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The Brussels Post, 1902-7-31, Page 6TIE MARKETS Prices of Grain, Cattle, etO iii Trade Centres. TOronte, July 200 -Wheat -The market is firm owing to limited of - 50s of red winter end %Slate are reported to Millers at 79 to 80c octet, Manithaa wheat is je geoid demand, with fselers of No, 1 herd at 87cogrincling in transit, and 81e Goderloh, No, 1 northern, 85 to 8$*e g.i.to tied 70e Goderiell, and No. 2 Northern 88c g,i.t„ and 770 Gocierich end Midland, Cate -The inarket is Man, with eupplles eniall. No. 2 white quoted at 48* to 44c west,. and a car of heavy eold at 45*e east. Cern-Maraca is quiet ancl firm, there being little otTering. Prices aro nominal at 65 to 660 west. Peas -The mareet ie quiet, with a sale of No. 2 at 76c middle freights. Elear-Ninety or cent. Ontario patent, steady at 52.90 to s2.92 Iowa() freights, in buyers' seeks. Straight rollers, in wood, guoteci at 58.25 to $840. Maultoba flours letoady. Hungarian patents, $4.05 to 54.30, delivered on track, To- ronto, bags included, and strong bakers' $8.80 to $4. Oatmeal -Car lot, in bbls, $5 on track, and in sacks $4.90. Broken lots, 20 to 25c extra. Millfeed-Men is dull at 815 to $15.50 west, and shorts at $20.50 in bulk. Bran 516 to $16,50 here, and shorts 521 here. Manitoba bran, 517 in sacks, and shorts 521 to 522 in sacks, Toronto. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Dried apples-Pricee purely nom- inal. Hops -Trade quiet, with prices tamely at 13e; yearlings, 7e, Haney -Trade dull. Comb, $2 to $2.25 per dozen. Beans -The market is quiet. Or- dinary, 90c to 51 per bush., hand - peaked, $2.25. Hay, baled -The market is quiet, with fair cleimend; timothy, 510.50 bo 510.75 for No. 1. Straw -The mutat is quiet. Car lots, on track, quoted at 55 to 55.60, the latter for No. 1. Poultry - Demand is fair. We quote .-Turkeys, young, 11 to 13e per lb; do, old, 10 to 11c; chickens, 40 to 55c; 'ducks, 75c to 51 per pair. Potatoee-Tbe market is quiet. New potatoes, 50 to 60c per bush In quantities, and 70c per bush in small lots. yelloW, 750; Na, 8 dm, 72e; No, 2 mem, 720; No. 8 do, 71e. Oats- Siterese No. 2 • white, 620; No, de., elei No. mixed dee; No. 8 68 570, Canal feeighte-Steedy. lietroit, July 2904-Wileet'NO. 1 white cash'80e; NO. 2 red. gash end July, 760; Septeraber, 75*e. St, Louis, July a/a-Wheat-a/lash, 090; Septeraber, 59ece DeeeMber, 705e. Minneapolis, July 29.-Wheet- Jelya 800i September, 705e; on trache No. 1 herd, 81c; No, 1 north - Orn, 705e. No. 2 Northern, '745c. Flour-Firet patents, 58,90 to 54 ; second do., 53.70 to 88•80; first clears, 58 to 58,10; second do., 08.70 te 55.80; first clears, 58 to 58.10; amend do., 52.45. Bran - In bulk, 511 to 514:25. Toledo, july 29. -Wheat -Quiet ; steady; eash and July, 745c; Septem- ber, 741e; December, 75*e. Corn- MederatelY Italy% 8r2n1 c•ash and July, 65)c; September, 61.5e; De- cember, 405e. Oats -Dull; higher ; cash end July, 50c; September, 81c; new, July, 58c; now, Sdpfernber, 350. Cloverseed-Dull; steady; October, 85.12*. • TEE DAIRY MARKETS. Butter -The market to-3a3r was quiet, with receipts of tubs fair. We quote :-Choice 1-18 rolls, 16 to 17e; eeleeted dairy t•u,bs, 15* to 16c: store packed, uniform color, 145 to 16e; low grades, 12 to 18e; cream- ery prints, 19 to 20e; solids, 18 to 19c. Eggs -The market is unchanged. We quote : Strictly new laid, 155 to 16c; fresh candled stock, 14 to 145c; secondand checks, 10 to 12c. Cheese - Market unchanged. 'We quote :-Finest, 10* to 10* ; sec- onds, 95 to 10e. HOG PRODUCTS. Dressed hogs unchanged. Hog pre- cincts rule limn. We quote :-Bacon, Long clear, 115c, in ton and case lots. Pork, mese, 521.50 to 522 ; do, short cut, $28.50 to 524. Smoked meats -Hams, 13i to 14e; breakfast bacon, 150; rolls, 12 to 12)c, backs, 15 to 15*e; shoulders, Ji- to 12c. Lard -Prices unchanged. We quote: Tierces, 115e; tubs, 11*0; pails, 115c compound, 8 to 108e. MONTREAL MARKETS. Montreal, July 29. -There is no change of any kind in the grain market, whieh continues quiet an.d gross revenue in connection with even stagnant. Flours are in fair Chinese immigration for the year demand at stea.dy prime, and there ending June 30th amounted to I e no change in the attitude of roll- 5364,972, as against 5178,704 for ed oats. Bran is quiet for local de-1theprevious fiscal year, showing an mend, but large sales are reported by leading millers for foreign ac- count at the highest prices quoted for Manitoba. Provisions are un- changed, though in fair demamd, but cheese is firm at an advance of an- other 50. Butter is also firm for choice creamery. Eggs are none too pltatifel, and are in good demand. Grain :-Manitoba wheat at Port Arthur, No. 1, 74*c; No. 2, 7250 ; No. 2 oats locally, Ontario, 49c ; Manitoba, 49,0; barley, 575c to 585c; buckwheat, 68 to 684c low freights; peas, 85* to 86c. Flour - Manitoba patents, $4.10 to 54,80, and strong bakers, 53.70 to 5e; On- tario straight rollers, 53.60 to 83.70 in bags, 51.75 to 51.85; Ontario patents, 58,90 to 54.10. Rolled oate-Millere' prices to jobbers, 52,40 to $2.45 in bags, and 55 to 55.15 in bbls. Feed -Manitoba bran 16 to 17c, and shorts 23 to 24c nominal. Provisions -Heavy Cana- dian short cut pork, 525; selected, nominal; compound refilled lard, 95 to flic; pure Canadian lard, 11 to 115e; finest lard, 12 to 125c; hams, a5 to 145c; bacon, 125 to 15c; dressed hogs, 57.50; fresh killed abattoir, 58.75 per 100 Me. Cheese -Ontario, 10 to 105c, and Quehec, 95 to 10c. Butter, choice creamery current •receipts, in jobbing lots, 195 to 20c; dairy, at 16/0. LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Toronto, July 29.-5t the Western cattle market to -day the receipts were 71 carloads of live stock, 1,- 000 cattle, 905 steep ancl lambs, 1,- 000 hogs, 41 calves, and a, dozen milch cows. The trade in cattle was good, stimulated by small receipts, and an improvement in quality. Nearly twenty loads of the cattle nere this morning were not for sale, There was a fair export trade, and good to cheice sold at trout 5* to 65 per pound, with 6* occasionally paid; light export cattle sold at from 45 to 5c per pound. All offer- ings sold. The loofa butcher trade is not large just now, but prices for good stuff are steady at from 45 to 55c per pound. For selections 55c was occasionally paid, Common to me- dium butcher cattle sold at from 3 to 40 per pound. Good feeders are worth /role 3* to 45c per pound; and medium from 3 to 35c per pound. Stockers are worth from 25 to 35c per pound. Mich cows are worth Irvin 525 to 545 each. A few good cows will sell. Both lambs and sheep were firmer to -day. Fewport ewes are worth from 53.40 to 53.60 per cwt. Bucks fetch from 25 to 8*e per M. For culled sheep the price is from $2 to . 58 each. Lambs sell at from 55 to 6c per lb. Calves are quoted at from 52 to 810 each, or from 4 to 5c per M. Good to choice lambs and calves are wanted. Hogs remain unchanged. The top price for choice hogs is 57.85 Per cwt. Light and fat hogs a.re 57 Per cwt. Hoge to fetch the top price must be of prime quality, anti stale not below 160 nor above 200 lbs. Following is the range of quota- tions :- Cattle. Shippers, per cwt $5.25 $6.50 do light... ... ..... 4.25 5.25 Butcher, choice... ... 4.25 5.00 Butcher, ordinary to good . ALGOMA NICKEL TOWNS; 51•10einy Beeliag the Bistriet at 'the Prefient Zane. i. 'Permit* deepateh eityen Ace eerding to Sittlbery gentle:lien wbo is in the city, 2,000 mon in end abeut Sudbury end COW Cliff heve been relemed and net taken on OgObl by the Oanedien Copper Com - Pony and Allied coneerns. A , good marlY of theee have left the tome try to get work elsewhere, ana "the melt," said the Sudburyite, "is that the financial situation in the two eickel towns is not in any too good shape. Merchants ordered big stocks in the early part of the eeca son, expeetieg egood summer's tra,de, end they have been disap- pointed." The gentlemen said it was gener- ally expected that the works would resume full operations befere long, but if they do not it will become a. very serious matter for the trades- people. Those who have gone away are mine workers, and they have be- taken theinselvee to Calumet and tho other copper :eines of the West- ern Steles. There is some mystery about the pertial closing down of the huge nickel works, which took place) about three months ago, about tho time of the formal organization of the niekel combine. Officials of the company say that. they aro renovat- ing the plant, and many changes are undoubtedly being made. Deeides, there is a pretty big supply of matte in stock. The close down is pretty general, and only a few hun- dred men are at work. METHODIST HALL. Church in Britain Acquires Royal Acquarium Property. A London 'despatch says: Robert William Perkes, M, P., treasurer of tho Methodist Million Guineas Fund, announced on Wednesday that the Methodists had secured the Royal Acquarium 'Theatre property facing Westminster Abbey, upon which they will build a great hall, which is to be called the Central Heaclquarters of Universal Methodism. The price paid was £380,000. The ground comprises two and a half acres, and on it also stands Mrs. Langtry's im- perial Theatre. It is probable that same arrangement will be made by which the linperial Theatre will re- main where it is, though it may be transformed into an annex of the church -house, the building of which, it ie expected, will begin early in 1.903. Since it was opened in 1876 the Acquarium has been a faanous place of amusement for Londoners. The Twentieth Century Fund of one million guineas,. which the British Wesleyan Methodists began collect- ing three years ago for educational, religious, and philanthropic pur- poses, closed December 29, 1.901, with a final collection in the chap- els throughout the United King- dom The results of the day's col- lectione reached about £75,000. . 3.50 4.25. TWO SOLDIERS DROWNED. Stockers, per cwt... ... 2.50 3.751 Choice ewes, per cwt 3.40 3.601 A Third Who Swam Ashore Placed 'Under Arrest. Sheep ana Lambs. Lambs, per cwt.. 5.00 6.00 Bucks, per met- 2.50 2.75 Culls, each a . 2.00 3.00 Milkers and Calves. Cows, each.. '',5.00 45.00 Calves, each... - ... 2.00 10.00 Pao s Choice hogs, per cwt..... 6.75 7,25 Light hogs, per cwt....... 6.75 7.0015. favorite bathing spot up the river. Heavy hogs, per met 6,75 7.00 1The current of the Assiniboine is Sows, per met. 3.50 e.001very strong at present, and its force Stags, per cwt 0.00 2.00.is dangerous, and the boat in which !they were rowing collided with a pier. The boat overturned and pre- WHATJOHN CHINAMAN PAYS cipitatetl the occupants into the wa- ter. Espiol and Davey, who could not swim at once sank. Caristen, Increase of One Thoi usand in Chi- ' who s one of tile best swimmers in nese Iruvaigrants to Canada. the city, succeeded in reaching the An Ottawa despatch says: The shore after a. very hard struggle. He made his way to the barracks to re- port. It appears that the soldiers had taken out the barracks boat without leave, and when tire sur- vivor told his story he was at once increase of 8186,268, or 104 per placed under arrost. no win be cent. This increase is mainly due kept in confinement until an enquiry has been made. VALUE OF CHEESE RAISED e••••., Paid Curizle; St4tiols g . ave RX9v el a, Peaces% An Otteava deepatell says: Prof. Rolierteen has hest retereed trent a visit to the- GOVerrallent; Illustration Stations for the euring of cheetie, at Brockville, Ont., and Cowaesville, Qtrebee, eeys all the cheese made in the month of July and cur- ed at 11.10W temperature neve ell the elterecterietiee of fine September cheese. Comparleg U10'0110050 cured cit 11, low temperature wity cheese from the same factorlee aid of the seme lots 011406 le the fluctuating 48401901? - 4041210 of the ordinery atmoVehere, the cool -cured cheese Were fOlind to haVe liner antl richer 45541200, ae tooll as a ancl more agreeable flav- or. The lose front. shrinkege in weight, in throe weeks, lute been one pound per cheese lees in fine• cool temperature then in the ordinary curing room. In the case of cheese which experts colleted faulty from being almost acidy in texture and flavor or weak in .body uml slight- ly open in texture, as were 210020 of the 0110050 cured in the ordinary cUr- inff Minn the mol-euved cheese of the slime lots were found. to be free from these defects. Flavors object- ed to by buyers and which lessen the value of cheese in the markets of Um United Riugclont aro seldom pre- sent, 'unless the cheese heye been heated to a temperature above 60 degrees. Since about three-quarters of the Whole quantity of cheese manufac- tured in Canada. is turned out dur- ing the months Of June, July and August, an improvement in the me- thods of curing during the hot wea- ther will lead to a great improve- ment in the trade. Taking every- thing into account, it is expected that from 15 to 20 per cent. more value will be realized from the milk during these three months than would be the case by the continued use of the curing :flatbeds which at present are general. OFFER FOR FAST SERVICE. A Winnipeg despatch se.ys: Pri- vate Espial and Trumpeter Davey, C.M.R., were drowned in the Assinl- boine River near Main street bridge on Tuesday. In company with Pri- vate Carleton they left the bar- racks with the intention of going to to raising the poll tax from 850 to 5100. At the same time there was an increase of 1,007 in the Chinese who paid the poll tax, -the number for the last fiscal year being 3,525, as against 2,518 for 1900-01. Add- ing 62 who were exempt, from the tax, the total number of immigrants was 8,587. The year previous there were 2,544, including 26 exemptions. BOERS TO VISIT CANADA. Will Be Sent to Study .A.gricultur- al Improvements. A. Johannesburg, deepatch says The Government has decided to send a portion of the Boers to Canada and Australia to study agricultural methods . there for application in improving their own farming. Orders levee been given for the *dis- missing of 8,000 worlunen amployecl at the French State military fac- tories. Seeciety-six Catholic schools in Paris lave been giveh a, week's no- tice to close for contravening tho Law of Associations by not apply- ing for authorization. A Greek immigrant who purposes following his avocation as a farmer, when asked at Melbourne as to his conditioe produced testimony that he was worth 5120,000. The Dominion rifle matches have been postponed until the first week In September, but the competition for the Palma Trophy will take place on /august 26, as previously arranged. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Milwaukee, July 29, -Wheat No, 1 Northere, 185 to 790; No. 2 Northern, 78 to 78*e; September, 725e. Rye -Firm, No, 1, 60 to 603c, Barley -Steady; No. 21 70e; sample, 65 to 70c. Oore-September, 605e. Duleth, July 29, -Whet --Cash No 1 hard, 785c; No, 2 Northern, 741e; July, 7610; 'September, 721e; No, 2 Northern, 741e; July, 765c; Septem- ber, '7246; December, 7054; Manitobe, No. 1 Northern cash, 761c; No. 2 Northern, 745C. Oats -September, 8810. ilia/ale, July 20 .--Flou , Wheat -Spring quiet; No. 1 Northern CA:loads, 81e; winter, dereand light; No, 2 red, 82c. Corn -Mtn No. 2 -+ QUESTION OF TERMS. MONKS LOSE MIR BOMB. pie's) Bestroye Wentlerfel MOMS, tery at 01040. A Mentreal despateli fleYel The Wonderful Teepplet Monatstery at Oka, where 07 priests and inonks from all over the world were earry- ing out votes of perpetual labor, Pereeatual prayer, mid perpetual 'nil- erice, is a, heap of crumbling Amin% A ere broke out hn'the tailor shece on ,4P11urscley aftereooe ablaut' 200 o'elock, but the llama epread 00 rapidly that the Wboie building wile soon doomed., The ' wine cellare, coatedning 10,000 galions of cider, and 6,000 gallons of wine, Were de- stroyed just 'before the pumpe from Ste Eustathe arrived. Tho canopy, 0121011 is carried over the head of the bishop, on gala occasions, and the silver crown, which does service on oeceeions, ere Mee lost. Ail the gardens and trees surro.unding the moeastery ere destroyed. The cheese le the creamery wes, hour - ever, all saved, 'In the ruins of the main buildingcan still be seen part of the arch over the entraece door enclpart of the inscriptive: "It is hand to live here, but easy to elie," ie still 'visible. The library, which is destroyed, contained 5,000 valu- able volumes and manuscripts. The grounds eomprise,1,000 acres, of which 450 acree are devoted to fanning and 550 acres are woods, The monnetery itself was composed of a big main building, facing west, and three wings, built in a quad- rangle. They were of stone quar- ried near Olca, and four storeys high. The crosses in the cemetery have burned to ashes, and the ,grave al- ways kept open to remind the monks of death which is ever near, is filled with debris. Cloisters have been fitted up for the monks in the Agri- cultural. College. COMMERCIAL PROHIBITION. The Railroads and the Liquor Problem. A Cheyenne 'despatch says that twenty-five saloons have been COM- pelled to close in that town duriug the past month as the result of an Four Steamers With Speed of Twenty Knots, order issued by the -Union Pacific A. despatch to the London Times from Montreal slays it is understood that the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, at the request of the Canadian Ministers now in London, has telegraphed an ofier to estab- lish and Work a weekly fast passen- ,ger service, composed of four steam- ers, erith the most modern equip- ment, and with a speed of twenty knots an hour, between Quebec and Liverpool in the stmuner, and Hali- fax and Liverpool in the winter, to- gether with a freight service com- prising ten or eleven steamers .of good spec;d, fitted with cold storage and all other modern appliances, The exact conditions of the offer are not known, but they doubtless figure within the amount talked of by certain English sterunship lines, namely, a subsidy of 51,800,000 annually. It will be necemeary for the Canadian Pacific Company, should a steamship contract be awarded to it, to make special ar- rangements with the Minister of Railways for the transportation of passengers and. freight between $t. John and Halifax In the winter, but there is no doubt that this could be easily accomplished. The Times edi- torially hssumes that such an ,offer was not made without knowledge of the conditions the imperial Gov- ernment is prepared to accede. It says it is a good 'augury that the proposal emanates from a company that has already given proofs that it can conduct a great ocean ser- vice pn sound business lines. DROVE HIM INSANE. Premier Bond's -Speech in London Much Canvassed. A St. John's, Nfld., despatch says: Wiclespreed interest is developing hero over the speech delivered in London last week by Sir Robert Bond, the Premier of Newfoundland, in which he deelared that the con- federation of Newfoundland with the Dominion of Canada was mainly a question of terms from the latter. Press and public are discuseing the :natter eagerly, and the feeling is generally expressed that Primo Min- ister Bond's speech makes the ques- tion a practical ono, turd is likely to result in action being taken to ad- vance the matter at the neat ses- sion of the Legislature. EQUALS LAST YEAR'S CROP Big Yield for the West Is Freely Predicted. A Winnipeg despatch says: The Canadian Northern Railway crop re- ports from various see,tions of the line corroborate the general impres- sion already current that the crop is likely to be en exceptionally fine one. The general yield ie likely to be 25 to 85 bushels per acre of wheat, from the most conservative estimates, while barley will prob- ably run as high as 60. and oats 75, The whole tenor of the reperts re- ceived from Correspondents of the Government and the railway com- panies' is that if this present weather co:Allures the semon will be as Mo- ns:Mil in every regard arc that of last year, and probably more sca Thirt1421 per110118 Were (11'001Iet1 57 the upeetting of 5. sailboat ia the harbor of Portsmouth, NIL A miserly man Was recently buried bn ine Department of ladro et Loire, France, who was knosen to ;memo a little money, but his holatives searched in every crevice of the house, but, found nothing. Consulta- tion with a. fortune teller led to the exhume:Lion of the maa's body, When 5400 Was found in his belta Railway Company which forbade em- ployees to enter drinking places whether on or oft duty. "The city," ,says the despatch, "has practically been put on a prohibition basis." If the business in twenty -Ave saloons Was bupportecl by railroad. men • to such an extent that the saloons had to close when their patronage was withdrawn, it was about time for some such order as tbat issued by the company. The Cheyenne experience affords a notable example of the growing at- titude of the great business intereets towards their drinking employees. '"The Union Pacific is not the only railway or other corporation which either by express orders or a general hostile policy has discouraged its employees from inidelgence in liquor. More and inere iho the great indus- tries of the day not only inebriates. but moderate drinkers are being crowded out." PROFITS PQINT OF 'VIEW. After Six Months in Sail Valle - court's Mind Gave Way. A Sanit. Ste. Marie despatch says: Six months in jail, during which his wife has left for atontreal, with his children, has proven to be too much -for Mr. Valineourt, and his mind has given way under the strain. From a strong, robust man, Vallncourt is now a mere she- doW. No healthier man than he could be 'found anywhere before hist winter when he was sitting by the side of his sick wile, and a man out- side demanded admittance, and said he would break the door in unless it, was opened, The house had been formerly occupied by bed charactees, rind Valincourt tried to tell the elan that they had moved away. Crash went the man's foot against the door, and Valincourt ran and got his revolver and ordered the men to stay out, With a volley of °lithe the Italian started to enter the room, and Valincourt fired the fatal shot. No bail is given for a case of this kind, or Valincourt would have had it furnished by hundreds who thought he did perfectly right. '7110 confinement and worry have proven too much for him. -- CHIEF OF POLICE KILLED; NJWS ITEMS. Telegraphic Briefs From All Over the Globe. CANADA, Tho telTilutlin iCiteePre48401, tnromt411 wera, 17°31 Co' Hen, Clifford Sifton goee to the ;Yukon at the end of August. IMMtaGov, Sir Henri. joly, of Columbia, is sPencling two nviinelg oietwon hat is estate Pfepinectu- W. T. R. Preeton, accompanied by 10 oe 12 editors of Maclieg old CaM11- try newspapers, will visit Ceneda next month. With the new elevator building this Seal3Cel the Ogilvie Company bWunsileablee oafhal°11etoat.tc've °Ire') nrilinen The cruiser Petrel seized 69 gill nets on Friday, containing 1,000 pounds of whitefish, eat by American fishermen in Lake Erie, Reports to the Department of Tahl'oaw°thaatriedenC:Idinalai°170e0dastareOtintadwea" mana In Norway and Sweden. Mrs. A. Gauthier of Montreal has just given birth to twins for the sec,- ond time in 21 months. The first two were girls, the secoecl boys. The Canadian Paeific Railway will tear down its Winnipeg shops and round houses, and rebuild, and aleo remodel the entire yard system. The export lumber mills of Bri- tish Columbia and Pudget Sound have combined under circumstances favorable to British Columble Immigration from Great Britain to Canada, which has averaged about 11,000 yearly for, five years Past, increased to 17,000 last year, • The Frontenac Clereal Company, Limited, with a caeitalization of f$06:00,.000,. has been formed at Kings- ton for the manufacture of cereal We fled also that the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad as meaeure of public safety, has ecet announced "more stringent amend- ments to their former regulations." There are obvious reasons why the railroads should be especially strict in this matter, they are not par- ticularly interested in sentiment or morals, except so tar as sentiment and morals affect their dividends. But they know that intemperate en- gineers, trainmen and switchmen en. - danger their property and expose them to enormous damage suits. So they faX017 temperance because tem- perance favors profits. There is a growing tendency to refuse employment to men who in- dulge in liquor, and this is extending ineo all lines of business and with emiuent propriety. LABOR ORGANIZATION Three Heads et the Department Igurdered Within One Year. An Elkins, W. Vu, deepatch says: Chief of Police F. H. Wilmoth of this town was murdered on Tues- day night et Womelsclorf, near here. He was la the act of arresting two negroes when a third man shot him from conbush. A poem is in pur- suit of the murderer, ancl it is bol lieved that he will be lynched if he Is caught. This 19 the third murder of an Elides Chief of Police within a year, the ether victims having been Robert Lilly and Page B1411' - stellar, OTTAWA'S POPULATION. The Bala of Dunflonald, the new major -general commanding the Can- adian militia, has taken a lease of a residence in New Edinburgh, a sub- urb of Ottawa, for two months. News of postponement of the King's coronation did not reach Moose Factory, James' Bay, head- quarters of Bishop Newnham, until after the date set, and the suppos- ed coronation Was celebrated with a holiday and speeches. GREAT BRITAIN. The American Ice Company will enter the English market within three moeths. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, who was recently injured by being thrown from a cab, has been order- ed to take a complete rest, and a change of air. If the railitty company's plan could be adopted by the labor or- ganizations, not oely would the cause of temperance be promoted, but the workingmen themselves' would be vastly benefited, and it might serve as an aid in reaching the taproot of inany of the strikes. John Burns, the distinguiehed labor advocate, and member of the English Parliament, In addressing a London audience, said : "G'o with me into some streets where wages fire under 30 sbillings ; oite home is clean, bright, attractive, and in the same street with more money and often more room, others are dirty, untidy and noisome in their con- dition, Wily ? Because the work- man works hard live days, but on the sixth Is generally found at the Corner Pin, spotting winners and catching 10SerS. "There are 'thousands of bomes in London which are dirty because the dwellers aro drunken, filthy because the 'tenants are foul, verminous be- cause their tenants ere AS lazy as their landlords are exaqting. But," bo says, "I 'deem it my duty to say that but for think and its con- comitant evils, the labor problem would be smaller and our remedies Mere effective." Teinperanee workers have no need to give up hope. It le a poor polic:y for meraliets to be backing delve from their high stand tit this oriels when the great corporations and in- dustrics are coming to their aid so power! u I ly, JENNIE 13ATILTROP. 13ecause she learned three months after her marriage that her husband was her half-brother, Mrs. Maggie Wagner, bride of Fred Wagner, a wealthy yoeng farmer living near Ressellville, Moo swallowed carbolic, add and expired in groat agony in her husband's atm% Professor (lecturing) -"In conclu- sion I Would instance mental Mier- ratioe, inaeta to width the learn- ed are frequently subject, and occa- sionally realm themselves ridiculous without knowing it." (After saying which the professor took, inatead of his hat, the Innen shade off tho brac- ket, put it on Ma hem), and walked out). Nearly 15,000 Ilcire Than Credited By the Census. An Ottawa despatch mye :-The .'ners city directory 1011.8 ieeeed to -clay and glees the population of ()Wove at , '78,196. There are 115,240 in- diVidual nainttS in the directory, The Dominive eensus places the popula- tion et 50,400, Australian .business men and buy- ers who' visited London for the cor- onationwill probably investigate the Canadian market, returning via Canada. "During 1899-1900," remarked the Islington coroner, "there were 1,684 inquests on children whose deaths had been caused by playing with fire." ?dr. Andrew Careegie has given 550,000 to Eastbourne, Sussex, for the establishment of a library, for which the Duke of Devonshire has given a site. Between 3,000 and 4,000 colliers in the South Staffordshire and 1Vor- cestershire districts have struck work against a 10 per cent, reduc- tion of wages. Sir Henry Irvires fetnous theatre in London, the Lyceum, has been condemned, and will probably be torn down and a neer theatre built On the site. It is announced that te new pane. phlet will shortly be issued showing the advanteges of joining the army, the conditions of service, and the rates of pay. - The corcination route will be iden- tical with that arranged for Janie 26. This arrangement is duo to the King's anxiety to mitigate as much es possible the disappointment caused by the postponement of the coronation. VxasoisTAL POINTEAS, Notes Of Litereet Aberuil SPAM Leeding People. The$°ora Isi.lionwg lytBstiollpleloctletilgeurto oaht! ea One limir and five =Meths ie the With for a full nunsber of eaersee. Five acres of laed round Charing, Cress are held by the Marquie Ballsbery. Therm eeres Were Ott tainea by hie A:mestere 250 Yoga/ ago for grazing land at the modest rate of 10s. an acre for 500 years, What that little bargain has been worth to the Cecile it would be ese thee (Moult to aceurately compute. 'Me value of the King's china at Buelcingham Palace and Windom, is fsaid to exceed 1100,000. The Sev- res dessert service in the green di'n'wi1100-,0ndh 10V0°14 at tWieI n dV sr 0u15clv Pjeed at 41Barri vases in the corridors at 1150,000. At Buckingham Palace there are eh: Sevres vases, which would fetch in any auction room, 115,000 apiece. President Roosevelt has 82,627 ap- Pw°inerilmin einetsi.nawatih,dt e Poubainy crn ic°erYehe iee. Itt pleases. The value of these appoint- ments ranges from saoo to 52,000 a year, Though the salaries are not very great, Mr. Roosevelt has on his list eo fewer than 105,106 names of applicants for these 82,627 cpalanctesfor s'0:n1611111;01504:then three aPP3- The children of Mr. Michael Davitt write with either hand with equal. facility. Mr, Devitt, who early in life lost his right arm by its being draught in the machinery of a mill in which he wets • working, readily adopted, in the case of his own children, the practiee which he had heard prevails in the schools in Ja- pan, where the scholars learn to write with both the right, and the left hand. The King is said to be insured for about 53,750,000, whilsti21:5e0P0:40ionoce. of Wales is content with The most heavily insured monarch was the late King Humbert, whose life was valued by himself at 57,- 500,000, so that the many insurance companies arnongst whom the risks wore dlifidecl were very hard hit by his assassination. The German Em. Peror's insurance runs Into six fig- ures. One of the finest collections of Crown jewels in the world is pos- sessed by the Sultan el Turkey, their 'Mille being estimated at .138,000,000. Every Sultan from the earliest times has made a point of collecting jew- els and selling none, and thus, through the course of ages, the col- lection has become enormous. The jewel rooms of the Turkish Sultan resemble nothing so much as the description of Aladdin's cave in the, "Arabian Nights." UNITED STATES, New Brunswick, N.J., reports a species of grasshopeer that will eat cloth. Monquithee have caused great an- noyance at Bristol during the last few days. John W. Mackay of San Preemie - co, one of the richest men in the worla, is dead at London. General Smith, a'uthor of the "Kill and burn" order in the Philippines, hvectist.been retired by President Reese - Many crates of Leeries infected with smallpox have gone into the homes of Chicago families from a farie at $t. Joseph, Michigan. In a lawsuit at Newark, 127.3., it, was shown that the U. S. Steel Cor- poration earns 5140,000,000 a Year, Willie tile aesets are $1,400,000,000. Four negro women' engaged in 8. duel with lame; at the door of a church at Stockbridge, Ga. one be- ing out to death and another seri- ously injured. Dr. leeward L. Parker, a, physician of the Long Island State Hospital, Baremeil.clyn, was found drowned in the after losing tearly 5600 at the rs serf at Coney Teland 011 WednesdaY, President Loubet is known to be devotedly attached to his venerable mother,who, albeit her son is now the first citizen of /Prance, continues, as before her simple habits of a. farmer's wife. When the President visited the venerable King of Den- mark recently His Maiesty, in speak- ing after dinner, felicitously said: "And you, President. have an aged mother very dear to you. Allow me to promise a toast and greeting in her honor." The President Nves gratified and touched. Sir Charles Dilke is nn excellent exponent of the foils. In his young- er days, though even then he had passed his fiftieth year, lie defeated several of the roost celebrated fen- cers of Paris, who expressed them- selves astounded at the lightning rapidity with which be could change the foil from hand to hand. For the last thirty years the baronet has devoted an hour a day to this branch of sport. He is also a splendid oarsmen and a fearless rid- er. Strangely enough, he has rath- er a contempt for cricket, foot- ball, and Muni% Tbe Right Hon. Charles Owen G'Conor, bettor known as The O'Conor Don, would be the Legitim- ist clainnuit to the Irish throne were there one. He claims to be able, to trece ids lineage in Unbrok- en successien to the 'last of the Irish Kings. His father was the first Ro- man Catholic member of the Coun- ty of Roscommon since the Refor- mation, and he hinteelf succeeded to the same seat in his twenty-second year, holding it continuously for a comic of decades, until the Parnell movement drove him out Of public life. He is an Irish Privy Coun- cillor, and he held a seat on the Royel Conunission that inquired in- to the, flnaneial relations between Great Britain and Ireland. Mr, J. F. X. O'Brien, M. P., is the only man novs living who has been sentenced by British law to be hanged, drawn, and quartered for treason-felouy. In 1867, in the days of the Fenian movement, O'Brien MIS arrested whilst leading an armed party which attacked a police barracks. At. the trial it ap- peared that the barracks was set on fire, and that the inmates, includ- ing some women and children, were in immineet dcmger, when O'Brien, at great personal risk, went to their relief, and this ciecumetence was con:merited upon ihi ternis of praise by the judge when ,passing sentence. The sentence was commuted to pen- al servitude for life, ancl some years lathe Mr. O'Brien was amnestied. , G ENER AL. RbuMania will have e record liar - vest find' maize crop this year. An earthquake at Builder Abbas, rorsi a., destroyed the a °earner's reeldence .and the custom house. : The Tinsel/2e Government has Sub- mitted a propeeal by the Imperial Clovernment for art international enninienee to 'deal with truses. !Berlin expects ite nre brigarlo to Pdrfoent a variety of dutiee. The rdeu have Just beat called out to hlve several Materna of bees which hot' egeatped from their oWnera, No Free State judge was eve" mere popular than Mr. Steyn in the days whet he traversed the eountry in a. two -wheeled gig. There were no railways or bridges in the Free State then, and travelers, even With a judge's salary, were compelled to live primitive lives. When meal time came the Judge .Woulci stop his four mustangs, and alight: fro,10 his glg to make fire by the wayside at Whieh to cook his dinner. Ilitving eaten his ehop he would resume his journey, and at night would lcnock at the door of the nearest' farm house, where hq would be weleomed to the fainily supper table and offer. ed a bed for the night. In this way Mr, Steyr!' traveled through the Free Stele Omni end to end, administer. big justice necl making friendship.% at, every plate he visited.