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A common $1itake.
Mark down the figures on,. the face
Of a wato t a Summit street jewler
to a repot °
I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,— began the reporter
as he put pencil to paper,
No, 1 moan Roman numbers,
Then this was produced.
I, II, III, IV, V, Y'I, VII, Vail
Ii,
IX, Xt XI, XII.
You are wrong, said the jewler,
I guess not, said the reporter.
Try again, said the jewler,
Perhaps. I don't know how to count
in Roman figures, said the reporter.
You know that well• enough but
watob makers use different cases.
Look at your watch,
Haven't got one.
Well look at mine. See the figure
whi4h stands for 4 o'clock,
The reporter looked and was sun
prised:. . It was IIltand not IV.
Are all the clocks and watches that
Way ? he asked. °
Every ane which has Roman
figures on its dial. •
Why ?
Well, I'll tell you the story. It
s nothing hut a tradition among
watch makers, but the custom has al.
w ys been preserved. You may or
you may not know that the first clock
that in any way resembled these now
in use was made by Henry Vick, in
1370. " lie made it for Charles V of
France, who has been called The
Wise.
Now Charles was wise, in a good
many ways. He was wise enough to
recover from. .England most of the
land which Edward III had conquered
and he did a good many other things
which benefitted France, 13ut his
earliest education had been somewhat
neglected and .he probably would have
been+troubled in passing a civil ex
amination in these enlightened ages
Still he'had a reputation for wisdom,
and thought. that it was necessary, in
order to keep it up, that he should
also be aupposed to possess book learn
ing, The latter was a subject he was
extremely touchey abaut.
So the story runs in this fashion,.
although I will now voncb . for the
Janglinge, but put it in thin, of the
'present day. J
Yes, the clock works well, said
Charles, but, being anxious to find
some fault with a thing he did not
understand, yeti have got the figures
on the dial wrong.
Wherein, your majesty ? asked
Vick.
That four should" be four ones, said
the king.
You are wrong, yetir majesty, said
Vick.
I am never wrong, thundered the
king, Take it away and. correct the
misteke l and corrected it was, and
from that day to this 4 o:clocle on a
watch or clock dial has been 1111
instead of IV. The tradition hits
been . faithfully followed. — Toledo
Blade.
Treasures of Thpught.
Submission is the'foot-print of faith
and the pathway of sorrow.
Promises may get friends, but it is
performances that keep them.
Patience as, power :` with time and ,
patience the mulberry -leaf becomes
satin.
What 1 want ie not to possess re-.
, l'igion, but to have a religion that
shall .possess me.
Men are like words : when they
are not properly placed they lose half
their value, , •
The highest burst of genius is al-
ways devout,and the truest expression
of devotion is ever full •of the force
of genius.
Leisure is sweet to those who have'
earned it, but burdensome . to those
who get it.for nothing and therefore
have no, need of it.
It is net so much the length or the
varieties of our opportunities as the
way in, which we use thele' that will
decide how mneh they will b,'iie it us.
Liberty is that right to do what the
law allows ; and if a citizen could do
what that forbid it would be no lenge,:
liberty, because others would lit,ve
the same. powers.
Site Andrew Clarice defines he.11th, es
that state is which the body is not •
consciously present to us.—the state
i►1 which work is easy and duty not
over great a trix.l, in whites it id a jpy
to. see. to think, to fMet and to be.
A, WOMAN
.$he wore a mannish little coat.
With knowing little pockets ;.
She's east aside her necklaeea,
Her bangles and her lockets
Her;dicitly collar and eravat
• Exiltetly thatch her brother'e
*1er Mind otraw hat is se like his,
You ain't tell one from t'other'e;i
lbe Ice/At/reit en a little slang
1hat doutida quite brusque and mannish
But show her once a mortice or Worm.
And see the disguise vanishJl
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$sMth lilutp itxd *uggeet$ou&
What Qau>aea Headeche f ---•I, Over.
study, 2, Overwork • indoors.. 3.
Neglect of the bath, 4, Want of
fresh air in bedrooms. 5. Nervous -
noes, however induced. 6. Want of
abundant skin exercise, 7. The ex..
eitementinseparable from a fashion•
able life. 8. Neglect of ordinary
rules that conduce to health. 9.
Over indulgence in food,'espeoially of
a stimulating character. 10. Weak-
nese or debility of body, however
produced. This can only be remedied
by proper treatment.
A good advertisement is the best of
all possible salesmen. It is a sales-
man who never sleeps; wbo goes after
business early and late; accosts the
merchant in his shop, the scholar in
Ws study, the lawyer in his office, the
lady at her breakfast table e who can
be,in a thousand places at once. and
speak to thousands of people every
marning and evening, Baying to each
one the best thing in the best manner.
What aro you waiting for, said a
- lawyer to an Indian who had paid
hien money.
Receipt, said the Indian.
A receipt, said the lawyer, a re-
ceipt 1 what do you•itnow abort a re -
i eipt ? Can you understand the na-
tura of a receipt ? Tell me the nature
of one and 1 will give it to you.
S'pose maybe me ° die ; me go to
Fleben ; me find the gate looked ; me
see 'pestle Peter; he say, .Miser what
you want? me say, want to get in
he says, you pay A. that money 1
whet me do ? I hab no receipt ; hab
to hunt all over hell to find you.
He got hie receipt.
Robert Vance, of Napanee, is a
genius. For three years he bas de-
voted all his spare time tp fitting up a,
collection of automatic figures to work
by one power, and he has aecoinplish-
ed a marvel of skill and ingenuity.
He has over one hundred figures,. all
working independently, and illustrat-
ing nearly every industry. He has
the weaver at his loome a. spinning
wheel,boat races, a bird in the bushes,
water wheel and windmill,, watchman
on tower, ship. at sea, blacksmith,
engine, minstrel troupe, circus, Sal-
vation A.rrny, flour mill,, saw mill,
hurdy-gurdy,,9erpenter.,. shoemaker,
bicycle races, company of soldiers,
darkey "preacher, train of ce rs and so
many other novelties that it is im-
• possible to name there, all, hard at
:.work. ` It is the first Machine of the
kind ever constructed in Canada.
' Tho Renaissance of the Ivan.
After a long interval; a long period of
neglect, the year 1829•saw a revival in
the taste for fans. It chanced that a
grand ball was preparing at the Tuiler-
ies, et which several "costume qua-
drilies" were to be. danced. Mme. la
lhtchesse de Berri had undertaken.. to
gets up. a Louis XV quadrille, and was
seeping everywhere—had sought every-
where in vain—for fans of that period.
Suddenly. some one remembered having
seen some old fans in the shop window
of a perfumer named Vanier, who lived
in the Rue Caumartin. Vanier had col-
lected old fans for some timeas an ama-
teur. His fans were taken to the palace;
in the quadrille they created a furor and
were all. purchased. The Duchesse de
Berri's ball began the renaissance of- the
fan.—Louisa Parr in Elarper's Magazine.
lieneflt from the Flood.
Occasionally there is some benefit dee
rived from a flood, A small creek at
13lcssburg ripped up the mountain side,
during the flood rampage and, revealed a,
good vein oft coal and two of iron ore—
one being over four feet thick—a splen-
did bed of fire clay, and a valuable i'banle
of .building and molding sand;- .hila,.
delphia Record,
HOSPITAL. i$EMEDIE$e.
There is anew departure in the treatment
of disease., It consisteiin. tete collection of
the specifies. used, by noted speoialists, Of
Europe and America, aAd bringing them:
within the, reaoll,of alt For instance the
treatment pursued by special physicians,
who treat indigestion, stomach and liver
troubles, only, was obtained and prepared,
The treatment of other physicians, celebra-
ted for curing oatarrh were procured, and
so, on till these incomparable cures now
include disease of the lungs, kidneys, female
w,eaknoss, rheumatism and nervous debility.
Ask your druggist for tlietn, Those who
cannot proeure these remedied from their
druggist may remit the price to Hospital
Remedy Co., 304 West Hing St., Toronto,,
and the remedy will be shipped to them
direct,(The price is one `dollar each).
Descriptive oatalegu4 sent on receipt of
stamp to pay postage..
TABIC Sethi e141 witch.
aotdfor failo unmet lately.
Beet $821 *Whitt the world ,''treat timekeeper, War -
.ranted. Heavy olid told:;
Hunting comes, bath ladies
,end *.nte' $zee, With work:,
and cam, it agebi Wee.
omptretraen tr peek 1.•
'aaltty:• cap, Hoar. Bae thee.
toolbar with ow lana sad ma;
* &bbiit nae e!• Hetaitebel.l'
6wbtjNer. Thenwtmpl.e, w:
— W�yoli n attar anti
w*teb, we Bead -
Be'se. aad eliec,.0 bora k.$
Num to year hes• for II Months and Mown them )0 those
Wm Whe day kballad, t; beoo,aeyese mei pr�otty, _ thee*
lr,��ib_�a.write et *see earikplork We*
be *we ll at renelehtigfa 40 cablOWit �ekke Writ%
a
Suppr essm5 Dandle..
A Chinese provincial governor bas re-
aently forbidiien the young men under -
his jurisdiction to wear gorgeously col-
ored and embroidered garments, a prac-
tice which be declares to be foolish and
unmanly, and he warns fathers, elder
brothers and tutors that they will be held
responsible for any inordinate luxury of
apparel'on the part of the youngsters
What would that governor say to the
American dandies who are trying . to in-
troduce the 'fashion of wearing colored
velvet coats? ---Boston Transcript,
'Haymaking in Finland.
A curious way of Making hay is very
generally adopted by the Finns. Poor
men who own no meadows have long
been accustomed to out what, grass they
can find in the forest glades and other
waste lands, " Owipg to the lack of roads
and farmsteads the hay was stuffed
among the branches of neighboring trees
to await the winter frosts and anow,when
it could easily be carried off by sledges.
After a wet season some farmers noticed
that this was actually better tri quality
than that which they themselves had
made from 'mob .better grass. The wild
crop, so to call it, had dried much better
in the tree branches exposed to a free
circulation of air than the rich herbage
which had lain long on the sodden -
ground. Hence it occurred to them to
make temporary trees upon which their
own crops might be dried,
This experiment was attended with
such success that the plan has been widely
imitated and bids fair entirely to sup-
plant the old fashioned methods. .After
the•mowing is clone a. number of poles
about ten feet in length and provided
with longtransverse pegs are set up at
intervals and the grass is loosely heaped
upon thein; The resultis said to be sex-
cellent. -Even in wet weather only a
small portion formingthe outside of the-.
pile is discolored, while the inner por-
tions,` exposed to the, air'beneath•andpro-
tected from. the rain above, are dried in.
perfect condition. Mowing can be car-
ried on in spite of wind and rain, and
when once the grass; is placed upon the
drying poles • it may be left without fear-
of
earof serious damage until the weather
changes. -Mark Lane Express, ,
"General."
With all their democratic theories and
feelings, Amerlcans,are not a whit be-
hind the rest of the world in a fondness,
for honorary titles.
When Samuel C. Pomeroy, afterward
Senator Pomeroy, was on his way from
Massachusetts to settle in Kansas, his
traveling companion, a man familiar
with western customs, said to him: .
"Pomeroy, a man on the frontier is nes.
body without a handle to his name. You
must certainly have one of some kind or
other." •
Mr. Pomeroy declared that he was not.
entitled to any, but his friend persisted:
"'You were once a member of the Mas
tachusetts. general court, weren't you?"'
"Well, that will answer perfectly."
The new comer was•accordingly intro-
duced as "Gen, Pomeroy," and as long;
as he lived he was known by that title.,
--Youth's: Companion:.
Faote About Life:
The statistics recently published by a
leading life insurance company contain
many interesting points.
Americans live longer, than our foreign
born citizens.
Among foreigners next to the Ameri-
cans stand. the Irish, English and Ger-
mans, in the order named.
Few Germans or Engiishrnen die of
apoplexy.
Germans furnish the highest percent=
age_of suicide.
Native Americans are comparatively'
free from diseases of the liver.
Typhoid fever has the most victims in
the northwest and' the 'fewest ire tee'
south,, but in. tete latter section there is a,
large martality'from other zymotic dig-
easesand mei° liver disease; but less kid:.
ney disease,—Atlanta Constitution.'
A Helping Rand.
Frederick Greenwood, in. an alrticle.ire
The Nineteenth.Centtlry, makes- a,pciint
in favor, of belping;the man who, is, in,
itomporary .trouble rather than . the.
chrpnic poor. The point is a good.. one,
:Every well to do mann Gen, by keeping.•
'his:eyes and heart both Open, keep from
dropping into the sliinie; some family:
that has inet with temporary disaster..
Those who aretrying to help themselves
aro the ones least likely to get a helping
'hand, One church, in a northern city
keeps,a private register. of the financial
conditionof all members, and has it as
the duty, of the deaeona to see that no
one's misfortunes• lower them in social
position; or break thein up,. Any one.dis-
covered. to be in need is promptly, but
secretly, relieved. —4 St. Louis Globe -
Democrat.
The Sugg of the Sporran.
It. would be impossible to rid this
country of the .English sparrow. The
pertinacity of the Best was never better,
illustrated thane by the Delilah, sailnr's,
bit of doggerel, w,hioh runs:
:Tlaq bloom/al, ? bltledlia' sparrow, Op, wp nab,.
'bloody ifilOPN•
:'rite• hleedin' 'then, carpo, dQMri.vatl`, washed they
bioomiu' sparrow out.
Tho Moody sub canto out( and dried. up the bleed,'
' rain,
•8nd the bloomin', bloody sparroir Went up the•,
bleedin' omit again.
Chicago UeY f11d.,
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O.RDUTtED CLLOTHIN"G
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WEBSTFR,'S.
HATS, CAPS,
COLLARS,SHIRTS,,
.CUFFS, &O
Cheap for KA.SH.
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VV E B S 1., E R' S
THE . CITY GROCERY
CHANGED HANDS.
J.,READING
Having purchased H. I]iscock's'grocery and made heavy putt-
chases in
GENERAL,
ZTi
GROCERIES and PROVISIONS,
CQufactinaer 'a Crockery,'
ass' are,
He has nor
F SH
GOOD
ARRIVING DAILY,
and offers
SOLID BARGAINS FOR
'Como and see.
A CHOICE STOCK OF GARDE
CASH.
Try goods and ascertain prices,.
N SEEDS & HOUSEHOLD PT•Aw
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G. J. READING.
IMPITMAX
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-.r o
subjoinod we olaim to pitvQ a�
unitistional�ic faat
<" tst. THAT I HANE THE BEST ASSORTED STOCK. •Gp"
WATCHES, CLOCKS AND JEWELLERY IN WINGHAM.
2nd. THAT THE QUALITY OF MY GOOFS:IS EQUAL TO
THE BEST.
3rd. THAT MY PRICES AIuE SUCH' THAT IT IS SAFE AND!
FI•TAi3LE FOR ALL TO DEAL WITH ME.
TEST THIS Pam a-OT7'Risj; -s
BY CALLING ON
E. FGERSTET
' .A. N- 0 ScT GOO D S
THE MISSE8 MALLOY
Have changed their business pre tinges to the shop lately+ occupied. ;'
Mrs.. McCance, next' .loon to S. Ctscfy's furniture warerooms, where I '
will welcome old and new patrons. CI sto'mers will find amongst the nume>'.', ..
articles usually kept in a. fluacy store,, Silks for for A, -t Needle. Work. Medieval Lace for Trimrnini,
GLOVES, HOSIERY, UNERWEARS,
A PP IQU,E EMBROIDERY,
MtIAUILEsZVI; • EMEROIDERY,
POINT ACL '
POINT LACE AND EMEOIDERY MADE TO ORDEI" .
Sternpinn in newest designs. Knitting Silk. lfiaterial for Point Lace
'elle Tailor system taught,' Feathers,. Stitched Braids,
DlESS•1tAKIN~G IN ALL ITS BRANCHES.
Mt Neal Mill 'oened,
The tuideraignee desire to inform farm
.ors and the people generally that they has
reopened their
0it , Neal Neill ' rngh8m,
And are now prepared to purehase Oats in
unlimited quttntitiea,anel at the
Itighestflarkei Price,
They will simply cnfttomcIe with. the Bred
GUAOSs.•iti Oat Meal.
.LIDER & CiLEGG,
i.t X C T.A l . . t"swt•t`I,
• TO RENT.
A Pplendid RRYCIi sr mi ecrztrr11" inratt4 N
,rosetthlrie street, opposite the rtntnotiitk Lute,, the "
hnikltne 19 72 feet In 52 two Atories Ancil (;nod cant
age. 5e, and flat srritnble for resldriee. Apply to -
.7. 130..J:, mh•opr;,, Jr, fi, 1 kI11, Contractor,
, 1Yaraock, Winghatn
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