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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Advocate, 1887-11-10, Page 3A \ HE ROBBED HIS BOSS, M. J. C.Prort Swindler! Out Of $6a800 by at Dishonest Clerk—" Mort" Burtch. Profits 'twills Tuition Under the Great Boodier. A startling rumor is Current upon tho streets of S. Catharines rege.rding the espa- pade of a student iu Messrs. ,Rykert Ingersoll's office named Mort. Burtch, son of Joshua Burtch, who resides on the Great Western Hill, near the city. It seems that Mr. Rykert received two drafts yesterday morning for $3,800 and a3,000 respeotively. The former was made on the Quebec Bank, Thorold, and the other on the 13enk of Toronto, this city. He desired Bartell to proceed to Thorold and peel' the draft drawn upon the bank there, and deposit the proceeds, together with the draft upon the Bank of Toronto, to his account at the Imperial Bank. Burch went to Thorold as direeted and secured the 03,800 and then proceeded to the Bank of Toronto and endeavored' to cash the other draft. Mr. Leitob, the pay clerk, offered to cash the draft in notes of small denemination, but these Burtch refused to accept, and left. , There is little doubt that he succeeded, in getting lunge]: notes elsewhere, else he would have taken the $n bille, tendered. This' occurred at about 2.30 yesterday afternoon, since which time nothing has been aeon of the young man or the money. Every possible effort was made this morning to ascertain Burtch's whereabouts. Finally Mr. Art. Camp, another student in Mr. Rykert's office, was sent to Lockport to find the young man if possible and procure all or a part of the funds. Young Burtch was in the habit of going to Lockport to visit friends every few weeks, and this is why he is supposed to have gone there now. The offence is not an extraditable one, and if Burtch chooses to hang on to his ill-gotten gains and remains under the protection of the United States the hiw cannot touch him. A hundred photographs of the fugitive have been struck off and sent to the Chiefs Of Police of the different American cities. . The police here have the matter in hand, but the St. Catharines police are not very well up in this work. There is not much chance of there accomplishing much. Obituary. A Vienna despatch says Johannes Rodge, the chief founder of the German Catholic party, is dead. A. Philadelphia despatch says Thomas M. Coleman, for more than 25 years city editor of the Ledger, died yesterday. Rev. Philibert Rey, Catholic chaplain in Penetanguishene Reformatory, died there yesterday, aged 64 years. John B. Cornell, head of the well-known firm of J. B. & J. M. Cornell, the New York iron founders, died yesterday morning. The death is announced of Rev. Mr. .Logie, Presbyterian minister of Valetta, Ontario. The winds of October have this year proved unusually fatal to London millionaires. The late Hugh McCalmont, banker, who died last week at his house in GrosvenorPlace, was one of the richest men in London. Now Baron Herman de Stein has also passed away. Mr. McCalmont's fortune will probably exceed 1;4,000,000. In his lifetime he gave the late Lord Cairns £100,000 on his becoming Lord Chancellor and is said to have given him a similar sum afterward. He bequeaths about 23,000,000 to a nephew, Mr. MoClalmont, a popular subaltern in the Scots Guards, with a weakness for boating, subject to an in- come till he is 27, while the capital still further fruotifies. He gives £100,000 to St. George's Hospital, close to his house, but nothing 4, all to the present Lord Cairns, whose mirriage to Miss Olive Berens will take place at the end of next month or the beginning of December. Baron Herman de Stein, who died in his 63rd year on Thurs- day, at Hyde Park Gate, had, like Mr. Mo. Calmont, left a fortune of several millions. He was the head of the financial houses in Angel Court which floated successfully a half dozen foreign loans. He did for Portugal what Mr. 1VIoCalmorit did for America, and was made a baron by the grateful king of that country. He gave large sums to all Jewish eharities. He gave his daughter as a marriage portion nearly half a million when she married Sir David Solomon. The Birthplace of Bonanzas. The site of the old Con. Virginia mill is to be used henceforth as a dump for waste rook, the mill having been torn down and removed elsewhertk Perhaps there is not another mill in the world that has turned into the coffers of commerce so many dollars as this one has. From beneath its stamps Mackay picked up, it is said, 060,000,000, and Fair, Flood and O'Brien each nearly as much. FIundrede of others were made enormously rich and thousand's of miner e and employees have received excellent wages for a number of years. Now the mill' is pulled down and the site used for a waste dump. "To what base uses do we come as last 1"—limie (Nev.) Gazette. 8116 knevit lifer Iliamina. " Pa; won't yen give me a new dress? Want one se Much: " I'll speek to your Mother aboat it," The child's wistful expressien WeetUtned into disappointitient. " Surely, inanitia will knOW if it's mown miry." " Yes; " replied the child, demurely, "1 StIPPOSe so. But when you speak to her touch her easy papa), or she blight Went O'ne for hereto% " In Need of the Money. Manitoba settlers are agitated over an announcement by the Interior Department at Ottawa that all inoney due on pre-ernp. tione Must be paid before tho end of Deeem. hot ot the entries will be eancelled: A Coot rrieitnn. A tramp coolly walked into a Brantford hotel and without consulting the landlord selected ono of the best rooms and went to bed, and eve§ wrapped itt a sweet sleep when he Wes discovered end ejected. gAstone is it firm bolievet itt the good ot itthletioe, and hie on, IIerbert Glatt. 'stales is the President of a Notional Physi- Cal Recreation Society that lute tedently been organized in LiVerpool: OUR 1)0113141-)AlEY RoIN Calouff/: Is Divided front R/9 UORed St,r/t98. (Goldea Days, U. S.) A glance at the map of the 'United States shows that its boundary adjoining Canada follows, the larger part of the distance, an irregular waterline formed by the great lakes and their outlets. Thence from the Lake of the Woods, on the north of Minnesota, a =redirect course is taken through the wilderness and over the mounteins ofthe wild west to the Passitle coast, This boundary between the countries is marked at regular intervals by pillars of wood and iron, earth mounds or stone cairns. Beginning at the Lake of the Woods,cast- iron pillars have been placed alternately by the English and our Government, one Mile apart, until reaching the Red River valley. Those set by our neighbor were brought from over the ocean, while ours were made in Detroit. They are a hollow casting of a pyramidal forra eight feet in height, hav- ing a base eight inches square and ootagon flange one inch in thicknese, with a top four inches square, surrnouetedo,hy a solid cap. Into these hollow posts are fitted well. seasoned cedar joists, with spikes driven through apertures made for that purpose in the casting. One half of the length of the pillars are firmly imbedded in the ground, so that the inscription on their sides, in raised letters two inches high, face the north and south, the first reading "Convention of London," the latter " Octo- ber 20, 1818." Beyond the Red River, earth mounds and stone cairns seven feet by eight gener- ally denote the boundary line. Whenever wooden posts are used they are of the senile height as the iron pillars and painted red above the ground. Through forests a clearing has been made a rod wide, so that the course is plainly indicated. Where bodies of water are crossed monuments of stone have been raised several feet above high tide. Over the mountains shafts of granite like grim sentinels guard the way. Alto- gether the fixing of the boundary marks was expensive, but it was well done. The Canadian Northwest. McGarigle, the escaped Chicago boodler, is said to be in the city, although there is no certainty as to his whereabouts. A man answering McGarigle's desoription arrived here on Tuesday evening and was seen in conversation with the police. The latter, however, refuse to talk on the subjeot. Stringency in the money market in the east has extended to Manitoba, and all banks are now raising their rates of interest. The general impression here is that the Globe was right in its intimation that the Bank of Montreal was trying to block the sale of the Red River bonds by drawing from circulation $3,000,000. A rich find in anthracite coal has been made in Crow's Nest Pass, just beyond the summit of the Rockies. Twenty men are now developing it. The coal is said to be equal to the Banff anthracite, and tbere are unlimited quantities of it. A Trlunmh of Journalism. We begin tlie publication ov Thc Rocy Mountain Cyclone with some phew diphi- oulties in the way. The type phounder phrom whom we bought our outphit phor this printing ophice phailed to supply us with any ephs or oays, and it pill be phour or phive week bephore we can get any. The mistaque was not phound out till a day or two ago. We have ordered the misaing letters, and will have to get along without them till they come. We don't lique the loox ov this variety ov spelling any better than our readers, but mistaix will happen in the best regulated phttmilies, and iph the ph's and c's and x's and q'a hold out we shall amp (sound the o hard) The Cyclone whirling aphter a phasion till the sorts arrive. It is no joque to us—it's a serious aphair.—Reey Mountain Cyclone. Tricyoling 2,300 Miles. An American and his wife, writes a cor- respondent, Mr. and Mrs. FIaroldR. Lewis, of Philadelphia, on a tandem tricyole, have since Jubilee day travelled all over the south of England ; and then, from Dieppe, ridden to Geneva, by way of Rouen, Paris and Dijon, thence over the St. Gothard to Milan, by way of the lakes; back over the Splugen, by easy stages through Switzer- land, down the Rhine from its source to the sen; around Holland, only ending their trip of 2,200 miles in Brussels because they found themselves riding, not on the rubber, but on tilt steel rims of their wheels, the tires being entirely worn out.—Paris News. A Boom in South Afrlea. " Twelve months ago," says the Cape Argus. " Johannesburg had no existence beyond the ten shanties of prospectors. Today Johannesburg is as much a town as in:la/thing we have to show. It has its wide streets, its hotels, its five newspapers and it is peopled with some of the most energetio and buoyant potpie in South Africa. In no country has there ever been an example of a new centre of industry more rapidly establishing itself and impressing itself upon the public mind its one of the perman- ent features of the country." es Ile Might nave Been Saved. Doctor—Yon See, wifey, dear, I have pulled my patient through, after all; a very critical case I can tell you I His wife—Yes, dear hubby ; but then you are so clever in your profession: Ah! if I had only known you five years earlier. I feel certain my first husband --My poor Thomas—would have been saved. Fattier anti Daughter. A. Yining woman giving testimony in a ease at Ltmenburg, N. S., said "1 do not recipect my father morethap I wettici an old deg, bedews° he beat Me With it board five feet hang." The Lendeti Standard advises the people Of British Collin-1We, not tet breed iltbbitoo and points to the plane these itnintale have become in NOV Smith Wales, It i expected that Mast of the reembete of the English :Enntee Cominission will Meet iti Weshington an Saturday to ertitiige for presenting the iiiidteett on behalf tat inter, national arbitratieti net Preeldent Cleveland' cupp EXPRESSIONS. /Elpw Some Quaint Popular Expressions came Inns use. Dido, Queen of Tyre, about seven oen- tnries before Christ, after iter husband had been put to death by her brothers, fiedfrom that city and established a colony on the north coast of Africa. Efaving bargained with the natives for as much lana as could be surrounded with a bull's hide, she cut the hide into narrow strips, tied them together and claimed the land that could be sur- rounded by the line thus made.. She was allowed to have her way ; and now when pne plays a sharp triok, be is said to "cut dido." A tailor of Sarnarcand, Asia, who lived on a street leading to the burying ground, kept near his shop an earthen pot, in which he was accustomed to deposit a pebble when- ever a body was carried by to its final rest- ing place. Finally the tailor died, and see- ing his shop deserted. a person inquired what had become of its former occupant. "}Ie has gone to pot himself," was the reply by one of the deceased's neighbors. During a battle between the Russians and r.Vartare it private soldier of the former oried out, "Captain, I've caught a Tartar." "Bring him along," said the officer. " go won't let me," was the response. Investi- gation proved that the captive had the captor by the arm andwould not allow him to move. So "catching a tartar" is ap- plicable to one who has found an antagonist too powerful for him. Latest Scottish News. On the 6th. Of October Mr.and Mrs. Lindsay -Carnegie, Kinblethmont, Forfar - shire, were on the occasion Of their silver wedding presented by their servants with a silver epergne. On returning from Balmoral the Queen will stop at Edinburgh to unveil the memorial to the late Duke of Buccleuch in Parliament Square. Her Majesty is ex- pected to remain over night at Ilolyrood Palace. Mr. George Johnston, head gardener at Glamis Castle for the last twenty-eight years, died at Edinburgh on the 30th of September. Mr. James Moir, bank agent, Portsoy, died on the 3rd of October, aged 75 years. He was an enterprising agriculturist, beside doing much to develop railway communica- tion along the coast. Ho was hon. colonel of the local Artillery Volunteers. The Queen hag approved of Mr. Donald Cameron, of Lochiel, being appointed Lord Lieutenant of the county of Inverness in place of the late Lord Lovat. The ancient Town Cross of Stonehaven, which has stood for ages near the steeple, and which was certainly a hoary relic of ancient times long before the steeple was erected, after having fallen into disrepair, has been renewed by Mrs. Knowles, wife of Baillie Knowles, as her Jubilee gift. Signe of an early and severe winter are noted in all parts of Scotland. Mr. W. B. Dunbar, Procurator -Fiscal, Dundee, died suddenly at his residence on the 14th of October. It has been deoided to hold at Edinburgh next year an exhibition of relics of Queen Mary. On the ath of October Rev. Dr. William Peddie, Edinburgh, entered the sixtieth year of his ministry. His father—Rev. Dr. James Peddie—had attained when he died the 63rd year of his ministry over the same congregation, Bristo U. P. Church. The hotel on the summit of Ben Nevis has now been closed for the season. Up- wards of 4,000 ascended between the lst of April and the 30th of September. Mr. W. B. Masson (late of the Inverness telegraph office) has been appointed Foreign Secretary to the Engineering Bureau, and instructor in the Telegraph College at Tokio, Japan. Mrs. Alex. Carlyle, niece of Thomas Car- lyle, has since June of the present year sent down to the birthplace of her illus- trious uncle at Ecclefechan several inter- esting relics from the house in Cheyne Row. On a wall of the apartment in which Carlyle was born hangs the old Dutch clock from the Chelsea kitchen; and in the room there is also a chair from the drawing -room, a reading -table and reading -lamp and shade, it tobacco -cutter from Carlyle's bed -room cupboard, and a medallion of Satter as he appeared about 1854. Mrs. Gourley, the,, tenant, takes great pleasure in showing to strangers what is perhaps the most impressive birth- place of a hero to be seen in Scotland. The epidemic of measles is assuming serious aspects in Eriskay, Barra and Minglay islands. In Eriskay whole families are down with the disease, and some very distressing cases have occurred in that island. The late Rev. J. Sharp, of Aberdalgie, was the oldest member of the Perth Pres- bytery; he was born iu 1800. a Mr. T. L. Galbraith, Sheriff and Com. missary Clerk, Stirling, hag ono way and another over 12,166 of an income, ex- clusive of private practice and conveyancer. Besides the peerages enjoyed by the descendants of 1VIttoCallum More there are no fewer than twenty-eight Campbells in Scotland, each possessing 5,000 acres and upwards ; and the total extent of their estates is 538,891 acres. Among the records of Castle Mona, Isle of Man, was a decree printed in black letters, by which it was ordained that if a man was proved to have wronged a maid the Deemster was to hand her an axe, a rope and a ring, that she might deal with the recalcitrant lover. She had the choice to behead him with tho axe, to hang him with the rope, or marry him with the ring. Tradition says the maids were usually lenient. A few months( ago Prof, Fife, Aberdeen, presented to the Established Kirk, Car- myll ict, a harmonium. A. Carmyllie plough- man's wife went to ehurch to hear it. Inn mediately when the blessing was said she hurried out in aide her young child should be out of temper. In tho afternoon a neighbor asked her how she liked the music. She said " I liked it brawley, but the best o' it was to come when r left; for juist tor cam' oot at the door they began to play Pop G100EI the Weasel,' ' --American Thanksgiving Day Will be Nevember 24th. .A. eolhsien between the Fedora l and State Authorities ie imminent in Califeenia Ovet the eviction of aheep herdere ea - tint from the llama Valley Indian 'letter, Vation. WITH TUE CHILDREN, .4rIgnt Ar'r/OPIVs and (hid Sneee4es. of the Little Ones. AN °TA rillbJECT. A small Amerioaa damsel of 4 years be- ing once chided by e grown-up sister for talking of marriage—with the admonition that little girls should not think ef getting married—replied, with the utmost amaze- ment at her elder sister's ignorance "Why, I thought about it when I was only 21"— Troy Times. A ItOutlIt TnosesTrox. The father of a little 8 -year-old Boston boy is travelling in theSouth'and in a re- cent letter home said that, learning that Georgie had not been a good boy during his absence, he would square accounts with him on his return, The mother read that part of the letter to the youthful misde- ineanorist, and the latter subsequently told a neighbor what the father had written. " What did your father Mean ?" asked the neighbor, "A spankino, I 'spec'," was the reply, --Boston Budget, APPROVED AND ADOT'TED. A Hartford youngster goes to church where the concluding amen of the parson's prayer is sung by the choir. The other night, after he had said his prayers, he produced a harmonica from beneath his pillow and astonished his mother by blow- ing a blast where the amen came in, re- marking, " That's the way we do in church.' —Xiereford Poet. PA.P.V$ LITTLD WEARNESS ANNOUNCED. A. West -side 3 -year-old showed an appre- ciation of things the other day. "Won't you give me a kiss, dear ?" coaxed a lady. " I don't want to," said the little one, "01), give the lady it kiss, Florence," said her father. Oo kiss her, papa, oo like to."— Chicago Tribune. A comentinit. " Mamma," said a little gitl of 4, whose father pays very little attention to the dinner hour, " Papa is just like the moon, isn't he ?" "Why, my deer ?" " Because he comes a little later every night." Epoch. Canadian Cheese. Mr. Lathrop, United States Consul at Bristol, makes the following report to Washington, which certainly is very flat- tering to Canadian cheese producers : " The import trade of Bristol is largely made up of provisions. In this connection I wish to draw special attention to the way Canadian cheese has supplanted theUnited States produot. The Canadian cheese is imported each year in increasing quanti- ties in the Bristol district, and finds each year increasing favor, both with dealers and Consumers. While the import of all foreign cheeses fell off in Liverpool in 1886 by 250,000 boxes, the import in Bristol from Montreal increased by 12,000 boxes— total for year 201,000 boxes, and the re- ceipts from New York fell off considerably. Great Britain manufactures each year 135,000 tons—valued at about $35,000,000. Now, the very prince of English cheese is held to be Cheddar, made in Somerset, and yet Canadian cheese made on the Claeddar principle has actually, right here in Som- erset, where I write, been sold for a penny a pound more than a cheese actually made in Cheddar Valley. There is a hot con- troversy now raging in the English papers as to whether Cheddar cheese is the result of particular herbage and pasturage, or of a particular mode Of manipulating the milk; and I think that all but Somereet- shire men are pretty well agreed that this toothsome cheese is the result of superior methods rather than of special grasses. And the Canadians have gone onimproving until they have surpassed their teachers ; but the United States do not appear to have proportionately advanced, or if they have they consume their best makes at home." Sure Cure for Chapped Lips. " As soon as the cold winds begin to blow," remarked a New Yorkphysician, "1 am overrun with patients suffering from chapped lips. The trouble generally mani- fests itself in one wide cut in the middle of the hp. I used to treat such things as a laughable matter and prescribe some simple emollient, such as glycerine, for instance. But I soon found that such treatment was only a temporary remedy, for after partially healing the out would reopen at the slight- est exertion of the lips. The mere act of biting anything hard, laughing or yawning would make tho unfortunate howl with pain. If the patient was addicted to the use of tobacco the chances were that he would have a bad lip allthrough the winter. In my researches for a permanent cure I ran across an old tramp printer, who had rubbed against the rough side of the world all his life and for whom every Beaton had been a cold day. Ho told me that if investigated the matter I would find that the people addicted to chapped lips were in the habit of touching them with their tonguee. A sure cure, eaid he ie to keep yotir tongue in your mouth. I haVe eince followed his suggestion in my practice and never knew it to fail. The rough skin of the tongue scratches the lips, and when they have once become chapped the least contact is enough to keep the out open." On the Motuat of Olives. The tower which is being erected by the Russians on the highest point °tithe Mount of Olives is already sevekalstoriee high, and but one more is to be added. It ie to be so high that both tho Mediterranean and the Dead Seas may be seen from its top. A number of bells will be placed in the tower. In digging the foundation gavels Christian graves were found together, with ad itecrip- tion. in Greek, in which the words " Ste- phantis " could be deciphered. There aro, at the present time, 2,400 um: married women Nvorking. in the foreign mission field. John Terrell* the on Ftiday night was stabbed opposite Battey McKenna restaurant, 82 Adelaide street west, Toronto, succumbed to hie Weitinds at the hospital shortly after 7 &Ole& on Saturday eironing, A Government organ ial Montreal, in an article eupposecl to bminspired, ineinnated that the question of the international boundnry along tho Stet° of Maine will probably be laid before the approaching Fiehory Conlinission by the Dominion Government; With a viese te eeenting dente revision Of the Ashburton award. - IPPARING 141.A317. oP A 14URDER• 4 Comical Story of Po/ice Bed -Tape it France—Finding the Bight Man. "Now I will show you how they did things in those days. I will tell yon about the man who wee aseassinated. Wnile I was on duty et night in the corps de garde emeaeoeigmne .out inihaisfast ahl to we iniycotuhledtoh there a terrible thing—they were aeSeSeethig is man in the Rue Cherchemidi. Well, instead ofollrg this man who was assassinating or assassi- nated, the officer says to me 1 Go imme- diately and tell the Commissaire de Police --he lives in the Rue Grenelle, under a red lamp.' Well, away I go and find my Rue Greeelle and red lamp, mid I maker" great noiee at the door for a lorg time; at last a head with a night.cap ccmes out of the window and asks inc what in the world I want. 4 The Commissaire de Police,' says I. Well, I am the Commissaire de Police; what do you want?' 'There is a man being assassinated in the Rue Cherchemidi Which side of the gutter?' says he. Well, I did not know anything about one side of the gutter or the other side, so I say at once boldly; 0 The right side as you come down the street.' Ah,' he says, ' that is in the other arrondissement ; go to the other conimissaire, No. —, So away I go, with my man being asettssinated all the time, and I find my other commis - Beira. Which side of the gutter?' says he. So I thought at any rate I would stick to my story, and I say : The right side coming down the street.' Ah 1 dit-iimo regarde. But how long is it since they have been assassinating him ?' 'About three.quarters of an hour,' says I. Ah I then he is dead by this time ; we must get two men and a stretcher to carry him away.' So away we go with our stretcher, and I went with them, for I wanted to see whether the man was on the right side of the gutter or not—and we found hint lying stone dead, with his head in the gutter. But he was more on the right side than on the left, and he.wo.a stabbed through the heart, so the three.quarters of an hour dm not signify. But that is the way they do things here." Farm and Garden. The cultivation of bamboo for fencing material has been begun in California. It is said that an acre will produce pickets enough each year to make six miles of fence. The ehnerican Cultivator predicts that the time is not far off when manydisappointed farmers in the West will return to New England and take up farms, where the land can be worked to a certain profit by resolute and enterprising men. The average shrinkage of steer going from Texas to Chicago is 100 pounds. The State furnishes an average 400,000 steers, which makes a shrinkage of 40,000,000 pounds, or, putting the average weight of it steer at 850 pounds, 47,058 head. For keeping small quantities of seeds, paper bags are preferable to cloth, as they are better protection against moisture and insects. Always mark each package with the name of the seed contained in it, and the year in which it grew, Cold does not injure the vitality of seeds, but moisture is detritnental to all kinds. For a horse that is weak in the knees, rub the limbs briskly with a woollen cloth, then bathe with salt and water, wipe dry and apply a mixture of one pint of alcohol and one areal= of tincture of Spanish liy, rubbing in a tablespoonful twice a day with the hand. Let the horse run in a loose stall deeply littered with sawdust or on an earth floor. most any kind of material left on the ground under fruit trees vvill act as a fertil- izer. It will at least prevent the growth of grass and weeds, and thus check loss of moisture and fertility that the tree needs to perfect its crop. It is as a mulch that the advantage of straw in an orchard con- sists. Its fertilizing value is very small, none of this being available until the etraw has rotted. Abandoned Corsets. It is staid that years ago Mrs. Scott Sid - dons' dressmaker advised her to leave off her corsets. "What, lose my stage figure!" she cried. "Impossible 1" The dress- maker urged that she was losing her figure anyhow, and the only means of saving it was to take radical measures at once. "Well, here go my stays," said the actress, and the milliner proceeded to fit her a twenty-five inch waist. At the end of the season she came back again. "Make me a twenty-seven inch waist," she demanded, but in the meantime her figure below and above the waist had resumed. their normal proportions, her skin had grown two shades fairer and clearer, and she looked younger. Silvio then she has never worn a stay, and he says that whereas before she abandoned them it was all she could do to drag through the last not, after she had dispensed with them she was so fresh and vigorous that she could have done a sixth not and not minded it. She still continues to wear very gorgeous gowns. mrs. cieveland Growing 'Rotund. 13y the way, a little horseback exercise would do Mrs. Cleveland no harm. It is rather a hateful thing to say, but I am going to tell the truth at all events—Mrs. Cleveland is growing fat. She is no longer the willowy, girlish White Hotise bride, 'but a solid 170-po3mier of the Settled nattrrred woman type. The gushers who spoilt about the President's schoolgirl wife will have to revise their opinions if they are \ desirous of stating the truth, The ohange in Mrs. Cleveland's figure has added to her beauty and she never l000ked alt well in her life as she does te-day.----BeSten Traveller's Wohington Letter. To dot her key $anlitivaiere Wife tei husband -1 batight Bridget ithittiq.thd fite tins taortmig with ken:), dello, John: ,Htiebenti—erfoW Mach de we owe hot ? Wife—Fear Menthe' Wages. litteband—Well, let hei- geg On With the keketetio.-senrete York Sutiii. Xrt I3oeton there are nine hundred negroes who Were beta eillijeete ef the Btitielt Crentli, The Ceseadiait Get -edge ahgeitiated the Set. tlettont of tho geherieS question by the, tInited State§ and Canada eiltotibg ihto rebiproeel troOy for the mutual exehaeg of spectifie preclutte of the two countries.