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Exeter Advocate, 1906-8-2, Page 2ENGLISH WOMEN SMOKERS INCREASER GREATLY IN NUMBER .111 LAST FEW YEARS. Smoking More Some of a Fad Than a I abit- of the Injurious • Results. The number of women who have adop- ted the habit of cigarette smoking Itas increased enormously of late years. Ten or fifteen years ago smoking among women in England was more or less confined to isolated cases of young girls who thought it elever or amusing, and elderly femalee of the tramp class who found solace for an uneomfortable ex- istence in sucking an aged pipe of un- clean description. It is very different to -day. There are women smokers in every class a the community, students, society women, shop -girls and journalists, artists, girls In business and girls who stay at home, young girls and married women, says Elizabeth Sloan Chesser in the London Daily Chronicle. Even the grandmothers are not, beyond suspicion, although the very word seems incompatible with cig- arettes. It is, perhaps, too much to as- sert that most women smoke, but that a great many of them appreciate !he soothing influence of what man has so long considered his pet luxury cannot beedenied. Women smokers are increas- ing, and at the same time men is be- coming more tolerant and more accus- tomed to the sight, of a woman manipn- lating a cigarette. It seems as if wo- men means to smoke, in spite of the fact Bait the habit hes been condemned on moral, ;esthetic and medical ground. THE CHIEF ARGUMENT against women smoking is that -it is al- ways best to acknowledge a self-evident fact right away -women are more prone to the extreme than men. When smok- ing is once acquired as a habit it is a difficult matter to keep it within. strict and sensible limits, and what may be very moderat6 smoking for a man is dangerously- near excess for a young girl. A man may smoke a dozen cig- arettes in twenty-four hours without any apparent damage to his health; the girl who habitually disposes of six or eight cigarettes a day is deliberately under- mining her ronstitution. One of the first duties of a woman is to preserve her health; because, in spite of all the assertions and indignant denials of the shrieking sisterhood, the chief reason cf our very existence is to provide the mo- thers of future generations. I have often been told by women that they had started smoking more as a joke and that the habit had grown up- on them until they could not imagine existence without their cigarette case. And there is no more pathetic figure than the heavy smoker of the gentler sex. Thin, ancemlc, highly strung, irri- toble, with cold, clammy hands and stained finger tips, she is one of the least admirable products of the woman move- ment. She is either a brave 'woman or she is ignorant of the dangers she runs in smoking what she calls a harmless, NERVE -SOOTHING CIGARETTE. Those who argue that a woman should smoke to sootne her domeshe worries might as well say that a girl should take brandy or opium to counteract the de- pressing effects of an unfortunate levet affair. Smoking in that sense is drug- ging, the tobacco is to be regarded as a narcotic. and all norcotic.s are to 1.0 avoided unless ordered by a doctor. One cause of the prevalence of dyspep- sia now -a -days is smoking, and dyspep- sia acts as a brake on an ambitious wo- man and a blot on a pretty one. And yetfew women will believe that the red nose of dyspepsia is secondary to their habit of smoking. In strict moderation smoking is apparently harmless; but what is moderation? "Four eigerettes a day canot possibly be the cause -of my ill health," plaintively assertN the martyr to palpitation .- and Indigestion, but nicotine affects different people in varying degrees. Two cignrelles a day is excess for the neurotic woman. who Should never smoke at all. When women begin to smoke they like lo do it thoroughly, and a visit lo the smoking room of any of the women's clubs is sufficient to prove to the observ- er that the dangerous habit of inhaling is far too common. Most people have a hazy glimmering of the fact that much smoking. especially accompanied by la- beling, is a bad thing. The physiologi- cal effects of tobacco are due to an al- kaloid. nicotine., which acts chiefly" upon the heart. causing irregular action and; producing the condition known as the I smoker's heart. The girl who is on habitual smoker undermines her health and UNFITS HERSELF FOR WORK. A frequent complaint of the smoker is loss of mental tone and inability to concentrate the n 1 tention Nervous symp- toms will be more apparent iri a woman smoker than a man, because woman's nervous organization is of a more deli- cate order and more easily upset. Viet, stroking, even in moderation, is harmfuli t; women is very probeble. There are many who assert that habitue' -smoking hag a deteriorating effect on the race, and If parents of beth seteee smoke it would follow that the children would Lo physically inferior to the children of non-smokers, others things being equal. • This is mainly a personal considera- tion. It is not so much what we do (hal. seems to matter, but bow we do It, and this is true of smoking as ef everything else. • To smoke in a public place lays a woman open to the erne eism of strangers, end although a giel le not necessarily 'feet" because she en- joys tin occasional ci ga int I e, 1he true ysentlewomaii mends doing anything conventional In public. If a girl will smoke she should only do so Among !deeds, in the privacy of her own thottee, end preferebly inc gathering of women and of women who smoke Themselves, • There are people who comical'', a girl - peculiar 11 she smokes a cigarette. Than •. shock their susceptibilities by what •ie in their opinion the brazen display' Oil 00 unwomanly ant? Others ore as much surprised at the women who don't smoke, "Only the middle class British Matron is a nen-smoker now-0.edigs," I Aleve been baldand e;an.;only reply that the opinion of the average- middle close Vial) inhtron is geeerally • • A VERY SOUND ONE. The modern young, mother and bee eig- arettes is something of a novelty even yet, If she pays propel' attention to her house and her nursery she will not have much time to \viten° in smoking. Whatever he may say on the subiect, In his heart of hearts the average man disapproves et women eraoking. It may be inherent selffisimess, it may De association and a sensitive regard and desire to keep his womenfolk from the world; the feet remains Beat 00 per cent. of men prefer women not to smoke. The few who do not mind have generally a sister, wife or woman friend whom they particularly respeet and who has suc- cumbed to the fascination of smoking. flow often we hoar a man declare, "I do .-not netted girls smoking at all but I should not like me wife to smoke cig- arettes." A masculine • inconsisteney which has reason behind ill There are women who smoke. not be- cause they care for it, but under the mistaken impression that ills smart, and there are girls who smoke only because their friends enjoy it and consider them old fashioned if they don't. These types never smoke to excess, and gener- ally give up the habit when they attain years of discretion. Some women smoke because they honestly enjoy not so much the smoking itself, but the feeling of good fellowship which smoking In congenial society produces. Smoking is something of a fad among women at present, and there are many who will give it up when it ceases to be a novelty. The vast majority of wo- men will not smoke. THREE NOTORIOUS LIARS RUSSIA FIRST, TURKEY SECOND AND VENZUELA THIRD. When Countries Break Their Word - National Promises Conveniently Forgotten. 1! an individual fails to tell the truth he is called unkind things. When a nation swears to one thing and does t, another, that is diplomacy. Which is the worst prevaricator among nations? Honors seem to lie easily with Russia. That country has never allowed her plighted word to in- terfere with her ambitions, and though she has gone upon her 'unscrupulous way for many years rejoicing, .yet even- tually a broken promise, or, rather, a series of them, landed her in the hottest of hot water. Years ago Russia pledged herself not to meddle with Korea. In 1891 she re- newed those promises, and Sir Edward Grey, speaking for the Foreign Office, declared that Russia had stated that ohe considered these pledges binding. Yet less than ten years later she practically annexed the Korean port of Masampho, which she needed to protect her new in- terests in North China. At the same time she calmly announc- ed that it was convenient- to her to move out of Manchuria, although, at the end of the Chino -Japanese War, SHE HAD PROMISED TO DO SO. Japan said, "You shall go!" Russia smiled. The Bantam wasn't going to bluff the Bear. The next thing Russia knew her ships at. Masampho ware sunk, and Port Arthur invested. The Bear got his paws very badly burnt that time. But the cruellest lie that Russia ever told was to Finland. When Alexandem I. annexed Finland to Russia, he sol- emnly vowed that their constitution, re- ligion, and laws should be faithfully preserved. It remained for the present Czar to decree that Russia ehould hence- forth he the Finnish language; that the University of Helsingfors should be un- der Russian professors; that hereafter Finland should be merely a geographi- cal term for a part of thb Russian Em- pire. The first result of this cruel breach of trust was an enormous emigration from Finland to America. The seccer.id was the killing of the Russian governor. The third we are yet to see. The next worst liar in Europe is Tur- key. The Saltan-under pressure -will promise anything on earth. But next week or next year he calmly rescinds all he has promised. He agreed that we should have A POST -OFFICE AT SALONICA. Shortly afterwards he issued orders to the railway to refuse to accept our mail- bags. He promised .that our insurance companies might have free scope in Turkey. The customs' authorities were recently instructed to seize all packages addressed to British. insurance compan- ies. He gave France the privilege cf protecting all Catholic subjects of Turkey. As soon: as he thought France wasn't looking he issued 00 irade, re- fusing to reeognize French claims. Again, Turkey neVer pays her debts If she can help it. A 68100 Turkish Bond is worth less than £80. For a small country, Venzuela has the mOst reckless disregard for pledges af an kinds. Like the Sullen, President Castro makes big promises which are worth less than the paper they are writ- ten upon. Having promised to respect ell other country', needing rights. I.e eroceeded to forcibly expel the New York and Bermudez Trading Company from the asphalt rights for which he had GRANTED THEM CONCESSION. He seized two Vessels of the °linen Shipping and Trading Company. The American Government could not inter- fere direetly„ because there is American capital invested th the coMpany. Another perforinarice was to arrest seven French traders at Canteen°, be- cause they would not pay Mince twice over. Hut that lime he overelepped the mark. The French cruiser, Suchet, per- emptorily demanded their releaSe. it was refused. The Suchet drew up abreast of the Veneuelan gunboat Res-- taurador. and turned her guns on the vessel. "Now." said her coin:Mender to the captain of the Reetauredor, "yeti go ashore and advise President Cristo te release those traders. Be as quick as you ean. The men were free in lass thia,n gixty reinutee.-London Answer& There is no hope hit' the mon who knowingly persists in acting the feel. The fleecier it is to acgoire a defier, die hardtg it IS to give it up. FORECAST THE WEATHER • DOW EVE'111/ MAN MAY BE MS OWN PROPittra,, Clouds Tell You More About ifie Wen - their Than You Cun Learn From • Any Other Signs. Why is it that shepherds can, as a rule, forecast the weather an success- fully as the Meterological Office itself? Not one in ten has a barometer or r thermometer, or any/ other instrument of the kind.. It is $1411:11Y because 'they watch the sky, and notice the shapes and eolors of the clouds and the pace at which they travel. But the worst, at it is that those who live in ,tpwns cannot see much of the clouds, and residents in the country rarely take .the trouble to study them. To one uneducated in sky signs ap- pearances are most deceptive, ,for what Seeme at first sight a very fine-looking sky is often a sure indication to the in- itiated of bad weather, while sometimes a dull -looking sky is a prophecy of a dry spell. 'You can tell more from the clouds Elt sunrise and sunset than at any other hours. II you see small, light. clouds high above the rising sun. you may be practically certain tnat the day is going to be fine. On the other hand, the sky at sunrise may be absolutely cloudless, yet, if the tint along the eastern horizon i ; red,, orange, or yellow, it is more than • probable that there will be rain before night. The harder the color the more likelihood there is of a storm. THE WORST SIGN. A green sky is a still worse sign, and a greenish cloud in the soutn-east is the most ominous sign of all. II means wind as well as ram. After a wet day watch the clouds at :Sunset. If they break at all and begin tu travel more slowly the weather will probably moderate. If thelr edges turn red or golden you may be almost cer- tain that you are in for a couple of days, at least, of fine warm weather. Sometimes, after a perfect day, the blue sky suddenly becomes speckled over with little, curly, pale -colored clouds which grow in number and size, and eventually cover the sky. These in- dicate a change of weather, and you can tell how soon it will come by the height of these clouds, and at the length of time they take to iorm. The longer they take the longer, as a rule, will be the interval before the weather changes. One more certain sign of bad weather is leaden -hued clouds moving out of the northwest. There are four common forms of clouds, watch are known as cirrus status, cumulus,. and nimbus. Cirrus is whet we usually call mare's tails. It lies higher than any other form of cloud, rising sometimes to ten miles above the earth's surface. It tells you a great deal about wind. WATCH CUMULUS. At great heights the air currents are different from those near the surface. but the wind above will more often than not eventually descend. So if a storm from the west has been blowing, and clears sufficiently for you to see cirrus cloud, you can tell what is going to happen. If the ends of Inc wind clonds are curled back from the east fine wea- ther is coming. If not, a second storm Is approaching. When cirrus lies in long, straight wisps from west to east, be sure that ram is coming. Cumulus is the cloud you see lying 'Se heavy. conical heaps. it is more com- mon in summer than in winter. Watch it in the evening. If the heaps decrease fine weather is coming; if they harden or increnee, and their bases are flat, look out for rain and possibly thunder. Stratus is the flat bands of cloud which forms at sunset on a fine day. It rises from the earth, and is distinctly a fine weather cloud. It is also the fog cloud. As for nimbus, that is a mixture of all ihe other three, and is purely pod simply a rain cloud. It forms the grey mass with which we are unhappily too familior in our moist, sea -grit island. Ihe more rapidly nimbus . forms the sooner, as a rule, will the rain be over. BRITISH ARMY TUNES. Some Favorites for Many Years With Regiment s. British regiments are very jealous of certain tunes which tradition and 'asso- ciation have connected with them. "Dumbarton's Drums" has been the quickstep march of the Royal Scots for over two hundred years. The West Yorkshire Regiment claims "Ca Ira." as ifs march ; the lst Battalion Duke cf Cornwall's Light Infantry, "One and All"; the Cheshire Regiment, "Pha Wadna Fight for Charlie?" in bonor cf Sir Charles Napier, who once com- manded them.; the lilile Brige.de, "I'm Ninety-1Iva"; the Scots Greys. "The Garb of 01d Gaul"; the 10th Hussars, "God Bless Mc Prince of Wales" and "Men of Hallech"; the 511i Lancers, "Let Erin Remember" and "The Harp Thal, Once Thro"hara's Halls"; the and Bat lotion Seafort h Highlanders, "My 'Pretty 13rown Less" and "The Re- lief of Lueltnow"; and the 121h Lan- cers .and 21st, Hussars, "Cobourg." The Scotch, Welsh and Irish regiments of the British army are all partial to tunes of national extraction; and ,English regiments formed originally in the ,00tmlieet the names of which they still heat' ,have melodies applicable to the locality, and cling to then) tenaciously. GAS „FROM COCOANUT,Se des from cocoanuts le the latest il- luminant. The coal- of the Philippines has been , found unsuitable for gas- niaking purposets. The Government. therefore, has been experimenting in the labonitoeles, and has found that a gns af great Illuminating power may: oe produced by a, very simple method from cocoanut oil. The oil is slowly fed into retorts which are already red hot, Herc. it yolatilizesvery rapidly, leaving a entail residue at tar. Bulk for bulk, the oil hes- a Much greater productiveflees In gas than 'coal, and for this rea- son it is expeeted that, if the Supply cab be made to Meetthe dernend it will, be geeetly Wed all tilting the Paelfic 'eoetste IN HISTORIC • GLENCOEI FROM ERIN'S GREEN ISLE THE HOME OF LORD STRATUICONA NEWS BY MAIL FROM IRELANDS •IN SCOTLAND, ••••••••••• Description of the Canadian High Conn missioner's Magnificent Property. Kinleclibeg, which include.s Blackeor ries, in the parish of Lismore and Ap- pin and county of Argyll, has an area of about 40,000 acres. The small shiel- • ing known as Mealanruach (Meal' nen fleudbag), of triangular shape, which lies M the middle of the forest, forme part of Ballachulish estate, but is rent. - ed by Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, the proprietor of Ktelochbeg. • TWENTY MERK LAND. Lord Starthcona's estate forms 'he bulk of what was in...the seventeenth century known as the Taventy Merk land of Glencoan, in the Ode:lordship of Lorn, which formed the subject 01 0. grant by James Earl of Perth to John Stewart of Ardsheal in 1685, and was then held in feu of the Earl of Argyll. In 1685 Stewart of Ardsheal subfeved part of it to Macdonald of Achtriachtan, and in 1693 another part to Macdonald of Glencoe, and he also seems to have feued other parts. In 1701 he .sold the remainder to Robert Stewart of Appin. Subsequently tha bulk of the properly feued to Macdonald of Achtriac'frtan was acquired by the proprietor of the estate of Appin, and the proprietor of that es- tate also acquired feam the Duke of Argyll the superority of the old Twen- ty Merk land. • TWENTW MILES. Lord Stratheona acquired the lands which were feued out in 1693 to Mac- donald of Glencoe and also parts of the Twenty Merk land of Glencoan which formed part of. the Appin estate, includ- ing the superiority, so that Lord Strath - cone holds the whole property of the Crown. His territory stretches twenty miles from east to west; from north to south the breadth varies front two to six miles. The large manSion erected by Lord Strathcona was designed by Sir Rowand Anderson, and is under- stood to have cost nearly £50,000, in- cluding the laying out of the grounds. It is lighted by electricity and built on the old and historicalproperty of Glen- coe, overlooking Loch Leven, with Loch Linnhe in the distance, and the Morven and Kingairloch hills in the background. MADE THREE LAKES, Lord Strathoona formed three lakes near the house, and has made a special feature of autumn flowering shrubs and plants, as well as autumn flowers, vege- tables and fruit. There is also a nur- sery ai trees from which extensive planting is made every year. The landing pier for yachts is within a few hundred yards of the house. There are two shooting boxes-, one at the Coalisn- tiCean further up Loch Leven, and an- other in the middle of the Blackcorries was afforested early in last century, but Kinlochbeg, Coalisacoan and Stroneweea cleared comparatively recently, and only after it was found absolutely un- profitable to graze sheep. LAND LIES HIGH. -The ground is high lying, Glencoe be- ing one of the most mountainous dis- tricts in the west. On the .south side Bidean nam than (3,756 feet) is the high- est; on the north Aonach Eagach (3,168 feel), both favorite ascents among mountaineers. An outstanding member of the western group is Sgor an. Ciche, the Pap of Glencoe,which lies behind Glencoe house and from the top of which there is a most wonderful view. Glen- coe is 'entered from the west at Bridge of coo, the village of Carnoch on the left bank- of the river was the chief ele- ction of the Macdonalcis. • The massa- cre took place on the 13th of February, 1692. ."The Devil's Staircase" is a rough track across the Sorest front the Coe At Alitnafeadh to the head of •Loch Leven. The Coe is the Cone of Ossian, on Whose banks, according to tradition,' the poet was born. Ossian s Cave Is on the south side of the glen on a spur 31 Bidcan nam Bien. THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD. The world , is to be .weighed once more, doubts being entertained by scientists as to, the °curacy of previous estimates; but whether the error be a case .of short -weight or over -weight has yet to be settled. So an expedition is to sot out to Egypt, where, strange as it sounds, the Great Pyramide will be utilized by the investigators. First the weight of the pyramid will be ascer- tained, and then the weight of the earth estimated from its proportionate size,. The swinging of pendulums will be the gauge, for the pendulum is effected by the poever of attraction, ex.- erted by. a large or small body -a mere question of • arithmetic to the man of science. From the force exerted by the pyramid in pulling the swinging pendu- lum from its natural course the weight of the pyramid can be estimated, and that • of the earth -the Met size of which is , known -can then be easily calculated. TOO ..-ne'rRACTIVE. "Ruggles, you've improved the looks of -that. house of yours wonderfully In the last fen" months. It's one of the most attractive properties on the street now." •, "Yds, that's the trouble. It has ale traded the attention of the asseeor and three or four burglars since I fixed it A PRINCIPLE. "You might mow the 'grass or carry in some skive woOd," suggested the housewife. "Lary," answered Plodding Pete, "1 belongs to de army at Ile Unemployed." "'Well?" "I ain't goin'-to be no base deserter," • INSPECTED AND PASSED. Esmeralda : • "It's too bad you've given Jack his walking papers. He's the goods, all right." GWendolin "Yes; he's the and geode, all. right." nappenings in the Emerald Isle 01 Interest to Irish- • Canadians. On Llio edge of a small river in County Cavan is 'a etone with this inse,ription "When this stone Is ota of sight, it Is not safe to ford the river," • Following a loud rumbling noise a portion • of the great bog runnieg through the midlands of Bellied rose nine feet at Ballycucumber. During the sale of a Down estate when a public house license was part of the lot offered for sale the justice said that the prices of publet houses were rapidly falling all over Ireland, An ancient canoe, measuring 27 feet !n length by 3 feet in width, has been found in a bog at Trelloo, near Red - hills, County Cavan, lt, was hollowed out of a trunk of oak, and contained a • rudder and spaces for oars. Al. a Nationalist meeting in an Irish village one of the speakers caused a mild sensation by • exclaiming, "Ah and a.s 1 gaze into the invisible future I fancy 1 can .see on the sands of time the footprints of the hands of our horny- • footed sells of toil." Sir Donald Currie, whose gift of a hundred thousand pounds has enabled University College Hospital, Dublin, to build a new wing, may be called the "Father of the Shipping World," for he is well over eighty, and for manyyears has owned the superb Union -Castle Line steamers. He is a keen -eyed, sharp - featured, sturdilybuill Scotsman. An heir Le thirty thousand pounds has been discovered in Celbridge Work- house, County Kildare, Recently Mr. Dunne, solicitor, New. "York, advertised in Ireland for the heirs to the White estate (America), and now believes he has discovered in the person of James Nolan, an infirmary patient, the long - sought heir. A lady factory inspector, giving evi- dence before the Home Office Commitee On the Truck Acts, said many women in Ireland knitted socks, stockings, or gloves in their miserable cabins for employers, for which they were paid, not in money, but in tett and groceries. The tee, was charged against, them at the rate of as. 6d. per lb. They were supposed to earn 9c1, or Is. by knitting a dozen pairs of short stockings or slit ves. • EXPOSED BY STRATEGY. 'low a Deaf and Dumb Impostor Was Found Out. Magistrates frequentlyi have impostors brought before •them, and it requires shrewdness and strategy to expose their deceptions. The following 'will show bow a pretended deaf-mute was put off his guard. The charge against him was that of begging in the streets. Suspended front the man's neck was a placard, bearing the inscription in black and white; "I am deaf and thiTnhib." The magistrate, eyed both the pri- soner and the placard long and sharp- ly. "What have you to say to the charge ?" he suddenly exclaimed. The prisoner paid not the slightest at- tention, but' steed looking vacantly be- fore hien. "Como, now, plead to the charge," repeated the, magistrate, in crescendo tones. The priscner peered at the magis- trate's nineing lips, and then touched his ears and mouth significantly with his forefinger. "Oh, that will do I" said Justice Pat- ters, impa ly ; "step forward and plead, I tell you 1" The prisoner continued • to peer into the magieleale's Moe, and as the offi- cial lips stopped moving he drew a Mlle slate from his pocket, upon which he scrawled lhe words :- "I cannot hear 'a word you say.". The magistrate was aparently buried in thnught for a moinent. Presentlyhe murmured in a low tone, as if communing with himself: - "I don't know what to think aloin this case. Thought he was a, fraud al, first, but he does seem to be hard of hearing. I 'think I'd better let him •go. Yes I will. Prisoner," raising his voice suddenly, "you may go." As the magistrate uttered these words, the prisoner's little slate sud- denly disappeared into the depths of his ragged pocket, and with great alacrity he turned from the bar. Then he .suddenly recollected and chede•liolaedhtlemi"seleri "Toa eed the magistrate, tri- umphantly. "You may go -that is, to prison for seven days." - MINERALS IN TRANSVAAL. The Enormous Possibilities Can Not at Present Be Realized. The British and South African„Export Gaeette contains the following interview with a prominent merchant of Johan- nesburg:- Whatever may be the state of affairs al this time, there can be no-douht about the ultimate future. People not living in the Transvaal do not realize how inn theme is its mineral wealth. Practically all base metals ere to be found and dis- covery has only just begun. Some early shipments of lin and lead have been made during the past month and copper will also be an item el export shortly. Tin from the bushveld has peened out, rernarlothly rich at the sute face, and the beginnings of a big indus- try arc being Made, Many new tvorks will presently be erected in eormection with tin alone, and large quantities of machinery must be purchased if the f,,e,eat demeans of ore 080 to he adequate ty mined, Then, too, I knOW Of no rich- er lodes than those of the Trtinsvaal; °tie "deposits of the purest china clay go to exceptional depths; and We aleo LEADING HIIKETS BREADSTUFFS. • Toronto, July 31. -Flour Onierio-e Dull, exporters bid 23 for 00 per oent. patents, buyers' bags, outside. Manito- ba -$4.40 to 0.00 for first patents, $4 to $4.10 for NON and $3,90 to $4 for bakers'. Bran.- bulkOntario - $15 to $15.50 in . Wheat - Ontario - Firmer at 773/c to 78c- outside for No. 2 red and white, Wheat - Manitoba - Prices .are higher at 84* to 85c for No. 1 north- ern at lake ports; No, 2, 82* to 83o. for NO, 2. Oats -Steadier, at 36%,0 to 37c outside It • Rye - 62c .to 64c outside. 2. Barley - 490 to 51c outside for No. Corn - American No. 2 yellow 590 Ontario points. Peas -80c to 82c outside. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Butter - Receipts of mixed quality are fairly heavy. Creamery prints .. • 20e to 21c do solids •• ... 19c tO 20c Dairy prints . . , 1604,o 1834c do pails .... . . 17e to 18o do tubs .... . , 17o to 18c Baker' . • , 16c to 17e Cheese -12%c to 123c for lb. lots, • Eggs -Quotations are unchanged Et 18c to 19c. . Potatoes -Loads of new are quoted about steady at 750 to 80c per bushel. Baled Bay -Old is steady at, $10 for car lots, No.. 1 timothy, on track hero; mixed $7.50. Sonic new is offering at $9.50 per ton for No. 1 'timothy. Baled Straw -Car lois on track here are unchanged a'S' $5.50 to $.6 per ton. • MONTREAL MARKETS. _ Montreal, July 31. -Grain -There was 00 improvement in the demand for Manitoba. wheat by the ,cables this morning and business was very? quiet. Oals-No. 2 white, 42*; No. 3 white, 42c; No. 4 white, 41c. Flour --Manitoba spring wheat, $4.60 to $4.70; strong bakers', $4.10; winter wlieat patents, $4.30 to $4.40; straight rollers, $3.90 to 24.10; do., in bags, $1.- 85 to $1.90; extras, $1.40 to $1.50. Millfeed-Manittoba brEin in bags, $16 to $11; shorts, $20 to $21 per ton; On- tario bran in bags $15.50 to $16; short; .$20.50 to $21; milled mouhlle, $2.1. to $25 1.e8 ton, and straight grain, $28 to $29. Rolled Oats -$2.25 per bag; cornmeal, $1.40 to 21.45 per bag. Hay -No. 1, $9.50 to $10; No. 2, $8.50 to $9; clover, mixed, $7.50 to $8, and pure clover, $6.50 to $7 per ton, in car lots. Eggs -The market is unchanged at 20c to 2.1c for selects and 17c to 18c for No. 1 candled. BUFFALO MARKET. Buffalo, July 31 -Flour -Quiet but firm. Wheat -Spring unsettled; No. 1 Northern, 82%c; Win:Ler stronger; No. 2 - red, 79c. Corn -Stronger; No. 2 yellow,, 58c; No. 2 corn, 57%e. Oats -Erma No. 2 white, 60e; No. 2 mixed, Mc. Rye -No. 1 new sold at 62%c through bill- ed. Canal freights -Steady. •••••••••••Men. NEW YORK WHEAT MARKET. New York, Ju1a,31-Spot, barley Steady; No. 2 red, 82%c elevator; No. 2 red, 8.83/c f.o.b. Afloat; No. 1 northern. Du- luth, 87%e f.o.b. afloat; No. 2 hard win- ter, 84%c f.o.b. afloat. CATTLE MARKET. • Toronto, July 3L -Cattle of all classes excepting the best were down 10 to 15a. to -day at the Western Cattle Market, owing -to the large arrivals thereof, and the large proportion of inferior aninials. delivered. No choice exporters were offered, the - limited arrivals comprised madly me- dium and common cattle, and the to recorded was $4.90. Several lots. brought $4.80 to $4.90 per cwt.. The drop butchers' cattle was from 10 to 20c per cwt, in all lines, excepting: the best. Choice • butchers'. $4.50 to. $4.75; medium, $4 to $4.40; cows, $3.25 to $3.50; bulls, $3 to $3.50; can- ners, 21.50 per cwt up. The market was quiet in feeders and stockers.. Short keeps,' $4.50 to $4.70;. heavy feeders, $4 to $4.50; stockers, $2.75 to $3.50; stock bulls, $2 to $2.25 per cwt.. Export ewes and 'bucks were steady, while lambs showed a tendency to de- cline in price. Export ewes, 4% tot ; culls and bucks, 3% to 3-%0 lambs, 7% to Sc. Calves were slow of sale at 33. to 6c per It. Hogs were quoted at $7.90 for selects, and at $7.65 for lights and fats. SILK FROM GUNCOTTON. Frenchmen Threaten to Put the Silk. worm Out of Business. Science threatens to put the silkworm out of business. French chemists have discovered at least three distinct me• lbods of competing With the old reliable but extremely deliberate silkworm. Perhaps the most itheresting.of these Is the manufacture of silk from gu,ncote ton, which also serves as a base for he most, powerful of 'modern explosves. The viscous fluid from which the silk worm spins his threed is chemically duplicated by a process described in the Technical World. The fabric thus pro- a ducal is inflammable, and in order to remedy this defect it, ie treated with an alkali sulphide solution. - The founderof the new industry have kept in view not so much the exact re- production of mama) silk as the pro- duction of a substance, which embraces its valuable properties. Natalral Sill( possesses to a large de- gree qualities of brilliancy, elasticity, .strength, afflnity far coloring and bleach- ing materials'', and when handled a pe - tallier rustling sound. known as scropp. Perhape the brilliancy and screen of silk are the best known of its qualithie, and It is In theee two respects that or - Uncial silk meet closely reeentbles na- tural', il,s brillieney being greater end , , possese taw meleriai on which to M. inn, te p' tg Y ess, an Itsbestos induetry. The country is eo • highly mlneratized, in fact, that, as emir. BetWeeri some men and sponges mons possibiliticii can not at preeent be only apparent difference is that sponge realized. 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