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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-4-17, Page 3ae. • ee fiimentifette-eael'ea—teettereeliaaetweeteete _we „in__ ------------------eataaleitemeetratoweeetanneenalemover_ wwwweeartowelaoreat_ ten to nte that he has purolaased indeed of corn for seed to be delivered in a few days. Under the new tariff, wili this be brought in free. Mr. Howell—If it oomes under °lane° 264, which it; in full force now, and is the kind of corn merttioaed the and le to be used for ensilage and for no oeher purpose. Mrlandern—Efow can you tell that the corn is to be used tor no other purpoee Mr. Bowell—Thae is a eastter tor epecial depertmeetal regulation. DOMINION PARLIAMENT. OTTAWA, April. The Speaker took the ,olattir at le o'ciook,' Sir A.dolpete (Jaron, in reply to Mr. Lister, amid that Gen. Middleton a A. D. 0. wall pan of his pereonal uIf, aed ai Stleh WaS eeleoted by the Genitival. Lieut. Street. field, of the Leann. Highlanders, who was recently appoiatea, wee not a graduate of the Taingston Military College, but the General wan ei ha ve 1ectol a graduete had he known one pewit/nailer who wai3 suitea to the position. Mr. Davin continued the discussion on he resolution thee it wets expedient that a aeleot commission of ioquiry, having power to exaroine winterises uncter oath, be ap- pointed to inquire into the nienagemeet of the Northweet Moteated Ponce, and into the conduct of Commiseioner Herten -new from the date of his appointment. Mr. Hereto mer not only punished offences under the Police Aot, but ag,ainet any other Aot of the Dorninion. In fact this gentleman possessed greeter power then that of a commander of the British army. The fact was that nobody who hed observed the career oe the commiarderter oould fail to come to any couoiusion exeepting that he was demented or that *here were in him ingrained vices of cheraeter, that • the moment he got power they began to mani- fest themselves. He charged him with being incompetent, and unable to put a troop through its became. He had it on good authority that during the visit of the Governor-General he ;owe direotions that no Frenoh-Canadien otlioer was to be allowed to tette any part in the proceed. Inge. He farther ohergee him, with roping magistrates contrary to their duty to per- form work. Sir John Macdonald said he had 'no objeotion to the hon. member raising the question, but he thonglat e great injustice would be done to the commissioner if the resolution were adopted. As to the charge of inoompeteuoy brought against the commissioner, it wee absolutely un- true, because the member for aassiniboia had borne ample teetiintroy to theecharaoter of the men out there. he charge of in. efficiency was also foendationless, because the commissioner was Appointed in conse- quence of being it. strict diseiplinarian, a man of a great deal of cletermination. The laxity in disoipline which had begun to manifest itself b.efore his appointment had now disaimeared: The ' charges preferred were merely gathemel up, and the eVidettOe that had been adduced did not warrant mob an inquiryas was suggested. He could not consent to a commission of inquiry. Whenever any charges were brooght, they were fully inquired into. Mr. Laurier said that if these charges were nue, they would.go very far taivards impairing the efithieney of Co!. Elerchmer. When aarnember of Peiliament Made graye charges against;a publimeffieer it could not be dismissed lightly., eiddition to this a resolution of the Nortliia4st tounpil asked for an inquiry, and that should not ' be ignored. He would not say that he'oonld' fully support the resolution, but he thought ,at least Col. Herohmer'e conduct should be sinvestigated ; butehere was no necessity to inquire into the management of the North. west mounted police. Mr. Ilaodowall, in seconding the motion, thought the charges sheulci be investigated on the lines mentioued byi the leader of tne Opposition. Mr. Watson said these oherges were almost as severe as those brought against Gen. Middleton, and there should also be an investigation here. He had heard repeated complaints' ts'etilest, the action of Col. Hew:biter. He moved in amendment that the charges. againat Commissioner Herohmer be investigated, omitting an inquiry into the management of the mounted police. • Mr. Daly had not the elightest hesitation in saying that the bulk of the charges pre- ferred against the cotnmissiouer were mere rumor. Mr. McMullen moved the second reading of the measure to amend the Civil Service Aot. He explained thet the principle of the bill was that no one was eligible to Civil Service appointments unless he had resided five years in the country. . Sir John Macdonald said that the im- pression that there had been an undue preferenae given to strangers, especially if they were from the Old Country, was un. founded. He claimed that in the Civil Service, during the period he had anything to do with public affeirs, Cieneda had oar- tainly been kept tor Canadians, and he challenged any one on this point. He would call the attention of members oppoaite to the effect of an announcement suoh as this. What would the Scotch, Engliela and Irish people say if they had to remain in the country for five yeses before they were eligible for the Civa Service? Such a measure as this wouie tend to loosen the ties between the Old Conatry and Canada. They expeottei a teeming population from the home oonatry to the Northwest. How did they expect the Government of that region could be wearied on if they had to remain five yeses before they weld be re- garded as eligible for posts? Mr. Laurier said that the principle of the Bill Wii0 in harmony with the principle of the Government that Canada was for the Canadians. Mr. Chapleau said thet there were 30,000 candidates wahine, for employment in the Civil Service of Canada. Mr. Billie said that there was no great difference betteeen the 'members on- both aides of the House. Sir John Macdonald asked that the Bill be withdrawn. Mr. McMullen said that with the Bestir - mice of the Government that they would not give unarm preference complained of, he would withdrew the Bill. The Bill was' withdrawn. Mr. McNeil rooved that the evidence taken in the investigation of Gen. Middle. tonal conneotion with Bremner's furs be printed for the use of members. Sir ,Richard Cartwright asked does the Government intend to cease the number of persona tactually present in the Dominion at the time of taking the oensue to be recorded as well as those enumerated under the de jure system? Mr. Carling—It ig the intention of the Glelverritnent to take the text amine on the dejure system, and care will be taken to have it acettrate. Mr. Foster moved that to -morrow the .House resolve itself into a committee to .consider the following reeolution 11 That is expedient to provide by law that a bounty of e2 por ton be paid on all pig iron manufactured in Canada frotn Chenedian ore between the first dayof ahly, 1892, and i -30th day of June, 1897, nclusive." Mr. Mitchell—Whet is the bounty paid now? Mr. Foster—We now pay $1 a ton, and that continues in foto° till Jely let, 1892. Sir Biohard Cartwright—This motion new proposes to provide the bounty for a mean years' period. That id a Very long time. It is very objectionable for one Par. litenent to 'Hour) the hands of its successors. The effeot Of atich a Motion should not extend beyond the emationteno0 of One Par- lietnent. The motion Was oerrtha. Me. Landerkin saide—A person has Writ-, A. TERRIBLE coesTere A Prominent ,South Australian Loses MIS Life by Fire in a Railway Car. The Edinburgh Scotsman Freya: " Perth °niers have now been received of the tragio death in Adelaide last week of the Hon. J. G. Ramsay, PILL.C, one of the leading and most thoroughly respected public men in South Australia. Mr. Remsayetcoomparded by Mr. W. B. Rounsevell, MX, bift Saddle - worth on January 17th in the ordinary train for Adelaide; they travelled in the same compartment as far as Riverton when Kr. Rouneevell o'nanged into a smoking car- riage. Dar. Rouneevell went to sleep, but was awakened by the report of the burst. ing of the kerosene lamp attached to the roof of the aonapartment. When the train reaohed Stockport a min. ute or so- afterwards, Mr. Rerasay wart found in a terrible condition, his clothes being buret off, and his heir singed away. He lingered for a few hours in terrible agony. The deceased was held in . the highest esteem by both foam and friends in local polities, and as a busineas man he had a high reputation. He was a native of Edinburgh, and had turned sixty years of age. He emigrated to Adelaide in ,1852, and shortly afterwards established an agricultural implement and machine fac- tory at Mount Barker, which has since grown into formidable dimensione. He took the portfolio of Commissioner of Pablio Works in the AyereBotioaut Min- istry in 1872, and in the last Ministry he held the office of Chief Secretary." About ten years ago Mr. Ramsay visited this botantry,en which lee had a number of rola. tives by whom he was greatly beloved.. Among them are five nieces, Mrs. Bain, Caledonia; Mrs. Geier, Mrs. Holden and Mrs. Disher, Hamilton; and Mrs. Roggen, Brant. The Truth About Advertising. There's nothing on earth so mysteri. coley funny as an advertisement. The prime, first, last and all -the -time object of an advertisement is to draw oastom. It is not, was not and never will be designed for any other purpose. So the meichant waits till the busy season comes, and his store is so full of custom he can't get his hat off, and then he rushee to his printer and goes in for advertieing. When the dull season gets along and there 15 00 trade, and he wants tp sell his goods so bad he can't 'Pay his rent, he stops( &Mortising. That is, some of them do; but onasionally level-headed inerohant does more of it, and ecopips in all the business, while his neigh. bore are making mortgages to pay' the gas bill. There are times when you couldn't stop people from buying everything in the store if yon planted a cannon behind the door, and that's the time the advertisement is sent out on its holy mission. It makes light work for advertising, for chalk sign' - on ' ' the t sidewalk could do all that was needed and have a half holiday six days in a week; but who wants to favor an advertisement? They are built to do hard work, and should be sent ont in the dull days, when a coetomer has to be knocked down with herd faots, and kicked insensible with bankrupt re - dilations, and dragged in with irresistible slaughter of prices before he will spend a cent. That's the aim and end of adver- tising, and if ever you open a store, don't try to get them to oome when they are alceady sticking out of the windows, bat give them your advertisementright between the eyes in the dull season, and you will wax rich, and own, a fast horse, and per- haps be able to smoke a cigar once or twice a year. Write this down where you'll fall over it every day. The time to draw busi- nsse is when you want business, and not when you have more than you oan tend to already —The Advertisers Guide. A Point for dironologists. "Do you notioseequeries a reader of the Breakfast Table, "ow prevalent the idea is, even among newspaper men, that wo are in the last decade of the century 2 " It is a common error to which the cor- respondent alludes, bat a moment's thought cannot fail to set one right. From the opening of the Christian era to the year e0 certainly formed the first decade of modern ohronology, and the second decade began with the year 11. The first century ended with the close of the year 100, and the second century began with the opening of the year 101. So the nineteenth century began with January 1, 1801, and will close with Deoember 31, 'true The last decade of the nineteenth oentary will not begin, then, until January 1, 1891. Nevertheless, people for the rest of this year will insist that we have entered upon the last decade of the oentury.—Boston Advertiser. Giving Shape to the Feet. Everyone, but especially children, should wear properly -fitting shoes, no matter how common their material. They should be neither too large nor too Emelt, and should have low, flat heels that must be promptly " righted " as soon as they begin to west to one side. 11 the toes of the foot show a tendency to overlap they should be rubbed with the hands onoe or twice each day;. and if this cue be given when the oureang commences, it will, as a rule, prove , sufficient to correct any irregularities' of this nature. If a nail is wayward in its growth, trim it only lightly at the ailing corner, bat fully at the opposite corner. lf both corners grow too deeply into the Seth, clip them carefully ,and, lightly, and then scrape the centre of the nail from the tip to near the root until it is thin and flexible. This prooess seldom fails to correct refractory nails— provided, of course, they are not neglected too long. • What btarted the Wight. Mrs, Figg—You little wretch, you have been fighting again, I know you have. What was it all about? Tommy—It was jnat this way. You see Jimmy Brown and me put in our penniee together to buy applea, an' I was to have the cores of what was bought in the /north- ing and he was to have the cores of what was bought in the afternoon. Mrs. Figg—I don't see any unfairness about that. Tommy—Yea. but in the afternoon he went and bought bananners. About Pearls. Pearls are carefully taken out by the &here, sold to Wholesale merchants in Bombay, who wrap them eatefally in Bilk and ship them to their agents all over the world. The difference in the price paid to the original pearl eller and that paid by an American lady to her jeweller on Broadway or the Rue do la Paix arnounte to about 50 per cont.—not more. *TORN MOREMY* The nen of Letters, the Politician arid the Friend of 'reload. - Joan Morley is one of the few meet who excel in both literature and politics. His books and his speedos on political problemhave won renown for him throughout the English-speaking world. He was born 51 yeers ago, and is DOW in the prime of his mentel powers. He received his early edueetitin at Lincoln College, Oxford, where his abilities and ettain- ments drew round him an admiring band of Students. Au omnivorous reader, he paid more attention to modern writers than was consistent with an aspiration to olaseioal hollers. Carlyle wae hie master in those days, says a London correspondent of the New York Sun, and ieit a stoma ell his thiuking whioh later influences cannot efface. in the debating eociety he was a constant and effective speaker. The range of hie reading, the alertness of his intellect and the aleanmutting edge of hie speaking pointed to him as one destined to make his mark in politics. But literature was his first love. After graduating he qualified at the bar, but never practiced law. Like many oler clever mum men of a literary turn of mind Morley drifted into jOurnal- ism. His earliest contributions appeared in the Leader, the oegart of the wheel of philo. trophies! Railicale, headed by George Henry lamer. These articles led to an appointment ea the staff of the Saturday Review, then in the fell /Rob of its power. John Stuart Mill was so terected by some of the ideas enunoiated by the young writer that he sought him out and 'offered his frienithhip. Neediest: to add the offer was gladly accepted. Morley mune under the spell of the magnetic philosopher, and ton - tinned his ardent dimple until death broke the connection. Morley rose gainkly from the contributor'a desk to the editor's chair. The coatrol of the Fortnightly Review a magazine devoted to the exposition of the views of cultured radicals, was placed in his hands. The limited stwoess of the venture must be credited to lack of sym- pathy with its subjeot on the part of the periodioshreeding public rather than to tiny lapk of ability on the part of the pro- raoters. In 1E180 Mr. Money gave up the editorship of a monthly to undertake that of a daily. For three years he guided the destinies of the Pat/ Guzette to the extent 'of writing its levaing articles and lending it the authority of his name An editor in the ordinary joarnaliatio sense of the word he was not, noroould he be. He had not the neceasary breadth of view or sympazhetio touoh with the news of the day.. One ides possessed him, and ex. presped itself in his edhorial articles over and over again—the idea that now dorain. atesiilis polibical speectiesmanaties to Ire. land. Men liked in those days to read the articles for their literary form and rare finish, but they paid no heed to their mes- sage. Morley did not, hoiveyea, lose heart. He kept peggiug away at his favorite topic, until thettime came when he received an attentive hearing. Morley is mom man of letters ih the cad -fashioned sense of the lterm than a joeirettlist. It was only tbe' force of oir- ourastanoeraellat drove him into the whirl of newspaper life. Hie best and endnring work has been done in the quiet of the library. Thebooks he wrote- an Voltaire, Rousseau and Diderot are masterly sketched of men and events in an intensely interesting and critioalmeriod. It is under- stood in literary circles that these are but preliminary studies, clearing the way for what the author hopes to be his great aohiovement—a history of the French revo- lution 'rwo of his English biogrephies, his 'Lie of Cobden" and hia .i‘ Edmund Burke," stand in the front rank of that de- partment of literature. Many of those ,who followed Morleyes career with interest 'thought he made a mistake when he turned his back on letters and took" to politica but they have had time toohange their opinion. 'Daring the five years of his Parliamentary life he had achieved a name and position unique among his fellows. Careful study of the problems of. the day, power to clothe his arguments in strong and exact language, and the transcendent ability clearaater- ietio of the man united in placing- him almost at a single leap in the froat rank of members of the House of Commons. His honesty and consietency go un- challenged even by bitter pertiaans. An enthusiast, with a strong trust in baman nature, he seeks to promote the welfare of the soils and deughtere of toil. He has told us that that he "counts that day basely passedin which no thought is given to the hard lot of garret and hovel, to forlorn children and trampled women." This sympathy with the poor forma strik- ing expression in a recent speeoh addreseed to a radical association in the east end of London, in which he said : "We shall not make the world over again. We shall not turn this London purgatory into a paradise, perhaps, in your lifetime or in mine; bat we can go on with the work by making beginnings and by trying experi. merits in new directions. We want to give to those who plow the ground, and who, in the sweat of their brow, sow the seed, a rather handsomer share in the sheaves when they are reaped. We want that these who weavethe gsrments shall not them- selves go cold. We want some means by whittle, when a mare has toiled hard all his life, has been prudent, thrifty and self-de- nying—we want, when old age comes, that his last days shall not be a racebetween hie life and his saving', and he shall not be oppressed by the dreadful and cruel anxiety that hie Lite may last anger than his little savings." The political career governed by such ideals and sustained by such ability cannot fail of brightnes and honor. Inventing the Spectroscope. When one strike a a common sulphur match the phosphorus burns with a purplish flame, then the sulphur with a yellow hue, and last of all the wood glows with reddish raye. From notioing that every substahoe yields its own wordier color in burning, Sir John Hersohel long ago suggested that these colors might serve to identify the substances showing them. Some time after he threw out the sugges- tion the speotroaeope was devised, and now by its aid we are able to tell what elements are aglow, not only in the sun, but in the eters as well.--Georee Iles in New York Sun, Editors Must be cautious. A subscriber sent the ten command ments lo a New Jersey editor with the re. quest that he publish them in his paper. He wrote back "Under the circumstances we must decline to do it. It is true the commandments were written several theta sand yeard ago, but if we were to publish them some person would be sure to think they Woke aimed at him and cothe in and stop his paper. A. publisher of a paper has to be careful about suoh Camden Post. The Scottish Provosts are to entertain the Lord, Mayor of London to a banquet on the occasion of his official Visit to Edin. burgh Exhibition. —The queen of all bees is tbe htsking bee. Yott oati dietingniela her ley her red ear. THE (ADM LEGISIATURE The fellowing—s—bille were read 0 third th4144nOdoticiMagUthe ed:professioo ef arohiteote--- Hon. G. W. AMA TO )13001T0/11/0 the Heron di Ontario Railway Compsny—Hon. A. M. Roes. Respeoting the Herailton & Dundas Street Railway Oempany--Mr. Awrey. Bon, Mr. Hardy moved the Itioarre into GC°rIatulteitatnede Heholteetbet tAc'etreha the 'Free Mr. Gibson (Elantiltoe) presented a re- port of the Bureau of Industries for 1889. The following Bills passed their third reedlaeteelleec:iing the Toronto, Hamilton 13.uftTerill°Binoo4ritpwoaryatCe °trehePaYr—thMerr, liGneerelltehurdit. ()Marie Railway Company—Mr. Clarke (Wellington). The House went into committee and re- ported the following Mlle Respecting contraote of insurance—Mr. Gibson ( dm:When ). To simplify the orotieduee for enforcing mechanics' liens—The At torney- General. Me, Mowat proposed that Mr. Craig's bill regarding the language in Public and Separate schools should 001110 up for its second reading at 7,30 p.m. tomorrow. Mr. Ross (Huron) moved that this Emile will tO.mOrrOW resolve itself into a Com- mittee Of the Whole to consider the follow- ing resolutions: That there be granted out of the con- solidated relearns fund to the undermen- tioned railway companies for the con, struotion of the portions of railway hereinefter mentioned., that is to say : (a) n To the Ontario & Rainy River Railway a cash eubeidy of three thousand dollars per mile (03,000) tor the oonstraotion of thirty milea of mad railway westward from the point near Sand Lake where the fifty miles terminate for which aid was granted by chapter 35 of 52 Vio., entitled " An Aot respeoting aid to certain rail- ways." (5) To the Ottawa & Peru Sound Rail- way from Egansville to a point in the township of Sherwood, a .distance not exceeding thirty miles, a cash subsidy of e3,000 per mile. That all the provisions of section 2 of chapter 35 of 52 Vic., respecting the option of substituting half -yearly payments for 'forty years in lien of a cash payment, and all the conditions provided by section 3 of said Act shall apply to the pante hereby made. Provided, that any arrangements made between the Rainy River Railway Com- pany and the Port Arthur, Duluth & West- ern Railway Company providing for th expenditure of any part of the aid hereby granted in the construction of any portion of the line of the Port Arthur, Duluth & Western Railway shall be subject to the approval of the Lieutenant -Governor in C°aThmai. tifor the purpose of forming a sub- sidy fund there is hereby sob apart so much of the lands of title Province belonging to the Chown as lie within the distance of ten miles on eaoh side of those portions of the Ottawa & Parry Sound Railway and o! the Rainy River Railway to which aid is hereby granted, or on each side of that portion of the Port Arthur, Duluth & Western Railway upon which, by agree- ment between the compsuies, any portion of the aid now or heretofore granted may be expended, which land shall be sold and dealt with in the same manner as provided in elections 4 to 10, inclusive, ot the said ofiiiipta-3/6 of 52 Vic. • Mr. Meredith thought it very undesir- able that this qaestion of the railway revenue should be left to the last day of the session. Hon. gentlemen should have known what was their policy at the beginning of the session. The motion was carried. Mr. Balfour drew attention to a small grant to the vaccine farm. He said that wheu wanted the pante had been found to be useless, end it was necessary to get points from Detroit. Mr. Drury said he had only recently heard that fault was found with the vaccine supplied by Dr. Stewart. He would see that the state of affairs was remedied, or if this could not be done that the grant was withdrawn. The House went into Committee on Mr. Drury's Bill respecting statistical returns. 1.11r. French objected to the legislation which provided for the collection of statistics on ohattel mortgages, as it would be an unnecessary disclosure of private matters. Mr. Drury said that in order to arrive at the true state of the people it was neces- sary and advisable that statistics of this kind should be obtained. Mr. Gibson (Hamilton) did not see why there should be any objection to this Bill. it was necessary, if a reliable bureau of statistic's was to be established in this Pro. vinoe. There should be some provision in the Bill to show the actual number of mortgages which have not been renewed. He denied that the Government had any sinister motive in view in introducing the Bill. The bill was then reported with amend- ments. resTahing: efollowing bills passed their third To amend the Election Aot as to the eeoreoy of voting—The Attorney•General. To amend the Aot relating to Manhood Suffrage—Mi. Fraser. Respecting exemptions from municipal assessments—Mr. Ross (Huron). " The Assessment A.menelment Ant, 1890"—Mr. Awrey. Kr. Hardy moved the third reading of a bill to amend the Free Grants and Home. steads Act. Before dispersing the members gave vent to their pent.upfeelings during the session by heartily joining in theNational Anthem, followed by Auld Lang Syne, with the usual handshaking. Three rousing ethers fol- lowed, and the meMbers of the Assembly of 1890 wended their homeward ways in the miety dawn to take up the thread of a temporarily interrupted oareer. A Leeson Front the Baby. Man' as he 00MOD iUtO the world, pre - ants 11,condition ib wonld be well for him to follow in all his after lire. The sweetest minstrel ever sent out of para. diee cannot ming a newborn child to sleep on an etopty stomach. We have known reoklese navies to give the little ones a dose of paregorio or soothing syrup in plebe of its cup of milk, whet it was too nitioh trouble to get the latter, but this ia the one alternative. The little stomsoh of tba sleeping child, as it beam:ries gradually enipty, folds on it. self in plaits; two of theta make it rest. less; three will open its eyes, but by care - 1 al soothing these may be closed again ; four plaits and the charm ie bet:then ; there is no more sleep in thee household until that &Ad has been foa, It Booms to us oe strange that with thie example before their eyes full grown men are so slow to learn the loesere—American Analyst. Mr, Bellamy hart mide 016,006 by "Look. ing Baok*erda shittild take his pen in htind and Wok again. TUE eelliet Mee limairr. Feeturea of the Floating Palau° Ju 'Whites ner majority 11101400 Ora149°. The exeuisite cleanliness of everything strikes one !Wahl?' on board the Viotoria and Albert. The dee* is laid with cork floor cloth, over Which, When the Qataile is on board, a oaepet is placed, and every- thing elee that is to be glean is of pure white, with gilded relief work and eilver mountinge. There are very comfortable little sitting rooms en, the promenade dealt and, behind the peddle winga, end there is also a dieing room on the promenade deck whinie bee three big Windows and 4 oky- light. It is furnished in green mor0000 and the ceiling is painted in white and gold. The state apartments below are placed on either side of the corridor and they are furnished with a very pretty chintz. The Qtwen's cabins are on the starboard side, her sleeping apartment con. tains &large and old fashioned but very com- fortable looking bedstead with pillows and canopy, and next in the dressing room, which was formerly Prince Albert's cabin, and it remsins as he left it, his little writ- ing table and wardrobe never having been moved. Large maps hang upon the walls. The cabins ortoupied by Prinoese Beetrioe (or any princess who happens to be travel- ling with the Queen) are all of Her Majesty's quarters, and on the other side of the corridor are the cabins of the princess and a large bath room. The breakfaot room is in the after part of the vessel, and is hung with all the portraits of all the officers who have commanded the royal yacht. The drawing mom is forward on the port tide and is furnished in bird's-eye maple, with a piano and several beautifully carved side tables. It is hung with por- traits of members of the royal family, and in this room is a small library. The yaoht is now lighted with eleotricity, ex- cept in the Queen's own cabins.—London Truth. After Him the iriood. During the delivery of his recent great speech in the House of Commons, Med- stone brought tears to the eyes of one of the leading legal members, and at the close a member of the Government, a pro- nounced Tory, said: "That is the greatest speech we shall hear in our day." The Grand Old Man is the last and the greatest representative of his school of oratory. When he dies there will be no English statesman to pronounce such a eulogy over hire as he delivered on the occasion ofJohn Bright's death. The modern parliamen. tary style, the main obsraoteristio of whioh is to speak in a business kind of way with both hands in your trouser pookets, loud enough to be heard at a distance of eight or ten feet, does well enough for the dime. eion of a cow by-law, but it is a failure on great occasions and for great purposes. Glscistone is thellast of a sohool of parlia- mentary orator a that has given lustre to the English name, and when he passes away we shall have nothing bat a genera- tion of mere talkers.—Canada Presbyterian. 4. Cargo of Cats. There has jest arrived from Alexandria, at Liverpool, by the stearner Pharos, & con- signment of nearly twenty tone of oats, numbering some 180,000, taken out of an anoient subterranean oat's cemetery disoov ered about 100 miles from Cairo by an Egyptian fetid:, who accidentally fell into this oats' 'cemetery, which he found completely filled with cats, every one of which had been separately embalmed and dressed in °loth after the manner of Egyp- tian mummies, and all laid out in rows. The cargo was sold at auction, perfect apeolmens fetching 3 to 5 shillings apiece. The teak, however, went at about 26 a ton, and will be need as fertilizers. Migrations of Big Maine Game. Some of the Maine hunters report that the caribou are fast leaving the Maine forests and are going north into Nova Scotia. John Darling informs tis that John Francis, ot the Trout Brook region, and Capt. Barker, of the Rangely lakes, two well-known butters, report that the caribou have been leaving their localities for the past five years, and now only a stray one is found in the woods. The deer on the contrary, are growing more plenty in in these parts and are fast leaving the Maclaine and the Union river region. The hunters are unable to assign any reason for these movements of garne.—Bangor Com- mercial. Compensation of Players. Leading men and women in superior compenies generally reoeive from 675 to 1125; old men and women, from $40 to $50; juveniles and comedians, from 040 to 4160; eptoialty and character actors, from 060 to $100. The common run of players get about $35 or $40, their season being in the neighborhood of forty weeks. They lead precarious lives and are apt to be more or less in debt. Another compensation is the profound satisfaction, the positive delight, that all players feel, as a rule, in their profeesion.—New York Commercial Adver. tiser. Way the Cat is Jumping. Mrs. Longhed Backstreet—Didn't your brother Henry's sewed wife have a cousin whose sister -maw lives in Chicago? Ur. Longhed Bakstreet —I think so. Why? Mrs. Lonend Baketreet—Well, it strikes me 'twould be a good plan to find out where she lives, and invite her to eland a week with us. Then, after the fair opens, we 0/111 take all the children and go to Chicago for a good long visit. See? It is said when a llfaroh snow clings to the treee the orop of frail will be large. Miss Pannoefote, the eldest daughter of the British Minister at Washington, is said to 130 the best walker among the ladies of that city, where walking exercise is now the fashion. "There are two very important thinge in housekeeping which are frequently over. looked," says a housekeeper, "Ono is, pay OS you go for provisione ; the other, seeing the meat you order out, trimmed and weighed, the grooeries you buy weighed or measnred," Bine and black is a fashionable ooni- bituttion. The Duchess of Fife bee a repatation for making butter. TEL-EL-REBIR. A Septet! Corporal's Fishy Warn. Tete Minch number of the Nineteenth Celi- tart, ceutaine, under the title "/3. battle deporibed from the ranks," a welaveritteri and intexesting description of TelmaKebir, by Mr. Arthur V. Palmer, who took pare in the,t engagement as it corporal in the 79th Highleuders, Corporal Peamer says that when the 79th, after carrying the fire* trenches were assaulting the getiond line of works, a general cheek was caused by some shouts of "Retire, retire." The corporal eantiouing, 8 hys : " Those erica of ,Re. tire' had been treacherously milted by A couple ol Glasgow Iriehmen, who had somehow evaded the precautions that were la force since the days of Fenian - ism to prevent the enlistment of dis- loyal a/aersoters. They had been proved cowards, or something worse on two =lesions, when the regiment was before Haft. Doway, and in virtee of inetruations coming through the captain, the nonmora- missioaed officerof the company ap- pointed a sergeant and a corporal to watch the conduct of these two men in the battle. They were oharged to use their own discre- tion, and if that step beoame necessary to pat them aummarily to death. When the treaoherone dogs raised their shout of 'Retire the non-commissioned °Lame appoined to watch them promptly aid their duly. I saw the sergeant kill one of them with a thrust of his sword.benonet and also saw the corporal fire at the other, bat whether he was killed by the corporedee bullet or one frorn the enemy I cannot ane dertake to say. The report was unanimous that both richly deserved to die, in whioh conviction every holiest soldier will aonour." Alas, how changed! The rosy cheek is pallid as the dead, And from the eyes that were so bright and ham' light hasfled. Life has no joy for her to -day; grown old before her prime, She waits in hopeless suffering for that Swift coming time When death shall set her free From poor, sick woman's misery, But if she knew what wonderful curet Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription has effected in worse oases than hers, she would cannel at the chance of recovering lost health as drowning men catch at straws, and she might be saved. A Sign of Spring. First Young Lady—I detest Maroh and n An'. "Second Young Lady—What's the mat- ter? "It's too early to expeot to be asked to take ice-oream after the theatre." "Good granions 1 'What's the matter with fried oysters? They are in season until ths 1st of May." "WitenI Was a Iloy I" - is an expression every lad has heard hie father 1100 as a basis for bombastio self - adulation. Bat the boy of the last quarter of the nineteenth century may retort, "when you were a boy, and had an attack of green -apple stomachache, you had to take oslomel and jalap, but lam treated to Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets, sugar-coated, and just as lathe as ola000late caramels; no bine mass and castor oil for me—I'd rather fight it oat with the pain i" Me. Carnegie's Fortune.' Mr. Carnegie is 55 years of age. He had less than $100 twenty-six years ago, but since that time he has made e56,000,000, of which he now holds about $30,000,000 io his own right. He resides at 5 55th street, New York, and is the largest iron end steel manufacturer in the • world.— Baltimore Sun. If you don't want to disgust everybody with )(tar offensive breath, cure your catarrh upon which it depends. $600 re- ward is offered by the proprietors of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy for a base of Catarrh which they cannot cure. It sold by druggists; 50 cents. Any Girl Would. George (vain and pompous)—Miss Mollie will you marry me? Miss M.—Y-yes, George. George—I knew you would 1 I knew you would just jump at the chance ! It is fortunate that usury was not favored in patriarchal timee. A bueinese life of five or six hundred years would enable a pushing man'to own the whole earth. The prettiest challies in the market cost only 45 cents a yard. These goods are serviceable for infants' wear and make desirable house dresses. The weight of an argument doesn't depend upon the eize of the man. The Hatter with. Them. —" 801310 gymnasts are too fresh," remarked Arnold, es he looked at an exhibition of tumbling; ;1Ye," added °Unstable, and somersault. CA.WAVZ=ltat/A411=112=, ..i.ousaataanw. D. 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