Winnipeg Free Press

Thursday, May 07, 1891

Issue date: Thursday, May 7, 1891
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 7, 1891, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba daily free press. May 7. About Arbor Dat. Planting Day on the Side of Border Nebraska which spread to nearly every state of Somo american id history. 1691 by american press Assoc la 1 tion.1 bout Trees there is a Peculiar fascination which belongs to no other product of nature. They Are the Homes of Tho Shade of Tho weary the ornaments of the landscape grouped As forests or Groves they gather moisture find Down the gentle which 7? Earth would become an find desert. Ter Hove All Tho varied charms of differ 7 of women sovino tal1 to stately toward Trio and others occupy a humbler lot. Many the Pear Beautiful the glory of Blossom and fruit few like the Spanish Bayonet of a latitudes Are repellent and in but the tree us a tree is one of tos Reat blessings of Mankind. Different varieties afford to the Drace food clothes fuel furniture shelter. A country destitute of Nav be termed uninhabitable and a recognition of this principle and a Mattero self preservation that the thirty seven states of the Union Tae established a Spring Observance Jos to As Arbor Day. The first Commonwealth to take action in this regard is Jfe Braska which in 1873 set apart a Triin Date for tree planting. The Cus Tandi not Long remain singular to that Fate but was adopted within a few Raj Rabi nearly All the others with the sort Happy results. Schools particularly became interested in the affair As a consequence there have been planted and Are now flourishing in the american Republic one billion that never Rood have had existence but for the in a citation of Arbor Day. This Spring brings .1 renewal of the ceremonies connected with the Beautiful lad wholesome Celebration and for the not two months All Over the land tej will Plant and care for tender sap Lings that in later years shall grow to Pant Uio Narolis redolent nature s perfume and abounding with grateful Jade. No form of tree thus selected f or Tarp equation is without a world old his tory always interesting and often to san before it was cat Down to make room for the elevated railway it towered above the landscape the oldest living thing on Manhattan Island. Every one is familiar with the Romance of tha world renowned charter Oak at Hartford and scarcely less famous is that decayed old trunk also of Oak at Flushing l. I., beneath whose spreading branches Fox the Quaker preached the gospel in 1672. The Mam Moth Linden better known As the Bass Wood still towers above the Prosperity of Ohio and the adjacent states As it did above the triumphs and struggles of the pioneers and the mahogany of Florida Waves As proudly As in the Days when Ponce de Leon sought the Fountain of youth and found it not. California Lias her giants of Yosemite. And in a word. Our portrait gallery special saturday Sale ready made gaps and gents furnishings. At the new Toronto our Stock of clothing is the largest in the City the goods All made to our special order by skilled workmen. The Cut by and workmanship we can guarantee. Look at some of oter prices for this Day Only. Cardinal Sanfelici. Guglielmo Sanfelice i Acquavella who has for yearn been considered a candidate for the papal throne was born in 1836. He was consecrated archbishop of Naples in 1878, and was made a Cardinal priest in 1884. Commercial school i Udren planting a tree. Is Antic. The Apple Lias been famous once Tho Timo of eve and that lord of the Woods the Long surviving has a established place both in sacred and profane history. Jupiter Boru be Satath its branches. Under its Shadow at Mamre Abraham talked with the Angels. It was adored by the ancient britons As tin god of Thunder and English Lii Story teems with Tho stories of famous Oaks three of William Rufus of Robin Hood and of Heine naturally occurring to the mind of Tho general Reader. And it is of the Oak that the poetical brahmans Ang of pc Orous Mother of the Koto thou i vast Shade to the Brood Cotter who slays the Sandal ire perfumes the us that lays it to the clings More of aboriginal Romance than to any other arboreal product of american soil. When the colonists of two or three centuries ago grew acquainted with the manners and customs of their Indian neighbors they Learned that it the practice of the Eastern Savages who dwelt in the for est to Bury their distinguished men be Neath Young Maple Trees their belief King that with each recurrent Spring time the virile spirit of their heroes flowed upward in the sap and that who Ever Drauk this sap absorbed Tho Virtues Tad the valor of the mighty dead. Indeed about almost every tree i dig Hiona to America there is some legend dignity and Worth. Thero seemed a Toad of sympathy Between Hawthorne s somber Genius and the solemn Ash Trees grew in front of the old manse at coach pro. Tho fir played a prominent Jart in the building of Solomon s Temple the word Hook originates with the Birch Bee and it a Only necessary to mention the Pino to evoke a Host of historical that adorn the annals of Scotland and America As Well. It was beneath a venerable Elm on the Banks of toe Delaware that Penn concluded Bis with the indians it was also be an Elm at Cambridge mass., that Washington assumed command of the Continental armies. A giant White Wood at Detroit Long marked the so where the conspiracy of that Savage Napoleon Pontiac. On Tho Border of the two Carolinas yet Toda a giant Tulip which was the Gal lows of ten tories during the period of the revolutionary War. Charleston still Hes Tho shattered relics of the huge by Reath whose branches Lincoln and ii Pia Council when league red by the British in i text. By the Banks of 10 Hudson opposite West Point a widow Long wooed the Breeze which i saw the treachery of b.-ipd1- old and a Ali dismal till lately parked the to dict when vamped the iture father of m., , As a Surveyor he led a party of explorers into Toat dangerous Region. Until recently there bloomed and bore at Tho Comer of v Ca 12.b6p 12.-10p 12 17p 11.603 11.17 a 10. 42 a oooo 0.43a Ticon 12.23p 4.17p 4.02p 347p 8.28p 3.19p 3.07p 2.48p 2.s3p 2.12p 1.46p 1.86p 9.40a 8 top 8.00p 8 0 9 a 16 8 28 b 37 t s3 i 40 4 468 66 0 050 68 1 168 848 468 470 Winnipeg Portage Junction. St. No tort la zen 116bn 12.18p 12.22p 12.88p 12.62p 1.07p 1.28p 2 top 600p 10.00p 2 Goa 0.3fia 7.05a Goa 3.15q 3.48a 4.17a g.42n c.22ft 7jbo 8.20a 8.46b 300a Agnethe. Union Polat. Silver Plains Monh St. Jonn Jye tellor Pembina. Grand Forks. . Bro nerd Duluth Gllnn Cipolla. Paol Kobrina Beaudon ban of 466 alb Xander St. Farm for Sale at Broadview. To 55 684.000 hrs. Against go Aud vj7.j.ooo hrs. In 1889. Are on and Are colitis Giro Roumania. The Atlantic ports by qw., which in a to null in ainu. California a apparently heavy of hrs. Are not Large by Side of Pacific consignments at this period during the past ten years. India and Persia Are Reprez tested by hrs. La Plata wheat to the extent of hrs. Is on Pas there arc hrs. Coming from Liili. Ave Talasia with . Qrs., is heavily represented and is important part in the Trade. Average Quan Titi a of american floor Are afloat and there Are Large applies of californian on Panage. Cargoes off coast equal pm. Of wheat. City Martet for lob. Prices Are quoted As follows this wheat a City Grade 90 to 92c per Bushel. Cattle Stock 3 to fresh killed Mutton 14c fresh killed pork per pair to 7os turkeys f6clb. Roll 2oc. 12j to 15o. Wood corded Poplar Smarac Polea to per Cord Poplar poles 3-2.00 to 00 a Load corded Tam trac Hideb-4jc., no. 1 no. 52 2j, no. 3. Calf skins Are quoted at from 4 Tebo. Ppr lb., sheep skins in average Lota each. To per ton 7 to 3.50 per ton. To too per Bushel. To 50o per Bushel. Barley feed 35o to 40o per Burbol. Ploub to hungarian 82.90 Strong Bakers. 32.70 National by Toner Bakers bronc xxx Fine bran. 816 per ton shorts per Standard Oatmeal rolled Oata 80 ibs., 320 acres Frame House and household effects. Stabling or 75 head of Stock granary and 17 horses and Colts 35 cows and Young Stock 75 acres crop binders. Mower Rake Ridln and walking ploughs seeders harrows roller waggons Sleigh a and harness. Situated 6 Miles from station water pasture anal Liny one mile from Bluffs. 0 6. Morris 5.1bp 4.z4p 12.01p 0 21 26 i we farm. Roland b. 1.6c 2.22 Roa Obank Miami Deer Wool Altamont Somerset. 12.b6p 12.28p 4 74 6 79 Lake ind Lun Marlon bus 4.10 4.fc Greenway Beldor Belmont it Hilton i Wawa ceo Martl uvula Brandon postage la Prai Kik Branch. 11.400 11.280 10.53 a 10.40 a i0.20n 0.33a 8.26 a Winnipeg Orrant Junction. St. Sharica heading Wilco Flat no. In Taeo. i1 a. Mclennan Broadview. 6.20p 1.330 6.66p 740p passengers will to carried on nil regular f night Pullman Palace sleeping and Donl Iier care on Nob. And 118, St. Paul and Linn cupola express. Connection at we sniper Jii nation with two bul cd through trains Dally for All Points in Montana. Washington British Columbia Oregon and califor Fornix. S. B. Fee. H. Swinfor1 g a. General Aernt St Paul. 11. J. Belch to loot agent 48ftmalu St., Winnipeg. Moving done with covered and by the most experienced men in the City. Carpets taken up and cleaned by electric or steam Power and repaid. Pengelly Ford successors to Shidad Telephone 108. Oan Hon Block oui darn where do you fed strange elderly lady Don t know docs there seems to be n oneness somewhere. I can t find a single plan. Pharmaceutical Era. It made her faint. Ring Jor to janitor. Tho lady bae fainted Tho to ought not to have told her without first preparing her for it i suppose what s Tho i told her i and no objection to cell York Sun. Yum turn. Teacher Tommy Stimson have you any Good excuse for being to Tommy a Ono to thing. He May i Kisa you just once Many Oats. Pricen remain unchanged with deliveries for local use Only being made. While Home die to wrists report the oat Supply for local con sumption As Short generally it in Satim fitted that the Zetocka Hald by Farmers in Manitoba Are quite sufficient to see the pro Vince through until the crop in harvested. Montreal markets on Friday wore re Ceuta during the past week were bus., again by 23.u84 in Chela. White Ontario Oata Are quoted at 58c and Manitoba mixed Are quoted at55 to 56c Par 34 ibs. The Market Here bae an easy Toronto reports r32 to 54 As the quotation for saturday. Barley. Local Markeita Are exceedingly quiet with Echt and priced unchanged from last week 38 to 40c to in Montreal the receipts lost week Ware 24 073 bus., Al aim bus. Lor the week previous. Fead Barley is easier at 65c Bat we learn of very Little Bua mets at the moment. The break a the Price of Corn at Liverpool appears to have flopped Tho Export demand for Barley the Lull in the Market Here. British Grain Trade. Review of the Trade on april 20th by the Lane exp Reid in the Forest in the Orchard in the Garden the extent of Winter damage in Only now be Binning to found out but the Munry to the a stews to the autumn wheat Lent Corn is con6ned to a retarded Ana Back Waid growth consequent on n. Want of Stoiu Lavioe Day and night warm and on an absence of sufficient moisture from a Good Many golfs this state of agriculture at the present incent May be compared in a human patient Montreal Stolib. Montreal stocks reported by Alloway Champion Bankers and brokers Winnipeg Monte Hal May Banks Bank of Montreal j 0, 1691. British Robem Gold notes Exchange purchased. To bail at of. Of Siffel o-a.k3d. Lading effect air la on 1801 regular passenger Rallio run tvs follow westbound. Olavo Winnipeg at 11.00. Tuesday thursday and saturday for la Prairie Rnold City Tor ton and stations. Mixed train for rus Bill Raios close connection at Biu Earth on tuesday and thursday. Eastbound. Leave Yorkton monday wednesday Dud Fri any it 6 of mixed Tialin leaves Russoll it 7.00 on wednesday and Friday and makes connection at bin Scarth with min for Winnipeg Leftwo rapid City on monday wednesday null Friday at 10.10. Rei ruler East Botma a Mangar trn no make Tolosa connection at u Prairie with Canadian a a Flo westbound trains and at win Ripoff with Tho outbound trains of but company. Motion s Toronto Jim Cbanta Union con mercy mob Cellaneous. Rich. Ont. Nav. City fib. By. Moot real Gas. Canada n. W. Land co. 0. P. R. C. P. B. Call. 160 140 206 77 70s 228 2184 117 we have a few Good interest securities suitable for investors for Sale. Alloway Champion Bankers and brokers 362 a. I 3st b tit Elel t from thursdays Wlynn peer. Sea Tiosh mondays wedded y fridays. 11.00 00.Winnipeg. Arrive. 17.20 la 14.46 01 117. Neepawa u 1b.xo in to 12.93 17.46 a 160.rapid City. In 10.10 1t1. 18.2a 19.46 1b 20.25 311 b1.s2 2s.1g 370 arrive. Shoal Lake. Fair to Tor ton 0.67 in fl.66 7.fis k Lolo 1031 69 186 201 75 79 80 Chi ago Mav was advanced 2gc on the Leport drench duty on it had been ont in two and t of a decrease in available supplies. He Joly Oata May 620. July pork May sept., 812 52j lard May july sept., i May july 67j. _ the Tateel craze in Hyde Park cigarettes. by d. Ritchie co., Montreal ;