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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-4-12, Page 2THE SIGNALS OF NATURE LYITtri $IGNS WHIM THE WARY LOOK OUT FOR. -Fr The Great Mississippi Storm o. 4784 Was Preceded by a Strange• Moaning Sound. .AA experienced farmer on the look - 'out for a farm shies at the sight of a tallow covered with the reddish spikes -of the sorrel. fle knoWs at once that the aoil is poor and thin, and will cost more than its crops will ever be worth in fertilizers of various kinds, Weeds .tell Hui a wiwie story at a single glance. If the leaves of the colts toot rear their heavy heads, he at once suspeots the presence of thick, sticky blew clay, hard to drain and cultivate. Sandwort and thyme proclaim a hun- gry, sandy soil; myrtle, the heaths, and tormentilla tell of peaty land valuable only for summer grazing; sheep's sorrel speakAi iron, the valerian and ranun- culus of marsh, while veroaica, silene, tho hebrid poppy, and other similar plants are sure signals of chalk arid flint below tele surface.. For those who Weise eyes to see them, kindly Nature bangs out signals of all kinds. She only asks that men will use their' eyes. If they can, and do so, she will never betray them. She has both good and bad signs, which are as plain in their way as red or green lights to a railway engine -driver. For instance, what is called the low country of the Northern Transvaal is partly healthy partly feverish. In one spot you may camp in safety for a month, in another not a mile away the dreaded fever will seize you in a single TIIE FEVER -TREE. Yet to uneducated eyes there seems little or no difference in the outward as- pect of the two places. But your old prospector is never caught camping on fever ground. He knows the fever tree too well. The fever tree is an odd and sinister -looking piece of vegetation, wiLh twisted greenish trunk and branches, and grows only in those spots where kver mist hangs at nightfall. lions and earthquakes wear, litse the ram pulses of India, at the dates et the sun spot maxima and minima. At, the minimum in 1867 Mauna Loa, Vesuvius, South America, end Formosa were ird volved. At the maximum in 1872 Mar - Unique and. Si. Vincent; in.1883 came the frightful exolosiene of Krakatoa, aild, to give a recent instance, the Martinique eruption came at a Maximum of solar disturbance. Also just before an earthquake there are Other and plainer warning signs. Just before the catastrophe at SL Pierre came news that the Martinique cable was broken. This sort of thing has happened more than once before sant- tar visitations. On the western coasts of South Amer- ica, where earth tremors are censlant, severe shocks are usually heralded by disturbances of the sea,. Such heavy quakes also almoet invariably happen at high tide. In Hawaii, another vo11 canto centre, certain springs stop flow- ing before an outburst. In the crater of' Mauna Loa the lava always rises stead- ily Tor some weeks before an eruption. Indeed, it may truly be said that to those who have eyes to see, Nature in- variably gives due warning before corning catastrophe of any kind. what- soever. A FAR-SIGHTED JAPANESE. The Prescience of Saigo Taaamori Was Remarkable. So, too, in Florida, when a hunter is traversing the immense swamps--' "hanunocks," as they are called -which cover huge tracts in the southern part of that State, he searches for a spot where pine trees rear their tall heads among the cypresses and gums, There he can camp and sleep in safety, though to spend a night but a few hundred yards away from the pines might mean a bone -racking dose of ague. Many an Australian explorer has been saved from a horrible death by thirst because he has known the water mallee. This tree, though it may stand in the midst of a burning desert, invariably tells of water below the surface. If the traveller be not too far gone to dig, he will find, the precious fluid below the mallee's roots. A WARNING GROUND -SWELL. The old shepherd crossing Dartmoor or one of the Scottish moors travels with dry feet, while the stranger is per- fectly certein to tumble knee, perhaps waist, deep into a horrible black com- pound of mud and water. The shepherd avoids the bogs, because he has learnt to read Nature's danger -signal. He does not walk on places where the -sphag- num covdrs the surface, and so avoids the pitfalls hidden beneath its pale green fronds. Most of us know something of wea- ther signs, those warnings which are hung out for all to read in the sky, and yet how many never notice them at all, so that when there ccmes a really great convulsion of Nature they are caught Imprepared. That awful cyclone which overwhelm. ed the great seaport of Galveston three years ago, drowning thousands of people, was heralded by an ammense ground -swell, which was seen forty- eight hours before the tempest broke. SOUND THE INDIANS UNDERSTOOD. The Mississinni storm of 1734, which Is generally supposed to have been the worst gale that has ever been recorded, and the result of which wes to wipe out nearly twenty settlements, flood ten thousand square mites of land, and per- manently change the course of the great river, was preceded by a strange and at the time inexplicable moaning, sound, which went on for three days, and seemed to come from the upper air, al- though below all was still. The Indians heard it, and left for the high ground; tbe whites heard it, and stayed where .• they were. and were drowned. In the winter, British Columbia and all The western slopes of the Rockies are at times visited by a strong easterly wind, Which, blosving off the warm surface of the japan current, will rapidly melt the enountain snows, causing sudden dis- astrous floods. But no inhabitant of the elopes is ever caught unawares, because for many hours before the worm gale There appear over the heads of the mom. tains long lines and bands of the w- eaned "Chinook" clouds. These are a certain sign of the hot wind, and are never known to fail. 'Desert dwellers are never surprised by "kharrisin," or duet storm, unleee it e omes too quickly to be avoided. Before Inch a visitation the horizon changes tolor, and according to th.e color, which Varies from dull yellow to deep red, so Will be the strength and fury of the etorni. As strange a danger -signal as may be lound on the surface of thise,plehet is The so-called "Que .brada Encentada," flte endhanted' ravine et the Taloa Val. aey, in. Honduras, 'When rain is ap- preaching there comes from this ravine et. melodious, whistling sound, which varies in intensity aecording es to 'whether the Orning storm will be heavy or light. Before one of the terrific trot - cal tininderstorme which at times de- vastate •,taat part of the world, the °sound is a deep organ note, which !s heard Many miles aWay ixi every eke,c. lion, • ' EARTHQUAKE WARNINGS. Even earthOttaliCS and voleanie, ertips tioneednost terrible of all Nature's visa Wiens, do .not earne witheittdue warn- • trig. Sir Norman Loekyer bus stated that the friOst disestretts trolearde ey`ups Shortly before the battle of Tsu-shima Sirens, Admiral Kainimura related, in Kobe, a story of his boyhood, which il- lustrates, says the Japan Weekly Matt, sometaing of the singeeness of 'purpose with which the Japanese had for many years been preparing themselves for the struggle with Russia. It also throws back to one of the earlier men of the empire something of the glory of the weds of Togo and Karnimura. In the early days of the present reign Saigo Talsamori, one of the Mikado's generals and advisers, selected three youths, whom he sent into the naval col- lege in Tokyo: These three lads were Yamamoto, Togo and Kamimura. The three applied themselves diligently to study, and were progressing satisfactor. Uy when, in 1675, they heard, to their dismay, that their patron, Saigo, had severed his relations with the Mikado's government, and a serious collision - the Satsuma rebellion -appeared inevit- able. The three took counsel together. It appeared to them that there were but two courses open to them. If their patron were in the right they must leave ev- erything else and hasten tc his aid. If Le were In the wrong they must pro- test according to traditional Japanese method -by committing euickle. TO learn the truth of the matter they left the college secretly, at night, and went us Osaka, where, arriving penniless, they applied for aid to Godai Tomoatsu, then a celebrated Samurai merchant. .Godar refused to help them, and they were in despair; but that night the curtains of the room in the inn in which they tat were drawn aside, and a hand thrust in a sum of money. Godai had refused from policy, but took this means of helping them. They hastened to Satsuma, and there confronted Saigo Takarnori. He was indignant with them. "I selected you as promising students," be said, and sent you to the naval col- lege, not With any selfish purpose et mine, nor yet for your own sakes, but because the day will inevitably come when Japan must measure her strength with Russia, and it is incumbent upon every true Japanese to prepare Vigor - Misty for that crisis. In the naval dot - lege you had only one duty to perform: the duty of applying yourselves earnest- ly to your tasks, and equipping your- selves to serve your country in her time et need. "You have absconded from the college in obedience to your own imaginings, thus betraying the trust I reposed In you and forgetting your duty as stu- dents. Return at, once, and hencefor- ward. whatever may happen, even though mountains may crumble' and rivers run backward. let nothing induce you to turn from the path of serving apart with all your might." The three lads were dumfounded, but the next day, furnished with letters from Saigo, begging the authorities of the college that the sin of insubordina- tion might not terminate their careers there, they Mend their Teet toward To- kyo once more. The prescience of Saigo was remark- able. In the thirteenth year after that exhortahen two of thofie ]ads earned undying fame by crushing the naval might of the very nation for contention with whom be had selectedthem. The third. Yamamoto, directed the country's naval administration as minister of ma- rine througthout-the conflict. DEGENERATION OF MILK IINGEwou$ MECHANICAL DEVICE FOR PURIFYING T. THE TALLEST MEN OF EUROPE. The tallest men of Europe are found in Catalonia, Normandy, Yorkshire, and the Ardennes district 01 Belgium. Prussia gets her tallest recruits from Schleswig-Holstein, the original home of the Anglo-Saxons; A.ustria from the Tyrolese highlands. In Italy the pro- gress of physical degeneration has ex- tended to the upper Apennines, but the Albanian Turks are still an athletic race, and the natives of the Caucasus are as sinewy and gaunt as in the days of the ArgMoUts. 4' LORD KITCHENER'S DOUBLE. The chief police -inspector in one of the South London divisions Is the liying image of Lord Kitetioner. Ity a carious coincidence his name is leach. It would be impossible to distinguish' the two men but, for a genial smile which is ever present on the inspector's face, anti which IS such a contrast to the usual stern aspect, of the Indian Commander - in -Chief. *al 4 BALDWYN'S BED. A gravedlgger of Alresferd; Handal England, named Baldwyti, better known as "Duke," who ha e just died, had not slept in a bed for twenty years. His usual reetieg-plade was an epee shed outside the town, and his only coveting a few Sacks; Oce,aelOnally he etelet in neWieedug geave. Description of Its Principal laeaturee, and How the invention Is Worked. Among the new ideas which are being wedged out tato practical reeults in Me agricultural economy of Fiance there is one which, in view of the wide reach- ing importance of its results and appli- eability to the dairying interests of other countaies, seems worthy of a more than passing notice, This is the desiccation ot Milk, eggs, and other food materials, Ly means of a ratichanical prooess widah is accomplished by a machine invented and perfected in the 'United States, but which has thus far found its chief practi- cal application in Europe and South America. The economic iraportance this method will be readily inferred from a brief consideration of certain primary facts whieh underlie the science of dairy - lug. Ordinary milk contains approximate - 1.Y. 65.5 parts of water to 14.5 parts of ether substances, namely:- Butter, 4.5 parts; casein, 4; milk sugar, 5.25; Otos- phates and other salts, 0.75 parts. This is the formula, of full rich milk. Poor milk contains 87.5 parts water end 12.5 parts of nutritive elements. There are thus always about seven pounds of water to be transported and taken care of in milk for each pound cf food material actually contained. More- over, milk is, of all substances, one of the most susceptible to fermentation and deterioration. The mills first drawn from the cow at each milking contains a colony of bacilli sufficient; when the waem liquid is left exposed to the dr at its natural temperature, to quickly flit the whole mass with ported to any distance by 'sea or land, ereserved indefinitely, end ready for use et any moment, either by mixing with flour in the preparation of many forms et cooking, with ground materials in the manufacture of cocoa and chocolates, (.1' et being reconverted into liquid milk by shnply dissolving in water at a temper, aletre of 170 degrees Fahrenheit. COSSACK AND WS WHIP TUE PEACE -MAKER OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE, Flogging Out Rebellion in the Baltic Provinces - Some Sad Pictures. The other day I called on a friend and found with him a. man whose ,wan face told a story of suffering and privation, says a writer in The London News. He had just arrived here from the Balite, Provinaess, and gave a terrible account of the punishment being meted out to the revolutionists in ehat distracted part of Lae Russian Empire; he himself svas in danger of arrest, and preparing to flee Me country. The other day an eye -witness told me of a eickening sight he had seen in a Lettish village, the flogging of fifty pea- sants with the nagaika. A, Cossack ands this wail imnlement eminently practi- cal, convenient to carry, and effective in use. I was examining one the other day; the handle, about a foot long, is pleasant to grip, and the thong, some eighteen inches in length, ends in a small oval excrescence an eighth of an inch thick, which is brought down edge- ways on the wretch who is being beat- en. It is also useful, in dispersing crowds, for slicing ora an. ear at one blow. IThe peasants of whom I have spoken received 25 strokes apiece. A school - MYRIAD OF BACTERIA. mistress who had taught leer pupils re - which provoke congulateen and volutionary songs, was given thirty- five, and in another case a revolutionist was nagaikaed until Me bones pro- truded through the flesh. He died a few hours after. • Of course, if a Government keeps a horde of mese ered savages in its em- ploy they must occasionally be given 8. little congenial occupation, and the Cossack enjoys a spell of nagaika work. The other day I saw one of ehem here. handling Ids weapon in the manner of. a man anxious for a chance of showing his skill. ale deterioration. To prevent this en- dency, and to delay as far as possible its effects, modern dairy practice em- ploys two methods -the immediate chil- ling of the milk in cold closed reserve- tiand pasteurization, or partial etere tieing by heating to about, 170 degrees Fahrenheit, which paralyzes the micro- organisms and retards their reproduc- tion,so that milk which has been thus heater can be preserved longer and transported farther than in its natural condition. Unfortunately, neither of these processes prevents, but only re- tards for a few hours, the inevitable al- teration and degeneration of milk, sta- tistics showing that with every possible precaution taken 25 per cent. of all the rnilk sent into French -cities and towns from the surrounding country districts J s- condemned and abandoned as hu- man. food by reason of alteration. Moreover, there is the peril which may always lurk in the milk supply d a city or district through contamination with the germs of tuberculosis, scarlet and typhoid fevers, all of which diseases may infect the animals from which it has been drawn. Modern science has made aestrong stand against this source re: danger, and most European office are now provided with a special sanitary milk supply, by which milk r,,,..,&-.,1ba CAUSES OF REVOLT. The molt in the Baltic Provinces has been at bottom due to the enmity of the subject, races for the German upper classes, wile have fattened on them for the last seven hundred years, a hatred which Russia cannot •extinguish by shooting and whipping the wretched peonle who have at lase awned on their taskmasters. Every- stroke of the nagailsa renders the economic and so- cial problems she should have boldly faced more difficult of solution, and the future of the Baltic Provinces is gloomy in the extreme. • And yet what could one expect? What other course could Russia have pursued under the circumstances? A more civilized Power 'might have adop- cows carefully inspected, fed, housed' ted less rough and ready methods, have watered and cleansed is pelt up in sealed I elaborated some refined scheme of long kettles under competent aupervision and drawn out trials, fines, imprisonments, sold for the feeding of children and 1 and executions, not a evhit less effective if less sharp; but, that murder, arson, and pillage would not have been severe- ly punished by any Government in Europe is incredible, adults in delicate health. But milk thus prepared is of necessity limited in quan- tity and costly, far beyond the reach ef the poorer classes, whose infant chit: dren die by thousands every year for want of the protected and • CAREFULLY INSPECTED FOOD. Such were substantially the prevailing. conditions when the invention alluded to was introduced. Its principal feature is a machine weighing about two tons, which includes two steel cylinders five feet in length by thirty inches in dia- meter, set in a strong iron frame and so adjusted that the faces of the two cy- linders, which revolve in opposite direc- tions, are about One -sixteenth of an, inch apart. The cylinders are heated by steam at a pressure, of three atmospheres and introduced through the trunnions la a temperature of about 240 degrees Fah- renheit, sufficient to not only evaporate almost instantly the film of milk dis- tributed over the heated surface, but to destroy effectually every germ that is may contain. Into the triangular space between the rollers the milk is fed in the form diets from the perforated supply tube or through at a rate of from 80 to 100 gal- lons per hour, the supply being varied somewhat in Adcordance with the speed at which the cylinders are run; that is, from ten to flfteen turns per minute. The milk, passing downward, by gravity oozes slowly through the extremely nar- row slit or space between the cylinders, is taken up by adhesion to the heated 'surfa.ce passes around under the cylin- der, and appears in a thin, almost in- visible, film of dried milk, having about, the thickness of heavy vapor, which., Noon' three-fifths of the cylinder's revo- lution has been completed, is shaven or peeled off from the steel Surface by a knife or serener adjusted by set screws so as to clear the surface of the.cylin- der without cutting or abrading the metal. The white film of dried milk, peeled up .and turned backward by the knife, falls into a receptacle .below each cylinder, whence ft is removed, passed throtigh a coarse sieve, and becomes the completed product, on FLOUR OF MILK, containing butter, caseine milk sugar and phosphates in their extrazt peeper - bons as provided by the liquid milk. One hundred litres awenty-two gal- lons) ot full rich mak will yield thirteen kilograhts (27.8 pounds) average of meal containing twenty-eight to thirty' pee cent. of butter. A mixture of equal parts of full milk and Skimmed nilik will yield for erry twenty-two gallons of such mixture, twenty-three pounds of ineal containing a complement • ef easeiste; sugar and phosphates, with about sixteen per dent. 01 butter. fn both Cage's the prOdUct IS a white dey, hornogenedus flout, or powder contain- ing about thirty-seven pee cent of nit- rogenotts Miter, fortioemieri per cent, saccharine element, having abolit one.- seyenth of the weight Of the liquid milk 'fromwhiett it wee condensteda an cap- able of being Vet up in tin ono, (tamp ANOTIJER SIDE. No one could see the misery of the peasants without feeling that they had good reoson to make some effort to alleviate it; yet it was impossible to hear. the stories of suffering and ruin told by the nobility of the country with- out pitying their fate. On one occasion I was in a house at Riga., where a Ger- man baron had taken shelter. He had arrived that day, he was too dazed and ill to tell how, but he had managed to give some accouat of his attempt to es- cape from his chateau when it was at- tacked by the peasants, . He le•ft 11 as he thought unnoticed, and drove across the snow-covered Country until con- fronted by a barricade blocking the road. Peasants quickly surrounded him, out df his sledge, ,stripped him naked, and drove him into the pine woods M the icy winter weather. I saw his 'wife, a young girlof groat beauty, but, recently, rna.rried. It was not known whether her husband would recover. Her home was destroyed, and the melancholy expression of her dark eyes told a secret of suffering width an outwardly calm manner could not con- ceal Liberty has her victims as well as her martyrs, and it is no sign of weakness to bestow on them a due tribute of pity, TONGUE TWISTERS. Some elocutionist has made a collection of more then two hundred "tongue twisters": "A. growing gleam glowing green." "The bleak breeze blighted the bright broom blossoms." "Flesh of freshly dried flying fish." "Six thick thistle sticks." "Two toads tried to trot to Tanury.' "Give Grimes Jim's great gilt gig whip." "Strict, strong Stephen Stringer snared slickly six sickly silky, snakes." "She stood at the door of Mrs. Smith'a fish shop welcoming him in." The Crest three are the gems of the cola lection. It is said to be impossible for anyone to repeat them rapidly, • WILLFULLY MISUNDERSTOOD. “They're in reduced circumstances, of course, but their family is a very old one and proud, even if they him Iota of debts. They date back to the time at William the Conqueror." "The debts, you mean? f dondeubt that." POSSIBLE, leo you know," remarked. the Mother et the new baby, thoughtfully, "I be- lieve he has his father's heir," "I wouldn't be stirprised," /Tailed nie candid friend; "his fathet certainly hasn't got it noWl" JOHN BULL GROWS SOBER TIIE, DRINK BILL 11.5 VERY Detrease Shown in Figures for Six Years. -Zoy. ilelions Less John Dull is showing an increasing tendency to shun the flowing bowl. Once a hard drinker, and a kind of "hltyomi:ireiciexample" to other nations, ha is in a fair wey to becoming a model of so This fact Was statecl with some em- phasis by the Chancellor of the Exche- quer In his budget speech last year, and a ripple of surprised comment ran round the eountry. But most people were incliaed to be sceptical as to Me possibility of the teadeney being other than temporary and. accidental. The optimists, however, have been justified in rejoicing, as the rettirns for 1905 now show. Dr. Dawson Burns, by moons of a convincing array of statis- tics in the London Times, shows Mat there has been a marked decrease for six consecutive years in the amount of intoxicating liquoi's consumed. H0 190ere aro the decreases :- 101199:0541 1902 1903 Tempdrance party 'agitators, however, need not too hurriedly assume that Mai is the result of their exhortations. BICYCLE HAS DONE IT. The cjcle, in fact, appears to be a more effective agent than any philan- thropic or political organization. -Cyclists soon learn that the water or moderate drinker has better staying power than the man who calls at most of the inns on the way; and pedestrians, who, in these days of athletic revival. are an increasing body, learn the same. lesson. Never, too, has the desire 01 1116 youtbs of the country to keep tb.emselwes "fit" been stronger. But, although tae improvement is apparently common to all classes, the number of heavy drinkers in the con - try is still very considerable. The average expenditure per head on intoxicating liquors last year was 43 15s. 1130. As children lake extremely little, and there are "hundreds of thou- sands of abstainers, those outside the ranks of moderate drinkers, who raise the average to this high figure must consume quantities to be classed as "prodigious." SCOTCH AND IRISH. Sweet:linen and Irishmen, it appears, notwithstanding the reputation that clings to them, drink considerably less than Englisfunen-3 is. 9d. a head for Scotland and 43 Os. 100. for Irelandeas against £3 19s. 10d. for Englancl-al- though they lake a larger proportion of spirits. Even Glasgow, so often held up as a baleful example, drinks less than Liver- pool, with a slightly smaller popula- tion, and very little more than Birming- ham, the population of which is far be- low that, of the Scottish commercial capital. • BACTERIA AND FLIES. Interesting Experiments Carried at Johns Hopkins University. The story that flies were entirely harm- less and were useful in the role of scav- engers was prevalent for many years. But with the coming of bacteriology tids was exploded and the fly was looked at askance, though the exert!, amount of hum which the familiar insect did was not known. There have been many experiments made 10 ascertain this feet, but the most recent were carried on at johns Hop- kins University. A box which had been divided into two peels was prepared. - In one side was exposed some food mater- ial, which was infected with a species of imendess bacteria easily recognized. In the other side was placed a dish con - Mining a sterile nutrient, such as is used as a culture medium for bacteria. Common house flies were confined in the first compartment, and as soon as they were seen to alight upon or eat Of be food which had been infected they were allowed to go through a small door into the other side of the box so that they might have the opportunin:Ityetit:kio‘uthnicioc.hsheThehi.ilde resultcont ae twSaVsi titlhiar Clot atbuarcet e a been deposited upon the sterile nutrient multiplied there and produced charac- . eierisinents were further car- terTishteisc6coolxopn lied out by platting a dish of molasses with which had been mixed yellow bac- teria in thee side 01 1110 box with a dozen flies. Half ari hour later the door' con- necting the two sides was opened and the fliee allowed to' come in contact with the sterile nutrient. As soon as this was accomplished the dish was covered and put away to develop. A few (*s- later it wale examined snd oVer a hun- dred nOloaties of yellOw bacteria' had formed on the sterile nutrient. The same experiment was repeated with red and violet cultures with. the Sante rNeahlilelth. It wasni •proved that, the gers from v these colonies grew came from 016 fected material in the first compartment anci ini°111°1111.1.('inar groups from .of files aNcvecildeenatanlotsvoolcihiructtoesv‘.e? emoriretcateeed nault1rdienuti,6 yellow, red arid violet colonies were not produced. Vernier proof that the flies were the only mons of tranemating the bacteria Wes made- by Wading the infected material ire the first compartment, lixit' with no flies. The result 1\ ,f1S that the dishes al rivarient in this case produced no Wide 140TWATE1 SUPPLY. The first co-operather systeni of hot water supply in this ereintry is to be instelled at kells, Waitehaven, Eng- land, in thirty -LW° minetse! cottages, Wilt for the Earl of ',amanita Het 'Wa- ter' for elf the hOuses will be aUPplied frOM One boiler, ated the arrneigement is C7,tpected to /prove econoMleal and COnVenient. 41,046,031 3,142,953 2,238,420 5,054,546 5,458,100 4,819,224 on ---seseweee VAD:11%.:. .1411.KUS'. 13READSTLIKS. Toronto, kpril 10. - Flour -Export- ers are paying $3.05 for 90 O'er cent. Coterie patents, buyers' bags, Manitoba. $4.30 to 84.50 for first patents and, $3.- 90 to $4 for seconds, -- Bran - $19 was bid, Termite, bags included, Wheat, - Ontario --- 770 bid, 0,1?. R. poiats for red and for NO. 2 white out- side, 773/0 asked, 77c bid for mixed, Wheat - Manitoba -- 820 asked, 810 bid for Na. 1 northern, Point Ectivarde May shipment; No. 2 northern, 80aec bid Same Miens. Barley - Feed, 47c bid North Bay, Oats - 35eac asked outside for No. a white, COUNTRY PRODUCE. - Butter - The market continues steady. Creamery 25e to 26c clo solids 23c to 24c Dairy lb. r011s, good to choice, 180 10 19c do large rollsee. 170 to 18e do medium .. 1.0a to 17c Cheese - 14a for largo and 1.4edsc Inc twhlS Eggs - New laid are quoted at lac and storage at 13c. Poultry - Choice dry plucked turkeye.. are up to 16c to '18c, fat chickens la higher at 12c to li3c, thin 7c to Sc; fat hens, 8c to • 9c, thin tic to 70, ducks I.2c to 13c. Potatoes - Ontario selling at 65e to 75e per bag on track here, and 75c to.. 85c oat of store; eastern, 70c to 80c on track and 10e more out of store. Baled "'Hay - $8 to $8.50 for No. 1 irerneo.thy, and $a for No. 2 in car lots • Baled Straw --35.50 to $6 per ton for car lots on track here. MONTREAL mAnKsTs. Montreal, April 10. - Grain - Good ciNetrilesaats.id by cable for Manitoba spring v 03rdx0 s -; No. 2, 39eac; No. a, 38Xc; No. 7 Peas - 76c f. o. b. per bEshel. Barley - Manitoba, No. 3, 490 to 49;40; No. 4, 48c to age; Ontario, 46et f.o,b. 73 per cent. points. Corn - American mixed, 51Xc; No. 2 yellow, 52c, ex -track. Flour - Manitoba spring wheat pat - to $4.10; winter ai.50; straight rollers tints, $1.50 to te4N.N.6101e;asitts,pe:arttgettlIltbit.41:.8ler04%.;2' d o$I in bags, $1.75 to $1.8'5; extras, $1.65 to $111 75.6feed - Manitoba bran, in bags, $19. to $20; shoets, $20 to atel per ton; Ontario bran, in bulk, $18.50 to $19.50; shorts, $20, milled =Mlle, $21 to $24; straight grain mouille, 825 to $27 per ton. Rolled Oats - Per bag, 81.80 to $LAV in car lots, $2 to $2.05 in small lots. Cornmeal cc $1.30 to $L40 per bag. Hay -- No. 1, 88 to $8.50; No. 2, $74a $7.50; clover, mixed, $6 to 56.50, and pure clover, $6. Cheese. New -made fodder cheese sold at 12c to 12Xc in country. Local quotalions unchanged at 18c' to 13e4c. Butter --- New milk butter is' selling well at 22egc to 230; ord creamery, good quality, is bringing 21c to 21X,c; infer- ior grades'190 to 20%a.. Eggs - Fresh receipts were quoted at 16%c to 17c.' Potatoes - Per bag of 80 e)ouncis, 60e to 65c. Honey - White clover, he comb, 13c to 14c per pound section; extract, 80 to lace buckwheat, ad to 6Xe. Provisions - Heavy Canadian short cut pork, $21.50; light short cut, $20; Am- erican short cut, $20; American cut clear fat back, $20; compound lard 70 to 7Xc; Canadian pure lard, 11%c to 11X -c; ket- tle rendered, 12%c to 12afc; hams, 13a to 1.44c, according to size; breakfast bacon, 16c; Windsor bacon, 15c; frese killed abattoir dressed hogs, $10.25 to 510.50; cotintry dressed, $8.75 to $9.25; e.live, $7.75 to $7.85 for selects. BUFFALO MARKET. Buffalo, April 10. -- Flour -- Quiet and steady.' 'Wheat - Spring unsettled; No. 1 Northern, 85c, carloads. Corn - Strong; No. 2 yellow, 513ac; No. 2 corn. 50Xc. Oats --Dull; No. 2 white, 35acc; No. 2 mixed, 34a. Barley and rye -No offerings.' ....BO O.. NEW YORK WHEAT mAraor. New York, April 1.0. -Wheat Spot. market firm; No. 2 red, 83c bid in eleva- tor, No. 2 red, 90c nominal, f.o.b. afloat; No. 1 northern Duluth, 89c 1.0.11. afloat. CATTLE MARKET. Toronto, April 10. --Prices continued steady for butchers', but owing to ah alleged weakness isi the English markel. an easier tone was noticeable in expor- tees'. Best exporters' were worth $4.80 to $5.15; medium, $4.50 to 54.75 per cwt. Quotations for butchers' cattle were as follows :-Choice, $4.90 to $5.50; good loads, 34,50 to $4.85; medium, 34.15 to $4.45; good cows, $3.50 to $4.25; me- dium cows, $3 to $3.50; common ,cows. $2.50 to $3.25 per cwt. A straight load of butchers' were sold by Wilson, Mayben and Hall for $5.50 per cwt. Short -keeps were quoted at $4.30 to 34.70; medium weight feeders, $3.90 to $4.25; stockers, 53.50 to $3.65; stock calves, 33 to $3.60 per cwt. Calves were easy at $3 to $6. Export ewes, $5.25 to $5.75; cults and bucks, $4.50 to 85; grain - fed Iambs, $7.25 to $7.75 per cwt; Spring lambs., $6 to $7; ench. flogs were 'Steady and enchanged. QuiotaIgiohnis, $sw7rp•r oee:-0Swetiocts, $7.25; feta and ll ISLAND OF BTACK CATS. Chantal Tslarid, off the Coast of Be - trader, South America, abounds he data, everir one of which is black. Th.eeb anirnals live irt the crevices of the lava e formation near the .ociaSt., and subsist by catchitig fish and, crebs, irisload ol rats and mice. cliANOINd TIfli SUDIECt. "nut cannibaiwn, is all wrong," saki the inissionery, repreachfully, When. lifted to a dinner composed of a fat member of the tribe. ' "Sit down and Id us discuss itte sub- ieet,a said the cnorilbal king. with 1 it evident enjoyment, ot hie little pleas. tin try,