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THE EXETER
ADVOCATE.
TEITYRSDA.Y SEPTEMBER 27, 1894.
Weefee ComineaCia1 Sarni/Wry.
There is a. prcispeet of attnion of the
Ontario Creameries Board and the 'West-
ern Dairymen's Association;
A long-distance telephoue line between
Madrid and Barcelona, a distance of 500
miles, will be eompleted in a few months.
The Secretary pf the United States
Treasury has finally decided that Can-
adian lumber shall be admitted free of
duty.
Louisiana has the largest farm in the
Milted States. It is 100 miles one way
by 25 the other. The fencing alone cost
850,000.
With the new and improved methods of
mining it is thought that it will cost less
than 22 cents on the dollar this year to
mine gold in Colorado.
The amount of wheat afloat to Europe
is 80,25e,000 bushels, an increase of 282,-
000 fur the week,. A year ago the amount
afloat was 81,000,000- bushels.
In some of the ancient temples in
Egypt perfectly sound timber of tamarisk
wood has, it is said, beerl found connect-
ed with the stonework whith is known to
be atleast 4,060 years .old.
their victixne. This. is a sure way of
silencieg an opponent, but it usually in-
viais aseassination. Government by the
people in Brazil seems to be a marderous
system directed by a butcher. They are
paying theprice of release from "effete
monaxe/ay,
x x
Bicycles are becoming as popalar in
Paris as in London. A French physician
directs attenden to the deaths of three
persons from. heart disease while bicycling,
In Toronto the bicyclists are not troubled
that way. It is the people who are try-
ing to dodge 11'110 are afflicted with heart
failure.
Money continues easy. Bank of Eng-
land discount rate is unchanged at 2 per
cent. It has continued at the same rate
since February 22nel, the longest period
without change ever known, At Toronto
prime commercial paper is discounted at
6 to 0, and call loans on choice collateral
remain at 4 to 4 per cent.
It is said. that outside of the Essex
field., which is practically in the hands of
the -Walker Distillery Co., the entire
natural gas territory of the country is in
the hands of the Standard Oil Co , who
will work the Canadian fields until their
depletion has been accomplished, and will
save the American supply as much as
possible for future use.
x x x
A cable despatch announces that the
Sultan of Morocco has the mumps. With
the Emperor of Russia Suffering from a
disordered. system, the Sultan of Turkey
worrying along witli inenition of the
pocketbook, mad Li Hung Chang racked
with insomnia, the great men of the world
are at present objects or commiseration.
Advance sheets of the first of a series
of reports to the State Depariment from
United States Consuls, which promise to
be valuable, give this information as to
exports from -Canada to the United States
for the quarter ended June 30, 1894:
The exports for the 'Malted States from
the Mantime Provinces, Newfoundland,
and the Praiinces of Ontario and. Quebec
duein.g the quarter ended June 80, 1894,
amounted. to 9(3,480,256, of which nearly
95,000,000 representecl the value of the
products of the farm, the forest a,ncl the
mine.
The British Board. of Trade returns,
dealing with the trade between Canada
and the United Kingdom during August
and the past eight months, are to hand.
Our imports show a falling off for the
m.onth of 85 per cent., while the imports
from Canada into the United -Kingdom
show a dechne of only 18 per cent. As
far as Canada is concerned this is a. most
satisfactory showing. The deduction is
that we are restricting our expenditure,
and consequently our financial obliga-
tions.
NEWSY CANADIAN ITEMS.
x x X
There are some people forever ou the
alert for some now subject of taxation.
Such people must be numerous in Win-
nipeg, where it is proposed to tax church
entertainments when conducted. to raise
money 925 each. Such energetic devisers
of taxes fancy with each. new discovery
they have conierrea a blessing on the
public.
x x x
In the southern states the people have
not yet exalted the value of human life
and personal safety above all things. In
North Carolina two men have been sen-
teucecl to be hanged for house -breaking,
that being a capital offence. As in the
case of such punishment for theft it is
aot probable that the severity -will make
the dims less prevalent
x x x
The Sultan of Turkey has sent £800 to
the Minnesota sufferers. While this act
is characteristic of the Sultan, it is unlike
western opinion of him. His majesty is
not at all lacking in modem ideas. He
reeds his newspaper with the regularity
of an Englishman, and. his belief in the
powers of the press is evidenced by the
fact that he is financially interested. in a
Paris daily, to which it is said he is also
an occasional contributor.
Is LE WEEK'S HAE1,'EINGS.
interesting Items:and Incidents, Import-
s t and instructive, Gathered from
the Various Provinces.
Burglars are operating at Weston.
Diphtheria is prevalent in Brockville.
Sir•Narciose F. Belleau died Friday in
Quebec.
A. new opera house project is afoot in
Winnipeg. '
Much Canadian mutton is eonsumed in
New York.
Mrs, ;Tames Souter, an old resident of
Ayr, is dead.
Mrs. Bury, an elderly woman, is miss-
ing et Brantford
Stratford's couneil will reconineend the
building of afire hall.
The taxes colleeted in London in August
amounted. to 9175,000.
da. pear tree in full bloom is a curiosity
in a Thessalon garden.
The new Masonic Hall at Windsor is to
be dedicated on the 27th.
Grasshoppers are raiding the potato
vines at For Sinith, Man.
The Cornwall starch firm has bought
the Brantford starch works.
4. WOMall is to be tried in Windsor for
tearing up promissory notes.
The new creamery at Renfrew will be
the best and largest in Ontario.
Wages have been cut 10 per cent. in the
Canada screw factory, Hamilton.
The Governor -General's reception cost
the city of St. John, N.B., 991.85.
Lindsay people are talking of establish-
ing an organfactory in that town.
P. Powers, a Windsor cripple, was
drowned on Sunday near Sandwich.
A. dam is to be built across the river in
Listowel to secure water in case of fire.
Quebec City bonds to the amount of
$520,000 were solcl to the Bank du Penple.
Alvie Burnett, of Breslaw, aged twelve,
recently shot a large bald-headed eagle.
McKay & Brine's WO011ell mill, Anti-
aonish, LS., has been destroyed by fire.
x x x
There are at present 118 daily news-
papers published. in Russia, 93 bi-weekly
papers, 221 weeklies,102 bi-monthlies,
170 monthlies, 64 at irregular intervals
during the year, and 26 under special
and. compulsory circumstances. This
total of 779 journals and periodicals shows
aix increase of 36 on the 743 registered at
the close of last year. Out of these 779
various publications, 623 are printed in
Russian and 156 in foreign langu.ages,
that is, in French, German, Polisin Yid-
dish, etc.
The fixing of .grain. standards is an
annual event with our grain dealers.
Ontario standards were faxed on the 14th,
while those of the northwest were struck
on theallith, It is n questiou whether
wheat standards ehould be altered from
year to year. The grades are changed
when there is any material change in the
quality of the wheat of one season as
compared with the previous year. To
buyers abroad. it is a foolish. policy. With
one permanent standard. our wheat would
become known as such, and this would,
or should, help the trade materially.
ln 1860 Canada exported 124,820pounds
of eheese'and the United States 15,515,-
799. In. 1870 the exports were 5,827,782
and 57,296,827. In 1883 they were 40,-
368,678 and 127,553,907. Canada kept
overtaking her rival, until in 1888 her
exports were 84,173,207 pounds. and those
of the United States 88,008,458. Next
year Canada was ahead, the last figures
being very nearly reversed In 1891 the
exports of Canada were 133,946,365
pounds, valued at 913,407,470, and those
of the United States 84,350,023 pounds,
valued at 87,624,648. These figures are
contained in a Dominion pamphlet on
the productions of the dairy and markets
therefoa. Practically all our export of
cheese goes to Great Britain,and nearly
i
50 per cent. of the British mport is of
Canadian cheese. Compared with these
achievements the history of the Canadian
butter trade is not very: satisfaetory, but
the export, small as it is, is nearly equal
to that of the United States. In 1893 it
was 7,036,013, valued. at $1,293,814.
Great Britain imports 244,497,008 pounds
of butter, for which she pays $58.330,591.
The quantity is rather less than that of
cheese, but the value is double. Canada
ought to aim for 85,000,000 worth of that
trade, and then see how much better she
can. do. The little kingdom of Denmark
sends into that market 96,715,584 pounds
of butter, valued at $23,597,177.
River this 'summer up to the 4th of Sep-
tember, and towed away to American
in ills.
Lieuta0ol. Moffatt, of London, Ont.,
died Tuesday after a long illness. He
came from Scotland to Londoia in 1844.
Tbe wild rice in the marshes of Long
Poiut is i•ipening at a much earlier periaci
this year than in any previous season.
The Methodist conference in London on.
Saturday voted for an extension of the
ministerial term on certain eonditions.
A. very large number of emigrants are
being taken on every through train to
Boston from St, john, N.13, and vicinity.
x x x
The New York Sun, commenting on
the police investigation says that the
green goods theory is that poteatial ras-
cality is widespread, and that to be stim-
ulated to actual service it needs only
that the bait of supposed opportunity be
held. before it, and that the theory has
proved to be altogether sound.. The de-
mand for the pretended counterfeit or
spurious greenbacks offered. by the
swindlers who had their headquarters in
New York has come from every part of
the Union to -which they have addressed
their circulars, an order for 200,000 sets
of which was given on a single day. The
people who took the bait were not pro-
fessional criminals, for the latter know
that counterfeit money cannot be ob-
tained from sources thus open to public-
ity, but that Government detectives are
ceaselessly on the watch to discover its
manufacturers and bring them to punish-
ment, and. that consequently an ,aaver-
tisement of such a supply is obviously a
swindle: "Hence the dupes of the green
goods operators were all men ostensibly
honest and, respectable. The safety of
the business was that it was a swindle,
and that the swindlers did. not circulate
spurious money and did not have any to
circulate. They did not even encourage
crime, but rather circumvented criminal
intentions by playing the practical joke
of supplying blank paper for the bogus
money sought. The only money they
handled was the good money paid them
by their dupes."
HERE AND THERE.
They have had a snowstorm in Mon-
tana. For variety of climate go to the
western states.
X x x
Some of the scares in Great Britain
about Canadian cattle seems to be clue to
the trifling error of confounding pleuro-
pneumonia with tuberculosis.
X X X
The New York State Convention has
adoptecl an tanendment restraining any
public officer, elected or appointed, from
accepting it peas or any other favor from
auy person or corporation.
•xxx
alippolyte, the F'rasident of Hayti, is
dying. He has been a ruthless slayer[of
men and: will leave it bloody trail through
the history of that unhappy island, biit
there is no promise that his succeesor will
not be a similar barbarian.
x x
The national debt per head. of Queens-
land, Australia, is 9340; of South Amer -
bee, $82a ; of New Zealand, 9500; of Now
South 'Wales, MO; of Victoria, 9160; of
Great Britain, $90; of Canada, 951; and
of the United Statee, $14.63,
X X X
President Poixoto, of Brazil, is taking
precautions against another rebellion.
Those whom he saspeets of not being
friendly to him aro shot. They ere led at
night to cemetriee, where they find flies
ficildion awl open graves. The soidiets
orap!?, tiv,ir gine and fill the gravee with
The Woodstock Board of Education is
talking of establishing it free night school.
The annual shooting tournament of the
Leamington. Gun. Club will be held Sept.
21.
Another old resident of Huron has
passed away in the person of Mrs. Eliaa-
beth Daman, of Goderich, aged. seventy
The residence of Kr. John Eakins, at
Millbrook, was recently robbed of 9200
worth of jewelry and a quantity of cloth-
ing.
Joseph Earl, a Medieine Hat rancher,
has been killed by the collapse of a roof
during a fire at Cyress River on Satur-
day.
The Eastern creamery, which was closed
a few weeks ago, was put up for sale by
auction and bought by A. Q. Bohler for
91,800.
Henry Ball, for breaking into the
Grand Trunk Railroad car, was sent down
for a month by Magistrate Bartlet, of
'indsor.
The bodies of Miss Ada Alfords and
Miss Maggie Bannecly, who were drowned
at Peterboro' on Friday night, have been
recovered.
A. syndicate of British capitalists has
been formed, with 9450)000 • capital, to
work mining properties in the county of
Frontenac.
Port Huron has decided to lay brick
pavements on a five -inch concrete founda-
tion.
The largest icehouse in ..A.merica is be-
ing built by Buffalo men. at Dunnville,
Ont.
An attempt was made on Thursdaylast
to wreck a C.P.R. express near Kempt-
villa junction., by placing ties on the
track.
Henry Grant, of A.nderd.on, once it slave
in Dixie, died Saturday, aged ninety-
eight.
Rev. J. B. McKinnon will shortly sever
his connection. with the Baptist church at
Clinton.
The Town Council of Niagara Falls,
Ont., has voted. 9100 to the Minnesota fire
sufferers.
Ms. Lawrence Heall, of Fullerton, one
of its earliest settlers, died. suddenly the
other day.
Kingsville and Leamington evaporat-
ing factories are each employing about
100 hands.
Robert j. Lancashire, aged four, was
killed by a seed drill on a farm near
Peterboro'.
Winnipeg's Normal School opened with
eighty-five pupils, the largest number in
its history.
Robert Burns, formerly of Brockville,
killed by a kickfrom a horse recently at
Qu' Appelle.
A New York syndicate has purchased
half a million dollars worth of real estate
in Windsor.
Emily Rocheford, a widow, fought a
burglar out of her house on Elliott street
in 'Windsor.
Rev. George Fuller has resigned the
pastorate of the Congregational church
at Stratford.
Rev. C. C. ale.Laurin has tendered his
resignation of the pastorate of the Sarnia
Baptist church.
George VT. Francis, a merchant, of Buf-
falo, Stied 50, suidded at Crystal Beach,
near Ridgeway.
Lightning damaged the residence of W.
34. German., M. P. P., of Welland on.
Thursday night.
Dr. Wright, head. master of the Belle-
ville high school, died on Sunday at Pic -
ton, aged fifty-six.
Braithwaite Crowe, it resident of Lon-
don Township for nearly sixty years, died
Monday, aged eighty.
Financial and Industrial.
The Egyptian cotton crop is healthy
and forward everywhere.
Louisville, Ky. has the largest tobacco
warehouse in the world. It can store
7,000 hogsheads.
During the last ten years the value of
assessed District of Columbia property
was more than double, being now 9191,-
417,804.
There are 15.000 salaried employes on
the lists in New York City, and the total
ex-penclitures of the city government were
889,000,000 for the year.
The world's chief supply of platinum
comes from the mines in the Ural. 'Moun-
tains. The mines are being worked to
their fullest capacity with orders for two
years ahead.
The greatest handle factory, where
handles of axes, hammers and all sorts of
tools are made of the best hickory, and.
are shipped by the millions to all parts of
the world., is located at Louisville, Ky.
year. The deficit for last year will there
fore be $648,252. The net debt on June
30th was 9246,168,920, aix inerease of 94,-
485,948.
Dr. Robert R, Smith, of Loboahas been
ejected from his farm on it writ issued by
Miss H. L. Thompson, of London, under
a foreclosure of mortgage. The doctor's
goods were placed in the ,giatter.
A special cable to the Montreal Star re-
ports Terenee O'Brien, Governor of New-
foundland, as saying that the majority of
the islanders would, if compelled to choose,
prefer it union with the States to one with
Canada.
An effort will be made to recover the
machinery from the Canadian steamer
Enterprise, wrecked on North Point reef,
Mich,, but the boat willprove a total loss.
The wreckers have returned with 600
bushe1s. of wheat, only slightly damaged.
The total receipts at the Industrial Ex-
hibition were about 969,000, This is
95,000 less than last year, the decrease be-
ing attributable to a falling 'off in the
takings from the grand stand on the var-
ious wet days on Whieh no performance
was given. The attendance was larger
this year than last.
In another column will be found an
open letter from a .prominent physician
relating the facts of a cure of consump-
tion after the patient had. reached the
last stages of this hitherto unconquered
disease. The statements made ate really
remarkable, and mark another advance
in the progress of medical science. Our
readers will find the article well worth a
careful perusal.
MacWherrell Gives Up Hope.
MacWherrell has given up all hope of
having his sentence commuted, and for
some time has been moody and morose.
He ca,u perform well on the harmonica,
but his instrument is broken, and in all
probability he has played his last piece.
The condemned man is kindly treated by
the jail officials, andfrom the jailer's fam-
ily receives delicacies in food and fruit.
jack Clarridge was one of the death
watch when MacWherrell was sentenced
to death, but when a respite was granted.
the death wateh was removed. Since the
Minister of Justice decided that Mac-
Wherrell would not get a new trial an-
other watch has been put on in the person
of J. Atkinson. leracWherrell is averse
to Atkinson's company, and wishes Olar-
ridge reinstated, if a watch there must
be. "For," says he, "that man Atkinson
won't talk; he's too religious; he sits
reading. hymns all night, vihile Olarridge
is good company and can play the mouth
organ." Rev. M. L. Pearson, pastor of
Grace Methodist Church, is attending to
the spiritual wants of the doomed man.
A. short time ago MacWherrell sent the
Rev. M. L. Pearson a letter, in which he
gave that gentleman to understand that
he no longer required his services, that
he intended to die as he hafl lived. Mr.
Pearson, however, would. not be denied,
and is most attentive and. regular in his
visits to the condemned man. Walker's
spiritual needs are beingattended to by
the Salvation Army lassies stationed at
Brampton.
On Labor Day the Galt and Preston
Electric Railway carried over 1,800 pass-
engers, the largest day's work since the
road started.
Mrs. llieGowan, a Hamilton lady, has
some peaches of the Crawford variety
which measure eight and half inches in
circumference.
J. S. Shippey and A. McDonald, two
prospectors'were drowned on Saturda,y
at Rat Portage. Two companions hada
narrow escape.
John F. Cunningham, the Sudbury
burglar, who escaped from Kingston pen-
itentiary a week ago, has surrendered to
the authorities.
The Hamilton Sunday alliance intend
holding a series of meetings as an edu-
cational campaign in the cause of Sab-
bath observance.
The Grand Trunk Railway has flecided
upon issuing a pay ticket, which, by ar-
rangement, will be payable at almost any
bank in Canada.
One of the oldest residents of Waterloo
county passed away the other evening in
the person of Miss Mary McNaught, aged
ninety-five years.
The wheat crop in the Northwest is
turning out better than was expected.
The average yield will be about twenty
bushels to the acre.
Fireproof 'Wood.
Almost contemporaneously with the
invention of bullet-proof cloth comes a
report of the discovery of fire -proof and
steel -proof wood. Several species of iron-
wood have been known. for a, long time,
and. have been widely used., on account
of their extraorclinary vedght and hard-
ness, in the manufacture of such articles
as axles and plows. These, however,
appear te be excelled by a certain tree
found in the North.ern Transvaal, regard-
ing which M. Brasiaux. itt preeent travel-
ing in South Afriea, has transmitted it
note to the, Geographical Society of
France. The wood ie a, sort of ebony,
and a; so exeeeclingly hard that it Can not
be out or worked in the ordinary manner,
except' when green. 'When mature and
dry, it resists every known tool, and
either blunts or breaks the finest temper-
ed steel. It is, apparently almost im-
pregnable against fire, and it regained
fortnight's constant burning to rectums
the trunk of one of these trees to ashes.
The wood, although heavy, is consider-
ably lighter than iron or steel, If it
should be found to exist in any quantity,
and satisfactory MOMS of working it can
be discovered, it is thought that it may
find an exteneive application in the arts.
The firet real railway' tunnel in Fin-
land will be the one on the now Heishige-
for-Abo coast line,. which will pass.
through a mountain between niceties and
Faskars. •
Anthracite coal now sells in 'Winnipeg
at 97.50 per ton, which is a reduction of
93 from last year's price.
The whaler Falcon, with the Peary ex-
pedition on board, left St. John's, Nfld.,
for Philadelphia Monday.
Fresh cases of fraud upon young Eng-
lishmen. aporentieed to farmers are re-
ported in 'Western Ontaxie.
John Foster, an elderly farmer, near
Welland, was struck and killed by light-
ning on Saturday evening.
Wilson Lloyed, a cheesemaker of Plain-
field, was killed by lightning at Shannon-
ville on Saturday afternoon.
Stratford Collegiate Institute Board has
raised. the fees from 96 to 910 per year for
both country and city pupils.
Joseph Riley's grain, elevator was burnt
at Cypress River, N.W.T., on Saturday,
with 10,000 bashels of wheat.
A. large number of London. sailed chil-
dren continue to remain away from school
owing to the vaccination law.
Many barns were destroyed ana other
damage dons in. various parts of Onta,rio
by Saturday's thunder storm.
Diphtheria of a most malignant type is
still found in several homes along the first
concession of North Norwich.
The license comeniesioners of Hamilton
have decided to close up all the nickel -in -
the -slot mathines in that city.
It is generally conceded that the town
of Almonte this season. supported the best
purely lacrosse team in thee seebion,
The Ontario Provincial convention of
the Socilety of Christian tncleavor takes
pia= King.ston, beginnitig Oct. 10.
Kingston's School Manaaeement Cern-
mitteci has asked. the mayor to prevent
the ills yibutian of medical pamphlets.
Miss Elizabeth Edgar, of Plainfield,
N.J., was run over by a train on the Nia-
gara Falls Electric Railway on Saturday
and instantly killed.
Thomas Bishop and Frank Bacon have
been committed for trial at Paris for the
larceny of ten head of cattle from the
farm of Mike Skelly.
The Bell Telephone Company contem-
plates placing its system in many of the
towns in the southwestern part of the
Province of Manitoba.
N AND OUT OF SCHOOL
LITTLE BIT OF HUMOR.
A, Little Pun Now and Then is Benche4
by the Best of Men. A Cure for the
Dyspepsia and the Blues.
Wiiere They Aro.
Ellerton—I should like to knowwhere
the bright girls of the past ane?
'Bronson--eI should say that some of
them are administering cautious doses of
paregoric to the bright girls of the future,
Adam's Great Luck.
Little Johnny—Solomon was the wisest
man, but A.dani was the luckiest.
Little Ethel—Why was he ?
Little Johnny—Tams° when Adam was
a boy there wasn't a school house in the
whole world.
The customs collections at Stratford for
August were: Exports'920,537; imports,
free goods, $13,597 ; dutiable, 915,289;
duty collected, $9,463.30.
The Assizes opened at Brampton. Tues-
day. The trial of Walker for the murder
of Mrs. Williams will, it is said, go over
until the Spring A.ssizes.
Charles Green, the alleged murderer of
Patrick Cosgrove in Cornwall, was seen in
Waddington, N.Y., on Friday night, but
has not yet been arrested.
There was a lively time at the Berlin
Council the other evening over a bill of
9205.30 charged by Dr. Nlichin for vacci-
nating the school children.
.A. laborer named Delude was badly
burnt in a Montreal sewer on Saturday
morning through the gas igniting from a
naked light he was carrying.
A. colored convict at the Central named
Herbert on Saturday tried to kill Guard
Hartley. Hartley, fired in self-defence
and seriously wounded the convict.
Thos. Waymark, a married man, aged
forty-five of Belleville, has eloped with a
girl named Dunn, aged twenty, and they
are said to be living at Burk's Falls.
Mersea Township is said to be the low-
est assessed municipality in Western On-
tario, the rate being 61- mills. Tilbury
West conies next with a rate of 10 mills.
Mr. Alfred T. Bolton, the well-known
undertaker, Mount Brydges, and for
thirty-five years a resident of the village,
dropped dead while at work in his shop.
Plantaganet, Ont., on Saturday the
three-year-old son. of Mr. Frederick
Beaulne'blacksmith, was drowned by
falling off the boom at the head of the
mill.
The Northern Pacific shops at Brain-
erd, which have been practically idle
since ;rune 28, have re -opened, and will
give employment to between 400 and 500
men.
Capt. Kindersley, one of the Governor -
General's A.D.C., was married in Quebec
on, Saturday afternoon to Miss Jean
Brown. Lord Aberdeen gave the bride
away.
Several farmers in Lambton, Norfolk,
Plaldimand and Huron Counties have re-
cently been Riled for skimming or add-
ing. water to milk supplied to cheese fa,c-
Ono l undyed and four million five lain-
deedo d fifty-five thousand feet of logs
have en token out df the Spenith
0
tones.
Two Stratford men made ti, bet that,
they could weigh clown four other eta-
zens. Tho men of substance lost, but by
only four pounds, Their weight was 610
pounds.
Out of the 400 acres of flax delivered ail
the Thamesferd mills, it is estimated that
the grasshoppers and caickets have been
the means of destroying nearly 92,000
worth of seed.
While 'Mr. John 'Westlake, of Farqu-
har, was engaged witb, his steam thresher
on the farm of Mr. Nail, neat Lumley,
the steam chest of the engine burst, mak-
ing a total wreck of it.
Will C. Noble, son. of Mr. Chas, Noble,
o Killiteney, Ont., accidental Cy that him-
self while duck hanting near Little Cur-
rent on Monday. He died in fifteen min -
titers after the accident,
The revenue of the Dominion for the
year ending june 80, 1894. WAS $39,286e.
758' as comma:cid with $88.101,701 for
1802-3, and the, exesinclibares'i$37,5a8,,378,
es compile/ wi $861715,121 for previous
PING YANG.
Not Discouraged.
Teacher—You have failed in your his-.
tory lessons every day this week.
Boy (reluctantly)—Y-e-s-m.
Teacher—What will you do when you
grow up !
Boy (brightly)=I'll buy a 'eyclopedia,
What Interested Einl•
Mainrria—I noticed that you paid very
close attention to the minister, Robbie.
Were you interested, dear?
Robbie—Yes, siree. I kept wonderin'
how long it would be before he found out
that his necktie was -way above his coller.
Battle Between the Oriental Belliger-
ents—Great Japanese Victory -10,000
Chinese Killed or Made Prisoners.
A. Central News despatch frou Seoul
says a great battle has been fought at
Ping Yang between the Chinese and jap-
anese troops, in which the former were
utterly routed. On Thursday a Japanese
column. laom Pong San made a recognais-
sauce in force, drawing the fire of the
Chinese forts, and thus ascertained their
positions. The column then fell back in
good order, with little loss.
By Friday night all the Japanese were
in position for combined attack upon the
enemy. The Gensan column threatened
the left flank of the Chinese, the Pong
San column threatening the Chinese cen-
tre, while the Hwang Ju column operated
against the right, which had. been rein-
forced the day before by a detachment of
marines from the fleet at the mouth of
the Taitong River. The Chinese had
-utilized the old defences of Ping Yang,
and had thrown up new works'making
the position an exceptionally strong one.
The battle was opened. on Saturday at
daybreak by it Japanese cannonade of the
Chinese works, which was continued
without cessation until afternoon., the
Chinese responding. The work with the
heavy guns showed ,good practice. At
about 2 o'clock a body of infantry was
thrown forward by the Japanese and
maintained a rifle fire upon the enemy
until dusk. Throughout the day only
the Peng San column was engaged. The
Chinese defene,es had suffered greatly,
but the losses on either side wore small,
both the Chinese and Japanese having
the advantage el considerable shelter.
The Japanese troops, however, had gain-
ed some advanced positions.
The firing continued at intervals dur-
ing the night, and in the meantime two
Japanese flanking columns had formed
a cordon around the Chinese. At 3
o'clock inthe morning S,11 attack was
made by the Japanese coltunn.s simul-
taneously, and with adnairable precision.
The Chinese lines, which were so strong
in front, were faun& to be weak in the
rear, and here the attack was a perfect
success. The Chinese were completely
taken by surprise, and were thrown into
a panic. Hundreds were cut down, and
those who escaped death, finding them-
selves surrounded at every point,. broke
and. fled. Some of the Viceroy 1..a Hung
Chang's European clrilled troops stood
their ground to the eastward, and were
cut •down to it man. The Peng San
column, swarming over the defences in
front, completed the rout, Half an hour
after the attack was opened, the positions
at Ping Yang were in poseession of the
Japanese.
It is esti natecl thet 20,000 Chinese
soaliers were engaged in the battle, The
Japanese captered immense stores of pro-
visume, nit-mit/ens of war end hundreds
of colors. Tho Chinese loss is estimated
at 16,000 killed. wotincled anti taken
prisoners. Among those Captured by the
Japanese are several of the Chinese com-
manding officers, including Gen. Teo
Puna, commander-in-chief of the Man-
eliarlati army, who was severely wound. -
cal.
The Nimes° loss is only 00 killed. and
270 wounded, including eleven officers.
Mostei f the casualties among. the Japan-
eso occureed daring the first day's fight-
ing, and very few were the result of the
night ate*.
The Names° forces are in active pur-
suit of the fugitives, who have thrown,
tievey their arm end readily yield them-
selves prisoners. A desultory war ina,y
be carried on for some time to comet but
unless Chine shall stained in getting ea -
°thee army into the peninsula Corea will
toalotiatecily virettin in possession of the
Japanese.
Slang lie a wart axi he body of speed).
Hard on the Baby.
The advertisement of a nursing bottle
in one of om exchanges concludes as fol-
lows : "When the baby is done drinking
it in.ust be unserewed and laid in a cool
place under a tap. If the baby does not
thrive on fresh milk, it should be boiled."
A Canso for Thankfulness.
Miss Short—Oh dear! I feel miserable
this morning. I have sharp. shooting
pains all the way from my shoulders to
the tips of in.y fingers.
Miss Long—Why don't you look on the
bright side, my dear. • You should be
thankful your arms are no longer.
The Man Who Built the Falls.
A News reporter, in turning the corner
of Queen and McCaul streets ran into a
mall.
" -What do you mean ? " asked the ,
stra,nger, "don't you knowwho I am?" !.a
"I 'begyour pardon, but Ldon't know
you," said the reporter.
"Why, everyone knows me. Pm the
man who built Niagara Falls."
That Obscuring Hat.
"Don't you like to think about the
days of your youth?" asked the man of
reminiscent moods; "doesn't your heart
feel an envious admiration for the bare-
foot boy ?"
"No, replied the youth who had been
to the theatre the night before. "I don't
care for barefoot boys, but 1 certainly
should dote on bareheaded girls."
Bagged. the Wrong Bird.
Young hard.up vowed. a mighty vow:
"I'll wed a girl with cash," said he ,
"Pll bag a millionairess, though
I sue a year on bended knee."
He sued a year on bended knee
With constancy that never flagged ;
But, oh, no maiden rich bagged he—,
'Twas but his trousers that he bagged.
Time Dragged.
Little Johnny, having been invited out
to dinner with his mother, was comenancl-
ed not to speak at the table except when
he warasked a question, and promised to
obey the command.
At the table no attention was paid to
Johnny for a long time. He grew very
restless, and his mother could see that he
was having a hard time to "hold in."
By and by he could stand it no longee.
'Mamma," he cried out, "when, are
they going to begin asking ins ques-
tions ?"
Rept Those to Himself.
That eccentric English statesman, Rob-
ert Lowel afterward. Lord Sherbrooke,
was criticising the marriage service one
night in his usual sarcastic style. " 'Witli
all my worldly goods I thee endow,'" he
scornfully quoted. "That was what I
solemnly declared to Mrs. Lowe, at a time
when. I hadn't a shilling to bless myself
with."
"But, my dear," remonstrated Mrs.
Lowe, who scarcely enjoyed this frank
revelation of their early poverty., " you
had your brilliant intellectual abilities."
"Oh, yes," returned her merciless hus-
band, "but I certainly did not endow •
you. with those."
He Identified the Corpse.
The waters of the bay had washed up
a ions, lank body, and for two days it
lay in an undertaker's shop awaiting
identification. Nobody on Cape Codknew
the man. At last an old rickety waggon
rattled up and Farmer Hall got down.
Passing into the back- room he looked at
the body for a moment and said : "That's
him."
The undertaker asked for further in-
formation, but Farmer Hall could only
say it was Tompkins, his hired man.
"But can't you tell just why he is
Tompkins? Are they his clothes? Can't
you furnish some positive means df iden-
tification ?" And the undertaker looked
expectant.
Farmer Hall shifted his place, and -was
lost in thought. Suddenly hs slapped his
leg.
''Well?''
"Ho stuttered."'
Too Much Education a Disadvantage.
The educated young man had strack
tb.e mountain town :air a stay of several
woke, and at the railroad station he was
met by the landlord of the tavern which
was to be home to him during •his
"Gotaly baggage?" asked the old man.
"Two trunks," responded the visitor,
her air they?"
"These aro they," clesiguatiix by it
nod the two which belonged to hun.
. (Which 7" enquired the landlord, stop-
ping suddenly.
i".01.105e," repeated the youth, pointing
out the two with his stick, "those are.
they."
"Yes, yes," said the old man, beeornieg
very fatherly in his manner, "hut you
hadn't better say it so's anybody kin hear
you. EP you wetter gib along with the
.folks in the.se parts., and live peaceal.de, 1.
reckon you'd better say themls "
We are prapated to do job pritting of
eaety deseription at the shortest notioe,