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THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. ^UtttUag Ittm* About Our Own Couatry, UrtMl BrIUin, III* Uolt«d BUt», Bnil A'.l Part* ol the Qlob*. CoodcnMd and AMorUd (ar Ba*y RMtflag, CANADA. Eiirl Rpt-nrer is the guemi of Lord At'Tilnrji at Ottawii. Sir. Jiulicp Fournier, Uitely of the Supremo Court, la (lead. 'I'Ik- OtUiwa City Council has reduced the nuiulier of tavern licenses from 71 to M. Mrs. Buchanan, widow of the Inte Hon. Tsaac Uuchanao, died at Hamil- ton, aged 70 years. At Monday night'a mneting of the City Council of Guolph, Out , the rate of taxation waa struck at 25 mills. Sir. O. F. Botaford, drugglsU of Queen street woat, Toronto, took his life by shooting himself on Saturday. Mr. George Johnsou, the Dominion sta^ tistirlan. has nearly completed all ar- ran«''racnte for taking the censoa of ManitolM thifl year. 7hc Cornelia<( Vanderbilt special, con- sisting of three oars, ran from Windsor to Niagara Falls, over the M. C. U., Ill mile^, in 103 minutes on ThursdAjr. The Government has offered a re- ward of 8^00 for the arrest of "Al- mightv Voice." the Indian who mur- dered Sprgt. Colebrooke, of the North- west Mounted I'olice. Owing to the money for the Militia camiw not having linen voted at the la'p Rts.sion of the Dominion H<ius«>, no eamiH* can he held this year until the end of Augtiat or the beginning of Sep- tsmlier. Conetahle Tinsley, of Bro<-kvilIe, who figured in the shooting tragedy at Brftkville last March in to he iire.*<nt- ed with the Senford gold medal by the Royal Canadian Humane Society, as a reward for his bravery. Mr. Aemillue Jarvis and Mr. O. A. B. Bro'vn, of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, left Toronto on Friday afternoon to meet the repreeenlalivos of the Lin- coln I'ark, Chicago Yachi Club, to decide en ihodateand plaosoftbe coming race lietween the Chicago and Toronto Iwats. Lord Atierdecn proposes to pre.sent to Gatineau I'oint Roman Catholic church J n^w bell weighingon" thmi«and poundi Jn appreciation of the service rendewxl to J-.dy .Mierdeen at the recent accidejit that nearly resulted fatally. H^ has iireoented the three men who rescued ^rty Alierdeen with twenty dollars each. iJRKAT BRITAI.N. The " wheelii;^ (iraze " l» on the wane In I-ondon unong the leaders of society. Th<' Marquis of I)onc/ull and Karl Poub'tt are U)tli in the Bankruptcy Court. April returns of the British Board of Trndo nhow an increase in imi>ort/i oT |7.3'><l.nnO. and in eiports of 95,850,000, a« roni|>ared w'tlh April, 1895. It Is now stated thjit Baron Ilirnch did not Inave the Prince of Wales a mil- lion poiindu, but ordered hi.s l.O.U.'s for that amount to be destroyed. It w underhlood In London that sev- eral of the (iirtu-.torn of the South Africa Clinrtercd Company will resign unlesB the re.siguatlon of Mr. Cecil Rhodes Is accepted. MemlK-rs of the court circle at Lon- don iiA«tcrl that the Queen'a health jus- tifies the ho|!e that .slie will lie able to perform the dutie.1 of her position for a do/i'i) years to come. Two I'hiladelphians arc makini^apro- f[>Ml to the London, ICojIand, County ouncil to take over all toe street rail- way linct and n-place them witli an elfciric sy.iiem. Ricferrin,; in the House of Commons to t he propu!M'd fa.sl A\ lantic service, Mr. ChiiiiiUTlain said that the nOf^ti- alioti!! with th<^ Dominion Governtnent wore not yet completed. The report that Mr. Cecil Rhorlea ajid Mr. Alfred Beit have resigned is con- firmed ', but it is alat«d that the Koulh African Chartered oCnipany has refus- ed to accept the rssignations. The extradition of William Turner an'l William Dunlop, (he two men ar- re-iled in lx>ndon on the charge of hav- ing Ntolen Jewelery from Mr. Burden, of Now York, w»« granted on Friday. Sir .lohn Kvans, Treasurer of the Roy- al .Sot'icty. has aciiepted the presidency of 111'' British As.ioi'iation for 1897, and will preside at the meetht^ of the as- eociafion in Toronto next year. <• rowing interest is t.ikeji in the ap- proaching marriage of I'rinc'-.ss Maud of \ViilcN to I'rince Charles of Denmark. The Koyiil fniiiily ^^>ll put off their mouiiiinrf for l*rint»' Henry of Itatten- ber^' im the day of the cejemony. The l'resi<lcnt of the l,<x"al Govern- ment Hoaril, Mr. Henry Chaplin, in the Ho\i«e of CominoiiK, promised to com- miinicale with the l)oiiiinlon Govern- ment to bring iiljout mure fre<iuent in- spect icm of the children who immigrat- ed to Canada. In the Hou^e of Commons Mr. Walter Long, who has charge of the Cattle Ex- clusion bill, nt.ate<l Ih-it he muld not accede to the request of t lir Ikiminion Government lu appoint a cominisAion to investigate ths condition of Cujiadian cattle. The MajripiU of Northampton, who own-1 th" grejiter part of (Terkenwell, squalid dLstxiet, avast polytechnic in is building, In the heart of a desperately slit ut ion, in wlilch the humbleat classi'.t may obtain, without nhargn, mental ami phy.sical recreation." The suit of IVIts. I>anglry against I lie Union liuiik of Ixindon to reprover the value of jewels lielonsing to her, and obtained from the bank nn an order al- leged to have been forged, was settled out of court yeslerdajr, the bank paying t«n {.liousand |)ounds. UNITED STATES, Preparations are now under way in Newark, N. il., to send a filibustering party to Cuba. An inlernatlonal yacht race will lie sailed at Toledo, l)e«lnning on the 241 h of^ AuglLi^t. Fire did 960,000 damatte lo several business houses and property of the Sal- vation Army at lOlyrla, Ohio, on Thurs- day. The death list of the) victims killed by tke Cintunoati ez.yloaion was increas- ed to eleven. Several persons are still missing;. The annual rejiort of the American and Canadian ship canals show that last year the " Soo " i^nal hadi the largest volume of busineas in its history. In the T'niU(d States Senate on Fri- day the bill for the erection of a bridge acroati the Detroit river waa postponed until next session. The wife of Oscar Lyons, a farmer liv- ing near Mayfield, Ky., a few days ago had five children at a birth, all olwhom *re doing well and likely to live. The fishermen of Dunkirk, N.Y., are complaining of the free odmlaelon of Canadian fish into the United States, and axe agitating for legiaiation to make fush dutiajde, {Tames B. Duke, president of the American tTobacoo Comimny, and a number of its directors have been in- dicted at New York on a charge of hav- in«r formed a trust or monopoly of pa- per cigarettes. J. Watson Hildretb, convicted at Rome, N.Y., of murder in the second degree for train-wrecking, was sen- t<'n.»d to imprisonment for life. His corapaions, Ptatt and Hibbard, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the first de- gree, and were sentenced to imprison- ment for forty years. It is stated that Plresldcnt Cleveland, througji .Secretary OIney has informed the .'^atusb Minister at Wa.shingtx>n that the United States will not permit the execution of the men taken on the i^teameir Competitor on the sentence of a court-martial. Intense irritat ion pre- vails in Spain, and a serious outcome of the action of the I^esident ia looked for. Rei>ort8 from the United States con- tisue of a by no means satisfactory character. The exports of gold this week have so far produced no mone- tary disturliance, and this is regarded as an earnest of general confidence in i the commercial and financial outlook,! But with a few except ions goods ap- ^ pear to have been largely over-produced; ' stocks are heavy, a ..1 many factories ; and workshops are oi. short time; the exception leing an increase In the de mand for boots and shoes in one dls- trict. A slight advance in prloe is re- Jiorted in cottons and print cloths, liut tie averafie of prices all roun 1 is a , shade weaker. The trade situation is not as good as it waa a year ago, hut there is a marked advance in bank clearings. GKNERAL The Spanish Government has declined the Pope's meditation inCul>an affairs.' .\pgotiatioas are in progress tietween .lapun and Russia looking lo Joint ac- tion in Corea. The French excavators at Delphi have unearthed a life-sized bronze sta- tue of a l)earded man of the date of 600 H.C. It is underittuod that the sentences passe<l upon the Jobanneslierg Reform- ers will he reduced to a small fine and imprisonment. St. Peiex.-'burg society ia agitated by the order of the Czarina forbidding liuliett in waiting and servants in the pulooe from smoking ', Two Ov.rrcspondents of New York papers have been expelled from Cuba on the ^ound that they calumniated (".iIitain-General Weyler. Presi<lcut Krugcr aympalhlz-w with ('olunial SiM'reUiry Chaiiilvrlaln, and is convinced that he wus quite unaware of ths intrigues going on in Africa. The advance of the Iiniicrial troops for the relief of Iluluwayo has Ikmmi oan- i-elled lieyond Ma'cking, on Karl Orey'e statement that the baoK of the relwlli'on has lieen broken. Karl (irey. wlio is in Ihiliiwayo, says that the back of the Matahcle rel>elIlon i.s broken, and he hopes all disorder will ' have been crushed Ijefore the arrival of! the Imperial troops, i A Gwelo despatch says that it will be impossible for the Rhodes column, su ' route from Salisbury to relieve Bulu- wayo. to leave for three weeks owin^; lo the Shanganl district being infestea with rebels. The Czar and the new Shah have ex- changed telegrams of sympathy, the .Slmh declaring that it is his first duty] to foster and develop the friendly rela- tions which Uiund nis lielnved parent ' to the Russian Imperial family. | Immediately afleir the death of the i Shah, the heir apparent, Muzaffer-ed- Din, wa-'. l>rol^laime<l Shah, and was re- cognized by (ireat Brit4iin and Russia. There are groat fears that the late Khah's eblest son will' dispute Muzaf- fer-e<l-Din'» right to the throne. Herr Strolncb, anti-Semite, has been elected burgomiuster of Vicnna.in place of Dir. l>euger, who resigned at the re- quest of Kmperor Francis Joseph. Herr Strolinch aniioun(«d that he would re- sign at t he proper moment in favor of Dr. Lueger. A despatch from Shanghai sara that the Ru.'wian Council threatens to forc- ibly sj'izo a stretch of the foreshore of Chefoo, to which (Jieat Britain has a long-standing claim. The British Minister has protested against the threatened selxu'-e, and It Is understood that China alsc. «,l)Jects. It is rumoured that the young Nor- wegian explorer Kartrup, whose body wan found some lime ago In a snow- filled ravine, died by hts own band as the result of an agreement with Lieut. Peary, the Americaji explorer, the looer in a game of chance between the two having to commit suicide. When Li-Hung-Chang was received in audience lijr the Cwu' he presented his Ma>>i4ty with the u(ruer of the Dou- ble Dragon, studded >vitb la'-go bril- liants, on behalf of the Empctror of China, and he al-so poreaentod, on hts own lielialf, two bronze vosea, more than two thou.san<l ye-iffB old. King Humlert hAa donated four hun- dred tnoitsand frani^ to the families of the soldiers kille<l and wounded In the African oamiiaign, and one hundred t.liou(>and francs to the Re<l Crces Society for the benefit of the wounded. While the Duke and Duichrasof Saxe- Meinlngen were traveling Incognito in Italy Iney were held up by brigands near Home, and robbed oi fifty-five lire (al»ut eleven dollars). The brigands two in numlier, were aubaequnntly e*f^^ lured. M. Courtols, an «x-pollce official in Drufvels. Belgium, was arrested for the murder of Mme. Herry. A woman whose husland v/ae some time ago imprisoned fcr defamation of Courtoia I'luirnrter dropped d|Bad wbian she Ueard of his arrest. PLD TlilE HAYING. In IJy-goue days the hay field waa the great campaign ground for the farm- er's annual plan. There be made hia largest successes and established his re- cords. It was there that bis final meas- ure was taken by his neighbors and fel- low-workers. The contests with the scythe were as spirited as thoue with j the sword, and much more innocent j and beneficent. What pleasanler spec- i tacle was ever born of toil than that of < a stalwart team of mowers bearing i down upon the rich burden before them ' with steady and equal swing and swish, | their broad backs at the same angle, I with every stroke a responsibUity for i which an account would be expected, I throwing up with each forward awing i of the blads fresh spoil from its dewy j bottom, and adding it with workman- 1 like precision to the Uet lengthening | swtith. Many a man that the world knowa ; of to-day has cut such a swath in hla youth, and, when the grass was cleared away he found that he bad conformed with special credit to all the canons of the craft, has experienced a deeper saiisfaotion than he has leen able to derive since from hia largest successes in the pulpit, at the bar, or in the count- ing-rtxMn. The musical "ting-a-ting" of the whetstone aoolied to the scythe will still sometimes float (through the chambers of his soul to the exclusion of more pretentious sound*. Even the I'irfLs would acknowledge the gentle challenge. The wood tlirush and its hermit cousin would respond with their moul inspired efforts, and sometimes a belated bob-o-link would rise from his dewy ambush and pour forth his glor- ious treasures of gong in token of appre- ciation and good fellowship. T'he valuable lesson of doing one's best wa,s there taught and learned. .He was a sorry fellow indeed, who would not oatch the spirit of emulation or yield to the inUuencea of his en- virDnment, and his confessed lack of self-respect marked him for avoidance. There were thoroughness and precision in the work, and even grace was nut lacking. The strokes had to be as true as those of a university crew, with this difference to be Ixrrne in mind, that if they failed to eome up to the estab- lished standard, the raked-off field dis- closed the disgraceful record to the ub- sorvatiuu and criticism of the whole community. With such discipline be- hind them, is it any wonder that so large a proportion of the country lioys made suct-essful men, fn-.sheuing and i>Lrt>nglhening every service in life with aliility and steadfastness, and occupying with credit and distinction those broad- er fields not bounded by woodland and s9n»ain. FEEDING CALVES ON SKIM MILK. Sfjr way of feeding calves is this: Feed whole milk one week, then partly skim- med, grailually lessening the proportion of whole milk till by the time the calf is twelve days old It is all skimxned. writes C. P. Goodrich. But it is new and sweet and warm, having been, im- mediately after being drawn from the cow, run through separator and fed al Mice. As the cream is taken from the milk a little oil meal is added, dissolv- ed in hot water. Two tablesnoonfuls to a calf per day is sufficient. At first It ia Iwtter nut to feed as much as that From six to eight gusrts of milk • day Is given tu each calf, according to t|^e size and age. It is given in two or three feeds a day. Three feeds are better than two, only the noon feed baa to be warmed. To avoid that trouble we usually feed but twice, morning and night, when the mnv is warm from the cows. As soon as the calf will eat oats and bran it has all il will eat. Clover hay is fed. This skim milk feed is kept up till the oalf Is seven ur eight montha old. Fed \u this way oalves make - a very large growth but do not L>ecome fat. This i* just what we want for a dairy oalf. We do not want to feed fattening foods, such as oom or Timothy hay. We do not want them to get the beef habit if we desire them, as cows, to turn all their food into milk and none into 'neef. If we were feeding oalvi« of a lieef bnted or beef type and were intending them for beef production we shuulu feed somewhat differently. Whole mdk would be fed longer â€" till the calf is from four to six weeks old. Some corn would l>e fed in addition to oil meal, oats and bran oa soon as it would be eaten, and no objection would be made to Timothy hay. In fact 1 would want to make the calves fat, as well as grow fast. We used to think that the only way to raise good lieef anituals was to Ut the oalvas run with the oows tor six or eight mooth.:!, but we found that thuni fed as I h<^ve descrilied by the time they were a year old were nearly, if not quite, as good. VALUE OF A SET OF FARM SCALES. Most farmers realize to a certain ex- tent the value of a set of farm scales But fejr seem to think the value equal to their original cost. In many In- stances they have more than paid for themselves the first year. A farmer sold seventy boga to a sjilpper. Before delivering they were weighed upon the fanner's soalea. When weighed upon the buyer's scales (here waa a disorepanoy of over 1,200 pounds. After investigation it waa found a 1,000 pound weight had not bean oount- ed, which would have amounted to 956.- 60 (at %5.6S per cwt., the selling price) and would have lieen lest but for the previous weighing. Another farmer sold five oows to a local butcher at 8 cents per pound, Rueasing their average weight to be 900 pounds. When delivering them a neighbi>r induced him to weight them upon hla aoalea. Their average was found to be 1,180 poimds, a loss of 180 pounds to each cow, oi a loss of 919.50 upon the whole niuuler. 'liien there ia a great advantage ia lieing able to tell the rate of grain wheul fattening stock and when selling puta toea, hay, straw, grain etc.; from the farm. Guesswork is poor business at heat. Competition has placed the price of scales within ttio reach of the av- erage farmer, and it is his privilege to take advantage of it. STICK TO GOOD HORSES. • All farmers will not completely aban- don horse raising, bat if there is to be any profit in the busineas it will come froui the production of horses with good action and compact build. It is worsei than folly not to use the best breedincf stock. Choice animals, both male and female, can be had at reasonable fig- ures. The offspring of these parents, carefully fed and properly trained, will always be in demand. Competent horse- men look for a graauai improvement In prices, but larger amounts will not lie paid for inferior stock. The animals must have merit, and that kind can be raised almoet as cheaply as scrubs, after foundation stock ia secured. PROTECTING FRUIT TREES. Do not fool away yotir time making deoootions of p..int, copperas or any similar compound. Weave together eight laths so they will be one-eighth of an inch apart and fasten them about the tree. This will afford protection from rabbits, borers, sheep, mice and sunacald, and will last a long tune at a cost of a half-cent a year. I have used this protection for 12 years and liave ndl lost a single tree. â€" A. J. PhUlips. DONT'S FOR BICYCLE RIDERS. A rew HinU Wblrh Bldrr* of the Hlleal Hleed Wonld Do Well to â- eiurnil>er. Don't expect to accomplish everything in a day. Don't be afraid to ride a diamond- frame wheel. Don't go into a century run without training for it. Don't forget that the rdoe ia won in the last sprint. _ Don't liegin to ride for at least an hour after meala. Don't occupy more than your own share of the road. Don't drink cold fluids when overheat- ed from riding. Don't luck confidence in yourself when learning to ride. Don't lose sight of the fact that yon were once a noviL^e. Don't lose sight of the fact that you must pedal straight. Don't race until you have prepared yourself for the strain. Don't think of doing any road riding on your racing machine. Don't itass a wheelman in distress without offering assistance. Don't ride so long that you return home thoroughly exhaUAted. Don't put all the force of your pedal- ing in the downward push. Don't w.-iit until you became tired be- fore turning atxMit for hume. Don't rush out of the road before you know how to ride properly. Don't biatnc the other fellow for ever'' collision you happen to be in. Don't forget that others have as much right on the rood oa yourself. Dou't ride mure thin a mile at a time if a greater dieiauoe tires you. D(»i't try to do too much at the start particularly if you are a woman. Don't allow your leg to get jwrfectly straight at .iny time while riding. Don't have your saddle ao far to the rear that you.** position is not easy. Don't jump off your wheel and throw yourself down on the damp gross. Don't forget there are instructors who will make a competent rider of you. Don't think you are entitled to any more of the rood tlian any other rider. Don't go out on a long run without being prepared for acoidenta to the wheel. Don't think you can get a hig'ji-grade wheel for anything but a high-grade price. Don't forget that in a collision be- tween a wheel and a wagon the wagon never suffers. Don't drink the common drinking wat- er in the different towns you pasa through. Don't drink cold water. Garble the throat and rinoe the mouth with it when thirsty. Don't loee sight of the fact that (he bicycle ia a great developer- of physical beauty. Don't permit a feeling of nervous ap- prehension to affect you when learn- ing to ride. Don't be afraid of the man who pulls out ahead of you at the beginning of the race. Don't make any sacrifice to secure lightness of the wheel. Lightness means lees rigidity. Don't fail to remember that those ahead cannot hear you coming unlees you ring your liall. Don't imagine you are an expert until you can manage the wheel without putting your hands oa the bars. LEAP TEAR. \ The leaf year which ia with oa Iflc.. however, to a certain extant peculiar, ' since anothei wilt not occur for eight years. Such an interval has occorred ' twice before in the history of Scotland, and only once in the history of Kng-' land, and two centuries will elapse be- fore it occurs again. The last year of the present century, 1900, wail not be a- leap year, but 2000, the last year of tks • succeeding century, wiU. The year 2100 , will again be a common year, so that the. next period of seven consecutive com- â-  mon yearH will be between 2006 and- 2104. The rule by which this seemingly ar-- ^bitrary interference with an establish- - ed order of things is regulated ia oom-- paratively simple, but its history ia in- many respects iooth curious and inter-, esting. Aa every one knows, the earth revolves around its axis, and also trt^ vels round the sun, the one revolution ° causing the alternation of day and' night, the other that of the setiaons. ' From the earlie.st times men have made ' use of both these series of changes as a ' means of reckoning time, and had thera • been a simple numerical relation be- . tween them there need never have been any trouble with leap years and such device*. Unfortunately, however, this is not at present the case. The number of re- volutions which the earth mokes when it goes once around the sun, instead of being a whole nuiuber, ic a number and diamond rtars that Ut tiei ricl rea hair, a fraction or. in other words, the earth goes round the sim in 365 dajra, 5 hrs., 48 min., and 46 sec., or 365.:i422 days. This is not, hownever, discovered in" a day. Various guesses were made at the proper length of the year, and calendars were draw n up in accordance with Ihetn, But in the course of time the error ac- cumulated, with the result that the sea- sons changed places, and the vernal equinox, in-stead of remaining at a fixed place in the calendar, moved bactward or forward, according as the approxima- tion was in excess or defect, and extra days bad to be intercalated or omitted to set things right. By the time of Juliivn Ceasar the Rom- an year, which consisted of 355 days, had worked loose by three months, so that • the winter months had been carried â-  back into autumn. In order to prevent such confusion in future, with the aid ' of Sosigenea, he fixed the length of the vear at 365 1-4 dars. cv three years of , 3ai days, followed by one of 366. At the . same time, to bring bacJc the equinox to its prx.per nlace. he intercalated ninety . days into tne current year of 355 davs, making it 645 daysr-probably the long- est year on record. This was the Julian . calendar, and to It we owe to this day the leap y»ar which comes every fourth year. But the approximation on which the calendar was based, though much more ' accurate and convenient t-iian any that had preceded it, gave too long a year by the differem* between ,Vp5;25 and . 365.2422. the error amount iui; to a day m 128 yetLTH. In the coufae of the cen- turies the equinox gratluallv receded to- ward the beginning of the "vear. Ceasar ha>T fixed it im March 25; l.y the time of the council of Nice, held in 325. it fell on the 21st of March, and by l.'V.' it had receded to March 11. In "order to re- store the equinox to the position it ooapied in 325, when the council of N'ce he A drawn up regulations for the fix.Dg of E.ister, Pope Gregory, in 15$2, directed ten davs to lie Buppre.s.sed «nd aa tlie error was found to ajiount to three days in 400 years, he laid down tliat in future the last year ot vsvery century siiould be an ordinary vcir, un- less it is divisible by 400, in "wbich case It was to he a leap year. Thits 1900 will be an ordinary year, but 2000 will lie a leap year. Pope Gregory's correction gives an average year of 3fi5.2425 days, or twenty • six seconds longer than the true year. Theee odd seconds will amount to a whole year m 8823 years, and It has been pnvposed to allow for this error by providing that the year 4000 and aU its multiples, shall be common vears. But thM would he pedantic foreaight. and it is imneoeasary tii discuss the question whether the year 4000 ought or ought not to lie a leap year. In ages yet to come, when the faction of the tides has so retarded the rotation of the earth that 365 days make a year, leap years will tie unneoossary. But that is a still remoter contingency, and in the mean- time Pojje Gregory's calendar is likely to remain in ita present form. THE HUMAN EYB, Tou are either left-eyed or right- eyed, unless you are the one |)ersonout of every fifteen who has eyss of equal strength. You also belong to the small minority of one out of every ten persons If your left eye is stronger than your right. As a rale, Just as people are right-handed, they are right-eyed. Thia is probably due to the generally great- er use of the organs of the right side of the body, as, for example, a sports- man, using his right arms and shoulder, uses hia right eye to sight his goa, thereby atrenglnening It with exer- oiae. Old sea captains, after long use of the telescope, find their right eye much stronger ithan the left. ThIa law ia confirmed by the experience of aurista If a jterson who has ears of equal hearing naa oaiua to use one ear more than the other for a long period, the ear brought Into requisition la found to be much strengthened, and the ear which Is not uited loses ita hearing in a corteaponding degre*. BOERS AND ENGLISH. Aa laiiUHee ef the Halre«l of the Baera Toward the Knzlisb. The hatred of the Transvaal Boei« toward the English seems to be even stronger than the similar sentiment which the North American Indian once cherished toward the white man. A traveller In that part of the world â€" hira-self an Englishmanâ€" relates that as he was passing thrt>ugh the Rand district lie sat on the seat of the Boer , driver of a stage-ooach. The vehicle was drawn by a team of sixteen mules, and the Boer had the aiwistance of a Kaffir at the reins, while he. the Boer, held the whip. The Englishman noticed that the Boer never touched with his whip any of the mules except one pocr little crea- turo. the leader on the whip side. Thia poor cn^ature the Boer constantly lash- ex!, though he .seemed to be doing his work well enough. At the slightest pause, car ;it any stick- ing in a rut or hard pull, away went the lash at this one little mule, until the Kngllshman could stand it no longer. "Why do you whip only that one poor little mule I" he a.sked. The Boer smilod Indulgently. "Oh," ho answerwl, "he's von Englis- mon. 1 lick him lor de whole lot â€" uafa funl" Thert was really nothing more for the traveller to say. under the circum- stances. He could only feel a strong- er sympathy for the unfortunala "Englls" mule. SPITEFUL. I oannot nnderetand why my husband should give me a finer present every year we are married. I suppooc he does it to (vampenaAt* you ton iprowinf old.