HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-7-31, Page 7The Joke of Long ago,
ge Stops yen on thy corner, and he gaily spins it
o'er,
412c1 YoP• Palm And lis1,012, Went, though you've
heard it all before.
Uzi remeznber every syllable, anticipate each
nausea
Ane ORR point the usual time for interruption
and applause,
'Tis to lam a thing of beauty, °Ai an everle,sting
Joy ;
Ro fluds the entertainment fraught with charms
that never cloy.
A tide of things an:gotten at ite eall begins to
flow --
Visa good old joke -that deaa old joke --that
Joke of long ago, •
TO11 have heard it in the orchard as you lolled
beneath thatrees,
Shirking algebra and Latin for the humming, of
Ton btahveellbeeeztl'
rd it at tho corner When the day's
dull labor's o'er,
The leisure -blest assembled at the village gen-
eral StOte,
'‘TliOugli each reciter altered it for for it might
grow tame
ction atannsia and faithful -
Ail! oils likes to hear laim tell it -take his time
rdlV
1mat oor62„e.,7that 'dear old joke -that
Joke of long ago,
Ikly attune.
&Cy fiddle? Well, I kind o' keep her handy, don't
you know?
'Though I ain't so much inelined to tromp the
strings and switch the bow
AS I vra.s before the timber of my elbows got so
dry,
And my fingers were more limber like and oaprieh
and spry.
Yet I oan plonk and plunk ana plink
And tune her up and play,
And just lean back and laugla and wink
At every rainy day.
111y playin's only middlin'-tunes I picked up
when a boy -
The kind o' sort o' Mifflin' that the folks call cor-
duroy;
"The Old Fat Gal” and " Ilyestraw " and " Bly
Sailor's On the Sea,"
IS the cowtillions that I saw when the chace is
left to me.
And so I plunk and plonk and plink,
And roe= up my bow,
And play the tunes that maim you think
The devil's in your toe 1
a a4 * i *
• That' how this here old fiddle's won my heart's
endurin' love I
From the strings across her middle to the
sehreochin' keys above -
From hor apern, over bridge and to the ribbon
•, round her throat,
•$beo a wooin' cooin' pigeon, siugin' "Love me"
ovary note!
And so I pat her neck, and plink
Her Strings with lovin' hands,
And, list'niuclost, I sometimes think
She kind o' understands!
-.Tames 1772,itcomb lWoy
From Night to Noon.
13ILDAD THE SHUHITE.
'How cam vile man be justified with God?
And how can he be Olean of woman born?
Behold, the very moon is dark before Rim;
'he very stars beside Him are impure I
How much more man that's but a worm, the t
feeds
And festers in the dark and Iciathsome earth?
TOIL
Man is indeed unclean and worthless; but
With joy I know that my Redeemer liveth ;
That Be shall atand at the appointed day
Upon the earth '• and that although the worms
Encompass anddestroy this body, yet
In my own living flesh I shall see God.
PAUL.
The blood of Jesus Christ, the Stin of Goa,
Doth purify His people from their sins ;
And unto them that put theirtrust in Him
There is no condemnetion, but, instead,
Acceptance, life and joy for evermore,
Procured and purchased for them oa the cross.
-W. 111.
Baby.
One little head of golden hair.
Two little cheeks so round and fair,
Two little lips with fragrant sighs,
Oe little nose and two blue eyes,
Two little hands as soft as a peach,
Two little feet with five toes each,
Two little smiles and two little tears,
Two little legs and two little ears,
Two little elbows and two little knees,
One little grunt and one little sneeze,
Ono little heart, but no little sins,
Plenty of skirts and lots of pins,
One little cloak and plenty of frocks,
One little hood and two little socks,
A big disposition to haul and to pull,
One little stomach that's never full,
One little mouth of the rose's tint,
One little bottle of peppermint,
Plenty to eat and lots to wear -
And yet this baby is as cross as a bear.
Johnnie Got it Mixed.
Mrs. De Conroy Bluff -Good gracious,
Maude, what is this I hear? Johnnie says
you told Miss Van Gilt that young Astor -
bond wee a frightful hog.
Mende -Why, Johnnie, how dare you?
What I said was, mamma, that Mr. Astor.
bond was a dreadful bore.
Johnnie -Well, I knew it was some sort
•of a pig, but couldn't quite remember.
The Penny Post in Australia.
•Victoria introduced the penny post all
-over its territory this year at a loss esti,
mated at about 280,000 per annum, and
now New South Wales is proposing to
follow eat, and the estimated loss will be
- about $60,000 to the revenue. Up to this
• year the outage over the whole colony
was 2,1, with a penny rate in Melbourne
• and Sydney only for Meal letters. --London,
- Star.
Her Last Chance.
Cross -Examining Counsel -- Isn't your
husband & bur. glar .
Witness-Y.en.
CrossExamining Counsel -And didn't
• you know he was a barglar when you
- married him?
Witness -Yes; but I was getting a little
old and I had to °home between a burglar
-mud a lawyer, so what else could I do?
To Farmers.
Don't sign any paper which a stranger
, presents, no matter what Inc says about
it, and no matter how innocent the thing
appears. It is the season when gangs of
• awindlers visit the coral distriots-glib-
tongued fellows who have ednoeted them.
eelves to lie black out of white.
The general opinion among those who
have made a study of the subject is that
the imperial Rome is bankrupt. The
municipal authorities and private
individuals, presuming too much upon the
immediate growth of the city as the capital
of Italy, have gone into extravagant enter.
priges, far beyond the normal and reason-
able needs of the municipality; for,
although Rome in the leading city of Italy,
it does not possess the trade and commerce
to put it on a per with the °spits's of
France, Amadei ancl Germany.
In the first elution for the Japanese
'House of Peers, under the neve Clonstitte
-tion, forty-foar commoners and one noble
flume been chosen to fill the forty-five
• elective !teats. The empire hes now fairly
entered upon an era ot representative
government, and the adaptability which
the people have &heady ehown to new
epolitiaal and Goebel conditione is an emnest
of still greater progress and development.
Fatmer Tillman, vsho is a candidate for
GoVernor of South Ceroline, is an enemy
of the collegon whittle he mils "dude
Alto tories.'
In a renent Mame on watery at
Chautauqua, Mrs. Brame Pt Ewing de-
clared that good find is indiepensable to
?piety.
There ie a man in Southern Illinois who
lattgbe at the ides that merri&go id a fail -
tire, He bee jutit enerried his sixth
wife. Each eucceesive spine brought
him a 'fermi 'and he id now one of the
argent land Menem in that pert a the
Onantry.
T114 GRANDEST OP EMPIRES.
What Itietoria Will Bequeath 0 Albert
Edward,
The Vott Ohenges That Bane Taken
Place Since the Coronation of the
Queen -The Prince cr. Wales' Outdid -
cations as a Ruler -Bugliali lienuallean
Tendencies.
If the etory a the projeoted abdication
by Queen Viotoria be true, the Prime a
Wales will assume a crown reprepenting a
sovereignty far exceeding in moral and,
meteriat grandeur any other empire of
anoient or modern times, These facts aeo
trete of it :
That although the most remarkable ex-
pansion of it hap taken place during the
reign of the retiring sovereign, she had so
little to do with it that elie might have
resided on another planet without lessening
the growth of the empire.
Tina the incoming sovereign will repro.
sent the first of a disappearing race -the
race of kings -will emoept his crown with
the knowledge that he must wear it no.
cording to the will of the people or lost it,
not in revolution by arms, bat by revolt!,
tion in law.
How vast the difference between the in.
eular kingdom which Victoria bequeaths
and that which she inherited! The popu-
lation of the three countries (Wales being
included in the statistics for )ingland) was
25,000,000. Toodety, despite the loss in
Ireland, the United Kingdom contains not
far from 40,000,000 people. Had a wiser
agricultural policy been pursued in Eng.
land and Sootland, anal had Ireland been
permitted to shape her own domestic
legislation, there would be added to
this total at least 12,000,000 more;
the Prime of Wales would be king for
nearly as many subjects as there are citi-
zeue m the United States, and over a
greater number then those who acknow-
ledge fealty to the Kaiser of Germany, the
Emperor of Austria,Hungary, the Repub-
lic of France, a number exceeding the cora-
blued population of Belgium the Nether-
lands, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, Pa.
tugal, Rouraania, Servia, Greece, Turkey in
Europe Sweeden and Norwey. If, how-
ever, the population of the British Empire
Inc India be added, the Prince of Wales will
Inc sovereign over a portion of the human
race only len numerous than time in
China. It is not equitable to include the
peoples of Canada or Australasia Inc Cale
enumeration, as they are certain to become
independencies as rapidly as their interests
require separation from the British crown.
If the population of the United King-
dom be less than it might have been under
more inundate laws, its wealth to.day
far exceeds that which it represented
for the young Victeria, It presents the
most striking eaonomic phenomenon a
his tory-
A. NET INCREASE 10 PROSPERITY
coincident with a decline of agriculture,
the product of human skill proving more
valuable under the social system and phy-
sical conditione of the islands than hind.
The increase in wealth, according to Mul-
hall's undisputed statistics, has exceeded
124 per cent. A great part of it is due to
the eubstitution of iron for wooden ships ;
to improvements in railroad equipment ;
to the applinetion of chemistry to textile
industry, and to the peculiar genius
of invention, espeoially in electri-
city, which has been the conspion-
ons trait of the holfeeentury of the
reign of Victoria. Within the narrow con-
fines of the islands the railroad mileagebas
increased 23 Sold since the Qaeen mounted
the throne ' • the capital invested has in-
creased 34fold. The betterment of the
housing of the people is shown in the in.
crease of dwellings in proportion to the
total of population, as well as in their im-
proved construction. The increase in
valuation of the dwellings is 30 fold, while
the increase in population has been only 42
per cent. The value of the shipping is six
times what it was when the young Queen
quarrelled -the only quarrel of moraent she
ever had -with her ministers, and tbe value
of tin merchandise of the United Kingdom
is nearly five times what it was in 1810,
When Viotoria was crowned the average
legacy left by testators was less than 5500.
To -day it exceeds 51,000.
The proportion of British wealth due to
the substitution of steam and iron for sails
and wood is shown Inc curious fads of
l3ritish shipping. At the beginning of the
Qaeen's reign the steam ratio per cent. was
only 3 of the total tonnage ; Prince Albert
finds it 54, and as a steamer makes 15 trips
in 12 months to the three trips made by a
sailing vessel, it is apparent that, Until a
new motor or new fuel shall be found, the
enpremacy of Great Britain on the see is
not to be disturbed. British commerce
showing a per capita of e90 for each in-
habitant, against $45 for the Frenchman,
$35 for the German and 525 for the Atuere
can, Prince Albert's Legislature will (lane
the fortune of one-third the trade of the
entire world. Inc textile industry the in.
crease since the beginning of the reign of
Queen Victoria has been 160 per cent.,
much of it due to maehinery, a child of
12 in an English mill tarning out in a year
enough since to clothe more than 1,000
persons.
The output of the mines of the United
Kingdom has inereand four times since
Victoria was crowned. How important a
factor machinery is in this as well as in all
other industries may be surmised from the
decrease in hand power and, horse power
compared with tbe development of eteam
power. Thirty millions of steam cost only
as muoh as one million hand power. When
Victoria began reigning,
THE HAND POWET1 TTIE ItINGDOTI
was just half the steam power. Today
the steemn power is twenty times the hand
power.
The Prince of Wales will find the bank.
ing power of the United Kingdom nearly
five times what it was when hie mether had
to consider reeources for the first war of her
reign. He will find also that wages are
higher, food better, saving bank deposits
greater, the hours of work lege, factory and
mill regulations more humane, the death
rate lower, crime decreased, paaperism
lees than when his mother succeeded
William IV,
Can his reign, be it long or short, surpass
in material advance or soientiflo splendor
that of hie predmosor ? The sot fdr the
transmission of /smile by steain win passed
Inc her coronation year., Since then her
shim; have steamed with letters for
British commerce to every quarter of the
inhabited globe. Inc the same year three
British ehips made the first passage of the
Atlantic by eteam only. The time was 15
days, To -day the Prince can owes, if he
°homes, in nix days, Soientific experiment
hap been directing its energy with a single
mind to the Olulperring of machinery, the
°loser communion of mankind and the
improvement of Comfort, so that while the
181h century, as Prof. Huxley has pointed
out, produced many great names, the
reign of Viotorie proaticed nearly every-
thing of practioal valne now in nee except,
the eafety lamp. Daring Vietoria'e reign
the "speotroseope has been produced by
which onemighteen millionth of a grain
of eodium eau be deteoted in the Moan Of a
sPirit Islam; and it give e reliable indica-
tions of the constitution of the EMU, the
fixed Stare and nebula). To the sanae reign
belong diamagnetiem, the co kation of the
mathematicel tbeory of eleotreeitg, and the
innention of atagneto-eleotrip engines. Inc
the opinion Of Huxley, the epperstus of
°learnt telegreplay devised wItnin fifty
years naakee an epoch corresponding ;a
revolution to that et the invention of gun-
powder. The combination of electrical
with meChanical centrivaneee hesproduced
,
microscopes of time while the microphone
enablee the ecieptietto hear the footfell De
fly; both are as invaluable in the edema of
artillery es in surgery or medicine. It WaS
in the yeer el the Qtmen's eoronation that
permanent piotures were first made by
ohentioel procees. Science has descended
to tlae deeps of the Fleft8 and brougbt back
accurate accounts a whet lies therm. It
has almost reached the frozen pole and
aided the geologist and biologist, who in
turn have been promoting correct study in
related brandies of investigation. It ie
fair to mann tbat any progress likely to
be accomplished within the 0003/11g fifty
years will Inc due to
THL UNPRECEDENTED ACHIEVE'MENTa
of the preview! 50. The invention of Bes-
semer eteel, lighting of cities by gas and
electricity, the application of seience to the
drainage or cities, the use of anesthetics are
among the mon remarkable facts of 'Vim
toriein reign. Surgical inventions have
reduced childbirth mortality °nee:Jain
while antieeptio treatment has brought
about an equal redaction in mortality after
amputation.
The coming King will discover that dur-
ing the reign of hie predeoessor the political
constitution of hie estate he,e been radically
altered. Hie mother' uncle was the lest
of the personal sovereigne of Great Britain.
Decade by decade the crown has withered
as an influence in legieletion and adminis
tration, and the people have become more
and more, While the reform bill which
preceded the reign of Victoria ad-
mitted the middle classes of the people
to the franchise, that of 1867 admitted half
the people without regard to class, while
at the same time it established the princi-
ple of one -men -one -vote against the previ-
ous despotiera of landlords. The legislation
of the closing reign has struck a fated blow
at caste, for men are sitting in Parliament
now who a few generations ago would not
have been deemed fit for any nee in life
higher than watering homes or digging
earth.
Already the axe has been laid at the root
of Imperial legislenive despotiszei by the
Acts creating coanty nounails and giving
local boards powers for the aesessment
and expenditure of revenue. Parliament
has surrendered its ancientnights as grudg-
ingly as the Crown abandoned its medieval
pretensions. The law of progrees will be
as inexorable with the one as it has been
with the other.
Next miter the impulse striving upward
for liberty and the bonefioent hand a
science amending to the people for their
uplifting, the England of the new king
awes most to the education -new passed
during the expiring reiga. It is true that
the first grant of publio money for primary
education was made four years before the
accession of Victoria ; but it ie also true
that to the radicals is due the firm estate.
liehment of the principle that it is the duly
of the government to enable the people to
become intelligent. Although the primary
schools are still inferior, and intermediate
and higher education is still the privilege
cf only the few and the rich, the England
that Albert Edward will rule over will be
ABLE 10 BEAD HIS FIRST SPEECH
from the throne. The England of his
mother was not able to read hers. The
coming king will not find all the
facts, unhappily, ou the bettered side.
Certain problerns will confront him
which will nee er cease to irritate
until they are settled ; and as nothing
is settled until settled rightly, the
king will not find it possible to be both a
sovereign and a sportsman. Either he
must efface himeeli ae completely as his
mother has done front the Executive and
Legislature, thereby hastening the destruc-
tion of his dynasty, or he must lay aside
the follies which have thus far been the
chief occupation of his life.
He must consider early in his reign these
questions:
The payment of members of Parliament,
the last vestige of hereditary power being
involved in the right of constituencies to
send whom they elect to the Commons, and
compensate him for his time.
The separation of Churole and State in
England, Scotland and Wales.
The opening of higher and the creation
of intermediate education for all tbe
people.
The abolition of the House of Lords, or
the shearing of its privileges, so that it will
not be neceesary hereafter to resort to an
increase in its membership in order to
compel its acquiescence in the will of the
people as expressed in bills passed by the
Commons. 9
The diffaeion of home' rule throughout
England, Scotlend, Wales and Ireland.
I saw the Prince frequently in public.
His personal appearance is disappointing.
Before seeing him one's prejudices, en-
gendered by his unofficial life, lead one to
expect a premature' physical wreck, the
vieible monument of dissipation. On the
contrary, every time 1 eaw him he seemed
O well groomed gentleman, in the prime of
health and vigor, and if one werean admirer
of royalty, he woald be pronounced worthy
of homage, for he certainly bore himself, it
not as one every inch a king; at least as
one who had improved upon the figure,
aspeot and deportment of his progenitors.
He looked always like a prosperous, com-
placent and dignified banker or merchant.
Devoid of intelleotual euggestion in
countenance or carriage, he was equally
wanting in arrogance or affectation. His
eldest son generally acoompanied him on
theee 00061380/36. His small head, slim figure
and manifest dullnees of wit were in con -
idea to the energy, fore° and composure of
the Prince.
My observation and conversations in
England never enabled me to share the
sanguine predictions that England will
becotne a republic on the death of the
Queen. The aoneervative spirit of the
people is far more likely to maintain roy-
alty so long as it practices a policy of non-
interference. Should tbe Prince of Wales
prove a self-asserting ruler, republioan
impulses would undoubtedly lee quickened.
But it ought to Inc remembered that so long
as the land of the country remains in the
possession of the aristooraey, so long as its
manufacturing mita' itt conteolled by a
legislature still absolutely governed on
financial gnestiOns and social 01110S 1037 this
landed aristocracy, the croWn cannot be
reached exaept by armed revolution, which
is foreign note to the national habit of
thought. It may be doubted whether an.
other generation of Engliehmen will con.
sent to be ruled by the next Prince of
Wales. The probable course of events will
involve legialetine neodifioatiens more and
more relieving the taxpayer of royal family
burdens; and with thet political grogrees
may be centent. In Many respects the
:Englishman of to -day is free and safer Inc
his f reedora than the eixnerieen.
liffentielina
A PODIPOSITE NOvElle
Did John L, Sullivan and rile Wheeler -
Wilcox Evolve This Production ?
ellArrkli 1.
The dainty ormolu °look on the mantel
bad just ohimea eight Inc eilvery tones when
Algernon Percy de Nilleford oatne to time,
looking fresh as a daisy. Tin match was
to be to a fitiela ; for ethel Vane had tow
him it was to be their last meeting. Ethel's
father acted as time -keeper. She did not
make a move. It was evidently her twain
to wait for Algernon to force the fighting
while she played for his wind. Algernon
was foxy front the first.
" Algernon," she mid, after considerable
feinting, "1 love you. My soul throbs with
the eubtle magnetism of your presence.
Oh, love, love, bit not a horrible thing?
See how it transforms angels into
monsters and monsters into angels,
While I am with yon there is no
time, no eternity, nothing but you.
The sun shines that it may bona
upon your face. The dare glitter only that
their light may kiss the path that you are
treading, Do not turn your head away.
Do you not hear me? Cele you not feel
the blood that rushes through my hands
madly tingling to the refrain '1 love you I
I love you!' "
Algernon came up groggy.
He spoke Inc monosyllabiee, undertaking
O series of 'Alert arm blows. She made a
gallant lead, but he countered.
"Ah-I-arre-eo-poor," he said. "Were
I rich -but think of your family."
" What is wealth or position to me?" she
cried.
He reached for her with both hand for a
mad embrace. He playing for her neok,
bat she caught hina with a stunner over the
heart.
Hie breath came heavily; he was evi-
dently pretty well winded.
"Will you consent to brave the future
and be mine, in spite of my poverty and
humble position ?"
"Oh, Algernon!" she murmured.
She had knocked him clean over the
ropes.- Washington Post.
The Tipping System.
Now that the semen of summer travel
has fairly set in, attention is being again
drawn in +tome ciaartere to the increasing
prevalence of the tipping system, and to
the diffioulty travellers experience Inc get-
ting any small service performed, even by
thoee who are paid for doing it, without a
fee being extorted. Inc barber shops, at
hotel tables, in the railway dining oar, in
the sleepingmar, everywhere in fact, bask-
sheesh is demanded. The practice ie a
most pernicious one, and is fostered by the
natural disposition among raen to do as
their fellows do rather than appear excel:).
tional or mean.
Take the fees to Pullman oar porters, for
example. If the publio would only stop to
think they would very soon size the ques-
tion up. It is not the porters they are
tipping, but the immensely wealthy Pull-
man company which pays its porton in ac-
cordance with the amount of traffic on the
lines they travel, and the probable amount
of tips they will receive. It would be infin-
itely more honest for the company to add
the amount of tip to the charge for the
berth. The porters are threatening to
etrike. The regular wages they receive are
not large enough to clothe them, end they
are beginning to feel the degredation of
excepting tips The New York Telegram
truthfully says: "Tho man who gives
a, tip in a restaurant, hotel or Bleep-
ing car, really pays it to the proprietor. Inc
place of a salary the man who is tipped
mud depend on the irregular compensation
he receivee from the customers. The pro -
/Mentor or employer makes allowance for
the amount a waiter or porter will receive
from the guest and takes it out of the
man's wages to add it to his own profits."
The only manner in which the practice
can be completely remedied is for the pub •
lit; to refuse giving tips for the trifling ser-
vice rendered and for which an ample
amount has been charged on the berth
ticket. Then, if the companies would co-
operate and make it a dismissable offence
for a porter to accept a gratuity, the pram
tin woad soon be wiped out. -Brantford
Expositor.
Colors and Their Names.
Feabionable colors are always of interest
to the trade. Below we give the names of
O few of the shades most talked of around
the market at this time, together with
definitions of what they really are in plain
English Mais-A light corn yellow.
Ebenier-A shade darker than male. Ble
d'or-A. ripe wheat yellow. Toreador -
Two shades darker than ble d'or, Paille
-A light lemon color. Houton dice -
A golden yellow. Melon -An ochre
shade similar to inside of a
French melon. Vieille Paille-A faded
light straw shade. Australien-A
dulled ochre yellow. Monaco -A pinkieh
yellow, the shade of the inside of a banana.
Ciel -A pale blue. Myosotie-A shade
darker than ciel. Edison -A light electric
blue. £7iagara-About three shades darker
than Edison. Camelia -A cedarwood red.
Brasil -A rosewood red. Coquelicot-A
bright poppy red. Cardinal -A shade
darker than coquelioot. Pourpre-A shade
deeper than emdinal. Grenat-A garnet
red. Vieux -rose -A medium shade of ashes
and rose. nlarronniere-A deeper shade of
vienx-rose. Nile -A light Nile green.
Wail of the Rejected.
She (empathically) -I will never marry
you! Do I make myeelf plain?
He (cruelly) -Quite unneceseary. Nature
has done that.
Social Paatels.
Mr. Rounds -How nicely that Miss
Instyle carries her head.
Miss Dakatts-She ought to carry it
easily -it's so light.-Pucle.
New York has just finished, at a cost of
$23,000,000, an aqueduct oripable of supply
ing the future needs of the city for a proper
water supply.
George Westinghouse is having a cottage
built entirely a marble at Lenox, Mass
at a cost of 5500,000. A large marble
building will oontain the electrio light
plant.
France has over a quarter million carrier
pigeons trained for war services.
Ten million young whitefieh from the
Government fish tuttchery have been placed
Inc Lake Superior this nation, and 15,000,-
000 more are to follow. Abont 6,000,000
of the whoee &point will probably survive,
maturing in four years.
It 008t0 the Englieh Governtnent e2,962,.
000 annually to support Queen Victoria and
her iniraediate family. Whenever the
Queen vitae Balmoral Castle it takes
f6,000 to defray the railroad expenses of
the journey.
remelts typewritere ebatuid in Wathing.
ton, and find their profession very lucrative.
One of them refused a $1,200 clerkship the
other day because She could earn more with
her typewriter.
Cruety Beteetelor--Thete 1 thistle Min-
erva, the gedeletis 6f wisdom. She never
got bearded, Artful Widow -o; but
this is King Solomon, the wisest mme that
ever lined. Ile married 0 thousand timers 1
llaYintaxot voisozt,
Afore Trash Bead leurion Hot Weather
ThaIt any Other Time.
Almost everytme starting offforthe sum-
mer takes some Mein% matter, It 10 A
book can of the library, or off the book -
Omni, er bought of the by heeding bone
threuen the care. I reale nelieve there is
more trash read amoog tbe intelligent
cite* in July and Augunt than in all the
other 10 months of the year writee T. De
Witt Talmage in the Ladies' Home Journal.
Men an woraen who at bome would not be
satisfied with a book thae wee not really
seneible, I find eating on hotel piazzas, or
under the trees, reeding booed the index of
which, woula maee them blush if they knew
that you knew wbret the book was. " Ohe'
they eay, you must nave intellectual re-
creation." Yes, there is no need that
you teke along into a watering piece
Hamilton's " Metapin sin," or some
ponderous discourse on tba eternal decree,
pr Faredayes "Philosophy." `There are
many easy books that are good. You naight
as well say, "1 propme now to give a little
rut to my digestive organs, and instead of
cadet; heavy meat and vegetables, I will,
for a little while, take lighter food -a little
strychnine and a few grains of ratsbane."
Literary poison in Augast in as bad as
literary poison in December. Mark that
Do not let the vezrain of a oorrupt printing
prose jump and crawl into your Saratoga
trunk or White Mountain valise. Are there
not good books that are easy to read-booke
of entertaining travel; books of oongenial
history ; books of pure fun; books of poetry,
ringing with merry oantoe ; books of fine
engraving; books that will rest the mind ae
well as purify the heart peed elevate the
whobe life? There will not be an hour be-
tween this and the day of your death when
you cen afford to read a book lacking in
moral prineiple.
About Chloroforming.
The statement that when a handkerchief
is thrown over a man's head he imme-
diately goes into a trance in interesting a,nd
raises a curious point. There are nanny
lawyers who are wont to declare that the
evidence given from time to time at orhxd-
nal trials leaves no doubt that there exists
some drug whiten when spread upon a
cloth and placed over the nose and mouth,
immediately produces unooneciousnese.
On the other hand, chemists ;assert that
the thing is an impossibility, and that no
such compound has ever been discovered.
Chloroform and the other recognized
anaesthetics require at least three distinct
inhalations to produce the lo as of sensation
To [reconcile this conflict of testimony
seems impossible, unless, indeed, we adapt
the sensational theory that some camorra
among the criminal classes is in possession
ofja trade secret as yet unknown to science.
Probably, however, this notion is too fan-
tastic, and we should rather incline to the
supposition that tie immediate loss of con.
soiousnees is due in something comparable
to raesmerio action.- Spectator.
Future of Iron Work.
There are no deta now existing which
will enable any one to predict what will
be the size of boilers, engines, dynamos,
steamehips, bridges, cars, l000motives,
office buildings and other etructures ten
yeers hence. Everything in the engineer-
ing line seems to be changing at a
more rapid rate than at any previous
period. Certainly the limit to increase of
size does not yet appear. When the
eingle engine reached its Limit in shipbuild-
ing, the compound engine came Inc. When
shafts and sorevte seemed to LIM'S grown
as large as they could be made, twin screws
and ehafts were used, and at the same time
facilities for making edit larger shafts and
screws were perfected. So it is in every
branch of engineering; as soon as a limit
is fixed some one finds a way of overleaping
it, and the limit is placed further ahead -
Engineering and Mining Journal.
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The Dog in annaane Literature.
Every now and then we get a letter from
one of teose unfortanate people who would
be glad to have all the dogs exterminated.
To such we would say, you might as well
attempt to strike out the gospel of Si. John
from the New Testament as the songe,
stories and pictures of the dog from our
humane literature. The world has settled
that matter long ago, and through the ages
the dog will occupy a high plaoe in the
regara and affection of millions of human
beings. -Our Dumb Animals.
Itfore Intelligent Than Nen.
Bishop Spalding created a sensation at
the oomruencenaent of St. Mary'sAcademy,
at Notre Dame, last week, by his radical
declarations (radical for Bishop Spalding)
on the woman question. He said that
woman's position in all ages hear been the
position given by southern planters to their
eleven; that in this country women are
generally more intelligent than the men,
and that marriage should no more be a
woman's main thought ha life than a man's
Gentlemen's Privileges.
Servant -There's a gentleman down-
stairs, ma'am"
Mistress -Show him up to the parlor.
Servant -But he has come to clean the
ohimbly.
ltdistress-Then show him np the chim.
ney.-Chatter.
Lunge and Parry At Our B'd'g-n.
Mr. Crissoross-Paes me the butter,
please.
Miss Featherbone-With all my heart.
Mr. Orissoross-Only the butter, please.
A surprising number of business build-
ings in Chioago are built on leasehold pro.
perty. Augustin Daly has jest taken the
lease of a lot on Jaokson street for 530,000
& year, on which Inc proposes to build a
theatre.
-The matches that are made in heaven
are safety matches.
The Silver Bill passed ite final stage Inc
Congrees on Saturday.
Overhead electric wirea should never,
says Herr Siemens, have more than 500
volts pressure; underground conductors,
with transformed!, no more than 2,000 volts.
The transformers and condruitors should,
however, be tested up to 5,000 volts.
-It's the small boy who is " in the
swim " jut now.
sum'. IN UOT WEATIOn4a.
Itss atreet et/Ivo:lance and the WaV
Get
One maim, no doubt, why 00 many
peenle become " Oiled down" in health
dining hot weather is that they do not
exercise care to get their lectionary amount
Of deep.
At the very time when the demande
npon the encluranoe are greeter than at
any period of the year, they devote fewer
hours to recuperating their bodies in
nature's peeled way than at times When
the demand upon the physical resoueoes in
only normal.
Of course it is to be remembered that
Ibis is the eeason when there is Om greateet
temptetion to neglect the good old raaxim.
of "Early to bed." At no other time of
year is a bed -room less inviting than novee
when, ea/noisily 11 11 is near the reef, as
bed-rooras atm are, its air will be hot
and etagnant until. °banged by the evening
breezes from the lake.
At no other seem are the temptations
to sit out on the front piazza so great as
now. This latter practice is one
of the pleasantest of those which °harem-
terize American informal eotial life and
need not be entirely sacrificed. But te
devote to it hours which should be paned
Inc sleep is to shorten life and one can be
of very little use to society after he is dead
-or to hiraself either so far as the matters
as this mundane sphere are concerned.
As the comic Irishman in the rhyme
puts it:
What's the world to a man when his wife iS
widdy ?
The young oan attend even lees than the
old the drain on their vitality caused. by
insufficient repose. The growing time of
life, the time when body and mind 11nO he
the developmental stage ie a time when..
nutrition and conservaiiem are impera-
tively necessary. So let the young follre
as well as the old folk, see to it these
summer evenings that they get to bed
betimes.
These who find it difficult to sleep oza
account of the heat oan readily circumvent
old Sol by taking a bath. If it is only is -
hasty sponge bath it will do wonders us
cooling the body, softening and freshening
the skin, and preparing the system for the
ready enjoyment of " tired nature's sweet
reetorer."
Awakening from such a eleep as it is
possible to secure even in warm rooms
through which there is a draft of air, one
is refreshed and ntted to cope to much
better advantage with the hottest of
weather than the tired and jaded beings
who have tried' to get along without duly
availing themselves of the only recupera-
tive process which is at everybody'e com-
mand. -Evening Wisconsin.
Popula rTheories fday Be Exploded.
We should not be surprised if the labors
of the Prieon Reform Commission exploded
a few popular theories. Cbief McKinnon,
of Hamilton, and several other goot
authorities are of the opinion that the pre-
vailing idea that jails are schools for aims
is mainly fiction. They hold that crim-
inals are made outside and that want of
classification is not a main factor Inc amus-
ing orime. Perhaps the overcrowded
Toronto jail is an exception. There is also«
O prevailing impression that boys are
injured by coming in contact with men, irt
jail yards and corridors. Some of the ex-
perts say it is the other way. The boys are
often worse than the men. The governor
of the Hamilton jail says that as a rule the
boys under his sire nee language that the
men would not tin. The revelation is a end
one, but no doubt there is muoh truth init.
There are several other points on which
the public hold views that may be shown.
to have litt/e or no foundation in fact.
What is wanted is the truth, and let ns
have that no matter how many popular
theories have to go by the board. -Canada
Presbyterian,
Dentists' Ethics,
The Ontario Dental Society has adopted
the following code of ethics with reference
to advertising, the following being deemed
unprofessional:
Handbills or circulars distributed on the
streets or through newspapers.-
Advertisements in the newspapers offering te
do dental work at certain prices.
Advertising as the only dentist using certaire
process or processes either in operative or pros-
thetic dentistry.
Advertising to extract teeth free on certain
dates.
Advertising by the use of photographs, litho-
graphs or engravings made from steel, wood or
other material.
Advertising by the use of show cases pieced,
at office dooror 'window, or exhibited at public
fairs, or in any public place displaying speck
mens.
Advertising as being superior to an other
dentists.
Advertising to do work at reducedrates.
Rosettes of different colors, of narrow
elvet ribbon, are the only stylish trimming
on some of the bonnets, with crape or tulle
rosettes of different colors decorate large
hats.
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