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I‘HE W ‘i'I‘C A. I’; HE WAS INAUGURATED TO OFFICE IN 1877- ' Eighteen Presidents Have Preceded Him, and Five Have l-ollowed Him in Officeâ€"He Was One of the Ten Ro~ pnblicnn Presidents. 18.â€"-Ex-President Tumour, O. , Jan. terday. His illness was not a long one. NOVA SCOTIA COAL- â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" It “‘lll Not Affect Prices Here, So Local Coal Dealers Say. Toaou'ro. Jan. 18.â€"-A reporter hall a talk yesterday with a few of the local coal men regarding the purchase of the Nova. Scotia coal mines by an America. syndicate. They profess to evince very little interest in the matter. The price of coal would not in the least be affected here, the Nova Scotian article not coming so far west as Toronto. An interesting fact brought out, however, was that arrangements were being made it; place bituminous coal on the Toronto mar- ket at prices considerably lower than thOse prevailing. Mr. R. E. Gibson, President of the Con- gor Coal Company, said he did not know much more about the reported purchase of the Nova Sectia mines by an American syn- dicate beyond what had appeared in the newspapers. “I don’t see how it could possibly affect prices here. Nova Scotia coal is not brought here. It seems to me those people would never undertake the development of these mines for the Cana- dian trade only. It would not pay them. This Mr. Whitney, you know, is brother of the man who was Mr. Cleveland’s right- hand man while he was President. And it seems to me that there must be some under- standing that the Cleveland administration is going to knock ofl'the duty. If this is done it will enable the syndicate to bring in Nova Scotia coal at prices much lower than any other competitor can. In fact the Pennsyl- vania people, who now practically have a monopoly, won‘t be in it. “Some claim that Nova Scotia coal is brought as far west as Belleville. I don’t believe it. On the other hand the Grand Trunk carries coal from Pennsylvania right through to Montreal.” ,, ~ ‘ “If the railroads have not been able here- tofore to bring NOVa Scotia coal up here FIRST-GLASS FAMILY NEWSPAPER ’ .e Watchman and Family Herald and Almanac The Watchman and the anadian Live Stock Journal for one year, $1.25 00., E0. LYTLE, - - PROPRIETOR $1,193“ 25 WILLIAM ST., LINDSAY. L , 7 . .. .c. WM"- J '7‘ QUIRE, In other the cut, to do it in the future?” said Mr. H. J. Watson, manager of the Coal Company. “It will not make a particle of difference to the Toronto .ust be sent in not later than Tuesdayi CHEERFUL CHAT. to 56C I fterroon ore nsertlcn In foI-i . ‘ "DO you keep a. dairy?” was asked of little Tommy. f “No, ma’am,” was the reply, “only keep . one cow.-â€"l’ittsbur g Dispatch. .wing ISSU€_ DRESSING MlLL‘PifiKS. . ...__.â€"._ 4- * "l”vy- xil‘fhd’l'llit‘l‘ is prepared toi‘rJ,“ all i Harryâ€"Who‘s the: passing on the other H L i side of the street? produces bituminous coal, Only the other day I was talking to an American dealer and he said that the dc- All‘iAl)lt‘l{S. and to do all other . , mand in Canada for bituminous coal was so “Hpmwxim, with l’l'icksmithiiw g Char}¢3’"l)¢3-P boy. you 11 have to excuse I small that it made little or no difference to \ .. ‘ ’ ‘ - . me. I in really too fatigued to look further . his company whether it shipped any to this REPAIRING When the_ {Diddle of the street tO-day.â€" country at all. In fact, some of those who ,. ,Texas biftiugs. use their own cars Will not LINES “43,.-. \t‘;.;_r;_rm~_s and setting tyres a’ *** soft coal to Canada. at all, owing to the ' “wk-2*}: Repairs to Blacksmiths Bcl ; .v» and. l’lutcs. All work warranted llziis 1'3 (1., .. “Who‘s the belle to-night asked she. difficulty of getting their cars back again." AS they “0"“ 0“ the ballroom “0°”? “The principal reason whv the sviidicatc He looked around the room to sec. ll 'h' ,_ ) 1 LI N . Q ft. .-' . I. And she speaks to him no mom as pure .isu in l ova ..co ia mines is o VACape Cod ltcni. Stipp y the Atlantic steamers running out *fi‘ of Boston and other American ports,” said Florenceâ€"That Miss Howard must be I Mr. John Keith, “and you can depend upon . . PM" m or stationary forgcs supplied.’ Wm HERLIHEY. Irm must very popplar. She said she had three pro- it the steamship companies have also 8. e ' -. . . . , , osals in one evening. hand in the deal. At present they are at 883:! y In “ 1 1mm Stu Lilla-‘3} E Berthaâ€"That’s just one of her tricks. the mercy of the American combine, and :- nderson, ““ ll’ll bet that it was that stuttering Torn .they are determined to get cheap coal. 6200 I ; Burton, and he always says everything over ‘ Vessels will carry coal from Cape Breton to | IGHâ€"GLASS POULTRY I three timesâ€"Chicago Inter-Ocean. ‘ Boston at 500 It ton. “The price of coal will not be affected ' *3“ . . . i . . _ .1 here. We are Wlthln 300 miles of the finest - ._ "g 4 I‘atherâ€"Do you thmk my daughter 1 ‘1 coal fields in the world, while the Nova 1 ever be able to sing? Teacherâ€"Nevare, monsieur. ‘ Bcotia mines are some 1400 miles distant. fatherâ€"Then, what’s the: use Of givmg , view, you can be sure of that. The whole her any more vocal lessons ' . 1 object is to offset the western men. Teacherâ€"A great deal of use, monSieur. I “The owners of the Ohio bitumin- Igive her lessons two, three times more, Ious mines bou ht u the Port and by-and-bye I teach her that she can’t . Stanley road fbout Pa week or sing. That is a. good musical education for I 10 davs ago. Thev have also purchased a young lady. Very important. ' ‘ ‘ Fatherâ€"By gimini, you’re right. the old barges on which the G. T. R. uSed If she .to tranship their cars across the Detroit ONT. ’ ' ' I 02:1 t‘ 8123’ thndl you can ffgltfie her that I River at Sarnia. The Ohio coal will now S e can ‘ e 8350“ won rown away. be placed on cars at the mouths of the pits BENT. 51" â€"â€"New York Press. and will be brought right through to Tor- .(' ”Lindsay,” .cc nLY..( C'fli lylqu I *** onto and elsewhere without handling. This i A 7'35 “ ‘ ) “ “M Excited Lady (on the beach)â€"W'hy isn’t will result in all probability in cheaper soft M. R. c. D. S. H _l“.]:;, _____ something done for that ship in distress? coal, at least to the railways.” ‘ ' n w“ an . . Why don’t some of you “Terry, the great coal magnate, is behind ‘ “*3“ Parties Wanting Coastguard (hurriedly)â€"-We have sent this deal to buy up the Nova Scotia mines,” . an. :-~ F ., the crew at line to come ashore, mum. I said a well-known coal man who did not . yrs. ai’rfiogi; THOROUGH-BREE POULTR Excited Ladyâ€"Good gracious ! Were * desire his name to be mentioned. “I : :upr‘ €213ng; they waiting for a formal invitation! know what I am talking about =3 * So far his name has been kept out of the * matter. Whitney Ido not know. Terry Tell me, ye wintry Winds, That round about us whiz, I do, and well. And I know that he would to Will not this kind of weather fill 3.x for a- t’- "Vt/l - pie v .t".{ ,‘. /“ 3',“ had better apply . . .i‘ for _. ’ » ’ Our bone‘ with rheumat'z" not touch the thing unless he knew that 4 my. 99¢ 0‘ .;"~\ \g I . , b â€"-Ka a ICIt , J 1 the duty was gomg to be removed by the “3:3; [2; D c. T R E w * * n5 3 3 came ' Cleveland Administration. These men are w , J ., [14:33.5 '7'"! ' ’ _ * after the almigity dollar, and they don’t my , : .. - pegs»: '2 - ‘ 'v LINDSAY The Widower (coldly)â€"â€"-So you wish to care if it is cutting the throat of their owu to! . g ,1. 4:21: ' marry that Vanrentsarelow girl '3” count rymcn to get it.” i. ~ yrs ;.:.t; app 1;) it \ .r j 3 His Son (timidly)â€"Yes, sir, if you have . .‘~l;:.; r:,'~ rt pr‘nfl” . , - - M-..- . 3.... i , ' ‘ " n0 obiectlon- JOHNNY‘S JAUNT. p -. ; ; {9.- i â€"â€" The VVidowerâ€"VVell, Ihave. â€"--â€"â€" His Sonâ€"She is beautiful. Be Swaps Stray Ideas With Uncle ()l'dCTS fillCd as rccci‘v‘cd. TITS The Vvidower_l know that. Sg‘m’s Rrpre‘entat‘vos. Ills SODf-She 13 very “Ch- Wasuixerox, Jan. 18.â€"â€"Mr. Charlton, “18 Widowerâ€"Are you absolutely sure one of the Liberal leaders and a. member of about that .’ , the Canadian Parliament, was at the Capi- His Son (much eiicouragelllâ€"Absomtell’ i tol yesterday interviewing the leading mem- ll'ib tuck arc all prizc birds, as followa OUDAIIS. WHITE LEGHORNS it a 116i 2'; .inSlI “if“, 3111“ m lbers of the House on the subject of closer or 1 q 17,;- fifty p' YMOUTH ROCKS “‘8 widowerâ€"Them} ‘* marry her my- commercial relations between the United K I ”in” the , a. . self, by jingo I~Harpers Bazar. States and Canada. .3 . . made b W- *F He said the Liberal_ party did not want I s , , ngzon. Jr D C TEE Little Ethelâ€"Regie Rex and I is goin’ to the llnnemjtm“ (1‘195‘19‘1 thrown in as a I I H, .1 Lindsay, - "“ be married w’en we grow up. . . party question at thip time, but it wanted \. . ,. .. , s Nurseâ€"«I thought you didn’t like Regie ? free “'“fle between Canada. and the United 3 '“ “ ""‘H" a Little Ethelâ€" donit; but married men States in natural products of the firm, inl' illt‘ Sunlt‘. ll )ll \. If!“ \I{CE ‘ i is never at home, and I’d rather have him I the mines, the foreSIS and the manufactured away all the time than any boyI know yet ‘ products composed of native raw material. -â€"-Good News. Mr. Charlton learned from his conversa- tion with senators and representatives that there is a strong sentiment in Congress in favor of annexation. ________._â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€" Pork Packing in Bond. OTTAWA, pork packers had an interview with the Ministers of Trade and Commerce and Agriculture yesterday. For three months of the year they buy American hogs, which are packed in bond. ‘They find the quarantine regulations 1 burdensome. Hon. Mr. Angels intimated ‘ that concessions would be granted. W CUT HIS THROAT. 15 the must triumph in pharmacy for the cure of 2.11 the symptoms indicating Kmnav Aim Lima Complaint. If you are troubled with Costiveness, Dizziness. Sour Stomach, . “Galactic. Indigestion. Pooa Arrrrrms, {WV-D harms-(i. RilwiiAric Puss; Sleepless * ”his. Melancholy Feeling, BACK Acne, Membrav’s Kidney and Liver Cure KIDNEY A ND Yin rive immediate relief and mm A cure. CAVEATSe RADE MARKS. SIGN PATENTS. PYRICHTS, e: - Handbook write to DWAY. NEW YORK. 2 patents in Amelie.» But it Did Not End in Placing Bin 4 pr: ehaogmuh; 1:213: bold at all Drug Stores. Beyond Recall. emf Peterboro’ Medicine 00,, Limited. Sheâ€"Oh, Dr. Munchump, have you ever PLA'I'I‘SVILLE, Ont... Jan. 18.-â€"George qmcrt‘u PETERBORO’, ONT. be"?! in a. duel 2 . Cuthbertson attempted suicide here last a- He-â€"â€"No ; I shouldn’t like to kill a man night by cutting his throat. Dr. Wilson “nominal. ‘ No‘ it- Week 3% «reap! 888w.- .bewYerkCltl- stitched up the wound, but there is not much chance for his recovery. Nothing is known that would lead him to commit the rash sot. - in cold blood. Sheâ€"Indeed. I should have thought you were used to it. ~ “-â€" IiX-I’Rlih‘. HAY I418 IS DEAD. Rutherford B. Hayes died at 11 p.m. yes- 3 and make it pay, then how are they going . Canada ‘1 market. As you know, Nova Scotia only . and the Cana- P dian trade in this does not amount to much. 3 ship ' It is not the Canadian trade they have in 1 Jan. 18. â€"Several Canadian ' C ,_.____. . THE CANADIAN INDIAN. ‘iMODERN CIVILIZATION HAS PROVED TOO MUCH FOR HIM. ,Tfie Race Is Dying Offâ€"The Indian I ‘ Blames the White Man for Much of ‘ His Troublesâ€"The Hudson Bay Com- pauy and Its Relations: W'ith the Abo- riginees. I I New York Herald: The Indians know that their race is dying out; they see it decreasing in numbers every year. They blame the white man for a. large portion of their misfortunes, but what they say is uttered in sorrow, not in anger; they are resigned to their fate. They say that now the Indian is subject to colds and to con- sumption, and they claim that these are white men’s diseases and the Indians of a few centuries ago knew them not. Con- sumption is certainly killing them off. I have seen them lying about my camp fire expectorating blood in considerable quan- tities, but this did not seem to disturb their serenity. They are very fond of visiting each other, and whenever I pitched my tent the dusky children of the forest gath- ered to exchange notes with the Indians in my employ. Just at present they are suffering from a severe visitation of the measles, and as they are utterly helpless the death rate is large. DEALINGS WITH THE HUDSON BAY COMPANY. i If you want to see abject poverty, visit =the Indians of Canada in their wigwams. I By the terms of an old treaty the Indians ; of Ontario receive $4 per year from the ‘ government, but this is a miserable pittance, iespecially when the prices they are com- pelled to pay for the necessaries of life are taken into consideration. The Hudson Bay Company has in the I past driven out all opposition and although sporadic efforts are made by traders to deal with the aborigines these efforts soon die , out, for the competition of the vast monop- oly is too much for them. The Hudson Bay Company sells flour to the Indians at ten cents a. pound. I bought some of it for my I own use but gave it atvay, the quality be- ; ing miserable. (.iunpowdcr, which is an in- dispenSible article to the Indian, costs him I. 25 cents a pound. He pays $8 for a pair of very poor trousers, $4 for a coarse Shirt and $12 for a single barrelled muzzle loading gun, such as are sold to the boys in the ‘- b'owcry for 75 cents. Still the Hudson Bay Company is the 2 best friend the Indian has. for as long as ‘ the Indian shows any disposition to pay his . debts his credit is good with the company, and no matter what his record may be he never dies of starvation or want. In several laces I Was kindly permitted to examine I the books of the company. There is a . wonderiul uniformity about all the ac- }coiiiiis, ior every Indian is in debt to the ‘ company. Some of them are so far in ar- rears tliiit it will take them a year or even two yours of good trapping to cancel their indebtedness. Money is very seldom used. \thn an Indian has a streak of luck So phenomenal that he has a credit to his account he re. ccives a Incifcr match for every dollar. In the I’cack River districtquills arc currency, bllt neither matches nor quills will be re- ceived from any one excepting the one to whom they were paid. When an Indian opens an account with the company he stipulates that he is to receive a new suit of clothes when he dies; when this has been guaranteed to him he rests easily. No grcatcr reproach could be made to an Indian than to say he is so bad that he will have to be buried iii his 0 d clothes. As a mat ter of fact the company does not permit this; if it did it would soon lose its hold on the Indians. THE WORK OF Till: INDIAN. ‘2, The items of credit for Indians on the company’s books consist of skins and work, the lur of wild animals and sledging. The books do not show how many or what kind of furs have been furnished, everything having been reduced to the unit standard. A mink skin is the unit and counts as one skin. A bear hide is fourteen skins, but it takes ten muskrat hides to make one skin. If the Indian works a day for the company he is credited with a skin and. a half. The work consists of carrying provisions from one point to another, as the company may dictate, and in May of every year in for- warding the accumulated skins to Hudson Bay, from where they are shipped to England. Carrying goods from one place to another is done by means of dogs in winter, little work of this nature being done in the warm season. The Indians make their own sledges and four hundred pounds in addi- tion to the driver are considered a load for four dogs, if more dogs are used a hundred pounds is added for each dog. The dogs are principally of the Esquimaux breed and sotne of them are magnificent animals. In the summer months these dogs are kept in large corrals, their owners clubbing to- gether for that purpose. When there is a sharp crust of ice on the snow. shoes made of caribou skin are fastened to the feet of the dogs, being tied about their ankles. GAME LAWS OF THEIR OW'N. Few of the game and fish laws passed by the various provinces of the Dominion affect the Indian, nearly every one of these laws contain a provision that. it shall not apply to the aborigines. This is due to the fact furnish food for the Indian. But the Indian has laws of his own on the subject, some of these laws being based on superstition, others on rea- son. Fourteen is the limit to the number of bears any one Indian may kill in a ....\'Ds.=\v, T- I‘RSIHY, JANUARY:.6,1893. W their 6V“ (1015108. like-Ii 52.13:. w;.: by age, give many a bit of scenery a pecu- liar aspect. If by reason of constant hunting or some other cause any species of at imal decreases in number the Indian ceases his pursuit and a close season thus established by common consent is far better obseri ed than close seasons made by Legislatures in the United States. Just at present there is ‘fl-Lâ€" :1: ELECTRIC AL NOTES. ...â€"â€"- Ottawa ' will have the first electrically heated power house. In answer to the supposed signal lights that are flashing on the planet Mars it is suggested that the brilliant electric light- ing system of London, which extends over a twelve square miles of streets, to be alter- close season for rabbits and an Indian ,nately extinguished and lighted at inter- during the coming winter will not kill more rabbits than he needs for food. Few rabbit skin blankets will be made this year. These rabbit skin blankets are, by vals of five minutes. Cars for the delivery and collection of mails, express and parcel delivery cars and street sprinklers and sweepers are some of the novelties introduced on different elec- the wa a most necessar article or $11 . . . . . . y’ y f e tric railways in the United States. Indian and a most convenient one for the white man who has tons to the wilderness for sport or other pleasure. It takes from a hundred to a hundred and fifty rabbits 00 make a blanket. The animals are cap- tured in the winter months, when the fur is nearly all white. The fur is cut into strips of the width of about an inch ; these I are fastened together, and after they have lain a week or so the squaws weave them into a blanket large enough for an Indian to wrap himself up in. Blankets of this kind become gray with age and last eight or ten years. The constant coming out of the white hair is an objectionable feature to their use in civilization. Dogs, when allowed to run about, which is never the case with the pure Esquimaux breed on account of their destructive faculties, seem to be always hungry, and they have a sneaking way about them which disgusts the white man. eat anything intended to be eaten and a great many things not supposed to be fit for that purpose. This is the conclusion I ar- rived at when a pair of them one day de- They will 1 I I I I I I I I I The Government has been recently instal- ling electric stamp-caucelling machines hav- ing a capacity of 3,000 letters per hour in all the postoffices of consequence in the country wherever electric current could be conveniently obtained. An electric engine has been deSigned for ordinary passenger traffic on a sub-city line in London which admits of its motors being revolved when the train is at a. standstill. It operates on a central-rail system, and many economical advantages are claimed for it. Electric cloth-cutters are one of the latest novelties in the market, and their ready adoption by many of the larger clothing manufacturers seem to insure their success. Several thicknesses of cloth can be cut in any pattern quickly and accurately by mere- ly guiding over the surface the revolving knife-edge wheel, which is operated by a. small motor geared directly to it. The whole apparatus is very compact and nicely finished. A German inventor has taken out pa- voured half a bushel of raw potatoes out of “ tents on an incandescent lamp having three my store, and by way of desert got away with two bars of soap. NO CROWDING IN TEXAS. Some Staggering Figures: Regarding the Area. of the Lone Star State. A recently printed statement that the western states of America are becoming crowded is disproved by figures that, through various manipulations, tell a. most wonderful story of the length and breadth of the magnificent empire lying west of the Mississippi river. Of the vast area of the larger western states, people who have not visited them and travelled over them have no comprehensive idea. Texas, the largest of the United States, has an area of 262,200 square miles. To the casual reader, says Kate Field’s Washington, these figures mean but very little ; they show, however, that the lone star state is more than fifty-four times as large as the state of Connecticut. If it were possible to run a railway train from Connecticut to Texas and back in a day, and if the train could take the entire population of the nut- meg state, as given by the last census, at every trip, and, upon its return, there should be as many persons in the state as there were before the train left with its cargo, and if each one of these people were placed upon an acre of ground upon his ar- rival in Texas. the train would be obliged to make 224 trips, or to depopulat-e (Ion- necticut 224 times, before accomplishing its mission, and then there would remain in Texas 703,808 empty acres. It may be of passing inttrest to know that such a train, made up of coaches twenty feet long, capable of accommodating fifty passengers each, would extend over a distance of more than fifty-six miles. If the entire State of Texas were planted with corn and the bills were two feet apart and the rows were three feet apart, and if every man, woman and child in the State of Connecticut were set to work in the field to hoe the corn, and each person was I I ’independent carbon filaments and three terminals in place of the ordinary loop with two terminals. These filaments are of equal ' resistance and the lamp is probably invent- I I I I I able to and did hoe two hills in five min- i ' above the arc. utes, it would take this army of laborers seven years 280 days and seven hours to; . hoe every hill of corn in the state, laboring vear. to consider how great a country they are living in these figures may be of interest. I The man who fears that he could not elbow his way around in the crowded west with- out chafing the nap of his coat sleeves may gather some solace from the statement that the entire living population of the globe, 1,400,000,000 souls, divided into families of five persons each, could be located in Texas, each family with a house on a half-acre lot, and there would still remain 50,000,000 , vacant family lots. __________..___â€"-â€"-â€"â€"â€" FIFTY THOUSAND RAGPICKERS. :The Army of People Who Explore the “ Rubbish on Paris Streets. 2 The wealth of Paris is so boundless that the rubbish and refuse of the city are worth millions, says a writer in Harper’s Magazine. _ I persons who I 'l I There are more than 50.000 earn a living by picking up what others throw away. Twenty thousand women and children exist by sxfting and sorting the atherings of the pickers, who collect every day in the year about 1,200 tons of mer- chandise, which they sell to the wholesale rag-dealers for some 70.000 francs. At night you see men with baskets strapped on their backs, a lantern in one hand and in the other a stick with an iron hook on the and. They walk along rapidly, .their eyes fixed on the ground, over 1 which the lantern fiings a sheet of light, and whatever they find in the way of paper, rags, bones, grease, metal, etc., they stow away in their baskets. In the morning, in front of each house, you see men, Women and children sifting the dust- bins before they are emotied into the sca- vengers“ carts. At various hours of the day you may remark isolated ragpickers, who seem to work with less method than 1 season; if he kills more than that niimberl the others and With a more independent one of the numerous devils constituting his for him. , and deadfalls, the latter being bated with 1 fish. Should an Indian approach the num- ber of fourteen he will set only enough traps 'to make his compliment in full. ' accident he should capture more than 14 he I will liberate all in excess of that number, i if the bears in excess of fourteen have been l killed in deadfalls he expects some grave 1 misfortune and it takes a great many . prayers to avert it. If an Indian is stricken with illness or meets with a serious accident his fellows look at him askance and argue that he must have killed more than fourteen bears in the past season. During the summer months i an Indian may kill a bear for food but he must be near starvation before he will do so. In my travels we encountered several bears but as they did not ofier to' molest us the Indians‘deolined to kill them, although they might have done so with ease. When ' an Indian kills a bear he removes his hide ‘ and then hangs the skull on the projecting branch of a tree, if possible near the edge daJimpthmnnii .ofierine tense of public m. I air. The night pickers are generally nov- ices; men who, having been thrown out of Work, are obliged to hunt for their living like the wild beasts. The morning pickers are experienced and regular workers, who pay for the privilege of sifting the dust-bins of a certain number of houses and of trad- ing with the results. The rest, the major- ity, are the coureurs, the runners, who ex- ercise their profession freely and without control, working when they please and loaf- ing when they please. They are the phil- oso hers and adventurers of the profession, and) their chief object is to enjoy life and meditate upon its problems. ST. PAUL. Mina, Jan. 18.-â€"A case of Asiatic cholera is reported here. The victim was a Swede and srrived'on the Soo train yesterday. The body was buried within two hours of the arrival. ____________â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€" Typewriter (.ombine. NEW Yonx,Jan. '18.â€"It is learned here that some negotiations looking toward a combination of typewriter interests are under way. but they are not ripe for the I I I I I I I ed to use on a three-wire circuit. It is stated on good authority that the older systems of trolley roads running in this cpuntry are finding it necessary to re- place their overhead lines owing to the continuous wear upon the wires and joints occasioned by the passing of the trolley wheel and its atten . . it arching along the line. In several instances where the line has fallen to’ the street from breaking it has been discovered that the wire was badly worn away, so as to materially reduce its tensile strength. \Vith some improvements which have been recently brought out, the electric arc lamp is destined to replace the calcium or oxyhydrogen light for optical projections and theatrical uses. Its brillancy, steadi- ness, whiteness and fixeduess are superior to those of the limelight, and with its recently altered construction it is expected to come into favor for use wherever electric current is obtainable. A new form of dynamo, witha novel method of field excitation, has been brought out The armature of the machine is stationary and has a revolving field inside of it. No armature is necessary. It is claimed that it admits of first-class con- struction at a surprismgly low cost and that its high efficiency and simplicity are among its best commendations. An electrician of St. Louis claims that by coating the carbons used in arc lamps with copper of about the same thickness as that usually employed and then with a heavier coating of zinc the carbons can be made to burn nearly twice as long as with merely the copper covering. Several theories are advanced by the inventor to account for this, one being that the heat of the are forms oxide of zinc, which permeates the copper coating, closing its pores and pre- venting the access of cold air, and another that the zinc oxide covering the copper protects it and prevents its burning away An electric generator weighing 33,000 pounds is to be installed in a railway power continuously day and night 365 days each ; house in Ottawa, Canada. It is to furnish current to heat the entire premises, as well To those persons who have never stopped i as help operate the trolley road, and is the largest generator ever taken into Canada. The power house will be the first building in this country ever heated throughout with electricity, and probably the first power station heated in this manner in the world. Electricity is to become a. great factor in prolonging human life. It has been discov- ered that ozone when manufactured and in- troduced into air by the electrical process tends to give the air healthful qualities by exterminating all the disease germs and mi- crobes it may contain. During all the great epidemics in past years it has been notiwd that the air has contained an unusually small percentage of ozone, and that as soon as this percentage increased the spread of the dis- ease ceased. Moreover, whenever the air became charged electrically more than usual during several days the epidemic was found to diminish in its severity. A French physician has recently made some very in- teresting and instructive compilations on the subject, which would seem to warrant the attention of boards of health and physicians generally. The Patent Office has recently granted a number of patents for magnetic ore separa- tors and also several for printing telegraph systems. A new telephone company, with a capital stock of $80,000,000 has been incorporated in Chicago. A number of small electric launches are to be sent to the \Vorld's Fair next year, to be used for small excursion parties. The motive power will be supplied by means of storage batteries. _____________._â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" line in Chesley. CHESLEY. Ont... Jan. IS.â€"Yesterday morning a fire started in the sample room of the lVindsor Hotel and was extinguished after a small loss. Mr. Adams, the pre- prictor. was awakened by the crackling noise and a bucket brigade did the rest. ________________â€"-â€"-â€" After a girl has passed her eighteenth birthday she is thought to be une demoiselle amarier, but it is considered bad taste for the parents themselves to make any effort to achieve a daughter’s marriage. Young men, excepting in the country. where far greater liberty is allowed, are seldom asked to visit a family where there are grown up daughters, and unless under circumstan- ces, ore never asked to come to lunch or dinner. On no account would a French mother allow her daughter to speak. to a man of known bad character or obviously unfit to become her husband. Marriage is an ever present possibility in France where young people are concerned, and, as may be easily imagined, this has both its ad ta s and disadvantages. e relations. Abroad fami- '