HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1889-7-25, Page 6OA.11ADATWBNITTWO TUB'
8e8OWTH.
Our €lant Dominion climbing to Nation. -
tatty. anti reacerul 'rearm or l'rogres,s
Are 'Milestones Elton the WizIny unit*
way et Hs nresperity.
Agron. the border Inners at slow going
Canada heoe givenplace tO auger with the
Voting giant Which ia llecealfally competing
with the greete'Republio for the carrying
treat' of two eteitinente. Piing contempt
for a few etraggline colenieo has been replac-
ed by jealensy of ensition which le bard Atter
their own in the emit of progrese. In the
United. &tato the progeos and resources of
title young Dendrites* ere appreised at their
foil valne1 and eVOU in Europe the name end
Janne of Cautida see known.
But the number of theee who are without
faith in their own emirate* is repielly gro,
big lees. The sueeceding anniverearies of
Cstuedteas birthday, eaell mar/ring 4 Mile-
stone in national progress, aro gradually
bringing conviction ev en tothem, that Canada,
la truly a great nation. Let est on this
coming entail:emery calmly review the Pre -
grass of the past, dwell for a moment on the
possibilities of the future, and zee if there is
not abundant: r Oilen for faith; in our Pomint-
TORONTfis aialica TO OREATiaSS.
l'erent0 was merely on ovengrewa
166.3. Ita.t.hat azid followieg yena sheep
watrierea at Urge in the Meant fields and
fen
an easy Prey to Wks Of tagloa canines,
the aerie toe pletlitele cLvis teessetuy aelog
Oxame upon in 186S kr 1220.49 to make
geed lows to eueteined. But Toronto
is atm far removed from the tage of
develeproent attained On the day when A
new melon watt term Mile after mile cf
irepre ved titres* have tatn. tbe piece o
mud readwoya, rectertee and wmehoesee b
hue epreng up m If by tante in the aaceut better *tenting than can this Censide
04141, Thickly plented bewail have eup. gene
plasma the orchud and the earn pace arid The Paticzni mentio 1314 1°""n4
the bum of industry to beard now where $1;COO.fifiirga I503. to 1520010(Q in 1972,
twenty years ago the saillneta weit broken V2440%000 in 1$771 to na3,000.0a0 nlaSa.
only by the elegieg of lards end the lowlog 35.040.600 i188S.., „
of gettle, A population of 50,at0 basin. Daring the vane Perm% 4o° 1°"w"15'
etooad to 1eCea00; en inurement et eame, aro has tecremed ea tollaws :-IP 166S Con.
thirg aver a20,000,(00 hut grown to $1150 aa bad 2,25S miles of eailway, in talc% 4S
000 VA arci total income from ell eaurcee dee• itt Ifi$0 6,691+ and In18$
(lesuess aral current reVerilitt inglin140) Of mile&
aate 04.10 te a ceenel tee muss fame Omega Int the last thirteen years the treln mileage
ether thee texatieu of belt it million and bee loomed from OOVenteen to tbittY•4"4
ore of a militen and tbree geertets from rex, minicar relive; the aerobe.; of penwegera
Mane IOW, Arekri item Ave to ten millteee ; the tote
Teen *to &few other bete which nae of frelakst Item the to *meanie nail,
Omuta ondeesed Vamp 414 whitth licurs and to "FerlAtege fr°n1 nantt4en
tu
o to thole thee it Is not by steps but by fertimffilott dofliri.
tope and bereide that Torate's onward Tao followieg table will tan At A glatiCe
premix is zuemured. In 1669 the total the Iranian (leveler:neat of banking enter-
s:Frio expeeditore on sewers mad rostawsete Priv*
wu milts $30a000. In IS51 the eapeuditure Natalie
=der ;hie need wee ;wetly 81,000,C00. c2r.-•eve Cett, gateate, „wan
Ite Oren miltege to -day II 235 tulles. or )srattorrowt asaaga e eeseeaae e eatieeeee
sleetble tbet of eight argue etre. In the &et la; Viemt.4) ,c.,5 tome ci,o1Atsle leateente
year of Cenfeeleretlon mar total cleft; expend- tete cealeaerso leseto,fea al.iicataoo :saaiaortacri--,
Mae WWI ciOntidtbribly leu than $1.000,000. h1,2 te KA% P U.tto.cce Ileetoefes iZt.WhifK
This year the expenditure OP menet avd cW"0.1.1" '504" 114141'"°" "C.7"'4""(C
ourreni anomie will aggregate over *ix aud The deposits ha Poet effice 'sand Govern -
ben million dame, or equivalent to one- meat Swings bsuks .how the following re
ball the receipt's of the Dominion Govern- roarkehle *mice el increase
melt from coneolidate4 zerentie ia the first Deresia.
year of the letter's exhale= The city
rumen treday over ten million dollars
orit FARintils ARE pRosPERor s
But Ontario's progress not guaged alone
by tile advancement oftite educational in-
terests, Material comforts and, financial gain
have kept pace with growing pepular in-
telligteee,
The prorpetity of Toronto i .ion an eVi-
dence of that Which exists therfghout the
GEN. BITTLBR SLEVL TIM,
--
lite Welts Cellip rnieeesity Literary seeleties
$oingthing About Cantina.
WATEnvii.LE, V.% truly 3. -Gen, Ben
lamtu F„ Buller delivered ti_a address before
the literary societies of Celby 'University
last evening on " The Aenexetian et Can -
province, The log farns bore heeeefiweu Ada." These are Seine of the thinghe
piece to the brio); Zdes:We, the hack -1;04k- geld r
big cradle to the sell.f-biuder, and imprOVed We hear men. Seine Of Wilma hold poet-
imniereente of every eeserip,tien hove ligan
:wed the labourot thehasbandletin. itt the
last five years the value of farm implement!!
hee heenedded to by al2.c00.000. live stook
by $24,000,000, and bit:Whigs be $52,0e0,000.
EDT lin ORPATXSE OP ARP IS
When
-
When we come to deal with the Dominion
as e whole we find that the thewing le no
leo eetiatectorys In 1S1$S thevalue of geode
importedfor gonsumption only amounted to
• $72000,00, Last year the total WWI ICP...
600,000. Our exports haveieereased during
the same erica from 157,000,000 to 590,04)0,.
CO, In ten yeara the value of exporta under
Aa -the nision oe these two great English,
ed by a fourth the value et woman n
tions which stateatilea should SII, epeak of
the annexetion of °made to Ode etweetre"
With the same levity as one la the ordinary
walks of Ine might "meek of the tetaieg of a
tail to a dog -,-.4 little difilcalt it? de, but of
itself a very small mitten* But how ehould
this be 'Team of if the tail might; happen
te Jaeger than the doge In my belief,
thie Woolens talk, belittlitsg alike to the
Comedian and %tutting to the might and
power of Great Britelin le one of the chief
obetaeles to what every patriot) in the
'United States, arid every Engliehmen In
(*amide. if not la the Empire, meet, if the
the had egraultutal prednets beep cilisation ie billy untleesteed, greatly deelto
thew produets expextea etyma an increase ePeekleSPeePlee oo tbie eeutlueut, Itthich
from $14,0e0.000 to a24,000,Q00 ; the 'Value tatiAt baPPeli if dentecracy bi not to be *
of cattle exportedbminceeesea from letsthan More, thet this coutineat OW be the
one million tit aeaelv gevezi ; sea tbe home and exemplar et Knglish freedom a4
an het nee, being mew waged, et iropeeved hy Axeetwee valets area American
eha xport of cheeee baa been trebledoeur exporta of the goglieb faagaaSos ea modified and
000, The valae et tmperte and export% doee oaterPrfLte
not after all gIye a very clear Idea, ot a CANADA'S ItIAIENSE :10=44
nation's pruperity or etherwin; they Ate The Unita great itiet to tte talon into eon -
regulated be a great degree by the extent ta sideration when we ePeale eo lightly of ilie
whieh e cOtMt117 ie Vdt CV#14ate4 er ether-, stoPeletion of eneeda lbo immense erne
whe, Tbe =falling bare/eider witich make which bateau; 40 per cent, of all amp:owe,
with teaming Accuracy tbe peupetity or on cf target Briton, wbezever ettueted oe
advereity ot o natiO4 is the itatletaal reVersue, ilie glebeA Thern ii ro4nniwiror tlitee
dtieb
facilittersegorded foe treffie, tbedevelcpeneut Indtotpomade:sae within tbe Dominion of
f it peettcffiee eervice and the records of COI:Adel and enough turnery left eeer cat
claw instittitioze. Taking tilt' se the of which the area of Greet Britein might be
of celintletign, no country Mete A tive tbnei tAgn, Moder a emairee ere
t pigmies to 1±.farthere le resan lit *Auden
1668,••...,.•.• •
worth of rod eetate, tt figure which repro.
gents about ontelmli tbe mussed value ot
vJ1tboroperty In the city twenty year' 18S2....„••••••••
eee
ago, asid more 'then* tenth of the gran debt 1°44 • • • • • •
et 1110 Dominion in tint first yen of Corded- I) text titbits shows
erittion. The imports luto the city bet Flee end Life I:nurse:Ice
year were swirly a third that of the whole
Dornielon In its fleet Tear end treble whet EIRE.
ehey were 113.1E6S.
!YEAR.
. $1,785 000.
'RECEIVED.
• • .$ 116971000.
, . • 5,000,000.
7,000,000.
.• . 21,000,000.
40,000.000.
.SPEOM OF TDB PEOPLE. eeee.„ .
But our cblef pride as citizens le in our
Magnificent anbito echoed system. There
is nothing better ode:cited to develop
this high ideal than a welt deviled seatern
of national edneetion a syetem which en•
wares to every child itslent a remonably long
comae Ms schools' rosinteined at the public'
=posse, and lettere it Is not only fitted for
the ordinary butinese of life, but is Mkewitte
prepared for the bigber duties of citizen.
'hip by obtaining a fair knowledge of, our
eestem of government, the responeibllity
its resting upon each II:WWI:ha citizen, and
where pride in and love for the coentry el
birth are developed by etories of paat
ublevements and, future possibilities. In
no country in the world is there e. better
representation of this system than in Can-
ada. And In no province of confederation
does this system attain to high a develop-
mental' in our own. In the Queen City,
this Public school system moat nearly ap-
irroacties perfection. Large, imrsing, well -
ventilated and excellently equipped build.
lugs are conveniently located, and at welch
the Children ot poor and rich are equally
free toattend without money and without
price. % In no way can the program of the
first city of the first:province of our glorious
Dominion be so clearly and atrikingly set
forth as ty a few figures showing the pro-
Rgtaa of her echooll since the first. year after
Confederation was accomplished. The nine
schools and 41 teachers of 1863 have in-
creased to 40 of the former and 300 of the
latter.
enroartott THE:EROV1NCE.
While tte province as a whole does not
show the some rapid advancement in educa-
tional facilities as this oity, still that pro-
gress is of a most satisfactory nature. Al-
-though the number of Public echools in
Ontario has only increased by about a third
in twenty years the number of teachers em-
ployed hex almost doubled, and the salaries
-of them teachers and the total ezpenditure
in connection with the schools have a good
deal more than doubled, thus indicating the
increasing efficiency of eohools already in
existence. It muse be to every citizen of
this province a source of unqualified pride
to know that four and a half million dollars
was expended on High, Public and Separate
eoloole last year. There is just one cause
for discouragement in connection with this
showing, and that le, that notwithstanding
all the advantages offered for popular edu-
cation., over 20 per cent. of She children of
Ontario, between the ages of seven and
thirteen, attended school for less than 010
days in 1887.
The following figure's, showing the pro-
gress of the High, Public' and Separate
et:loons of this province since' 1868, will
prove interesting :-
Puttee sracooss.
No. of Average No. of Salary Total ex
schools attend.. teach. paid. pewee..
Year:
18e8-9,318 160,673 8,760 81,000,000 $1,532,C00
1872-4,490 178,117 5,222 81,320,000 62438,476
1877-4,955 204,636 5,334 51,867,000 42,853,973
1812-5,010 100,602 6,467 82,000,000 eeeseeso
1887-5,532 295,152 7,584 52,458,000 83,742,001
HIGH SCHOOLS.
1068- 101 2,542, 161 $ 95,00 8117,000
1872- 164 4,040 239 8141,000 8210,000
1877- 104 5,287 280 5211,000 S343,000
1E82- 104 6,728 332 5253,000 $348,000
1E87- 112 10,227 - 308 8527,605 E405,000
SEPARATE SCHOOLS.
1868- /62 9,806 236 038,846 65,452
4872- 171 10,584 254 845,824 0 08,810
1877- 186 12,549 334 870,200 8120,266
1E82- 193 18,574 ' 820 vs 000 8154,840
0807- - 491 - 3211,223
the vast Increite
busineu ;
4,11
MEE
ASSURANCES
ZEPECTED.
. $12.000.000
18 2 n 47 .01 000 MO
7 • • e- e . s 4
1877........ 3,764,000- ..... . /3,000,000
1882. • .. 11 4,229,000.• • ..... 20,000,000
1886." 4,032,000.. a8,000,000
But perlisps tbe most remerkibleprogren
of all Is indicated in the following short
table, showing the increase in the number
of post (faces end lettere carried by rain: -
ere:. OP LETTERS AND
TEAR. uPFICES. CARDS POSTED.
3969. • • • •• I • .13 WEL • • . ... 18,000,000
46 000,000
1887.-a-1.53 .........
1888........7,671... 90,000,000
• POPULATION AND TERIIPTORIAL EXTENT.
Our population and territorial extent
show the same wondetfal expansion as do
our trade and oramerce.
Commencing with a mettered and disunit-
ed population ot 3,000 COO, we have grad-
ually moved up to 3,640,000 in 1871, to
4,300.0(0 in 1881, and tceday we have not
less than five and a half million people joined
'in commerce by binds of steel. their hearts
beating response to one patriotism and ani-
mated by a common feeling of pride in the
flag which shelters them.
But while our increase in numbers eas been
eatiefactory, nothing can appeal more strong-
ly to the imagination or arouse more pat-
riotic) fervour than a contemplation of an
increasein area from 416,0e0 eghare xnile
in 1868 to 3,470,000 square milea in 1889.
Ounpopulation may seem small in compari-
son with that of tha I7nited States, but it
equals or excele either the ancient kingdom
of Egypt, that thriving hive of Industry;
Belguim, the maritime union of Sweden
and Norway, or the plucky little guardian
of the Danube, Roumania,
Our national revenues equal those of
Portugal or Norway and Sweden, are one -
'seventh in excess cf theee of Mexico, and
treble those of Swift rland.
Our railway mileage is as greet as that
of Austria or India double that of Spain,
treble that of Brazil and long enough to
form five separate lino across the 'broad
Atlantic.
But great as is the progress of the past
it is but a promise of that which is to come.
We have territorial extent forty dines
greater than that of the German empire,
and excelled by only one nation under the
sun. Our resources in sea, forest and soil
are inexhaustible. Every province but one
is rich in almost every known mineral.
We have copper, gold and iron enough to
supply the world, and in the North-west
alone there is a coalbearing strata double
the entire area of Portugal.
Blob in resouroela, illimitable in extent
and with boundless faith in her own future,
Canada is the peer of any nation under the
canopy of the broad heaven&
Bringing Him to the Mark.
"Ilea you do really love me, Charlie?"
"Love you, Jenniel With all my heart
and soul." •
" Well I'm glad to hear you say so, but-"
"Bub what? Surely you cannot have any
doubt of the, sincerity of my affection '
"-NOILexactly,
"Still what 74
"Well, I thought if you hadloved me you
would have • a -that is to say -I tbkHf
thought, you. know, you would have kissed.
me before this -that is-"
e(TIpon my eon', Jennie, knowieg you
were a Botton girl I didn't dare to, but here
goes now, yen bet-"
Let the curtain fall.
TO Olt Wee Gerntati Empires. The
111101A of Canada holde within ite 11Oned.
an etee et 3,470,322 mare miles,
de the Pitted States (Pot inoladleg
sane, el which tbe limito ere unkaawn) has
me* of 2,970,400 square mike, or risieg
000,000 tenter° milet lees time Cowie,
Canada and ber eurrotuadieg waters coutala
mate analeelf of all tbe froth writer of tbe
globe. Blom bear that great feet la mind,
for I repeat it is A foundation of the re-
etalrete to Melte gee et the greeteat netione
On tarth,
EAR CI.IMATE.
The general idea, whoa ehliating ol Caw
Oa, le that her bleb letitudes meet be
team of Aretle cold. The Weenie boaa of
water known se Iludeenla Bay, 1,000 mile*
lona and 600 utiles wide, tItuist (IOWA into
the centre of Canada, and whicle in ordinary
comprehension, being connoted with the
Meta of the Arctic eclair, Is deemed to be
wholly frame over for a greet Taxa of tiro
year, averages *Tee or four degrees -higher
ternporeture tbau the water On the *meth-
wesmna ;hero of lento Superior. Aud wo
rnuet remember tliat on the eautlawestern
elsores ot lAke Superior lie alichigana atis-
mural end Minnesete of our Nortbeweet,
Ile we claim any State More flourishing!, any
land more fruitful, or any part of tbe bolted
States *Mob be; made greater programa then
(ho great Nortlaweet, to which the star of
Empire Oates its way.
Canada hes quite ave quarter more laud
fitted for wheat cultIvation than hes the
whole Milted Stites. It mey be eifely
saki, then leaving out the worn-out wheat
lends of the* Ualted States, Caned', bag twice
tbo extant of unworreont lauds, which pro.
duce sm average of more thin twin the num-
her of tolehola to the gore than aregrodueed
by the avenge lends of the Unito
Stites.
and on some land" wheat bee been raked In
the largest producing quantities' for tweaty
you in eueceellen without a fertilizar•
TO WIWI LIZ En DA ZS.
ilm••••••
. Strange Affliction Which Nis V 1(033
Penetrated a Georgia Name aster.
Joseph Oscar Johneon was sent to Roff
Boma a few days ago, and his mule is nroba-
bly one of the moat remsekable that ev,r
went to that or any other hospital. Bela a
aralytio, and one side le entirely melee's.
be stroke came on him eorne two months
ago. Bo la a l000motive engineer, and was
able to mike a good living. Be had leen a
good deal of tho world, and generally saw
the 'bright side of it. It vras in the town of
Clinton, S. O. , that the stroke came on
Ho was on sun thee carried him into that
toter, He wasoneday doing someevork pu his
engine, and talking to some one standieg
neer. At the moment be received the Mow
he wee in the sot of laughing, and, atrange
to say, the muscles and nerves of the face
that are brought most into play in the act
cf laughing aro the ones that are most effect-
ed, and over them be has no control what-
ever. Be feels, of course, that there is little
left for him to live for, being utterly help-
less, and it is neceesatily a sad thought] to
him. But be can not think of it nor tell
of hie trcubles:ernet the dcuhts and fears that
torment him without laughing.
Be has a wife and five children, and when
this sfilietion came upon him he Went to bit
father-in-law, who lives in Wilmington, N.
0., and told him of his condition and of his
inability to care further for bit family, and
telling him at the same time that for himself
he did not wish to be &burden upon anyone,
but would go 'somewhere and seek *seclusion
and calmly await the closing ef what :was
henceforth to be a useless life. The recital
°this parting with his wife was most pathie
tio and heartrending, yet with tears in his
eyes and a heart full of agony he was forced
to laugh aa though he had been telling the
most ludicrous incident.
He has wandered from one county to
another, and has frequently gone for sever-
al days without a morsel to eat. Recently
he spent a night in the woods in a violent
rainstorm. His crippled leg refused to nerve
lalm longer, and he was compelled, without
shelter, to take the violence of the storm.
Is thin' clothing was wet to the skin, he
suffered the pangs of hunger, and the recital
of it all made him shudder all over, yet he
laughed all the while he was telling its It
was a most pitiful sight. He says he dare
not go to allure& lest he be amused of mak-
ing sport of the services and be requested to
leave the church. And as foi a funeral it
would be out of the question for him to
attend one. lei - -se
His ciao is most pitiable one, and is the
more so because he is only awaiting the
only relief possible for him and one that) he
would hail with pleasure and almost) prays
--osiennee-
At Grippsland, in Australia, they have
earthworms Six feet long. They live in
burrows on the sloping sides of creek's and
are sometimes turned out of the ground by
the plongla They have a curious smell,
like preoeothe and fowls refuse to teach
them; but old natives of the district `say
that oil made from them is good for rheu-
tism. There are two other varieties of
AB YOU LIKE IT.
A Pareresta
Whet is a girl's life, ray?p
A little garden epaee
Within whom temp. spring
She eeetther beauteous faee :
Where eite ht eoloposeessor
Of all oho hears and eees,
ram the flating of hires in summer
To tbe honey of the bees;
leosy wreaths and istrasge of pearl
All beloeg to the happy girl.
And what is a boan life, pray':
A %dot, shady nook
Mara he has aothieg to-do bet play
Nor over read a licele;
A kingdom of contentment,
Which every hour diteloses
Some new delight of 'lenge and sight,
Medi growth of eweeter roses
A rich inheriteace of joy
That aromas with, light the happy boy.
We might be more than haPetr
And lead such perfeee lives,
If alt of us were children
And none were haaaands, wives;
Bat boys grow and girls grow,
Together or spirt,
Till IMMO day each *Hoover
The ether bee a heart,
Tble helves; their joya and doublet tbet
caress,
And ends in wrinkles and grey halm ;
ln the feat that rock the cradle,
in the band's that ton for bread,
The trouble about theliving,
The IlerrelW elieve the deed.
What eau we do, then? Notting ore
Titan theta wive begot and bore as -
They make our fivea before ne
At theire were made before.
We meat be up owl doing,
alaitlerta flying entl ruon punulen ;
Then hey I for billing and cooing,
And he 1 far wooing eud wiening,
The world wilt never mend I
Love was before the begInehig ;
And will be efter the cud.
The men veto regietere at a landed b
Can be sititd to be on the 44 Xntired net*"
McLean, a Seatchnume is Cemmand-
er•trecbief of tbe army of the Sultan of
MCICeee 4 Po.
liVben any calamity boa been euffered, the
flue thin to be remembered, le how rough
bee beers female:el,
It is .1 old Viet Gov. Boulemeer he* gra
tired et London and nuteropletee =Akin
there trip to Amerlea.
That's a law epot with Inc," etemeae
the tramp at he eurveyed the feemera wood-
Stontwonion eliou14 mold tette, horizontal
owe of trimmiag tied ornenteutation at the
%peal elemeaseare Vero, Lea. sae:a;
lan propene, God aisposee, women die -
compose", tbo divoresecourt interposes!,
and the prees exposes.
The altiuteipality of Moran, Man, have
paid the bays for 4,560 gopter tail's at the
rate of 20 cents a dozers.
An old man named John McCartney, of
Handitors, was killed on a Grand Trunk rata
wiy croulog at Toronto on Saturday.
Advice:should he like a gentle fall of snow,
end not like a driving sitorm of ben. It
should &legend softly, and not be uttered
Infants' dreier* made of white Chine stik
are coming in favor. They wash trite nice -
I , but the material le more I salt Melo for shore
the fooliah expenditeres now COU1113013 in I
in/pirate. Ael 111Ottera are at Font, only the,
well -to doqen Ward' to die.
M.. Bert recently 'sewed the tip ef a rat's
tall into HS hacht, and itt the tail, immedir.'
ta'ely took root tni its new poition- Then he
ent the loop thee formed by the tail and Oa
rathad two tails, e bas lotted, however,
that as a rule, the new tail he no geneWpa
li. 1st. Pea she,a
aTdeil
tle°4 taoutbge"
Poleg
leg boner. Of the " mei of Spy" to the Oen-
elusion that nese liemotti ancestors of the
heraan race had their lower extremities bail
bear, like Own anthropoid apes that isamble
trees.
QOV. eteen, of Trenton, alt 3, The Times
relate:a tells a good Story at hlm own ex,
perne„ A few daps ,ago, waile he War*
waiting for a train at the Bilifeheithf station*
he engaged, the Service of a Juvenile hoot.
Mack. Aa the yctuthplieelhia broke& the
Governor grew aomehlea and pleasautly
icquired ;-ealionee besmets, aahenlea'
"Name ain't 4-filinnie*" loco/Melly answered
the Jed .; NAM'S Tommy.' Slightly taken
backlay Tommy's indispesitica to besociable
the Governor said nothing for a while,.bat
fiotilly, deciding to Impress the young,
ster to a slightextent, he remarked: +4 Well
Tnn3mY, 1 guess you don't know who Item,
do You VeOs folowed Put foo8,egosu
said Tommy. " who am * Yer
Bab Greana. tether."
"DOT Nag DIANFAS."
ow 10 sot tert,over OTerelete at ore
Theo. triae Illandred Ter Vegan Tula,
genzugh" geld a Chicago anterolieut
clothier, eddreesieg bit clerk, 01m4 you stole
all of den evergoele vet Via lett over from
beet Tinter 7"
"2io, eir ; dere vie vireo of dem left yet,"
44 V014 VC niit013 atIl °BM tight away. Being
me one one uf cia geMts, Piet 1 vin 'tow you
egetedieg 'Teat plentet. 1 vill dell you
bow ve Vill Sell dere and, mid you meet
team do plitleal, lierMati. De tinter bee
pee, you know, und ee ha h44 don goata
in de store more it seee years."
An eight dallier Overettat watt handed him
y bis clerk, end eineetbing It out he took a
buokakin nioneypuree irom the eireweme,
ad enfant; It fall, of paper dropped iteinto
ue of the aoekete.
1Now, Nerredin, my poy," isa cc/nth:sued,
o.vetab me soli dee goat. 1 het sold over
dirtying tat dere gloat do Sane %qty. owl 1
vent to dente you de Omni. Von de
asi easterner come* la do *hop 1
de vey Robe Reffetatein, mine broder
Detroit, eelle bit catalog uud uader
41
few minutes later e negro, in quest of
ble pair of "shoes entereclastatealow•
peoprietor *Aimed, smiling, mid
Inquired; Vat is It you wish 7"
" Yor gat any deep thou herial" asked
the macro.
otBienay ut dem, my freut, blendy-at
any price you vent."
The negro shad, that be wanted apabr
of brogue, and soon his paid extant:Mae
were ensued In Mem et 4 bareein. ate he
was about to leave the peoprletor cellea bira
beak.
"I ain't Vane to buy male else. rati
got all I want," geld the negro eullonly.
"Dat may be Nei my dear sir," replica the
proprietor, "but I shut vents you to look
at tilt goat. It Yall the pate Rusalan wool'
und die dints Int year you doin got de
1141110 got for ean. aline gracious', chiding
vu gone down to nodding, and dere was no
mammy in de plums any loosen Do con-
sumption us going nand, tied do doctors
dell me it VS5 do Tedder. More den nbae
roue theu the first long rebus. beeblualed round where I bit lest week.
The amber of suicidee in the United Dink of dot 1 Mine frtent, dot goat vas
States last year, as closely as can he figured, Russian veal, ;Mk und beefy, Ty, Milder
was 7,000 and the majority of these were Janes, who mut de pank on Ceuta
farmers and fermata wives, street, took dot got home mid lam yester-
Ten and thee -quarter miles le the range day end vore it all day; but itvas a leetle
5
tbe remelt limaortas
e obtained for the 43 -ton gun tight de shoulder, tuid he nrodght
3feet long, with an 800 -weight projectile
It pack ehnst a vile ego. Dry it on, my
and 426 pounds of 'powder. dear tar. Mr. ;one Nfte a rich mate und he
We, Blimin-Now, then boys air eider's. liked dot gut. Bow deep de bookee vas,
The Census Taker -No yon meenbrathere. but It vas a leetle dight acrote de shout.
ors,
ears. Bilgrin-Ne, dasirter% ; mean les what I
say ; they are ray She lives nextdThe nero buttoned the cost, thrust oor In the red house. hh bands gInto the pockeupts and felt the purse.
A. peaceful amile played over his face 'Wien
Ms torah dieolosed to bits mind the contents
of one of the pockets. But he choked down
his joy, and inquired ;
"Who did you nay wore this lam
coat ?"
" lay, Mister Jones vet Met the bank on
Canal streed."
"What yer gwine ter ax fur kV
**It vas marked dirty dollars and vat
sheep at dot, but non can buy' him for
twenty dollars to -d'
"Dat's powItd high price fur dis goat,
bat I'll take it,"
" Kamen, here, wrap up die goat fur do
shentleman und drove in a cravat; it wM
make him look nice mit the ladies."
" Nebter mind, I'll keep detest on,"
replied the negro; and pulling out a roll of
money he paid for 18 and left the store.
While he was around the next corner
mourning over the stuffed purse Haffensteln
said to his oleark
"Herman, fix up anudder von of dose
goats de same way, nnd don forget to dell
dat libeler Jones, vot runs denude on Canal
streed, yore it yesterday,- (St. Paul Her -
rad.
The newuniform of the Russian Imperial
Horse Gaurds includes a spotless wbite•
cod, top boots reaching above the knees,
and a helmet of what looks like pure gold,
surmounted by an enormous eagle of silver.
An elephant killed recently in India and
secured by the Central Mueeum, of Madras,
when mounted as a ekeleton meataired 10
feet 6 inches in height. %his is said ta be
the largest elepliant ever seen in India.
- The Britieh Inepector of Army Remounts
has corapleted a liat of 14,000 home, for
aide of which the War Office pays the sum
of 10s. annually to have the right of using
the animate instantly in este of an emu-
geney,
D. Augustus Vazderveer, who owns a
large vineyard at Manalapan,'N.3., has put
paper begs over ten thousand bunches of
letrootsw.ing grapes as a protection agelnet in -
The Anatrian troops are being armed with
the Manlicher rifle. .At target practice re-
cently this weapon sent a bullet two and a
half miles, fatally injuring a soldier who
chanced to pass the line of fire.
The " Monetuart" maneion of Lord Bute,
near Rothesay, is said to have cost not less
than 88,000,000, and is believed to be the
largest and costliest plicate palace in exis•
tulAc.beOnt 30,000 people a day- go up the
Eiffel tower. Of these between 3,000 and
4,000, go to the top. On an average a per-
son has to wait about an hour to go up in
the lift. ,
A Southern newepaper offers to give a
city lot to every new subscriber. A rival
paper makes the tame offer and agrees to
throw in a city hall or a street railroad.
The military.pigeon service bee become
a part of the military system of almost every
country in ° Europe , France, Germany,
Austria, Reeds, Italy, Spain and Portugal
have adopted it.
An American has set up a school in Parts
and advertises. that he "-will teach any
Frenohman to speak the only seneible
language in the world in six weeks and at a
cost of only $25."1
Farragut, in 1866, said that the armor
eventually would come off the side of war
vessels, put the time has not come yet.
Several of the new war veesels now building m eo co er.
in EuroPe are to carry 30 inches of steel
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TELEGRAPHICS BRIEN.
The Masonic: Grand Lodge will meet iii
Kingston next year.
Oil bats been ithicovered almoet in the cent-
er of Vancouver City, B. C.
Prof. London and a companion will ex-
plore Lake Mistarialni in Northern Quebec.
St. Boniface, Man., people have been as-
tonished by a great "cave in "of earth.
The by-law for an extra grant to the
Guelph Junction Railway has been defeated.
A farmers' and mechanism' institute has
been formed at Corbetton, Melanothon town-
Oharlee Stanford, of Teeterville, evhite un-
loading hay, fell to the ground and broke Ms
neck.
De Justice implores French Canadians
to study curret4 events and to be ready to
voMte.r. Anderson, the Atlantic!' mail 'Coe-
traotoi, says the new fleet will be ready in
(1. 1?, R. people isay their trains will run
into Windsor over their own track by the
armor. :mere
-A Buffalo, paper says that' if the city
had the money stolen- front it by.laciodlers
WEAT11.0 MMUS.
it hat the Little /Rinds Yell line Nestling
and on the Wing.
That birds have long been guides to taifata
and agriculturists, every One who /mown
anythieg.anoet papeler weather prognostiee
is well were. Nee only have, the flight and
geuerel adieu of bird's been tested by all
civilized natiene, but among barbarous tenses
io this and other lands the migratory habits
of the ,feathereel tribes have 41400uated the
prognostics of government Opal bureaus,
Wind, rein and other atmospheric elitingeff
are predicted by those who narrowly watch
the migration Of birds, Aza m partic-
ular, who aro close, observera of the hes,
vena abates, the annoephere mound them
and tlae water beneath them bate there
prognostics on all the portlier phases ef
land, water and sky and the elements of life
which people them.
Among the birds which SerVe to guide the
senora to look out for equalise tae Sailor ex-
pects wind when the eormorents fly
ward. If the gulls soar to lofty heights,
and, circling around, utter shrill celee,
storm is approaching. If the parrots whistle
on :shipboard it will rain. If they dross
their feathers and are wakeful it will stem
the next day. It the petrels. gather under
tbe etem ot elitp bad weather will f °now,
The etormy petrel merely betekeue etormy
weather, aud no sooner do they gather in
numbers uuder wake et a ship than miler*
prepare to meet an impending temput,
1,Taateta are (gone observers of the behits
of eirds, and many prognostics are learned
tient the vocalialeey of Mt experienced hen -
ter, wise will etay lusts:ore in the morning
when an ameteur hunter will he tempted
out by tbe clear eley, to come beak tette
rein, or who will find 040 a evacuee tem-
perature tbe mowing le no ;tura precursor
of *warm day. AilloOg the prom:entice the
/meter dreWa from birele a few will euffisee ;
If birde Tata* NOM= grow two,
The wleter wilt be toe coal ler geete.
Bete flying Pete evening indicate fele
weather, mobil t,hey speak fielag it will min
ell the followieg day. A twittery buzzard
4 great altitude indicatee rein, but if bee-
zerde ily higb together it will less fair weetbef
er. ebtokene crow before stirelown it will
rain AleXt day. If they go out la the rain le
will rata all day. If tisey tau to 'shelter It
will nob rale leen. If they come off the
root at night rain Will eitOrt feilt1W. Tim
Zuni lualen hunters 414, when clitrauey
awallowe eirele And call 'they *peek of mare
awl Intlieve redid 4 deep fell of Illeler
wber. polite situms at algae, Denten enel
fiehermen hese * otitis tint "there will be
no rein the "ley tto Crete flite dowel the
creek." One crow flying alone is *sign of
foul weather, bat if crewel Ay in mire the
weather will be fine, If crow* make much
noise eud fly in * excite ride I* expected, If
tbe cuckoo helleaela low lad the weather
will befall., Domeetto fowls, look toward
the sey before rain and go to teen 14 the
daytime. If tbey mend OA elle tiie
weenier will be cold. If blvds aro fat and
eleek Bebruery it i1 A eIgn of more cold
weather. If game walk cut and fly west it
will be eo10. An old proverb gays ; "When
the ben creme expect a atorm within mai
without," and bunters eay tbat the direction
tbe loan fliee in tbe mowing will be the di-
rection of yard the neat day. OW11 booting
In the day time ludieetee rare het if ea
ultaet the weather will be fair.
When the tesfioek lootily bawl.
Soon avehothralkand moans,
Pigeons vamp to their dovecote" unman
ally early before a zebu The habits' *1 0114
geese are watches} earl furnieb, ;may yrog•
nastiest. The following le a popular Tern :
Wild geese, wild getae, going to the sea,
Geed weather 08 0151 be.
Wild geese, wild gene, going to the bill.
The weather it will spill.
Ir. Kamm when the geese fly 40 the
southeast hi!** fall, the rept° expect a
blizzerd.
Vlore Ate =key prognostica of the season
which have their origin in tbs. migrations of
birds, and In the peculiar fermation and ape
pounce of the goose bone, whioh is leaky
looked upon by demand' of people as a,
sure prom:male of whet the canting winter
will be, and in Kentucky If the tom should
be ridged whether the signal :service bureau
or the goose bone should go, the Kentuckian
would cling to the goose bone ; faot, Henri
Watterson, U he had to acme between
the star -eyed goddess of reform and the
goose bone, would nee dare to offend Ken-
tuckians by dinar:ling the prophetic bone.
The people of Kentucky say if the breast:
bone of *goose is red, or has many red spots,
expect a cold and stormy winter, bile if only
a few spots are visible, the winter will
be mild, and they tarnish the following
recipe so that lit may be read intelligently,
which instructions aro as follows:
"To read the winter of any year take the
breast bone of a goose hatched daring the
preceding spring. The bone is translucent,
ana it will be found to be colored and spot-
ted. The dark color and heavy spots indi-
cate cold. If the spots are of light shade
and transparent: wet weather, rain or enow
may be looked ion"
When wild geese and wild ducks move
south the weather will be warm, and birds
migrate south much earlier if the winter
will be early. A severe winter follows if
crows fly south, but if they fly north it will
be an open winter. No killing frost comes
when the martins return to their old haunts;
and the fret song of the robin is the voice
of spring. The swan is said to build its
nest high during lemons when freshets visit
localities where the swan broods, and those
who cultivate lowlands note how the moan's
neat is built. If it is bnilb low there will be
no mammal rains. There are many other
prognostics derived from observing the
habits of bird., of intereet to the seaman
and land lubber, and in conoluding the pop-
ular prognostic of the farmer, drawn from
watching the nest of the swallow, is given:
When the swallow's nest is high
The summer is very dry;
When the swallow bnildeth low
You can ;safely build and sow.
"Kansas Farmer."
Fatal Toronee Bay •
TORONTO, July 18. -Shortly before five
o'clock the other evening a lad about 14
years. of age -earned Thoinas Cartviright, re-
siding at 19'Hagerman street, o,nd jamas
83 Teraulay street, embarked on a
raft to go fislaing on the Credit Valley slip,
at the foot of Simcoe !street. ,„When they ,
were some distance from shore" the timbers
of the raft parted and precipitated' them
Capital Punishment, both into the water. A gentleman who
Teacher, 'describing experiences of the happened to be passing at the time, named
ff H. P, Spellman ran to their assistanoe andi
during the last twenty-five years that the daY to a friend '
sum would pave away street in the city and "In order "to punish Johnny Haiasom fleoectleci in rescuing Fake-, hut before aid
e &him to sit beside Miss Fresh the could reach him young Cartwright had got
keep them in repair for ten years °°°e°
p I girl I th h I."
-An eel suicided in Forsyth Counts,' Ga., p,tfend-i, And how did it work 7"
the other.day. It hooked itself, and, failing T,3aeher-."Juelge for yourself. The �h4-
--to effect its reieaset 'deliberately tied -itself did :flat seem a < whit dieconcerteda and
enormous earthworms known, one inhabd. around the rope Da a hard knot, thereby moiled BO sweetly upon JohnLy that he lost
ing South Africa and the other Southern choking itself to death. his head completely,"
India and Ceylon, but the Australian kiud The Louisville CourienJournal hopes thet Friend-" Why, that ma" capital punish
is the largest, the introduction of esaper °dame may reduce ment, •
tangled in the weeds and wars drowned.
His body was recovered sheet six o'clock
and taken to the morgue. Coroner Johnson
being notified, after hearing the oiroum-
'stances, decided that an inquest w en.
necessary, and ordered the body edtsrlt
over to Undertaker McCabe, on the request
,of the patents.