NEWS FROM ALL SOURCES.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2230, 14 October 1898, Page 3

NEWS FROM ALL SOURCES.

Experiments made at the Michigan Experimental Station show that about four iimes as much feed is olviaiiicd from a meadow allowed to mature hay as from n field pastured, in soiling the difference would probably not l>e so great, owing to the fact thai tho grass, or peas, or alfalfa, or whatever is grown for the purpos. . is cut before it fully matures, but even then from two or throe times tie- number of animals can be supported by soiling as on pasture.

"For some months past," writes the Birmingham correspondent of :i London journal. "1 hare fancied that the fair sex have been gradually taking 10 earrings again, and from enquiries at a weil-known manntnetory. 1 learn that this is really n fact. The demand is very small at present. b«l great hopes are entertained in the trade of a revival of this fashion. For some time 'sleepers' have been bought with freedom, but mostly for the Cape market. From some figures in the English "Labor Gazette" it would appear that there has recently been a. general rise in the wages of agricultural laborers in the Midland, eastern, southern, and south-western districts, the. advance being from Is to 2s Od per week per num. These advances have been without strikes, but not altogether without pressure. Scarcity of labor, however, has been one .ureal factor, as what is called unskilled.'labor is busy just now. The longest electric railway in the world is said to be that operated bvtween Kenosha and Wankesha Beach, both in Wisconsin. U.S.A. This line is (!2 miles long, and arrangements have been made by the Milwaukee Railway and Light company to run chartered cars from Milwaukee to Waukesha Beach. Commutation tickets, sold at a lower rate than the regular steam roads, and other inducements arc expected to tiring a heavy traffic. Aivays place a sitting hen on u«'v nest at night, and by daylight sh<* v ill probably have got accustomed tn ner new snrronudiugs.Tt i< advisable .-ays •'The Xorih Britisii Agriculturist." to try the hen first with not eggs before trusting her with proper eggs, especially if the sitter is at all doubtful or nervous. With a good broody hen it is generally sufficient to place her in sight of a comfortable nest full of eggs to induce her to cover them of her own tree will. Sitting hens brought from a distance are rarely a success, the journey, especially it' by rail, in many cases effectually checking their hroodine«s.

"Seventeen years ago." says '"be Figaro," "the city of Turin voted a splendid monument to Victor Emmanuel. Costa's <lesi.cu was chosen, and it was stipulated thai tho monument should be finished in seven years. and should nol cost more than 1,000,000 francs. Nignor Costa has already received 000.000 francs, bur the monuincnt is not. yet finished, and expert* who have examined ihc "bronze" M;i ue i>l' the King, declare thai it is partly composed of zinc! lead, find plaster. painted lo resemble bronze.

Sir .Tallies We-stlaiid. at a lecture at Simla on the Second Burmese War recently, had a curious story to tell of Burmese ingenuity .The British captured a big Burmese bell, weighing 40 odd Funs, and managed to upset it into the Irrawaddy. in ende.ivoriug lo ship it oft.' 10 Calcutta as <\ trophy The engineers of the force tried in vain In raise it. eventually giving up the tusk as impracticable. Then some Burmans asked n> be allowed to try. and successfully accomplished it by tho simple expedient of limlicring up the tapering end of the hell so as to convert it into a cylinder and rolling it out of the vvaler andlin the bank. The largest American Has ever made probably the largest Hair in the world, is bein?r constructed al ths time It is a hundred feet lonir. and of proportionate width, the blue li-ld in the upper It it hand corner is fovty feci square, and t-aeli ol the forty-five stars it contains is two feet live inelv's in diameter. In each star is to be embroid. : d the popular abbreviation o1 the nam- of the state it represents, and above it the date of its admission into tho Union, so tint it will have tin historic interest as Well •■>.? that derived merely from it:-' si'/e. It is Nine made entirely by hand by a younc; lady wh« in the first nVu--. to <>.- hibit it. ami n< xt tu s.-il P by stib-etlp-tii.n. iri .>rdcr that it may »"' prost-nbd to the Whit" Jl«use. t ■■:■■ us. don great ooeasiens. A inilitari.ui nn»i ! ve I- :U tho i„.um)!i of this imi'iue id. a. for :h-< mono;.' i|t rivi il from its exhibition raid sab i:- to

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