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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1888-08-24, Page 7.ws THE WORLD'S MARVELOUS EVENTS. lr Twr^1 A Sun►wary or lacuna Salentine Fro• areas, Itightning rods are out of fashion. We1,iieg by electricity seems to have come to stay. Photographs have been taken by the light from a fireplace. Calming the sea with oil is now regularly and syetemetioelly done. Vancouver Island ooal is to be mined at the rate of 2,000 ton per day. Executions by eleotrioity will be compul- sory in New York after Janurary 1 next. Galvanized lemon equeezars poison the juice by the zino which it disaolvea from them. The French propose to pond pigeon mos- sagee from ship to ship upon the broad seas. A French laundry man cleans linen with- out soap by rubbing it with boiled potatoes. Chaussier dried a man in a kiln and there resulted only twelve pounds of solid matter. Paper pipes have been used for a ohuroh organ at Milan and give great sweetness of tone. Modern fortifications seem likely to be great mushrooms of concrete or of steel cast- ings. Berlin is to have next year an exhibition devoted to appliances for preventing moot - dents. Natural gas has caused in Pennsylvania in throe years seventy-three fires, coating $900,000. Wilder se,ys that if you hold your breath while a wasp atings you the skin will become insensible to pain. Transplanting teeth has been revived. It was done twenty-five or thirty -years ago ih very rare oases. A wire gun recently designed weighs only twenty-two tons and drives a 380 pound pro- jectile twelve miles. Sacoharine, which was to be used as a sub- stitute for sugar, appears to cause nausea and dyapeptic,symptoms. A bill has been submitted to Congress for a railway from the U. S. border through Brit- ish Columbia and Alaska. Photographing in colors seems to be the object of couaiderable experimenting, but so far ,with little or no success. Florida is to grow opium. It is expected that sixteen plants will grow an ounce of the drug and that an aore will give $1000 profit. SAYINGS OF TAE SAGES, 01 all nations of a man's life, hie marriage does least concern other people, yet of all aot►.ons in our life 'tfe meet meddled with by other people,^ -[Bolden. Suedes rides on every hour; grapple it and you may win ; but without a grapple it will never go with you. Work is the weapon of honor, and he who lacks the weapon will. never triumph. Extinguish vanity in the mind, and yon naturally retrench the little euperfluities of garniture and equipage. The bloasoma will fall of themselves when the root that nour- iehed them is destroyed. The faithful endeavor to do right and to bear quietly and with resignation what must be borne is of itself a fruitful source of happiness and serenity ; bus a murmuring and discontented spirit may poison the Ooh- ed blessings and tura them into bitter evils. When the. Hindoo priest is about to bap- tise an infant ho utters the following bean- tiful sentiment : "Little babe, thou enter- ed the world weeping, while all around thee smile ; contrive to live that thou mayat de- part in smiles, while all around thee weep." Bitter are a losing card, a losing horse. Bitter the public hies, the private sneer. Bitter are old ago without reapeot, man- hood without wealth, youth without fame. Bitter is the East Wind's blast ; bitter a step dame's kiss. It is bitter to die in a for- eign land.—[Disraeli. Ascertain clearly what is wrong with you, and so far as you know any means of mend- ing it, take those means and have done. When you are examining yourself never pall yourself merely a sinner -that is very cheap abuse, and utterly useless ; but call your- self a liar, a coward, a sluggard, a glutton, or an evil -eyed, . jealous wretch, if you in- deed find yourself to be in any wise any of these.—[John Ruskin, Paris has thirty miles of pipo for carrying compressed air for power. The engines are 3000 horse power and the coal oonsump• tion fifty tons daily. The Panama Canal lottery has not proved a success. The canal will require only about $500,000,000 more to complete it making about $850,000,000 in all. Grnbbe is experimenting upon tele- graphing by the clouds, using the rays of an are lamp refleoted by the clouds and intercepted by the -heliographic code. The beds of sick persons in hospitals are ,now ventilated by exaust fans. This is particularly good where there are contagious or offensive diseases. The aro light at St. Catherine's, Isle of Wight, is the most powerful in the world, being 60,000 oandle-power and having car- bons two and one-half inches in diameter. A gun which will throw a ahell fifteen miles (and there are auoh) will drop it upon the deck of a ship before the ship can be seen, as at that distance any ship is "hull down." The deaf often hear conversations when there is music going on which they could not hear when there was no music. With "hearing persons" the reverse is the cave. The new small bore rifles of the French Gov ernmentdo not prove to bo more humane than the old large-bore guns, as expected ; they shiver the bone and tear the flesh just as badly. At Feather River, Cal., they are putting in a plant to carry power eighteen miles by electricity and in Arizona one is projected to carry it eight miles, using eight tons of copper conductor per mile. By a new marine brake the steamer Corsair°, of the French navy, is stopped in seven seconds from a speed of thirteen knots; thirty-four seconds being needed to do the same thing without the brake by reversing, her engines. Niagara will probably beutilizsd for light- ing and manufacturing purposes, by tapping it and using the water power in turbines, which will run dynamos, from which light- ing and power currents .will be taken by wires. A race for ten minutes between telegraph and long distance telephone from New York to Boston resulted in 330 words ready for the printer by telegraph and 346 by. tele- phone, but many of the latter were incor- rectly received. Thomas J. Mayall, reoently deceased, started as a poor boy. He invented the flint rubber belt, the first cylinder printing macaine for wall paper printing and also for gluing, displacing the former mode of print- ing from independent blocks ; invented rub- ber cement and satin -finished paper ; helped Charles Goodyear in the invention of vul, canized rubber, and also produced a number of other inventions in revolvers, guns, rifles, steam apparatus for loading and firing ar- tillery, ammunition, coffee• hulling machines, self-acting drawbridges and railway switch- es. Philip I[.'S Handwriting. The innumerable deapatohea, signed by Philip, were not the emanations of hie own mind. The King had a fixed purpose—to subdue Protestantism and to conquer the world ; but the plans for carrying the pur- pose irate effeot were developed by subtler and more comprehensive minds than his own. It was enough for him to ponder wearily over sohemee which he was suppos- ed to diotato, and to give himself the appear. ante of supervising what he scarcely com- prehended. And his work of supervision was often confined to pettiest details. The handwriting of Spain and Italy at that day was beauf ifttl, and in our modern eyes seems neither antiquated nor ungraceful. Eut Philip's aoralwl was like that of a olown just admitted to a writing school, and the whole margin of a fairly -penned despatch,f perhaps fifty pages long, laid before him for comment and signature by Idiaqutz or Moore, would be sometimes covered with a few awkward aentenoes,whit%fb was almost ittpossible to read, and which when •de, ciphered, were apt to reveal auggeation of astounding triviality. Raailway Accidents. The return to the English Hoard of Trade of the accidents oocurriog upon rail way lines show that during the first three months of the present year 209 persons were killed and 934 injured. This is a de- crease of 20 deaths and an increase of 91 in- juriesas compared with the corresponding' period of last year. What are commonly understood by reil way accidents—that i8,, col- lisions, running off the line, and so forth are 3nly responsible for three deaths and 197 leas serious mishaps. Twelve people lost their lives at level crossings, 18 committed suicide, and no fewer than 53 were killed in the aot of treapaeeiog. Accidents due to the movement of trains account for 91 fatal oases and 748 others. Of these the London and North- Western has one-sixth, with 16 deaths and 132 injuries., It is followed by the Mid- land with 10 deaths; after which come the Lancashire and Yorkshire, 9 ; the North- Eastern, Great -Eastern, and North British,6; the South -Western, 5 ; the Greay-Northern, 4 ; the Great Western, the Brighton and South•Coaat, and some othe r linea, 3 ; the South -Eastern, 2; and so on, until last among the important lines comes the London, Chatham, and Diver, which escaped with only four accidents, none of which proved fatal. Detailed reports are given of eleven collisions and two instances of trains leaving the rails. It isnoticeable that five of the uollfnious and ono of the other accidents occurred within the meiropoliten area, hap- pening, as they did, at Coborn Road, Euston, King's Croce, Portland Road, New Cross, and Tuley Hill. Frauds on the Post -Office. ' Here are a few instances of the frauds to which the English authorities claim that the poat•cffiae is subject. Coins are embed- ded in cake and pieces of •toast to escape the registration fee. They are also commonly sent in newspapers. An unsealed brown paper parcel tied with string was found to contain six sovereigns, one half crown, two sixpences, and three halfpenny piocea wrap- ped up in small articles of ladies' dress. Two gold watohes were found inside an un- registered book -packet addressed to New Zealand, the middle portions of the leaves having been out oat so as to admit them. This •mode of fraudulent despatch is evi- dently common. A £20 noto was found pinned to the pages of a book. Inside a halfpenny wrapper were found a letter, a bill of sale, and four £5 Bank of England notes. The palm for originality must, how- ever, be awarde to the individual who sent £1.10s. in gold coins in a seal at the back of a letter, the gold having come to light through the wax getting alightly chip- ped. ` Cigars, collars, gloves, music, post- age stamps, are constantly sent with news- papers; but in this respect we are told the people of Canada and the States can take the cake, for in a single year more than 14,000 newspapers were detected with small articles concealed in them. The Pleasure of Dying. I have seen a great many people die, some of them great sinners, even ruffians of the most degraded type, and I have never yet witnessed in any case the slightest fear of. death or of is hereafter. I have also been present at the death -beds of many pious and worth persons,and I have never known an instace amog this class of the least ab- horrence of,deabh or apprehension in regard to the future. A person in sound health re- ceiving intelligence that his death is to take place in a few moments would undoubtedly at first be greatly disturbed, and if religi- ously brought up, would probably wish to make preparations for departing this life. But the case is very different with those who have suffered from a long illness and whose perceptions therefore have lost their sharpness. 1 have often told such persons that they had but a few minutes to live, but the intelligence has never been received in any other than the most composed and resigned manner. Certainly this is a wise provision of nature. For if, as with his present knowledge it is impossible for man to escape death, it is well that he is so con- stituted as to be able to accept the inevitable with dignity and composure.—[Dr. William A. Hammond. Stockton's Dog "Fax." "One Sunday, as with a well-dressed crowd I was going to church, I found Fax following me. Knowing that he never en- tered a church, I took no particular notice of him; but happening to look back a second time, I saw him at my heels with a twist -loaf in his mouth 1 He had been in the irreligious baker in those shopof an few mintes. This was too much for my sense of propriety, and as I failed utterly to drive him off, and began to attraot oonsiderable attention, I was obliged to go down a side street and so home. The dog was never abashed. I have seen him chane chickens into the very houses of their owners, arid, before their astonished eyes, pin the poor fowls to the floor. Of course, at auoh times, 1 did not wish anyone to think that I was acquainted with the dog. But on being discovered in any disreputable intrusion into house, store or garden, it was his habit to run to us, and jog along demurely behind us, as much as to say, ' These are the folks I belong to, if you have anything to say, say it to them.' And very often people did say it to us." Wive you Neuralgia If you are suffering the agonies of neural- gia, and have failed to get a remedy that will afford relief, we want you to try Poison's Nerviline. No remedsf in the market has given any thing like the same degree of sat- isfactirn, Its notion on nerve pain is simply marvellous, and as it is put tip .in 10 Dent sample bottles no great expense 19 involved in giving it a trial. Poison's Nerviline is the most pleasant, powerful, and certain pain remedy in the world, Sold by all dealers in medicine, 10 and 25 dents a bottle. A teasonable luncheon, --Waiter--" Have soup to -day, air ?" De Frees Soup 1—are you road ? Juet bring me a pitcher of lotion- cede and a fan ,; and adv --put n1y coat on ice While I Wait will yeti 7" "The tetter-boara c f life goes up The tetter-bo.rd of life goes down." Up and down, up and down—one day a millionaire next day "dead broke "—one day buoyant in spirits, next day gloomy as a fog—one day in seeming perfect health, nevi day "laid out" with a bilious attack or your stomach " on a strike." • This is the way the world wags now-a•days. If you are bilious, melancholio, dizzy -headed, dyspeptic, want appetite or have torpid REV. W. P. DYER, M, A., action of liver, kidneys or bowels, take Dr. Principal. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets—purely vegetable, perfectly harmless ; one a dose, In this world, we can only look on nature from the outside ; perhaps there we shall be able to mitt from within, Nasal Catarrh is a dangerous disease. From its tendency to extendto the throat, bronchial tubes, and fiinally to involve the lungs in consumptive disease, it should be promptly cured, that these grave dangers may be averted. So confident are the manufacturers of Dr. Sage's • Catarrh Remedy of their ability to cope successfully with this very prevalent disease, that they have for years offered, in good faith, $500 reward for a case of catarrh, no matter how bad or of how many years' standing, which they cannot cure. Remedy only 50 cents, by druggists. A boy is not hatched until he breaks through the shell his relatives weave around him, Tell the good news to the suffering— At test ie a remedy found. Which might have saved, had they known it, Many who're under the ground. Tell of the " Favorite Prescription," Bio hopeless women be glad— Baer the good rews to poor creatures, Heart•siok, discouraged and sad. " Female diseases," so terrible in their effects, and so prevalent among all classes, eau be cured by the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. Sorrow seems sent for our instruction, as we darken the cages of-birde when we would teach them to sing. /UPI ADA $UhI'I'1N67 €O. --Beaver Line of Steamships, tailing weekly between Montreal and Liverpool. Saloon tickets, Montreal to Liverpool, $40, $60, and $00, Return tickets, 980, $90, and $110, according to steamer and accommodation, Inter, mediate, $30; Round trip tickets, $660, Steerage, $20 Round trip tickets, 040. For further particulars and to eeeuro births, apply to 11, E. MURRAY, General Wenner, I Custom House Square, Montreal or to the Local Agents in the ditierontTwonsand Cities. Ii, WILLiAMS & CQ. 'a Feat RQOFERS MANuWAcruneae Age DRALSRe tee Roofing Felt, Slaters' Felt, Deafening Felt, Carpet gaper, Building Paper, Rooting Pitch, Coal Tar, Lake Gravel. OOlce e 4 Adelaide 6t. East. Toronto, BEAVER LINE of STEAMSHIPS —SAILING WEsaLY Bsrws85— MONTREAL AND LIVERPOOL. Saloon Tickets $49.550.500 Return, 580, 590, 5110, Intermediate, $30 ; Steerage, 520. apply to H. E. MURRAY. Oen'l. Manager, 1 Custom House Square, MONRTEAL. Safes 1 FIRE AND BUf•GLAR PROOF and Vault D ore, kept constantly in stock. A number of Seccnd-hand Sates at low prices. J. & J. TAYLOR, Toronto Safe Works. Albert College, BELLdVILLE, ONT. Is being greatly enlarged and improved at a Dost of several thousand dollars, Students in attendanoa from British Columbia, Mani toba, Michigan, New York, Vermont, in ad dition to Ontario and Quebec. Unsurpassed advantages at moderate rates. Will Re -Open Thursday, Sept, Oth, 1888, Send for maulers. Address, CHOICE FARMS FOR SALE IN AIL PARTS OF MANITOBA, PARTIES wishing to purchase improved Manitoba Farms, from 80 acres upwards, with immediate possession, call or write to G. I. DAMSON, Mo. Arthur's Block, Main st., Winnipeg. Information 0urnlshed free of charge, and settlers assisted in mckin; selection. Mosey To LOAN at current rates of interest. 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The steamers of the Glas • A Cure for Drunkenness, gow linea sail during winter to and from Halifax, The opium habit, depeomsuia, the reotphlne habit, Portland, Boston and Philadelphia; and during sum nervous prostration caused by the use of tobacco, mor between Glasgow and Montreal weekly; Glasgow wakefulness, mental depression, softening of the and Boston weekly, and Glaegow and Phladelphia brain, oto., premature old age, lose of vitality caused fortnightly. by over-exertion of the brain, and loss of natural For freight, passage, or other information apply to strength, from any cause whatever. Men—young, A. Schumacher & Co., Baltimore; S. Cunard & Coe old or middle-aged—who aro broken down from any Halifax; Shea '& Co., St. John's, N. F,; Wm. Thomp• of theaboti o pauses, or any cause notrnentioned above, eon & Co., St. John, N. B.; Allan & Co., Chicago; send your address and 10 cents In stamps for Lubon'a Love & Alden, New York, H. Bendier, Toronto; Troatiee, in book form, of Diseased of afanl, Booke Aliens, Rae & Co„ Quebec: Wm. Brookie, Philadel• sent seated and eeoure from observation. Addrees M. phis; H. A. Allen, Portland, Boston Montreal. V LersoN 47 Wellington street Eaet, Toronto Ont. Heaven knows what would become of our sociality if we never visited people we speak ill of; we should live, like Egyptian hermits, in crowded solitude.—[George Eliot. 76 King St. W., Toronto. Blobson—" Don't you think that young Popinjay is showing considerable spirit these days?'' Dempsey—" think he is showing the effect of considerable." Whenever your Stomach or Bowels gel mil of et• der, causing Biliousness epeia, or Indigestion and their attendant evils, take at once a dose o1 De e.areow8 .Stomach Eilte», Best family medicine, All Drugglets, 60 dente. If a body kiss a body, Need aod cry Well, hardly, if some other body Isn't standing by. Cnteetsas Ham RENawsa restores grey and faded hair to its natural color and prevents failing out. Husband (to wife, who is writing a letter). —Do you want me to mail that letter for you, my dear ? Wife—No, John, I won't keep you waiting ; I'm only on the first post. script. Alma Ladies College. 8T, THOMAS, ONTARIO. This inatitution which had last year the largest enrolment of all the Canadian Coll- eges for women 1e offering superior advan- tages to young women in Literary Course Fine Arts, Commercial Science and 'Music, at the very lowest rates. Adresa, 'Ptinoipal Austin, B. D. An expert has auodeoded id photographing the beating of the heart. Neat present for an absent admirer to send his betrothed—a. pioture of his palpitation on reading her letter. People wink are eublecl to bad breath, Mal maw. tongue, or any disorder of the Stomaoh, tan at ono he relieved by using Dr. Careen', Stomach Blum the old and tried eensedv. Ask your Drnaossa. 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