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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-11-22, Page 7 (2)CHEATiNG DAVY JONES.Pn''''' 7flef''3111 11C'3?.; eni° 110W SOME GOOD SHIPS HAVE ES- CAPED IBS LOCKER. . "Great Steamehips That Barely Missed Goino to the Bottom by a • Hairbreadth. "I could not have found a more Com' lortable place foe etranding th.e vessel. 11 was Ithe a natural cloche Yet live. foot teither side would have spelt disaster." •So said. the captain of tine s.s. Lady Wolseley, which went ashore, in a dense fog one night. in August• last, on the 'dangerous Killigerran Rocks, near Fal- mouth, England. The vessel was towed •off in perfect safety, and absolutely un- damaged. iler escape was a marvellous 'one, for before she went ashore where *he did, she had only just missed the much -dreaded Manacles. One of the most famous victims of the Every other person I met he writes in doiateytengine hal bien di51,1PACCio (Intl the men bed to tho hettd-punttie. The'S' tvinainect et them in Beetle for the whole of the rest ef the voyatte. The it in that happened wee tato eltiftineof the. cargo. It enited from elate to fade, oo that 3omelh-rae3 the port rails were on a level whet tlict water, and sometimes tho ritarboard. The boats were made ready and provisioned, but 03 well did the men worn that they were not reduced to lining Went, and after 165 slays of hardship and peril they oafely reached Sydney..., BACK TO RUSSIA. - Changes 'Which Struck a Visitor After Eight Years Absence. An Americanized RuSsian Jew -recent- ly went back to his native country on ah busiess trip. It was eight, yeats sinee his previous visit, e • Manacles- • wee.' the"greeiV liner -which ran bow on to, the rocks, and re - attained there firmly wedged. Week after week the tugboats etrained and 'churned, but to no avail. "NO CUBE, NO PAY." ' Then, just as hope Was given up, a 'German salvage company made a "no 4cure, no pays' proposition, and succeeded in dislodging 'her. Now, the Paris, Under another natue, still sails the At - tonne, but surely of all her sisters, none ever had a closer shave of leaving her bones to rust upon a reef than luts this thelshrisban City, was either a twittery man or wore some uniform; but the ones that puzzled me were those that had carbines slung over their backs. To, my surprise they were corhrnon police- men, ill fed, undersized and poorly clad individuals, but witk two revolvers on either side, sabre elangling on the left sldo on a strap, Oadea loaded gun on the back. 1 conk' 1.pel the pulse of the eerile at the sight of these walking arsenals. Holding fast to my drosky, V1JCh threatened every second to land its oc- -greet ehicupants •en the ugly looking cobble - p. The recordf teare full Ostonee, I could not help noticing things s ohe sa f I r , , these hairbreadth escapes from disaster, nevesaw here beforenamelybares -end it is perhaps the Belgian steamship 'Galileo that can boast of the mot won- ` eterful of them all. On the morning ef stictober 20th, 1899. the ship was some sevenntentiles south of Barbadoes. At 4our o'cloek a sharp thunderstorm came 'up. The rain was tremendous, and the lhundercame in sharp, whip -like seracks. Suddenly came a peal of a dit- lerent enaracter, long, sustained, roiling •ancl reverberating, "Then" says, the obief officer, who was on the bridge, lithe storm -cloud split, and out of the •sky, right above the tresselecarne whiz- zing down a gigantic mass of some- thiteg--,earth, rock, or stone, I cannot tell which. It struck the sea close in 'front of the steamer's how, and a wall • of* water, rose sixte feet,' and fell crash- ing upon our decks." Every Single one of the passengers and crew was thrown out of his bunk. All thought that the ship. had gone full speed upon a rock. The steamer had seemed to stop and quiver from stem to stern. As fee the Italians in the steer- age, they went quite mad with fright. • Vet when the Galileo•was overhauled, It Was foetid that no, damage had been .done. Had the aeralite, or -whatever the -awful. visitant was, fallen sten-- Yerdg 'i1oser she rhust nave strk. like a* atone.' FROM A SUBMARINE VOLCANO. Alinost, equally strange in its way tne, escape of the barque Neptune, in 1874. She .was passing the Azores, • when suddenly in the middle of the night the crew were roused by a tre- mendous I thud. The vessel seemed 10 lift and lose way. All came tumbling up on deck, only to find the sea miich agitated and no lapel in sight. The gen- eral idea was that the ship must have. struck a submerged wreck, for there was something like a mile of water be- neath ner at the time. The Neptune . proceeded to her destinatien, Which was Marseilles. There, as she was leaking • sornewhat, she was docked, and a cur- ious discovery was. made. Buried deep in her stout timbers was a piece of black stone weighing about half a hundred- • weight. It is not certain, of course, but the supposition whiCh explains its pre - settee is that the Neptune had sailed over the very site of some submarine eruptionpand that, the shock was caused by this piece of rock striking her. The force which drove the lunip'orstone up through thousands of feet of water 'must have been terrific. A very:little more, ' ttnd it, would have passed right through the ship's bottom and sunk her. e'Thiseescape Cellssbeernindione that on. cultred to the frigate Pique, which went ashore about fifty years ago off the eoast or Japan. She Was got off tipperently menet the worse, and returned to England; The ',voyage lasting about four months. When she ga to Portemouth *she was put into drytelocic. Imagine the feelings of her officers when there was discovered, wedged 'In her bottom and ,protruding right through her heavy oaken timbers, an enormous boulder weighing over thrEtt tons. The Pique had sailed sonic seven thousand ,Miles With this stone • embedded in her hull. Had it fallen out whilst the ship was at Sea, down she must have gone. eThe •etone vies preserved for ninny years as 9 relic, but then lost sight oft UNWELCOME EXTRA CARGO.' Of a strange peril of the sea, the Nor - footed, ragged newsboys hawking thou tveres. I stopped my ievoschilc (driver) in the middle of the street and hailed newsbey; I was in an instant sor- rounded by several and offered eight different papers at once. When I Was here lase there was but one ofncial paper. Now they print here eight papers daily and there is no end to new ones since last year, when the Czar issued his manifesto abolishing all restrictions ef the press. • • The most troublesome and distressing element at present in Russia is the pes- tilential anarchist; he iS as a .rule a -Jew of low ad selfish motives, using the troubled waters to fish in for his own gain. k These scavengers usually go in groups of three; two enter the home of -a small well-to-do citizen, put two revolvers on the table and demand money for pow- der, dynamite or arms; the thirdstands guard at the door. Ever/ refusal is met with death. ,Tho victims are terror stricken and never divulge the names or give any description to the police for fear of be- ing killed,: The.police are cowards and .tne military has to come to t‘tieir help. .Police spies are in plenty and woe to thene when they fall eel° ale hands of the euillans--ex-prisonere and roeghsee who style themselves anarchists; they ant them out of the •way'quickly and in moet heartless mariner. . • The honest Jew, • trembling for his 'life, has to shoulder thersharne for his coreligionist, the anarchist, for in nine cases it') every ten he is tt Jew, and the officials point to him as the instigator of all ,the unspeakable deeds performed under the cloak of freedom. The- Government is very cautious not to deal harshly with -the people and has practically witbdrawn the Cossacks from the proyincial cities and in their places Stationed dragoons, uhlans and the other cavalry men, who are gentle- men in comparison with the thieving, unprincipled Cossacks, who are mostly Concentrated in the capitals and greae industrial provinces. ••••••••••••••••••+•••••••••••••••••0 ZADKIEL'§ PROPHECIES. Next.Year to be a Bad One •for Rulers . and Gevernments. "Zadkielss Almencie and Ephemeris" • far 1907, which contains the "voice of the stars," foretells an exciting year. The present Getreennient appear .tte, have lir.; lucky star„foe in nearly every Month the prophet warns them against some •approaching, disaster: • The year • is to open well, however. "Jupiter is supreme in Caricenehe trope., cal sign, at the birth of the neer year, 'and as the 'same benefic planet had late- ly risen at the winter solstice in trine aspect with the ,ruling planet, Mars of Great Britain, a good beginning for our beloved country may assuredly be an- licip'ated, albeit political turmoil will soon alte,nii." But in February, the House of Commons will be "the scene of great excitement, arid „the • British Government will • be in •a quandary - one of their number will be in some per - sepal danger.' In March a warningle Made to the Government about naval disarmament, and "In the following month, "inasmuch as Mars Meets with the opposition of Wegian steamer Egil has a thrilling Jupiter, the conjunction with Urenus story to tell. In January, five years ago, thrice, and remains In the seine tropical she set sail, heavily laden, for Iceland. sign until Oct, 13-a stay of more than The weather WWI fearful, and at lest a six months -a roost important epoch heavy gale froth elle north reduced the for India is now inaugurated. Let the temperature to far below freezing Point.' British Government 'tied the Viceroy As the seasbroke over the Veseel, the.' accept this serious warning that a great, \cater froze. Soon the decks were all crisis Le at hand." ice, and the ntats and ropes eoated As the result of the affliction of the evith Thick Thicker atiti thicker sun end meon at their anniversarle,s in gresv the granitenilie mass, anfwith the, efay. "two European sovereigns., a cer- weight the Egli, already 'dangerously tain Royal Duke and a popultie Earl, deep in the water, 'sank lotver and', win soon be involved in ttrouble ors ill- evoking. Ile hate been taken from the And ilto gale blew dereelii* health." The following Month thereerthe mew ee senien week in potato and out of the bitter north. Nothing coUld • further misfortunes for " India and Ak the experieriee lute epolled his temper. let done except to keep the engines' got gbanistan. 'July is more fortunate. re F2 LS MO Mal range le limited, he eeetelltat ing. The boats vvere utterly useless,; quieter, being now nee from the hostile the penee met tespeetany the notinti being cot•ered with itte, and ell the lotte.' role of Mars, benefits tecotland; and cling tackle frozen elem. etionierallet other conntries subjeet Cancer." Ori letver sank the shipt• and hope aban-I mtg. till Mare is in conjunction with ttoned the heerte of her half.frozon Uranus again in the ninth degree of crew. At last, just when it :seemed canricornue, and "accidente and explo- certain she must founder, the tvealther stens win soon follow in the soutineast, broke and the oun came out. Every men of Europe and in India," while in Sepe was set to worei to chop away the teniber aceidents, neplosions end fires Inanity deating, and before the nexti gale tem afflict New N'Orl Caine the Egish wait herself. tiftitNY PERILS. Perhape no vessel ever had 4 longer or inore thrilling oeriee of ericapes limn .. the Thotitliebank, in tile MAI/an of /903. Site left ! Philadelphia carte; in change in the pereotine Atigust. and ntet„ Mich fearful geletit and in that of the C.on 'Unit ota Septenibee telit the Mete Started (he City,"-efeendun Stan re •• , SLAUGHTER IS FEARED RUSSIAN SOLDIERS ARE INCENSED. Mattere aro Ripe for Another Xassa" -of the Hebrew Intlabitant$ of Warsaw. • Less then a year coo, Team of a Jew - hie pogrom caused the peacc-loving in- habitants of Warsaw to use every means in their power to calm the *ells. of th t masses, incensed at Some excesees of Jewish Hooligans, for they knew that the Russian authorities meld he glad lo see the disgraceful scenes of Odessa and Kieft repeated in the Polish cape. Val, writes a Warsaw correspondent. The clanger passed over, but recent events itt Siedice have renewed the Pos. sibilities of a feegrom in Warsaw. In VVarsaw, as in, other Polislt towns, the Jew bas "to reckon. with two forces -the Polieh masses and the Russian authorities. The first may be altogether innored except when encouraged by lite second in moments of intense national 'excitement, for though the Polo does not love the Jew, he is content to live and lt live. But the danger of the second is twofold, consisting of the organized • hestility of the authorities and the per- sonal hatred of the individual soldier -- an `eleinent whose importance has not been sufficiently coneiciered out of Bus- eia, when 'judging the Jewish Massa- cres. The millitary Woes in Poland are made up of mete 'drawn from diverse districts, such as the steppes of Little Flossie, the Caueasus and the remote governments beyond the• Urals. These ttveen himself and his tenants -the ten - men have little 'in common with each ants negotiating through, four priests- ol her and nothing with the °Lyn popu. with a view to the sale and purcliase lation they serve amongst. This has of- (be estate under the Wyndham act. always been so; but now they coneide Both sides are anxious to make the deal ee that they have special grievances and the difference between them, ie against the . • point 'of money, is very 'small. . But money* is not the only thing that JEWISH AND POLISH ELEMENTS. . „ counts,in these matters. there are four For nearly two years, they have been or • five evicted tell -hints on the Kenmare doing hard sentry duty, They have fro- estate, and their position has to. be set ren in the streets by night and scorch- tied before a sale can take place. The ed in the stin by day. They have car- case of one of them is worth looking ried their rifles-, fingers on triggeie.in into., their right hands, and kept their reins He rented a town farm iat an annual in their left, till their bones have ached •rental of something less than $1,000 a with the strain. They have stood at year, fell behind in his rent and. was their posts week in, week out, for twelve. finally evicted. In Kerry and probably hours at a stretch, without respite, . n tluoughout all Ireland a farm from Sundays, holidays and gala days. They which a tenant has been evicted. must have .patrolled the streets of Warsaw, be ;worked by the landlord or not at and the larger towns in all weathers, all. 'No one else will look at it, and a under all conditions of danger, been mart who had the hardihood to take it jeered at, spat upon, &lot at, bombed would be shot or boycotted within a at, killed and wounded from house- week, ' triDS aed balconies for doing a duty they Lord Kenmare has offered to reinstate, detest and for reasons which they cane this' and the, other evicted tenants on not Understand. They have been call- bis, estate on reoeipt of one year's rent cd upon to protect. the policemen and in discharge of alt arrear The Estates share his donee, Standing in the streets' Cernmissioners have found themselves ars so many marks for the. bombs and legally unable to eratify the arrange - revolvers of the eterroriste. They have Went and the transaction therefore still experienced the most • cliernoralizing hangs fire. ° alt fears, the constant. thought that they. Lord Kenmare is .the need of one of the oldest Catholionfaneilies in Ireland. He is -also Lord Lieutenant of the &turt- le-, and as such has the privilege of ad- vising the Lord Chancetlor in regarrto appointments to the magisterial bench. I heard. it said .mote than once In the district that if he would only nominate so• and so to the bench the sale would quickly go through. I also found it a matter of common gossip that the evict- ed tenant I have alitided to, a "mestere of the first water, intends when rein-. stated to sell his farm at once.. There Is no doubt he will net,a handsome pro- fit. In the Kenmore River there aro two islands that must be unique in these la- titudes. One of theist is owned by Lord Dunraven and the other by a, lecal jus- tice of the peaee. I have gone over both of thein in a crescendo ef wonderMent, asking myself repeatedly whether I was in Kerry or Algeria. For, thanks to: the Gulf Stream, these Iwo islands,- on which thirty or forty years ago net a single tree was to he found, and which were mainly bog and moor, have been turned into semilropi- el,: paradises. Tree ferns grow there the open air, palms, bamboo and eun celyptus flhurish thane as though on their 'native soil; mul-many plants. and ihrobs from. Australia. and New Zealand do bet. ter, I am teed, in these islands than in their own hotnes. • -To pass from the bleak mainland in j, this getowth of hothouse vegetation le to travej,e,000 miles due south in len 1,1 fifteen minutes. Lord Lansdowne, \kilo owns 'an estate near by, has, I am told, made even more sof it than Lord Dunraven and his netghbor have merle of their islands; but that is something I fltfd very difficult to believe. • In any have seen enough to rob the talk of growing tobacco and planting tea in the. dead men's eoterades carried mit iserry of all its seeming wddriess. • off Steele 311 cznrQ vitcrt In ties the ef iicatisio a acne whe eeinteet uneve Q1-1 Citiza tap tete inane' wittize ordered te Ci17) 31). Uio efincere nave the greatest tremble' le iteep hint .in .hand whine veareleitits flats met 140tr5P3, he the velvety 4,1 placket greim wheel .hoznite have neen thrown en dienitariety ithet. lite invaee !ably runitee havoe amonte llesiftiettilltarn and vaniableen Meant; tenet- tie hae entered present a .8A tipeetecto breinen -furniturenemashed /4;43-,aLy3 ,a101 ripped -up .ntattreeses. H0. mattete secret ,of ibe. motive to petit out the Poles' and Jews for Atte trouble they have given him. The betteetinformed. Pones haw of these feelings and the more reasonable understand them. te the .Jevve-those tybo• have anything. tu lose are' cent/need that they will be ihe first victims, whereas their co -re - RICH MAN'S TREASURES $5, r. itifo0 SPENT ON A SING111 ITU> CHASE OF PIC-TUREitit LEADING !MUMS C Tomato, No. 2,1--Witeatnenaterines No. 2 whine teett, stet ent; No, rd, 7emtv eta ozt; Ti43 hd, C. it. in, reerth. P. moreates lula9wittectit, chit ettilecetenelanitohaeinio. 1 1aaml. Sie neeltel, Itt, itilwat'd; Ne. 1 rierthern, Paintings, OntateentS aetted, 7titi inn; No. ti northern, 1net ed. • • BarleyeeNo„ eetea, tile fished, 45o bid, Clain eaet. Peat-tot:tee ,Sle c'eft.11. •Oatst---No. 2 white, eatenes •asked, al°, Deco:titter i•Idpirtent; mixed, lien of and Books. It would be difficult to Imagine a 11"re splendid illustration of tile energisel wealth of tho Croasusos of to -day than the fact thin one of them, Mr. J. Pier-, pont Morgan, recentln paid $5,200,000 for the Kann collection of picturea, 1,0 add to the art treasures of bet palatial ligioniets who do the shooting have home (one or many) In Madison. Ave.. neither shop no counting -house and nue, NPW York. And not content with r!stt but little. this prodigal indulgence of his paesion The Russian authorities in stelarsaw, for works -of art, Mr. Morgan ts, 'we tie -reeve, need not incite, but merely learn, negotiating for the purchase of sanction, a pogrom, the officers have some fine setilptures for an. e.stitnated only to release their pressure on the sum or $400,000. men to let the centents of the barracks . If these had been but isolated exam- fiest upon the Jews as arch.of. ples 'of Mr. Morgues lavish use of fendets then on the Poles as eho next .Wealthi they would still give one quite oulprits, a startling conception of -the riches of a men who can afford to spend more than Ino .dollare to gratify a Wilitnj but for many it year this multi-million- OMER THINGS IN KERRY. etre has been pouring his money into similar channels at a rtito which would Lord Kenmare and the Land Question have made tbe original Cree.sus gasp with impotent epvy. • It is not long since Mr. Morgan paid $500,000 for a single. picture, the Ra- phael Madonna of $t, 'Antony. of Padua. Gaineborough's "Stolen Duchese," whose chequered history is. one 'cif • , -Two Strange Islands. Even in Killarney you cannot get wholly away from the land question, writes Sidney Brooks. The great land - ea proprietor of the neighborhood, is Lord Kenniare, Who owns an estate some 150,e00 acres. . Negotiations have been going on be - will he struck at Vont behind by an line known hand or attackeefroiri a- pass- ing tram, cab or carriage, for the Means of the anarchist are innumerable. And all this without the excitement of reg- ular warfare, without a word of praise; a kopeck of extra pay, without •a day in camp and often -when the field kitchen forgets to leave their seoup - without food. in the depth of winter, when men need warni food to keep the blood *circu- lating in their veins, sentries have drop- pcd from sheer exhaustion, whilst their comrades have gone to the nearest bak- ers and vainly begged a pieoe of bread to stay the pangs of hunger. Yet thy are not the products of crowded cities, '1 ut strong, well-built giants, 3...V12 0 can live upon daily fare of hot eoup and black bread. Many of them have seen their comrades Shot .in the streets or mutilated beyond recogeition by bombs, not during a brawl or big disturbance, but on what the Poles call -normal days, when mer, going anout their business, hear with indifference that "anoiher bomb has been thrown" or "ANOTHER SENTRY KILLED," Rightly or wrongly, these soldiers ea fIrm, that their aseatiants are nearly 21 - ways young -Jews. If' they dislike:doing tsenlry worketiti the Polish quarters of the towns, they hate itstill more in the ghettos, Indeed, there' are Streets in tne Jewish pert of -Warsaw where. sol. diers singly or in couples dare not Veft.e. lure, for fear of nesessinatien, Patrols, searching passersby in the Jewieh quar- ters, are frequently shot by spectators, for the streets are full of Jews who like to transact their businesst-politicel or commei•eial--in the open Air. One Wednesday, last August, a num- ber of soldiers were shot in Warsaw, mostly in the Jewish streets. As usuel, the innocent suffered fee the guilty and . .0 nose the Jewish shops with e orders t liberal use of their Nile butts, beating 1.1.0,..da.z•••••+•••••mmo• 0.1 all within their reach.' They told tfieir should petesti for every comrade shot FAR ItIOBE ATTRACTIVE. frightened, ntictims that. eight of them and their officer:4 had the greatest diff- professor Knowall had' -been lecturing cully,lo prevent them from carrying out profoundly oa natural philosophy, and thele threats. The average Ruesiart soldier -the Cos. in the course of his experiments he in- troduced a most powerful magnet, with eatile exeepted-is a good tempered fee which he attracted a block of iron from low lender ordinary conditions. He al; (lissome of two feet. # writ's will answer a civil question with e "Can any one of you tonceive 0. brond grin. At harvest titne, Invest gretiter drawing power?" demanded the himself out to the Polish squire, work. lecturer, with an air of triumph. ing hard all day apd passing the even- "I can," anewered a stentorian toice Inge in singing, 1110_ beautiful folksorige front the audience. of 'Russia. Rut he Is like the prover- 'eJot a natural terrestrial objeiel?" Mat lion that wise peopte refrain from "Yes, indeed." "I can't think what it tian be,'"°saidt the puzzled professor. 'Perhaps you'll ex- • 11,aritilterice,tiapct lryostb,VIJIaothnZI sUpleinalniva"ge. Said he new eneountene-and ;when gels 10W43, are rt'5Onsiblo for 1110 'dangers' 11"J*tidete for yourself. Wheel WAS a the (thence of revenge he uae 11. with- °"1eta 11helsitsaliat" ther grudge against the Hebrew. The Jews who strve in the tinny are often drafted into the regi- mental ban& and it has frequently eanee of insubordination boon proved of late tnati mutinies and COME FROM THE MUSICIANS. his;ei "There will be sickness in high places" in October and "the GoVernment 'will not be in a very ealubrions condi- tion." A fitrioue etortn may tie looked for in November, and Ilduring the latit month of the year there will be "a of the Cabinet mon Council of ord. „. The Soldier who (leis' 'punished ter, joining in an tineueeeetful nowetpentt which he to too ignottitit to underelsittil. and whielt wati, to land hint in a Mutt et military • pateldiee. heave a rtalge against the Jewish agitutore, and pacts young WM there teas a lane .pieee of natural 'magnet done up in a .neat cot- ton dress...and was called Betsy Maria. She could draw me fourteen- Miles nn Sunday over ploughed land, tut matter what wind otenveather there was. There, was no retesting he. That magniet .0' yours is pretty go(11, utt it won't draw t• far ' as Beloy iii, eit " li , ! , , ote,--_-,0—nirestesse. A pair of glom tra;1:1,,es, trough riPatly. 200 hands front the moment that the emu leiteee tint drater,ern till the lime when the gloeett tun purchatiecl. , • in.....tatie enieen were eiestresesstrei . • TIIE ROMANCES OF ART, he purchased foi $150,000, or nearly • three times. the sum ,it realized m tile Wynn -Ellie. sale just thirty years ago. itawnold's superb "Lady Betty Delme and Children" he purchased fee a sum exceeding $100,000, and one of Hobbc- ma's loveliest landscapes ancl a leubens .portrait of. a Grand Duke were added to his collection of pictures at a cost of about $250,0006 --Thus-, titr five- paintings alone Mr. Morgan has Itivishect a mil- lion dollars. • Ann these are but a small" portion of the -art treasures which have now been so magnificently Iiiiriched at • a cost of over $5,000,000. For 158 Rembrandt etchings and M. Mannheitt's collection of antiques in marble, bronze, and terra-cotta Mr. Morgan tend a fabulous sum,n- the preeise amount of which is not known by the publie. The mann- helm collection alone, however, is val- ued at $450.000, and the Gavet etchings at 875,000. $75,006 was the cost of the Pfungst colleetion of antiode bronzes; Mr. Morgan paid 2,000,000fr.-r0ugh1y, $t00,000 --for four stitipeeteles after Beecher, and the villue placed oe a S'1 ies of ten decorative panels, painted by Fragonard for Mine. du Barry, far exceeds $500,000. , THREE COSWAY MINIATURES, exquisitely beautiful arid deinty exam- ples of the master's ante are valued- at $o00-apiecee asitigle table in Mr. Mor- etinis house in Peince's Gate, . London, a unique Louis XVI. console table, ac- •tually coet $350,000 many years ago; and Under the same roof are three rose-, colored . Coventry vases which cost $50,000, and a tiny bleie Sevres' tray, with cup and saucer, said to be worth $10,000. A silver table ornament, representing Diana seated on a slag, is valued at $50,000.S • The head of this exquisite statuette is removable; the body, filled with liqueur, careers about the table by means of concealed clockwork. and doubtless created much laughter atthe uproarious table of the German nobility three centuries ago; -and a similar .priee is placed on an iridescent reautilus, on a gold and silver snail, on which a Nubian boy sits perched, holding the reins. And these are but samples ef the magnificent col -lection of table orna- ments which form a small part of Mr. Morgan's treasures, a single purchase ,of old silver in Berlin runningiftir into six figures. • • MR. MOTIGAN'S LIBRARY, TOO, is worth a fortune -indeed, it would .be easy to Oboose from it thren or four v6-1- itmes which 'would 'keep a etiburbesn thirdly iri comfort, for the rest ef their days. Mr. Morgan'paid $50,000 for the "Rvangelia Outliner" in the Ashbufn- ham Library, --the binding of which is of Witten gold, riehly -studded *with gems; end -for a copy of the "Fealmorum Codette1 printed by Fust and Schoeffer in 1459, of which only twelve copies are knewn to exist, he gave 826,125. The manuscript of 13ook' I: of "Peradise Lost," shabby cplarto volume of only eighteen leaves, written by a seven- teentineentury scrivener, cost, more than $25.000, the sum at which it VMS %VIM - drawn when offered for sale not long nn in London; and four years ago Mr. Itiongan Purchased the fine library of a ntlatuttetinter merchant, Which contained no teeter linnenhirty-six Caxtone. Four (oxfo,theaeretahanda' c9oustofrt,l,iv,ecilritioniwer7,,Tihrvottrii,$0200, 10. Itelenotettison," was "bought for $10,500. Such are a few Only of the treasuree whit% Mr. Morgan has already *ftettillitl- lated at a cost probably far exceeding $10,000,000e and which are principally preserved in his wonderful Temple of Art, in HA setting of glorious gardens,. at New York. But Mr. Moran has many other lordly' IlleaStire-bouSeS, e.neh of which is a museum of such, treasures -hie beautiful country house, Cragston, tin the iludeon Rivet; another fine seat in the Adirondack's,. his London man- sion in Prince's Gate, and his roomy. old Georgian house at Illoeitarnplon. A NAnnow "Your• 'front door is unlocked, Gilt:" shouted the policeman, wheri lte found .that IN3r. Careless Itouseholder had gone to 19.4 without attending to his lock. all right," replied the burglar front the thedreont window a minute later; "my son' will lode it when be 'conts home. Here'', a quarter foe you." "Alt mil/ earned (marline" chuckled the policeman, as he tvallted atvay. '14 narrow eqtatalt," said the burglar, ten a eletet round hie ehouldene. "Very," replied hie aeeomplice, whoee Mode were claeped oeer poor Mr. Careless Ilotzeholder's moult. '1 Inc, bid; On 6a vete. Corn ---No. 2 yellow, Canadian, r2o asked, track, Toronto, prompt shipment; No. 2 ,yollow, American, 54%o asked, Toronto. fly' -.-73%e asked east. itueltwheate--56%c asked, ti5e bid, out- side, Flour -Ontario, $2.70 asked for 90 per cent. patents, buyers' 'bags, outeide, fur export. 'Manitoba -First patents, $11.,.50; .serond patents, 84; bakers', $3.90. Millfeed-Onlario bran, 816 -to $16.50, in bulk, outside; shorts, nomittal, $18,50 to 819. COUNTRY PRODUCE, Buttee-Prices continue firm. Creamery •••• **•• •••• • .. 25c to 26a do solids • • .. o• 4.4 •••• 0. ZIG to 240 ...dairy prints . 220 lo 23a do pails . 19c to 20o • do tubs .. - 18c to 20e Inferior .„ - . 17e to 180 Chenee-Large; 13Xe to 14e, twins, lec to 11%-c, in.job lots here. • Eggs -Fresh, 22e to 23c, pielded 20c to 21c. Potatoes•-Onterio, 55c to 60c per bag; eastern., 65c to 70pn per bag, on streets here. Baled Hay -$10 to $10.50 . for No. 1 timothy ta car lots here; No. 2, $7.50 te Baled Straw -$6 per ton in car lots here. BUFFALO MARKET. ehuffalo, Nov. 20- Flour - Sieaate, Wheat -Spring, quiet No. 1 northeen, •84Xc; winter, firm; No. 2 white, 79c. Cern-Steady; No, 2 yellow, 52Xc; No. 2 corn, 510. Oals,---Firm; No. 2 white, 38c; No. 2 mixed, 3634en Barley - Strong; 50 to 600 Western cd.f.,, Bye-' Strong; No. 1 held at 68c. NEWrYORK wuEAT MARKET. New York, Nov. 20. -Spot steady; No. 2 red, 80%c elevator; No. red, 82c no.- - b. afloat; No. 1 northern, Duluth, 81Xc nuffalo;• No. 2 hard winter, 7734c c.i.f. Buffalo, BUSINESS IN MONTREAL. • Manteca], Nov. 20. -There was soino . , eequiry for Manitoba wheat •frem oi- dbein sources, but cable offers Were • •hut • orline with the markets on this sidgee Supplies of oats are ,being absOrbed as .quickly as they arrived,‘ and, the restilt- '• • is that stocks •centintie light. Dealers -arc, succeeding in getting higher prices than hitherto. and purchases count not I.e made to day at less than 3934 to 40c • Lor No. 4 store, 4034 to 41c for No. 3 and 41% to 42c for No. Manitoba Spring wheat, $4.60; strong bakers', e4.10; Winter wheat patents, $4.10 . to $4,25; straight rollers,. $ie.75 to $3.8q; do., in -bags, $1.65 to $L75; extras, $1.50 L() $1.60. Peed-itianitoba bran in bags, $20; short -s;' -t22 per tore Ontario brim, m• bags, $20, to $20.50; shorts, $22,50 to $23; milled inouille, 821 to $25 per ton, end straight grain, 828 to $30. Provis- ions --Barrels short cut Mess, $2e, to $24; half -barrels,,, do., $11.75 to $12.50; -clear fat back, $23.50; long cut heavy inest s,' $20.50; half -barrels, do., $10.75; dry salt long clear bacon, 1234 to barrels plate beef, $12 to $13; half -bar- rels, do., 86.50 to 87; barrels heavy ntess beef, 811; half -barrels, do.% -$6; cotnpound lard, 8 to 9%c; pure lard, 123410 13c; kettle -rendered, 1334 to 14cs hams, 14 to 1534e; breakfast bacon, 15 to 16a; Windsor ba.con, *15 to 1634c; - fresh -killed abattoir -dressed hogs, 88.50 to $8.75; alive, $5.85 to $6. Eggs - lecte,e25c; No. 1 candled. 2034 to Ziea. Cheese 'Ontario„ 1234 te(41.Xe.; Quebec, t12%4o 12%.e. •Butter-Cneicest cream- ery, 2434 1.0.2434c; medium grades, 2334 ,,, 'to Mei • LIVE STOCK MARKET. Toronto, Nov. 20.--A fftir trade was , reported at the Western Market to -day, oil moderate deliveries. • Buyers lacked a supply for choice butchers' heifers. and for these $1.50 to $4.65 could be obtained. Common and fair cows sold at low prices. Good cows could be had at $3 to $3.25 per cwt, and higher priees than these were only paid for odd ones. Good loads brought $4,25 to $4.35; fair to good loads, at $3.75 to $1; good cows, $3 to $3.25.• eommon euives, $2.25 , to $2.50; ,mixeci $2.50 to $3.50; canners, $1 to $1.25 per cwt. Business in toeders was mainly trans sated in animals for the An inquiry was also passing in feeders • for the farmers.• Sloekers continued ttl be: slow of sale, and more or less of a, *glut on the market. Priem were as rol- 1(oks:-Feeders, LIM) to 11,250 les, $3.40 to $3.75.; sh'cirt-Inteps, $t to • $4,15; feeders, 900 to 1,100 ins, $2.75 to $3.35; •Slockees. Sie to $2.50 per cwt. • A steany trade Wonted lit sheep, and lambs on moderately large deliveries. Quotatems were: Export ewes, n4.50 to, $5; lambs, $5.25 to $6; bucks, $3 to •or cwt 'Calves were dull of seta at 83 to $4 per cwt. Milch MINS W..11V .,wanieli 111 Montettat, $30 bo bttysi6oo trsf:(047. there ittot4 of the offeringe. 'ranged fro? $ ilogs weee :steady at teens tor eelecta, and $5.40 per ctvt for lights andrfats. 'inI101011.111101 Mrs. johnelmen"Do 57111 think that cm! tiending E1ilh to the cookery Class. es has done any good " Mr. 'ilohnsiX.) -"Certainly it has." Mrs. 3olmston -- "Rut Ilten, the: things she cooks dro so'l uneatable that We nave just to gice them away to tratope at the door.* Ntr., Johwton-"Welli yee) noticed that we haw) alnool4 ontiOy got rid a %Id 1taillp,4r,