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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-9-25, Page 3111111A1111111.111,10Naltair,40; An reonsinlcal Sian. Be lived on tlhirte"n cents a day -- Ten cents for milk and cracker, One oeut for dissipation gay, And two cents for tobacco And if be wiehod an extra dish He'd take his polo and catch a fish. And if his etoniaob raised a war 'Gainet his penurious habit He'd go and kid a. woodchuck or Asdassinate a rabbit, And thus he'd Ilvu in swept content On food that novOr coal a cent, And, that be nligl t lay by in eauk The proceeds of his labor, Bed happenreitutl at meals, the crank, And dine linen his neighbor. And then he'd eat enough to last Until another day hart passed. He bought no pantaloons nor vest, Nor rich ezpoueivu'jackett; Be had one surf --his pa's bequest— He thought would"stand the racket." He patched It thirty years, 'tis true, And then declared'twas good as new. Ho owned but; one suit to his back, And minus cuffs ain't collars, He died, and, lett lits nephew Jack Nine hundred tnousand dollars! And Jack he ran this fortune through And only took a year or two. Yankee Blade. Industrial ,and Other items. A worm eats steel rails. .Artificial musk is made. Germany exports oanariee. Krupp guns cost 050 a ton. Russia has a woman Mayor. New York painters get $3.50. France makes artificial ivory. At Aspinwall ice is $50 a ton. Cakes are baked by electricity. New York has a woman roofer. Milan has the largest theatre. Rata are raining crops,in Italy. English jockeys get $500 a week. Jews claim Columbus was a Jew. Powderly takes *Ply $3,000 a year. Salt Lake newsboys have a union. Chicago is the cvarld'a eighth city. A Chicago brewer owns 365 saloons. Paperhangers have a national union. London has 800 miles of wood street. California hal oolonies of Hollanders. East Tawas lies girl "messenger boys." Southern negroes are worth $263,000,0001 England gets 10,000 Irish settlers a year. New York has seven millionaire editors. Brooklyn has a Hebrew Bakers' Union Nine companies supply London's water. Halsted. street, Chicago, is eighteen miles long. Ban Francisco upholsterers label union .goods. New York drug clerks work fourteen hours. A Benton Harbor woman has 10,000 silk- worms. Suffolk, Eng., makes flint guns for Savages. German laborers are the worst paid in Europe. The Marquis Teeng's funeral cost $100,000. 'San Francisco Canadian Americans have organized. Atchison Philosophy. There never was a man as good as a really good woman. A man and woman can never thoroughly hate each other unless tbey have first been in love. Growing old makes men no better any more than the process of ripening alters or increases the quality of fruit. A mother has lost her prerogative in a home when she permits her daughter to get a new straw hat every season, while she trims over her old bonnet. There is but one thing that grows faster than admiration for a pretty girl when it is fiisoovered that she has money, and that is ft hole in a small boy's pants. A woman is never so good Iooking that she cannot remain an old maid, and a man is never so homely that he (linnet get mar. ried.—Atchison (Kan.) Globe. E FARMER All HIS N FARM. Helpful Hints for the Gardener and 1' Agriculturist, THE GROWING OF FLOWERS, how to Make a Ten Acre Farm Pay Well. Something About Ensilage—Next Year's Seed—Costly Cows—Mutton in England —watch the Weeds, late. Is Cheese digestible ? Although, so far as its constituents are •00noerned, cheese is fairly entitled to its fame as a model food, yet in raw cheese these constituents are very difficult of Solution by the digestive juices—that is, raw cheese is indigestible to a degree that makes it unavailable as food except to the strongest and healthiest of stomachs, and should not be eaten by any one who finds on trial that it gives his stomach the least discomfort. It is found, however, that cooking the cheese removes this difficulty and makes cheese easy of digestion, and as nutritious as tender meat, or more so. Various methods have been adopted for this purpose, from plain broiling, frying Or toasting, to the most elaborate com- pound dishes. The main point is to get the cheese cooked so that the stomach can digest it.—American Analyst. The Latest Waltz. Quite a new method of waltzing has sprang up recently. The Boston Courier Bays it is more carious than graceful, con- sisting of a spring into the air, a quickly executed doable shuffle, and another spring, the process being repeated until exhaustion ensues. It is very fine exercise for these Warm evenings in crowded rooms, and is found exceedingly conductive to brilliant complexions. Much skill ' is necessary to avoid rapid descent upon partners' toes, an accident not provocative of good humor and frequently trying to the best manners. The Crank Grew Crazy. Puck : Visitor—Poor fellow, is he -Violent ? Attendant -Once in a while. You see he started early in the season to keep the scores and percentages of the different baseball associations and brotherhoods, and at was too mach for hie brain. miThe action of the wife of a Presbyterian nister o f. Caledon East for $5,ni 000 for slander against a farmer of Albion Town - Ship at Toronto yesterday was dismissed. —Prince Louis of Battenbnrg, when a ,young man, took a fancy to the art of printing and became a tolerably good type - getter. —Over 18,000 mile were flogged in the Boston schools last year. The Boston eehocels seem to be given meetly to "manual training." g i on —The girls who wait thetable at a fashionable i - nable Lakewood hotel are made to dress in a tiniforne of white and the effect is most agreeable. e ---Dr. McGlynn thinks the New York Clergymen had better purify church politics before attempting to renovate the politics of the municipality. On the occasion of a resent fete at the Wintry mat of a wealthy woman all the cowsnooklaoes of wide estate wore on the allow satinribbon, and had their horns tied with narrower ribbon of the same ecolor.-- Med and IJxpren. How to Blake the Niest of Ten Acres of Land. This wan the subject of Mr. E. Morden's address before the Ontario ;Fait Growers at their summer meeting at Niagara, and as Mr. Morden ba' himself proved what can be done with a small acreage, what he says is worthy of attention. The following aro some of the points made The first requisite to success is the right man in the right place. By the right place I mean that he should be situated near a good supply of fertilizers, and near a good local market. I do not believe in wearing out my life in making express companies rich. I mean also that ho should be near a good shipping point, so that he can send away his surplus, and he needs also a place where the soildis right for his business. I am of the opinion that it is easier to buy the right kind of soil than it is to make it after you have bought that which is unsuitable. In planting small fruits, etc., it pays to use the plough a great deal, and to mark out in such a way that the plants can always be cultivated in two ways. At the outset, two crops may be grown ; for instance, with grapes, by planting 12 feet apart, the space interven- ing may be utilized with vegetables. What should be planted in order to realize the most money will depend upon the soil. On a May loam, for instance, I would plant largely of currants, but on a light sandy soil I would plant few currants. In suitable soil I find currants profitable, and goose. berries also on a moderate scale. Rasp. berries I have grown very largely, and have found them as profitable as any otherfrnit. I always cultivate them two ways. My method of sale is to take orders from pri- vate families, dealing as much as possible with them ; because in this way I can get back all my baskets, and, with them, the cash the same day. Blackberries, grapes, quinces, with a few plums and pears, are all suitable to be grown on a ten -acre lot, One great secret of success is constant cul. tivation, and this there is no reason to neglect on a small place. I sometimes cultivate and hoe my fruit garden as often as fifteen times in a single season. Flowers for the Market Gardener. Flowers are becoming quite an item of interest and profit for the market gardener. A great many people buy cut flowery for cemeteries, funerals, weddings, etc., and the question arises, what kind and variety of flowers are the most profitable ? While the geranium, verbena and phlox are always in favor, there are inquiries for more and newer varieties that can be used to advantage in baguets. There is no flower that will compare with the centnrea or well-known bachelor button for a cut flower, either by itself, or to form into bognets with other flowers. It stands the hot sun well, will not wilt when carried a long distance, coming out as fresh as when just cut from the garden. They keep in good shape in a room, or a shady place in a cemetery for two weeks ; and for letter- ing or forming into a cross or crown, no flower looks more beautiful. I. sow the seed between some of the early vegetables, like radishes or some other quick growing crop where the,gardener can keep the soil continually stirred with the wheel hoe, choosing seed of the mixed varieties ; purple, red, blue, pink to the purest white, and when the vegetables are marketed, the flowers are left to flourish. When a boquet is formed of nothing but the centurea, choosing the colors that blend well together, it will bring the highest price of any in the market. It is prized on account of its wonderful power of en - durum, and having the advantage of some other kinds for the blossom is borne out on the end of the stem. While the balsam, aster and petunia look well in the border, it is only on certain occasions that one can make lase of them. But the centurea, phlox, verbena and all species of pinks,'in- eluding the sweet william, can be need to good advantage ander all cireumstanoes. The time was, when every one went to the green house, but now the market gardener , furnishes his customers with flowers. Dry Ensilage. My last year with dry ensilage was a success. I am surprised at some writers who recommend wetting the fodder when it is put in, that it may heat, My four years with dry fodder has convinced me that dew end rain are injurious, and I want the fodder free from moisture when put into silo. I pick off some ears as I pass the fodder through the cutter, save my seed and some for feeding. I recommend salting a little when filling. In two or three weeks if the weather has been dry, I commence cutting and filling slowly. Last year I did not finish till in November. I put in small shocks, 10 by 10 hills square; tie with binder twine. I use a shocking horse—less work than tying four hills to. gather. My old silo is somewhat open, and I find it does not need to be tight, and not very strong as there is not much pressure. I find that it takes twice as long to husk and tie in bundles and crib the corn, and then it takes as long to run the hushed fodder through the cutter as the nnhneked ; the elvation of dry fodder is mnoh easier than green, and the storage for cut fodder is so much less that the Savingwould, in a few years, pay for the power and nutter. The saving of labor over the old way is no small item of expense. 'I feed bran and oil meal with the moistened fodder. Linn County, Ia. J. T. Smarr, Silage and hoots. It has been claimed that the general use of the silo will drive root growing out of farm practice. Thus seems plausible enough to those who view the subjeet at • long range; but it will not do with } heact'i cal men who grow and fed roots before they knew the virtue of silage. The writer interviewed a number of such men last week, and on every one of their farms a significant fact was noticed ; close beside the field of ensilage corn was a field of roots. The two crops grew together like brothers—they were in no muse rivals or competitors. In localities where roots can be grown with profit—wbere the climatic conditions are perfect—they have a perfect right to stand beside the silo. They are to be fed between the first frost and the open- ing of the'silo.—Iturat Nett' Yorker. Seed for Next Year. Something o gaway more putting the if than 1 Peed is necessary good crops are expected next year. The seed potatbee andthe seed corn should be selected and placed in some location separate from that intended for sale. It is by careful selection that the quality is improved, Many diseases of planta might be avoided by selecting only the healthy tubers and grains for seed, and rejecting all that in the least manner give indications of being affected by rot or rust. Keep the seed corn in a dry place and the potatoes in a cool, bin. Costly Low Priced Cow. A cow may be worth $100 or she may be worth only $20, but the low-priced cow may be the more costly. If a °home article of butter or large yield of milk is secured from the $100 cow it will be greater in ex• tent and proportionately, compared with the cheaper animal. As a dairyman ex presses it, if a $100 cow gives $50 profit in one year,a $20 oow will give only $l0 profit, or perhaps nothing. Profit and Loss. A pound of butter per week for each cow may make the difference between profit or lose. This difference depends on the kind of cow. It pays to use only the beet. If your cows are not up to the required standard, grade up the herd with the nee of thoroughbred males. Never allow a scrub bull on the farm, even if the ecrub cow is giveua place. AIie Healthy Tree. The healthy tree is easily distinguished. The deeper the green color of the leaves the more thrifty the trek. A yellow color, no matter how slight, indicates that something is wrong. Examinations and comparisons of the trees in the orchard will enable the grower to easily detect any lack of vigor in the trees by the shades of color of the leaves. Soil to the ]:est Advantage, Many dairymen make good butter, but fail to realize high prices simply because they do not try to sell to the best advantage. The best market is sometimes in the near - eat town. Introduce the butter into the homes of those who desire it of good quality, and there will he no necessity for shipping it off to a distant market. Mutton in England. Mutton is increasing n consumption in England, which is also the case here. In England only the choicest breeds are used for that purpose. The merino is almost unknown to English farmers, as they do not keep sheep for wool at all, mutton being the specialty, although quite a crop of middle wool is also secured. Look After the Weeds. Now is the time when the seeds of weeds are ripening, and if they are to be out down it must be at ones, or it will be too late. To allow the seeds to be scattered over the ground is to increase the work of extermin• ation next year, as well as lesson the growth and vigor of the crop to be grown on the ground. Notes of the Farm. Pasture often obliges cows to drink im. pure water, and thus injures both the cow and the butter. A lady of Colombia, S. C., has discovered that silk worms will feed upon the leaves of the ramie plant. Do not be stingy with your flowers. By plucking them you prepare the way for more to bud and blossom. Whenever you notice a sprout of any kind growing up from the roots of your grafted' rose bushes out it off. The tomato is easily improved by seleo• tion. Use only the smooth ones from which to secure seed for next year. If the fodder or hay crop is short lessen the number of animals. Keep nothing that cannot be fed liberally. Insect powder is too expensive for general use on the farm, bat it will pay to use it on flowers and in the greenhouses. Animals in clean, wholesome quarters eat less and make a better return for it than if kept in dirty quarters. If possible get into that line of farming which you like. Yon will be much more likely to succeed than with one that is die. tasteful to you. An old fruit -grower, in the New York Tribune, says that for every dollar he spends in thinning fruit he reaps a profit of $5. Good pay and good for the trees. As to the stings of bees and wasps, an English contemporary says: " Th ese stings, though very painful, are not dangerous to a healthy person, unless in the month, throat or eyelid." Poultry should be kept for home use if not for sale. When fresh meat in small quantity is needed the chicken or duck is more available than the larger stock, • It is claimed that vinegar will bring a good price this year owing to the short apple crop. The beet vinegar is made from sound fruit. Do not use inferior apples for that purpose. Be sure, when purchasing an animal, that it is free from any disease, and that it does not come from a section where disease has prevailed. It is an easy matter to bring disease into a flock or herd. If there is any value in preventing trees from overbearing, the fact that all kinds of fruit trees have been free from fruit this season should give encouragement for expecting an unusual yield next season. The pigs farrowed this month and kept over until next year are the ones that vil mate the large hogs. Pigs should be farrowed early enough to at- tain - fair size before the cold weather sets in, as very late pigs are liable to be stunted. Stables should be cleaned daily, and the bedding carefully removed, as it is an ab- sorbent of the liquids, the retention o which results in the liberation of ammonia in the 'Italia. Clean floors, with clean bed- ding daily, promote the comfort and thrift of the stook. Insects are busy now, as they are pre. paring for propagation and security, and the work against them should not cease. One of the safeguards in favor of insects is that of not keeping the ground clean, Har- boring places are afforded by dense weeds, dried gram and rubbish. In budding, the best size of the stook is about half an inch in diameter; bat with care smaller trees can be budded, and much larger ones. Special pare is required, how- ever, with stocks of unusual size' and begin- ners will do better by working on those of half an inch. Cabbage plants Item fall -sown suede are thought to give earlier beads than those from spring sown. Sow the seeds toward the close of September, and winter the plants in a cold frame, These plants can be sot out earlier, and they are not cheked afterards by cold weather w , as often s hap. pens to plants. Ono of the most important items in feed. ing, and one that is very frequently over- looked, is regularity. Health and thrift aro both promoted by feeding stook of all kinds at regular hours. All classes of stock will fret if the time passes for their nasal and they do not redeive .it, and whenever they are fretting they are losing. Ensilage hail been the Means where it is fed of doinaway with that terribly pro - voking nuisance—long cornstalks in the manure pile. Every Idrmer who has tried to load manure with long oernatalke in it, en a waggon,wil admit there is no language adequate to describe the performance and the tendency it had toward ]making a man lose his patience. If farmers would take one good breed of fowls and carefully study their ohmmeter - latish they would make double the profit than it they keep trying to originate some new breed. It sounds nice to hear your- self spoken of as the originator of some new and valuable breed; but few succeed in starting a variety of fowl that amounts to anything. Do Wives Tire of Husbands ? It is surprising how soon a wife tires of the company of a man who is too much at home. Men are wise in getting away from their own roof trees a certain portion of each day. Among their wives will be found a general consensus of opinion to this effect. There will be found every. where a disposition to pack off the men in the morning,and to bid them to keep out of the way till toward evening, when it is assumed that they will probably have a little news of the busy world to bring home, and when baby will be sure to have said something exceptionally brilliant and precocious. The general events of the day will afford topics of conversation more in- teresting by far than if the whole house. hold had been together from morning till night. A very little inquiry, too, will elicit the fact that men about home all day are apt to be fidgety and grumpy and interfer- ing—altogether objectionable, in short. This is the case very often, even with work- ingmen of genius—authors or parsons or painters—but is particularly apt to be so with the unemployed, such, for instance, as business men who have retired or who are out of the harness for a short time. The spirit of mischief is never at a loss for a job for paterfamilias it it catches him idling and lounging about neither at work nor at play. It stirs up his bile and irritability, very likely, and incites him to the reform of domestic abuses. It kindles his sanitary ardor, and, sends him poking and sniffing about inconveniently into all the odd cor- ners of the establishment, or sets him about the curtailment of housekeeping extrava• game, or the amendment of various un- methodical household procedures, all of which, however right and proper, tends to disturb domestic peace and quietude, and to make all the feminine members of the family very oncemfortable.—'Ilse Old Home- stead. Signs in the Dust. " That was well done," remarked a Free Press reporter to the driver of a street - sprinkler who had left a dry spot in' front of a thirty-foot lot so well defined that it stood out against the wet street like a boil on a man's nose. " Yes, I think I have it down pretty fine," remarked the driver, " but I've had two months' practice at it. "I don't believe I'm on to hie line over an inch at either side. Hate to do it though." "Why 2" " On account of the children. The man is too stingy to pay 25 cents a week to sprinkle the street in front of him. He thought we'd sprinkle it tree it the rest of his neighbors paid, but we are up to all those tricks. Bat his children are not to blame, you know !" " Of course not." • " They realize that this dry spot is a signboard to the public and reads : ' Here lives a mean man.' People stop and look at it as they pass, did it is pointed out by those riding on the cars. He has four children, and not one of them is ever seen in the front yard. They are afraid of public ridicule." "Must be a curious man that ? " " Not curious, but mean—just downright mean and stingy. If he was poor and un- fortunate I'd feel ashamed to leave the signboard, bat as it is I take particular pains to let the public get onto him. Now, watch me as I turn. See that ? I atop dead on the line, shut her off tight, and be. gin at the other line. You can't find five drops of water on his whole front. There's the children looking out of the windows, and I can't help bat feel sorry for 'em, but business is business, and we've got to live the same as other folks."—Detroit Free Press. Snails as a Delicacy. Snails are largely consumed by consump- tives in England who can afford them. Of course they are imported. The best come from the vineyards of France, and for this reason they are considered especially fine. They are certainly a luxury, for a tin - of snails cost 4s 6d. Frogs' hind legs are eaten in larger quantities than is generally supposed. Yon can't tell them from a bit of chicken ; and no doubt a good many people who are not careful about consult- ing the menu at swell dinners eat them as snob. Another novelty for epicures is craw- fish tails. They are little thing like shrimps, and are need for flavoring all sorts of dishes, soups, sauces and vegetables. Boned larks in aspic jelly sounds well. The young bachelors who lounge through life in cham- bers off Piccadilly go in for these potted things. They are convenient. A Serious Question. Mrs. Wellesley Vassar—Why are you so dejected, Miranda ? You have every reason to be elated after having taken the senior prize in classics ; and your essay on de- ductive philosophy won the admiration of all the faculty. So well equipped a girl should -- Miranda Vassar—That's jest the trouble; how—how can I find a husband who is able to sew buttons on, and cook, and mind the —the—oh I (She weeps.)—Puck. VIOTO$,IA, Ito 5 EWelene e. Births Among Royalty Regularly An nyuneed at 'Washington. The funniest thing in connection with this Government's diplomatic relations, says he Washington Sar, is the letters sent, +•, the President of tt,e United States by it o rulers of other nations announcing bint'd anti such events in sovereign fami. lies. Snob communications are the custom among the powers, and there is a stereo. typed forrn for them. For instance, on the occasion of the last important domestic happening in the household of Queen Vie toric a letter cuine from her to President Harrison, as follows: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, Empress of India, Defender of the Faith, etc„ etc., to 13eujauain Harrison, President of the United States: GREAT AND Goon FnizNw,--I have the plea- sure of announcing to you the birth of a fine boy on the list inst, to my gm.d-daughter, the Pr.ncees 13attenberg, who is doing as well as can be expected. This event will doubtless cement the cordial relations existing between our Gov- ernments.—Your good frien , VICTORIA. This letter is written on ruled blue paper, and to it President Hurricon replies on white vellum paper in a big sheet as follows: GREAT AND Goon FItIENn,—I have received the pleasant uewa conve • ed to one by pour com- munication of the land inst., a..,, am glad that the happy event came off safely. It is my earnest prayer and expectation that the said event will strengthen the bonds of amity and friendship which so happily subsist between our two governments.—Your good friend, BENJAMIN HARRIS ON. It is worth noting that the President never sees these letters from Queen Vic- toria and other sovereigns at all, and the replies, which are written in an elegant Spenoerian hand by a $1,200 clerk in the department of State, are merely taken to him for his signature, Such is the non- sense of diplomacy. Used to Laundry Work. Mary Ann," her mistress told her, " before ironing the fine linen always try the heat of the iron on something coarse, so as not to scorch the material." " I don't need to, mare. Thank hevins I hey a note, and I knows when the linen is scorching by the smell of it, mum." Oh, Nothing Much ! He—I can't imagine what's become of my razor. Have you seen it, my dear ? SIie-It's in the kitchen, Harold, and VII go right now and fetdh it myself. Bridget. was so careless as to lose the can•opener last night, and I—why, whatever is the matter, dearest ? Siahi's representative at gay Paris ataited all his wealth on baccarat, and the last heard of him he wee on his way to the land of the white elephant, having shipped e esteward on it vessel. —William Steinway, who is spoken of as the Democratic candidate for Mayor of New York, is a native of Seesen, Germany, and 54 years of age. His Either, who was a piano maker in that city, emigrated with his family to New York in 1854. Mica has been restored to the dutiable 1st by the United States Senate. In the U. S. Senate yesterday a 25 per cent. duty was placed on telegraph poles, ties, etc. Capt. M cMioken, formerly cornimodo re of the Cunard Steamship Company's fleet, has died at Liverpool. Canals in Britain. Returns that have been made to Parlia- ment show that there are in Great Britain and Ireland 3,800 miles cf inland naviga- tion, of which 1,000 miles are on open rivers, leaving 2,800 miles of canals, the greater part of which are in England. Although the canal business has been greatly neglected since railroads have be- come so numerous, yet many English canals still pay large dividends ; and at an international congress on inland naviga• tion which was recently held in Manchester there was evidenced a disposition to revive canal activity. The Manchester Ship Canal, which when completed promises to revolutionize the English cotton trade, is undoubtedly a strong factor in the new movement. An Outrageous Law. The Standard sets: A more outrageous enactment than i i e meat inspection law passed by the Belied States Congress was never framed in o „ivilized country. It is the more irritatin- in conjunction with the McKinley Bill. N , foreign State can sub- mit to such threats without abject humili- ation. With Englrend reprisals are out of the question, but , It t unfriendly attitude of America will do nothing to force our hands. The Swamp of Death. The scene of the Benwell murder is a point of interest as the trial draws near, and the swamp is visited daily by scores of people. Yesterday there were over fifty rigs in the lonely swamp from all parts of the country—Guelph, Galt, Brantford, Paris and Woodstock. At one time the string of carriages was nearly half a mile long, and the narrow roadway was block- aded until nearly dark. VAT Wane DWY!UTBE IIIA. How a Deadly noisome is Communicated to Clnlldren. Dr. Klein read a paper before the mem- bers of the Royal Society, England; on "Diphtheria as it Affects Animals, and: treating specially of the disease in the oat and the cow. Dr. Klein stated that during three years past the relations existing between a mysterious cat malady and human diphtheria had been prominently brought to his notice, the,dllness of the cats being generally of a pulmonary chins racter. The animals were frequently, while ill, nursed by children, who in tura fell ill with the disease, which was in them well•marked diphtheria ; or where children developed the disease, cats in the house sickened simultaneously or later. In North: London last year the malady among Cate was of a widespread nature, After various experiments Dr. Klein was able to state that the disease in question in these animals) was undoubtedly diphtheria. As regarded. diphtheria in the mulch cow, Dr. Klein has proved that her milk is affected by the dis- ease permeating her system ; and he showed how, by artificially induced diph- theria, the symptoms so often found in mulch cows, where milk was discovered tit+ be the means of disseminating diphtheria, were well marked in the udder. Dr. Klein further gave an illustration of diphtheria conveyed from cow to cat at the Brown. institution, where he was working, The' milk of two diphtheria -infected cows. instead of being thrown away, was need for feeding two healthy caged cats. These became ill of diphtheria, and subsequently all cats placed in these cages developed the disease. Both these animals, therefore, may be accused of infecting man, and the greatest interest now attaches to the condi- tions under which the cow can acquire this property of inflicting injury upon the drinkers of her milk. Dr. Klein has shown what was long ago suspected by W. H. Power, an assistant medical officer of the local government board, that the infection of milk with diphtheritic poison is dee to a cow disease. The marriage of Lord Laurence Petra to Miss Jennie Williams, the American sou- brette, will take place on the 29th inst,, at the groom's home, Funnies House, Copsfold Hall, Ignastone, England. The ceremony will be private, the only persons present besides the contracting parties being the bride's mother and a few friends. Imme- diately after the ceremony the happy couple will go on a two months'tonz;of the continent. —Charles Frohman manages eleven theatrical companies besides a stock con • puny in Now York, and has 123 actors under engagement for the season. A TOUG3 CUSTOI.ffirt. He's surely a difficult person to 'kill, His frame seems of adamant; He's dying each day, but remains with us still, The " oldest inhabitant." The wise man always hesitates To judge another's sin: 'Tis good old common sense that waits Till all the facts are im —Henry George is opposed to the build- ing of war ships —Kelly, the man who is trying to invent a motor, is 53 years old. —The Princess of Wales says it is her ambition in life to mind her own business. —The lovely shades of poppy and cardi- nal have a place in early autumn millinery. —Mrs. Henry el. Stanley's wedding cake served as one of the "side shows" at a bazar held in London recently. —Jackets are to be worn much longer than they have been for the past few years and nearly all will have revers. Mr. Powderly dresses neatly in black, and his linen is always clean and spotless. His head is bald and he wears gold•rimmed spectacles. —" The keeping of bees as an employ. went for women is now advocated in Eng. land," says the Woman's Cycle " and as an impulse prizes are to be given in some localities." Her Majesty has sent a splendid cradle, richly ornamented, to her great grandson, the- infant of the Duke and Duchess of Sparta, and the whole outfit for the child was bought in England by the Empress Frederick.—London Truth. The tall hat celebrates in Europe this year its 100th birthday. The simple quaker hat of Dr. Franklin was the first cause of the abandonment of the three cornered style. The high hat, in its early days, was looked on as a symptom of a politicallly progressive spirit and was, consequently, the object of mesh persection on the part of the police. In Germany and Reseia they were forbidden under heavy penalties, but early in the '40's they at last became a trade -mark of seem elability. The Fruit Famine. The scarcity of fruit this year will turn the attention of all careful housewives toward the consideration of all possible sub.sub- stitutes. It is useless to try to quite fill: the gap made by the failure of apples and peaches ; but something may be done. Much use may be made of grapes. Tomas toes can be preserved, pickled, and. turned into relishingtsanoes of great variety Melons, citron, cantaloups and oramberrieg are all plentiful, and, properly prepared,, make wonderfully fine confections. The foreign markets will probably be drained of their supplies of dried fruits to make good oar wants, but the lose of accustomed fruits can be best remedied by a larger use of what remains within reach. A Cheap Substitute. Wife—Well, what do you think Johnny wants now ? Husband—I've no idea. Wife—He wants me to tease you inter buying him a bicycle. Husband (who has tried bicycling him:. self)—Noneenee ; he can't have one. Tell him to go up into the attic and fall down. two flights of stairs. It will be just about• the same thing, and save me a hundred. dollars. Jasperite Pavements. A new pavement has been laid for a mile. on the main street of Wichita, Ken., which appears to give the people of that city great satisfaction. 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