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The amount of duty collected at Winnipeg for June 1899, was 8309,- 731.56. In Jung, 1898, it was $79,684.26. The duty collected at Winnipeg for $129 fiscal year ended June 30, 1899, was$1,140,00096; for the previous year it was “7351.24, being an inérease for tin past year of $333,001.72. This is H. Wolff, aGaLi inn from the Drift- ing River settlement, in Manitoba, took a rope andtied the hands and feet of his wife, then beat her unmercifully with a club. Not content with this, the brute alm used the club on a daughter who interfered on behalf of the mother. The magistrate sentenced Mm to two months in jail at ham labor. While a carriage containing two ladies was crossing the railway track near Glace Bay, L‘. B., it. was struck by a locomouve. A married woman, named Adamson, was dangerously in- jured, and her sister, Miss Maud Mac- Auiay, had several ribs broken. The Dominion Commercial Travel- lers' Assoz-iation has started a move- ment for the improvement of hotel accommodation by addressing to caery hate! proprietor in Canada a number of questions regarding food, sample rooms, bedrooms, ventilation and sani- tary conditions. Robert. Whitall of Sumach street, Toronto, while attempting to board a freight train at Paris, got b0th feet under the wheels, and his toes were crushed, necessitating amputation. He was afterwards removed to the Brant- ford HOSPLEEIL Adolph-e Martin, aged 18, resident in Hull. attcmpted to commit suicide be- cause his mmher will not permit him to marry the girl of his choice. Adol- phe stabbed himself with a penknife aver the heat, but may recover. Mr. J. \Y. Tyrrell, the well-known surveyor and explorer, has abeen in- structed by the Dominion Government tot renew his explorations in the coun- try west of Hudson Bay, and he will leave for the far north next winter. PremEer Greenway has introdu-“ed a rea‘iLsU‘iuuticu bill, not a general meas- ure, but to give the increased popula- tion of rhe nurth of Manitoba one more member. the. {01111 numher re- munmg as new. Margaret '1'. Cowan, widow of the late Homes Comm, killed at the Qt.- Iuwa bias: crossing of the Parry Sound Railway lasrt January, has issued a writ against the railway company for $20,000 damages. In McDonald’s saw mill at Mon- tague, 533, Thus. Hume, aged 2:2, was dxxlwn under the saw of a shing‘e mxchine. One. !e.g was cut off and he was otherwise so badly injured that he died in han an hour. Donald McDonald, brother of Alex. McDonald, Lhe Bonanza King, and T. H. Trotter, two fortunate Klondikers, have returned to Vansouver w'uh $80,- 003 in gold dust. of large our shops in addition to those already put up. Francis E. Brooks, a machinist) at E. Leonard and Son’s foundry, at London, 0nt., has been informed that ouL in Cziiifornia there is a fortune of 7,000,000 waiting for him. The Dominion Sneei and Iron Com- pm ’54 stock in Canada, 85, 000, 000, has been a. moat entirelv taken up by men in Momma! and Toronto. At H.1miltom, I“. B. Greening, was fined $10 by the Police Magistrate for showing a dog that was bathing in his fountain. Dr. F. A. Saunders, of Ottawa, has been appointed instructor in physics at Haverford College, Philadelphia. Aifred Cohture, railway conductor, is dying at Quebec of blood poisoning caused by the bite of a fay. In the Manitoba Legislature Mr. Sirett introduoe<i a bill to provide a hail insurance fund of $120,000 annual- ly, by taxing twelve million acres one cent per acre. 5 per: cent. public works debentures at The City of \ 'Innipeg is asking pow- er from the Legislanure to tax cir- cuses from $200 to $500 per day license fee. Miss Amy Servos of St. Catharines went to bed in good health, was found unconscious during the night and died before morning. The Bank of Montreal has purchased property on Craig street, Montreal, for an addition to the head offices. 'lhe $8.. GallLa, which was grounded m the St. Lav. renoe for some time, is bemg examined by divers at Quebec (Hamilton is worried over its finan- ceg, qnd may cut down several appro- prmuons. The union busses have possession of the Streets of London, the cars Still being tied up. Dr. J. O'Connor, Stratford, has been made. trainmaster for the northern district, G.T.R. Iâ€"iay is being shipped from Kingston to Fort William. . Crop reports from the North-west are most favorable. i The City of Nelson has sold $63,000 5' premium of 7 per cent. flif NEWS IN A NUISHHL CANADA, August 17 is Winnipeg’s Civic W for Easy Raiding. IE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. About Our Own Country. The Michigan Supreme Court has decided the case brought to test the validity of the McRod law,. which authorized the appointment of the De- troit Szre t Railway Commicsion whose object was the purchase and: municiâ€" pal ownership 8m} Operation of street "ailways of Detroxt. The decision- :hat the law is unconstitutional. _ Th? I’n'ted Statâ€"es transport McC'el {an arrived at New York from Santi- O I? Michigan's divorce record shows that there were a tot. divorces granted during the wife being complainant in l and the husband in 472. Senator \Yilliam E, Mason John Devoy of New York; 2 F. \Villiams spoke against and an alliance with Eng] Clan-na-Gael mating in Bo: Raffael Greco, while swimming in the Monongahela river, was seized with cramps. Bis companion Carmillo Andinone went to his assistance and both were drowned. A car on the big Switchback roller coaster in Schenley Park, Pittsburg, jumped the track and eight people were badly hurt. The Nebraska. Pennsylvania and Utah troops, which have been on duty in the Philippines, have started on their homeward journey. Dominick Buffunni shot and killed William Bury, at Pittsburg, because the latter interfered when the Ital- ian wae beating a small boy. The proposed strike at the Home- stead plant of the Carnegie Steel Co., has been abandoned as inapportune. London old boys in Detroit, of whom there are about 150, will have an ex- cursion to the Forest City on Aug. 5. UNITED STATES. A $25,000,000 coffin trust has been formed in the States. Mr. Robert Bonner of New York, the famous horseman, is dead. An immense file devastated the hear I of Memphis, Tenn. Monday. Robt. Bonner, publisher of the New York Ledger, and the owner of fam- ous horses, is dead. Brig.:dier-Genera1 Joseph \Vheeler has been ordered to the Philip- pines. Prime Minister Salisbury,‘who is an ardent devotee of chemical science, has, according to the Medical Press and Circular, discovered and complet- ed an important chemical process, which will be communicated to the world at a forthcoming meeting of one of the learned societies. The British House of Commons re- jected Mr. Courtney’s amendment to the London government biil permit- ting the elecuon of women as council- lors. and agreed to the Lords’ amend- ment exciuding women from that of- fice. The Cancer Society of London has commissioned Dr. A. L. E. Duffy to proceed to the United States to collect data, to investigate the operations of the Buffalo laboratory, and to offer a prize of £10 for the best original eéLSny on cancer science. Keen interest is felt at the Ad- miralty in the development of the torpedoâ€"boat destroyer Viper, which will be launched shortly on the Tyne, The Messrs. Parsons are fitting her with the turbine system of engines, and they believe that. they will enable her to make 45 miles an. hour. ' An important delegation of Welsh merchants has just left Cardiff to visit the leading commercial centers of Canada, with the view of discussing the beast measures to be taken for deâ€" veloping and increasing trade. In the Imperial Parliament the issue of £863,000 from the consolidated fund was authorized for the purpose of ac- quiring the Niger Co.’s territories in \Vcst Africa. An important delegation of Welsh Mrs. Coleman and her grandson, William Davies, who had been pas- sengers on the Majestic, were as- phy xiated at :1 Liverpool hotel on Wed- nesday night. Capt. Jessop, of ‘the Cambridge cricket team and two members of the Oxford team were arrested in London upon a charge of rioting outside the Empire Music Hall. Mrs. May \Vright Sewall has been elected president of the International Congress of ‘3: omen in successton to Lady Aberdeen. . The offer of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan to pay for the installation of electric lights in St. Paul 3 Cathedral, has been accepted. An 0 ‘ficial message has been receiv- ed at Ottawa announcing the decision of the Imperial Government to assume eight-eighteenths of the cost of the Pacific cable. The British Government has agreed to subsidize a fortnightly line of fruit and passenger steamers between Ja- maica and the United Kingdom. LHSt week more than a thousand tons of fodder and war material were for- warded from the Woolwich Dockyard to South Africa. Valuable deposits of iron one have been discovered near Dover, England. Everybody in England is pleased with the ' prOposed Imperial Pacific cable scheme. The English Royal Lice-nae Commis- sioners recommend a large reduction in the number of licenses. 7 Dr. Montizambert, Canadian quar- antine officer, is considerably exercis- ed over the appearance of the bubonic plague in China. ’In this regard he saidIâ€""It is necessary for us to dis- infect every immigrant who comes alone. Those immigrants are mostly employed in the salmon canneries on the Fraser River. All the mails that are from China or Japan are also dis- infected. We take every precaution. to disinfect new arrivals from the Flowery Kingdom." GREAT BRITAIN. Valuable deposits of iron one have been discovered near Dover, England. the first time Winnipeg has gone above the million dollar mark for cus- :e a At_otal of 1808 year, the 366 cases px'eClplL'OLIS banks. Many and many a 3 been upset in one of these as they are called. The descent is always steep, frequently so steep that the brakes cannot hold the coaches. It is a distinguishing featt African rivers that they < meat always be found in a by digging for it, but in or pearance, a river LS usually 3 been upset in on drifts as they are called. TI is always steep, frequently that the brakes nannnf For the Most of Biron Nordenskjold, the Swedi=‘~h naiuraiist and explorer, is financially ruined as the result of his becoming involved with the publishing house of F. J. Bajer. A31 of his savings amount- ing to 363,040; are swept away, sure requiring bachelors to pay 25 per cent. more income tax than mar- ried men. It has also placed a tax of five marks per annum on bicycles, unless they are, used for business pur- poses. A proposal to double tax fe- male bicyclists was defeated by a narrow majority. Socialist DeputyPrescetti, who was condemned by the military tribunals in Rome to ten years’ imprisonment as a ringleader in the bread riots of 1898, has just received a new trial in a civil court, and was acquitted. M. Gruenee, one of the detective agents who testified against Dreyfus in the court-martial in 1894, has died suddenly. It is rumored that he was poisoned. General Zurlinden, will probably be removed from the post of Military Governor of Paris and made com- mander of an army corps. General Faure Biguu will probably succeed him. A railway engineer named Gregory, at Bandora India, whose wife had eloped with Capt._ Tremonger of the Durham Regiment, shot the captain, killed the woman and then suicided. The Emperor William 11, and Pres:- dent .Loubet have exchanged friendiy telegrams arising from a visit by the former at Bgrgen to the French train- ing ship Iphigenie. ~ [the French Government, now aus- tained by an immense majonty, has pro ogued Parliament for the summer '.A large‘ number of Servian pol:- ticians, incTuding ex-Pre-mier Taucha- novics, haVe been arrested 1n connec- tion with the attempted murder of ex- King Milan. 1A cat, at a village near Leipsic. killed twin babies \Vednesday, smoth- ering one and gnawing the other. Col. Picquart has declined a sword of honor which admirers of his in Buda- pest, Hungary, desired to present_ to him. Ag’uinaldo has released the Spanish prisoners, but the terms have not been made known. The Slayers of General Luna are seid to have been acquitted by a Filipino court of investigation. ‘An immense Socialist meeting was dispersed by the police last night in Vienna. . .The Coburg Diet has made the {)uke of Albany heir to the Duchy of ham- Coburg and Gotha. ,The Peace Conference has decided that arbitration shall be optional, not compulsory. Aguinaldo agrees to release his sick Spanish prisoners, but will keep the fnars 1n hope of rich ransoms. At Corea twenty xioters were pub- licly beheaded for destroying ele tric tramway cars GEN ERA L. Disturbances have been regnmed in Bircelona and Alicante. Spam. . E:mperor Francis Joseph has almost enurely recovered from his illness. al- ”0 ‘1. -v-“va,‘v‘.u“ -â€"â€" less and nearly dead from .1986 . of blood. He kept up life py Injectomg into the rabbi's body a sahne splutlon. {He then cut open the man’s alde qnd stopped the flow of blood by talgng three deep stitches in the left ventncle of the heart. A marvellous surgical operation is reported from Binghampton, N.Y. A butcher named Ginzbury was stabbed in. the breast, and the knife penetrat- ed the heart one-quarter of an inch, Dr. E. L. Forker, found the may pulse; yellow fever. One is Miss Clendenning, daughter of the surgeon in charge at Santiago, whose death from yellow fever is reported. \Villie: Porter, 9 years old, of Coats, KS-a was playing soldiers with a p18- tol- he found in the hired man’s room. “I’ll shoot you,” he said to his baby gister, who was in her mother’s arms. Then he pulled the trigger, the bullet PaSSEDg through both the baby and the mozher, killing them instantly. RIVERS OF AFRICA. distinguishing feature of most rivers that they contain no true that water can M‘ the Year They Are From “'ater. mat water can alâ€" found in a river bed reflects grea: months of the Free - ‘ V- .. “u“. up ayleduueu on the subject of buymg trees never thought of dying until they were ask- ed t9 buy a tree, then they invariably rely-Led: "Oh, no, I am too old; I will vuv JUGILIJJE LLCCS. Fourtegsnth.â€"-IL'_ is a mistake toplant _a tree WLth the Idea that you are go- any. What 11' you do die, can you erect 'a better monument to the labor of your hands? One of my salesmen told me once that; he fully believes one- half‘the people whom he approached Twelfthâ€"It is a mistake to plant a tree in the mud or put much water around the roots. Have the soil dry enough, if possible, to crumble or else it will bake. ‘ Thirteenthâ€"It is a mistake to lean a tree in any direction. Plant as near perpendicular as possible. All trees growing at an angle will be found with the new growth nearly all on the toy sideâ€"mature trying to straighten the defects. Proof of this, go into the forest and observe the leaning trees. Fourteenth.--It is a mistake toplant Q fi‘nn 1":Lln LL; . E1eventh.â€"It is a mistake to piant a tree in sod and then replace the sod close around the tree to keep from dis- figuring the lawn, as we often see done in town 101:5. Turn the sod over and let. rot. Allow no grass closer than three feet of a tree. planted on a lawn. Tenthâ€"It is a mistake after short- ening the roots, which cannot be pre- vented In transplanting, and thereâ€" by lessening the tree’s capacity for absorbing moisture from the soil, not to cut back the top to correspond w 1th the roots, to mike less leaf surface, which exhausts the tree by evapâ€" oration. Ninthâ€"It is a mistake not to firm the soil down solid so as to exclude all the an.- from the roots as well as to pulveuze all clomfls. Eighthâ€"It Is a mistake to put any manure around the roots. It soil is than put fertilizer on tOp of the ground and let the rain wash the fertilizer down to room. Sixth. â€"It is a mistake no¢ to spread Seventhâ€"It is a mistake not to put the best soil around the roots. Fourthâ€"It is a mistake to plant a tree and not prune off all broken and bruised ends of roots with a sharp knife, cut from the under side. The roots smoothly out off Will callous more quickly than if left as they come- from the spade or digger. Fifthâ€"It is a mistake when prun- ing the roots not to examine and take out all borers, and cut off all roots affected by woolly aphls. Third.â€"It is a mistake to set a tree very much deeper than it stood in the nursery row, except it be dwarf pear trees. Second.â€"It is a mistake to dig a hole, either large or small, and throw out the top soil down to the subsoil and leave it unbroken, then set the tree. with roots on a surface nearly as solid as a board, and then expect the young tender roots to penetrate and grow and the tree to thrive.’ Firstâ€"It is a mistake to dig a hole so small that you have to crowd the roots all up together, and set the tree the same as you would a fence post. ber of other things which might proâ€" perly come under the head-of. treeâ€"- planting; but will confine our re- marks to the common errors eommit- ted by the usual tree-planter in the actual work of planting the tree, writes H. W. Jenkins. We will mention only in a general way the many mistakes made by the tree-planters in choosing wrong varie- ties or a bad location or buying trees from irresponsible. parties, or a num- MISTAKES OF THE TREE PLANTER and a, but not the only one. It does ccur to these farmers that taints be introduced to these products .,1899. t in Your tree- Vw_- pfanting as ltfected the whoie 3r}: Dries to which the milk barn with close tie-um ectly into the l is a prolific butter and one. It does )eneves one- approached trees never tie-pp birth Zréfilt biack in 0010’" w“ _ ck flirty gray. If original man Ju'St as the original lion .wa We s110nm. expect to find Infant the black color, as the young cub the traces \f’ru In UUICldLlUu "-‘w om malanal diseases “'hiCh "a?“ - 1 i n . . . es 911303, as It; IS true I a darker com Sufferers acquire In e“P'Pol‘t of the idea that the 35' oeetors of negroes and White men more . nearly resembled the 11;; ' t ter , 1n color, a mgntloned by Prof. Thom and Eight be brought forward, _-_at_ 18 that “pickaninniw” 3‘ h - - ' 3- nnlnr- butgfj Bronzing through exposure sun is due to an increased Ply and a correSponding develo. . freckles and pigmented spots, 31mm; 1n structure, to the general 8mg 0 darker races, while darkâ€"com .. People among us, have, in a the ordinary pigments, a tra black color of the negro: mor monly present in our hair. There hm not, however, enough to deStroy {.e radical fairness of our skin, thoflgh 1‘; exceptional situations, 511011 35 m t arrn pits, its presence may ev1dent.- '13 .As to the use of a black skin, Daml' hinted that it might haV 11 de“ 099d in corelation with th/ ,. k' .frOm malarial diseases WhiCh dar we" enjoy, as it is true squferers acquire a d th n 11 ° 3 s pport of the idea white men cestors of ne roes and ' . â€"-â€"-â€" ‘_8 “Armand the 1“ “‘VV‘ “Kbva ‘1. ' Other interesting points forward. For instance, ther a certain amount of pigment in :he skin of even fair peeple, that ia?‘ the red and yellow kinds found in the” hair, but not enough to prevent the blood in the vessels which do not can.” nearer the surface than the true 6“11) showing through the semi'transpar' ent layers of the_epidermi3' m the -- an are brought 9 is 31“” Again, when a piece of white skin is grafted, as is often done in mod' ern surgery, upon a black man, it be oomes black, while black upon a white man loses its pigment. This, Prof. ThOmD'SOD thinks, suppurls the theory that man has developed a White 5km from a black, rather than the other alternative. Sorby, he says, isnlated three Fig' ments, using hair as the most con- venient subject for experiment. In light-coloured hair :1 brown red and a YBHOW pigment, occur, to which in black hair a black coloring matter is added, and it; is a remarkable fam that there may be in a negro’s “wool as much red pigment as in the I‘Zurt'l'l’i‘an variety sometimes alluded to as “'03! rots.” With the Eskimus, also Mongols, has been demenstrzued, this View dcesnot seem so very unlikely. Prof. Thomp- son characterizes the theory as 5118‘ ge'stive, but goes into none of these outside details, confining himself toa study of Skin, hair and their pigments. At the same time he mentions A1- fred Russell \Vallace's idea that prim- itive man was a Mongol. rl‘his would infer that our original color was yel- low, and when we consider the civiliz- ation of remote times which existed among the Chinese, that the people of Europe sprang from Asiatic stock, and that the identity of the earlies: cave dwellers in this («Juntry and in France with the Eskimos, also Mongols, has been demtnstmted, this View doesnot seem so very unlikely. Prof. Thom? Curloslues of Human (‘olorlnx-(‘olor o! the Original Man. In the first of a series of articles, upon anthropological data which Prof. Arthur Thompson is writing for Know- ledge he discusses the original color of mankind and weighs some evidence bearing upon the question whether the earlie5t races were black or white, says the London Mai]. 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