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» Mrs. Rider’s sympathy was all with the injured wife, who seemed so patient and un- complaining, and who replied: "Yes, I see; but when the judge died there was nothing in the way of acknow- ledging the marriage. I am surprised and disappointed in Everard that he should treat you thus]: “ After that I hoped to get out of my false position, but there was some fear of Judge Forrest, which kept Everard silent, waiting for an opportunity to tell him, for I was not rich, you know, and he might be angry ; so I waited patiently, and his father died, and I went to Europe, and thus the years have gone.” The blue eyes, in which the tears were shin- ing, more from steadily gazing into the fire than from emotion of any kind were lifted to Mrs. Rider, who was greatly affected and then said: She spoke very slowly now, and drew long breaths, as if every word were a stab to her heart. “ Ye-es, in one sense,” Josephine said,\vith the air of one who is having something wrung from him unwillingly. “A great many people saw us married, for it was in a drama,â€"a play,â€"but none of them knew it was meant to be real and binding, except Everard and myself and the clergy- man, who was a genuine clergyman. We knew and intended it, of course, or it would not have been valid. We were en- gaged, and did it on the impulse of the mo- ment, thinking no harm. Nor was there, except that we were both so young, and Ever- ard not through college. We told mother and sister, but no one else, and as the villa- gers did not know of our intention to be marâ€" ried. or that Dr. Matthewson was a clergy- man, they never suspected the truth, and the secret was to be kept until Everard was gradu- ated, and after thatâ€"â€"â€"-" . lady up-stairs She put the paper away where it could not be found if Rossie chanced to ask for it. But she could not keep it from the world as represented by Bethany, for it was already the theme of every tongue. The editor had read the note which Josephine sent him be- fore Lois left the office, and had questioned her as to who sent her with it. Lois had answered him. “ De, young lady what comed from de train wid fqur_big trunks and bandbox." “ And Where is she now ?" he asked, and Lois replied: “Up sta’rs in Mas’r Everard’s room.” “ Yes, certainly not, of course,” Mra. Rider replied, hardly knowing what she was saying, and wishing that the fair blonde whose eyes were looking so steadily into the fire would say something more, but she didn’t. She was waiting for her visitor to question her, which she presently did, for she could never leave the matter in this way, so she said : “ You will pardon me, Mrs. Forrest, but knowing a little makes me want to know more, It seems so strange that Everard should have been a married man for more than four years and we never suspect it. It must have been a private marriage.” This last was proof conclusive of the validity of the marriage which the editor naturally thought was a hasty affair of Everard’s col- lege days, when he had the reputation of being rather wild and fast, and so he pub- lished the notice and in another column called attention to it, as the last great excite- ment. “ I hope you will excuse me if I seem for- ward in what I am about to say. I am Mrs. Rider, wife of the family physician, and a friend of Everard, and when I saw that notice of his marriage in the Star I could hardly credit it, though I know such things have been before; but four years is such a long time to keep an affair of that kind a secret. May I ask if it is true, and if you are the wife 2‘” “ It is true, and I am his Wife, or I should not If here,” J ogey said yery quiefilfix. Of course there had been much wondering, and surmising, and guessing, and in spite of the rain the ladies who lived near each other got towther and talked it up, and believed or discredited it according to their several n3.- tures. Mrs. Dr. Rider, a. chubby, good-na- tured, inquisitive woman, declared her inten- tion of knowing the facts before she slept. Her husband attended Rosamond, and she had a syrup which was just the medicine for a sore throat and influenza, such as Rossie was suffering from, and she would take it to her, and perhaps learn the truth of the story of Evererd’smarriage “From Europe! You must be tired With your long journey. Have you ever been in Rothsay before ‘2 From your having come from the East I suppose you must be a relative of Mrs. Forrest. who was born in Boston ?” Josephine knew she did not suppose any such thing, and that in all probability she had seen the notice in the b'tar and had come 0 spy out the land, but it was not her policy to parade her story unsolicited; so she merely replied that she was not a relative of Mrs. Forrest’s, though her mamma and that .lady had been friends in their girlhood. To have been a friend of thelate Mrs. Forrest stamped a person as somebody, and Mrs. Rider began at once to espouse the cause of this woman, 0 whom she said: Accordingly, about four o’clock that after- noon, Mrs. Dr. Rider’s little phaeton turned into the Forrest avenue, and was seen from the window by Josephine, who, tired and ennuyeed, was looking out into the min. Josephine admitted that it was raining hard, and remarked that she expected to find it warmer in Southern Ohio than in Eastern New York, but she believed it was colder, and with a shiver she drew her shawl around her shoulders, shook back her hair, and lifted her blue eyes to Mrs. Rider, who re- sponded : “ You came from the east then ‘2” “ Yes, madam, from Holburton. That is, I am from there just now, but it is only two weeks since I returned from Europe, where I have been for a long time." Here there was a solution in part of the mystery. This wife had been in Europe, and that was why the secret had been kept so long, and little Mrs. Dr. Rider flushed with eager excitement and pleasurable curiosity as she said : That the phaeton held a. lady she saw, and as the lady could only be coming there she resolved at once to put herself in the way of some possible com- munication with the outer world. Glancing at herself in th-a mirror she saw that she was looking well, although a little paler than her wont, but this would make her more interesting in the character she meant to assume, that of an angelic martyr. As the day was chilly, a soft White wrap of some kind would not be out of place, and would add to the effect. So she snatched up a fleecy shawl of Berlin wool, and throwing it around her shoulders, took with her abook. and hurry- ing down to the reception room, had just time to seat herself gracefully and becom- ingly, when the door opened and Mrs. Dr Rider came in. Here wass stroke of what Mrs. Rider esteemed luck. She had stumbled at once upon the very person she had come to inquire about, and as she was not one to lose any time, she shook the rain- -drops from her waterproof, and drawing near to the fire, turned‘ to the lady in the easy chair and said: “ I beg your pardon for my very uncere- monious entrance. I rang twice, and then ventured to come in, it was raining so hard.” Aunt Axle, who was a little deaf, was in the kitchen busy with her dinner. while Lois was in the barn, hunting for eggs and so no one heard the bell, when Mrs. Rider pulled twice, and then presuming upon her long ac» quaintance with the house, opened the door and walked into the reception room, where she stopped for an instant, startled by the picture of the pretty blonde in black, With the White shawl and the golden hair rippling beck item the beautiful face. CCOITIIUID no: In." nu.) â€"A noted horse jockey “ down east " was awakened one night bye. violent thunder storm. Being somewhat timid, he awoke his wife with “ Wife! wife. ' do you suppose the Day of Judgment has come?" “Shut up. you fool. '” was the afi'ectienate reply ‘. “how can the Day of Judgment come in the night ?” The passengers at the railroad station at Fort Erie the other night were startled by the irruption into the sitting-room of a plainly dressed and hatless woman who raved inco- herently, and for half an hour laughed and chattered thn scarcely an interruption. Suddenly she rushed out into the darkness just as the train on the Canada Southern Railroad came into the station. Seizing his lantern, the watchman, Patrick Conklin, ran in search of her, expecting to find her at- tempting suicide. But although it was less than half a minute, she had entirely disap- peared. He wended his way .t-o the Custom House and in company with Newbigging. the Custom House oflicer, the searched the vi- cinity. Just as the train on the Grand Trunk Railroad was coming in they discovered her lying with her head on the rail. With some difficulty she was induced to return to the station, but no information could be elicited. Mr. Newbigging recollected seeing her duringl the day in company with an elderly man, but‘ she aflorded no clue to her own name or that of her companion. Grand Lecturer.â€"â€"Eli Higgins, St. Oath- arines. Deputy Grand Lecturers.~-J. H. Pritchard, Toronto; Capt, John Niblock, Manitoba; Joshua. Barr, Quebec; Andrew Marshall, St. John, N. B. “He had good reasons, no doubt. His father disinherited him, I believe, and that may have had its efiect, but I do not wish it talked about until Everard comes. It is very awkward for me that he is absent. I must come, of course; there was no other way, for momma recently died, and the old home was broken up. I must come to my husband." Grand'Director of Ceremonies.â€"â€"William White, Tweed. Grand Chaplain â€"Rev. James Norris. Deputy Chaplamsâ€"Rev. Wm. M. Battyson, Rev. Rural Dean Cooper, Rev. Alex. Samson, Rev. C. A. Doudiet, Rev. Sylvester Smith, Rev. A. Dawson, Rev. Francis Ryan, Rev. Rural Dean Mulholland, Rev. George Beard. Rev. Canon O’Meara, Rev. Hugh Cooper. Grand Secretary.â€"â€"Thoma§ Kejes. St‘ Catharines. Deputy Grand Secretaryâ€"A J. Van [nggm Cobourg. Grand Treasurerâ€"William Anderson. I. P. S. Deputy Grand Treasurerâ€"E. F. Clarke, Toronto. She kept asserting it as if in apology for her being there, and her voice trembled, and her whole air was one of such injured inno- cence that Mrs. Rider resolved within herself to stand by her in the face of all Rotnsay, if necessary. Mrs. Rider was a very motherly little woman, and her heart went out at once to this girl, whose blue eyes and black dress appealed so strongly to her sympathies. She liked Everard, too, and did not mean to he disloyal to'him, if she could help it, but she should stand by his wife; and she was so anxious to get away and talk up the wonder~ ful news with her acquaintances that she forâ€" got entirely the syrup she had brought for Rossie’s throat, and would have forgotten to enquire after Rossie h :sell it Aunt Axie had not accidentally put her head in the door, and given vent to a. grunt of surprise and disapprobation when she saw her in close conversation with Josephine, and, with her knowledge 0 the lady’s character for gossip, foresaw the result. Deputy Grand Masterâ€"W. J. Parkhill, M. P. P. Associate Grand Mastersâ€"Major Jas. Bennett, Ontario West ; David Marshall, 011- tario East ; Captain John Woodward, Que- bec; M. W. Wilson, Fredericton, NB; Stuart Mulvey, Manitoba ; Rev. Joshua Clay, Nova Scotia ; J. L. Winters, Newfoundland ; and the Grand Masters 0t British Columbia and Prince Edward Island. “Skipped out! Run away from his family ! Well, his old shirts will make a. mop worth twice the value of his whole body I Now. I want to see some one grin in the face of this testimonial that I raised him right off his heels I”â€"â€"Dctroit Free Press. The following is a complete list of the offi- cers elected at the recent meeting of tho Orange Grand Lodge of British North America. held in Toronto : “ Oh, Miss Rider, is you here?” she said, advancing into the room ; “ and does Miss Markham know it? I’ll fot-ch hey directly, ’cause Miss Ros’mon’s too sick to see yer.” “ Never mind, Axie,” Mrs. Rider said, rising and beginning to adjust her waterâ€" proof. “I drove up to enquire after Rossie, and have spent more time than I intended talking with Mrs. Forrest,” and she nodded toward Josephine, who also arose and acknowledged the nod and name with a gracious bow. Again Josephine bowed assentingly to Mrs. Rider, who at last left the room, followed by Axie, whose face was like a. thunder-cloud as she almost slammed the. door in the lady’s face in her anxiety to be rid of her. One day last week a man residing in East Toledo, 0., skipped from his family and brought up in Detroit. His Wife got a clue to his whereabouts and came on after him, and yesterday she had an interview with him at the Central Station, where he had been run in for the purpose. She had no tears to shed. On the contrary, her hair had a fight- ing hang, and as soon as she could get her breath she began : The husband sneaked out doors and down the street, and the wife, having the “does” in her pocket, walked the other way, mutter- ing to herself : Most Worshipful Grand Masterâ€"Henry Merrick. M. P. P. Most Worshipful Past Grand Master Hon. M. Bowell, M. P. V She saw the impression she had made on her visitor, who took her hand at parting, and said : “You will probably remain in Rothsay now, and I shall hope to see a great deal of you.” “So, you miserable little apology for a hu- man being, you skipped out, did you ‘2" No reply. “After I had washed and scrubbed and sewed for nearly twenty years to support you you got tired of your family, did you? Our style of living wasn’t tony enough for you, and you wanted a diamond pin and a cane !" "Say, Lucy, I’m sorry,” he mumbled. “Well, Iain’t 1” she snapped. “No, sir! On the contrary I’m glad of it? You’ve chewed tobacco and drank whiskey and whittled shingles and leafed on the corners at my expense just as long as you ever will 1’ “What do you want of me, then?” “Want of you 7 Why I want to clear my character! All our neighbors say that you ran away from me, and some pity me and some laugh. You ran away from me! Why you lowdown corner loafer, you couldn’t run away from anything but a spade or an ax. I followed you to get this matter straight. I’ve got to live there, and I‘m not going to be either pitied or laughed at l” “What do you want 1” he asked. “Here’s what I wan’t 1” she said. as she .seized his collar and twisted him around. “Now you take thatâ€"and thatâ€"and that â€"and I‘ll have these officers sign a paper that J. found you and kicked you out to take care of yourself I Now you get! Don’t ever write me, don’t ever come back to me ! Even if I hear that you ever tell anybody that you were married to me I’ll buy a shot-gun and hunt for you 1” Full List 01 B. N. A. Grand Lodge "nicer-u. AN IN§ANE \VO IAN’N FREAIC. A RUNA‘VAY HUSBAND. ORANGEISEVI [TO BE CONTINUED.] At the age of three weeks the lusty chick, no longer needing to brood under a mother, is either transferred to the great laying house with the laying hens or carried to the “cram- ming" house near by, another large building before referred to as being attached to the main building. The infant birds stay in the trays Where they are hatched several hours until they become dry and full of life, and then they are removed at the rate of 100 chicks to each one of the fifty apartments in the brooding house. This house will hold 5,000 chickens at a time. and here they are kept until about three weeks old. Each of the fifty pens has a patent hrooder or hen- mother made of zinc, hollow and filled with hot water, and lined underneath with blanket- ing. and placed close to the ground for the little birds to creep under, as they would under a hen, when they Wish to sleep or rest. The chickens in the brood-house present a lively spectacle. Varying in size from a day to three weeks old, of all colors and breeds, lively as crickets, chirping, and hearty and thriving, they grow apace, undisturbed by the vermin that so often annoy the natural mother-hen. The next step in this interesting wholesale usurpation of nature’s powers in the breeding of feathered dainties is the transfer of the new-born chicks to Daily the wonderful and animated sight is seen of the bursting of the shells and birth of the cunning, sprightly little chicks. Hundreds an: hatched every day. Several women are placed in charge of the incubating room, among whose duties are to turn every egg daily. In this room there is kept constantly a warm, moist atmosphere, like soft spring air, through another very simple and clever arrangement of having shallow open pans of water around the room, upon which the heated air plays continuously, producing a uniform gentle evaporation. The eggs are tested before they are put in the drawers to see whether they are fertile. and also tested at intervals along to see if they continue live and fertile. The incubators are heated by gas manufac- tured on the place. Under each machine a single gas jet is kept burning, which heats the water that is carried through pipes to the open and narrow vacant places over the surâ€" face of the eggs resting in the trays for batch ing. This simple but ingenious process sub stitutes the natural warmth of the mother hen’ s body upon the eggs, and produces the uniform. steady heat that hat hes the eggs. There is in the adjoining room an electric battery that is kept in constant communica- tion with the hot-water chambers above the eggs, as well as with the gas jets, and when the temperature becomes wrong, either too hot or too cold for the regular process of a natural incubation of the eggs, automatic indicators tell the variation through the electrical current, and the heat is conâ€" trolled by uuerring apparatus made for the purpose. are two in number, next to the battery cham- ber. Theseincubating chambers are twenty feet square‘ with double windows, having three ranges of large oblong incubators through the centre, and a smaller range run» ning around the entire length of the four sides of the room. These incubators have each eight tiers of shallow drawers, one above the other, for the eggs. We thus have in each room 1,120 feet of these shallow egg- drawers. capable of holding 8,000 eggs at one time, and turning out 140,000 chickens a year. flow a Southerner is Making Money â€"A Quarter ofa lilillion oi Hpring Chick- ens Raised by Arlificinl Incubation. ATLANTA, Ga, May 12. â€" The following sketch, unembellished. narrates the particu- ulars of a successful business enterprise, so novel, bold, and unique, and so confessedly the foremost of its kind in the world, that it. merits adescription. The individual who has performed the marvellous achievement herein chronicled is Mr. W. G. Baker, of the little place of Oreeskill-on-the-Hudson. in the State of New Jersey. The process of the artificial incubation of fowls has been one long known and widely practised. The varâ€" iety of artificial incubators is very consider- able. In France especially this method of hatching and raising poultry has been exten- sively used. It is very largely increasing in this country. One fowl can hatch a small numr ber of eggs only. To hatch eggs by the thousand neccssitates so many mother hens and is so slow and expensive a process that the novel con- ception of superseding the natural mothers with an artificial one adapted for wholesale incubation has been exhaustively tested, and finally so skilfully executed that at this time this artificial poultry-raising is becoming a vast business Mr. Baker, an enterprising American, has the distinction of leading the business in the world. One of the vast buildings on this farm is the incubating and brooding house. It conâ€" sists of a large two-andehnlfâ€"story struc- ture, attached to an immense glass house, 158 feet long, 39 feet wide, and 16 feet high, the glass building being the “broodingâ€" house,” which is divided intofifty apartments, twenty-five on each side. The two-a d-a-half story building is a dwelling for the attend- ants, besides containing Mr. Baker’s office, dining-hall, and incubating rooms above, and below in the basement heating apparatus, storeâ€"rooms. electric battery apartment, and boiler-room. Mr. Baker endeavors to raise a good many eggs. He has 2,000 laying hens of various reeds, selected for superior laying qualities. They are both thoroughbreds and grades, and principally Asiatics, Houdans, Leghorns, col- ored Dorkings and Spanish. Sitting fowls are not desired. These hens are kept in an immense laying-house, which is the largest building on the place. This vast structure is 460 feet long, divided into seventy-five pens, each pen divided into three rooms or divis- ions; The pens extend clear through from the front to the back, being six feet wide by twenty feet in depth. The front of the laying house is glazed. The floors are gmvelled and kept dry by underdraining. The front di- vision of each pen is covered on top and out side with open meshâ€"wire, which in the fine weather in the winter allows open air and a small run for the fowls. The middle sections cf each pen have a sash to raise or lower at pleasure. and thus can cut off and enclose the rear sections of the pen. In each pen is kept an average of twenty-five fowls laying eggs. is done from the rear of the pens. There is is a narrow tramway ruhning the full length of the entire building, and on this tran‘ way two small truck-wagons are rolled, starting from each end and meeting in the middle. The passage for these trucks is four feet Wide. E’aeh truck is tended by a keeper, who de- posits the feed in little hoppers in each pen for the chickens. Smell pipes convey fresh water along the pens, and the drinking vessels have loose gravel packed under them to drain off any dampness. The house is heated in Winter by hot water pipes and kept at a continuous summer-heat. Warmth and stimulating food keep the hens laying vigorously during cold weather. The feed used is varied. It has been found that the fowls do best upon a changing and nu- tritious diet. Meats of every kind, scraps, grains. bran, imperial egg food, ground bone. shells, shorts, fresh meat, and green food of all sorts are given to them in plenteous abunâ€" dance. But this army of hens cannot begin to proâ€" duce the vast number of eggs required by Mr. Baker, and as the most brilliant inven- tion has not yet been able to artificially pro duce these snowy little germs of the luscious spring chicken, he has to buy thousands of eggs. He pays $5 a hundred for fertile eggs. and will take them in any quantity and at any time. Mr. Baker’s poultry farm is situated on the Hudson River, about two miles from the rail- road station of Creeskill, N. J ., and is called “Clifidalef’ THE FEEDING OF THE LAYING HWNS THE GREAT “BROODING HOUSE" THE Dill “KEN KING THE INCUBATING BOWMS After the war was over he went north and built three iron rolling mills, worked by water power, obtained from the Finnish Grov~ ernment a mining monopoly ever an area enclosing 382 lakes and 40,000 square miles. Transferring these to a com- pany, he started, with Obouchoff, the huge “ Obouchofi Steel Works” at St. Petersburg, and after receiving a large sum of money in the shape of subsidies. he sold the concern to the War Department in 1873, by whose exer- tions half a dozen big guns have been turned out at a cost estimated by the Novosti the other day at a million and a half sterling. Putiloff’s next enterprise was the iron rolling mills bearing his name at the mouth of the Neva, where 5,000 men are employed and £640,000 worth of iron and steel rails turned out every year,’ besides a thousand railway1 wagons. This little business was converted into a joint stock concern four or five years ago, when Putilofi secured the contract for constructing the great sea canal from Cron- stadt to St. Petersburg. Of the 7,500,000 roubles voted for the project, a large propor- tion is said to have already passed into the pockets of Putilofi and the Government offi- cials without either having done anything to show for it. The Finnish rolling mills long ago collapsed, the Obouchoff Steel Works is a by-word for a gigantic Government job, the smash of the Putiloff Works is daily expected. and it is believed that the colossal fortune of Putiloff himself. ravaged by extravagance, will be found to be in as rotten a condition as the great sea-canal scheme at St. Peters- burg. . The millionaire Nicoli Ivanoviteh Putiloff, who died a few days ago at St. Petersburg, was. in many respects, an excellent represen- tative of a class of men indigenous to Russia. Up to the outbreak of the Crimean War he was simply a naval officer, devoted to his profession, but, at the same time, on the lookout for any short cut that might lead to fortune. The arrival of the Allied Fleet in the Baltic afforded him the chance he had long been waiting for. He obtained the con- tract for the construction of the gunboats that subsequently tried the temper of Eng- land so sorely, and within a couple of years had turned out at Cronstadt by means of an elaborate system of piece-work, 81 gunboats and corvettes, provided with an aggregate of 10,000 horse power, and armed with 297 guns of the largest cailbre. It is almost unneces- sary to say that Putiloi‘f made a fortune out of the contract, for the epoch of the Crimean war was remarkable, even in the anâ€" nals of Russia, for the enormity of official corruption. The winter navigation of Lake Superior is one of the most modern ideas in connection with the subject of opening up our trade with the Northwest, and for obtaining unbroken in. tercourse, at all seasons of the year, with that distant part of the Dominion. Few persons have given attention to such a project until the last year or so, as such a possibility never presented itself as a subject of interest. But the gigantic stride in progress made by the Prairie Province has set men thinking how to obtaIn communication between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans in the short- est distance and the quickest time. Mr. Daw- son has suggested the completion of the Thunder Bay Railway to Winnipeg, and the winter navigation of Lake Superior, by proâ€" perly constructed vessels. as one of the most feasible means to connect the Northwest With this part of Ontario, from whence it is very easy to obtain railroad connections with the Eastern Provinces. The idea is a good one, and merits the serious consideration of capi- talists. That the navigation of the Father of Waters is practicable is fully demonstrated by the operations of the winter steamer Northern Light in the St. Lawrence. No such work as has been overcome in those waters ,by that vessel is to be met with in lthe western end of that great chain of livers and lakes. The thickest ice found in Lake Superior is that which is found along the shores of quiet bays, which rarely reaches over two feet in thickness. The past winter has been severe in frost yet we find that excepting along the shore and in deep quiet bays, there has been little or no ice in Lake Superior The Marquette Mining ‘ Journal carciully noted the state on the ice in the harbor, and says navigation has been open all winter. If it is argued the winter} has been comparatively mild, we have only to 1 direct attention to the fact that, in the month of May, the people of Prince Arthur’s Land- ing walked out on solid ice about two feet thick to welcome the first steamers. We have also seen the Manitoba break her way through the ice in the spacious bay the sec- ond week in May, while the open lake has been comparatively free from ice. Judging from the experience gained by a residence in Algoma extending over twenty years, there appears to us to be no difliculty for the ac- complishment of such an object. Such an idea, worked out, will make the Thunder Bay Railway an all - the - year route, will convert the Landing into a busy shipping port. both in winter and summer, and will remove the necessity for building the costly railway along 600 miles north of Lake Su- perior for many years to come, inasmuch as those desiring a more rapid transit will. be able to utilize the railway along the south shore of the lake, which will soon be built, and must cross here at the rapids to give the Western States what they must have, namely, the shortest route to the sea We are not surprised to find that men of active and far- seeing minds are already directing their attention to this point as the terminus of a large portion of northwestern navigation.â€" Algoma Pioneer. ARUSNIAN MAN 0F ENTERPRISE. that is used for the funniest process of all in this novel method of successfully counterfeit- ing nature in the procreation of her living creatures. The cramming house is 125 feet long by 25 feet Wide. It has Within it eight round feeding machines of upright wood.each one with five tiers of little boxes fashioned like pigeon-holes.and accommodating a single fowl in the box. Each machine holds 250 fowls at a time in the five tiers of boxes on circling the upright drum. The time needed to fatten a chicken by the forcing process is about eighteen days, or two weeks and a alf, and they can be brought from an ordinary state to the very finest con- dition in this time. Nor is the flesh put on them soft fat, but good, sound, solid meat, rich, nutritious and palatable. In this build- ing Mr. Baker forces 30‘000 chickens a year keeping the room dark and cool. The French method of forcing is used. A single bird is confined in each box, his legs being strapped to the sides. his head and neck sticking out from the hole. The feeder has his mess-tub ofv’boiled food well mashed,from which he runs a flexible tube to the chicken’s mouth. He seizes the chickens by the head, put the pipe in its gullet, and forces the soft food into the crop, which is filled by the single movement. Each bird is served in turn. The chickens are never released until taken out to be slaughtered and sold. They like this curious method of feed- ing. The food that is given to them is nutritiâ€" ous and delicate, and always mixed with milk instead of water. Thus artificially hatched and fattened, the tender, delightful young bird. weighing from one and a-half to two and a- half pounds goes to the New York market finding ready sale sometimes as high as 50 cents a pound. ' Mr. Baker has, in the years he has been perfectinglthis grand and phenomenal chicken- raising business, spent $80,000 in experi- ments and improvements. He is constantly enlarging his facilities. He will extend his laying-house 350 feet this year, giving him 800 feet of length and accommodation for 3,- 500 laying hens. He will also enlarge his cramming-house, to afford room for forcing 50,000 fowls a year. He will this year raise a quarter of a million of young chickens. His gross income is $80,000 a year. He finds immediate sale for every fowl he can raise, and cannot supply the demand. To what ex- tent he expects to enlarge he does not know himself. WINTER NAVIGA’I‘IHN OF LAKE HUFEI‘IOB. (From the Globe.) GEORGIAN -â€"Nothing new remains to be done to Cologne Cathedral but to place the massive stone caps of the two great towers and (I? fix the huge crosses that surmount the whole. â€"A writer in the current number of Mac- millan’s Magazine says : “The influence of the London Press on a. place varies inversely with the distance of that place from London. Wherever the London papers are delivered before the usual breakfast hour of busy men, the local press is overpowered. is feebleAin tone, and more or less in character ; but beyond these limits the local press is vigorous and independent.” ‘ â€"The French Academy has just filled up the, seat of M. Jules Favre. There were five candidates, but the real contest lay between M. Rousse, a leading advocate. who has edited the pleadings of Chaix d’Estange, and M: Manuel, an ex~professor and author of some poems. The former was elected by 18 to 13. M. Manuel is a Jew, and the Reactionary papers were aghast at the idea of a Jew Academician. â€"â€"An account appears in the Irish Journal of another apparition having taken place at Cappinruah. within four miles of Marybor- ough, in Queen’s County. Visions of the Blessed Virgin are said to have been seen, and beautiful lights ascending from the altars of the little county church. A number of people have visited the place, and several persons allege that they have seen visions. â€"Lord Barrington is said to have earned his recently conferred English title of Baron Shute by diligence as special reporter in the House of Commons to the Queen. A resume of the proceedings in the House is telegraphed to her every evening. This was formerly made up by the Prime Minister. but of late years Lord Beecousfield, finding the task trouble- some, delegated Lord Barrington to do it. When Wellington’s elder brother, the Marquis Wellesley, died, Count d’Orsay was engaged on his portrait of the Great Duke. The day after the Duke presented himself at the Count’s studio as if nothing extraordinary had occurred, and took his accustomed seat with the remark : “ You have heard of the Marquis Wellesley’s death; a very agreeable manâ€"when he had his own way.” â€"An ostrich, long on exhibition at Rome, having been suffocated by thrusting its neck between the bars, there were found in its stomach four large stones. eleven smaller ones, seven nails, a necktie pin, an envelope, thirteen copper coins, fourteen beads, one French franc, two small keys, a piece of a handkerchief, a silver medal of the Pope, and a cross of an Italian order. â€"AndreW Aimers, the oldest compositor in Scotland, lately died. in Edinburgh. He had helped to set up the Waverley novels. He recollected the beacons which blazed through the country to announce Napoleon’s invasion on a false alarm, and his grandfather point- ing out to him the place where he saw “ Prince Charlie" entering Edinburgh after Prestonpans. ~Dr. Hammond, of Minneapolis, was en- gaged to marry Miss Bly, but he made Miss Winter his wife instead. Nobody could guess why he changed his matrimonial plan, and the mystery was deepened by the fact that Miss Bly had nothing hard to say against him. The matter is clear now, for he has eloped with her after getting possession of his Wife’s 315,000. â€"M. Kidiger. a Spiritualist, summoned be- fore a St. Petersburg magistrate a few days ago M. Faustini, an Italian conjurer, on the charge of falsely representing himself as a medium. The magistrate, without entering into the merits of the case, dismissed it on the grounds that the law recognizes no difference between spiritualism and conjur- ing. â€"â€"A 94; carat diamond, found recently at Mekerk’s Bush,in the South African diamond fields, was sold on the spot for $35,000. The same “digger” to Whose lot this mre find fell unearthed about the same time a fine stone of 26 carats, and another oflflg carats,besides several smaller gems. â€"-In the Russian village of Elizuroff. pro- vince of Moscow, during the services on Easter day, a. wolf ran into the chapel of the Old Behevers and assailed the worshippers. The latter, in their fright. made so terrible a noise that the wolf beat a hasty retreatJeaving four persons wounded. ~An Illinois woman went into the show business on a. small scale with a. bogus petriâ€" fied baby, which she wheeled from town to town in a perambulator, telling a story of its Sickness, death, and final transformation into stone. The figure was well made as to its head and arms, but plain marks of the chisel were found elsewhere. â€"â€"England has a new pest, the tipula grub, which ultimately blossoms into :1 Daddy Long- legs. It goes to the root of every green thing with amazing appetite, and so serious me its ravages that the Royal Agricultural Society has issued an elaborate description of it and its little ways. -â€"â€"â€"The 700th anniversary of the Bavarian dynasty is to be celebrated at Munich Sept. 16th, 1880. â€"A druhkeu stranger staggered into Mrs. Evan's sick room, at Arrowsmith, 111.. when she was alone, and the fright killed her. â€"The Mining and Scientific Press says that the first iron Works in this country were erected in 1619 at Falling Creek. not far from Jamestown, Va. â€"In the physico-mathematical department of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, nearly a third of the members are Prussian Jews. â€"-Mr. Gladstone has for the first time made “advanced age,” in connect-ion with pressing engagements, an excuse for not attending a meeting. â€"A Russian inventor and engineer claims to have found a substitute for the wheel and screw of steamers ; the motion is to be trans- mitted through compressible blades. â€"No men in England to-day work harder than most of the Bishops of the Established Church. The increase in their number is as nothing compared with the increase of their flocks. â€"Jokers at Mills, Minn., got up a. bogus telegram, announcing that Smith had won $10,000 in a lottery. Smith did not discover the truth until almost the entire male popu- lation had got drunk at _his expense. â€"â€"â€"A new aqquisition to the London Zoo- logical Gardens is a. Cape hunting dog. These dogs hunt in packs, and were formerly very common in the Cape, but now have to be fol- lowed at a. great distance in the interior. He resembles a hyena, but 15 anatomically an In» mistakable dog. â€"An advertisement in thé Independent des BasseyPyrences offers for sale a title pos- sessed by a noble family for 400 years. â€"â€"Rosa Bonheur has just presented to the Spanish Government a life-sized painting of a lion, which is to be placed in the Madrid gallery, despite the rule prohibiting the exhi- bition of the works of living artists. -â€"â€"The Anichkoff Palace, the residence of the Czarevitch, is now connected with the St. Petersburg Alexandrinsky Theatre by the tel- ephone, and the Czarevitch and his Wifelisten to the music without having to go to the theatre. â€"-The Paccaiedict, by which a tax of twen- ty per cent. is levied on all antiquities taken out of Italy to foreign countries, has again been put in force by the Minister of Public Instruction, whose aim it is to restrict the traffic that goes on in this kind of works. â€"Pr0pagating sponges by cutting the live ones into small pieces, attaching them to lumps of rock and sinking them to proper depths in suitable places is proposed by a Prof. Schmidt. He thinks in three years they will be marketable and yieldahandsome profit. â€"Some caverns of prehistoric times have been discovered near Stramberg, Moravia. The objects which they contained are said to prove, beyond a doubt, that those caverns were inhabited by man in the most remote ages, contemporaneously with the mammoth and cave bears. AROUND THE WORLD. â€"An Annapolis man rode clear to Savannah to lick a. fellow who called him a liar, and the undertaker said he never saw a dead manlook so much like a quarter of beef. â€"â€"During the winter season which has lately closed, about 8,500 persons, exclusive of persons engaged as chorus singers, etc., found employment in connection with the stage in the 350 regular theaters in Germany. This gives an average attendance of about twenty-four persons per theatre, intimately connected with dramatic representationsâ€"as actors, prompters, etc. The majority of the theatres close on April 1 or May 1, and not more than fifty remain open during the sum- mer. About 7,200 members of the profes- sion in Germany are thus thrown out of em- ployment. Perhaps a fifth of these may find short engagements in connection with the summer theatres. â€"The Duke of Westminster was so much pleased with the gorgeous scarlet liveries in which the Queen’s servants appointed for his personal service as Master of the Horse are clad, that he at once proposed to adopt the same for his private household, and had given a large order to the tailor to that effect. But his Grace received a timely hint that only her Majesty‘s own servants are allowed the privilege of wearing the royal scarlet livery; and that should any of his be dressed likewise, they would only be permitted to wear these scarlet badges on the occasion of State banquets given by the Duke as her Majesty’s Master of the Horse. â€"According to the last census the popula- tion of Greece, which in 1870mm only 1,457,â€" 894, amounts now to 1,679,755, The popu- lation of Athens has increased in the same period from 48,000 to 70,000, and that of the Piraeus from 11,000 to double. By counting the Greek subjects living abroad a total of 2,000,000 of population would be arrived at. In 1838, When the first census was taken, the population of Greece was about 850.000. without counting the inhabitants of the Ionian Islands. The number of deputies, now 190, will have to be increased to 204, as the electoral law gives one deputy to every 10,000 inhabitants. â€"The American who visits Oxford Uni- versity now can have no idea of the charming surprise which awaited the traveller in the old coaching days, when the approach to the City of Spires was over Magdalen Bridge. Waynflettes beautiful college, with its ex- quisitely graceful tower rising by the side of the .bridge over Cheswell, caused an ex- clatmation of delight as the coach swept into High street. Oxford owed much to the first impression made by Magdalen Tower, em- bowered in the trees of which Pope sung “To hunt for truth in Maudlin’s learned grove.” In 1498 Cardinal Wolsey. who was hussar, designed it. -â€"The monks of La Grande Chartreuse are said to be likely to seek a local habitation in the north of Ireland, in consequence of the laws obliging the religious orders to secure State authorization. The historic community will carry with them the mystery and manu- facture of that exquisite liqueur for which every amateur of the tahle has, some ‘time or other, thanked the Brotherhood of St. Brune. This liqueur, of which they have guarded the secret so long and so closely, brings the order an annual revenue of many millions of francs, almost all of which is laid out in benefactious, the rule of the fraternity being extremely austere. -â€"The Mexican volcano of Orizaba. 17,300 feet above the sea level, has been ascended by M. Athalzu, a resident in Puebla. Thirteen persons accompanied him, one of whom died at the top from rarefaction of the air, and another a few days afterwards from erysipelas caused by the reflection of the sun on the snow. 7,000 steps had to be cut in the snow to gain the summit, and the expedition occu- pied four days, one of which was a blank owing to rain and snow. Baron Miller, in 1859. first made the ascent, and he has had very few successors. â€"â€"Certain sordid persons might say that it was a small reward that the Swedish emigrant gave Michael Maher, when she handed him fifty cents in return for giving her 3600 which she had lost and he had found. Others will say that witnessing the joy of the poor wo- man, that expressed itself in many fervent kisses pressed on Michael’s blushing face, and the consciousness of having done a good deed and made a helpless stranger happy,is in itself a. reward more satisfying than yellcfiv gold or glittering silver. â€"-Lord Chelmsford, Sir Bartle Frere, and Sir A. Layard, in a word. all the chief repre- sentatives and agents of British interests dur- ing one of the severest crises in British history, have, without exception, reaped more failure and unpopularity than glory and profit from efforts acknowledged to have been well meant, well devised, and thoroughly patriotic. It is even stated that Sir Garnet Wolseley’s arrangements at the Cape are very defective, and that he has made himself very unpopular. â€"Prince Pierre Bonaparte has issued a protest against the omission of his son, Prince Roland, Sub-lieutenant in the army. in his brother Prince Lucien’s letter enumera- ting the Bonaparte family. He insists on his son‘s legitimacy. for the marriage, although not sanctioned by Napoleon III., was civilly and religiously solemnized in Belgium, and after the fall of the Empire was repeated at the French Embassy at Brussels with all legal formalities. â€"Eurl Cowper, the new Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, who has been very enthusiastically received in Dublin, is in the prime of life. with a most agreeable presence, and has the advantage of a princely fortune, with no family and a very handsome and charming wife. She is also a great sportswoman. Few men, it is said, can throw a salmon fly with more dexterity, and many stage have fallen to her Henri rifle on the Poiack Mount or in the Isle of Mull. There is not a better game shot in England than Lord Cowper. â€"On the day Cardinal Manning assisted at the baptism in London of the Duke of Norfolk’s son and heir, he celebrated mass and breakfaated at early mom in Liverpool, reached Norfolk House, St. James’ Square, by 2 o’clock, paid a visit to the Archiepis- canal residence at 4 p.m., caught the Liver- pool express by 5 p. m. and addressed a large meeting of Roman Catholics on temperance in St. George’s Hall at 10 the same evening. This is ecclesiastical activity for one over 70. But this is all very dilficult and; dangerous work, and, though the scafloldings 3' have now been carried to the top of the tow- ‘ ers, it is still possible that the prediction r against the completion of this magnificent ed- ifice may be fulfilled. â€"The Rev. Albert Whiting, an American missionary in Chinafiied of fever while minis- tering to the starving natives. The Governor of the province offered to defray the expense of sending the body home, and when it was explained to him that Americans did not share in the Chinese horror of being buried in a. foreign country, he gave a plot of ground in which to make a grave, and deputed 12 Chinamen to worship the dead clergymen’s spirit. â€" Monseignpur Dumont, Bishop cf Tour- nay, in Frande‘ijwho took a. leading part in opposition to the law schools, and who a year ago was deprived of the management; of his see by the Pope on the ground of mental de- rangement, has published a. letter ridiculing the Pope’s pretensions to omnipotence, and denyinghis right to declare him insane. He says : “Happily. Leo XIII. is not our Lord Jesus Christ, but only his vicar. And what a vicar l Judas was an Apostle.” â€"A startling discovery has been made at the Junior United Service Club, London. which will necessitate the closing of the club for some months. It has been discovered that the air pumped into the building came direct from the main drain, and the drainage from the kitchen is also in direct communi- cation with the sewer. In fact. to use the words of the report of Mr. Field, 0. E., the air of the sewer is, as it were, laid on to the house. â€"'1‘he man who can‘t find at least a. score of things to worry about isn’t. a bit happy. â€"Detroit Free Press': The nrize fight is of British origin ; but a British Province turned out its forces a few days since to pre- vent one. On the other hand the great State of Pennsylvania was perfectly willing that two brutes in human form should pound each other out of all human semblance on Monday, and the State of West Virginia allowed a similar exhibition Tuesday. A Kingstoniun Murdered [or III!» Money in Texas. (Kingston News.) A letter was received here this (Tuesday) morning from Prof. Lewis A. Turner, 0f 57 Lloyd street, Buffalo, stating thata report was in circulation in that city to the effect that a cannon ball performer, whose profes- sional name was Donaldson, had been shot and killed in Texas for his money. On en- quiry we find that Prof. Donaldson’s real name was George Blanchard, and that he belonged to Wolfe Island, where his mother still lives. He was a fine. powerfully-built man, about six feet six inches in height and of a fair complexion. He left the city about five years ago, and went to Buffalo, N. Y.. where be commenced performing. While here he worked in the Locomotive Works, or, as they were then called. the Ontario Foundry, and was always a general favorite with his companions on account of his jovial good na- ture. He then boarded in the Fenwick Hotel. Ontario street. He was in the city shortly before the ice went out finally. He had to cross to the. island on an ice boat. He then seemed tohave lots of money, which he always carried about with him. He also wore afine gold watch worth $150. which, with his money, no doubt tempted his mur- dercr to commit the deed. i The Sovereign Grand Lodge of the Inde- pendent Order of Oddfellows will hold its fifth-sixth annual session in Toronto com- mencing on Monday, the 20th September, 1880. The meeting will be one of special importance to the fraternity on account of the international character of the gatherfllg. The Sovereign Grand Lodge is composed of re- presentative men from each of the States and Territories in the United States, each Prov- ince of the Dominion of Canada, the German Empire. Switzerland, Australia, New Zea- land, Chili, the Sandwich Islands, etc. The nature of the institution is non-political, and purely moral and benevolent ; it exercises a most beneficial influence amongst its gnom- hers, and very often extends its charity out- side its own ranks. It now numbers nearly half a million of members, and has a large fund accumulated for the benevolent and general purposes of the order. According to the last annual report it expended during the year, for the relief of its members, $1,740,- 405.00. The Ontario Government, considerâ€" ing the cosmopolitan nature of the meeting to be held, and following the usual custom in the United States, has granted the use of the Legislative Assembly Rooms for the pur- pose of the sess10n. Arrangements are in progress tending to a grand gala-day during the progress of the Industrial Exhibition, civic and other receptions. gA number of un-- formed Encempments have signified their intention of being present, each accompanied by a band. 3 I‘ll- Arresl an n Dunner from "up Guards. DETROIT, June 4.-â€"-1‘he News says:â€"The Associated Press despatch stating that “ Cap- tain J ordan," of the Canadian Cricketers, playing at Leicester, England, had been ar- rested yesterday for deserting from the Second Life Guards eighteen years ago, created some- thing like a sensation in Detroit, for it is pretty well understood that “ Captain Jordan” is none other than stalwart Tom Dale, the bril- liant professional cricketer of the Peninsular Cricket Club. When the decree of divorce was granted, Dale made certain promises to his Wife No. 1, and she in return promised to refrain from troubling him further, and also gave him cer- tain documents which she said would insure his safety in the event of his returning to England" Accordingly, on the 25th of April. 1880, Dale was again married to his Natchez wife, Justice Lempkle performing the cere- mony in the presence of Frank Giddey and G. X. M. Collier, and at 4 o’clock on the morning of April 26, left this city to go to Europe, as the captain of the Canadian crick- eters, feeling fairly certain that he would have no trouble on the other side. Mrs. Dale No. 1, was meanwhile courted and won by and wedded to J. B. Stirlwell, of Ypsilanti, with whom she is at present living. ’ 1 stated that she had been granted a personal interview while in England, with Sir Garnet Wolseleyâ€"wife N0. 1 is a woman of educa- tion and considerable culture -â€"» and that through her own efforts had received us~ surances from officials high in authority, that her husband, Mr, Dale, might return to Eng- land and would escape punishment for his desertion from the, army. ” Poor Tom Dale !" remarked those who knew him, as the painful intelligence 'spread from mouth to mouth this morning. “His days as a cricketer ended. How could he have been so very reckleSS ?" The Free Press has the following: The ar- rest in England of Tom Dale, the cricketer, so well known in this city, has aroused the sympathy of many of his friends, who are contemplating the advisability of taking steps to aid him in his dilemma. if possible. Below is given a history of Dale’s married life, which exalains in a measure the boldness he displayed in returning to England. On the 4th of March. 1873, Dale was married at Nat- chez, Miss. to the wife who now resides at the Peninsular cricket grounds. although at the time he had a wife living in England, a fact of which his Natchez wife was not aware. Early in January, 1875, Mrs. Dale No. 1 ar- rived in this city from England and began to make trouble for her husband, and iuring the difficulty Mrs..Dale No. 2 for the first time discovered the true situation. Dale preferred the wife No. 2 to No. 1. and in the hope of being able to remain with her went to Frank Giddey, whom he employed as his attorney, to effect a settlement and procure a divorce. On January 25, 1879, Mr. Giddey began proceed-‘ ings for a divorce, and on August 28, 1879, the decree was granted. Meanwhile wife No. A News reporter talked with Secretary Cal- vert and other members of the Peninsular cricket club this morning and learned that Dale’s desertion from the British troops at London occurred 8 and not 18 years ago, as incorrectly reported by cable. Arriving at New Orleans in 1872,D2ile first located in St. Louis as a member of the mounted police. In 1874 and ’75 he had the temerity to act as profes- sional for the British oflicers’ cricket team at Halifax. In 1876 he was located in Toledo. and 1877 he accepted an invitation to act as professional for the Peninsular Cricket Clnb, a. position which he has held ever since. After removing to Detroit he imported a young wife from Toledo, and she and her two children are now living in the keeper’s house at the Peninsular cricket grounds, on Wood- ward avenue. About five weeks ago Dale started across the water with a picked team of Canadian cricketers from Montreal for a tour through Great Britain. After playing three games in Scotland, the team passed on to Leicester whe re Dale, who had been playing under the assumed name of Jordan, was arrested, as above stated,”for desertion.and will, of course, be severely dealt with. The English law is very strict upon the subject of desertion, and it is folly for such amen to ever tread on Brit- ish soil again, especially a man like Tom Dale, whose fame as a cricketer was by no means confined to the United States or Canada. The detectives who make it a business to watch for deserters in England never sleep ; and they never grow old or die 03, or give place to other men. Dale might have ex- pected to be arrested even if he had stayed away from England a quarter of men- tury. ODDFELIAO‘VH’ CuNVENTIflN NIIIICICING U R] .VIE “ r008 'l‘OSVl DA LE.”