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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1888-02-10, Page 2THE WEEK'S NEWS. CANADIAN, The jury in the inquest on the body of Robs, Or►ne, of London Township, came to the couolusion that the fatalshot was fired by the deceased's own hand, either acoiden• tally or intentionally. In oonaequence of the successful ocmbine- tion of squatters. on Manitoba school lands. tQ prevent fair prices being realized at the recent, sales, the Government threatens to pass a bill next session to enable them to dispose of the lands by private sale. Canadian interest in the new Sault Ste. Marie bridge is the greater owing to the circumstance that the chief engineer of the work is a Canadian, Mr. P. A. Peterson. Mr. Peterson had also the honour of being the chief engineer of the Sb. Lawrence bridge at Lachine. Tne Tiverton correspondent of The Kin- cardine Review referring to the death of Mr. Hugh Lemont, who was suffocated by escaping gas at the house of Mr. D. P. McLaurin, of Toronto, says :—The deaths that have occurred in that family have been peculiarly sad and tragic. One brother was drowned, another murdered in Michi- gan, and Hugh suffocated in hie bed by escaping gas. A rich fled of gold -bearing rook is re- ported from a new opening in the Richard- son Hill, Madoo, It is supposed that a gold -bearing lode, which has many times been unsuccessfully sought, has at Last been struck at a depth of only 14 feet. Mr. J. B. Church and another resident of Madoo are operating the mine. The find was made by Mr. Mark Powell, who first discovered gold in North Hastings on the same hill. The death of Big Bear removes a pro. minent figure in the North-West rebellion. This Indian was the head of the band that perpetrated the Frog Lake outrages ; but he escaped punishment other than imprisonment owing to the discovery that he had not acted as chief during the troubles. Big Bear's son usurped the father's position and practically controlled the actions of the band. Big Bear, whatever his faults dur- ing his lifetime, is now a dead and there- fore a good Indian. Governor Dewdney, at a banquet given in his honour at Calgary the other day, gave some interesting statistics regarding the North-West. He says the Territory has now four members of Parliament, four- teen representative local legislators, 238 tustiees of the peace, 59 issuers of marriage icenses, 58 advocates, 29 doctors, 136 post - offices, five Supreme court judges, five regis- trars, two daily papers, 133 school's, and a population not yet reaching thirty thou- sand. For the population the country is well officered. Saturday is a great day for petty smug- gling from Detroit, whence so many people from the country cross over on the ferries and purchase goods in the city. Saturday last, Landing Waiter Beers followed from the dock a couple of women, whom he sus- Teoted of having smuggled goods about them. hey entered a livery stable, made their way to the office, all unsuspioious that they were being watched, where they put their parcels into a market basket and started for their carriage. At the door of the office they -real into, the arms of the official, who • - in the Larne orthe Queen took the basket, goodsand all and carried them into the Custom -house. The women were very angry, but the official was inexorable and the goods were confiscated. 321 totally incompetent, Every day they were thus engaged an explosion was liable to occur. The people of Buffalo offer $100,000 for sueoossful plan for utilizing Niagara Falls. A great many haokmen have discovered how to utilize the Falls without offering any auoh big prize. A Michigan boy, in a spirit of fun, tied. little socks on his dog's feet one cold day re- cently. The dog was delighted and now refuses to go outwithout them when the weather is gold, The Kentuoky Legislature has empower, ed the deacons of the Methodist Church to elect ushers upon whom shall bo conferred fllu police authority to maintain order dur- ing the services. There is a thrifty woman living at Briar Creek, N. Y. Not long ago her husband died, and she took the headstone from his first wife's grave and had it dressed over and relettered for bis grave. A Main man who owns a big and shaggy and blank Newfoundland dog out off the dog's hair carefully, had it oarded and spun, and got two and a quarter pounds of jet• black yarn as soft as lamb's wool. A young man was found frozen to death in a Michigan forest a few days ago. Leap year is getting in its work promptly. Stand to the rack, young hien. Only a dunce would take to the woods in mid -winter. A revised list of the fatalities by last week's blizzard in the North-Western States shows a total of 135 deaths and 55 reported missing. Dakota is the heaviest sufferer, 98 of the total number of deaths having occur- red in that. Territory. Mr. ;Wanamaker, . of Philadelphia, has quietly solved the problem of cheap homes for his workingwomen. For $3.25 a Week they get board, lodging, washing of a dozen pieces and the use of bath room, reception and dancing rooms, and bowling -alleys. Fall Book, Cal., is a prohibition town and all deeds to town lots forever forbid the sale of liquors. A company is now building a hotel there to cost about $20,000 tobe named the Frances E. Willard. This will be a prohibition house and no wines will be allowed in it. A Missouri man says that he recently went into the woods, painted a black circle on the end of a log, and when he went back to the log an hour later he found 300 dead rabbits there, the animals having mistaken the circle for a hole in the log and dashed themselves to death against it. The fire marshal of a Western city want- ed an axe, costing about $1. His communi- cations to the Council concerning the mat- ter were printed in the official paper, and a curious person found that the printing of his communications concerning the axe amounted to $6.80 before he got it. The saddest phase of the Central Bank failure is the number of widows and orphaned families that it impoverishes. Bank shares have been too generally considered a secure and paying investment for trust moneys. Heavy interest and a sense of dignity that partial ownership of a bank promises to the shareholder probably encouraged the small capitalists who placed their all in Central stock. Their experience will make invest- ments in any but the beat bank shares un- popular for years. There is a prevailing im- pression that the Dominion law provides ab- solutely no machinery to protect the people from the incompetence or dishonesty of bank directors. If they are all able and honest the report the act requires and from which the public learns all it can know of a solvent bank is true. If they are not it is false and leads to ruin innocent depositors and share- holders that any searching inspection would save.—[Ex. man fainting, and eight persona were melt- ed to death. At a war council in Warsaw, Gen. Goer. Ito said 20,000,000 roubles would be requir- ed to complete the fortifications on the Rus - mien frontier. A bill for the government of London has been drafted and will probably be brought in early in the approaching session of the Imperial Parliament. A Greek named Dimitrius Antippa has just died in Constantiuople at the age of 115. He knew Robespierre and possessed several of his letters. The police authorities say Mr. Balfour is in constant danger of assassination, and that his life has been preserved so far only by ceaseless vigilance. A German paper makes thestatement that Germany could again overrun France within a year, and that next time the whole of France will be annexed. Paris boasts of 10,000 cabs, 600 omnibuses and 500 tram -cars. The omnibus company possesses 14,000 horses. , The length of the tramway line is over 150 mileo. A Frenchman was recently granted a di- vorce by a Paris judge on the sole ground that his wife would not allow him to read all the letters she wrote and received. The English Divorce Court has decided that an American divorce holds good in England when the divorced persons were married in America and lived together there. Ismail Paoha, the ex -Khedive, left Naples and went to Constantinople to live because he was unable to keep the young men of Naples from making love to the members of his harem. A cablegram says the Duke of Cambridge hopes the people of England will insist on the country's commerce being adequately proteoted, that being the surest guarantee against war and panic,• Rev. J. P. Moore, a missionary, writes from Japan that if missionaries attempt to be economical they can have very little in- fluence. If they do not live in good style the people despise them. The Emir of Afghanistan has fallen in love with bagpipes and has ordered 200 of them for Cabul. The Shah of Persia has also ordered a brass band. Thus music soothes tt;e savage breast. It is stated efforts are being made to ar- range a meeting between Mr. Gladstone and Prince Bismarck to convince the ex - Premier that Eagland's beat policy is to ad- here to the central powers. Probably one of the oldestmeeting•houses in the world is the Bangund church in Nor- way, the age of which is 800 years. The pagoda-likeetructure is coveredwith shingles and an inch or two of tar. Runic inscrip- tions interesting to scholars are on the build- ing. A women has been elected president of a street railway company in Dover, N, H., while her husband is given the modest position of treasurer. Perhaps ladies i iding in those cars will be required to stand up and give the men their seats. Man in that vicinity appears to be the weaker vessel. Among the passengers by the Britannia, which arrived in New York a few days ago from the Mediterranean, were several young girls who said they had come to America tp marry men whom they had never seen. The intended bridegrooms failed to meet them, and the girls were detained at Castle Garden. Opporents of Government ownership of telegraph lines in the United 'States are call- ing attention to the recent boycott of the Commercial Cable Company by the German Goverhment. Operators in Germany have been instructed to refuse despatches offered for the lines of that company, and, as they are all Governmonttofiicials, they must obey. The incident is cited as an illustration of the power which control of telegraphic corn- munication gives a government. The steel gun cast the other day at Pittsburgh, when it is bored and ready for mounting, will weigh 51i tons, and will be the largest steel gun ever made in one cast- ing. It will toss its projectile with a speed of 2,000 feet a second, the pressure in the chamber being fifteen tons. Its cost to the United States Government will be about $3,300. Abuilt-up gun of the same size, or one not made by a single casting, would cost $22,( 00. In view of this fact, the success of the experiment is considered one of the most important recent achievements in gun - making. FOREIGN. The Bank of England . has reduced its rate of discount from 4 to 4 per cent. The French Court of Appeal has decided that priests in France may get married. S. R. MacLeod, hosiery manufacturer, of Glasgow, has failed with liabilities of $200,- 000. Joseph Chamberlain Bays that as a race we shall be longer lived when we take more leisure. UNITED STATES NEWS. The sugar trust in the States has closed up four refineries, Barnum has made an offer for the steam- ship Great Eastern. Georgia farms are mortgaged for $8,000,- 000 of foreign capital. Real estate valued at $100,000,000 chang- ed hands in New York city during the year 1887. It will take £10,000 to break up the Great'Eastern, which was recently sold for £16,000. Twenty-six persons are confined in the Fort Smith, Ark., jail on the charge of murder. qIt is "expected. that the new German Mili, tary bill will involve an expediture of 243,- 000,000 marks. A football player of Abercarne was re- cently struok in; the abdomen by the ball' and died instantly. Leprosy, is said to be afflicting many Scandinavian immigrants in northern Min- nesota and Dakota. Ati Ohio man who sent $2 to a Now York advertiser for a reliable method of reducing gas bills, was told to burn oil. The City of Washington is said to have the largest underground main sewer in the world—twenty-two feet in diameter. The State of New York expended nearly $14,000,000 in 1887 for Common schools. Of that amount nearly $9,000,000 was teach- ers' wages. A Georgia farmer's horse reoontly swal- lowed $425 in greenbacks, The farmer now watches his horse as though he were a savings bank. Iowa, after twenty-two years of the abet. ;tion of the gallows, returns to it with vig- or and hearty enjoyment. One or two other States have had a similar experience. A Chicago bootblack has a box, the sides of which aro ornamented with $5 gold pieces, bowl offered, $35 for it, butcth thinks ito isos worth snore. Of the 1000 men who were running engines in Brooklyn last year en investigation proved A. "Drop Leap" of 237 Feet. Cheap Sires In England. We have clipped the following from the Saturday Review as bearing on a :most im- portant subject; The Royal Commission on horse -breeding, at present, has only £5,000 at its disposal, and of this £4,400 is to be distributed in prizes of £200 each for thoroughbred stallions whose owners will guarantee their services at a fee of £2, the remaining £600 being reserved for expenses. If the judges are well chosen, the very fact of a horse having won a Queen's premium will be a great recommendation to breeders, irrespective of the reduced fee, especially to those who make a groat point of soundness. The low fee, again, ought to ensure a full subscription to a winner, so that his re- ceipts, including his fees and the premium, should be about £300, or the equivalent of a full subscription at a fee of £6. The Gov- ernment never gives more than £800 for a thoroughbred stallion to be sent out for breeding purposes to India ; and many peo- ple might bo surprised, if they took the trouble to go through the sale lista of thoroughbred stook, to find how few horses, apart from foals and yearlings, fetoh more than that sum. In 1886, only about five -and -twenty realized anything above 300 guineas at the sales given in the long lists. in Rv '. and a good many of these were two -year-olds and three -year- olds in training and of high promise. Even at a cost of £500 or £600 a winner of Queen's premiums should prove a remun- erative investment. Country stallions are often purchased for very email sums. Bruer, who is serving at 5 guineas a mare, was bought for 50 guineas. That good old horse Berserker only cost 100 guineas a year and a half ago ; he has had a season since then, and he is stilladvortiaed at a fee of 10 guineas for thoroughbred and 5 guineas for half -bred mares. The most extraordinary case of a well -bought stallion is that of Londes• borough, who is said to have been sold as a stud -horse for £24, and is now advertised at a fee of 50 guineas. Low as the fee of the winners of Queen's premiums appear at £2, there are something like forty stallions in the United Kingdom advertised at fees varying from one to two guineas. They are, however, as a rule, a set of unaounds, worthless brutes. Accord- ing to the useful list given in the almanac published at the Field office, there are about a hundred and fifty sires advertised for half - bred mares at five guineas or leas. At fees varying from £3 downwards there are a good many exceedingly well-bred stallions ; the pity is that they are not all sound, but it may be worth noticing how excellent are the strains obtainable at such low fees. There are four of these cheap sires by Low - lander, whose descendents ought to be pow- erful, fast and fine fencers. There are two by the celebrated sire Speculum. There are two, again, by Petraroh, who himself earns the large fee of 150 guineas ; and there is an equal numberby(Sterling, who receives a similar fee. In 1886 the fourteen yearlings by Sterling, sold at publio auction, averag- ed 1,068 guineas each. There are three sine, serving at two -and -a -half guineas or less, by the .fico old grey Strathconan. Admirers of the Sing Tom blood can get it, through his son Tom King, cross- ed with that of the great birdcatcher him- self for £2. The most fashionable of all crosses at present is that of Touchstone and Birdoiitohme This blood, too, may he obtained for a couple of sovereigns through Chichester. The same blood evista far more directly in the splendidly bred Exminster, who is by Newminstor out of a Stockwell mare. He serves at £3. The name cross oscura again in Limestone, a horse with a grand back and loius, wheservesat 3 guineas. The successful double cross of Touchstone can be had for 2 guineas, Althotas by Rosi- cruaian, ahorse that serves at a hundredlguin- eas. Few better horses have ever trod the turf than Gladiateur and Fille de l'Air ; they were mated and their highly -bred son, Can- didate is given in marriage for the nominal consideration of a couple of guineas. The services of a son of the handsome headman, called Carthusian (a big horse with plenty of bone), are to be had for £2 10s. Florin,• a horse by Sterling, serves mares, " the pro- perty of tenant -farmers of those within Baron Rothcbild's hunt" for nothing. Ten- ant -farmers living in the Meynell country get the use of Oswestry, a powerful horse with splendid blood for hunters, at £1, and tenants of his owner pay nothing for it. The Duke of Westminster keeps a sire of much the same blood in Golden Cross. who stands in the Eaton paddocks at a fee of £2. The master of the Badsworth houndaonly charges £i for the use of Knight of the Forest, by Knight of the Carter out of a Kettledrum mare. ' ' In the latter part of December Mr. P. A. Mentz, M. P. for North Warwick, while out with the Pytchley found himself head- ing at full speed for an old gravel pit. When he spied the hole he was too near it to think of pulling up and so he made an attempt to clear it. His horse failed and with his driver 'dro ped a distance of forty feet. Most rental• bly e. Luntz and his horse escaped with no injury more severe than a few bad cuts. This incident has called forth in the English papers a number of yarns about wonderful falls, that should have been fatal, but weren't. One of the last correspondents to be heard from is one who signs himself " Rustic," and he caps the edifice with the following : "A more remarkable escape from death by a fall (though not in hunting) than any of those mentioned was that of (tnen) Lieut.• Colonel Moore, 54th Regiment, on June 15th, 18.48. When riding through the Tanraui Woods at Dominica, on his way back from the Layou river to Morne Bruce, he fell down a perpendicular precipice of 237 feet. His horse was killed on the spot, and him- self miraculously saved without having sus- tained any lasting injury, and it isnot long since I saw the gallant general (now) enjoy- ing his dinner at the Junior United Service club." The correspondent encloses with the let- ter an etching of the spot, showing a very steep rocky coast scenery, with a road way cut on the side of the cliff high up the hill. A petroleum Clas Engine. The following is translated from. Nature (Paris) : "The launch worked by this ma- chine is 23 feet long, 5 feet 5 inches ,broad and 3 feet deep. It has been running since June last from Havre to Tancarville by the new canal, making an average speed of 7.5 knots per hour. There are two cylinders of simple action and a fly -wheel in a horizontal plane. The cylinders can be worked inde• pendently of each other. The petroleum steam is produced cold and so without any danger of, explosion, in a receiving cylinder placed next to the engine, and worked by the engine itself. This petroleum motor of- fers considerable advantages over the steam engine. The vessel is started at will, with- out any previous generation of steam. Whilst the vessel is at rest absolutely noth- ing is consumed. There is no smoke nor dirt of any kind. There is absolately no danger of explosion. Perhaps the greatest advan- tage is the small weight of burning material necessary to carry ;, indeed, this motor eon - seines about 89 Ib. per horsepower per hour. Three gallons of the petroleum will last twelve hours." T.venty-Eight Miles "Upon a Single Landon Socialists were prevented from holding a meeting in Trafalgar square yes- terday. Russia is said to be contemplating the strengthening of her land and sea forces on the Pacific.coast. It is understood in Rome thas the Ameri- can biaheps have advised the Pope not to condemn the Irish Nationalists. Sir Miohael Hicks -Beach advocates .the extoneion of local government to Ireland after order has bean established. Home Secretary Matthews, speaking at Birmingham last night, denied the rumors of dissensions in the Salisbury Cabinet. A monument is about to bo erected to de memory of the late Czar in the Grand Court of the Kremlin at Moscow, which is to cost $650,000. The Pope has declined to receive Don Jaime, son of Don Carlos, who desires to present to his Holiness a cross set with diamonds. The Queen Regent of Spain has addressed s letter to Mrs. Cleveland' asking her for her photograph, The Scottish crofters object to the osecu- tion of the emigration scheme while good lands in Scotland remain unoccupied. Cardinal Manning is reported to have writ• ten a letter to Rome, cautioning the Vati- can against °ppoming Mr. Gladstone •in Irish affairs, The family of the Crown Prince is greatly excited over the poisoning by some un- known person of the Crown Prince's favor. ire dog. A panic occurred in a church in the south Of the Tyrol on Thursdays caused by a WO - Wheel. On the occasion of the Hamburger Bi- cycle club's run to Ahrenaburg and back this stretch of about twenty-eight English miles was accomplished upon ono wheel by Richard Schulz, one of the members; already well-known as a trick rider. Until now it was considered scarcely possible to turn the one wheel to any practical use, because it requirea an immense amount of •persever- ance to enable one to ride for any length of time upon a machine that affords no rest to 'the rider. Sohulz, moreover, took the best drivers along at a very good pace, se that in spite of the very muddy and soft state of the roads, the mile (nearly four and a half English miles) was covered in half an hour. Even " gutter stones" and bad paving wets no hindrance to the one -wheel rider. On the way back Schulz showed no trace of fatigue, and caused the greatest sensation everywhere, Schulz alwaya uses the front wheel of an ordinary 52•inoh bicycle, fitted merely with fork and handles bar. Australia now exports oranges to Eng - ho was imprisoned at Cam - he other day and was Attention has recently been drawn to the wonderful material development of India. When India first came into British hands it neither bought or sold to any considerable extent in the markets of the world. It has now become one of the most important buy- ers and sellers. Iii the cotton' trade, for instance, India is becoming a formidable' rival of Lancashire. Its exports in cotton yarn have increased nighty -three per cent. within five years. Its proximity to China and Japan enables Bombay to interfere ser- iously with Lancashire's 'command of these ma rkets. In 1886 these two countries ab- sorbed no less than 80,000,000 lbs. of Indian yarn. In regard to the wheat export from India to England, of 'which so much hes mbeen said, it swum that though the United; Kingdom took twenty per cent. less of Indian wheat hi 1886 7 than in 1885 6. India actually exported between five and six per cent. more in the former than in the lat- teryear. The apparent discrepancy is ex- plained by the foot that Fraitee notwithstanding her high tariff, took large quantities, and a vast expansion took plaoe in the export to Italy, where. Indian wheat is becoming inoreasingly pop- ular and by reason of its cheapness is mak- ing the cultivation of the native product unprofitable. An important factor in thea rapid progress of India ie the remarkable development of her railway system. Dur- ing the year ending March 310 1887, 1,025 miles of railway were opened or traffic, making 'the total mileage in operation at date 13,390. And yeb such is the activity of trade that in the year 1886, an averageroturnof close upon six per cent. was yielded on the entire capital of nearly £180,000,000 starling invested in these Dade. land. Father Ryan, w Limerick for a month for inciting to illegal acts in connection with the Plan of Cam- paign, was released t given a reception by ten thousand persons. PEARLS OF TRUTH. Patience, humility, and utter forgetful- ness of self aro the true royal qualities. What a man—be he young, old, middle. aged—sows, that, and nothing else shallhe reap. Think well over your important steps in life, and having made up your mind, never look behind. It is his action when the danger Domes, not when he is in solitary preparation for it, which marks the man of courage. Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He fails to make his place good in the world, unless he not only pays his debt, but also adds something to the common wealth. We should remember that truth is many- sided ; that all truth comes from one source. There is only one sun in the heavens, yet, as you know, there aro many beautiful colors, all of which come from the one aun. As a rule, the more thoroughly disciplined and fit a inau may be for any really great work, the more conscious will ho be of his own unfitness for it, the more distrustful of himself, the more anxious not to thrust him- self forward. Self-love is, in almost all men, such an overweight that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his own; but when they see it prov- ed by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and life itself, there is no limit to their adminis- tration. The ideal American, as he has'beenpaint- ed for us of late. is a man who has shaken off the yoke of definite creeds, while retain- ing their moral essence, and finds the high- est sanctions needed for the conduct of human life in experience tempered by com- mon sense. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the di- rection of your life, nothing is great or de- sirable, if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight lino, and say, that society can never prosper, bub mast always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do. He who has the clearest and intensest vis- ion of what is at issue in the great battle of life, and who quits himself in it moat man- fully, will be the first to acknowledge that for him there had been no approach to vie. tory, except by the faithful doing day by day of the work which lay at his own three - hold. The Long Distance Trotter. A type of horse which we would like to have back among us is the old long-distance trotter, which is not to be confused with the American trotter racer. This old long- distance trotter was very common just about the time stage -coaches were developed, and was 'a great favorite amongst butchers„ grazers and others, being indeed indispens- able in the purchasing of cattle in those days. This style of horse may be simply described by a quotation from an old maga. sine : "On Monday, July d8, 1787, a trot- ing match from Monkbridge, near York, to Melton, about 17i miles, was performed for a considerable wager, between Mr. JohnHarrison, butcher, and Mr. Simpson, inn- keeper, both of York, each riding his own mare, which was won easily by the former. Mr. Iarrison, who was in the sixty-second year of hisage, and rode 18 stone 12 lb., went the distance in one hour, twenty-one minutes and a half. Mr. Simpson rode 10 atone 6 lb. Greet sums wore depending on the event of the match." This was 100 years ago last July. We fancy that a mare that can take 'a man 18 atone 12 lb., 17e miles along a country road would prove a very useful one nowadays for most pur- poses. A Philantk ropic Indian Prince. The Maharajah of. Darbhanga, Bengal, has. established, in connection with Lady Duf- ferin's Medical Aid for Women fund, a• hospital and dispensary for women at a coat to himself of more than $25,000. This bene- volent nobleman during the past eight years. has expended in philanthropic works fully $1,700,000 ; including the building and en- dowment of three hospitals and twenty- three schools, the opening of 150 miles of roads, and the conseruction of irrigation works at the cost of $350,000. When he was made. a. K. 0. I. E. he remitted $150,000 of rents to his tenants. In 1882 he cancelled all arrears due him in his dominions, amounting to over $925,000, and in 1885 he remitted $155,000 More. To the Benares. drainage works he contributed $50,000. He is,.as might be supposed, a highly educated man, a fine English scholar and a most loyal supporter of the British Empire. The Truth of Weather Lore. The persistent survival of weather -lore in these days of intellectual emancipation is not at all remarkable when we consider the extent to which the vulgar sayings embody real truths. A few years ago Messrs. Aber- crombv and Marricet embarked on an ex- tremely interesting inquiry with a view to determine, by actual comparison, how far the popular proverbs express relations, or se- quences, which the results of meteorological science show to be real. The investigation proved that something like a hundred of the more popular sayings ars, under ordinary conditions, trustworthy. Such being the• case, we need not be surprised that simple country folk prefer familiar couplets to all the " isobars," " cyclones," and " synchron- ous charts," in the world. If " hills clear, rain near," means the same as "the pres• Made of a wedge-shaped area of high pres- sure, accompanied by great atmospheric visibility, is likely to be followed by the ad- vance of a disturbance with rain and south. crier winds," which for all practical purposes it does, the preference is justified on the mere ground of breath economy, The thirty-one words demanded by science atand no ohanee against four. Ilut it is unfortunate that, along with the limited number of folk -sayings founded on truth, there hat survived a very largo num. bar founded on the grossest error. These latter have borrowed credence and respect from the proved credibility of the others, and apparently they are all destined to sink or swim together. Hammer as we will at certain favorite proverbs which we know to be bated upon error, it is all in vain. The. reverence for tradition is too much for us. And of all the superstitions, puro and simple, which defy our attempts at destruction, the most invulnerable are these ascribing certain effects to the influence of the moon.