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The Brussels Post, 1902-5-8, Page 6NEWS ITE S. Telegraphic Briefs From 411 Over tbe Globe. QANADA., Itamiltou firemen went increase in wages. , Sault Ste. Mario will spend ten thousand dollars in 1111311'O0V 11.8 1111) departmeot. Two French noblemera the Berens do•Failon and de Lepine, have ar- rived at Quebec., aml will probably settle In Canade. The Deering Harvester CoMpanY of Chirago, will establish work at Ham- ilton, if the city grants a bonus or $50,000. The Port of Montrett, will this year have one of the most suceassful years it has ever enjoyed, was the encouraging statement made by Bobert Belem, al the meetin33 of the Montreal Harbor !totted on Monday. reary hus received Word that Andeow Cognegie would put up a $15,000 public library building in New Westminster, t1.0., provided a site was supplied mat 31,500 annual- ly provided for maintenance. Dugald Donaghy, Dawson's first City Attorney, is a native of forte, and, is 29 years of age. no graduated Morn Osgood° Hall in 1809. For a short time he practised OraugeVille. He wait to Dewson City in 1900. URGING BOERS TO 'YIELD. Be Wet Admits tbe Strnggle H01)01888. A despetch to the London Oentral News from 'I'vetoritt says that at a meeting of the Boors at Vereeeiging on May 15 i.epresentatives of every commando, numberiug 200, will be present. It is probable that the linal vote on the questioa of peaco or war will be taken by ballot. The 'Pretoria correepontlent of the London Daily Standerd says Ito un- derstands that the meetings of Die Boers have thus far shown a majori- ty in favor of peace, though possibly game of the 1E1.0(mm:110,1)1101 Islay hold out, however generous the teems of- fered. A despatch to the Telegreph from !Pretoria says that. the Boer I aders nes certainly placing the isetie benne the burgherplainly nrid without re- servation. 31eneral De Wet Is 10.0N 11133 everywhere animig his people setting ictrth the facte most honorably. Ile lass frankly slated thet in 1119 oPin- ion the struggle Is now hopeless, end that the Britis11 terms are reasonable auci generoue, GREAT BRITAIN. King Edward has taken up hie quarters in Buckiugham The War Office has decided to arm the British Yeomanry with sabres. A. double line of electric railway between London and Dover is pro- jected. Tenders for 1.90,000 hancl-made steel table forks for the army are invited by the War Office. There are now 36,012 doctors and 4,615 registered dentists Peactising 30 tl d Kiogdnm. Seventeen thousand children, each ectITYing a colonlai flag, will form a coronation procession in Coventry. One hundredand twenty obsolete cannon from Woolwich Arsenal have arrived at Darlington, consigned to a forge works as scrap iron. Ccimpetition between. Bristol, Car- diff, Liverpool, Milford and South- ampton for selection its the terminal, port of the Canadian line is keen. Largo contributioas for the Irish fund. to light the Cioveriunent coer- cion polies', have been received from I America and all the British colonies. The Cobden. Club has issued it 1(30n-1 ifesto protesting against the 111310111- 3 Hon of corn ditties in which it states that this policy would undo th03! great work of Peel mid Gladstone. Forty members of the House of Commons, representing both sides of I polities, met in London for tile pur- pose of forming a Ministry of (Joni - King Edward has personally invit- ed Mrs. Harriet L. Johnson, the niece of President Buchanan, to at- tend his coronation. Mrs. Johnson was mistress of the White House when, as the Prince of Wales, the King visited there, The invitation has been accepted. UNITED STATES. The late Dr. Talmage left, 0.11 05- t4te valued at $300,000. The Algonac Ranking Company at Algoenc, Michigan, has failed. The $112,000 on deposit will be lost, Bean -Admiral Watson lies been ap- pointed special naval representative of the United States at the cermet.- 1.100, At San Francisco Herman Oelrichs spent $7,000 for a banquet to Fresh. (loot E. H. Harriman of the South- ern Pacific road, covers being laid for 62. Attorney -General Knox has declar- ed against the Beef Trust, and has instructed the proper authorities to prepare an injunction aganst the trust in Ohicago. One hundred and seventy -live bar- rels of blue points have been ordered from a Long Island dealer for use at King Edward's coronation. and the shipment will be made at once in order to allow the oysters to drink in English Waters. Dr. Herbert Fiske, of the North- western university, Chicago, says, tobacco is ono great cause of student failure, During the last tfine years he has observed that a. student ad- dicted to the tobacco habit mane a much lower average in his class per- centages than those who were not given to the habit. The will of Father Albinger, an aged and eccentric priest of Mount Vernon, N.Y., who used to walk around dressed in rags and was al- ways begging for trolley, haft been admitted to probate. Ite leaves $10,000 to his two eisters in Ger - teeny and $25,000 to the Church. GENERAL. A shepherd ims just (lied in Cotaica at the age of 120. Tho coronation contingent front ITong Kong will go to England by way of Canada.. Tho everage price of beef in M- (333(3 is tomer 31 pesetas 0 1(110 (18110111. 38 cents a pound.) Dieorciers have broken out in Sweden in connection with an agittw Lion in favor of universal saffrage. Rebottle plague has appeared emote; the wallaby (smaller ko.nga- moat In tho Zoological Gardens at Sydney, The Minister of Public Instruetion M Russia has resigned because the Ozer has refused to sanction hill SCheniC for 8818001 reform. Tho new South Afrieen colonies, even if peace is not concluded, are after July th Maintain 0,000 of the 10,000 men in the South African Conetaintiary. 4 ---- LIMIT WATER IN BUTTER. Britain. Ilas Amended Act, Which May Affeve )Canada. An Ottawa deepatch says 1 -The Department of Agriculture has been advised by cable through the Mgt) Commissioner's office that, the Board of Agriettlture for Great Brit - (011 havesmade regulations under the Sale of Food :lint Drugs Act of 1809, whereby, if a. sample of butter is found to 6011111111. over 10 per cent, of water, it shall be considered not genuine, unless proved to the contrary. Mr. A. Buildiok, chief of the dairy division, %kiss the regu- lation will not affect tho Canadian butter trade to any great extent un- less dealers should require 0 guaran- tee that butter which they produce (1008 not contain water in excess of the limit, With primer cooling fa- eilities at the creameries, so that the churning, washing, and working of tho better may be curried out; at sufficiently lose temperatures, there is no dilliculty 111 produeing a butter which le well within the 1111111.8 as re- gards the amount of water in it. From 12 to 13 per cent. is consider- ed to be about the proper proems tion of water in butter. A CITY DEVASTATED. -- More Than Four Hundred Persons Killed. A Calcutta despatch says: -A tor- nado has devastated the City of Dacca and actioining towns. Four hundred and sixteen persons were killed. Crops were ruined throughl out the district. The tornado first struck Pnsgola the afternoon of Ap-3 ril 23, where it wrecked the /tette Jute Works, From Posgola it, mov- ed to Samachar, where the 10111,1. tleneral Company's warehouses werel destroyed by a. great wave, which was whirled out of the river by the wind. Everywhere in the path oil the cyclone huts, trees and roofs of houses. and people were carried up into the eir like pence. Thirty -ono persons were killed at Hamacher, 110 wore killed near Dacca, 1,7:1 were 11111181 at Nagalband, whiht 100 were killed at Barnighat. Dacca, a. city in Bengal, is 150 miles north-east nf Calcutta. QUEEN OUT OF DANGER. All Holland ia Jubilant Over the News. A despatch from the Hague says: - The Queen may now be considered out of danger. The pronounced im- provement in her health has occa- sioned intense relief 3 hroughont the country. Manifestations of joy are apparent on all hands. The news is the 0110 injdc 111 OM cafes, where peo- ple are congratulating each other na if on the recovery of a personal friend. Numbers of congratulatory telegrams have been received at the Royal Palace from all parts of the world. The chambers of the States General havo adopted by acclamation a congratulatory address to the throne. The applause which followed the submission ot the proposal was deafening. KILLED IN A FIRE PANIC. Factory Girls Killed and Many Injured. A Philadelphia, despatch says :-- Sm en girls are known th have been killed and motto than a score in - 'urea during a. uanie caused by a cry of "Fire 3" at the cigar factory of limburger, Homan & Co., 10111 street and Washlegtoe avenue, at 3e.1.5 on Wednesday afternoon. The girls were •packed 318 tho halhvay leading to the street by the hun- dreds, rind those who wore killed fainted and were trampled end PRIEST'S HEAD ON POLE. Outrage at Kaio-Shau Caused Panic Aniong Clergy. A. Pekin deepatch seys:-A French Homan Catholic; priest belonging to the Jesuit, mission at Nato -Chan, China, 100 Miles soUth-west of Tien - was murdered on April 27. Him head was afterward displayed on a Pale. The prieste fled from thin die - tent a month ago, as they Mitred something like this would happen. They returned a, short time after- ward, however, having apparently become reassuved as to their safety, IVIETIVEN LAMED FOR LIFE Wounded General is Steadily Con- valescing. A London dogmas% says :-.0111030 adviees from South Africa :Attie that Lord Methuen is steadily conval- escing, but it is believed that he will bo lame ttlways es a easel!, of flic wounds lie received in the fight will Gen. Polarity's foree prior to Iris capture by the Deere. THE DOMINION PARLIAWENTI Vowns OP PROCEEDINGS IN THE l'EPEItAL 11013011., ISILIsS INTRODUCED. Mr. Freak Oilver introduced his bill to incorporate AL %Ikon Dishop of the Orthodox Russo -Greek Miura 10 eenacla. Mr. Fraser introduced tho 11313 in- earporatieg the Weetera Alberta Railway ComPany, which hos passed the Senate. Itielitual Cartwright introduced o tmuple of bills. The first wits to mend the act respecting the pack- ing and sale of certain staple com- modities, which, he miplained, brought the dearets in binder twine ander the penalties provided fur im- proper peeking. The second bill, to amend the general inspection act, supplemented the first by adding Mader twine to the list of articles to be inspected. Sir Richard Cart- wright withdrew the bill, ot which he had given notice, tp amend the Chinese immigration ace, 1.900, and intimated that he would inove a re- solution to the mune effect, Mr. N. Boyd inquired when the amendments to the graiu act would be brought M. The Premier replied that the bill was in course of pre - Intentions and would be introduced in a day or two. EMPOWERING A LOAN. Afr. Fielding gavo nOtice of tbe following resolution "Resolved, that it is expedient to provide that in addition to the sums now remaining unborroweci and ne- gotiable of the tonne authorized by Parliament by any Act heretofore passed, the Governor -in -Council be authorized to raise by way of loan : (a) Such atim or 1311108 of money, not to exceed in the whole the sum of 315,000,000, as may be required Lor the isurpese of paylag the float- ing indebtedness of Canada, and of meeting any expenditure authorized by the Parliament, of Canada., and (In Such sum or sums of motley as may be required from, time to time 0 ver and above any available sink- ing funds, to pay and discherge the funded debt of Canada, or any portion thereof, as the same =I- tems and becomes payable, either in England or 111 Canada. AMENDMENTS TO ACTS. The bill. to amend the Unorganized Territories' Game Preservation Act was read a. third time and passed. The bill to amend the Dominion Lands Act so as to allow the GOV- ernment of the 'Territories to take MI feat through any homestea11 for road purposes without compensation was amencled,so as to proaide thati it, shall rally apply to future home -I stead entries. The bill was held" over to allow the Government to I consider a number of proposed minor amendments. The bill to ameud the Acts respect - Ing the North-West Territories WilS read a third time and pttssod. 11.1 giVPS the Government of the Terri- tories control over the roads which I have been handed over to the Gov- erntnent, The bill to amend 018 Roeky Mountains Park .A.ct was read a third tinte and passed. It increases very substantially the size of what Is generally known as Banff Park. HALIFAX 10.1.8IIERY AWARD. Mr. Barker called attentioa to the statement made by Premier Peters, of Prince Edward !eland, to the ef- fect that the Dominion Government had agreed to refer to the Supreme Court the claim of the island for $1,000,000 of the Halifax' fishery award, with interest al, $30,000 a year. Rir Wilfrid Laurier replied that the Dominion authorities had agreed to a conference on the foreshore question. As to the financial claim, nothing at all had been done in the matter. It had not even been con- sidered. The Premier added that it made no particular difference wheth- er the money from the Halifax award. was held by the Dominion or the provinces, because the interest went to the fishermen anyway. LANDS FOR VOLUNTEERS. Mr. Scott wits Wormed by Sir Wilfrid Laurier that the Governor - in -Council has received a memorial from the North-West Legislature suggesting Una lands be granted to Canadian volunteers who have serv- ed in South Africa, No decielon On the matter has yet been reached. DROP -LETTER RATE. gr. Kemp preeentecl the petition of the City of Toronto praying for the reduction oi the rate on drop letters from two cent e to cmc cent. The petition points out that the To- ronto post-oflIce gives a larger revenue than any other poet -office in the Dominion, and the two-ceut rate is considered te be most unfair to the cities. JUDGE'S P ENSIGNS. The bill to amend the Aet, respect- itig the judges of provincial courts caused a. eomewhat lengthy diseus- Mon no to the salaries tif nidges. Slat ineastire npplies to Couttty Coitrt iudges mill allows Omni to re- tire on two-thirds of their salary if they become physically incapacitated patrielt 08918111011 that tlio bill was after ten years' service. Mr, Fitz- men:mills intended to ttpply to a case that had nrison in the Pro - 91(1(0 of Ontario. An allusion by Mr. Cal.:grille to the fact that most of the judges nf rural counties in Qualm MOM Weir residence in town, drew from Mr. leitepatrick the expres8100 of opinion that this ought not to be tillowed. The 1)111 wan read 11 third time and missed. A SIGN OF INDIGNATION, TURNS DOWN FLOUR MEN. HickseBeaon Tante to an InfitOne A, LoncIlltaldePaPereht4toLZ'n; .411 nuential delegetiou, representing the flour importere Of most of the largo cities of the petted Kingdom, bed Lill ieterview with the Clutaceller 'of ol the lechequer, Sir Michael Hicks -Beach, on Wedaesday morning, ti, protest against tbe taxation of flour, which the dolegatee said, would seriously allnet the extent a their trade, The Chancellor, in replying, point- ed out thet the deputation repre- sented solely wheat flour, and that it was imposeible to consider the grain and meal duties entirely front that viewpoitit. It was impraetic- able, in imposing duties on grain, to different to between grains, The import)) of flour coinsetrecl with the imports of wheel, had grown enor- mously in recent years, and he dill not think it was to the henoat of the people of the country. Ile had re- duced the duty on olTals, so that the flour importers were now hotter off than under the late Mr. Gladstone's tax, and he doubted whether they were enlitlee to further advantages. TAXES AND REVENUE. 13r11ain Will Gain Z'36,025,000 Up to April, 1903. A London despatch says 1-A Par- liamentary paper just published shows a total estimated charge on account of the war In South Africa, to March 31, 13108, of L222,970,000, and in respect, of operations in China, a total of Z6,010,000. A. second table shows that the pro- ceeds of the new taxes from 1000 to March 31, 1903, amount to an in- crease in tho revenue of L70,025,000 of which the greatest part is sup- plied by income tax, which aggre- gates 4139,377,000. The sugar catty, from its imposition until Afareh, 1003, is estimated to produce 4111,- 200,000. The revenue set free by the 500pension4 of the sinking fund tuuounts 1.13 4113,808,000. This, to- gether With the proceeds of new taxation, loaves a balance for war expenditure to be charged to capital account of L155,148,000. A third table sets down the total amount borrowod at 2159,000,000, the cash proceeds of which are stat- ed at 41152.415.000. ONTARIO LOST 10,000 DEER. Yet They Seem. as Plentiful as Ever After the Slaughter. Tea thousand deer were killed in fifteen days in the last open season for the sport in the Province of Ontario, according to the estimate of 011.101 (25.018 Warden E. Tinsley. There is probably not. such another country in the world tts Ontario for the abundance of its red or Vir- ginian deer. Nobody who knows enything about hunting at all luts any difficulty in securing all the game the law allows within the lim- 'ts of the remarkably short season of fifteen days during which the kiti- ng of deer is permltted, and fOr this reason all epplicallons for an extension of the season, of which many are received every year, are re- fused by the Commissioners. Last, winter 5,200 deer Minting icenses were issued, a thousand in excess of the number in the preced- 'ng year. One express company alone carried nearly three thousand carcasses of deer, and Dr, McCallum, tho head of the Game Commission, agrees withsillr. Tinsley that 10,000 head is quite a low estimate of the lumber killed by hunters in the late open season. The most remarkable circumstance sa regard 1.13 this is the fact, in- sisted upon by the Commissioners, that the increasing number killed by hunters, seems to cause no diminu- tion in the number of the doer. Of course, the part of the province where they are most abundant is in the north, though even in some of the comparatiVely 'settled districts the pretty animals are so numerous mud so tame that they are an an- noyance to farmers, 111 3911080 crops they do considerable damage. The Rainy River district of On- tario, which till recently contained no red deer, is now quite overrun with them, the new arrivals having cOme le from the neighboring State of Minnesota. In order to raise the standard of the taport it is noW Se- riously proposed to prohIbit both tho use of dogs and the killing of deer in the water in Ole Province of Ontario. CUSTOMS REVENUE SOARS. Big Increate as Compared With Corresponding Periods, An Ottawa despatch says t -There has been it Very large introits') in tho 1 LiamtCliati Customs revenue for April. The revenue was $2,789,978, or an increase of $51.11,791 over the same 111011111 lust year. The ampunt col- lected for the ten months ot tho fiscal year was $26,388,587, an creame of $2,472,31.4 over the game time last year, NO DOUBT Alt0IIT IT. "thick .linwitie" was a man who had a reputation for "tightness" in , busineee affairs, which oiling to him the entire eighty -odd years of his existrilee. Wh011 110 19110 00'10(011 With Whitt proved to be his last illness, a nelghletr cone to see hint who had I heard. he was 1001 unto death. The family wore gathered about the room in various stave of gelef -he lincl not been an over -kind Itus- band and father -awl the sick Man lay on Ilia 13011 with closed eyes and 1113)13( 1013 heels th leg. "See if he Ithowe 31013," maid 3118 wife, tearfully, to the neiglibott who tiptoed th the side of the bed and Lennon over the oceepent. eunele Jimmie.' do you knotv ine ?" asked the neighbor, gently. A deep silenee hung over the room. lineally "Miele Jimmie" slowly open- ed his eyes and fixed them ihtently on the questIonee. "Know yeti ?" he echoed, feebly , "1 reekon I do 1 Where's that gal- lon of vinegar you ewe 1010 ? ' ' The leeognition 391811 complete. "It's a ehame 1" exclaimed Means dering Mike, ais he tossed tho piece of ntestspaper front hitn. 'What wits 7(111 reedit' about ?" esked Ploddilies Peter. "Desdonations by Amirew Cernea gle. It'e a shame to be fiperalle' so much money for libraries when dey orter be buyin cook, boolts fur some o' dese jells 390 have to Stop at.". VAST WEAVER IN FARIS AN INTERESTING TALK HY 13111.. 0, 0. 'AXES, ern Pig is a linertune Rig Profit From Fruit, -The Mod, Producer, Recently, before the Canadian Club', at Taranto, Alr, 0, 0, James, Deputy 'Minister of Agriculture foe Ontario, spoke on the growth of ag- riculture in Ontario, iit which he placed the man with the hoe on a mountain of iinportanee all his 03911. Ther0 are 175,000 farmers ifl 'OM twee, and their invested capital amounts to one billion of dollars. Mr. .lainea said tbats had he tile wealth of a Carnegie or one hundred millions al, his, disposal to give lie would preseut thls money to the On- tario farmers, gPang. $600 to eaoh, knowing tbat it would be well in- vested. The minuet product of tho Ontario farms is $2503000,000, and Mr. James pointed out thuit if this product could be Increased by 10 per cent, it would mean a great therms() of $25,000,000 for the Provence, The Deputy Minister was bristling with figures, not figures representing thou- sands, tens of thousands, or hun- dreds of thousands, but figures that ran away up into the dizzy millions. Ho pointed out that a simple In- crease of a ceut per bushel in Ontar- io grain would inean'an increase of $1,500,000 a year irt the mutual val- ue of tho product. The spettker claimed that eould Mitlaslike, but place the magic touch upon the ap- ple trees in this province, and add fifteen cents' value to the product of each, a million more • would be the result. If this same touch could be laid upon the cattle, and each cow be given an added value of $1, an- other million. would be added to the assets of the Ontario fernier. If the price of cheese could be raised a simple 1 of a, cent per pound, the farmer would again profit ley $300,- 000. Dazzling, staggering, and stupen- dous those figures! They startled the club a bit. WITEAT NO LONGER, KING. The speaker divided his subject in- to four heade: Wheat, fruit, live stock, and dairying. Wheat is no oeger king ha Ontario, The Pro - 9111(0 11ELS got past that.. There was a. time when if wheat dropped the fernier's Saw dropped with it. How- ever, Mr. James pointed out that Ontario was a great wheat -raiser; and last year from one end one-half Milton ecres raised 30,000,000 bush- els. The entire wheat crop of the world is 2,500,000,000 bushels, end Ontario can, so Mr. James think.s, by improved niethorls, raise this 20 utshels to the acre to 50 bushels, on the average, which would give the Province a unique place as one of twitoegfain-growing centres of the v1d ONTA.R.IO'S FRUITS. Mr. James says there is tin other spot on the North American conti- lent, search where you will, that can grow 'the variety of feulte to the perfection of Ontario, CJalifornia with her gentle breezes nod eternal sununer zephyrs, is not In the same class with Ontario, with her zero winter and torrid summer hours. Ontario, with the modifying influ- ence of the great lakes, her latitude, and her nearness to the source of the original soil, loads them all. Yet hero is soOtothing wrong. Ontario uts six and one-lutlf million apple rees, anti it is called a good year when this proviece is able to export one million barrels of apples to the Old Land. There are two great pro- blems which the farmer seems to ehipwreck one the question of preser- ettion and that of transportation. Mr. James scored those who are con- tinually harping on fast steamship ines. Being :Deputy Minister of Ag- iculture, he doesn't think that the transportation of men is half as POrtant to the welfare of the Pro- vince as the annual safe sending of' thousands and thousands of dollars' worth of perishable products across the sea to John Bull. "Where one dollar is involved In the sending of a messenger quickly thousands of dollars are involved in the other metter," said the speaker. This sentiment was applauded. THE P10. That unlovely animal, the pig, was the subject of an interesting live inin- utes. The hog of to -day ia not the ltog of the other day. The hog of the other day wee nothing but.fats The lumberma11 liked lilin, but, the Cultivated valeta frowned and a new style of pig has come. Fashion in millinery and fashion iti pigs. Tho Pig of to -day, the Speaker explained, was built upon new hnes 09 a bacon - producing In 1896 67 mil- lion pounds of bacon tvero exported, and in 1900 the figures had jumped to 132,000,000. The pig, this new style pig, is coming to the front, as Mr. Staines gays. ITo is credited with paying off 11101.0 mortgages than any other single part or parcel of tho farm. Dairying was touched oil as the first cause of tho growth in the piggery. It was noted with plenetire that Ontario bad secured such it Men hold in Ettgland with. certain kinds ofeivee.asse. it also showe that up till a little while ago the fernier had '0 con- ceit. that he knew about ell that was worth khowing, as regards cheese- intiking. Tie cured hie cheese in a hot r00111, but science had come along and Said that cheese could be cured cold. No longer a, slate to tradition, be- hind the times in any way, the 1181)13- 0'>' stands the potver, the man behind the plow. Mr. James says that to- (1ay the man who 3900111 1)0 11. sticCesS., ful tiller of 'the soil must bavo as libeeal a. general educatioe to 1.11e man of business. Ile --"T tissue° you 7 would 180101 dare to rob those seleet lipe of a kiss." 011e -"You hypocrite I Didn't you attentfilr it last eight ?" /10 - "Never 3 Far front intending to rol you of a kise, I: Was trytter to get() you one." THE MARKETS prices of Grain, Cattle, etc in Trade Centres. • Toroao, May Per cent. Ontario patenta firmer at 82432 middle freights, in bueers' woks. Straight rollers, 111 weed, quoted at 33.20 to 53,28. wromitobo. notaas ore Jim at $1 to $4.15, Toronto; anti strong !Akers' at $3.70 to $3.85. Butlkwhettb-Offerings small, and prime imenleal at 00 to ele east. Oatmeal -Oar lots, in liblS, $4,65 on traok, and la seeks at $4.50. Broken lots, 250 extra. Millfeed-Bran dull at e15,50 out- side. Shorts, $18.50 to $19 out- side, At. Toronto bran is 818. and shorts 520. Wheat -No, 3. Manitoba hard sold al, 80311, Toronto aud west; No. 1 Northern, at 88e; and No. 2 Northe ern at 80ec, 'Toronto and west. For grinding In transit 3e higher than theee prices. No. 2 white Ontario sold at 764e, middle freight. Peas -No. 2 white quoted ist 80e 390531. Corn -No. 2 yellow, 600 west, and No. 2 Mixed, 58c west, WE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -The market ie unchanged, with receipts fair. Wo quote choice 1-11) rolls, 18 to 10e; ehoice large rolls, 3.61. to 173c; second grades, rolls and tubs, I.'S?, to 14.0; low grades, 30 to 12e; creamery prints, 21 to 22e; solids, 20c. legge-The market is steady, with a good demand. Sales at 12 to 32ee per dozen for new laid, and at 10,1 for No. 2. Cheese -The market is firm ; finest September, ile to 12c; Wider grades 103. Lo 11e; now, 11 to 11.1e. :HOGS AND raovisioNs. Dressed hogs are Men. Hog pro- ducts in good demand and /inner, We quote : Bacon, long clear, 101e in ton and cese lots. Mess pork, $21 ; do., short cut, $22. Smoked meats-Hruns, 13c; break- fast bacon, 14 to 163e; rolls, 11e ; becks, 14 to 1.44c, and shoulders, 10ste. Lard -The market is uncbanged, with track quoted at $5 to $5.50 ; the latter for No. 1. Poultry -Receipts 51131811. W cotote: Fresh killed turkeys, 13 1.0 15e per 13).; chickens, 75c to $1. Ducks, 05c to $1. Potatoes -The markeb is quiet, with ear lots quoted at 70 to 75c per bag, and small lots at 85c. UNITED STATES' MAincors. Toledo, May Z. -Wheel, dull, stoney; cash, 8e10; M.ay 84c; jute', 7810,- Corn -Dull, weak; caeb, 02e; May, 021c; 'filly, 01Ic; Sept., 6210. Oats -Dull, weak; cast, 42c; May, 4210; July, 534e; Sept., 30c. Clover seed -Dull, easier; April, $5.224 ; Oct. 55.32+; No. 2, 53.70 to. $5. Minneapolis., May O. -Wheat -May, 71.c; July, 75e to 753es on track, No 3. hard, 773c; No. 1 Northern, 751 to 751c; No. 2 Northern, 74 to 741c. Detroit, May 6. -Wheat closed -No. 1 while, 13E1911, 88c; No, 2 red, cash and April, 861e; July, 791e, St. Lein's, Aftty G. -Wheat closed - Cash, 781e; May, 781c; July, 743c. CATTLE MARKET, Toronto, AfitY G. -At the Westorn cattle yards to -day the receipts were 75 carloads of live stock, including 1,100 cattle, 1,1.00 hogs, 300 sheep and lambs, 120 calves, and a (109011 1111.10h cows. Prices for good cattle Were not quotably changed, and as tho qual- ity of the supplies was 1101. 08 5. rule first -Glees, what really good stuff we had here sold at well-maintained prices. For tile best shippers prices ranged front 5 to 6c per pound, and for extra choice stuff 61c per pound 3909 paid. For the prime cattle there was a. ready sale, hut the demand was a little more slow than it) nets last week. Good butcher cattle were also steady at from to Oic per potmd, but the local demand was easy, tind the secondary and inferior kinds, of cattle were it trifle slow of sale. Following is the range of quota, tions Cattlo. Shippers, per cwt... $5.00 $6.00 do, lights. ..... 4.2,5 4.75 Butcher, choices. ... 5.00 5.50 Dutcher, ordinary to good... ...... ..... 4.00 4.50 Steam's, per cwt.,. 2.50 ..,1,00 Sheep and Lambs. Choice ewes, Per cw ••• 0.75 4.50 Spring lambs, 2.00 5.00 Yearlings, per mat- 0.50 6.50 Bucks, per. ... .. 3.50 e.00 141 i I kers and Ca1V0f1, Cows, each... 91,00 50.00 Calves., each... 2.00 10.00 Hogs. Choice hoists per cwt. 0,25 bight hogs, per cwt..... 6.25 'Heavy hogs, 11011 03911 0.25 Sows, per cwt..... 8.50 Stags, par cwt... 0.00 6.75 6.50 0,50 4.00 2.00 MAY BRING TRUST TO TIME Refusal of People to Eat Meat Has Demoranzed Trade. A. Chicago deepatch 8070 1-1331e bllitiriCSS of Chicago packers lies been staggered by the refusal of the people of the couelry 0) eel, moat at the prevailing high prices, ac- cording to the Chronicle, The de- mand for dressed meats in the lost few days has fallen oft 83 1-3 per cont., and the discharge of men in the peeking houses is general. •The eitlieuents of dressed lieef fvoin tho ;verde 1111 90 tlecreneed during the last tee dnys that ears are PinlIg UP 111 the railroad yards. 'lite only 11010 for resteration is en cutting tke Prices. HIGHFIELDS SANITARIUM RepOrt Sneseing lliforle Done LOW* late' Lest Lwo Years. A repert jest issued Oi Wile unique institution, for the epeetel trete merit of patiente in tho late 'nape of consumption, states thet, in the tiWO yoars siseo the oPeal»Ar of the liespital, thlrtyesoven tomes hitt* been treeted there, and that with three exceptions all balm/red in a marked measure while under treat - went. Several, takeetly prostrated arid emacieted 'from profuse hern- orithagee, long sicknees, diarrhoea, etc., arid hence had been rolooal 311951011 1:0 01,1103. institutions, have been efter seven or eight; months' residence in tO tile 891'- 31r16e of 1.330411 friends, restored to fair boalth and abtlity to re-eegage In their usual oecuPatlons. Six wore treatecl for months. from, or for, whom not a dollar was over re- ceived. A young girl, t1101'0 ON'Or &omit menthe, for whom 01113' $1.50 a vireolt has been received, 'paid by the par - eats, from being Very seriously 111, both lungs involved, 313 now etrong, plump in flesh, with hardly a cough, end able to essiet much in. the work of the institution. Others paid only $33 to $5, while a few have paid froan $8 to $12 a teeek, helping to Pay the costs of others. blighllolcls is. pleasantly situated, overlooking the eity and lake, pro- vided with bay windows, balconies, apparatus for ozone inhaletions, with other modern equipments for the scientifie treatment of such cases., A large staff of the loading city phyeicians and the experienced medi- cal superintendent. Dr, Playter, in. almost constant attendance, all give their services gratuitously. Notwithstanding that no special appeals ncir general efforts to collect) money lutve been made since the opening of tho institution, and ia spite of the numerous calls on the Philantheopie, with strict economy, the management of Iiiglinelds have been able to pay current expenses while caring 'for and treating con- stantly trom three or four to nine resident patients. Patients with. little ov 110 11100119, from various parts of the country, are constantly seeking en01is:9t0n. but often cannot be taken in for want of funds, no room. 131101.0 are now two vacancies for moderately paying patients. It Is proposed to provide a few tents for extra room In summer, but special pavilion, with roof sunbathe, rainbeths, MA is greatly needed. Ladies long- engaged in charitable work say that if the obiecte and sUCCess in treatment of the institu- tion wer18 but well known, ample 08- sis31e.nce would be soon forthcoming. Contributions sent to Lieut. -Col. Mason, 'Ilon.-Treesurer. or Robert Darling, Esq., President, will be ac- knowledged in the usual way, A pamphlet and particulars may be obtained on application to the Hon. - Secretary, Highfielde, Deer Park, P.O., Ont. 111011 P111013 PRICE FOR AN EGG. Product of the Great Auk Sold for .81,260. At an auction sale in London the other day an egg of the groat auk was offered for sale. The fact had been teen advertised and quite 0. *lumber of persons interested in these ram prizes 39i01 3111910a. The egg 39I15 knocked down for 311,2110, 11. very good price, though eggs 11080 130011 sold in London as high as $1,- 500. Not oter seventy of the eggs of this extinct bird are 119011110 to be preserved iu collectimis. About twenty skeletons and eighty sktue aro also ammig the treasures of various muecums. These few remains of the great auk aro highly prized because the bird was annihilated by the greed of hunters about sixty ;.ears ago. The time was when great numbers of this sea fowl lived along the shone of Iceland and Newfoundland, They fairly swarmed during the years of the etuey settlement of Newfound- land, and for some generations they were largely used for food by colon- ists and fisher:nen. The bird WAS strictly aquatic in lts habits, corn- ing ashore oely to breed. 13.5 wings Weee so small that it wits quite in- capable of flight, in was found in time, when its downy feathers wero very desirable'- 011(3 then it began to be killed to supply European markets with this new commoclity. As It bred only la few localities and was helpless when on land, it did not tako lines to exterminate the species. The Ittst blow came when its most acetate breeding' place, (1 t,111u11 island oft the south cast of 10011113d, WaS destroy- ed by a, volcanic eruption. The birde removed to 0 spot that 1(1118. inure acceSeible to hunters, who 8111>11 made home of innunterable white herpes, were taken for their skins. ' According to Prof. Voider, a good many other birds ere 111 danger of extorminatiom Pie tells of deserted. localities in Florida, where forty soave ago birds 1110r0 seen in thou- sands. Tho wea1 marsh by the sem ie southern California, which a num, bee of, years ago was the wheee home of intiumereble while herons, 11019 8008 1.11010 110 1110r0. N08011(1111g to all reports, the bird of paradise froni Now Guinea is doomed. supply ie decreasing so rapidly that it is now (1i 1118(133. to ATI; the numbee required by the European feather markete. INDIAN T(33L1U11413. Art intelligeet 901)0y 0110 day come to a telegraph °nice in intli0 and handed in 0 ineesage to send to a, station in Central India. Having read the Message, the operator enld there was something Wrong. "No, sahib ; me 11.1103911 English, be :mid, Again an L1.1,1311111'31 was made to Ca- plan' to ilitn that it este wrongly worded. "Me know!) Teriglish," ho deelared haughtily and ittlignuntly ; "if you no send, me report severity- tendent Mandalay," Tints threaten- ed, Lite message 39315 forwarded ''003>10 (11111318; quitet; father dangertmely deeds"