The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

More oflipi arn prodtimed In JTanoe than In any country io the world, th» number beiotr about 18,000,0(10 annual- ly. There le a remarkable society In Leghorn, comprioiug no fewer than 9,(100 membeiM, which suocours the biok and buries the dead gratutiQUsly. f:«ypt is th« only country in the world where there are loore men than women. The mule sex in the dominion.s ol the Khodive exceeds the female l>y 160,000. At Welbeck. in G«i'iuany, a decree lias been proolaiined that a license to marry will not be granted to any in- 'D.^i^ij..* n. I. ^j 11 X.V-. -ffi !„ia '''*"'•**'*' ^^° •!*» *>«'<>n '" the habit of PreMdent Barker and all the offloialsi ,,. j_„„,. At Munich there in a hoHpital TUB VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. CatarMtfog Itaa* Akout Our Owa Couatry, Great BrIUIn, the Halted Stetce, ani All Part* of tb« (Mobe, C«B4eaM^ aiKl AsMrte4 for Ea«y Rca^ilai. ' CANADA. H! aEBB of the Hamilton Board of Ttade, have b-ien re-elected. <i.,^..ii . 1 .> t. .1 nc t ,' which is entirely .suAiported by the sale : *'°*!."r".*'^?,'°y*'* by the Montreal „, „jj ^^^, ' ^.{^ ^^„Jj Traius[x)rtation Company are on strike for Increased wugos. (leorge McVlttle is dead at Hamilton from lockjaw. He stei>ped on a rusty nail last Wadne-sday. The State Department and Clerk ot the Crown in Chancery at Ottawa, are busy preparing for the prohibition ple- biaclte. It is announced at Ottawa that alt the bye-«Iections to fill vacancie.s io the House have been postponed until the fall. Lightning, during a storm at Kelly's Cros.1, Prince Kdward Island, killed Thomas Monaghan and Owen Trainor. The Clifton House. Niagara Falls is to be rebuilt on the old site. The new structure will be an imiiosing ho tel of modem style. Another large t>atch of Galicians were releus>!d from Quarantine at Winni peRon Monday. Tnere are still over one buudred detained. Two girls employed In the Bourll factory at Montreal, settled a dispute with knives. One named Rath eerl- ously wounded the other. The Kingston Y M. C. A. have re- eeived a gift of one hundred dollars from O'Loughlin Hrothers. of New Tork, formerly of Kingston. Winnipeg's reeident population, ao- oordlng to the uasessmi'nt commissinn- ers' ceusuj). is S!(,3r)0 The assesement of real property rt^ucbas about 923.0U0.- 000. The apple crop throughout the whole of Western Ontario will be one of the largest for munv years, and the quul- ll.v promises to be <mu;i1 to the Quan- tity, A chartered telephone company. In which a numlier ol looal capitaliatH are Interested, is likely to secure a foot- hold in London in rivalry to the (iell eoncern. Chief Keeper Hughes and Engineer Derry, officials of the Kingston Peni- tentiary, have been suspended. 1'hey •re aroused of being too friendly with Ml ex-convict. James lAllison, w-ho took jioi.ion at Ottawa MMue days ago in an attempt to end his life, has been sentenced to two years' impriNonment in the King- ston penitentiary. The Canadian Paclfio Railway Com- pany have sent an offijoial to Switzer- land to engage a number of Alpine fuides to act aa guides for tourists in be Rocky Mountains. Miss Florence Shaw, colonial editor of the Tjondon Times, riassed through Wln- niiieg on Tuesday, en route to the Yu- kon, to learn the true facts abuut tbii country for her paper. The Btiklne river steamer McCon- nell has made the run from Fort Wrangel to Glenora and return in 48 hours, lowering the Ogilvie's record by half an hour. Capt. Therraiilt. of the 89< h Rnttal- ion. at Rlmouskl, is reiiorted at Que- bec to have levanted with some $475, Intended for the iwyment of the bat- talion. France is Kiid to be his desti- nation. Brnntford ratepayers will on July 87th vote oil the question of spending triO.OOO to prevent the Grand lUvor flooding the towr ; also upon the ques- tion of reducing the .\Idermen to twelve and electing them from the city as a whole. URKAT RRITAIN. It U reported In London, Kng., that the CPU. may lake up the fast At- lantlo mail service. It is said that Hritish farmers and iSairyraen are to-day milking over 4,000,000 cows, and producing in their dairie* £.12,000,000 worth of uillk and butter and cheese. The conditions under which nrilinh sailors and soldiers live are far more sanitary now than in the past. In 1H68 more than U deatlvs iiccurred in every 1,000 men afloat, while ten years later the number fell to 6.8, in 1885 to 5 4 and in 180,5, 4.4. (Someone has undertaken to show how Ireland niii{ht be made to prinper. There are ',J,000 parishes, which ought to turn out 60 pigs weekly. This would give a desirable total of 8.800,000 an- nually, which at a fair average price, would bring In an income of £14,900,000. Liquor may be sold in the House of fViramons withnul a, license, the Police Magistrate having dismissed the summons against its barkei-iier. As the Daily News puts It, "If the House of Commons wants liquor, the Ilouse of Commons will have liquor, and all the courts in Kngland cannot nontrol the legislative iKiwer." UNITED STATES. The reoent cea^us sliowed (lii.OOO Pro- tsstanits uaonj the .ll.OtXI.flOO al lUly. Twenty returned miuers 'Xrom the Klondiike are at 8<^at.tln. Wa^h., with 1876,000 in gold dust and drak'ts. Eleven persons ware killed and 75 in- jured 1>y the torrnado which swH|;<t over Hampton, N. H., b«a<^h on Monday. Tha wheat crop throughout the Unit- ed States promdses an Increase nl from IS to Cfi per nent. over the yield ril 1807. The total aorea^e now growing U 2fi,OS1.000 acres. OKNKHAT,. A wbola town of 5(HI inhabitants ni^ar Fou-Chow has adopted Christianity. pen nilM, colleoted from all iiarts of Germany. They are made into watch spring, knovesand razors. It has been discovered that Princess Ena of Uattenlierg, who was born in 1887. is the only royal child born in Scotland for nearly 800 yearsâ€" that is, since the birth of Charles I. in 1600. Appalling destruction was caused by a recent snow storm in Caucasia. In addition to the loss of 35 hiuman lives over 9,000 horses, nearly 30,000 cattle and 14,000 ahacp, goats, etc., were de- stroyed. JUST WHAT TO CALL THEM HOW TO PRONOUNCE PROPERLY THOSE SPANISH NAMES. They Are B«na<l to Set Nixed ap In War Talk-ttulen That mdl Knable You U â- .auBli at Oiker*. There is a great deal of mispronun- ciation of Spaninh names, proper and geographical just now, which is un- necessarily fantastic. Spanish is one of the most easily promounced languages in lh«> world, and there is no reason why those even who have not mastered its rudiments should not acquire ibe few simple rules of guidance that will enable them to read at si^ht, without grotesquely iierverting t hem or help- lessly stumbling over them, the names of people and places which they are destined to se« ds^y after day in the sewspapers for some time to come. J>erything in SiKinish. to begin with Is pronounned as it is written. There axe no arbitrary disliuctions like those which, in Entcllsh, confront the puz- zled foreign student in such pronun- ciation.s as " cow " and " low;" no such capricious disorepancies between spell- ing and enuuolaling. as in "slaughter^' and " laughter." Nor are there any " mute " vowels, as in French. An ex- ception Is made for the vowel u when it is preceded by, the consonants q or g, and followed by s or i. In those cases, and those only, the u is not sounded as we should sound it in " quest " or "quarrel." Thus the name of the prominent member ot the Cuban Junta, tieuor Queeada, la pronounced Kaysahda. Aifulnaldo is pronouiioed Aggiuuldo, and so forth. Uut AUUAUoiua la agwadouks. etc Matheo, Oarthttt, Thienfuegoa. Z though invariably represented, as I say, by our th, is sometimes softened a little when it occurs at the very end of a wora. Thus Oomez is oftener sounded, i>erhap8, as it It were Gomes, than as (lometb; or, at least, tha final z is made to glide off into something between the two. With the Cubans it Is an almost imivers<'il practice to change the pure th sound of o and z into 8. The Spaniards, particularly the inhabitants of Castile. Iho true " Cns- tellanos," make no end ot sjiort of the lisping, emasculated Cuban-Spanish. The great beauty of the Spanish lan- guage lies. Indeed, in Its virility and resonance, and in its crispiness when properly enunciated, and much of all these qualities is lost In the indolent sing-song fashion in which THE CUBANS SPEAK IT. La Zocapa, the fortress opposite the Morro at Santiago, is Thocapa on a Spanish tongue, but It becomes Socapa to the Cubans, who, on their side, find the Spanish enunciation very hard and dry. So the main island of the Philippines, Luzon, la Loothon to the Spanish and Looson to the Cuban; ths insurgent jiatriot there who was shot by the Spaniards a while ago â€" Rizalâ€" Is Rithul, or Risal. according to whether it is a Siuiniard or a Cuban who la speaking of hiui, and ao on. The Spani.sh j, the jota, Is the letter most troublesome to foreigners, and the precise sound and enunciation oi it are really never quite achieved, save by the native-horn. It corresjtonds more ne.ir- ly to our aspirate than anything: else, liut when we have pronounced Junta, and Jimenez, and San Juan and Jose, and so forth, as hoonta. Himenez, San Hooan, Hose, there is still a guttural sound to the J (that we have not attain- ed to. The consonant g, when It pre- cedes e and i, has the same sound ns the jota. Corregidor 1i<land, in Manila Bay, is thus Correhidor Tsla, by the way, which is island in Spanish, is pro- nounced Izla, every letter being given its full value. The Queen RcRpnt, the lU^ina Regente, is Rehenta. The soft g of Sagasla becomes, followed by i, a hard aspirate in Giberja â€" Ililierh.t â€" and artists who have been some time in Spain learn to apeak of the " Hiralda" aa they speak of the "Alkathar." The SpanLih J is a guttural aspirate, and is g In the circumstances mention- ed, and this guttural aspirate is the very backbone of the language, the bass viol, OS It were, in those magnificent sonorities that have caused Spanish to be siioken of as the tongue in which to tuldresa Oodâ€" hut thn h Itself is not pronounced as a:) aspirate; In fact. It is the rmly Spanish letter that is a mere silent sign. Americans are famil- iar with the Spanish pronunciation of Havana, not .souiidiag Ihf initial h. It is so with all other words in which the h occurs. On tk Farm. -â- â€¢^%**i HOMESICKNESS. A Terrible DIaeanr, t^aealiiK Untold Mlnerjr and Kveii Vratk' There sxe few uf us who have never known the pujigs of houiesirkness, and tboae few are mither to be pitied than envied. Htunesiukuuss in mild form is a sign of a gtrntle mind, and indicates tbo possession of a luve of home and country which is the oha.raotsristio of civilized a.nd uorm&l man. This wild form, fortunately, is ths only kiivd wlun-h nuMt uf us have ex- perienced, (or when the severe form takes |K>ssession of a iwrson it is a ler- U, itself is repre.'iented by our double o, under every ciroumilauce. I'he Span- ish i is repieaenled by our e as in " eel ;" and the Spanish e corresponds . rible diaeuse, ouustug untold misery and as nearly as it can be described to our even death. This severe form, usuully ay, as in day, pay, etc. i called noatalgiii, has gro\w less com- A fmal e IB, following the general, .u . , â-  , rule, foi voweU, alwayT sounded. Thei"^"" 'n <•»«»« dayi of quick commuuioo- naval auuaU of America will so long i tiou, of rapid trausuiissiun of news, and preserve the names of IJewey. and of | of a Mide-spreud knowledge of geugra- Mttnlla's outpost battery. Oavite, lhat'pj, it might as well be learned at the ,'' , . . start that tbo latter Is pronounced I ^*»> eU-ments of ignorance of ones Kavee'tay, aud not Keveet. Similarly jsttrroundlugs and conaequeul sense of the Cuban gentleman latterly In the helplessness and desiMiir of ever seeing !^'*'.''*'i,'*J,*''*," ""-* ""**°° '•" ^''â- ''f*: homeagaiu, whioh in times gone by so dent McKmley from the insurgents' .. ,,, ,. , , camps pronounced his name Kapotav. "«>Pres.sed the sufferer from noslalgui, and not Kepoat, Sauote. Sagun la j is removed, aioopt in the case of the lirandu hIiouIiI have the full benefit of very yoiuig or the densoly i^MOiuul. its last syllable, and mil be clipped off ! The greutest sufferers are lligbluud- Into an inelegant Sagua la Grand', 'era, Uernuui and Swiss luounlaiueers, which isKuinewbat |>ainfully suggestive ' or llio Celtic Scots, and men are mure of slautf. On the other bund, the tonio opt to be oveixxiine Ibuji women, accent never falls in Spaui.Hh on a final The viotiiu of this exlrrmii form of 0, us It does in b'reuch when it bears homeslfkneM is almost always a reauur- the acute accent. Puerto Principe, as ce.l«sBi>eisi>n, one whose life is a routine an instance, is Priu'ripay, and not! of lrivia.lili«.H, whose ideas are few and Principa-ay. Limited, und suoU a.s they are, Ixisud The vowel a is always broad, in U[Hm familiar olijeuls and well-known every combination. Santiago should lie associates. When such a |>erson is pronounced, therefore, with an Kng- placed in new surroundings no new liab or a Rostouese or a Virginian a-b, ideas are cieated. I>ut there In a gnawing viz., tSanliahgo. Sautiaygo Is offen- sively flat Io the ear, and should be suppressed at oiioe. It may tie asked why Santiagu de Kewba, and nut, in the true-blue Spaniuh vernacular all through, Santiahgo do Cooha. The same question was asked a month or two ago when the whole country was lab- longing for the pivst, which is the more intense as a return seeiiL.>) iiai>(>Hsil>le. The patient, for sui-h he really is, broods ovei what he has lost., rejects what is offered in place of it, and lie- coiiies upatbetio and taciturn. Sleep Iteoomss fitful, ami i.s disturbed by vivid dreams af home. The oipiietito (ails, di- oriously seeking to acquire the rifeht 1 gestic^i grows iKx>r, uikI the sufferer be- pronunciation of juula. Why should we cot say Cooba, it was demanded AS WE1,L xVS 'HOtJNTAr We need not trouble ourselves to catch the peculiar and (aseinating man- ner in which tt pretty Castilian says Madridâ€" It doivs not sound like our Madrid, certainly, and the treatment of the letter d by a S|>anish tongue is something altogether not to be de- scribed ill black and white; nor do we need to concern ourselves to change our long-accustomed Kewba into Coo- ha. Cutvi and Madrid are naintts I hat have been on Flngli.sh-Bpeaking tongues for generations, and our Anglicized [ironunoiation of Ibeni, universally re- cognized, and the correct way to speak them is to get as close to the original aa possible. Z aud r are two letters that give much trouble to (iermans, Frenrhinen and Italians who are learning Span- ish, but tht-y offer no difficulties to us. Z is in every ca.ie given with one sound, and o bos the earns sound when it occurs before the vowels e and l. The Cervera, (?eota, Mjir«o, Uaroia, Cienfuetcos â€" Thervera. Theota, come^i thin and haggard. There is lH-a(bicfae, with diilnoss of intelleot and finally perhaps, a londition of complete indifferenoe to everylody and every- thing, whioh may nnd in death from a failure of Ihe vital organs to jtertorm their funotinns. There is little to do for cases of this sort whe,re there is no possibility of a return home, though Hoinetimea a study uf the map luid of the routes by which return can Iw mtule, and the birth of a hope that conditions may change and the Hei»vrniti(i(n from the lieloved spot not be final, may bring about a restor- at.lora io mental health, eapectally if the hope is based uiion the sufferer's own efCorts to that end. There Is a very considerate jud06 in Lavenworth, Kansas. A juror whis- pered in Judge Meyer's ear that he would like to go home to weloome a, baby who bad just arrived In bin fam- ily. The judire adjourned court for forty-five minutes. Tn thirty-five min- utes the happy father was baok, and the court proceedings were rnsuniied. PREPARING FOR WHEAT. If It is the proper ihing to prepare for war In time of peace it Is right to prepare for wheat in time of har- vest. It is quite probable that a large acreage of wheat will be sown the coming fall. And in the rush to get a larger acreage than u.sual much of it will be sown on land careles.sly prepared, or something will be left undone that should be done to insure a good crop next season. We.. have had some experience the post season says a writer, along the line of preparing lands for wheat, that may be of in- terest to many wheat growers, and, being in the harvest now, wer are able to tell what our experiment along this line amounted to. We had ten acres of clover stubble, ten acres of uncut clover, twenty acres following oats, and twenty aores corn stubble. Beginning with the uncut clover, this land was all turned as soon afler har- vest as the work could be done, but owing to the dry weather much of it broke up very cloddy. It was not possible to get it all worked down and put in first-class condition for sow- ing. The clover lajid waa in best shajte of all, and the wheat stubble vitui roughest, this being much dryer at time of breaking than the oats stubble. Aa the plowing was idone drag and roller followed ri^fht along, but it u-ScS impossible to get it all in Just the condition that wo desired. Timely fall rains woulda have enabled us to get it all in /irst-class condition, but in their absence the sowing bad to be done in a somewhat unsatisfac- tory manner. The corn stubble was worked with the disc harrow and put in fair condition. The land was about alike so far as natural fertility was concerned and same seed and fertil- izer was used throughout. The only difference was In the preparation of the seed bed, previous crops grown making quite a difference in ttie seed bed at time of sowing. The results are as might be exi>ected, the clover giving by far the largest yield. The yield on the two clover plati is about the saime, at least we are unable now in cutting to tell which is the bettor, and an average yield of about thirty- five bu.shels per iiiore is the resell. What difference thou. Is in the soil when clover wiis turned under and when it Is not, remains to be seen. The next best yield is on the oats stubble, the average being probably about twenty-five bushels per acre. The wheat stubble will give aliout eighteen bushels, and corn probably the same. This experiment shows t bat if all the land had been a olorer stub- ble, about ime-half t he acreage would have given as much wheat as we har- vested from the whole, and this with much Iwtti labor «jtd expense. We read- ily see the iniri>urtiuice of properly pre- paring our lands for the wheat crop, if the season hod been more favor- able for plowing and working down the land. perha|is the dirfereur« in yield of crop would not have been so great, but hereafter we shall try to nave our wheat follow clover when it la possible to so arrange our rotaiiou where wheat Is to be grown. With the enormous crop we will have this sea- son, and another larger one to follow next year. It la not at all likely that the price of wheat will be up to Mhere it now is. or will be at thre-thing time, and in view of thn foot that 50 or 60 cents per bushel will lie the price paid next year, we should so prepare our lands that what Is deficient in price may be ma4e up by increased yield. The good farmer will consider this matter well and not sow a foot o( land to wheat next fall that can not be put in the very l)est con<li- tiutt for the crop. In preparing land (or wheat, let the plowing liegin just 8.1 8o<m after harvest as possible. If vou have clover land to turn it may be done at any timn now when teams can be sparecl from other work and when the ground in not too dry. Follow the breaking immediately with a good heavy drag or roller, the latter to be preferred in most kinds of soil. An occiLsional harrowing Twill keep down the weeds and help to retain the mois- ture, whioh may be needed at seeding time if the (ail is a dry one. On clover lands we would prefer to have a hay crop taken o(f and stubble turned und- er, as the work of plowing can then be pushed alouK mure rapidly and sa- tisfactorily. It is a very difficult matter to rig a plow, no matter how good it muiy be, so that it will turn under a heavy mo-ia of olover tops aud not choke or make great balks in breaking. It willy require at least two good rollings to compact clover land that Is being prepared for wheat, one alt time of breaking amVthe other just* before seeding. It is a very dif- ficult matter to give lands intended for wheat too much cultivation, or work it in any watf that will not be profitable. Good wheat growers think they oon get a .-flnall profit on 50-cent wheat, but the average yield must be thirty bushels or more per acre. To get this yield, muoh more attention moat be peld to tbo prepojation of the aoll than Is the ruto among wheat growers. The pronpoot lor tha Inten- sive wheat grower ia very favorable for onotbar season we think, but for the extenMve grower, who hopes for good prices to make up for deficiencies of yield, they ore not at all flattering We would say then, to aowt only what yoa oon put In well, aii4 wH'so you» rotation oomes in just ri|:ht (er tha crop. â-  TRBATM1SNT OF SAN JOSB SOAUS. â- After a number of careful teata Prof. Wm. B. Alwood, concludes thai pure kerosene con l>e safely used far this pest upon all our fruit trees in the domuuit season, and with pro- per precautions during tbe growing season also. The chief point to ba observed in its application is the pro- per atomization of the kerosaua. tTn- less It be applied la a finely atomized comdition, and in quantity ao as to just moisten the parts of ths plant, there is "n danger. Tbe skill and judg- ment necessary to Insure safety in this work axe not suah as to preclude the use of kerosRue by fruit growers, hence he recommends it as a summer treatment for San Jose scale. The machinery best suited to this work, so far as safety to the plant Is concerned, is a blast atomizer. 'There are several atylsi on the market but the essential principle is the saias, viz, the delivery, by* a bellows or a syr- inge-like apparatus, oi a strong blast of air aoro.'u a tube whioh extends to the bottom of a cistern or can, fast- ened at the outer extremity of the apparatus. By ths action of this blast the air Is rarefied in the tube which extends Into the oil receptacles end thU causes the oil to rise to the top of the tube, where It l!| hlowit into an extremely fine spray. The greatest obHtacle to tbb use o( this apparatus Is its smaJl capacity, but as it Is yet true. In most cases, that the scale Is confined to small trees and plants, a better or .s-Lfer device for the average orchardist and gardener to use is not known. Any tlasmith oan make this apparatus If be have a model to work on. Oft he larger apparatus for the use of pure oil. Prof. Alwood thinks that any of the well mode force-pumps will â-  answer, but they must be carefully fitted up for high pressure. The exit orifioe in the ca4> of tbo nozzle should be small for use of kerosene, not larg- er than one-twentieth of an inch ia diameter and preferably a little small- er. With this small orifice^ and high pressure, an excellent spray-mist can lie obtained, and by going over the plantsl igbtly a couple of times at eaoh treatment better results are .secured with greater safety to plants. Choose bright, warm weather for this work, go over the trees rapidly so as to just moisten the branches and trunks, and rei)eat as frequently as thought ua- ceiuary. i FEEDING UNTHRF,6HED OATS. Oat straw, It is conceded, has a value as food too great to permit of Its use aa bedding. If the practice of feed- ing oats untbrnsbed was more general, a still greater saving would rssult. Cut the crop several days before tha grain ripens, which will leave the straw in better condition, and save a loss of the grain fromi the heads in handling. If cut with a naower they should be out greener than when put in bundles. The oats may be kept In a stack out of doors if properly protec- ted, but it Is best tot put them up ia bundles and stook thevu on end in the barn. In feeding, the coarse butt ends of the stalks should ba out off and used for bedding, the rest ot the stalk being run through the cutter. Both horsea aud cattle seem to relish un- thrashed oats, and fed in this way the tendency, on the part of horses to bolt the grain Is overoon)* and tha thorough mastication ot both grain and straw will keep the anlmaUi In good condition. FARM FURR0W3. t Believe in your task. Let the whole family pull together: that U the best kind of farm social- Ism. > Young farmers who would scorn to raise a scrub calf or a mungrel chick- en, are fools enough to take a wife from a worthless family. Grapes are scarce on thorn bushes. Strive to be a t)etter farmer than your father, or you will never be as good. in minding your own bu-siness ask help of no neighbor. Ease is good for old men; hard work for young men â€" but laziness (or neith- er. Steady going secures success beforn spasms o( speod. Uon't v'okle your sorrows in whisky; they only keep the longer. Some men are like guide|K>sts, good at stnuling hut jKxir at going. Fertilizing a sandy farm is like fill- ing a well with dew. You may know ju.st bow you want to plow, but even your horses have plans of their o\vn. The profits from a |ioor farm are aa thin as turnip milk. A powB:R,iai;r, Lioirr. Cape Grisnez. on the b'renoh Coast oppooite Dover, is Io have a new eloiv- trio light that will Iw visi'de 4)4 miles off. It will be uf aOOO 000 oandle, power, and Is expe.oted to pierce fog for a distance of 10 miles. It will give out a white flash. ONR WOHill. "Llanfair-pwllgwyngyll" us a vU- lage In Wales thai enjoys the privilege of being counted as one word in tele- grams. « PKRJSHBl) rN EAR'PHQIUKRS. It is estimated that since the licKin- ning of the hiatorioal era l^onOIKIO por- soiu liave perished in earthquakeii.