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In the Ohio Valley there is objection to flax on the score of injury tothe soil. “ It is hard on the Iand,"is a common remark of correspondents. Such is the first greeting of the Statistician of the Department oi Agriculture, Dwember, 1885, to the flux ln- dustry of the United Statesâ€"an industry which produced 12,000,000 bushels (W Chr- cago'e average price, 313 500.600) of seed the last year. Its several manufacturing piants in the West are valued at $6,000,000, with an annual output of $15,000,000. The right of discovery of the true character of the flax plant awarded to the Ohio Valley (in other words, State) is not quite correct. All intelligent writers on agriculture from the days of Pliny and Virgilâ€"4311 cultivators of the plant from the date (1629) of the legal forced planting on Massachussets’ sterile shores to the utilizing of its appetite for mineral manures in subdulng the fresh-turn- ed soil of Dakotaâ€" have conceded its soil- exhansting capabilities. There seems a lack of wisdom in political economy that forces the farmer to export the raw products of the farm, freighted as they are with the valuable mannrial constituents of the soil, or causes the Western pioneer farmer to waste his own most valuable fibre (estimated at 16‘2‘500 tons), while to bind his sheaves he buys (estimated at 20,000 tons) twine made from the interior fibers of India. By an act passed by the New York leg- islature and approved by the governor, the dairy commissioner is directed to employ expert butter and cheese makers, not ex- ceeding five in number, whose duty it shall be, under his directions, to examine and in- spect butter and cheese factories and the methods employed therein, and attend to such agricultural fairs, institutes, meetings conventions within the state as shall be designated by the commissioner, to impart thereat information as to the best methods of making butter and cheese. Five thousand dollars have been appropriated for the pur- pose. On or before Dec. 15 next the com- missioner must report the number of experts employed under the act, together with their compensation and expenses, and must in- clude the whole in his annual report. An- other appropriation of $2500 has been made to the State Dairy assooiation to be expend- ed in holding a number of dairy conferences in various parts of the state to illustrate butter and cheese making. inches and a half in diameter ; out 06‘ pieces say three to four inches long, and shape off the corners with a knife. so as to make the pieces as nearly round as possible. Next, either bore a sewn-eight inch auger hole through the piece or drive in a staple and ring. Take the pieces of wood to the stable, and, instead of tying your horses' halters to the ministers. run the halter strap through the hole in the manger, from the inside, so then the end come! out in front of the trough, and fasten the halter strap ' .Tbe following we know from long exper- ience to be an excellent plan for tying up horses in such a way that they cannot get entangled in the halter : Go to the wood- shed and select a round piece of beech, oak, chestnut, 7 or other bird wood, about three I; condeotion with the two Royal Agri. cultural Colleges at Alnarp and Ultnna, the government started in the year 1883 two dairy colleges, giving a grant to each. Here pupils are admitted either as in-students or out-students, and all provision is made for their accommodation. This covers the greater extent of the tuition, but in addition, the government pays every year 32 girls $41.50 each for learning butter and cheese- making on good dairy farms. Tue govern- ment travelling teachers inspect these farms two or three times in the year. The girls must do ad the work in the dairy, and also milk the cows and feed the calves. The farmer with whom these girls are placed must instruct them in dairy management, arithmetic, writing, reading. spelllmz. book keeping for dairy purposes, &c. For his teaching he receives $27.50 from each girl, they paying for their board with their work. In the North, where there are no good dairy farms, :the Swedish government has started two dairy schools for girls, at each of which six are being educated, but these have been established so recenth that their results are scarcely apparent. When we turn to the tables which accompany this article, the in~ fluence of this education is seen. In 1861 the export of butter from Sweden was 20,- 574 k1!os., and the import 1,110,181 kilos. In 1885 the export Was 11,446,189 kilos, and the imports 2,844 599. 'r of lend eight or ten feet wrde: leaving a deep furrow in the center of the strip, with the perpendicular side of the furrow toward the fiald to be protected. Into this the bugs will fall, where straw may be throwu o 1 them burned. Or the furrow ma be covered with some of the stalks that have been out while they were green, by laying across it, when the bugs will crawl under them into the furrow and remain there in the shade long enough for the stalks to dry and be burned. A great many remedies and preventives against ohinch bugs have been suggested and published from time to time, the most 01 mem emanating from good authorities, but very generally so difficult and impracti- cable in their application as to be of little veneral use. In their migration from one field to another, at the time they first appear on the side of a field of corn and before they have entered it, cut five or six rows of the corn and clean the ground, then plow a strip r u ‘ ,:_LA A , , A A _ :A_L,,,‘ To KEEP Cmscn Buss mom ACORN YIELD Dun.va m SWEDEN. In U“! j mrnflfi the British Dbil'Y Fer- mera’ Aseuwsr. ; lately leaned. Prof. John Neuho. mt of S Medan, gins some interesting articulate u to dairy education in Sweden. 9 says that in the yen lSSl the Swedish government appointed two trewlling dairy teachers for the whale r f Sweden, paying them at the rate of $1 000 a. year. and also givinc them free tickets and $1.50 oer day when travelling about. If a dairy maid de- sires to improve her practice. the teacher will go to the farm. staying as long as he is wanted, in order to instruct her in either butter or cheese making, and at the same time he will advise the farmer how to feed the cattle so as to produce the largest nun-<1 tity of rich milk and the beat butter. \ hen these wachers reach sixty-five years of eye they ere peneioneq ofl'.‘ v. I A n FLAX As AN EXHAUSTIV'E CROP. 0F Imznusr To DAIRYMEN. A STABLE PREGAUTION. AGRICULTURAL. The bulletin of the Ohio Experimental Station {or May reports that trees dusted with air-slaked lime in Michigan have yielded abundant fruit. It can be mixed with water and sprayed. or applied b7 means of aflat paddle from 9. barrel in a waggon which is driven along the rows of trees on the aide toward the wind. Very few are aware of the fact that hay is very beneficial to hogs ; but it is true nevertheless. Hogs need rough food as well as horses, cattle, or the human race. To prepare it you should have a cutting-box (or hay cutter). and the greener the hey the better. Cut the hey short and mix with bran, shorts or middlings, and feed as other food. Hogs soon learn to like it, and if soaked in swill or other slop food, it is high- ly relished by them. In winter use for hogs the same hay you feed to your horses, and you will find that, while it saves bren shorts, or other food, it puts on flesh as rapidly as anything that can be given them. One hog, kept to the age of one year, if furnished with suitable material, will con- vert: a. cartload per month into a fertilizer which will produce a. good crop of corn. Two loads per year multiplied by] the number of hogs usually kept by our farmers would make suflicient fertilizmg substance to grow the corn used by them; or, in other words, the hog would pay in manure its keep- ing. In this way we can aflord to make pork at low prices; but in no other way can it be done without less to the farmer. I have found in my practice that one pound of Paris green to 200 pounds of plas- ter does all that could be asked for, kills the potato bug without injury to the vine. A knowledge of this fact has saved me many dollars. The union between scion and stock takes place by the inner bark and not: by the out emfaca of the wood ; consequently the skill of the grafter is exercised to bring the inner bark o the scion in close contact with the nner bark of stock. Stock farming must be the foundation of all long continued, successful farming. Any other system in one of slow exhaustion and ultimate sterility. Ignore the sheep, the hog and the cow, and the [And will grow poor inevitably. American arched-diets must soon meet the competition in English markets, of apple growers in Australia. and Tasmania. The imports of choice apples from these latter points has already increased to such an ex- tent as to affect British fruit growers. Ixsrcr FRIENDS.- California fruit growers have recently imported some Austalian parasites warranted to kill fruit pests. These little bugs, no larger than flies, feed on insect pests and rapidly destroy them. Congress will be asked to sanction the im~ portation of these parasites, in order to clear Calafornia orchards from insect pests that are increasing every year. No fewer than 850 live sheep will leave Liverpool tomorrow for Canada in the steamer Oxenholme. This consignment is the largest ever taken from England by one vessel, and the animals include a great many of the finest sheep in the country. Nearlv all of them are show animals, and in many cases the sheep have been exhibited at the Royal Agricultural Show held at Notting- ham a flw days ago, at which some of them were prize winners. The Oxenholme will convey the sheep to Montreal, from which place they will be drafted to various forms in Canada. and :the Western States. The sheep are mostly of the Shropshire down class, and some of them are exceptionally valuable. -â€"k[M&DCh88toGI' (Eng) Examiner, July 23. An exchange says that the Hollander: could teach Americana something about dairs‘ farming. Good Dutch cows are held a' $l50 each. and are kept on land which often bring; a larger yearly rental than would buy good impmved American farms- outright, and yet these Hollnnders pay rent and make money beaidee. They are athrifty people. and know a good cow when they see her. Vaseline makes a very clean, odorlegs ap- plication for light: harness, riding bridle-S. saddlefiy etc. After giving it a chance to dry in. go all over the surface with 5.1-“: dipped in the white of an egg. This gwea it a waterproof coating than will last for some time and prevents the oil from 8taln~ ing the hands or clothing. Hwe the leath- er perfectly clean before oiling. I should like to have the opinion of your readers as to the cheapest and best prepara- tion to put on oak or chestnut posts, so as to make them last the loo est, with the method of putting it on. I 0 not mean to dress the whole post, but merely the part that is in the groundâ€"J. C Lynchburg, Va. [A number of applications have been tried for this purpose, but many years are usually required for the completion or the experi- ments. and as various external influences have operated in opposite directions, farmers who have made the trials have conflicting opinions. Probably one of the best is the mode given several years ago in the Country Gentleman. of applying petro learn by hor- ing a slanting hole in the post downwards near the ground and occasionally filling it with the oil and keeping it plugged] C. M. Cley. of Kentucky. writingon the very common belief that when sheep are killed for mutton Wlth the fleeces on them the mutton is rendered unpalatable on ec- count of the wool taste, says it in ell non- sense about the wool reflecting the taste of the meat. He explains that “ the bad taste is caused by the excretion: of the bowels 30in into the circulation when the sheep are illed thet gives the wool the flsvor. The intestines must be teken out as quickly “gossible ; then you may wrap it in wool en lay it on ice for days, and if there is any wool taste I will eat the sheep, skin, wool and ell." Indiana Farmer, commenting on the above. says that if mutton is trotted as Mr. Clay advises there need be no concern as to the wool taste through the block or the ring you may have put in it. This is a. great improvement on the fixed fashion of tying. It always keeps the halter strap tent, and thus the horse cannot throw himself by getting his leg over the slack of the strap, but yet, when he wants to lie down. has “ rope " enough for comfort, without danger. Hoes AS Pnonnczns or MAXURE. Tm: WOOL TASTE m Murrox. RENDmsc Pos’l‘s Dvmnnx, P31 zs SHEEP FOR CANADA. BAY FOR Boas. NOTES. Now that the time is approaching when the summer resorts of Britanny and Nor- mandy will be patronized by seekers after fresh air, it is well, the Paris correspondent of the London “ Telegraph " remarks. to draw attention once more to an old subject. Among the English, as well as French, visi- tors to such places every year there are nu- merous antiquarians, collectors of ceramics, and those whom the American humorist facetiously called “ brie-a brackets.” N ow the members, or rather imitators, of the " Black Baud ” are as numerous as ever in France, and they still take a diabolical and professional delight in entrapping unwary antiquarian tourists by offering sham curios, articles of vertu, pottery, coins, and medals for sale. These people cunningly distribute reputed antique bedsteads. chairs, balmts, medallions, and pottery-ware in old farm houses near watering places, The guides, hotel touts, villagers, and similar folk are told to sound the praises of these things in the ear of the tourist, who is flattered and delighted at the prospect of being able to pick up a bit of genuine old china, a 'rococo cabinet, a jar of " Old Gaul,” and perhaps a buckler of javelin owned by one of Caesar‘s ligionaries. The diplomatic guide or tout is never gushing about the antiquities ; but he generally insinuates in an of? handed, distant kind of way that he knows or has heard of some old woman living leagues off who had kept such things in her family for years. The amateur antiquarian goes to the bonne mere, who shows him her collec- tion and narrates their history; how they were heirlooms from her mother, who had been in the chateau of a local magnate. and had hidden them at the time of the revolu- tion, and so on. Of course, the bomze-mere could not, on any account, part with the things ; but, as mensieur is so pressing she has no objection to letting him have some of them at a fair price. The amateur then goes on to bid for the articles, and finally departs with half a dozen old plates, at cou- ple of jugs, or a rusty javelin, deeming him- self lucky to have found his curios himself. Next day the brica brac dealer from Paris receives notice of the succoeful sale. and he at once proceeds to pocket the pelf, to pay the usual percentage to all his confederates, and to replace the curiosities sold to the in- nocent and unsophisticated stranger by others. Thus the trade in the sham an- tique, goes on from year to year, and, des- pite exposures, there are still numcrcus vic- tims annually. Not only do French millinera perfume their artificial flowers. but the custom among fashion lenders of adopting one particular flower and using its corresponding perfume, has lost none of‘its prestige. French flowers are still perfumed with the odor of tho blos- soms they so wonderfully and perfectly imi~ tote, and this season the delicate and exquis- itely fragrant trailing arbntus is used as a. carnage bonqnet,the artificial flowers being most minutely copied from nature's only herald of spring. Those pink-tinted blos- soms are perfumed with the subtle and dainty odor which below to the natural flower. “ Men usually man-y their oppoaites." said Cholly, reflectively. “ That: is true," said the old man, a little surprised 5t Uholly‘s un- usual brfllimcy. “ All the married men I know have married members of the opposite sex.” “ I mean,” said Cholly. “ that a tall in m is apt to marry a short women, and vice versa ; I wonder what kind of a woman I will marry 3" And the old man opined that he would marry a gixl with some sense. The Tribune’s cable letter has the follow- ing zâ€"Mr. Parnell sues The Times on the letters and on The Times’ articles relating to them. Nothing is alleged, and it will be certainly difli rult for The Times to go into other charges against Mr. Parnell. The libels complained of are, first, The Times' assertion that he said Mr. Burke, when murdered in Phoenix Park, got no more than his deserts; second, that he urged Mr. Egan to murder Mr. Faster; third, that he gave Frank Byrne money to escape to France. The Times, both yesterday and to-day, writes in a tone which indicates surprise and vexation that the action should have been brou ht in Scotland and brought in this form. f you were going to sue The Times why did you not sue before? say Mr. Parnell's opponents, whom he does not take the trouble to answer. There are Liberal friends of his, who say that if he meant to take this step he might have given ‘them a hint. Many of them argued in the House of Commons that he could not do what he has now done. One or two Liberal papers object rather strongly to his present course. These points, however, are not the main points, except so far as they relate to the commission and to Mr. Parnell’s sup- posed intention of asking the commission to delay action because of the Scotch snit. There was. as I long since said, a time when he might have prevented the appoint- ment of a commission by bringing an action. It is not at all likely that the action will now have any influence whatever in the proceeding before the three judges. Sir James Herman, I hear, dislikes the task before him, but will go through it to the end and precisely as if politics had no thing to do with the matter. The Pall Mall Msll Gszatte, commenting on the action of Mr. Parnell in bringing suit against: The London Times in the Soot- ieh Uonrts, says :â€""Mr. Parnell's trick seems to please his supporters and has dis- quieted his foes, but it resembles playing fest and loose, and we doubt whether i: will do its oontrivers any good. If Mr. Parnell has discovered the forger who. planned the letters published by The Times, then it is no trick but the execution of n determination long nvowed. But his admit. «311' round for applause is on the trick whic will bedsvil the Commission of In- quiry entirely. If this is Mr. Parnell‘s ‘ object it is a false move, and Mr. Parnell has changed front in the face of the enemy, which is dangerous. The tardy adoption of a conrse which he refused to take when iOWOnldheve been useful to his E iglish allies will not be understood. The commission will proceed with the work and Mr. Punell cannot nresb in. If he refuses to testify before it, he will ban: nobody so much as himself. As Mr. Parnell’s one stands he hes no motive to hold his tongue but to ohnllonge inquiry." THE GREATEST LIBEL SUIT. The Pall Mall Suzette Object». ‘1']! E LI EELS SPECIFIED Sham Antiques. .“I have been working in this office for three years," said one girl, “and I feel quite sure that my hearing hos improved since I came here. I can distinguish the faintest sound on the wire. or anywhere else, and I have a great deal of fun sometimes listen- ing to the conversations of eople who think Im not within hearing istance. I have never had any trouble with my ears, and a doctor who was treating men short time ago said the gentle current of electricity that passed into the ear was highly bene- ficial." An eminent specialist in diseases of the eye and ear told the reporter that a gentle current of electricity couli not fail to be of benefit to any of the human func- tions. It is good for rheumatism, and when applied to the ear it makes the tym- panum more acute. and has a tendency to put greater life and vigor into the brain. Small boyâ€"Say, pa l teacher said h-day “Szudy hard, boys, time flies.” Falherâ€" Very true my son. Small boyâ€"Well, and a. little while after he said, “time leaves footprints." Now, pa, how can “Time” leave footprint: if it flies? The Telephone Sllarpens the Hearing. “The idea that a. person’s hearing is im- paired by the constant use of the telephone is ridiculous." said General Manager Plush, oi the Bell 0., yesterday. “I see a. rofes~ our in Berlin has laid claim to having isoov- ered what he calls ‘telephnne deafness,’ but it; is my candid opinion than he is looking for public notoriety. Come upstairs and talk to the girls yourself.” 'I he reporter walked up a. flight of stsirs and passed into 11er where 9. score of girls were sitting in front of switchboards and operating tables. What the manager said Was lullv concurred in by several of the young ladies who were spoken to. _ “A woman will take the smallest draw- er in a bureau for her own private use, and will store in it dainty fragments of ribbon, scraps of lace, foamv ruffles, velvet things for the neck, bundles of old love-letters, pieces of jewellery, handkerchiefs, fans, and things that no man knows the name; all sorts of fresh-looking, bright little ar- ticles that you could not catalogue in a column ; and at any time she can go to that drawer and pick up anything else. Where as a men, having the biggest, deepest, and widest drawer assigned to him, will put in- to it a couple of socks, a collar-box, an old necktie, two handkerchieis, a pipe and. a. pair of suspenders. and to save his life he can’t shut the drawer without leaving more ends sticking out than there are pieces in it.” Such are the sober, wise reflections of our esteemed contemporary the Strouds- burg "Times." A New Hampshire woman, who recently celebrated her 80th birthday, halvim7 pre- pared every article of food with her own hands, upon being asked how she had kept herself so vigorous. replied :â€"“ BV never allowing myself to fret over things I cannot help ; by taking a nap, sometimes two. every day of my life ; by never taking mv washing, ironing, and baking to bed with me, and by oiling all the various wheels of a busy life with an implicit faith that there is a brain and heart: to this great universe, and that I could trust them both." Sounder rules could not be framed. Many a woman would be happier and live longer through adopting them. The Princess of England Whose complex- ion is not only the finest, but who has best stood the wear and tear of time, takes her morning plunge regularly, and in water fairly cold but she is particularly careful to promptly make use of the flesh brush, using gloves of moderate roughness rapidly over the surface of the body. and, finally, the rou h towel in a nick. general rub, occupy- ing 0th for the ath and this massage. if one may call it such, twenty minutes in all. At night the same lady's bath is prepared tepid and of distilled water, the admirable advantage of which is not properly under- stood. Every article ol foreign matter is removed from istilled water, so that it is absolutely pure. It costs about twelve cents per gallon, and can be used, a quart at a time. for a quick sponge bath. with ad- mirable effect, especially when combined with a little glycerine and rose water. English girls who are famous walkers are taught to lie down for a few seconds when- ever they come in from their tramps. If Canadians would learn the value of lying down frequently.sa.y two or three times a day, they would have as murh go ahead and power toga ahead as they are now famous for. Many women never rcs's . They seem not to understand when roseâ€"real restâ€"means. To throw one's self down with anewspsper or a book is not rest; it is only a change of occupation. To siu down and keep the fingers flying over some sort. of fencv work, as if one were pursued hv a demon of unrest. is certainly not rest. But to lie at full length on a hard surface. arms extended at the sides, head back, with no pillow, eyes closed, all cares and worries dismissed â€"-this is rest; *hls will smooth away wrinkles in face and in temper: this will give an air of repose to the tired, anxious, nervous women; this will take away many an echo and straighten out rounded shoulders and crened out necks. CAN Hz Swm ? Can your boy swim N o l Then do not trust him inany sort of beat until he has learned the ert. and feels as much at .home in the water as upon dry land. You might just as well send him out elone into ecrowd- ed street before he has learned to walk. He might useibly creep along all right. and reach home alive, or somebody might pick him up and care for him' but the chances would not be in his favor. So in beating, the boy who cannot swim may get along very comfortably for a while. end not suEer from this defect in his education, but the time Will assuredly come when he will have cause to bitterly regret it. It is one of the simp- lest things in the world, too, and can be learned in three or four intelli ently direct- ed lessons, such as can be he in any city swimming school or from the experts in any country village. By all means talk swim to your boy before you talk boat. and stipulate as one of the conditions of his having a boat that be ehsll first be able to swim a (11:1er of a mile without resting. SOUND RULES FOR A WOMAN'S LIFE. FOR AND A80UT WOMBN- INFERTOBII'Y OF THE STERNER SEX. Tm: PRINCESS 0F WALEs‘ BATH. WOMEN WHO sznn REST. Lira. Wiggins (inuredulously)â€"And do you mean to say that although you've been married a year your husband has never once alluded to his mother'a cooking? Mrs. Youngwifeâ€"Never. Charlie’s folks at. ways lived a! hotels, you know. “ DEAR AFFECI‘IONATELY TEACHERâ€"Fae sorry I couldn’t come to school on Friday, but I couldn’t ’cause it rain. and dat's do way it go in dis world. If de L)rr1 shut de door, no man can open de door. If (is Lard say, '0 en de door,’ no man can shut de door. f do Lord say. “It rain,’ no man can stopit rain. But de Lord, He do all things well. And you oughtn't to growl about it.” There are often wise and true 'aermons in the utterances of children, and there is a. great truth for u! all in the following excuse written by a little colored boy who had been absent from school for a day : The great event of the visit is the cofiee. The host has a kind of brazen shovel brought. in which he roasts the beans ; then he takes a pestle and mortar oi the oak of Bashan, and with his own hands he pounds it to powder, making the hard oak ring forth a song of welcome to the guest. Many of these pestles and mortars are heirlooms, and are richly ornamented and beautifqu black and polished by age and use; such was the one in question. Having drunk coffee (for the honored guest the cup is filled three times), you are quite safe in the hands of the most murderous. So far do they carry this superstition that a man who had murdered another fled to the deed men’s father, and before he knew what; had happened drank cofl‘ee. Presently friends came in, and, as they were relating the news to the bereaved father, recognized the murderer crouched beside the fire. They instantly demanded vengeance. “No.” said the father, “it cannot be; he has drunk coffee. anihu thus become to me as my son." Had he not drunk 00568 the father would never have rested until he had dyed his hands in his blood. As it was. it is said he further gave him his daughter to wife. So much is written about the Cobden Club and its beleful influence upon American poli- tics, says the New York “ Herald,” the: its is well no remember that Jimes A. Garfield and other conspicuous Republicans were members. The Cobden Club is devoted to free trade. It dines annually. and has a small publication fund to supply tracts and br ides. This represents its material efice. So far as providing money to su 1disc American newspapers is concerned, we take it that its managers have about as much as they can do to raise the money for their annual dinner. The Cobden Club Al- ways seemed to us to be a. kind of mutual admiration eociety, composed of lcquseious people, free of access to foreigners who would pzy entrance fee. And this is probably the reason why Garfield, who was an easy going fellow, and his fellow-Republicans joined. Her replies put Judge Brevoort in a. great- er quandary than before. Both parties think much of the child and are capable of caring for her. Judge Brevoort will decide later “ I want to live with mnnma, my gran'ma. and the baby bath,” replied the sweet-faced little one. " D) you mind mamma. 2” “Not always," she replied, “but I tries to, and feel sorry if 1 don't. But I fordels sometimes. I love momma, gran’ma and the baby. One wants me to go wif her, avd the other wants me too. I don’t know whet to do._’_' And she loolfeq perplexed. “Well, I don’tuknow,“ shé‘mplied. "I loves my mamma, I loves the baby, and I 10m. graphs” “ BE: don’t you know which one you want to go with T’ ggked p139 judge. - The case was up again before Judge Bre- voorb this (Thursday) morning. “ The evi- dence is contradictory and bewildering,”aaid the Judge. “and I will justly conclude the unhappy dilemma in which I am placed by learning whom the child favours as a gun. dian." Little Mary was brought; up to the J udge, and as he stroked her hair with his hand he asked her whether she desired to go mth he: stepmother‘or her grandmother. The Market for Canadian Pro- ducts. A great change, however, has ocenrred in the proportion taken by each country. In 1863 we exported to the United States 6i per cent... and to Great Britain 34 per cent. By 1887 the two countries had en- tirely changed places as buyers of our farm produc's. Great Britain taking 60 per cent. and the United States 35 per cent. This change is the more remarkable from the fact that in oerain articles our exports to the United States show a marked increase. as. for instance. in eggs, which increased from $206,000 in 1868 to $1.822,000 in 1887. and in horses. which increased from $584,658 in 1868 to $2,2l44000 in 1887. Indeed, not- withstanding tne high duties imposei by the United States with a View to absolutely ex- cluding nearly every description of Canadian farmprodnctsmhepeogle of the United States have been obliged to uy the whole range of such products 28 per cent. more from Cana- da in 1887 than they did twenty years ago. butthls is a bagtelle as compared with the in- crease oi our farm axioms to Great Britain. Everything we ofi'er the English market goes in free of duty, and here the increase of purchases of our farm products in the twenty years has been 280 percent. being ten times as great as the increase oi purchases by the United States. Great Britain now buys 25:} millions of dollars‘ worth a year, the United States only 1531 million dollars worth. During the twenty years of Con- federation Great Britain has purchased from Canada $347,000,000 worth of farm pro- ducts, the United States $294,000,000 worth. This great increase of sales to Brit- ain is rendered more noteworthy by the fact that in the first fiVe years of the twenty the United States bought 35!; millions worth more than Great Britain, showing conclu- sively the vast imporrance of oheriehinfi the British market in perfereuce to a others. Tbere is a court quarrel in Detroit 85 to who shall be guardian of little Mary Middle- ton. Presumably she has a fortune, but the Detroit papers haven’t informed us on that: point. Says the “Journal” :â€" Cofl'ee Among the Arabs. A Tiny Lass In Court. The Cobden Club. Ills Excuse.