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Blueirale. MAGICIANS' TRICKS,
TtJfe of Mr. Jarnee Timmina
lead beeu gradttally deolining lit health.
mAKE_BeLlevi
far Romig considerable length of time, . 1""' MIRAQI-SS PERFORM.
hating been tel with,brain paraly-
ED BY MODERN MORTALS.
Me. A. fortnight or so ago elm return. - •••••••••**
el from Montreal where elle bad beet) • late aseetuyie - ee .
for
sono menthe under the care of “0,1„„tal. 0,4„„31,741°,„," of 171° Kalt°'
her brother, lir, rulton, nut in her Tee „to "" ,0"" *name Eplained,
cam ined4 skdill was hailled,lielpless-, rev, Kuea*nAre t' 314 7"r siniPla Whe4
etealthily approached. 0
The dread enemy st:dsilzYtturatin4 , biliagie az; has tzwri, dergone many remark -
it lie,ttranfeformations einee Robert Hein
Sunday Was
ewuads.caaimarea. 0 Toillie. fusnehroal wool; , Ilnitpalrfieo ittliiter a all modern vaagic, lived
a century at,o. Perhaps- no
widolyikhown end very mach reaLleet,. one could comparewith Wm in celebrity,
e_ril wl_ich Wall shown by the large excepting the o i ienal Horn/mon, wilu
died at Carlsbad °a°
itspat resting plum). Mr, Timeline and from wbom the StP19 Qfalc44.13 aavi
precut perambulates Aner ericante:Orhais
funeral which followed her remaine to
an family hoe the sympathy of the
4name and learned what be knows, The
rhole community in thssi eir presHerrmann
ent was known as Neu-
feroavenaeat. - ItLiss Jessie Sproat aunt, and ate an assistant to his greater
pad MISS Mary ^derma 1, of T
tia,...k
er- prototype. He was always remarkable
email, are wafting friends here this for one thing. and that is lib very great
week,— Misses Ida. . and aleggi, dexterity' in sleight of hand tricks. To -
pa, of Seaforth, aro speediug their day there ia nobody that• can compare .
holidays . with friends, —Mr. A, te. with him is this lido of work, what is
Musgrove and wife paid a short visit known as Palming. la fact anything
that can -be done with the hands alone,
last week.--1Vin John Gardteer ia do-
i'ng a geed business In the reaper lime etruceptiingl a deaf mute Who travels
—Mr. T. Nixon. is training his mare '
• .is soauiltiottravveevapeenrfamrusrestrr,
'e tliitilili;Nvilic:
for the iyastowel niece. She is hard this line, but without the gift of expryess-
to heat..--la/rs IL Pugh left for AI. Ing himself.
goma on Tuesday, We wish her a
tleasant jottrney. •
Glen4rrow.
Mr Albert Welsh and wife, of
Arnaud vale, Louisiana, were visiting
(riende here this week—Ono day last
weeks as Ur Thos Higgins was putting
a neighbor'S horses out of his field of
graiu one of the slam* turned on
llitn striking him a tremendous blow
on the side of the head)knocking him
down insensible. It was a wonder he
was not killed,—Quarterly nieetiug
was held he the Methodist church
Tnz; FLYING 131RD CAGE.
Eterrinann, however, has never been
an inventor, lie finds his tricks ready
made for him abroad and buys their se-
cret. As a result he is compelled to
travel around with a vast paraphernalia
that the old magicians would have looked
upon with great contempt. In fact, the
tendency on modern magic has been the
elaboration, of the cumbersome, and,
Herrmann needs a whole roomful of fure
nituro to carry out one of his illusions.
The brightest mind in magic at the .
present day is a prestidigitateur named
De Kolte. He bolds forth in ,Paris, and, .
being almost a gentleman of leisure, only
Sunday laste—kisa Md Reddawal appears about three nights 8, week. He
has made all the most important of mod -
who has been visiting in N.Uw Hain. 'ern inventions in moo°. The one that
brought him first into prominence in the
line of invention was the • flying bird
cage, which is, now so familiar that it
eau be bought in magic stores for a few
dollars, but it made a great sensation at
the time, • Kellar was the first to buy it
from De Nolte, and took the trick to
Australia, whore he made some n20,000
out of it. Ho only paid $500.
Two or three seasons ago in New York
the Vanishing Lady was accepted as a
very remarkable novelty. This was also
an invention of Do II,olta's. During the
-past year another of his inventions, the
Cocoon, has been given in New York
both by.Kellar and by Herrmann.
But the ono that is now most farailiar.
anclaurprising Do Kolta Ord brought out
two years ago. We have icen.it with'
Herrmann under the name of Black Art,
and with Renee under the name of Ori-
ental Occultism. The trick, is precisely
the same withi
.them -both,. and s merely
an illusion of. blackness.. The .whole
stage ia draped in the blackest of black;
the magiciati, be it Kellar or Herrmann,
is completely :robed in white, so that he
stands) out clearly in the gloom surround-
ing Wiz, Then bb orders varioqs objects
to appoar, a cup; a sword, a table, a
chair.
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These things seem to suddenly start
into being, and yet the device is of the
simplest. The objects in question are
concealed behind a.blackcloth until the
-order for them to appear is suddenly
given. The cloth concealing them is
dropped, Mad they seem to have coin°
out of chaos. In the same manner Mn.
Herrmann or Mrs, Kellar stands on the
stege draped in w ite, but holding op a
black cloth between herself and the au-
dience. At the word of the magician she
deops the cloth and stands revealed. To
the tminitiated the trick is most puzzling.
It is the same way that the head -doe
tacked from the trunk appears to be ear-
.ried around the sta,go. The illusion is.
that the trunk is closed in black, and
standing • against tho. blaekness of the
sc:ene, cannot be distinguished; the head
being white, alone appears. This is per-
haps the cleverest of all De Kolta's in-
ventions.
Of mechanical tricks Maskelyne, of
London, and Kellar aro the most noted
inventors, Psycho, or the hand that taps
. on a glass table in response to the ma-
gician's 'command, is an invention of.
, neller, and is simply a piece of very dell7
tate and intricate machinery. It is.very
similar to the Clio of Maskelyne, and
both have a family resemblance to Hel-
loes chess board, originally invented by
adasl,elyne. -Magicians .generally give
the • palm to Kellar ,tor all tricksof u
mathematical kind. lie has a marvel-
ously quick mind in this respect, and
the most abstruse problems he can solve
ur a few seconds -apparently, of course,
. •
allowing it to be done by some mechani-
eel figure.
Whether all this conies within tho eas
act,domain of magic does not so much
neetter as that such tricks are now ac-
cepted in magical entertainnients and
vastly more enjoyed than the old pistol,
card and rabbit tricks to which some
magicians still adhere—tricks the.t neces-
sitate the tele of a eottfederate, and
which are, therefore, of little account
and at which even locals laugh.
The future of magic: is hard to fore-
tell, Everythieg in the aleight-of-hattd
way has become familiar, and outside of
ree Keith there Is no inventee of any.
burg and viemity for the pest few
weeks returned home on Thursday
last. -Miss Ada Gallagher and I1iss
tierry,of Toronto are here on a visit —
Mr and Mrs McKenzie loft on Friday
last for a visit to Preston, Now Ham-
burg and other places.- Apes Minnie
Monypenny and Master loafs, of
Toronto, and Master Willie alallagh,
of Wingham, were rusticating here
last week.—Mrs Storey, of Goderioli,
is visisingsfriends here..—.Mr g Scott
and mother, of Bluevale, were , visit-
ing hero last week. -.large lumber
ofour citizens attended the funeral of
the late Mrs Timmins, of Bluevele,
on Sunday last. '
. HOWICIL.
. We have again to recoi4. the death
of an old resident of this neigliborlieed
in the person of Me. Won Willits.
Deceased tied beell a great 'stia'erer
from co teeth for come time, and
during the last few weeks of Ws life it
had made feaeful ravages through his
ItlYtIteme ge.expireci early On Sunday
nierning. The deceased, with his
brother Orecket, were amongst the.
early pioneers in Hewick, having
come in over thirty years ago. A large
naniber of relatives and friends,
amongst them a number from Water
luo comity, followed 131s retniins to
the grave on Monday afternoon,
where he was interred at Morris grave
yard: Ho was weli known and high-
ly respected, and his loss will be keen-
ly felt .by hie bereaved wife and fatiiily.
Bett
In pastures green, no% lead his flock,
Mere Leine streams appear;
Awl CI -Atha Iord, from every eys
Allah wipe off ovary tear.
Mr and Mrs Caok, of Porclwicli,
leave gone- on a trip • to Manitol)a.
They generally recruit themselves in
a sinailar way each ,aummer.-Mrs
mould, of Toronto, has been visiting
.her sister, Mrs Mahood, fur the past
two weeks. --Tom Johnson is home
from Chiciego Spep.ding Cane of his
holidays 1.4 looks !webby as ever.
-Mr James Snyder, is erecting a
handsome brick resido,nce. which adds
greatly to the appeartkree of the sec-
ond line. -Mr Eli Husband, of Luek-
now, spent a few clays with some of
Ws old friends in and around Ford-
wich,-)diss Cornish is the gftest of
her cousin, Mrs Patterson, this week,
Me William Gallagher is malting
preparations for the building of a barn
under the superintendence of Mr.
Wn troder*Jod. -Mr. Geo. Nichol-
son, who was suilclauly called away to
the funeral of his mother, in Lanark
county, returned home last Saturday.
Mr, S. Hooey has returned home
from Manitoba and brings bad reports
of p. . .r 1,„
of Godor-
jell, is visiting friends Imre, she is the
goest af in. Ni Wan this W031C,
getland.
Miss Maggie Tetvit has been on the
siok list for rhe last two woelts and is
Sttli, Juilited to the 1.1.us.
thing new, The result le thet resect
preatidentateurs, such eitt Herrmann, are
compelled to ada to their own some sort
of variety entertainment to fat out the
evening. klven Kellar had to go back to
the old Indian basket tricit for a novelty,
--New QrkJournal. •
THE CAPITAL OF SIAM,
BANGKOK ANO ITS FIFTEN MILES
00 FLOATING HOUSES,
A City ea Curse as Menu, of Which Mee
Out or -Ten or the People Live oo the
'Water -Something of the Country Itself.
The Efer, Owns tae roopte.
Siam le one of the out of the way coun-
tries of the world. None of the great
steamehip Hues of the Nellie or of the
Indian °swell stop. at it. Few globe trot-
... •
, isn.hrsait 1100
out of regular ne o a t. are
the world. The great Siamese peninsula
juts down from the east oeast of China.
It contains half a dozen different coun-
tries; the chief of which are Bunnell,
Siam and the French states of China.
Siam itself is at the lower end of the pe-
ninsula and it bounds the greater part of
the mighty body of water known as the
Gulf of Siam. It is 1,800 railea long, and
at its widest part it is 450 inilee wide. It
is almost as flat as your hand, though
has here and there a few mountainchains.
It has many big rivers, and the eountry
is as much cutup with canals as is Hol.
land, During the rainy season it becomes
tt mighty lake, and the people Move here
and there front ono city to another in
boats,
ON Tun, al-VEtt- =NAM.
Tho greatest river is the Menem, which
the Siamese know by the same name as
the Indians knew the. Missiesippi, It is
"the father of waters," and It forms the
great highway of the. kingdom. This.
river flows into the Gulf of Siam at its
head. awl it is about forty miles from its
mouth that I sit here.. on its banks and
write this Lotter in this. floating elty of
Bangkok. Imagine city as terge as
Chicago, of widen., rilnety-nine
dredths of the people live.on the water.
There are fifteen miles .a floating houses
on the two sides of this river, and these,
with the king'spalaces caul a few foreign.
buildings on the land, make up the capi-
tal of the Siamese people,.
There are six millions. and mere of
these Siamese and their. country covers
a territory of about twice the size of
Colorado, four times the,: size. of Now
York. and it is About OYD: times as hie as
Ohio. The cocoanut and the palm tee
line the banks of tide ,Nenain, river and
the boats flit in and out of jungles which
remind one of the swamps of.poricla.
I wish I could give •you . picture of
our ride up the aleinian to Bangkok.
'The sides of the river are .lined With,.
these small," floating houses: They are
anehored to piles and they lie half hid-
den by the great palm trees on the banks.
-Here and there canal. jute off into
the jungle and the houses it. makes
this a floating street,. t These helms are
made of bamboo, with their !aides and their
roofs thatched with palm leassee. They
are sometimes on piles high .above the
water, but more often they . rest on its
surface. They are tied to poles driven..
into the bed of the river, and they rise
and fall with the tide. Their average
height is not•more than ten feet, and
eacklooke like two large dog kennels
fastened together and covered with .palna.
leaves.
Tho river is winding. It is perhaps a
qtarter of a mile wide and -every turn
brings new surprises. As we near.Bang-
holt the waters are alive with craft of all
kinds. Little, naked, brown, shock.
headed .youugsters paddle long canoes
not over ..two feet wide and'eo sharp that
the least, balance. would, 'unseat the
rower. There aro half naked women
with gredt hats of straw, which Looklike
- inverted , work baskera, sitting hare
legged and bare breasted in boats which
• they paddle along, and boats of all sizes
aro worked by all ages and sexes from
babies of 6 to wrinkled cite . men and
short, gray haired women of 00. As you
enter Bangkok tho crowd increases. In-
stead of one lino of floating houses along
the banks there are three and sometimes
four. The whole river isaaiye, and you
turn youreyes this waannel that, meet-
ing a maze oe pew objects at every turn.
LIFE LONG SLA
Theleing of Siam is supposed to own
the people, and each man in the realm
has to sere forahree, six or tine months
US a soryant of the government. At a
certain tuna of the year the entire popu-
lation is 'narked off to particular noble.
men or government masters. These -
mestere, whenever the government de-
mands anything of them., cau compel. the
men marked off to them to serve, All
kinds of work aro deinancleas teed.. the
various marks put upon tho .men indi-
cate their trades or .profession. Somo
men are, required to give ell their tili10
to. the government, and in this case they
get nominal salaries. Those who give
half their 'ellite work for the king fifteen
days, and then have fifteen days off.
The three months subjects get no pey,
01,1 daily; the time they are Danekolt
they have to find themselves in food and
lod work practically enslaves
6 nee. s
tho whole population of Mlles, end
slavery Is common in Siam. Criminals
convicted often become slaves, and they
are. sometimes marked or branded on
the forehead. hare seen many men in
outside the stills 'of the palace theraare
at least etre veers) o men, bright eyed,
good looking, lestr'rellowa who have
great iron eellars about their necke and
chalna about their 4;Za and wins, who L mBEE1 AND villop
were maLiee birelset work, and who 0
offered to sell um their wares eel passed.
The debtor who does not pay in team
must become the Wave of his creditor,
who clutrees him, from I5 te-DO per vent.
a year, pitte Wm in chaise end takes his
work We the interest en the debt. , .01
There are hundred e ef such slaves In 1 at j
Bang lw k , an 4 many ot tho meri become 'Ict ,,it - I,
,...
Maim by gambling away their living. .,
PROPRIETORS,
The elation, ail told, mines addicted to 11
vice rather than to virtue, and it 1»
nearer akin to pure heathenieni than
any other I have yet seen Still it claims
.ALL IIEIDS OF
to be progressive, and its king hen made
some steps to the front, The whole.
aowever, compare* more to the colored LIJIVIBEIR,
republic of Hayti or to the Weeks of
eian Domingo thou to any other civilize,-
WINCHAM SAW MILL
•••••••••••••••
• tion. The people are devoted to Buda.
Ism, and the przests• are numbered by
SHINGLES
LATH,
thotaiands.—Frank G. Carpenter.
The LIttlo 0Ircles.
E i b ta ke th littl
ac one s outs na, e
circle in which he lives better and hap-
pier. Each of us is bound to eve that out
of that small circle the widest good may
flow, Each of us niay have fixed in his
mind the thought that out of a single
household may flow influences that shall
stimulate the whole commonwealth and
the whole civilized world,—Dean Stanley,
Gleuanzom.•
There are some people who .should
oin the "Anti-pokeeyour-uose-into
other -people's -business society." The
nasal organ that adorns the faces of
some people reminds one of the menu -
lecturer who met with an accideut.in
which his nose received.. an ugly
scratch. Having no court plaster at
hand he stuck on. the injured organ
one of his gummed labels bearing the
usual inscription Guaranteed 050
yards long," This is surely a mistake,
but there are noses winch would seem
of any length when the question is.as
to their power to poke into the longest
rat hole. Although both sexes are ad -
dieted to it I. am afraid the preponder-
ance of guilt rests on the gentler pose
Moil of mankind. When people begin
to tell you about your neighbors it
will be wise to keep your mouth shut,
fur some one will soon be telling the
neighbors about you. "Dogs that
fetch will carry." Then meddlesome
people are a, nuisance to society, for
they invent, misrepreoeute exaggerate
and insinuate till they 'separate true
friends and cause hearthureings and
jealousies. . •
Langsitte.
Mr R Ross sold his favorite pony
to Mr T Agnew, of Wingliam.—We
are pleased to state that Mrs John
Davidson is able to be around again.
—Tha fall wheat is a failure in this
section of the country tho rust having
dealt mercilessly with it.—The Misses
Plumers, of Toronto, are at present
visiting their Langsido friends.—Mr
Win Orowston, of Winghain was
visiting in this locality last week.
.
The people of this place passed a
bylaw inlayer of a bonus of $5,000
to the Goderich Organ and Furniture
Faotory. ' Almost every available vote
was polled, the result being 502 itt
favor of the bylaw and only One
against it.
Ten deputation that presented the
petitions to the Goveruor General et
Quebec for the disallowance wore told
in 'curt language that the petitions
were of no avail, as it was stated in
effect that the Jesuits' Estates Act
was within the jurisdiction of the
Quebec legislature and was in no way
derog 4orjr to the Queen's supremacy.
—The choicest and cheapest peaches,
plums, pears, cherries, blackberries, water
melons, and all kiwis of fruit and vege-
tables at Molielvites restaarant, oppusite
Homan's, hotel..
AND WOOD,
Kept corititantly on hand or out to order and del'ver-
ed In any pa'et of the town ou the shortest posaihic
notice,
frprAll orders attended to prometir
and satisfaction guaranteed,
Orders in Car Lots a Speolety.
Mill and Yard on Josephine street,
adjoining the C. P. R. track.
L. & J. MoLEAN.
Wingharn, May lat. Id$B.
ZETLAND SAW MITT
GEORGE THOMSON, Proprietor,
Lumber of all kinds,
First-Ola,ss Shingles,.
and Cedar Posts.
Car Load Orders a Speciaity.
WOOD 'delivered to any part, of
Wiugham.
Orders by mail promptly attended to.
GEOBGE THOMSON,
Wingharn P. '
MES SLEM
BAKER,
Begs to 1 timate that he has teed all
obrist Br .' Bakery and purp ses running
•
it in conju tiou with his Ix on Ziese-
phine St., o •osite T. A. Is'.
With my Inc ased kw* ities 1 ain en-
abled to supply
SEEM) OF BEST $1,11.ALIVIr
In any part of the t n or can always be
obtained from eith r op.
uductod just the
'cost
The old shop w I be
sameas formeri the eh
Confection y •
and ofrashracmt8
being alway kept.
A large •pply of BREI.
f.IONFBC"IONEET, &o, will it'So be kept
at the us ,er shop.
JAMES
TOWN .AND VILLAGE LOTS:
FOR SALE.
Town lot 438, west side Leopold street, Wingbain,
and Village lot 25, McCrea's survey, Belgraa e, both
excellent building sites,. ars forsale. Apply ta
J. A. ll,TORTON,
Barrister, Ste,'
WnsullaSs,Oss
Hol min Bull f Sertrice.
The Hol Presi Bull
•AO LAD,"
Will bo for Aervice farm of 4. A. 1X*8iwe
Lot 81, Con. 1, Mor wring the season. •
This animal, brad II. Bollart, Cassell, (ca.
tario, was calved no p ti, 1582, sh:o Barnt2n, .0
5237, 8888 13 ; dam intro 2nd, No. 5853, it F E
B. She was bred v 81 Boll* Cassel, Ontario.
Touts Gra cows, 52; toughbrads, 8-1
steins, $20.
Morris, 55 2t11. 1685,
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3'6£ 'BIT2.0l
TREASURER'S SALE
LAN S. FOR TAXES.
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Ontario BY VIRTUE of (" warrant Issued by the Mayor, under the Corpotato goal of the
lawn of Wingham, Town of Wirlame:ham, to me directed, 'ng date the fourth day of Jul80m
y, 16, co.
To wit: mending :TM to levy and soli the lands r, altioned in the following list, for arreirs Of
taxes due thereon, I hereby Rh e. notice that unless such arrears and allcoets are sooner paid, I Bhall pro-
tect, to sell the said %sae cr so much thereof 85 111841 be necessary for the payment of the taus and costa
at the Council Chamber 07 the said Town of Winghatn, on
SATURDAY the Twenty.sixth Day of October, NM
At the hour et TWO o'OLOCK in the afternoon.
The/following /ands ace:patented except parts 1 and 2:
quantity
Na. Street StuveY of Land, Talet. 00011.
0 half of 20 Scott south (, C. T. Scott 1.10 um $ 2 78 11 50
g ptr, 1 a . Josephine I... Gov, Add. 1.2 25 17 7 BO
;I Josephine II.1 lt W Sadlet's 1.5 14 52 8 40
115 Catharine W' 'Leda Davis 1-5 5 01 8 50
116 Catharine IV e 1.5 5 01 8 50
Total
$ 4 t
83
fr.
211 di,
84
3 John and Pronels Led t Ind McKay 2-5 6 83 4 00 to 51
JOHN DIOICSON,
chains '4uring my okay borer 1.44 just tret.surces0ette,lyinghstaehl3'4.1580.
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Treasure
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