INTERESTING ITEMS ABOUT OUR OWN COUNTRY. Quebec is talking of a winter carnival. Typhoid fever is prevalent in London. We Oddfellows of Ayr have a new Steak thieves pillaged Ridgetown gar dens. As Aldborough man haw a pair of tame leagies. .. The season 1,009 persons settled in Algoma. The C. M. B. A. will have a branch at Uptergrove. Kent county is a fine barley crop this season. Port Rowan has a stock company bor ing for gas, Robert Steed, of Sarnia, has arrived at South Africa, _._Meaford’s water power throws a stream 100 foot high. Some farmers are refusing $4 a ton for their hay. The M.C. R. impounds all cattle found ln its property. In ten minutes Barry Lynn, of Lobo killed 63 awakes. A convent ie to be built at Montreal ton are obliged to etact Woodstock $16,040 on it. The bloomer creze has invested the Maritime Provincen. Chatham has assumed control of the water worka system. On June 2,328 cars of rock passed through Ise, Thomar, a Chatham's assessment has been reduced [$64,000 by appeals. Midland will soon vote on a £ 4,000 by law to improve itself. A fine Indian axe was recently dug up in Foniskillen townahiz. __ Byron turk was fatally hurt by falling from a barn at Rondeau. It is proposed to teach German in the Public ecoots of Crediton, Orillia promptly fines any one using a profane language on the streets. Rev. Dr. Jeffers, Belleville, recently celebrated his Slat birthday. The late Joseph Hoodies, of Hamilton, left an estate worth $76,000. Stratford has a midget, weighing 45 pounds, who is 24 years old. Knox church, London, will spend £ 5,500 for enlarging the building. The Indians of Walpole Island will have 4 Christian Endeavour Society. Louis Foster, of Zurich, nearly asphyxi ated himelf in a London hotel. The St. Thomas radial railway will be amalgamated with the city road. A fine hotel is to arise from the ruins of the Mansion House at Simcoe. The Oxford Mining Company, Norwich, a declared exempt from taxation. A London thief was sent to the peniten tiary four years for dealing $1. ¢ Two London boys, aged only 12 and 13, were found drunk the other day. The creditors of the Manitoba Com mercial Bank will get 37 per cent. The M.C. Re will illuminate Niagara Falls with two powerful search lights. A church is being built on the Muncey Reserve for the Bear Creek Indians. Alex. Wilson, arrested for robbery at Chatham,has been found to be insane. A fine crystallized limestone quarry has been discovered near Sprucedale station. San Francisco capitalists are trying to [resee the Revelstoke smelting works. Apalmanac 101 years old, the oldest in Canada, is owned by a Biddulph man, . The cornerstone of the new Methodist church at Westmount has just been laid. Three hundred varieties of Canadian woods will be exhibited at the Stratford Fair. Six Brockville hotel men were recently summoned for selling liquor during the prescribed horra. Three boys, aged 8, 11 and 15 recently committed robberies in lagersoll on Sunday ‘afternoon. ‘The tower of Sudbury's new Catholic jhhurch is being raised, and a new bell will ‘be hung to it. It is proposed to introduce singing and the kindergarten system into the Public schools of Woodstock. Little Irene Towers, of Hamilton, con tracted scarlet fever from a stray kitten and she died of it. A large vetar stituiae was found by a Stratford merchant in some fruit he re ceived from San Francisco. Peter McArthur, a former student of the Strathroy Collegiate, has been appointed editor of the New York Truth. A. Wherry, formerly principal of the Forest Public school, has been appointed inspector of the Peterboro’ Public schools. Mr. William Brick, principal of Si r Mary's School, Kingston, har been appoint~ [ed to @ position in the Ottawa Normal School. Two huge atrcke of timber, 7 feet long is 3 feet square, reached Kingston last week — astings, B.C. The freight Teth, H. and 8. railway paid $1,000 to the family of Thomas Davis, Hamilton, who = can be an explosion while working a Ske of Regina severely criticiz ed the fair directors for keeping the ex hibition open on Sunday. A Shoal Lake hotelkeeper was recently fined $175 and coats, at fortage is I’rairie, for selling liquor without a license.