ANEW STION BE EN uhe THE UNITED STATES AND canaba CANADA according to the report of col dennis with respect to his surveying operations in the northwest a serious mistake was made by some former surveyor in defining the boundary line the observations of the colonel at pembina resu resumed ted in bib bia placing the line feet north of the line laid down several years ago by captain now general pope ot the united states army A belt 24 feet wide extending right across the continent nen t embraces land enough to be worth cooki looking ng after but a more important matter still is mentioned in the report col dennis says that though he started his line feet further north than capt popes after arter running ten miles west the two lines crossed each other othen from this it is evident that either pope or dennis or probably both made mistakes in either their observe observations a tion 13 or calculations dennis says the line he took was the forty ninth parallel and popes line has been generally accepted as the forty ninth parallel yet in a distance of ten miles these lines cross each other As a provincial land Sarve surveyor yon says in another column I 1 the consequence of this would be that in a distance of 1000 miles the colonel would be into Ame american rican territory about four miles or capt pope would be into our territory about the same number of miles either one must be sadly astray in his bis reckoning this is a matter of too much importance to be neglected the first thing to be done on our obtaining possession of the country is to find the precise position of the th e forty ninth parallel and to mark it out across the continent at once in order to avoid mistakes and misunderstandings in future in settling this question the operation cooperation co of the american government will bo be necessary As our correspondent suggests a commission composed of thoroughly competent and reliable persons will have to be appointed popes parallel must be a very er peculiar para parallel indeed if as col dennis ennis states it runs partially nort north and south as well as east and west A lady correspondent of the american agriculturist writes that for five years she has used water lime for scouring knives forks tin and the like she says 1 I have a box with a partition and keep the lime in one part and the cloths claths in the other I 1 wet a small cloth a little and dip it in the lime and after the articles are well washed and wiped I 1 rub them until the spots are removed then I 1 take a large dry cloth dip it in the lime and rub the articles until polished to suit sult me wipe ox off the dust from the knives and forks with a dry cloth and they are ready to put away I 1