The Wingham Advance, 1889-01-10, Page 3Emporium of Fashions
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Ready-made Clothing !
Crockery, Boots and Shoes,
and all other lines.
NOW - IS - YOUR - TIME
To Buy Your Fall Suit and Overcoat.
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J. H. VANSTONE'S
IS THE HEADQUARTERS FOR
FINE ENGLISH COLORED GOLD SE 'TS,
Fine Ladies' Gold Brooches, Ear-
Rings, Bar-Pins, Necklaces,
Lockets, &c., &c.
A LARGE AND HANDSOME STOCK OF
bathos' and Gents' Gold and Slim Wallas
LADLES' SHORT CHAINS. GENTS' ROLLED
PLATE CHAINS and SEALS. LOCKETS. &e,
I HAVE THE LARGEST STOCK OF
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E. F. GERSTER It has come at last. We are in
possession of the regular annual
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Canada has a public debt of $284,-
000,000. One thing sure she cannot
accuse Uncle Barn of wooing her for
her wealth.—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Don't know about that. When you
come to figure up Miss Canada's
assets, and find that she can pay her
debt and still be worth a good many
billions, it may be that Uuole Sam
cannot be acquitted of the sin of
avarice.
It is not generally kuown, says the
Halifax Chronicle, that a considerable
quantity of spruce gum has been
shipped within a year or so from Nova
Scotia to the United States. During
the past month or so over a thousand
pounds were shipped from Shubena-
cadi station. It brings a dollar a
pound in the Boston market, it being
chiefly used in the manufacture of
the finer quality of rubber goods.
The gum pickers get 50c. a pound for
it from the local dealers.
It is somewhat remarkable that the
price of wheat in the Chicago market,
ono year ago, two years ago, and
three years ago was virtually the
same. The price of No. 2 red Winter
wheat in elevator there one year ago
was 923 cents, two years ago the
same price, and three years ago 08
cents. Although tbeprice now is about
101, and generally regarded above an
export basis, it cannot be called high,
being only about 8 cents per bushel
higher than for the corresponding
time of the last three years, when
both the visible and the invisible
were very much larger than at present,
and is now reduced to so low a point
that conservative parties estimate
that for the next six months they can
only spare 15,000,000 bushels for ex-
port.
Work on the St. Clair River tunnel
at Port Huron and Point Edward is
being prosecuted vigorously, the
Grand Trunk Company having taken
it over from the contractors. The
tunnel is estimated to cost $2,500,000.
It consists of a 4,000 feet approach
on the Canadian side, a tunnel under
the river 22 feet diameter, 2,200 feet
long and 50 feet Mew the bottom of
the river ,and anurnacK no he
American side or 2,500 feet. he
work of excavation will be done with
a steel shield whieh will be pushed
forward by hydraulic pressure. As
the earth is excavated a cast-iron
ining will be inserted in the tunnel.
1 large number of electric light; will
make the inside of the tunnel as light
as day. The work will probably be
completed in less than two years, It
will form an important addition to
he Grand Trunk system. Detroit is
already foreseeing itself side-tracked
unless it can have it tunnel too.
THE ROY AL REVENUES.
It is somewhat singular to find in
as San Francisco journal, the Argo-
naut, a full statement of the well-
denown facts in regard to the royal
revenues in our mother country. In
amply to a stupid, or more likely
malicious article, in the San Francis-
co Examiner, grossly exaggerating
red misrepresenting the revenues of
tile Queen and the royal family, the
Argonaut showe that a very small
corn is provided by taxation. On Ler
acceesion the Queen gave up to the
nation for her reign the crown lands,
as much the property of the sovereign
as the estate. of any' of liar subj.:As
are their property, receiving in return
a stated allowance, called the civil
list, the arrangement being made with
-Lord Melbourne, Lord John Russell,
the Duke of of Wellington and Sir
Robert Peel. The revenue from this
property goes into the national
treasury, and lest year was about
half a million dollars more than the
civil list, thus going far toward meet-
ing the allowances to the other mem-
bers of the royal family, which are in
accordance with the arrangement
made at the accession. The property
,of the Duchy of Lancaster enjoyed by
the Queen as the representative of the
old dukes was not thus given up, nor
was the property of the Duke of Corn-
wall, which supplies more than half
the revenue of the Prince of Wales,
Thus the incomes of the sovereign and
her family are derived almost wholly
from their own property and not from
any taxation of the people. If, how-
ever, this expenditure had to be met
from the taxes, it would be far lees
Clan the cost of electing every four
years and maintaining the President of
the United States, to say nothing of
the turmoil and degrading circum-
stances which seem inseparable from
this political saturnalia every four
-amts. In this respect, as in so many
?ethers, the British people have no
nill1S3 to envy others, whether living
a monarchy or a republic.
E SCARCITY OF HORSES.
Some degree of alarm is being ex-
v ited in military circles at the marked
deficiency of horses for the British
aas airy. The Times on Friday com-
ments on the War Office statistics,
allowing that one-third of the cavalry
is unmounted, and says our country
is materially weakened by the fact.
It refers to Canada among other
countries, as offering almost unlimited
facilities under the British flag for
meeting the army's needs, and ad-
eases the Government to take prompt
etepe to segment the horse supply.
Agricultural papers urge the Gov.
trnment to increase the price, and so
encourage, home breeding. It is
generally admitted that the existing
War Office methods have failed, and
tame better s3 stem is imperative.
The Globe says Canada makes a
poor show against the United States
surplus of $120,000,000, with our de-
ficit of $810,031 for the lastlfiscal year.
The poor old Globe will die of a broken
heart soon, if Canada is not annexed
to the U. S. It forgets that there is
a difference in the population of the
two countries of only 56,000,000.
Having acquired a few decent eiti-
zene—removed from Hamilton—Strat-
ford is now the happiest little mud-
hole in the province. Are there any
more small towns that want to be set
up in business ? Hamilton can spare
enough good men to leaven the whole
lot of them, without at all interfering
with her own good progress.—Specta-
tor.
Governor Hill, in his message to
the Legislature of New York State,
says:—"It is believed that the recent
Presidential election was the most
corrupt of any in the history of the
country, so far se the direct use of
money was concerned in influencing
the electors." And this astounding
statement, made by a high official in
an important document, does not
create much eensation either.
A prominent physician, says the
Buffalo Express, was seen buy' g a
barrel of onions, and being eyed
about his purchase, said :—"I a ways
have boiled onions for thanes.' fo the
benefit of my, ounarm. -
too. They are the best modio'ne I
know of for preventing colds. Feed
onions, raw, wiled or baked, to the
children three or four times a week,
and they'll grow up healthy and
strong. No worms, no scarlatina, no
diphtheria, where children eat plenty
of onions every day."
There is one marked distinction
between the appointments made by
the Ontario and Dominion authorities.
After every exercise of the Provincial
patronage there follow, as a general
rule, complaints and censure even
from friends cf the Government in
the locality interested. Dominion
appointments are as generally praised
and recognized as fitting, not only by
Conservatives, but also by their po-
litical opponents in the locality con-
cerned. The Dominion appointments
are certainly attacked by the Opposi-
tion, but it is by critics at a die-
tones from the particular scene. This
is an excellent test of the manner in
which their patronage is exercised
by the respective Governments.
The Suakim business has been put
in a clearer light by Lord Salisbury,
as a full report of his Scarborough
speech, receive& by mail, shows. He
pointed out that his predecessors in
the Government had made a distinct
promise to the Khedive to assist him
in maintaining the Red Sea ports.
And, said Lord Salisbury, "as long as
tke Government of the Khedive desiree
that he should maintain these ports
I hold that we are bound by the
promises that were made to nine ; and
to engrave on the consoiousnes of the
world this fact that England keeps
her promises, is of greater price to us
than any other victory we could
achieve. The weak point in our
armor is that foreign statesmen may
say : We know what the English con-
stitution is ; we know that the breeee
of a moment may overthrew the
strongest Ministry, and we can count
upon a change of policy when that
change of Ministry occurs. That is
our weak point ; and I bold it to be
the first duty of every patriotic Mit•
istry so to act that the speculation
shall be rendered impossible,"
That chart poetess, Miss Eloise
A. Skimmseaf Godericb, sent a
sweet little ,ne to the Kingston
Whig the allay, and that horrid
journal turnter name to "Bain.
pings:, It ell that there is some
remoteness men the storm-swept
woad of old :on and the provincial
penitentiaryPhe charming poetess
might feel Warning the new name
the Whig forced upon her.—
Spectator.
To maim protection on iron and
steel, the Ge asserts, has cost our
neighbors vs, millions of dollars.
The very revs is the truth. In the
United Stai as formerly in Great
Britain, as tariff was made more
protective tiron industry grew and
prices fell. . would be the same in
Canada butr the desperate efforts
of the antisnadian press to scare
capitalists }threats of destroying the
value of anurnacee they might start
in our cou;y. Soon this bugbear
will be recoized to he a mere sham
The fact: that.° being three million
bushels of seat and Indian corn in
the Baltime elevators is attributed
to the cession of exportation during
the great grain speculetions. Of
course ttnEuropean countries im-
porting bralstuffe had to supply the
deficiency thus caused from other
sources. i is to such results of the
Chicav gmbling that ie largely due
the severa of the increased compe-
tition witlour farmers. Yet this is
one of the hings which Canada is to
assimilated the Wimanites have their
way.
t Murder Epidemic.
New Yak, January 4.—The Times'
London ,psoial says : The English
new yew .begins with a gruesome
epidemic sf murder, which fills the
newspaptre and forms the chief topic
of ociversation, The frightful mur-
der and untilation of a little boy at
Bradford last week, with attendant
atrocities copied from the Whitechapol
Send and which will certainly be
fastened upon a local milkman, was
followed by the news of the terrible
murder of a little girl in a field close
to a village road in Sommersetshire
with much the same general details.
In the some paper which gives two
EilivatilethineanilwegiegAnz
under 20 years of age for a murder at
Tunbridge Wells, and giving the facts
regarding the inquest on the body of
a women found mysteriously murder.
ed at Poplar. The whole subject of
murder has hecanne as familiar during
the last couple of weeks and has occu-
pied such a predominant place in the
public mind that another Whiteohapel
murder now would throw the com-
munity into a frenzy of excitement.
The police are watching the whole
east end of London with redoubled
vigilance just now, as hitherto the
crimes have almost invariably hap-
pened during a new moon.
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AMERICAN WATCHES
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'WINGHAM!
AT VERY
REASONABLE PRICES.
Just Received !
-A very fine assortment of the latest
designs in
SILVERWARE !
Also a nice stack of
Musical Instruments !
Imported from Germany.
It will pay you to call and inspect
my stock.
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Watchmaker & Jeweler.
\Winghtim, Nov. 1, '88.
Cat Minghinn Abbante
faURSDAY, JAN. 10th, 1889,
ruined.
Ileidleberg, the great European seat
of learning, has one saloon to every
87 persons. Taking this statement
for a starter some people could prove
that it is the beer that makes the
learning.
A rather significant order is that of
President Richardson, of the Atlantic
system of surface roads in Brooklyn,
that after the beginning of the year
none but "American citizens" should
be employed. This is the kind of
cordial reception of which we hear so
much from the Wimanitee.
$25.00 REWARD
FOR CONVICTION OF PARTIES WHO GIVE YOU
a cheap trashy- oil when you ask for
McColl Biros' Lardine
FARMERS AND THRESHERS
are oftat deceived by this method and we wish the deception
stopped. Our Darrele are all branded
McCOLL RROS, cg CO., TORONTO.
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