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 â- iiiPliiiiilpiii! mm "1 CANADIAN NEWS. fVCEBEC. A Rjhon hunter has caught forty fcxes this BeasoD, An Ei5t Bolton man has sold 900 poumls of hops at §1 per lb. OSTABIO. The number of tramps passing the coun- try is quite large. The Mayor of Whitby ia constantly besieged for passes. On the road between Ingeraoll and Wood- stock there were to be seen recently fields •f corn remaining nnhnsked. Frank Lockerty, son of a Belleville tobacconist, has been arrested on a charge ef setting tire to several buildings in that •ifcy- Since the introduction of the Shedden carters at Kingstos, the local carters kaTe not been earning the cost of their horse feed. The measles are raging in the neighbor- hood of Dunsford. Very few families, if any, escaped them. No cases as yet, how- eTcr, have proved fatal. Wiarton has a population of over 1,250, and no fire protection. Would not the ex- trft premium paid lor insurance maintain a fire engine' Itr. George Smith, of McKillop, shot an eBOrmous wild cat the other day in the big swamp on the 13th concession. The animal kaS killed a deer and had half of it eaten. The Cochrane Manufacturing C!ompany in St. Thomas have lately received orders from Winnipeg for 200 hay rakes, 200 mowers, 100 land rollers, and 200 Minneapolis cord binders. John A, Howie, of the township of Dawn, kaa been convic'.ed of stealing a mare from Cfharles Smith, of the same township, be- fore Judge Robinson, of Samia, and sen- tenced to one month in paol. The parades of the Salvation Army at Toronto are accompanied by a band, a lady having presented the army with eight tine iH'aes instruments. It is probable that a band will be r rganized in Kingston. Some i orson or persons, who disgrace •irilization, entered the barn yard of Mr. McCulloch, a mile and a half from Ourford Tillage, and cut and otherwise matilated tke tails of three cows. Mr. McCulloch of- fers |!'25 reward to any person wlio will give sBch information as will lead to the discov- ery of the party or parties. Mr. P. Irving of Drumbo, has shipped to Biiffalo this season, so far, over 23,000 bush els of turnips, and will ship at least many more. At ten centj {ler bushel turnips will pay the grower better than wheat or barley David Guthrie, of Ayr, sold about "),000 bushels which brought him §400. Elma can boastof one individual who can justly lay claim to giant proportions. This young man â€" he is only twenty ytars of age â€"stands seven feet one inch high and weighs 227 younds. At present he is employed nith a threshing machine, and we are not going to dispute his right ti' be cdnsiJered an excelleut thraxher. William Fuller, of London, has machinery oa the ground near the tannery for manu- facturing "print" rollers, for use in the print and cotton factories of England. The rollers are made from the best hard maple, an abundance of which grows in this vicini- ty. ^Ir. Fuller informs us that he expects to keep his machinery running steady all winter. There is a clause in the school law, pre- venting a school house being erected near an orchsrd. In a certain section in East Zorra orchards are being set out so thickly that it will soon be impossible to tiud aspot that will not have one within a few yards of it. This is certainly an original and comical method of keeping ti^e school-house away trom one's premises. A cry of righteous indignation is heard from Mattawa and way stations against the inhuman cruelty practised by the C. I'.R. in shipping horses from Ottav.a and other points to the woods. The poor animals are put into open cars, which admit of currents of air passing through the r continually, and when put in moiion t .^ cold is intense. Now the^e horses remain on board from twentj'-four to forty eight hours, without either food or w^ter, and when taken oti' they are so nearly exhausted that it is with difficulty that they can walk to the stables. We are told, indeed, that some were so near- ly perished that they could not eat for hours after beiiV;:: taken ott, although every ettort was made to restore them by rubbing with hot hquors, c. Now, either thj association for the p evention of erueltj' to animals are ignorant or these facts, or else they are â-  grossly negligent in doing their duty. We nope some action will be taken to prevent further perp3tration of such barbarism. Pnnhrokc Standard. Some Refinements of Cruelty. The public learns from the Russian (^ciil Me.'scn;iT that the Czar has com- muted to hard labor for life a sentence of death pronounced on revolutionists but nothing transpires either of the trial, or of the crimes imputed to the condemned. Nay, even the last consolation of those condemn- ed to death, the consolation of dyin^ pub- licly, was taJien away. Hanging will now be done secretly within the walls ;of the iertress, in the presence of none from the world without. The reason is, that when Ryssakofif was brought out to the gallows he showed the crowd his mutilated hands, and shouted, louder than the drums, that he had been tortured after trial. His words were heard by a group of " Liberals," who, repudiating any sympathy with the Ter- rorists, yet held it their duty to publish the fapts of the case in a clandestine proclama- tion, and to call attention to this flagrant of- fence against the laws of humanity. Now nothing will be known of what happens in the casements of the fortress of Paul and Peter after the trial and before the execu- tion. At least, the Government think so, afterhavingsenttohardlabortheaoBofajailor and a dozen soldiers accused of leMer-carry- ing between prisoners and their friends in the town. Bht we know â€" and I have not the slightest hentation in assie^ng the fact â€" thbt at least two revolutionists, Adrian Mikhailoff and Ryssakoff, were submitted to torture jby electricity. â€" Prince Krapot- hine^ in the XineteerUh Centurif. A CffrT'i ff««t**' of tli« 2miil Sna WvaOnM. Mr. Cashing's second paperon "^My Ad- ventures in Zuni," is a strong illustrated feature of the February Century, and con- tains a minute account of the Zuni Sun fes- tival, one scene of which is described as follows Toward midnight my " brother" explain- ed to me that, in each new room and sacred Louse of Zuni, the twelve "medicine" orders of the tribe were to meet, and that,as he was a priest of one of them, I could go with him, if I would sit very quiet in one comer, apd not move, sleep, nor speak during the entire night. As we entered the closely crowded, spa- cious room into which the first party of dan- cers had retired, a space was being cleared lengthwise through the centre, from the altar down toward the opposite end. With many a hasty admonition, the Governor placed me in a corner so near the hearth that, for a long time.controUed by his directions, I was nearly suflfocated by the heat. Along the northern side of the room were the dancers, their masks now laid aside. Cons])icuou8 among them were the two priests, who wer# en- gaged in a long, rhythmical prayer, chant, or ritual, over eight or ten nearly prostrate Indians who squatted on the floor at their feet. As soon as this prayer was ended, great steaming bowls of meat, trays of paper-bread, and baskets of melons were placed in rows along the cleared space. A loud prayer was uttered over them by an old pries who held in hib hands abow,some arrows, and a war-club, and who wore over one shoulder a strange balge of buckskin ornamented with sea-shells and flint arrow- heads. He was followed by the Priest of the Sun. from the other end of the room. The little fire-god then passed along the ar- ray cf vituals, waving his torch over them, with which t;»e fea«t wai pronounced ready. Many of the dishes were placed before the dancers and priests and a group of sing- ers whose nearly nude bodies were gro- tesquely painted with streaks and daubs of white. They were gathered, rattles in hand, around an immense earthen kettle- drum at the left side of the altar, opposite the now crouching monster. As soon as the feast was concluded, many of the women bore away on their heads, in huge bowls, such of the food as remained. The singers then drawing closely around the drum, facing one another, struck up a loud chant, which, accompanied by the drumming and the rattles, tilled the whole apartment with a reverberating din, to me almost unendurable. Two by two the dancers would rise, step rapidly and high from one foot to the other, until, covered with perspiration and almost exhausted, they were relieved by others. At the close of each verse in the endless chant, tie great figure by the altar would start up from its hilf-sitting posture, until its head nearly touched the ceiling, and, with a startling series of reports, would clap it.= long bealc and roll its protruding eyes in time with the music. When the little fire-gqd took his plaice in the centre of the room, "O one relieved him for more than an hour and a half, and I feared momentarily that he would drop from sheer exhaustion. But I learned later that this was a trial ceremonial, and that it was one of the series of preparations which he had to pass through before becoming a priest, to which rank his birth rendered him eligible. Just as the morning star was rising, the music ceased, the congregation became sil- ent, and the chief dancer was led lothe cen- tre of the roomi where he was elaborately costumed. Then the Priest of the Sun took him up the ladder to the roof, where, facing the east, he pronounced in measured, solemn tones a long prayer to the waning Sun of the Old Year. Descending, he pronounced be- fore the multitude (signalizing the end of each sentence with a clang of his rattles) a metrical ritual of even greater length. Then the spectators gathered around the altar, and hastily said their prayers, the sound o" which reminded me of a recitation in concert in a large school -room. The sun rose, and tliey dispersed to their various homes. Resurrection of a Prehistoric Race. About ten miles from Cincinnnati, along the Little Miami River, is a locality which has long been known to the country people- as the " Pottery-Field." The grouud was strewed with fragmen's of pottery, bones, arrow-points and other remains of like charac- ter, and the place was generally considered to be the site of an ancient workshop. In IS7S, Dr. Chas. Mitz and other gentlemen interested in archaology commenced a sys- tematic exploration of the country there- abouts, and during the four years that the excavations had been carried on, between GoO and 700 skeletons have been brought to light. Many of them are in an advanced state of decay and tumble to pieces on. the slightest touch, while ethers, again, are in a very good state of preservation. It can, therefore, hard'y be inferred that, because some of the skeletons are much decayed they are necessarily very old;for, though we have well preserved remains of bones of Babylon, Nineveh and Egypt, which are cer- tainly 2,500 or 3,000 years old, still the cases are exceptional in which they are found in good condition after the lapse of many years. DiS'erent kinds of soil and differences in climate have mu jh to do with the matter • for, in a dry and equable climate, bones' may resist lor a long time the influences which would cause their decay, while in a moist climate, and with sudden and extreme changes of temperature, such as we have here, any. bone, unless buried in peat, or sub- ject constantly to heavy pressure, so as to become partially fossilized, is hahli to so en decy. â€",/oseph F. James. â-  â-  m Thraalitas the Blasberg. A new kind of lynching is being practiseil in St. Louis. It seems that snobs in that city when they cannot induce young women to flirt with them in the streets, do not take the repulse as final in all cases, but some- times accost the objects of their admiration The chief of the Fire Department, who is old but muscular, witnessed one of these deliberate insults, and thrashed the ofiFendw on the spot. This feat was rewarded by a fwinal presentation of a silver mounted whip. NaturaUy other men of pngilistir ability sought the same way to gW Seve,^ •-mashers" have since then^S brnteUy punished, m one instance bva mob. » .. ' Ml* iEW» iJcrtei TmnwitUntte. Spanish troops hare occupied the coast of theWand of Taritavi, off the^coast of Bamto. An order has been made in London for the voluntary winding up of the Honduras Inter- oceanic Railway Company. The German ship "Cleopatrs." froni New York, in London, lost three men on tne pas- sage. She is leaky, TheKiDg of Spain has received from Prince Louis Ferdinand of Bavaria a formal de- mand for the hand of the Infante Marie della Pase. Nolerlani, who threw a stone at the Aus- tro- Hungarian Ambassador to the Vatican, has been sentenced to imprisonment for three years. Requiem service* for Prii|gp Charles were held in the palace, in BerHn, on Tuesday evening. The Emperor and Empress, the royal family,and several foreign princes were present. The funeral oration was delivered at the"Cathedral. All the steamers sent in search for the "Cimbria's" boats have returned, and re- port no trace of the survivors. Twenty-five thousand pounds have been demanded as surety for the steamer "Sultan." A Hamburg despatch says no more persons have been landed from the "Cimbria." Sail- ing vessels passing westward may have pick- ed up some. Four of the steamers have not yet returned. There *is considerable excitement in Mallow in connection with the approaching election for member of Parliament. Three hundred policemen and a detachment of ar- tillery have arrived to keep order. The St. Petersburg newspapers state the bodies of two members of the Chipps party have been found in Chateau Bay. Probably the report has the same origin as the state- ment of the finding of two corpses of mem- bers of the party published in New York re- cently and discredited. The Timen says there can be little doubt if statesmen continue to be wanting the French Republic will go headlong to ruin. That the French people are aware of this is an explanation of the panics caused by the difficulties of a Minister so little resembling indispensable genius as M. Duclerc. In the Hungarian Lower House recently, Herr .Jokay energetically advocated the placing of Jews on complete equality with the adherents of other creeds. His remarks were cheered. Herr Tisze, President of the Council, said the prejudice against the Jewish race would expire through social in- fluence only. If society showed itself un- equal to the task, then txceptional legisla- tion would become necessary, Carey, Town Councillor, now in Rilmain ham, was charged before the Governor of the gaol recentlj' with not keeping his cell clean. He made a rush at the Governor and struck him with his fists. The wardens with dif- ficulty restrained him. Carey has been sentenced to three days' solitary confinement or his offence. TllE I'ANIC IN FR.\XCK. The police searched the office of the Petite Caporal for the manuscript of an article pub- lished, in that paper, urging the Imperialists to be active and pressing in proclaiming Prince Victor Emperor. The result of the elections in the Bureau of the French Chamber of Deputies for mem- bers of the Committees on the bills dealing with the pretenders to the throne is four in favor of the Government bills with certain restrictions, six in favor of M. Flouquet's and one in favor of M. Ballue's. Eighty votes were given for members favoring the Government bills and a hundred and twqnty for those favoring M. Flouquet's bills. The ministers have decided at a recent sitting of the committee elected on Tuesday they willexplain their policy regarding pretend- ers. A Paris despatch says it is hardly possi- ble to overate the dangerous character i he Ministerial critics has assumed. There were three Cabinet coun:ils the other day. When the news came that the special com- mittee showed a majority against the Gov- ernment, the Minister of War and the M-n- ister of Marine again resigned. President Grevy urged them not to resign. He said • "You are a soldier, and you are a sailor I am quite sure yon would never desert your posts under fire, and if you retire now and leave me without a cabinet that would be desertion." Another Paris despatch says It is cer- ^u° *^** Ministerial crisis is imminent. The differences in the Cabinet arises from the discussion of the clause in the Govern- ment bill allowing the Government to p:ace the Orieans Princes on the retired list It IS understood that M. Billot, Mimister of W ar refuses his adhesion, while the other members favor M. Ballue's more stringent amendment, decreeing the immediate clsh- '""lr°^ u,^^ Princess. The latter is a stumblmg block over which the Ministrv promises to break up. " The Standard's Paris despatch says the Duclerc Cabinet is virtually defunct: The po itical panic is unabated, and the fund holders are throwing their stocks on the market. The want of a guiding star is uu^ versally felt. The possibility !f ^li^v pronunciamento is freely talked of. Throii^h- out the burgeois class there is a reaction agamst the regime of doctors and joSsts anday^rnmg for a saving sword. Gam betta;s death hi« thrown the whole woSg machmery out of gear. ""rsmg The ex-Empr^ Eugenie announces that she Ignores the Republio and comes t^d^! play her sympathy with Prince Jerome Tn his mcarceration. Her adherente S £hif^%P.r"'°"'°^^* demonstmtionS behalf of the name and family of N^W,^ She has not appeared in pubUc, bu?ij?nrw; to be surrounded by actfve and JronouS Bonapartists.. Some regard her visit M^n opportune. In many quarters fJir if f^: have been taken is Paris to represT^ d! ^tration. There has beenT^pffi .^^ |*ovaJ of Enireme s visit. It is J^ .i!oV^ cognizant of Jeromes manifesto str*^ .^^nTMtliv and forge tfalness of all paet S5S^Wt,me?^ comfort the Prin- STMathUde. Will** I " '^f. ^«,°°y SSuyair- I will m»ke no political mani- SoM in the presence of a Government oT which I know nothing. Many lea.hiig SJpartists are fl^ckiiig to the hoteL It is ^ted that Eneenie and the Princess SK^de have received hints that they would do weU to betake themselves out of the country. AMERICAN. Dr. Edward H. Knight, of Belief onteine, author of the American Mechanical Di*. tionaryand other Uterary werks, di£d«« Monday night. The charge of murder against Frank James in Kansas City was withdrawn on Tuesday. In the robbery case bail was fixed at $35,000. The Texas LegisUture has re-elected Mr- Coke as United tat.8 Senator. Mr. Plumb was elected Senator from Kansas. AMKKICAN FABLES. A Fox who was being Porsued by the Hounds came upon a Hare sitting m the bushes and called out " If anybody inquires for me please say that you haven't seen me for a month Past-" „ ,• wi. TT "Oh, I couldn't do that," replied the Hare â€" i'that would be Lying. " " Very well, then, suppose you teke run across to yonder fence and bacjk an tell me if there is any snow on the other side?" „ "With ple.isure," answered the Hare, and away she sailed. The Hounds got sight of her as she sped along, and directly the whole pack were hard at her heels. "That comes of being too good," chuckle.^ the Fox as he saw her finally overtaken. "The skin of a Hare who died for Truth isn't half as valuable as the pelt of a Fox who lives to Lie." so KIND A Bear which had been caught in a Trap was moaning and sighing and wondering if every clou I had a Silver Lining, when along came a Cow and asked what particular ward caucus that was and who had been elected chairman. "I'm caught in a Trap," moaned the Bear. " Can't you get away " " No, indeed." " Have you been here long " " Yes for five or six hours." "And you must suff'er dreadfully " " I certainly do." " Well, as there is no chance to escape, and you must continue to suffer until re- leased, I will at once go and inform my master and let him come at once and knocK you on the head." THE OLD UN'« hi ape. A Wolf who had grown old and gray and couldno longer move about like a Farmer's Boy in front of a Bumble-bee, saw with Regret and Sorrow that his Son looked upon him as a Burden and wished him Bounced from the Cabinet. He was one day wiping his Tearful Eyes on a Sheep- skin when the Son entered the Cave and remarked "Dear Father.how would you like to take a ".valk with me this fine day?" " Do you really want me to " "Of course I do. Y'our health is very dear to me, and have been Pained for some days to see how pale and careworn vou looked." The Old Man felt as tickled as a hired man with the Boss gone and both oxen too lame to Work, and the pair set out with smiles galloping across their faces. When they had penetrated the Forest a long dis- tance a Lion suddenly appeared, and the Son called out " King of Beasts, I have brought you a Dinner Eat him and tally one for me V "SUy!' roared the Lion, " Tais chap seems old and tough, and I am not the sort to eat poor meat when better can be had. You are the dinner I want to get hold of " "Well, well " mused the Old Wolf as he trotted homewards alone^ "if it is sad to be old and tough, it is likewise dangerous to be young and tender, and after all 1 will make the best of my lot. William Henry didn't get more than a rod ahead of me en that dealâ€" not if lean see straight " Pius the Ninth's Yacbt. About twenty-four yea 8 ago P pe Pius the IX after his return to Rome from Gaeta, determined to have his own steam yacht, to be kept in readiness should he find It necessary to a^ain quit the Vatican. Ac- cordingly a Commission of officers was sent oyer to London to obtein the assistance of the British Admiralty and under their guidance a handsome, strong stsam yacht, the immacolata Concezionc, about 600 tons was built by Messrs. Mare Co. The ves- sel wa,s equipped as a corvette of war, -,vith eight large rifled brass guns, with a full equipment of small arms. No expense was spared m fitting out the vessel in the best style at a total cost of about £50,000. In due time the corvette arrived at Civita Vec- chia, where she was received by the Pone and duly blessed and anointed. Afterward she remained in the harbor there in daily readiness for his Holiness for about twenty y^rs, witha full staflf of officers and meZ vette was removed to the Mediterranean and recently to the Thames, where she wS' hvâ„¢,wP"'^?^ with all her fittings, s^d by public auction m the Admiralty Court right totestifytoV^iH,!^:^,'^^;^^ AdvantaRes of a Thick Skull. In a Dayton negro dive Clark Mc 1 Clung incurred the displeasure of a Wo cT" ^^»rtiu McCowen, and £? Cowen shot at him from behind. The W shot missed ifs mark, but the second stiS McCIung squarely in the back of the K nred from, a 44-calibre revolver and that t^f^^ :, .u^'S"" ""^^ was not pene- ^ted, and the flattened, battered b^let was subsequently found « the floor new ^here the shooting occurred. Thene^ W^oS^M* •«^* «i«' fell to^he a^' f* "°« to his feet in an instlmt again, and he gave his assailant a whippSg. «»eCreoXeKevut,^ i B'was the fate cf the (\^ ' climatic resultâ€" to be slaowTSfci latory. Month after rnSJI Oetbfcr uprising wSoS?^ dents that woufd have :°1^T tory of an earnest people t '^i Foucanlt covertly deserted k^ and denounced them h ^« French cabinet. In AnrilVSj ate sailed from New Orle^"" ^^ pid men (Loyola, GayaiT' the governmental staffVhi ' ^^^^ in the province, still remai'^1 Not a fort was taken tho bable not one could have«HR " Not a spade was struck it '*«' or an obstruction tlantcl " point. • =* M â-  At length the project of (or„ he was revived and was eiTp!;' and advocacy. ButpriceW^ thrown away, the opportun 7 passed, an overwhelming Snl fleet was approaching, an?t?^ people was paralyzed, rh" the injustice and oppression " powers ate nee, by • the fimV lony that entertained the ideaT^ ing her independence." vas J' ' end. ° ' It was the misfortunes of th be wanting in habits of matured ' self-control. They had not 4fc Of reciprocal justice ^nd na 'l which becomes men who wr,„u " ny. They lacked the steady il daily toil. With these ouLM rection of 1768 might have beei 1 tion for the overthrow of Fiench 'I misrule and the establishment tenance of the right of seli-oovl' The Creoles are valorous but j They had the spirit of freedom tl profound principles of right vh I comes the duty of revolutionJ and struggle for. 'J-hey aroje'l against a confusion tf renl and'atJ ancee, sought to be uDgovernedr' self -governed, anc' followint-,' leaders, became a warning in" ty sided_ short-sightedness, "and at ' only in their audacicus ;courage They had now only to pay th. ,j and it was by an entire inversim :f first intentions that they at lenp-ij ill the struggle which brought mi| birth that American nation ci finally became part.â€" G. \V February Ccnturt/. â- â™¦*--^»--».« HINTS TO FAEMEES Chemistry of the Farm andC i Dr. R. D. Halstead gives m-i facts in agricultural ebcmi=tryiia 1 ran Agro-ultitri.-t for February, :tj we clip the following About half the weight ci stance o! ordinary plants contiiti!) This element, when in a fre.'sii; lid. It i.s familiar to u-as thracite coal, black-leaj, lamp-ii diamond. The presence of carki| is made known by a process o: burning, 'as in the prcpaiaticcc:! Carbon, in its pure and uncombij is very indestructible, exceptiDj: posed to a h gh Jieat then i with oxygen, and forms cirbociiii This is the familiar gas cf sodan ains. It is^ produced by deca}i:| tion, given olf the breath o: at: is the deadly choke damp of J Carbonic acid gas forms, ou uf about four-hundredtbs of one (.04 " of the atmosphere. The cessary for the jirou notion vi :2| growth of; vegetation is deriveil car'oonic acid gas of the aiiuospa supply of this gas to the air is kept up by the necay ami hurDii:^ In this way the same particles oial be taken up by a vegetable.ana, lif decayed, pass into tne structm Gil plant, and to on through an eiM ber of ages. The carbonic gai f leaves through multitudes of sua" called stomata, or breathing microscope discloses more tSiJil thousand of thes^ po es upjjf square inch of leaf suiiace Cbl.^i portion of the leaves, and umier « ence of sunlight, liavc the poTerSl posing the carbonic acid gas, re;ei carbon to produce organic coai become a part of tlie plant, miij gen set free passes again into phere. There are some plant:! chlorophyll or leaf green, anj*j able to decompose carbonic aoi called parasites, aud abiorh VJ need in tlie forms of organ; •• that have been produced in tiiefl of true V. orkiiig plants. Street Car Statisti» Some interesting statistics '• business were brought out at 'I held in Boston last week tofonc'l association of street car oi^^' now doing business in this wu"' ada 515 street railways, emWj 35,000 men. They run 1^.*"' more than 100,000 horses are 11 Calculating that the average lH'i in street railway service i= '""1 makes the consumption of ^°^j year. To feed this vast niiiii5^.T requires annually 150,000 tonvj 11,000,000 bushels of graw- .,JJ' panics own and operate over •' track. The whole """"'^[.,11 carried annually is over '•- -^^.j' amount of capital iuvesttJ «*'" 000.000. flialarla. The general statement '^^ most abundantly f^enerit^ fresh or saltwater,andinlo«'i ,^^1 is not invalidated by the i»" ^| also prevail in mountainous ^^â-  places where the soil is s«P*^ loose surface soil, o^'^^lym^ j stratum ol clay or rock, V^^ ^\ penetrate to this stratum. which accumulates after ait» ^j retained in depressions, ^j^jA all the conditions necessaij^j^ J tion of the vegetable ^^\^tn present in the soil, and fof malaria.- George M. SternD^- i..:*-.? â- ..!. ^: X ...^