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The Brussels Post, 1901-8-8, Page 6fN� NEY S IN It NUM THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL TATE WORLD OVER. Interesting Item's About Our Own Country, tireat Britain, the United States, and MI Parts of the Globe, Condensed and Assorted for >~asy Reading. CANADA, Tho scheme to have a new theatre 111 .Kingston is being revived. Hamilton City Council will bo ask- ed to vote $10'000 for tho'Royal no- *option. Quebec will have an assay labora- tory in order to help tho mineral clo: velopment of the province] Ottawa lumbermen have planned a trip for the Duke andparty down the Ottawa rapids on a crib of square Weber. Judge Richards of Winnipeg will try Ellen Frogg, an Indian woman, Of Duck I.aIce, charged with the mur- der of her husband. The vessels which are convoyin Canadian hay from St. John's, N. D., to, South Africa aro using all .Cape Breton coal for the trip. Thieves have been operating very successfully in London Township, harness, farm implements and poll -- try boiiig the chief articles stolen, A Kingston clergyman failed to smuggle into that city an ice cream .freezer bought at Ogdensburg, N. Y., and had to pay full customs charges, Philip Wagner, a Dominion Gov- ernment interpreter, has been sen- tenced to five months' imprisonment at Edmonton for swindling Gall - dans. The convocation of McGill univer- sity in. Montreal, at which the degree of LL. D. will be 'conferred upon the Duke of Cornwall and York, will bo a brilliant affair. g The population of Hull, according to the recent census is 14,200, or 8,000 more than in 1891. The County of Wright is shown to have 44,500 souls, or 3,800 more than in 1891. Win, Ogilvie, ex -Governor of the Yukon, has been offered a position at Ottawa, but has not yet indicated whether or not he will accept it, The position open to him is on the as- tronomical staff. Montreal's citizens' reception to the Duke includes an address, drive to Lord Strathcona's residence, LL. D. degree next day, inspection of Victoria bridge and a run of the La- chine rapids. • GREAT BRITAIN. At London Alfred Austin has been reappointed poet laureate. Sunbonnets for horses have been generally discarded in London, England's wheat crop will be fine in quality and extensive in quan- tity. Mr. Clark, the London contractor who built the Chilian railway, is dead. The wheat harvest has begun in Eastern !Sent, which is an earlier be- ginning than usual. The House of Commons sanctions the ono -rail system between Liver- pool and Manchester. Americans are planning the intro- duction of Chicago steel construction buildings into London. Thieves ]rev° stolen historical treasures and large quantities of silverware from the Duchess of Sutherland, Lord Dunraven has been designated to command the new corps of Yeo- manry sharpshooters that is being formed. On account of faults found in it Constant's portrait of Queen Victor- ia is not to be hung among the roy- al collections. The directors of the London Metro- politan railway have declined the of- fer of Charles• T. Yerkes to introduce electricity into their system. It is reported that King Edward has forgiven the Duke of Orleans, and the French pretender will return to England to live with his Duchess. Lord Russell, who is serving a three months' sentence for bigamy, is 111, being unable to sleep or eat, and has a doctor in constant at- tendance. Brigadier -General Sir Alfred Gase- Iee, has been made a major -general and Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire for his services' in China. A handsome bronze wreath has been sent by the Emperor Menelik to be deposited at the Royal tomb at Frogmore, "to the memory of her Majesty Queen Victoria." Mr. Louis Sherry of New York will open a new hotel. in London in time for the coronation, the new hotel to have 800 roonis and to rival the Waldorf-Astoria in equipment. The engagement of the daughter of Walter Winans of l3altimore, Md., to Sir Merrick Raymond Durrell, and a lieutenant in tho First Royal Dra- goons, is announced in London. Tho committee on the Queen's memorial has accepted, subject to modifications as to details, Mr. Thomas Brock's design for a monu- ment to her late Majesty, and Mr. Aston Webb's design for the treat- ment of the space in front of Buck- ingham Palace. The commissioner appointed to en- quire into the use o1 arsenic in beer has reported that the excess of ar- senic in brewing is unavoidable with the use of certain ingredients, and recommends that a standard test be established, defining the proportion of arsenic to be used. UNITED STATES, Ncw York has a case of bubonic plague from Calcutta. Two ranch/nen killed 800 rattle- snakes near Interior, S. D. Tho damage to crops in Iowa by the heat is estimated at $20,000,- 000. Mattoon, D1.,, :has had 18 tncgnd• eery fires within a heath. Loss, 62,400,000, SymPathi;*ere witll the steel ete''ilf,e ere have started an godless chain to aid the stripe fund. Sun's rays concentrated by plate filass windows, started an $80,000 fe at Sioux City, l3ii'ed. I3, Newton, nineteen years a , committed suiolde at El Paso, I11,, by hanging dlimseif. Floyd Peckham, nineteen year's old, has been indicted at Erie, Pa„ for the murder of his father. Ralph Relines of xlvanston earned his passage to Europe on a cattle ship in order to study art, Michael Kelly, while insane, shot four men at Leavenworth Kan, One is dead and two others may 1110. Dr. E. M, Arnholt of Pittsburg, ex -member of the Legislature, shot himself through the heart because of illness. The New York Dock Company with $0,000,000 capital, takes the place of the Brooklyn Wharf and Warehouse Company. A New York coroner is charged in New York with accepting bribes to return a verdict of natural death in cases of suicide. George Young, a barber of Ilion, N :, was shot. and ]tilled by Henry Brown. They quarreled over a small debt. Brown was arrested. C. J. Dillon and Wm. Morgan, young farmers of Three Mile, W. Va., seriously wounded each other with shot guns in a duel about a girl. In a trial trir of the torpedo boat destroyer Stringham at Newport, R. I., a tube in the boiler blew out and six men were scalded and burned. A strike of egg candlers employed by a large firm in New York has been ordered. They demand a re- duction of the hours of labor from 17 to 10 a day. While the teller's back was turned a smooth individual fn a Dayton, 0., bank lifted a package of bills from the cage with a pair of tongs and escaped, Rev. W. D. Leach, formerly of Can- ada, preaching at a camp meeting near Chicago, said he expected to find a lot of women in heaven, but very few men. Ada Lancaster, of Portsmouth, 0„ threw the body of hor baby to the hogs and its arms and legs worn eat- en off, according to the young wo- man's confession. GENERAL. The Russian army is to be in- creased by 380,000 men. A band of thieves is successfully operating on Paris -Geneva trains. Operations have begun on the ship canal between St. Petersburg and the White Sea. Efforts are being made to reduce the strained relations between Ger- many and Russia, Kaiser William is now letting his whiskers grow, in a desire to resem- ble his late father. Paris newspapers are enthusiastic over the successful feat of the sub- marine torpedo boat Morse. Carital is urgently required to de- velop the promising gold mines at present idle in Erythrea, Italy. It is stated that the Empress of China has degraded the heir apparent which makes his succession impos- sible. Tho River Danube, flooded by tor- rential rains, hes overflowed its banks, and 300 houses are under water at Budapest. Albanian insurgents and Turkish regulars have had several encounters on the Turkish frontier, with many killed and wounded on both sides. More than 2,000 prisoners from all parts of Russia, conllned in Moscow Central Prison, will be redistributed among the old and new prisons of European Russia. A picture, Saint Sebastian, by Ti- tian, which had been stolen from It- aly by one of Napoleon's generals, has been sold to the Count de Cas- tellano for £8,000. A scheme is on foot to carry a line of railway beyond the Victoria Falls, South Africa, and 800 miles to the north, where rich copper mines are said to awaitdevelopment. Russian newspapers are discussing British activity In Abyssinia, and demand that Russia and France take steps to oppose the construc- tion of British railway lines through the country before it is too late for such action to have any effect. -----s----- ITALY'S ITALY'S DISCONTENT. Poor Pay, Poor Food, and Social.. ist Agitation. From the 15th of June to the 15th of July the wheat, rye and barley harvests are in progress in Italy, and the Socialists are taking this rcritical time, in the agricultural in- dustry to spread the gospel 01 dis- content against the conditions of labor, Wages and taxation. It is feared that large farmers will be ruined by strikes among farm labor- ers. On All average two strikes a day have occurred in Italy since Feb- ruary, the movement affecting all trades and classes of working men. At any moment it is feared that a spark might kindle a conflagration The Socialist leaders plead for peace- ful means of bettering the conditions of labor, but the Italian people are inflammable and they are notorious- ly underpaid and underfed. They aro so largely in the majority that they hold the remedy in their own hands, if they would but use their power in- telligently and toward a definite end. But the mass of the people are mis- erably ignorant as weli as poor, and feel doubly helpless and impotent. They have only brute strength and Heim; to throw away in fruitless re- volution. DO IL Mrs. Jack—Our congregation has sent the minister to Europe to get a rest. Mrs. Jack—Whom, the minister or the congregation? MARKETS OF THE WQEIIID Plrjces 9r Cattle, o1;03$3, Glom, 40.. he the Leading 79I'n,rkets. Toronto, Aug, 6.—Weette —There Wee a quiet trade in wheat today, With the feeling a trifle weaker, No, 2 white and red winter offered at 050 Ingle freighte, and at 660 middle freights, with sales of o(1(1 oar lots at 65te middle, New wheat sold at 600 middle freight. No, 1 spring is quot- ed at 66c o11 Midland, and No. 2 goose at 08c to 61e middle freight. Manitoba wheat dull, with No. 1 hard quoted at 80-1c, grinding in transit, and No, 2 bard at 78.e, grinding in transit. For Toronto and west "-e bevel'• Millfeed—Tele' market is Ann, with offerings smalls': Bran quoted at $18, middle lreightfie and shorts at 315, middle freight. , Corn—Busi1ess quiet with prices firm, No. 2 yellow is nominal at 48 to 49e west, and at 58c on track, Toronto. A car 01 'United States yellow sold at 66e, Toronto, but holders are quoting 58 to 59e. Eye Tho market is quiet, and pri- ces nominal; at 46 to 461c, middle freight. Buckwheat—Market dull, with pric- es purely nominal. Peas --Trade quiet, with prices nom- inally unchanged. 'Barley—Trade continues very quiet. No. 2 is nominal at 421c middle freight, and No. 3'extra 411,c middle freight. New feed barely nominal at 88 to 89c, August shipment. Oats—The market is steady, with sales of No. 2 white at 84c middle freight for export. Locally, it night probably bring more. New sold at 81e middle freight, August delivery. Flour—The"market is quiet, with better demand from exporters. Nine- ty per cent, sold at 32.55 ir. buyers' bags, middle' freights. Straight rol- lers, in bbls„ for Lower Provinces, 88 to $8.10: Manitoba patents, $4, and strong bakers' 33.70. Oatmeal—Market is unchanged. Car lots at 88.75 in bags, and $3.85 in wood. Broken lots, Toronto, 250 per bbl extra. :DAIRY MARKETS. Butte—Receipts of choice grades are only moderate, with prices ih'nn. We quote selected dairy, tubs, 161 to 17c; choice 1 -lig rolls, 17 to 18c; seconds, tubs and rolls, 15 to 170; creamery prints unchanged at 21c; solids, liOc. Eggs—The market is cjuiet with prices unchanged. We quote strictly fresh gathered nearby, 12 to 121; or- dinary candled stock, 11 to 1110; seconds and culls, 6 to 8c, New laid retail at 17e. Cheese—Market is • firmer to -day, with good demand for finest goods. Prices in a jobbing way are 101 1,0 101e. HOGS AND PROVISIONS. Dressed hogs are easier at 39.25 to 30,50, Hog products unchanged. We quote:—Bacon, long clear, ton and case lots, 11 to 1.3.ee; pork, mess $19.50; do., short cut, $21. Smoked meals—hams, 13; to 14c; breakfast bacon, 14 to 15e; rolls, 3.2e; banks, 141c, and shoulders, 11e. Lard—Pails, 11Ic; tubs, 11c; tier- ces, 3.01.e. THE STREET MARKET. Receipts of grain on the street to- day were small. Wheat, steady, a load of white selling at 70c and 150 bushels of goose at 68} to 69e. Oats easier, 700 bushels selling at 39e to 40e. Hay in good supply, with sales of 25 loads at $8 to 30 a ton for new, and 312.50 to $18 for old. Straw sold at $9 to $10 a ton for old, and at $5 for new. Following is the range of quota- tions:— Wheat, uota- tions:Wheat, white S ,70 $ .00 Wheat, red ,70 .00 Wheat, goose,...-..,... .68e .69 Wheat, spring .,.... ,. ,69 .00 Oats .. .30ee .40 Petal -,,. .66 .00 Rye Bn icy ...... ........ 48 .00 ' .fi5 .00 Hay, old, per ton,,, ,,,,12.50 18.00 Hay, new, per ton 8.00 9,00 Straw, per tom., ,,,9.00 10,00 Dressed hogs 9.25 9,50 Butter, in lb rolls...,,,.16 .20 Butte', creamery......,,.20 .25 Chickens, per pair .50 .75 !lucks, per pair .70 1.00 Turkeys, per lb .10 .12} Eggs, new laid, doz,16 .17 Plggs, held .12 .1.4 Potatoes, new, bush,,, 1.00 1.25 Tomatoes, basket... .75 1,00 Beef, forequu tors... 4.50 5.50 Dcef, hindquarters... 8.00 0.25 Beef, medium, carcass5.00 6.50 Beef, choice 7.00 7.75 Lamb, yearling,,, ,,. 6.50 8.00 Lamb, spring,.... 10.50 13.50 Mutton ,,....... 5.1(1 6.50 Veal, choice ... 7.50 8,50 Minneapolis, Aug, 6—Wheat—On track, No. 1 hard, 68ec; No. 1 Nor- thern, 063c; No. 2 do, (Mee. Flour and bran—Unchanged, Buffalo, August O.—Flour—Firnm, Wheat—Spring, limits firm; No. 1 Northern, old, carloads, 761; No, 1 new, 731e. Winter, No, 2 red, 74,c; No. 1 white, 74c; mixed, 73c, Corn. — Firma; No. 2 yellow, 58c; No, 8 do„ 581c; No, 2 corn, 58 to 581c, Oats—Quiet; No, 2 white, 421c; No. 2 mixed, 40ec. Barley -54 to 56e, in store. Rye—No. 2 offered at 58e, on trach. St. Louis, Aug. 6—Wheat-Closed — Cash, 653c; September, 663c, Detroit, Aug. G.—Wheat—Closed— No. 2 red, cash and July, 68c; Sep- tember, 60c, Milwaukee, Aug. 0,—Wheat—Steady —Close—No, 1 Northern, 701c; No. 2 Northern, 68$ to 60c; September, (381c. ]lye—Weak; No. 1, 54111c. Bar- ley—Strong; No.2, 61 to 620; sample 61 to 58c. Corn—September, 551c. Minneapolis, Aug. 6.—Close—Wheat —Cash, 661e; September, 651e; De- cember. 670. Duluth, Aug, 6.—Close—Wheat— Cash.. No. 1 hard, 70tc; No, 1 Nor there, 681e;; July, 663o; September, 671e; December, 671e. Corn'-32ec.. Oats--34ec, UUTTED BY FIRE, Flat in Montreal's City Stiff et+s 131081' Damage, .A despatch front Montreal says The Clty Hall had a narrow eeeapo front destruction by Are at en early hour on Wednesday morning. Th t11e was disoovcrod shortly after s o'e1oe1t ill the law department, an before the 'flames were got under con trel considerable damage was done The temporary offices of the Oit Department, and the Oi y Electrician's office, on the top store of the building, were badly gutted some important documents belongin to the city destroyed, and consider able damage done to the corridor and offices on the flat beneath, in eluding the City Cleric's offices, an the large committee -room adjoining This flat hau recently been gone over by decorators and painters, and' -had been put in condition for the pubil reception to the Duke and Duchess o Cornwall and York, on the occasion of their visit to the city in Septem- ber. Had the Me occurred a few ]lours earlier, or had it not been dis- eovehed when it was, it is quite pos- sible that the whole building would Have been destroyed or very badly dtunmged, The loss to the building itself will not amount to more than 34,000. The greater damage was done to the City Electrician's department, on the top floor. There Were many valuable instruments', which, it is now believed, will be a total loss, though it is possible that some of them may be again Made to do ser- vice. The loss will not be less than 34,355, A portion of the valuable law library belonging to the city attorneys was also destroyed. „The. origin of the fire is a: mystery. ix d Just as there me trades wince - mast inevitably shorten or render hppolccsly nliscrabls the lives . of ty those who follow thethemfpr ally (m1- t sidel'abdo time, there are other trades y er eeetWations which ]nay safely be said to clue eortain disensos and to g p1'olpng life ; and if people in search of occupations and aljlieted with ill- s 11065 100111(1 pay due attention to the - question of what occupation would d most suit their health they aright, , probably would, lengthen instead of curtail their days. Diseases of the throat and chest e are the most 0011110011 of till 1na1a- 1 dins, but there are occupations which will positively cure either when the 'discus° has not advanced too far, although it may have made such inroads that doctors have abandoned the ease as'hopeless. The work in certain branches of the making of coal gas has been known to euro very severe chest ail- ments, and many persons who have obtained work 111 breweries and tan- neries have been entirely cured of consumption, It is an eloquent fact that consumption is practically un- known to people in regular employ- ment'as brewers and tanners, brew- ery -hands in particular being in en- joyment of remarkably robust health Diseases of the throat are equally unknown to workers in petroleum re- fining sheds ; in fact it seems that men who work at refining petroleum at the great oiltvorks of America and Russia are insusceptible to even diphtheria—one of the TRADES CURE DISEASES, HOW 4T XS POSSIBDE TO LENGTHEN YOUR DAYS, Salt Mining Cures Anaemia, 0n4 Sailers Epjey Preedollf From Cancer. 0 GRANT TO ROBERTS. house of Commons Passed Measure by 281 to 73. A despatch from London says:—In the House of Conunons on Wednesday in proposing a resolution granting Field Marshal Earl Roberts £100,- 000 for his services in South Africa (in accordance with the recommenda- tion of Ring Ldward, announced in the House of Lords by the Premie', Lord Salisbury, Monday last) A. J. Balfour, the Government leader, in the course of an eulogy of the Field. Marshal, whom he compared with such men as Collingwood, Nelson and Wellington, said there was no doubt that but for Lord Roberts' daring and strategy, and the rapidity with which his plans were carried out, Kimberley noel llafeking would have fallen, 1.1,000 British would have been starved JuLo submission at Lady- smith, and there would have been a general rising of disloyalists in South Africa. Great Britain might have recovered therefrom, but at what a cost? The country was sav- ed from this by the genius of the loan he now invited the House to reward by a unanimous vote, irre- spective of political differences : The Liberal leader, Sir henry Campbell-Barme•man, concurred in the motion, John .Dillon, Irish Nationalist, strongly opposed the vote. He pro- tested against mentioning Lord Ro- berts in association with such 11101 as Marlborough, Nelson, Colling- wood, and Wellington. Ile declared Lord Roberts had shown the greatest inhumanity in South Africa and said ho had employed barbarous methods and had proved himself a dismal fail- ure. The pleasure was passed by a vote of 281 to 73. WILL AFFECT CANABA. Government May Protest Against Assisted Emigration to Africa. A despatch from Ottawa says:—It is said the Government is likely to protest against the utilization of Im- perial funds for the purpose of.in- ducing inniigration frons thc.British Isles to South Africa. The conten- tion is that if the home Government assisted emigrants, it would have a materiel effect upon the trend of settlement to Canada. ST. VITUS' DANCE CURE. Must Unclose Limbs for Days in Rigid Bandages, A despatch from Paris soys:--Prof. Blanchard, in a paper read before the Academy of Medicine to -day, said the Another species of mosquitopropa- gates disease, even leprosy.' The Parisian Culex nlasquito is less ter- rible. 3Te advised the destruction of tho larvae by placing petrolcuinin stagnant water and sweet oil in drinking water. Dr. ltobin announced that experi- ments had been made by Dr. Iiuyghc of Lille in curing St. Vitus' dance by enclosing Limbs for days in rigid bandages. 25 KOre' N S AN HOUR. A Mammoth New Steamer 'for the Cunard Line, A despatch from London says :— The Telegraph says that the Cunard Steamship Company has decided to build a new steamer, and with her make an attempt to capture the At- lantic record. The contract has not yet been placed, but the designs have been prepared and estimates invited for a vessel capable of making 25 knots an hour. She will be built so that she can be used ale an armed cruiser, and it is possible that she will hove a protoctvo dealt, As a result of operations to subdue tho tribes south of the Atlas Mount- ains, in Morocco, it is reported that the, French Ilene 00,000 troops on the borders of the Moors' land, and have defeated them' in a groat bee- tle, MOST INFECTIOUS DISEASES. A famous Italian singing muster used to send those of his pupils who suffered from weak throats, but wished to adopt singing as a pro- fession, to find employment in oil refineries, and they almost all re- turned to him within a few months with throats so braced up and strong that they were hardly capable of strain or fatigue, and practically in- susceptible to colds. It has 00011 been suggested at a Berlin hospital that "throat -cases" should be treat- ed with the fumes of raw petroleum such as 1}11 the air of petroleum re- fining sheds and this will probably be done ere long. Salt mining and working aro ex- cellent cures for rheumatism and in- fallible cures for anaemia, which latter malady is far more common than most people fancy, and more serious to boot. Anaemia and rheu- matism are troubles unknown to salt -workers, iron miners also have 3111 immunity from anaemia, though not to quite the same extent as salt - miners. Kelp -gatherers have in their pe- culiar calling, if they continue to follow it sulljcient]y long, en excel- lent mire for scrofula ; it has been known to cure where every usual re- medy failed. Very few nervous dis- orders are there, moreover, which cannot be cured by working at kelp gathering, which, although not a lucrative occupation, is followed by hundreds of people who enjoy ex- ceptionally fine health.- Kelp -gather- ing is also said to be a cure for insomnia and "noises in the head,_' which, although not generally dan- gerous troubles are at times VERY DISTRESSING. Sailors enjoy a remarkable freedom from cancer, and it has been suggest- ed that 'life on the ocean wave" destroys the germs of the terrible disease when they are in the system but inactive. It is hardly possible to obtain support of the theory, however ; but there seems to be a great deal of truth in the statement that cancer is practically unknown to sailors who neither smoke or chew overmuch tobacco. Cancer some- times occurs in the tongues of ex- cessive smokers among sailors • for, albeit no one would suggest that the most liberal consumption of the fragrant weed could cause cancer, excessive smoking or chewing bee a tendency to prelim -to the disease when the germs are already in the blood. There is scarcely any nervous dis- order which cannot be cured or checked by following the occupation of a sailor, preferably in the Royal Navy, and, strangely enough, em- ployment at malting cordite, dyna- mite and other high explosives is another euro for nervous disorders, the fumes given off by certain chemi- cals Largely used in the manufacture of high explosives feeding or repair- ing the nerves in a truly wonderful planner. The number of policemen who suf- fer from varicose veins is simply ex- traordinary. This state Of Clings is duo mainly to the length of tittle policemen stand or loiter about the streets. If they only knew it, they could find an almost certain cure by changing their occupation for that of postmen, whose work, with the long, 1n•isk wants, is the best pos- sible remedy for varicose 801112 jn their earlier stages. o— MUSICAL F3:SI1. Mealy fish Cann produce musical sounds. The trigla can produce long - die -mil notes ranging over nearly cm octave. Other's, notably two species of ophidium, hale 5001111 pr'odulcing apparatus, consisting of small r'nov- able bones, which can be made to produce a sharp rattle. The curious drumming made by the species called embrinas can be heard from a depth of thirty fathoms. AN EXPENSIVE; ]IAT. •, The most cxpeisivo hat in the world is undoubtedly the one which WWI pretellted to General Grant while be was in Mexico in. 1882. It 0 coat 31,500 in gold, and is now to be seer in the Natona.l Museum et Washington, and is the finest spend- tl men of a Mexfeanf sa0bre'o evdr.l0 made, . f AN ROB WITH WEE SADA How THE BUSY .YANKEE SPENDS THE DAY, Interesting Matters of !}Tennent and Mirth Gathered Prone I3is. Records, Women wore ttrst come employes permitted o ees in 1862, y inGovernment oAieps In a recent storm a bolt of light- nillg 1(111x(1 62 of it llocJc of 100 sheep in Ayr, Fulton County, Pe. Twenty per cent, of the prisoners hiiiabitChicago, jail are victims of the morphine, cocaine or other drug Smitlelleld, Va., claims the oldest fnch01'0111694, fn the country, it is St. Luke's, erected in 1682 and restored Milwaukee has twice as many sa- loons as Detroit, though the pope' dation of the two cities is almost the sumo. One hundred thousand mules have been shipped from America to South Africa for the use of the British ar- my. Census figures show that the cities o1 the United States have gained 8,- -000,000 inhabitants in the last ten years. WhileGreatBritain is the greatest tea -consuming country' in the World, the United States leads all other nations in chinking ounce. John. Lister, an heir to 33,000,000 and an outcast and tramp, was in the Chicago Police Court recently, charged with stealing a horse and tvagg'ofh. The new Capitol building of Min- nesota. at St. Paul, is built of Geor- gia marble and is ono of the most attractive public buildings in the Northwest. The immigration for the fiscal year just ended wits the, beaviestfor any twelve months since 1892, and it represented a gain of nearly 40,- 000 over last year. The making of spools and sawing of wood for them have assumed small immense proportions that they are classed among the leading indus- tries of Maine. Tho exports of the United States for the last Oscal year lucre nearly $1,500,000,000 ; the excess of ex - Ports over imports was the greatest in the country's history. Space January let 931 trees' have been planted in the borough of Man- hattan, and 1,949 in the other boe- oughs of Greater New York, making a total of 2,880 trees planted. Jewell'D. Knight, of Belchertown, Mas -s., a graduate of the llassacllu- setts Agricultural College, has been appointed by the British Govern- nicht to go to India to establish an agricultural college. W. T. Grant. of Louisville, ICy., a tobacco. exporter, whodiedon Thursday of last week, hequenthod $200,000 to the Presbyterian Theo- logical Seminary of his home city, subject to an annuity of 35.000 to Ids widow as long as 8110 lives. Gen, John Basil Turchin, who died 'at Anna, Ill., the other day, was a veteran or the Crimean war, who, coming to this country dur- ing the war of the rebellion, be- came colonel of the Nineteenth Illi- nois Volunteer Infantry and was later given command of a brigade -under ,[durll. Of tho 200 men recently appointed to New York's police force by Com- missioner Murphy, only 180 have Irish names. Of the other 70 new policemen 80 are Germans—a nation- ality whose representation is increas- ing — and the remaining forty are English, America)), Spanish. and Russian. A drapery store in a Conneticut town is said to be run by three men named England, Ireland, an1d Scot- land. cot]and. They islet for the first time in America,- Scotland married .'Eng- land's sister, and Ireland is engaged to another sister. The son of .the first (inion 15 called Ireland England Scotland, Captain Ie. H. Sneed of East Pro- vidence, 11.L, has just received a Government modal which was award- ed him seventeen years ego for hero- ism in helping to resent the crew of a shipwrecked schooner in the bar- ber of New Haven. The medal was mislaid in a secret drawer in a desk in the Collector's office at the cus- tom house of New haven, and was found only a few days ago. A SUMMER FRAME OF 1112ND. George, George, get up quick; I hear a burglar downstairs. Well, let him alone, Maria—and lot me alone; no doubt the poor chap has just crawled in the, window to get at piece of ice ora drank of good cold water. In 1,000 balloon ascents the ave' - ago of feLai accidents is 4. The Mohommedan year begins in July; that of the Persian on August 310. Cutting down my life insurance What item is that? demanded Mrs, tlhugwater. In 1700 there were but 170 Peers in the House of Lords as against 598 at present. -- An English boy of tel averages Oft 10ein. An Italian boy of the sane agois ae incl1 shorter and iilb lighter. During the siege of Paris 64 bal- loons left the city with 91 passen- gers, 354 pigeons, and 0 tons of let - tors. Tho press of the United States has grown 11010 68 papers of all kinds in 1880, to 2,362 dailies, and 20,- 00 weeklies in 1900. The inhabitants of the mining die- 'acts of South .Africa. import 90 per eat. of their food, .a tvoeld's record e. r' so come 0 a district 'REMEDY AGAINST ILLNESS Curious Custon W11iee Provsil In Persia, A physician wheelies just returnee from I'e'sim says that in that coma. trM1211i910 reunion medyrs al, aga nstlodcerl iy d'rp1113 diseases, In order to have a sulilcioilt'supply of toans always o11 hand the priests collect tlrent in a singular' manner. Whenever there is a funeral 3.11e off] - elating' priest distributes shall sponges among the mourners, with which he instructs thein to remove from their eyes the tome which they are in duty bound to shed for the de- ceased, After the ceremony 110 collects the 8501ges, which by that time aro sat- urated with tears, and carefully squeezes their contents into a largo bottle, which ho then seals and places in his medicine chest, A short time ago the question was raised by a sceptical layman whether crocodile tears shed by hypocritical mourners were likely to prove as of- licacious as those shod by true mourners, but the priests did not condescend to reply, No Ilgures aro obtainable as to the quantity of tears which such a sponge will yield, but, as the priests' bottles nr0 never empty, it is evident that the leclu'ymad glands. of Persian mourn- ers are always ready to comply with any demand which may be made up. on them, BRIDGE UNDIIJ2. THE WATER. A very peculiar bridge is being con- structed over the Mary River at Maryborough, Queensland, in that it is being designed so that its surface will be submerged several times dur- ingtho seasons of high floods, says a London newspaper. The idea In building the bridge in this way is to save the material that would be re- quired to build It sufficiently high to escape submersion at high water. Tho country on the banks of the Mary River lies so low that the ap- proaches would have to be extraor- dinarily long to be entirely out of the hater during low water. For this reason pedestrians and others em- ploy boats during the comparatively short time that the water would cover the bridge. The ' bridge will clear by 12 feet and 6 inches at or - dimmer high water. The highest flood level is J8 loot, so that at times the bridge will be submerged more than 20 feet. 0 WILLIE'S REVENGE. Willie had been in the habit of die. obeying his mother, and one day for this he ^ot a severe beating. After his suffering was over he went out to the door sobbing loudly, and started to write lin a little bit of p0per. Wien he. had done writing, he dug a hole in the ground and put the lit- tle bit of paper down in it. His little sister (who had been watching ]dim through the window) went immediately to the hole, and on opening same, found the little bit of paper, which born the following inscription Dear devil, come and take mother. RUSSIAN WOMEN SMOKERS. Russian W0111011 ago so fond of smoking that the Minister of the In- terior has ordered the railway of- ficials in the empire to provide pas- senger trains with smoking com- partments for their use, 1t is said that nearly all married women in Russia smoke cigarettes, and that, the habit has begun to obtain large- ly among the unmarried, wil.11 the re- sult that smoking carriages are now as much of a necessity for travel- ing Russian 18011011 as for men. CANDLES 1N MEXICO. Candles aro extensively used in Mexico owing to the great expense of petroleum. A bookkeeper may bo seen making his entries in a great ledger by the light of a single can- dle. A Mexican prieter works with a candlestick stuck carelessly into one of his boxes, and two tailors in the small shops can bo seen sharing the rays of a single dip. BLOODSHED AVOIDED. Jones—What would you do if your burglar alarm went orf in the night? Drown—Well, in the dark, you know, it would take me a good while to find lay shoes and my pistol, and that would give,tho burglar time to 'get away. ENCOURAGING HIM, If I thought that any girl would accept me, casually remarked the bashful Mr. I)olyers, I'd propose to- morrow, Why not this evening? asked Miss Fosdick, coyly. The affair will take place in about a month, AFTIIR'TIlE RECONCILIATION. Dooley—Say, Ilooloy, gin loo a punoll on the jaw opposite phwere yez kicked me. Healey—Pkat for? Dooley—I want yez to ctraighton me out. Ono fourth ofa pound of paint is allowed for every square yard of priming cont, ono -sixth of a pound per yard for the succeeding coat. Anastasia—Didn't I bury Mike, didn't I bury Tina, didn't 11)thry James and ,Jagtc?—so I think, Wil- liam it would be Wiser for loo not to marry again. TVillialn—Chance mc, An.9tasia, Clear. Who knows but the tables may be turned this timet Lady --'Fele feet of the ladies of your country aro conlpleseed I be- lieve? Japan020 Attache—Oh, 11o, madam; that is a Chinese custom, We in Japan allow our ladies' feet to grow to their full size (folitely) not that they can ever hope to rival yours, ngitdare.