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JAMAICA, AND TRINIDAD
The Colonial ana. Inaian Exhi
bition 1886
accumulated nelson gathering for yeas,
collies to a orisie at laat, the (lector pro-
nounces his dithase degeneration a tie
heart, or degeneration of the liver—with
- this respectable reasot (?) for the cause of
hie death, the man dies drunkard very
teeny yeers etare his system would have
beee worn 001 and eppeers before God as
a suicide, auiie of the most guilty, the
blackest stamp ; caw who wilfully, while in
the full possessioo of all his reasoning
powers, eommenced takieg a oiset fee
fashion Belie, or that he might wider the
exeieernett of the poison, indulge his
brutish passions to e greeter extent. Thet
wleile the skin, the nerves, the its* coat-
ing of the stonaach and the liver were all
being harOeoed by the best rem, brendy,
whiskey, gin, wine or beer, en the liner
feelings of the man have been hardened
headee than the nether millstone; he has
become the terror, the tormenter ef his
wife and children, whom he reduces to
slavery, to beggary, to untold misery and
unutterable woe—a curse to his neighbors,
e curse te the community, a curse to his
poor wife and children, a °urge to himself.
No Wine can beat that of the Blue Moun-
tains, but low, and still lower prices are
crippling all these industriee, and a silent
revolution has been gradually forming a
new economic system. The nogrees, who
have been steadily inoresaing in tumbers,
are acquiring small farms, and are making
good use of them. They have become
gardeners and fruit growers; they to a
large extent supply the home markt3t, and
there is a constantly increasing quantity of
their fruits exported, to the American
markets every year. Mangoes—the prince
of West Indian fruits—oranges, batanas
ancl cocoa nuts form the chief articles of
export. A good deal of coffee is aleo grown
by them. Tobacco has been successfully
grown, but the euring of it ia a tenure, The
Government has a Botanical Department
on the heights of the Blue Mountains,
where cinchona hay been suceessfully
grown and cured, but they have oot been
fortunate in manufacturing quinine yet.
The pimentos of St. Ann's produce large
quantities of allepice. The trade in dye
weeds is rattler large, logwood and fustic
are the chief articles in this line. The
primeval forests have mostly fallen before
the woodman's axe, and now forest conser-
vation is a pressing question; but there is
a great deal of woodland still on the hills,
some of which is excellent, especiallythe
mahoe and yucca, which are surpassingly
beautiful for cabinet work. There are a
soap factory, a watch factory and a couple
of faotories for preserving of fruits and
turtles. If the bounty system of the Euro-
pean countries were to cease, and a better
System of manufacturing sugar adopted,
Jamaica might become one of the foremost
countries in the world. A great deal of the
land in Jamaica has been overworked, and
e Vey Thomas 0, Watkins.)
Jamaica—the " Pearl of the Aeltilles:"
," Brightest gem in the British diadeni,"
are the terms which have been applied to
this beautifyl island in history. No groans
of distressed planters, no complaining of
discontented eubelterns, cat seriously
damage its reputation for charming scenery
and fertility of soil. " The land ofsprings,'
as its uame imports, is 144 miles long and
49 broad, with a range of lofty inouxitaios
running its whole length, the highest peaks
of which rise 7,000 feet above ehe
sea. The scenery is picturesque
in the extreme. Few, if any,
spots in the world can aurpass the drive by
the coast round the east end of the island,
xvitla the white flecked waves of the blue
Caribbean Sea gleaming over the tops of
waving cocoanut groves; while the inland
view takes in a far distant peep at the
peaks of the Blue Mountains away behind
the valleys and ridges of Portland. The
climate is healthy if reasonable precautions
are taken in diet, cleanliness and fresh air.
No doubt there is intense heat in the low
lying districts. Vete and a few other places
are quite parched and dry, but generally
over most of the island there is a balmy
feeling in the atmosphere, whioh is delight-
ful for several hour:: of the day, and up on
the hills one can ascend to a temperature
vntioli requires a fire daily. The
island contains 4,193 square miles
and is about equal in size th
Somersetshire, Devon p.aa Cornwall to-
gether, being the largest of our insular
possessions in the West Indies. It is
divided into three counties and fourteen
parishes. We owe Jamaica to the vigor of
Oliver Cromwell's administration. Penn
and Venable e saved their mismanaged ex-
pedition frorn lasting disgrace by wresting
Jamaica from the Spaniards, The British
have held it ever since. The earthquake
and the pestilence bespoke the vengeance of
heaven on the recklessness and debauthery
of Port Royal. The statue of Admiral
Rodney,looking out over Kingston Harbor,
testifies to the relief the great admiral
brought to the colony frorn French and
Spanish attacks. In early days it was the
centre of all the wealth and all the profli-
gacy of the British buccaneers. A long
internecine war with the Maroons, or
.escaped negroes,
net:ammo amass AND itousenorns.
Yet, amidst all the horrors incident to civil
war there grew up an aristocracy of
British planters—" the old time men, as
they are plaintively called now. The very
names of their estates speak of the hopes,
realizations and disappointments of that
prosperous era. The abolition of slavery
and the equalization of the sugar duties
were sudden blows from which Jamaica,
with the rest of the West India Islands,
are hardly recovering yet. With the loss
of wealth °erne a decay of political power •
where the whole system was oligarchical,
a government by an oligarchy, based on the
British representative system, was in ac-
cordance with reason; when the old
oligarchy fell, agitators and jobbers were
elected to the House of Assembly. In
1865 great riots occurred, which recalled
the remembrance of the Maroon war of
1831-2; great consternation filled the
minds of the people and. the House of
Asserably voted away their existence during
a panic. Crown Government succeeded.
Its actions have been severely criticised
lately, and fierce attacks made upon it, but
no fair critic can deny that under it, for the
last twenty years, Jamaica has prospered,
ateettatrelAp regaining the position she formerly
te heldlii*e Pearl of the Antilles. In 1882
the Fiore% , vote produced an agitation
which ende ' 'n the constitution being
changed and a "' resentative system being
established again. -ll friends of the colony
&hailed this change••*a_h pleasure, and t ."et
Inat the wisdom endnamoderation .0
Eincutive Cotmeil will stify the con
eiorpnade oy the Quee Situated at the
head 4: one of the flne harbors in the
West a . ies, Kingston site in her
quiet beau with her 40,cfi inhabitants.
When the Pa a Canal I opened, this
land -locked wa ay beco one of the
greet coaling stat of thelt eworld. De
probable competitor tlif harbor of
Castries in St. Lucia. ' on is the
seat of government, the resi of the
Governor being four miles o he
slopes of the hills. Spanish Tos,, the
capital, is picturesque, but sleep : looking.
It Is situated. some thirteen milete inland.
yi
There are thirteen ports of entr besides
Kingston ; St. Ann's, Falmon h and
Savanneele-Mer are the chief. T ere are
Several good truck toads, which hale been
greatly unproved lately, which fieeke a
regular and excellent postal service ptacti-
eable. Telegraph lines are being spread
evet the islayknetteatelefeitieteeneeetened and
matiaged hyythe GovernmenthWlitnelacten
extended to points which will tap the riolktea
districts. itt An effort was made lately to
introduce' e Indian eysteni of irrigation,
but the wos have beet a burden et the
colony so fare:end hew: damped the ener-
gies of the peoeffintat this direction, and the
otherwise splendiatlain of Vero lies barren
for want of a prepellaysteM cif irrigatiOn.
The agriceltutal lade fillyhder WO divi-
tions—the sugar plentationktothe south
and east; the nehe, or granitigefarme,
interspersed with pitnento treerf,A%the
north and west. Sugar is the largdk
industry in the islaticl. Us rune is :laid to
be the best in the World; that is, we pee -
setae, that it coOtaine Moro alcohol, which
is a deadly poison, end eonsegitently will
harden the brain tissues and teteee of the
throne of regatta cause partial peattivais of
the nerves of the stomach, and delay or
prevent digestiOn, so that a person who
drinks Mitch of it
og.rntet anar =dr
on acedult of the nerves of the steitilieh
being butdotted mid perelyzed by the
AIWA, It else, by its hardening ION.-
eilee en the netvile, I:tot/erste the functions
ef the itystein aotheg freely, mud tbo poison.
one waste matter Whir/ is constantly being
ptedtteed in the body iir not thrown off by
the teepiratory Ogees, ter garottgh the
pored of the skin, but are retained in the
gystern arid ferill fatty iTiatter around the
heart et IiVer) and the victitn of the aleohol
it the rent gteWe sheet, Blida of breath,
..ted a Ot reddish blitek in the face; he
CLIIMSY MODES OF FARMING
will no longer pay. Ultimate success de-
pends largely on making a wise choice of
suitable soil for the cultivation of the dif-
ferent products indigenous to theparticular
kinds of earth. Many moderate profits are
still made by careful attention to the
chernical constituents in the soils required
for coffee, cocoa, tobacco, cinehona and
sugar cane. Our farmers in Canada would
do well to pay more attention to the differ-
ent kinds of soils and manures required for
wheat, oats, peas, beans and barley, and
also for the various kinds of fruits they
wish to cultivate. The colony ships a large
part of her aroclucts to New York, Were
the steamers to run at regular intervals
this trade might be greatly increased;
but there being a regular line
via Southampton, it receives a large share
of. the products of the colony which are
carried to England. The Royal Mail Com-
pany's steanaers take fifteen to eighteen
days to make the run, which causes much
fruit to spoil in transit ; but with a better
class of steamers the voyage might be
shortened to ten or twelve days. Jamaica,
would make a charming winter resort; a
voyage from thefreezing climate of Canada
over the tropical sea has both health and
romance in it. December and January are
8liarping months; no one can complain of
excest‘t eat then. A short, pleasant sail
of a few s brings a person from an
osphere b5lqv zero here to the balmy
br ti of the% elightful land, where,
sitting the evenhlA in a moonlit veran-
dah, WI Itsqittlae hi1 of the sugar
mills at woillta.4_beloivt o compels° the
mind to peacefulealits, 'one, or happy
amongst the
e day -tine,
irds flitting
the scene is
and ecstatic:
eed to fear of
anticipations of future joy ;
tropical flowers and treee in
with the ohatming humming.
over the purple Boganvillia
ono of calm, soothing pleasu
i ht, while there is n •
von... nakes or beasts Of
prey, The of Jamaica by the
last census was 680,000, being at increase
of 73,650 during the previous tet years.
Of these 14,432 'were whites; mulatoes and
quadroons, 100,040; the negrotts were 444,-
186, the remainder being coolies and
Chinese. The value of the exports during
the year 1885 were £1,408,848; the im-
ports for the same period Were 4,487,858.
The revenue was £545,000 during the same
etiod. The ohief eXpotts Were: Sugar,
egoz 826; rum, 4284,053; tropical fruit,
£18 , • coffee, £167,281; dye woods,
£155,526 , 'raento, £58867; ginger, £20,-
168 ; beesvva *led honey, £7,775 ; cocas,
£6,369 ; lance -ea -fend spars, £2,005.. The
produce of the lids et is exported BA fol-
lows : Great Brit. 87.2 per cent.;
'United States, 42.2 p • cetta Dominion
Of Canada 5.4 percent, al ther countries
Were represented by 16.2 per • t: t. The set -
face of the island is greatly di sided, aid
%enables fotmers to oultivift o great
.44rcal plants froth th ea level
t high on the to tains.
Large nininberg 4044100}(10 ses are
taieed en the nottheth slopes of the island,
where the nutritious Guinea grass affords
them excellent pasture all the year rothad.
During the year 1885 the exports of rum
rom Jamaica Wore 2,080,471 gallows, vane
Z234,058. Thig industry is one of the
largest in the island, and the rum is export-
ed to all parts of the Cheistiett *fetid
ealled " good, flee, old jamitiea ruin, of the
finest brands in the world." But Oleg, fol-
low the distribution of it, and ten eon -
sand tittee itnore of alcoholic liquots io
errands a await amongst tho Christian (I)
nations of our earth, and you find fcknoss,
getrotv, tnieery, woo, brolten.,hearted wives
dying, murdered by inches by the cruelty
tituriken husbands—husbands driven to
despait by their
untakkg tVIVEgi
ELITDbOklOOR et/Alone left is burdens On the
community by their drunken parents,1 in 258 gtlus and 780. troops, The crows of
drinking themselves to death to try to these ;ships, as well as the troops, were pc,
satisfy their ins:040;1e apnettte ler elcoliel mach reduced by fever that theY were un-
-that appetite which the more it gets the able to make much resistance, and the
more it watts of Oat devil in solution, small gerrieen which Gtaterieor C..lae.coe had
until it inaddells tile brein, the horrors of at his conmeand eoeld not add nitteh alga -
delirium tremens seize on the uufortunate tive strepsth to the Spatisn throe in the
vietitus—and under its vile, stimulating harbor ; so after a few shots had beet ea-
effecte robbery, murder and the Meat °hanged he surrendered, and the eepittlae
heartless, larutal menage are perpetreted, tem wa,s eigned the next day. Sir Ralph
which bring its votaries to our jails, our then appointed Lieutenant-Colonel (after -
penitentiaries and the gallows. But, thank weeds the famous Sir Tbomag 1400) to
God, the eastern Buddhists Brahmins he the Mist Britien governor of Trinidad.
and evbn aeme of the Pagan nations haVe ; a/met:T.4 nem neNegeoue roar,
too much sense to tough tine seductive'
Pnition, and no doubt many of them will wadheieeileluebkee fitIoleciteifeeroo!oixny'rererertlYniatheagrweeest
enter the kingdom of heaven while
millionsof prcfe sr achritia winlnrt e IYedtqa t Britain at the
wlio seetioha\ooijspaktlgopgoot. ayofATieus,We000sit91vas
people' the rein and deselatien it is Spread. • f6%rni31:11113:\Y°hPOPPSSal tre iNmagelreentatdhveannFtaigrese
in.g over our weary, yet must have their which would accrue tea eommerciel natien
wine, their tweedy, their in, their rum, like Britain from the possession of an
thist ci rabiseteirieTadaand wmilillantiootn gfolvresa% the9settingil3seof wilich, from its geograehioal posi-
ti n could command the trade of the great
a good example to their ehildren, to their rivers of South America, and possessing a
neighbors and to the world. Like Caip, harbor in which all the mercantile fleets of
when he murdered Abel, is reply t G d
as "Am I my brother' Y' keeper e" t
-° °- i the world could ride in safety. An idea of
W'
-Athe volume of this trade may be gathered
Godmakes us our brothers keepers, and as , from the fact that Miring the first five
the blood of Abel eried to GO fl:°111 tile I years after the capture of the island Btitieh
ground on which he WRI3 Blain, so the blood
goods to the value of 81,000,000 Were sold
of millions who have learned to love Alcohol annually by the merchants of Trini-
at their parent's table, or by the influence,
dad to the traders from Venezuela
example pr persuasion of others, cries now alone. This was the legal trade,
from the ground in our cemetertes for vela- but a far larger one was carried on privately,
geance on the heads of those who have in-
duced them to enter the saloons, or the as is knoWn 1;ly the returns of Col. Pieton
to the Secretary of State, that Spanish
taverns, the gileed ball -rooms, or the quiet vessels sailing from; Trinidad took goeds of
dinner parties to join in drinking British manufacture away with them to
that poison which has out short their the value of eight million dollars annually.
lives, and brought them down by degrees The fears of Napoleon were groundless, as
to suicides—to drunkards' graves. Jamaica British statesmen and the colonistmerely
supplies the world with allspice, whith is bent their energies to make Trinidad a
not exported in large quantities from any great sugar producing country. The con -
other country, Thepimento tree, which is quest by the British was not favorable to
tts commercial prosperity at that juneture,
as Wilberforce and hie followers were than
thundering forth their anathemas against
the cruel iniquities of the African slave
trade. The British Government, seeing
that they must yield to the loud, claims of
justice and merey, decided to make Trini-
dad an experimental field for the grand
work of striking the shackele from
the slaves, and they inaugurated their
glorious system of manumission in
Fruits and spices are easily cultivated, and this island. In spite of this great change
a much larger trade might be donem them. in the autonomy of the colony it still pros -
Medicinal barks, gums, leaves and roots
are produced largely. There are many very
useful fibre plants, which will no doubt
come into very general use in the manufac-
turing arts before many years. The
Jamaica Court presented a most interest.
ing and imposing scene to Canadians, who,
although living so near grand luxuriant
tropical scenery, yet never had an oppor-
tunity of viewing it before.
Trinidad
is the most southeastern of the chain of
islands lying between the Atlantic Ocean
and the Caribbean Sea. It is situated to
the eastward of Venezuela, between 10 de. and although lt has its difficulties, it has
grees 3 ininutes and 10 degrees 60 minutes been Of very great advantage tothe planters
north latitude, and 61 degrees 39 minutes commercially. But what has saved
of west longitude from Greenwich, and bas Trinidad from the disastrous resu/ts
an area of 1,754 square miles. It was of the great decline in the prioes
on the 31st july, 1496, that Colurabus, then of the chief products of the West Indies
on his third voyage, first sighted this has been mainly that she did not depend
island, to which, when taking possession a upon sugar or any other one or two articles
it in the name of the Sovereign of Spain, of her productions, but by cultivating
he gave it a tame at once commemorative cams, and following other industries
of the date of the discovery and indicative hitherto untried, they have succeeded in
of the. faith of the discoverer, who first overcoming the difficulties which had so
caught sight of it on Trinity Sunday.'
YOB NEARLY A CENTURY (lately threatened their ruin. Sugar is the
principal production, but in varying their
products the way was opened and brought
allied to the nayrtle family, grows abund-
antly on the warm limestone hills at eleva-
tions of 1,500 to 2,500 feet. Beneath the
trees eattle and horses are pastured, feed-
ing on the nutritious pimento grass. The
woods of Janaaica are very valuable for
cabinet work, and also for dyeing purposes.
Lignuna vitt°, legwood, fustic, mahogany,
rosewood, mountain fig and very many
more, which are used for the above pur-
poses ; cane grows in large quantities.
pared, especially from 1818 to 1829, while
Sir Ralph Woedford held the, office of
Governor, whose firm and enlightened
policy was the salvation of the colony at
that critical period. In common with the
other West Indian colonies, Trinidad
suffered from the manumission of the
slaves, and was on the verge of ruin in 1884,
but Lord Harris, who was Governor then,
adopted the system of coolie immigration,
and by his energetic and prompt measures
urged that system upon the planters and
had it firmly established. That system
has been continued to the present time,
subsequent to that eventful day the history to the front a body of small proprietors,
of the island is involved in obscurity. The who heretofore had only been squatters,
little that is known is contained in the who are adding largely to the general
chronicles of the Dominican monks who wealth and prosperity of the colony. Not-
eccompanied the Conquistadores to that withstanding the prejudice which has
island. About 1684 Don Antonio de Bartley existed in all the colonies formerly culti-
Ones, the founder of Spanish Guyana, Voted by slave labor against the opening up
made Trinidad his heednuarters, and built of the Crown lands to small proprietors,
the city of Sat Jose de °rune, 'about six this ',enjoy was established by Sir Arthur
miles from the coast of the Gulf of Paris. Gordon, who was Governor ftom 1867 to
This town (which remained the united of 1870, and has been successfully carried out
the island until a few years before its cap- to the present time with great advantage to
ture by the British) was burnt by .Sir the colony, and consequently the
Welter Raleigh in 1595. From that time
until 1781 the colony made thamely MIDDLE AND LOWER enassus,
any progresa, for in 1733 there were only having farms of their own, have in the late
162 male adults in the island (exchisive of crisis scarcely felt the pinnate of the herd
Indians and skives), and of these there were times. The trade with the Spanish Main,
only twenty-eight whites. The whole though by no Means so flourishing as it
mettle of the colony was only $231 thee.. ought to have been, has also been of great
In 1781 M. Roume de St. Laurent, a assistance to the colony, and served to sus -
French planter of Grenade, when at a telt its eredit., XIs itey be feitly ptedioted
visit to the island, was surprised at its that, as Trinidad becomesbetter knowhe
extraordinary resources, and fotined 5 its parprieingly large eject varied resources
to induce foreign imInigrants to Bottle will be turned to good account, and its
in the colony, it thing whicla the Spanish ftuite, roots, woeds, medieinal productions,
Government had hitherto prohibited. Be barks, gums, oils, nuts, fibres for inekitig
went to Caracas first, atcl *et to Madrid ropes, cloths, etc:, dye woods and many
ta obtain the sanction of the Geyer/le:lent other produetiteas Intst be utilized, and
fot his poheing, in whioh he Wee successful, will prove to be on enbrmoris advantage to
and in November,1783,a dethilo Or Warrant the colony. The climate is healthy, and,
wee genteel by the Spatieh niointeeh: with the ordinary preoatitiohs, not hi the
This important. undertaking was tonfided least injurious to Europeans. The math
to the care Of Don Jose Maria Chaotal; terepetettire isebont 7e e) Fahrenheit dating
Who was, destined to be the leet of the the 0°01 Masten, end 79 in the hot season.
Spanish Govethore of Trinided. It resulted The soil is very fertile, and seitable to
at once in a great infint of popnlation, produce a great variety of etens. Sugar
faint the Old Frech island, to Which it and °Mae are its staples coffee hiealto
xnuch greater impetus Was given 'a few gtown, And Only for the scarcity of labor
years Wet by the events in timed Odonide, it mid tobacco WOW be .grown extensively.
which wem prodnged by the French Reit- Cocoa nuts would also be cultivated pre.
In 1783 the pinardatiOn Of thefitelely were there a geed stippiy of /abet -
island demisted of 126 Whitee, 295 fine ' eta. One of the most remarkable features
colored people, 310 sieveif and 2,082 Itidietie. of the island is its Piteh hike of Soule
Feurteeri years later, in 1797, the popula- ninety :Otos it extent, Whieh is a consider.
tion Was elassifiee at 2,151 whites, 4,4741 able Seethe Of wealth to the colony. The
free colored people, 1,078 Indiana and population in 1881 Was 153.128, There are
10,000 slaves, Which shows conclusively the twenty-six gee:I/neve arriving yearly /rent
goal damage Whieli Was effeeted by the all.parts of the world. The linports in
teithdtitteal of the Spatieli lethhibition 1885 *ere £2,241,478, And the eXpottir
against inatiligrantg coining into the colony: 12,246,664, The publie debt on the 8015h
It also elieWii how the adVititee of the white Of septoraboi,,,1885-, was i6583,820. Oppo-
Mari Mode to thr destriiation of thetridiane, site the Trinidad Cattt the Anglo -Conti -
who, On learning The 'deed of 'big pale faced lientel Guano 'Weirks exhibit a collectiOn Of
brothers, geen vanieb froth the eetth like invite dine§ froth all parte 01 the Wolici.
the morning thoWer or the evanitigaleW. Atte side by side the different varieties'
While they deoreased neatly ong.halfo, the ftoin east, yeast,north and south can be
other inhabitants increased over elk tiit5s POrtinOted, The tetfie used in oultivating
59 tidily. The entinstroad of the iskpa was the tate :Lita making sugararo also slierivh,
eortiecl on by One emell ship of 1e0 tote and spedinene of the ket-killing, thong:beet
betcleleptevitares to 1788,allidi vitateaTritt. and cithe, berate Make the •dithibit it veil
chid fittii the Batch Island of St. BusW attractive hria intdregatis bile. When We
tious thiCie tiitree eadh put; and &ought etteeider the Voetriete 'Of the territerieS, arid
ortieles cis the colonists tacit:tired', the hundreds Of niilliong of Warne:Sal
•feit Which they oxobuirged thine 6adeAf Outs rifled irver bV Britain, we ate le'd to
vanilla, indigo and cottee: From 1784 to inquire wbet is the titesource of her greet.
1701 the- average tonnagewitsbetween 1,000 ries& P,viclently the Bible. This IS the
and 8,000 tens per annutil ), in 180 it read great lever which has taisedher to that proud
to 15,000 tone. The total tonnage lot the aseendermy, that pileinicleo OWeri• that
colony in 1885 was 1;069,121 tete: OA the mighty influence which she holds ainonget
16th February, 1797, tt Health ilea of the nations of the earth: Tho Bible 18 The
eighteen veseels, carrying NO guns, finder sword which shall slay infidelity, it is the
the centhiand ot Adelina BotVey, gelled Intininet tvluob shall etrish artinicelineeg,
into- the Gulf Of Perla With 6;150' troops from earth don te ita native hell frein
tinder Sir Ralph Abeteteriaby, Thete wore Whenee it Carrie, it IS the God-given power
in the hatbOttenteSpaniell Vesgola, carry- which shell .taigo, the World to that high
moral and religious pre-eminence whicd4
shell lead men In every land to look upon
hie fellow -roan as a brother. Then peva
and goodwill shall reign supreme upon this
earth, and loud preens of praise tO the great
Father of all shall resound and reyerherate
thronghout tho mighty vault of heaven,
and atgel voices shall take up the loucl ac-
claim: Glory to God in the highest;
peace on earth, man ie freed from the dread
curse of elcohol, that demon in solution is
lataished. from yonder menden° sphere ,
down to his native bell, never, never to
purse mat again.
Row, Sharpers " ayerk Dnuntry atheee.
A eorrespondent writing from Linwood
describes the methods of sharpers who
have lately been infesting Waterloo end
Wellington counties and working MI the
eastegoing and unsuspicious shepkeeper.
Re says that two sharpers liave been work-
ing in that district in the following man-
ner : " Sharper No. 1 goes into a store,
purchases some trifle and lays down a ii20"
bill. When the elerk has made up the
change the sharper objects to its bulk and.
substitutes, we will say, a §10 bill, He
then gets the attention of the clerk by talk-
ing and, sharper No. 2 conies in from the
buggy and pays for the article. Sharper
No. 1 now gets back his big bill by picking
it out from the pile of money on the coun-
ter, and the pair are out of sight before the
clerk discovers that the sharper has not.
only taken his met money but also some of
the merchant's." Clerks sheuld be ontheir
guard against any such dodge.
Dird Stories.
In a great storm of snow and sleet last
winter, in England, the wings of rooks
froze fast to their bodies and hundreds of
the birds were killed by falling trees, being
unable to fly.
yiegount Arbuthnot, of London, has a
brown eagle that has been in his possession
caged for more than twenty years. He
always supposed it to be a mak until Maid.
an egg on April 5th:
A correspondent of the London Field
tells of a robin that built its nest on a shelf
in,his dressing -room and ha a laid threeeggs
in it. He says of the mother robin and
her mate "A, small window is always
open a few inthes, and of a morning when
dressing one or the other of the birds will
be at the opening watching me and enter
he room the moment I leave it."
Laws that are Not Enforced.
The Obi° Legislature recently passed a.
law declaring that "the husband is the
head of the family." ]tis easy enough for
a set of cowardly men loafing at the State
Capital, away from home, to make a law
like that. Let them go home and shout it ,
and attempt to carry out its provisions.
There is a law that says the colored man
must have the same rights as the white
man and can sit in the best seats in an
Opera House. Personally the colored man
does not care to try it on.—New Orleans
Picayune.
Most Difficult.
Looking up from a desk which had just.
been given him, the ambitious young re-
porter, fresh from the favorite educational:
institution of the State, thus addressed the
grim old editor :
"What do you find it most difficult for
inexperienced vien to write ?"
"Sense," the old fellow replied. There
was nothing harsh in liis voice, yet the
young fellow turned to his desk and didn't
speak again during the evening.
All }essential Difference.
Major Kincaid (who has just popped)_
I'm not so very old, Miss Daisy. King
Solomon was over a hundred, you know,.
when be married, and I'm sure he made a
good husband.
Miss Crozier—Yes, but be had so many
wives at a time that the—er—care of him
was nicely distributed, don't you know.
Gastronomical.
She—I like this place immensely sinoe.
they have the new French chef.
He (weak in his French, but generous to.
fault)—Waitala bring chef for tveo.
Tins year being the tercentenary of the
execution of Mary Queen of Scots, it is.
proposed to hold at Peterborough an his-
torical exhibition of portraits, rings, mis-
sals, and all objects ofinterest connected
with that unfortunate Queen. The exhi-
bition will be opened on the 13th of July
and closed On or about the 9th of August,
so as to include the date of Queen Mary's
burial in Peterborough Cathedral, The
Queen hem given her patronage to the un-
dertaking, and the Dean of Peterborough
is the president of a very influential come
Mittee by which the exhibition will be,
inalaaged.
Sixteen toms of licerice root, out and
baled, is ready for shipment frointhe ramth
of Isaac Leal, Sacramento Valley, Califor-
nia, who has Made quite h success of its
culture.
"It's a solemn thing,young taith,"said the
broken-hearted father, "to borne into the
home of an old man and take away his only
daughter, the light of the household, and
the prop and solace of his declining years. ,
But you have my blessing, and I wish you
every Joy, and--." "But I won't take her
away, sir," interrupted the young man, in-
expressibly affected. "We'll both stay with
you."
One of the world's energetic and succeed-
frd women is Elise Buckingham, who.
Manages a fruit fajta ef setterin hundred
acme it Cantor/lie, and makes money at it.
She urgesotherwoinen to take up the smile
kind of work, Mr which she thinks women
are well fitted:
New York My has eight &Awed_
physioians.
Fterieh teriewl Who was hieeed fee
bed singing, gave tluci little endech to the
andienee '" Ladies and gentian -len, I have
a wife And five children to Stinnett. Ther'
fore, it 18 useless fOr you to hiss ; for,
being a vat husband and father, I shall be
Obliged te ging as long its I havebreath."
Biehati White, of Paninayleania, Wee.
Sitting Ond day at dinner with tiler bola
fixioncie& Of revolutionary tlineeti Robert
Morris, when the latter said: "Ilishop, X
have made my will, and have devised tO
you all rey iniptdence,." "In that ease?
replied the Pishop, "you have certainly
left moth° greater pett Of Stolle estate."
" Yes, Ilieliep," inteeposeA IVira, White,,
rind
115 18 pleat that you bead Mitered inn,
inediately liven peer inharitithee,"