. Hardware merchandising 1895 . pages of the specialcolonial edition of The British and ColonialPrinter, says the editor of that paper, willimpress readers with this fact : that othernations, such as America and Germany, aretaking a growing and keener interest in thecolonial field as a market for their products. The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Sta-tioner, another British periodical, comment-ing on this statement, remarks : This isbut a fulfilment of forecasts made by usfrom time to time. We have long had toface this competition, but it seems to be nowentering upon a more active stage. Let ushop

. Hardware merchandising 1895 . pages of the specialcolonial edition of The British and ColonialPrinter, says the editor of that paper, willimpress readers with this fact : that othernations, such as America and Germany, aretaking a growing and keener interest in thecolonial field as a market for their products. The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Sta-tioner, another British periodical, comment-ing on this statement, remarks : This isbut a fulfilment of forecasts made by usfrom time to time. We have long had toface this competition, but it seems to be nowentering upon a more active stage. Let ushop

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. Hardware merchandising 1895 . pages of the specialcolonial edition of The British and ColonialPrinter, says the editor of that paper, willimpress readers with this fact : that othernations, such as America and Germany, aretaking a growing and keener interest in thecolonial field as a market for their products. The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Sta-tioner, another British periodical, comment-ing on this statement, remarks : This isbut a fulfilment of forecasts made by usfrom time to time. We have long had toface this competition, but it seems to be nowentering upon a more active stage. Let ushope it will serve to stimulate the hometrade ; that is the result we confidently lookfor. We are cosmopolitan enough to ad-mire and to speak appreciatively of any goodpiece of mechanical work, let it emanate fromwhere it may. At the same time we are in-sular enough to believe that, price for price,British machinists can hold their own againstthe world. Of course, other factors enter intointernational competition beside price, and. nearly perfect as inventive genius can con-ceive. The engraving is an exact reproduc-tion of a photograph of the machine at workand its parts, and gives an idea of the char-acter of its product and the speed of itsdischarge. It will cut more meat per minutethan any other machine of correspondingsize, and can, the manufacturers claim, betaken apart and cleaned in about half thetime required by any other machine havinga perforated plate. It is shipped ready foruse. TO RIVAL PARIS GREEN. A Charlotte own, P.E.I., despatch to TheMontreal Star says: A farmer informs TneCharlottetown Patriot that an insect re-sembling an ant has appeared in his two-acre field of potatoes, and within a day ortwo has completely destroyed the potatobugs. This parasite eats the bug, leavingnothing but the shell, and seems to possessan insatiable appetite. The same insectwas reported in another section of theisland last year, and no bugs were left wherethis parasite had visited. ev