THE CANADIAN TARIFF. . The Laurie:- Commission's Inquiry to Be- gin on Tim's". 10. MONTREAL, Oct..2T.—The tariff inquiry by the Laurier government will begin on Nov. 10. It is instituted with a view to finding out where changes in the tarifl can best be made. Sir Richard Cartwright and Messrs. Fielding and Paterson will con. duct it. Montreal, Halifax, Toronto, Hamilton, London, Quebec and St. John are the places thus far selected for the in- - quiry, but other places may be visited. Time will not permit going farther west. Due notice will be given, and the various commercial and industrial organizations will be invited to present their views. In- dividual members will be heard as far as possible, but the commissioners hope that the various organizations will appoint rep- resentatives to present the views of those engaged in thevarious branches of trade. Care will be taken to afford an opportuni- ty for the farmers, trades and labor'coun- oils and other interests to express their views. The Patrons of Industry will ap- point representatives for this purpose. Delegations will "also be received at Otta- wa, if they find it convenient to go there. It is hoped that the report of the commis- sioners will be ready for the next session of parliament, so that a tariff bill may be- founded thereon. GIFTS TO A UNIVERSITY. $4,000,000 to Become Available After Ex- penditures by California. CHICAGO, Oct. 27.—A dispatch to The Tribune from San Francisco says that the University of California is to be made rich- er by $4,000,000 by donations from various persons, chief among whom is Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, widow of Senator Hearst of Cali-' fornia. This amount is not to be given all at one time, but will be paid as soon as the state is prepared to make proper use of the money. The state must spend $500,- 000 on buildings, and when this is done the gifts will be paid. These facts became known at the meet« ing of the board of regents of the univer- sity when Mrs. Hearst sent a note to the board donating 815,000 to be used in se- . curing plans for new buildings. The, architects of all countries are to be invited to compete and submit plans for a group. of buildings. Mrs. Hearst stated that she would erect two buildings at her own ex— pense, one of which would be a memorial to her late husband. The names of others who will give funds are not given. Dr. Kayser Honored. BERLIN, Oct. 27.—Dr. Kayser, the re- tiring director of the German colonial de- partment, has been decorated with the Or- der of the Red Eagle. LONDON, Oct. 27.—-The Standard has 3 Berlin dispatch announcing that Dr. Kay- ser has been appinted president of the Leipsic senate of justice. Explosion of Dynamite. PITTSBURG, Oct. 27—Two men were killed and the mixing department of the Acme Dynamite works, near Hulton, Pa., was demolished today. The men killed are supposed to have been packers named Stofiel and Andre we. The concussion shattered windows .:z;d shook heuses for more than a mile around. Big Fire In a Village. CORNING, N. Y., Oot. 27,—The village of Savonia, 12 miles west of here, lost nearly all its business portion by fire to- day. .Toint‘s hardware store, Cushing’s furniture store. .Toint’s warehouse, all constucted of brick,and four wooden stores, one of which contained the postoflice, were destroyed. Tschigorin Wins Again. BUDAPEST, Oct. 27.—-—The second game of the tie match between Tschlgorin and Charousek resulted in a win for the for- mer after 29 moves. The Russian opened the game, a two knights’ defense being selected by the second player. Present score—Tschigcrin, 2; Charousek, 0. Dye Works Damaged. PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 27. —- The dye works of Frederick Newman & Co. were damaged to the extent of $20,000, by fire today. Nearly all the contehts of the building were destroyed. A New Office For Li Hung Chang. PEKING, Oct. 27.—-Li Hung Chang has been appointed minister of foreign affairs. The \Veather. Fair; warmer; variable winds, becom. ing southerly. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Closing Quotations of the New York Stock Exchange. New YORK, Oct. 26.—Money on call firm at 6 per cent. Prime mercantile paper, nomi< hally 7699 per cent. Sterling exchange easier. with actual business in bankers' bills at 84.84% @4.8-i}«é for demand and [email protected]}é for 60 days. Posted rates, [email protected]fi and [email protected]. Commercial bills, $4.79lé. Silver certificates. sales, 38,000 at 655/50. Bar silver, 65léc. Mexi- can dollars. 50%0. Government bonds lower. State bonds dull. Railroad bonds firm. Closing prices: Atchisou .......... 14 New England...., — Bur. & Quincy. . . 75% N. J. Central ..... .10% 8., 0.. C. & St. L. 28 North American. . 5 Chesapeake & 0.. 15% Northern Pacific. 1 Chicago Gas ...... 70% Do. pref ........... Cordage ........... 47/3 N. Y. Central..... 94 Cotton Oil ........ 14% Omaha ............ 40% Del. & Hudson. . .124 Ontario & West. . 143.4 Distillers" Trust. '— Pacific Mail ...... . 21 Eric ............... 14%, Reading ........... 26% General Electric. 29 Rock Island ..... .. 66 Hocking Valley. . 15% Silver Bullion ..... 65% Luckawanna... . . 355% St. Paul ........... 73% Lake Shore. . . 147% Sugar Refinery. . .114§{; lead .............. 24% Texas Pacific ...... 8%; Louisville & Nash 46% Union Pacific ..... 8%; Missouri Pacific. 21% Wabash pref ..... . 15% Northwestern. . ..102 Western Union. . . 8154 General Markets. Raw YORK, Oct.~26.—FLOUR-—State and western sleady; city mills patents, [email protected]; winter patents, $4.45@~i.00: city mills clears, $34.30: winter straights, [email protected]. VVHEAT—No. 2 red opened firmer on cables. sold off under lower second cable, but rallied. again on covering: trade lighter than usual; December, 76%@7:5 3-16c.; May, 80@81',./;c. CORN—No. :3 ruled firm and higher on fair local buying: November, 30%.,“ December, 31% @3l%c. OATS—No. 2 quiet: track, white, state. 22@ 31%04 track, white. western, 22@31}§c. PORK—Quiet: mess, $8.50@9; family, $10.50 @12.50. LARD—Dull; prime western steam, 54.67%, nominal. . BUTTER—Steady; state dairy, state creamery, l2}é®?3<3. CHEESE— Quiet; state, large. 'Zlé@10}r§c.; small, 7%;@10}4c. EGGS—Steady: state and Pennsylvania. 18% @20c.; western,15@190. SUGAR—Raw firm; fair refining, 2%c.: cen- trifugal, 961test, 30.; refined steady; crushed. We; powdered. 43/30. TURPENTINE~Quiet at 88%@29c._ MOLASSES—Firm; New Orleans, 29@37c. RICE—Firm; domestic. 3mm; Japan, 4% 11@ch.; Mo. TALLOW—Dull; city, 3340-: country. 37/60. HAY—Steady: shipping, 5569600.; good to choice. 76@82}éc. .THE EVENING GAZETTE. TIII' IAMI’AIIIN .' . IS ON ‘1 NOW is he IIM To Subscribe for the in Both Papers Sent to one Address for $|.0.0a Year . ‘ ’ ,SOME QUEER INDUSTRIES. . Odd Ways of Making a. Living Disclosed by the Latest Census. Occupations open to the thrifty in- dividuals of both sexes have greatly increased during the last two decades. or even since the taking of the last decennial census, in 1890. I The extraordinary progress of sci- ence during the time specified and the application of its principles to the prac- tical problems of human life have not only had the eifect of greatly increas- ing the capacity for production in the have opened hundreds of queer alleys which lead to the avenues of trade. There are, of course, dozens of these new and remarkable occupations with which science does not deal even in the remotest sense. In this class we the man who makes his living by picking'up lost things in the depots, theatres, hotels, &c., and returning them to their owners with the expec- tation of being rewarded; the clock winder, the man who collects orange and lemon peels, and the Lake Michi- gan syndicate, which is now engaged in raising' black cats for their fur. They are not raising these cats on wa- ter, as might be inferred from the title, but have leased an island in the great lake, which is now plentifully stocked with both Sexes of screeching felines. There are still others in the non- scientific category of queer occupa- tions, but it will only be necessary to mention a few. One is a “rattlesnake farmer,” who lives in the Ozark Moun- tains, and makes the products of his “farm” bring money from three dif- ferent directions. The oil he disposes of to druggists who have regular cus- tomers that believe it to be a panacea for a hundred different ills; the skins he sells to would-be cowboys, who use them as hat bands, and the skeletons are always a ready sale, the pur- chasers being the curators of the natural history departments of the dif- ferent college and society museums. The man who wakes people up in the morning, the cork collectors, and the dog catchers are well known charac- ters in every large city. The individuals who gain a liveli- hood in pursuits that are strictly scien- tific are equally as numerous as those who follow the more humble callings. In the list of occupations that are strictly scientific is the manufacture of artificial eggs, artificial coffee, and false diamonds. Also the industry of making buttons, combs, penholders, and other articles of similar nature from blood collected at the slaughter houses. The man who makes billiard balls, buttons, and rings from pota- toes which have been treated to a solu- tion of nitric and sulphuric acids is also the proprietor of an “industry” wherein the fundamental principles are strictly scientific. But the queerest of all is carried on by two young Pennsylvanians, who are making a regular business of ex- tracting the poison from honey bees. According to the accounts, they have two different ways of collecting their crop of venom. In the first the bees are caught and held with their abdo- mens in small glass tubes until they poison sacs have been emptied. In the second they are placed in a bot- tie on wire netting and enraged until the tiny drops of venom fall into the alcohol which fills the lower third of the bottle. This venom is said to be a sovereign remedy for cancer, rheuma- ltism, snake bite, and a hundred others of the more terrible ills of humanity. The Deaf May Hear. Many an old lady goes to church of a Sunday and sits through the ser- vice in a frame of mind devout to a degree, but never hears a solitary word of the sermon. There is a preacher in Syracuse, Rev. George B. Spalding, D. D., who has changed all that. Dr. Spalding is pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, a religious body made up in the main of wealthy folks to whom money is no particular object. Moved at first by the lamentations of some of his aged parishioners that they could not hear his preachments—~ Dr. Spalding was a newspaper man before he joined the clergy, and is a. practical soul withal—he arranged, for the better delivery of the Gospel to these (leaf brethren and sisters, speaking tubes which ran from a large metal receiver—really a mega- phone—immediately in front of him on the pulpit, down under the floor- ing of the auditorium and up into the pews. The megaphone is built into the front of the pulpit, so that when read- ing or speaking the doctor addresses it directly. So successful did the clergyman’s device prove, that speaking -tubes were put into every pew in the great auditorium, Any person, who is hard of hearing and happens to be a vis- itor to the church, will find means at hand of hearing the sermon. One deaf old lady, who' went to Dr. Spaulding’s church the other day, having heard of the speaking tube system, burst into tears when she put the transmitter to her ear and caught the sound of the preacher’s voice. She said it was the first sermon she had heard for over a quarter of a cen- tury. , A Trick of lilotormen. The motormen on trolley cars be. tween Jamaica and East New York have a simple and eifective scheme to force stubborn drivers to pull out of their way. The motormen run their cars up close behind the obstructing vehicle, keeping full power on, and using the brakes to keep down speed. The horses attached to the obstruct- qing vehicles receive a shock when they come in contact with the tracks. 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