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The Brussels Post, 1894-8-3, Page 22 1l DFAN AND HIS DAUGHTER CHAPTER X1XI. Gerla for a fortnight, end, as the Laying la, lets off steana o with my W by should he not ? Wee ft not one of brought m b w , 'a s t to g r rooming e.. - l nt Rxtn,u nt d , N n 0t t Inst g h hs r e C t o the iso x.• e b me 1 . Il t. r coo lu e wi a of. ohoaaiat0, a brief and very who reported for the Thtlnder r Ing Ilouso Square, the tuneable little between Sa e' and Heenan At mOeEhng be yre Farnborough Heath ? Standing near hie lordship is a leading Q. 0., certain, before long,' to be a judge, and who, on the principle of 119118ly gotten lightly gone, le throwing away guineas he bee received for 05885 iu winch he nay or may nob have oondesoeuded to appear, A little farther off, is a favorite jockey, who knows far too much of hie badman to riek hie money on the Emilia) turf, . In animated oonvereation with him, aid covering big money with tbeir own, partly from superstitious faith in hie sagacity, and partly because they are too indolent to watoh the game on their own account, and prefer to book their eompanion's luck, is a rising young Cabinet Minister, and the gentleman who is best known in Europe as the Pelee() of the moneylenders, and who, having commenced life by ped. dlin jewelry, and lending ten -pound notes to Impecunious subalterns in marching regiments, is now the Rothschild of hie profession, dealing only with Princes and heirs to entailed estates, and laugh- ing at the ides of any transaotiou under o eou'ple of thousand pomade. Other typos are infinite. Among these mulatta ».lutaudis the old saying of Lord George Bentinck, that it is only on the turf and under it that all men are equal, Domes out in its fullest and most repulsive throe. For " women," as Browning has it, "models of their sex, society's chief ornae mens," are to bo seen, coated side by side, with the hardiest cocottes of every capital, race, and tongue, actually rubbing shool- dere with them, and discussing the unpre- cedented run upon red, or the appalling fregnen0y with which aero has turned up since the last croupier has been spinning the ball. You must not allow anything to surprise you at Monte Carlo. Woinen with lovely faces and sweet expressions, who look like angels, are simply demons in disguise. Men, who stake five thousand francs on a simple turn of the roulette -ball, are often risking more than their annualinoome. hien, who leak like Princes of the Blood Royal, are sometimes oouriers out of place, and Princes themselves oeoaeionally look like oh1l8onniers, There is no law of probability in the place where Queen Fortune reigns supreme. You must at once got rid of all preconceived ideas of social distinction. Here there is nothing of the kind. Luck is King at Monte Carlo, and to him only is paid homage. As for birth, position, titles, and beauty, they go for nothing. The man who breaks the bank, be he Jaw, Turk, Infidel, or eleretic, is as worthy of respect as the greatest sovereign in the world. " Vive la Veins," is the national cry of the naughty little principality, and those who have none are altogether out of it. Big slims change hands at Monte Carlo ; and, while I was there, I taw a young Eng- lish ofaoer lose three thousand pounds at Trento et quarante in about twenty mina- tee. And 8810 made but little stir in a place where a Russian Princess or a Lon- don usurer will leas or win twice as much every day of the week, or when " a per- son" will " dispose of" a pair of diamond ear -rings in the morning for ten thousand francs, and in the evening be compelled to borrow a Louis from " a lady friend,' to pay for her dinner. I did not play on this occasion. I contented myself with looking over Ethel's shoulder. When my companion rose to leave, she stood, so she told me, five hundred francs to thebad,and added laugh- ingly, that, if she did not pull it off with a full revenge on the morrow, she should give up gambling for ever, and taloa, to terrible sober earnest, to Dorcas meetings, which she had somewhere heard or reed were use- ful for reproof, for example, for warning, and for instruction in righteousness. "Those may not perhaps be the exact words, my dear Miriam," she said; "but, anyhow, they convey the spirit of the thing, and more than that is wbat nobody has any right whatever to ask." CHAPTER LFII. The nest evening we went into the rooms again. I had made up my mind to risk a trifle for that one occasion, and for that one occasion only. I knew that this is what gamblers alwaye tell you ; but I am certain that on my part the intention was sincere, and would have been carried ant, whatever might have been the results of the night's play. from Ethel, " Come over it noon as :you can," ab> Wrote. "In foot, 00019 at 0n00, I am tired of =flog here aloes, acid, need I say, the eight of you would do mo good l Wo eau amnia a few days here, just long enough to enable you to gob what you want, and can then be off et ono0 to bhe Riviera. I am dying for a gamble and 'a little sun The weather here is vile. We need not plunge at all, but I mean bo pay some of ney bills, and we can enjoy ourselves delight - filly fn our own way. I shouldlike to stay at Moitte Carlo, unless you prefer Niue or Mentone." d a Then, after a little general gossip, en few reeler thrusts at the expense of my whilorn husband, and, the very reverend author of my being, the epistle oonelnded ; "Do not let the grass grow under your feet (not that anything is likely to grow in. London in the snow slush with whioh I heex you are at present blessed). Hurry over 1 like Atlanta over the ears of corn. and h of the swallows of Henri Murger y South. I have given you lots of advloe, and very little news. Of news,indeed l aam barren. I can tell you, however, shod it in any way interest you to, as lawyers say, 'be informed and verily believe, ' that I have seen several times lately that most excellent Prince Balanikoff. I need seethe y tell you that he has always inquir- ed after you with an anxiety that has been fax from feigned, and is, I fear, let - ng concealment like a worm in the bud feed on the well -whiskered cheek with whish Nature has eo liberally fevered him, suppose you are still relentless. It is not or me to advise ; but male patience, as I found out early in my 0areer,has its limits, and, sooner or later,weshall have him sing- ing, 'If she be nut fair for me, what one I how fair she be?' besides, what Eay0 Tennyson, the favorite of all good people ? 'Corns into the garden, Maud.' So say I. Pack up your traps, Maud and Dome with me into the garden of Europe." Was there aver such a woman ? It was out of the question to say no. Even if it had been in the question,I should inallhuman probability have said "yes." My things were already packed. I had scarcely disturbed them. That evening I was en my way to Paris, and I think no guard's whistle was ever more grateful to my ears than that which started us off from Victor. fa- 'lhe next few days were devoted to the inevitable toilette, into the details of whioh I have no intention of entering. Euripides, so I once heard it observed by a most emin- ent church dignitary at Salchester, has put. upon record his conviction that women are wretched creatures. The two arts, in whioh they ought to ex- cel, are 000kery and millinery, and in each they are hopelessly beaten out of the field by men. I employed the recognized Prince of Parisian men milliners, who bowed to me, begged me to walk across the room to sit down and repose on a sofa. He then sum- moned two assistants to measure me, and bowed us out with the polite assurance that the English formality of trying on world be wholly unnecessary'. That evening we held a council of war. Our position was exactly the converse of that of Milton's Adam when turned out of Paradise. The world, it is true, was all be- fore na , but eve had no intention whatever of choosing a resting -place, and were about to set off with the lightest of hearts and withno regrets. It ltd not take us long to decide ; for a while, a short while, we hovered round and round in circles as docs a. carrier pigeon when it is tossed off. We could not decide between the rival claims of Nice, Meotone, Cannes, and Monte Carlo itself. Ultimate - 1,y, in desultory fashion, we decided on ?Monte Carlo. "Nice, my child," said Ethel, " is full of boarding schools, pensions, and valetudina. rian0 ; it is a sort of leienoln Brighton sunny, windy, glaring, and disreputable. Mentons is about as lively as Ventnor ; it le a city of the dying. Cannes is too far from el onset). Let us make no hones about the matter and go boldly to Monte Carlo." "You know best," I answered " we will go," And thus it carne to pass that within four or five days we found ourselves aom- fartably seated at the table d'hote at the "Hotelde Paris." The habitues, my dear," said Ethel, "dine at the restaurant, whioh costs very little more, is ten times more amusing, and certainly gives you a tar better dinner. But you. and I are young and innocent, dividing our innocence and our guilt between us in any proportion that you please ; so to -night we dine et the table d'hote, and then ad. joule) to the rooms and have a little flut- ter-" "Tomorrow we will dine in the restaur• ant. By the time we have finished, the higb players, who, like the great Lewis Samuels, always goes the maximum, are beginning to show themselves, and you will see play in Earnest. No mere tourists. there, but players who mean business, and have come on business, and to whom their personal expenses ere a mere incident of the day—little more than an extra bottle of champagne, or a morning drive over to Menton." Acting on her advice we looked in et the room after dinner, and, for gambling. fir t time in my life, I saw pd ducted at Monte Carlo it seems to me to he decorous, dull, and strictly honest. The disreputable element, whioh has made it almost impossible for en English gentleman to run his horses in his awn name, is on. birely wanting, or, at any rate, isnot visible upon the surface. You con distinguish, of oourse, between the punters who are terribly in earnest and those of the same category who aro only amusing themselves. If you are familiar with faoes, the rooms are a study. You will seen most respectable peer, perfectly well-known at Exeter Hall and other such Please, and a subscriber to every philan- thropio movement, To your groat autphse he plunges rather heavily ; you forget riuggloves, typieel.oI laapposonof 1110 In. noeenee, purity,, and general gurlelessu0se of the little priuoipellty. Wo had bardiy Werth a hundred yards before We sow Prince i;a1awkeff ap roaoli- pp ' ing ua with a younger ansa, wino might lave boon of any matte/Alley, upon his arta. To turn harm woe hnpoeslble, It would lave am0uuterl to a direct insult, Sol wait, ad until we met the Prince and shoolehalide with hire most greolously. 8o introduced hie friend, Pelage Molyam- is, who immediately began to talk most intently to Ethel, ao that, willing or 00 - Willing, I was et the Morey of the ltusslau, 0f coarse he 0otnplimented ,no on my luck of the night before, and of which he had heard a most exaggerated account. Tide led hint to discuss the theory of luck in general, upon which he made several pro- found remarks. He weal on to observe that Americans aid. Russians were the ouiy successful gamblers in the world, that America and Reseia were the only two countries in which large fortunes were to be found amongst actually indigenous natives, and that, as the historioe of the Bleak Sea Treaty and of the Alabama nogotiatione ought to have shown us, they are the only two nations in the world with the lent clam to diplomacy. n " is "This,' he added caudadly enough , because they have net from the Brit the 0lighto0t intention of tolling the truth. The English amen the Germans aro more straightforward ; but yet; in all the ordin- ary transactions of life, the average Englishman lies like a Greek, and your English merchants and man,rtanturer8 have a worse name than any others iu the mar• kets of the world." I replied somewhat brusquely that the English were, I believed, as a rule, sincere, and that they were certainly chivalrous wherever women erne concerned. At this little outbreak he smiled grimly. "Your English aristocracy," he remark. ed, "19 strangely mixed. Not a few of your baronets and country gontlemea 0811 show an older end far less questionable lineage than the bulk of your poer0. The present representative of the great hero of Chevy these ought really to rejoice in the plebeian name of Smithson, or something of the sorb, and is, I am told, the direct lineal descend- ant of a very respectable druggist and apothecary of that name, We have in our Bureaux to study your English peerage. I believe I am correct in venturing on the assertion that the Dukedom of Norfolk is one of the few peerages in England that can stand anything like historical fnvesti- •gation. II need cot go through the roll, for any man in England 0818 become a peer if he will only make up hos mind to the colon. One of your peers advertises iu yolr penny papers that to avoid commission and to simplify business he will supply his own coals direct from bis own collieries iu his own carts for cash on delivery. Another, if I remember aright, recently figured as eoniethiug much worse than 8 money -lender —as, what is termed in the cant of the trade, a tout and ' bonnet,' for money- lenders. One or two have nndorgone very recently travaux forces for disgranelui offences against ordinary honesty and morality. One" -- here he burst out laughing—"lived in Spain on an an- nual stipend allowed hot by a vender of quack pills and ointment. He wassuffiaiently a gentleman so appreciate the irony of his situation and to seek re- tirement in the orange groves of Andalusia. I hope if he is dead that bis suoco0sor in the title continues the pills and ointment with equal faith." TadNNO+ SVI IO Aft ITEMS OP INTEREST ABOUT TR1b RIMY YANKEE, Ileighberle Interest in 0nt9 Deluge—tot- Sore or ellement and ,Unroll Gathered 75011111 Itis DIEM' Iiloeord. A new metal nanocl poviellibo has been dlscieve'ed in lathe. In the United Wane forty persona' in every 1,000 aro ooloi' blind. There are 1,780 separate reih'oad nom- panicle is, the Uuited States, The Ohio Supremo Court ;leolared the cigarette tax law oonebitutionel, Miss Cora Dow ie the owner of three sue. easeful drug stone in Cincinnati. The United States army ie said to have over 200 cases of eourvy every year. The minas tributary to Butte City, Mont., have an enema of $28,000,000 a year. One out of every 180 inirabitante of the United Steles owns or rides a bicycle. The largoet railroad sloops in the world are those of oho Big Four at Bellefontaine, Ohio. Mrs. Ignatius Donnelly, wife of the author of the Shakespearean cryptogram, died in St. Paul. Five hundred thousand men aro estimated to ride in the elevetore of New York city every day. The Pennsylvania plateglass works in resin, Pa., wore sold by the sheriff for 287,000. Mrs, Barbara Hlazeook, 90 yearg of age, hanged herself while in afitof despondency at Chicago. The production of crude petroleum in the United States last year was valued at over 912,000,000. Evident:es are plentiful at the treasury department that New York bankers are hoarding gold. ee Iiohokou, N. .7,, saw the body of hie nf5thor placed in the ooflin and Wet 84 over Me with grief that lie died in oenvuloioae, Ax.Unitod Statue Sonetier Juno W. Bradbury, who its 09 yoara old delivered the oration 8t the laying of the corner Btode of the Litbgow library building in Auguste, Mo. ANOTHER WAR OLOUP. It Is KeVering OVer abet Wale 1'cninenitl L'xIOnalan Culled Koren, There ie another ominous wan =end upon the entern horizon. Tide ohne it does not hangover the porpetteelly shadow. ed Balkans nor yet that les gloom over fair Fraise or any of the members of the triple. ailianoe. Neither has it to do with Spain, Mor0000,, or any of the Afriosn empires which I7ueopeo.ne are 0reatleg.frot the raw maternal. The war cloud upon which the attention of military and naval experts and diplomats fa now fastened has rieen in the far east—in the very orient- and the storm cep tre is hovering over that littlepeninsular extenision from Ohineee territory called Korea. Tho storm may burst at any time, end when it docs the,weebern barbarians will enjoy the spectacle not recently afford- ed them of two Mongolian nations fighting Wording to their own peouliar mebhods and such,othdre as they have managed to borow from the scientific professional slaughterers of the occident. Tho Hing of Rorea is tine unhappy 0 The results were eertatnly such as to astonish even myself. My little capital seemed to grow in a manner simply marvel- lous. Ab first I had played on what I suppose I imagined to be a method ;.but I became bewildered with my success and very soon found myself playing as recklessly as any young ehopman out fora hank -holiday, and throwing at cocoa nuts. And yet the more reckless my play, the more fortune favored me. I became exalted. Any human being would have been as much under the circumstances. I increased my stakes and kept on winning. I became dimly aware that other persons were watch- ing my lead and following it. At last, out of mere weariness, I stopped and rose. There was an immediate fight for my chair, and I eeasped with my pockets crammed. I found afterwards at the hotel that I had yon, as a matter of fact, nearly twenty thousand francs, so that the difiereenin not worth detail. -lief* this little treasure with the proprie. tor of the hotel, where th0SOWS of my good fortune had spread before nte. He was most gracious ; insisted on counting the plunder before me, then there might be no mwtake, turd then locked it securely in his safe. This f0rmalityconcluded, Btheland I ordered up to our sitting -room, at her euggcsbion,prawn sandwiches and a bottle of champagne. "I like to enjoy the good things of thin life, along with you," she said very frankly. " It is so amusing to think how furious the Dean would be if ito could gee ns,,and it makeo me wonder whether 1$o credit is what it ought to be in the Cathedral Oloea, or whether they have by this tiro, n 1 very much suspect, begun to find ihim out, The gaiters that cast the most imposing ehadow do nob, by ally means, always carry the lightest heart ; and wore the Dean t0 bet 'me his gaiters on that assertion, I would willingly stake my boat boots against them and throw my bottom dollar into the bar- gain. And now, my excellent Miriam, it's time to sleep on our luck, and to -morrow morning we will have a lovely little drive aver to Nice." Next morning the weather was uncertain, or we ehouid, without any doubt, have carried out Stilel;s suggestion. Ae it was, we were =clod by the barometer, and Haw could I answer him when it was all true ? T wonder," he asked himself, meditee tively "what Fraacia Joseph would say if one of hie Princes were to sell gingerbeer upon commission, or to tura oab proprietor and advertise as such, or to accept a yearly pension for a testimonial stating that he is convinced of the virtues of a new soap, or of apatent liver pill, prof a specific against premature baldness. I really believe his Imperial Majesty would banishhim for life. You are funny people, you English. You are, the ladies of course excepted, the best hated and the most heartily despised nation m the world; and, on my honor, you deserve it. Your only strength is among your canaille, who make splendid soldiers,sailors, and prize-fighters, and yet even their morals lose the true Spartan simplicity of type ander the influence of the first breath of fresh air that blows over a racecourse. But the English ladies are sufficient atonement for all the sins and greenness of their husbands, brothers, and sons. They are perfection itself." I murmured a few deprecatory sentences in answer to this flood of invective; but they were fashioned feebly, and finished lamely. It was for this very chance that he had been waiting. _ " You will not answer me seriously," he said, "because you are still angry. No doubt I deserve your anger. Iapoke as one who is full of new wiue, and I can only claim to be forgiven on a pure appeal to moray. You may impose on me ally con- dition, or bind ,no by any pledge. But out of your charity you can surely find room for pardon." "Lor us think no more of anybhing that may have happened, Prince," I replied. "Mine is not a long memory." " So be it. So be it," he laughed, not at all lightly, hub with all the air, at any rate, of genuine relief, "Life is too short that we should waste it, and lose possible friend- ships over spall misunderstandings whioh a word can put right. Lot ue," earl here he raised hie voice, "ask Mrs. Forteseuo and Prince Melyanis whet they think." "Think of what?" asked Prince Melyan- is, swinging round at once upon his heel. "0f the weather," was the imperturbable answer. "Lady Craven thinks there is rein about. I, for my part, deolare that I never yet new in ail my experience promise fn skies so fair of fairor weather to follow. It is positively ludicrous with what per- sistency I find myself haunted with the sante idea. Here is a 111011 who has never been selected even as an attache. And my late huaband is at this moment making dudes and drakes, as the Bette boys Day, of all England's vast interests ab the Court of the largest Empire in the world. Iburet out laughing and forgot every. thing. And in a few seconds we were re• trading our steps four abreast, abetting on every cooesivable subject, and, so far ae any listener could have gathered, deeply in- terested in our conversation. (to nos COyTINCEn.) Frank Schroeder, aged 2, accidentally set himself on fire at Lyons, Iowa, and was burned to death. James McCloud, of South Dakota, has raised a horse which has eight perfect hoofs, two on each leg. The District of Columbia has the largest death rate from consumption of any part of the United States. The total number of electors in the Unit- ed States, including women entitled to vote, is 13,0000,000. Receivers of the Northern Peaifio will ask permission of the court to borrow 81,000,- 000 to meet interest coupons. Directors of the World's Columbian Ex- position hope to Bettie with the French ex- hibitors by arbitration. The Suprotne Court of Minnesota declared valid the law compelling streetcar compete• in to vestibule ears in winter. Captain Nathan Peters, the oldest Free- mason in the United States, died at Atnes• bury, Mass., aged 81 years. Senator John Sherman has scrap -books covering the history of the United States for the past thirty-eigbt years. Nora Keivel and Mary Glynn were so badly burned by the explosion of a gasoline stove at Kenaas City that they will die. The Fleming family will hold a reunion at Muncie, Ind., on August 22. At the last reunion 10,000 people were present. A contrivanne for turning sheets :of music has been perfected by a San Franciscan. It is operated by the foot of the pianist. A case of black smallpox has been discov ered in the Milwaukee House of Correction, where 247 00nviot5 are confined. A spaniel owned • by Dr. Frederick A. Lyons of New York city has adopted a chicken which it cares for incessantly. There are 29.1 academies of music in the Uera in ited Metes lnaviangover 4,s, and 363 000 poprand uousos laeioss Captain Abrams flied on the steamer Pike at Alton, Ill., aged 70 years. He carried supplies to Grant during the siege of Tithe - burg. During the quarter ending February 1 the State of South Carolina made a net profit of 941,000 on gross sales of $250,000 worth of whiskey. Because City Attorney Hamilton, of Mil waukeo, refused Reporter Kerr a piece of news which he gave another, ha was sound- lythrashed. At Defiance, Ia., there is a "living skele- ton" in the person of a Mau who ie five feet • eight inches tall, and who weighs but 65 pounds. The Massachusetts Senate has passed to be engrossed the Bell telephone hill, alloy,_ ioho mpany to increase its capital tonn$ 850,000,coma. ause of the present imbroglio in which China and Japan have become involved. He very foolishly had a too prominent and overly ambitious courtier of hie realm aseaseinated in Shanghai. The courtier, it seems, had been a former minister to Japan, and while serving his eov$oign in that capacity load interested the Mikado in a very ingenious eolith= to overthrow the Korean govern- menband make him the minieter dictator. The King of Korea doubtless repents his preoipitancyin having hie unfaithful repro• sentative pub out of the way, for the Mika. do, when he heard oftheinoldent, at once occupied Korea with some 19,000 Japanese troops, which he refuses to withdraw, des. pito the protest] of the Emperor of China, who, wanting a slice of Korean territory himself, has assumed the character of pro- tector of that country. The situation is further complicated by the attitude of the Czar of Russia, whose Siberian territory adjoins that of the Icing of Korea 011 the north. The Czar could make convenient see of the splendid Korean port of Turan, whioh is open the year around and poss- esses other advantages over Alexander's own port of Vladivoetock, whioh is of con- siderably higher latitude. The Czar will not scruple to foment strife between Japan and China, and ones he has them well by the oars and their attentiondistracted from; the real source of the quarrel in the hot lust of actual combat, the paternalraler of the Russian church and state will probably step in and act the part of a praobioal peacemaker by appropriating the die. puted territory to his owu uses, thus re- moving the oaths Belli. The fling of Korea would seem in a fair way to pay dearly for iujndicioue• action in having his ex. Minister to Japan removed from this mun- dane sphere, for whatever the outcome of the impending conflict he is morally certain to lose ifs kingdom, if not his other pos• essions, including his royal life. Ixoun 9, .:894 " NN`CONDITION 01 TRADE Ifo Iaumediate Improvement in Bunt - floss Cion be Looked for No material imprnvineitb in bho t98tle: situation ie distinguisliable, nor Oder ex. feting conditions can immediate iinpr0V8.' relent be reasonably looked for, The ueleal midsummer cluketeis both inbonsified apd prelopgod by the general lethargy ansa dleterleteces Nadler to periods of depree tion, Weare now dietinetlybetwoenseateme, and all lines aro always effected, In dry goods attention le now being given to fall geode, with only limited results to show, and the seine dlflioulty experienced a0 before in seating largo and prate/to orders," The margin of profits ooatinttee as narrow art ever. As a result of restricted orders and some cancellations, the St. CroiX Cotton Mills, of the Dominion Cobben Syndicate,are olosod down, and 1 t 10 rumored that the Ontario Cotton Mills at Hamilton, employing 350 hands, will soon shut down for the same reason. The indusbrlal situs, then, therefore, continues' unsatisfactory, as a natural sequence of the resbrtated out, let for manufactures ; and the idioness of some mill and factory operatives is serious feature of the existing business deposition, but in England he dare not be seen on a race% in the ardens of - or to histown olub�o S�o hae nines over te ack of ensveti Monte the llowo sin took isouf Which g re perfect Con the TIIE sTlINOENOY OF hr001te, not by any means with cur banks, but in the hands of - traders and the oonsuming public, together with the finanoial distrust which have been the principal reasons for the temporary suspension of operations, are likely soon to be, in a large measure, eliminated from the situation, and a fuller resumption of business may reasonably be expected, as stocks are not excessive, after the completion of repairs of machinery, for which the period of suspension will in many eases be employed. The curtailment of mill and feetary output, as well as general mer- chandise, and the chock to speculation through the constant tendency to deprecia- tion in values sufficiently explain the present hesitancy about enlarging business opera- tions or starting new business:. ventures snail as was the general rule in recent years. The wool trade has been char- acterized by extreme dainties, as manu- facturers have been buying only suffi- cient to Dover requirements for orders in: process at 17 to 18§o. Dulness per- vades the hide, skin and leather market in about the same way, green hides being moving slowly at it c. The iron trade is very quiet in all branches, and the move- ment in hardware is scarcely as free ae a week ago, but values are steady. There have been no marked chaugee in grooeriee, the movement continues restricted. Retail merchants are carrying amall stocks, and are ordering very conservatively, and like wholesalers are nob evidently looking for any immediate advance in values. The produce market, as is usual at this season of the year, displays no activity. Butter is now more easily obtained in almost any quantity, with prices wakening The cause of the recentscarcity is attributed to. the action of Montreal epeaulators,whohad. been storing butter for export; but it is difficult to do soand maintain itsquality so to to realize paying prion in the British markets. At present Canadian butter would have to be bought at 12o. in order to be sold at a profit in Britain. Ib is evident that butter does not go" MIS SAME ATTENTION from makers as cheese, and until it does we must be content with mediocre demand and prices. The restoration of normal cou- ditions.in the pro vision market is likely to be followed by a slight revival of legitimate business so long impeded by speculation. There has been a further net decline fn the price of wheat of 2e. and 3o, in oats during. the week, and atpresenc the indications are bearish. While Toledo No. red winter` wheat can be Nought for 53, and shipped by water to Montreal for 4l,,o.. including charges, it is difficult to see how Ontario farmers can expect much over 50c. when it' costs 1Oc. or 11c. to float it in Montreal, 1. e. Sea. for rail and lee, for terminal charges. While navigation is open Toledo and Detroit wheat, when they have a ee-t us as at present, must influence prices here. The situation seems to be in the hands of the Canadian millers as they canmake andslnip flour eo as to undersell Europeansat pre sent values. With 17,000,000 to20,000,000 bushels stored in Chicago alone, and a large winter crop expected, it is scarcely atoll - jelling that no advance in the price of wheat is expected by the best informed. The mouey market is uuohanged, and rates are no higher than last reported, nor with the prezone limited demand for money is there any likelihood of dear money when the security is good. THE RUSSIAN ARMY. t'ecnllarttles or Some or the Favorite heel =tints of the Czar. The Russian army is full of funny things. Thus, the biggest fellows are detailed for duty in the bodyguard regiment, "Preobra- heneki," founded by Peter the Great, and originally composed of that monarch's per. sonal friends, all giants in their way. The Czar's family takeagreat pride in this regi- ment, and on the named day of ata patron saint attends the festivities in abody,usual- ly re -enforced by foreign ambassadors and ministers. Then there is the Ismailowsk regiment, where only blondes are tolerated, and the well-known Pawlow guards all of whom mast have retrousse noses. The regulations of the. Guard Chasseurs, on the other hand, admit only dark-haired men The guard olEoers,being privileged by birth as well as rank in their chosen professions, treab their colleagues in the line almost as badly as the latter treat their subalterns. Up to a few years ago the distinction between them was melt that a guard lieutenant had precedence over the captain of the line. The preaent Czar has ohanged this state of things aomewhat,but not much. A major of the guards would even to -day rank higher than a line colonel, if there was such a person. But the advanoament of the regulon army officer seldom sue. passes the rank of battalion chief. Mon hav- ing attained that distinction are generally made "commanders" of is small precinct, while disgraced guard of ieors or general staff =floors obtain the colonelehip or lientenant.00lonelahip of the regiment to which they devoted their lives. Only very rarely done line officer succeed in obtain- ing a commission in the war academy, and eventually in the general staff. It should be mentioned, however, that the majority are unfitted for snob advancement. The requirements of the =Boer's examination Frank James, the surviving brother of the notorious outlaw family of that name. fainted the other day while being vac- cinated. Promoters of the Harrlaon Internationa Telephone Company expect to establish an exchange in Chicago and greatly reduce existing rates. The exodus of Scandinavians this spring from New York to their homes across the sea has been nearly twice as large as in any preceding year. Ex-0overnor Roman M. Prise, of New Jersey, died at Hazlewood-on•Ramapo aged 78 years. He raised the stare and stripes on California soil. They Disagree, May --I don't think much of a man who proposes to a girl by letter. Oath= --Idy date, you should feel grateful to a man who propene to you in any way, Not Reading Matter. " You have plenty of reading here," said a visitor to the literary editor, pointing to a pile of books on the editorial leek. These are not for reading," replied the editor, "They are for reeiovring, Receivers were appointed for the Winters Lithographing Compsuy, of Springfield, Ohio. Liabilities aro staled at 9151,413 end ants cit 975,000. Dr. A. A. Kondriok, president Shurtleff College, at Alton, 111., has accepted o, call to the pastorate of the Lmmauuel Baptist church, of St, Louie. Tho Rev. Father Stephen Boggs, who proaohed the firs» Protestant sermon in old Fort Dearborn, now known as the city of Chicago, is still living. A man la Bethlehem, Pa., was too poor to bay a grave for his dead child ; so he stole into a oemetery, dug the grave, buried the infant, cud was arrested. Through rates on flour and grain from MianeapoliO via Chicago have been oanooll- od by north-west lines because of the " hoggishness " of eastern ofliolals. In 1850 there were 0,7$7 pereon8 in the prisons of the United States, or 202 per 1,000,000 of the population ; now there aro 50,258, or 1,180 per 1,000,000. Sir Donald Stewart, who. has arrived: in this country on a visit, is ono of the five British field marshals, and the Bret officer of that rank to set fent au Amorioau soil. A throat capable of oxpreeoing three die - tint voices sunultaneouely ie possessed by William Yancey, a Chicago janitor. He sings soprano, tenor anal alto all at the sane time. A five.year•old child, Edwin T. McGinnis, in the line are considerably less stringent than those upon which the admission to the, stairs, than the green water hitherto Ino. guards' officers' corps are based, bhe aspic- I tionless and apparently lifeless, becomes ant's social Bonding is nob at all considered peopled with largo brown fish' rising from • TAME CODFISH. &Place Hn ono Irish Channel Where They Com,, to be neg. At Logan, neer the Mull of fialway,thero is a most interesting tidal fish pond. A. rent in the cliffs fading the Irish channel admit] the salt water through a narrow fissure protected by a grating, into a 010 - cuter rock basin, some 30 feet in diameter and 20 feet deep. The cliffs rise high all round; stone steps descend on one side to a ledge leveled into a footpath at the water's edge, No sooner does the visitor's footfall reaomd on the and to complete the wrntehedness of oho line officer his pay is ridiculously small and iaedeeuato, especially that of the infaatry I Meer, the lieutenant receiving not more than 4200 per year all told, The captain has a little over 531,0, tho major 9450. The most abject poverty prevails among them, and only a few of the younger officers own more than one uniform, which must do ser. vino tb ordinary and on parade alike. The Infantry private of the line receives In money; 93.70 per year, including tho Czar's and others' presents. Philanthropists Searee. Little Sister—" What is a philanthro' Piet?" Little Brother—'^A man who loves everybody." „ "Are there many philanthropists Y " No. Most men is tau poor to have such big yards that neighbors don't bother ono." Luring Him One Old Boarder—"How does it happen tllab you gathatman the tenderloin and one the toughve end ?" Walter Girl—"He an't decided to stay yet." the depths, gliding and dashing about in It great settee( excitement. These are cod, iythe and saithe, which, ought: on lines in the sea, have been transferred to thie pond td be fattened for the table. They aro fed daily by the keeper and experience has taught them to connect the sound of foot- steps with their' meal time. llormerly a chopper need to be rung t0 summon thein, but this was no more then a trick of the stage ; the footfall on the atone 10 quite enough • to awaken them to activity. Moat of the ood,beingiiBop- water fish, become totally blind ill captivity from ex80s0 of light ; but they become so tame and aconstoned to their keeper as nob only to teal out of hie hand, but, tome of them allow themselves to bo lifted out of the water. Ono may wltnees the strange eight of a huge cod, more than an ell Iong, dandled on file knee like a baby, hie mouth stuffed with muscles and limpet], after whioh he is returned, to the water with er mighty eplalh. On oho table these fish, thee tended and fed, Provo mach better than fish brought straight from the open ]ea,—[National Magasii he. He—"Funny, 1ln'b it, how wo men get ' baldheaded and you women don't?" Sha --"I don't think it's strange, You know we never get to be old enough for that."