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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1903-4-16, Page 3TIM MARKETS Prices of Grain, Cattle, de in Trade Centres. Torotto, ,April 14. - Wheat, 'the market ie quiet, wit1i feeling rather better at the close. No. 2 red win- ter and white quoted at 70e middle freight„ anti at 701e east. No. 2 spring n.oaxinal at 69c on Miclimid, antl No. 2 goose tit 65ao ou. Mid- land. Manitoba, wheat steady; No. 1 heed quoted at Mc Goderich, •and No, 1 Northern at 78c Gotlerich. No. 1 'Meta grincling in 'transit, 85.1c lake ports, ana No. 1 Northern at 84c. Oats Maricet• is quiet, with prices -unchanged. No. 2 white quoted at 29c bigh freights, and at 291c middle freight. Barley -Trade is quiet, with No. 8 extra quoted at 45e meddle freight, and No, 3 at 43c middle freight. Corn - Market is dull, Cana'clian feed corn quoted at 41 to 42e west, arid at 461c hero, No..3 American yellow at 47e on track, Toeonto, arid N. 3 mixed at 46c. Peas - No. 2 white i quoted at 65 to 660 west, and at 66 to 67c eact. Fleur - Ninety per 'cent. patentS endlianged at $2.65 middle freights In buyers' sacks, for export. Straight rollers of special brands far 'domestic trade quoted at $3.20 to $3,35 in bbls, Manitaba flour erbeady, No. 1 patents, $4 to $4,10, and seconds, $8.80. Strong bak- ers', $8.70 to $$.80, bags included, Taronto. Millfeed Bran 'is firm at $18 here. At Outside points bran is cruoto'cl at $17, an'cl Shorts at $18. Manitoba bran, in sacks, $20, and sfeerrts at $21 here. COUNTRY PRODUCE. BIG C.P.R. CONTRACTS. Three Firms to Suppler Material for Bridges. A Montreal despatch says l-Tbe Canadian Paeifie Railway Company gave oat on Wednesday three con- tracts to Cariadiau firms for ma- terial for bridges and construction work, The contracts in themselves represent in value something like $250,000, but they form part of a much larger seheine, which •em- braces a, contemplated expenditure during the present year of between $1,700,000 and $2,000,000. Mr. C. N. Monsarrat, engineer for bridges, gave out some 'details of the con- tracts which have been. entered into. The Canada Foundry Oornperty, of Toronto, will he aunounces, supply sixty-nine plate girders, weighing. 1/7,60 tons, .for new bridges. The Dominion Bridge Company have been awarded a contract for three lehroulgait iattice spans of 160 feet, to be erected on the Atlantic division of the system, The teel required for these tame bridges weighs 465 tone. The Hamilton Bridge Company have secured the contract for one 100 feet through lattice span, weighing eighty tons, for the line through the mountains in British Columbia. The same company were given the con- tract for six lattice spans,' weighing 450 tons, and four plate girders. The deck lattice struetures supplied by the company will be erected by the Dominion Bridge Company, but the C.P.R. will itself erect the great- er part of the plate girders supplied by the Canada Foundry Company, CONFUSION IN ROIVIE. Beans - Trade is quiet, with prices nominal. Mo'dium, $1.50 to $1.75 per bushel, and hand-picked $1.90 to $2. Dried apples -nettle inactive, with prices nominal at 81c per lb.; evap- orated, 6 to dac. Honey - The market is quiet, with prices unelhangetl. Straine'd sells _at 8 to 81e per lb., an'd comb at $1.25 to $1.50. Hay, baled -.The market is quiet at unchanged prices. Choice timo- thy, 39.50 to $10 on track, and mixed at 38.50. Straw - The market is quiet for car lots on track at 35:50 to $6 a ton. Maple Syrup - The marricet is quiet,. with receipts small. Wine gal- lons sell at 85 to 90e, and Imperial gallons at $1.10. Potatoes - Market is steady, with fair offerings. Car lots .are quoted at 65e to 31 per bag, and smalllots at 31.15 to 31,20. Poultry - Market is quiet, ancl, •"-prices unchanged. • We quote: Dry re/eked fresh killed turkeys, 17 to 18e per lb.; geese, 10 to 12c per lb.; clacks, 31 to $1.25 per pair; chick- ens (young), 85c to $1; old hens 60 te 75c per pair. ElOG PRODUCTS. Dressed hogs are nominal. Cured meats are unchanged, with a good deraanel. We quote: Bacon, clear; 10 to 10qc, in • ton and case lots. Pork -Mess, $21 to $21.50; 'do„ short cut, 322.50 to 323. Smolced meats - Hams, 13 to 18ec; rolls, 114 to 12e; shoulders, 11c; backs, 11 to 141c; breakfast bacon, 14 to 14a,c. Laid -- The market is unchanged. We quote: Tierces, 10ee; tubs, 11c; pails, 11.e.e; compound, 8e to 10c. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Montreal, April 14, - The local markets are beginning to show a little more activity; rather more enquiry is noted in the grain mar- ket, and a little business has been done in oats at nem prices; peas, on the other hand, are weaker, and prices liave been reduced. For Man- itoba wheat there is a fair enquiry; in fames, feeds, and meals no change is apparent; provisions are quiet and steady for hogs, and fairly ac- tive for srnolce'd meats and lard; cheese) and butter are firm to strong, the latter having advanced lc per pound; eggs are active at steady prices. Grain - No. 1 Northern bard wheat, 740; No. 1 Northern, 72e, March delivery; No. 1 hard: 75c; No. a Northern, 73,ae, ex -store, May delivery; peas, 69ac high freights; No. 2 oats, in store here, 86e to 37c; rye, 51c east; buck- wheat, 48a to 49c east, for May 'de- livery; peas, 65e high freights; rye, 60c; buckwheat, 56 to 57c; peas, 75e, to '76. Flour-ellanitoba patents, $4.10 to 34.20; seconds, 33.80 to 33.90; Ontario straigbt rollers, $8.-- 50 to 33.65; in bags, 31.7.0 to 31.- 75; patents, $3.70 to $4.10. Rolled oatstaMillers' prices, 32, bags, and $4.15 per bbl. Feeell-Manitoba bran, 319 to $20; shorts, 320 to 321, bags inelulded; Onterio bran in bulk, $18 to $18.50; shorts, in bulk, $20 to $21. UNITED' STATES IVIARKETS. Detroit, April 14. - Wheat closed -Cash, No, 2 white, 76e; No. 2 red, cash, 76c; May, 761c; July, 74c. Duluth, April 14. - Wheat - To arrive, No. 1 hard, 78e; No. 1 Northern, 76e; May, 75ac; No. 2 Northern, 741c; May, No. 1 hard, 771c; July, 751,1c, Oats - May, 381e. aVfilwaulcee, April 14. Wlieat - nigher; No.. 1 Northern, 78 to 78c; No. 2 Northern, 76 to 761e; Ma, 75,1c. Rye -Firm; No. 1, 52c. Bar- ley -Steady; No. 2, 60e; sample, 42 to 521c. Corn -- May, 581e. Toledo, April 14. -- Wboat-a Strong.; cash, 75a0; May, 'Mac; July, 72ec. Corn - Firm; April, 42,1c; May, 421c; July, 451c. Oats - Steady.; April, 841c; May, 381;e; July, 80e. Rye -No, 2, 521c. Seed 1.e./-Thil1, firm; ceela $6.70; April, 36.55; October, $5.87i bid; prime timothy, $1.60 nominal; 'do nisike, $7,50. Troops Fire at Strikers Who As- sembled in. City. A Rome despatch says :-Owing to the •demonstrations of the strikers foreigners are deserting the city as rapidly as .possible. This alone will mean a daily loss to the boarding house keepers of $16,0,00. Five hundred French pilgrims who ar- rived on Weal-rev:lay wore trans- ported in all manner of waggons and carts. Tbe party arrived at the Garibaldi bridge just as a detach- ment of cavalry chargv,d a mob and a scene of indescribable confusion en- sued. About noon the strikers gathered ou the Corso Vittorio Em- anuele. The troops charged, fired three vollegs and dispersed them. About a dozen men were reported to have been wounded. The Government has determined to have a sufficient force of troops on band to maintain order under any cirmunsta,nces, and has issued instructions to send ten more battalions of troops to Rome. CANADIAN LIVE STOCK. TIM HOUSE OF COMMONS Notes of l'roceedings in the Can- adian Parliament. Can Be Turned Out as Good as the British. An Ottawa despatch says :-F. W. Rodson, Dominion C.omanissioner ef Live Stock, was before the Agricul- ture Committee on Wednesday morn- ing to tell of his investigatio3as in Great Britain last year. On the whole he considers that we turn out or can turn out, as good a quality of animal for the butcher as the British farmer, but we need more care exercised in breeding and feed- ing, and more continuity than bas been usual. In regard to fairs Mr. Hodson thinks the side show at- tractions should be superseded by attractions of a competitive or com- mercial nature, such as they have in. Great Britain, and that ahe admis- :don fee at big shows like Ottawa, Toronto and London, might well be ma. -de a. little higher for the first couple of days. RESENT KING'S TITLE. Scotchmen. Make Themselves Dis- agreeable. An Edinburgh, Scotland, despatch says :-Tleere was a curious scene at the meeting here on Wednesday call- ed to make preparations for the forthcoming. visit of King Edward to Scotland. Several of the local Scot- tish officials refused to have any- thing to do with welcoming bis Ma- jesty until he shall have dropped the title of Edward VII. The objectors protested that the title is an insult to Scotland. They added that, judging from the addresses he re- ceived at Lisbon, even the King him- self seemed to realize that he was only King of England. Considerable uproar pre-vailed, but the meeting ultimately refused to listen any fur- ther to the malcontents. • CATCHING OF STURGEON. -1- Hook and Line Fishing Prohibit- ed by Government. A Toronto despatch says :-The Ontario Fishery Department has re- ceived word from the Dominion Gov- ernment that an orderein-Couneil has been passed prohibiting the catching of sturgeon by hook and line. The new regulation will go into effect immediately and no more licenses for this kind of fishing will beis-, sued, The fact that many immature fish are caught in this way has led the Dominion authorities to pass the order -in -Council. SEEDING IN, MANITOBA. Operations Are Well 'Under Way in Har-ney District. .A Winnipeg despatch says :-Seed- ing operations are well under way in Hartney settlement, The land is in magnificent condition for spring work, and the grain has been all got into the ground in good shape.IVIork was commenced at the end of March, and the weather has been favorable for continuing it over since. 'During the whole of the winter the Souris Plains have had less snow than any other part of alanitobee and the first few fine days left, the ground dry and ready for the seed. e on.••••••••• PTJBLIO RECORD OFFICE. When Mr, Fisher returns from Japan he will introduce legislation to provide for a Publie Record Office, similar to that whiele prevails in the Old Country. This will eine brae° the arcitives branch of the De- partreent of Agriculture, and the re- cord branches of the Secretary of State and Privy Council. MILITIA ACT, Sir Fre'derick . Borden's bill to amend the Militia' Act will ie a con- solidation of the Act and amending Acts, and willeauthorixe a number of important reforms, particularly in thedirection of giving the Minister wider 'discretion in expenditure of theof the Adberta Railway and Coal Parliamentary votes. Authority Company, southerly to a point on will he given to extend the period of the international boundary line. annual drill from 12 ,to 16 'days. It 4 is said that the bill will also amend -- the Militia Act to permit of either SIR GEORGE WHITE. a Canadian officer or Impertal ogle PROMOTING EMIGRATION. A retiarri brought 'down shows that there are ;22 Canadian emigration offices a work in foreign. countries, One in in Icelenil, one in Beigiuxn, and twenty are employed. in the 'United States. Tim average salary is 31,200 per annum. POSTAGE, RATES. Sir William Muloac bas received from tae poutmaster of the Baha- mas, a coMmunication in watch he expresses Ids willingness to receive Canadian newspapers and perioal- cals at our 'domestic, rates. On and after April 110,therm , erm Canadian publicatioris niay be sent from any erne() in Canada 'to the Babama Is- lands at our domestic rates. WESTERN R.AIL'WAY, The St. Mary's River Itanway Company seelcs power to build a railway from some point between) Lethbridge and Sterling, on the line .1••••••••,•• cer being appointed to• the command Ma" a Field Marshal by King of theernilitia. Edward. TO HELP BERNIER. A Gibraltar despatch says :-King A delegation of members of Parlia- Edward arrived here on Wednesday ment and Senators waite'cl on the from Lisbon • on board the royal Minister of Marine" with Captain yacht Victoria and Albert. Me Bernier, in support of G•overmaent ships dressed, manned sides and assietance for a polar expedition. The delegation askeitthat the Gov-: ernment peovide a boat for the ex- pedition. It would cost 380,000, Mr. Prefontaine, who was favorably impressed with the proposition; ask- ed if the Government could have the steamer back after the trip was over, and Mr. Bernier said be was quite agreeable to this. MILITIA PENSION ACT. Sir Frederick: Borden introducad his bill to amend the Militia Pension Act,. He explained that this bill was intended to provide that mem- bers of the civil service who became officers of the permanent force of the militia under the Militia Pension Act should have their count for which they paid into the superannu- ation fund. The clause was precise- ly similar to that inserted in the Northwest Mounted Police Act- at last session. IRISH IMMIGRATION OFFICES. Mr. Clarke learned from Sir Wil- liam altilock that the Canadian office at Belfast had been closed for a few days last month. Mr. Killnarn.-had had charge of the office from the lst of April, Mr. O'Kelly leaving been transferred to Dublin; 1.811 Irish emigrants had been sent to Canada last year by the officers of the Gov- ernment. The salaries and traveling expenses of these officers amounted to $14,175. HOG CHOLERA. . Mr. Ingram (E. Elgin) moved for 'the papers regarding the recent out- break of hog cholera at Yarmouth Township, Ont. CATTLE GUARDS. Mr. Lennox (W. Simcoe) moved for all papers in connection with the appointment of the Cattle Guard Commission. INCORPORATED COMPANIES. Mr. Bickerdike introduced a. bill respecting incorporated companies, and Mr. Puttee one to amend the Conciliation Act. The latter has for its object to make the Arbitration Board more workable and generally useful. ROME RULE. Sir Wilfrid Laurier moved that Mr. Costigan's Home Rule resolu- tion be engrossed and presented to His Majesty as an address from the House of Commons. SUBSIDIES TO RAILWAYS. Mr. Blair informed Mr. Davis that the total cost on capital account of the Intercolonial Railway was $69,- 418,275, and of the Prince Edward Island Railway 35,112,455. The fol- lowing amounts have been paid as Federal subsidies to railways in each -of the provinces :- Prince Edward Island None. Nova Scotia . $ 1,872,000 NOW Brunswick... .... , 1,292,000 Quebec.. 10,091,000 Ontario. 18,750,0.00 Manitoba.. 3,259,000 Northwest Territories 7,457,000 British Columbia- 9,682,000 LAND GRANTS. Mr. Davis (Saskatchewan) was told that the total amount of lands granted in Manitoba and the North- west Territories as subsidies to rail- ways is 56,087,072 acres. Of these 29,986,826 acres have been earned. No land subsidies have been granted since 1896. ELECTORAL CORRUPTION. In committee on M. Charlton's bill to amend the Dominion Elec- tions Act, the Prime Minister stated that as Mr. Fielding's suggestion made the other day of a special com- mittee to consider the best means to get rid of existing electoral abuses had appeared to meet with general acceptance, the Government had deelded to act on that sages - tion, and would do so after the Easter recess. TRANSPORTATION. Mr, Borden was informed by the Premier that the statement rnade in the Government organs that the Transportation Commission . had been appointed was not correct. No appointments had been made. BILLS INTRODUCED. The following bills were introduc- ed and road the first time : To incorporate the Broaville and North-Western Railway Conipany.- Mr. Dymont. Respecting the liTohtreal Fire In- surance Company. -Mr, Lariviere.. Respectirw' the Niagara Welland Power Coraparne-Mr. Guthrie. To incorporate the Dominion. of Canada Improvement Company. - Mr. Carripbell. ReSpecting the Denali -lion adiukaerantee Company.' -Mr. • To incorporate the Shipping Fed- eratiori of Canada. -Mr. Bickerdtke, Burglary Bicker- SONAL VOINTZita, Notes of interest ..h.bont Some Pzominent People. The Prince and Princees of NVales are the possessors of no fewer than nineteen pianos, every one of which was a wedding present. It is said that Madame aVfelba, bee with her in Australia 31,000,000 worth of jewellery, and this large fortune in small bulk necessitates the employment of four policemen each night to guard it. The prima done pays the police department 3e2:1r1, 50sa day for •rnan she em- ploys to guard her diamonds and p King Victor Emmanuel, wilose great hobby is coiu collecting, is just putting the finisbing touches to his magnificent work on the coins of Italy, the cost of whioh will be $30,- 000. Sonia idea of tbe mageithde of the book may be gathered from the fact that there have been no fewer than 227 Mints in Italy at one time or another, The King has a remarkably fine eollection of coins. It now consists of over 60,000 spe- cimens. The Duke of Portland is the proud possessor of a blotting -book which is .both interesting and unique. It is a present from his wife, and on its rich silver mountings are engraven tho names ef all the races won by his historic race horse Donovan. It will be remeralaered that Donovan's saluted. The King, who wore a winnings, amounting in 0110 mem- fielcinnarshal's uniform, and. his orable year to over 3350,000; were given to the Duchess, and spent by ber in building almshouses' for wi- dows of the Dulco's tenaets. suite landed later an the day. Ris Majesty was received by the Gov- ernor and by the naval and military staffs, while royal salutes were fired. .A. procession was formed, and the King drove through the streets, which were lined with soldiers and cheering crowds, to the Neutral Ground, and .on returning, went to Government Reuse. The town and eock were illuminated at night. King Edward was present at a State banquet given by Sir George Stuart 'Wbite, the Governor of Gib- raltar, and the defender of Lady- smith during the South African war. During the banquet the King announced that he had promoted Sir George White to the rank of field- marshal. CURE OF BLOOD -POISONING. Injection of Formalin Saved a Wornan.'s Life. 'When the discovery was first made that many, if not most, of the acute diseases that afflict mankind are due to the presence of bacteria of various kinds in the blood or the tissues of the body, it was believed that tho great problem of medical science, that is to say, the cure of disease, was on the point of solu- tion, If disease is caused by mi- crobes, it was argued, it is neces- sary only to kill the microbes and the disease will disappear. Nothing cquld sound more simple, but when it came to reducing this theory to practice it was made plain that the human body is not a test- tube ; that most substances which are destructive of the germs of dis- ease outside of the body are also injurious or even fatal to man if introduced into the body in sufficient quantity to kill the microbes. Thus the problem, although somewhat modified, was still far from a defin- ite solution. The search has not been abandon- ed, however, and every little while discoveries are made which excite freshhope af final victory. An event of recent occurrence has done much to inspire the fighters of dis- ease with renewed confidence. A woman in one of the hospitals of New York was at the point of death from a form of blood -poison- ing. Examination of her blood showed it to be swarming with the species of bacteria which is char- acteristic of that disease. Her physician, having tried all the usual methods of treatment without suc- cess, at last resorted to an injection of ' formalin -a powerful antiseptic - directly into the veins. Almost immediately the fever sub- sided, consciousness returned, and the vital forces rallied. The woman was snatched from the very grasp of death; and is alive to -day. . This is only one case,, and is a slender foundation upon which to build high hopes ; tor cases of seem- ing resurrection no less miraculous than this have been seen many times when no treatment was employed. And even if further experience proves that a cure for this particular form of blood -poisoning has been found, we shall still be far from a panacea for bacterial diseases. Nevertheless, the demonstration that a germicide can be given in sufficient quantity to destroy virulent bacteria in the body without injury to the patient would mark a great forward step in the progress of medical science. - Youth's Companion. • In raids on betels and cafes in Pretoria over one hundred foreigners were arrested who were without per- mits to be in the Transvaal. By the new tariff bill, 'passed re- cently, the cost of living will be in- creased in Switzerland, and hotel prices have already been raised. While herring fishing off Corn- wall just now is but poor, the Ger- man fishermen at the mouth of the Elbe are taking such catches that they are selling fish by the ton to farmers for manure. The price of £5,600 was paid at an auction in Lon.don, Eng., on Monday for it volume of William Blake's "n- lustra.tions to tbe Book of Job," published by the great artist -poet in, 1825, and containing 22 engrav- ings and 21 original designs in colors. Two years ago an elderly Greek merchant of Smyrna married a young and beautiful widow. The latter reclently became enamoured of a handsome and young but penniless man, and tremblingly confided her passion to her husband. The mer- chant at once agreed to a divorce, presented the couple with £2,000, and last week atteeded their wed- ding in the capacity of best man, Mr. G. F. Watt % eat, veteraa art- ist, says 01 hs youth, "I was com- pelled to forego most of the vigorous exercises common to youth. I bave never smoked. Immeasurably great- er things were done before tobacco was used than have been accom- plished since. Tobacco may soothe over -wrought nem es, but then there ought not to be such things as nerves overwrought. I take no al- cohol. and at meal times do not drink oven a glass of water." One of the most eccentic of mil- lionaires was Senor Ythrbe, a Mexi- can, who died quite recently. He possessed a beautiful villn on the Cimiez Hill at Nice, but always dreaded that one day a ray of sun- shine would kill him, and in con- sequence for a long time he shunned daylight and fresh air altogether. Every window in the villa was heav- ily curtained and all the apartments were artificially lighted, while his carriage was shuttered and almost hermetically sealed whenever he drove out in the daytime. A famous collection of jewels given her by crowned heads is in the pos- session of Madame Rejane. Sbe pos- sesses a ring presented to her by King Edward, a ruby bracelet from the Czar. of Russia, and a. brooch from the German Emperor. Queens have vied with Kings in paying trib- ute of gold and stones to Madame Rejane, for she has sapphires given her by the Queen of Spain, and to- pazes from the Queen of Portugal. It was Don Carlos who gave her the celebrated pair of mules behind which she used to drive on the occasion of her last -visit to London. Mr. Richard Gatling, the inventor of the famous gun which bears his na,me, who died just recently, was a dabbler in science at the age of 12. At that time his father was puzzling over a machine for sewing cotton seeds, but he could not perfect it, and at last, in a fit of despair, he called in his son- to his aid. The lad listened attentively to the ae- tails of the proposed invention, ful- ly grasped the difficulties, shut bum - elf up in a room to think, and in a little while suggested a way out of them. This was eagerly adopted by the elder Gatling, with the result that the machine was suacessfully perfected. Seem Pedro Alvarado, the mil- lionaire philanthropist, who has of- fered to pay the public 'debt of Mexi- co, bas risen to wealth and power almost in a night. But a year or two age be was a "peon,". working with hundreds of other men in the mines, with the familiar big hat of the Mexican miner on his lima and sandals on his feet. To -'day he is rich beyond the dreams of avarice, and every year adds a new million to his vast estate. The discovery of a mine was the beginning of bis rise, and this mine, situated at Par- ral, in tbe State of Chihuahua, has proved to be one of the largest, ore producers in the country, with an output Of about 2,000 tons a day. The •oldest 'doctor in the world is Dr. Jean David, who has this month celebrated the 102nd anniversary of his birth at, Montpelier. For fifty years he practiced at Grabels. as a country doctor, visiting his patients daily on horseback, In his youth he witnessed the march of Wellington and the Peninsular array through Southern. France after the Battle of Toulouse. Asked the other day to give his receipo for longevity, Dr. David replied: "Staniety in all re- spects, The human body is a won- derful machine whose organs should never be overtaxed. For my part I continue living much as I have al- ways lived. I an only worried by one thing -the idleness to which fail- ing eyesight has now condemned rne." HOW TO ROLL AN UM13.11ELLA. Every man who awns an umbrella has wondered at some time or Other why it is that he can never roll it up as compactly and neatly as it was rolled when he bought it. In- stead of twisting the handle, .you should take hold of tho umbrella just above the points of the cover ribs. These points naturally. lie evenly around the stick. Keep hold of these, pressing them. tightly against the stick, and then roll up the cover. Holding thearibe prevents them from getting twisted .out. of place or bending out of Shape,' Then the Silk is bound to feat evarayeeend roll smooth and tight. 'When the umbrella is rolled in this way, it Will last twice as long. NEWS ITEMS. Telegraphic Briefs From AD Over the Globe. CANADA.. reny tlY111: operating fr cere' A new C.Pait, line is projected to salary. North Bay with Peterboroa Stratford epublie sohool teachers are agitating for an increase ef The street cars are now in opera- tion ittSeviastedrtScete. Marie, giving it Lieut. -Col. A. P. Sliererood • evill command the Bisley team, with Capt. W. A, Munro as adjutant. The New Onta.rio Farm and Town Sites Syndicate has been incorporat- ed, with $1,000,000 capital stock. The G.T.le, has ordered five hun- dred freight cars from the American Car & Foundry Co., of New York, The New York Central has offered $40,000 for a lease of a site ln Kingston for the erection of a hotel. The Peterboro' Sugar Co. has just received 45,000 Tbs. of sugar beet seed from Germeny for distribution among the farmers. Doukhobors of Rosthern have shipped some forty work horses, a voluntary gift to less fortunate brethren at Yorlcton. Wiri, F. Grundy, one of the strik- ing C.P.U. freight clerks at Winni- peg, was fined court costs for "un- lawfully deserting bis employraent." Magistrate Love, of Loudon be- lieves flogging at the police London, is the remedy foe truancy. The boys do not reciprocate his tender regard. It is predicted that the Yukon will open later than -usual this stunreer owing to the severe cold. The ice of Lake Lebarge is five feet thick, two feet thicker than it was last season. Mr. John Winchester, Master in Chambers, has been appointed Coun- ty Judge of York, and Mr, W. J. Hatton, K. C., of Owen Sound, County Judge of Grey. The steamer Manchester, arrived at Ralifax from Manchester, passed many enormous icebergs, one ap- parently 1,000 feet high. They were found very fax. south for this season of the year. Word has been received that a Canadian buoy has been discovered at Nantes, France. This buoy, fitted with its bronze bell, had made the trip across the Atlantic from its mooriegs on the east coast of the Dominion. It is Valued at $1,000. GREAT BRITAIN. The death rate in Leith is 18.2 per 1,000. A. Leeds widow, Phyllis Metcalfe, aged 49, has died from blood poison- ing caused by a pin prick. The British press attaches immense political importance to the forth- coming visits of the King to Rome and aculiy italy-ye Fers ago a Camberwell wo- man ran .into her knee a needle whicb has just emerged from her right shoulder. Two thousand machinists recent'V- laid off work at the Woolwich Ar- senal, England, are anxious to see' cure work in Canada. The one -pounder pom-pom which became famous during the Boer war will be issued to ships in the fierY in place of the Maxim gun. There are two men lying dead at Kidderminster, whose deaths are at- tributed to anthrax caught from Persian wool imported for carpets. Mr. Chamberlain denies tho re- ports that the Government will soon resign anti go to the country with Irish measures as the principal plank of their platform. The estate which -according to a Times correspondent -has been pur- chased in Norfolk by an English of- ficer for the Sultan of Morocco, is the Kirby Hall estate, situated mid- way between Beccleseand Bungay, "I think I had bettor give up the struggle; as when I play a game of chess, and see I am beaten; I give in," wrote James Newton, trans- lator of languages in London, who committed suicide by jumping from a window. UNITED STATES. .The Reading Railway Company has forbidden employees on. the New York division to smoke cigarettes.. In a pitched battle between the Arizona Raneers and cattle raiders, at Black Reel, Arizona, the former were defeated. The retail hardware stores in Og- tiensinirg, N. Y., have been black - listen by the local Trecles Assembly in consequence of their refusal to close nightly at 6. On Wednesday 20 men were in- jured, six of them are dead and ten more will die by suffocation from hot white dust in the Steel Com- pany's works at Braddock, Pa.. . The managers of the Lake Shore have decided -to four -track the sys- tem from Chicago to Buffalo, there- by establishing a four -track line 'from Chicago to New York. . Canton, South Dakota, is to be advertised as a commercial divorce centre, and will invite wealthy per- sons seeking divorce. Six hundred cases are granted in the state year- ly, -at a 'revenue of 3900,000. ff. rierpont Morgan is planning to build a splendid art museum and present it to the Anaerica,n nation. Xis private art collections are the rarest and most extensive owned by any individual in the world. °maw", xn a fight with the police at Sala- manca, Spain, three students were killed,oiG deposits resembling those of the Transvaal have been found • in iblpleiryisafcians will hereafter examine every child before it is admitted to the public schools of Berlin. The various columns pi the British expeditionary force in Somaliland continues to operate aue,cessfully. ORFEWB.ELL sTILL Egos. 14OPL4 wzo LIVZ LONG DEA» VAST. ..nroor. Lady Orders Her We ea in the Pays of queen IKarya-The Oil Lamp, There is residing to -day in South London suburb a lady who 10 SO perfervid .an admirer of lifaref Queen of Scots that she has elected to order her whole life after the fashion pertaining to the days of that unhappy raonareb. She is solo mistress of a. pretty and up-to-date little fiat, but she has had all the. communicating doors of the different rooms removed ; while, in place of carpets, rushes are strewn over the floors, says Pearson's Weekly. The sleeping apartments are fitted with silken hammocks in lieu of beds ; and in the kitchen, instead of the modern range, is a huge open fireplace, above which slowly turns a gigantic spit. She even went to the length, at one time, of disconnecting the water supply, giving as her rea- son that taps and cisterns were non- existent in the Hole/road of the sixteenth century. But the landlord having presumably the fear of the sanitary authorities before his eyes, objected so strongly to this latter exhibition of eccentricity that she had perforce to give way. Nothing, however, can prevent her dressing the part of her favorite heroine, which she does in public no less than in Private ; and the extraor- dinary spectacle may therefore be seen any day in the year, in the locality in question, of an exact liv- ing replica of the "Martyr of Fothe- ringay" out shopping -with a string' beg, or 'plodding painstakingly along the roads -she resolutely declines to use the footpaths -on her diurnal eonstitutional. It is not so very long since Ely Place, a turning off Holborn, offered an example of a most singular anachronism. While the whole of the surrounding district was a blaze of gas and electricity there twinkled over the gateway in front of one of the houses a tiny, OLD-FASRIONED OIL LAMP. Inquisitive inquiriers used to be informed, by the policeman on duty on that particular beat, that it had been regularly lighted by the aged tenant of the house in question every night for more thau twenty years, as it sort of silent protest against theillumnatory extravagance of his neighbors. In one of the most aristocratic streets in Mayfair is a bachelor household, which is conducted throughout on mediaeval principles. The head of this extraordinary es- etablishment is a wealthy stock- broker, and could indulge himself after business hours, did he desire to do so, in any of the thousand -and - one alluring gaieties of the metro- polis. Instead, however, he prefers to retire to rest at seven o'clock every evening, when his own private curfew bell is regularly rung. Never- theless, this singular individual is far from being it churl. Indeed, on the contrary, he is of a decidedly convivial turn of mind, and frequent- ly entertains lavishly, after his own "Peculiar fashion, his friends and ac- quaintances. But these seek in vain oxr his well -laden table for the viands they are accustomed to. In place thereof are such old-fashioned dain- ties as warden pie, salmagundis of various kinds, and frumenty, the whole washed down with a liberal supply of sack, canary, and mal- voisie wines, not forgetting a huge wassail bowl filled to the brim with spiced ale. Old dances danced music constitute the to mediaeval special fad of a certain society gra,nddame, noted alike for her eccentricity and her extravagance. This lady gives week- end house parties that are voted great fun. Her spacious ballroom is filled on these occasions with merry revellers, but in place of the modera ' waltz is seen TIM STATELY MINUET or the graceful saraband ; while the place on the programme usually oc- cupied by the quadrille, the schot- tische, or the lancers is taken up with such-te modern ears-raeaning- lese combinations of letters and syllables as the "Turdion," the "Gibidana," the "Lavolta," and the "Baladines." Up to the time of his death, Which occurred only a few short months back, Paris was wonderfully proud of its "Last of the Dandies." The old gentleman had Ailed a high office in the Court of King Louis- Philippe, and when the revolution of 1843 drove that monarch into exile, he resolutely refused to accompany him, asserting that he would • live and die a gentleraau of France. And he kept his word. Day by day he paraded the boulevards, gorgeous in lace jabot and silk ruffles, his hair powdered, gold buttons glittering in his doublet, and gems gleaming from his shoe buckles. Of inert actually living to -day, perhaps none is a' more enthusiastic upholder of the customs and man- ners of a long dead and past age than is the Rev. R. 'Williams, better .. known to fame as Hwfa Mot, Arch - Druid of Wales. Not only does Ma. Williams speak the ancient Welslr tongue and none other, unless abso- lutely compelled thereto in order to make himself understood, but he also dresses the part he has chosen to play, wearing, instead of the orthodox coat and trousers, a sort of toga of unbleaelaed linen, and on his head, instead of the ungainly "chimney -pot" hat, a chaplet of oak leaves with aeorns attached. 4 Jenkins - "I learn 'that you hove bought the properties on either side of your house, and got them cheap, How did you manage it?" Foxley - "Easily enough. My wife is anOre* cutioeist, my daughter plays the banjo, •George the cornet, 1 the vio- lin, Bob the banjo, Charlet rattles the bones, and little Johnnie has the drurn."