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Grain, Cattle and Cheese
Prices ot These Products In the Leadin
flarkets are Here Recorded
Teronto, Dee, 30,-F1our, Ontario wheat
fienr, 90 per 'vent , 53 50 to $3.65, eseabeard.
and at. 53,50, Toronto, Manitobas-Eiret
patent% in „jute bags, 55.30; doe seee1148,
14.50; lug in . jute bags, 54,60.
e.tianitoba, wheet-No. 1 Northern, 92 1-20,
Bey porai
ts. rd eent rotate for etorago
at, Soderich, and N. 2 ab 90 1-2or BeY
ports.
Ontario wheat -No. 4stheat a 04 to 880,
rqitki(10.
0046 -No. 2 Ontario Oats, 34 1-2 to 35e.
outside, and at 38 to 38 1-2e, on traok, To -
route. Weetern Canada old oate, 40 1.-20
for No. 2 and 300 feir No. 3, Bea Porte,
Peas -5i to $1 05 ontido.
• BarleY-Good inalting barleY, 55 to 600-
4:7PU teide.
Corn -New No. 3. Imeriean, 73 140, all
rail, Toronto.
B,ye-No. 2 at 65 to 66e, outside. •
Buckwheat -70o. euteide.
Bran-ManitOba bran, 521 to 521.50 a tem,
bap, Toronto freight, Shorts. $22,50,
Worcatto,
..,;•• I
Countey PrOditoo.
Buttor-Choiee dairy, zo to 24e; inferior,
20 to 2; farinere' separator prints. 24 to
86o; creamery prints, 30 to 01.i.a; solids; 18
29e;-.sterago
25 to 26 1-2o prints, 27 to 28o; do., eolids,
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Eggs -Case lots of new -laid, 45 to 400 per
'dozen; eeleeta, 37 to 38o, and. storage,. 42
to 35e per 'dozen. • !
tabeeSe-tNew obeeeee 14 14 to 14 3-4o for',
ergo, and 15e for twills.
Beens-Iletndeneked, 52.20 to 52.25 Der.
Imehele prrinee. $2 to 52.10. 't• •
Itoney-Extracted, , in tare. 11 to 17,0 Per
lb. for No. conibe..53 to 53.85 ger Ociz°12
for No. 1 and $2.40 to $2.50 for No. 2. '
Boultry--kowl, 11 to 12e per lb.; chiek-
. etre, 16 to 17e; ducks, 13 to 15o; gesee, 13
ct. 15o; turkeys, 19 to 22,o.
Patatoee-0-atarios, 80 to 55c per bag. on
anal Ileteavares at 900.
• ProvIsIoria.
•Oacon—Long clear, 16o per lb., in ease
;eta. Pork -Short cut, 528.50; do., mess.
$24.50. Ilaroe--Mediuna• to light, 19 1-2 to
20o; heavy, 190; rolls, 15 1-2 to 16; break-
fast bueon, 19 to 20o backs, 22 to 24.
Lard -Tierces; 13 3.4 to 14c; tube, 14 to
14 1-4c; pails. 14 1-4 to 14 1-2o.
Bated Hay and Straw.
Baled hay -No. 1. at 514.50 to $15 a ton.
. on track here; No. 2 at 51,3 to 513.50, and
mixed at 512 to $12.50.
Baled. straw -Car lots. 58.50 to $8.75, on
track. Toronto. •
Winnipeg Grain,
Witulleeg, Dee. 30.--Cash:-eWheatee740. 1
Northern, 82 120; No, .2 Northern, 79 1-4o:
No, $ Northern, 77e; No, 4,3/ 1-4o; No. 5,
66 10; No, 6, 62 1-2e; No. 1 reJected 8e0(10,
10 1403. NO, rejected f3ecde, 74 1-2o; No. 1
smutty-, 761-20; No. 2smutvY, 74 1-2o; No.
1 rod Winter, 82 1-4c; No 2 red •Winter,
80e; No. 3 red Winter, 700. Cate --No
C,W., 33 3-8o; No. 2 feed, .30o. llarleY-No.
3, 41 1-2o; No. 4, 39 14o; zeijeeted, 37 1-2e;
feed. 320. Plax-No. 1 N,W.C., 51,22 1-4; No.
2 c),Wa 51.20
Montreal Markets.
'Moittreal, Dec, 20-0ate--Canadian V7est-
41 B I M ,••{1 48 to 570; malt-
ing, 64 to 6c, Buekwheat, No, 2, 56to 57e.
Plour---gari. Spring 'wheat patents, Brete.
40; ;seconds, 54.90; etrong. bekers', 5470;
Winter pa tente4 cbOiee, 54.75 to 55;
straight rollers, 54 50 to 54.60; do., bag,
5' to 52.10. Rolled oitts-llorrele, 54,40 to
$4,50; do., • bags, 90 lbs., 57,10 to 5117 1-84
Bran, 520 to 521. Shorts, 522 to 523- Mi'd•
sss 'to 526. Mbuillie, 527 to 531.
115.ay,- No, 2, per ton, tier lote. 513.50 to
516. Oheese-Fineet westerns, 13 3-4 te
14c; itneet eaeterne 13 1-4 to 13 1.2c. But.
ter-Choicoq creamery, , 28 1-2 to 29o; sea -
cads, 28 to 28 1-4o. mgee-Freeh. 65 to 65o;
select,ed, 38o; Ne, 1 t ok, 34e; No. 2 etoele
26e. POtaloes, Pei g ear iota, 76 to 850.
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United States fdarkets.
Minneapolis. Deo. 30.--waestensteribse,
87 5-5c; Marv. 87 to 87 1-8o; No.- 1 hard,'
67 1.8 to 87 5-8c; No. 1 Northern, 84 7-8 to •
86 5-8c; No. 2 Northern, 82 7-8 •to 84 5-6e:
to. .3 wheat, 80 7-8 to 81 5-8c. Corn, No. 3
yellow, 691-2. to 60o; No 3 white oats.
36 1-2 to 36 3-4o, Your -52 50 for eecond
dear to 54-55 _for fancy patents. . •
Duluth Dec. 30 -I,in seed, 51,40 1-8;
eember, •'$1.45 5-8; . • May. $1.51 18. Close--;
Wheat -No. 1 herd, 86 5.80; No. 1 Northen,1
115 5-80.; No. 2 Northern, 83 5 8 to 84 1-8e:
Montana, No. 2 'hard,. 85 3-8o; Deeember,
83 1-4c; May, 87 5-8 to 87 3-4e.
Live Stock Markets. ,
Toronto, Deo. 30, -Cattle -Choice but.
hero, $7.75 to 58; good medium, 56.50 to
57 25; common, 55 to 55.50; cows. 54 50 to
57.26; common cows, 53 50 to 54; butelteme
bulls, $3.75 to 5725; canners and outtere,
I 5875 to
‘'11: common, 54,7 to. 55.10. Stoeleers and
* 5
geedere--Steers, 91.0 to 1,0q1 lbs., $6 to 5675;
good quality, 800 lbs., 54.50 to 5525; light.
53.50 to 55.50. Sheep ale.d la -be -Light
ewes, $5,50 eo 54; heavy to 5 uo ,
53 to 53.60; epring lembe, 5050 to .59, but
with 7fee per bead"dedectd tor all the
buck lambs. Hoe -590 fed and watered,
59.10 off oars, and $8.40 to $8.50 f.o.b.
DISTRICT OFFICER'S. WORR.•DRUGS ARE D 4.NGEROIJS.
Sitar.y Surveys • Completed for
Twenty-eight • Municipalities.
A despatch from Toronto says:
Thirtvafive thousand miles of tra-
vel in 12 MOnths is the modest re-
cord of Dr. R. E. Wodelicru.se, dis-
triaa officer of health for the great
area that makes up Northern On-
tario. Dr. Woolehouse's report to
the Provincial Board of Health for
the year oontains striking testi-
. einta; the effitherilawork the new
ictriet efficers axe doing in ex-er-
ing supervision over the
bile °health. The territory em -
lanced in district seven, over which
Dr. Wodehouse has charge, em -
althea Manitoulin, Algoma, Thun-
-1.' Bay, Kenora, Rainy River and
Patricia, or • half the area, of the
whole province. The district offi-
eer trayelled 35,552 miles at an ex-
pense of $1,237.
• In carrying out his share of the
work ef preparing a. sanitary sur-
vey of the province, Dr. Wodehouse
made detailed sanitary survey re-
ports of the 28 orga,nized munici-
palities in his district a,nd made 120
offioial visits to various oentres of
population. Be visited all slaugh-
ter -houses in the district. made
them eomply with the strict sani-
tary provisions of the la,w, and se-
cured the removal of • insanitazy
buildings aa several points. .
"One set a open sewers were]
ehanged, while three hotels and
three railways at five divisional
points have been ordered to instal
sewage treatment plants," says the
Chlorination of water has been
inetitated, upon order, ,a,t the
Port Arthur, Kenora, Fort
prances and Rainy River.
The report states that one camp
attf the Public Works Road Depart-
ment was closed, but compliance
was 60 tardy that two eases of ty-
phoid developed.
In addition to their other- work,
the district officers do a great deal
of lecturing tpen health inetters,
r.• Weolehouse having held 26 pub-
lic ineetings in 16 days, addressing
nearly 6,000 people.
C °MOTIVE EXPLOI)
FirentattXames, Thorpe, aud Gus-
tave Stang Rifled.
A despatch from St. Thomas
ways: Fireman J. Thorp, of Fort
$rie, and an unidentified man were
killed on Thursday morning when
the boiler of a G.11,11. Wabash en -
no exploded, The ,ftecident hap -
pentad rtheut six o'clock while the
;oasaissotive 'was, returning light 'to
Buffalo yards. Efiginter Nieh-
, Curran, of St. Thomas, had
4raculous escape, He was
;on from the tab, but while w-
ogs,' staldod is expected to be all
igaa again in a. few days. F.
ark, brekemart of St. Thomas,
lW. R. Cameron, of 'Windsor,
.1fere injured by escaping steam,
Nv, tolsr,,A. Schultz, and W.
, Bartell, awitehmen on the Erie
gamy, who ',were dose by, were
kr flying debtia.
t.
Inland Revenue Department Issues
• Warning Against Powders.
A despatch from Ottawa, says: A
bulletin issued by the Inland -Reve-
nue • Department on ''heatlache
powders" ktalls public attention to
the fact that "there • can ,be•no
doubt that harm done by the in-
discriminate use of headache pow-
,ders." After noting that headache
is 'merely ayroptom of. something
wrong, and not In itself a disease
that ea,n be treated by a. "cure,"
•the blilletin adds:
"The drugs to which the efeeien.
cy of these heada,che powders is due
are powerful heart. depressants, and
are capable under certain condi-
tions of producing fatal results,
while under most, conditions they
tnust do harra.''
Nearly all of the 171 samples ana-
lyzed Contained aaetanilide, or phe-
naeetin, and are so marked under
the regulations in regard to the
patent medicine a.et. The amount
of• acatanilide present ill most of
the powders exceeds three gra,ins,
which is the limit of dosage pres-
eribed by the British pharnaaeo-
"No doubt," says the-
"serious results would. more fre-
quently follow their use were it not
that they contain other drugs,
usually caffeine, which act as stim-
ulants of the heart. A little reflec-
tion should convinee the consumer
of these powders that he is taking
great liberties with his health and
life."
$100 CONSCIENCE MONEY.
Cnstelas Department Gets, a Remit-
tance From Niagara Falls.
A despatch from Ottawa nays:
One of the first letters, opened by
,lCustonis Colletoor Fred Jonrneaux
here an Friday, morning contained
ten $10 bills, around which Was
fastened by an, ela,etic band a enialI
piece of paper bearing the, words
"Please add this to the Customs
receipts." No name was given. •
The envelop in which the COnsetellee i
money was mailed bore Niagara
Falls) Ont., postmark.
SMALLEST MAN IS DEAD.
Kept a Candy Store on the South
Coast of England.
A despatch from London, r,ng-
laDd, day; John White, who is
• eaid to have been -the sm,alleat man
in the world, died on Friday ab
Margate aix the age of 53, He was
one foot nine inches. tall. Ile kept
a eantly stoee with his two sisters,
who are of normal stature,
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BUYS TEN .TIIOUSAND SHEEP.
Will Bring Them 1t01111 Montana
for DreeAling Purposes.
A despatch from Regina, Sask.,
says; W. T. Smith, the- alfalfa, g
1
kilig, Ma,ple Creek, has purchased
10,640 sheep ter breeding purpneas.
They- will cn,ter Canada through' f
°Out*. Alberta, cf rem Mea tan a, e
VETYTWQ LET DrAmt.
tut Cataatrophis at a Chrietmaa
Tree Celebratiou.
,A despatch from Oelumet, Michi-
gan, says: On the day which
throughont all Chriatendoni is set
aside
as a day of rejoicing over the
birth of the Savionr, Calumet)
stricken to the heart by, an almost
unbelievable catastrophe, s6,nals
mournieg by the We of its dead,
the 72 victims (mest of vabdm vfere
children) of the frightful panic ti
Christmas eve in the Italian hall.
Thig paeic for " --ed a false 41,18,1'M
cry of fire (he ,he progress Of a
Christmas tree entertainment ar-
ranged for families •of the.copper
strikers • To -day the people ef
Calumet -else their neighbors, their
brothers, their sisters and their
lattlo children staggering under an
alnIeSt, unbearable burden of diss
tress and grief.
The authorities have so far been
unable to -trace a nian who is eaid
to have gone up the stairs of the
Italian'hall and raised the cry of
fire, which is supposed to have
started the parde which led to the
fearful crush in the • stairway and
caused the death of the nearly four
SoOre- men, women and children.
There seems to be little hope he
will be apprebondeL Tho othex
theory that alio cry of fire origi-
nated within the, hall was substan-
tiated on Thursday by Matt Sart, a
striker, who lost his son in the diss
aster. Ho declared the cry, came
harm a group of men and women
toward the front of the hallo
• A fourteen-year-old.girI whO died
on Thursday morning brought the
offieial list of dead up to 72. All
have now been identified. Five in-
jur-ed. are -in the hospitals, all of
w car it is said will live Three
little girls in the Calumet and Hec-
la hospitals were able on. Thursday
to be up and about,. -.and they
romped around the Christmas- tree
set up for the patients unaware of
the fate Which had overtaken some
of their brothers and eisters and
the father of one of them.
As boy of seven or eight years of
age who was taken to one of the
morgues shOWed signs of life soon
after, but no restoratives aoad no
physician were- immediately avail-
able and death ensued. One cou-
ple entered the town hall where all
the bodiesehad been gathered to
look for their missing child. Their
hopes ran high when they had look-
ed at seventy of the bodies and fail-
ed ,to find their lo-ved one, but the
last body they viewed, the severity -
first, was that of the missing one.
• Members of the Cahn:net fire de-
paitment relate many iiistanees of
heroic attempts to rescue the panic-
et,rieken people in the hall. Pat-
rick Ryan arrived on the scene a
few minutes after the crush occur-
red at the foot of the stairway. He
estimated there were about 100
piled on top of each other when he
reached the entrance of the build-
ing.
Many tales of the fierceness of
the eru.sh during, the height a the
crush during the height of the
panic were told. One raa,n wag
seen to stoop to pick up his little
daughter, only to be pushed on and
forced to trample her beneath hian.
A. woman who ran to the aid of
three Sinai]. boys Was crushed to
death with them. . -
When the rush began a woman
went to the piano and began play-
ing. Another woman stood in the
centre of the stage, on which the
Christmas tree had been erected,
and started to sing. Their efforts
to quell the panic were futile, as
they were not heard above the tu-
mult.
1VIatti Kotzjarvi, wife and two
daughters., were all Jellied. Chris-
tian Klarich and. his two daughters
were crushed to death,a but Mos.
Klarich managed to escape. A
large number of fautilies lost two
or more elsildsten. More than fifty
of the dead Wditualen ter, years
Mrs. A. Niemela, one of the vie -
times, Was Saffocated while stand-
ing up. Sohn Burrill, a fireman,
who witnessed her death, took a
six. -old infant from lier earns
and -carried it to safety'. Leonard
Wilman, another fireman, pushed
his way into the stairway and took
out a crying boy of esix uninjured.
Near him his mother and sister lay
dead. An eleven -year-old boy res..
cued his brother of nine bv carry-
ing him down a ladder, Another
child, thrown out of a, window by a
frantic father, was calight in the
arms of an onlooker. A ne the r
father killed his boy by falling oe
him, and he, too, perished.
of.4,
OPTIMIST PREDICTION.
G.T.P. Line Aerosat the Continent
Next May.
A despatch from Vancouver says
"We expect to have steel, laid into
Prinee George by January 10, •stad
the traek linked up right across the
coritinent before the end of next
May," artnotiled Mr, Morley Don-
aldson, viee-president of the Grand
Trunk Famine Railway system, who
arrived en Tuesday Jnorning en.
route to the north to conduct an
peetion the bile from the Prinee
Rupert end, "We believe, that the
new T'ranscorttinehtal will be ready
or operation of through trains
arly 1.915,'" said Mr. Den aldSeill;
The World in Review
Another False Aiarrn,
assaleaody hse said that Lille Is an Age
of falip literals We are alweye shouting
danger, end two-thirde of the time the
slenwer welsh we thought, we saw reeolves
stew into that air..aarkiu Will be ror'll'
tiered in enaiane tto <WO of the meet ue -
able' Of the false a.arais el this desasla.
When he launched upon 'hie inetcorie
eareer, preaching syndiealiem to the lah.
eking ..120en. of Groat Britain and lialaisa
what he <ailed the "fiery crees" iu a
dozen .oltiee. the very soul of the people
eeeraed to- stirred and the most eon-
eervative newspapers of the United Xing -
dem freely predicted a labor revolt so
serious that all other problems of the day
would pile into insignificance •beelide it.
And Paw, searee y a month afterweed,
labor lia.s repudiated Larkin and nent
about 'bueintes, and reason ielltettli et
sabotage is (till the British workingalatle
weationein ble effort to imrlreve lote
onteome. it is fair to 'aSsume.
we. see tea result of evperierco The .0,
foots Of the great Dublin etric were pot
of a sort, to encourage, the -wcrItingreen
to pels,et in the use of violence and to
.anDlY generally tho methods tried in Ire-
land- Amain's collapse. may well moan,
ets many mem to believe, that the strike
is going out of fashion for a while in
Great BAIL
• Irrigating Eden.
WhereVer' the original Garden of Eden
wee eituated-for the site is unknown, on
aecount‘ of the arabiguitY in the second
chapter,. of Genesis-ethe traditional iiret
residence of Man' on earth le supposed to
have been somewhere in what, le now the
son mastern part of Turkey in Asia in the
region .around the Iluphratee and Tigris
rivers -7a ;land onam studded vvith inauY
great eit-kes, later covered 'with a contieu-
oue foreet of 'verdure. but for centuries
en uninhabitable desert of ealt manshes,
bare plaine and ettnd drifts,
Suelt• transformation .has the • Seal
soon; n'bere, aeeording to the author of
G'811C61113;:"`''the Lord Sod Made to grow'
every' tree that is pleasant to the sight
and good for food." And now ,the cable
deePatehes report 81111 another chanfro.
whereby, Eden'ts original fertility 'is to be
restored through a vaet irrigation preterit'
that will oast 5115 0-'0,500 and reclaiM. 3,-
000,000 tierce of the finest agricultural land
In the world. Part of the eyetem • hes
been tompleted and was opened the other
day. • .•
Isaiah's prediotion that 'the desert ,shall
'rejoice and blresom. ae the rose" le about
to collie 'true, for the yield of wheat and
cotton along the Benbrotes and the •Tigrie
IB expeoted. to return rich dividends on the
cost of irrigaion.
Quinine Supply. of India.
It le sUggeeted that if the consnmption
of euieine expande to any great ,•'extent
in India, which already -takes' one-sixth of
the, world'e supply, the, prMe will speedily
riee. The, bulk of the world's ;supply now
comes front Java, but at one time Ceylon
produced a considerable amount- of cin-
chona bark. In 1886 15,000,000 pounde of
'bark •were exported from Ceylon, but in
1910 exports had fallen to 20,020
pound. •
For a number of years quinine has tatood
at such a. low price that bark Producers
,have had only a ;email margin of profit, is
the information given in an'artiele in the
Indian Medioal Record bit Dr. 0. A. Bent-
lev, special deputy eanitary eoutnilesioner
of Bengal. Under -these circumstances it
is hardly likelY that they have continued
10 plaittlareely, and there is a great risk
therefore that a rapid .advance in price
nifty take place at any Alum.
Although at present there are some
thoueands of acres in India planted wit -lo
cinchontietrees, yet in order to minimize
the rtsk' of Et great enbancenamit in tbe
price ,• of.' quinine,' in the eaY future it
would be well if • the acreage-eander elm
Minna were largely extended.
• Once. in the pact the volley of the •The
dian' 'Government led to the whole vitoied
benefitine by a supply of, cheap quintrie,
• and it is quite pesaible that if India takee
stetis to extend the mature, of cinchona at
the present time it may not only 'protest
its own interest, but again perform a
world-wide service.'
• Cold Storage . Plants.
The government ...b.ass under consider:1,
tion preeenttintg 113.e4611j:4 t'D 1?"1'3.
id4? fOr Federal attpervisu and 'inspec-
tion of all ,cold storage plants through-
ont the Doiniiiion. At the present time
the Dominion 'Government exercises cer-
tain juidadietion over eold.eterage: plants
that have received. or are recei-Ving a, fed-
eral tsubsicI3'- '
But during' the ,peet few yea -re there
have been organized throughout the conn -
try, independently of government assist-
ance,' some ver.y large cold storage con-
panies, and these are ,Subioot only to what-,
:ever. impaction anty be provided bybdarde
of. health. Provision 'will be made by
which the government Will know wt. any
time the exact quantity of foodetuffe stole
ed away in cold storage plant.
• Ifeombinee- are holding food for higb.er
prices the .government caw then soon find
out and aet accordingly. ' •
•.The .13Ig Snot.
There. isa Spot ou the eun 32,000 miles by
13.000 milea. eize; The astronom.ers, sono.
of them, •say it is 'due' to the heliocentric
oonjunestien of :the earth . with Saturn.
That, ie, the sue; the earth and this bite
planet aro a, line; and: consequent'', the
twe lattee 'exert conibined action .on the'
13t1/1, making this big spot.
Pilate. is ,more or less speculation in thiv,
but -if it is true the ,influenee of the plan-
ets on 'the" eurt is .importapt. Has .thits hia
spot anything to do with the delay of an
old-thne winter? The :planet Saturn is,
overhead Q. ten o'clock these nights, and
since it- to only. 70090- miles in diameter
and 800,000,000 miles; aWay from the sun. wo
may concede the earth may have, had
much to do -with the pot-. and likewise the
(pot with the earth. lfare le up there,
too,..but he is ont- of line at present,
though decidedly more ' 'warlike than
Saturn.
. Soma, New Words., '
The dictionary Makers toll ue • that
among the words' .which have cone into
daily use in the laet two decades aro bi.
eeane, eattalo, .citrange, plunicati tangelo,
'xobrase, zebrule, radiogram, aerogram,
marconigram, ' lettergranie suffragette,
kitchenette, <safeteria, electrbn, escalator,
gold brick, graft (new meaning(3), green
yee„ce•yeeseenfiret...ein football), inagefeg,
osteopath, roof gardee.,,,s.treteuY. berdenu,
briquet, , expan starlet, emme ife,
leVeriek., manywbere, °ken', °Pen doer,
osteopathist, pingpong, popover, radium,
veltodronta but there. ore some of there
words that ove IlOt 11KC oftener thou
once a week. •
INDIAN r OITISII) SILVER.
Sample Taken to Port, Arthur Rims
• $1.50 to tile Ton.
A despatch from Port Arthur
says: An :Indian mimed Peter Ne-
gonegesie ilea brought to Mining
Recorder Morgan's o1l.e0 a, piece of
sandstone which assayed $150 to the
ton in silver, Morgan says it is the
IX1,0 fit remarkable, ere sample he
evee saw, asslie never before heard
of silver in sandstone. The Indian
claime to have leach: 'the find near
INC11,1ilASE OF ONE PER CENT.
Railways' Unottertake to Contittue
Cartage ttt An Advance.
A deapatch front MOM:real Says;
The existing eartasse arrangements
in eonnection with the, despatch of
freight by the various railroad com-
panies will coatinue in force, bet
with an inerease over the present
ra.tes of one perceent. The tieci-
Sten to Make thiS oIianga was don-
nitely deeiticd upon at a meeting of
'representatives. of ate railroads and
ertetage eomparties Imlol -here on
Tutaday.
Items
Notes of Interest as to What I Going
• on All Over the World
Canada.
The Polley Bros. el Belleville
building an aeroplane.
Hamilton • poliee commissioner5
wwiells.rsot appoint women ae e,ensta-
A Federal bankruptcy act is far,
sired by Hon. C. Doherty, Minis-
ter of Justioe, who will bring the
matter before his colle,a,gues.
Brantford. city eouacil refused to
allpw the gas oompany six menthe
• • a aa
watca yv Ala 4PPartanS to
,purify natural gas from Tilbury,
The Dominion Government or-
dered the Branttford Gas Company
to discontinue supplsi»g gas from
the Tilbury fields for domestic pur-
o ee s. •
• George Kett, a lake.sailor, whose
parents had given him up en Jost in
the, great storm of Nos emher 97
walked into their 11Dr110 at Harris, -
ton on Christmas 6e,
Chas, Byrnes of Napanee, was
seized, wiah. heart failure when
about to descend stairs to the base-
ment of a store, and, falling head-
long, was picked up dead. '
Traffic through the • St. Mary's
Falls Canals for 1913 increased 10
per cent. over the freight record of
1912, and the increase in grain was
63 per cent., or more than 43 mil-
lion bushels. •
Justice Charbonean in Montreal
annulled the marriage of John
Th•ornas Baker with Dame Eveline
Emily MeCloy Mania, as she 'repre-
eentecl herself to he a widow while
having a. husband living.
The character of an entire parish
near 3tIontreal has been changed,
Jewish- agriculturists gradually
ousting habitant farmers while the
growing of Turkieh • tobaeco has
•eupplanted mixed farming.
After serving five years, of the
sentenee of 15 years, on a, dlaarge
of attempted murder, Gerolonaio I
Fatizazi has been shown to be inno- I
cent and, was discharged feom St.
Vincent de Paul (Que.) peniten-
ttiharVe*'°WnitCrilleele4s7agae21- 40'11;
has been e,xecuted for murder, 'in.=
other is ,serving a .term ae east-
ern prison, and the third fugi-
tive froth justice.
Great Britain.
Parlormaids are supplanting but-
lers in Rnglish. families.
ante British Royal family spent
Christmas.quietly at Sandringham.
"Jim" Larkin the Dublin strike
leader, plane to! visit the U.S. to
colleet funds.
The Economist of London severe-
ly censures the Foreign Office for
autioa segarsting the Palma!
'Fa1:::n.portant 'etioee in the
13s-
Iey regulations have beeri recom
mended by G'enerel Sir O. W.
DotiglaS,
The Economist. of Leaden severe-
ly consovee the Foreign Office for
its action regarding the Panama
Fairs.
*ill ws Stales.
An earthquake at Sea.ttle rattled
There are 100,000 "Ont of
in the U.S. Pacific 'collet, eities.
A Swiss aviator, Bider, flew
acrome the Alps from' Bue to. Berne
in five hoUrs.
Another inovement has begun at
i,esaington to suspend coastwise
exemption in the Panama Canal.
A Mexiean was killed 'and five
polieemen injured at Los Angeles
when police tried te break lip an
open air meeting of unemployed.
Leon Roe, aged 12, „Of Portland,
Me. knocked his father down with
a, dub and shot him in the leg be-
cause he threateneti his mother aed
five other children.
"I have no friends and will plead
guilty; am ready to hang," says
. -
Bostwick, the railway bandit,
kill•eci a, resisting passenger, and
who was epotted ° on the street. in
Los Angeles by one of the women
he had eobbed.
• A dynamiter entered the home of
Mrs, Sophronia. .Johnson, aged 35,
at Dee Moines, Iowa, and placed a
bomb under her bed early Christ.
rime morning, • and the ;explosion
blew off her lege and thoee of her
eleven-year-,osal daughter.
General.
German engineers have engaged
to construct two big Chinese
rail-
x'oads.
Nineteen fishermen hasee been
drowned Thershaven, Faroe Is-
lands, in a hurricsane, which wreek-*
ed mealy sinan. Craft.
• The explosion of a fireworks fac-
aserydat, T-orre Annunziata, in the
Provinee-eses:ST"T' es, Italy, resulted
peiar.stphiels.death Of`tad.„1dea,s,t,fourteett
•
Eiglat persons WOIT- kille 25
•
injured in u- rei.lread aecident y Ln
express -train travelling to Amster-
dam from Groningen. The son of
the Dutch Premier is arn,ong the
dead,
•
Sofia. eorrespondent of the
London Times makes an appeal in
behalf of 200,000 refugees scattered
throughout Bulgaria, the inafority
(if whom ere tbially destitute asad
suffering terrible privations.
LAZIEST BIRD IN THE WORLD.
Moved Only An Eyelid in Half an
• Hour.
Seine men have fame thrust upon
them. So have some birds.
' It has been stated that the boatbill
was the laziest bird in the world, and
those who have examined the species
at the Zoo agreed with the declaration,
though the tither day they weree-for
boatbills--111 an , unaccustomed state
of energy, says the I.,ondon Chronicle.
There was one in the dieing bird
house, for instance, He was squat-
ting on a perch in the recesses of the
roof looking wonderfully solemn and
sedate, and resembling an odd gentle-
man with a black skull cap, a gray
swallow-tailed coat, and an expanse of
White shirtfront—an early 'Victorian
edition of an old gentleman, in fact.
His movements were timed oVer half
an hour, and they consisted of this:
9Pening twice aad shutting once the
big bright eye exposed. Further,•with-•
out a motion of his bPak, -he emitted
01. cilliet,„holleW ,note—whielf was sur-
prfsingly like a grunt of disgust at
the vulgar curiosity suddenly evinced
In him.
Then an enthusiastie youthful keep-
er said there was another boatbill iti
the waders' cage, and we went pros-
pecting for him, The young keeper
intimated that he knew where to find
him, and he peered into the roots of
the bushes, where the bird retires in
search of solitude and sloop and im-
mobility generally. • I had just re-
covered my right foOt from the pond—
the bank was very slippery—when
there was a clucking and, spreading a
pair of ragged wings, the boatbill—ex-
cited by our intrusion ----hopped into a
holly tree. He was too lazy to go far,
and possibly his exertion, too, exliauat.
ed him. He Stood Oa the tough, his
dark eye wide open., extending his
skinny neck as if he were swallowine
•
his aliger- with diffietlIty. it is prob-
able that in ids residence at the Zoo
he had never been more l'tlttitle(L I1
was quite a long time—flee
settling himself comfornthiy,
crept nrenial 4.0 tlae laelt of the
cage afthrwards and inspected hen, Ite
Wee normal. lito shoulders were hump -
ea, hie head sunk upon his chest, his
eyes eiosed. Aral the raindrops ran
down bbs beak.
-ass
STRANGE DISEASE FATAL.
Farmer Died Three Daye After Be -
lag Taken. IR.
A despatch from Bingliampt ere
N.Y., say a °. A fatal case of an-
thrax, a highly -contagious and fa -
till disease among esttle, has been
discovered here and will be report-
ed to the State Depa,ranent ,of Ae-
riculture. The Victim 18 C. J.Ban-
ta, a peomiuertb farmer, who died
three days ago. The ;source, of the
anthrax infectiou is unknown, bue.„....aso'seeres,
is supposed ;to have come from/ ae
animal he was ,skitteing. It is, pro
able the State Department, of 'Ag
culture will order quarantine until
the source of infection is located,
'SMALLPDX 'EPIDEMIC.
South Boundary of Manitoba to Ile
Patrolled by Speeial °dicers. .
10. despatch from Ottawa .saYe:
The Department of Agriculture :Ors
Friday x.'cxocircod 31 telegrain feons
•
the, Wiunipcg. Board of Trade ',call,
ing attention to ,an Outbreak o1 'enie
alernie amallpex south of the bou-n.
dary 41 Manitobse. .The depart
anent is providing' for a ,pateol .ot
the boundary. by .speeial ..quarae.,
tine officers,
GRO\V STREN G Tilt .
Japancae Emperor Refers ta
Speeelt to Alliance vaifit
• A, despatch front Telsio saye:
the Speech frem the Miaow at the
--
openieg ef the Diet on Friday ths'
Lmpeaor said the Jepa ee se aIlia,aca
with Overt!, tiritaiti h e,ot u ,t11,v
g ro 58' ') in lt}reolgtl,
t lA10.11.ED TEN PSSENCI
St. Petersburg Invottoe Flies -with,
• A erontla 800 Weigitiog a Ton,
„ „
. stesPatert, ironi St. Petersburg'
,
sa.,es Sikorsky, the invent.or18>1
0eroal11.a0 •captabIe of eerie kg ten
eersees, made ,a, flight oat 1.0riolay,
lastit)g ta,averal, 'timers. Tla, ten
enngerawad inttehine war:alto-A altea
getiter fliOre 9tutn 23 'frill,
alass-aSeraefhitag• that Jack said
last night didn't sound ittat right,"
Tess--' '"vVhato W 48 that I" licf
"5 told bim 1 19.0 ennod me pet
liaMcSi 1 wouidu't speak, and he 4 -
plied that ho would oali nte dear at
any price,"
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