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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-3-15, Page 3SACRIFICES OF ROYALTY 11'1141161111C, LOT OF DETHRONED 1101'AL COUPLES, Mien Renounce Their Relijjiofl, Learn a Foreign Language, and Live In a Strange Land, In order to marry King Alfonso of' Spain, Princess Ena of Battenberg hae been compolicel to renounce Protestant- ism, and to embrace the Roman Catholie faith, says Pearson's Weekly. Leer some time now she has also been spending semal hours daily in acquiring a knowedge of the Spanish language and of the mauners and customs of the country which is socia to be her home. To become the bride of the King of Spain, Princess Jena niust leave the country in which, she as born and educated, must leave • the home and friends and scenes she loves, for a practically unknown and, with strange scenes and strange faces en every side, and \OA% nothing is familiar. It is the hard lot of many Royalties who must be *wedded. No other brides and bridegrooms sacrifiee themselves te a like extent. They would rather not wed at all. But to those born of Royal parentage marriage is an absolute neces- sity. "YOU DO NOT LOVE HIM." Religion has had to be saerificed by several Queens now sitting on European thrones., This was the bar which sepa- rated the present Tsar and Tsaritsa. of Russia for a long time. He belonged to the Greek Orthodox Church, the national religion of Ruesia; she was a Lutheran. When as Princess Alexandra Alix, daughter of the Grand Dtike of Hesse, Nicholas, then heir to the Russian throne, first met her, he immediately fell deeply in love with the beautiful and accomplished Princess. His father, Alexander IIL refused to sanction' the betrothal, on the ground et the PrinWss's religion, and she herself, even after the Tsarevitch flee ardently wooed her during her sojourn with her brother-in-law, Prince Louis of Batten - berg, at Walton-on-Tharnes, still nese taied to become his royal bride. The Kaiser of Germany and her relatives, urged Princess Mix to accept. °You do not love him, then," said the Grand Duke of Hesse on one occasion. - "But I do,-indee,d I do!" she, protested, with tears in her eyes. Then at last she 'gave way, was received into the Ortho- • dox Church, and becarne by marriage the Tsaritsa of Russia. In Greece a strange state of affairs ex- ists. Queen Alexandra's brother, King George, is a Lutheran, but his heirs and successors must be members of the Greek Orthodox Church., which is also the re- ligion of the Queen -Consort. • THE BAR OF LAN ..3E. Mar of Vienna, he nide love to her; but she discovered hie rank One day, when he was reviewing the troops in the -OM- form of a field marehall. A bitter quarrel was the result of the Archduke's petitielling We Emperor to allow him to marry the dancer, arid he was dismissed front the army end ban- ished teem the country. Later a recon- ciliation was made betWeell them, The Arclidulte •NWiS Oven perleiSSIOX AO give Pp his rank and aeseene tte tIInc of Johann Orth,, en condition that, lie re- nounced his Austrian citizenship. Jet hann Orel nnareied Milly Stubel, and bought the sailing snip Saint Margar- etha, which some years ago foundered in the South Atlantic with the royal party and all aboard. ,. Many More instances could be given of Royalty who 'lave sacrificed all for love. The elopement of the Crown Prin- cess of Saxony and her brother, the Archduke Leopold Ferdinand, is still fresh in We memory. Whether conven- tional or unconventional, royal mar- riages are invariably pathetic, despite their heave show. They also entail a vast amount of personal sacrifloe on one side or the other. ISA SUB -AMERICAN KIND A MANOJ LIFE OF, THE CANADIAN AND TIIE • YANKEE. What An Englishman Sees In Ou • Cities—Influence From the South. The difference between Canadians and Americans are mostly of degree, writes John A. Hobson in the London Chron- icle. • The superb seleconfide.nce of the average American woman, as she walks abrond, the •licensed obtrusiveness ef children, the perpetual degeneracy of conversation into story-telling—these characteristics are less marked in Can - age than,in the Stales. In fact, Canada presents as yet a sub -American variety of civilization, though in some ways rapidly assimilating to the States. Physically the Canadian seema to be a sturdier stock of heavier build, slower - moving, and less nervous than the American. This is particularly appli- cable to the wom'en, whose movements and conversation are quieter, and who are without the hunted look in the eyes which marks so many Americans. The colder climate may exercise some mod- erating influence, but probably the chief exple.nation of these differences lies in the fact that most Canadians are coun- try -born and bred; there are fetv, lorge cities, and even the dwellers in the cities keep up a more constant contact' with country life. MILLIONAIRES AND OTHERS. In consequence, *when 'Princess -Alice of Battenberg was betrothed to prince Andrew, the King of Greecets son, some three years ago, et Was necessary that she should renounce her own religion and embrace the faith ef her future hus- band. By the terms of the Dutch Constitu- tion, Queen Wilhelmina was not allowed to marry a Roman ride:olio or a. Greek Orthodox Prince, and thus her choice of 11 husband was exceedingly limited. Language is a, Common obstacle that has to be surmounted in royal marriages. Betore her marriage to the King, Queen Alexandra spent several hours daily in • perfecting herself in the Englishtongue. The talented "Carmen Sylva," Queen of Roumania, who was before ber mar- riage Princess Elizabeth of Neuwied, • learned to speak the Roumanian lan- guage in the short interval between her • betrothal and wedding day. • ' • This teak in learning the Swedish tongue, was similarly accomplished by Princess Sophia, he orphan daughter of the Duke of Nassau, the beautiful lady who is now the Queen of Sweden. • WHAT HE WILL SACRIFICE. THE PEOPLE W-,••••* SOMETRING ADOET FRANCE'S NEW PRESIDENT. OeCupies, a Palace and Gets $240,000 Year—Dresses as Peasant in Ilis OW Home. M. Armand leallieres has begui his seven-year reign at ttie Palace Elysee as President of the French Republic at a salary of 3240,000 a year, writes a Paris Correspondent, His election to We highest, office his nation can bestow linen hen is an indication of the Stability which the republic has attained. In its days of storm and steeps, when it bad to fight for existence against enemies within and without, when it had to pick its way Amid snares and pitfalls, it 'needed a keen-evitted, brilliant, resource- ful, masterful men at its head—a Man of the bore -leader type. Now what it needs above all things is a safe man—a man who can be trusted to keep togging along smoothly, to leave well enough afone and firmly resist all dangerous in- novations. M, Fallieres is that sort of ine,n—clear-headed, practical, amiable, genial and tolerant. Republicans know that in him they have secured a strictly constitutional president, one who will confine himself absolutely within the strict prerogative of the chief. magis, tracy of a democracy. Though he does not rank bigh as an orator, the new President is an effective speaker. ' Threats and storms—he has bean' through many—bring out all that ,s unyieldipg in bis character. He deals with political bullies as his grandfather used to deal with restive horses at HIS BLACKSMITH'S FORGE. living and Set tip hoUselteeltheg- passed his examination with flying col Ors. Ad iri the leter %QS be hied him- •eelf 10 les native Gascony, where tie quickly made hie reputation as an able advocate who bad a knack of winning difficult eases. Followieg the bent which he Owed to that 'lucky pireprich.he went in tor polities and becatite mayor el Nerae, lie held teat oftice 'when news came to the town on the fall of We em- pire and the ascent of Gambeele to the eninietry oi tee interior. He did not wait for instructions to procleim the re- publie and to order the removal of the imperial cipher and eagle front the pub - tie buildings. • • Nowhere in Canadian cities does one see the profusion of luxury and waste visible, in New Yank or Chicago; though meet persons seem to live in fair com- fort, there is no class of millionaires dominating "society" and making We form and pace for servile imitation among the less wealthy classes. Hunting (in the .kmerican sense of stioanthg)' and fishing, with their accompaniments et camping out, play a large part in the national life, sport not, having degener- ated, into the merely gambling and spec- tatorial habits. Altogether the Canadian lives a healthier life, even bus tt cities like Toronto and Montreal conduct their business life more quieey than cities f corresponding calibre in the United States. Only those who have left their native country to live in a foreign land,, where • nothing is familiar to them, can obtain a small idea of the personal sacrifice a princess makes upon marrying a for- eign royal wooer. But greater sacrifices, • of course, are made by those Princes and Prineesses Who, against their:parents' will, renounce rank, wealth, *and every- thing in order te may the person they really love. .,Evea as Hee' article is being written, • comes news that Prince ,Eugene, the youngeet son.ol Prince Oscar. of Sweden, • like his father before him, is abandoning his royal status to marry a diva of oper- . 'ette with whom he is infatuated. He .1. prefers the happiness which true love beings to We yaomp and pride of .royaltyr • Prince Oscar- himself renounced his rank and claim te the throne of Sweden • to marry a maid -of -honor in les father's Court. The .King was furious with his son when the young Prince announced his intention to marry so humbly. Miss Ebbe. Munch, the maid -of -honor, who had won his love, so that the heir -appar- ent might forget her, left the Court, and • took a minor position at the Stockholm Charity Hospital. Thither Prince Oscar followed her, sacrificed. his rights ;,if succession to the throne of Sweden by marrying her, arid settled down to a life of religious and philanthropic work • among the people he might one day have • ruled, ' The Grand. Duke Afickael of Russia, uncle of the. present Tsar, similarly married a ledy of obscure family against the .will of Tsar Alexander III., his bro- ther, • who look his cm -relined the army away from him and officially dis- graced him. • Though the present Tear restored the Grand Duke Michael to his possessions, tied raised hiS wife to the rank of a • tountese, there are other members et the Avestan Royal Henn who •have been banished 'Imre their country. be - ewes° of .their marrMges for love. The House riiipSblirg has furnishel Some of the meet remarkable royal , romencee the world has knoWn. Many ot its Members have made enormous personal saerifices in Order to wed the person of their .ehoice, WILL COME FROM STATES. At the same time it is evident that Canadian life is approximating more and more Lo that of her powerful neighbor and, if the .rapid manufacturing growiti which she anticipates takes place, the qualities and defects, industrial and political, of tee United Sta.ies will also be 'those of Canada. For it is not merely a case of imitation and of common needs and growth; if Canada is really destined to quick development it will be achieved by a large influx of American capital and labor„ inventive and orgen- izing energy. What is already happen. Mg makes this manifest.. FEARS OF FAMOUS FOLK. WHAT CAME OF A PICNIC. Tim Atiebduke John, nephew of the Mee:Tor Francis . Soseph of Aestrice Vittretiet ' Stade daiiaite heel 'TiThat you gave es Actually Opera, She wits pieteettleg 'with tuitt ((cies pollee dell at our Meese "Sat e Parente in the emotes \Olen .the etiolidulte "Yee. tle•epettrie Most et hie bele the , fir41,44W hee, As Attain, Orth, an Wait kit:then With the cook" He is a man of the people—the provin- cial people, not the gay, flippant, diameleon-like Paris .faik by whom 1 off to his rustic Loupillon he seizes it. He lkk ies to smoe a pipe and telk vine Paris is so often misjudged, and 01 his culture with his old Gascon cronies. lie own character he typifies the best quail- is a successful vine grower and his vine - ties of that people. At the age of 65, de- between $10,000 and spite seven years of official polishing yards bring him, in tis piesident of the Senate, he still bears '`'"'""'-' a Year. Among his vines he wears a blouse, brown leggings and a the unmistatcahle stamp of his peasant- broad -brimmed straw hat. His dwell- cirigin. People wine knew the Fallieres ing-house is a square, whitewashed, family in the Mlle Gascon village,- of Moray tuildbeg, with green Venetian Mezin, say that Um Presidern is physi- blinds. It is plainly furnished. The ser - wily a reduced edition of his jolly giant vents go about in sabots. The whole of a. father, the clerk of the netty, court atmosphere of the place indicates an of Mezin, - or ot his big, burly, jolly ds utter laof anything approaching grandfather, elle blacksmith of the. vil- social ambition. M. Fallieres there is tt, lage in whose house' the future stales- home, W everybody. He recognizes no man was born. He is under the •middle ea..ste distinctione. It often happens' !might, but what ils lacks in length he that some •countryman, standing in the more than makes up M girth. He rises at road, will call out to him, as he is prun- 7 o'cloelt every morning and goes for a Mg twigs, "Eh, yeti man over there, is long walk to decrease his stoutness, er M. Fallieres at home?" •, ra• ttler as he says, to prevent himself "Yes," Fallieres will invariably from growing stouter, for he has long answer, "just walk up to the house while since abandoned all hope of ridding him- self of his superabundance of adipoite 1 go 1°1s hinL" e' . He evill then hapten round by a back tissue. One reason, perhaps, why it entrance and,•willing through the hall, clings to him so persistently, is that he greet ls visitor with, a hearty laugh. Is a hearty eater. He never partakes of less than three dishes at. each meal, and A CAPITAn SHOT. -- he would 'hardly be a Gascon had he not . a weakness Mr garlic in s Mod. . Despite his corpulency he is an active M • man and thinks nothing of taking a CARES NOT FOR DISPLAY. twelveenile ramble in the country, with -a stout stick • and •a stout emir of . boots M. Failieres was not partichlarle t and. his pipe for _company-. He is a eapi anelous to Obtain I.he highest honor ile tal shot and there is nothing that he en his countrymen's gift. • Indeed, life et the Elysee will be something like banish- joys so much as a day's sport among the moors or ment for him. He loves his own botue hills. . His wife is a woman ot strong domestic tastes and has never geoise fireside. He loses his natie'e Gas- made any -effort to shine in society. She cony, and his plain, comfortable, Woe- is a rather sober -visaged woman and fn oughly bourgeoise country •house—farm the matter of ebonpoinn well matches house—there at Loupillon. He has no her husband. Site is not. above accom- great taste for i,he pomp and shove id .panying the presidential office, no love of the her cook to market. She has never ernployed a manservant, though merely conventional properties. But he she will find the Elyse° full of them. has much of the old Roman republican Doubtless she will • regard the grand feeling of selescierifice to duty, and will functions there a sore trial and will make be foetid to endure all the ceremonial every effort to remain in the back - boredom as smilingly and cheerfully as ground. She has two grown up children, Father Loubet himself, who goes to the a son and a daughter. The former is u length of attending musical festivals, lawyer of great promise, but unlike his though he is unable to distinguish one forebears is of frail physique. The note from another. . daughter is 31 years ale. She has re- SIIIRKED HIS DUTIES. fused several offers of marriage, declar- ing that her one 'desire is to remain at As a youth he toe scant promise rf home and look after her father and -ever attaining to greatness. Ile was mother in their old age. Strange to say, quick 'enough to learn when 110 sat his while M. Fallieres is one of the most mind to it, but that was seldom. He was conspicuous men in the anti clerical not a bit studious, had a positive hatred party, Mme. Fallieres is a devout Calh- for textboOks, and les propensity for olio. Three nephews of Mr Fallieres live larking got him into lots of scrapes. with them. They were left orphans He ,will never come W. any good," the when very young and M. Fallieres bound old -blacksmith grandfather frequently himself to bring there up and care for grumbled. The father, who was anxious them. One of them, not loner, ago, strove to make a lawyer ol his son, thought to get the decoration ot academic palms„ that hange of Scene, of teachers and (I the most modest of ' all French clecorcie classmates might, induce hin to buckle tions. His name was entered an the list down to work, and, with this object in which. had to be countersigned by M. view sent him to the Lycce of An gou- tramcars as president of the Senato. lento. i3ut he continued to shirk hie When it came before him, hi. Fallieres promptly crossed off his nephew's name with the remark, "I will not have it said that any member of my family is ob- taining honors because I happen to be president of the Senate. • ____ SCOTLAND'S- BIRTH RATE. ' • IN NATIONAL POLITICS. . lie fleet entered Parliament in 1876. His first °Meta] pose—the under secre- taryship in the ministry of the interior— was given him by Jules Ferry. 11e rose steadily In the official hierarchy. He be- came minister of public instruction, minister of the interior, minister of jus- tice, prime minister. In 1899, after e2 years of parliainentary life, was elected president of the Senate with a salary of $20,000 a year and with the Petit • Luxembourg as an*official resi- dence. As President of the repulalic he will receive as much in a month as he was paid in a. year in the billet, which, he will vacate on February 18th, But he will have to spend so much money en- tertaining that it is doubtful it he will be able to save anything out of his pay. Also he will find the work much harder. 'rho presidency ol the Senate is not are arduous post, and el, Fallieres, it is said, is fond of taking things easy. Once. when he left one ministerial office for another, the new minister who suc- ceeded him found 450 private letters, covered with dust, in the drawer of ft writing table. M. Fallieres had not even opened them. • FEATS OF MARKSMANSHIP'' ASTONISUING PERFORMANMS WEIR RIFLE AND REVOLVER. , • LOVES THE SIMPLE LIFE. • He loves most the simple country life. 'Whenever he gets a chance of hurryinei* Sh0I,Twenty Stags- With as Many Dui- • lets Playing a Piano With Ride -Shots.• • The remarkable feat receritly perforne ed by the Prince al Wales in sending a tullet through the heart of a running tiger at a distance of a quarter of a Mile, which has probably never been edipsed since Mr. Walker, Deputy-Commiesion- el at Nirna.r, killed four tigers, some eears ago, with• Jive successive_shots within the space of ftfleen minutes, re- minds one of many feats of marksman- smhillpa,ettuolomues.of which se.em little less than • It is not many years since Mr. Walter Winans, probably the deadliest shot ot any time or country, stalltecl a. herd of fifteen stags and, swift -footed though they were, actually brought down a doz- en rat them before they could get away; while his brother, Mr. Louis Winans, in a single day, once shot twenty stags with as rnany bullets, not a single bun let of them all failing to find its target. Lord Welsingham, one memorable day, killed 842 grouse to his own gun, Ofty ef them falling to as many consecutive shots; and a few days earlier Mr. F. A, 7e2fillbbniinits. accounted, single handed, for sd . IN PIGEON -SHOOTING All great peonle have had their follies, which is another way of paying that all have had their weak points., The great Dr. Iohnson, with all his philosophy, was not without a superstition. He was very careful not to enter a room with his len loot foremost; if by any chance he did so, he would immediately step studies as much as possible until the lase year of his stay, when he put on a spurt, back and re-enter with his eight foot foremost. lie was terribly afraid of which just carried him through his bac- death, too, and wcelaureate examination. would not suffer It to be He was eighteen Wen.. His father next mentioned in his presence. Julius -Cae- sent him to Paris to study law in the stir, to whom the shouts,of thousands of the enemywere but sweet music, was office of an advocate. The selection of one hadebeen left to his own judgment. mortally afraid of the sound of thunder, Trusting to .chance to direct him, tee. and always wanted to get underground obtained an official list of advecates. to csca.pe the dreadful noise. Marshal °Puled it at random,. closed Ids eyes, Saxe, who loved to look upon the ranks of opposing armies, fled and screamed iu and stuck a hhe het° it. Then he alneliel office of the lawyer terror at the sight of a cat. Peter the for admission at the of whose name he lied ericeed. There was Great could scarcely be persuaded to no room for him there, but all -the sante cross a bridge,. and whenever he placed it would apecar that destiny. had a hand hie foot on one he would cry out with in that chance pinprick. Some of the fear. Like the great man that he Was clerks took him to a cheap table delete he tried to overceme his weakness,' bui, in the ,Latin quarter, where he made the. he was never able to do so. And Byron would never help, anyone to salt et acquaintance of two other law stedeets table, nor would he be helped himself; sfolorrettee6Mil Gfaaribnebeti,hasdangdveusttniilbii.,nogusb6T and if any salt were. spilled he would They introduced him in turn to their set inunediately get Up and leave.' and as a result be became a red-hot -...--. 4.—:—...-... Republiean and the time that he should MILITAIIY FUNERAL.. , have devoted to the study of law he When ,sech a one takes place in time gave to Wellies. Of course he as of peace, the ceremonial is exactly the plucked When he went for examination same as it would be, in camp or on the to the law sawn 'NEV LEAF... battleeled. A gun -carriage forms oh ho. TURNE . OV Efi poised hearse, the drums are muffled D oat of reepect, to 1.11e dead comrade, and That was jest rt5' years ago. He wee all arms are carried reversed, to Show recalled -in disgrace to his native village. that the ooreriany deputed' to perform The old blacksmith grandfather, Who . the sad office Went upon the forebear- was a staunch monarchist, held more stoutly then ever .1.0 the opinion that the .ance at We enemy Mr the time beteg. rn the case of is cavalry officer being young inan would come to no good when buried, his horse is 10 behind the body; be found What revolutionary' doetrinee thie is a eurvival of ancient times., when be had picked up in eerie. not an al a an onleer's . chaeger was liniversalle euddeb, and to the old' bitteksmith'S its - sacrificed at the graveside and buried tonishment — te everybody's asterlish- with its roaster. At the- cenclusion re 1000t—he berried over a new leaf arid the ceremony a salute is fired over the ground Miley at hie law books well al - grave to show the enemy they are once most savage eneegy. *The secret et thei More ready to ad on elle defensive. StIrpriSill(t Change? Why, when in ...........:,_.4 ........._.... PariS young Maeter, leallieres.hed fallen ,. , , some most astonisbing records have been made, notably in a match Which took place about a dozen years ago at New York • between those champions, Mr. E. D. Pafford and Captain Brewer. T,he match covered three days, each Competitor shooting at a 'hundred birds n day at thirty yards' rise. Out of (al- though one fell out of bounds and was thus disqualified), while Brewer missed only three of his birds. On the third day each killed ninety-four pigeons. Thus, out of 600 shots at as many birds, ne fewer than 585 hit the mark, a com- bined achievement ' which, we believe, has never been approached and will pro- bably never be beaten. Another memorable match was that between Dr. Carver and Mr. Scott, each of whom has broken 500 Mass balls with as many suecessive shots, On Ibis =lesion, out of 9,950 shots, Dr. Carver made a score .of 9,737 hits, while his opponent was only two balls behind him. As a lest of enduranoe this feat Wss (Wriest as remarkable as an exhib- ition of wonderful skill. • SOME ASTOUNDING FEATS JADING in Wye. 13aek to Peels he meet return and retiree the giel of his ehoiee. • Ilia that necessitated studying and qualifying himself for ;the exeeelee of Ilia proles- gion that he might be able 14 earn' $ eaessea BREADSTUFF'S- "• Toronto, Marcfi 13. — WI —.'01160 ellen —No, e white, 7$c stetted Loam 14 per centfreight penile; red, 160, bid, 7730 asked, ;nixed, 77c asked, Wheat — Manitoba -- No. e North- ern, 81e. asked, Lob. laise ports for May, Oats — No. 2 white, 34c hid, f.o.b. 78 per centfreigfilit points. Barley — 50c asked for No. 2, outsiae‘ 47c bid for No. 3 extra. and 45c for Na Peas -- No quotation Corn — No. 3 yellow, American, 470 bid, at Toronto. ; Flour — Exporters are Welding e3.05, for Ontario. 90 per centpatents for ex- port, in buyers' bags, at outside points. Manitoba --first patents $4.30 to $4.50, 34 for second patents. • in shooting are credited to an American cowboy "Captain"liarcly, who is certainly Average Per Family is Four as Com- pared to Four and a nail Once. According to We reportto the Regis- trar -General of Scotland the average, Scottish family nowadays included only four children as against .four and one half a generation ago. And what is pee haps. even more remarkable is the fact that this loss is observed among tee countryman'sfamily, not among the dwellers in the towns. Two generations back the average family was still larger. The statistics also showing that the shep- herd and the game -keeper are arnomet lhe bealthiest ancithe loegeselived cf men. Compared with them the residents of the towns die young. The reason for this is believed to be in 'the open air life of the shepherds. . The decrease in the birth rate is even more remarkable when telcen in eon- neetion with the statietics upon the sub- ject of marriage. It appears that 08,- 664 Miteriages 'have been registered dur- ing the last decade, and of this number 39,276 IS in excess of the marriages of the decade previous. Ali of these things ere regarded as evidences at a higher standard of comfort deniended by the younger generation, the proportion of malts 'Merging between the ages of twenty- end tevenlyttive ewes relatively ,greater than in the previous decades., While the proportion of .these married under tweety and over folly Was rela- tively less. From all of this the Regie - tear -General concludes that •Ibe overage number of births per rearriage, is to markedly decreasing that, it May be tie - earned that, there le a true,failing off to the fertility Of mitrtia,oa,, COUNTRY PRODUCE. Butler -- Receipts ere generally be 15 hettery, and the rrieritet has anirMeelone for all lines. Creamery ...................25e to hee tea solids .... 23e to eic Dairy lb. rolls, good to choice.. lec to 10e clo largs rolls 17e to lee do mediern , 160 to 17c Cheese -13%d for large and 14.0 for twins. ' Eggs — Deliveries are again- heavy, and the market is 'taking a deeernevard turn, and quotations are lower, at 17e for new laid and 14c for storage. Poultry Fat chickens, lic 10 lec, thin le to 8e; fat bens, Sc lo 90, itain Oc lo 7c; ducks, 12c to 180, thin 60 to. 7o; eeese, 10c to 11c; turkeys, 14c to 15e, for .011010e small lots. ' Potatoes — Ontario, 65e to 750 per bag, on track here, 75e to 85c out of store; eastern, 7f)c to 80c on track, and 80c to 000 out of store. . Baled Har—Quiet at $8 per ton for No. t timothy and $5.50 to $6 for No. 2 .11 car lots on track here. Baled Strew—Unchanged at $6 per ton for car lots on track here. MONTREAL MARKETS. Montreal,. March 13. --Grain — Bids Were 'uut of line in. Manitoba wbegene.etesete'thir— nese was quiet., The oat; marleet COM- lintleS easy intone; prices unchanged. Barley filen. No change in flour. cats fli'm in tone, and millers have ad- vanced prices to 31.90 per bag in car lots, and $2 to 3205.in jobbing way. Oats ---No. 3, 390 to 39%c; No. 3, 38c tr, 38%c; No. 4, 37c to 37,14. Peas --700 f.o.b. per bushel. Barley — Manitoba, No. 3, 49c to 49)ec; .No. 4, 48c to 43 -Xe; Ontario, 46e, Loh 78 per cent. points. Corn -- American mixed, 50%,e; No. 2 the kind of man one would like to keep yellow, tilyse ex -track. .amiable terms with Here tire some Flour --- Manitoba spring wheat pat 01 the feats of this deadly shot as per- ents, $4.50 to $1.60; strong bolters', $4 formed not long ago at a meeting of the le $4.10; winter wheat patents, 34.25 to Lincoln (Nebraska) Gun Club. At a dis- 81.50; straight rollers, 34 to $4.10; do in twice of fitteen yards, Governor SiagC1 bags, 31 75 to 31 85; extras, $1135 to 31.- r5. Millteed— Manitoba bran. in bags, $19; shorts, Renter ton; Ontario bran m bulk, 314.50 to 315; shorts, 320; mined mon- Me 21 to 24, straight grain mouille $25 tre $e7 per ton. Rolled Oats — Per bag, $1.90 to $1.9e, cornmeal, $L30 to 31.40 per bag. Hay—No. 1. $8 to 38.50; No. 2, $7 to $7.50; clover mixed. $6 to $6.50. • Cheese—No change; fair trade is pass- ing in small lots, dealers quoting 18c to Buller — Steady, choice selling at 22e to 223ec. and 230 to 2334e in small lots. Second quality is unchanged at ty,e to 22c. Eggs — Fresh selling at 19eec to 20e, fan stock at 14e to 15c, and limed at 13o to 14c. Provisions — 'Heavy Canadian short rut pork, $21; light short cut, $20; Am- erican short cut $20; American cut deer fat back. $19 to $20; compound lard. GeV: to 7,1eM; Canadian pure lard. 113c to 12c; ',stele rendered, 1231ic to 13e; hems. 120 to 133.,c. according to size; bacon, 14e.c; fresh killed abattoir dressed hogs, $10 te 310.25; pountry dressed, $8.75 in 39.50; alive, 37.50 for selects. 13UFEALO MARKETS. bald an ordinary visiting -card between finger and thumb while Hardy sent a bullet clean through • The centre of it. • Another card, held at the same distance, was pierced by n bsilleL, and four other bullets were 'sent through the hole made the first one. • The Governor then flung a handful c/ nuts intoethe air, one after the other, every nut, being shattered before it reached the ground. As a crowning per- formance • half -a -dozen hazel -nuts were placed on the ends of as many skewers and arranged, halo -fashion, round lbe head of a man standing twenty yards away. Within ten seconds Hardy fired set shots, every one of which removed 'e nut without disturbing the skewer to which it was attached. Such feats remind us of that truly amazing feat credited to Chevalier Ira Paine. One day when he was practie- ing with his revolver at a target twenty yards distant, , A BLUEBOTTLE FLY settled on the white part 011 110 target --a tiny speck barely visible even to keen eyesight. "Just watch me ino-ve that ily," said Paine to a friend who was looking on; and, raising his revolver, he despatched a bullet which hit that fly in the middle of his back. • After such a feat as this • one is quite prepared to bear of the marksman who makes light of signing his name with bullets fired at a board, what time he meet; No. 2 red, ,82ten. Corn —.Laster; .glidee to and fro on his tricycle; or et N 2 ellew aye* No. 2 corn, 46c. 13erdevetre, who, equipped with a numbers of repeating rifles, plays opera selections with his bullets on the key- toard of a piano. • We must not, however, forget the marvellous Wats of Mr. W. Winans, the finest, revolver -shot in the ei,vorldi who thinks nothing of sending a score • of consecutive bullets into a bull's-eys not se large as the palm of one's hand at a distange of sixteen yards. Mr. Winans will place his watch on a table, put a glass ball on it, and shatter the ball with h bullet fited ttverity yards away with- out touching the watch -glass; he will eboot, apiece of sugar from between your finger and thumb without graz. ing your skin, if you have a mind to make the experiment; or if you hold up your visiting -card edge -wise he will cut it in halves with a bullet from Lite opposite end of a large room. 140W AAII3E'R IS FOUND. Buffalo, March 13. — Flour — Quiet .e.ed steady. Wheat -- Spring unsettled; Na 1 Northern 82etec, carloads; Winter The most striking nexample of the origin of a substonce in every -day ese being obscure is to be found in amber. For four thousand years amber has been well icnotern, beihg,used in forming, orrm- menet' for ttoyel necklaces, in medicines, witchcraft—and later for the mouthpieces of various instruments, though its exact origin has tever beet traced. The most that ean be etid of it is that it is similar to We vegetable resins, and is in ell probebility derived from various extinct eortithrous trees, while it differs from other resinous 'exudations owing to the changes induced by the fossilized condi- tion. Often it, is Mend to contain ex- tinct species of iesects arid plants, though such only; point to, while not in. diettieg, its actual. source. A *species of contra* 'has been established provision - as the Atn bor-yiblding tree, but it har, been shown eta many trees may have yielded tile exudation, and these not an neeeeearlie belonging to the pine Order. It le obtained in itie greateretz quantities chiefly from the eoe.sle of the Battle Rea, where it is cast up by the action of the. waves, °spatially cilia Oats— Quiet, and -only steady; No, 2 • white, 34eee. Barley — Only steady; Western, if, store, offered tit 46 to 580. Rye — Notable]. LIVE STOCK MARKET. Toronto, Mar. 13.—The run of cattle offering at the Western Market this morning was heavier than for some time:but the demand continuee fairly active for all lines and prices were well maintained. Export Cattle—Choice are quoted at 34.16 to $5.15, good to medium at $4 lo $4.50, enters at 33.75 to 34, bulls at, $3,50 W $4, and cows at $2.75 to $3.50. . Butcher Cattle—Picked lots, 34.50 to 34.75; geed to choice, 34.10 to $4.40; fair to good, 83.5010 31; common, $2.50 to, $:1; ; cows, $3 to 33.60; bulls, 33 Lo 34; can- ners, 31.50 to $2. Stockers rind Feeders Short -keep feeders are quoted at 34 to 34.50; heavy feeders at $3.85 to 34.15, medium at $2.50 to 33,50, bulls at $2 to 32,75, good stockers tun at $3 to 10.65, light at 32.75 to $3, rough to C.011'1111-011 at $2, to 32.75, and bulls at 31,75 to 32.50. Mitch "Cows--'erade is steady islet the range of prices offering is unchanged et 330 to $60 each. Calves --Prices were generally main- tainet end ore quoted unchanged at 33c to WM per lb." . Sheep arid Larnbs---They are quoted et $4.7e to 35 per- cwt., and bucks at $3,75 to 34.50. Lambs are steady at 30.75 to 37.10 for grain -fed and 35.50 to $6.50 for mixed, llons—Seleets are quoted at %eta pet cwt. arid lights end tate at 30.60. A VE11/41ININE, JAB. . - "I'm told, 'eaid Miss Knox, "that yOu1. trueband, imam' the influence of wine at the dinner the other eight, tleelered.he had hnerried beauty end laminae'''. 'Vali Weal" exclaimed Mre. Bricley, "how .nieei" Ni ti Aeon't you geetg to investigator gvidently he's a bigamiit."