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'; \Vithin a short time a new life in- ’ snrance company, which is to be all Can- ' adian in itxc-haracter, will begin busi- t mess. with head offices in Montreal. It },will be known as the Royal Victoria LIns-umnce Company. ‘- ‘ Earnings of the Montreal Street Rail- way Company for the’fizrst four months ‘of the fiscal year amount. to $412,665. against $385520 for the. corresponding veriod of last year. ‘ contemplates sending an officer to the Old Country to take special notices of Canadian shipments during the coming summer. ’ ’ The leading steamship companies are asking the Government to pay half the cost ogflfittingup vessels for cold stor- The Canadian Pacific railway will run colonist specials every Tuesday during March and April, to meet the require- ments of the settlers’ movements to- wards the. North \Vest. real, heldithat thq idea that Canada was exceptionally rich 1n mmerals was a fallacy. Nova Scotia’s finances. as reported to the Legislature at Halifax. on \Vednesâ€" day, Show the. expenfiture for the year ended Seutember last to have. been $853,893, or 512.73% less than the reve- nue. age. The total fiaymentâ€"fi'bhlafla‘inalvfit to $150,000. Dr. Selwyn, in a paper read at the mining engineer’s conventionat Mont- Arrangements are being made for a deputation to wait on the Government to press the claims of the Monrtreal Ottawa and Georgian Bay ship canal. "I‘he India famine fund is meeting with much criticism in Montreal. It is pointed gut that there is distress enough in that locality to employ all tbgpharitable efforts and funds avail- ~vvv-v‘- _ __ "J, ' A Duluth firm will erect an elevator at. Kingston, Ont, accepting the city’s offerOOf a bonus of $25,000 and tax ex- emptlon for ten years. As aoresult of the new quarantine regulations large droves of cattle are being driven across the ice from Brock- ville to the United States. Strong pressure is being brought to bear on the Dominion Government to have insolvency legislation introduced as soon as possible. At the Business Men’s Convention held “in \Vinnipeg, on Friday. a reso- ]u_tion was passed recommending that the Dominion Government build the. proposed railway through the Crow’s Nest pass. . ‘. The trouble between the garment- workers and the Sanford Manufactur- ing Company, of Hamilton has been amicably. settled. , , Messrs. Gordon and Keith, under- takers, of Halifax.‘ are bringing an ac- tinnagainst the Dominion Government for Sir John Thompson’s funeral ex- penses, which the Government disputes on the ground of overcharges. . The Nova Scotia Hou‘se of Assembly on Friday passed a. bill appoint'ng July lst a public holiday. This is he first time. since Confederation that. Domin- ion day has been recognized in Nova Scotia as a legal holiday. Mayor Bingham, of Ottawa, has giv- en his first, month’s salary as. Chief Magistrate to the. poor of the Clty. Ald. Watkins, cf Hamilton, has com- plained to the ‘13) or of tobacco-smok- ing at the Board of \Vorks meetings. The report that. the Montreal cotton mills intend clpsmg down for three months is denied in Montreal. * The petition for a reduction in the number of liquor licenses in Hamilton was considered by the Markets Com- mittee and refused. - . The retail merchants of Ottawa are petitioning the Dominion Government for the right of garnishee against the salaries of civil servants: \Vinnipeg School Board is asking the city for $100,000 to meet this year’s ex- penses. It is n9w.thought probable that .811;- veyor nglvxe and party \VlllOIemaln 1n the Yukon country over wmter. John R. Hooper will be required to serve the sentence of ‘25 years in the nitentiary which was imposed upon .im for attempted wife murder three years ago. Sir Oliver Mowat having re- ported adversely to any comtrmitation. CANADA. Stratford is to have a Free Library. The miners’ strike at Springhill, N.S., continues. Mr. D. \V. Bole has been elected Pre- sident of the Winnipeg Board of Trade. Last year’s cut of timber in the Ot- tawa valley is estimated at 614,250,“)0 feet. The Dominion Government is in re- ceipt of a score or more applications for railxvay subsidies. Some of them are new, and some are for a renewal of subsidies which lapsed through the re- fusal of Parliament last year to revote the money. ' ‘ Interesting Items About Our Own Country. Great Britain, the United States, and All Parts of the Globe. Condensed and Assorted to: Easy Reading. Under the instructions of the Minis- ter of Agriculture, the free distribu- tion of sample. seed packages of certain varieties of grain and other agricultur- al products which have succeeded on the Experimental farms will he made again this season . THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. Mr. Dobell. who has returned from England? says that Canada ought not to he in too greata hurry in getting her new Atlantic service, as a new style of steamer is being projected. of shallow draught with great capacity, and speed, which would be admirably suited for the St. Lawrence route. The Earl of Kinnouil is dead, 'at the age of seventy years. Sims Reeves, the celebrated English tenor singer, has been declared a. bank- rupt. IHE NEWS IN NUISHH Lady William Beresford, formerly Duchess of Marlborough has given birth to a son. _ Thomas Batemgm. who was twice re- sident of the Prlmitive Methodist L20- ierence, is dead at London. steamer Peruvian lost 100 head GREAT BRITAIN. The London press is very severe up- on the amendments passed upon the arbitration treaty by the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate. The Daily News says that the amendments were chiefly made with the yiew of amending the treaty out of emstence. Baron Herschell, formerly Lord High Chancellor of England, and the Right Hon. Sir Richard H. Collins, a Justice of the Queen’s Bench Division of: the High Court have been chosen as the representatives of Great Britain on the Venezuela Arbitration Commis- 810m. Mr. Chamberlain states that the question of an Imperial conference to continue the work of the Ottawa con- ference to be held when the Colonial Premiers go to London is under con- Slderatxon. The plan formulated by the Imperial Government for increasing the strength and efficiency of the navy contemplates the construction of. five battleships and three first class cruisers and the addi- tion of. ten thousand more men. Sir Michael Hicksâ€"Beach made a speech in the British House of Com- mons on the Egyptian and Dongolam expedition question, in which he. took a very firm stand on British policy in the. east. The speech caused much comment, and a full report of it was cabled to France. ' flighhv‘afimen ’looted the Eldon Bank at Ottumwa, Iowa, the ether day to the extent of $30,000. The British House of Commons, by a vote of 325 to 110, passed the fin- ancial proposal in the educational bill to grant to voluntary schools the Sum of five shillings per child. It .is intimated that Pr‘esident-elect McKinley intends to appoint Mr. Chaun- cey M. *Depew. Ambassador to Eng- Five 'children. their ages ranging) from 10 to 15 years, were drowned on Tuesday ‘by falling through the ice at Nebraska City. The United States Senate, before agreeing to the abritration treaty, em- ascmlated it in such a manner as to render it. doubtful of ‘acceptance to Great Britain. .fl‘he Capital- of Pennsylvania at! Bar- nsburg has been burned. The Anglo-Venezuelan firefly has been signed by Ambassador EBaunce- fate and MiniSEer Andrade at \Vash- mgton. : - 0‘79!" 100300 Persons in the State of Lomsiana are said to be destitute the Lee B. McFarland, teller of the Sec- ond National Bank of Parkersburg, \V. Va. a., is ieported short $43,000 in his ac- counts. Lady Henry Somerset will be ask- ed to preach the annual sermon during the National Convention of the \V. C. '1‘. U. in Buffalo next fall. .At Stockton, Gain on \Vednesda-y night Chas. A. Kileupfer, a. saloon keep- er, shot and killed Charles Dodge and Alexander Borland, (two prominent Citizens. Indictments have been returned against 14 persons, including aldermen and police officers, at Louisville, Ky.. for failing to suppress gaming. Gardner, Morrow Co.’s insolvent bank building at Hollidaysbung, Pa., was wrecked by dynamite. It is sup- posed to be the work of creditors 1n revenge. 1 (301. George Meade, a son of General Meade, the hero of Gettysburg, died on \Vednesday in Philadelphia after a brief illness. a The United States revenue receipts during January were 524316.994, and the expenditure $30,269,389, leaving a. deficit of $5,952,395. The works of the Case Threshing Machine Company at. Racine, \Vis., will resume operations Monday next. They have been closed for six months. Enough money to erect a chapel at Mount Hermon, Mass., is to be given Evangelist Dwight L. Moody, who will be 60 on Friday, by his friends as a birthday gift. ’ ' The total freight carried by the Uni- ted States and Canadian Soo canals last; year amounted to 16, 239, 060 tons, ex- ceeding all previous records by over 1,,000000 tons. momma ago on a trip north. She had a. drew of 10. I .T‘he schooner Cora Hans’on, of Pro- v1dence, R.I., has been given up for. lost.__ShJe left Brunswick, Ga., several DI. Nansen, the Arctic exlorer, and Mrs. Nansen arrived in London on Wednesday. They are the guests of Sir George Haden-Powell The liaruis of Lansdom'rne, the Se- cretary of State for \Var, announced on Thursday that the Government in- tended to increase the army by 7,385 Hamil-tolu- F. Cdleman of the Land Office .aa't 'Waslgbingtpp ‘has been arrested The last ship of the United‘ States navy to get into trouble is the battle- ship Indiana. She was unable to ac- company the squadron to sea, and :had to return to Hampton Roads after as short run as she rolled dangemusly. It is now porpbsed to dock her and put on a new “bilge keel." : :l‘he Prince of ‘Vales attended on A ednesday night the dinner given in his honour ‘03 Mr. Bayard, the United States Ambassador in London. on a. charge of sfealing postééééEélfixgs from the Government. It is said has takings amount to over $100,000. Lady Aberdeen will 'be the convoca- tion orator at the University of Chi- cago commencement exercises on April 1. Lady Aberdeen will have the honour of ’being the first woman cho- sen for such an occasion in the United of cattle and 35 sheep on‘ her last trip from Portland tn Glamow. There is no new nor distinctive fea- ture in business throughout the Unit- ed States. During the most dull peri- odpof the year of course little isusually expected, 33.1151 smell as; the expectation may be, it is seldom fulfilled. x This week shows no change in the usually monotonous record. Bad Weather and bad roads mean bad business, and the story is about told. {Fairly favourable trade geports cogme ~f‘rogn S_t. Paul, \Czhi- cage, Minneapolis, St. Louis, and afew other pounts; but generally no change is reported, and little prospects of im- mediate improvement. GENERAL. ‘ Prince Chimay has secured a di- THE DURHAM CHRONICLE. Feb. 18, 1897. LU-espatches from {Athens tell of a fearfuil state of affairs in Crete. :Des- perate fighting has taken pdace between Christians and Mohammedans. In Canea the Christian quarters of the city were fired, and the people driven out by flames and massacred at their doors by Turkish soldiery. The war- ships are landing marines to protect the Consulates. The principal fish exporting mer- chants of St. John’s, Nfld., have pre- sented a. memocrial to the Government. asking for the enforcement of the Bait Act against the French. Tewfik Pasha, urn-til recently Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs, has ar- rived an: Marseilles. He“ states that a reign of terror prevails among the en- tourage of the Sultan]. ' Serious alarm is felt in: Brazil at the growth of the fanatical movement in Bahia. A body of 5,000 fanatics is re- ported to be advancing toward the prin- cipal Governinent post. The Czar has cordially received and restored all the r lghts of the Grand Duke Michael Michaelovitch, who was banished from Russia and deprived of his uniform by the late Czar {or mes- alliance. ( A Man at Eighty-Five Years “130 New Looks Like a Man of Forty-lle Expects to Live alany Years Yet. John Adams of the village of Tucker, Kankakee county, 111., after a life ex- ceeding by a number of years the three- seore years and ten allotted by the Psalmist as the limit of man’s age, has become young again. FROM OLD AGE TU YOUTH THE WONDERFUL REJUVENATION OF OLD JOHN ADAMS. A pamic is reported at Kurrachee as a. cresult of the plague and famine in India, The. plague in that section coiltinues to spread at an alarming Ia. e. ~ Prof. Haffkine, who uses attenuated plague virus as an antidote for the disease, inoculated 156 prisoners in the jail at Bombay. The Pope is reported to be suffering from fainting fits. ‘ Emperor Francis Joseph will visit? St. Petersburg on April ‘27. . ‘ A number of strikes and bread riots are breaking out in Spain. Rio’tous conduct of students caused the closing of the university at Rome. .L‘I‘Jflka’c’s)’. the famous Hungarian ar- t‘s)“, 15 rePorted to be dying at Vienna. M. Martini, the inventor of the rifle of that name, is dead at Frauenfeld, Switzerland. The search for the elixir of life has occupied the attention of mere than one man since Ponce de Leon inyaded the flowery fastnesses of Florida in the hope of finding a fountain whose wa- ters would restore his lost youth, but never before has there gone on record the case of one who, after reaching an advanced age, has received the bless- ing of youth renewed. 'A short time ago John Adams had all the appearance and all the peculiarities of a man whose life race has been almost run. He had a right to the evidence of age, for he was 85 years old. Now the casual obâ€" server and even those who have known him for years and have watched him grow. from manhood to old age may be pardoned if at times they mistake him for a man much younger than he is. John Adams of a few, months ago and John Adams of toâ€"day are different persons. One is a man bowed beneath the weight of years. 'He is bald, except- for a fringe of gray hair, toothless, and time has so dimmed his eyes that he is almost blind. That is the John Ad- ams that was. Toâ€"day his head is cov- ered with a growth of dark-brown hair and his eyes are bright and clear, and he has out several. teeth. {How the change has been brought about no man can say. So far as is known and according to his own stateâ€" ment, Mr. Adams has done nothing to renew his youth. , It seems It is reported that, fighting has taken‘ place on the frontier of 813.111 between the French and Siamese. A REVOL'I.‘ (9F NATURE, against the laws of time which en- force a. decay of the bodily forces and a. revivification of a. nearly worn-out body. .At first glance Mr. Adamslooks like a man no more than 40 years of age. - Cases have been reported in which a. set of teeth have appeared in per- sons of an advanced age after those which have served them. through life have dropped out. But it is doubtful whether ever before the entire appear- ance of an aged person has been changâ€" The Portuguese Ministry has re- signed. * " - . The Czwri‘ma has recovered rom her recent illness. ed bank to that of youth. Indeed, the case of Mr. Adams appears to be unique. As yet the change is incomplete. Dark hair has replaced the gray locks which had fallen out, new teeth have taken the place of those worn away by sev- enty years of use, and sight. has re- turned to him. But his skin 18 still wrinkled and has the parchment-like appearance which comes wit_h age, and his mustache and heard, 'Wthh had be:- renewing_ their: color, Still Mr. Adams believes that_ the rejuvenation which has begun W111 be fully carried out. He expects to see his skin either replaced by new or fill- ed out and the wrinkles smoothed away. \Vhere the renewal of youth will stofiefie dew not attempt to say, but he 'eves that in a great meas- ure, at least, his former powers have been restored, and he is confident that under the stimulus so.une.Xpectedlyv given his faculties he .w111 hve many years past the common age of man. To a certain extent, though ‘ just Why Is hardly clear, Mr. Adams is telnpted to lay the return 0! he .youth to the manner of Rafe which he has gifiy; sde. 110 Signs of The etfect of Mr. Adam’s rejuvenation upon hls neighbors is various. More than one believes firmly that the old man has discovered that wonderful: fluid so long sought by the old alche- mists and 'by the credu‘lous of all ages which is supposed to have the power of makin the old young. Others look upon ‘0 e affair as a {latter-day miracle and consider the did gentleman espec- ially favored by a divine powerâ€"per- haps for no apparent purpose; perhaps, because some great work is reserved for him. The majority, however, re- gard the matter as simply a freak of nature, as it probably is; a renewal of. youth through some strange. rebellion of life against time. with no stoop, scarcely a slope to hiS§ shoulders, and weighs 198 pounds. But' the .fact to which he attributes the greater art of his rejuvenation is that for the ast ten years he has been acâ€" customed to rise at 5.30 o’clock every morning, rain.or shine, summer or win- ter, and walk a distance of two miles. to the house of his son for breakfast; Just how much this has to do with the return of his youth Mr. Adams cannot; say, but that it has had a decided in-f fluenoe he is lull): convinced. He has never surrendered to the attacks of. time; he has never given up and ad-g Init'ted that he is an ch man. Instead ' of seeking sheltered nooks and sunny; corners when it became apparent tof him that the wear of his years was hav- ! ing its effect upon him, he has been; up every morning at the fixed hour= and taken his daily walk before break-f Certainly, Whatever may be the cause, the case is strange enough to excite comment, and it has had the effect of not only raising the interest of the citizens of Tucker to a high point, but of bringing out more than one seeker into the manner of life and the habits of Mr. Adams, believing that perhaps he has unknowingly happened upon some secret by which youth may be. re- called and life measurably prolonged, and hopeful of discovering what. that secret is. . One of the most enthusiastic dog lov- ers in all England is her Royal High- ness the Princess of \Vales, among whose canine pets are treasures the finest owned by any woman in the United Kingdom. Not a dog fancier or breeder in Europe, but knows of thier interest in these pets, her knowledge of the animal’s good points, and her splendidly-appointed kennels, and at in- tervals she receives from some famous stud a particularly handsome puppy. In the last dog show this was successfully demonstrated when the Princess show- ed a handsome new Russian hound, a Borzoi, and carried off an arm load of prizes. The beautiful creature, belong- ing to the imperial family of wolf- hounds, of which the Emperor of Russia possesses the noblest specimens, was sent to the Princess two years ago by a Russian dog fancier of note, and since the stately Alix, in his rough white and fawn-colored coat, carried off the first honors every fashionable woman in England has purchased or bid for a. Borzoi puppy, fallowed of late years. He has always been remarkabfly regular in his hab- its, and temperate in all things, even to abet-emiousness. 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