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AGRICULTURAL. Foodi For the D^inr Co*. Pro : . W. A. Hniiy. Ph. D., of the I'ni- vsrsity i \Vncoiisin, in an elaborate article on the feeding and mtnigim 11 lof cattle, MiMi>iii-d by thf D.'p>ri:ni-iit . Agriculture. Wsshingtoii. H. ('., in relation to Food* for i h. I >airy Cow, relrrr'ng to table* givtn not nee*uary to I i-pro<luced here, says : I i TH the large amount of protein i. pr" srnted by t^e chcrse ptrt of the milk and the albumen, it i* certain that a very con- (iderab'o amount of protein should enter Into tho composition of the feed. The carhnhydratt* supply the material out of which the milk iiipir and tho fat* are lalora e.|, though of ,-ourse thcM can also be made from tho protein substance*. The protein and fat of the foods are the more expensive portions, and for that retson we should be careful not to feed them in more liberal allowance thin is actually needed. ^ ong,gfain food* (;~ the dairy the fol- iwing are worthy of speoia! mention : Corn. Indian corn is a most valuable food and one of the shoapes". used in the dairy, and the quality of milk and batter produced from it usually above question. Corn meal is a very -once'ittated food and pteks ton closely in the stomach, and should be extended with something coarser, like brsn, if possible. Corn does not furnish much protein. Oat* are probably the best single food on the list, and are juit as valuable in tl.e cow stable a* in the horse barn. At this staticn w* have found oats to have the value of about 10 per cent, in excess of an equal seed, in a gener.il synopsis gives us the fol lowing point* : The qualifications of different sample* of wheat for seed purpose* vary with each <Kin pie; each should Iw studied as to its own uierili. \Vhrn in doubt, the driest, heaviest, hardest, best market grades of wheat are the ones to rely upon fur seed purposes. Immature wheats, no matter what tho cause, whether drought, attack of rust, or premature harvest, are weakened in seed value because of lack of full food supply in ths grain, and perhaps immaturity of ths ssTssV .Mixed vsrieties of seed should not be sown lw.-*u*j there will be inequality in ripening. The boit grades of frosted seed possess less strength in their first growth from tho grain than is the cue with best grades of mature wheat. Wheat that has been wet and subject to freezing and thawing during the winter cannot safely be used a* seed without being tested. Any seeds which have at any time been heated reciuse of moisture when in bulk, ar very liable to have been injured beyond ability to grow. If stacks are made from well cured, ma- ture wheat, and remain dry throughout the winter, the wheat threshed from such in the spring will be as good seed as it other- wise stored. Wheats threshed from the shocks in the spring of ls!h! after win'er bleaching were generally dead. The growth of a crop of wheat is depend- ent upon so many airl varying conditions, that no positive rules of procedure which shall invariably result in success can be laid ,._.. ...,_,,.. ,._... ._...,__ __ _... sight of bran for Koducmgrnilk^and but- down" 1 '7: "ndftionrVr Wmp7ra7urr nd moisture in both soil and atmosphere, and tor fat. UaU contain much ash and a larger proportion of portein than corn, and should nave a prominent place in the fee. 1 , bin of our dairy farms whenever the cost is not too high. Barley is a very common food for cows in the Old World, snd is used to cnn>derable extent on the Pacific' coast. It should be crushed by rolling rather than grinding. Wheat is sometimes so low in comparison with other grains that it can be fed very profitably. Frequently on the Pacific coast It is Uie ch-ap.-st dairy food in the market. Peas. Pea* contain a very large amount of protein, and they are an excellent food for dairy cows. Heine very rich in protein, but a few pounds should be used in a ration. Cotton seed. The progress of Southern live stock inUrtsts depend Isrgely upon an intelligent uss of cotton seed, cotton-seed meal and colton-seeri hull*. Cotton seed boiled is nssd at the South with good re- sults, if fed in reasonable quantity. Cot- ton-seed meal ii very rich and heavy, and should bo fe.l with care ; it should be ex- tended by some other food like bran and mixed with roughage. Cotton seed and cotton-seed meil have a deleterious effect on butter, if fed in large quantities, but with care they can tx) fed at any season of the year with profit. Cotton-seed meal should IM used more generally at the North, its high fertilising value after pass- ing through the sniinal often being worth the first coit. Oil meal or oil cake. This by-product of the linseed-oil factories is a most valu- able food in the dairy bam, though it should be used in limited quantities. It is especially useful for oaives, and a couple of pound* a day may be fed to d .irv cows with profit. It is very rich in fertilising elements Oil meal to the value of 3V 000,1010 is annually shipped to thn Old World. For the fertility it contains if for no other remon, (t should all be fed in this country and dairy products initead shipped abroad. Bran is one of the most valuable feeds in the dairy. From its loose, bushy nature ami ."jnlinir effect on the system, it can be liven in almost, any quantity, with little danger of overfeeding. It is thi safest food in the dairy barn, and should always be in store to mix with rorn meal or the frrnund grains, cotton-seed meal or oil meal. We know that whoal rapidly depletn the soil nf it* fertility, and the chemist has found that the larger part of the futtililv that goe* into the wheat grain is stored near the ontUde of thr grain in what be- comes the bran or grindi.ig. A few farmers still hold that bran is little better than sawdust. Such notion* belong to the past grneialion. Exporters are studying how to compass bran in order to ship it abroad. This movement should be stopped by a liv -IY home demand. SI.. 1 1* .,i,d middlings are now but it finer form of In ,in. Sometime* they contain much starch slid form a first-clai* food, Ittit, again, thny rvry the dirt and dust of the mill, and are not so paUtable as brsn. Malt sprout* snd brewer*' grain*, either wot or .It i". I. ire vitliiahlo fond*, tich in pintein. nnd often sell at such low prices as to admit ..f very profitable nan in the dairy barn. Wet brewer*' grain*, became of their cheapne** and abundance, aie ofti r HiiHiiw I. The sloppy drainini;s saturate the feed boxes and mangers anil become putrid, i mlangurlng the lives of the cows snd thoie who use tho milk. If fed whon freih, and in reasonable qiinnlily, and the surround- ing* k "lit perfectly clean and wholesome, brewers grains are an excellent fon 1 for dsiry cows. Gluten meal, a by-product in the manu- facture of starch or glucose, is very rich m prod-in. The limvy forms of thl* m il houlil he fed cautiouily and extended with OIIH light iiibstance like bran. MI sloccr nnd corn fndder is an excel- lent and healthful .-\ttle food, iming quite free from dust, snd very fialatitble i row. The amount nf nutriment which can lie gathired from a cnrnrirl.l. and a portion which remain* In the stalks, has already been discussed under uteri feeding, an I (It. reader is referred to 'lint portion of this chapter for information on thi* important ! Clover liay, when, well cured and bright, I* especially valuable for dairy oowt, since it furnishes a large amount of protein. Timothy hay f* s.1 Sest a poor food for dairy rows : It shtiild be left fur horse feed- ing. Wheat hay, oat hay, orbsrlry hay, if cut rly, are all excellent d*lry foods, and r uao should becoms much more o . than it ,. Millet, hay I* satlifactoiy If eut \>-i\ ly, hefcte the seeds form. II !. W hunt For StNt.1. 1 lib f nn AIOCI nil Hint i m. In relation i ,. Ue value of wheat 'or ||iil/ physical conditions of ths suit, either at the lime of sowing, or during the period of growth, musl nocessarily vitally influence the result, whatever the character of the seed sown. Thus the stooling of the gram is chiefly dependent upon conditions of moisture at the time of stooling, so that in dry seasons stooling is deficient, when from the same amount of seed sown stooling would have been abundant during a moid season ; and the quantity of seed sown suffi- cient in the latter c*se would have been in sufficient in the former. Because of such facts failure may actually follow practice based on the best general rules of procedure, and on the other hand, success may result from practice not usually sati*f>ctory, and which under other conditions would inevit- ably have resulted in failure ; therefore, al- though an occasional successful crop may under ceiiain conditions result from the using of inferior seed, this practice) in the end can only result in failure. finocesifal Farmers. We shou'd ask, says Jamei B. Stephens, in the Practical Farmer, what qualities do these men who are *nccesfiil farmers pos sees that In VL made them *o ? Let|us inquire into the cause* that have contributed tc their success. Ate they not men of great energy, wide-awake, and alert, men who always keep abreast ot the times? Are they not men of an unflinching determin- ation, who trample upon dilficultios, and who ever press onward and upward ? Are they not frugal and sober? 1>> they net read and think? Do they not love their calling? I am a* firm as a rock in my opin- ion that any tanner who possesses tho fore- going qualities will be successful, and I also firmly believe that all thosegood men who write so ably for the P. F. posssis these qualities in an eminent degree. 1 look luck over ten years of observation. I see men engaged n. farming who arc inter- ested and enthusiastic in almost everything except their own work, who are attentive to almost everything except their own bu*i- ness snd who are nver latiified unless they have a chancn to go to some circus or some other useless) (fathering, where both money and time are spent aud no compen- sating advantages realised. Some o' thea* men farm no more, and < '.ers of them are scarcely making a living. On the other hand, I see farmers attentive to their work, diligcnt'and enthusiastic in their own call- ing, always j vigilant and economical, who are making a good living and laying up money henide, and who doubtle>s have before them a prosperous and peaceful fut- ure, I am aoquaiutod with a farmer who alout eight years ago Ivoi^M a furm. He had nothing i;. begin with but energy, character and ability, and to-day he is al- most out of debt. His money t* all made from hi* farm products, a-ul he even sell* corn, oats and Imy crops which lake off inn h plant-food, Imt tins plant food i* always returned by copiou* manuring. He follows general farii.iiiir, but it I* extensive farming. He does no more than he can do well. And right hero i* where so many farmers maks a mistake. They undertake entirely too much. A good old Uimer ono wrote that he never plowed more ground thai what he could ..iiiplrteiy cover with manure That is a good plan. I can imagine that that farmer WAS sin'ieasful. Hy plow. tig no more thsn what can bo completely covered with manure, one i< not likely to plow more than what can be thoroughly tilled. An aide writer on agriculture wrote some time ago that prodigy seed, prodigy fertili/m.; .in I pi i idiny tillage Mill bring prodigy re- sults. Now, it net-in* to me that any fann- er who ha* reasonably good land can attain attoniih'ngly K'""l remits by mitf.- the best ser.l. >!!* ferttlUitig and by thorough tillage-. All that is n enterprise, constant planning and pi- 1 , The trouble with a great many farmers is, i hey am sntufiod too soon. When they raise a crop that is slightly above the ever- age, or somewhat better than that of their neighbour!, they think thry are doing well enough. This should not lie. They inould strive each year to snrpass the work of the year before. They should let before them elves a ln.,li ide il mid thru itrive to their nit. T 'M.,s' ' itiikiTi it. I Kpviin the des'ie of niitinliiini' K' fertility. Th i' deiirashould tin.) n,, I., UN,, ni in any progressive farmer's '. Increasing the fertility should to h aim. Fast horses are carefully led. Nanov II inks, with a record of '.'.<>(, cits Montana at f IS a ton. Oimon te, thollAO,- . ;h thoiollgh I, red, jilftl llnporle.l, still eal* h iy In, m Kngjandi as his doctor thinks a vu.l.lcn change to Aim-i in I... might hurt l.itn I 'u m n but ihrown is oi .|.ni,iKni horses don't with to inn any ritis with tin ir pro OF SLEEP MAKING. Htpao'.Um As t Medical Acent TuruBle Darter* I r It. I bypootiim a useful agent in medicinu ? Hypnotism, as praoliata by the medical profession nf Toronto, ii, because of the prevailing prejudice against the art, a sub- joot fiaught with not a little interest. Thii prciiiipoiilion against hypnotism, which it almost universal, is a hybrid production of ignorance and superstition ignorance of established scientific facts and superstition impelled by the wild staUments of itin- erant showmen, whose purpose is the better accomplished the more they can im- press the public with the mysticism of their hypn tic exhibitions. The showmen's first unwarrantable assumption, which they make the basis of effect upon the public mind, is to claim peculiar power* power which the sminilialed, in their ignorance in many cases, ascribe to the devil. Hypnotism is, however, not a new thing, even in its application to toe healing of diseases, having been in some method or other practised by almost every race iin.-c the dawn of history, although scien- tific investigation dates only since 1787, when it was inaugurated by the eminent physician. Dr. Frederick Anton Me*mer, whcse treatment was condemned by the medical tirofeseion, but approved ot by both the French and German Government*. This unfavorable verdict was, however, revokud in I.T'j, when a commission ap- pointed by TIIK KKKNCII ACADI'JV or MKDICIXS tn investigate mesmerism, as it was called after Meimer. concluded their report as follows : "Some of the magnetised pa- tient* ejprrienced no benefit. Others de- rived more or lees relief from the treat- n ent ; in one case habitual suffering was suspended, in another strength returned, in a third epileptic attacks were averted for several monthi, and in a fourth serious ptralysis of long standing was completely cured. Considered as the agent of physi- ologic*! phenomena, or as a therapeutic expedient, magnetism must take its place in the scheme of med'cal science, and con- sequently it should be practised by physi- cians only." Thi* last recommendation is s'.ill voiced by every physician who uses hypnotism. Since the tine of Mesmer hypnotism (this name, as being more appropriate and ex- planatory, was given tu it by Braid) has held only a footing in the medical pro- fession, and even to attain this result some of the ablest practitioners have been ubJMctel to almost incredible persecution by the reit of this prof ration. First among theee was Dr. .l"Vi Klliotson, in 1837 physician to the University College hos- pital, London. In 1815 Dr. Jami** Kidaile, a surgeon in the employ of tho Kast Indis Company at Calontta, begin the use of hypnotism in order, if possib'e, to lessen the pain of patients undergoing *urgical operations. II n was so successful that after a thorough investigation the Government placed a special hospital at his disposal. He has left a record of over 2.W operations painless- ly performed by the aid of hypnotism, in- cluding many major and dangeious rases. such a* amputations and the removal of large tumors, due tumor which he remov- ed was larger than the patient's body, and during the operation it had to be suspended bv chain* from the wiling. The authenti- city of this feat is attested by an Kuglish general who witnessed the operation. M FONT* IN' EMI1BITI.IN-S. In ISI1 Dr. James Braid, R Manchester surgeon, wss itruck with the public exhibi- tions of Lafontaine and demonstrated their Minneu by inducing "mesmeric sleep" in'his wife ami children. His experiment taught him the utter fallacy of tho theory that the phenomena deprn I. < II|MII the pawing of some mysterious iluid or influence from the operator to the subject, and to prevent as far as possible theee erratic idea* he subuiluted the name "hypnotism" for "mitimerism " or " animal magnetism." To Braid i* now generally attributed the honor of having rescued the art from the region of quacltery. He used hypnotism with considerable success in the treatment of various nervous diseases such as rheuma- tism, epilery, paralysis and neuralgia and published n hook containing the rexults of his work. Pr. Braid offered to read a paper on the subject before the British association but his proposal wan rejected and it Is amusing to note that one of the papers ac- cepted at that time was one on trie " palpi of spiders," the object of which was to pre- vent the audience from mistaking young spiders for 'Id ones. Chloroform being in- troduced about this time, hypnotism was thru it slide. But Dr. l.ieheault, then a young m*n, happened acros Braid's hook ami opened a froe dispensary at his home in Nancy for the treatment of the poor. He has: since piihlnuml several works on the subject. I'rof. Bernheim, in Issj, indirectly throiiL'h l.ielMMtilt , uiiim-n vd \\\ mvcsiiga- tion, and with such ftriking success in bin experiments 'hat he was ''(orcod to speak" and published bis great work on hypnotism in l'Mi Tii.> vii location of a man so emin- .i,i in i lie proicaiiim was at ouoe felt in en- 1istit>. < nud investigators through- out all Chritu-iul .tv. Thus has hyprntiim fur a century struggled for a bare foothold in the proles- sici i to which it rightly belon. . it " came unto it* own and H . nwn received n not." lint it* lima of triumph ha* at last arrived. In I sill t lie British Medical Association, the most pnwi rail society "I nio liciuo m the world, after an rxhatlitivo discussion, de- clared I ypnotisi i to he " worthy of invesli- gation." Hypnoliim is now freely discuss- ed by t ; m ^reat medical 1 mrnitli, and in- deed journals and magazlnus of all kinds ievote spoe to it, thus attesting the inter- est It evokes in the mind of the public at Urge, IIYI'NTI>M IV Ti>RONTv>. But to .MIIIO to the practice of it in I. .n nl. i. The writer having losrned that I'r John v Hug bad made practical ex- periments <>l hypo -it ism as u iiK-ilic.il . called upon him the other day, and < ' of a pleasant chat the reporter gathered something of (he doctor's thsra i use nf tin- art and of lua conclusions an or more than ono year of careful expert ting iiml observation. Up to two year* he was I with the phenomena ot ir. i notion only through articles rathe \l loimrili and was very skeptic il, thinking it on of ths m my imposition* nf only with nervoin, impressionable ii.-o.'oer* of ths community. Uilt bany in duced to experiment with one care, it prov- ed so successful that he was at once impress- ed with the possibilities) of hypnotism as a therapeutic agent. Since then he has made constant use of it in hii practice in the treatment of nervous disease j and hi* con- clusion, a* he told the reporter, is that "it is the most powerful therapeutic agent known." The doctor has been onable to hypnotize insane or weajt-mmded persons, or very young children. He has successful ly employed it in lieu of an anesthetic in minor operations. The effect of suggestion in hypnotic state hao been continuous in the post hypnotic stale in a therapeutic irm KM : t>:i ! t if in t>. The effect, either good or bad, depends upon the suggestion made, and can, and does, undoubtedly benefit and quicken mental faculties when appliel for that purpose. Dr. King holds that animal magnetism is the basis of hypnotism. With regard to the potency of "mental suggestion, which is the term often applied to this form of treatment, and by which is meant simpl) that one mind acts upon or reS|>onds to a suggestion furnished verbally or otherwise by another, he said it was limply the medium by which the ANIMAL MAdXETMM became operative. On one point he was emphatic, that the practice of it should be conducted with prudence and care and be confined to the medical profession. With unprincipled or irresponsible persons it was Ungerous, and capable also of being used [or criminal purposes. " Why," said he, " a layman should no more hypnotize than prescribe strych- nine." As to who can ..ypnotiz*. it is the doctor's opinion that, " theoretically, anybody can. hut practically, at least to any great d- tree, it is confined to a few. It is like sing- ing. All men have tongues and throat,* end vocal organs, bat all men can't sing, and >ut a very few can sing well." The older men in the* medical profession lave no very great regard for the science. Dr. Clark, superintendent ot the Toronto Asylum, was seen and he thinks it an alto- gether too dangerous a thing to be trifled all. That it is a great force, hs said, is not to be doubted. He thinks it also a egitimate field for research, but he ha* no faith in it as a curative agency. He said : " Kvery man is a walking magnet. There is in every n.an a mysterious something (the philosophers called it the tertia <|nod), the medium by which the mind governs the body. It is present with every living ani- mal organism, acd, call it 'animal mag net ism or what you will, it is the basis ol hypnotism. A hypnotist and his subject are jut like two magnets, the stronger govern- ing the weaker. A hypnotist can take a CRAZY r-cnaoN and make him for the time being perfectly sane. But he is thinking for both persona, and as soon as the mesmeric influence ceases, the magnets separated, the subject is as crs/y as ever. This third mysterious force is that upon which the electric car- rent acts to induce muscular contraction during the period of rigor mortis, bat upon the first symptom of dissolution the ' third thing' is gone and electricity ha* no effect upon the body. It precedes and succeeds consciousness, is the first thing to take possession of the body (it is present in the foetus) and is tne last thing to leave it." Dr. W. B. Geikieand Dr. W. T. Aikms, the principals of the faculties of the two Toronto medical schools, are not actively opposed to it, but are very conservative and think that, though in a few oases it may lie useful, it* practice should be very limited in tha profession and entirely pro- Older lhasj Meltmeliifc. Welch* . -Ml. Wrlsi *;}. The largest whale whichever entered thu harbor, and one of ths largest ever seen on this coast washed ashore at lokelnnd oa Monday. The news was immediately brought back by one of the morning steamers, anil the afternoon passenger boat* were crowded to their utmost capacity by the throngs who were anxious to see th* monster. Tiie steamer was just at the mouth ef the river when some one, looking through a tield glau, diicovrred the object of cariosity across the head to the bay six miles away. 1 m me 1 utely all eyes were turned that way, and as the vessel neare 1 the wharf the fish began to loom up in all its corpulency of outline. The rih came in on the high tide, and lies just a little below Charles Fisher's bath houses. It was alive and kicking, and did not finally surrender its lease on existence until Tuesday about noon. County Attorney M. D. Egbert had taken along a tape line and carefully measared the monster. The line showed an extreme length of 174 feet 8 inches), with a "waist measurement" of 18 1 } feet. County Surveyor L. C, Vick- rey figured on the weight of the "ammile'* and pronounced this member of the Bl<rn- idu- family to weigh tiftyeeven and one- eighth toni.and the blather and whalebone to be worth, a*, current prices, oil 99.795. bone ?l, ujn. making aneat total of f 1U.975, Attorney L.E. Ginn altemptei to com- pute the age of the subject under consid- eration and concluded from the transverse lines on the baleen that this fish had existed for P86 years, lacking but fourteen years of having lived the longest term of whale hfs. The pectoral fins are twelve feet long and seven feet broad, the mouth is twenty-four feet long, the blow hole* eighteen inches long, and the half hundred bathers in the water at the time it came ashore says the noit of spouting was , deafening and the pi-y ejected vended at least fifty feet in the air. The threshing of the tail on the water in the struggle to regain the channel was heard at M cGowan's cannery, at the mouth ot' North River, four miles away. County S.-hool Superintendent L. W. Fansher furnished some historic*.! facts in regard to the whale. Alfred the Great had been dead but six years when his whaleehip first began to navif ate the waters of the earth. This old boy was I'M years old when William the Conqueror was born, and may have been playing off Knglish shores when be was crowned king. He was on earth at ths tune of making the Great Charter at Run nymede, he was middle when the pilgrims landed at Plymouth nd probabiy looked upon the wars of Napoleon, the American Revolution aad civil war with many a aid sigh an 1 shake ot the head for the ruthless) slaughter ol humanity. > M.I i-tl n n ti i R i< k aged wh- it , a A Blvalerihe lnla<h Men <*nse* rresai I .r. Ijo I' .n. Not since Ericsson's famous monitor slipped from the way* ha* such a singular looking craft appeared in these water* as the pioneer British whaleback Turret, I which (teamed into the harbor recently | after a nine days' voyage from Tucaoas, I Venezuela, with .1,022 tons ot copper ore ! aboard. They don't call her a whaleback in Kngland, but a turret steamer. hibited outeide of it. Thev hold also that '" Kngl*nd. but a turret steamer, but she hypnotism has of itself an injurious effect a Done ln '" lptation of the Ameri- upon the person hypnotised. It is only cn whaleback princ.ple She IS 2SO feet fair to observe, however, that the older , Ion 8 b ? " feet beam and <** ""X men have not studied the subject experi -'*" a **' 1 w 'ht on " mentally for themselves. This they nave left for the younger members of the profes- sion, who are in many cases 'aking up the task with a will < n..| . 414 . Ike Ballwavs. The chief statistician of ths Dominion government makes the following 'tatement with regard to the. aid the Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific railway have received from the Ottawa treasury. The C*nadiau Pacific has received from the Dominion Government the sum of to"J,044, 159 and _>:., i KKI.OOO acres of land. Ol this latter the Canadian Pacific sold 6.70.'l,IH)t acres to the Dominion Government for the sum of $10,- 1 >>._'!. The Grand Trunk received from the Government of Canada a loan of $!."),- UJ.rVlM in lttVt.,17. At simple interest the amount of principal and interest due to the Federal Government at thetimeo! confedera- tion was $10,457,458 interest and thV origi- nal loan, making a total of f-.M, 600,1 *>! das on the first ot July, 1867. I do not know that any formal renunciation of the debt was ever made by the Government and if the interest were to be added to the amount due at confederation the total would raise to somewhere about (.Vl.OOO.OUO. If the question asked was: "What have the poop!* of Canada given in aid to these two railways?" we would have to examine the accounts to **e how nrueli has been advanc- ed to the various line* incorporated with or under the control of e-.-h of the two great system*, as system*. Suh.nl ies and aid* were 4ven by the Provincial Government tn.l by municipalities. Failure* In Ike Male*. While but our b.tnk has failed in Can.v! t during ths present year no less than 71' banking institutions went under in the I in' i ~-'tes between January and ><ep- lumber, ,'*> being state and private hank*, and 135 National hank*. Th - detailed t ii.'iu-'iit ot th" , -hiof icenea at trouble, sx> far as th State and priv.ite bank* are con- cerned, in as follows : State. Banks. Ckhfurui.t. . 23 I 'olorado 96 Illinois 41 Indiana Iowa 2s Kansas 4^ Mi. higan 16 Minnesota *J| M 11010 I | Nebraska 45 New York Olilo Oregon Irt ylvitnia . || South l>akota Tennessee It! Tfxa* 17 Washington II \\ I- VII 111 .. W Scattering draught of water. Below the water line there is littls un- usual about the construction, but above her freeboard tuiiSIs* home in a short curve to a turret running from stem to stern, and she looks like an ordinary s.T.p set into the back of a monstrous turtle. Th* vessel was launched a year ago from the yard of Dixford A Sons. Sunderland. anil is owned by Peterson, Tate & Co., of Newcastle. She has provod ar ./ boat in a seaway and several sister ships are in course of construction. [New \ ork Herald. s-rjw. Javles. A return issued by the British admiralty recently gives the number of "sea going warship*in commission, in reserve, and build- ing, and the naval expenditure, revenue, tonnage of mercantile marine, and value ol seaborne commerce of variou* countries for the year ls:i;i " It show* the English war* ships in commission to be 'J4 battleships, 3 coast-defense ships, 80 cruiser*, and 74 other hip* not topedo boats, together 101 ; we have also in reserve 10 battleships, 14 coast- defence ships, 46 cruisers, and -14 other ship* not torpedo boats ; and in addition, we have building aud completing for sea 9 battleship*. 10 cruisers, aud 22 other ships. Total, .'!.*>. France i* represented as hav- ing in commission ID K\ttleships, 5 coast- defence ships, 'J.'t cruisers and ,'Ootlier ships not torpedo boats, while she has in reserve .1 battleships, 3 coast-dsfense ships -Jit cruise! s, and ttt other ships, and InulJing and fit;npielm lor -* S battleships, 2 coa*t-leiene ships, I'l cruisers, and ."> other ship*. Total 'AM. Germany, which is th* next naval power, his in commission II bat- tlsshipi, 14 crtutrr*, and 1!) other ships ; in reserve, :i battleships, IS coast-defence ships, 17 cruisers, and .1 other ships, besides 7 battleships, 3 cruisers, and 1 other ship building and completing for*-*. Total, SO. It appears from this c' miri.iU .11 m point of numbers Kngland posetsses M5 warships, as compared with ."7 belonging to France) and Germany combined, and. the KnglisH colonies have also _ i wirihipe of their own. Kngland has *0 warships building, while France and Germany toother have only t-V Kussia has altogether 1-V warships, mostly small ones, and Italy, ha* !W. The aggre- gate naval expenditure of Kngland is firen AS Cls,4S:V>n;, while that of France is put ,>s llii.tWI.srit ; uf Germany. iJ.T'.l'i. >7(> ; of Kussi* i'.l ; and ot Italy, C4.-JI.V *3l, so that the preaent naval expenditure of Kngland is nearly equal to that of France, Germany aud Russia combined. A league has been formed to study the cancer disease. Probtbly the moat eminent- ly suggests 4 view* on the subject recently made public are those of M. M. Verneuil, of Paris, and Uoux, of Liaaainne, <vhp afri- tiute cancer to the/ improptr uw ' sseAt, especially r w