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The directors of the London Metro- poman railway have declined the of- !et 0! Charles T. Yerkes to introduce tlectricity into their system. Mantreal's citizens’ reception to the Duke includes an address, drive to Lord Strathcona’s residence, LL. D. degree next. day, inspection of Victoria bridge and a run of the La- chinc rapids. Thieves: have treasures and It silverware from Sutherland. Hamilton City Council will be ask- ;d to vote $10,000 101' the Roya! ro- leption. Lord Dunraven has been designated to command the new corps of Yeo- manry sharpshooters that is being lormed. It is reported that King Edward has forgiven the Duke 0! Orleans, and the French pretender will return to England to live with his Duchess. Wm. Ogilvio. cx-Governor o! the Yukon, has: been oflcred a position at Ottawa, but has not yet indicated whether or not ho: will accept it. The position open to him is on the asâ€" tronomical staff. THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. The scheme to have a. new theatre h: Kingston is being revived. Sunbonucts for horses have been generally discarded in London. The wheat harvest has begun in Eastern Kent, which is an earlier be- ginning than usual. The House of Commons sanctions the one-rail system between Liver- pov} and Manchester. Americans are planning the intro- duction of Chicago steel construction buildings into London. Thieves have stolen historical On account. of faults found in it Constant's portrait of Queen Victor- ia is not to be hung among the toy- al collections. [HE NEWS I“ WISH!“ Quebec will have an assay labora- lory in order to help the mineral dc.- nlopment of the province. Judge Richards of Winnipeg will tty Ellen Fregg, an Indian woman, 0! Duck Lake, charged with the mur- de: 0! her husband. England’s wheat. crop will be fine in quality and extensive in quanâ€" tity. The population of Hull, according to the recent. census is 14,200, or 3,000 more than in 1891. The County of Wright. is shown to have 44,500 souls, or 3,300 more than in 1891. Mr. Clark. the London contractor who built. the Chilian railway, is dead. At London Alfred Austin has been reappointed poet laureate. Lord Russell, who is serving a three months’ sentence for bigamy, is m. being unable to aleep or eat, and has a doctor in constant. at‘ tendancc. Ottawa lumbcrmcn have planned a trip for the Duke and party down the Ottawa rapids on a. crib 0! square timber. Philip Wagner, a Dominion Gov- ment. interpreter, has been sen- md to five months' imprisonment at Edmonton {or swindiing Gali- cians. Brigadier-General Sir Alfred Gase- Jce, has been made a major-general and Knight. Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire for his services in China. The vessels which are conveying Canadian hay from St. John's, N. 8.. to South Africa. are using an Cape Breton coal {or the trip. Thieves have been operating very successfully in London Township, harness. {arm implements and poul- try being the chic! articles stolen. The convocation of McGill univer- sity in Montreal, at which the degree 0! LL. D. will be conferred upon the Duke of Cornwall and York, will be a brilliant. affair. The committee on the Queen's memorial has accepted, subject. to modifications as to details, Mr. Thomas Brock's design for a monu- ment to her late Majesty. and Mr. Aston Webb’s design for the treat- ment of the space in front of Buck- ingham Palace. The commissioner appointed to on- quite into the use oi arsenic in beer in reported that the excess of ar- m in brewing is unavoidable with it. use 0! certain ingredients. and recommends that a standard test_ he A handsome bronze wreath has been sent by the Emperor Menelik to be deposited at the Royal tomb at Frogmorc. "to the memory of her Injesty Queen Victoria.” Mr. Louis Sherry of New York will open a. new hotel in London in time for the coronation. the new hotel to have 300 rooms and to rival the Waldorf-Astoria. in equipment. C "v mashed. defining the Proportion of arsenic to be used. A Kingston clergyman tailed to smuggle into that city an ice cream Inner bought. at. Ogdcnsburg. N. Y., and had to pay (all customs charges. The engagement of the daughter 0! Walter \Vinans of Baltimore. Md.. to Sir Merrick Raymond Darrell. and a lieutenant in the First. Royal Dra- goons, is announced in London. keratin: Items About Our Own Conntty. Great BtItnIn. the United States, and A” m 0' the 0.0“: Condensed nnd Amned tor Easy York has : use of bubonic GREAT BRITAIN UNITED STATES. have stolen historical am} large quantities o! CANADA. the ’Duchess of g n loin by ‘ “ ' woman- Ralph Holmes of Evanston earned his passage to Europe on a cattle ship in order to study art. Ada Lancaster, of Portsmouth, 0., threw the body of her baby to the hogs and its arms and legs were cat- cn 01!, according to the young wo- man's confession. Operations have begun on the ship canal between St. Pctersburg and the White Sea. Sun's rays concentrated by plate glass windows, started nn 880,000 fire at Sioux City. Fred. B. Newton, nineteen years old, committed suicide at El Paco, 111., by hanging himself. Floyd Peckham, nineteen years old, has been indicted at. Erie, Po... for the murder of his father. Rev. W. B. Leach, formerly of Can- ada, preaching at. a camp meeting near Chicago, said he expected to find a. lot of women in heaven, but very {cw men. It is stated that the Empress of China has degraded the heir apparent which makes his succession impos- Siblc. A scheme is on foot to carry a line of railway beyond the Victoria Falls, South Alnica, and 300 miles to the north, when: rich copper mines are said to await development. Michael Kelly, while insane, shot {our men at Leavenworth, Kan. One is dead and two others may die. The Russian army is to be in- creased by 380,000 men. Pans newspapers are enthusiastic over the successful {eat of the sub- marine torpedo boat. Morse. Carnal is urgently required to de- velop the promising gold mines at. present. idle in Erythrca, Italy. The River Danube, flooded by tor- rential rains, has overflowed its banks, and 300 houses are under water at. Budapest. A picture, Saint Sebastian, by T1- tian, which had been stolen from It- aly by one of Napoleon’s generals, has been sold to the Count de Cas- tellanc for £8,000. Russian newspapers are discussing British activity in Abyssinia. and demand that Russia and France take steps to oppose the construc- tion of British railway lines through the country before it is too late for such action to have any eflect. 82,300,000. Sympathim With the stool mik- er. have started an an dim chdn to aid the strike 10nd. Dr. E. M. Arnholt of Pittsburg, ex-member o! the Legislature, shot himself through the heart because of illness. A band of thieves is successfully operating on Paris-Geneva. trains. Albanian insurgents, and Turkish regulars have had several encounters on the Turkish Irontier, with many killed and wounded on both sides. More than 2,000 prisoners from all parts 0! Russia. confined in Moscow Central Prison, will be redistributed among the old and new prisons of European Russia. Eflorts are being made to reduce the strained relations between Ger- many and Russia. Kaiser William is now letting his whiskers grow, in a desire to resem- ble his late father. While the teller’s back was turned a smooth individual in a Dayton, 0., bank littcd a package of bills from the cage with a pair of tongs and escaped. Poor Pay, Poor Food, and Social- ist Agitation. From the 15th of June to the 15th of July the wheat, rye and barley harvests are in progress in Italy, and the Socialists are taking this critical time in the agricultural in- dustry to spread the gospel of dis- content against the conditions of labor, wages and taxation. It is feared that large farmers will be ruined by strikes among farm labor- ers. On an average two strikes a day have occurred in Italy since Feb- ruary, the movement affecting all trades and classes of working men. At any moment it is ieared that a spark might kindle a conflagration The Socialist leaders plead for peace- ful means of bettering the conditions The New York Dock Company with 320,000,000 capital, takes the place of the Brooklyn What! and Warehouse Company. A strike of egg candlers employed by a large firm in New York has been ordered. They demand a. re- duction o! the hours of labor from 17 to 10 a. day. A New York coroner is charged in New York with accepting bribes 10 return a verdict. of natural death in cases of suicide. George Young, a barber o! Ilion, N. Y., was shot. and killed by Henry Brown. They quarrded over a small debt. Brown was arrested. of labor, but the Italian people are inflammable and they are notorious- ly underpaid and underfed. They are so largely in the majority that they hold the remedy in their own hands, it they would but use their power in- telligently and toward a definite end. But the mass of the people are mis- erably ignorant as well as poor, and leel doubly helpless and impotent. They have only brute strength and lives to throw away in fruitless re- volution. C. J. Dillon and Wm. Morgan. young farmers of Three Mile, W. Va., seriously wounded each other with shot. guns in a. duel about a girl. In a. trial trir of the torpedo boat destroyer Stringham at. Newport, R. 1.. a tube in the boiler blew out and six men were seamed and burned. ITALY'S DISCONTENT. boon, 111.. In: Ind 18 incand- nm within ; month. Lona. GENERAL. Potatoes, new, bush... 1.00 Tomatoes, basket ....... .75 Beef, iorequarters... 4.50 Beef, hindquarters...’ 8.00 Beef, medium, carcass.. 5.00 Beef, choice ................ 7.00 Lamb, yearling ......... 6.50 Lamb, spring ............ 10.50 Mutton ....................... 5.50 Veal, choice...... 7.50 Receipts of grain on the street to- day were small. Wheat. steady, a load of white selling at. 70c and 150 bushels of goose at. 68.} to 69¢. Oats easier, 700 bushels selling at 39-; to 40c Hay in good supply, with sales of 25 loads at. $8 to $9 a ton for new, and 812 .50 to 813 for old. Straw sold at $9 to $10 a ton for old, and at. $5 {or new. ' Hay, old, per ton ........ Buy, new, per ton ...... Straw, per ton ............ Dressed hogs ............... Butter, in 11) rolls ........ Butter, crcameny ......... Chickens, per pair ....... Ducks, per pair ........... Turkeys, per lb ............ lggane“; laid, (102.... Eégs, held .................. Buffalo, August 6.â€"Flourâ€"Firm. Wheatâ€"Spring, limits firm; No. 1 Northern, old, carloads, 763; No. 1 new, 73ic. Winter, No. 2 red, 74c; No. 1 white, 74c; mixed, 73c. Corn â€"Firm; No. 2 yellow, 583c; No. 3 60., 58%; No. 2 corn, 58 to 5836:. Oatsâ€"Quiet; No. 2 white, 42“; No. 2 mixed, 404c. Barley-54 to 56¢, in store. Ryeâ€"No. 2 on‘ered at 53c, on track. Barley ...... Rye ............. Minneapolis. Aug. 6â€"Wheatâ€"On track, No. 1 hard, 683C; No. 1 Nor- thern, 662C; N0. 2 do, 65-5c. Flour and branâ€"Unchanged. Eggsâ€"The market, is quiet. with prices unchanged. We quote strictly Iresh gathered nearby, 12 to 121; or- dinary candled stock 11 to nae; seconds and culls, 6 to Sc. New laid retail at. 17c. Checsc~Market is firmer toâ€"day, with good demand for finest goods. Prices in a jobbing way are 10} to 1ogc. Dressed hogs are easier at $9.25 to $9.50. Hog products unchanged. We unmetâ€"Bacon, long clear, ton and case lots, 11 to 1.1;c: pork, mess $19.50; (10., short cut, $2.1. Smoked meatsâ€"11311119, 13.5 to 14c; breakfast bacon, 14 to 15c; rolls, 12c; backs, 1430, and shoulders, 11c. Lardâ€"Pails, 11:0; tubs, llc; tier- ccs, 102C. Following is the range of quota- tionszâ€" Wheat, white ............... S .70 3 .00 Wheat, red .................. .70 .00 Wheat, goose ............... 158?,- .69 Wheat, sprint: .............. .69 .00 Oats ...... 7 .................. . Peas .......................... Oatmealâ€"Mamet is unchanged. Cm lots at 83. 75 in bags, and $3. 85 in wood. B1okcn lots, 'l‘c1o11to, 25¢ per bbl cx‘ua. was a. quiet trade in wheat to-day. with the feeling a trifle weaker. No: 2 white and red winter offered at 65c high ireights. and at 66c middle ireights, with sales of odd car lots at 6511: middle. New wheat sold at 60c middle freight. No. 1 spring is quot- ed at 66c on Midland, and No. 2 goose at 63c to 64¢ middle freight. Manitoba. wheat dull, with No. 1 hard quoted at eoac, grinding in transit, and No. 2 hard at 7830, grinding in transit. For Toronto and .west 20 lower. Butterâ€"Receipts of choice grades are only moderate, with prices firm. We quote selected dairy, tubs, 16% to 17¢; choice 1-1!) rolls, 17 to 18c; seconds, tubs and rolls, 15 to 17c; creamery prints unchanged at. 21c; solids, 20c. St. Louis. Aug. 6.â€"Wheatâ€"Closed â€"Cash, 653m September, 66“. MRKETS OF THE WORLD Flourâ€"The market. is quiet, with better demand from exporters. Nine- ty per cent. sold at $2.55 in buyers’ bags, middle freights. Straight. rol- lers, in bbls., for Lower Provinces, 83 to $3.10. Manitoba patents, S4, and strong bakers’ $3.70. Detroit, ‘Aug. 6.â€"Wheatâ€"Closedâ€" No. 2 red, cash and July, 68c; Sep- tember, 69c. Milwaukee, Aug. 6.â€"Wheatâ€"Stea.dy â€"Closeâ€"No. 1 Northern, 70,“; No. 2 Northern, 681} to 690; September, 6843c. Ryeâ€"Weak; No. 1, Mic. Bar- leyâ€"Strong; No.2, 61 to 62¢; sample Millfeedâ€"The market is firm, with ofl'erings small. Bran quoted at $13, middle heights, and shorts at $15, middle freight. Cornâ€"Business quiet with prices firm. No. 2 yellow is nominal at 48 to 490 west, and at 53c on track, Toronto. A car of United States yellow sold at 550, Toronto, but holders are quoting 58 to 59¢. Barleyâ€"Trade continues very quiet. No. 2 is nominal at 42k: middle freight, and No. 3 extra 4150 middle freight. New feed barely nominal at 88 to 39c, August shipment. Oatsâ€"The market is steady, with sales of No. :3 white at 34c middle freight for export. Locally, it might probably bring more. New sold at 816 middle freight, August delivery. Prices of Gama. Chane. Gala. be. In the Leading Inna. Backwhcatâ€"Market dull, with pric- es purely nominal. 5i to 58c.' Cornâ€"September, 55k. Hinneapolis, Aug. 6.â€"Closeâ€"â€"Wheat ‘-Cash, 66“; September, 65k; De- Ryeâ€"The n'mrkct'ia quiet, and pri- ces nominal, at. 46 to 4643c, middle freight. Peasâ€"Trade quiet, with prices nom- inally unchanged. Toronto,_ _Aus._ o.â€"' HOGS AND PROVISIONS. THE STREET MARKET. spring .............. DAIRY MARKETS 9.00 9.25 .16 .70 .16 .70 .70 .689; .69 .39.; .66 .43 ) 11.50 6.50 10.00 13.00 .17 .14 1.25 7. .0 0 O5 5 2. 27. .40 Government May Protest Against Assisted Emigration to Africa. A despatch from Ottawa sayszâ€"lt is said the Govermnent is likely to protest against the utilization of Im- perial funds for the purpose of ,in- ducing immigration from the British Isles to South Africa. The conten- tion is that if the Home Government assisted emigrants, it would have a material eflect upon the trend of settlement to Canada. Must Enclose limbs for Days in Rigid Bandages. A despatch from Paris sayszâ€"Prof. Blanchard, in a paper read before the Academy of Medicine to-day, said the Another species of mosquito propa- gates disease, even leprosy. The Parisian Culex masquito is less ter- rible. He advised the destruction of the larvae by placing petroleum in stagnant water and sweet oil in drinking water. Dr. Robin announced that experi- ments had been made by Dr. Huyghc of Lille in curing St. Vitus' dance by enclosing limbs for days in rigid bandages. A Mammoth New Steamer for the Cunard Line. A despatch from London says :â€" The Telegraph says that the Cunard Steamship Company has decided to build a new steamer, and with her make an attempt to capture the At- lantic record. The contract has not yet been placed, but the designs have been prepared and estimates invited tor a vessel capable of making 25 knots an hour. She will be built so that she can be used as an armed cruiser. and it is possible that she UPC m’lv‘he measure was passed by a vote of 281 to 73. John Dillon, Irish Nationalist. strongly opposed the vote. lie pro- tested against mentioning Lord Ito- berts in association with such men as Marlborough. Nelson, Coiling- wood, and Wellington. lie declared Lord Roberts had shown the greatest inhumanity in South Africa and said he had employed barbarous methods and had proved himself a dismal fail- House of Commons Passed Measure by 281 to 73. A despateh from London saysz-In the House of Commons on Wednesday in proposing a resolution granting Field Marshal Earl Roberts £100,- 000 for his services in South Africa (in accordance with the recommenda- tion of King Edward, announced in the House of Lords by the Premier, Lord Salisbury, Monday last) A. J. Balfour, the Government leader, in the course of an eulogy of the Field Marshal, whom he compared with such men as Collingwood, Nelson and Wellington, said there was no doubt that but for Lord Robe: ts’ daring and strategy, and the rapidity with which his plans were carried out, Kimberley and Mafeking would have fallen, 11,000 British would have been starved into submission at Lady- smith, and there would have been a general rising of disloyalists in South Africa. Great Britain might have recovered therefrom, but at what a cost? The country was sav- ed from this by the genius of the man he now invited the House to reward by a. unanimous vote, irre- spective of political differences : The Libéral leader, Sir Henry Campbcll-Banncrmun, concurred in the motion. “I‘ll”! ’ all“ I. .57 yv-Uluw-v vv will have a protective deck. Plat In lean-«1's City Hall Safer. Inch Damage. A despatch from Montreal lays :â€" The City Hall had a narrow escape irom destruction by are at an early hour on Wednesday morning. The tire was discovered shortly after six o’clock in the law department, and before the flames were got under con- trol considerable damage was done. The temporary oflices oi the City Attorney’s Department, and the City Electrician's office, on the top storey oi the building, were badly gutted, some important documents belonging to the city destroyed, and consider- able damage done to the corridors and oflices on the flat beneath, in- cluding the City Clerk’s offices, and the large committee-room adjoining. This flat hau recently been gone overâ€" by decorators and painters, and had been put in condition for the public reception to the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, on the occasion of their visit to the city in Septemâ€" ber. Had the fire occurred a few hours earlier, or had it not been dis- covered when it was, it is quite pos- sible that the whole building would have been destroyed or very badly damaged. The loss to the building itself will not amount to more than $4,000. The greater damage was done to the City Electrician’s department, on the top floor. There were many valuable instruments, which, it is now believed, will be a total loss, though it is possible that some of them may be again made to do ser- vice. The loss will not be less than $4,855. A portion of the valuable law library belonging to the city attorneys was also destroyed. The origin of the fire is a mystery. ST. VITUS’ DANCE CURE. WILL AFFECT CANADA. GRANT TO ROBERTS. 25 KNOTS AN HOUR. GUTTED BY FIRE. The most expensive hat in the world is undoubtedly the one which was presented to General Grant while he was in llexico in 1882. It cals largely used in he manufacture of high explosives feeding or repair- ing the nerves in a truly wonderfu! IDRDDCI'. _ I. 4-; _~“A “II,â€" Many fish can produce musical sounds. The trigla can produce long- drawn notes ranging over nearly an octave. Others, notably two species of opbidium. have sound producing apparatus, consisting of small mov- able bones, which can be made to produce a sharp rattle. The curious drumming made by the species called ___I :_A.... n t‘nllfh 1"“ uUOIIIJVO v- I fer from varicose veins is simply exâ€" traordinary. This state of things is due mainly to the length of time policemen stand or loiter about the streets. It they only knew it, they could find an almost certain cure by changing their occupation for that o! postmen, whose work. with the long. brisk walks,‘ is the best pos- ‘g-:AI\L‘A‘ train: ‘n Ulla . III In!" 1‘ w---“ I s-ible remedy for 9aricosc veins in their earlier stages. of thirty tatboms. -‘lv‘v' There is scarcely any nervous dis- order which cannot be'cured or checked by following the occupation of a sailor. preferably in the Royal Navy, and, strangely enough, em- ployment. at making cordite, dyna- mite and other high explosives is another cure for nervous disorders, l\’elp-gatherers have in their pe- culiar calling. if they continue to follow it sufliciently long. an excelâ€" lent cure for scrofula ; it has been known to cure where every man] re- medy failed. Very few nervous (lis- orders are there, moreover, which cannot be cured by Working at kelp- gathering, which, although not a lucrative occupation, is followed by hundreds of people who enjoy ex- ceptionally line health. Kelll-gtllllt?l'- ing is also said to be a cure for insomnia and “noises in the head," which, although not generally dan- gerous troubles are at times VERY DISTRESSING. Sailors enjoy a remarkable freedom from cancer, and it has been suggest- ed that “life on the ocean wave" destroys the germs of the terrible disease when they are in the system but inactive. It is hardly possible to obtain support of the theory, however ; but there seems to be a great deal of truth in the statement that cancer is practically unknown to sailors who neither smoke or chew overmuch tobacco. Cancer‘ some- times occurs in the tongues of ex. cessive smokers among sailors for, albeit no one would suggest that the most liberal consumption of the fragrant weed could cause cancer, excessive smoking or chewing has a tendency to promote the disease when the germs are already in the blood. TRADES cm msusfs Salt, mining and working are ex- cellent cures for rheumatism and in- fallible cures for anaemia, which latter malady is far more common than most people fancy, and more serious to boot. Anaemia and rheu- matism are troubles unknown to salt-workers. Iron miners also have an immunity from anaemia, though not. to quite the some extent, as salt- miners. ’ A famous Italian singing runsâ€"tor used to send those of his pupils who suffered from Weak throats, but wished to adopt singing as a pro- fession, to find employment. in oil refineries, and they almost. all re- turned to him Within a few months with throats so braced up and strong that they were hardly capable of strain or fatigue, and practically in- susceptible to colds. It has even been suggested at a Berlin hospital that “throatâ€"cases" should be treat- ed with the fumes of raw petroleum such as fill the air of petroleum re- fining sheds ; and this will probably be done ere long. Just as there are trades which must inevitably shorten or render hopelessly miserable the lives 0! those who follow them for any con- siderable time, there are other trades or occupations which may safely be said to cure certain diseases and to prolong life ; and if people in search of occupations and afflicted with ill- ness would pay due attention to the question of what occupation would most suit their health they might, probably would. lengthen instead of curtail their days. Diseases of the throat and chest are the most common of all mala- dies, but there are occupations "L:A‘- â€"â€"-2" _ _‘â€" vâ€"vvrw' The work in certain branches of the making of coal gas has been known to cure very severe chest ail- ments, and many persons who have obtained work in breweries and tan- neries have been entirely cured of consumption. It is an eloquent fact that consumption is practically unâ€" known to people in regular employ- ment as brewers and tanners, brew- ery-hands in particular being in en- joyment of remarkably robust health v-uyvav are the most common of all mala- dies, but there are occupations which will positively cure either when the disease has not advanced too far, although it may have made such inroads that doctors have abandoned the case as hopeless. Diseases of the throat are equally unknown to workers in petroleum re- fining sheds ; in fact it seems that men who work at refining }'Cll"))':lllll at the great oilworks of America and Russia. are insusceptiblo to exen diphtheriaâ€"one of the MOST INFECTIOUS DISEASES. AN EXPENSIVE HAT. numbcr of policemen who suf- .A_‘_- A- â€"â€"â€"' " \ MUSICAL FISH. musical The inhabitants oi the mining dis- tricts 0! South Atria import 90 per cent. oi their flood. a vatid'u record for to wife a. district. 900 weeklics in 1900. grown'from 63 papers of all kinds m 1880, to 2.262 dailies, and 20,- George, George. get up quick; I hear a burglar downstairs. Well, let him alone, Marinâ€"and let me alone; no doubt the Poor chap has just crawled in the window to get a piece of ice or a drink of good cold water. *- In 1.00" balloon ascents the averâ€" age of fatal accidents is 4. An English boy of ten averages 4!: 1mm. An Italian boy of the same age is an inch shorter and 31b lightcr. During the siege of Paris 64 ha]- loons left. the city with 91 passe”- gets, 354 pigeons, and 9 tons 0! let,- 593 at. present. The Mohammedan year begin- in July; that. of the Persian on August. 11th. Captain E. H. Smoed of East Pro- vidence, ILL, has jun. received a Government medal which was award- ed him seventeen years ago for horo- ism in helping to rescue the crew of a shipwrecked schooner in the har- bor of New Haven. The mednl was mislaid in a secret drmwr in a desk‘ in the Collector’s office at the cus-' tom house of New Haven. and was found only a. few days ago. (Sen. John Basil 'l'urchin, who died at Anna. “L. the other day, Was a Veteran 01' the Crimean war, who, Coming In this country dur- ing the War of the rebellion, be- came colonel of. the Nineteenth Illi- nois Volunteer Infantry and Was later given command of a brigade. under Uuell. . Interesting letters of lament end Mirth Gnthered From His Records. A drapery store in a Conneticut town is said to he run by three men named England. Ireland, and Scot- land. They met for the first time in America. Scotland married Eng- land's sister, and Ireland is engaged to another sister. The son of the first union is called Ireland England Scotland. LN HOUR WITH UNCLE SH The exports of the United States for the lmt fiscal 3mm ‘.\'m't' nearly $1,500,(H.90,(m0; thn ('XCvMR of ex- ports over imports was: the greatest in the country’s history. W. T. Grant. of Louisville, Ky., a tobacco exporter, who died on Thursday of last. Week, bequeathed $200,000 to the Presbyterian Theo- logical Seminary of his home city. subject to an annuity of 85.000 to his widow as long as she lives. Of the 200 men recently appointed to New York’s police force by (.‘om- missioner Murphy. only 130 have Irish names. 0! the other 70 new policemen 30 are (:ernmnsâ€"n nation- ality whose representation is increas- ingâ€"and the remaining forty are English, American, Spanish and Russian. UUU over last year. The making of spools and sawing of wood for them have assumed such immense proportions that. they are classed among the leading indw- trics of Maine. Since January lst 931 trons have been planted in the borough of Man- hattan, and 1.949 in the other bor- oughs of Greater New York. making a total of 2,948“ trovs planted. Jewell D. Knight, of Belcliertnwn, Mas-9., a graduate of the Massachu- setts Agricultural College, has been appointed by the British Uchl‘ll- ment to go to India to establish an agricultural college. In a recent storm a bolt. of light- ning killed 62 of a (lock of 100 bheep in Ayr, Fulton County, Pa. Twenty De} cent. of the prisoners in Chicago jail are victims of the morphine. comine or other drug habit. Smithfield, Va.. claims the oldest. church in the country. It. is St. Luke's, erected in 1632 and restored in 1694. Census figures show that the cities of the United States have gained 8,- UUOJJUU inhabitants in the last. ten years. The new Capitol building of Min- nesota at. St. Paul, is built of Gem'- gia marble and is one of the must, attractive public buildings in the N Ol‘Ul west. The immigration for the fiscal year just ended was tin: imuvicst for any twelve months since 18.92, and it. represented a gain of nearly 40,- 000 uvcr last year. The making of spools and sawing While Great Britain is the greatest tea-consuming country in the world. the United States leads all other nations in drinking coll‘ec. John Lister, an heir to $3,000,000 and an outcast. and tramp, was in the Chicago Police Court. recently. charged with stealing a horse and Waggon? One hundred thousand mules have been shipped from America to South Africa {or the use of the British ur- my. Milwaukee has tWicc as many sa- loons as Detroit. though the popu‘ lation of the two cities is almost the same. . The press of_ }he United States has A SUMMER FRAME 0|" MIND. employee in Government. omocs THE BUSY YANKEE SPENDS THE DAY. down my life insurance 1 is that? demanded Mrs. first. permitted to be- Dooley-Say. lloolcy. gin me g punch on the jam opposite phwm ya kicked me. Keeleyâ€"Phat. for? Dooleyâ€"l want ya to caught.- me out. If I thought. that any girl would accept. me. casually remarked the bashful Hr. Dolyers. l’d propose w- marrow. _ Why not this evening? asked Ilia. Posdick. ooyly. The afinir'iill take place in about a month. Ouc fourth of a pound of paint is allowed for every square yard 0! priming coat, one-sixth of a pou.‘ per yard (or the succeeding cont. Anastasiaâ€"Didn't. I bury Ilila. didn't. I bury Tim. didn’t I buy Jones and Juddâ€"so I think. Wil- liam it would be wiser for me not In yours. 'nuulm. Brownâ€"Well. in the dark, you know. it would take me a good while to find my shoes and my pistol, and that would give the burglar tune to get. away. Lady-3PM: feet 01 the ladies cl your country are compressed 1 ho- lieve? J apanese Attacheâ€"0h, no. madam: that. is a Chinese custom. W. In Japan 1110' our ladies' (out qow‘go- thon- lull sh}: .Ixoléwy‘ marry again. Williamâ€"Chance me. Anastasia. dear. Who knoum but on tables may be turned this time! BLOODSHI'ID AVOIDED. Jones-AHIIIL would you do It you" burglar al._um m .‘n ON in the fught? A short time ago the question wan raised by n sceptical layman whether crocodile tears shed by hypocritical mourners were likely to prove as el- iicacious as those shed by two mourners, but the priests did not. condescend to reply. No figures are obtainable as to the quantity of tears which such a sponge will yield, but, as the priests' bottles awe never empty, it is evident that tho lachryinul glands of Persian mourn- ers nre uquys ready to comply with any demand which may be made up- on them. In order to have a sumcient supply of tears always on hand the priest. collect. them in a singular manner. Whenever there is a funeral the om- dating priest distributes small sponges among the mourners, with which he instructs them to remove from their eyes the tears which they are in duty bound to shed for the do- ceased. After the ceremony he collects the sponges, which by that time are sut- urnted with tears, and carefully squeezes their contents into a large bottle, which he then seals and places in his medicine chest. A very peculiar bridge is being con- structed over the Mary River at liaryborough, Queensland, in that it is being designed so that its surface will be submerged several times dur- ingthe seasons of high floods. says a. London newspaper. The idea in building the bridge in this Way )8 to save the material that would be no- quira to build it suiticiently high to escape submersion at high Water. The country on the banks oi the Mary River lies-z so low that the ap- proaches would have to be extraor- dinarily lung to be entirely out oi the water during low water. For this reason pedestrians and others em- ploy boats during the comparatively short time that the water would cover the bridge. The bridge will clear by 12 feet and 6 inches at or- dinary high water. The highest flood level is 33 iert, so that at times. the bridge will be submerged more than 20 feet. A physician who has just returned from Persia say: that in that coun- try human tears are regarded as an intallible remedy against oertmn chronic diseases. After his mxllcring WuE over he Wont. out to the dtml‘ subbing loudly, and started to write uu a little bat 0! paper. \chn he had dmm writing, he dug a hole in the grmmd and put the m- lle bit. of paper down in it. His little sister (who had been watching him through the window) went iuunediately to the huh» and on opening saune. hand the little bit. of paper, which bore the followmg inscription: Candles are extensively used ll Mexico owing to the grth expense of petroleum. A bookkeepmr may be seen making his entries in a glut ledger by the light of a single uno- dle. A flexicnn printer works with a candlestick stuck carelessly into one of his boxes, and two tailors in the small shops can be seen sharing the rays of a single dip. Willie had been in the habit 0! din- obcying his mother, and one day [or this he got. a wvcre beating. Curious Custom Which Prevail- Russian women are F0 fond of smoking that. the Minister of the In- terior has orderml the railway ni- iicinls in the empire to prmidc: um.» senger trains with smoking cum- pnrtments iur their use. It n mud that. nearly all nmrriml mam-u in Russia smoke cigarettes, and that. the habit. has begun to Obtain largo- ly among the unmarried, “ith the-re- re- sult that smoking earnings .u: no. as much of a neeusity icr travel- ing Russian women as {or men. AFTER THE HECUNCILI ATION. BRIDGE UNDER THE WATER Don} devil, come and Lake mother RUSSIA N VH )MEN S)“ )K HRH CANDLES WILL! ITS IHSVICNG E ENCOURAGING 111M AGAINST ILLNESS IN MEXICO