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CANADA.
The Tussock moth is troubling Monte
The prospects for a large harvest in
Manitoba are excellent.
The first 45 miles a the Teslin trail
road have been completed.
rich discovery of oeide at Lake
teereanipegosis has been made. •
The receipts of the Wienipeg exhijeje
Von. amounted to about $30,0130.
Ottawa's populetion ia estimated by
the Mightdireotory at 67,000.
• The calcium carbide from sawdust
idea, is interesting Ottawa, •lumbeke
Men,
B. J. Graham of Belleville will
start an evaportaAng factory at trate
Settee a Toronto's leading hotels
have been deprived of their lieuer
licenses.
A new set of instroments has been
ordered for the band of the Dufern
The IVIontreal customs receipts will
total. $L000,000 this month, breaking all
ant:on:Is.
A. number of Yukon miners have ar-
xivedat Victekia, bringing over e500,000
with them.
•ek. new system of fire protection. Is
being installed in the Dombaion Par-
liament buildings. '
While bathieg at Macleod, Constable
Sandanione, of the North-west Mounted
Police, was drowned.
The monument to the late Sir George
Cartier, at St. Antoine de Richeliea,
will be unveiled on Labor Day.
The Robertson Yukon party, from
Edmonton, thought to ha-ve been lost
on the trail, has reached Dawson City.
Mr. Angus C. Stewart, Theincipal of
Talbot Street School, London, •died on
Saturday from hemorrhege of the stone -
Mr. Wm. Saunders of the Experi-
mental Farms reports the crops in the
Ma.ritime Provinces as very pronlise
Mg.
A number of Indian relics have been
eidded to the collection of • Indian
ourios at the Geological Survey at
Ottawa.
• Lieut. Sutton of Winnipeg, for some
years connected with the Royal Cana-
dian Dragoons, has been transferred
to Toronto. •
London City Council has granted a
15 -years franchise to the People's Tele-
phone Company, which will grant re-
duced rates.
Montreal police have a man they
believe to be Frank Holmes, wanted
in New York for the theft of $L300
worth of diamonds. -
• Two brothers, John and Henry
• Chambers, were upset in their sailboat
on Shoal Lake, near Winnipeg, on Sun-
day and both perished. -
„
London Aldermen' are visiting the
hospitals in Buffalo, New York and
other Araerioan cities to gain informs.
tion regarding equipment.
An Indian searoh party will be or-
ganized to Beardh for the remains of
Sir A.rthur Curtis, recently lost in the
British Columbia mountains.
Private advices from the Klondike
eay that the gold yield from the spring
clean-up in •the Yukon will exoeed
twenty raillions of dollars.
The reports received recently by
the Director of ,Experinstentril Farms
from the Northwest and tritish Col-
umbia are most encouraging.
Judge McGuire, writing from Daw-
son City, says there may be a greater
, soareity of provisions this coming win-
ter than there was last year.
• Mr, Cesaire Letourneau, of Grand.
• Mere, whose daughter was drowned on
the Bourgog•ne,ha,s entered suit against
the owners of that vessel for 440,000.
Ft. A. and G. 0. Church, brothers,
and well-known ranchers were drowned
north of Edmonton a few days ago in
attempting to foed the river.
Officials of the Ottawa, Arnprior and.
Parry Sound Railway Company deny
a. rum.or that the road ha.s been, sold
•to the Canadian Pacific Railway Co.
About twerity sclabol' teachers are re-
ceiving •drill instructions Stanley
berracks, Toronto, to qualify as in-
• struotors of cadet beeps in high schools.
• The shipraeut of luraber to the ;Unit-
ed. States from the Ottawa district is
not so heavy as last year, but the busi-
ness ecross the Atlantic is somewhat
better.
At a :sleeting of the Ottawa CiEy
Couneil on Monday night a resolutson
ems passed to take a plebiscite in Janu-
ary next as to the running of street
oars on Sundays.
Claire Hitchon, of Belleville; Ont., a
girl twelvegear sold; has won tb,e Gov-
ernor -General's prize for children und-
er thirteen yfaars of age. in the
sehools in Ontario;
The Department of Agricultare has
;permed steamship owners that they
ethoeld prepare spate for the shipment
rtie apples and other fruit under pro-
per conditionbefore the present sea-
son opens. •.
The• Kingston hademen have declars
• ed war against the electric street rail-
• way, and have decided 'to meet- the
ttichlieu and Ontario steamers and take
passengers off the boats around the
city at 10 cents per heaa, General Man-
ager Gildersleeve will advertise this ar-
rangement on the boats, ,
On Sunday afternoon at St. John, N.
33., an eleetric oar tan away, and,
Summing the teeth at the corner of
• Main and Mill streets, clashed across
the sidewalk let° Heeding's: liquor sa-
loon, embedding itself two-thirds of its:
' length in the building, the front of
whith it badly Wrecked. One passen=
ger, who jumped, was the only the
injured. His leg was broken and had
to be amputated. ;
The Domition Cotton Company, in ap-
plying to ths Kingston Council for a
• bonus of 025,000, promise to employ 250
bands, at an ainsaale wage of $90,000;
troartapeelty$Tagondaer laPlethrl; yuena(rt
eeeept fifteext slave The Menus wean
aceeptee the ceortecil, who made 4
stitealation ler beslemnity in ease of
a breach of the agreemeot to weieh the
eompany objet,
GREAT BRITAIN.
The British nave' ill to he increased
by four battleabipe, four cruisers and
twelve deetroyers,
Lose e from the fire at Sunderland
are placedet $2,000,000, Hale the busi-
ness herteee in the tonna were destroy-
ed. The piece had no fire brigade,
The British Government has com-
missioned Thomas Brock, R. A., the
seelptor, to design the statue of Mr.
Glaristorte, to be erected in Neestnains
ster Abbey. •
;UNITED STA'RES.
United States Vice -President Ro-
bert and Attorney-Geneeal Griggs are
at the Thousand Iolanda.
The tRaptiet You People's Union,
in convention at Buffalo, decided to
xneet, at Riehmond, Va,, in 1599, and
at Cincinnati in 1900.
The steamer Roanoke and the schoon-
er Samoa have arrived at Seattle from
St. Minima's • with returning rainers,
vvho bring nearly $2,000,000 in gold.
A list of fifty commercial organize -
Hone in the Staten all deelaring
by resolution in favor of reciprocei
commercial relations with Canada, has
been forwarded to the Ottaeva, Govern-
ment. es,
The Vermont Fieh Commissioners
have been informed that e, small un-
known parasite is killing the fiela by
the hundreds in streamabout Mont-
Paelier.The matter will be investigated
tonce.
William 13. Henderson, presideot of
the Florida Board of Health, denies the
report that there is yellow fever at
Tempe. He says there is not even a
•suspicious case either in the city or
caraps there.
At Ashley, Miele, great excitement
exists aver the striking of a vein of
coal four and a hell feet thick at a
depth. of 206 feet. The find was made
be men who are drilling a well at the
T. S. &M. water tank.
Fifty-five volunteers at Camp Alger
au Tuesday Peetook of hash whieh had
been cooked in a Lin vessel 'which had
become corroded. 15 of the men are
seriously ill, although all suffered. from
the effects of the poison,
Levi Z. leiter, father of the wheat
plunger, ha ,s now praotically closed the
(Contract which he ha.s • been negotia-
ting with the North-Western Lite In-
surance Company for the loan of 43,-
000,000 on his real estate. The rate of
interest is fou.r per Ont.
The harvesting of the wheat °roe in
Western New York is finished, and
the farmers find their barns filled to
the roof with wheat, and stacks ot it
are in the fields. Such a wheat crop
as the one that has just been gath-
ered has not been grown it New York
State in many years.
GF,NERAL.
A. naval reserve corps M to; be estab-
lished at Newfoundland.
An accident ine colliery near Mor-
genrot, Prussian Silesia, caused 24
deaths. •
Ladies of the Russian court must
not hereafter smoke in the Czarina's
presence. ,
A funeral service in memory of the
victims a La l3ourgogne was held in
the Church of the Madeleine, Paris.
• Eben Brewer, who had. charge of all
postal arrangements of • the 'United.
States in Cuba, died near Santiagoeon
Saturday of malarial fever. ,
The Premier of Newfoundland, Sir
jaxaes Winter, will be the represent°,
tive from the Island at the conference
oil American -Canadian affairs.
An inquiry into the • charge that
Austrian Sailors seized one of the boats
of La. Bourgogne and drove off the -
others is to be held at Havre.
Arrangements have been made with
the Corean Government tbat Araerican
experts shall survey the country, look-
ing to the building of roads and bridge,s,
The German Minister at Seoul ad-
ministered a, severe beating to the
Corean Minister of' Foreign Affairs
for the latter's refusal to grant cer-
tain mining privileges to German sub -
Pets in the district of leiojgu.
The rnoveraents of the Carnets- a,re
causing increased anxiety in Spain. The
organizations of -the adherents of the
Pretender is complete, and they have
representatives in every town. The
clergy, especially in the Basque pro-
vinces and. in Navarre, Catalonia, and
Valexteia, are pow-erful auxiliaries of
Don Carlos, whose order will be suf-
ficient to cause the simultaneous ap-
pearance of bands in various districts.
ANOTHER ANTI -FOREIGN RIOT.
Premises of Cite China Inland litiSSIon at
Chang -Sian Destroyed.
A special despatch to London from
Shanghai announces that an anti.'
foreign riot has broken out at Chang-
,.
Shu, in the Provinte of Kiengsi, siety
miles eolith of Nan -Chang,, the capita
a that provieee
The mob attacked and destroyed the
premises of the China Inland Mission.
All the foreign raissiona,ries esceped.
Chang -Shu, where is situated a sta-
tion of the China Inland Mission, lies in
a south-westerly ditection from Shang-
hai, which is the centre of the evange-
lizing force in this portion of China,.
Nine sodeties maintain their misstate
there. There is a Presbytericie pub-
lishing -house that has issued a list of
more then seven hundred works in the
native langtiage. • The Methodists have
similar publication houses at Foochow
anti Itilkiang,
. The leev. J. Hudson Taylor, who in
1853 began his roiesionery • work in
Chine, was the founder, ten years later,
oe the China, Inland Society. As its
name impede its object ie to extend its
work toward the central and western
pertume of the empire. The work of
the sodety is undenontinatioeal and
hat nese:med great proportioos. Its in-
come sesame neerly 4175,000, and the
mamba of workers was 59e at the cloSe
oe 1893. Of these 361. came front Ehg-
laod, 42 from Ameeka, 34 from Aus-,
tralle, and the rest from Scandinavian
countries. English, Canadian, Irise,
and Scottish Presbyterians ere malted
in the Work of the sodety.
T 1TE XE'rlillt TIMES
SPAIN SUES FOR PEACE.
The Crewel Ambassador, on Behalf of elm
Bavernment of Spaln, rPehents to Pre.
tddent etteitintey a Message tooting to
the Teeminatten ot' the Ver. ,
despateh from Waelaington, Ce
says :—Spain has sued for peace form-
ally and dieedly to Plreeident McKie -
lye, through M. Clatabon, the French
Ambeseaaor.
The following offieial etateinent is
made
"The French Ambassador, on behalf
of the Government of Spain and by die -
°dim of the epaelsh Minister of For-
eign Mien's, presented, to the Presi-
dent this Afternoon at the White house
a message Irons, tete S,panish Govexn-
meet, looking to the ermination of
the war and the settlement of terms of
peece." ,
The proposition submitted by the
Ambassadoracting for the "Seallaiels
Government', was quite geneeal in
terms, and, was confined to the one es-
sential point of an earliest peea
that negotiations be opened for
thepurpose of teirminatiog the
war and arriving at terms of peace.
The ooramunication of the Spanish Gov-
ernment did not suggest any specifies
teems ot peace, nor was there any re-
ferenee made to Cube, Porto Rio, the
Philippines, or other Spanish. posses-
sions. The evident purpose of the Mad-
rid, authorities was first' to leaxn whe-
ther the United. Stateewould treat on
the subject of peace, andafter that to
take up extols terms as the two: parties
might suggest, ,Neither was there any
suggestion from the Spanish ,Governs
meat that an armistice be established
pending, the peace negotiations. It
seemed natural, however, from the pro-
position thet formal peace negotiations
be enterecl upon, that pending their
cooscluaion a cessation of hostilities
would ocean-. •
OUR NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL.
Lord Mato Appointed to Succeed the Earl
ofAlterdren as 'Viceroy of Canada.
A despatch. from Loiadon says :—The
Earl of Minto has been appointed Gov-
ernor-General of Canada, in succession
to the Earl of Abeedeen.
• Gilbert John Elliot, fourth Earl of
Minto was born July 9th, 1845, and suc-
ceeded to the title in 1891. He was edu-
cated at Eton and at Trinity College,
Cambridge, receiving the degree of
03.A. from the university in 1866. In
1867 he entered. the Scots Guards as en-
sign, being shortly afterwards promot-
eci to the rank of lieutenant.
He served in the Kuagam valley Af-
keen campaign of 1870, and. received a
medal for his services. In 1881 he ex.-
companied Sir Prederick, now Lord.
Roberts to South Africa as private
secretary. The Earl of Minto served in
the MountedInfantry during the Egyp-
tien campaign of 1882, and, was wound-
ed. in an engagement on 2,4th August,
Afterwards he ooramexided the Mount-
ed. Infaetry in Cairo. The Earl was
mentioned in despatches, and received a
medal a,nd the fourth-class Medjidies•
From 1883 to 1886 the Earl of Minto
was secretary and, military secretray to
Lord. Lansdowne, then Governor-Gen-
eral 'of Canada. He acted a.s chief of
staff in the North-West rebellion of
1885, and was mentioned in despatches
and received a medal.
In 1888 the Earl of Minto was appoint-
ed. to the command of the South of
Scotland. brigade of Rifle Volunteers.
He is deputy lieutenant for the coun-
ties of Roxburgh and Selkirk. In 1886
he contested. the Hexhara division of
Northumberland as a Libezal against
Mr. Miles MacInnes, Gladstenien Lib-
eral, but was defeated by 950 votes.
• In 1883 the Earl of Minto mairried.
Mary Caroline, daughter of 'the late
General, the Hon. Chaseas Grey. The
Earl and Countess have one son and
three daughters living. The son, Vic-
tor Gilbert Lariston Garney, Viscount
Melgund, was born on February 12th,
189L The daughters are :—Lady Eileen
Nina Evelyn Sibell, born 1884; Lady
Ruby Florence Mary, born 1886; and
Lady Violet Mary, born 1889.
The Earl of Minto's seats axe Minto
house, Howick, Roxburghshire and
Lochgelly, Fifeshire. His London resi-
dent* is 2 Portman square, W. The
Earl is a member of the G'uards', Turf,
and Brooks' clubs. . His estates com-
prise 16,000 acres.
WAR OF EXTERMINATION.
Prediction That Americans Will Be nett-
• ing Cubans Shortly.
The London Saturday Review pre-
dicts a. "war of extermination between
Americans and Cubans six months
after the conquest of the island." It
.adds:—"Cuba will corrupt its Ameri-
can governors and the regin of 'the
American boos la not likely to
be exemplary. The cost of the
whole proceedings will be raore
than two bundeed and tifty
millions, and the game is not worth, the,
candle.
"The new policy will necessitate • a
great change in the American gov-
ernmental system, the President and
Muse of Represettetives acquiring
powers, and the Senate losing them,
The United States will speak with a
more potent voice in all international
affairs than any Continental country.
"None of the letter could. inflict seri-
ous injury upon the United States in
the eveet of war; while the American
navy before long woultl be able to
sweep from the seas any Continental
navy. The time is not far distant
when the •Untted. States will speak
with tinequivoca,1 and determined Yoke
in the far Beet. While loath at first
to aneadle in purely, European affairs,
such events as the Artaterian maesa-
ores will certaitly lead the churches
of the United, states to raise the cry
that sueh atroeities must be curiae."
Intellectual WO:glen make better
wivee then they do eweetheaxts,
etsiamcala; teineeereiTieeleteeniles
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TERRIBLE 'YELLOW FEVER
TWO HUNDRED CASES AT JURAGUA
AND THEY ARE NOT LICtlit
'Expert OulteraiS Ylewit—Dr. $can Sees
There 'mil tie a Thousand Onset if the
Troops itemain Two 1Vecita Xongner.
A eespatcli from Division Hospital,
Came jusefella, sayai—There are
200 yellow fever cases here and at tiara
front, There will be one thousand if we
are here two weeks longer,
This was tne,prediotion made bY Dr.
Seam, the Government yellow fever
expert, who, with Dr. Guiteres, is look-
ing atter the health a the areae
tbat 'particular line. The bolt of yel-
low feeee has fallen out qf an ap-
parently olear' sky. Three epees were
discovered four days ago. There were
20 the next eight. New there are over
200. Dr. Sentes estimate of 1,000 in
two -weeka seems conservative in the
foe of ehese figures.
, Dr. •Guiteras says:—" 1 cannot say
teat the fever is of a mild type, but
there has beexi only one death so far,
though there have been two cases• of
seilliression and two of black vomit,
symptoms supposed to mark only the
last stages of a desperate case. Allfour
of these, however, seem to be doing
well.. The usual course in au epidemic
is a nald beginning with low death
rate; follower' by more violeat cases,
more of them, and a higher mortality,
then a gradual decline both in the
number of cases and their violence. I
should say that in this campaign we
will have an apparently lower death
rate than usual, but it will be because
We will get nearer to true figures than
in an epidemic in a large city."
A FEW FACTS. ,
This does not pretend to be &critic-
ism, but here are a. few of the facts:—
• The marines landed. at Guantaxianlo
bay more than a month ago, alraost a
month before the army reached Cuba.
The first official act of the landing
Party- was, to barn every but On the
beach and. knock the head. out of every
cask of Spanisb wine. After the bap-
tism of fire, camp was pitched and
rigidly policed, The Cuban allies came
and caniped witla the marines, but they
were made to obey the rules of the
camp. The marine camp is nob so large
as that of the army. Ite men have not
penetrated so far inland, but they have
been exposeaSto almost as made laard-
ships as the eaerty, and there has .not
been a case of yellow fever in chap.
A rigid quarantine is now maintained
against Juregua, and the raedical of-
ficers of Carap ielcCalle, say that with
sanitary precautions they will have no
fever,
The landings at Daiquiri and Jura-
gua, were made almost amonth later.
There were many men to be handled,
the faoilities were limited, and the
landings were made in great 'haste. No
building was burned, no well wad fill-
ed, no sink was dug. Several of the en-
thusiastic aides seized on pr'etty vine -
clad cottages as headquarters for their
respective generals. The Spanish com-
missary flour, which Linears made a
hasty attenspt to destroy when he
evacuated juragua, was getber,ed and
used. by our men when they were
thrown to the front on half rations.
The Spanish -wine was bottled by: the
medical department for use as stimu-
lants, and apart of it' at least can,
from observation, be said to have fallen
into the hands of the „men Cubans
and Americana foiled into the empty
houses of the town without enquiry. as
to their antecedents.
• The Bret yellow fever case was that
• of Burr Mcitntoch, the abtor and, news-
paper man, who had. been steeping at
Gen. Bates' headquarters in one of; the
,vine -covered cottages. aforesaid,
Dr. Lesser and his wife, "Sister Be
-
tine," the New MYork workers of the
Red Cross, -were both taken te the yel-
low fever camp from one of these
verdure -bedecked pest -houses. Another
Red Cros,s nurse shared the same fate,
•
MANITOBA'S WHEAT OUTPUT.
likely to be Sontestliat Less Than That o
east Year.
A despatch from Winnipeg, Man.,
says :—There appears to be consider-
able diversity of opinion as to the pro-
bable output of the present wheat crop
in south-western Manitoba, but frora
Information gleaned from different
sourees it would' appear that in many
cases it will be equal to last year's,
running from 20 to 25 bushels per acre,
while some few farms will not turn out
more than 10 to 12 bushels per acre.
The fore part of the season was some-
what backward owing nal lade of rein,
which allowed the weeds to get tietert,
and when the rain dicl come, it sensed
a struggle for supremacy between the
growing dope and the weeds which
should predominate. In a few cases
the learn came off victorious. Land
that is clean will give a lewd average
dem, but in cases ot, dirty land, the
yield is exceedingly dificalt -to 'esti-
yield is exceedingly difficult to eete-
mate. From what can be learned
Manitoba's output of wheat for this
year will be somewhat less than the
previous year. However, the bountiful
supply of ram, enough a little late,
has made 'a worelerful change in the
growing crops: -
,AT POR,TAGE LA PRAIRIE.
From Portage la Prairie, an aismort-
ant wheat-growipg eenere, it is learned
that the weether of late has been fav-
ourable for grain and timely raixis
have improved conditions very con-
Siderably. Opinion is that. harvesting
will be general in about four or five
weeks. Some crops of oasts will be
reedy in two weeks, and everything
points to, a large yield. Farmers are
redone preparations foe handling the
crop properly. Many are enlarging
their eranariee and building' new ones,
They ete in good spirits over the cola -
cession gained as to loading erten num
waggotie. '
NAPOLEONS PHY SICI teN
The present vrat has beotight to light
the fad that ler, .A.htennearelit, who
ettendecl Nepoleon during his Jase ill -
pees at St, Helena, IS buried in Santi-
ago de Cuba, vshere he gave. his sol' -
I'4:, le rt., -.sros rro•
SCENES IN SANTIAGO,
* leeet of American Tetlyels hi tee Barr
neller-efleattee end Spanitat eotolere
ineselocs on the Most Priteidey Terms.
A despatch trom Sentiego de Cubit,
via Kieest•ore ,Jamaica, sayse—esaititte
go p•rneents a bright and cbeerful
Peer'ence to whet it did two days ago,
Over 30 sitamers flying the Stars and
Stripee lie in or near the harbor, Small
boats are plying briskly to aod fro ort
the blue waters. Several large eteatee
ers, the Stete of Texas, Leone and
Arkansas, are atongelde tee wharves,
busily engaged ia unloading their large,
loadof supplies and provisions. Trafe
fic and general business are: reviving.
Hundreds of AmerMan and Spanish
soldiere, who but e eecer deys aeo were
shooting at eaoh other, crewd the
(streets of Santiago toaday, eieetieg
arid iniXilif; en the most friendly Lernisi
4 general feeling of good-fellowshipis
evident everywhere, victor and van -
("althea aeleteently being equally re-
joiced that the strife and bloodshed are
over and that the leerrors of the siege
axe ended. The na,recitv cobble -paved
street's, grilling in the fierce sunshiete,
are devoted from morning till nig/at by
chattering groups of unifoemed Span-
ish soldiers and crowds of laughing,
rollicking men who belong to General
Sitafter's army. Great
BARGE LOADS OF PROVISIONS
and supplies have been going to the
ivberves all day from the Bed Cross
stesener State of Texas and the United
States army supply ships, and privai
tem is rapidly disappearing. Along
the water front (Meseta of women aud
children may be seen. munching Am-
erican hard -tack, and food is being dis-
tributed very rapidly about the plaza
facing the palace, and in the numer-
vire airy cafes the officers of the op-
posing armies lounged through the
day. The Anaerieans are besting swords,
medals and buttons from their late
foe, and all talk cheerily whenever
an interpreter can be obtained. About
4,000 Spanish troops still remain in the
city, but the majdrity of them will be
removed as 600/1 as a cataping ground
beyond the rifle pits can be arranged.
The harbour is crowded with trans-
ports; but, as ann.oun.ced at Gen. Mo-
Kibbin's headquarters, no orders for
embarking the troops have been re-
ceived, and it is not believed any of
them will be immediately taken ewa.y.
The officers say there Is no reason
for this, as the health of the city is
remarkably good. They assert that
there is not a case of yellow fever in
Santiago, and that there are but few
cases of smallpox.
Spanish merchants who have been
interviewed on the subject say • they
expect, business to revive at once and
hope for large irtvestneents o'f Ameri-
can capital within the next year.
There seem, to be no race hatred, the
bitterness being all directed against
the Madrid Government, which is
charged with gross naisnaanageraent of
Cuba and, bungling during the conduot
• of the recent war.
PRIZES FOR GOOD MAIDSERVANTS,
The Fund Founded by ssacte Duckett of
London In 'DM.
• "It is a mistake to think that the
svant question is comparatively
new," said a man just home from Lon-
• don, "and nothing that I saw or heard
in all Esngland interested. me more than
the proof that way back in the begin-
ning of the seventeenth ceetury maid-
servants were, as a class, flighty Ind
unreliable. A fund was established in
1620 to reward maidservants vsho „lead
been faithful to their naistresses, and,
curiously enough, it has attracted very
little attention. Isaac Duckett found-
ed. this Land. He was a prosperous old
citizen of London, living in the parish
of St, Clement Dane's, and there he died
in 1620. The records show that his
wife's chief trouble in life was her dif-
ficulties in keeping maidservants in
her employ. As soon as Mrs. Duckett
-would train a oeat maid to do her
work, the girl woala find, it profitable
or convenient to go to some other
mistress. Mrs. Duckett's distress was
felt by Mr. leitokett, who was seanee
thing of a seventeenth century eeform-
• er -and philanthropist. For tete benefit
of- posterity, when he died in 1620, he
left a sum of money, about 4O0, to be
invested, and according to his wifl, the
income of it was to be awarded to ser-
vants who had served their mistresses
faithfully. The conditions which Isaac
stipulated. have been observed care-
fully down to the present day. Accord-
ing to them, maidservants, to be elig-
ible, must not be less -than 25 years of
age, and must haveeived for seven con-
secutive yet:re in the upper portion of
the partsh of St, Andrew, Holborn.
They must also produce satisfactory
testimonials as to their chweacter as
servants. Those who wish to apply for
a share of this Towed have only to no-
tify the clerk -of the charity and ap-
pear at the perish house of the churoh
on the date specified by the bequest,
The 'ail: awarci was made a month ago,
and there were fifteen applieeets. Each
maid was neatly dressed, and each boee
a written guaa•antee of her faithfulness
from her present employer. The nantes
of the successful ones were not made
publie. I suppose that this precau-
tion was to prevent th,e prize winners
from beleg tempted away frora their
mistresses by women who ware leaking
for domestio jewels and were willing
to pay big)] wages. The original 400
was invested in real estnee 40 Dektford.,
Kent, and Lbie property is now' value
eel at £7,000. I felt, after learning of
this fund, that T shauld liked to lia,ve
knoevn Old Isaac Dackett and his good
wife, I have no doubt tbat his fund
has been an ineeetive to good work
to mane a housemaid."
• CURE FOR INSANITY,
A Scottish lunatic doetor thinkthat
bicyole ridieg ma/ be a cure for 40 -
Hb Ins tried it with good re-
sults on some of his eatiente.
Tho ea ,
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AO AV.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS,
The suocesent
luele
A pawnbroker's shop ere always
place of isiterest,
. The prooe of the pudding is eome.
times the eoatentortens.
"cime arehiteets 0541 4111W better
hontee then some 1,Wierg,
When in doubt sae to what to say
supprees yoar thoughts,
Lots of youeg men look like estimat-
ed elothing dummies,
The thiekertiog of the plot frequent-
ly tine tbe Audience.
Some men are long on eeergy, but
sheet on the ability to usa it.
Every time a man lookin a
ror he imagine's he oan gee &hero,
Pxemises that are the bardnest to' eb-
teiu ere the surest of fulfillment,
den't believe in
Some women are never so happy as
when they can talk of their ailments..
The girl whose ideal heroine s found
in elmeip novels seould never marry.
A man's socks are sonaetintes accid,en-
tally exposed and soraetieses they are
The relations of, a melee first wife
nearly always rejoice in the troubles
he has witia his second.
eome womenare not As bad as they
are easented and some artists are not
as bad' as they paint.
'There is metbod sorae People's
madness, it is said, but method Dever
yet saved madness from disaster,
Probably the two most awkward
things in the world is a woman throw-
ing a stone and a bachelor holding a
baby.
When a man saes that all women are
since he has had an experience with
the
e2 them that is no credit to him.
Some men who are alwaye grumbling
about hard, times would consider it an
insult if any one were to offer them
a.„ Sob.
Oa her wedding day every woman
thinks life will be one grand sweet
song, but later, when she has to sing%
to e noisy pair of twins—well,' it's a
different tune.
THE KLONDIKE'S CLEAN-UP.
Iftis Estimated at 1141,0o0me on the Basis
of the Canadian Tax Report.
The Bank of British North America
at Dawson, the pioneer Klondike bank,
has sent an official report of the sea-
son's clean-up, giving the figures of
the inspector of mines representing the
Canadian Government.
The cleainup is placed at 7,000,000,
the Canadian Government having col-
lected royalties on $4,000,000, or 0400,-
000 in cash., the royalty being 10 per
tent. There is the Government tax on
0,000,000 yet to be collected.
The clean-up would have exceeded
$10,000,000 if it bad not been for the
threatened famine at Dawson, which
caused a stampede for Circle City, so
that there were not enough miners to
work some of the claims.
Bonanza Creek is reported as disap-
pointing, and there are said to be only
ten claims of consequence C.`11 it. Elder -
ado is the richest creek and Dominion
second. Eldorado contains the richest
diggings in the world: Benches on
French Creek are very profitable.
There are now 30,000 people at Daw-
son and. there, will soon be 50,000. Liv-
ing is terribly high still. A log cabin
rents for e1,000 a month, and meat sells
for e1.50 a pound, A comparatively
small amount of gold, will come out of
the cou.ntry next season, perhaps five
millions, according; to this report.
79 PER CENT. ADULTERATED.
'Result of an Auctiysis of Belladonna Plas-
ters at Ottawa.
A despa,teli from Ottawa, says:—The
Dominion analyst has completed the
analysis of a, nuxaber of samples a
belladonna plesters collected in
lotalities betwee,n Ottawa and Halifax.
These plasters axe seldocn made up by
the druggists who sell t,hem, but ere
mostly manufacture& in the United
States. According to the standard set
down by the arta,lyst, 79 per cent.
were found. to be adulterated. "This
cannot," says the analyst, "be regarded
asa satisfactory stale of affairs, but to
institute proceedings against the de-
linqueeat venders would sestrcely be
judicious until after they have been
made aware of the worthlessness of the
artlele sold by them. The manufact-
u.rers are chiefly to blame, but forivari-
ous reasons 54 15 doubtful whether pro-
secuting them would result in °beam-
ing convictions."
CREMATION IN PARIS.
Crema,tiolx is becoming increasingly
popular in Paris, and the c,rematoritun
at the ceraete,ry ot Pere la Chaise, has
already been foniad to be too small.
Additions are being made, and a third,
furnace, a large hall and a columba.r-
ium will sows be ready far use. The
latter somewhat reeem.bles the Campo
Santo of Genoa, and will contain 10,000
receptacles for ashes. These niches are
closed witb. slabs o,f marble, ten whieh
inscriptions May be cut.
14O1V.LeN 1104D DISCOVERED.
eq. Reman road, 2,4 feet wide, paved
with gray granite in some places of
great thiekness and resting on abed
of concrete has been discovered at
Lyons. Near it is a subterranean pee
sage, the root of which has fallen in,
14 seeins to have eontieeted the Gayer-
nox's palace, with the amphitheater, of
whioh remains have been found in a
field, The passage is eight feet high
arid two and a half feet wide.
WOODEN SHOES.
Wooden shoes in Feanee are peptize.
ea to the extent of about 4,000,000 peers
yertely. They are made in Alsace and
tarkiers by machinery, and ire leszere
by hand. In the last-nareed province nieefee
1,700 persons are ehgaged ill this man- dente%
etfaetere, and the yearly erected is a
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lea silenee, ea7tleer than tell three
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Bruggista,or Mailed an Receipt et Price by
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it the darkness easily keeps about two
hundred feet ahead of your smartest
horse. When you want the very best
Driving Lamp to be had. ask your
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We issue, a special Catalogue of this
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liOOLEY AND THE PEERS.
startling Testimony in tke Bankruptcy
Court—.& sensation in Belgravia.
deepatoh from London says :-.-The
examination in the Bankruptcy
Court on Wednesday into the affaies
of Ernest Terah Hooley, the company
promoter, for whose property, on his
own application, a receiver was ap-
poin,ted on July 28, attratted a big
crowd. of people. The debtor 'attribut-
e& his failure chiefly to his partner, a
man named Rucker, erippling the lend -
mess by drawing 0,2,500,000 within two ,
months,
In detailing the floating of the Dun-
lop Tire Company, Mr. Hooley said
the names of the directorate cost from
$400,000 to $500,000, including Lord
Albemarle 462,500 and Lord De La
Warn $125,000.
In connection with this flotation, Mr.
Hooley also said he had lost 0315,000 on
"press calls„" these being shames in-
tendedfor people couneeted evi th" news. -
papers whose names have not been di-
vulged thus tar, thougb it is expected
they will be made public in due course.
When Mr. Hooley was questioned
about $50,000„ paid to Henry Marks,
editor of the Financial News, Mr,
Hooley denied that it was connected
with the insertion of "puffs" in that
paper.
•As a matter of face, the supposed
profit on the floating of the Dunlop
Tire Company,, amounting to 48,500,000
had been "sweated away" to under
01,450,000. . ,
Mr. Hooley further asserted that he
had paid nany thousands of pounds
for introauotions to Lords Ashburton,
Werwiek, Norbary, and others, and he
testified that the Erni of Winchillsea,
received $50,000 for acting a,sebeirraa,n
oo one of the bicycle tubo manuta.c-
tiering concerns.
The testimony is oreating even more
of eflutter in the West of Londozu than
in the, city proper. The revelations;
concenniug small men as the Earl
De Le Werr and the Earl of Albs -
merle have been 'received with as-
tonishment. Numerous instances were
disclosed by Mr. Healey in wilich
peer bearing a, proud tine would, charge
the peranotet &sure ranging from $2,-
500 to $10,000 for en introduction to an-
other peer. Thus, Mr. Hooleysaid the
Earl Da LI Were received 010,000 for
an introduction to Lord Greville; while
Lard Deerhuxst, who married Mise
Ben:vile% of San Francesco, was paid
el0,009 for ea introduetion to Lord Ash-.
burton. •
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