The Exeter Advocate, 1890-1-16, Page 3Growing Old Together.
You, do not love me, dear, so muela;
As you (lid long ago,
When you use4 to praise my rosy oheeli,
And forehead white aS MOW.
You do pot zrnsla to kiss that cheek
With all your Old -tame bre--
Perhaps, indeed, it as not zaow
The ehook that you, admire. t
Yeti de so t fdld me in your arms
As oaten as of yore ;
Your baud once dallied with my ourkett-
It dal les there no more.
And if I did not know my hair
Was far plst girlhood's day,
well could read it in our glance,
That tells me I am gray.
'Yet deem not, love, that I upbraid;
13y your neglect appalled—
'or I—I loved you bet ter when
You were not wholly bold;
And were you as demonstrative
As when you first did woo—
phould cleoise sueh idiocy
In an aged gent lake you.
—Mrs. Y000tenvicz, in Christmas PM*.
The spelling Class.
•Stand hp. ye spellers, noW and spell;
Spell phenakisteseope,and knoll:
Or take amps simple word, as chilly,
Or gauger, or the garden lily.
To spell such words as syllogIsm,
And lachrymose and synchronism,
Azad Pentateuch aed saccharine,
Apocrypha and celandine,
Lactiferous and oecity,
Jejune and homeopathy,'
12ara1yeis and chloroform
Rhinoceros and pachyd rm.
Metampsychosio, gherkins, badque,
Is eertainly uo easy task.
Kaleidoscope and Tennessee,
Reanschatka and dispensary,
Diphthong awl erysipelas,
And etiquette and sassafras.
Infallible and.ptyttlism,
Allopathy and rheumatism,
And cataclysm and beleaguer,
Twelfth, eighteouth,rendesvous, intriguer,
And hosts' of other Words ail found
On English and on classic ground.
Thus Behring t,traits and Michatelmaa,
Thermopylm, Cordilleras,
Suite, hemorrhage, jalap, Havana,
Cinquefoil and ipecacuanha,
And Rappahannock, Shenaudosh,
And Schuylkill, and a thousand more
Are words some prime good spellers miss
In dictionary lands like this.
Nor need one think himself a scroyle
If some of these his efforts foil,
Nor deem himself undone forever
To miss the name of either river,
• The Dnieper, Seine or Guadalquiver.
The Atelanoboly Mule.
Oh, mule ! Thou sad, neglected beast,
Abused by num throughout thy days.
No kiud tier loving deeds thou seest,
But hardships follow all thy ways.
Thou hast unjustly been accused
Of kicking people jut for fun;
But ha.dst thou not been =eh abused
Thou wouldst not cruel things have done.
Thy heart with kindliness iq rife;
Though thou host very seldem heard
In ell thr dreary, toilsome lite
A,friendly, complimouVry word.
But I to you will be a friend;
No wrong shall meet you from my hand;
Your graces shall my tongue commend ;
Not mine t.) cudgel or (Hammond.
And so upon your battered hide
I lay a hand of wrong bereft— •
The poet's friends are notified
To call and get what little's left.
AN Avain, EiLATTGETER.
Ons Thousand Chicago People gilled at
the “Oilrogs3 Crossinirs Binh** tOe
Last Pour Teats
(Chicago Nows,)
In the yellowdeafed been in the coronerai
offiee in which the names of aubjeate for
inquestare put down as feat as they are
reported were iecorded seven fatelitins at
railroad orossinga thia morning. The
fatelities did not all 000ur thee moreing
but represented the work of tne &AMY
loomootive during, the 'met terty.eight
home.
The list began with J 1). Revell, his
Wife and latent onild, killed at Wilraette
Cluistmaa eve. 'The next was an unknown
women-cruelaed to death at 23rd street by
a. Wabash engine.
A Man aims° nettle Widi not given was
reported killed at Western Springs. The
information was telephoned to the coroner
by the Chicago, Burlington ea Qainoy Rail-
road company.
The body of jellies Fisober, struck by a
Milwaukee dr St. Paul tritin December 24th,
awaited an inquest at the county hospital,
where the victim died yesterday.
Dr. Gandey, of 1593 Milwaukee avenue,
• killed at Kedzie avenue this morning, com.
pleted the list, Dr. Gandey was driving
across the St. Paul tracks, when an engine
bore down upon him, running into and
instantly Inning him. He kayo a wife.
Dr. Geodesy was about 38 years Of age.
Chief Deputy Knopf Says the number of
viotims of the railways gime last new
year's is not less than 250,and there is till
nearly aweek to farther inoreaae the liet.
"Just think ot it," continued Deputy
Knopf, who is also a State representative,
"250 people killed in Mileage by the rail-
roads in one year and 1,000 in four years!
I tell you, it is a disgrace end a ehame.
That is altogether too many lives to be
sitorificed. Last year there were 200 peo-
ple killed by the oars, and there is an in-
crease of fifty for this year thue far."
"What is the reason for this large num-
ber of aocedents ?"
" Why the trains are run too fast The
ordivance is violated every day by the rail-
roads ; in fact, there is eoarpely an attempt
to conceal the fact that the speed ot twenty
and twenty-five miles an hour is kept up
right along inaide the oity limits by some
roads."
LOSING A DAY.
,Why the Globe Trotter Gets Mixed up
Following the sun.
A fair lady writes; Can't you explain
shout gaining and losing a day when you go
• round the world? Jules Verne,muddled me
ell up and every one that tries to explain it
makes my head go found, too." Certainly,
ma'am only you must fix your mind on one
thing at a time and not let it go a -wander-
ing like the little pigs that wouldnit stand
still long enongh to be counted. Well,
then, there is no day lost or gained. What
you will loae or gain if you go round the
world (besides some pleasant company -
wherefore, don't) is a date, not a day. In
travelling westward, each date, commonly
called a day, hides the fact that for ee,oh
degree of longitude passed over you had
added four minutes to the 24 hours. If at
noon, when by custom you change your
date, you find yonhave traversed 15 degrees,
then yonr " day" has contained 25 hours
• instead of 24. In going to the eastward,
the conditiode would be reversed, and your
date called a" day "would contain but 23
hours. Bat if you and your friend should
stand back to back at New York, and start-
• beg at the same instant walk straight round
the world, eaoh walking exactly three miles
an hour and never, stopping for anything,
you would both meet and pass half way in
exactly 3 500 henna, and you would again
meet in New York in exaotly 7,009 hours.
• State the time in hours and you will grasp
it immediately. -New York Tribune.
Thoughts.
Enjoy what you ave;hhope for what you
Let ne make no vows, but let; tut aot as
we had.--Rochepedre.
Our earthly blessings are but shadows of
• blessings. -Dr. Pulsford.
The more honest a man is the leas he
effects the air of a saint.-Lavater.
We are never as happy, nor as unhappy,
as we fa noy.-La Rochefoucauld.
To love is to admire witla the heart; to
admire is to love with the mind. -T.
Gautier.
A philosopher is a fool who torments
, himself during life, to be spoken of when
deed.-D'ellembert.
That lumpiness may enter into the soul
we must first sweep it clean of all imegin-
• ary evils.--Fontenelle.
There is in us more of the appearance of
sense and of virtue than of the reality.-
. Marguerite de Valois. •
From Paris to Peru, frorn Japan to
Rome, the most foolish animal, in my
estimation, is man. -Boileau.
Promises retain men better than ser-
• vices. For them, hope is a chain, and
gratitude a thread. -se. Petit•Senn.
"Have yon a remedy ?"
"1 have what I believe to be one. In the
Legislature last summer I introduced& Bill
compelling all railroads to put gates un at
every (messing. It got nowhere near being
voted on, because the railroads had their
agents down there and they 'fixed' the
senators and representatives. The censo.
quenoe was that the Bill was lost in the
shuffle. With gates at every crossing I
believe that trains could inn at 25 and 30
miles an hour with little or no riek to the
people." ,..
Mayor Cregler was shocked when
informed by an Evening News reporter that
the deaths of seven ,people killed by the
raelroade were reported this morning.
" This running of trains inside the city
limits," he said, " is a most diffiatilt prob.
lem to solve, and doubtless it will take a
great deal of experimenting before some
practical plan is arrived at that will insure
the maximum of safety to everybody. It
is all very well to talk about compelling
the railroads to run slowly, but tile
raoment we put a check on the speed the
people actually come en mane to protest
against the loss of time they are compelled
to undergo. We had a meeting of a special
connoil committee and the railroads here
some time ago and the question was dis-
cussed in all its phases. The railroads
• urged that they should be allowed to ran
faster than the time allowed them under
the old ordinance, which prescribes 10 miles
an hour, because at that rateschool-boys,
tramps, and any one else could jump on
trains and steal rides and risk their lives,
while at a faster rate they could not get on.
I suggested that the oity be sutedivided,
and that trains be allowed to run fast in
thinly settled districts and be required to
go slower in the more densely populated
divisions. The matter was compromised
by inserting a safety -gate clause in the
ordinanne and fixing a rate of speed accord-
ing to the distance from the centre of the
oity. I believe that will help settle the
question of so many deaths by the rail-
roads, and I hope it will."
" Have you nothing further to suggest
toward stopping the frightful slaughter ? "
"To my thinking," replied the mayor,
"the only satisfamory solution of the mat.
ter will be the introduction of elevated
roads."
Commiseiorer Purdy was quite surprised
to hear that there had been so many semi.
dents at the street comings recently.
" That's quite an extraordinary num-
ber," he said, " and I am at a loss to
account for them all. I can't lay the
blame to an insufficienoyof gate protection,
for as fast as our attention has been callea
to the need of a gate at ouch and such a
creasing we have had the order pensed in
the council and notified the company to
pat ikup. None of them has been obstrep.
erous or stubborn about it. We hold the
whip hand in such matters, as you will see
by the ordinanoe. There is .no general
ordinance compelling gates to be put up at
• all oroseings, but orders are passed from
time to time"
Row She tumbled.
• A. little girl of tender years, who had
been intending one of the public kinder-
. gartene, fell from a ladder. Her mother
caught hoe up from the ground in terror,
- exclaiming, "Oh, darling, how 'did you
fall 2" " Vertical," replied the child with.
out a second's beeitation.
A 9117,01aItt COOKY' SIOUNE.
lite BottorIndlets is Vine os nineteen and
a +Gomm on the Crowd. s
verybody, in ()Wend knew Police Judge
Laidlew ned been mu 9. howliug racket.
The Plasm had recounted the otory of that
wild debauch at the White House, end
people woudered what the outcome would
be. The +spree was fittingly coaoluded'yes.
teeday by the arrest of Judge Laidiew and
the imposition of. a fine of $50. The smu�.
ing part of the affair is that the Judge
ordered hie own arrest, &tea himself end
alae Paid the fine.
attendance in the Oakland Police Court
There was rather more than the usual
yeaterdey, and a ripple of excitement ran
around tlae room when the Judge's voice
was heard pronouncing the works " Mr.
Bailiff, you will plane Alexender Leidlaw
under arrest for violating an ordinance.
Mr. 'addle* is released on his own recog-
nizance," continued Judge Laidlaw. Ur,
Clerk, you will enter.that name upon your
docket, and he pleads guilty."
Judge Laidlaw adjuated his glasses, took
a roll • of menuseript from hiS pooket,
slipped off the little elastic band, opened
out the roll, and read as follows:
"Mr. Clerk, you will please enter upon
the doeket of this Court a charge of violat-
ing an ordinance of the city of Oakland
+spinet Alexander Laidlaw. To this charge
I plead guilty, and before passing sentence
I have thia to say -that I feel it my duty
to make some statement of the facts con-
cerning this cue. The oherges and allege.
Urine as printed in the press ef this city
are, to a certain extent, true. A number,
however, are incorrect and untrue. That
• I was drunk or, to use the langaege of the
ordinence, 4 ander the influence cif intoxis
eating bet:writ,' is true. That there was no
palliation nor extenuation then, nor' is
there now, for this offence, is also true.
That the entire occurrenee is lamentable,
sincerely and sadly regretted I can honestly
state, and I do BO state I, who have at
Isere day after day, week after week, and
month after month, dispensing justice with
an honesty of purpose, sense of justice, and
every other motive of right that oan possi-
bly actuate an honest men, cannot pass by
this greatest offence of my, life. • Is it
right ? Is it just? Is it honorable ? Is it
honest to myself, or to the people of this
oity, to permit myself to go unpunished
for the commission • of an offence
for whiela I punish others daily?
My answer is, No 1 Emphatioelly,
No I For a tramp or a vagrant,
lost to the world, to hia home, to his family,
to decency and shame, there may poeeibly
be facime excuse in the commission of an
offence of this character, but to one of my
past standing in this community there is
no excuse. Bat for the sake of one t hold
so dear, and who inculcated those early
precepts, which I shall never forget,
deem myself in duty bound to snow my
manliness and admit, frankly and
sincerely, that I have committed a wrong,
and ask forgiveness for the same. I have
made this statement freely and voluntarily,
add with a proper confederation of the fact
that many a better man than I has put
an enemy in his month to eteal away his
brains,' but I sincerely hope thet this
affair may serve as a warning to all snob
as are beset by that OfIrS8 of modern
civilization -drink. Upon a repetition of
this offense I +shall not ask for mercy,
neither will I expect it. In conclusion; I
wish to exonerate and exoulpete all persons
from any blame whatsoever whose names
have been coupled with mine in this
unfortunate affair. The sentence of ,the
court is that the defendant pay it fine of
$50, with the usual alternative.' ettkawhoror, osweoduroethwyi,whionr
shit imeerelithcaityneslaiyved to -day.
The Judge olosed this remarkable pro. , -Dryden.
oeeding by banding over to the clerk 650 to
Wiao ktiows whether the gods will add
save himself from 50 days' sojourn in the
county jail. -San Francisco Atla. • to•morrow to the present hour? -Horace.
/ Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old;
• Ring in the thousand years of peace.
-Tennyson.
At Niagara.
Old Mr. Teat y (returning to his room
• after paying his hotel bill) -Don't touch
me 1 I'm not sure &bent nig inenlation,
and I've just been so heavily. charged that
„I'm darigerons I
1 don't believe you love me any
longer,' eobbed a loving young wife to her
husband a year after niftrriage. "Love
yon, my dose ; Why, don't I eat all your
pion without questioning their con,
• tents ?" And she was dorivinced C of his
• faithfulnese. '
• VOlt 1i1IVZN1713 ONLY•
ThEM0113011v030 ask for sampleof silk,
• Make the dry.goods atterchant feel lonely,
• For he is in favor, with his friends of that ilk,
• Of a tear -off for revenue only.
-.The Maffei() Courier seys a ixtati wil
• take anything for a holiday predent that a
tvoman wants to give him--enything
except a necktie, bedritaio "not one woman
a in ten Oen piek ont for a Man a necktie
that he will dare to Wear in it place where
he is known."
-Stiff' bouquets for the dinner tetble have
-entirely, gone out,
Awful Result of a Current Insanity.
Sunday &hoot Teaoher-Who was it
that went down to Jericho and fell among
thieves 7•
Smart Pupil -You can't 'play it teacher.
Yoa want me to say I don't know and then
asa you, and then you're goieg to spring
McGinty auto me. .Yon can't play no Mo.
Ginty drives on me.
The yeller Wouldn't Tell.
Farmer Oatcake (at back window) -I
eay, kin ye tell me—"
Mr. Cashreore-Go to the next window if
you want any information.
" Thunderation 1 I'd like to know whet
you've got that sign • Teller' over yonr
head for any way?" •
•
A Horse Joke.
" Ha ?" whinnied the horse. "We
ought to be able to get out even' though
the stable door is looked. We have a key
here.
4' What kind of one ?" bettered an twain
the next stall.
"Why, a donkey." ea
Stayathome-What are you goieg
to give yonr huebend for a Christmas
present? Mo. leewler-I -think I shall
gave him a nice hanging lamp for the
parlor. And yon? Mrs Stayathome-Oh,
I am going to give my husband such a
pretty tensyrna rug to pat in front of the
sitting -room fireplace.
• TO 'Wong AGAIN,
• Yule Is come, and Yule is gone,
And we have toasted well;
•Ele Jack must to hie flail again,
And Jenny to her wheel,
-,Antique P0501.
VleOlaAaloW lendelania OR B*Taa
hiCemsoing the Farmers Despite all Neaps
to Kill Thens.
The pique of rate from which more than
ope of oar agrioultural distriote is at w-
ont offerine tbreeteots to assume serious
proportions. In at Lothian, though the
vermin have been destroyed by the thou.
fiend, and all the terriers, steel traps and
pheephoroue paste in the neighborhood are
in requisition, their numbers exhibit iao
appreemble dimioution, while from the
Fen dietriet, in Lineolnabire, it is reported
that they have never boeu eo nenteroue or
deetruotive. The potato pits are invaded,
the turnip fielda continue a browsing ground
for tee +warm of rodents, and every gran-
ary bas been compelled to pay an un-
willing tithe to the horde which has over.
spread the country.
Since "Hamelin Town in Brunswick
Land" was afflicted in a eimilar fashion,
reach a pest hal seldom bon heard of. It
is true that, for the present; the vermin
have not fought the dogs and killed the
oats, and bit the babies in their oradles,and
ate the cheese out of the vats, and licked
,the soup from the cooks' own tulles," but
they are in a fair way to accomplish all
these misdemeanors unless their career is
brought to a speedy close. Indeed, the rats
seem to have come to stay. Unlike finch
vernain generally, they are burrowing holes
by the roadaide, and when we remember
the amazing rapidity with which they mule
tiply, it is hard to say whether we should
wish the farmers of Lincolnshire and East
Lothian a severe winter or an open one.
For though the froet might drive the rata
from the fields, it would certainly force
them to seek the shelter of the stable or
.byre, while an absence of frost would favor
theirsincrease, Meantime, the naturalist
who is not au ownet or cultivator of the
SOU cannot fail to feel a certain qualified
interest in the latest inroad, which is
simply one more attempt on the part Of
nature to assert itself. It is a protein
against the persevering efforts of civiliza-
tion to destroy the balance of life, since
that undue increase of rats must be traced
to the destruction of the birds of prey,
weasels, stoats, and other animals which
harry them, just as the multiplioation of
weakling ,grouse has not unreasonably been
attribatea to such feeble fledglings being
afforded, owing to a similar cense, an extra
chance in the struggle for existence. -
London Standard.
Suitable to the Day.
Esoh passing year robs us of some p08 -
session. -Horace.
Time steels on and escapes SIS, like the
swift river that glideon with rapid stream.
-Ovid.
Wnile strength and years permit, endure
labor; soon bent old age will come with
silent toot. -Ovid.
•Since long life is denied as, we should
do something to show that we have lived.
The life of the dead is planed in the
memory of the living. -Cicero.
0, oall back yesterday, bid time return.
-Richard II.
He who knower most, grieves most for
wasted time. -Dante.
Write it on your heart that every day is
the best day in the year. No man has
learned anything rightly until he knows
that every day to doomeday.-Emerson;\
Years folloveng years, steal something every
day;
At last they steal us from ourselves away.
-Pope.
Happy the man, and happy he alone.
He who caa 11 to day h •
Pointsktro; 4t.;be,Freate2nneacioWnbie:;:eepna.swene:Rthotor
Their Brows.
Minneapolis wood -carvers get $3 day.
San Francisco tanners are fighting the
employment of Chinese.
Brooklyn granite cutters get e3.50 per
day; nonninion mem $2 50.
Eight.bour meetings are being held
throughout the couutry.
Dr. McGlynn will dump California on
the single tax.
• Siok benefit feieds are being added to
various unions.
boot -
makers. Eng., Ira 10,000 looked out heOt•
Douglass county (Kamm) farmere
unions are boyaottiug dressed beef dealere
• The salaries of Cleveland policemen were
out to meet a deficiency of $90,000.
Over 100 retail limier dealers of New
York will run a oo-operative brewery.
The Toledo eigarrnakers will este the
Legislature to legslize the union label.
Greeneburg, (Pa.) plasterers demand §3,
nine hours and eight on Saturday.
Oaly the carpenters are expeoted to strike
for eight hours at Cleveland.
English workingmen are electing work-
ingmen to municipal bodies.
All the barber ahops at Cleveland except
one were closed on Sunday.
Boston freestone cutters have been
granted an eiglinhour day at 44 cents all
hour. They will demand 50 cents in April.
The Grand Repids Barbene Union fines
50 cents for smoking a noa-uuion cigar and
expels at the third offence.
In New South Wales the bosses' Amal-
gamated Miners' Union has agreed to hire
none bat union hands.
The beer license in New York is $50.
Only a few are selling below the union rate
of 10 cents per pint.
Mexico has plaoed a prohibitory tax on
drummers from the United States or other
countries.
Co-operative bakeries started by Newark
and Brooklyn , strikers are highly littO•
cessful.
Indiana railroaders struck against an
order forbidding them to loiter around
ealoons.
The Brooklyn Carriage and Waggon -
makers` Union fined members al eon for
riding in carriages at a faneral driven by
non -anion men.
The Newark Stoneoutters' Union has
been stied to compel it to admit two appli-
cants to membership, and damages are
claimed. The union decided to admtt no
members for a year.
The Brooklyn boss plumbers and gas -
fitters and the journeymen's unions have
respectively agreed not to employ any non-
union workers and not to work for non-
union employers.
Yorkshire (Eng.) green glass-blowers
hteve gained 30 per +rennin wages in a year.
In this country 1,800 green gleareblowere
have been locked out since July for not
accepting a cat of 25 per cent.
A. Paterson (N.J.) thread firm employe
1,200 hands, and has a factory in Linburn,
Ire., which employe 3,000, and one in Ger-
many which employs 1,000. The flax used
Peterson comes from Ireland.
The number of mining macbinee in
Illinois is declining. Machine operators
get $2.25 to $2 50; helpers, $1 75; blasters,
$2; loaders, $1.75; timbermen, ; drill-
ers, $2; and laborers, el 50 to $1.75.
Is the Soul Material ?'
Rev. Dr. Joseph Cooked Boston, who
lectured here some months ago, preached
in Talmage's Brooklyn Church on Sunday.
Among other things he is credited with
saying:
"Louisa May Alcoa watching with her
mother by the deathbed of a dying eed
dearly loved sister, seys, when the end
oame, she distinctly 'sew a delicate mist
rising from the dead body. Her mother,
too, saw this strange thing. When they
asked the physician about it he said, 'Yon
saw life departing visibly fromthe physical
form.' This was at Concord, remember,
where there is no superetition.
"Professor Hitohoock says he was pres-
ent at the bedside of a dying friend. The
eyes closed: the lot breath ceased : he was
dead. Suddenly the eyes opened, light
cameback to them, then a look of surprise,
.
admiration, mexpressible blies : then sod-
denly passed away.
"Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in the pre.
face to a book on visions, says, with all a
scientist's conservatism, that once, watoh-
ing by a deathbed, the impression was con-
veyed to him that something -that is the
word he uses -passed from the body into
space.
"1 am citing from eta own times -a
scientific, ansuperatitions age, not as in the
time of Christ, when, as Mrs. Ward says,
there was an omnipresent belief in the
mirevalons.
"Physicians say that sonambuliem is a
state in which the soul is partly separated
from the body. your soot will soon go
hence. You are not at ease here today.
Will you be at ease then?
" ' After some more waltings and sleep.
lugs,' says Ralph Waldo Emerson I shall
lie on this couch asleep, then dead, and
through my gay entry men shell (may
these bones. Where shall I be then ?' "
.-The Rev. Ildward Abbott, who has
been elected rreesitinery bighop to Jeipan,
is said to be the original " Rollo " of the
Rollo Itoolte," wtitten by hie father,
laceb Abbott.
A Patriotic Scot.
Walter &Jett tells the story of a black-
smith in the south of Sootland who disap-
peared from the range of vision of the
great novelist, and was found afterwards
practising meclioine in an English city.
The astonished novelist asked the black-
smith if he knew anything about the heel-
ing arnand the latter aoknowledged tlaat he
did not, but trusted mainly to two simples
laudanum and calomel." "Simples with a
vengeance," mid Scott; "dean you kill
more than you cure? Perhaps I do,"
returned the pettiotio blacksmith, "but it
will be a long time before I make up for the
Soots+ that the English killed at Flodden."
• Truthful.
„ Customer -I bought it piece of calico
from you the other day, and yen said the
colors were fast.
Clerk -4 remember it, madam,
• " Well; when I'' wet the ealioo,the 'mien
came out at once."
• " Certainly ; I knew they wouldn't be
elow about it. laid you come for more.
,
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Sentiment versus Feet.
• 11,p ros-She : How beatttiful the snow
ie 1 ' The falling flakes seem almost like
angel& feathers.
• , 7 a. tr.-He: Say, darling, coins out and
helm shovel off those angels' feathers, will
y m .
• ,
Peanuts nre new deolitred by an eneinen
Philadelphia physioied to be an exoellent
brain food. Hem is a pointer for Tory
editers.,
The irrevocable Hand
That opes the year's fair gate, cloth ope and shut
The portals of our earthly destinies;
We walk through blindfold, aud the noiseless
'doors
Close after us, forever. -D. M. Mutock.
Few things surpass old wine; and they may
• preach
Who please—the more because they preach in
• Yalta— .
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laugh-
ter,
Sermons and soda -water the day after.—Byron
Come, gone—gone forever—
Gone as an unreturning river,
Gone as to deatn the merriest liver,
Gone as the year at the dying fall,
To -morrow, to -day, y-sterda.y, never,
Gone once for ail,--chrtstina G. Rossetti.
Old time, in whose bank we deposit our notes,
Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats;
He keeps all his customers still in arrears.
By lending them minutes mid charging them
years. —klobnes.
Everything that has a beginning comes
to an end.--Quintilian.
Curious Will of the Late Earl of Orkney.
The principal provisions of the will of the
late Earl of Orkney are published. Several
of them are of is peculiar character. The
personalty of the &mimed is stated at over
£60,000. The late Earl, who died at his
London residence on the 21st October, aged
62 years, doireci tbat his body be placed in
a shell, a leaden coffin, and is strong oak
coffin, and taken for burial in the vet& of
Baron de Vahl at Hensel Green Cemetery
in "an old fashioned closed hearse, so that
the body may not be seen," that no flowers
should be placed in the coffin or in the
grave, and that only a few intimate friends
and relations shpuld be invited to the
funeral. He desired that the locket which
he wore round his neok with a portrait of
his wife should be buried with him.
• Something About Laughing.
"Those," says a keen observer of the
oaohinnatory habits of mankind, " who
laugh in A are frank, faithful, love bristle
and movement, and sometimes are versa-
tile and changeable.
"Laughter in E ie only found among the
phlegmatic and melancholy.
" Lengter in I is that of children, in-
genuous people, those devoted to the in-
terests of others, •the timid and the
irresolute. ,
" Lenglater in 0 ; edicates generosity and
boldness.
"Mold those who laugh in U," obeerves
our mentor in oonolusion, "as they are euro
to be misanthropes."
leaturen Freaks.
Nide Clara (Looking at Mr. Crowley, of
Central Parls)-What a very droll little
creature, and so ugly 1
Youlag Mr. Sissy -Yes, Mise Clara, we
are fearfully and wonderfully made.
-If you crack a Kentucky chestnut you
are sure to find a colonel.
-Sleigh makers saythere's snow profit
in their beano++ thia winter.
-Peeping over the height of re fdr Isoe
eround a win' neck, a white „linen collar
looks chit.•
'• Fianna uoNsuuste
• There was a young woman named Hannah,
• Whet pat 00 9. groat many aim,
She etepped on a peel of banana,
And now ehe's laid up for repine.
-Dolan allOw yourself te be earriea
away with enthusiasm -yon they have to
walk back.
ow the Blhitaidte Convinced a Womito
Tha ao v0v: ninTeliol:orsotto4
All but one Eight in a Fifth avenue Otago
wan ()coupled when a fresh -Need young reet
got in and ottled sweetin hate a 'mane
opium, says a New Yorle letter to the
Indieue.polia Journal. She found the ponein her *
veryesotroy letaom
i sll eItiernt tea, it ,,,0
trR/7308,n
ijatiOtr
ta
ittevitahle manner of ber sex, produced 04
25 -cent piece. No women, let it be nide
was ever known, to Vmas tbe requisite 6 -
cent piece in an onapihus. They caw"
youngqr te rgee uf ot ire tmheeris tole len; pohango feorrintithteinnig.
This particular maiden &armed to be fete
tieg appoSite an exquisite youth who +Mee a
brillibnt figure in the seleMeet cirolee of
sooioty here, and it was natural that he
sItoold be the one who respanded to the coy
War.ce of her eyes and relieved ber of her
e Itward coin. With all the grace for
which he is remarkable he passed the
money up to the driver, and, after waiting
the usual time, received the envelope in
return. Ls is the custom in these oases, be
tore open the envelope and handed theli
change to the righttul owner. But then,
instead of placing the nickel in the fare
box, he quietly put it in bia own pocket and.
ZOSUMed hiS Seat.
Of cemirse no ope said a word, not even
the fair meld herself. Bat every one iri
the stage detected tee action and wondered
at such a goodeooking youlag gentleman
being guilty of such an insignifiaant theft.
Presently the driver discovered tient a fare
was missing from the box. He immedi-
ately benne ringing his bell at a terrifia
rate end the 00011pailt9 of the stage smiled
in erabarrassment at one another. The
pretty girl looked oat of the window and
stole pained and horrified gleamee at the
criminal who sat opposite. Suddenly
he realized what he had done. Drops at
cold perspiration started . from •his brow'
and he grew palefrom mortification. Every
soul in the stage, including the innocent -
eyed girl, believed that he- wee nothing else
than an elegant burglar. Onee sharp -
featured woman remarked to her equiRy
sharp -featured friend in a whisper loud
enough for every one to hear:
" He's a thief, Maria."
• The young man looked quickly up at the
speaker. Then drawing a $2 bill from a.
large roll that he took from his waistcoat
pooliet he paesed it up to the driver. An
envelope came back. Opening it he selected.
a 5.cent piece from the bandfnl of coin and
dropped it into the box. Then turning to
the woman who had called him a thief, he
said:
"Madam, I think I was absent-minded
enough a moment ago to put into my
pocket the bill you gave me to pay yonr
fare from. I beg your pardon, and here is
your change complete, I assure you, though
coming a little late in the day."
With theee words he let the money fall
into the astonished woman's lap and hastily
left tbe stage. He had fully vindiosted
himself, and the sweet maid who had been
the innocent cense of the entire situation
watched him out of sight with admiring
epee,
Cure Your Catarrh, or Get 9)500.
For many years, the proprietors of Dr.
Sage's Catarrh Remedy, who are thoroughly
responsible, financially, as any one elm
easily ascertain by proper enquiry. have
offered, in good faith, through nearly every
newspaper in the land, a ,standing rewind
of $500 for a case of nasal catarrh, net
matter how bad, or of how long stencling.
which they cannot care. The Remedy.
which is Bold by druggists at only 50 cents,
is mild, soothing, cleansing, antiseptic; and
healing.
Bound to be Prepared.
Wife (to husband about to go to Neve
York) -Land sakes! John, why are yea
packing all these things in your trunk
Here are rubber boots, rubber gloves, a rub-
ber coat, and even a rubber hat. Do you
expect a deluge?
Husband -None of those eleotrio light
wires nre going to hill me. I'm going to ber
ineulated.
The Detroit Trades Council bits in-
dorsed the demand of the Barbers' Union:
No work on Sundays. On week days
from 730 a.m. to 8.30 p.m., except on
Setnrday, when work will be continued
until midnight. Also that ten cents per
shave and twenty-five cents for a hair out
be:the prices charged and collected.
John Barns says 1889 was the brightest
year for Great Britain's workingmen since
1848. In London alone 300 trades have
gained ehorter hours and increased pay.
The gas stokers gained 50,000 members and
reduced their hours from 12 to 8. The
bakers had their hours reduced from 100 to
to 60 per week, besides an advance in wages.
Over 200,000 men were added to the
membership of labor unions.
In Chemnitz, Germany, weavers of tick-
ing get $1.50 per week, 1 ustian weavers e2,
sewers $1.25, corsetmakers 20 to 25 cents
per day. At Bremen male wes,vere earn
from 03 to $3 75 per week, women $1.25 to
$2. In Silesia the average falls to 29 cents
per day. Berlin engineers make from 75
cents to el per day. Workers in glassware
and porcelain make less than 70 +tante per
day. These figures are from a report of the
Chemnitz Chamber of Commerce.
Thomas Evans, the Fall River cotton.
worker, saya a fret -class weevee in England
on four looms weaves 1,100 yends a week,
and is paid $6. In Fall River the average
is eight looms and 2,160 yarde for $9.12.
Within a few years the Fall River men
have been out 40 per cent. while English
operatives have gained slight advances.
He says sods' enjoyment is cheaper and
more abundant than in America. In
France cotton operatives work eleven
hours; Germany a little more. Wages run
from e1.50 to $2 a week, and "the Ameri.
oan laborer coald not exist with what they
live on.''
It's Walt.
She was a young woman of an inquiring
turn of mind on her way home from college,
and during a delay at a station she walked
up and down the platform oalonlating tee
ponderabilities.
"1 wonder," she said to ber papa, "what
is the weight of this train ?"
" Really, my dear, I nmuldn't say,
but "--
" I know what itis," interrupted an im-
patient drummer, its about four hours
and a half."
Then the girl went in and oat down to
think awhile.
Conaparisona Are Odorous.
Reginald -Oh, Marie I take back those
cruel words I Do not drive me to despair
Nothing oan be stronger than my affeation
for you I
Marie (with averted fitoe)--Yoti err,
Reginald; there can be -there is. I per-
ceived it the moment you made your
declaration!
Reginald (oanazsd)-What ?
Merles -Your breath, sir. You've been
taking brandy and cloves."
Did you ever;
No I never.
Eiee'd &feller.
Half so yeller.
How's your liver?
Why, all upset, of course. Then take th
Remedy, Dr. Pierce's Golden Medioel Dist-
covery, and yoa won't go around looking
the color of a yeller fever viotim. It means
good-bye biliousness, headache, loet
appetite, sour stomach, indigestion, , im-
purities of the blood, and counelese miseries
of suffering humanity. It is guaranteed to
benefit or euro in every Carle of damage
for which it is recommended, or money
paid for it will be refunded.
After the Proposal.
"Before I go," he said, in broken tones,
"I have one last request to naake of 'yore°
"Yes, Mr. Sampoin ?" said she.
'When you return my presents, please
prepay the express charges. I cannot
afford to pay any more on your aocountre
Never Heard of "Davy Crockett's Coon" r
That's queer I Well, it was like this:
Col. Crockett was noted for his skin as di
marksman. One day he leveled his gen at
a raccoon in a tree, when the animal, know-
ing the Colonel's prowess, cried oat, " Hallo,
there! Are you Davy Crockett? If you
are, I'll just come down, for I know I'm a
gone 'coon." Just take a dose of Dr. Pion:nee
Pleasant Purgative Pellets, and see how
quickly your bilioasnese and indigestion
will emulate the example of "Davy
Crockettei coon," and " climb down." They
are specifics for all derangements of the
liver, stomach and bowels.
Burne -Jones' "greatest work is nearly
finished. It will be a series of four cologne
pictures deaoribing the sleeping beauty. a.
AN important suggestion has been mean
to the British Government id the matter
of handling the American mails, Thepro-
pool is to embark and land these 'nails at
Hollyhead, North Wale% instea otat
Queenstown as heretofore. It is cesinted
in favor of the change that it would he
more convenient, quite as expeditious end
much more economical than the present
arrangement. The leading eteednehip
companies are disposed to look favorably'
on the Scheme, as the handling of the milli
at Hollyhead would be easier and involve
leo delay than at Queenstown.
ilinnailMeNICSEN
D. 0, N. L. 3.90,
Robert Carter, founder of the well.known
New York pnblishing heron who died last
Battu:ally at the age ot 82, was a Scotch.
man. He Satin Id America when a young
men ro.a was a tutor in Columbia oollege,
end efterwends founded a priest+) +taboo'.
At the time of his death he wits a &meter
of the American Bible ficmiety.
-A foreign title ie not a good present for
is young WOMart to begin the year with,
bet:Anse the man attached to it is not only
worthless bat exceedingly expensive. Bettee
bay a dog,
A GENTS MAKE $100 A MONTII
ix. with us, Send SOIL for tunas. A isolined
nag pattern and 10 colored dealams. W. atill
HUSH, St, Thomas, Out.
1HE, COOK'S BEST FRIENB