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The Brussels Post, 1903-5-7, Page 600 00000000 THE FALLACY OFA FACE 000 00000 a 0 0 O O O Cranfield holds that the beginning of, his courtship, was unique ; but that may bo Cranfleld's ono -sided view, It was the night of the Blunt ball and he leaned against a pillar in the dancing room. At no time a dancing maul, on this occa- sion le was excessively bored ; he was out of sorts ; the band was too loud ; the crush was too great. Ile ShougAit regretfully of his library Mg., and shiveringly of the long drive home. At the end of the room he saw heads turned toward the door. Fol- lowing a very human impulse, he turned his own in the same direction. He was inglaisitive, but the desire to know is quite as infectious as a dis- ease. In a brief space the crowd about tho entrance parted, and his curios- ity melted before another feeling -a feeling as rapid if infinitely more strong. He closed hie eyes ; then he readjusted his glass. It was Creighton -Tommy Creigh- ton and his wife. Ile watched them move slowly up the room, and as they moved he felt, rather than heard, the admiration that hummed in their wake. He took a long look; then he leaned back against the pil- lar, seeking to realize exactly where he stood. "If you ever fall in lave, Cran- field," someone had once said, "you'll be the worst ease on record, bar none." The words occurred to him inop- portunely. As a man he was not exceptional ; but there were things at which he drew the line. ].faking love to a married woman, curiously enough, came first on the proscrib- ed list. Tho feelings that surged through ]tint as ho let the pillar support him were largely made up of fear. The thing was proposterous - grotcsqlue. He shied vigorously at the shadow of it. But not for an instant did his eyes strny from Mrs. Creighton's face. IIe had seen her before -once be- fore. That point alone wrought ecif- distrust. IIe had called one day with Bisherthorpe, and she had given them tea. Itis verdict had been, !'Extremely pretty, sarcastic, and a trifle cold." He screwed in his eyeglass and leaned still further back. He saw Creighton introduce four men. Then his control gave way. He forced an opening in the crowd ; but when he reached her side and spoke, his voice had a tone that, even to him, was new. "llfay I have the pleasure ?" She looked up with just the faint- est surprise. Then her eyes fell on the facings of his red coat, and sho smiled -the friendliest and most per- fect smile he had ever seen. "1—" She hesitated and glanced round for Creighton ; but Creighton had disappeared. She smiled again, and held out her card. "I can give you number five," she said. "Will you put down your name ?" Ile took the card and scrawled his initials. Then he looked at the obviously waiting men. "NmnIber six is also free," he said, "May 7— ?" He would not have admitted the feelings with which he waited for her reply. Ile saw the negative trembling on her lips, and quailed. Then to his absurdly great relief, the saving smile came again, and she blushed, "You may." The words seemed the frankest and most delightful he had ever heard. There is nothing in the world so vivifying as hope. In a single mo- ment the shifting crowd had become the universe, and he had found its core. Like a wonderfully deferred dream the fifth dance came around, and waiting was at an end. "'Mine, I think," he said. She folded her fan, smiled at the man beside her, then laid her hand on Oranficld's arm. PShall we dance 7" he asked. Oh 1 please." Ee hid his disappointment, though his ideas were curiously upset. She seemed so enthusiastic -so buoyantly .young. Tho music had quickened to its end, when he swung her out of the crush. His brain was still swaying to the beat of the tune as he drew her down a passage to a distant seat. In 'ten minutes of companion- ship 0)10 had grown straight into his lite. Tho carpet of the passage was very soft ; the light of the hanging lamp was Very dim. It seemed to him that he had only existed until now, Ile arranged the cushions on the divan, and she sat down, • "Do youbelieve in infatuation ?" he asked suddenly, ITe hit afraid of what he was go- ing to say. He felt that his prin- ciples, his honor -ho used the word boldly all staple things wero drifting from him litre a mirage.. "Have you over ]heard of a man going '011' -his head in a single alght ?" 1e admen afresh, She looked up at hint ; and behind the uneasiness in her eyes he felt that she was measuring flint inch by Melt. "I'd like to, ask you got -nothing," the said, "11 you don't mind." She ginned] down, and then once more glanced up, "I want you to tell me your name," Ito met her gaze in blank sur- prise. It was hard to be, rebuked it, vans inhuman to be forgotten-. Wiped off her memory In six weeks. You've been purlling me the whole eight," sho said, "Ot course, I know that you're thine friend of No man can put into en advertise - Tommy's: ! hut What friend-•'and-nient What is not in himself, If lie where 1 met nage-----" She broke Of is businesslike his. a,dvertisements lin<Irlolly and leeiawi et hitt one* Will ese burilz:M ke, more. "Please do enlighten me. Fie just dying to know," "1 suppose you're laughing at elle," he said. "1 suppose you think because you're so-so horribly pretty you can turn a man's head just for sport. But it isn't sport ; at least not to me. I'm handicapped every way." The music of the next dance be- gun. It appeared distant arid much subdtted. Ills balance and his nerve seemed lost. IIs rose slowly. "At least," he said, grasping at a thread, "at least eny that you re- member giving nee tea-13isherthorpo and ale, one day soon after you'd come back from your honeymoon. Don't make mo feel quite an out- sider," She watched hint curiously, Then an expression -just the dawning of a smile -stole into her eyes. She clasped her bands, and the smile crept very slowly from her eyes to her mouth. "How delicious 1" she said, "Ilow perfectly delicious 1 But how absurd 1" Cranfield was fidgeting with his progratmme. 71t her words he sud- denly tore it in two, She glanced at him, and there was a glow like firelight in her eyes. "1 don't think," she said, deliber- ately, "that I ever gave you any tea. I'm not Daisy, you know; I'm Daisy's sister. We aro horribly a- like, and I always keep forgetting'. Please forgive nie-it's been all my fault." The swish of the dancers and the throb of the waltz conte to Crane field; they were the e.ctrompa.niment to his tangling thoughts. ,He passed his Meads across his eyes, brushing away many things. Then, for the first time that night, he smiled. "Might I— 3" tie halted, "Might I— ?" Their eyes met. Ile suddenly bent nem' : so near that his breath touched her cheek. "Might 1—?" Just to level Her head drooped, and the color rushed into her face. Iler answer, when it came, was a whisper --one of those inaudible mysteries that are never really placed. To this day Cranfield insists that it was "yes," but Mrs. Cranfield in quite persist- ently determined that it has "no," HERE AND THERE, Notes of Interest About Almost Everything. Bank of England notes cost a half cent apiece to produce. Sweden's biggest export is timber. She sells £5,600,000 worth a yeau. A W0111t111 w110 has tided at Shef- field, England, aged sixty-six, had ,spent Tarty -six years In bed. 'i'h:oughaut the world about 3 per cent. of people gain their living di- tectly from the sen. Germany, with 1,083 paper mills, makes only half as much paper as Great Britain with but 300. Wood intended to be made into pi- natas requires to be kept forty year's to he in perfoct contrition, TImo Gocernrnent of the United States gives deeds away to fanners each year to the value of $160,000. Nearly everybody smokes in Ja- pan. The girls begin when they are ten e -ears of age and the boys a year earlier. The beer lirenae of The Shades at Great Bentley, Essex, England, has been held by the stone family for 500 yews. At ICouka, in Central Africa, the average annual temperature is 83.5 degtees Falcrenheit. This is the world's record for heat, Connie returns for Buckingham- shire, England, show that the num- ber of unmarried women - 57,928 - Is precisely the same as the number of baceelors. The Tope at ninety -tour reads without spectacles, walks without a cane, dresses and nrulresses without assistance, and works about four- teen hours deity. In proportion to population, Spain, Norway, and Leland have more blind people than any other European countries. Spain has 210 per 100,000; Norway, 208; and Ire- land, 111, Ladies are largely employed in London in rent -collecting, earning commissions of 4 and 1 .per cent, One lady is responsible for rentals amounting to about $195,000 per annum. The world now consumes 6,800,- 000,000 pounds of tobacco yearly, or 2,812,500 tons. This is worth $260,000,000. In other words, tie world's smoke bill is just $5,000,- 000 a week. Some of the residents in the vil- lage of Wardle, near Rochdale, Eng- land, have formed a Tree -planting Association, with the objeet'of im- proving the appearance of their streets and the approaching roads. The proportion of married people to the population is highest in Rtusc- gary, weer° 407 per 1,000 of the people are married, Portugal stands at the other end of the list, With only 31,0 married per 1,000. Chiengo puts forth a claim to bo ronsi'd:red the true Babel of the twentieth century, No fewer than forty languages ale spoken within its limits, and of fourteen each is spoken by more than 10,000, A gooif Indian elephant can be ob- tabled for $'700, while $1,500 would hercily.purOhaso an African elejiliatit. 'Phe latter are now very scarce, only five having been brought to Europe since the year 1880. Police statistics show that the ar- rests for drunkenness in London are at tho annual rate of ono to every 175 inhabitants; in Birmingham one to 158; in Manchester ono to 71; and in Liver -Poet one to 50. It hes just been discovered that there eicis'ts at Ilapperswyl, Switzer- land, ce fund cons'is'ting of nearly $50,000, which has bean subscr'ihcxl by Poles . in various parts of the world for the purpose of waging war on Russia When 'a propitious time shall arrive, ANTI -VACCINATION ACITA.TION1 FUNDAMENTAL PROVISION OF THE VACCINATION ACT NOT COMPLIED WITH. Rev. J. A, 0. McCuaig Says Compulsory Vaccination Should Cease, The uncompromising anti -vaccina- tion resolution adopted recently et a public meeting Reid in St. An- drew'a Hall, Toronto, appears likely to became the subject of consider- able onsiderable ]heated discussion, The meeting, which was calla] by the Mayor at the instance of a petition of a num- ber of citizens for discussion of tho gluestiol of vaccination, was largely attended. The resolution adopted was as follows That this meeting is of opinion that the entire repeal of the Vac- cination Act, the disestablishrnentt and disendowment by the Steto of the practice of vaccination, the abolition of ell regulations regard- ing vaccination as a condition of admission to educational institu- tions, or employment in State de- partments would be in the interest of justice and the health of the community, and that a copy of this resolution be sent to each of the city M.P.P.'s and also to J, W. St. John, M.P.P., West York • Richardson, Miele., East York, and Davis, AT,P,P., North York, asking their consideration and support when the petitions are brought be- fore the llouee. IN AN INTERVIEW, which apix•ared last Saturday in the Toronto Star, the Rev. J. A. 0, McCuaig, who strongly supported the action at the public meeting, says :- "If the facts in regard to the On- tario Act respecting vaccination and the established history of vaccina- tion itself can be brought before the community, a wave of public senti- ment will be produced that shall make imperative the repeal of the present law of compulsory vaccina- tion, The Act, as it stands, is not enforced, and cannot be enfhrced without awakening a resentment and indignation that would bespeak its doom. "Under the Act, Chapter 206, Sec- tion 6, it is provided that the Council'of each city or town within the Province shall appoint a con- venient place in each ward thereof, and the Council of every township and incorporated -village shall ap- point a convenient place therein, for the performance, at least once in each month, of vaccination, and shall take effectual means for ghdng to all persons resident within each ward, or within the township or village, flue notice of the clays and hours at which the medical prac- titioner contracted with for such purpose will attend to vactinitte. 011 persons `Trot successfully vaccinated, who may then appear there. "This fundamental provision for the enforcement of the law is not only not complied with in most localities, but in the city of To- ronto its very existence as a law has Hoon entirely overlooked by the Mayor and the Medical health Offi- cer. VACCINATION OF BABIES. "Under Sections 7 and 8 of the Act, the father or mother of every child born within the Province, shall, within three months after the birth of such child, take, or cause to be taken, the child to the medical practitioner in attendance at the appointed place, fon' the purpose of being vaccinated, unless the child has been previously vaccinated; and upon the eighth day following the vaccination the father or mother shrill again take, or cause to be taken, the child to the medical prac- titioner, In order that he may ascer- tain by inspection the result of the operation. The penalty for non- compliance with these regatirements is set forth in Section 18, If a father or mother does not cause the child to be vaccinated within the periods prescribed by this Act, or does not, on the eighth day after the vaccination, take, or cause to ho taken, the churn for inspection, then the father or mother, so of-, fending, shall be liable to n penalty not exceeding 85.00 recoverable on so:ninety conviction before a Police Magistrate. SCHOOL LAWS AND VACCINA- TION. "In spite of the unmistakable terms of the 'Act, and the penalty for non-compliance, the., law, is so far ignorcdl and treated as an un- meaning thing that not till applica- tion is made for admission of chil- dren to the Public schools, at ages varying from live to ton year's, is it discovered that their parents are violators Of the law. Tho Public school system becomes the net to catch these ofTenders under Section 1(1 of the Act, which declares that it shall be lawful for the trustees of any Public, Separate, or Digit school to provide that no (hidroa shall be permitted to attend any scjhoolwithout producing a certifi- cate 01 • succetsful vaccination: When demanded by :the -teacher.- , " teacher.•- " Frem this, it would appear that all parents who delay vaccination of children till compelled to vaccina- tion by the provisions of the Public School Board, are guilty of an of- fence under Section 7 of the Act, and are liable to n penalty not exceeding $5,00, recoverable On summary conviction before the. Police Magistrate. It would further' appear that there ie. little desire on the part of anyone interested to en- force the law as the facts' of viola- tion are eagle,' procured, and the punishment of a score of parents would soon,effectivclyCall attontion to the matter, But who desires to see the law enforced ? VACCINATION OF TIlIt ADULT. "Nor does it appear that the most strict enforcement of the late would ellett the wurpose for which • tbo law is supposed to exist. For example, Section 15 makes provision that in every municipality where smallpox exists, or in which there Is danger of its brcalting out through communication with infected 100111i- 1 municipality tins, the Council of the in 1 y may order tbo re -vaccination of all persons resident in the municipality who havo not been vaccinated with- in seven years, and the medical practitioner shall adopt the same measwres to secure 1.110 re -vaccina - Con of all such persons as lie is rowelled to do with regard to chil- dren. "Hero is a provision to enforce re -vaccination of adults on the ground that vaccination holds good no Longer than seven years. But only in case of smallpox epidemic does the law become aggressive. It eons1ders a person as unvaccinated after seven years, but makes no pro- vision, except upon tho appearance of smallpox, for the re -vaccination of such persons. It provides that threrm,nths'-old infants must be vaccinated, but every man and wo- mmn and child over seven years of age in the community may go un- protected unless an epidemic of smallpox appears, MERITS 010 VACCINATION, "And all this is apart from the merits of vaccination. The prac- tice of vaccination is adhered to by the majority of medical men to On- tario. Under the present law, they are tied to it, whether or no, Some have faith in it, and some have not. Prominent investigators, .medi- cal men of worldwide authority, have unhesitatinglypronounced against it. Professor Alfred Russel Wallace, who deals with the matter from the standpoint of a statistician says : 'The operation is, admitted- ly, the cause of many deaths, and of a largo but unknown amount of Permanent injury ; the only really trustworthy statistics on a large scale prove it to be wholly without effect, as a preventive of smallpox, and it will undoubtedly rank as tho greatest and most pernicious failure of the century.' Tho late Rev. Eugh nice Hughes, who carefully tntudied the claims and results of vaccina- tion, asserts, 'The facts produced before the Royal Commission have finally convinced me that vaccina- tion is a great mistake, and that compulsory vaccination is one of the most fearful outrages of sacred human rights that selfishness and cowardice have ever devised.' "To state the case most moderate- ly, there is a question as to the merits of vaccination. 71 the claims of vaccination were established there night be some defence for the law. But there being a question touching those claims, the law that enforces the practice i., an unjustifiable inter- ference with individual rights. It compels subjection of the body to a known evil, in anticipation of a 'doubtful good. It refuses to the in- dividual the right of judgment in a questionable natter, and makes the defence of his own body and the bodies of his children, against that which he believes to be an evil, a punishable misdemeanor. It come nits an assault upon the person and will of the individual, tinder pre- tence of protecting the body from disease, that divine law does not sanction even to save the soul. " --h HEIR OF AUSTRIA -HUNGARY. Personalty of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, The famous prophecy of the late M. de Blowits, that tho death of the lemperor Francis Joseph of Aus- tria-Hungary would be the signal for the great European war, leaves out of count, un sone degree' the personality of the hoir to the Aus- tro-Hungarian throne -tine Arch- duke Franz Ferdinand. An appar- ently well-informed correspondent tolls us something of the character of this man upon whom so much may hinge. "Franz Ferdinand is a than of his times, but he evidently thinks it unbecoming for persons of certain rank to hunt for press suc- cess. He is discreet. The news- papers have often printed news or judgments concerning him that were incorrect ; the has never bad tient contradicted. 'Some day,' he says, 'it will be seen that I wets misjudged.' "Tho Princess, for the Arch- duke's wife being by birth a more Countess of a family that doesn't reign could not becoine an Arch- duchess, leads only a domestic life. Discreet, reserved, hating ostenta- tion and. external show as much as does her husband, sho devotes her- self with scrupglous delicacy to avoiding every occasion whore her rank, which- doesn't eorresj3n;d to her true station, might arouse 'tis - understandings,.. or . bring up ques- tions of etiquette. "As tbo wife of the Heir to the throne she canftot bo confused with the general public ; but, on the other hand, her official rank pre- cludes her taking place with 1101 husband in court life ; she, there- fore, keeps away. "li'rane Ferdinand is a hard work- er,` 1 -Te hes all the oducation that is indispensable to a cultivated gen- tleman and is,, besides, a specialist in military science, economies - and the. se10nco _of government,; A5 ro- •gtli (TS music 'at401 art his kilotvledge does not v180 above the level of a cultured men of the world who has a certain ailment of taste," A STINGING PROTEST, Conducting a Salo at Aldenham, Herta, under a distress for rent, an auettoneer recently had a novel ex- perianth. Upset at having his goods Wel, the owner rushed into the midst of the bidders and pitched a hive of bets upon the grotihcl, Against 011011 unexpected competition the auctioneer and bidder beat a )tasty retreat, het the °tenth, relent- ing, soon afterwards hived hie bees, and the ale was alloWed to proceed, Mrs. M'lyhiclget-'Who wrote the song; 'There's only ono girl in the world fee 1010 ?' !' . Mi', M'Phidget- "/L'dan , 1. suppose," TER GREAT MEAT PAoRER Valuable Lessons From the Life of Gustavus F. Swift. In the career of the late Gustavus P, Swift we havo another and e signal proof that them n is o look of opportunities, but only of )non who have the intelligence, the cour- age and the persevering energy 10 improve men, says the Chicago Chrnnido, During the first thirty-six years of bis life Mr. Swift acquired hut, lit - OA wealth, but during dorsa year, he had been laying the foundation, consciously or unconsciously, for his subsequent phenomenal success. Ile had been observing, thinking and accumulating a stock of useful lcllowle<tito as well as working. When he tante to Chicago in 1875 there were great packing establish- ments at the stock yards, ricin and powerful, and the field seemed to be completely 11110d. Any many • of or- dinary capacity and force wi;11 little money would not have thought of entering it any more than he would have thought or manufacturing iron and steel to compete with Carnegie in Pittsburg. But Air, Swift saw an opportunity and seized it with- out hesitation. Beginning with a small slaughter house at tho stock yards where only a few animals could be handled daily, he developed his business with wonderful rapidity and almost before his groat r0n1- petitors knew what ire was doing he was abreast of them. That was not mere luck, Mr. Swift not 'only know the business as it was then done, from buying to marketing, but he hod ideas of his own, Ile ]new that in the prepar- ing of animals for the market there was a great deal of waste, It was part of his plan to save what was then wasted. So successful was he that four years ago he was able to say, "Not a hair or the beef is wasted, and the hogs are all used except the grunt. A man who could keep at the front in the matter of byproducts had a great advantage as a com- petitor in THE MAIN PRODUCT. IIe could sell the latter on a very narrow margin and still make good profits. Mr, Swift had other ideas. Ono of then was that the markets for meats could be supplied far better anti more economically if suitable Provisions were made for preserving the product in transit and storage. ITe was pre-eminently the man of tho refrigerate' car and warehouse. As a result of his efforts in this Held fresh meats can be carried al- most any distance in any climate and laid down in perfect condition where they aro wanted. Another fact, and oro specially Worthy of remark, is that Mr. Swift was not a speculator in any objec- tionable bjeo-tionable sense Of the word. I3e was, indeed, a good judge of market conditions, 110 could forecast as well as any of them, Ile acted with an eye of probable future eondi- Sons. So far he was a speculator, as every prudent buyer and seller must be, but he was not a market rigger, He did not run corners or play any of the speculative games of the Board of Trado. He achieval his remarkable success in the com- paratively short space of twenty- eight years by strictly business me- thofls. Ile did it by effecting im- portant economics and giving the consuming public better product and service. And he did it in a field which to the ordinary observer seemed fully occupied. IIe supplied a valuable illustration of rho truth that as society is constituted men of brains, energy and perseveroice can always find opportunities to im- prove their fortunes and benefit their fellow mete in so doing. There would be no such oppor- tunities under the artificial social organism for which some people long, and industrial progress would be as dead as it is in India or China, BIREAIKING HIM IN. The momentous question, "What shall we make little Georgie 7" was agitating his parents, ":I've thought of a plan I ex- claimed.' the father at last. "We must get him some useful toys- nothing like watching the toys a boy is most fond of to find out his natural bent. Get hint a toy print- ing press, a steam engine, a box of paints, a chest of tools, and any thing else you can think of to flntl out what his tastes aro," "Very web, my dear," said Mrs, Brown. "I'11 get them to -morrow," But on the succeeding evening Mrs. Brown greeted Brown with a very puzzled expression. "I got all those things," she said. "Yes ' Well ? And what does he like best ?" "1 don't know. He's smashed them all up 1" Fol' a moment Mrs. Brown's pus- zled expression was reflected in Mr. Brown's face. "I havo it," ho said triumphantly at 'last. "We'll make him a- furni- ture.remover 1" THE INVISIBLE JAMES, "Now, ,zanies," said the joiner to' his afnirentice,-•"1. am going ' out, I don't expect I shall be long, and you can be planing up that ton -by - eight beam till T come bath,"• But, alas 1 ' 11risfortone overtook the joiner. Ifo slipped at the bot- tont of the street, sprained his ankle, and had to bo taken home. The next day towat'cls evening ho hobbled into his workshop, and Was confronted by an enormous pile of shavings, James Was invisible, ",Tim 1" ho call'trl., "llttllo, 1" came a far-off ceho, "Where aro you 3" "Down ]hero ; ureter the Shavings!" "W -why -what aro you up to ?" • "Planing Unit beam rep. You told tic tie keep at it till you enure back; but if you'd kept away any longer there'd 'bane been dote left," It was perhaps just es well foe Jim' that his master^e accident ha disatried his Mote.; - 4�' MONSTER CEMENT PLANT ANOTHER LARGE INDUSTRY FOR THE DOMIINION. 711350,000 of Contract Have Been Awarded for Innnense Works at Hull: The Ottawa papers gave an inter- esting account of the gathering on several days of last week at Ottawa of a dozen or two representatives of iron and steel monufacturiitg con- cerns from various Canadian, United States, and 0ernlall cities, their ob- ject being to -submit tenders .to the directors and engineers of the Inter- national Portland Cement Company, Ltd., for structural metals and ma- chinery for the big dull works. According to the "Citizen," the directors had long day -and -night sessions with the representatives of tho iron and steel manufacturers who tendered for the work of build- ing the machinery of the new con- cern, - "Some idea of the magnitude of the business done may be gained from tho fact that during the weep over $350,000 worth of contracts have been awarded. The plant is of such a size that no single manufac- turing firm could 3m relied upon to do all the work of the high stand- ard that the directors insist upon and have the plant ready at the re- quited time. Consequently a num- ber o1 contracts have been let, each for some special part of the plant." The Hull _people, have, we are told, the same dcsighers, engineers,, and Chemists who made so complete an establishment of the National ce- ment mill at Durham, Ont., the Pen- insular mills at Cement City, Mich., and several others 110td in successful operation, A STRONG POINT in favor of this organization lies in the fact that all machinery, the buildings, and the entire plant from the smolcestack to the clinker pit is Made from special designs and de- tailed drawings by a staff of en- gineers, who have learned the busi- ness by many years of practical ex- perience. Various representatives of the largo manufacturing firms stated to a "Citizen" reporter that the de- tailed drawings furnished by these engineers aro easier to interpret and figure upon than any that go into their works, and the machines when built and installed rte with less trouble than any others with which they have to deal. They all .agree also that the fact that the same engineers who design the plant su- perintend its operation after con- struction is 0 very strong assurance of its successful and economical working. The favorable points of the Ottawa or Bull proposition are that the raw materials are abundant, of ex- ceptional purity, that both lime- stone anct clay lie at the very door of the factory, that they have water- power at the very low rate of $15 par horse -power, that they have both water and rail transportation from the Company's oven docks. Then the Company are not obliged to build a railway or steam power plant, tines enabling them to build a 1110011 larger factory with the same amount of capital, acrd thereby ma- terially increasing the darning power of the plant. It 133 further to be noted that with THEM OWN BOAT LINE, they can market their cement at all ports in the Lower Provinces, and through the Rideau Canal can reach all ports surrounding Lake Ontario. Their boats instead of re- turning empty from eastern ports can bring back coal on their return trips. The location as to tho mar- kets to be supplied could not be better, as there is no Portland Ce- ment produced in the Lower Pro- vinces, and the bulk of all the ce- ment consumed in Ottawa, Montreal, and . the Maritime Provinces is • of necessity imported from Germany, Belgium, and the United States against a duty of 48c, per barrel, The "Citizen" article notes as a favorable point, that the'C.P,R. and the Canada Atlantic ' railivays run right by the doors of the fac- tory, also the water waywhich gives a free outlet from the ware- house docks of the Company into the Ottawa river and thence direct to Montreal, Quebec, and the sea board cities. The hull works will, it is claimed, surpass in efficiency and equipment any of tho plants yet designed by these men, and will supply Cement to Eastern Ontario and the Lower Provinces 1,0111 its advantageous Mention, just ea the Durham works is well placed to supply, the Western Peninsula. ']'ho business ability and scientific skill of the people who have this work in hand point to its success as an important industrial enterprise and promise well, we consider, for Its financial success also. The greatest meteorite ever found is that recently discovered by Pro- fessor Ward at 33actibb1'ito, in 'Alexi- co, - It :is 13- feet leng, 01feet wide, and 5 feet high,_and., weights 50 tons, It took 98 mon a,day to uncover it, Vienna almost always holds a world's record for suicide, Iii the first nine months of last year 250 mon and 98 women succeeded in killing themselves, and another 367 made unsuccessful attempts. Wolves can, and often do, run 50 to 80 miles in a night. Foxes travel, great distances in !march of fool, Nansdn save an Arctic fox out on the ice 480 miles from the ,Asiatic Coast. A. fly will 1io motionless at a tem- peretur0 of freezing point, begin to mewl at 511 degrees, le buzz and fly at 68 lc5rece ; :1.13 degrees of city hent will usually kill, fly tai a short:, i lsne. IMPOSSIBLE PROPHECIES' FORECASTS WHICH. (CAN NEV- ER COME TRUE. .A Comet Will Never Destroy the, Earth -The Yellow Invsion, There havo been 'three chances within the last ton years that the earth 1110111 001110 to a sudden eel through colliding with one of the liugo 001(10ts that aro careering throughspace at the rate of untold utiles per hour, Two of theta have come very close, for comets, and many leaded treatises have shown that it was quite on the cards that, by a slight deviation of route, they might 0011511 into us, and that, in any cusp, this wits the most likely way for the world 10 "end up," and mist occur sooner or later., Books, pamphlets, and articles in great numbers havo appeared to Wove it, it has only just been discovered that this tan never happen, and that the prophecies tlt'st have been re- peated at intervals for a century past were all wrong. The renron is that 0 comet, as l'roftheor Babinot has protect, insteadof beteg a solid body with a gaseous toil, as sup- posed, is a good deal lighter than tho air that surrounds this earth of ours, and is composed of 'meteoric dust, or nebula, so minute that yon might drag it through with a net of butter -muslin and not catch any- thing. This body of illuminated nothingness travels at a fearful ,speed througl, the ether beyond the atmosphere of the worlds, but has not enough weight to IIU11T A MOSQUITO. If it were a solid body, the earth would be knocked into cobble stones by the shock of sleeting it; but in reality it is so light that, even if corning straight at us, it would. probably never reach tho earth's sur- face through the air that surrounds - 06. A very ominous terror that has troubled thousands of people, learn- ed and otherwise, is the great threat of 1110 "yellow invasion." It has been pr'ophesie'd for a long time that one of the most serious dangers in store for Britain, together with the rest of Europe, is that before very long the Chinese may discover what everybody dee has known fora long time -that they easily outnumber the wliole population. of Europe put together. If they chose to arms tltemselces with moiforn weapons - as some have - and gather their strength together, they could devas- tate and loot the whole of the old world, for all the nations together could not stand against their over- whelming numbers. And their hat- red of everybody but themselves, and their love of wealth, would want lit- tle Spurring to set them loose on us. There are over 400,000,000 people in China - prob- ably 500,000,000 - and only 15,000 f'or'eigners. But the notion of a European invasion by the Chi- nese is more chimerical than prob- able, and it is a prophecy which will never be fulfilled TEE "ACTUAL ZERO." If it could be, great things could be done for seicnco and for medicine, diseases killed, and countless valua- ble experiments proved that are now impossible for want of it. For there is a point beyond which cold cannot go, and many lives havo been spent in searching for it. Of course, what is called "zero" on a thermometer is no. more the actual zero than boiling-ye:tit is. Tho mercury often falls telco it even in England. In the Arctic meroury freezes at a cer- tain point, and spirit thoracometers have to 3m used. But by artificially made cold oven the spirit fr'eczes,and this cold c.an be induced scientifically to such a point that even gases can be frozen solid. The most defiant of all the gases is hydrogen, and it was foaled that it would bo some t1m0 before anybody would get so far as to freeze it, but that when they did the actual zero, would easily be found. All sorts of expectations were placed on the result; but final- ly Professor Dewar succeeded in freezing hydrogen --which is colorless and intangible gas - into a solid block at the •amazing coldness of 260 degrees centigrade below cretin are: zero, Only • Y8 'degrees mere separate this front,.the longed -for "actual zero," than which there is nothing colder - the very bottom of cold, so to speak. But those 18 degrees, it is claimed, can never bo ,+riped out by any possibility of sci- 'dnce. The bed plate Of cold; and its uses, will Uefy man's knowledge for good. It has often been declared - and the belief has troubled a great many people - that at the rate the popu- lation of Britain is increasing, and the towns spreading over the land, the tine is within sight when Bri- tain will lie •. 01VE VAST TOWN, with no unbuilt -upon land at all, except in the shape of parks. The ent110 country will b0 artificial, and will lie served by railways 0114 tram- ways nom district to district, leav- ing not a single tract of open Main- try. ormtry, 11 the figures of increase of population and towns during the Inst fifty years are evorbe1 upon, this result cortairhe sterns ..to fol - 10v.. !joints. have:teen W)vitten to prove it, economists bavb 'worried over it, and lovers of towns and ar- tificial life in general have rejoiced ovale it. Tleee islan's 'nib fixed ante limited; the towns aro expanding and unlimited, ltdinblu'gh and Lon- don, it is sale, are to 3m one, and the farthest 511001's will be built up. on, 4, BEHIND Tun TUIIES. On coining out front. the State prison at Trenton, Now Jersey, after serving . a twenty -flue years' sem tense, ' Herbert Jacobs was struck and injured by 0h electric tranvia:, While trying to o'oee the road, Ile knew nothing of olectrle traction, Which Idris introduced during his in- carcoratiOn, hod seeing of lrrir'stae attached to the front W tlto Icon concluded it wes,golttg, eeritty h'oin