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ISISE IN WHOLESALE PRll Quotations for standard ccmmod: ceeding high point in 1900, the succei 1907, and comparisons with 1908 and Be?f. carcasses (Chicago), per lb $05 Hogs, *arcasse8 (Chicago), per Ih 02 Mutton, carcasses (Chicago), per lb... .05 Milk (New York), per quart 0? Eggs, State, fresh (M. Y.), per doz 12 Bread (New York), per loat 04 Beef, family, per barrel 8.5C Pork, per barrel 8.25 Bacon, sliortribs, smoked (Chic.), lb.. .04 Hams, smoked, per lb M Lard. Western, per lb 04 Butter, creamery. State, best, per lb.. .13 Cheese, choice Kast factory, per lb 06 Mackerel (Boston), per barrel 20.01 Codfish, large, dried, per quintal 4.0C Coffee. Rio. per lb 12 Sugar, granulated, per lb 04 Tea, Formosa Ooolong, per lb 1? Molasses. New Orleans, per gallon 32 Salt, fine domestic, sacks. 224 lbs 7? Rice, domestic, uood, per lb 04 Beans (N Y.), choice marrow, per bu. 1.1a Peas, choice (N Y.), per bushel l.(M Potato*. Eastern. per 18t> lbs it Apples (State), per barrel Cranberries. C. Cod, fancy, per bbl Peanuts. best Virginia, in hull, per lb.. .04 Lemon*, ehoice. per box of 300 2am: Raisins, layer, per lb 06 Currants. new. dried, per lb 03 Wheat, red winter, per bushel 04 Corn, mixed, per bushel 33 Oats, mixed, per bushel 21 Parley (Milwaukee), per huahe! 3C J Rye. Western, per bushel 37 Flour, straight winter, per barrel 3.2.? Petroleum oil, crude, per barrel l.lfi Petroleum, reiined. in cases, gallon... .07 Linseed oil. ner gallon 37 Cottonseed oil, crude, per pound 02 Castor oil. per lb Of Olive oil. Italian, per gallon 4fl Anthracite coal, stove size, per ton 4.2.*: Bituminous coal, per ton 2.7? Southern coke, per ton 2.00 Cotton. p<*r lb . v 07 Wool, washed (Boston), per lb If Wool, super combing, per lb., scoured.. .4? Hemp, Manila, per lb 'M Tnte. average of grades. Der lb 02 Flax. New Zealand, per lb 05 Print cloths, per yard 02 "Slapdard sbeetmsfs, per yard OS Ofnghams. Amosk^ag staple, per yard. .0? Ootton sheetings. 3 yards, per vard.... 04 Alcohol. 34 per cent., per gallon 2.33 Rubber, fine new. per lb SI Tobacco. Burley, per lb 11 Native steer hides, per lb.. OP Hemlock, packer, middleweight, per lb. .IS Pine, yellow, per thousand... 17.0(1 Timber, Eastern spruce, per thousand. .15.00 Timber, hemlock, per thousand a i Identifying the Lady.j a The young minister temporarily officiating at Hankins' Falls for the summer met Ehud Leffingwell as he was walking to church on Sunday morning. "How., do, Mister Leffingwell?" he cried, cheerfully. "Going to church this beautiful morning?" "Hay?" asked Ehud, who was pretty hard of hearing. "Hay?" " Are?you?coming?to?church ? " roared the minister. "Nuh," Ehud responded. "Lookin* few my caow. She must 'a' got out the barn las' night. Unhooked the hasp, I cal-late, an' jest strayed?" "Come?on?to cnurch," the minister shouted cordially, "and after preaching I'll tell the congregation, and they'll help you. You'll get your cow much quicker." "3'jocks! I'll go ye," said Ehud, he?-rtiiy. and he fell into step with the young minister. At the church door he was overcome by modesty and, declaring that he didn't have his Sunday-go-to-meetin' clothes on. insisted upon sitting in one of the most distant pews. He didn't hear the sermon at all. but be could tell when it was over by .seeing the young minister fold up his manuscript and put it away. This done, the young man began to make announcements. Ehud raised his right hand in a great leathery scoop behind his ear, but still he heard nothing. "My dear friends," said'the minister, "it afTords me great pleasure to tell you that on Tuesday evening next, at the hour of six o'clock, there will be celebrated at the home of tbe bride's parents the wedding of Mr. Edward Stoutenboro, one of our most esteemed and promising young men, and that charming, estimable young lady?as beautiful as she is good? Miss Mehitabel Dodsworth." As the minister ceased everybody OUR DIMINISH^ Eventually the Ameri< to Cut Down H The report of a British Government commission that the American Beef Trust was getting the Argentine cattle raising and beef packing industry in its grip is confirmed by the New York correspondent of the London Times. More than 540,000,000 of bonds lately issued by the Big Four companies of Chicago is to finance control of the meat and hides of Argentina. But the explanation by this authority for the policy of the Chicago packers is found not alone in a desire on their part to corner the Smithfield market, as the English fear. The tv,,at mnnnnnlv and hierh nrices t X 1 UOV ? . in cattle fodder have discouraged the cattle raisers of the United States, and they now fail to meet the domestic demand that increases with the population; also, our grazing area diminishes rapidly. Hence the Beef Trust must look elsewhere for its raw material, and its decision to invade the South American cattle ranges was hastened by the showing of last year of a falling off in the number of catt.e slaughtered in the United States of 1,000,000 hoad from the year before. At the increasing rate of domestic consumption o? foodstuffs it is figured by James J. Hill that five years from now all American wheat will be taken by the home market. Robert P. Porter, writing for the London Times, shows the heavy annual decrease of cattle and beef exports, and predicts thac perhaps within five years none wi-.i oe snippeu auruau. The Beef Trust's inroads upon the leather trade?It now controls the domestic outpat of hides as it does beef?makes (lie Argentine field attractive. Th* live cattle of South American cannot be imported owing to our protective duty, but Argentina's hides and chilled beef may be brought here with profit on the joint operation, for with possession of both the United States and South American raw material the trust can put the price of leather, as well as meat. ;es in thirteen years. ities at the low point in 1896, tlie sue edlng low point in 1901. high point ii 1909: J. 1900. 1901. 1907. 1908. 1909. 1 Feb. 1. June!. Mar.l. Aug.l. 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Cleaned Up Boston. ' The remarkable achievement o Arthur Dehon Hill, the young Dis trict Attorney of Boston, who hai sent a dozen municipal criminals t< prison, is described in an article b: Clement L. Pollock, which appears ii the issue of Harper's Weekly. "T< get a proper idea of Hill." says th< author, "it should be mentioned tha he comes from a family of scholars book-worms and blue-bloods. On< day, so the story goes, little Arthu: climbed over a barricade of volume: and made his way to his father Papa,' said the boy, 'I'm hungry, want something to eat.' 'Well, eat i book, eat a book,' the professor ii said to have replied." But if th< young District Attorney was at firs despised and derided by the crimina politicians, officials and contractors he soon showed his mettle. The as tonishing li3t of persons whom h< sent to prison, the indictment of thir teen steel firms for conspiracy to rot the city, the reaching out after %th< "man higher up" until the highes felt none too secure?all this is tolc in this admirable and entertaininj article. A Kansas Woman's Confession. A Globe reporter, a mere man lately saw a woman wash her hair And he remarked that after she hac dried it and done it up on the back o her head, she had a little knot abou as big as a walnut, although whei she appears on the street she has ?' big lot, rolls, puffs, switches, braids marcels, etc. "As a matter of fact,' said one of the women, "a littli bunch is all any of us have, on th< dead square."?Atchison Globe. On the Bowery a dope gun is callec a sewing machine. Tri TM-ITTI-n nT TT^TlT imtLir ^urriji ean Will Be Compelled is Meat Ration. up as high as it likes until the poin is reached where the consumer n< longer can afford to buy. It is vain to suppose that the Amer ican people will benefit^ by the addi tion of the South American cattli ranges to the Beef Trust's doraesti sources of 9upply. Extension of th< monopoly to include the world's chie beef supply outside the United State will only strengthen the trust's gri| on the consumer. In the past and fo a time to come the price of meat ha been and will be put up artiflciall: and illegally. But as the grazin; areas become exhausted by the press ure of population, and the same press ure of population continually swell the demand for meat products, th prices thereof will mount in respons to the natural law. At trust-made priccs steaks am chops are in the nature of a luxur now. As th"> supply decreases an< the demand increases, each more rap idly with the roll of years, the effort of the trust will not be required ti put beef out of the reach of million who eat it now two or three times i day. Eventually our people will b driven to the fare upon which othe countries where beef is almost as rar as pate de fois gras are compelled t subsist. The land will yield less an* less cattle year by year, and the pop ulation will have to cut down its bee i ration accordingly.?New York Press Electricity Superior to Steam. None of the railroad companie which have adopted electricity in th regular service of moving train; seems disposed to give out. any fig ures showing the cost of operation but it is declared that in point of con venience and regularity of service th electric has shown a decided super ! iority over the steam service. Poison from infected or rotte: i cheese is not so very rare. The Ger j man Government proved that som cheeses are deliciously ripened b ! ways too nasty to tell. f3- - iiiii111 ?& BASS' ON THEIR LEGS.^ That is Where an Ant's Grow and Me J Has Six of Theni. Strange as it may seem an ant has : at least six ears. Aside from their j 5 | multiplicity they are located in just j i about the queerest place imaginable ! 7 j ?on the legs. They seem deaf to all I j sounds made by the vibration of the ! i air, but detect the slightest possible 1 vibrations of solid material. J This is supposed to be to their ad- J vantage, in that such things as ap- ' proaching footsteps tell more of the D possibility of danger than such i sounds as are transmitted through j 2 the air. 5 So sensitive are their feet, says St. ! Nicholas, that they detect the impact \ of a small birdshot dropped on the ' table from a height of about six j inches and about fourteen distant j from an artificial nest placed at the : other end of the table. As curious as are their ears, their j noses are even more extraordinary, j . As the ants spend most of their time in the dark, they must depend largely j on scent for their guidance, and in , consequence have quite an elaborate j array of noses, each for a special pur- j pose. Miss Adele Pielde believes that ' their antennae are composed o! a 5 number of noses strung along in a line. Still more strange is that fact that each of these noses can smell only a special thing. The nose on the tip or first joint of j I the antennae, it is said, is for recog- i I ntninnr V. .-I Ailftw f\t ntia nn I I J1141L15 kUC VJIuLVL KfL vuv uuv V#M. I the second joint is to recognize rela- ! tives. The third nose is the path- , 5 finder, and without it the poor ant j cannot follow a trail and k)on gets j hopelessly lost. The noses on the! j 3 fourth and fifth joints are for recog- j nizing the eggs and immature ants in! j the nest. No creature is more tidy than an j ant, who cannot tolerate the presence 1 of dirt on her body. These little i creatures actually use a number o| ' real toilet articles in keeping themj * | selves clean. No less an authority 5 ! than Dr. McCook says their toilet artides consist of coarse and flno j toothed combs, hair brushes, sponges i and even washes and soap. Theii j saliva is their liquid soap, and thei: , soft tongues are their sponges. Their combs, like their ears are f j fastened to their legs. They stop fot - | a.hasty cleaning when they get dirty 3 ! Puf q TYiora loicnrolr ia marie i } when thfey feel in a loafing mood, and 7 they then lend a helping hand to one 1 another in the process. ) j , Man of Many Names, j Charles Stewart Vane-Tempest | Stewart, Marquis of Londonderry, 2 who has just entered his fifty-seventh r i year, has been obliged to change his 3 j mode of signature five times. When ' he was born?in 1852 his grandfather, I ! the third marquis, and his uncle, subi sequently the fourth marquis, were I 3 still alive. His uncle was Lord Cas3 tlereagh, his father was Lord George t Vane, and he was Charles Stewart i 1 Vane-Tempest-Stewart. On the death j , j of the third marquis Lord George j - ; Vane succeeded to the earldom of i i i Vane, and his son, getting the cour- j - j tesy title of Lord Seaham, thus ) : signed himself when he was at Eton. i | The death of his uncle made his t father Lord Londonderry and him1 i self Lord Castlereagh, and as such he l i signed himself before he left Oxford. ! In 1884 he succeeded to the marquisate, earldom and barony of Loni donderry and the viscounty of Castlei reagh (all Irish titles), and the earl| dom of Vane, viscounty of Seaham 1 | and barony of Stewart in the English ; f I peerage. Since then his signature t I has been Londonderry, except in the {; House of Lords, where he sits by j right of his English earldom and therefore signs himself Vane.?West minster Gazette. ^ ? i The World's Shoemaker. The first world's shoe and leather ; fair opened in Boston is an industrial j exhibition of great interest. America is fast becoming the world's shoemaker. Its shoe factories employ ~ | 149,924 operatives, who receive wages of $69,000,o00 annually, and whose product is 7alued at above . $320,000,000. The concentration of L ; the industry in Massachusetts is | shown in the employment of upward | of 60,000 operatives in this manufac- ' ; ture, of whom one-third are women, j 3 . Nearly fifteen per cent, of the entire j 1 population of Lynn is engaged in ! shoemaking. The output of American ! boots and shoes has nearly doubled in 6 i twenty-five years and the industry | j has gained new markets in England e and on the Continent.?New York f World. s; p i Pastoral Staff of a Bishop. r After the recent consecration of s the venerable Michael Furee to be i y Bishop of Pretoria, various presenta- ! tions were made to him, including a ; * remarkable pastoral staff. In view | " of the district in which it is to be used s it has been most cleverly designed. e with symbols illustrative of local e i scenes and traditions, besides em- ' I blems of the Episcopal office. It has j 3 a "stack, a dump and a headgear'' to ; y | represent the mines. It has a wagon i 3 ! and an ox crossing a ford, to repre- J J sent the diocese in which the newly j s j made Bishop was ordained. It has a I o lion to represent England, and a cer- j s tain device to represent Pretoria, be- , a sides an anchor and an eagle to rep- j e resent the United States, in honor of j r the country from which the Bishop's j e | wife came?a truly representative i o Episcopal staff.?Pall Mall Gazette. i| Beeswax From China. f British manufacturers of blacking ' j purchase large crates of beeswax. | The beeswax imported from China is I 1 in large cubes, each done up in a s i written guarantyof purity and quality, e , Nevertheless, deep down in the mid- I ? ! die of the crates are lumps of a sub- j - ! stance resembling European brick, \ . i trimmed to the exact shape of a gen- 1 - ' uine packet of beeswax. In other e ^ases cubes when unwrapped are still j - ' apparently genuine wax, but on being ! | sliced open are found to contain a j i large core of shavings, tlirt and gen- j n i eral floor sweepings of a busy factory, j e | Last year more than 32,000 chily j dren were taught to swim at the LonI don public schopls. ff mm i 4- 4- 1TB0DS New York City.?The blouse that Is closed at the left of the front is one of the very newest and latest. This one includes that feature, and also sleeves that are made with inset puffs that are in the very latest style. Tm AVa flMA Id C ?1 \r jlu ino lliusiiaiiuu iuo uiaicnai 10 una serge, and tlie ouffs are of chiffon cloth in matching color, the undersleevea are made of lace, and the trimming is banding. The puffs of the sleeves can be of the same material if preferred, however, and for the collar and the under-sleeves any con trastlng material is appropriate. II plain sleeves are preferred they car be substituted, as shown in the bach view. The blouse is equally well adapted to the odd waist and to the pijtirp cnwn ami it. onnsprniftnf.lv nan be utilized for a variety of materials. The blouse is made over a fitted lining, and itself consists of fronts and back, the fronts are tucked tc yoke depth only, but the backs from shoulders to waist line. The fancj sleeves are made over plain fouudations, and these are faced to form tht cuff or uuder-sleeves. Thef lining is closed at the centre front, the blouse, invisibly beneath the edge of the right front. When the lining is omitted, the cuffs, or under-sleeves, are joined to the sleeves beneath thu trimming. The quantity of material required for the medium size is three and fiveeighth yards twenty-one or twentyseven or two and one-eighth yards forty-four inches wide, and fiveeighth yards eighteen inches wide for collar and cuffs, three and threequarter yards of banding. Figure Preserved. It is far more important to have a pretty figure than a pretty face, as everybody knows, and women who value their looks take as great pains to preserve their lines as their complexions. TV is is not to be accomplished merely by the careful selection of a corset, but diet, exercise and massage must be carefully attended to, even to the point of sacrifice, in some instances. SmaH Motoring Hats. The lew small hats are delightful to wear motoring. Their close brims give t;iem a jaunty air and make the adjus.ing of the veil an easy matter too. The fuller the hair beneath the ?rettler the effect. I ^K^lr' Few New Yorkers are aware that I the business thoroughfare known as j Duane street was named after James Duane, who was the first Mayor of New York after the Revolution.. The warship without funnels has come in the British -Indefatigable, which will be propelled by internal ; combustion engines. By signing a treaty on March 11 at Bangkok, Siam, 15,000 square miles of territory have been added to the British Empire. ! A live turtle, caught off the Natal coast, weighed over 400 pounds, and was nearly six feet long. Water power is used to supply the electricity for the new Italian railway from Castle Raymondo to Camerino. The first electric street railway to be operated in Warsaw, Russia, was The Lingerie Bag. i The lingerie bag is a quaint and pretty fashion, and the familiar leather handbag has been outplaced by this, the latest novelty. Belt Novelties. A novelty in belts is a handsomely tailored leather one, with chatelaine of the leather from which swings an envelope bag of the same kind. The Cutaway Coat. The cutaway coat in all materials is the fad of the moment. It is seen in cloth braided, in embroidery, in lace or In brocade, trimmed in lace, the latter a dressy garment for afternoon or demi-evening wear. These coats are particularly effective in the lighter colors or pompadour silks, and are favored more by taller women than those who cannot claim queenly stature. Plain and Tucked Bishop Sleeves. The bishop sleeve is always a graceful one. Just now it makes the latest style, and is made both with arid without a cap and both plain and tucked. Here are three, all of which are attractive and graceful. One is made with an oddl^ shaped cuff, one with a deep cuff pointed at the inner edge and one is cut off in three-quarter length and joined to a straight band, but all are equally correct. For i the sleeveB any pretty thin material ! is appropriate, and the cuffs can be made to match or of contrasting mai terial, as liked. When the cap is used it should be in contrast, and a imw t pretty effect Is obtained by making l the cap to match the blouse and the sleeves of thinner material, such as 1 chiffon, net, lace or muslin. All-ovei s lace makes exceedingly handsome i cuffs, but any pretty material can be utilized. 1 The sleeves are all made over fitted i foundations which are cut with up per and under portions. The plain l puffs, or bishop portions, are slightly r full and gathered at the upper and lower edges. Whichever cuff is used : j is arranged over the lower portion ot >; the lining and the cap is arranged , over the completed sleeve. The > tucked sleeve is made in three-quari ter length, and finished with a short, er band. Any of the sleeves can be i ! made unlined. if preferred. i The quantity of material required 1 for the medium size is one and three j eighth yard* twenty-one, twenty-foui ! or thirty-two inches wide, three-quari ter yard forty-four for any sleeves; three-quarter yard twenty-one. tweu <1VZF~ > ty-four or thirty-two, three-eighth ! yard forty-four for caps; cne-lialf . yard of all-over lace for pointed cuffs, five-eighth yard of banding, one yard of edging for tucked sleeves. put in service a few months ago. The company operates 304 cars andcharges 3.6 cents for first class passengers. Electric heating devices are successfully employed for branding cigar 1 boxes. The wireless telegraph summoned 'five vessels to the aid of the White Star liner Republic, which was rammed by the liner Florida. This was the first practical demonstration j of the value of wireless telegraphy on , shipboard. The Detroit Edison Company will spend 12,000,000 in doubling the siae of its plant. There are more than 7,000,000 telephones in regular service in this country, and during the past year i more than 7,500,000,000 messages j were sent over the wires. It is planned to use electricity for heating and lighting the lighthouses of the Government if the wave motor can be perfected in a practical and useful manner. The new telegraphing typewriter is the latest' method of transmitting messages. The operator writes his message on one typewriter and it is recorded in plain letters on another typewriter at the other end of the line. One of the biggest car companies i in this country has decided to I abandon the use of steam in its plant | and is now putting in a mammoth | electric plant. The electric blower for hot air fur- j naces has been successfully used for , the heating of buildings. ( Street workers of Boston, who are on the night shifts, are protected from speeding automobiles by electric lights on their caps. i There are in all thirty-five electric f furnaces in operation in this country ; and Europe for steel production. New York City will soon have with j 1U 1 Lb UUI UCl O LUC iUUgCOl UilU^C liJ 1 , the world. It will span Hell Gate ! I channel, and will be three miles long. The owners of grain godowns and I warehouses in Calcutta are compelled ! by municipal regulation to pave with i concrete to prevent the ingress of rats, which, it is believed, will aid mai terially in the extermination of this I active distributor of the plague germ. Where '.'John" is Buried. One of the deputies of the Seine j recently taking a trip in the south of ; France, made a visit to the cemetery ' at Avignon. Before going among the I tombs he asked the keeper if there | were any illustrious dead in the cemI etery. Le Cri de Paris gives the dialogue: "Yes," was the answer. "Here sleep the celebrated Aubanel and the famous Roumanille, and. we also have the tomb of the Englishman." i "What Englishman?" i "John." . "What John?" "The English John. His tomb is \ nothing remarkable. I don't know arVitr oil tha Rndtah cninc through I here come to see it. They are very droll!" The deputy directed his steps toward the monument of John. He then read upon the stone: "Here lies John Stuart Mill', philo- ; sopher." And this was the great British positivist. O vanity of glory. In the country of Avignon, where his genius went out, he is only an unknown English : John. r Novels as Serials. Book buyers and collectors of first i editions will be interested in the re- j vival of the practice of issuing novels in mommy pans, r my or sixujr years i ago the practice was common enough; [ most of the popular works of the j early Victorian novelists were so published and the appearance of instalments of Thackeray in yellow and of Dickens in green was eagerly looked j forward to by hundreds of thousands j of readers. If a ctory really arouses public interest, this method of publication is very profitable to the author and the publisher, but it is by no means certain that the production of any living writer will rival the pop- j ularity of any of the classic novelists, j Perhaps the only author likely to acHeve success in monthly guise is William F. de Morgan, whose style approximates that of the early Victorian writers.?New York Sun. Golf For Paupers. In some English workhouses paupers have golf outfits given them and use of grounds for playing the game. ?New York Press. ) / - v ' ,/V- - Jvi ! ' . : ' One of the new emergency devices for use in submarine vessels is a helmet and coat containing enough air to lift the wearer to the surface of the water. The human body is a machine of such wonderful efficiency that onefifth of the energy expended by tt can be utilized as work, as shown by the recent experiments of Professors Atwater and Benedict. : <:'?$ . A French scientist has recently proclaimed that cider is an antidote for f / . typhoid fever. The acid in It is the agent, as it destroys the germs. Cider in Europe is more generally used as a beverage than in this country. Germans appear to prefer cider after it becomes sour, but Americans usual- ; , ii ly prefer it while it is sweet. v . . . . ?g?nS / A1 It has been reported by the French commission formed for the purpose > of making comparative studies of the vertical ^nd inclined styles of handwriting, with regard to the health of ;school children, that the inclined style is far simpler and less fatiguing than the vertical style, and. less likely tb cause spinal curvature and other evil results. 'f The eel has a singular formation hv -whirh it in nnahlfid to retain life " "**" "" * " > ,yj longer than any other flab. This is a bladder at the back of its upper fins, . . which it fills with water And is thereby enabled-to moisten its gills for at considerable'time when out of w^ter. , An eel's heart is in its tall, where Its ' beats can be plainly seen. Lifting magnets have demonstrated their value in certain special lines * of work and are now in daily use in many places. An aggregate weigh! of fifteen tons of rails is handled by. magnets at the works of the United States Steel plant at Gary, Ind. This comprises the "lock section" of a pile of rails which consists ot a layer o! tracks with alternate rails inverted \,H so that the mass will hold together. An interesting and valuable present has been recently made by D. 0. Mills to the department of mammalogy of the American Muesum of Natural His- ' k| tory, in-the shape of eight specimens of the fur seal, to be utilized in the preparation of a group illustrating ? Seal rookery. The specimens we re collected at the Pribiloff Islands, . ; Alaska, expressly for the museum, by^ order of Mr. Mills, who had special* permission from the Department of Commerce and Labor for their capture. The series consists of male seals two, three, five and seven years ' old; female seals three and four years old and two.pups. ^1 _ PUZZLE OF THE MOUNTAINS.. ~~ Origin of the Devil's Racecourse in the Blue Ridge. "The Blue Ridge Mountains abound in natural wonders," observed H. A. Barnes, of Pen-Mar. "Most wonderful of them all, in my opinion, is the Devil's Racecourse, which is but a , -V short walk from Pen-Mar. "At first view this strange, natpral phenomenon appears like a broad rp&dway of great stones which extends away up the mountain in a path no human hand could ever build. ; " ' Many of these great stones weigh' tons, while others are only a few hundredweight. Lying clase together by the thousand they present an extranrdinarv snectaclA "Tradition has .it, and scientists agree, that a thousand or more years; ago this strange track was the bed of an ancient river. The conclusion is drawn from the looks of the stones; they are all well rounded and worn smooth, showing the action of the . water, which had polished their rough edges, no doubt, for centuries. "But the mystery is if this theorjt be true to explain how the great body of water was confined at the sides, for the course is not hemmed in by high banks, nor is it located in a ravine. In fact, it stands somewhat higher than the fiatiiral side of the r . mountain. The puzzle only intensifle# interest in the queer place and multiplies the arguments and theories of its prehistoric origin."?Baltimore , American. High Collar and Headache. '*? -A A Vienna doctor has discovered , that one of the most frequent causes of headaches is the tight and high collar. He has been experimenting with various patients, and he finds that those who suffer from headaches very often are most always those who are in the habit of wearing high collars. His attention was drawn one day to the high neckband of a woman. patient who was subject to violent pains in her head and dizziness. He persuaded her to lay aside this form of tteckwear, with the result that the fcompresslon of the neck ceased' and she was cured. Struck by this result, the doctor has paid'particular attention to the collars worn by his headache patients, and in almost all cases the change to lower and easier neckbands gave a beneficial result.' The doctor declares that nobody with any tendency to headache should wear a high collar.?New York Sun. Did This Dog Reason? We brought from Scotland a collie about six months old. He was allowed, like several of the pets you have mentioned, to be with us at the breakfast table, but never was to be fed in the dining room. This rule was strictly enforced by my daughter. [ was the only member of the family who ever broke over the rule. And! often when I offered him a tempting bone he would glance across the table, and if he caught the forbidding eye he would resist the temptation. . But one morning she left the table abruptly. Rab followed her into the hall and watched her till she had closed the door of her study. Then he scampered back, nudged my elbow, as if to say: "Now is our time!" Ha seized the bone, and was soon crunching it with the greatest satisfaction.'. ?Communication in London Spec^ tator. ' ^ v,>': ...