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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1902-9-4, Page 2este eseseeel HE MAASS Prices of Grain, Cattle, etc iu Trade Centres. BREADSTUFISSe Toroneo, Sept, Sa-Wherti.--The market for Ontario grades is weaker with olleriegs more liberal. Saleof S white rind red winter are re- ported tit 63 to 69c west. Mitaiiebe wheels quiet; No. 1 bard 85ec, grinding in transit, and at 79ec Goderiele; No. 1 N'orthera, 844e g.i.t., and 73e Godericin and NO. 2 Northern, $24e g.i.t., and 76ec oderieb Oats -The market ie nem, owing to small otlerings. No. 2 quoted at 32e West, for September shipment. Corn-Tne market is dull, with lit- tle or nothing• doing. Prime are purely nominal, Rye -The market, ist quiet, with No. 2 quoted at 48 to 49c outside. Barley-Offeringe small. New feed, discolored, quoted at 36 to 38e out - tilde, and No. 2 at 41 to 42e, Perve-Tbre market is firm, with old ,No. 2 quoted at 77e west, and new at 75e west.. :Flour -Ninety per cent. patents, Slade of new wheat, quoted at $2.70 to 82.72 niicldle freight, in buyers' sacks, for export. Straight rollere for domestic trade quoted at $3.15 to 33.25 in bbls. Manitoba, fiour eteady. Hungarian patents, 33.85 to $1.10 delivered on track, Toronto, bags included, and strong bakers', 33,60 to 33.80. Oatmeal -Oar lots in bble, 35 on track, and. in sacks $1.90. Broken Lots. 20 to 25c extra. • Millfeed-Bran, is dull at 313.50 west, and shorts at $19 west. Bran is 315 to 316 here, and eliorts 322 here. Manitoba. bran, 316.50 in • sacks, and shorts 322 to 323 in •eacks, 'Toronto. • •••••••••••••••••••• COUNTRY PRODUCE. Milteatikee, Wis., Sept. 20-:-Cleee- Wheat-Lereer; NO, 1 Northern, 75 to 713e; NO, 2 Northern, 74 to 750 ; December, 673e. Rye -Lower; No. 1, 0'2•ke, Barley -Lower; No. 2, 78; somple, 40 to 60. Oern-Septenibere 574c. Duluth, Sept. 2.-Cloiee-Wheet-e= Cash, No, 1 hare, 72StO; Nei 1 Northern, 79c; No, 2, Northern, 69-ec; No, 8 spriuga 65ec; September, 67c; Deeember, 65,1e, Oats-Sep- teMbee, 81; Deceinber, TOledo, ' 2.-Wheate-Fairly rietivee easier; cash, 71ec; Septeme ber, • : December, 71f; May, 72-4c.' 71e Corn-Dell ; weak; ccreie, Ole; Sep- tember, 59e; ltecember; 11Se. Oats -Dull; steady.; rash, 28e; eleetem- bee, 8f3ee; December, $1e. CloNere seed -Active; easier, October, 35..55; Jammer, 35.35. Hops -Trade quiet, with latices unchanged at 13c, yearliags, 7c. Honey -The market is steady, with strained jobbing here at 8 to Sec per• M., and combs at 31.60 to .$1.75. 'Beans -The market is firm, with prime qualities quoted here at 31.25 to 31.35, and handepieked at 31.35 to 51.10. • Hey, baled -The market is quiet, with offerings moderate.• New . hay quoted at $8.50 to 39 a ton. Straw -The market is quiet. Car, lots, on track, quoted at 35.50- Poultry -The market is steady. We quote i.e.-Chickens, 60 to 75c; liens, 50 to 55e; -live chickens, 50 to 60c. pucks, 60 to 75c per pair. Turkeys 10 to 12e per Ib. Potatoes -The market is steady, with fair demand. They sell at 35e1 perbusb, in quantities, and at 40 to 45e in small lots. HOC PRODUCTS. I Deessed hogs are unchanged, with! few offering. Cured meats are in! good demand at steady prices. We quote :-Bacon, long clear, 11c, in; ton and case lots. Pork, mess; 321.50; do short cut, $23.50. Smoked meats -Rains, la to 14c ; breakfast bacon, 15e; rolls, 12 to 1 i.2 -c; backs, 13 to 1511c; shoulders, llec. Lard -The market is steady. We quote :-Tierces, 11c; tubs, 114c ; pails, nee; compound, 8e to 10c. 11.11110011.11211 THE DAIRY•MARKETS. Butter -The market is steady, with, good -demand for choice qualities. Rolls scarce. We quote :-Choice 1 -Th rolls, 16e; selected dairy tubs,; 35e; store -packed, uniform color, 134 to 14c; low grades, 12 to 12/c; creamery prints, 194 to 20c, solids, 18e to 10c. Eggs -Receipts fair. Strictly fresh, 154, to 16C; ordinary store collected, candled, 11 to 144c; low grades and cheeks, 10 to 11c. .• Cheese -.e quiet at unchanged prices. We quote :-Finest, 101 to 10ec: seconds, 94- to 10c, BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, Sept. 2. -The local mar- • kets continue quiet and Unchanged. Grain -Manitoba wheat, No. 1 Northern, 74c; No. 2, 72e for Au- gust delivery; oats. No. 2 Manitoba white, 41e to 45c: No. 2 Oatarios, 444-10 45c; No. 3 °Merles and Manitoba, feed oats, 18ec in store ; new No. 2, 37c afloat. Flour -Mani- toba best patents, 83.90 to 51.10 ; strong bakers', $3.65 to $3.90 ; On- tario straight rollers, "33.55 to 33.65, in bags, $1.70 to 31.77e ; Ontario patents, 33,90 to $4.10 ; rolled oats, lathers' prices to job - here, 32.40 to 32.45 in hags, and 55 to 35.10 per bbl. Feed-Mani- tolna bran at. $16 and shorts 3.28, bags included; Ontario bran, in hulk, $15.50 to $16; shorts, in bulk, 323 in Iota Provisiorer.-Heavy Canadian short Cut pork, $25 ; com- pound refined lard, 9 to 91c; pure Canadian lard, 1 le; finest lard, 12 to •18ec; hams, 12e to 14e; bacon, • 11 to 15c; dressed hogs, 37.50 ; fresh killed abattoir,, 39.25 to 39.50 per 100 Ms. Chees•e-Ontario, 9 veld Quebec, teec; Townships, gee. Better -Choke creamery, =sent re- eeipts, 19 to 194-c; held stock, 18 • to 184-0;'dairy, 16 to 16ec. Eggs - Straight receipte, 14,eo to 15c; No. 13 to 1.3ec. --a UNITED STATES MARKETS. .13uffalo, Sept. 2.-4'1oer-Steatly. Wheat -Dull and weak; No. 1 North - ere, aid, in store, c.i.f., 7Oec; wjn- ter dull; No. 2 red, 73ec; No, 3 do, 68 to 684c. Corn -Quiet; No. 2 yel- low, 67 -lc; No, (q .3 do, 66ac; No. 2 •• corn, 6c; No, 3 do, 660 Oats-- . Dell: No, 2 white, 36e; No. 2 mixed, 291c; No, 8 do, 29e. Barley -West- ern, 56 to 67e. ley -No. 1, 554c, Cenal freights -Firm. .Minnecipolie, Sept, 2. -Wheat --Sept 65ec; Dee., (34c;4ec; on -track No. 1 • hard, 1811a; No. 1 Northern, '79:1:e No. 2 -Northern, 781e, • Plotir-LoWer first• ',patents, $8,85 to $3.95; Second .0,70 to 83.80: first c1ears-1 ,38 t,, $3i0 seco»d do., 32.20. Brari- n bulk, $11.50, LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Toronto, Sept. 2. -At the Western cattle market to -day the receipts were 86 carloads, of live stock, ia- chiding 1,465 cattle, 1,400 sheep and lambs, 1,220 hogs, 40 calves, and a dozen nailch cows. We had no quotable change in export cattle here, and trade was fair. Good to choice cattle sold at from 35.25 to 35.75 per cwt., with a, few saleof selections at $6. Light export cat- tle is worth from, 34.50 to 35 Per cwt. For good to choice butcher cattle the quotations are from 34..- 50 to 35 per ewt., with inedium to common unsettled in price, mid slow in selling. Some stele left over, !Good stockers (500 to 700 lbs), are worth from 33.25 to 33.74 per cwt. There is a fair demand for the right kincl. Feedersworth from 34,25 to $1.60 per cwt. There is not much enquiry for milch cows just now. They sell at'from 325 to 312 each. Sheep are about steady, but lambs are a little weaker to -day. No change in calves; a few good calves are wanted. E'. -port ewes are worth from $3.40 to 33.60 per cwt. Lambs at from 33.75 to 34.10 per cwt. Culled sheep sell at. from $2 to $8 each. Ducks are 'worth from $2.50 to 32.75 per 'cwt. • Oalves are quoted at from $2 to 310 each, or from 8 to 5c per lb. All the small stuff here to -day sold readily. The top price for choice hogs is 37.25 per cwt., and light and fat hogs are quoted at $7 per cwt. Hogs •to fetch the top price must be of prime qualityand scale not below 160 nor above 200 lbs. Following is the range of quota- tions: . .Cattle. Shippers, per cwt 0.25 $5.75 Do., light ... 4.25 5.00 Butcher, choice ... 4.50 5.00 Butcher, ordinary to good 8.25 4.00 Stockers, per ewe 3.25 3.75 Sheep , and. Lambs. Labs, per -cwt. 3'.75'. 1.40 Choice ewes, per cwt3.40 3.60m Bucks, per cwt e 1 . 2.50 2.75• IRON ORE. Culle . each 2 00 3 00 On MINES AND IIINERAT,A CONDITION or ONTARIO MIN - IN nutrsTwEs. Great Pregireee Ncle aLast Year - Report of the Director of Wines. The -Ontario Departeeent of CrownLands has east issued the annual ree Port Of TheMas W. (W% iseDirector Of 411ines. for 1901., whieli presentS.,a highly intereSting eaview of the Work aceompliebed re developing the tame meet rsoiu'ee.s o1 the Province. • The progress made daring the,'period cov- ered has been Of a very: eubetential and gratifying eharaeter, and tne- Ouhe tlook for tfuture of this ha-. portant 'class • of industries is ex- ceedingly bright, A auniber of sine tietical tables are given indicating the adeancee made of late years showing that there is every reason to expect considerably 'greater de- ye)oPmeete in the hear futere. The lines in Which the greatest progress has •been made are the Bickel -copper and iron industeies, in - eluding . the ,Manufacture of pig -iron' and steel, The produetion of me- tals shows a large relative gain in comperiSori • With the eon -Metallic output, The -aggregatemineral 'pre- tinatiOn for the year was valued at 311,851,086, of whieh 35,016,734 Wae metallic, In 1900 the metaflic output was only32,565,286, while in 1898 the metallic yield was 23 he ' per cent. pf ttoeal Minieg proe duct, in 1901 it had risen to, 42 per .cent. NICK ISL -C UPPER. MIN INC: The nickel -copper indestry has very largely increased its output, The production of nickel for the year amounted to 8,882,000 'Mande or 4,441 tons, valued in the matte at 31,859,970; aa increase in quantity of 25per cent. and in. value .,of 145 per cent. as °omen -reed with 1900, when the yield was 3,540 tons val- ued at 8756,626. The copper con- tents of the Matte were 1,197 toes, valued at 8539,030 as 'compared with. 3,364 tons, worth $319,681 in 1900. During the .period of live years from. 1897. to 1901 inclusive, the -number of tons of ore raised has increased from 93,155 to 320,94.5 and the number Smelted from 96,- 093 to 270,380. There were only 535 men employed in 1897 who earned 3258,226 in wages, whereas last year tbe number of employees was 2;284 and 31.,045,889 Was paid out in wages. A comparative table showing the 'production for the first quarter of 1902 as against tbat of the corresponding period of 1901, shows that the output is stilt on the increase. ' The value of, the yield of nickel and copper were -3546,856 and $191,170, respectively. es ceemared. with 3190,858 and .37,e,625, : 'being the valtios otthe output for.,the,first threemonths of 1901. • Milkers and Calves. Cows, each 25.00 42.00 Calves, each 2.00 10.00 Hogs. Choice hogs, per cwt.- 7.00 7.25 Light hogs, per ewt 6.75. 7.00 Heavy hogs, per cwt .., 6.75 7.00 Sows, per cwt 3.50 4.00 Stags, per cwt ....0.00 2.00 DOWN BY THE SEA. Property in the IliSaritirae Pro- vinces. A despatch from Otta.wa .says: Professor Robertson, who has just returned from a. visit to the Mari- time Provinces, reports a noticeable iraprovement in agriculture. In Prince Edward Isla.nd there are now some 40 cheese factories, whereas the first one was established by the de- partment in 1891. Farmers report that since they engaged hi co-opera- tive dairying, the land has become more productive. The eystematic cultivation of crops for the feeding of cows, the growth, ofclover, and a proper rotation of crops, have in- creased the fertility of the land veryi materially. In Nova Scotia. there has been an unfortunate failure in the apple crop. Many of the frnit growers re-, port only between 25 and 50 Per 'cent. of an average yield of apples from their orchards. In New Brans - wick the farm products are quite uli to the average, although from eight to ten days later than the usual. In the latter province there has been considerable immigration of young men from England into the rural districts in recent years. Altogeth- er the Maritime Provinces are (mite keeping pace in real progress and prosperity with the other portions of Canada. FOR CANADIAN PULP. Big English Paper Combin.e in Process of Operation. An Ottawa despatch says :-It itt said that a papercombine is in pro- cess of formation. The combine is alleged to embrace eleven of the largest paper mills in England, To supply the output these mills require. 2,000 acres of pulp lands, which are .located in Canada, not far from Ot- tawa, and upon Wbich the proposed combine hold an option. The capi- talization of the company is placed at 825,000,900. :DIVERS GET ANGRY. An• Australian pearl diver says that one of the strange efieete of • diving is the invariable bad temper felt. While working at .the bottom of • the, sea, As this neurally passes away as soon as the suiffece is reached, it is probably due to the preeemei of the, els affecting the lungs, and through them the brain. The :exhilaration and good temper .af the mountain climber is a con- trary feeling from an opposite cause, A diver becomes so angry at some imaginary wrong -doing on the part of those in the boat above that he gives the signal to be pulled up - "with the' intention of knocking the heads, of the entire crew" -- Only to forget, what he Wane up for when tile serface Was reached. •Upwarcla of three times as much iron ore was lai-ed last esel eeein 1900a . The figures are -for 1909; .90,302 totie, e-alue $111,803. The HeleryMene in,' the Michipicetea Mine ing Division, produced by far the largest proportion. There Were three furnaces employed in the pro- duction of pig -iron in 1901, only 'Live, beingrn operation the 'Year be- fore and thc pigeiron. product was 116,370 tette, Valued at: $1,701,703. This was an enerease of 58,984 tons in quantity and. 3765,687 in value over 1900: A highly . satisfactory feature is the increased percentage of native ore consumed. In 1900 only 23 per cent.. of the Me made into pig -iron, was the product of Ontario minee-last year the proportion had risen to 5.7 per cent.; and with the develormerre of the iron -mining in- dustry the imported • ore will soon be 'but t a smell fraction of that worked up ia the Province. STEEL MANUFACTURE. The outline Of the stedlemaking dustry has beenconsiderable and that ,impotterat department -of Metals linty will soon OcCuity a: leading' 'position `amend our anaratfacturiner activities. Last year 11,171 tons were turned' out. valued at 3817,- 280-a tiptable increaseas compared with tile preVious.yearN• OittPut ' 2;819 tons, Worth 316,8$9. Men' to. the number Of 580 were afforded em- ployment le the production, of iron and steel., and their wages .aggregat- ed 3274,554. • The :production • of zinc ore is ix') one mine, which yielded 1,500 tone, valued at $1.5,000, TEE •PRECIMIS METALS. Theeprospect is noe so encouraging as regards the -gold and silver mines.. There is a falling off in the output " of both -gold yielded 11;293 ounces, worth 3211,110 as compared with ee,767 ounce's, Worth :$297,- 861 in- 1900. The product of silver was 151,100 ouncrei With 396,867 in 1900. The figures for the first three Jacinths of 1901 and 1002,- however, show gains of 322,548 in tgold pro- duction and 34,951 in that of sliver. OTHER, PRODUCTS. • • • Anioeg the, non-re:eta:We prbdtictS of the 1050.0101' the yeet" the list is headed by common brick, valued at $1,580,100, Petrolemn products, the output of which was, valued at 0.-,467,940, show a decrease, the. yield. in 1900 being worth $1,869,- 045. Cement was produced to the value of $670,880, 'Tem] pi:lilies, a new product in this:province, yield", ed 317,500, and the output of col: - undone had increaseet 10 517.500 and will probably be largely augmented in ftiture. COM f,' A"NI ES • T.NO ORPORAVID D. There were 47 conatianies with a total eaPital of $27,716,000 incor- porated. during 1901, for carrying on Mining. There were also 1.3 foreign companies, .having, in aggregate title- ital of $12,950;000, licensed to do business,in Ontario: The previous Soar incorporations an d liconees nemb'ered 57, the total • eepltral volsed. being. $424194,999„ ' AT TIIE PAN -A ME 1 I. WAN Among the other contents of Um volnme is a paper by Frank N., Speller,: Superinteedent Of the Pro- vincial 'Ulnifig Midi/bit' at the Pen- gi:Ves. an Interesting description or the 431.6PlaY which was thoroughly representa- tive 01 the eConomie ores and inilier- als of Ontario. The excellent show- thg then inade has had tile desired effect of creating an interest in the Province as a. ileld for mining, and Causing considerable inquiry among Amervm icans tis to the arious ineral products, Other reports deal with the explorations and geological re - Searches in several quarters carried on under the auspicee of the Bureau, the work of • the Provincial Assay Office, aud the metallurgical axle minerel industries of Sault Ste. Maxie. The report is one of usual interest and oomProllensivelless and will be welcomed by all inter- ested in the progress anS develop - meat of the Province, Which is be- ing so nutterially aided by the work of the Bureau. 8,000 MORE CARS. Figures Which Show Size • of • Manitoba's Cop. A despatch ei•one 'Termite says Crops are all the word tibont the hotels these days, and people who never took an interest insach monittlijects before are to be heard expatiating upon the good results that wilt follow the safe in -gathering of the Northwest crepe. One man said, looking- at the (itituriot side, that lase year's crop tilled up the old, holes; but this year's Crop wetted' result:in new ineestments and a period. 'pl boom and building in the West. such as had fleece before been witnessed. A. practical mien 'IMAMS at the problem of moving the crop, Pointed oat that it the erop Were - only 8,000,000, bushels. Writer than last year, this Would -require 3,0.00 More ears of tile largest size, i.e., 1,000 -bushel • cars. 11 thee Were Made up in 80 -car trains, it would mean 260 more trains- this year thee last to carry ont the crop. AR a matter of fact, the ceee will average nearer ,600 bushels than 1,000, so that the number of trains required to heel out the (eve in excess of past year will be , 500. Suppos- ing that the:wheat te op ef the whole Canadien West temente to 75,000,- 000 bushels, and that it Will be loaded in 600-bilsheleceesi nuide I1P intO trains of 80 cars,- and n train started Irani. Winnipeg • every hour, it would take 171 days, or nearly siX Months to get it Shipped out, ln the meantime, the -crops in On- tario are not to ,be deeplead, From the vote that were supposed to be drowned out by excessive rains come reports of 40 bushels, of wheat to the acre. Hay, eepecially in the late districts, is a magnificent crop, while oats will surpess nay crop' gathered in the last twont,Y Years. INVASION NOT A MENACE. Mr. Fisher Thinks Aanerieans Will Build Mills. A Montreal despatch says :-Mr. Sydney Sister, Minister of Agricul- ture, Wee in the city on Wednesday an his' return froin a, toile in 'the Lake St. John district. Speaking in reply to the statements• 1 oceopy made in some • quarters that the large influx Of American Settlers into the Northwest foreshadowed Aneri- cnn end reciprocal arrange- ments so. that "Anieric,an millers might grindthe wheat raised by Anierican ,farniers in Canada, Mr.. Fisher said it WaS Mort -likely that Ameeipan muuiers would come , into Canada and erect Milis to grind it. It would Make no great difference where the capital came from,- whether it was Amerioan . or not, so that it came in and developed the resources of the Canadian Dominion. • "One thing may be stated," added Mr. Fisher, "and it has net been Published yet -76 per cent. of - the American. immigrants ,who have come into the Canadian Northwest from the United Stites have been natural- ized as British subiecte. Of the: • re 130 per ccrit , iflnmaTly cas,es there .were disa.bilities whicth Pre' Vented theni being naturalized, bet that showing is, 1 think highly sat- isfactory." mar, Erzwcn or SMOKING. Chauncey M. Depew Tells Why Ho -.Stopped the Habit, Senatin IDepew relates the folloiee leg• experience Of his vietoeY oyes ehe .eigar need to eniuke tweets; ("Isere e. day, and centinued it Until 1 bee came wore oat. 1 didn't ireow what wee the Matter with me, and Owe, see:tens! ' that 1 applied' to did. not Mention tobaceo. 1 uSrid, to go to bed at -twoo'clock in the morning and wake at fiN,e or six. 4 had. I10 appetite, and was a , WaS iu the habit .01, ,satoking at my desk; teed' thought that I derived material 0,94e:tame la my work from it-. After a, tie* 1 friend that I emildn't • die any .weeS without tobacco. I coulel Prepare a brief, or argument without tobacco; but titill .1 was harassed by feeling that Something was arnis-Se and the reettle• was not tip to tbe marle. "I 'also found. that 11 wee Secant:dile of doing miny great .amountof work. My power of coneentration : Was greatly weakened,. and I could not thinie well 'without a lighted cigar Lit lily month. Now, • it is perfectly clear that Without this power of concentration a. man. ie incapable pf deltas many 'themes. It is this which eeriblee him to et tend ,to verieue and faultivarieus, alTairs '; to drop one absolutely and take up another and give it. full attention,. One day I bought o. cigar'. and was pulling it With a fooling • of pleasure Which ie Maly porsible to the devotee. 3. sinoked oely a few moments and then 'took it °tit of My month ,and lobked.: at " it. I Sai4 to it : 'My friend: end bestial comnealon, you have always i been dearer to me far than geld. To yott I have 'ever Seen devoted, -Yet, you are the cause of 411.nuy WS. You harle played eie false. The eime has come that 111.1.1St Part. gi".1.7.e.k1 fi.aCilY and long" ingly at the cigar, • thee threw 51 ieto • the- , street. I had been , con- yincsdethat tobacco- was ruining Me. 'For three itioathe thereafter und.erwent the most awful agony. never ,exeset to stiffer more in this world or the next. 1. didn't go to ae\r ehysiolan or • encettica in any way :to palliate my'. sufferings. Pies- SiblY 4 Physician might have given me moinethieg to softenthe tortures. Neither did I break my vow, I had made up my 'need. that I meet for- ever ahandori tobaceo 05. I wottlei be reined by it. 'At the end of three moethe Iny longing for - it abated. 1 gained twenty-five potnids 1 weiglit. - I slept well for seven or eight hours, every eight. halve never smoked froni that day to this, and while no one knows better than 1 the pleasures' to be derived 'Crone tobacco, I am still content to forget theme en0Wing their effect." • TORONTO GIRL, DROWNED, Four Others Meet Death at .Bat- tle Creek. A. Battle Creek, Mich., despatch. says: Five members of a boating party of six eniployes of the Battle Creek Sanitarium were drowned on. Wednesday night in Lake Goguac. Their boat was ran &mit by the steamer Welcome. Among the dead is Fennic Willis; nurse, whose home is. near Toronto, • Ont. The party -woe- returning to the Sanitarium abont ten o'clock, 'just as the little steamer Welconie was leaving her dock, with an excursion party. Di scene unexplained way the Wel- come ran the rowboat down and crushed ite All the occupants were thrown into the water. • -ea* a -- KING SOLOMON'S MINES. Dis•coveriea Slade Among the Zim- babwe Ruins. • A Duluwayo despatch says; Fur- ther discoveries have been made in the g'reat . rains at'-Zinibabwe. Two ancient ascents leading up to the citadel have been found, and the cit- adel itself has been cleared. An 'old stairway •was.also, diseovered„ and vatious objects, irieluding geld. ban- , 2;103 and pieces; Pottery FOR 'BENEFIT OF LABOR* was renetrated for the first . tinie found. One 'of the passages which is 994 feet in length. The ruins- of Mashonaland were first mentioned by Dr. Livingstone J n recent times, hut since then Many writers and explorers have dealt with them, and it has beeu feeelY asserted that the geldeworkings here can be identified with the Ophir from whichKieg Solomon g�% his, gold for the Tempi& itt derusalern, Ex- pei'ts say' that gold ,to the extent of seores of millions of pounds must have been taken away from these mines. The 111/13 S. at Zimbabwe are held LO be of. IS:teenier= megin. The great •Zinitutbwe, Temple ie celculaiS ed to *have been stending in 1100.3.1. the oticaing of the 'building of the New 'S'orle Ohrunlice• Of flonnueree each ef the eleitere will proceed to the eection affording facilities for theiti reepective 'Rites of iiiireatign English lYlechanics Will Visit the United States. • A London despatch says :-Alfred Moseley, the diamond ineichant, who recently visited the Ud nite States to arrange .f01' sending an indtietriai and educational com- missionm to America, invited -several tritise trades' unionists and repre- sentatieNas of staple industries in the United Kingdom on Wednesday to visit the United States% as his guests, for the purpose of examining 'into the ihdustrial situation • and progreF.,,s -with reference to their ef- fect on the position a a d prospects of the workin g men. Afterittending than in which they will be assisted hy eisie ledetationiets and labor leaders. Mr. Mosley rays the Com- misdou will be strictly non-political. THREATENED STRIKE. 100,000 Trainmen Demand. In- crease of Wages. A Melwaukqe despatch sa„ys September 15111, the lerge talls'ay systenis of the country will. he con- ItiOnted - NV i a demand by 100,000 members of • the :ilrotherlinod 01 Railway Trainmen for au increase in. wageS,-Which Will mean an addition- al euthey of e'S,000.00(e tl month, for wages by rafiroads in the (ottiltf"Y, 01' tho altema.tVc of 0. :Seeks a•hieh will eclipse all previous strikes, 1117 al itding the demonstration of , the' eri can itai1wuy ni cm. n 1894 The dema P), 10111011 11 co 0hieut for- mulated bore., but' eot yet presented, am for ali inevense of 20 1)61' cent,' in wages. AVALANCHE OF INSECTS. S ITEMS. 1111••••••••••• Telegraphic 13riefs From All Over the Globe. CANADA. ltiectiteellsiec is to have a eolonY of Fin- • i• aOpQ.Kati.OS.S Of boring for oil weer beocitszlineidit,etti s now , court house will be commenced next relying There is a, ecarcity of T-tOant (hirryisekseelpas.88Y,rcoliwlein,a,Cape Breton. The Petroleum has been found ou the propefey of Mr,. N. Tetreau, a Hull notary, abeet eine miles from Gat- lneaJolllin Sullivan, blacksmith, of St. Jobn, N. 13,, left an estate valued at $4,000. Of this- ono thousand is to be spent in a marble tomb.' J. W. Tyrrell of /Ia.milton, who has just returned Irene Klondike, says that Dawson. City has been oVer-boomed, and that merchants are leaving it. The gold output this year will not be more than hall of that of the previous year, • Major Howe; Superintendent of the NerthWest Motinted. Police, Maeleod 'district, is dead at Macleod, NSW. He ' jollied the police in 1879, eerved hi the .Northwest .11ebellion and in Sonth Africa, being made `Superintendent of, Police on, his eee turn. . GREAT BRITAIN. Lord Roberts and accrete' French have beeit presented with the free- dom of Canterbury. •'Lord 'Wolscley, who wag reported to .have described the United States ariny as the best in the world, says the report was. correct.. The anneal report of' the Labor Department of, the Board .of Trade shows a decline 51 the wags bill of. the United. Kmgdom for the first Mine since 1395; no 'Jess than 625;- 000 miners being effected during the first half of the present. year. UNITED STATES. Sept. 1,5t1i about 100,000 members of the Brotherhood of , Railway Trauma,: will demand an increase in wages of 20 per cent. Census officers seer that illiteraey amens adult males is less than half as prevalent in the large cities as it is in the rest of the -United 'States. It is likely that Armour .and Swift, who have centered the cold storage egg inarket, will be. heavy losers through the coolnessof the summer,. as very few eggs have been,, spoiled by the heat, and prices are likely to fall. ' Every dog and cat, within the con- fines 'of the town' of .Stroh,- La- grange "County, Indiana', has, been killed by order of the health author - Wes, who believe that the canines and felines are responsible for an epidemic of diphtheria which is rag - Mg in the village. Prof. it. Benjamin Andrews' claim that celibacy promotes crime re- ceives confirMation from statistics collected by the Chicago librarian, Thigo 8. Grosser, according to which 21,467 persons arrested in Chicago this year were single and only 10,- 045' were married. . • - GENERAL. ' American capitalists have offered to establish a trolley car line in St. Petersburg. • Large deposits of iron ore of 'in- comparable richness have been found in Norway. Experiments in wireless telephon- ing Were successfully conducted ;be- tween Ses.snitz•and Kolberg, Pomer- ania, a dietetic° of 105 utiles. Marguerite Duclerie, a brilliant star of the music hall stage ten years ego', has :jest died in a Paris - garret of 'starve:Me. • A-. mammoth beef packing plant will be erected itt Mexico, and a cazimaign against the United States beef -trust will be entered upon. . MARRIED IN A - BALLOON. Couple United at a Height of One A Binghamton, N. Y despatch says: Thomas L. Bennett.. cif the Fletcher Manufacturing Company, of Providence, and Mies Edith Ring, who -is an 'employe of the Manches- ter Mill,were married on a wager in a balloon at, a height of .0110 Mile' before a large "crowd of 'spectators, at a Tioge, Pa., heir. &prize had been offered the couple who would be married • in a balloon, and a friend of Dennett's-, knowing of his lapproaching wedding, in a joke 1aveote to him oleoring to wager 325 ;that he rittee aot accept the propos- ) Wen. Bennett coneerred with his fiance and elle censented A ininesS itt- was found who was willing to go up with them and the cereinon3r was performed in 'midair. The • descent wast•safely 'inede and the eteuPle eaid. the experience was, a most cleeighte- ful iuxfh novel one. TUNNEL QUITE FEASIBLE Remarkable Plague of Wingece, Ants in Bohemia. • .4 • Vienna . despatch says:, e° A swarne of . nnlhons of winged ants brie euddenly invaded 'ileapletee, Bo- hemia, covering alt streets fetid roads. They tiew inerS'the eyes, ears, anti 'noses of passers-by, leav- ing painful blots on the skin In the light or the inifierloy sun the eoil shone as though covered with countless diamonds. Level Ampthi 1, the Covet:me of ',4adras, has a femous al Pilfitic 1e-. cord: One :of the, finest recce. evee reieee at I411110y 10111 ihtL 111 10 hi ell uy Nickal Is, and Aim) h _beat W. A. L. „Pletcher f.1.,!Id Nick -sills :for the, Goblets ,in :1891, Al though a. ()reeve lengths hihlinci w heal hal f -Way over the eouree, and 10 all esetear- tinee' quite item: U th0 former P111' 11)7 sillier dogged enfluran re), mataiged ,to win the Are by a haite • Wben 01 thea Chlooloe ()Mee abate :.,11 yeers ago Lord Ailmpl.hill''Woe P Borings in, Bed of St. Lawrence Indicate No Obstacles, A 'Montreal despatch. says: The t thoviti es of the One bec: Soil thorn liitilwoy cePe et that the ,b o Pin 'its and eoulireing in eonnectieit With the poseci tuneet. ender the. St. Lawrence it-ili.be com pleted , this week . No tierio tie plays i cal obstetictiona liaVe 1,i001.1 f01111(1 in the bed of the river, mid in fact the soil 'and rock are of tito qu al i ty host 8111 ed for 111 1111111 purposes , Wli en I he sound Inge have }veal finiehed the plans • will' be pre - paved at alien and forwarded to �- (11200 for p proVel by the, tioirera- afeene. Accopilifig to. the charter of• Ilia eompa ny their plans must be in the hanclk al the Covernuielit within sie months of the time When,the Act ,of Paeleathent wee paesed.• V PERSONAL TIT -BITS _- Notes of Interest 411014 Some, Prominent People. Probably the oldest soldier in.the world is FieldeMarehal Lieutenant. Baron. Schwartz Mettler, • who, though in the ninety-sixth year of hiS age, is still on the active list of the Austrian army. He has been an. officer for seventy-four years and a general since 1852. The Iliaroness Burdett -Cott tts is, still an. indefatigable worker, al -id, riders on tops of omnibuses passing her house in Piccadilly at nine in " the morning may frequently see her busy at her correspondence. She. persona:11y visits many charities • in which she is interested, is a most , genial hostess, and constant theatre- goer, and 4 great reader. The Emperor Menelik of Abyssinia, is a great temperance reformer. HO has forbidden the sale of' intoxi- canto- in mar part of his dominions, and the culprit Who infringes this law is liable to the heaviest penal- ties. 'It 1.F3 Said that the Eniperor felt compelled to taketheee stringent. measuree . by reason of the lament- able excesses to which limey of his' nobles gave way. General Gatacre, when, in India, performed a .sporting feat which, perhaps; few people would care eo, emulate. With relays of horses he - rode front Simla to Kalka and back in a day. The 'distance ie 150 miles, with a rise in the gradient of 7,000 - feet on the return journey. Such a ride, even on a beautifully -graded Military road, would have proved too much for most men. • Among the art scholarships just. awarded by the Council -General of the Seine, France,' for young paint- ers, sculptors, aschitects, and en- gravers born' within the Department of the Seine, is tam of 3240 it year for painting, won by a boy named. Boulanger. This clever student is only , fourteen years of age. m cry poor, and without parents. I -Te has-, for •some time exhibited at the, Sa- i4ill'Iihoii.st• raciotnstributions generally. be- i . 'Deputy-Sergeon .Major Ford, the, celebrated hunter of big ganie, who died the other day, was accustomed to keep it"shooting'-book," in which. be entered an account of every wild animal that fell to his gun. Tins interesting volume records the • deaths of 122 tigers, thirty-five pans there, • and seven. Indian lions, be- sides a great number of 'bison, ele- phants, jaguars, hyenas, ete. Major Ford for many years held the record for big game shooting. Lord Kitchener is popular even. with the boys- selling flowers in the Street. One of them, when the pollee were looking another way, climbed a. tree near the National Gallery at"s the unveiling of the Gordon statue to get a better view- of -tlictoldier whom, everYone, delightS to honor. • The carriage passed quite close to the tree, and the young flower -,seller was able to throw one of his -beet spechnens right at Lord Kitchener's feet. The General picked 51 up, with a pleasant smile of thanks,, and placed iti in his button -hole. • Prince Henry- of Prussia has been occupying his spare time in the composition .of music. Be is an ex- cellent pianist and a wonderfully clever improvisator. Ilis latest com- position is a graceful gavotte, ;which will shortly be published in Ger- many. Besides a good lical of dance music, the prince has completed the scoring of the parts for an orchestra, of ' wind instruments, -no light achievement for an anutteor: - The German Emperor takes considerable interest in, his brother's musical works, having hiineelf composed a• seee march. It was as Adjutant of the Cam- bridgeshire Reghnent that the •re- centlyedeceaesed General' Sir' Mark Walker won his V.C. at Inkerman. On the advance of the Ressians he sprang over it wall, calling on his officers and Men to follew him, which they did to a man, and hurled back '- at the pellet Of the bayonet two, strong battalions of lluesianstl whd in another- minute Would bave gain- ed the -English posetiou. His „first . reward for this and other acep.' of If • heroism was- a captaincy instee 8rd Buffs. The Victoria Cross and the Legion of Honor followed soon after. .A story has been told of Mr. Che- valier, whose full mune, by -the -bye, is Albert Onesemo Britaunicus Gwatheeoye Lotus Chevalier. He was singing in a small town not far from London. The audience_ had been very enthusiastic, and the portrayer of coeterelife remarked on the fact to the manager afterwards saying‘ that he thought they were alinost too de- monstrative. "Why ,?" asked the worthy. "Well," Mr. Chevalier re- plied, 'they Wer0 • k110 Ing' I heir timbrellas and sticks on the floor all the time I was on the stage." "That wrilen't applause," came . the (mink reply ; "yoe see, ethe poste office is right above us, an.ct they wore stamping letters for the A chaeacteristic etory of the Pre- • Went of tbe United States is one relating to a bear hunt undertaken by Colonel Boaserelt some years ago, There exieted in the •Selkirks' a species of grizzly bear,. one of width he had eat as' yet shot, and he de- termineel to secure a specimen. The gnide wire tells the incident seid that their tante across one of these heals lather 'unexpectedly, au 4 that the allimal charged them Ile add- ed. : sYou • know Colonel. Roosei-eit le very ..near-sighted, and carriee eee- erel kinds of •• glasses -em pair to read with, one to elmot with, teed another to walk with \Veen the bear charged us thd Colorel had .013 glass E'F, aitcl when told him the beast' was 'Open -him he coolly took on' those glases, foldeel them uje put them away in 1119 pocket, took out arid wiped hie sir4mootuiiireip,t'iyglaeses and pat them en u aoci delibeen tear as if t here Wort 'not a bee 111 1110 w b olo country. By' the time he had gcit glaSSOS ste'd tito betel" Was,' their, but 'he put up hi' gun nee . killeel him in his tracke, and did not seem in the least bit excited,"