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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1903-2-12, Page 6NEWS ITEMS. Telegraphic Briefs From . All Over the Globe. CANADA, Parliament will, meet on 14rarch 12. Victoria, B. C., is to have a big hotel as a summer resort, A Winnipeg youth was fined $10 and costs for carrying a razor. Two members of liossland's new council were born in Ontario. A $25,000 canning factory is to bo established at Burlington. St. Catharines has not hada case of coutagious disease since the first of December last. Berlin Board of 'trade is on record budget of 1902 shave a sui'pIUS of $9,000,000, Two young cblldron at Aquila. Southern Italy, who had hidden In an oven to.eecape.punislullent at the hands of their father, were Lound later roasted to death. Baron de Sibert has entered an ac- tion against the Paris Metropolitan "Railway for four cents, tho price of a toy balloon which is child was not allowed to take into one of the car- riages. REVOLVING DISCS.. Will Be Used to Locate Ships on the Darkest Night, A. Montreal despatch says: It is announced that Signor tlareonl has about perfected a system to deter- mine the distance b. 1110011 a Ship in favor of the purchase by the town and the station on Shure. This will he carried out by means of of the lighting plant. an ap- The School of Mining and Agricul- ps rains in the Shasta of a disc. The tura at Kingston will commence the vibratiaus front one apparatus will teaching of fish culture and preserve- be felt on the other apparatus disc, tion shortly. Tho current from fifty utiles will 11a - Tho Dou] 1lobors aro adapting turally be weaker than that from themselves to existing conditions in tett miles or still less from five mike. the west and are buying horses for The current will make the disc turn, labor. Tho western division of the 0.1'.R, is ter be shortened by the part west of Medicine 'Hat being added to the Pacific division. Mr. Marconi says that in two months his company will be trans- mitting commercial business between less Telegraph Company, at a meet - England and Canada at ten cents n ing on Wednesday decided to send word• 111011 down at once to the lower per - McGill University, Montreal, pro- Linn of the St. Lawrence, and aloug tests against the Marconi wireless the Gulf, out to Belie Isle, to locate station being erected on the mourn- the best points at which to estab- tain top, as it. would damage the lisp wireless stations, to communi- physical laboratories of the college. cate with ships coming in from sea. The Middlesex Law Association has 1 followed the lead of the York Law and the marks at different points will indicate the distance of the ship from the station. Ships will thus be able to locate their exact position, even during the darkest nights or fn the thickest fog. The directors of the Marconi Wiro- Association, and passed a resolution calling the attention of the Govern- ment to the fact that judgessal- aries aro too low. After a silence of n'_neteen years, during which his relatives mourned MUNICIPAL STATISTICS. Report of the Provincial Bureau of Industries, A Termite despatch says1—fart three of the aununl report of the On - him as dead, Mrs. John Cameron of tario Bureau of Industries, which Winnipeg on Saturday received word deals with Municipal statistics, has that her brother, Mr. Fred Pear- fust been issued. It gigs the total son, was alive and well in Arizona., receipts of all tho municipalities in Three Woodstock, N. 11., youths; Ontario, including counties, town - we -e charged with abstracting letters ships, cities, and villages for 1901 as from tho post -office. Deeming them I $32,720$26, as compared with $31,- • too young to suffer the sentence of. 056,555 in 1900, The disburse - three years in the penitentiary they ntents for the same years were $81, - were lot off on suspended sentence,1113 4)3 and $29,613,088 respective - THE MARKETS of Grain, Cattle, etc in Trade Centres. 11111:ADSTUT''IPS Toronto, Feb, 10.—Wiheat—Phe market kr firmer, with 1011130341 good. No. 2 red and w,hito sold at 71 to 715e middle freight,. No, 1 spring nominal at 72e ou Midland, end No. a goose, at 67c on Midland, Mani- toba wheat firmer; No. 1 herd 89c all rail, grinding hi transit ; No. 1 Northern, 873c all rail, grinding in transit ; No. 1 hard, 88}e NorthTray, No, 1 Northern, 87e North Bay. Oats—The market is firmer, with sales of No. 2 white at 32e middle freight, and of No. 1 at 93c east. Buckwheat—Market dull, with prices nominal at 46 to 47o at out- side points. Barley—Business quiet, and prices firm ; No. 8 extra, 47c middle freights ; and No. 3 at 43o meddlefreights. Peas—The market is steady at 71 to 72c high freights, for No. 1. Flour—Ninety per cent. patents sold to -day at $2.70 middle freights. in buyers' sacks, for export. Straight rollers of special brands for domestic trade, quoted at 53.25 to. $3.35 in bhls. Manitoba flour fine; No. 1 patents, 84.40, and seconds, $4.10. Strong bakers', 513.90 to $'1, bags include(1, Toronto. Minima—Bran, 516 to 510.50 in bulk here ; shorts, 518.00 At out- side points bran is quoted at $15.50 and shorts at $17.50. Manitoba bran in sacks, 519, and shorts at $21 here. COUNTRY PRODUCT. Beans—Trade is dull, with sup- plies fair. Medium bring $1.65 to $1.75 per• bush, and haul -Picked, 51.90 to 52. Dried apples—Market quiet. with prices unchanged at 4 to 41c per lb; arta evaporated at 0 to 7c. Honey—The market is quiet, with prices unchanged. Strained, 8 to 85c per lb, and comb, 51.2(11 to 51.,65 but had to give bonds of 5800 each. I ly. ' ]Lay, baled—Tho market is un - From a small island at the mouth' The assets of the various muttfci- changed. Choice timothy, $10 to of the Klondike, Mr. M. D. Datiee' polities for 1901 amounted to 547,- 810.25 on track, and mixed, 58 to cleared 613,000 by selling lettuce 1889,900, and the liabilities to $51,- 68.50. and garden vegetables in Dawson, 518,583, while for the preceding Straw—The market Is quiet, with City, and he is now in Tacoma pur- year the assets were $69,196,53$, lots on track quoted at $5.-50 to chasing a stock of flower bulbs and and the liabilities $64,940,835, r The total assessed value of the roperty of Ontario in 1901 was Wheat—Spring dull; 50,01 bard, cas- quite so hard as that found in Nova loads, Bee. Curti -501 to 111c, Oats t$cotin and New Brunswick. As the 1 irm; No. 2 white, 42c; No, 9 mountains, however, were neared, nixed, 40c. Barley 59 to 05c. Rye the coal unproved, until deposits of —No, 1, iu store, 60c asked. Toledo, Feb, 10. --Wheat, steady. ; cash, 785-0; May, Siic; July, 76110. Cora—;Gull; February` 4-5- t'; AMY, 442e, Owls --.]lull; February, ;37e; May, 87e. Jlyo--No. 2, 53tc, Seeds Gull; higher; February, 57.25; llriu'ch, 57.110; prime timothy, 61.90; primo alsiko, 68. Detroit, Feb 10,—Wheat closed— NO. 2 white, cash, 75c; No, 2 red, cash, 805c; DTny, 891c; July, 7r82o. Duluth, Feb, 10.—\\'heal—Cash, No 1. hard, 77'1c; No. 1 Northern, 761c; No. 2 Northern, 791c; No, :3 spring, 71lc; May, 784e; July, 7:);c; to ar- rive, No. 1 btu'11, 781c; No. 1. North- ern, 772, Oats—Cash, on track, 35e; May, 340. LIVE STOCK HARRIET$, Toronto, Feb. 10, — There was a fair demand to -day at the Western Cattle Mtuleet for good butchers' cattle, and prices were fully MAIO- tained until the close of the market, but there was a weals tone manifest- ed in export. stock, buyers being de- cidedly unwilling to come up to prices asked by sellers who had paid Good figures for their eattlo tot the farmers and worn unwilling to part with thein without at least holding their own in regard to prices. When sales were effected it was usually a concession on the part of the seller. Dealers reported a partial decline of about 10e in tho prices of exporters; but some business was transacted on Tuesday's basis of $5 per cwt for choice lots, as will be 50011 by the list of sales below. There are still numbers of shippers buying their ex- port cattle in Chicago, alleging that they can purchase their stuff to bet- ter advantage there than' here, both in regard to quality and prices. The excellent anthracite were found, The deposits in Aselnibole wore lignites, those in Alberta (on the plains) were in part lignites and 01 part bitumin- ous, while those In the Rocky Mount- ains and British Columbia were bi- tuminous and anthracite, The area of tho lignite field was estimated at 15,000 square miles, while that of lignite and bituminous coal (further west) was said to bo 50,000 square miles. Dr. Dawson, added the lecturer, had estimated that the amount of fossil fuel underlying each square mile in the viclnity of Medicine Hat was 5,000,000 tons; of Blackfoot Crossing, 9,000,000 tons; and of Lethbridge, 5,500,000 tons, THE CROW'S NEST PASS. Turning to the Crow's Nest Pass coal field. Dr. Adams stated that it contained some 20 seams of coal, many of which were small. Oilers had a thickness of 46 feet, Over 100 fent of workable coal was contained in the deposit, and the field us a whole had been estimated to con- tain upwards of 22,595,200,000 tons of coal (2,240 pounds per ton). This Hold was, therefore, capable of ]noting all the demands that might be made upon it in our day aid gen- eration at least. After touching on the coal fields at Ntunnimo and Extension, Vancouver Island, Professor Adams went on to speak of the iron deposits in tho Do- minion, which, ho remarked, so far as we know at present, were not so extensive or important as those of coal. Large deposits lend been dis- covered in a few places, but in many others they were too small for ex- tensive works. One of the most curious deposits in the D01111110)1 was a mountain of iron ore on the Upper Saguenay. But the m'e was not of feeling exists =onset buyers that good quality, as 3t contained a con - the prices here co1Ltnuo higher than siderable percentage of titanium, which. made it hard to smelt. This ore was not used at present, as it could not bo smelted profitably. the outside conditions W0u1d war- rant, and hence the gradpal decline in export cattle during the past three weeks. Exporters' cattle— Per 100 lbs, Choice ... ......54.80 55.00' Medium ... ... ... ... 4.40 4.75 Light ... ,..... 4,25 4.60 Bulls ... ... ... 3,75 4.00 Butchers'-- C.hoice ............... 4.00 4.60 Mc-ttIuin .,. ... ... ... 8.40. 4.00 Heifers ... .,, ,. ... 0.00 3.90 Dulls ... ... ... ... ... 3.00 3.50 Cows .. .,. .., ... 2.75 3.75 Fmodern ... .., 4.00 4.25 car o s Ommers ,.. .., .. 2.25 2.75 $G a ton. Sheet's— The Maple syrup—five-gallon cans, $1 T' -- ase bushes which he will take u1 as 4.25 5.25 soon as the weather moderates, p per gal; one -gallon cans, 51.10, and Lambs ... ......... ... The Post-ofiico Department has 5,'t 22, -half -gallon, 1 .„bJ7,G97,007, and in 1900," $Sv GOC. Duu:ks ... .. ••. 2.90 3.25 been advised that the New Zealand 435,670. The taxes imposed for all' Onions—The market is dull at 40e Calves, each .. 2.00 10.00 post -office has recently opened a pas- pale:loses in the former year amount -I per bushel for Canadian, Calves, per 100 lbs. 4.50 6.00 tal agency at Fanning Island. Par- ed to 513,311,3.55, and in the latter, Poultry—The market is firm, lm- ltugs— cels ntay be forwarded at the same $12,992,821, and at the end of 1901 r rates of postage and under the same the debenture debt outstanding .was Sows ...... .. 2,.t0 4.75 regulations as apply to parcels on r o1 Stags ,. 2.00 3.00 g $57,17t,8U�, while the.year before y 9 1U Selects, 160 to the mainland of the colony of Now I ,,, 6.00 0.00 Zealand. 200 lbs... .. m nim tahties totalled de UJ, (vo ng)' $ Thick fats ... .., 5.75 0.00 1 1 t �0 per pair uormt and held Lights ... ...... ... 6.75 0.00 GREAT BRITAIN. 0 R8O4 13' 6-0 d b g Nearly 130 vessels aro now lying tattle 3)0110ds was 82,652, 01.9 encu idle at Shields. 52,508,955. There are 195 parishes in Scotland _+ THE PLAGUE IN JAPAN. der - continued light supplies. Wo quote :—fresh killed, dry Melted tur- keys, 14 to 1:5c; geese; to e per lb; ducks, 85c to 51,25; chickens it was $5(1,3312,(iOii, The assessment for 1901 of all the a 75c to 1.25; old hens, 60 SS , ,7 _ 607, and in 1 9 00. 5, , 0; till 810013, 2 to 3e per ID less than above the interest paid on loans for the quotations. Potatoes—Market is unsettled, with offerings largo. Car lots quoted at 51 a bag 011 track, atld small lots at 51.15 to 551.,20. HOG PRODUCTS. without a public house. Mr, Carnegie will devote 81,000,- 000 sterling to scientific research, Thirteen thousand cavalry recruits have been accepted during the last two years. Seven hundred congregations in Scotland use non-alcoholic wino at the communion service. The elevation of the Board of Trade into a Ministry of Commerce is predicted by Mr. Gerald ilalfour, Workmen have already begun de- molishing the picturesque old Themes bridges at Sonning, Berk- shire. There is no truth whatever in the statement that the Bing and Queen aro going for a cruise in the Modi- terranean. The "True Catholics," the new Christian sect, initiated by a number of ex -Roman Catholic priests, has been formally established in West- minster. London had ninety deaths last week front other than natural causes, 81 of which were either front acci- dents or negligence, and in round figures 4,000 people are killed each year by accident. The National Review awes there can be no doubt as to the truth of its story that the German Emperor, in the presence of an American yachting party, madeoffensive re- marks regarding the King. The shipbuilders of Glasgow state that the prospects for the shipping industries of the Clyde are very dis- couraging, and that a reduction in wages is unavoidable. In the event of a strike 30,000 amen will be at fatted, 'UNITED STATES. A bill prohibiting the holding of fortunes exceeding 510,000,000 was Introduced in the U. S. Senate, Three black bears attacked the children of a mountaineer named Parker, living on the road from Mone to Arcadia, Virginia, on the. James River, and killed and ate his two-year-old baby. Miss Mary Thompson, the pretty 25 -year-old daughter of James Thompson, a rich mill owner at Valley Falls, N. Y., eloped with her father's hostler, Edward Hines, on Monday,°Voning, Excessive study caused the death of 0. Herbert Orr, a student at Ann Arbor University, Michigan, on 'Mon- day, The final examinations were a week away, and Orr Was ii the habit of studying until S o'clock each morning. A frfteenrmorttlts old child of W.M. Biggs, a former near Iowa City, Ia„ Was injured by a nail in a piece of board thrown by a little brother, entering its brain In the tenter of the top of the head, and t>ta.-% are smell hopes for its recovery,. GEN19RAL. A tieing is feared fu Canton, and foroigi marines have been Tended to prated the property of their Com- pettrierte, Spain's Meant* Minister has 'len i Olittentl that the final 3'OSUlts of this Infected Rats Are Being Found in Tokio. A Vancouver despatch says: tlfail advices received from the Orient by the steamship Empress of Chiva are to the enact that the pest bus brok- en out in Tokio with alarming re- sults. Infected rats are being found in Large number's, and Lite Japanese coolies are so enraged at the auth- ors of their troubles that they aro torturing those rats to death by crucifixion and other cruel methods. Among the victims of the pest was Pr. Yokota, who caught the pest while ministering in the infected dis- tricts. While be was dying the Mi- kado bestowed upon hint the order of exceptional merit, the Sixth Or- der of the Rising 8111, He was a very distinguished scholar, and was but 45 year's old. Tho Emperor is taking very active steps personally to 80330055 the pest. In one sec- tion 2,000 houses of tho richer class are surrounded by a metal fence sunk deep in the ground, preventing the pest -breeding rats front getting out. } RECEIPTS CLIMBING UP. Crown Lands Department Had a Prosperous Year. A Toronto despatch says: The Crown Lands Department has had a prottpereus year. The amounts re- ceived from the four branches were as follows: Lands ,... $ 164,770 Woods and forests .,, .,. 1,3.31,352 5,289 Iteatail3 ' ... ... ......... ... 105 Total...., ..51,501, 52.1 In 1901 the total receipts of the department were 51,684.,724; fn 1900, 51,477,9.19; 033(1 in 1899, 51,- 315,868. REFERENDUM RETURNS. Majority 08,207 — Favorable Vote 33.4 of Total Names. A Toroato despatch gays'. The offi- cial statOtneltt of, tho referendum vote on the liquor act on December 4 has been made by the Clerk of the Legislature. The .figures show that 199,749 votes were cast in favor of the act and 108,512 against, giving a majority in favor of 96,207. The number of names on the voters' list was 506,984, which: therefore shows that the votes favorable were 88.4 per cent. of the total on the list. CANADA'S GOOD BUTTER. Its Genttineriess and Purity FCave Never Been Questioned, 0tah1 Sri sr The A Landon do fit y Globe, in art article on Catmelian erearnory better, says that its gen- ulneri055 end purity ha1(0 Meteor been t•a11ed into causation, Dressed hogs are steady, with car lots of Western selling at 57,50 to $7.65, and Northern at 57.75, Cured meats steady, with demand falx, We quote :—Bacon, long clear, 10, to 1020 in ton and case lots. Pork, mess, 521.50 to 522; do short cut, $22.50 to 523. Smoked hams, 13 to 135c; rolls, 111 to 12c; shoulders, llc; backs 11 to 145e; breakfast bacon, 14 to 141c. Lard—Market quiet, with prices unchanged, We quote :—Tierces, 11e; tubs, 1110; pails, 11ece compound, 84. to 10e. 1(1111 DAIRY IrARKETS. Mutter --The market is quiet, with prices steady. Demand continues good for choice grades, We quote : :Guest 1. -lb rolls, 19 to 20c ; select- ed dairy tubs, 17 to 15c; choice large rolls, 171 to 10c; secondary grades (rolls and tubs), 15 to 18c ; creamery prints, 23 to 281e; do solids, 20 to 2150. Eggs—The market is easy. New laid quoted at 20 to 21c in case lots, and cold storage, 14 to 15c., Cheese—Market firm, stocks light, We quote 1—Finest September, 131 to 1135c; twins, 14 to 1110 ; seemed quality, 12e to 125c, MONTRP]AL MAlUKFITS . Montreal, Feb. 10,—C rain—No. 1 Manitoba hard wheat, 74o; No. 1 Northern, 72e in store, Fort Wil- liam; peas, 72}c high freights; No, 2 oats, in store here, 37 to 871, 31:¢ to 31.1c high freights; rye, 49(e east; buckwheat, 650c east. Flour—Manitoba patents, $4,40 to 54.50 ; seconds, 54.10 to 54.20 ; Ontario straight rollers, 58.50 to 58,65 ; in bags, 51.70 to $1.75 ; patents, 58.70 to 54,10. polled oats —Millers' prices, 52 in bags, and 54,15 par bbl. b'ced—Manitoba bran 510 to $20; shorts, 521 to 522, bags included; Ontario bran, in bulk, $:17,50; shorts, in bulk, 520. Pro- visions—Heavy Canadian short cut pork, 524 to $25; short cut backs, 523.50 to 524; light short cut, $23 to 524; compound refined lard. 85 to 9c; pure Canadian lard, 11c ; finest lard, 12 to 125c; hanks, 1.21 to 180; bacon, 14 to 15e; dressed hogs 58.25; fresh killed abattoir hogs, 58.50 to' 139, ilggs- 5ulected, :10 to 20c, and candled stock, 15 to 16c ; Montreal timed, la5 to 150; Western, 12 to 1,8c, honey—White clover, in sections, 1.2 to 18c per section ; In 1.0.18 tins, 8 to 90; hl buiic, 75 to Sc 1 dark, Oa lower, Chnmse Ott- tario, 18 to 181c; Townships, 18e, Butter—Townships (reamer y, 22 to 221e; dairy butter, 15e; Western On- tario rolls, 1.6} to :1.9c, bbls. 41, IJNI)I 111) STA7:1,2.14 DT A'lllt TE'1 M, Buffalo, Feb, 10,•-•:G'.lear, quiet. DOMINION'S COAL ARIAS, PROF. ADAMS LECTURES ON THE SUBJECT. Famous Pictou Coal Fields—En- ormous Deposits in the West. An interesting lecture on the "Coal and Iron Deposits of Canada" was recently delivered by Prof. Adams, of McGill University. He pointed out that Canada could supply the world for years to come in both these deposits, which, he said, were scattered all 01'01' the Do- minion, although their principal lo- cations were in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, in Manitoba and the West, and in the mountainous re- gions of British Columbia. No coal, ho added, existed in the central part of the Dominion, but in the eastern, west central and extreme western sections, there was an abun- dance of the mineral. IN THE MARITIME PROVINCES. Taking the coal deposits of the Maritime Provinces first, the lectur- er said that the coal fields of Nova Scotia were in three principal areas— Cape Breton, l'ictou and Cumber- land. In New Brunswick, though the coal area was larger than that of Nova Scotia, It was of much less importance, because there WAS only a single bed, about two feet thick, and near the surface. Tho Cape Bre- ton coal field was confined principal- ly to tho eastern margin of Cape Breton. The land area occupied by the pro- ductive coal seams wan over 200 square utiles in extent. The coal was of the bituminous variety, 0nct was adaptable for general purposes. Some beds could 31e used for the manufacture of gas. The quantity of coal that the field was capable of yielding was estimated to be not less than 1,000,000,000 time (one thou- sand ]pillion tons). FAMOUS PICTOU FIELDS. 011e Pictou, N. S., coal fields were situated, said the lecturer, in a fer- tile valley, bounded on all sides by hills, The productive area was about 11 miles long and covered an area of about 22 Square miles. The field was remarkable for the site of some of the coal seams which it con- tained, several of these being among the thickest known to geologists. The Cumberland coal field was site tutted neat' the ]lay of Fundy coast, and afforded one of tho finest and most extensive sections of coal do posits in Eastern Canada, A pe- culiarity of thief coal field, which eon - tattled over 1.4,000 feet of strata, embodying over 70 coal reams, was the fact that the ancient tree trunks could still be 80011 standing upright in their fossil soi.l'14, through which their roots ramified in all directions, THE RICHES OF MANI'.I'013,r,. With 1•t'spect to tho Ivfanitnba and central west coal fields, Prof, Adams stated that the (treat plains were 3133" 13011111)3 by Immense bode al strata, but tho cont, having been 111)11)031 in the early Tertiary age, Wins not NEWFOUNDLAND DEPOSITS. The deposits in Newfoundland were referred to, one bed of which is com- puted to contain 98,000,000 tons of ore and another bed rather more than 00,000,000 toes, The MichipicotOn deposit was also spoken of, and likewise the ore -pro- ducing area in the neighborhood of Three Rivers. Tho ore smelted at Radnor Forges, was the only place in 'Canada, and one of the fete places in the world where ore of this kind was smelted. It was dredged up from the bottom of the lake, and ni- ter a spot had been dredged clear, if -it was returned to in nano or ten years, ore would again be found there. There seemed to bo a con- tinual growth of the ore as fast as it was dredged out. EIGHTEEN BLAST FURNACES. Ordinarily speaking, an iron ore deposit gave out, but Imre there was a rejuvenating action going on. In conclusion, Prof. Adams spoke of the location of the blast furnaces in the Dominion, and said that when those at present: in course of construction were completed, the total number of furnaces would be eighteen. The to- tal iron producing capacity of Can- ada was 500,000 tons a year, which was small for a country like this. With the prospecting that was going on in the ferruginous Huronian dis- tricts of the north, it was probable that new and important deposits of arm would be toured. ALASKAN TREATY. Roosevelt Notified of Opposition in the Senate. A Washington despatch say's: Dur- ing the past few clays President Roosevelt has held several confer- ences with prominent Senators con- cerning the status of the Alaskan boundary treaty. The President has been informed that the opponents of the treaty will not permit it to be ratified. This information was con- veyed by Republican leaders of the. Senate, who told him that, in their opinion, it would be useless to press consideration of the treaty further at this session, as it was known that several Northwestern Senators will use their utmost power to de- feat its ratification. During ono of these conferences Secretary Hay was called by tiro President, and the whole subject was considered thor- oughly. It was indicated to them that the active opponents of tho treaty maintained there was noth- ing in the boundary question to ar- bitrate, and therefore they would not consider its reference to a com- 11118si011, as provided for in the treaty. In view of the situation as presented by the Senate loaders, is understood the President and Sec- retary Hay practically have aban- doned hope of ratification, If it should be ratified, the modus vivendi previously agreed upon by Great Britain and the United States) will remain in force. PEACE OF EUROPE. Believed. to Be in Very Serious Danger. A London despatch says; The lat- est developments in the near ]'lest force the tonclueiont that the poem of I7urope is in danger, Tho '.limes eoltoes a general Sentiment When It says: "lIVory Eu- ropean ollancellerie is aware that there is. most ilntninent danger of a revolt In 1tiacedonia on a total- ly different scale, from the usual (listurbancee, and an openiltg up of questions 'Hutt may lead to a strug- gle, the limits and issues of which a 11(1513 111011 wilt not attempt to fore - east," The Christian and (Mina= popu- 1at10n aro 010014ea to revolt at the Sultan's atro0to118 inlsmanagelnent, The Bulgarian Government ie de- terntinecl to do everything iii its power to prevent interference. It is believed that it is already L00 late to avert an outbreak, altho'rrgh the ai).Pointmentof a Christian Utterer - aim of Macedonia with practically full powers might relieve the sitna- Lien. BIRTH RATE REDUCED. Report of the Ontario Medical Health Officer. A Toronto despatell says: Pito report of the Provinriel Medical Health 01110er, Dr, Bryce, for 1002, showing the births, deaths, and marriages, with a cotu.ptu'isonwith the figures of the previous year, has just been completed, The number of deaths W115 40,0(11 as against 46,- 127 in 1901,.The birthrate for the cities is a5 follows: limn tl'ord 95.4 Toronto ... ... ... ... ...... ... 21,4 Windsor.. ... „.... ... ... .. 21.2 1-3811fltou .,. ... .., 18.7 London .. ... ... ... ... ... „ 18.6 111311851011 ...... ............... 17.8 Stratford ... ... ............ ... 17,4 St, Thomas „ .......,.... 17.1 13c11ovillm ...... ... ......... ... 17.1 The number of marriages was :18,- 0355, compared with the previous ten ,years as follows; London, 7.891., 1.9•,159; 1892, 14,482; 1893, In the parish of Runwell, Essex, an apparatus has been invented by the rector for ringing the church bolls by electricity. The family of Sur T. Glen -Coats, the well-known Paisley manufactur- er, has given £10,000 to the Lon- don Cancer Research Fund. in memory of his wile, an electric light Installation has been placed in St. Alkmund''s Church, Derby, by, a member of the congregation, Mr. G. 14tollin, founder of the In- fants' Food Works at Peckham, has cried at his residence in West Wick- ham, tient, at the ago of about 70. The famous seat of the Duke of Wellington, Strathfleldsayo, near Reading and Basingstoke, in in the market, to be let furnished, with the shooting. London booksellers say that it has been impossible to sell Kruger's "Memoirs" to the English trade, but that Gen. De Wet's book goes off like hot cakes. A tinplate worker named Every, 99'1, 00011rrerl in cities, ('0113 au'd was drawn into some machinery at with 7.,081 the previous year.Tho Asliburnhain Tinplate Works, near following tattle shelve the contpnri_ Llanelly, the other day, and crushed sons in the cities of Ontario between to death, 1900 and 1901: Orders have been. Issued for a large 1900. 1901. number of engineer volunteers to un- 'loronto dax•go, at the School of Military En- ^• "' "' ... 497 48� gtneoring, a tivo months' 0ouree of Ottailton'...... ... 108 q5 railway instruction. Ottawa ...... ...... ... 142 139 London ..,,, re Asked when he had last washed, a Kingston IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND 1XIS PEOPLE,, Occurrences, itt the Land That Reigns Supreme in the Corn- nterelal World. c)alnaged footballer has just been fitted at a London hospital with a celluloAid nose, British pottery works employ 70,- 000 1vo1•lc people, 01 whom about 25,5 000 are women and children. The Manchester Crematorium shows n profit of £100 during the last year. Thoro worn 32 crema- tions. ]Singate street, ITolborn, where Charles Dickens placed the home of n. Camp, is now being demolished. A London syndicate proposes to build a vast hotel, far bigger than anything of the kind existing in 14,'175; 1894, 14;341; 1305, 13987; 1896, 14,904; 1897, 15,293; 1898, 15,375; 1809, 10,414; 19(10, 17,107. There was a decrease of 114 in the Member of deaths in 1901, the fig- ures being 29,608, The rate was 13,6 in the thousand. Since 1896 the deaths recorded were: 1896, 24,827; 1897, 27,633; 1.898, 26,370; 1899, 28,607; 1900, 29,194. The death -rate in cities was: St Catharines ...... ......... 2.80 RrottLford ..................... 2.10 Hamilton ... ... ... ... ... ... 1,80 St. P0011105 ........... ...... 1.65 Chatham ... ... ...... ......... 1.82 Belleville. . 1.30 Woo(lstock• •• ••. ... 1.02 Of the deaths from tuberculosis 58 • 50 40 85 20 17 27 213 28 12 18 1.4 29 20 1"8 12 18 9 11 19 small boy told the Crediton magis- trates that he had a bath last sura mer. Tho father was ordered to pri- St. Catharines......... ... son for his neglect. Belleville... ... Mr. Percy Mitchell, J. P., of Cran- ford •" •'• •" fHall, Northamptonshire, of Windsor ••• which county 11e was recently high • sheriff, died suddenly Iast week at Chatham................:• • ITnrbledown, near Canterbury. Woodstock... ... ... ... Peter Taylor, an engineer, was St. Thomas ......... ..... found dead in a social club in Liver- pool. It is supposed lie couunitted -- # suicide, a bottle containing carbolic acid being found by this side. On opening ono of the boilers of a Manchester paper mill, some work- .— men discovered in it the dead body of an employe nnmed Wm. Johnson, How he got into the boiler is a mys- tery. The aln(•niing increase in the con- sumption of alcoholic beverages by young women and mothers is one of the causes associated with the in- crease in infantile mortality in Pros - ton. Two men of Porth, Rhondda Val- ley, were attracted by their dog to a spot in tubo wood, where they found the 814010tolt of a 111011. Nearly all the flesh had been eaten away, prob- ably by foxes. At an Exeter inquest on ]Harriett Mortimore, the jury found that tho deceased had cited from starvation, and returned a verdict of manslaugh- ter against the husband, an account- ant. The existence of some o4 the Mar- tell° towers is threatened by the continual inroads of the sea, which is gradually scorning away their foundations. Ono of these towers, between Hythe and Dymehurclt, has already been split in two. At Siblo ETedlingham,. Essex, on Sunday, Banter's Farm, once occu- pied by Johnson, the artist, was Partially destroyed by fire. A clrck- atoo in the house gave fro alarm, and thus probably saved the lives of the family and servants. - Tho pool• bird itself perished. DISTRICT AUCTION SALES. Have Been Established With Sat- isfactory Results. In many clistr•icts of Great Britain auction sales of live stock have been 1101(1 annually for years. Large nun1- Tiers of pure-bred animals for breed - fug purposes have boon marketed in this way, besides a great many "stole" cattle and other animals. In several provinces of the Dominion provincial sales of this kind 11131(0 been established with satisfactory results, and have created a feeling in favor of county or district sales. There aro hundreds of farmers throughout Canada who raise year- ly from ono to four good breeding males, and perhaps a few females. Many of these ashen understoalcl the principles of stock breeding, and have from time to time bred noted show yard specimens. Yet the pro- gress and profits of these men boa been greatly hampered because of their inability to sell their surplus stock promptly. In some years they have been able to sell ; in other years they have had to keep a num- ber of animals longer than their means of feed warranted. On the other hared many fanners desire to obtain suitable in•eecling males, but do not know where to buy what they require at a reasonable price. The cost of travelling from place to place In search of suitable ant - mals deters them from purchasing at all. WithUh the idea of bringing bu: Yers and sailers into touch with each other, a number of breeders of pure bred cattle in Durham, Northumber- land and udjacont counties last year formed the "Central Ontario Pure Brod Stock Association," and start- ed a series of annual auction sales. 'their initial sale was fairly satisfac- tory and they are now arranging for their 5000111 sale, which is to take placo at Cernpbellcroft, on the 1.8th of March next, with J. W. Martyn, of Conlon, as President, and W. B, Campbell, of Campbellcroft, 05 Sec- retary of the Association. There aro many other counties ((11'd districts which would find it beneficial to inaugurate sales of this kind, and as a guide to breeders Interested in the subject, the rules governing the ()mitre' Ontario sale aro given below t 1. A, committee of three will be appointed to inspect entries, value same, confer with contributors, and reserve the right to either with- draw trout sale or accept the bid offered. 2. All animals must be re- gistered in their r•e5peetive bead books. 8. Each animal tO be In good condition and well halter broken, 4, All entries must be made With the Secretary on or before Wednesday, February ,18th, 1903. 5. An entrance fee of 5200 to ac- company each entry, sumo to be re- turned if animal Is sold, G, A charge of 8 per cent on the sale price will be made to cover expensee of sale. 7. All entries to be placed not later than 11 a.m. on the day of Malo, to bo nu111b01'111 for sale, and for in- spection of intending purchasers. 8, 1') 1i animal w110n sold beoorues the properly of chit purchaser. 9, Terms Of sale, cash. 10. All settlernent5 t0 leo made with the Clot' an the dee/ Of "Saha RATHER HAVE HALF. Tito difference between common sense and mathematics was illustrat- ed in a remark which was made itt a school the other (lay. It was the mental arithmetic class. The master awed Smith: "4\']rich would you rather have, half an apple or eight-sixtootl±hs of an ple?" 'Wapouldn't make any dilToronco," aald Smith. "Why not?" "Eight -sixteenths and one -hall aro the sante." At this reply, .Tones, who was sitting near; 5111110(1 scornfully. The master heard him. "Well, Jones," said he, "don't you agree with Smitih?" e "No, sir," said Jones; "I'd much sooner have one-half an apple." •'And svhy, Lllease?" "More juice. 'Out up hall an apple into eight -sixteenths, and yoet'd loan have the juice doing itt" A WOMAN'S HEART, She (g0nt3y)-•-•"I tun afraid I. do not love you enough to be your wife, but I shall always be your friend, - and sincerely wish for your llal'itl- ne55," EIB (moodily)—"T know what T'll do." She (anxiously) --•"Von surely will not do yourself an injury." He (calmly)—"No; I will find 11035 piness, I will merry 50111.0011e else," Site—" Herrorsl dive 1110 anoL1108 day to consider', clear," Ueda School Board has received an enony.nloua (4111 01 fifty pairs 011 boots for the worst -shod childree.15 the scho'ola.