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, Emissions, Mental ic Stimulants, all of y grave. Wood‘s cases that seemed now prepared (TLY. es with all known ;MW&â€"\ cure in all stages of y of Sash, the differ. DENTIAL e shecting, an look back at Tapr" has sw y a sow nst nature nz is and vitality »all the followâ€" )EBILITY, L WEAKâ€" JATURAL ISEASES, th always ht losses; restâ€" throat; varieoâ€" idence; lack of ILTY s or onvel«= d cost of Living. "At :it. mafour y or QIDOIMEO- T esithy ahild. that all orders LCY ST , MICH. ish Remedy, ng lis NCilzo * *#3 R morn‘ng®; Do table and Te ol in the Dominton, i@ bit After Taking ctory, CHNIR M ir thin ment o do which kul Maf sing { life or his 70th sex. and nd trained or take ry vard. and se aniastig absurd alturist, f these herd of m their h* poulâ€" ind digâ€" after= irs ago 1€ Kelvin . â€" Yomw * er for e i i O »â€"ntific better faith= n the home r and { [2t €» vear to of â€"Lady William _ Beresford, formerly Duchess of Marlborough has given birth to a son. her new Atlantic service, as a new style of steamer is being projected, of shallow draught with great capacity, and speed, which would be admirably suited for the St. Lawrence route. ~â€" GREAT BRITAIN. The Earl of Kinnouil is dead, at the age of seventy years. The Dominion Government is in reâ€" ceipt of a score or more a[)plicat.ions for railway subsidies. Some of them are new, and some are for a renewal of subs:dies which lapsed through the reâ€" fusal of Parliament last year to revote th> money. Under the instructions of the Minisâ€" ter of Agriculture, the free distribuâ€" tion of sample seed packages of certain varieties of grain and other agriculturâ€" al products which have succeeded on the Experimental farms will be made again this season. \ Sims Reeves, the celebrated English tenmor singer, has been declared a bankâ€" rupt. for Sir John Thompson‘s funeral exâ€" penses, Which the Government disputes on #ha ground of overcharges. John R. Hooper will be required to serve the sentence of 25 years in the r*n.temiar_v which was imposed upon m for aitempted wife murder three years ago, Sir Oliver Mowat having reâ€" ported adversely to any commutation. Mr. Dobell, who has returned from England, says that Canada ought not to be in too greata hurry in getting surance company, which is to be all Canâ€" adian in its character, will begin busiâ€" ness, with head offices in Montreal. It will be known as the Royal Victoria Insurance Company. The Nova Scotia House of Assembly on Friday passed a bill appointing July Ist a public holiday. 'I‘Eis is the first time since Confederation that Dominâ€" ion day has been recognized in Nova Bcotia as a legal holiday. Messrs. Gordon and Keith, underâ€" takers, of Halifax, are brinéing an acâ€" tion against the Dominion Government tion ag for Sir penses, on #hea _ Thomas DBateman, who was twice preâ€" sident of the Primitive Methodist (.Eon- ference, is dead at Londou. f year ended September last to have been $853,893, or $12,734 less than the reveâ€" uue. At the Business Men‘s Convention held in Winnipeg, on Friday, a resoâ€" lution was passed recommending that the Dominion Government build the g‘rupnvd railway through the Crow‘s est pass. Within a short time a new life inâ€" surance company, which is to be all Canâ€" The Queen‘s heailith, both physical and mental, is reported to be excellent. Several warships of the British mediâ€" terranean squadron bave been ordered to Crete. r 9 + 9 ‘The India famine fund is meeting with much criticisim in Montreal. It is pointed out that there is distress eg?ugh in that locality to employ all able. The leading steamship companies are asking the Government to pay half the cost of fitting up vesseis for cold storâ€" age. The total payment would amount to $150,000. 3 yeress Dr. Seiwyn, in a paper read at the mining engineer‘s conventionat Montâ€" real, held that the idea that Canada was exceptionally rich in minerals was a fallacy. t Earnings of the Montreal Street Railâ€" way Company for the first four months of the fiscal vear amount to $412,665, against $385,520 for the corresponding period of last year. The Canadian Pacific railway will run colonist specials every Tuesday during March and April, to meet the requireâ€" men‘ts of the settlers‘ movements toâ€" wards the North West. _The Queen hasannounced herintenâ€" tion of opening the Sheffield Town Hall in May next. f The Dominion Minister of Agriculture contemplates sending an officer to the Oid Country to take special notices of Canadian shipments during the coming summer. Nova Scotia‘s finances, as reported to the Legislature at Halifax, on Wednesâ€" day, show the expenditure for the Arrangements are being made for a deputation to wait on the Government to press the claims of the Montreal, Ottawa and Georgian Bay ship canal. A Duluth firm will erect an elevator at Kingston, Ont., accepting the city‘s offer o?a bonus of $25,000 and tax exâ€" emption for ten years. As a result of the new quarantine regulations large droves of caitle are being driven across the ice from Brockâ€" ville to the United States. ‘The petition for a reduction in the number of liquor licenses in Hamilton was considered by the Markets Comâ€" mittee and refused, The retail merchants of Ottawa are retitioning the Dominion Government or the right of garnishee against the salaries of civil servants. The trouble between the garmentâ€" workers and the Sanford Manufacturâ€" Ing Company of Hamilton has been imicably settled. i e ons h ao l 4o Ald. Watkins, of Hamilton, has comâ€" plained to the Mayor of tobaccoâ€"smokâ€" ing at the Board of Works meetings. Mine owners at Rat Portage are agiâ€" tating to have the Indian reserve at that town done away with and the Indians moved to some other location. Strong &ressure is being brought to bear on the Dominion Government to have insolvency legislation introduced as soon as possible. Mayor Bingham, of Ottawa, has givâ€" en his first month‘s salary as Chief Magistrate to the poor of the city. It is now thought probable that â€"Surâ€" veyor Ogilvie and party will remain in the Yukon country over winter. The report that the Montreal cotton mills iniend closing down for three months is denied in Montreal. A number of changes have taken place among the street railway comâ€" pany‘s officials at London. Winnipeg School Board is asking the city for $100,000 to meet this year‘s exâ€" penses. Mr. Richard Pope, Commissioner of Fatents at Ottawa, is dead. _ Mr. D. W. Bole has been elected Preâ€" gident of the Winnipeg Board of Trade. Last year‘s cut of timber in the Otâ€" ;aw& valley is estimated at 614,250,000 eet, CANADA. Etratford is to have a Free Library. The miners‘ strike at Springhill, N.S., continues. Interesting Items About Our Own Country, Great Britain, the United States, and All Parts of the twilube, Condensed and Assorted tor Easy Reading. fHE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. [8t NS N A NISHL Indictments hbave been returned against 14 persons, including aldermen and Fo‘.ice officers, at Louisville, Ky., for failing to suppress gaming. The works of the Case Threshing Machine Company at Racine, Wis., will resume operations Monday next. They have been closed for six months. Casper Cyrus E. Breder, of the First National Bank, Bethlehem, Pa., who disâ€" appeared with a shortage in his acâ€" counts, is said to have taken refuge in Toronto. The United States Senate, before agreeing to the abritration treaty, emâ€" asculated it in such a manner as to render it doubtful of acceptance to Great Britain. At Stockton, Cal., on Wednesday night Chas. A. Kleupfer, a saloon keepâ€" er, shot and kiled gharles Dodge and Alexander Borland, two prominent citizens. Gardner, Morrow & Co.‘s insolvent bank building at Hollidaysburg, Pa., was wrecked by dynamite. It is supâ€" posed to be the work of creditors in revenge. a Enough money to erect a chapel at Mount Hermon, Mass., is to be given Evangelist Dwight L Moody, who will be 60 on Friday, by his friends as a birthday gift. Lee B. McFarland, teller of the Secâ€" ond National Bank of Parkersburg, W. Va., is reported short $43,000 in his acâ€" counts. The United States revenue receipts during January were $24,316,994, and the expenditure $30,269,389, leaving a deficit of $5,952,395. Lady Henry Somerset will be askâ€" ed to preach the annual sermon during the National Convention of the W. C. T. U. in Buffalo next fall. The schooner Cora Hanson, of Proâ€" vidence, R.l., has been given up for lost. She left Brunswick, Ga., several months ago on a trip north. She had a crew of 10, Five children, their ages ranging from 10 to 15 years, were drowned on '1‘uesdz;fi by failing through the ice at Nebraska City Highwaymen looted the Eldon Bank at Ottumwa, lowa, the other day to the extent of $30,000. Over 100,000 persons in the State of Louisiana are said to be destitute, the result of last year‘s drought. It is intimated that Presidentâ€"elect McKinley intends to appoint Mr. Chaunâ€" ‘ceydM. Depew Ambassador to Engâ€" land. t Col. George Meade, a son of General Meade, the hero of Gettysburg, died on Wednesday in Philadelphia after a brief i.lness. Hamilton F. Coleman of the Land Office ag Washington has been arrested on a charge of stealing postage stamps from the Government. It is said his takings amount to over $100,000, Thirty thousaud people in the State of (I;(»uifixana are practically starving o eath. The Angloâ€"Venezuelan ‘treaty has been signed by Ambassador Paunceâ€" fote and Minister Andrade at Washâ€" ington. _ The Capitol of Pennsy)!vania at Harâ€" risburg has been burned. The Prince of Wales has issued to the press a lengthy communication, in which he advocaies the creation of a fund to be called the Prince of Wales‘ hospital fund for London, to commemâ€" orate the 60th anniversary of the Queen‘s accession to the throne. Mr. Chamberlain states that the 0; sou@lgga0o jeiuadugr ue Jjo uo1;senb continue une wor«k of the Ottawa conâ€" ference to be held when the Colonial Premiers go to London is under conâ€" sideration. The London Privy Council on Saturâ€" day dismissed the appeal of the Ontario Brewers and Distillers, and sustained the judgment of the Ontario Court of Appeals, which held that Ontario had the right to impose an extra tax for the right to sell in Ontario. The bold utterance of Siz Michael Hicksâ€"Beach in regard to England‘s ocâ€" cupancy of Egypi has created some senâ€" sation on thse Continent, especially in France, where the Paris Autorite says that England must be replied to with the sword. The Maruis of Lansdowne, the Seâ€" cretary of State for War, announced on Thursday that the Government inâ€" tended to increase the army by 7,885 men. The British House of Commons, by a vote of 825 to 110, passed the finâ€" ancial proposal in the educational bill to grant to voluntary schools the sum of five shillings per child. The plan formulated by the Imperial Government for increasing the strength and efficiency of the navy contemplates the construction of five battlieships and three first class cruisers and the addiâ€" tion of ten thousand more men. Baron Herschell, formerly Lord High Chancellor of England, and the Right Hon. Sir Richard H. Collins, a Justice of the Queen‘s Bench Division of the & High Court have been chosen as the representatives of Great Britain on the Venezuela Arbitration Commisâ€" sion. _ England is not taking any precauâ€" tions against the importation of the buâ€" bonic plague, as experts say that it is simply a dirt disease, and that cleanliâ€" ness is the true prophylactic. Dr. Nansen, the Arctic exlorer, and Mrs. Nansen arrived in London on Wednesday. They are the guests of Sir George Hadenâ€"Powell. The Prince of Wales attended _ on Wednesday night the dinner given in hbis honour by Mr. Bayard, the United States Ambassador in London. Elaborate vlans for the fortification of London have been revived by Lord Wolseley and the work will probably be commenced at an early date. __ _ The steamer Peruvian lost 100 head of cattle and 35 sheep on hher last trip from Portland to Glasgow. * Floods are prevailing in the valleys of the Thames and the Ouse, where large tracts of land are submerged. T}:e Allan line steamer _ Assyrian, which has been in coilision off the Skerâ€" ries, has sustained considerable damâ€" age. â€" 2 "& x _It is expected that on the occasion of the Queen‘s jubjilee the Marquis of gallsbury will ‘be raised to a dukeâ€" om. & A TERRIBLE BATTLE. Hale once, seriously, and Baysee woundâ€" ed in both legs. Ten minutes later all then began, Watts being shot twice, the posse except poor Watits started back from the scene of the fight to where the boat was anchored. Watts was left at the mercy of the outlaws on the hill; they shot him _ several times, where he lay hbalf dead: The steamer made all haste back to Juneau with the wounded men, and a posse of twenty imen started out, returnâ€" ing. Next day. Watts was found dead, frozen stiff in the snow, where his cowardly companions had left him. The search was continued for two days without success, until the desperadoes were finally located by Indians, lying asleep in a dense underbrush. _ Word was carried to two Herculean fellows, named Cheney and Olsen, in a canâ€" nery, who made the capture in a picâ€" turesque style. Unarmed they climbâ€" ed a ledge twelive feet above the sleepâ€" ing and bheavily armed pair of bandits and at a given signal jumped down on them. Both men were manacled aftâ€" er a short resistance. Birch‘s lone comâ€" panion was also a noted offender namâ€" ed Snell, who robbed the Treadwell works some years ago. Both are in gaol at Sitka. Cheney and Olsen will get the $5,000 offered for Birch‘s capture. NECESSITIES OF LIFE. Mr. Smallpurse (back from wedding tour)â€"Here we are, my dear, in our new home. If you will look about the house and tell me what‘s wanted, I‘ll go out and getâ€"4t. . _/ <"_â€"â€" _ _ Bride Zl";eâ€"tu;[â€"xin?gr from tour of inspecâ€" tion)â€"My love, we nced a cook, a chamâ€" bermaid and a butler." him in a cell, aud accompanied the es caping prisoner. _ No tidings of Birch were received until the closing day of January, when Indians brought news to Juneau that Birch and his companâ€" ions were stopping in a cabin thirty miles from Juneau, on an island. Deâ€" puty Marshal Hale at once chartered a steamer, and, making up a posse, comprising Deputy Marshal William Watts, Gaoler Lindquist, Guard Baysee, and an Indian policeman, started in pursuit, The cabin was located the folâ€" lowing day afier a torturous trip over rough snowy country, and: terrific cold. Bad generalship in the charge on the cabin permiited two of the inmates to esâ€" cape toa rocky eminence, between which and the cabinthe posse was situated. Despatches trom (Athens tell of a fearfu: state of affairs in Crete. Desâ€" perate fighting has taken place between Christians and _ Mohammedans._ in Canea ~the Christian quarters of the city were fired, and the people driven out by flames aud massacred at their doors by Turkish soidiery. The warâ€" ships are landing marines to protect the Consulates. h A Notorious Escaped Convict and His Comâ€" panion Captured. A despatch from Port Townsend, Wash., says: The steamer A1. Ki, from Alaska, brings news of a sanguinary chapter in the career of Slim Birch, the notorious young desperado of Juâ€" neau, who, while awailing transportaâ€" tion to serve a three years‘ sentence in San Quentin prison, California, was released by accomplices, who visited the gaol, overpowered the gaoler, locked The Czar has cordially received and restored all the rights of the Grand Duke Michael Michaelovitch, who was banished from Russia and deprived of his uniform by the late Czar for mesâ€" alliance. Serious alarm is felt in Brazil at the growth of the fanatical movement in Bahia. A body of 5,000 fanatics is reâ€" ported to be advancing toward the prinâ€" cipal Government post. The principal fish exporting merâ€" chants of St. John‘s, Nfid., have preâ€" sented a memorial to the Government, asking for the enforcement of the Bait Act against the French. Tewflik Pasha, until recently Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs, has arâ€" rived at Marseilles. He states that a reign of terror prevails among the enâ€" tourage of the Sultan. Prof. Haffkine, who uses attenuated plague virus as an antidote for the disease, inoculated 156 prisoners in the jail at Bombay. A panic is reported at Kurrachee as a result of the plague and famine in India. The plague in that section coxtxtmues to spread at an alarming rate. The Portuguese Ministers resigned because the King wouid not create a number of life Senators to keep them in power. . _ The Pope was found lying in a faintâ€" ing fit on Friday, and it was with great difficulty that he was restored to conâ€" sciousness. M. Martiini, the inventor of the rifle of that name, is dead at Frauenfeld, Switzerland. The Hamburg dock strikers resanâ€" ed work on Monday, funds being exâ€" bausted and the battle lost. * There is a crisis of blood and fire in Canea, where the Musselmans are ruthâ€" lessly butchering the Christians. K There is no new nor distinctive feaâ€" ture in business throughout the Unitâ€" ed States. During the most dull periâ€" 41rensn st @1131 esinoo ;o seak ay q jodpo expected, and small as the expectation may be, it is seldom fulfilled. This week shows no change in the usually monotonous record. Bad weather and bad roads mean bad business, and the story is about told. Fairly favourable trade reports come from St. Paul, Chiâ€" cago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, and a few gr_thfr points; but generally no change is reported, and little prospects of imâ€" mediate improvement. GENERAL. ; Prince Chimay has secured a diâ€" vorce. ‘The Portuguese Ministry has reâ€" signed. The Czarina has recovered from her recent illness. . The Pope is reported to be suffering from fainting fits. Emperor Francis Joseph will visit St. Petersburg on April 27. A number of strikes and bread riots are breaking out in Spain. Riotous conduct of students caused the closing of the university at Rome. , Munkacsy, the famous Hungarian arâ€" tist, is reported to be dying at Vienna. The last ship of the United States navyy to get into trouble is the battleâ€" ship Indiana. She was unable to acâ€" company the squadron to sea, and had to return to Hampton Roads after a short run as she rolled dangerously. It is now porposed to dock her and put on a new "bilge keel." 1. Lady Aberdeen will have the honouryof being the first woman c{:eo(i sen for such an occasion in the Uni States. ,Lady Aberdeen will be the convocaâ€" tion orator at the University of Chiâ€" cago commencement exercises on April A DESPERATE FIGHT. AGAIN THE HORSE RETIRES. Pity the poor horse. . Part of the horse market in Paris has been set aside to be used for the sale of bicyâ€" cl>s, and the track on wh‘ch the equines are tested will serve a like purpose for the silent steed. 7 "But I haven‘t ¢old Eou the sad sequel," interrupted the physician. ‘"We had been so much interested in Sandy during the night that we had neglected our other patients. Sandy did recovâ€" er, as I have said, but when we made the rounds in the morning found all the English gatnents stiff in bed. They were all dead." ‘"When the piper arrived, Sandy was so weak that he could not speak. He looked grateful. _ Although it ‘was not in accordance with our hospital rules, we hadn‘t the bheart to refuse Sandy‘s dying request. I gave the sigâ€" nal and the piper began to play. Sandy smiled peacefully, and at the end _ of the second tune he had gone asleep. His temperature and pulse showed a reâ€" markable Amprovement, and because Sandy was m good fellow and we thought hbe might call for the pipers again before he breathed his last, we kept the piper. _ Two hours later Sandy awoke, and the first thing that he asked for was the pipes. _ Again that weird noise filled the hospital, and once more Sandy went to sleep, stronger and betâ€" ter than we expected him to be. A third time he awoke, and again the f\per [l)‘.ayed. When Sandy once again ell asleep, to our amazement the crisis had passed. and he was on the road to recovery. He is now alive and well." _ ‘‘The Scotch are a wonderful race," commented a guest,. "Now my grandâ€" mother wasâ€"â€"* * How Sandy, the Scotchman, Recovered From a Surgical Operatton. Perhaps because the guest of the evening was a Scotchman, or possibly because one man in the party bad a Scotch story to tell, the conversation was brought around to a discussion of the Scotch race. "It was while I was attached to a London hospital," said a physician, "that 1 witnessed a marveâ€" lous cure of a Scotchman. _ We will call him Sandy, though that is not his name. One of his iegs had been so badly mangled in an accident that we decided to amputate it. The shock was a severe one to Sandy, and when he reâ€" gained consciousness after the operaâ€" tion it was evident that he had not vitality enough left to recover. ‘Mon, ahm I going to dee?‘ he asked. ‘We hope for the best, Sandy,‘ I said, ‘but your condition is critical. Is there any Scotch dish that you would like ? Sandy said that he didn‘t want anything to eat, but if he could hear the bagpipes just once more he could die happy. We didn‘t have a piper on our sta[g, but one of the nurses found one in a club house not far away. > [ * The New York Tribune editorially says of the approaching trial of Col. Cecil Rhodes and the crisis in South African affairs, which it declares to be rapidly approaching:â€"*"The beginâ€" ning of the end is at hand in South Africa. Col. Cecil Rhodes has arrived in England, and is about to submit himself to a searching inquiry into his connection with the Jamieson raid of a year or more ago, and into the atâ€" titude and actions of the British South Africa Company, of which he was the creator and has always been the conâ€" troller toward the South African Reâ€" public. ‘That on the face of it, will be the scope of the investigation. But the real question, which, also, is subâ€" stantially answered, is whether Mr. Rhodes‘ policy is to be _ fulfilled, and what {as been _ gained _ for Great Britain, in South Africa, by whatever means, to be retained. _A higher power than courts or parliaâ€" mentary committees has decided that in the affirmative. The genius of the Angloâ€"Saxon race has settled it. That is the progressive race, and South Africa, like all the rest of the world, must yield to progress. The men who made of Kimberley a new and greater Golconda, and renewed tenfold the golden glories of old Ophir in the Rand, prre sure to win the mastery over those who are content to smoke big pipes and ‘wallop niggers.‘ _ True, ths Boers own the Transvaal by no better a title than the Zulus did before them, and the British have no right to crowd them out by legal process or political intrigue any more than the Boers had to drive out Dingaan and his followers at the muzzles of eleâ€" phant guns. _ Yet these things will come to pass. _ The Pretoria Governâ€" ment may set itself against the march of progress, as it is doing, and, inâ€" stead of granting concessions and reâ€" forms as it promised, may make its reg ulations of foreigners still more onerâ€" ous and humiliating. The Boersâ€"or some of themâ€"all through the Cape may try to rouse a war of races and lock to Germany for aid. It will net avail. _ The Imperial dream of British dominance from the Cape to the Zamâ€" besi and to the lakes is nearing assurâ€" ed fulfillment, and will doubtless be fulfilled, no matiter what becomes of the dreamer." The Imperial Dream of Dominion Nearing Fuiflllmentâ€"The Boers Are a Boomed Race. A despatch from Pretoria says:â€" There has been a serious split beâ€" tween Dr. Leyds, the Secretary of State of the South African Repubâ€" lic, and President Kruger, and this is believed to be an explanation _ of the reported intention of Dr. Leyds to resign his offisce. Dr. Leyds bhas a large number of followers, and the prediction is freely made that he will obtain a Boer majority in favour of the independence of the Transvaal Republic, or such a revision of the Anâ€" gloâ€"Boer convention as will give the Transvaal Government absolute conâ€" trol over its foreign relations . The fort works which have been in course of construction around. the Boer capital are now being pushed forward to completion with feverish haste. Disâ€" trust of England is increasing everyâ€" where in the Transvaal, and a rapidly growing war feeling has set in. THE MARCH OF BRISISH PROGRESS IN SOUTH AFRICA. TS INEVITABLE DESTINT THE PIPER SAVED HIM. RIO ARCHIVES TORONTO The licensing laws at present Rermit publicâ€"houses â€" outside o‘f the Metroâ€" politan area to open on Sundays from twelve noon, till two p. m., and from six pm. to eleven p.m. In the Metroâ€" politan area the bours are from {welve, noon, till two pm., and from six p.m. till after midnight. The local justices may slightly vary those hours outside of London. | The partial Sunday closâ€" ing of publicâ€"houses in England beâ€" came law in August, 1872. Her Majesty endorses Lady Aberdeen‘s Scheme. Lady Aberdeen has communicated to the Queen, through the usual channels, the outline of the scheme. She proâ€" poses to commemorate the diamond jubilee by the organization of the Vicâ€" torian Order of Home Helpers. In reâ€" ply she has received a cable message which is an endorsation of the proâ€" posal to commemorate the occasion by acts of mercf'. The message received by her Excellency from Sir Arthur Bigge, private secretary to her Maâ€" jesty, is as follows:â€"‘"In reply to your telegram, the Queen has refrainâ€" ed from expressmg approval of â€" afy articular scheme for commemorating fhe diamond jubilee, though, of course, any project for the relief of the sufferâ€" ings of the sick in Canada will be asâ€" sured of her Majesty‘s sincere symâ€" pathy. Bigge." Sunday Closing Refected By the Rritish Parltament. By a vote of 206 to 149 the British House of Commons on Wednesday reâ€" jected the bill of Mr. Charles H. Wilâ€" son, Liberal member for West Hull, providing for the entire closing of pubâ€" licâ€"houses throufghout Sunday. _ They are at present allowed to be open for a short period during the middle of Sunday and on Sunday evenings. _ The business situation at Toronto is apparently without change. The slight improvement in wholesale circles as reâ€" ported last week continues, but the volâ€" ume is mothing to boast of. The unâ€" settled condition of the woolen trade in consequence of the financial diffiâ€" culties o(} several manufacturers came unexpectedly, and put a damper on trade. A fair business in spring goods is being done, while sorting up orders in heavy goods have been more numâ€" erous the result of seasonable weather. The grocery trade is fair, while hardâ€" ware and leather dealers are having a satisfactory turnover. The hog packâ€" ing industry is not as active as usual, the packers being doubtful as to prosâ€" pective changes in the tariff on curâ€" ed meats. There is a disposition to hold off, and the packing of heavy hogs is smaller than usual with a great conâ€" sequent disparity in the prices of heavy and light bogs. Eggs are unusually low at this season of the year, with large supplies of all kinds. The flour and wheas trades are dull with little change in prices during the week, Money is cheaper with call loans at 4 1â€"2 to 5 per cent. at Toronto. In Londgn the rate is lower at 1 per cent. during the week. The open market discount rate in London is easier at 1 7â€"8 to 2 per cent., and the Bank of England was reduced 12 toâ€"day, making the miniâ€" mum rate 3 per cent. Stocks fa‘rly acâ€" tive with bank shares firmer, and Toâ€" ronto Electric and the leading mining shares higher. _ _ Montreal trade has not picked up as it was hoped it might when the snow came, and in casting about for the reaâ€" sons for the nonâ€"improvement, a good many people are inclined to lay a good part of the blame upon uncertainties regarding tariff maiters, which mmo doubt in a good many instances, causes merchants to delay their buying. Suâ€" g'ars are particularly dull, an&fl both reâ€" ineries continue closed down, with conâ€" siderable stock on hand. Teas, on the other hand, are more enquired for, with some reported inciination to speculaâ€" tive buying, in anticipation of a posâ€" sible tariff change, and the market bas seldom been in such strong shape. Caâ€" ble advices from Barbadoes show that the market for molasses has opened considerably hbelow last year, at 11 cents. Dry goods orders are reported fair, but collections rule slow, though in the case of one or two leading houses we are told they have been found betâ€" ter than in January 1896. Quite a few city retailers are reported to be seekâ€" ing favors in the shape of extensions and compositions. Wooilien manufacturâ€" ing interests are apparently in unsatisâ€" factory shape, and dealers in raw wool report a very light business. Shoe factories are as a rule very well emâ€" ployed, but are not large buyers of leather. Metal, oils, paints, etc., reâ€" main rather dull. Among the dealers in cement there has been a little flutter of excitement owing to the Government calling for tenders for 83,000 barrels of cement, to be used on the Soulanges and Trent canals. As anticipated last week the money market has an casier tone, and the rate for call funds may now be quoted at 4 to 4 1â€"2 per cent. was 66,734,00U bushels and two years ago 83,876,000 bushels. The amount aâ€" float to Europe is 26,640,000 bushels, an increase of 160,000 bushels for the week, and the total a year ago 24,560,000 bushâ€" els. The visible in America, combined with amount afioat, in 76,231,000 bushâ€" els as compared with 91,294,000 bushels & lgear ago, a decrease of 15,063,000 bushâ€" els. The stocks of wheat at Fort William and Port Arthur are 2,575,000 bushels, a siight increase for the week. A year ago the amount was 3,266,000 bushels. The movement of wheat is limited in Manitoba, and many of the elevators are closing down. There is an advanse of 5 per cent. in Toronto Electric Light Company stock owing to favorable annual statement. The earnings of Toronto Railway for January were $74,545 as against $73,969 the corresponding month of last year, an increase of $575. Business Man. The net goid balance of the United States Treasury is about $145,000,000. The world‘s supply of wheat decreasâ€" ed over 2,500,000 bushe‘!s last week. The visible supplv of wheat in the United States and Canada is 49,591,000 bushels, a decrease of 1,704,000 bushels for the week. A year ago the total The demand for local bank stocks is better than it was, and Dominion, Stanâ€" dard and Toronto are higher than they were. Some Items of Interest to the Busy THE FIELD OF COMMERQE. THE HOME HELPERS. TRIUMPH OF BEER. on the rocks by means of a walerâ€" tight camera and flashlight. Dressed as a diver, he takes with him to the bottom of the sea a barrel containing ox?gen. A puff of gas from the barâ€" rel carries magnesium powder into the flames of a spiritâ€"lamp, standing unâ€" der a bell jar on the upper end of the barrel. Another pulf actuates the pneumatic shutter of the camera at the same time. He has found his methâ€" od very useful in exploring coral reefs. SEA BOTTOM PHOTOCRAPHED. M. Bontau, the discoverer ofa meth= od of photographing the sea bottom, has succeeded in taking several photoâ€" graphs of the vegetation that grows the live stock market of the United States is at present very low. Ameriâ€" can breeders have told me that if they could secure cattle they could faitten them with but little expense, as they now have on â€" hand _ hundreds of bushe}s of corn going to waste for the want of cattle to feed. ols " At the East Buifalo yards business is brisk, as buyers are coming here from ail parts of the country, and the new regu.ations will not ongy prove & benefit to the shippers and consignees, but to the consumers as well." Its Abrogation a Benellt to ithe Enited Mates, A despatch from Buffalo says:â€"The cattleâ€"dealers of Buflfalo and vicinity are jubilant over the abrogation of the quarantine of Canadian cattie, which went into effect February Ist. The Act passed by Congress a year ago reâ€" quiring all importations of cattle to hbe heid in quarantine 99 days proved deâ€" trimental to the live stock interests of Buffaio. Canadian consignments beâ€" came very few. A member of the firm of Waltz, Hughes, Swope, and Bensted, said:â€"*" Last Monday we received 40 cars of horned cattie from Canada, the largest shpment that has been receivâ€" ed here under the new law. _ The maâ€" jor part of this shipment was for stocking purposes, and _ 20 carioads have been shipped as far West as Wilâ€" mington, Ohmo, something never before heard of,. All this goes to suow that the live stock market of the United States is at present very low. Ameriâ€" Sebastian Cabot was born at Bristol, the son of John Cabut, a Venetian merâ€" chant, dwelling in that city either in 1476 or 1477, and was a traveller from a very early age. When he was two or three years old he was taken by the merchantâ€"adventurer, his father, on a difficult and perlious voyage to Venice. While he was still a mere boy be was fired by the first and second voyages of Columbus, which excited the whole world of that day. The youth, possessed of wealth, seamanship and enthusiasm, beseiged the court of his King, Henry VIL., to authorize an expedition of disâ€" covery: Despite his youth, his mapny advantages caused Sebastian to be Btory of His Many Adventuresâ€"Bailed Over Unknown Seas in Chorge of a Big Flotilla When Twenty Â¥ears Old â€"Monored By His King and Country, Four hundred years ago on the 24th of June next the foot of civilized man was first set on the American contiâ€" nent. Sebastian Cabot is entitled to the credit of finding the mainland, and, as he was an Engiishman, his native country can to some degree divide the honors of discovery with Epain. GIVEN A CHANCE, and a patent was made out in the name of his father, John, himself and his brothers, Lewis and Saucius, with the date of the 5th of March, 1496. Early in the following year five ships set sail from Bristol. The navigator who was directing this enterprise was at this time on‘y iwenty or twentyâ€"one years of age. H‘e was in sole command in the ship Matihew, of 200 tons. An atâ€" tempt has been made ol late years to show that his father, John Cabot, acâ€" companied the expedition, and was enâ€" titled to much of the credit. But the old and accepted versions of the time do not mention John Cavot exceplt as Seâ€" bastian‘s father, and give the youth It authorized them, their heirs or deâ€" puties, to "sail to all parts, countries and seas, under our banners and enâ€" signs, with five ships, upon their own proper costs and charges, to seek out, discover and find whalsoever isles, counâ€" tries, regions or provinces of the heaâ€" then and infide!s which before this time have been unknown to all Christians." They were authorized to take possesâ€" sion of all countries found, to subdue, occupy and exercise jurisdiction in the name of the King of England. The privilege of exciusive resort and traffic was secured to them, and the usual oneâ€" fifth of the profits was to go to the crown. Cabot‘s discover in this part of the world were in his own day completely overshadowed by bis exploits as a naviâ€" gator in search of the Northwest pasâ€" sage and by his fame asan admiral in the service of Spain. he received a gift of £10 from the King for discovering America, a sum equal to about $700 or $800 toâ€"day, and was afterwards penâ€" sioned, and in 1549 made Grand Plot of Eng.and. He dgied in London in 1557, SEBASTIAN CABOT, DISCOVERER OF THE AMERICAN MAINLAND. ALL THE GLORY. The navigator sailed almost due west, following the parallel and on June 24, sighted the New World. ‘The best acâ€" count of this great event is given in a marginal note to Cabot‘s map of 1544 in which the coast line discovered by him is traced. . He did nout appreciate th discovery, as he thought ti the shores of China. is i so little of the rights of sow possession that iney had « they actually lost their p Cabot‘s discover in this "In the year of our Lord 1497 Sebasâ€" tian Cabot, a Venetian, discovered that country which no one before their time bad ventured to approachâ€"on June 24 at 5 o‘ciock in the morning. He called the land ‘terra firmum visa,‘ newâ€"found land, because, as 1 conjecture, this is the place that first met his eye in lookâ€" ing from sea." _ s THE DARING OF A YOUTH The land was the coast of Nov tia, around Cape Breton. Cabot aiong the coast adistance of at three hundred leagues. CATTLE QUARANTINE, the vaiue ol h8 that he was on s heirs thought sovereigniy and 1 obtained that patent. iis part of the day completely ploits as a naviâ€" Norihwest pasâ€" s an admirai in received a gift for discovering o about $700 or terwards â€" penâ€" Grand Pliot of wndon in 1557. ind Bensted, received 40 Canada, the been receiv= . The maâ€" nt was for 20 carioads /est as Wilâ€" rever hbefore ) suow that the United ow. Ameriâ€" that if they ould fatten ise, as they ihe United e of his was on hought ty and d that cin‘t y of the which â€" The mege alled least the unâ€" the the at #*