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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-5-15, Page 7lee. 1 ill. 3ion arse ally gni. the old. tato saw ira. ith edy bled t in ties sea. lose uet ham was ster rorn, n of met lant r of nom l by net. ball Ind end few rith ply nom of t to 'del ing a et(' Y8S nd, the oat tret his to ate ien nt, ing as - t )8r, S er- /he he ye ily all Ily ley .ng de. Int) let all in IJ aie he ho ,nt of he ,d. at ia er n. at re, on re li a 08 Y. es Y. QS er ee al n. re y, fit Or in ss IB. e, ky r. Lt, 0 a AMONG. THE TROTTERS. :Bev. Dr. Lidlaw's Visit to a Kentucky Stock Farm, BIGII ERIOES FOR HORSES. Ielnperance, Presbyterianism and gorse - Breeding for Speed, A 3,200 AORE FARM, Mn. EDIT011,—ilaVing been asked to give 'some acmount o ray recent visit to" Wood- burn," the great Alexender stotik farm, of 'Kentucky, I have pletteure in sending you the following: Leaving Louieville in com- pany with a friend., who had kindly cora° ihundrede of miles to show me some of the Wonder e of Kentucky, of which State he was for many yeare an honored oitizen, vot made our way nort/aeasttvard toward the famous blue grass ottuntry. As we passed Eminence station, in the region which hate been mede his torically immortal tby Mo. Stowe having ohosen it as the mythical arena of some of the most inter- esting scenes in Unole Tom's Cabin." I wee shown the road along which Lizzie sped with her ohild in her ewes as she was emaping toward the Ohio River, to cross on the broken ice" chunk 'keraplunk 'ker. splash " for liberty. I hadn't the satis- faction of seeing her actual traoks, nor did I see anything of " Sane and Andy," and the rest. We did not tarry to explore any of the interesting sciences in Shelby .County as our objective point was " Wood- burn;' the far-famed stock farm on whioh "the dams of the two faetest horses that ever lived were bred." Arriving at Spring Station, Woodford County, within yi4e preoin o t a of Woodburn we were met by 'Illtianager L. Brodhead, a gentleman in the brunt sense, and a man of genuine worth, measure him as you will. While the carriage bowled along the beautiful avenue leading towara the heart of Woodburn, I began to question our vary kind and agreeable heat. " Etow many aores are there in your estate here, ,Mr. Brodhead?" Thirty-two hundred." "Three thousand two hundred ?" " Yes. the original pro- perty bought a hundred years ago, by Mr. Robb. Alexander (brother, as I afterwards learned, of Sir. Wm. Alexander, of Aerdrie, Scotland) oontained 3,000, the 400 acres through which we are .now passing, were added recently." "What stook have you at present?" "About 120 sheep, Southdowns, eto.; 250 heed of oat. tle, Jerseys and shorthorns, and between thoroughbreds and trotting stook about 300 thorns." We had not gone far from the :railway station when we met a little negro boy riding on what I innocently took to bo an ordinary old horse, and leading other three, which led me to suppose that there must be a gipsy camp somewhere in that annuity. Stopping the carriage and the negro boy, " Tbat, ' said Mr. B., pointing to the animal on which the boy rode, "le Malrasisone sister to Primrose,' and dam of Manettete Malice,' Manfred,' eto. She is now 26 years old."My friend by my side, observing that I was a little be- wildered, remarked, sotto voce "he's show- ing you Malmaison." " Mallaison1" said I, "1 woaldn't have thought that animal worth $50." "1 dare say not," said Mr. B., "but we have received from the sale of her colts the aunt of $25,000." On arriving at the heart of Woodburn our e carriage drew up at the door of the stately a mansion of Mr. A. J. Alexander, the pro. prietor, brother of the late R. A. Alexan. der (who established the farm in its pre- sent character), and nephew of Sir Wm. Alexander, whose estate at Airdrie he in- herits. On being introduced to Mr. Alexander we found him a gentlenutu of quiet and kindly bearing; his benignant countenanoe has grown more beautifal under the frosts of age, though his tall and erect form has not yet begun to bend be- neath the weight of years. His whole de- portment testified to his being the upright, generous, God-fearing Presbyterian elder he is far and near well-known to be. He has a Presbyterian church on his estate for the acoonamodation of the fifty or sixty fami- lies represented by hie employees. Look- ing out from the dour of his mansion upon the spacious domain of beautifully undu- lating park land, with its hundreds of sores of woodland, pasturage, its im- mense open field; ertietioally shaded by circular coppices ' of pine and fir, ' surrounded with a fringe of Osage orange —its streams and winding vales, with horses, sheep and cattle grazing at will and peacefully cropping the Hole spring herb. age—playing lambs and frisking foals lending fresh life and beauty to the scene; the elegant residence of the manager, with the cottages of the employees here and there making all seem home-like—I could imagine myself admiring, not the pioneer stook farm of Kentucky, but a beautiful domain in the south of Sootlend or the heart of England. After dinner we were driven over this 3,200 -acre perk to visit the stables. Among the thoroughbreds we were abeam King Alfoneo, Feleetto, Powhatte,n, Lisbon and other famous horses, whose progeny from 1870 to 1886 won prizes (perhaps I should say "stakes') amounting to the enormous sam of $2,242,385 (two millions, two hun- dred and forty-two thousand three hun- dred and eighty five dollars I Among the scores cit trotting stook to which our sittention wee called, we were shown Iffarold the sire, and Miss Russell the dam of Maud. 8, the fattest trotting horse in the world, " record 2.81 whioh beats the record of laynEye•See, the next fastest by one second and e quarter. The record of the latter being 2.10." Among the wonderful things we saw on this novel button° excursion were little kaorawny looking foale, six or seven days .old, valued at $5,000 each, 01 tnyexpressing 'surprise then snob unpromming looking .quadrupeds should have such a value .placed on them my friend reminded me that "yon can't always tell by the look of ,a frog how far it will jump." But many of the lunges we saw were perfect pictures, -models of equine beauty, and byerything 'We observed went to shear that the basineee of rearing (swift -trotting horses (which I believe originated at Woodburn, and that only some thirty years ago) low been re- idueed to a science, and is as far above the 'ordinary horeedockey business as the tut- tivating of barley is above the keeping of a beer saloon. And this innetration reminds me that the gentleman who fer the pest twenty years has been the remarkably Men onsful manager of Woodburn is a level. headed &demist° of tetnperanoe. Though hi the habit of entertaining visitornd murohasere Morn all parts of the United States, Canada and other countries, almost daily, " eecept on Sundaye," and though Mina or the meet genial and hospitable of men, he la a genuine " Scott Act " mom, and thie in ptoverbially hospitable Ken- tucky, and within lege than tweray miles 'of Frankfort, *tore no gentleman's toilet outfit ie sum -weed to be complete without a corkeerow—at least, so treditioh lath it.; but om experience of Itrenkfort hoepitality tear:ants me in pronouncing it a libel. 'Solna idea of the basittelis done et Wood. burn in the way of buying road selling may tie gathered from the foot that the annum' sales of thoroughbred hum bring from thirty to fifty thousand dollen, and the annual sales of trotting stook about oae hundred thousand (1140,000). No doubt much betting is [subsequently practised in connection with the speed of some a the animals purohased, though gambling pram tires are wholly foreign to the spirit and conduct of the Woodburn men themselves. It is a gratifying fact Oast the best horses are not bought and owned for racing pum poses, at for the personal pleeenre and i convenience of the owners, as n the case of Robert Bonner's ownerehip of Maud IS at a purchase price of 040,000. So highly does he prize this rernarkeble animal that it is said he would not part with her at any price and has &ritually refused an offer of $100,000. Some may object to any man having so muth money invested in eo "needlees" a luxury, but if all rich men would give with proportionate liberality to objects of public beneficence, they might be allowed a few extra luxuries. I am as much opposed to betting on a horse -race as to holding a lottery in con. neotion with a church bazaar or a oltarity fair, and would be sorry to write a line data would lead any young man to go fool. lug away hie time and money on fast horses, but having noticed that the proprietor of the famous Woodburn Fenn is a Presley. terian elder, that the manager is also a Presbyterian, that his excellent lady is the acmomplished deughter of a Presbyterian minieter, and that the fastest horse in the world is owned and properly used by a Presbyterian, it is in order for me to add that if the whole horse business were con- cluded on proper Presbyterian principles it veould be—different. Yours, eto, R. J. L. THE EVIL OF "TIMIA.TING." S. A. Haines, Commercial Traveller, Talks to Young Hen on Temperance. S. A. Haines, the founder and president of the Coranteroial Traveller' Temperance League, delivered a temperance leeture at Chambers' Presbyterian Church, Breed and Simeon streets, Philadelphia, last week. The title of his leoture was "Lend a Hend." He attacked the liquor traffic/ from every point, but devoted much of his lecture to the iniquity of treating. He declared that the wiping out of the saloon would come when the Christian churches (stood together in the battle, and not before. Then he said, "stop treating," He desoribed in de- tail the Amerioan etyle of bar -room treat. ing—how Brown asks Jones to take a drink; then Robinson drops in and invites Brown and Jones to join him ; then Jones feels under obligations, and asks his companions to join laim in a drink, and so on until all are under the in- fluence. As they approach this point, one says, "You ain't going back on "No," said the lecturer impreseively, "they are not going back on him, but they are all going back on themselves. The result is they all g� home drunk and say they had a good time. They go home without money for their families, and all on scoonnt of their infamous system of treating." The lecturer drew a ludicrous parallel between bar -room treating and its logical sequence in a drug store. How Jones might want a porous plaster and Brown a pill, while Robinson had dropped in for a dose of castor oil. The three men insisted upon treating to their reepeotive articles "until," said the lecturer, " by the law of treat, one man goes out with ten pills, &tether with ten porous plasters, e,nd the other with ten doses of osator oil.'' This produced a laugh. "Yon laugh," said Mr. Haines, "but it's not funny.. It is simply compounded wisdom." The lecture was attentively listened to by a small audience. Punch's Dictionary of Social Phrases. "You are one of the few peeve with whom I can really enjoy a quiet taik, all to our two selves "; i.e., "1 should be very Gerry to introduote yon to any of my set. " What, you here 2" i.e., " Wonder how the dame this confounded toad got an invi- tation." "Ab, by the way, just let me introdatte you to Farrodust. You two fellows ought to know each other "; i.e., "Call that kill. ing two bores with one stone." " Thanks for a most delightful evening. So sorry to have to run away "; i.e., " Bored to extinction, and fairly famished. Must ran down to the club for a snack and a smoke." "111 look at my liet when I get home "; i.e., "You don't catoh me." " Drop in any day "; i.e, "When the chances are I shan't be in." "No party "; i.e., "Must ask him, and do it as cheaply as possible." " Come as you are "; i.e, "Be careful to wear evening dress." "Don't trouble to answer"; i.e., "Think it very rade if you don't." What I going already I" i e., " Thenk goodness I Thought she'd never move." "What a fine child !" i.e., " Don' t know whether the brat is a boy or girl, but mast Bey something." Why Flowers Sioep. That flowers sleep is evident to the most casual observer. The daisy opens at sun - Hee and closes at suneet ; hence its name, "Day's eye." The morning glory opens with the day, but never lives to see another eunrise. The " John. go -to Med. et' noon " awakes et 4 o'clock in the morning, but closes in eyes during the middle of the day; the datidelion is in frit bloom only during strong light. This habit of some flowers is certainly very curlew, and fur- nishes one of the many instating which prove the singular adaptability of every- thing in nature. The reason is found in the method by which this class of flowers is fertilized. It is obvious that flowers fertilized by night.flying innate would derive no advantage by being open during the day; and, on the other hand, that those which are fertilized by bees would gain nothing by remaining open at night. Why may we not suppose, then, that the closing of flowers may have references to the hafits of insects? In support of this theory we obeerved that wind fertilized flowers tiever gleep.—St. Louis Republic. Tonsorial Item. Judge (who is baldheaded)—If half what the witnesses testify modest you in true, your congoienoe most be as Meek as yout hair. Prisoner—If a =lanai conscience) is regu- lated by hie hair, then your Honor hasn't got any conecience at all. --a.— Hammooltn drown to lounge in are announced. Gide who do general housework ate ttow briefly called " generale." From anthropological measurements made on Cambridge students it appears that their heads continue to groin after tbe ago of 19. Thom who have obtained high honors haws had, on the avenge, eandaer. ably Wager braine then the others at the ego of 10, the predominate° at that ago being greeter thaw at 25, a fact that is held to imply precocity ae hit Clement in the summit of bigh.honor men. Tur, mteato_o' CAKES. Interesting Now Notes Ivr owe All Over e An effort is abo8urtloanbd. entede by the onn- grogation of St. lafichaelbaliinlithgoW, to i raise fande to restore the nterior of that fine old church. Bailie Cumming on April 9th laid the foundation stone of the new bridge in progrese of construction over the Kelvin at Geeet Western Road, Glasgow, Alter the lease of neerlY seven months the bodies of the 36 men who were En- tombed, in the Mattrieewoed mine, near Edinburgh, have been recovered. The well-known Craiglookleart Hydro - patine Estebliehment, near Edinbargh, Which cost about 448,000 not many years ago, was wild recently for n13,800. At a natieting of the Adain Smith Mem. oriel Committee at Kirkcaldy, Fifeehire, on the 31at ult., it was unnounced that the subscriptions aroOunted to 48,200. The Right Hon. Henry Chaplin, M.P., Minister of Agriculture, is to reoeive the honorary degree ot LLD, from the Uni. varsity of Ediuburgh oz the 18th lust, The Queen has appointed Mr. Alexander Crum of Thornliebank to be a naenther of the Universities (Scotland). Commisision6 in room of the late Mr. CrameSellar, M.P. Janaes Prain, mentor partner of the firm of Jamee Frain et Son, spinners and menu. faoturers, Larchfield Works, Dundee, died years. The9th ingt. at the adnansed age of 87 The Duke of Edinburgh has contiented to open the Edinburgh International Exhi- bition on let May, and it is probable that he will be accompanied by the Duoliese of Edinburgh. It is understood that the Rev. James Fleming, of Whithorn, will be nominated for the Modentorehip of the approaching meeting of the United Presbyterian Synod in Scotland. At a meeting of the Dumbarton Town Council, on the 9th inst., it was intimated that Denny Bros., Leven Shipyard, pro. posed to hand over Knoxland Square for the benefit of: the public. The extensive buildings of the Edinburgh International Exhibition at Merchiston were on the 4th inst. praoticially completed, and the final arrangements are in progress for the opening on the 1st of May. The death is announced of the Rev. Alexander le ackay, who wits the pioneer of Christian missions in the Uganda country in Africa. Stanley places Mackay along with Livingstone and Moffett in the high. est rank of Africa's Ohristianizers. Dr. McLeod, Houston; Dr. Edgar, Mauchline, and Mr. Gilroy, Dreghorn, who all died in Suotland on the same day, were all ordained at the same time, were nearly of the same age, and were all ex, Moderators of the Synod of Glasgow and Ayr. Queenshill House, Kirkcudbrightshire, was destroyed last week by fire. It was the resitTeuce of Col. Neilson, who died only a short time ago. This catastrophe has oaused great regret throughout Soot. land, for the mansion was really e museum and picture gallery, being crammed with valuable objects, and its collection of pica tures was one of the finest in Scotland, whilst many of the curios and autiaaities were unique. The magnificent testimonial which was preeentea to the late Mr. Neil. son, the inventor of the hot -blast, was saved. The Webster's Dictionary Humbug. SJOie " enterprising Amermans have recently pus upon the market what they call the oxiginal Webster's 'Unabridged Dietionary at a very low price; in some placee in the United States it sells as low as el 65 retail, and it is given as a pre- mium by grocers and others. It is a re. print of WebsterM Dictionary of over forty years ago, bet it lecke many of the words that men look for now. Lest any readers of the Teams abould be deceived into buy- ing this bogus book, under the impression teat they are getting a modern " Webster s Unabrioged," the following quotation from the New York American Bookseller of a re- cent clime is game : "We have before as a circular issued by an enterprieing house of what profeesee to be the Originei Vaebster's Unabridged Diotionerye We have also seen the thing itself. To call it a book would be a libel on every book manufacturer. It is not printed from type, bat reproduced by some photographiomethod ; it ie not printed on paper, but on some material inferior to wood -pulp; it is bound in a marbled cover of some hideous stuff, and ib gapes at the edges as if it were going to buret. It is the most Oisoreditable-looking volume ever offered for sale to an inoffensive public. It is a book which no one would bay for its external appearance. The contents of this preedous volume consists of Webster's Dic- tionary of 1847; that is, it is fully forty. two yeare behind the time. The etymolo. gies ere utterly misleading, and naturally so ; for when the Webster of 1847 wee is- sued comparative philology was in its cradle. The definitions are imperfot, re- quiring oondensatioa, re -arrangement and additions. The vocabulary is defective, some of the commonest words of to.day,especially soientifid terms, for which a dictionary is moot often consulted, beiug entirely absent. In not one of these three prime requisites of a Oiotionary is the Webster reprint a truetworthy guide, or, rather, it is a role - leading one. While the orthography and prormuoiation of 1847 have not midergone eat% changes, as the flepartmente mentioned, they have in many respects been changed, and therefore here, too, the 'reprint' ife not a safe instructor. All these things are known to every intelligent man. But this " reprint " is not intended for intelligent men, It is made expressly to be foisted by all the arts of the book oenvaseer on those who have been pre - eluded from a knowledge of what develop. ments lexicography has undergone during the bat forty.two years. This is the cruelest feature of *hie money -making enterprise. The only pergolas who can be expected to totteh the book are pereots of small means, who have the most praiseworthy ambition to improve then mind% their atyle, or their language. For thie they are willing to make great sacrifices, and a common re- gard for amenaoy ought to prevent any firm balling itself reepootable from palming off on them ell kinds of misinformation." Hastening Matters. She—Yee, I will marry you in April if papa says 1 may. Will you ask hint ? He—I did. ' She --What did he say? He (sadly)—He Said Mar011," and 1 wombed, i Horseback riding n the early /morning it fashionable with certain tlanailton belles, " So far as possible," sews DeWitt Tal. mage, " let all tvemen areas beautifully.' That is good manioc). A deoetet oostnine ie a evontarae fint right, and we could trirove it tee if Mother Dee were alive. Ile Limey, the geteltt Mwthematieian, Was asked the equere af twelve when he Wes ho longer able to renegnize his friends abioit his bed and naathernatioally ansWered "One hundted and fotty.four" MOIR Ant) W41i8, Inirtne-Nne View of the World's Labor wield. Detreit hes two wemen oarpentere. Brooklyn houseemithEi work nine hours. DroOklYn uniene will puede on Labor day. Holyoke (Mats) has twenty-three paper mills. Brooklyn (=pore stenek against a n9l1^ union man. A Wyoming law gives %mid pay to men and women teachers. • Machines now make the most intrioate and delicate embroidery. Port Huron (HMO tunnel -workers struck for 50 cents au hour. Some Brooklyn bricklaying have ratified to dee mele-50 cents an hour. Thirty Syritorige moulders struck against working for len than $2 a day. Farnam and roll men in a fellevelana ateel worts demand 112.07 a day, Beni° unione teak of progeouting eleip carpenters who work on Sunday. The !Omaha policenagn will soon leave their day out to eight and nine hours. Nashville sheet metal workers struck for nine hours and 25 cents a day advance. !I he Knights and the Federation have a hot fight againet eaoh other at Baltiraore. The Louisville Butchers' Sooiety will operate an in factory and boycott Chicago beef. Some Brooklyn riveters etruok against driving 350 rivets a day—an increase of 50. A big bailding in Cleveland is occupied by a complete store of the various busi- nesees. Indianapolis plasterers have won eight hours and an advent:le in wagee on May let. At Duluth, Minn., riveters, in a steel works get $3 per 100 riven ; two riveters, el each; holder, 60 cents; heater, 40 cent. The holdere struck for 75 tents per 100. Syracuse unions have indaoed councils to allow none but Amerioan citizens to work on city operations, and the city will do its own street cleaning insteed of con- tractors. Bilk Oben werivera at Marlboro, Conn., struck beaartee a walking delegate was dis- (Merged. By e contract those who left their looms before the warp was oat lost whatever wages was owed them. The strike was lost also. The New York German House Fainters' Union has fixed upon 43.50 a day for nine hours and eight hours on Saturday, and 113.12 for eighv hours and Seven hours on Saturday as the sohedules to be enforced this year. Sunday work and overtime is to be paid at double rates. Wages to be paid weekly. Sir Edwin's Tricks. Speaking of Sir Edwin Arnold'e life in Japan, "he wae," says a recent visitor to that country, "so charmed with Yokohoma when be arrived there a few months ago that he determined to live in the native quarters for a time. He had no sooner selected a residence than the governor ordered him to move to the foreign quarters at once. Aoting on the advice of friends, Sir Edwin sant back word that he was sick. That Emma was amepted and the English- man was not bothered for some time. After awhile Sir Edwin was summoned before the governor, who asked him if he had not recovered his health. The distin- guished visitor replied that he had hired himself out as a. tutor in a rich Japanese family. The governor was satisfied. Every day the author can be seen teaching the young Jape how to spell dog," cat,' heater,' etc. His eatery is $e00 a year, but by playing servant he can live where be chooses."' Too Public Spirited. " Ee wae a good fellow, was Smithers," said the old miner as he stood with bared head where Smithers bad last been seen, but no man can go foolin' &Mug in a camp like this kiukin' off every tin can he sees 'yin' on the sidewalk. It may be public. spirited, but it ain't good policy for an inclividooal. Course Smithers didn't know theta ornery Bill Jones had left a fall oan o' dynamite on the walk, jest f ram bein' too lazy ter carry it inside, but he orter bin on the lookout. Whar is Smithere now? He's all over. He was public. epirited, ez I said, and inebbe it's n comfort ter him ter be tall over the camp at once, but his inflooence is too much difoosed now ter count fer much. Thar's a lesson in this, boys. Don't difooue your influenoe. An' thar'a another lesson; don't be too public- spirited. The leadin' men ain't that way in big cities. They talk big and do a little suthin' now an' then, but Just they look out fer the individooal. Wa'al, Bmithers ain't here, an' he wee a good man. Let'elioker." Wanted No Display, The following is an extract from the will of the late Rev. D. B. Cameron, of Acton : Coneidering the extravagance displemed by the community in general and as a pro. test ageless it, I direct that my body, when dead, shell be decently wrapped in bleached cotton, neatly prepared for the purpose, laid in a ample coffin made of pine, with no ornamentation, not se much as my name, and carried to the grave in a sleigh, if in winter, or a spring waggon, laid in the grave without a shell; and that no manta ment or stone of any kind be put up to mark the place, unless some friend take a boulder from the field to mark the spot, and if he fumy to do so, out thereon the initial letters 'D. B. O.' In all other re. speots I confirm my said will." An Unerring Marksman. "Whisky never faiSSes fire," said a Matt to ue the other day. No, it never does. It is sure to bring down its victim sooner or later, whether he is high or low in the meld or intellectual male. And flattering about him will always be the wounded hearts of mother, father, wife, children, sisters, brothers and friends, while beyond and behind all this is too often a trail of rained virtues and oontanainating infla. enoes. At least six hearts on an average carry a lifelong, overshadowing, dreary sorrow fax every viotim alcohol brings down. Tbe undertow of all and dreary heartache over the viotimg of alcohol. No, whisky never mines fire, nevem—Advance. Time is Honey. Mrs. Moinnickle—That new cloak is gain. ing half an hour a day. MoCraokle—Good enough 1 It Will anon make enough tittle to pay for itself. Never Saw nothing Like It. "What does your little brother look like, wiiiie ?o " Nottnin I ever mw before." olo's4eWteheillsubgotf scaa'llteGrena: somedea . n ° Sc. freak or I have it ! Ind the thing. Get et Anarchist and make him eit id a bathtub." Sir James Crichtme Browno says the Scotoli brain [Menge 50 esameti, the English 40 mom, the German 48.3 emcee an the Ershoh 47,0 0111100V. Sir jenees 15 a Seatelittulat 6 TEA TABLE GOSSIP SUNDAY ocOiriWrION. When smiluag spring returns to deals The earth with verdure gay, And golden dandelions Reels The sward with their array. On Sundays when the days are fair An d pious peopIe Rock To church, the father wheels Ws pair Of twins around the block. —Winter beards are coming off. --Soft summer thinks are on tap. YoUNe NanniND IPOTAS. Thougb not happy, precisely, ru venture to say They agree very nicely, When she has her way. —It pays to advertise when trade is dell. • —Vinegar makes fieth scales come off easier. —Clotla overgaiters are grateful to ten- der feet. —A gime hole for flowere in the lapel of the coat is proper. —" Yon give me a pane," said the window frame to the glazier. —The man who thinks he is bright is seldom inolined to keep it dark. — Abuse is one of the few things a rnan can get without earning or deserving it. —There is a feint, famaway rumor that efforts will be moan torevive the &Unwound orinoline. — Mrs. Brown—Did you pick up that tack I dropped on the floor? Brown— Yea; but I didn't mean to, —An English syndicate, with Lord Brassey and Lord Riceland Grosvenor at its head, is &bent to turn Brussels into a seaport by building a canal and three im- mense basins. —Canon Farrar will dedioate hie new book, "Truth to Live By." to George W. Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledger. It is not every editor who oan get a book on Truth dedioated to him. . •—The feat time Stanley lectured at Birmingham he reoeived 15 guineas for his fee. This diem the Birmingham lecture manager offers 300 guineas, and is afraid he cunt get him at that. —Andrew Carnegie will Sail for Scotland on May 21st, according to his present plena. Mrs. Carnegie will be domiciled at ()limy Castle, while Mr. Carnegie attends to business affairs in London. m-Sincle coining to London I have vainly sought to learn the origin of the word " oad.'"fo stigmatize a man me a cad is said to be the harshest reproach one English- man oan bestow upon another.—Eugene Field, in Chicago News. TE BIOTA Or THE DIZME. I spoke of the rose leaf within her chin, And she Raid, with a little nod, As she touched a dimple as sweet as love, "Oh, that was a kiss from God." Women' s name. Since drnokennen comes first and har d - est upon woman, since it is to her what a mine is to a garden, rooting up every sweet blossom and destroying every fruit, and making a wilderness of the garden of the Lord, I have a right to say to every young woman: By your look, by your word and by your act bear testimony and exert your influence against intemperance. Let not yom fair hand, that yet one day shall go out in pledge, oonvey to another the cup which sball deeolate and destroy the household. If there be one thing that woman sktould stand for it is temperance. —Henry Ward Beecher. Confidence Begot of Success. The confidence possessed by the mann. features of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy in their ability to cure the worst oases of nasal catarrb, no matter of how long standing, is attested in a most substantial manner by their standing reward of $500, offered for many years past, for an incurable case of this loathsome ttnd dangerous disettee. The Remedy is sold by droggists, at only 50 cents. It is mild, soothing, ()noosing, deodorizing, antiseptic: and healing. Be skipped. " What do you want ?" asked the lady of the house sharply, as she opened the door in reponee to a ring. a taxidermist, madam, and called to—" "Well, we pay our taxes when they're doe and no sooner'so you can skip 1" and the door wen hanged like the forehead of a girl fresh from echool. An Additional Duty. "Are you the exchange editor 2 " asked the poetess. "Yoe, madam." "Well, will yon kindly 081E111 this check ?" It was at this point thst the managing editor was carried out in a dead faint. —tee_ Defining His Position. " Now, boys," said the enthusiast, "let's give three cheers for the speaker end then go have a drink." " Emma me," said the prohibitionist. "1 cheer bat I do not inebriate." A Plea of Guilty. Mn. Lunnon (in New 'York)—Ah, you've not been loftg on this side, I fahnoy, Mr. Gibbon? Howell Gibbon (bittelaing)—Sowwy to say I—aw—that is, I was bawn here! Giving the Lie—Away. "Bronson says you owe him $5." a liar. I was going to pay him to -day, but I won't now.' A Whitton blacksmith has added dentistry to his business. Thin strips of horseradish laid over a barrel of pickles prevents them from get- ting mouldy or Bade. The striking Sb. Peal stonecutters got some contracts for work, but the quarry- men would not sell theta stone nor anyone outside the masters' union. • "Mr. Gould, how is your canal stook to -day ?" I have no canal stook, sir." "1 bog pardon; my mistake. For the moment I imagined that the large amount of water in your railways had converted them into canals." " Why will you tall sacili falsehoods, Luoy ?' asked a mother of her daughter. "'Clause, tuturona, if I told you the truth you'd spank me." DREAD MADE /DON WOOD. The Remarkable Peoeibility for WhIelt Science is Striving. Soience hos already enabled man to extract aery beverages and many other things of more or less value from wood, end it is now proposed to go a step furdster Milling Record. and Prodnoe bread from wood, says the In an address recently delivered in Heidelberg, Germany, by no less eminent an author than. Victor Meyer, it in announced o than we may reasonably hope that ohernietry will teach us to make the fibre of wood the source of human d." wood an enormoue stook of food, then, twt000ede ulwdbeeftroud,rst if ftohriesb:cteoreven in g possible, raiz h andeitraw. The fibre of wood consists essentially of cellulin. Can this be made into etaroh? Starch has essentially the same percentage composition, but it differs very much in ite properties, and the natura of its moleoule is prebably muoh more Com- plex, Celialin is of little or no dietetic/ value, and it is not altered, like starola, in boiling water. It really gives glucose whentreated with strong sulphurto acid, as ig easily shown when cotton -wool, which is preen'. oally pure collude), is merely immersed in it. Starch gives the same product when boiled with weak add. The author further quotes the researoktea of Hellriegel, which go to show beyond dis- pute that certain plants transform atmos- pheric nitrogen into albumen, and that hie process can be improved by euitable treat - went. The production, therefore, of corn. staroh from cellulin, together with the enforced increase Of albumen in plants, would, he adds, in reality signify the sola- tion 9,f the bread question. 0 listen l On the breezes glad voices come to -day. From many a wife and mother, and this is wheA they say: "012e 'Favorite Prescription' works cures where d°erreucle rsfai Bestrsuffering women, 0 blessed boort all hail 1" If every women who suffers from diseasea. peculiar to her sex, knew of its wonderful curative properties, what a mighty chorus of rejoicing would be heard throughout the length and breadth of the land, einging the praises of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip- tion. It is the only medicine for women, sold by druggists under a positive guarantee from the manufacturers that it will give eatiefention in every case, or money will be refunded. This guarantee has been printed, on the bottle -wrapper, and faithfully carried. out for many years. A. Dead Heat. She kissed him as he gave her the en- gagement ring. "George, darling, I have alwaye longed, for one of this pattern, and you are the rst who loved me sufficiently to etudy my tastes in the matter." "And yet," replied he, leveling things up, "it is no may, as in my engagements I have never used anything else. Slipping Past the Palate Without nauseating those who take theme thelittle, sugar-coated Granulate known all over the land as Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Par- gative Pellets, produce an effect upon the bowels, very different from that of a dis- agreeable, violent purgative. No griping or drenching follows, as in the case of atheistic oholagogue. The relief to the intestines resembles the motion of Nature in her happiest moods, the impulse given to the dormant liver is of the most salutary kind, and is speedily manifested by the disap- pearance of all bilious symptoms. Sick headache, wind on the stomach, pain through the right sidci and shoulder -blade, and yellownees of the skinand eye balls are speedily remedied by the Pellets. One a dose. A Dreadful Visitation.' A oonple of dootore in oonvereation. A.—Well, colleague, how are you getting on in your practice ? B.—Very badly, thereto a regular health epidemic raging in our part of the country just now. A Whole Evening Marred. Mr. Van Astor—Did you enjoy the opera last night? Mrs. Van Astor—No; not very much. The actors made so much noise that couldn't hear more than half of Mrs. Van Cortlandt's conversation, and you know her box is only the third from ours. The new disease called La Nona, which has taken the place of la grippe, is ceased by the nee of mildewed corn flour which is consumed in Northern Italy in the shape of polentia. The victims sink into a peace- ful sleep and die unconsoious. Millionaires are the only people who can afford to be mean. We call them prudent. OCT 1,....1.1(17,11.6115111111111 D. C. N. L. 80. SO. werAUseaDallorAfhlsitaanelvitifterillii0===r4212110111K TEN POUNDS TWO WEEKS THE OF IT ! As a Flesh Producer there can be no question but that Of Pure Cad Liver OD and Hypophosphites Of Lime and Soda is without a rival. Many have gained a pound a day by the use of it. It cures CONSUMPTION, SCROPULA, BRONCHITIS, •00U0HS AND COLDS, AND ALL FORMS OF WASTING MS - EASES. AS 1'..4.LATABLE AS 111111C. Genuine made by Scott & Bowne,Benevilte.Saltnon Wrapper; at all Druggists, 60e. and $1.00. 4,470.4.•••••••..M4L9.4,.....0,0,01,/*••••••14. 1 THOUSANDS OF 'BOTTLES DIVE N AWAY YEARLY. oi When I say Duro I do not mean merely tO step them for a Stile, andthert gave them return amain. g (MEAN A RAD VOA L. 0 LI IRE. I have made the disease of Pita. npilensty or Fall/log Sickness a life-long study. I warrant myremedy to Cure the Worst cater'', Besot se °there have failed is no reason for not now receiving a cure, Scedrit once for a treatise and a irree Dottie of my Infallible ilernedyi Give Eimress Post Office. it costs you nothing for a trial, and it will cure you. Address tatin Itte atom mitc., [Manch oftrico, one VII ValADELAIDE STRIEnT, TORONTO. SkiRtAriSt tkiRED TraWrIESNA''FFEF, TIVI'701'1'atal,:—PthIllasaitlaIMEr°1571titt12tall'e inform your readers t1:1"lat I have a positive remedy for thg above named disease. By its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been permanently cured. I shall be glad to send two bottles of inyarceinipoessIty0Fitt2lE.Atitdcroascsiy, oRf Lopuerttieuandye,rTs.wAl!otri.,1.04 sazt,10:8,6i f vvtheyas will tat ecniaii inidetpetetirolalistoperietotteo, ONTmact.