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Exeter Advocate, 1906-5-17, Page 7• a et, tea "i'••• EFFECTS OF GREAT COLD MOW IT ACTS AWAY OUT IN OW - SON, YUKON TERRITORY. SoMe Strange Manifestations 'When Temperature Is 60 lDegrees Relow Zero. "'Look oat or you will drop that thisel "Before the sentence was finished the tool bad slipped from the hand of my assistant and, striking upon some bar Iron, flew into pieces as if it had been .glass instead of steel." This reads like a. bit out of "Alice in Wonderland," but it is sober fact, we are told by Chester W. Tennant, of Dawson, Yukon Terri- tory. "I am writing this on January 25; for two weeks we have had a 'cold spell.' 'remperature has ranged front 44 de - gimes below zero (the warmest) down to •68 degrees below. Some of the outlying Yukon police stations report 80 degrees beldw. These -cold waves alternate with warmer periods of 10 degrees below. "Strange manifestations appear as a result of the extreme cold; one is the way a fire burns in the stove. It roars and crackles like a great forge and wood in the stove seems to dissdete in the flames like a chunk of ice; the wood is gone and we wonder Where the heat went. 'At 60 degrees below eVery stovepipe throws out a great white cloud of smoke and vapor,. resembling a steamboat in its whiteness, •and this cloud streams. away for fifty to-. 100 feet,' mingling with - the othee white -grey mist or haze that remains permanent in the atmosphere of the town like a great fog, when it is 40 degrees or more Nip zero. `-e• ••, VAST DIAMOND FACTORY GEMS FALL ON OUR EARTII FROM • TUE SKIES. • The Only Place Where Perfect StoneS Are Produced - Startling 'Staten -ant. The only perfect diamonds widch are to be round on this globe are those which fall from the sky in meteorites; all dia- monds which are,mlned j the diamond fields of the• world are . only fragments of gems. That is a startling statement, but a still more startling one is that all the atamonds to be found on our planet have fallen on our earth from the skis Onti have not, as Most of us thought, been produced here like coal and other mineral products. Yet this is the latest scientific asser- tion. with regard to the world's stock of Ibis precious- stone. The whole stock cd the Kintherley mines, with their un- known resources, and. all the gems of this •character to be found in any part of our planet -all- have fallen from space at some tirne or .other. Somewhere in the Illimitable distance that surrounds us, there is a vast dia- mond factory -the only place where perfect gems are produced, and from this factory we have received a large supply, and are still occasionally receiving an odd consignment! What reasons are there for believing this? • The first piece of evidence is that the whole of the rock in Which the Kimber- ley gems are found it similar to no- thing 'else an earth. It has been given o distinguishing name (Kimbealite), and it .corresponds 'exactly with the matter of which meteorites • are composed. In plaM language, the whole of that vast mass of rock fell on the earth from tee skies at some late period of the world's foresiation. This is rather stag- gering, but it must be remembered that there is a mountain in Ariztana which is acknowledged by all scientists to be e meteorite mountain. And diamonds are being found at that spot. -Diamonds are found particularly in superficial layers of the earth's crust; that is another proof of their celeptial origin. Further, the -diamond crystals are formed like no others -that are of earthly origin; this is regarded as a strong proof that they fell from above. It is curious that our diamonds are not pertect,• and that some of them, when first brought from Kimberley mines and exposed to the air, explode and crack into several pieces. Now, the stones which come down in meteorites I but, of course, there was no trace of the missing butler. BUTLER'S WASHING. THIS WHITE -GREY FOG is not fog as you know it, but is. frozen fog, and every man, woman, child, animal and even the fire 'that burns is throwing out moisture into the air which is immediately turned into a cloud of frozen vapor, which floats away and remains visibly suspended in the air. Very slowly this setaes to earth, and in the morning about the steps and any protected place one can see a very fine film of flourlike dust de- posited, which is composed of frozen vapor." Exposed ears, hands and nose, Mr. Tennant tells us, freeze at this tempera- ture in going the distance of about one block unless well protected. The breath roars like a mild jet 'of steam,' while a dipper of boiling water thrown out into the air emits a peculiar whistling hiss as its drops circle through the frosty atmosphere. To quote again: . "Prospeceors, inattempting to boil a dish of rice or beans upon a camp fire unprotected from the weather, find that the side of the dish which is in the fire will boil while the part of the dish ex- posed to the weather has frozen. To remedy lids, the dish is set completely into the fire. Edged tools subjected to this temperature become as bard rind brittle as glass and Will break as readily under strain. I have seen a pop safety valve blowing off steam When the wea- ther was below 60 degrees, with icicles Which had formed by the condensation while it was blowing off hanging from TIIE OUTER RIM OF THE VALVE. ROBOING A CARD PARTY THE EXPLOSION AT LENS IBE WILEOLD BUTLER MADE ALL PREPARATIONS. `0.•••••,, Helped Ilimself to 'Elderly Maiden Ladies' Change and Then Disappeared. TAL1OS OF JIOflRIB J sumatiNG BEFORE HELP CAME. A party of elderly ma'am ladies, re- sitting in West Hamsteacl, London, England, became the victims of a cool act on the part of their butler the other evening, and the police are now looking for the geatieman who did a very un- gallant act in a very smart way. The affair took place at a villa in Priory road occupied by two elderly maiden ladiee, the Misses Isaaason, Some little time ago tlie ladies engaged as butler a German waiter, who came with good references, and his service gave every satisfaction up to the time of the robbery. It eves the custom of the Misses' Isaacson periodically to invite a. number of lady friends to a card party, and on Thursday night of last week four of the latter were present, Late in the eveningthey engaged in a game of poker, playing with counters. Their chatelaines or bags containing their purses and money were hung on the back of their chairs, or were placed in their laps. ENTER THE =LER.. rt English Correspondent Tells Of the Many Sad SeCTICS he Witnessed. , There has been a far more exquisite pathos in this revisiting ,than there was in the first scenes of the, disaster which I beheld three weeks ago, writes a cote respondent of the London Telegraph at Lens, France. R was morning, and death brought us everywhere thrilling spectacles. Death, which grew grimmer and more sinister as the days drew on, and the actual material horror of it all increased, Now 'thewonderful pathos of those thirteen liverecovered almost from the dead touches much more than the ghastly sights seen eaten. Wives and mothers, faint and vaeanteninded from crying for the departed, wrung one's heart. But now to see them fond-. ling the loved ones come back from that hell below is a spectacle Which cuts one's -feelings to the quick as with a knife. I defy anybody to leave that in- firmary dry-eyed. I held out for some minutes till a stout, homely woman's eyes ()aught mine, She was standing by the bedside of her boy, whose eyes were nearly starling out of their bony sock- ets in his gaunt face. She looked back at him, then tome again,. The mo- ther's love in her eyes was.the most ex- quisite sight I have ever seen, She said nothing, she merely loolced; but. her eyes were telling met "My boy hat come back to me." Her eyes wanted to tell it to every one. Siee could not keep her love to herself. I went up to her with team in my eyes and grasped her hand. Then she said merely: "His brother died in his arms, monsieur." Yes, lie died in his arms, and so her look was fixed on the boy again with unutterable fondness. She was devouring lilm with her eyes. He poor fellow, could hardly speak, but he. murmur0, "He died in my arms," and tried weakly to open his arms, remembering how as he had carried his brother, stumbling with him blindly along the collieries, he had felt the boy grow stiff and cold. HO had only felt, he could not see him die. Think what the tragedy of 'that moment must have been. Tha boy's name is, Castel and he lies in the infirmary in the bed next to thataof the leader of the party, Neny. On entering the humble, whitewashed room, with its ten iron camp bedsteads,. -where the men and boys, nearly all looking like ghosts, lie. I first shook hands with the wonderful Neny in the cot next the door. He ,did not move one to tears, but he moved one to meek and wondering admiration. Not one man in .a thousand is his equal. He ]ay, bis brawny, hairy chest bare, his bearded face the picture of manly strength, and he told us- eagerly, but quite collectedly, about those twenty nights and clays, which were nights, too, down there. In those ceaseless blind wanderings did he never despair? "Oh, yes/ I did at the last. I took my knife and sharpened it." Here the man passed an imaginary knife backward and forward over the bedclothes. "I meant to cut my throat. That mutt have been the last day before we were found. If we had not been found I should have done it. There would have been nothing else to do." Upon this quiet scene entered the but- ler, who proceeded to hand round sweets. Suddenly be dashed his tray into a cornerof the roomand made a snatch at the bag of the lady nearest to him. It was lying upon her knee, ' The chain of the bag snapped and it fell to the floor. The butler, without waiting to pick it up, rushed round the table, gathering in the other bias' from the backs of the chairs as he went, while the ladies looked on ifl amaze- ment too great for speech or movement. Then, as a young lady of the party gave vent to a piercing shriek, he bolt- ed through the door, which he slammed and locked on the outside. One of the hostesses ran to the electric 1,01 near the fireplace, and gave the alarm, but there was no response. it transpired, afterwards that the butler had sent the cook out on a bogus errand and there was no other servant in the house. The man meanwhile made his .•vrtet out at the back, clambered over a wall' and made his escape. The ladies were released from the front room after a time and the police were sumenoned; also explode when they are taken from the protecting mass which covers them completely. This is due to .the peculiar, conditions which prevail where the stones are produced, and these condi- tions cannot prevail on the, earth, as the oxygen prevents them. AT THE SOUTH POLE. In order to make a diamonchit is nee- cessary that the constituents should be very hot and then cooled quite sudden- ly; nothing else will account for the peculiar shape of the crystals -and the general formation .of the gem. The earth did not cool suddenly, and so the gems could not have been produced on Ibis planet. In every spot where diamonds are found, the ground is of a nature which exactly resembles the matter of meteor- ites, and is different from other layers et the earth's surface. The best places to find them should be in the lands to - 'Wards the South Pole. The nearer the South Pole, the more chance at discovering diamonds, and the probability is that, if man ever reaches that end of the earth and discovers that it is not a sea of ice, but a plain of so - ed land covered with snow, then he will also find that. is is the richest diamond mine in the world. This curious fact of diamonds coming to us from the shy opens up an equally strange field of speculation. Suppose there were to he a small shower of me- teorites containing these gems. If it has happened betoee, as scientists contend, why shouldn't it happen again? • The icicles were not melted by the out, - rushing Sleam, but remained there -for many days, through blow -offs, as I passed this station every day and watched the operation. All vegetables, potatoes, apples, • fruit, eggs, etc., can be allowed to freeze until they become like bullets. To make ready for use, place them in cold water ball a day be- fore using, and the frost will slowly withdraw without injury to the article. To attempt to 'thaw them out by more -rapid process by fire or hot water ,spoils them for use." t'4'. Mr. Tennant tells some remarkable tales of thawing out a frozen foot, ear or hand by immersing. the Member in coal all for some time -often several hours. He says : "This is absolutely a sate remedy, and -one thus escapes the surgeon's knife, as no bad results follow. This is not hearsay, as a man was saved a few years- ago at our office by the night watchman, who found him in the snow (45 degrees below zero) and both hands frozen to the wrists: He was taken into the office and treated as above for about five hours, when all the frost was drawn out, without so much as losing a finger tip. The -physicians were amazed, as they thoughl amputation would have to be resorted to. His hands were as white and hard _as marble, and when placed in the oil theysnapped and crackled as the oil began to act upon the ice crystals. This remedy should be remembered by all residents of cold climates, as IT WOULD SAVE MANY A LIMB. The temperature of the oil thould be about the same of that of the living room (about 60 degrees above zero). Great caution 'must be exercised during at:Irene cold weather so as not to frost the, lunge, which one will quickly do if he hustles about at ordinary pace. Quick and fatal pneumonia can. be con- tracted in a few minutes. Many a fine team of horses has been lost in this way. "One has to be meant about touching Things with unprotected hands.. - It is dangerous to :Mae hold of a doer -knob when it is 60 degrees below zero or therenhouts with the uncovered hand, unless you are melte to release your hold instantly, for if you do it will fregze your inner palm In five seconds, be very painful thereafter, and the re - WI Is -the same as -from touching a red hot §:Love. "C,anned goods undergo drightful con- traction during extreme cold, and suck in ale; in summer with a temperature of 90 degrees, the reverse condition 00.• cues, causing leakage anti loss," TheBeide: "I discharged the cook this afternoon." The Hubby ; "Have any diffleatty about it ?" The Bride "Not t bit, eXcept that She wouldn't go," Teacher : "Jame, on you tell Me what is Meant by O. cable yard?'' lames: "I don't know exactly, but I suppoSe Ws te yard that the ehitdren ef Ukk play in."- # * LEA.IIN TO DO. Lf there's anything you'd like, Be it wealth or be it fame, If you want to make a strike And to gather in the same, Go to work 1 Don't get clown and lose your nerve, Grumbling that you have no luck. You have all that you deserve. Better have a little pluck I Go to work ! If you fail, don't rail at fate. Charge it to yourself alone. You'll discover soon or late, That you reap as you have sown.. Go to work ! Hard, old world? Well, grant it so, Got to face it, though, or quit. The more reason that you show You can braveand conquer it. Go to work With success you would be crowned? Now's the time, then, to begin. Does no good to sit around, Envious of those who win. Go to work 1 Failure's for the false end weak; Fortene's for the strong and true. Have a message-clare to. speak I Have a purpose -kern to do I Go to work 1 4 The Misses Isaacson said that their servant had made all preparations for the robbery beforehand. Besides send- ing the coolc out, he had barricaded the house, and apparently he had an accom- plice who helped him in his adventure. A stranga man had called at the house the same evening slating that he had come for the butler's washing. The butler also' took some valuable jewellry from a room ,upstairs. The tctal amount of the money in the bags was somewhere about £14 or £15, but the robber made a bad "miss" from his point of view in leaving the chatelaine which fell on the floor, as that contain- ed the largest sum of all-over £9. Scotland yard detectives have the matter in hand. Lorin NELSON'S TOMB, Lord Nelson's sarcophagus in St. Paell's Cathedral has been aptly de- scribed as a secend-hand national tomb, for it was originally Oonstructed for another grea t Englishman - Cardinal Wolsoy. Wolsoy had cherished an ambition to be buried within the pre- cincts of Windsor Castle, and caueed his sarcophagus to be carved by one of the meet femoue sculptors of his time. Hat Wolsey died in disgrace, and the sarcophagus remained empty at Wind- sor until Nelson's death, When 11 was thriftily employed to hold the remaine Of the hero of Trafalgar. THE CURSE OF CASTE. Great Blight That Afflicts the Unfortu- nate Ilindoo. "In India," writes Sidney Low, "religion, with what seems a malign ingenuity. has occupied itself in heap- ing complications round the two essen- tial functions of eating and marrying. The Hindoo cannot take his food with- out elaborate precautions against, pollu- tion; and the higher his caste is the more burdensome these rules are. There are some inferior castes in the south, who are not supposed to approach even within speaking distance of -the elect. A regular table has been drawn up of what may be called the degrees of pollu- tion, so that while some of these low persons can pelage a mart of a higher caste only by actually touching him, it is held that blacksmiths, masons, car- penters and leather workers dean pollute at a distance of teventy-four feet, toddy - drawers at thirty-six feet and cultivators at forty-eight feet, while the pariahs, who eat 'beef, have a pollution range of no less than twenty-oneyards and twelve inches. "The more sacred a Hindoo. is the more he is worried by his code of table etiquette. The very high caste Brahman ought to strip off all his clothes, and, if possible, sit on the floor when be con- sumes his food. He should not eat any- thing which has been touched by an in- ferior or a non-Flindop, nor drink water out of any vessel similarly defiled. As the settle descends the resirietions re- lax, unnl al, last we get down to the Man of no standing whatever, the sweeper, who is so wanting in refine- ment that, he can openly stroke a puppy dog; and finally we reach the out:est who ctua eat any kind of meat when- ever he can get it, and will oven drink out Of a cup which bas tottched other lips. "Luckily for the modern, Hincloo these burdensome prohibitions end injunc- tions- are subject to certain convenient legal fictions. Sweetmeats, it eppeare, are not food, and may be taken by any- body anywhere. Not long ago elle Bra- man .pundits at Benet-es decided that soda water is not water within hie meaning of The act, so to Speak, and that Ice does not count." BRITAIN'S ROYAL YACHT THE VICTORIA AND ALDElfr COST $60,000,000. Mahogany and Silver and Silken flangings for the Iaing end , enema The royal yacht of England, .the Vic- toria and Albert, cost the pretty surn of $6,000,000. She was launched, 10. May, 1899, with -the present Piencess of Wales as sponsor. She is 439 feet long. Her engines are of 11,000 horse -power and- she has a speed of about twenty miles an hour. Her coal, supply will wary her from England to the Riviera. The fittings and decorations are quietly ' rich and stimptuoue. Even on the upper deck, solid silver is used for tile deck fittings.. All the apartments are panelled in enaxnellect white, while ths necessary warmth of color is ob- tained in the furniture, carpets and drap- mies. In the King's private stateroom the carpet is a rich blue, which well matches the blue morocco of the chairs All the furniture here is. of grained ma- hogany, slightly inlaid with other woods.. As.. to the King's bedroom, it is severely simple, with its swinging beasteed -of silver plate, without drap- eries; its satinwood furniture, silver plated metal work and specially woven eareet. • THE QUEEN'S BEDROOM is much larger than the King's. It is a model Of grace and beauty arid its white panelling and stately canopied bed suspended from the ceiling. The furniture is of dainty grained satin- ood with silver fittings. The color scheme is a soft green. The coverlet el the bed has an elaborate monogram sermounted by a crown. Queen Alex- andra's dressing room is _a large apart- ment with a bath of jasper and dress - mg tables of inlaid satinwood to an enormous cheval glass forming a mov- able panel in the wall. Opposite the royal sleeping apart- ments is the drawing room. The walls are, of course, panelled in white; the furniture is hand painted satinwood, and the hangings of blue silk. In one corner is a pedestal writing table, fie/Ik- ea by two small semaciroular tables; and opposite the big yet homelike fire- place is a grand piano. Bookcases and lounge seats make the drawing room a delightful retreat in rough weather. TETE STATE DINING F10014 is an apartment of noble dimensions, occupying one-third of the vessel's length, and lighted by no fewer than twenty-six, windows and two large ticyt lights. From .floor to ceiling it is pan- elled in white, accented with a pilaster treatment of great beauty and delicacy. Covers can be laid here for thirty guests. The smoking room is close by. The grand staircase lead's from the reception room up • to the state deck, most of which is occupied by royal apart- ments, including a.private dining room. An electric elevator assuages the trials ot seasick royalists. There is also a well-appointed hospi- tal and dispensary down below, where a .titied physician presides over the health of the King and Queen. The yacht is commanded by a Rear Admiral and Ile has a crew of 280 men. The ()bikers are selected from the best cf the navy. Although the Victoria and Albert is a cemmissioned ship, she never fires a psahleus.te, not even in reply to the guns of foreign warships.. If she is at anchor, the guardship of the port answers for her. If at sea. her cruiser escort re - The present royal yacht is not the nest Victoria and Albert that has flown the royal standard. Her earliest prede- cessor was on insignificant paddle wheel auxiliary yacht, with a big spread et canvas to help her engines to A POOR TWELVE KNOTS. N,AiAS FAMMIs PARROT. COL Dennis O'Kelly'e parrot, width lived in the eighteenth century, wee hea haps the most femous parrot the world hes known. One of its acecimplishmants wasthe whistling of the 104111 Psalm. When the colonel died; in 1787, a vctry large proportion of hie obituary notices in 'the English press ems devoted to this remarkable hird which got, other con- sid.ereble notiees .of lis .own when a died 15 yeers Inter. Tao panto!, could also whistle 'Teat Save the King," end "The Banks ot the Dee,” fled •wonid go bad< and eorreet itself 11 11 got a rone note. LEADING MARKETS DREADSTUFFS. Toroolo, May 15. -- Flour - °Mario -Exporters ere bidding $3,10 for 90 per cent, patents, buyers' bags, outside, but millers +ask $3.20. Manitoba -First patents are quoted at $4.3,9 to $4,50 and seconds $3•90 to 54, Wheat - Ontario - No. 2 white, 800 bid, C.P.R.; mixed, 810 bid, 81,14c a,eked, outside, Manitoba Wheat -83%o bid /oe No. 1 northern at Point Edward, 84c asked; No. 2 northern, 82c bid, 840 asked, Point Edward. Oats - No, 2 white, 36c bid, main line, oniside; 383aec bid, Toronto, to arrive; a9c asked in store, Toronto; 36,34,c ask- ed, 36346 bid, buyers' bags, at 78 per cent. points. Barley - No. 3 extra, 48uo asked at Portland, on 9a4o rate to that port. Peas - 79c bid, 73 per cent, points, 80e bid, east, 81c asked, east. Buckwheat - 50c bid, 5130 asked, 7,3 per cent C.P,R. points. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Butter - Quotations are unchanged. Creamery . . 200 to 21e do solids .... .... 19c to 20c Dairy Th. rolls, pod to choice 170 to 18e do large rolls .. 100 to 17e do medium .... 150 to 16c Cheese - 14c for large and 1.4.eac for twine. New is easy at 11c to 11ea0 Eggs - 1.6yee for new -laid. Splits are quoted unchanged at 13c to 13aac. Poultry - 15e to 160 per l. for choice. Potatoes - Prices are unchanged at 75e to 851c per bag for Ontario, out of store, and a0c to 900 for eastern, on track here; Mc more out of store. Baled Hav - Choice at $9.50 to $10 for No. 1 timothy in car lots on track here, and $7,50 for No. 2. Baled Straw - Quiet tet. $5.50 to 56 per ton for car lots on track here. Neny certainly would have done it. He is the man who does everything he says. Some of the party which he led state that he bullied them and cuffed them. I believe it apd understand R. He had to do it, and there were terrible scenes in that inferno. "I had some- times to drag them along. I had to bully those who were giving up." Neny has brains, of course, as well as cour- age, and is undoubtedly a leader of men in his own world. Few crosses of ,the Legion of Honor have been as well deserved as that which the Minister of Public Works has pinned to his shirt this afternoon as he lay in bed. How did he live with the 'twelve others in the hell down there? How could they keep alive? I asked. "We ate oats," said Neny. "I ate about so mucb," and he put his hands out, shaping a round about the size of a melon. That, with a few carrots and some pieces of rotten horseflesh, kept those thirteen men alive. "Not thirteen; we were twenty," put in Neny. "Seven of the party have gone I don't know where. They disappeared somewhere. Oats, earrots and rotten horse were what we ate." A SMART DODGE. A. gentleman dressed in a loose coat entered a ladies' outfitting establishment at a time when the proprietor was alone in the shop. The gentleman asked to be shown some ladies' ready-made cloaks, as he wished to give his wife a little surprise. After a careful inspec- tion, he fixed upon one, and asked the shopkeeper, "lIave you not o, young ladyeat hand to put on the cloak to see how it looks?" The proprietor regretted that none of the ladies of. the establishment were in at that moment. Orhaps you wouldn't object to putting it on yourself ?" The shopkeeper slipped on the coat, buttoned it; and turned around in all directions, "Magnificent 1" exclaimed the pur- chaser, With seeming ecsteicy, but at the same moment he mack, a grab al; the bawl of money in the till and emptied it into his pocket, and bolted eta of 'the shop, The horrified proprietor rushed after him into the street. But the passers-by, seeing his strange costume, dragged him back to Me shop, in tee be- lief 'that 11)0 poet' fee tow lital gone mad; and before he could explain mailers the rogue had disappeared, MONTREAL MARKETS, Montreal, May 15 - -Grain - No neW developments in the local grain situa- tion. 306 o ._. No. 2, "age; No. 3, 403a,e; No. 4, Peas - 76e f.o.b. per bushel, '78 per cent. Points. Barley - No. 3 extra, 53e afloat, May; No. 4, 51c. Corn - No. 3 mixed, 57aaa; No. 3 yellow. 58aac ea- track. Flour - Manitoba, spring wheat pat- ents, $4.50 to 51.60; strong bakers' $3.- 00 to $4.10; winter wheat patents, $4 to $4.25-, straight rollers, $3.80 to $3.90; do., in bags, 51.75 to $1.85; extras, $1.- 40 to $1.60. Minfeed -- Manitoba bran, in bags, 818.50 to $19.50; shorts, $20.50 to $21 per ton; Ontario bran, in bulk,. $18.50 to $1.9.50; thorts, $20 to $20.50; milled .mouille, $21 to 525; straight milled 1m -u- tile, $25 to $27 per ton. • Rolled Oats - Per bag, $L95, in car lots, $2.05 to $2.10 in small lots. Cornmeal - $1.30 to $1.40 per bag. fray - No. 1. 59 'to $9.50; No. 2, .$a tc $8.50; clover, mixed, $6.50 to $7, and pure clover, $6. . The cheese ,market is about steady. business being rather quiet. White is quoted at 11c to ileac, colored 10yec fo 110. Butter about steady attwo to 19c. Under -grades sell at 173ac to 18c. Egos. Some dealers refuse lees than 17c. Eggs. (1110te from 16e to 1614e. Eggs - New laid, 15aac to 16c per dozen. Butter - Choicest creamery, isgo to ciwepp, - Colored, 10%0 to 11c; white 11c to lac. BUFFALO lalARKET. leuffalo, May 15 -- Flour - Steady. Wheat - Spring, nominal; No. 1 North- ern, 88adc carloads; Winter, no offerings. Corn - Firm; No. 2 yellow, 55afc; No. 2 corn. 5430. Oats - Strong; No. 2 37Xce No. 2 mixed, 35eac. Barley -Nothing done. Rye - Steady; better demand; No. 1 in store quoted. at 66c. NEW YORK ;HE -AT MARKET. .. She was bream up he 1868, but in. 1855 was superseded by the late Queen's Vic- toria and Albert, to which Queen Vic- toria was almost fanatically attached. Here again was a huge baddle wheel yocht, quaintly honeycombed with cab- ins staterooms, boudoirs, and the like to accommodate the extensive fam- ily and aged retainers of the ola Queen. For when Queen Victoria went to Sea she usually took her entire family with her, so that the big craft became a kind rf floating nursery. The decorations were extremely old lathioned, the walls of chintz being cov- ered with long lines of pink flowere on e white background -exactly the pattern one comes across to -day in remote Eng- lish farm -houses off the beaten track of the railroad, far from modern inno- vations. Yet on no account would the late Queen permit alterations, either statue- taral or decorative, and to the last the old V. and A., as it was Called, remain- ed exactly as it was in the days of the Px ince Consort. During the last few years of Queen Victoria's life her grown up family and their relatives were constantly oom- panning of the inconvenient aceommo- dation on the royal yacht; and at length the Queen reluctantly consented to the I:Midi-leg of tbe present, vessel. Netterthe- less, Queen Victoria never so much as went on board, for all 'her affections were centred on the old fashioned yacht -which, by Me -way, was finally broken up in the Porno -noun) dockyard last year. Father. •. "My son, did you buy the matehes tor mel'a. San: "Yes."Fa- .thee anetere they good ones?" Son; "Oh, yes; I tried very one a' Aunt Abby: "A pettier was tryin' to sell me a new clock to,day--said he'd guarantee It wouldn't lose time," Uncle Thstil "What did you say?" Aunt, Abby: "I told ban Ile was beim' time teen' te sell it lo me." • , STILL Boom von TALENT. The glory of the present age Is its wealth of scientific discoverers and in- ventorS. The selerdisls of to -day have plumbed the depths ot space and map- ped out the ettneetrewn fields of im- mensity. They have traced the story of earth and hey myriad Chtldren the rocks, whereverit was Wrillen by the haled of Native nerzelf, and neither the infinitely great noe the infinitely little has escaped the vigilance of their scrunny. Bea the gentile has yet to be born who can stale and explain the laws . which governthe gyrations of a eonar-stud, dropped by eri angry man. at the dressing table, and foutal 0 week later by his wire •eteleog the Pubbisla under the grade. 4-' A ntan's populataty with women is Offen similav to it eat's popularity with Iniee. New York, May 15 - Spot steady: No. 2 red, 90o nominal elevator; No. 2 red, 93c 'nominal f.o.b. afloat; No. 1 northern Duluth, 90%c f.o.b. afloat; No. 1. northern, 90s afloat. CATTLE MARKET. Toronto, May 15. -Trade was decided- ly slow all around. Export -Market quiet and, steady at $1.80 to 55. Load of heavy export sold at $1.75 to $4.85. Good shorakeep feeders, $4.75 to $4.80. Market quiet. Butchers -Choice picked butcher cat- tle, $4.50 to $4.75. Medium heavy but- chers at $4.30 to 24.40; mixed tote and cows. at $3 to $3.50; common caonere, at $1.50. Heavy Feeders-Gooct and heavy feed - cos at 54.60 to $4.75. Light Stockers -Steady, $3.25 te $3.50. Sheep and Lambs -The • market is steady for yearling lambs. Export ewes are steady to firmer, .4 Spring lambs firmer ca $3 to $6.50. Calves -Good run. Market, steady. PrieeS range from $3 to $6. Hogs---Merket weaker. Selects $7. Milk Cows -Good market for heavy milkers; choice, $50 to $00; common, 530 to $35. NOT GRACE. Ins name was Darling, and his nose WilS a large and florid affair SO maned- nent was it that it had earned himthe sobriquet "Tretacy" from, theelads in the seIhioisott urneccleernilconi 1. cnocTaLa occasion lo severely punis.h Tommy Dewier. On yodelling home, the angelic. Tommet paured into the, maternal ear the tale of Mr. Trutacy's molly, And forthwith Mrs. Brawler, eager fOr the fray, visited the school and risked for Me. Trunky, \vetch evas the only- name she had ever heard applied to the master by her son. The teacher who had opened the door to her. although surprised at the use of the otatmeme, did not correct her,. but sent Ibll'alNetrianataeirtliiiet 'eieted the irate mother*4 "dressing down" meekly, NJ, on being repeatedly. , called Trull' at length re- r"Illt$1114:11i7L "' In not my name, madameet he said: "Neese call me. Darling 1" "1. -thee' dare you, stet VII send my inlet band rrumd. to yotr Winked MM. Brawl& es she went frti.e 'hysteria.. , , , 1 i 1 4 4 1