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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1902-8-7, Page 6woop...P Telegraphic Briefs Prom All Over the Globe, CANADA. The sugar beet crop in Essex Co. Will be a bumper. " Belleville's tax rate will be 23* mills on the dollar. A bicycle squad has been organza ed in connection, with the Montreal police form. Of the 886 who wrote on the en - UMW° exaMinations at Londcn, 306 passed. Mayor Cochrane a Montreal will proclaim ceironation clay a day of re- joicing., The inspector of penitentiaries will .visit . all the "pens" in the West, ,ehortly. Mrs. John Crellly was killed by , lightning at her home in High Park, Toronto, on Saturday. On coronation day a royal salute of twenty-one guns will be fired at the different artillery centres. The international boundary be- tween St. Regis and Rouse's Point is being marked by granite pillars. For stealing some coppers and a few plugs of tobacco, William Wool - Rey was sentenced to nine months at Hamilton. Alfred Brunet, a well-known Mont- real capitalist, bas been appointed by the Minister of Trade and Com- merce a commissioner to Japan. Two largo, powerful ice -breaking ferry boats have been purchased and the first will arrive at the "Soo" to go into commission early in Au- gust. A portion of the lung of an Otta- wa young evomeneattacked by tuber- eulosis, was removed by an oper- ation a few days ago and the pa- tient can now get around. The nursing sisters who went to the front received no gratuity sel; all, and it is suggested that they be given 8500 Seoul the Canadian pat- riotie fund. The officers and men of the 3rd, 4th, fith and 6th Regiments, C. M. R., who have just returned, will not get a decoration, because they land- ed in South Africa after May 31st. eueceSe by tile authenitiee of Bronx Park, New York, to climb trees and use eprinklers 011 the caterpillars, W11011 were flourishing in the ab - seem of the Lanius Ludoviciemos, or shrike bird, their natural destroyer, GENERAL. Four Amorieen teaehers were ram, dared by Vilipinoe. Lisbon is infested with rata More enormous than usual, Malting life unbearable. Herr Carl Faber, son of the great pencilmaker, has given £50,000 to two German museums. Fifty-eight Rnssian harvesters were drowned by the sinking of a ferry boat on the Mace Volga. There are more wrecks in the I3a1- tie Sea than in any other place in the world, The average is ono wreck a day throughout the year, Since Jute 22 between 10,000 and 20,000 cases and 6,000 1,0 8,000 deaths have occurred from cholera at Manila, One hundred arrests were made in Paris on Sunday in connection with disturbances arising out of the cies- ing of religious schools. . add Dominion Da Rhin Ilfastio has been chosen as professor of anatomy nt the Uni- versity at Milan, the Bret instance of a, woman being appointed to a professorship in an Italian Univac.- sity. It has been discovered by the Royal Commission appointed to ex- amine into the conclition of the no- tional forests that about 5,500,000 cubic metres of wood is annually wasted in Sweden, while the timber export is only 6,500,000 cubic metres. Scarcely a week passes that does not see a suicide chronicled from among the French soldiers, who, owing to the severity of the treat - meat, the bullying by officers, and their scanty fare, are often driven to take their lives to escape the hor- rors of the barracks. GREAT BRITAIN. An Anglo-American Association Club is being formed in London. it is reported that King Edward Will visit the (Ozer in the latter part of September. King Edward has issued an official denial of the report that he intends to retire from the turf. The Irish landlords have formed a league, with a capital of 4100,000, to fight the United Irish League. Nearly one hundred British war- ships will take part in the corona- tion review off Spiteltead. August 11. Fire in the shipbuilding yar"d of the Palmer Iron and Shipbuilding Com- pany at Jarrow caused 8200,000 damage. Twenty-three persone were killed and forty wounded in et fight be- tween strikers and troopers at Czortkow, Galicia. William Lidclerdelo, late Governor of the Bank of Ensland, though con- trolling milllons of money, left but S5,0(.9 at Ids death. A meeting of the BriLish Privy Council was held on the royal yacht ct» Saturday. The King signed sev- eral proclamations. KILLING WOODCHUCKS - Use of Carbon Bisulphide the Most Satisfactory. In many parts. of Canada. a good deal at damage is annually done in grain, hay and pasture fieldsby the common woodchuck or groundhog. Not only is a consichirable amotmt of grain or fodder consumed by these animals, but much more is trampled upon and desiroyed, while the open burrows are occasionally responsible for accidents to horses employed in harvesting. Many ways of destroying these animals have been devised, but ordinary methods frequently fail to keep them in check. Probably the simplest mild most sat- isfactory method is that ol the use of bisulphide of carbon. an Meant - limbic liquid. which on exposure to air volatizes into a vapor that Is very destructive to animal life. This substance has been used for some time in the West for destroying ground squirrels, and has also been largely used for destroying insects in mills and factoriesle has of- ten been recommended and utilized to destroy woodchucks, but its mer- its for the purpose do not seem to be very generally appreciated. A SERIES OF EXPEIUMENTS covering several seasons' use of car- bon bigulphide as a woodchuck ex- terininator has lately' been rerorted by the New Hampshire Experlineut Station, the results of which are herewith summarized: So eucceesful have theee experi- ments been that the plan is stie ly recommended for more generel adoption. One special advantaoe of The will of the Earl of Kimberley, carbon bisulphide is that its eapor who was Liberal leader in the lIouse is more than twice as heavy as air, of Lords, who died April 8 last, eo that in a. woodchuck burrow it thows an estate worth 51,e66,565. Sir Chaeles Mike says that he does not see any reason why the in- vestment of American capital in in- dustries other than shipping should be discouraged in England. It is extremely improbable that Osborne Rouse, Isle of Wight, will be used again as a Royal residence, owing to the expense of keeping it up and the distance from London. It is likely that it will be terned into a sanitarium. In London Prime Minister Seddon of New Zealand was presented with a silver centrepiece, and his wife with a star, by his New Zealand ad- mirers of London, as a token for the way in which he has expressed their feelings on the New 'Zealand ques- tion. Mr. Dussatid's invention to enable the blind to write characters which they may read may now be bought from the British and Foreign Blind 'Association. Errors are immediate- ly recognizable, and the invention is invaluable for making mathematical calculations. UNITED STATES. The United States is importing 6,- 000 or 8,000 tons of iron and steel daily. 'rbe 0111.10101.0(1 losses of the an- thracite coal strike are pineal at 5564,45,000. Adolph S. Ochs has purchased the Philadelphia Public Ledger from. G, W. Drexel and the Drexel estate for $2,250,000. As a result of a dispute as to tho am way to conduct dances, Willi Valls, a farmer living near Dixon, DI., was brutally murdered by John 1Van emeaker, a hostler. A Boston man appeals to the courts to sage him from being eject- ed from his own hoine by his wife, who, he says, is under the control of "certain evil-mindecl persons." In rescuing her dog from being run down by an Illinois Central train on Monday, Mrs, Ellen 1Vright, Wife of a .prominent resident of La Salle, 1411,, was herself crushed to death, In Washington the popular impree- sion of the rush to cities and the do - (30 -8011(30 of agricultairal dietricte has beet diactedited by the enormous -gain farmilig induetrY as 511004)11by the eenstis bulletin, Sailors lia.Ve been used with great will follow along the hole until it reaches the bottom, crowding the air above it to the top. As the ani- mal is likely 1,o be in the lower part of the burrow, it is almost cer- ttdn to inhale the poisonous vapor and be killed. The' equipment necessary for tide sort of woodchuck hunt consists of a bottle of carbon bisulphide, a bundle of old cotton or other cloth, a pail and a spade. The pail is first filled with dirt and set near the hole ready to turn in; then a piece of cloth is held between thumb and finger, saturated with about en ounce of the liquid, and immediately thrown as far into the burrow as pos- sible, The pail of dirt is then quick- ly thrown into the hole and the en- trance carefully closed. If there is more than one entrance, all but one should lin filled in before the treat- ment. This method not only kills the old woodchuck, but destroys in a humane inanner the young in the burrow. It has, too, the edditional advantages that the animal is not only killed but is buvied, and the hole is filled, so that considerable time is thus saved. A large number of experiments have been made, and only in a very few cases were the holes reopened, and in each instance there was conclusive evidence that they had been opened from the out- side by woodchucks burrowing into them. PRECAUTIObTS. It shoold be 'distinctly understood by every ono who uses carbon bisul- phide for any purpose that is high- ly volatile, inflammable, and poison - 011S, and it is also highly explosive. With any reasonable care in its use, however, out of doors, no, re- sults can follow. TJsed as describ- ed above there is no neceseity for one to inhale the vapor, and a small quantity in a glass -stoppered bottle may be safely stored away in O coal place. Of course it, must be kept out of the reach of children, and away from fire of any kied. The person applying It to woodchuck holes should not be smoking while handling the liquid. Ivor most peo- ple it is probably better to 3)03' of the local druggist than to store a large amount. It Is not exponeivo In any case, ancl the ordinary com- mercial grade will do as well for this minion as that width. is 0110=- 130113' pure. E. W. HODSON, Live Stock Conunissi StallISTITION IN ARMIES. cauams AGAINST STEEIc AND BULLET, Amulets Carried. by' British Sold, iers and the "Priebreife of the Germans, During 010 SOAlth Aft'1C011 War a number of instances WINO cropped up showing that the idea, still pro. Valls that there are such things ae chorine and spells against wounds and death. Not long ago a para- graph c1ppeared In seine of the pa - pore to the effect that a soldlees watch, with a charm attached to it, had been found on ono of the bat- tlefields, and was being held for a rightful claimant. Earlier in tile war a private's letter told how o comrade had come in safety through bot engagement, by virtue, as he thought, of an anntlet he wore, to be worthily wounded in a subs°. lemmas, °harms, letters of %%map- quent skirmish, when, by the merest tion, etc., were found in the largest reinsed all aidtrim surgebn no- ticed that, he had Something in his hand, which he Messed eonvuleively to hie breast. Presently be began to tremble violently, and, orying outo "11 11413 done 300 00 g004 throw away a pieee of paper, and the next moment expired, The Po, Per 33'0,8 100414 to be a talisinnn, Deering some written Oharaotors which wero quite unintelligible. Many a similar ngonizing 'discovery wee made during the War of 1870- 71. too late for the learner to pro- fit by the experience. After the bat- tle of 1Voertia, in particular, a great ;lumber of talismans, chorms, and the like were picked up close to the corpses of those who had clung to them, until 111 their last egbny they hod lost mith in their healing vir- tue .and had Ming them away. It was found on investigation that those provinces whieh were in the lowest condition as regards eduea- tion gave the largest contingent of men who were thus creaulous, Tal - thence, he was not weering his charm. A relative's letter from the front tells the writer of a young fel- number amongm reeruits frothe Polish provimes, rind In that dis- trict education Wes the least ;calls - low who wore a 011111-1420d ring euS- factory, the lemse educat- pended from his neck. The wearer ee portions of the Fatherland the had it from his sweetheart; bo olac- percentage of recruits who eould ed the moet perfect faith in it, and, neithee read nor write Flood at 0.13, though lie had been in several hot 111 Posen it was 14,713. No wonder corners, ho had hitherto alwayS the recruits from Polish provincee come out ecratchless, put faith in amulets mid charms, Although this kincl of belief is of and angled on them "letters," to proteet them from hostile sword and bullet. The commonest form of "Frol- briefe" WAS a single slip of paper, bearing a prayer in Latin, or a pe- tition for the protecting grace of "Mary, the Mother of God," or of some local saint. Some, however, were of modern form. i One such tal- ismanic scrap pf paper found on the person of a dead Posenemeentained in Latin characters the scarcely cab- alistic words, "Nur immer me, du ochse!" ("Go at it, thou ox!"). Genuine "Freibriefe" ore rarely made public. their owners preserving been rtruck by the amount of super- them with the greatest secrecy for stition that, hidden under ordinary fear of ridicule, and those who make eircumetances, in the then excited money out of them for an equally state of the public mind. made its obvious reeson. The "Freibriefe" way to the surface, 11110111 EIS 1.110 most frequently found among Ger- rant of a stagnant pool floats 1.0 the man soldiers was the "'Blessing of top when the water is agitated. No- St. Columanus." Another common very ancient date, it is curious as well us interesting to find it still in existence in the Britisb army, POr- haps WO ought to say "traces et it," for it is hard to believe that it is wicloly prevalent. And yet it would not be very surprising if it were s .eeeing that a certain por- tion of the rank, and file cue illiter- ate, and come from a stratum of so- ciety olden is largely superstltious. It le curious to compere our army in this respect with the German.. Those who happened to be in the Fotherim d during ancl immediately after the war of 1870-71 must nave thieg seemed too absurd to be be- lieved. Portents and warnings were seen everywhere. Black cros- ses, observed for the first time In window panes of the houses of the pea.sanery throughout Baden and the South generally, W010 held to be signs of Divine wrath ageinst the turn things in general had taken in the Fatherland, especially in regard to the church. The excitement touching, this phenomenon became intenee. and was only allayed when form of charm found during the Franco-German war was the "letter from Holstein," the most potent form of which was in MS. -London Standard, FAT STOOK SHOW. One May Be Established in East- ern Ontario. A grant of 55,000 has been given by the Ontario Legislature to the a Paden glass manufacturer came (Settle Breeders', Sheep Breeders' forward and demonstrated that thei I and Swine Breeders' Associations weenie, crosees were marks and the Eastern Ontario Poultry Associaeion, to be spout in holding a show which will be an object les- son to farmers in Eastern Ontario, to demonstrate the value of improv- ed stock All judging. both of live printed on the glass in the process of making. LETTERS Or P,XEMPTION. But some of the most curious in- stances of the revival of old-world superstition were brought into prom- animals and of dressed carcasses shall be done by experts who will inence by the Franco-German war Igive addresses showing just why the jt, 11. The most s-triking had 1of- awards were placed. Every feature shalt be distinctively educational in its nature, so that Formere' Insti- tute speakers and other progressive farmers who attend maw carry home to their neighbors the lessons learn- ed. A great educational show has been therland Were to have carried built up at Guelph, which is exert - with them reputed charms against irg it powerful influence on the live eteel and bullet. The most com- stock business of Western Ontario. mon form of tho charm was what Buildings costing 520,000 have been they themselves called "Freibriefe" provided by the city and surround - (that is, "letters of exemption" ing municipalities. Already exten- [rem death or injury) -the survival sive adlitions, costing over 55.000, of ti superstition that may be traced are required to house the exhibits among nearly oAl peoples, and men- and interested epectritors. Last Lion of which 11107 be frequently met year 2,000 people aetendad the show with 10 German records of the six- and the lectures connected there- to:mill rind later centuries. In the with. A similar ShOW WEIS last year early days of its use, powder was egLablished in Amherst, N. 5., to considered the invention of the clev- point the way to live stock lnIjIrO'VO- 11, the eoldier, who had death ment in the Maritime Provinces. constantly before his eyes, was This little town is putting up a 510, - ready to resort to any charm to 000 building as a permanent home, proLect himself against the missiles for the -exhibitioIl. of the enemy, or to impart to his Math of Eastern Ontnrio and Clue - oval weapons a supernatural power. bee are admirably suited for the TITUS the magical art of taking aim production of first-class stock, but was a peculiar branch of education, at the present time a great deal of with the soldiers of the Emperor inferior stock is raised, Public splr- Carl, (Ltd we read that a worthy Red men like Messrs. Wni. 1-10 1,0111 - named Clinker won a great repute.- son, E. McMullen, IT. B. Cowan, and (inn and much inoneY by furnishing others, who have visited the Guelph charmed bullets to the soldiers. Ent Stock Show and obtained per - These bullets were reported to carry certain death to the eriemy. But it wes net sufficient for the soldier to carry these denthedenling-ImIlets; he must bear upon him also charms for the preventing and for the healing of wounds and spells for the stilling of blood. Salvos, too, were sold for rendering the body invulnerable, eringe to the fancied preventability of iieath and the rendering invulner- able iif the human body. The su- peretii len was widely prevalent amo tg both the French end the Ger- man soldiery, but seemed to be more commith with the latter. Thous- ands of the doome6 sOnS of the Fa - 141. CRUEL Water and Miseilee Threwn HebreW Mourners, A Now Yerk deem -Itch %Lye 1 -The funeral of the late Chief Rabbi Jacoby, head of the Oethodoic He- brews of the 'United States, was held here on Wedne&day, was the occasion of ono of tho moat, remarkable demonstratione ever wit- lieseed in this eity, emd led to a e011ision between the masses of jewloh 1110U1'11010 And the pollee. The streets were peeked with thou - amide of Ilebrewe, tho storee Were generally closed, and every point of vantage along the route taken by the funeral procession to the diner - mit synagogues wile crowded with pereone of every age [((Id eiao. Di- rectly's In .front, of the house whore the "body lay in "nate for the last 10411 days over 100 patrolmen bent the :alleging crowd from the en- trance with conaiderable difficulty. After 4.130 001.010eS 4114. 4.140 1101100 the body was taken to each of the six synagogues on the east side where brief sereicos were. helcl., 14.11611 the proommion WM missing, the printing press factory of li. Doe & Co., on Grand street, on its way to the cemetery 111 Brooklyn, several erne plo3,,ees of the factory emptied pane of water from cin upper floor on to the spectators incolsed upon the sidewalk, Pail after pail was emptied on the throng, which shout- ed and struggled and stampeded in vain to escape. 'Then overalls and clothing soaked in water came clown from above, and even tools, ocraPa of steel, bolts and a dead cat. The angry populace. Most of Wh010 W010 IrObrOWS, retaliated by throwing book into the factory win.dows the missiles that fell on them. They also gathered un stoles mid sticks and in a fow minutes there was scarcely a whole pane di glass in the Grand street side of the factory. Then someone in the factory TURNED ON A HOSE and played it indiscriminately all over the funeral procession. At One time as many as five streams were playing on the crowd. Dri-vers of inourning carriages whipped up their horses, trampling over citizens, and the stronger men trampled women and children under foot in their ef- forts to escape. The police had in the meantime taken a head in the trouble, and were clubbing the peo- ple right and left. They were, how- ever, unable to cope with the crowd, and the reserves, of half a dozen precincts were Oespatehed to the scone. It was more than half an hour before order was restored, and the streets in the vicinity of the fac- tory cleared. A number of arrests were made, among them being goy- eral employees of the 1 roe Company. Many persons were found about the streets, bleeding from wounds upon their heads and other parts of their bodies. Ambulances had been sum - Monod in the meantime and three responded. The druggists were ker. busy for some time dressing the wounds of the injured. Several policemen also were injured, receiv- ing cuts and bruises. Two men were taken to the hospital. One of them had sustained internal injuries and concussions and the other a sprained leg. Later in the 6.ay the persens arrested 00010 arraigned in the Police Court and fines of 55 and 510 were imposed in several instances. Bad feeling 10 steid exiet between some of the employees of the Roe Com- pany and the Hebrews residing in the neighborhood, of WilOM there 0.10 a great number, anti this is SOW to have been the cause of the trouble. ene WHOLESALE HVIUGGLING. Canadian. Customs Swindled by Cunning Chinamen. A Vancouver, B. C., deseattch says: Canadiem Customs is being robbed whoiesale by (Mimeo. Oriental •steamships, 11 ie 1.elievecli have brought large quantities of goods in the shape of silks, liquors, and ci- gars that have been successfully smuggled off by Chinamen and 81.017- ecl in Chinatown. A wagon load of liquors and eigees was eeized cm 82.40 to 82.45 in bags, and. $5 to Wednesday by the Customs, and the, when $5.10 per bbl. loeect-Manitoba bran O I Mese of the driver searched, 3143 to 517, and shorts, $28, bags great quantity of smuggled goods Ontario bran, in bulk, 515 was unearthed. It is learned in 0111- included; to 31554.'; shorts, in bull:, 523 to 524. Provielone-Reavy Canadian short mit pork, $25; compound re- fined lard, 11 to 040; pure Canadian lard, 3 le; finest laecl, 12 to 124c ; hems, 124 to 14c; bacon, 11 to I50; dressed hogs, 57.50; fresh 'killed aline toir, 59.25 to $0..50 per 1,00 lbs. Chiles -Ontario, 10c, and Clue - THE MARKETS Prices of Grata, Cattle, etc Trade Centres. Toronto, Aug. 5, -Wheat -The ,On- tario wheat market is with very little ollering. No...2 white end. red quoted Ett, 79* to 80e low freights to mills, and goose ree to 7,50. Manitoba wheet firmer, with eales of No. 1 herd at 8740 Re:lading in tramet, and 8140 00111' 0140313 NO. 1. Northern, 854 g.i.t., and 794c tioderich, and Km 2 Northern, 8:3 g.I,t., and 774e God- erich and Midleinci. Oats -The market is firm on light Offerings. No, 2 white quoted at 44 to 4.54e at outside, peints, and at 480 here. No. 3 mt, 484 to 44.0 out- side. Corn -Market is quiet and' easier, with AM:Tie= quoted at 62e west, and Canadian at 65c west.' Porta -The market is quiet, with No. 2 quoted at 76 to 764e middle freights. lolour-NineLy per cent. Ontario Patent steady at 52.87 to 82.00 middle freighta, In buyers.' sacks. Straight rollers in wood, quoted at 58•25 to 53.40. Manitoba flour steady. Ieungarlan patenta, $4.05 to 54.25 delivered on track, Toron- to, bags included, and strong bak- ers', 53.70 to 54. Oatmeal -Oar lots, in bbls., 55 on track, and in sacker 54.00. Broken lots, 20 to 25c extra. Millfeett-liran is steady at 515.50 west, and shorts at 520.50 in bulk. Bran, $16 to 516.50 here, and shorts, 523 here. Manitoba bran, 517 in seeks; and seorts, 521 to 302 in sacks, Toronto. 'COUNTRY PR ODU CE. Dried apples-Priees purely nom- inal. Rops-Trade -quiet, with Prices steady at 13c; yearlings) 70. aloney-Trado dull; oomb, 52 to 52,25 per dozen. Beans -The market is steady at $1.15 to 51.80, the latter for hand- picked. Hay, baled -The market is quiet, with onerings limited. Prices are firm, with No. 1 old timothy quoted at 510.75 1;8 $11 ton. Straw -The market is quiet. Car bot e on traele quoted at 85 to $5.50, the latter for No. 1. Poulery-The market is quiet. We quote -Chickens, 00 to 75c; live chickens, 45 to 60c; 'ducks, 50 to 653 Per Pah' Potittoee-The marlcet is steady. New potatoes, 45 to 500 per bush - in quantities', and 60e per bush in small lots. noa PRODUCTS. Dressed hogs unchanged. Hog pro- ducts. in good demand, with prices generally unche.nged. We quote :- Bacon, long clear, 11113, in ton and ease lots. Pork, mese, 821.50 to 522; do., sshort cut, 823.50 to 824.' Smoked meats-flams, 134 to 14c; breakfast bacon, 15c; rolls-, 12 to 1211'; becks, 15 to 151e; shoulders, 11 to 12e. Lard -Prices unchanged, We quote -Tierces, 1180; tubs, 314c; pails., 13 1c; compound, 81. to 10c. BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Wheat remains dun. Provisions mei 00 11101 cheaper. Both butter and cheese are slightly weaker, prices for cheese: on the other side have not when the tree has acquired sufficient kept pace with those here, and it strength to withstand the rough slight drop seems 'probable. The handling it receiveel during this op - stook of butter here continues to eration, which takes Place when it accumulate, much of it being held has attained the fifteenth year of for September shipment. Grain- its growth. After the first strip - Manitoba, wlmat at Port, Arthur, ping the tree is left in this juven- No. 1, 744e; No. 2, 724c; No. 2 *scent state to regenerate, .subse- oats, locally, Ontario, 484c; Mani- quont stripPings being effected at in - tabu., 494e; barley, 59 to 59e; tervals of not less than three years beckwheat, 68 to 084e; peas, 85* to and under this process the tree will 866; rye, 68c. Flour - Manitoba continuo to thrive and bear for up - patents, 84 to 54.10, and strong werd of 150 years. bakers', 53.70 to 53.80; Ontario straight rollers, $8.60 to 53.70; in bags, 51.724 to 51.824; Ontario THE BELL WOLF. patents, 88.90 to $4.10. Rolled oats -Millers.' prices to jobbers, A Farmer's Experience Which Cost Him Dear. CI,EVER. ZUGGLERY. Remarkable Perf ormanee Witnesel ed in India. A prefeeser of legerdemein neseed the following triek 41 a itig" perfermance in India some thne baele. A w onnui MA14 (41 baby Ming in a bag s.round 11011 WAIfit came on the ;dime 11114 011-, C100;10100 to balance a hall on her 110n, This she. failed, to do on ac - 0011111. of the hindrance cauSed bY the child, repeated the atteinOt, Mit met with no better success than on the first trial, The juggler all the. while wile Standing at the side o!, the stage, apparently furious at the repeated. failures of the Woman, and tinnily, 311 A rage, lie rushed townrd her and tore the little baby .awnY from her. The woman eereamod as elm realized 1.110 clanger into which, the child wee thrown, and the in- dignation spread to the audience, 'Unconcerned appareatly about the babe, its mother,. or ,the audience,. , the juggler took the child and throw it into a bag which lie held in hie right hand. Then, taking a Arm bold on the neck of the bag, he whirled it over his head and violently brought it down npon the floor. At the eagle time the woman wreamecl and fell upon her knees, begging the juggler to desist; but he told her to keeP aulet, arid repeated the performance. By this time two English °facers were on the stage and were 54.141357 gling with the juggler, trying in vain. to get hold of the bags The 'ma- gician peahed them to one side, scowlecl angrily over their interfer- ence, and then forced them off the stage. Then, bowing and amiling to the audience, he Placed his hand in the bag ancl drew out a pair of white cloves', which flew on to both shoulders of the juggler. A scream in the corner next at- tracted attention, and there in a cradle was seen the babe whom all supposed by this time Lad become immortal, laughing and clapping his hands with joy. CORK FORESTS OF SPAIN. They Cover a Large Extent a Country. Tho cork forests of Spain cover an area. of 620,000 square miles, .pro - deicing the finest cork in the world.. These forests exist in groups and cover wide belts of territory, those in the region of Catalonia and part of ,Barcelona being considered the first in importance. Although the cork forests of Estremactura and Andalusia yiela cork of much quick- er growth and possessing some ex- cellent qualieies its consistency is less rigid and on this account it does not enjoy the high reputation which the cork of Catalonia doe?. In Spain and Portugal where the cork tree is indigenous, it attains to a height varying from 85 to 60 feet and the trunk to a diameter of 80 to 86 inches. 'Pills species of the evergreen oak is often heavily caparisoned with wide -spreading branches clothed with ovate oblong evergreen leaves, downy underneath and the leaves slightly serrated. An- nually, between April and May, it produces a flower of yellowish color, succeeded by acorns. Over 80,000 square miles in Portugal are devot- ed to the cultivation of cork trees, though the tree virtually abounds in every part of the country. The methods in vogue in barking and harvesting the cork in Sriain and Portugal aro virtually the same. The barlcing operation is effected cial circles thnt the impression is sonal knowledge of the valuable that smoggling on a largo scale has work done there, have endeavored to been carried on by Chinamen. Some secure the establishment of a simi- vears ago, a, conspiractr was unearth - ler show at Ottawa for the benefit - - of the district. ed by the teustoms. cons 5 e o Yt i t d f Chinese merchants having false in - For a whiter show of this sort it voices sent from Chinamen on which Is necessary to have a building con- Chinese would pay Customs. The tabling at least 40,000 square feet true 107010033, however, would come by private mail. of floor area., well heated nnd nett such superstition sbou.d exist ce, in the Dark and Middle Ages need and fitted up with offiees, judg- ing emphitheetre, lecture room, be - surprise no one, but that they should sides stalls and pens for stock. The have retained their hold on the Int- present buildings at the Fair Gratin man mint' to the end of the nine- present buildings at the Fair tomtit century, d mom/ Grounds at Ottawa 010 not suitable too, the hind of popular education, for such an exhibition. Live pay me:011011m was. a. surprise to Steele Associations agree to hold a everybody who gave any thought to show there if a, eitiLable buildiltg the subject. Public attention WAS 10010 erected, The City Commit nog,- dii ected to the subject by 011 'calved this proposition, and voted eminent ',literalist, Dr. Karl RusS, 81.200 for temporary accommodet- and nt. (0100 A mass of information in regord thereto came to light. An officee, in get leg his experience in tho "Clartenlitebe," asserted that he had noticed this euperstition among the soldiers du ring the Austro -Prussian war of 1800, and related a, striking incident which came under his own immediate observation. On the eve - 0.1„1„; berm., tho storming 01 xoctiige nor has it ever been their praceiee to 'do such work. The members of inhof, while his regiment was biv- the associations give their services (molting at the edge of a wood, ead freely for the Improlfroment of the the non were engaged in preparing their eupper, lie overheurd two gram, diers canversing together. Ono said to the ether: 'Hove you not got the letter which makes. Its bearer invulnerable'?" The second man said that he had not, and his comraclo bade him to be SO1'0 and got ono TALISI1TAN mum FAILED. Dr. Russ told the story of an offi- cer who was soYerely, though by no means mortally, wounded on tha field of readowit. Ile Was fruit blood. Ing to death, however,. when the surgeon reached hire, but might have been saved had he not obetinately Mons 110: a. show this year, peovi - ed the neighboring counties would add $500 to this amount. While the Live Stock Associations have 85,000 available for prizes at an ITIastern Ontario Show they are not in a position to canvass the various County Councils for grants, live stock of the country, often at great personal ineonvanience, but they do not intend to beg of any city to hold a show. If it is held at all in Eastern Ontario, it will be in tha town offering the best accom- modations. 11 Eastern Ontario and Western °Quebec could be united in the ven- ture intoll public good would result. Gnelph :imams as a Westeen distri- bution centre, A similar point in the east should be found, and an en - mud male and oxhibitiott there °stab- . F. W. HODSON, Live Stook Comlnisdioner. OUTLOOK NEVER BETTER. Canadian Northern Issues Another Report, A Winnipeg despatch says; 0'he Canadian Northern Railway on Wed - n eelay issued the following crop re- port from points along its lines in Manitoba: "From every statioo the report is most hopeful, and everything points to a heavier crop than last year. Weather conditions have been most. favorable for some thne past, and the estimated yield will run from 18 to 30 bushels per acre for wheat, and as high as 60 bushels to the mere for oats. The het:vest will probably • averege one week later than last year, but the Whole out- look is reported as never better." ---+ LOURDES DEVASTATED. Terrible Vire Rages in City of IVIany Pilgrimages. A 'despatch to. the Paris Temps from Tarbes gives news of a, terrible fire at Lourdes, the town fnanous for its shrine to Our Tgady, to which many pilgrimages are made. The fire brigncle was unablo to chock the (Mince, end when the despatch Was sent an entire 4filock of honses had been destroymP.ancl a number of per- sons had been itictims of the, fleet A settler on the upper Mattaive. River caught n wolf last winter, Ile had road that ships were sometimes cleared of rats by fastening a bell round the neck of one of them. And the idea occurred to him that in a similar manner he might clear the adjacent woods of wolves. 1 -Te there- fore" fastened a bell cn the wolf's neck and released bim. After the be., ‘04e :Butter -Choice creamery, lowed his flock of sheer) to exercise snow had nearly disappeared, he al - torrent. receipts, 104 to 20c; held their lambs in the fields near the stock, 100; 'dairy, 16* to 164e. house. While he stood watching the Egge---lben on stettely demand ; gambols of the lambs, the sheep straight receipts, 15c; No. 2, 13 to Priukud 09 their ears as if intently 14e. listening. Then; with ninth bloat- ,__._,ing, the whole flock raced to the woods. Wondering at this strange freak on the part of the animals, the farmer went about his work. About AU hour later the sheep returned, but it was soon discovered that 0110 of the lambs was missing. The not day the sante thing oc- curred, and again a lemb failed, to rciairn. The children tried to keep the sheep in the nelds, but when they could not do this followed them into the bush, They reported that they had distinctly heard a, bell tinkling in tho distance. Then *clowned upon tho farmer that the bell he bad fastened to the neck of the wolf was the seine which had been borne by the father of the flock in the previoue summer. The quick -eared sheep had recognized the sound of the 3)01 1, and true to their instincts, had hastened to join theft, last year's companion. They found not exactly a Wolf 111 sheep's clotha ing, but a, wolf with 0. sheep's bell attaehed to him, and ready to dino en spring lamb. The formai, will not release any more belled Wolves, UNITED STATES MARKETS. Buffalo, Aug, 5.-1olour-Steady. Whent-Spring, no demand; No. 1 Northern c.i,f., 76; .to 77c; winter, chill and weak; No. 2 red, 760. Corn -Dull, unsettled; No. n yellow, 671e No: 3 do, 66.1c; No. n corn, ooto ; No. 8 do, 600. Outs-Weitk, and nothing doing, liyo-Oull; No. 1, 6040. Minneapolis, Aug. 5. --Wheat cies, eci-July, 70c; September, (1814 to 684c; on track, No. 3. bard, 70/c ; No. 1. Northern, 781c; No, 2 North- ern, 741c. Flour- First patent, $3.85 to 83.05; second 'do, 88.65 to 58.75; first clears, 88 to 511.10, sec- ond do., 52..40.. Srs.11-511 buik, 818, St Louis, Aug. 5.-Closo e --Wheat -Cash and July, fleece September, 664c; December, 673e. Duluth, Ang, 5. -Wheat -Gash No. 1 hard, 761c; No• 1 Northern, 7d4o; No. 2 Northern, 724e; Jelly, 741c ; September, 704c; December, oeigt ; Nradtobit No. 1 Northern cash, 744c No. 2 Northern, 721c; Ottte--Sop- tomber 814o. Miltvankee, Aug. S. -Close -Wheat --Steady; No, 1 Northern, 7811 to 70e; No, 2 Northern, 774 to 790 ; September, log 410 704(1. Rye -Dull; No. 1, 60c, Ilarley-arrogular; No. 2, 66c; &ample, '60 to 6110. Little Son-"Marania, What is en animal 1" 14(0-01100-"011, anything that goes 011 1098 I" Little Son- "Stoelcings 7".