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• FEATNOW.WITHIN REACH•
•1:01E,WO1RLD MAY DE CIRCLED NVITIR-
IN FIFTY DAYS.
tAn Achievement Which Ehoodiatt Bator.
prise Is Helping to Make
Possible.
Around the world in fitty days seems
IlOw a feat within reale With• the
launehing a two new Cunard liners
destined to reduce the voyage to four
•'days and a halt, and with the prospec-
tive re -opening of the Trans-Siberian
Railroad and the Manchurian Railroad
in the hands of the Japanese, the pos-
sibility of cutting down the record is
brought waren The present record is
held by Henry Frederick, who in the
summer of 1903 went around the world
In fifty-four days seven hours and
• twenty minutes. James W. Sayre, of
Seattle, was only two hours and
twenty-two minutes longer, and,
strangely- enough. their voyages were
ahnost simultaneous, the former start-
ing on July 2 and the latter on July 26
the former travelling east:Ward, the lat-
ter westward.
THE RUSSIAN LINK.
or St. Petersburg; he woUld prebably
lose a. (ley oe two tat Dalaey, and egein
in Japan, while the possibility of e
steamer being delayed by 0,00i4eat °r
bad Weather might, threw a41 his caleu-
latione out of gear and coSt him a full
week of delay at some pleint lUtt t l�
set Out to girdle the world in fitty daye
ti o would, according to the foregoing
figures, have fore days to spare or such
delays. Summarized the schedule is as
followe
New York to Cherbourg 144 hourS
Cherbourg to Paris .... 5 1'
Paris to St Petersburg 47 "
St, Petersburg to Moscow 12 "
Moscow to Dalny 408
Dalny to Shimonoseki ,..,60 "
Shimonoseki to Yokohama 12 "
Yokohama to Vancouver 288 `"
Vancouver to New Yotk 120 "
The possibility of beating these re-
cords depends principally upon the neW
schedule of the Trans-Siberian Rail-
road, which has not yet been issued.
The road is open now as far east as
Irkutsk, on Lake Baikal, but beyond that
it is in •the hands of the Russian Govern-
ment, which is monopolizing it for the
transport of its armies from the scene
of the recent war. Bow on it will be
opened no one can tell, not even the
Russian Minister of Railways, to whom
the International Sleeping Car Com-
pany applied a few weeks ago for infor-
mation which would enable it to plan
round -the -world tours for the coming
season, and who replied that he would
advise them to make no such plans over
the Trans-Siberian road for the present.
But by next year Russia will have ceased
to need the road for military purposes,
and the line will have been so improved
and repaired that it will be possible
greatly to reduce the running time be-
tween St. Petersburg and the Pacific.
Prince Hilkoff, the Russian Minister
of Railways, made the prediction a few
years ago that it would soon be possible
to go around the world in thirty-three
days'and when asked for details gave
the following figures: New York to
• Bremen, 7 days; Bremen to St. Peters-
burg, 1% days; St. Petersburg to Vladi-
vostok, 10 days; Vladivostok to San
Francisco, 10 days; San Francisco to
New Yoric, 4% days. But Prince Hil-
kofhe figures have never yet been ap-
proached. Instead of 10 days from St.
Petersburg to Vladivostok it takes 17,
and often much longer, and instead of 10
days from Vladivostok to San Francisco
the fastest steamers take 12 from Yoko-
hama lo Vancouver, and anywhere from
three days to a week must, be added to
this for getting from Vladivostok to
Yokohama. Again, he made no allow-
ance for time lost in making connec-
tions.
But that Prince Hilkoft predicted ten-
day trains across Asia is good evidence
that they are not only possible, but that
it is the intention of the Government to
have them in operation. It is not im-
probable that they may be running next
year, in which event it should be easy
to reduce Mr. Frederick's record by
nearly a week to forty-eight or even
forty-seven days.
SKETCHING THE ROUTE.
N.3w let us see how one would set
about reducing the round -the -world re-
cord. In the opinion of the managers
of Cook's Tourist Agency and of the In-
ternational Sleeping Car Company, the
new four -and -a -half day boats of the
Cunard Line may be left out of the cal-
culation entirely, for they would not re-
duce the Atlantic voyage sufficiently to
make up for the inevitable loss of time
In crossing England and the English
Channel. Both these experts say the
speediest route !rem New York to St.
Petersburg is unquestionably by a
steamer landing its passengers at a
Continental port, a French liner to i.e
Ilavre, or a German, liner to Cherbourg,
Or even to Bremen or Hamburg. As the
Trans-Siberian h•ains run only twice a
week, starting,/ from Moscow on Wed-
nesdays and Saturdays, one would have
to select his steamer with a view 10
making the closest poesible connections.
Five hours must be allowed from Cher-
bourg '10 Paris., forty-seven hours from
Paris to St. Petersburg and 12, from Se
Petersburg to Moscow. That is the ac-
tual running lime of the trains, and
another twelve beers must be addeel
for making connectioris and waiting for
trains. If the traveller go via Brernen
• he must allow about thirty-six home fry
the railway journey from there to Mos -
&'V,
At Moscow he hoards the Trans-
Ciberian Express. but he would make a
great mistake if he were to go to Vladi-
vostok, for an reaching there he would
have to make inquiries as to the next
boat leaving for japan and he might
have to wait several clays before one
sailed, and then it would be a small,
slow freighter, that might land him in
Japan in four or five days. The wise
traveller would talce his • ticket for
Dalny, changing at Soungari, the jiinc-
tion of the Trane -Siberian end Man-
churian railways. Regular steamers ply
between Dalny and Shimonoseki, Japan,
two or three times a weelc, making the
passage in two cloys and a half.
Total 1,096 hours
But it must be remembered that all
these caleulations are based upon the
assumption that the Trans-Siberian
Railroad is to be opened soon, If the
running time on this road be cut to ten
days from Moscow to Dalny, seven days
can be subtracted front the forty-five,
which would show that it is possible to
go around the world in thirty-eight days.
The time is not far distant when this
will be perfectly true.
In this connection it is interesting to
recall the figures published by the pro-
jectors of the tunnel under Behring
Straits, which may be summarized as
'fellows :
Nev York to Paris ......... 149 hours
Paris to St. Petersburg 47 "
St. Petersburg te Behring
Strait 312
Behring Strait to Chicago 192 "
Chicago to New York 17 "
Total . 717 hours
or 28 days and 2`hours
But the Behring Strait tunnel is not
likely to be dug for many years to come,
and anyone who is ambitious to beat
the world's record for globe -girdling had
'better wait for it, for by that time air -
Ships may have put railroads and
steamships out of date. -N. Y. World.
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MISER LIVED IN MISERY.
Gold and Notes to the Value of 850,009
Found in His Rooms.
AUDIENCE WITH SULTAN
FAILURE OF A FOREIGN DIPLOMA-
TISTS MISSION.
An extraordinary story of a miser's
misery and wealth was told to the
Middlesex (England) coroner the other
day, when an inquest was held at Ed-
monton Workhouse on the body of John
Ile Went to Obtain au A.rehbisito,p's
Consecration Through on
• Interpreter.
A diplomatist recently accredited to
the Sultan describes in the Loodoa
Standard how he (Mee • secured an
audience of his Majesty and how he
fared.
Hie object was to obtain the confirm-
ation of an already chosen Archbiehop
to a Macedonian see. For weeks he was
thwarted by officials of the court, and
then for more weeks by the Sultan him-
self, who professed to be too busy to see
him. However, at host he Was really
received, and this is what 'happened
"His Majesty awaited Me in a setall
but richly furnished room. Ile etoOd in
the uniform of a Turkish Colonel by a
low sofa, with his gloved hand on the
hilt of his swine'. His rather long,
melancholy countenance was •buriemely
and subtly lighted ty a sort of geed -
humored latent smite. Even in hie dark
and usually sad eyes tho seine strange
laughter seemed lei lie. In them one
could read either suppressed Merriment
or irony. Probably he was foretasting
the humor of the diplomatic transectiou
which was to tallow, and ,
ENJOYING. 1T QUIETLY ! •
laughed 101iden stilt 'And now, your
concluded ihrelihn 13ey,
soleeimly, 'what his Majesty Wishes tQ
know from you is this -i4' it 'really true
that Engiteti Iticliee drink ?'
maly haarivsebeereeg h
t thwarmly lirat whatevert
y or ttiirty-
five years age',. his Majesty might take
MY word for it that Englieh ladies
DID NOT DRINK NOWADAYS.
"IRS Majesty's tropic smile deperted,
fie loeleed grave, as if meditating seine
great problem, and then said : gives
Me great pleasure hi hear you Say .so.
You contlem my own view. Often since
then have I asked myself; "Could the
English nation be what it is it the womert
of England dvank more than or even
as much as the men? I am glad that
your observalione in Landon support my
own theories.' Ills ehijesty then went
into a long praise of English woMen,
referring, to the saying Non Angli, sed
Angela I 'seized this allusion, as a
drowning man reaches at a traw,
"'Sire,' I interrupted, rising and. how-treeolver into my pocket , and went to
ing deeply, being copied by Ibrahim I time churcliyaed to watch. It wile al
Bey, "your Majesty's mention or angels fearful night of wind and ram; I was
reminds me of heaven, and heaven re-
minds me of churches, and so I am
brought back to theelhought or that ex-
cellent man and most true end worthy
servant of your Majesty the Archbishop
ot Macedonia, whose consecration-'
"Here his Majesty showed how well
he understood French, as he would not
let me go on, but broke in with, 'Cer-
tainly; but you would never mix up a
Bishop in our interesting conversation
on English ladies. No, no. The nine has
elciloaobsoeuittyleouorppBoilltiompe.
nLocatv36,etiteotoMemteo Joel
moment. Of a surely our talk then will
be as satisfactory as it has been inter-
esting to -day.' • Thereupon his Majesty
arose, and with a slight inclinatioa of
his head and a suspicious smile hover-
ing around his lips and mouth I was
graciously dismessed."
"I sat exactly opposite the Sultan, Who
took a place alone upon the sofa. About
a yard away on his left the accom-
plished dragoman of the palace, lbha-
him Bey, occupied a small chair, and
on my left was my owo dragoman.
Looking me straight in the face, Abdul
Hamid said a couple of phrases in musi-
cal Turkish, speaking very low. Ibra-
him Bey bowed low, made the Temenala
and began to translate. This he did
afresh each time the Sultan spoke, till,
at the end of the audience, he was quite
weary with the gymnastic exercise. He
began thus:
"'1 -lis Majesty comands nie to say how
much, he regrets noi having been able
to receive you sooner. It was a great
annoyonce to him, as he had a subject
he particularly wished to discuss with
you. His Majesty is pleased, to see you,
and hopes that you are ready to enter
upon the subject' I replied that I was
deeply sensible of the honor conferred
Sewell, aged 71, who died. in the infirm- in me, the more as my Government
had charged me to bring to the personal
notice of His Majesty a question of some
importance. I was especially delighted
to find His Majesty so ready to enter
f he , upon details. . .
"The • Sultan bent his head slightly
toward mm
e and urmured a few words
with a sphinxlike smile. 'Before his
Majesty begins to talk about that mat-
ter he wishes to know how long you
were accredited to the Court of St.
James's.' .
"This seemed a curious introduction
to the decision of the Archbishopric in
powerful air guns, and a long knife. Macedonia question. but I replied that
Mrs. Coventon, who lived next door, altogether I had been about
told the coroner that Sewell never per-
mitted anyone to enter the house, and , SEVEN YEARS IN LONDON. ' ....
he never spoke to the neighbors. About
"'Then you must be well acquainted
ten days ago, as she did not hear him
with English society ?'
moving about, she went to the police,
"I replied that in my modest way I
but when a constable went to the house
Sewell
thought I knew something of the Ene-
ti
ry v:ell 1 His Majesty is most
"No." • anxious to have your opinion on Eng -
On Monday groans were heard, and
lish women.'
the police again went to the house. They
"In spite of myself I cried out 'What?'
found the front door locked and barri-
and-looked to my interpreter to see if
ceded, but broke in from the back.
Ibrahim Bey had translated aright. He
Sewell, dressed in indescribably dirty
nodded, and Ibrahim Bey repeated,
rags, lay on the floor of one of the
!His Majesty would know what a man
rooms. He was very weak, but when
the police entered the room he strug- like yourself, who is familiar with Eng-
lish society, ;thinks of the lac:ties.
'
gled to reach a knife at his side, and.
"'They are good and pretty,' I an -
when this was taken away from him a
w
eered briefly, wondering what the
loaded revolver was found in his
qualities of English women had to do
pocket. There was only a bed in. the
, with the case of my unconsecrated
morn.
ac- Bishop.,
He was taken to the infirmary, where
"'His Majesty says that when he was
he subsequently died from apoplexy
in England lie saw many beautiful we-
celerated by the terrible condition in
, 'men.' I opened my eyes wider and
which he lived. wider, and ventured t.0 ask: . 'Was His
Al, the inquest Mr. W. Mattingly,
clerk to Sewell's solicitor, said that his Majesty ever in England?' .
"Certainly; I and my elder brother,
firm's client refused to telt them where
Murad, accompanied our uncle, Sultan
hismoney was invested_ His capital
Abdul Azie-Heaven rest his soul -to
amounted to mere than £10,000. sew_
England tO visit Queen Victoria.' His
ell's two sisters, who are also rich, are
Majesty uttered these' words scarcely
at present in lunatic asylums:
above a whisper, looking very seriously
A verdict of "death from natural
and sadly at the floor. We were all
causes" was returned.
silent for a mimae. in deference to the
f . recollections of his uncle and brother
ary.
About a week ago the man was re-
moved to the workhouse in a most
wretched condition front his house in
Handsworth road. Tee house itself was
more like a pigsty than a human habi-
tation, but when searched £440 in gold
and 2465 in „notes were found, while
script to the value of at least £10,000
was lying about the rooms. The place
was a veritable treasure house.
In addition to the treasure, there was
also a well -stocked armory, consisting
of four loaded revolvers, number of
and UULfl out, asking
13Y STEAMER TO VANCOUVER.
At Shimonoseki the globe-trotter
would take the train foe Yolcohanot and
reach that, port, in twelve hours. There
he would get a steamer for America.
If lucky or accurate in his calculations,
be would catch one of the Cnnadian
. Pacific Steamers, WhlOh would land him
• at Vancouver in twelve tinys. From
there via Winnipeg, St. Paul and Chi-
cago ho would come East, by Ihe fastest
rains he could select, bill about five days
the hest titne he could make,
• This figures up forty-five dap of
lietteal travelling, hog it is manifestly im-
• peisSible to make so many conneetienS
Without delayS. fls traveller might lose
e One or tWei days, between landing in
tul'Ope and taking tho train to Moecow
wanted anything, the man answered list" -
VICAR'S GHOSTLY VIGIL
A MIDNIGHT SCENE AMID $ILENI
Sacriligious Thieve Enter Churchyard.
But are Met by Revolver
Shots.
The Rev. Forbes Phillips, vicar of
Gorleston, England, told a London Daily
Mail renreSentalive the other <ley how
he kept: a watch by night in St. An-
drew's churchyard and shot at two burg.
lars-of Nvtlont nothing has since been
heard -who, he thinks, intended to rob
the collection boxes or steal the 'pre-
Beformation plate, of great value, in
the church.
"After the Sunday evening service,"
said Mr.Phillips, "1 slipped a bulldog
MOBBED BY BEES.
A Traveller's Experience With the
IIoney-Seekers in Abyssinia.
Bees abound in certain parts of Abys-
sinia, and, as the land is almost water-
less in the dry season, the insects suf-
lei much from thirst In "The Source
of the Blue Nile" is an interesting ac-
count of the manner in which, on his
jeurney, the author • was mobbed by
lee ,s whieh were after his drinking
water.
Every drinking vessel wee crowded
with them. Our boys drank from cala-
bashes, and when they were put upon
the ground, bees clustered on the edges
and crawled toward the liquor. Impa-
tient successers thronged upon lite fleet
comers and pushed them intothe win
te• so that in a feW minutes, the sur-
face wee a mass of astruggle-foreifters."
In spite of the heat we bad to keep =v-
ine; for when we settled, so did the
bees -all over us.
We belled for luncheon in a small ra-
vine, and the bees did not find us fill
we had nearly finished the reetd. We
smoked • them with cigarettes, cigars,
and n bonfire, to no purpose. Then wo
Shifted our quarters, but they followed.
All of. us were stung, and We were ont
quit of them fill we mounted our cam -
e1:5 and outdistanced the swarm.
They get theie their honey from the
flowers of the mimosa -free. We camp-
ed that night among the rnittosas, think-
ing that we had been delivered from
the plague of ineeols, hut we were nes
-
taken. A hog of the heneyeeetkere
thronged and erawled on one'e Candle,
one's book, one's fano and one's betide,
adding insult to injory by etinging I•18.
It Was More time ewenty-emer holies be -
fere We were free fecon them. '
awakened in his pints memory.
"Then, however, he broke into a long
speech. which Ibrahiin rendered quickly
into French.
"'His Majesty says that a tall and fine
officer wet attached to his suite; ct very
agreeable ()Meer. . His Majesty fancies
to have read or heard that this same
offlcor fell like a brave soldier on the
battlefield later, When we were in Eng-
land the officer ordered
A 130.17LE OF SCOTCH WHISKEY
and soda water to be placed on a little
table in the anteroom, and made a
speech to my brother and me on the
Sovereign virtues of this drink. He also
tried to convince us that it was impos-
sible that the Koran should forbid its
use. When he found he could' not per-
suade us he concluded by trusting that
though we did not partake ourselves we
wneld not lake it ill if he did.'
"Evidently the Sultan understands
French perfectly, as Ibrahim Bey had no
sooner ended the translation of ono
phrase than he began another, mine.
Mating here and Utere with audible
Maje-sty says that Ilia °Meer
often repeated these lactice. At last,
says his Majesty, when my brother and
1 saw bottle, °flee bottle of Scotch whis-
key dleappenr, we said to ourselves,
'The officer is a nice fellow and a fine
soldier; he is oor friend, and we are his
friends. We are not doing our duty as
friends if we don't tell him that he
drinks too Much.' So We remonstrated
with lam; and what was his answer/
Ile gazed et us in amazement, and then
burst out laughing. 'IS it' possible that
your Royal ilip,hrlesses think that
drink too much of this whiskey? What
Nevootiuldld sC'o'ouhro‘iv1°. ttYllelitlitghlamtleYssofF'Atlyie'llfadyresu
In oar best ' society drink?' 'And he
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GHILD DETECTED ROBBER
GOLD STOLEN FROM ROYAL BANK
AT MUNICH IS RECOVERED.
Child Noticed That Mon Paid Fare
From Purse Full
Gold Pieces.
The authors of the great mint robbery
at Munich, Germany, have discovered,
and the police have recovered posses-
sion Of nearly all the stolen coins. The
merit of the discovery belongs to a child
who, while sitting in a tramway car the
other day, observed that her neighbor,
a man in workman's clothes, paid his
fare from a purse full of golden tea-
med: pieces.
With a quick sense of apprehension
the child turned to the conductor and
quietly observed, "This man has got
stolen money from the mint." The con-
ductor signaled the driver to stop the
car, and handed the workman over to
ebristable, who conveyed him to the
police headquarters. There the prisoner
confessed to having been associated
with the burglary, but averred, that he
had not actually committed the crime.
He gave his name at Max Ruf, by occu-
pation an expert mechanic.
A REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE.
Meanwhile, by a remerkable coinci-
dence, the police had discovered, inde-
pendently of Rue the --real burglar. This hc,s11.3,
a tall man and a short man
was a soldier named Koenig, who; he. to find
service in in the army, was a worker tered 'and were taken aback
fere he began his two yearshcompulsory
the mint, wherehis father is still em-
ployed. Oft the night of the burglary
Koenig was absent from barracks, and
this fact came to the' cognizance of his
superiors through a postman.
At about, midnight on Thursday last
a letter marked "express" was brought
to Koenig at the barracks and his bed
was found to be empty. Early on the
following morning he climbed over
railing and 'regained his sleeping berth.
TcS- the corporal who called on hint for
al. explanation he 'said he had been on
an amorous quest.
MAN IS WATCHED.. •
From that day Koenig .eves. wetched,,
and at the very hour when the chilkl.
in the tramway car was calling the at-
tentipm of the conductor to the contents
of her neighbor's purse, Koenig was
arrested at the dwelling of las sweet-,
heart, where large quantities of gold
were found. Further sums of money
were discovered in a house on the out-
skirts of Munich, where' Ruh the ac-
complice of Koenig, had established a
workshop for the execution of repairs
lo motor cars.
The rest of the coins were unearthed
by a detective in the celebrated English
garden in Munich. where the burglars
had buried some $15,000 of their booty
ender a heap of twii3,0o
sanoh
d waosOdb.cen Al.re
together a sum of0
gained.
speedily drenehed to the skin. I had
tried to indoce the' police to seen watcht
hut owing to an ancient legend that the
ghost of an old Abbot peraitibuletes the
churchyard not a man Nomad undertake
the job. The stending toitibstones and
high grass. made splendid Offer for tun'
intruders, and I walked about several
times, keeping 'careful watch, • ,
"I1ANDS UPI"
"About a quarter to one I saw two
men rise above the wall from the lame
and leap into the churchyard; Qne
wile tall, the other short. •'The tell one
stepped by the wall while the other
hastened across to the tower entrance.
I heard a low whistle from the tall man
just as 1 stepped from Alie priest's docr,
as if to indicate all well. The shcrt
man ran towards the tower door, I from
the priest's door down towards him. A
sttaiout Iran nit dthe tall mam
n warned
idsee he
"Simultaneously I cried to the short
man ahead of me, 'Halt! Hands up, or
I firer , He paid no heed, but ran. I
fired to warn him; then, as he reached
the edge of the sunken pathway, 1 fired
low al, his legs. fie leaped into the
uttered a frightful shriek, turned almost
a complete somersault, like e winged
partridge, and came down prone on the
geaVel walk. He groaned and writhed,
clawing with both hands furiously at
the gravel and earth. -
"I said. to myself, 'You are accounted
for, at any rate,' and wheeling round,
ran after the tall man. He dodged be -
hied tombstones, until at last I caught
sight of his face between two of the
stones. I flred. 1 never saw him after
that. I next ran to the sexton's house
for aseistance. He' Was asleep and took
0 lot of rousing. Then we lighted a
lantern and returned to the scene.
• LEFT NO TRACE.
"My wounded man was gone, but in
his agonies hoh had almost dug himself
a grave with his hands in the gravelled
walk. The ram was pouring in torrents
so that we could find no blood marks.
over on the .other side of the lane. Out-
side the church grounds we found a
piece of stiff cardboard smeared with
blood. The fellow had .evidently drag-
ged himSelf over to a dust -heap there,
and lain on it for a while, or; what is
more probable, his accomplice had re-
turned and borne him away. Not a
trace of them has been found since."
Last week, said Mr. Phillips, the
church was broken into • twice, and sim-
ilar crimes are reported - freni many
places On Friday, while he was in the
• SleeeKING JUSTICE.
An effeneive thing in our. law courts
ono hae the misfortune to notice nowa-
days is smoking on the bench, says the
Calcutta Indian World. Among assis-
tant and joint magistrates and the de-
puty and sub -deputy magistrates, and
even among munsills andthe subordi-
nate judges, one is getting more and
more largely accustomed le the picture
of blind justice holding the scales whit
a. cigarette between his lips and eome-
times with a cigar or ,(.1 pipe in his
mouth.
MILITARY KITES.
The efficient military ,kite is of the
Well-known "box!' type, and, litce the
captive military balloon, each kite is
attached to a ceble drum, mourited On
Waggon whefl hi use. These "aids to
observatioe" can be raised by a very
light wind, and notes have been taken
at an altitude of Upwards of 3,000 feet
by their instrumentality. A light 1ele-;
phone le heed bY the observer attached
to the kite in -thinsuffttint'obtervations.
someone there. 'They scrutinized the
safe, thougIi. they explained that 'they
wanted to copy an ancient inscription
eatal:e
above it. Mr. Phillips is convinced they
are meinbers of a gang with a motor-
car, which was seen near the church
on Sunday. He suggests that the wound-
eltAlrnewaspolice and all the hospitals
conveyed to London in the
in East Anglia have been warned, but
no elue has been found, beyond a, report
that a tall man and a short man' were
seen loitering at Lowestoft, and hired a
boat at YarmOtithe and rowed U tlie
river one day last week. Mr. Phillips
adds that burglars have an Inducement
to steal the old church .plate on account
of the -prices oftered for it by Ameri-
cans. He advises every country clergy-
man with such valuable property "to
try the shot -gun method."
HUNGRY ZOO LIONS.
Desert Kings. in England's Finnous
Zoo nave Big Appetttes.
The London.Zoo lions have been show-
ing bad temper and indignation. And
no wonder, for they have had to starve
for nearly a whole day. The usual
horse with which the animals at Um
Zoo are fed tailed to arrive to time,
and breakfast was . not served, till five
hitle isshow fterrnth
This
e daily
horse is ap-
portioned at the Zoo: -Telt lions, 11 its.
each; three lion cubs, G lbs each; eight
tigers, 13 lbs each; ten leopards, 0 lbs,
each; three ja.ginirs, 6 lbs. each; smaller
animals and birds, GO lbs.; grand total,
376lbes.
Thsuperintendent, of the gardens
told the Daily Mirror that many car-
riage people send their old and infirm
horses to the Zoo, where they know
the' will be humanely killed.
The largest limn of horse -flesh deal-
ers in London threw some, light on' the
horse -flesh traffic the other day.
"From September to May .we Stowell -
ler moiety 1,000 horse week in our
yards," said the Manager, "Most of
Mc flesh is purchased by caiscpicat
men." .
An East End denier told the reporter
that live horses, sometimes numbering
1,500 to 2,000 are shipped every three
days to Geernany and • Austria. They
are sold for about $ii apiece arid -Mostly
made into sausago. •
• BREADSTUFF&
Toronto, Oct, 30. -Flour -Ontario -
-U-75 asked for 00 per 'cent. paten% •.
buyers' bags, outside, for export, Mani,
lobe -- First pateats, $4.50; second pat-
ents, $4; bakers', $3,90,
Miblieed - Bran, dull and source;
e15,50 to $10 in bulk, mashie; shores,
31,8.50E .Staaitohe bran, 318; shorts, $21
in oar lots bags included; Toronto and
Montreal Lots,
Cora-No. 2 yellow, 53c to 53%c, To-
ronto.
leye-71.0 outside.
Wheat-M0nitoba-Af, lake ports, No.
hard, theeee asked.
Wheed-Ontario-No. 2 white, 71c bid,
70 pen cent,. points, 70e bid, outside;
mixed, 700 bid. G. '1', 11. or C. P. 11,
Wheat -Manitoba -No. 1 northern,
lake ports, 8.1c asked, 80c bid.
fiarley-No. 2, 50c bid, eatt; No. 3
extra, 47%c bid, C.P.R.; No. 3, 51e ask-
ed for a car, spot, Toronto.
.Peas -78c bid, C.1'.11. or G.T.R.
Oats -No. 2 while, 35%c bid on 50
rate be Toronto; 35c asked on '9c rate
to New York, 34c hid.
Buckwheat -540 bid, G.T.B. west.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Butter -Prices on practically all grades
of butter aro now 3o per lb. Moller than
they were a year ago, and dealers do.
not expect to see ,any moth:Tahoe this
fall 'or winter.
Creamery 200 to 26c
do solids ...............22o to 24c
dairy prints .... 220 to 23e
do pails 19c to 20c
do tubs 18010 20c
„,.. 1.7c to 1.8c
Cheese -13%0 to 13%e for large and
to 1.4%c for twine.
Eggs -21e to 22c.
Potatees-Ontario 55c to 60c per bag;
eastern, 65c to 70c per bag, on track
here.
Poultry -Very little doing.
Chickens, dressed .... 8c to 10c
do live ..:. Gc to Sc
Old fowl, dressed . ..... . 7c to Sc
do live ' ..... . 40 to Ge
dressed tolOc
Geese, dressed 9c to 11c
Turkeys . 14c to 160
Baled Ilay-$1.0 Inc No. 1 timothy on
track here in car lots.
Baled Straw -Prices are steady at
35,50 to $6_ per ton in car lots here.
UNINTERESTING. --
"Yoe say it was not an interesting
oration,"
"Not very interesting. 11 le crowd
Was So orderly and did eo 111110 'cheer-
ing that.' you could hear every word di'
the speech."
• MONTnEAL MARKETS.
Montreal, Oct. 30.--Gratu - The local
market for oats is steady in tone.
Birkwheal.--50c per bushel, ex store.
Corn -American No. 2 mixed, 570 ex
sI ore. • -
Oats -On spot, No. 2 white, 41c to
414c; No. 2, white, 40c to 40%c; No. 4,
38?e,c to 39%c per bushel, ex store.
Peas -Boiling peas, 31 in carload lots
and. $1.10 in jobbing Jots.
Flour -Manitoba spring wheat, 34.25
to $4.00; strong bakers', 33.90 to 34.-
10, winter wheat patents, $4.10 to 34.25;
straight rollers,' 33,00 to $3.70; do, in
bags, 31.65 to $1.75; extras, 31.50 to
$1,55. •
Millfeed-Manitelia •bran, in bags, '319
lo $0; shorts; $21.50 to 322; Ontario
bran. in bags, $18.50 to $19; shorts,
311.50 to $22; nailed rnouille, $21 to $25;
straight grain, 828 to 329 per ton„
Rolled Oats -Per bag, 31.95 to 32 in
car lets anti $2.10 in jobbing lots.
Cornmeal -Feed meal, 31.25; granu-
lated, 31.55.
Ilay-No. 1, $12.50 to 813: No. 2. $12;
No. 3, $11; clover mixed, $11.; pure clov-
er,'$10.50 to 311. per ton, in car lots.
Eggs -22.340 to 23c for selects and
183-c to 1.9c for No. 1 cendled.
Provieions-Berrels shortcut mess,
$22 to 824; half -barrels, $11.75 to 312.-
5e. clear fat back, $23.50; long cut heavy
mess. $20.501 half -barrels do., 310.75;
dry salt long deer bacon, 7123(c io 12%c;
barrels plate beef. $12 to 813; half -bar-
rels do.. 86.5.0 to 81; barrels heavy niess
beef. 311; hat -barrels do.. 86; compound
lard. 8c to 0%c; pule lard. 12,?4,c to 13c;
kettle rendered. 1334c to 14c; hams. 14e
to 15Me: according .In size; 'breakfast
bacon., 1.5c in 16c; Windsor bacon,,150 to
16%e; fresh ldiled abattoir dressed hogs,
20 to 39.25; alive, 36.25 do 36.50.
BUFFALO MARKET.
Buffalo, Oct. 30. -Flour --Firm. Wheat
-Spring, quiet: No. 1 Northern, sigc;
Winter nominal. Corn -Dull; No. 2 yel-
low, 52c; No. 2 corn. 51.3<c. Oats -
Firm; No. 2 whiee, 37% to 37%c;'No. 2
mixed, 86%c.
•
NEW YORK WHEAT MARKET.
New York, Oct. 30., --Spot steady; No.
2 red, 79%c elevator; No. 2 red, 81c f.
nte afloat; No. 1 nerthern Duluth. Mc
f.o.b. afloat; No. 2 hard winter, Sec
f.o.b. afloat.
• claTLF, MARKET.
Toronto, Oct. 30. -Ti -tido was not nny
•
too good at the City Cattle Markel Ibis
ntorning. The • run was fairly large,
'with altogether too much of it poor
grade, with which the inerket seems al-
ready overstocked.
Export Cattle -Choice, $4.50 to $4.65;
medium, 34.25 to $4.40; hulk, 33,75 to
34; light bulls, $3 lo $3.25; cows, 33.50
to 34.
13nIcher Cattle -Choice, $4.40 to 34.-
45; ineclium„ $3.75 to 34; common, $3 10
$;1.tZ5; cows, $2.50 to $2,75; hulls, 32.50
to $72.S.5..
Stockers and Feeders-Choire 33.e5 to
3e,40; Common, $2.50 lo $2.75; hulls. 32
V $2.25; henvy feeders, $3.65 to $3.75;
Short -keeps, $4 1n $4.10.
Mitch (ows-Choice, 344) 10.350; eon/ -
Mon. $e5 In 335; springers, $25 to 340.
Celves-34c reeec per lb.
Sheep and ferobs--Export ewee are
quoted 21c higher at $4.50 to 34.75; iele4s
and culls, 33 to $3.50; lambs, 35.25 to
30.
Jilogs-AN'itli the ronrket well stocked
hog e ere' again easier, and 1234o down
et $0.12% per ewt, for ,ehoice settees
and $5.871; for lights and fate.
et.
Citieet (at anniveesary dinner)-- "You
belone te (me 1)ranch of the host's fano
Ey , 1 believe?" Poet Itelallori-"Yes, I
n tee,henncle that 'never had
any plums .on 14."
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