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THE VERY LATtil FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. Vaterntlafc Items About Our Own Country, (treat Britain, the limed State*, and All Part* at the (Hope, contented nj Auorttd for Ey Reading. Two women were smothered in a fire at St. Hyacinthe. Que. Tbe People's Heat A Light Com- pany is organizing an extensive plant tn Halifax Mrs. Roger of Montreal, died with symptoms of poisoning after a supper of canned salmon. The Ottawa Field Battery is the win- ner of tbe Governor -General's cup for general efficiency. Mr. C. H. Kitchen of Copetown was thrown out of hi* waggon at Hamilton and very seriously injured. Tbe Ohio tug Telephone, seized in Lake Erie by tbe Canadian authori- ties for poaching, will be sold. The question of a public library will in all probability be submitted to tbe citizens of Ottawa at tbe municipal el- ections. A three-year-old daughter of Mr. George F. Gilwon of Ixmdon fell into a pail of hot water and was scalded to death . A young man named McToggart. liv- ing in London South, knocked bis eye- ball out with a whip that be was striking a horse with. Miss Sarah Staeth. a well-connected young woman of St. John. N. B., com- mitted suicide by shooting herself through the heart. Miss Maggie Symington of Napanee ban been made an L.H.I'. P. Edin. This is the first time this degree baa been conferred on a woman. A company is being formed by the citizens of Leamington to establish a beet sugar factory, with a capacity of 1.000 tons of beett per day. The city of Toronto has contracted for tbe winter coal supply with a Buf- falo firm at a much lower rate than that tendered by the local dealers. Max Bachraann of Montreal has been arrested on a charge of burning two or three houses for the sake of the in- surance money on his furniture. Tbe judgment disqualifying ex-Mayor Aubry of Hull from public office for life and fining him |WM oas been confirmed by tbe Court of Appeal in Montreal. Mr. Samuel Davis, founder of tbe great cigar-manufacturing firm of S. Davis * Sons, of Montreal, died in that city on Saturday afternoon, in bis six- ty-first year. Mr. Andrew Gregory Hill. Police Magistrate of tbe Counties of We I land and Lincoln, died at his home in Ni- agara Kails. Ont., un Saturday night. aged sixty-one. It is understood that tbe Donaldson line will put on a steamer between St John. N.B.. and Glasgow, and will make runs during the winter as frequently as traffic demands. William Smith, a carpenter, aged 50. fell from tbe roof of a two-storey frame bowse at Niagara Falls. Out., twenty feet to tbe ground. He fell on his bead, and was instantly killed. Joseph Crewman, tailor, of Let ti- l-ridge, was sentenced to five years' im- prisonment for burning his store, and Miss Rubie oeived a three-year sentence. Short is. who is in tbe Beauharnois gaol under sentence of death for the Valleyfield murder, is as indifferent as ever. He eats and sleeps well, and never says a word to the guards about his fate. A son of Mr. Napoleon Belanger of tbe Public Works Department at Otta- wa was drowned while skating, while the boy's brother and a companion were rescued by aid arriving promptly. A delegation. representing the IM tawa and Georgian Bav Canal, waited on tbe Government of Quebec to ask aid for tbe scheme. Premier Taillon promised to give it early considera- tion. A report on t he inspection of foods. '.3M'3.:2 bushels. Hurley-Acreage, ISs.BSU ; total yield, 5,!3,5t7 bu \rreage, 482,658; total yield, bushels. Azarie Gauthier, the murderer of Cel- ina Cnnsigny. confined in jail at Mont- eal. has been handcuffed for the last !uo days, except at meals, and then two guards have to watch him. He is a terror to all the inmates in thein- rimary. He made a deliberate attempt > kill a guard, and would likely have ucceeded had it not been for the watch- fulness of the other patients. GREAT BRITAIN. Sir Charles Dilke is opposed to the Ii vision of Turkey. Hlondin, the rope walker, was mar- ried at London The Duke of Westminster owns Lon- don property worth more than 160,000,- steamer Fuerst Bis- at Plymouth were de- Third-rlass dining cars are to be tried on the Great Northern railway between London and Leeds. There is prospect of a settlement of tbe Belfast and Clyde shipbuilders' trouble by arbitration. The marriage of Princess Maud of Wales and Prince Karl of Sweden will, it is understood, take place in London in June- next. A London society paper says that the Duchess of York is a very dutiful wife, and always consults her husband on matters of dress. Arthur Arnold, the well-known Eng- lish traveller and writer, is dead. He led an extremely active life, both as a politician and author. He was sixty-two yean of age. Maila by the marck landed livered in London six hours earlier than mails from the same boat landed at Southampton. A purse was presented to Dr. Barnar do in London on Tuesday last, in recog- nition of bis good work in founding home* for destitute children in London and Canada. It in announced in London that instruc- tions have been sent to the British Min- ister at Rio Janeiro to invite Brazil to submit the question of the ownership of tbe Island of Trinidad to arbitration. Social London is very gay this season. Tbe drawing-rooms of tbe West end were rarely as well filled as they are now, and the public, places of amuse ment are so many gold mines to tbe happy managers who preside In receiving a We,~leyan deputation, l-ord Salisbury said that he did not care to conceal his strung animus in favor of the Kpi-x-opal and Roman ("tholie Churches in the matter of secular edu- cation. This has given much of fence to tbe dissenting element. Cardinal Lotrue. Primtte of Ireland, has issued tbe having raised the British flag over tbe F.nibusv in Rome during the rerent nttional celebrations, which act the Car dinal regards as an insult to tbe head of the Church. UNITED STATES. A cose of leprosy has been discoverer in New York. A sale of 10.000 tons of English steel rails has been made in New York. Bishop Alexander W. VVayman of tbe \fric.ni M K. Ch'irch dropped dead at Baltimore. New York police commissioners have decided to try the experiment of mount- | ing patrolmen on bicycles. Mayor _ Swift presented a u!<u- lr pic- I Issued a pastoral letter censuring British Arrbassndor to Italy for that city. The Rev. Peter Trimble Howe, was educated at Toronto I tmer-iiy was) consecrated in New York, on Sat- urday. Bishop of Alaska. Mr. E. C. Benedict, a close friend of President Cleveland, says that he be- lieve* Mr. Cleveland does not want the nomination for a third term. James F. Eagan, the IrUh political prisoner, was welcomed on arriving in New York by a large crowd of ln.i fel- low-countrymen. Virginia, negroeo own 911.000,000 of the 303.0UU.UUO worth of real estate and improvements in tbe State reported by th assessor for the year. "Baltimore White." a burglar, who is wanted in many towns along the Inter- destroyed by the Hamidieh cav- alry. Two KnglUh missionaries were re- cently murdered in Madagascar dur- ing a riut . Tbe rerent illness of the Pope was lue to the lark of vitality, which condi- ion is increasing. It is reported from Havana that the 'ulian insurgents are using dynamite n blowing up railway trains. Sir Herbert Murray, the new Gover- nor of Newfoundland, has arrived, and received an enthusiastic welcome. The name of Emperor William has wen suggested as an arbitrator of the Brit iah- Venezuelan boundary dispute. The "on-man-one-vote" and women's suffrage measures passed a second reading in the Victoria Legislature. The death in announced at 1 1 unit on of General Colliorne, who first saw ser- vice in the Canadian rel>ellion of IHUH Count von Taafe. the Austrian states- man, died yesterday morning at Kllia- mn. Bohemia. He was sixty-two years of age. Dr. Forester, of Berlin, has been sen- fenced to three months' imprisonment for le.se majeste for the publication of an article in his paper. Word has been received in Berlin of the death of Otto Ehlers, the explorer, and personal friend of Emperor Wil- liam in British Guinea. Over seventy men and women were killed by a boiler explosion on the Is- land of Majorca, some of tbe bodies lieing blown into atoms. The British Admiralty is said to have obtained complete soundings from Bri- tish merchant vessels which have re- peatedly passed the Dardanelles. It is reported that six thousand Span- iards residing in Algeria have volun- teered their services to the Government for active duty with tbe troop* in ("HIM. From Turin eighty-nine brothers of t he Order of St. Francis de Sales, and twenty sisters, were sent out in Octo- ber as missionaries to South America. Jules Bart.belemy-8aint-Hilaire, the well-known French classic scholar, was found ilead in his study in Paris < Sunday evening be was ninety year* of age . Costaki Antbopoalos Effendi. for- merly Governor of tbe Island of Crete, baa been appointed Turkish AmlMusa- dor to Great Britain, in succession to the late H us tern Pasha. Tbe Berlin Tageblatt asserts that Germany. Russia, and France have con- cluded an alliance committing them to common action upon all questions concerning Turkey. A history of tbe Armenian massacres published lately shows that 13.150 lives were sacrificed, and most of tbe sur- vivors, whose property was looted, are in a starving condition. Sir Philip Currie. the British Ambas- sador to Turkey, has barked down in his demand for permission for a gun- boat to pass through the Bosphorus. and tbe Turkish palace party is very triumphant. A special despatch from Shanghai says that the French mission at Luithsiang has been destroyed by tbe natives of tbe vicinity during tbe absence of the French gunboat that is usually station- ed in those waters. In the Italian Chamber of Deputies Signor Son m no, in presenting the bud- ;t, announced that tbe surplus would 1 .2711.000 lire this year, aad that he expected a surplus next year of 3.020,- 000 lire, without a new loan. A despatch from Shanghai says it is reported there that no railway conces- sions have been granted to foreigners in China, and that tbe Chinese Govern- wbo ment intends henceforth to keep railway building in its own hands. A despatch from Bejrrout confirms the report of the grave situation of affairs existing in Syria and Palestine. Which places are flooded with Turkish soldiers, tearing the significant green flag of the Prophet, instead of tbe Turk- ish flag. The Berlin police the other morning raided the nouses of the S-ialist menilwrs of the Reichstag and other leaders of tbe Socialist party, and all their letters and papers were impound- ed and taken to the office of the Chief of Police. year Controller of Inland Revenue bv Com- I P'.M*1 "> B.ion. and will be mi^ioner Mi.ll. and will .shortly 1. I watting extradition proceedings. d held to the public. A penniless tramp name* Barker, who slept in a Ham. lion police station on Sunday night . Monday morn- ing received a draft for fifteen bun- died sterling from F.ngland, being his share of his father's estate. Tbe directors of tbe Ottawa and Gat i- neau railway want to lease every un- Desert, some forty in number, and to make tbe Gatineau district a sports- man's resort. James H Ford, klias Wood, of Win- nipeg was sentenced to 23 months in jail at Montreal for forging aC. P. R. passenger ticket. Ford deserted his wife and family at St. Phillippe and eloped with a young woman. A convict in tbe St. Vincent de Psul penitentiary has notified the warden that he knows tbe man who killed Mi Dm TS a 1 St. Hn' i, last Jun , for which crime NaptHeou Uemers, the wo- man's husband, will shortly be tried. A deputation from the Chamber of muierce of Montreal asked tbe Tov- Miieni to send a delegation of busi- ..eas men to France to ascertain upon hat basis trade could be encouraged uid developed. Mr. Ives promised to >nsider the request. 1 he wife of Mr. Frederick Griffith, moulder, of London, Ont.. gave birth to triplets on Thursday, two boys and a girl. All are healthy and well formed. The couple have been married fifteen years, and have had eleven children. On the first occasion Mrs. Griffith pre- sented her husliand with twins. H H. Holmes was sentenced to death ,t Mauri.* ' < Philadelphia for tbe murder of Benj Pietzel. tbe application foranew trial being refutwd. The date of tbe execu- tion will be fixed by the Governor, and it is probable that the case will be Ap- pealed. Prof. Marcus Baker, in a scientific lecture in Washington un Saturday admissible was the arbitration of battle if tbe British claim should be insisted on. The Rev. Dr. Parkhurst, on Thanks- giving day. preached a sermon on law- lessness in New York. He said that the Rom to. t aiii-wr<'< k-ri should be tri"d and convicted within a week, and hang- ed within a month. He also referred scathingly to tbe evil wrought by sen- sational newspaper reports of crime. lie Rev. Dr. Johnson, Baptist clergy- man, of Jefferson City, Mo., who has re- turned from a three months' tour of Turkey and tbe Holy Land, says that United States Minister Terrell should be hanged. He declares that be has joined the Mohammedan Church, and is aiding in the persecution and killing of Chris- tians, instead of protecting them. Reports of business in the United States this week are not entirely satis- factory ; general dulneas is experienced. prices are shrinking, stocks are usually large and tbe demand weak, while dia- t libation U delayed by unfavorable i weather. The movement of crop.. is only fair, and wheat and cotton are being held back in the hope of higher prices. Hides have again declined, as a rule Capt. A. E. Cuthbert. of the Canadian manufacturers are doing iittle, and no mounted police, who is at present in change for the better is probable until San Francisco, in an interview on the the New Year. Of course the holiday in Alaskan boundary, said that Canada is the States has had a depretwmg effect. not establishing posts on tbe frontier which mild and stormy weather has in- in connection with the dispute, but sim- tensified. The fact that buyers never care to increase stocks near the close of the year also helps to explain tbe gen- ply to maintain order. The imaginary torts are simply barracks for the ac- cuuimodatitiu of the small 'Iclarhmenta eral alack ness. ot mounted police sent to tbe frontier. Tbe eotiruAtes of tbe hundred or more agents of tbe Bankers' Association, stationed throughout Manitoba, regard- ing this year's crip. which are absolut- ely reliable, are a* follows : Wheat. total acreage. 1.1*0.278; total yield. GENERAL. lie, -.Mit storms and floods in Russia drowned 501) per.vms. Tbe discovery of an effectual cure fur leprosy is reported from Bogota. Forty-six Armenian villages have Burglarlous Calcutta Monkeys. There are three monkeys in Calcutta just now who are stated to be the great- est thieves and robbers that disgrace the City of Palaces. Considerable amusement was caused tbe other morn- ing, when several people, who had been treated very badly by these monkeys, walked into tbe Jorabagan t liana, and. in all seriousness, wished to lay a charge of "theft and causing mischief" against the offenders. The Inspector regretted he could not accept the charge, and ad- viaed tbe complainants to destroy the troublesome animals. This suggestion they could not adopt, on account of re- ligious scruples. The Inspector there- upon ad v wed tbe men to go to the Po- lice Court and charge the monkeys with being burglars of a very bad type, and apply for a warrant for their arrest. Tbe deputation left to consider tbe posi- tion of affairs. British Columbia Fruit. The capabilities of British Columbia as a fruit-growing country have long been recognized, but so far tbe want of a market has been felt. last season, however, a During tbe considerable sale was obtained in Manitoba and t lit- Territories. The growers in the Kraser Itiver Valley have formed themselves into an association, and at the annual meeting there was a comparison of notes. Rhubarb found a ready sale, and it was determined to grow taore of it. A number of the members bound themselves to devote a portion of their land to it next year, so that it could be sent out in larger quantities. During the season there was shipped to the North-West : Fifty tons of plums. 7 1-2 tons strawberries, 1 1-2 tons cherries. 1 1-2 tons rhubarb, besides smaller lots of apples, currants, blackberries and (fooneberries. The C.P.R. received over 92,000 for carrying this fruit. Children's Teeth A committee of the British Dental Association has examined tbe teeth of 11,422 school children. One thing shown is that the teeth of children of ' he rich are more prone to decav than th-we of children of the poor. Potatoes fcr Fattening Stuck. The low price of potatoes this fall and the heavy yields in potato-growing districts, have brought the question of be value of potatoes as a food for farm animals prominently berore feeders. At ordinary prices potatoes cannot lie pro- fed to stock, but where, as in large sections of the country this year, be market price is only 10 cents a bush- el, with tbe expense of hauling them several miles, often over poor roads, to be taken out. the question deserves care- ful consideration whether it will not pay farmers better to feed the potatoes on their farms and sell stock or ani- mal product rather than disposing of the ovop at such low figures. In order to determine tbe feeding value of po- tatoes Tor farm animals experiments have been conducted in this country and abroad, the, results of which fur- nish ample evidence of their value for this purpose. The Danish scientist, Prof. Ford, found as tbe result of a large number of trials that four pounds of potatoes produced a similar growth when fed to fattening hogs as did one pound of rye or barley. Prof. Henry in one of his experiments found that about four and one-half pounds of po- tatoes were equivalent to one pound of corn in feeding ten months' old pigs. If we take the former ratio, we have that with corn at $10 a ton (28 cento a bushel) potatoes will be worth about 7.5 cents a bushel for feeding purposes : with corn at 912 a ton (34 cents a bushel) they will be worth about 9 cents a bushel ; with corn at $15 a ton (42 cents a bushel) they will be worth about 11 1-4 cents a bushel, etc. When prices are as low as they are now, po- tatoes may in moot cases be fed with Srofit to all classes of farm animals, ii most farms the small, unsalable po- tatoes are now fed to bogs, and it is generally known that they make a first-class swine food. As early as the beginning of the present century Thaer. tbe great German agricultural teacher and writer, advocated the use of pota- toes in steer feeding. He says: 'When a steer is fed sixty pounds of potatoes daily, and in addition ten pounds of hay, with straw ad libitum, be will, ac- cording to actual feeding experiments. )<e in better condition and make better growth than if fed thirty pounds of hay daily." To steers, as well as to all other kinds of farm animals, except hogs and poultry, raw potatoes are to be preferred to conked ones : the latter may sometimes produce as good or better results, but the gain is not sufficient :o pay for the extra expense and trou- ble in cooking them. In feeding cooked Mitaloes to bogs Professor Henry found bat they were relished better when bast water was mixed in with them Tbe experiments of Prof. Girard. the French scientist, with potatoes for fat- tening steers and sheep show their value for these farm animals. Steers tec fifty-five pounds of potatoes a day rained 2.8H pounds a day per bead dur- ing eighty-six days, while steers fee 110 pounds of fodder beets daily 2.09 pounds per bead per day during ninety-five days, bay and straw lieing fed in addition in both canes. Sheep fed 4.4 pounds of potatoes a day gained 239 pounds per head per day during seventy days, while sheep fed 8.8 pounds of fodder beets daily, gained only 1- poundfl per head per day, hay and straw lieing fed in addition, also in these ex periments. The potato-fed sheet) dress- ed 51 per cent of their live weizht, ;un tbe potato-fed steers dressed K0.19 per cent. The usual yield of meat frcn French steers is wid to seldom exceed 58 per eent. of their live weight. Thi meat produced in tbe experiments is reported to have been of superior qual ity, the flavor being rich and delicate These and other experiments certain ly encourage the belief that farmers who are at a distance from tbe mar kei.s, and who can only receive a low price for their potatoes, will do we I to turn their attention to utilizing the crop for the feeding of their stin-k. It may he slated in general that four tons f potatoes fed will save one ton of gram. How to Milk a Cow. To milk tbe cow intelligently, a man must do so from the side of tbe ques- tion that be has to do with the animal as a mother. To milk tbe cow is to usurp the place of tbe calf and secure for commercial purposes that liquid called milk that nature provides for the offspring. This operation the-x. becomes a method of treaty with the cow, and tbe inducement for her to continue the supply of milk, and even prolong it beyond the time set by na- ture. Tbe operator should so proceed that the milking is a pleasure to tbe cow, and one in which she realizes as nearly as possible tbe emotions of plea- sure that she exhibits when tbe calf draws the milk in nature's way. Tbe best milker is tbe man who establishes a sort of sympathy with tbe cow, and bestows a form of caressing that ap- peals to her in turn to bestow, in her way, a form of bovine affection. If tbe milking is a quiet, painless manipu- lation of the udder and a soothing sen- sation follows the relieving of the glands in connection with it, nature pours out its abundance alike to calf and man, and tbe cow is well milked. It is now pretty well settled that milk- ven jus I>IIMSIII| a sort of round and oiiiid movement- -until the udder is 'inptied. The operation should close with milking round twice with the .'Her hand. The gentle handling of he udder stimulates the nerve glands) o renewed action in milk .secretions; i ml it is in this way that one get* a it tie more milk. It is this that helps ii prnlomr i he milking season, a fact hat tb emphasized by the poor milkings ami faulty milking out of the stripping*. iy the indifferent owner or help, which results in the early drying off of the w and puts her, often unjustly, in be nun-paving class of cows. Cows, of course, should be milked at Agulur intervals ami in regular order. \Vbile milking the cow shed should not a place of strange noises, or of strange people and one person should. at each time, milk the same cows, only m extraordinary occasions milkers ba- ng changed or new ones substituted. I'll* 1 individuality and heredity of men in- not more marked than in what are Lnown as dair? animals. He who deals with men has not greater need of mastering the peculiarities of those with whom he is brought in contact ban those who have a herd of cows o care for. the perfect care and hand- ing of which constitute what is called advanced dairying. The dairyman who recognizes these peculiarities in bis il liest ministers to these notions and whims, and turns each and all of them to profitable account. In no place is greater .judgment to be used than when man, cow and pail are brought into contact. getting that all i/ a result of nerve force, and tbe nerve energy expended in other directions than the elaborat ion of milk causes a proportionate loss of milk, and the worried and fretted cow gives lean and even inferior milk to what, she would give if she had quiet and restful conditions. Thus, the milk- ing should never be of a character t hat irritates the cow or distracts her atten- tion from the fact of milking : the milk- er should, with quiet movement and amuring way, take his place at tbe side of tbe oow. and after a preliminary bundling of the udder, take firm and square hold of the teats without tug- jerking, and, with a gentle CVRRXXT ITOTK. Lord Salisbury's statement that be looked with absolute equanimity upon Russia's schemes for the acquisition of an outlet through China for her Si- berian provinces, agreeing with Lord Beaconsfield in thinking that there is room for everybody in Asia, does no- thing to diminish belief in the existence of those schemes. Indeed, considering the whole course of Russia's recent di- plomacy in that quarter, nothing .seems more certain than that tbe northern power is bent upon securing an outlet for Asiatic Russia by the way of the Liau-Tung peninsula, tbe only way in which she can reach open water all the year round, the ports in the gulf of Pechili being frozen over in bard win- ters. She must have new lands for her peasantry unless Russia proper is to become unbearably congested, and she has these lands in Silieria ; but to turn Siberia to account there must be an outlet to tbe world for its products, and having spent millions on a railway to end in an open port, she is going to have one despite all opposition. That much may be accepted, and Lord Salis- bury's declaration will only facilitate that end by removing the danger of forcible intervention by Great Britain, for which, on sober second thought. she finds there is no adequate justifi- cation. For Russia is violating no moral or international law in obtaining from China a right of way and termin- us for her Siberian railway, but doing what England has often done, and what tbe I nited States did in the case of Alaska buying territory. For that territory she is to pay at least fifty millions of dollars, the saving of inter- est which China effects through tbe Russian loans, and if Pekm thinks that enough, her right to make over tbe property is under international law complete. The fear that the possession of Port Arthur would give Russia control of China, and so increase her power as to jeopardize the British hold on India, is futile, tbe probability being that in such event India would be freer from menace than she is now. Control and guid- ance of China would employ all the energies and resources of Russia tor half a century, Chinese resistance to Western authority lieing instinctive, and during that time Great Britain would be increasing in power and In- dia be made impregnable to attack. It is to be remembered, too, that what Russia wants is to develop Silwria, not to conquer China, which if she is to pass under European control will be partitioned, not annexed by a single power. The claim that Russian con- trol of China would involve the loss of British trade in the empire, is equally misleading ; for not only would tbe de- velopment of that empire create new wants which only a manufacturing country like England could supply, hut Russia wvuld be certain to find if stfer to raise revenue by customs dirties than by taxation. Accepting the truth of tbe argument that the success of Rus- sian schemes in Oina would necessitate the maintenance ol a British naval sta- tion in that quartet and the increase of the British fleet. i would still be cheaper for Great Britain than . war with Russia, with the certainty that tbe latter would have an ally in France. As to tbe plea that China ought to be protected from the rapacity c* R<ia- sia. it is hardly one that can bv ad- vanced by Great Britain, which -id willing that Japan should occupy ai-f ging or pressure, administer it ; and Iwsides, it may bt questioned whether it is tbe duty of any civilized power to uphold China, next to Turkey tbe most misgoverned country in tbe world. Searching Sunken Ships The ships sunk in tbe China- Japanese war are being examined by divers to see whether they arc wmth salvage. One of the first victims was the Chinese transport K.m-Shing, fired upon by a Japanese war -hip for carrying troops. al- though she flew the English flog. Tbe ,.i.-riiii>, draw the milk The plan of j divers who have been down to tbe wreck milking out all tbe milk of the quarter re|n>rt her in a terrible condition. She before changing over is not a good one. | U literally torn to pieces by shot and The four quarters should be as nearly shell.