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111E WINGHANI TINES, JANUARY It,. 1895.
EsED RETALIATION ssation, the ponies. trotting meekly oll'ertel eerviee mid was thankfully name liorgliese. About the year siollowers, and it survives to this promptly attended to, To. keep.
along under IntfSeuline persuasion, made most useital. Day after day of 1837 an individual of this name day'.
plgeton, "to be sure they reached. pass in the country, found him in the counterfeit bills on Petitions banks. Pression thus explained m Notes and phrase was afterward widened, and
I siek room, chatting with the sick The name a Borghese was soon out Queries; "The male blossoms of the is now universally 'understood.
• "I gaitk lie was very impertinent, lante safely."
Itied lee ought to he snubbed!" and The Mean little cottage was I man, gently Wang hint, bringing down by his victims. to the shorter willow tree, which are used on Palm NAMES- or PLANTS AND FLOWERS.
latiS Nettie Amber, aged nineteen, another surprise, baying been fur- him the gossip of the hour, and one of bogus, Very soon not only Sunday to represent the branehes of Nicotine comes from John Nieot,
drew ber graceful 11.gure up to a niehed by Archer 'et for his sister's I followed by Nettie's. grateful oyes. in igetgbese bills, but all others of like palm, are Called "eates and dogs" in who introduced tobacco into Frence .
aright line, and lifted her head ate nse daring the summer, and the every movement. many parts of the country. They in 1500. An old name for tobacco
character, were called "bogus ear-
legh higher. visitor was so carried away by de-' To each of the four the oddity of rency," In the time of King Jamas increase in size . rapidly .after a few was petum or potun. Hence the.
"My dear Nettie!" said Miss light and amazement that he forgot the situation often recurred, with a L the word "bombast" meant a sort warm A Pril sllowers, and the belief mune Petunia Joe '• that flowering&va .Areter, ligA. d fifttesix, in a the brevity of the ttequaintaiiee until ; wonder that so recent an aequaint- - of padding Of eaten and silk, that formerly prevailed that the rain plant which is a species of tobaceo.
„ tone of remonstrance, "what a very that OXIO 100k that rankled in Nettie's lance hatl so quickly become one of was used to stuff out the enormously brought them. Hence the saying to The be‘autifal camelia is so called
. vulgar expresehnt !" lined called forth sueli a quick, Ithemselves ; but the feet remained large breeches that were made in • "rain eates and dogs." from the Jesuit priest Kernel, who•
'Snubbed? Oh, no ; everybody . indignant fiush,suelt a haughty up- that out of their large circle of • fashion. Hence bombast in our time Cur means a curtailed dog, from first brought it to- Europe from
' erntierstande it, and it expresses just lifting of ihe sin*, dainty head,' as , friends not one was on the same meant anything written or spoken in the old forest laws of England, oblige Japan. The lovely autumn flower,
what I mean. The. n-esxt time we . recalled his seats 'red senses. 'Intimate footing. Most of their a high sounding heated style, It ing all sportsmen t4 cut talls short. the dahlia, is a native of Mexico, but.
•d •relatives and close friends were seems that there Ats a fashion in That terror etch .dhood—thebogy was first cultivated in Europe by
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within. the etiquets bonne the cor-
e • ne° exsta emus. and the gentleman walking beside the long vacation he iiad intended to flooded tho west and southwest with "To rain Cats and dogs" is an ex- met thing. The meaning of the
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meet Mr. Sidney rarelay, I shall He was on les —
InOSt certainly snub- him," with a Miss Helen, by. appeal to *ettie's away for MIMI= 'pleasuring, and diseases as well ; as in elothes man—comes fron the Scottish, Dahl, a Swedisli boatmen y
-Armee tenpbaels up i the objeetion- -memerY, force her to leave bee idler() wag no one ,Siese sidney Bar- arid furniture. Ins 1850 bronchitis meaning a phantom! The word gas I Holland introduced it in England by
ible.woul. - - temporary abeit r, and advanced to . clay. i. _came to the font As the affliction a is from the Germans geist—a ghost of i having it cultivated in the Freneh
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"I.,sehoug•ht be was very petite," ' greet the now 'oo1, self-possessed ! Of this • Nettie : assured herself la, mode, jusetis appendicitis has in : spirit. Its introduction in this SellSO garden of the celebrated Rolland.
eetid Miellelen, "What should we - young' lawyer. Perfect courtesy, ' again and again as her idolized the last two or three years. In is due to Dr. Van 1Tel�out, of Bel- house, Kensington. The damask
sigree done without 1 's help, stuek in cold as ice, wati in his exchange of father crepacK , t bto 'health and, December, 1851, Jolla Leech Pub- glum, who used the erm for all the rose was brought to England by Dr.
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a horvid hole, and e ponies juet greeting ; and PICO more Nettle's , strength, and nevel• wearied of sing, lished a sketch entittled "Scenes from noneondensible aim but bis first ap- Linaker, physician to King Henry IF
• • prancing and rearin , and not really quick impuleive stature was stung by ing the praises of his patient corn- the hist new fits§ionable disease, plication was to what% he called the VII.
pullieg at all, We ight have been the absence of a y sign of the ad- panion. For while these two, so bronchitis." S - "gas of water." - Mignonette, which signifies "little
there till now," - miration too in Wiest the day be- - strangly thrown together, were real- . .
A WORD ON A WAGER.
• NOT A.PROFAE PHRASE. darling," is a native of Northern M -
" Oh,
someone else would have fore. - lizing that - separation would meaa
The word "quiz originated in a It may be a eons • t 1 • eie, rica, and was first cultivated in
"don't eare a damn is by no means Europe in the royal gardens of
'passed, auntie!. 1 410; deny that, he • Piqued, she lefflowed herself' to weary pain, that the hours spent in
on rosy wager made
was very wend, an very polite, as. thaw, then t� try to awaken fresh close hate course rolled by
manager that a wild unknown and a
by a Dublin theatrical --
profane expled e. The damn Paris. In 1751 Lord Bateman in- .
you say. Bat he bad no business interest; never , descending to any clouds,. they were *seemly absorb- that
no meaning should be on meant here is a email coin current in trodueed it in England.
to—" and here Ansi, Nettie. paused couquetry, but letting her natural ed only in their dudes to the invalid.
everyosr's tongue inside of twenty India. Another common expression, The story of the weeping willew is
• c ' „ , 1 4c1. intellect have i But when the opening of the law bdI "not a stiver," cottes from a Dutch an interesting one. The tree is a,
full play. The . ower of conversing, • courts called Sidnett Barclay back to f ' 1 ' • Ile•ed• 1
coin of the value of one penny. native of Spain. In the reign of
"quiz" to be post chalked etif all
• • up an animeted Onversation with drawing out th b 'st of her tom- • his professional dudes, Julius Archer
abrurtly ine her walk to the other
CIK1 of the sittixig-raom, and struck
Dub1n. i 1 There are :also En MI stivers for George II ot England, Lady Sur-
• panions, answerIng with quick eome, was not the only cese who mourned a
I wager.
. . Mr. Barclay, hadt certainly. asked prehension, yet ° sever absorbing tbe for bis less feequit visits, missed
the canary.
"Mindwalis of 'our 's and Q's" is circulation in Binds Guiana.
• The mane of Etienne de Silhouette, folk received a package IcomEtSpain
enwrapped in twigs of Pope,
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permission to call, Seiler giving bis talk, that is so en an art Acquired his voice, hungere , for the hours of
thought bysome thorities to have French Minister of. Finance in 1759,. the poet, was present - when it was
card to Miss Helen, but be need not by long study • and practice, was leisure that would triug them back. coin
e nom the old custom of chalking has come down en. us in the cheap opened. Noting that the willow
- profile portraits "produced by pro twigs were still alive Pope. took some
haye been in suet a hurrY Nettie Nettie's natural gift. Without in- Not until the doctor's Imperative
up behind the doors and alehouses .
thought, as a glimpse of his tall sineerity she contd. take deep interest orders for Mt. Arc t nest
the ameunts due from customers,
ligure coming up the garden walk in passing events, all chalice long separation did 'Sidney Barclay
pints and quarts 4ing represented tecting y e
shadow of a face
while the sitter w
. interrupted her remarks. acquaintances. For the hod., each speak the heel three had become
by the letters P. °.and Q. Other
Yet she considered what was she one was the centre of her thoughts, stroneest his
• , le authorities think t the term These portraits ever
• t of a, candle the of them to plant at Twickenham.
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• going to say ? She could not tell her and there was such a deheateflattery him la, before .
orig,inated in a, psi
annt that her indignation was caused in her frank bdrayal of this interest the physician said, and Nettle's
the similarity of
by a look of devotiofe and admiration, that Nettie Arear was unanimously heart grew cold an heavy. Florida!
small Roman type,
perfectly reepectfult yet certainly toted as charming as she was beauti- . And for the whole . ng winter ! A
printer had freque
startling, after ant acquaintance of fol. . • separation of mond ' from one win)
less than half an helhr. Sidney BareheY felt that all his bad won his way to' the warm, girl- mind,his p's and q's
"Nine days' won
She was still absUrbed in eontem- defences were giving away. He ish heart, and wo Id not be drivento
plation of the canary when Mr. once more forgot her two days ago oat! 1 .g f Tade Jane Grey as "A nation of shopkeepers'ts getter -
Barclay entered the! room and spoke he had never 'evei - heard of Itliss She had been on to attend to some Queen of England, which lasted just ally -supposed to have been Napoleon's
nine days. • . ' sneer at the English. It hes been
Anther, and his big, dark eyes be- shopping connected vith the contem-
The game of ten pins was origin- proved that Barere was the first one
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to her aunt. If -he I saw her, he took
no notice of her, ni, king courteousplated journey, an being detained,
inquiries as to MissHelen's state of When he took his- eaye, pathetical- was hurrying to helefather's room on ally nine pins. ButXin the United to use it when be aid : "Let Pitt
States it was as'gampling game and then boast of his •ttietory to his
came again quite to eloquent.
- health after the anneying interrup- ly implored by Au• t Helen to take her return, when Mi s Helen met her
tion to her drive the previous. day, •
be on the stairs. therefore in some States prohibited nation of shopkeeperi,." .
pity on their lonelin ss whenever
• , by law. It was easy- matter, The Abbe Edgentirth repeatedly
cleVotees of the denied that he used tthe expression
or . pin. Under • "Son of St. Louis, aseend to heaven,"
it has .bad an at.the execution of Luis XVI. It is
A
e now generally acknowledged • that
t to have origin- the editor of the Reputfflean Francais
States• and at invented the phrase f* him.
stets was traced This is the origin of the beautiful
s in position." weeping willows, that to this day
very cheap, and ornament the borders of the Thames
at Twickenham.
In an old book published at Ant-
werp in 1565 aro found the follow-
ing„ which are still everyday expres-
sions :
"Proud. as peacocks'
•ting office from the French gave then tile name of
"Silhouette" in alliasiore to the ex -
he p's and q's in
treme parsimony of ' he Minister. In
o the apprentice
fact in the days f Etienne de
tiv to be told to
Silhouette any cite- p fashion was
dubbed "a silhouette."
er" dates back
Don't go up . just this minute, .
commenting upon the weather, ad- had a leisure hour, tat lady's eyes 'for the
miring the display of roses. in front twinkled maliciously. I dear," she said. "Mr. Barclay ask- - however,
game to add anot
. of the cottage, and p,eemingly obliv- •
"I owe you an apology for mis- ed for a private conversation with
the name of ten pin
.. • boas of everything but the lady in . understanding you this morning, - your father. Now, Nettie, you will
uninterrupted care
.• the arm emir at the • front -window. dear," she saki demurely. "I did have a glorious opportunity to fulfil
Hifalutin is thou
1 - • . d last eummer
The- room 'was not a very large not quite comprehend what you, 1 ated in the Wester
one, but Nettie stood in a bow -win- meant by the word, snitib.". and snub that • presumptuous young .
's first meant anyth iig spoken in a , Dr. Johnson says the word seek,
. dew at the other end, lace curtains And Nettie, her already brilliant ,Inall." ' • ' high-flown bombaseb manner. meaning a bag, "is to be found in all
veiling her, without reallyeaucealing roses deepened in hu , ede a rapid . But an hour later i0e- said: The beeinniug o the use of the languages, and it is, therefore, am-
ber. She had not spoken since Mr. exit. , , "1 suppose, then, glean you are
; terms "high chin, b" and "low eeived to be antediluvian." .
Barclay entered, but gradually an "Ii'm 1" Miss H en murmured; postponing this snubbing until after
church" that we hear so frequently How often do we hafe to eat hum -
amazed wrath rose in her bosom. "the sou of my old friend, Margaret;tile wadding!" in these days date' back to Crom- bIe pie without thinkin' how antique
She was not accustomed to be ignored Barclay; his father' p •. t 1 1 And Nettie cote \ y on ene, well's time. Thep ogle of the fenny the custom is. Prope ly - it should
ntireny. Miss Helen,.pladdly work- I don't see that Juii • can object to laugh, and amidst 'many
sr cares"' part of limbic Cambridge hire were nearly be pie, The um les of a deer,
ing insane devices upon crazy patch- an acquaintance."
whisper: . .
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,, all dissenters. The old parish . says Edwards, correspond to the gib-
, 'work, caught a glimpse of the rising le's father, was "Never tell him, Oat's a darling.,
churches were situated on the sur- lets of a goose. The venison pastry
'color and indignant eyes, and had a t J1C19promised she
rounding hills and were called by in feudal times was read -wed for the
mischievous enjoyment of them. Mr.
Barclay was a fine-looking man of
,six -and -twenty, a gentleman in every
word and movement, and it must be
admitted that, as a rule, Miss Helen
wasetot, when her niece was present,
usually the recipient of all the at -
ken, tention of such a visitor.
. The gentleman himself was not so
. unconscious of that veiled figure in
the bow -window as he appeared to
be. Mossdale, the little cluster of
etettages two miles feom the small
village of Avon, wo not a. fashion-
able resort. New .1 Yorkers and
Brooklynites had nett discovered it;
summer boarders bid .not invaded
Julius being Ne
ye articular about the individuals
ry p
introduced to his only ehild, the
most precious of hist many posses-
sions.
"Next time I will snub him 1"
thought Nettie, rebelliously. "Aunt TRE STUDY OF LA
Helen must have seem that be was IS VERY rem
snubbing me. Thant could not be 1
endured." I I was lately askec
For two days Mr. pidney Barclay ous school girl to
forced himself to 'pep away from ' researches into the
the pretty cottage. On the third he of various words an
found it in dire con siert. In the them in daily ime.
ITHE HISTORY -OF WORDS.
it. The cottages vreie 'owned by
evonten, as a rule—fa4'mer's widows
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who had:left farms to eons or sonsen-
law, and lived in modest comfort in
these tiny homes. Sidney Barclay
hod drifted there te rest after a
winter of hard, conscientious work in
the mw courts of Ne York, where
he 'acted as junior a rtner to his
father, a well-knowti lawyer. Ile
was beginning to WC IT of the utter
stagnation and seelus rt of Itiossdale,
not being an en nesiast about
nature's beauties, an he evasstarded
into wondering an talon by the
*vision of the low pony pineton, with
two ladies therein sdated, 'whose cos-
tumee ttfMke plainly !of New York
sand hinted at Pails. The first,
phrasing shock of peptise was fol-
lowed by one of vivid admiration for
a face and figure Ilfar above the
averege of merely retty and
eCtStfilty Oneceeded ben the ponies.
eaddenty tectinte freakish, drew the
phaeton !Mont deep 1. tt, and refused
to draw it otitimain.;• Quiets, courte-
MS service wad not be refused, and
each recognizing' the.other as a MOM-
ber of that educated that con-
selit,itets American rhsteeracy, the
three were soon in a invited eonver-
"GUAGE MAKING
ESTING.
by an ambiti-
ssist her in her
iginal meaning
terms, some of
was interest -
dissenters the high .churches, while
their places of worship were in turn
called "the low ehueehes."
Who would ever think that "Hey,
derra down' came from a Druidical Pie was to- occupy an i
chant? Hal down,Sir, deri danno— tion. '84,
meaning "Come, Jetnis hasten to the What would be considered more
baleen grove, Bleekwood's Maga- vulgar nowacks thatil to display
zinc of July, 1878, says it bas been one's phiz on one's visiting cards?
80 traced. . Yet this very initeticens the origin
ORIGIN or 'MAGAZINE.' of the name cartes -0 -visite. In
And the word magazine, as applied 1857 the Duke ofP4arma had his
narrow hallways packing -boxes, ing work—well calcilated to repay to these monthly publications, is a
trunks, bales of cerpets—all the investigation. S• marked example of the way some
signs of a breaking -m. In the dis- i It is a curious fae1 that one word things have wandered from their
mantled parlor, Miss
lerd and his principal
those who sat below
were made of inferior
these were called
nests. For
he salt, pies
ortions and
mble - pies.
ferior posi-
photo taken by M. Feriae, at Nice,
and copies affixed to bis visiting
cards. Paris and Lontlon• took up
the fashion. Althought it had died
out, the mine retnaenstfor the small
photographic portrait . Country
danee is from the contre-danse,
meaning that the part es stand op-
positite to eaeh other.. Nephew and
niece once meant gramIchildren, and
in this sense was used tin the early
editions of the Bible. The saying,
"Robbing Peter to pair Paul " re- 1,
eords the historical font tthat in the e•
profusely,
"My brother," s
answer to his sympa
"thrown from his e, eric,ge yester- nuns were perm*
day, and badly iniitred. Nettie speak to visitors thi,
went up on, the last; train yester- Coterie from the La
clay,' but I had to ars ige for leaving mueb, how many ?
here." coterie meant a numil
"Will vou make me useful?" who combined for
elen, weeping •,—parlor—originatedl in the French raison d'etre Ldevards says : "The
i nunneries. It eame I from the verb original idea of a magazine, to be
sobbed, in • patio, to speak. Te parlor was periodically published, was that it
hetie inquiry, the room in the eon ent where the should be a receptacle for seleetions
to see and from the newspapers, whieh were to
ugh a grating. be received as in a storehouse or
18 quot—hew magazine, and thus redeemed from
Originally athe epheineral desting to which the
e• of mnerehants remaining matters of the public
ome particular journals were condemned."
Sidney said, with such evident venture or speeulatio , each furnish- Thus the earlier volumes of the
sincerity that Miss Hielen accepted ing quota of goods ' money and Gentleman's Mag•azine, which origi- year 1550 several of the Westminster
h ff I hi t f fit In nated 111 1781 and full of' chronicles Abbey's estates were gr ted for the Oshawa, Ont.
"Plain as a esikesta
"Neither by fair aor4foill means."
"They have made no bones at it."
"Diner as rauelf's es chalk and
cheese."
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oesttnete cellos.
Obstinate Coughs yield to the grateful,
soothing action of Norway Pine Syrup.
Time racking, persistent oosgh of con-
sumptives ,is quickly Telieved by this
Price 25o. and 50c.
unrivalled throat an,, lung remedy.
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There is no moment like the pres. '
ent ; not only so, but, moreover,
there is no moment t all—that is,
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no instant force and orgy, bat la
the present. The marl, who will not
execute his resolutions gethen they are
fresh upon him can bay° no hope
from them afterwards!
-e.
Whooping Cough. .
For Whooping Cough and all -throat
affections. oh est troubles, tir., Hagyard's
Yellow 011 18 the best mil rocation ever
discovered. ' It promptly re, Heves inflam-
mation, pain and sorenessfrom whatever
eauseharising." • - ' ...,
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Wbat Jack has a reputation for
dishonesty ? Jack Daw (jackdaw).
At*
it!
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A 1Y 'st •.v.' A 1 •
er;eitiseenit„
A
gene
AXE
receiv ng s quo ati o pro .
t e o er once,
and tient to the stati n where the literary purposes. ' T,he origin of the now a mine of wealt to those fend being dedicated to St. Peter the say -
Useful he certainty was baggage our silty it has come 0 mean tt circle of homely and. simple Matters, whieli, maintenance and reties s of St.
was put on earts stunthorteh by him, of friends, a meeting. for social or not being recorded 'Ise -where, are Paul's Cathedral. Westminster
servants had failed• secure any - stock exehange given in the Len. of research. The w rd magazine is ing gins came into vogue of robbing
conveyano. The lei
his prompt orders, syd
of confused hurrying
and Miss Helen foun
half an hour's timeeleft to qfflet, ' called 'New Jonethatt's' it should be apple, de., in very ncient receipts Edwards gives the fo11oii
i
ing
before her young assistant eaMe ;called 'The Stock Exchange,' whieh for the compounding .f these dello. eeived its present signi
from a interject run to his own board-; is to be wrote over the door. The cies being found as fa,iback as 1380, the fact that a &atoll g
house to insist upon es Ittly different, laid out the grounds
the city.1
Trouble will hasten
more rapidly than pr
by imperceptible d
found herself leaning upon Sidney!liking to one, literally "to stick to tleo. Fax, the to
Barclay, evith a comforting sense of , him as cotton wool does to &tires," Friends, once admoni:
hu perfectly reliable ,ilidgment and , Tim United States is held respon- trate to tretnble at th
sehold obeyed don Times of July: 1773— a slightly altered for of the Arable Peter to may Paul.
em sprang out ; "Yesterday the brokers and °there maghazin, or store ho'ise. The term The very high- sounding word
ere and them• at 'New jonathan's' came to a charlotte, so common: in our cook etiquet had a very htimble
herself evith 1resolution that instead of its being books in eobjunetiol with rum, for etiquet malt simply a label,
It re-
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cation from
rdener who
Versailles
rting her t ; brokers then eollee4 i pence each The orthography is sh
, and christened the holm with punch." as it is there spell
lendship far ; Ogilvie tells its that the Omen ex- Dainty, in its original
perity, and pression "to cotton to one," is United was a venison pie, or
ems Nettie I States talk and signifies to take a &due, the French for d
charlotte. for Louis XIV, was mg h annoyed
significance, at the courtiers walking over his
pastry, from newly made paths, at#1 at length
er, had labels placed to in icate where
ider -of the they might pass. A first these
led :t magis labels wore not attended to, but a
name of the. hint from high quartrs that in
empathy. Tile invalid watched for sible for the word "bogus," which is Lord, The megestrat , applied the future the walks of Weeders must
hint after the first day when he said to be a corruption of the foreign word. "Quakers" to Fax and his be within the etiquets oit labels Was
Pains in th Mats
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halliralaibern
caused by in a nunatory
Sweiiirto
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A Perfect cure by tlootne Sartese
patella.
"it affords me much ploas%t to remit:no:a
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flood's Sarsaparilla- sty son 'vas Willow(' with
great Pain in itile Jews, a commuted wLlt
swelling so blul t nit lie could liot pet up stairs
to bed wititoa crawling, on bands so 1 Imes, t
was lAty anxious about Itim, and having rea.t
oo osafroa are44
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so much about flood's Sarsaparilla, 1 deter-
inined to try It, and got a holt-dozen Wilt.),
four of which entirely cured him." la:A, A,
Lan, Oshawa, Ontario.
X. sure to get tIood,e florse,:r°,rT
t 1-100d% P101 onsily, tot promptly atut
ifliciently, on the livor and bowsI!. 250,
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