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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1906-12-13, Page 14ivlin,t Pl ewe -he rs ' • JHi. QUEENOF TRAGEDY CELEBRATED ITALIAN ihCTRESS PASSES AWAY IN ROME. Adelaide fiietori Had a Vlelon of Tri• umphs- .Femou9 Tragedienne Wee On. Stage. At Fifteen and Lived Till $4—.Caro of Theetrtcei Stock and. Played Leading Roles Ail Over the World._—Her Wedding Romance. Adelaide Ristori, Marchese Capranl• • ca„ del Grillo, the Siddons of Italy; whose death was. recently announced, and' who was as delightful in comedy roles as she was impressive in those onfagedy, was born id the little Irene tiara town 01 CIVidale @} Friuli on Janutlry B6, 182:?, Ifee parents weri of � n to and Madeleine Por- �,n o itis ri M .patelli, comedians in a company of , strolling players, headed by one Cavic- chi, and by them elm was introduced eb the stage when not yet three months old, In her .memoirs the great tragedienne bas called this debut a "bowling success," The play was en- titled, "The New Year's Gift," and her part in it was:teeenter as the contents of a market basket Her second dramatic appearance was made at the age of three as the daughter of . it c:rusader's widow. At MARCHIONESS CAPD4 ICA DEL G1ULLp (ADELAIDE RISTonI.) four she. was made to play a small part in a sort of vaudeville entertainment. and herself records that this appear-. ea' an wasan enormous success,She ee f became a regular member of the stroll- ing company, at ten yearsof age, play- ing servants' parts and at twelve be- ing entrusted with premiere roles, Her salary at this time considerably ex- ceeded that of her parents. She be- came the stip, of . the .company during remainder of 'her short stay witb it. It was at Navara, In the company of Giuseppe Moncalvo, two, _ later that her career can be said .to have definitely 'begun. Here, at. fourteen years of age; she took ter first step as a tragic actress, playing.. the title role in Silvio Pellico's "Francesca da :Ri- mini-" So marked was theimpression made by her talents on this occasion' that an engagement was offered her after the performance 'at the Theatre of the. King of, Sardinia, them under the' direction . of Gaetano Bazzi, and numbering. among its actors sueh.:dra matte lights as 'Vestris, ' Romagnoli, Marchtoni and Rebatti. 'Here she .at once•beeame th protege • of Charlotte Marchioni and through the kindly ef- forts of. this- eminent actress was rapid; ly advanced in her profession,..assufn- ing the latter's roles when in 1840 Sig. M hi n' tired from the stage. nota arc o r re At the age of sixteen. Ristori was offered a seven years' engagement by Mascherpa, director of the Duke of Parma's theatre, and accepted. it. As a member of this company she created man emotional and • tragic roles which were thereafter associated •with• .her fame:. Her • reputation gained steadily with her growing powers, and t c re of had thefirs , a t ss Eke become Italy when in 1847 she 'married the young. Marquis Capranica del Grillo and for. two years interrupted . her at• •tistic career- . The romance thus broul ht: to :anise. sue had been of some years' standing and had been beset 'with All 'the , diiii- eulties which the young Roman noble's family could contrive toput til ' ifs way. The details of the story of Grillo's. wooing of Ristori and it% 'finale in an' unconventional. wedding make a very pretty and not unexciting .romance. After her marriage Ristori left the" stage, determined to devote ,the •rest of her life to ,domesticity..But. for her ap- pearance at a charity performance in Ronie in 1849, et the time of the siege, she might have kept this resolution. There was a furore at her appearanc%. however, and this grew to an irresis- tible demand that she resume her former place upon the stage. ' Resume it elle did, with hei• hus- band's consent, in 1850, devoting her- self thenceforward to tragic, roles. Myrrha, . Judith, Phaedra and Lady Macbeth were some,•ofthese. On May .22, 1855, she took Paris by storm ap- pearing in the Italian Opera House in Francesca da Rimini," 'the Paolo be- ing Ernesto Rossi. No foreign Actress had ever received suell, an ovation in a French theatre. Her name was in every mouth; her portraits ,were sold throughout France; "the French Gov-• ernment made her brilliant offers if she would join the Comedie Francaise, and Lamartine wrote verses about her. At a period when Rachel was the undisputed queen of Abe French stage Adelaide Ristori in a night divided her long held palmswith her. But 'not even the personal persuasions of the Emperor availed to chain Ristori to .Paris. She preferred to• remain Italian, and so, although far five years there- after she appeared :regplerly in the Theatre Italien, site also toured.' " the' French provinces and made wide ex- `"`oui•sibns through' nitrojid;• • England she first'visited in the lat- ",ter. iiart'of 1855. Her trip to Spain in .1857 aroused 'the greatest enthusiasm. :So did her appearances in Holland .and „'Russia in 1866.'On nee' return to Paris. In the latter year Ristori played at the Odeon, this time in. French, her debut ' in that language. In spite of traces of Italian accent this fresh essay fully confirmed her former popularity. In 1862 King William of Prussia be- stowed on her, in Berlin, the Medal of the Sciences of Arte. Constantinople heard her in 1864. In 1865 negotiations were begun by Mr. Maurice Gran with a view to bringing Ristori to America.. These were brought to an i sue in 1866 when the famous actress came for ter first tour, .opening tit the French Theatre, New(York, 'on Sep- tember 20, 1806, with her own com- pany, as Medea. At the close of this en- gagement,'which lasted fifty-one nights, she visited twenty-seven cities- Brook-lyn, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Clnninnati and New Orleans among them, giving in all 168 performatives. 'Tie immense suecess elle won in New York was dup- licated everywhere else. Her tour was one long triumphal progress. 'i'he gross receipts of thn tour were $450,- 000, 450;000. of which the actress • received $270,000, She returned to America for the second time h1 1867, and tante again in 1875.and 1884, on these later trips meeting with a repetition of her initial aua .occ,4 Oise y"r titter her final American tour thedistinguished aetretla retired, and since that time had been living a quiet life on her country `estates. OPERATION WOUNDS, A Serious Danger to Which Surgeon' Are Exposed—First :Signa of Medi- cal Blood Poisoning. By the terni "operation wound" is meant a poisonedwound received ac. tidentally by the surgeon while operat- ing upon a patient suffering from'. blood poisoning, but it differs in no wayfromu act a accidentally e y Dison d wound which any one is likely to re- ceive. It is simply the beginning of blood poisoning. • This term blood poisoning' is eree played to express a disease resulting from the entrance into the bleed of the germs of putrefaction or of pad fn.rwitinn o t1be abeorption of the poisons elaborated by these gerina exp 'sting on the outside of the body. It is a much less common affection now than It was 'before the introduction of antiseptic surgery, In those days hospital wards, even the cleanest, harbored millions of ,sep- tic bacteria, The knives and other in- struments used in operating, although easefully washed in soap and hot wa- ter, were in effect no different freed the poisoned arrowsof the savage bowman.. The lint used to pack the wounds, the bandages employed to keep the lint in place, the sponge with Winch the wound w s washed at each dressing, 'were all impregnated with living germs of disease, and finally the very hands of the surgeon, scrupulous= ly clean as they seemed to be, were coated with the microbes of suppura- tion and putrefaction. It le no wonder that certain opera- tions now performed daily in every hospital in the country with perfect results were so uniformly followed by blood poisoning that the surgeon who dared to . perform them, except when death would otherwise be inevitable, would have been guilty of malprac- tice. . To -day it is not the patient who is in danger of blood poisoning, but the surgeon, who may accidentally inocu- late himself through . a scratch or . 'a hangnail. The first signs of this are a 'feeling of soreness in the arm, for a finger i usually the siteo Maculation,an f redness• n slight, swelling h ada gtewe Batt paint where 'the poison entered, This redness soon extends up. the inner side of the arm in streaks' which' marl: the lymphatic vessels. The bacteria ar passing through them.to gain entrance finally into ,the general circulation The glands in 'the armpit, through which the lymphatics: pass,' also be- come hard and swollen. • Soon the patient begins . to have. fever,. alternating, perhaps, with chills,. and: then the symptoms • of general blood' poisoning appear;, The treatment' of this infection is purely surgical- The wound should be freely out open and disinfected; so as' to remove the source of the poison.. If. this is ,done• in time and with sufficient. thoroughness, 'blood: poisoning ajar be averted. • • •. ,: •The First Teetotai Pledge. • s d' e s e e On Sept. 1, 1832, was signedthe first English teetotal pledge. Itwasdrafted in the histo c "cock it atPreston historic t pby the late Joseph Livesey, and the origi- nal (of which•Llo\ d's`:Weekly gives 'e, facsimile) passed into •the possession CC/kW.;......• -/04 4t4a26, ...ion G.1�✓,,.•,: : : ' A.;,rvy, 'THE FIEST TEETOTAL PLEDGE. : • 4f Mr. John Cook, .founderof•the well- known, 'fl rm ellknown,'flrm ,of to east •agents.., It . is - still carefully.. preserved: in > a strong frame, with plate -glass front•and back of sheet steel. It,wa;,.last lent to 'the • north of England on the occasion of. the centenary of..the birth' of Mr. Joseph Livesey: His son,' .Mr: William Livesey, whoresides at Preston"!' his 91st year, and is the oldest pledged teetotaler in the world. The Little knowledge • Is .Dangerous. An erliperfect, or warped understand- • ing of machinery aria or processes and "ignorance of what Is being or has, beeli accomplished are••;flooding 'the world with Worthless inventions .which waste. •both hopes and money Good •technical- •muse:tins in the great centres of Popu- lation and industry ,, would • doubtless have a correcting and .also a' Chasten- ing effect and help to bring men of overbubbiing self appreciation' to rea- lize the fact that, barring accidents, it' takes a good working knowledge .:of• any particular Industry •to' effect e re- form. of .any commercial value in that. industry. •7 housands upon. thou aA., s' of ideas are patented every year in utter disregard of, •the processes . of manufactufe which would have to be employed to peOdece the-iuticles,'and many of. these patents, fur' from mak- ing an advance in any art,. are really steps backward 'on the road, of• pro-• gress and represent a waste of legiti- mate mental energy' whicli might be more profitably s epended. "Novelty" Is the cry. But fre are mostly novel- ties.—Alfred Sang in . ingineeringr Magasine,• . CHRISTMAS EVE IN .PARIS. Picturesque Scenes at the Madeleine. Ii[i,ttorio i' reneii Church. 'They drove to the Madeleine through streets already full of life and moves, merit of hurrying erowds, darting fig- ures now plunged in the black stlad- ows and now slipping out into the full glare of the clustered ' lights. The bib perspective of tile Place •de la Con- corde, thickly sown with lamps, was shot through with glistening reflections from the tops of earrlages, the arcade of the Itue de Itivoli was brilliant as a stage setting, the hotels in the broad. Rue Royale were ablaze with light,htr and far at the end of the street, where the lofty portico of the Madeleine showed Blear against the stari;v sky, a hundred sparks twinkled from the Cabs flitting along the boulevard, The steady roll of wheels merged with the varying notes of horns lu motors and the sound of talk and laughter from the sidewalks, and all blended in a great humming .symphony, struck through with the rattling, syn- copated claek•eleck of hoofs upon the asphalt, like tate staccatl of sharp drums. • The crowd et the Madele te was al- most impassable. but 3ol�hov they .gained the steps. the vestibule. and were swept le the send pack of Hien Mid • Wotan tlirouull the door tit the Tright; The great floor was filled with. a throng as varied as Paris itself, Piety and the Idlest curiosity, youth. and age, came together. As the pro- cession came in sight its song was joined by the organ in the sanctuary and the music rose louder and fuller In a single godlike voice ranging down. from thedazzling altar. zlln a . Soddenly, like artillery, the great or- gan overhead crashed out in a volulne. of sound that flooded the whale vast Interior like a wave, sweeping over the beads of the kneeling crowd and mounting to the shadowy arches of . h roof. The e very conenssion took the listeners' breath away, and in the, recoil men and women burst Into tears, and billows of emotional excite- went rolled back and forth through the church. -- Winfield: Scott Moody in i cribner's, YULETIDE IN SHETLAND. Curious Customs. In the Island Where the Ponies come !tion. The festival of Yule, asis well known, dates back to prebistorie times, whenmen worshiped nature rather than nature's God. The inhabitants of the Shetland isles are descended from Norsemen, who were zealots in religious belief, and "Yule" to them meant a season of great Importance. The "Gammel Norsk Hint" signifies, literally, "wheel," and the festival so called was held in honor of the sun at the winter solstice wheel, Ing round toward the equator. The re- turn of the sun formed en important period of the year as being the begin- ning of renewed life in nature, which only could be revived by the light and warmth of the ascending orb, The course of the sun was observed in all things as far as possible, Every- thing was turned from left to right— the boat was so turned on the water, thecorn stacks so built in courses, the mill so turned In grinding and the wheel" he spinning --in fact, everything went with the sun, even the round of the drinking horn. Many superstitions included in na- ture worship bad „full 'scope at the "Hjul" time—or more modern "Yule" .—when a vast multitude of "troves," cos or fairy folk, who at that season • were not only active, but maliciously diee,. posed, had to be propitiated. .To give the fairy 'folk no opportunity of playing tricks, the fishing creel and lines were removed ,fromthe wall, .the spinning wheel taken out of gear and its integral parts laid aside, and every-: Ming suspended from ceiling or walls lifted down as if .left in . their usual places. the ubig4iitous elves were sup- posed to set all going against the sun's motion, which of course would mean serious trouble. The time of Yule was, and still is, rigidly observed as "belly" a time of lest fromallmanner of labor.—Madame, AUTOMATIC SWIMMERS.. Screw Propelled Machine That Is Car- ried On Min's Hack.—Parte Mn'.a Queer Inventions. 311, Constantin! of Paris, after hav- ing been successful in adapting a, gaso- line motor to a roller skate, now brings out another use of the motor in the form of a life saving apparatus or automatic swimming device which can be used for sport as well. Bathers, for instance, can take exercise with the apparatus along the coast. Such an ap- paratusmust be as light as possible andre 1 n us canto s m t - eso that b taken. the motor will work under water in all conditions. A good distance can be i Off Santa Claus. •;' Beat •- t POSE 's a 'Santo $ . there l sat Chita s o brings t e h t Thtm los pretty 1+ an'c an' Ari ,mincepies candyrn ibints To lots o' tittle boys, But where we live down here, 1 .guess, Is sort o' off his beat, Cm pretty certain, anyway, He never found our street. He goes around to all the stores An' fills 'em full o1 things. Like sleds an' skates an' railroad cars, The kind he always brings, An' then he seems to lose the way To our house. Ain't 0 queer That ail the times he's come to town He's never been Town here? tt 1, nig OOREW PROPELLED SWIMM 11:. covered, even bye novice, wbi ' tance is only limited by the siec _- • fuel tank, In the view herewith shown vice is fn complete shape, with --. exception of the air bags, which serye as floats. The main body or case of the apparatus consists of a light alu- minium box about twenty inches high, which is adapted to be . carried upon the back of the swimmer. It is just large enough to contain the motor and the rest of the apparatus. The propell- er,. which Is used to drive the device through the water, is •mouuted on the end of a crank shaft, and the latter is made to project out through a water tight packing in the side ofthe case, e. To protect the propeller from any shocks it might receive, it is surround- ed by a conical piece, carrying a wire gauze covering. The crank for .starting the motor is fitted in the usual way upon the projecting end of the motor shaft. At the toll of the case is p. pipe, . over which is .fitted a rubber pipe go- ing to a float:bag is not seen. here), and this' bag serves .at thesame time •to supply the ;air which is re- quired for working the carburetor dur- ing • the time when the ex may be sunk below the surface of :the water, This is only for: •emergencies, however, and In general .the carburetor takes the air . through a •suitable pipe from the,outside. A set of valves control the air supply in these cau'es..For' cooling the motor cylinder,. which is jacketed at 'the upper part, the water comes. from the outside and leaves 'the. box again. through suitable openings on' either• side of the case. Gasoline is: .supplied from • an aluminium', tank of .square section, 'whichis fitted against the beck'of the case Attached. to 'each side of the ; main case is an air bag of some :size which serves as a float. The swimmer•is set- • ed upon apro ecting saddle formed of a • metal plate covered with cork. The saddle is hinged to the box in order to. fold it up when not in. use .and at the outer end is attached an air' float which• can• be of any convenientsize. fixed••u Two straps are totheupper end of the box: so as t6 fasten.it upon the. swimmer's back. At the lower end the straps are festenedinplace by a hook • or.a button projecting from the box. • Christmas .In Guam. ' Ohristmas was . celebrated : in 'diem last year in as true American styleas the possibilities of the situation.would. permit. Great interest :was staken pee the Americans in' celebrations for the native children. A number of enter tainments ' were provided. • A feature was a floating Christmas tree, Mag- niflcentiy.deco ated which was a rad ed through the streets of Agana drawn. by six plumed mules' with costumed •, outriders and preceded by a native band and from whieh Santa Cleus.dis- tributedabundanee of good cheer. A New:. Milady. ` It was Christmas day, and :the candy. lion had been «aitinb oh sopatiently —for Mary to finish her. dinner. Much Against 'her baby wishes !tad she, been obliged to. swallow the.' last of • her lead. When her mother Insisted ou her.. finishing her -.milk .the small' ;face looked :up: in desperation as'she lisped, "lsiozzer, if feet any more food 1 will be . Humpback .. in.: my "stomach, •• like grandpa!"—I, i pp i ucott's. • Conquered. Mt.. McKinley. Dr. Frederick A 'Cook of Brooklyn, N. -Ye who at last las succeeded In reachiu„` the summit of. Mount McKin- ley,, fiti A1asica.,: • the highest peal. in • North. America hs made several trips Oi,1J^ 'l sru • Realities Billy—bo yer•didu'tget•nuthin but 'a jackknife and t sled. ter Christmas? .tromps\' -Yes, dot's ell 1'got; worth speakin' of. Dere Wu? a suit of clothes; and a overcoat, and a hat or two, and' •some underclothes, and a heel: of poems, anti some stockin's and gloves, and some collars aitd cuffs, and a few other ,things likedat, not worth speakin' of.--9fen. and_Women, • . ' Do,iit 'Let the Mistletoe. Drop. It is very . unlucky if. the mistletoe •should fall from the place where it has beent ing'Ip. THE OLDEST HOLIDAY. Juries Caesar Made the 1st of Ja,cu- ary New bur's Day. •1 i5 0 (;aiug.Jultu c-'aesat•;, founder or slit: Iloman einpire;. that bur present • New. Year's .edify .OW1S its ;origin; 'i'he dtOeut Romans_ • began the.: year ou Dei'. 21i, ellen there.:..began to •bc 'two light;. but their 'calendar wail so mistakenly arranged that .their years did not t•n1110 out right In the end, and' in' the .ourse of time. the months had fallen yo- far .behhid that the Calendar toles one to ga swimming. when the ;'routs~ were frozen :incl to go skating when the flowers were i t bloom. So the mighty "Titbits, when he had 'the world Well tinder his .thumb, made a HOW calendar, and it pleased him to begin the year with the Hrsteuew moon that hap1ened along after the old Ito- iuttn year ceased, and that chauccd.to put in appearance on the first of the month sacred to .Tonus—on Jan. 1. Caesar's .calendar wasn't quite per-. feet, but it Was, nearly so. It is . still in use by nations following the stand - and of the Greek church --Russia and others—and after some 1,950 years it., leas' fallen behind only twelve days. It was in ,111382 that Pope Gregory reform- ed the Julian calendar. Gregory jump- ed oyer tear days to Catch up with time lost under the Julian calendarr and then • lift upon the leap year scheme to keep from falling so. utueh behind again. Gregory's calendar is as near perfect as can be, but under it there Is stili a loss of twenty-two seconds every eel- ruder year, owing to the failure of the world to arrive at exactly the sante point in her ellipse at exactly the sante f4eooud of time each day. But we need not worry ultieh. It will be 1,400 years yet before a whole day is lost, 'and then our thee—Mutants need 'only to ,lump otee ii day--;eekin the 4th of July, for instance. slid Hail it the 1th•-•Iind start 0111 aneve, and then it will be 2,780 years or so before another day. Is lost. --Buffalo Express. • • e"5 cog eras (Y. the ?hllr,i.t .America • SOME -HIGH MOUNTAINS. • to Alaska . in, his efforts • to satisfy the ambition. of his life. 'His telegram an - flounced. ne n-nounced.he had 'reached the lop by a northern' route. Dr. Cook was the sur- geon of the. Peary polar expedition of 1891-'92, and was with the. Belgian polar expedition of 1897.'98. He •has been honored . with medals by Euro- pean • and Ainerican geographical so- cieties, Plague of Rabbits.: Rabbits- are so numerous and have done so much damage in Devon that farmers have been killing as many as possible, and are hawking them about the villages at the price of 3d. each. On one farm at Collompton two acres of corn have been eaten right away. • Everybody's Friend. • Giles --There goes a man .who ,loves his neighbor as himself. Miles—Indeed! HE GOES AROUND TO ALL THE STORES AB FILLS 'EM FULL 0' THINGS. I asked my mother if I might Go wait for him uptown An' tell him that the boys' I know. • Invites him to come down, But she just sort.' o' chokes an' coughs, An' then she looks away • An' says, !'He'll find us out, I guess, An' visit us some day.". An' yet I've been a.waitin' here So long that I 'don't b'lieve I'll ever see him come at all On any Christmas eve, .' I'm goin' to ask a p'ficeman 0 • -.. Santa he should:: meet He'll just go up an' speak to. him .An' point him out our'street.' —New' York American; ecember l3tb, 19Ot inoisommimpowsvirompionimiemo AN EQUINE BANQUET. hoses new Year's Feast In Merry' . • Ohl En land. equine ant r ' An ecu banquet oved not the 1 1 n least interesting of the festivities of the holiday season . in • England Iast yea!', aceording to the Pail Mali 'Ga- zette. The scene was Print's.• Place farm at Acten, where tlie home ' of 4, Iest•forhorses curries on its beueficeut work .of. providing .a hospital fol con- •" vaiescents as well as en iteylum;fol• the yid aged, Anil the ocen.lon wasthe annual g :dew Year's : day dinner to the in- mates: Like other festal inenus, this differed from ordinary fare. Ridlculously slut - pie from the human. standpoipt, it was • a succession" of dainties for the equine palate, :.I'-tch inmate of the silty or so loose butes vas presented :with a 'New Year's box filled with an assortineet' of biscuits, apples,: carrots and bits of sugar and beead,•'and they munched.• these. -tasty morsels to: the eec0mpani- 'mont of many caresses and kind words from the• guests who • were ' biedeu to •the feast. Merely as onlookers.' ...There. Was no tloubting • that • the horses, knew that their 'eririronnient was en fete. Long before one, of then! Seized a rope in. his teeth and set the dinner hell. a -rigging two rows of heads and. 'necks . were• nodding. and swaying out of the open upper halt of the loose .box' doers in 'intelligent •an- ticipation of the facets to come; keep leg their eyes on the tempting titbits. es.yet beyond their reach' and dilating.' their nostrils. in. snifliug snttisfaCt'ion. Like patients in a' hospitgti.ward, each wits' identified by .a framed card giving lila name, his -diet and his treatment; and' brief biographies were.: furnished by the manager of the home. as each horse was visited in turn. • ..Painting China Red. .The Chinese paint the whole coeutry red, . figuratively. speaking, 'on New )ear's day • iu more senses than one. Red Is' the color which with thein. de- notes 'good luck add prosperity, and. ell the New Year's cards and 'invita- tions are on paper of that color, Every . child gets its New Year's present wrapped in red -paper, and red in scriptions are pasted over the doors of the houses. These inscriptions bear. chat-Lidera praying for good fortune, wealth and happiness, and they are posted oil trach side of the outer doors of the houses. New pictures of Chi- nese generals are put on the front • doors, and the houses are scoured and t made clean, Giles -Yes;, he's a candidate for of- - A queer Russian Custom. At every country house in Russia are a feast aner a procession to cele- brate New Year's day. Horses, sheep, CoWs and hogs are dressed with gar- lands and led to the landlord's house. The e idea t 'il hall be 'i s that the animals 3 taken into the dining room, but when the landlord leas a haiidsoniely tar- nished apartment and dot'.; not care to have it ruined he sets aside some other room end shows the niob to take pee - 50351011 Of it. , flee. • • Lucky. Dentist (prodding a patient's, gum fte search of a, fragment of root)•• -runny, I don't seem to feel i1. Patient (iron - teal i i slit of the pain)—You're ir► c o al i i lurk t A Giower tinIAown. A flower unblowu,: n book unread, A tree with fruit unharvt Rtet1. A path untroil, a tion:,•" whose rooms Lack yet the heart's 'divine perfumes, A l:tndsestpe whose wide.horclt•r lies In snout shade 'matt! .suont sties, A wondrous (Matteis ret in, wiled, A eashct with its gifts eonoealed— This Is the F'eltr that for you waits 13eyoial tomorrow's my:'tit antes. --1Ioratio Nelson Powers: In the Jewish sy,negogua at Glace Bay on Sunday Benjamin Myers, i•'.a- der of one faction, assaulted flylnan Eli, le..der of anot1a1 r.ic't1:Iil. 1'�in had ware urs sae St out for the ate-; reNi !Or lite'W!I'a il• la la ail.. Omens of the :eves Throughout southern Europe it le re- garded its rt most fortunate sign to see on New Y'ear's day a pig, :signifying plenty for the coming twelvemonth. The sight of a snake is the worst con- ceivable omen, for it Ineans denth by violence. TO see a jael'cdaw, magpie or erow Is a •slfu that the beholder will be (•heated on all sides during the cam - year, " To Keep, Posted In the hapenings of Hur- on County it is necessary t0 9eadilhe ,fews=gecord. which' has a larke staff of correspondents v. bo give each week a full report of the news in their re- spective localities. ou ��uldn't select pre ppr�priate hrhstmws gift for ,a friend at :a distance than.•a copy of this .paper w 'hick will be looked u = P on asa letter from home and will reach the reel pient'regularly. IfYou repa- per.• require city• q a as well we can `give you the Lowest clubbing rates. ad's •. Subscribe early and ress W. J. Mitchell, News -Record Office - Ontarxo Clinton