The Exeter Advocate, 1890-8-14, Page 31:1i0 Rear Window.
Through my open roar -room caSement, late ba
the af terneon,
Float culinary scents in on the balmy o,ir a
etule•
Yirein half a score of kitehens the odors fresh
arise
Wreathing beef and boiling ham and sundry
kinds of pies,
And the fragrant smell of coffee salutes the
practised nose,
These are the substitutes; or the clover and the
rose.
Across the backlo,rde, in i house got very far
A maAalitaY4t, sujai but. tiVeiePs a Ilia" tri" to
play.
17rom, elsewhere comes a 'banjo's "plunk.'
Another house within
A youth in emulation scrapes upon a violin.
And in the gentral chorus a parrot's laugh is
beard; ,
.Thase are some town equivalents for songs , of
brook and bird.
Here and there on window ledges are flower pots
arrayed;
With them often siphon and darker bottles are
displayed,
Sometimes brown paper parcels and tin cans
their presence lend,
And the beauthul and useful harmoniously
blend.
yen chamber flits a figere with hair of golden
brown.
Her cool and sylph -like-- ; but a white arm
jerks the curtain down.
'Upon the fence -top softly treads a calra and blase
cat,
And in the yard below a pup indignant yelps
thereat;
Thus the eyes and care and noses of Boma who
are restrained
From going to the woods and fields are daily en-
tertained.
With all these things and red brick walls one's
spirit can commune
iffere at my back -room window in this blessed
month 01 Juno,
The Old Folk's Longing.
Don't go to the theatre, lecture or ball,
But stay in your room to -night ;
Deny yourseli to the friends that call,
And a good long letter write—
'Write to tho cad old folks at home,
Who it, when the day is done,
'With folded bands and downcast eyes,
And think of the absent one.
Don't selfishly scribble,' Excuse' my haste,
I've scarcely the time to write,"
Lest their broodieg thoughts go wandering back
To many a by-gono night,
When they lost their needed sleep and rest,
dad every breath was a prayer
That God would leave their little babe
To their tender love and tiara.
!Don't let them feel that you've no more need
Of their love and counsel wise,
For the heart grows strongly sensitive
When age has dimmed the oyes.
It might be well to let them believe
'You never forgot them quite—
'That you deem it a pleasure whsn far away
Long letterahome to write.
Don't think that the young and giddy friends
Who make your pastime gay,
Have half the anxious thoughts for you
Tbat the old folks have to -day.
The duty of writing do not put off;
Let sleep or pleasure wait,
Lest the letter for which they waited and longed
Be a day or an hour too lace.
For the sad old folks at home,
With locks fast turning white,
Axe longing to hear of the absent one,
Bo write them a letter to -night.
Fly Time,
Man.
When we have reached again the days
Of torrid rays,
The man who says.there are no flies
Upon him, lies.
I1,
Beast.
The cow who whisks her supple tail
While cropping herbage on the lea,
Thinks as she sniffs the scented gale,
lavish them were no flies on me.
Tar,
ilftnister,
When Sol throws out his searching flames
In brassy cities,
'Tis thou the minister exclaims :
Confound those flies!
rv.
Layman.
'When Sol pours down his burning rays
From cloudless shies,
'Tits then the at-gry layman says:
— — those ilies
FOR 'THE COMPLEXION.
it May be 1Preserved If These Precautions
are Observed.
If you want to know how to meke the
'mut of your complexion follow these
roles] :
Don't use a coarse towel unless you have
Eo cest-iron jaw,
Don't be afraid of a steam or hot bath
just before retiring.
Don't use a eponge or linen washmag in
the berth ; flannel is best; and never wash
immediately after coming out of the cold
air or hot Bun.
Don't try lotions that you read or hear
about on the face ; if you must experi-
ment study the effect on your arm or
knee.
Don't be -rash enough to use any cos-
metic containing white lead or arsenic
=lees you are anxious to diefiguro your -
et elf.
Don't try to do without a cake of white
inutile soap, a bottle of glycerine or cold
oreem, a box of borax or spirits of
ammonia to soften the water and a bottle
benzene for the weekly cleansing.
Don't meddle with wrinkles, for they
are as inevitable as gray bair or old age.
Don't forget that sea sir is a natural re-
utorative, and that whatever tones up the
system will beautify the complexion ; hence
the value of wholuome, simple food, good
hours and temperance,
Magnificence in Railway Building.
"But while in Mexico on my huff trip,"
says a correspondent of the St. Louis
Globe -Democrat, "I had my breath taken
away when I saw what I guess is the most
magnificently constructed railroad in the
-world. I refer to the Mexican Gulf road,
where ties are made out of the finest
asarehogany and bridges built of marble.
The waste seems criminal, but the builders
are actuated by motives of economy, as
they find the mahogany and marble along
the track side.
THU senevOLLETE IN' MODERN' Ietergt
Of Course He Was Sure.
Stranger—I beg your pardon, sir.
Citizen—Well?
Stranger—I am looking for a tenement
in this luality, sir, and I want to ask you
in confidence if you think that house yon-
der is situated perfutly healthy as to
drainage, etc.?
Citizen—Yes sir, it is. I am euro of it.
Strange—Why are you so positive?
Citizen—Because I am the owner of that
tenement house.
A lievereArreignment of the now Nceeted
Dress.
In the OUrrent number of the " Forum,"
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Author of The
Gates Ajar," asks the questiou Hes the
;Jose of personal modesty keep 13tme with
the progress of the age ?" And her aneWer
is au emphatic negative. The indelicadee
of the stage, the license of the ball.roont,
tho freedeme of flirtation, the civilized
savagery of•the surf.bather, the increasing
oule of the nude in art, ane of the "
tio " in literature ; ell these and more are
adduced in evidence that ' the Araericau
woman of to -day has retroverted to a
ruder and earlier state of development.
Ples the writer, any suggestions to offer,
any plan to propose whereby the instinct of
feminine modesty may be nerved to keee
stroke with the moral development of the
age? She has, She oforoes, hovaever,
her plea for a revival of modesty by ince
fives that, we fear, peewee but little motive
power. She appeals to the pride of both
some. Civilization, she says, implies a
high degree of delicacy; lade of delicacy
betokens the savage. Convince the woman
who exhibits herself for promiscuous surf -
bathing, before a thousand spectators, in a
bathing coetume whioh stops—where it
does; convince the half -nude woman
that she is not a lady, but a
savage; melte it fashionable to be decent
and the day is won. CM:wince the
writer of indelicate literature that he is
not an artist but a savage, and he will burn
bis manuscripts and discover a new
literary fashion. It is to women, however,
and to women "in society " that the bulk
of the ertiole is addressed. Mother e !should
keep their daughters under stricter aur.
veiiianoe ; they simeld know exactly, by
questioning them, if necessary, what they
are thinking, reading, cloieg. Women
should have nothing to do with assoda.
tions for the advancement at moral purity
which questions of delicacy tie° allowed to
be discussed in public). Much mischief
is wrotight by relaxing the strict rule of
reserve in speeds. " In the conecientions
treatment of ti Subject like this, it is a
question whether one should omit a matter
so hard to dismiss that only the urgency of
the case could induce my pen to meddle
with it. I refer to the injury wrought
upon the delicacy of our women by the
fashion of resorting to physicians of the
opposite sex in oases when any sensitive
woman would seek a woman's care if it
could he had for the praying or the paying.
Far from this pen be any flippant flying at
the honor, the uprightness, the deliceoy
of honorable and pure•minded physi-
cians who happen to be men. But, for
young women who prefer attendance which
is abhorrent to nature, to that which the
progress of soience has made Traatice,ble
from woman to woman—for girls to choose
the one when they oan command the other
—there is no condeametion too severe. For
mothers who encourage them, whet is to be
said ?" The writer holds very decided
views with regard to the " styles of undress
which now disgrace our sex." "11 is a
fact, that decent women have never al essed
so indecently in our country and our cen-
tury as they do in fashionable life to -day.
" What is the evening dress of a
fashionable woman but a burlesque on
civilization? It exposes the body with an
indifference which nothing seems to abash.
The reproofs of the pulpit, the complaints
of the press, the denunciations of modest
members of our own sex, flit over these
bared bosom e like the feathered tips of
their own fans. The inipression goes no
deeper. " Face the truth. An immodest
dress does not cover a modest woman. If
your costume is coarse and vulgar, you oan
blame no voice or pen which calls you
coarse and vulgar too. If the dross is dis-
graceful the wearer is disgraced. The
woman who dresses indecently—never mind
who, never mind where, never mind why—
is indecent. The woman who dresees with-
out shame is shameless. " By their robes
ye shall know them."
Gold bracelets made of satin gold and
fastened with small padlocks are very frith-
ionable and egnally expensive.
1, Mr. Brinting," safe the doctor, after an
:examination, "1 fear your wife's mind is
gone." "That dosen't surprise me," re-
plied the poor man ; "she has been giving
Zn e a piece of it every day for Eleven years."
—In some cities boys buy beau washers
ett the hardware stores for ten cents a
dozen, and find that they operate the
mickelein.the-slot niaohines as well as a five
oent piece. Others work the name racket
with buckshot flattened out by the passage
over it of the street ear wheels. The slot
machine men don't enjoy the fun a bit.
--Toronto stenographers ere talking of
organizmg into a chartered Emulation.
The newest thing in glue is snout ghee.
It is tinted with all the htlee of the isettin
imint
Cap ltal and Labor.
The Boston Typoeraphical Union is
striving for the Saturd'ay half.holiday and
is at war with the Rand -Avery Company,
who reply that they will not have their
business interfered with by " those who,
" neither pay the company's employees'
" wages nor assume its liabilities." The
printers reply : As to this, there are differ-
ent opinions arising and growing every day.
In fact, there are those who Coldly assert
that no one man employs another—that in
our complex industrial conditions the pro•
ducer and consumer are more dependent
npon each other than in the primeval
stages ; but at the present day those who
have the managing of affairs display a
disposition to resonate a patronizing air and
arrogantly assert tbemselves as the mind,
soul ana body of production. This phen-
omenon has, no doubt, grown out of the
mistaken view that wages are drawn from
capital. On this point an eminent writer
has this to say : "11 is from the product
of labor, not from the advances of cape.
tal, that wages come. Labor always pre-
cedes wages. * * Paid by the day,
week .or month, or by the piece, the pay.
went of wages by an employer always Inv
plies the previous rendering of labor.
* As the laborer who works for an
employer due not get his wages until he
has pexformed the work, his case is similar
to that of the depositor in a bank who clan -
not draw money out until babas put money
n. * * * The value of the partly com-
pleted works stands in place of the value
paid out in wages. During the time the
laborer works for the employer he is ad-
vancing capital to the employer, but at no
time, unless wages are paid before the work
is done, does the employer advance capital
to the laborer. * * * The disaster
which prevents the employer from reaping
benefit also prevents him from paying
wages."
011111tOR VS. E0 Oar.
Secret Semiotics Said to be lecrionely
Affecting Church Work.
What shall be the attitude of the cheroh
toward the euret ordere wb ion have multi-
plied so rapidly throughout the country
during the last few years? With many of
our churches tao problem is more eerions or
beset with greater complications. The
problem would be simplified somewhat if
these organizations were made up entirely
of men who have professed no alliance to
the 'church; but the place whit% the lodge
holds in the affeotions of many a (tura;
member is what gives Hee to greae anxiety.
Sad though the confusion is, it ;smelt be
acknowledged that some men whose names
are on the ohuroh roll habitually give pre-
cedence to the secret aooiety over the
thumb. If the meetings oonflion the erne
medal competitor fer their presence is the
former. Theyhave no time to ;mare for
the great religious gatherings, like those at
Saratoga, but they will go a long distance
to be present at a conolave of tlaeir fra-
ternity.
At the last meeting of the Vermont Con.
gregetionalists at Rutlend, the subject
aroused the liveliest discussion of the whole
session. Resolutions mildly deprecating
the absorption of some Christians in snob
interests were set on ono side, because a
few thought that the formal protest woul
be considered a declaration of war, and
would embarrass them in their efforta to
counteract the baneful influences of these
societies. Yet not a man win) spoke failed
to admit that Christian concerns in his
own community were sufferiug on acuount
of them. Several who live in towns of
only a few thousend inhabitants reported
from twenty to forty thriving orders. We
believe that Vermont is not exceptional in
this respect. The lodge—using the term
to include the meetings of the Imre
ous secret orders—will be found strongly
entrenched all through the country,
growing in numbers and power, and every.
where detaching the devotion of Christian
men from the church, and too often, we
fear, from the straightforward service of
their Master. Recent figures, carefully
compiled, show that Boston leas 243
()hurdles to 599 lodges ; Brooklyn, 355
churches to 695 lodges; Washington, 181
churches to 316 lodges ; Chicago, 384
churches to 1,088 lodges, and the semis pro.
portion obtains in other cities.
The fact that some of these orders
employ a chaplain and have an ornate
ritual, that they conduct religions services
and preside over funerale, due not make
them religious, least of all Christian, and he
who finds his religion and his Christianity
at a lodge room and never feels the need
of a church is woefully detective in his
idea of what religion and whet Christianity
are.—The Congregationalist.
It Did not Match.
Grocer—I'll sell you that melon for 15
cent s.
Customer —That melon doesn't suit me.
Grocer—What's the trouble with it ?
Customer—It's green and I'm not.
'—Yankee bank president (to cashier in
jail)—Why didn't you go lo Canada ?
Cashier (haughtily)—Because I've got some
pride abont me and I didn't want to go up
there with only 425,000 and live on a back
street in a strange city.
Narrow ribbons of fine quality are now
used to finish the bodicee of dresses at the
back rather than the wide sash which has
been so long favored.
There is a new and ingenious device for
keeping oysters good in tho shell for several
weeks after they have been taken from the
water. The edges of the ebells are dipped
into plaster of Paris naixed with certain
chemicals that make it harden quickly. In
a few minutes this oyster ie hermetically
sealed.
Holyrood Palace shows need of repair in
many places, and Anyone wbo has recently
been there will admit eieme of the ancient
guides have seen their beat day.
—Mrs. Theodore Tilton is a had and
lonely woman, With silver.streelsed hair, a
careworn face and stooped figure. She
frequents Lincoln Park in Chicago With
her gtendehildrext.
GRAY'S ELEGY.
How it Was Written and How it Got Into
Print.
Thomas Gray, the poet, died July 30113,
1771. As every one at all acquained with
English literature knows hie most famous
poem is the "Elegy." For some time after
it Was written Gray showed it around
among his friends, but seems to have had
no thought of publishing it. He allowed
copies of it in mannsoript to circulate, and
a copy fell into the hands of the editor of
"The Magazine of Magazines," who at
once informed the poet that he meant to
print it. This left Gray no alternative but
to have it printed himself. So he wrote to
Horace Walpole, giving directions to that
end. '11 have but one bad way lefliee'—lie
said in his letter, " to escape the honor
they would inflict upon me; and therefore
am obliged to desire you would meke
Dodsley print it immediately from your
copy, but without my name." Walpole
did as he was aeked, but the editor came
out ahead after all. The poem first ap.
peered in print in his magazine, and the
author's name was boldly given. A few
days afterward Dodsley's edition appeared
in quarto, anonymously, with "An Elegy
Wrote in a Country Churchyard" for its
title. The original manuscript of the poem
is still in existence. It is written on four
sides of a doubled half.sheet of yellow fool-
scap, in a neat, legible hand, with a crow -
quill.
A Melancholy Joke.
A prominent lawyer in this city had a
client the other day who related a story
which shows that the watermelon may
accomplish great damage when used as a
weapon under certain oircumstancee. The
lawyer's client is a conductor on a Central
Railroad freight train. •A few days ago, as
the train was going up the road at a speed
of twenty miles an hour, the conductor
was standing in the top of his caboose look-
ing ahead out of the window, with his head
resting on his arm. The train ruehed by a
small station were a lot of watermelons
were being loaded into some oars. As the
freight train paned one of the hands en-
gaged in loading, in a spirit of fun, pitched
one of the melonat the conduotor's head
in the window in the caboose. His aim
was well taken, and the consequences were
disastrous. The melon struck the con-
ductor squarely on the face and arm,
knocking out three reeth, out his face open,
and almost broke his arm. The joker's
melon almost finished the conductor. The
speed at which the train was running was
responsible for the unusual force of the
blow. The conductor is now preparing to
sue the party who threw the melon. The
man who threw it says he only wanted to
treat the conductor to a melon.—Illacon (Ga.)
Telegraph.
Tory Editors in Germany, Woo?
A young woman requested Moltke and
Bismarck to write in her album. The
Marshal wrote : "Falsehood passes away
truth remains,—Von Moltke, Field Marshal."
Bismarck took the pen and added: "1
know very well that truth will prevail in
the next world; but, in the meantime, a
Field Marshal himself would be powerless
against falsehood in this world.—Von Bis-
marck, Chancellor oj the Empire."
108
ABNIAL anew ATION.
eme.
A P. 51.Y. elan Claims to Heve heaven the
Problem.
Patrick Petere, of Prime() Edward Island,
cleans to be the king of the sir, Pays the
fie John, N,B., Son's Portland, Me,, con
reepondent.
lt will be good-bye balloons after this.
Railroads will be distanced and " ooeite
greybouncle" will be eowitere to speak ef.
At last there is claimed to be a perfect fly-
ing mitelaine, or a deluded inventor. 11 he
is to be believed he ha e navigetee the air at
his own meet will and in perfeet eafety.
Loot evening at the house of Thomas
O'lloutke, 52 Pleasant etreet, a correspon-
dent had a talk with Patrick Peters, the
man who olaime to have eolved the prob.
lem of navigating the air with absolute
sef ety, and at a rate of speed to be governed
by the will of the navigator.
Mr. Petero is 23 years old, it farmer, and
who has seen but little of the world, and is
not cpaite at home among strangers. He
has a good, honest team tied when he talks
of his great invention it lighta lap and
becomes interesting. He says that fivo
years ago he turned bus attention to the
problem he claims to have so completely
eolved. He watched the births in their
flight, and felt sure that by copying their
movements ley the great Occret. For tive
years he labored on, working to pay hie
way, but giving all the time he could to the
one great labor of his life. He made many
mistakes, and was at times depressed by
his failures, but be worked on, and at lust,
when seated M. hie final machine he felt ie
lift reeponsive to bis movements.
" can fly" lee thought, but be was too
prudent to go more than a few feet up in
the air at firet. But with more trials of
his machine his confidence increased, and
at last he allowed the machine to go high
up in the air. A forest wee jaet ahead and
he went over the tops of thegreat tree. He
thinks that he was at least 5,000 feet high.
After a flight of two ranee he thought he
would like to come down and quiokly re•
sponsive to his touch the bird, for in the
au the machine hae, he says, all the am
pearance of a big bird, descended to the
ground. His success wee complete, and
since that time he has navigated the air at
will. His seat is in the body of the "bird,"
and the witige are moved by a combination
of wheels. From the head to the tail it is
sixteen feet, from the point of one wing to
the other fourteen feet and from the body of
the 'bird" to the point of the wing three
feet.
Mr. Peters proposes to mike a public)
trial of his metobine Friday afternoon if he
can make the necessary arrangements. He
doesn't propoae to show what he can do
unless he can make something out of it.
The total weight of his machine, he says,
is ferny 38 pounds. It doesn't cost much,
and he is confident that in a little while
people will discard steamers and trains
and will fly from plan to place. He says
the motion of the wings in the air closely
resembles the fluttering of a bird's wing.
The strokes are very powerfnl and quick,
and a speed of about a mile in two minutes
is attainable without special efforts on the
part of the flyere.
Some very reliable Portland people have
full confidence in what Peters says.
---11 Oat of debt, oat of danger," is a
maxim that can be always regarded with
safety.
The German universities have been un-
usually well attended during this summer
eemester. Berlin has 4,713 regular studento
and 1,822 visiting students; Leipsio, 3,177;
Halle, 1,626; Erlangen, 1,000, Heidelberg,
Kiel, Munich and Goettingen alto have
extraordinarily full rolls. •
Memo girls vvill be interested to learn
that a French aural surgeon, Mr, Lannois,
has come to the conclusion,after examining
the eare of fourteen girls who were in the
service of the Central Telephone office at
Lyons: 1. That tho constant use of the tele.
phone seems to exert no bad effect non
sound ears, but that it is harmful for those
which are already the subject of dielease.
2. that these affectiona consist espedelly
of an impairment of heating from fatigue
of the auditory attention (buzzing, heed -
ache, vertigo, nervous excitability and
certain trensient phyeioal distnrbances)
3. that these (ideas ere often of brief aura.
tion, and disappear as the auditory appal'.
eine badmen sectudoneed to it work, and
that in all case e they cease when telephone
Work is abandoned.
COOKING A CHICKEN.
The Old Virginia. Cook 'Knows All
About It.
Honeekeepers do not always understand
that a chicken, after the animal heat leaves
the body, is not fit for food in less than 24
hours. During this time the muscles are
stiffened by the rigor that 'succeeds directly
after the departure of animal heat in all
animals, and are tougher than they are at
any time previous. In Virginia and many
parts of the South, cooks kill and dress
poultry with great rapidity, and plunge the
pieces of chicken wbile they are still warm
with animal heat into the frying kettle.
This secures the tendex, succulent dishes
of fried chicken which are justly the pride
of the old Virginia cook. There is some.
thing repuleive to the Northern housewife
in serving up a fowl that was perhaps
few moments before strutting about, the
pride of the yard. An equally good and
tender dish of chicken may be attained by
keeping the fowl till the muscles relax, and
it is in prime condition for food. In fact,
only by the rapid process of frying can a
chicken be cooked done before the muscles
stiffen. ThiS the Southern cook knows.—
New York Tribune.
it FRUGAL PAESOli.
lie Eats Out One Moal OnO77 And Thee:Yee
On Xt.
Over thirty yeare ago Rey. John Eberly,
a well kuowie mitaster of Pottetown,
Peneolvania, offering from dyspepsia,
continuoue headaches and nervieus dis-
orders, conceived the idea that if he eboulil
eat but one meal a citty.he might (saved,.
erica some relief. Se tried the experiment
and inane that it worked like it charm.
Ens former health promply returned, and
he has followed the plan of but eating once
it day ever eines. He celebrated his 67th
birthday annivereary hot Saterday, and if
ever there was a petfectly sound, hale and
heelthy old gentleman, he is one, says
letter from that place. He is tall and thin
BS A rail, but he says he feels so light tlaat
he could almost tread on air. He now
eats his daily meal in the evening. When
he first started the system he partook of a
onbetantial dinner in the middle of the day.
He has found, however, after long prac-
tice, that taking the meal in the evening is
more beneficial to him. On arising in the
morning he drinks it glees of and water
and goes immediately about his round of
duties. He is very energetic, and is con-
tinually at work from morning until night.
He saves about two hours in every twenty -
our in the amount of time which other
old gentlernea ooneume with breakfast and
dinner and their after dinner smoke. He
is utmesuming end makes no pretensions to
originality for hie dietary system.
Sex in Plants.
At a recent meeting of the Academy of
Natural Sciences Mr. Thomas Meehan re-
counted observations recently made by him
on a dwarf horse-chestnut—resculias
rnacrostachya—growing on his lawn, to
determine the proportion of male and
temale flowers. By proportionate mem.
urement heestimated that there were
about forty.four thousand flowers on the
tree, the female blossoms being less than
one-fifth of the whole number. In con-
firmation of this theory that the production
of female flowers is in direct ratio to the
nutrition of the plant he observed that, on
those branches the growth of which was in
any way interfered with, either by
orowding or undue shading, the blooms
were all males. The great preponderance
of the latter explained the fact that the
production of seeds by euch a tree is wary
small as compared to the number of blos-
soms. The growth is rhythmic rather
than continuous, tho organs of the flowers
an early period of their growth being in
such a state of development that either the
anthers or the premium may determine
the sex subsequently.—Phitadelphia Ledger.
RUNNING A CITY.
During the hint half century great Ina.
provementa heve taken place in the man-
agement of . the large cities of Great
Britain. Sanitary arrangements have been
made so thorough and complete that,
despite the congested condition of many
districts and the abject- poverty to be found
there, the death reties have been reduced in
a most gratifying degree, and the average
life of the population measurably increased.
Sewege and water systems which are the
admiration of the world hetet been intro.
dresed, street cleaning and scavenging have
been reduced to u, science'and street rail-
ways are run, public baths maintained, and
even workingmen's houses built by the
municipal authorities. Glasgow is popu-
larly supposed to be the best governed city
in Europe, if not in the world, and from
the report of United States Consul Sher-
man Liverpool is a city whose ',Misers are
also carefully administered. Aocording to
Consul Sherman'e report to the State
Department, Liverpool hes an area of 5,210
sores, with a population close upon 600,000,
or 115 people to the acre, the .not densely
populated oily in great Britain. The
street pavements cover 250 miles, and aro
claimed to be the best in the world. The
paving and sewering are done by the
corporation with great care and with
conaidetations of close economy. In 1870,
with 226 miles, of etreets, tbe expenditure
for rumen was e136,080. In 1889, with 254
miles, the expenditure was $10,824. Per-
mission is never given to private com-
panies or persons to cut through the pave-
ment in any Street for any purpose. When
such work is necessary the corporation will
do it in its own thorough way, and the
interented parties must pay the entire cost
—a regulation worth noting, especially in
contrast with the incessant upheavals in
Canadien cities. The street railways are
_laid and owned and kept in order by the
corporation, and the companies using them
pay 10 per cent. on their cost to the city.
The city engineer decleres that the raits,
as hid in Liverpool, " do not form the
slightest impediment, even to the nar-
rowest -wheeled vehicles." The sewers laid
ia the laet 17 years have cost 51,703,000,
and have brought about a sanitary condi-
tion such that the death rate has dropped
from 27.2 in 1880 to 20.3 in 1888. House
drainage is carefully provided for, and
main sewers, not self -cleansing, are period-
ically fluetied by large movable tanks
placed over a man -hole. These tanks man
tain 1,800 gallons of water, and can be
discharged in 28 seconds. The cost of tlais
work is about $6,000 per annum. The
Liverpool corporation has cleared away
great masses of buildings and reconstructed
houses for artisans. These houses are fitted
with the latest improvements and are
rented at 24 cents per month for eacla room.
One of these buildings on Victoria Square
contains 611 rooms and covers 3,924 super-
ficial yards, besides 5,271 in approaches
and the quadrangle. The structure is five
storiee high, end,cost, with land, $350,000.
The return in rental is estimetted at 4e• per
cent. after all expenses are deducted, and,
with a balanee " which, if capitalized on a
3e, per cent baeis, will represent the full
market value of the site.' The corpora.
tion, in doing this work, have done some-
thing not exactly within the understood
limitations of our municipal corporations,
but they declare their object not so much
" to cover the space with buildings, but to
erect buildings of the best class for their
purpose arid of the highest sanitary stand-
ard, thus effording an example to be fol.
lowed in the future by private enterprise,
while at the same time providing a large
unbuilt -upon space in a densely populated
district."
Don't sign.
Don't sign any paper for anyone except
those with ahem you are acquainted and
know to be honest. A new swindle is be.
ing carried on in Connecticut by means of
a double fountain pen, one end of which is
filled with good substantial ink, tho other
with ink that fades away in a day or two.
The sharper writes hie agreement, contract
or whatever particular lay he may have
chosen, with the ink that fades, and hie
victim signs with the other end of the pen
in the ink that lasts. In a few days he
hae aslip of paper with nothing on it but
a good sIgnature, over which he writes any
sort of a note that he can most easily turn
into cash,—Boston Herald.
Drinking Reform in Japan.
A foreign note recordthat a revolution
is taking piece in the drinking habits of
the Japanese. The rice brandy called
"saki,"which has long been their national
beverage, is being supplanted by beer
brewed after the German method. In
Osaka the number of beer saloons has in.
creased from 13 to almost GOO in the last
four years, while the number of retiorts
where " saki " is sold has fallen off. Years
ago the Jape were went to drink 130,0003000
gallons of " saki" annuelly,
How Kind the Gentler Sex Are.
Miss May Ture—Ohl Edith, dear, do
you know that Fred actually proposed to
me last evening e
Edith—just as I expeotee.
Miso M. T,—Why did you expeot it ?
E.—Why, when I refueled him last night
he said he Would go and do soniething dee.
Witte.
TUE "BLUE Les MC"
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Witt Pereonal etebertv tees leogarden 132
Early etoneelemiti
The term " blue laws" lo epplied to with
tee relate to the privete ooneeleeces Of indi-
viduals. All countriee femme:eh bad such
statutee, and the thirteen oreomee were nO
exeeption before the eevolitnoti. The code
of Connecticut is often seat a of in WS
respect. Those moat 31::11ou were of the
colony of New /levee, eblet, wal united
with the Connectiout ;mime in 1655. Beret
ie ie 1 sill copy of tho Neve Pleven lints, often
celled the eConneeticut Nee Lome" ;
The governor arid maaieteal 03, =Welled
in general numbly, !ITO tld supreme
power, nzader God, ok the etdependent
dominion.
Conspiracy against tho amen diem shallibe
punished with death.
Whoeuver seem tffeetre le a powereand
jurisdiction above and OVGI' thi,i dominion
!shall suffer death and the love of his pro.
perty.
Whosoever attempts to olanego or over -
tarn this dominion alma/ suffer death.
No one shall be a freemen'or give vote,
melees he be converted anel ti member in
full communion of one of the churcheli
allowed in thio dominion.
Each freeman shell swear by the blessed
God to bear true allegiance eo alb domin-
ion, and that Jesus is the only king.
No Qaaker or dissenter froro the estab-
lished worship of thia doinizion shall be
allowed to give a vote for the electioneof
magistrate or any officer.
No food or lodging dealt be offered a
Quaker, Ademite or other berOtl:41.
If any person shall turn Qrseker be shall
be banished, and not eulfertiet to return on
pain of death.
No Quaker priest shall ebide in this
dominion; he shall be banished, and suffer
death on return.
Priests may be:seized by anyone without
vearrant.
No one shall run on the Sabath day, or
walk in his garden, or elsewhere, except
reverently to and from mestieg.
No one shall travel, cook le:duels, make
beds, sweep house, out heir cr &aye on the
Sabbath day.
No woman shall hiss her children on:the
Sabbath day or fast day.
The Sabbath shall begin at onset on
Saturday.
To pick an ear of corn growing on a
neighbor's garden shall be deemed a theft.
A person accused of treepeus in the night
shall be judged guilty until he deer himself
by his oath.
No one shall buy or sell lene without
permission of tho selectmen.
When it appears that an ermined person
has confederates and refuses to discover
them he may be racked.
A drunkard shall have a master ap-
pointed by the selectmen, who are to
debar him the liberty et t baying., and
selling.
Whoever publishes a lie to the prejudice
of his neighbor shall be put in the stocksior
receive ten stripes.
No minister ehall keep a settee?.
Men stealers shall suffer death.
Whoever wears clothes trimmed with
gold, silver or bone lace above two shil-
lings a yard shall be presentee: by the Grand
jurors, and the selectmen shall taxi the
offender 300 pounds on his unite,
A debtor in prison, swearing he has no
estate, shall be laid out end eold, to make
satisfaction.
Whoever brings cards or aia into. this
Dominion shall pay a fine of 5 pounds.
No one shall read the conenecn prayer
book, keep Christmes or set anye'or play
on any instrument except the hum or
jew's harp.
No gospel minister shall jein people in
marriage. The magistrate only ehall join
them in marriage, as they do it with less
scandal to Christ's church.
When parents refuse their children con-
venient marriage the magietrete shall de.
termine the point.
The selectmen on finding the children
ignorant, may take them away erom tbeir
parents and put them in better hands at the
expense of their wenn].
A man who strites his wife ellen phyla
fine of 10 pounds.
A woman who strikes her heebenceit shall
be punished as the court directe.
A. wife shall be deemed gotta evidence
against her husband.
No man shall court a maid, in person or
by letter, without first obtaining consent of
her parents.
Married persons must live together or be
i
imprisoned n jail.
Every male shall have his hair cut round
according to a cap.
Boasted Her Children.
One old lady in the Kingston Penitentiary
whose name we could not learn was a cute
old character. She was sitting beside a
window that looked out upon a little lawn.
She was knitting away at a woolen atocking
end rochiug herself to e,nd fro. The metron
told us that a long time ago she roasted a
couple of her children to death, and she
would have been hanged had there not been
strong evidence showing that she suffered
temporary but very violent fits of insanity.
The woman is nova too feeble to do any-
thing but knit. She rises at sunrise and
retires at sundown, oats very little, and sits
in the same rocking -chair by the same
window every day and knits away. She
rarely speaks to anyone. She must be over
70 years old.—Toronto Telegram.
Something in It.
Brown—That's a handsome pocketbook.
Robinson—Yee, it's a birthday present
from my wife.
Brown—Did she put anything in it before
she gave it to you?
Robinson—Oh, yes, the unpaid bill for
the pooket-book was in it.
An Eye to 13usinese.
Photographer (to yonug lady) --There is
no need of telling you to look pleasant,
mime Such a face cennot be otherwise
than pleasant.
Young lady (graoionely)—I will take two
dozen, sit instead of ono dozen.
Hubert Herkomer has recently been
made n member of the toyed Art Academy
in Berlin. He receivea oue of the grand
meanie at the Berlin Art Exhibition of
1886.
An up.town man sent 25 cents to learn
how to make $50 a wesk at home working
en a capital of el, and received the follow.
ing prneted slip, "Fish for foolel, as I do."
—11 Well, of all the wart of Making It
livin'," said Jinke, 'II think litereturds
about the easiest." ‚ The etteiest ?" "Yeo.
I've wetched the fellers that do it. All
man' el got to do is to sit down tom' slide his
pen over the paper."
An Over -Doctored Nation.
There is certainly no more OUriOUS
social phenomenon than thet of the extra-
ordinary popularity of the medical calling
ha this country as a means ef securing a
livelihood. The subject is ontr thet is often
dwelt, upon, but we doubt if meey even yet
realize the grotesque mispropertion which
medicine in the United States holds 'to
other bread -winning occupations. Here
are some of the naked facts in the matter:
France has 38,000,00001 population, 11,995
doctors, while it graduates 624 medical
students in one year. Gerrne.ny has 45,-
00,000 of population, about 30,000 doctors,
and graduates 935 students itt one year.
The United States has about 60,000,000 of
population, nearly 100,000 doctors, 13,091
medical students, and greduates 3,740
students in one year. Germany, vshich has
relativelye less than half as many dootors
as Amerioa, is already groaning over its
snrplus. When one compares France with
this country the excess of men here seems
most astonishing. A comparieon of the
United States with European countriee, in
whatever way it is made, leads one to
think that there is something almosb '
morbid in our medical fecundity.—Medicae
Record.
Salaries of A el °bat s.
Clever acrobatic families receive any.
thing from $100 to e300 a week, according
to their numbers. Salaries to " speoialty",
performers—Linde as musical mimic%
jugglers, boxers, transformation and
pedestal daimon, ventriloquists end the
like—run exceedingly high, and the beat Of
these performers are paid as much as $300
a week. When variety actor; are worked
out in this part of the country they re1/4;
member the precept and go west, whore
new towne are everywhere springing np,
and where, if they are tolerably clever, they
can command big salaries.—New York
Tribune.
same Old Story.
Book-keepor—Excuse me, sir, but my
nephew died three days ago.
Employer (who ia slot/am/tat familiat
with the little game)—All right, Mr. Chile
pepper; yon natty attend the funeral. Died,
as usual, on fitst baso, I suppose.
Otto of the best things that josh Billings
ever wrote was, "When a man begins lo go
down hill all nettle; seems grossed for the
otsmaion." And thie Was written befeee
the day Of toboggan elidest too.
Switzerland has been visited by remark.
ably mere g10le andthunderstorme, which
have done a good deal of damage in the
routes usually taken by travellers.
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