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we, EL “ horse's eyes. It is 11 Wonder that a A . horse has any eyesight after a few u _ 3 months' exposure to such a condition. T Entire absence of light in the stall is Nfflummmamm‘mm'mt , to be avoided however, for this causes w 13AM, ‘ injury to the horse’s eyes when he goes AVOIDANCE o}: BITTER CR lout from the darkness into the strong How shall we keep cream from get-l ting bitter in winter? Mainly by preâ€"j venting its suffering from the effects of the prevailing low temperature. writes Geo. E. Newell. Butter with a bitter flavor coming from small home produCers is of frequent occurrence. It is usually from farms where the house- wife with poor facilities but good dairy l instincts refrains from ~â€"setting her: milk in the hot kitchen pantry and puts it in a room far too cold for it. In the latter place, where the temper-I the milk will remain for several days! sweet, tardily casting up its cream,l and then without any zicidity develop-i ing a fermentative change takes placeI resulting in the characteristic bitter flavor. It is a species of lacteal taintz’ induced by a prolonged alkaline reac-i tion at a low temperature. The natural end of healthy milk is to get sour in at most from two to three days. Before the limit of that time, in from 24 to 36 hours, and while the milk is perfectly sweet, the butter fat' should all be extracted therefrom and stored in a separate vessel to mature. I think it better cream be churned in 12 hours afteri skimming, or at least in 18 hours atl the longest. I mean by thi__s that the; cream should be kept at a warm? enough temperature to ripen within'. that period, so as to be fitted for} churning. To avoid any bitter fer-‘3 mentation during cold Weather, milk‘ should be set for creaming in an. apartman having a uniform tempera-J ture of 50 degrees. Then, the milk be- ing skimmed within 2.1 or 36 hours,‘{ the cream should be matured at 65' degrees. l Avoid the hot kitchen pantry with; its mixed odors of cookery on one hand i and a cold room on the other. The atmosphere of the dairy room must bol pure. as well as of a mild, equable tem- peraiure, or foreign flavors will dis-: place the natural one in the butter. The housewife who wishes to make a. few pounds of butter per week? throughout the winter and can findi a ready sale for it at a maximum price f 1 that the ripened? should carefully observe the above; principles. Another thing: Most 1 small Winter butter makers do notl color their product uniformly. Thel aVerage consumer, although he is ful-i ly aware that the butter he is eating? is artificially colored, likes to see it; of] a natural hue. It really tastes bet-‘ ter to have it so, which proves how, much the eye acts as a guide to thei palate. The worst mistake is in col-‘ oring butter too highly, which is al-l mom as bad as not coloring it enough.! A happy medium is in striking a shade of the natural color of the June pro-l, duct. \Vith small makers this compels‘ the greatest accuracy in measurement, ' and the. employment of a perfectly re-; liable brand of butter color. EXPERI ENCE \VITH FLOORS. CEMENT Two years ago this winter I laid cement floors in my cow and horse stables, writes H. P. Loomis. There are three things to be strictly observed, foundation, right kind ofmaterial to: be used, and manner of doing soft earth, filled in stone, pounding it fine on top. Frost must not be al- low/ed to get under it. The concrete is laid on the pounded stone. Concrete is made by mixing coarse gravel and cement, two-thirds gravel to one-third cement. If a second coat ‘ is laid on top of the concrete should be one-third coarse sand and two-thirds cement. The under coat‘ should be 3 1-2 inches thick; the top coat is 1-2 inch. Any man of good judgment can lay a cement floor. If: Rosendale cement is used it shouldf have three months in which to hardenf before it can be used. If Portland 0&f ment is used, it Will become as hard 1 members ho“. much havoc has beenl as a rock in ten days. Measure ce-, ment and gravel, put into a long box. and thoroughly (1 ry-mix. . . . . vent it. attire is usually a little above freezmgq . , is to be planted to corn. ipillaged to their hearts‘ content. . tages. light. When the light cannot be ad- mitted from the rear, but must come from the side, pot a grating into the side. of the stall. If two or more stalls are side by side, put such a. grating into each partition. It will let some 1 light into even the stall farthest from the window. Such grating_comes in various sizes of mesh, and is sold at the. hardware store. CORN SHUT. Spraying will not prevent smut nor will soaking the seed in fungicides pre- Since manure forms a breed- ing place for smut, fresh manure should not be applied to ground which As many of __________,_____._._____â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" .____-_... . .._._..__â€".s.’ Rawhmfimmmag ing the. light to fall directly into the the. smut balls as possible should be: burned. In this way the disease can be kept within limits. Feeding smut lto stock does not injure the animals, but the disease is spread in the manure. __.____â€"._â€".â€"â€"â€"â€" BONAPARTE FAMILY RECORD. London Truth Does Not 111an It Such as to I‘onnneml Them its Rulers or French- men. ‘ Dreyfus, Picquart, which rival factions seek to knock each other about the head. But it is difâ€" ficult to believe that any number of Frenchmen, can be desirous to revert lto the Bonaparte family for a ruler and it appears even more improbable that they wouldâ€"were they to be af- flicted with such a lunacyâ€"select young V‘ctor~ Bonaparte as the ruler. The first Napoleon was a Corstcan adventurer of gigantic intellect. He sacrificed France to his personal am- bition. After having destroyed the lives of above a million of Frenchmen in an attempt to found an Empire of the. \\'est, in which France would have been a province, he was defeated, and the French lost the frontier that they had obtained before he became their Emperor. His two brothers, Jerome and Louis, were the poorest of crea- tures, and Jerome was one of the most 1 despicable of scamps. Louis had a wife, and the pair cordially hated each oth- er. The lady‘s son, Louis Napoleon, was not without amiable qualities, but he was a born conspirator. When, in an evil hour for France, he managed to become Emperor he was surrounded by a crew of malefactors, who robbed 2111110. T e second ’limperor lost his health, and fell under the domination of his wife, ta Spaniard. She forced him into war . with Prussia, and the result. was that - France lost Alsace and Lorraine. Dur- ingthe second Empire, Jerome’s son, I’rince Napoleon, was an object lesson in proof of what a despicable being Im- perial Highness may be. Physically he was a coward, and was almost proud of being one. He had but two occupations: To get as much money as he could out of his cousin and to intrigue against him. Young Victor is his son, He is ’a nonenlity, and about as fit to rule a country as the silliest of the las whose existence is passed in aimless frivolity. I understand the notion of continuity involved in " Le Roi est mort, vie le lioi," although I am not perhapsa con- firmed believer in its universal advan» But this Victor Bonaparte is‘ 1116 not the descendant of a long line of‘ work. For foundation, I removed the Kings. He is not even tho descendant Eof the first Napoleon, or of Louis Na- lpoleon. Very possibly be is aharmâ€" I less creature; but if we are to accept ‘the doctrine of heredity, he certainly ihas not inherited any good qualities {from his father or from his grandfa- tther, for they had none. Even suppos- sing that the French were anxious to find some one to become their mon- thut ‘ arch. he is the very last man whom rthey would be wise to select for that position. Two Bonapartes, as Emper- ors, have proved themselves a curse. to France. \Vhy, then, take a third from the same family? THE NEW BLUSH. How ruthleSsly scientists rob us of all romance nowadays. When one re- ‘ wrought by the blush, it is not a little Esterhazy and l l Henry seem to have become sticks with A garden . disillusioning to be told that it is only: rake and hoe are the proper tools. This ' caused by excess of blood in ,h:, bmini operation cannot be too well done. Now} wet up a pailful at a time just so it' will spread with :i trowel. Pour down and spread the proper thickness, and press down firmly; four inches thick if only one coat is laid. This is just which dilates the blood vessels, and that by the use of certain drugs, which I l . shall be nameless, the modern maiden,, said h r of whom it is not often to be thit "a delicate blush mantled 1811 ' December Willi NUSH . THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. Eâ€"n- interesting Items About Our Own Country. Great Britain. the United States, and All Parts oi the Globe. Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading. CANADA. London hackmen have organized a union. London's fire losses in 1898 totalled $55,000. Poultry Kingston. . Three Indians and a white man will be hanged at Dawson on March 2. \V'olves are reported to be doing a good deal of damage in some parts of Manitoba. The Mounted Police Klondike will produce worth of gold during '99. It is stated definitely that the C.P. Rakwill not erect a new station at Winnipeg this year. - Lieut. Adams, R. E., a graduate of the Royal Military College, Kingston, has been appointed Manager of the Nile Delta railway. Woodstock Board of Trade will hold another meeting shortly to advance the agitation for the incorporation of the town as a city. ' The Montreal Butt'iers' Association has unanimously resolved to raise the price of beef from 1 cent to 2 cents a pound, according to quality. Fifteen or eighteen men connected with A Battery, Kingston, who mar- ried without permission of the authori- ties, are to receive their discharge. Quebec City has accepted from the Champlain monument committee the gift of the monument to Champlain re- cently erected on Dufferin terrace. It is said the Imperial authorities are anxious to have A Battery, R. C. A., sent to England, in exchange fora battery of Royal Artillery, to be sta- tioned at Kingston. The 1ntercolonial Railway is now said to be on a paying basis, and there is reason to believe that it will show a surplus at the end of the fiscal year on the 30th of June next. .The Army and Navy Veterans’ SO- CIety of Toronto has sent a letter to the Illayor asking that action be lak- to prevent the use of the Union Jack as a sign by auctioneers. thieves are busy around estimate that $50,000,000 The Vancouver City Council has passed a resolution asking the Pro- vxncuil Government to exclude the Japanese from the privileges of the franchisee, and to place them on the same basis as the Chinese in this re- spect. The start Hudson's Bay Company will i a courier for the Mackenzie river and intermediate points next month. Letters addressed care of the Hudson’s Bay Company will be deliv- ered in the Mackenzie river country. At Kentville, N. S., the prohibition- ists instituted a crusade against hotelâ€" keepers who were breaking the Scott Act, and the bonifaces retaliated by closing up entirely, much to the incon- venience of the travelling public. Mr. Kyobashi Senju, one of the larg- est paper manufacturers of Japan, is at Sault Ste. Marie, inspecting the pulp mills. IIe supplies five daily papers in Tokyo, and says there is a market in Japan for Canadian pulp. The balance to the credit of deposiâ€" tors in the Government savings bank on December 31 was $15,163,498. De- posits for December stood at $219,208, and withdrawals at $231,094. In post office savings banks the amount to the credit of depositors at the end of was $34,175,018. Deposits during December amounted to $709,715, and withdrawals to $720,116. A scheme is on foot at Ottawa for the formation of a private company to buy up the rights of the Canada Atlantic, Parry Sound, Canadian Paci- fic and Ottawa & New York Railways to the central facilities and then oper- ate the terminal, charging each rail- way according to the number of trains handled daily, It is proposed to erect a modern union station. In all fifty-five applications have been received for private legislation at the next session of the Federal Parlia- ment. 'l'wenty-five are for incorpora- tion. twentyâ€"seven for amendments to existing charters, six for divorce and one for winding up. It would appear from this that there. will be an aver- age voluinn of this kind of legislation in addition to what the. Government may have. to bring down. GREA'l‘ BRITAIN. as swd as if two mats were applied. ’ t‘hi’ekv'" my “nah Wile WW“? 0“ “0‘1 Fully 109,001) inhabitants of London and is not so difficult. The gravel or. sand used must not have any quick-l sand in it, or the floor will be ruin-i ed. The cost of a cement floor, of course, depends somewhat on how much the foundation costs, but usual- ly they do not Cost more than 10 cents- per square foot. 1 Horses must not stand up on cement , floors. It will injure their feet. lie-1 aides they will slip on them as sooni as barefooted or smooth shod. In lay-Q ing my horse Stable floor I fixed it! so I could use plank on top. I sunkr a timber crosswise of the stalls, sol that it would extend one-half an inch} above the cement. 'l‘hen took a saw‘ and sound some kerfs down to the re- ment and beveled out with chisel. This will let the urine pass out into the back part of the stall where it can be conducted to a receptacle, or absorb» ed by means of litter. The floor," should slope about 3 inches in 121 feet. .' I LIGHT IN THE HORSE STALLS. Man) unwiser put a small window; at the front of the horse stall, caus-x casion. A MA li Iii 1‘) l) LOOK. Mrs. ('lruinpsâ€"Your friend. Mr. Bald- pzte, did not mention his wife the whoie evening. Mr. Grtiinps â€"â€" Wife? bachelor. Well I edcl-iredl I took in for grant- ed ho was married. -\\'hyi Oh, I don‘t know. He hasa sort ofa in irried look somehow. He used to live out West, and once he was treed for three days and three nights by a grizzly. He's an old II [S DISABILITY. The new boarder has not said a word about the meals yet, said the board- tag-house mistress. No; I believe he's a very religious man, replied one of the victims. ? During the last 10 yearstherecords of Great Britain showy that 154 men 1nd 237 women reached the age of» 100 )’;§»‘.1'S or more. l I I l are night workers. One person in four in Whitechapel is a Jew or chess. Sir Henry Irving is another American tour. Drowning was once a punishment for crime in Scotland. The tapes on a first-clans man-ofâ€"war cost about £3,000. Thirty miles of streets are added an- nually to London. Seventy pounds' worth of coin is drop- ped in London daily. ,’ The British Government realizes £11,- 300 a year for waste paper. Football was a crime in England during the regin of Henry VIII. There is one policeman to every 775 persons in England and Wales. More than 12,000 people are regular- ly employed in the London theatres. Five millions of women are said to be turning wages in the United King- dom. It is calculated that 21,000 people sleep nightly aboard the steamers on the Thames. - prepiring for The British Government hasthe Pa- cific cable project under its immedi- ate consideration. . The. manufacture of jewellery in Birâ€" , mingbam gives totistant employment to . “'0‘” Pe’ms' WHAT 15 accident m m At th -. beginning of the 181h century people “there hanged in Great Britain for CORNERS OF THE GLOBE. ’ the illicit manufacture of salt. - The railways of England and land derive a larger revenue from their goods than from their passenger trots fic. Mr. “'illiam “'utson, . poet, has received a legacy which raises him above fear or care as far as money goes. As he is still Very young at great career is now. predicted for him. the British ' Mrs. C. Buck attained her 100th birthâ€" - day at Beccles on‘ January 7. She was born in the parish of Woodton, Norfolk, on January 7, 17%). She boasts that she "never told a story in herlife." Off Devonport the British battle- ship Collingwood rammed the third- c1.i.ss cruiser Curacoa, almost her. . . l Striking ‘ The hole in the Curacoa was stop- , , Old um New World Events of Interest Chron- ’ lcled Brieflyâ€"Interesting Happenings of Recent Dune- “’omen are not allowed journalism in Japan. Portable telephones are used in one of London's fire stations. Russia will order her next consign- ment of steel rails from England. Two hundred old war medals were recently sold at auction in London. The late “'oolf Joel's bequests to London charity reached over $100; 000. Among the 780,000 persons employed to enter pad by mouision‘mats‘ and the cruiser g in Russia's factory, about $00,090 are was towed in Devonport harbor by tugs. , « John Daly, the Irish political pri- soner who was released from Portland Prison in 1890, after having been sen- women. Newport, Isle of \V’ight, has a new waterâ€"works system that cost over $100,000. The Glamorgan County Council has fenced t0 Peiuml Servil‘lde for me hast appointed a bacteriologist at a salary been elected Mayor of Limerick by a unanimous vote, under the new Irish local government: act. There Were buried in Watford, Eng, cemetery recently an old lady and gen- 1 l 'of £250 a year. A young lad, thirteen years of age, living in London, has saved thirteen persons from drowning. The midwives of England may be tleniin whose , combined aged nearly ; . reached 2w, mun, IL Mr_ Thomas1 forced by Act of Parliament to regis- Young, a retired draper. 105, and f “‘13 Mrs. Mary Glen, widow, aged 9-1. Dover, Eng.. Corporation, who al- A London, Eng, billiard marker at- tempted to commilt suicide by hang- ready own the local waterworks, elec- ‘ ing himself on a lamp post. tric tramways, bathing establishments and machines, etc., are consnlering a propole to purchase the local gas The British Secretary of State for \Var has placed with‘ Atkinson Broth. ers, Ltd.. Sheffield, orders for 120,000 razors, and cases. 75,000 sailors' ClusijIOUSt‘s. knives, 210,000 table forks, 1,200 carving knives. and 1,000 carving forks. l l I l 1 Lord Sufficld has been elected presi- dent of the Article Club, of London. for 1899, in succession to Lord Slrath- cona and Mount: Royal. A man was recently charged in a London Police ("curt with stealing two He 'had destroyed the two table knives, 170,001) E houses and erected two others. John Holmes, a in Lancaster, attempted quarryinan, living to_ out . I At a meeting. of the Town Council i throat of his daughter, ‘Jar’ of Glasgow it was. decided, by an over- i IIolineS, with a large carving k. wht-lming majority to proceed with the conversion of the whole of the trim- ways in the city to the overhead trol- ley system. At present horse traction is used except on one line. St. Luke's Church, Birmingham,Eng., has become so dangerous that the vicar has lbeen ordered to have edifice pulpit, pulled down. The pews, | l l l Mrs. C. Rumpff, who was it I during the Franco-German war, . had many honors bestowed upon lit by the German Emperor, died recentlv in England. The late Mr. J. J. Coleman} brated herd of red-polled ca‘ttle ant and ; flock of Soulhdown sheep, which have 0ran have. been removed by the trus- 5 W011 OVCI‘ 600. Prizes Since 1588. “To tees, and the stonework of the building . about t0 be (“spewed- nd electric light undertakings. [At a council meeting in a West of England borough. complaint was made of the number of pigs that were al- lowed to roam the streets. The mayor moved that the constable be instructâ€" ed to arrest all pigs found wandering about the streets except cbuncillors. the pigs of h‘ew perhaps feel the institution of wedding present giving more than the Prince and Princess of \\'ales. The calls upon them in this direction are numberlcss, and, says a gessip, the sum total expended by Their ltoyal [ligh- ncsses in one year on wedding gifts must represent a fortune. \hs been .sold as it stands for' £5. The telephone was used at West Bromwich, ling, for a novel purpose in connection with a runaway horse, which bolted with the front part of a carriage in the direction of Oldbury. The police in the latter place were promptly apprised of the accident by telephone, and the animal stopped. A company has been formed in Lon- don with a capital of a million sterling to acquire the publications of Sir Wil- liam Ingram, including the three pop- ular weeklies. The Illustrated London News, The Sketc, and the Penny Illus- trated Paper. Sir William will be chairman, and the company will be called The Illustrated. London News, Limited. The Queen, when she leaves Windsor for Balmoral, is provided with about a dozen copies of a sort of waybill of her journey, which contains a list of all the people in the train, and the compartments in which they are, a complete time-table of the whole jour- ney. and an explanation of the gradi- ents, ett'., printed in purple on silk. A further edition is dist ributed among the Queen's attendants and the railway officials. UNITED STATES. Blue carnations are in course of pro- pagation at the Horticultural Hall, Denver. The Maine Legislature is considering the incorporation of the American Ice. (30., with a capital of 500,000,000. li is reported from Santa l"e, New Mexico, lll'll 217 lndians have died from smallpox in Valencia County, and that 60') :ir- now ill. Indiana expends annually for poor relief through county and township officials about $1,109,100. About one- h-ilf this sum is paid for the. care of persons in institutions. M. Labbe, of Chicago, four years ago loaned a stranger ten dollars, and look in security a leather trunk, which is now found to contain money and bonds to the value of 800,000. George Srhafft-r, a Philadelphia but- cher, and his three children, are in a critical condition through drinking Ct’lftl‘l' containing arsenic. Schaffer is ‘Usps‘ClNl of poisoning the coffee, but denies it. Alexander Graham Iii-ll, renowned inventor of the telephone, has returned from Japan with two new projectsâ€"the establishment of a Japanese garden at Washington as a model, and the instruction of oars- men in the Japanese way of rowing a boat. Dr. Bell says that "in landscape gardening there is no question that the Japanese lead the world," and that 'their method of rowing is far sup- erior to anything we have in this country." the world wows- .‘ Madrid was to have had a contest between two bulls and an elephant. but the. latter died, and the. papers of Spain came out with obituary notices, mourning the animal’s death. The Duchess of \Vestminster still wears the largest: flawless turquoise owned by any private individual, and the Duchess of Sutherland possesses llll' only complete necklace of black pearls. I An English coroner's jury returned a. verdict: of "Death from misadven- ture" in the inquest on the. body of Alfred Burlinghain, who was killed on December 11 while experimenting with acetylene gas. Prince. Milik Mansur Mirza, srcond son of the Shah of Persia, an intelli- gent looking boy of 18, of lint-opium education, has arrived in Brussels for treatment. for a nervous disease from which he has long suffered. At. a drive recently at Hesse, 2,900 rabbits wore killer]. hunt was given by llaron von lleyl, the. largest manufacturer of patent leather in the. World, and one of the wealthiest men in Germany. George \Vebber, a lx'ilburn carman, was fined for being drunk while. in charge. of his vehicle, and colliding with a trap. He said his condition was due to persons giving him drink when he delivered Christmas pre- sents Soap has been in use for 3,000 years, and is twice mentioned in the Bible. A few years ago a wap-boiler's shop was discovered in Pompeii. The snap found in the shop had not lost all its efficacy, although 11 had been buri- ed 1,800 years. An antique. pearl and topaz ring, which at one time. contained a small poisoned knife, has lurm-d up in a London auction room. This curious relic, which is 150 years old, is said to have been purchased from a Spanish prisoner at Key West, Fla. The Japan Times says that the dc.- manil for meat in Tokyo is daily in- creasing. Beef commands the largest proportion of customers-e, pork comes next, and thcn horse flesh. At the [)ri'sclil time 600 horses, on an aver- age, are slaughtered monthly. A Japanese has been l:uil‘.‘il'li‘.'l at Sydney of forging sew-n copies of :1 rare early New South Wales stamp, rated at $400. The imitation “fin so imrfecl that the stamps “‘th pur- chased by dealers and sent to London, wle they passed the. sciUtiny of sev- eral experts. Japan will) a prpulalion of l5,lllitl,tllf) has 2211 towns :hit llTl'.'-' more than 100,000 inhabitants. In MM 111- numâ€" ber of such towns was 117. Haiku has iniio-ases from turnout; in 510,an lil- hahilants in to-n ytais. Yuk llama from HUN)” in 1140,1100, Kan from 30,»- 000 to “5,000. 'l'ukio “0': now a INIIIII‘ lation of 1.300.090. I 'I'h‘t- latest use for kite-i :s to Hilpluy abein in making weather for-not.» Expvrixni-nis rat-unity turned «a. in Allall'l’l hh'm'vtl lint 1i kite \.-l,(ll .. about 16 pounds was input)! of : 1.- ing quite four lllIl“! it, on :1 tee-121i. This weigh: entisistcd i»' ll." ments for taking [er-urn ipmn ail. i. meteorological forecastâ€"i w mic-l ()sl hozcn, The TN." .1. i i -;~:&is~5>f~af’rz rt.“