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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-3-8, Page 2v.: WOOINGS OF ROYALTIES ei to do this—it was an aet Of ItUniV whielt had been, strictly inealeeted int her; and it proceenei from the *tole devotional intattlse videell caused King aeorge to ante off his crown when be knelt at the altar cluriug the °mete - ROMANCE RARELY ASSOCIATED WITH THEM - How Queen Charlotte Came to Enaland —Elizabeth Farnese's Arrival in Span. The romantic wooing of the King et Spain reminds one how rarely the cle- runt of romance has been associated with royal marriages. What could have been more brutally inconsiderate than the arrangements for the marriage otQueeri Charlotte, wife of King George Ilia This Princess, just 17, was selected as consort, for the King of England. Her life at Mecklenburg, writes Lady Violet Greville la the Lon- don Daily Chronicle, had hitherto been of the simplest. She dressed "en robe de chambre" every day except Sunday, when she put on her. best gown and drove out in a coach and six. The Am- bassador sent to demand h.er hand hav- ing arrived, she Was told nothing of hie mission, merely that she was to dine downstairs that night for the first time. "Mind what you say, et ne faites pas lianfalltnn was the warning of her eld- est brother. After dinner, at which she was naturally very shy, he beheld the saloon illuminated, a table and two cushions prepared for a weeding, her brother again saying, "Atkins, ne fates pas Vernant, tti vas etre mine d'Anglee terre," led her in. Some kind of ceremony then took place; elle• _was embraced by her family, e-prese7nant,iteethenateasesseder with a beautiful parure of diamonds, includ- ing the little crown of diamonds whieh sc oftenappears in her portraits. She was pressed for an immediate departure, but pleaded for the respite for a week, in order to take leave of everybody. During this time she ran about visiting the poor and the little garden of medical herbs, fruit and flowers which she culti- vated herself for the benalt of the poor. She afterwards introduced the same ptactice at Kew and Richmond. THE POOR LITTLE BRIDE suffered a terrible crossing to Harwich, the royal yacht being nearly driven on the coast of Norway. The Duchess of Aneaster and Hamilton, sent to conduct the Princess of England, were both much indisposed, but Charlotte herself re - mined quite well and cheered the com- pete.' by singing Luther's hymns to her harpsichord in her cabin with the door open. Perhaps she remembered the say- ing attributed to Efenrietta.Maria, the witaseteatineleeorr, who was also nearly -"wrecked on her crossing, "Les reines tie se noient pas." t Arriving in London at about 3 o'clock, having travelled since 12, she was met Ly the King in the garden of St. aames's Palace. Attempting to kneel, he was -caught by the enthusiastic monarch, who embraced her kindly and nearly carried her upstairs. That very even- ing the wedding ceremony took place. Horace Walpole writes of the new Queen: "She looks very sensible, cheer- ful and is reniarkably genteel" (that fay- crite epithet of the period). ,Her stare of diamonds was very peen ete, asannistomacher sumptuous, her vio- let velvet Mantle and ermine so heavy that her clothes were dragged almost clown to her waist. The wedding over and supper not being ready, the Queen ea! down and obligingly: played and , sang to her harpischord. The royal warty never separated till betweeen 3 in the morning, no slight trial for a bride of 17 who had employed the few moments she passed in her room after her arrival in trying on her wedding gown and the rest of her trousseau. When first she caught sight of the pa- lace she became very nervous, and, be- ing told that she was to be married that evening, she, in fact,' FAINTED IN THE CARRIAGE. The Duchess of Hamilton, one of the beautiful Miss Gunnhigs, smiling at her • fears, Chariotte said: "You may laugh • —you have been married twiee—but to me it isno joke." It is pleasant to think • that after being so highly tried Char- loteent married tile preyed perfectly, hap - a py. Very different was the arrival of Catherine of Braganza, who, ..when first seen by Charles rr., was laid up with a cough and a little fever in bed. He was net favorably impressed by his pew concert, and remarked as much to his attendants. • Elizabeth Femme, who married the King of Spain, son of Louis XIV. ef France. as his second wife, celebrate/. her arrival in Spain by quarrelling with and summarily dismissing the lady in waiting sent, to receive her, the famous Princesee, des Ursins, who had ruled the late Queen, and by whoni she herseli had been chosen as successor. Eliza- Leth's future life was passed in slavish attendance on her hneband that she might secure her influence over him and prevent any State affairs being trans- acted without knowledge. Twenty min- utes only of the day, and night was she permitted to he alone. Elizabeth was ar, ardent sportswoman and followed tbe ring even at the chase; the rest .of her elistence was paseed in a routine of ar- duous etipuette and monotony. George IV's reception of his bride, Caroline of Brunswick, is well known— how the blue eyed, bouncing, buxom girl was implored by Lord Malmesbuny to be very particular about her person • and her toilet; how the Prince 'pretends ed to be overcome at their first meeting •and called far a dram of brandy, and bow the Princees afterward eeclared that he was drunk on her wedding • tight. Not mueh Chalice et happiness theret • Until quite recently very little •liberty was accorded to princesses, Queen Charlotte, even after her merriage, was for several years in thraldom to the Doetager Princess of Wales and denied al diversion end pleasure. She told Miss Burney that even • her jewels had ceased to dazzle and interest her. "Be- • ton woes!' she said. "it is the pleasure of a weels, a fortnight at Most, and then rdurns no more." ONE OF HER GREATEST GRIEFS, and one which dewed her bitter, tears, wee the determination of her thertheraint lew that, Charlotte should wear hertnew- els What she /*delved the sadrement for . the first, tithe. after She beearee . 'naivete Site bad assoreistel-herf own mot, eie, ton, The aiurtship of Queen Victoria brings us into a pleasanter atmosphere. Qn Prince A.lberas feet visit to England she liked and appreciated Ilion, at once, arel his tastes agreed with hers, "Every grace had been showered, by nature an this charming boy," say. Baron Stock mar of hirn at this time. The Baron judged him critically, calmly and impar- tially until he finally became his most attached and devoted friend and adviser, Queen Victoria, and her cousin met at first unconscious of the object of their acquaintanee, and when the desired im- pression had been produced, the 3/clung Prince, like a second Sir Galahad, was sent away to travel and. fit himself ty study and careful education for his great position. On his return to England the Queen writes: "Albert's beauty is most striking, and he is most amiable and unaffected—in short, fascinating." The young couple were genuinely in Icve, and the Queen informed 1,ord Melt bourne that the conquest of her heart was complete. So serious, so dignified, so studious and so excellent a young man would hsfuse an element of poetry and deep feeling into his love making; hut by the rules of etiquette the proposal itself had to come from the young Queen, whose maidenly modesty was somewhat embarrassed at the prospect. She summoned him to her boudoir. ware he found her atone. After some dieulutory talk due to her shyness, she suddenly said: "Could you forsake your country for rne?" The Prince answered by clasping her in his arms, In such simple fashion did a young sovereign woo and win the husbaad of her choice. FROM BONNIE SCOTLAND NOTES OF INTEREST FROM HER BANKS AND BRAES. What is Going on in the Highlands and Lowlands of Auld Scotia. The death rate of Glasgow last year was the lowest, on record. Leith is thinking of trying emigration with some of its unemployed. The Glasgow corporation is offering to supply electricity for power purposes Sasol. per unit. . Since the New ' Year 29 joint elects companies have been registered, with a -total, capital f se793,700. • During 1905 Musselburgh police dealt with. 574 persons, being a decrease of 17e compared with 1004. The average attendance at the, 73 board .schools in Glasgow last year was 68,511. The grant caned was 486,784. On the 19th ult. a• draft of the and Battalion of Scottish Rifles left Mary- hill (Caledonian) station en route for India. The police statistics for Aberdeen show that during the past year there was a marked decrease of crime in the city compared with 1904. Plans have prepared by the Commis- sioners of H. M. Works and Public Buildings for the enlargement of the head post -office in Ayr. The statue of Alexander and Buce- pbalus, situated in St. Andrew Square, Edinburgle opposite the Melville monu- ment, is to be shifted to Nicolson Square to make room for the Gladstone statue. On the 26th ult. damage to the extent of 4500 was done by fire in the drying flat of Logie Spinning Nalle Dundee. There was a good deal of excitement before all the women workers were got to the outside. Sir Archibald Alison, Bart., the ells- tinguished general, celebrated his 80th birthday on the 21st ult., having been born at Edinburgh, January 21, 1826. Ile was the elder son of a late sheriff of Lanarkshire ,theaatither of the "His- thry of Europe.' • The .funeral of Mr. James Robertson; The late -Deputy Town Clerk of Edin- burgh, took .plaee• at few days ago te -Moraingside cerneteeyThere:wns a large attendance of mourners, Madding sev- eral members of the Town Council and the heads of members of various • city departments. A handsome addition to Glasgow Vic- toria Infirmary was opened recently, adore a. large gathering of ladies . and gentlemen, by Lady Blysysood. The addition- consists of a new ward pavie, lion, four *storeys in height, giving ac- commodation for eighteen beds on each floor, and an extension of the nurses' home, comprising thirty-seven edition - a' beds and six parlors. The cost was £30,000. One of the oldest religions sects in Scotland does not permit its members to avail themselves of the franchise. This is the Reformed Presbyterians or Macmillanites, as they are sometimes called, who date from the Revolution of 1688, when they refused to join the Na- tional church because the Solemn League and Covenant was riolonger coesidered bindings $500 PER DAY FOR ORCHIDS. *Wealthy Frenchwoman in Debt—Owes • , Coacbroan"83,001). The Marquise de la Roche-Fontenille, of -Paris, is a woman of expensive tag*.•When she, married in 1888 she had a fortune "of $185,000 and her fattier, since that dete, has been generous in the matter a presents. She spent so Wildly that her •relatives intervened, eel a family council and got the remains of her fortune put into tire hands of tise Court of Chancery. She etas applied for leave to menage her own affairs, arid the case -is now wider consideration, The other day it carne oist that the prineipal consequence of judicial inter.- ference was thet, instead of paying cash fot her expensive caprices, she has beat getting into, debt. She owes her coachnian $a,000, and is on the books ot varintis fashionable restagrante to the tune of $3,500. , When easvell recently she decorated her bed strati costly orchids, renewed throe tiniee a day, at a cost of l500 per SECRET •OF HAI:TINES sv"Inn angel', end evil passion, are all se qualities Lanai in thought and Matured te a:1ton, and the self-control required Is to make oneself turn tern such oiliest and eomMand the preeence of nob, ler things. Content, which is the very essence of heppiness, is, after all, but the outcome of control. To learn to de without" is one of the fundamental principles of happiness. We hear now -a -days a great deal about the "simple life," but the radical mistake appears to be that there iS intrinsic value in simplicity, as there is no splendid duty in striving after bap- piness. Both ought .to De the outcome ce a sincere deare to help others. — London Answers. LADY HENRY SOMnIISF,T SAYS IT le SELF-CONTBOL. Essential to Happiness, Because We Are Masters of Our Whole Being. The secret of happiness has, for ell time, been the quest of humanity, and many and farious, have been the malt- eds employed to find this coveted trea- sure, and many the spurious wares put upon the world's market and labelled the genuine article. The fact is, it is an impossible subject on which. to genes:- alize, because true happiness, for each cite of us is made up in such varying Ways. Nevertheless, there are certain underlying principles which form a uni- versal basis under its many forms. Happiness is a personal possession. lat a very large extent it is independent et circumstances; indeed, the most fay (wed lives are devoid of it, unless th quality .of being able to be happy ex tees, and the most meagae existence cat be till of a real enjoyment of life, If had to write a prescription which I be lieved would, as far as the change anc chance of life would allow, ensure hap piness, I should place first and foremos the quality of self-coutrol. The aspire, lion of every truly great people has al ways been to ensure this quality. SELF-CONTROL THE FIRST ESSEN TIAL. FESTIVAL AND LABOR. The Santals of Bengal Are a appy -Go - Lucky People. The summer is the time of festivals for the Salads, one �f the tribes of Ben- . gal, India, but when the tuue comes for 1 • • In the Golden Age of every eaten it has been sought after as the key, to na- tional success; and just in proportion as each nation has lost hold on this qua- lity has it eunk in the scaleof greatness and of power. • • It is in the animal world, the differ- ence between the trained and the un- trained, this immediate answering to 'guidance and to duty. .It is a habit that is acquired, and that grows, as does almost every other quality, easier in the using. The animal depends upon the continual guidance of mare whereas the quality once acquired is practised by man without any goading from without, and becomes in itself a pleasure. To be unable to curb any part of our- selves must always involve humiliation and disappointment. If happiness con- sists in what we are, then it becomes ap- parent that we must command all our powers. The splendid achievements of the aa- panese are tmquestionably largely duo to the relization of this truth. I have heard on every hand that this nation is one of the happiest in the world; and yet the whole secret of this. education lies in the .aultivation of self-control. It bas developed on the one hand; a diesipline' of fortitude, Which has scareely a para. Id l ill the world's history,: and a, singu- lar unselfish consideration of others which pre-eminently distinguishes that great race. • REASON -OF JAPAN'S SUCCESS: Boys and. girls are lerought up to shed nc tears, to utter no groans, for the simple reason that in so doing they -a mild' be wounding the sensibility cf others. A witty Japanese said keeps English- man, "Your husbands kiss -Your wives in public and beat them in private. Ja- panese husbands • beat them in public and kiss them in private." Calmness and composure are the out- come of this self-control, and the equi- librium is not overthrown in moments of unexpected Vexation or disapoint- meat. To those who have not acqUired this habit, how many bad moments succeed a sudden gust of passion or a spell of anger? I remember two Italian maids In Southern Italy having one day a vio- lent quarrel. They nearly came lo blows, as they screamed and gesticulat- ed, livid with rage. I. endeavored to make peace without success. An hour • later I met them leaving the house. "Where are you going?" I asked. "To the chemist, gracious lady," they answered, "to have our blood drawn, as passion is dangerous in the hot •, wea- ther.' What haapiness is there for any household when. the master or mistress loses self-control, andescenes take place -which ,rnest teeter them in their own, es- timation When , sober thought return' s? But self-control must be taught early, and it- is only too rarely looked upon as a' cardinal principle in education. MAKING EXCESSES IMPOSSIeLE. I remember reeding in the late Mrs. Booth's life that she saw this so clearly that when one of her children cried in- ordinately as a tiny baby, in order to as lifted out of its cradle, she bent over the baby for four hours and held it thera, and never in after years did ahe child telipee that it could get its way by this resort of infancy. Self-control would make excessive rating and drinking impossible; would curb unruly passions and still inordinate expressions of anger or of unseemly merriment. It is the lever which regu- lates the whole being and makes it of use its possessor. It is interwoven with all qualities which make man useful and great. No one ean be really happy who has that greatest of physical curses, con- stant ill -health; but if each onet,gave a little pains to ascertain what keeps him In good health, we could go a long way towards ensuring its possession. Over- eating is uncloubedly to -day one of the causes of much unnecessary suffering, and if we each determined how 11111011 feod—or, rattier, hew little foode- was nedessary tp. our evell-being, we should not, have to search far and wide for new fads, bet we should quietly -pursue the regime which we found stracesSful. SOCIAL EVILS. If this is 'true in the matter of food it is more so in the matter, of drink. I am naturally especially interested in this phase of our social habits, but I clehely see that the evil begins and ends with want of selecontrol. The entire Absence of self-control in Our slum population is one of the' meet anient cheracteristics, If the children are angry or hurt they howl Without ceasing, If the women are vexed they will 'euff and shake a child urtmereaftil- ly. A Man gets siolc of his Work, and rival in these hard times without thought he ."e,hriolts it," although stareation • stare,e hen in the face. . But it se1f-dontr hz tretion is the diem,- Judgment hOs•aaetera•eclaradnitattle eeeret'onhappinete, the 'Male quality le The end wit- ttexteiweelt: •' ught is eseential; Jealthiey, urithie the gathering of the scanty crops, says the author of "The Story of an Indian Upland," amusement is forgotten and the fields are alive with workers. Everywhere men, women and children each family combining its strength to make labor light, reaping and binding and stacking the golden corn, move quickie- and silently about their work. Armed only with the short semi-011'0li- ter sickle that compels them to stoop low, they yet prove themselves tireless at their toil, pausing but now and again to stand upright and snatch a moment's • breathing space. On the best and most Fertile fields the masture left over from the rains, carefully' banked in and le• riaciously preserved, remains, and the reapers, as at transplanting tithe, stand ankle-deep in the peels and sodden earth. Down in the hollow at tee foot ef the lowest ridge, whence the ground rises on both sides, terrace on terrace, lies the best and met coveted land. Each field in the amending scale, lacking moisture in phoportion, is less fertile than its neighbor just below: After the harvest there is one -last stage before the Santals' work is at an end. There are payments to be made —so much to the blacksmith, who has repaired his ploughshares free through- out the year, awaiting this moment fee his dues; so much to the Money -lender, if perchance he was forced to borrow grain for the sowing of his orop; or so much to the landlord, should his rent Le payable in kind. Then, at last, all clues fully settled, there but remains for him to store his grain with care against the multitude of dangers that may yet beset it. Rats and insects are the chief enemies • that threaten, and 'to ward off these he has ineented 'a primitive but 'effective store- house of his own. .. , Plaiting straw into long ropes he binds than tightly '• together, barreashasiee, carefully twisting them close &crops the ends so that nothieg. may gett within. Inside, the .grain is securely guarded. Protected by the thick, tight -bound straw ropes, it can come to little harm. These bandis, as the Santal calls them, stand- ing on small stone .pillars to keep them from the type ants, are placed against the wall in, the courtyard against the day when the grain is needed for his household use. The long months of anxiety and -toil are finished, and the Santal, regarding with complacency the tveherwithal to keep himself and family during the coming year; is again ready for festivals. • WENT BACK FOR HER CHILD. A Woman's Sad Story Told in an En. lish Police Court. Eighteen moths ago a farmer by ,he name of Leadley, in passing along a eide 'street in the town of Cloughtore near Scarborough, England, heard the cry of a child, coining, as it were, from the ground at his feet. Leolcing, down, his astonishment was great to find that he had very %nearly stumbled on a bundlintiat jay on theepaverhent • Ex- amining the -buedle more cloacae,. his astdishrhent was stat greater on finding • that the •bundle .contaiodd anfine heal- thytehilde Picking' the child up, he can" ried it to" tad police statiehewhere, after stetting the mariner In which he discov- ered it, he took the bebyi home. , • The police soon discovered who the mother was and placed her under ar- 'rest. Her tale of woe so worked upon the feelings of the magistrate that he discharged her. Weeks afterward the magistrate received a letter from a Warkingroan ie.'farsidistarit British Co- lumbia, who, having read the story' in a newspaper, the British Columbian's heart had, been touched, and in his letter to the magistrate he offered his heart and hand to the woman about whom he had read in the newspaper. He meant' what he arid, and to make it more bind- ing he enclosed ohe hundred dollars , to pay the passage te British Columbia of the women, Who, though he ' had not seen, yet he loved. The woman was found. The man's sroposal was made and she accepted the offer.' To Rental Coludibia she went and 24 hours after' she met her lover they were married. The baby had been adopted, bet the mother, to be completely happy, must have her child with her, so back to Scarborough she went in earch of her offspring. She had no difficulty in find- ing. the infant, and with her progious 'harden she left Liverpool lest Saturday for a neW 'Nome in the very far West, when by the time she reaches it she will trave travelled nearly 12,000 miles for her child.• • I-I0aV SHE ESCAPnla. "My darling," said Mr. Spoonamore, es he ileistieci the third itelpirfg of Ine wife's plintecalte, "the lightness and ftater of your excellent cake give a grand and emphatic denial to all the rubbish written in .would-be funny pa - pees about the incapacity of young wivee to cook." , She nestled close to hire. "Or, perhaps," he continued, "it may be that my owe little wifey.pifey is bet- ter than all others.' n "Oh, ducky," she whispered, 'ho' happy you make reel" , And then she thought how lucky it wee that ehe,neel *had the, eneee, to ton teat cake' It the 'baker's. ana REMARKABLE HEIRLOOMS THEY HAVE COME DOWN THROUGH LONG AGES. Two ' el the 'Most Famous Aro the • Bruce's Sword and the "Dreoch of aline" If heirlooms that, are so jealously treasured in the stately homes uf Braila could only be brthight together the Would make one of the must faecinat ing museums in the Miele world, say Loudon Tit -Bits. • Lord Elgin has among his many an Nara treasures al Broomhall the vee helmet the valiant' Robert Bruce ono wore and the huge two -banded. swor which wielded with such deadly died in muny a hard-fought fray; while th Douglas banner which floated in 1,11 thickest of the fight at Otterburn ha come down to our times through nearly twenty generations of descendants (i Archibald Douglas, who bore it so gal Janine The brooch of Lorne, too, which wile taken from Robert Bruce ,,at the battle of Dalrigh, has been preserved ever • since at Dorian/ 'Castle by tee family of -McDougall. • Another Most intresting re. lic of Bruce days is THE FAMOUS 'LEE PENNY, LEADING MARKETS BREADSTUFFS, Toronto, March 6.— Wheat — Cattalo —No. 2 wines. 78c, red 77y4c mixed 77c, spring and goose 740, et outside. points, Wheat -- Manitoba — Sec easter, No. 1 hard 87c, No. 1 Northern 84 -Xe, No. 2 northern 82c, No. 3 northern Ina, at lake ports; all -rail quotations, at Islorth 118,Y, are 3%c more teen these prices. Flour — Ontario — FOE' eXpOli *3.10, 1 euyers' bags, at outside points, for 90 y per cent. patents; high patents, at To. r.onto, bags included, aro quoted at $3.- s 65; 90 per Cent. patents, $3.50; Maretobe , flisn, $4.30 to $4.40 for la patents, $4 for - and ,patents and $3.90 for bakers', Y Minced— Ontario bran firm, $16.50 to $17, in bags, oetside; shorts, $16.50 d to $17.50; Manitoba bran, $19, shorts 520 at Toronto and equal points. 0' Oats—Sac easier, 34%c for No. 2 white ' e and 33%c for No. 2 mixed, at outside s poinle. I Barley — Firmer, 48%oto 49c for NC, f 2, 46c to 46eec for No. 3 extra and- 44c Lor N6. 3, outside points. Peas -7-„77c to 77e0 outside. Rye -- 69c to 70c, outside. Cern —Canadian — 41c to 420, Cha - team. freights; American easier, No. 3 o ellow 4$0, mixed 47Sac, at Toronto. Buckwheat .. 490 to 493gc, outside., which was the inspration of Scott's lansman." The magical coin, Which is a silver groat of Edward -lien time, with a ..cornelian set in it, was brought 11001 the East by' ,Sir Simon Lockhart and is credited with wonderful powers of healing the sick and curing those who had been bitten by mad dogs. Among s -the many memorials of Sir Francis Drake to be seen in private houses is the very sword, which was pre- sented to him by the burgesses of Ply- mouth, and which now belongs, to Sir Francis Elliott Drake of Buckland Ab- bey. At Bucklers(' Abbey also are the drum which accompanied thegreat' na- val , hero on his voyage in the Pelican; a cocoanut cup mounted in silver gilt, given by Queen Elizabeth to Sir Francis and' also a silver gilt standing dish and ccver. At Kimberley Hall, the Norfolk seat of Lord Kimberley, are many Yalu- sble memorials of old days, notably the silver hilt of the sword, which his lord- ship's ancestor, Sir John Woclehouse, wielded at Agincourt, ane a rosary of coral and gold. presented to Sir Philip's wife by Queen Catharine of Valois. Al Lyme Hell, in Sheshlre, is a very ancient bed, with a caopy of carved black wood, in which the Black ,Prince used to sleep; at Oxburgh Hall one ,may look on the bed in which Henry VII. was wont to take ate tests ete Nappa Hall. the ancestral Yorkshire seat of the MetCalfese there is,: or was within recent years, •. A MASSIVE FOUR-POSTER which the beautiful and ill -feted Queen of Scots occupied foi a few nights; and at Sizergh Castle the Stricklande ,proud- ly exhibit a' magnificent' counterpane and toilet cover of the richest white satin embroidered by the hands of Queen 'Catharine Parr during a visit she paid to the castle as a young girl. , The centre of the pattern on both counterpane and toilet cover is.a medal- lion surrounded by a wreath onnaturan flowers wrought in twisted silks and bullion; a spread eagle in bold relief, gorged with the Imperial crown, forms the middle, at each corner is a dragon glowing With purple, crimsonandgold. The colors arie almost as fresh and vi- vid .colors as when they left the hands of ' Catharine centuries ago. At Rug, near Bala, are preserved al knife, fork and dagger, once the peen perty of Owen Glendower, the famous Welsh chieftain; Lord De Lasle and Dud- ley has a magnificent two-hanaed sword, which was once worn by Robert Dud-, ley, Earl of Leicester and the Earl of • Pembroke 'is very proud of the suit of russet and gilt armor which his 'remote precleceesor, William, Earl of Pembroke, wore when commanding the English ar- my .at the battle of Se Quentin. Betteekriewn, and of exceptional enter- esta isetbe ancient glass goblet ,known the world over es'the •. a."fArcrc OF EDENHA.Lis," - which bears the legend: "When this cup saininbrealc and .fall, farewell the luck of Ededhall," and which bits been, ,so long treaSured by the Musetievee. • A similar heirloom is the "Luck of Mun- caster," a quaint enamelled glass vase-, presented by Henry VI. to Sir John Pen- nigton when he sheltered the King at Muncaster, after the battle of Hexham ie 1463; while in the drawing -room of Worthington Hall, the seat of ate Cur - wens, is a small drinking cup of Scotch egaee given by Mary Queen of Scots as a parting ,gift to her friend and host; Sir Henry Curwen. At Hesleyside, Durham, Is a very re- markeble memorial of past centuries in, • the toren of a formidable spur, six inch- es long, which, we are told, the "lady or the family used to. serve upon a dish Id her htleband and sons, as a hint that the domestic larder needed eeplenish- ing." At Coleshill House is a wax im- age of an infant, the last hope of the Pleydells, which is credited with rethink - able' influence over the fortunes atio the Bouveries; and at Matfen one may see the Spcburne falchion, the identical sword with which Conyers of Sockhurne is said to have slain the Serpent. , • GREENLAND'S WE CAP. .Enorigh to,Cover the United States,Quar- s . • tee p1 e Mile Deep. The largest mass oi ice in the world istprobably the one which fills up nearly the whole of the interior (V Greenland, where it has accumuleted since before the dawn of history. It is believed to now form a block about 600,000 square miles in area, and averaging a mile and a half in thickness, According to these statistics, the lump of Ice 18 larger in volume than the whole body of water in • the Meditertancare and there" is enough of it to cover the whole of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland with a layer about seven miles thick. If it were CIA into two eforivere, fent slahs and built up, equally ripen thee entire surface of "gallant little Wales" a would form 8 pile more than 120 miles ,hIgh. There 'IA: ice 0111tigh in rim:cue-1nd In bury the entire area f t the 'Untted Statea a • eilarteit of e deop. COUNTRY PlIODUCE. Butter — Tile demand for creamery continues heavy in the absence of choice dairy, and prices are Siemer. Creamery .. 25c to 26c do solids s.. 23c to 24e Dairy lb. rolls, good to choice 18c to 190 I do large rolls 170 to 18c . do medium .... . .. , . 16c to 17e Cheese — 13eac for large and 13c to 14c for helm, Eggs — New -laid are flrmer itt lac to 'Vic, and storage are quiet at 13c to 140. Poultry — Fat chickens, lac to 11c, thin. 7c to 8e; fat hens, 7%ci to 83 -ac, thin 6e to 70; ducks. 12e to 13c, thin 6c to 7c; geese, 100 to 110; turkeys, 14c to 15c for choice small jots. , Potatoes Ontario, 65c to 75c per bag on track here, 75c to 85c out of store; • eastern; 70c to 80c, on track, and 80c to 00c out of store. • Baled Hay— Unehanged at $8 Per ton for No. 1 timothy ou track here In car lots. $5.50 to $6 for No. 2 or mixed. Baled Straw—Unchanged at $5.50 •t9 $6 per ton for car lots on track here. MONTREAL MARKETS. • Montreal, March 6.— Them was Borne inquiry for Manitoba Wheat by cable to- day, but bids were oat of line and busa ness was very quiet. • Oats—No. 2 39.Yoc to 40c; No. 3. 383e to 39c; No. 4. 37c to 38c. Barley -- Manitoba No. 3,300 to 39eOc; No. 4, 48c to 483-iie; Ontario, 46c f.o.b., per eent. points. Corn -- Arnerionn mixed, 52eac; No. 3 yellow, 53c .ex track. • Flour—Mfinitobit spring wheat patents, $4.50 to Wean; strong, bakers'. $4 te $4.- 10, winter wheat patents, $4.25 to $4 50; straight rollers. $4 to $4.10; do, in hags. $1.85 to $1.95; extras, $1.65 to 51.75. Millfeed -- Manitoba bran in aags, ..19; shorts, $20 per ton; Ontario bran in bulk, $14.50 to 515; shorts, $20; milled mouille, $21 to $24; straight grain =u- tile, $25 to $27 per ton. . Rolled Oats -- Per bag, $1.90 to $1.95, Cornmeal, *LBO to $1.40 Per bag. Hay — No. 1, $8 to $8.50; No. 2, $7 to $7.50; clover, mixed, $6 to $6.50, and pure clover. Cheese --No change in the twat cheese situation. . An improved tone continues and a* good inquiry was reported 'his morning. /taking prices unchanged at 13c to 13%c. Rutter — Continues steady with weak undertone. Demand is only fair. Prices steady at 22c for choice and 21e to 21a!ic for undergrades. Eggs — A slight improvement is re - retried, in.the loont, market; thetigh there was 'no change teethe price thismoreing. Receint§:of new laid were rather limited. The 'demand -wan rather good for .fresh al 160 to 18c. fall stock, selling at 43c to 14c and limed at 11c toe1.2c. • Provisions -Heavy Canadian short cut . pork, -$l; light ebort cut, $20; American short put, $20s American cut clear fat back. $19 to $20; compound lard, fraec to . '73c; Canalises pure lard, 11,Y,c to 12c; itettle rendered. 12,tac to 13c; hams, 12c to 13San. according to size; bacore, 14SOci fresh killed abattoir dressed bogs, $10 to 810.25: emintry dressed, $8,75 to 59.50; alive, $7.75 and $7.60, selects and mama iota '• BUFFALO MAIII'CETS. Buffalo, March 6. — Flour -- Steady. Wheat — Spring easy; No. 1 Northern, 8630 asked, carloads; Winter dull; No. 2 red, 85c. Corn — Steady; No. 2 yel- low, 46c. No. 2 corn, 45*. Oats — Frrn; No. 2 white, 343ac; No. 2 mixed, 33aa.c. Barley -- Opening ,shipment quoted fra to 46c. Rye—Dull; No. 1 offered 700. NEW YORR: WHEAT MARKET. New York, March 6. ---, Spot easy; No, a red, 800 elevator; No, 2 red, 80c f.o.b. afloat; No. 1 northern Duluth, 91c Lona affoat. CATI'Isaf MARKET. Toronto, Mar. 6.—The mitricet to -day, notwithstanding a haaey run, held steady. . • The' eitpdlit cattle went well at. from $4.00 to15.10: ' Goon short-kcep feeders were in goo demand and firm at $4,25 to $4.50. Butchers'. --The market Was steady for the ,general wm of butolters' eattle ant perhaps a lil,ile 11 Inner fm (i)e ch Merest picked,. There was a little falling off in qualify of the minket as a whole, with too many rough, unfinished biltelaar Cattle offering. Choice, well-flnishel butcher- heifers were scaree and high. A par of extra choice heifers, Weighing 2,070 lies. the pair, sold for a4.70, Good ordinary heifers and steers sold at $3,90 Id 54.10, Heavy reeders--Good heavy feeders are firm at $3.85 te $4, Stockers- nowt sthetters are wanted. :sheep end Letebs-telarket sligTitly es ev n T:1 • red 10s_ b';:. - •'is ;teeth' ihe vise ot ihe entre of. 1;1,1 t‘vtv,ii zir,e re wets: er -Oil:egad stoy at *fatal be $6,8a,