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The Brussels Post, 1900-10-4, Page 2ER'ELL TO CANADIANS Lord Roberts Says Their Conduct Wii1 Never be Forgotten by Country or Queen. ll deeepatoh! from Pretoria, sayer.—, "peeitviy I regret the losses you Gen, Roberts, in the pa'esenae oR Lady have seamed. I ©Mould have been. Roberts,. and his daughters, inap'eeted leeppier it y'uu bead returned in your she oomlvanles of the Oanadian regi- full strength. The regiment had had ment, who were on their way home 100 killed or evpu!nded; but no one atter a yeae'a service in Seethl:Africa, mad expect ypu to peas through so Crowds were present,. and the men, arduous a campaign without losses,' wiw are in exceelent health, making% ',I aim sorry that epma of you are splendid appearance, the scene was aobliged to reborn owner thew Lha brilliant. one, !rest of the regiment, but 1 recognize After the march' past, Con. Roberts the urgency of privateaffairs, I am Loewe, addressed the Ile said,:— !confident' thin the Que«en and l ritieh "I cannot allow you to depart with-' People will never forget your serviette. out, expressing my thanks for and le it should eve» be eay goocit fortune appreciation of your loyal eervices and to visit Canada, 1 hope to meet you' excellent work, especially at Paarde- all again:' berg,. on February 27. I am sure the 'After the troops bad given cheers people of Canada will be pleased to for. the Queen and the Field Marshal, hear 7inw gallantly and how the latter ;,hook hands with the Cana - splendidly you have all behaved in dian officers and ]nese nted tbbm one action'. : by one to Lady Robert 200 MORE REFUGEES. Burghers Continue to Flock Into Names of Oflleials Who Must be Lorenzo Marques. Surrendered. A despetoh from Laudon says;—.A. Among the Chinese officials whore despatch from Lorenzo Marques says; heads Germany has demanded as the —"'Phe German steamship Herzog price of peace negotiations are the sailed for Europe to -day. Her pas- following, — sengers were chiefly Hollanders,• Ger- Prince Tuan, the Lather of the heir - mune, and Boers, She carried a large apparent. quantity of bar gold; President Yung -Lu, Pelle commander of the Kruger reenaiws at the Government n'or'thern armies. house. Yu-Hsien, ex -Governor of Shunt - "Two hundred more Boers arrived ung, now Governor of Shan-st. here today. They state that all the Chung -Li, Hsu -Tung, tutors to the guns which they left, at Komatipoort heir -apparent, both reported to have were irreparably damaged or buried. oonrmieted su4eide. (rhe tburghers, who are still In the Tung -Pule -Siang, general of the field have enough ammunition, to last 1Cansu troops. bo the end of the year, and they are Kang -Y1, Ohwo-Shu-Chiao, special determined to resist till it gives out. Imperial cammissionere who reported "Governor-General Machado, of favourably on the Boxer movement. Portuguese East Africa, is at his wit's ! Li -Peng -Heng, a court favourite, end as to howto provide for the, pen- who raised troops in the country nilo.os and starving refugees fr•°om the ' round Pekin to aot against the Lege - Transvaal," !lions. A notorious Boxer adherent. Delgelty's colonials and Delisle's ( There are others. new farce are co-operating with the • The reports that one or the other view to roundiuzg up General De Wet, I has oommi tted suicide or been killed who is reported to be south-west of in battle need be taken with suspicion. Kopjos station, with 900 men and I't is a comfortable Chinese way of three guns. self-effacement in times of stress to Refugees from Potchefstroom state circulate these reports in the sure and that the Boers are badly equipped so confident anticipation of being once far as ammunition ie concerned. more able to reappear serenely in hap- pier times. But of this the allies are DESTROYED THE LONG TOMS aware GERMANY'S DEMANDS. All the Big cannon of the Boers WORN-OUT ARMY HORSES. Blown Up. -- A despatch from, London, says;— jIjLord Roberts Forbids Their Sale The War Office has received the fol -1 in South Africa. towing despatch from Lord Roberts, dated Pretoria, Sept. 24; "Pole -Carew reports that he found at Komatipoort one Long Tom, 98 - pounder, and one Creusot, wihtch had barn destroyed, 809 rifles, 30 boxes of small arm ammunition, 40 Long Tom e8ieils, etc. "Barton has captured 720 trek ox- en, 950 cattle, and 1,000 sheep." MANY BOER GUNS FOUND. A eleepaich from Gape Town says ;— ,A. 'urge number of guns, mostly ,dam- aged, have been found along the Oro- co;:i. river near Hestorspruit. Prretecally the whole of the Repub-I Baan railway attacks have been cap - tared on tete Selate line. There are eight miles ce vehicles, the majority belong in good condition. PLEiNTY OF SUPPLIES. British Troops at Komatipoort Not Short of Rations. A despatch from London, says :—In a telegrams to the ,War Office, Lord Roberts says :—"Ian Hamilton's col- umn arrived at Komatipoort to -day. Pole -Carew states that they are get- ting; ample supplies through our Con- sul at Lorenzo Marques. The Portu- guese officials are very civil and oblig- ing. "Seventeen officers and 319 men of the Canadian Regiment started tete morning on their way to Canada." MRS. KRUGER'S ILLNESS. Cannot Leave Pretoria to Join Her Husband. A despatch from London, says;—A despatch from Pretoria says that, in the opinion of her pbyslcian, Mrs. Kruger le too teeble to travel to Lorenzo Marques to join her bhsband. She will be obliged to remain in Pretoria. TROUBLE IN CI1hLI. Missionaries Are Threatened With Attack, A despatch from Paris says :—Tho Temps this Livening publishes a de- spatoh from Shanghai which Says the BLleslonartes in Chi -Ll are threatened. 0•tlurepean troops having been sent againet the Boxers, Prince Ching, it is asserted has protested that the Tamen alone is gnalified to carry out their eykorminatien, ordered by it, A despatch from/Cape Town says ;— A, fortnight ago the Cape Times.arew attention to the scandals arising out of the sale of army horses con- demned as unfit for further service in the field. Once out of the con- trol of the service officers the nags were bought for a mere song by, hawkers, crammed into trucks, hur- ried to Cape Town, enduring careless and inhuman treatment on the road, and then resold. It was the intone tion of the transport officers that the animals shoals be nursed and fed back to Stealth, bat instead oe this a system of gross cruelty sprang into existence, so that the dealers an.ight profit. On learning the fast's stated by the Cape 'Times, Lord Roberts has is- sued an order forbidding the sale of army horses in any part of the col- onies. For this kindly deed he has received the gratitude of all humani- tarians. SUPPLIED THEM WITH ARMS How the Boers Secured Their Mar- tini -Henri Rifles. A despatch from Pretoria says:— Many ays:Many of the Dos re, it is known, were armed with Martini -Henri rifles. It is quite possible that they have been armed for some time with the weap- on, but, at the same time, information has come to hand Srom trustworthy sources that on the evacuation of Zeerust, on August 8 a large num- ber eg Martini -Henri rifles and am- munition were, owing to carelessness on the part o2 the commissioners or whoever was responsible for them, left behind In the Landd,rost'e office:, where they had been stored. TREASON BILL PASSED. Only Eight Members Oppose the Second Reading. A despatch from Cape Town says: —The T,reasbn hill passed on its sec- ond reading by the Legislative Coun- cil to -day, by a vote of 13 to 8, GOT RID OF TU M, IrisheAmeriean M reenaries Put On a Portuguese Transport. A despatch from Lorenzo Marques, sage:—'The Irish'-Amerieans lately serving with the Boers have been res moved, torn their barraoks to the Portuguese (transport Indiana, to pre - 'anti disturbances in thb town, MAIIKEn OF THE 111OER .1B1 ►awe Pelees of Caltte, heese, Grain, 8ce in the Leading Markets. TII1E STREET MARKET. Toronto, Oot. 2. -Following were the prices !grain wee selling at on tee street to-day:-lfivo hundred bushels at white wheat at 081-3o to 01)0 per busied, 700 busltele at red at 68 1-2o per bushel, 5,000 bushels of barley at 43 tle 48 1-2c pe;r bushel, 010 bushels of goose at 00 to 08 1-20 per bushel, GOO bushel's ate outs at from 28 1-2 to Steve are worth 3 1.20 per lb, and stage 20 Per lb,' For fat and light hogs the outside Prise was 5 1-2o Itee lb, !l'og's to Retell the telt Pelee Must be' of prince quality, anis saa)e not be- low 130 nor :theta 200 lbs. EDICT FROM THE DOWAGER. CAPTURFD A LAAGFR. Over 10,000 Head of Stock Seized by Generals Paget and Barton. --t War Against the Powers 80 Bo A despatch from Pretoria, sem— . Contlnlied. Gen, Paget, by making a Deiced A deapat°b from London, Wedneo- march of 26 miles east of Herman's day, says ;---A despatch'. to the Stan- kraal, captured the Mager of Com - thud from Shanghai nye that Chinese maudantGrelbler, 'seizing 2,000 bead 20e per bushel, 'Twenty loads of, hay °f£ioials tbere report that Prince Tuan elf cattle and 6,000 sheep, Twenty were sold at trop 311 to $13 per' ton. has issued a secret edict in the name men who steed been left in charge were Dressed hone sold for from 38 to 38 35, of the Dowager Empress, informing made prisoner's. Commandant Grob - , white, straight,$0.081.2 20,60 the authorities throughout the Empire terwas absent with his trclops at the ie the Doers, who had been ooauPy- Wheat, red . . , , 0,00 0,081-2 that the court has deeded to continue time, he being engaged in Making an Ling That place, bolted nomas the fron- into Portuguese torrltory, They Wheat, gats©,;, , 0,08 0,081-2 the war ageinst the powers at what- atfaok on the railway, Oa Plumed tier Wheat, spring. 0,71 a 0.711-'L i ever oast. .Tho edict tbreetene that made a flank marcbryfor the purpose of I blew up their guns and deetr•oyed Oats. 0,:81 0.'29 any official who rises not support the co-operating with lien. Paget in too their arms before evacuating Lbe Barley. 0.48 0.481-2 Manelrus will be beheaded as a traitor, event of Oammandunt Grobier de - Rye. . . , 0,00 0,64 Lown, Peas. • . . . . 0,00 0:54 Hay, per 'ton. . . . 11.00 13.00 Straw, per ton. , . , 0.00 11.00 Dressed hags. 800 8.25 Butter, in 14). rolls. .. 0.20 0,25 Eggs, new laid. , 0,15 0,10 Cbickena, per talr. . 0.50 0.70 Turkeys, per lb. . . 0.11 0.13 Ducks, each. . . . 0.60 0.75 Potatoes, per bag. .. 0.80 0,85 Apples, per bbl. .. 0.40 1.011 Beef, hind quarters, . 7.00 9.00 Beef, forequarters. . 400 5,50 Beet', carcase. , . 5.50 7.75 Mutton. ... . 0,00 800 Lamb, spring, per Ib. 0.08 -0.09 Veal, carcase. .. 8,00 9,00 DAIRY MARKETS, Rending tb,e Mager. Gen. Cunningham's brigade, consist- ing of the Argyle Highlanders, the Berkshire Regiment, and the Scottish Beederere, has returned here' from the east, Since July 27 the brigade marched 700 miles. When the British occupied ifomati- his tamily destroyed, and the tombs ref bis ancestors destroyed. A despatch to the Daily Nowa from Pekin, says it is persistently main- tained that the Emperor has left the Dowager Emprees, and is now at Tat- hlung, 160 miles west oe Pekin, BRITAIN'S REPLY. She Declines to Agree to the Torras of the German lists. SPARKS fNON 11[ WE Newey Items About Ourselves and Our Neighbors—Something of Interest From Every Quar- ter of the Globe, CANADA. skull, as a result of injuries inflicted by his son, William, aged 26 years. Tho young man is thought to be in- sane. The steamer Alcides, which refused to stop at Grosso Isle quarantine, was met by the Montreal Health Commit- tee down the river, when it was learn- ed that the vessel had called at Syd- ey, C,B., and got a clean billof health. Oddegarde we The Toronto General Trusts Company, an action by the pa - A despatch from London, says:—TheCoal is 35 a ton at Hamilton, rents elf two young seen who died in British; Premier's decision , to refuse Parts, Ont,, will Lava an 218,000 the Yukon district to recover 350,000 Bui'tehi—A lot of poor and medium to agree to the teems of the German poet office, has been decided' in favor of the plain - quality Doming in, and outside offer- note was communicated verbally to Robert Smith, ex -M. P., is dead at tilts -at the Ottawa Assizes. tags free. Good stock is scene and the German "Ambassador here, Count Brampton, aged 84. GREAT BRITAIN. steady. Commission 'houses sell to von leatzfeldt-Wildenburg, during 'a Mr. Be J. 0. Dawson, formerly . English contributions for Galveston long interview this afternoon, Postmaster of London, Ont., died in sufferers reached 310,900 on Monday. Only: stew officials are cognizant England. ' Two additional oases of bubonic of 'what Lord Salisbury said to Count The widow of Gen. Grant, pre- plague have been reported in Galsgow, von Eatzfetdt-W ldenburg to regard silent of the United States, is visit- Glasgow had another death from to the latest development in the Chine ing Montreal plague yesterday, total 21 deaths and ass, question. Official circles hereHenry Gilbert, aged 35, fell orf a 110 eases. were inclined to believe that his Lord- railway bridge to his loath nears Bullion taken into the Bank of ship would agree with Germany. In- gespeler, Ont. England on balance yesterday am - stead' of doing so he used almost ex- ,pbe Hamilton Street Railway Em- snared to $706,000. Higher market, good demand, and aotly the ferias in which Washington's ployes', Union has voted 325 to the Mr. George J. Goschen, rivet Lord stocks light. Long steer baeon is up refusal ,was couohled, and this, said a Galveston sufferers. of the Admiralty and member of the to 10e, and dealers will sell nothing high official to a representative of Four of the convicted Yankee pick- House of Commons for St, George's, under this pries. Lard, too, is e ; the Associated Press, "is all the more pockets were each sentenced to four Hanover square, London, announces and very firm. Dressed hogs firmer, , r surprising, considering thiel the Wash- years' irovprisanment. that he will not seek re -°lection to and sell At.$8 to $8,25 par cwt, inliugton officials had not the slightest Fifty invalided soldiers who return Parliament. inkling of what England's attitude on the steamer Dominion were UNITED STATES. would be." —4,— the trade as follows; Dairy, tubs and pails, choice, 18 to 19c; and second quality, at 14 to 10o; dairy paints, olaoiae, 19 to 20e; creamery, boxes, 21 to 22c ; and pounds, 22 to 23e. Cheese—Full creamery, July and August makes, sells at 111-2 to 12e. DRESSED HOGS AND PROVISIONS farmers' wagons. Quotations for provisions are as follows;—Dry salted shoulders, 80; long olear bacon, car lots, 10e; ton lots, 10o; case lots, 10c; short cut pork, $19.50 to'$20;'heavy mess,117.50 to 315. 5,000 Chinese Put to Flight By Smoked meats—Hams, heavy, 12o;Russians. of Holland Landing was drowned by medium, 13c; light, 13 1-2c; break- At despatch from St. Petersburg, falling into a tub of water. fast bacon, 121-2 to 13c; pionic barns,' says:—The 'War Office announces that The Canadian Government steamer 10o, roll baoon, 110; smoked backs, 13c. Gen. Sacearoff, the chief of the Rus- Newfield is on the rooks in the Bay All meats out o£ pickle to less than sian+ general staff, captured Chiu Lan -of Fundy, and will go to pieces, prices quoted for smoked meats. Chen, near the Sungari river, Septem- 1 A new railway company has been Land—Tierces. 9 8 -do; tube, 10a reels, bar 12 puffing to flight 5,000 Chinese. 1 organized to build a line from the 101-4u, It is said theRussians sustained no Megnetawan river to Burk's Falls. PRODUCE,casualties. { Howard Holley, aged 14, had bis The Sungari. river, of Manchuria, ankle bone almost severed by a cis- Eggs—Receipts dropping off alit- rises near the frontier of Corea, flows outer saw at Newmarket. Ile, but the quality of arrivals is much riortli and north-east andjoins the improved. Choice fresh sold at 14 to , • Advan4, the Hindoo Prince, charged 15c; seconds at 8 t lOc. 14Iur, or man- river, 135 miles with obtaining goods on false pee- pers south-wes0 of the influx of the Ooso-'fences, will bo triad at Ottawa. Potatoes—Plenty ,coming in. Dealers are ;buying oar Iota, on traok ,here, at °res, The estate of the late Alex. Fere to 33c per bag; and sell, outof store, �, guson, Q. 0., of Ottawa, is valued at at .40 to 45c per bag. 1370,000. There are many bequests to Field in•odaoe, etc: Active market. JAPANESE WEDDING STAMPS. aharttaes. Turnips sell, out of store, at 251 to 30o The new stamps issued in Japan in President Shaughnessy, of the O per bol; onions sell, sent of store, to commemoration of the wedding of the P. R., left Montreal to -day on his an - per lb; to 31. , per bbl, sell, out of store, crown prince are now reaching this nual tour of inspection through to the at Wu to 31. country. The principal decoration of Pacific ooast. Beans—New stock is being offered. these stamps needs a Japanese ex- An explosion of gas started a blaze Choice band -picked beans are quoted planation before it oan be comps -'which nearly caused the destruction at: 31,55 to 31.00 for old stook. , hended, and even then a great deal of the Standard Onemical Co.'s plant Honey—Deialors quote from 9 to 100 bus to be taken oar faith, since to ' at Deseronto. per, Ib, for 5,10, or 00 lb, tins. Oomb most people the legend surrounding 1 E, B. Eddy, Ilhi11, h'as been elected honey sells at 32 to 32!.25 per dozen, the design books like so much cord -'an honorary member of the Ottawa woad. lBieklayers' and Masons' Union. In sections' In the oval frame is pictured a low his early days he was a bricklayer. Baled lcm track No. 1 ti0; table spread with paper, the plane car lots, un track hyena, $:'Y,.75 td 310; p Quebec give a two -ton lots, delivered, sell at 310.50. where all Japanese marriages aro sol- to. Rev. Fatherwill O'Learypublic when wthe elcoRoma- ;Baled straw—Car lots of good oat emnized. The table is decorated mane Oathdlio chaplain to the first are quoted at 35 to 35.50, on; track. with bamboo stalks and plum twigs oontingent, returns from the front. Bops—New 11;00 Drop is now quoted and blossoms, and at each corner Miss Griffen of Dundee was shot and at 13 to 15o. Old sell at 13 to 14ceer rises a spray of pine. The pine and killed by an unknown man, who drove Canada, "JD's, far choice. the bamboo being evergreens repro • up from behind as she was riding in a Toronto, Oot. 2,—This receipts of live sent that in which tbere is neither buggy with Geo, A. Pearson at Water - variability nor shadow of turning; the down. plum on the other hand stands for The new Quebec line of the Can - that which buds, blossoms and fruits ads' Atlantic will be opened early in for the good of man. The decorations October with the shipment of 100,000 of the paper table cover are the bushels of corn from Chicago to crane and the tortoise; of these the :Europe. economical as tar as wear goes, but bird is symbolic of 1,000 years and The body of the man found hanged the turtle of 10,000 years. Here sit 'at, Clearwater, Man., has been identie they are invaluable aide from ah'ealth the bride and bridegroom and puss 'fled as that of August Johnston, a point of view. Gray or greenish fawn eaoh: other cups of saki to the num- farmer residing near Grafton, North or brown tones, when they predomin- ber of nine, and so they are mar- Dakota. ate, are depressing to live with, al- ried, for the nine drinks together Operator Beggar admits thee Sat- though they may be 000l looking and symbolize the perfect Japanese mar- urclay's wreck on theE. & N. .Rey„ refreshing for a short time. Sb, too, rialto. near Victoria, ill, 0, in evhieh four are dull hangings, such as browns and This in Japan is this emblem of persons were killed, wus duo to his dark purples, whieh simply Irritate by wattloek, and for that reason it has carelessness. been reproduced in the oommemora- This London Lord's Day case against five stamp issued on the wedding of three street car employes who repaired the crown prince. At just such a slviteb) points un Sunday night has table sat ba and his bride, and the failed, the Police Magistrate agree - stalks of bamboo and sprays of pine ing with them that It was a work and the blooms of the plum all joined of necessity. in wishing them both all beetle, Mr. 0• J, Brown, assistant teacher wealth and happineas without change int the Hamilton Collegiate Institute, ing; and tee crane and tho turtle fix- resigned after. nineteen years and a ed a tort of generous time limit to all half of service, and was presented the good wishes by suggesting that it witha gold' chain and locket by the might possibly acme to an end five Board of Education'.or feu thousand years Lease. Mr. John Patterson of Hamilton That is the way the Japanese set announces that a company control - forth the meaning of the picture an led' by him is about bo erect 800 coke the naw stamp and for confirmation ovens just cast of the city, and will they potut to the legend, which they supply tar and gas at much cheaper stoutly aver is a statement of the rates than charged at present. name of the prince and the princess Jeremiah J', Hoskins of London, and the date when they sipped the 'Ont., it lying at Victoria Hospital in nine (mps of saki. aserioue condition with a fractured affected by the colo+^. CAPTURED THE GENERAL. welcomed at Quebec. Polboeman Campaign was struck by a. street car at Hamilton. He bad a narrow escape from death. A little daughter of Me. le Grant stock at the Western cattle mar- ket this morning was only 40 carloads, including between 1,100 and 1,200 sheep and lambs, 803 hogs, nearly 500 cattle, and a few milah cows and calves. The market was as dull and un- eventful as any one we have had this season. '.There is precstioally no movement in export Delete; prices are nominal- ly unchanged. Except fur the best bu:taher cat- ole there is little movement, and we have seemly any stuff that is more than medium coming in. Good to prim: batoher matte sells at from 3 3-4 to A 8-8c per lir; extra thole° may fete') 4 1-2c, Pres for ordinary cattle are u,n- steady, with a decided downward tendency. Feeders amei stockers are in fair de- mand at steady prices; stockers if anything were inclined to sell ashade lower, Export bulls were tither easy to- day at from 31-4, bo 4 1-4c per lb, Good ranch cows aro wanted up to about 360 eaa'h. Sheep and lambs are not quotably changed, but Iambs are a shade more easy on large supplies, Hogs are heady and uuchanged at the melees quoted below. The prime bags are selling at 0 1-4o per lb. Syracuse, N.Y., has a young man who is doing housework for a living. The Pennsylvania iron workers' strike against a reduction of wages, has failed. J. P. McDonald, of New York, will build a railroad in Eucader on a $25,000,000 contract. The Chicago Tribune says prices of flour are climbing higher with an ad- vancing wheat market. Vice -President Candidate Rome. welt was greeted with " cheers for Bryan," at Butte, Mont. ,Coote, the junior member 01 Hatch Se Foote, tate New York brokers, who failed for 82,000,000, has become in- sane. It le estimated that there are 1,000 bodies yet to be taken out of the ruins which surround the pity of Gal- veston. R. G. Dun, of Commercial agency fame, is ill at his summer home near Nlarragansett Pier, R.I., He has a compHeathen of disorders. Terrible havoo was wrought at Nome, Alaska, by the recent storm. Many buildings were entirely swept away. Three men were drowned. Bryan was cheered by 5,000 men re turning from work in the Kansas Oily packing bonne with empty din- ner pails. He spoke on the "full din- ner pails." Quechee village, Vermont , had a typical western hold-up recently ending in a battle between the des- peradoes; and the sheriff's pease, with, victory for the latter. WALL PAPERS. The. color of tb'e wall papers and hangings, of rooms affects the temper and disposition of those who live in them! to a far greater degree than most (people imagine. Light and cheerful colors may not be the most their hopeless dreariness and dull -1 nese. There is an old rose or )rushed strawberry calor, too, which gets simply . exasperating after one has seen it frequently. Landlords eon, eider it a good wearing color, and think that it shows advanced taste, but after a little it simply gets on one's nerves, and the sufferer dean not know what ails her. For real cheer-, fulness there is no color like a warm yellow tor a room, while sage green or pink—rose pink, of course—also make charming interiors. People who are sensitive to color effects feel exoessive- ly unhappy In rooms papered, in die - tractile colors. Thus a friend of the writer when staying at a strange house was put in a room papered with green and whits. The green weal/ale emerald, and very pretty, but it was antagonistic, and the lady's visit was gait) spelled, eo unpleasantly Was she qus413 WAYS Or WOOING 2laE0P.. ere* retina Beed isle 8('T1 or POWs Ante are " Wahine 08 lore' sy 11,rpltapa,. "Sleep, 0 gentle sleep, hew haute frightod 'thee?" asks the disiraoted y, king in Shakoapeero's play of "Henry IV', and It la a question whlob thou. eaniis lee weary mortals both before and atter sotveroign's time have hews in the habit of framing, though no - answer has been Lorthooming, Tlfat several ingenious persons have, how- ever salved the problem of Inducing sleep the following pocullar methods" of counteraotiaig insomnia will, cisare. ly demonstrate;— Itis Imperial Majesty the Slttth oR Persia was a martyr to ineomnta. far - a long time until, in a ,happy moment of inspiration, one of the court piwee sielans hit upon the extraordinary nation of patting the autocrat 'on the arms and beak until sheep weighed down hie eyelids. So admirable was this speoitio touted to be that it was ,, immediately adopted by the Shuh, and it is stated that the suite which accompanied him to Europe oonteln- ed, among other tunctionarleo, two "patters," Whose sole oaaupation took the form of helping to send tear master into the realms of the drowsy Moreheats. At the Paris Exhibition there was shown the model of a cave once es - copied by a famous Greek brigand, who was in the hwbit of being Soft to sleep by the dropping of piseee of gold from the roof of the cave on a carpet beneath, The gold then drop - .,- pod represented some of the haply that be bad aoqurred from passhig travellers, and so dear had the sound of coin become to him that nothing but its ©bink upon the ground woeat soothe his eyelids to sleep. Of all queer methods of inducing drowse nets, the foregcsig would odrt lnly _ seem eo be the queerest. A gentleman who resided for many years in the town of Worcester utas unable to drop off to sleep -unless half a dozen peaches were placed en- der his pillow, as he averred that the perfume of the fruit brought with st a certain degree of drowsiness. Sonsewbat similar to the device of ibis worthy was the plan of a Pa,rt- si'in merchant whose only remedy Por sleeplessness was the insertion, baneaile his pillow of a sachet of lavender, the smell of which, he declared, would send him to sleep in less than Sive minutes, In some Oriental climes the natives who find themselves unable to sleep by natural means prevailed upon their friends to administer to them very sound floggings with bamboo eanee. The pain thus sustained is supposed by the natives in question to lathe) a sensation of drowsiness, foliotved by sleep. All the same, there are few insomniapatients in this eountsy - who would resort to so drastle a measure for curing their compiniot. Very peculiar was the following— A. middle aged engineer who bad lived alellahlee for many years close to the beach o3 a seaside town had grown so accustomed to the lullaby of the waves that when business took him to &lanoioes- ter, where he was thencefaetv5Xi compelled to live, he found brat tlfe absence of the sea murmurs robbed him of sleep. He therefore fitted up e, in his bedchamber an appar❑ede which was so constructed that the sound of the waves an they broke up- on the shore was most cleverly imi- tated. Aided by this fictitious up- - plianoe the engineer was enabled to sleep perfectly, and the apparatus continued in constant use until Ehs day of his death, soma years later. BEST WASH FOB. GLOVES. A successful wash for soiled bid gloves of the mare delicate shades, as well as white, will be owned by many, housewives as ons of the greutdet blessings of the day.. Many of the cleaners will say that light gray or pale lavender kide cannot be cleaned successfully, but they are wrong, flo to any drug store, and ask for a ©lean- ing fluid made as follows :--(Deodoeis- ed bsnzine, two pints; sulphuric etbgr, one draohm; oblorotorm, one drachm; alcohol, two drachms. Open the windows wide, and have no fire and no light 1n the room well() doing the cleaning. Select a largo' earthen bowl, and pour in enough of, the fluid to well cover the pair of gloves. Wash the gloves just as you would a cloth or a pieta of iaoe. Rub the fingere together until the seams are entirely clean. Use one glove to rub the other with. When they seem to be Olean, squeeze out and dry them with a towel sufficiently to put on the hand. If a spot shows anywheus, wet it again with the fluid and rub tete kill gently with the towel. If you have plenty of the washing fluid and are desirous of having the gloves look just litre new, rinse them before trying them on in a clean wash. When assured that they aro ©loan, pull them off oaretully by loosening the fingers at the tip, Hang them up to dry in the open air. In half an hour all dlsagiee- able odor will have disappeared. Ono Vert of this cleansing fluid will not goat over forty ameba, and it fidget to clean, six pais* of gloves • e. 00.. i(h