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.re now pupa“ lPTLY. tity of Bath, d the differ- baiaut'sarl, wan: consuls: ““‘M so that all ordam otractod meet“ " as night. and Wt“. we been a had all urd and thrust at”! waged in the Md " to ful. nod l” " with a my od ._. L. 5.3 can M. Vic! fe,' tttq " mp bop” ho . I human ttrad t h to be 1m”? te man named Char“ been worYuttt - 1.5, was killed - , which leads church I it an mum-m” actory. ide sheeting. W“ Bet on the - ll‘IIIlll. M ath always "U7" tTGUd t.» and after not"? it would rain '- llawarden -tatet old man has 03.2 i will have the sir William GU/ht able matrimonial 88 tom per my). tr,Mate, and with mm which consti- A tho Fuse 1e f young man will 'ugh to loop the in attend.“ CIINIB. the [mini-n. " lelnl. ' [I’M W. WomN hat as... all m. '31.th l aux-cl T . All“ an Last 'lhe wedding of tt hues and Prinoo ( finally been (in. Queen will m be Hritlsh revel t quarter of the w an immune of n pounds of with “ciao duties. 3 s result of the lat cabinet on S ullon of the B " Malta. has It no! rw M Malta, has both award to the we of Good Hope. " has been decided that . review ot mg m” be held gt Aldenhot ounp honour of the Ancient and Honour- e Axtgllory Company. pt gugomyho u... "I locust... he Cheyenne Indium hug donned " wu- paint, and no ttles pow- ws, Nepal-story to a sewn up- 'mtt Karen Lambs.“ Wntortown. Na.. " been appointed ml on the wt ) it» United Shawl. to tb Bshriatq In Cums Common. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. nythor anie Tom’s Cnb'm." was st.rioire Wm wi’h congestion of thobnm and V on Wednesday. t '1 'ro/ht. Lo: ween Sheriffs man And ,M-rs we.” Beret, 0., one m was 34-1 512-1 another fatal] injnnd. HY Ito’s were exchange; NM, Emulnding that the America '~rf‘.TI; at is confronted , . big at?. it is proposed to span may mit- s on a new army title. t 'h, launching of the new Gem “an; lust week the Kaiser 011M..- tnn l1ope that Germany wil yet a I navy worthy of her Armin a" i'srvr and Czarina made their u mtry into St. Potenburl on r by and an immense concourse of l.. i-W'lumed their Majestic. with t enrhuinsm. dew; Md“. wk“, here In a prowpect of e [enerel one] ks in England. The employ." as " to effecta 10 per cent. ndnctipn uses and the tumors of Derhyslm'o Latrashiro have already refund to p: the proposition. hportent conferences hue been held , between the officials of the Brit- Admiralty end War Depertment members of the Cabinet, ehowini the Government viewe the pro-en of the Venezuelan queuion with caveat eppreheneion. ill-£3816 anato this new Shah. t daughter of James Minna. at Mi- i, Saline cannula" died from ut- ,' tnulberrtur. t t had boon nuns l." I :0 in :3 to “‘9. boiler explosion at Houston, In" three geople and seriously in- . (out . enterprising cracker bakery of ington bu now placed upon til. " I "bicycle biscuit." bummin an". n: old upldler living I Nu Mich" that tia dnughtox- nw. IQ then killed himself. at odfioial denial has been lulled of upon that up “any“: VnIpognt- an oriirirRom ALL'l'iIB WORLD oven. u lash was racently applied totho , of a man in England who had Knitted highway rob ry. Be knock- krwn 1,'il1PUJ'."nl? and stole her 3. Justice n of the Kent As. I. expressed his disapprovsl of long cums for first offenders. no them. I nutenood Ellis to a month’s im- bgmout and thirty lashes from the " mm Mn" t imam. tBe In their way to visit England. r Imperial Government bu ae.sgtd- in the demand of the OppoeItwn be :tgiyolntmont of . Select Com- 0 of arliament to investigate, tb , of the Chartered South Atria. um. Mia no dying by thousand. an “tuna. zangos owing to tho fit; flab land bill we pact! by Jul; Hausa of Common' by . cu to NO. ale of the acute a tte.uty9tl. ma Nttrate King, ruined ti" f thousand pounds. )uke of Atholl is the only noble- ho clothes his men-serum: m pl dress in London. sale of the auto of the lata mm. the "Nitrate Kin?" In "a m London to have ten nod .23 reading of tho Princosl Mada! uni Prince Charles of Donmrk ..ly Les-n fixed for the 22nd inst. pen will attend the ceremony. mush revenue returns to: the when of the present final re.' t ”MTG-180 of £‘l‘698,0N, on. init. uan of which In M104 (run he duties. ungry Joe," the (mono m I retrntly releasad from a M“. D $31?“- must report to ht New ygevery momi u " Emma. m that city. at on m hm the tha {In " m sun or the meeting of the imo tune: on Hamming the suspend. of the Klara oysl Rifiea. Lulu. has been ordired to tho as Rirers-WittrtBt Maul weal tor England, itil bone! that Grand Trunk f progressmg und" tH! of Fragment Mar. son. the angina! ot Unob Uarriet Beecher Stan’- Dreusden, Ont.. in 1.72. and A the negro counter! no“ iii' JGirok'"us her room. " severa.l.tytusentr" pt.- ,uuuit auicxde. LEA t' BRITAIN. of Baron Fitzhardin‘o in He was aunt, - a! U N ITED STATES 3.15;. .' an. AMI. out 0'- m- , nu Ursttad “It... all an aloha. Cum ll my Readme an 3; ciscdvery. t " 0111919” ot tho " drowned m ”kn.- dy Sunday morning. Um Vancounr In“ n the hue: River in much damage ttaat M NA NUISHHL H Wm NADA. Ias'sais of Emma. may dun-noon. mm: nanny witl of In Joint Ttaffio was convicted " r. macaw a”!!! 11,.L5-éaT4'ild' Annie River, um unused awleas, a patientin in Hamilton com- ”gin; bayou“ fee an '? (iodine! P.Pa - ., bequeath" Jitt: the the m; at tho rlt, tho Bank at t was (mum , - of vigil?! nayton, N. " damned WI! ”mg?! l Gan. Lawton, who urvod In the Con.. vfodorate army with Stonewnll Jackson 'and who tor two you.“ was United Staten Minister to Austria, died at .Clifton Springs on Thursday. United States was flown on July 4th with forty-five at“: on its him field, indicating tho amnion of Utah to the Iiaterhood of States. , Miss Charlotte Smith, of 1iraatt'utr.te, head of the Beacon Leann, has written a circular denouncin the use of ther bicycle for women. aiming destructuo of health and leading to immoralitr. A systematic ”Item of robbery, by which passenger train conductors. It» tion agents and Pullman ear porter! have alreedy stolen $15,000 from t..he Chiuago&Aiton railroad, bu been du- covered. The United States treasury state- ment for the fiscal on 1896 disclose! I deficit of $25,500,005; The deficit: for tt? -99“ .2th new- wares“? 0137:- 500.000. The' defiéif 'tdx'inr’y ls 'uti- mated It 810,000,000. summer dulneas" hero together pro- duced in tho United States much more than the ordinary emotion of mop: meat which noun Ir marks this Fined of the year in commercial circles. [can all round are 1mpressdentetiiy lawn“! the markets largely overstocked. Mt that mills and (notches, both north end south, are cloned for term; varymc from o couple of weeks until the end of August. Some threatened "la.hor troubles" have fortunately, m venous quuters, been unicebl “ranged. The output of Iron has Lou; large. end work, ore closing for mm. GENERAL. “Forest Iireq ore raging In northern Newfoundland. - - . The Khedivo ot Egypt is premium to visit England. Smallpox and (allow fever u" - ing great loss " life in Cuba., -" Qupen Masher“; of Italy in about to fubluh her Alpha exporianoel in book orm. It is rented tut a brother of Dr. June-son bun killed by the - shale; A 1etrttt',t from Ctlro Itstu that during une then won 8.598 duthl from cholera. The total number of can .of. oholon in Egypt to date la 7.550, winch proved fatal in 6,216 mm. _ -EmpJror" William has me {are pix weeks' cruise in northern News! not! Ishoard the Imperial yacht. Hohenzol- Um. The peoket but 1tahnurnuh, hound from Smkim for Suez. went on e no! and toundered. Sixty persons were drowned. The Cretan insurgents defeated the Turks on Wednesday. killing two hun- dred of them, and capturing three of their cannon. [our New landings " Toronto lunedi “ .--hretre II Work. I 3 A deepetch from Toronto "rss-ut) a few minutes to 2 o'clock on Monday ‘ morning (lame: were neon shooting! _trom the north nobles in the Exhibi-l, tion Park. The bright reflection mused l on dorm to be turned in from queen' ond Claremont “recto, nearly a mile away. and this was followed by one from King end Gwynne avenue. endin By tho oxplasiop of ammunition in an arsenal near Fort Mucus in the Province of Loraine 42 man were kill.. ed and 100 badly injured. In an engagement between Dutch end Chinese in the Dutch Indie. the Chinese lost 112 killed. Ot the Dutch forces ' were killed and 89 wounded. It is sated in feeder' that the Government would prepared to sell some ot its Went Indian colonies tothe United States at n suiteble price. far n naval station. PI' went out w " was thirty-five min But, confound it "rains don't stop ,them. Ind the N about u: hour and 1' You "tf, I went 9 or “I a l . an, I know; in (url"'; ill It t W1 I you l-ution tom! . e 2ri,r%iiaiL later A general elem ran: in from the Exhibition grounds. This mused some delay. end when the reels arrived the northern eteble wee blazing furiously, and the one eouth of it was igniting. The steamer from Dundee street we. got into commie- eion, end did good service. but the third and then the fourth building caught. until it looked u it the entire row of a dozen no wand solidly-built struc- tures was doomed. The men worked with n will, however, and eteyed the flames at this point, but the four build- ings were gutted with their contents. which latter, however. did not amount to much. - _ A . " - The stables deetroied were .uponz theyewesm of the Ex ibition bugldmfe, having only been completed in ume pr last fall's show. They were well built of lumber end out about .700 . piece. The total loan will therefore be about "tpo, covered_ yr insurance. ' h 3 "It’wiu a nation ft ”when. '. day wo mt. vow. wvwnw v, u.._....... The eauee of the fire cannot be de- finitely etated, but there can be little doubt it was of incendiary origin, ll there had been no tire around the place for months. At 8 o'clock all dancer at the the egreadlng was over. but the sections of t a brigade [flayed on the smouldering embare till on: after daylight. ?!e,t,?:2h'tt,',yriiief the untimely hour, hundreds burn to the poem the man alarms and .bnght reflection amazing the impresmn that the con- flagratnon was woree than it fortunately turned oat to he. Baburun Resident-See here, air! You told me that country place I bought of you was_ only thirty-five min- utes from the tsity, Chi Agent-Yea, air, thirty-five min- utes y express. You remember. when mmtout to lookstit, thotimo was thirty-five minubeq uwtly. But, confound it, m. the “prune trains don't shop them, no; one of them, ad the accommodatmn “he. about u: hour and n half I You“ Ivan. b expreu. and it "rgtl for us. “In {new . .5' linow: t it haan't stopped moo. It will a It you hire a mu: “your nution tout!!! n tlrouch tick”, If” nor os I.” a-.. tos-What, hi Pre not him my. and b’o only it. waldo.“ EXHIBITION STABLES BURNED. :"othfé i-gat I "1'" s -------- now TO sic? AN EXPRESS. of you no tut mm arhtt MI ,uluq The! ny- h’l wh- “L. thrown (:16th 1-: T t'. tho way I did the REPORT. tno quu WWI-nu. -..v" - I.-. le- ' Sir,', who know that the ashes of Van sta, Dyke he somewhere beneath the crypt ant ,0! St. Paul’s, and that Emahuel Swe- :denborg is buried in the panel: of St. mg George in the East? All trace pf the I ., great {winter's tomb was lost In the tt .ruce .w ich destroyed even the memor- gilt ale 1n the parish church of St. Faith's. m‘ which forms the egypt ofmthe Met??- LONDON BURML GROUNDS THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-TWO IN THE COUNTY LIMITS. my Turned Into Public Parks, Omen Bette Over end "gt-Wag-g" People Whose Unve- Cannot Be Found. London in no mded with the liv- ing that we the medium in danger of fomettintr that the dead beneath our feet ere even more number“. It in only during the past tow you: that my care whatever has been bestowed upon the ragged and unkempt church- l yards and other places of interment. They were the repositories of ell man- ner of rubbish, from worn-out tin ket- tles to dead eats. "Such strange church yards hide in the city at London." says Dickens: " the illegible tombstone. m ell lopsided. the grove mounds lost their shape in the reins of s hundred yesrs ago." In only too many cases. after every square ysrd had been used over and over again for interments,the (round was eluted and built upon. It in in the natum at things that in all Brest towns Intramural interment ehould tend to create . difficulty; but the huge population of London and the wrow dimensions of most of its church- ysrds have helped to make the matter jone of peculiar seriousnees to the met- l, ropolis. There ere in the city and coun- try of London 362 burial grounds, of which some forty no still in use. while clue upon A hundred have been trans- formed from neglected and offensive eye-sores into bright and cheerful gar- dens. But public opinion did not ewake until carelessness and irreverence had accxampliahed a vast amount of mis- chief. and. close upon hell a hundred old London burial places have ENTHLELY VANISHED. One was destroyed to make room for each of the railway etationn in Cannon street. the Mannion Home station stands on the eite ot another, while the Man- sion Home itself has its foundations, in the earth where once the parishionern of St. Mary Woolchurch Haw found sep- ulture. Part of the General Poet'Of- fiee stand. upon the churchyard of St. Leonard's. Foster ‘lane. _and Mercer's Haul upon may of St. Thomas Am. when the pilgrims were buried. Strut? has been the fate of some. of the old citizens who ware buried in _churcheo which were eventually demolished. “It has been the custom to remove the memorials of the dead from these churches to those to which the now churchless parishes have been annexed. but sometimes the coffins were too numerous to be accommodated by any one church. Thus. those from St. Mio- heel. Crooked lane. were divided be- tween St. Edmund King and Martyr and St. Mary Woolnoth. and those that went to the latter church underwent I mud removal, when, a few years egg It became necessary to clesr the "rift; ed - h it f ow neck with people t e ci_y o London was. even in the early middle Niel. We may form some idea when we remember the large number of churche- which still exist within the walls. Y.et many of those destnX'ed in the fire were never rebuilt, no oubt because the tendency of population 200 years ago was alreale toward what were then the suburbs. ttdeed, the city of the thir- THE GREYFRIARS the_eite of which in now occupied try Christ Church, Newgnte street. stood peculiarly high in the favor of the Elie Iheres were buried the wxvee of , ward I., Edward u., and Henry IL, and the hearts of Edward 11. and Queen Eleanor. An old chronicler tells us. 'with pride. that " four ducheesea. f.ohr ‘counteeeee, one duke. and twentyreight. harms" formed part of the hallowed dust beneath the Greyfriare Church." , All traces of these tombs and the very ;ehurch itself, onee so Lemon. and so splendid, have vanished. and he would t be a. sharp schoolboy. indeed, who could tell. without a. good deal of research. :where the second wife of Edward}. ‘yvae interred. But, indeed. this obliv- 4100 is not ooutinmi to halt-foqotten queen comma. How my _peop 2.3" suburbs. Indeed, the city of the thir- teenth or fourteenth century must have presented e singularly Jccieisiaariea1 ep- pearance. Not, only was it crowded with churches, each with its own burial ground, but it contained , great num- r ot monasteries and priones. some of them occupying considerable areas. and each with its "eroiater-garth.'.' where in 'tttit/li, rl'vr,,"tiii',',n were lud at rest. In t e days t salt of the earth died more easily could they be assured that they would die within the church to .som.e monastic foundation. The mag- nificent church of nolitan Cathedral. When Wren dug the l foundations of the new cathedral, he) found, going down into an immense, depth, layers of gygitidP1 those from Norman times ownward, then Saxon ones. and beneath them British Eaves. Still dagger were found my man urns. T e pereietency with which, throughout every period of which we have any knowledge. St. Paul's has re- named , centre o hy, life is exceed- ipgly curious. It has a. ways been some- thing more and something lea than a church. Long . mart and a. meeting place, and not much better in those re- epecte ether the Reformation than be- fore it, the cathedral in etill. even in these more reverential days, largely used as a lounging plaoe._ee anybody may eee who eaten Jt during the citg dinner hour. 1hreest.m.inattr A hey, wit its inomnmable interest among Eng- tish churn ' has never suffered in that wig. Save in very exgc-Etional macs, inter- menta no longer a place within the city or county 9f Lrn,.doe, anf, fryer! {ear Ull.’ VI. wuss-J v- -__'---. -"_-" - _ a larger number of the dimmed bur- ial ground: are being, put into decent order and msintaioed as PUBLIC GARDENS. There was a time when these closed ohurchygrda were mere plague spots, and during a cholera period I London incumbent found Jt necessary to fan- ten upon the peiqh limp, which our moo-boys. with their, tree" diaretrard for may] oonaiderationa, ttad. placed in the Mt ot {he tom}! "trt gnarl?- “I Luv unan- - - --_- -. tion "Dead man's. coup.” The County Council be used gt: powers whenever it could for turning neglected burial ground: to s natal fur-pg“. There in yot aa to be done, Inc. 1n my cues what ahould be "God'u gore” I! still a mam rubbish gap. , umber. ygrd, or 'trtuiiriiiaraié _~ " "of mm. warehouse. And there no always like-l V, to ho difficulties when the snoop-3 abilities of seats Inn to be taken mm} account. The Jews will not allow their' graveyards to be turned into garden; qt. the Hebrews. setting an egample winch Christians might copy with ad- vantage. are exceedingly csroful of the restmg places of their dead. The clos- ed burisl grounds belonging to some of the diatie nting bodies snrpoar to be the worst cared for of alt. his results partly from the fact that many of than have, in turn. mod for more than one demoninstion, and ty/2 from the. lapkpf any central out rity with {unsdlcuon over such matters. Happxly he old Bunhill Fields ground, in the City road. where so many famous Non- conformists lie buried, is the propytr oonfonms' to lie buried, in the groper” of the city corporation. 1m? is 3 them kept in order. It would, 1ndee ' have been a, national diam-toe had the m'). In which lie Bunyan and Defoe, r. Watts. and the mother of. .the We.- leya. fallen into the madman of so my other luch‘placel. Qlllllntlou Necessary to Candidate. ror I ["3th Valued Interment. The monument ia made in the English newspapers that Queen Trio. toria has "pointed Ivan Hay. son of Lord Errol, a. mo of honor, in the place of Sir Albert Sum, who, hav- ing attained his 16th you. la compell- ed to vacate his office worth {1,200 e yesr.. This serves to recall attention to the taot that "the pretty page with the dimpled chin,” so sweetly sung of by the poet, and who constituted one o! the most picturesque figures ot inedi- uvsl times, still survives. Born and imperial - range in ace tram 12 to 16 years. They ere sp- pointed by the sovereign, enjoy pay prerogatives end perquisites much es do the grown-up attendants on roysltymd are prescribed certain definite duties. The duties are possibly no more import- ant than in days of yore. when there was no postal service, and the lovelorn Princess was forced to rely upon the secrecy and fidelity of her page for the conveyance of messages of her knight or troubadour. But tact and discre- tion in performing them are probably more nweasary now than ever. owing to the popular craving for information concerning the personal and HOME LIFE OF KINGS, and “tempt; ore often made to ex- tract information of this kind from the pages by persons who imagine that be- 035m they are young their tongue: or. New rowan-n.- ._- L b - c- - ...... To toughen them against ouch et- tempte Ind qualify them for this Ber- Vme the royal pages ere subjected ta very carefu training. At the court of St. Petersburg, for instance, there is a regular college of pages. where they ere educated an maintained at the ex.. pense ot the crown. . . Gentle birth is the first qualification for the rt of royal page. At the courte 0 Vienna and Munich an an- cestry of no less than sixteen genera.- trons free from any plebeian strain on either {ather'e or mother's side is re- lquired in the candidates. In England and Russia. nobility in not demanded. The p960. of honor in the court of Queen ictorie are generally sons of distinguished officers of the army or of high dignitaries of tht.roysl household. On state occasions they wear gorge- ous uniforms of blue and silver, and many a fair lady who has been pre-, sented at one of the drawing reams of Queen Victoria will recall to mind, the 9ppearence which they presented stand- 1.n.g alightllg behind her Majesty, or be- hind t e rincess of Wales when the latter otfieiatea in the place of her i.1- lustrious mother-ia-law. In fact. their dunes are limited to attendance upon lroyalty at drawing rooms, state pon- matte. state balls, _a.nd rpyal yegdmgl. WK? tfii,"7oiiir"oCiariirand Arun.iu the pages figuro at all state oeremomel. clad like those of EnglandLip BLUE AND SILVER. At the court banquets they stand be. .hi.nd the chairs of the royal and imper- ial personages. These personages on rising from the table sometimes address a few kindly words to the boys and present them with sweetmeats. In- deed, the late Emperor Frederick was wont to amuse himself by cramming their mouths full of bonbons until they could not speak and then plying them with questions demanding an immed- iate answer or else cracking jokes that were sure to make them laugh. These pages are chosen for the oe- casion only from among the best-looks. ing boys of the school of cadets at Berlin and from the Imperial There-i- anum College at Vienna, all the mem- bers of whic are of noble birth. These schools resemble a military academy.but the pupils enter at the age of 14, and receive the commissions as officers at a much earlier age than in this coun- A remarkable cause of death from fright was the case of the Dutch paint- er Poutmnn. He was at work in his studio. where there was a number of death's heads and skeletons. when he happened to fall asleep. During his sleep there‘was a slight shock of earth- quake, and when he woke up suddenly he saw the skeletons and skulls deno- ing around in the greenest confusion. He " once became 5anie-atrielren, and rushed across the room and threw himself out of the window on to the pavement below. Be. died tr few de s after. not from injuries received in the mall, but from. the nervous shock giv- en by the dancing skeletons, though the ‘cause of their fisativity was explained to PM Min-You are older than I Am, a [want to ask you . ques- tion. Does . woman alwuyl mean whst she says! . Old Man-Aiwa-that a. if she's mirried. sriiraGirio his! Hostess-It was E Bott-Doe. tly On i ‘wr-u-o- ....---j- - DEATH FROM FRIGHT. ROYAL PAGES. A MUSICAL MISFIT. -Who wu it per-ml ti', Utop t RELIABLE. TORONTO THE FIELD Ill? Mlllillflilullil. Some Items of Intttrttgtttt tho Buy Business In. The stock: of wheat at. Toronto on steadily increasing. The total is now 181.893 bushels as against 24,557 bub- ols a year ago. The Int report of The Liverpool Corn Trade News made the Continental wheat stocks Juno Ist, 21,772,000 bush- el. against 22,896,000 May lat. Odessa. had the largest stock of any point. 2.- 400,000 bushels. The visible supply of wheat in the United States and Canada is now 47.860.000 bushels, a. decrease of 959,- ooo bushels last week. A yet: ago the total was 44,561,000. Thegnount on We to Europe deereased 1gi20,000 bushels last week. Ind the total h now only 26,000,000 bushcll u against 41.- 520,000 a. year Mo. The net profits of Canadian Pacifio for the month of May show en In- - of $142,841 on the oorreaponduttp month of Int year. end net earninsa for the first five months of thle you increased $548,000. The net earninll of leading western road: across the border ere unfavorable for May. Dur- ing that month St. Paul's net profits decreased 8161,000, and Burlington! Allow the large decrease ot #235,000. The sugar business in the United‘ Staten for the past week has been very light. with prices ehaded a fraction whenever any mecial effort was made to eell. Quotations are nominal and deliveries sufficiently prompt to make tho glemand flat. The refined grade. are in a rather better condition than mumvado or centrifugal rawe, but no especial 1t,'t."tg is reported from any department, a though a trade circular has appeared. promising great things new that the rainy season in Cuba has begun. Meanwhile imports at New York continue very heavy the week be- fore last being valued at 82,079,099, and for two weeks of June $3,929,997, against 82,003,261 last year, an increase of near- "r_100 per cent. _ . .. Economy and enterprise are both ne- cessary to success. Too often the mer- ehant fails to secure a. great measure of pnosperity because he considers these qualities rtet,'e,i,i,e,tjoorir and cultivate. one at the expense o the other. Econ- omy my conclet in saving every scrap of paper. metal. string. wool, coal. etc., which has use and va ue, and may lee- sen expenditure; it may be extendedto mean a wiser expenditure of money for fuel, light, wages, route. advertising and tysityyttyl expenses, but the limi of the kind of economy is the pmporp titan of actual waste which can tub ghee in a. given amount of gross pro- ita.. So wherever economy In}: to rev- ognize the necessity of making more busineu _on _ scale of expenditure ne- oessary for the larger activity. soon- ouny degenerate: into a. weakness, and not infrequently into vice. It 15 " ways both s vice and I. weakness when ecoqomy becomes meanness, and excxtes dislike and even hatred in tho hearts of employes. relatives and the general puAlio. _ _ . . ' . Them has been a quiet business in) wholesale circles at Toronto during the; week. It is generally thought that the Cram crops will be. up to the aver- age, but the present low prices bf cereals ere discouraging to growers. The cattle and cheese export trades have been very disappointing so far this sea- son, owing to extremely low prices. which leaves little or no grof it in these industries. The stocks o autumn and winter dry goods no accumulating in wholesale warehouses. and a fairly sut- isfactory trade is exgicbed. but " yet for reasons stated, t orders from. he reuil trade are coming in slowly. Prices of staple merchandise show but little change. and there are a good, many oompmints about the backwardoeats of remittances. Discounts are unchanged st 6 to 6 1-2 per cent. and call loans are obtainable on stocks at 5 1-2 per cent., but the supply is by no means large. Sterling1 exchange is dull and easy in Iyrnpat y with new Ylork: when) gold II Inga-nu; .._e-- --~~-- ----. - - shipments are thought to be about over for some time to come. The spee- uletive stocks on. the Toronto Exchange an lower 1!) guns while bank issues matesdier t n they were. There is a further advance In W]. and choice investments generally are sought after. llllllou of Dollars Inn-Funnel“ III- Brought to Thou-Ind- of Breeders-A New [Mung Bell. The steamer mowers nrived at Vancouver Sydney, on Monday. lov- era! days lute. owing to fogs. The lat- quiiif ildv'lces, dated -irune, 10th, state that the tick plague in still rag- ing in every part of Australia, causing destruction of entire herds of cattle. The tick fastens itself in salt meat, and has been exported to Sydney in this way. Though the tick be remov- ed ths egg remains, and the insect can- not be oartermintrted. Pastoral sections of country are intensely excited over the unexpected plague, which has taken the place of the rabbit plague, and is‘ costing the country niillions of dollars anl bringing financlal ruin to hun- dreds ot mes. The tick sticks to the cattle and eats its way into vital parts. Dr. Salmon, an eminent American specialist. has been cabled to for advice. and Mr. Terhunt, Australia's famous scientist. is on his way) to the United thates to consult with r. Salmon. Ad, ivims of American authorities in consid- ered much more valuable than any that can be obtained in England or elsewhere. . A new decrees dinni bell has been invented in ustralia. n Sydney har- boar the owners sail in their metal bell, fifty fathom from the surface. smoking cigars and sending jocular messages to a distinguished company of scientists above. Prof. Richet publishes some figures of mortality trom diphtheria in the Rev- ue Scientitique, which seem to show that either the am has this year taken a milder form, or else Dr. Bonx'e serum treatment ur. effective. The deaths in 1884 m Peru hospitals were 1,400; from 1887 to 1891 there were from 900 to 960 . you; tram 1892 to 1894 they averaged 733; m 1895 they were 289. ""ifii'GGi" 'ma'?‘ 100511;; _ "on s landslide. . ) Niro, not mtf'rii"i'iG, diitrrG,i0rii,9riiea1t AUSTRALIAN CATTLE PLAGUE. REAL ESTATE QUIET. Bum-n Man-Anythini stirring in _n ‘.5.5. "If unur mu t I. “ll. DECREASE OF' DIPHTHERIA. titr Charles Duke "also a w '0 --Baqta" Will be Alone In the "IM. A letter from Mr. Gladstone It}: - lhhed in London the ou- is, do. nounclng the whole-ab incl-am of no pendltum on ma u wild, Inn:- on. End perilous but it In“. to ovob Lil, Iylhpnthy. Tho public 5 not. mud by a. notion: ”this trom, “the sr.nottrucuruoiuraitruttti+ ed. medical“ that Great main. ain- ¢le-handod. in defined to onus. is n [rent ntrugglo “that Gum]. Russia. and Franco combined. Tho fight. he claims. mum any time within . detsado, eaten-Ebb um Egypt. but, will]. on account a! palm of Grant Britian'a colonial expansion. Therefore. Sir Charl- use. that Britain to bold new]! " from my alliances which nigh only move mud", and (but. M to the dovolapment of he: Macon. The Specular pronounde the qu. tion en to what role America will ploy inauchotruattio ducting hereon.- ia1 inure-b. The disco-in manila; Enzlen ' "Qlendid inoletion" in min to I'. fore. During the put week e well- known mummy etmto‘int. legturle. before the chief military instituting drew en aux-min; picture of London defenoele- condition. It, he deolend. {MMChennel J,ttt, 1',T'rtitttfi, " u ewe] tant 1; m3. land would he left without tt; Irreaatphste, and en inveder owld - ly reach the Empire's heart. Hie idee was that Lomlon ehould he tortlfled like Streaburc or Mott, end if the ‘Wu' offioo should endorse the sound- nea of his arguments. and air the Government to provide the note-per! ','i','hT the request. in ell wobelnlity. woul be granted. As ember ot tact, large-amen being expended " thin moment In building detached forte around Lon- don and strengthenl the {artifice- tiona of the 'lll,',yd;'l,"ti,ll, end Tyne. The money appears in the eetlmet. under a general head, and lew Eng- liahmen have an adequate idea how much work in being done in this dlreo- ‘Renewed attention ia also being given by upon-ible militery Phe to the defences of Halifax and eg- oouver. and plausibly other points ' the Western hemisphere; and there ll reason to believe that a. smell oom- mithee, installed at the We: Office and working in concert with the Ad- miralty, has been charged to discover what modification: no my and desirable in the defence: of Canedl. the Wet India. etc.. in View of the {not that in I tow yearn the Unit. ed States will become a. great novel power. Presumably, the . committee! instructions do not end with defensive scheme, but it is impoeeible to APE 0-hou- For In“. Wu tho Dinner on the Khodyukojo ”all. Russia cannot be Judged in up un- logiu of Western Europe. She is still 'a;iii"7iarii, -GirodiGriiiLaot wit the committee emu, And is " work. Elva-Iimimiddlo ages. The first nil-ha. or mistake of the yam Emperor would mall the annuity of hin 90mm). week. in which n reign of minmnnagv ment and misfortune might seem he have been foreshadowesd; and the blind ignorance of the Rue-inn mmwould lend incl! e ready dupe to the eug- geetions of necret conspiretore. Frenoe at the close of the hut century In. some hundreds of yen." in edvanoe od Rania. even as she is now, in knowl- edge and civilization. Yet in PM“ when Marie Antoinette became the ob. ject of populer an wicion and hate. whoa anticipating the phrase need Into: 5 on e more trivial occasion in Englnnd. the explanation of every folly and isrime was found in the statement. .. T he Queen has done it all." it was Pm?"': bered thet the he,',', of calamity bud mompanied her t ugh life. She was born, it was whispered. a the day ot the great earthquake Lisbon. As she eft the church after the marriage ceremony " engry atom: of thunder and rain. which den-honed the sky and new to eheke the earth. burst forth. On the day at the popu- lar fete in Peri- In honor at the pup- tinle of the Daughm and Deuphlne- e catastrophe in tt Plea Louie Quins. as "tel In poulble prm bung that of the tttpet, main, though on A much one} at scale of ulnity.turn- ed the nstimsa1 f', into lamentetiu and into a fearfu foreboding at evil. The generouq eympethLiend gm! ad the royal put, and t r Inn-meant liberaiity. .to, the euffemremen‘d .ege-. IIWI‘IIIL’ w - Bun-yaw-‘ -" -- on, smoothed over tho ruffled can“; it Cumed the ulceroua tte; bot the impreuion was mm, an it and“ os- ly. misfortune and unprudenco to n- Awful Force of an null-Incl Gl- In a. Clue-- War. In dwelling upon the wonderful pow- er of modern gum Albert Matthew- givea illustration from the reset" Chl- lean civil war. showing the ottoctivo- av; 7 it. nee: of the smaller nine- og brooch- landing rifled guns. A shot weighing 250 pounds, from an eight-inch gun of Ft. Vaidivia, in Val- pnniso Harbor, “ruck the cruise! Blanca Encdads than the armor bolt. paged through the thin nteel plum on tie aides went through the main cabin, took the pillow from under hi. had. dropped hid hand on the mattre- mth . “mtg-“0t T/tttlt injuring n . Ir, ganged us t open not into t e mum. when it struck tho floor, and than [wood to the ceiling. Then it went 311mb 5 wooden bul - headminch tiuaiinio-om.25t?' ‘42 teat, when 40 men were sleeping in hammock; It killed. nix of them out- get,ftl. wounded nix otheru, three ot w died, after which it passed through . steel bulkhead. five invheo thick. and eadod its ooune , striking q. buttery_ argue, in Avthch t Fade n AN IMPENDING STRUGGLE. SHIN“ - IMI "__-..-""". 77 thick, and ended its coax-no b! striking a. battery outaid% in which t made . (tent nearly two inche- deep, It was filled with and. Bad it Island dead- .t gyna- no one known what dump 1 might 1591051090. . M. A . ..A TGrairifrii1u.nd-trft-stted mir ide from . tan-Inch gun 1n the gum. {an attack the cane was“ on its eight» Inch armor. lt hit aqua on a bolt. The shell did not pierce the armor, but bunt outaide tho and. It drove tho bolt right through. and in its flight tho bolt struck an eight-inch gun, completr Ltttill'g it. Such in the power at t mun-sued can. :3] MAY MEAN TROUBLE. IODERN GUNS. 'ttacting her color nun. Bull" ' I: will to f. put week e wen- rate‘int. lecturing xilimry Pe,tateh tioture of London t. It, be deem t,T'rtitt'tfi, a In mg, " un ',f'lll'lfit ttl wtifttatteytd my; I ' 37m 4% tl