Wow . Fie, - WHAT IT MEANS TO "CORNER" ----- $ ; \ vise Schemes to Raise the Price of Grain. Every new member x0 Board vf Trade, ve heat Pit" letermines to "corner" rbout as "The Wheat King" whieve this ambition, but to lers an irresistible ipects, loa, Canada, Europe, India, ria, the Argentine--wherever, mmed. Nothing of importance | 'ecting wheat can take place w! mit being ixstantl Jhicago Wheat "the brainy Speculators De- sented twelve months' araee and countless calculations. He to watch the market as a -cat watches a mouse; to '"'keep track"' of what his enemies were doing in various markets; enthuse his own supporters, always liable to get in- to a mortal "'funk" if they see 'pri- ces drooping. It was a great men tal and physical strain, only pos- sible to a man of iron nerve and ro- Jbust constitution. The 'Wheat sees it everywhere; dreams of it by night. Wheat! wheat! wheat ! 'sings in his head. Lucky if he es- capes mental collapse ! -------- it CHEAP SLEEPING CARS. In Sweden One Can Take a Ten Hour Ride for 67 Cents. The Swedish State railways have three classes of fares, the propor- tion in price being about as 5:3:2. Heretofore only the first and sec ond class passengers have had ac- eéss to special sleepers, also run by the state railways, but now sleepers have been also put in for third- class passengers. As third-class cars were formerly supplied with only wooden seats, these new cars will be welcomed by third class oe Ry) | ANARCHY IS A PROBLEM | King" gets wheat on the brain, of the Chis- in which the is located, secretly wheat, make a cool million, and swagger Few the yemperamenial gambler wheat of fascination ; the rize is colossal, the excitement ¢n- hralling. The pivot of such a "corner" consists of the statistics of wheat crops, consumption, pro- etc., gathered from Amer- Rus- "in short, wheat is produced or eo a - th- y reported to the Pit, says London re : : PUNISHMENT OF ALIEN CRIM- INALS DISCUSSED. --_ Revolvers Meets with Bitter Opposition. How to get rid of anarchists in London, how to prevent their land- ing in England and how to punish them when caught offending are questions being more widely dis- cussed than ever since the police discovered an ararchist arsenal in Gold street, London, in connection with the Houndsditch murders. The discovery only lends additional color to the suspicion widely pre- valent (of late that London has been seriously menaced by an or- ganized conspiracy of a desperate character, writes a London corre- spondent. UNDESIRABLES POUR IN. The number of alien criminals who habitually make London their home have had their already con- siderable forces so heavily re-in- Plan to Arm British Police With' led and offered for sale. trees were grown by householders ' dex to the mind asserts a writer in in their home gardens for private' London Answers. have 'baffled . lately that the police have got a bad attack of hysteria." fee FRUIT IN JAPAN. --s me Very Little Fermerly Grown, but Now It is Pven Exported. The use of fruits in Japan was until recently limited to the upper classes, and the cultivation of fruit trees was not carried on as at the present day, though fruits growing wild in field or forest were gather- A few fruit use, but little attention wos paid to their cultivation. The principal cause for the slow development of fruit culture in Ja- pan appears to have been the cli- mate. The climate being warm and moist, there is luxuriant for fruit culture exist. In order to obtain satisfactory results, great expenditure is necessary. Fruits which have been cultivat- ed from ancient days extensively enough to be grown in orchards or the authorities just | \ | , away from the palm. case, they will be invariably drawn -in and hidden by the back of the growth of vegetation, producing the | exquisitely beautitul landscapes for | which Japan is so well known, but. on the other hand few advantages | HEIS A G | KING GEORGE MORE ELO- QUENT THAN HIS FATHER. -- CHARACTER IN. THUNBS ----- ; 7 A WRITER SAYS THEY ARE AN INDEX TO THE MIND. _ Facts About Finger Prints and _ Peeuliarities of the Nails. Some of His Speeches of Lucidity and Happy Expression. Although King Geo lamented royal father, al aptitude and long ready and eloquent spea cae naturally neither the time nor knowledge necessary t0 orepare many of the speeches he has to de- liver. 'Take, for example, the opening of a new. wing to & aoe pital, for which it 1s necessary give a history of the hospital a its work, to refer to the disting- uished men it has given to ne world and to the part it bas play in advancing medical and surgica science. These are matters W expert knowledge, and <¢ : the King is naturally as ignorant as the average layman. Here the hospital authorities come art ly to his assistance and practically rge, like his is by nwvir- training @ Ker, he Las If yeu believe that a person is' trying to deceive you watch his thumbs. They are an unerring in- Should he be telling tne truth, the thumbs will relax, and point In the other' hand. The thumb is an_ indisputable tale-teller. It is a guide to the m- telligence, and a foreteller of par- alysis. Mentally weak persons, 10 ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, have thumbs which are undersized, characterless, and cling closely to theside of thehand. Prominent, well-developed thumbs are signs of mental and physical strength. If there is a tndency toward par- hich call for of which 0D SPEAKER)" are Models HOW THE - sas FILLER AND SANK. --_-- The Disaster Which Occurred to the Namesake of the New t Battleship. as The fact that ove of the new bat- tleships is to be George' rem ne mer "Royal George aster which occurr known by reason of . "Poll for the brave., of the terrible calamity W ably interest readers. In 1782 B ritain was humbled state than she h for a century. The wars with Am- erica, and France, 8 pain and Hol. -- land, had exhausted her pagina : and there was seen the unusual -- ctacle of a French fléet menacim the coasts. It was at this oa that a calamity occurred which re sulted in the loss of the FIRST SHIP IN THE NAVY. At Portsmouth a fleet was being for the relief of Gibraltar, -- d by Spain, and one 4 ned for this expedis ] George" of 10f oldest first rat« Answer. -- : GETTING THE NEWS FIRST. There they know, before the vewspapers, about any disastrous vineyards, says the Japan Maga- zine, are oranges, pears, plums and igrapes, and great attention was! 'paid to the different varieties of | i , i A| prepared repare his speech for him. | p L iepaietes of the principal officials | then besieged | is formed, the records of the hos-| the ships a pital are carefully searched, and|tion was the oy: forced during the last twelve comfortably} months or so that an organized Ister-| outbreak has not been entirely un- make} expected. The door to English hos- alysis in a patient, the physician notices it in the thumbs long be- fore thedisease shows itself else- where.. An operation to avert the travellers by night. The new cars are equipped; the seats are upho ed and the compartments guns. She was the supply'? at every big centre. "Yrol of the market. 'post in Manitoba, the drought im the probable shortage 10 import duties on wheat in France or Ger India, Russia, the contemplated many. The American Governmen employs highly-paid exp te tabulate, analyse, bute information and statistics concerning wheat. wealthiest operato ret agents at all pentres to keep ) posted about wheat and its pro Bpects. One of the most conspica tures of the Board of important whea the latest information about whea from all quarters, 0 specially interested in the an ambitious "Wheat sing'? only depends on this but al ures private information. pre ng demand suming country ahead. He then tive guns accordingly. During a '"'flutter" Pit is a perfect pandemonium ; dreds of frenzied members with tigerish energy several month [he various differences in the cents * before the end of May, when deal' has to be consummated, the ~ price of wheat shall have shot up to deliver, or pay bly Far from the roar of Chicago city, ~ seated in a luxurious office perched on the top of a skyscraper, sits the "Wheat King," surrounded by tel- ickers'" to record the fluctuations of wheat min- ate i mples of wheat of every description, @ rare, reports and statistics. iy an y of clerks performs -- he n detail work, all of which is cleverly combined and controled ~ by the $ For instance, Mr. tk This would mean pre thus fought between ing "slump." battling against one another. 5,000 BUSHELS A FINGER! So wild is the turmoil that it entirely to --ponduct business verbally. Thus, a special finger-language is used to supplement the howling of the op>r- would be impossible tors. To signify quantities, th hand is held up ve note prices, it is thrust horizon jally. ~ Palms offer to sell; palms inwa ates # readiness to buy. rds in yyan bushels. neans 25, 19,000 osushels; and so on. "Thus, the whole jyushels, Ms head, with the outwards, and 'ighths ; three-quar ng 80 3-4, the 80 being understood bellows, mre indicated by clenching the fs or closing manner. Let us suppose that Oyrus lelivery at 60 cents per Quirkle jubilates at the pile of mo ty he is going to make out Bloggs by astute mark tions against him. Bloggs Meets busy," so manoeuvring tha n cs) say 120 cents per bushel. a 2 cents on every b 25,000 on the ey day ne and wheat touch ps 120 cents, Quirkle must will proba "cash grimly, and mentally up,' swear deliver-in such circumstances. ephones, "tick delinion etuati y nute, sa maze of cable tntricate -- icat master brain. WHEAT ON THE BRAIN. ey "ec t? cary sagnessful = "'carmer, © iNet te page 82.000,000." xe0s ore erts to col- and distri- exhaustive The rs maintain sec- them constantly members being) with a "visible | blanket are supplied. But) trains his specula- in wheat the hun- fight to secure con- Terrible battles the 'longs,' who want to force prices skyward, and the "shorts,'? whose Snterest it is to engineer a sicken- | Practically, they are e e rtically; tc de- extended outwards. meai For) antities, each finger means 5,090 hand 000 bushels; four fingers, Sup- pose wheat is selling ab 80 3-4, and "\n operator wishes to sell 25,000 he raises one hand above palms extended \ Spx: ters |'? -- mean- . fingers In a certain Bs 4 Blass buys from Hiram 4. Quirkle 1,000,000 bushels of wheat for May bushel. et manipula- also the a difference of ushel bought, or total. When the either Bloggs $625,000. He smile to catch ns victorious enemy next season. For wheat is not easy to Patten's last by much the same impression, The Daily Co ports, second sleeper. ly lighted. The length of the car, t 6 inches, and the width is 10 feet. partments, each with two seats and giving room for six berths. The aisle from which one enters the compartments runs alongside the t 2 iput over the upholstering, ti sheets being furnished. cleaa pillewease, and Stockholm to Gothenburg, 285 miles, covered in ten hours, is $3 third-class, and the sleeper ticket costs 67 S| tance. wT CLOTHES MADE FROM WOOD. Various Articles. are the latest sartorial venture in England. A beginning is being }made with the making of waist- \eoats. The discovery of this new process is largely due to the fact that bleached cotton is known to be composed of nearly pure cellu- lose. Working on this basis sclen- tists have discovered a method of manufacturing a thread of cellu- lose extracted from spruce wood. Cotton spinners optimistic labout the @iscovery, are it is ed from this latest process they ex- pect to pre clothing at prices lower than those now charged. The finest product will, it is said, be | cheaper than cotton in the bale. In addition to this cardinal vantage the new material can be dyed any color and--an important 1a 1 ly, the material is not inflammable. "This new process should bring the best up to date attire within the reach of almost all," says expert on clothing matters. "Also tured of this cellulose thread ex- no reason why all the rest of one's suit should not be made from a sim- ilar material. In fact, the discov- ery should revolutionize the price of all cotton goods."' t Soc S | RTP ER Et | FIRST FRICTION MATCHES. f! Made in the U.S. in 1886 by Mas- sachusetts Man. t| Friction matches are a compara- tively modern invention. They were first made b) John Walker in Eng- land, in 1827, but were rather crude affairs. He improyed them some- what in 1883 by using phosphorous. The first really practical friction match was made in the United States in 1836 by L. C. Allen, of Springfield, Mass. Before -- this time a clumsy form of match was imported from France, which had to be dipped into a bottle of sul- phuric acid before it could be light- ed. This took a great deal of time and trouble, and Allen, seeing the ne- fcessity for friction matches, set about to make them, and succeed- ed. He neglected to patent them, however, and on finally applying for letters patent, found that a man named Alonzo Phillips, who was a pedlar, had discovered through a third person the seeret of making the agorehes and had already _ob- tained a patent. Thus Allen, though the real inventor, was fore- ed to become a mere manufacturer under another man's patent. i Pry a man with trifles before [trusting him with treasures. tracted from spruce wood, I can see} nsular and Trade Re-!| tage of as on ordinary first-class or) by They are brilliant-| desirables"' | 'pouring in." which rests | At the time of on two four-wheel trucks, is 59 feet death an | | The cars are divided into eight com-|ing army of the car's side and is about three feet, ous fea | wide. The berths are 6 1-2 by Trade hall is| feet, and there is a special cover | since. the blackboard, on whieh is posted } nu | desperadoes -A pill w,! race courses. nlall sides that never before had so large a number of foreigners been The prices for these sleepers are) present ai race mecti | not) very low. The fare from so sec-| All his science is developed in calculat- the probable supply, and the|The charge for sleeping privileges}ing dangers to society. likely to arise in each con- | says | pitality has been taken full advan- during the last year or so the foreign criminal, the "'un- ot Europe simply King Edward's organized descent was made upon Eng worst criminals of »d by the vast con- course of persons they knew w ould attend his majesty s funeral. They attended the fumeral themselves, and a large percentage of them have remained .o London Last summer bands of these visited the English It was remarked on Europe, attracte lags ALWAYS CARRY REVOLVERS. Houndsditch and & oho are said 2€UTS, to be honeycombed with these Jiv- These are is uniform and independent of d's-)the ereatures whom the unarmed to fear, who, when bay, have no hesitation police have brought to lin opening fire with the rev Ivers 'they always carry. Will Bring Reduction in Price of| |punish foreigners who are found | Clothes made literally irom wood} carrying revolvers without cause, | P yet | assed ted, and with the material manufactur- | Ome of the questions which is be- ling seriously discussed is how and the revival of flogging seems to be the most generally favored. Mr. Plowden, the Marylebone po-' rate; Sir Robert Ander-| hee mas son, formerly head of the criminal investigation department, and Dr. R. F. Quinton, one time governor of Holloway prison, all of whom have had wide experience in deal- ing with the criminal classes, are; equally in fayor of corporal pun- ishment as a erime deterrant. OPPOSE ARMING POLICE. Despite the astounding battle of Mile End, in which two burglar an- | arehists, armed with automatic pis: | tols, held -1,500 policemen, two de- ltachments of the Scots Guards and ad- | lof point--the dye will not fade. Last | an | since waistcoats are to be manufac-|als, and recounting murder } a battalion of firemen at bay for nine hours, in face of the tragedy Houndsditch, when burglar confederates of the Mile End des- peradoes killed _ three policemen, and notwithstanding the fact that the London newspapers have been telling how men of the constabulary have been shot at by alien crimin- mys- teries like that of Clapham Com- mon, the English public, represent- ed by criminologists, officials and persons who are filling the news- papers with letters, are opposed to the proposal that the police shal be armed. ATTACKS MADE ON POLICE. Astonishing as it may seem to Canadians, it is true that a certain section of the press has seized upon the "battle of Mile End" as a pre- text for an attack «pon the police and the governmeut vigorously sup- porting the contention that a Lon- don "bobby" armed with a trunch- eon should be able to conquer the whole criminal world. : Just as a sample of what is be- ing said about the extraordinary affair, an interview with Dr. Forbes Winslow, who is quoted as "haying made a- life study of matters con- nected with the criminal classes," should furnish food for thought by Canadian policemen and the pub- lie in general. EXPERT HAS BRIGHT IDEA. This expert criminologist after stating that in his opinion the po- lice could haye captured the des- peradoes without a struggle if they had thought the matter out well before hand, goes on to say: "When they were in the house getting hold of the woman, Gersh- on, they could have lighted a char- coal fire that woud have speedily settled the aliens' resistance. If 'the men had attempted to interfere had time to render them uncon- 'down to the police to do so. 'There have been so many cases fof shocting and of mysteries, that -- iand by an invad-: ever | to | with the fire before its fumes had scious they would have had to come | leach, though the plum was. chiefly 'cultivated and prized for its blos- 'som and large plum gardens abound 'in Japan, valued for their beauty land attractiveness during their | flowering season, which is in snowy | January. Such trees as the persimmon, peach, loquat, quince, Japanese ap- ricot and plum, jujube and ginnan are often planted around the home or along the footpaths in rice fields, but these are for the most part seedlings and no special attention is paid to them, except occasional \fertilizing. Formerly there was. no 'uniform and methodical system for fruit culture in Japan except for 'pears, oranges and grapes, but 'since 1877, when foreign fruit trees ,were first introduced, the method 'of culture according to scientific | principles has been advocated. | The amount and value of oranges, | penches, plums, persimmons, pears jand grapes produced in 1907-8 reached a surprisingly high figure, and large quantities were shipped to the United States, Canada, China and Vladivostok. Pears, sand pears, oranges, apples, date plums, 'loquats, quinces, pomengranates, peaches, apricots (Japanese and 'foreign), plums, jujube, sweet cher- ries, grapes, figs and gooseberries, and walnuts and chestnuts are the 'fruits and nuts mostly appreciated land eaten in Japan, the latter be- ing wild with only a few examples of the cultivated variety. MASSAGE FOR SOLAR PLEXUS New Rule of Health is Given by British Authority. One of the secrets of long life lies in the way in which you treat your i | } | | | { | { } } | | | } Lerop cannot grow under 132 days. \solar plexus, accurding to Robert; mal Physical Schoul, London, Eng- | land. is his new rule of health. isake of those who might be unac- |quainted with physiology, | King explained that the solar plex- lus is the great subbrain of the hu- | man body--a mass of nerye sub- istance lying between the stomach }and spine, whose function it is to |eontrol such unconscious operations 'as respiration, circulation and di- gestion. The special significance isolar plexus lies in its extreme sus- ,ceptibility to emotion. Boxers, of | course, know that it is very suscep: i tible to something else. "So soon as the emotion of fear is felt,'? is Mr. King's theory, "the solar plexus begins to shut up, its capacity for passing on the vital forces becomes limited, and the whole of the nervous system drops. With the emotion of joy or plea- sure, the solar plexus expands. When a person is thoroughly en- joying a good laugh it is expanded almost to its utmost capacity, with the result that the whole nerve tone of the body goes up." It is impossible to apply the mas- sage with the hands, Mr. King ex- plained, but nature has provided afar more efficient instrument in the diaphragm--the great muscle that separates the chest from the abdomen. By deep breathing the diaphragm receives "a gentle mo- tion which causes it to rub and press upon the plexus, which, in turn, energizes the entire body. "Learn to breathe properly," is the sum and_ substance of Dr. King's doctrine. - NOT AMBITIOUS. "Tf you want to be strong and healthy, Millie,' advised Aunt Jemima, '"'eat a raw onion every morning before breakfast." "Pd rather not do that, auntie," said Miss Millicent; 'I shall be satisfied with being merely heal- thy. 2 : as It sometimes happens that a man [is offered a bribe and pockets the insul. of the} | King, whe lectured on the subject recently at the Eustace Miles Nor- | | Massage your solar plexus,| has been attached to the study of For the! finger-prints. | Mr.} } 'like his coat all right, but I don't mmittee's work the result of the co h of perhaps is embodied in a speec an hour's duration. The speech, or statement, is then carefully . re- vised and cut down to th erequin compass of about a quarter of an hour at the outside and 1 with as much interest and literary merit as the committee can put in- to it. PURPLE LETTERS ON VELLUM. Four typewritten copies of the finished speech are then made, and, armed with these, the committee arrange a conference with the King's secretary, who makés such suggestions and amendments a8 he thinks advisable. The revised proof is then submitted to bim Maj- esty, who frequently re-writes it to satisfy his individual taste, and when it has thus received the royal approval the manuscript is sent to the printers and reproduced in pur- ple letters on vellum, in which gor- geous form it is sent to his Maj- esty. In his earlier days King Edward used to learn these prepared speeches by heart; and, aided by an excellent memory, was able to deliver them with all the natural effect of impromptu utterances. Qn one occasion it is said--th specch: was to be delivered at the Royal Academy banquet--he had omitted this precaution, and fur- ther found to his dismay that te had forgotten to take the copy wit' him. He proved, however, more ithan equal to the emergency, try- CHILDREN'S NAILS ing, as it was, to an inexperienced grow more rapidly than adult's; speaker, ae while the process is slowest in the | best speeches or his life, to the sual aged. In the Summer the nails of prise and delight of his | auditors, the average adult are renewed in to whom he confessed his predica- 116 days; while in the Winter a new ee. ; In later years, when experience had begotten confidence, his Maj- esty was content to master the facts'and figures of his speech, and to trust to the inspiration of the moment for its delivery. How hap- py this invariably was--how natur- al and gracefully expressed--those who were privileged to hear him well know. "King Edward's hap- piest efforts, however," Lord Rose- bery says, ""were those which were quite innocent of any preparation. In grace and simplicity of lan- guage, delicacy of humor and dig- nity of utterance, the King's im- promptu speaking might well chal- lenge comparison with that of any after dinner speaker I have 7 heard." On many subjects, too King Ed- ward was an expert who needed no help in preparing his speeches; and many of his best efforts, on such wide-apart subjects nk Bet and agriculture, were entirely of his own production: and like all his speeches, gained considérably from, bis cloke emolation and bi €¢ ; dulated- voice. KING I8 A BORN SPEAKER. King George is, if possible, an even better speaker than his royal father. Indeed; some of his speeches are perfect models of lu- cidity, happy expression and natur- al eloquence. Although the mater- ial for many of them is supplied on calamity is frequently performed on that part of the brain which is known as the "THUMB CENTRE," and the thumb itself is watched for any sign of favorable or ©.uer re- sults of the operation. The great difference the hand of an ape and a man lies in the thumb. In the human hand the thump can be made to touch any of the fingers of the same hand. This the monk- ey is unable to do. The reason why the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet are composed of cushions of fat is in order that sudden jerks and violent blows may be successfully resisted, so that no injury is done to the muscles and bones immediately be- neath them. The nails, similarly, serve as a protection to the tips of the fin- gers, where the highest degree of sensitiveness of touch prevails. Jn a person of good health the finger nail grows at the rate of about one- sixteenth of an inch a week; but during illness, or after an accident or in times of mental depression, the growth is retarded bojh in length and thickness. There are. many peculiar facts about the mails. Those on the right hand grow more rapidly than those on the left. Moreover, the growth varies with the length of the finger, and is fastest on the middle finger, nearly equal in the two on either side of it, and slowest on the thumb. u Out of every hundred lunatics and criminals, fifty have white lines across the thumb or finger nails. Of late years much importance Every well-equip- ped Scotland detective and most of the criminal investigation officers in the loeal centres carry one or more magnifying glasses, in readi- ness for examination of the accus- ing finger-print. The different patterns formed by the fine ridges and hollows on the finger tips are divided into four main groups--the arch, the whorl, the loop; and the composite varie- ty. Of these by far the commonest is the loop, which. occurs on sixty finger tips out of a hundred, Finger prints never change. The pattern is just the same in old age as in infancy. 5 ever CITY WITHIN CITY. Little Town is Shut in by Gates Called the Fuggerel. Rev. J. F. Dickie, pastor of the American church in Berlin, when in Augsberg, Germany, a few weeks ago, found a little city in the heart of the city, that was shut in all by itself with two gates, and is called the "Fuggerel."" It is so called because the one hundred and six houses within it were all built with money left by Fugger, the wealthy: sixteenth century banker, who has been called the J. P. Morgan of the country. When he died, he di- rected that these houses should be built and then given to poor aged families for four marks and twelve pfennings rental a year, that is, exactly one American dollar. They have fovr rooms and kitchen, with a little front garden and a little garden behind.--The Christian Herald. ove, he has long passed the sts when he has to rely on his ses A perfect master of his facts, he is able to clothe them in wards which by their happy choice and smooth flow, proclaim the born speaker Indeed, in perfection of expression, many of them are well entitled to rank with the finest examples English oratory. -- ONLY JUST. 'And what were the isi of That uncle's will?" ----- "That I should have all ho lef S he left ui = ---- payment of his just "Very good of the old ma wasn't it? What did h 3 "Just debts."' Sa of he NOT PERFECT. A horse dealer was showing a horse to a prospective buyer. After running him back and forward for a few minutes, he stopped and said to the buyer: 'What do you think of his coat? Isn't he a dandy ?" The buyer noticing that the horse had the heaves, replied :"'Yes, I comfortable than brut like his pants.'* }does, ae = al frankness inves ted | and delivered one of ihe} lines similar to those described ab-| Hypeerisy makes fewer people un- | class 1 land down in 175 Lord Rodney, a» wen had comman and Lord Hawke comman the squadron which | French under Conflans. could sail it was deemed no that the "Royal George' sho undergo @ careening--that 18, at | inspection and repair of those parta | the service, having been ° é 1. Lord Anson, dad Admiral Bosca ded in het Before sh¢ |under water. If time had not press led she would have been towed inte dock for this | was, it was resolved that she shoul | | when a slight careening Was j calm weather | smooth water. that the Admiral, Captain, officert: and crew, amounting to about 900, |-remained on board, and lthere were about 300 women ai Neither guns, provisions, Nor Wi lter were removed. Zarly in the morning of Aug. 2 the work was begun. The ship ° ito expose her lower timbers, bY las a leak was discovered it purpose. As the case lbe land over on her side, as Us quired, in difficulty or danger apprehended, i in additiox children; relations of the seameny THE CATASTROPHE. made to incline in the water s0 necessary to heel her over still fur- ither, in order to get at it. About >= jten o'clock a.m., while Admiral i Kempenfelt was in his cabin wm ling, and the larger number of |people were between decks, a SU 1 den squall threw the ship clean om |er on her side, and as her porthole | were open she filled and sank The Admiral, several offie: t a thousan | once. lers, and, in fact, abou |people were drowned | some three hundred bei lamong them being | horne. Captain Wag The calamity was univer ally lamented, not so much for # | ship as for the number of lives lost, |more especially Kempenfelt, as | was one of the first naval officers of ithe world. <A large sum of mone |was publicly subscribed for the re: i lef of the families and relatives | those who perished, Captain Wage | horne was court-martialled, 'bul | was honorably acquitted. Sade! | | Ce HIGHEST TOWN IN THE WORLD rre de Pasce, Peru, Has Eley, tion of 14,660 Feet. Cerro de Pasco, Peru, is the jhighest town in the world. The |remarkable broad-gage railway by |Which it is reached passes over 'higher altitude--about that | Mont Blanc--and there are miming camps and Indian villages at great. er elevations. It is also true th: there are higher .ailway static for on the Avi we _ li ; Station of Crucero Alto attai (stupendous elevation of 4,660 | |but at 14,200 feet above t. pews there is no other real of 8,000 inhabitants with a ral station, telegraph, -- teleph churches, shops, clubs, hosp and vice consuls. It is a won ful example of Souch America terprise. To get a fair view of Cer Pasco it is necessary to go to top of a high reck near the 1 way station. The town, wit little thatched houses and nar streets, lies in a large, undula basin. It is a mining town. Inf distance a large lake can he. and ail around the herizon is ded with snow-capped heights _ Everything at Cerre de Pa "run"? by the Americans. is a spacious club, where bowls played nightly, and in the below there are baseball groun Both these games are chara tically American; they are at high pressure the whole t |The biggest match can be about 14% hours, and nlay are near enough te the specta' to hear the. comments, enc ing or otherwisa, Myst are lik 'lx bestowed, } | | rt ded in her often, -- =