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IHENEVISMNIHSHHI THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. A separate school will be opened in Woodstock. 'l’m) new cases of smallpox are re- ported at. Hamilton. Winnipeg’s tax rate will be 245 1113313 this year. Manitoba's wheat. crop may be the best in its history. Kingston’s revauue Irom taxes for 1901 totals $158,217.62. An outbreak of smallpox is report.- cd at St. Jerome near Montreal. The Hessian fly is doing damage to the {all wheat. in \Vcntworth Coun- ty. Oil has been discovered on a farm in Springfield Municipality, four miles northeast of Winnipeg. The building inspector of Winnipeg reports permits have been issued this season to the value of $852,000. 'l‘hc Burbers’ flotcctive. Associa- tion. Ottawa. will protest against their bosses calling them back to Work on Sundays. Mr. Sidney Smith of the Post-of- fice Department, Ottmva, leaves next month for Newfoundland to or- ganize the mail system of that. col- ony. Mr. George Hunt. manager of the Ottawa Fruit Exchange, who has returned from a trip through Wes- The prohibition law which has been in force in Charlottetown. 1’.B.I., 101' but nwcek is pronounced by many to be a. failure. tern Ontario, describes the prospects o! the fruit crop as poor. A lust steamship line to Southam- pton will be established irom Syd- ney. (3.1)., and an extensive steel shipbuilding plant. may be establish- ed at Sydney also. Mr. James Keene. whose horse, Pm» and Bells, Won the Oaks Stakes has prem-nled a cheque for £2,650. half the stakes. to the Princess of \Vules' Hospital fund. Mrs Julia Sandberg was acquitted on the charge of having obtained $5.50 from the Chief of Police Smith of Hamilton by selling him a bogus spade guinea. She claims she is a (iuchess. Hamilton and \Vcntworth County, London and Middlcsox, St. Cathar- inos and Lincoln, and Welland Coun- ties may unite. and share the ex- pense oi erecting municipal sanitaria. for consumptivcs. Thrro is an otticiul denial to the stury that Vanderbilt. millions are behind the Dominion Securities (‘mnpanv to develop Nova Scotia’s industrial and transportation busi- ll 995' . Three pr'rsoncrs. Andrew Epperson, Frank Abrams and John Siddell. broke out, of Chuthum jail in broad daylight. Sunday afternoon and es- cupml. A couple from Seattle. W.T., were married in Victoria, B.C., by two American Methodist Episcopal minâ€" Isters. The marriage is void because the clergymen were aliens. The Leyland Line steamer Assyr- ian, “h'wh went. ashore of! Cape Race and is now a. wreck, was worth $170.00“ and her cargo $180,000. The wrecking tug Pctrcl. which also went. down, was worth $10,000. The Ontario Graphite Company, of Ottawa. is making arrangements for the installation of an extensive min- ing plant at their mine at Black Donald. in the township 0! Brough- am, in the County of Rentrew. When completed. this property will be mpuhle of turning out 30 tons per day 0! finished ore. G REAT BRITAIN. The rumor that. Battle Abbey. the scene of the Battle of ‘Ilastings, is to be sold is premature. (:en. Booth states that in the death of Sir Walter Besant. the Sul- vatinn Army loses one 0! its best friends. leresflnz Items About Our Own Country, Great Britain, the United States, and All Parts of the (lobe, Condensed and Assorted tor Buy Reading. Frederick Charles Raines. killed by'; lightning near London while stand--l ing under a tree. had the tree traced on his chest by the electrical fluid. At London the hall-year’s returns of the penny postage show an ex- traordinary increase, the estimated year's delicit 0! £80,000 being re- duced to £30,000. Mr. W. R. Cramer. Liberal member 0! Parliament. and secretary of the of the International Arbitration League. was lined seven hundred and fifty pounds for libelling John Low- les, a former member of Parliament. It is announced that the New York Museum of Natural History and the South Konsington Museum will ex- change? t-xhibits. S. S. Goodman, a Chicago post,- omce clerk, says small wages and large family compelled him to steal Yale University will Confer the de- Workm'a Ponce Auociatidn and D rchbishop Ireland, UNITED STATES. The Dresden Crcdit-Ansalt Bank, Berlin, has been declared bankrupt. Five negro murderers were hanged from one scallold at Sylvania. Ga. Two Italians were killed by the 9x- plosiur. of dynamite in blasting op- erati ms at. WatertOWn, 31. Y. 01 the fifty-one candidates, who presented themselves at West Point last week only twenty-two passed the examinations. Chic! Swenie of the Chicago Fire Department. has resigned after a ser- vice o! 50 years. Ex-United States Senator John ’A. McShane, of Nebraska. made 81.- 000,000 by investments in Texas oil CANADA. The wife of R. C. Sibley, promoter of the whiskey trust, has secured a divorce from him and $850 a month alimony. Dr. Range, in an address at the Milwaukee Medico-Psychological con- vention, declared State insane asy- lums were slaughter-houses. Everett-Moore syndicate buys street, car lines of Toledo as part of scheme to merge all traction loads alung lake shore betweeni‘petroit and Clcx'eland. beéuigiveu to found a chair for, the study 0! Chinese in Columbia Uni- The battleship Illinois in a. trial over sixty-six nautical miles off Cape Ann made an average sustained speed of 17 31 knots, which is the fastest speed on record fqr ships of its class. tress, has decided to wipe on a lot. of debts by going through bankrupt.- John Wanamaker offers Philadel- phia $2, 500, 000 for street. railroad franchisu voted by councils practic- all; as. free grant to company m which prominent politicians are said to be interested. Love of candy caused the down. fall of Samuel A. Wiggins, Jr., a, Chicago choir boy, and he is bound over for swindling his neighbors and a liverym'an. McCormick estate is planning to build a magnificent oflice building {or the housing of professional men on the property where the Victoria Hotel now stands in Chicago. Stewm't, Jellefl, who was arrested on suspicion of having robbed the First, National Bank . of Mineral Point. Wis., of over $26,000 about three weeks ago, has confessed. All the money but. $5,000 has been re- covered. J ellefi has informed the ef- ticcrs where this package is buried. GENERAL. Germany will maintain a strong garrison at Shanghai._, Three Indians have been killed in the mountains near IIolbrook, in Northern Arizona, by cow ys. The Indians were discovere stealing cattle. The police of Greater New York, numbering 7,500, must. now provide themselves with buttons gilded with “xi-karat. gold. They will cost each p0: iceman $9 at year. A supposed volcanic eruption in the llautes Alps has turned out to be a landslide. I’ckin palace was wilfully set on fire for the purpose of destroying the archives. Queen Marghcrita is building a. Ihnnc in Iknne (or the chUdrcn of murdered fathers. A corps of Rhcnish Westphalian C(HLI miners will go to China, to open up millt'S in the German possessions. 'l‘cn American locomotives, guar- anteed to make 75 miles an hour, have just, been delivered to the Paris -Lyons Rail‘vay. Russia. has increased the duty on several articles 0! American manu- facturc. The allied powers will keep 6,000 troops in China, exclusive of the Le- gation guards. 'l‘he Belgium Senate has passed a bill prolonging {or three years the existence of the gambling casino at Ostcml. Because the companies would not. discharge Italian workmen there has been serious rioting at the La Motto and d'Avcillan’s mines, France. In Berlin there is a strong hos-- tile {CL-ling against the British Govâ€" ernment’s action on the Transvaal concessions. The Island of Funny, in the Phil~ ippines. is being ravaged by rindcr- pest, and so great. is the havoc causâ€" ed by the disease that the natives are hauling carts to lloilo. One hundred thousand dolldrs hgs A review of German troops will be hozld at Mayencc on Augusn 14th at. wtfuz‘n King Edward and the Czar will be the guests of Emperor Wil- liam. Farmer Blows the Top of His Head Off With a Shotgun. A despntch from St. Catharines. Ont, says :--Wm. Hodgkinson, a farmer living in Grantham town- ship, about. four miles from the city committed suicide on Tuesday even- ing by shooting himself. He had been in the city in the morning, ap- parently all right. and returned home about noon. During the after- noon he did some plowing around his place, but about five o’clock went to his house and, taking a shotgun, deliberately loaded it with aheavy charge of No. 2 shot. He then went out in the yard, took off his shoes, and tore a hole in his stock- ing so his too would pass through placed ther muzzle of the gun in his mouth, and pulled the trigger with his toe, blowing the top of his head on. He leaves a widow, five sons, and two daughters. No cause can g be given for the deed except despond- omcers From the British Admiralty to Visit No'va Scotia. A despatch from Sydney, N. S., says :â€"It is announced that two of- ficers connected with the Admiralty will shortly visit Sydney, with the object of looking into proposals of having Sydney fortified. One of these is Col. Biscoe. ency . GBRMANY’S PEACE ARMY. It Will be Increased by Twenty- Fivo Thousand Ion. 'A despatch from London lays :â€" The Berlin correspondent. of the DELIBERATE SUICIDE. T0 FORTIFY SYDNEY. HABITS OF THE WORLD Prices of Cattle,Chaasa. Gala. 83‘? In the Leading Markets. Toronto, June 25.â€"Wheatâ€" There was a quiet trade to-day, and prices rule steady. Ten cars of No. 2 white and red winter, sold at 65c middle freight, and No. 1 spring at 680 on Midland. Millers pay 66c for white and red on low freight-3. Goose is dull at 62 to 62éc, middle freight for No. 2, and a cargo offer- ed at 67c, with 650 bid at lake port i.o.b. east of Toronto. Manitoba. wheat quiet; No. 1 hard, 87c, grind~ ing in transit; No. 2 hard, at 84 to 850, and No. 3 hard, 79 to 800.. For Toronto and west 2 to 3c lower. MillfcedwThe offerings of bran are fair, and prices easier at 811.50 west, and $12 to $12.50 Toronto. Shorts steady at $12.50 to $13.50 west, according to location. Cornâ€"The market is steady. Sales of Canadian yellow at 395C west, and of mixed at 390 West. Yellow on track here sold at 44:50. Ryeâ€"The market, is weaker, with offerings at, 486 middle freight. Buckwheatâ€"Prices nominal, with none offering. Peasâ€"Market quiet. and firm, with No. 2 quoted at 68c middle freight. Barleyâ€"Market is dull, with prices nominal in absence of business. Outsâ€"The local market is steady, with sales of No. 2 white at Bilge on track here, No. 2 white sold at 30c high freight. and at 30-} to 30§c middle freight. Flourâ€"Market is quiet. Millers quote straight rollers at $2.70, in buyers’ cox era, for export, and ship- pers quote 90 per cent. patents at 83.62 to 82.65, middle freight. For shipment in blils. to Lower Provinc- $3.10 to $3.15 is quoted. Muni- tobu patents, $4 25, and strong bak- ers', $3. 90 to $4. Oatmealâ€"Market quiet and steady. Car lots at $3.65 in bags, and $3.75 in wood; small lots 200 extra. Chicago, June 25.â€"thatâ€"- Dull and uninteresting all day; range of prices about 456 Some cash en- quiry, but little business reported. Receipts moderate. Quite heavy rains reported in Kansas, and more predicted. This may interfere some- what with harvesting operations there. Local sentiment is mixed, but majority of traders are bearish. Weather conditions for next few weeks will be quite a factor in mak- ing values. Cornâ€" Firm; at its best up to } to '20 over yesterday’s close. Small Western offerings and small local re- ceipts continue the principal bull help. The July got to 44c, and September 443(2. Crop announce- ments were bearish; decidedly im- proved Condition. - I __.'L‘. Oatsâ€"Strong and popular, With the outside speculator. Crop ml- vicos have been of both sorts. The weekly cm}; bulletin favorable, as a rule, although the reports were bad from Missouri and Texas. Provisionsâ€"Opened steady at. about yestenluy’s closing prices Ile- ceipts of hogs 7,000 more than ex- pected, and early advance of 5 to 10c was lost. Packers were free sel- lers all day, and prices declined on this selling. Bash demand is good. Market. closes steady at small de- cline. Hogs for tomorrow, 30,000. Minneapolis, June ‘35.â€" Closeâ€"â€" Wheatâ€"Cash. 67:0; July. 663 to Gfific; September, 66} to 663m 011 tr;1ck,N0.1 hard, 6920; N0. 1 Northern, 65‘c: No. 2 Northmn, {55:c. Flour and b12111 unchanged. 1\_ -.II ‘Ivuv- â€" Milwaukee, June 25.â€"-Wheatâ€"â€"I)ull; No. 1 Northern, 6‘.) to 70c; July, 69-;- to 693C. Ryeâ€"401111; N0. 2, 500. Barleyâ€"Quiet; N052, 56c; sample, 40 to 535C. "V‘ Duluth, Ju’nc 25.â€"-Closeâ€"â€"thntâ€"- Camh, N0. 1 hard. 720; No. 1 Nor- thern, (39c; No. 2 Northern, 640; July, 6950; Sept., 6830. Cornâ€"- None. Outsâ€"2H0 to 272C. 4-; Toledo, June 25.-â€"Wheut-â€"Cash, 703c;.JuIy, 701c; September, 70;“. Cornâ€"Moderately active; hijghcr; cash, 4330; July, 4350: September, 4450- Uuts~(lash, 283m July, 280; September, 2693c. Rye-52 . I‘IAuA-‘ '-'Vl"‘..--IJ\I- ‘ Detroit, ham: 25.â€"â€"â€"‘Vhout-â€"Closcdâ€"â€" No. 1 white. cash, 734C; No. 2 red, cash, 7230; July, 73c; September, St. Louis, Juno cdâ€"Cash, 68c; Ju bel'. (56c. UL] . U\'\’o Buffalo. June 25. â€"-I‘loun-â€"Quict. thut-Spring,d d;ull No.1 Northern old, carloads. 783C; (10. ,- new, 75c asked Winter wheatâ€"Nominal; No. a” ”1.;‘0; vvun- \v- 2 red. 7750 to 78c; No 1 white, 77 to 7713c, on track. Connâ€"Strength; No. 2 yellow, 46c. *. Toronto, June 25.â€"â€"The demand for butter continues good, and pri- ces are steady. Pound rolls job at 15 to 16c; large rolls 14 to 15c; good to choice tubs 14 to 15c; in- ferior, 10 to 12¢; creumcry, boxes, 18 to 185e, and rolls, 19 to 20c. Eggsâ€"Receipts are fair, and prices unchanged for good stock at. 11% to 120 per dozen, in case lots. 1‘ 1‘ ---â€".“A an .., paid. DAIRY MARK FITS GSc; July 66.30; Septem- 0.5 25 .â€"â€"'l‘he demand wus a fair cleari- (J I useâ€"- worth from 4 to 41¢ per 1b., medium from 8} to Bic apd common stuff is a. slow, sale and yank around 3c per lb. Too much poor grass-fed cattle is coming in just now,. and :or all but the best grades of cattle prices For bulls, feeders and stockers there is little inquiry; the receipts are light, and prices are nominally unchanged. The milch cows coming in are mostly of inferior quality, and prices ranged toâ€"day from $2. ’0 to $45 each. More choice cows will sell. Good to choice veal calves are much asked for, and the right kind will fetch up to $10 each. Prices this morning ranged from $1 to $8 each. There is no change in small stuff. Culled sheep are worth from $2 to to $3 each, lb. 4 to 43c per 11). Bucks are worth 2% to 30 per 1!). Spring lambs are worth from $2.50 to $4. each. Prices of hogs are unchanged to- day, but. the market. is decidedly weaker, and an early decline in price may be expected. The bestfprice for “singers” is 7§c per 1b.; thick {at and light hogs are waft}: 6‘ 0 per 11). Shippers, per cwt.. Hogs to fetch the top price must be of prune quality, and scale not below 160 nor above 200 Tbs. (10 light ............ Butcher, choice, (.10 Butcher ordinary good". ................ -uu Butcher, inferior ........... Stdckcrs, per cwt ......... Expurt. bulls, per cwt... .Followiug is the range of quota- tion‘S: Sheep and Lambs Choice euros, per cwt ...... 3. Ycarlings, grain-fed cwt. 4. Lumrs, barnyard, per cwt...... 3. do spring, each ...... 2. Bucks, per uwt ............... 2. Cows, catch“ Calves, ouch light, hogé, 1301' cwt ...... 6.50 Huavy hogs, per cwt ...... 6.50 Stags. per cwt ............ 0.00 Serious Accident to Toronto Mon- Collided While Racing. A despatch from Niagara-m Lin» Luke suys:â€"'l‘ho cavalry sports of the military camp Wcrc brought to a tragic conclusion hon: mi 'l‘lmrsduy evening by a distressing accident, as Chnicc h0g8, per (:Wt ...... 6.75 a result; of which two members of the Toronto Mounted Rifles lie in tents at. the Field Hospital seriously injured. The bodies of both their mounts, Jndaui and Nimrod, two spirited old racehorses, mark the spot Where the accident, occurred. After supper the cavalry sports were continued on the old race truck. Several of the Second Dra. goons, Governor-".enernl’s Body Guard, and the Mounted Ililles rode over ob their horses to see the events. Reid and Sutton were in the party. After looking on for it while, Sutton, who was riding Jo- dan, started to nice around the truck with two irienho. Reid was cuntering’ slowly around the ring in the other direction, with another friend, when a man rihing burelmek caame galloping along and challeng- ed the kthki boys to a (lush. Nimrod, with the instinct of a wee-horse promptly accepted on his l§ own account, and dashed off on the inside, soon outstripping his chal- lenger. Jodan, who also had the rail was several lengths ahead of his competitors, coming in the opposite direction. The tWo flying horsemen saw each other at the some moment, and both turned the heads of their horses to go behind the judges’ stand hoping to avoid ac collision. The fact, however, that they both made the same move precipitated the acâ€" cident. The galloping horses came togeth- er “fith a.tcrrfiflc crash, and fen in a shameless heap. The shock broke both their necks, and death was in- stantancous. Dhttll U$Ullw‘p -u, - 'l‘heir riders we're {lung headlong in opposite directions, and lay stunned and bleeding. Willing hands picked them up, and several riders galloped oil to the hospital. The hospital men were just sitting down to a banquet in their marquee when the news came. Two stretchers were hurried- ly gotten out, and in a very short space of time they reached the race course. half a mile away. By the time the injured men were ready to be moved half a hundred uniformed men had pulled the big two-horse ambulance Waggon, over the com- mons, and in this Sutton and Reid were carried to the hospital lines. Export. ewes sell at 3; to 32c 'per "Barnyards" sell at 3-2- to 40 per Both cases are serious, but there is no likelihood of their injuries proving fatal. Ninety Per Cent of the Patients Absolutely Cured. A despatch from London says:â€" The annual report oi the London Oxygen Hospital, which was issued on Wednesday, claims that remark- able success has attended the oxygen treatment for lupus ulcers and wounds. The report states that 90 per cent. oi the patients who have entered the hospital have been abso- lutely cured. In the cases of five per cent. of the patients the disease appeared again. Another five per cent. wene incurable. New South Wales has paid £743, - 000 in fifteen years for the datum» tion 0! over 24, 000, 000 noxious sini- ndsâ€"kuguoos, was... dingo” OXYGEN TREATMENT. AT NIAGARA CAMP. A TERRIBLE CRASH Milkcrs and Calves. Cattle Hugs ...20.00 45.00 . 30010.0() 3.50 4 .00 5 0 75. 3.4 4 00 3.00 IL-ul'n‘ 0a 0‘ 1] 6 76. .00 THEY HAVE MADE TRADES GREAT INDUSTRIES SPRING FROM SINGLE BRAINS. Father of British Tramweysâ€"The‘ - Galvanised Iron Tredoâ€"L-Gave Iritain a. New Metal. Over half a million Britons owe their entire living, and the trade they work at, to John Warren, who made, singlehanded, the whole great business of tramways, and all conâ€" nected with them. A few years ago this half-million would have haul to find some other Way of getting its bread, says London Answers. John Warrenâ€"he Was a Manchester man-conceived the Idea. built the first tram. partly with his own hands, invented tn}: flush rail sys- tem. and nursed the whole great trade from a Weakly baby into a mil- lionaire giant, before anybody BEGAN TO COPY HIM. He got his schemes through Par- liament, saw to the laying of every inch of his street lines, engaged every one of his workmen, and paid them all well. He had not a penny to start with, but began life as a metal polisher, being the son of one. Man- chest’er had the first tramway, though only a mile long, and on its proceeds he built up the world’s tramway system. Birkenhead came next, under a rival firm; but Warren was his own firm, and in fourteen months he had 900 people at work making the tramway gear, 1,500 running the trams and tending the horses, of which he owned over 4,000, and ten large towns. includ- ing London and Birmingham, were using his trumways. Today scores of rival companies have sprung up; but. they all owe their birth to John Warren's inven- tion and push, for he met with tre- mcndfius opposition at. first. from all quarters. At present 500,000 people thrive in the tram business, 300,000 horses were employed in it last, year, and a revenue of $17,500,000 was brought in. There are 1,500 miles of trum- wnys in Britain, and they carried (300,000,000 passengers last. yearâ€"a stupendous total, FIFTEEN TIMES 'l‘lll'} POPULA- 'l‘ION of the British lslvs. Moreover, the business has added 85.00111me a your to the corn and farming trades, and $30,000 a your in horses-shoes alone. Wlfén Henry Grant, of Landon, in- vented and built up the first of the galvanized and corrugated iron trade he made a thriving business for 260,000 British Workersâ€"enough to stock three or four large towns. A little while ago this trade Was un- heard of; but he made it into one of the biggest industries in the coun- try, and for the past ten years IOU.- UUU families have lived entirely on it, and brought their children up on it. Grant worked in his own workshop for ten long years, turning out the new iron with his own hands and by the help of his son, before it. "caught, on." Then the world suddenly Woke up to iind it could not do without this wonderful stuff, and now there is not, a corner of the earth where it, is not to be found. There are whole towns of galvan- ized iron in many parts of the col- onies, and the value of the trade amounts to OVER $20,000,000 A YEAR. , Scores of firms turn out the iron now; but not one of them would have been in existence had it not been for Grant and his idea; and over a quarter of a million people would be llooding other labor markâ€" ets, and forcing wages down. The country gains a clear $5,000,000 a year to its own pocket by this trade, which still goes walking up the ladder at a marvellous rate. If Jacob Astley had minded being laughed at some while ago Britain would be poorer by $15,000,000 11 year, and 200,000 people would not be drawing the wages they are. He gave the country a new metal, and made as big a business of the trade with his own hands as we are ever likely to see, for he found a process for obtaining aluminum cheaply. Not being the kind of inventor who racks his brains for capitalists to reap the prolits, he borrowed $1,000 in his native town of Wolverhampton, and laid the bed-plates of a new tuid huge trade. Everybody laughed at his alumin- um and the prices he claimed to‘ produce it at; but in three years he had four thousand people Working at} his invention, and the whole world clamouring to buy. Ilowever, he made just as much aluminum as he likedâ€"which was a good dealâ€"midi no more, and had the satisfaction off seeing the metal-dealing world at his‘ feet at the age of thirty-six. If ever a man deserved a peerage it was Jacob Astlcy; but he went to the United States, conquered them as he had conquered Britain, and died there last year. The trade he made is still increasing month by month, and will turn out its millions an- nually when Jacob Astley is forgot- ten. One of the oddest of the great BRAND-NEW TBA DES Was created, lock, stock and barrel. by Robert Scrope, for he was the founder of the brown boot. There was no such thing a little time back as a ”russet calf" boot. and now they are worn by everybody. and nearly three-quarters of a million people make them. The trade is spread out now, but Scrape made it, within twelve months of its birth, into a. compact business of twenty branches. employing 200,000 menâ€" a record for all time. A combine of rival boot-make_1_s tried for_threc years to wreck Scrope's new trade. but he Was too strong, and eventual- ly all the firms of the combine “went under." A little thing 1611 made a great industry, and haul and 3096 people. DOintod screw. A few years ago there was no such thing as a screw with a point, until Nettlefold con- ceived the idea. brought it out. and gave Birmingham :1 huge new trade. Which has now spread to a score of other towns. Besides making a vast fortune. he presented the country with a field for labor worth $10.- patent ran out the WHOLE NATION WAS FREE to take the trade up, and it has grown from a pocket-trade to an im- mense industry. V'l‘hcre is practical- ly no other kind of screw nowadays. The. building up of this trade took Nettlvfold two years, and it Was in this business that Mr. J oscph Chain- lperlain made his fortune. For a \lap-up" tradeâ€"one o! the most, flourishing industries we have- - Britain owes a hip; debt. to J aunos Wondhouse, the ”Ginger-beer Kingff ll’e invented, made. pushed. and created the whole business of gin- ger-beer brewing which is a newer thing than electricity. It is practi- cally a national beverage, for over 3(.),000,000 gallons per year are drunk, being nearly twice as great as the amount of wine consumed. Twenty years ago there was no such thing as ginger-beer as it is now unâ€" derstood. and Woodhouse. W110 brewed the iirst output in a kitchen copper at his own cottage in Step- ney, kept a little coffee stall of his own to sell it in. No bewn'age has ever "caught on” with the same r° - pidity. and twelve months later Woodhouse had a factory with thirty hands. In another two years he was EM PLOYI NC 0,000 M EN , and a. year after that there were 80,- 000 Working at. ginger-beer breweries all over the kingdom. Today there. are hundreds of firms that owe their1 birth to James Woodhouse’s invenâ€" tion, and a tetal of a miliion and a half workers, male and female. get their living at this trade. There are a hundred and fifty “limo-feasts" given away summer to ginger-beer workers, all paid out of the profits of the trade. and Costing $40,000 to provide. Finally Mayne Roberts. who in- vented and nursed into a. source of material Wealth the business of toi- fee making. should for ever be bles- sed. It is not a business to be laughed at. the toilet: trade. for it now keeps 150.000 families busy, and brings in a joint revenue of $4,- | 000,000 a year. Nearly 500 Company Charter: and menses Issued in 1900. A dcspatch from Toronto says:â€" The ()nturio Provincial Sccrvtury and lhegistrur has just issued his reâ€" port. for 1900. It is noteworthy among other things in showing a decided dcclinc in the number of mining company churturs granwd, only 44 such communes being incor- porated in 1900. -A.- n During the year 1899, 426 letters patent. supplementnry letters putâ€" ent, n91 licenses were granted. Durâ€" ing 19ml the number of charters. supplementary charters. and licenses issued was 467. The fees derived from this source of reveIme during 1899 were $62,052. and during 1909, $71,874. The entire revenue of the‘ oilice for the year 1898 Was $28,- 520; for the year 1899, 367,851; and for the year 1909, $76,997. The following is a statement, by months, showing the fees receiVed by this oflice during the year 1990:â€" Junuary, $6,986.25: February, 35.- 61525; March, $6,267.60; April. $5,498.61; May, 88,5598; June. 35.- 923.10; July. 35.24545; August. $4,044.10; September, $3,929.62; October, $10,048.30; November, 3",- 539.79; December, $7,301.23. The following sets forth the ser- vices rendered by the office. and the fees T‘EcciVed for such services. re- spectively, during 19(Nilzâ€"467 letters patent, supplementary letters put- ent, and licenses, $71,874: 33,670 Marriage Act forms. $3,367; 67 commissions for notm-ies public, 1‘1. Rice to Be T2201 for ills Life in September. A despntch from Toronto says: Fred Lee Rice, charged with the murder of Constable Boyd. calm' up before Police Magistrate lbenisnn on Thursday morning. He was brought into the dock at 10.5“. and witness;- es were examined until 12.4“. when the magistrate committed Rice for Ulttl .it the “eltember Assizes. Ric; showed w ry little change from his last appearance in the court. He Was engaged in conversation with his counsel. '1‘. C. Robinette. {or a few minutes, and read a letter which the latter handed him. This letter, Mr. llobinette said. was relating to some private business of Rice's. The prisoner read it promptly, and was ready {or the court proceedings. Time was quite a large assemblage of people present, who cranod their necks to get it glimpse of Rice. The magistrate gave Rice permis- sion to sit down in the dock. The prisoner did so. and soon edged up to the corner to his left. As each witness advanced to the box to give evidence. Rice followed him with his eyes and listened intently to all the evidence. on one occasion asking that the witness speak louder. A number of witnesses gave evi- dence similar to that taken at the inquest. and the magistrate then committed Rice {or tricl. The Midland Runway Compmy‘xn England is flux!” 60 go the m Inp- it 51 m sauna most cases; at. 05 .11, with very ten exceptions. nut, FEES TOTALED $71,874. per annum. for when the 1 899, 426 letters Revenue of the Crown Lends 0v: belnncee the Civil Listâ€"Vel- IT COSTS EDWARD VII $100,' A MONTH TO BE 3310. able Property. Most people imagine that we pay our sovereigns u liundsomo yearly salary in return (or ruling over us. and incidentally acting as figure- lieads to the ship of state, any: London Answers. THE NATION IS A G. This, hoWever. is entirely wrong. The civil list of $2,350,000 per an- nuni, recently granted the King by Parliament. is really in the not of n commutation for the rents revenues of the Crown Lands. whi lost your amounted to 52,250; It will he seen, therefore. that t notion is a heavy gainer on t transaction. since. by no possib stretch of imagination. can t whole. or even the greater part. the civil list monies, he consider as being either intended or used f his Majesty's personal benefit. '1‘ 350,000 a year which goes in his privy purse is his to do at: h. likes with. The remaining 81,850,- é tain high otficials o! the Royal household, in salaries, grants. pen- sions, and other similar items at expenditure. 000 is merely distributed. numinully through him, but really through cer- And. mind, although for a long time it has been the custom of suc- cessive sovereigns to surrender tho rents accruing from the Crown Lands to the nation, receiving there- for n Parliamentary grant of income. the lands themselves are not, and never have been, N A'I‘IUN AL PROPERTY. On the contrary they have constitu- ted a personal and privuw nppmmgo of the Crown since the Norman con- quest. This Crown property is very valu- able, and would be tar more so won it not for the fact that it is strictly entailed. The whole of the New For- est. for example, is Crown Land, and it sold would (etch millions, whereas now it is "early valueless. The most productive of the "lands" are those situated within the metropoli- tan area. and which include some 0! the very best districts in oil Lon- don. "Clubland" is (frown land. The Carlton. the United Servnce. tho Travellers, the Marlborough, tho Guards, and many other West End clubs are built upon land leased di- rectly from the Crown. So, too, in Marlborough llouse. so that his Ila:- jesty is in the peculiar position 0! lining his own ground landlord. and ,payinp,r handsomely (or the privilege. ;Sth.llord House. Carlton Gardens- .which pay the highest rents in Lon- :donâ€"stand upon (frown lands; as do ;nlso Montague House, the Duke of illuccleuch’s palatial mansion in lluecleueh's palatial mansion in Whitehall. Dow-r House and many others. And the rents of these sites are continmtlly rising, as the lenses lull in. If King Edward could only deal with his property as other land- lords denl with theirs, he would be one of the richest men in England. He is not a poor man even no!" rumors to the contrary notwitha- standing. The wills of Royal per- sonuges are not proved, so it is not known precisely how her IlaJL-sty dis- posed ol her property; but it is on open secret that she left the bulk oi it to her eldest son. THE llUCllY 01" LANCASTER I" ‘ ”' ' for him the Neild bequest. This leg- acy, of about $1,250,000. Wus left to the Queen in 1852 by an eccentric and miserly millionaire, named James Neild. The Queen at once iii- vested the money, with a view to its constitutingâ€"to quote her own wordsâ€""a nest-egg for Eddie," and the original capital had probably reached a million and a half when her Unjust y died is, of course, his absolutely during the term of his natural life, with its meads, glados, chases. and forests in thirteen counties. and its steadily increasing revenue of over 83(K),«(_ou a year. To King l‘ldWard, too. so it is said, reVert the late Queen's Scotch properties of llalnioral. Bal- lochbine, and Abergeldie, with their trout streams and deer torests; Clareniont. originally granted for her life only, with reversion to the country at her death, but which was purchased by her outright in 1882; a valuable estate at Coburg. and a villa at Baden. Sandringham, 0! course, is also his, having been pur- chased {or him out o! the accumu- lated revenues of the Duchy of Corn- WaII, 10cm after he attained his ma- . I I':_‘.. L‘Aâ€"Ann. tannin an" Three new British battleships plan- "'0 nod for this year will cost. 86,...»0. 000 each. Ju- at v No} should King Edward have any luck of ready cash, if, as there is every ruusun to suppose, her Majesty carried out her 0“. and openly-ex- pressed intention oi limping intact. - IA... In the City 0! Mexico there are 1,071 private armiw wells and eleven public ones. London imports 4,000,000 paras-ml. and umbrellas a, year. New Zenland's crown lands are now disposed of for 999 years. Prussia gave 1.228 medals last year to 614 couples who celebrated diamond and golden wedding anni- versariea. New Zealwd. with a death rate 0! less than 12 per 1,000 a year. is the most healthy of all the British Col~ onies. The United Kingdom’ 3 pos (a1 scr- Vice employs 60,000 letter carrhri. who deliver annually nearly 3.600." 000,000 pieces a! mall. Denmark holds the record for conr sumption of spirits. 4} gallons It 3W per head against less than 1 In Englwd and Scotland. Rodditch m Worcestershire. Eng- FACTS AND FIGURES.