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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1894-5-23, Page 6S5'tiuirscribers who do not receive their paper prempt1y will please notife us at ones, • ,Advertising fates en application. Snl,Snliption, one dollar a year, in advaixee, THE .EX. 4`TE ". T , ` r r . Published every Thursday by SAN I)ESIt DYER, at their ofliee, Exeter. THURSDAY, MAST 24, 1894. Week's Commercial Summary. The general condition of business can hardly be said to have shown any de- cided improvement during the past week. The prolonged uncertainty as to the ulti- mate arrangement of the tariff with re- gard to low grade woolens prevents orders being placed, and has depressed the price of wool. Heavy supplies of U. S. cattle in Britain make a drop in prices among the thing which may be looked for. Money, however, continues cheap and the crop prospects are good. Exports, the product of Canada, from the city of Toronto in the month of April aggregate 8297,905, the principal items being animal., and their produce $187,000, and agricultural produce 858,000. Im- ports for the same month make a grand total of $1,889,91> , the duty paid being 8292,724.60 or about 28 per cent. The highest duty paid is on refined coal oil and kerosene oil 83,504.76 having been levied on 84,101 worth of oil, about 85 per vent. A bill was recently in roduced into the United States Senate to impose an an- nual tax on commercial travellers from foreign couutries of 81,000 per annum, and to punish. the infringement of this regulation by a fine of 88,000. The Leg- isiatare of Prince Edward Island has revently Massed 11law taxing all transient or casual traders 815 a year. The Canadian Pacific traffic returns for week ending May 7 again show a decrease of 811,406, or nearly 12 per cent. as com- pared with last year. The business failures in Canada for the week ending May 12 is again in excess of the e. ire=punding period in last year, be- ing 42 as against 28, and as against 81 the previous week. None were of great importance, and for the first time in. many months: the failures in the Prov- ince ;,f Quebec were greater than those in Ontario, ..being 19 to 14. At a cost of 812,500,000 Manchester. England. is just completing a system of t.r e apply- by which Thiermere, one of the English lakes in Cumberland county, 95 mike: away, has been dammed., and the water r .pplied to'the city of the best quality in quantities sufficient for all pre letl le neer.,. The City of Mexico, at a case of $10.000,000. is just completing a •Ireinage system. that will carry the over- flow . the great basin to the sea, but they are not fighting the natural laws of gravitation. The Official Gazette publishes an order dire:sting that Canadian cattle imported to England be marked at the ports of ar- rival and that they be isolated and killed at special abb t,.oirs. The carcasses of such cattle are not to be removed without the permission of the Inspector of the Board "f Husbandry. In addition the lung, of these cattle are not to be touched until examined by the inspectors. The order resent into force on May 15. The Earl of Aberdeen in a despatch to the Imperial autthorities points out that it is a mistake to assume that facilities exist for passing sing cattle from the Western States of America into Manitoba and the lortniv st. This st.. te.nent is opportune Sedan+e i; is .:'vi.lent that the Board of Agrir.r.ltur, have laid stress upon what they .AmAider an (Teeing for the impor- tatty..,—with,nt the knowledge of the f a..a.han a.. huritie_.—of infected cattle froiu the i'.i:ted States over our extensive western fr, rtitier. The :mai ;!iii of Ripon in a communi- cation :o the EIiglish Bard of Agricul- ture from the Colonial office, makes the following stay-nu,ut: "Notlilhi , how., ; ar, has been advanced to show that the disease in question has been actually communicated. by cue am- inal to another, and in the face of the admitted differences in the lesions from thuso of pleuro -pneumonia, the presence of canee se•e, x ally- tending to develop spo, adi, . lung disease, and the strong negative evidence produced by the Can- adian Government, Lord Ripon .has great difl'ie:rlty i:. arc ep.:iug the view that it is merely a type of contagious pleuro- pnetvitouia, and that it is not a disease due to the hardships and exposure of the journey to this country. "He regrets, therefore, that the board have not fell; th.•:oselves in a position to accept, the remonntendation in the letter from this department of the 15th ult., that the restriction should be removed on the reopening of the trade for the ap- procuolling seasotn." These important :statements by Lord Ripon strongly support the Canadian rase, azul tli of are, ie fact, a sAnxni.try of the arguments eo.i:tainor-I in the report of Mr. Angers _.._. In Holland a woman is a secondary consideration. No Dntrh gentleman when walking on the pavement will more out of the way for a lady. The latter turns out invariably, however muddy or dan- gerous the street. The three rings the Queen prizes most are : .First. her wedding ring, which. she has never taken off ; then a small enamel ring, with a tiny diamond in the •eentre, which the Prince Consort gave her at the age of sixteen. and an emerald serpent which he gave her as an engage- ment ring. Her Majesty sleeps with these rings on. NEWSY CANADIAN ITEMS. 'ERE WEEKS' HAPPENINGS. Interesting Items and incidents, Import, ant and Instructive, Gathered front the Various Provinces front the At., hustle to the Paoiflc,. Whitby wants a postolfice at the lake, 'Wyoming is to have a new grain eleva- tor.. Brampton has reduced its civic salaries by 8425. A 81.280 steel bridge is to be built at Meaford. Maple sugar is at discount in Penetang this spring, Large lime kilns are being erected at Credit Forks. Collingwood's public schools have 1,040 on the regieter. Tiisonburg's population is 106 less this year than last. Electric fire alarms are being talked of for Collingwood. Four Halifax policemen have heen dis- missed fur drunkenness, The M.C.R. will erecta new station. at Petrolea to cost 812,000. Middlesex county has a society for the recovery of stolen horses. All the taxes of Acton for 1898 have been collected except 87.06. Winnipeg's Industrial Exhibition is to be held .from July 23 to 28. Port Huron wheelnxen will construct a quarter -mile cinder track. Michael Keefe has been re-elected mayor of Halifax by acclamation. - The Lucknow cheese factory has been burned at a loss of 81,000. There were 28 applications for ono teacher's position at Windsor. The wife of G. E. Corbould, M.P., is dead at New Westminster, B.C. Vancouver is infested with vagrants and lawless men from the States. Auderdon objects to the M. C. R. ex- tending their road to Amhcrtburg. Point Edward has an organization of young men called the Bowery Boys. The teachers of Elgin county have or- ganized a county botanical association. A steel bridge will replace the wooden one over the Saugeen west of Hanover. Mr. Wm. Gilroy. a prominont mer- chant of Smith's Falls, is dead, aged 58. A big effort is being made in Orange- ville to re -organize the town brass band. Mr. Black, 63. and Mr. Shaw. 60, wards of the county, died in Goderich jail last week. The London police recently detained a man because he had a 8650 cheque in his pocket. The late Rev. L. Cameron, Thamnesford, was worth 820,000, and gave 81,200 to missions. Dr. Alexander G. Fenwick, an old resi- dent of Loudon, dropped dead Monday evening. The Dominion of Canada owns 952 pieces of canon, ranging from 6 to (34 pounders. A new mining syndicate has been form- ed. in Guelph to operate mines in British Columbia. A foundry for the manufacture of wood- working machinery is to be established in P: eston. Samuel Tomlin, a young Euglishxnan, was drowned in Mild Lake, near Brechin, on Sunday. A. fog whistle and lighthouse are to be erected on Cabot's Head, Georgian Bay, this summer. At Walkerville Monday, William Dur- kie, aged 18, fell off the refinery dock and was drowned. Mrs. Mills, Elgin County, 107 years old, has just had. her photograph taken. for the first time. Orangeville council has decided to spored $1.725 on the town sidewalks, roads and bridges this year. Bosom—mot and Thedford municipal councils - awarder. the printing to the 'highest - bidder." Mr. A. S. Ball, for Mr. Totten, bought the Woodstock Grand Opera House at auction for 82,700. An enterprising IIespeler merchant rents bicycles at 20 cents an hour to the youths of the village. Withdrawals from the Government Savings Banks during March exceeded the deposits by 822,000. Of 17 hogs quarantined at Pt. Edward, on their way home from the World's Fair, 11 died of cholera. The Russell silver aline, Caltunet Is- land, is said to be the finest mineral pro- perty in eastern Ontario. A scheme is on foot in Cornwall to utilize the Long Sault rapids to generate power to run cars and mills. At Chelsea, on the Gatineau River, 4loise Joaneisse was crushed and drowned is the turbine of a waterwheel. George A. Cooper, Goderich township, has a splendid pippin apple tree, the seed of which was planted 57 years ago. The body of Robert Fitzgerald, of Nor- man, Ont., who disappeared last fall, has been found in the Lake of the Woods. A society was organized in Montreal Monday night with the object of coloniz- ing the northern portion of Quebec Pro- vince, The poetofiice at Sandridge was broken into and lnu'glarized on. Sunday night. Only a handful of small change was stolen. T1rct body of Miss Kate Brennan, whose iniad' had been effected for some time, was found in the river at Perth Monday by two fishermen. The Toronto garrison ch arch paracme on Sunday was the greatest en record, the total muster being 2,088. The preacher of the day was Rev. Dr. Potts. :fames Wilson. a. yotuxg man working, on a ftw-log drive, was drowned at Ser - pen t er -pent Rapids, 16 miles from Parry Sound, Saturday tnorning. The body was recov- ered some .hours afterwards. A warrant for the rearrest of ' ` Doc " Andrews and his wife, of Toronto, was issued. on Saturday afternoon charging them with having performed an abortion on Nellie Lafontaine. The couple had left th.e city soon after their release on the charge of murder on the previous day. While the steamer D. D, Calvin was being unloaded at Garden Island 11, II. Taylor got foul of some rope attached to' the holster, had his head dislocated and. head and faee bruised. The injured man is a son of the late Joseph' Taylor, marine inspootor. Mr, Taylor was a clergyman to the Methodist church of the United States, but his voice failed him and he was compelled to give up his profession. At the laying of the corner -stone of the now wing to 81. Michael's Hospital at Toronto on Sunday afternoon Archbishop Walsh took occasion to strongly denounce the action of the City Council in deciding not to send any patients at the city's ex- pense to the hospital on the. around that it is a sectarian institution. "lie strong. condemned also the sectarian. cry which he declared is being raised through the province,. A seventeen -year-old son of Councillor McAfee, living in Greenock Township, near Paisley, has mysteriously disappear- ed. 0n the morning of May 6 his parents went to call hint, but he was not to be found, and no trace of his whereabouts has since been obtained. At a meeting of the council of the Board of Trade, Toronto, a resolution was pass- ed thanking the Attorney -General of On- tario for the prompt action he had taken in regard to the request of the board for an act dealing with Board of Trade arbi- trators. Mr. C. Hartley, a well-known resident of New Durham, Ont., died on Sunday. Three weeks previous he secured a 84,- 000 life policy, and hacl besides 82,000 on his life. A post-mortem revealed symp- toms of poisoning, and an investigation will take place. These new postof des have been opened in Ontario : Centre Augusta, Cherle- ville, South Gsenvillo; Dickinson, Rus- sell ; Eelville, East Northumberland ; Fans -haw, East Middlesex ; Malcomo, South Leeds. While playing near a pile of burning brush at Rollo Bay, N.S., a 5 -year-old child named Pine went too near the blaze and received. injuries from which it died two hours later. The Dominion Coal Company, of Mont- treal, in hiring coal -heavers this season has made a new departure, requiring them. to .make a total abstinence pledge before the engagement. The heresy trial before the Presbyte- rian Synod of Ottawa and Montreal is concluded, the result being that all pro- ceedings against Prof. John Campbell were dropped. At Collingwood dry-dock Tuesday after- noon the launching of the Buffalo Fish Company's new steamer, John J. Long, tool: place in the presence of several hun- dred persons. At North Bay, Tuesday, while A. If. Doyle's seven-year-old son was playing on the street some matches in his pocket took fire, seriously, if not fatally, burning the boy. Dr. W. C. Hyde, of Windsor, is one of the claimants to 8850,000,000 worth of property in England, including the famous Hyde Park in the city of Lon- don. In the Court of General Sessions at To- ronto, James Giles was sentenced to two months' imprisonment for keeping a bet- ting house in the guise of a pool room. The London council has decided that fruit peddlers must pay a license fee of 810, 830 or 810, according as they use a basket, a one or a two -horse waggon. William McGowan, accountant at Stoney Mountain Penitentiary, was thrown from a carriage and instantly killed. at Winnipeg Monday evening. Mr. Kerby, a public weigher at Sterling, has been fined 810 and $lo costs and his scales, worth 8150, were confiscated be- cause they were unjust. Already about 400 persons have pro- fessed conversion as a result of Evangel- ists Crossley and Hunter's meetings m Belleville. While mooring it boat at West River, P.E.I., on Tlicrsday night, Samuel Dar- rach, aged 15, fell into the water and was drowned. Prank Ellis, aged 14, fell 00 feet into the gorge at Niagara Falls Monday. His Lead struck a rock and was smashed to a jelly. Up to Saturday the shipment of live stock from Montreal for Britain included 0,870 cattle, 1,887 sheep and 399 horses. Two young ;nen named Bolvin and La- chance were drowned by the capsizing. of a sailing skiff at Quebec on Sunday. A by-law has been. introduced in the Woodstock Council to provide for the ringing of the curfew bell. Air. D. L. Winter, cigar manufacturer, of Paris, was found dead in bed in that town Sunday morning. Talmage's new tabernacle and other buildings in Brooklyn were burned Sun- day. Less 81,000,000. At Guelph Saturday evening Rhoda Perkins, a domestic, was drowned by the upsetting of a canoe. The fishing schooner Martha and Su- san, of Gloucester, has been given up as lost with 18 men. Some politicians at Ottawa prognosti- cate that the session will close before Do- minion day . Mr. A. F. Scott, ex -county judge of Peel, died at Brampton an Saturday from cancer. Next year's meeting of the Royal Ar- canum Grand Council will be held at Co- boor,,. British Columbia salmon canners have combined to limit the output and control prices. An Indian named H. Bigwind died re- cently at Rama, aged 104 years. Joseph Lemmesure, aged 55, died very suddenly in Hamilton, Monday. The new )Arinnipeg directory, places the population. of that city at 85,000. The Berlin postoffhco. recently received fax eight cents. The London Bicycle Club wheels to outlying towns on Sundays. I3rmadon, Man., is excited over an al- leged discovery of gold. The consumption of coal at Nanaimo is greatly increasing. Customs officials at :frontier points aro to be uniformed. Mr. r4. Scrvoss recently died at Whitby aged 100 years. The peach crop of Essex county prom- ises to be large. The mills are running 24 hours a day at Pickering. The Bolton band gives sacred concerts on Sonday. The Galt & Preston Electric Railway is being built. A. Stratford man has a chicken with four legs. Winnipeg's population increased 8,000 last year. The Springhill, N.S., miners are again on strike. Kent egg dealers pay 8 cents a doyen to farmers FROM THE UNITED STATES DOINGS ACROSS THE UNE. Uttolo Sani'a Broad Ayres Furnish Quite ib Few Small Items that aro Worth a Careful Reading. The shortage of coal is getting serious ixx Buffalo. There were eight suicides in New York City last week. The exports of gold from New York last week were 86,585,360, • The Chicago brielcmakers' strike has ended uh a compromise. There is. no change in the great coal miners' strike in the States, A negro convict suspected of murder was, lynched in Hamilton county, Fla. The American glucose factory at Peo- ria, 111., has closed down for lack of coal. All railway lines entering Colorado have joined in cutting freight rates to that state. The first consignment of raw sugar from the Hawaiian Islands has just reached New York. A gigantic ice combine has been form- ed of all the New York and Brooklyn ice companies. Thos. C. L' atto, well known as a Scot- tish poet, died in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Saturday evening. Mrs. H. C. Miner, wife of a theatrical man, and the mother of 15 children, is dead in Now York. Several girls narrowly escaped death by the burning of the telephone exchange at Toledo last week. The coasting trade at Philadelphia is becoming seriously affected by the Penn- sylvania coal strike. The trustees of the Brooklyn tabernacle have definitely decided to rebuild the church for Dr. Talmage. The worst sand storm fax five years prevailed Sunday at Waterdown, S.D. and all business was suspended. W. D. Lohman, the'Srooldyn embezzler who was captured in Toronto, has been sent to Sing Sing for seven years. A double dose of poison ended the life of vicious "Tip" in Central Park. The big. elephant died in great agony. The Pennsylvania Railroad Co,'s freight depot and thirteen cars were destroyed by fire at Columbus, Ohio, Saturday. The California Midwinter Fair will close on .Tuly 1. It has proved a decided success financially and otherwise. Oswego county, N.Y., was visited by a frost on Tuesday morning, and strawberry plants and fruit trees were injured. Astronomer T. H. Ling of Chicago an- nounces the discovery of a new comet about half a degree below Zeba Hydra. William C. Spilhnan, a wealthy dry - goods merchant of New York, committed suicide on Thursday by gas inhalation. III the ten months and a half of the present fiscal year Uncle Sand's Govern- ment has spent 870,000,000 more than the revenue. Oue standard of morality for women and wren was cleluanded at a meeting of the Federation of Women's Clubs inPnil- adelphia. A father. mother and four children were murdered near Milan, Mo., on Thursday. Tho supposed murderer has been jailed. At the annual meeting of the National Board of Underwriters at New York the past year was declared to be a most dis- estrous one. Edward Patterson and Geo. Henderson were fined 8500 each at Rochester for smuggling opium into the United States from Canada. Boats have been offered at Chicago to carry corn to Kingston at 2 cents per bushel, without takers. A 1 -cent rate for Buffalo was offered. The Board of Managers of the Union League Club, Chicago, voted to expel Col. Breckinridge from the roll of honorary membership of the club. Laborers employed by various railroads in the States are being thrown out of em- ployment, owing to the scarcity of coal, caused by the miners' strike. Mayor Hopkins and Health Commis- sioner Arnolds, of Chicago. have issued a proclamation to the public requiring everyone in the city to be vaccinated. Col. Joseph Moore is dead at India- napolis, aged 65 years. He planned and constructed all of the pontoon bridges used by Sherman on his march to the sea. The strike of the coal miners is having a temporary disastrous effect on the coast- ing trade of Philadelphia, in which the coal shipments form a most important item. The Great Northern Railway strike trouble has at last been settled, and the men .have gained about all they asked for. The trouble was settled by arbitra- tion. Rev. J. W. Langley, of Emanuel Metho- dist Episcopal church, was stricken down in the midst of his sermon on " The Un- certainty of Life," on Sunday in Phila- delphia. Theo. Havemoyer, vice-president of the sugar trust, has bought the Bennett build- ing on Nassau street, New York, oceu- pica by The Herald many years ago, for 81,500,000. , An attempt was made on Monday night to blow up the state prison at Jackson, Mich., with dynamite. Three convicts were in the plot, and now they are looked in their cells.. The torpedo boat Ericeson, the first United States war vessel built in inland waters, was launched Saturday at Du- buque, Ia., in the presence of several thousand spectators. Lucius R. or "Dink" Wilson was elec- trocuted at Auburn, N.Y., prison Monday for the murder of Detective James Har- vey,, of Syracuse, last July, when Harvey had him under arrest. Ix. the United States Senate Tuesday Senator Boar spoke for two and a half hours in opposition to the tariff bill, and Mr. Quay delivered the sixth instalment of his speech against it. The regatta of the National Association. of Amateur Oarsmen' has been fixed for Saratoga for the next three years. Tho Canadian Association regatta is fixed for Hamilton for five years. The 106th annual meeting of the Gen- eral Assembly of the Presbyterian. church (north) of the United States opened at Saratoga Tuesday. Tho Briggs heresy case will again corm up. Between 2,90o and 3,000 workmen in the various de martments of the Pullman works at Pullman, 111., went on strike Monday morning, They demand a res- toration of wages to last year's scale and the redress of numerous grievances. Geo. Hogan, the leader of the Montana industrial army, has been, sent bo jail for six months, and 40 captains and lieuten- ants, including the engineer and fireman, for two months each, for stealing the Northern Pacific train, By an explosion of gas Tuesday at the Burridge colliery at Mahanoy Plane, Pa., John fortenstein was instantly killed, Robert Dalton and Michael Ryan fatally burned and 'William Meeney and James Ryan severely burned. A fire which was started by small boys on the Boston baseball grounds Tuesday destroyed 126 houses before it was ex- tinguished. About twenty persons were badly injured and several hundred ren- dered homeless. Disquieting news from Central and South Amerxea has caused the United States Navy Department to assign several ships to localities where American inter- , ests aro endangered through prospective hostilities. A Washington despatch says a negro in the House gallery addressed the Speaker and tried to deliver a so-called divinely -inspired address ordering the passage of the Ooxey bills. He was put out. Near Henning, Minn., Monday a cy- clone lifted a section of the Northern Pacific track bodily into the air and scat- tered it over the surrounding country. At St. Louis while Freddy Burke, aged 16, was playing with a small wire at- tached to a spool, the wire was thrown over a trolley wire, ancl, twisting around Burke's neck, shocked him to death, The United States Behring Sea fleet, consisting of three warships, one cruiser and two cutters, sailed Tuesday from Port Townsend, Wash. A Washington official recommends a war of extermination against the English sparrow. Destroying the nests and the young is suggested. The marriage of Lillian Russell, the actress, to Signor Perugini, her leading man, has proved a failure, and they are now living apart. At Albany, N.Y., Eugene Brady, a maniac, killed his mother, aged 65, in a fit of violence, and attempted to kill four other persons. At Yakima, Wash., a battle has oc- curred between deputies and common- wealers, in which two deputies were shot, one fatally.. Half a dozen Harvard students who were boating near Boston Tuesday were drowned by the upsetting of the boat. WISE AND OTI{ERWISE. A Winner a Little Mixed. 11 Soy," said the tough young Ivan Who had hit the races, to the waiter in the fashionable restaurant, " soy, buddy, I want a order of them rubber -neck clams. Do 'em up in style, for object's no money to me." Nice About It. Grocer—"Did Dr. Newpill pay that thirty -dollar bill he owes ?" Collector—" No. sir, but he was very nice about it. He said that he hoped he would soon have a chance to work it off in attendance on your family." Out of the Frying Pan. Mrs. Newliwed—" e So you've been play- ing poker again, have you? (Tears.) I have a good mind to go right home to father." Mr. Newliwed—" Better stay where you are. The old man lost all he had and all he could borrow, last night." The Nights Didn't Count. " Don't you find it very uncomfortable to fast 80 clays ?" said a visitor to a man who was doing the act in a clime museum. " Well," replied the freak, " I don't mind tell you confidentially that I can stand fasting 30 days pretty well, so long as I get a square meal every night." Harrowing Experience. Yabsley—It must be a delightful sensa- tion to be possessed of more money than you know what to do with. Mudge—II'xn. I have been in that fix myself. It was out in Iowa, where I had to wait four hours for a train and couldn't buy a drink to save my neck. Aix Appropriate .Place. The little girl who recites was practic- ing. She got through " Under a spread- ing chestnut tree the village smithy stands," when her brother interrupted her. " That's the place for it to stand." " Why ? " asked the little girl. " Because its the biggest chestnut in the whole Reader." She's ;}Tarried and Used. to It. hostess -1 e Of course the dinner is given for. Miss Purdy, but I can't let you take her in because you never will take the trouble to be agreeable except to a pretty woman." then' Reggy Westend-0 ` Whom do I take in, Hostess -11 Mrs. Farris." Reggy Westend—' 1 But she's uglier than Miss .Purdy." • Hostess—` r I know that, but she's mar- ried and used to being neglected." Gladys' Philosophy. " Dicl you hear about Glady's ?" said Maud. "No," replied Mamie. " She has refused old Itis. Pinohpenn.y and is engaged to Charley Cashgo." " How strange ! The old gentleman is very rich." " Yes, But she told in.e she thought she had better prospects with a husband who was willing to be generousif he could than with one who could be generous but wasn't willing." To Conte Later On. It was a wedding and the bride unfor- tunately had an impediment in her speech. .All wont well, however., until it came for her to repeat those well-known words, "To dove, cherish and to obey." She could only say, "To love, cherish and to bey:" The onrate then read them over several timebridegroom, to no purpose. .t last the getting impatient, cried "Nivvor lnoind her, goa on wi' 1' ser- vice ; aw'll mak her say oh when aw get her .foam." Petroles citizens are all torn up over the dissolution of thex'r .brass band.. The Chinese Eneyeloptedia meets a long- felt want, and no family should be with - ant it, It was pu'bIished in Pekin in 5,000 volumes, amid at\the'nice of $10,000 is the same as given away, INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS FACTS IN A FEW WORDS, A Large Amount of Useful and Valua- ble Information Gathered Prom the Four Quarters of the 31obo. Mummy cats unearthed in Egypt have red hair. Astrology is almost as old as the stars themselves. An ordinary piano contains about a mile of wire string.. Single mastodon teeth sometimes weigh from 17 to 20 pounds. The charitable bequests in London every year exceed 85,000,000. The King of Siam is slowly drinking himself into his grave. The United States has about 4,000,000 acres of irrigated lands. The purest English is supposed to be spoken in Lincolnshire. The assessed value of this country in 1890 was 824,249,585,804. The first alms houses in England were erected in London in 1551. There are seventy citizens in the United Kingdom owning £540,000,000. The first and only doctress of law in Prance is Mlle. Jeanne Ohaxiim. The average earnings of a .London omnibus per mile are ninepenco. There are over seventy miles of tunnels cut in the solid rock of Gibraltar. No one can breathe at a greater height than seven miles from the earth. Postage stamps are now cancelled by little machines run by electricity. There are in the United States 73,045 inmates of the public alms houses. More car couplings are patented every year than any other line of devices. There are said to be 80,000 stuttering children in the schools in. Germany. The largest university is Oxford; it has twenty -ono colleges and five halls. Tho principal Paris foundling asylum receives over 3,000 infants every year. In 1872 there were twenty establish- ments of the Sisters of Charity in Africa. During a waltz of ordinary length the dancer travels about three-quarters of a mile. A. single polypus has been cut into 124 parts, and each in time becomes a perfect animal. The United States has a less percentage of blind people than any other country in the world. A London, Eng., firm is having watchft made in Japan by native workmen for western. markets. The body of a dead Chinaman is often: kept in his late home for three or four years before burial. A million acres c.f forest 'are cut crown every year to supply European railway companies with ties. Tho German Emperor recently issued an order against officers of his army us- ing single eyeglasses. A. Russian scientist has succeeded in tracing all a man's diseases to the fact that he wears clothes. The horn of the rhinoceros is not joined to time bone of the head, but grows on the skin like a wart or corn. The British Musetnn has no less than 700 theological books written concerning the creation of the world. The principal nations of the world have 2,291 warships, mounting 8,383 guns mostly of very heavy caliber. Neither chemists nor naturalists have yet been able to solve the question why a lobster turns red when boiled. When the daguerrotype was a new in- vention, the face of a sitter for a portrait was dusted with a white powder. Physicians have learned valuable les- sons by observing how animals instinc- tively doctor themselves when ill. The frigate bird can fly 100 miles an hour and live continually on the wing day and night for a week oaten days. A considerable quantity of evidence has been collected of a power in tobacco to destroy the micro-organism of cholera. London contains one-eighth of Great lBritain's population. It has a larger cl.aily•delivery of letters than all Scot - and. The little island. of Iceland, with about 70,000 inhabitants, has the same number of newspapers as the great empire of China. Twenty-five th.ousand persons in the United States, it has been estimated, own between them 831,500,000,000 worth of property. It would take forty years for all the water in the great lakes to pour over Niagara at the rate of 1,000,000 cubic feet a second. The titles of 8,000 books, mostly con- troversial, dealing with the subject of baptism. are given in the catalogues of the British Museum. A geographical expert estimates the fertile portion of the earth's surface at 20,260,200 square miles, and the barren region at 22,960,000 square miles. To have an invention protected all over the world it is necessary to take out 64 patents in as many different countries, the cost of which is about 817,500. A scientific writer says that night'is the time which nature utilizes for the growth of .plants and animals; children grow more rapidly during the night. The Dttke of Bedford has given 2500 towards the fund being raised by the St. Giles' Library commissioners for corn - plating and equipping the now library. King Osear has composed a find pathe- tic ode to rho memory of the late M. Gaunod, whose works he greatly admired, being himself a composer and distinguish- ed musician, So groat is the echo in one of the rooms of the Pantheon that the striking to- gether of the palms of the hands.is said to make a, noise equal to that of a 12 - pound cannon. Someone who has figured on the work clone at •Pompeii since June, 1872, says that it will take until 1947 to unearth the entire rutins with eighty-five men working every day. The Duke of Cambridge is the only member of British royalty who does not pay postage on his letters ; his position as commander-in-chief of the English army exempts him. The hugest solitary wave on record was that which accompanied the earthquake of 1808 off the coast of Arica, Peru. It was 50 feet high, and extended to New Zealand and Japan.