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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1905-03-30, Page 7LEADING MARKRTS She Ruling Prices In Live Stock and Breadstufs. 111tEA1iS'I'UFI•'S. Toluntu. March 2H.-Wheat-thn- tariu-iluldoes take the view 1 hat with reads bevaking u{, and farmers sour, to eu busy with seeding, olft•r- 4ngn tt ill be. very light. They ore therefore Dying t0 put up prices. Sou.e are asking $1.07 for No. 2 red and white. but sales are being tatted,- ut $1.01 to 81.05; spring 79c to ase, and goose, 9Uc. Munitoba- ASin''i{ eg pries aro Manta• but local quolaticros aro unchanged; all -rail quotid ions, No. 1 northern. $1.09; No. _' 81.00; No. 8. $1, with salter (or 11 livery all the opening ui navi- gation at (lc to 7c lower. F1o1in-00 per cern . patents $1.10 to $1.30, buyers' sacks, cast and west: 15e 10 20c higher for choice. Manitoba, $5.50 to $3.70 for first .patents, $5.1t) to $5.40 for second Patents. and $e', to $5.30 for bon - en'. 11191(od--$13 to $15.50 for bran in bulk, $17 to $17.50 for shorts for car lots east and west; Manitoba, $20 for shorts and $18 for bran, ex- ports. Ilarley-16c to 17c for No. 2, 44c to 43c for No. 3 extra. and 48c for No. :1 malting outside. Toronto freights. Rye -Nominal at 71c to 72c for N. 2 f.o.b. outside. Corn --Canadian, 47c to 48c for yellow and 46c to 47c for mixed t.o.h. Chatham freight a; American. No. 3 yellow. 57c; mixed, 513 c on track Toronto. flat. --40c to -11c for No. 2 outside With 42c at low tt•elsi ts. Rolled Oats -$1.85 for cars of bags and $1.60 for barrels on track here; 95c inure for broken lots here and 40c outside. Teas -67c to 68c for No. 2 west and cast. liuckwhe nt.-57c to SHc cast and West. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Butter -prices are fairly steady. although hardly enough butter is Coating forward. Creamery, prints 25c to 26c do F•uli(IM 23c to 24c Dairy tubs, medium ... 17c to 18e do inferior 15c to 16c Dairy Ib. rolls. good to choice 22c to 23c do large rolls 20c to 22c do medium 18c to 19c Cheese -Is quoted unchanged at 11Ic for twins and 11 ijc for large. Eggs-I'►ices are lower at t6lc to 17c. Potatoes ---Ontario, 65c to 70c nn track and 7:lc to ROc out of store. Eastern. at 70c to 75c on track and 85c to 90c out of ntore. Baled Hay -Quoted unchanged at $8 per ton for No. 1 titnothy, and $7 for mixed or clover in car lots on track here. Bake' Straw -Is unchanged at $6 Per ton for car lots 00 track here. llfC)NTREAI. MARKi•:TS. Montreal, March 28. -Crain -'there Was some itniuiry for Manitoba spring wheat from over the cable for May shipment from this port, but expeirters stated that bids were still :lc per bushel cut of line with values on this side. The tone of the Market for pons Is very firm. and bolder•, ave now asking 70c per bush - al. high freights west. The feeling in oats in the west is strong, and pritos have advanced lc per lomansl with No. 2 white now firmly hold at '42c per bushel. high freights were. The dentnnd for oats mn spot con- tinues quiet, but prices are unchang- ed at. 46c for No. 2 white and at 45c for No. 3 per hush, ex -store. Flour -The market is quiet, wit h no change in prices to note. Vuni- tobe spring wln•at. patents. $3.6.l to 5.8fl rn' strong bake, $5.30 to S5.- 00; winter wheat onto els, $3.70 to $5.H0, straight rollers. $5.30 to $3.- 40, and in longs, $2.50 to $2.60. leeed- 'There was no change in tuill- eed, for which the demand is good rout all sources, Manitoba bran, in bags, x+18: shorts. $20 per ton: On- tario winter wheat bran, in bulk, $17 to 818. shorts, 818 to $20; Inonilie. $21 to $28 per toff. as to quality. lien: -The demand for rolleal oat s was clow, awl the market is quiet, with prices un^h(nie(i at $2.03 per bag: cornmeal cunt boles quiet and steady nt $1.33 to 81.13 per hag. (11 e'e-The cheese sit tint ion was unthanee I to -tiny, the tnnrket being quiet, with a firm isn dertone. The haler'•. of the g•tn)fls mn.+old ar,' lint - for which 12e is being noticed. steady feeling Prevails in butter. and priers show no chnngr. The d••nined from !.'',hers for small lots 26 fair, awl 'ales of choice crrn aloes were e.' .l• nt 27r to 214c, end ion•,.•. er eke so 21r to 211r. Eggs. r. r• il.t ).v e.pr.•ss were fair. fos which the defennd was ): and soles were nee los at 20e to 21c per dwell --` the pulpit s'etth :Ind t •,npu urlly i far.I'-, int( (1 to their cresit that anoarti Int she neat,. rater•, and It e,f Jlt. urnegie. the fact is that Dea""°''� 1.11,)00 1..7 SOME FOOLISH VENTURES Du.„ bulls :1. 825 Feeder. and Stockers. -__- Feeders, short-koepe, 1,100 CHARGE OF BALACLAVA WAS to 1,200 lbs. 4.441 4.70 ALL A MISTAKE. Po•, 850 to I,060 lbs 3.130 4.35 Stockers, lull to talo lbs. :1.25 .1.80 A Few Desperate Men Sustained the Honor of Spain and Sheep and Lambs. Export ewes, per cwt. 4.50 5.25 Ito., bucks, per dw•t.... 3.50 1.23 Butchers' sheep, per cwt 3.50 4.150 Lambs. grain -fed, cwt. 6.73 7.35 barnyard., per cwt ... ... ... 5.50 6.50 1)o., Spring, each ... 2.00 8.00 Calves, per cwt ... 8.50 6.00 flu•. oath 3.00 12.00 }logs. Hog., select, 160 to 200 lbs. ort' tetra .. $6.23 1)o., fats, off cars 6.110 1)o., lights, off car's *IMO GLADSTONE'S PHYSICIAN. Death of a Doctor Who Achieved Great Success. I)r. Robson Rouse, who was at one time the most fashionable consulting physiclun in Loudon, 1•:nglanel, deed recently. Royal princes, halt the ar- istocracy, bishops, judges and Cab- inet 'Ministers Were among those who sought his advice. It was. however, as 31r•. Oladstoie's physician that Dr. itoosc, then in his thirties, leap- ed into almost world-wide fame. His history is art interesting chap- ter in the romance of medicine. Tho son of an ancient but impoverished fancily, he was left at the ago of 15, with a mother and younger brother and sister entirely dependent upon his exertions. He educated himself, won his own way through his exam- inations, working et literary pur- suits by night in order to pay for his medical studies by day, and be- fore he was 21 he was a full-fledged parish doctor's assistant at Brigh- ton. Ar. noose was the pioneer in many new systems of treatment, and in- deed to Gar end his theories found a larger following in Germany, where his writings are regarded as stand- ard )nodical works, than in his own country. Itis diagnosis of alt cases brought to hint was marvellously correct, and unlike the great majority of fashionable physicians he was ale aye ready to give it 111 writing. Even at the height of his fame, when the most distiaguishld men in tho literary, political and religious world crowded the %carting rooms of the young consultant, he never gave preference to any patient on ac- count of rank or position. Dukes had to wait their turn with artisans. And when he was the most sought after doctor in town fully 50 per cent. of his patients were treated free of charge. His dinner parties at Hill street, Berkeley Square, were among the so- cial features of I.on:lon. 1)r. hoose, who was a widower, leaves three sons and one daughter. CHINESE SHREWDNESS. ' to bits, and thousands et!THE BIGGEST SALARIES Turks and EgyptiansEgyptiansper ans perished, rath- el' than ask for the quarter. which ( would have been freely accorded 'MEN WHO ARE PAID LARGE (hem. SUNS ANNUALLY. When Lord Cardigan led the tutu- _ tuts charge of Ilalacluva, to take Cecil Rhodes Drew $380,000 a another inslnncc, he slid not du so Year -A Bank Official's Big because he thought It was necessary. Conquered Mexico. but because he nhistukeuly thought Salary. ltud estvensk •'s suicidal rush ter he: had been ordered to dot u su. It J y awes clearly a case of death or dis- It is announced that the managing wards Julian is a line example of honor, directorship of one of the leading Russian Governmental bluff in these insurance cunhas will shortly be latter days. But Japan has had to ('xptain Nolan, en aide-de-camp, rode up to hitt, and pointing with vacant; and no doubt, judging by deal with this surt of thing before. his sword to the thirty,leers of salaries that are paid to the On the Yalu Inver, in Septemberember, cannon bristling from thalmost un- heads of some other similar coutpan 1891, tyhen the Chino-Japnna»t► War assailable Russian position, observ- ies, there are many people who mil was at its height, admiral leo araC eel. Ton trust take them." Lord regard this as a post worth applying with something very similar. '1'o wit Cardigan took thio to bo an order for. The presidents of two of the a wild sortie of the Chniene f e'er, from Lord Raglan, his Commander -i largest insurance companies in the just to "keep up appearances," and world are each re in Chief. For munerated at the save the Celestial honor. a moment hu startKl rate of 31a0,0(►0 a year, and in a Tho Chinese ships, ten in all, incredulously at Captain Nolan, and p paled with foreboding. Then third case the chief gets 8100,000. his face steamed out imrposiugly in line 6 These are aurunst tho biggest abrua,t Ito however, a•, it were he turned quietly in the saddle and sal - LONDON'S LORD MAYORS THE FOUNDLING WHO BECAME CHIEF MAGISTRATE. Remarkable Careers Which Lead to the Mansion House. "1 never• thought, forty yearn ago. when I ctuue to London a pour lad from the banks of the 'J'w„d, that 1 should arrive at so great a dis- tinction," were the frank and noble words u fth which Sir John Pirie, 1 Lord Mayor of London, opened his speech at a Guildhall dinner sixty - t wo y ecus ago. and they are ty pical of the hats' of many another man who has made the journey from a cottage to the Mansion House. When Sir Chapman Marshall, who was Chief Magistrate of the City three years earlier, was a guest as sheriff at a public dinner to the sup porters of the Metropolitan Charity Schools, ho began his uddress in this strain of admirable candor: "My Lord Mayor and ❑entlemen,-I want words to express the emotion of my heart. Yoe see before you a humble individual who has been educated at a parochial school. I came to Lon- don in 1803, without a shilling, without a friend. I have not had tho benefit of a"clamsical education; but this I will say. my Lord Mayor and gentlemen, that you witness in the what may bo done by the earne.:t application of HONEST INDUSTRY, and I trust that my example may induct others to aspire, by the same means, to the distinguished situatlon which I now have the honor to till." On another occasion the self -depre- ciation of a Lord Mayor was a cause of embarrassment to a very distin- guished guest. When Sir Peter Laurie, during his mayoral year, en- tertained the judges, he had at his right hand Lord Chancellor Tenter - den, whose father, as the world knows, had been a humble hairdress- er. "You sco before you," Sir l'eter exclaimed to his astonished guests, "the Chief Magistrate of this great Empire and the Chief Justice of England sitting at my right hand. both now in the highest offices of the State, and both sprung from the very dregs of the people." 'There has never been a time since London had a mayor to boast of when this high office has not been filled more than once its a generation by men who have climbed to it from very low rungs on the social ladder. As far back as Henry 1"s time, Sir William de Sevenoke, who was maylj in 1418, had begun life as a found} ing, had been EDUCATED BY CHARITY, and started his career as errand -boy for a small grocer. Sir Thomas White. who played such a loyal and gallant part at the time of Wyatt's Rebellion, had for father a poor clothier, and was himself apprenticed to a tailor at the age of twelve. And yet he lived to amass great wealth, to found St. John's College, Oxford, and 'Tonbridge School, and to be the first 'man in the world's capital. in the fifteenth century a poor Yorkshire lad left his father's cot- tage in Wharfedale and travelled to distant London in a carrier's cart to seek fame and fortune. As Sir William Craven he was the Lord Mayor of 1111 1 ; and his son, grand- son of the Yorkshire farm laborer. married the (leen of Bohemia, of it long line of Earls. Sir Snntnel Fludyer's first intro- duction to tho city of which, in 1761, he was to be Lord Mayor was as driver of a team of pack -horses corning front the West country. 1lo little knew then that he wits destin- ed to marry tho niece of a powerful Eut1, and to be the (urefnther of some of our noblest families. Alder- man Kennet, who wore the mayoral chain in 1789, had been in early years n welter, and was foolish enough to nm:tume alsvrd airs on the strength of 1118 SUCCESS 1N LIEle. Once when he was taking part M a gnnu of whist with Mr. Alderman Plage. a soap-bo1L'r. Kennet pom- pously exclaimed: "Icing the hell, Soapsuds." "Ring it 3ouraelf, Bar" cane the crushing answer; "you have beet) tar more used to It than I have," Alderman Atkins, cc ho occupied t he Mansion House in Isle, woo; in early life a Custonte' tide waiter. Sir Matthew %%ood, Queen 1'aroline'm champion, and the first Baronet created by (queen Victoria, began his working life ns errand -boy to a druggist; and .1Idetwan Wa2th111811, Lord Mayor in 182:1, was only res- cued from the uorkhuuso by the charity of an uncle, a lieendruper of Bat h. Sir William Staines begun his Journey to the Mnnslon House, «•hick ho reached in 18(i'', by tai ry fug a fort klay er's hod, and his humble origin ware not forgotten in his ex- tlled station. On one occnxion, at an Old Bailey dinner, Sir William %vas observed by Wil'..' to he pins- ering his bread thickly with butter, 'Why, Stair t'it," Wilkes rutlely ex- •lulnted, "tell lay it 011 with a rowel," it is n pity that Sir Wil- iam, u ho was as modest ns he Was ^.ncc,:vsfol, had not the song -)oiler's gift of 1epartee.--London Tit s. F'AMI1,1 ADVICE. 'I he only mon had just onnouced to he family his engagement. Jin-"Nhnt, that girl! Why. she quints... Sl.tet-"Mho has absolutely 110 tyle." tunt le-" Ited-heneled, isn't she?" (:rnndtna-"I'm nftvrd she's fligh- t', .. 1"ncle-"Hie hasn't any money." I'inst Cousin-"'Sl:v do,sn't look danced round them. Two of the said, "'Ihe brigade will advance." aria•► paid to anyone engaged in bus- he aeede round made their o fe hs 'lila terrible charge over, and the Mess pursuit-, but they are not quite reinnant of "the Six Hundred" term- the biggest. The late Mr. Cecil 80011 as they could, while two more. ed up in line, Lord Cardigan canto Rhodes used to get 8350,000 a year forward and said: a8 managing director of the Consul - "Men! It was a mud -brained trick slated Goldfields, Limited, and Mr, but no fault of mins."-1'earson's Koss received $L':i0,000 a year as Weekly. director of the sante company. In comparison with these figures the biggest salaries paid in the banking world appear unexpectedly Insignificant. It is generally under- stood that only two or three bank managers receive as much as 850.000 a year. The governorship of the Dank of England itself is only worth $10,000 a year, and an ordinary directorship as little as 52,500, but these art not the most remunerative -office.; in connection with the "Old Lady, " Ilut there is at least one salary paid by a bank to one of its officials which is colossal and magnificent. illation, as the stories of ships that 'Pile bank is tho private firm of J. S. sail gallantly out to sea and of Morgan, and Co., and their lucky which nothing is ever heard or seen servant is Sir Clinton Dawkins, after their toasts have dipped below whose salary is understood to be the horizon. At present the papers $250,000 A YEAR. aro full of the records of these ma- rine tragedies. To -day it is the Sir Clinton was private secretary to Claverdale, which left Hong -Kong on Lord Goshen when, as Mr. Goshen, November 23rd for Vladivostock, and the latter was Chancellor of the Ex - of which no trace has been found for chequer, and made a great repute - over two months; yesterday it was Lion for himself as a financial expert, than Royalist, which cleared a few which ho enhanced in otticfal posi- days later from Singapore to Hong- tions subsequently in Egypt and Kong, and has never reached her India' 'Ile Morgan firm decided that he was worth any salary. One of the most satisfactory kinds of employment from the pecuniary point of view is the management of a great steamship line, which ntey bo worth anything from $50,000 to 8200,000 a year. An extraordinary fact is that the latter sump was once offered and refused. The Anglo-Ameri- can Shipping Trust, the formation of which a few years ago created such a sensation, required a manager at the outset, and looking round the world for a good ono decided that Herr Bailin, the .managing director of the Hamburg -American Line, was the very man for them. They offered him a huge salary to continence with, but it was promptly refused. Tho trust then came forward with an of- fer of 52(01.000 a year, but pre- sumably his present managers trade it worth his while to stay, for Herr Ilallirt again and finally declined the overtures of were set on lire and ran ashore. Ito simply pulverised the remainder. The insane dash of the brave Co- vera out of Santiago harbor during the Spanish-American War is another instance. Caught like rats in a tray. the Spanish cruisers made their mad sally, but were pursued by the big battleships of the Anherlt•ans, and sunk or driven ashore with fearful carnage. ! SHIPS THAT VANISH FROM Spain temporarily disappeared as THE SIGHT. a naval rower. But the Admiral's -- object eras achivod. leo had saved Long List of Stately Vessels his country's faro. Which Have Mysteriously MYSTERIES OF' THE SEA The Spaniards of old wore morn Vanished. successful in their sallies, as the story of There are few things which are THE CONQUEST OF Dii,XICO so full of mystery, or which make by the gallant Cortes shows. At ono such a powerful appeal to the imag- timte it seemed "all up" with Cortes and his handful of sixteenth-cent'iry Spaniards. They had entered their wonderful new-found city only to find themsolves practically prisoners of Aztecs who were as hundreds to one, and screamed for the white men's blood. In their extremity the Spaniards, who were besieged in the Royal Palace, by ruse obtained pos- session of the person of Montezuma, the Emperor and induced hint to reason with the populace on their behalf. But an arrow struck the monarch on tho head, killing him destination; the day before it was instantly, and the following night the ldunl, front Norway, which has Cortes and him little company fought vanished front human slew; and HO their way through the host of their on, through the io►tg list of ships enraged enemies, and were almost that have sailed and disappeared. annihilated in the process. What are the secrets of these The Mexicans drew a long breath. mysteriuum vanishing, of stately The city was free from the odious ships with their crows and cargoes? presenwhomclof tho they imaginedlt would nnev'er In nineteen cases out of twenty the return. But in less than a week Hes-refs tic with the ships many camp rumors that the terrible white fathoms deep, and will perhaps never warrior was ride killed, but alive, leap lo light. To this day no one strong, and determined as ever. knows what became of the City of With the little remnant of his Glasgow, which met her sails so gal - army, Cortes crept along a winding 'antis in the Mersey half a century route North of the city, absolutely and more ago, bound for i'hiladel- ignorant of his way. (lathering Phia. She carried over 40(1 passen- theniselves together, the Spaniards gers and a crew of seventy-six; but dashed directly into the midst of the sho never reached Philadelphia, nor Aztec army. Was sIie seen again after tho hills 1'i' WAS BO OR DlE. of Waleo How a Thief Was Cleverly Caught Cutlahua, the chief, was seen ad - and Made to Disgorge. vancing on a litter, richly dressed. A recent work on China tells how Cortes sprang towards him on his charger, ran hint through with his the Celestials sometimes detect a lance and seized his banner. i1. was all criminal when our officials would find over in a mt. A panic ensued. themselves at a los:. to p"eure evi- The invaders' honor was saved, and dunce, it ntny be thought, perhaps. Mexico was that day gained to the that Chinese success depends upon Spaniards. the truth of the old saying, "Set a At tho time of the over -memorable rogue to cntth n rogue." hut. the in- battle of Sennpach, in 13s6, tho stance shows shrewdness, at least. haughty Austrians had so long dom- Outside the walls of a certain muted the poor Swiss, that their small cite was a dealer In oil cakes, young rubles laughed disdainfully who sold hI, wure.s at two cents when they beheld the handful of each. lie would place his tray of peasants, armed with clubs and other cakes on n stone lion in front of the inferior weapons drawn up to op- pulJic huildin>_, and nm the custom- Pose them. ers paid their money, he would put The young nobles proudly ordered it by the side of the cakes yet un- their own infantry to the roar. To sold. One morning he had occasion themselves alone was to be reserved t., leave his tray for n few minutes. the honor of teaching these insolent When he returned the money was cowmen a lesson, or dying In the at - gone. Unable to end it, he rushed tempt, excitedly to the brill mandarin, call- I'ho armored exgnisiles laughed Ins; loudly, as the Chinese do, for ngnin as they tnikeel of dying, and, redress. presently, leaving their horses to When iauught lcfore his honor by the care of attendants, advanced Iho• ndhtniigs I, the Vumon, the upon the poor mountaineers, somo (hdealer dented him Cl*'te. The monee sixty of wh were cut down be- aall quer, is there being ries fore the ,lust rains lost a single sold- wastrnce of the thief. the judge, who ier. Itc'w could the Seiss, with their short weapons, reach a foo was no novice. directed that the guarded by much long lances? stone lion on which the tray halt Mit the Austrians were not (lune rested shoelti he louught int., his in their objection to dishonor. 'There presence and 1 eaten with a bamboo. stepped out of the peasant ranks as on it alone could the responsibil AttXOI,B VON R'1NK1?I,ItlEl). it rest Thr prise •edings attrow. ed a large crowd of loaf, rs about the Shouting to his comrades, "1'11 cut sarin court. n road for you; take care of my wife When t)i(. puni-hrnenf had been in- flicted, the doors were shut and n large jar of water placed in the en- ltanco, and 11.4• ero«vd ens cnnipelle.I to retire one at n tune. Each wns ordered to throw t coin into the jar. A smart detective. who had ;teen de- tailed for the b.,ainess. soon dl'eov- eted the peculiar oil of the er.ke- vender 11! inE* offer one lellow had thrown in his coin Seizing hila 1►v the "(Aetn.l. ' the detective snit!. hL ndlt•, '•Itnt•e y(''1 a1,y moron I►ie- gerce"• DAM, s'I'(11'1'1:1) '1'111: SI:I(JfON. Ileo nurse falling asleep in church at Ilir.iiinghntii. England, the other Sunday, a torn -year-old tuthlleel to and children," he dal of 00 she y i'idl•: FACT: O1� '111E WATERS. TI11•: I'1,1•:VEItEMi' EX1'F:ICI'S enemy and, rattling hold of ns plans spears as his arms emote enc•unrpn's. 'I he victim of nn.►ther still-retnrm- in many departments of commerce re- bore them to the gro'tnd with the Lered orenn my,(ery AVM. the fres,-' ceivo .. (liming salaries, even whole weight of him body. dent. n en,• seisel, whtth was ex- though thr,y nre not the heads of Over his corpse his comrades burst .1'(051 at loverp'.ol in %larch 1811, their firms. 'thus Mr. Donner, who through the gap In the Austrian Met'•rh ►'asset) and Liverpool saw I)O-1 holds the post of chemist to the Sit - ranks, and, once inside, showtsi ne thing of her. The lung thetas in her gar 'Trust, receives $50,n00 n year. merry to the knights in their 1111- :Icrie at caused gnat: anxiety, aril Ills duties being to examine. and re- mercy armor. A fearful slaughter III, • I 1 •'.t '•untots began to he tie- port upon the samples of sugar that ensue.t. In all, 2,7041 of the proud a •.1:.:,'I stn April 1:11b nsws tame come 1. urn all parts of the world. e Austrians bit the dant. while of that her engines and ru.lder hall Leen 11r• A, .1. Day, who is the chief , 1.500 pea.:nnt opponent., but 120 11 snbled in heavy eeat her and that i t a ear. Vet his work is i ro:1- ntthTrust,1'i Pittsburg rix %darks (11 toe fedi: sls• had pro Into Maderin for re- I ____ _ _._ The cnrnngr of Navn►hru, again. pairs. ant there nal aridly fullnwed n, the battle undertaken by the I'tIro- oaction iron gloomily fore tuliegs to, merely that of a :mperintendent nue , poen Powers on behalf of the de-; trnnsports of joy. The vessel w•as 1 ehnnic, and runny n man working at , fenct•l•ss Greeks, muse from the "ell: expected a1 i.iverp002 en .1 1erinia 815 n week might declare himself i strucliun r or dishonor" attitude of , ,das• wet her nrriv,ll was awaited by. ! nII'nl to it. Mr. I)ny, Indeed, begun i 1 11:e 'TurLs, who•, "oil over their' •hundreds of people .0,0 had friend, won humble tnerhnnic in the employ i %VEItE LOST 7'O VIEW. '1 he Ilurvie Castle left London some years ago on a long voyage to Australia. She should have made a final call at Plymouth, but she nev- er came within sight of the Itoe, nor has human eye ever seen her from the day she dropped down the Chan- nel. it was on &ray 10th. 1854, that the Laaty Nugent spread her soils at Madras with 307 of the 231h Ma- dras Light Infantry and other pas- sengers on board. Icer destination wan Rangoon, but half a century has gene and neither Rangoon nor any other port has sighted her. Nearly two years Inter the Collies liner, the Pacific, dropped down the Mersey with 180 souls on board. She was accounted one of the stoutest and swiftest veseels of her time -and so, no doubt., she was. But she went the was the City of Glasgow had gone, a couple of years earlier, and for forty-nine years has been ly- ing at the bot. ton, of the sea -but. where, nn•ie may know 011 all secrets are revealed. The training -vessel Atlanta started, a quarter of a cen- tury ago, for a •;hurt cruise In Iler- tnudan waters. and hum that clay to this no one kn.,ws what became of her and the 230 souls she carried. (in January 281h. 1870, the City of Masten sniled 110111 Ilalifox for i?ngland with 11)1 souls on board. She was nn Inlnnn :iner, n line ship, sfJrndielly ecluipiesl and hnmllt'd; but she, too, wns do»tined to vanish Prem THE NEW C05111INA'i'ION. it dues not pry quite so well to bo manager of a leading railway com- pany, though there are several of thine postn which are worth a salary running into Live figures. For example, a little while ago Mr. i'ierpont Morgan, when he was buying up reiln•ety propert les left and right, found that he needed a man to give him export advice aid prevent hire from spending half a million ton notch now and then. Much a man e'en evidently worth a good salary, and, viewed in thin light, Mr. Sauruel Spencer, who was duly appolnte I, may he regarded as cheap at $30,000 a year, but all he has to do is to examine s railway and give a little advice. occasionally. Monte enor salaries are pall In the toll business, and, as may be imagined, the biggest are to be dis- covered In c lotion with the enor- mous enterprise the Standard O11 'frust. Serosal in command to Mr. Ituckef,•ller in this concern is Mr. Alexander McDonald, who .toes must of the work, enol receives at fixed sal- ary of $200,000 a year, with his expenses paid whenever it is neces- sary for hint to make journeys abroad in the interests of his firm. As his name suggests, let'. Mel*onald 1s n Scot, and It Is his marvellous head for figures which has raised hint to this pinnacle of commercial dis- tinction. ltl•FFA 1.0 JfAlthlel S. brought the sermon to an end by they are one 01 the bravest and most an, teems ast th• .tris t h the •'•I11nk of rte•rl rails r' n Very ltuflillo, Merch 2`l. -Flom Steads'. 11'h,nt-..p►ino dull: No. 1 Northern. 111.19:. Corn•--I'nsettl (1: No. 2 yet l.•W. 33 f c. No. 8 corn. 121c. Oats �7,nI1. No. 2 white, :t:.:c; No. 2 lltixed :S11c. Rye- No 1, 85c. LiVE S'l'OCis M 11t1�V'I' Toronto, March '28. -The following! prices prevailed 00 the. market:- Exporters. Export steers, ehoice $11.50 53.1#, Do., medium . ...... 4.,25 4.50 Du., light 4.13 1.411; ilo., Willa ... 8 '25 :1.90 II•iteh••rs' ('nt`4. Butchers' (•11tH•, picked 1.35 1.601 f)u . el oleo 1.13 1.30 L),,„ fair to gaud 3.90 1.204 Ito , medium _. 8.441 :t.H,i I 0,'., common 2.75 3.:13 Do. cos oe, genet 3.00 9 74) Do., medium 9.80 2,v0 addressing the clergyman 111 a 1 I voice. -' l'leen.e. man, why do you get lip there'' Why don't you ro►ne dote n'" When n churchwarden gent- ly led her beck to her seat, amid the titler; lig of the congregi►tkin, she repeated her question, adding, "Can he see better?" • Pi'A 1)1.1' A 11'•11 VTI IE. Stntistjes show a steadily cont•nu- in); increase in the consumption of absinthe in France. Iletwecn 11'85 end 1892 there was an Increase of 85,000 hectoliters From 1892, only four years more wore needed to add Another teinte 0 titers to fh•• Con- sumption. A recent axperinn'nt dt►• ntonstrnte.t that xis 'imps n1 essence of absinthe in three gills of water were n'* dcnelly Io fish 111e as sex drops of promo(' ncld In the setae quantity of water. stoical r ' her nr- i t t h St 1 aces on the f f th ►n fu• tan Jo r and t e . lac 'frust MO (i e! earth. There were, in the famous bay, on that clay in October, 1827, no fewer than setons. Temp-Fin161111) vensels' of war. Oppose(' to there, however, were the combined Itriti-h, French and Russian Iteets-mattering at least another seventy well-equippe.I and tally re efll.i,•nt P.'mst'Iq. Conceive about 15e1 ships of war of all rates blaring away at each other in a narrow basin; the burning of some, and the dreadful explosion'* on other:. as each ()Gomm ship became alisnaleel, the crew deliberate- ly 'et I er on tire. Then hang! went the Inagnoine. 'the dos lght aCtunlly faded away unperceived, mo dense was the smoke of the cannonading, and so lurid the glare front 140 MINI' 111.a',INti 81111.8, µhat was not blown up or burnt of tM 'Turkish fleet was literally bet - rival at 11n .tin «ns n henrt'evs hoax. All th.• time the ill-fated ves- sel was n t the In's t otn of the Nen On November 301h, 1888, n large vessel was actin from rho heath of 1S.0. emine townr,ls the Goodwin Souls. She Aln : a fair Piet er-• 1,► look nn n• elf. 1,:,,'ol ,ryer 1r.• water with her st..2.1* s;.renal .,f mtids. 11.1 as the eve', of the wale h ers followed her elle wan Vern t., pause. and w;thin A few seconds she vanieho•l utterly from their ties. What ra•Ised thio trowel!. s,ul•!en disappearance of A stately ship? 'l'hnt. le nnnfher of the countless secrets uhish the oeonn brim in its Jealous keeping. -1 ondon Tit -hits futon" It necess:ery to employ the hest man, and there fore pay hire the saLuy *%lith has liecti named. I t An expert i; len cher is attached ton London ern, receltes n milers of Strife 0 to (I() m)thing but lttmte tl:e dirterent sninp4•:+ of ten that are; s brought 14-1,8e him, end report upon trent end hew they should he blend-. e(1 Io se•••re the best res'rlts. it is I eo•••!it ton cf his emi 1 o meat that he 01111 1,n:,' sot less than three , months' !.olid:,: In each year, the s etrnin I1( the nerves, digesllm, and general health in this ronstnnt ten-teet(Ii being so great as to make meth a lengthy rest absolutely int- perative 11h,'n you ldId a num overnenleme• alert the fatting of hat nelehborsi No suers t' .1 Tee as much titin' ns wait until th' dost mottles anal too tr,• este who neverWastes any in Will fled the holes In Itis own coat. kindness, trung." Mecon'I Cousin --"Mho's atuck tip." Third Cousin -"Mho's an exfrava- not thing." The Son (thoughtfully) -"Well, she's got one reoleeiling feature. any. how" ('•ho.rns-"1Ghic1'e that?" The Mon -"Mho lite -ant n relative on earth" 1'n -"(:cul, her, my boy, grab