKeswt i ', side, wbere h*4ieoff>red a large y.-.'.F urwr , ! heard af before, *! Vhu will far her akaiige the lake a* It appear* on the mapv Un 1 tiring labor and vigilance is tbe pnc of ' accuracy in *uch aiattcrs. Cotton spinning mills are a comparative- ly new feature of Japan'* industrial life. They have recently been the scene of terrible accidents, both at Nagoya and Uaaka where large mill* have been in opera- tion Fifteen months ago, when the terrible earthquake (hook th* central part of the largest island, the brick tower of th* big cotton mill at Nagoya fell upon the crowd of operative* who wer* ttrugglmg to get out, killing a large number of them. Last month a spinning mill at Osaka was burned, and I-'"' persons, mostly young girls, wer* buraed to death. The*e buildings were modelled after American mills, with (/.envy ot th* beet machinery I'ottou mill ,-wnen m Japan have for some time beer, scouring it> Onect f'-r raw material, and unlen earthquakes and fire*, the curse* of .1 vp,in, are too destructive, th* industry promise* a rapid d*veiopB*ul.