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it. THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. Interestlnghems About Our Own Country. Great Brllnln. the United States, and All Parts or the Globe. Condensed and Anni-led (or Easy Reading. CANADA. Burglaries are reported in many parts of the Province. Arthur Irwin of Philadelphia, will man- age the Toronto Baseball Club next season. A landslide took placein Newfoundland, blocking railroads and destroying a few bridges. James Wall was acquitted of the charge of shooting James Nelson at the Hamilton Assizes. Hamilton steamboat owners are applying to have the Beach canal (leepened to fourteen feet. The schooner Blackbird has been seized at Campo Bella, N. 15., for landing goods illegally. Sir Henry Strong, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, has been granted four months’ leave of absence. Mr. W. D. Scott will represent the Manitoba Government in Toronto as Im- migration Agent this winter. The Montreal Stock Exchange hereafter will exclude from membership all mem- bers of other Stock Exchanges. Lleat. Alexander MaoLean, of the 43rd Battalion, Ottawa, has been appoin ted aide-de-camp to Major-Gen. Gascoiguc. OWing to a peculiar clause in a report adopt-ed by the London City Council the electric cars have been stopped. Over a million bushels of wheat were delivsred at the C.P.R. elevators in Mani- toba and the North-West last week. Major-Gen. Gascoigue will attend the union church parade of all the military organizations in Toronto on November 3rd_ Mr.A1exaiider McEachreu was acquitted of the charge of embezzling $1,000 from the Bell ()rgsn Co., at London. Mr. William Sallows,s Well-known figure in Guelph for half a. century,who Was highly estetz...d, died there on Tnusday night. The opinion is gatlering strength at Ottawa that a session 11‘ the latter part of November or early in Iecembe? is on the cards. The London, Ont. Typogrspliical Union has resolved to the any member 51 who patronizes 8. Ch naman,end $2 for a second offence. Twuity years ago yesterday the first immigrsits from Iceland arrived at Winn 1 eg. There are now 10,000 of these peopli in Manitoba. fir William Van Horne, pyesident of the anadian Pacific railway,.e-.t Montreal the, other day in his'privat. ear for the Pacific coast, to make a LhJ.augh inspection of ilie line. may buildings were destroyed by fire at Ci... iam, N. B. A gale was blow1ng,and the 1111 protection Was poor. Loss about $00,00ti ; insurance, Sl5,000. One thousand gallons of rum, supposed to have been brought from St. Pierre,have been found atGuysboro, N. 5., and have been seized by the Customs oiiitiails as contraband. Thirty-five additional locomotives have been ordered for the C. k’. P». freight serâ€" vies between Winnipeg and Fort William. Wheat shipments are going out at the rate of three hundred cars daily. Mr. Desmarais, counsel for Napoleon Demers, accused of the murder of his wife, in Montreal, states that the members of the bar will take up asubscription to defray the expenses of the defence at the second trial in November Disastrous prairie fires have been raging all the way from Headingly, Man" to within a few miles of Winnipeg. It is known that at least three lives were lost, but it is impossible as yet to ascertain full details. At Saturday’s meeting of the Cabinet an ord sr was passed regarding the grades of wheat. It was decided that there shall be no-whent that is scoured or brushed to remove smut or other lungoid growth in the grade known as No. 1 Manitoba hard Wheat. An important shipment of apples was. made on Saturday from Griinsby, Out., io Sydney, N. S. W. The Board of Control . of the Ontario Fruit Experiment Stations is making this experiment in the hope that it may he the means of opening up a good market for Ontario apples. Vice-President and General Manager Hays, of the Wabash railway, has accepted the position of general manager of the Grand Trunk railway. Mr. Hays' contract with the GI and Trunk Railway Company covers a period of five years, and his salazy is to be $25,000. He is to have absolute control of the read, and is not to be hampered by specific insiructions, ex- cept as to the general policy of the road, from the English Board of Directors. He is the youngest man in the country to occupy so important a railway position. GREAT BRITAIN. Four women were killed in a burning mill at Glasgow. : If Mrs. Laugtry gets her divorce she may marry Sir Robert Peel. Belfast shipyard employees threaten to strike if their demand for higher wages is not conceded. Several cases of scab are reported in a cargo of sheep from Montreal landed at Liverpool by the steamer Norseman. It is feported in London that Lady Rha- dolph Churchill will shortly marry a dis- tinguished officer of the British army. It is announced that the revised Apocrypha, completing the revised version of the Bible, will be published next month. The Queen is at Balmorzil, and notwith- standing the \veaiher,w1iicli is exceptionally asevere5 she indulges in long drives every afternoon. Lady Randolph Churchill (according to a gossip) is tatioed with a snake around one arm. The operation took place during her visit to India. her case to arbitration, but goes on encroaching on Vene'iielan territory. Mrs. Ormistnn l‘iiaut, a social purify leader from London, is at BOJKOD. Shh will lecture in America, but refuses to discuss the licensing of music halls. The first of the mining settlements in London on batiirday was unattended by any trouble, and bad the effect of strength- euing the toxic of the outside stock murkei‘s. Oflicisl adVices rcceived in London irom Rome are to the effect that the Italian Government is willing to negotiate a treaty of commerce with f‘aiiada on the lines of the Francoâ€"Canadian treaty. Rudyard Kipling, during his residence in India, was rcgardcdas the best amateur actor in that country. He often took part in theatricals in Lahore. and his friends earnestly urged him to adopt the stage as a profession. He was particularly elleciive in comedy roles. At the convention of the l’arnelliie p Lrly held at Dublin, Mr. John Redmond said that unless the freedom of Ireland is grant- ed, in the case of war, it would be to the tune of the “Marseillaise” that the Irish would march, and not to that of “God Save the Queen.” It is stuth that the cost of entertaining the German Emperor on his VISit to \\ est- moreland was 3150,1500, which includes the cost of special trains, no ieiier than ten of which were used on the occasion of his visit. It is further stated that the cost of decorating Lowthcr castle in preparation for the Emperor’s visit was $230J100. Lord Rosebery, ex-l’rime Minister of England, is enjoying life. He has been entertaining guests at his place in Scotland. while his house in Berkeley square,London, is being reconstructed. It is to be one of the handsomwst dwellings in London. It will take another year for the full comple- tion of the improvements. Princess Kaiulaiii, daughter of the exâ€" Queeu of Hawaii, is at present. in London, where she is treated with “'6 rtspec. accorded to a reigning Print- .2. :h is accompanied by her father, M r. t‘legnurn, who has a letter of introduction to the British Foreign Office from the British Mirister at Honolulu, and it is thought that his mission is political. UNITED STATES. in 31'8 , Of the forty-four State Governors the American Union, thirty-nine avowed believers in religion. The wedding of the Duke of Marlborough l and Miss Vanderbilt has been fixed for November 14. Fivs persons were killed and several others badly injured in a street car accident ’ in the west end of Pittsburg. Mrs. Clara Doty Bates, the American writer of literature for juvenile readers, is ill at Chicago, beyond recovery. Mrs. Marshall, 3. California telegraph operator, was shot in the arm by buglars, but she drew her revolver and drove the two men off. Near Batavia, N. Y., a New York Central express dashed right through a freight train without even derailing the engine. A report comes from Washington that Australian cattle shipped to Englgnd have been found to be affected with pleuro- pneumonia. Gen. Mahone,of the United States army, popularly known as the “Hero of the Crater," died in \Vashington on Tuesday. He was in his sixty-ninth year. Stephen Hoyt, of Lyndouville, VL, has in his possession a collection of old coins, among them being an English guinea of 179.3 and a shilling of 135i), also a crown of 1726. Miss Mary B. Harris, of Warner, N. H., has one of the largest and most valuable collections of autographs in the United Sta tes. There are more than one thousand, including all the Presidents of the United States. A minister at Chicago, referring to the fortune of a.cclored man at Cole City, Georgia, remarked :â€""'Ihis must stop, or the torch must be applied.” and the audi- ence of colored people rose up and endors- ed the sentiment. The railway contractors on the American side of the Niagara Falls have completed their blasting operations. They are pre- pared to compensate those on the Canadian side whose houses Were injured by flying rorks. The Arion Fish Company, of Duluth, Minn., has begun a suit against the Cana- dian Government to recover heavy damages for the confiscntion of a lot of netting which the company claims was in American water at the time of the seizure. Mr. Richard listcrhrook, founder of the first steel pen manufactory in the United States and President of the Esterbrock Pen Company, died at Camden, N. J. Hi: came from England and established his factory in 180') iii a little frame building on the site of the present establishment, which employs 400 bands. Peter Crawford, ‘22 years old, has been asleep in Cleveland, With the exception of a few hours, for seven months. A little more than a year ago Mr. Crawford was throwu from a mail wargiin in New York , sustaining injuries to his spine, and this, it is believed, has led to this remarkable case of catalepsy. GENERA 1.. The town of La Paz, Mexico, has been completely destroyed by a hurricane. The reportof the capture of Antananarivo b v the French has been confirmed. It is reported that ‘200 persons Were killed in the riots at Ti [5: nd. Italian trOops raVc captured a native stronghold in All) ssinia. A woman arrested the other day confessed to poisoning 23 children. Emperor William’s favorite drink is a large gln~stof champagne containing a few petals of Violets. The season’s catch in Behring Sea will be only about forty thousand skins, or ten thousand less than last year. The torture of witnesses at the Kuclicng inquiry was so revolting that the British representative had to protest. T'lie°C\‘rianishCabinet has signed for a loan in Sicily Admiral Sir James Robert Driiiiimond. (iCDKlCXH'tD Uslii r if the Black l‘od in the IYIlllCi'l'Ll Parliament, is dead. He Wm ezgiii aim-«e years of age. of ten million dollars with the Banque de Paris, wholly for Cubvi expenses. Advices received in Auckland, N. 2.. from Hoonlulu, show that there have been The Vezic'uelon Consul at Cardifl or m- «lxty-f‘iw- rvextns from cholera in Hawaii up plums that fires! Britain will not submit to September 36th. It is reported that serious disturbances between the Armenians and Turks have: broken out at "'lV'rtB, Van and Bitlis, three of the leading cities of Armenia. Ainmunitioiis au-l ini'pedoes have been sent to the forts on Ilil‘ l)“‘srilunelles to de. {and the strait!) Sillilliil Great llritain 8t- tcmpl to "2th a naval demonstration. A special (lespatch reccived in Shanghai from Tokio, announces that the Japanese forces on the Isiaiiil of Formosa have met and defeated the main body of the Black- flmzs. A spinning factory at flocholt, forty-five miles from Munster, \Vestphalia, has col- lapsed, and buried forty workingmen in the ruins. Of this number teii were killed outright and nine were seriously injured. A strict inquiry will be held in the case of the Armenians under arrest at Constan' tinople,and any cases of torturing prisoners proved Will be met With severe punish- inent. it is slated in Madrid that the Govern- mviit of the Unitui States has notified the Fptiiish Minister at \Vasbing'on, that there is a necessity that Spiin should not prompt- ly in her efforts to crush iiic inuirrection in Cuba. A sensational feature, of the Socialis'ic convention in, Breslau lust week was the presencr- of the Duchess Pauline Mathilda 0f Wurtembiirg, who was attired in o. rct blouse, and applauded vigorously the most cxireme utterances of the speakers. The Earl of Dunmore has purchased a farm near Johannesburg, South Africa, for .tlh‘fiflflilmnd proposes building a large house and raking up his residence Vlicre. Lord Hl‘llly l'aiiiet is another British nobleman who has succumbed to the attractions of South Afric'1_ The blockade of the Armenian churches in t‘onslaniiiinple still continues, as all the elioris of the Turkish aliihoriiies and the Armrniar- patriarch havc failel to persuade the Armenians to return to their homes, as they put no faith in the assurances of pro- tection given them. There is great activity in all the Spanish Government (liickynrds, and the refitting of giinbnais and cruisers is being carried on night and day. It is believed these pre- parations are due to the possibility that the United States may recognize the Cuban insurgents as helligerents. The tiial of Wicks, the St. John's,Nfld., smuggler, has brought to light the fact that smuggling has been carried on to a gigantic ertciii by a well organized syndi- cate, the members of which, being strong supporters of the \Vhlteway Government, were mven, it is said, a tacit support in their operations. Mine. Thalberg, widow of the piaiiis and daughter of the great basso, Lablache died recently in Thalberg’s Villa. at l'osilipo in Naples, at the age of eighty-four. When her husband died she had the body eiiibalnied with a petrifying proportion that preserved it with some semblance of life, and kept it seated in the room where Thalberg used to work. in the midst of the gaieties of that frivolous city he does not neglect his devotional exercises night and morning. to face Mecca, and in order to find out just where Mecca, when in Paris. happens to be For these it r is necessarv for him as it was in l on on ‘ . . ' ' A ' ‘ ed With warm, comfortable stables, at the time, he consults a pocket compass, ‘ which be always carries with him. M. Vsllor, the rich Frenchman who has made a hobby of climbing Mont Blanc,and who has made the ascent twenty times, is a slight little man, not at all a typical climber. In his knickerbocker suit he looks more like the conventional tourist of the seaside than a mountaineer. M. Vallot now has a. project for surveying the Mont Bianc range, and with a ciVil engineer and nearly a dozen assistants he recently pass- ed through Chamounix on his way to the mountain. HTENING UP LONDON. BRIG A Pleiisnulor (‘ity Than It Was Twenty- l‘lve Years Ago. The appearance of London itself is a note in the increase of amenity and agreeable- nese in England, says u. writer in Harper’s ‘ Magazine. It is certainly a brighter pnd pleasaiiter city than it was twenty-five years ago. The weather has always much to do with it, and the season of 189.3, with continual sunshine and soft air, would make almost any place endiirable. Hut London has changed. It was not formerly the mere fancy of the traveler that he wont to the continent. with a gloomy image on his mind of a general grimy blackness, and a horrible impression that there might be somewhere a. world composed of intermin- able llakcr and (lower streets monotony. As long ago as that flowers were in little use anywhere as external decorations in a. city even on the Continent. Borne was the first place where Isaw window gardens, and flowers banked on the Window ledges and balconies. and 1 will remember the charm they gave to that old town. This fashion of decoration fortunately spread, and has now gone THE \V'OIKLD OVER. I think it has done as much as anything else to change the aspect of London. It has given the needed color to the otherwise gloomy houses, and has transformed many of the streets into highways of beauty. London has also been cultivating its small parks and public flower gardens, and in almost every quarter the eye is pleased with greenery and bloom. You can not drive or Walk far in any direction that you do not come upon a green square or a little hook or court Where there are trees and flowers. And these are so numerous as to change the aspect, of the great town, and relieve it of the stone and black-brick ugliness that was formerly so oppressive. With the great amountof life in the streets and the gay apparel, with the flowers in the windows and the bloom in arches and courts, it seems to me that London in the summer is the bandsomest and most inter- esting city in the world. There has been also an improvement in domestic arch- itecture, an introduction of variety, which has relieved the previous monotony. It seems, in short, as if London has been trying intelligently to beautify itself and has succeeded in spite of the discouraging climate and blackening coal smoke. It is not, however. a clean city to dwell in, as one speedily discovers from his Wash bills I The" ma? Fattening Cattle on Potatoes. \.\‘ “The probabilities of a very large crop of potatoes, not only on this continentfliutg in some of the countries of the old world as well, will result in low prices for that commodity," says Farming. “In view of this and the pooi'ness of some of the grain crops in places, the afford an excellent opportunity for feeders to experiment with cooked potatoes as part of the ration for fattening cattle. As will be remembered, in our last issue we gave an account ofthe successful results obtained by M. Girard, a French feeder, in his experiment with cooked potatoes as a. food for fattening both cattle and In the ration which be fed, no grain was used at all, only potatoes and hay and a little salt, the proportions per head, per day, for cattle being, potatoes, fifty-five pounds one and three-fourths ounces ; chopped hay, six poiin is nine and three-fourths ounces ; long hay, thirteen pounds, three and one-half ounces. The preparation of the feed was done by spreading siicc-ssive layers of hay and potatoes sufficient for the whole lot of cattle for one day, mixing them with a shovel, and allowing the mixture to remain in a heap. A slight fermentation was thus created, and the animals ate it greedily. The long hay was fed by itself. “Tho game made by the cattle were sur- prising When we consider that no grain at all was fed. The experiment lasted from the beginning of November, 1894, till Jan- iiaiy 16th, 1895, and the increase of weight per animal ranged from 179. pounds to 280 pounds, while the percentage of carcass to live Weight averaged from 56. 9‘2 per cent. in the case of three of the cattle to 81.94 in the case of three others. The sheep, too, lgave excellent returns. The carcasses of these averaged from 52.87 in the case of two sheep, to 55.12 per cent. in the case of twa others. “ Another feature Was the excellence of the meat, which for quality was considered equal to the best grass-fed beef, and gave a large percentage of lean. It must be borne in mind that the potatoes were cooked for the cattle, and that far poorer results were obtained when raw potatoes were fed by M, Git-ardnto a pen of sheep during the period of this experiment. “ The results obtained are certainly very encouraging, and feeders who have potatoes to spare, or who can buy them cheaply. should try this ration on a small scale this winter. Those doing so will confers benefit to us if they will report the results." coming Winter will sh eep. Stable Comfort in Winter. tial in keeping cattle in a thriving con- carelessness and neglect, writes Allen Morse. To do this in the easiest and cheapest way, if the stock are not provid- pro- It. can be done as vide them at once. cheaply now as at any season of the year. Nail boards over cracks and cell the in- side with matched boards. I stuffed mine between the walls and ceiling with swamp hay with gooi results. An inside the former should shut tight: The cost of such an outlay on a stable .3!) feet long will be about $15; it will save that value in fodder the first winter. If Water freezes $5 to 510% you will willingly give the Wood and labor to see the cows drink. If both awuriii barn and warm water cannot be provided, warm the stables, even though the stock has to drink ice water. It is far more comfortable too, milking without an overcoat and grasping icicles. The dairyman with asilo need not be told What to fee-1 his stock. Those with- out ono should not compel the stock to eat straw, as it is poor economy. Good clover hay, or at least that which is part clover, and a small ration of grain W111 keep stock in good condition. Heavy grain feeding will not pay in butter making notWith- standing good authorities say it Will, but the stock willbe in better condition, the manure richer, and it Will be a pleasure to see stock sleek and fat. Keep the animals well bedded. This will pay in the added comfort both to yourself and stock, and also in the value of the manure, and that is by far the best use a farmer can make of his straw. If owuing more than can be used in such it way, sell it and put the value of it in meal. It is an undisputed fact that it make stock comfortable and contented. Some Dairy Don‘ts. Don't think scrub sires can produce choice stock for any purpose. Don’t keep calves in dark, filthy places and expect them to thrive. Don’t be afraid to spend money for a sire from a first-class family. Don’t make your cows, drink water that you could not drink yourself. Don't feed a calf grain before its age is sufficient so it chews s cud. Don’t try to be called a large dairyman by the number of cows you keep. Don’t keep a cow a month without testâ€" ing her to see if she pays her way. llon’t think that strainers or separators can take soluble filth out of milk. Don’t run or worry cows going to and from the pasture or in the milking yard or stable. Don't think to raise a calf for a milcb cow and feed it up to its time for partur- ition for a beef animal. Don't have pastures so short that cows must work every hour of the day and night to get enough to eat. Don't forget thata cow is decidedly 8 creature of habit and in all Ways try to conform to her peculiar habits. Don't feel that your cows are wasting time if they lie in the shade and chew their cuds for a few bo urs each day. Don’t forget to sow plenty of cats and peas or corn for green feeding when the annual shrinkage is sure to come. Warm stables and proper feed are esseno r dition during winter, but few live up to. The Shahdsza likes Paris very much, but their knowledge of the” {acts because Oi and outside door should be provided, and . iii the stable provide a heater at a cest of ' pays in dollars and cents to' W D .n't ave crws with cracked or sore )‘t‘gc'way aiier day and then beat them ' because thry kick while being milked. i Salt iii Hay Mows. There is no advantage in showing salt over damp hay or grain, as is often done by farmers. The salt attracts moisture, but this only dissolves it, and the solution ls not strong enough to put the hay or grain 1n pickle. A little salt hastens instead of retards decomposition. A much better plan is to throw an occasional forkful of dry straw into the mow over the siiriac‘e. If this cannot be had, wellsdried brick‘, scattered through the hemp will answor a 1 good purpose. It is astonishing water a dry brick Will absorb before it is saturated. Bricks are often so used in granaries when the grain has been put into them too damp. The brick takes up the moisture and thus dries the grain it is in contact. with, and this helps to dry other grain until the heap is dried out without heatingâ€"Farmer. Fall Work in the Poultry Yard. If the fowis are confined to an enclosed run, it should be spaded up frequently during the season, both on account of cleanliness and of affording the fowls the benefit of mellow soil in which to scratch. The worms which they will secure after each spading amply repays the poultry keeper for the Work. All poultry houses should undergo a thorough repairing and cleansing before cold weather, as the work is more likely to be Well done while the weather is good. If new houses are to be builtit should be done at once ; especially if the floors are to be of cement, or if the ceilings and walls are to be plastered. This, by the way, is advisable if labor and material are not too expensive; as such walls and flooring are more easily cleansed and kept free from verminâ€"an item that means dollars in the pocket of the poultry keeper every year. A poultry keeper cannot ailord to feed lice on chicken meat at twenty, fifteen ten. or even five cents per pound. When completed the houses should be allowed to dry thoroughly before the fowl! are moved into them. _+_ TUNNELING THE THAMES. Another Gigantic Engineer-In: Feat Nearly Aceomullslied in London. The Blackwell tunnel is soon to be an accomplished fact, says the London news. Work is now proceeding very rapidly ; that is to say, the human moles shut up in compressed air underneath the bed of the river are grubbing their Way along at the rate of from twelve to fifteen feet a week, and if they are able to maintain this rate of advance for the rest of the distance their tunnel will reach the first caisson on the Middlesex side of the Thames about the middle part of October. If that should be achieved, then this sub-aqueous portion of the Work, 1,212 feet in length, will have been got through within a twelve-month, a feat never before accomplished in the time. It has been a dimcult and a. dangerous task, and it is to be feared that the portion now remaining to be done~100 or 125 feet â€"inay prove the most troublesome of any. In eVidence of this it may be stated ihat the contractors Pearson & Son, have just purchased additional pumping machinery. lbey have Thames conservancy permission to throw down into the river on additional covering of clay, and their men are actually working at this moment under an air pres- sure of thirty-four pounds to the square inch over and above the ordinary atmos- pheric pressure in caisson No. Qâ€"consiiler- ably greater than they have ever had to resort to before. The regulation of this air pressure is RATHER TICKIJSH BUSINFSS. They are Within seventy-six feet or so of the low Water margin of the river, but the whole of the river bed at this point consists of loose porous shiugie. Without great pressure below they would have the waier in unon them by its sheer weight. 0n the other hand, if they overdo their pressure it is liable to blow off up through the bed of the earth and the water alove them. Then, of course, the pressure has none, and in would come the deluge. How real is the peril of this kind of work has just been illustrated by an accident near Melbourne, where a sewer is being constructed under the Yarra by the ordinary shield system. The water came in upon them, and the engineer of the work and five of his men were drowned together. This Blackwell tunnel is, of course, a much larger and formidable undertaking, and it is perhaps this very fact that has secured immunity from serious mishap. The possibility of an inburst of water has of course been so ap- palling that no pains have been spared to guard against such a calamity. No less than 20,000 cart loads of clay have been brought up from the Medway and laid down over the tunnel. â€"â€"â€"+â€"â€"â€"â€" Burned at the Stake-in London. We can hardly realize the fact that it. has only been but little over 100 years since counterfeiters were publicly burned at the stake in London, the present boasted “cen- ter of civilization.” On March 18,1789, Christiana Murphy was executed at New- gate Tower. London, for the crime of “coining.” She was bound to a stake seated on a stool, the main tie being a. cord aronnd the neck. The funeral pyre was then lighted by the executioner and his deputies, one of the latter of whom finally jerked the stool from under the wretched creature, allowing the weight to fall on her neck. Within 48 minutes the body was entirely reduced to ashes and buried in a hole on the spot where the execution took place. ,, ,3._.__.. _. Cruel Punishment. Magistrateâ€"You are charged with rush« ing up to this young lady, and kissing her against her will, and I sentence you toâ€"-’ Prisonerâ€"The charge is true, y’r honor; but she had been eating onions.” Magistrateâ€"Then I sentence you to kiss her again. how much ‘