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leett WeitteellieleG, TRAGEDY.
ftliallher and Chill Neesiebia Mamma
. to Die or Thirst:
e Manchester millet Courier.
The fate of Mrs. Watson and her chuld
has at last been definitely ascertained. The
description was given a few .weeks ago of
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theattackof the North Queensland blacks
upon. the Lizard. Island fishing station, the
brave defence • made by Mrs. Watson and
her- Chinaineetegainet overwhelming odd*
• and the suspicion of the police that the•
survivors had been d•reverted while Malting,
in atleelty. little 'punt, for the mainland.
• The tittle ot the sad tragedy ie told by the
•,last mail delivery.. Mrs. Watebe and her.
child had escaped Mahler and outraettitem
. the sevagee, but were fated.to a -lingering
. • death, on a distant desert islaud.-. ,
• Thetnaaeter of a treding. NO400IIOr fourid
three.elseletitne on No, 5. Island etthelfor-
. With group; and these are proved to be the
ketneetia of M. Watson,: her baby, and the
it faithful Chinatnan, Ah Sem. iL revolver,
-ha-cocked and loaded. Was lying by the
Mailer and child. The dead Omen:tan waa.
found under a tree e few yards off, with
loaded, rifle at his side. There was 110 wat
on the island, and the utteertunahe bast
way* had ne doubtelie&fronf the -moat -ter
ble afilietion of thirst.. Ah. Sam had bee
. speared itr seven places, and the betake
!Mowed that Mrs. Wateon, in tile Midst
her 'woes., had uot teegleeted to dress- th
Whiendlle The -presence of mind and her
ism displayed by the courageous WoMa
are now seeu to be eveh greater than a
first supposed. The 'flight trona- Mier
Island was made, not intt boat, but in ha
of ateiron taak used. forboilitig down, bech
de -mere The woman, chibi and Chmaina
eettotth on their perilous journey on Oc
3rd, landed next day on * reef, an
rennutted there . till the 6th- .Then the
went from ielet to islet in search dfewate
of which they could not have had adrop. fo
at least. five days. _ -
During this horrible period of stafferin
and suspense Mrs. Wiltaon keet -her diary
and never loet sight of tier- husbend's
• papers and: aecouut books. The extracts
fem. • the- heroinera • diary- tell au-- numb of
the touchiug end of the harrowing story as
will evet be knowte . but imagittation will
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buttoovividly indidater the closing scenes
of •this brave woniatee life... The supply of
water on hand had evidently lasted the,
fugitives clurieg their earlier. wenderings,
but prier. te the date of the first entry
it had altogether failed. The
te' the diary 'Teak with
pathetic force for themselves: "Oct. .9—
Brough t the• tank ashore as far as possible
with this thorningti .tido; made camp al
day under the trees. Blowing very hard.
No water. Geve baby a dip in the sea—be
• is showing symptoms of thiret-eand toble
dip myself. Ah Sare and self Very parched
. With thirst. Baby showing t- symptoms.
Sunday, 10.a -Baby very bad with inflame
matfon ; very much alarmed, ; no fresh
' Water, end no more milk but condensed;
• self very weak. Really thought -I should
have died last night. Monday; 11.--eStill all
alive. Baby very meolt better this morn-
- ing ; self feeling very weak.. I think it will
•trean to -day ; clouds Very heavy ; wind not
quite act high; no raid . every ap7
pearateetef flue weather. Ah Sem gone
away tedie ; have not seen hini since the
9th. Baby more cheerful; self not, feeling
_ at all well; have tea teen anyboets of any
deeeriptiont lee water. Dead with thirst."
The erelics, were dieeevered- by Captain
Bremner, of the acboouer -Kate Kearney,
. and over the remains he raised. a mouud-
and reed the Church of England burial
• service, heard for the first tithe upon. that.
lonely island near the Southeru Cross.
• Subseqtiently the people of Cooktowu sent
across for the remains and tiecorded. them
a public burial. .
_ ellhAlifteett . IN AFRICA:.
Theltuftlarer Illeanlf. in the
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"the Rath Fentinent-Ilis 11
- Work Over,.
Stanley' has- been heard: frOna at-
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after the world: at large had. `given hi
for and alneost forgotten him. -
In the heart of Africa with a large force of
men, white and black,' and backe'
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dest
Witt,
up
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.heavy capitalists; 'engaged in. layin :the
foundation of some seat of coinni rola'
•intercourse between the Park and nent
:and the civilised World-. Histloyal.fr end,
"General- cla4zip:of. the . Expedition 6 - the
-Edward -King, famous Ameriean. erre-
epoudent in Paris, writes that he - has; just
received a long letter from . Stanley dated,
'Ittoper Congo, S. W. Africa, Januar -16;
.1882." The eiplorer says:- : 'a - .
YOU may- guess, from. - the ten° of
the . above • that I ent_ net ' 'ill or de-
-pressed in spirits, nor. ' languid; 'nor
disposed to wish myself anyythere but
_where -1. arn—le . short, that I ,. am at past
in tolerably geed: health . . -- I have
been ill, though. r Suppose- you may ave
a -heard of it. . Infect, r have seen and tasted
er of death, and'I new know What it aci ens,
a- I pity my carniades whe, have gone b lore
ri- mezin a different fashion from -whet le sed
le to do. • This severe. hitless oceurred'd ring
es May, and I Was nearly all June . reeciv; ring
of from it. I Was a palsied - and ectise able
e. - wretch when I informed my people t tit I
oe should well,. :, . I have exactly two.
te. -hundred and thirty-six then With meiii this
t Camp--Zanzibaris, natives and Eurup aus.
d -There is not one in disgracie7no ,one
If who has been scolded; not one . voice has
e- been raised in anger. tAt the present iota
n I have no owlet) of discontent With any
t. living per -iota Feent the sea to the pre ent
d -menet our hie has been: peaceful and
y Pleasant, so tee eitthe natives are comae ed.
re They have dehe much for MO, and I aye
r done much for them. The first yeti we
.he.d. some trouble with the whites, but they
g were . not of my choosing. " They ere
_, strangers in Africa, and . Most of theni bad:
neverbeen out of their own country. on -
sequently one slight fever damaged -rt eir
-African . erithesia,sm., so much thee hey
begged me' to send them home.. We 1, I
-..sent fourteen _home at e cost of a out
82-,100. Put dewn.the same gum for t • eir
-
expenses _ Out, and yeti: have the nice' etle
sum of 14,200. Two. of. these men ate ped
:front. the seetinter on shore, and ' heti
stepped beck again and went home: ter
I had _advanced into the interior- s me
other whites thought I would eontanue. the
-Bente good service andsendthem -horn as
' fast as they drank - toe much iwate or
I smoked .a. little - too:. Much and fel a ,
.trifle Sickish, bet I was getting tire of
spending good money to show a tot of pe-
• lage people a mite or -tvtb of West, Africk,
and- finally made a vow that not on of
'them should go honie -until the ',work as
, ended. It saved theexpedition; t ose
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very men who cried out that ,they ere
dyingare robust sed hearty, atid they iare
now ashamed of their Wealesesii."
:St* oley goes on to say :that the bar est
-part of the work is over and that - the re-
gent year will probably see his teak q
'pleted. He payshis thenliberalwages ud
they work nine hours a.-- day at something
, or otherthe does not Ray: What. Edw rd
King says be is the agent of comps, les
which have invested large an:emits of capi-
tal in opening up sections of Africa - nd
who -naturally desire to. 'secure ".for th -
" 'selves all the advantages which may ace ue
from the .explorer's labors: : "In a f tv
months," he adds, si we.shall probably h ar
- rather interesting and possibly somew at
startling news from thelitele damp on the
-Upper Congo."
TIIE INWw1StoT
Viable:3o* woithic of Notilticiat by cot:
•- ie -tate Institute
• A meth spends eighteencents for lager,
ten- cents' for tobacco, twenty cents for
' *tiger* fifteen cents for street car fare, and
loses $1.50 at poker ; he then perroits his
wife to purchase a buttou-hook. for three
cents; and figures. .that her extravagance
. will ruin him in three years. What is his
capital?• . •
A man has ninety-one sheep, eighty. -
seven calves arid thirty-five pigs, and he
- desiresto divide them equally among three
. sonsand a daughter so- that the daughter
shall halals- nine-more:than the boys. -What
will be the share of each, providing three
sheep are. stolen, two calves get lost, and
#veIT follow a circus away?- • --
A la y bought some tape for eleven ciente
and -some thread for two cents, a,nd worked
off a quarter with ahole in it on the ped-
dler. How much did she save to buy tracts
for the heathen.?
. a butcher -cart going at &rite of a mile
in three Minutes strikes an alderman_ who
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. is waltungat- the rate of -three mdeetin hour,
what is the resisting power of each? _
A man gives an order for seven tons of
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coal and finds that he has only received six
tons and 100.. pounds. HOW much more is
• dne him, and what'll you take to craiyinee
the dealer that he must send it?" -
.Catelesities of the census.• •
According to, the census for this Province
for 1e81, the largest number of the African
• rade are to be found . in Iceht- and Essex,
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more than half the entire number in the
teProvince. The Chinese are neeily all
- toned in Toronto and Barrie. The Dutch
. are foetid in heaely. . every county, but the
largest number in Stormont and. ifonck ;
the township of Osnabruck, in Stormont, is
their headquarters, where they numberever '
• 2,999. The Icelanders ate neekly all in Mus-
koka. The Indiana are principally in
Algenee Brant, .11licldleiex and • Both-
well.' The Italiens ' are scattered
all over; the • only places where
they have . congregated to any extant are
Toronto and Loudon. The views are con- o
fined. almost entirely to the pities. The
Russians and Poles are - Mainly in Glen-.
garry, Cornwalt and liehfrew, with some:
in Toronto, MtiskOka has the greater pro, i
portion of the Scandinavians and of. the
• Swig*. though the town of Berlin has d
good-sized colony of thelatter.. The Welsh t
ieurnunt'w. White .E1ephant.
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A celebrated . Yankee showman is in
coiresponderice with SomedeehtPhrs, P
timbale. Matta Chelaleit.liare ere theeuhj °t-
ot -elephant*. S. P. P. M. C. IKamis e
King of Siam and the happy possessor of
1.some white elephants, which, in Siam, re
I held' very sacred. The showmen, ,havi g
conquered atteposeeseed,jutabo, is anxio. 8
to show : white elephant, a .quadrup d
never seen in this country,' so he alleg s.
He is plying the King with presents, ard
the Ring, greatly- pleased With his -atteji
heti* whicheake ferm Vety agteeable o
Sings; is promishig that if -he beineverco e
the superstition 'otitis subjects coneerni
the sacred- character of the beasts he vi
loan him -ons Black" elephants are con
mot enough, and His Majesty hf Sia;
who :professes. to be '4 warm friend f
America, has been offering the Geyeannte t
of Uncle Sam a herd of. these for breeding
purposes.. It is: the ambition of the she
inan's life to got hold of the white style
elephant. 6 know I ought to besatisfie
with my present .fance ' -he says for,-
Lord Rosebery, the famous member
.the Englieh Peril -emit* wrote me, m
name is -immortalized ' on both side
of: the tecietih, and even the Englis
children learn . of me. almost RS SOO
.as. they - leerh their alphabet; " -
am not yet content, Mir will I be until
have given bonds to Sianealthigthet I wil
return in safety the first white eIephtte
.whibb ever left Siam." Isn't the showrea
isaistaken. touching' the scarcity of whit
elephants? They are supPosed to . he a
common as skeletons which are said t
furnish forth most family closet*
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Tim question of religious oaths an
beliefs has led to. some hinny derrionstra
tions in the Eziglish House- of Common
demonstrations which, it Wind to say, ar
not of a sort to impress people with a bigh
idea of the earnestness of -their' authors
Lord: Bedesdale, in his anxiety to keep
atheists like Mr. Bradlaugh out of Parlia-
ment, introduced a. Bill—defeated, .we
may say, by the efforts Of such men
as Lord Shaftesbury -providing that
members should swear "or atatan "
that they honeyed in a. Divine Being,
thus knocking in the head, his party's
.bteptaontotetting Mr. Bradlaugh -affirm.
Then when the Bradlaughites declared
hat Mr. Tem denies,- the Conservative
Member for Knaresborough; was an atheist
n spite of •.his having taken the oath, that
g
entleinatt stood up in Parliament and to
isprove the charge offered there and then.
o affirm his belief in the -Tiinit pith
are pretty well tseattered, but are -chiefly
found. in . Western Ontario,- especially in
Middlesex 4:nd Elgin. The --Germans are
to be found inevery, county, but the greatest
proportion in Waterloo- and Perth. - The
greatest number of French are in Essex
County, -and next in Ottawa city.- The
British are ,fotthei all over. -
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TUE Piat AssAssms,,: -
The Lives. of Vandesildh ;and Cyrus Virf
• _ Field itaveti by Fremantle Explesion
• 3 -Socialist Exiilosive
Aliew York 'despatch' -dated Saturday
night says A.dastardlyattempt was made
conehe lives of ,WM._ILVenclerhilt and Cyrus
.W.Field,by sending them explosives through
the mails: The dangerous character of the
package's. was discovered route:: to the
pest -office, station where they were to he
delivered.at the residences of these gentle-
men,. and so probable loss of life :was -pre-
vented. The. package for Mr. Field was
pokted in the general offica;and the edit for
111e. Vanderbilt was brought in by et
collet:ter. The packets Were planed in a mail-
bag with other matter for the up town dis-
trict, taken to the Elevated Railreadstation,
and deposited on the, front platform
of a Car. The train started, but on reaele
ing 9th street an explosion was heard, and
fire and Smoke observed to issue from the
mail bag. 'Wait:the stopped the bagffic
was -removed to the post -aka on 29th
,streetand opened. : The package addressed
to 'Mr. -Vanderbilt had exploded.. :The one
addressed to Mr. Field was plunged in a,
bucket of water lie& then examined. . It,
consisted of it pasteboard box covered with
flowers and eiotutes; and had e, small
drawer in itefrontlythich dependett a string,
as is supposed, for the purpose of drawing
d
it open, ancausing the explosion. Inside
was found a tin banister containing half
a pouhd Of powder, . end.. a glass jar
Containing whites. powder. Aha a
liquid, believed to be some kind of
explosive. A &crap „,of eewapeper was
inclosed, which. was recognized 48 part of
the - Volts Zeitung. - Upon soaking the
Wrapper several folds :came ape*, and on
one wasfound; G.W.
ling,.311 East 19th street." The probability
is that the machine Was Originally 'directed
to Walling. The fact that Superintendent
Welling forbade a procession of Socialists
is regarded as a reason why it might have
been intended for him, and gives color to
the theory that the Socialists are at the
bottom of the affair. .
NEW YORKi April-Bd.—Early this morn-
ing John- A. Davenport," of. Nineteenth
street, -took to police headquarters an
infernal inachiee An:War to thosreaeht to.
Vanderbilt and Field, evidently prepared.
by the. same -person. It was plated his
hallway last night and exploded, (Icing little
damage.. The boa was probably intended
for Police Superintendent Walling, Who
lives .a few doors front Davenport.
Prof. Doremus' pronounces the fluid in
the glass _globe taken frothe machine
intended for °Va,nherbilt to be •sulphuric
acid. There is mi. clue yet- to the perpe-
trators. , • •
' Children's Drolleries'.
,
Net icing Once a correspondent gent to a
provincial paper an anecdote of: whioh his
aix-year-old boy. was the hero. says:
"1e keep a 'sliap an& sell :ahoy' goods.
gentleman came in to buy something.It
was early, lula my little bey and I were
alone in the house at the time. The gen. gave nte a ,sovereign, etud T, had to
go upstairs to my cash ' box. Before doing
ao; I went inte.the little ehemahext to the
-shop and Bahl to the boy: 'Meech the
gentleman, that. he don't steal lanything
and I Put him on the counter. As seen
as manned, he sang out; trite he
-didiet steel ailything . watched .! him:
You May imagine what a positiou Iwas I
Childrenee questions are • often no less
embarrassing than they are amusing, as
maybe histanced in the story of the Mer-
cenary boy who.overheard-a.conversa-
tion respecting a wedding that was Soon to
take place. At breakfast the next morning
he recalled the subject by asking the
following question: "Papa, what do they
Want to give the bride away for? - CCan'tehey sell her?" .
At - whale exhibition, youngster is
said to: silted -his menirna ittlae Whale
that swallowed Jonah had as 4 Mouth
as the oilebefore, them why 'didn't . Jonah opt at one corner. - 1
"You must think bush -was- a feel ; be.
didn't want to walk out and get drowned,".
was the quick reply of a • younger brother,
before the mother could* answer:at hant-
berst.tournale •
Goon •Conservative Churchmen over in
flglarfd- will soon be. after Mr; Gds
,aue Loh' 'Kimberley with Whole forests' of
Sharp sticks for their_ recent - act of dises.!;.
In the Straits . Settjeinents,
with a. population of 308,0.00, there are 7,40
inenabers of the; Chitich of England and
elm* 7,000 Roman Catholic*. It has
long been complained .-. Of -Manifest
injustice that -g3;00(ft.year Should be Spent.
upon.- the Bishopric of -Labtian and the
connected chaplaincies, - and now the
Colonial:: Seeretaey has withdrawn the
lettere 'patent which make the a
State. Oficial,- and the grants to . the chap-
lainoieeWill'ceese as the _ine.MObeots die or
leave them. Colonial -bishops have not of.
late years.. been -regarded with any
ticUlar measure of - affection, , aathe belief
has obtained . that sundry rectors of
ambitious views had secured theft election
to such sees merely to get thetitle; return-
ing:to England tosport•It after Very
brief foreign tour. There are now nearly
if not quite as many ex -colonial bishops in
Eegland. as .-there are bishops, and •the
feeling seems to be growing that that Point
has -Wee reached beyond the
language.cif Mr. Gilbert's- ballad; it Colonial
bishops cannot go." Mr„ Gladstone,
however, does not believe in governing for
the minority - may; nor in keeping up State;
Churches at the expense • Of the people at
large. Bishops as. ...State officials Can
never flourish in the -
The curious enterprise is being Condmited
in . -
New Jersey .4,ginding up worn out
India rubber overshoes to make what- is -
called " 'stook." This 'material is brought
here in, barrels and is pressed by the Mealt1-"
facturers into -new India rubber goods. A
thin coating of fresh rubber earbieli makes
them look quiteequal to articles of thebest
quality., but they, are said to -have an mit-
rageouslackofdurability.
Garibaldi has improved in health beyond
.ail-ezpe-otation. He recently tneka drive
to Monreple, neat Palermo. The popula. Not long before the death of Dr. Holland
n filled the streets in perfec3t silence, but
coyered;and they:filled the carriage with -13O wrote to a, young' correspondent; "A
literary life is a lard and difficultene ; look
wers. To deputation of thelThiversity well before yOn:-:1311. 00Se • sa life so full of
feesors who said, by their :spokesmite .. •
this suffering hand made Italy; Gan- . Mrs. Sarah Holstein, of Norristown, Pee.
di replied that -" Italy was made by the died recently, and left -a prevision in her
lituis, and when Certain gentlemen will that no women should be allowed at
Und the Alpe say_ they made it they tic"' her funeral. • -
AN EtiarLSHIVOUN'S DIYOROO, SUIT,
The Alle"gations - Made . by; Mori:mite,
-Druitsden.
:
Judge Barrett, in Supreme Court -..Chttea-
berg, New -York; • on Saturday heard e-
motion made on behalf of Charlotte Rams-
den
eu a stilt for divorce from her husband;
Edward Charles Ramsden, for an •-alloWe
tine°, pending the atithia• of -1350a,anaontli
alimony and e2,500 ceuesek ;fees- The
plaintiff made affidavit that it the ititruher
of 1857,'When the youthful Wide*: of an
English surgeon who had been in
the -employ Of the Khedive of Egypte
she mete- the defendant . Cologne,
Wheat he, representede • hiettielf • to
be Sir Edward Charles Ramsden, °I-
n)! 6 Portland:Place, London. :They weree
married • at -the 7.British Consulate in .
Ciplegne. ;She - 'had te00,000,-. he
inyeeted in bond* and mailed them by
.ThiStakei Rd he claimed, to his mother -tie
'London. Then they . travelled through"
-Europe, stopping at several l gambling -
,places until - he: dissipated all her fortune.
Then she left hum and went to live with
her mother. - On his promise tiereferneshe
afeetwerdg. rejerned. him, settizighine pp in
the. coffee business with 26;000, which eh°
obtained from -Telativete. He seen. Again
began 4--coUrse of riotous living, eeiscioieet
ing With Park and Bolton .and"Lord Arthur
Pelhani- Clinton! whose praCtices were the
subject of criminal investigation Londoti
Bente years -ago. These men admitted
into his bowie, she • says,. - and
allowed them to make use of her wardrobe:
to masquerade tee women.e When he
bebarde bankrupt ,he advised her, she
alleges,- to advertise, intmitation of Mme.
Rachel, that she pee -seeded .the secret
whereby women oould.• be made . youthful:
in -appea,ratice. This she refused_ to do...
She sold her household furniture, she
asserts, to pay his gambling debts, and he
was finally obliged flee to this :country to
.avoid arrest, 'While they lived in London,
she 'alleges, he he brayed - her maid; and
the child :that was, born that
of his wife -by the Marquis of Tewnehend.
SSeptember, 1881, on 'corning New
Terk:. she 'says she _ found: her, husband
engaged in the coffee business, with an
income of.. 025;000- a year, anci, living. with
two. twomen in expeitsive 'apertments'in
-East Fortyoecoud street.
On' behalf of the defendant,---affidayits
were. submitted. that Mrs.. Ramsden was
oceivicted April, -1877; Of perjury, in
.England,. and imprisoned .• Milbank
Prison. It was after her conviction and
becaiese tit the diegteice that, followed that
:he canietto Anteriee. She was easement.
ful in attempt to have him- indicted for
bigamy he Decenthee: feet,' and in - a, like
-attempt in the ease of one of the women'who- lived- with him. His income he
claimed, Wakoray 41,2,0 year.
,The. heating was adjourned to allow
plaintiff's counsel to produce rebating
affidavits.
'- A Wonderful substance.
The Chicago TYMerrt Gatholic liays tt It
is indorsed by. Bishop. dilmour; Of Cleve -
"land, Ohio, and by some Of Our most honored
and respected priests throughout the coun-
try who have used for ilieetnaties With.
success *bete all other remedies We
refer here to Ste. Jacobs We kneve...Of
several perm:see hipur oven circle Who Were
suffering with that • hreadful. 'disease, rheu-
Matiate, who tried everything and spent
hundred s or citollars for medicine which
prOved'oftinhenefit. We advised -iliern to
try St. Jacobs aeree of them laughed
at us. for faith in the 'patent stuff,' ,they
chose to:call it.. Howeyer, we induced them
to give it a trial,- and it aceentplielted its
:Work with seehermagieeike rapieitythatthe
game. people are new ". its strongestadyo7
ca,tes, - and not be without it in
• houses on any account." • •
Joel D. HarVeye.TJ,-S. C011ecter of
Interni-Revetieee. of this :City; has spent
over 82,000 in niediCipe. for his Wife; who
was suffering .dreadfully from rlienniatigin,
and Without derivieg any !tenet whatever.;
yet two .bottles St, Jacobs aeamiie
plished What the most medical Men
failed in doing, could give the names
of hundreds Who have been cured by this
wonderful • remedy did- Spftee permit use
The litesernahwho has been. made hippy
thivirghthealee thie valuable liniment is
Mr. -4-anieti A. Coidan; librarian. of the
-Itnion Catholic Library of this city. The
'followinges Mra'COnlares indorsement: -
. UNION CATHOI.I0 :LIBRARY.: ASSOCIATION, 1-
- CniCioe, Sept..16th; 1880. -)
I:wish to add my testimony as to
merita. -(4' St. Jacobs. Oil al: Cete. for
elieureatisin, One ..bottle . heed -tired me Of
this:troubles:On:1V disetiee, which gave me
greet cleat of: bother for a long time; hilt
thanks to the remedy, 'I ate cured. ,This
statement unsolicited: by any one in its:
interest.—Very respectfully, :
• : •
Theme A. Coma. Librarisee
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'• SANITAAT •in England dates-
'frord a very early - period: .Edward 11.
decreed:that a' butcher who sold theolea,
pork should be fined. for the hiet offence,.
pilloried . for :the second, imprisoned and
fined for the third, and expelled the town
for the fourth. f Richard II. took measures
ageinsethepollutioe of titer* Henry VL:
prohibited' betels slaying within • Welled_
towns; with three exceptions. Elizabeth
:.enacted that ceilY one family • Might dwell
In a. cottage. The plague the tipte of
Charles II. led to many health enactments:
Yet heee great lathe sacrifice of -life inithise
'pest day contraventions of the plainest
, • ...
laws of health! ' "
Tee London. Economist " WITS; ttis
.nicee. than four tyears since the Edison
scare so affected gas property, yet to -day
gas companies are. actually thine ..peOfittible
that they were tbeil About theonIylarge
freehold' properties. in the United
King-
dom Which at the present date 'pay per
Coat. are to be fotaid in the stocks of the
large metropolitan gas companies."
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Pritice Bien -art* received more than
eight hundred - birthday 'ctingrattiletiohs:hte
post and telegraph t this year, 413 has
written to newspaper to . say that he is
deeply :touched -by these signs of respect
and affection.
in the words - . of he Nicene or of the to
Athanasian Creed." And the 'members all un
burst out laughing with such .heartiness fie
that he couldn't obtain a hearing ! pro
, 'William L. Dayton, Who goes as - the_ tha
Ametican. Minister to the Netherlands is Ind
Ita
bey
a son of William L. Dayton, Fremont's
se4ond_on the ticket_of 1856.
A Horrible:Story; .
The act of :putting a lead pencit zo the
tongue to wet 'Just before writing, Ala we: -
notice in so many, people, hi une of the oddi-
ties for Which it is hard to give any reason,
unless it began :in the days when pencils
were poorer than eow, and was continued ..,,
by example to the ;text generation.
A. lead 'penal ishould never be Wet: It-
}airtime the -lead and rules thapeecil. This
fact is linownia-,noWspaper Men andsteno-
graphers. But 'neatly every one else does
wet a. pencil before using it. This face Was
definitelyasettled.by ., a newspaper clerk
. -
away down east:-
'Being Of a, mathematical turn efernind,
he ascertained by actual count that of fifty
.petscatii- who came into his 'office to write
an tedVertieeinezit_or a church notice, herty-
ninewet a pencil in their mouths before
usineit Now, this clerk always uses the .
best pencils; . cherishing' a good one with
.
. _
something of the pride a Soldier :feels in his
gun or luti- sword, and it hefts - his -feelings .
to have his eeheit spoiled. But politeness
-and- business coneideratioes require him to
-lendhis pencil scores -ojtimes a day. And ..
. .
often after it has been- et till it was hard-.
and brittle 'Laid refused to mark; his feel- .
inge would :overpower him. _Filially he.
got soma cheap peechs and- iheepened.
them, and kept "them to lend., The- hot' -
person who took up the stock pencil Was a -
-clra,yinan,. whose -.breath smelled ef onions
and whiskey, :- -He held the point -10
his mouth and 'soaked it for- several ,
minutes, while he was torturing
the effort to write an advertisement for
.missing : bulldog. • Then a sweet -looking
young lady "came- into the office; with kid
gloves that buttoned half the length of her
anal. She picked up the earhe old pencil
and preesed it to her daintylips Peepers- -
. tory to writing an .advertisemene-fi3r a lost
bracelet. . The•clerkweeldhaie Stayed her
:hand,- even at the risk_ of a box of the best
Faber pencils; but he. Was too late:, -And
thus that zpencil passed from :Mouth to
Mouth for a week. It was sucked by people
of all, ranks and stations, and all degreest of
cleanliness and thicleinliness.. But we for
bear. Surely no: one Who reads this, will
ever. egein - wet a peneil.—Lquiseine Com,
. j
A...SEcSET tiimPlio.N4-4iticles- of in-
corporation have been .firea by an inventive
Aitteriban to manufacture and -epee; in .
operation a secret telephone, Whereby. two .
persons -using: the line eon • communicate
with eee another iu entire -secrecy. By.et
peculiar breakingofthe circuit only half
the cenversatiOrt can be caught by any one -
else On the line, and then it Woad be only
an unintelligible noise. :Even the repeti-
tion of thet
aIphabeis not discernible. "A -
:conversation in a low - tone, the person
standing several feet away, can be carried
on through this method. The line will be
in operation in sixty days, it is :prey:heed.
It will melte dull times for the gilts at the
central office.
GEN. C. B. Coaseitex, United :States
. corps :of Engineers; in charge of . the hiko.
survey, says that there have been, solar
as appears from his recordseho appreciable
changes in the mean -level of Lake Erie
and Lake Ontario ether than those to ,he •
expected from the variations iuranifall and - '-
evaporation itt different yeers and series of
-year* He also says that the data of this
lake survey give, in Ina judgmeetnit evi-
dence of -underground discharge of Water -
from either. Huron or Erie into . the .lakes
below them;
•
A'REGULAR CIRCUS.
If there isOne thing it. all theworld .]
timt allures -the aVerage bey and de% •
Ugh& people generally; it is ft wdll-
Toaslaged rand thoroughly -equipped -
Circus. .The children of a city or-toWn
seem to know ofits Corning by a kind ;
of intuition,and prepare accerdingir - • -
The pennies; hitherto droppdinto
tito miasionary-bol with conscienti-
ous regularity, are 110W faithfullydi-.
vetted into an Old coffee-pot in the
ceitat corner for .prospeetive use;and
sces.p4uetal,. old paper, ete;", do sub-
.-,stantial service in the way .of securing
th-e amount of an admission f.'.
thr all -that, We believe fully in the
properly `conducted circus as a, means
atnusement and diversion, and are
happy te state the eretifyittg fact that,
the eircuser rather its proprietors '
and efintloyes ---eapetintentally be,
lie.ve -in St...JACOBS Oa, the.,Grefit
Pain Reliever of the age. Hon. P.
Barnum's Greatest Slim on Earthand'
Coup'a 31o1Ister.S1iow can be takena
typical cases. The former_sayS:" We,
take great pleasure in stating that Sr.
3fACOSS Ott. isin use by many .ring -
titts new •engaged with 13. T. Earnuit'S -Greatest .
ShoW on Earth, unit -ed :with the Great London
• Circus, Sanger's Royal Britiah metmeerie and -the:
International Allied Shows, From itahappy effect
upon these Who havie.pcea.sion to employ.it,:we
have no hesitation in preinouncing-...ST, ..TAci3ns•
Ott, -• the best .liniment Which has ever been
•-brought to our netice.- It is wonderfully
clam in sub. duing pain. "%'. . •
(Signe4) 13.A.Iwu3t,13A4Et & IIITTOntiNzsgs."
The Press Agent or Coup's Monster Show saYs ,
-"In cases of rheuniatisna or complaints of that
kind mirtirtists know how to clue thetesavesvere
speedily. .ST.- JACOBS OIL is popnlar-rem-
edv eniona ourpeople for rheumatic pains, and
as long as they can get u they Won't suffermuch":
,lir. Frank I. Fraynd-says I have stinted .
terribly-. from rheuniatism in niy Tight shoulder-
• and arm, and at the same time I had seVere pains
:frfmy:Chest. Soinetime since I read soraething
in a newspaper about the remarkable.cures of .
_
T. eecess.fene and I thoughtl would try that
remedy. I tell you I am mighty 'glad L did, for
after using one -or two bottlesofthat preparation
-felt no pain whatever, and have had uone since.
I am firm believer tirST. Jacons OIL, and 1 watt.
'everybody in 'ray company to keep it near them"- '
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