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 r' ?i!^SS?^^c!jr:_f-fl!!3a?^^^aj^^^B«rp|j(p^r»y-p^!^^ ?;. j-.'";? 'S^.-.^'^-'^jS^; â-  --â€".w.^^j.-;:- .-...: •' fS^i^^f- t '?5?Bs?»--- r ;i?Ji4-»y. ;-.jas^iw«aaMya;'«ir,:fc'aA:aL'llBBfe»V'ig- â- i:«a(.'SS.*»' -;i^**ir'«»!!«SWeR:^i" K«ir-«*-.' :s.~.;kj;^Xi». NEWS IN A NUTSHELL 5-'it. i-awffi»;#!*si:"' ?..»ar"^-'iKs j^isE-'S" yjVi MINtJTES SlXlKnr RKADUVO. •Farm Product seneially, on or if-s' Work. Fine •aay, September i for making the f the rfecretariesi Jltiiral v«f)cietirj ughoutthe fro- r..itic r.Etare, eign remedy fa " but for NEU- MATISM, ant at3 and BiB«- f 500 k. I mfflwy »' *â- Â»'«*«»• Dcmestlo. ana War l*^._PlUiy. Concise and Pointed. DOMESTIC. ,. ,; X W. Telegraph Co. has opened I (jjngon the Emerson, Man., branch of I (â-  P. R' ' iieaT'y "ompleted. I'^Pi-tou, '• '" • shippt-'l upwo.iis o I of coal to Boston, Mass., last weel Uooeeja"' ' ^^ • T., is to be incorporated Uachofthe clover m ^^ aterloo county l^tn attai;ke(i by a apt- cies ot midge. (:feat damage has been done by storina in w Ottawa discrict. Contracts have beeu let for a new custom ,j5e anil post office at Monctop, N. B. The Marquis of Lome and Princess Louise ^veCanaua Octobers i drunken woman in Montreal has been oMDceil to two years' imprisonment for l^tiiig ber husband. Anew Presbyterian church h»s been open- ijatMoosejaw, X. W. T., with a seating â- .pjcity of â- 'iOO. fabian Breou, of Cocagne, N. B., has been yiried fifteen months and has had five jildren at two births. Rev. Dr. Young, president of the Manitoba Lthodiat conference, is serisusly ill at Bran- [sol. "White, M.P. f., has arrived home at Windsor froin an extended tour in the North M- vlkirk, Mil)., expects a lioom as the re- late: the opening of i he railway, §125,000 tobe expcuded on the streets. Ar.libishop Tache is on a tour of the J.jinatt Catholic missions iu ManiSubj, and e Northwest. Eagh'sh capitalists have purchased the leiraer-Steinhofffor 314,000. She will be Ijplojecl on the upper lakes. final arrangementa has been made for the iLxsfer of the Napanee and Tarn worth rail- Iny to the ^rand Trunk. An unoccupied hotel at Otterville, owned :tU' U. ^eslJitt, has been destroyed by L-endiarism. Tiie steam saw mill at \Vest Osgoode, jri 00,000 shingles and 8,000 feet of lum- l:r, iias been destroyed by fire. A hired man named Lighten, near Rose- :iod, Oat., and Miss Bella Thompson, aged liliving at Maxwell, Ont., were killed by fclitnirg on Wednesday night. 1 liie C. 1' II. Co. give an excursion last jiiurJay to 1,500 ot their employes, in- IriiDg tht;;r friends, from Winnipeg to pnewall, where a picnic was held. 1 Henry Macfarlane, of Montreal, has com- J-tnccd au action for §18,000 against the trporation of St. Casaire, Que., for work li;ne en tiie railway to that place. J It 13 btutnd that the Ottawa Government |s:e d to renew the mail subsidy to the ls line of steamships, and the other |jTi(r3 of ocean vessels are in arms. Andrew Weaver, of Both well, has received [i.ial information that he is heir to SI,- • â- O.tCU left by his great grandfather in Ger- .j;y, I TbeColcheeter reef lighthouse caisson on 1-iie Erie has been abandoned by the con I'.ictcr3, the works having been badly dam- â- 'Sed by the storm. Mr. Collinghwood Schrieber, Mr. Pot- lager, Hon. Mr. Trutch and Mr. L. K. otes, are m.aking a tour of the British CdI- p:a actions of the C. P. R. Amos Rowe, of the Winnipeg Timf.s, has •'â- 'slit the Brandon, Man., Mail, which J'la henceforth be edited by Mr. G. B. I^TOiis, late city editor of the Times. 'Mre is trouble amongst the Kingston I'jii^e, arising out cf the night patrolmen l«iig charged with sleeping on their beats. Battery are camping at Lemsnie's j.Qiiit, near Kingston, 3cc. Isiilore Thibaudeau has entered an Ituon icr .^1.-1,000 against the Canadian I i'liic railway to recover a judgment issued l^nst the Canada Central, which road is T'f owned by the syndicate. J -Isrgaret Leyens, aged 24, a prepossessing jp' only a week froni New York, tried to l-simit suicide by drowning recently. She 1^ rescued with difficulty. Her parents I em Western Ohio. .. J^'n^'sor justice of the peace has decid- r'Ubstantially that the by-law authorizing |-' arrest of a drunken man on his own â- ^'iiises is too sweeping. The prisoner in '•'case iu which the question was raised I'lsais.'harged. ,JJ" l^obbio, wife of John Dobbin, re- râ„¢' arrested at Morris, Manitoba, on a r'fge of forgery in Ontario, writes denying l-« truth 01 the charge. She ascribes the I 'J"'ion to malice, and an intention to do •' J'csband a personal injury. Jlie building of an English church has |ir*^^!^'minced at Point Sandfield between IC:^'/o3eph and Rosseau. The place is 1^1 i ^^" *^^ •^^^ Jo^° Sandfield Mac- I °^1, who located it as the site of a town. â- iont-' ""'lam's bam, at Bethany, Enoch Iwr. "°' at Norwood, George Thomp- I s8torehouEe, at Maxwell, William GWb ^. at Seymour, and John Claxton's barn, •i'h tr*"^^' '^^^^ ^^ destroyed by lightning, â-  «eir contents, on Wednesday night. UNITED STATKS. ierl "' is causing serioos damage to ^totato crop in New York State. jj^"^*^® Hohenlohe and hia distinguished InvL*?/^^*^ ** Chicaijo yesterday, on their l^y to the North- W^t. im ^.^'^ilton, of Grand Rapids, Mich., «'ataken by her husband for a burglar J^tally shot. |r^5°!^ fever is declared to be epMemic at li^oia A stampede from the ^ace has price of pottery is to be advanced. li ^- Withers, of Virginia, was re- \l\ "^^^^ ^«ad Master of the Knights ^^ of San Francisco. '^Mn'",®"'"*^ Lumber Company's prem- ' Uollarrille. Michigan, were recently 000. Two children periafaedin the flames. .„Sl!iJF"°^?lS? **««*»en to sae th6 gaol ^li^^ •" Trenton, N.J.. for depri^g them of their queues which they say are an element of religion. tritJ"'" "'^l' Welland canal con- tractor, aUeged to have absconded, is in Buffalo, and announces his intention to re- turn. The Grand Tiunk raUway has inaoimrat- J*^ ' passenger rates between CWcago and BnfWo on round trip tickets. The ri^ roads met the cut. A Bnffdionian paperhanger named HeflF- man, u the Utest candidate for death in the Magara whirlpool. He Bays he has studied the rapida and is confident they can be breasted. Later despatches report the damage by the cyclone in Minnesota to be far gfeater than at first reported. The total loss of life 13 now estimated at between fifty and sixty. ' Complaint is made in Bufialo that a visit- ing lodge of A. 0. U. W. on a recent visit to Hamilton, Oat, were compeUed by the police to carry the Union Jack in advance of the American flig. The stars and stripes consider themselves insulted. THE OLD WOELD. The L-ish tramways bill has passed the House of Lords. Storms and fljods have greatly damaged Porto Rico, Cuba. j 6 A battalion of British troops has been ordered to Zaluland. Kilam, on the west coast of Africa has been added to Great Britain's possessions. France baa assured England that Mr. Shaw, the missionary in Madagascar, ahali have a fair trial. Ten colonies will be represented at the conference in Melbourne upon the annexa- tion of New Guinea. The report that France intends to mobil- ize her Eastern army corps attracts serious attention in Berlin. The French have suspended operations in Tonquin until October. Their recent en- gagement amounted to a defeat. In answer to a complaint from a German Ambassador the sale of the anti- Prussian paper in Paris has been stopped. The French premier regards the recent elections for the Councils-General as a strong demonstration in favor of the Re- public. In consequence of the French check in Annam the natives in Canton have become greatly excited and threaten to exterminate the Europeans. The British consul has ap- pealed for protection and the gun-boat Wasp has been sent there. The anti- French article in the North Ger- man Gazette is partially repudiated by the Berlin papers. Le Temps notices that it appeared contemporaneously with the sum- moning of the Reichstag, and says it signi- fies a demand for fresh military credit. Fray lag against Time. Talkine^ against time is common in Con- gress, but prayiojt against time is the device of a clever Brooklyn child, who will know how to get her rights when she comes in sight of ihem. The fire burned low in the Franklin stove, the cat was asleep on the rug, and not a mouse stirred behind the wainscot as the mother wrote by a shaded lamp with a noise- less pen. All the house put on slippers of velvet when little Rose went to bed, for sleep and she were enemies, and she fought him to the last eyelash. Her voice came from the bedroom now with no sound of sur- render in it. It was better to be at prayer than to be asleep, and of course no one cohld reprove her for praying. " Lord," said she, "make me good, and let me go in the omnibus to see Aunt Margaret and all the aunts and nieces and mothers. Keep me safe for I want to go and see Aunt Margaret, and see what I can see. Don't let it hail, or snow, or rain, for I want to go iu the omnibus to see Aunt .Margaret very much indeed, and all the aunts and nieces and mothers. Make me well so that I can go in the omnibus please do. Bless grandpa and grandma. Aunt Kate and Aunt Sophia and Mr, Charles Swan. Bless papa and mamma, and make us all good, so that w e can go to heaven at last, for Jesus' sake." Again a abort pause, and then the wide- awake defiant voice went on "Keep grandma from dying before she gets here. Don't let anything happen to her. Don't let any bears or wile" beasts eat me up. Bless grandpa and grandma and Mr. Charles Swan, and Aunt Katie and Aunt Sophia." Another pause, a little longer than the first, and the unconquered began again "I long for apples. I long for milk. I long for pie. I long to be good. I wish I had not that cold. I long lor some water. I long for some wine. I long for some brown brted. I long for some molasses. I long for some white bread. I long to be a woman. 1 thank Thee that it did not rain or snow. Give me a clean spirit. Let me be good when papa is here, for it grieves him to have me naughty, and he buys me thingsâ€" play- things. I have prayed that I should go to sleep. That makes three prayers." A yawn, a long-drawn breath, and then silence presently announced that the last prayer was answered, and sleep reigned. â€" Editor's Drawer, in Harper's Magazine for September, A Fisli That Nearly XvaperaUd. Maj. Haggerty is a great Waltonian. He was telling a party how he caught a bi« bass. In the front room he said it weighed four and one- half pounds by the watch. In the ante-room the bass weighed four pounds. Meeting another group of friends on ILe staircase he told of his capture. "I'll swear, gentlemen," he averred, earnestly, "it weighed three and one-half pounds if it was an ounce." -^ " Stay, Major," said the Colone "dont go down stairs just yet." •• Why?" •• Oh, because I'm afraid that by the time yon reach the sidewalk that Imus will be evaporated altogether."â€" New York Star. The Union Pacific trains are making a ht- tie faster time for fear the goats will come along and eat the paper Steele. TwrlUe "TirrstitiM. No o|ie of the horrors which oeoMaoaaDy crop ont in the interior of New Jersey has been more wrapt in mystery than the era* matiim of a woman and her two chfldren re- cently at Estelville, six miles below May's Landing, the county seat of Atlanta county, and eighteen miles from Atlanta CSty, N J. The facts became known at tiie rgdlway station May's Landing, thirty-six hours i^ter the tragedy had occurred. It took place in a settiement of thirty-seven families of Rus- sian Jews, who were colonized at Estelville a year ago by General Burbridge. From midnight Friday until Sunday morning the tmrturee of the mother and her daughter seemed to have been hushed up amongst these people. On Sunday morning a group of them appeared at the depot with a wag- gon, in which lay the woman and the girl. Both were burned almost into unconscious- ness, and it was developed that the purpose of their compatriots was to take them to a Philadelphia hospital, although none of the party could or would speak English. It finally transpired that on Friday at mid- night AWPDX SHBIEKS hal been heard from the small cabin occu- pied by the wife and children, Ivan Nilo- towski, the husband, had either deserted his family, or wandered away in search of work. The cabin was found in flames, the six-year old boy burned to an armless legless trunk, the mother rolling in agony in the sand, the eight-year-old-daughter crisped to uncon- sciousness. The mother was a beautiful young Jewess 23 years of age. Her long black hair was singed over her shoulders, her eyes fixed in mad delirium. She would say nothing of the cause of the fire. The neigh- bors can't or will give no explanation. There are Russia];! Jews from this colony now beg- ging through this vicinity. Their silence is, in some cases, more that of cunning than stupidity. One of them hints that the wo- man sacrificed herself, while another inti- mates that her neighbors were unfriendly. It seems that the people are many of them given over to degrading superstitions. Their belief in witches closely resembles the vou- dooism of the African blacks. Mrs. Nilo- towski was DRIVEN TO DESPEBATIOK by hunger and thirst. She did not make her wants known to the outside inhabitants of Estelville, many of whom are humane and intelligent people, that being a very old Jersey settlement. The last sacrifice to the demand of superstition, the phantom of hun- ger and desolation, Nilotowski's serf ances- tors had worshipped on the Russian steppes, was the cremation of the wretched victims. During Saturday night the same dreadful silence was preserved by the mother. After lying on the hard bench in the railway sta- tion for seven hours, Sunday morning the little girl's tortured life went out. The mother was removed to the house of a man named Smith Spence, where she lies at the point of death. All efforts to draw from her any solution of the shadow overhanging the midnight burning seems unavailing, This Gen. Burbridge is said to be the one whose refusal of a Southerner's challenge in Wash- ington about a year ago excited such favor- able newspaper comment. The colonists seem shiftless and densely stupid. A. Terrible Bide. At Royon on Gironde there was recently a scene perhaps unprecedented in the annals of ballooning. M. Gratien, a well-known aeronaut, was about to make hia accent in a hot air balloon, called La Vidouviliaiso. Mile. Albertine, heroine of several balloon accents, was seated in the car, and M. Gra- tine was holding in his right hand a loose coil tied to one of the cords that served to attach the balloon. The balloon unexpect- edly broke loose, and the cord unrolling it- self with lightning rapidity caught in a sort of knot around the first and second fingers of Gratien's right hannd, and he wa^imme- diately whisked off into the air 600 metres high. In vain he tried to haul himself up on the cord and loop it over his arm. After frantic e£forts he became exhausted and hung at the end of the cords, suspended solely by his two fingers, and suffering ex- cruciating agony, owing to the jerking of the balloon and the cord, which cut like a razor througti the flesh to the bone. In that situation Gratien was carried a distance of nearly four miles, at a height uf 600 metres above the earth. Mile. Albertine, overcome by the horror of the situation, fainted away, and sank helpless to the bottom of the car. As the air in the balloon became cool the balloon descended, bumped against the earth in the midst of a dense mass of thorny shrubbery, Gratien was not only stripped of his clothes, but his skin was literally torn in stripes from his body, as he was dragged for half a mile through thorny brambles. Finally, some peasants managed to cut the cord, Gratien appeared to be a mass of wounds, and to be nor bleeding to death. Strange to say he did not loose conscious- ness tor a single instant. He suffered no internal injury, and although his condition is critical, he will probably recover. When the rope was cut and the balloon was freed from the weight of Gratien's body, it again rose in the air, carrying off MUe. Albertine. By singular good fortune it soon landed in a marsh, and mademoiselle at last stood on terra firma. She was sorely distressed in mind, and badly scared, but otherwiie sidfe and sound. A Reporter's Strange Position. President Butter of the New York Central Railroad, is a spare, sparrowy sort of man, -with large eyes which lie outward as if they took in too much of the world to be satisfied in their cavities. Referring to the press and interviewing, he remarked to mie reoentiy, concerning a journal which is always saying that ft "submits every interview," etc., etc.' as follows: " I was coming home at a late hour not long ago with my wife, and had j ost descend^ from my oarxiage and got to the feet of my steps, when a man bounded up thnre in the darlmess, andmademe think he was an assassin. I was actually going to strike him with the butt of my whip, said he •! am the reportor of ti»- â€" I have been waiting here sinoe dark. I did not want to come bnt tbey sent w» back three times. Yon can appreciate Bay pOBtiflor 1 did feel for him^ sent nnon sneb la eitaad, andsesinoerelyaBfaaniedof doiagit. Sol said: 'You are not to bboae.-^ ToxeUeve yonof yourembamsnMntlwill nibniitto theiuUetion. Coaein!"' » '.- cmaoes facvb. A Pmssian law reqains " peddlers to be- have politely, clean their boots on entering a boose, and bow when offsruig wares." Acoocding to a G«inan legend, from the grave of »e nnjostiy executed lilies sprirg as a token of hie innocence, and that from a maiden three lilies, which no one save her lover may gather. Philadelphia has a dog that eats ice-cream. It is a Skye-tenier belongin«( to a police sergeant, who shares his oream with his pet, of which he is very proud. He. exhibited her accomplishments the other day, remark- ing " She knows when its her turn. You ' can't fool her. Watch." The sergeant took a spoonful himself and threw another on the floor. The morsel bad hardly touched the wood before it was snatched up. One spoon- ful for t he sergeant and one for N^U was tbe order, until the sergeaut purpose. y misEed count, and then the beast set up a hideous barking as a reminder. Saxony has some very queer laws concern- ing servant girls. For instance, the mis- tress is required to allow the servant one pound of cotfee per month, or the equivalent in money. If the servant famish her own bedding she receives one and one-half cents per night for eo doing. Seventy-five cents per month is allowed the servant for her washing, and she receives five per cent, on all the purchases she makes. She must give a month's notice before leaving (her place, and must keep a book for recommendations, in which, upon leaving her place, her mis- tress is compelled to state the cause of the servant's leaving, and also what is her char- acter. The most humble of the civil functionaries of the French Republic are the naval cats. There are some hundreds of them, and their importance is duly recognized by the State, which supports them. The French naval cat enters the service in his kittenbood, and spends the first year or two of his active career on board a man of war, where he is berthed iu the hold and permitted to devour whatever he can reach. Having thus passed through apprenticeship he is sent ashore and quartered at one of the five na^al ports as a terror to the rats and mice that swarm in the victualling yards and store sheds. He is then entitled to an allowance of five cen- times a day, and this is regularly paid on his behalf to the director of cats, who lays it out in horse flesh for the use of hia forces. The Fort Smith New Era says :^A very intelligent and well dressed colored man created a sensation on the street recently. He hails from Logan cuunty, where he has been residing for twenty odd years. His Earents were both full-blooded Africans, and imself was once as black as a crow, as he expressed himself to us. But now he has a beautiful white epidermis all over his body, except his face which has a mottled appear- ance, being yet full of the small black spots surrounded by a white skin. This discolor- ation or shedding of the black skiuhas been going on for many years, and before long the man expects to be as white as any Caucas- sian. His hair,however, remains full African. Ue turned up the sleeves of his shirt and showed us as delicately white an arm, with the blue veins underneath, as any Caucasian can show. A French paper has discovered the follow- ing prophecies in Nostradamus "In the year 1883 the country of France will see a number of men die who have exercised in- fluence on its destiny. From the first month to the last the inhabitants will be surprised by some fatal news. Towards the middle of the year will expire the last descendant of a dynasty which will have ruled France for several centuries. This Prince will die in a foreign land and his death will be con- cealed three days. Shortly after the death of that prince one of the last survivors of the Corsican family will seek to reign in the capital. He will assemble his partisans and march on Paris as their head. The Parisians will go forth to meet the pretender. There will be a battle and great slaughter, and the pretender will be killed before arriving at the gates of Paris." High Life as Represented by Strolling Flayers. One morning not long since a gentleman in Wales walked down to th? boundary of his park, and found some strolling players acting a blood-curdling tragedy in vans, with a most lavish display of pasteboard cjronets, tinsel, cotton velvet, and imitation ermine. He was juat in time to catch the following, which will be recognized at once by any one who has ever been in England as the natural expression of the higher classes First Lord (loquitur). Me Lord Marma- dooke Plantagenoot is wownded. Second Lord. Not mortually eo, I 'ope First Lord. Appariently not. Second Lord. Then leave me for a hour. [H well aspirated.] SCKXE II. " Dost seek a handience with the dook ' "Hi do," " Then further subtif udge is useless, for hi am the dook " â€" assuming an imposing at- tiude andstriking bis breast. Then, sotto voce- "Pass on to the next caravan." â€" Editor' Drawer, in Harpers Magazine for Septems ber. Abont Water. A curious fact about water is that it is the rust of the metal known as hydrogenium. When oxygen combines with iron it forms a reddish rust, and the metal becomes in time disintegrated. In this condition it b said to be oxidized. Now, water is simply oxidized hydrogenium. The metal is present in the sun and all the planets in enormoms quan- tities. Indeed it is said that the human body is composed of G^ pails of water, min- flded with some lime, iron, and certain salts. Chemistry has revealed to us many marvels, but none greater than the composition cf common water. â€" Demoresfs MotUhhf, " 1 am glad Billy had the sense to marry a settled old maid," said Grandma Winknm at the wedding. "CWs is hity-tity, and widders is kinder ovetmlin' and npsettin.' Old maids is kinder thankful and willbi' to please." The Chinaman appean to have a regular grfl fi;r work, and nothing cAa vary it. It waa rather comical to see several hnadred Oslestials bnUdiag a road of sawdust i Ore* gon and Bovii^ with the same deliberat'on aa if the material had been gntveL and Now. It ii^ot wocOi while for us to neglect our Merino flocks, altboogh the (Government should admit vsvl and woollens free. True, indeed, there are parts of the country where wool-growing will not pay, bnt we may con- sole ourselves with the thought that mut- ton raiiin'4 will be remunerative and that the wool of the mutton breeds will help to fut the balance on the credit side of the edger. England is supposed to import all her fine wools for her famouR cloth and uther manu- factures; nevertheless the writer visited a few years ago, a farmer at Giay«, in Esex, and was surprised, uud p'easi d to find in his possession an excellent fi^ufc of pure Merino sheep, closely rt.semlilLug lho^e of the Atwood's of Connecticut, aud the Ver- mont flocks with wliii-ti ie was ismi^v. hat familiar. This fl etc, it; fseein*, caniu luto possession of the propri. tor's f ithtr iiire. tly tromQeorge the F^furth, uua nun siucc been carefully bred iutu tvu oi- three laniilies without taking any oai-cr'iis, aod, as was understood, without the introduction of any foreign blood. The fl x;k came ongiually as a present to the King, when the t'rince of Wales, and was bred oy him, and increased largely in subsequent years, â€" Amtrican Agriculturist. Re spberrles and Blaekberx ies. It should be kept in mind that a stem of raspberry or blackberry, 1 hat ha^ once borne a crop of fruit, has served its purpose, and will die. These stems will be replaced by a new growth, which will perfect, itself this autumn, and be ready to produce a crop of fruit next summer. Therefore it is better to get the old stems out of the way as soon as the fruit is off. More new shoots, or suckers than are needed will grow. Two, or at most three, are all that are required to a stool all beyond these should be cut away as if they were weeds. Those that are al- lowed to grow, should be tied up to stakes or trellis, as soon as large enough. Their upward growth should be stopped by pinch- ing the growing point, at five feet for black- berries and three lor raspberries. Not too Iiate for a Crop. A most useful crop of turnips has been raised by sowing the seed even as late as the middle of September, Land that h^s been well manured for early potatoes, sweet corn, or other crop, may give a heavy yield of turnips. For late sowing, the Red-top Strap-leaf is the best. There may be con- ditions in which iti^ advisable to sew broad- cast, but, as a rule, it is vastly better to drill in the seed. Sheep raisers will find it pro- fitable, even ir they must sow broadcast, and ailow the sheep to harvest the crop them- selves. Those who have a near market can more profitably dispose of the crop. ihe Late Weeds. It has been stated that celery and several other crops of the garden, find this and the next month iiiost favorable for their growth. The warm days, followed by cool nights, with abundant dews, bring them along at a rapid rate. The conditions most favorable for our crops are equally so fur the weeds, especially those like Purslane, belonging to warm countries, "Pussley," as it is usually called, how it does grow We have no need to cultivate it, as is done iii France. If it were only marketable, what crops could be supplied A number it our weeds, though annuals, spring froT. the seed in autumn, and make compact:, sturdy little plants. These pass the winter safely, aud arc ready to start into growth iu the first warm days of spring. Shepherd's Parse is an example of this set of weeds, and it has a number of fellows. Chickweed, especially in damp soils, grows the more rampantly the cooler the weather, and goes into winter quarters a stout plant, ready to bloom as any time in the winter when the j snow melts away, and will scatter its seeds in early spring. It is a mistake to stop the hoe and cultivator when the conspicuous summer weeds are tubdued. The seedling weeds, in their state of rest, are not conspicuous, but tbey should be destroyed. They will appear in full force next spring, when there will be less time for disposing of them than now. â€" American Agriculturist. Planting Onions. In Autumn. It is much better to plant onion sets in the fall than to wait until spriug. Aside from the gain of time by doing it in autumn, the risk of keeping them in good condition is avoided. They should not be planted until next month, or until so late that the tops will not start into growth. At this season the soil is warm and mellow, and the woi k can be done with much more comfort than in spring. The sets will commence their growth very early, and be much in ad- vance of those planted in the spring. Those who wish to raise their own onion seed, should select the bulbs and plant them out in autumn, taking care to cover them with at least three inches of soil. MISCBLLANXOUS. The cleverest authors are those who force other people to think. Sleepless people should court the txuit which IS the very beat soporific. The book and the withered rose within it are but a bundle of read leaves. Lady Archie Campbell's divided akirt at the Prince of Wales' ball was conaidsred as not being unlovely. The Pullman Company has reduced the wages of its sleeping car porters. Hereafter it will be "seventy-five cents all round." " Take care of the useful and the beauti- ful will take care of itself," is what a fond and numerous father remarked when he married off his ngliet daughter first. "I aim to tell the truth." " Yes," inter- rupted an acquaintance, "and you aie pro- bably the worst shot in Canada." Matches are now so cheap that the man who borrows your pipe and tobacco would sewn to ask for a match also. A big brown bear at the Black Hills ate a bushel of salt with great guato. An hour later he was seen at the baiSc of a citek, aasUnonaly drinking, and ocosaloaally nus- ing bis head to look up stream and see if the â- a^y of water wen Bkaly to hold oat. iw l1.11 â- in â-  ^1 â- jsmiiiiiMililMi