HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1889-12-12, Page 7wthat she wanted.
-She didn't want a corner lot roly out in Kansas
City.
She dide't went trigerkpiheue; she didn't think
1- sue eltrezitt:.:41744: for oil; for chromes or for
Wire iitTOr hel nese upeiii the dresses worn by
dimes* ileughtent.
Oho Just detesteediamones. and thought jewel -
law vulgar;
:Bee bed
no love for ornaments, notinianian or
newer ;
nue woithetet drive in eraen end toile °Although
she *Mete law° had tent.
-But trudged along tee Rowe, as, did her greet
toretether, Aden/.
alift dida't like the exeunt.. and she thoeglet the
ballet horrid ;
itehe did&s like the weather cold, nor get to very
torn.% ; _
*ilhe iltdn't care for leneifted work, and had no
1QYO for die:
Felhe let her Mother dare her hose. for she de,
tested, stitches.
•See iddret care for isms, and she never wrote *
leiter
Wo thewtarewersotaiogt4e thou try to make tee
livea u feassaelitisetts, she was freckled
o'er with tau,
• And all ors earth she wanted was a nneTrisgeable
13314. '
Idunder.
vielwIefaes IneeltIAL JEWELS.
•Vencleett !Agee* Worm $000,000 Worn
Only �M Great State Ociraidonse
Qcteen Viotorioto grown, kept with other
tregalie uuderstro.ag gated tot the old Tower,
and worn only oa Reale 000esiencesays a Loa,
don letter to the Pitteherg rtiepotele. ie one
Of the Meet ceetly insiginee neer loathe
tence. To begot with, there are 20
diemende *round the gimlet or heedeberol,
tomb worth 07,500. Or 0140,000 for the get.
Beeldeathese 20 them ore two entre lerge
;gado dieneouder each veltalti at 010,000,
=eking 420,000 more; 41 timelier
dionamiao, pleeed at the *ogles of the
Othere, eeteh veined at 050 tour crown,
each worth 1100.949, end composed Of 26
dietneede •, four lege dismonde on top of
'coleeee, eitele homing a money velue of
55,000; 12 dittosonde in the ilstm.,14.1k,
emaller diamond* contained
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to attlitot 010.000; Anterior, diamonds
and rubies upon ere** end circle*, not
Meothmed beferee $0,000; also 141, email
diantotole, termed * ranee sod raortograme,
525.000; 20 dianloode in upper erase,
014,400; two circle's of pearie alletot the
OM of the heed.pleee, 016,000 eeele. The
total money value of thee relto iu any
image* motket le the woeld woald be at
feast 000,000, motel end ell inolucled.
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vettontets.
Quite *xi ow aenntio in tile religion;
Way is provided at the West Hod now.
Last Sandity evening, wnile clueing in
Repot etreet on the vanity of Immo
*ghee rend other oftbjects of e eiceller
oheracter, my attentiou IRAQ AttrAllted by
the sound of a song. I found myeelf at
the corner of Hanover etreen in the
pretenoe at a group of elegant resent:4ra and
tosethereesee, who were dinging hymn%
The bodies eepeolally attracted my atten.
Cm They were yoaog and charming;
they wore delicate little waists dlatoortd
ear -rings, mirk sesbel, Etre** roost
coquettieh little tailor bete imaginable,
eand they cateled the latest novelty in
patio!' of the husband boater speak*.
The young goutlereon were faultlessly
droned. They wore eroart mastachee,
patent leather boot' end elegant high bets
•ot the glowelest dettoription, end in the
intervals of the hymns they snaked their
"tick handles with a greet° worthy of an
babitue of the Gaiety 'tells. A military
dooking man, who might hove shipped out
Of the Army and Navy club, wearing a gray
nanotaohe and white opts over his boots,
.read *chapter and Ied the singing. The idea
linorel, but plotureogne, and I woe latent:tea
efr that among the elegant young charm=
were two ladies of title, and that ono of the
reale Mashera was a youthful earl; but for
this 1 *menet emelt. I only know that the
fele soligateresees formal an ideal "angelic,
.quixo," and that, it they are going BO sing
in Elegant street every Sunday evening, I
412.11 join the oongregation.-0, R. Siva in
London Referee,
A Pretty Fireplace.
An unueed fireplace is an ugly and Inn
!directive object. We do not =eau the
-old-fashioned fireplace), with brines fire doge
and .great logs, tbat even when not lighted
.can be made pretty with evergreent; and
:tame leaves, but tne fireplace, with an
ugly black grate, or worse Ball, a hole for
a, stove pipe, says the American Agreed.
.turt. In a dear old aountry house, where
we are a welcome gnat, we recently saw a
replace so ingenionsly bidden that the
nook became a thing of beauty. A folding
sateen covered with red and gold wail
:paper was peteed in front of it, sod at the
foot of the soreen wee a long box filled with
ferns and other plants which thrive with-
out stmehine. This room was heated from
an adjoining room, so that the decoration
-could remain summer and winter; but,
where it is mammy to light a fire in win
'ter, the soreen and box are easily moved to
any part of the room. In plea° of the
screen one might nee a large mirror, framing
it with. pasteboord and BOMA suitable wall
paper or gilt paper.
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A. Benefactor to aociety.
Ono of the greeted evilEt in the physical
-order that oan befall a commtmity is a bale -
del epidemio whioh .swoope down like a
hawk and grasps thousande in its death
-clutch. Loving husbands, strong fathers,
',tender mothers and bonny, laughing child.
eon are evrept away,aria sorrow and des-
pair take their places at the hearthstone.
.Ahy one who 'discovers something
,that can rob an epidemic disease of its
•viras is then one of the greatest benefit°.
tore to the human race. Such a beheface:
• -tor is Dr. Domingo Freire, of Rio janeirce
who hen discovered an effeetive inooalation
gsainet that ghestly horror of tropical
lands, the yellow fever.
Dr. Freire produces attenuated yellow
-fever microbes and inooidates the seeded
with these. Since 1683, of 10,000persons
inanaleted in Brazil only 25 have died.
Dr. Praire is worthy of a monument acre
perrentrius.
Truth is rIllightt
jawkine—Good gracious, Jabez you're
all broke up. ' Wliere'aid Yon get that black
eye?
Hogg—Oh, dat was only a little linguistic
•difficulty. I call a few things by their
wrong name.—Texas Siftings.
Mins Bronson eto an old admirer)—Yon
are atilt unmarried, Mr. George. Mr.
George ---Still unmarried The fact that
you are single is proof of that. ,
Lawyer—What is your age?
Female Witness—I refuse t answerthe
question.
- Judge—Pat it down " silurian and pass
on to the next question."
As a cosmetic it seems, this weather is
not to be despised. A young woman in an
elevated car was overheard the other morn-
ing giving the following point to a friend
with her, "'Oh, do you knew," she said,
"those moist, foggy waiters are splendid
for the complexion? Our doctor told nae so,
and I go Cut regularly in every fog without
et veil.
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A STUPENDOUS WORK,
The Eropooed Great Bridge Over
English Chanel.
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WHAT THE PLANS ()ALL TOE_
Our readers easy feel interested in *
brief detforiptioo of what is, probably the
moot etupendoos „eoghteeredig work ever
!Wit/wily conte. •d in the history of
mankind—the bridgieg of the English
Channel. The ie is not one of the
mere vittioeutt'y kied so, frequently given elet
ail aelentifie seeleeticne, IMO the sober
proposal of men of and business
ability, having for its eponsore no lc -se
eminent ruee thee MK fiehneider and
ftereent, two of the meet oelebreted French
eugineera and contractors, and gni* Eng-
lish eothorOies as Sir John Fowler and
Sr Benjamin, Baker. That the proposal
to unite the " tight little bland" and the
otnitinent has ahead up loodonootbeii
oppoeitiota may be teken for granted, when
the panic aimed by tile tunnel solteme is
brought to mina ; but it ie somewhat re,
markahle that few—and none of any engi,
neeriog note—heve been found to impellesh
tile feesibilley of the plan upon which it
hair been proposed te proceed, with the
erection of the great bridge. The promoters
of the echeme are hopeful of ultimately
overcoming all ceposition.
Omitting teelmical term and minute
• dotage, the work proposed is all felleWa
Taking the line of shallowest water and
•ehorteet dieteacie the Euglilth ea being
• lecutted at Belketene, the bri toe will he
68.400 metre, or 2$ enilee, 3,234 feet in
heath. 'Rho water depth vatic*. from 23
1°00100 feet, and the moil is found to be
of * perticulerly euitable nature for ,reelet,
ing the enormeue prefigure that will be put
upon it, The bridge wilt he of composite
olettrectere composed Of 328, 666 Plod 001
feet straight trele elegem!, alteraating re.
speed's/01y with 1.410, 1.110 and 820 feet
oentilever serene, ell of 'the Warren girder
type of steal *ream. Mitt* will be aup.
parted an eteei towere carried on huge
MAQ9ilry. plant extending high above hih
water levet,
'The bridge is deeigzsed to aectorameaete
* doubloons/4c railway* with tracks set in
deep grooves to render derailment impoe.
sible; and A 011trligato4 then tleor le pro,
vided for, with footIvalke between the
'Smoke and beneath them. At interval.
Meow eiguel towers are plaoed, and
oertain towers etre provided with lignt.
horetee. The end epees are ea arranged
that the bridge con be rendered Ilealeali in
time of war by ewinging them open.
TM& SUZISTIWCTURIP4
will belle number and eat:
tependons work. They w
o elfth of the weterway, htt
noreeseti current will protect old
malt, while drone, Osumi Ugh% ate., wit
render it no serieue *bowel* to °teem
ere% The piers will weigh. *bout 120.000
Sons min They will beet) vierallel eidee
and roma ends, and at high water mark
they wilt *we a motion of 7,000 Immo
foot; white at deepest waterthey wilt bave
hews of 105 x, 187 feet, with a side
better of 1 in 10. The upper mulatto will
he 56 x 188 foot. The whole quantity Of
pier maeonry will not be lea than
141,260,820 cubic) foot, and will nen up
• 70,000 tone of iron. Ten piers will be 100
feet high, but most of thane will not mooed
82 teas, while the smallest is only 16 feet.
The !argot pier will contain 2,020,000 oubio
feet of masonry and the caisson for 1'1,163
tone of iron. The caissons will be err
arranged that the lower part may housed,
as an operetiog chamber to expel the soft
milt tut making the foundation, which
chamber mity .filled with oonorete if
=winery, while the upper pert, above low
water level, is movable Ana may he 111301 itt
banding the masonry of snooessive pieta.
By Melina Of these calcines lass been
found that 100,000 tone of maeonry CAU be
Iloatea safely for menthe. "I he plan pro-
posed this tease IS to build front 50 to 60
feet of thee° piers oodesoneat 1'01km:done
and Ambletetne Bay and, ballasting with
6a, to 8 ft. of concrete, tow thera to position
itt frevorable -weather as completed and
ground them at low tide. The most ela-
borate preparations for souring proper
foundation -have been made.
The piers will be of Marquise or Bolougne
stone, and the mortar used will be oom-
poaecl of 1,100 lbs. of Portland cement to 35
cable feet of sand. Two shafts will decrease
the weight of each pier and afford access to
the lower caisson oharnbers. The top of
the piers will be of cat granite and a hand
rail will eurround eaoh. Ten years' time is
estimated as sufficient for the substructure,
after shops are belle
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Each of these immense piers will carry
pair of towers., each built up of two con-
ntrio cylindrical plate webs 15 and 21
et in diameter, stiffened by cross -webs,
eking each tower 89 3 ft. at base, with
dy 26 25 It. in dia., leaving a clear epace
9 8 It. in die at the centre of the inside
linden These towers extend downward
ft. into the masonry, forming an anchor -
e tube 13, ft. in dia. They 'tee trussed
gather to provide againet wind strain,
d carry alternately caps to receive the
ed and eliding shoes of the main trusses.
is proposed to assemble the trusses in
ire and pontoon them, tow them to the
re at high tide and brace them in their
al relative position. Then hydraulic
(assure will be employed to raise them as
o towere are built up section
motion until the proper level
reached. An alternate plan is
bad the towers complete, then
et and asserable the 984 feel spans from
tforms supported by temporary sexil-
y piers. By this means the long spane
Id be raised entire.
he iron work is estimated to weigh
,265 tons, or about 20 5 tons per lineal
tre., The met of the substructure is
ced et about 880,000,000 francs, , and of
superstructure at 480 000,000 franca.
promoters believe a million passengers
ear and two million tons of freight pas -
g over it would be remunerative. s,nd its
t is about one half the passenger and
.third the freignt traffic now done it
bable the estimate would he realized.
underteking is as yet only ' a project,
that it reoeivee tne consideration of the
st eminent of the world's engineers is,
deuce that it has at least a reasonable
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Let the skeptic look around him in any
oity or business center, and note the most
successful' businees men there. Who .are
they? I he careful and judicious advertis-
ers, invariebly.
Sarcaetie individnel pointedly—Well,
the fools aten't all dead yet. The other
man—What's the matter—don't you feel
well?'
Mrs. W H. Smith, nee Eva Ingersoll, re-
ceives some Bible, prayer-biok or cate
°berm in every mail from some of the anony-
mous religionists tleronghout the country
who have always been solicitous about the
welfare of her father and family. These wed.
ding gifts are given to the butler, who sells
them to second hand book dealers.
Tux 44,lion "lam
Meets which Aaergesest Tease who Live
^ 'by the itivesiterfi Their, prow.
Briffalo prohibits refiles.
Okla Week hoots in, Berlin.
Michigan me for dead eparroere.
&Won gloves are growing in use.
New York has $00,900 paupers.
The Chiliana want immigration stopped.
Fife and Russian wheats are the beet.
ran River Ise a People's Co-operitive
/Peek.
paper. eo (Mich.) convicts will Peblieb
Isi Resale no woman under 40 can be a
49E91o:dia. y. O., 'hao eixteen glass Iseteeles
running.
deNpaerWthaYenotr,le stores have a ," wimple "
arGaelzichoztate21 per 1.000 feet at Oolong:cue
St. Louis is fighting Sunday theatrical
Ferfermentale •
'At Berlin 01 firat ohm " cabs eost 50
cent s per hour.
European draggiste return prescription
after filling them.
The Standard Oil Teuet made 02000,-
000 the oast year -
Righty -four. per Rent- of Brazira PoPillao
tion cannot ectea.
Making doeigno for carpet. is a new maw-
pation for women.
Detroit tailors get from 011 to $20 per
week; women, ed to 02.
Italy's 4,800,000 Wee give 1490.000,000
lemma yearly.
Indio, tea 250,000,00 peepiet greet eitiett
divereilled indultries.
A. Brooklyn Steteboilaersi 'Onion will
take only citizene as ram:above.
The Allegheny City Council ordered the
employment of 'anion penitent ert elty jeer.
New York Applicants for the pollee :moo
611201Ziebrae. opponwit to 000 ;theme and
A Detroit Inc factory has *worked the
eight-hour day for two Yore without ohY
rednetiret pay'.
Union carpenters et fit, Louie get from
$0.80 to 00,26 for eight hours; non -anion.`
02.50 for tee.
A. Wisconsin law compels the attendancre
et chielfen at an English. Behool thirthele
weeks of the year.
India is taking Ohintes tee trede, MiS
she yeamieee to he the ftxtaret supply.
A etripg of light -homes across the ocean
with relief suppliwie proposed.
Vat ItiVer tlimploquzs hoe organized to
reform the metttedsof easeasing property,
Wilkeenerte firM mode 10,000 aote of
sloe in a week, %Wog the worIttie record.
raiZaol7ati has adoPted otohdord time'
Mobs were turned beck twenty-two
TheLonden County 00404 makes con.
treaters poky the Mandan' rate of wages on
city work.
A New York policeman pela 0526 dem.
ages for knooldng throe teeth ant of avian
for not" moving on."
At Toronto the bricklayer -I must give
their bosom Mx months notioe of any
ohmage in wave or home.
At Holbrook, ?Awe °oboe' children
struck %mina% a timber who had taken a
3X1101 job a regent etrike.
Great Britain now buys from foreign
countries cowbell of the food. she eate, and
pays for it in manufeeturee.
Washington compositors have dropped
the eight -hour -day rule, and every man
may work as long as he plow.
Tbree Chicago -arras control the arena
beef trade, as they ownallthe eattle.raisin
luta. Thie industry has killed Albany
beef trade.
A ortnecoaking meolaine manufacituree
needy 60.000 eau' per day. Ten men thus
handle the work it Oka 500 to do byband.
Leading Hebrew papera prefer the word
"Jew " in referring to their mote and the
isregro World is the name of a paper for col.
ored men.
Inale (Eng.) textile mills are adopting
an eleotrioal invention that Mope the engine
*9 8000 au an accident onus. The con -
election is node by breaking a pane of glue
on the wall.
Neu at work eaventy•Ilve feet below .the
bed of tbe rivet at Louisville work two
hours and get a day's pay. Some have
died and others are afflicted with paralysis
of the Jaime and made&
In Berlin the street oar fare outs from
2a -to cads &wording tb the distance you
ride. No one *can he carried after the
eeets are full. The cars stop to take on or
let off psegengers only as certain points,
whioh are three minutes ap.art. This city
leads the world in etreet oer mileage.
In Mina berbers 'get et per month;
blacksmiths, 53; briekreakenee4; cabinet-
makers, carpenters and carvers, 22 to. 30
cents- per day; female cotton-spintters, 10
cents per day;' dyere get 08 per month;
chair -bearers get 30 oents a day (for carry-
ing their " superiors") ; painters, 21;
plumbers, 24; potters, 24; sailors, $4 to 08
per month; salesman get 114 per month;
clerks, 05, with board.
Germany's pension law for laborers will
include 12,000,000 persons. Every work-
ingmen according to his wages, must pay.,
from 8' to 71 cents per week. The
employers mnat eiey the same sum for
each laborer, and the Government will
contribute $10 50 yearly for every Men.
The pension will be paid to the sick and
ell over 70 years of age. The peneion is
from $26 to $41 per year. That sum is
one-third of the wages pad in that country.
"Moth" and 'Freckles.
The physician ie frequently asked by
lady patient, for something that will re-
move " moth " and freckles. A. writer in
the Penne. keit., clays that a teeth eonsist.,
ing of equal pens .of laatio acid and glyeee-
ine will do the work and is harming when
applied to the
Aticording to Italierecorreepondents, 82
miles of road, costing shoat $30,000,000,
have been built, paved and drained in
Rome since 1$82. About 3,000 new houses
have been ereeted 8,ndfive new bridges have
been thrown across the Tiber. The innova-
te:me have so changed the appeerenee of
the old city ihitt visitors of 20 years ago
would hardly recognize it.
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Bill Nye 'receetly said of Wagner's music
"1 have been informed it is really much
better than it sounds."
Ur. Gladstone is writing a paper on
The linpregnable Rook of Hely Soripture,"
o be publieheti next year.
Custoraer—Bat e100 is rather high, even
for an artist's proof. Art dealer—But, my
dear sir, you newt remember that a four
page descriptive circular goes with the
TWO SLOES TO TrES,STOInt.
Of all sad words of tongue or pen
The saddest are not It misfit have been,"
But the ones that bring us deepe it woo
Are thosp that swear "1t mast be so."'
At a Chicago wedding the other, day
the ceremony of throwing the slipper had
to be omitted. They had no catapult.
The latest thing in perfumes is lilacs blos-
som.' The odor of the flower is so well re-
produced that one fannies a lovely spray of
white lilae is somewhere near. The color
of the perfume is lilac, and the nice little
bottles are tied up with lilamblosemn rib-
bon. --Madge, in London l'ruth.
WRY TREY WY.BE TRAM
Hessen° Given atszalvaani4OUV.entiOn roue
A Wilkeeletire, Pa., dearest* twos :
coreveeteenot trampwas held in the Old
Dendee breaker, near. Nanticoke, on
Thureday, The breaker has served as a
rendezveee for tramps for many years mot,
Of lute the building iute become very morn
ydailtaPionif*Leac; btaret m"P: )3100e*9130;111ea4:elfsb1)0ruetaere"
rilirtteb
hr,lotothQ pus 11 in PrraurkePMaierClaeortthhee
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She postmegter at Rhone, kindly donated.
.as old stove for the UBQ Of the Wimps. In
Eeptember, John Allen, * better, who has
been on the " road " for eight years, issued
irevitetions' whitett read as follewe •
Beadeuarteni of Kniglits of the Ittod, Dundee
Breaker, Luer ne county,
Leen sei,eaton are respectfully Invited to
attune a convention Oi Amer can tramp, at
Dinsdee breaker, near Wee/ethane, ea.. Nov.
eeth. it your &rein the vicinity at the tune men
timed it wit/ be to our interest to bead roe
Dundee at once, as questiocwvital to your owe
welfare will be etaeuesed,
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White cardboard, and Allen ge,ve one
more to etteh tramp he °lune Ames. 0
Nov. letb, acoordi% to Allerea =more
dura book, he had lamed over 640 invit
time. Allen returned. to Dundee lest Se
=day. He toned won treeme in the o
booker. They ell arrived with vavitatimi
They said they were the advancxt per
Alien AO provielon lied. been made f
clelegetee so fee ehtetcl of the meeting, an
that they would have to etir Veiled All
get something to eat. The visitors QA
they had IMAMe to provide for theruseive
and one of them, Joe Johnson, a 'typo, h
01140 flowed tbe bottom of his vee
another 40 knight," Oherley Liwie, a titan
cotter, hod 05. The others were reunites
exa 14w1 to go not in the eartrettudi
FeetentdrYtot°dobeati. Tthbeeir"p4o4WVAner "the 4.41MIALiSitd
eking the convention tt comes% The tw
tramps who hea money were not asked
go out. They chipped in and bought
good Otizeti calf fratuRarroer Rentetheube
On Beatty another colleetion of trent
arrived at the place at meeting The
were all elm and all calorie among th
number being a 0010Zed BUM and a Spa
Sent They had veoeived lovitetione
Pittsburg, attend the convention. The
atedved on tbe night, freight hoe over th
Lehigh Vellei Railroad, and alt of the
were vet', dirtY. On Monday enema
another delegation arrieed over the Dela
were, laBokAWAUlla a Western Itailroad
They OM° grOM Huddle* There we
fear of them, and three of the numbe
were printers. On Tneaday night th
eastern, delegation put in AU appeorerme
There vrere 'levee of them. They cans
from Beaton, Pbiledelphia, Newark an
New York Late on Wednesday nix mor
stregglers 05020 into camp. Th y eat
they ha come bora Buffalo, Ana were tw
weeks on the road. On Wedneeday avenin,,
the coif was slaughtered, and the "advance
guard" had renerned with one turkey an
three peire of chickens. A 'oollectio
was also taken up, and 07 worth o
beet wee purchased from Butober Boger of
Nantloote. There were two wake And on
waiter in the crowd, and they prepared15
grand breekfaet for Thureday morning
Thirty-eight trams eat demote therepast
After breekfaet each delegate was regatta,*
to report lieoltpamatet,an,bis last place .resi
r Allen called the convention to order
He propelled a ahem:felon on "Why Are
We Tomes ?" Mr. Turkee of Toledo
said: " will tell you why I 'aM a tramp
and why I an towed to be (me. In the
town of Toledo there is a shoemaker to
every pair of shoes worn. I have travel
led far and near in smell of work, but
couldn't ana any."
Idr. Hoover, of Williameport.-=I want
to ask Mr. Turkee one question. Are
you a drinking man
Mr. Turkee-1 am, to some extent.
Mr. Hoover—Well, then, 1 think you will
Etna that drink is at the bottom of all your
troubles. I do not mean this as a pereonal
insinuation; I drink myself. I lay my
downfall to drink. I wonldnot be a tramp
to -day if not for drink.
Mr. Johnson, of Philadelphia—I differ
with Bro. Hoover. I am not a drffiking
man, and yet I am found in trampdom.
demanded Bo much wages, whioh my
employer paid he could not give. I tnit
allowed to go, and a boy, an apprentice,
comma in and takes my -place.
Denies Scully, of St. LOUig—I inn a
tramp because I love to roam. I can get
work, but it don't agree with me. I have
asthma and I found that a change of air is
better for me than work. (Laughter.)
Mr. Higgins—I lost three fingers braking
and I will be --- if I brake anymore. I
won't work as e laborer for 01 day, either.
,I enjoy tramping around, and as long as I
enjev it I am going to stick to it.
William Hutchinson, of Albany—My
wife is to blame for my being e tonne
Finding life unbearable, I struck oat.
Drink caused the trouble in my home.
Mike Hines, of Boston—I got tired of
life *5 80* fishing and thought I would try
land a while. I love it.
Mr. Nagle, of Baltimore, said he was
making $13 per week at his trade, but got
tired of the Same thing in and out every
week. He wanted a ohmage and to see some
of the country.
Charles Tholes, of Fort Wayne—I can
make 0.t per day stone cutting, but I can't
hold a job two week& -
Mr. Sohedel, of Pittsburg—I am a tramp
"because, like Mr. Theise, I can't hold a job.
,Harry Cleney—I have been a 'tramp
since I was 17 years old. I can't get down
to work. I guess I will be a tramp all my
Peter Shindel said he was blaoklieted by
all union Mille of the country, and he was
forced to Oka to the road end beg
The disci:union lasted four hours. It was
brought out that only 5 out of the 38 were
atarried, 10 could read and write, 7 could
speak more than one language, 16 were
Americans, 8 frish, 3 English, 2 Sootoh, 1
Spaniard, 1 colored; 1 Welsh, 1 Swede and
4 Gernmes.
Mr. Hoover said: "To mike a frank
coneesaion, I think it must be acknowledged
that the American group is the outoome of
strong drink and slothfulness." This
remark raised a storm of Wens, and the
speaker haa to take his seat. Mr. Scully
then Offered the following, whioh was
adopted by a vote of 26 to 22:
Resolved, that the American tramp is
the fruit of the policy formed by one mil-
lionaires and grasping monopolies, who,
with the aid of improved machinery, are
driving honest workmen from the faotories,
And mills of the country.
Resolved, that we tramps stem/ together
for onr own proteotion.
Resolved, that a copy of the proceedinge
of the convention be sent to the leading
papers of the country.
The minority were in favor of placing
the blame for the tramp's misery upon the
tramp himself.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has
affirmed the opinion that a viotim of the
morphine habit is not a drunkard under
the °Water.
4aletx"Jele1' .111.111eatIllet.ettl.
The Recant rmsceireriee AMOng the Vel
oradoellif Dwellings.
Meseta. Frederick H.thapin and Charles
P. Eloward, of this eity„ hsve redone -1y re-
turned from 4 meet iateresting and fruitful
exploring expedition. in Southern Colorado.
They made :especial Beulah for aad among
the varioue oliff dwelling.- in the Memos
Canon. They are experienced climbers.
BIte Chapinis a member of the Appal*.
't9hebis4lexetrieurteafy4 abialitecullitllothhr
rabedMtinillaut°Zaenra.
matt, and has publeshed, immerOuil artia108
theAppa/achianandother megazines. He
loth an article in a recent issue of the
Journal of the 4tustrhrn 41vine Club on the
Moraines of Colorado ; and it le an interest,
ing point ,t1tat he has explored hie own
of/entre as well As foreign lam% and is
Authority on meaey seething of- the Rooky
Mountain region. Mr. Howard climbed
Mt. Blanc with Mr. Chapin, and rasa° the
ascent of the Matterhorn by bitnself.
They went out to the bfelloett Canon
mitioly to take photographs of tbe Interest-
ing objects there, bra they alSO made many
discoveries thearteelves. There ire no
more Annul or adventurous photogrephere
*13an Mr, Chapin is. The &tercet be
makes are perfect, and he hag brought from
this trip a OPHOOtiOn that are simply mar.
vweolroud: athndoutglittettilealasotowryuasocommorep:hoyinutg skttiee
endow' oliff dweiliege than can be told. to
pictures, as he tells it, mekee the eeenee
complete,
Thews dweilloge in Mel3001 Canon were
discovered loot Deoember end very few
people have seen any of thcim. They ere
seatterod all along the lofty walls et the
canon and ite tributatiee. Yea find them
in countless othuudanoe, yet they are
Almost eheolutely heaceetteible save as the
eteps to them are toned, They are ear up
the side of the gorge and commit be mottled
from. below. And shay are down below the
top so ler so to he o4lt of eight or reset
from *hove, awl are woolly ;401%4 *way.
under an overhanging ledge. They are not
easixy noticed, and the only way to teed:
taTembeiAbfibiYicitinbegtaePrea °fluottirlarbearttey *re
raortar and mown work struotoree. The
largest that Sheet explored is 425 feet long
—a palace or a, fortrese. It was at 'elute
80 feet high, and woald have held 1,000
people. On the ground iloor 121 roma
were traotel. The °bigot of theao explorers
waenot relic* but pliceographs. wed so they
took ploterea luatead of getlierieg mete.
rialto but Macy new e great many curious
tbingo. Coro and beaus are still to he
found in the mains; indeed, a oorn-coh was
found imbedded itt. the original mortar,
ehowling it was Ail OK AI 1110 etrooture.
Skeletone elan he found by uplueaving the
debris. Whoever gem there to dig will come
away loaded.
ATI se, too* on the plane snout the
ration WA0All the *awoken; stopped, the
fieltie yield pottery and other relice, and
the loose stoneprove to be parts of ruined
buildings. Itia a country whose people
have gone. Why tbey went, why they
lived as they did while there -these thing°
and nearly Miele° About thentare =Otero
for speoulation. Itiolittra Wetherill, a
rationraan of Manton vas the ditiooverer of
the first of these dwellings in thee locality,
and tonna thew, kat December. 15 is
assumed that they are at leest 000 years
old.—Hartford Courant.
Mr. Chugwater Was Quieted.
Mr. Chugwater (growlingly) Samantha,
that young Snagers octenea to this house
altogether too often to suit me.
Mrs. Chugwater—He's a decent, civil sort
ole young man. I haven° objecition 10 51.
coming.
Ildr.Chugwater (raising his voice) --Well,
Ihavel He may be a goad, average young
men, but I tell you I don't want him about
thie honse '
Mrs. Chugwater (plsoidly)-1 don't see
what business it la of years, Mr. ()hug--
Mr.Ohugwater (rising to his feet and bring.
ing 51. flat down on the table)—You don't
eee what business 11 18 of mine? Why, good
heavena, madam 1 Ain't 1 the head of this
family ?
Chugwater supporre you
consider yourself such.
Mr. Ohngwater (in a towering rage)—I
certainly do, madam And if / say that
giggling simpleton of a Snodgers isn't the
kind of a men I want for a son-in-law, it
goes, Mrs. Chugwater! It goes in this
Mrs. Chugwater (sweetle)—It won't go
this time, Josiah.
Mr. Chugwater (frantically, and at the
top of hie voice)—Yon'll see, madaml Tell
me which one of the girls he crom'es to sea!
Deceive me if you dare, Mrs. Chugwater
Whiuh ie the one?
Mrs. Chugwater (pleasantly)—He comes
to see the hired girl, Josiah.
[Mr. Chugwater takes a large chew of
plug tobacco and goes down town with his
hat pulled over his eyes.] —Chicago Tribune.
Musical Item.
Visitor—Yots are quite a musical family.
Father—Yes, my daughter playa the
team, and my son is quite expert with the
date
Visitor --And what do you play.
Father -1 play first fiddle.
Mother-in-law—Not much you don't,
when I am about and well.
Never make love in a corn field. Re-
member that oorn has ears and is easily
shocked. You should make an oat of this.
"'win you step behind the kitchen,"
Said the farmer to the Writ.
"Excuse me," said his gobbles,
"Weave this little scheme you'd worn 7,
'Tis nothing that is wrong at all,
'Tie just to have a talk.' .
"Then excuse me," said hieptruuete,
"I think rn turkey walk."
There, are 20,000 Swedes in Boston, but
you wouldn't know it, beosese they don't
herd together, and goon Maenad speak Eng-
lish without an accent. , Moreover, they
generally anglicize their names. Of the
80,000 arrests in Boston last year, only 300
were Swedes. Vermont evidently knows
what she ice about in taking steps to encour-
age Swedish immigration.
A men supposed fo be 44 Jack the Ripper "
was see upon by Et orowdeof Women in the
poorer quarter, of Madrid this morning,
while he was in the custody of officers who
were removing him from the jail to the
court roomewhere he was ,to be arraigned
on a charge of having eecently com-
mitted a murder under oironeastances
resembling those ,of he Whitechapel
murders in London. The Crowd in -
Creased in numbers unil it 'reached upwards
of 500, mostly women, and it was only
through the uttnoet exertions of the Gov-
ernor of Madrid and a strong force of
gendarmes, who were summoned, that the
prisoner's life was saved As it was he was
so severely beaten that the servicee of
physician were necessary to restore him to
a condition rendering the legal proceedings
in his case possible.
The eldest daughter of Sir Julian Faunae!
tote, Mies Maud, is about 24. She was
horn and educated at Dresden. At the
court of St. James, where elle was first
presented, she attracted considerable atten-
tion on account of her graceful bearing.
She has been an extensive traveller and is
the posseseor of all the accomplishments.
A141Le COLLEas.
St. Thomas. anode.
Al/ Graduatee of Alois Pine Ante UolJegs
are legally qualified to tecteh in Pubilo an
got Sohools, Collegiate Institutes, Mealee,
since' enstitates, and the Art Schools or
the Province.
li."Lait year :4111O1 p.assed 116 out of 130'
candidates in thecPrelleeolal Art Examine
• &Simi% took the alt!y ,four 1 ull Adveueed
Cortineetes given in the Provinoe, ale° G
full Prirotery Qatithettea and Wen 2 Gold
Medal. Certilioetes.
Eilteues record in pet years his been eine
equella in the Eine Art.wOrk and the now
stands unrivalled iu tide reepect in the
Dominion of °woad*.
ger Art Boom and apparatus -are admit,-
tediy the beet iu Outlaw, and her etal oir
inetraotion unenrpaesed.
A number of graduates of Alma Vine Art
School have reoeived Collegiete appoint.,
meats in Canef0a, and the United States,
For 60 pp. Celender, Address Principal
Austin, A. M.
More in He Aldred.
Tramp-0oe1d you give me 4 Lik$10
eat. madam ?
Medem—Oh, heir lucky. The eookinc
dab hes just gone, and yore can eat—
But the tramp had fled —New York gum,
"Wine. WOMQU 14.114 florlgr"
1391 the greatest of thette ie. "women."
" Wine 18• mocker," end song le good tx
800the t110 towage," hut women reepeleff,
to every active power and eentlicent ot the
"lumen mind when in good health. But
when aftlicted with disease you will lita
them, tantalizing, ooquettiste crow, en5
hard to &see. For ell "female want -
&into," sick headache, irreguleritioii
nortetianeaa. prolsotue and other displace.
mente popularly known as " fentele Walk.
noes" and other ill401400 ,E0011iiikr SO AIM
JAI; Di; Pieres'e Povorito Preeeription
the gloat world-ftuned remedy.
What tiler Mese.
The following ie given as e licit of the
oherfoterlatios of the tatea of the Union, as
iudiosted by thole abbreviation.:
Egotiere, Me.; raligion, agog. ; paternity,
Pc.; virmnitte, Miele; refuge, Ark -• farm-
ing,Mo. ; atzt/smetio, TOMB.; tatonish.
meet. Le.; eurprise, 0 ; 1.101m01151 III.;
health, Md,; atoalonsneee, Coon.; aoility*
Elm.; olietolintaa. Witeli. I inebriety, Rel.;
indebtedneee, lows; mining, Ore.; femin-
inity, Ida.
Love In a Cottage.
"4 Chilly," said Aluarauthe Jane,
notioe that your spirits reoently atom *0 be
bubbling over with bomb:moo. I am glad
to see is, but do tell me dear, whet his
canoed, it?" "I will," eala Charley, as he
encircled her waist and imprinted ids, on
her inviting lips. "!on know for a while
I was melancholy, blue act indigo—bed no
appetite, was bilious and tlyopeptio, bat the
use of two bottlee of Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery hag brought me out and
I am bright so a button: I feel like it
new man now. Jane, mime the day soon ;
there is more of thie medioine at the drug
store."
roommtmet....w.mo
40.1ferd Life.
"Don't you, get frightfully tired of your
work2 " *eked the monkey of the hand
organ.
**Well, life Is a good deal of a grind for
me," replied the organ.
Deal Read Thu for 9500.
For mazy years, through nearly every
newspaper in the land, the proprzetore of
Dr. Sage's Catarrh Bernecty, who are
thoroughly responsible, floanotaily, as any
one oats easilyastiertain by prover enquirre
i
have offered, n good faith, a standing re-
ward of 1500 for a ease of nasal catarrh, act
matter bow bad, or of how long standing,
which they oannot cure.
Very Tough.
Headsman Clarkson (to Demooratie
postmaster)—/ wish yen would tender your
resignation.
Postmaster --Tender? That'tough,
Deserving Case.
Footpad—Hold up yer handle
Pedestrian (calmly)—I have been out
ehopping all day with my wife.
Footpad (sympathetically)—By Jinks
Here, take this quarter.
Lake Victoria Nyanza, the source of the
Nile according to Explorer Stanley's latest
observations, is a mageificent sheet of water
which will in future time play an important
part in the oivilization of tbe surrounding
country by facilitating the movement oe
trade. A. better idea of its keg may ha
gained by comparing its area, for example.,
with the State of South Carolina. it covers
nearly as many square miles,
—A Perla letter says Theodore Tilton is
a broken, prematurely old man, with thin,
gray hair.
WEE SONO Or TEE =AIM .
gather here and there a pie,
And here and there a biscuit;
I snatch a spoon when no one's by;
Xt always pays to risk it.
sleep at noon where waters flow
To soothe the weary comer
Ivor men may come and men may go,
Butl go on an summer.
I ride beneath the rushing freight,
r
wertine erclit°enhate0oCeilitoedaele'.crate
The box of weds and Fargo.
I qigreauligensIned a!ffri-e.lyee
For in Noveraber lair, the Snow --
I Walk in summer only.
The boys of the College for the Blind, ot
Worcester; England, indulge in orioket, and
are reported to play a very fair game. The
ball used is Merle of %deicer with a bell in-
side of it, which rings when it is thrown
The wicket keeper claps his halide behind,
the stumps to guide the bowler, and so ex-
pert, are the howlers that they eau hit the
wicket with three balls out of six.
Mrs. Mary Coles, wife of Lieutenant
Coles, commander of the United States
steamer Despatoh, is suing for a divorce,
Mrs. Coles is a daughter of Hon. Allen G.
Thurman, of Ohio, and wee married to
lieutenant in Washington 16 yearago.
Ex -Provost Sturrook, Kilmarnock, hag
been adopted as the Unionist candidate for
the Kilmarnock Burghs.
D 0 L 50 80
2k GENTS MAHE $100 A MONTH
_LA_ with us. Send Me. for ternafl. A colored
rug pattern and GO colored dealgrel. W. 4 to
BUSH, St. Thomas, Ont.
UNN'S
B KING
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