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FISH CULTURE. A. Visit to the Credit Forks Hatch- ery. ffce Eeanavlr Tula- rtbe Brook Tr*l rtartjrolrai .' \nr-frr I*on4. wllll .u f RriMk Trel frj -With the Crmllr tea of Ike rink Ponil,. Piicicultnre, or, as it it commonly cilled, Bin culture, 11 one of the many new occu- pation* which have iprung up as the ruiult of modern enquiry, in response to prewing necessities. A party of gentlemen interested in fish culture, chiefly of llie game finite*, met the other morning on the nation platform of that picturesque ipot known on railway time table* a* the Forks of the Credit. They came from ai far east as Ux bridge, from Toronto, from the weit as tar a* Woodstock, and the nurtli wa* repreaented by Owen Sound. The intent and purpoae ot their mealing was to viait, at the inva- ta'ionof Mr. Charles Wilmot, the Credit Forks trout preserve and lit h hatchery. Mr . Wilmot wai at the station platform with suitable rigs to drive the party out to the preserve, and a drive of a mile and ft half through narrow passes between steep bill* where the boiling watr* of the Credit thundered between rocky boulders, along a ainuoui road where occasionally the dark evergreen* met overhead, noon brought the party to the bah ponu*. The spot Mem* to nave been intended by nature for the pur pone to which it ha* len put. A miniature Like, with an island covered with ever- green*, bold, rugged hill* on every ide, now covered with mow, gave a faint idea of BKAI-TtXS hich the Gorman trout f urnishe*. It ha* received considerable attention in several States, notably New York and Michigan. They are hardy in character and in habit clour, cold, mountainous streams, and they are n'it migratory in character. In colour, they are what might be termed a deep olive, potted with crimson and grey, They are irregular in molting*. Being rapid in growth they attain a larger si/.e loan the speckled trout. In view of the rapid depletion of the trout in the ashing streams of this province the importance of the work in the direction I iiil ilwn by Mr. Wilmot cannot be over- estimated. The economic nature of the brook trout can hardly be estimated. I >ne of the member* of the Michigan State Legislature in 1SH7 said " The cash value of brook trout in my county alone i* worth at least 910,000 a year." If thi* is the cane in Michigan, it i* surely applicable to this country, where ill kino* of game n*h are of the spot during the Hummer nlstice. These who have been there during Uie un.mvr say it is the fiihertnan'i par ulne, and if Isaac Walton could July com- back to life aga.n like Rip Van Winkle, and should fortune bring him to thi* aput. ho won Id forthwith lit down and write another book dedicating it to the " Contented Angler." Mr. Charles Wilmot, proprietor of the preserve, ha* had eighteen yean' experi- ence in fish culture. He wa* connected with the Dominion hatchery at Newcastle, being the officer in charge nf the hatchery, and wa* also appointed Dominion Inspector of Knh Culture. Thi* important position he resigned about six month* ago to give hi* whole limn to the cultivation of game fish at the Credit Fork*. Mr. \\ilmot is a young, active man, and i* poaiibly thebeit practical authority on fish culture on the continent. There are none of the my*t*rie* of pisciculture whi"h he ha* not solved, and he ha* advanced practical ideas in the business which he could not put into prac- tice in the Dominion service, a* he wa* a subordinate, and one of the reasons for his resignation wa* to demonstrate that it wa* neceseary to go one *tep further in the cul RAPIDLY DISAPI'BARINO. In many of the States great activity i* shown in restocking stream* that have been fished out. In the thickly-populated part of thi* province the brook trout is entirely killed oil Step* should be taken to repair thi* loss. Many private individual* are taking steps in tin* direction, and are procuring fry and plaHTttfg them where they can be preserve*!. Mr. Wilm.it baa already disposed of about two million fry for this purpose. from the cultivation of brook trout to that of salmon trout and whitetiah is bat a Up. Thi* has been carried on at a vast expense by the Dominion Government for twenty -live yean. Millions of fry have b~i liberated in the inland lakes without any appreciable result, and every yeex the fishermen are harassed with moro stringent regulation* and close seasons until U honest fishermen are driven out of the business. There is no lioubt that there is something wanting to maka the artificial propagation cf fish a success, and that something i* the nursing of the fry until the little fellow* are able to take care of themselves. In view of the mccets that ha* followed Mr. Wilmot'* expenmei.'* in nursing ponds, it would be a wise t/lan for the Dominion authorities to lake this system up and adopt it, so as to save the needles* waste in turning small fry into the great lakes, where ninety per cent, of them die of star /atton, or else are devoured as choice morsels by full gtown sucker*, pike, and herring. CANADIAN HAY IN ENGLAND, A Britisher Speaks of the Prospects of Development. Tfcrrr U a Fairly C*e4 NarfcelBal Cheap- er rrrla-hi slaK". tre Se>l-es*e HIBU ael OsrlBS May. r which the far mer receives from 97 to $8 to n, according to quality. Mr. Kaeble was asked about the (hipping of Canadian straw to the British markets and replied: "Yes, the trade was inaug irated in January. I sent sixty tons for a rial and other shipment* have followed, >ut I am afraid that the rate the* steamship companies are asking for freightage of straw and for hay will cripple the trade, as straw, when baled, practically take* up he same space as hay and therefore ought to be carried for the same rate. There is no doubt that there is a large and increas- ng market in England and Scotland for Canadian atraw if the freight rates will allow it to be brought there, but that is yet an unsettled question a* far a* a staple trade is concerned, for although straw can bought here at present for about $3 a ton, ye't landed on the other side, without adding dock due*, the cost reaches about, and in fact very close to, $18 a ton." The interviewer asked Mr. Keeble to give an instance of freight charges, which IB did, with the remark as a preface : The instance It will relate conclusively shows that the steamships got more per Von [or carrying a cargo 1 from Montreal last autumn, than they did for some American cargoes. Hut to sli >w you how it varies," lie continued, "when navigation was o-jen in tnis port last autumn it was far cheaper to ship to the other side via Boston, for al- though railroad freight* to the port of Montreal were about one dollar a ton from the Eastern Township districts, and at the same time four dollars from the same dis- trict to Boston, still thedifferencewaseasily ti vatien of fish to Knarautee positive rwmlts. j past eight month* has In a few words, this idea is that it is waste , Keeble. representing Among the residents of Montreal for th* been Mr. .I.Y. rs. Keeble Bros., All 1<31* WWI V** % w !* ae* w. -^ i jr w of money to turn fry loose until they are \ whose headquarters are m Peterboro, Kng nine months old and able to slude their , land, with branches amongst other place. natural enemies, the larger fish. To carry in London, Birmingham. Manchester, N out this idea requires nursing ponds, whsre tingham. Sheffield and Bradford, the frv are turned looc and fed until nine firm is on* of the large.t in Great ! ntain. dealing in hay, straw and root*. Saturday Montreal reporter had an interview with "A FORGOTTEN FORMS' Sketch of the InsofFort Prince of Wales lathe Far Vn-tli Dlolaal FresB Any Kami* of Modern Tour- 1,1 mr BswtsicM Travel. Before the Winnipeg Historical Society the other evening His Honor Lieutenant (Governor So'iulu delivered an address on "A Forgotten Northern 1'ortreea," He bad chosen thi* title for hi* address as being applicable, inasmuch as Fort Prince of Wales, being far away from any route of tourist or business travel, la scarcely ever mentioned, and its rnins are seldom teen by other eye* than those on board the Hudson's Bay Company's supply chip, which once a year visit* those lonely shares. / Professor Bell, in writing His Honour some time ago, gave the measures enta of Fort Pnnce of Wales as about 300 feet on each (ide, -JO feet high, 20 feet wide at top, with a wall base of 30 feet, the southern and western walls being faced with hammer dressed atone in regular courses, each stone being about four feet long and two feet thick ; the other walla are faced with good rubble masonry. There is a baation|at each corner, and in each of these a well of water, till full, for the supply of the fort. '. counted nearly forty cannon on the top of the wall*, but as some of these are nearly covered with rubbish, others are probably out of si.;ht altogether. The mate of the height, i>;ili. aibu^vtuci . slight discrepancy between his' esti- of the height, and that of Mr. made up in the less cost of ocean carriage | Spencer, may probably be accounted for from the fatter port. The large demand for freight space out of this port last autumn accounts for thil, in my view." I 'i conclusion, he said that according to hi* latest advice* from England the pre- sent price for Ant quality Canadian hay in that market was 100* a ton c. i. f. M >! i i >< ru:< ire. hy one observer including the foundation of the walls in the height ; and the little difference in determining the exact width well of water in each, and after many year* of labor and expanse, four walls, each o*r three hundred feet in length, * feet high and -JO feet wide at the top, closed in and protected great stone buildings, which con- tained each one * prince's ransom in sich northern furs. Forty-two gnu* of KM then heaviest calibre furnished the armament of the sections ami walls, and store* of food were provided to enable the defenders to stud a siege. The Chipewyan*. from the far olf Athabasca and Great Slave Lakes, must have (iAZKD WITH A.4TOM3HIKXT at it* massivewallaanii portentous artillery ; and its famu throughout all northern tribe* nnut have been groat indeed, and have en- \~ron <i with a vague respect the adventur oosHearne, who thrice between !78Mandl77J left it* gates, twice to return battled and defeated, and lastly, on tht most adventur- ous of all Arctic land journev*, to return with the se ore l of the Arctic coast at the month of the Coppermine river in hi* pos- session. Year* passed on, and as the re- membrance of pillaged factories fiwlel and the pressure for increased grain iu their rich trade became greater. Mid toe barter more inland, so did the number of men kept at this sea-harbor depot become less, so that it wa* with great surprise on the 8th of August, ITS'.!, that the thirty- nine defend- ers of the Prison of Wales Fort saw the bellying sail* of three ships making straight for their fortress ; snd when, at six in the evening, they swung to their anchors six miles away, their pierced aides showing them to be vessel* of war, their astonish- ment was grent indeed. Strangers they evidently wore, for soon pinnace, gig and long boat were busy sounding the approach to the harbor. Day-break saw them disem- of the top of the wall must be charged to barking,andthemorning'olearlightshowed the condition in which La Perooee s gnn- tothethirty nine defenders of the fortress an months oM before being turned adritt in the lakes and rivers. At the Credit Forks Mr. Wilmot ha* built a fish hatchery which is a model of convenience, and which contains improve* menu never dreamt of in the older hatch- eries. He has completely revolutionized the old methods of hatching the spawn, and has put all the ideas gathered during his years of experience to a practical purpose. The building, which is only 30 by 20, has two floors, and has now in the hatch- ing pan* two and a halt million trout spawn. To economize (pace and to ensure perfect success, Mr, Wilmot ha* discarded the old plan of hatching troughs and has replaced them with large galvanized pans in which hatching pan* of perforated zinc are placed. In this way he is abls to do twice th* work in half the space : besides the galvanized iron will last ten times as long as THI WOODIH TROf.lH. which have to be replace'! at a large ex- pense every third year. Kach y*n is hue 1 rvi.h drainage tubes, and iu the pans of this building Mr. Wilmot has more wild brook trout eggs than any other hatchery on the continent. Briefly described, the process of hatching fish is a* follow* : Tho wild brook trout caught in mountain streams during the summer are kept in vat. until they ars ready to spawn. The females and males are then stripped into pans, where the roe is thoroughly impregnated. Ths tiny eggs are then placed iu the perforated pans, where water if the purest kind is allowed to flow constantly. About 'he middle of February the egg* begin to grow darker, an I when the place was visited yesterday many o' the young fry were swimming aK nit, each about tho length of a pin. Th fry as soon a* it lose* the egg-aack i* fed on artificial food until they ar*alx>utix week* old, when they are turned out into the nursing ponds. It is in the Utter rsspect that Mr. Wilmot claims a distinct advanoe. He has, all. told, nine pond*. Into these ponds the fry are turned and fed until they are nine mouths old, when they are about six inches long. At tbis age they are past all danger from larger fish. Wh'rsver Mr Wilmot disposes of fry ha advifes the use oi nursing ponds, u* without these uot ten per cent, of the fry t-ver rearh mutun'y. Witi lite-nursing ponds Mr. Wilmot claims tha the death rule is so small as to be absolute ly nil. The thousands of n:'B UK U.TIIY KISII a year old in the pon.ls amply demonstrate the truth of Mr. Wilmot's theory. The appliance* in the hatchery diil'er largely from those iu use in the Government hatch cries, an<l the nursing ponds are in.l. .-,1 distinct advance. Kor nursing pood* Mr Wilmo*. estimates an acre of water for , million fry. In the hatching pan* are thre k. mli of fish egg* brook trout, California cnbow trout, an.l Gorman or brown ti..ut. The tirst named fish is well known to every fisherman. The California o raiubow trout U a gmier fish than th brook tiout. They mature earlier and grow toven or eight pounds in weight. Th Ormau or brown trout (s >lmo Alpinnij a in" woomer. Of the numerou* specie* or* i K> isi few give UM promise of success their representative here .<n subjects that are decidedly interesting to those who are looking to the advancement ifthecouiitry's ommer'-e and which, as sho'rn below, are well worthy of study by the interested partiee. Of course Mr. Keebl > speaks from is own standpoint; yet be deals frankly nth ths subject that he was interviewed n that of exporting Canadian hay and traw to Great Britain. At the opening of the interview Mr. Cseble wa* asked how much be bad ex- torted, and said about ten thousand ton* >f hay and about a hundred and fifty of traw, which ha* been already landed on he other side. The interviewer then asked why be cam* to Canada to buy hay, and received for his reply. ' '(>n account of the scarcity of hay the south of England owing to the severe Irought. At this point it is best to state that before I left lor Canada members of our firm had interviews with .Sir Charles flipper regarding Canadian hay and these uter views were so satisfactory that when I came here I bore a number of letters of introduction from that gentleman." How i* the Canadian hay suited for the British markets '" was the next question asked. At the present time from my latest advices the Canadian hay has brought down the price of English bay about ten shillings per ton in comparison Your hay is of a fairly good quality a* th* English purchiers are finding out after some six months of importation. Hut your hay can be decidedly improved,'' said Mr. Keeble, emphatically. "In the irst place I think that if the Canadian bay was cut earlier in tho season, while there was more nutriment in the stem, it would compare more favorably with our Kngliah hay. By its being cut so Ule in the season and when so ripe the seed U all shaken out before the hay is placed on the British market, and the result is a loss which varies according to its over- ripeness. If mere attention was paid to this point by your farmers they would receive a larger price per ton. In the second place another mistake made ny your farmers here is in growing all timothy hay for the English market. A mixture, of timothy and clover always commands a higher price from the consumer. The price of Canadian hay iu the British market was gradually advancing until after the embargo on Hungarian hay had been removed, and now, as a consequence, the price is falling, and I do not think it will advance agaiu until the new crop, and that advance dc penda on the British crop of the coining season. One fact in connection with hand- ling your hay for the British market in that it locks up capital from three to four months and thus the interest is lost on sll the money, a* all the financing ha* to be done trom Great Britain. In handling Hungarian or hay from other countries, bills of exchange are used and the result is that ths country shipping and thu country receiving both help to Dnanc* the trale. One thing that uas to a great extent hjrt the Canadian export trade in hay and '.traw is the exorbitant rate* for freightage, espe- cially on the ocoan. At present it costs sixty-two shillings and si.x|nce to carry a Ida of K astern Township* bay to London KMI.U. IAD MAIL tritvu-n. In establishing an electric railway mail service, Ottawa h. made a move which is likely to be followed by many other pro- gressive cities. The mail cars are run on the ordinary city lines, and are found to greatly improve the house to house delivery of mail, its well as the collection of letters from lamp-poRt boxes. Each car is '20 feet long, with ves'ibuie 1 platforms, and is driven by ti thirty horse-power motor. The interior is provided with thu requisite faci- lities for loading and unloading the pouches. No sorting is done on the car, so that the usual glass windows are dispensed with. Each car is fitted with a special alarm guog, which give* a different sound from the belle on the passenger cars, and so makes it* approach known. The service ha* turned out *o well that it is proposed to extend its operations to suburban district*. ILKCTBIC HOUSE* IS WAUIALLA. In the opera of Walkure, by Wagner, where aerial horsemanship plsys so pr lam- ent a part, as the Valkyries dash across the back of the stage on their fiery iloed*. < carrying the bodies of the heroes slaiu in battle, the use of special mechanical appar- atus is imperatively necessary. The diffi- cult y is generally overcome in Germany and England by the use of a magic lantern slide projected on to a scene, though in ths recent production in Paris a sort of switch- back arrangement was resorted to with con- siderable success. It is stated that an English engineer has now solved the problem by constructing operatic horses, anatomical- ly correct, the limbs of which, when elec- trically connected, imitate' the motion of galloping in a most realistic fashion. Their haunches rise, their manes and tails float on the bree/.o, steam issue* from their nostrils and electric sparks from their eye*. It would give timorous tenor* and nervous Valkyrie* confidence to know that through all this storm and (trees, the backs of the flying steeds remain a* steady as a rock. KkBlTRIC SC.NSTROM. French doctors have been attempting to find a remedy for what has been termed "electric sunstroke," an ailment in which the trouble arises not from heat so much a* light. Thi* peculiar affection frequently Iwfalls workmen employed in melting metal* by mean* of the electric process. It appears from observations made at steel and iron works that the intense voltaic arc between the carbon and the metal to be melted emit* rays which, even at a distance of .'{0 feet, produce a painful, hoi, pricking sensation, like that of a burn, on sucn uncovered portions of the body as ths throat, face.and more especially, forehead. The skin of the parts affected beooeBe* either copper-colored or assumes a bronze hue; the eyes, in spits of black glasses, are so intensely dazzled as to be useless for some minutos, after which anthopsia (yellow vision) sets in, everything appears saffron-colored, the conjuntiva are inflamed and there is a gritty feeling as of and under the eyelids. There is frequent- ly great pain, also sleeplessness, and, iu some cases, fover. It i* now found that tho surest and quickest cure for this affec- tion is perfect rest in a subdued light. I'nder these conditions the symptoms sub- side, usually in a few days, the skin of the affected part peels and the patient is res- tored to health. CLtlVrt BK4 i . IMII IV alleged *>*, s>r Csplured Sear Turin A Turin special says : A despatch from Pinerolo, tweuty-one miles from this city, announces the arrest there of Captain tias- taing, who ia snipected of being a French spy. The prisoner says he wa* sent by the Canadian Government to recruit emigrants. He had seven thousand francs in paper and gold in his possession. Before he was taken into iniitedy he was waU'hed for some time prowling about the fortress of Fenest- relle and engaging iu conversation with the soldier* there. There are a few stranded actors in Russia, When a manager takes a troupe on the road, h* must first deposit "caution money' with the Government, so that in cass of the venture proving a failure, the "caution money" cau be used to convey the actors to their home* It is said that a female codfish will lay 45,OOO,UJO eggs during a singhs season. Piscatorial authorities say that, wore it not foi the work of th* natural enemies ef fish, they would fill all the available space in the eat, rivers, sad oceans. ners ( who tried their beat to blow up the whole fort), left that more easily destroyed part. The sixteenth century closed with that western waterway to the Indie*, which all men sought who went "down to tha sea" in the quaintly rigged, queerly built ships of the period, undiscovered ; and the earlier year* of the seventeenth found the ardor of search unabated, and the goal the same. English Kings anil Queens, choosing more northern routes than had ths monarchs of Spain and France, failed as they had ; Henry the Eighth sent the Venetian Cabot, who found Labrador in the way ; Elizabeth sent Frobisher, who, turning its northern flank, found only the ice-blocked strait which bears his name. Davisand Wymouth followed : but it wa* reserved for Till GALLAST HUDSON to discover and sail into a strait, apparently upon the direct route^to the west, which, opening into a wide sea, that daring marin- er mast have thought the secret of two centuries unlocked, and fancied that through fog and mist be scented 'the spice- laden breer.us of Cathay. In 1010, mariners were not easily daun'ed by wreck and ruined hope*; and Hudson's tragic fate in the great sea be had discovered did not deter further search, for, in the years which followed, the frightened Esquimaux, flying in his kyack to relate to the old men of bi* band the strange apparition which glinted white througn the mist, and was not the sheen ot berg or floe, had but seen the sails of other adventurers who still sought what men had bsen seeking for three generation* in vain. Button and Bylot, Baffin, Jamesand Fox, Hawkbridge and Jones.all failed to find the desired passage, and when Captain Xachar- iah Gillsm, accompanied by M. de Groses- her, sailed into the bay in 16ttS, we may suppose that the English merchant* who seut him had in view, a* well a* the Northwest Passage, thoss rich fun which, brought back by other voyagers, had begun to grace the shoulders of the beauties of the Louvre and of the English court ; for, after wintering and trading in a rough stone f'irt on the bay, he returned to England with report* which gained for his patrons the aid of many gallant but needy cavalier* in obtaining from "Charles the Second, by the Graceof Gotl.Kmgoi England, v.'otUud, France and Ireland, in the year 1670, a charter "of our ample and abundant grace," to "our dear entirely beloved cousmirrince Rupert," etc., etc., of what was equal in extent to several European kingdom*, with powers which no potentate in Europe would dare to exercise to-day. While the English monarch was thus dis- posing of empire to his favored cousin and courtiers, Richelieu was equally active in K ranee, and parchment powers, signed " Henri" or " Charles " were) given with that easy and reckiess indifference to tri rights of others peculiar to the time, Ira r- ing the overlapping boundaries of theie vagne grants to be rectified and adjusted with the powder and steel of '.he grantees, and the TOMAHAWK AID KHIFB ot their Indian allies. England assumed ownership by right of maritime discovery ; France, by those land and canoe explor- ations, which have left her language every- where in the West, in the name* of river and lake, cape, promontory and island. The English Company of Adventurers trading into Hudson's Bay, occupied the mouths of all the rivers, with palisaded forts or fac lories, and fished, hunted and traded from them, visited once a year by ships, which were watched for by that daring rover, D'Iberville, as Drako had watched for the Spanish galleons. The forte wereattacked, and often destroyed, by the hardy voya geurs of New France. Surprise* aid repri sals continued, till Blenheim, Kami he* and Malplaquet had decided quarrels of more moment, and the Treaty of Utrecht, in 171.1, left tho Knglish in peaceable possession oi their forts, " factorial and plantations," on Hudson's Bay. With France thus prostrate, ths English were to pursue, for over sixty years, their profitable trade ia peace ; but the recollec- tion of burning forts and plundered factor- ies was (till keen, and the thunder of U'Iberville's gtinn not soon to be forgotten : and as their trade increased, there came with it the desire to fortify their best bay harbor, and preserve their principal entre- pot fro.n possible plunder ; so upon s rooky spit, forming one side of and commanding the harbour of Churchill, was commenced Fort Prince of Wales. Vigorously at first was the massive thirty feet wide foundation begun : not, however, on the rude plan of former forts, but from the drawings of mil- itary engineer*, who had served under Mar Ibursugh. Artisans were brought from England ; the southern and western walls were faced with hammer-dressed stone ; bastion* were placed at each oole with a array of four hundred troops, bearing again .he flagoi France on those farnorthern shore*. The summon* to surrender wa* followed by a parley, and when the parley uuded, the gallant La Perouse found himself in blood- ess possession of a fortress which, properly ganisoned, might have defied all the ships of France that ever had entered Hudson's Bay. The French Admiral quickly transported the rich bales of valuable furs to bis ships, and replenished their depleted commissariat from the well-tilled prevision stores of the r ort. Then came the licence of the soldiery and the looting of the fort, ID be followed by an attempt, which occupied two days, utterly demolish it. But although t'rench gunpowder jras freely added to the vast Knglish stores, yet the walls of tiie 'ort, thu well built mas* of masonry, resisted the belt effort* of the French artillerymen to do more than displace the upper rows of the massive granite (tone*, of which it was mainly built, dismount its guns and Blow up the gateway and the (tone out work which protected it. The capture of thi* far-off northern fort- res* was cheaply and easily performed by the adventurous Frenchman, who extended his conquests around the shores of the bay; but the fortunes of war after a lime turned again, and the company of adventurers trading into Hudson * Bay, who, at their own expense, had built the fort, for the defence of their trade, sent iu a bill for many thousand sterling pounds to the Brit- i*h Government, for failing to protect their Factory at Churchill ; and when, again, peace was proclaimed, it was after the French plenipotentiaries had agreed to settle the bill for La Peroose's capture and .lemo- ition of Fort Proce of Wales. It was never rebuilt, and stand* on the far-off northern coast, ths still well-preserved re- mains of a massive fortification, the most northern one of British America, scarcely interior, as such, to Louisburg, or early Quebec ; it* site admirably chosen : its de- sign and armament once perfect ; interest- ing still as a relic of by-gone strife, but use [nf now only a* a beacon for the harbor it Mad failed to protect." WOLVES 15 ALBEBTJ. Tw * larir Hrrlurn. klllfil In lh<- Ha* Iced in. inn. On Saturday last, says tha Macleod Ga- zette, Mr. T. Craig, ot Meadow Creek, arrived in town, and reported having pois- oned an unormou* wolf near his ranch recently. Immense timber wolves havs created immense havoc amongst the cattle ranging in that country during the present winter, and Mr. Craig, having lost a promising animal, determined to put a stop 10 their depredations; accordingly, the next time be visited town he laid in a large supply of strychnine, and upon reaching home he killed a worthless old crowbait, in the shape of an anciani cay use, and fter liberally besprinkling the flash and intestines with the puision, dragged th* carcass to the scene of operations, a point at a considerable distance from the ranch. Next morning Mr. Craig strolled out in ths direction of the bait and discovered the bodies of two immense wolves lying upon the snow in close proximity to the poisoned bait The one furthest away was quite dead, hilc the oil er wa* still struggling in ITS DEATH THROB*, at least, so Mr. Craig imagined, so walking over to the dead adimal he examined it and then proceeded to drag It back to the bait. Upon turning around to pick up it* mate he found to his snrpns.u that Mr. Wolf had only been in a fit, and was already some distance away and pinking up strength with every striae. Craig immediately started in pursuit, and after a long chase, which led him into the thiok timber, the animal took another tit, and while in that condi- tion Mr. Craig arrived upon the scene, and finally, with i he aid of a club, succeeded in despatching the brute. With great difficulty the animal was dragged hack to camp, and old timers who inspected it were attonished at ill enormous porporuons. It weighed I -'7 poucds, the top of iu head wa* 10 inches aurow (bekwewn tha ears), and it measured ti ft. 5 in. from tin to tip. Its hide was peculiarly marked, being light grey, with three very dark stripes running through the fur, one dowa the middle of the back and one OB each side. A band of about 18 of these ferocious animal* have oinmitted havoc in that neighborhood of late, and it is Mr. ( 'rajg's ambition to poison off the whole outfit b*. fore spring. ^Tnelongeet continued cataleptic sleep known to science was reported From Oer* many in 1S!U, the patient having remained absolutely unconscious for four aat a half Qionth r .