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THE WEEK'S NEWS CANADA. Twer ityeane one Chinamen-hare beer sent from | : “Reattle: Vash., back to Victoria, B. C. London, Ont., ren a popniation of 30,- 705 exclusive of sub aun inercase since 1880 x nearly 11, 000. ominion Governinent will sell about fifty “ialands in vicinity cf Fiddler's Elbow, in the Thousand Islands. The Circassian, which arrived at Quebee on Monday, brought out o pmaber of Rus- sian families destined for Manitobs Owing to the removal of the ‘Ay on logs there is a great rush of lumber froin the Ut- tawa Valley for ths American market. Fifteen men deserted from the British war ships in Halifax Wedne sday, seven of whom were fens Prince George's vessel. The new ©. P. BR. aegis Empress of India is expected to leave erpool on her trip around the world on davnaey 15, 1891. al Brother Ethelberters, of Les Petits Freres de Marie, was fined $50 and costs in Montre- al for pulling a pupil's ear and causing in- jury to that delicate organ. A plentiful supply of good water has been | struck on Sir John Lister-Kaye's farm. at Langdon, N +» Which is matter of great importance to that district. The Pillow-Hersey Manufacturing Cor pany’s rolling mills at Montreal were tota n+ My i iP | | destroyed by fire on Saturday. The loss is placed at $75,000, and five lindred men are thrown out of employment. Michael Noonan and Jeremiah Murray, boys, were playing in Quebee on Saturday | when Maca’ attempted to stop his compan- ion, An accidental blow in the stomach i from Murray's fist killed Noonan. | An association of the architects of the | Province of Quebec has been formed, with | the object of protecting the profession | against the competition of American archi- | tects for Canadian work. The initial meet- ing ‘was held in Montreal on Saturday. GREAT BRITAIN, Sir Henry Drummond Wolfe, the British | envoy to Persia, is y Prof. Thorold Rogers, the eminent w riter | on political economy, died on Monday atj * ord, Rev. Henry White, the chaplain of the! English House of Commons, died suddenly | on Tnesday. The question of buil: ding a tunnel from | Antrin, in Ireland, to Wigtonshtire, in Scot- anid, is-under consideration. A London despatch says the English mann- facturing districts are already beginning to} feel the adverse effects of the McKinley | tariff measure, veral men of the East Surrey Regiment, | dtotioneden the-Island of Guernsey, engaged ina mutinous outbreak because they were ordered to India The Gunkaret International Conference opened at Birmingham, Eng., on Monday with 450 delegates, including many Amer- ivans and Canadians. | The remains of s. Cutharine Beoth, | wife of the General of the Salvation Army, | were interred on Monday. There wis a great: demonstration on the occasion. } The Imperial Government has advi £400,000 to the Midland Great Weste Railway of Ireland to build a ron! from Gal: i way into the distressed districts, orien Sirchall’s vietim in his farm hed his home in’ Eng: | val was made the oceasion of general rejc ing among the people. The My ring in the action for divorce wrought by Captain O'Shea against his wife, in “hich Mr. Parnell is pained as correspou- deut, isexpected to end in November, he London Chronicle ridienles the idea i tinion between England and her colonies as long as the colonies disagree among themselves on the tariff question. | Y oung Telly, The Lendon Labour World asserts that | Mr. Hoare, the British Consul in New York in ISS3, sent James McDermott to.Moutreal | for the purpose of getting vp a dynamite | ecare, The London Chronirl says that the report that Mr, Parnell’s physicians had forbidden him to attend public Ineetings wae unfound- ed, and that he enjoys better health than at any time since LSS86. The Custom house officers at Re swhaven ou Thursday night seized in Lord Salisbury’s carriage, Which had been brought over from | Dieppe, aquantinty of spirits and cigars. | The coachinan was detained. Mr. Stanhope, British Secretary of War, | referring to the new American tariff, said | he believed it was largely directed agamet England aud Canada, and that it would do | the latter country serious injury. Chief Secretary Ba salfour, writing to the, Ceutral News Agency in London, says that ; the ery of a general famine in Ireland is | absurd, There is a serious failure of the pot- | alo crop in some districts, but there is no real distress beyond the power of the eeiins | ary poor-law machinery to meet. UNITED STATES. There was a heavy fall of snow in Min-| w esota on Monday. | k The United States agricultural depart-.' ment reports a material decline in cotton prospects, | The Prentice of New Orleans is 241,905 ; Buffalo, 254,457 ; New York state, | 5,081,034. | An Alabamainan po‘soned his wife and | four children because he wanted to marry a | young woman in Texas. United States fish dealers are not p aie with the fish schedule of the Meninley tariff, which threatens serious injury to! their trade. Ex-Secretary of War Belknap, the some- what notorious member of Grant's a istration, was found «dead in his office a Vashington on Monday. W. H. Scrieber, alias Frank Mvore, who robbed a bank lu ed to The Treasury Department at Washin has th pacsraci questior before it as to dead ffogs shoul classified under che Gnent is ofthe opinion Didolny, ogaunod! as “Taw ap unmanufactured ae The New York Tribune on Monday, in | from Paria to London, the course of an editorial, says the le of the United States not wee une er reci- procity with Canada or anne There isno hostility towards the Douiniea; the feeling i is simply indifference. .— ‘A Washington correspondent learns on | goal authority that an extra session of Con- gress will likely becalled next-month. It isstated that the Republicans i are dliscov- éred that the MeKinley Tariff law is work- ing disastrously for the party, I that some modifications must be made. An insane woman, a member of th byterian ehurch of Springfield, Ohio, had her infant son stripped and placed on a hastily |, constructed altur the other day, and was in the uct of sacrificing it that she might “wash her hands in the blood of the lamb,” when er relations broke inand rescued the baby. At Syivania, Ga., Stephen Lewis died, ap: Parently, at noon on Tues y: son caine to attend the burial, and detected a " elid. He aske:l it rater. The supposed nodded his head, ‘Physicians were called in and restored the nan to couscious- ‘HE. Anew York despatch Says: James M Dougherty, Mary Ande rson’s insane admirer who was sent to the King’s County Lunatic atyiae at Flatbush in November, 1888, and escaped about three week returned to the asylum on Monday afternoon, and shot Dr. Lioyd, nasistant ‘superintendent of the institution twice, killing hin instantly, IN GENERAL, The Jews in Sebastopol have been ordered to leave the city. The German government is said to template legislative action to oe emigration of males liable to military duty Reports have heen received in Lisbon that ihe aaatish acetone have entered the Zam- river, anc eeling of indignation wenn the English is pad intense. An <Austrinn tailor fad, which is sravellini in a trunk, ie journeyed from Vienna to Paris, and has just made the trip where he waa taken a ago, out exhaustec It is r portal Portuguese gunboats have | formed a line across the mouth of the Zamb- esi river, in East Africa, to bar the passage ‘of the British gimboats if they attempt to ascend the river, Madame DGonnet, who Nancy with plans of the fortification i in her was arrested at | possession, nud who subsequently confessed | to helng aG rerman spy, lias been sentenced to fie years’ el taining ‘and the payment ' of a fine of 5,000F ‘The English Government is preparing to }deal with Portugal ina summary manne ; should that country refuse to carry out the } demands of the Anglo-Portuguese conven- tion, It is expected the little kingdom will so0n receive an ultimatum, special cablegram Girts an interview with Mr. Robert Porter, h States Census Depeat tment, who seat in London, that the only way Canada can enjoy ue United States murket is by becoming part of the Union, Creat “destitution is reported in Ja owiwg to the failure of the rice crop year and the recent destrnetive flomls Canadian, writing “to his friends in King- ston, states that between floods, typhoons, earthquakes, volcanoes, and disease the land seems un der a curse. 18 at lee! us She Thought She Might Walk 1. ‘TLhave never been on the cars hefore,"’ seat and got mar live to Dr see port. to come to Iridgepart, *Lain't never been % the cs ws, and I don't | think I would like i row, spatheas ys he. ‘no trouble at all. You jest giton the cars, + and you have nice cusbioned seals, and you see lots of vishpige rs. Mother,” says he, *yau would like it, 1 know. ‘Well, John." 1 says, ‘It don't seem right arranging her skirts. ‘* My son fifteen years ae and went o| He key urgin’ ory "No eal of the U on | portunity, remear vfeaptured a larg He says very emphat lay ‘ me | bore says to hii, | 4 ‘you won't lave t to me, an old wom: in, to vo gaddin’ about in new: fangled cars but every time he come to our house he! ke pta urgin’ me. Mi, some ‘knittin’ on the ears. But Rain! t willin’ to set idle with my hands crossed, and do nothin’ : ‘Why, mother,” | see any women do rauch sewin' on the cars, but, biess vou, lots of "em knit You kin jest sit there and knit till you get to Bridge- pe rt, * John,’ saysd, ‘I'll go to please you, but I don’t think it night “*Now mother,’ says he, ‘I'll come up and git you, or heh kin have Henry come down,’ ‘No,’ say ‘Henry must stay to home, ‘and look after ‘ farm, and I guesa I kin git to Bridgeport if the cars will take ime | he * op hey willtake you right there, and I will meet you,’ says he. “How will ] know,’ to Pebe geport* iy, nother,’ snyshe, ‘the brakeman will in nt his head i in the dcer and say what! station it i “So here ‘| ain,on the cars forthe first! time 't ain’t much use for me to be wis in’ _ Ty time, and V guess I'll do some mits The little Woman put on her glasses, and, ! feelingaround in her cloth | az with trembling hand, drew forth her knitting. “Do yau know,” she said, turning around her work and looking at it closely, “the cars run quite smooth, ont seem to mind ‘em atall, but it don't seem right tor an old wo- man like me to be goin’ about on cars. She picked up two or three stitches and says I, ‘when we are ! was on the point of starting her slender need- | she can les on their way when the brakeman opened fee; eo aoe and cried, “Bridgeport, Bridge- What did he say?” asked the little wo- man, with & surprised look in her ve. “Bridgeport. We are coming to it “Bei eport {” she said, folding her hole i ‘ow ain't that aggravetin'? tbe Bridgeport was forty iniles d known that it way so near Why, Iain't been 1 ways tho from us. : would have walked it. n the cars an hour yet.” hed at the little woman. "she said to a big, oe t-faced wan who came in to meet her ae “aid yor ool me about ete ru? coul hae: walked it in a couple of- pours “Tt's fortyaniles, niother,” id, kiss- ing her wrinkled face. “It ‘athe carsybu know that make it seem sho i, fear,” said themother, ‘Ain't it wondeal ¢ | | | says, ‘I might go if Leould do} says he, ‘I ain't never: | Cone . . » = the iit leobl indy. uetil'g hocoell inital oneluding his interesting article Mr, } olian, from whom Cana- xact a fee af each for the privi- lege of living i in this fruo country, and who the-Ameficans will not receive on any co: dition, is, according to Lord W. olssley and Mr. Thos. Ma agee, a person important for any nation to n tho teemin lated country ley perceives She power that may yet, upon the field of battle test the strength of the combined forces o Europe, America and Australia. Especially dloes he foresee tronble should thore arise ames these followers of Confucius a Moses n Alexander the Great. In that case the tetera soldier thinks that nothing could prevent the Chinese from invading the lands ” the west. Not as warriora but as compet: rs in the varions industrial fields does Mr, Manes regard China as threatening to dis- turb the existing order of things. To show that his fears = this reyard are not ground- Mr. Magee states what he knows of this really rematieable, but little appreciated, peo- p n reference to their allilities as farm- ers he says : In the United States if a father were to give his son two or three acres of land, and & -“ him that he expected hin on this ac 9 grow rich, theson would be fully justified in indulging in_ineredalous laughter. Suppose that in addition to mak- ing his own living, and to paying and feed- ing a laborer out of the produce of the land, the son were called upon to pay $25 or $30} & month rent-per acre, would not every one say, “This isimpossible?" Butit is not-—to * Chinaman, at least.” An instance ia then cited of a Chinaman in the suburbs of San F Francisco, who, on about two and a quarter acres of land for which he paid a renta! of $75 per month, and kept besides an assistant, Was really making money. In the estima- tion of Chinamen Americans “ not farm at all. With the former “eve: of rice is lauted as seed, and replanted by human ands, and to nd one handful to Pp would not ba thought unworthy of ell Human hands do all the work: hum backs bear most of the land burdens ; bhimied animals are the beasts that drag most of the ‘oads, where they caunot be transported on canal or river.” For horses and beasts of burden there is absolutely no room in a pect ud where agriculture is so minute oe the roots of plantsare exa:nined to ex wects or grub, the seeds steeped in Liqniad me inure to fm them to rapid growth, and fertilizers sad directly to the roots to prevent te hy evaporation, W ith this great to secure the most bountiful yield must be associated the wonderful staying power of the Chinese. agee mentions his having asked a Chinese merchant how his countrymen mun- age: to distance white men so far in lanc e ilture, w es the other replied, “Oh, white man teo Laz Chinaman work all day and * night tos, when the moon is shining. eit, <2 ‘y are given o able ability. share of the business of the Sandwich Ti adands, where they are rapidly cisplucing the native population, Z hey have see ed_an immense dant eure 1 Lower California, and wil Chewadlaes felt there. They ed a twenty years’ concession of the sole right to fish in the waters of the Gulf of | California, and 8,000 of them are to be brought into Mexico to carry on that in- dustry. In manufacturing China has as yet j made scarcely any progress, nt she is en tering upon a new era in this respect, ot with every prospect of wonderful succ Saace e remarks: ‘“ The world does not know much ‘about China yet: it willsoon however make more aeyuaintance. China has been ignerar ly despised : but China is worshy of all reapect. has wotiring industrial ability, Balle staving powers, and a llegree of patience w hich no other nation can pretend to eqn riend and enemy of China alike should Show these facts,” Disereditable to the Bor, The opposition of these members of the Montreal bar and bench who have sided with the male stenographers in opposing Miss Grace H. Eute On, recently adjudged compet- ent to engage in stenographic work in the courts, does credit to neither their heads nor the-rhearts. Of course they are without spec ee valid argument to support their opposi- tion, being, it is reported, obliged to fall back upon the vague and hackneyed general statement that it is not fitting Work for a woman. With an apparent assurance that ther question admits of only one answer, and that to ask it_is to nnawer—it,-they~on- quire, “Ifa woman may do stenographic work in court, why may she not practise at | the bar or preside on the bench?" Now, it would have been much more satisfactory if our legal friends, who assume that the rea- sons for answering their chars " oy heg: ative are so apparent, had e pains me point out why a woman, srocied he pos- the other necessary qualifications, | should not be allowed to practice at the bar or preside on the bench, It is a mere pre- ju.ice without a single good reason to sup- Bor. Itis gratifyingtolnow that these ioss- { backed opinions are not entertained by all | aatts the legal faternity of the island city, and that the young lady will not lack for de- fenders who are as warm as her foes. No pro it is not pleasant to selfish herman | ature to relinquish un eevee ‘ge long en- joyed, but right will win the d Feeding Denr Grain. High priced corn, says the Hon. Wilson in his syndicate farm papers, can not be fed profitably to stock that does sell for the best prices. It will pay to feed dear corn to a good cow if so prepared that get all the good of it.“ It will pay to dear corn to export steers if it is econ- omically fed. It will not pay at all to feed cr 5) cent corn to low selling beef cattle. It will pay to feed dear corn to growing that will sell for good prices for any; . But it will not pay to feed it to. [Howe selling plugs of any brecd. So cull out ew orthiees and give your corn that ick willgive you sure returns. .There is no doubt but that rs dairy products and good meate will sell as high as to correspond with the price of the grain that makes them. r corn demands revolution in feedin there will be mone all the i tation animals to eell grain at big prices is very reat. Bat that only brings poverty tothe Dear grain ds of feedin improvement in stock and in methods of f ng. Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. ‘Hold the shee; det it on) 09 to 00 seconds Seab in Sheep. may come in two or frees months. Other sources of loss decrease in the value of the mutton, me a that of the wool of the mbs from diseased e disease is cansedl by an insect nown ns "he 8c ni mite or itch insect. When the sheep show, by serathing, biting and rubbing theusseivea: that they apt me ring from itch, the skin should be e ined. and if infected it will show “ial elevations slightly whiter an the surro. nding skin, sais cau be found among the hairs, seab insect is large enough to be seen by the naked eye ; it looks like a little waite the di and Winter. elevations increase in number and size until they run together over a considerable space, and each of them gives out a watery fluid, which gradually dries into a yellowish greasy crust, Under this the insects hideand produge their young; and the itching becomes so intense that the sheep hy rabbing tear out the crusts an with them tages of wool. The eg now come out upon the surface, and may be found in swarims at the wilge of the thick scabs which take the:place of the torn crusts, thus spreading the disease still further. To | Rible Competition ! wo. = Be ig-eripe to the Don’t Delay es at Onea ! ——e 7 Old Reliable fore. A Sonal Competition Number Twenty Six opens nowatthe solicitation of thousands ofthe old Bea and competitors in former contests. litor of Tue Lapres' Jounxan has pearly forty thousand testimonials as to the irness with which these Bible Competi- tions have been conducted. uestions are as fo the eile in the correct be given num- e Piano, 'o the next person, the $100.00 in cash, and so on till all these rewards sre given oway. Fist BENEAS OR: First on coletrk “il Seconil pote “Hundred Doltnare in cash cure 1s difficult aud expensive ; to prevent is | very eas Prevention-—The means ot prevention will be seen in the fact that infection is pein | in one way only ; and that is by the insects passing in sume means from sheep to shesp: The pieces of seab and tags ot wool whia’ the sheep have left wherever ree rubb al themselv es carry the insects and disease to | * other sheep rubbing on the same posts, and even to those walking over the same ground. Experiments have shown that the insects can live on a picee of scab from ten to twen- ty da From the foregoing it is evident that when seab lias appeared in a flock pee) ment must he applied to every sheep ex 8 contagion ; that the flock shoul he striclly quarantined to prevent the disease from spreading to other flocks: that t sheds and yards where they have been kept should be thoroughly cleansed, and” that after cleansing the yards should he left vac- aut for three weeks. The soil of the yards should be carted away, and all the wool work as high as a man's head should be washed “with boiling Tye and then white washed, Dip ping —Dipping for the ecnre of scab stent come ifter shearing, and should be repeated inten days or two weeks, that the eggemay be hatched, and yet none of the young be old enough to lay eggs. The hest temperature for the dip is 00> to 110% Vs. beatlair Teast once. The Australian tutherford dip, which has been very sticcessful in the a of large sluek mactersin« nuposed us follows : Tobacco and flowers of Sulphur, one poanil cach to spel four gallons of water, baceo in « sae of the sulphur with: v sowie of the tobacco water to the thickness ofcream; then add the rest lien Powers gives the To every 100 gallons of water. use 3h pounds of yood, strong tobacco (if stems are used there should be mein 10; pounds flowers of sulphur. Law's ree ‘eipt isi very good one: Tobaceo, li pounds ; oil of tar, 3 pints: soda ash, 20 pounds; soft soup, + pounds; water, ¢ 0) gallons, Dips containing lime are apt to injure the wool, and arsenical dips are often fatal to the shee Probably tobacco and sulphur form the leat combination known for, the treat- ment of scabs. ' and immerse tie ot The Crop. in Manitoba, Rev. Robertson, superintendent of Presbyterian Missions i in Manitoba and the North West, writes The three agencies that injuriously aifucted the crop of 1890 in ort western Canada were hail, frost and rain. ‘The frost of the 2nd August was confined almost exclusively to what is terin- ed the third plaieat. At very few points in Manitoba did the mercury ‘all to 42°, nence the damage done in that Province 41 that night was almost nil. The importan-e of this statement will appoar.-when “it is. remenibered that ‘the bulk of the wheat sa | far is raised’ in Manitolm. In both Mani- | toba and the Northwest a good deal of wheat was cut before the 22nd August and the whole of the rop Was too far aavauce to be much affected in plumpness or weight. The estimate of the area destroyed by hail made by certain .Winnipeg papers is in my judgment, too high, and the injury done Was not se complete as their reports wonld indicate. Some farmers lost their entire crop and otners a large part of their sow- ing, but if the whole area under crop is taken into account the hail dit! not d eStroy | our percent. I drove through « good part | a 1 ' ing. ! weather for James | and there is comparatively little of it t not ruled low, a good deal of our wheat bringing of Manitoba after the rain which aft erwards ‘get in had ceased and visited scores of wheat ticlds but saw Jittle or no damage iby 8 After the rain cleared’ § wetter stocking could not be desired and the great bulk of the harvest was gathered in in fine order. Taking the crop asa whole the grade is considerably — that of 1887, but the bulk is much la ae ‘is not marketable. In 1887 the prices only 59 cents per bushel. 1890 the prices are high, some samples selling for 89 cents, if pot more, As compared with 1S87 we have more wheat, lower grade, higher prices, more money. 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