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THE WORLD'S MARKETS
REPORTS( FROM THE LEADING
TRADE CENTRES.
Psicee of Cattle, Grain, Cheese,
and Other Dairy Produce
at Home and Abroad.
Toronto, Aug. 8. -Wheal -No. 2
white ural rod quoted at 85 to 86e
outside, while now wheat. for Septem-
ber delivery is quoted at 77 to 78c.
Muuituba wheat Is nominal at 11.10
for No. 1 Northern, Georgian Ilay
ports, at $1.06 for No. 2 Northern.
and ut 90c for No. 3.
Oats -No. 2 quoted at 40c at out-
side points.
Burley -No. 2 new quoted at 43 to
44c outside, and old at 46c outside.
Peas -No. 6 quoted at 7:3c outside,
and milling peas at 73c.
Corn -American No. 2 yellow, 631c
and No. 3 yellow. 63c, lake and tail.
Toronto.
ltye-fritts nominal.
Flour -Ninety per cent. patents are
quoted at $4 15 to 54.25 in buyers'
barks east or west: straight rollers
of special brands for domestic trade,
in Mils., 54.50 to 14.65. Manitoba
flours unchanged; No. 1 patents, $5.-
:30 to 55.50; No. 2 do., 55.10 to
55.20, and streeg bakers', 54.110 to
$5 on track, Toronto.
Mil1ie+td-At outside points bran is
quoted ut $11.50 to 512, and shorts
at $18 to 519. Manitoba bran, iu
sucks, 517 and shorts at $19.
COUNTRY Pi{OI)UCE,
Apples -Choice stock, $2 per bbl.;
cooking apples, 51 to $1.30 per bbl.
P, :ins -Prime beans fell at 81.65
to :1.75, and hand-picked at $1.75.
Hops -Choice lots quoted at 24 to
27c.
Honey' -Now at 64 to 7c for strain-
ed, and at 51.50 to 51.75 per dozen,
combs.
Ilay-Car lots of No. 1 timothy aro
quoted at $8 to 58.50 on track here,
and No. 2 at 56.50.
Straw -Car Tots quoted at 56 on
track, Toronto.
Potatoes -New• are quoted in bbls.
at 52.30, and at 75c per bushel.
Poultry -Chickens. 12 to 1:3c per
lb.; turkeys, dry picked, 13 to 14c
per Ib.
TIIF: DATIRY MARKETS.
Butter -found rolls are jobbing at
18 to 19c; tubs, good to choice, 16
to laic; creamery prints sell at 214
to 22c, and solids at 214 to 22c.
Eggs -Ordinary stock sells at 174c,
and guaranteed fresh at 184 to 19c
per dozen; splits, 15e.
Cheese -Prices firm at 114 to 111c
per lb.
HOG PRODUCTS.
Bacon, long clear, sells at 11 to
111c per 11►. in erase lots; mess pork,
at 8113.30 to 517; short cut, $20.50
to 521.
Cured meats -hams, light to me-
dium,
no-dium, 134 to 14c; do heavy, 13e;
rolls. 111 to 114c; shoulders, 104c;
Lucks, 15 to 154c; breakfast bacon,
134c.
Lard -The demand is fair. and
prices unchanged. We quote: -Tierces
Inc; tubs, 91e; pails, 91c.
BUSiSFSS AT MONTREAL.
Montreal, Aug. 8. -(:rain -Market
for oats w•as steady at 48 to 184c
for'Nu. :3 in store and 49 to 494c
for No. 2. Demand is light and so
are stocks, Flour -Manitoba Spring
patents, 55.40 to $5.50; strong bak-
ers', 53 to 55.20; Winter wheat pa-
tents, 53.50, anti straight. rollers, 15
to $:5.15 in wood; in bugs. 82.40 to
52.30. reed -Ontario bran, in bulk.
at 511.30 to $15; shorts, $17.50 to
518.311; Manitoba bran, iu bags at
$13.3(1 to $16; shorts, 519. (leans
-('h 'ire primes, 51.75 per bushel;
51.63 in car lots. Provisions -heavy
Canadian short cut pork, $20 to 521
Light short cut, $18 to 519; American
cut. clear fat backs, 518.50 to 519;
compound lard, 51 to 61c; Canadian
lard, 1(4 to 91c; kettle rendered, 104
to 11c; harms, 12, 13 nrnl 14c; bacon,
1:3 to Ile; fresh killed abattoir hogs,
510; elite, 57.23 for mixed lots, 57. -
re) for selects. Eggs-Strnight stock,
17c; No. 2, 14c. Rutter -Choicest
creamery. 224 to 23c; un(Iergrades,
211 to 22c: dairy, 18 to 20c. Cheese
-Ontario, 111 to 111c; Quebec, 111
to 11 3-16c.
L:Ni'I'ED S'l'ATES MA11KI•71':4,
Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 8. -Wheat -
No. 1 Northern. $1.10 to $1.11; No. betrothed to a Venetian nobleman, and before these lines appear ilhodcs': drive, as unladylike people say, like
2 Northern, $1.05 to $1.09; Sept' who, however, is without meals. idea of the trains 1 ...lig drenched the disil; they cut around corners
841c bid. Rye -Nu. 1, (ilk. Barley- This news comes f►•oui nn nuthurita- with spray front the Victoria falls neatly enough and go slashing tip
No. '2. 52r, sample. 40 to 50c. Corn flee source. bet it is certain that will have passed out of the region heart -breaking hills; but nine out of
-Sept .. 544c naked. the ntnjority of t he cardinals will of poetic fancy to that of actual ten of themdrive with a loose rein.
St. Louis, Mo., Aug. R. -Wheat -not allow the Pontiff to leave the fact. they talk to the fare And the little letters.
Cash. Blc; Sept., R1 fir, Dec. it3jc. l'aticnn. 4-- , The bridge ns it st ands to -day to- burse runs on, doing the best he can Captain John M. Collins has been
Minneapolis. Aug. 8. -Wheat closed (rt tt to a year's labor. I1 has been and following his awn dauntless will. appointed chief of police of Chicago
-Sept.. 891c; Dec., 874c; No. 1 Nur- SWEPT OVER THE FALLS? shipped from i?n);lnnd, and eructed 1 tray no fault upon the jarvey. Thr in place of Francis O'Neill, who le -
u,1 its remote site in this compare- , MAD'S KiNG LAUGH. signed. The new chief has risen from
thorn, 111.07; No. 2 Northern, 51 A4 1 Irish horse shares i Paddy's love for g
to 51.1)3; No. 1 hard, 5E09. Flour- Man's Upper Garments Picked up lively short space of time It was in1.epenh•ncr. Of him, too, it. ►nay They ninth! the King laugh heart-
•e•
eart- tho ranks.
First pntN . $5.05 to $0.011; sec- at Suicides' Point. only twelve months ago that the last be said that he serves without ser- fly by their wrrs(litlg games, in
and patents, $5.75 to $5.85; first A despatch from Niagara Fillet. N. section of the railroad trached the %flits. which they tried to upset each other
GENERAL.
clears, gl to 51 10;second clears, Y., say µ: -It scen.a highly probable falls. l'ntil then nothing round prat- l'he• jamey-light-hearted Ind, he het with their feel. 1003 ongo did his
$2.05 to 52.67. Iirnn-111 bulk, 512.- that n l'nterµon, N.•1., man has gone bt ridge bo dune. The gas where the your 01 old -gains in the run of hest to slip the toes of his left foot Emperor William is credited with a
7:, l0 813. down to death over the anu•rican bridge hat been built is some Gut► g K under the right foot of old Mugnni, plan to bar Great Britain froze the
--•---• Valle, for early on W'rdnrstluy after fen in width and about 420 feet. deep the days an average of 6 shillings. but the wary chief dogged him wit h Balt it: Sea.
KLONDIKE GAMBLERS. noon Officer Thomas Wilson, of rho to the water level. The method ,The fares are jolly cheap. F'or A
complete success. .1s they -.erre oto- A Russian Commission has found
State Reservation force, picked up.adopted in lruifding the bridge ons "set -down" within the boundary the Ing oft the Marquis de Socrral salt!- that a tunnel under Bering yea would
One Man Lost Forty Thousand n tnnn's coot and vest nt tlhnt is as follows: it teac built ort •sinnnl_ charge for two persons, between 9 eel the little men and said "Salem," be n danger to Russia.
taneously from each hank on the al m. and 10 p.m., is only sixprnu+. ,
Dollars in a Week. known ns "::uicirles' I uint" in 1 ►rotrind the liftlr ern refiled with a lined Gonne, the "Irish .loan of
cantilever principle until it met in its time the charges are eine-and-six •'µalae," though it is to be doubted Arc," is suing her husboud, Major holt his years might well envy. And
A (,espntch f•em Essex says: -Ar- I (ct Park. The garments err n mix K
that :lilne, who has been in the lure of light and dark blue. l'hero the center To accomplish this, it an hour, with an added sixpence for whether they understood what oras Mclirirlc, fur divorce in Paris. ,lamest Toddington, nn inmate of
Klondike for the past eight years, was it small mwnornndum hook, in
was accessary, of course, to carry n each succeeding half 1 Stilt, the meant. Sweden has nrrnns(ed for a lana (•ardilY workhouse. way de'crihrd on
was successful, and has invt•sted in which were ._ _ sole' forgo amount of n,ntnrinl t„ the inrvey does fairly well. Barney, who .e.,..- a-.._.,.,.. .1.. 0...•,.r..1 et.r.n nY_! of 523.000.000 to provide for condi- his 103rd birthday as lbe most
c' t i et other side of the stream. To get this is no better than the others. took . ;dallied to Col. Tiarrieon and the tions arising out of the separation youthful centenn►'ien heirs. " in spite
IOf the fact that he had always been
an inveterate smoker and a moderato
drinker.
♦_..
CHINA'S POPUKATION.
MUST REGISTER MARRIAGES
New Regulations That Will be En-
forced by Registrar -General.
A Toronto despatch says! Hon . W.
.1. Hanna, through Dr. C. A. Hod-
getts. has issued new regulations re --
erecting the r't•gistr•ution of mar-
riages. 'Chere aro between 18,000
and 19,000 marriages each year, and
from 6(N) to 800 of these are not
registered, while many aro delayed,
in some instances 15 months. Under
the old regulations all licenses were
held in the pos,t•ssion of the eifficiut-
RI
A MARVEL OF ENGINEERING
CONSTRUCTION.
450 Feet Above Low Water
Level, and It Is 650 Feet
Long.
The Scientific Americau recently
published a description of the 10+-
murkable bridge which crosses the
Zambesi gorge and which forms the
must import/tut connecting link in
that great ('ape -to -Cairo railroad
ing clergymen, but under the new project which Cecil Ithode.s cuuceiv-
law these must he endorse,{ and for- ed,
warded to the department of the reg- In many ways the l'ictoriu Falls
Watergeneral. All marriages must. bridge. over the Zambesi gorge in
be registered by official card, giving Central Africa. is un interesting piece
full details to the division registrar. of engineering work. In the first
Formerly the issuers of licenses re- Place, the structure can cluiut the
mined the affidavits, but in future distinction of being the highest
-ANL 111,
cable ran an electric machine, from
which ea- auspentled a cage. which FROM BONNIE SCOTLAND f CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
carried men and material across. The
whole was run by the motorman NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
from the platform of his machine,
who could ruise stud lower his car at
will. When it is remembered that the
gap between the supports of the
cable nu•asunrl 870 feet, and the ag-
gregate amounted to many thousands
of tons, it will bo seen that the
cableway played no mean part in the
undertaking. In addition to carry-
ing the weight of one half of the
bridge acro+ts the gorge, all the ma-
terial and rolling stock required for
tae construction of over 50 mala% of
ruili•oud were also safely convoyed
across the stream by the electric
cable The car and its uiachiuery
HER BANKS 4WD BRAES.
HAPPENINGS FROM: ALL O'.'EB
THE GLOBE.
What Is Going ars in the High- Telegraphic Briefs From Cies Own
lauds and Lowlands of and Other Countries of Eo-
Auld �'c ►tin. Re -
CANADA.
A young Ulan named I'utrick Borns
was crushed to death in it hoist ut A marked advance hue taken place
Kirkintolloeh. fn the price of teat hoe
Considerable fight ing, not on the During the yea' ending June :30,
progruuulle, took place at the High- 1111,_66 immigrants entered Canada.
land gathering at Alntherwell. So ter this year N'iuuipcg building said to hu the fu%uritu breakfast ut
\t lhu 2213th uuniverstuy ut Lhu Pe'1'ruits aggregate in value $7,700, the 1{v. W. 1),tvis, of Slauutou-on-
battlr of liuthwell (trig ,hese was au U.M Wye, and to have carried his, bruve+-
atttaidance of 1'_,000 people. The reductions in liquor licenses ly to lois 105th birthday. John \1'il-
HOW TO LIVE 100 YEARS
INSTANCES OF MEN WHO
HAVE DONE IT.
Conditions
Under Which Some
People
Have Reached Old
Age.
1f there is ono dietary mute culcu-
lattvl than smother. ono would think,
to favor the undertaker it would
Ixu that of hot roils saturated with
butter; and yet this bilious faro was
•thshiru nnuu Junes Murray. throughout tho 1'rut ince will not ex-
weighcrl about five tc,ns, and the, AI`et . son was pHsileged to cajoy, to his
has been sentenced to seven years' !cep(' 1011. 116th year, the supper of Feasted
maximum weight of the loud it citr-
on was ten toils. wham the cable imprisonment for the umanslaughte•i A company has purchased landinturnips which he had "loved since he
rens first erected, emany distinguished of his wife. Hanliltun un w Lich to eruct was a boy"; and did not old Parr,
visitors to tho falls took tt journey
Over £20.0 0 floatage was caused dwellings fur wurkingnlc'u•
that king of centenetriatis, often de-
rhes. will br tilled out by the issuer
in in the world. Agatin, the across in the 151515.1111d carriage, in- by fire eI the l'icturia Woollen Mills, The Michigan Gelate Rutl+tuy has clare that he would have teen it
or the back.
it attld,tvits and •' waters of the gorge which it spans cludi.g Princess \'iclurht of Schles- 1tobeihirls, belonging to Messrs. Wlu. i aieuu•upriateil 5100,000 forimprove- dead tarot long sous ago but for his
licenses will he placed on til:' in the hate never been fathomed. 1, and m u i Roberts & ca. meets to their shops at tit. 'Phomas• liberal indulgence in butter and
wig -1 olstein and Lord and Lady 1 K gar-
licenses
tna•nt. Envelopes will be sup '
plied to Issuers of 1101.119 .5 for the re-
turn of information, and for the use
01 the clergyman officiating.
Some efforts will he trade to have
one knows their depth. But the. feat sic -Bailie James Greg, Glasgow, i
Roberts.
The journey occupied about Pore young men were sent 10 j.til lie, which to most men %could have
Is de, not s of %uuru than urduary was presented with un illuminated
u o 1 account of its .four ominous. '1'hn railroadl company address in recd nition of his lon • for prize -fighting in Montreal, and meant formidable doctors' bills and
malleo, not so much t a also allowed passengers to cross the g 6 two promoters of the light were en- an early bier. says London Tit -hits.
engineering difficult les, but rat her
stream by the cable, charging $2.50
Bulled pork extondud Lha span of
because the work has been carried for the t ►. Henry Anderson's life to three• sears
beyond tho century; Johannes do
'Cemporitxus, it is said, survived to
see his third century by eating honey
in prodigious quantities and anoint-
ing himself daily with oil; while an-
other centenarian, whose name has
unfortunately not been p.•rpetteitel,
not content with an ointment, made
a beverage of sweet oil. Susan Mills
outlived a century in a marshy dis-
trict which cut off her neighbors
IN T1IE PRIME OF LIFE;
services to the community.
1)r. John Stuart Rose. who gra1.u-
lhe marriage •o laws untended in the out in the very heart of the Dark , The bridge, which is a combination
ated in Aberdeen University in 181►2,
isContinent• It ryas only 50 years' has been appoimlal assistant assa-
near future, to prevent the large
ago that the gorge and the famous oI girder and arch, has R total i tent medical officer of Health of
e,umbrr of objectionable marriages at
falls at their head were discovered 1'y Il lgth ut 6.50^feft' 11111. c0nsislsd 1 3 ilienang.
ed.
MINS Lizzie Duffield of Ottawa, ming
tee+ years of teee, died as it result of
a severe attack of hiccoughs, on
Friday.
The food inept'ctors of Montreal
last week confiscated a ton and a
quarter of bad food products, most-
ly meats.
Investigations under Government
auspices show that 25 per cent. of
the food stuns sold•to Canadians aro
adult erutcd.
border pointsLivingston.ere spans. a oc G me ra nn
1 as now
only
id possiblelurea i the tfails Irby feet F3 inches in length re,{:e:'t.ively. I left Oronsay.in unc This n MacNeill rshthe last
RAILWAY. y \s already stated, it was erectai
tall, but to cross the 'lnmbesi by'`. link of connection between the Mac -
from ,rntnt eactt side simultaneously. uta
_
the iron road, and proceed north- • Keills as proprietors and the islands
ward for another 100 utiles by the ttrcuuut of the weight of the strut- i of Colonsay and Oronsay.
Line to be Located to Juncion tune, about .the
tuns, it was metes -I
With Grand Trunk Pacific. same train. The completion of the sary to tie Lack the tvei{ ht to each j aft. A. G. Ireland, an engineer,
Midge means that another link -and'' who served in South Africa as a lieu -
bank in some way until it junction'
A Montreal despatch says: A ses- the most important probably-hus ; tenant in the Active crvic•e Colli-
sion
tuude, as the bridge thea, of
of the Tetuiskaming Railway been forged in the great scheme pro -;patty of the 6th Royal Scots \'slot- The and T.ungshocnnen's
Commission was held here on Wed- posed and started by Cecil Rhodes,
course, would catty its own weight. tcers, nes found shut dead in a limens atSailors'Kingston are agitating fur Stephen Marlow qualified as a cen-
ncsday, the chuirnian, Air. C. B. namely, rho 1'he wanner in which this ryas done street in Edinburgh.trntu•ian by,spending his days in a
may be said to constitute one of 1ho .• an increse in wages front 51.50 to
Smith, and Mr. I). Murphy being CAPE -TO -CAIRO RAILROAD. u The numerous admirers throughout $2 a day.lstuffy asserts 101 yearshop; and n a1tm-
resent. After the meeting'. it was most interesting features of the. Scotland of Alex. Anderson ("Sur- I Lane passes! in the unsalu-
P ► Before proceeding to a desrriptiot whole undertaking. 'Iwo bore holes • htcenuun") the poet, were pleased to Canadian owners are arranging to brious atmosphere of Drury Lane.
announced that the line will be to of the bridge itself, a few facts about were sunk on each bank, :30 icet dew x (lovelope the Atikokan iron areas,
sated to its proposed junction with b1 learn that he has been appointed and only died when she was taken
' i distance
the railroad will not be imappro- :and 30 feet apart, and tho two ex- i chief librarian at Edinburgh Univcr- with n view to shipping 30,01.0 tuns to the seaside with the %lots of pro -
the (.rand Trunk Pacific, c, a ,riate. The total distance b rail- tremitics Dined together by of ore per year to the United States. longing her life.
of 275 miles. By next year 200 l Y j k �sily library. b 6
road front Cape Town to the fulls is BORING THROUGH THE ROCK. Lord Johnston, whose ancestors Directors of the Lake Superior Cor- 1'huso era but n few examples of
miles of road will fleet) been con- ;1,651 milts. Travelers from London toraLiun deny the slur that the
pleted. About 113 miles are being f aro now carried right up to the fulls Wire ropes suspending t pe weight of were for nearly '200 years provosts I y people w•ho have reached ol(1 ago
p • r the s�are eint uch half of the bridge were passed , of Lnyernry and sheriff -substitutes of United States Steel Corporation is under conditions which ought, hu -
now operated by in 21 days, whereas prior to tho down one hole, along the passagelArgyllshire, has consent ed to bo ono negotiating fur the purchase of tho manly speaking. to have matte such
The traffic on the completed section, opening of the line their transpertn-' 1 y 6 steel lent ut. the Soo.an
as well as the tourist travel, has tion wus a matter of months. At c t)ie,. ti , the two, mall out at the i of the patrons of the Ltverur High- S. 1). :1(c'.lficken, a C. C. 11. con- but ac'tehntntshall lntwtrysay nil01 improbable;
been vary large. the fulls themselves there is a hotel' other, so that the weight was sus-' land gathering.
♦__ tinted by this solid mass cf truck; Seargeana Geo. Wright of the Gal- doctor•, was fined $30 and $100 or others -and they me quite a nuttier-
been
accommodation is provided fe t• ,and to wake assurance doubly sero, I ashiels po;ice force, hue been ep- six months' imprisonment at Moose ous class -who serol to find in hard
HAVOC OF WHITE PLAGUE. 80 guests. 'Prue, it is only a tont a weight of 500 tons of rails was pointed interior Chief Constable and ,law. Monday, by it magistrate for smoking and drinking the secret of
porary building, but it will shortly I 441
piled also on the top of the ruck, It burgh prosecutor pending the ap- the theft of $:3 in tares. living n hundred years, in defiance of
all medical testimony that such. in-
dulgences are fatal?
'There has seldom been a more puz-
zling human enigma than Noah
Itaby, the "grand old man" of New
Jersey. who was thus described by
an interviewer on his 128th birthday
four years ago: "In appearance he
is slight, weighing less then 100lb.
y
Montreal's Death Roll From Tub- be replaced by a permeueit ane. ! was estimated that when the two Pointuneut of a successor to poet
That tourists are now Watkin their' A Winnipeg despatch says the fruit
orc»losis. g !halves of tho bridge were on the Constable Sutherland, whose resigns- area of British Columbia is 14,000
way to this spot in Central Africa :Point of meeting in the center there tion took effect on .lily 1st. acres 80(1 by next spring 20.000
A Montreal despatch says: Mont- to see for themselves the eighth won-waS a pull of lU0 tons on each of tho The death occurred at Berwick, of acres will be bearing. The growers
mat's death roll from tuberculosis is der of the world, es Ole Victoria four corners,
and as the bridge was Captain .fames Arthur Forbes, 11. N. are trying to cupture the market of
a long one. Last year there were Falls have been rightly termed, is built out toward the center, adds- Thu do ceased tens well known and to- {Western Canada.
692 deaths from this cause, 580 be- made clear after a chnt with the tiouatl ropes were added to with- spected in the borough, of which ho
ing due to consumption. When ask -present hotel proprietor. Last! 1Vincenzo Ferraro has innentPi•ed ne-
b i 1 i stand the increased stress. was senior magistrate. Ito joined tion against the Canadian Pacific
ed on Wednesday whether this figure Christmas there were consideral:le, The curve u! the 110111 arch is par- the Royal Navy as a midshipman in
was unusually high, i)r. Lnbergno, over 100 persons staying at the hotel 'ubotic, end is divided into twenty 1849.
Medical Health Officer, said that tunny of whom had to steep in tents bays, each 25 feet long, and has a Captain Walter Douglas Ewart,
while it was heavy, no comparison and temporary annexes, so crowded nine -inch camber at 60 degrees Fah. Into Cameron Highlanders. third son
with preceding years was possible, as was the building itself. A largo nuns- renheit. The two side spans aro 1.1- of that distinguished General, tho
the taking of statistics in this re- her of Americans visiting the Cape, renheit.
into equal bays of twelve feet late Sir John Ewart, (LC.B., of
gard was of recent inauguration. In make the journey by railroad (9 the; six inches. The bridge has n clear
Craigcleuch, Langholm, has passed
falls, spending. as a tale, several width of roadway of 30 feet, :turn- away in his 41st year at Northwick
days exploring the gorge and hoauti-' tient for a double set of rails. House, Worcester.
ful islands just above the great wat-i A huge net was thrown across the The death has occurrent of Mr. Jas.
orfull. I chasm 0.1 two steel cal,Ie . and tens Lockhart, one of the lending nnnnu-
As to the fulls themselves, no at- erected, so the contractors declared, facturerg of Kirkcaldy. DeseaSo(1,
tempt will be made here to describe 'to catch the boys and tools should as proprietor of Bonnochy Spinning
them, with tho exception of saying they inadvertently drop into it. In mills. was well known end
that they aro the largest in the addition to a staff of about 25 Euro- highly respected by manufacturers
world, beim about a wile in width petal erectors, 100 Kaffir boys were throughout the country. He took a
and boasting of a depth of from 400 engagc(i upon the work, keen interest in public nRairs, having The total liability of bankrupts in
to 420 feet. After the waters of the' 'I'he contractors for the bridge were been for 23 years a member of the
Great Britain during 1904 was over
Zambesi have plunged over tho falls, i
1 he Cleve/and Bridge and Engineering '1'owit Council. 560,000,000.
they continue their course for several Company of Darlington, England. The London Times' commercial re-
boot
in a comparntivcly yarrow •i'hr whole of the plant was erected in
+_____.view says that the trade reports aro
gorge, and it is this latter which has: their yards, and exhaustive tests more encouraging.
bM'll hriclged to carry the track 01 were made with it before it was sent
PIGMIES AT BUCKINGHAM T. W. Burgess, an English long dis-
the Cada-to-Cairo railroad. ' out. It was shipped at Middlesbur- T.
swimmer, for the second time
A word here may be said as to the i ough, on the River 'Ctrs, to Beira. a THEY MADE K- ING EDWARD failed to swim the English Channel.
site, It is a little way below the:port nn the east coast of Africa, a
LAUGH HEARTILY. The British Government will co►-
sider the proposals of tho United Ein-
And Interested Prin- cess Victoria- Pb
Slow in Learning Civil-
ized Ways.
the report of the 'Tuberculosis
League for the year it is stated that
investigation on the part of the
league's officials has proved that the
overcrowding of houses is a great
factor in the growth and propaga-
tion of the fatal "white plague." In-
stance~ are given of the annihilation
of almost entire families within the
space of a few years.
ALBERTA CATTLE EXPORT.
9,000 Head Sent Out During the
Month of July.
A Winnipeg despatch says: ('uttic
returns for Alberta for July show
that 9,18)O head v •o exported (lut-
ing the month. The estimated ex-
ports for August are put at 11.000.
The export business showed signs of
becoming freer, but repurls of declin-
ing inarhet are di: couraging the
shipin•rs.
POPE HOMESICK
Anxious to Leave Vatican and Re-
turn to Venice.
A despatch from Rome saga: -In
Vatican circles it is asserted that the
I'ope is homesick. :Members of los
household say that he is showing
signs of fret fulness a11(1 even n great -
el. d15(11rbnitee of his usual demeanor,
Railway at Montreal for 55,000, for His hair is thin and grey and his
the loss to herself and child of hoe
figure is now bent; but. his muscles
remain firm and his grip is strt�lg,
evincing the vigor which Lis
WONDERFUL CONS'PtT('TIONe
has allowed hint to retain for far
more than a century."
And yet for fully a hundred years
he had been one of the hardest smok-
ers in the United States, and has
been addicted to his glees at least
its long. As a boy of six he was in
the habit of lighting his mother's
pipe -this was before lsst century
dawned -and it was then (hut his
life-long enthusiasts for tobacco was
born. Ile was rarely seen without a
pipe in his mouth, and it was cal-
culated that he had reduced a ton
and a quarter of tobacco to ashes.
More remarkable still is the evi-
dence of William Henderson, who
died near Middlesboro', Kentucky, on
the verge of his century of years. Of
this singular character it is said.
"Front his youth up lie drank, chew -
Winston
League for a pe•ulnnent council eel, and smoked; and (luring; forty
for the Empire. years of his life he w•as credited with
W'inaton Churchill wast refused per- consenting three bottles of whisky
mission to introduce a bill limiting a day. Ile died in the same house
the time of the British Parliament in which ho was Bern: and his prin-
to five years. cipnl theory ns to longevity was that
whisky is tho best of life-preser-
UNITFJ) S'CATF..S. vers!"
Captain Archibald Horner, of
Vancehurg, Kentucky, who dam
with the best on his 101st birthd y
a few years ago, proudly announced
that he had "smoked and chewed
ever since he tens a mere kid.•' "Fif-
ty years ago," hr saki, "my doctor
told nuc 1 was killing ins self with
tobacco, but," with a chuckle. "I
went . to his funeral two years litter,
and here I am to -daft. I reckon I
take a lot o' killing,"
husband, who was killed about a
year ago by a hand -car of the com-
pany near Mattawa.
The story that the United States
Steel Corporation would not erect
a plant in Canada because the Gov-
ernment would withhold the bounty
front them is ofciully denied from
Ottawa. The bounty will be paid
to any company that will manufac-
ture in Canada.
GREAT BRITAIN.
falls themselves, on the borders
what is termed
'I'IlE RAIN FOREST'.
of I little south of the mouth of the
I Zambesi. and hero transshipped to
Ithe railroad, which runs through
(Int, swampy country, until it rise
luring the rainy season the great) about 4,000 feet above sea level at
volume of water dashing over rho' UnLali, and thence through Matabel-
mighty chasm sends up five more or�elnnd to Salisbury and Ituluwayo,
less distinct columns of spray to w and from the tat ter place to the
height of )3,000 feet, which desalmds p
During the recent t'isit of the pig-
mies h•om the forests of Central Af-
rice at a gutr(Iru party at Bucking -
fulls a fatal (1181Ltll(e c f close upon
Itnctt Palace. London, given in honor
like heavy ram for an extensive Wren, 5,(utU miles. The engineers for the of the birthday of Princess Victoria
Bucking -
whose limit is variable and is goveIwork were Sir Douglas Fo'c and a sparrow tragedy was narrowly
erne(I by the force and the direction partners and Sir Charles Afutculfe, averted. alultuku, ono of the pig -
Rain This difficulty Forest, and if is just within its prevented from shooting his little
full water confines that the bridge is
located. 1t was Cecil Rhodes's wish
that it should be so. 11p. is said to
have uttered the worths: "Build the
bridge where the spray front the falls
owing to his longing for Vt'iube, I shall shower upon the trains as they
which overruastors him. It is bar' pass." Ile also expressed tt wish
lieved he will leave the Vatican ow -i that a view of the great ctttaract
ing to this nostalgia and perhaps may be obtained from the windows of
pay a visit to Venice, accompanied' the railroad carriages. The engineers
by his favorite niece. (tilde l'arclin, 1 • t fulfilled hate f dfillr 1 the great non's wishes,
DUBLIN CAB DRIVERS.
Light-hearted Lads That Rattle
Through the Irish Capital.
The Dublin jttrvies are not what
you would call good whips, writes
Panto Thompson in Outing. They
There have been two hundred eases
of yellow fever in New Orleans since
July 18.
A New York girl fell three storks,
arrows at the spnr•ons in the trees but alighted on a clothesline and
which surrounded Buckingham Pal- saved her life.
ace, where tho entertainment. took There have been 283 cases of yel-
place. Mongongo triers to kill an low fever in New Orleans foul two
old cock sparrow with his spear. 11e suspected ('11505 in New York.
advanced stealthily across the grass
An lndiauapulis man ninety-seven
years of age has just completed the
construction of his own tooth.
A Chicago Inas charged with tho
murder of his wife and child says
that he committed the crimes while
asleep.
John J. Callahan, chief clerk in
the foreign branch of the New York
ail beyond picking up a few phrases post office, was arrested in connection
like "Good morning," and "(:nod with the disappearance of money
night." 'These they repeat automa-
tically. apparently without any teal
twin -eclat ion of their meaning.
and was just about to throw with
his unerring aim when the old spar-
row. became frightened and flew away.
Mongogo looker) both disgusted and
distressed.
:Although the little people have been
in London for some weeks they have
scarcely advanced in civilization nt
AN AMUSING STORY
is told of another centenarian, ono
Andrew McNutt, .d Marion (County,
Ohio, who had been it very hard
smoker for eighty
years, when Ito
was induced by his daughter to
abandon the habit. The old Allan
only survived the severance from Ills
lift -long friend a few months, mid
him Inst words were, "Didn't I tell
you? This all comes u' stopple' my
bnccy."
Robert Kew. of Berry Dock, who
reached his With birthday not long
since, was for n+ore than three-
quarters of n century n confirmed mid
herd smoker. anti pleaded e•iiity to
nn exceptional weakness for hie gleet
of beer; and yet he retained sufficient.
vitality when over seventy to capti-
vate n girl of twenty suntne•re "Ary
him agility," and to carry into his
second century fncultics and an e1-
joymetit of life which tunny Wren of
erns eft:lte In the t'tcinity 0f Call. Brut ctnnpu n+aa n, tu,,,...,
gutty. Ile says the best kind of "pay where possibly the maul 11nd-sought a across the river, nn electric cable- Int to his home. it was in Springs gentlemen in chnrre shut 'he l'rin-'from Norway.
dirt" in the Klondike is a hotel er Position. This book bore the name way ons thrown across the gorge. (:nrdenµ, where there are rows upon' rets l'ir•torin wished to have a c'oser
gambling resort, both of which are Frank Lewis, and the address ns Connnunicntiorn wens first establish, (I rums of tient little red brick col- %few of the little people. Tho pc h►- IfiLJ. I'UIISI I\(: 1:`1;1IY.
thriving. The people have gone mad ,above. It also contnined a small lielwren the tree bnnla by tiring a Lagos, with ?(r1.ens and ��wnin 'cess than came up d canny �cue5tl eat tns P
over gambling. the miners taking'; expense account. Officer Wilson turn_ rocket across. '1'n the rock, t went nt- 'They rent at L21) nye r. g ;tiny fol inn 1 ns c { A despatch from Tokio says: -The
chances on anything. t.nrsre nrnounta the garmenla over to Supt. l'cray. ' tarhed a line, by means of Which it his car. ng he does. Barney pay's no ' about them. A gentleman who ex- Japanese in Saghalien are pursuing 1 i K'
are h^in • lost. .lust before he left -♦ , stronger rope was re•ntt•n across, and car rent to anyone and. if ho drive's pressed doubt as to their age was the reinvents of the enemy south- 'Cllr u, ntlnlion of the el 1'
b again a stronger one, until n 2i -inch i,awler's mare. 'tis more for 'nee quite satisfied when Motgongo was ward. The Russians must continue province!% of Chinn. intrindiutg ]Man -
o miner came in with k he had worth PROF. MAVOR'S REPORT. fleein southwards towards Patience rhuria, is 407,000,000, nr 7.000.0(11
of g••Id. Within n week he lost diameter steel mire rope wits thrown that, profit. Year in and year out induced to open hta capnciont taulrth B
it n') at the gambling tables, and London Board of 'trade Publishes.over the site. A Nix kite wen first lie put+ by n hit, far the "chiller, mall show his teeth. Bay or Anrren(ler• more than that of the liriti:h Ein-
hati started back to the lielda to It in Pamphlet Form. hefted ns ;A means of c•nrryinq a siring, (loll hliµr 'om"' are growing and will
SCORED A 'I'Tlll'MPIt. ♦- plPe. The people inhabit ell arra
metesµ, eat the rash of air at this have neve of education. in his FLOODH IN Nnl{'1'III:ItN C'O1t1:,1• smaller than Europe. lays )rosin 1011(1
make norther furtunc•.` A despatch from London 5803rof. spot ninnyµ drove the kite in the els.t' enter! little Game with his smart lit- cstnhng hlrrfore they trndrcl1hair ape .. dt•xpntch from Tokio nays: --Nur- Great Britain. The density (1t ;eget-
North-West,
Board , f Trade publishes Prof. p„site ditc•ctbt11 to that which itIntion
KILTIES FOR WINNIPEG. Iinvor's report on the ('anatiinn teas , ole wife. there are unluckier men wealpearace the little black nn n frena thrrl Corea is sufferinrl f om floods Great is, on the whale, much tan
that he. ; "me
as that nt 1:ure{x•.
Order of Scottish Clans Taking
the heart of Africa ►nirluuhtrdly nc- that are the worst in ;0 years.
They North-1Crst, with special reference to •----
its wheat production for export. Ile INTENDED '1'O TRAVEL. if 't were not h+r the fightin'." hir%rtl the triumph of the nDernor•n. threaten Itusµinn communication)) on
1 NOT A MAX 1.1:1"C.
-
&nes the conclusion thatgreathn- The 21 -inch steel wire ropy referi•odsapt Mrs. mica. "a better 'nen 'Their overcoats and red fezzes weroi the 'Tamen.
provement in the productive power to was supported nt one erd by a than llnrney never pulled a shirt tekrn off, nal they stood forth ar-(---4----- A woman has been elected as local
of the country rind a considerable in- fixed tower, t(14 fort. high, and nt r+%ar his bend." rayed in their native lain -cloths %•ith' 1Sc)lT?ll?f '+i 11:A('1.1'5t, mnglstrnte in the comnumnP of Welk
crease in the effective population is Barney. It se•'ms. led levee the( long pit bristles twist ell in theirI iTerlein, llnnnery, brrausn flitw•1•ok
necessary before the Nort h -West. to III nititllnalt!es ehotild he cull toatel. Ib•- hair. 'f1t^ four little men lro,:(llyi ,"arett�;• 1l:roes hn►1pen in this Atinit. mole popuIrttlon of the' pinto
be Able to produce sufficient wheat ine n good Irian with his henrle And nrevel themselves with their 110ws i trn••'d '"Yea. 1 tr4111 ren n pi( ic hail emigrntnd to America and three+
to satisfy the wants of Great Brit- reel errow$ and the women carr:od ow a r•:on on:'e when it ••i(n'I rain was no:e
t a single man left to 1311 t:
Al
taiu. tht it unmusical tomtoln drums. and uv:.udy g•3t crippled fur life." position.
Steps to Forret Regiment.
A despatch front Winnipeg says: -
Order of Scottish Clans Is tak-
ing preliminary steps toward the
formation of a illghInnd regiment for
Winnipeg. and is arranging with
other local societies for joint co-
operation toward that end.
the other by a swinging post 79 feet
in length. '1'o prevent this latter be-
ing pulled over by the cable into
the gorge. a counter weight of About blithe end env i'+ bailee. he color,
60 tons was attached to it. On the flm week's ere' with riot.
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