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RURAL NOTES. 5y Mr. J. Muir, Margam Abbey Glamorganshire. ANSWERS ro CORRESPONDENTS. Unless in special cases, no replies will be sen to feaders by post, but all inquiries will have prompt and careful attention under this heading, and we invite notes and questions on ALL i-ut-al 8itbiects. PLANTING BULBS.—" H. P. B." Cluonodoxa luciLae lias a pretty blue flower, produced early in spring. It is one of the best of the open air flower- ing bulbs, and should be more grown than hitherto. Scilla siberica is also blue, and blossoms with the snowdrops. It is dwarf and a useful companion to them. Thesa and the hyacinths, tulips, &e., may be planted in the open beds and borders in November. Dig the soil all over. Give a little manure if the soil is poor if stiff add a little sand and insert the bulbs till the crowns ara two inches below tho surface. The frost, will not injure them, and they will be sure to make an agreeable display in spring. Snowdrops do uot succuod well in pots at any time. CABLIFLOWKB DESTROYED BY GRUB.—"Dr. B." (Settle).Alany besides yourself complain of having ¡"st all their summer cauliflowers from grub. It is a most common and annoying com- plaint, not only with amateurs, but professionals. It is the larva of the curculio contractus, a small insect belonging to the beetle triba, that is the mis- chief maker, and is certainly one of the most troublesome pests in the garden. Previous to planting cauliflower tlie quarter should always bo dressed with sootor lime quite fresh. This should be dug all over the soil, and after the plants are put out sprinkle:thb satne materials frequently over them. In planting, the plauts should be made unpala- table to them by taking a quantity of soot and guano; mix them to the consistency of thin pain' with sonp suds, and dip the roots in this, so its to saturate tliem before planting. I never knew this to fail. Last spring we cured our plants here by watering frequently with guano water. It, was applied just as they showed signs of being attacked, and in taking the old roots up lately it was noticed where the roots had made new and strong roots after receiving the assistance of the guano. 1 have much faith in guano at an insecticide. DOG WITH A COLD.—" W. S.Give a dose of castor oil, and keep it warm, especitilly at night. A warm oatmeal gruel should be given it at night. Epaom salts is also a useful medicine to remove a cold, but in chronic cases ten glains of carbonate of ammonia, mixed in a litlle camphor water, should bi given daily for a week. A cold of thi* kind often weakens the dog, find it may be neces- sary to give cod-liver oil after this treatment. Daily exercise in the open air is one of the best preventatives of disease in dogs, and many suffer from too much confinement; one rarely hears of a shepherd's dog that is worked daily being ill. HEATING SMALL GREENHOOSK.—" Holly Batik Villas.You should huve siated the size of your greenhouse. Very small houses may be heated by a limp. if this is kept very clean and not allowed to smell. The best boiler for heating email green- houses and conservatoiiei is the Loughborough. It is cheap,-effective, and mo-t economical. I have known nice greenhouses to be put up that cost £ 30 or £ 40, and the contents allowed to di-i in winter, when they might have been kept in good condition by investing C3 in a proper boiler. The one in question is constructed by Messenger and Co., horticultural builders, Loughborough. MUSK PLANT INFKSTED WITH INSECTS.—" Mon." —It is natural for nil musk plants to die down in autumn, and the insects that now iuKst your plant are, no doubt, inking advantage of its decline to prey on the foliage. If it had been earlier in the season, I would have advised you to dip the pi mt in tob icco water, or fu.nigate with tobacco, but the best treatment you can give it now is to let it. die down gradually, and remove the dear1 foliage and growths with the insects on them. You will find the plant begin to grow with much vigour in March next, and then it is likely to be quite clean. NAMES OF BKGONIAS.—"Seriatim."—1. Begonia Miiiia, a. 2. B. Semper Floreus Alba. 3. B. Wet- toniensis. They are all greenhouse var;etie,, and may ba grown in windows. They are free grow- ing, arid do not require any special treatment. They may be treated like greenhouse geraniums. They are propagated from cuttings in spring, do not require any fire heat in summer, but shouid be kept in a little heat id winter. They should also be ki-pt somewhat dry at the root then, as, being Boft in wood and foliage, they are apt to suffer from damp. NAME OF APPLK.—"Querist" writes:—"Last season I sent you an apple to name, and after- wards I bought a tree of the name you gave, which has proved true, and has produced a splendid crop this season. I send another kind to uame." A clean fruit of Small's Admirable. It is a sure beaver, and one of the best of kitchen apples. NAME OF APPLE AND P.EAR.-IV. ltirkitisl,aw.- Apple, Gipsy King; pear, Autumn Ho garnet, but very small. Both kinds are fair bearers, but not the beat in any respect. FOWLS DYING.—"G. R."—I am of < pinion your fowls n.ust be picking up some poisonous tn iit-.r. Do not all >w them to run out for a week, but keep them clean and well fed in the house. It is possible the disease may be hurried on by the excessive wet weather, as this never agrees with fowls. CULTURE O^CAMOMILE.—"Atr p:a."—The camo- mile is a low growing hardy plant. It becomes n clnse tuft about 4ill. high, and the whole of the out-face is covered wi h flowers in summer. There ere gathered when fully open, and drie i car iiully. Two crops may be gathered in one year. You had better procure some plants fiOtn a nursery next spring. Plant them in a w. ll-manured piece of ground at a distance of 6in. from each d her, and keep them free of weeds at all times. Your situation is not too much exposed for them. FnulT TREES.—"Nemo" (Rochdale).—Bush trees of apples. Pears and plums will do very well on the grasp, and allowing fowls to run amongst, them all the year round will not do them any harm. The two make a profitable combination. The mulberry grows very well on a lawn. or may be planted with the others. The small trees may not bear for half a dozsn years or mora. It is not a profitable fruit, and is noLmuch planted. Where the soil is not good in planting fruit trees a square h< le 4ft. or 5ft. wide and 3ft. deep should be taken out and filled with old turf chnppod up into pi. ces several inches square. Notes on planting will appear shortly. MUSHROOMS FAILING IN BOXES.—" Cheshire."—A box 15in. by 15in. by 24in. ii too small. A certain body of manure is necessary, and you should try a box three or four times the size. Do not n'ix any loalll with the manure, but put it in pretty fresh, when it will be sure to heat, and retain it for a good while. It should not be used straight from the stable, but must be dried a little t > clear off superfluous moisture. FHEKSIAS.—" W. C. D."—Ilmve not. grown them in the window of a sitting-room, but I believe they would succeed there, as it i., the kind, f atmos- phere that suits them. Soil that is suitable for Eyacinths will grow them very well. See reply to a reader in last week's Notes. LIQUID MANURE FOR COOL ORCHIDS.—" W.F. No, it is not, as a rule, beneficial, and I do not advise you to use it. NAMES OF PLANTS.—" III.F.No. 1, Coreop-is fanceolata; 3, Co'.oneaster simonsu; 4, Inula fcirta. NAME OF FLOWERS AND PEARS.—"Aigbuith."— Flowers too much withered when received to name accurately. The pear is Josephine de Malines, a prolific sort, of gcoi quality. It is most difficult to clear vines of mealy bug. It is rarely and. as your vines are old, you should clear them out, paint and clean the house thoroughly, and plant anew. THE PLANTING SEASON. Experiments have been made all the year round to ascertain which pertod of the year is the most suitable for tree planting, and, although some success has attended summer planting, the proper time to plant is, undoubtedly, from the end of October until the end of March. Some winters are so mild and open that planting may be done through- oat the whole winter; but at other times, suoh as last winter, when much frost and snow oooiirs, planting is much retarded, and, unless done in autumn or spring, may not be done at all. I am, therefore, in favour ^f beginning to plant early in autumn, and doing as much as possible then, while if much has to be done and the weather continues favourable, it may be continued throughout the winter. DIFFERENT PLANTERS. These vary greatly. Some may plant thousands of forest trees, other may only wish to make their hedges good or renew them, while not a few will desire to beautify their large or small piece of pleasure ground, and in all cases planting ha3 to be done under the same circumstances, so far as weather and such like is concerned. In my own case, I hope to have over 100,000 different kinds of trees planted over a wide range of ground before April. Some oLthese will be planted at a great elevation and much exposed, while more valuable sorts will be placed in more favourable positions. PREPARING TO PLANT. Where the land is of an agricultural character and in fair condition, the tree& may be planted without any great preparation, but it is a great advantage to have the surfaoe of the ground clean and free from ruobiah. The best way of treating this is to burn it, and when the surface is covered with bracken or other low growing matter the whole of it may be burned all over. Hough grasn may be treated in the same way, and if small branches have been left from a previous crop of trees, these should also be burnt. W here the trees are desired to grow extra well the ground is often drained and sometimes trenched, and I am much in favour of draining previous to planting, where necessary, as no tree will succeed in a wet soil. In small gardens, where choice bushes are to be planted, good soil should always be put to the roots. Plants that will never assume an important form may be planted in shallow soil, but where they have to become fine specimens they must have a good depth of soil. No tree will develops for any length of time in a soil only 1ft. in depth, but with a soil 2ft. or even 3ft. in depth they can hardly fail to succeed. A good, natural subsoil is a great boon. I know of some trees that begin to grow in the most promising manner, and on the eve of their becoming attractive in size they ceased to develop, the cause being the roots penetrating on the foundation of an old dwelling. Sites of this kind must be avoided in planting. A FINE TREE NURSERY. There are many nurseries where trees may be bought in various parts of the country. I recently inspected many of these in the neighbourhood of Kdinburgh and elsewhere, but for useful classes of well-grown trees I cannot think of one so well stocked as that of Mr. Shaw, Gowerton, near Swansea. This gentleman is privileged in having an extensive bush and tree nursery well exposed to the healthy influences of sun and wind, while the soil is peculiarly adapted for the production of young trees of the most healthy description in rout and branch. Some of the specimens retained as ornaments near the margins of walks admirably illustrate to the visitor the fine appearance they are capable of assuming, while the stock of small trees of both common and choice subjects is, as' I have already indicated, one of the most noteworthy I have yet met with. The lots are so extensive and varied that I do not particularise any, and, although some planters may have their special nurseries where they procure their plants, I know from past experience that my indicating Mr. Shaw's will save me much private correspondence, which at present I have little time to devote to. BUYING TREES. All nurserymen who have large quantities of different trees are apt at times to find that some kinds they have not bad a great demand for have become very large, or too large to suit ordinary purposes. These are often offered at a cheap rate to effect a clearance, but I do not advise these being extensively planted, as neither their roots or branches are adapted for satisfactory growth or good effeot. It ia better to plant trees of a small size than overgrown ones. Compact, robust specimens give the utmost satisfaction, as a rule, and their chances of growing and becoming ornamental and useful far exceed those of the overgrown tiibe3. If a tree is raised from seed or cuttings, and allowed to remain in its original position without being transp anted, the main root will, as a rule, have gone straight down with few side ones and no rootlets. It is a difficult matter to transplant these successfully, and buyers should insist that their trees have been transplanted a year or two before. The roots are then clustered round the bottom of the stem, with many fibres, and just in a condition to transplant without receiving any check Xur- sArymcn know the value that transplanting implies, as their catalogues generally state 11 y how often the differentjiubjects have been transplanted, and planters should see that, they secure this advantage. Very choice specimens should be lifted with balls of soil attached to the roots, but in the case of forest trees it is impossible to secure this, but it is not wanted, as they transplant very well without it. Indeed, I have planted thousands of forest trees that came 400 miles by rail and were a week on the road without losing 3 per cent. of them, and no soil was attached to the roots, but it was moist weather and the roots were not exposed to any drying wind. This is most injurious to them and must be avoided with all. When received from the nursery it is impossible to plant them all in a short time, and the first precaution to take with them is to put a quantity of soil over the roots, and if the weathor is severe also cover their tops with straw or some slight protec- tion. Should they become dry, as they do sometimes on a long jouiney, or from some other causn, they should be well watered overhead. This will revivetlit-rn and will prevent the young wood from shrivel- ing, which must, if possible, be guarded against. AVOID PLANTING IN WET. One of the main points to avoid is never to plant in wet, sticky soil. This is ruinous to the hardiest tree. Some, who may order a quantity of trees, think to facilitate matters by digging out the holes for their reception before they arrive, but should the holes be filled with water, or even much wet, before planting, the soil will become hard and stiff where the roots will press against, and this will not induce free root action in fact, it is much against this, and the holes should never be opened until immediately before planting. It may be taken as a simple guide that when the soil adheres to the spade or feet the les3 planting that is done them the better. INever allow the hole to be too small for the roots. When they have to be twisted into it, or pushed in and down with the feet, careless planting is being done, but when the roots can be put in without any effort each one will find its proper position. It is not a good way of planting to put the roots much deeper in the soil than they were in their previous quarters, bnt the soil should be made very firm all over the top of them and round the stem. TRANSPLANTING LARGE TREES. All trees that are transplanted are not small. Some are bought in large, and in many other cases the trees were planted closely together while small, but have become so large that they have to be thinned out to give the permanent plants space to develop. This should never be de- layed. Very many fine bushes and trees are ultimately spoiled by being allowed to crowd on each other. To keep them in per- fect condition they should never be allowed to touch each other, and the time to trans- plant is when the branches meet. The worst grown specimens and those of the least value should always be transplanted, allowing those that are thoroughly at home in their place to remain. Transplanting often benefifs the others. They should be dug up with balls of soil to the roots, and neither the roots nor branches should be injured. The holes for the roots should be ample, and a precaution which should never be omitted is to secure the plant firmly in its place with a stake as soon as planted. Large trees newly moved are very easily blown over, and I have always noticed that when once they are changed, no master how slightly, from the first position they are sure to receive a check. THE BEST KINDS OF TREES TO PLANT. These may be divided into two classes- one of the forest or useful section, the other the ornamental. The most useful forest trees are the oak, ash, larch, firs, especially the Scotch fir, elm, and sycamore. Here the sycamore is of little value, although I have been offered 3s. per foot for it in the North. Elm is always in demand where tin-plate boxes are much used. Scotch fir forms a use- ful and very good substitute for foreign deal. Larch is one of the best of all pitwoods. Ash is a timber that has been greatly neglected, and a quantity of it would be a fortune to its possessor. The oak, although a slow grower, is a standard wood, for which there will always be a demand. Ornamental trees and bushes are innumerable, and at present I can only indicate their classes, or a few of them, such as abies, araucaria, cedrus, cupressus, junipei us, retinospora, taxus/and tlmga amongst conifers, whilst ornamental and flowering evergreens and deciduous shrubs include arbutus, barberis, box, tuonymus, holly, deutzia, elder, mag- nolia, spirsea, syringa, weigelia, and many others, but further details of special classes suitable for certain soils and situations will be given in future notes.
ENRICHED BY A PANTHER.
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ENRICHED BY A PANTHER. In a large mining town in the far West, there lives George Handolf, a mining king, who by nature is as stern and arbitrary as men are apt to be when they acquire sudden riches. In addition to his gold he possessed a rare treasure in the person of his daughter Bessie, as sweet a seventeen-year-old maiden as ever lived. Pretty I'esflie did not lack for lovers, and quite as naturally the favoured one was the ve-y one that her father objected to. Clyde Blown was frank spoken, with an honest, manly face, a true, loving heart, and iittle else. "Why, Elizabeth"—her father always called her that when displeased-u how can you forget that we are descended from the liandolfs of Virginia? Just a little longer, daughter—a year or two at the most—and we will go East and live as other people do. l'hen my jewel may find a worthy setting." 1 want no one but Clyde, papa," protested Dessie, tearfully. But tears made no impression upon the bard heait of George Uandolj. However, he condescended to give a condi- tional consent to their union suob an absurd condition that people laughed and shook their beads and Bessie's merry face grew grave. When you can show the possession of 100,000 dollars you can have her," he said grimly, in answer to Clyde Browne's manly petition. "Until then I'll hear no more about it." You can never do it," sobbed Bessie, when they stood alone in the moonlight by the road a few moments later, while her father watched angrily from the window. "Fortunes are wonderfully made in these mines sometimes, but none will fall to us." Don't be discouraged, my precious Queen Bess," Clyde returned, with all a lover's un- reasoning fondness. "Only trust in me through all and watt for me, no matter what may happen. Will you promise me that ?" "Indeed I will dearest. You knew that I would before you asked," she murmured. -1 But do not try me too much, for father is as hard as a rock." "I must go away for awhile, my darling. Somewhere in yonder pndless chain of moun- tains a fortune is waiting for me. I reel it-l know it as well as if it were already in my grasp," he answered, in solemn earnestness. God grant that it may be so," she added. And then she walked slowly to the house,to her father's great relief. The next morning Clyde left the town/ully equipped for a prospecting tour, and quite alone, excepting the three large dogs which followed sedately at bis heels. For some time the prize which he sought eluded him, but it came to him at last in a strange manner. One day, after following the course of a noisy, shallow stream into a narrow valley, hemmed in by lofty mountains, he camped at the foot of a gigantic tree near the water. The dogs whined uneasily and sniffed at a hole among the roots of the tree; but he called them away and went on building a fire to cook supper from the loose wood and branches around. Now that the lire is ready," he mused, aloud, I wonder if l'l! fiud any game here- abouts ?" As if in answer, a half-grown deer came down to the stream on the opposite bank not many rods away. It stopped, with one foot upraised, and looked at, the dogs with startled eyes; but the next instant the report of Clyde's rifle rang out, the deer leaped into the air, sprang forward and fell into the stream, from which it was soon dragged by the dogs. But the echoes made by the report had not died out among the bills before another sound aroused them again. It was the scream of an angry panther from the mountain behind biotii, and it was instantly answered by another on the right, and yet another, far down the valley, on the left. Clyde heaped the dry limbs upon the fire, and the dogs, usually as brave as lions, whined piteously as they skulked close to his feet. He waited in breathless anxiety for several minutes, but could hear nothing except the crackling of the fire, which now threw a wide circle of light, and the night wind among the trees. Soon, following a magnetism which he could not account for, he fixed his gaze upon a tall tree near the base of the mountain, and encountered the glare of two fierce yellow eyes. A panther was crouching there upon a long limb, every nerve of his body in motion as he prepared for the fatal spring. To aim hastily and fire at him was the im- pulse of a second, and the tawny brute sprung outward with a snarl of rage and pain, and fell squarely into the fire. There was an unearthly shriek, a smell of burning hair, a shower of coals and lighted wood, then the brute stood wounded and blinded near the tree. At him, boys at him! cried Clyde. And the dogs closed on him, but, wounded as he was, he was more than a match for them. He killed one and sent the others howling to a safe distance before their master could surely aim the second bullet, which quieted him. He was not an instant too soon, however, for there came another terrific soream, this time from the tree directly over his head. I'm ready for you now lie oried, coolly, sighting another panther directly between the scintillating eyes. He fired and sprang aside, while the animal fell, struck the ground with a heavy thud, clawed the earth and air convulsively for a few seconds, and then lay quite still. "This is getting interesting," muttered Clyde, grimly eyeing the two huge, tawny bodies, the dead dog and the skulking living ones, while he threw fresh wood upon the scattered fire and peered in every direction. Meow Meow Set-t-t! He turned sharply to see the heads of two panther cubs thrust out of the hole near the tree, their ears laid close to their round heads and their eyes sweeping the scene in fierce inquiry. "Ha, ha! A regular family party I've stumbled on, laughed Clyde. S-s-s Seek 'em, boys 1" And the dogs pulled one kitten out to its death, whiie the other scrambled back in the hole. Suddenly there was a slight noise in the edge of the forest, and two half-grown panthers came cautiously into the cirle of light, snifling the air uneasily and evidently afraid of a trap. The smell of the scotched hair and the blinping glare of the iire puzzled them. But Clyde did not wait for them to become satisfied of the safety of an attack. He fired two shots in quick succession, killing one animal and badly wounding the other, which the dogs attacked at once. When the sharp, short fight, was over one dog limped back to receive the praise of his master, while the other lay dead beside his dead foe. You and I are alone now, Brave, my boy," said his master, patting the dog's bead, "Well,when daylight comes we'll see after that little varmint in the hoie." The night passed without further molesta tion, but Clyde kept the five l-uruing brightly, while he busied himself in skinning three of the panthers—the one which had sprung into the fire being worthless. Two were monstrous brutes, male and female, evidently the parents of the smaller pair as well as the kittens. After a generous breakfast of roasted veni- son he enlarged the hole with his pick and shovel, and, after examining his revolvers, crept in cautiously with a lighted torch, while the dog remained outside protesting against such foolhardy cOnduct by dismal yelps and. whines. The cavity under the spreading roots was deserted, but a larger opening led into the rocky mountain side, and through this the astonished young man crept, to and himself in a natural cavern. He soon discovered and killed the kitten, but could find no signs of any more. The floor of the cave was covered with bones, and a neatly-rnado nest of slicks and leaves was in one corner. But Clyde did not notice these; he was examining the rocky sides, which were of a peculiar veined grayish stone. There was a smile of satisfaction on his face when he bad finished this examination, and when he crept forth into daylight again he muttered, tweaking Brave's ears until the dog yelped in pain and wonder "Queen Bess is mine, Brave There's gold enough there to satisfy even George Bandolf, I should say, and I claim it as the panther's bequest." George Ilandolf could say no more, although he insisted on visiting the panther's den to see for himself. Some folks are lucky," he admitted, reluc- tantly. "If that mine is worth 100,000 dollars you can have her. for a ltandolf never goes back on his word." That was only a year ago, and the mine has already netted its owner over 500,000 dollars. But he regards as a dearer prize the loving wife who rules his heart and home-his Queen Bess.-Saturday Night,
A BOY'S LETTER TO HIS MOTHER.
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A BOY'S LETTER TO HIS MOTHER. The fol'owing letter, the Church Times is assured, is a genuine production of a schoolboy of ten years old My clear Mn, I wiioht to tell you I am very retched and my chilblains is worse ag lin. I hav not made any progress, and do not think I shall, i am very ,ony to be so much exp :nsc, but I do not think this sci-tilo is very good, one of the fi l'ows li-is taken ti e crown of my new hat for a target, he liiis now burrowed my watch to make a witer wheal with the woiks, but it wont act. Me and him have tried to put ti e works back, but we think some of the wheds is missing as they wont f, i hp) Mililda's cold is better, i am glad she is LOI; at schule. i think I hnve got consumption, t.he boys at the place are not gentlemanly, but. of course you did not know that wht-n you sent me here, i will try not t) get ba habits, the irowtevs have wore out at the knees, i think the tailor must have cheated you, the buttons have come off, and they aro lose at the back, i dont think the food ia good, but should net mind if i was stronger. the peace of meat I send you is off the beef we had on Sunday, but on other days it is n ore strirgay. there are black beadles in the kitchen, and sometime* they cook them in the dinner, which cant be h. Lsome when you are not strong. Dear Ma, I hope you & Pa are well, and do not mind my being so uncomfortable, because I do not think I shall la-t lonl!. please send me some more money, as I owe 8 pence if you cannot sp-iro iu I think I can burrow it of a boy who is going to leave at the half quarter, & then he wont ask for it back agidn. but perhaps you would not like to be under an obligation to his parents, ns they are tradespeople, & i think you deal at their shop. I did not mer.shon it, or I dnre.-ay they would l ave put it down in the bill.—Your loving but retched son.
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LORD BEACONSFIELD AND THE QUEEN. A curious stcry of Lord Bo iconsfuld is rttiiled by Mr. L>»bouchero in an article in this month's Forum. Referring to the fact that his lordship was a persona grata with his Sovereign, Mr. Labouchere says:—"On his first admission to her Court, it is related of him that ho assured her that he owed his success as an orator to a cacful etudy of the Princa Consort's speeches, all of which he had committed to heart; and his entire subsequent intercourse with her was conducted in a like vein of Oiientnl hyperbole."
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An amorous swain wrote to his friend:— "Bear Harry, you asked what kind of game I am playing with Jack Graham for Clarissa's hand. I have to say, in reply, it is a game of double or quits, and the result is, I double and he quits." Unsophisticated Parent: Hello, there, nurse, what's the baby yelling that way for ? I can't read at all. Nurse: He's outting his teeth, sir. U.P. Well, see that he doesn't do it any more, or you will lose your place. It doesn't do to say too much—to gush, in faot. For instance, the giddy girl who declared with regard to Æilop's Fableil-" Oh, yes 1 I read them when they first came out I" felt rather sorry afterwards when she was informed of the original period of publi- cation.
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THE Editor of the Medical Annual for 1890 points out that potash is largely used to add to the solubility of many of the Cocoas at present sold, but that, in marked contrast. MESSRS, CADBUKY supplv an abso- lately pure Cocoa of the highest quality; and that the name CADBUBY on any packet of Cocoa or Chocolate is a guaraneed of purity, Lc5 GBOCEB'S SCALES, Canisters, Mills, Machinery Counters, Fixtures, Bundries, and Shop Fittings of every description.-ParnAIl and dojis, 21 and 22, Narrow Wine- street Bristol, 97810
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NEWS IN BRIEF. A factory for the production of Russian not of the value of ten, five, and three roubles, has been discovered at Kietf. A large number of the counterfeit notes, which are extremely like the genuine ones, have been seized, and the forgers arrested. Large quantities of the falfe rotes are said to be in circulation ou'side of Russia. The number of muiders and suicides in Berlin is increasing at an al inning rate. In the first ten days (J the present month no fewer that 29 corpses of persons who had been murdered, or who had taken their own lives, were deposited in the Rerlin Morgue. Eight of tlic-se were received on Friday last alone. At ILlnley on Monday John Garside, of Tunsl an, a. filter, was remanded on a charge of causing the death of his wife. It was alleged that prisoner, while drunk, v^as remonstrated with by his wife for pawning her shawl. He thereupon threw her dnwns airs, and she died from her injuries So well have Mr. Bradlaugh's friends and ad- mirers "ubscrilJcd that only about £600, it ap(.eirs, io now required to mret MI'. Bradhugll' I:abiii- ties. Tho MI in of £ 1,080 has been contributed to ttic -1 liqtiieation fund." The "KdnaLyait" fund has run up to 1;709, and t' e :d,1 of Mr.li!a.d!a.uh';J library ha*, so far, yielded £ 550. On Friday the mayor of Sheffield laid tho foundation stone of thu new Town-hall in the pre- sence of a veiy large assembly of spectators. The building, wiiiuh will occupy a good position in the centre of the town, wni bo cicct -d from the designs of Mr. Mountfoid, and will oo^fc about 190,000, ilie site having ccs' another jESO.OCO. A prominent feat tro in tho building will be a 1 nty tower suirounded by a I ronze figure of VuLall, Robert Robinson, a bank clerk, was ci arsed at Leeds with having forged a chrqlle for L300 on Messrs. 15 cki tt, and Co.'s B mi-, where he wis em- ployed. The prisoner had lately been, it is alleged, betting and gambling. After the forgeiy he ab- sconded, and was trace I to Easlbourne, whtr < ho was arrested at. one of the principal hotels. Ha W"S commit ted to the assizes it r trial. The. SuITok c-roner on Friday he'd all inquest at .Beicles on the body of a roung m r, ied worn in, named Mann. Her husband stited that his wifo hhuured under the delusi ui that site a be- witched by her neighbours, and on Hiur-dav night she drowned heiself in the liver. A virdnt of "Suicide during tempoiary insanity" was returned. A man named Bi,rnet, and his mairied d tughfcer, Annie Lombard, we. e brought before the Paris Police Tribunal on S -turlay on a charge of pour- ing molten lead into the ear of the woman Lorn- bard's huibind while lie was asleep. Tho court decided that the caje Was beyond its competence, and committed the two prisoners to the Seino Assize?. An ol I woman rained Cadman was set.t to prison for a fortnight by the VYotveri atnp'on magistrates on Saturday on a charge of forlunr.- telling. Prisoner was visit d by two girl-s, each of whom pail her a small sum. She advised one to have nothing to do with a dark young man, as he was (eeitful, but the fair one WIIS all light. In the case of the other girl, she sllid the dark yoanj man was all right. Two engineer oftkers of the F, eneIl alIn-, UM, Do la Fuye and Z ibel, it is Fa;(i, have a tained the highest a!titu !e known in militaiy ballooning. They ascended from Grenoble at h:»I"-p >»t eight o'clo k on SatnnLiy and, havi. gore up to a distance of 3,200 metres, or about 10,500 i'eet, they crossed over the ppak, of Luz, the Croix-Uaute, and the Col de Vciynes, d. scendiug without a hitcli near Manosque, in the Department of the Lower Alpi. At Newcastle-under-Lyme on Monday Howard Kobeit Rainm wns commi ted for trial on a charge of robbing the S nrr-Bowkctl. building Society, o'i which he had b,cii secretary, of £350. WHO. !IowaI'd lLut1ll1, a son of the nC\lSi'd, waS al..o committed for tr'al charged with embizz'ing £9, the moneys of th • s line sot iety. Mr. Ramm, sen., being unit b'(., to find the heavy f ail required, re- mains in custody, but for the other prlsu.ee bad was found. Maj 'r Loj d-^j, of Raheef, who attended the mett of the Gelway llunt at Rallinadoe on Tllursday, left that pi Ice at 5,30 ill tile evening, and arrived at At henry by train an hour la^er. He attempted to leave the carriage before tr; train s'opped, and the guard's van pa.sej ovit him. When laken up lie 4was quite dead and dreadfully m.ngled. The driver and guardal-e urtch r nrrest. M*jor Lopdill w ts one of me n;o-t popular men in County Galway, At Marlborough John Ashley Carwardine pleaded guilty to stealing an oil paizilitig.,itid a quantity of silver plate, the property of his f .th;r, the R v. H. A. C.u'wardi:;o, vicar of 0-botirne, St. Andrew, Wilts,— [he Bench, reinen bating that tho only object of tho pro.-cculion was to induce the prisoner t) eschew evil cov.ts-s and t) Bec the error of his way?, sentenced him lo one month's im- prisonment with hard lainur. At Bourn j (Lincolnshire) a notoilo is poacher named John Brow. was committed to prison for three months with hard labor.r, and or ipreil to find sureties, in default a further per od of nino months' imprisonment, for night, p aching at Dunsby. The prisoner had been convicted by the Bourne i I es ov, r forty time#, li-is paid upwards if £ 100 in lines tmd c-st?, mainly on pouching charges, and I a been sent to prison without the o;,t:on rf 11 fine. A gas explosion occurred on Friday on FT.MS. Howe at Toitsmoutli. Two dockyard en yes, Manning and Trusoott, who were tairying out. reoairs on the vessel, weie injured. The c <us-s of the explosion is unknown, but it is boiicved that tiie air-tight door of the coil bunker, outside which the explosion hi.pprncd, c-utld not have been hermetically staled, and th^t as t'.e ship was coaljd in wet weather gas was generated and cmie in contact with a naked light. The d tailed survey authorised by the Birmin^. ham Corpoiatlon for obtaining a supply of water from the rivers Elan and Ciaerwen, in Mid Wale?, has been completed. Mr. Mansergh has submitted estimates showing that five lines of pipes will be sufficient to give a daily supply of 26,000,000 gallons, and estimates the cost of the first instal- ment at £3,340,000, and of the future instilments to meet the growth and demand a! £ 5,654,0€0. The co-t of tho I. cal works is estimated at £ 761,000. The Cottesmore hounds, which hunt in South Lincolnshire and Rutlandshire, had a narrow escape on Thursday. Tliey had run a cub from Loiding- ton down to the railway, and had checked on tiie metals. The gates being locked, the huntsman got off and went down the embankment to the pack. At that moment an expresi train from Melton dashed round a curve at full speed. The hunts- man had just time to urge all the hounds off the line with ibe exception of one, which was cut to pieces. The locked gates kept tha large fi, I I off the railway. A prisoner named Christopher Smut, who is under sentence for a jewellery robbery, cleverly escaped on Thursday from Dorchester Prison. While engaged in cleaning operations he managed to elude the warders, and got out of the grounds. He was discovered, however, as he was crossing a deep stream which surrounds the prison. Ü. made off at full speed across country, and it was sometime before he was cptured" by the police and warders, to whom lie gave consider,ble trouble, owing to the determined resistance offered. M. Henri Titard, a French journalist, was mysteriously altaked on Saturday night on the Place de la Bourse, and found lying in a pool of blood near the night telegraph-officr*. His right eye was literally gouged out and the other terribly injured. -At the Hotal Dieu, whither he was con- voyed, the end of an umbrella was actually found imbedded in his eye, and extracted. Tlia victim is not beyond hope of recovery, but he will be hopelessly blind. There have been several outrages of this kind lately, and the police so far have no clue. A good deal has been said as to the virtual ex tinction of whales in the South Pacific, and it is curious to note how emphatically recent events have falsified this statement. On August 19 hst a whaling barque which left Hobart on August 17 captured a large black whale in Recherche Bay, and a week or two before this another whale was taken some little distance off the censt of Tas- mania, which is reported to have yielded amber- gris valued at £ 4-,000. There seems to be room and opportunity for the profitable employment of steam whalers in those regions in substitution for the old sailing vessels that now do the work. A tall, well-dressed, very dark-complexioned man, named Leroy Nicholas Darlington Pickett, f CIoo 6d as an organist and professional singer, °f 88, Brunswick-street, Ardwick, Manches- ter was charged at Westminster Police- court on Saturday with sending libellous and menacing letters to Miss Margaret Macintyre, the well-known lyric actress, who resides at 167, Vjctoria-street, Westminster.—Mr. C. F. Gill was counsel for the prosecutrlx.-The prisoner, a native of the United States and son of a clergyman, was arrested on a warrant, which was granted a week ago by Mr. Sheil, and which wns executed bv the Manchester police.—After evidence had been heard* the prisoner was committed for trial.