The Brussels Post, 1898-3-25, Page 6ll� Mkii31l
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latereeting Items About Par Own Country,
Arent Britain, the United Stales, and
AU Parte of the Globe, Condensed and
Assorted ,tor Easy Reading,
CANADA.
Hamilton City C'uencil bus throwu
out a Curfew bell by law.
The C. P, R. will build a $15,000 eta.
Hon at 1Voodstoek.
British Columbia salmon canners
have forged a nimble -le.
The number of patents issued; at Ot-
tawa last year was 4,013.
Natural gas has been struck oil Fen.
ton's Parra, near Hamilton, Out.
A block of buildings to Post $120,000,
are being erected in Winnipeg:
$orae Ottawa capitalists propose to
build a new lnrtseo hall in that city.
There is ahig rush of settler's from
Otto to Manfitoba andt be North-
West this spring..
The seven persons who were injured
lin the avalanche at Levis, on h'ebru-
ary :32, aro now convales,:ent.
The citizens of Vancouver have de-
cided by populns vote against a propos-
Ltlon to open a music hall.
The Toronto City Council on Monday
voted down a proposition to deprive
themselves of their annual, allowance
of $300.
D. De Monti.gny, of Montreal, who
was arrested at Vancouver for baying
an-Lilicit still In his possession, was
fined $200.
Ship building for Klondike traffic is
very active in Vancouver just uow,
no less than, six boats are being built.
A eaaload of thoroughbred stock was
shipped from Guelph to the Northwest
by the Dominion Breeders' Association,
Louise Nadeau, of Quebec, for antic -
Lag and harboring young girls, has been
sent to the penitentiary fur two
years.
The Grand Trunk Railway has deoid-
ed to reduce the freight rates 0a live
stock for breedeng purposes in Canada
by fifty per Peau.
A rumor that Hon. Robert Watson
was to be appointed Lieutenant -Gov-
ernor of the North-West is denied et
'Winnipeg.
It is sated the4t a large sum will be
placed in the Federal estimates for the
striniug of a telegraph line to the
Straits of Belie Isle.
The report of 171. E, E. Sheppard,
Tracie Commissioner to South Amer-
ica, bas 1,ten delivered to the 31ini.ster
of Trade and Commerce.
"Commissioner" Eva Booth is ar-
ranging to send a small staff of Sal-
vationists to the Klondike front Van-
couver, Victoria. and Seattle.
The copper telegraph: line which the
C.P.R. is to erect between Muntreai
and Vancouver is being manufactured
at Lachine. It will cost.,$250,u00.
The management of the ,;rand Trunk
has contracted with the Pullman Com-
pany, C'hieugo, for the construction of
twenty first-class passenger coaches.
1V. C. Macdonald, who has already
given a million and a half dollars to
iSIeGill teniversity, has given another
$15.500 to the department of arebi-
tecture.
The Geological Survey of the United
Gtates has ordered a large number of
ohnoes from the Peterboro' Canoe Com-
pany for the use of exploring parties
in Alaska.
Considerable talk is heard iu Ot-
tawa of new industries and the reviv-
al of old ones, J. R. Rooth is at
present erecting what will be the larg-
est grist milt in Canada,
Thera is a prospect of the wholesale
clothiers of the Dominion forming a
Combination for the l:urpuse of reduc-
ing the I,engtit of credits, and in oth-
er ways regalat.ing the business.
The project for the construction of
a chain of camels from a point ou Lake
Superior to the Rocky illountains, re-
cently described, has been ',remelt be-
fore Parliament, and will le pressed.
The Loadon Street Railway Come:any
have paid Mrs. Kate Pitt $1,500 and alt
.costs in settlement of her claim re-
setting /Tom the death of her broth-
er, Wm. Spice, in a trolley accident.
,A. Fiigieno, who was sent to Kings -
1: ton Penitentiary from Hamilton to
e serve a three years sentence for em-
bezzling Pram the Grand Trunk, has
been pardoned with a six weeks re -
grieve.
News comes to Quebec of the disastr-
ous results of the recent snowstorms
to the wild a imals, .. farmer near
L'Islet found twenty-eight caribou and
deer stuck in the snow and cut their
throats,
The Montreal Street Railway Com -
any has received an order from the
in sl
g on, Jamaica, Street Railway
Y
Co
znpany to build twenty electric mot-
or cars for use in that city.
Private George Stewart, of the 48th
Highlanders, who gained the bayonet
ahaupionshlp of the world in London
last June leas been appointed to the
Toronto Customs House staff.
Mr. J. H. Dulbrie, who is promoting
Uulba Stock Yards for Toronto, is urg-
ing tha Council to take immediate ac-
tion as he claims the city will be the
.gainer of $20,000 a year from every new
Industry which springs up in c•onner-
tion with these yards.
The Ontario Government are about to
take over the industrial
sc,nools of the
province. The Mimic% School will be
done away with. The boys (hue will
be placed in (herovir ci
p t al reformatory,
. Which is soon to be removed from
Poizetnnguishene to Oxford County.
Several officers of the Queen's Own
Rifles of Toronto waited on the Min-
Ister of Militia at Ottawa on SaLurclay
and asked for bail authorizing the
fermetiotn of e, volu,nieer reserve
throughout Canada, ellen as nate exists
In commotion with several of the Cana -
(Hain colza, The ,natter will be ton -
t eldered.
GREAT BRITAIN,
The order of i
110 Z I 1 '
e Sons ora an rl
I DattghtC.rs es to be started fn England.
It is reported tbat Lord George Ham-
! Ilton will he appointed Governor-Cien-
oral of Cahadh't.
A London dresemeking firm has
baba fined for keeping women at work
after the .regulation hours,
The American Society in London is
aiProviee a fiend to meet. a mon
to the sailors of the Maine.
British Heard of Trade velure
February show Plat reasis of $1,3
in Imports and $1,014,000 in exp
A colllez'y al itlulckit•k. Ayrshir
flooded. leitteeeen persons fait
reach the bank and aro still it
mine.
Salvia!, i, the noted Verset 1(111
and amntiu artist. elle laid the t
les in St. ',aura ru 1111.1rrt1, 0unhl
suited° in London.
(1r. Pet mesa mellitus 111e ,•tate
that: his firne had phu•eet 07tH
Churn, Leslie ez Co. of Nee east'.
Twee an order for 10 o of the four
steamers required for the fast. All
service,
Lolt11n11 street 111 a kms are
doing well with a eceerait of
Joseph Chamberlain. bulging; u,
one of leis pockets Is a small ,sir
card, and under the picture are
words "Find Lord Salisbury.'/.
pull the yard 1081111 strip and a
skeet of the Prime Minister e
out of Mr. Cluuneerlain's pucker.
A li•ifesltire village has 1t disci
managed en curnnlnnislie juinei
which teakes a yearly profit, of
With part of these profits the w
ere are equipped with reading
recreation rooms and naw propose
light the village with eleetrieity
put electric. lights in every hulls
half of what it costs now.
In the famous Peai'ody model t
meats. The leinduu l zt.ily News
there is a population of no tes.s t
seven hundred and twenty-five 1
acre, yet the birth rate Is five in
tha>usand atove the average rate.
infant mortality is twenty-two in
thousand below the average. At
rale the population will soon gron•
ter than the profits of the trust n
were last year $210,000,
'UNITED S'A'TES.
The Globe shipyard atr'ike at CI
land has been settled. The men los
The Manebester, 5.11., Board of Tr
had adopted resolutions favuurin
treaty for reeipreeat trade retail
tenth Canada.
The British cruiser Cordele. of
North Atlantic. squadron, hos arri
et Key \Vest., Fla„ from Belize. Bl
ash Honduras.
Mr. John R'anamaker has ronsen
to be the r'andidate of the basin
men's Republican League for Gov
nor of Pennsylvania.
Wiliam llutchines, one of the b
known manefacturin ;jewellers in
East, NMI shot and killed a1 Pro
dente, R.I„ on Tuesday night. by
burglars.
The jury in the case of Sheriff of
lin and hie deputies for shooting str
ere at Laltiuier, Pa., on September
returned a verdier of not guilty.
A. large rel•atrie.tion movement
taking .plane among French-Canadia
in New England, and many are expe
ed to return to Canada this spring.
Rev. Stephen A. Northrop, at if
sae City, aloe on Sunday said from 1
pulpit. "It is time Uncle Sam clutch
the throat of Stain to rescue Cul'a
Sadie Store'. egad sixteen, is in ge
at Huntsville, Ark., together wit
her sweetheart tinct mother. eharg
with the murder of her father, T
girt shot her father, and, was aide
and abetted by the other two.
_Mr. Stearns, of the firm of Steer
Bros., Brooklyn, has received the or
er for machinery ordered by the Qu
bee Bridge Company, to make requi
ed soundings through the ice for tes
ing the, iced of the river in the vicinit
of the Chaudiere,
torial
rel i
nn uu
1 g t unless her miners Palau
to time,
s for At a meeting of the Canadian 14Ii1-
10,000 itary Iastitete at Toronto on Satur-
otrts. 1 day a comntiLtee was for111811 to frame
8, e0 as 111 a petition asking the Danllnfen Clot
eel to eminent to authorize the enrolment
1 the' of two batteries of artillery to be veil -
ad the Toronto N•hvnl Artillery, It is
"•lase proposed to equip this carps on the
a0,a., ' 110.8 1 the Brit 1811 Royal Naval \'olun-
litttid leer Artillery.
Dr, Edwin Kle.be, professor of path-
!ment - Ology and bncteriotogy in the Post-
Ilaw- Graduate 3lcdieal SeLuol. of (Chicago,
e -on-: is alleged to lave diseuvered 1.11e cause
118 a, - of yellnw fever. As a result of a ser-
„tieic• flus of esperitnents extending over two
months he has isolated the amoeba. end.
has tree tittle tit trate its development
now through a number of stages 10 tea-
Alr• oils organs in tbe. body,
tt Of
'.
ip of
the
1' ow
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MANITOBA CROP PROSPECTS.
4'. t', 41, t'animin'laner Fla uUtfou Rays They
.41•e Y,rerttrw,
Ilary arr. L. A. Hamilton, C.P.R. land coin -
plea, missioner. is in Montreal on his annual
l"e1�' visit to 1. be corn>In s headquarters.
illag- 11 3'' 4
end and speaks most hopefully of the pros-
e to poets in the North -,West, During the
and first two months of 181)7 the sales of
e at land In the Norlh'\1'est amounted to
era- 17.000 arras, while for the correspond-
eays ins; months la the present year the
hen sales have been 41700 acres, an Increase
o
all of 26,100 acres in favour of the current
one
and year. The chances of that record he -
one ing kept up fox at least the next six
this months are excellent,
fee- So far as can be judged at the pre-
sent time the prospects for good crops
nest summer are excellent. The f
meteorological conditions of the win- i
e' e- ter play no small part In the chances
•i• for
0.da getting a ,.e.s1, yield from the
ground. ,Ind in that connection the F
te a snowfall is au important factor, in the
on8 case of the present winter the snow- s
fats in the early part. of the sea- u
the son was not great., so that the frost 81
ed had a good (Mance to enter deep Into w
it- the ground. Lately there has been
a fair fall of snow, which will have
ted;a tendency to keep the frost from
ass coming out too quickly, and thus pre -
81 -.'serving to the earth for a considerable
time the moisture which is such a
est; necessity to a fruitful production.
WARSHIPS FOR RUSSIA,
ukase IMNnril Ordering Oho disbursement
or Ninety Milton Roubles,
A despatch from *t. Petersburg
saysi"0t1( Imperial ulf'ts0 just issued.
orders the di51ut' emsnts of 110,000.000
ronble4 118 cx1in0Mliat'y expenditure
for the constimetiun of wartlike. It
is added that ne Iran will he rented
to provide the ,money.
In an lntpe'ia1 theorize to the �dlin-
ister of Finance nceompnnying the
ukase. Ilw tzar says:- "Int eunsidet•-
ing 1118 passibility of assigning se
large a elm al one time without re-
course to la loan, l run induced to
point out Out the disbursatnent note
cuntentpleted has beat preceded by
vary consideraitle payments (rum un-
811081ited etsh lu tee treasury for
unlet items of extreerdimury expendit-
ure. .During your admillistralion the
ordinary receipts 'have exceeded they
ordinary expenditures by more than
six hundred million rouules. conse-
quently the greater part to the extra-
ordinary exlleill(1(01B is coverall wfth-
nut an appeal to tl>o Imperial ere
This expenditure, including the gr
Sil.erian and other railecut's. us n
tis the payment of a romsidertthle p
lean of the Crown debt by the imp
nal Rank for the cnut'ersion of
credit notes in coonecti.on with;
currency reform, atter the above.
!HUNiI.I''RNR'S WAI'tMEG,
THE LONDON TIMES SAYS BRITAIN
IS READY FOR WAR..
W111 Not 11111401 11'41110 1100 only 1:1 liter In
W1'sl Aretell or ('hhm — Present Teltlper
or lite People 14 sol t0lee 'I'ritted (1'111,
A despatch from remain says: --Tito
T"tiit' regards the, news from Pekin 05
comparatively rettesuriug. It suye: —
''An interval 11101' occur d(1)105 whirls
diplomatic meanls may lie employed to
avert the ill-considered action on the
part of aux. xfvats, ff delay of any
all rn1lou has been tudetnlly procured,
Sir Claude Mardoua(l. the 13rlli811
A1111istelr, only be relied men to make
the 111+11'1 of Il in the interest of peace.
fn other' respteel.s, tete position in
China seem8 as far from improvement.
as i. he position in West Africa. i1 the
report from Si.. PeLiersl'urg that Rus-
sia will decline to give Groat Britain
the information she hes asked. is nr-
rurate, the nation caantot be blamed
dit.1311ould they put: the 'worst possible
•eat construction on the refuted. Those
'oat most familial' with
or- public. opiaiuu
er- throughout the country wilt ls, the
the first to recognize that the present
the
penditures of the unullocnted fu
of the treasury, amounted on J1(
ex- temper of the people is
ads NOT TO BE TRIFLED WITH.
111- At 110 !time since the Crimean
nary 1, to 200,000,000 roubles, of w'h
100,100,000 .roubles are needed for
extraordinary expenditures of 18
Therefore, there remains sufficle
o cover the aforeenid expenditure f
naval construction. This strata of
airs convinces me you foliose 1ot11.
nstructions of my father, resting
eocl, and mine, regarding the abseil
nca of the necessary thriftiness
he financial administration of t
mpi re, While enjoining you to c•
tantly exercise economy In the fu
re, for the complete preservati
the equilibrium of the budget.
hich lie the props of the power a
well-being of the Empire, I remain,
your unoltera hly well-disposed and
grateful (signed) Nicholas."
ieh war, not even at the moment when
I
8e the special squadron was organized in
orJ'anuarY, 1890, kava they been less die -
posed to brook infringements from any
e ee ; quarter on their just rights, They are
the perfectly convinced of the justice of
in their cause and the magnitude of the
,v- issues at slake, both in China and
In
tile
Pro
ONE
HUNDRED RED.
PEOPLE
KILLED.
--
ar-; 'terrible Bnrtlonnue so One or the
ik-' 31oliarr:l 19)nnde,
10,1
Halls Kong advices just. received, tell
is! of a terrible disaster tote in January
ns on the island of Amboina. The town of
(t-: that name was totally destroyed by an
• enrtbquake, killing 3.00 persons and U1-
Ka .luring 200 more. terabointe is one. of
ed the clove group of the Alolucce islands
et east of Celebes.
of There was an entire absence of the
h usual earthquake signs. The earth
Th vibrated and a great chasm opened
d through the most thickly settled part
of Amboincl, engulfing many houses be-
ns fore the inhabitants multi escape.
d- In North Borneo, an earthquake
e.- nhout the same time caused the sub-
r- silence of several ,hills. Superstitious
t- Borneo natives who worship fowls
y consider the earthquake a judgment
of :heaven oil tbem Cor selling foals,
n- and now refuse to sell them at any
s price.
e
a
A roml.ination of the steel rod ma
ufaoturers of the United Slates ha
been practically consummated. Th
combination will represent about 8850
000,000 in capital. The name sereete
for the romt'ination is "The Amer
can Steel and Wire Com] any."
GENERAL.
The Pope is in excellent health.
Russia will spend ninety million rou-
bles for new warships.
The Prince of Wales laid the found
tion stone of the new pier at Cannes.
Forbes Robertson, the rnglieh actor
has matte a great success in 13eran.
Experts estimate that a million ton
of wheat will be exported from Cawn
pore, India.
SALISBURY'S ILLNESS.
Iltnt/4111' 1109 it That the Premier 1s ant:
feting from BriuhP; blce0se.
A despatch from London says:—.4n
nmlrl%us rumour is in eiroulation that
the Marquis of. Salisbury la suffering
a- from Bright's disease.
The. recovery of the Marquis of Salts-
, bury from his recent illness is very
sloe• Indeed. He is only allowed to
s peruse the most important papers; his
- weakness is excessive, and no date bas
been fixed for his going abroad, al -
The floating debt of Spain was aug
menta' by 13,220,081 pesetas during
February.
'Phe Bowery Mission Lodging Mous
in Ne.w• York was burned and eleven in
mates last their lives in the fire.
Pour fleeing vessels belonging to
Memel, Plrue4e, were wreeked on Sat
urday. Sixteen fisherman were diesel)
ed.
theugli Lady Salisbury goes to the Ri-
viera next week.
The Marquise of Salisbury continues
House
to be the scapegoat of Conse.rvutive
- dissatisfaction, and were he forced to
resign ninny of his Parlitimentar•y fol-
leivers would hear the news without
- regret. It is this which occasions
much politectil gossip, as to impending
Cabinet remises.
'hula's new hook, "Paris," Is said to
I e selling very well in Frame, and Its
sale in England will lie far in excess of
that of any of his other works.
Severe earthquake sllor'ks were felt
on Friday lit Antigua, St. Kitts, Guad-
clonpe and }Ionleerrat, of. the Leeward
Tsland. Much damage was done at
Antigun.
Emperor William is to visit Pules -
tine in Catcher next, his object being
to determine for himself the exert setee
of Golgotha, the Temple of .lerusalem,
and the place of the C'rueifexion,
"General" Booth states lie has just
completed arrangements will the
West Aust:rnli.ln Government to take
up 10,000 arr41 of land for a Salvation
Array Colony,
At Constantinople the Bulgarian
agent has asked the Turkish Govern-
ment for explanation regarding the al-
leged tnoveneente of Turkish troops to-
wards the, Bulgarian frontier.
The first consignment of Canadian
creamery butter from the creameries
at the, North-West 'Territories hue
reaelled Japan in splendid condition,
and has leen quiekly snapped exp by
purchasers.
Japan is about to flout a new loan
of a 15(1,000,000 yen. If in gold this
tvnuld amount to practically 8(01,000,-
000, but. if in silver to only 87ii,1100,000.
The hem will probably be floated in
London.
The, Queensland separation move-
ment is not dead yet. A delegation is
to be seat to England to urge the Im-
perial. Government to divide the north
part of the colony from the south and
give each part responsible government,
'Rho American steamer Columbia,
which left New York, honed for the
Yukon, is at Valparaiso,�Chili, wait-
ing tot' funds. 'The captain bee been
unable to obtain money for repairs,
and there fs a praspect of her supplies
THE PLAGUE MOVEMENT.
Native Shops Pl41aed on a Protest .1 gnhlsl
the FI4aMn•0,
A despstch from Bombay says:—The
total casualties resulting from the
plague riots are i—Two soldiers of the
Shropshire R.egimennl killed; a municip-
al lnepeclor who ac.ritlentaliy shot him-
self; four Europeans and four' native
paacemen, with 17 clvillane, injured;
nine rioters killed and 22 Injured, One
hundred and nine arrests were ,Wade,
The "Redoes and elobenunedans began
rlu=ing their shops yesterday as a pro-
test against the plague measures, and
On movement is spreading. About 15, -
POI)
dockers, railway labourers and oth-
ers have struck work, :The city is
guarded by Infantry, oevalry, marines
and armed pollee,
A MILLIONAIRE CONVICT,
('1ut19ee 0. Chandler Released Frons 111'
Penitentiary A1'ier a 'ren genre' Teem.
A despetolh from Kingston, Ont., says:
—Charier H. Chandler, said to be a
millionaire, has been. released' fromthe
t.enttentiar,y, .He is the, owner of pro-
perty to ,drat amount in Lha North-
West, and wile, senteneed to ten (alba
in Stony Mountain prison for being
foncerned In a fraudulent land deal,
While in thea prison he wee treated in-
dulgenty, and finally escaped, teak -
tag his way to South America. He was
decoyed to ('a.meda twain, and arrest-
ed, finishing his sentence in the pen-
itentiary here, He paid' $100 per week
alimony Lo ills wife, who had entered
u ettiit for divorce,
West Africa. They believe it may
he come their duty to vindicate that cause
on- in either region anti if such duty shall
t- • 1>e thrown upon them by the blinelnees
on or perversity of others, they will not
to ' flinch from it. We do not make this
nd assertion in any spirit of bravado or
from any desire to rouse the warlike
feeling of the country. We make It in
the true interests of. peace, because
the greater meuare to peace lies in
the danger that our (•wale may fail to
believe that we are in earnest until
it is too late. Foreigners do not ap-
pear to realize the business view we
take of war as of other matters where
aux business interests are concerned.
Our conduct is regulated mainly by
business considerations. If the preju-
dice done us is slight we may resenb
it and yet pass 1(0 over rather than
or face serious losses, w•hic•b, as we Well
er know, war must at the best involve to
our trade; but if the prejudice clone or
threatened is very
GRAVE AND IRREPARABLE,
we are ready, of the two great; evils,
et to choose war as the lesser. We
pie submitted to aceien in Tunis and A1'ad-
agascar, and \Vest: Af11111, which the
u- should baso been quite justified Ln re-
n sitting, had 1cs thought it \vorlh
n \Odle. It seems to have been inferred,
in some quarters on the Continent
teat eve will submit to any amount of
wrong without rest:dance, Sir Ed-
ward Grey pointed oat at the begin-
ning of the session that this was a
very serious mistitke. Questions attout
Madagascar and Tunes, be observed,
f were not of sufficient' intrinsic import-
' awe to lead to a breach of. peace be-
tween the ttvo'groat powers. China
might well become such a question
and 'West Africa stands in the same
8 category. There is no sort of doubt
f that this is the view of the situation
noir generally ae'aepled by all parties
and all classes of Englishmen."
EVILS OF LEG CROSSING.
Many Diseases Brought About by thePer-
nirioa.s 1111 bit.
Don't cross your legs! Not only is
it bad form, but it is cue of the worst
tbings In the world for a man or wo-
man. It is particularly injurious f
women to Crit with one leg swung ov
the knee of the other.
Many have often wondered how in
the world they have contracted asplit-
ting headache or why their feet g
so cold at times, According to t
Journal of Good Health these two tro
blas and a snore of others are d
solely in many cases to the comma
halter of seeking comfort by crossing
the legs. "Cold feet, varicose veins,
headache, ulcers and countess other
troubles from the improper ciroula-
lion of the blood in the lower limbs
are caused by the pernicious habit o
crossing the 'legs," this medical jo
nal goes on to say.
The reasou why such serious diseas
es follow the mere crossing' of th
legs is a purely physiological one. .1
you cross your right leg over your left
knee you will notice that the evhole
weight of the suspended right leg is
sustained by the loft knee, which
Places all of the pressure against that
under part of your right leg between
the calf and the knee -cap. Nos', any
school text -book on physiology will
show that just in the very spot where
all the pressure is placed there is a
largo number of large veins, nerves
and arteries,
Tho mere fact of putting undue pres-
surs against this spot in either leg
bas the effect of crowding all these
tissues together, their walls are clog-
ged up and the circulation of the life-
giving fluid is materially interfered
with. Of course the absence of a pion-
teful supply of blood to the legs and
feet causes them to become so suscep-
tible to the cold air, that the least
draught causes the feet to become an-
noyingly cold. As a relief it is sug-
gested that one's feet may be put on
rungs on an opposite chair when one
>8 not in company, and to facilitate the
comfort of visitors and callers num-
)sera of hassocks should be placed in
every waiting -room and drawing -room.
All of our ordinary chairs are con-
structed uncomfortably high, and ie
upholsterers would only ,reduce the
etendard height for uhairs by from.
two to three inches sttting down would
he a much more eomfortahle relaxation
than it is now. ,
Most persons when sleeping are apt
to er01.9 their legs in such a, mannas
as to produce the results mentioned
above. The limbs should. he nearly para.
lel, not resting one upon the other,
and the muscles should be always re-
laxed. .
LODGED A PROTEST.
11011810 Ohjeel.a 1.0 4110 (.'e8sle11 of Pert
Arthur to Russia.
A Pekin thiamin!' says; --The RritisJt
Minister, Sir Claude Meedonald., visit-
ed the Chinese Foreign Office on Tues-
day and lodged a strong protest
against the cession of Port Arthur to
Russia, saying it would destroy the bal-
ance, of power in China, The Chinese
officials, however, declared their in-
mands, M. Pavioff, the Russian de -
mantle, &I. Pavlofe, the Russian
Charge d'Affalt'es, wLsl'red the cession
to tante piece Within feve Boys, in order
to forestall the arrival of his successor,
but China, required a longer time to
consider the hatter, and therefore the
negotiations were transferred to St.
Petersburg, Russia, is still exerting
pressure to bring about the dienifsstl
of I lie British engineers, The T ung -
11 -Yemen referred the matter to the
Director of Raltways, who declared
their services were indispensable re,
gextiless of their metionatiky,
HUMOR OF BRITISH ELECTIONS.
The Many Ways In Whic1, Voters 'Pere
Kent from the Polls.
Years ago, when elections in Englund
were contests in which bribery and in-
timidation were winked at, voters who
).ived at a distance often found it dif-
ficult to get to the polls, whether they
travelled by land or by water. A ves-
sel carrying voters from London to
Ipswich., only seventy miles distant,
somehow list its reckoning and did not
discover it until Amsterdam ,vas sight-
ed.
Coaohes conveying voter's b.roke down
mysteriously. Readers of "Pickwiek
Papers," will recall Tony Weller, the
stout, red-faced coachman who mar-
ried a "widdere rot his "sewed tven-
tur," and evhe had what he called "a
ooincidence," while driving a ooech-
loed of voters from London to tt cer-
tain town. Tee coaoh was upset sever-
al miles from its destination, aticl the
passengers reached the polling booth
only after the voting had been closed.
Irelands reputation for practical ,jok-
ing at elections is maintained even in
these prosaic days. At the election for
the city or Cork in. 1801, the contest
rues hetweea the Purnellttes and the
anti-Parnellites, A tunny incident
happened. The wives of four voters
held political viewe which differed from
their husbands'. On the clay of the
elections, these four women rose early
and left their homes, carrying off every
select of male attire from the house,
mate the keys, after forking in their
sleeping husbands,
But fate was against them. Before
the poll closed, the clothesless voters
were discovered. Friends wrapped
them in blankets and. conveyed them
in carriages to the polling booths,
where they arrived just in time to re-
cord. their Votes.
PACIFIC CABLE.
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T11.0.1 14101114 of tee ('ant,
A despatch from Melbourne says:—
At the conference of the colonial
Premiers 00 Fraley it was resolved
that if Great Britain and. Canada con-
t.rLhuted two-thirds of tha cost of the
proposed Pacific cable Australasia
should contribute the remainder, et
was resolved also that the proposed
federal tariff should give preference
to ilritish products, and, in default
01 an early federal terlff, that the in-
d.lvidu1(i colonies diboktld be recoil"
mended to give a substantial prefet•-
000e.
MARCH 26, MMMa,
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k7:11a01.71E10~:ire
kien and Women ini
m al 1 Walks of Life Tell of the 13omailcahl8
Cures Wrought by South A181
1CaIl Norte T0 1G
,
SIM DOSES WILL, CONVINCE THE MOST IPICIIEDULOUS.
EDITOR COLWELL, OF PARIS, ONT., REVIEW.
Newepape4' edPers are almost as
loeptioal as the average physician on
the subject of new remedies for sick
people. Nothing short of a series of
most remarkable and well authenti-
cated cures will incline Dither an
editor or a doctor to seriously consider
the merits honestly claimed for a
medicine.
Hundreds of testimonials of won-
derful recoveries 'wrought with the
Great South Amerioan Nervine Tonic
were received from men and women
all over the country before physicians
began to prescribe this great remedy
in chronio oases of dyspepsia, in-
digestion, nervous prostration, sick
headache, and as a tonin for build-
ing up systems sapped of vitality
through protracted spells of sick -
nese.
During his experience of nearly a
quarter of a century as a newspaper
publisher in Paris, Ont„ Editor Col-
well, of The Parte Review, has pub-
lished hundreds of columns of paid
medicine advertisements, and, no
doubt, printed many a gracefully -
worded puff for his patrons as a
matter of business, bub in only a
single instance, and that one warrant-
ed by hie own personal experience,
has he given a testimonial over his
own signature. No other remedy
aver offered the publio has proved
such a marvellous revelation to the
most sceptical as the South American
Nervine Tonic. It bas never failed
in ite purpose, and it has oured when
doctors and other medioines wore
tried in vain.
I1 I was prostrated with a particu-
larly severe attaok of `La Deippe,' n
says Mr. Colwell, 1i and could find no
relief from the intense pains and die.
tress of the malady. I suffered day
and night. The doctors did not help
mo, and I tried a number of medi-
cines, but without relief. About this
time I was advised to try the South
American Nervine Tonic. Its effects
were instantaneous. The first done I
took relieved me. Iimproved rapidly
and grew stronger every day. Your
Nervine Tonic ourecl me in w single
week."
.The South American Nervine
Tonin rebuilds the life forces by its
direct notion on the nerves and the
nerve centres, and it is this notable
feature which distinguishes it from
every other remedy in existence. The
most eminent medical authorities now
oonoedethatfully two-thirds of all the
physical ailments of humanity arise
from exhaustion of the nerve forces.
The South American Nervine Tonio
actiug direct upon the nerve centres
and nerve tissues instantaneously
supplies them with the true cwurisli•
ment required, and that is Why ite
invigorating efteots upon the whole
system are always felt immediately.
For all nervous diseases, for genertt>i"
debility arising from enfeebled vital.
Ity, and for stomach troubles of every
variety no other remedy can possibly
Hake Iia place.
Sold by G. A. Deadman.
A NEWLY INVENTED MOON.
Never Ylslblo 45804.484 When Crux dug 1110
DI it of Ilse SI, n.
Dr. Waltemath of Hamburg makes
the rather sensational announcement
that he has ascertained the existence
of a second moon, revolving around
the eartb in one hundred and nineteen
days at the distance of seven hundred
thirty-seven thousand, five hundred
mdles, and with a diameter of about
four hundred and fifty miles; a dark
moon, so swarthy of complexion as
never to he visible except when cross-
ing the disk or the sun, or on rare oc-
casions when. for some treason not giv-
en, she brightens up a little,
1C the body reflected sunlight half
fps x'011 as the "brick moon," which was
th< subject of one of the Rev, Edward
Everett Bale's most fanciful stories, it
would be a conspicuous object, it
mast be about, its black as charcoal or
it would. have been found long ago,
Doctor'Valtematlt's cahmlations ere
base1 mainly oil certain reported in-
stances of dark round spots seen mov-
ins eastward on the disk of the sun
daring the last century, only two of
the ton being latex' than 1800. Most
of the observers were persons of no
particular astronomical authority, and
it is probable that the objeois seen
were ordinary sur -spats, the reported
motion being an easily -made mistake.
Deter \Val.teniath, however, gives file
results with, considerable confidence,
stating that the 1tu linaLion of the teed It
is two degrees thirty minutes, and that
the body would cross the disk of the
sun February third. It was then unre-
ality looked for at several observa-
tories, but not seen.
If ie really exists it ought to be easily
picked up by photography when mess-
ing the Milky \V'ay in the cottstelba-
Mem of Gemini and Sagittarius. It
would have an apparent diameter of
over eighty screeds, and would mark
an11obvth,ious trail on the plu.te by eclilts.
ing the closely crowded stags along its
Doctor Waltemailt alt.ributes to It
the slight annelera,tion at the noon's
motion which is now generally ascrib-
ed to the action 01 the tidos, and if
there is such a body it may perhaps
account for some other still perplex-
ing anomalies in her behavior. But
it seems altogether likely that this
newly invented moon will turn out a
near relatve of Lascarbault'e lmagin-
. cry "Vulcan," the .supposed planet that
baa been looked for between Mercury
and the sun but which has level' been
seen,
LONG TELEGRAPH WIRE.
te. P. et. 06'(11 1:'aaslrtset 00e Itireet 14185,
31ouh'eal I" To oil uver,
The Canadian Pacific Telegraph C1im_
piny will commence the work of,slret-
ohing e, copper telegraph wire from
Montreal to Vancous'er, u distance of
1,910 miles, on April lel, and the week,
it is. expected, will be cone:noted by
midsummer. The new wire will be used
for business between the east and the
Patella coast exclusively, and will have
n.utumnt(.0 reneitters at l'b1'i William,
Ont., and Swift Current, 5, W. '1', The
wire will be worked duplex, viz.: two
messages trnnsruittod at the same lime
111 0)41010110 decoctions At pre.:ent
Montreal works d,reet with Winnipeg,
with repeaters at Sudbury and bort
William, and all messages to the (eget
are received and retransmitted ab
Winnipeg, eine coppee wire used in
rho eontrttetion will cost abut a
quarter of a million dollars.
•
THE BRITISH NAVY,
1-e-,
The 11POImales Provided far Ninny New
Ships.
The British .naval estimates increase
the expenditure by £1,440,400, increase
the personnel of the navy by 611(1) men,
and provide for the building of tree
new btttteships, four armored cruis-
ers and four sleeve of war, The total
number of war vessels now in course
of construction includes 12 battleships,
10 fireleclase cruisers, 13 seeeud-,'bits
cruisers, 10 third -clan: cruisers, 0 sloupe
o1 tsar, 4 twin screw gun 101,15 and 41
torpedo boat destroyers, The estin>ates
also provide for the l,tttidingt of a nes
Royal yacht