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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-7-10, Page 7Tbe ;P'ar'lor Clock. I ani a fauoy parlor clock, Encased in' globe of glass, With lovely chiming silver bells An front all made of brass. I've stood upon the mantlopieoe Por almost eighteen years, And ticked and chimed and told the time With never any fears.. But now my hands begin to shako, My face is white with dread, For, coining down the oaken stair, I hoar the gentle tread Of Angeline,who's just returned From Burns' famous school ; I know the;t when she looks at me I'll fool just like a fool. Of course she'll surely havo a beau, Who'll come.on Sunday nights. And stay and stick, and stick and stay, While dimly burn the lights. I know just how they'll carry on And how George will embrace Dear Angeline ; but I'sball keep My hands before my faro. They'll never heed the warning chins Of my sweet sounding bells, But sit and spoon beneath the moon, While he her stories te'le. But I can stand it all, I know, Until some fatal night When Angeline will say to George " I know that clook ain't right. "It must be half an hour fast ; It never kept good time, And I just hate the noise it makes When it begins to chime." And then X'11 take my sweet revenge, I'll run an hour clow, And while they think " it's early yet," mi jump and " lot hergo." I'd ring so long, so load and strong, That her paternal sirs Will come and swoop the floor with George And roll him in the mire, And Angeline will go to bed, And I will laugh and mock Her anguish with my ceaseless sound— Tick, tock, tick tock, tick tock. MAt nron 11. MaLouonznv. Temperance Notes. A new chnrch at Seattle, Wash., has a W. C. T. U. memorial window adorned with the motto, "For God and home and Dative land." A movement ie on foot among Wyoming white ribbcners to establish a home for friendlees women at Cheyenne, the home to he known as the " White Shield Cottage." Freetown, Sierra Leone, has a W. C. T. U. of ninety, members, lately organized by Mary C. Leavitt, and a White Cross moiety of more than one hundred young mem. Rinse Frances E. Willard and Mrs. Caro- line Buell, as President and Corresponding Secretary of the National W. C. T. U., and inbehalt of that organization, have sent an official letter to the Louisiana Legislature, -urging the abolition of the gambling corse, ;and begging that no mercenary considera- tions may prevail in the treatment of this enormous evil. They have also rent a letter to Governor Nicholls expressing their pro. found appreciation of his patriotic and Christian attitude in condemnation of the lottery system. Echo Park, at Wrightstown, Wis., was formerly a beer garden, but has been sur. ohaeed by a philanthropic lady, Mrs. Xnowles, who desired to rescue it from evil hands. It is a lovely place on the banks of Fox River. By invitation of the owner, the W. C. T. U. and the Y. W. C. T. U. of the fifth district will entertain here for two or three weeks this summer twenty or thirty working girls from some of the large cities. Nearly all of the necessary buildings are on the grounds, and ladies from different onions will provide provisions, hammocks, games, eto. It is intended to give these weary young girls a complete and delight- ful rest. STKIJOK OIL. A Former Hauailtoulau's Good Fortune in Pennayivanfa. The following is from the Doylestown Intelligefcer : In several parte, of Buoks county the earth seems to be impregnated with oil. Signs of oil in paying quantities have been found in Nookamixon: township, with indications of natural gas, and steps aro being taken to develop the fielde, a company having leased 1,000 acres for a term of years, For years there have been indications of oil on the farm of Wm. T. Eisenhart, on the New Britain Road, leading from the Limekiln Road, in Doylestown township, about ono and e -half miles west of Doyles- town, but no attention has ever been paid to the " nasty Boum" that bee appeared on the water in one of hie marshy fielde. After the heavy raine •of spring and fall the appearance of this oily depoeit has been vary noticeable, and last Sunday a• spring was discovered which issued out of the clay soil of the field in a stream ae large as a man's finger, and as it ran down the waterway the water was covered with a heavy oily subetanoe to such anextent that it attracted renewed attention and interest owing to the oil fever which seems to have become contagious throughout Backe and Montgomery counties. Hearing of the discovery an Intelligencer reporter visited the spot on Tuesday and was shown over the plane by Mr. Eisen- hart. They visited the spot where the oil was found, which is in a low-lying marshy field, with a clay top coil underlaid with a stratum of red gravel sand. The °leis -sup- posed to lie in the sub -soil and the heavy rains, swelling the amount of water, forces ite way through the clay snrfaoe soil, oar• rying with it the oil. The oil covers the water with a thick scum of a bluish oast and lines the water. way through the field. A lighted match was placed on the water, and although the oil did not barn the water did not extin- guish the lighted match. Another match was covered with the oily substance and lighted, and abnrned with a spluttering nous°. The vein of oil Boerne to run northeast and southwest, as another spring of the Baine nature is found on•the adjoining farm of Albert Vail. In the same field, and about 500 feet to north of the oil springs on the hill, is a fine spring of pure, clear water, which is said to be the finest in the neighborhood, and there is not a trace of oil in it. Traces of the oil springs can be found in a space fifty feet wide, all in wet, marshy ground, lying in a hollow, which has been considerably washed by the late storms. the same indications are to be found on the farm of Mr. Vail, and the oil is found on the surface in a direct line southwest from that on Mr. Eisenhart's place. Mr. Vail has been cleared a large amount for his farm already. Mr. Eisenhart has not yet decided what to do in the matter, but trades of oil have been noticed here for years by different parties, although not so abundantly as at present, and every indication points to- large o large deposit of oil that only needs a little labor to eeoure suffioient to determine its value. Woman's Weapon. Woman's weapon is her eye, and the latest importation is a code for the mani- pulation of that organ. Charts have been prepared, showing that the eye has 729 dig. tinotive expressions, conveying as many different shades of meaning. The proper thing to do is to procure one of these charts and reproduce with our own eyes the 729 exproseions before a mirror. When you have mastered them all, try them on other people and see how they work. It is popularly imagined that the eyeball itself is an expressive thing, but, as a matter of fact, the hall of the eye has scarce any expreseion at all. That all depends upon the lids and brows. The upper lid aces tbe intellectual ; ite position is regulated by the sort of thinking: you are doing. The lower lid expresses, by its drawing np or otherwiee, the settees. The eyebrows are emotional, and so on. All this, however, is only the beginning. Certainly it would appear that young ladies of the future, trained to make eyes on exact principles, will be much more seductive ereaturee than hitherto.—Poston Transcript. Little Late., In Chicago. He—May I have the pleasure of your company et sapper, Mies Breezy 2 She—You're a little late, Mr. Waldo; I've been down to supper three times already.—Judge. New Hind of Road. A Terrell man has patented a new road for waggons. It consists of ties four feet apart, flat iron rails for wheels to run on, with flanges to keep the wheels on the track. The inside` of the track is graveled for teams to walk on.. It octets 51 per foot and may be a solution of the dirt road problem.—Corsicana Observer.' Curious. " Girls are queer." " Why so ?" " Why, when that pauper Bolne was married to Mise ` Stooksanbonds, the heiress, she looked tickled to death when he endowed her with all his worldly goods." —Harper's Bazar. The U. S. Senate by 29 to 18 voted to admit Wyoming as a State. The bill for the: admission of Idaho goes over till Monday. A London woman's club has developed as far as a Motion ,by one of its members to provide a separate room for smokers, and also a billiard• room. SUM 29 FAME. 'Little Johnny Brown Was the model of the town, And he never missed a day from Sunday school; But little Johnny Jones Used to pelt him with big stones And say," Go Cell your teacher you're a fool." 'Little Johnny Brown, The pride of all the town, Was buried at the early age of ten ; But little Johnny Jones, Wno was fond of throwing stones, Is kingpin of our Board of Aldermen. —Perfumed kid gloves are to Dome. —Frequent and constant advertising brought me, all I own,—d. T. Stewart. —She (at an evening reception)—I barely got hare. He (observantly)—So 1 see. Sometimes two drops of amphor pts a tooth brush willkill a breath which richly deserves it. The, thoroughly manny girl has her clothed constructed with as many pockets as her brother'°. THE LION IN THE PATH. Why" Negotiations In the Debating Sea Diffi- culty Have Ileen 17nsuceessul.. The Washington evening Critic bas the following : " The Critic is in a position to state as a matter of undoubted and abso. lute fact that the present stale of oonfa- sion in which the Behring Sea queetion is involved is the reenit of the President's re- pudiation of an arrangement between Sem retary Blaine and Lord Saliebury, the Prime Minister of England. One of the first subjects taken up by Mr. Blaine after be had fairly settled down to the work in hie department was that of the seal fisher- ies in Behring Sea. The question came to him in an unsettled shape because of the notorious impossibility of Secretary Bay- ard's Obtaining anything like oo•operation or support from the. Senate. That Mr. Blaine took virtually the same view of the matter as wee entertained by Mr. Bayard will bo sufficiently demonstrated when all the feats in 'the csea shall have been pub- lished, But meanwhile it is sufficient to state that Mr. Blaine, after the most oare• fel and exhaustive examination on his own part, and an abundant interchange of sen- timent and suggestion with Lord Salis- bury, entered into an agreement with that high functionary. It was an agreement entirely satisfactory to both, an agreement which recognized the rights and interests of the United States equally with those of. England, and its ratification would have definitely terminated a most vexatious and untoward, not to say menacing, controversy. This agreement the President flatly refueed to sanction." The Hug -Me -Tight. The hug-me•tight is the name of a new lounge pillow which everybody is atter jest now. It is a soft bolster pillow designed for beauty and comfort as well. It can be covered with almost any material. An em- broidered lining is preferred by many, being clean, cool and durable. They can be staffed with down, feathers or wool. A wide, easy lounge is now deemed a neces city in almost all rooms devoted to family comfort, but large, soft, easy pillows, so made and dressed as to look neat and tidy and yet admit of careless treatment, are not so common. Pillows for everyday service cannot be used long withont becom- ing badly soiled unless protected by tidies or covers of some sort, which are a constant source of annoyance, they are so liable to be displaced and rumpled up, if not wholly thrown aside. The embroidered linen " hug -me -tight" cannot be easily displaced (as its name indicates), and, being an end- less Dover, the pillow is protected on all sides and can be washed. A Sinister Influence. The Canada Presbyterian seems to have formed a low estimate of the work ac- complished by the Presbyterian Assembly recently met in the Capital. This is the way it speaks of that venerable body : " The General Assembly that adjourned last week will be chiefly remembered as the one that laid almost everything important over until next year. Can it be possible that the veteran Statesman at Ottawa, sometimes called ' Old Teamorrow,' exer- cised his well-known magnetic powers upon the fathers and brethren." Attend to this, Girls The knees should never be crossed, for this position, besides being inelegant and ungraceful, often leads to paralysis by diverting the blood from the leg through pressure.—Jenness•111iner Magazine. AVOID SUNStROHES.. In such weather as the people are now enduring, no great exertion should be made except under the presenre of dire neoes• city. Men and women require to be careful and methodical in their habits. Each year medical man not only give public warnings on the subject, but supplement their ntter- anoes;with simple hints, which, if heeded, would prevent muohsickness, especially among those people who are compelled to remain in the city during the heated term. In a recent contribution to a medioal journal, Dr. Edwin C. Mann, of New York city, has this to say on the avoidance of sunstroke To avoid sunstroke exercise in excess- ively hot weather should be very moderate ; the clothing should be thin and loose, and an abundance of cold water should be drank. Workmen and soldiers should understand' that as soon as they cease to perspire while working or march. ing in the hot sun they are in danger of sunstroke, and they should immediately drink water freely and copiously, to afford matter for cutaneous transpiration; keep the skin and clothing wet with water. Impending sunstroke may often be warded off by these simple measures. Besides the cessation of perspir- ation, the pupils are apt to be contrasted and there is a frequency of mioturition. If there is marked exhanetion, with a weak pulse, resulting from the cold water appli- cation, we should administer stimulants. The free use of water, however, both ex- ternally and internally, by those exposed to the direct rays of the eon is the best prophy• lactic against ennetroke, and laborers and soldiers and others who adopt this measure, washing their hands and faces as well as drinking copiously of water every time they come within reach of it, will generally enjoyperfect immunity from sunstroke.oke. Straw hats should be worn, ventilated at the top, and the Drown of the hat filled with green leaves or wet sponge. It-io batter to wear thin flannel shirts in order not to check perspiration. We may expose ourselves for a long time in the hot sun ani work or sleep in a heated room and enjoy perfect immunity from sunstroke if we keep our skin and clothing wet with water. Gilbert Bateau, a farmer of Little River, has been drowned by falling from a batten" at Chateau Richer, and hie body has not yet been recovered. Lord Bute's mansion, called " Mon• etnart," near Rothesay, is the largest and costliest private palace in the world. Itis in gothic style and covers nearly two acres. The halls are of marble and alabaster and the rooms are finished in mahogany, rose- wood and walnut, with carved marble fire- places. The coat of the mansion was about 59,000,000. All the steamers arriv ing in Montrea speak of encountering an unusual number of icebergs and great fields of loose foe, making navigation very perilous. Meagre details of the burning of the mining town of Carbon, 200 miles west of Cheyenne, W. T., have reached here. Twenty houses were destroyed. No lives were lost. "Are yon going to marry my brother ? " " Yes." " Then there's no rise of my asking yon to be my wife, be. cense you'll be a sister to me anyhow." We may talk about amicable argn- ment, but its real end is to prove that the other fellow ie wrong. The angler sits upon the bank, (Por so the fish aro cozened) And drinks each time he gots a bite— And each time when he doesn't. More ornamental than practical are the new "moth traps." They are made on the fairy lamp idea, and the little phosphorus is supposed to draw the moth into the trap'senmeshing contents. Tho new weekly -payment law will go into operation in the New York city de- pertments the first week in July. Only those who are employed at a rate per diem dome under the provisions of the law. Chicago Man to Chicago Woman—Par- don me; 1 hope 1 don't intrude. But ate you engaged for your next wedding 2-- Washington —Washington Post. "Great cry and little wool" was what the cohered man said on being shown his new=born baby. 1311TH1:9DAVS POOL, Recent. Explorations Said to have lliocov- ered the Water, A Washington special to the St. Louie Globe•.penzocrut Saye: The American Con- sul at Jerusalem, Mr. Gillman, sends to the State Department an account of the recovery of the famous Pool of Bethesda. As ie well known, the Birket Ierael has in the past been considered as the pito of the Bethesda, bat the excavations of the Aigerine monks under the ruins in the rear of the Crusader Church of St. Anne have gradually transferred opinion in favor of the latter locality. This was strength- ened by the discovery of a rook -hewn pool containing water beneath three successive structures. Subsequent excavations re- vealed the remains of two tiers of five - arched porches, the lower tier being in the pool. The intelligent laborsbf the monks who are in charge of the property have been further rewarded by the recent recovery of another pool containing a good supply of water to the westward of that first discov- ered, the entire agreeing with the deserip• tions of the Bethesda as given by the fathers of the church and Christian pil- grims and writers as early as the fourth century. Tho correspondence in number of the five porches to those mentioned in the Gospel of St. John will not escape notice. Steps out in the rook lead down into the water. An anoient Christian church in rains surmounts the entire. The remains ot the upper tier of porohes extend above the pool at right angles from the north wall of the crypt beneath the churob, in which the apse, at the east end, though dilapidated, ie still distinctly de- fined. On clearing away the debt le that choked the fifth porch westward of the apse all these discoveries culminated in revealing the remains of a painting or fresco upon the plaster of the wall in the rear. The fresco represents an angel as if descend- ing into and troubling the waters, which latter ie depicted by conventional zigzag and wavy lines of an olive-green, shaded with black, more suggestive of Egyptian hieroglypbice than of modern art, and sur- rounding the figure on every side, The right hand of the angel was shown as up- lifted ; but this has been carefully de- stroyed, probably by the Moslems, after their habit, in the early days of their power. So, also, the face of the angel, which has been battered so as to be com- pletely obliterated. The glory or nimbus above the head, painted an orange yellow, still remains, but little injured. The edge of the pool appears to be indicated by a broad red line, inolos- ing the painting, and having an occasional rectangular projection into the water, per- haps representing steps or the piers for the porches. On the east of this fifth -barreled aroh (the wall extending at right angles) are the remains of another figure, also in fresco, much defaced, and supposed to represent the Saviour. Above the head, evidently intentionally mutilated, is a portion of the nimbus, and in the lower outer corner of the painting part of a blue robe. He Eats Two Men Every Week. The Madras Times chronicles the doings of a terrible man-eating tiger. During 1889 the monster carried off human lives at the rate of one a week. This year the pro- portion has doubled. The tiger is known as the man-eater of Tintalaknnti. It makes the plains and mountains of Murengapon and Kalahundi, in the district of Vizegapa. tam, the field of its operations. The Gov• ernment has offered 200 piasters for its destruction. Lost year the man-eater swallowed 52 men, and this year, from the let the 20th of January, it had eaten six. It is absolutely without fear and does not hesitate to attack a group of four or five men. It will select the individual moat to its taste and coolly walk off ,with him. The natives of the locality are ara• lyzed with fear. At the sight of the tiger they become incapable of action. Here iaone example of the ferocious an- daoity of this animal, which ocourred the beginning of this year : A mother and her danghter were warming themselves by tbe fire in their but. The door was closed and bolted. Without an instant's warning the door was smashed in, the man-eater leaped into the hut, seized the beautifnl young girl and walked off with her. How is This, Icemen ? " Waiter, bring me a bowl of cracked ice." "Yee, sir. Norwegian or American?" " What's thadifference?" " Tbe imported will cost you ten cents, the domeetio 54." There's considerable truth in the story. The difference between imported and American ice is only in the price, after all." —New Yorle Sun. She Had a Pleasant Experience. First Miss—What a handsome mustache that gentleman has? Second Mise—Yes; but I think it must be very disagreeable to have a mustache on your lip. First Mies—It isn't, though. Second Mies—How do yon'know ? The more frequently the grace is cat the greater the tax on the land. Use plenty of manure on all land- intended for grass next season., First kill out the weeds by oulti• eating the land with a orop requiring the use of the cultivator. A meeting of the trunk line presidents was held at Pittsburg, Pa., yesterday to devise means for putting an end to rate nutting. —"The tallest school girl in the world" lives at Riednann, near Sterzing, in the Tyrol. ' She is in bar eleventh year, and is about sig feet high. --Mrs. Caroline Atherton Briggs Mason, who wrote the popular song, " Do They Mies Me at Home '" died on Saturday last in Worcester, Mass. She was born in 1823 —An exchange remarks that Oliver Wendell Holmes has takon upon himself a curious custom—that of eating dinner at noon. Curlew be hanged 1 Dinner was meant to be eaten at the noon just as muoh as breakfast was in the morning. At 3 o'clock "dinner" is just as much of a misnomer as a 2 o'olock breakfast,= -,Detroit Free Pratt. PIT COSTS A GOOD mail L. Sow Harrison Is Rept Out of the ,Poor House. A glance through the pending Sundry Civil Bill, supplemented by the regular Legislative and Executive Appropriation. Bill, discloses that Mr. Harrison is likely to be ableto make both ends meet at the close of the coming fiscal year. As a starter, he hag his salary of 550,000. There. is a further sum of 525,00Q allowed him to (pend as he sees fit in reoarpeting his rooms and making his domestic apartments comfortable in the matter of furniture. Sixteen thousand dollars or thereabouts is. set aside to pay for his gas and eleotrio lights. Three thousand dollars: is allowed him far coals. To keep his greenhouses in order so as to furnish him with buttonhole bouquets and flowers to present to his friends 57,000 is appropriated. A thousand dollars is allotted him for his front garden, and 55,000 for his 'back garden. If his kitoben pipes should happen to burst in the winter there is a 52,500 plumbore' bill for him to draw upon. He has no servants to provide except a nook and eonllione and chambermaids. Congress furnishes him with a steward and everything else in the servant line at a cost of about 515,000. He has not even to provide matches. The appropriation} for fuel and ligbta distinctly specifies that it shall include matohee. He has to buy his butcher's meat and groceries and his wine, however, when he gives a dinner party. Pretty nearly all else is given him, and lest there should be some- thing overlooked a contingent fund of 58,000, which he ie at liberty to spend as he thinks proper, rendering no account to any- body, is added as a cap sheaf. The total appropriations for the domestic economy of the Executive Mansion, excluding the sal- aries of the private secretaries and clerks engaged solely on official business, foot np 5132,500. 111orrels of Gastronomy. The cost of trout is what interferes with their popularity. They have entrees in Boston hotels a la Ibsen and a la Browning. It is the fashion to have bread cut in the thinnest possible slices. In a great many hotels the printed name for colored hot water is consomme. Asparagus, according to the French, should always be eaten cold in a bath of oil. If there is one dieh more than another that will finish the appetite it is fried bananas. Pineapples are in unusually good supply and of remarkanly fine quality. There is no better way to test the fresh- ness of an egg than having it poached. An old gastronomic rule revived is serv- ing new green peas with fresh salmon. Shad stuffed and baked is very nice when properly done ; otherwise " bony trash." Too many radishes, we are told, produce palpitation of the heart. So will running for a street oar. The caterer's chicken sandwich of to -day, is a paste, as far as the fowl part goes, that snggeete a scrap -basket. Piscatorial epicures are awaiting the advance of summer to the time when mum kalonge are best to be enjoyed. Some one wisely says that shad should never be served at early breakfast for those who have to catch a train. Any and all kinds of barn in these hum• bug days is dubbed Westphalia, whether it has come over the sea or not. In Boston where a rose is known as a Jacgneminot,t.Iey give additional dignityto mock -turtle soup by palling it "artificial tortoise." There are ae good fish in market now ae ever were caught. It is the time and the hour for advocates of brain food to " go in" for it. Comical extremes in the regulation dessert at hotels is " bread pudding with champagne sauce." No wonder some diners smile. That awful period of summer when the whortleberry pie will be ripe to pick is dreaded by some for months in advance. With a groan of disappointment the average English tourist in our midst has to admit that our roast beef is the best. It is a new caprine of some of the young generation of alleged epicures to eat shad roe for breakfast with salad oil.—Hail and Express. A Cheering Motto. Peddler—Wouldn't yon like some mottoes for your home, mane ? It's very cheering for a husband to see a nice motto on the wall when he domes horde. Mrs. De Jagg—Yon might sell me one if you've got one that says, "Better Late Than Never." PROPORTIONS OF THE BODY. TV hat They Ehouid Be in Order to Be artistic. The proportions of the human body as given by the beet authorities are as fol- lows, the length of the head being the standard of measurement : From the bottom of chin to breastbone, one-half length of head. From top to bottom of breastbone or sternum, one-half length of head. From bottom of sternum to beginning of lower limbs, two lengths. From thigh to bottom of knee, two lenethe. From the bottom of the knee to the ankle, one and one-half lengths. From ankle to the ground, one-half length. Adding to these measurements one length for the head itself, gives eight lengths for the proper height of the body of men. Women aro slightly shorter, the proportion of their head to the height being about as one to seven or seven and one-half. The arm from the armpit to the elbow joint is one end one-quarter times the length of the head, from thence to the wrist one and one quarter and from the wrist to the end of the middle finger three- quarters of the length of the head. The dietanoe between the right middle finger and the same linger of the left hand is, when the arms are spread horizontally from the body, equal to the height of the figure. It follows, therefore, that the breadth of body from armpit to armpit is one and one•hal£ lengths of the head.—St Louis Post -Dispatch LEFT TO DIE ON A CROSS. A Pennsylvania Farmer Tortrres His Boy and ThreatenS to hill teesouers. A Wilkesbarre, Penn., despatch saga .. Jacob. Ackerman, ei German termer' in White Haven township, was lodged in jail the other day, charged with a heinous crime. Ackerman has the reputation among his neighbors of being a man of ungovernable temper. On Friday be told hie little son Jacob, ager eleven years, to go to the field. The lad did not go as quickly as bis father wished, Thin caused the latter to lose his temper. Ile forthwith ordered the boy to go into the cellar. The youngster delayed. The angry father fol- lowed and proceeded to rake a cross of heavy timbers. He made it in the shape of an X. After he had nailed the timbers together he lashed the boy to the back of it, tying his arms and legs. The father then went upstairs and at the point of the pistol drove everybody out at the house. He then stood guard around the premises. In one hand be had an axe and in the other a revolver. He threatened to shoot anybody who came near the dwell- ing. The agonizing cries of the boy on the cross in the cellar could be heard for some distance from the house. But there was no one at hand to give him relief. At 6 o'clock in the evening the father went to the stable. Hie daughter, who had been away on a visit, came home a little after 6. She heard feeble pries in the cellar. She found her brother almost ready to expire. The fiesh was badly torn. The boy hung for seven hours on the wooden structure. His chin found a resting plane where the timber crossed. This is the only thing that saved his life, but it made him suffer the harder. The sister took down the cruse and released the enfferer. The doctor says the boy cant not live. As soon as the news of the father's brutal work became known to the neighbors they organized and would hay lynched Ackerman had he not "made him' Belt sacrists." To escape the irate neighbors, Ackerman surrendered himself to the authorities. He was committed to jail without bail. A guard of constables pro- tected the prisoner during the hearing. At 10 years of age a boy thinks his father knows a great deal ; at 15 he knows as mnob as his father ; at 20 he knows twice as much ; at 3J he is willing to take his advice ; at 40 he begins to think his father knows something, after all ; at 50 he begins to seek his advice, and at 60—after his father is dead—he thinks he was the smartest man that ever lived.—Atchison Globe. Teacher—" If Johnny Jones has four apples and divides them with you equally, how many will yon then have 2" Tommy —" The two littlest ones." A courteous man always predisposes people in his favor ; he creates everywhere an agreeable impression ; makes people willing to servo and anxious to help him. Many a man of very ordinary mental force has achieved striking sncoess in bneinese simply beoaue° of the kindliness of his spirit and the courtesy of hie manner. Honesty and ability without courtesy lose a good deal of their effectiveness in every- day bneiness. • • Hints on Rorseshoeing. Never fit the foot to the shoe, but fit the shoe to the foot. Never put a hot elute to the hoof ; many good hoofs have been ruined by burning. Never pare the frog. Never twist off the nails ; use nippers for cutting them off. Never drive large nails. Never drive the nails too high in the wall of the hoof.. Never trim the hoof more than is neces- sary. The art of shoeing is important and sdonld be understood by the owner of the horse, Moore good hoofs have been spoiled by hot shoes than in any other way. Burning stops up the pores of the hoof wall and makes it brittle and the horse tender footed. And Then He Wouldn't Hiss Her. They were -playing kissing games. " You sbant't.kiss me," said she. " It is my right." " You insist? " " I do." " Give me, then, five minutes, I beg." " What for? " " To take ether." Some of the Colors to be Worn. These are the new colors already an nounoed for next fall : Chimay is the name for a bluish gray color with a greenish hue. Saida is a green ranging between com- mon green and olive. Potooki is a light Bordeaux red. Candole is a heliotrope leaning toward a plain lilac. Prunelle is a new shade of prune, while in amethyst we greet a new dark lilac: Chane is the name of an oak brown. With regard to red colors we may name Anemone, Orchidee and Amaranth, which are going to remain faehionablc. Blue colors will be in great favor next winter, and it is said that they will be leading. Sapphire, turquoise and bleu toile are likely to be much worn. The latest blue shade in the market, however, is called Jeanne d' Aro. It is of a light though intense hue and very becoming. Of the new gray colors are Edison, electric and chinchilla. Guerrita is the name for a green yellow, much lighter than the lightest olive. This shade will scarcely find favor, as it is not pretty. Grand moyal or fin do siecl°, as it is called, is a reddish lilac, and indio, a new bluish green of an elegant hue. Stanley is the name for a reddish blue, whish is alreedy now greatlyworn abroad. Cornell university has abandoned, or is about to. abandon her alleged " School of Journalism." Trying to found a school of journalism ie a good deal like founding a "school of experience." The journalist ie born, not made, and nothing but hard licks in the actual work of daily newsgathering will ever make a journalist.—Brooklyn Standard Union. Seventy houses have been destroyed by fire in Oldenburg, Germany. —Constant and persistent advertising is a sure prelude to wealth.—Stephen Girard. " The Johnstown flood is not over yet," said a drummer yesterday. "They still find •bodies. At Livermore a fisherman caught a scalp. The wife of a baronet has appeared in the Row, in the regular hoar, riding astride. Her dress was a divided skirt, rather longer than the habit now fashionable. Peter White, the fourth victim of the Colchester boiler explosion, died yesterday. Tur wheelmen of Buffalo, to the number of fifty-four, were run in by the police on Wednesday evening for violation of a city ordinance preventing them from trundling their wheels along the sidewalks. Tho wheels and wheelmen were taken to the police station and next morning some thirty of the latter were fined. They were not °barged with riding their wheels on the sidewalks but merely with pnebing them along while they themselves walked. The bicyolere protest they have as good a right to push their wheels on the sidewallte as the nurse girls have to push their peram- bulators. • Mr. Watts has jest painted from life a portrait of Lord 'Tennyson which be will give to Trinty college, Cambridge, and he will give a replica of it to the national gallery. Sir Humphrey de Trafford, near Man- chester, Eng., has perhaps the finest kennels in England. When his kennelman wants to quiet the occupant of a certain kennel he ghee to the telephone in his own room and palls that dog to order, for in every kennel is some sort 6f a telephonic appartus whioh will make his master's voice hoard by the restless doggy Chas. Keith, a Guelph express 'messen- ger, broke hie arm yesterday while ehaeing runaway dog Above the Senior Wrangler. All England, and in foot all the world, is just now talking about Philippa Fawcett, who has just scored a triumph in learning that entitles her to distinction and to the extravagant enooninms with which the press has greeted her splendid achievements. Miss Fawcett was declared to " be above the senior wrangler " by the Cambridge University, and by this fact her fame has spread throughout the earth. The event caused great excitement at Cambridge, bonfires and other illuminations shedding lustre on the occasion and lighting the young lady's friends to acte of rejoicing which took on many extravagant phases. Mise Fawcett was ahead of the senior wrangler by 13 per cent, She was better than everybody in all the papers except two. As Mr. Bennett, her chief competi- tor, is recognized as a mathematician rather above than below the average of senior wranglers, the lady's victory is one of which any woman might be proud. She wears the blne ribbon of the mathematical year at the great university of mathematics, and she wears it with a modesty that gives it new attractions. Help Wanted. Mrs. Grubbs (in the kitchen at 6 a, m.)— Dear me ! The fire is out and no wood cut ; no coal up, either. I'm not going to build it, Saints 1 Little Daughter—Yes, ma. Mrs. Grubbs—Go wake your father and tell him breakfast is ready. A Breakfast Unpleasantness. " Marriage is indeed a lottery," sighed Tomnoddy, after a tiff with hie wife. " And we both drew prizes," returned the lady. " Ah ? " said T., somewhat mollified. " Yes. Yon got a capital prize, and I took the booby:" It is Possible That He Might Not. Mamma—I wonder what we shall call the baby. Johnny—I don't think we'd better call him any of the names papa called him last night when be was orying. He mightn't like it when he growed np. Needed Encouragement. " Miss Ethel, I owe yon a present," said her timid lover. " May I ask the size of your gloves 2 " Ethel—Six is my real size, but—but my band will bear squeezing. He squeezed it then and there, the rascal; Sreenexct of the cession of Heligoland by' Great Britain to Germany the New York Herald says: " It has been the polioy of England to surround the world with island citadels, from whioh she could menace other nations. France is watched from the Jersey Islands, Italy and Greene from Malta, Turkey and Egypt from Cyprus, the Red Sea from Aden, Spain from Gibraltar and China from Hong Kong. Since 1807 England has stood peril otvio Germany at Heligoland. Bct now she takes down her flag and withdraws from the German covet." The Herald advisee the American Government to ask England, while she is in the giving humor, to with• draw her flag from Neaten and the group of islands on the southern coast of America What have our United States+ Mende to give' in exobange ? Mr. Stanley's weddingwill, according to present arrangements, ake plane at Wad. minister Abbey on July 1255. The officiating clergymen will be the Bishop of Ripon, the Master of the Temple, and ilio Dean ot Weatminater.