Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-03
FOREIGN JorTlNGs.

THE Canadian budget has been sent
to the house of commons. The leading
features were the references to reel
procity issues and the announcement OF
the abolition of the duty on raw sugar,
by which act the treasury loses and the
sugar consumers are freed from SO, 0O0,-
600 of duties. The budget stated that
during the last year the exports to the
United States had fallen off over 81. 000.-
600; but the exports to Great Britain,
pondingly. While bank after bank had
gone down in the United States in the
recent strigency, Canadian institutions
had stood without harm. This the
premier attributes to Canada's good
banking laws. The Mckinley bill, in
stead of proving a blow, had rather
been benefit, as it had opened to Cam
ada markets she would never have 9th
erwise secured. The government was
prepared to meet the government of the
United States and endeavor to agree
upon equitable terms to remove the
causes now preventing the freedom of
trade between Canada and the United
States. The net debt of the dominion
is S239, $1,000
ner in applying electricity to vegetation.
Il Russian agriculturist, M. Spechnetf. is
reported to have made a trial of seeds
which lie had electrified for two minutes
by means of current, repeating the
operation ten times upon peas, beans,
rye, etc. He found that generally the
deterioration of seeds nearly doubled
the rapidity of their growth. He then
tried to electriciZe the earth. He took
large plates of zinc and copper, 70 cent?
meters (2S inches) high and As us
inches) wide, which were sunk deep
into the ground at the extremity of fiat
iron bars and connected above the
ground by an iron wire. The effect of
this continuous current is stated to have
been prodigious upon vegetables. A rad
iSh grew "A centimetcrs u7.3 inchcs) in
length, with q diameter of IA cent?
meters (5la inches), and a carrot %
centimeters QO.6 inches) in diameter
weighed 3 kilogrammes (G.6 pounds),
nor did this excess in size detract from
their good quality.
The decision of the car as arbitrator
of the dispute between France and
Holland in Guiana is a great shock to
the French. 1t was thought in Paris
that great diplomatic advantage had
been gained when the car was accepted
as umpire by Holland, and his verdict.
which depriveS them of rich and coveted
territory. has disappointed them bitterly
and has filled their minds with doubts as
to the sincerity of that Russian friend
ship of which they felt so secure. They
were encouraged little by his tardy
consent to pay an informal visit to the
French exhibition in Moscow, but are
beginning now to fear that in doing this
his object was not SO much to please
Frrnce as to excite the apprehension of
Germany and gain a point in the econ
omi Anegotiations going on between ST.
Petersburg and Berlin.
A GREAT religious function will open
at Treves Aug. 90, when the rarely seen
''Holy Coat will be exhibited in the
cathedral of st. Peter and st. Helen
weeks. The "Holy Coat" is relic
which has been preserved with the great
est reverence in the Treves cathedral
greatest treasure. 1t is alleged to be
the seamless coat worn by our Savior.
1t is said to have been discovered by the
Empress Helena during her melRorable
&sit to Palestine in the fourth century.
After numerous vicssitudes the coat
was deposited in the cathedral of st.
Peter and st. Helen, and since the year
1886 has at exceedingly long intervals
been exhibited to the faithful.
! ADvICEs received at the interconti-
mental railroad commission from Chief
Engineer Skunk show that the two
civilian surveying parties are now well
advanced on the work of surveying the
country in the vicinity of Quito, Ecua-
dor. for the proposed railroad between
North and South America. The two
parties left Quito May IS, one working
south and the other going north. The
members Of the survey have been afford
ed every possible facility in the way OF
promoting their work by the govern
ment officials of Ecuador, who are en-
thusiastic in their expressions of inter
est in the undertaking.
The presence in Italy of Sig. Corte
Italian consul at New Orleans, who was
given leave of absence by his govern
mcnt that he might return to Italy anc
lay the facts of the lynching affair be
fore the authorities. has attracted al
most no notice. One seldom hears now
any allusion to the New Orleans lynch
ing. Few American tourists are now in
Rome. The shopkeepers complain o.
their losses by reason of the divertng o.
American travel to other countries
AT last gossip is confirmed that Par
nell, the eX-Irish leader, has led Mrs
O'Shea to the altar. The marriage wa
quiet. without guests, and neither of tn,
principals have yet talked for publica
ton. The only witnesses to the. cere
mony were two servants. 1t was per
formed at Brighton. small suburb nea
London, by a civil officer. 1t is an
nounced that a second religious cere
mony will be performed at London i'm
nediately to satisfy the Catholics
Fatal Wreck at York.
A FREIGHT train on the Burlington {
Missouri road went through a culver
near York, Neb. The engine fell in thu
creek and twenty-three cars were pilet
on it. Brakeman Delaney and Enginec
Moore were instantly killed and Fire
man Bean fatally hurt A heavy raj,