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d Strathcona's Patriotic Offer to the
Dominion Government.
doepatoh from Ottawa says:
groat enthueias:a and loud
.use from bath sides of the
o Sir Frederiok Borden an -
cod on Wednesday afternoon
Lord Strathcona had estab-
1 a trust fund "to yield 510,000
Annum to encourage and pro-
f: the phseical and military
ing (including practice in rifle
',sting) of the youth attending
Public schools of Canada. For
purpose a cheque for $250,000
be forwarded upon the accept. -
.t of the gift. Tho House at
passed a unanimous resolution
Bring to Lord Strathcona the
iks of tho House of Commons
of the people of Canada.
r Wilfrid Laurier, in moving
e resolution, said that Lord
re..hcona had rendered many
e rvi0os to Canada, but none, lie
b ;loved, of greater importance
than the present one. Ito hoped
and believed that the system now
initiated would cause physical
training to become a part of the
education of all the boys and girls
of Canada.
Mr. It. L. Bordon seconded the
motion. Lord Strathcona's utter,
be said, would bo received with
feelings of the deepest apprecia-
tion, not only by the members of
the House reganllees of party, but
by all patriotic citizens. The ac-
tion of Lord Strathcona was en-
tirely in harmony with the many
patriotic actions which had disti:l-
guished his wonderful career. Mr.
Bonden had no doubt that tho wor-
thy object which his Lordship had
in view would bo stimulated to a
groat extent by tho foundation of
the trust.
Sir Frederick Borden, after
reading the letter from Lord
Strathcona explaining tho objects
of tho donation and a plan for tho
administration of the fund, said
that he had telegraphed his Lord-
ship accepting his offer and suggest-
"Strathcona Trust," of which the connection with its plans to ship
Governor-General would be patron, wheat via the Pacific.
and tho Prime Minister, vied pat.- The Senate committee has killed
ron, as trio donor had desired. tho Lancaster crossing bill again,
and substituted tho measure pre -
dug that the fund be known as the
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
HAPPENINGS I'RO11 AL1. CVIU
1'HE GLOBE.
Tc1e rnelile Bi lets From Our Ou u
and Other Countries ut
Recent Erects.
CANADA.
Tho l venin ; Bulletin made its
first appearance at, Prince Rupert
on Monday.
The _Dominion Government will
put a stop to the exportation of
natural gas.
Ono hunter has killed twenty-two
wolves up around Dog Lako, near
' Port Arthur.
! Tho Railway Commission will
take up the telephone rates as soon
as it finishes with the oxpress rates
investigation.
Tho Canada Automatic Machine
Telephone Company announce that
they will bo operating at Brantford
by May 1st.
The Dominion Textile Coinpany
has refusod the demands of its em-
ployees for a restoration of wages
to sho former figure.
Tho C. P. R. is negotiating for
an elevator site at Vancouver in
BRITAIN AS A SEA POWER.
Strength Compared With That of
Other Nations.
In an article in Tho Naval An-
nual on the comparative naval
strength of ehe groat powers, T.
A. Brarsey tells that at the end
of 1908 Britain had 50 battleships
cf tho first class, the United States
22, Germany 20, Franco 13 and
Japan 11. Of Britain's 43, six aro
Dreadnoughts. No other nation
.possesses any completed ships of
this class, though Japan has two
almost ready to go into commis-
sion, while Germany and the United
States will each have two complete
eel by Oho end of the present year.
Of second class battleships and
coast defence ships Britain has 11,
Unittlel States 0, Germany 9, France
1: and Japan 3.
Britain has 42 cruisers of the first
class, 27 of the second, and 40 of
theethird. The United States has
11 of the first class, 3 of the second
and 11 of the third. Germany has
f each of the first and second
classes and 20 of the third. France
bas 11 of tho first class, 13 of the
econd, and 2'2 of the third. Japan
has 9 of the first class, 4 of tho sec-
ond and 13 of tho third. Of Bri-
tain's first, class cruisers three aro
Invincibles, which are almost equal
to battleships in strength. No
other nation has any of these ships
in commission. Germany's first
ono was launched this week.
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AN INSANE IMM11; Lt,NT.
Government Taking Action Against
the C. 1'. R.
A despatch from St. John, N. 13.,
says: Tho Interior Department of
tho Dominion Government is pro-
ceeding against. the C. P. R. on a
charge of bringing to Canada an
' insane immigrant without stating
bis condition. The man is a Rus-
sian Finn brought here on tho
steamship Empress of Britain last
month and deported on the same
filo:iner. While hero he became
quite violent and caused damage
in the immigration building. Com-
plaint was made at the Police
Court on Wodnesday and a sum-
mons will be issued. It, is said tho
*i'. P. R. will fight the case.
KILLED BABY FOR I : S BLOOD.
Witches in Cuba ('on►irtcd of Jlur-
c:ering While Child.
A despatch from Havana says:
Three reputed witches base' been
convicted of murdering a white
baby in order to procure the blood
and heart, wherewith to ural the
sick. Tho worsen have been sen-
tencecl to death, and two others,
convicted as accomplices, have been
senit•encod to from fourteen to
twenty years' imprisonment. This
it the second ease of the kind, throe
women having been executed in
ROI for the same crime.
A CHILD OF WATERLOO.
Death at Detroit of Mrs. Mary Ann
8tillt'van.
A despatch from Detroit says:
Mrs. Mary Ann Sullivan, who was
born on the field of Waterloo while
the battle was raging, died at St.
Luke's Hospital on Wednesday,
where sho had lived for the past
eleven years. She had been i11
only a week, old age being Oho
cause of her death. Her father
was a British soldier, and her mo-
ther was one of tho two women al-
lowed to accompany each company.
King Edward some time ago caused
az. investigation to bo made into
Mrs. Sullivan's claim that sho was
the only living woman who was born
on the field, and vouched for its
correctness. Mrs. Sullivan and
her husband lived for some time
in Montreal, the latter afterwards
dying in London, Ont.
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MAURICE RYAN TO.IIANG.
Maar Who Murdered His Brother
Near North Bay.
A despatch from North Bay says:
Judge Latchford on Thursday
morning sentenced Maurice Ryan
tc be hanged on Juno 3rd next for
the murder of his brother, Francis
Joseph Ryan, on or about Novem-
ber 18th, 1907. The Judge was vis-
ibly affected in addressing the prix•
oncr, to whom ho could hold out
no hopo of Executive clemency.
Tho prisoner listened to his Lord-
ship's remarks with closed oyes,
ai.I at the end sank to his scat,
selling audibly, with his head in
his hands.
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Enna BURNED TO DEATH.
In fire Following a Terrine Storm
in Texas.
A despatch from Fort Worth,
Texas, says: Reports received hero
on Wednesday from Wise county,
30 miles north of here, say that a
terrific electrical storm swept that
country, and that a farmer, his wifo
and five children and a farm hand
were burned to death in a tiro widen
followed. The town of Slidell is
reported practically destroyed.
Only two houses were left stand-
ing in Slidell. Twenty persons aro
reported to have boon injured.
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THOMPSON SENTENCED.
Amhersthurg ('ob►retl Boy Who
Killed His father.
A despatch from Windsor. Ont.,
says: Fifteen -year-old William
Thompson, the colored boy who
shot and killed his father during
e family quarrel near Amherstburg
several months ago, pleaded guil-
ty to manslaughter before Justice
Toetzcl at Sandwich on Thursday
afternoon. and was sentenced to
five years' imprisonment.
reRESENT OF
BREADOIIGIIT
Imperial Government Expresses Gratitude
to New Zealand.
A despatch from Londen says:
(trust Britain has accepted the of-
fer made by New Zealand to give
the Empire, free of cost, a fully
equipped Dreadnought. Announc-
ing the acceptance of this gift. in
the Reuse of Commons, on \Wed-
tnoedae. Mr. Asquith rend the tele-
gram sent to New Zealand. ex
pressing the Government's "warrn-
est gratitude for this generous end
p5trieti.• offer." Continuing, Mr.
A said :--"So far as the coin-
ing official year is concerned, the
provisions of tho naval estimates
afford ample security, hut in view
of the uncertainty existing regard-
ing the. charn,tter and extent of
the demands tt►nt may be made on
our national resources the follow
ing year, the offer of New Zealand
to defray, within that period, the
cost rf providinga first-class bat-
tleship of the atest typo. and a
second vessel of the same type if
subsequent events show it is ncccs-
sa, is most gratefully accepted."
parod by Senator Beiquo.
The National Transcontinental
Railway Commission is at Quebec
negotiating for the purchaso of
Champlain Market as a site for
union terminals.
Tho Dominion Government will
take no action at the present ses-
sion in regard to tho tariff ques-
tions raised by tho revision in tho
United States.
Tho Cleveland & Sarnia Lumber
Company has bought Waldie's lim-
it and the mill at, Spragge, and will
' move the mill to Sarnia. The price
it said to have been $1,800,000.
A contribution of nearly a thou-
sand dollars has been receival from
. tho children of Now Zealand to-
' wards the battlefields in connec-
tion with tho Quebec Tercentenary.
I Mr. J. W. Loud, Freight Traffic
Manager of tho Grand Trunk, an-
nounces a cut in grain rates to four
cents a bushel from Georgian Bay
ports to Montreal, to meet tho
compotition of United States lines.
GREAT BRITAIN.
John Davidson, tho poetand
playwright, has disappeared mys-
teriously from his home in Pen-
zance.
UNITED STATES.
Chairman Sereno Payne says the
advocates of a high tariff on lum-
ber aro chiefly stumpage specula-
tors.
Two trainmen were killed by the
explosion of a locomotive boiler on
the Lehigh Valley l.ailroad near
Buffalo.
Tho United States Steel Corpora-
tion is said to have secured control
of tae Michipicoten iron oro range,
north of Lako Superior.
Eighty-nine vessels wore wrecked
and two hundred and twenty-one
persons lost their lives on the At-
lantic coast of America during the
fall and winter season just passed.
President Lewis of the United
Mineworkers of America says the
anthracite miners have a fund of
55,000,000 to draw on in case of a
strike, while 52,000,000 more can
bo easily raised.
GENERAL.
Count Zeppelin's airship made a
flight of 150 miles, carrying 26 pas-
sengers.
Paelerowsk1, tho famous pianist,
has rhournatisrn in his right hand
and arm.
Tho French astronomer Gaillot
nnnounees that he has discovered
two now planets situated far beyond
Noptuno.
ALCOHOL FOR COLDS.
Medical Authority Tells of Fallacy
of Belief in This Cure.
Dr. C. Stanford Read of Now
York, a medical authority, splashes
that daring belief of so many per-
sons that something "with a stick
in it." will cure a cold.
"Ono of the most prevalent and,
at the same time, erroneous ideas
concerning alcohol is that it pre-
vents colds. How often do we hear
tho remark made to a guest, who
is about to leave his host on a cold
night: 'Now, do have a drop of
something to keep the cold out.'
Now, if there is anything that is
certain in this world it. is that al-
cohol lets the heat out and there-
fore predisposes to chill. It dilates
all the superficial blood vessels of
the body, thereby giving temporar-
ily the sensation of a glow of
warmth, and it is from this addes1
heat that the temperature i3 low-
ered by radiation. in the very
cold regions the inhabitants know
only toe well this effect. of alcohol,
and, realizing the clanger. have to
he abstenious in order to preserve
their live•. and one finds, as a mat -
tor of fact, that persons who aro
frozen to death --in this country, at
least --have usually !net that fate
through their having been in a
state of intoxication when cold
overtook them." '
GERMANY'S NAVAL PLANS
THIRTY -EI( HT B-tTTLI SHIPS
BESIDES SMALLER ONES.
1'roviriJa Has Also Been Made to
Suburarines and feet
Auxiliaries.
A naval correspondent of the
London Daily Chronicle has com-
piled the following facts regarding
tho German naval program.no and
the measures that aro being taken
to carry it into execution.
The programme provides that be-
tween 1909 and 1917 fifteen battle -
TUE WORLD'S MARKETS
REPORTS }RO)! THE I.i:AUING
1RAVE CENTRES.
Prices of Cattle. Grain, Cheeso and
Other Dairy Produce at
Home and Abroad.
BHEADSTUFFS.
Toronto, Mar. 30.—Flour- -On-
tario wheat 90 per cent. patents,
$4.15 to $4.20 to -day in buyers'
sacks outside for export. Mani-
toba flour, first patents, $5.70 to
$5.90 on track, Toronto; second
tents $5.40 to $5. GO and strong
ships shall be built additional to bakers' $5 to 55.20.
those now on the list,-throo iuWheat—No. 1 Northern, $1.21,
each of the years 1909, 1910 and and No. 2 Northern, $L18 Georgi
1911, and one in each of tho six an Bay ports. No. 1 Northern
subsequent years; also nine „Ili_ $1.2G%, all rail, and N. 2 North -1
ser battleships (one each year), ern, $1.23%, all rail.
eighteen smaller cruisers aad eigh- Oats.—Ontario No. 2 whit18c
tttien divisions of destroyers. Tho track Toronto: No. 2 whit -0 on
48c Western
object in view is to complete the
intended establishment of t-hirty-
eight battleships, twenty battle-
ship cruisers, thirty-eight small
cruisers and 144 destroyers.
Of the battleships the Schleswig-
Holstein and Schlesioa, which are
pro -Dreadnoughts, were completed
in Septo:nber, 1903. Tho Nassau
and Westfalen,
BOTH DREADNOUGHTS,
were laid down in the spring of
1907 and were launched severally
at tho imperial yard, Wilhelms-
haven, and tho Weser yard, Bre-
men, in March and July, 1908.
There was a mishap with the first of
these, but she is being pushed on
energetically and is expected to bo
completed by the intended date,
which is before the close of the pre-
sent year.
Tho Rheinland and the Posen
were begun in the summer of 1907
and were launched in September
and Deoombor, 1003, at the Vul-
can yard, Stettin, and the Ger-
mania yard, Kiel, both of which
establishments, in a return made
by German shipbuilders to Count
Reventlow, have declared their
ability to build ships of tho class
in from twenty-four months to
thirty months, so that they may bo
expected to be ready for their trials
at the beginning of next year, if
not earlier.
The battleships known as Ersatz
Oldenburg, Ersatz Seigfried and
Ersatz Beowulf to replace those old
vessels were provided for in tho
hultigot of 1903-09 and were put in
hand in the summer of 1903 respec-
tively at tho Germania yard, Kiel;
the imperial yard, Wilhelfshaven,
and the Howaldt yard, Kiel.
Tho last named establishment
has stated its ability to build ships
as rapidly as the other private
yards, so that
THESE THREE SHIPS
may bo ready for their trials early
in 1911. Tho three ships that aro
to bo laid down this year aro the
Ersatz Frithjof, E. Hilderbrand
and E. Heinxlall. They aro pro-
vided for in the budget of 1909-10.
The first of the cruiser battle-
ships is tho Blucher, which was be-
gun
o-gun at the imperial yard, Kiel, in
the autumn of 1906, was launched
in April, 1f03, and is now ready
for her trials. F and G aro both
being built by Messrs. Blohm &
Voss at Hamburg and were laid
down respectively in tho summer
and autumn of 1908.
This is another of the firms that
have expressed their ability to
build big ships iu from twenty-four
to thirty months. The small crui-
sers, about 4,n50 tons, aro being
built at, the rate of two yearly and
are completed within about two
years—less rather than more. Of
tho destroyers twelve arc begun
each year. Provision is also made
for submarines and fleet auxili-
aries.
The great works at tho port of
Wilhelmshaven, which are to make
it second only to Portsmouth and
Devonport, arc approaching com-
pletion and aro expected to be
ready this year.
CHOPSTICKS ARE SACREi).
Special Skilled Artisan Makes Thee)
for slap Emperor.
When the imperial cook has pre-
pared a dish for the Emperor',,
table ho has to take it before the
doctors on duty, who examine it
carefully. This is called "adoku-
mi," or testing, to discover whe-
ther or not the food is poisonous
From the doctors the dish goes to
the Emperor. Tho ceromony c,f
dok►uni is very old and was emu
ployed by the lords of feudal castes
for many centuries. The Mikauo
takes his meals from a table that
is white in color, according to the
usage extending back to the ba
ginning of things Japanese. The
dishes aro fine Kyoto ware, having
designs of chrysanthemums, or
sometimes pine leaves, cranes nr
tortoises. The imperial chopsticks
are nine inches long.
The making of the Emperor's
chopsticks is Almost a sacred rite.
By special Appointment a certain
skilled artisan devotes his time to
this important matter. Before be-
ginning this work he bathes himself
in cold water. Then ho hocks him-
self in 811 inner room to which he
admits 110 one while his task is
under may. irderd. he deems his
work as acted asvaShinto rite.
Canada oats 47c, Collin.gwood, and
No. 3, 46c, Colli►egwood.
Peas—No. 2 94c outside.
Corn—No. 2 American yellow,
73%c on track, Toronto, and No. 3
at 72%c on track, Toronto. Cana-
dian corn, 71 to 72c on track, To-
ronto.
Bran—Cars $23 in bulk outside.
Shorts, $23 to $23.50 in bulk out,
side.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Apples—$4.50 to $5.50 for choice
qualities, and $3.50 to $4 for Sec-
onds.
Beans—Primo, $1.90 to $2, and
!land -picked, $8.10 to $2.15 per
bushel.
Honey—Combs, $2 to 82.75 per
dozen, and strained, 10 to 110 per
pound.
Hay—No. 1 timothy, $10.50 to $11
per ton on track here, and lower
grades at 89 to $10 a ton.
Straw—$7 to 57.50 on track.
Potatoes -05 to u7%c por bag on
track.
Poultry—Chickens, dressed, 15
to 16c per pound; fowl, 11 to 12c;
turkeys, 20 to 22c por pound.
DAIRY MARKETS.
THE
Butter --Pound prints, 20 to 21c;
tubs and largo roils, 16 to 18c; in-
ferior, 14 to 150; oreamery rolls,
250, and solids, 21 to 22c.
Eggs—Caeo lots of now laid, 18
to 19c per dozen.
Cheeso—Largo cheese, 13%c per
pound, and twins, 14 to 14%e.
HOG PRODUCTS.
Bacon—Long clear, 12 to 12%c
per pound in case lots; mess pork,
$20.50 to 521; short cut, $23 to 524.
Hams—Light to medium, 14 to
14%e; do., heavy, 13 to 13%c; rolls,
10% to 11c ; shoulders, 10%e; backs,
16% to 17c; breakfast bacon, 15%
to IGc.
Lard—Tiorcea, 13c; tubs, 13%o;
pails, 13%e.
BUSINESS IN MONTREAL.
Montreal, March 30.—Peas—No.
2, 98% to 9c,c ; oats, Canadian West-
ern No. 2, 51 to 51%c; extra No.
1 feta, 503, to 51c; No. 1 feed 50
to 50%c; Ontario No. 2, 50 to 50%c;
Ontario No. 3, 49 to 49%c; Ontario
No. 4, 48 to 48%c; barley, No. 2,
CO to 67c; bailey, Manitoba feed,
59% to GOe; buckwheat, 55 to 5Gc.
Flour—Manitoba Spring wheat pat-
ents, firsts, $5.80 to 59; Manitoba
Spring wheat patents, seconds,
$5.30 to 85.50; Manitoba strong
bakers', $5.10 to $5.30; Winter
wheat patents, $5.40 to 85.50;
straight rollers, $5 to $5.10;
straight rollers, in bags, 82.35 to
52.45; extra, in bags, 81.95 to
82.05. Feed—Manitoba bran, $22
to $23; Manitoba shorts, $:.'1 to $25;
Ontario bra.n, $23 to $21; Ontario
shorts, $21.50 to $25; Ontario mid-
dlings, 825 to $25.50; pure grain
mouillo, $33 to $35; mixed nioutlle,
528 to $30. Cheeso--13% to 13%e;
Butter --hall creamery, 23 to 24e;
fresh receipts nt 20'% to 21%c.
Eggs -21c per dozen.
CATTLE MARKET.
Toronto, March 30 — Ex-
port cattle were in firm de-
mand and realized as high as $5.-
70 in two or three instances, but
these were exceptional cases, $5 to
$5.50 may be taken as the general
average. Butcher cattle of the
choice variety aro as keenly sought
after as ever, whilst the supply fell
far short of the demand. Well -
finished cattle were none too plen-
tiful, although there was some im-
provement in quality; the bulk of
the cattle were in poor condition.
Stockers and feeders --In fair de-
mand, but the supply limited.
Calves -- Firm and unchanged.
Sheep and lambs—Fair demand and
slightly lower. Hoge --Weak. Se-
lect nt 56.80 to 50.00 f.o.b., and
87.10, fed and watered.
1:11:11'1' W011hll t;'. h I l.l.i;i).
Buried by a Mallin_ Wall in ( hi-
caen Mork Ward...
A despatch from (•hiceise says:
The falling of a wall killed eight
workmen at tho stock snots on
Thursday. The ,nen were at work
demolishing what remained of one
e.
of Darling & (o,' s w nrehuus �,
which fire destroyed not long ago.
when the wall came down oil them.
WAR IN BALKAS IMMINENT
Austria Is Massing Troops
negrin
on the Monte -
Frontier.
Adcspatch from Paris says : It
is held in official circles hero that
the Balkan situation, e0 account
of the irroconeilablo attitude of
Austria-Hungary, has now reached
its most acute stago and that tho
Next fow days will decide between
peace and war.
'rho efforts of Great. Britain,
Franco and Russia to present a for-
mula acceptable to Baron Von Aoh-
erenthal, the Austro-Hungarian
Minister of Foreign Affairs, having
failed, Austria-Hungary is expect-
ed forthwith to deliver an ultima-
tum at Belgrade. After this, if
Soria refuses to snake a complete
surrender, no doubt exists in Paris
that. Austria-Hungary will despatch
an army across the Servian fron-
tier. Tho Eclair on Friday an-
nounced that the absent officers be-
longing to the Froneh regiments on
the eastern frontier, have been ro-
called. The Minister of War ad-
mits that "certain precautionary
nioasuros have been taken on ac-
count of the tension of the present
European situation."
WEEPING WIVES AND SISTERS
A new York Herald correspond-
ent cables a description of scenes
at Zara and Fiume, whero Austria
is making active preparations for
war. At Fiun►o, ho says soldiers
and reservists are arriving continu-
ally and are immediately embarked
on fast steamships of tho Ungaro -
Croats Navigation Company Com-
pany for the Gulf of (lattero. This
gulf is close to tho Mont4 negria
frontier and within easy striking
distance of Cettinje.
At each departure, both at Fiume
and Zara, thousands gather around
aixl salute tho departing soldiers.
lieartrendiag sccaos are to bo wit-
nessed everywhere. Weeping wives
with babies in their arms, sisters
and mothers crowd the quays. Simi-
lar emotion is shown by tho soldi-
ers, for all aro under the impres-
sion that they aro going to war.
SILK AND GOWNS FOR DOG
FASHION IN LONDON ItEACUEs
LIMIT OF EXTRAVAGANCE.
Silver Plate and Bowl to Eat From
Instead of the Kitchen
Plate.
The cult of the toy dog has been
incre...sing every year, and no smart
woman is soon iu London without
a diminutive ball of brown or black
or grey fluff under her arm. It is
said, however, that 1909 is going
to rival all its predecessors in ex-
travagant fashions for the scented
canine pets.
A toy dog will soon bo a more
expensive luxury to keep than a
motor -car. One well-known soci-
ety woman has a maid for a cou-
ple of miniature Pomeranians, and
the little animals' outfits cost as
much as many women spend on
their own wardrobe.
"The modern dog, who only
weighs as much as a fair-sized doll,
is one of the most important mem-
bers of the household," the man-
ager of a West -end firm said tho
other day. "It is as necessary for
us to cater for him as fol' his own -
el or her children.
PLATES AND DRINKING
BOWLS.
"The old kitchen plate for idle
miniature 'toy' is out of the ques-
tion now -a -days. Every pet has a
little plate stamped with his name
and a drinking bowl. These are
made in anything from fine china
to pewter or even real silver.
"The high -bred toy dog suffers
intensely in tho cold weather, and
for this reason sweaters and minia-
ture cardigan jackets are being
made. The sweaters aro crocheted
or knitted, and cost about $2.50.
The cardigan jacket is rondo of
brilliant scarlet flannel fastened
with giltbuttons.
"Another novelty is a rain coat
made of silk waterproof, lined with
a contrasting color. It is very use-
ful in these days, when a woman
always takes her <log out moth
ing. They are made with a hold
to draw over the head.
"Dogs' boots have been seen be-
fore, but this year they nre bcirer
knitted or crocheted in thick wo..1
to put on at night when hide is
tucked up in his basket.
"Miniaturo slog blankets aro
made of grey tweed, bound witli a
bright colored braid, with the
spoilt creature's monogram embroi-
dered in one corner."
A most ingenious travelling bag
their workhouse a pauper who has
been in the habit of writing beg-
ging letters from that institution.
'!here arrived at the workhouse
for the man, whose name is Slater,
a letter which an official suspected
contained money. On opening the
envelope there was found in it a
postal order for LI from a gentler
man at Stoke-on-Trent. When in-
terrogated Slater admitted that Ile
had written letters to people an
over the country asking for money,
which was forwarded to him in pos-
tal orders. He always, ho declar-
ed, addressed the letters from "St
Grove road," which is the regis-
tered postal address of the work-
house.
Slater was called before the
board for an explanation, and cre-
ated great surprise when lie ap-
peared before the guardians attir-
ed in a heavy double-breasted coat,
with an eye -glass, and a silver -
mounted walking -stick, presenting
a very distinguished appearance.
The guardians, after discussing
various alternatives, such as re-
taining the money to pay for his
maintenance or returning it to the
sender, decided to give the man the
postal order, and with it his march-
ing orders. Slater was according-
ly told that he was now no longer
destitute, and must leave the
workhouse.
THREE iiUN1)RED MU'i1DER°s
Committed by a Russian Woman in
the Last Thirty Years.
A despatch from St. Petorshnrg
says: Charged with having commit-
ted some three hundred murders,
a woman named I'ropova has boon
arrested at Samara. During the
last thirty years, it Appears, the
woman has modes a practice of rid-
ding captious wives of their hus-
bands by means of poison. She
charged a small fee, and is said to
have executed her commissions with
much despatch. Ono of her clients,
tormented by remorse, has now de-
nounced her. Mine. Popova has
confessed to having committed the
Murders, but, protests that slie did
excellent work in freeing unhappy
wives from their tyrants. She
never murdered a woman. A ,nob
sought to seize her and burn her
at tho stake, but was prevented by
the, police.
FELL DOWN .%SHAFT.
London Fireman Fatally Injured
While on Duly.
A despatch from London, Ont.,
says : Assistant Fire Chief Scott
was fatally injured on Thursday
night by falling down an elevator
shaft during a fire in tho fur store
r f Edmund Beltz on Dundas street.
for toy dogs will 1;0 seen this sea Tho fire, which originated in the
son. It is made of canvas lined basement among sonlo rubbish,
filled the whole building with dimes
smoke, and it is thought that Scott
was blinded by it. It was his night
off duty, and nobody knew he was
in the buildi g until his cries ter
help brought his comrades to his
rescue. Ile has a wife and throe
children, has belonged to the bri-
gade five years, and was appointed
Assistant Chief four months ago.
The stock was badly damaged by
smoke and water.
IH.►ULEi) DOWN His 1'L►G.
with cloth. Tho bag contains a
comb and brush,a tooth Artist) and
nail clip, and n band brush to draw
on like a glove, made of fibre ten-
drils, with which the dog is scrub-
bed in his hath every morning.
The rest of the outfit comprises
a cake of scented soap, some cold
cream, a soft bath towel and a bot-
tle of perfume.
PLAYTHIN(;S FOR 111,0.
The toy dog's playthings are
made of Ludia rubber, and consists
et balls, solid dolls, inice or tiny
replicas of himself.
The latest bed for lido is not a
basket. This resting place he se-
lects in the daytime. but at night
lie is provided with a miniature
armchair. It is fitted with n down
pillow, and there is a white fur
rug to put over him.
Mold gild nr silver bracelet col-
lars are fashionable kr the tiniest
clogs. These are engraved with
the name and address of the owner,
and are often set with gems.
ARISTOCRATIC 1'.1t'PER.
Wore 1:ye.(.laws and Carried Silver.
Mounted -Stick.
11iehnr',pd (i'n7!a'id) Hoard of
Guardians hese just die.uter.d in the Reichstag without discu
Lord ('hnrles Beresfortl Retiree
From British Na'y.
it despatch from London says:
Admiral Lor.1 Charles Beresford,
Commander of the Channel fleet,
hauled down his flag at Portsmouth
on Wednesday. thus bringing to an
end fifty years of active rersice.
He was given a rousing send-off
by some 10,000 enthusiastic friend•
and admirers who had gathered
around the dockyard gates. The
Admiral is now a free lance, and
it is expected that ho will take an
active part in the agitation for a
big navy.
The second reading of the Ger-
man ea%n1 to diet waw passed jg,