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Exeter Advocate, 1906-7-26, Page 7INA KAVIRONDA MARKET iVIERV SCANT ATTIRE OE THE CAN NATIVES, ;They Are Said to be the Most Moral of the Peoples of the Lake Victoria Region. We anchored in Kisumu Bay and drew hp to the dock at Port Florence next morning, writes Caroline Kirkland, de- scribing: a visit to the source of the Oile. As the train did not leave there till half past 11 1 had plenty of time to •visit the Kavironda Market, one ot the extraordinary sights of East Africa. The ' fiavirendas are the tribe living ort the z-iortlioast shores. or Lake Victoria, a tall, fine looking, well developed race which is chiefly distinguished from the other East African tribes to be seen along the Uganda Railway by the fact that the men and women wear absolute- ly no clothes, not even the customary -loin cloth, in spite of whichi they are said to be the most .merel of the peoples of that region. They wear Innumerable °momenta, however, of beads, heavy copper wire, leather and elephant hair, which they twist into shiny black bracelets and atilt - lets. They also tattoo and scarify them- selves, both faces and bodies, to a great- er degree than Mete neighbors, while their kinky, woolly locks are done in all sorts of fantastic styles, one gay end industrious buck having apparently strung every hair to his head full of glit- tering black' beads, so that no hair was only this rattling, shining, gor- gon-like coiffure. The market was large, open, square, with a roofed ()tier spew in the middle, and a flanking on four sides of befits, .where the tradersi, Indiaa, Coanese and African, carried on their business. Un- der the central shelter little piles of seds. millet, rice, corn and many with which I was not familiar were ranged, also strange.fruits and what loked like •rilud pies, and I never could find any- one who knew what they were. Crowd- ing every available place were ever changing groups of these EXTRAORDINARY SAVAGES. Seated on the ground, perhaps around a :tittle fire; would be a circle of Wo- men. smoking queer pipes or cigarettes of nativelobaego or chewing nuts, while wandering about were bands of young warriors, armed with strange shields and spears or bows and arows. Some .trien were smeared with oil and plaster- ed over with red mud: On the diaph- ragm of one stalwart woman was a curious design, pricked out with some poison, which turned the flesh at each prick into a lump. It may be that the engraver of this humandocument had M mind a copy of some cryptio inscrip- tion he might have seen on a railway platform. The fine carriage of ell these African savages was noticeable, due pro - ably to the,eustom of carying loads on their heads. . • There were hundreds of these Kavir ondas wandering peacedbly about, :bort- ,.ering for what they wanted, using the • -strings of shells which in this part cf ,Africa serve the natives in lieu of money. They regard us with a shy, aloof in 'Wrest, but after a while were inclined o too close an inspection for comfort, and we left the enclosure, carrying with us strange mental pictures of human life in its most primitive, elemental 'iorms, ar sometimes glossy,• skins; tall, well -formed bodies; fine white teeth; soft, musical voices; beads of Many colors, shining copper wire ornaments, strange scarification and tattoing de- vices. That afternon in . the train, loking 'down a steep slope, I 'saw a family of ... hyenas,. high hacked, hairy, hideous, tearing at some carrion probably left by a wandering lion. The next morning I woke up at dawn, so as not to miss one instant of the - WONDERFUL BARNUM'S SFIOW which the Uganda Railway gives you. It is like a reversal of the. usual en- ' cus procession. We were in the cages moving through the land, while the ani- mals we used to watch in their cages are now outside living their lives and gazing at us as we passed. There was hardly a moment of the day when there was not in sight some strange creature, • either herds of zebras or gnus or gaz- elles of many hinds, or else some os- triches' seesawing away or a solitary secretary bird with its fantastic crest or a bald headed vulture flying heavily Vaal one low tree to another. In the afternoon I was playing a game or bridge under conditions sufficiently 'curious I o be noted. Our table was a box built far a Monkey, but at that mo- ment held only two giant sleping tor- te'. s, while the monkey sat on the pen- t esote:e shoulder. Outside the sun was •'pedalling in the golden haze when sud- '4enly waasaw five. or six giraffes ski- aing off through some scrub thorns. Their gait was as awkward as it is in the clews line of march, while their long melts seined as much in the way as ever. Hardly hod we got over this ex- citement and settled down to our game again when we saw to the right of the track a huge lioness hi:guiding along not seventy feet awey. keeping up easily with the train, which wes proceeding lei- surely. As she seined so interested in us the train drew up for a stand,s1111, and, see- ing this, the lioness crouched down in a little Omit of grass in plein sight. The men in the Irnin •eushed to get out their guns. The excitement wes M- .• tenee, with every one except the lioness. So a gi fated nt THE UNEXPECTE,D SIGHT wove the hunters that they could not find bieiv emmunition. 'We had till got oUt on 'the steps -et the teahr and every eye was fled on the date( form 'crouelted Sixty feet, away. No en a was f righ tened- though ' had the bensj. chosen she might have leaped on ,the crowd and &egged off it good supper before the guns Were .ettedy, Mitch haste makealifle speed, and before the artneninition turned .up in a few Min- otes-it seemed much longer to the breathless, onlookers -she tarried and, bennding neree6 the track' behind the (1180mA-red in the bush. Bitterly thaappointed, we piled into the. train again 'and pontinued joilertey. A little While later at dusk a big Ion, prole -Oily. her temtee was eeen the eithee side :of the hack just Lefore we pulled into the next Statien. This Sta- tion, curiously enough, was muned Sim- ba, which is the native word for lion. On the etation platform lay the skin Of a lion shot a day or so before. SO plentiful are tbe creatures in that neigh- bottood that titter nightfall those On OflO side of the track in the station never dare to cross to tee few little shant4e6 that lie on the other side, twenty paces away. HELPING AN ELEPHANT. Experience of a Veterinary Surgeon 'With a Big Brute. A veterinary surgeon wtio had won reputation was once summoned by P. F. • Barnum to come to his stables to at. tend Hebe, a favorite elephant, who had hurl, her foot. She was a splendid crea- ture, and worth a small fortune. •The surgeon tells the Story oe his experience and. its results in Our Dumb Animals. • Liebe had stepped on a nail or a bit of iron, and it, had penetrated tne ten- der part of the foot. She was in intense agony -almost wild with pain. Long before we reached the enclosure in which. she was kept we could hear her piteous trumpeting, and when we enter- ed we found her on three legs, swinging the sore foot slowly backward and for- ward, and uttering log cries of angu- ish. Her keeper said, "Don't you be afraid, sir. Hebe's got sense." But I own that I felt rather queer and shaky as I went up to the huge beast. The men employed about the .show came round us curiously as I bent down to exarnine the foot. While I was dos ing so, as gently as I could,1 felt a light touch on my hair, and as I turned and sb.w the great trunk behind me it had an awful suggestiveness. "I shall have to cut, and cut deep," I said to her keeper. He said a few words in some lingo, evidently intended for the elephant'e understa.nding only. Then he shouted with the utmost coolness, 'Cut away!" Well, I made one gash with the knife. I felt (he grasp on my hair tighten per- cepthly, yet not ungently. Cold drops of perspiration stood out all over me and I hesitated as to whether I should go on. "Shall.' cut again?" I managed to call out. "Cut away!" came the response. This stroke did the work. A mass of fetid matter followed the knife; the ab- scess was lanced. We sprayed out the foot, packed it, and bound it up. The relief must have been immediate, for the grasp on my hair reIa.xed, the elephant drew a long .sigh. A year and a half after this I was called to western Massachusetts. Bar- num's show was there. You may be sure I called to inquire for my disting- uished patient. "Hebe's well and hearty, sir," the keep- er answered me. "Come in and see her; ehe'll be glad to see you." For a moment she loked at me indif- ferently, then steadily and with inter- est. She next reached out her trunk and laid it caressingly on my hair, and then she lifted up her foot, now whole and healthy, and showed it to me. That's the sober truth. 4 WHAT PASTEURIZED MILE IS. Simple Home Method of Securing Sate Food for Babies. Pasteurized• milk is that. which has eel. heated to a temperature of be- ' tweet' 155 • and 170 degrees and kept at that temperature from ten to thirty minutes before being rapidly cooled and put on ice. It may seem strange that a lower temperature than the boiling point • should be the one selected; but, bacteria wince cause milk to sour are killed at 155 degrees, and the disease germs which the likely to be present are de- stroyed at 170 degrees. For the mother who wishes to pas- teurize at home the simplest and (with °are) a safe home method is to place the milk in glass jars, fill a pall with boiling water and place the jars in this. The water should came nearly to the top of the jars and above the milk. • Set the pail in a warm place and stir the milk occasionally. The milk is heated to the desired degree before the water is lowered to the pasteurizing tem- perature. lastly mul most important, cool, the milk by running cold water into the pail, then stopper quickly and set on ice. Remember that pasteurized milk may easily become containinated again, and only proper care can insure its remain- ing, sterile. efany argue thee it is the duty of the State to insure a clean, healthful milk supply ar; well as to oversee the water supply. The French are solving their mortality problem on these lines. Entine loses annually 150,000 of her small increase h1 population from lack of suitable food. The nation, thorough- ly aroused, is establishing' free milk de- pots similnr in their working to our free hospital dispensaries. The mothers bring their babies daily, weekly or monthly; the babies are care- fully examined and a milk formula with ticket is given to Om mother. At the de- livery 8talions she obtains a limited number of feedings, ihus preventing all possibility of the milk spoiling aff•er it reachea her home. This is done nt tre- mendous expense to the nation, but in its yenr of trial seems to have vindicated its value. FAISE ALATiM. Brown -"I hear you had some money lett you." Jones --"Yes, it left me long ago." • 4 • FIE ORDERED. "Order! order!" cried the chairman of the Workingmen's meeting., "Beer for me," replied the grimy per. son in the back seat. • BESTHE COULD DO. Kind Party -"Why are you crying like that, my boy?" Little Boy-." 'Cause it's the only woo I• know how." COWS AUTO USE IT. "Mother," shouted Mee city -bred Alice delightedly; when she heard for the first (Inc the mooing of a cow; "come out and listen W the cow blowing its horn." • PIIINCns$ CHARLIE, Wishes She AVes a Reporter, but Be • came a Queen Instead. Until her marriage the present Queen Of Denmark was known to her tali - mates as Charlie and te the world at large es one of the brightest and live- liest, Metet cordial Mgt unaffeeteen girls in the whole British royal family,. 'Fhis world liked to hear occasional 4tories about het' and liked particularly that lively little anecdote of her, flirtation with the reporter at the railway sta-; tion • According to the Strand Magazine, he had come to write up a royal de- parture, she to id a friend good -by. He made'', notes of the dresee,e, including her own, and she saw Nvh.at he was doing, • At last she, too, took out a piece of paper and a pencil, scribbled on it something hastily and, crumpling the paper into a little ball, threw it at the Ifaeeatdo:1 the reporter, The royal message "I wish I were a reporter, tool" Princess Charlie -or Princess Maud, to give her the name by which slut was offlcially known -was brought up Very steictly. She was not permitted, it ap- pears; to reed a book or to see a play unless the book had been read or the play seen. She was never allowed 't0 both of her parents, except to the home of her Feench goveeness; and never re- make visits unaceompanied by one or calved gifts except front her own fam- ily. . Curiously, too, the number of her toys was limited. Nearly all her dolls - which were few in number -came 'from the Marquis of Lorne, with whome see was a great favorite. She was 10 years old before she was allowed to own a watch. Yet this little princess had a prate; happy time. She cared for Music and became an excellent pianist, learned both Gertnan and French from her two governesses and, received a very care- ful religious training. In connection with this it may be.recalled that she was christened, not in the .chapel royal, ae was then customary, but at Wfarlbor- ough House, and that Dean Stanley officiated on this important, occasion. Princess Maud was a child of varied tastes, a devotee of hobbies. She lilted riding and cycling -and likes them still -got very fond of photography (in which art her mother is so' skilled), took UP bookbinding, learned to spinand studied many handicrafts with more than passing interest. • No doubt, too, her influence instimu- lating other • girls usefully to occupy their leisure time was very great. And when she was married the dressmaking class at the People's Palace made for her a tea jacket, of which the bride was and is now, extremely proud. She is still a great reader and. is said to retain her early affection for the works of Owen* Meredith. She hes travelled extensively, knows Russian, likes yachting, plays chess and takes abundant joy in living. MIXED THEIR METAPHORS. Amusing Blunders Made Ey Members of British Parliament. Frequentersof the House , an author- ity writes to the London Daily Mail, have for a long time marked a woful depreciation • in the are of parliamea tory speaking. Notable exceptions are Mr. Balfour, Mr. Chamberlain, Sir Henry Campbell -Bannerman, Mr. As- quith, Mr. John Redmond and Mr, T. Healy ; the last named, during an Irish land debate last session, delivered one of the finest speeches it has been my pleasure to hear. Curious enough is the fact that pro- bably the best grammar and the most lucid' and finished sentences come from the Labor side in the example set by Mr. Keir Hardie. Only an unfortunate but no doubt conquerable jerkiness of delivery prevents the Labor leader from being numbered in the front rank of modern' parliamentary orators. The mixed metaphor gives many un- suspecting members a fall. Mr. Asquith not long ago amused the House with the phrase: ."Our tongues are tied, our hands are fettered, and we are really beating the air to no purpose." Mr. John Burns improved on this by declaring, in reference to the children's employment bill, "I will now repeat what I was about to say when the hon- orable member interrupted inc." Then there was the wealthy manufacturer member who, dealing with the legal position of trade unions, asseverated that "the interests of the employers and employed are the some nine tittles out of ten -nay, I will go further, and say ninety-nine times out of ten." A member of the present Opposition, observing signs of dissent from a Liberal, exclaimed "Ah, the honorable member opposite may shake his head, but he cannot shake mine." "Sire. said Mr. Walter Long on education matters, "we are told that by this legis. Winn the heart of the country will be shaken to its foundations." The• House of Coinmons is too hur- ried, too strenuous, too utilitarian in these times to encourage the ornamen- tal in oratory. Moreover, every mem- ber in the chamber appears anxious to have his say. Up to tile present time 400 legislators out of 670 have delivered .speoches during the session. These are regarded as the prinoipal causes of the decadence of parliamentary style. • Mr. Charles Seymour, the elocution- ist, who poaches many parliamentary candidates and befOre whom not a few members rehearse the speeches they hope to deliver before the House, pee - flounced the suggestion of a class foe politicians irnpossible, 'Members who honor me with thee' patronage," he said, "creep stealthily into my studio. They would not have their mission known tinder any cireum- stances. It is hot Shaine; it is shy- ness'. • WRONGLY NAMED PESTS. The origin of the so-called San Thee Scale 18 not eertainlY known'but it is easotlably sure that it wes brought from China, about 1870 on some plants imported by James Lick and placed oo his property in, the Santa Clara valleet California. KING EDWARD'S CLOTHES THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF DIFFER- ENT tiNnixotiviS. One Large acorn. Is Devoted Entirely to the Storage of Articles of %Veering Apparel. • Wherever he goes •and whatever he does, His Majesty King Edward is fel- • lowed by the,eyes of alt ins people, who like to know everything he does, everything be says, everything he eats, and who would like, no doubt, to be able to include everything he thinks. T3ut although • they carefully read tile accounts of his various public appear- ances in England or in other countries, and admire his photographs In various costumes, from the Highland lull, to that of an honorary officer in the regi- ment of •some Continental country, it hardly ever occurs to anyone to won- der where and how the enormous quantity of clothes is kept which must necessarily be ready to hand for what- ever purpose may be demanded by un- foreseen circumstaneeS, • If His Mo.jesly pays a. visit, for in- stance, to France, he may not know of -all the functions that he will be called upon to grace with his presence, yet when the occasion arises he is there in the particular dress which is required, whether it is that of a colonel of some regiment he is °ailed upon to inspeete, or of a naval officer when he visits the fleet. Literally there are some hun- dreds of different uniforms, in addition to ordinary costumes. which. the King may have occasion to don at some time or another, and in order to make cer- tain that the particular dress required may be found AT A MOMENT'S NOTICE, the most careful organization and ar- rangement are necessary. The headquarters of the Royal ward- robe are et Buckingham Palace, where one 'large room Is devoted entirely to the storage of alleles of wearing ap- parel, which are carefully tended and eared for by a special staff of valets. Each side of the room is' divided into sections, and each section is devoted to .a different country, the sections be- ing in turn sub -divided intoshelves and drawers, each devoted to some special regiment, etc., in which - His Majesty holds honorary rank. Almost every country in the world has its own special section., which is so arranged that if the King .is about to visit that country the head valet can instantly lay his fingers on the particular uni- • forms that are likely to be required. Thus, in the section devoted to Ger- many there will be a special 'division, in the shape of a drawer or shelf, de-. voted to every regiment whose unifortn His Majesty has a right to wear. Ili addition to these official sections there are others where items of every- day dress are stored under different headings. There is a section for each of. the four seasons,.the clothes varying in texture ttnd thickness, according to the weather associated with the period of the year. The section for each sea- son, again, is divided into spaces for overcoats, frock coats, lounge suits, morning coats, and so on., and each garment bears a distinctive mark which enables the valets to replace it IN THE CORRECT SECTION. As head of the Kingdom, His Majes- ty has, of course, to be the best -dressed man in it, and consequently the sec- tions 'where his ordinary wearing ap- parel is stored have to be constantly re -stocked, foe among Such a mass of different suits. some are worn but once or twice before they get out of fashion. There is, therefore, plenty'. of work to be done to keep the clothes in order, for every garment in the wardrobe is brushed and' pressed regularly once a week in order that it may be ready for use at a moment's notice, the same care being shown, toward those uni- forms which are but seldom used as towards the things that are more likely to be needed. '--Many of the uniforms in the Royal wardrobe are occasionally renewed be- fore they .bave been worn at all, for, of course, His Majesty must be strictly•up. to -date, and if some foreign reghnent makes a change in its uniform, how- ever slight, it means that a new set, of garments embodying that change must be prepared for the King. His Majes- ty, however, has none of the trouble of trying on new clothes like ordinary people, for all his things are made by. the same skilled hands, who can fit him to the fraction of an inch. -London Tit, -Bits. • SENTENCE SERMONS. Taci.tat no lcvlifts lightens its own loa :s°t.mtohraethan a vindication to restore virtue. The highest service is that which raises others. • In many a burden is bid the blessing of strength. A little help is worth a lot of talk about happiness. Poverty cannot be cured by making charity a pastime. New paths are the best penance !or old wanderings, Meekness is the secret of the tnainte fiance of mastery. The only way to keep kindness is to keep it in, cirettlation. Ile never says anything who never has anything to unsay. You cannot reach the Divine by climbing ,up on your dignity. You do not have to empty yoUr head Lo fill your heart. No Man ever sueceeded in preaching truth by acting a be. People who are selfesatisfied are not always of a contented mind. Some men seem to think that repent- inTgh°efy bw°11:7wd tgh eown w pi Yosth edebt er 1 c) tweb ds not heed to speak ill of another's. Tho power of the preacher Is M M. verse retie to his professionalism. If you tire nickling all your pleasures they only May make heaven seolp fame. Many a man thinks that lid is Night- ing his wrongs when he Is only re. veoging them. SAVAGE'S OF 1O1111,4 QUALI'1110., Something About the People WititAV Britain is at War. Prince Pea Iseke Seine, a full-blo Zulu, Oneo • received a gold mead, hieh LEADING MARKETS odect 1.31tEADSTUa'FS, • the Toronto, 3uly first of Ontario si:LY- float' bore the new crop for August de - oratorical prize of Columbia, Univer • It was the purpose of the prince three years' taw course at Oxfor,. return to bus, own country, and take place Lunen the Zulus as a native toeney-general, representing the a eats of his people before the BritiSmi ern men t, The character of the Zulu hos L Much misrepresented. The popular ception is of a horde • of fierce brawny savages, cruel arid irresporle In fact, tha race is quiet, kindlYi 11 hearted, Sober and cleanly. The avei Zulu is brave, generous, and good -h ored lo a degree. It is, only in the m ness and exultation of war and vice that he becomes like a wild beast. E then he 16 'more merciful than the Indian, who delights in .the proem torture of his victim. . • One who has travelled much am them eays teat, save in the time of Wel war, a white man may go o Zululand unarmed. in perfect safety 1 vided he is friendly and courteous to na Lives. I lanes ty is a cha =least ic virtue 'these people. The genuine Zulu is noble to be a thief. He exults in but Ms native code of Minot' forbids pilfering. Indeed, property is far in so.fe in a Zuitt village than in a 11 class European or American hotel. One wetter, in speaking of this tr Says :that many a time he has lel camp wagon unprotected, and co back to find it surrounded by equatt natives pointing out to each other, w iaterest tend curiosity, such articles were visible, • but not touching a thi One day he left his kit open on floor of his tent and much of the e tents scattered about. Returning t hours later, he saw about thirty Zul men, women and children, croWd about the door, eagerly discussing flannel shirts, oloteing, boots, kniv tobacco, and even money, Which 1 about in plain sight. Not the small trifle had been touched. Zulus have little conception of nu bers. Their own eanguege only con up to seven. Eight and upward are r resented by English terms, or the wor "It great number." In the military del under British captains the order, "F -off by fours!" sadly puzzles the nati soldiers. When the command is giv a general uneasiness is visible. ON and over the order is given and the tempt made, only to end • in confuse) Left to themselves, with freedom work out the puzzle by intuition, n arithmetic, they divide into sections fours with perfect accuracy. afte,t' livery, wus at $a for export. \Attica& taleits are Muter, following Chicago, bus Flour - Ontario --- 90 per cent. paler , (Rita, Old crop are quoted at $3.05 to lult'-; $3.10, buyets' bags, he' eXPert- gaol' gev'i Mho - Unchanged; $4.40 to $4.60 for Hirst patents, $4 to $4.10 for seconds* 'eat and, $3.00 to for bakers', "Id Bran Qatari° - Very dull at $15 Ltnu•10 $1.6„50 in bulk', outside; short, source ale1,11 at $17.50 to $1e. guy', Wheat -- Outario - 78c to 79e foe -,'al,g,10., No_. 2 red and white, outside; spring, ""I'l 740 to 75e; goose, 730 to 74c. wheat - Manitoba - Quotations for c)e'ee delivery at lake ports are firmer at 85%c sfe3xr 'cal:). 1 northern; No. 2 northern, gc.:1' dats-38c to 38.yac outside for No. 2. ".e. Peas -80e to 82c outside. I e e, leye-62c to 64c outside. "nee Barley -49c to 51c outside for No. 2. Corn-Arnetectan No. 2 yellow, 59X,e to 00e, Ontario points. 11.1:i); Butter - Inferior grades of butter ooa- - COUNTRY PRODUCE. tinue to come forward freely., while Hs prices are about steady, with a firm tone aro for the better grades. role, Creamery prints ..... ..... 20c to 21c I• do solids .... .... .. . ... 19c to 20c alt. Dairy prints .... .... .... 16e to 18%c his ' do pails ...... .... .... 17c to 18c me' do tubs ..., .... .... .. , 17c to 18c Mg Bakers' .... .... .... .... 1.6c to 17c iln Cheese - At 1234c to 12%c for job as lots here. ng.l Pot/does - Prices are une,ha.nged at the $1 for Ontario and $1 to $1.10 for Que- 0W110- ' neBealecl Hay - Quotations unchanged at us, $10 per Lon for No. 1 timothy in car ed lots on track here. Mixed, $7.50. the •Baled Straw - At $5.50 to $6 per ton easy,: for car lots on track hove. 1 mi ., fote,,foonatileaskowJulty1024c.Lia-rigeG.raicnar-loPtsrice0s1 est• MONTREA-L MARKETS. ns No. a white were quoted at 43e, No 3 at 42Xc, and No. 4 at 41eec per bushel, ex -store. et -1,s,• Flour-Maultoba spring wheat, $1.60 u\ee' to 81.70; strong bakers', $4.10 to 24.20; ,,,, wintee wheat patents, $4,30 to $1.40; '" straight rollers, 23.90 to $4.10; do irt ter at. batt), 21.85 to 21.90; extras, $1.40 to , 21, . 11,*1 Milifeed - Manitoba bran, in bags, ot ' $16 to $17; shorts, 220 to $21 Per ton; of stOoinlo$tra2tis,eio bran in bags. $15.50 to $16; to *ea per ton, and straight grain, $28 $20.50 to $21; milled mouille 801 J Rolled Oats - Prices unchanged at ee.25 pet bag; cornmeal is slow of sale 1g at $1.40 to $1.45 per bag. Hay -No. 1, 29.50; No. 2, 28 to $8.60; clover, •mixed, 27 to $7.50, {and pure es clover, $G to 20.50 per ton in car lots. eh Provisions -Barrels short cut mess, Is) $24; half barrels do., $12.50, clear fat by back, $23.50; long cut heavy mess, $21. - he 50; half barrels do., 211,25; dry salt, long !clear bacon. 12,y0 to 133e; barrels plate he beef at 213.50; half barrels do., $7.25; 0, barrels heavy mess beef, $11.50; half ck barrels do., $6.25; compound lard, 7yec ed to eXc; pure lard, 12c to 1234e; kettle m rendered, 12.30 to 14c; hams, 14%c to r- 16c, according to size; breakfast .bacon, m 16X.to 17c; Windsor bacon, 16%c; fresh he killed abattoir dressed hogs, $11; alive, s, $a per cwt. ee.1 Eggs - Prices perhaps more for straight gathered firm, . being 17c and le stock when fine, and about the same Is for No. 1 candled. Selects are selling el around 20e. Poor quality of straighlt d gathered are not wanted, and some are n offering at 16c and even less. 110W WAX TAPERS ARE MADE. The Manufacture of Night Candles at Paraffined Paper. In the manufacture of wax match and the long and slender tapers win are known as rats.de cave (cellar ra the method introduced into France Pierre 131esinaire ia the middle of t seventeenth century is still in use. • The method is practised to -day in t Corriere factory, at 13ourg la Rein near Paris. The cords of which the wi te composed pass into a basin of melt wax heated by a small furnace, fro which they are drawn through a perfo ated plate to a large wooden dru which. is turned slowly by hand. T operation is repeated two or three time Lite size of the hole through which th cord passes being increased each tim When the waxed cerd has attained 11 required size a is wound on large ree in skeins of 400 or 500 metres (about 1 500 feet) which are boxed and thippe to wholesalers. It is also furnished 1 lengths of from 3 to 10 metres (10 to a feet) folded as often as may be required for convenient packing. These tapers are now used chiefly by wine merchants and by sextons in lighting, churc candles. The very short end thick candles cal ect veitleuses, or night candles, are corn posed of a mixture of wax and stearin The moulding machine differs consicle ably from the apparatus used for ordin ary candles, although the principle • e the operation is unchanged. After th little candles hn have cooled the attenda removes them from the moulds and con veys them to women, who put them in to tin cups, which 'prevent the escap of melted wax during combustion. an pass them to other women, who labe and pack them. Parafilned paper is made simply b drawing long rolls of paper by mean of a series of cylinders through a steam heated trough containing a solution u parafline and stearic acid and thence t a large wooden cylinder on which it i rolled. 3 13yFFALO MARKET....... Buffalo, July 24. -Flour -Dull. Wheat h -Spring dull; No. 1 Northern, 83yee. Corn -Stronger; No. 2 yellow, 58c; No. 2 corn, 56%c. Oats -Dull; No. 2 white, . 42c; No. 2 mixed, 30X0. Canal freights e. --Steady. r - NEW YORK WHEAT MARKET'. .. New York, July 24. - Spot firm; No. s 2 red. 83%c elevator; No. 2 red, 840 f. o. t b afloat; No. 1 Northern Duluth 88ye - 1.0.11, afloat; No. 2 hard winter, 833e • f.o.b. afloat. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. 1 Toronto, July 24. -There was a mod - y erately fair run to -day, and trade was s comparatively brisk at steady prices. Stockers and feeders -The common f rough Eastern stockers are simply a 0 drag on the market, as they do not s seem to be wanted at all. Lambs are firmer, and sheep about steady at recent quotations. liogs--The scarcity of hogs is still holding the market very firm. Export -Extra. choice, $4.75 te $5.10; medium export, $4.60 to $4.65. Good short -keep feeders, $4.50 to $4.60. Heavy Feeders -Good and heavy feed- ers at $4.25 to $4.50. Butchers -- Choice picked butchee cattle, $4.50 to $4.70; medium heavy butchers at $4 to $4.35; mixed lots and cows at $1.75 to $3.50; fat cows, $3.50 to $3.130. Light Stockers -$2.25 to $3.25. Sheep and Lambs -Steady at $a to $4.25. Spring 1 ambs-6 to 73mfe per lb. Calves -Prices range from 23.50 to $5,50 each. • I logs - Selects, $7.70 ; lights and fats, $7.45. Miich Cows-Cheice, $30 to $40 each; common; $17 to 820. • A PROFESSOR OF FLEAS. Odd Profession in France -Troubles of One of the Impresarios. • Antong the curious professions whicbi one.tneets with in this country from time to time is that of professor of fleas. What the professor trains his alert pu- pils to do 1 cannot imagine, writes the Paris correspondent of the London Globe, but every now and then at the shows which camp on the outskirts et Paris the flea professor has his booth. One of these strange impresaribs named Jocolino lately took up his resi- dence in 'ft lodging house in the Rue St. Charles. Unfortunately Jocolino's ptx- pits multiplied with fae more rapidity than he could train them to be well be - hayed, with the result that their active disposition. led them to explore the ad- joining rooms:• of the lodging house, where they performed on theer own an- eount. Their visits were not to the liking of the heighbors, and Jocolino wets obliged to listen to some very- forcible remon- strances on the subject. The nuisance, heyeever, did not abate, and finally one of the tenants, a plumber named Smyth, decided to take the matter into his own hands. Armed With a large quantity of insect poi der. the irate plumber entee- ed Joeolin,o's roOm in the absence of the professor and sprinkled the exter- 61%--itor in aft directions. While he wits 60 engaged, luni,seee, the flea trainer rettneled, and mistaking the *tither for a burglar seized a re- volver arid shot him in the hood. Sou - Vitt is hew lying in a hospital and the %ranee of the lively flea is in the hands of the police. QUALIFICATIONS. Mr. Wholesale -"Your former em- ployer tells yott were the quickest bookkeeper in the place." •Yelling Applicant (dubiously) -'00g he?" Mr. Whelesale-"Yes. Ile says you Mild throw the books in the safe, lock U, and get ready to go home in just one minute and ten seconds." A MAN OF PROMISE, "That tailor is veil uneeliable about delivering orders, isn't het" his are mainly breeches of 'promise sult11.