Lucknow Sentinel, 1891-09-18, Page 3The 1rator'M Wooing.
711-eY considered the pastora trifle too young
Fier the staid congregation he'd settled among ;
Tethteheeddeacon acknowledged he never had
Sacha natural reading of Holy Word— •
'Twas the voice of the soul with the tone of the
• bell !
And the verdict so just
Was taken in trust
By the good deacon's daughter, the boautifu;
Nell. •
This handsome youug pastor was modest, de-
vout,
4lwaaa treading the path which he pointed
them out,
Bat,the best of his sermons, by common accord,
Was- an able discourse on "The Love of the
Lord ".;
And he treated his subject remarkably well,
_ __-_-But•-his thoughts often ran'
Oh the love of a man—
On the love of a clergyman young for Noll.
His sermons grew tender and so did his heart:
SI1ootfr arrows of truth, yet receiving the
da t
Frew he soft eyes of Nell, with their aim
dquble folds.
Thus love, made him timid while faith made
him bold,
And the secret remained that he never dared
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FIe could preach well .and prayw
If his heart would but stay
In the pulpit and not in the pow there with
Nell. ,
His preaching became such a labor of love,
With its constant communion below and stew,
While ho sat in the pulpit, ere service begun,
- With his head on his hand, as is commonly
done :
If he peeped throughis fingers, why, no one
could tell4
q8 To gaze on fair woman
Ha deemed it not wicked to gaze upon' Nell.
For the youth of his flock he was fervent fn
prayer ;
But one morning in church, curtain gossips de-
clare,
By a slip of t tongue, by an error'of speech.
While the stor .undoubtedly meant to be-
seech Y
The good Lord to keep all the young men from
—well.
That eternal shade,
He certainly prayed:
"The good Lord would keep all the young men
from Neill "
To consult him on matters of Church and of
State,
As we term a church fair and no truth violate ;
Nell had called at the study. The door stood
ajar -
Tho pastor was kneeling�, as -often -they are,
And --she coii-ld- not= retreat without breaking
the spell.
With her eyes on the floor,
Waiting there at the door,
Like a vision of peace, stood the beautifulNell.
He was pleading for all, but, as one might in-
fer,
Grew more eloquent when he was praying for
her.
Why be singled her out she could not under-
stand, -
Till she heard him aslc Heaven for her heart and
her hand.
No petition o'er suited a maiden so well.
Itis pi rare . •
Whenid's at prayer,
For he told to his God what he should have told
Nell;
•„Asangels appeared to the sainted of yore,
She knelt by his side on .the carpeted floor,
Put her soft hand in his as a silent•amen. ,
He soon found the vision was mortal and then,
He, blushing, caressed hor ; nor could she
rebel ; .
• For was she not there
--- -tn-answer-to-prayort- —: --
Thus God ioined together the pastor and Noll
It was heaven to him gazing into her eyes;
It was heaven to. him with the blue ,of the
skies.
In the thought of an angel becoming his bride
He forgot all the angels but her at his side,
.And love's sweet forgetfulness over them fell,
Till she said, "X declare
We forget the church fair 1 "
"I'm now holding the fair! "ho replied, holding
Nell.
'-SIZE JILTED DIM, -
• And Ile Wants $10,000 Damages for His
Loss.
John Innis, a carpenter, of Woodstock,.
is suingin the High Court of Justice Eliza-
beth ill, wife of Dr. A. H. S. Hill, of
Norwich, for $10,000 damages for breach of
promise of marriage: Tne marriage eon-
- was made on June 28th, 1887, when
the parties voWed that eaqh loved the other
and promised to be all in all to each other.
The plaintiff alleges that the plighted vows
were oft renewed, but that notwithstanding
this the defendant broke the sacred promise
and married another man. A motionwas
made to strike out part of, the statement of
claim as embarrassing. As an exhibit to
one of the . affidavits used on behalf of the
plaintiff was a cabinet photograph of the
fair defendant, displaying upon the third
finger of her left :hand a brilliant engage-
ment ring, which the plaintiff says was
given to her by him. Judgment on the
motion was reserved.
The Sign Was Fa se.
Owner of Fishpond (to man who is tres-
Fassing)—Don't you see that sign, " No
ishing Here " ?,
Angler (with an injured air)—Yes, and I
dispute it Why, there's good fishing here.
Look at this basket:
Extensive Patchwork.
Old GGiimes-Doctor,that bill'sextrava-
gant, and .I'll not pay it ! You did not
cure me.
Doctor—But I patched you up.
Old Grim s—Well, yes—so much so that
I can't tell Ohich is me and which is the
patch.
Sensational News.
• -Smiley—Did you bear of the great move-
ment in real estate yesterday ?
Riley—Ne ; what was it ?
Smiley=The earth made a complete revo-
lution upon itsaxis.
Chicago has nearly twice as many ,miles
of streets (on paper) as an other city, in the
world, and almost four times as many as
New York. The total mileage is 2,048.
Bridges and crops are suffering from the
rise of Oconee River, Georgia.
Plans are completed for the Oddfellows
''hall at Chicago, to be the highest building
on earth. It will be thirty -.two stories, 556
feet high; and '"ls to haveta foundation
seventy-five feet cep.
• Washington died shortly after 11 p.m. on
Saturday, December 14, 1799, the last year
of the century, the last month of the year,
the last day of tli! week, and within the
ast hour of the day.
John Penn, who,has just been elected to
the Britis rliamdnt, • is a deseondant of
the great Wt�ijlia Pon..
How is it tht the same weather which
makes youfs collar shrink from public gaze
bring your battered cuffs down over the'
knuckles of your hands f
TOILONTO UNCLEANNESS.
Moral Rottenness of the, Blooded Youth of
the Clty.
Discussing the rented boathonees on the
bay front the Empire of to -day says : - The
Wage of people who rent these houses are,
as a rule,well paid clerks. According to their
means they furnish their abodes. The
majority content themselves with an'imita
tion of camp life. A boat house is cheaper,
handier and safer when wanted pally for ine-.
moral purposes than a room up town.
Although many of the women who visit
• thes e. placesare street -walkers, the large
majority people hear stories about are shop
.girls who .ga to. the islandand_there they fa
into the clutches of the human hounds who
are looking for some innocent' girl to entrap.
-These hardworking girls are badgered into
an acquaintance with their male "friends”
who finally prevail on them toset out for the
city in their rowboats instead of by the
ferry boat. But the confiding girl whose
youth and innocence has induced her to
accept the invitation of the fellow who looks
eel, 'ri ” r`iV itE 3 e li ttiteM8 eVaiitt
where she desires. The boat draws up in
front of the boat house inhere her courtier
hangs forth, and she is induced by specious
reasons to enter•his net. The innocent girl
has reason to regret this ill-advised step in
most cases. Sheseldom leaves the place
without having taken a drink of liquor, and
if she refuses that, and all advances of the
• 'dual , �. ':: ,
g tnst a is . oa ' ouse, s e eaves
the pierce with a scarlet face and has to run
a gauntlet of curioutf eyes.
4A couple of brothers, now bearing a very
unviable reputation in connection with the
seduction a couple of weeks ago of a young
girl named Sadie Lavelle, who died a few
days ago on Teraulay street, have the
identical boathouse hired by the man who
first brought boathouses into disrepute.
These brothers, one of whom ruined Miss
Lavelle in his boathouse, are• cordially
detested by their lake front neighbors, one
of whom yesterday said : " Those boys
should be shot on sight. They have seduced
more girls than any other two men in the
city. Boathouse owners would uphold you
in showing up such people, as they would
be pleased to get rid of them."
It is hard to get hold of incidents which
show the prevalence of the iminorality
whichis admitted. There is a sort of .free-
masonry among the culprits,which it is next
to impossible to break through. But several
very damaging stories have leaked out. The
wife of a well-known citizen made a visit to
the lake front a few nightsgo, and while in
boathouse with her paratour she had a
$50 diamond ring stolen.
A pitiable story is told about the ruin of
a young lady teacher by one of the boat-
house libertines. She was in the city during
the N. E. A. convention, ond'was induce
to go for a row by her seducer, who landed
at his own boathouse. She was a bewitch-
ing little beauty, and her betrayer was heard
to boast of his dastardly act after she had
left the city.
Mailed Bis Letter.
• A freshman in a college in the pity, says
the " Youth's Companion," was anxious to
mail a letter. Having been told to drop it
into the red box at the corner, he hurried
out of the building and rain down the street.
He saw it red box, but could find no open-
ing in which to..put his letter. He searched
for any possible direction on the box, and
noticed in large letters " Ring. twice."
He rang twice and waited to see what
would happen, expecting a door to fly open
into which' he' could drop the letter.
Suddenly an open buggy dashed up, and a
man in blue uniform jumped out. .
" Where is it ? " he demanded.'
"Here it is, thank you," said the fresh-
man. " Please mail it at. once."
The 'fire-captainlooked at the letter and
then at the retreating student's figure.
Then • he dropped the letter into the box
across the street, reported the false alarm,
and went back to the station.
t
A Fearful Hetributton.
Mise Fanny—That hideous old Mr.
Jones had the impudence to propose to me.
Miss Jennie—You gave him the mitten
Miss Fanny—No, I did not. Just to pun-
ish him I accepted his offer. He . is worth
half a million. ,
• Mow to Shop.
Fair Shopper (in great store)_There,
this novel will do. Don't wrap it up.
Clerk—Don't wrap it up ? -
" No, . indeed. I'll sit down here and
read it to kill time While waiting for my
change." .
S. -J. Dixon wants permission to cross the
St: Lawrence River to St. Helen's Island
on a wire, wheeling • a man in a wheel-
barrow.
A terrific gale in North Wales has caused
further great damage to the crops. Prayers
weresaikisin-ihe ohurelies-yesterday-f
weather.
A clever instrument -maker has invented
a pair of scissors for surgical operations in
the ear canal.. The scissors will cut one-
sixth to one-fourth of an inch at right angles
td the canal and yet not obstruct the view
of the operator.
'She—You pretend not to care for me
now ; but yesterday, at the theatre • mat-
inee, you said I was one woman among
1,000. . -He—Well, I was ,mistaken. • The
manager tells me • to -day that there were
only a little over 900.
A weighing machine has been invented
which weighs cars at the lute of six per
minute, the cars being moved along the
track. A device automatically records the
weights on a piece of tape similar to that
used on the ticker machine.
The catacombs of Rome Contain the re-
mains of about 6,060,000 human beings, and
those of Paris about 3,000,000. The latter
,were formerly stone quarries.'
The church of Notre Dame in Montreal is
lighted by 400 incandescent electric lainps,
the power being generated on the premises.
Rdward McCaffrey, one of the men con-
victed in 1883 of complicity in ` the Invinci-
ble conspiracies which culminated in the
Phcenix Park murders, and who vas sen-
tenced to ten years' penal servitude, has
been released.
A French mechanic of 53 committed
suicide, because he had lost the power to
drink. He left a letrer saying: One,
of liquor wades me ill now. • As I can-
. without drinking I am killing my -
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
A revival of piracy in the Eastern Med-
iterranean is reported.
The onlyseurviving.officer of the battle of
Waterloo, General Whichcote, died yester-
day.
The wind blew a hurricane at Boulogne,
France, yesterday, and thirty houses were
unroofed.
The anthracite • eoal agents in New York
have decided not to make any change in the
present rates,
It is said that Geo. McBropm, of London,
will•.he appointed-mane.ger•o€ - the-W-innipeg•-
Industrial Exhibition.
Mrs. Thomas McKee of St. Thomas, was -
found dead kneeling beside her bed. The
cause ascribed -is heart disease.
News from Omemee, Ont., at a late hour
last night, stated that a big fire was raging,
and the whole town was in danger.
James Foster, of Romney, in eliding down
s$u5alesselt taleWereiYrlYeiti=ik-Ii3Yl*a''la4Y1'ei riliWilr
penetrated his body. He died in a few
hours.
A severe frost occurred in Manitoba on
Wednesday night. Reports of the .damage
done to the wheat crop are of a conflicting
character.
Sir Henry Tyler, Mr. Seargeant and other
G. T. R. officials visited Penetanguishene
Alps, fell- over -a precipice and -was killed.
Officials of the C. P. R. and G. T. R.
had a lunch together at Dorval, Que.,
on Friday. It was in honor of Sir Henry
Tyler.
An extraordinary rainstorm and elec-
trical disturbance visited Baltimore last
night.
The Galewski Cotton Company, in the
cotton cloth manufacturing • bnstneae .at
Warsaw, Poland, has failed for 00,000
rubles.
The annual convention of the National
'Electric Light Association will beheld to-
day in Montreal. About 300 delegates are
-espected-teeattend:. _ ._,_ _ -_
Troops to .the number of 150,000 have
-been ordered -to Warsarw. This will -bring
the number of the Russian forces on the
Polish frontier up to 500,000..
Senor Don Pedrunencio Lazzano, the
Chilian Minister at Washington, has left
for Europe, virtually admitting the com-
plete success of the Congressional party.
has been in jail several:weeks charged with
having shot his brother John, intending to
kill him, was discharged by Judge Elliot.
Sophie Guengberg, ''the famous Russian
Nihilist, who was sentenced in November to
imprisonment for life, has committed suicide
by cutting her throat with a pair of scissors.
There are indications that thet
'PiEelillI It:NT PEOPLE,
And What the World guys About Them
Through the Press.
Astor's daily income is $23,000.
Mr& Henry Ward Beecher is 79
Mr. Lowell left a $47,000 estate.
John G Carlisle is in New England. •
Jay Gould hasn't re;l il. a.newspaper- since
May.
Mrs. Mackay has a string of flawless
diamonds two yards long.
Princess Clementine,. daughter • of the
King of the- Belgians, is about to become a
-nun.--
Henry-
Irving's throat is again as cleat as
a whtstle"a-nd-he is ha�-ing--a good- 'time at_
Malvern.
Novelist Eggleston is soon to marry Miss
Anna Geode, a daughter of Dr. E. S. Goode,
of Madison,9lnd.1
.. James R. Garfield, of Mentor, O:, son of
the late President is a candidate for State
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`e3�•�ii•'I� I'Y b• �y 8 a r.
Miss Elizabeth Bisland, is about to marry
Mr, Charles W. Wetmore, Secretary of the
American Steel Barge Company.
Wendell Phillips' memory is to be hon-
ored in Boston by a public hall bearing his
name. It is well to honor such men.
Miss Jeans, who has won the Cobden Club
` res prize for an essay nn nnlipeal eennnnw
went to Orillia in the evening.
Joseph Drohan, a young son of Mr. Thos.
Drohan, was kicked by a horse last night.
His lower jaw was broken in two places,
the upper jaw fractured and several teeth
knocked out.
In the band competion at Owen Sound
yesterday Brantford secured first prize and
Durham second. Prof. King of Bay • City
made a successful balloon ascension and
parachute drop.
Mr. Robert Birmingham, organizer of the
Conservative party for Ontario, was yester-
day presented at Ottawa by the members of
the Dominion and Local 'Houses with an
address, accompanied by $2,200.
Graham,, the _man _from .-Toronto, -sent
down in 1887 on a life sentence for throwing
vitroil into the face of a cigar dealer, made
an unsuccessful attempt to escape from the
Kingston Penitentiary on Sunday night.
Capt. Andrews, of the dory Mermaid, ar-
rived at Antwerp yesterday on the steamer
Elbruz from Baltimore. It is supposed he
gave up his race with the Sea Serpent or
that some accident happened to his boat.
Reports received yesterday from Valpa-
raiso say the renewed fight has resulted in a
victory for the President's forces, and than
the army of the Congressional party has
been forced to an unconditional surrender.
At about 1 o'clock 'this morning Samuel
McGuire, of 45 William street, Toronto,
'was struck by a train at the foot of Simcoe
street, sustaining a compound fractureof the
arm. He was removed in the ambulance to
the hospital. - .
`The inquest into —tlie death_ of -Madge
Stapley, the young girl who died last week
at a house of evil repute on the Russell road,
Ottawa, was brought to a close last evening.
The jury returned a verdict that death was
due to natural causes. z
The Danish War Minister has followed
the example of the German military
authoritirs and decreed that henceforth
wheat shull be used in the making of bread
for the army instead of rye. Denmark
depends largely on Russia for its supply of
rye.
At the Brandenburg manceuvres,whilethe-
cuirassiers were making a charge, some of
the spectators failed to keep outside the
linea and were run over. A woman -with her
child in her arms was knocked - down and
both were killed. A number of other spec-
tators were somewhat injured.
Mr. John Ireland, who wasshot at Wood-
bridge on Tuesday night, is in a much more
dangerous condition than was at first antici-
pated. His medical attendants ' have ex-
tracted 52 grains of shot from his thigh,
while more are still embedded in the flesh,
and it is feared blood poisoning will result.
A despatch from the city of Mexico says.
the financial condition of Guatemala is de-
plorable. For the past three months
neither the army nor the Federal employees
have been paid. The Minister of Finance
has just issued a circular letter stating he
expects to be able to pay oo this • indebted-
ness by the receipts of the tax • levied upon
coffee exports.
A despatch received at the Chilian Lega-
tion at Washington from Buenos Ayres
states that the troops of the Chilian Gov-
ernment have had another engagement with
the insurgents' forces near Valparaiso and
were completely victorious. The insurgents
were.heinmed in between two fires of the
Balmacedan troops, and were unable to carry
out an attempt to retreat to" their ships,
ioh-were-lying-off-the coastsand-assisting-
them as far as lay in their. power. Itis re-
ported in Buenos Ayres th:l the insurgent
forces have' surrendered. !,'
London millers have abandoned the use
of the grain tester.
A fine vein of ,mica has been found on a
farm in Loughboro township.
Jules.Elie-Lauany, the French painter
who was born in 1828, is dead.
The discovery is reported of great coal oil
fields in the region of the Caspian Sea.
An American giving the name of Carlo -
ton Graves has been arrested in Germany as
a spy. .
A general strike of colored cotton pick-
ers is expected throughout the Southern
States.
' At the requeat of the Italian Governipent
Germany has undertaken to protect Italian
residents in Chili. -
The wealthier monasteries in Russia are
devoting funds to relieve the destitution
among the lower classes.
The Vatican has for the third time re-
fused to accept Russia's nominees forthe
vacant bishoprics in Mirada.
Mr. John L. Pierre, one of the best
known of Ottawa lumber merchants, died
suddenly on Saturday morning.
At Latona, near Durham, James Young,
aged 67, fell from a dart, striking on his
head. He died in tivo minutes.
Hon. John Dofninis, Prince Consort of
Hawaii, died, on August 27. He was born
in Schenectady, N. Y., in May, 1832.
Dr. Hoist, a Prussian magistrate, while
ascending Mount Terglou,in the Garnic
was settled some time ago, will be • renewed
owing to the alleged bad faith of the com-
panies.
The Provisional Government of Chili has
been constituted, and it will send a circular
letter to the powers calling upon them to
recognize the present Administration of
Chili.
The Czar gave an audience to Arnold
White, of Copenhagen, on the Baron Hirsch
scheme on Friday. It is reported the inter-
view was satisfactory. Mr. White expects
another interview soon.
Charles Collander, a Torontonian, charged
with committing a rape on his own daugh-
ter, a girl under 14 years of age, was re-
mandedtill to -morrow by the- Police Magis-
trate on Saturday and bail refused.
At Eberswalde College, while the chemis-
try class were engaged in an experiment
under the guidance of the professor, an ex-
plosion of chemicals blinded four students'
and injured in a lesser degree a numberr, of
others.
The wife of Rev. Charles Spurgeon has
issued a card of thanks farthe public and
private sympathy expressed for her sick hus-
band. She adds that she is sorry to say that
he is making. little if any progress towards
recovery..
A very severe thunderstorm passed over
Paris on Thursday, which killed four per-
sons in the environs of the city. Scientists
assert' that the Eiffel tower causes electrical
disturbances, and that, the climate has
been very much worse since, the tower was
built: .
-ItISrreported-tliaiChaiiGelTorT-VonCa�privi
and Count Kalnoky have had a long and
earnest conference on the Dardanelles ,ques-
tion, and that they will' likely advise Eng-
land not bebe precipitate in her action.
They hope that time will solve the diffi-
culty.
Valentine Dolsor,, Hespeler, charged with
committing. an indecent assault on Ettie
Cooper of the same place, at a picnic held
in Elora, was sentenced Saturday by Judge
Chadwick. Tl e sentence was eighteen
months in the Central Prison and 25 lashes,
The prisoner p:eaded guilty to the charge.
The change in the Turkish Ministry is at-
tributed to the Sultan's suspicion of a plot
to bake his life, such suspicion arising from
a sudden extinguishing of the gas in the
palace during a storm recently, and an ex-
plosion of fireworks, on which occasion the.
Sultan dismissed and arrested several
officials.
Mr. Pearce, father of Mr. Harry Pearce,
baggage -master at the G. T. R. station,
Strathroy, was painting the residence of Mr.
Glenn, of Adelaide, in company with Mr.
John Robinson, and while working on an
elevated scaffold, some, 14 feet from the
ground, fell, and lighting on a pile of bricks,
broke several of his ribs. He died on
Friday. '
In a communication just made public Mr.
Gladstone writes in favor of increased re-
presentation of labor in Parliament, but
deprecates the formation of a • labor party.
His objection to such a party, in his own
words, is on the ground that " if every class
of the community exercised the right to form
a party, we' should have a . queer Parlia-
ment."
Lizzie Taylor, a young woman from Bid-
dulph, was committed . for trial . by. Squire.
J. B. Smythe, on Saturday, on a charge of
manslaughter in connection with the . death
of her female infant. One witness said she
did-not-feed-it-properly-,--in_faet,--ihe-child
was starved ; and another witness swore to.
the unnatural mother saying that she gave
her child black strap • and water and butter-
milk.'
Dan Johnstone was arrested at Brantford
on Thursday on rather a serious charge, viz.,
that of atte,inpting to commit rape upon a
married woman who lives on the outskirts
of London, and who was milking a cow in.
the yard at the time of the alleged offence.
Johnstone remembers being at the place in
question, but claims that he was drunk at
the time, and does not recollect , all that
occurred. Detective Allan took the pri-
soner back to London.
There was an exciting scene at the
Brompton , Oratory yesterday. . As the
superior, Dr. Bowden, was proceeding down
the crowded 'church to hear confessions, a
contractor named Myers, a former wor-
shipper.in the ohurch, leaped from behind a
pillar, brandishing a cane, and began to re
vile'the minister. He soon added blows to
words. The women in the vicinity were
panic-'ktricken, and it was some time before
the male attendants could reach the spot
and rescue the superior. Myers was seized
and police aid summoned, the result being
that he was held to await the. outcome of an
inquiry into his sanity.
Modern Consistency—Sporting man—See
here, I want my subscription stopped. I
can't stand those violent editorials of yours
on the sinfulness of racing. Editor—But,,
ml' dear sir, you call ty do without our paper.
No other gives so complete a report of the
races,
Labor Day in Quebec will be properly
Celebrated.
too. •
James G. Blaine, jus., will contest ibis
wife's appeal for divorce. It is said that
counter charges of the gravest eharae'4er will
be presented.
The young Prince of Napl'es, heir to the
throne of Italy, is said to bie a model Prince,
intellectually and moi alias Be its an only
child, idolized by his pyrreuts, and a scholar
and a gentleman in every sense of the word.
In England the onion doctor seems to
be getting along very finely. Queen Vic-
toria'a daughter, Princess Christian, em-
ploys a woman ae her physician when her
nerves trouble her. Her attendant at such
times is •a Well-known specialist, Dr. Julia
Maitland.
ue an a ' ue-s oc . mg,
1.
The Queen of Italy is near sighted and
wears ,spectacles sometimes, but her
husband doee not like to see them on her
nose and he says now and then : " Margaret,
if you don't take those things off I shall
sing." The unhappy woman, who heard him
sing once, tears them off with cries of ap-
prehension.
The news of Mme. Sarddu's illness. brings
out the story of her romantic courtship. She
met the famous dramatic author for the first
time at breakfast one morning at her own •
horife, where he had come to consult her
father, M. Soulie, director of the Palace of
Versailles. Itwaa a case of love at first
sight, and before Sardou left the house she
had given him her heart. -
A Curious Sentence.
The follwing curious sentence, " Sator
etepo "tenet opera -Iotas;'" is pretty rbaa-
Latin, but may be freely translated. " I -
cease from my work ; the sower will wear
away his wheels." It has these peculiarities :
First—It spells backward and forward the •
same.
Second—The . first letter of 'each -word
spells the first word.
Third—The second letter of each word
spells the second word, and so .on with the
third; fourth and fifth.
Fourth—The last letters, read backward,
spell the first word ; the neat to the last,
the second word and so on throughout.
Fifth—There are just'as many letters in
each word as there are words. s.
Maternal Counsel.
At the summer hotel. •
Mamma—Ethel, 'I 'am astonished that
you are so friendly with the Bogies chil-
dren. '
Ethel—But they are so sweet and nice.
Why may I not play with them ?
Mamma (freezingly)-Is it necessary for
me to remind you of the fact that the
Boggleses came here with only ten
trunks ? Try to bear • in mind that you
come of fifteen -trunk parentage.—Pittsburg
Bulletin. ,
Getting E'vea.
"Ah 1. play a litile before you go, pro-
fessor?"
" I would like to, Miss Emma, but it's
rather late; and I might disturb the neigh-
bors."
" Oh ! don't bother abort the neighbors.
Besides, they poisoned our dog last week." •
In Safe -Beeping.
New York Weekly : Doctor—Did you
have a heavy chill ?
Fair Patient—It seemed so.
Doctor—Did your teeth chatter?
Fair Patient—No ; they were in my
dressing room. •
Not a Supposable Case.
,Dansville Breeze : " No, Gubbins, you.
will never be ce brain worker."
's Why not? " •
" Haven't got the tools."
But Not to Their Senses.
Ottawa Free Press : = Our Tory
have come to their census.
friends
Bard on Canada.
Moniteur du .Commerce : Nations have
the governments they deserve.
A valuable bird dog' owned by a Grass•
Valley, California, man was recently shown
a parrot. He immediately " ppi5nted,"
when polly marched up in front of him and
said ",Yop're 'a rascal." The terrified
dog turnedr his tail ''and' ran away, and is ,
ruined for "hunting, as he can not now be
to "point' at any sort of bird.
Illuminated walking sticks are among the•
latest applications of electricity. A small
'incandescent lamp is concealed in the'
head of the cane and can •• be ignited by a.
spring.
A man in St. Louis proposes to walk from
that town to Chicago on a tight rope
stretched twenty feet above the ground.d
—Doctor -Did you shake the medicine
before taking ? Patient—Certainly. It
wastoolate to give it the shake after
taking.
Gold coin is shipped abroad in five-
gallon iron -bound oaken kegs. Each keg
holds ten bags and each bag contains $5,1000,
so that the value of a keg is $50,000. Gold '
'from the other side usually tomes in boxes.
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