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The Ole Plne Box. •
We didn't care in ghee bag agn -
For easy alialartarat were made for show..
With velvet cushions -in red and black
Afore he knowed it—like them in town—
T111 his heels flow up and his head went
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down!
But the seat we loved iwth.e times o' yore °
Wuz the ole pine box by the grocery store!
Thar it sot in the rain an' shine.
tour feet long by the ineaeuraa line s •
Under the ehiee-berry treee-
Jaraas coy as she could be t
Fruit headquarters for inferrnation—
Best ole box in tire whole creation ;
Reeked. etel itled the wrouewitn rnyme,
Au' sto Warned soatable all the time.
Thar we plo ted an' thar we planned,
Read the news in the paper; and
Talked opolly ticks, fur and wide,
Got mixed up as we argatied
An' the ole town fiddler sawed away
At " Ole Dan Tuckeefain' aXettyaaeea, alleeeeeee,
esaateeefaatillaleaffiaaffiallalefiey am tado.moie
Like the ole pine box at thegrocery aorta
It thar now, as it wuz that day—
Burnt, I reckon, or throwed away ;
.An' orne o' the folks 'at the ole box knowed
Is fur alobg on the duty road;
An' some's crest over the river wide
An' found le home on the other.sides.
• Thee thea all' forgot? Dont they sigh no more
For the ole pine box by the grocery store/
—Frank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution.
World' Fair Notes.
Day and night shifts of men are now
worked on all the expos'ilm buildings.
The President of E cutdor has ordered
that a complete distil o women's work
shall be preparetla tfl e f '
Paraguay has decide participate in
the Exposition. Barbadoe French Guiana,
Ceylon and Corea have also joined the list.
The District of Columbia has •decided to
ask Congress for an appropriation of $50,000
to enable it to make a creditable exhibit at
the Fair.
The upholsterers of Philadelphia have
applied for 50,000 square feet of space in
the Manufactures Building for a collective
exhibit from their several establishments.
The Department of Electricity is making
an effort to secure a complete collection of
historical electrical apparatus in order to
show the progress of the science from early
times.
British Guiana. has appointed its Royal
Agricultural and Commercial Society a
World's Fair Commission to represent the
colony, and has appropriated $20,000 for an
exhibit. ,
The Daughters of inerican Revolu-
tion have been granted. 3,000 square feet for
an exhibit in the Woman's Building. The
organization, of which Mrs: Harrison is
president, has 1,000 members.
The American Street. Railway Association
has applied for 50,000 square feet in the
Transportation Building, and has appointed a
• ommittee to help Chief Smith get a suitable
exhibit, which will be collective.
Three women have' been appointed in
Dutch Guiana to collect a display.for the
women's ,department, And in \ Mexico and
quite a number of other eomitrie-s provisions
for women's displays are being made.
Mexico has made. a World's Fair appro
priation of $50,000. This is only prelimin
nary, however, and it is fully expected that
the whole of the $750,000, which was'
asked for, and perhaps more will be voted.
Hassan Ben .Ali, of Morocco, irseeking a
concession to make a Morocco exhibit at the
Exposition, He says he will spend $50,000
in showing the people,
manners, • customs,
amusements; etc., of his country, and in
bringing to Chicago a tribe of Berbers.
The Catholic Church in Chicago wants to
make an exhibition at the fair, and has ap-
plied for 75 x 75 feet of space. The exhibit,
according to, the request, is to consist of,
first, kindergarten work ; second, , primary
grades ; third, grammar schools ; fourth,
colleges and academies ; •fifth, industrialschools,
schools, orPhanages, and deaf and dumb in-
stitutes.
A. Contented child.
Fond, mother—How do ,you like your new
governess, Johnny?
Johnny—Oh, I -like her ito much.
" I'm so glad. my little boy has a nice
teacher at last."
"
Oh, she's awful nice. She says she clou't
care whether I lefties anything or not,so long
as pop pays her salary."
• 'A Warning 10 Employ'ell?;•
Brantford Ea.po:di,»r lhc truant officer
.has made u'p his mina to .rigorously enforce
the provisions of the Public School Act,
even to the proeecetioo of employers who
employ children undbr.schoel age. •
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An Italian professor predicts that in
a few • ,centuries there will be no more
blondes.
inesientientaaWiN
We have selected two ot
Croup. • three lines 'fromletters
freshly received from pa-
rents who have given German Syrup
to their children in the, emergencies
of Croup. You will credit these,
because they come from good, sub-
stantial people, happy in finding
What so many families lack --a med-
icine containing noe. ,i1 drug, which
mother can adrnimster with con-
,fidence to the lit e ones in their
inost critical • hours, 'safe' and sure
that it will carry them through.
F,n. L. WILLITS, of Mrs. Jns.W. Ktak,
Aline, Neb. I give it Daughter& College,
to iny children when Harrodsburg, lay. I
troubled with Creep have depended upon
and never saw any it in attacks of Croup
preparation act like With my little ilaugh-
it. It is simply mis ter, and find it an in-
raculous. . •. valuable retnedy.
Fully one-half of our customers
are mothers who rise llosehee'S Ger-
man Syrup among their- children..
A medicine to be successful with the
little folks Must be t. treatment for
the sudden and terrible foes of child-
hood, whooping cough, croup, diph-
theria. and the dangerous milamma-
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.... Isseeeeeke_ al.
SHORT ON POLITICS.
Why Farmer Hayseed Declined to Mous*
the Issues.
It was on a Fourth avenue car coming
down from the Graudeenral, says the New
York World. A mau about 60 years of
age, who had just arrived by train, sat
down beside a youngish man who had ben
talking politics.
" Beg pardon, but you are from the in-
terior of the State ?" queried the younger
man after abit.
" Yaas," was the curt. reply.
"From Elmira?"
" No ; near Auburn,"
" Ah ! well, I suppose the campaign is
booming up your way?"
The old matielooked sharply at him but
"I suppose the campaign is booming up
your way ?" repeated the politician.
" I don% want nuthin' 1..o say tq you on
politics)," replied the old man as he drew
himself away. "A feller on the train be-
gan on me just this way, and we hadn't
talked five minutes before he called me a
blamed old liar and said he could lick me
in two minits. Corn is purty fair and
taters is a big crop, and I ain't sayin'
word about politics."
Fact Upon Fact.
There are nearly 10,000 steamships in the
world.
In London there is one doctor to every
880 people.
Nearly a quarter of all cases of insanity
are hereditary. '
" Thomas" occurs, on the average, thirty-
nine times in' every 1,000 names.
Gipsies originally came from India, not
Egypt, as is usually supposed.
The average length of life is considerably
longer in England than in France.
Tea is very cheap in China"; in one pro-
vince of the empire good tea is sold at lid.
a pound. •
The entire coast -line of the ,globe is about
136,000 miles.
All the world over at least 35,000,000 peo-
ple die every year. •
.Directors of the Bank of England receive
salaries of £500. ,
Sandwich in Kent, Eng., was once a sea-
port, though it is now two miles from the
shore.
• ' London postmen are said to walk on the
average 12 miles a day.
About 300 deaths from accidental pois-
oning occur in England every year.
More than 200,000,000 pounds of tea are
consumed in England every year. •
The largest known moth is the Giant
Atlas, a native. of China, the wings of
which measure 9 inches across.
The first steamship., to 'cross the Atlantic
*as the RisingSun, in the year 1818.
Theatres. are -most -common in the United
States, where 'there are about 65 to every
million inhabitants. •
The Earl of Snerfieen's Jam: Factory.
Toronto Telegram : At first sight Lord.
Aberdeen's project of establishing a jam
factory in • British Columbia looks like a
theine for tespectful jests. Think below'
the surface, and the scheme takes a nobler'
aiipearance. It is a • departure from the
line of activity usually adhered to by the
nobility arid. gentry. Arabition• might have
led His Lordship to associate the name
of Aberdeen' with sbme glorious
but empty act of statesmanship. He
.chose the better part. Canada is not
suffering for any hand -made constitutions:
Lords and .earis cannot invent new systems
of Government, ma become benefactors by
adjusting imported laws to our needs: Lord
Aberdeen •did what he could. He saw a
great stretch of country adapted to fruit
erowine. Ile had the skill to see and the
money to improve an opportunity. It was
easy then to adorn the wilderness with a
jam factory. Future generations will eat
British Columbia canned .fruit, and remem-
ber with gratitude the illustrious founder of
theindustry when the names of greater
noblemen who merely tinkered with our
leen are forgotten.
The Tomato.
No vegetable lies undergone a greater.
development inthe last generation than
the thereto.' Persons. who. still esteem
themselves'young well remember the time
when the only tomatoes to be sceu were
the small round or oval ones called love.
apples and deemed incdihlc. They Seem to
nave been appropriated for table use first ie
this country, for an old English traveler.
tells how he astonished his fellow -diners at
a continental table d'hote by eating the
tomaters placed on the table purely . as
garniture.
A New 'Word.
Philadelphia Pecord : ' +here is a very
good word in use in many parts of the
United States which is not found in the
dictionaries. It is the word " briggle," and
is used in the sense of , futile dalliance..
The action' of the presbyters in the Briggs
heresy • case affords a fine example of
" briggling."
Careful of Her Reputation.
New York Herald : Dying wife—I want
you to promise me that you will marry
again, John.
Husband—Do you really wish it ?
Dying wife—Yes ; I don't want people to
say I was the means of souring yod on my.
sex.
Ms Reputation Shattered.
Weekly's Ltaa Maddox --I always
thoeght Cumso had the reputation of being
a smart man.
tlazzam—Well ?
Maddox -I detected him baying an um-
brella to -day.
Too •Slow.
Tom—The old gentleman eaught ine.kies-
ing Alice last night.
Ned—Pip surprised. Von ought to go
slow about such things.
" Why, I went altogether, too slow about
i4. Thee's hetet' ere (allele,"
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E. \Verner, the German novelist, trans-
lations of whose stories are so poptddr in
this country, is Elieabeth Burtenleinder.
She is a spinster and lives in Berlin.
The recent municipal census of Toronto
makes the population of the city 188,914,
as against 181,220 by the Dominion census
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A HAMILTONIAN'S WOES.
He Embarks on the Matrimonial Sa Only to Get
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HARRIED TO ANOTHER MAN'S 'WIFE.
A Cleveland despatch says : A man
appeared at the Police Prosecutor' s office at
• the central station Thursday and asked for
a warrant for his wife upon the charge of
bigamy. His name is C. W. Smith, and his
oocupation that of a fancy painter and
decorator. 'He came to this city
about two weeks ago. He said
that his life was a wandering one as
laraiiitatalaanceillitatfadaaaaaralitiiaraiaralhiba
place, and that he came here from Ash-
tabula, where he had been working on a
church. His home and relatives are in
Hamilton, Ont.,
which place be left not,
long ago. About three weeks ago he went
to Ashtabula in search of emplcfyinent, and
was engaged shortly after his re -rivet On
Friday, Oct. 23, he met at the St. James
Hotel, where be was staying, a young
domestic employed there, by the name
of Lydia Anna Russell. ' The young
Woman was comely, and Smith lost
his heart to her at once. He wooed with
such success that on the following Wednes-
day they went before a Justice of the Peace
and were' ma -a -lied. Mrs. Smith is nineteeti.
years of age ands the painter felt that •his
cup of joy was full. They immediately re-
moved to Cleveland and engaged a suite of
roams near the corner of Bank and Lake
streets, where the honeymoon was spent.
The young wife appeared happy and joy-
ous and for a few days all went well. But
soon a cloud seemed to have fallen over the
spirits of the young woman, and she was
pressed by her husband to divulge the
cause. For several days she wound not
speak, but finally on Wednesday of last
week she revealed to.hini the reason of her
sadness. She was not his legal wife, she
said,.for she had another husband living,
and, more than that, a little daugh-
ter, 3 years old, was with its grandmother
itt Chicago. She was married to a man
namedTrank E. Dowd, atkenox,.0., about
four years ago, but he deserted her. Smith
had grown deeply in love withthe woman
he supposed to be his legal Wife, and her
story was a severe blow to him,i Had he
been alone in the world he said he should
not have minded so much, but his relatives
in Ontario are respectable people and he
thought it his .duty,, for their
sakes, to . free himself from the dis-
grace that he felt must at present be
attached to his name. When asked if he
could produce proof of the woman's former
marriage, Smith replied in the negative,
'but said' she would swear to the fact that
it was true. This did not satisfy the re-
quirements of Police Court , ,practice,
and the warrant. was refused. Smith
was, seen at ._ his room_ lest night and
'appeared to be broken down by the sad
tide his affairs had. taken. He said he
should have committed suicide, such was
his grief, but was deterred by the thought
that it was the only unpardonable sin. His
eyes filled with tears and his voice became
husky as he recited the tale, and his woe is
evidently -no unreal thing to him. He does
not know what he shall do next. He affirms.
that he has.not the least particle of sympa-
thy for the woman, while he weeps bitterly
over her deception.
The Pauorama a Scotch InVentlen.•
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Towards the end ofthe last century,,,
about 1785, a young Edinburgh painter,
named Robert ,Baker, was thrown into
prison by biscreditors. His cell was under-
ground, receiving the daylight from a hole
in the ceiling. For a long time he failed to
notice the manner M which the light struck
the walla, when one day, receiving u letter,
he p1 ced • t to reed • it against
the light side of " the , wall. The
effect, .appeared to him so novel and ex-
traordinary that he resolved as soon as. he
was Lee to repeat it on haegeaized pictures,
the light being made , to -fall
from above. The year following
he took out 'a patent for an. en-
tirely new contrivance . by him
" La Nature a Coup Dial," and Ellice
called " panorama," for the purpose of
displaying views of nature on a large scale.
This aceording to i1. Germain Bapst, in a
highiy inter est ing, monogrmonograph emitted
" L' Hietorie des Panoramas,' ,just issued
by tiles .National Printing Press• in France,
settles the ofrigin of the invention, although
the honor was disputed by Provost, in
France andBreysig in Germany: )3apst,
however', shows beyondaloubt • that Barker
really discovered the' principle of pano-
ramic views. His first circular penoramte
representing the British fleet at anchor off
Portsmouth, was exhibited in Leicester
satrap in 1792, the first on the 'continent
appearing in Paris and Berlin in 1800.. Next
year will therefore be the centenary of
panoramaa.,
A Hint Wor*h Taking.
Detroit saaen.s : Rev. S. P. Holcombe, of
Detroit, made a telling point when he said
in the. convention of Christians at week in
Washington yesterday that- 'While it 'wag a
good idea to start • paupers to work, yet it
was not right to expect them to do 25 c'ents'
worth of work in return for a 15 -cent
meal and then brag about wliat
splendid mission work is being done: The
church 'workers. must learn to render value
for value This is a fundamental principle
in economics, and right good religious
doctrine, too. In the last analysis there is
no conllict hi good religion and good econoe
mics. Science and religion are in peafect.
harmony here, but some of the church
workers need to learn this truth.
The first Chair of -Labor ever instituted in
Europe was decreed by the Paris Municipal
Council. last .1 uly. Henre Reville. has been;
nameel. aS Professor. He wilt lectureatt the
Hotel de Ville. • •
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A Chemnitz mechanic has,justconstracted
a aorieontal steam engine, with valve gear
and all appurtenances complete, within the
eh ell' rd an ordinary 1 tot ftalian no t. It is the
seediest (elate, in the tterld. The .1;enteter
of th'e fly wheel is 10 millimetres (0.1 inehl ;
the boiler is 18 millimetres (0.7 inch long
and 6.5 millenetres (0.26 inch) high. The
engine is intanded for spirit -
heating, and it is stated to work very well
—After a than 'and woman hate been mar-
Had five yearly both eln•im to have been
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pIEWS OF ‚THE WEEK.
•
Horse distemper is prevalent in the neigh-
borhood of Kingston. •
A feinily of tettr perlinilaws barned kt.
deatb at Columbus, O., yesterday enorning.
Mrs. Cartwright, formerly Miss Master,
of Ottawa, has been murdered in Chicago.
The protocol of a treaty of .commerce
between Italy and Germany has been signed.
A proposition to admit lawyers to meni-
bership ire the Knights of Labor has been
rejected.
The steamship Ontario, from Montreal .for
Bristol, lost 120 head of cattle during heavy
weather.
The business failures during the past week
aeareleeentieforatiettaaartaaeMagaanalal
,Canada 38.
F. Glover has been arrested„charged with
setting fire to a barn belonging to Mr. Van -
timers, Oakland township.
• Alaskans are complaining against United
Stares officiates and the feemation of a Ter-
ritorial Government is being advocated.
A compromise has been, arranged in the
suit growing out of the probate of the will
of Mrs. Wood, the aunt of Mrs. Parnell.
The important firm of S. Wigle & Sons,
with several branches in Western Ontario,
has assigned for the benefit of its creditors.
The election of F. G. Forbes, M. P. for
Queen's County, N. S., will be invalidated:
Corrupt practices by agents have been ad-
mitted. •
Ex -Kin e Milan is to receive an additional
2,000,000f. from Set -via as a part of the
price for his compliance in living away from
that country.
A conapiracy has been unearthed in
Russia, the object of which was to secure
responsible government. Many , arrests
have been made.
The trial of the election petition against
the return of Mr. P. H. Spohn, M. P. for
East Sirncoe, was concluded. at Barrie yes-
terday, the eourtainseatingthe respondent
with costs. .
The Ottawa Free Pre88 says some of Sir
Adolphe Caron's friends say that he is going
to be sworn in .as Lieutenant -Governor of
Quebec, on the 23rd inst., Mr. Angers re-
signing the position to enter the Federal
Ministry. •
. Charles A. Peaks, late Superintendent in
Boston of the...Boeton Albany Railroad
grain elevator, who left town last August
owing the company about $5,000, has been
arrested in Halifax, N. 5. Peaks' :defelca-
tion wets caused by gambling.
John. 'Pope, the Peterboro' man who is
charged under the Cbarlton •Act with the
seduction of Eunice Finley, bag been coin-.
niitted for trial; The'age of the girl, which
was in doubt at the preliminary 'trial, has
been established as beixig only 15 years..
A Calgary despatch says Richard Steele,
-laborer; came insfrom'working on. the 'Cal-
gary &• Edmonton Railway last , night.
Early this morning his body was found near
the police station frozen stiff. Beside his
body was a beer bottle half filled. with
whiskey.
Some student rioting has been taking
place in 'Montreal, and the Recorder Warned,
two of them who were brought. before him
that he intended treating their misconduct,
if established, with the utmost severity, a nd
remanded the case until Tuesday next that
they might' obtain the assistance of counsel.
The U. S. Superintendent of Immigration
has been informed that four Canadian tele-
graph operators employed. by the Northern
Pacific -Railway, Company in North Dakota
have been replaced by American operators.
It was charged that the employment of the
Canadians was in violation of •the alien con-
tract laborlaw.
The Anarchists who were arrested at
Grief's hall, Chicago, last night were held in
5600 bail eneli to answer. Grief -became the
bendsinea for most of them. He said to e
reporter, as he reft the Police C.onrt this
morning, that as a reeult, of the raid his
daughter, w he was very ill at the time, is
now at the point of death.
Wm. Morris, a confectioner of Newark,
N. J., evbilealtiving over the Bridge street
1,1 idge yesterday with his wife, sadaenly
jumped from t he waggou and .with one
bound threw -himself over alio railieganto
.the river. The lean was drowned before
&mist:Ince ar ri vel. The suicide WAS CP.1180(1
by busieess'at roubles and a reverse of for-
tune.
At the raeeting of the Treasury Board cn
Thurstaita the superannuation of Lieut. -
Col. Macdonald, Sergeent-at-Arms of the
bondnion House of Commons, was decided
upon. He retires with an annual •allowance
of :,72,200. He was appointed Sergeatit-at-
Arms of the Legislative Assembly of the old
Province of Canada in 1854, and to the same
office by the Dominion House in 1867.
The Manitoba and Northwest Presbyter-
ian Synod convenes/a Braddon to -day.
Mr. Sutherland has been elected in .t.'orth
Qu'Appelle, and not Ma .Stawart, is at first
reported.
Brantford City 'Council will, it is . ex-
pected, pass a by-law to prohibit juveniles
smoking .on the .streets.
Windsor ratepayers will vote at the next
election on the question of having the. town
incorporated as a city.
The engineers ani firemen on the Belt
Line according to a St. Louis despatch,
have declared a strike.
The peculiar disease trom which pigs at
Kingston Penitentiary piggery- recently
died was not hog cholera.
In a scuttle on the Delaware Reserve an
Indian named Nathan received injuries on
Saturday from which he died.
Henry Curtis, a negfo, ttas hanged at
Portsmouth, Va., yearday, for the mur-
der of Jamett T. realter in
The revision of the Dominion voters' list
• fm London commenced tasterday. The
correct ione, applied for numl ter 1,7(10.
The ',cheerier Hattie M. 'Crowell, of
Greenport, L. I., has foundered at sea, and
(!apt. Benjamin Clime is reported to have
been drowned.
the eetat of eac La 11 V.11 111 17;t.,t,
Wellington yeoterday is not yet known, but
the returns. from. fourteen (IIVI$10118 giVl,
Craig a majority over Kirkwood.
'
(enrge Summers, who .was in the boat on
Humber bay when the accident occurred liy•
which John McEachren lost his life, re-
turned to his work in theDominion Show
young man is in an alarmingly nervous Con-
dition, although -every effort is- being inada
by his friends to restore hiii to his former
cheerful frame of mind.
At a conference oL Liberal -Unionists at.
Manckrter yesterday the Duke of Argyle
referred to Mr. Gladstone as a fanatic In-
capable of argument, and declared bis fol-
lowers to be mere puppets.
The Masonic lodge at Delta was broken
into a few nights ago. The regalia and
warrant were stolen. The regalia were sub-
sequently foiled hanging about the necks of
cows and horses in the neighborhood.
The stevedores and wharf laborers of
Montreal, who have been in the haleit of
going 'to the United States every Winter
for work, are likely to be debarred from
theasestatausealseemplaseasteauteahistesaanateeleseetthease.seeessm
operation of the United States Alien Labor
law. ,
The Court of A.jppeal yesterday dismissed
the appeal of the Attorney -General of
Canada against the decision of Judge Robert-
son dismissing an action brouglit to secure
for Dominion Government buildings inyor-
onto" the advantage Of the rebate in water
rate allowed other customers paying within
first two months.
Fred. Bartram has been arrested in Onon-
daga township by Brantford police and
brought to that city. The crime for which
he is now arrested is stealing two steers in
1889. •-lhe A.:rand jury brought in a true
bill at that time, but Bartram cleared out
and has succeeded in evading arrest until
the present time.
A despatch from Nevers, France, • gives
the details of a fatal accident that occurred
to -day in a collierynear that cfty. While
a party of eight miners were descending
into the pit the eve by means of which the
cage was raised broke, and the cage and its
occupants dashed to the bottom of the pit.
Three of the miners were instantly killed,
and the five others were so badly injured
that little hope is entertained for their re-
covery.
Advices from Chfclana, twelve miles from
Cali; . say a terrible hurricane has been
sweeping over that place. The Segura
has overflown its banks, and is inundating
the town. Thestreets are impassable,
and the new, bridge has been destroyed.
Large numbers of cattle lexebeendrowned.
Further advices from Negropont state
that the unknown British oil steamer sup-
posed to have been burned there is believed
to have been from Batouni. • Several bddies
have, been recovered, ,and the total number
whoperished by the disaster is now placed
at twenty. The victims include the captain,.
his wife and two children. • ..
The petitions against three Liberal mem-
bers of the House of Commons have been
dismissed—Mr. Mulock in North York,
Mr. Eremont in Quebec County, and Mr.
Leduc in Nicolet. Three Conservatives so
far. are in_ the same positiona-Sir Hector
Langevin in Three Rivers, Col. O'Brien in
Muskoka, -and Mr. Taylor •in South Leeds.
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For Men
Menly.
who shave thesrelves often com-
plain of the difficulty that they exe erience
in keeping their razors sharp. . If they
would adopt the methods of the professional
barber in one or two respects they would
find the task of keeping the razor in a proper
conditionby no means, a difficult .one. If
you watch an amateur stropping his razor
you Will notice ,that when he tures it the
'edge is frequently next the leather—in other
words, he turns' it on the edge. This should
never be done, as the thee' edge is very
likely to touch the strop and be turned.
A barber always turns his hand so that
the back of the blade is next the leather
and the edge, in. .the air. \Again, ,a
man should never use a strop \made of
leather glued to wood. A great many are
sold, but all are destructive to razors. There
is always more oriess of a shock when the'
thin blade is brought against any unyield-
ing substance, • and the entire. edge is
frequently turned upward along its whole
length. she wept cuts areinflicted by such
a razor. The strop should be of leather,
with no backing whatever. Another point
thetas little understood is the efficiency of
hot water in keeping a razor blade sharp.
Why this is I do not know, but the effect is
'unquestionable. Let a man who shaves
himself fregeently dip his aszor ibto very
hot Water, and he will find thet the opera-
tion is much easier, and that the blade' re-
quires ate less stropping than when this is
omitted, —Se Loltp: Ulobe-D,,mwirt.
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tn a Saloon.
A big green parrot • hangiug in a down-
! town sateen is possessed of 4 wonderful
I faculty. He .sizes up,every customer that
00111,06 in with an unerring eye, says the
Philadelphia Record, and comments on the
deael age of the applicant for a drink. The
bled rarely' makes a mistake, and when pass-
ing ,jutignient uses two set phrased. If a
person comes in who 'is not of age, the
parrot, without an instant's hesitation yells
out : ." Herne boy, get out ! But if a man
comes' in who is uudoubtedly of legal age,
•the wise bird calla out : " Hello, old man,
what will you ba,ve ?" 'When a strange dog
comes in the bird yells " Rats !" and When.
a at makes its appearance theinvrtriable
salutatibuds : " Scat, you hussy ! " •
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Dullrerin's New Honor.
Admirers of Lord Defferin in Canada,and
there are many, will be glad to learn of his
appoihtment to, the position of Lord War-
den of the Cinque Ports. The Lard Warden-
shipis one of those 'sinecures reserved by
the Governmbht as a reward for statesmen
and commanders who have performed
eminent services to the nation, and was for-
merly an adjunct of the Premiership. The
Cinque Ports are 1/over, Sandwich, Romney,
Winchelsea and Rye,. to which, are not,.
added Hythe and Hastings. These- port,
have various privilegesas to pilot age,isuinp
of writs and other judicial matters.
Juvenile Generosity.
Mrs. Grayneek—Johnny, I am very glad
to sec that you gave your salter tap tat gr
half ot your apple.
I.was very glad to • give
it to her.
Veal est! (,•:, \I\
know how st delights Inc to heseyou sae so.
..lohnny—,Ves'm ; there was a big worn
hole in that half.
Bituminous rock iseused for many street
pavemefrts in California.. It is found in
oine parts of the State, an I closely re-
,
sembles asphalt.
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