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{sh firm. axii murdered ne George 0. him a tel New of has £00 _ '16 [funds m t] The British steamer Coqu‘et, from Quebec for Sunderland, is still miss- ins. Mr. Thompson, the agent of aBrit- 7 tab firm, and five other men, were murdered near Lahore. West Africa. George C. Cooper, released after "3. {pg a. ten years’ sentence for the er of his wife at Douglas, Isle has inherited a fortume- of THE VERY LATEST FROM . ALL THE WORLD OVER. IHE NEWS IN A NUISHEU. ' Brantford ‘hias a serious epidermis of typhoid; The Quebec Legislature meets J anu- ary 11th. [t is said in Winnipeg that nomi- nations for the local elections will be held Dec. 7. There was a remarkable instance of bngevity at Montreal Thursday, Jean Baptiste Prevost. aged 106 years, and lie sister-in-law, Esther Piion, aged 88 rears, arrived from St. Ann‘s, where [hey had spent the summer, descendâ€" |d unaided from the train and: entered . carriage by themselves to the astonâ€" Ihment of the spectators. iThe demand for berths on ocean teamshi-ps for the Paris Exhibition text summer is already so enormous that the Allans have received enough applications for the four large steam- ship‘s, Tunisian, Bavarian, Californian and Parisian. The accommodation. however. has not been sold, to preâ€" vent speculation. Messrs. Allan state that the probable minimum rate for non-cattle carrying Allan Line steam- ship‘s next year will be between $60 and $75. London’s new $100,000 hospital was [ormally opened on Thursday. The Hamilton Court of Revision 'cut $150,000 of the assessment. ‘A new opera house will be opened at Kingston next September. Hamilton City Council has refusad to adopt the curfew bell by-law. Lord‘Mimto will be asked, to attend the Guelph Stock Show. on\ Dec. 7. l There is a larger attendance at Queen’s University than ever before, and the question of providing increas- ed accommodation will have to be dealt: with at an early! date. A new halfpenny paper is to be started in London by Mr. 'Arthur Pearson. Interesting Items About Our Own Country, Great Britain, the United . States, and All Parts of the Globe, Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading. The Quebec Government will intro- duce a new Liquor license law next Hessian. ‘ The. British Ooluimlbia sealers have ‘hlad a good year, taking 35,346 skins, as against 28,552 in 1898.‘ Dem‘mick Bros’. store at Fleming Assa., was entered by burglars, and 3560 taken from the cash drawer. The National Park at Banff is to be stocked with mountain sheep, goats, moose, antelope, deer, and other ani- mals. i I During the past season the follow- ing Lratfic was done through the Sault Ste. Marie canal: Vessels, 3,244; vessel tonnage, 2,576,859; freight ton- nage, 2,566,546; passengers, 14,4151. The Dominion Steamship Co. has re. ceived notification that the British‘ Government has chartered their big. steamship Canada to transport troops to South Africa“ The Soldiers’ Wives’ League in; Montreal have already ten families to whom assistance is being rendered out of the soldiers’ fund. The amount sub. scribed by the citizens of Montreal has reached $8,000. There are labour candidates in Lon- don for every municipal position ex- cept the mayoralty‘. - Constable Harrison of the Northwest Mounted Police at MacLeod was found dead with a bullet through: his brain the day_ after his wedding. The two Cat Lake Indian, tried at Winnipeg on a charge of murdering their chief, at his own request, to rid himself of an evil spirit, have each been sentenced to four months’ im- prisonment. Aid. Wilson and Manners are both definitely in the field asmayoralty candidates in Winnipeg. The Hamilton Polioe Magistrate’s reâ€" cent conviction of a hotelkeeper for selling ginger ale to aminor |has. been annulled by Judge Snider. a E. H. Lloyd, who was arrestpd in London, Eng., for am‘bezzlement of 81,800 from. .5. Oarsley & 00., Montreal, has been given three years in the penitentiary. ' Hon. R. R. DobeLl has forwarded L9 the Montreal Board of Trade a model of a Lurret stea-mshrhp, such as he ad- vocates for the fast Atlantic service. Mrs. Eagle and Alfred Qmigley, bier bromer, have been cmmnltted for trial at Red Deer, N. LW.1'1‘., on the charge of murdering Nelson Hagle at Ponoka. The threatened strike of coal miners at Letnbridge has been postponed, the men having decided to abandon their claim for the present for shorter Ihours. Commissioner Ogilvie has reported to thus: Department of the Interior that the amount of royalty collected in the Xukon up to November lst; was $730,- ‘ ' ion ‘trade, ate. meeting in f, recently 'suIbscribed £2,000 anfsvaal war fumd. The pre- ‘led the result to business ,dB in L hicago, who have now reâ€" GREAT BRITAIN. CANADA. plied that $5,000, has been subscribed. there, and that more is to follow. UNITED STATES. J ack’ McGuire, mayor of Syracuse, my be the- next Democratic candidate for Governor of New York. At a special meeting of the New York Central directors the lease of the Boston and Albany Ry. was _ratified. James Monroe, ubigamist, and swind- ler, arrested at Chicago, has been tak- en to Rochester. H'e is said to have married and deserted 26 women. A judgment of $110 was entered against young Cornelius Vanderbilt for neglecting his duty in refusing to serve as a juror. The sum represented $100 penalty and $10 costs: Judge Simeon E. Baldwin, of the Connecticut Supreme Court, has been elected president of the International Law Association to succeed Sir Rich- ard Webster, Attorney-General of England. s Delegates to the National Hardware Association’s convention at Pittsbur‘g represent a capital of $175,000,000. The money amounting to $11,400,000 obtained by Mrs. Jane Stanford for her 285,000 shares of Southern Pacific stock, will at once he made available f9: the use of the Stanford Univer- 51 y. ( lJanne Business Entered Into By Some Hungarian Cny Buds. There is a decidedly humorous side which occasionally comes to light in connection with the undertakings of municipal corporations, but the action of the enterprising city fathers of a small Hungarian town is certainly unique. An unusual marriage was witnessed at Perry. Oklahoma. A swollen creek separated Albert Perry, a cowboy, from Emma Moyer, about the time they were to be married. The clergyman was with him. The groom plunged in and swam the creek, but the clergyâ€" man feared to follow. The happy couple and their friends assembled on one side of the stream, and the clergy- man howled his questions and beneâ€" diction from the other side; and thus they were married. ~ The Mayor and whole Town Council, consisting of eight members, formed themselves into a band of forgers and carried on a thriving business in the Town Hall, manufacturing paper notes current in Austria, which they cir- culated pretty extensively. 1.1 work- shop, well fitted with the necessary implements, was fixed up in a cellar of the town hall, and they actually set policemen to guard the door while they were at work. This remarkable state of affairs existed for over a couple of years, when the business was detected, the Mayor and councillors fighting like professional brig-ands on heing' arrested, . , Eighteen lives were lost by t119 recent foundering of the Belgian steamer Belgique Antwerp, OIfi the is- land" of Alderney. Rev. Frederick C. Moonay, pastor of the First Methodist Church of Rahâ€" way, N.J., and Mrs. Alioe Whitney of Hacketatown, whose adopted son he is, were married Wednesday. The preach- er mm and the bride: 52. Mooney had lived with the Whitneys for many years prior to Mr. Whitney’s death. Ad; Phoenix, Ariz., Pearl Hart, the alleged woman bandit. who was charged with holding u‘pl a stage near Florence, was acquitted. Miss Hart, addressed the. jury in her own defence and pleaded passionately tor! freedom that she might return to Lindsay, Out, to he: lastâ€"failing mother. Im- mediately after her acquittal the wo- man was re-arrested, charged (vith in- terfering with mails, and’ will be tried again. 9 Two new gases at bubonic plague and- thmee deaths from the disease were reported at Oportu on Thursday. l 1A cyclone has destroyed thousands oi native dwellings in Negalpsatam, India. k The opening meeting of the French Chamber at Deputies was character- ized by several stormy scene; 1 g Daniel' Dupuys, a noted Paris enâ€" graver, was shot and' killed by his inâ€" sane wife, who then committed sui- cide. ' g . Yo-Cihpu-Fu, at the entrance of Tooting Lake, was form-any opened to foreign trade oi) Monday.) This is ’che first; port Opened in the antiâ€"foreign province of Hunang . Although the Belgian Government has passed a decree permitting Cana- dian cattle to be imported, it is also provided that they may be slaughter- ed three days after their arrival. The Khalita is advancing along the White Nile, and has reached Abbah Island, 150 miles south: of Khartoum. Gen. Kite-menu’s present intention of opening the Soudan campaign on Dec. k1, may suffer serious delay unless the Khalita in the meantime is de- ibated in a decisive fight and driven westward. More fightmg has taken place be: tween Armenians and Kurds. iDr‘. Cwmara Pestana, director of the Bacteriological Institute, died at Lisâ€" bon of the plague. He contraqted the? disease whue attending patients. I A German punitive expedition in the Cameroons, Wee» A».ri'ca, Instantly chas- tised a tribe of rebellious canpxbals Wm) had besieged several Lrad'mg"; sta- tions at and near Kribi. The Germans chased the natives into. _the bush, killâ€" ing 200. The Berlin police forcibly dissolved an Anarchist ,ee-ting called to com-â€" memorate the Chicago executions of 1887. a MUNICIPAL NOVELTY. GEN ERALV Many farmers neglect their young animals in the ‘fali. The spring calves had been well raised, so long as they had the milk and bran and. oat raâ€" tions, they were left in a. thriving condition, and made good growth. Too many were put to grass with the dry feed ration, left off, and before the time for winters quarters are left durâ€" ing the cold and wet weather in No- vember without shelter. Not only do they run down in flesh, but too lay the foundation for permanent disease. Commence giving shelter, clover or other sweet hay and some kind of Grain ration. This will prevent the loss of flesh which is so desirable for young stock to hold during the win- ter. Upon the approach of severe cold they should be put into winter quarters and have good care throughâ€" oult the winter, and then, a robmst, thrifty and profitable animal is as- aured. The young colts are very apt to suffer after weaning by being expos- ed to the raw and chilly weather in au'tumn. These should be looked after in time to prevent the loss of flesh and prepare them for the winter storms, which are so disastrous to the weak colt. But of all young stock, the spring lambs suffer most during the cold rains of the fall and early winter without shelter. The woolbe- comes thoroughly saturated, keeping them for hours after a rain in achilâ€" 1y condition, causing them to cough and sneeze and suffer intensely. They should have a trough where they can be fed unite early in the fall, on oats, or better, bran and oats. Good treatâ€" ment at this season will not only give them s‘rong muscles and good consti- tutions, but will cause them to pro- duce a heavier and more valuable fleece of wool in the «‘p‘ring. It will also pay the flock master to care well for the breeding ewes. To neglect them will cause many Weaklings, both in carcass and fleece, and quite often in premature parturition. But few farâ€" barns and sheds that leave their stock as was customary in or 40 years ago, but there are some who have good barns and sheds that leave their stack in the fields until the very cold and severe winter has se‘ in. 3 > AUTUMN CARE OF YOUNG STOCK. Because whitewash is an excellent vermin destroyer and germicide. Lice don’t like lime. The caustic qualities of it are death to them. Disease ogerms are, many of them, also destroyed by it action. The foulness gives place to freshness. A sense cf cleanliness and healthfulness is present. The fowls do much better because the house is healthier for them. How? Thoroufgihly. Into every 'crack and crevice, into every corner and angle. as well as along the broad, smooth surfaces of the walls and ceiling, ap- ply the whitewash. An unlimed spot may be a lurking place for disease or vermin. With brush or pump. A brush does the nicest work, a pump does the eas- iest and quickest. 1t mts more to The dairy cow, especially those that have come into serves in the fall, should get {a liberal ration of grain in same shape, to give her strength to endure the changeable weather, and to keep her in a condition to secure a, good flow of milk rich in bmtter fats. To haven: profitable dairy cow dur- ing the winter she must be well fed, early in the fall. Do not follow the advice of a stingy feeder, but feed well and regularly. He will say the cow will run to flesh, and not pay to milk in that condition. Cows give the most and richest milk when in good flesh. Whether our farm animals are young or old, we should endeavor to keep them so far as possible from losing the flesh made during the fall grazing season, that they may be pre- pared to start in good flesh next spring. ‘ After the unusual hot weather which often occurs' in October and November, should the cold rains set in every stock breeder should be prepared for ‘the change. No kind of farm work will pay so well. It is in keeping with this subject, to be careful with the hay and fodder corn. No waste should ochr, as there will be a scarcity in many sections of the country. Be sure not to stint the animal, but do not waste. Sweep down the cobwebs, sweep the accumulated dust from the wall, and then whitewash your hen houses. Why? Because they look much better. Looks go a long way toward making life pleasant. Looks help to stimulate to better care. Looks indirectly make the hens lay better, for the better care they receive, results in better health, and better health means more eggs. Looks assist in the selling of fowls, for a house that looks well is to the fowls, what a. nice frame is. to a picture, it Sets them off to advan- tage; and they appear more attrac- tive buyers are more easily mad: nu,“ of visitors. WHITEVVASH. ing. It is good, every day advice too often neglected. It is a practice that is more honored in the observance than in the breach, but is often less observed than neglected. Be sure and whitewash the houses, and do it now and do it thoroughly, and you will day by day, see- the wzhy of it in bet- ter rotuInS, both of satisfaction and money. whitewash with a brush, and this has led many to employ a small force pump with spraying nozzel, either will do. The main thing is to do it. When? Now. Let us emphasize it, now. No time like the present. The fowls like a clean, healthy house during the breeding season. Then, if ever, they ought to be in the most healthy and vigorous condition. The eggs will hatch better, chickens will thrive bet- ter, and there, will be much less mor- tality among the broods if the stock is inrthe pink of condition. 1 1Ll Almost as great a curiosity as this is a house e'leven hundred years of age and yet fit for habitation. This old dwelling the very oldest inhabited house in England was built in the time of Kin-g Offa. of Mercia. It is octagonal in shape, the walls of fits lower story being of great thickness. The upper part is of oak. At onetime the house was fortified and known by the namemof St. German’s gate. It stands close to the river Ver, and only a [ow yank} from St. Alban’s Abbey. Old bread and old houses grow juv- enile in comparison with a marriage proposal thirty-four hundred years of age, which is in. existence in Lhe iBrit- ish Museum. It is: the oldest: marriage proposal ofl which there is any delinile record. It consists of about, nineLyâ€" eighL lines of very fine cuneiform WI‘iL- ing, and is on a.‘ small clay tablet made of Nile mud. It is a marriage, proposal of a Pharaoh for the hand ofi the daughter of» the King of Babylon, It was written about the year 153d FARM CAPITAL. The capital stock of any business enâ€" terprise goes up or down, according .to the condition of the business. If a manufacturing concern or a railroad company neglect improvements and repairs, and the “plant “runs down," the value of the capital stock goes down until it may only be a nominal value. Nobody wants_ it. A Loaf of Bread, oldest lnhabltcd House, and :1 Marriage Proposal A loaf of bread six hundred years old is something ofi an antiquity. Such a loaf is to be, found at Ambaston, in Derbyshire, England. It was included in a grant of laml from the crown in the reign of King John, and has re- mained in the Soar family ever since. I: A terrific thunderstorm was experiâ€" enced in the Tralee‘ district recentlyâ€" vi‘dd flashes of forked ligthning, with deafening peals of thunder, which lasted over an hour. Buildings vibraL- ed and trees were struck down by \Lhe current. There were several miracuâ€" lous escapes. [Edward Morris, bride- wellkeeper, Tralee, aged 20,st stand- ing at a door when the first terâ€" riiic thunderâ€"clap burst over the place. He fell, and was removed un- conscious, and expired in Live min- utes. Death is attributed to shock. It is feared that; much damage has been done through the country disâ€" trict. Dogs went mad. and had to be shot. .~fiié~;8réfig {fiéwhow and the whey of one of \the most important opâ€" eratlon connected with p0ult1jy_bregdâ€" n..u.v. -‘v~y- The farmer’s stock in trade is in his farm and farm animals. If he fails to improve the farm, if it lacks proper cultivation, and he faihs to return the elements of plant food which his crops have taken from the soil, it he fails to keep his buildings and farms in good repair, or to give ‘good care to his ani- mals, his capital stock will immedi- ately decrease in value, and nobody will want it‘ even at a low valuation. If the farmer takes from the capital stock of his farm. and puts it in the bank he is in the end the loser. This dOes1 not mean that (the farmer should not have abank account to his credit from the actual profits of his farm after keeping the capital stock of the farm at its par value. An exchange suggests that it is a good time to look over the farm. carefully and see whe- ther its capital stock has increased or diminished during the past year. Why not put a little of 'the thought force of the business man into the management of the farm? Some newspaper writers are using their pens in a crusade against the long quills with which women’s haLs are so profusely decorated. But the crusade will be fruitless, History for forty years, will not Show a single case where women’s fashions and“ fancies have been seriously changed by a news- paper .oriticism. If a thing is fashionâ€" able, it will be worn, whether it is beâ€" coming or; not. If it is unfashionable, it will be discarded,. whether it is' comâ€" fortable or not. Women are a law unto themselves when it comes to ad- ornzment. ONE OF MANY. Quraddsâ€"Hello, old boy! What are you doing now? Spacerâ€"Writing for the press. Quaddsâ€"Don’t you find it rather thankless sort of work? Spacerâ€"On the contrary, nearly evâ€" erything I write is returned with thanks; NO USE VTO PROTEST. ANTIQUITIES. Killarney is becoming a popula: shrine with cyclists. The potato disease threatens to bl sarious in Ireland this season. It is considered cértain in Dublin that the Duke of: Connaught will 8110- ceed Lord Roberta. Both hay and oats have proved much better crops in Ireland this year than in Great Britain. ‘ The foundation stone of a. Protestâ€"v ant cathedral, to cost £60,000, was laid in Belfast by the Countesa of. Shaftas- bury. Sir Thomas Lipton offered, £50,000 for Killarney. If he acquires the' estate he will make it, over to( the Irish , people. It is to be sold at auction. The directors of the Waterford, Lim- erick and Western Railway have. re- ceived an offer from the Midland Great Western Railway for the purchase of their entire system. 7 Out of: twelve candidates Dr. D. Ken- nedy, Harrington street, has been' elected medical attendant to the fami- lies of the married. men 013 the Dublin Metropolitan police. Dr. Arthur Cy'Duffy, a son.‘ of. Dr. Duffy, president of. the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, is in America making a study of cancer and tuber. culosis, / Belfiast people profess “the utmost nonohalanoe at the repeated reports of the probable removal of Harland & Wolif‘s great shipyard from the banks of the Lngan. > . Prof. Mahaffy, of Trinity Collego, Dublin, is said to be one of the most accomplished men in Ireland. He is one of the leading historians and Greek and Latin scholars in the United King- dlom. The pig industry is in a bad way in Ireland, There are 200,000 fewer porkera in the country than therov were ten years ago. On Lhe other! hand, barn-door [owls and asses are "multi- plying exceedingly. It is not the gilded figurehead, but the power behind the throne, that is disliked in Nationalist inland. That power is constabulm‘y. by whiqh order is maintained without the aid of tho military garrison. - It is a common belief that the peo- ple of Ireland live chiefly upon p0- tatoes, and yet the Irishman is not nearly so big a [potato eater as the people of Germany and Belgium. who consume on an average 500 lbs. per head per annum, A colossal image 011 the Virgin Mary adorns the front of the chapel in Bath- mines, Dublin, uppn which the words “Marie Refugio Peccatorum” are in- scribed. in a recent thunderstorm Lh. image was struck by lightning, and a considerable portion hurled to the ground. LAND [IF THE SHAMRDGK. INTERESTING fiLEANINGS FROM THE GREEN ISLE. The village of Belleekâ€"the site of Ireland’s only china factoryâ€"is; on tho banks of the River Erne, near the borders of Donegal end Fermanagb, and on the skirts of the Bengal high- lands. . The death is announced. at Stewartsâ€" town, Tyrone, of C4 B. Irwin, exâ€"amu- t-eur Irish champion walker. and win- ner of Sandow’s golden stvatuette, of- fered for the bes: developed man in tine United Kingdom. Belfast claims to have the five big“. gest things of their kind in the world â€"the biggest shipyard, which. built the biggesL ship, the biggest. rope work, the biggest linen motory, the biggest whiskey store, and Lhe‘ biggest Lo- bacco factory, An Englishman was one day telling his friend, an Irishmanrof a very long chimney that he had builL amile high. Pal. repliedâ€""lbw is nothing to what 1 have seen. Over in\ Ireland there’s a chimney so high that: one on two bricks have to be taken off to' let tho moon go by!” The Duchess of Devonshire is a great favourite with her husband’s Irish tenants, who are, fond of saying she is the handsomesu woman in the world. She is always willing; to chat with them,’and, as they say them- selves, “she is as humble as if she were one of ourselves.” Events That Interest Irishman Through- out the Worldâ€"Chroulolcd Briefly In Their l’ernsnl. 'l‘hirLy young ladies from} various parts of Ireland left Queensland last week in the White Star steamer 'l‘euâ€" tonic, for New York, en route IOL'GJI- veston, Iexas. They will be trained as teachers and as nurses, and will also, be instructed to discharge other du- ties in charitable institutions. At BeliusL, on the 22nd uh... Chief Baron Pallas sentenced ten prisoners, convicted of riot on June 5th; to 12' months’ hard labour, and put them un- der rule of bail for five years; 20 were sent to jail for. six months, with hard labour, and plaoed under the same bail; while other prisoners, with one or two exceptions, in which the cases were adjourned, were acquiLted. A farmer named John Sloss, who reâ€" sided in the townland of Liskettle, died at. the advanced age of; 104 ayears. The deceased was fu11y6 feet 2 inches in héight, of‘ powerful physique, and durâ€" ing all his 11er was. possessed of! excel- lent health. Up to the last he, wars/ix full possession of all his mental facu ties, and in March! last came inter !oand recorded his vote at the Cou Council elections, '