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511% NEWS IN NUISHHL (Ingergstlnn Items Ab Jut Our Own Country, Great Britain, the United States, and A1} Parts of the .Globe, Condensed nm’ Assorted for Easy Reading. VERY LATEST FRGM ALL THE WORLD OVER. ‘ Thanksgiving Day this year will be Oct; 19. y'Beamsville‘ High. school has been destroyed by fire. Gas in Hamilton has been reduced to ’1 4a thousand feet net. People in villages along the line of the Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Rail- way want then mail handled over that line instead of by stages from the Grand Trunk Railway stations. Commlssioner Pratt says that the assessment of .Ottawa w:ll be affected to the extent of at least $100,000 by the whew Provincial law exempting electric - plants and other financial corpora- tit‘ma. ' ~ .v Hardware manufacturers in Mont- realv are putting prices still higher. I The Lake of theL Woods Milling 00., will increase its capital stock by $1,â€" I00,000. . A. G. Ramsay, of Hamilton, presiâ€" dent of the Canada Life, will retirq on Dec. 31 next. The Canadian exhibits for the Paris ‘Fair will not be carried by a special Government boat. Ottawa Valley lumbermen are con- sidering a uniform method of culling lumber, to stop British complaints. Lord Strathcona has given $10,000 towards a new building in cofi‘nection with the Montreal Maternity Hospital. .. The‘Canada Atlantic Ry., has bought three more vessels for its trade be- tween Parry Sound and this Upper Lakes. The Bank of Hamilton will increase its capital stock from one and ahalf to two million dollars. Assessors’ returns give Ottawa 21 pulation of 57,002, an \increass of ,616 over lash year. 7A runner that the three Winnipeg breweries and soda Water works have been amalgamated is denied. Lohdon Street Railway directors will increase this company’s, capital stock by $50,000, making it $400,000. . News reaches Portage la Prairie that a Galician woman and four children were burned to death in a prairie fire near Dauphin. 7 Petey Gordon, a boy 01:10, while hunting at Qu’Appelle, met with an accident, which necessitated the ampu- tation (if his right arm. Canadian Pacific Ry. land 'sales in Manitoba in September were 25,550 acres for $85,C00, as compared with Sep tember, 1898, $1,800 acres for $57,016. The Allan Line steamship Bavarian, now .at Montreal, has been requisition- od by the Imperial Government for the conveyance of troops to South‘ Africa. It may be that Ottawa will lose the seat of the recently-«created Papal delegate to Canada, and that Mgr. Faloomo will be permanently installed in Montreal. Customs Inspector, McMichael. as a result of his visit to Dawson, will pro- bably institute radical changes in the servxce there. He says customs wo'rk isdone well in DaWSon. Workman have commenced building a branch line from the Kingston and Pembroke Railway main track to ,Caldwell‘s iron ore mines at Cala- bogie. épeaking in ontreaJ, o. 8. Phillips, 9. London lisher, said Canadian pulg in bettqr than the Scandinavian ‘ nn rn , A...“ _A..A A Grafid Trunk surveying party nommenced this week to lay out the work for improving the grades and double-tracking on the Grand Trunk line from Hamilton to Niagara Falls. 'A’strikimg evidence of the scarcity of workinrgmen is a great placard [which has bg‘en 11qu out infro'nt of the Postoffioe; OttaWa, by one of the lumber companies asking for 1,000 laborers and 300 shuntymen. ' The Hamilton customs returns for last month showed that duties to the amount of $79,283,30 had been collect- Dd, Uhl's being an increase of $24,891- 94, over the corresponding month last year. rw-r product and is worth $2.50 a. ten more .11 England. _ I Brantford’s assessment has been ad- vanced to $7,099,548 [as compared with) 16,541,965 last year, but the population is 17,344, compared with 18,669. The exemptions amount to $1,177,800. as compared with- $1,828,650. The contract has been let to Thomas Powers of Levis, by the Government tot the extension of the Lorne gruving look at Levis from! 445 to 600 feet, at m estimated cost of $117,000. The dock will then be large enough for boats of aver 580 feet. - The Good Shepherd’s Home at New Westminster, B. C., one of the largest Catholic institutions on the coast, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday. Eighty children and nuns escaped from the burning building. Miss Maud Walbrook, the young lady who disappeared from the Red Deer Indian school, has been given up for lost. Lt is believed that she fell into the Red' Deer River and was carried down the stream, which was a raging t‘orr‘enti at film time of the occurrence. The' London City Council unanimous- lyi passed ‘Ald. Paxnell’s motion favor- ing compulsoryi arbitration of disputes between companies holding public franchises and their employm. It au- thorizes a petition {to the Local Legis~ lature, for legislation along the lines set forth, and instructs the City Clerk E0 write othermorporatibns with a View to cooperation. CANADA. lg Day this year will be Sir Louis Davies is spending a few days with Lord Strathcona at Glen- 008. John Dillon, the Irish Nationalist member, has refused to speak at the laying of the foundation stone of a memorial to Parnell. It is rumoured that the owner of one of the his New York dailies is seri- ously considering entering the Lonâ€" don field with a sevenâ€"day newspa- fiver ton. The miners through North Wales resumed work at an advance in wages of 2 1â€"2 per cent, and coal mine_0wnâ€" are announced ndvances in the selling prices of coal of from 6 to 25 cents Add Britain Rudyard Kipling has just become affiliated with the ancient Masonic lodge of Cannongate, Kilwinning. Kilâ€" winning is the earliest known seat of chttish Freemasonry. Sir Walter Scott was a member of this lodge, and Robert Burns its poet‘ laureate. UNITED STATES. Key W‘est, FLa., had 24 new cases of yellow fever and one death on Monâ€" day. The strike at Cramlp’s shipyard, Philadelphia, [or a nineâ€"hour day is increasing. Over 900 men are out. Mrs. Margaret Babaosk, her daugh- t-er. Mrs. Alvmoe SJ Fay, and the latâ€" ter’s six-year-old child were found dead in their beds asphyxiatéd by coal gas, gt. Rochester, N. Y., on Thursday mormng. John Gro-uix, aeronaut, fell from his balloon on Tuesday at Chicago and is terribly injured. A .strike “which would affect nearly 3,000 coal miners’ is pending in the Northern Illinois coal fields. Des Moines, Iowa, has had a $500,000 fire. the Masonic temple, the Murphy house and several factories going up. At salt Lake City, Chief Engineer O’Melveney of the Oregon short line was shot. and killed by Ethan Mills, formerly LieutaGovernor of Idaho. The Municipal Pawners’ Society opens at Chicago on Nov.‘ 1, and will lend money at 11â€"2 per cent. a month, to the. great loss of the high-priced plawnbrokena. Mrs. Henrietta Heib, from Bremen, while on her way to visit her son, Michael Kumz, at Chippewa, Ont., fell from a train at Binghamton, N‘. Y., and was fatally hurt. Marza Townsend, an aeronaut, went up. in a balloon at a circus in Des Moines, Ia. The balloon was not high enough when the cannon was fired, and the parachute did not open. Town- send fell 1,000 feet, striking on his head, and breaking his neck. Charles Lehban, aged 13, touched a lighted match to paper decorations on Carrie Cartwright’s dress at Spring- field, 111. on Tuesday. The girl was burned to death. Her mother was seri- ously burned in trying to save her. Lehban is under arrest. It. is 'estimated‘th‘at the Indian Gov- ernment must spend 1,500,000 rupees to relieve famine in the central pro- vinces and that the local chiefs must expand at least. one-third, at this amoumt i‘-n addition. GENERAL. The Nile is noqut the lowest point on; record. 'Buboin'ic plague is being successfully treated by inoculation at Oporto. 'As the result of; Emperor William's advice, the University of Strasburg' will receive a. Oat’h‘olio faculty, thus ending a long and bitter cantroversy. The members of a club in Berlin, where large sums of? money were won and lost, are on trial. Witnesses 1n u...“ -v... lhe high'eswgéirvcles have fled the counâ€" try. ‘ If.: is said that Germany is about to hand; over documents which will lead to the quashing of the Dreyfus ver- dict. A‘ syndicate in Montevideaq has been discovered. which has been insuring the lives of poor people, and murder- ing them to get the policies. The British ship Te’koa, from New Zealand to London, foundered off Cape Horn. 'Five of the crew were picked up, but the fate of the passengers is unkmlwn. - Dufing a British attack on the forces of Arab Mullah, wrho _13as been pro- up. (a: “v claimed Mahdi b'y Mmssulmané of the Hinterland, 27 natives were killed. Indian troops are being. sent to the scene. M. Mgmontoff, the Russian railway king charged with embezzlement. has been allowed bail in the unprecedented: sum of two million dollars. M. T011010- koft', another prominent railway man, is charged with embezzlement. A riot occurred at \Vyngfuardna‘tie, Holland, arising from the strike of‘ the corporation cart/era. ‘ The police were called out and were‘received with shots from revolvers. ' The officers were obliged. to charge the mob with drawn .swords. ' Several police were wounded and many arrests were made. Fn'Ioeland horses are shod with sheep’s horn; in Soudan the horses awe shod with socks made 012 camel's skin. A German not long ago invent- ed a horseshoe of paper, prepared 'by saturating with oil, turpentine» and other, isngredielntg. ‘ $11k}. layers of ,1- 1:11 V â€"_=___,, such paper are glued to the- hoof till the requxsite thickness is attained; amd. the shoes thus made are durable and impenetrable by moisture. Coughâ€"What? You won’t have me for a son-in-law because J. have no debts? What do you mean by that? Capitalistâ€"Very simple. If 1 don't have to pay your debts you won’t have any respect: for mm as your fatherâ€"in- laWâ€"and' I don‘t want a son-in-law who’s lacking in respect], NOVEL HORSE SHOES. GREAT BRITAIN. AN OBSTACLE. Tom the soil begins to bake, Cultivatel Stir it up for culture’s sake, Cultivate! Tillage hinders 'vaporation, Tillage works weed ’radication. Tillage helps food 'laboratlon, Cultivate! If it rains and lays the dust, CulLivatel If it pours and formg a crust, Cultivate! ’ Saves the moisture hygrosscopifl- Helps the microbes microscopic, Tall: to nelgthI‘S on this topic, Cultivate! If your head begins to swell, Cultivate! Harrow, crush it, pound it well, Cultivate! Cultivate a humble heart, Give "Big I" a meaner part, Let the germ of culture start, Cultivate ! ‘repairs are made at once; 'fly. _ During the next few weeks there is a good deal of work of. a miscellanâ€" eous character to be done on the farm. They were Wise, our forefathers, who originated the homely saying that “a stitch in time saves nine," and this of all seasons, is the time when many of those stitches should be taken by the further. It is stated by good author- ity that fifty per cent. of the agricul- tural implements .used in Canadaâ€" wagons, sleds, mowmg machines, ploughs, etcâ€"are destroyed by expos- ure to the elementsâ€"$11M the farmers lose millions of dollars annually by their neglect to house those imple- ments when not in use. A little thoughtfulness,a few hours’ work now and then, and especially in thefal], would reduce this loss by at least nine- ty per cent. Let every farmer gather together all the tools for which he will have no further use until next spring and store them away under cover, just Where he can place his hand upon them when wanted. if there is a leak in the roof: of the barn, a board in the covering hanging by a nail, a window broken, a door or gate with a dislocated hinge, a de- fective plank in the floor of the stable, any uncertainty about the water supply, see that the needed nothing can be gained by delay, and, itrmay‘ be the occasion of much loss. The piggery should be seen to and the poultry house. and it sheep are kept, comfortable quarters should be prOVid- ed for them in the basement) of the barn, if the barn has a basement; it not, a warm shed should be provided, not an open shed, but one With a. -win- dew and. a door that can be closed every night. ‘All kinds of rubbish should be gathered up, not only about the house and barns, but in the fence corners and open fields, and burned, and an estimate of the number of fence rails that will be required in the spring should be made, so that they may be cut and hauled during the winter. Of course the winter’s fuel is prepared and housed, but the sup- ply for another year is to be chop- ped down so that when wanted it will be properly seasoned. There are some ditches to be dug, some drain pipes to be laid, some ploughing to be done , during the next thirty days; there are boulders to dig out of the meadow and some brush to uproot; may be there are some fences and cul- verts to build; let all these things be attended to before the frust gets into the ground and the show begins to See to it that in the spring all the farm buildings, the fences,‘ the fields, look better and are i better than ever before. The farm should increase in productiveness and at- tractiveness every year. When one drives by he should be impelled to say, "A gentleman, and no hayseed, lives there." ‘We see such farms in every parish in the province, and the time is coming when we shall see no others. It is not by working day and night, by making a slave of himself that the farmer becomes "comfortable, ’ but by doing his work just when it should be done and: just as it ought 'to be done. The farmer who does this banishes dis- content from his household and pov- erty from his door. His wife is proud to be a farmer’s wife and his sons ‘and daughters regard with pity the-city laborer, and with scorn, the measur- ers of tape and molasses. We reiterâ€" ate, there is considerable work to. be done on the farm during'the next few weeks. Let it be done: and, done thoroughly and no ghosts will haunt the winter fire side, and in the spring there will be no plough to ’dig out of a snowi drift, no shovel or crowbar to hunt for, in a ditch, nothing to divert the farmer from the proper employâ€" ments of the season. NERVES AND FOOD; It is the nervous cow that gives the greatest amount of good milk, says C. W. Jones. One inclined to go to {at makes an excellent beef cow, but' a relatively poor milker. As the ner- vous cow is apt to be smaller in proportion. thana large, fat, beef making cow, the idea gains some headway that she reguires less food. Indeed, there, is a tendency in some quarters to reason that a cow needs food in proportion tb! her sizeâ€"that is, a large cow requires more than a small one. This is an SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS. HINTS FOR THE FARMER. IGULTIVATE» THE SOIL. error of a most pronounced order. It is nervous energy that absorbs and uses up food, and it requires more to food such a nature than it does one of a phlegmo/bicc diSpo-- >tiiou. If anything the opposite to What is true in general practice should be observed. More rlch and highly concentrated food shbuld be given to the smaller milker than to the large beef maker. The good milker, if her digestion is good, can change more of her food into milk than another animal can convert into beef or fat. A good deal of this ‘food that is given to the milker 1's iconverted directly into milk and is thus more profitable than when fed to the beef cattle. The nervous animal’s mechanismi is more easily deranged than that of1 the heavy, beef making animal. A- plow horse can stand more abuse than the high strung race horse. Man-y dairymen do not appreciate this thoroughly either in their feeding or caring for good milk cows. As the whole value of the ainizmal’s products depends very closely upon the condiiotn of her digestion a study should be made constantly of the cow’s health. In a normal condition she can take a great amount of food and convert it directly into milk. This food should be given with the best posâ€" sible caution, so that it will not inâ€" jure the health oi the animal. Give all to the cow that she will eat up clean is a good rule to go by, but if her appetite declines there is some- thing wrong with her digestion that needs instant attention. Very frequently this cause is so simple that one overlooks it. In a ner- vous cow, a sudden frlgllt, undue excitement or running in a field or anything that will upset lhe nerves may cause the flow of milk to stop ‘tum‘porairily and upset her diges-r ition so that the full quantity of imilk will not be given for weeks. It ‘15 to guard against such slight ac- cidents that the ~dairymam must exercise his supervismn and auth- ority. His cows are high strung milking machines that easily give out under abuse or misuse. ‘ GOOD TIMES'FOR FACTORY GIRLS. An Onlnrlo Government official Says That They Are “and “’ngé-Earners. Girls. are steadily supplanting men in a very great number of the factorâ€" ies of Ontario; there is almost no branch of. wonk- in which they are not now engaged; they axe in_ many in- stances making from ten to twelve dol- lars a Week; they do not find the slightest difficulty in securing situ- ations, and their work is now done in such a pleaeant environment that the number. of girls and young worn;- en‘ working in factories is ;steadily in- creasing, while the number of domes- tics in the prevince, id just as steadâ€" ily decreasing, so says Miss Carlyle, fice. Miss Carlyle has just returned to Toronto from a tour of inspection in Ham'lton, Dundasx Merritton and. other western places. In every factory she visited she says the "hands were working night and day, to keep up with the orders coming in. At the Mer- ritton cotton mills there were already employed a very large number of‘ girls, but the company would be glad} to take on many more. 1 AVERAGE WAGES». Inthe mills the average wages of the factory girls Were about eight dollars perrv'v‘eek, but many of. the most’ skilful loom girls got as high; as $10.50 per week. The conditions, 'too, under which they worked were much better than they were a. Iew years ago. Facâ€" tories are now kept bright and. clean, and as a result girls prefer working in factories to going into service as domestics. "ih‘conseqflehoethe demand fox: domestics is becoming more and more pressing in the province. " r v BETTER THAN MEN.‘ As a rule, girls are gladly taken on by the factory managers; for they say that) in many lines of Work, especially in the cigar, cotton and woolen mills,1 the girls do better work than the men} However,-‘ they are not, restricted to any. special class ofnworkf‘ I‘h the Pet'- erboro‘ Electric Works over 60 girls are'employed, ,while‘ in the Smart Ag- ricultural Implement Works in Brock: ville a large force of girls are emâ€" ployed operating the lamge machines. The..manager of the latter factory. says that since he has employed girls he has noticed a decide'd'improvement in the general moral tone of his employes. H‘is testimony is also borne out by other‘ employers throughout the pro- Vince. , . i The ,qnly,utiisadvantag'e’. under Which the girls labor, says Miss Carlyle, is that they cannot stand the wear and tear of constant‘daily work as well as men. In many, cases after a. few years their nervous system breaks down and they are henceforth neither fit, for good wives nor for good, . employes. However, be that as it may, the girls of the province are at present infring- ing very largely onrthe domain of. the male workers, and are in many in- stances drawing just as high salaries. IVORY IN SIBERIA. \Vith the threatened eiha‘ustion of ivory in Africa, a supp1y~â€"is opening up in Siberia. Tons 01? fine ivory are found of the mammoth elephas "primiâ€" genius. Hundreds of frozen carcasses are found crowded and jaamned in the Ontario Fmtory' Inspector’s 0f- IN MERRY DLD ENGLAND. THE DOINGS OF THE ENGLISH PEO- PLE REPORTED‘BY MAIL. Record of Events Taking Place-In the Land ofilhc Roseâ€"Interesting Occur reuccs. The ages of the four generations of the Royal Family in they‘direct line of succession are :â€"The Queen, 80; Prince of Wales, 57; Duke of York, 34; Prince Edward of York, 5. Coionel Broakesburst, commanding the Royal Horse Guards, has been se- lected to fill the. vacancy: on the staff of the Queen‘s Equerries, caused by. the tragic death of thd Earl of Si;an ford. A pair of shoe buckles, with gold bor- ders, and a left hand glove worn by Nelson, have been sold in London for 26 and 28 guineas respeétively, and a. portrait 01' Napoleon, in miniature. [etched 2K} guineaa. The governor of Wandsworth prison. where about 14,000 prisoners are re- ceived every year, states in regard to these that "while it is the exception for ‘any one of them to tell us he has never «been to Sunday school, it is nearly al- ways the case that we find he has never since leaving Sunday school attended any place of worship, and never said a prayer.“ These figures seem to show that the missing link, so far at least as concerns vast numbers of scholars, has not been found between the school and the church. At a meeting the other day in Lon- don the Earl of Duwnm‘ore declared that he had been cured of deafness through Christian Science, which he declared was the "second coming of Christ” to heal the sick and conquer death. Eleven vessels are constantly kept in service by the British Government making charts of the sea and record- ing shoals, rocks and similar subma- rine perils to navigation. Last year they charted 10,00U square miles in various parts of the world. Some of the savages at the Earl's Court Exhibition have fallen 'out. They have received injuries incapaci- tati'ng them‘from taking any‘ part in the performance, and one became so violent that he had to' be shut up in Violent that he had to' be shut up in an empty animal’s den. The managers of Savage South Africa. find another difficulty in drunkenness; the Cape boys and Hottentots have come into contact with white man, and it has been found impossible to keep them sober. Consequently, the managers have resolved to Send them: all back to Africa. A curious natural phenomenon was witnessed at Dullwicb the other even- ing. There was an unusually brilliant sunset, the sky in the west was a blaze of crimson, gold and purple, end from the very centre there shot up a long straight beam of light. Near the base athin fleeey clomd crossed it transver- sely, of the same 'brilliant? golden hue as the upright beam. The effect was of a flaming sword or inverted cross, in the midst 9f the sunset, and the phenomenon, which was the subject 03 much comment. lasted forty minutes before ‘it fiaded away. A number of steeplejaoka had a tra~ gic experience the other day atBridgo Mills, Tintwistle, near Manchester. The main building of the “min ‘was re- cently destroyed by fire, the damage amounting to £50,000. While the men were engaged on the fifth storey de- molishing the old walls several tons of stonework fell in. crashing through what remained of the wooden floors. Three s-teeplejacks were carried down with the falling debris. One, named Eli Jones, of ROUbdflle, was killed in- stantly. while two others, James Denâ€" ton and Richard :Holt, received shock- ing injuries. Three workmen nar- rowly escaped being crushed. SUBSTITUTE FOR THE GUlLLOTINE France ‘Propows to ll'sc Electricity by a flew Method. ' If importance is to be attached to a. recent letter from Paris, the French: Government is considering the advisv ability of discontinuing, the use of the guillotine for the execution of orim~ inals and the adoption in its stead of a method in which needles charged with high-tension currents are shot in- to the brain, causing instant "death. According to the accounts given, ' the head of the criminal, as he sits,£irm- ly strapped in the execution chair, is to be enclosed in a helmet similar to that of a diver. Opposite to the temples of the wearer are two holes, through which the needles, duly con- nected with the source of electric cur- rent employed, pass. . As the execu- itioner touches a button, and so toxins on the current, the two needles leap from their sockets and are forced through the temples into then'kbrain of thé'ériifiin'al. With them they carry. powérful alternating currents, which rupture and destroy the brain cells with such rapidity that one ‘convul- sive movement of the victim is the only sign that life is extinct. Wheth- er such a mode of execution, if seri- ously proposed, is more merciful than the electrical methods adopted in this country will be doubted by: many. Sheâ€"What a lot of things, they're inventing now; chainless wheels and homeless oarrlagea and all those things._ _D_V Heâ€"I wail-someone would invent endless vamfiuons. WOULD BE HIGH~PRICED. I