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fireat Britaim the United States, and
All Parte of the Globe. Condensed and
inserted Mr HasY Wading.
CANADA.
The curfew bell was rung for the first
time in Ottawa. on New Year's night
The London Y. M. C. A. Hall, met-
ing $30,000, was opened with a New
Year's reception.
The brauitoi,a. winter is becoming
uncertain, A regulaz thaw, with ram
is reported at Winnipeg
A London West Methodist nainister,
Rev. Richard Hobbs. denouneee.
ing as "an evil pastime,"
Tenders have en reeeived at the,
Department of Railways and Canalfor
new pier workat Port. Dalhousie.
General Manager Hays and other
officials of the Grand. Trunk inspected
the company% IleAV car shops at Lan -
It is expeeiked that Mr. Laurier evill
be made an lraperial Privy Councillor
at :he coming celebration of the Queen's
long reign.
The Hamilton Iron &Steel Company
has closed down thesmelting works for
it having a plentiful supply
1 on hand.
tle whit% were destroyed at
ue., on November 7 were suf-
tuberculosis and not pleu-
, as reported.
eilas II. Carpenter of the
cret service nas been ap-
o f the Mont rea.1 detective
•eed Chief Cullen.
nt Ls announced a Miss
Nashville, Tenn., and
Majoribanks, the
.deen.
ten -year-old London
d from drowning in
a companion named
re nine years old.
t be late Lie ut :Governor
probated at Frederiekton.
is entered at $11,500, which
d. to the deceased's family
r relatives.
Land, Commissioner Hamilton of the
C.P.R. says that the sales of Mani-
toba lands exceed ail records the past
few months. The demand is good and
farmers are paying up well.
Major Kitson, the new commandant of
the Royal .Military College, Kingston, in
company with Major-General Gascoigne,
on Thursday morniag had a long inter-
view with the Governor-General.
The Ca.nadian-Australien Royal Mail
atiarnship line, the vessels of which ply
between British Columbia and the Aus-
ten colonies, is about topla.ce a new
er of 4,250 tons register on the
P.R. Company propose to in -
their entrance into Hamil-
Buffalo by placing two trains
oad of exceptionally fine work -
p, which will make the journey
ry fast time.
r. Alex. Abbey, one of the oldest
most respected residetnts of Port,
liimede, Ont., died on Sunday,aged
lia.d lived in Port Dalhousie and
d his occu.pation of shipbuilding
urds ef half a century.
been received from London
th.e serious illness of Lieu-
ernor Kirkpatrick. He will
1 operation in a fortnight,and
patrick will leave. Toronto ixn-
to join her husband.
ldersleeve, general manager of
helieit and Oneerio Navigation
lieves that eavigation could
two or three weeks at
the steagon by employing
ttierees on the river.
. anetot and his son Fred -
were stabbed a.t Montreal by a
. g of Italians, who waylaid them
•ar their home. The elder La.netot
ied,of his wounds and the younger is
n a precarious condition. Two of
the Italians have been arrested.
Sir James Grant, who was physician
: to the Princess Louise during her resi-
dence in Ca.nada, and who recently was
n -ted the honor of a. long inteuview
her Majesty, says he placT.s no
in the report in a New York
to the alarming state of the
S
There is a, ovement on foot among
number of Toronto spoiling men to
make a pool foe the purpose of sending
Champion Jake Gaudaur and Eddie
rnam Ned Hanian's nephew, abroad.
te is proposed that enough money 'he
aised to send the pair to England,
•d probably Australia, and give' them
9 the backing they want.
GREAT BRITAIN.
A1 ander Milne, Admiral of the
British ei t,tis dead. He was ninety
Years of ge.
r. Visitors to Hawarden say that they
are net een Mr. Gladstone in better
black fog on Saturday and business was
London was enveloped in a heavy
o ome time.
practically suspended,
Sir Charles Tupper has postponed the
date of his departure from England for
Canada until February 4.
Lord William Beresford met with a
serious accident on the hunting field
' last Wednesday, and now lies in a pre-
ea./lona condition.
Tan Maclaren (the Rev. John Watson,
D.D.) says the richest class in America
aim ata close imitation of English
country house life.
It is reported that during the past fif-
months nearly fifteen thousand
rekein England have become cons
ts to nthe Roman Catholic Church.
is believed that the question of
er relation e with the colonies will
epy e portion of the Queen'e speech
he opening of the Imperial Perna -
ere was a large meeting held at
M ion Honse, in Dublin on Tues-
oon, at which resolutions
demanding °that the Int-
ent remedy the finan-
njustice done to Ireland. •
enator L. de Soveral, the Portuguese
stet for Foreign Affairs, has been
e Knight Grand Cross of the Or -
of Itliehael and St. .George for
services he rendered to Great Bri-
be- the settlement of the dispute
.lietiretien England and Brazil as
ta the Ownership of the smaller of
'the two islands of TTinida,d, which Por-
engabee arbitrator, awarded. to Brazil,
.UNITED STATES,:
nor, -Was-
meet wiped
ersone were
e
that
corn and, eheraioals have practically
supplanted barley in the production Of
beer.
Tease Zuker, convicted in New York
of arson in the first degree wa,s sen-
tenced on Wednesday to thirty-six years
in prison.
Mrs. Ileury Ward. Beecher on Sun-
day morning fell and broke her hip. As
she is eighty-four years of age her re-
covery is doubtful.
Newark, N 3., is in darkness. Both
sections of the People's Electric Light
and Power Company's plant have been
destroyed by fire.
While the Canadian nurses at present
employed in Betel° hospitals will not
be deported, care will be taken not to
increase their number.
President Cleveland hes pardoned
James Burwel 1, alias Charles Sherwood,
convicted of bringing counterfeit bills
into the United States from Canada.
Contracts for the construction of two
Japanese cruisers were signed txt
Washington by representatives of the
Union iron Works of San French*
and Cramp & Sons. `'
Assistant District Attorney John F.
McIntyre. of New York, bas resigned.
his position and sailed to England to
take part in the defence of Edward
J. Ivory the alleged dynamiter.
II. C. Henry, the millionaire contrac-
tor, has secured the contract to build
the approaches to the Great Northern
Railroad tunuel through the Cascade
Mountains. It will take. six months to
do the work.
The steamer Commodore cleared at the
Jacksonville, Fla., Custom house on
Thursday evening with a eargo nt arms
and ammunition for the Cuban insur-
gents. Clearance papers were issued
notwithstanding that a formal protest
was made by the Spanish Consul.
Cemmercial reports from the lead-
ing business agenctea of New York speak
of general quiet in alt lines of trade. In
addition to the usual holiday dullness,
depression has been somewhat added to
by the numerous failures of banks and
loan companies. These failures have
been principally in the West. and the
result bas been to create it feeling in
some quarters of distrust and suspi-
cion which the circumstances are not
considered to warrant. The number
of commercial failures for the year just
ended leve been more numerous than in
any previous year except 1893.
GENERAL.
Plentiful rains are reported to have
fallen over large areas of India.
M. Clemenceau, the tlistinguished
French statesman, is seriously ill.
The Porte has received serious news
of military disaffection in the provinces.
Reports that Mateo, the Cuban lead-
er, is alive are becoming more positive
in tone. It is said he will visit the
United States soon to restore confi-
dence in his cause.
The, filibusteringsteatuer Commodore,
which sailed from a. United States port
with munitions of war for the Cuban
insurgents, sank near Mosquito Inlet.
Her crew landed in Florida.
One of the Coreans who was recent-
ly arrested at Seoul on the charge of
attempting to restore the King to the
palace from the Russian Legation is re-
ported. to have been executed without
a trial.
Senor Canovas del Castillo, the Span,
ish Premier, says that Spain would not
aceept the interventien of the Milted
States in Cuba nor introduce reforms
until the rebellion is confined to the
eastern portion of the island.
The trial of Sofia of the alleged assas-
sins of Stambuloff, formerly Premier of
Bulgaria., was concluded on Wednesday.
Two of the prisoners were found guilty,
and given short sentenees. The third
was acquitted.
Gen. Weyler, in a very boastful in-
terview asserts that the Province of
Pinar ei Rio has been subjucated by
him, and that. the insurgents are lack-
ing in yalour and other elements to
make the uprising a success.
The wife of the insurgent. Col. Mira -
bel arrived at Key West, Fla., on Wed-
nesday. She claims to have come direct
from the insurgents' camp, and de-
clares that Gen. Maceo, whom she has
been nursing, is not dead, but is in a
fair way of recovery. The junta in
New York does not believe the story.
_
WRECK OF THE WARWICK,
Trying Experiences or the Crew of Fifty -
Two Men.
A despatch from Seal Cove, Grand
Manan, N. B., says:—The steamer War-
wick of the Donaldson Line, Capt..
Kemp, from Glasgow for St. John, N.
R, ashore on the Yellow Muir ledge
near Grand Manan, encountered heavy
gales all the way aeross., Sixteen days
out she sighted Sable Island at 2.30 p.
m., and struck the ledge at 23.30 g.
m. There was a strong southerly wind
and a heavy sea, which washed the
ship continually. Soon alter striking the
crew launched two boats, which were
instantly smashed. The crew clung to
the rigging till next forenoon. One
man was washed overboard; the next
sea threw him back and he was saved.
Alt 11. a. m., the crew succeeded in
launching two more boats. The en-
tire 52 men crowded into the small
boats and battled with the heavy seas
for two hours. •They were filially res-
cued by the schooner Geo. S. 'Bout -
well, Capt. Z. Suerette, of Gloucester,
with the aid. of the additional c,rew
from Seal Cove, and were taken to Seal
Cove and are being cared for. The car-
penter of the ship was injured by be-
ing thrown against the bulwarks by a
sea. It is impossible yet to obtain the
cause of the disaster. The master
probably- mistook Gannet Rock light for
Brier Island. The night was very dark,
but not thiok. The tug Storni Kingof
St. John, with Superintendent Nairn,
are now surveying the wreck. The sea
was very smooth next day, but the
ship wilI be a total toes. '
COPIED THE NAME FROM HIS GRIP
Mr. Snaith, an English traveler, ar-
rived one evening at a hotel in Austria.
On the way he had picked up a smart
German and hired him as a servant,. ln
Austria every one staying at a betel
is obliged to register his name and oc-
cupation in a book, which is kept for
police examination, soMr. Smieh told
his servant Fritz to bring. this book for
him to write his name.
"I have already registered, milor,"
said. Fritz, "as an English gentleman
of independent meares."1
"But, I've never told you my name, so
how do you know what it is?"
"I copied it from milor's portman-
teau," answered Fritz.
"Why, it isn't on my portmanteau,"
cried Mr, Smith; "bring the book and
let me ewe what you have put down."
The hook,vres brought, and, Mr. Smith
to his amusement discovered that his
eleven servant had deseribed him as:
"Monsieur Warranted Solid Lee, rl"
THE EXETER TIMES
THE FIELD OF COBITIERCK
Soma Items of Interest to ate Bus;,
BusIness Man,
The gross earnings of the Grand
Trunk Railway increased. $7.555 for the
week elided December 81..
Stocks of wheat at Port Arthur and
Fort William are 2,075,568 bushels as
against 2,101,996 bushels a year ago.
The stocks. of wheat at Toronto are
265,676 bushels as against 231,737 last
week and 48,091 bushels a year ago.
The money market at Toronto is easy
with call loans quoted at 5 per cent.
Stocks quiet and firm. A feature is
gthreapfburther advaace in Postal Tele -
The net earnings of the Canadian' Pa-
cific, Railway for the month of Novem-
ber decreased $145,917, as compared with
last year. From January 1 the net
earnings increased $371,355.
The deposits of Canadian banks in-
creased over $4,030,003 during the month
of November. Current discounts de-
creased $1,250,000 and the balance due
from agencies in the United States in -
Creased nearly $3,030,000.
During the past week the visible sup-
ply of wheat in the United States and
Canada decreased 720,0130 bushels, the
amount afloat to Europe decreased 1,-
840,000, and the English visible supply
decreased about 322,000 bushels. This
is a decrease of 2,812 bushels for the
week. The visible litipply of wheat in
Canada and the United States, to-
gether with the amount afloat to Eu-
rope, is now 85,403,000 bushels as com-
pared with 96,598,000 bushels a year
ago.
There is nothing enecially new or in-
teresting in the general trade situation
at Montreal, Retail holiday shopping
has been brisk, but among tbe whole-
sale warehouses -there is a general
quietude as far as [sales are concerned,
and the main attentive is being engaged
by the final closing of accounts and
the figuring up of prespeets for the
year, which, in the majority of cases,
it is cenceded, will not by any means
be exeessive. Among the factories too
there is a. great deal of shutting down,
as is usual at the season. The money
market shows no change of any kind,
the discount rate remaining at 6 to
7 per cent., and call money at 41-2 per
cent.
Trade in Avliolesale circles at Toron-
to for the week has been quiet. Many
travelers are in, and stock -taking is the
rule. Business is likely to be quiet
the next two weeks, and after that the
prospects are that increased activity
will set in. The dry goods trade in
particular is in a somewhat unsettled
state. That the great department stores
are responsible in a great measure for
the unhealthy conditions existing can-
not be denied. Some important changes
are anticipated in the near future with
regard to this trade. Failures age more
numerous in many lines, but this is not
unusual at this season of the year. Gro-
ceries and hardware are less active now
that the holiday trade is over. Prices
of the leading staples are unchanged,
and remittances are fair. . . . The
strength of British and foreign wheat
market is being refleeted in higher
prices asked in Ontario, but the volume
of transactions is restricted. The out,
look would indicate still higher prices
for this cereal. Statistically, wheat is
stronger than for several years, and if
the export demand continues, prices in
Ontario will probably go to 90e. before
many moans. Oats and barley are be-
ing bought to a limited extent also for
export to Britain. Peas are hiticher
this week. The trade in flour, how-
ever, is dull, with pric.es relatively low-
er than wheat The money mar-
kets are unchanged. There is an ac-
tive demand in London, with the open
market discount rate firm at 3 3-4 and
call loans 3 1-2 to '4 per cent. Consols
have risen about 1 per cent. during
the week, and the demand continue -s
good for gilt-edged securities. On the
domestic markets, Postal Telegraph and
Commercial Cable are in demand at en-
hanced values.
THE DOMINION'S TRADE.
A Comparison of 'fhb, 'Year's Returns With
Last Year.
A compilation of the trade statistics
for the first five months of the fiscal
year has been made and classified at
Ottawa, and compared with previous
years. The value of goods entered for
consumption for the five months end-
ing November 30, 1895, and 1896, was
as follows:—
Dutiable. Free. Duty Col'd.
1896 ... $27,346,000 $18,970,000 $8,210,00U
1895 ... 27,939,000 17,045,000 8,507,000
Of coin and bullion there was im-
ported $4,352,000 in 1896 and 0,298,-
000 in 1895. The grand total of im-
ports for the five months of 1896 was
00,668,000, and for 1895, 48,883,000. This
shows an increase of close upon 0,000,-
000 for 1896, but it will be observed
that of dutiable values there has been
a edecrease of nearly $600,000; in free
g,,Nds there has been an increase of
S1,325,000. The volume of imports is
well kept up for 1896, but in some
eases a decline in the values shows
apparent decreases when given in dol-
lars and cents. The following is a
statement of the exports fax the five
months in each of the two years, class-
ified:—
. 1895. 1896.
Minerals ... 3,290,000 $ 4,048,000
Fish ... ... 6,401,000 6,260,000
The forest ... ... 15,833,000 17,400,000
Animals ... ... 23,236,000 21,595,000
Agriculture e,270,000 7,280,000
Manufactures ..... 4,041,000 4,059,000
Miscellaneous .. 99,000 93,000
09,178,000 4367,739,000
This represents the produce of Can-
ada alone. The exports included in
addition the produce of foreign coun-
tries passing through Canada to the
value of $5,028,0a0 in 1896, and of $3,-
901,000 in 1895; of coin and bullion the
export for 1896 was 0,174,818, and for
1895, $241,366. The grand total of ex-
ports for 1896 amounted to 68,942,000,
compared wi
-with $63,381,000 n 1895, or
an increase in exports crf between 0,-
000,000 and $6,000,000. The aggregate
trade therefore for these five months,
taking total exports and imports en-
tered for consumption, was $119,600,000
for 1896, and $112,264,000 for 1895, or
an increase for the current five months
of $7,400,000. ,
OLD STYLE AND NEW.
Tetegber—What is that letter?
Pupil—I don't know.
Tettoleer—What is it that naakeo hon-
ey?
Steal!. boy )so o naanufactures)--
GI ose.
EXAMPLES OF LONGEVITY.
litmus or Life or Various Male and Female
Centenarians.
Among the examples of naoderation
in diet, Miguel Solis, of San Salvador
is comspicuous, tale% the London Stan-
dard. He was, according to the Lan-.
mt. 180 years old in 1878, and, it
he isstill to the fore, is likely to com-
plete his second century, He believed
that he had lived so long because he
had never eaten more than one meal
a day. Even in that he limited him-
self to what he could tuck in during
the short space of half of an hour. He
therefore was , a living argument
against those hygienists who bid us
ea tslowly and. masticate well. • His
diet was chiefly vegetable, meat, which
was always ootiked the day before, en-
tering Mto it. only twice a week. For
two days in every month he fasted, and
he dreuk large quantities of water.
His plan included several other details,
and. on the whole, we of the three-
score and ten can, without envy, wish
him joy.
Macklin. the comedian, Who lived and
died in Covent garden. was a wonder-
ful oddity, in virtua of which—or per -
hap * itt spite of which—he managed to
get through 107 years. He followed the
wise and simple rule of eating when
hungry, drinking when thirsty, and
lecping when sleepy. He never took
off his (tot hes except for the purpose
of having his body rubbed all over with
brandy. He always
SLEPT IN BLANKETS,
end history does not record a single
journey on their part to the laundress.
.And bis couch, which was hard, was
placed in the middle of the room.
What is most strange about longevi-
ty is that it comes, like the dew of
heaven to evexy class. Kings who live
in luxury, beggars to go throughex-
istence in a state of chronic cold and
hunger. giants and cripples, abstainers
and drunkards, large eaters and small
eaters, toilers and sluggards, brain -
workers and bodyworkers, vegetarians
and carnivores, smokers and non-
smokers, sane and insane—all have ap-
parently an equal ehanc,e of the prize
of long life. An old wonaan, who died
in Ireland at the age of 112 was all her
life a beggar, and during the last half
of it was never known to eat a square
meal from one end of the year to the
other. In the United States, on the
other band, a rime even exceeded this
figure, and he was never known to pass
a day without eating as much alt by
himself as an ordinary family of five.
It was also an American who grew a
new andfine set of teeth at the age of
106 for the purpose of eating three
pounds of pork, three pounds of bread,
and a vast quantity of cabbage on the
day when he gave up the ghost. Oxi
the other hand, a Shoreditch barber,
who died aged 105, never drank any-
thing but water, and ate only once a
day. A priest of Nice lived solely on
vegetables, which kept his machine
running, and in perfect, order, for 106
years.
Among a host of others, one gentle-
man of 127 years, e grandson of the
famous Thomas Paxr, attributes his
length of days to
EXTREME TEMPERANCE
and regular exercise. And Mrs. Judith
Bannister, who died at Cowes in her
108th year, lived on apples, biscuit and
milk and water for the lest sixty years
of her life; while a man named Confit,
of Burythorpe, achieved the wonderful
span of a century and a half through
moderate eating, great exereise, and
gulping down a raw egg once a. day.
By a pleasant process one Earl of
Huntingdon contrived to celebrate 100
birthdays. He took care to eat eysters
at 'every meal. Roasted turnip for
supper every night in the year form,
ed the elixir that carried Mr. Wilson,
of Sussex, through 116 years. And Mr.
Elkins, of Combe, lived a century by
feeding, during the latter two-fifths of
it, an bread, milk, and turnip tops.
Mrs. McCarthy, of Cork, breakfaeterl
at 7, dined at 1, and supped. at half -
past 6. This, she declared, was the
secret of her long life. She died aged.
103 years. But Philip Laroque, a Gas-
cony butcher, was drunk twice every
week for eighty years, and yet lived to
be 102; whne a Kerry man named Mc-
Carthy, drank rum and whiskey a.s we
take tea and coffee. If he was ever
tempted to descend to claret or ale, he
drank immediately afterward, an equal
quantity of poteen "as a wedge," he
said. He kept doing this for 111
years. Smoking heavily was the prac-
tice that kept Mrs. Robertson, a Scotch
woman, going for 106 years. And Mr.
Richard .Brown, of Peterchurch, was
never without a pipe in his .mmith. It
would be interesting to hear some
Transvaal records, for in that coun-
try they keep the: pipe going with as
much constancy- as a blast furnace.
BRITISH TRADE.
Prosperous Stale of the Eilianees—There
Will be a surplus.
For the nine monehs expired of the
British fiscal year the Customs show
it net increase of $2,165,000. compared
with the corresponding period of 1895.
The excise duties inerea,sed $3,055,000,
while other sources of revenue give the
Chancellor of the Exchequer for the
nine months ten million dollers more
than the budget estimated for the
whole year, and promise nother $500,-
000,000budget. Yet, with the ever-
increasing demands for the army and
navy and doles to the landlords and
Church schools, the expenditure grows
as fast as the i
revenue. The ncome
tax now stands at one shilling and
eightpence, almost a war rate, while the
free breakfast table seems as far off
as ever. All signs show, despite the
fair trade and preferential tarift alarm-
ists, that trade is expanding steadily,
if not rapidly. Railway receipts in-
creased $16,000,000, or 4 leer cent. dur-
ing the year. British investors have
been asked to subscribe $750,000,000 to
the new loans and. companies, of which
§90,000,000 represents breweries and
distilleries, $80,000,000 cycling, and $P6,-
000,000 motors. Last year's total was
$500,000,000. The production of the
shipbuilding yards was 1,316,906 tons, or
100,000 tons abevc the best previous year,
1889. This is equal to 5,000 tons of
carrying ca,pacity launched daily.
A STRANGE PLANT.
The corpse plant is the name of a
remarkable carnivorous specimen that
grows in the Colony of Natal. Its prin-
cipal feature is a bell-shaped throat,
opening into a hollow stem. . It is
alenoet black, and covered with a thick,
glutinous secretion, while its odor is
very offensive. This attraots catrion-
feediag birds'. to it, and,once they alight
on it, they are lost. Their claws be-
c,onae eetangled in the secretion the
SONE TATE CABLE NEWS
THE TIMES REVIEWS BRITAIN'S
FOREIGN RELATIONS.
Disagreeable Weather—Death of Mr. Glad
-
stone's Old Friend -Nickel for the NarY
--The Farmer Satisfied—Old Age Pen-
sions—Consular Changes.
A despateh from London says :—The
Times, in its Nate Year editorial, re-
viewing the foreign relations of Great
Britain says:—"It is peculiarly appro-
priate that the year Which will be dis-
tinguished by the celebration of the
diamond jubilee of the Queen should al-
so be marked by the conclusion of a
treaty of arbitration with that other
great nation of our race." It adds, "We
hardly hope or desire to arrange our
differences with other States in tlais
manner, which seems natural and
practicable when dealing with a peo-
ple closely allied by blood with our-
selves."
London was enveloped in a heavy
blaok fog on Friday, and business was
in coasequence practically suspended.
A large number of street accidents
mostly collisions of vehicles and pe-
destrians took place.
The chief feature of the estate mar-
ket year just closed was the large
number of noblemen eelling. Pims
Duke of Devonshire eold a fine estate
of 32,000 acres in West. Cork, includ-
ing the town of Bandon, to Sir john
Arnott, for 4250,000. Lord Ashburton
disposed of it Wiltshire property of
10,000 acres; Lord Churchill sold the
magnificent Cornbury park, Charlbury,
Oxfordshire, consisting of 5,000 acres,
with the historical mansion, which
was formerly the hunting lodge of
Henry IL, and the Marquis of Queens-
berry disposed of his vast Kinmont
estate to a Huddersfield manufac-
turer.
Unseasonable weather continues to
prevail in England and on the Con-
tinent. In this country for several
days during the past week the tem-
perature was almost spring-like, the
mercury ranging over 50 degrees in
the shade and en Paris, on Sunday
last, the tables in front of the cafes
and restaurants on the boulevards
were crowded with people breakfast -
lag or otherwise refreshing themselves.
On the other hand along the Riviera
and in Algeria, the weather has been
unusually cold, the mercury at Monte
Carlo and at Algiers recording under
40 degrees.
The death of Mr. Bertram Wode-
house Currie, the well-known banker,
on Tuesday last, coincided with the
anniversary of the birth of Mr. Glad-
stone, Mr. Currie was a warm friend
of Mr. Gladstone, who frequently con-
sulted him on the budget and general
questions of finance. He was an ar-
dent Home Ruler, and might, had he
been so disposed, have had a prom-
inent place under Mr. Gladstone when
the latter held office. Mr. Curr.e keen-
ly supported the Irish financitil claims.
He was one of the most prominent
members of the financial relations c0111 -
mission.
Following the example set by the
American Navy Department, the Brit-
ish naval authorities have decided to
use :naval steel instead of pulverized
steel for the protection of the warships
now under construction.
The farmer, who is an invetemee
grumbler, is finding that. some virtue is
left in old England. America, the Ar-
gentine Republic, and Australia, supply
27 out of the 87 pounds of meat which
the Englishman eats per head yearly,
yet the British farmer is selling more
meat than for many years past, and
is getting from 2d. to 3d. per stone
(14 pounds) higher prices, while his
wheat fetches 50 per cent., or lis., per
quarter more than formerly.
Visitors to Hawarden say that they
have not seen Mr. Gladstone for some
time in better health than on his 87th
birthday.
Mr. E. T. Hooley, the millionaire,
who has attracted so much attention
by his recent purchase of stock com-
panies and country seats, has appear-
ed in a new character, that of thepro-
pounder of a great scheme for old age
pensions. He suggests that a fixed
duty of five shillings per quarter be
levied on imported wheat, and that i
the proceeds be invested n a pension
fund to provide all indigent persons
above 60 years of age with a pension
of 15 shillinga weekly.
The following changes are announc-
ed in the British Colonia,1 Governor-
ships:—Sir Hubert Edward Henry
jerningharn, Governor of lVfauritifis,
has been transferred to Trinidad, his
succeasor in Mauritius being Sir
Charles Bruce, now Governor of the
Windward Islands. Sir Charles Bruce,
is, in turn, succeeded by Sir C. Al-
fred Moloney, Governor of British Hon-
duras, whose successor in Honduras is
Hon. David Wilson, the pgesent sub -
intendant of Crown Lands in Trinidad.
THE BRITISH NAVY.
Description of the New Cruiser tile Power-
ful—More 'torpedo Destroyers to Re
Runt.
Britain's new c,ruiser, the Powerful,
is undoubtedly the most formidable
warship in the world and in every way
entitled to be called a floating fortress.
She is 538 feet long and 71 Wide, and
her hull contains 106 steam engines for
various uses. Her speed of twenty-
two and one-half knots, an hour is pro-
duced by 26,497 horse -power, and one
coaling will carry her 9,600 knots. For
offence she has guns that throw eight
tons of steel a. minute. In other words,
she can direct upon an enemy 266 pounds
of steel shot a second, and keep it up
without cessation. Modern warships
are gradually approaching the Great
Eastern's 680 feet in length and 83 feet
in width. ,
It is stated that the British Admir-
alty intends to introduce a new class
of torpedo destroyers a,t a minimum
speed of 33 knots. Twenty vessels, it
seems, will be ordered immediately of
this class.
011 TO PROPEL WARSHIPS.
Oil is now used on warships for par-
tially heating the boilers. This is one
of the most notable departures from the
modern methods of produeing heat in
boilers, for many years, and if it proves
the success anticipated it will probably
be used by every nation possessing a
fleet of war vessels, This new oil is a
product of the distiliation of lignite,and
is dark brown in color, the flame being
very bright and absolutely smokeless. Its
heatin-g power is declared to be greatly
superior to coal, and its cost about the
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JET COW BY THE HOBE
Yea, By the Hundreds, Those Who Have --
Been Cured of Dire Disease By
South American Nervine.
BUM Witlespreati aRt1 'Universal IA Its flpplIcatloo.
Viaere Other Medicines Have Failed and Doctors Have-.
Pronounced the Cases Beyond Cure, This
Great Discovery Has Proven a
Genuine Elixir of Life.
the Banjo Verdict Comes From Old and Young, lige and Female'
Rich and Poor. abrld From All Corners of the Dominion.
, If it is the ease that he who makes bottles of Nervine, and can truthfully,
two blades of grass grow where only say that I am a new man."
one had grown before is a benefactor
of the race, what is the poeition to be
accorded that man who by his know-
ledge of the laws of life and health
gives energy and strength where lan-
guor, weakness and anticipation of an
early death had before prevailed? Is
not he also a public benefactor? Lot
'lose who have been down and are
w up through the use of South .Am -
loan Nervine give their opinions on
r Bible Society of that town, suffered
thLs subject. John Boyer, hanker,
o- for six years from nervous prostratian.
dld
Work. At Ieiuit he felt . his casS 1071ciecravil:easi:n7ccasa. iftinfoiit114y7a; ;hi.;
hopelesa invalid through years Of over". ail," she says, "I have takeh six bottle,
,Taincardine. Ont.,. had made himself
hopelees, for_ the •bent-phYsicieitis 'had'
la the onemedicine that has
a cure in my abab." IvErs• soh* 01111"
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weedy has been for 40 years et.realdent.
am to -day aastrong and well. as ever." of Plesherton, and has reached trim al.'
lo
flanauel JLIya, of bicolor& was our scl of yutatil athree-scoreirohersyears dten.mszntatneti.,T. heern
v...e
neuralgia of the stomach and bowels ere shock tbrough the death of a
by three bottles of this medicine. J.
daughter. Nervine was recommenleta
Sherwood, of Windsor, at 70 years of She perseveringly took 12 bottles of
age, suffered from an attack of para19- meditine, with the result that she Is to-
ils. His life, at that age, was deapair- day again strong and heartY. 1 -Tun-
ed of. But four bottle. of Neraine fireds of women suffer from impovzrish.
gave him back his natural strength. A
;victim of indigestion, W. P. Bolger, ,of
Itenfrew, says : "Nervine cured me
of my .sufferinia• which seemed incur-
-able, •and had baffled all forma:- me-
thods and efforts." Peter ]non, of taking South American Nervine. The
paisley, lost flesh and rarely nad a results are most satisia.etory—greater
good night's sleep, because co: stomach far than I could have hoped for." It
trouble. He says : "Nervine stoped came within the way of Mrs. 11. Rap -
the agonizing pains In my stomach the leton, of Viringham, to treat under the
first day I used it. I have now taken best physicians, both in Canada and
• two bottles and I feel entirely relieved
and can sleep like a top." A repre-
Sentative farmer, of Western Ontario,.
Is Mr. C. J. Curtis, residing near Winer-
sor. His health was seemingly cern-
A shrewd observer of human nature
has said: "The hand that rooks the
cradle moves the world." How im-
portant it is, then, that healtli and
strength should be mad* the lot of
the mothers of this Country. The wo-
men of Canada are ready by scores to
tell of the benefits that have come to
them through the use of South .Amerl.
can Nervine. Mrs. R. Armatrong, of
Orillia, wife of the colporteur. of the
failed to do him good. He tried If or -
vine, and these are his words a" I glad -
17 say it: Nervine cured met and I
ed blood and weakened nerves. "AU
vitality," says Mrs. J. Bailie, of
Brampton, " seemed to have forsaken
any eyetem. I was unable to get re-
lief from any source until I commeatied
IDngland, for heart disease and nerv-
ous debility, but she failed to get any
relief. • "I was advised," she saya "to
take South American ,Nervine, `and
must say I do believe that if I had
pletely destroyed through l& grippe. net done so I would not be alive to.
No medicinedid him any good. 've day."
three bottles 'of Nervine," he nye, ' I Newspaper space istoo valuable to
attribute my restoration to health and permit of further additions to these
earnest words of testimony' from those
who know lust what they are talking
about. • In the common language •of
the day, they have haen there, and are
speaking from the heart. The dozen
'er mere witnesses that here epettit have
their aounterparte by the hundreds,
not only in the province of Ofttatio.
bet in every other section Ofthe Domin-
ion. Soutl• ..kmeripan Nervine is basalt
on a swentille iirincipie that. irnoces
a cure a derta no tnataer how Aes-
-, be. It et Met
m which Owe
strength." Neither man or woman
can enjoy life when troubled with liaer
complaint. This was the sentimeht
and feeling of W. .1. Hill, the well-
known bailiff of I3racebridge. "I was
oo bad," says he " that one of ray
medical attendants seta that I was
dying, but, thank God, I am not dead
yet, From the first few•doses'I took
of Nervine I corarnenced to fetal bat-
ten and am to -day reamed completely
to any usual health." A resident of
the Maritime Provinces, 1st the person palate th
Of 0 Jones of Suesex, N.B. sari : "For at the
twelve Years / Was a martyr to Inda,
stlon,1 coastipation and headache.
to tliattrient Of atVeral physicians
the
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