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v W8 in lllllllll THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. Interesting items About Our Own Country, Great Britain, the United States, and All Parts of the Globe, Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading. CANADA-l . {File troopehlp Milwaukee has arrived It Halifax. ’ Several cases of smallpox are report- ed at Toronto Junction. Manitoba’s oldest pioneer, Elton Vermette, of St. Norbert, is dead, aged 100 years. The Game and Fish Protectors’ Con- vention opened at Montreal. The Lake of the Woods Milling Co. gas (subscribed $1,000 to the Patriotic un . . The Canadian Packers‘ Association have decided to maintain prices on a firm basisft'his year. The Might Directory publishers esti- mate the population of the City of To- ronto at 250,209. ' ’ The Canadian General Electric Com- pany ’has subscribed $1,000 to the Na- tional Patriotic Fund. . Hon. Wm. Tait, former member of the Northwest Council, is dead at Headingly, aged 73 years. ;‘ ' The Canadian Society of Civil Engi- neers opened their fourteenth annual meeting at Montreal, and left on a trip to Boston in the evening: ; . Mr. Charles Burpee, who represented Sunbury from 1867 to 1887 in the Do- minion Parliament has been ' t to the Senate. . appom M A handsome new station is to be built this spring at Sault Ste. Marie by_the Duluth, South Shore &. Atlantic Railway. ‘A movement has been started in Montreal to give Lord Strathcona a. public dinner on his arrival, and to Eigesent him with the freedom of the L ' ' _-_ The C. P. R. employees all over the systzliln wlglltsubscribe half a day’s pay 0 e a riotic Fund, l' about $20,000. aggrega mg [The market building at Three Rivers, Quebecnvalued at $20,000, was destroyed by fire, with the contents of the butchers’ and hucksters’ stalls. .Victorria’s proposed to raise 10,000 mounted men for South Africa is being warmly endorsed in all rt f ’- tish Columbia. pa 8 O B“ The case of Joseph Lalrose against the Crrctwn for $10,000 is being heard by Mr. Justice Burbidge in the Ex- chequer Court at Montreal. A bullet from; the St. Luc ranges found Joseph at his potato patch. Francis Durant, Kenneth: McKenzie, and J. R..Walkier, representatives of this English syndicate :which will bmld the Georgian Bay canal, are at . be commenced new the Chandlers about July lst. ‘ Mr. George Simpson, assistant civil engineer of the Northern Pacific, has resigned his position to accept the po- sition of Chief Engineer of the Pro- vince of M-anit‘obe. ' ‘ GREAT BRITAIN. Mr. GeraldB-alflour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, is dangerously ill. A vaerpool physician has discoverâ€" ed the bamllws of pink-eye in bores. M‘i‘ss Eleanor Gobbet, the daughter of William Cobbett, has just died in England at the age of 94 years: I Queen Victoria has appointed the Prince of Wales’ son-in-law, the Duke of Fife, K.G., to be Lordâ€"Lieutenant of the county of London in place of the lute Duke of Westminster. .At the annual meeting of the As- sociated Chambers of Agriculture in England the outbreak of the foot and mouth disease in Norfolk and Suffolk was announced. I rliwienty thousand pounds, the bal-‘ cues of £60,000 stolen from Parr’s Bank London, ayear ago, was neturnedyesâ€" terday. The Prince of Wales has sent the collection of bamboo .vmlking sticks, which he made during the Indian tour for the use of invclllded. and wounded soldiers at the Cap. L Mr. Labouchero, MP. for North- ampton, attempted to address ameetâ€" ing in the TQWn Hall at Northatnrpton against the :war, ‘but the meeting was broken up, the chairs smashed, and Mr. Labouchere was compelled to make a; hurried escape. ' Mr. McInnes, of Vancouver, has in- troduced a bill in the House of Com“ mean to amend the franchise act. He explains that its effect is to entire-( ly prohibit Chinese or Japanese from exercising the Dominion franchise. even when naturalized. Devooshire’s chief “singing man." James Parsons, a badger by occupa- tion, is dead. The "singing men” of Devonshire preserve and chant the old West Country songs and ballads. Parâ€" sons was nicknamed “The Singing Mc- chine" because one evening he made a- bet that he could go on singing till daybreak without repeating any piece and won the bet. English technical journals, which [were very sore over the award to an American firm of the At‘bara bridge contract, are now bragging over the performance of a Wednesbury com- pany, in getting the material for the new ’lugela bridge ready for ship- ment, within a month! of receiving the contract . The bridge is 105 feet long and required 750 tons of material. UNITED STATES. There is talk of a trust in hides at Albany. N. Y. Judge Taft, of Cincinnati, has been 'by President appointed McKinley chairman of the Philippine Commis- sion. , Major Graham, at New York from Havana, says Cubans want the Am- ericans out of Cuba. and that whale there. is a “placid surface," an insur- rection is imminent. Mr. Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, has been ill at Akron, Ohio, but is now improving. Dr. Ashmead, of Nowi York, states that there are several cases of leprosy in- that city. A. No-rmandin, of W'atertown, N.Y., died at Montreal from carbolic acid poisoning. The Hayâ€"Pauncefote treaty amend- ing the Claytonâ€"Bulwer treaty, re- garding the Nicaraguan Canal, was signed at the State Department at Washington. Samuel Reeves of New York, who was visiting Toronto, dropped in a fit on Wellington street and died shortly _after. Governor Taylor of Kentucky offers to submit the merits of he claim to the gubernatorial chair of Kentucky to any three fair-minded men in Idle world, to be selected by‘ the United States Supreme Court. Antoine Roberts and Auguste Mor- rell, wuo are wanted in Scranton, Pa., on a charge of shooting two policemen and attempting to blow up a coal mine, have been arrested in Montreal. GEN ERA'L. General Correa, formerly Spanish Minister of War, is dead. _ 1A. relic of 'mediaevah times has been swept away by a decree of President Lorubet abolishing the use of fetters in the French, navy. Riccorti Garibaldi, one of the sons of the famous Italiian patriot, haiof- fered to command a corps of ltaliian volunteers in South Africa or the British side. Prince Albrecht of Prussia, the Regent of Brunswick, has bought: a lot of land in the "Markobrunnen' Rhine wine district at the rate of $16,000 an acre. France intends to improve French syntax by legislation. M. Gaston Paris of the Academic Francaise has been made President of a commission to prepare a reform iin syntax. Luccheni', the murderer of the Em- press Elizavbeth of Austria, havmg spent; a year in solitary confinement, is now, according to 'the_Swiss law, treated; like all other prisoners. Lark Harbor, Newfoundland, was de- vastated by a tornado and twenty houses were blown. down, including the customs station and the residence of the customs officers. Three schoon- ers were wrecked: Italy proposes 'that Italian shall be recognized as an international langu- age on the same footing as, English, French and. German. Dr. Baccelli, the Minister of Education, has directed dc» legates to international congresses to demand; that papers shall be readL'i'n Italian, and that Italian delegates shall employ their own language. in the. discussions, instead of using one 01: the three languages now usually admitted. . Tampico, Mexico, 'had a million dol- lar fire last night. The loss is par- tially covered by insurance in Eng- lishi' companies. It is generally believed at Pekm that the Dowager Empress will not attempt; the formal deposition of the Emperor at the present. . Dr. Leyds has announced that the Transvaal Government is not en- gaging volunteers for hire war, and will refuse to transport any to South 'Africa. . Dr. Leyds spent yesterdayat Wei- mar, where. he tendered this congratu- lations to the Grand Duke upon; the sixtieth! anniversary of his joining the Prussian army. _â€".__.__ ROYALTY’S DRESS ALLOWANCE. An enterprising fashion writer tells us that before her marriage, the Duchâ€" ess of Fife had a very: small dress al- lowanceâ€"about $1,500 a year. Besides yachting and everyday dresses and all the usual costumes required by a girl of the upper classes, royal prin- cesses have also to wear the costly and elaborate dresses which their ralnk demands at the weddings of near relatives. They are, however, fortunate in having stores of beauti- ful laces, priceless furs and marvel- lous jewels, all of which can ‘be used again and again. On the whole, it may be; asserted; that a frugal princess may spend as little as $5,000 a. year, on' her dress, while her more wealthy and extrava- gant sister may find her dress bills amount to ten times that sum. Age has nothing to do with the matter, for the Queen of Italy spends far more than does her beautiful young daugh- ter-in-law, the crown princess of Naples. The empress of Russia, who, more than any other European prinâ€" cess, is able to indulge heir wildest fancies, dresses with _the greatest sim- plicity. In the daytime she wears mostly tailor-made coats and skirts and in the evening favors the purest white materials. ' â€"â€"...__¢__.__. The leader of the Universal Broth- erlhxood Organization, which is the lat- en‘ form of the Theosophical Society in America, is M-rs. Katherine Tingley. She is most energetic in work of .a philanthropic kind; and through one department of her organization proâ€" vided nearly 10,000 American soldiers with muchâ€"needed food and medical aid on their return from the Cuban War. Another of her humanitarian, works is the establishment of “Lotus Icmea" for destitute children: WWW-mg. Agricultural WM A FEEDING EXPERIMENT AT THE ONTARIO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE Mangels v.s. Sugar Beets for Production. Chemical analyses show that sugar beets contain a lower percentage of nutritive material than mangels. The main difference in nutritive material, however, is in connection with the fat and heat producing substances, sugar beets containing more of such! sub- stances than mangels. In order to test the comparative value of these two kinds of roots for milk produc- tion, two experiments, each with dif- ferent cows, have been completed, and the results of the two experiments correspond so closely! that they are of interest. In each experiment four cows were used. They were selected from the herd in the dairy, department, care being taken to select cows as nearly as possible in the same stage of lactation. Aftera week‘s prepara- tory feeding, during which all the cows were fed the same ration, the rations were changed. Two of the cows were fed sixty pounds of sugar beets per cow per day for two weeks, then they, were fed sixty pounds of mangels per cow day for two weeks. The other two cows were! led 'sixty pounds of mangels per cow per day during the first two weeks. and then Milk changed to sixty pounds of sugar beets per cow per clay; dur- ing the next two weeks. Thus each experiment lasted four wet-ks, and each cow was fed two weeks on sugar beets. In addition to the roots, the cows received a meal ration and what clover hay they- wou.d eat, each cow receiving like quantities of hay and meal. In the first experi- ment, the meal ration consisted of equal parts by weight 011 peas, barâ€" ley, and oats, and each cow was fed seVen pounds oi this mixture ybl‘day. During the second experiment, each cow was fed six pounds of bran and two pounds of pea meal per day. It might have been a. better test of the relative nutritive value of these two foods, had no meal been fed; but the object'of these experiments was to test the influence of these foods upon the milk flow when. fed as they most likely would be in ordinary prac- tice, namely, in conjunction with a meal ratbon. This seems to be the main practical point at issue. and; the question in which practical men are most interested. Gommen ts. 1. In each experiment there is a slight difference in the total milk yield in favor of the mangels, amountâ€" ing to 7.50 lbs. in one case and 8.25 lbs. in the other, in the milk produced by. four cows in two weeks. 2. In each experiment, cows 1 and 2 started on sugar beets and finished on mangelsziwhgile cows 3 and. _4 start- ed on mangels"and,,~lipisheq, onI-eugab beets. Therefore in first trial cow No. 1 decreased. in “milk flow,and cow No. 2 increased in milk flow after being changed from sugar beets 1'to mangels; and both cows 3 ani‘f decreased in milk flow after bei g changed from mangels to sugar beets. In the second- ‘trialiirhmvever, all the cows gave more milk during the sec- ond two weeks than during the first two, but the cows which were changed from sugar beets to mangels made a greater increase, on the whole, than those which were changed from mangels to sugar. beets. 3. Everything considered, these ex- periments indicate that there is very little, if any, difference between mangels and sugar beets as foods for stimulating the flow of milk. It must be remembered, however, that these trials have no bearing upon the relative values of them foods for main- taining life or producing fat. 4. 0n the College farm mangels have given much larger yields per acre than sugar beets. â€"â€"â€"_ POULTRY EXPERIMENTS. People are generally interested to know which breed lays the most eggs, but comparatively few people know or think of the fact that some breed may yield more food value in weight conâ€" tained in fewer eggs, than another breed puts into aconsiderable larger number. ' I The number of eggs is only a part of what we should know of the egg pro- duction, therefore, in order to be able to judge of the relative merit of breeds, the weight as well as the num- ber of eggs, should be'known. Then, if the amount of food consumed, is known, the data is at hand to deter- mine which of the breeds, have re- turned the most for food consumed and which one has therefore been :the most profitable food producer. In order to collect some data on this point, the North Carolina experiment station made careful weights of the egs from different yards, for the first six months of last year, and found that the heaviest eggs are from ducks. These weigh nearly two and. aquarter pounds to the dozen. The light Birchâ€" mia' lay the largest hen’s eggs, and these are one and three-quarters pounds per dozen. The lightest eggs are from Leghorn pullets, alittle un- der one and one-eighth pounds per doz- en. On what other article of food will people be content to pay the same price for what may vary over 50 per cent in value? Or what producer or merchantable produce of any other kind ‘will consent to supply all the way up to fifty-five per cent. more thlarn market value and not think to add to the standard price for addition- al value? The same bulletin says it is perhaps am open question whether the flavor of articles of food ever‘reappears in the eggs produced by hens. The facts will not be denied for milk after a cow has been regaled on a fresh pasture containing wild onions. Neither will it, if the cow is fed tur- nips or cabbage, within a few hours before milking. The flesh is also probably taint-ed, and we have heard reports of fried chicken flavored with onion from- the recent feeding of the birds. . In March, 1899, an experiment was begun to find if a small proportion of chopped onion salad with the poultry food would flavor the eggs sufficient- ly to be noticeable, and if so, how long a. time would be required to make the flavor noticeable; and, third, how long can the flavor be detected after the onions are left out of food. * The conclusions are that it is prob- able that no eggs after a week’s ab- stinence are ill-flavored with onions; that flavors can be fed into onionsand that to insure fine-flavored eggs it is necessary to restrict runs enough so no considerable amount of the food can be of such a character as 'toyield illâ€"flavored eggs. SEED DEVELOPMENT. Improvement of seed for; all crops is a. great demand. When no greater care is given to growing seed than is bestowed upon the general crop, no improvement in seed can be had, and consequently no improvement in the yield and quality of the general crop can be realized. TD conform to the natural demands of the several crops of grains and vegetables produced on the farm in the production of seed. is to insure great improvement in the seed and a necessary improvement to the yield and quality of the general crop grown from such improved seed. Take corn, and what are the de- mands made in order to improve the seed? Does not “nature itself teach" that one stalk growing in a place will produce a better growth than if one [or two more stalks are grown together with: the one stalk? What then are the imperative demands of natural .la‘w. in order to the improvement of seed of this great staple? The rule then to be observed is to ;grow: each stalk by itself, with suffi- {cient distance to insure the most per- fect'growth and permit perfect fertil- Lza-tion. _ Potatoes are capable of like im- provement by planting the very best {for seed purposes with wide space be- tween hills and when the plants are three or four inches high thin out to one stalk in a bill; this will give. the greatest opportunity to grow to per- fection, and but .one stalk in a place gives a larger and better growth to :the tubers and consequently finer and rmore_productive seed will be produced in this line. ‘4:â€" REASON FOR WINTER FLAVOR. The cause of "winter flavor,” I 5=t¢hinkeis poor ventilationiaand‘r’fil‘th in :cow stables,iand‘ibiinfluenced .b‘yfifébd-‘i. z . . L . 'Ifiss ' wmter flavor -", wipe .colyvzg are {fled-‘Egcod unimpeded ‘tr‘a‘iwp’ts very i‘pgean‘gpargd-‘jfe’d‘ nights ensilage arid healthy! --food." To pasteurize the cream and use a large percent start- 6F-"Wlll improve it'.â€"-‘â€"F. 'W.‘"Cu1bertoh.- ’Winter' flavor "must be caxused 'a certain bacteria found in the hay and dust of the barn, and that gets into the milk. It can be prevented by pas. teurizmg and using a starter or but- ter cultureâ€"B. F. Warner. I believe f‘winter flavor" is caused by: the improper care and feed of the cows. Patrons‘are not careful enough With the milking and general care of the cow. Often they are fed poor bay to economize. The farmer must be educated more fully in this direca tion to prevent so called "winter flav. or."â€"-Wesley R. Field. *â€" ORIGIN OF THE RING. The origin of the marria 8 ti dates back many centuries agd isriliiE volved .inv somewhat of a mystery. According to an old legend of mythol- ogy, Jupiter sent to Prometheus, in honor of his deliverance by Hercules, a ring Ln which was set. a piece of the stone to which Prometheus had formerly been bound in chains. In northern mythology the ring symbolizes the bride from this world to the next, or, according to anoth- er idea, the rainbow symbol of eter- nity. Hence it is plain that from most ancient times the ring was a symbol of remembrance and eternal recollection. Since the earliest days of Christianity the ring has been a prelc~ ious pledge of faithfulness, the talis- man of two souls forming a sacred lifeâ€"union. .The custom of wearing the wedding ring on the fourth finger of :the left hand goes back for its origin :to the Egyptians, from whom the Greeks borrowed the custom and handed it on to the Romans. The fourth finger was dedicated to Apollo, the sun god, and gold was an additional emblem of the sun. Besides it was believed that Apollo's finger was connected by a nerve directly with the heart, and :it was most appropriate that the sign of the loving union should rest on this finger Sketches of War Items. . VVARSHIPS’ DEATH CHAMBERS. Howl would you like to spend your life. directly oven fifty tons of gun- powder, with a huge furnace, at full blast; within a few feet of the mag-aâ€" zine? Tibet is what every man in the Navy has to do. '- It sounds worse thlan it really is, However, for every possible precaution against danger is taken. The huge cartridges are placed in sealed cases, and these are kept in a. watertight; magazine ingeniously con‘ structed. The magazine is a big chamber made of thick steel, and lined with wood. A space is left betWeen the steel and the wood, so that if the steel gets heated the wood may not catch alight. This chamber; has watertight toors, and it can instantly be filled with. water in case the ship catches on fire. Inside is a delicate thermometer, which is carefully watched. .Not a particle of iron is ever allowed in the magazine, lest sparks should be giv- en! off. All the metal tools and fit- tiings one made of either copper or zilnc. ‘ N 0 light, not even yet a safety-lamp, is allowed to be taken in, but the chamber is lighted from outside through thick bulls’eyes in the walls. Finally the door is always kept lock- ed, and the key- is guarded by a sentry. THE LIFE OF A BIG GUN. The bigger the gun the shorter its life. Those monsters, the 110-ton = guns, cannot be reckoned upon to fire lmore than eighty full-charge rounds without becoming quite useless. The 67-ton gun clan fire 105 rounds; while the 6â€"in. breechlowder is good for 400 or 450 full-chla‘rgie rounds. The reason of this is that the ter- rific heat and corroding effect of the 5pdwder wealrs away tire bore at the 'ch'amber end, and then the shell doea {not catch; the rifling. {There is nothing for it then but to' send the gun to the factory and have the barrel bored and lined with a new. tube. Eighty shots from a 110â€"ton gun .would be good business in any war. iWhere the inconvenience 3.111583 15 in .t‘he fact that during peace the men cannot practice as much as is desir- able. Still there is a way out. of it to I. certain extent, forit is found that a half-charge, which is sufficient ,for practice, wears out a gun only one- {fourth as fast as a full charge; and. even in a way a three-«quarter charge ‘is powerful enough. Now a 110.ton gun, though it can Sfire only 80 full charges, can fire 186 three-quarter charges and 320 half- »clrarges. KRUGER’S LEADING STRINGS. Cordite, so called from its stringy, appearance, is a mixture of nitro- lglyceri-nle, gunâ€"cotton, acetone, and mineral jelly. The first two substances lare carefqu incorporated under the influence of the liquid acetone, the jel- ly being added to give softness and ductility to the mass. When thor- oughly mixed the explosive is placed in cylinders, in which a piston accur- ately fits. Tiny hioles, varying from the size of cotton to that of thick cord, are bored in the far end of the cylinder, and enormous pressure is, ap- plied by the piston. As the fine strings emerge like maccaroni. they are wound on drums and put aside to dry. Ten of these reels are then wound 0.1 on to one, and six of these blended cords are again thisted into a cord of sixty strands. Short sections of this, weighing thirty grains, form the explosive for a rifle-cartridge. The energy developed by cordite is progressive, and, so to speak, follows the bullet or shell down the barrel with increasing force. That of gun- powder is enormous to commence with, rapidly failing with each foot of the barrel. This explains the differ- ence in shape between the fat, stump muzzle loading guns, and - the long, uniform guns of to-day. . This DOIWOE or cordite is roughly three times that of poWder, and it is smokeless. , » _._._+_~ more FOR SPINSTERS. Some one has proposed a husbands‘ union for the protection of husbands; just what they are-to be protected from is not yet stated. Possibly the union is to be founded on the same lines as the Schools for: Wives, esteb-h lished in England. Still better are the marriage schools which are being developed in Germany), on very practical lines. They are for girls and women only, and the value of such a training cannot be overesti- mated. Girls leave the marriage school content to undertake the management of a houseâ€"and of a husband. The girls who have been graduated from these schools have been extra lucky in getting married, so it is'said. Another society which has been orga- nized in Denmark is the Celibacy In- surance Society. Its object is to pro- vide for those women who either canâ€" not cr will not provide themselves with husbands. The premiums begin atihe ego of 13 and end at 40, an age at whichdt issupposed most of the mem- bers will have abandoned all thought of marriage. Such being the case, the woman receives an annuity for life. If she marries at any time she forfeits all her rights. 1 l l 7171:3713 «wt; .27 ‘m‘fiwfl use?" ZKTTt'W-‘Mfise v.1. V.‘v{~\-,v;,7«: a. 3'- "3'; 3': :9 ..4 '._-O-' were“ >2; geometry-3,; ; , a. _ can.»