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Port Colborne harbour improve- ments will be commenced at an early date. Ald. Matters and Ald. Wilson are candidates for the Winnipeg Mayor- alty. ' Kingston will seek legislation for the abolition of the ward system of elect- ing alderman. THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. Interesting Items About Our Own Country, Great Britain, the United States, and All Parts of the Globe, Condensed and Assorted for Easy Reading. CANADA. The wages of \Vinnipeg policemen have been advanced. .The Hamilton Stock Yards Company has been given another year to com- pletc its~yfardm The Kingston Locomotive Works wants a cash bonus of $75,000 from that city to remain there. Track laying on the Manitoba‘ South- eastern road is now within 90 ‘miles south-east of Winnipeg“ {Edward West was sentenced at Hah- fax on Thursday to 12 years’ imprison- ment for plundering mail ‘bags. < r The St. Lawrence channel, between Montreal and Quebec, is being dredg- gyd to a depth of 29 feet in low water. [Hi NEWS m A NUISHEll V The Royal Trust Company, with a capital of $500,000, to be increased next ar to $5,000,000, has been formed an ontreal wi-th Lord Strathcona presi- dent. 1A boom above Grand Forks, B. 0., containing nearly two million logs, the property of the Granhy Smelter 00., gave way, carrying with it a. dam and two bridges. It is the general impression. that Lord Salisbury will not remain in of- fice after the close of the war. His own health is far from rubust; while this loss must certainly seriously af- fact his mental and physical powers. Already the matter of a successor is discussed,-the shoice lying between Mr. Chamberlain aqd Lord Rosebery, the majority of the old-fashioned Tor- ies preferrin¢ the latter, 'who will Trinity Church, at St. John, N. B., was entered by safe-crackers, who blew open the safe in the Vestry and stole $45. They also did a lot of dam- age to the churdh property; The Lakes of Killarney were “put up" at auction in Dublin on Thursday. The bidding reached $255,000, but was not considered enough. The property will be sold privatelyw At a (meeting of the Kingston Union of Carpenters it was decided that after January 1 next nine hours would constitute a. day’s work. The rate of wages will be fixed at alater meeting. Hamilton City Council, realizing the need of additional water mains and also that the ratepayers will not sanc- ‘tion a by-law, ,will apply to the Legis- lature for special permission to issue debentures without a vote of the rate- payers. ‘ Dickens’ manuscript of ” H'Qliday Romance.” 30 pages closely written, brought $500 at auction in London on Tuesday. The preliminary trial of the turbine torpedo boat Viper took place Wed- nesday, and was successful. She de- veloped a speed of 32 knots. The Sutlej, the first of four new armoured cruisers of the Cressy class, now building for the British Govern- ment. has been launched at Glasgow. Jbe Earl of Yarmouth has been de- clared a bankrupt. fI‘he Scotch Oil Companies have is- sued a circular by which the price of all lubricating oils is raised 20 shilâ€" lings per ton. The smallpox epidemic which broke out in the four parishes of St. Pas- chal, Mount Garmel, St. Helen and St. Germain, Que” is now controlled, so that there is little danger of a furth- er spead of the disease. There is a possibility, when‘ the trans-Siberian railway is completed in about a year, of a direct line of steam- ers being 'established between Van- couver and Vladivostock, the Pacific port of Siberia. ' A The carpenters of Hamilton are agi- tating for a return to the rate of wages which prevailed prior to the cut during the hard times. The old rate was $2.25 a day, but for some time has been $1.75 and $2. Deputy game wardens and hunters from Muskoka and Parry Sound dis- trist report that most of the deer se- cured this :year were shot in the wat- er. They also report open violation of the close season fishing laws on Moon River. Winnipeg has ’two of her boys with the British troops under Gen. White at the besieged town of Ladysmith. They are sons of the late Mr. Rice M. Howard, formerly inspector of offices for the Manitoba Government. The Canadian Department of Marine has forwarded to the British Govern- ment a handsome binocular glass, which has been awarded by the Do- minion Government to Mr. J. Shekle- ton, master of the steamship Cento, of Liverpool, xin recognition of his ser- vices to the shipwrecked crew of the brig Madelen, of Yarmouth, N. S., on March 20th last. The Duke of Portland has donated £10,000 to the Red Cross Society. The wrecked British steamer Coquet, from Quebec for Sunderland, has been abandoned on Shetland Islands. ‘Dixon Kent, 'the noted English yacht designer, is dead at London. GREAT BRITAIN. have also a strong Liberal as opposed to Radical backing: UNITED STATES. The White Star and Atlantic Transâ€" port lines have increased passenger rates to Europe 50 per cent. The mutilated bodies of a mother and her three children were found at their home on a farm near Williamsâ€" .port, Pa. American soldiers in the Philippines, discharged for bad conduct, are tak- ing service under Aguinaldo as offi- cers'and leading attacks on their countrymen. _ Mfg. Evelyn Adams, author of the novel "ls Marriage a Failure?” died in New York on Tuesday in abject pov- erty. V " gA‘t Joplin, Mo., Miss Laura Heifley, a pretty young woman of 19, was ar- rested and placed in jail, charged with stealing a team of horses from Southâ€" west City, Mo. ’ The Holland submarine torpedo boat at New York has attracted the attention of several foreign Embas- sies at Washington, and several naval attaches have visited the vessel. Mrs. Jennie Siken, of Minneapolis, answered a summons at the front door of her residence, only, to be shot down by an unknown man standjhg‘ ih the «larkness outside. She‘cannot re- cover. The police are invas’tigating. After an absence' of 30 years, James Ethwards, whose home[ is mow in Denâ€" ver, returned to Philadelphia and‘ dis- covered that his wife had been‘ divorc- ed from him and married to another 11113.1]. The safe of the Exchange Bank, of Brooklyn. Micb., was blown to atoms, early Tuesday morning, and between $5,000 and $0,000 was secured by three masked men who did the work. Francis Bock, a jeweller, of Provi- dence, R; I.,‘ and John Trehonl and S. G. Taylor; of the Ounarder Etruria, are under arrest at New York for smuggling pearlsâ€"only $50,000 fiworth. At Topeka, Kansas, Elizabeth Hagâ€" erman, 79 years of age, has been granted a divorce from her husband, 81 years old. In her petition Mrs. Ha- .german declared it was impossible for- her to live happily with her husband, hwause he chews tobacco. The transfer by (Admiral Dewey to his wife of the residence in Washâ€" ington presented to him, and Mrs. Dewey’s subsequent transfer to the Admiral's son, George,/has caused a great deal of annoyance to the sub- scribers. The identity of the mlan who com- mitted suicide by jumping over Nia- gara Falls Monday has undoubtedly been established. Re’v. Wickham, pastor of the Baptist church at lschua C‘attarawgus county, has been: missing since Sunday morning last, and a description of the minister tallies ex- actly with that of the suicidle. The VVillirggham bill, providing for State prohibition in Georgia was pass- ed by the House of RepresdnLtatives after the most exciting debate the House has known in years. If the bill passes the Senate and, becomes a law, it.” means the annihilation of the saâ€" loons. Every plant for the brewing of beer or the manufacture of whisky must be closed. It will not interfere with banquets or private entertain- ments, but the law will not allow any; club to sell or keep for the use of members intoxicating liquors, beers or wines. 1 The United States Secretary of the Treasury has decided that Canadian cattle or sheep may be shipped through the United States” for expor~ tation from Philadelphia, Baltimore and Newport News, as well as from Portland, Boston and New York, unâ€" til now the ports of exportation of Canadian cattle and sheep have been limited to the last three ports. W VlnktlieeLd he is, replied Gazzam. There isn't a man in the office who would re- fuse to lend him an umbrella. The Neva river and. two canals are on the rampage, causing great alarm in St. Petersburg. The Sultan 1s demanding the sup- pression of foreign pbstâ€"oflices in Tur- key. A special despatch from Vienna re- iterates the report which was denied hast week, that: the Russians had 00-. cupied Herat. Aguinaldo, Filippino leader. says he will repay the $30,000,000 which the United States paid to Spain [or the Philippines, [0 be allowed to establish a rep-ubiic. Half a dozen stalwart constables, members of the Shropshire Constabu- lary, had, according to their weekly custom, travelled from Market Dray- ton to Whitchurch for the purpose of taking part in drill exercise, and were returning home in a brake drawn by a single horse. On turning a bend in the road near Bletchley both the party and the horse were somewhat alarmed to meet a gigantic elephant quietly coming along in the opposite direction, apparently without anyone in charge. The horse naturally became restive, and endeavored to pull the conveyance into the fence while the occupants tried to escape as quickly- as they could. Fortunately no injury was susâ€" tained by any of the party. It seems that the elephant, who refused to be entrained at London recently, is mak- ing his journey to Liverpool by road, and was walking calmly on while his coloured attendant refreshed at the village tavern. Is Perkins an honest man? asked Fangle._ Seventeen schooners were driven ashore on the coast of Newfoundland during the recent gates, and all were wrecked. STRONG COMMENDATION GENERAL. It is customary among the farm- ers who set out orchards of young fruit trees to cultivate them pretty thoroughly while small, generally planting corn or potatoes as often as possible, as these' afford opportuni- t1es for cultivating the surface most of the growing season. But as the trees grow larger the apparent proâ€" fit from cropping the young orchard lessens very rapidly. Under the shade of trees in full lea; neither corn nor potatoes will do their best. Usually the orchard is cropped with grain between the hoed crops, and it is sometimes seeded with clover or with the grasses. ,Yl‘hls is always a severe check to the young tiees. It often starts them to hearing, the check to growth being nearly always accompanied by the formation of fruit buds. So soon as the trees get to bearing, most farmers give up cropping the orchard, and if not seeded before, it is at once seedâ€" ed with both clover and grass. But if the grass is continued year after year the sod becomes impenetrable by air or water, and its roots exhaust the surface soil, which is always the richest. The tree soon becomes un- fruitful, and unless manure is brought to the orchard to fertilize it, the tree will die before it, has borne half the fruit it should have given under bet- ter treatment. There is, however, one way to keep orchards in grass that does not lessen their productiveness. .That is to have the trees so low that the shade of the branches with a very slight; mulch of manure. will keep the grass from growing too rampant, and will also loosen the soil beneath so that it will be easily permeable by rains and meltâ€" ing snows. The low-trained orchard Will also be better protected by snow than the orchard whose trunks are trained high with nothing near the ground to prevent the winter Winds from sweeping the snow away. But the trunks of such trees should be banked up with earth in the fall so as to prevent mice from gnawing the bark. and thus destroying the tree. Neither should grass or mulch be al- lowed to he under the trees in winter, as this makes just the kind of harbor that mice like. Ifthe limb; hang low some of them may be weighed down by snow, <and the tender bark on the small branches will suffer, but this is better than leaving the mice to eat the bark around the trunk as they will often do, thus destroying it en- tirely. KEEPING GOOD STOCK. The practice of reducing the stock in. the fall of the year, "weeding" out the poor animals, as it is called, has two sides to it which may be worth considering. Poor stock sold in the fall of the year simply to save the ex- pense of feeding them through the winter, when cost of food is high, in- variably prove a loss to the owners. Prices are usually low for such stock at any time, and especially in the fall. Everybody else is weeding out, too, and the only market for them is the butchers. It would be much more to the purpose to recommend early in the fall or late in summer to weed out the poor animals that it will not pay to winter, and make extra exertions to teed them up to a standard which will make them sell for a decent price. There is hardly an animal, no matter how poor and inferior, which cannot be fattenea with judicious care so that it will sell for a fair price. The lean cadaverous sides, the scrawny hair and the halfâ€"starved appearance of the animal can all be changed for the bet- ter. Shut the animals up in some clean, healthy pen, where they cannot exercise much, feed them systematicalâ€" ly oniattening food, water them as they need ,it, and even curry down their rough coats occasionally. '3 treatment followed up careâ€" iul for a month or six weeks will add a good many dollars to the value of the animal. If we have scrub stock in: the fall of the year that we won- clude will nom pay L0 win-tar, it is much better to adopt this course of treat- ment than to hurry them away at once to the butchers, sing forced then to accept almost any price! that is offer- ed. At other times 01 the year when, the markets are g iod another temptation induces some 10 injure the herd by selling off the best animals because they will bring the highest prices. Now manifestly if we sell off the best each year the herd is going to degenerate rapidly, and in spite of the introduc- tion of new blood it will be hard work to keep up the standard of the herd. The best policy is to retain the finest: animals on the farm for breed- ind purposes, and sell the next best in times when prices are high, and fatâ€" ten the scrub and inferior animals for market whenever the season: is pro-31â€" ising. As a rule these do not improve much anyway, and it is often better to fatten them for the market as soon as possib1e. But by keeping the very est of our herds on the farm, we ad- vance rather than reduce the standard of the herd. FARM TOPICS. Gather ail your machinery Logeihm under cover before the snow flies. Rain 'and snow during the winter in jute them more than a season’s work GRASS IN ORCHARDS. Plenty of fresh air is essential for hogs as Well as other animals. This is more often neglected! in case of hog houses than buildings designed for other farm stock. The best. success cam-not be obtained unlesa this injuncâ€" tion is strictly observed. Skim milk in moderate quantities has often been fed to young colts after weaning, with good results. If the colt has been well cared for up to weaning time, feeding milk is hardâ€" ly ever necessary. If that sow of yours is a good breed- er and milker, do not on any account fatten her to save winter feed. She can live on very little all through the winter. There can be no better invest- ment than such a saw. Stay with it if it is good money you are after. The advantage of growing improved stock does not lie merely in its better adaptation to the wants of the market and to the fact that it will respond more promptly and continuously to feed; the early age at which it matures is one of the sources of proâ€" fit to its owner. ' One of the surest indications of thrift upon a farm toâ€"day is _ a well kept manure pile. It is necessary that the fertility of our farms be main- tained, to a large extent; from sources that are inexpensive. Neglect to ap- preciate this causes losses, which though unappreciated, are large, and materially reduce the net income of the farm. "\Vhile here," said a traveler in the Transvaal, "I saw how the Boers come courting. The girl was the daughter of my employier. The young man dashed up to the house on horseback, wearing new clothes, with an ostrich feather in his hat. He made his fine hou‘se planee and caper before the house ere he descended. Then he gave the lines to one! of the Hotten- tots tending near, and. walked up and down in front of the windows of the house well knowing that the eyes of his sweetheart were peeping through the blinds at him. Then he strutted into the house and first shook hands with ‘Tante,’ the mother, and said 'Guten tag,’ good day. The sauna he did with ‘Oom, the father, and then at last spoke to the girl and her 815- ters and brothers. “00m eadd only ‘Sitz,’ take a seat, and then there was ooumplete silence which lasted until the bowl of coffee was brougth in. Then each in turn spoke- a few words. 00m asked how everything was at the ‘hulis,’ home, and then we heard all about the health of each one in the family, how the cat- tle and the crops were doing, etc. All the time we Were drinking coffee. At Last the suitor rose and handed his chosen bride the ‘Lachergoot,’ confec- tionery, which she, blushing and laughlng, accepted. ‘ "This was the critical moment, for if she had refused the gift that would have ended the oowrtship. Now there was gayer talk, until all but the two left the room for it was the right of. the suitor to remain in the front room along with her of his choice. But so that he should not stay too long, "Tante,’ according to‘ omstom, stepped up to the wax candle and made a mark on it with a needle, saying that the visit mightt last until the candle burnt thrus far. This was a command that the most lovesick swain dare not dis- regard." The Russians drink enormous quanâ€" tities of tea. The poor peopleâ€"and the Russian people are the poorest in existenceâ€"use the soâ€"called “brick” tea. This is the cheapest sort, being mixed with the stems, and compress- ed by some adhesive gum into dry cakes of vanious sizes, resembling in its appearance “plug” tobacco. This tea, which would probably prove pois- onoue to any one else. is consumed by the Russian workingxm‘an at the aver- age rate of about 20 stakan, or turn-â€" blers, a day, the Russian stakan being equal to five of the little thimbles of cups used at aftermoon teas. Tak- ing into consideration that black, sour or bitter,brickâ€"like bread, raw onions, garlic, dried leather fish and strongly salted herrings are usually the chief articles of food of the people at large, one must not yvonde-r at the enorm- ous quantity of hot Iea needed 1.0 quench a Russian’s thirst and help on {his digestion. THE NEW WALK.. Parisian women have come to ad- just their mode of walking to the presâ€" ent exigencies of dress. Their gait is slow, with very, short step-s, al- though there is a sort of prancing step accompanying it. A skirt that rests on the ground, back and front, is séarcely suited to Walking, nor in- deed to any exercise. It is the divine Sara, without a doubt, who is responâ€" sible for this present swaddling ar- rangement of clothes, she having af- fected such gowning for years. And her marvelous management of the long, trailing garment, clinging :in about her feet, and her grace of move- ment despite, has won evry woman’s admiration, so much so perhaps that they seem to have eagerly thrown themselves into the maze of this dif- iioult though becoming mode of rain)- When melancholy marks a man fur her ow11,n.L’4;ni 11)? smart boarder, how loes she mark hxm? (.‘olors him blue, of. course, reuiiud the Cheerful Idiot in scorn. A BOER COURTSHIP. ’l‘iIE CHEERFUL IDIOT TEA IN RUSSIA; THE DOINGS OF THE ENGLISH PEO- PLE REPORTED BY MAIL. IN MERRY DLD ENGLAND ilecnrd «(the Events Tnklng Place In the Land of the Roseâ€"Interestlng occur- rences. Among the graduates“capped” at the graduation ceremony in connection with Edinburgh University, was Care] Hendrick Kruger, nephew of President Kruger. The Barmouth Urban Council has ac- cepted Miss Franqes Power Cobbe’s offer to present her library. to the town it a. suitable building were pro- vided for its accommodation. v Several of the Burton brewers have enjoyed a record output during the past week. On one day Allsopps des- pratohed no less than 5,000 barrels t_o varlous parts of the country, in addl- tion to 7,000 dozen of bottled ales and stouts. ' Workmen constructing a sewer 1n Salisbury road, Plymouth, exposed a. quantity of human remains, which are believed to be those of; the victims in the encounter between Royhlists and Rnundheads which took place near the spot. The death has just taken place of Mrs. Lachlan‘, better known as Rosie Maxwell, Miss Braddon’s daughter. [CitaLL _fair,_ and pale, she riveted atten- â€"â€"-â€"â€", «mu, uu‘u ya“), nun “vuuau. ilLl-ULI‘ téon in the largest crowd. At the time she was laid aside by her fatal ill- ness she was doing some very clever journalistic work. Considerable interest was caused by the passage through the Strand, Lon- don, of three couples of dwarfs. The tallest of them was not more than three feet high and all were apparent- ly of middle age. They were fashionr- ably attired, and ware accompanied by two ladies of ordinary stature. Mushrooms are growing in the road- way of Allardyca street, a public thoroughfare, five minutes’ walk from Brixton Station, London. It is a well known fact that mushrooms will grow almost anywhere, but this is the first instance of any having been' found flourishing in a London gutter. During his presidential address to the British Medical Association, Dr. J. \Vard Cousins mentioned. that it had recently been stated by a French ob- server that fleas were dangerous dis- seminaters of the bubonic plague. As the result of a series of experiments, that observer affirmed that fleas taken from rats suffering from plague could communicate the disease to healthy rats, which, in their turn, became cen- tres of infection. There is a woman in the Wands- worth Infirmary who is in her 109th year. She was admitted when she was 98, and has been ten years in bed. One who saw her sayszâ€"“I never saw such furrows and wrinklesâ€"time seem- ed to have Literally carved them into her face. She was in the possession of all her faculties. - Her last words to me as I left the ward were that “if she could ever get up again she meant to get married at once.” Professor Oyston, of Aberdeen Uni- versity, read a paper at the confer- ence of the British Medical Associa- tion on the medical services, of the army and navy. He said the most talented graduates had ceased to as- pire to enter the services. Every» thing on board ship that could de- stroy life was in the highest perfec- tion; everything that could save is was of the rudest description. He sug~ gested that every fleet should be pro- vided with fast unarmed steamers fly- ing the Red Cross flag, fitted to in. every way imitate' the best civil hos- pitals. Full many a flower is born to qush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the des- ert air; Full many a. girl has made aman turn green By showering kisses on another girl. as fair. It has been suggested in Glasgow that a relief fund should be start- ed in aid of the victims of Dr. Colqu- houn. A large proportion of those who will suffer by his defalcations are en- tirely dependent upon the interest re- ceived from the money lodged with Dr. Colquhoun, and some ofi them are past work. it is stated that one of Dr. Colquhoun’s best clients former- ly entrusted his legal business to an- other lawyer, but in his zeal for the cause of temperance he transferred it to Dr. Colquhoun, because the other lawyer was not a staunch teetotaler, and C-olquhoun was one of the most pronounced opponents of alcholio liquor. Jersey might be aptly named the "land of the new potato.” It is amazing to hear of the many thouâ€" sands of tons of new potatoes that have been shipped this season, and now tomatoes follow. The island is in a fine sLate of cultivation, but owing to the high rents and the growing competition from France in English markets, the Jersey cultivators are not prospering. The rent for land runs as high as £14 and £15 arr acre pier yearâ€"the purchase price, in fact, of freehold land in some parts of Eng- land. French people some over from their native land, and by dint of great toil and frugality endeavor to make both ends meet under this high rental. There is, indeed, about Jer- sey just that smack in French life that adds to its picturesqueness of English eyes. THIS IS NO DREAM.