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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-6-28, Page 3{ WAS BUILT BY ONE HAND irefs REMARKABLE FEAT BY ONE-ARMED POSTMAN. Planned and:; Erected t House in His Spare Time -- Phenomenal EnertY. Snod'and a quiet village h Kent, l , England, osssses a wonder in the shape six -mewed cot e, planned, eanstrtl cted anompleted by a one- armed man Mr, W. G. Collins, the amateur build- er, has seen thirty-nine years' service from Ro- travels f it: post -office; he Uie:' t-ofli p oS nod- i ba morvinto-chestfive in er at t f; ' land, about eight miles away„ delivers his mails by half -past nine o'clock, and has the rest of the day free l ntil .5.30 P.m., when he returns to Strood. Id lac leisure moments he has built the hon The history of the undertaking is re- markable, When quite a boy Collins bad his right hand shot away by a gun, but heentered the post -office, and ,has been regarded as a valuable servant - The lime came when he wanted a house built for himself at Strood. It was done, but not to his liking. He set to Work to make a better one. ' He got the plans, and then drew his own designs for a house at Snodland. These were passed by the parish coun- cil. First of all he laid down a solid foundation of cement, which he got locally,, and prepared for the building. In a pony -trap, also* of his own con- struction, he drove over to the cement works each week and purchased enough cement to make bricks for his purpose. He took his time; he has been ten years building "The Cosy," as he calls it. He, with his one hand, moulded thousands of bricks, which he carried up two at a time, until he completed a strong building, which would take a San Francisco earthquake to overthrow.. FARMS AN ACRE, It was the wonder of Snodland, this one-armed man building a complete house. The villagers watched the walls go up, and then the roof go on. Finally he got the chimney -pots ou- and pointed and cemented the front, and the house was ready for occupation. The while he farmed an acre of land, 'raid his postal duties of twenty odd miles a day, and lived in Rochester! The house is now let to good tenants. A look through the place was enough to satisfy one as to the care taken in its construction. No builder could have done it more cheaply or better. "Those arches caused me trouble," he said quite simply, as he pointed to a ticklish piece of work. "Oh yes," he continued. "I hid most of the carpentering. I put the floors down, and then I did all the paint- ing. Collins, a robust little man, is just fifty-eight years old, and is proud cf his six stripes of service. He built the cart which takes him round with the mails. END -OF -TIE -W ORLDERS. . They Predict a Rattle With 230,000.090. Demons From Mars. The annual gatherings of religious so- cieties and crank associations, famous air over the world, are on in full strength. Exeter hall, in the Strand, London, England, has a meeting of some sort morning noon and night. One of the strangest of the meetings there has been that of the End-of-the- Worlders. The members of this curl- bus league are aged people. Practical- ly . all of them had different ideas re- garding the end of the world, but the audience applauded each alike. It was generally declared that exclusive signs and wonders will commence in 12 years' time,'but nothing serious will hap- pen until 1929. One busby -whiskered prophet said: "Socialists will by this time be gov- erning the world and will have adopt- ed as their trade mark the number 666. This will be branded or tatooed on the forehead of all who do not wish to oe beheaded and are members of the So- cialist Labor party. "At or about this -date the earth will be invaded by 200,000,000 infernal demons, probably from Mars. These •de- mons will begin to krill the population. Finally.will come Armageddon, the greatesof battles, in which all the people of the world will fight the de- mons. "The result will be a draw, but not until both sides have absolutely exter- minated. Then down will conte the cur- tain. for that will be the end of the world." Another speaker was. heroic enough to take some xception to these state- ments. He saidthe. world would drive out the devil this year but he would come into power again in three years. As regards the big battle with 200,000,- 000 devils ho was sure it wouldn't maty ter if there were 500,000,000 for the Arch- angel Michael's hound to win. Among the signs seriously put for- ward by some speakers, in connection with .the nearness of the end of the world were the San Francisco earth- quake, the marriage of the King of Spain, the size of European armaments, the unemployed •problems, roaring :,f oceans, whirlwinds and tornadoes. Another speaker asked if women Would have to be branded with "666" and when the reply was in the affirma- tive he raised the point that they would refuse the branding, as it would spoil their Ninety, The white -whiskered p.ro- '' hrt. who fathered the "666" brand said omen when the time came would, be le11 ossurrd, rather lose their looks than their heads. AUT'HENTICATiD GHOST. llnyhnm Hall, the family place in Nor- folk, England, of the Marquis of Towns- end. is the scene, says a writer, of a wettelethon Iicatcd ghost story. The revennf t is Lady Dorothy, who lived in the 'ISth century. For sorne reason she was ;;hut up in en upper chamber, lost hes senses and died a. hopeless lunatic. eves since those days her disembodied spirit is said to appear before the birth nl n 'i'ownshcnd or before the death of is member of the family, and this un- quiet wraith was reported to have been Pen on the clay preceding the demise al the late manillas. ALTER BLOOD CURRENTS SOMETHING WAS AMJSS CHICAGO SURGEON'S IMPORTANT DISCOVERY. The Experimenters Hope to Accomplish Some Wonderful Results. As the result of experiments which have been conducted for nearly a year by Dr. Alexis Carrel and Dr. C. 0. Guthrie, in the Hall Physiological iological Laboratory atthe 'University of Chi cage, discoveries have been made that premise ise to revolutionize surgery. . While all the experiments have been pei'forrnod on dogs, the object was to ascertain methods of surgery that could be used on human beings to transform veins into arteries, transplant organs and even to substitute the arteries and veins of an animal for the diseased arteries and veins of a man. At the present time Drs. Carrel and Guthrie are watching half a dozen dogs that are apparently thriving with their veins and arteries transposed in various ways. Among the facts discovered by the surgeons are these := METHOD OF OPERATION. The transplantation of veins on arteries produces, from a functional point , of view, the transformation of veins .into arteries. Transplanted veins adapt themselves to the new functions imposed. The new arteries transmit- the blood indefinitely. After ten months the cir- culation through the arteries is appar- ently as active as on the day of the operation. The ascertained facts are insignificant compared with what the experimenters hope to accomplish by applying their method to human beings. In_a scientific treatise they have indulged in specula- tion to only a moderate extent, but their hypotheses are decidedly startling to the lay mind. They hope by the transplantation of a vein on another vein to produce a devi- ation eviation of the blood from one part of the venous system to another. The signifi- cance of such deviation is that healthy red blood could be introduced into areas where the blood has become stagnant or unhealthy. They hope to be able by this deviation to cure diseases of the liver, kidneys, and even of the brain. Softening of the brain is now incurable, but Drs. Carrel and Guthrie expect to see the time when by sending red blood surging through the brain they will be able to revivify the brain cells and re- store the patient to a normal mental condition RESULTS EXPECTED. • If the discoveries are carried to their logical conclusions various affections of the heart now considered incurable will be quickly remedied. If your heart is not in the right place it will be trans- planted. If your kidney or liver is not hitched to the proper kind of machinery your veins and arteries will be dissected and grafted together in odd ways that will give new, healthy life to the dis- eased organ. More wonderful still, Drs. Carrel and Guthrie, it is, declared, have actually succeeded in reversing the circulation of the blood. The results which they ex- pect to obtain from the reversal of the beer currents have long been sought by h.i medical world. Ileversal of the circulation in a man, it is said, will cure gangrene, which has been the chief obstacle confronting sur- geons in the healing of internal wounds. Where ulceration of the lining of the heart has set in reversal of the circula- tion will soons restore the tissues 'to a healthy condition by an increase in the flow of blood. The same result, it is thought, can be obtained in the case of any diseased gland. The experiments of the two surgeons have been confined to the transplanta- tion of veins taken from the operated animal itself. In time. however, they hope to transplant veins taken from another animal of the same species and even from an animal of a different species. PAT MURPHY'S DOG. Has Become a National Issue in British Politics. . A common Irish dog of unspecified pedigree has almost distracted a Cab- inet Minister, a Government department, an M.P., a Petty Sessions clerk, and a policeman. So important has the ob- noxious beast become that -he was men- tioned in Parliament the other day. The dogs belongs to an -Irishman of the name of Patrick Murphy, of Dub- lin. Murphy applied for a license for it in Irish. The clerk said he could not read it. Murphy left in anger. The police summoned Murphy for keeping an unlicensed clog. The summons was delivered on Good Friday, which was illegal, so a second one was made out. Murphy was fined half a crown. Con- stable Huggins sauntered in front . of Murphy's residence to keep observation on the private life of the clog. Mr. Sheehan, the member for Mid - Cork, heard of the vicissitudes of Murphy's dog. He put a printed notice en the Parliamentary paper enquiring if the Chief Secretary had also heard cf Murphy's dog. He asked him to state the precise position of the clerk of the Petty Sessions who refused a license for Murphy's dog. Mr. Bryce communicated with Dublin Castle. The authorities there enquired in Cork as to the ante- cedents of Murphy's dog. Mr. Bryce, Chief Secretary for Ire- land, explained the history of the ani- mal in the House the other day. Thies the time of a Cabinet Minister and many Government officials, with sorne of the nation's money, was wasted because Mr. Murphy applied for a license for bis dog in the native tongue. THE MITTEN FOR HiM. "Ahs" he sighed soulfully, as ho lean- ed above her, "would I were a glove t.pon that hand." ttidioulous, replied the girl, Wearily. "You��eould never be anything but a muff. • A Mee, men earn more than they got, but the majority get snore than they earn. iS THIS WHAT IS CALLED A "SOUND SECULAR EDUCATION?" A Doctor's Examination of an English Lad in General Everyday Knowledge. incident is true.' It The following . took place in my surgery two nights ago, writes a doctor to the Pall Ont Gazette. A patient of mind had s for her medicine, and a strapping lad c t thirteen sat waiting for it. • While put- ting it up I endeavored to interest him with a few questions about himself, which proved a mine of interest to me. This is the dialogue that took placer "You are a big boy; left school yet? "No, doctor," Where do you go to echool?' "To Road Board School, sir." "What standard are you in?" "Sixth," "Good! And what do you learn?" "Typewriting, shorthand and carpen- tering." "Realty? 1 suppose you have done with geography, history, and similar subjects?" "0h yes; we've pased all those sub- jects." "Finished them eh? Good; but I hope you haven't forgotten them?" ' "Oh, dear no." "Did you do`all your physical geogra- phy, too?" • DON'T KNOW, SIR; WHAT'S THAT?" "Why all about the winds,- currents, time and the mathematical geography." "No, sir. Don't know anything like that." "Well, what do you remember of your geography? Where's Timbuctoc?" Here he leered up at me with a grin that plainly said, 'You're 'avin' me." "Don't know? Well-er-where's Cape Horn?" "Don't know, sir," and another grin. "Don't know where Cape Horn is; well, now, can you tell me where Cape Colony is?" "Oh, yes, sir." "Where?" "In India, sir," "Well, er-where's Ceylon?" "Don't know, sir; never 'eard of 11." "What, not know where the tea comes from?" Another ignorant leer was the re- sponse, so I thought I would come near- er home, and guessing he might be a football enthusiast, inquired* "Well, where's Luton?" "Don't know, sir." "Don't you know where Londonderry is? "No sir." Hopeless, I changed the subject and remarked: "Well, your geography is certainly beautiful. Now how about your history; all right there?" "Oh, yes, sir, passed all that; I'm in the sixth standard." "So you said before," I replied. "Now tell me who was the father of Queen Victoria?" I might as well have asked him who was Nebuchadnezzar's father, or to de- scribe the "circle of Willis." "Never mind; now, when did. -George III. accede to the throne?" -- DON'T DON'T KNOW , SIR." - "Great Scott, boy, can you. tell me when he died?" "No, sir." • "Well, who was William the Con- queror?" "Oh, I.know that, sir," he answered. deprecatingly. "Well, who was he?" "Why, he was William the Second." "Ohl Where did he come from?" "From Spain, sir." "Nonsense, my boy; he came from France. Was he not William of Nor- mandy?" "Oh, yes, sir," eagerly. "Well, where's Normandy, now?" "In Franke, sir." "Good, positively good. By the bye, what is the capital of France?" With eager response, and gladness on his uncared for face,. he replied: "Why, Normandy, sir." The medicine was ready, and with a sigh of roller 1 sent him home. But I learned that there was something amiss, not with the boy, perhaps, so much es with the method .of teaching. And that. is whatwe are paying for. WOMEN WORKERSINJAPAN. • Employed as Clerks, Bookkeepers and School Teachers. The remarkable increase during the last few years in the number of women employed in various branches of com- mercial life in Japan must be regarded as a very significant sign,,of the times, says the Japan Chronicle. Not content with the occupations which have almost exclusively belonged to females, they have now invaded those fields which have hitherto beenconsidered as be- longing to the male sex. ' The experiment made in the employ- ment of women as clerks and book- keepers has been found satisfactory, and we now find girls employed by many of the firms and, stores in Tols to and other large cities. •The employment of women in these various directions will do much toward emancipating the Japanese wo- man, who have until now been entirely dependent on men for the shaping of, their destinies. It is only natural, under such circumstances, that female educe= tion should engage serious public alien, tion. 'The number of girls receiving a school education, it is slated, is now more than eight times the number of those at school ten years ago. More re- markable are the figures given by the Tokio Educational. Society. Fifteen years ago the percentage of females edentate] to the training school far teachers was less than 20, as compared with the men, but to -day the rate has been. completely reversed,'the number of male applicants being now about 15 per cent. of the total t It is said that women, as teach- ers, are proving themselves superior to men, and thnt there is consequently more demnald for the former than the latter. There is no doubt that the em- ployment of women in the various branches of business activity will stcad- ity increase, with the advance of educa- tion among them. In the Amazon there ere known to mist at, least 2,000 species' of fish. NO PILOT TO MEET. TIIEC STEAMER CITY OF . PAM. SAILED INTO DESERTED BAY. Lore Instances of the Grit of the Citi• ZOOS of San Francisco - Food. That Went to Waste, The main story of the San Francisco disaster.' has been pretty thoroughly threshed out by this time, but side fea- tures and incidents of the days of ter- ror which throw a new and interesting light on it, viewing in its separate as- pects, will crop out now and then pro- bably for years to come. One story- the story of the passengers on the steamship City of Para, as it cavae in- to the bay immediately after the earth- quake and as they viewed the city from the rails has not been toldhere in the East. Major A, H. Hutchinson writes about that incident as follows in a letter addressed toa friend: "A man I talked with the other day had rather a ghastly experience. He was aboard the City of Para, which arrived the morning of the earthquake. All the passengers were counting up the. minutes till they could go ashore, and it was sometime before they noticed that the officers of the ship were disturbed over something. No pilot came to meet them, and when they got into the bay there was something peculiar Zhout its appearance. You must know that at that time the wind was driving away from them so that THEY SAW NO SMOKE, and the usual landmarks -the ' Cliff House, Call building,. dome - of the city hall and Ferry building -were alt stand- ing, and from a distance would appear undisturbed. "As the steamship slowly cane up the bay the appearance of the water front was not unusual, but the bay was strangely deserted. Not a ferryboat or a tug was in sight; the quarantine or customs -house boats did not come out, and it was not till they approached the Mission street wharf that they saw the smoke, the wreckage of the wharves and a fireboat at work. Then a launch aproached and gave them news of the disaster. It was a situation that a story writer could make good use el, and the gentleman who told me about it paled as he enlarged upon the awful uncertainty they felt over the desert- ed appearances of the usually lively bay with its myriad boats." Major Hutchinson notes two striking instances of the grit of the San Francis- cans. He went downtown immediately after the quake and noticed the signs over two new stores. One read, "There will be an 0 so different opening here in a few days." The other read, "There will be something doing l}ere shortly." Concerning his experience in getting out a newspaper under difficulties, the major writes: "My small press had been shifted about eighteen inches to the west, but was not injured. I went to work and set up a little account of my trip down- town, which appeared in the extra, de- signing it for my regular use. 'THE FOLLOW=ING MORNING I planned the extra and, not wanting to use the little stock of paper I had for a regular issue, I printed it on the brown paper which was part of a stock that had been in the oflIce four years. "Of course, the papers say there is employment for everybody who will work, but it is an absurdity, for how can a man who has been used to office work do much handling bricks? HIe would need a new pair of hands every hour. Besides that, the relief work has got into a snarl of red tape that makes a man work a week to collect a week's wages. The worst feature of this red- tspeism, though, is to see great stores of needed goods lying idle for no ap- parent reason. Tons of bread have spoiled and gone mokly at a time when it was badly needed. At our nearest station we did not get any bread at all for . over a week, and then only in the proportion of one loaf to a family of six. Meat is cut up and lies a day or two before it is distributed, and men are going about with their feet tied up in rags while immense stocks of shoes are lying tied up waiting for requisi- tions to be passed upon. In the way of clothing and tents there is more of a supply on hand than has been distribut- ed and much of the f000d supply that was absolutely needed was spoiled by rain and exposure. Lotsof times can- ned goods were given out Instead of fresh when fresh goods were spoiling in the depots. I do not think any of the main officers are responsible for this, but it is regrettable that some un- derstrdpper can so tangle things up in a time of need." 4' SIMPLE LiFE' APOSTLE. Parades Streets of Paris in White Robe and Crown. Joseph Salomonson, who calls him- self "Meva," is exciting much amusement in Paris, where he parades the -streets dressed only in a flowing white robe reaching to the knees, and wearing a chro. Hislet Bairon andhisheadbeard, of a rich golden color, have never been cut. He ca.rrles a long white staff, and wears sandals. Neva, who says he is an a.postle of the "simple life," has walked all over France in his singular costume. He aa ways sleeps onthe ground, whatever the weather may be, and lives entirely on vegetables. He believes that man should eat no animal or mineral pro- duct, and will not even use salt with his vegetables. 'Neva;' who is fifty-three years of age, declares that he is wonderfully healthy, and attributes it entirely to his nolle of life. --=4 - CHRISTIANITY IN POMPLII. For the first time, it is believed, in history, clear evidence has been .found of the influence of Christianity in Posit - pelt. This is a discovery of high inter- est for students of archeology. While some excavations were being made cn the northwest side of the dead city there was brought to light a terra-coi:ta ves- sel hearing the so-called monogram �f Christ, surrounded by the crown cf thorns. The vessel is attributed to the first century of the Christian era. it was found at a depth of about twelve feet below the surface, TIE PALACE OF ilehi PARDO, Where Altoalso Took His Bride After the Royal Wedding, On the keit bank of the Manzanares, some twelve miles from Madrid, at the end of as dusty road, made more dusty to -day by rushing,,motor cars and rumb- ling furniture vans, lies the Palace of the Pardo, in 'which the King of Spain's bride is now staying, says the London Tribune, It is little more than a hand- sorne, well situated chateau, of slight historical or artistic interest. On its site Henry III. of Castile built himself a hunting box, which Charles 1. razed in 1543 to make way for a more important building; this, 'however, was not com- pleted until the reign of Philip IL, and indeed bears the later name of the Em- peror„ Charles: Garoius V. Isom. Imp. Hispano Rex,," with his escutcheons, imperial crowns, and eagles, It is a quadrangular building with towers at the four corners, surrounded by a deep moat over whichthere is a. bridge and a drawbridge. The walls of many of the rooms are covered with tapestries, of which the most notable are some fine Gobelins after Teniers and some copies of-Goya's pictures made in Madrid. But perhaps the most interesting work in the whole building is the best painting that has come down to us of the Admiral 'Gas- per Becerra, the stories of Medusa, An- dromeda, and Perseus on the vault and. walls of one of the smaller rooms; but it has been shamefully treated and tink- ered. On he rightof tthe sial staircase 'i s an equestrian portrait of John of Aus- tria, the bastard of Philip II.; it is at- tributed to Ribera, and bears an imi- tation of his signature, but it is obvi- ously a forgery or, at the best, a bad copy. Elsewhere there are some fairly good allegorical frescoes by Bayeu and Mariano Maella, a few paintings by Morales, two nice little Vanloos, a copy of a Velasquez that ought to be burned, land a Rubens in the chrome lithogre- phtc manner. In the chapel, which was built in the reign of Philip V., there is a good St. Ferdinand, by Lucas Jordan, ever the high altar. The furniture is fairly good -in the drawing room beautiful classic frames in gold and white, covered with purple damask; the curtains and screens of Talavera silk are unusually fine, and there are sorue bronzes and candelabra of merit. There is a profusion of china, which, however, amounts to nothing more titan a nice little collection of bis- cuit figures and the inevitable gilded and painted vases of royal parlors. Besides the palace itself and an attend- ant building, in which are- the stables andstaff rooms, a little way to the north is a pretty title building called the Prince's house, built by Charles IV. be- fore he came to the throne. Owing to the energy of Colonel Rip olles, the chief engineer of the royal household, to the incessant personal at- tention of Don Alfonso himself, and to the labor of 200 workmen, a great transformation to modernity has been made in the old house. Princess Ena's apartments are in the west wing. No one may see her bed- room, but the old tapestries have been taken down and replaced in frames over newly painted walls. On the walls cf the dressing room is a tapestry of a hunting scene, and the ceiling has paint- ings illustrative of commerce, industry IMO agriculture.- in -the dining room of the suite are three tapestries after Goya's, "The Good -for -Nothing," "The Smug- glers" and "The Pilgrims," and rhe dome is decorated with allegorical fres- coes of the Spanish provinces. The little theatre has been refitted, it has flat benches for the 200 people who can squeeze into it, and a royal box at the back facing the stage. Ifs drop scene is grey and bears the initials rf Isabel II., in whose time, it was made. -ERR IN PERILIZING LIVES. French Professor Describes His Which Cause Unneeded Operations. A sensational statement was made the other day before the Academy of Medi- cine by Professor Dieulafoy, who said that many persons merely suffering from muco -membranous or sabulous typhlo- colitis are wrongly operated on for ap- pendicitis. Muco -membranous typhlo- colitis is characterized by periods of constipation and diarrhoea, the ejec- tions having certain characteristic fea- tures. There is pain in the right iliac fossa which resembles that caused by appendicitis.. Dr. Dieutafov pointed out that it was very rare for a person to suffer from appendicitis and typhlocolitis at the same time, and in any case appendicitis is neither a cure for nor a result of typhlocolitis. He expressed the opinion thet the number of errors of diagnosis and un- necessary operations performed were ever on the increase. It had been dem- onstrated, he said, that muco -membran- ous typhlocolitis has nothing to do with the appendix, the ablation of which consequently had no curative effect whatever. It was necessary, therefore, that great care be taken in making the diagnosis, as it was time to put an end to useless surgical operations. Dr. Dieulafoy said he was as much as ever in favor of the ablation of the ap- pendix in cases of real appendicitis. Dr. Doyen fully supports the views of Dr. Dieulafoy, and says :- "I could cite many cases where an operation was decided upon merely be- cause the diagnosis wee insufficient. There has been a tendency blindly to decide upon surgical intervention, and operations have even been carried out on patients in the early singes of ty- phoid fever, "Quite recently a child erns brought to me. I was asked to proceed to an operationfor appendicitis. Instead of operating 1 examined the child and found symptoms described to be simply due to the presence of worms in the in- testines. Nevertheless. the parents were so convinced that it was a case of appal. Meals that an operation was performed by another surgeon the next day." INFORMATION WANTED. Nell -I've got a new way to tell a person's age. Belle ---IS that So? Will you wtell any one's age? Nell-'1"es. Belle Tell me yours, them • weeishesest LEADING_141.11KETS BREADS'TUFF.% Toronto, June 26, --- Flour - Ontario -Exporters' bid $3.15 for 90' per cent. n' , eot; m askpate$3ts,20,buyersMnriitobabags-forl'u'stxppatents,rilkers '$4. 40 to. $4.60; seconds, 24 to $4,10; bakers' 23 to 24. Wheat -:Ontario- No. 2 white, 823o hid, C.P,R„ No. P Ontario, - 82o bid, C. P. ft ., offered at 83c, G. T, R. Wheat -Manitoba -- Offered at 87'/,c, Owen Sound, or Point Edward; No. 2 northern, offered at 84',o. Peas -No. 2, 82c bid, outside. Oats - No. 2 white offered at 40c, outside; 29j4o bid. Corn -No. 2 yellow oitercd at Gie, To. ranto, to arrive, COUNTRY PRODUCE. Butter The market retains an easy, tone, and is quoted unchanged, Creamery, prints . . ... 20c to 2lc do solids . .. 190 to 20o Dairy, prints .. 16c to lie Rolls ,... .... ..<,.... 15c to 16c Tubs .... ...... .... .... 14c to 16c Cheese --- The tendency of the market continues easy. Prices hero are quoted. unchanged at 11%c to 12c for new, and 144%e to 15e for old. Eggs -The damp weather has resulted in very heavy shrinkage, on account of the mixed quality of the eggs coming forward. Sales are now being made at 7c 1 to 18c. Potatoes -Are unchanged and fairly firm in tone. Ontario, 70e to 85c out of store; eastern Delawares at 85c to 97%o; Quebec, 78e and Nova Scotia at 75c. Baled Hay -Held a firm tone, and is quoted unchanged at 210 per ten for No. 1 timothy and 27.50 to 28 for No. 2. Baled Straw -Unchanged eat $6 per ton for car lots on track here. MONTREAL MARKETS. Montreal, June 26. -Grain - Demand for Manitoba wheat from foreign sources was limited to -day and business was quiet. Oats - No. 2, 43eac to 48%e; No. 3. 42%c `to 43e; No. 4, 41/c to 4g3lic. Peas -78e Lo.b. per bushel, 78 per cent Corn -No. 3 mixed, 56%c; No. 3 yel- low, 57aec ex track. Flour -Manitoba spring wheat pat- ants, $4.60 to $4.70; strong bakers', $4.10 to $420; winter wheat, patents, $4.10 to $4.10; straight winter wheat patents, $4.30 to $4.50; straight roller, $3.90 to 5.4.20; do., in bags, $1.85 to 22; extras, $1.50 to $1.70. 114ilifeed Manitoba bran in bags, $16.- 5e 16 -5f: to $17: shorts, 1120 to $21 per ton; Ontario bran in bulk, $17; shorts, $20 io 220.50; milled mouille, $21. to $25; straight groin mouille, $25 to $27 per ton Rolled Oats -Per bag, $2.10 to $2.20; in car lots; cornmeal, $1.30 to $1.40 per bag: Hay -No. 1, $9.50 to 1110; No. 2, $8.59 M $0; clover, mixed, $7.50 to ::, and pure clover, $7 to 28. Eggs -The market is steady in trine under a fair demand. No. 1 candled sel- ling at 17e to 18o, and No. 2 at 16%e to 17e. Provisions -Barrels of heavy Canada short cut pork, 1143; light short cut, $21.= 50; barrels clear fat back, $92.50; com- pound lard. lac,to. _ac; Canadian pure lard, 1.1 go to 12c; kettle rendered, 12 to 13e: hams, 133ec to 15c, according to size; breakfast bacon, 17c to 18c; Wind- sor bacon, 16c to Me/,,c; fresh killed abat- toir dressed hogs. 210.50; alive, $7.65 to $7.75 per 100 pounds. BUFFALO MARKET. Buffalo, June 26. - Flour - Quiet. Wheat - Spring firm; No. 1 Northern, eta; Winter offerings light; No. 3 red. 90c Corn -Easy; No. 2 yellow, 57%c; No. 2 corn, 56%c. Oats -Dull; No. 2 white, 45%c. Barley -Choice Western offered 60e. Rye --Stronger; No. 2, 61% to 67c in store. NEW YORK WHEAT MARKET. New York, June 26. - Wheat - Spot firm; No. 2 red, 95c in elevator and 95e f.o.b. afloat; No. 1 northern Duluth. 9Peec f.o.b. afloat; No. 1 northern Mani- toba, 91%e f.o.b. afloat. CATTLE MARKET. Toronto, June 26. -Trading was active. at the City Cattle Market -to -day, though there was not a large supply of choice stock offering. Export Cattle -Occasional lots were not let go for less than 25.25, though the 25 and $5.25 prices ruled. In general, choice ran from 25 to 25.25; medium to good $4.85 to 25.10; bulls, $4 to $4.40; cows, $3.75 to X4.25. Butchers' Cattle - Choice lots brought $4,90 per cwt.; coarse fat cattle were easy in tone, as were also cows; picked quoted at $4.65 to ..4.90; good to choice, 84.40 to $4.65; bulls, $3.45. to $3.75; cows, $3.75 to 24.25; canners, $1.75 to $2. Stockers and Feeders - Choice $3.50 to $3.75; common 22.75 to 23.25; short - keep feeders, $1.75 to $4.00; heavy feed- ers, $4,65 to $1.75: stockers, $3.25 to $3.- 75; 3:75; stock hulls, 22 to $2.25. Milch Cows - They brought from $25 to $45 according to quality. Choice sold at $40 to $45; common, $25 10 $35; springers, $25 to $40. Calves - Prices from 3%c to 5%c per pound. ' Sheep and Lambs - Export ewes are quoted at $1.25 to $4.50; bucks at $3.50 to $3.75. while spring lambs were steely at $3.50 to $6 Hogs - Quotations at 15c per cwt. down at $7.25 for selects and $7 for lights and fats, fed and walerll. Deal- ers say prospects are for still lower prices. CiTY OF 13I0 FAMILIES. San Francisco contains the largest families in the world. It boasts of hav- ing thirty-nine families each having more than fourteen children, and sixty- five families with more than eight chile dren in each. - NOTHING BUT SYMPA SYMPATHY. T . "Then you have no sympathy for the deserving poor?" asked the person work• ing for Charity. ` Me?" replied the rich and great man. "Why, sir, I have nothing but sympathy; m for the. 1=lawlcins t "I understand that the physicians hold a consultation, but I sett you are still ellen" Bobbins t "I have since learnt that the vote stood two for me and one against."