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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Star, 1899-10-06, Page 3•11•1111111117 21'r' e News 13riefly Told wiskw. WNW AN SW -.TR* ibirs1040(_ 110,GAInfta Passit Age Iwfma teuenete,reetettersertelette ISItiteeefettete latiteoVellen Weer trill theatineee, settlieseNette Reek the Wert. *MO T, 'CANADA, CHti Toronto boys are nettateiabile at Hrantford Water • . Commissioner* wsr,t 'MAO to hoprOve the a7etenet Sir etielmr& Cartwright bift bOMA tOilhtiititril. train Eititeritea, Kingstole te .bove , a new, tranotter hotel. Cities= have aireade NO- seribed 112,500 fetr it. Aboonte ratepayer.' \tam vuted omitted natiele.epei owpmethip of the Moat electric light Plant - Alex. Oonillet of St: Laurent, Man.. was fatally crushed iu Seporator en Portage la Prairie farm. Part of the Allan liene dock yard , at Montreal caved 'no lettiog alma 100,000 feet of deala,into the water. The Central Canada Fair at Ottawa Is about ;9,000 belnod re.oelpis et last year owlet; to unfavourable weether. Hector Prince, a well.known raneh-- er of Medicine Hat district, was drowned while creasing Red Deer -Rive er. The C. P. R.. still refuse to let the N. P. R. cross ae Portage la Prairie. The traok ia guarded' by force of mere Vessels drjawing nine feet: of water or weer will not be allowed to pass' through the new Squlanges Canal this Settann. The Canadian Pacific announcee a reduction. in charges for elevating gram at Fort William by. one-half a cent per bushel. Mr. E. Lafontaine, assistant engineer of the Public Works Department, died of typhoid at Vancouver, on hie way tb Dawson City. The boot ond attoe merchants of Hamilton bay% formed an associa- tion and have decided to advance the price of rubber goods. It is reported that a Kingston arm has cornered the canned corn market by buying u,p at least three-quarters of the output in Canada. The Departnemat of Public, Works • has been advised that the telegraph line from Lake Bennett to Dawson will be completed about Oct. 15. Maokenzie & Mann have ceaped a crop of 10,000 buehele of wheat and oats from their farne at Dauphin. The was withbut damage. 'teethe-, rominent Jerpanese railway „ e guests of Sir William Van Armlet entree'. Their PURL is in tonnectio eh railway extensions' in apan. The suit of a tralielleeellatood Flejah- n against, the C. P. R., 'fee $20,000 the loss of a foot in, an ao ent Cassels. N. W. T., has been die ed at Vancouver. A delegation from thet St. Regis and Caughna,wauga Indians were at Ot- tawa Thiersday, and saw Lord Minto. They desire that their old tribal laws he left to them. - The City Council of, Hamilton bas passed a resolution lamenting the death of the late ex -Mayor Stewart on the Edmonton trail, and syrorpa- thizing with the family. to F. Kendall, of, Cambridke, .and CB...Eastman, of .naginaw, Mich., two eapitaliets, are reported( lost near Nepigon several days ago. They were without the necessaries ot lift. Mr. E. B. h'ady, the well-keown .mainmeacturer, in a few weeks per- eonaily collected tillb.6L'00 for the 1dro- lestant Hospital. Ottawa, thereby wip- log off the debt on that institution. The Dominion police believe that they are on the track of the men whd have so successfully forged and passed tarf the. Dominion one -dollar notes, with which the country has bsen flooded. Roseland had a fire Wednesday night &tieing a gale, and the whole weet side was threatened, but fortun- ately the blaze was got tender eon- trol after 55,000 damage had lieen done. The story that someone had at- tempted to remove the remains of the Indian chief, Joseph Brant, tarried from Brantford, ts without founda- tion. The British •Columbia Government has shipped for the Paris Exposition a section: of a Douglas fir. It is 3 ft. in height and 14 ft. in diameter, and will require an entire car to transport it. to the seaboard. There M not likely to be a renewal of the strike of Canadian Pacific Rail- road freiget men at Owen Soand, 'the company banns( decided to give a bonus of 1 1-2 cents per hour after Oct. 1. Several objectionable men will not be given work. ,Ald. Scott, Ottawa, hae introduced a motion at the meeting oli the In- vestigation Committee calling for tbe retirement of City Tax Collector -Thompson and Treasurer Kirby, and also for a thorough re -organization of the departmerrt. The anneunoement that the Govern- or-General would visit Chicago beat month turns opt to be incorrect. His Excellency has telegraphed to the ohairnian of the Invitation Commit- tee explaining that public business prevented his acceptance of the. invi- ta eon. Ranchmen from Alberta say thnt the cattle trade ie seriously affected by inspecbors stopping shipments be- cause some animals are suffering from mange. Tbey claim thie disease M no more prevalent than in former years, and think that sound animals should not be stopped. Mr. John Stock, 85 years of ttge, died Tuesday at his home at Clappisoiee Cornere. The decieased had lived in the neighborhood of Waterdown about sixty years. sibs wife and two daugh- ters, Mrs. Hill am; Mrs. Baker, who died in a dentist's chair a cauple of weeks ago, bave all petered away since Christmas. Three young ladies have left 01 - lima to take urp missionary work- in Egypt. They are Moses Cora Van Camp. Carrie Reynolds and Edith Burke. Tbey a re Mac iplee in the Vamp, Carrie Reynelds and Edith Rov. Mr. Horner, In Egypt they will join Me. 11. E. Randal, who game !time ago left for there an a missionary. • The erehooner Lilly of the West, from ,Labrador, with 30 persons on board and 600 quentees of ttodlish, struck an iceberg off the Straits% of Belle Isle, sinking almost immediate- ly. 'The crew managed to eseape, hut they were three days in the boatel be- fore they were rescued. All hands euffered severely from want of food and dot*. Hon. C. H. Mackintosh called Orton the Governor-General in Ottawa, and extended to him a cordial invitation to vie& Resgand as the guest of the eitizen.s. Lord Minto said it would not be /possible for him to visit the West thin yenr, but early next year; it was hie Intention to Intake an extended tour through the Northwest and Brit- inh CoIntribla. Hilda Blake, who lies in Brandon Jed, the confessed Mattleress of Mrs. John Lane, her nestreee, has written a letter to Mrs. Stewart, of Virden, with whom she Heed previolutly, which she confessed that she had Mr - gassed young Stentart, telt0 it Was thought had eetamitted Maeda. The young men was fOrand dead in the hon.se, and the ettppdeitiOn eves thet he had shot heniself. (ITLEAT RHITAIN. Rudyard will shortly leave En land for trip. to Australia and Pe 8* The Oditire fatedly of C. R. [teethe! ration pet 1st fro, rtifidt ifte4°ItteeterRItteleneet-i:* 1)44*, Wilendleatk.TI*0 freak gontetiel ,XtUneged #Ren. being graph by, ry Van Mreetetutittre. Mrs, RAP CterOldIfie Bathe, le Wettiag ber tentiniiteeeteelh whiCh will be published attontOtriat, 14Ss• ' Prof. Agertifelk the Pb.rteielOglst« ale *Aid% lt3,4 Pit131s**4 * 40094, 040 1111 nlen of genius ore the Mat - born of their permits. Mrs- Baker« VUlitn /ea the cottage of 41:nne lIathoway. widoW Ot Shake, aPekrey la dead 4 Londe*, She WO deacendellt-et tile Hathaway*. Irish tilehertnett antipleitt thee AM' ericen beets coMe over to their coast end Magneto be tbo mackerel fiehery, utting nets that are very de. strUctive of the lien. Ferelettr Pity Treagurer Colgehrten. cif Glasgew, wit? eves gemlike& on Mitten Charged entia, embezzling city fend*, pleaded gellty gad watt reettnarled tie aWalt the Meeting of the High Cored Heineurgh. when treatence will be pronounced. UNITED STATES. Thirty cattell of yellew fever are re- ported from Mississippi City. The dieease is. said to be beyond Centred - The stearners city of Seattle and Cottuge City are at Seattle, Wash. from, Lyng Canal. with in all #500,006 id geld. etrong resolInton has been 7ass- tel ou the suOject of Send°, wore on the railwaya by tne enternational Con- gregational Counisil at Ifoaton. The Crafted States coast. and geodetio survey will tree wirelemi telegraphy next year in connection with ate work of looatiog the islands of the Aleutian groups in Alaskan waters. • 'Pupa =American steam veesels col- lected as inspection fees by Canadian authoritiee in Ontario parte are to be returned to vessel owners, according to a Washington deapetch. At Kamm City, Leonard B. limbod- en, president of the Planter& Bank, was found guilty of forging a draft for 515,000, with welch he :hoped to give a /atm credit for his bank, aud was sentenced to ten years in the peniten- tiary. GEN.ERAL. Whites ie Samoa are apprehensive of further trouble. Americans have captured the Fili- pino ports in Cebu island. By the collapee of a new tending at Cologne, ten lives were lost. There ie still no confirmation of the reported death of the Ameer of Af- ghanistan, Preeident Diaz, of Mexico, cannot go to Cticago ou account of the illness of Madame Diaz. A bomb explosion damaged the For- eign Office building al. Caracas, capi- tal of Venezuela. It is believed the award in the Venezuela -arbitration will be an- nounced in a week or two. A treaty of commerce and friendship is on the eve of conoltution between Holland and the Transvaal. French Government eatitmates of the wheat crop show 12.1,105,000 hectolitres, as against 128,030,140 last year. Powdered glees was put irr bread to kill Cot. Wray, British resident at Kolapore, according to a Bombay de- spatch. A Bohemian Jew is being tried a Kuttenberg, near Prague, 13ohernia, charged for killing girls for sacrificial purpories. Earthquakea, floods and landslides are reported from the lower Himalay- as, in India, causing great damage and loss of life. The City of Saar -Union, in Germany, has erected municipal electric light and. power plants for public and pri- vate use at a cost of 159,090 marks. A consignment of luggage from Car- pentras labelled "Dreyfus'. has arrived In London and it is concluded that Dreyfus intends shortly taking uphis residence in England. The Senate of Finland has appro- priated '2,000,000 writhe, Finnish, to assist in .the importation of grain, which is needed by the country, owing to the shortage of the crops. Preparations are being made for an immediate expedition against the Khalifa. The Sirdar started 'for 'Om- durman on Saturday, and Col. Win- gate went in the same direction on Sunday. 'frouble is brewing at San Andres, in Colombia. The police there have shot a British aubject lied killed a native. A number of the British re- sidents were panic-stricken, and fled to their Cooeulate for 'protection, The crew of the Peary steamer Win.d- ward have entered suit at St. John's, Nfld., against the vessel, alleging that they were promised a bonus of One- third in addition to wages if obliged to winter 15 the north, a promise. re- pudiated on their return. The French Minister of War has sent a circular to the commanders of all army corps forbedding all officers travelling in Germany, Italy and Aus- tria to attend the manoeurvers of the troops or to go to the grounds where the manoeuvres are being held with- out the consent of the authorities of the countries referred to. SCHOONER EMERY' WRECKED Ulmer at near Creek -crew MOSCONI by Lifesavers With Great amenity. A despatch from Rochester, says:- Tbe schooner W. I . Emery, Capt. Alex- ander Mitchell, which left Charlotte yesterday, coal laden, for Deseronto, ont., went (whore at Bear Creek thie afterzroon. The vessel is said to be in a bad position, with a heavy list to port and a high sea running. A.s soon as the Emery's sosnals of distress were observed by the Ilfe-sav-- ing station at Charlotte they seoured the tug Proctor and went to the rescue of the crew. They had thrown out The anchors, but the wind and sea still forced the vessel towbrds the breakers. The lifeetavers' boat was launched from the Proctor, and with great diffi- culty all of the distressed crew were taken off and brought back to Char- lotte. FATALITIES AT THE HUNT. Four Onleers or One lirtibile Regiment Heel Death. A deepalch Trial' Landon. novo- The denth Lientement.Colonel Al- bert Evelyn Mt -lighten. of the Royal Marine Light InPantry, invett- tigated em Thursdny by Mr. W. J. Barrie, COM of the rioronera for Kent. The gallant officer, who was forty- three years of age, was killed by being thrown from his horse, which had bolt- ed. while the troops were manoeuvr- ing at Chathain on Saturdhy. The charger ban been purchased by L eutenant-Colonel Hoeghten from leentenent-Colionel Iltorgate, Who wits killed a few enienthe ago while riding to hounds. The ttotroner remareed that four offe erre ofi the Chatham garrison bad been reeently in a similar manner. GLASS IN THE BREAD. 4•110••••• Atil.mpt lo the With& Resident st kelavere. A deapatoh from Bombay Rays: -An attempt has been made to poison Col. Wray, Britieh Reaident at Kolapore. and a party which was being enter- tained at dinner in the palace, by means of powdered glass which was mixed with the bread. The Resident. however, received time- ly warning hi the, saw* tif nnony. MMus lettet, end XI eebtieghent analysis of the bread establisited the genuine - 'ages of the warning. The plot is attributed to dleternteset at the plague Meesttres token in the distriet. Four arrests ye been mndo. itmo ornminvi4 .1111,1400 QV 401*.A$ 0.0044, T#4,T QUPErirtl, /POBVB 114 OM or Wee the Itsehest Wire Au 949 Weent eher Se neliteek,Nest Potseer 10/11Vet fibc1144110/ $14.11111404t, Nith ow 443004 Pelituds ilYntim Saito the Hosts ten, if they ao elneNtes Imperil Outlander Anrestatents ituaoututing to huntiotgle of ritillions of dollen.. Art eRgiROW.' OffiCert WW1 hiall nettle a special staler Of 8100470es poiont our. that all that la neeeretere for the Hoer* 10 do to rube the- Deena le to blow up the pueuping Machinee9- Tee shafts till witla water, arld empty tbem practically Vat of the nuAlstiont • "Tile; P-onfierful gold -bearing &- eosins of the Rand in the Transvaal," mid this Megineer officer, "torm a silo gle reef about thirty milee HI length-, a outlaw Strip only a few feet wide. but runeing down into the earth /slant- eweee bar suttee, -apparently. On the Imre edge of this reef is situated the city of Johansaresbutg, and along it am scattered more than srxty mines, owned by different companies repre- senting British capital oltieflet eNecftearily gigantio awns of money have been sunk iu the digging of them great holes. Think for yourself what a lose would be 000asionedp if they ahould all be permitted to fill up with water. The gold deposits would re- main intact, of conme, but after the war is finished all the work of getting at them would have to be done over anoint. "lt. should be remembered, incident- ally, that Britian. investinents in the mines of the Rand do not represent the aggregeted millions of capitalists merely, hut the small savinga of tens of thousands of English people who have put their little all into shares of stook, hitherto regarded as admirable security. Wide -spread ruin, involving the widow and the orphan, as well as the rich shareholders, would follow the destruction of the properties. EFFECT ON GOLD SUPPLY. "Naturally the ohoiceet locations for the mines are directly upon the out- cropping edge of the great reef. Oth- er properties are located at abort die - tames from the reef's edge, but in the direction of Re slant, so that vertioal pits may strike the ore body further aloug, after palming through barren surface ;strata. Some of the holes thus excavated, in pursuit of yellow wealth are among the deepest ever dug and one of ehem, the Victoria, nais penetrated over half a mile into the bowels of the earth. "The mines of the Witivatersrandao give the district its full title, employ to -day somewhat more than sixty tbouesand laborers, I understand, all of whom would be thrown out of em- ployment for au indefinite period by the destruction of the works. Enor- mous Mama of money bave been eat- peaded in the purchase and installa- tion of costly machinery, which in- cludes ab -out six thoueand stain.ps for crushing the ore, or 'blanket,' es it is called. "'Blanket' is the Dutch word for nut cake, and the ore is thus termed because of its resemblance to that fav- orite product of the Boer housewife's kitchen. Gerologiats call it a 'conglom- erate,' which signifies ,that it is a hardened mixture of sand and peb- bles. They say that the reef was once a sea beach, millions of years ago, and the sand of the beach contained min- utia specks of gold, brought down from the land by streams. "llo-day, solidified into rook, it still holds the preoioua metal, though the ore is of such low grade that eh the deposits of the. Rand would not be worth a cent If it, were not for the cyanide process, which makee it pos- aible to extract the yellow stuff, at cost of only $6 per ton of 'conglomer- ate' handled. But the avvelable su.pply of 'blanket' is unlimited; it is of an' even richness throughout, no matter from what part of the reef it is tak- en, and eivery ton may be counted on le give u,p $14 worth of gold. ABOUT TEN MILLION TONS were crualied in 1898. "There is much gold in various parts of the Transvaal, but it has never pus- seesed any ieterest for the Boers. On tbe contthry, they were inclined to re- gard the finding of it as a (misfortune, and not without reason, as subsequent evente have demonstrated. Inclined to a peaceful, agricultural existence, they established their little Republic in the Transvaal because they thought that nobody else wanted the country, se they would be let alone. When, in 1804, the fire discovery of the yellow metal was made they viewed the mat- ter with alarm, expecting that it woutd attract greedy Outlanders, and they lost no time in publishing a de- cree forbidding prospecting, and de- claring that heavy punishment would be inflicted u.pon any one, be be Boer Or estranger. who violated the ordin- ance. "The decree was revoked later, how- ever, and great excitement was caused by the finding of a number. of large ou,ggets, some weighing as much as fourteen pounds, in the bed of a river. A. good deal of gold was obtained in odd spots, but it was not until 1890 that the reef of the Witwatersrand was discovered. Since that date about 5500,000,000 has been taken out of this wonderful ore body, and it is said that 54,000,000,000 mare is in sight. It. is expected that the production for 1899 will not tall short of 4,280,000 ounces, worth 5100,000,000, almost equalling the errtire world's yield of the precious metal, $118,890,000, for 1890. "It is obvious that, in case of war between England and the Transvaal, the most important source of the world's supply of gotd would be cut At for a time, and, if the Boers de- epteroriady . the mines, for au indefinite 1, MAY DESTROY BUILDINGS. "Another project which the Boers are maid to have in mind is the blow- ing up of the principal building& in Pretoria and Johannesburg, in calm the British troops enter those prosper- ous towns. It is hard to see what mili- tary purpose could be served by such a moureure, but, of course, there would he no diffioulty in carrying it out. The buildings could be mined in advance, and destroyed, all of them in the same emend of time, by touching n hution ommected with a eystem of wires. "We are dtseussing wholly novel ases.Of explosives foe war purposes, and in this connection it may be men- ticrned that one of the items of inform- ation 'said to have been communicated In the famous ..bordereate had refer- ence tn the pante at which. prepare - Dona have been made by thei French authorities for blowing up French nailways in case of an invasion by the Germans, m order that the latter might not be able to make uee of these lines of travel. Syetematic precau- tions of this kind are Tether new in military en.gineering, but they may be desirable where countrieR preserv- ing asi armed pence are much elose neighbor*. "Railroads, however, may be ruined at a fairly rapid rate without Web- liehing 'emplacements' for mime in anytime. To destroy a the requiter. frorn ton to twelve ounces of dynemite or trincotton. end two or threeernilee of test* per hour May be effectually wiped out by a detail of eight men. Bridget,. nementrily, are the most the netsble points in it line of railway eammturleatinte and it Ls a simple tpaiter to render them iMpatisable by Gm nee rtf a few potouls of high ex. - plosive". It is something of an art XV rim tg pleb thett . eetelte eintilikeitt* ars SIOSCASk ly 1eetwitemet ha it«, 111$114111T MN TIMM Te 04 el. 4 de wh1le 1.1e gtoetlt ,404 44. Volt*, isese ee Vieth the tteveler helt tr*411, $1**Ot rletakeets "44.04014 Caientalalt° 'atat _to tto. Icheder movie* ot the past ookt, trecteri, nod. we 414 SO« a* *melts 1* tear eet1 tteeehlleg, Tliete vex** Ase 1* dee, deo** lo the wetteeetettocittee. bet the Men Wh0 Could, Wove towel Otte:ewe in a tOP WO% aa twili p9stoettlettountuast hawkivre kindliteeitirupostoupowediel wettt; iltcseareubeeix ntheprop:Ktid.wip41 s 04 :lot to: (treat:: Thiltr Gape colony and Natal the ettrte were well etarsed. the drivers were thorough: ty up to their work. and the Me:Anions were made as desirable as wee peweible. wader the clectnastanees. glut the carts had bees built to suit the Wade. tbe space was strictly lienitedi and the melte would absorb a considerable frrtnUtinal utpetiesrer:ellar,ceja* elamndedthoe tween a couple of °time unfortunates, his knees compressed againat a pile of bags aed his back lore from comae= friction.ageinat the seat, would sit in silent agony until his destivation wee rembed-the only relief obtaineble be - 'fig when the cart stopped for the night and the weary traveier eould tbrow himself partly dreamed 011 abed to snatob a few hours' aleep, before the driver's eel! at the earliest dawn warned hen that the dread hour had arrived for him to twain take his seat in the +cart. The start fron1 the town was alwaya of tile same nature. The four or eix horses would stand pawing the ground while a couple of Hottentots would hang on to their heads, the driver would gather up the mina and crack his whip, the boys would aiming to one pesidear, iaand the equipage would disap- tee leettee gietsteee Nee. Tbe wafixt lemma fest/ bet 111 te hible tleat oc,444 Ite Swat latiMeet ,cliemeoltea here eet eve 1/exoest the simple erectly.* ot uncivilized people*. jog** Jauxnaliet given' Itle.fotion* al experience of how the Indians 0,g etAttl. America not only awe patient In the soot dongerous eteffe of fever. but also. by inoeulatirta, la - sure tor many years his imMuulty from future attacks. Miter tratrellerit ban had itimilor eXPeriencele and uo leas an anti:unity tban Sir Memento Markham leas testified tut the efficaey of these Indian cures. The writer, after loug escaping the terrible fevers ot the country. auccuMbed at Ilia. He sayer "I lay in my hammock, ravaged by an allconaumeng fever, witb deetb sight. Medical aid, supposing it to be of any use. was not tp be had within a fortnight's journey. A. few miles from our camp was an Indian settlement. I had 'lad some dealings with, and won the good -will of. the head man, so I sent to tell him I wanted the eervices of a peiman, or native doctor. "It was midnight when the mese monger returned with my' Men& the old chief, and the tribal 'medielne inane By thin time I was past know- ing anything of my surroundings. My companions' told me afterwards that I had already developed all the well- known aynepkoms of febrile collapse- .' rhe peituan tended me. administer- ing internal remedies by means of roughly devised but effective subou- trineous and other injeotiona. Then followed the inevitable mummery, I waa shut up with the postman, and enough nolae was' made to indicate a dozen people inaide„ "At about three o'olook in the morn- ing. when the piemen issued forth, and my companions were allowed a sight of nae, I was sleeping naturally, bathed in profuse perspiration, which was already moistening the outer folds of the double blanket that enveloped me. At eight o'olook I awoke, and then slept again for twenty-four hours. the Pearnan from time to time administering subcutaneous injec- tions. When I finally awoke there was not the slightest trace of fever. In three daya I ,was able to be about, and in a week I was fit to undertake a long journey." The most wonderful part of the story, however, is the sequel. The pen man, pleased with the reeard given him, offered to inoculate his patient BO as to render him proof aginest all kinde of "bush" fevers. no matter how much he might be exposed to them, for at lomat a hundred moons. If he should contract fever, it would be of the mildest kind. 'the traveller went to the settlement and was inoculated. The operation consisted of stabbing gently into the left wrist with a bunch of exoeeding- ly fine needles plucked from a hard epiny leaf, the needles being first pass- ed through a flame and then dipped in a black liquid. In a Mort time all the well-known symptoms of mal- arial fever developed, than a peculiarly nauseous medicine was administered, and a deep sleep completed the busi- ness. When the patient awoke he felt perfectly well except for the smarting of his wrist, which had to be bandaged. For a long time after this be travel- led in some of the worst swamps of Central America., undergo' ng consider- able exposure, including a n.ght spent under the trees after the upsetting of his boat. Of the ,four white men in tbe boat three had fever, and two died in twenty four hours; the third returned. to the United States with health completely broken. The writer escaped with a severe cold. Afterward he spent six years about the isthmus of Panama, and in that hotbed of fever - Colon -never experi- enced a day's fever. Not until tem years after inoculation did a touch of fever come, and then no alarming symptoms were developed, FATAL SMASH-UP ON THE I.C.R. OlBela Ileh Fatal Itear.End (0:::(414to R. Hyacinthe. A does. from St. Hyacinthe, Que., says :-An teen switch camed the death of Eugene Dutresne, tailor, of this place. a ide station this morn- ing. As the Intereolonial express fiom Montreal approached St. Hyacinthe, instead of running into the station it turmoil into a siding. where a freight. train was nearly made up. The engine went int0 the rear car, driving the drawbar In and getting its cowcatcher smashed to pieces. The tender wax al- so crushed into the rear of the engine, and the rear of the tender into the baggage car. Duf reline had been standing on the siding between two cars when the collision occurred, He was (ensiled to death tin an instant. Dufresne was watching the men work- ing in the new station. Premier Marchand, of Quebec, and H. J. Cloran, were among the passengers. No one on the train was hurt. The engineer states that he did not see the switch- open. It was rain- ing hard at the time. He had just slovved up the train to enter the station otherwise a still more gerious accident mlght have occurred. The engineer and fireman we re thrown up against the boiler when the shock came, and a shower of coal was poured on them from the tender, but they were not hurt. STEPPED IN FRONT OF A TRAIN An Unknown Woman Hilted on tee 0. T. it. Nene Gannitoosie. A despatch from Gananoque, Ont., says :-An unknown woman, while walking westward on the G.T.R. tracks on Friday Morning, was Rtruck by a special fast express and instantly kill- ed. .1 eat a few minutes before a sec, - t iorminn had 'woken to her, het she did not reply, from v, hieh it inferred that she W RH deaf The woman Wan walking up the down traek, and see- ing a freight train appnoarhing step - pert ovp;r on the up track, and was out fairly in tWO, end the head near- ly severed from the body. The ncci- dent occurreil about four mileti emit of here. DESCRU'TION OF THE VICTIM. The women I fair hair, weighed elope 11111 pounds, was dressed in bleck and (tarried in her peeked a red and white stripe W01/11: 0. 1)01110 of ehlorate of potrieh, rind a etinitielernble num of money. On the remains were also found several handkerchiefs, two of which were marked " F.M.T." and one "T Home." There was MIRO found n string of hends end ermine. Coroner Bowen viewed the remnine, and after an enquiry did not deem an inquest necessary. The remninti rP brOUght here and platted in the Gan - allege*. remetery vault to awnit iden- Ifieetion. STEAMER ATLAS WRECKED. Nei' 4 np•a and Ere. of Illeowned. A CLOUD OF DUST. in the diatance. On some lines this would hold good at all the various stop- ping Maces, but in othere, 01110e the first hall was reached, and olvilizatiOn left behind, a siren of weary mules would be dragged reluctaetly forth, and the traveler s heart would sink into his bpots, ana ne would glanoe re- peoaohfully at the driver. The mules would be inspanned and a fresh start made, and the driver -a as- sistant would bring forth his short ajanxbok "'and prepare for business. Tender-hearted travelers would at first sympathize with the mules; later on the sympathy would be transferred to the wretched boy who had to urge them on, by jumping down from the cart every tew minutes, and running alongside the animals and belaboring them. After a time the traveler's sympathy for both would have vanished, aud he would mentally consign both to the nether world. When the boy climbed on the cart at intervals, Itte paseengers would draw deep breaths. "Everything comes to him who waits," and at length a stage would be reached on the con- fines of civilization where a span of horses would be produced and a better start made. Like the Irish jarvey, the post cart driver firmly believed in "saving a trot for the avenue," and the coach would wheel into the village in a blaze of glory, the driver awak- ening tbe echoes with a shrill bleat frons his bugle. The village would turn out to see " the cart " arrive. The postmaster would pull himself together and as- sume a severe judicial expression as of one who had weighty buminens on hie hands and must not be lightly ap- proached. The cart vvould pull up at the poetoffice and disgorge the mail, and would then make for the hotel, and the traveler would alight to be welcomed by, the host at the, hospitable portals. The villagers would, by this time, be at the posioffice clamoring for their letters and passing unplea- sant remarks as to the dilatorinetm of the postmaeter, heedless of the fact that that official was eorking like a galley slave inside. The little windoe would at length be thrown open and (he public would receive their ma 1, and the postmaster would draw a breath of relief and retire into the innermotit re- cemsen of his dwelling, and iwaceful night enuld once more Rettle down on the village. FALL FUN. He -Dearest, the firm says that when I am married they will give me a substantial raise in my salary. She -Oh, how much? He - I will tell you if you will promise to conceal the news from your hither. Lady of the house - How is it that all the men who come around for cold victuals nowadays are b.g, able-bertied fellowat Regime Tatters-'Causa, lady, it's only big. husky chaps wot kin stand daL kind of feedin'. Fluster -.Young man, 1 see by this message that it was received at your office day before yesterday. Why didn't you deliver it immune Telegraph Messenger - Huh: Youse mus' Cink l'e a troo expresa. De mils is four blocks rum here. Oh, yes, I shall be here in my of- fice until 6 o'clock. flow do you come to keep such late hours? I don't al- ways. This in an extraordinary oc- casion. My wife is to tneet me here at 3, and I've agreed to "wait for her if she isn't on tame. Vimitor, to host whose daughter assaulting the piano in ultra fortis - tell you what it is, sir. Your daughter ia a powerful performer; she gete out of the instrutnent all there is in it. Host -I'd be thankful if she got out the 5500 I put in, it, Mrs. Newlywed - I was going to have some sponge -cake as a surprige for you, dear, but I confess it is a failure. Mr. Newlywed -What was the matter? Mrs. Newlywed - I don't know for sure, but 1 think the drug- gint sent me the wrong kind. Madame, Reid the polite burglar, as the lady of the house unexpectedly hove in sight, 1 would lake my leave. Not. however, she retorted, with em- pressinent, before you leave what you would takel From which we gee that in this; age of the scorching Kwige \Vette liche the most perenninve argument is, as likely as not, a flatiron. This is a snap -shot of an expreas train going at the rnte of ahoy -five miles an hour. It's remarkably life- like. But why down the smoke rote straight up from the engine. inatesad of extending back over the traln in n long line? Well - er - the picture was taken so quick it didn't have time to do that, you know. Reporter.who has interviewed every- body hut' the laundryman in hie block on the Dreyfue verdict. - Well. John, what is your opinion about title wretch- ed travesty on justic.e known na be Captain Dreyfue easel John -Colla two CPO', towel fo' eon', shultee eight eon' Pay money when get watthee No cred it. I'm keepin' a sharp lookout fur A despatch from Kingston. Ja., arum work slid Meandering Mike Plodding --The Mina Stenmship CemnPla"." Pete gazed at him in mute chantey aa steamer Adula, which was noised as a he added: I mean it You've getter to prize by the United States during the kee keel on. work buay war with Spnin. ban been mink in deep' P water to the enst of Jrunaien Her idar!- If Pan ain't rarefill rt. guilio- thief officer, Criptinn Percy, of New !Gen II ,ansak up behind yer an grab York. was drowned with the recite of Yer en have yer under obligattone 0. five She wee bound for Baltimore, de pay roll before yet trnowe hat's with a cargo of ()megrim, ihntipeoln' Ott the Fara, 400,4"...0.6000*. OillitTNWEQR PARK 1004% , Xt rule we bare alertlyn 0*nd Ulla that the successful ftittatte al- ways takes the bent care of hke log% Ike haw Oitedtt for his mower, Wu. dee. phew end eglavetora, drill plane ter. WOW. ette They are never left Mt *Waited to the Weigher, to deee7 Or ruit, but are housed as soon as dons *sing thent for the season. When tlo otteeon for a Pittee 01 Inachtnery (speak. ila is run hatie *halter until a raine day, witeu it la eareftelLy gone over, Nolte thelitenet parts well oiled where It Might otherwise rust. and the wools warn mediae attleh of the iron as pea - ebb reepainted, should it need it. And then, but Mt until then. store tho machine away u.ntil wanted neat sea. son. If it. ham been properly cared for, iti will °be in as good cendition as the year previous. The plows and culti- vators can be° taken apart aa eon oth- er piece* of machinery, so that less space will be Occupied. Few farmers have a piece where they can store thele machinery. The first coet of putting up a building large enough ie onb thin many farmers do not feel that they eon afford, though the eaten in machinery In the first ten years would more thau pay for the building. He cannot always tree that it %maid pay; he counts only the coat of the building, not the money paid out in repair* and new machinery. But nearly every farmer has unused, shel- tered nooks In barns, sheds,. stable or orib, where a part of a tnaoliine might be left, or where the harrow unglo stand. Perhaps he has more abed room then is utilized, He ean parti- tion off a few yards of it, and run the raower, binder, eto., in out of the storms and snow of winter. Perhaps there la room for a 'cultivator between the corn and roof of the corn crib. By storing the machinery in these old woks one oan keep nearly all his tools out of the weather's harm. A sure alga of • shiftleas farmer is to see a binder dismentled, and alone, in the fence corner of a stubble field, a mower .where tett in the meadow, with the rake for a neighbor, the cul- tivators ot the end of the last row of corn plowed, with the plows and planter nee:thy, and no doubt the har- row close at hand, only the weeds hid- ing It from eight. the wagon out in the sun and rain, and carriage, if he has one, also silting in the shade of a tree, etc. We have all seen this Bort of farmer, and know what the result of his recklessness has been or will be. He can not stand the strain, and sooner or later must sink. It may not be the cost of maohinery that does it, but it the same °hiltless disposition that causes the negleot of tine groat leak, that caumee the overlooking of the rest. There are the many leaks which, if left to run,. will sink the farmer's craft. Farm machineiy is one of the greatest. Buy only what you must have and take the hest of care of that. WF.EDS AND MILK. An article In the Farmer and Stook Breeder, of Lohdon, Eng., gays: "The plants that may be coneidered good for feeding cows will give us no trou- ble ;. but timer are commonly associ- ated with others that are miechievous, The true grasses and legueninouti planet may rtliltiO einingee in milk quality by their many mixtures, proportione. and growth, but they will not Interfere with the daily processes, or give to the product ill qualities. The miscel- laneous plants, which may be °omit& ered weeds, include softie vvhich are itangerouti to the health of the cow; others, more numerouti, which flavor uudetoirably, and a few which col- or milk, or produce Irregularities. To theme camels of mitichief meet be add- ed those arising from the plea dis- eases of a fungoid nature. Do c-ows eat any appreciable proportion of much Planet The oreasione known may he few iu which the mischief is recogniz ed and traoed to some particular Mantis but such do not occur often enough to rank° the maater one of import- ance; and we believe that a very con- siderable amount of harm is dem daily by, such weeds as are incapable of giv- ing a dietinctly bad flavor to the milk, but In their many kinds combine to give one generally inferior. What is the cure/ Clean the pastures. If a weed is a pest in a cornfield, it is a much greater one in the ca.se before us, where it not only takes lhe place of a better plant, and hindere the su- perior growths around it, hut actu- ally does direct den -lege to the dairy- manat goods. Weeds are the natural and almost the inevitable vonsequence of negleet. There are few patitureti which cart be kept 1Iweet and clean from stioh trouble by the mere (erre of na- tural conditions. prainage and manur- ing can do much in reducing the niis• eellaneons plants to small numbers and the more innocent kinds, and a eon- stant war againitt hem should he maintained. _ MAKING PORK. No period 41 more important than the first three menthe' of the life of a prig and no Istins should he spared to give ri thrifty start ; to die...101)1,one, noricle and good diger-dive organs, writes Wal- do F. Brown. As fall litters are usu- ally not weaned until November, it is necessary that their slop should be warm. I am not an advocate of (seek- ing food for hogs, but ice (told slop is not good. The regular use of salt in the ewe' adds to its palatability, if not to its digestive geoid ins In saying that 1 de not believe In cooking food for hogs I will make one exception, and that is, when yiou have potatoee, when the price im low as to make them unorofitable to sell, t hey can be meet to good aden range for pie, but should alwayti eisiked and maithed while hot and thoroughly Mir - Uri in ehe slop. believe in full feeding for young pigs, but by this I do not mean t they should be everfed that waled food will remain by them, AI. the. hest growth and greatest t hrift ran he achieved only by maintaining n keen aide:elite Lei he feeding be done nen rly as possible at the Ramo hour, mortengt, noon and night. fer f believe in three feeds a day for young pigs, I- t hough mature boon will perhape need but two Let eorn form leo a small portion of the ratien until your pigs are four months old, ana then if they are to be marketed at Rix or ...yen months you may give all the rorn they will eat. but nt 1 he .mm0 time furnish them with bulky, atteculent food I have never found anything better than glop Mnde of bran and oil meal - -*- WIRELESS TELEPeONING. •ri-reartral I pertment. tottaineled In W•ler. A despateh (rem London nays Since hie retirement from the General Poet - office. Sir W Preece hen Made rine- rpAricul experiments with oireiess tele- graphy at Carnervon, his nettle. town air William within the reiat few daya has turned Ilia attention to the tele- ohnne. and has imeeeerieri in establish- ing telephonic communicetion eithoto w i res between Varyd and !Ulan enlist a dintaneil of a mile on the shores of the Mann' strait& ConverantIons bevy. been ronducted without Interruption. the sounds he brig quite dist lnet ft is promuied to experiment over a wider area IT 01 110 T, Nu Down yam' lig ligg POW*.EVIRY111010. POssing, 11:.errg%ortiv."":4,4" •14"144 a racti"*"..ekrt Miner; neltelientiet 11.49 ImitniedleuTelsnra"1.• •4postsct Ow a lnatO of tear wil ,Eredaintest at any reanimate Prete- gliat lif,tetter geeetttl tne an interview :on Pri4ft. tltriSteil he hod done at :.00040.010 Or the POW of peace. He had arelented ebenthertaha own effci etneleten einntiry. but Chem- herlialt delihergtele. beoke the tbread of the 0000tlatitente teneen Were nukseed 00,33 widen. and war -wan &iced upon him, 11 iv** *pomade to aceede to the. deeneteit Of the 12th instant. Such a memo would bare Oren the land and eirootufwrpamalse,c1f:etritAseitot.0004'ne' Inevaloplinra!pr:w:tiagiloehwers.u:Aais acondlote bis field cornets' hooks, more than the Whele nembened the old ttrrthstios847401- itP.4Tthoonlle ittradee°rMs °nefvoee-r really wanted the tranehlise. Prom the first thety refueed to 10 on the eons- eurienadaos,aanitedrwarregdiatteererdd thtotherwelerceusresda exemption for theta tan the Sawn teener as the Portuguese. IIe wielled to in- dehiganrett:tilhyax dbeenybadetib,rekr, Chamberlain's with the old burghers..Ife had always ietaleeleniMbiplirPecrueindintsge mude during the d the Pretoria convention Of 1 1, that he would treat new tounigrants equally been ready to treat thereso, and they had always refused. " conolualon, I asked if there wait still a possibility of peace. " ' No,' he replied. after a pause, ' unless the other side will do some- thing to make peaoe possible." The correspondent adds that perbaP9 It ia worth pointing out that the corn - wand° in questlun did not arise until 1E94, after the franchise had been re- stricted by the law of 1891, -which maker. It difficult to Hee why the fore mor should account for the latter." EXCITElkIENT AT FHVER HEAT. In the meanwhile, despatchea frorn the Cape continue the etory of military activity in the Team -weal, Natal and Cape Colony. The Boone are concen- trating in the country contiguous to Natal, where the first outbreek of hos. Metes Is likely to occur. Large con- tingents of loughtirs are eonverging from various parts on this ()reliable battlefield. The excltement enntinues at fever ben t . The commandant gen- eral hits tamed a notioe ordering Dui commandere to itearittilne at a specified spot on the Natel border. The sone mender from Krugersdorp, whose hut -- share °heeler -noted the Jameson n111101'24 embarked on trains for the front r to -night. There ia great nativity nt the War Office at Pretoria. The artillery re- serves have been called out, the itr- riingtentinte to defend the frontier tire ruaw complete, and the work of Niue.. ntent proceeding r a pidty. The 1,u r- eboot are congregating in the towne, ready to join their uounnandm, which. however, have eirict orderm not 10 RV. 1.1.1-011.141 too near the frontier, and to a Vold a MallisiOn Willi the British forces. The Boer forces are gathering itt their intetes of itettun, a short dis- tence front the border, mob am Harris- mith, Volksrust, Vietheid, and Ilre- mensdorp. TAMPERING WITH TELEGRAMS. Telegraphic coutuoinicit ion bet Wel.11 Cape Town and Pretoria has become duriag the past cou- A telegram received on Friday Hays two batteriem of field artillery and five hundred burghers have arted for Volksrust, and thlit another rive Min - tired mon go there at once. The et rites al Pretoria inetwalt Keene of great military animation. Anneal burghers and art i 1 lerymen are riding about, t be field cornets being engaged in WO rniug t he rghe 0 be in readiness at monienCit notice. A quantity of ammunition for Max - Lin gene is reported. to have arrived at Ha rrlermil h. and the burghers at liremersdorp recleived rifles and am- ratinit ion on Thurmday. The men tire practising with the Maxim guns. A number of young Boers who hnve been Rt udying tit Cape Tow n ve et a rt for home. A CUCKOO Willi A MIND. Juirie• Weir. Jr.. Lat., 1 rear Thal iery Ii011115 ittird 11.141 Ore. 11 0+ poseible for a young bird to dis- play more -even very much more-in- elligeme than a young baby. Thie is proved by n recent remark- able experiment [nal e with a lieby raincrow, Amerieis cuckoe. 'I he exPeritment 11 us conducted hy James Weir, to, ivho has told in the Seientifie Amerirati, hoe him be hy cuckoo, when only few days 0141, recognized its hu - Mali riend, te a ppea ra me a lone, and eould distinguish between human voic- es. From it Mr. Vi'eir inform hat a bird three itaym old hag a mind. When Mr Wet! ililOpterl the little euckoo the bird rould have been but a day or 1,o old, and elm curiougly ugly coninound id bill. abdomen iind feet . 10 two dayn t he cuckoo began to show evidence of mind and charily, er rlincrigninaling bet cien differeint kinds of fond Ile would delicately taste a morsel to II04, whether it pleaireitl him If it del not he refused to eat it. In I hree day he look not lee of the little peretwe arranged for him in an orange tree, and hopped about from one to anot her Hot athletic develop- ment wan BO rapid hal on the six h day he mounted le the topmast branch of the tree. After five deys Rhowed that lie COULD DISIINGUISH SOUNDS Ile begtin n re. ognize his own name, Gip,' and ansatier, when he W11.I °a. with a lee. emelt-ill cry When he heard unfamiliar Round. lie listened (vit 11 etirooliu deem need evidently trying to detiti none %%hut they voire On the eixth day Gip nhowed that lie reerianize 1 Mt Weir, ,..a011 aw 10. ea me in night set lie n shrill 1 le mot n5 for fent In fact, his hun- ger N1 IA II. 1-1•Mark.11,1e, r.0011.1f041 h hn 1 of 1 baba 1.1. I he mime ago a. tea areintiplishments W hen he it le retit tile Wr0g110,1 only 1onsurnet two and 1 half (mere. re beefsteak during he day ppet it 4. &emu. I insatiable A baby nine ye old is not, 1 tnre. ablin 10 fOCUN 11.I eyes properly, rreich lean to diet inguish per - eons and thtng. Filll the nine-day-iiTa ,0111.1 Don hie head and refuse in take ani fon t offered him by nisi one hot Mr Weir, eh(' had originalli befriended him Nei . On the% day. when Mr '‘‘ eir appaaar- rad in Mark Ruit, the bird, hating previnunly seen him only. in light rel. ore did not nt first rerognize him Pet in a few momenta Gip recalled he personality in spite of the now dresta. and ealliel mit in hie usual friendly (midden A remarkable inetanee of 1 he bird's devotion wns that he soon discovered the Wetter' of Mr Weirat own mem in the ternine. Ind would sit in tree opposite hi. window for holier; 111110. ONE WOMANS Wal %idea dtly ife never Mateo. 1.4.11,Ill crn lo-tge meettngyiR otte.-Neither does% t elms t e hen I get home t ha t she 01-4ffliti '0;fot. L -We klis4 of offetings pose in 414 The *tetra the UV& er, wit* a gooret eltSlisusek Jew propoiltee tbe owe*. woe left onee« * But tittle eloeme4 exie4011 leg eh*. Wag cattle. and the Wife enneted free* 11144* be 1144 per pet, wite is 11010 pore occasionally lot illeffietifeiste Mott of the bUteher elettle welt se inferior quelity mid woe Net Winne* The toe, Pete for gooti *tett' vote 4e per itt.„ though an ingltile sid Verbal* a quarter mare was int a fieW leeteneee paid. .000d ordinare bilitelter erlatte mold around 8. le2o per lboallideekaillittle staff as low am 3o. Chaly tbesgotel. Ogee tle aold to -day. Sheep and iambus west A01/I Winkk« er, Quito a qusrter per tunistell%froft. Shipping sheep aro wortb On* 1114 to 31 -le per lb. Hogs are nominally unobs11041 weaker. The pricea tchdaY were. *tree per lb. for choice hogs, scaling fretee 160 to 200 lbs„ and 4 1-84 per lb. ifOr light and fat bogie Following is the range of etterellt miotatione.- Cattle. Shi rs, per cwt. .11 420 33.00 Bete er, choicer do. , 5.75 4.1014 Ltutoher, ined.ito good. 345 UP Butcher, inferior. . . 8.00 3.25 Stookers, per cwt. . 3.00 3.Z5 8beep and Latubs. Ewes, per ewe . 3.23 s.5e Spring Iambs, 'each. . 225 Buoks, per cwt. ..... . 2.50 2.15 Milkers and Calves. COWS, eaoh. . • . 25.00 45.00 Calves, each. . . . 2.00 7 00 Choice hogs, per cwt. 4.25 4.144 1.2 Light hogs, per owt, . 4.00 4.1,214 Homey hogs, per ewe . 4.00 4.121-2 Toronto, Ovt. 3.-Wbeat-es steadier at 07o for red and winks west. Spring is quoted at Nu on the Midland. Buy- ers here quote 70o tor goose west. Nfanitoba wheat la firmer. with buy- ers in the west asking more money. No. 1 hard is quoted at 81 I -2o to 82o grinding in transit and 800 to 81c west. Flour -There ia lt fair export demand. and the market shows an advance of 50 over sales made last week. To-dey eers of straight roller solst at $2.95 in barrels west and at 53.25 laid down Montreal. liellIfeed-The market is steady at 514 to 514.50 tor cars ot mhorts and 511 to 511.50 for bran west. Barley -le steady. Local buyers are quoting 42e for No. 1 mat' and 41c weet, No. 5 at 38o west, and feed, which, it la expected, will be scarce, most of the crop grading No. I and at 86e to -88e outsine. Rye -la firm at 54e east. 53c middle freights and 52e north and west. Corn-ls steedy at 40 1-2° for Am- erican on the C. P. rft. here. Oat s -Are steady, with sales of white for export at 25 1-2e, west. Oat meal-ls quint at 43.40 for ears of hags and 53,50 for barrels en the truck born, - Are rather tinnier. with sales at 60e, west. , Bethke Oet. 8.-Stpring wheat Halite uneleinged. Winter wheat, millers holding eft ; No. 2, red, 72 1,2e; No. whit e, local. Corn quiet; No. 2 yel- low. atio, N‘L 3 yellow, 98 3-4o; No. eiirn, 38 I -2c; Nof 2 yettow, 30 3-4e; No. No. 3yellew, 38 1-2o, In store. Outs firm and stronger; No. 2 white. 28 3-4e, to 29c; Ne. w titto,, 28 1-4o; No. 4 white, 27 1-2c. lo 27 3-1c; No. 2 mixed. 27ef No. 3 mixed. 26 I -2c. through billed, Rye iei N o. I 65c. No. I 04e. asked ort niek. A HORSE PALACE. E mperor or nermany nnitillItigt the tented mode in kr %%twirl. 11 is evident t hat the Eneperor of Germany does not expect the; ehorse- Item age" to arrive very soon. bee under const reel ion, in the outskirts of Berlin, what is to be, probably, the nunit splendid stable in the world. Out- wardly' it looks like a palace. and in- wardly it him many of the appoint- ments and characterietics tif one. Cer- tainly berms were never mere palaiit. ally lodged than they will be here. idable is being erected by the imperial architect, Herr lhne. 11 oc- cupies a superficial area of more than two acres. There will be roomy and vomfortable box -stalls for two hun- dred and aeventy horties, and carriage - house space for more than three hun- dred carriages. In the centre of the whole will be a two-atorey building where the imperial coachmen-, erooms, slably-boy44, and to forth, with their tamale/a will be lodged. Eighty families will have quarters in he building; the drivers inirvmrotheicritmen will be at least fifty in 'I he stable ail! be provided with horse elevators, telephonea and elec- tric lighte, and tbe walls of the ear- riage-houses and other portions of the building vtill be beautifully decorated with paint and gilding by the best de - iterative artists in Berlin The cast of the stable is estimated at seven millions of marks, or more than a million. dollars Three years will be employed in its come ruittion THE BFST FIRE EXTINOU,SHER. Ague ImninnIn lass llarvellonft ruvrer Ovrr a Etre. Probably the fire extinguish- ing liquid is mom ammonia, without any iiridition whatever We have per- sonally had experienee with the al• tneid marvelous power of this substance in (hie direction says a writer. In one instance where fire Mul originated. probably from spontaneouti combus- tion, in a pile eontaining neveral tone tind almost a solid body of live coal, it half gallon of ammonia VOM pletely smothered the itre in tinether. ehich is -I -erred ut Sava - nay. Erste,. Die vapors of a tank ron.. 110 ..f gagoline caught fire Die linen risen of a laundry I he i.e,tal insit Italy a MAAR te liv- ing flame., but A gallon and a Inilf ..... Ilia 11 '1101 1,1'11'0%0 if11.0 11 MOO- 10•0ely and alniost instantly est in - gnashed he Itre the ammonia was in A ghee; demijohn and in 3n apothecary whop next do.. to 'the laundry and was t hre, into t he room lay he druggiet :15 an 1' SIk rtanpletely was the fire extiugui.heil that workmen aver,. ena1,14.4 1110 /-001111111111400 immediately .1 here they found the iron tank of gawaine CI RIO1N EGgTABLI.; CATER- PILLAR. One of he eurineities of New Zea - 1 Did in a vegetable enterpillar. What happena is that a wicked plaint, darts on seed inio unfortunete eater- ind the SAIWIN grow to plantn nometimes a foot long. In the mean- time the caterpillar diem a lingering death Thts recalte the awful bamboo torture of Chinn - n bamboo shot in griifted on the human body and grows, nourished hy the juices of the body. It tir 'he mote exile -dente torture known, TISK BLIND tIODDEeq,S. peo-ohmin indignently, roplying to an nrrorrOlinn Freneh Inetice.-You mike von grand 111111411ik. maim I In fern nee shunteece make tut distine- oiong she is pairreettlY naire I Critie I guena con ea riaht mho= the my friend anything that A dead mu, h nd. 4.f roue*. '