The Brussels Post, 1901-6-27, Page 2INE NEN
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THE VERY LATEST FROM
ALL THE WORLD OVER,.
interesting 9tetns About Our. Own
Country, Croat Britain, the United
States, and MI Parts of the Giioi,
Condensed and Asotided for Easy
Readhog.
CANADA,
A. separate school will be opened
in Woodstock.
Two new cases of smallpox are re-
ported at Hamilton,
Winnipeg's tax rate will bo 24t
mills this year.
Manitoba's wheat crop may be the
best in its history,
Kingston's revenue from taxes for
1901 totals $158,217.62,
An outbreak of smallpox is report-
ed at St, Jerome near Montreal,
The Hessian fly is doing damage to
the fall wheat in Wentworth Coun-
ty.
011 has been discovered on a farm
in Springfield Municipality, four
miles northeast of Winnipeg.
Tho building inspector of Winnipeg
reports permits have been issued this
season to the value of $852,000.
The Barbers' Protective Associa-
tion, Ottawa, will protest against
their bosses calling them back to
work on Sundays.
The prohibition law which c
h has been
in force in Charlottetown, P111,, for
but a, week is pronounced by many
1.o be a failure.
Mr. Sidney Smith of the Post -of-
fice Department, Ottawa, leaves
next month for Newfoundland to or-
I
goatee the mail system of that col-
ony.
Mr, George hunt, manager of the
Ottawa Fruit Exchange, who has !
returned from a trip through Wes-;
tern Ontario, describes the prospects
of the fruit crop as poor.
A fast steamship line to Southtrm-
pton will be established from Syd-
ney, C,13., and an extensive steel'
shipbuilding plant may be establish-
ed at Sydney also.
Mr. James Keene, whose horse,
Cap and Bells, won the Oaks Stakes
has presented a cheque for £2,650,
half the stakes, to the Princess of
Wales' ITospital fund.
Mrs. Julia Sandberg was acquitted
on the charge of having obtained
$55.50 from the Chief of Police Smith
of Hamilton by selling him a bogus
spade guinea. She claims she is a
duchess.
There is an official denial to the
story that Vanderbilt millions are
behind the Dominion Securities
Company to develop Nova Scotia's
industrial and transportation busi-
ness,
Hamilton and Wentworth County,
London and Middlesex, St. Cathar-
ines and Lincoln, and Welland Coun-
ties may unite, and share the ex-
pense of erecting municipal sanitaria
for consumptives.
Three prisoners, Andrew Epperson,
Frank Abrams and John Siddell,
broke out of Chatham jail in broad
daylight Sunday afternoon and es-
caped,
A couple from Seattle, W.T., were
married in Victoria, I3,0,, by two
American Methodist Episcopal min-
isters. The marriage is void because
the clergymen were aliens.
The Leyland Line steamer Assyr-
ian, which went ashore off Cape
Race and is now a wreck, was worth
$170,000 and her cargo $180,000.
The wrecking tug Petrel, which also
went down, was worth $40,000.
The Ontario Graphite Company, of
Ottawa, is making arrangements for
the installation of an extensive min-
ing plant at their mine at Black
Donald, in the township of Brough-
am, in the County of Renfrew. When
completed, this property will be
capable of turning out 30 tons per
day of finished ore.
GREAT BRITAIN.
The rumor that Battle Abbey, the
scene of the Battle of Ilastings, is
to Sie sold is premature.
(len. 'booth states that in the
death of Sir Walter Besant, the Sal-
vation Army loses one of its best
friends.
It is announced that the New York
Museum of Natural History and the
South Kensington Museum will ex-
change
exhibits,
Frederick Charles Raines,- killed by
lightning near London while stand-
ing under a tree, had the tree traced
on his chest by the electrical fluid.
At London the half -year's returns
of the penny postage show an ex-
traordinary increase, the estimated
year's deficit of £80,000 being re-
duced to £30,000.
Mr. W. R. Cramer, Liberal member
of Parliament, and secretary of the
of the International Arbitration
League, was fined seven hundred and
fifty pounds for libelling John Low -
les, a former member of Parliament.
UNITED STATES.
The Dresden Credit-Ansalt Bank,
Berlin, has been declared bankrupt.
Save negro murderers were hanged
from one scaffold at Sylvania Ga.
Two Italians were killed by the ex-
plosion of dynamite in blasting op-
erati•)ns at Watertown, ^I, Y.
Chief 3wenie of the Chicago Fire
Department has resigned after a ser -
Vice of 50 years.
Ex -United States Senator John
A. McShane, of Nebraska, made $1,-
000,000 by investments in Texas oil
lands.
0'f the fifty-one candidates, who
Presented themselves at West Point
' last Week only twenty-two passed
the examinations,
S, S. Goodman, a Chicago post-
ofilce • clerk, 'says small wages and
large family compelled him to steal
to mate both ends meet,
Yale T.TniVersity Will canter the de-
Workman's
o-Worlcluan's Peace Association and
gree of LL.D. en Archbishop Ireland,
of St. Paul. '
Marie Dressler, the well-known ac-
tress, • has deo-idea to wipe off a' lot
a c • n
Of debts by going' through b nl 11pt-
ey.
One hundred thousand dollars has
been.#fiv°.a to found a chair far the
study of Chinese ill ColumbiaUni-
✓ ersity.
The wife of R, C. Sibley, promoter.
o f the whiskey trust, has seoured a
divorce from him and $350 a month
alimony.
Dr. Runge, in an address at the
Milwaukee Medico -Psychological eon_
✓ ellti011, declared State insane asy-
lums were slaughter -houses.
ICverott-Moore syndicate buys
street ear lines of Toledo as part :of
scheme to merge all, traction locals.
along lake shore between Detroit and
Cle1'eland.
The battleship Illinois in a trial
over sixty-six nautical miles oft
Cape Ann made an average sustained
speed of 17.31. knots, which is rho
fastest speed on record for ships of
its class.
John Wanamaker offers Philadel-
phia $2,500,000 for street railroad
franchise voted by councils practic-
ally es free grant to company in
which prominent politicians are said
to be interested.
Love of candy caused the down-
fall of Samuel A. Wiggins, Jr„ a
Chicago choir boy, and he is bound
over for swindling 1)1s neighbors and
a liveryman.
Three Indians have been killed in
the mountains near Holbrook, in
Northern Arizona, by cowboys. The
Indians were discovered stealing
cattle.
The police of Greater New York,
numbering 7,500, must now provide
themselves with buttons gilded with
24 -karat gold. They will cost each
policeman $9 a year,
McCormick estate is planning to
build a magnificent office building
for the housing of professional Hien
on the property where the Victoria
Hotel now stands in Chicago.
Stewart Jellefl, who was arrested
on suspicion of having robbed the
First National Bank of Mineral
Point, Wis., of over $26,000 about
three weeks ago, has confessed. All
the money but $5,000 has been re-
covered. Jelleff has informed the of-
ficers where this package is buried.
GENERAL.
Germany will maintain a strong
garrison at Shanghai.
A supposed volcanic eruption in
the llautes Alps has turned out to
be a landslide.
Pekin palace was wilfully set on
fire for the purpose of destroying the
archives.
i Queen AI°rgherite. is building a
Home in Rome for the children of
murdered fathers.
A corps of Rhenish Westphalian
coal miners will go to China, to open
up mines in the German possessions.
Ten American locomotives; guar-
anteed to make 75 miles an hour,
have just been delivered to the Paris
-Lyons Railway.
r Russia has increased the duty on
several articles of American manu-
facture.
I The allied powers will keep 6,000
troops in China, exclusive of the Le -
1 gotten guards.
The Belgium Senate has passed a
bill prolonging for three years the
'existence of the gambling casino at
Ostend.
I Because the companies would not
discharge Italian workmen there has
been serious rioting at the La Motto
and d'Aveillan's mines, France.
IP1 Berlin there is a strong hos-
tile feeling against the British Gov-
ernmc'nt's action on the Transvaal
Cot cessions.
The Island of Panay, in the Phil-
ippines, is being ravaged by rinder-
Ipest, and so great is the havoc caus-
ed by the disease that the natives
1 are hauling carts to Iloilo.
A review of German troops will be
held ut Maycnce on August 14th at
which King Edward and the Czar
will be the guests of Emperor Wil-
liam.
j
DELIBERATE SUICIDE.
Farmer Blows the Top 01' His Head
Off With a Shotgun.
A despatch from St. Catharines,
Ont„ says -Wm. Hodgkinson, a
farmer living in Grantham town-
ship, about four miles from the city
committed suicide on Tuesday even-
ing
ing b -shooting himself, 7e had
been inhe city in th morning, t ty a n g, ap-
parently all right,' and returned
home about noon. During the after-
noon he did some plowing around
his place, but about five o'clock went
to his house and, taking a shotgun,
deliberately loaded itr with te"heavy
charge of No. 2 shot. He then
went out in the yard, took off his
shoes, and tore a hole in his stock-
ing so his too would pass through
placed the muzzle of the gun h1 his
mouth, and pulled the trigger with
his toe, blowing the top of his head
off. Ile leaves a widow, five sons,
and two daughters, No cause can
be given for the deed except despond-
ency.
TO FORTIFY SYDNEY.
Officers Froni the British Admiralty
t0 Visit Nova SCotba.
A despatch from Sydney, N. S.,
says ;-11 is announced that two of-
ficers connected with the Admiralty
will shortly visit Sydney, with the
object of looking into propasals of
having Sydney fortified. One of
these Is Col. Thecae.
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GE N RMA Y'S PEACE ARMY.
It Will be Increased by TsVenty-
Five Thousand Men.
A despatch from London says
Tho Berlin correspondent of the
Daily News says the Government is
discussing the question of ineroasing
the peace eatablishment of the army
1 by 25,000' men.
MARKETS OF TIU'WORLD
prices of Cetttle, C,bers3, (irate, &3
to the Leading Market%.
Toronto, Juno 25, -Wheat- There
was a quint trade today, andprams
rule steady. Ton ears of No, 2
white and red winter, Sold et 650
middle freight,- and No. 1 spring at
68c on Midland • .Millers pay 66e for
while and red on low freights.
Goose is drill at 62 to (121e, middle
freight for No. 2, and a cargo offer-
ed at 67e, with 65e bid at lake port
f.o.b, east of Toronto, Manitoba
wheat quiet; No. 1 hard, 87e, grind-
ing in transit; No. 2 hard, at 84 to
85e, and No, 3 hard, 79 to 800. For
Toronto and hest 2 to 3e lower.
112ilifeed-The offerings of bran etre
fair, and prices easier at 511,50 west
and 513 to 512.50 Toronto. Shorts 1
steady at 512,50 to 513.50 west,
according to location.
Corn -The market is steady. Sales
of Canadian yellow at 391e west,
and of mixed at 89e west, Yellow
on track hero sold at 44;c,
Rye -The market is weaker, with
offerings at 480 middle freight.
Buckwheat -Prices nominal, with
none offering.
Peas-llurket quiet and firm, with
No. 2 quoted at 68c ]piddle freight.
Barley -Market is dull, with prices
nominal in absence of business.
Oats -The local market is steady,
with sales of No. 2 white at Mc on
track here, No, 3 white sold at 30e
high freight, and at 30,} to 30}0'
middle freight.
Flour -Market is quiet. Millers
quote straight rollers at $2.70, in;
buyers' covers, for export, and ship-;
pars quote 90 per cent. patents at!
$2.62 to 52.65, middle freight. For
shipment in bbls. to Lower Provinc-
es,
rovinces, 53.10 to 58.15 is quoted. Mani-
toba patents, 54.25, and strong balc-
ers', 53.90 to 54.
Oatmeal -Market quiet and steady.
Car lots at 53.65 in bags, and 53.75
in wood; small lots 20c extra.
Chicago, June 25. -Wheat- Dull
and uninteresting all day; range of
prices about ,e. Same cash en-
quiry, but little business reported.
Receipts moderate. Quite heavy7
rains reported in Kansas, and more;
predicted. This may interfere some-
what with harvesting operations
there. Local sentiment is mixed,
but majority of traders are bearish,
Weather conditious for next few
weeks will be quite a factor in malt-
ing values.
Corn- Firm; at its best op to
to tc over yesterday's close. Small
Western offerings and small local re-
ceipts continue the principal bull
help. The July got to 44c, and
September 4440. Crop announce-
ments were bearish; decidedly li n -
proved condition.
Oats -Strong and poi ular, with
the outside speculator. Crop ad-
vices have been of both sorts. The
weekly crop bulletin favorable, as a
rule, although the reports were bad
from Missouri and Texas.
Provisions -Opened steady at
about yesterday's closing prices Re-
ceipts of Hogs 7,000 more than ex-
pected, and early advance of 5 to
10c was lost. Packers were free sel-
lers all day, and prices declined on
this selling. Cash demand is good.
Market closes steady at small de-
cline.- Hogs for tomorrow, 30,000.
Minneapolis, June 25.- Close-,
Wheat -Cash, 671c; July, 664.- to
66tc; September, 66+ to 66"„c; en
track, No. 1. hard, 601e; No: 1
Northern, 65aa No. 2 Northern,
651c. Flour and bran unchanged.
Milwaukee, Juno 23. -Wheat -Dull;
No. 1 Northern, 60 to 70e; July,
691 to 69Se. R,ye-Dud]; No. 2, 50c.
Barley -Quiet; No. 2; Gc; sample,
40 to 58}e.
Duluth, Juno 25. -Close, -Wheat -
Cash, No. 3 harcl. 72c; Nth 1 Nor-
thern, 69c; No. 2 Northern, 64c;
July, 69}0; Sept., 6830.. Corn-
None. Oats -27330 to 2740.
Toledo, June 25. -Wheat -Cash,
703c; July, 701c; September, 70tic.
Corn -Moderately active; hiigher;
cash, 434c; July, 43•ke: September,
44+c. Oats -Cash, 2S3e; July, 28e;
September, 26Xe. ltyc-520.
Ileteoit, .lune 25, -Wheat -Closed -
No, 3 white, cash, 184c; No. 2 red,
cash, 724c; July, 73c; September,
7130
St. Louis, June 25. -Wheat -Clos-
ed -Cash, etre; July 6610; Septem-
ber. 66c,
Buffalo, .lune 25. -Flour -Quiet.
1
1; N . 1 Northern
Wheat -Spring, t4U1 O
heat Sn
1
g.
old, carloads,
t
> c• do. nc v, 75e
] "8 r t,
aslt4(1 Winter wheat -Nominal; No.
2 red, 7730 to' 78c; No. 1 white, 77
t0 77,0, on track. Corn -Stronger;
No. 2 yellow, 46e.
DAIRY MARKETS.
Toronto; June 25. -=The demand
for butter continues good, and pri-
ces are steady. Pound rolls job at
'1.5 to 1130; large rolls 14 to 15c;
goodto choice tubs 14 to 11c; in-
ferior, 10 to 12c; creamery, boxes,
18 to 18e, and rolls, 10 to 90e.
Eggs -}receipts are fair, and prices
an0llatlged for good stock at 114 to
12c per dozen, i11 Cabe luta,
Cllecsc'--,Matrket qui0t, P'ulle:cream,
September, 9$ Lo 1.0e; do., new, 01
100.
IlREto.SSED HOGS & PROVISIONS,
Dressed Hags continue firm at
50.25 to 50.00 for small lots. Hog
products Sir151, LIS follows: -Bacon,
long clear, loose, in car lots,' 104c;
in case lots, 104c to 31c, Short cut
pork, 520 to $2.0.50; heavy mess
pork, 519 to 510.50.
Smoked meats-Ifiams, 18 to 181c;
rolls, 11t to 12e; backs, 14t to 15c,
and shoulders, 101 to 11c.
Lord -Pails, 1140; tubs, 1.10; tier-
ces, 1011.
LIVE STOCK MARKTI'rs.
Toronto, June 26. -The receipts
today at the western cattle yards
were 67 carloads of live stock, in-
cluding 1,600 hogs, 1,128 cattle, 560
sheep and lambs, 100 calves, and 16
mach cows.
Thee was a fair enquiry for real-
ly good shipping cattle at from 4$
to Ste, and for a (,ow Choice Iota liic
sees paid. There was a fair clear.
comm. •
Gond to choice butcher cattle are
wolt11.fr0(yl 4 to 410 per 1b., nhodluin
and -1 stuff is
-cram 3'� to 8gc oolnllon ulI a
a slew Rale 4.11(4 weals around 130 per
lb, Tao much poor grass-fed cattie
is eo0ling in jtlst note, 'and fol' ail
but the best grades of cattle prices
4.1'0 weals,
Fal' bulif, 'feeders and stoek°rs
there is little iugniry;;th0 receipts
are light, and prices are no$ninally
unchanged.
The mh caws coming in aro
]nosily of lllcnlQi'iO1' quality, 1)1(1 prices
ranged to -day, 100)11 $20 to $45 each,
Moro choice cows will sell.
Good to lWale veal e41vee aro
much asltocl for, a11c1 the right load
will fetch up to $10 each. Prices this
maraing• ranged from 51. to 58 01011.
There is no change in small stuff.
Culled sheep are worth from 52 to
to $3 each, '
Iuxport ewes `hell at 83 to 85e per
lb.
4to4kteper Its
"Barnyards" sell at 81 to 440 per
1b,
)Sucks are worth 24 to 3e per R.
Spring lambs are worth from
52.50 to 54. eath.
Prices Of hogs are unchanged to-
day, but the ,market is decidedly
weaker, and an :early decline in price
may be expected.
The best; price for "singers":is 74c
par ib,; thick fat and ]ight hogs are
wcaW1 6„e per lb.
Hogs to fetch the top price must
bo of prime quality, and scale not
below 160 nor above 200 lbs.
P0liow'.a8 is ,Elle range of quo111'
tions:
Cattle.
Shippers, per cwt :..,54.50 56,124
do light 4.2e 4.50
Dutcher, choice, do 4.25 4.50
Butcher ordinary to
good,,.,.. 8,50 4.00
Butcher, inferior 2.75 3.25
Stockers, per cwt 2.50 8,25
Export bulls, per cwt... 3.50 4,00
Sheep and Lambs.
Choice ewes, per CWt 3.50 8.75
Yearlings, grain -fed cwt4.00 4.50
Lambs, barnyard, per
cwt...,.. 3.75 1.25
do spring, each...... ,2,50 4.00
Bucks, per cwt 2,50 8.00
Mincers and Calves.
Cows, each,..... ...... "0.00 45.00 •
Canes, each
2.00 10.00
Hogs.
Choice hogs, per cwt.,.... 6.75 7.123
Light hogs, per cwt 6.50 6.623
heavy hogs; per cwt 6.50 6.623
Stags, per cwt..,... •,,.•0.00 2.00
AT NIAGARA CAMP.
Serlous Accident to Toronto Men -
Collided While Racing.
A despatch from Niagara-oi the -
Lake says: -The cavalry sports of
the militlu'y camp were brought to a
tragic conclusion here on Thursday
evening by a distressing accident, as
a result of which two members of
the Toronto Mounted Rifles lie in
tents at the Field Hospital seriously
injured. The bodies of both their
mounts, Jodan and Nimrod, two
spirited old racehorses, mark -the
spot whore the accident occurred.
After supper the cavalry sports
were continued on the old raw
track. -Several of the Second Dra.
goons, Governor -General's Body
Guard, and the Mounted Rifles rode
.over ol) their horses to see the
events. Reid and Sutton were in
the party. After looking on for a
while, Sutton, who was riding Jo-
dan, started to race arolnld the
track with two frieohs. Reid Was
cantering slowly around the ring in
the other direction, with another
friend, when a man rihing bareback
caaune galloping along and challeng-
ed the khaki boys to a de.ah.
Nimrod, with the instinct of a
race -horse promptly accepted on his
01811 account, and dashed off on the
inside, soon outstripping his chal-
lenger. Jodan, who also had the rail
Was several lengths ahead of his
competitors, coming in the opposite
direction. The two flying horsemen
saw each other at the same moment,
and both turned the heads of their
horses to go behind the judges' stand
hoping to avoid tie collision. The
1snt, however, that they both made
the same move precipitated the ac-
cident.
A TERTtIT3LF, CRASH.
The galloping horses came togeth-
er with a terrible crash, and fell in
a shapeless heap. The shock broke
both their necks, and death was in-
stantaneous,
Their riders werc flung headlongdlong in
opposite directions, and lay stunned
and bleeding. Willing hands picked
thein up, and several riders galloped
orf to the hospital. The hospital men
were just sitting down to a banquet
in theft' ]mtrrjU00 when the news
calve. Two stretchers were hurried -
gotten out, and in a very„short
space of time they reached the race'
course, half a 111i10 away. By the
time the injured filen Were ready to
be mover] half a hundred uniformed
men had putted the big two -horse
ambulance waggon, over the 10311-
m0115, and in this 5utto11. and Reid
were carried to the hospital lines.
Both cases are serious, but there
is no likelihood of their injuries
proving fatal
OXYGEN TREATMENT.
Ninety Per Cent of the Patients
Absolutely Cured,
A despatch from London soya:
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The annual report of the London
Oxygen Hospital, which was issued
on Wednesday, claims that remark-
able success Iles attended the oxygen
treatment for lupus ulcers and
wounds. The report states that 90
per dent. of the patients who have
entered the hospital have been abso-
lutely cured. In the :cases of five
per cent. of the patients the disease
appeared again. Another five per
rent, were incurable,
New South Willem has paid £743,-
000 in 11116011 year8 for the destruc-
tion of over 24,000,000 noxious ani-
mals -kangaroos, wallabies, dingoes
and others,
THEY HAVE VIAE ' TINES
Y
GREAT INDUSTRIESSPRING
FROM SINGLE BRAINS.
Father of British Trahnways-The
Galvanised Iron Trade --Gave'
Britain a New Metal.
Over half a million Britons owe
their entire living', and the trade
they work at, to John Wal'relt, who
made, singlohauded, the whole great
business of trannvays, and all con-
nected with thou1, ' A few yottr's ago
this half -million would have had to
find some other way of getting ' its
broad, bays 1,0101011 Answers.'
John Warren -he was -€4 rancher,i
man -conceived the idea built jj,,ie
'4l
first tram, partly with Ills Wn
Bands, invented the flush rails
114 ed Os -
tem, and nursed thewhole
�
s w 10 a OW
trade from a Weakly baby into a Mil-
lionaire giant, before' anybody
BEGAN TO OOPY IIIM,
Iso got his schemes through . Par -
Bement, saw to the 'laying of every
inch of his street linos, engaged every
one of Ilia workmen, and paid them
al w 1.
1 cl Ile lead .not 0 penny to
etart with, but began life as a metal
polisher, being the son of one. M•o.n-
che5t1i• had the first tramway,
though only.0 mile long, and on its
proceeds he built up the world's
tramway system, Birkenhead came
next, under 0 rival fd1•111; but 1Varren
was his own firm, and in foiu'teen
months he had 900 people at work
making the tramway gear, '1,500
running tho trams and tending the
horses, of which he owned over
4,000, and ten large towns, includ-
ing London and Birmingham, were
using his tramways. •
Today scores Of rival companies
have sprung up; but they all owe
their birth to John Warren's inven-
tion and push, for he met with tre-
mendous opposition at first from all
quarters.
At present 500,000 people thrive
10 the tram business, 300,000 horses
were employed in it last year, and a
revenue of 517,500,000 was brought
in. There aro 1,500 miles of tram-
ways in Britain, and they carried
500,000,000 passengers last year -a
stupendous total,
FIFTEEN TIMES THE POPULA-
''1011,
of the British isles. Moreover, the
business has added 55,000,000 a
year to the corn and farming trades,
rind $80,000 a year in horseshoes
alone,
Wlfen Henry Grant, of London, in-
vented and built up the first of the
galvanized and corrugated iron
trade he Made a thriving business for
260,000 British workers -enough to
stock throe or four large towns, A
little while ago this trade was un-
heard of; but ho made it into one of
the biggest industries, in the coun-
try, and for the past ten years 100,-
000 families have lived entirely on
it, and brought their Children up on
i t.
Grant worked in his own workshop
for ten long' years, turning out the
new iron with 1115 own hands and by
the help of his son, before it "caught
on." Then the world suddenly woke
op to find it could not do without
this wonderful stir!, and now there
is not a corner of the earth where it
is not to be found.
There are whole towns of galvan-
ized iron in many parts of the col-
onies, and the value of the trade
emuinate to
OVER 520,000,000 A YEAR.
Scores of firms turn out the iron
now; but not one of theme would
have been in existence ]tad it not
been for Grant and Ills idea; and
over a quarter of a.million people
would be flooding other labor mark-
ets, and forcing wages down. The
country gains a clear 55,000,000 a
year to its own pocket by.this
trade, which still goes walking up
the ladder at, u marvellous rate.
11. Jacob Astley had minded being.
laughed at some while ago Britain
would be poorer by 515,000,000- a
year, and 200,000 people would not
be drawing the wages they are. He
gave the country a new metal, and
made as big a business of the trade
with his awn hands as we are ever
likely to see, for lie found a process
for obtaining aluminum cheaply. Not
being the kind of inventor who racks
his brains for capitalists to reap the
profits, he borrowed 51,000 in his
native w ofWolverhampton,
u4. oto n and
laic] the bed -plates of a neand
huge trade.
.Everybody laughed at his alumin-
um and the prices he claimed to
produce it at; but in three years he
had four thousand people working at
his ill,VOlti011, and the whole world
clamouring -to buy. However,. he
macho just as much aluminum as he
liked -which was a good deal -and
no more, and had the satisfaction of
seeing the metal -dealing world at his
feet at the ago of thirty-six. If ever
a man deserved a peerage it was
Jacob Astley; but he went to the
United States, conquered them as he
had congtt10ed Britain, and died
there last year. The trade he made
is still increasing 111011111 by month,
Raul x8111 turn out its millions an-
nually Jacob Astley is forgot-
ten,
Ono of the oddest of the great
BRAND-NEW TRADES
was created, lock, stock.and barrel,
by Robert Soropo, for be was the
founder of the- brown boot, There
was no such thing a little time back
as a "russet calf" boot, and now
they are worn by eveybody, and
nearly throe -quarters of a million
people make them. The trade is
spread out now, but Scrope made it,
within twelve months of its birth,
into- a compact business of twenty
branches, employing 200,000 ]nen-
a record for all time. A combine al
rival boot -makers tried for three
years to wreck Sorope's new trade,
hot he was t00 strong, and eventual-
ly all the firms of the combine "went
under,"
A little thing which made a great
Industry, and 'fi ds broach and good
wages for' 30,'000 people, 10 the
tp11
0e11
(1e15w1 ssenoow8u, At(lifnegw a3s 0aal'0scalOgxov
with a point, until Nottlefold Con*
ceived the idea, brought it out, and
gave Birmingham a huge new trade,
0111ch has 11010 spread to a seer° of
other towns. Besides making a vast
fortune, be presented the country
with it field for labor worth $10,-
000,000 per annum, for when the
Patent 1'1111 out the
'WHOLE NATION WAS 12'11Ebl
to talo the trade up, and it hos
grown from a pocket -trade to an im-
mense industry, There is practical-
ly no other icing of 'screw newaclay$.
The building up ef, this trade tools
Ncttlefolcl two years, and it teas in
this business that Mr, Joseph Cham-
berlain made his fortune.,
For a "slap-up" (fade -one of the
most flourishiltg industries we have --
Britain owes a big debt to James
Woodhouse, the "Ginger -beer Meg,"
Iso invented, -made,-pushed, and
created the whole business of gin-
ger -beer browing, which is a newer
tiling than electricity, Il; is practi-
cally a nation01 beverage, for over
30,000,000 gallons per year are
drunk, being nearly twice. as great
as the amount of Nine consumed.
Twenty years ago there was no such
thing as ginger -beer as it is now un-
derstood, and Woodhouse, who
brewed the first output in a kitchen
copper at hfs own cottage i11 Step-
ney, kept a little coffee stall of his
own to sell it in. No beverage bas
ever "caught on" with the samera-
pidity, and twelve months later
Woodhouse had a factory with thirty
hands. In another two years he was
L+'MPLOYI'NG 6,000 MEN,
and a year after that there were 80,-
000 working at ginger -beer breweries
all over the kingdom. Today there
are hundreds of firms that owe their
birth to James Woodllouse's fnvan-
tion, and a total of a 111/1110n and a
half workers, male and female, get
their living at this trade. There aro
a hundred and, fifty "bean -feasts"
given every Summer to ginger -beer
workers, all paid out of the profits•
of the trade, and costing 540,000 to
provide..
U'inally. Mayne Roberts, who in-
vented and nursed into a source of
material wealth the business of tof-
fee raking, should for ever be bles-
sed. It is not a business to he
laughed at, the toffee trade, for. at
now keeps 150,000 families busy,
and brings -in a joint revenue of 54,-
000,000
4;000,000 a year.
FEES TOTALED $71,874.
Nearly 500 Company Charters and
Licenses Issued in 1900.
A despatch front Toronto says: -
The Ontario Provincial Secretary
and Registrar has just 'issued his re-
port for 1000, Itis noteworthy
among other things in showing a
decided decline in the number of
mining company charters granted,
only 44 such companies being'incor-
poratod in 1900. •
During the year 1809, 426 letters
patent. supplementary letters pat -
eft, 1t ,I 1100/1005 were granted. Dur-
ing 1900 the number of charters,
supplementary charters, and licenses
issued was 407. The fees derived
from this source of revenue during
1899 were 562,052, and during 1900,
571,874. The eutiro revenue of the
office tor the year 1898 was 528,-
520;
28;520; for the year 1899, 567,851;
and for the year 1000, 576,997.
The following is a statement, by
months, showing the fees received by
this office during the year 1900: -
January, 56,986.25; February, 55,-
615.25;
5;615.25; lilarch, 58,267.60; April,
55,408.61; May, 58,598; June, $5,-
923.10; July, 55,245.45; August,
54,044.10; September, 58,020,62;
October, 510,048.80; November, 57,-
539.70; December, 57,801.93.
The following sets forth 1,110 ser-
vices rendered by the office, and the
fees Faceivod for such services, re-
spectively, during 1900:-467 letters
patent, supplementary letters pat-
ent, and licenses, 571,874; 88,670
Marriage Act forms, 58,867; 67
commissions for notaries public,
5552.45; searches, 5480.26; 136 com-
missions under Great Seal, 5444;
orders in council, $150; 118'notarial
certificates, 5118; 7 Superior Court
certificates, $28; 13 Surrogate Court
certificates, 526; 8 County Court
certificates, 57.50; total, 570,097.21,
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ED FOR MURDER.
DER• R
Riee to Be Tr;e9 for His Life in
Soptenlber.
A despatch from Toronto says:
I'retl Lee Rice, charged with the
murder of Constable Boyd, came up
before Police-MagistrateDenson on
Thursday morning, He was brought
into the dock at 10.50, and Witness-
es were examined until 12.40, when
the magistrate conllnitte0 Rice for
trial at the f ept0nlbee Assizes.
Rice showed very little change from
his last appearance in the court.
Ile was engaged in conversation with
his counsel, T. C. Robinette, for a
few minutes, anti ren.cl a letter (which
the latter handed hint. This letter,
Mr. Robinette said, W044 relating to
some private -business of Rice's. The
prisoner read it promptly, and was
ready for the court proceedings.
There Was quite a large assemblage
of people present, who craned their
necks to get a glimpse of Rice.
The magistrate gave Rice permis-
sion to sit clown in the (lock. The
prisoner did so, and soon edged up
to the corner to his left. As each
witness advanced t0 the box to give
evidence, Rice followed him With his
oyes and listened Intently. to all the
evidence, on one occasion asking
that the witness speak louder.
A number of witnesses gave ovi-
dO11C0 similar to that taken at the
inquest, and the magistrate then
committed Rice for trial,
The Midland .Railway Company in
England is fixing 60 as the age 1110»
it Of its stall in most cases; at 65
rot
ail,ir0, with very few exceptions, meat
ENATION IS A GAINER,
IT COSTS EDWARD VTI 5100,000
A MONTH TO BE XING.
Revenue of the Crown Lands Over-
balances the Civil List -Val-
uable Property;
Most people flnagiile that We pay
our sovereigns a lia)adsome yearly
salary In: return for ruling over u8,
and incidentally actiug as figure.
heads to the 51(11) of state, says
Loudon A,i wars,
This, however, is entirely Wrong.
The' civil list of 52,350,000 per doh
moo, recently granted the Ring by
Parliament, is really hi the. nature
Of : a 00111111 Utatie11 for the .rents . and
revenues of the C11•own Lands, tv11ie11
last year auloentcd'to 52,250,000.
It will be seen, therefore, that the
nation is a (heavy gainer on the
transaction, since, by no possible
stretch of imagination, can the
whole, o1• even the greater part, of
Lite' civil list monies, be considered,
as being either intended or used for
his Majesty's personal benefit. Tho
550,000 a year which goes into
his privy purse is 1118 to clo se he
likes with. The remaining $1,650,-
000
1,850;000 is merely distributed, nominally
through him, but really through cer-
tain high officials of the Royal
household, in salaries., grants, pen-
sions, and other similar items of
expenditure.
And, mind, although for a long
time it has been the custom of sue-
eessivo sovereigns to surrender the
rents accruing from the Crown
Lands to the nation, receiving there-
for a Parliamentary grant of income,
the lauds themselves' aro not, and
Bever have been,
NATIONAL PROPERTY,
On the contrary they have constitu-
ted a personal and private appanage
of the Crown since the Norman con-
quest.
This Crown property is very valu-
able, and would bo Sar more so were
it not for the fact that it is strictly
entailed. Tho whole of tete New For-
est, for example, is Crown Land, and
if sold would fetch millions, whereas
now it is nearly valueless. The
most productive o4 the "lands" aro
those situated within the metropoli-
tan area, and (which include some of
the very best districts in all Lea-
den, "Clubland" is Crown land.
The Carlton, the United Service, the
Travellers, the Marlborough, the
Guards, and many other West End
clubs aro built upon land lensed di-
rectly from the Crown, So, too, is
Marlborough HOUSe, 50 that his Ma-
jesty is in. the peculiar position of
being his own ground landlord, and
paying. handsomely for the privilege.
Stafford House, Carlton Gardens
which pay the highest rents in Lon-
don -stand upon Crown lands; as do
also Montague Rouse, the Duke of
Buceleueh's palatial mansion iu
Whitehall, Dover House and ninny
others. And the rents of those sites
are continually rising, as the leases
fall in. If Ring Edward could only
deal with his property as other land-
lords deal with theirs, he would bo
one of the richest men in England.
Ile is not a poor man even now,
ruiners .to the contrary notwith-
standing. The wills of Royal per-
sonages are not proved, so it is not
known precisely how her Majesty dis-
posed of her property; but it is an
open secret that she left the bulk of
it to her eldest son.
THE BITCHY OF LANCASTER
is, of course,' his absolutely during
the term of his natural life, with its
meads, glades, chases, and forests in
thirteen counties, and its steadily
increasing revenue of over 5300,000
a year. To King Edward, too, so
it is said, revert the late Queen's
Scotch properties of Balmoral, 1311.1-
lochbfne, and Abergeldio, with their•
trout streams and deer forests;
Claremont, originally granted for
her life only, with reversion to the
country at her death, but which Was
purchased by her outright in 1882;
a valuable estate at Coburg, and a
villa at Baden. Sandringham, of
course, is also his, having been pur-
chased for him out of the accumu-
lated revenues of the Duchy of Corn-
wall, soon atter lie attained his Ina-
jo,'ity.
Nor should King Edward have any
lack of ready cash, if, as there is
every reason to suppose, her Majesty
carried out her oft and
op
enly-ex-
nnoasod intention of keeping intact
for him the Neild bequests osU Tis
leg-
acy,
c -acy,
of about 51,250,000, wa8 left to.
the Queen in 1852 by an eccentric
and miserly millionaire, named
Jnmob Neild. The Queen at once in-
vested the money, with a view to its
constituting -to quote her own
words -"a nest -egg for Eddie," and
tho original capital bad probably
reached a million and a half when
her Majesty died.
PACTS AND FIGURES.
London imports 4,000,000 parasol3
and umbrellas a year.
Now Zealand's crown lands are
now disposed of for 990 years.
Three new British battleships plan-
ned for this year will cost 56,250,-
000 each.
In the City of Moxico there are
1,071 private 'artesian wells and
eleven public ones.
Prussia gave 1,228 modals last
6'll couples Who celebrated
year
diamondt0 and golden wedding ;11uni-
varsarles,
New Zealand, with a death rate of
less than 12 per 1,000 a year, is the
most healthy of all the British Col -
The United Kingdom's postal . ser-
vice employs 60,000 letter carrier's,
who deliver annually nearly 3,600,-
000,000,1310008 Of 1110.11,
Denmark holds the reseal for .con-
elimption of spirits, 44 gallons a
1
your per head against lose tinn1in
England and 80011a11d.
Redditch in Worcestershire, Eng-
land, bras the largest . needle manu-
factory in the world. Seventy mil-
lion needles aro mad* there weekly.
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