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The Brussels Post, 1902-9-18, Page 7ME MARKETS Prices of Grain,,, Cattle, OtC iii„Tracie Centres,- • KREAPSE Laws. Toronto, Sept. 10. — Wheat —The markut. is quiet at 00e for red mod Vint° east and fffic Middle freights, (Mose is neMinal at 080 f Or Non 2 %Mt and 62e oiladle freights. Maui - Ube, Wheat is steady at 88e tor No. 1,* hard, 82*e foe No. 1 north- ern and 80*c for No, 2 northern grinding in transit, Flour—Is eteenly; 90 per cent, Pat- ents aro offering at $2,70 ia buyers' bags oast afid Middle freights, with exporters pickling 18.70; choice brands aro 15o to 20e bigher, 31E1110%1—M 'steady at $17 for Shorts and $12.50 for bran in 'bulk east or aniddle freights, Manitobn snillfeed to steady at $98 for shorts and 817 for, bran, sacks included', Toronto freights, • Barley—Is steady at 870 to 38c for No. 8 and $90 te 40p Me No. 8 ex- tra middle freights elfd east. Rye—Is steady at 45c for No. 2 oast and middle freights, Corn—The market is quiet at 62c for Canada, west. 'American No, 8 yellow is quoted at 684c on the track Toronto. Oats—Are about steady, No. 2 while aro quoted at 80c to 80*e etost and at 29c bid and 294-c asked middle freights, and 30c asked low freigitta to New York, Peas—Are quiet at 73c for No, 2 east and 72e west. ono. COUNTRY PRODUCE). Butter—The receipts axe very large and all the requireanenta of the trade are easily not There is a good in- . <miry for creameryprints and for the dairy rolls, but other grades are' slow. Prices are unchanged. Creamery prints to 20c 'do solids fresh made 18c to 18Se do earlier make 17e to 18e Daley tubs and pails,' choice 150 to 000 do medium . . . . 124c. to 14p do 'common 1140 to 12c . do pound rolls .... 15e to 160 do. medium. ... 13e to 15e Eggel--The su'oply of selects- is slight and there is a big consumers' demand. The market is Brno at 16c. Chips and seconds are plentiful anti aro quoted steady at 10c to 11c. Potatoes—Farmers are bringing very few potatoes to market now and receipts have 1 alien off greatly': no market is firm at 70c to 75e per bag out of store. Poultry—There is a good demand for the choice stock but old and witheredbirds are slow. Prices are steady at 65c to 85c for dressed chickens and ducks, 45c to 60c ' for live ducks, 45c to 50c for live hens and 60c for live chickens. Turkeys are nominal at 11c to 12c. Beans—New York, Sept. 16. — There Is rather a. firm feeling on ehoice pea beans, recent sales being on a more liberal scale. They are still bold at $1.95 per bushel, and poor to good aro' quoted at $1.50 to $1.90: Baled Hay—The demand is fairly good and the market is steady. Cars of No. 1 timothy on the track here are quoted at $9. Dated Straw—Is in moderate de- mand and the market is steady. Cars on the track here are quoted at $5.50. , PROVISIONS. Meats—Are active ard trade is in fair condition. The volume of bus's:. ness is Melted on account of the small stocks on . hand. Prices aro firm and unchanged. Lard is stea- dy. Pork—Canado, short cut, $24; heavy mess, $20.50; clear shoulder mess, 518. Smoked and Dry Salted Meats — Long clear bacon, 11c; hams, 1.8Sc to 14c; rolls, 12e to 121c; shoul- ders, llic; backs, 15c to lac; break- fast bacon, 144c to 15c; green meats out of piefcm are quoted at lo less than smoked. Lard—Tierces, 10en, tubs 11c and pails 111c. 111'BUFFALO GRAIN MARKET'S. • Buffalo, Sept. 16. — Flour steady. Wheat, spring firm; No. 1 northern , spot, old, carloads, 81,1c; winter ir- regular; No. 2 red, 72sc.. Corn, de - m ind light; No. 2 yellow, 67S0; No. #• 8, 67c; No. 2 corn, fleite; No. 8 do., 66S c. Onto—Unsettled, but gener- ally stronger; No. 2 white, 82/c to 88c; No. 3 do., 814c to 32c; No. 2 mixed, 29S0; No. 8 do., 29q. Bar- ley, western, 52c to 65e. Rye, No. • 1, 510. . Canal freights firm; wheat 4c, COrll no, to Now York, EUROPEAN GRAIN MARKETS. London, Sept, 16. — Opening -- Wheat, on passage, quiet ,and stea- dy; cargoes about No. 1 Calif., iron, prompt, 29s 44c1 bid. Corn, on pas- sage, rather firmer. London, Sept. 16. — Close — Mark Lane --Wheat, foreign steady; Eng- lish nominally unchanged. Corn, American nothing doing; Danubian, steady' al; an advaace, ot 3d. Sneer firm. Paris,. Sopa 16.--0l0se es Wheat firm; September, 201; January and April,201 300. Floes” steady; Sep- tember, 271 90c; January and April, 261 550. Livia STOCK MARKETS. Toronto, Sept. 16,—At the West- ern cattle market this morning the •receipts wee° 75 carloads, including 1,411 cattle, 1,188 shoop and lambs, .500 hogs, 50 calves, aad 15 Milch cows, The market all round war quotably . unchanged; good cattle were a shade flamer, but little good stuff was hose, roe a few loads of extra choice export cettle to-cley $5.90 per cwt, was paid, but the rarge Was from 85 to $5.75 as a rule, and from 54.25 to 85 for light shippers. More choke export, cattle would hove sold. Only a small supply of really choiee butcher cattle over() hero, but Mr What WO diti hove /MOOS Wore strosiger at front 54.50 to $5 por Mete There was no olutege in ho Medium and connolon eattle, bat Meet of time, Sold, Steekere and Metiers were Wlellallged, but a Mange tone prevailed for heti), glibileowS are fetthing from $25 to 845 etstili with OrMinry ier 4 kW choice nOlob Of/Ws, There is 41So steady enquiry 1 good to ()IMMO Veal OalvoS. $810,11 Stuff Was M lighter Supply, and practically unchanged to -clay. ExPOrt Owes aro worth freno 58.80 to $8,00 per cwt. Latinos sold, at front 58.75 to 84.75 per owt, Oulled sheep sell at from 52 to 58 each. l3ticise ere Werth from 52,25 to $2 75 per cwt. Calves are quoted from 52 to $10 ea,e11, or from 8 to 5c per lb. • Following is the renge of quota- tion: Cattle, Shippers, per owt 85,75 Do., light ..„.„ 1.25 5,00 Butcherch , oice . 4.60 5.00 Butcher, ordinary to good” 3.00 4,00 Stockers,• per cwt. — 8.20 3.75 Sbeep and La'nebs. Choice owes, per coit ... 3,30 8.60 Lambs, per owt . 3.40 4.25 Bucks, per cwt , 2.25 2,75 Culls, each -2.00 3.00 • a Milkers and CIves, Cows, each .., ,25.00 42.00 Pelves, ettch 2.00 10.00 Hogs. Choice 1100,, per cwt., 7.00 7.12* Light hogs, per cwt 6.75 6.87* Heavy hogs, per cwt6,75 6.87S Sows, per cwt .“ 8.50 4.00 Stags, per cwt 0.00 2.00 CANADIAN SOO CANAL GUARDING FRENCH DANK During' the Niglot a Company 91 Xnfantry Enatebee, The New York Herald Sari; Xf the reported robbery 01 tbe Bank of 31'l'0093 Of $44,000 in gold is borno out by or Mete it MOO be undoubtedly one of the neest resnarkable thefts in the intatory of banicing institutions, be- ck/sae the mot stringent precautions are takoo to guard its voting, .411 the epeele received in the bank by the cashiers is brought in bags on truelcs, which run on rails to the chief cashier's office. From there It is tonsil to the etrong roons in the 'vaults below the bank. , This strong room is guarded by a etot stool acior, to open which throe sep- arate locks must be turned. These three locks are always undone by three Separate officials, no one man being allowed to handle more than one key. The door of the strong room opens into a narrow room, largo enough to contain three or more people, On the right is o. stone staircase leadieg to a laby- rinth of narrow passages, in which are stored the begs of specie. ' Like the Bank of England, the Bank of France is 'guarded during the night time by a company of in- fantry, Increased Traffic Through Dos minion's Waterway. An Ottawa despatch says :—The total freight carried by the two Soo canals during the month of August last was 5,070,491 tons. This is 382,671 tons more than were cen- ries' in August, 1901, and 1,855,- 717 tons more than the quantity carried in August, 1900. Of the total of 5,070,491 to carried by tho two eatILLIS, the Canadian Soo car - rid 689,856 tons, which exceeds the freight carried in August, 19010 • by 844,688 tons, and that in August 1900, by 870,166 tons. Taking the. five months of the present •season, the total freight carried by the two ,canals ovios ; 1902, 18,163,288 tons; 1901, 18,156,275 tons; and 1900, 13,056,074 tons. Thus 1902 shows O gain of '5,007,018 tons compared with 1901, and of 5,107,214 tons compared with 1900. Tho totol freight carried by the Canadian canal in the five months of the three years is : 1902, 2,814,546 tons ; 1901, 1,958,583 tons ; 1900, 1,247,- 281 tons. Om/messed with the Unit- ed States Soo for the five months, the Canadian canal carried 18 per cent. of the total freight in 1902, 12.06 per cent. in 1901, and 7.56 per cont. in 1900. WIRELESS SERVIcE Inventor to Begin Final Experi- .• ments in Three Weeks, A London despatch says.: Cuth- bert Hall, the London manager , of the Marconi Wireless .Co., in an in- terview on Thursday gold Signor Marconi would reach the United States in three weeks on the cruiser Carlo Alberta, which has beep plac- ed at his disposal by'the Italian Government, and which is outfitted with a Wireless system. On hi ar- rival in America Signor Marconi will immediately begin his last series of experiments propitiatory to the es- tablishment of a commercial wire- less service across the Atlantic. Marconi anticipates success in the fullest sense of the word. While crossirg the Carlo Alberta will coe- stoutly send cominunications to the English side, so that everything will be ready at the moment of het. ar- rival, when Mosconi himeelf will flash the message which will be the culmimotion of the work of years. ELECTRICAL SERVICE Letters to Be Transmitted on Overhead Wires. A Rome 'despatch says n -Signor Galiraberti, Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, and the officials of his department have examined a. scheme subnoitted by Engineer Piscicelli for the establishment of an electrical postal service. The system proposes to transmit letters In aluminum boxes, traveling on overhead wires at the rate of 400 kilometres (248 miles) an hour. Thus a letter would go from Rome to Naples in 25 min- utes, and from Rome to Paris in five hours. Signor Galimbeeti has appointed a technical commission to examine the system, and report be- fore experiments are made between Rome and Naples. BETTER FIRE SAFEGUARDS Electric Wiring in Ottawa Build- • ings Inefficient. An Ottawa despatch says :—The °Metric wiring ta Ottawa Windings has been • strongly condemned by Mr. Goo. 0. Wright, of Toronto, in- spector of the Berlin Fire Insuranoe. Co, _In view of the frequency of fired occurring to several places, the origin of which emus to be a metier of doubt, tho insurance come edifies aro becoming alive to the ne- cessity of insisting upon all tile safeguards being secured. Ile points MA that in Toronto the companies have boon inost active it this direc- tion, sant close scrutiny has follow- ed the wiring of all public build - loge, stores, eto. • STORM IN ENGLAND Hop Growers Sorely Hit by Rain and Hail. A London despatch saysl ,Expeets estimate the damage done to the Kentish itop-groWees yesterday by the storm 01 eain and hail at fully 5500,000, MULATTO TURNED wiirrfl All Done Within Seven Years — Remarkable Case. A York, Pa., despatch says: Mrs. Cornelia Noble, a mulatto, 60 years old, resjcling in this city, in seven years has completely changed color, s -ave for a few marks on her corm and body, the transformation being from that of the natural hue of the Mulatto to the delicate white com- plexion of the fairest. Caucasian. Mrs, Noble says: "It is just seven years since X noticed a small white spot at the top of my forehead, just at the roots of the hair. It grad- ually spread, and within a year had reached, the size of half a dollar. Tii the meantime other white spots peered on my face, neck, arms and body. Now, as you see, X am com- pletely white, with the exception • of these marks on my arms and be:tin, and, strauge to say, these marks are much darker than was my original color. I tun and have been in per- fect health." Mrs. Noble is the wife of a Cuban. Her maternal grandmother was a German, • while her paternal grandfather was a Cas- tilian. TALKS BY' HERTSIAN WAVES Boston Nan Succeeds With Efis • Experiments. A Boston despatch says: Greenleaf W. Pickard of this city has succeed- ed in telephoning by 'Tension waves, the human voice being accurately and distinctly reproduced. Recent- ly he constructed an instrument at Ce.pe May by which sounds were transmitted- by Nertsinn waves over it distance of 40 miles, but to -day is the first instance in winch articula- tion has been reproduced. °Metals of the Bell Telephone Company, who wero invited to witness the test. signed a .certificate .that 'it was suc- cessfel. The instruments wero. iii two robins of Mr. Pickard's house, and it remains to be seen whether they will - wells over greater diS- tancei. The inventor does not yet clain that the, device nen bo a com- mercial success, but hopes to make it such in the near future. BOERS TO VISIT US • They Were Once 'Prisonere in St. Helena and. Ceylon.. An Ottawa despatch says :—The two parties of Bows who are to visit this coutotry are from the prisoners who were contined at St. Helena and Cey- lon. The St. Helena, party will con- sist of Messrs, 'least% Lane and Stewart, and will be accompanied by Lieut. Godson, of the South Afri- can Constabulary, as guide. The Boers from Ceylon are Mosses. Mo- ritz, Laos, Badenharst and Schee- raany, with Mr. J. 111. Finley as guide. It was the wish ofboth Right Hon, Joseph Chamberlain and Lord Milner that tho 1 . delegates should visit. Canada, bofeis the win- ter sets in, going' afterwards . to New Zealand and Australia. CREMATING LIVE BABIES Fearful Charge lYfad.e Against a Chicago Woman. A Chicago despatch says :—"Cre- motion of living" babies in hor kit- chen. ranges is a charge made by Charles Early ogainst Ales. Pauline Taeschler, Who conducts a private hospital in South May street. Early anode this and other sesicom charges before tho State Board of Health. As a roault officials' of the board se- cured ti warrant against Mrs. Taeschler on it charge of practising medicine' without a license and tho woman bas been arrested. Mrs, Taeschler attributes the charges to motives of revenge inspired bY hos eefusal to allow Early to visit a woman patient in the hospital. SANITARY REFORM Enteric Fever Delayed End of War Six Months, A London despatch says: Presid- ing tot the sanitasy science section of the Sanitary Congress, in ses- sion al, Manehester, on Thursday, Sir James Crichton Browne, M. D., enoolia.eizhig the necessity for re- formiog the sanitary organization of the British army, said enteric fever during the South African over had reduced the fighting force by 70,000 to 80,000 mem „But for tins the war would •have been ended six months earlier, and 5800,000,000 to 5350,000,000 Wrould have been ect, WRY WOOL 1 SO EEO PAOPOSBD LEGISL4TIO1'T re $O -CALLED ,,WOOZZEN GOODS.'7 wa1xe4 by the National Live Stock Assoeiation of the United States. With this subject in view. the Hon, Chali. Grosvenor, atthe request of the National Live Stock Association, recently • iotroduced in- to the 'House 01 Representatives of the United States, a bill to provide for federal 1nePection of mixed goods and the proper marking of the same, Which is known as IL R. 6500. Tho purpose of this bill is to 11141M it poseible for the consumer tO know what lie is purchasing by having the goods stomped so ate to indicate whether it Is all wool, er if not, then the percentage of shoddy or waste, There is no objection made to the use of cotton weste, 100070, ehoddy, oto,, in the manufacture • of textile fabrics, when the fact is made known to the consumer, and where fraud is not perpetrated by selling these mixtures as all-ovool fabrics. As an epitome of the measure, the following is extracted: "All man- ufacturers of goods or fabrics of any kind whatsoever made in imitation of woollen goods or fabrics, or goods which when so made are calcu- lated or intended to be sold as woollens or woollen goods, not made wholly of ntov or unused sheep's wool, shall so mark, label, or tag such goods, as that they may be rectally distinguished from genuine wools or woollens, as de- fined in the first section of this Act. That such Mark, label or tag shall be 80 alteebed to such goods or fabrics so that it cannot be de- tached except by design; and such label shall accurately state in plain eriated letters or figuees the con- stituent fibres or other materials or substances of which it is composed, or the relative proportion per cent. of each." • THE PENALTY for non-compliance with the, prey's, - ions of the proposed law are thus set forth: "That any manufacturs en.merthant, importer, or other per- son ovho shall wilfully, recklessly, or earelessly mark incorrectly any cloths, fabrics, or aey article man uffictured. or in the process of man ufacture thereff•oin, required by this Act to be labelled or marked, so as to show a largos per cent. of wool or a smaller',per cent. of .shoddy or cheaper fibre oi• material, in any manner than will, or is. calculated to, deceive or mislead the purchaser thereof, shall he guilty of a misde- meanor, and shall be -fined rot less than $50, • and nbts more than 55,- 000 for each offence." The National Live Stock Aesopian tion poirts out, that "there are son- eral classes of shoddy." The best is made from -the - sweepings of tailor shops, and the emptyings of rag- bags in civilized countries. The worst, which constitutes the greater Part used in America, is from the rotten cast-off rags of beggars and the laser and pest houses of Europe, having in them all kinds and amounts of filth era disease. These are gathered by rag -pickers from the slums .and .alleys o,nd sent to .A.mer- ice in shiploads, where they are purchased by a certain class of man- ufacturers, who, in order to take the curse off the mune, term the 'stuff ''re -used wool fibre." It must be re- membered, however, that in most in- stances, when tearing this shoddy to pieces, preparatory to again weaving it icto cloth, it is found to bo so rotten and dead, that nettl- ing is produced but dust, arid in order to got two ends se that it can be spun, a minimum portion of wool or cotton is mixed with it, in order that it MAY BE HELD TOGETHER. The next step after weaving carries it to unscrupulous dealers, who sell this, production to the laboring men, and in fact to all classes of so- diety, for "pure wool," thus gettiug for a suit worth throe or four dol- lars more than throe times this amount. "To encourage such cio Intel is simply putting the lousy rags of European paupers in compe titian with the &beep and wool growers of America. and elsewhere, and robbing the consumers who Wear woollen garshents by selling them the stuff under a misrepresent- ation." If the foregoing statements Etre facts, and it is scarcely likely the Live Stock Association would Publicly state them unless they were true, it can be readily seen that apart from the fraud and misrepree sentation I* the matter, there Is a considere.b13 source of danger to the public health through infecticts It 7111, I believe, be readily ad- mitted that some shoddy is' better than many low-grade wools, and when made into cloth, would make a bethor article than the short staple low-grade wool. but this is one of the anomalies ofte hes to contend with, and should not be a stumbling block to legislation on the ques- tion. Strenuous efforts will no doubt be made in all countries where legisla- tion is proposed te prevent the con- sideration of the subject; but the cifflicaltios in the way of formulat- ing a workable enactment cannot bo insurmyuntable, and I sincerely hope that this pepor may do something to hasten the object we have in view. • ALFRED MANSELL, Shrewsbury, Eng, ALASKAN VOLCANOES Three Reported to be in Active Er up ti on, A Seattle despatch says l—PosSon° gets on tho last trip of the steamer Bertha Nom Alatka say that the volconees in Redoubt, llianma and Augustine Mountathe wore in active eruption, Great • volumes of steam issued from all • tbrce,. end Redoubt was throwing (gouda of snook° foe miles hit o the airs • SMART OF THE ELIDPITANW., "61)00,1(111' about animals, to Int eXperience• the elephant is th sreartest, 01 the whole gang," sal the ex-canvasnian, reinembei back in '50, viten 1 Was with Bar Mina, ole flimperOr shoWed one day he could read," -"Oh, give UP!" "I won't glee up neither. And Pil prove 14 to you in about two minutes, Well, as 1 wab sayire, the old Sallow got into a Scrape with the royal Bengal tiger, and 'fore we could got 'eni, separated he got his trunk patty badly clawed up. After the scrimmage was over, iihrip'ror he breaks loose, and starts down street on the dead run. 'He's goin' wild,' somebody hollers. 'Don't you be- lieve it,' says I. Now, where do you suppoae that there elephant went to?" "Went straight to the surgeon's, 1 suppose. Say, oan't you got up a better yare.—" "Naw. SIe didn't go to the sur- geon's neither. He went straight to 4 little portmanteau chop widtj had the sign out that said: 'Trunks re- paired while srbu wait.' Of course, he had made a mistake, but what do you expect of a, poor dum.b brute?" 0 DIAGNOSING THE COMPLAINT. Doctor Pilisley—sLet me see your tongue! Hum! Appetite good?" Patient—"Eirst-clo.ss." Doctor --"Digestion all right?" Patient—"Oh, yes." 7 Doctor—"Aro you troubled with sleeplessness?" Patient—'"Never." Doctor—"Do you ever have severe pains in the head or back?" Patient—''None." Doctor—"Don't you of ten feel a disinclination to -work?" Patient—"Well, yes." Doctor—"And a desire to lie abed late in the mornings?" Patient—"Frequently." Doctor—"It is as 1 thought. Get this prescription made up at• 011ee and take a teaspoonful every three 1." 1 hours in iywater. call again to- morrow. Good -da A HORIZONTAL TREE. At Shillfried near Matzen a holi- day resort much patronized by the Vieunese, there Is a tree which, as stated by the Vienna Tagblatt, has the most singular characteristic of growing horizontally over the ledge of a deep hollow. The tree is about ten. years old, ono two years since, as the result of a landslip, it fell in- to its present position, with its branches upwards, and downwards, and so has grown over since, flower- ing and leafing just as if the pos- ition- were natural. A HUGE BLAST. The quarries of the Welsh Granite Company, Carnarvonsbire, Wale, have just been the scene of one of the biggest blasts coer attempted. Ten tons of gunpowder were used, turd 14 18 estimated that the amount of rock dislodged reached' 1,200,000 tons. Mrs. De Jarr—"Is there an idiot asylum near here?" Mr. Do Jarr— "I believe so." "Do they take peo- ple on their own recommendation?" "My stars! How should I know? Why?". "Oh, nothing! Only to -day I got hold of a package of my old los-e letters." A NATURAL BAROMETER. .plece of camphor gum is a very good indicator of what the weather is going to be. If,When the cam- phor is exposed to the air, the gum remains dry, tho weather will be fresh and dry, but if the gum ab- sorbs the moisture and seems damp it is an indication of rain; COOKED 33Y COLD. Anyone whohas ever picked up with a, bare hand a piece of intense- ly cold iron knows that the touch burns almost as badly WI if the metal wore red-hot. Indeed, the ac- tio a of great heat and extreme cold is. so ' that a Hungarian chemist has turned the latter to ac- count to prepare meatsforfood. Re subjects tho meat to sixty degrees of frost, and then seals it up in air- tight, cans. The result is that the meat is practically "cooked by cold." QUID PRO QUO. An old gertleman who was just re- covering from to severe illness was waited upon by a messenger from his doctor, sotto presented' his bill, for the purpose of beieg paid. After cogitating for some time over its contents, be desired the young man who called with it to convey the foil o wing message: "I will pay for the medicine, but certainly not the visits, as 1 will res turn them es soon es I am able to got out and about." 13011135 FOR WHALE FISHING. The har,poon now in use is'fired from ct small cannon in the bow of o whalo-boat. It is a short bar of Iron, with a chain and a ring to fas- ten the rope to, . The boutb-lituce is now also generally need in whale fishing, It is a pointed cast-iron tube, filled with gun powder, which is fired from a, gun. The bomb bursts inside the body of the whale, causieg a dull sound, and the vic. Om turning a somersault, expires very soon, if not at once. The following story has been told of a certain lawyer anci his client: The latter one day received a long bill for legal servicee, in which ev- erything was most minutely set down, even to a sheet of foolscap. When ho crone round to settle he re - !need to enter the Ofilee, but stood. in Ole doorway, and, holding one end of the bill, unrolled the volumitte ous doeument in the direction of his legal advisor, witti the request Mot he'd receipt it. "Come no, said the lawyer, in the inost cordial too, “No, thonk you," replied the elient, "you'd charge Inc rent it 1 did," N WS, ITEIVIS. Telegraphic Briefs From All Over the Giope, • CANADA, Windsor spent 5180 in Potting weeds this Suinnier, Rat Portage will have a nosy hose pital and a ntlesee' holno. During eAuguet there Were 175 deaths and 115 births in Winnipeg. Rev, Prof. Elliott'e elght-year-old daughtei was totally burned at Montreal on Saturday. English directors of the SnOWehr'e Mines, Est Grand Forks, B.C., will install another =eller. Archibald Peffers, a Hamilton ho- tel keeper, took a dose of stryehnine with fatal effect on Saturday. Mrs Edward Yon of Montreal lost Iler life in a fire that destroyed the family dwellttag on Saturday. Provinciel Treasurer Duffy at Quo - bee has a surplus of 594,192, after providing Mr all expenditure for the year, Customs collections at Montreal last month were $1,188,266, as cono- pared with $905,468 for August last year. There are 83 members of the en- trance class, Royal Military College, Kingston. Cadets this year number 90, last year 85. The general freight agent of the Canada Atlantic Railway says that road has 1,000 cars to assist in handling the Western grain. A calf fell from a, bridge In a run- away at St. Catharines, and lighted on a freight car en route to Butictio, and was carried through to that city. Roseland will have an ambulance to be called "Father Pat" M mem- ory of the late Rev. Henry Irwia ; also a stone drinking fountain. Each will cost $500. A mother bear and three cubs strolled into Port Francis, Rahn, River district, Sunday, and were given the freedoza of the town—until the nearest shotgun was found. Mrs. Martha Wilson, Hamilten, is suing the Grand Trunk Railway Comsany for 83,000 damages, for injuries sustained ovhile standing on a platform at Waterdown, which gave way. The resolution of the British House of Commons, thanking the regular and colonial troops for their services in South Africa, has been received at Ottawa and will be pub- lished in The Gazette. add Britain GREAT BRITAIN. The English birth rate is declin- ing. . The British shipbuilding trade is Said to be very much depressed. Conservative Parliamentary circles expect a general election in 1908, says the Manchester Guardian. Welsh mining mon advise the 13r1- tish Admiralty to store coal under water to retain its calorific quality. Tho London Standard announces that a steel trust Is in progress of formation araong the English steel manufacturers. The Prince of Wales" purchase a a property at Dersingham, the pretty village close to Sandringham, cre- ates satisfaction In Norfolk. London theatres have been notified that (to further licenses would be granted unless they complied strictly with the fire -escape requirements. A sturdy protest from. Lady Flor- ence Dixie against what she terms "the scandal of child labor in the United States," appears in the Lon- don Graphic. The income tax returns for the yetu• 1901 show that fifteen persons In Great Britain paid tax on in- comes exceeding 850,000, their total incomes being assessed tot £1,500,- 000. The greatest number of pay- ments was on lucomes between 8160 and 8900. UNITED STATES. John Coruettia died at Paterson, N.J., of hydrophobia, caused by a weasel's bite. Oharles IS. Schwab has rented an entire fiat in the hnsonla apartment house in New York, at a rent of 540,000 a year. • Prof. N. E. Donnell fell from a parachute hot° Long Island Sound, o distance of 200 feet, and is per- hapisdifettatsalityingninjiure:. NyhEumnack with his sweetheart, GeOrge Taylor, of Pitcher, N.Y,, Committed suicide by shooting. No reason is known. A speed of ono oniie in a minute and twenty. seconds is claimed by Mr. C. R. Flint's steam yacht in a test on the Hudson River on San, urday. GENERAL. Continuous rain in India ie bene- fiting the crops. ' It is oetimated that already 9,000 Boor families have been settled on the farms in the Transvaal. In 'the province of Helsingland, in Sweden, fifty new cases of leprosy have Seam detected' during the past year. By order of the Amcor compulsory military SWAM is to be imposed Immo one-eighth of the male popu- lation of Afghanistan. It IS reported that the Portugutso Go vernuion.t has sunstituted paste for the Orown jewels, and pledged them to the banks for money ad- vanced. Xt 18 semi -officially mooted in Paris thet. the French slier° claims in Newfoundland Might be exelianged tor a, slice of the 13ritisio possession In the Niger regions of Africa. It is stated on good authority that as a result of the Shah of Per- tia's i"ocent visit to England, a re- arrongemeet of Persian ithances has been • accomplished. It is further stated that English influence in Per- sia, on which Russia ha$ lately en- erostened, Will be restored, XEW WAT TO STOP nia.nosv Alzogauu TUX T)1 Xpetionees V/7:77157). P3o1, Haire ene.. Been Dienereed by, Water. London ta apparently finding that ith fire engines are good for °thee PUSPOsos besides eactingeishing flresi On the eceasion of the recent, greet militorn tattoo at the Aleseanclea Palace, for inciloonce, the vast crowd sWarmed on to the parade ground and spoilt the spectacle Ete a spec- tacle. They would, doubtleea, have succeeded in preventing the funetten frono taleing Plane at all, but fon the hasty seesuleitiOninge of the loom, fire brigade, wbose raembere drovo. by tiuming the hEree thQrAP seri 1,110k the terellleeEt 01 the eighteeepe Pearsorns Weekly, A day or two later, a Somewhat Similar episode took place in the heart of London. The inhabitants of Grafton street, Holloway, in an excess of loyal enthusiasm over they news of the favorable progreas of the King's illness, lit a huge bonfire in the Middle of the road, the flames from which blazed up over the tOSs ' of the adjacent houses. They also attracted tho attention of the look- out man at the Seven Sisters Road ' fire station hard by, with the result ' that a powerful steam fire ciogine promptly appeared on the scene. The Grafton Streetites, however were by no means rainded to have their fun spoilt. They had fed • the bonfire with all the available flot- sam ond jetsam of the neighborhood and they intended to let it bairn un- hindered so long as it would. There- fore, they refused point blank to make way for the engine. But if the crowd was resolute, so were the firemen. The obstruction put them on their metal. Besides the danger of the nouses nearest to the bonfire being set alight was con- siderable. The captain of the en- gine held a brief, whispered colloquy With his men. Then the hose was swiftly run out, a hydrant found, and a copious deluge of water pour- ed upon , TETE LOYAL CELEBRANTS. Needless to say, the latter smattered as if by magic; and half a dozen sec- onds later, nothing save a heap of sodden ashes marked the spot where their bonfire had been erstavhile blazing so merrily. Not long ago there put into the port of Liverpool an Australians bound sailing ship. She had set out from Glasgow on her long voy- age some few hours previously, but the thorough search .below decks, usual on these .occasions, had re- sulted in the discovery, concealed in an almost inaccessible corner of the hold, of a round half dozen stow- aways. They proved to be the offs scourings of the great Scotch city,. men of the vilest and most desper- ate type, and they openly threatened to burn the vessel and all that she contained, unless they were given a free passage to the Antipodets The crew at oace got out the ship's hose and in five minutes' time six half., drowned, and wholly...disgusted stow- aways were literally falling over one another in their eagerness to eome on deck and capitulate. Every reader of Captain Kettle's wonderful adventures, will be able to recall how the little sailor sober- ed up it drunken and objectionable passenger by the simple 'expedient of handcuffing him to a stanchion, and then: allowing a hos-pipe to play upon him. A similar remedy, applied wholesale, sufficed to quell a serious riot among a number of intoxicated soldiers at the Ourragh Camp some little time back. The men in question were under orders to proceed abroad, s.nd some trifling, exuberance of spirits,, accotnmtnied by a. noore than trilling con.sumption for by the au of canteen potrhtemr.,itiless nsonually looked these oc- melons. In the instance referred to, however, they allowed their excite- ment to run completely away with them, Tohrcery D THEIR QUARTERS made a bonfire of a quantity of barraok-room furniture, and even proceeded to fire promiscuously a quantity of ball amnnuoition. As Ole rioters were some hundreds strong, and half mad with drink, it was likely, to say the, least of it, that any attempt to use force, as force is ordinasily understood in onm,y circles, would have provoked a serious conflict, and might have end- od in bloodshed. Yet the rioting, It was evident, must cesiee. In this dilemma it happy thought struck the provost -marshal. Securing the ser- vices of a couple of non-commission- ed officers of the regiment,he got them to roll ostentatiously a thirty- six gallon cask of beer into an empty hut ; at the same time he caused it to be bruited n,bsoad among tho be -fuddled revellers that the liquor was it parting gift from the camp to the "draft." Insta.ntly, as he had foreseen, there was a general stampede for the lout wherein was the oracions barrel. 1Vhon it was as full of soldiers as it would hold, the doors were ehut and bolted, and the gas was turned off from the outside. Then the bugles sounded the fire alarm, and from every quarter of the vast camp the engines concentrated. The Curragh had always been proud of its flre brigade, and it did its duty nobly then night. A non-com., with a first-class certificate of education, and a taste for statistics, calculated next morning that, iestde of fifteen 'inmates, approximately 800 tons of water had been pumped into that one hut. No wonder the imprisoned men cried for inercy. And it was recalled to memory later on, that, although there were more than 200 stalwart "Tonnnies" confined within the walls of the Vari011e gutted -rooms that, night, not so nsuch as a single "whoop" Was hoard fermi among the lot of them. Schoolnictster -- "Now, Rogers,, What ere you • doing? Learning ' something?" Rogers --"No, sir, I'm listenieg to yntlx"