HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe New Era, 1882-12-07, Page 8November 809 1882.
HUMORS OF SCOTTISH THLIPCS,,,
Odd Presentation to a Departing
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HAGGIS AND A WALIi1NG- STICK.
• . The newly elected inembereE Parliament .
. for the city of Edinburgh cannot complain
that his constituents Suffered him to depart
forthe ,seene of his daties. 'without due
• expressions of their •confidence.At the
, railway station Mr. Samuel Danke, Waddy
-such is his illustrious and -Venerable name
ea -was presented byM. L Cowan with a
poem, a turned walking stick a,nd ia haggis,
all of his own manufacture, forming per-
haps the most remarkable collection of
meerienteea' ever laviehed upon 'a 'eingle
" statesman. The"- " average man" - must
own to not a little perplexity as
to what" disposition Mr., Samuel. Danks
Waddy, theta about to begin .
railway journey, wes expected to make of
these Singular and utterly uurelated testi-
monials of regard. Was he •expected to,
carve the haggis with the walking-etick and
eat it as a,travelling Juneb, using_the mania
script as'a dish? • Or were his bodyguard. cif
faithful Scots to read him the'poene and if he
shrievedamy signt-ref exhaustion revive him
by exhibiting the haggis? '' Or was the
haggis to be rammed ' into him With the
_walking stick, the poem serving as a wad?
If -left to himself, how was Mr. Samuel
Danks Waddy, M.P., to get . rid of the
corpora delicti ? • The verses he conlci easily
' sow in Scraps upon the vagiona breezes
between Edinburgh and London, but to drop
•a haggis Out of the window, of a first-chtes
carriage Wpuld manifeetlybe attended with
as much rishof public scandal as to leave
. it under - the ' seat. In, either ; case the
'haggis -would return at the next election .to
. plague him. • It was naanifeetly iMpossable
that Mr. Waddy, being a Southron, should
• deliberately eat , his Jatiggis of his own
• °IMMO. . It. has been noticed that even at
the -annual - banquets of our Caledonian
fellow-citiaeini that dainty and' national
dieli, though welcomed with cordiality in.
the abstract, is by the individual diner
• treated with a distant reverence not easily
• distinguishable- tromachilling- neglect, nor -
can it be said that the experiment tried in
• Montreal some years ago of substituting;
'coffee, hat and, very • sweet, for mountain,
dew, • as an a:ccompa,aying teveragea
was any more successful thanthe kindred
• effort made by Mr. Rutherford B. Hates
• to induce .foreign diplomats to take -coffee
with their soup at a White House dinner.
• What adelightfui picture, too, this story, of
43cottish politics presents of the many-sided.
Mr. Cowan, now jotting doivn a rhyme,'
• a anon forcing the, lathe to record upon ' the
• • wood the riaoment'e inspiration, then aping-
ing to the chopper skilfully to •mince the
" innards " of the silly sheep! . The atten-
tions of his coestitnents,were not, however,
• exhausted by Mr. Cowan on Mr. Wieldy.
After he entered his carriage " three
.fishwives who were in the crowd pressed'
. towered-- the carriage, and one of.
them getting close to the door stretched
out her hand, and shaking Mr. Waddy'e
• cordially, told him •that the bather folks in
the Firth • of Forth had, a grievance in re-
• gard to the injury done to them interests -by
trawlers. She assured. him if he ". Weald
• come down to Fieherrow and stay &night
they wud gie it him a',' Being evidently
•satisfied with Mr. Waddy's reply,, the good
woman bade him farewell with silo:Tess to
ye, and God bless you, ma lamb,' amid
loud laughter and cheers. Alas for Waddy,
• doomed not only to drag at, each remove a
lengthening , cane and •a etrengthening
• haggis, but on his return to his conetituents
to spend -a night in Fisherrow and ,be in-
structied herfialia-v-ia-e-s---iilid-call him "ma
lamb" in the Manifold iniquitiee of the
trawlers I • •'
FAME 10IA.GGAGE.
An Order Intereating( to the 'Eravelling
•
Cke WrUn.lt lineeleave issued an lamer-
tant' etdee-.- ell ;interest to- all traveUers,
nanaely,:tliatethe•,Edlowarice of free bag-,
gage shall not eibeed '156 pounds for each -
full ticket, and -75 pounds on .each half ,
ticket on, the first; and second class tickets
between; comdation •points rettehed by
the trank lineee No charge ehall be
made- for less, than 25 -pounds over the
agreed' weight:- For example: .Fer bag-
gage Weighed Op to 174 pounds no charge
shall be made upon, over that amount
charge of 15 per cent. per 1.00' pounds,of
price pf ;the ticket 'will he' inade.,-- Tna
Order took effect Nov..1.51lia They have
480 ordered 110 third ,lass or emigrant
tickets to '.be acicepted on their lines from
the peat ettei December 1st.
A Cr3 stalized Fiction. _
"1 have beentole.," illtdd Mr, Thalamus,
'watching the great,: steam hammer in the
tolling " that a good hammerman cap
break the crystal of a watch with that 30c
to. hanamer." "Yee, sir," said the hana-\
mernatu, "it can be done." " I should like
to Bee it," said Mr.Dubious, eagerly, feeling
in his Watch -pocket. "I can ;do it, sir,"
replied the man. "And will you?" asked
Mr. Dubious, drawing out his watch ;
"come, I am anxious to see it tried." He
laid his Watch on the great anvil plate.
The hanimer rose up to its full heighteand-
the'next instant all its pcinderous weight,
with a crushing force that shook the ground
for an acre round,. came down: on that
watch, "There, sir," said the hammer -
men, quietly, "if you don't belieVe that
crystal is broken just stoop down` and you
can see it sticking to the hammer." 'Mr.
Dubious swallowed a whole procession ,of
lumps and gasps before he could speak.
" But I forgot to say," he exclaimed, "that
it was to break the crystal withou.; injur-
ing the watch." "Oh, yes," said the ham -
merman, " yes, I know; I bave heard that
rubbish myself; but it's all ganamon. I
don't believe it can be done. But you can
break the crystal every time."
The Bind ot a Good Whist -Player.
' A chess -player, again, or a eolver of
chess problems, hes always to deal with
pieces of a constant value thusathe knight,
•blehop -pawn etia. are of conetant values
I
- 0 thatbis combinations are not so very
varied. A whist -player, however, has in
each hand not enly cards which vary in
value-eccordingeto.what is trump, but dur-
ing the play' of the hand tbe cards them-
selaes varyin value; thus, a ten may, after
one:- round of a suit, become the _best bard
in that suit. Brain -power independent of
stored -knowledge is, therefore, more called
into action by a game of whit 'than it
is by mathematics, chess or classics ;
consequently, while mathematicians and
classical scholars may be found in multi-
tudes, a really fitst-class whist-plaYer is a
rarity ; and if we required an accurate teat
• of relative brain -power, we should be far
more likely to obtain correct results by an
examination in whist than we should by an
examiii eaten' in inatherrkaties. In the
•latter, cramming mighteupply the place.of
•intelligence ; iu the former, no amount of
°renaming could guard against one-tenth of
the conditions. •A first-rate mathematieian
may on other 'subjects be, stupid; tirst-
• class whist -player is rarely if ever stupid,
on original matters requiring judgment.
now the ;White Men ot the Northwest
Secure their Coveted Indian Brides.
,Among ,the Northwestern tribes of
Indiana Innocence is aes marked among,tlae_
girls as their color. Educated in the faith
that ehe was ordained to work, she train• a
herself to bard labor, and at' 16-yea,rs of
age- is sturdy and strong, brave against
fa,tigue, and a perfect housewife. She may.
• not -possees New England notions' of clean-
• liiaess, but she takesanot a little pride in
her personal appearance, and in the ar-
• rangement of her lodge she displave
some crude ideaei of taste and a certain
amount of neatness. If ehe marries a
white man she makes him a good wife
as long as she lives with him.. Her
h_ome her sole conafort and his, cornfort
her sole ambition. She think e °thine and
for him, and makes it her study to please
him, and making him respect and love her.
• She recognizes 3):1 him one of a superior
race, and by her.: dignity and devotion
endears herself • to )nm and-striaggleti to
make him happy. At the agencies of the
upper frontier thousands of men are
, employed, and it is not an exaggeration to
, say that the majoritynf them have Indian
wives and _live _ha,ppilTheeatipirieg• ,
bridegroom naust be well known in the
tribe before he can hope to win a wife ; her
people -want to thoroughly underetand
• him, and know if he ca,n support not only
her, but all of her relatives in the' event of
pinch. • He must be a. wenn-hearted
• mam, with a temper warranted to kW
in any dorneetic climax, and he mut have,
• a good lodge, and at least a half dozen
horses. If he be, and have these, he
• can a -wooing go. Then eelecting a lady, he
makes application to the mother, and at,a
• council the price is fixed upon: If the girl
is especially pretty the mother will demand
• a gun, two horses and a lot of provisions,
blankets and cloth. A gun is valued at
$50, and he must furnish the material to
---bring-the-amountaurto-frotre6100-to-61-50:-
Then he tries to beat the dame, down, and
if he tfucceeds he knows there is some
reason for letting the girl go, if not he
understands he is maknag, a good choice.
The courtship is left entirely to the mother.
-Montreal Star.
Chinese appreciation or an Oath.
Many amusing stories are told of the way
in which • Chiintinen`:- give evidence in
Christian &tarts of it:lade& In England it
the custom, to break a delicate china
Saucer over the bead of the Chinese
witriess ; And this 161 supposed t� insure
truth -telling. There. wiie e Clainesewitnese
hi a trial 'which 'Witte reealleli held in San,
Faancisco. The judge, evidently not beieg
qeite satisfied thatithe witness- understood
the object of the form he had just one
through, asked hire, ie usual in etfch
oases, A be understood the nature of .itu
oath. • " Perfehtly„" replied the witness
with the utmoet cdrifidenede "„I keow that
a lie every one inatbe court will be
damned.'" An equally amusing illustration
of the: ignorance of the Chinese in •the
matter of-onr judjoial qath Was furniebed
seine time ago by the native usher in the
conular court at Shanghai. He was
observed to be making an anxious search
for some nneeing object e amd, on being
questioned by the judge, he stated that he
was looking for the little book which is
given to the witnesees eo smell. And this
man had been for eighteen years. usher of
the court. •'
- Man and Annual.. ,
There can he -no doubt that'dogs asso-
ciate with harking in 'certain tones special
enaotional states in their companions. In
• fact, it is probable that doge can in this
way communicate with each ,other a wide
range of states of feeling. But the.se etates
ate present states, not states past orjature.
They are their own ',states, net theeitates of
other. A dog. can call hiseenap'anions'-
attention to a worriable catNt he may
have his attention roused by ray exclaiming
"cat." But no dog could tell his companion
of the successful • " Worry " he had just
enjoyed, or suggest that they should go out
for a" worry ' - tonaorrow , morning. And
here we come upon .what 1300MS tO me the
.fact which .raiseta ream immeasureably
.aboye the loyal of 'the brute'. The brute has
to ' be 'coutentecl with the experience lie'
inherits or individually e acquires.. Man,
through language spoken or written
profits by . the • experience of his fellows.
Even the most mirage tribe has traditions
extending ' back to, the • father's father.
(Sproat). And the civilized man -has he
not in' his libraries the recorded reanits, of
many centuries of ever -widening experience
and. ever -deepening .theught ? Thue it is
that language has made us Men. By
nieins-of language, and language alone, has
human thought become possible.' This it
is which has placed se. enormous a gap
between the mind of man and•the mind of
- the deg. Through language -each -human
being becoines the inheritor of the accumu-
lated thoughtand experience of the whole
human race. Through .language has the
higher abstract thought beconae possible. -
London Nature..
An Accommodating Deacon,
A laughable misunderstanding occurred
at a prominent church in New Jersey, It
seems that a worthy deacon had been very
• industrious in selling a new church book
costing 75 ciente. •At the service in question
the nainistezejust before ,dismissing the con
gregationesaid "All ye who have children
• to baptiae will please to present them next
• Sabath' --The deacdn, who, by the way,,
was a little deaf, having an eye Oh' selling
the hooka, and Supposing the pastor was
referring to them; immediately jamped upt
and shouted: "All you who haven't, Carr
get as Many as you want by calling on me,
at 75 cents each. -
One of the giant trees of the Calaveras
grove in California it3 named Otto' von Biz-,
• marck. An ' adthirerl Of the German
Premier, resident in San Francisca), has
juet sent him a five-foot photograph of the'
''tree, expreatily taken for this purpose, and
enoloeed in an elaborate, frame of native
wmtls.
7.`he Dsngers of Boggy Aiding.
• An editor Who probably knows what he
is talking `about says that buggy riding -is
coaducive to the tender, feelings. • We don't
for our part see how it could very well
help being so. When a young -man in -e
soapdish het and polka-dotted socksalrives
up in his side -bar buggy in front of the
house where she lives, and she comes to the
door all rigged out in things whieh we
haven't time to enumerate, and trips down
the froat step, and the young man just
•tosses her into the narrow iseat and gets in
beside her andtaps the horse with the
whip, while the buggy quivers like a thing
of life and a joy for ever, and the young
man beside her (doesn't know but every
minute will be the next one, why, we don't
see why •buggy riding should not be the
most conducive to the tenderest feelings of
anything extant. •'llorsebacle riding is cold
and 'distant, buggy riding is the thing, and
the longer the .ride and the more lonely the
road the better. -From Cheek.
flappiness 1Vithout niches.
Under the head (A " Communications "
the Secretary announced au inquiry front
the City Clerk's office of Cineinnati as te/
whether' a person could be happy without
riches. "1 have no doubt they kin fur
ehort time," replied the President. "When.
the persimmon season fust opens I reckon
dat call'd man Who doan' own eben de
buckles on his suspenders kin sit down
'Iongside,of a tree an' take jist ea solid cern-
• fort• fur twenty.miniates e possesse
66,000,000. As fur de remainder of de y'ar
I 'spect de rich man am ahead." "Do I
understa,n' de cha'r to advise de members
of die _club to Struggle for riches?" inquired
de Rev: Obadiah Iligginbottom as be care-
fully rose up. "Not edzactle , sah, but just
struggle hard enough to have 6100 in de
• house in case of sickness, an' a $20 bill
whar it could be foun' in case you played
poker.wid ,aman erom Chicago an' came out
strapped." -Detroit l'ree Press; Lime -Kiln
Club Proceedings.• '
• Birds Crossing Lake Ontario.
- The -birds began some little time ago
• leaving 'Canada for the south, and the
vessels erossing the lakes have carried a
great,. matey of .thena.. Captain „Saunders,
of the schooner Oliver Mowat, reports that
on his lest trip from Charlotte to Kingston,
andashile midway across the lake, ft great
number of birds, of • various colors, and
species, fluttered about the rigging and deck
of the, vessel. They presented a charming
sight. Many of them remained on board
over night. They were very tame, and if
the cabin windows had been open would
have flown into the warm room. During
the trip the captain caught a, young owl.
,Captairt Dix, of the sohooner -White Oaks,.
also reports that his vessel was crowded
with birds on his last trip across the lake.
ItliliCas a Stimulant,
Of hot milk as a stimulant the Medical'
_Record Faye: "Milk heated -too much
above 100 degrees Fahrenheit loses for a
time.a degree of itS sweetneas and density.
No one who, fatigued by over exertion of
body or ,mind, has eyer experienced the
reviving inflgenoe of a tumbler of this
beverage, heated as hot as it can be sipped,
will willingly forego a resort to it, because
of its being rendered somewhatless accept-
able to- the palate. The promptness with
which its cordial -influence is felt is indeed
surprieiag. Some portion of it same to be
• digested and ,appropriated aim* inamedi-
ately, and -many Willa now, fancy -they need
alcoholic stiroulants • when exhausted by
fatigue will find in this siMPIS draught an
equivakfit that will be' abundantly satia.
fying and far more enduring in its'effeots.'
A fine flowing well has been Strtick -on
the site of the new contagious diseases
hospital at Winnipeg. When the boring
intichirie hid reached the depth of 50 feet
the water, spouted up' through the tubing
with great force.
Sir Beauchamp Seynaour is not expected
• home in England till, the new year:, • His
'conatnand of the Mediterranean fleet wilf
expLire about Christmas.
, •
Truth Stranger Than Fiction.
Mr. Anthony Ouellette, teacher and
farmer at Pain Court County of Rent said
to his wife on October Ali, the day before
the plena), " Margaret, get ready the boiler
and hot vvatere that we may scald the little
pig as an offering to the church picnic."
The good lady did so, the water bubbled
furiously inapatient for its-peroine victim;
but when the time earn° to kill the pig it•
had disappeared. Great was the lamentae
•tion .of the pious donor, the church pig was
gene. Every peek and (nanny Was ran -
Sacked vainly, so they concluded that
some :sacrilegious thief had stolen it. --Mark
• the sequel: On the 2nd of NOVeniber, early
in the morning, the missing pig came out
of the straw stack, in company with some
fattening hogs, which had been 'thitied out
there. -• The young pig was alive and
healthy, but very weak, after. its 25 days'
fist, during which no morsel of food nor
drop of drink had.passed his throat. It had
'decreased in weight from 25 lbs. to 51b.
Snowed IfInder.
(From the Laramie Boomerang.)
We have,met the enetnyand we are his'n.
We have made' our -remarks and we are.
now ready to listen to the gentleman from
New YeT,k. We could have dug out, per -
llama and explained about New York, but.
when almost every State in the -Qui= roe()
up and made certain statements yesterday,
we found that the job of explaining this
metter thoroughly wield be wearisome and
require a greet deal of time.
We do not blame the 'Democracy for this.
We are a little surprised, , however, and
grieved. It will iuterfere with our ward-
robe this winter. • With an overcoat �n
Wyoming, a plug bat ou'Iowa, a pair of
pantaloons on Pennsylvania and boots on
the general result, it looks now as though
we would prObably go through the winter
wrapped ina bed quilt aud profound medi-
tation.
• We intended to publish an extra this
morning, but theigesas viiiifof such a char-
acter that we thought we would get along
without it. What was the use of publish-
ing an extra with a •Republican majority
only in Red Butths ?
The cause of this . great Democratic
fresnet in New York yesterday -but why
go into details, we all bave an idea of why
it was so. The, number of votes would
seem to indicate that theta Wa9 a ten-
dency, toward democracy throughout the
State.
Now in Penns ': s_if_you wilUuok
over the returna carafially-but whyehould
we take up youi'valueble time offering an
explanation of a political matter of the
Endee the circurnetances seine would go
and yield to the soothing influences of the
maddening bowl, , but we do not adviee
that. It would only .furnish temporary
relief, and the recoil Would be unpleasant.
• We resume our arduous duties witha
feeling' of extreme ennui, and with that
sense of surprise and astonishment that
a Man does who haa had a large brick block
fall on him when lae.was not expecting it.
Although we f a little lonelyaceed ay -hay-
ing met but • a few Republicans on the
_street, who were obliged to come out and
do their marketing -we still hope for the
future. '•
•The grand' cld Republican party— •
But that's' what we said last week. -It
sounds hollow' now and naeaningless, some.
how, because our voice is a little hoarse,
and we are snowed under SO deefthatit, is
difficult for us to enunciate-. • .•'
Now about those bets. If the. Parties to
Whom we owe '. bets -and . we • owe most
everybody -will just' agree to -take. the
stakesand not go into details.; not stop, to
ask us about, the state. of our mind; and
talk about how it was -done, we don't: Clare.
We don't wish to have thiS'thiog explained
at all. We are not of an inquiring turn -of
mind. ;lust plain facts aregoed enough for
'us, without any harrovving-detaiis. In the
• meantime we are going to work 'to mein
some more naoney to bet, on the next election.
,Judge Folger andothers, 'come over, and see
us when.yon have time,and we -will --talk-
thienthater ever. Mr. B. Butler, 'we wish
we, had „Lamer_ longevity. With a -robust
constitution we 'find that. 'most any .nattn,
can wear out cruel fate and get there at
last. • We do not feel •se angry as. we do
grieved and surprised. We are pained to
see the American people thus betray our
confidence and throw a large wardrobe into
the hands of the relentless foe.
• , The Misery ot Riches.
• ,
•
Far years one of the.: familiar -sights of
Cincinnatietreets has been an aged beggar'
by` the name of Margaret Parker. .No
'doubt of her utter •poverty existed, for
scores 'of benevolent persons had visited
her squalid room and found ,:her ehiv,ering
with cold or eating eckaps •of loathsome
food. One day ,last 'week Margaret Was
told .she must move out ..of her -Wed -014T
apartment' unless she ceuld, pay het rent..
That was a manifest ' and a
man who had beforebefriended her Weed a
waggon and prepared to help her tomove.
In ed.daing-he dropped a dilapidatsd teunk,
which •burst and disclosed tvve heavir bags
-
of money, amounting, it IS, "stipposed,' to
five or Si% thousand dollars. The old.oxope,
• who stood by, turned paid and exclaimed:
" What shall I do! .People know I've get
money now, and I'll be murdered for it."
Gymnastics and, !Gymnasia.
It would be wen la °more resorting to
• gymnasia, or engaging in the sports and
exercises carried on in these esta,blish-
mutate, even the seemingly healthy' would
ask their ordinary medical attendants to
examine their, hearts and hinge (and we
emight-haviradded-rkidW, and give pre-
cise clirectiona as to what may and what
may not be attempted by them. Casee are
of too frequent occurrence in which serious
physical mischief is done in the pursuit of
health, because those who "feel well" and
"book well" resort to unadvised exercise.
The hest policy is to avoid putting any
part of the system to exceptional uses,
or subjecting it to unusual stress of energy,
without taking the obvious precaution of
firt ascertaining how far the actual state
of the organism is likely to justify the
test of -strength and stand the strain. -
Lancet.
A. Veteran' liseturn.
Major-General Luard's aide-de-camp,
Major Holbeck, is expected to return to
Ottawa shortly: He was Brigade -Major to
General 'Graham at Tel-el-Rebir and
through the Egyptian campaign, and
acquitted himself with valor, In the
memorable battle of Tel-el-Rebir Major
Holbeok's horse was struck in tem places
and eeverely wounded, while the Major
hiinself was struck in the breast and had
an extrethely, narrow escape from death.
He is now on Ins.. way to EIngland, where it
is said honors await him.
A qtieer ease cif cleric& domiciliary visi-
tation has occurred in 'Scotland. A Free
Kirk mronm-gbuig home foubd the Estab-
lished Church minister engaged in his
house on it pastoral visit. As the reverend
gentleman refueed to quit, the Free Kirk
man foreibly thrust :hirn out, and was
subsequently summoned for assault. The
minister claimed that the Church of Scot-
land hada law Which gave him the right to
vieit every house in theparish. The magi's -
'Grates, of course, decided that a householder
had the right to ejeot an intruder, (Aeries]
Or other. • •
Send Ole rt. "Tettpherreei"
We shall ask a dispensation, says an
exchange, to permit ue to introduce a new
word into- the language.' It;i3" telePherpet",
The nee of tau le pbraties as " telephonie
conatnuoicatiou, ' "telephonic Message,"
" eewe by telepI one" and thelike, seems a
little clumsy, and a single word expreseing
their meaning hasheeome a desideratum.
WO subnait "telepheme" as a word pro-
perly made from the Greek, and a vocable
which will conveniently serve our hurrying
speech. Ite formationis analogous to
" telegram," 'the termivation in both OSS00
representing the result of tbe verb's action.
Thus, "to •telegraph" 18 to write from a
distance, and a telegram" is that -written
from a diereece. The new word " tele-
pheme iseereilarly made. .
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• on Ontario street, at in ton, o p osite e Engligla
Church. Entrance by Selo gee:.
Dr. Corfield °Acetates that; while the
mean duration of life ie all Loedon is a
little under- 36 years, in he aristocratiO
parish- of` St. George's Hanover Square, it
is 50 years. Te average, howevet, is Made
up of rather *icier, extremes ;, for whileit
is only 46i it, 13e1gravia, it ie. 57 in the
Hanover Sqtiere •suladistriet, and even
66 1-5 in Mayfair. The later 'fashionable
quarter Seems; indeed, to be, of.all places
in London proPer,, the spot where remark-
able ihsteeces of longevity /eight naturally
136'1i:eked for. •
.11 Wil,Iiani Peen had been permitted to
readthe descriptieet of the recent celelirae
tier: ia Itis, henor,--he-nensta,have-baen-
' astonished beyond the power-drexitiretision:
Qne of the miner faots certain to bewilder'
him is the consumption of lager beer' during
the' hi-celitaernel festivities. The books of
the iuternal revenue cffice showed that
during the week 28 388 barrels' or 15 000 000
glasses of beer, were delivered:and preeurn-
abeley
cuCumed ii Pkilsdetphnt, an allow.
ae
woman and cbild, focludieg tho strangers
within her gate.- The quantity delivered
during the corresponania• week in 1881 was
barrels, so that thereeent celebration
is directly responsible'for the consumption.
of nearly 10,000 barrels of beer'.
000' • poued of ' learnlng r,equires tau
pounds coinnion sense to .appl y it. -Persian
:lohnny
wonder if the schooluesete:as teats. a piece
of the Board of .Ed.uee.tion ?"
Land at Oil Springs', Which ,ten weeks
ago was offered at 610 an acre, is now quoted
at $500 an, acre. - . .• •
• Canine Fidelity..
. ,
A very touching illustration a the
fidelity of the dog to his master was fur-
nished the other day in a village upon the
banks of the Seine, not farfrom Paris.
. Borne laborers working in a field saw,a
well-dressed man walking aleng,the bank,
followed by a black spaniel,which was
evidently delighted to have such a run.
Suddenly the man disappeared, and when •
the laborers, thinking he had fallen -into
the river, came up, the dog, vvbich had
•realized. the ' situation waslearking dole-
fully at the point where hisemaster had
disappeared. The body did not rise to the
.surface, and was found ' two days la,ter
much lower down strea,m, the dog in the
naeanwhile having refused to leave •the
epot where be had last • Been his master,
and being eventually taken away by one
ot the villagers, who has resolved to keep
him.' His master, it may be added, , had
committed suicide, for a paper was found
•upon him stating •that he had lost his wife
three menthe before, and that being weary
of life without her he had resolved to put
• himself out otthe Way. -London News. ,
ithe general testimonY of all 'old
settlers ,that the winters of Ontario are
--becominganuchTneilder. Certaircit is that
the weather.of these days is in marked con.
trast with theblizzardly winters of twenty
or twenty-five years ago.
TAR s ronomer Wilsoa, of the
Cincinnati observatory," says: "1 have
been asked again and again whether this
•comet iti to return and fall hate the EOM
:next year. •The computations based on
the observations which have now •been
obtained show that it will not return next
year; nor the next, nor before two hundred
years at -least; •and perhaps never. It
position.im the sky is changing slowly,
and it will rise earlier each night. On
January J.st, 1883, it will rise at about 11
p. rn., and will then be one-third as bright
At Tel-el-liebir, JUDO, 1111 old Irish set-
ter belonging-- to • the 'First
uordon lifehlanders, bravely " rushed "
the entienchrnents at the head of the
Highlanders, and displayed a coolness
inside and • a courage which elioited
• universal applause, •ao more minding the
rain of bullets than if she was out snipe
shooting. Juno has long been a pet of the
regiment. When the order •carne to pro-
ceed to Egypt, every one said that Juno
must' go to'o, and go ehe did, very mucle 19
• helight of the men.
• The wooing of Mollie Spurgeon by Albert
Egglestonaat Warsaw, Miss., made favor=
able progress untirthe girl learned that her
lover eves a forger, and then she dismissed
him. But he had no intention of giving
her up. Finding her atone inthe house, he
placed a °ticked revolver at ,her head, and;
under a threat of instant death, naade her
go to a boat in• which he darted with her
down the Mississippi.• He said that be
meant to keep her a prisoner on the lone-
liest islatid-he could find until , she eon-
eented to marry him. 'But her friends
went in pursuit eo promptly that she was
soon rescued. a
The strange and horrible scenes enacted
nightly in some of the Ordinarily frequented
quarters of Paris Wouldariake: one imagine
•that the , moot civilized people eif the
universe bad suddenly beeome more savage
and lawless 'than theeRiaKlux Klan of.
America. 11 19 not an uncommon thing
for a-foet passenger returning home from
the theatre to be stayed in his promenade
by a human form flu'g from an uppr
window and felling Mel' fia at hip Viet: or
is it rare to be 'acooated by a ,,group; of
brigands who pinion'their victim hehiad
while the Recompiles' rifles his pookets.
Even in the aristoiratio streets it is
dangerous to remain ont late at night,
and the police are becoming lest; and lees
able to compete with,the dangerous organ.
iaationofthieVes tvho usurp the 'paiemeliat
•
YOUNG, af - P.,. (aieenteeTa- oe TORONTO
*University,) Physician, Sfirgeon, ;real dee at '
Mr. Manning's, three doors errA •of the iErluPerence
Lendesboro, Ont.,
1.111. RBEVE.—On'IC), .11,13hRT 61 BEET-
.1_,Finuitediately north of Diet: Fun's, book Clore. Beat.
donee, oppopite the Temper tree C nurcn street
ounton. Office hours front 6 rum to U.1)2.
Mit vainrLZEA0:1-3.P.11.1,1,01,1? PrpI143
sidenter %Sae street°, neri's "e8EarY'
e v
taught if desired., 1,10.0,sra
" O-1,11:1U,ATE TBE MEDI
Ceroner for the,Couraty of aren-, 11syflold, Ont. .1
DE- S_TANB1711Y,
CAL Departinent of Victoria 01,170113ity,Torontd,for
nearly of the Bospitais ;me Dispenser:Ara Near York
1.)' W. WILLIAMS, B..1., D., GRADUATE OF
.11_1b Toronto University; arra, ber of thoGollegeofrhY
•'olefins and Surgeone,On.t. Orricn RESIDE -NOB the
house formerly occupied b 1).r RaPve,-.Albeit-etreet
,
DR. woRTHINGT01,,, PRYSICIAN, SlatGEON
Accoachenr,Lia ont e o College orPlaysioian-
an d Surgeons of tower Cana,d,r, and ProVilunalLicen.
• 6reiastideeannoed,—C°Trhie°blin°11rcltihn'gef(Uttnrinto;C°lfyli-oucle.17Fic 2t2eManra
Thwaites Huron street
Olin ten,Jan. /0,1871.
•W. E. CART wRIGHT;STIBC"ZON Danner
Graduate of tho Royal College of Dents/
Surgeons of Ontario, has opened roams hi
the Victoria Block, Albert Street, Clinton, where /A1
will constantly bp in attendance, and prepared to per-
form eyltry Operation connected with Dentistry. Teetat
etracted, o r filled with gold, amalgam or other filling
material. ,Artificial teeth inserted:from ono to a
' IVIONEY TO -LEND -
,) MONEY TO LEND, ON REAT., -ESTATE -
AT 'LOWE.ST TeATILS •
to. t". RI:bt.ft.. '1', 'Clinten
rucieriar-ii,racreseniu, igraore,19
, .
Seiatiett'iumbage'
Backache, Sorenes,e of the 'Chas t,
• GOut, figinv;$Orti .Throat;SWell-,
inge and Sprains, Burps And.
'$calds, General
, Pains,
• Thoth, : Ear 'and.,Headachei Frosted.-
' Feet and Ears; and all other
P• ain and and; Aches:
Preparatien on ereth egiuris Sr. JACOBS OIL
• 69 safe,'aure; oimple and cheap External'
•.Remedy. , A t,rialentails but .the 'companalvel.• 7
trifling outliCy Of 50 Cents, ind.eiery one suffer- "
• ing. wlth paitrain have cheap and positire proof ,
of ita claims. •."•
Directions in Ileven Languages.
'BOLDLYALLDEUGEHSTBAND,DELLEIlB
IN MEDIOINE,
°- VOGELER. & CO
,Baftitnors.
MORTGAGES. NOTES,
AND 01.73E1.
AOOd Securitifn r ,vchased.
CONVEY
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Incorporated bY Act. of:Raritan:on '
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CAPITAL; •000:
Head +Office, Montreal.
THOMA 8:WORKMAN, '. 4 .... , Pros/ dent .
,3. H. It. MOLSON,.. -,Vice-Pres., .
F.WOLFERS TAN ,TE O'AtAS,Gwndral/danager.
Notes discosintecl • C'olicetions lnade Drafts
issuei, Sterloisw. and A nteriecot e..'.aang e '
. bought and Redd at
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currev t i'a 108. Clint .
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Feb. 17,1881. • .. - ,
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"THO&aNEILANS,AGENT;',:ae',
•.emAttiAitiacte 'Gaeta •
' Farmers wishingtto insere•7111 find this Com
pany one of the best and ebeapost to insure ha
whowill be waited on a.t their homes H informs -
ton be sent to the'Agents' (Mice. ' •4y.
IF YOU'AiE TRAVELLING
•
E -r
0
EAST il/E8TW
• DU I YOUR 'TICKETS FRO:a__
Jas. Thompson, Tewit ii/gent GITRI
JOHNSTON TISBALL & GALE,
B!LN K S
RA'ITENBITRY ST., CLINTON,
rpRANSACi A GENERAL B ANEINGRUSINESS:•=21
Idoneyndvarieed on Mortgages and Notes of hand
Drafts issued payable at par,lit all the offices of tile
"Merchant's Bank, of Canada. NoW Yeti; exchange
bought and 1301d. PlIOMPT ATTIINTION 3'.310 TO COL-
LECTIONS thrbughont Canaduand th o United' States.
SALE NOTES.BOUGHT at okse,ratts, find money
advanced te farmers on their cnn uotca, for an ylength
of time to snit the borrower. All marketable seenri-
't les bought and Sold. ••• ' . •
BANNERS IN NEW YORK., 11C,EILLS 2nritn
1JERCEANT'S BANE Oi'
INTEREST ALLOWED 0.N DEPOSITS
A. JOHNSTON, J. P. TISDALL, T. A. GALE •
• Strathrey. 1 „Clinton. • Elora •
• J. PENTLAND TI8DALL, Mitunger. -
J. 11 II) E 0 0d 13 E,
VITATTS, Sit co , Agents, canton
. GHAT'S HrECIFIC 111EginICIIHI
THADs NIA it K..TkisbhGee Itrmeat,dt ntn. T. R1 t BARK.
untailingcurcfor
;4en, itral Weak.
treas. Spermator.
- rhea_ 11,, pi.teudY.-
and as ,ijaettires
that follow as a ,
eminence of Self-,
Abuse; 001003-01
rjefore Taldefrillemory, Uniudever- A gi.„1,_
Paha in,the Back, Olmeiessot Vistea, Pieinatore
old Age, and many Other Disettses 'that lead' to
Insanity or Oonstreption and a Premature Grave,
llgr-Foll,partictiiara in Our pamphlet, whieh we
desire te send free by mail to every one. •'rho
Specific Medicine is sold by altdrugglets t $1 per
package, or six packages for $5, or will be sent
by mail on reeeipt Cif the money by addressing .'
'Tb. Grey medicine' Co.,
. • ' Toronto, Ontario,- Ca
eAr -Sold by all wholesale and retail drum;
inetineda *40 the United Staten.
Itillatch'-ard---Clock •Maker,:
JEWELLER, (tee
Woularespeettnnyannonnee to his customers and the
publicgonorally,that be had remoVcd int* hie former
' .
bnhldlag, en
ALBERT STREET, OPPOSITE TUB .literianns
Where he willkeep on hand a select £Zgsortment of
Clocks, Watches,' jewelle_ty, And_Sikcricar
• of ail kinds.
Which be Will sell tit reasonM
able rotas. epairing
•. ov ery des cription promptly attended to. ,
; J. BIDDLECOHBE Atnnier STnEn`
Clintim,bee.5,1878.
• INSTJRA.NCE
Every lestription of Property
AT tow„,-sT IIATES.
C. at POUT, Clinic
IMMO yoti 'Tent to learn Telegraph
oakValsjitlarat=ge:sTavleZille%gi:.1.,11:=1.
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