The Clinton New Era, 1888-03-09, Page 5s
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NEWS': NOTES. •
A. lama named Hate is it !Mating
qUivertatt levels Dlootaua.
••A. swinging sign in trout of a Chi-
cago store, Ware the legned:" he
WitithSpoiten Here."
t) A physiciari Says that a pound of
cheese contains nearly double the
nutritive value of the sante weight of
beef.
The latest theory relative to the
object of the pyramids of Egypt is
that they were built for toboggan
Williarn Dixon, a Port Hope farm-
, er.. dietliSaturday. from injuries receiv.-
ed Friday night when!his team ran
away with him.
Thirteen Hamilton cock -fighters
paid $10 each to the Police Magis-
trate on Monday for their Sunday
morning's "sport.'
The supporters of the Scott Act in
Simcoe are quietly organizing so that
the writ for the repeal vote may not
catch them napping.
Dr. Goldivin Smith writes to the
London Times advocating commercial
union, and protesting that the move -
Ment must succeed ultimately. ,
The Toronto MinisterialAssociation
recommends that religious instruction
be given in all publio schools by the
reponsible teachers of the schools.
Mr W. Stewart, known as the Kin-
cardine giant, is 20 years old, 6 feet
8 inches in height, weighs 240 lbs. and
measures 45 inches round the chest.
On Monday a man named Jennings
died in the hospital at Ottawa, in
which his wife and four children are
down with the same disease, typhoid
fever.
The Territorial Board of Education
of Dakota has prepared a list of those,
who lost their lives in the Dakota
blizzard of Jan. 12, and the total is
just 136.
The State of Sonora Mexico, levies
a tax of $2 on every baby born within
its limits. In the language of the pro-
gressive radical, "They come high,
but the people must have 'elm."
A Canton paper says that two Chin
ese priests were recently burned alive
in the Buddhist Temple, near that
city, forattempting to assault two nuns
in the temple.
Mrs Gee, of North Pelham, Monck,
while doing something with the fire
in the stove, had her clothes enkinol-
ed by the flames, and was burned so
badly that she died from the effects on
Sunday.
A purgative medicine should pos-
sess tonic and curative, as well as
cathartic properties. This combina-
tion of ingredients may be found in
Ayer's Pills. They strengthen and
stimulate the bowels, causing natural
action.
Thomas Foster, a farmer near Kil-
larney, Man., was burned to death on
Friday night. His residence caught
fire while he was asleep in the house
alone. His father discovered the
charred remains next'morning in the
cellar of the ruins.
The friends of the proprietor of the
Renfrew Mercury (lately burnt out)
have contributed $1,100 towards plac-
ing the paper in working order again,
and as evidence that the people stand
by that journal in its advocacy of
Scott Act principles.
A dying woman in Burlington, Me.,
prayed earnestly her infant child
_might accompany her on her journey
to the other world. The child was
apparently in the best of health, but
within five minuts after its mother's
death it died suddenly.
Mr Perkins, the Jackson Iron Com-
pany's bookkeeper, atMilwatikee, got
$15,000 at the bank at Escanaba, to
pay the employees at Fayette furnace.
When starting honne in a sleigh the
teem ran away, scattering $13,000 in
gold through the streets. After an
hour's search all but $2,000 wae
found.
A Missouri sheriff pursued and ar-
rested a young man the other day
upon the suspicion that he Was a
„murderer froni. Chicago, but when it
was discoveredthat he was really a
local bridegroom all was explained.
Most newly married men ect as
though they were trying to escape.
Those who have been looking
around for the champion meanest man
can find him in Montreal, iThere a
tanner testifies that his employer, to
save water, compelled him to wash
hides in the river. He slipped and
fell in and the boss doekcel him for
the time he was in the riyer.
On Saturday evening a youug man,
son of Mr Edward Heedry, of the
boundary line between Elnia and Lo-
gan, near Attwood, was standing near
his two brothers in the woods, who
were sawing down a large tree. The
tree when falling flew far off the stump
and crushed his legs below the knees
to a jelly. Both legs were amputated,
one above the knee aud the other be-
low, and at last accounts the lad, was
dotty very well.
A drunken woman named Marie
Hamel, of Qiebee,Was tottering along
one of the ,streets of Al ontreal with
her 7 months' -old child on her arm.
Some of the residents,who noticed the
danger of the child, went to take it
away from the mother, but they came
too late. The woman fell and the child
dropped out of her arms and struck
its head against the icy sidewalk, im-
mediately becoming convulsed, and a
few minutes later the child died.
By the arrival of the steamer San
Pablo at San Francisco, some additi-
onal details are learned of the second
disaster at Yellow River, which oc-
curred Dec. 4, and resulted in the
drowning of three mandarins and 4,-
000 Chinese laborers, The men were
at work at the time repairing the
damage caused by the previous floods,
and 2,000 bamboo rafts had been lad-
en with stone in order to form a break-
water, but the rafts,with all the work•
men upon them, were engulfed as
soon as they reached the middle of ti e
river. Great suftering is reported
from the flooded districts. Cold
weather came on and the whole coun-
try was soon flooded over, making it
impossible for boats to reach the vill-
ages, In all tee larger cities huts
have been erected by the authorities
for the accommodation of the suffer -
era Between 80,000 and 40,000
aro being thus housed, kept and fed
in the city ofehochiakin. The whole
country is a sad spectacle, and stories
of suffering anddestitution come from
every direction.
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tQ ACM W.
The late Mr Robertson, M. P., for
West Hastings, is the fourth member
who has died sinee the general 'elec-
tion of a year ago.
Three men, over 600 miles apart,
invented an egg -beater on the same
day; aud their applications for a pa -
tout arrived io Washington within
two hours of each oteer.
The pallbearers at a recent funeral
in Chippewa Falls, Wis., were sur-
prised to find, when they reached
the newly -made grave, that it was oc-
cupied. The occupant proved to be
a tramp, who had lain down in the
grave while intoxicated and had fal-
len asleep.
The main height of the land above
sea level is 2,250feet, and the mean
depth of the ocean is 12,480. If the
land were filled into the hollows, the
sea would roll over the earth's crust
to a uniform depth of two miles. -
Frank Fallon, of Fond du lac, Wis.,
wed his life during the recent bliz-
zard in Dakota, by taking refuge in
a pigpeu. He passed the night with
a fat porker resting at his feet and
one on each side of him and escaped
without a frost bite.
When Mr Labouchere first visited
Ireland he was met at landing by a
reporter, who began catechisinghim
as to his views of this and his opinion
of that. "Labby" looked at him a
moment and then said: "I don't know.
We had a rough passage coming over
and I left all my views and- opioions
in a hasin_abroad the steamer."
For a time a telegraph wire along
the Wabash Railway refused to work
and was apparently"grounded."—
Line repairers have just succeeded in
locating the trouble. About four
miles east of Wabash an old man had
cut the wire and ran a line into his
house, where he was utilizing the
ele'ctricity as a cure for rheumatism.
Probably the most expensive opera
cloak worn by a lady this winter is
that which belongs to Miss Leiter,the
pretty Chicago girl, who now claims
Waehington as her home. The cloak
is of white moire.plush brocaded with
silver, outlined with silver cord and
trimmed with white goat's fur. Its
great value depends, however, on the
jewelled clasps, which are in antique
gold set with large pearls. Mi88 Lei-
ter, by the way, is tho heiress of $10,-
000,000.
Representatives from Canada and
the United States attended the Shire
Horse Society's show in London,
Eng., on Thursday, to purchase ani -
mats for breeding purposes. The
show was held to ue the finest of the
kind ever known. The conditions of
entry were very stringent, but re-
markably few.horses failed to comply.
The result was a very close competi-
tion, the judges being engaged two
whole days in awarding the prizes.
In eleven classes distinct improve-
ment is manifested in the breed of
shire or agricultural horses.
In the United States many are the
chances which a murderer has of es-
caping with his neck, but few men
have escaped the gallows so often as
Beckwith, who was hanged at Hud-
son, N. Y., on Thursday. Beckwith
murdered a neighboring farmer,
chopped his body to pieces and then
cleared out. He was traced to Cali-
fornia, and for a time all trace of him
was lost. Finally a detective got on
his trial at the British Columbia end
of the C. P. R. A tedious and long
0-mtinued search along the line to the
Muskoka region resulted in the find.
ing ot Beckwith in hiding at a soli-
tary settlemeet. He was extradited,
tried and condemned; but on various
pretexts got a new trial, a proceeding
which was repeated until the accused
had been sentenced to death no less
than six times.
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PERTH NEWS.
Mr Kastner, of Sebringville, will
shortly open up a store in Mitchell.
It cost nearly $10,000 to rue St.
Marys Collegiate and Public schools
during the year 1887.
It is reported that Mr E. Gill, who
left St. Marys last fail on a trip to
Southern California for the benefit
of his health, died last week at Los
Angeles,
Mr Brooks, of Blanshard, who had
his barn destroyed by fire about a
fortnight ago, was inured in the
Blanshard Mutual, and has been
traid the full amount, viz: $1,400.
Mr Alecx. Fraser intends leaving
Mitchell for Souther n California. He
will be especially missed in the Main
St. Sabbath school, having been its
efficient superintendent for the last
three years. '
It is our painffil duty to record the
death of Mrs David, Dow, of Ful-
larton.after a couple of weeks' illness.
Mrs Dow Was just in the prime of
her life being within a few days of
being 40 years old and a few months
of being married 21 years.
A large specimen , of a Canadian
panther was shot on the 14t1 on. of
Elma, ono morning lest week, The
beast had been the terror of the
neighborhood for some time past. It
had killed sheep, lambs and other
animals. It was shot by a young
man named Wm Tyndall.
A month ago Mrs Puller'wife of
Mr A. Puller, of the G. T. 11, shops
Stratford, had the index finger of her
right hand amputated at the second
joint, symptoms (of blood poisoning
having set in. On Saturday evening
the doctor thought it best to take off
the finger close to the hand, and Mrs
Puller had to submit to the painful
operation the second:time.
The sad intelligence reached Mil-
verton the other day, of the melan-
choly death of H. G. Hamilton, son
of Mr Hugh Hamilton, near Newtnn,
on Lake Nipissing on Sunday last.
It weir a Mr Efam lton,svho had be b
teaching school at North Bay since
New Year, went out that day on snow-
shoes with, a companion, a lad of 15
years, with a view of visiting fisher-
men's hots on Lake Nipissing, and
becoming exhausted through hung r
and fatigue, he lay down to rest.
The boy started for fassistance and
when he returned Mr Hamilton was
found lying on his side with his cap
under hit; head, dead. The remains.
were brought to his father's residence,
accompanied by one of the trustees of
the school, and interred in Grace
Pitchei'e Castorfaif
Aurai huryiggoround, iliXillhank, on
Friday.- The dewsici waa—only 24
years of age and wile greatly, esteem-
ed in Milverton and neighborhood
during the time be taught eahool
here.
A young lad named Lorne Forbes,
sort of Mr Duncan Forbes, of North
Eatithope, had his right hand badly
shattered ou Wednesday by the acci-
dental discharge of a gun. He, with
another boy about his own age, got
the hired man's gun and proceeded
to the baru to shoot sparrows. He
was carrying the MILI by the muzzle
of the barrel and his companion had
hold of the stock when the gun accid-
ently discharged, the contents going
through the middle of hie hand.
THE U. S. TARIFF' BILL.
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Washington Marchl.—The chair
man of the Ways and Means Com-
mittee to -day submitted to the full
committee the tariff bill upon which
the Democratic members have been
at work for several- months. The
measure makes a number of addit-
ions to the list of articles which
may bo imported free of duty. Lum-
ber of every kind, in logs, sawed or
,manufactured, go on the free list;
with the proviso that no country
shall baesi 41.4 privilege that charges
export duty em its logs. Salt is al-
so made free, with the proviso as to
reciprocity. Copper ore and raw
wool are also free, and manufactur-
ed woolen goods get a big cut. The
bill as submitted contains no pro-
visions as to internal revenue, it be-
ing understood that the Democratic
members are prepared to submit an
internal revenue bill at an early
day. Of the .reductions propesod
by the tariff bill, amounting to from
$50,000,000 to $60,000,000 per
year, $22,600,000 is caused by ad-
ditions to the free list, $12,000,000
from reductions on woolens, $11,-
000,000 from reductions on sugar,
F,3,,000,000 on metals, $1,000,000
on sundries, and $1,000,000 on cot-
ton. The farniers claim that it re-
moves inconsistencies of the present
tariff in a spirt of fairness to all in-
dustries; that it breaks up trusts,
corners and other dishonest combin-
ations, and that it warrants no dis-
turbance of business and causes no
injury to established interests. Free
fish was omitted from the bill for
the purpose of relieving it from the
diplomatic questions which would
have :seen involved.
PERSE_V_EIt IN G.
The following story is one of the
traditions in a manufacturing firm
in Glasgow, Scotland. Thirty
years ago, a barefooted, ragged tie.
°brie presented himself before the
desk of the principel partner and
asked for work as an errand -boy.
'There's a deal o' rinning to be
dune, said Mr Blank, jestingly af-
fectinn a broad Scotch accent.
'Your first. qualification would be a
pair of shoon.' . The boy with a
grave nod, disappeared. He lived
by doing odd jobs in the market,
and slept under the stalls. Two
months had. passed before he had
saved money to busethe shoes. Then
he presented himself before Mr
Blank one morning and held out a
package.
'I hae the sheen,' he said quickly.
'Ohl' said Mr Blank, with difficul-
ty recalling the circtimstance. 'You
want a placo? Not in those rags
my lad, you would disgrace the
house.'
The boy hesitated a moment and
then ivent out without a word. Six
months passed before he returned,
decently clothed in neat but new
garments. Mr Blank's interest was
aroused. For the Rest time he
looked at the boy attentively. His
thin, bloodless face showed he had
stinted 'himself of food for months
in order to buy these clothes. • The
manufacturer now, questioned the
boy, 'closely and found, to his re-
gret, that he 'could peither read nor
write.
'It is necessary that you should
do both before we could employ you
in carrying packages,''he said. 'We
have no place for yeti.' , •
• The lad's face grow paler, but
vvithost a word of complaint he dis-
appeared. He now went fifteen
miles into the country and found
work in stables near a nightschool.
At the end of a year be again pre-
sntced himself before ?Jr Blank,
can read and write,' he said
befdly.
'I gave him the place,' the em-
ployer said years afterwards, 'with
the conviction that in process of
time he would take mine if he made
U[) his mind. to do it. Men iise
slowly in Scotch business houses,
but "he is now our chief foreman.'
LORD DUFFERIN.
A Loedon cablegram says: Per-
haps the luckiest man in the world is
Lord Dufferin, who is soon to come
back from India where he has been
Viceroy of 300,000,000 people. It is
not known exactly whether Lord
Dufferin wanted to come back or had
to, but it is certain he will be made
happy, if possible. He has had the
most comfortable berths in the gift of
he government, culminating in that
which he has just abandoned, and for
which he recieved $37,000 a year in-
cluding allowances. He is now to be
sent as Ambassador to Rome,insorder
to become entitled to the pension
which he would not get as Viceroy,
and the Government are cudgelling
their brains to find a new honor for
him. He will have the Grand Cross
of the Bath, only that is hardly con-
sidered big enough. He has -every
other order except the Thistle and
the Garter. The former he is not en-
titled to, and the latter is not in the
gift of the Prime Minister. His earl.
dom will be turned to a marquisate,
and then the noble Lord will not lack
titles, He wil! be Marquis, Earl,
Viscount, Baron. Baronet, a Lord
Lieatenant, an F. R. R„ a D. C. 0,,
LL. D., etc.
DRILL AND ucTIas.
THE GREAT CHANGES IN MODERN
MEMOS OF WARFARE. "
Magazine Miles to Supersede Breech
Imaders as Ydreeelw Loaders Superseded
Muzzle Loaders—Smokeless Powder.
faQ Charge...Pm of Cavalry.
To those who knew him it is almost incon-
ceivable that Gen. Skobeleff could have be -
COW tityategist, but lig wg„sa born tac-
tician. On the other hand, the lieutenant in
the United State-s-iiiiiiy whci lais his plans
that he surprises and captures a band of h
tile Indians is, pro tante, a strategist.
line between strategy and tactics cannot
drawn easily or exactly; but the lino betw
drill and tactics 18 80 clear that it is pass
strange how any confusion between them
ever have arisen. The band of farmers w
the other day, hunted down and aurroun
the lair of a family of murderers, knew, pr
ably, nothing of drill, but they brought t
tics into play.
There is a danger lest our officers fail
study tactics such as they would requ
every day and hour if they were opposed
a regularly organized force. The fact t
they have to handle troops mainly agai
Indians and rarely against mobs in cities
apt to induce them to ignore field tactics
understood and practiced in other couutrie
We are apparently on the eve of a mig
struggle, in which magazine rifles will sup
sede breech loaders, as'breech loaders, in 1
and 1/370, superseded muzzle loaders. N
only will more shots a minute be availa
for the defeuse of a position, but those sh
will be more effective on account of the ha
trajectory of the bullets. A bullet fired po
blank will lieneeforth hit anywhere up to
yards, instead of falling far short of ti
range. At any ratio, this will be so with t
new Enfield Lee -Burton rifles and with t
Lobel rifle in France, and we may be sure t
other nations will not be long au rear of t
French and the English.
IN COMING WARS.
The new number of initaker's Almanac
it may be interesting to say, contains a ve
well written and instructive article- on t
Present status of the nations of Europe
this respect.. But not only will magazi
rifles play their part in coining wars; mag
zine guns also will add enormously to t
effectiveness of both attack and defen
though probably more to ,the latter than
the former. Mitrailleuses were indeed us
in via), but, for mechanicaPreasons, th
were not very effective, and, in any ease, t
French had not enough of them, and did n
know well enough how to handle them to g
the best work out of them. It will be vei
di fferent next time, when these machine gu
will to a considerable extent take the pia
of light artillery, and, in some respects,
half battalions 62 infantry. It is, therefor
obvious, that every operation of war_will
largely affected by the change in tho rill
and in the habitual use of machiue gun
Strategy itself will have to take the progi•e
into account, and it will profoundly moth
and, in a sense, revolutionize tactics; ho
greatly we shall probably not know unt
thousands of men have fallen through blu
dering. But that is no reason why we shou
wait for such an experiniehtum erucis.
Each year sees so many changes in t
armament of a nation that the tactics of ,t
day are in some respects antiquated this do
ivelyemonth. Suppose it is true that ti
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t?rencli aud English have got smokeless poi
Ler in their new cartridges, as is more the
uggested it1 the almanac above inentione
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ahat in itself must materially modify tacti
mployed by or against them. We do n
ndeed believe that the heat waves arisin
rem smokeless powder will sometimes fa
to deceive as well those using it as their a
ersaries, or that this pawder will be foun
s well adapted as black powder for transpoi
nd for keeping purposes. But its disadva
tages will in any case be outweighed by i
dvantages, and when "the war cloud rollin
un" has disappeared many movements noi
ossible under its curtain will then be im
racticable.
el:tenet:so THE WORMS,
Gen. Skobeleff said to Capt. Green, lfitits
tates engineers: "The only formation i
hich troops can successfully assault in
rencliecl positions is in successive lines o
kirmishers." And that will probably 110
emain true in sense senses as long as wit
asts. But against magaiines guns and ma
bine guns the lines of skirmishers will hay
o be far more open than they were agalue
reech loaders. It is oven doubtful whethe
hey will be, strictly speaking, lines at all, o
hether thoy will not have to be turned int
ether what is called the cloud formation
he trouble with this will be, except wit
<sops of the very highest training, to brin
nough men together and well in band to
ake the final assault against the serrie
ne of the defenders holding all the advan
go of the cover of the trenches. And here
gain, as any soldier must see, conies in th
uestion of the support to he given to th
irmishers by machine guns or artillery
eking to keep down the fire from the in
nchmente. In fact, the whole problem is
tered by the shifting of what might appear
ut a minor factor ef it.
We recently pointed out the comi ng change
tho use of cavalry, when each squadron
all have attached to it a galloping gun—a
achine guu—such as Col. Hasbrouck saw
o or two English cavalry regiments with
1 his recent visit to Aldershot. Infantry
ill cense to despise cavalry so much as they
o now taught to do, when they havelhad a
w lessons from cavalry "dropped" behind
bank or hill crest and their lying down fire
pported by a storm of bullets from gallop -
g guns. Cavalry, on the other band, will
t "(Marge for the guns" quite se readily
hen field batteries are flanked by machine
ns. And artillery will not open at 1,000
1,500 yards, as they have done, when the
en seri ing the guns can be mowed down at
00 or 8,000 yards by n storm of bullets pro-
tea by the agency of only ono or two men.
must never be forgotten that to get the
eatest amount or heroiin displayed by the
emu malt he !MVO at lenst a fair
ince of coming out unseathed. Take away-
tt chanes mill you take (any the mirage
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North America's Inland Ocean.
First of all, a word or two in reference to
Hudson's bay itself. The proportions of this
inlani ocean are such as to give it a promi-
nent place among the geographical features
of the world. One thousand three hundred
miles in length by 000 miles in breadth, it ex-
tends over 12 dogs. of latitude, and covers an
area of not less than half a million square
miles. Of the five basins into which Canada
is divided, that of Hudson's bay is immeasur-
ably the largest, the extent of country drain-
ing into it being estimated at 3,000,000 square
miles. To swell the mighty volume of its
waters there come rivers which Lake their
rise in the Rocky mountains on the east, and
the Labrador wilderness on the west., while
southward its river roots stretch far down
below the forty-ninth parallel, until they tap
the wane lake source whence flows a Amain
into the Gulf of Mexico.—J. itfaccionald Oxley
in American Magazine.
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Editor O'Briterr's i'se'crInv ma,
M'om 11. 11,.'o
By tatting the courso lie did, Air.
O'Brien has alsc done 0:0 ,,f a service
in letting the light in tain
agitations now 'seine. en. Thr. (1,(..1 wire of
the alliance of .Mr. lOti y 1;sores with the
dynamite Reeder: of the party 15 in-
tereeting, but not -.:i than that which
Mr, George 1111114eR for I.:11t,olf in his 1 t ter of
reply to the invitation 1,1 take ill the
meeting. 10 tli letter I:.. Onit so
long as the right of 1,1 .1.1'y ,11 !,c1.1 s
nized in Ireinti.1 110 (..11111, it n .:0'n, sas-
ing_rmy 1011,1!,.c.1 f..1 .1,8,y
sav4or Ms opuntry give him perfept right to
04.t.A As** 1aNly,.44s unwilAm13 ta tIop
To forcing idiange of unjust laws, or in pre.
venting a cruel use of the powers of tho la%
50 long as his pcxtuliar mewls about other
laws are uereeoseized. Blind egotism and
selfialiness cannot go faether 1,IiI Ilas i_seed
p...enions who have been iaied clatto treat ay.
George's views with titnite degree of considera-
tion will now, perhaps, be able te elittniate
thena at their true value. Ur, O'Brien de -
servo thanks for giviug Mr. George an op-
portunity to show himself a charlatan in ouch
a way as to open the axes of these most likely
to be deceived by his pretences.
GUM CHEWING AS AN ART.
You Can Read Character in It aud Ten
Who Urul WM the Game.
The habit of chewing gum by men, women,
babies. young and old, in the west, is grad-
ually working its way east. It is a matter
of co/ninon practice at most health resorts,
and btrikingly so at Hot Springs in Arkan-
sas, and nearly all the physicians in these
sanitariums commend the exercise as ma-
terially aiding digestion, cleaning the stom-
ach, and as a help of breaking off chewers
from the use of tobacco.
A few years ago, and even now, in staid
eastern citioe, a young lady who chewed
guni would Ise shunned by other fair ones
and held up as an example as one on the
direct road to perdition. Whereas, in Chi-
cago, Kansas City, St. Paul, Minneapolis
and all the mkt of the progressive west and
northwest cities and towns, if one can't chew
at least a nickel's worth of gum per day one
is not up to the standard. It seems odd, but
there is a perfect dial to the thoughts in the
-way tho gam is chewed: Let cuiy one
ehev-
ing gum beeonie exf•iteil or enthusiastic, say
at horse raving or ahy other interesting en-
joyment, and the mead' will work quiekly
and with an automatic regularity. Entire
rows of men and women, watching a baseball
contest, will show on which side the cliewere
aro betting. When a good play is made on
ow side the backvs of that side chew
ferocious/y; the k4thig side due; Lind work
the gums apat het iyally. A home run causes
the mastivating and erunehing to go on as
though wortail by a Keely motor.
A young lady visiting the east from one of
the western cities neglected to bring ‘vith
Len' a stock of genuine gum. Life seemed in
tolerable, until a thoughtful friend seat her
a bundle of sweetly scentcd chewing gum.
To watch another chewing gum very long
will make you hungry, and the young latlySi
mother, having watched her "c•lior' for a
long time and seeing the evident relish with
which she chewed, asked for a paper, After
chewing for five minutes she suddenly threw
the guin indignantly out of the window.
Later, when the young lady's mother re -
marina' that the habit lie chewing gum was
pernicious, unladylike and vulgar, the
daughter understood that the neophyte in
gum chewing had 0 swollen tongue, chewed
jaws and a bleeding lip. There are slips
even in gum.—Baltinicire American.
Extremes of a Great City.
In this inonstrous and constantly more
monstrous growing town extremes meet in-
cessantly. I spent the evening with a friend
lately, in a gigantic apartment house near
Central park, where he epent $8,000 0 year
rent for a flat like a Venetian palazzo, and
has over $100,000 worth of furnishings and
decorations in his Iiii•ed rooms. Within a
couple of blocks 1 found Myself in a mob in
front of a miserable alley way leading to a
tenement house in a Leek court. A tenant
was being evicted for non payment of rent.
The amount of said rent, which was for a
room and bedroom, was 810 a month—$12.0 a
year, as against the $8,000 I had just left:
Quite a contrast, is it not? Bet, biees you!
it is nothing %hen you aro used to it, as you
must become in New York.
I know a man whose entire property con-
sists of tenement houses. He owns them in
solid blocks. He himself lives in the Dakota,
our most colossal bf swell apartments. He
pays more than the whole rental he i•eeeives
from two of his tenements for his flat; that
is to say, seine twenty or thirty poor people
have homes, and good homes of their kind,
for he keeps histenements in good style, for
the money he spends on a dozen unfurnished
rooms. He can afford to live in New York.
The poor can afford it, for they have no
social duties and wernIC1 be just as poor any-
where.
But the young business man, who derives 0
handsome income from WA business, or the
man who lives on a modest investment can-
not remain here unless he is willing to sink
all social ambitions and go in for a life of
modesty and economy, such as a literary man
or an artist might enjoy, but no mail with
aspirations to a place in society can, So,
there. are forming all around New York, as
in the Loudon suburbs, little fashionable
colonies of well born and well bred people,
where they entertain handsomely, keep their
stylish turnouts, and where metropolitan life
finds imitation in a small way in the winter
dances and entertainments, that the papers
are at present chronieling at a great rate,
and where what would be poverty in the
squandering town is abundance if not ac-
tual wealth—Alfred Trumblo in Pittsburg
Bulletin:
A Great Liking for liens.
Johnny Martin, the office boy of a San
Francisco firm, has agreat liking for bells,
and never tires listeniug to them. It is a pos-
itive mania with him. Some weeks ago he
sent a type written letter on the letter head
of the firm to a well known bell manufac-
tory in New Yt Ai, asking the price of bells,
particulerly large church bells, weighing
from 20,000 to 30,000 pounds. In reply he re-
ceived a circular and price list, and a polite.
letter earnestly asking his patronage. ' He
acknowledged its receipt, saying that lie
thought their prices too high, and that Ito
could do better in San Francisco. The bell
makers at once sent their best salesman to
California, with instructions to Secure the
contract at any price, and a few days ago he
walked into the San Franeisco house, and
courteously iiskecl for Mr. John Martin, No
ono knew him Until the agent showed, the
letters, and then the bookkeeper said: "That
must be our Johnny." It was. He was
called in ancl confaesed, The agent was very
wroth, and demanded the instant discharge
of the lad, but the firm said "No." They
said the bey who could write such good busi-
nes.% letters was the kind of a boy they
wanted, and they promoted him. He says
that when he gets rich he is going to build a
church, and hang in it the biggest bell that
this eastern firm can cast.—New York Sun.
The Hospital Fad.
Ladies of the Vanderbilt family have mag-
nificently endowed a women's hospital, the
Astor's have done the same for a cancer hos-
pital, and these notable examples have set
others at work in smaller ways of the same
kind. There are many institutions in which
beds can be bought, the owner being thereaf-
ter privileged to select a W08E91.011 of occu-
pants. Thus she can control her own benevo-
lence. From this comparatively inexpensive
method to that of maintaining an entire
ward, or of establishing a complete hospital
on a minor plan, our modish women have
gone rather extensively into the hospital fad.
This is a good thing for the poor sufferers,
who by means of it get the best medical and
surgical treatment, But it is almost comical
to see the swell philsuithrophists eagerly
searching for beneficiaries. They seem ambi-
tious to secure the wont possible cases, and
are downright proud when they find seine -
thing horrible or naive, At an afternoon
tea, over cups of the fragrant beverage, and
accompanied by a dainty nibble of cake, a
good matron remarks to a crony:
'Oh, I have discovered the most delightful
subject you can imagine for my bed et the
hospitel—a boy with one leg like a j and the
other like rui st. They are going to straighten
him out. and I expect there will be a report
of it in 1 he medii.al join•nale."—New York
Suu.
41q4a4.Sractdous are sem of the
rergt'atitrnatallrathlleaci. bra tit: LICAL °off
R. L. Ring, ItiChilWad, Va., who
suffered for 47 years with an aggravat-
form a wawa,. 4Yeeli Sarsaparilla
effected gataai,..,.....„,atnal results.
THE PROGRESS OF CH1US-
TIA2LITY.
Io a recent article the St. Louis
Chriatian .Advocate gives some
startling statistics demonstrating the
progress of Christianity during the
present century. In 1804 there
were in all the world only five rail-
Iiiii .ons hundred
and sixty million copies of the sued
word in use. At the beginning of
the century only one-fifth of the
earth's population had access to the
word of God in their native lan-
guage of nine -tenths of the inhabit-
ants of the world. Five hundred
thousand heathen children attend
the Christian schools. One million
communicants are enrolled in mis-
sion congregations among heathen
people. 'Inducements to come, en-
couragement to work are offered us
by vast empires. On every contin-
ent, in every archipelago, with the
cultured followers - of •Confucious, -
and Buddha, amid the barbarous
devotees of Zoraater and Mohammed
among the savage slaves of cannibal-
ism and fetishism there are now set
the feet of Him that brinoet hgood
tidings of good, that publisleth sal-
vation. To China the converts
have multiplied in thirty -live years
two thousandfold—and tlie rate.of
increase is greater year by year.
Continue this rate another thirty -
tire and you will have in that coun-
try 20,000,000 of communicants
and a professedly Christian popula-
tion of 100,000,000. And like fig-
ures hold good of otber scenes Of
labor. Nor should wo overlook, in
order to secure a clear conception,
the enormous contributions of mis-
sions to thee dvancenaent of human
knowledge. To them almost every
science, west especially geography,
ethology and phoilogy, owes some
of ifs richest materials. Atheists
give to missions because they recog-
nize in them sources of. supply to
scientific. research.
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TH AT DEADLY SCOURGE!
Tubercular consumption is simply
Lu ng-scrofula—i he active and dangii-
ous devolopment of a . taint in the
blood. The grand blood•cleansing
botanic principles contained .in Dr
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
speciality fit to purify the blood, and
prevent the formation of ulcers in the
Nees and bronchial tubes. Liver
complains, skin diseases and sores
are also cured by 1. All druggist
THE ,PICINCIPL-E
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COLD MEDICATED.
Head ()tIice, 211 Yong. e St., Toronto.
N. Washington, M.D.L.C.P.S.O.,
Eminent Throat antl Lung Surgeon,will visit
CLINTON, EIATTENBURY: HOUSE,
MONDAY, 19th OF AHON, 1800
ONE DAY ONLY
Ctrs EARLT, CONSULTATION FREE.
NAMES AND ADDRESSE9 00 PATIENT:4 CuRED iiv
OR. WASHINOT03% NEW MF:TH0D,
M. S. Dean, Bridgenorth, Ont., Catarrh, head
and throat. MrsJos. Eyrc, Kimballs, Ont., re-
moving growth from nose. Mr Stevenson, (boil-
er foundry) Petrolea, Ont., Catarrh. Mrs M.
Cornish, Wallaceburg, Ont., Asthma and Com
sumption. Mrs MeLanclress, lona, Catarrh of
the throat; Mrs J. Lanning and son, Kingston,
Catarrh and Catarrhal Deafness, Mrs R. Cham-
ber, Aylmer, Ont., Catarrh throat. Mrs Jas.
Emberson, Napaneo, Ont., bronchitis,lor.g stand-
ing. J. A Little, Dundalk, Ont., Catarrh, J.
E. Kersey, Badgerose P. 0., Catarrh, bad form.
A. D. Litho's son, Wallaceburg, Ont., Catarrh,
head and throat. R. Menzies, Wareham, Ont.,
Catarrh, head and tkroat. Mrs P.Scott Sterling,
Oaf., oatarrh, head and throat. Edith Pierce,
Strathroy, Ont., enlarged tonsils. W. Lindsay,
Petroloa, Ont., catarrh. Mrs J.Tait, Vyner,Ont.'
eatarrh, head and throat. Mr R.Noble, jeweller,Petrolea, catarrh, throat. II. McCoul, P. M.,
Strabhroy, Out., broneho consiunption. W. H,
Storey of Storey & Son, prominent glove mauu-
facturers of Acton. Ont., cured by Dr Washing.
ton of Catarrh of the throat, bad form, and pro-
nomiced incurable by eminent speeialists in
Canada and England. Write him for particulars
111)UR valD TE:B
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FARMS Itnt SALE. ' -t-
11OUSE A ND LOT FOR SALB—THAT vALu
ABLE and conveniently situated property
owned by Mr John Callander. being lot 188, on
the north side of Huron St. The house has 8014
shlo
aecommodation for large family, with all
conveniences, such as hard and soft water, etc.
Good stable on the iot. Further particulars on
application to MANNING & SCOTT, Clinton,
LIARM NEAR CLINTON FOR SALE—TRAT
.12 choice farm of 70 ares, part of lot six, in the
Huron Road Con., Goderteh Township. Within
two miles of Clinton gentian. Frawaistouse of
seven rooms. Good frame barn 60 x 45, Two
good wetlL Farni in firsteines condition: Also a
largo and choice young bearing orchard. Timis
vim' EASY. This is a chance seldom offered,
Apply to II. MLR, Clinton, or to the under-
signed on the premises, W.FENTON, Clinton P.0
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