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I \ i I 1 . - ““i™! thiols. j U8t now the Uuyfie au J ii0 mnle are iMghiog at the bicycle. * ranee ‘hslike* America, England * >errnanj, J m t id 0 |ij; es , ier _ * n t * ad 8pP:a - Al1 of which i. another pr0fJ tliat ther<J , 8 no ^ mg lor tautot. A Htcaly increaae in demand for the foreign tnr.1. • American “machine’* tools .s reported, but it is said that bnyers now recognize the differenca in grade m such only the host. goods, and will take The war, by checking traffic, has reduced the ice that the coasting ice , shipments of ® f ' VO ‘ li ' 1 ot »‘«rwis 0 he made (hy , ■ohoonerj from Maine to the Gulf Porta, and therefore a apecia! demand 'd I’nwn the canon of the streot I ’ar ibc muffl,.,! tnarcblnv As7i r '^io 0 ' lM '‘ n ' l ' thr0i ‘t^t hum AS the Soldiers nearer come' te' y ‘ hB f>«oplecrowdT Wh ll . n" U "' 1 D0 * more loud Wtnie we listen, breathless a ?„’k Comes the droaitn; <.f th« ; Itlks tele tek tek’ Klk.-Utk, rika-t.k, rlkii-tuk tek tuk Wondrous l 01 ' 1 m, ’ ht ‘i-ar. Till the whlrrn ‘ °/ Ntlll our pulses bH nf U f* * <lr °wuod! niku-tef; rm^u* r ^ a tek tel ON THE MARCH. 1‘lka-tok, rika-tek’ . . t,,k t,,k . Kika-tek’tHk t-i, ’ t0k tt,k tvk > Jitka-tek t*,k tek, lilkartek, rlka-tok Bri , Heu la ‘ ,1B Southern .States for has ice-muk.ng machinery. Now rika-tek tek tek. that American heef has ad-i ranees pe, in y a potmd in England/ amazed thousands who learJ of t , rSt , tiuie thattile “roast berf -nono of your f(M*- hare you know’*— there are tor the tirst time ohl England •i«n stuff, i'i| which they have been c pleasure to to their UmT 1 * 16 m!lr ' ?hln g men have ^havewat-nuithemtotha] till the column dtsappean In a mist of sudden tears. Jboves and hates before uncu* ^^’'“‘“ctroubridbreastT, W-ti n * n . t 1 * 1 *’* and hopes and! kini, from the sleep of yearsJ At our country’s calling come £ki U,iir 5 0f tliB ’ 1 a" r,k '‘- tek ' rika tek tek t illka-tek tek tek, , ihka-tek, rika-tek, Hka-tek tek tj H our heroes homeward come i And we „„««■ the victor drum ’ Kika-tek* rik**! 6 !!' rlkil u ‘ k '”k tel hlka-tek’tek ’ rika tek tck ’ Jfl^-tek tek tek. Hlka-tek, Hka-tek. rika-tek tek te ! LAUGHTER-PROVOKING STORIES FOR LOVERS OF FUN. s w ® mi. A. *r?T.WK IS this, grandpa?’’ asked There was the vessel, driver irrainut *1.. .. » Silver onsuming with Eieir palates and profit 11 ,s ’ " as “made in America.” «oor.!. o ; d r."t i y ,e .*“^ oi “'"»“ The annual '^tnte lotteries of 'Vhy, it’s the medal that r0 P° rt of the Italian »l*ows a total revenue U0 * r y SIMOMOO, Which, Ter the deduction of 87,600,000 for prize, and expenses, leaves* total gain h, the exchorjuer of nearly «5,000,000, or an acrease of 810,140 .s compared with ,a8t yt ‘ ar ;. ft recognize,1 by f“mof e r' lffht0ae(I Itali ' llU1 that tl,is m O,roveu,, ° «« pernicioBs, but the “What Kent. He had large silver medal th.o i ■ “ “That? the United States government eive vm, t .* us , save around and ov/rTand^^ ^ ‘‘Hows in the rigging. suffering A War-Time Komance—A Sure Cure—An Honest Confession—Unequal to the Task—L'nconscious Cerebration—Flic tographers’ Kates—Olad to Go. Btc. , With courtly grace he knelt and thus The dimpled maid addressed: “I love you! . Oh, I pray you put Jly love to any test!” “Oh, Tom!” she cried, her voice os sweet As music of a lute; •‘If that Is all. just go to war And be Jack’s substitute!” —New York Journal. A Sure Cure. “How did your husband get cured of the habit of walking in his sleep?” “We moved into a flat.”—Chicago News. Unequal to the Task. “Can yon split wood?” “Madame, I’m from Boston. I couldn’t even splil an infinitive.”— Cleveland Plain Dealer. with over the , Almost d a “'l fright, the " meuai that (calling to fi,I . ir, « ur . ‘hey government g^e j gLlnf tb f^°P l0 the shot ‘Did the We H.ofj" • , o'"«’.umeiu give von 7" U3 » save ngi E™!' ,1,..^ -Sr 7' e * t '!’- d. 1Z sliri wmt tlms obtained hy any eouall* ' 7 J » I 7'‘ St - A,1(1 il « source of iuco,,/ { e, l Ua Hy popular t this day to remember o, over 1,,“ “IT 1 ”.’ . tk ?“ ''“I"*" , •>' low k ^ e k “” »H woh iZhlr i abov . th -, T « :rr, j ‘‘ that we <!Vt * r Heiug able to ab 0 ii 8h it 7: e atr W "”. "•■'•'I M.tropoll. to have "' Ml •’IP-io I'ruminas has fr.Vl * T" 1 ° n0 g00<1 ,,ire ‘H-it cotton crop,,, as hor.tofor/ Reports wheat I 6 nor ' mgB of t!orn . oats, '“cat. potatoes, etc., i B I amer lhftI :r ltnw,, ' '’ hii0 «t«e„l» Z T ,mi '‘ ,0 ni ’ i °* “'«•«“ ogs. In many sections, it i s Mi ., f^iucs have actually pi 0 , ve d „p a feon of their cotton m! , 1 ^instead.” ,U “ I 1-ut in ’ me to somethimr '.. uu Kot to at did not “We uin’n i f *, S ^ m *Kht be. Sn-r^^^h other to save tham.” UU1 llve * Hying questioning t*. tell it? tell it! Please tell it i” '^'^!ed , T^;z: v zv“' fo ‘'“ I oor fellows!’ “ear them call sai tjj Tom. the was not established lifeboats, life buoys, got to drown here’ bJf AlUl thej reck’n iv . before our evesJ JuTnX!’ 11 boat - lik «iy 0 ”witi nuell break up all to - ’ «<ia.vs an hour,’ said a'third. for saving |jf e U. th c‘"‘periled u, eu “ ‘Hood thunder!’ »b. ^ T t .?y° ro ,*"<‘.*1' win,in,, .zI i “''« ‘sir* 10 '?- V b »J-" * i !?J"" 1 . - “"'JPaw/. Si-.mto.Ml.. g—.r: j 1 ,1,a " pieces voices “‘<f I, T can’i see ’em dit hever have iiiur os T Any peace v« An Honest Confession. “And what do yon thihk of the en gagement ring I sent you?” “It’s splendid! # It’s the most beautiful one that I ever received!” ,tl i r r?rV i grotl T 1, an ! 1 twice w * i CUE BUDGET OF HUMOR, I imeu the tide and wind and strug- back again to oar coarse. ‘Fetch her round this time,* com- anded Jess, *er all’s lost.’ “Our strength was well-nigh spent. “ HEs no use,’ cried Steve. ‘ ‘W3'll be swamped if we get a oadside,’ said some one else. I hey say 'fortune favors the brave, ’ nd I think it may be so,for suddenly ir old dory seemed to careen and af- iost capsize and then, righting itself spite of the waves, swept down sight toward the vessel. The men in board her, watching us as their last ope of life, began to cheer heartily at his, and in a moment more our boat 'as in the lee of the great hulk and dose under her bows. ‘The sailors began to clamber down irom the rigging, watching the seas ind holding on all the time lest they ibould be swept away while reaching ;he boat. ‘Jess sbonted his orders to them as bey came in sight, leaning over the ail. By his directions they found md brought a coil of rope, one end of which they with some difficulty made fast to the jib*boom, where it would ,have a good height above the water. “ ‘Now, four of you crawl out and dower yourselves on the rope. Boat I won’t hold more than four at once,’ r ess shouted. “Those boys didn’t have to be told twice what to do, like some boys I know,” said grandpa, looking mean ingly at Kent^. “But, grandpa, do tell how you got back to the shore.” “Well, the men carried the coil of rope over into the boat, leaving the end fast to the jib-boom,and we rowed away, allowing the coil to unroll as we went. This proved of great service to us in making the second trip after the other four men who were still loft on the wreck. “We lauded the half-frozen crea tures on the beach and charged them to keep moving that they might not sink down and freeze in their exhaus tion before we returned. Now they were on terra Anna, they seemed com pletely unnerved. “Rowing back, partly held to our conrse hy the rope that we had made fast on shore, we soon reached the wreck the second time. The other four men were soon in the dory, and with a little cheer at our success we set out again for the shore. “But 1 cheered a little too soon for my part For when we were alxmt half way in* I stepped into a coil of rope that was lying in the bottom of thb dory and that had somehow be come twisted with the Hue by which we were helping to guide her, which the sailors had brought aboard. I was thrown from my balance and the next instant found myself in the icy bil lows. “‘Ben's overboard — nab him!’ somebody called ont. ‘r*^! -’J^^^.risk of CURIOUS FACTS. IB Unconscious Cerebration. “Here, how’s this? In this article on poets you speak of the ‘stepladder of fame.’” “I wrote that one day when my wife was cleaning house.”—Chicago Record. chil- Photngraphers’ Rates. “Woman—“How much for dren’s pictures?” Photographer — “Two dollars a dozen, madam. Woman—“Why—er—I’ve only got nine.”—Judge. Glad to Go. “Look here, George,” said Mrs. Pepper, “I’ve been aggravated enough, so don’t you pnt me out.” “Certainly not, my love,” returned George suavely, “I’ll go out myself. Don’t sit up for me.”—Pick Me Up. Irreparable Damage. “What can do more damage than a bull in a china shop?” asked Mr. Birmingham of Mr. Manchester. “Well, the ‘shorts’ in grain think that the bulls in the wheat field have been doing terrible damage lately.”— Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Love’s Labor Lost. “What’s the matter with Bnmps? He looks as though he had no friends left.” “Went out the other night and ser enaded an empty house for three hours. Didn’t know that hear folks had moved. ”—Detroit Free Press. A Feminine Mania. *1—*, XJlo iauy »hat ifTfc unjust to try,‘|^W^tf'tiie speakeU at the Na. tional Clarity Conferenie docs, to throw the chief responsibility for it upon church charity,” says the New York Commercial Advertiser. “Un- dUcriminatiog charity of every kind, no doubt, has a tendency wo breed pauperi m among a certain Jlass, but this is more than offset by the relief from want and suffering it brings and the renewed hope and encouragement with which it often inspires recipients. In any event it is bettor that charity should he spinet hues misdirected and abused than that it should be with held altogether. An ideal system of charity would be that which went hand in hand with measures for helping destitute persons to help themselves. Something of this kind will some day take tho place of indiscriminate alms giving.” Tho most remarkable personality that has appeared iu the public life of the United Kingdom during the last half century, and one of the most striking figures in tho long line of English statesmen, passed into history when William Ewart Gladstone breathed his last at. Hawarden. It is somewhat startling to recall, muses Bradstreet’s, that a man who made his entry iu public life at the era of the tho Reform bill, survived to bo the Prime Minister of the nation nearly sixty-two years afterward. Mr. Gladstone's public life hn,s presented many surprises. Hailed in his youth as the hope of the unbending Tories, he lived to be in his old age the leader of the radicals among the Liberals. Engaged almost without cessation in the exacting toil of political life, he remained throughout his life an ear nest student of literature, which he enriched with several productions of his own. An unsurpassed master of financial detail, he became easily the greatest orator among the statesmen of his time. Throughout his whole course iu public life he struck with unfailing certainty a note of moral en thusiasm, to which the nation of which he was at his death the most shining ornament aud exemplar, seldom failed tc respond. His death has closed the greatest career in the parliamentary history of England since the days of Pitt. He so easily overshadowed all the Other statesmen of his party, even after his formal retirement from pub lic life, that no mccessor to his influ ence can be discerned as yet. raps id begin. | “‘Boys,’said I, ‘let’s go down tj “How many men' were there with you | the town and get a boat and see wba when you rescued the sailors?” “Let me think! There was Steve, my brother; .lesso Freeman, Robert Judson —well I think there were six of ns all told.” \ “And did they all have medals like this?” “Yes, every one of us.” “Do tell the story, grandpa.” “Well, it was about dark when we took the last ones ott - the brig,” says we can do. ’ “At that all turned as one man tow ard the village, Jess waving his ‘son- wester’ as we reached the top of the sand dune, while we all shouted bady “ ‘Hold on, hold on for your lives!’ “On the way,half running now with the impulse that had seized us in com mon, we made our plans how we would operate for the rescue. We agreed* for one thing,that Joss should be cap- grandpa, beginning at the bud of the tain of the enterprise, as he had expe- uarrative. “Poor fellows, they had rience with boats rather more than the lashed themselves tot he rigging, where others of the party, they had remained all day, hungry “‘We’ll try to get along withauy- and wet aud chilled to the bone. They thing that Isaiah Hatch happens to couldn’t have stood it much longer— have, then,’ says Joss. ‘It won’t be night n-eoming on aud the vessel fast so far as the village.’ going to pieces. “Half the men in Well fleet had been up to the back shore that day to see the wreck and the men. They would just go and look at the grow- some sight for a little while and thou turn about and go home.” “Why did you wait all day before you trie 1 to get them off?” “Because the wind was blowing a terrific hurricane all day, my boy. The sea was raging like a fury, seeth ing with foam and dashing over the wreck every moment. Tho breakers were booming and crashing on the beach, and nobody wanted to brave their funy. Tho most experienced of them thought it was foolhardy to risk tin ir lives with the certainty of being drowned or dashed to death by the waves. “It was the first day of December, and a smothering snowstorm raged all day. My, how the wind blew that tiny! “I was oat of town iu the morning and did not hear of the disaster to the Ziliea until I came home about 8 iu the afternoon,” went on grandpa,now fairly back at the opening of his story and beginning to stir w ith awak ened memories. “ ‘Have yon heard tho news?” your grandma asked, as I came into tho house. ‘Tkero’s a ship ashore up the back side. Eight men,they say, lashed to her rigging aud no hope of saving them.M “ ‘rhundar!’ said I, aud rushed ont again into the gale aud started to walk up to tin* beach.” “How far?” asked Kent. “ThveeVor four miles. I was young then and A id n’t mind a little walk as I do now. 1 ran half the way, I guess. As I went along I overtook three other men, aoi|un|ntauees of mine. One of them called “ ‘Hullo, teen; haven’t seen ye be fore. Wherk ve been?’ “ ‘Been t swerod. ‘Jus* “ ‘We’ve b it’s no use t Going again, know if the poi ing on. Gad, though!’ “I thought sj when we ran do Provincetown,’ I an- heard about the wreck.’ n up once before. But ring to do anything, because we’d like to fellows are still hold- it is an awful sight, too, a little later, t<. the beach. “When we reached Hatch’s house we found that he had nothing better than a leaky old dory. “However, we were not to be dis couraged now at anything. Our blood was up, and every man of us stood ready to risk tiis own life to save the poor wretches on the brig, whose cries seemed to be still ringing in our ears. “ ‘rihe’il leak like a riddle,’ says Jess, critically examining tha l-oat while others of ns harnessed Isaiah’s old horse to a farm cart. ‘Get a couple more bailers, and we’ll try her any how.* We hauled ont the lumbering old boat and lifted her into the cart aud soon were on the way bnc4£, the sleet driving in our faces aud freezing bn our beards. The storm seemed to be j rising again, and we felt that the eu- | terprise was desperate. “On the way we were joined by two other men, who volunteered to assist , in the undertaking. “We reached the beach at last, though it seemed doubtful if the old horse that we had pressed into service would hold ont to draw the cart to the end of the journey. “We saw that the ship had lowered in tin water perceptibly during our absence and might go to pieces any moment. The men, however, wore desperately holding on just about as w e had left them. When they saw ns they cheered, aud this served to strengthen our resolution. We an swered as well as we could, while we hauled the boat down to the water’s edge and jumped in. It was more or less perilous launching a dory in such a aea, but by watching for a smooth instant we succeeded. The current ran strong against ns, and tho heavy northeast wi#d blew us down the shore. But we had made allowance for this iu part by launching some dis tance uortji of the wreck. Then,with faces set and muscles tense, four of us bent to the oars, while the other two were kept busy bailing the leaky craft. “The men on the vessel were silent now, watching our desperate efforts, while w e were tossed like seaweed up and down on the roaring waves. Twice we were borne past them by the treach erous undertow and swept a quarter of a mile down the shore before *r > whole boatload of us, reached over be fore I could be swept off and ‘nabbed’ me, indeed, as I struggled in the icy water. I was pulled in without upset ting the boat, which was a miracle al most, as she was overloaded, and the sea was like a yeasty tumult of bil lows. They pulled me over the rail, dripping with brine, with very little ceremony. “ ‘Got a “sousing” that time,didn’t ye, Ben?’ asked Steve, glad enough that it was no worse. ‘Give him the oar or he will freeze.’” “Were you much scared?” asked Kent. Ho had beau listening with breathless interest to ascertain if grandpa really got drowned, forgetting that he was at that moment telling the story. * “Not so much as your grandma was an hour or two later, when I told her about it, sitting by a hot fire iu dry clothes, sipping hot ginger tea,” an swered grandpa. “And what did you do with the shipwrecked men, grandpa?” “An organization for the relief of sea, called the Humane society, took charge of them aud gave them new clothes. They were then sent home by land. They Ibst everything they had, though, on the brig.” “And what became of the brig? Did she really go to pieces?” “Well, I guess she did? And we were none too soon making up our minds to attempt to rescue, either. It wasn’t 15 minutes after we left her before the ship settled against the sands aud parted in the middle. Then the sea soon did the rest. The masts toppled over, and the rigging to which the men had been clinging went drag ging over into the sea.” “Oh, let’s put the medal away and keep it then,grandpa,” says Kent,quite seriously. “Don’t let’s give it to baby to play with any more. It might get lost. “All right. We will put it away. The time may come when you, my boy, will want to take it out aud show it to your grandchildren, and tell them the story I have told to you—of how Grandpa Newcomb helped to save the crew of the brig Ziliea.”— New York Ledger. Dewey Not Heroic In Appoarnnce. “In person Dewey is uot the naval hero of popular imagination,” says L. A. Coolidgs in McClure’s. “He is slight, of medium height, with finely chiselled face,and hair sprinkled with gray, while his firmly set lips and clear eye would mark him as a gentle man and a man of the world. While in Washington he was a clubman aud fond of society,one of those who rarely appeared after dinner except in even ing dress; just the kind of a fellow,in I short, that some have in mind wheu I they inveigh against the ‘dudes’ of the ! navy who are pensioned on the government aud haunt the drawing rooms of the capital. He is quiet in manner, sparing and incisive in speech, courteous ill bearing and da* cisive m action.” “Anglosaxonia contra mundum” a late neo-Latin coinage. The oldest university in the world is El Ayhar, at Cairo, Egypt. Eight million eggs have been found in the roe of a single codfish. During the last century one hun dred lakes in the Tyrol have subsided and disappeared. A statistician has affirmed that the majority of people who attain old age have kept late hours. The largest tobacco pipe factory in the world is located in Appomattox County, near Pamplin City, Ya. Two Woolrich (Me.) men made the queerest horse trade recently on rec ord. The owner of the animal swapped the animal for fourteen roosters. Four hundred years ago only seven metals were known. Now there are fifty-one—thirty of which have been discovered within the present century. Mangosteen from the Moluccas are now sold in the London markets. They are said to taste like a combina tion of strawberry, nectarine and pineapple. The English Archaeological School on the island of Milo recently un earthed three cities built on top of each other. Two belong to the My- cenaen period. Since 1735 fourteen acts of Parlia’] ment have been passed dealing with the subject of literary copyright in England and the law is yet in a very chaotic and unsatisfactory condition. In fasting feats the sect of Jains in India is far ahead of all rivals. Fasts of from thirty to forty days are very common, and once a year they are said to abstain from food for seventy- five days. Scarpology is the art of reading character from the shoe soles. Ac cording to a Swiss physician, a sym metrically worn heel and sole indicate an energetic, faithful, well-balanced character. An eminent Russian linguist, in a work recently published on the differ ent languages spoken throughout the world, avers that in 200 years from now there will be only three living languages—Russian, English and Chinese. The South’s Lumber Supply. All the world, with the exception of Asia, comes to the Southern States for timber. The single port of Bruns wick, Ga., exported lumber or timber in some form last year to twenty-five different countries. Fcrest products, not including turpentine and resin, were shipped from the Southern ports last year to the value of about $25,- 000,000. During the same period the domestic consumption was probably five or six times as great, <mrrying the total value of the Southern forests up to about $150,000,000. The South, the GreatjLake States aud thp Northern yet there is uot a day but what the wagon from the jewelers aud the merchants stops there. ” “That’s so. She’s one of these women that has things sent home ou disapproval.”—Detroit Free Press. Why They Do It. “Why is it that prima donnas al- j ways sing ‘Home, Sweet Home,’ for an i encore?” “That’s to show their gratitude. In return for the applause they na turally want to give the people some thing they can understand.”—Chicago News. How Are the Mighty Fallen! “Bridget, who is that at the door?” “It’s a poor man, mum. He wants something to ate.” “If he’s another refugee driven out of Spain by the war, tell him there’s nothing for him. We’ve already fed eleven ex-Consnls this morning.”— Chicago Tribune. A Crisis Averted. “What is your line of business?” whispered the editor to a man he was about to introduce to capitalists. “I hauls furniture,” huskily came the reply. “Here, gentlemen,” continued the editor, “is Mr. Joues, one of the moving spirits of our city.” ber-^HH 12,000,000,000 feet each year. CEref among the trees of the South is the pine, of which there are four important varieties. Roughly speaking, the pines cover half the ter ritory between the Potomac and the Brazos River in Texas, or about 140,- 000 square miles and will cut 250,000,- 000,000 feet of merchantable lumber. The annual consumption averages 7,000,000,000, and at this rate the South cau supply the world for thirty- five years. Another of the most valu able woods in the South is the cypress, beautiful iu color and grain, durable, easily worked aud adapted to every use to which abuildiug woodis needed. The annual production of cypress, in cluding shingles, approximates 600,- 000,000 feet, and it is estimated that j there are 50,000,000,000 feet of cypress on the stump. The hardwoods of the South embrace nearly all the varieties to be found in the United States, and cover 15,000,000 acres. Among the more important commercial hardwoods are the different kinds of oak, ash, hickory, poplar 'cottonwood, chestnut, butternut, pecan and sycamore, aud it is estimated that the South has 300,- 000,000,000 feet of such wood stand ing.—Chicago Record. Painfully True. She—“So this is your picture? It is a true representation of tho dining room of the ocean steamer; but why didn’t you introduce some charac ters?” He—“Because that picture is en titled ‘The Dinner Hour During a Rough 'Passage.’ ”—Stray Stories. Called Him Down. Calloyouthe—“Now that yon are mine, Lobelia, I have a painful con fession to make—” Miss Bunker (wearily)—“Oh, I suppose so, Septimus; all the others had. But I did hope you would-be original, and deny yourself the pleas ure of telling me the sad story of your past.”—Brooklyn Life. Jn»t the Man. Timid Guest—“I have a delicate wife, and if I stop at your place I want to be sure there is a good doctor near by.” Aspiring Clerk (briskly)—“You needu’tbe alarmed, sir. We’ve got a fine man within call. Why, he has just tmlled through six of the toughest cases of smallpox I ever heard of. ”— Harlem Life. * Innocence. Alice—“I heard a very pretty com- plimeut for you to-day.” George—“What was it?” Alice—“Mr. Thurston, the jeweler, said you were one of the best judges of diamonds iu this city.” George—“May I buy a nice solitaire for the third finger of your left hand?” Alice—“Oh, George, what made you think of such a thing? Well— if you—want to.”—Cleveland Leader. Why llrnzil Sold Her Ships. One of the remarkable pheuomeua of trade at present is reflected by Brazil’s sale of warships to this coun try. A careful examination of it prompts the suggestion tha* the South American Republic had fiscal rather than friendly reasons for disposing of the vessels. The price of Brazilian coffee has now fallen lower than it was ever quoted before. The figure on regular contract deliveries is five cents per pound. An immense crop has been gathered, and this fact is now bearing the market for the prod uct all over the world. Brazil, which collects an export duty upon it, has actually been put into financial straits by the reduction in price. The loss of revenue became so seri ous a month ago that reports were in circulation in London that tho in terest could not be paid on the coun try’s debt in April. Since the deal by which the United States takes the Amazonas and its sister was carried through the news has come that the coupons will be taken up. The American money has enabled the na tion to make both ends meet. But if coffee is to continte at five cents what is Brazil to do?—Providence (R. I.) Journal. • Coal Discover!** in Ireland. Large discoveries of coal have, it ia stated, been made near Billycastle, North Antrim. A local syndicate for some time past has been working the mines on an extensive scale, bnt a Barnsley mining engineer has just completed a thorough investigation of the locality. He states that there are two and a half million tons of coal iu the mines. In quality it is somewhat superior to the Scotch, and quite as good as the average coal used in Lon don. —St James’s Gazette. *-y