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THE WEEK'S NEWS CANADA. Governor Schulu u DOW oat of danger. Hou. Mr. Bowell ii improved in health. Sever* gel** prevail on the Nor* Scotia Th* North- \V**t Mounted Police U to be materially reduced. Montreal i* to hav* a new theatr* oosH- ing 'wo hundred thousand dollar*. Bridg* street Methodist church, in Belle- Tillr. has the names of l.OOO scholars on the roll. An ten*ive physical laboratory i* to be added to the science department of the Ottawa Collegiate Institute. A projsct i* on foot to establish a direct line of steamships between Montreal and Su John's, Newfoundland. Secretary Strachan, of the Winnipeg K > n i 'Hi ion Association, baa been suspended for alleged inattention to duty. The Manitoba Government ha* made up it* mind to cut off the vote for Govern- ment house expenditure* in the future. Mr. Robert Blair, for years president of the St. John, N. B., Gas Company, died on Friday, aged 70. Th* Department of Trade and Com- merce intend* publishing quarterly sup plemental report* to th* annual report of the department. Judge Edward Elliott, of London, ha* given a deoicion which make* lit* aisuranoe companies pay taxei. Three companies bad appealed against their aasesimenta. The inventory of the eitat* of Sir John Thompson show* total asaert* of nine thousand seven hundred dollar*, which will fee largely reduced by current household expenses. Thomas L. Chappslls, 4S years of age, for many year* publisher f Chappelle'* almanac, dropped dead in Charlottetown, P. E. I., on Friday. He wa* a brother of Rev. K. Chappelle, now a missionary at Tokio, Japan. Mr. Beverley Roes, of the Niagara Fall" electric railway, who wa* spending the holidays at Port Hope, wa* *eeing a young la.ly friend oil on a train there, when he tripped and fell in front of tbe Pullman car which was moving, and had bis Isft arrr taken off below th* elbow. Mr. W. W. ORilvie. the flour king, who has just returned to Montreal from a tour of inspection in Manitoba aay* that the cauae of th* advance in the price of Manitoba wheat wa* because of it being scarce. Mr. C. N. Armstrong, managing director of th* Atlantic and Lake Superior railway, ha* returned to Montreal from London, where hi* eadeavors fn behalf of the railway had met with entire sue and he had been able to make tbe I satisfactory arrangement*. Rsv. Dr. Talmage will, commencing January 6, preach every Sunday afternoon in the New York Aoademy of Music. Th* P.tUburg polio* have order* to arreit a* vagrant* all prize fighters who hav* no visible means of support. Th* W.C.T.U. petition to the United Stales (iovornin-nt will be preeented on February 10, and to the British Government in June. A papal decree ha* been made public forbidding Roman Catholic* to become or lo remain member* of th* Oddfellows, Knight* of Pythias, and Sons of Temper- ance. Gin. John W. Foster, ax-Secret try of State of the United States, has been re qnssted by the Chin*** Government to go to Japan and assist in th* peace negotia- tions. Mr. Foster will go by way ol Vancouver. Edward K. Carter, transfer and coupon oleik of the National Bank of Commerce in Nsw York, hai bien arrested charged with appropriating $30,000 of the bank's money. Carter i* 44 year* old, and ha* a wife and two children. OEMERAI. Mexico and Guatemala ar* going to fight. Cor*a will borrow 5,000,000 yen from Japan. The Turkish garriou* in Armenia ar* being reinforced. Ruiso I ierman trade ha* been greatlj stimulated by the recent commercial treaty. Venezuela i* enjoying a return of pros- perity ; railway irstfio U improving and confidence restored. The arreeted Newfoundland banker* al- lege that they owe their prosecution to political animosity. Victoria'* Legislative Assembly has paaeed a bill imposing a tax on the unimproved value of land. The Brazilian Government ha* ordered a million dollar*' worth of war material from the Armstrongs, of England. The long-continued boycott of certain Berlin brewerie* by the Socialists ha* ended in a compro mse. AGRICULTURAL A HANDY MOVAoLK SHED. A liamly movable shed for brood iowi, or oatves, or any desired parpOM, can be ma.ie a* follow! : For the roof uke 4 2x 4 pine DIAGRAM or MOVABLE SHED. scantling 12 f*et long ; distribute these for rafters, and nail to each end a 2x4 pin* scantling 8 feet long ; place upon these shingling lath or sheathing, and cover with shingles or other material la the ordinary way. For the ends : Th* lower end will require 2 Mantling* 8 feet long and 2 up right* of same scantling 2 feet long. Hinge thi* on lower iniida edge of lower end of roof so it will turn inwards. Th* upper end arrange th* same way, only use 3 scantlings 8 feet long and upright* of tin same, only 6 feet long. The tide* fit in with similar framing and so hinge that each tide will turn inward* over the ends, and board up- right all around. The reason for thi* hing- ing is for convenience in knocking it down, moving it, and selling il up again. In learing it down carefully tip it over on roof, wron g aide up, on a sled, fold down ends and lides, then move where desired ; pul up again and fasten at corners with a spike or two, leaving the heads out so M to draw out easily, and it i* complete. Often it need not be let down at all, only tipped on the end of a sled a* needed. Such a con- i venience will many time* pay for itself. It liKh AT HIIITMS. The bank of Kngland's rate of discount remains unchanged at 2 per cent. The English money order system ha* bean emended to Xuluiand. The London Times announce* the death at Krant, Su**ex, of Mary, wife of Gen. Palmer, of Colorado Spring*. On the final distribution of the Matabele war loot fund, tne British soldier* interest- ed receive.! $550 each. The London Daily News criticizes New- foundland for it* chort'Sightedness in re- fusing to join the Canadian Confederation. In order to cope with New Zealand and Australian com(titinu, Irish farmer! are being urged to make butter all th* year round. An annual international music trade exhibition is being organised in London. It will begin at the Agricultural hall next summer. Three agricultnral banks are to be started in Ireland one at Achill, a second at l)oneraile, near Cork, and the third at Suninirrhill, near Dublin. Sir William Harcourt, Chancellor of the British Kichequer. states that there is no truth in the report thai he inte adslo pro- pose a tai on bioy. lee. A* a jubilee aouvenir. Sir George Wil- liam*, foundsr of the Young Men's Chris- linn Association, ha* been preeented with a beaatltul silver harp by the Irish branches of the association. l.vly Henry Oro*vsnor, wife of' the eecond son of the Daks of Weetminster, died ou Saturday night at Katon Hall, the residence in Chester of th* Duke of West- in*ter. Liverpool polioe have reported that there i* nothing to warrant rumor* of increased Fenian activity in the city. But, while noi apprehensive of daugsr, they are keep. ing a sharp lookout upon all movement* of a mispioious nature. The London Society for the Abolition of Compulsory Vaccination ha* urged "all aaU-vacoinisU and all lover* of liberty to se their utmost exertion* at the election* of guardians to procure the return of can- didate* favorable to their movement." New eipsrlmentt hav* been mad* in treating separately with lime and proto- suiphat* of Iron the aludg* liquor at the two outfall* for the sewag* of London. Th reeult* were so satisfactory that it is intended to make arrangement* for mat- ing the whole quantity of **wage in thi* way. I MTI KT M. Oleomargarine dealer* are in trouble in New Jersey. Wage* hav* beau reduced at Carnegie's work*. Homestead. I'a. Only two not *even negroe* were lynched in Georgia on .Sunday. The alleged attempt to corrupt Chicago City Council will be investigated. Pittsjburg (Pa.) Kussiani are taking th* oath of allegiance to the new Cxar. Seeley, who robbed the National Shoe and Leather Bank, got eight yean, besides the $3M.IN)0. < 'l>t. Stephenson, the first Lexow victim was fiif'l $I,UOO and Riven three years and nine month*. Col. Mi. -hael Frank, the fouuderoflhe free i.-h..ol system of Wisconsin, i* dead, aged 90. James II. Robertson was frnaen to dsath at Puekekill, N. V . Thursday. H* kad b**n drinking. Another splendid diamond, weighing 230 | canine need sometimes for farm machinery carats, ha* been unearthed at the Jagerol- onetin mine. South Africa. A dhow captured on Lake Kyaasa re- cently by a British gunboat contained a number of slaves fastened in irons. The Czar ha* reduced th* number of police charged with the duty of protecting ma person, but he ha* not abolished the secret police, a* was reported. Owing to alleged unjutt treatment by the bishop of the diooeee, th* Roman Catholic population of Weidenthal, in Hungary, have in a body declared them- selves Proteitant*. This year'* vintage in France I* estimat *d at 39,000,000 hectolitre*, being 11,000,000 less than the exceptional yield of 1x9.1, but nearly 9,0110,000 above the average of tbe last tsa year*. Jules Simon, th* eminent French Aca- demician, who is In hi* eighly.first year, has been successfully operated on (or catar- act. He is lo b* kept in a dark room far ten days, and must neither read nor writ* for a mon'h. On January 1 the new passport system for the interior of Kuisia was extended to the clergy of all creed* and con tensions excepting thoee of tbe Roman Catholic Church. Chamrajen Ira Wadiar Bahadur, the Maharajah of Mysore, one of the mnet im- portant of the native Prince* of India, who has been under treatment in Celcclta for iliphtheria, is d*ad. A dsspatoh from Calcutta lays that the \Va/iru continue to harass the British ex- peditionary corps, firing into the camp at nights, and pouring a hot fir* upon th* British force from the bushes when the column is on the march, Neil summer there will be great military manoeuvre* to th* north of Rome, ending with a mock taking of the City, an. I en trance of the troop* a>t Port* I'm, in commemoration of th* twenty-fifth anniversary ol that rank With regard to th* propose.! revival of th* Olympian games, to be held every four yean in one or other of the European conn- tries, II ha* been decided that the fint series hall take place In the ancient arena at Athens in 1898. Religion* persecution (till obtain* in Russia, despite th* human* Mnlimente of tbe new Czar. Th* doveroment ha* leaned a circular prohibiting Stnndist prayer meetings, and declaring the sect " danger- on* to Church and State." Kpulion of J*w* from territory nearer the frontier than fifty vent* has been (top- ped by erd*r of th* Rn**ian Minister of th* Interior, and an Imperial nka** i* ex- pected to abolish th* law prohibiting .lews from Milling within th* /one Indicated. A Crown Jewel Lost. A private letter from St. Petersburg mentions th* mysterious disappearance of a valuable diamond from the crown of ewels. It i* well known that th* imperial crown of the Rn**ian czar I* tent with a great number of very fin* and large dia- monds. During the late Czar's funeral pro- cession this crown was carried by a high dignitary fro.n the Nloolajevski Railroad tation to the Castle of Peter and Paul, and during tbi* time it is thoughtthe jnwel wai lost, (treat secrecy is observed by the officials, but still the rumor has spread. An inquiry is known to have been ordered. A prominent jeweler eipresses the opinion that the stone may have been crushed Into the interior by carelessness and might be found between the metal rim and the purple velvet lining. or for storing potafea or other roots until ready to pit or market. The acoompaiiyin| illustration will give an idea of it* con traction. For Farmers With Boys. Whether or not a boy can be content to remain with his father on the farm, dp*nd* greatly upon th* character of the boy Many boy* are fond of excitement, and th amusements which a city life aford* ar* more attractive to them than what the ar* pleased to term the humdrum an drudgery of the farm. It is thi* mistake idea of what commutes a "humdrum" lil that take* so many boy* to the city. T acme mind* it would *eem a far more free and attractive occupation to plow and *o rid* th* binder and even do the "chore*, than to work behind a counter day afte day It i* nearly alway* to th* farmer 1 advantage to keep hi* boy* on th* farm. They naturally take more interest and wil do better work than hired help. But ver few boy* are content to work at bom without a visible compensation of *om kind. W hile a* said be/ore, much depend upon the kind of boy, much also depend upon the kind of father. Boy* will be boy*, and the father who realizes thi* i* th on* whose sons aie content to stay on th farm. Many fathers expect 'aa much o tbsir ions, both as to their work and thei judgment. Their failure* too often cal down quick and sharp reproof. No brigh high-spirited boy w.ll bear being constant! found fault with. If fathers would mor often make companions of their boy* would be belter. It is neither wise no expedient for the father who would kee hi* boy* at home to keep himself apar 'rom them. I know of one instance particular where father and sons ar* almost inseparable. In rides to town o on busmens, ltd* by lid* in the field, or with gun* and dogs, off for a day's hunt they ar* always together. The fathers whom I have known to be most suooeasfu in keeping their son* on th* farm hav early given them something to particular! interest them in th* farm, a share of th income in some way, either of stock, or o money, was : heir own to do with a* the oboe*. They were trtuted with the be* team, and Uarned to take pride in thei work, to the mutual advantage of both Our most successful farmer* financially to day ar* the one* whose BOM work home. It i* not to be much wondered that some boy* depart a* *oon a* poieibl from their father's roof. Boy* will hav* recreation* and amnaemenU, and it the** ar* not provided at home they will eeek them slse where. Some boy* ar* not to be kept at home by any mean*, and it i* butter that these should go. They may b* mor* *uooee*ful in some other vocation and should be given a chance to try. Th* majority, however, may become contented and well-to-do farmer* with proper en- couragement and financial aid. The Largest Carpet A new carpet for th* Waterloo chamber at Windsor Caatle, said to l>e the largest, over manufactured, has been woven in the jul of Agra, in India, by prisoners under- going psnal servitude. They hop* to obtain a re mission of sentence) for their dili- gence In completing the talk, which ha* taken them fourteen month*. Twenty eight onnviot* were engaged on the work, the carpet measuring ',1 feet by 40 and ontalning f>8, 840,000 stitches. n them is indispensable. But how much lore must it I* *o if sooh a thing wire raesible.for one element to be more India- lensable than another for lime, which ousts insuuh a large proportion, to be anything but indispensable? And this must IM thought so as we con- i.ler that in th* ash of hay one-eighth >an i* bine ; in the ash of clover mor* than , third of it i* lim* ; in th* ash of potato op* nearly one-half is lim*. Th* ashes of wood, which we think so valuable on ac- count of the potash in them, have several iime* more lime than potash, the lime amounting to from thirty to seventy per cent. And there is not one plant grown hat haanot lim* in it* eshae. Th* same applies to potash and phosphoric acid, and, 'eaaonably, these are supposed to be food or plants ; why, then, is not lime a plant ood Surely it mult be sc considered. The best farnW localities in tbe world are those where the soil contain* a large >r ^portion of lime, being derived from the leoompoaition of limestone rock*. But it not so much on account of the lim* in the oil that the land is so well fa>rmed and >rod native, but mostly for the reason that ime being there abundant and cheap, the armer* burn tbe lirr.esione and make lime, 1 apply it to th* land. Lime, only, i* a ilart food, but limestone i* not, and th* oil may be well filled with limnstone and ret be quite poor. Thi* is common ei- Mrienoe. Now lime i* a vary active chemi- lal substance. This will b* seen if some of t U pat in some vinegar. Thi* will foam up and boil over th* cup, and a large quantity of gas will be evolved. In tne nd there will be no more acid in the vinegar. And this is on* effect of lime on oil that is sour, so3h a* rwamp land, in which the eicesaof acid prevents the growth of any useful plant*. If we put some lime on a dead animal, or on any o'her organic matter, it will quick - y decompose it and reduce it to it* orig inal elements, and this i* one effect of line when need in a compost, th* mat ten thus decomposed then becoming good manure and useful food for plants. And ihi* same effect is produced in the soil when quicklime i* applied, a* it usually is in th* fall when the land is prepared for wheat and grasa and clover seeding. But the chemist may take some sand or other mineral matter a nd mix lime with it, and then add water, and the lime will dissolve quite a considerable quantity of this miner* al matter, forming silicate of lim* ;and by taking the silica from the potash, or th* phosphates, or majroeeia, or the alumina, etc., that the soil i* made up of, the lime render* these element* of plant food soluble and available for tbe crop*. Now this i* a imall part of th* natural- history of lime, aa it is used in good farm- in*. And with luoh a history w* most realize it* value to th* farmer, quite inde- pendently of the fact whethar it U actual- ly a plant food or not. And as thi* i* th* season when the land i* in the belt condi- tion lor the application of lime, a* lim* U meet soluable in cold water, and the wheat crop i* most convenient for it, it is a ques- tion for all of a* if it i* not adviaabl* to so use it, and gather the fruit* of it* good eff- ects on the soil. Th* freshly-burned lim* only i* need, and twenty to forty bushel* per acre is th* usual quantity. It i* left in heaps in th* field, preferably of on* bushel each, two rod* apart, and in a few day* it fall* to a fine powder by the action of the moisture of th* air, or a shower of rain, when it is easily spread quite evenly ao a* to just whiten the surface with a long handled shovel. But when lime is thu* need for the wheat, it i* not advisable to us" superphosphate until th* spring. It can then be used to advantage. AND HE FLEW. 1 There'* nonce in calling a itov* man, I'll CHINA PLUCKING DP COURAGE. Propo.al. fer Fearr Made Onlj lo Cain nmi-_timralM( Ike Flank ef a anew A special to The New York Herald from Shanghai aay* : Private letters from Wei* Hai-\V*i affirm that China'* fleet i* in a hopeless condition. In their operation* by land th* Chine** ar* following th* famous Russian tartn-s of 1812 and harauing tne flank* of th* fint army, which U stuck in th* snow. The action of :h* Chinee* indicate* th* th* proposals for peace ar* being made merely to gain time and let the winter play havoc with the invading force*. The progress of Count Oyama's troop* ha* been arreited by th* delay in the movement* of the fint army. Over SO German officers and noncom- missioned officers ar* drilling a new army of Chinese troop*. Foreigners In the customs service who have had military experience ar* joining th* central army and mannmu th* Chinee* forta. The Chine** are pluo king up courage in view of the climatic difficult!** with which th* nemy ha* to contend. Viceroy Chang Chi Tung I* reported to >* on hi* way back to Wu-Chang, in order to ilart the construction of the projected [rand trunk railway. \ The Use of Lime as a Fertilizer. Many person" in who** good judgment and sen** every one ha* confidence, insist that lim* i* not a plant food, and is, there- fore, useless a* a fertilizer. Now, a plant food is consilient to be anything that, being contained in plant* to a large extent, may be applied to the soil, to contribute to the supply of it for the crop*. When we see that when such an element of plant null- stance is applied to the soil th* following crop is greatly helped, we can hardly agre* with the opinion that it is not a food for plant*. If we study the composition of plant*, we find that lime is the moat important part of the mineral element* of nearly every one. The ash of a plant is made up of mineral elements, and, by examining th* aih, w* may discover what kinds am (juantitl** of mineral matters th* plant* require. And It I* to be remembered thai Dangers of Standing In Street Can A genlleman went to hi* phyiican a few days ago complaining of a dull ache in hi* eft arm. H* had never had rheumatism, out, thought hi* pain mo*t com* from that malady. After dewribiag it, th* doctor aid : "You ride to and from your offio* in tbe street oar, don't yon!" "Yea." "You Mldom get a wet?" "True enough." "You have formed th* habit of holding to th* th your left menlion it I k strap with hand' "Mince yon now that it i* so, though I in th* growth of plant* every element found , building parposes. had not thought of it." "That I* th* cause of ihe pain you feel. For an hour a day, more or lea*, your left arm i* held in an un- natural, upraised position, and it ha* begun to tell upon you. Yon can reli*va the ache with this ointment which I shall give yon, but a cure can only be effected by ceasing to support yourself by hanging to a (trap. A Peculiar Tree. Ther* I* a tree in western Australia called the jarrah tree, the wood of which u said to be almcet everlasting. The native* make nearly everything of this timber pianoe, work boxes, wharves, building* and shi[S, It ha* n*v*r been known to decay and is poisonous to al! insects. It doe* not burn freely, but only chars, which make* it ipecially valoabl* for 3. Any child can do it, and 4. Jut then a leg broke. Matchmaking in New Mexico. ! th* old Spanish- American day* in the Southwest, marriage was a matter in which the contracting parties hd little to say, the quealion ot choice and titneas being settled by the parent* of the oouale. That practice ha* fallen *o much out ofdat* in the pres- ent generation, that it eound* odd to retd now in a published account of a recent marriage at Guadaluplta, Ne Mexico, m which a Mexican of 08 year* wedded a sen- oritaof 16 years, that the compensations he wa* oall*d upon to make for th* difference in their reapective ageewaasettled at thirty vara* of land, an adobe house, and five apple trees, presumably paid to her par- ent*. At tbe meeting of the Brotherhood of Painter* and Decorators of America held at Philadelphia it wa* voted to approve the abolition of conventions anil to adopt the initiative and referendum plan. The action of the convention doe* not settl* th* qnen- iion,howev*r, a* it will have to be taken up and acted upon by th* local lodge* through- oat the United States and Canada.