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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1888-06-22, Page 6Ur* Orr Mx N dildo&s Leash, If my neighbor's troea, pleated near my be, toad hangfng over on to my land, even I their roots drew subetenanee and spread ever the border and go foragtag amouu my own, he is entitled to all the fruit, *tit ane.—But, it the fruit ladle and Jaye on ro'y land, a question gray oleo ee to my eteiglabor'e right to go ou my land to recover Mae fhttlie This point is supposed not to be easterly settled, though an implied right to enter and recover • his fruit, would seem to. follow. Ina New 'reek vitae the law books Mort a date of a lady (whose father owned some fruit trees). ;stood upon thedivision fence,and tutelertefolt to pick es/orrice from a li nb of a tree thitt overhung a neighbor's land. The neighbor forbade her, and on her pereistin , attemped to prevent her by force, anc� id her personal injury, far which he was obffged to pay, lthrough the courts, onethousand dollare. The rights are not all one way, however. I may lop off branohea or roots of trees just even to niy line of' land to my neighbor's trees, hat if I use thein after lopping, I em nettle to pay the owner for their value% or if I exceed my exact line, If a tree stands on IP boundary line, part on my, and part on my neighbor's land, thetewe own it, or its fruit, be common. Neither 'nor my neighbor can cut down this tree without obtaining the consent of the other. Nor can lot off that part extending over my domain, if by no do- ing. a the common property. I am no 1e teeny neighbor for e, thick ph'._. trees s I may have, thee makes my neighbor a house damp and unhealthy, hat is called in law d mnuma bsque anjuraa a loss without injury.) But I am reopen, sible for any damage caused by poisonous trees overhanging my neighbor's property—. if his cattle " did eat" and suffer. If, however, they broke through my fence and coveted my tree to their injury, -I am not liabke, his cattle then being trespassers. !This is in substance the law as laid down in Austin's Atnerioan farm Lsw, . OB,IECTa To DzeronaINo.. D. M. Langley, Bourbon, Ind,, in a recent (sane of the Chieago Tribune, says of dehorn- k g'Why in`humanity's name is this Brim• lcruelty allowed to be practiced by the moneymaking sharks who prey' on' the ig- neranee and credulity of the public a Some Bergh should rise upand bring these offend- ers to • condign punishment for practicing each cruel and unnecessary horrors on the ' +dumb animal, when a far better and easier Method of dehorning cattle can be made by anyone without cost, pain or danger. If thecalf is taken when but a few weeks old and the little horns just begin to bud and show themselves, and a white-hot iron held river the little horn -germ for au instant, no horn will ever appear, and there will be no eteesible danger of injury to the little dumb animal. No doubt the ,dehorning man will attempt to laugh the idea to scorn, as it will abolish his profitable vocation, but none the leas ie it a fact worth remembering in the practice of dehorning cattle. „.. �........„._ xTa$ PL AZ TA TI ON' k-Afassichigette Society for the Pro- motion of Agriculture offered in 1876 a prize of one thousand dollars for the best ve-acre plantation of the European Larch, 2,700 trees to` be planted to the acre. The "Forest and Garden" giver : the report of the committee awarding the premium to J. D. W. Prenoh of North Andover, The trees were set when a foct high, on poor worn out land, unfit for agricultural pur- poses, producing nothing but a scant growth of grass, sedge and stunted pitch pines -15,- 000 on the five acres, four feet apart each way. The trees and setting cost 5240. They grew slowly at first, but better after- wards. At the end of the prescribed ten years the largest tree was 25 feet high and g inches in diameter, several others about as Urge, and most of them are 12 feet or more. The experiment appears to bave proved that very poor and unproductive soil may he cheaply covered with trees.. The award- ing committee think that white pine would be quite aa successful and much more valu- able. NoTxs. Increase the ventilation of your atabies as the weather grows milder. Straw alone is a poor food, but mixed With rattan or linseed cake, wheat bran and pate and clover hay it makes'excellent food. Buttermilk may be safely fed tosows with pige, but it is best to begin feeding a small quantity and gradually increase the amount. Weeds will spring up as early as vegeta- Ides, and a watch must be kept• for them. The hesttime to destroy them is when they firat appear. An experienced breedet' of swine nays that oftenjwhen hogs are sluggish and indifferent about eating, nothing in the world ails them but toothache, Sootwater to a good and easily made fer- tilizer for hot plants, It benefits all kinds of plants and clears the aoil of worms. Be, gin using it moderately. In laying out your work for the geason give the garden a. liberal share of attention. It may not be labor which will bringgreat returns in money, but it is certain o so in family health and comfort. Professor Whiteher says that a ton of or. dietary manure contains only about twenty r,ar cent. of fertilizing material, the remain. Ing eighty per cent. being water. If that is oorreot, dry manure would be all fertilizing Material, which would place it ahead of au- perphosphate. Mtn dollars a ton is about thooprice paid by the sugar mills in Kseaaz for sorghum gene delivered. The price some to us very low. The farmer wee the teed, .however, *Mob adds to the profits, 'Sorghum seed ill. a very rich stook food, but ought . to be ground before being fed. The bright spring days will cause the young pigs to grow rapidly. Turn them on grass as poen as they are ten weeks old, but gradually at first, or they may have the toottre'. It Will oast but very little to raise to fewpige if they be given the privilegoer of x 11 grass plot and fed twice a day. We kapott some 1000,000 dozen a gge F. o 1 Vre pe $2,1100,000, and As know w h we dote* newt there eggs aurrre1v , 3Ie eaiswerfr maelon ion the .21Te . t"ra ,wy' ,pn+.. , . b9 Idles Wo � hem e3, tlo trim do not ley wx . The hoe sbonU always be provided with something within whioh to scratch. Any thing wilt renewer, such as cut -straw, chaff, u .wdust, earth, wood ashes, or even sweep- ings from Wilding, Above all things, keep the hena et wont during confinement, esthe they will remain in better health, and prove themselves more productive. A farmer in the neighborhood of Corinth, Me., having been annoyed by a number of hawiis and orows which made their head- quarter in ore of his trees, art a trap on the and of loog pole, which he fastened to the tree in such a manner that the trap was a little higher than the topmost branch. The result, at Last report, was the capture of nine hawks, three owls and one grow, Heath of' ,fetors on the Stagein Dying Scenes. The death of the actor Frederick Baker on the stage at Melbourne has made a great sensation in that eity. The fact that he was playing the part of Mephistopheles in. "Faust" no doubt heightened the mels-. dramatic effect of it on the beholders, and it was also probably, the first time a similar catastrophe has taken place in Australia. Death on the stage, however, is not a very uncommon occurrence and when we consider the highly -wrought condition of en actor's nerves, and the exciting nature of his occupation, it seems strange that it should not be more frequent, How many of us, who pursue other callings, are told by the doctors that "" all violent emotion and exorcise should be avoided," and that getting into a paszion, or running "' to catch a train," are equally deleterious 1 and what are these excitements compared with the feelings of an actor who . identifies himself with his part? The curious coin- cidences, as they are called, in the fitness of the words of the drama spoken by the dying man, are merely, instances of cause and affect—their peculiar appropriateness to his situation no doubt brings to a head, as it were, the catastrophe that was im- pending, and which would 'have happened fn any case. Otherwise it is difficult to explain why, in so many instances, the fatal :eizureshould take place at so apt a moment. The best known case is that of John Palmer, who died in 1798 at Liverpool while per- forming as " The Stranger," and in the very act of saying. " There is another and a better world." In this instance there were predisposing causes, for on that day the actor had received the news of the death of his favourite son. Mr. Bond, an amateur, rnet the same sudden fatties Lusignan in Voltaire's "Zara. His emotion at the discovery of his daughter isdescribed as " excesive" and "prodigious," and the house " rang with applause," we are told, at the fainting fit from which he never rescovered. Mr Paterson, at Norwich, as the Duke;in " Measure far Measure," expir- ed in the act of saying--- .Sneason thus with life— ll I do lose thee, I do loos a thing That none but fools would keep. And at Leeds fn 1817,Mr. Cumming, in " Jane Shore," fell dead upon the stage just after he had pronounced the benediction— Be witness for me, ye eele,tial hosts, Such mercy and such pardon as my soul Accords to thee, and hese of Heaven to show then, May ouch befall m7atany latest hour. What seems curious in this last case, and' oheAs some light upon a recent controversy, the actor had played Dumont for half a century, and yet, as it would appear, stili experienced the emotions proper to the part in only too great int ensity. The FastestiTrain in the World. Most persons who travel on the Continent of Europe are well aware that the speed of express trains there is considerably slower than that of English 'express trains. Two or three trains on the Lyons and Marseilles Railway come perhaps nearest to the Eng- lish standard of performance. Oa the Ital- ian lines it is customary to resort to the refine - went of having three classes of trains, " or• dinario," " diretto" and " espresso," but there does not seem much to choose between them. The Railway Press corrects our vague impressions by the test of figures, and gives us the exact ratio of our expresses to those of foreign countries. Our Ecglish expresses all run at a high rate, but since the accele- ration of the Manchester and London ex- presses, one or two of the Great Northern trains carry off the palm. They run et an average of 4S miles an hour for the whole journey, including stoppages and the exceed, ingly heavy bank at Penistone. The bit be- tween Grantham and Louden is done at the rate of about 54 miles an hour. These achievements, however, are very closely rep. preached by the other great lines. France and Germany follow with an average of -about 36 miles an hour, Holland, Belgium and Austria -titulary follow with 33 miles an hour, Italy with 209 miles an hour, Spain and Switzerland with 22 miles, and Port- ugal with 18e miles. America runs us more closely, with an average speed of 35 to 40 miles an hour. --,London Daily News. Mobbing an Executioner. The office of public executioner at Vienna isnot a very desirable position. A few days singe this official, accompanied by two anis tants, went to Trieste to polish off tome poor wretch who was under sentence of 'death. While gipping beer in a brasserie they were recognized, and the place was immediately turned into a battlefield. They were mobbed and narrowly escaped with their lives to the nearest police station. The proprietor of the brasserie then broke the glasses out of whiob they hadbeendrinking, aud after eh opping up the chairs upon which they had been sittitte he !Wade a bonfire of them in the street, The principal barber in Trieste wise obliged to publish a card in all the local newspapers denting a rumor that the executioner had been shaved in his shop, as in consequence of the story getting abroad every one of hie easterners refused to continue their patron- age. Bright little girl : 4t They say that Noah built his ark hi Asia Minor, and teacher, you said Asia Minor was a hot country. Then where did Noah get the two polar bearst.from 1" 'Teacher : "Why, President Warren has proved that Eden was near the North Pole," Mistress (to new girl): " i had to dig.' charge the last girl on acoeunt of het music• al inollnation ; she would insist uponusing the planer here and* Katie Clancy (with. out turning round) : "01 do not approve a1Taioln conduot ail hat i at lady, nem. 01 would w u d nc 4 Intrude an Wheeler, eeler, .nor yorse,lf, muni; to fer put In tl rInft+is, ; yo kin hvr tilelt' weeny 04 mast minds e. ins muds.. Mill ¥ore 144 'Stow. • Now arra)), be airy, yes boycotting divide (The curse of Ould Oiretand, her bitterest foes), Hie " Holiness" spotted your bloodthursty rivila, And hilt thim eutoirely; there power to hie toes, Blood lies on its back in the Lakes of army, Shot straight through the hear wid the Papal degree, Twill River more take us, with murther and blarney; Thin, Hip !Hip 1 Hoorra; Acuehla Mach, ree, Outrage and sedition in Sligo's fair quarter Hang jibbeted high, ivory bone of em craking ; dist or all the worruld loike an illigaut martyr, Wid divil a Bawlto give, it a waking. Troth, our dietby M.P,'s are bursting wid sorra; And the swats pariah praste's forgetting to Phrameti pay, excommunication to• or ; 'Tis coming at last, lollop, the fired nPeep a, day „ Now niver agin will they hould a big met- ing, Or pr ch the accursed Republic of France; Their wan God Almighty has given thin a . bating Come, Erin, alarms, nravourneen, a danse low soon iv'ry Paddy, from Belfast to Kerry, In pace by his peat fire will smoke his dhudeen; And the little goasoon wance more will make merry, To scraping of fiddle and clink of potent. Soon thrade will return, although terribl shaken; An' the rint will be paid warms more by the pigs, Till the country becomes, wid the praties and bacon, The ould swate Hibereia of fairs, bulls jigs. Thin desthruction to Parnell, Dillon and Healy ; Good Iuck to the oiland of emerald green, Wid ahamtook, wid whiskey, the Pope, and shiiliday ; Ould Oireland,for iver, and God Save the Queen. THE BIGGEST DE #L The World Has Ever Seen, or is Likely to Sec. Messrs. Erastus Wiman & Co. offer for ale the. Dominion of Canada. This property is bounded on the East by he Atlantic and on the West by the Pacific Ocean. The property contains the most valuable mineral, timber and,,farming lands in the world. Theai r Iwas canalsfivemilli one i ' y , , and ons of ardy, prosperous, Happy people, of course, re included with the property. We would draw the attention of ' the United States Government to this magnifi- ent property. ' By taking over this Dominion, the surplus anufaetured geode of the United States ill find an unlimited market. Arrangements can be made for the closing p of Canadian manufacturers. New Brunswick and Nova Scotia can stip- y an unlimited quantity of fish, coal and her raw products. Ontario, for cattle, horses and dairy pro- ds, comet be surpassed. Manitoba, for wheat, and British Colum, a for timber, coal, and canned salmon. For description of this property and terms e the leading articles which we publish ily in the Mail and Globe. The people of Canada have only squatters' hts ; so we can give a clear title at time sale. The workingmen of Canada who are now gaged in factories can be sent to the lum- r woods, mines, farming land and fishing rounds, so as not to interfere with the in. este and rights of the purchaser. If the property is not sold en bloc within a sonabie time, it will be offered in lots to t purchasers. We shall continue to advertise in the lead - Article columns of the Mail and Globe the property is disposed of, Our agents in Capada are Mr. Goldwin ith, S. H. Janes and Sir Richard Cart• igist who will be pleased to answer any cries and show American statesmen over property.—[Toronto Empire. . s h a c m w u oI f du bi se da rig of en be ter res sui ing tilt Sm wr enqu the The Shirt of the Happy, BY ADA A. AHI,BORN, There is on old tale in the German, I read it and pondered welt; And now is this rhythmical fashion, The story to you I will tell. A king was sick in hie palace; His heart was nigh to despair, When wrote the gray -headed physician For his highness a temedy rare. Thus ran the preaeription : This only hie health can restore, To find is his kingdom The shirt that a happy man wore. The teeatched the realm over Feel/metal so happy and free 'That birds in the breeches Were ooatoe1y as happy as he. And after far journeys They found a peasant so poor, And yet so beutidleasly happy itis shirt ie the remedy sure I sow glad were the eoUttiers, The aaaroh for the prodigy done; When lo I and alas 1 they discover— Of thins he has never a ono. Right here is the end of the story. if ever the king became well, 1; ree of b`it heartache and illness, We may wonder, batt never can .tell. It fa said thab care once killed a cat. If care ie Mit of.a job,'t'e knout a place up town where lis can find employment by the Week at good wages. The mwho an tried to get up a aonaert with the bend of a bat Is the same genius Who, a few days dhaoe, played upon the a eebtane of a young lady. SlitauWAA 'ta EMS 1'VIETT KYa "" Tho WY is rather lvp the Nest "--An " lln, eoraditierial Serrender"the the 'Moe dieing. The Sheridan storyrunn thus; The Irish sohoolmaster, Petrick I4ioManly, was one of the sort who believed that the intelligence, morality, and future happiness of the Bohol - erg • depended upon a liberal use of the birch. On it very cold morning of 1842 or '43 two soholare reaching the oohed house a little ahead of the time, crawled in through a window and got warm. Being full oflfun and seeing it bueltet of lee water, they fat - toned it over, the door so that on Re opening the water would tome down, They then retreated to a neighboring haymow , to watch the result. ',heather Patrick aeon %same hie hawkvigorously to keepAth long rubbing warm, m,, hurriedly turned the key and entered, and received the full close, which heated instead of cooling his bleed. He looked alI around, inside and out, but there' was never a boy anywhere to be earn to vent his wrath upon, So arming himself with a eix.foot hickory t a'ig, and stirring up the fire, he sat down to dry, fully determi.red to flog the that boy that entered. Unfortunately a little fellow soon came, and his hand waa washcarceiy on the latch when Patrick seized him by the colter, and shook hits fiercely, " to shake the troth out of ye," he said, The -astonish. ed looks, and more astonishing yell's, con- vinced Patrick that the boy was innocent, The next and the next and the next boy went through the saute operation. Finally when all the school had been throttled and Shaken into their seats, the two real culprits left the hay mow, entered the sohool, got their shaking and went to work. It ao happened that Phil Sheridan was very late that morning, and as each previous comer had proved his innoeencei the pre. Gumption against the last one was very strong. When Phil opened the door Patrick made a dive for him, but Phil dodged and commenced his first " strategic retreat." Patrick, believing this a proof of guilt, pursued. Away went Phil up the street, and away went the teacher after him, bare- headed, stick in hand, with the whole school bringing up the rear, all on a run, Phil lost a little on the home stretch, and his pursuer was too close for him to shut.the gate, as he brake into the backyard. But here he got a "4 reinforcement " in his pet Newfoundland dog, who instantly attacked Patrick on "flank and rear," as his mas- ter did in after' years when driving Early from the Shenandoah 'valley. Patrick mounted the fence, the dog snapped at his heels, and he found it necessary to climb an apple tree, where he found himself out of breath, out of patience and very com- pletely " outflanked," "Like away yer divilish dog, Phil," says he, " or I'll bate the life out of ye."—"Like to see you," says Phil ; "" watch him, Ro- ver." And then he threw an old piece of carpet under the tree and bid the do ""watch" it. The dog laid down on it, and Phil mounted the fence, where he sat con- templative, with his chin in his hands and his etbowa on his knees.--" What do you want", to Ii'ok me for ? asked Pail.—" What did ye throw water on me for ?" said Pat.— " I didn't throw any water on you."—" You did, though, bekase none of the ither boys did, and 1'11 punish ye to death -entirely, if :ye don't let me down."—He started down, but Rover went` for him, Retreating isp the tree,he called loudly for Phil's father. The noise soon brought outMr, Sheridan. The teacher up the tree, the dog growling at him, Phil on the fence, and the whole school standing around, was too funny a scene netto require an explanation,--" What are you doing up the apple tree, Mr. Mcldanly7' he asked. "Ab, that divilish boy of yours, Mather Sheridan, will be the death of me yet. lt'e all his doin's, air, He poured a whole buck- etful of water on me this mornin,' and when I wanted to give him 'a daeent reprimand he ran away, and for the sake of the dia• cipline of the school, !went to catch him, and he got that big baste of a dog after me, so I had to clime this tree to defind meself.•' " didn't throw any water at all," said Phil. " All I know about it is, that he went to whipping me this morning before I got in." The old gentleman, rather enjoying the fun, and not certain whether his boy ought to be whipped without reason; sug- gested to let the case await further inquiry, —"Let 'im go without a (leggin', Misther Sheridan? Shure, it'll ruin the school to do that now; just look at 'em, will ye, howthey're all laughing at me." The old gentle- man called the dog, but he looked at Phil and wouldn't stir. " Take away the divilish dog, or I'lI bate the life out of both of ye in - tire's'," said Patrick. "Better come down first," Phil suggest- ed ; "watch.him, Rover."—Finally relent- ing, he said `after a pause, " If you won't whip me I'll call hire oft. He won't go for father's calling all day, because he sees you're imposing on me.—Patrick ensued and protested, but it wouldn't do. Phil's terms then were, as in afteryeara, " unconditional surrender," The longer Patrick talked, after the hot race, the douse of cold water, and the 'frosty January morning, the more hopeless his ease became, especially when Phil intimate ed intention to demand on the spot exemption from all future flogging.-=.FinalIy Patrick said : " I'll tell you what, Phil. If you'll jest call off that baste, I'll not bate you this time, indade I won't."--" Why didn't you say so at first?ay." said Phil, and then he oath hover aw This is believed to be the first surrender to Sheriden, though not the last by any means. --Phil said, however, that the teach• or kept hie word in that affair, but that he put two floggings into every one that he afterward administered for now offence. The Democrats have chosen Allan G. Thurman, of Ohio, to go on the Cleveland ticket for the vice•preeidenoy. .Although Thurman comes from it sure Republican State the combination is a strong out and it is difficult to conceive a Republican ticket that eau beat it. Blaine would bo the strongest card, but Cleveland beat him trice with a weaker man than Thurman to sup. port hiin, ar',d certainly no banner with the name of Chauncey M. Depew, the railway monopolist, inscribed thereon, would ever be verried to victory. The not profits of the Cataidiah Paoifio railway for the month of April, inclutivo of the South -Eastern railway, were $248,670, as compared with $232,456 for April, 1887, } I''or the four mast hs ending g 0'12 April ' p the het profits were $487,879, ,against $236,453 for the corresponding period last year. A handsome woman ha jewel; a good Wo. man a treasure,—[Saadi. xt'OSf OFFICE itE;KGl,.LTION $ important (Miners to be studs lin the Workings. 01 the Brett"artuieut,. OTr.wA, June 12.--1n connection wfth the scheme of Postoffiee Department reor- ganization, recently consummated, a num- ber of changes affecting the outside pnatal service will take effect on 1st July. After that date posteffices in Canada will bedi- vided into two classes; 1, Money order oh eves, which will outlaw) to render accounts to the department; 2, Non -accounting alit* oea, which will not render accounts to the department. Postmasters of the latter class of oncos, will be absolved from furnish, ing a quarterly account after the termin, Ohm of the. present quarter. A new method of supplying postmasters with postage stamps to to be adopted, A supply of post- age stamps, estimated to be the poatmeeter's probable requitement, for `three menthe, will be sent to him from the department so as to reach him about the 1st duly next. This will be the last supply of postage stamps tie be sent to the postmaster from the department. The postmaster wilt not be required to furnish any account of the sale ot these stamps, nor will he have to pay for them so long es he remains in office as postmaster. It will be his duty to use the money he receives as he tells these stamps for the purpose of renewing hie stock, which must at all times be maintained at a point equal to the public requirements. When further supplies of atampps are required, whiobwili probably not be before the month of September, the postmaster must procure thorn from the postmaster at the most con- venient of the following cities ; Toronto, Hamilton, London, Kingston, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Viotoria, Montreal', Quebec, Halifax, Cnarlottetown and St. John, While the postmaster after the 1st of July must obtain his regular supplies of postage stamps at one of the city offices named, it will nevertheleas be his duty in a case of urgenoy to purchase them from the post, master of the nearest money -order office if time would be saved by his doing so. The • e supplied. with aaster o properpequipment ento t of'tenttaaoe stamps will incuseious responsibility. g A new method of paying postmasters is also to be introduced. After the let of July the postmaster will no longer retain his salary out ot the receipts from the sale of pottage stamps; hie salary, etc., will be paid to him direct from the department. This wilt be done by a " warrant" issued quarterly in the postmaster's favor and payable at any money order office in Canada. The warrant, after being receipted and stamped, may also be used instead of oath as a remittance to the iteareat city office in purchase of postage stamps. Postmasters, however, now ren- dering monthly accounts will be paid month- ly after July 1. It is expected that these changes will facil- itate the work ofjthe department. The Democratic Nominees. Grover Cleveland, who is to be the eighth American r can re s .' hoes bynbis elI0w oittzenato the chief honor in their gift, began Iife un- der fairly good conditions, but without ad- ventitious help to advancement. His mother was the daughter of an Irish bookseller. His father was a Presbyterian minister. 01 this parentage he was born in Cardwell, N. J., March 18, 1837. He received only a country school education, and at 14 years old it was necessary that he should add his mite to the family income. He was a clerk in a country store for $50 a year, but his father's death, leaving a widow and nine children, broke up the family and pet the 17 -year-old boy afloat in the world. In 1853 he assisted his brother to teach the blind at the institution on Thirty-third street in this city. A friend then offered to send him to college, but he preferred be- gin the study of law directly. His uncle, L. F. Alien, of Buffalo, helped him to enter the office of Rogers & Bowen, of Buffalo, where he remained until 1863, That hie prosperity had already begun, and' that, without wealth, he lacked for nothing, suffi- sisters and steadily contributed to their sup- hadciently appears from the fact that he always something to spare tor his mother and port. Grover Cleveland's first office was that of Assistant District Attorney for Erie County for three years from 1853. He was.nominat- ed for District Attorney, but was defeated by Lyman K. Bass. He declined the offer of an Assistant United Status District Attorney- ship, and in 1870 war elected sheriff. He wanted the income of an office to increase his means, and its leisure for study. He realized his expectations in these respects, and, instead of becoming (a commonplace sheriff, he developed into a thriving court - seller at -law. Thus is 1881 he was equal to accepting his party's nomination for mayor, and he was elected by the largest majority ever known in the history of Buffalo. He at once put inpraotice aprinciple phrased at a later period, viz. That public office is a trust," and that public affairs should be administeredon the principle of private business. His ma$ ora1ty attracted attention and approval beyond the bounds of Buffalo, and thus he ran for Governor in 1882, and was elected by a plurality of 102,854,. In this conspicuous office he maintained his repute for modest efficiency, honesty and independence, conducting himself with a sole regard for the public good) omelets of the effect upon hit personal fortunes. His phenomenal majority and his evident cepa. city for high office commanded for barn the nomination for President in 1854, Since then his life has been before the eye of the nation, and needs no rehearsal, now that his notninination repeats the verdict of approval which hoe followed him in every relation of life. --CIS, Y. Times, A very noticeable feature of the industrial situation is that not only Canada, but all America, is almost free from strikes ; ser• tainly there are tone of any magnitude. It is several years since things have been ea perfectly quiet • in this respect, and one is puzzled to know whether the situatiou is really normal, or whether it is only the lull that procedes another storm. We are lnelined to believe that the present genera, tion of mechanics and workingmen have learned that in the end more money is lost by strikes than it ever gained, and that the situation it the result of a revival of cam. mon sense. A little girl seeing her mother petting and ca reset n anon hero 'he" g child begen unmistakable doe of jaalouay. Hist moth r retnarkede " Why Settle, I behove you are jealous. "No mamma," the replied in• di nently, "" Pm hot jealous, but I don't feel oornf'able,"