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Manama That well the Extent and Value of
the Ontario Crops.
The Ontario Department of Agriculture
has Issued a bulletin dealing with crops,
live stook, etc. It is ascertained therefrom
that the area of fall wheat is 102,000 acres
Ines than last year and barley 174,000 less.
Spring wheat is greater by 203,000 acres,
peas by 73,000 and hay and clover by 70,-
1)00. The estimated yield of wheat exceeds
that of last year by 5,700,000 bushels, that
of peas by 2;500,000 bushels, beans by 470,-
000 bushels, and of hay and clover by 577,-
1000 tons, Compared, with the annual
averages of eight years past, there is a de-
crease of
e.crease.of 2;400,000 bushels in wheat, 4,000,-
000 in barley and 500,000 in oats, but an in-
crease of 3,000,000 bushels in peas, 4,000,-
1300.in beans, and 1,264,000 tone in hay and
shover. The wheat area is less than the
average of the pe et eight years by 176,000
mores, and the barley area by 71,000 while the
oafs area is greater by '269,000 acres, peas by
137,000, hay and clover by 225,000, corn by
41,000, buckwheat by 29,000, and roots by
122,000. The fall wheat through most of
Western Ontario is of good quality and
einuaually fine crop, Spring wheat will
probably be better than fair, but unsafe to
prediot certainly. Barley is light and nut
a great deal will rate first class. The oat
Meld is expected to be light to the sore.
The rye crop has given a fairly good yield
and is generally well secured. There is a
fair and uneven crop in peas. The hay
crop is magnificent, save in a very few of
the eastern counties. Corn is good in Kent
and Essex and some neighboring localities,
but not so good in the southern central
counties and the western peninsula. There
is abundance of fodder corn, particularly in
the east. The promise of the fruit crop is
'not fulfilled. Apples will be less than a
third of a crop and pears poor. Plums will
be a failure, save here and there. Grapes
promise a glorious yield in the Lake Erie
region.
Mental Hitchen Scales.
Ten common -sized eggs weigh one pound
Soft butter the size of en egg weighs one
;ounce,
One pint of coffee A Sugar weighs twelve
ounces.
One quart of sifted flour (well heaped)
one pound.
One pint of best brown sugar weighs
thirteen ounces.
Two teacups (well heaped) of coffee A
finger weigh one pound.
Two teacups (level) of granulated sugar
weigh one pound.
Two teacups of soft butter (well packed)
weigh one pound.
One and one-third pints of powdered
sugar weigh one pound.
Two tablespoons of powdered sugar or
Roar weigh one ounce.
One tablespoonful (well rounded) of soft
butter weighs one ounce.
One pint (heaped) of granulated sugar
weighs fourteen princes.
One tablespoonful (well heaped) granu-
lated, coffee A or best brown sugar, equals
MO ounce.
Four teaspoons are equal to one table-
spoon. Two and one half teacups (level)
:of the best brown sugar weigh one pound.
Miss Perim says one generous pint of
liquid, or one pint of finely -chopped meat,
packed solidly, weighs one ,pound, which
it would be very convenient to remember.
Teaspoons vary in size, and the new
ones hold about twice as much as an old-
fashioned spoon of thirty years ago. A
medium-sized teaspoon contains about a
alraohm.
Pointers on Advertising.
"By their newspapers shall ye know
them," was the very apt reply of a suceess-
3nl merchant relative to the standing and
enterprise of the business men of the com-
munity.
There is no safeguard like a local news-
paper. Nothing can do more to help keep
sip a town and help business ; and mer-
chants, above all, should give them the
preference. Yet, frequently the only return
•the papers get for their enterprise is de-
preoiation from those whom they have
benefited both directly and indirectly. As
long as this is the case newspapers will be
prone to welcome new comers in the field,
even if their visits are brief.—Printer's Ink.
This is the day of printers' ink, and the
prizes 'are for those who use it. Your
traditions and your prejudices may be to
the contrary, but the world doesn't care a
rte for them. The man who site and waits
for his trade in these days generally gets
left. Don't advertise -but if you do see
that your own local papers get none of it—
don't stand up manfully alongside of those
who are continually fighting for yours and
thetown's best interests, and there can be
brit one result -shrivelling up. Good sales-
, men, first-class articles, gilt -edge credit are
not enough. They are excellent, neces-
sary, but not enough. Printers' ink boats
them in the long. run. In the 'fierce
competitions of these days old habits and
associations simply cannot stand the
pressure. The trade is for the man who
(makes liberal use of printers' ink.—Grocery
World.
Profitable Investments.
It is not to be wondered at that people
are anxious to go into manufacturing com-
panies and that the stook of various inven-
tions is easily floated. Details come out
occasionally about some of the widely
advertised patent medicines and special
methods of making such staples as baking
powder, soap and the kitchen necessaries
which cause conservative nnveetore in real
r estate and similar things to stare in amaze-
ment. A short time ago it was revealed in
the course of a lawsuit that stook in a big
baking powder company in this city had
reached the enormous value of $4,200 a
share, the original value of such shares
being $100. Yesterday a patent -medicine
man sued bis wife, and incidentally it was
elated that forty-nine shares of the patent
medicine bad paid the enormous dividend
of $49,000 in one year. The real estate
boomers of the Western cities, when they
,glance at such investments as these, are
taciturn and crushed for hours at a time.—
,eire2v York World.
The London Hospital tells of a seamstress
who, like Hood's pathetic heroine in the
"Song of the Shirt," worked till the stare
'shone on the root. Her eyesight failed, and
the story goes on : " She saw at the same
time four hands, four needles and four
.seances. She at first treated them as an
illusion, but at the end of some days, in
consequence of weakness and prolonged
mental anxiety, she imagined that she was
really sewing four seams at once, and that
God,tonohed by her misfortune; had
worked a miracle in her favor."
Groom—A ring around the moon is the
sign of rain. Bride (sweetly)—And a ring
anemia a woman's finger is the sign of —?
Groom (redly) -Reign.
The owl, owing to its peculiar eyes, is
nearly. blind in daylight, and exhibits in
tanob olruumatances a, sort of tipsy gravity.
"' Riled" is obviously a corruption of
4' weld," and the proverb doubtless origin.
'ally read "as drank as a wild owl."bis
r ox.
1�
�e the ezplanation given by Professor
ley and supported by all our leading
Arunkarde.
TERRIBLE ll*Mr] T WITS A BEAL
A Story Which One Can Believe or Net
Just as They Ellie.
The correspondent, of the Arnprior
Chronicle at Missenabie Station, Algoma,
sends the following ; A man by the name
of John Gibeanit, employed working on
bridges for the Canadian Paoifio Railway
Company, started out after dinner to regale.
himself with a dessert of 'blueberries,'
which were growing in abundance a short
distance from the camp. After eating his
fill he started book to where the gang were
at work, and while wandering slowly along
his gaze fell upon a very large bear which
was ambling along a few paces in front of
him. Bruin was seemingly taking no
notice of John, bet he being a very brave
fellow picked up a small stone and threw
it at the animal to attract his attention,
It had the desired effect, for his bearsbip
stopped and looked up at the intruder.
John was unarmed, having nothing to de-
fend himself except a butoher knife that he
carried to eat his dinner with. He .and
Bruin stood confronting each other for
several moments, the bear seemingly being
determined to get to the oppositaside of the
track, and John being equally determined
to prevent him if possible. Bruin finally
thought he had lost too much time and
started to climb up the railway bank to
whore John was standing—between the
rails. When within a few feet, the bear
rose on its hind legs reedy4 for fight. John
grasped his knife tightly and with clenched
teeth waited for Brain to begin the battle.
The animal advanced until Gibeault could
feel hie hot breath in his face, which
made him feel very nervous. The bear
then made a sudden charge, when John
stepped quickly to one side and drove his
knife into the bowels of the bear, which
caused him to howl with rage. He turned
and seized John in his powerful jaws and
began hugging him until his ribs cracked.
John tried to free himself, and in the
struggle he got the bear down, and then
began a rough and tumble fight, during
which bear and man rolled down the bank.
At the bottom of the ditch the figlit was
renewed, and John getting the advantage
drove his knife into the animal's
bodyfa several times. The hot
blood gushed from the bear's wounds
in streams, and soon GibeauIt was covered
with gore. The bear fought with despera-
tion, and for a timeit was a difficult matter
to say which would succumb, but as the
bear was getting weak from loss of blood
his struggles grew feebler, and taking ad-
vantage of an opportune moment Gibeault
drove his knife to the hilt in the beast's
heart, giving him his quietus. John then
got up and made his way up the bank, feel-
ing proud of his work. He had a few acres
to go to where the rest of the men were
working, and on arriving there he began to
tell them of his encounter. . His comrades
only laughed at him, but John told them to
go and see for themselves. Three of them
started to the scene of the battle, and to
their surprise found that John was not
lying, for there lay the bear stretched on
the grass dead. Ahand•oar was procured
and the carcass brought to Missanabie Ste.
tion, where it was viewed by a large num-
ber of people. It was the largest bear ever
killed in this section.
Good at Guessing.
Everybody knows the Dominion Immigra-
tion Agent is good at guessing, he has to do
so much of it in connection with his depart-
ment. The Mail gives the following :
A good story is being told here by Immi-
gration Agent John Smith, which is worth
repeating. Whilst coming up in the train
some days ago with Messrs. Stiff and
Hobson, the Superintendent and Engineer
of the Grand Trunk Railway, and when
between Port Credit and Oakville, a dis-
cussion arose as to the rate of speed at
which the train was running. Each gentle-
man thought he could guess the rate of
speed more accurately than hie neighbor.
Mr. Stiff guessed twenty.five miles, Mr.
Hobson said thirty, and Mr. Smith jumped
tip to forty-two. After registering their
guesses watches were produced, and the
rate of a mile was timed between telegraph
poles. It was found that the speed was
between forty and forty-four miles an
hour. " That," said Mr. Smith, " makes
it just forty-two. " Yes," said the rail-
road experts, "-but how did you guess it
so close ?' " Because," replied the immi-
gration agent, " I have the time card in my
pocket and know just what the train has
to do here."
National Greetings.
"How is your stomach ? Have you eaten
your rice?" That's Chinese.
" Be under the guard of God." That's
the Ottoman's.
" How do you do ?" That's English and
American.
" How do yon carry yourself ?" That's
French.
" May thy shadow never grow less ?"
That's Persian. '
" Thank God, how are you ?" That's
Arabian.
" How do you find yourself ?" That's
German.
" How do you have yourself ?" That's
Polish.
" How do yon perspire 2" That's
Egyptian.
How do you live on ?" That's
Russian.
" Go with God, senor I" That's Spanish.
" How do you stand ?" That's Italian.
" How do you fare ?" That's Dutch.
" How can you?" That's Swedish.
Met his Match.
A fellow thinking to appear smart,
entered a notion store on Sixth avenue the
other day and said to one of the sales-
ladies: " Have you •any call for husbands
here ?"
" O yes, occasionally. Are you looking
for a market ?"
" Yes," said Smarty.
"All right. Step right up on the 10 cent
counter."
His Lesson in Adipose.
"Mamma," said Master Henry, "how
fat Amelia has grown!"
" Yes," replied his mamma, " but don't
say ' fat,' dear, say ' stout."'
At the dinner table next day Harry was
asked if he would take any fat meat. "No,
thank you," said Harry, "I'll take some
stout."
—Love may bs blind, but he skips the
girl with the squint.
IN THE (WIDEN.
She's fairer than a lily,
And she's sweeter than a rose,
And she knocks the neighbors silly
When she wields the garden hose.
For she's always fresh and rosy,
And she seems so sweet and fair,
As she sprinkles every posy
With the most impartial care.
The neighbors' oyes all twinkle
And their interest daily grows,
For they like to soo her sprinkle,
And they like to see the hose.
—What has become Of the old-fashioned
people who, hod family prayer in the even*
ing and before breakfast.
—A woman never really learns how to
pray until she has a„man to pray for.
LITERARY COEEltIGHI\
Its Term of Existence ll'resorlbed by Law in
Various Countries.
Under the existing law of the United
States, copyright is granted for twenty-
eight years, in all, forty-two years. The
term of copyright in other countries ie as
follows
Mexico, Guatemala and Venezuela, in
perpetuity.
Columbia, author's life and 'eightyears
after.
Spain, author's life and eighty years
after. g y
Belgium, author's life and fiftyears
after. y
Bounder, author's life and fiftyyears
after.
Norway,author's life and fifty years.
after.
Peru, author's life and fifty years after.
Russia, author's life and fifty years after.
Tunis, author's life and fifty years after.
Italy, author's life and forty years after
the full term to be eighty years in any
event.
France, author's life and thirty years
after.
Germany,anthor's life and thirty years
after.
Austria, author's life and thirty years
after.
Switzerland,euthor's life and thirty years
after.
Hayti, author's life, widow's life, ohil-
dren's lives, and twenty years after the
close of the latest period.
Brazil, author's life and ten years
after.
Sweden, author's life and ten years
after.
Roumania, author's life and ten years
after.
Great Britain, author's life and seven
years after hie decease; to be forty-two
years in any event.
Bolivia, full term author's life.
Denmark and Holland, fifty years.
Japan, author's life and five years after.
South Africa ; author's life ; fifty years
in any event.
Reverence for Rascals.
The fact is that there is altogether too
much reverence for rascals and for ras-
cally methods on the part of tolerably
decent people. Rascality is picturesque,
doubtless, and in fiction it has even its
moral uses ; but in real life it should have
no toleration, and it is, as a matter of fact,
seldom accompanied by the ability that it
brags:
One proof that the smart rogue is not so
smart as he thinks and as others think is
that he so often comes to grief. He
arrives at hie successes through his knowl-
edge of the evil in men ; he comes to grief'
through his ignorance of the good
in men. He thinks he knows " human
nature," but he only half knows it.
Therefore be is constantly in danger of
making a fatal mistake. For instance, his
excuse to himself for lying and trickery is
that lying and trickery are indulged in by
others—even by some men who make a loud
boast of virtue before the world.
A little more or less lying and trickery
seems to make no difference, he assumes
especially so long as there is no public dis-
play of lies and tricks -for he understands
that there must always be a certain out.
ward propriety in order to ensure even the
inferior kind of success he is aiming at.
But having no usable conscience to guide
him he underrates the sensitiveness of other
consciences—and especially the sensitive.
noes of that vague sentiment called "public
opinion "—and he makes a miscalculation,
which, if it does not land him in the peni-
tentiary, at least makes him of no use to
his respectable allies ; therefore no use to
his semi -criminal associates ; therefore a
surprised, miserable and vindictive failure.
—Century Magazine.
Canadian Natural Gas for Buffalo.„
When is Buffalo to have Canadian
natural gas?” asked a News reporter this
morning of Secretary McManus, of the
Buffalo Natural Gas Fuel Company.
" The contract with the Ontario people
has been closed," he replied, " and just as
soon as they get it piped to Buffalo we
will be ready to distribute it.In their
own interests they will not delay' matters."
Advices from Pittsburg yesterday were
to the effect that the price of natural gas
bad been advanced 25 per cent. Mr. Mc-
Manus was asked about the advance, and
said : " The Pittsburg people have been
selling their gas at ridiculously low prices,
but I do not know that the price has been
advanced,"
" What is the price ofgas in Pitts.
burg ? "
" That 1 do not know, bat I do know
they have been selling the best fuel in the
known world in competition with the poor-
est (soft coal) at such low rates as to close
the market against the coal. Buffalo News.
Her Sunday Lover.
"Mabel," faltered the youth in the ger.
geous blazer, "I am deeply disappointed.
The partiality you have shown for my
society during the many little excursions
we have taken together and the delightful
little evening--er—lunches we have had
since the summer season began led me to
expect a different answer."
" Because I have looked upon yon as an
agreeable escort to picnics and lawn tennis
parties and for summer evening promo's.
ades you have regarded yourself as my
accepted lover, have you, George?"
And it is because I have been available
for these things," he said indignantly,
" that you have accepted my attentions, is
it 2 You regard me merely as a summer
lover, I presume ?"
" That is about the case, George," replied
the maiden, as she dug a hole in the sandy
beach with her parasol. " I have looked
upon you as a lover in a pioknickien sense
only."—Chicago Tribune.
Curious English Statistics.
In his official report just published the
chief inspector of factories gives some
curious details of the commissariat depart.
menta of some of our great trading estab-
lishments. Messrs. Shoolbred, it appears,
feed between 800 and 900 assistants and
heads of departments, who consume among
them from 4,500 to 4,800 pounds of meat a
week and 2 tons of potatoes, besides dis-
posing of 140 half.gnartern loaves every
day. The " factory hands" buy their own
food, but are provided with means of cook-
ing it. Mr. Whiteley's great industrial
town en Westbourne -grove boasts of 1,216
assistants on fall board, 425 who receive
dinner and tea, and 99 women who receive
tea only. There are at thief establishment
alone, without counting the numerous
branches,, 1,739 persons who are partially
or entirely boarded. Mr. ()erringe provides
a free tea and a room in which to prepare
the food of 160 dress and mentlemeakers.—
London Daily News.
It has been observed that the ekin of
Arctic travellers has a yellowish green
tinge after the long winter of six months,
and the effect bae been generally attributed
to, faulty eyesight. Dr. Gyllenerentz
has studied the matter, and deolares that
it is duo to changes in the pigment of the
blond.
OLDEST MAN IN GEMS BRITAIN.
Sketch of Hugh MacLeod, the widely
Known Scottish Crofter.
Hugh MaoLeod, crofter, Morefield, parish
of Loch Broom, county of Ross, Scotland,
was born in the adjoining parish of Aeeynt,
township of Elphin, Sutherlandshiro, Nov,.
24th, 1783, eo that he is now in his 107th
year. He is still " as straight as a lamp,
post," says the Pall Mall Gazette, He 'Jaya
he gets up in thesummer between 5 and
6 a.m. and goes to bed at 9 p.m. In winter
he rises at 8 e, m• and retiree at 10 p. m.
" I bad," he says, " to drop the croft, as I
could not cultivate it at last, but I still
out my own fire (pests), and I carried home
on my back a oreelful of pests (84 pounds)
yesterday." Continuing, he states; "I take
porridge and milk for breakfast, as I always
did throughout my life ; potatoes and
herrings, and fish and mutton (salt) when
I can get it." 'While in this humor he
observed that he bad grown fond of tea,
which was absolutely unknown in his
young days, and that he was very heavy on
chewing "thin twist." That extraordinary
vitality and strength are still left to him is
proved from the fact that he carries home
his turf in loads of three-quarters of a
hundredweight, a distance of nearly a mile,
one.fourth of which is up a very steep
ascent and over a stony, rugged footpath.
Like hie father, who was a weaver, he was
himself a craftsman a iso—a carpenter and
joiner, and in this capacity he went much
about the western isles, whore he heard is
great deal about British empire -making
from the months of men fresh "from the
fields of battle gory," from amidst the toils
of war, and bearing on their bodies, this
evident marks of that proud fact. So the
first seventeen years of his life, being also
the last of the last century, as well as
the most eventful period of European
history, he is a veritable walking
enoyolopeedia of historic lore. " Yon have
also met many men who had been pressed
into the navy ?" " Yes," he said, " I have.
Men who were afloat with Rodney, Duncan
and Nelson—lads of my own acquaintance.
They, or some of them, were present at St.
Vincent, Camperdown and the Nile. But
the most of people whom I met then were
those who were taken away to fill the ranks
of the 78th, 72nd and 71st Highlanders, all
from the county of Ross, to contend with
equal success against. Turk, Tartar, Hindoo,
American, Indian, or Frenchman—many
thousands of them, where not as many tens
could be got now." He has ever beena man
who pursued a transparently blameless and
honest course of life; and as a theologian,
which every Scotsman must necessarily
be, more or less, just as an Irishman
must be a politician, he has and had few
equals. That he is, and ever was, a fine
specimen of his class, clan, and race—
broad-shouldered, and six feet in his stock-
ings—goes without saying. There are
three other centenarians in the same
parish, but Hugh is the patriarch of
them all, which fact proves beyond
doubt that Loch Broom is the finest sani-
tarium in the British Isles. It is thirty
miles from a railway station.
WARMLY GREETED.
An African Baboon Welcomes a Scientist
as a Friend and Brother.
The officers of the man-of-war Pensacola,
which recently returned from South Africa
with the scientists who went to observe
the eclipse of the sun in December, take
much pleasure in recalling many of the
incidents connected with the voyage, says
the New York Tribune. One that strings
forth a laugh, even at the meet serion
moments, is an experience that Professor
Cleveland Abbe had at Barbadoee. He
went, with a number of the officers, to
visit the museum, and took copious notes
of the peculiarities of the various species of
monkeys, there, espeoially the " blue
monkey." The manager specially cautioned
him against the danger of approaching too
close to an immense baboon, because of his
" extreme playfulness" at times, but the
professor was overconsoions of his own
powers of persuasiveness, and went toward
the fellow with a cracker in his out-
stretched hand, and kindly asked :
" Tommy, want a cracker ?" The baboon
made a sudden spring, caught Professor
Abbe about the waist, and in a second
was literally wiping the floor with the
learned scientist. The manager came to
the relief of the professor, who as soon as
liberated made a hasty retreat, and did not
push the inquiry into the habits of the
baboon family any further.
A Woman Suffragist crushed.
" Is there a man in all this audience," de-
manded the female lecturer on woman's
rights, fiercely, " that has ever done any-
thing to lighten the burden resting on hie
wife's shoulders ? What do you know of
woman's work ? Is there a man here,"
she continued, folding her arms and looking
over her audience with superb scorn, "that
has ever got up in the morning, leaving his
tired, worn-out wife to enjoy her slumbers,
gone quietly down stairs, made the fire,
cooked his own breakfast, sewed the miss-
ing buttons on the children's clothes,
darned the family stockings, scoured the
pots and kettles, cleaned and filled the
lamps, swept the kitchen, and done all this,
if necessary, day after day, uncomplain-
ingly ? If there is such a man in this
audience let him rise up. I should like to
see him 1"
And away back in the -rear of the hall a
mild -looking man in spectacles, in obedi-
ence to the summons, timidly arose. Ho
was the husband of the eloquent speaker.
It was the first time he had ever had a
chance to assert himself.
They Were Safe.
" Gracious 1" exclaimed the biblical
editor of the Mail and Express, "we printed
a text yesterday that wasn't from the Bible
at all 1"
" Well," replied the city editor scorn-
fully, " do you suppose there's a soul in
New York would detect it ?"—Life.
—This is fine weather for football. Bnt
there is no use kicking.
Applicant—You advertised for a man, I
believe, sir. Merchant—Yes ; I want a
collector. "I have had a great of experience
collecting bills, sir." "If that is all I'm
afraid you won't do. It's cash I want
collected."
" Tommy, if you eat any more of that
melon you will die." "Well, mom," said
Tommy resignedly, "they say a watery
grave is an easy death."
If there is in this world a sight calcu-
lated to make a man long for a gun it is
two fathers engaged in the task of expati-
ating to each other on the merits of their
respective kids.
A girl baby was recently born in James
town whose mother is 21 years old, grand
mother 38 years, great-grandmother 53
years old and great -great grandmother 75.
years old, and but one daughter living of
each generation.
The latest bogus cheque genie was played
on an undertaker in Findlay, Ohio, by a
sharper who bought a $100 coffin for his
alleged dead mother and gave a cheque for
$192 in payment, receiving the change in
good bill!. •
TU* SEA OTTER.
Bow the Natives of the North Hill This
Valuable Fur Animal.
The spearing surround is the historio
and orthodox native System of capture, A
party. of fifteen or twenty canoes, with two
men ineach, set put in pleasant weather
and spread themselves in a long line,
slowly paddling over the waters. When
any one of them discovers an otter asleep
he makes a quiet signal by lifting his pad-
dle, then dashes his canoe toward the
animal. Of ionise the alarm is taken by
the sensitive creature, but the bunter keeps
right on and.stops hiscanoe directly over
the spot where the otter disappeared. The
other hunters instantly deploy and scatter,
forming a circle of half a mile wide round the
place, and patiently wait for the animal's
reappearance to breathe, which must take
place in fifteen or twenty minutes. As
soon as this happens the, hunter nearest to
it darts forward, while all hands shout and
throw up their spears. The animal then
dives again, without a chance to recover
itself and expel the surcharged air from its
overloaded lungs. A sentry is again placed
over this second diving spot as before, the.
circle is drawn anew, and thus the game
is kept up until the poor sea otter, from
oft -interrupted respiration, becomes so
filled with gases that he cannot sink and
forms an easy victim.
The clubbing is a gamy undertaking and
is only carried on in the winter season at
the end of some tremendous gale. Then -
the old natives set out and scud down to
the far -outlying rooks just protruding above
surf -wash, where the sea otter are lying
with their heads pushed into and under
the beds of kelp to avoid the fierce pelting
of the spray. The noise of the tempest
covers the stealthy approach of the hunt-
ers, who each armed with a short heavy
wooden club, despatch the animals one
after another without alarming the whole
body.
Hunting by the use of nets is peculiar to
the Aleuts of Athos Altoo. These people
make little nets from eixteen to eighteen
feet long and from six to ten feet wide,
with a coarse, diamond-shaped mesh. The
nets are taken out to the kelp bed and
spread carelessly here and there over a
floating mess of the "sea cabbage." After
a few days' absence the hunters return
and frequently find sea -otters entangled,
having, as they say, died of excessive
fright.
The Fashion in Flowers.
There is an increasing tendency to ar-
range distinct flowers in masses and with
their own foliage as far as possible. No
one will deny that the effect is infinitely
better than the old fashion of mixing any
number of promiscuous blossoms of differ-
ent kinds and colors. Take roses, or car-
nations, or sweet peas, or any other
brilliant flower now in bloom. Fill your
vases with one variety only, and your
dining -table or drawing -room will have a
far better effect than if you had a whole
greenhouseful of the rarest blossoms
crowded indiscriminately together. Nature
is a very true artist, and the more natur-
ally the flowers can be arranged, the better
they will look. Ferns and grasses may, of
course, be need with advantage in some
oases, but generally the foliage of the plant
itself will be' all the green necessary.—
New York Tribune.
Toe Lepers on Anticosti.
The following despatch was received
from Mgr..Bosse, from Esquimaax Point,
Que.: " Captain Marquis has jest arrived
from English Bay, Anticosti. He saw the
Guignard family, who arrived there this
spring from Shippegen, and who were
reported to be affiioted with leprosy. The
father died a natural death three weeks
after his arrival at English Bay. The
family is in excellent health, Mr. Marquis
states, but very poor. No leprosy anywhere
there. Rev. Father Thibnlot never said so,
nor authorized the use of his name. Hie
people are so poor that a part of them must
shift their quarters. It is hoped that the
Napoleon Third has received orders to take
those people and also call at Nattiahquan
in October. The above family is willing to
go elsewhere."
What the Grand Trunk is to Chicago.
It is now quite a long series of years
since the Grand Trunk became one of the
great trunk lines of this country. Although
a Canadian road originally, and still such
in the greater part of its mileage, it is a
very important part of the United States
railway system, for all practical purposes.
Ever since it reached out as far as Chicago
it bee done an immense business in sup-
plying New England with western grain
and provisions. The dressed beef business
was antagonized by the other lines for a
good while, the Grand Trunk being its
main reliance. All tide has been done
without any injustice to the railroads of
our own country.—Inter-Ocean.
Hebrew, Israelite and Jew.
Our broad national distinction gave us
the name Israelite in the time of our
ancient greatness, a greatness to which all
people may at some time in the long future
rise, and then we may again—together
with all God-fearing people—adopt the
name of Israelite. Before our ancestors
were—in a national sense—Israelites they
were Hebrews—a name which was, and is
to -day, a distinction. Nothing could be
plainer to us. Hebrew refers to the race.
Israelite refers to the nation, Jew to the
religion.—Hebrew Journal.
Hope for Graduates,
Business Man (to applicant for position)
Your references as to character are very
good, sir, and although you have no ex-
perience I will try you.
Applicant—Thank you. I forgot to tell
you that I have a college education.
Business Man—Well, don't worry about
that. You'll soon forget it.
Rather Ambiguous.
" I see by your sign that you are a dis-
pensing druggist."
Yes, sir."
" What do you dispense with 2 "
" With accuracy, sir."
"i was afraid you did."
The Elder Left Out.
Minister -I would not consult Elder
Close on the subject. He never gives assent
to anything.
Deacon—No, I've noticed that when the
collection plate is passed around.
English as She is Spoke.
The English language sounds funny to a
foreigner.
" I will come by and by and buy a bi-
oyele," said a traveller, and the shopkeeper
had an attack of brain fever trying to make
cut what he meant.
Charles W. Hamilton, a naval, surgeon
says of sea -sickness : "In the ,few oases
which 1 have lately had to deal with I have
found the internal administration of the
seed of thekola a most successful
remedy.'
—Love is blind, end the beet looking
girls do not get married first,
NI+LAND'8 RAUX=
What ie Beim' Pone to .Add to it4.
Strength.
THIRTY -Two ZIBW VEMiELS TO BE BUILT.
We print in full Lord George Hamilton's
statement explanetpry of the navy esti•.
metes for 1890.91, which has been issued as
a Parliamentary paper; says the London
Times. It contains ranch interesting com-
ment upon a text which in its naked sire
plioity ie found by many people - somewhat
difficult reading, notwithstanding the genu,
the public' interest to which the increase of
our naval strength is unquestionably due.
The estimated expenditure upon the navy
for the ensuing financial year is £13,786,-
600, being an increase of n101,290 over the
estimates for 1889-90 Some difficulty has
always been felt by the public in under-
standing the exact scope and effect of the
Naval Defence Act of last 'year, which
dealt with a sum of £21,500,000. On one
side it has been supposed that this sum
constitutes an addition to the money spent
year by year in the ordinary way ; and on
the other side it is sometimes asserted that
the Act is illusory, and that we are simply
maintaining the navy at the old rate.
The confusion arises from the fact that,
while the act gives parliamentary sanction
once for all to the expenditure of twenty-
one and a half millions upon specified
undertakings, eleven and a half millions
are voted year by year as part of the an
noel provision for the navy, while ten
millions are charged upon the consolidated
fund, this constituting a source of naval
revenue independent of the annual votes.,
Thus the act fixes a minimum of £2,650,000
to be expended in each year for five finan-
cial years upon dockyard shipbuilding, and
£600,000 to be yearly expended during the
same period upon armament. If these
sums are not fully spent in any one year
the balance unexpended remains at the
disposal of the Admiralty in such fashion
that the available total for the whole term
shall suffer no reduction. Thirty-eight
vessels are to be built with this money,
and of these twenty-one are already begun,
seven will be begun in the coming year and
ten of the lighter types will be left to begin
after March, 1891.
Thirty-two vessels are to be built by con-
tract out of the ten millions set apart and
charged upon the consolidated fund. Of
these„twenty-six have been ordered during
the year now closing. The remaning six
are torpedo gunboats, capable of rapid
construction, and held over for the present
in order to obtain the benefit of the latest
experience. Thus the effect of the Naval
Defence act is to fix an irreducible dock-
yard programme for five years, the cost of
which appears in the estimates, and, in
addition, to provide during the same five
years ten millions' worth of ships built by
contract, and not appearing in the annual
accounts. Ships begun earlier than last
year have to be completed out of the sums
charged in the estimates. It is expected
that the whole of them will be com-
pleted in the course of, the inooming year,
with the exception of the Blake and the
Blenheim. Ten whioh ought to have been
finished by this time have been delayed for
various reasons of a more or less eatis.
factory kind. The vessels build-
ing by contract for Australian
service under the Imperial Defence Aot of
1888 have also been delayed, but it is hoped
that they will be ready in the course of the
summer. No portion of the cost of these
vessels appears in the annual ` votes, and
against it there is the set-off of considerable
contributions payable by the colonies for
twelve years.
Many vessels of new designs were em-
ployed in the naval manoeuvres of last year,
and the experience then gained has been
useful in various ways. Details of
boilers and machinery, of coal transport
and ventilation of engine -rooms have un.
dergone improvements which are embodied
in the original designs of the ships built
under the Naval Defence Act. In partial.
lar it is satisfactory to know that the boil-
ers of the new cruisers have been increased
in power from 16 to 25 per cent., and that
special attention has been given to the
development of high speed under ordinary
service conditions. In other words, the
measured mile performances, which are
wholly exceptional, are not any longer to
be treated as indications of the work to be
got out of the machinery under ordinary
conditions.
Mortality of Widowers From Phthisis.
In a paper on tuberculosis in Belgium
MM. Deanne and Gallmaerts come to the
gonolusion as the result of their investiga-
tions that, in comparing the mortality from
phthisis of bachelors, married men, and
widowers, the last are very much more
subject to this disease than either of the
other classes. The same statement holds
good for all ages, and it is, they say, also
true that widows are more liable than sin-
gle women to die of phthisis. The authors
do not think this is to be explained except
by direct contagion of wife to husband or
husband to wife. They cannot think
irregularities and excesses indulged in by
widowers can be answerable for it, for ad-
vanced age does not seem to make any
difference. They would ascribe it to the
infection occurring during married life,
the disease claiming its second victim some
time after the death of the first.—St.
James' Gazette.
Peasants Who Sell Children,
In the government of Podol the peasants
have no scruples about selling their chil-
dren. Instances of a very revolting nature
are reported in a Moscow daily. One
peasant sold his daughter, a girl of 8 yearn,
to travelling mendicants for the sum of six
rubles; another one brought two girls to
the town of Grenova, where he sold the
older, a child of 7 years for five rubles, and
the younger, 3 years old, for three rubles.
Stich instenbes have occurred in many
towns of the government.
Modestly Stated.
Travelling Agent—Are you the head of
the house, sir ?
Mr. Cowed—Hem 1—Ah 1—I represent
her.
The mother of Oscarilde who W0 bae
written verses that have been admired in
England, will henceforth receive an annuity
from the British crown, her name having
been placed on the pension list.
Speaking of dancing the Bishop of ChM -
ter recently said that, he himself not being
a dancing man, he left it to the arohdeaoons
and the junior clergymen of the diocese.
At the same time he did not think it paid
in the long ran to fight against it. Dancing
was natural and wan most pleasant. His
Lordship also took occasion to condemn
the finicky fashion of shaking hands, as ii
is done now, with an awkward sort of ton*
instead of a strong and manly grasp, --Hies
York Sun.
-Cnmsoq(despairingly)--What on earth
madedi o
a et ou
y g v res when you were in
Chicago ? Mrs. Onmso---`Really, dear, they'
were selling them so cheain faot they
were going at a bargain and x couldn't re.
girt buying one. -