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THE FOREIGN CROPS.
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A (xu efully Prepared summary of the Furopean Situation.
W ,<urweroy, Oct, 16.—The monthly | re f che Agricultural Department re- port« .t the European crop situation, sum be . gy the reports of the Kuropean es ondents to Statistican Hyde, was liad ; iblic yesterday. Following is an ab- Tr ost : Recent information, while it may in sume Cases modify the crop es:imates f{_r pw Uculd® countries, does not essential- ivcueuge the situation as regards the deficxeocy in the principal cereal crop: ol Europe. ‘l ne outlook for | wheat in the Australasian colonies
contcues good, bnt the prospects in Ar- geolios are somewhat less bright, Owing tw crouth and frosts. Accounts from lodia are quite favorable, both as to the Kuar.! crops, harvested or to be barvested this aucumoa, sod as to the seeding of the Kab: crop to be barvested next spring, woich latter includes the wheat crop. The auous! estimate of the worlds wheat and
rve crops, issued by the Hungarian Minis- |
ter ot Agriculture, gives tne following revi-ru results for i897, compared witn 1896: Wheat production, importing countries, 800,771,000 for 1897, Y98E,639,-
QO) for 1896.
Exporting countries, 1897 ,1,341,806,600; 1896, {,452,992,000. Total wheat pro- ductivn of both importing and exporting countries in 1897, 2,142,577,000; in 1896, 2,339, 541,000; net deticit, 1897, 262,895, UUO bushels; 1896, 130,534,000 bushels.
Tue world’s rye crop is patdown by the same authority as follows: 1897, 1, 163,- 475,000 bushels; 1896, 1,203,185,000 bush - ele, against the net deficit of appioxi- matciy 203,000,000 bushels ut wheat es- timaied by the Ministry. The estimate that tnere is a residue of from 145,000,000 to 170,000,000 bushels out of the former crop’, leaving in round nur. bers trom 58,- 0000 down to 33,000,000 bushels es the quantity by which it would be necessary .o curtail consumption if these etimates should prove to be correct. It is, Of cotirse, quite likely thac under the mfluence of high prices con-umption will be curtailed by more than thie emouat, and that existing stocks will not be reduced too near the point of complete exbaustion.
Ex remely pessimistic reports as to the extent of the crop failurein Kussia have beeu circulated, but the liberal quantities coming forward for shipment have led dealefs to receive such reports with increaulity. It is probable, however, that much of the Russian grain going to western European market is out of the more hiberai harvesta of former vears, and there is evirience tending to show that the crop of 1 97 is, at apy rate, considerably below the average. The markets of Europe will apparently be very inade- quateiy supplied witn good cleer barley suitable for malting purposes, complaints on this score being commou among grow- ers in large parts of Germany, Austria- Hungary and other countries, including the province of Ontario in Canada, in whicu euch barley is usually an in portant prod et. The European potato crop is appa ently a short one, and the fruit crop ai-o ie deticieat.
Con-ul Eugene Germain, of Zurich, Switz rland, af:er au investigation of the European fruit prospect, expresses the Opinioa that there will be a good market for American apples and dried fruits this sea-on if growers will be careful to put np choic- stock only. He says: “Nothing smal'er than eighties in French prunes will psy toehip te Europe, and all other dried fruits must be uniform in size and attra tively pack ed,”
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UNCLE SAM'S AUCTION SALE.
Anntal Disposal of the Accumulations of the Dead Letter Office,
One of the quecrest ‘‘institutions’’ if the national capital is the anntal irance sale of the dead letter office, n which avast accumulation of articles
gone astrayyin the mails is sold to the highest bidder The auction house where it is held is oontinually crowded with excited men, women and children, beside it the bargain counters dur- idays are as havens of rest, Sam goes into the junk- shop business great things are expect- d. As in the church fair raffle, you pay a small amount of money and trust to luck to get back more than its value. The articles, prev listed in a wholesale sort of way, are tied up in bundles of from three toa half dozen and ‘‘auctioned’’ for what they will bring, the average bids ranging between 10 cents and a dollar. Nobody is permitted
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to examine the goods before purchasing, and no money is refunded to the dissatisfied. Every- body hopes to pull a genuine plum from the pie in the shape of a diamond ring, a silk dress pattern or a silver teapot, and although comparative blanks are
the rule, there is always the possibility |
of a prize. For example, the auctioneer holds up one of these odd shaped bun- dies, listed “‘pictures, underwear, mu- sic, cigars.’" Going—going—gone—for 90 cents to a dapper young gentleman who was caught by the word ‘‘cigar.’’ He opens it on the sport—an unwise thing to do if one objects to good natured ridicule—and this is what he finds: Six cigars, broken into bits with so strong an odor that one wonders how a sledge hammer could have done it; underwear —a female 10 cent ‘‘jersey;’’ pictures— a collection of newspaper cuts designed for amusement of some small child. The lot would be dear at a quarter and is of no use to the buyer.
In the dead letter office proper—that charnel house which swallows nearly half a million missives every month—it is positively harrowing. More than 40 bushels of photographs have accumu- lated there, awaiting the annual crema- tion. There are tresses of hair enough to stuff a dozen mattresses, grandmoth- ers’ silver locks and babies’ golden curls, many no doubt cut from dead brows, and small sums of money which poor workmen. send home to feed their wives and little ones, and servant girls “ate from their scanty wages for ~~. par- ents—gone to Uncle Sam - ‘ic. purse, not because the United States wants it, but because the senders’ writing or or- thography was beyond mortal ken. It is hard to realize that in this land of schools, at the close of the nineteenth century, there are so many people so ignorant or so careless as to send several millions of letters a year without stamps or addresses or with addresses which no man can make out. People seem to be s0 intent on what goes into the letters that they forget all about the superscrip- tion. It is estimated that $4,500,030 in drafts and $80,000,000 in cash is receiv- ed every year through dead letters. —In- dianapolis Journal.
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Oficial Inquisitivenesa,
**Billings—and hurry, please,’’ enid the
flerce little man who walked up to the window where the man was reading.
‘*What are your initials?’’
“It doesn’t make any difference to you what they are. Hurry up, will you?’’
**How can I unless you tell me your in- itials?’’
The little man danced up and down ex- citedly.
‘See here,’’ he said. ‘I’ve traveled all over the United States and I never had such an impertinent question asked me before. It’s none of your business what my initials are. Are you going to wait on me or not?’’
‘*You must be crazy,’’ said the man at the window. “If you want me to guess who you ere, I'd say Tom Thumb.’’
The little man raged afresh.
“I'll sue your road,” he shouted, ‘‘for $10,000."
““Thayen't any read, but I'd give that amount for youif I was in the museum buginess.’’
“Are you going to give me that ticket to Billings or not?”
“Oh, you want to buy a4 railroad ficket. Why didn’t you say sof This is the post- office. The ticket office is just around the corner, but I think your train has just pulled out.’’
The man at the windew went on reading his pamphlet on wheat weevil, and the lit- tle man listened to the train going around the curve and thought some things real hard.—Detroit Free Press.
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Know the “Small Graces” of Life.
Young men should not get the idea that to know the ‘‘small graces of life’’ is use- less or frivolous. What we call the ‘‘social graces’’ are very valuable to a young man. That is the great trouble with young fel- lows who are earnest. nest, and upon all occasions. They can have a high aim in life, a lofty purpose, and yet not close themselves up to all social pleas- ures or amenities. Girls feel uncomforta- ble, and pardonably so, when they go toa concert or any other form of entertain- ment with a young man who constantly makes mistakes in little things. The stinall rules and laws which must be ob- served on all social occasions are not to be frowned down. They are important, and a young fellow makes a great mistake when he considers them beneath him or =nworthy of his ettention.—Edward W. Bok in Ladies’ Home Journal.
Are You Losing Flesh ?
Then something is wrong. To the young it always means trouble. It is a warning to any cne, unless they are already too fat. Scott’s Emn’siou gsecka | this waste and bringe up your t rht | again. ~~
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pase - —- - —_—— GEMS HAVE DISEASES, HOLSTEIN. Some Graduaity Yade | Fine Cow With Unusual Markings Fos
Bome Lose Color, and Die, Othere Chip and Crack,
Gems have diseases just as men and woren do, with this difference, that the infirmities of precious stones can rarely be cured. Some gems deteriorate—grow old, in other words—and gradually become lifeless. Pearls a®e most subject to this fate, and no means have been found to re- store them to life.
Among infirmities to which precious stones are liable is one common to all col- ored stones, that of fading or losing color when long exposed to the light. The em- erald, the sapphire and the ruby suffer the least, their colors being as nearly perma- nent as colors can be, yet experiments made a few years ago in Paris and Berlin to determine the deterioration of colored
through exposure showed that even
» suffered, a ruby which had lain for
hyo years in a show window being percep
tibly lighter in tint than its original mate, which was kept in the darkness,
The causes of the change are not very clear, even to expert chemists, but it is evident that the action of the light on the coloring matter of the gem effects a deteri- oration, slow, but exceedingly sure.
In the case of the garnet and topaz the change is more rapid than in that of the ruby and sapphire, but there is a curious differenee in the result in topaz and gar- net, for while the latter grows lighter the former appears to become cloudy and dull in hue, losing much of the brightness characteristic of a newly cut gem.
For ages the opal has had the unenyiable
reputation of being the most unlucky of |
gems, and it is believed that the jewelers themselves were originally respansible for some of the superstitions and hard luck stories connected with it, since to the pol- ishers and setters it is one of the most troublesome gems on their list.
Microtonists say that the prismatic col- ors and fire of the opal are due to myriads of minute cracks in the body of the stone, the edges of which reflect the light at dif- ferent angles and give the hues so much admired. A stone full of cracks is liable to split in two at any time, and disasters of this kind, especially in the process of grinding and polishing, have occurred so often that every gem polishing house has its store of bard luck stories in connection with the opal.
After the gem is set and sold the load is taken off the mind of the manufacturer and transferred to that of the wearer. Opals that have successfully passed the or- deals of grinding, polishing and setting do not often crack afterward, but it is best not to expose them to even the moderate heat inyolved by the wearer sitting in front of an open fire, for the opal is com- posed principally of silicie acid, with from 6 to 13 per cent of water, a combination which renders them very treacherous ob- jects. The idea that they are otherwise un- fortunate in thé sense that they bring dis- aster to the wearer may be dismissed as superstitious.
Of all precious stones, however, the opal is the most apeg te be diseased.—Nev York Harald
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Before the days of chloroform there was @ quack In Sun Francisco who advertised tooth drawing without pain. The paticut was placed in a chair and a wrenc!; given, when he ronred violently. “I thought you said there was no pain?’ ‘So there is not by my process. That is Cartwright’s way. That's the way he does it. It's very different from mine.’’ Another tug, anda still more violent howl. ‘‘That's the way Dumerge pulls teeth,’’ said the unabashed practitioner. ‘‘ You don’t like it, moe doubt. Who would?’’ Another twist was given, and the patient, as a rule, howled worse than ever. ‘'That,’’ the dentist says, ‘‘is Parkinson's mode.’’ By this time the tooth was nearly out **I will now,’’ he said, ‘‘display my own method,’’ whereupon he triumphantly withdrew the tooth und held it up for in- spection. ‘‘You observe that by my truly scientific process there is really no pain whatever.’’—New York Tribune.
Was there ever a women in the wide world who did not yearn to be the mother of a bright faced, happy, healthy, laughing, rol. licking child? if. there ever was such « woman, she was a bad one, and while there are many thoroughly bad men, there are very few thoroughly bad women.
It was God’s and Nature’s intention that evegy woman should be the mother of healthy children. Tens of thousands of women defeat this beneficent design by their ignorance and neglect. They suffer from weakness and disease in a womanly way, and take no measures, or the wrong measures, to remedy it. Dr. Pierce’s Fa- vorite Prescription is a sure, speedy and permanent cure for all disorders of this description. It acts directly and only on the delicate and important organs that are the threshold of human life. It makes them strong, healthy, vigorous and virile. It heals ulceration, allays inflammation, soothes pain and tones and builds up the nerves. It banishes the trials of the period of impending maternity and makes baby’s entry to the world easy and almost pain- less. It does away with the dangers of motherhood and shortens the period of weakness and lassitude. It insures the little newcomer’s health and a bountiful supply of nourishment. It fransforms weak, sickly, nervous invalids into happy, healthy wives and mothers. Thousands of women have testified to its marvelous mer- its. A dealer is not a physician, and has no right to suggest a substitute for the prescrip- tion of an eminent specialist like Dr. Pierce,
Dr. Pierce’s Medical Adviser sent for 21 one-cent stamps to cover customs and maul. ing only. Cloth binding 50 stamps.
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One of Her Breed,
In the handsome Holstein-Friesian cow in the picture we find that the white triangle in the forehead which characterizes this breed of cattle has spread all over the face and head. I* other words, her head and face are white, with only her dainty ears black. A family of Holstein-Friesians spread
WHITE HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN, throngh the eastern states have much more white than black in their color- ings. One famous bull in New Jersey is almost white, with some bluish spots upon him,
These white Holsteins are excellent dairy cattle. It will be observed that the lively calf beside its mother has her markings to a dot and is also nearly white with black ears.
This cow is owned in New Hamp- shire. She is a famous prize winner, She proved the great dairy qualities of the white Holstein-Friesians by making 17 pounds 8% ounces of butter whes she was only 2 years old.
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We have just received one case Gentlemens gloves, in
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Sice_See our Men’s Heavy Kid Gloves, wool lined for, 65¢ a pair,
Bargains in Underclothing.
The very lowest prices ca Bosts and Shoes.
J.B. Macioult Ait Steud,
Opposite west end Market.
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a Good Time to Buy Watches NOW.
In spite of the advance in price at the Factory [h been able to buy, and will sell a nice lot of new Watches the old rare, the order having been piven befure tha raja,’
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Call and see them ; also cur new Rings,
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Queen Street, Charlottetown
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‘lhe above shows the Myopia, or neat-sighted eye, with and without correcting lens. The eye-ball is too long, and this condition greatly interfere & with distant vision, and if neglected, may produce serious results. Whenat § tending the exhibition, make it a point to have your eyes examined FREE by ©
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