HomeMy WebLinkAboutLucknow Sentinel, 1890-12-19, Page 3The Raggedy Man.
Qh, the Raggedy Man 1 Re works ter pa;
An" lie's the guodest man ever your saw 1
>llie comes to our bouee every day,
-An' watersthe horses an' feeds 'em hay ;
An' he opens the shed—ah' we all 1st laugh
When he drives out our little old wobble-ly
calf 1
Asa' van, .ef our hired girl says he can,
He milke the cow fer 'Lizabuth Ann,
Ain'the a' aulul good Raggedy Man?
Raggedy 1'14iaggedy11 agge4y,Man
'try. the Raggedy Man—he's ist so good
Hs splite,the lsindlin' an' oh: ps the wood ;
An' nen he spades in our garden, too,
An' does most things 'at b ,ye can't do.
He plumbed clean n,p in our big tree
An' shook a' apple down for me 1
An"pother 'n, too, for 'Lizabu h Ann 1
An' 'nother 'n, too, for the Raggedy Man!
Ain't he a' awful kind Raggedy Man?
Raggedy 1 Raggedy 1 Raggedy Mani
An' the Raggedy Man be knows most rhymes
An' telle'em of I ba ofnewi
CHRISTMAS I8 COMING.
Therefore Light the Lamp and Let• the
Needle Fly.
GIFTS TO BB MDR . AT HOME.
Poor Gifts Wax Bich When Givere Prove
Kind—How One With ftlim Purse May
ltvidenee Fine Heart.
In the matter of home-made 'eChriet-
mas gifts," good mother, don't deepairGC 1
The ingenious �agnm.�.e. wilt have no viol.
onity in fashioning any+nnmber of lits
,... ;. M �. Q>@ TA , 5e rte; a_�txran[A# s3[nta a! a�"¢'?s w,3 : �'r,
xr W..u..lY+...Wa74.e1u,iiii�Fr,'S�urrku'Uilts'twrl"�f:+.'l'Vfi'il i'''.u` ""' _ r•:scac
An' the Squidsicum 811050s 'at swallere their -
selves
An' wite by the pump in our pasture lot
1Be showed me the bole 'at the Wanks is got
'At lives 'way deep in the ground en' can
Turn into me -or 'Llizabuth Ann
Ain't he a. funny old Raggedy Man ?
Raggedy 1 Raggedy 1 Raggedy Man!
'- The Raggedy Man -one time when he
Was makin' a little bow-'n-arry for we,
Bays : " When you're big like your pa ie,
$.r what a
An' nen
An' Ied
unt an . Wear fine clothes ?
r you go' to be, goodness knows !"
#aukh_etd at 'Lizabnth,Ann,
M go' to be a Raggedy Man-
• Reet go' i o be a nice Raggedy Man 1"
gedy 1 Ra;gedy 1 Raggedy Blau!
—,fugues WIritoomb Ritey, in the Century
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A Few Christmas Mottoes.
Here are some Christmas mottoes for
*he nee of those who, with needle, pencil or
brush themselves make the gifts they send.
to friende :
" It le the blessed Christmas tide,
The (Christmas lights are all aglow."
—Whittier.
" Above our beads the joy -belle ring,
Without the happy children sing."
- Whittier.
" Kindle the Christmas brand, and then
Till eunne-set let it burn."
—Herrick,
" GIve the honor to this day
That sees December turn'd to May,"
—Herrick.
'"winter breathe a fragrance forth
LLL e s the purple spring "
—Herrick.
' The neighbors were friendly bidden,
And all had welcome trite."
—Old Song.
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" A man might then behold
At Christmas, in o• ch hall,
Good fire.' to curb the cold
And meat f.,r groat and small."
—Old song.
Night in His Cine,
Buffalo News :
Thro' half the night he'd walked the floor
Wi h little Willie,
Whose intent mouth did ovorpour
In accents shrilly,.
1. .priggins, losing patience, swore
I. he'd a billy
He'd thump the pesky offspring sore
And knock him silly,
Said Mrs. S from downy bed, -
So gently purring,
" Why, Spriggius, you should praise, instead
Of thhs demurring;
That pastime's quite in k,eping, Fred
With your preferring;
Your motto is—you've of, en said—
Ba up -and stirring. "
Business is Business..
Warren Tribune
"The autumn leaf is falling," said a lover to hie
lass,
"Tho frost will soon be biting like a heifer at
the grass;
The time is past for fooling and\for spooning in
the shade;
The time is come when -matches that are pend-
ing should be made."
"Tho time is con for sealskins," the maiden
made reply.
"Host think you'd like to, buy 'em for such a one
aaI?
East thou a Queen Anne cottage, a revenue to
match ? .
If you haven't. then go get 'em or you'll never
land a catch."
Government by Aldermen.
Philadelphia Record : Ex•Preeident An-
drew White, of Cornell University, in an
article on " The Government of American
Cities," in the December Forum, says
" About a year since, I stood upon' the
wharves and in the streets of Constantino
pie. I had passed from one end of Europe
to the other ; these were the worst I had
seen since I •
left home, and there name
over me' a epaene of homesickness. During
all my residence in foreign cities never
before bad the remembrance of New York,
Philadelphia and other American centres
been so vividly brought back to me. There
in Constantinople, as the result of Turkish.
despotism, was the same hap -hazard,"
careless, dirty, corrupt system which we in
Amerind know so well se the result of
mob d- e5tiem ; the same ' tumble-down
wharve t to same sewage in the docks, the
same 'pity meats fanged with murderous
atones, ' the same filth, the same °betaoles
. to travel and to trr;ffiu."
Bismillab ! but that is hard.
ALL the returns are not yet in, but
enough have been received to make it cer-
tain that the Methodist Epieoopal Church
of the United Stated has answered in the
affirmative the question, " Shall women
be admitted into the General Conference
as lay delegates ?" The following is a sum-
mary of the returns reoeaved : ,
Churches
Heard From. For. Against
Pennsylvania '' , 125 8,1114 3,269
Canada '...
Northern NeW York
New
Boeto d vicinity
9 169 239
70 1,047 1,053 0
61 1,261 25 a
Cindinnat and vicinity... 67 8,656 1,306 6
Michigan ' 88 1,534 289 h
Pittsburg 41 1,209 145759 p
Chicago.. 90 3,002 977 1
Buffalo 29
811
,
ban Francisco.... ..... ....., 26 939
660 3325 d
Omaha , 22 .
Washington 14 338 945 I
Total 6919 17,338 10,619 I i
This gives the women a majority of 6,719 g
votes out et a Coital of 27,957, or 62 per I
cent. of all those who oast a ballot are in o
favor of admitting lay women delegates. T
While the result of this popular balloting
will not be binding upon thee action of the
next General Conference of the Methodist
Ohurob,prominent clergymen of that
denomination express the belief that it
will have a very groat iefluenoe in ahaping
legislation relative to this interesting
gnoetion.
Cora -Wonder why the pretty young a
minister calla us ' lambs of the fold' ? in
Dora -Ott aecount el the elfeepa' oyes we 1 el
are always casting at l?im, I presume. ! d
A man who does a�good deed for dash', w
deserves no credit for it. , ell
the third a pale bine, using the same colors,
only more white. Tie the three fans
together in the shape of a large clover leaf
-with a - big -bow of blue ribbon.
A bets: LAMP.
Another novel nee for the palm -leaf fan
is to make it serve as the foundation for a
hanging fairy lamp : Cover a, palm -leaf fan
with yellow chinas- silk gathered loosely
toward the handle, wind yellow ribbon
round the handle, letting it end in long
loops. With` strong, wird attach a yellow
fairy lamp in the centre of the fan, add' a
strong loop behind to hang it by, and one
has a very dainty ornament fora bedroom
wall.
"cir i j,oiwuue :Notes.
PELEGRAPHIO 'SUMMARY. were found lying against the waffle, whe re
the waves had dashed them.
- A branch of the Ontario Bank has been Wm. Rowlands, formerly of the township
opened at Sudbury. of Howard, Sent county, sent to the pent.
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Gold to the amount of $250,000 has been tentiary for ant cog hie wife, died on
shipped from London for New York. Thursday' $is body was forwarded to ho4
home in Chatham today. His son William
The body o! Joseph Ririe, the engineer in Kingeton on Saturday stated that hie
who..loet. hie life at Lachine, hae?`'heen father was uot. in his right mind when he
found. killed hie wife.
The Imperial Board of Agriculture's in- Despatohee from India state that while
gniry into the Atlaxltio cattier trade is pro. the Second Battalion of the Third Goorkhs
greasing briskly. Regiment was on the march in the Shirt
Navigation closed at Owen Sound yes- Hills several of the men were stricken with
terday: Twenty-five vessels of all desorip- cholera. The troops went into camp at
tions will winter there. Guetheit. There were thirty men out of
A totr.1 -
a'ia�gvrnr of Edward McCabe, Bing- '�f """Y oi`aWunGll, who sax°nmued i0
le One ear I stonefell from a high ahlti _ Sthe disease. The battalion snhee nentl
,4uQ fit ➢PeIH 2 �il�exx,� u,_ _
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-�Iorxs�Itiid �fetnperaiioe unions in mime �
Edward's Island ; now there are eight.
The women of New Zealand, where fifty
yore ago oannibalism existed, have now
the right to vote for M. Pe.
Mies G. E. F. Morgan, Bnokingbam
Palade, Brecon, Sonth Wales, England, has
been chosen seoretary of the World's
Woman'e Christian Temperance Union
p *—a .'+.
upon T . e ere O tit' Ion against the traffic,
in intoxioating liquors and opium. Miss
Ylorgan is an earnest Christian, an ao-
ooinplished lady mild an experienced
philanthropist. She is tt friend. of Lady
Henry Somerset, who recommends her for
the place.
The Young Men's Christian Association
have petrohaeed the famous " canteen "
which ie situated so near the parade grogpd
-of the State oamp of instruction at Peeks-
kill, N. Y., as to virtaslly be in the oamp,
and when the national guard nett year
pee into oamp the banner of this associa-
tion will be floating from these buildings
that were formerly so objections -hie ; and
religious services, meetings of song and
harmless games will take the piece of in-
toxicating drinks and their degrading
accompaniments,
THE LONGER LIVERS.
SABLE), wtli be sure to be welcome. As the
fair ladies of Hamilton are interested in
finch things at the present time, the follow-
ing hints may houseful :
A'friend of the writer has just made a
" handy -bag," to be suependeal by rings to
the inside of the closet door. The material
was bine denim ; the edges were bound
with cardinal worsted braid. T
dimene•., ,: ;et...is,•e,
"is"'m out our set by two
„and a half. Upon this were mounted
pcckets of various sizes. The lower one
was wide and deep, and was labeled " pat -
Deena " in outline stitch with red cotton.
Cohere were for shoes, rubbers, slippers,
papers, string, linen, cotton and sundries.
£he top was out in deep pointe, to eaoh of
which was sewn a brass ring to hang it by.
It was, in fact, an enlarged shoe -bag, which
every ' woman' knows how to make. The
cost was trifling, but it is safe to say that
the recipient of this Imitate bag will bleee
the giver every day throughout the coming
year.
• The changes bgve been rung indefinitely
on all manner of bagel, big and little, orna-
mental and sturdily useful, until every one
has unlimited suggestions on this point.
Why repeat them ?
THE ROSELEAF PILLOW.
Very much the same thing may be said
of cuehione, although there are fashions
in the latter. One cf the latest of these.
is„Zhe roseleaf pillow (filled with dried
rose leaves..) A charming cover for one
of these refined cushions is made of
Dreamy India silk, upon which is
mounted a piece -of bolting oloth painted
with a design of roses. The mounting is
done with fanny stitches in pink silk. A
handsome bow of ribbon at one corner is
a pretty addition. A little pot pourri
mixture scattered through the rose leaves is
an improvement.
TRE 8LIIMBEB BALL cesHION.
Another new cushion is the slumber.
ball, which is made <of gibbons sewn to
gether, or oei k or ve vet, or in fact any.,
sort of soft material. The size is eleven
ineke a long and twenty•seven inches
wide. Gather the ends of the ribbons or
what not closely together, and stuff with
any of tho .materials need for the purpose
-down is the best ; next is feathers of
good quality. Finish the ends with pone -
pone or bows.
' c'BEDROO7$—SLIPPERS."
A pair of bedroom or invalid' slippers
with looped linings could hardly fail to
be acceptable unless one is already sup-
plied The, direotione for crocheting
these are copied from Demoreat'rMagazine :
The material required is wool in two
ceders and felt soles. The slipper is
worked from the toe in ribbed rowel, bank
and forth, in single °rootlet, taking each
stitch up from the bank of the one in the
preceding, crocheting in the looped lining
at the same time; whioh, 'in this instanoe,
was worked of dark bine and light bine
wool. Begin with the darkest woor and
work nineteen chain, and oroohet four
rows (whioh will make two ribs), working
three stitches in the centre each time
going back, whioh will make two in-
crease in each rib. This . increase of
stitches is repeated it, every return
row that is worked with the dark blue
wool, • while the forward rows are
worked with the light wool, and in
this the looped lining is worked.
Crochet, however, the first two and the
last two etitchee of these rows in the dark
wool, so as to have a dark band next to
the sole. For the'loope at the bank after
every seitch pass the wool over and around
an ivory knitting -needle. With eighteen
dark blue ribs, or thirty-six rows (the last
row should number fifty-six etitohee), the
top or middle of the slipper ie reached, and
the narrowing side -pieces begin. The first
row for each eide•pieoe, numbering sixteen
rows, or eight ribs, counts eighteen stitches ;
the laet, four, whioh leaves fourteen stitches
on the inner edge. The edge of`'the'slipper
is finished with shells of four double.
crochet each of the dark wool with a single
short oroohet between each. For the looped
Pining of .the sole crochet a piece of the
shape in the light wool, only taking up the
stitches in front so as not to make it ribbed.
When the solo is lined sew the slipper to it,
and oroohet a shell border around the aides
and heel, and finish with p pompon.
A CONVENIENT WRITINO•BOAiiD.
The same journal gives also suggestions
for a convenient -writing.board, which can
be made at a very trifling outlay of money
'and work. It• ie a plain wooden board, 23
by 18 inches, and oan be made narrower if
preferred. It is covered with dark blue
loth, though any color or material may be
sad, and the vaYfi,;t Y•.poo1 eta are of the
ame fastened. -',do n with fancy braes -
elided nails. In the centre is the blotting
ad, held in pile° by triangular pieces of
Bather or cloth.- A straight band of cloth,
ivided by rows of the braes nails, holds
he paper -knife, penholder, pencil and pen-
d -sharpener. Next tie the inkstand (whioh
° a leather -covered travelling inketand
lied on or held in place by a strap of
Bather or cloth), is a calendar and on the
pposite aide a toenwiper and a note -block.
he tablet may aleo be fitted with oloth
flaps at each end to fold over and entirely
cover the top when not in use, or to over
any -work whioh may be left upon it.
?OW TO M/(ItE AN OD) SPLASHED. •
(food Housekeeping has also direotione for
a number of inexpensive, nsefnl and pretty
artiolee. Among them is an odd eplanher.
T&make this take three palm -leaf tans,
nd in oils tint them according to the•color.
g of the bedroom. It blue, for one side
most pure Pre -seise blue, dark, rieh and
Sep ; the next paint a soft bright blue, for
hich mix white, emerald green, Antwerp
no and a tiny tonoh of cadmium. Make!
" An endeavor was recently made to
show that total abstainers do not live so
long as those who consume alcohol in
moderation ; also, strange to say, that
those who often drink to excess outlive
the teetotallers. Statements purporting to
coxae from the medical profession in Eng-
land were adduced in support. The whole
story had a suspicions appearance. The
facts were evidently cooked, but so skill-
fully as to deoeivo unwary people. All
persons possessing; common sense are aware
that an excessive consumption of alcohol
leads to ill health and a high rate
of mortality. But many are not
convinced that even what,is oalled moderate
indulgence tends to Iessen the duration of
lis: 'phe-Flnitacl Siugtfom-Tempsrance
and General Provident institution, Lon-
don, England, hae two classes of insurance,
one for total abstainers, and another for
temperance people who are not total
abstainers: All insurance officers carefully
avoid insuring the lives, of drunkards, or of
those whom they suspect to be inclined to
over -indulgence. That of itself is sufficient
to show that the universal-experience_of_
Tile offices is that alooholio exoese means
a high rate of mortality. The directors of
the ' before -mentioned institution at
their last annual meeting reported that for
the total -abstinence section on the
whole number of life policies for every 100
olaims estimated to fall due by the aotn-
ary's tables there had been only 59 deaths,
but that in the general seotion-that is
among those who drank in strict modera-
tion -the deaths amounted to 86 out of the
expected 100. Therefore, opt of equal
numbers of two lots of insurers -total
abstainers and temperate men -the ab.
stainers showed 45 per cent. better than
the temperate drinkers. -Toronto Mail.
Engineers supposed to be employed by
the Canadian Paoifio are striking a line for
a new bridge at Niagara Falls.
News of the death in California of John
O. McGregor, a well-known oommeroial
traveller, has reached Toronto.
An Indian constable was suspended
London yesterday for eupplying liquor
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During the march many more 1-oldiers were -
attacked by cholera.
Let the Hissing go Qn.
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ClevelandPlain Dealer : Mrs. Frank
Leslie has reoently written a dissertation
on kissing ; not the " soulful pull " sort of
at
kiesing that Amelia Rives tells about when
to giddy young 8flooners allow their lips tobe-wcn,
Advice° from Wellington state that the
general elections in New Zealand resulted
in the return of an equal number of Gov-
ernment and Opposition candidates.
A mass meeting of Irishmen, convened
at Montreal, paesed a resolution of oonfi-
denoe in Mr. Parnell as a political leader.
"Emperor William has ordered that
prayers be offered in the churches for the
sate accouchement of Empress Victoria,
which -is expected "to take place early in
January.
The returns of revenue and expenditure
for the Dominion for the month of Novem-
ber show large decreases in reoeipts as
compared with the corresponding month
last year.
The negotiations fcr a treaty of com-
merce between Austria, Hungary and
Germany are making no progrees, the
oonferenoe in session at Vienna having
thea far been barren of result.
The cold is so intense at Quebec that an
ice bridge has formed across the St. Law-
rence River. This is the earliest period
for the ice to form on the river within the
memory of the oldest river man.
A prominent Colchester farmer says
that Colchester South township is prac-
tically 'run by a gang of thieves. They
have become so daring of late that the
respectable citizens do •not know what
to do:
Wm. Wolverton, a Grand Trunk engine
driver, known as "Billy on tithe," dropped
dead at the Bonaventhre depot, Montreal,
on S 1u day_ aftern.00no-.-Intestinal perfor-
ation is thought to have been the cause of
death.
Chas. Slop and Emil Vogt, Elizabeth
City, N. J., Anarchiets, convicted of in-
citing to riot ata ,picnic in August last,
were Saturday sentenced to State Prison,
the former for two years, the latter -for' six
months.
Clerk MBP.hereon,_of.-the,,U..S.-House-of-
Representatives, hae just had printed the
unofficial list o! members -elect of the next
Hoose, showing 88 Republicans, 234 Demo -
orate, 8 Farmers' Alliance,1 uncertain and
1 vacant.
Two children of Wm. England, of Am-
herstburg• were playing, when the eldest got
bold of a bottle of liniment and gave some
of it to her little brother. The o"hild - was
soon stricken with spasms. Dootor° were
celled and used a stomaoh `pnmp,'but death
resulted.
Sir Riohard Cartwright will speak at
Mitchell on Monday, .December 15, and at
Clinton on Tuesday, December 16. At
Guelph on Saturday he , addressed a'
Boston Reporting, splendid meeting of the farmers of Welling-
ton county.
Boston Transcript : Interviewer -Mr. Ex -ging Milan has returned to Paris
Swelhed, I have come to get your views on from England. He is greatly enraged at
the proposed ohanpein 'the curriculum of the refusal of Queen Victoria, the Prinoe of
the//grammar school."Wales and Lord Salisbury to receive him.
Mr. Swelhed-" Curriculum 1 What' . He has hired a palace in Paris. His annual
that ? I'm agin it, whatever it ie."' allowance is $30,000.
Mr. Swelhed (reading the report of the
interview) -Our distinguished townsman, Three eighty-horee power boilers in the
Mr. M. T. Swelhed, was found at his ohabm- sawmill of Byers & Co., Columbia, Pa.,
in; home, surrounded by abundant indica- exploded Saturday morning. - The boiler
tion of ripe scholarship and sturdy Dom- hones was destroyed, and B. R. Foroy, a
mon tense. In reply to our reporter's resident of Williamsport, and C. Singer,
question he said : " I do not desire to force the fireman, were terribly scalded. The
my opinions upon the pnblio ; but this I former will die•
will say, that I have given to this question Pretty Alice Smith, one of the most in -
long andstudious attention, incidently teresting of the witnesses for the prose°u-
examining into the curricula of institutions .tion in the Birchen trial, is now Alice
of learning both at home and abroad, and Smith Blount, having married ' Joseph
although I find in the existing course of Blount, the Niagara Falls policeman. The
study not a few matters for condemnation, marriage was . celebrated in Buffalo
still, upon the whole, I cannot say that I City Hall at 4 o'clock yesterday after -
should advise any radioed change until I
have further time to examine into the sub-
jeot.", By George I. that feller'° . got my
exact language word for word 1 And he
didn't take no notes neither 1 By George,
what a memory that fellow must have 1
Rubbing Him Down.
New York Tribune : A prominent clergy-
man gives this desoripti-on of the life of a
minister :
"My experiences with churches make
me think that minieters are like oats.
When you go to a new place first everybody
Bays:
" ` Come, pussy 1 come, .pneey t nine
pussy,' and yon come.
" Then they begin to rub your fur and
say
" ' Poor poesy ! poor posey 1' and then
they say : 'Scat 1"
The season is rapidly nearing
When we'll all take a ride
And go gliding, sliding, glimmering
Down
the
Toboggan
Slide.
" While I was in Paris," said the re-
turned ballet girl, '� I saw Bernhardt as
Cleopatra. ,It was wonderful." " Was she
anything like Cleopatra herself, as you
remembar her ? " _pelted the jealous chorus
girt.'
The rage for colored candles is over.
White wax is the order of the night'and
light.
noon.
Thos. Savigny, a yonng'man employed in
John Armstrong's provision store on Water
street, Peterboro', fell through an open
trap door last night and had his nose
nearly torn off by etriking hie head on
the edge of the boards. The almost dis-
membered organ was stitched on by a
physician.
Emperor William, in, a recentspeech,
finds fault with- cramming pupils in the
High Schools with Greek and Latin to the
neglect of modern history, whioh, he says,
has the effect of prodnaing muddle-headed
would-be reformers of society and
" hn'nger candidates " for the ranks of
journalism. "`
Two employees of the Ontario Paper
Mill, Watertown, N.Y., met with.a terrible
death Saturday." They were lowering the
flood -gates at the flame when a long lever
with whioh they were working 'flipped from
their grasp, and swung around with -great
force, striking the men and inflicting injnr-
les frons whioh they soon died. Their names
were Soper and McLaughlin.
Saturday morning' Judge Horne looked
over the evidence in the case of Aid.
Egan, charged with stealing lettere from the
Windsor poetofioe, and then ordered Magis-
trate Bartlett to release Egan on $12,000
bail. 'The bonde,were furnished by one for
$8,000 with Egan's own name, and $4,000
with Samuel Blanning, D. T. O'Shea -and
Joseph Maisonville as Sureties. Egan was
released from jail at noon.
Baster hae a very good opinion of his During the hnrrioane whioh swept the
father's calling, whioh Ie that of a clergy- Atlantic coast On the let inet. the Mary.
man. Still he thinks there are other pro- land was boarded by a terrific sea, whioh
feselotis that tithe eerie!. rank with it, and, dashed those on deck in ell directions and
on being asked whether he too would be a "swept everything movableoverboard. When
clergymen when he grow up, he replied: "I the water subsided the lifeless bodies of
think no. Either that or a burglar."- Oapta Joseph Lnokhnret, Boatswain Joseph
1far fir's Young -People. Dogwell and' Second Cook George Tyler
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moon is behind a olond or the gas reduced
to a hungry spark, but the common •every-_. •
day sort of kieaing. Mrs. Leslie's direction
is good, so is her theory in parts, mirth as
kissing a child or one's grandmother. ,lint
why should she draw the lines so taut on
girls that are -well, girls that look kiesable,
sot kissableand are kissable ? Has Mrs.
Frank forgotten the days of her girlhood ?
What is the use of having girls in the world
if they are not to be kissed ? We do not
advocate street corner or tea-party kissing
bees. Far from it ; but we atand up for
the right of the girls. For Mre. Leslie,
now that she hae done most of her kissing,
to put allgirls on starvation allowance of
kisses is an outrage. What inducement
would Gen. Sherman have to visit young
ladies' schools under enoh 'a rule ? What
induoement would the moon have to go
under a" cloud ? What would tunnels, on
railroads be good for ? What would be-
come of Copenhagen? Nonsense, Mrs.
Leslie. Come off. Let the girta enjoy
their innocent osculatory indulgences and
let the only remaining pastime of the poor
editor remain as it is.
Blest Keep His Head.
A general ordering a battle has not so
confusing a task as the chief of a fire., te!i-
gade, who has to control a campaign
extending over a square half mile allgl forces
which arrive on the scene he knows not
when or where. The chief has to know
the - building and the resources of every
hydrant with regard to it. He has to decide
whether to. call ' out . the whole brigade and .
-whether-the-steam-engi s-ceerbe-e tivsii-
tageouely utilized. He has to plaoe each
ladder, reel or hose, where it will serve its
beet purpose in connection with the rest.
He hae to keep in mind exactly where each •
part' of the mechanism is so as not to dnpli-
oate or waste any. This has, to be done,
not after deliberate thought or planning,
but . on the inspiration of the taunted
momet, where on the tavieg of five min-
ute° depends success or defeat. It is easy
for the crowd to admire deeds of daring
and even recklessness on the part of the
brave men, but the opol decisions on whioh
the success and safety of the men depend
can only prove themselves by genera
result s. -Montreal Witness. -
Andrew Carnegie,Please Answer.
According to a newspaper report Andrew
Carnegie recently' committed himself to a
very curious statement. He averred that
the annual salary of the Prince of Wales
would suffice to. keep 30,000 people for a
year. Now, the annual salary of the Prince
of Wales is $565,000. Divided up among
30,000 people, it would amount to just $19
apiece. Mr. Carnegie seems to have very
queer ideas as to the sum of money that
would support an American workingman,
or, indeed, a workingman of any national-
ity, and enable him to provide the neces-
saries of life for himself and for his family.
Bat a still 'snore interesting question is .•
this ; How many millionaires of the type
of Andrew Carnegie oonld be supported
upon the annual salary of the Prinoe of
Wales ? And is it not, the least -bit indeli-
oate for a member of the gilded brotherhood
to be assailing a comparative pauper like
the Prinoe of Wales ?
How to Polish Furnitnire.
The new servant girl tried two kinds of
furniture polish on the rosewood dining
table. She deolared that American furni-
ture polish " was no good at all, at all." She
got half a pound of white bee's wax, two
cakes of oaetile soap, and a pint of turpen-
tine. She boiled the soap and wax together
-that is, she melted them until they ran
together. Then she poured in the turpen-
tine. All the hard wood in the hone°
shines like mirrors glass now. "'Tia the ..
way they make the bare shine in Dublin,"
said she.- New York Sun. -
A Blow to a Bottle Ring.-
Jnstioee Day and Lawrence on Wednes-
day held, in the case of Urmston vs.
Whitelog Brothere, that an agreement by
whioh a number of Lancashire mineral
water reseal/utterer) bound themselves for
a period of ten years ander penalties not
to sell mineral waters for less than 9d. per
dozen bottles net was an agreement to put
money into the 'pockets of the members of
the Mineral Water Manutitoturers' Aim -
dation at the expense of the public without
consideration, and could not be enforced by
law. ' Leave was greeted to appeal. -Lon-
don Weekly Despatch.
How It Originated.
A man named Gallagher was opposed to
his daughter going out to late dances in
the
country. One evening the girl went to
her father, in the presence of a few of hist
friends, and aeked permission to ge to le
concert and ball. He refused her request,
whereupon the company, almost with one
voice, exclaimed.: "-:Let her go, Gallagher 1"
Hence this saying that is now known in
almost every part of the world.
•
It is easier to manage a (witch than a,
train. Thiele a fashion note or a railway
tem, just as you please.
Early to bed, early to rico,
Mind your business, toll no lies,
Pay your debts and ad'vortiso.
Mrs. Gazzani—Who are the great no.
washed,' George ? Gazzam---Those on
whom the Queen has never conferred the
order of the bathr I enppoee.