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lTHE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. 2-35 eterestlng Items About Our Own Country. Great Brltnln. the United States, and All Parts of the Globe. Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading. *9 CAN ADA. Ottawa had 1,128 deaths last year. A young son of Louis Smith, fisherâ€" maa was scolded to death at; Victoria. 8. . The French theatre. a home for Open. will be built in Montreal next summer. Shipments of Northwest wheat by Fort William aggregated 17,600,000 bushels in 1897. ' There wore 514 births. 337 deaths and 238 marriages in Hamilton during the but hllf yenr. ! ' . According to reports from Victoria. B.0.. there are eight British vessels in the harbor at Esquimallt. Mr. Cochrane, partner in an eating house. was stabbed to death at the Crow‘s Nest Pass. There was no truth in' the reported formation of a Canadian regiment for service in the East. Mrs. Boomer was elected a High School Trustee at London by the Counâ€" cil, being the first lady who has ever served on the board. Two Hamilton shoe dealers were fin- od 81 each for \keeping their stores open after 7 o'clock in Christmas week. Another case will be appealed. There will' be 75,000 names in the di- nectory of Toronto for 1898. and the publishers Claim that this entitles the city to a population of 225,000. The Dominion Treasury Board has issued a circular warning civil SOT» vents against wireâ€"pulling as ameans of securing promotion or increase 01 omoluknent. At Brantford, William Stoves, a lad of eighteen years, pleaded guilty to uttering one dollar notes rais_ ed to ten dollars and was sent. to Kingston Penitentiary for three years». i ' Mayor R. Wilson Smith. has purchas- ed a. seat in the Montreal: Stock Ex- change, for 85,500, and advance of two thousand dollars over the last sale He proposes to go into the brokerage business. Little Freddie Guerin. the nine.- yenrâ€"old son of Mr. Joseph Guerin. of Hamilton. was alone in the house when a. lamp exploded. He threw it outside, and with the aid of a. [:0- liceman extinguished the fire in the house. ( Exports of poultry from Montreal the past swason are the largest in‘ the his- tory of the trade Exports of. eggs In 1897 were one hundred and seventy- two thousand cases, compared with one hundred and fortyâ€"two tl‘ousand in 1896. and ninety-five thousand in 1895. largely to the United Kingdom. The fire losses of Toronto for the year 1897 amounted to $666,879, of which $117,155 was on buildings and $549,724 on stock. The insurance on . these losses was $2,250,000. The four chief fires were: the Electric Light Company’s; Murray‘s; Eckhardt's an" the Eaton‘s, which totalled $47,!)00 of the amount. GREAT BRITAIN. The collapse of the great English en- gineers' strike is rapidly approaching. ‘ The British imports from Canada for the past year showed an increase over that previous year of twenty-five per can. . Prince. the murderer of William Ter- riss. the actor, was found guilt-y, but the judge accepting the medical evidâ€" elnce. sent him to a. lunatic asylum. ’l‘h-o iin'vestigntion into the cause of the London. England. fire shows that the loss was $3050,000. The jury re, turned a. verdict of arson. Lord Charles Beresford, Conservative, was elected in York by a majority of 11 over Mr. Christopher Fuirncss, Lib- erall The seat was formerly held by Sir Frank Lockwood. Liberal. The London Morning Post says Pre- sident McKinley is hopelessly drifting in trying to satisfy everybody. that the result will be. chaos in the Republican Damp. amd the rapid growth of Bryanâ€" ism. it (further says that‘the Ding- bey tariff is a failure. ‘ UNITED STATES. Mrs. Ballinegwn Booth is declared out of danger. Mr. Mark Hanna. has been elected Senator for Ohio. Neither the crematories mor ceme- terims of San Francisco will take the body of Durrant. the murderer. Presideth P. A. Larcy, of the Slate Savings Bank. at Monlunri, was assassi- nated at Butte on Tuesday. l The dispute between the train de-.I spatchcrs and the Canadian Pa ilic railâ€" way has been amicably adjusted. John J. Overton, said to be 100 years of age, was married to Mrs. Mary J. Henderson at Charleston, West Vc., on Monday. Robert Gudgveon. saloon keeper, was shot and killed at Chicago on Monâ€" day night by robbers, who escaped. He would not "hold up his hands." , In the Guldensuppc case, Mrs. Nuck‘ om; Monday pleaded guilty to man- slaughter. Mud was sentenced to fif- teen years' imprisonment. Further time has been given by the? U. S. House Committee on Commcrvev for the building of this proposed bridge. over the St. Lawrence from St Law-l mace Co., N. Y. Instructions have been sent to col- lentors at. American ports not; to in- berfeie with sealskin garments if shown to have been purchased before Decem- ber 29 last. A serious Indian upri ing is report ed in Oklahoma 'l‘er.i1.nry, where (h S-mfinmlci Line gone on the warpath to a snore the lynsbing of a. couple of members of their tribe. GENERAL. Dr. Jamie=on intends becoming a. candidate for the Cape Parliament. Murt'al law whi h was prov] dined in ,. Prague on December and. has been withdrawn. The Japanese transport steamer Nara was wrecked on liconnter mm. and eighty lives were lost. The capilal of one of the Moluccas Islands has lean visited by unearth quake and fifty lives were lost. Great Britain has a pledge froan-Ring Menclek. of Abyssinia. that be M In t blO‘k the advance of‘lhe Anglo-Egyp- tion expedition. There was a riotous demonstration in Havana on Thursday against the United States and there is talk of an armed intervention. The French Government has decid- ed to prov”ube M. Zola the. non) ist on account of ifs connection wtth the Estcrhazy-Dreyfus s andsl. A music hall singer and several ac- (30'7‘pll063 have been arrested at Butler post on the charge of hlackmallins King Alexander of Servia, Steamers which have just arrived at Sydney, NS.\V., report a trilal waer ITantra. in the New Helridee. 'l‘heren ' said to have been considerable blood shed, and the natives were also cans lag the traders mu<h_trouble. [News of the renewed f .ghting in Ug» l finds has bean received from Fnrt Lub- ‘ was. in the Usoga ci-untry. Lieut Mac donnld, brother of Ma‘or Mamlonald the commander of the Briti. h forces find Mr. Pflkington, tho mi..si;nary, have been killed. \VEDDIN‘G PREPARATIONS, This usually takes the form of got- ting together a. large and) fashionable trousseau, and in possibly taking a. few lessons in cookery. on the part of the lady, but if her future husband hap- pens to make any sort of personal pre- parations, he keeps the matter to him- self generally. It is not de rigueur that he should do anything to qualify him- self for the new condition of life which he is about to enter. It is possible that he might with advantage take a hint even from the savages of South Africa. in the matter of the training of the masculine candidate fort matri- monial felicity. Before a. man is permitted to enter the holy estate he 111.3 to show of what metal he is made, and whether he is iossessed of sufficient patience to en- dure the fret and worry of married life. In order to decide the [oint, the wouldâ€"be hridegroom’s hands are tied up for a couple of hours in a bag- con- taining five fire~ants. If he should succeed in\beariug- un- moved the torture of their stings, he is considered fully qualified for mat- rimony. for surely a. man‘ of such ex- emplary patience and fortitude could not fail to make an admirable husl‘and, even supposing his wife to be the most nagging of her sex. f WHEN MARRIAGE IS A FAILURE. Marriage is a. failure if neither bus ‘and nor wife has married for love, "ut merely for money. or any other mundane motive. If the meals are ilLoooked and badly served. If two young people rush into mat- rimony and take upon themselves all the burdens of married life. when too young to realize the awful responsibil- ity of it. If the income, though well managed and made the most of, cannot cover the expenditure. If the husband be afadâ€" dy, fi'ig‘etty man, perpetually prying in- to household matters. and thinks he kgows more about them than anybody e e. If both parties are absolutely resolved to see only the worst side of each oth- ers characters. If the husband tries to be mistress as well as master. or the wife master as well as mistress of this house. If, when dark days come, husband and wife forget that they took each other for better for worse, for richer for [ooren If the wife is a fine lady totally ig- norant of even this rudiments of (lo- mesiic economy, and thinks more 'of her dress than her husband's comfort. ABOUT WEDDING RINGS. There have been various explanations given of the origin of weddingâ€"rings. \Vheatley says the ring was anciently a seal by which all orders were signed and thilngs of value secured; and there- fore the delivery of in was a. sign that; the peer to whom it was given was admitted ilnto the highest friendship and trust. Hooker regarded the ring. from its shape alud portability. as a pledge of sincere affection. Other authorities say that it was originally a pledge of the \vonuzm's dowry. 0r regard ii. simply as a. token of the mu- tual bondage to each other into which marriage brings husband and wife. It would appear that weddingâ€"rings were worn by the Jews prior to the Chrisâ€" tian era. The ring has been much used at betrothals as well as at weddings. and in' many parts of Europe: the bus- band as well as the wife wears a. wad di.l1g~ring. The left hand was chosen lo show the wife‘s submissOn, and the third finger. either because a small vein was supposed to run from it direct to this heart. or bewause the thumb and first two fingers represent the Trinâ€" ity. FATHER HAS SOLD HIS WHEAT. There is nothing too good for us now, I shall hue a. new sealskin S‘chue. And Johnny is going to get him a. horse That I an pm anyth'ng on the track; ind mother will dress up in silks. And oh, but life's easy and sweetâ€" Everyl ody's pol'te and clever and kind Since father has sold his wheat! We'll bu’ld a new house in the spring, And we'll store the old organ away. And an atom as the (linker is made, I shall have a piano to play. The fellows are c wing in droves And life is deli ~icusly sweetâ€" Oh, every one seems just too lovely to us Since father has sold his wheatl FALL OR WINTER MANURING. After all that has been said and wrtten on the subject of manuring. it does not seem to be well under- stood that it should he done some time before the crops are to grow. There are five things that are especially needed by the soilâ€"humus. nitrogen, potash and ph spheric acid with water to permeate and dissolve them. Ilumus is the decayed and decaying vegetable matter in the soil. It gives it that dark riih color. as we call it. ltmakes it_lighl and pornuaso that if will hold large quantities of water, just as the sponge does. And in it live the little "invisible friends" the myriads of la toi‘ia Whit h fix or hold the nitrogen that (ertain plants gath< or from the a.r, and make it available for the coming crops. Stable manure will make the humus. So will crops that are plowed under. smh as the Clovers, cow peas and soja beans. And the nitrogen which they at the same time bring to the soil is mug]: cheaper than that bought at a. big price in fertilizer lags. Indeed nitrogen is far the most costly of tha manures when it is bought. The merchant bares his price for mixed fcrti'imrs more on the nitrogen (11 y contain than on any other ingredient. Mono er. when it is in the structures of th so plants it is in a much less dangerous cond‘tiou and is more easily approâ€" ‘Dr'afed by the succeeding crops than in the form of mineral nitrates or an- imal refuse. These latter really do Considerable harm if appiied directly to tender seeds or rootfets ahd should be well mixed with tbs soil at .1", oi the time the plants will need the ni- troan to st'miilaie their grow th for U: is very volatile when turned into ammon'a by union with water. Phovph ric acid and potash must also be applied properly. Many persons fail to get this g-iod effects from them whiz-h they might rcatonably expect. This is one pint that should be thor- oughly understood by farmers, fruit- growers and gardeners. T'hr}. prevent've measure is to apply potash. und phos- phnfc acid in the fall or winter and let the rains and melted snows thor- oughly d 4's Ive those minors] manure! and mix them with the soil. Then when the_crops are sown or planted the next spring the potash and phspbnric acid. Will be in condition to do only good work. If a. crop of clover of any kind is on the ground they will graâ€" dually reach the rowts as thev perâ€" meate the soil. and stimulate them to greater action than would be possible without them. They will gather more nitrogen. and this with the other maâ€" nures will together he in condition to be taken up by the following crop. It takes time to digest and prepare it for use. If you cannot have all the win- ter and early spring to prepare them have all that is possible. \Ve do not feed a bore and have the strength from that self some food ready for use the same hour. And so with the food in the soil except nitrogen which is almost immediately available Niâ€" trogen in the soil is like a whip to the horseâ€"it acts almost at once or 13 gone by evaporation as ammonia. Furthermore. do not wu=te money on freight sax-king and bundling of a. lot of useless materials. Buy concenâ€" trated manuresmsuch as d‘sz‘olved bone or acid phosphate and muriube of pot- ash. Mix them to suit your needs. unâ€" less you can get 8"m8 reliable merchant who has mawh‘nery to do it for you at reasonable rates. And do not be afraid to apply them liberally. It does not pay to halfâ€"fend the soil any more than it does to halfâ€"feed fattening Stock. This half-feeding often leads to discouragement and disbelief in mineral fertilizers. A little will do some good, but it takes about 30") pounds of dissolved lone. and the some amount of potash or twice that amount of phosphale rork to give a crop of almost any kind a good annual meal. Full feeding means net pro- fits, while halfâ€"feeding only keeps things running at cost or a. little beâ€" low it. OATS iron COLTS. Few farmers seem to realize that the first winter of a. mlt's life to oblige extent. determines its future usefulâ€" ness and values With? the majority of our acquaintances this one thing they aim at the first winter is toughen tho col‘t. and in many cases he becomes so “tough” that he never makes. a ‘servloeable or profitable horse. 'Dhe process of toughening is very simple. The colt is left to shift for himself. He may wander over 21 field of bare corn stalks through the day and gather himself at night in the shadou of a. wire fence unless so fortunate as to find a straw pile that is unoccupied l:y cattle and hogs. He has neither victuals nor drink offered himâ€"he simply roughs it. The colt would make a much tough- er horse in the good sense if given pro- per food And taken all in all there is no food that is so generally raised that is so well adapted for the coltâ€" for all humankindâ€"as oats. Speaking of <ats as the food for horses and of their espo-ial value as food for the colt. a writpr says! "‘1 he oat is a natural food for horses at any age. It has just (by kind of nutriti n to make the muscle and bone, and, con- joined with exerx isle. these are the lasis of strength. "It is especially important that the colt should begin to develop muscle at an early age. If he is allowed free room in whit h to run, the colt fed a fow oats daily will do all so. that is needed. He will even groom More” by rolling on the ground or in the snow when snow is on the gro ud. "Besides a pint of rats wire 5 day making only a quart a day,will keep the colt growing, when with only hay he will have a rough starinw coat and. grow very little the first winter. "Vth is worse the cult thus under- fed is likefly to have its dig-=stinn inâ€" jured. The hull of the out prevents it from injuring the colt when fed In such small quantities. Towards spring the amount of cats may be increased to a quart at each feeding. At: a. quart a day it is less than almshel for month, and at the largest it is less than two burheln per month. "\tht is ten bushels of cats in com- parison with the increased value of a. thrifty horse instead of havingan unthrifty onei GRAPE GROWING. Plant on a. gentle eastern, southern or southeastern slope. Any good gar- den soil will produce grapes. If the land is a. clay soil tile it. Set twoâ€"year- old vines. Get them of a good nurc serymanâ€"not of agents. Plant in the fall 10x10 feet apart. Lay down on the ground during the winter and cover V th any kind of litter. Stake while one and two years old and the th rd year put on trellivas. Thrse trellises can be made of posts and wire. Prune carefully. If the vine is weak cut bank to one bud. but if strong to two. and if very strong leave three buds. Do not practice summer pruning ex- cept to pinch luck and keep off suck~ ers. Take off ground in March or April. PROTECTING ’l‘RE ES. \‘l'lif‘m there are innumerable rem- rwlim recommended and used for the protection of young trees against this dopredations of rabbits. mice and othâ€" er animals, there is nothing better and more reliable than small meshed wire netting wound around the tree and tied together with a wire. It is m- evrensive. durable. does not keep out l:ght and air. and is in every way pre- feralle to tarred paper. tin and any of the close covering-s recommended. THE WINTER STRAWBERRY BED. \Vhere heavy winds prevail and the ground is not covered with snow the mulching malaria; on the strawberry bed is very apt to be blown off, or become displaced. It is therefore quite important to examine the beds from time to time and repose the covering on the bare plants. It costs noth hg and is time well spent. Broken and in» terrupbed rows in the strawberry bed are a discouraging sight at picking time. DISTRESS IN CUBA. Awful Ital-lea or the Sufl'erlng People M scuba-I In a Letter. “Things are getting worse everyday and the misery is terrible. No words can describe it. Even in the hospitals in the different charitable institutions the wretched Cubans die of hunger and of disease unassisted, because they are too numerous to be well attended. The societies are too poor to help them. They can give only what they receive do.in from some kind hearted families. \Ve suppose that the Government re- ally gives some money to help the poor, but it goes through too many hands before roa. hing the needy. That is why they receive nothing. “Women and. men are often found seated or lying down beside the bodies of their dead relatives in the streets etc. and their wretchsdness is such that they find no words to express their sorrow. They remain tmarless and quiet, as if they had also lost their mind. I have often heard mothers exâ€" claim. “I hope God “ill take away my children," or “May God allow my children to die soon. i.‘ecuu% it is a torture to hear them cry for food with- out being able to give them anything to cut, and to see them suffer so much is unbearable. A SURPRISING APOLOGY. A young advocate before the Scotch Lords of Session, on hearing a. deciâ€" sion against his client, which he deemâ€" ed contrary to law and justice. so for fungal; himself as to exclaim that he was “surprised at such a decision." ’llhe-ir lordships were very ungryhml were considering how to mark their sense of the advocates imperilnence when a [iawky old councillor toe, and Iuesoulghit their lordships‘ forgiveness for the slip his young brother udvo- cute had made. “It was purely lack of experience that led him into error, Hod be known your lordsha hull as long as I have done. I'm hanged if ho would huve lzemi surprised at any» thing your lords-hips said or did." I l . INTERESTING ITEMS ABOUT OUR OWN COUNTRY. Gathered from Various Polnu from the Atlantle to the Psclflc. Ore sanmlirng works are being built at Rcsobery. BC. The Merchants Bank will open a branch at Edmonton. 13.0. There are 45 patients in the Graven- hurst Home [It consumptives. Rev. S. Daw. od Hamilton. slipped on the sidewalk and broke his arm. John Overholt is reâ€"building the flout mill recently burned at W'ellandport. A branch of the Canadian Bonk of Commerce will be opened It Dread!“ shortly. Archdeacon Phelr. of Ruprt’l Land minimizith in the intcest of Indian missions. The bartenders of Montreal have formed a much. and will demand a raise of wages '1‘. L. Linlop has been reappointed assessor of St. Thhmaa on the casting vote of the mayor. Tilbury‘s greet gas well like turned out to be a water wellâ€"end 1 salt water well at that. Friday night a man was discovered trying to set fire to the Dumas Hotel. Chailam. He escaped. Dr. Whitehead, ‘.'.S., of Sti'aihroy, is a prominent candidate for collector of customs at that. point. The demands for dogs for the Klon- dike has made dog-stealing a thriving industry in Vancouver: A weed burner is the latest farming implement invented and patented in Porlage la. Prairie. Men. The body of Napoleon Boulanger. was found in the lake at Nelson, R. G. How he got there is a mystery. James Vannall, who LrLed to flim- Elam aSt. Thomas jeweller out of a. diamond ring. has been committed for Ural, Prince Edward Island exported $300.- 000 worth of cheese last year. Six years ago lhci sland did not: export a. pound. The Glcncoo Council of 1897 voted themselves a salary at their last mtciing. They toolc' time by the heft- loclc. ' Mr. H. Collier Grounds. of Ottawa, has been appointed organist of the Church of St). John the Evangelist... Monireal. Real estate in Vancouver is advanc- ing, and. the citizens of the Terminal City are formally hoping for the return of boom days. Four hundred and fifty trauma were given shelter in Chatham police cells during the past year. Most of them were foreigners. Louis Laurence, who escaped from the storehouse of the Kingston peniâ€" tentiary. was recaptured at Hamilton and taken home. George Brigham. of Mitchell, has re- ceived word that his eldest son has been smothered in o well he was dig- ging in Manitoba. Miss Jane Dooner has been given a verdict of 31,200 against. the city of Montreal. She fell on a. bed sidewalk and broke her leg. Rabbits are very numerous around Point Pe‘lee. Bert. Gardiner shipped 62 of the pets to Detroit the other day and got four cents each for them. The T., H: 8; B. railroad. says the St. Catharines Journal. is so exorbitant in price for mail service that it is pro~ bable the line will not be awarded a contract. Patrick O'Connor, a. Guelph car- penter fell from the roof of a house to the ground 24 feet. He was badly jarred. and will be under repairs for a. month. There is still a. trifle of $5.000 be‘ tween the price the CPR. are willing Lo pay for F. Aug. H-einze's railway and smaller and the price he is will- mg to take for them. The Edmonton Bulletin estimates the cost of police maintenance in the Yu- kon at $2,000 per annumv,‘aud thinks Lhis will likely absorb all the roy- alties that. can be collected. A man named Joly who assaulted Chief Hebert. of St. Cunegonde, about a. year ago, escaped to the United Slates. He foolishly came home for the holidays, and now he is doing five years. Fifteen men in McNuir's lumber camp. on the ’l‘obique River. 5:. B, were taken seriously ill from casing pork, \Vhen the pork was taken in the carriers to lighten the load. throw away most of the pickle. An Indian named Somycr has confess- ed that he killed a. Storekeeper named Francis Jones at Hull's Crossing. ll.(,‘. They had a disliule over some cliungre. (ind Jam-s went at the ln’lian wiln an axe. The Indian look the axe from him and 115611 it. HE R ME’l‘HOD. Uncle Bobâ€"«1‘95, my wife =llill>‘. li‘Eiuvâ€" ed in lying a. string ll) her linger in remember lhings. llnclo Billâ€"She has one on ln-r gcr must of the lime. [nolu‘xu Uncle lionâ€"Yes, ‘(epiin‘ when shi- his soiiielliin' very perlikler l.0 iw-nmml or. Then she leaves off Lin: er ng. :m‘ when it ain't there she remeuiberswhy. [ilk