The Exeter Advocate, 1889-10-10, Page 74'
CURRENT TOPICS.
ON Saturday the city of London eleoted a
Lord Mayor and two Sheriffs. As an evi-
dence that the day of digabilities is over, it
le
only necessare, to Age that the new
Lord Mayor is a Hebrew and 6 Jew, one
Sheriff a Cetholio and the other =Atheist.
IT is Said tletet-a vitet army of tramp ia
abroad alongelni =fire length 0 the Penn-
sylvania Bailwey, and like s warm of
leopete ia dehouring everything edible in ita
DMA, P44094ble people are alarmed
et the iavasion. Farmers, are At the mercy
of these tramps, railway care are pillaged
and train hands asseulted„ The queer
thing about the =Atter 18 that these tramps
ogne from, the mines, factoriee and Ono -
dries of Peuntiyleania, the =met highly
protected State in the Melon, and the Men
are the offspring of the over peotected
tradee. ,
Tree Canadian Flattery Commissioners
who were eent to Europe to =quire into
the state of the herring fisheriea there have
completed their labors and wilt return home
immediately. They visited England, Scot-
land and Rolland, The Scottish fisheries
are very valtieble, as the following figures
will sheve t The video of fish of all kinda
landed on the coasts of Scotland during the
eight months ending 3Ist Auguet, 1889, was
41,155,281, being an increase °vet the opt.
responding period of last year of 260,707.
For the month of Angtist the value - of fish
tended wee 4255,334, which is a decrease of
472,842, oompaxed with the coreeeponeieg
=math of bet per.
Tun mato 0 the British Yoinuteere le
"Defence, no, detience," They aro wholly
far Imam protection and (pelmet be Sent
abroad, The War Moe bee inet elaborated
a gamma ot defence and now every voltam.
teer known exectly. where be le to bo placed
in time of inveteon, whet is required of
him and bow he is to 4,tit to hie destine.
tion, It ie noticeable that in the erree,ge.
;Dent fieetlend hats more volunteere then
will be requited in her defence. Having
e made hereelf ell Penne she will fiend tet
9 the eseletence of Roglend the two gigh-
land and South of Scotland Brigittlea, with
the gnus of the Fife, Ayr, ,Galloway, Aber -
dean and Immune Artillere. Corp, he.
alba movable batteries of garrison gunnere
from the oven brigadee, and genie=
gunnerO the ioniand'olitss item the Banff,
Argyll, Oaltheeee and Orkney brigades.
Four days After the order ter mobilize -Wm
every volunteer will be at tie deatinetion.
Ramses la paid to have predicted that
One hundred yora. after hie time Europe
would be either Republic= or Cossack.
leeveleye eaya lathe =rent number of the
Forma that one hundred yeara hence the
Miffed States and Russia (including
Siberia) will be eo populaue that England,
Fano, Germany, Spain and Rely will be
relatively unimportent, In North Americo,
and 111 Siberia there are vest trade ot tin-
lleellilierl, fertile land, and population will
apmed out over the lend that la waiting for
the .plough. The report that Russian
oftimale ere about to examine the Canadian
Pacific Railway, with a VieW to duplicating
it on Siberian soil, is most 1/Aerating.
The money now epent on maintaining
Bogdan soldiere in idleness would soon pay
for eonetracting a railway from Orenburg
to Viadivoetook. Snob a railway would
inererieethe wheat aupply and open up a
great market for manatacturee.
OST.U110 does not leak lawyers. Some-
times we ere inclined to think there are too
ninny of them, bat WO cannot syrapatleize
with, the measures that aro spoken of to
reduce the supply. One plen Is to compel
the stuaente to attend the Law School both
morning andafternoon,thue diecriminating
against theme who depend for support upon
the salaries they earn in the ofaces. An-
other plan is to raise the fees for becoming
eolicitor and barrister 'from $90 ande100
to 0100 and $600. These ohanges, would
simply lova the door open to mil Melee
eons, and Close ;t against the poor. A.
far batter sohotnewould be to rain
the standard of qualification — to
make the exaininations harder. A head
teat is better than s a pocket test. By the
way, is it just the thing to let a company
of lawyers amide the terma upon which
other men alien bo allowed to practice lew,
or to let the doctor& guild fix tbe barriers
surrounding the meal= profusion ? The
merchants has no mach olose corporation,
nor have the editorie „nor the carpenters,
nor many other classes of workers, who,
to put it mildly, require more brains than
the lawyers to make a living. If the law-
yers over -do the fencing.ont business', the
public will be apt to help the law students
to re -arrange the whole system.
have run through several editions. He WAS
member of the. Goad of Literature and.
Art. "He wrote "The Light House,"
tirst played in private at Tavietock Hew
and e afterward produced at the °lymph?
Theatre. "The Frozen Peep" WAS pro -
awed at Tavistook House by a company of
amateurs, among whom \vita Charles
Dickens, Mr. Collins degnatized "The
Moonstone" in 1877.
Inte Syndicate or Speeausts.
The exposure of Grebitoed3 an of
Brodie's fraudulent performances at Via,
gara Falls has had the unexpected effeot
of throwing the light of publicity open a
httle syndioate of newspeper reporterin
Buffalo, the membere of which have been
lending themselves to the sohenfea ef im-
postere of the Brodie and Grabana stripe.
These reporters have tided as the 0OrreS-
pondents of the papera in nearly ail the
large cities of the pantry, and it halt
been their duty to telegraph " epeoials
at rates which are considered highly
remunerative. Their conneetion
with Buffalo papers give them lemma
faoilities for news gathering and had they
been content with the legitimate business
they might hew* done verywell after the
niai
ltnet of their brethern n other cities.
But they were too ambitiOUS. They tried
to establish a corner" in news and it
must be confessed that they wet° mining
mattere pretty much as they chose, when
they tried to foist upon the weal
the story of. Graliamdi ;Adventure in
in 4 'terror lti wee a ()lever enough 44 WWI
and PAR the ayudioate well and they eid
equity well with, the Brodie atery, but
then came a reaotien. It Wazi aoon
proved that the reporta were absurdly un-
truthful apd the mere in Ober citlea that
had been duped by their Buffalo cormspondents began to make inquiries, It was
not Wog before the reed fats in the case
were discovered and now it loolui very
renola as it another syndieate must go down
before e beret of pnblia indigpatiou.
The boys have been bright and enterpris-
hag and hey° eeriously lizipeded tho regular
attuned for news, but they made the mite
-take which twiny older men have made of
net knowing where to draw the nue.—
/*hater Democrat.
TUE City Contract Company, of London,
Eng., and the Trustee& and Exteators'
Company, of ,the tiame city, made a busi-
ness deal in Chicago on Saturday amount-
ing to 050,000,000. The following proper -
flee now belong to the synaitiate : The
Bemis and hicAvoy breweries, of Chicago;
the Wacker and Birk breweries, Chicago;
the Albany brewery, Albany, N. Y.; the
Jones brewery, Detroit, Mich.; the Harlot
brewery, Newark, N.3.; the Trefz brewery,
Jersey City; the 'United States breweries,
New York; a portion of the stook of, the
Schoenhoff brewery, of Chicago; the Star
elevators, of Minneepolis, 76 in number
the G. W. Vandusen eysteen of elevatore,of
Rochester, Minn., 90 in number; the Car-
gill Bros.' elevator system, of Minnesota
and Dakota; the Baltimore breweries,
Baltimore, Idd. ; the F. Brasstadd Hancock
iron mines, Hancock, Mich., and the
Rooheeter breweries, Rochester, N. Y.
Arrangements for the following are also
nonoluded : The F. 3. Dawes brewery, of
Chicago; the Pillsbury flouring mills,
Minneapolis; the Washburn our mills,
Minneapolis, the Syracuse brewery, Syra-
cuse, N.Y.. At this rate the United States
will soon become a mere annex to the
United Kingdom.
]rem Penury to Affluence.
B. K. jailliedni the banker, whose wealth
nobody exactly knows, went to Philadel.
phie in hie boyhood without money enough
in hie pocket to pay a week's board, seye
the News.
Director William S, Stoltley knows what
it in to Make candy with his own handa
=deal it over a little counter in his own
shop.
Poatinitater-Generel Wanenteker began
his businese life an a, clerk in a learket
street store upon a mighty small Wary.
110 used to .pay five cents for his daily
dinner, contesting of a piece of pie and
glass of milk.
Fmk Stabil, the groat soap resainfeo.
tura', and the owner of flame of the
glob:met propertyon the jersey coast, .to
say nth
ouns of mineral interests in Georgia,
for years kept a rather insignitioant gro-
cery store near Eighth and Cellowhill
strode.
john 33. Gest, Vice -President of the
Fidelity Trot Gompeny, usea to wait
for law came in a little oftico, generally in
vain.
George W. Ohilde worked for a long time
in this city at such a salary that he only
paid twenty-five cents for his noonday
meal° by practicing rigid economy.
Anthony j. Drexel,who is worth room
than twenty-five millione ot Ulan, was
the son of a poor portrait painter and
thought himself lucky when he got a
trifling stipend as a clerk in his fether'a
ittle brokerage °face,
The Remarkable Te—eat or a Toilladelident
,The Philadelphia Record palates this re-
ineekable illustratlen of the lew of chance:
A quartette of well-known West Philadel-
phians, namely, Dr. Se R. Skillern, Col.
Alexander W. Russell,' Joseph 4 Cofrode
and Wm. S. Kirahall, were gathered iolhe
cozy card -room of the Present -Hronflion
in-
tentli
Club, tonaForty-firstgameot andjafete,t, it!ree, ,
Prix to Dr. Skillera's arrival -the other
gentlemen had been playing e three.handed
genie. When be game in he took the Pack,
shoaled, and prooeeded to deg. The 'met
card in the peck, winob he turned up for
trumps, wee'the knave or diamonds, and as
the dootor ehaneined his hand he Aiseavered
to his astonishment that it eontailled every
Aber card of the euit—twelve illaraceeds,
nothing more, nothingleSe. He glenced tin
With a. bewildered twinkle in his eye, only
to discern the same bewilderment reflected
on the faces of each of his comrades.
"Fellow, I never had mettle a hand in all
my life," the dootor chuckled, after a mo-
ment's pause. "What do you think of it?
Every card's a diamond"
Greet heavens ! cried Out Iltir,Oefroae ;
"why, mine are all dabs I"
And held thirteen, hearte," ex.
olaimed Col. Russell, breathlessly rubbing
hie eyes and pinching his nose to make sure
that he was awake.
And then they all looked in alr,
bell'a direetien, T.he whale melt of epodes
lay epread oet before him, and he wee
bending over them in oomplete mystifiee-
ttoIlTe cards were not bewitohed, and there
had been no trickery. When the astoniehed
playeze Teed eoreewhet regained their com-
posure they put their heeds together, and
eoncleded that the law of chance had sem-
tioued a moat peouliar freelt. They called
their friends in to view the wonderful
then &deed up the orb tenderly, and
signed en affidavit stating how* tlate hand
was dealt and denying the aeration of any
external agent in the arrangement of the
earde. The peek is now on exhibition in
the club -rooms, where it is viewed by
scores of halltieoredulone club -men.
It is said that only two deala of like
character are on record as having been
made in thie country, one i a Chicago
club.hottee and the other in A Meese-
ohinieete reamed train, both of them some
yeere ago.
The Unnecessary verbose° or Law.
The world has outrun the courts and
legal teohnioalitioa have outlived their use -
fatness. The progress of the people has
been toward common-seuse raethoaa in all
things, and the lawyer's " whereasea,"
" aforeesids," and " parties of the first
part" most be relegated to oblivion. There
is a demand springing tip for plain, direct
English. There is really no Bound reason
why, to a man of ordinary intelligence,
legal documents should be
The technical verbiage employed is a relict
of the age when that which was mysterious
and could not be understood was esteemed
to be beyond the comprehension of the
common herd. The nee of uncommon
English in purely business oirolee would
not be endured. Why, then, should the
transfer of a piece of property be a process
so labyrinthine and so mysterious that a
man of sound ulnae cannot fathom it? It
has been estimated that the dropping of
the letter n in such words as honour,
labour and the like has timed to the world
each year what is equivalent to the pro-
ductive capacity of 500 able-bodied men.
What would we not gain if from every
legal paper and from every legal snit there
should be removed that vast mass of super-
fluity, that antique cerbiage, that bulk of
repetition and solemn senselessness that
now enwraps them as its shell enwraps
the olam ?
Wmem Comas, the novelist and drama-
tist, died Monday. Some weeks ago it was
cabled here that Mr. Collins was dying, but
he afterwards rallied and for a time seemed
to improve. Death, however, has over-
taken him at last, and with hie life cliesPJ
pears one of the familiar literary figures of
the 19th century. William Wilkie Collins
was the eldest son of William Collins, the
well-known painter of rustic scenes, and was
born in London in January, 1824: After
being educated at a private school and
spending two years with his parents in
Italy he was articled for four years to 6
arm in the tea trade, but he SOon quit to
=study law. His first literary produotion
was a biography of his father, published in
1848. From this time he devoted himself
'entirely to literature, and published suc-
cessively Antonina," 1851 ; "
11.8521 Mr. - Ray's Cash Book," 1852;
" Hide and Seek," 1854, etc. Soon after-
wards he 'becanie a contributor to the
Mousehold Word, and his "After Dark"
and "The Dead Secret" are reprints of the
tales which originally' appeared in that
periodical. In 18e9 he published the
Qaemi 01 Hearts and 'in 1860 hie
mesterpieoe, "The Woman in White." In
1862 "No Name" appeared, followed in.
1863 by "My Miscellanies" and in 1866 by^
e Armitage.' "The Moonstone," "Man to
Wife" andeninO other Works followed in
rapid suodession. Of late years he has
contributed largely to Etarper's Magazine.
Mr. Collins' work a have been translated
into almost every modern language arid
Be Was Too Sudden.
"Harry", exclaimed the blushing Laura,
"this declaration is so sudden that I—that
—that I hardly know what to say. I was
unprepared for it. It unnerves me."
"I was afraid it might," said the young
druggist, rising with alacrity from his knees,
" end I have brought along a bootle of my
unrivalled nerve anodyne. This prepar-
ation," he added, soothingly, as he took
the bottle from his pooket, qinakly extract.
ed the cork, and poured a quantity of the
medicine into a spoon he had also brought
along,"willi allay any ,undue excitement,
quiet the nerves, aid digestion, and restore
lost appetite. I sell it at 3s. 65. a bottle.
This is a dose for an adult. Take it,
dearest."
Atexteroces4Teti wage
1,•••••••••
What it Costs tolsontain a Deer Forest on
Scotland.
No oiee.lnit a millionaire will think of
hiring a deer forest. And yet there are
deer forests with fishing whiola are not
highly rented for men of modest means and
toquiet mode ot life. The ledge party, the
champagne lanoheoos, the raeket and
faehion of the west end transported to
qlen Sneeshin--theee are what reader
deer -stalking expensive. Still it is computed
that each deer that ie Skint CeSta its slayer
fifty guineas. There are over a hundred
deer forests in Scotland, some (like the
forest of Mar, Blaukmount, or Glen,strath.
fearer) of immense extent, the firot of thelie
named comprislug 80,100 acres. They oc-
cupy about 2,000,000 acres on the whole.
Estimating ttieir rental at 2s oa per auto,
this aloneamounts to 4150,000. The oast
of living and various other modes of outlay
will partainly add 250,000 to theee figures.
Ample is the harvest of geld which the
pactolue of deer -stalking rolls though
some of the most barren districts of
the Highlands, running, however,
by an easy transition to a grouse moor%
here rents are much easier, yet each brace
of grouse she) is °apposed to coat the
sportsbnin 41. Moors tand at from loa
to 23 75, or 23 61 per acre, with lodges upon
them. Taking a case, for instance, where
the rental would be de per sore, a shooting
of 1,000 Acres would met the lenge 2100,
haundliatrbeed abOrt4e8 0:thgear otligaeor,owngliute A0(4,11443:0
wonld be left as breeding stock. There are
nortese then 2,400 ahootinge in Soothind
tin addition to the deer formats) whiele hold
grime as well ea ether sport. In le good
oetiema it is estimated that 500,000 brain, of
grouse will be shot in Scotland, which
eepresente the game noenbee of pomade in
rent, ' Travelling and living nunit, of
mem, be included in the costliness of
times more; Taking o an average ten
vortex:nen annuelly as visiting each of
these foredo and moors, 25,000 nersone,
besides ladies, ohildren and amen% have
to be traesported to and fro, and if 220
each be allowed for this purpose, the readout
emu of 2500,000 moat be added to the
amount of rental.
Life is Moen What We take it,
Take time it is no use to tame or fret,
or do as the angry housekeeper who has
got hold ot the wrong key, pushes, shakes
and rattles it About the look until both
are brohen and the door le still unopened.
The chief eeoret in comfort lies in not
suffering trifles to vex us and in cultivating
our undergrowth of small pleasures.
.Try to regard prevent vexations as you
will regard them a mouth hence.
Since we cannot get what we like let US
like what we 04n get.
It ]s not riches, it is not meat , it 10
human nature that is the trouble.
The world is like a looking.glesa. Laugh
at it and it laughs back; frown at it and it
frowne back.
Angry thoughts canker the mind and dia-
poae it to the worst temper in the world—
that of fixed mallet; and revenge. Tule while
in this temper thee moat men become
criminate.
Show your sense by saying much in a
few words.
Tryto speak some kind word or do some
kind deed each day of your life. You will
be amply repaid.
Sat your wok to song.—Washington Post*
•
international eraritime Exhibition.
At the instance of Hon. John W. Book-
man, President and General Manager of
the International Maritime Exhibition, to
be held at Boston, Masa., from Nov. 4th,
1889, to Jan. 4th, 3890,- United States Con-
suls are requested to colleot and forward,
and Mance others in the districts in which
they reside, to forward to tho Exhibition by
Nov, 4th, next, ship modelle engines, ma-
ohines, nautical &tykes, and all kinds of
articles used in navigation and maritime
pursuits. The management of the Exhibi-
tion will bear mange of transportation
Etna shim:fleet of articles sent for exhibi-
tion. The U. 'S. Consul of this port will
supply all moment), information to =ten&
ing exhibitors from Hamilton and the
waters of Hamilton Bey.
'An unfortunate Reminder.
Mr. Franklin de Belleville—I'm mighty
glad cold weather is coming on, for one
thing. I won't have to work the lawn-
mower then.
Mrs. de Belleville (pleasantly).—No
you'll have nothing to bother you but the
furnace.
De Belleville.(fiercely, after an interval
of gloomy silenoe).—Well, you're a ohebrfal
oempanion for a man I must say.
A Knowing One.
"Yee, Monsieur le Maire, but If I deposit
my money in the savings bank when can I
take it out again " °
The Maim (affecting an air of superior
knowledge) : "Whenever you like. Thus,
if you pay ia your money to -day, you may
withdraw it to -morrow by giving a fort-
night's nottee."-e-Neuvaie Revue.
Summer resort extremities. Mettle Bond
(on the verandah of the Mountain House)—
Here comes a MEM across the liable. Chorus
tif feminine shrieks—Oh 1 • Oh 11 Oh I I I
Ohl!! ! A man! a man Where ?" Met-
tle Bond—No, .it's nothing but a soareorow
after all. Chorus—The mean thing 1 Mat-
tie Bond—Well, you needn't get mad about
it. That'll more than any Of you have
diecovered so far.—Time.
Knowledge costs money.
'
Irate Patron—See here, sir, I dropped a
nickle into this illegible, and nothing came
out.
Agent—/f nothing oame out, that show
it's =pier, 4
"But, sir, what do I get for mynickle ? "
"Information."
self Preservation. ,
Wealthy ola, Gent—What I Marry my
daughter? Yon are being supported by
your father. .
Suitor—Yes, sir, but my father is tired
supporting nee, and 'thought Pa better get
into another family.
virtue in good. Vienne.
So extenelve is the adulteration of coffee
it is not easy to obtain thepore article, even
although the highest prices be paid. The
etthatanee commonly need in adulteration
ere chicory, routed gmine, peas or beano,
The prineipel element of roasted. ohloory
is eager. It is melte in ooloring the deocto,
tion, but We nothing to it virtues. An
for the other eubetaneea, sithough theY
may be harrolese, coneidering their use
from an econande point of view, nothing is
ruede in buying coffee whichoonteine them,
even it Vie price of the znixture be mut%
under GAO demanded for the pure article.
This le evident when it is known that not
infrequently what pewee for low pricot
coffee contains at lost Cr0 per cent, adul-
teration,e In buying coffee the pure is
actually the cheapest. Aria in the matter
of Adulteration of this impotent ertiole of
foodthere is a weighty consideration
beyond Iliad of economy: The more geed,
pure coffee there is obtainable the lees will
be the demand for spirituous liquors, for
even the veriest toper will often °hose the
former in preference to the latter,—Bostort
Beretta.
Tao liasbialuess or °Ince.
A tourist stopped in front of a" shack"
home, over the door of whicih a prominent
Zeeman was nailing a sign, bearing this
legtarleo I am a °endplate for the ofle
of shed."
"That is 'very unlike the way we do in
the East," remarked the tourist. "There
we believe, with the proverb, that the office
Should seek the man, and —" °
"Wal," inteerupted the prominent ono,
"that may do for theEaat, whur the offtcea
hein't so darned bashful; but, out:this WAY,
if you expeot the office to ride up to your
place, an', whirlin the loose tiv its lasso
three times round its heed, drag you outer
your house an' off to the comity seat, I'm
afeard that grim disappointment will be
your portion.' —Puck.
Not a Happy Thought.
Servant Maid—Madam, the doctor!
Lady (who is having a delightful oall
from a neighbor)—It is impossible to receive
him now. Say that I am ill!
Excusable Inebriety.
Mrs. Booze—What, drunk again?
Mr. Booze—Nosh my fault (bio), called
up brewery by telephone and (hie) couldn't
stand the smell.
Found for Pound.
Moore—,Did you save as maoh money as
you thought you would by spending the
summer in the country?
Poore (with a hard bitter laugh)—Save
money Why man, my wife has put up
sixty jars of preservee. *
Es•QUeen Natalie declares that she will
refrain from meddling with politics while
in Belgrade.
The body of Thos. Pemberton, the 'last
victim of the Quebec disaster, wee reCov-
ered yesterday.
The trial of Annie Reid et Chatham yes.
terday „ on a charge of infanticide resulted
in her acquittal.
A terrible railway accident occurred yes-
terday in a tunnelnear Naples, Italy, ,Fifty
persons were killed and injured.
The Greek reports ocimierning the perse.
cation of Christians in Crete are said in
Vienna to be muoli exeggerated.
A Jewish benevolent society was' organ-
ized at London lest night, to be called
Bickoi•Cholioa- Its ,Ot;jects are to 'relieve
and aid members, their widevea, and chil-
dren and help worthy dtrangers Vvete come
to the city.
• The Pope has . appointed Cardinal Gib-
bons, Archbishop Riordan and another
western bishop to investigate affairSunder
Bisliop Gilmour, in ,tbe diocese of Cleve-
land, Ohio. The state of things in the
otroladioCese ig Neve 3cOrk is uneatigaotOry,
too. Dr. Corrigan has been suminoned to
Rome.
ups THAT NEVER TOUCH.
aaPaneseAreNIgnorant of -the PleasnreS
or Osculation.
Over in the Mikado'ai empire kissing is
an uukiciOviit pleasure; and even between
husband' and wife ostedatory enjoyment is
a liberty never indulged in. Although the
Wittig Japanese maiOexte have the roeierit of
lire the whiteet of teeth and the sweeteet
of snail* their deloty little mouths are as
forbidden /reit to their sighing main% who
=mit content theineelves with more formal
manifestations of their love. A Tokio cor-
respondent of the San Francisco Chronicle
writes thud; '
e melancholy feet, but a Japanese
has no such inipelee. No lover marts hie
mistress with "'sweetest persuaeive kisses."
No mother kisses her baby as she hugs it to
her boom. Parting itusbana proses the
hand of hie wife and bends her forehead to
the mate in aid farewell. Our ealutetions
run through the orescendo of bow, hand.
shake, kites and kies. I ean't pieta= the
difference in grade between the laat two,
but everybody knows. But in Japan the
expreignon of regard is regulated by the
number and length of the salaems. A
friend who constantly travels about the
country toia me of a little illustration in
point. He had teen on the read for six
weeks, having with him a native meroliant
who was interestea in his business. Gotheir
return to Tokio he accompanied the broker
to his home, a permit for the night,e1 visit
having been obtained from the local In-
fipeeter of Felice. The wife met her hua.
baud, and friend at the door and inhered
them in. Together they etiolated their
guest to remove hie (met. The wife next
took from her lord his wedded kimono and
other weeps and folana them away. Than,
and not tintil then, aid they kneel upon the
mete and bow long and low to each other.
"You have been teeny weeks away from
us," fetid the wife, in a sweet, affectionate
voice. " We have waited for you with ire,
leetiereie. I hope that you are well, deer
lencekesatO And he theulted her and
esid he was.
• Value or Christian. Reads.
In the late war between the black flags
of Tongnin aaid the French, the leader of
the Chinese outlaws made a monetary
estimate of the value of his enemies. He
offered his men a sum equivalent to $125
for the head of every Frenchmen and a25
additional if the victim had gold braid on
his coat. The faot that most orientials ex-
press great contempt for native Christians
was illustrated in this black flag proclama-
tion, which offered 650 apiece for the heads
of Dative soldiers in the French service,bot
added that a15 for the heads of native
Catholioa was all they were worth.
He Was Misunderstood.
Judge—you have abandoned your. wife.
Not only ,that, but before you left • you
treated her in the most brutal manner,
dragging her around the room by the' hair
of her head.
• Culprit ---What a fuss you all make be-
cause I took a look of my own wife's hair
by which to remember her during my
absence.
Persecuted Armenian Christians.
A prominent Armenian in New York
city, referring to the persecution of his
countrymen by the Rattle says Turkish
officials .pretend that the troublein Arnie-
nie ere due to Bueelan and ether foreign
intrigueze, but Olarietian nalealonerice know
that the Nerds are to blame. Responalbi.
lity for the trouble Wiiii ale() thrown upon
the Peraian Government, owing to the blot
that the Earls were °nee nebjeote of that
Power, but the Peraieu Alinieter in London
promptly disclaimed ell rt'sponeibiity in
the matter. The Arineniena conld be
wed if the European nations would only
compel Turkey to °Worm article GS Of the
Treaty ot Berlin, by which the Tarldeb
Government ia bound to protect them,
With the Syriene, however, the 04S0 is
different. They have absolutely no claim
to protection from any (patter, and though
they number about two hundred tnoneand,
as splint 150,000 Kurds, manned, and
ammo to warfare they are no match for the
=roadie, well equipped, freebooting Kurds'
By mama end incursione these
/Curds live. They delight in slaugh-
ter, and Retro neither woman ner
child. Young Armenians and Syrian
madame are frequently carried off by them.
Whole villages are terrorized, and when
they swoop down on the inbabitailt8 the
end. of those villageis at hada. Their
hand is against every unbeliever, and yet
no man'a hand Seems tu be aphid them.
Soma of their great men are Ages, and
govern the poor Syrians as tney please.
The Armenia= hope to gala the aympathy
of foreign nations by means of their Petri -
arch, their uniona and their press, Their
Patriarch, who resides in Constantinople,
recently threatened to resign on account of
these very troubles, and was with difficulty
induced to retain his position. Their prin.
eipal newspaper ia published in Marseilles.
It wahine true accounts of the late rms.
same, and shows how shamefully Turkey
in violating the pledge which she gave at
the Treaty of Berlin. Their rmiona are
aoattered all over the world. In Amerioa
there are about 9,000 Armenians, and they
have a, strong union in title city. The
Turkish Government is powerful, and will
not permit Armenians, wherever they may
be, to become insubordinate or rebellious
with impunity. In these unions, however,
work is being done thet the Sultan and hie
Ministers little dream of.
At the marriage Agency.
Would -Be Customer—Yes, I would like
to marry, and if you come across a hand-
some, young amiable girl who ha money
and who wants a good home, just drop me
•a pedal.
Marriage Broker—I beg your pardon,
but if I find that kind of a, female I'm
going to marry her myself.
Satisfaction Onaranteed. ,
Summer Guest (impatiently)—I have
found dead 'flies in every dish I touched
this morning, and I think you might at
least make a reduction in your charges.
• Hotel Proprietor—I can't reduce your
bill, sir; but if you will oome with me to
the kitchen, I'll let you hear me swear at
the servants'.
lotier4OlTe AT PAR"
Magnificent Specimens of Art in TeX11104.
One of the most delicate exhibitors of
itendiceaft, at the preeent
Vrenola exhibition, is from the linen /mime
of Ireland, iu t/ae' term ,of damask nap.
bins out of a set of two dozen doilies, made
for a jubilee gift to Qaeint Victoria by A
Belfast manufacturer. These delliee are
woven from the finest linen yarn which hae
ever yet been spun from flax Ake. The
napkin le exhibited in its unbleaehed state,
and 4184 in ite bleached and finished con-
dition. Upon each is 0 strikingly faithful
aelbeation of the factory from which
conies. The building is photographed, as
it were, in the lioeo web. Oise of thaw
deraask doilies, abed sixteen inebee
square, contains 3,060 threads; of warp and
4,012 threads of woof, and these threade„
joined together, would extend a distance ot
more than two miles. Yet the teepkin.
eeems to be the merest figment of goseamer
—a fabric of lightest geese,. a thing one
might blow away with a breath.
The draughtsman was engaged for oven
months in the preparation of the enlarged
design—shout twelve feet square—upon
paper. This pi= or Map, ggitto Vetitr, et
ttte napkin WAS divided by due machine
retina Into 12„000.000 equates, eat& line
etanding for One thread of the web. On
the damask work are represented 44 OW
ferent species of earn; birde, butterflies
and fiewers. Iriah lace, band -made, at 100
geineee a pea, handleerehiete at 20.
each, and many ether eemplee et exquisite
Wall and patient toil, tem the north, 0
Ireland tome, are ifigillatta in the alopley.
In further illustration of this greet endue -
try, there ie a display of deuced, the flax
plant with its blue flower, flex straw.
Sent011ed flax and flex spun into yarn end,
wound Rem bobbins reedy tor weaving.
There are also illustrated Ante of the dif-
ferent processes of making damasks, and
the eotire exhibit ie appropriately tier -
mounted by 0.40 a tile. V490 ancient optel.
ruene of an frieh des wheel for *Inning
nen thread.
A newsboy and a butcher fought a duel
in the city of Mexico, yesterday with knives.
The butcher was dietinalanweled and left on
the field dead. ''' • I ,
F. Campbell', • employed at the White
Bronze Weekse St., Thomas, was badly'
bruised yesterday morning by a monument
falling upon him. • '
The blockade on the East African coast
will biaraised to -day. The Gerniaii fleet,
lieWevelar:Will:not allow', the (nitro- of muni-
tions Of tiara:long the *ratan coed line. '
The delegiitesAcatlie Intetnational Ameri-
pan Congress, the formal sessions of whioh'
beghf'WOffileaday, Met Ottilteiday afternoon'
for a preliminary copfefenee, xespeoting the-
organi4ti0n. .
The" Banos, et 'MAO Di Ooll000zinone:
Al Lavori, at 41,Parkiitreet, baete York, la •
closed to -day, irid TIMiketteoie de Leopardi
has disappeared with about $18,000 belong.
Ingritto. sdeitakmoseiteo,reaf. s. or, by his
attorney,
Mr. Sol. White, will Commence suits for
false imprisonment against Judge Horne,
Bailiff Masters ' and the- ociunty of Essex,
demanding 650,000 in each cam,
The Tiorde.as el Cioamantiood.
Thousands of women are •silently Buffer.
hag nnteld misery, simply beceese they
elarlialf from soneultieg a physician in those
numeroue ccomplainte arising from fano-
tiopal irregularttles and ditiordere. Many
e modeet girl And woman peter e to bt/aZ
her bevy harden in ellenee 'tether than to
go to the family phyalcien for adviee,
aufferera from tins clew of diaor,dere can,
however, awl prompt and aura relief in Dr.,
Pierces Favorite Ptesceiption. It is *
epeslilo in eueb case; and !me brightened
the wee of eiMdt1C5i women by rote:tog
them to perfect health.
Luck.
Fleet Tramp —Some folks ie bern Iua1ry
Ron:Ober Bill efeelte 2
Seemed tramp—Yep.
First Tramp -110. got into Sweipleee
brewery the other ingut an" was drowned
in a beer vat.
Don't be numbusaed
with the foolish idea tint Catarrh cannot
ise cured The world moves, and medical
Defence le progreeeive. The proprietore of
Dr, Sage's Catarrh, Remedy will pay 1500
reward for a case of Nseel Catarrhs no
matter how bad 08 01 how long standing*
which they cannot genre. Remetly sold by
druggists at only 6Q manta.
Albert Victor Would slay Tigers. "
Prince Alber Victor, known variously as
"Collars and caffs and "Eddie," is going
to India on a tiger -hunting expedition. As
it is his first outing alone, he is said to ba
very enthusiastic ad eager. He is also
keen to try hie hand on big game and to
emulate the example of his father, who
proved himself a nervy hunter and good
shot in India many years ago. Thus far
in his young career Albert Victor has never
had an opportunity to bring down any-
thing larger than a stag. Preparations are
already being made io Bemire a suffioient
supply of big game, and tbe beet tiger pre -
Beeves are to be left unmolested until the
arrival of the Royal hunter. There is very
little danger, however, that England will
be desolated by the loss of Albert Victor,
or that a prince of the blood will fall a
prey to a king of the jangle. He will be
accompanied by an army of elephants and
beaters, and when the game is sprung the
rifles of a score of expert marksmen will be
kept fixed on the beast until the prince.
lies's gun goes off. As a general thing on
these occasions, the frightened tiger bends
all his energies to esoaping,but if he should
turn upon the Royal party he would be
filled so full of lead in a second that it
would take two elephants to lift his carcase.
anwarrdiamimmenst
ionovvIedge is Miss.
Mrs, H. Irina Flatte—I wanted to see
that new pley at the Downtown Theatre
to.night, bat the critics say the play is a
failure, and the weather reports say it 10
goirig to rain.
Mr. Ef. Ariem Flatto—Then let no go by
all means. The play will he charming aud
the weather delightful.
Poison the fountain and. the stream is
inipnre ; poison tho blood, and it taint is
lammed through the entire system—those
innumerable veins and arteries carry dis-
ease and death instead of life and vitality.
As a result, Ion have Headache, Sorotala,
Dyepepsia, Kidney Diseese, Liver Com-
plaint and General Debility. An inactive
Liver means poiooned blood; Constipation
means poisoned blood; Kidney disorder
means poisoned blood. The great antidote
far impure blood io Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. Acting directly upon
the affected organs, restores them to their
normal condition. "A word to the wise is
sufficient." The "Discovery" is guaran-
teed to cure in all oases of disease for which
it la r000mmencied, or money paid for it
will be promptly rotunda.
The Same Thing.
"1 see," said 'Smith, laying down his
paper, "that old man Skinflint has willed
his property to Groggins, the saloon -keeper."
"How's that? I supposed that heeleft it
all to his son, Harry."
"Well, he did, but that was only an in-
direct way of leaving it to Groggine."
Vengeance.
Returned Traveller—I have often thought
of that young Mr. Tease, and how he used
to torment Miss Auburn &bent her red
hair. Did she ever get even with him?
Old Friend—Long ago. She married him.
CU. riOAS, iSIII ?
•When a poet say's,,.. "Years ago I loved a
fair and gentle maiden," everybody is
interested. When a prose man makes the
tame confession everybody caps hira a clam.
All the Same.
Little Girl—Can you darn your etookinge
papa ?
• Papa--facetiotiely—No, deer ; but I oan
knit my brows. ,
Somebody with a taste for figures has
made the calculation that in the year 1990
the United States will have a population of
1,000,00,000. This paragraph should be
out out, and preserved for reference, at that
me.
Visitor—Is land dee; in Japan? Japan-
ese--LNea but the ground renta are motel.
Visitor—What's the cause of that'? Japan-
eae—E arthquakes. •
Pal lent Waiting No Ldss.
• Confiding Son—Mother, what's the best
way to propose to a girl ?
Mother—When the right girl comes
along, my son, you won't need any advice.
Fond Father—Sir, my daughter le the
apple of my eye. She shall continue under
her father's wings. Van GalI—Thanks 1-
was juet going to speak about that. •Cieeyou
give as the northwest wing?
The Shortcomings of Jo arnadism.
These papers are very nneatifactory."
"'What's the matter now! "
"Why, it tells here of a man who fell
from the top of the Eiffel tower, but does't
say whether he was hurt or not.
We have the Patti corset, the Langtry
gold paint and bustles, the Judie hat, the
Ilading veil, and now we have the Joshua
Whitcomb cough syrup.
• A man named Elzear Renaud died in the
Hotel Dieu, Quelaeo, yesterday from injuries
sustained a couple of days ago while work-
ing with a cart on the Princess Louise ern-
balGkmeeeneet.et the
dorth will commence to fly
southward when the fall storms break up
the watering place society.
• The Bev. Dr. Menzies, minister of Aber-
nyte, has, on the recommendation of the
Secretary for Scotland, been, appointed
Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criti-
°lain of Si. Mare's College, St. Andrews,
aisessassasoo
in room of the late Professor Crombie.
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