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.THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. Interesting Items About Our Own Country. Great Britain. the United Safes. and All Parts of the Globe. Condensed anc Assorted for Easy Reading. _â€" OLA-NADA. Mr. A. S. Abbott. ex~Clty Clerk 01 Ld‘nilon. is dead at the age of 85: years. Spain has leIen added to the list of countries entitled to the preferential tariff. Heartâ€"Governor Mackintosh. and fa- mily have removed from Regina to Victoria. ’llhe plebiscite on total prohibition will likely be submitted to the Domin- lon Voters next October. Sir Adolphe Chapleau will likely be amninted Canadian Commissioner to the Paris Exposition. Clhlatham is building a House of In- dustry. to cost $15,000, and to accomâ€" modate 80 persons. E. 'E. Sheppard. Canadian Trade firmmissioner to South America. will be in Vi~toria about. Feb. 15. The firm of J. H‘. Blumenthal & Sons one of the largest clothing dealers of Montreal, has assigned. 0. P. R. earnings during 1897 were [24.046.792. an increase of $3,305,196 over the earnings of 1896. Customs duties collected at Montreal during the year amounted to $6 992,â€" 360. an increase of $372,959 over 1896, Over 300,420,000 feet of lumber have been shipped during the past season. the largest! in the history of the. trade. A convention of Baptists of. Quebec gmvince and the eastcrn portion of ntario is being arranged. It will be held in February. The contracts for supplies for the permanent military corps throughout the Dominion have been awarded at Ottawa. 1A valuable collection of coins, the pI‘Operty of Canada. was stolen from the National Art Gallery in Ottawa oln‘. lesday night. Mrs. Georgina Scott. a colored wo- men of Hamilton. who was burned by tho explosion of a lamp a few weeks ago, is dead. Gen. Montgomery Moore has for- warded to the \Var Office in: England a large number of applicants for Fenâ€" lm raid medals. Very flow more sealers will go out! frolm- Victoria. this season, unless cheaper labor or higher prices for skins are obtained. This Minister of Public Works has lxbean’led the time for receiving models 501‘ the monuments of Queen Victoria llmi Alexander Mackenzie. No customs returns have been re- ceived for nndntihls from Vancouver, amid it is said to He the intention to hold an investigation into the state ofl this office. ' Ami icoboalt went through the ice on flamile Bay, throwing seven people W0 the water. Miss Amelia. Hall narâ€" rowly escaped drowning. going down two or three timss before being res- Chief Justice Richardson: of the Northwest Illerxitories has been ap- poumbed administrator in this place of Hon. diaries H. Mackintosh until the htter’s successor as IAeutemntâ€"Gover- nor is appointed. - . Cayuga Island, Niagara river. In 1899, have been awardel to architects Grace 8: Hyde. ()lf New York, who will receive $700,000 for the work. Another counterfeit silver certificate of the denomination of $100 was found in a Philadelphia bank. So numerous have these counterfeits become that the United States Government has decided to call in the issue. Representative Johnson of North Da~ kota has introduced a bill in the Unitâ€" ed States Congress to repeal the law which has just gone into effect relaâ€" Live to pelagic sealing and) the import- al ion of scalskins taken by pelagic seal- ers. GENERAL. . - General Blanco will take the field against the Cuban insurgents. Dr. Zaccharim, the famous physician at Czar Alexander 111., is dead. Emperor \Villiam has invoked the Pope's aid in the passing of the naval bill. Err-King Milan has been appointed oommamder-inâ€"chief of the Servran army. Major-General Yeattman-Biggs, who commanded the second division in the India frontier campaign is dead. He fell a victim to dysentery in India. Dr. Scheuk. of Vienna University. claims to have discovered the secret of exercising an influence over lani- mals so as to fix the sex of their offâ€" spring. A despatch from Bermuda states that the steamer Sootia has commenced the work of Laying the cable which is to establish communication with ‘Turk's Island and Jamaica, They are having a Presidential elec- tion inuthe Transvaal Republic. Mr. Kruger is opposed by Mr. .loubert. and it is said the |third candidate. Mr. Schalklrurger is running to split the opposing vote and secure Kruger's elec- tion. CURIOUS FACTS About Ilic 'lwo Most Remarkable River- In the “’nrld. From the beginning the NibI was an exceptional river. Its sources were unâ€" known. There was those who thought that the Nile flowed down from h-EBN- en; that it welled up: from streams that disappeared under the earth on anothâ€" er oonti-nent. or. at the wry least. that its springs were inaccessible to man. There was no such mystery about the Euphrates. From the manth times its sources seem to have been known by hearsay, if not. by observation. to the dwellers on) the coast. V The Nile was bencfimnl; even in its floods). The people lcarned to let its waters flow over their lands at the time of the inundation. and: where they raised dikes and sunk canals and. basins it was to let in the water not to keep it out. (The Euphrates also had its floods. but these were destructive. fl‘hey scarred the soft earth with ravines and. swept the fertile soil onward to build new lands along the edge of the Persian Gulf. The people anticipated the over- flow with dread, and their most ab- sorbing task was to restrain the river‘ within bounds. They became more intimate with the earth than their Egy- ptian contemporaries; They learned how to mold the clay and to make their houses and the houses of their Kings and their gods out. of the me- teth under their feet. The Egyp- tians learned something about brick manufacture, but they had no need to Instructions have been sent to the city postmaster: that in cases of let- ters for the United Kingdom or the colonies mailed with; onl three cents In stamps the postman is to affix a. «mo-cent stamp and: lot the letter go fmlward. dege Dugu of Montreal, and Mr. Frank Pedley of Ottawa have been Ippornted commissioners by the Do- minion Government to investigate the charges preferred against the contract- ors building the Crow's Nest Pass Railway. for alleged. ill-treatment of their employees; - GREAT BRITAIN. The Earl of W'ilton is dead at Lon- dam The Princess Beatrice's new book has been published all Darmstadt. It is saidi that England has guaran- teed a loan to China of over $80,- 000,000. .M‘ajor-General Gatacre will be. sent from Aldershot to command the British troops in the Angloâ€"Egyptian expedition. Great Britain has announced that she will refuse to recognize any spe- cial rights granted in Chinese ports, and will insist on the enjoyment of the same privilege( as granted to any other power. UNITED STA’l‘ES. A fire in Saginaw on Thursday morning destroyed eight million feet of lumber. \Villiam Carson, a millionaric lum- beruian. died or: Thursday at. Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The Earl of Ava. the. eldest son of the Marquis of llufferin. arrived in New. York on Thursday. Mr. John Redmond is to lecture through the United States on the "Ir- ish Patriots of Ninety-Eight." E. Triplelt. president of the Alcorn Agricultural and Medical College for Coloured PeOpIe, at Rodney, Mass... has been murdered Fire at Stockton. Cal, on Wednes- day destroyed two grainl elevators con- laining 10,000 +th of wliieat belonging depend wholly upotn that sort of buildâ€" ing material. It was easy for them to gbtain stone. as their huge piles at- 85st. VEBlY FINE \VRI'I‘ING. A machine has been invented which is composed of exquisitely graduated wheels rubbing a tiny diamond point at the end of an almost equally tiny emf. whereby one is able to write u.an glass the whole of the Lord's prayer within a space which measures the two hundred and ninetyafourth part; of an inch in length by the four hundred and fortielh part of an inch in breadth. or about the measurement of the dot over the letter “i.” in. common print. \Vith this machine anyone who under- stood operating it could write the whole 3,567,480 letters of the Bible éight ' times over in the space of an inchâ€"a square inch. A specimen of this marâ€" velous microscopic writing was enlargâ€" ed. by photography. and every letter and point was perfect and multi be read with ease. ...â€"â€" RAIN FOR PLAN’I‘S. Rain does plants comparatively lit~ tle good until it enters the soil. where it can be absorbed by their roots. A daily record of the amount of water in the. soil withouat indicate whether the indications were favorable or otherwise for certain crops. There is a plan for burying specially constructed electrodes un the soil, in order. that by measuring the resistance to the passage of a cur- rent through the soil the amount of moisture can be aswrlained. 'l‘his meâ€" thod was suggested by the necessity of grounding thoroughly telephone and telcag‘raph lines». If the terminals are nod; continually in a moist soil the lines do not work during dry seasons. OLDEST SAIIENG CRAFT. The oldest sailing craft in the worldi is the somlled Gckstad. ship. a Viking.’ vessel. which was discovered in a sep- ulchral mound on the shores of Chrisâ€" to the Farmers' Union & Milling Co. tiania. Fjord. It is 1,000 years old. An express on the Kansas City. Pitts- burg & Gulf Railroad, was hleld up and robbed within the limits of Kansas City on Monday. The robbers escaped. Plaiisfor the buildings of the pro- posed Panâ€"American Exposition. BURIAL ALIVE. A Dublin lawyer, writing of an ce- tate he had just bought, added: "There is a chapel upon it, in which my wife on and I wish to be buried if God spares THE HOME. \«flAvav-vv . YUCCA. A thick. sharp nest of daggerâ€"pointed leaves, ' Black-tipped from the gmy mesa rises green. And from its heart there Springs amidst; the sheen. As a whilev-pinioned bird the sunslxim‘ cleaves ; As Hope. that life’s sharp bitternessv relievesâ€"- A blossom-spire that greets the Sky serâ€" ene. In calm dominion o'er thcdeserl scene. Thick hung with creamy bells that chime slrange braves. O Yucca gloriosal Spirit soft. And full of strange. mysterious suvbtle Scent. Slow swing thy bells aloft. In the calm mesa’s wide environment. fair white blessom Ringing the dirge of that old race ' ' which oft Heard music in thy lmlhi :m‘d smiled content. A GOOD CUP OE TEA. Almost everybody likes agood cupK of tea, but not one person in a bun- dred who makes tea. makes it gcod. says a writer. It is necessary to have a good tca to start with. Nobody can make a good cup of tea from poor tea. Good lca. however, is sensitive toits treatment. A very poor cup of tea can be made' from very good tea. One of the hardest of all lessons to teach the average cock is to make a good cup of tea. No wonder comâ€" paratively few mistresses themselves know how to do it. Those who appre- ciate gond tea well made have to atâ€" tend to the making themselves. and the custom of drawing the tea on the table. where it is to be served, be- comes more and more pOpular. To make good tca it is ncmsary to use water that has just come to a boil and is boiling when it is poured upon the tea, \Vater that has boiled before, or which is brought to the boiling- point-and then allowed to cool off before it is used. spoils tea. Next it is necessary to use a porcelain pot. It must be clean. It must be rinsed with boiling water just before the tea. is put in. Tea should not boil. It should not stand in the \\ ater more than three minutes. Unless one is go~ ing to serve only one cup apiece or wishes to brew fresh tca for the sec- ond cuparnund it is better to use imâ€" ported teapcts which have acolanderâ€" like top into which the tea is put and 3 through which the water is poured. .By pouring on shelf cup of water. wait- ing aminute and pouring on the bal- ance of the amount which is to be uScd the proper amount of tea strength is . extracted. and the tea thus drawn in the pot can be kept but under acozy till the second cup is poured without losing its ar-xmu or lemming bitter. as 't alwn . . dost '"hicn the teaâ€"leaves stand in the ware-r more than the first three minutes. or two, needed to brew the tea. Some tea requires longer to draw than others. But. in very many exâ€" periments with many teas I have nevâ€" er failed. to make good tea from good tea. and to have the second cup as good as the first by using the teapot with the strainer. pouring the water through in two or three instalments. with not more than half a minute's time between them. These teapots can be had as low as any goods porce- lain pot, even down to a quarter in price. by going to the Japanese tea and fancy stores. Of all the teas in use probably none gives the immediate stimulating and soothing effect of a high-grade Japan tea. Mixed teas are not to be men- tioned in the same day, and many of the highly advertised tens of the day fall far below the Japan tea in purity strength and flavor. Appreciative tea drinkers value the flavor of tea. as much as connoisseurs in wine enjoy” fine wines. High class tea cannot be bought for a quarter a pound. but there are Ja- pan tees to be had at all prices, and none of their grade-s are excelled by any teas at the price, and few are comâ€" parable for the qualities tea lovers value. T0 COOK CHICKEN. Pressed Chicken.â€"â€"'l‘nke a large chick- en, boil in very little water. When done take the meat from the bones. remove the skin. chop and season. Press into a large bowl. add the liquor and put on a weight. When cold out in slices and eat with sliced lemon or cucumber pickle. Pressed Chicken in Pig's Feet Li- quorâ€"For one large fowl boil four pig’s feet until they almost full to pieces; take them out. and prepare for eating. Cut up your chicken. and drop it into the liquor from the boiled pig’s feet; add 3. allied onion or two, and some parsley; boil down until the liquor barely covers the chicken; boil until the meat drops from the bonus, when lifted out, and remove all bones. Chop very fine. and drop in the re- remaining liquor; put in a dish that will serve as a mould; cover With a dish suited to help press it hard. \thn cold out in thin slices; lay on shoes of lemon for decoration. or some hard toiled egg sliced. The jelly of pig's feet is better to mould meet with than gelatine. . ' A chicken to be served whole may be cooked as follows: Wash the chick- en and fill it with a. bread stuffing and tie it into shape as for roasting. Sprinkle the chicken with salt and pep- per and dredge tht ly with flour. IL 3. (lecp salivepaii put three thin slices of salt pork, two slices of carrots half a green pepper. and one onion chopped fine. Place the pan over the fire and stir until the pork and Vi-getablcs are lightly browned. Lay the chicken in Lliepan and place two slicesuf pork ; upon it and put the pan in ahotovcn ifor tweulyâ€"fl.\e minutes. At the end iof lllfll. time take the pan from tho iovcn, again drcdgc the chicken with: flour. add one bay loaf. some sprigs of parsley, 3. slalk of cclciy. and twugpn- sinus pints of stock. (‘mor the pan and return to the much to cook one hour. lhcn turn ihx- chicken and cook half an hour longer. Place the chickâ€" en on a platter and strain the liquid around it. Garnish the platter with bunches of parsley. cooked. Chicken i The remains of a may be made mto a delicious dish suitable for a. course luncheon, lane one pint of chicken from bone andskin and chop the meat fine, Put one tav illeSpOlillflIl of butter in afrying pan, jand when it is melted add two table- spoonfuls of bread crumbs and half a. cup 0." stock or boiling water. Stir until the mixture boils. lhen take from the fire and add the chicken, some sall‘ and pepper and a little nutmeg. Rout two eggs and add, mixing them thoroughly. Rutter popover or ou~l1rd cups and fill them twoâ€"thirds full with the mixture. Place them in a baking pan half filled with boiling water and bake in a good oven twcn- ty minutes. \Vhen they are baked. carefully turn them out uponaheat- ed platter and pour around them the following sauce: Rub three tablespoonâ€" fuls of butter with two of flour until upaste is formed. Put. this into a. saucepan with half an onion, one bay leaf. 3. stalk of celery. one blade of mace, and half adozen peppercorns. C(wcr with one pint. of White stock. out the pan ovwr the bank of the fire and let Lire contents simmer twenty minutes. Draw the pan to a hotter part of. the fire and stir in half apint of cream. Let the mixture come to the boiling point, and the sauce is ready to strain and use. CARING FOR HOUSE PLANTS. In order to have the best success in growing hnmc plants for the windows in winler, the first thing is good. heal- thy plants. free from insects, People often fail to revive a sickly plant. The aim should be to get good soil from the florist or from a pasture. It mat- ters not whether it be a geranium or a. whim. the best care is necessary for success. Nothing is more beautiful than a window filled with fine flow- ering plants in midwinter. but to have a lot of plants three feet high. not a. leaf on them. is not inviting. and they, require as much care as the healthy plants. The practice of most plant buyers is to get them of the florist in the spring, plant them in the garden. and .lct them grow all summer. When the l first. frost comes they will lift the large plants, full of bud and bloom. out of 3 the ground and pot them. In a few days the plants begin to lose their foliage and wilt. The best way to do is to cut. away about two-thirds of .the plant and make them start new roots and new growth, though it puts off flowerâ€" ing for sometime. The best way to have good house plants is to buy what are wanted in May. put in good-sized pots. and plunge the pots in the earth. See that good drainage is obtained. put a. small lmrd on the bottom. to keep out the worms, and about every two weeks turn around to keep the roots from go- ing through the bottom of pot. Keep well watered through the summer and by fall you will have fine plant! that will produce more flowers than half a. dozen poor ones. The best plants for flowering in winter are geraniums. 'Chinese primrose. calla, cyclamens. cin- eraria. carnations, Easter lilies, lilium. freesias. begonias,. and many others. Insects should never be seen on plants. Regular use of tobacco smoke at least twice each week will drive them away. The red spider often does much mischief before he is discovered. A dry. hot atmosphere favors his production. To prevent him. keep the plants moist and syringe them. Bulbs. ferns. palms, etc., make good plants for home cul- ture. Most house plants do “0.11 in an average temperature of not more than 50 degrees at night. with 20 or 25 deâ€" grees higher in the day time. Plants are often put in the cellar for the winter. They will live, but not make as good a plant as a cutting rooted in March. \Ve have to watch them close- ly in the greenhouses. If men in the florist. business could raise plants by putting them under a. bench in the winler they would get rich in a few years. Flowering plants need ‘the best . sunlight, while foliage plants will thrive without the bright sun. Plants should not be put up too high in a room. for the air is too hot and dry there. BULBS AND ANIMALS. All bulbous plants that have been at rest during the early summer'should now be looked over, as it is time to pot most of them. It requires early potting and good culture to get freesias in bloom by Christmas. It is almost im- possible to have the soil too rich for these bulbs. and to have really good flowers liberal supplies of liquid food is newssary after they have begun to ' grow. To have Roman hyacinth: early we Imust plant early; in fact. as soon as lit is possible to obtain thle bulbs. The llargest bulbs do not always produce the most flowers, but, preferably, those that are hard and well matured. lt is the custom with some growers to rush lthe crop of bulbs on the market to secure early sales at the risk of ma- lurity. This can be easily detected in‘ ihe bull: as it, is then not hard and slious signs of prmnaiure ripvning off at lhe crown. 'l‘liese delicate and frag- ranl flowch are in demand as early as Thanksgivingâ€"Iinie. and the bulbs should be Mantel as $001) as they can be obtained. Mignonclte is desirable. in winter. es- pecially as it is never seen toso good advanlag‘c as when well cultivated in a liousc wilh a suitable temperature. Our summers are much too hot to favor lhc growth of good spikes, and it well to sow smuc Seeds of an approved strain now lo have it. when flowers are most Scarce. just when Chrysanthemums are past. Mignonctte likes a. cool temper- lure. say a maximum of fifty degrees, and a. deep soil. A word may be said for browallia Speciosa major. which has proved deâ€" sirable for [‘Ot culture in winter. A' packet of seeds sown now will make nice plants for winter use and will flower along until late spring. CLEAN POTS FOR THIRSTY PLANTS. Myra. V. Norys writes that the more lhirsty a plant is, the more. perhaps. does it need a clean pot. partly because it will have to be Watered so frequentâ€" ly, and is thus likely to become clogged. For the some reason. plants of this character like a pot not too close in grain. though it must be said that there are some cheap pols made that are too coarse and porous for any ~plant that will endure sunshine. For a plant in shade possibly no pot can be too porâ€" 0118 . .._.__, . ._+â€"._._- . ITEMS OF INTEREST. .â€" A Few I’arngl‘npln “Mel: Slay Be Found Worth Beading. Boston is to have a. restaurant where‘ in only vegetable productions will be Cooked and served. Dogs are annually laxed two dollars each in Paris; but pups are exempt until they are weaned. ’ A French agriculturist has graft- ed tomatoes upon potatoes. with the result that this plant produces pota- toes underground and tomatoes above. A jealous husband in Bellefonte. Pa, thought his wife had; too many admirâ€" ers. and Lo makw her beauty less at- tractive, he shot off the tip of her nose. Stale sermons are not admired by the Archbishop of Canterbury. He ad- vises his clergy to burn their sermons after they have been: preached three times. After sharpening an indelible lead pencil. Johin Renshaw, of Yonkers, N'. Y.. used the same klnife to cut his corn. Blood poison resulted, and the man died. Taxes are remitted on Paris houses which are unocchpied. If any part of the house is untenanted. 3. correspond- ‘ing reduction is made in the amount of the tax. A small inheritance came to a Lonâ€" don pauper at the age of seventy. He invited his friends toa champagne sup- per. and he drank! so freely that withâ€" in ihree days he died. An undertaker at Leavenworth. - Kan. during the recent reunion of col- diers in that city, displayed in the window of his coffin shop a banner with these words. "Welcome, Comrades." There are five centenarians in the little village of Friendsvillo. Pa. The; are Mrs. Mary”; Callen, aged 104; John Gibson. 102; illiun Seeley, 102; Mrs. Phileney Goldw, 100; and Mrs. Helen Garcey. 100. The dairyman of Syria marches his goats to the houses of his patrons. and milks them on the street in sight. of his customers. Should they express I. wish for the mills of any particular goat. the wish is gratified. If one dollar were loaned for one hundred years at six per cent... with the interest annually collected and added to this principal. the investment would amount to 8340. At eight per cent it would amount to $2,208; at ten per cent” $18,809. *A gentleman who needed wifer at- tentions was recentLy married at Van Beuren, Ark. He interrupted the cere- momy icing enough to adjust one of his suspenders, both of which were held in [niece at‘theback. by the restraining influence of one button. A cord of wood. weighing 4,000 pounds will yield nine gallons of alcohol, 200 pounds of acetate of lime, 25 gallons of Lu 1', and 85 bushels of charcoal. Wood alcohol is almost a perfect substitute for grain alcohol for mechanical and manufacturing purposes. The ouifit for the trolley railroad in Birmingham. England, came entire- ly from the United States. The cars were built in Philadelphia, the rails were made in Pittsburgh, the boilers in Eric, the engines in Milwaukee. and the electric fittings in Schenectady. Young ladies take up" the collections in the First Baptist Church of Trenâ€" toln. NJ. A marked increase in the attendance has been noticed since this novel feature was introduced. The clergyan of other churches in the vicinity criticise this innovation. and on' of ihom has said, " Very soon the lady collectors will be required to shoot around the aisles on roller skates." Postmaster Van (‘ott of New York, recenlly received lhis letter from an ambitious young lady in a rural town: “ I am an aclcress, and kan play Slza'k- Sheer. For seven months l have akled the best, parts in our Sunday skool cliarades. Kan you get. me a. chance to star at a New York theatre! My age is sixteen. my eyes is blue, and I am so awful ambishus Ikan hardly sleep."