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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.
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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.