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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-9-25, Page 7The Beliving Sealer. The ease seemed „plain To the man from Shane As he pender'd the teMPting prize tlffails ; " this lucky affair of the Behriug Sea There's a President's k chair, pe dellbt,"cjuoUi he, " That lion's whelp Shah roar and yells Thl the old dans answers its call for help Then, well under cover, I'll twist her tail And bag every vote of the Clau-na-Gael I "Awl there's A debt Uncaucelled yet Of national grudge that I don't forget, lfilfhicla, properly worked, is a White House pass— Dor war with Srits,in carry the mass I" Then missives flew And war clouds grew, But—just as the air smelt sulphurouel- whe w I Down into a hole fell e. a B, And a dead calm reigns in the Bebring Seal inexpressible. (Chicago Post.) The man who lugs a melon home And finds it isn't elite is ;very apt to filmic some words That look like these 1*---; "o` id I In t5Te- Upon a smooth banana peel A deacon chanced to trout, And here's + --tt "—a brief shorthand report Of what the deacon said, A lady with her parasol A passer's optic caught— He said: "Pray, do not mention it" But here * 1*1 —is what he thought. With a No. 9. (Boston Courier.) 'I've bought a bonnet, papa, dear; Hy beau declares 'tis trimmed with skill; have no funds and I've come here To see if you will fit the bill." 4. Your beaul and what may be his name? The father roughly questioned her; She bung her head, wish cheeks aflame, She softly answered, " His eyes shone with a dangerous light-- 0E10ml So be says 'tis trimmed with skill! Well, bring him to the house to -night, And I will gladly foot your VALUE 011' TIME. ew Ralf Hours are Wasted, and the Loss it I eaves. • Perhaps it is not too much to assert that the majority of women have very inade- gusts conceptions of the value and extent of. time, says a writer in Haspees ,73azar. The inan of business learns to understand just what five minutes will do, and what it 232633118. It may mark the limit of banking hours or the departure of an important train. Promptness is 80 large an essential in business circles, and a few wasted emomente may mean so much of gain or 3oss or wepted opportunity, that men are :Mimed to karrnthe value of time, and less drew:many than women underestimate_ its eases. The weman, who, in feminine InTlance "accomplishes" mutat is the woman who has learned to use and awe her minutes. Many women who are really industrious think nothing of squandering 10 or 15 minutes in an un - smelling, unsatisfactory chat with an acquaintance, and then wonder at the close af the day, what has become of the hours. ,A very few misspent half hours deatroy the day's usefulness. -Almost AS deplorable as ilea waiter of time j gossop is the woman who never has time for a pleasank chat with her friend, and:Whose mind is ee crowded with social or household cares that Sh13 inwardly grudges the time given to a caller. There is a happy medium between 'these extremes which is well worth every woman's while to strive for. Time means igolden opportunitiesdor so many helpful, auteresting occupations. Balza° says that inParis everybody wants to find a twenty- fifth hour among the 24. In our blessed America we are looking far beyond that, nerd would welcome the addition of a round dozen hours to the calendar day. WHAT RAILWAY MEN WANT. Zona List of Applications Before the Privy Connell Yesterday. Atyesterday's meeting of the Railway Committee of the Privy Council was heard the application of the Niagara Central Medway Company .,to make a crossing Sowards the railway Suspension Bridge at Niagara Falls upon the land of the Grand Trunk by means of a track already in ex- tetenoe, from the Canada Southern Rail- way northeasterly across Bridge street, Niagara Falls to a Junction with the Grand Trunk Railway track at the westerly end . of the bridge. The Grand Trunk, in the person f John Bell, Q. C., opposed this, and wanted more information, so it was ' postponed for a week. G. T. Blaokstook, de. C., appeared for the Niagara Central, and was supported by the President, Dr. !Odle, and Capt. Neelon, ex.M.P.P., of St. Catharines. The Winnipeg Transfer and Northern TdOili0 tt Manitoba Railways asked Fermis - neon to effect a' junction with the C. P. R. Owing to the non -arrival of O. P. R. Super- • 3neendent Whyte from Winnipeg the hear. exi& was adjourned. The case of the Win. mipag Street Railway, who also ask leave to cross the 0. P. R. track, was also ad- journed. Mr. Patterson, M. P. for Essex, aeked on 'behalf of the Lake Erie, Essex dr Detroit aiver Railway for leave to run a track Asiong Stewart street, Kingsville, Ont. The application was granted, subject to cora- penstlion by the company to any persons whose interest may be injured. A number .te other applications stand over. The "Fin de " Waistcoat. The latest craze among those individuals tof the" high life" of Paris who aspire to 'lead the fashion is the fin du sieole waist. coat. I have jest seen a large assortment of them at one of our most fashionanle (tailors', who tells me that they are to be -worn next week at one of those brilliant manes which now and then enliven the present dull season. I am bound to admit • that these waistcoats are very marvellous siontrivancee, and while some of them are decidedly gorgeous, according to English Ideas, and some very eccentric, others wince a high development of art. One specimen was of scarlet satin, beautifully adorned with corn -flowers embroidered in • milk; another was of steel -gray silk, with • ?sporting devices—horseshoe, whip and :railcar. Most people are of opinion that rally a• very limited number of Parisians with En de sieoie proclivities will patronize this latest development in the waistcoat line, for the prices charged are terribly high. There was one with fleur-de-lys decoration and gold buttons, which the tailor told me he could not afford to sell for Iwo than £50.—Paris Correspondence London Chylphic. Major Wisemann, the African explorer, give that railways will do rtiore to stop the reeve trade in Airlock than any other power. The railway hail been the greateet civilizer ,.,ef the age, and in Africa it will bring the heart of the dark continent within the reach of civilization. Old Sleuth, who this for years thrilled youthful readers of cheap literature with his detective stories, is Harlem P. Halsey, E member of the Brooklyn Board of ;Education. POINTERS FOR THE LADIES, Tokens by Which a Married Man is Known from a Single One, USEFIJI. HINTS AND NOTES. Row to Dress and the Ornaments Which Should be Worn, The Married Han. A married man always carries his condi- tion witls him, like's trademark. Anybody of a /amigo discernment can detect him at a glance. He does not pinch his toes with tight boots. He does not went himself with violets. He never parts his hair in the middle. He keeps his Beet in the horse car when the pretty girl, laden with bun- dles, comes in; he knows that hie wife wouldn't approve of his rising. He does not get up flirtations with the good. looking saleswoman where be buys his gloves .; he remembers that little 'birds are flying all around telling tales, and he has a horror or curtain -lectures; somehow, married men never seem to arrive at that state of beatitude where they do appreciate the kind'of literary performances known as curtain -lectures. nThe married man has come to that stage when he is convinced that the way his necktie hangs may not be any more im- portant than his soul's salvation. He knows toet certainty that true happiness does nct depend on the amount of staroh in his shirt -bosom but he will have to have been three dines wedded before he will be able to be reconciled to a collar. bend two sizes small or one size large. The man who can smile at fate when it swoops down upon him in the shape of an ia-fitting collar -band is nearly ready for canonize- tion.—Kate norne, in New York Weekly. • A Beautiful Viennese. . Standing, siting; leaning; sad, smiling or simply meditative; arrayed in a variety of chic costumes; smoking oigarette, peep. ingniver a mask, etc., she has challenged comparison with every fresh rival. A few years ago she won a $5,000 prize at a beauty contest. Then she was simply Miss Mer- tens, "to fortune and to fame unknown." After that eh,q isesaroe a fixed star in the theatrical firmament, and is now an actress in the Eden Theatre in Paris. She is a distracting beauty, perhaps the most bean - field woman fir Europe. Her skin shows the smooth, dead -white of the magnolia blossom—a tint seen to perfection among the Austro-Huogarians. An oriental lan- guor softens her large, white -lidded eyes. She is tall, of generous build and very graoefut—Philadelphia North American, racking a Luncheon. A lunoheon should be carried if possible in a basket and, not in a oleos box, because the free entrance of air that is possible only to the basket keeps the food in a better and more healthful condition. A fresh wrapper for the luncheon should also be used each day—a linen one is daintiest, to be sure—but if that is not to be had then a fresh square of confectioner's paper or a Japanese paper napkin should be used. The packing of Many dishes' in the basket is out of the (petition, but there should surely be some errangement by which a flask of cola tea or milk or bouillon or lemonade can be carried. An ordinary bottle will answer every purpose if it be carefully stoppered, but an inexpensive flask with a drinking qup fitted to the bottom is most convenient and best. 'Salt and pepper in very small cruets should also be carred, An Exquisite Dressing -Table. An exquisite, dressing -table without one silver -backed article on it I The thing is not often tried, but it is very successful in the realization. Usually nowadays the dressing -table with a right to the adjective or even complete has at least one or two boxes or brash backs of silver. Somebody sees to it at Christrnaslime or on birth- days that there is something of the sort, but the beauty of this one is in satin-weod and olive -wood backs for brushes, and in boxes of tortoise theleand white bane, and in little crystal bottles instead of the assertive and more common large ones. An old.fashioned dressing -table of th,e sort se much in fashion now may sometimes be picked up at an auction -room for next to nothing.—Boston Transcript. Lady Dilke's Fete. Lady Mike, that beautiful and gifted English woman, who captivated the Ameri- cans three years ago, entertained a hundred poor children of London just before the season closed. The barefootse ragamuffins and gutter -snipes of the East End left Lon- don by an early train and spent the whole day in the Byfteet woods, where they had dinner and tea in a marquee, which had been erected in an adjoining field. During the afternoon prizes were given for the most tastefully arranged posies of wild flowers. Lady Dilke, Mrs. Went worth Dilke, Miss Tuokwell, Miss Austin, Mists Ada and Miss Edith Heather -Bigg, Mr. Maokenna, and other ladies and gentlemen helped amuse the youngsters by playing touch -wood and various other round games. The children returned to London by 8 in the evening, having spent a most happy day, to be met at Waterloo by their grateful mother°, mostly the wives of dock laborers. Clipping the Ends of Bair. It is an old idea which still largely ob- tains that the ends of the hair should be clipped on the occasion of the advent of every new moon, a practice whose adher- ents claim will prevent present breakings and splitting, and in general contribute to the health and beauty of" woman's glory." French hairdressers and barbers, however, protest against this, and urge the burning process instead. They say, as is well- known, that every hair is a hollow tube, which, to retain its health 'and natural color, should be filled with an oil; frequent clipping allows this oil to escape and the hair is thereby injured: When the hair is burned, however, the ends are seared over, thus holding the lubricator.—New York Times. The Whole Effect is Stylish. A stylish tailongown of silver -blue faced, cloth has a riding -habit effect in the babk. The waistcoat and front of the dreso are formed of pale tan -colored camel's hair, with a deep embroidery in silver -blue silk as a border to each. The toque, shoes and gloves match the waistcoat, and en suite is a long, very light boa of gray and brown natural ostriell leathern—New York Post. Long Veils Orme Again. There is a revival of the pretty fashion of wearipg long veils, the New York Sun saye Colored gauze twisted around the hat and tied in a careless bow at the side or undet the chin, sees to be universally becoming, and softens the lines of the face. Mantie Or lilac veils are much torn, but these of beige -yellow, striped on ho edge with three narrow bends of white, are newer. Navy Blue is High 8ty Navy blue is a very fashionable color, and it will appear among noway of the stylish street and carriage dresses during the present season. If anything could Add to the prestige of serge-anevy blue serge— it would be the fact that on Cup day the Jeeilesees of Wales wore dark blue English cloth very delicately trimmed with superb lape.like gold paseementeriee.—New -York Post. A Duchess -with Costly Tastes: The Duchess of Marlborough, like all dainty women, is extreinele fond of meet odors, but unlike the average dainty woman, considers not at all the expense attendant upon gratifying her caprice. Her perfume is bought in quantities and deliv erect at the manor of Woodstock in 'gallon jars. Vapor baths are her delight, in which perfume instead of alcohol Is ene- ployed. ' Something New in Jackets. A new style of fancy jacket is composed of two naaterialse-g'enerally aplain fabric' and a brocaded one, For instance, the bodice of :the jacket, which is tight fitting at the back and open in front, is of bright silver gray glace silk, while the full sleeves, the collar and long revers, tapering down to the waist, are of brocaded silk of the same shade of color. The Autumn Bonnets. There is no likelihood of any marked ()hangs in shapes of bonnets this autumn. The oval turban shape Will no doubt be the favorite. Twisted net or crepe, with apple cations of jet in the form of branches of foliage, butterflies, diamonds, eta, will be the materials out of which the fall bonnets, if such tiny affairs may he called bonnets, will be fashioned. The trimming will he massed on top. Ordinary Muslin Is Eight. Ordinary muslin is coming into wear again, and black lace trimmings are much worn with it, either as &hue, panels or large jebote diminishing toward the waist; in fact, any way that fashion and fancy dictate, for the light black lace on the thin materiel forms a pretty and effective con- trast. Enameled Violets. A little chatelaine for a watch is shown made of enameled violets, a large bloseom at the top and graded to the seemliest size, each with a pearl or rose diamond in the centre. It is extremely pretty when the blossoms are small and there are six' or eight in a row. , Rich Enough to Wear Pearls. The Duchess of Marlborough has taken to wearing pearls about her throat. With an income of 675,000 every six months this is a luxury in which the beautiful almond - haired lady can indulge. Mahogany Hair Next. Now fore mahogany hair craze. ,We have canary hint:Ides, coppery brunettes and champagne and gold mediums, but a new classification will be needed when the girl with the mahogany halo arrives. Friuli on the vir. Small scent bottles to carry in the palm of a glove are of silver, with gold tracery. e Single roses, having buds, lot/loge and a long stem, are the preferred corsage bouquets'. Shade hats of colored horse hair are trimmed with ribbon bows, long pins . and a feather pompon. Flower necklaces worn by bridesmaids are mounted on black velvet ribbon, and consist of small fiat flowers. ' , Dancing slippers thatmakethe feet look small are black, of kid, with a beaded bow, and ankle strap having a buckle. • Fresh from the Jewellers. A matesh box representing the head of a buffalo was recently noticed. An impudent toad perched on the edge of a silver scallop shell is an attractive ash receiver for the smoking table. Artistic enamelling is alaown in a scarf pin representing a geranium blossom with a sapphire,in the centre. A diminutive key of rubies and diamonds aoroes a square garter buckle of gold fili- greek hrecently ' work as appeared. A' cigarette ease formed like a large, square cracker with numerousendentations has just been received with considerable favor.—.Teweiters' Weekly. • Odds and Ends a Fashion. A new hair comb in tortoise shell is the Eiffel tower in miniature. Persian and two tone ribbons on bonnets are to continue in fashion. It will soon' be time to have our sealskin wraps of all kinds done over again. _ Scotch suits for little boys are, it is said, to replace the sailor and Fauntleroy. Models of the autumn bonnet are die. played and come in for a deal of admira- tion. Coin bracelets have been followed by coin chatelaines for the fan and scent bottle, Some of the new bonnets are a bunch of autumn leaves, red and yellow being the hues. Three tiny round gold studs is the latest for the shirt bosom with the full dress suit;Straw-colored kid gloves, embroidered in black, are quite the fashion in Paris and • London. , Eight day hall clocks, guaranteed 100 years old, are still 'made to order and find well pleased purchasers. Square -toed shoes for men are to be revived, and patent leather are to be worn more generally than ever before. There is a fad for monogram and crest rings: Any one can have the former, but much humbug goes with the latter. The imaginary gun for straw and white felt hats of all kinds will soon be fired. They, like dogs, have had tlipr day. " Chinese and Japanese articles and mate , rials for house decoration are to be more • extensively used next season than ever. Lanterns for the piazza of country houses are made of silk, and with them comes the fat eltrolle that burns eight hours. Reports of the elegance and magnificence of new carpets are rife. The designs and coloring are something entirely new.. The Gordon end other kinds of sashes .eiave been ran so far into the ground that it will be impossible to dreg them out next summer—Mail and Express. Very Likely. 14 Is your son still studying in Paris 2" " Yes. I got a letter from him a few days ago and he tom me that he and several others were engage i in painting the town. I guess he means it to be a cyclorama." The France, the largest sailing vessel in the world was launched at Partriok, Scot- land recently. She has five masts and her tonnage is 8,760. She is intended for the nitrate trade between Seuth America and France. The Australian doctors' strike is shoes- ing eigne of collapsing. Non.unionisict are supplying the place of the strikers in large numbers, datereOU, nOT CHARITY. The Badleabs Are Not Ali roor and Ignor- ant lien, James A, Herne spoke to the New York sciore from the stage of the Bijou Theatre last month. In the course of his address lie said ; Now I am a single taxer because I do not believe in revolutione. Phe great French revolution simply deposed one Set of despots to replace them with another tea. The American revolution dethroned one ° rer nn e2c15,10n00e anno rdo iwanhe s nt ogee d. ree c rho thea ne was but a umbel. The eingle tax will quietly but effectually depose all kings, and under it they can never rise again. It will render it utterly inapossible for; einy one man to oppress another; for when any man can get land to use, paying to the com- munity a just tax for the value cie his lone - tion, anti' no tax on what he produces from it, he is absolutely free—he need not ‚beg for, work. Nature is proeigal an Rielde tie those' who woo her. Now, unlike revolution, the single tax pan only come slowly. It cannot cerise until the minds of the people are ready to receive it. So gradual will be its approach thet the change will Beam be felt ,until it is accomplished ; but that greduat approach, will stay the tide of a bloody revelation. It wrongs no man ,• it rights eal, men ; it means land for the people, wages for labor, interest to capital. Instead of land speculation, it will -open lip- oppor- tunities for inyeatrnent hitherto undreamed of by capitalists. This is why X am, a single taxer. It is not a hobby with me. HOW Oati anything be a hobby or a fad that involvee all that is best in life? Herbert neencer, Tyndall, Huxley, Darwin, HumboliitsCar, lyle, all,aw tha injustice of teed speoala- lion, and lased so. Mr. liewells, Mark Twain and Edward Bellamy see it to -day, and say so. The press throughoot the land sees it, and says so. The musicians say so. 'the poets, Shelley, Burns, Emerson, Whit- man and Lanier, say so. The artists, among whom are to be named Deforrest Brash, George Lines, John 3. Ennekin, Dan Beard, F. S. Church, Robert Sewell, Kenneth Cranford, J. S. Hardy, see, SO. In the pulpit, Bishop Potter, Bishop Spauld- ing, Lyman Abbott, Hebert Newton' Rabbi &likelier, Father Huntington, M.j. Say. age and others say so. The statesmen, the merchants, the ol,erks say ,so ; the naechan- ion, the laborers say so ; and so I come to you, adore, to esk you, not td say so, but for God's sake td say something—not to follow me, but to go into the public libraries and read the literature of the day upon this question and oppose me if you can. . Shake off this lethargy ; it is killing your art. It is keeping you idle and lowering your standard of worth. It is said. that there is an oversupply of theatres and actors. No ! there is no oversupply of anything, and there never can be, sie long as one human waot remains unsatisfied. Undereonsiimption is the trouble. Free land, concentrate your people, instead of forcing them out over thousands of miles of territory; economize your vitality and your wealth, advance your civilization step by step in the order, of et/elution.; lowed new cities only as they are needed, and you will find' that you havn't got half theatres or actors enough. I ani accused of being the champion of the common laborer I am the advocate of all labor; but I know that we can do nothing until the- common laborer is free. He has, got to be freed first. And I confess that it does seem to me that there is something radically wrong in a system that forces a manta toil incessantly from the sunritie to the sunset of his life—a life shoetened on an average thirty years— only to stand on the threshold of' his grave at last, gnarled and twisted like an old oak, and looking backward, say to himself: "For all tbis, toil an insufficiency of food abd clothing throueh life, and a pauper's grave at the end." And' yet frbm that man's toil, from the wealth he as pro- duced, some man or corporation of men has grown rich. It is hard to mere the comfortable people of the world see this truth, juet as it is difficult to beaks the comfortable motor, the actor who is always in an engagement, believe that there is not something radi- cally wrong with the uncomfortable meter who can get nothing to do. The rich are beginning to see it. That is demonstrated in their extensive charities. The time was that they waited until after death before disposing of their wealth; now they are adoptingtharitable measures during their lives. Charity under the present condition of things is a necessity, and we can't have too much of it; but I could wish we were well rid of it, and that justice stood in its stead. "Charity covereth a multitude of sins," but it also begets a multitude of wrongs. When Carnegie built that $800,. 000 library and bestowed it upon his work- men; one of them said, " If Andy'd only pay us our full wages we could build our own libraries." We single tax fellows say, justice is what we're deer. Give us that and we'll have no use for charity. The Smallest Book. The smallest book in the world is thus described by the London Pall Mall Gazette: This little book consists of 100 leaves of the finest rice paper, octagonal in sheen, and measures from side to side one half inch, stitched together and covered in silk. Nothing can exceed the lightness, delicacy and softness of the material or the neatness of the penmanship. This dainty little morsel of caligraphy, which at the first glance precisely resembles, in its glass prison, a very tiny butterfly of some un- common kind, is very probably unique in the western world. How it escaped immi- nent destruction is not the least wonderful featike of its history, for it was looted at Ghanzl, in India, by a private soldier during the mutiny, but it has been safe in Mr. Plant's possession for many years. The work has not been translated, but is officially defined, on the authority of an Indian Scholar, to be an example of the " Kathae, or Sacred Recitations of the Mahrattas Brahntane," and ie written, without blot or alteration, in the Mahrattas character in glossy black ink, with a bril- liant margin of vermillion to every page, which is also numbered. Possibly the acme of biblical minuteness ie reached in this beautiful little work of art, which for the pregent, at any rate, may claim to be "the steeliest book, as well as the least collective manuscript in the world." How They View It Chicago News: As the election draws on apace the party which "points with pride" while the opposite "views with alarm" is rapidly increasing in number% and activity, Grant Allen, who ▪ in recent review articles has shown a tendency toward Socialistic doctrines, heti applied to become a member of the Fabian Society. Canon Liddon's refusal of the bishopric of Edinburgh in 1886 was based on his opinion that bishops of the church of Scot. land ehould be Sootchmen. Queer: Victoria▪ 's family circle now numbers fifty living descendants, including eons and daughters, grandsons and grand- daughterti, great.grandsons and great, firanddanghterts. Katim4111,-x-, The strike of the Southampton firemen and seamen is ended, the advance demanded by the name having been conceded. The strike of the Montreal ship -laborers is praetleallY at an end, the contractor having fiectired all the help needed from outside. Kingston penitentiary is now lighted by electricity. There are 600 cell lights for the convicts and there are 30 night lights in the wings. Grananque yesterday carried a by law for the erection of a new' waterworks system, hat rejected the by-law in favor of a amend bridge, Win. Moir, 109 Grange avenue, Toronto, WAS kicked in the abdomen by a horse at the corner of King and Sinitic° Streets last evening. He was very beteiy hurt. Four persons were killed and fourteen hurt in a railway collision between Montjoie , and Kaltenberg, Germane', A ,etation master Was arrested for caesing the disaster through neeligence; Mr. Charles MacDonald a New York engineer, on visitirg GAIIBUOCItte, his native place, the other day; oared to double any amount subscribed' ey 'the oitizens for the erection of a meclianios' institute. W. R. Champlain, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., is in St. Thomas loeking for one A.ugustus Odell, who left Poughkeepsie for Delaware township in 1876, and who has fallen heir • to 080,000 by the death of his father. The elections for members of the Brazil- ian Constituent Assembly, to which the new constitution will be submitted, have coneroeneed. .As a precautionary measure the troops are confined to their barrack, Ge• orge Newman, a married men, of Kingston, was foetid drowned at Ports- mouth. He was last seen pitting on the wharf yesterday afternoon. He Was about '60 years -of 'age and had been a watohman. A man,narned Stevens had a leg badly crushed yesterday by the plough used for unloading dirt from oars at the Sarnia tunnel approach damp. The leg had to be amputated. Stevens is a married man with a large family. • It is expected that the House of Repro- sentativee will extend the time of removing bonded goods to February next or even • later, and thee. avert the financial disturb. &nee that would inevitably take places were the previsions of the, -McKinley bill to be enforced on Obtober let, as proposed by the Senate. • John W. Hatfield went to sleep on the Interoolonial traok near Springhill Junc- tion, N. S., Saturday night and was run over by a train,' injuring one leg so badly ,that it had to be amputated, and the man died two hours afterwards. He belonged to Maccen and is supposed to have been drinking. , Yesterday afternoon a boy of 8 yeari of age, named Wm. Urgahart, who lives at No. 127 Chestnut street, Toronto, was attacked by a collie dog, and was worried so severely about the 'arms and legs that he had to bemarried home. Dr. Macdonald was called, and he cauterized seven wounds. The, animal was destroyed by a constable. Advices from calgery state that Sir Hector Imitgevin's private oar came near to.being smashed while standing at the Calgary depot on Friday, having received a tremendous, bump while a train was being made nett Miss Langevin was knocked d' own and nearly all the occupants were moreor less upset, and a considerable assortment of crockery was smashed. The promised financial aid for the men who took part in the now defunct N.Y.C. strike 'arrived yesterday. Each man re- ceived a munificent sum. Some received $1.25 each and others received as much as $2.50. The ex -strikers are thoroughly die - gusted, and it may be readily believed that if they should ever strike again it will not be as members of the Knights of Labor, be- cause there will be no railroad men in the organization. A Frenchman, named C. Pearson, and a Belgian, named Barnard, quarrelled at St. • Boniface, Man., several days ago about their nationality. Both were drinking. Homard thrust the end of his umbrella into Pearaon's eye. It penetrated to the brain, breaking an artery and causing the blood to spurt forth. The injured man was taken to the hospital, where he died. upon learning that Peareon was dead Remand decamped, and has not yet been caught, although the police are after him. Anthracite coal is $9 to $9.25 per ton in Winnipeg. The British warship Comus has left Halifax for Bermuda. Count Tolstoi, the Russian Minister of the Interior, is seriously ill, The Southern Counties Fair, at St. Thomas, was opened yesterday. Seoretary Blaine says the enactment of reciprocity is the safeguard of protection. The dead body of a man named Dan. McKay was found near Woodstock yester- day. A Boston firm has bought up all the available molasses in Montreal, Halifax, and Quebec. . ThaLiberals of Portneuf County, Que.' have nominated Mr. Deslisle, of Quebec, for the Commons. The Austrian warship Taurus, with a crew of 69 men and 4 officers, has foundered in the Black sea. The presidents of the ecclesiastical and mauler councils of the Armenia patriarch- ate have resigned. The second annual convention of the In. ternational Brotherhood of Railroad Con. dilators is in session at Toledo. A. Hutchings fell from his milk waggon at Newborce and so injured himself that he is paralyzied. Be cannot live. Sir John Macdonald and Sir John Thompson yesterday spoke on political mations at a Catholic gathering at Morris. burg. Twenty.fi.ve miners were killed yesterday by an explosion in the St. Efendel colliery, in Germany. The other 825 men entombed Were rescued. Kingston has a sensation in "Tom -the Kisser," who has a ectania for stopping young ladies on the streets at night and kissing them. The officers of the U.S. warship Balti- more, which conveyed Erieseen's remains t� Sweden, were banqueted ley the Stook. holm citizene. The work of destroying the iron gates in the Danube at Vienna was begun yesterday in the presence of the Hungarian and Ser - ohne Premiers and °there. An adjournment of the United States Congress ie expected at the close of next week, but the seseion May be prolonged by the McKinley Tariff Bill. The visit of Sir Ambrose Shea to Quebec haa revived the idea of the federation of Newfoundland and the Britieh West Indian Iolanda with the Dominion. Chancellor Boyd made an order at Terchtoyesterclay to restrain Broker Baxter of Montreal from bringing libel suits against the Central Bank WIWI:litters. A Verdict of manslaughter has been re. turned by She ceroner'e jury in Ow case against Oharlee Howerd, of St, leoneface, ww,hhoo aat linaraglie. With an twain ells and is stillRev. Care Deettry, of $t. Henri, Que., says the fedure of the crops in thel?'.rovinoe 0„f Quebec was Caused by the wrath of God directed against the bleephonty, batereper. aime, extravagance, and lust of the people. Clutt, Coon de Co., the largest eoller and shirt manufacturing company in Troy, N. 7., was yesterday fined 020 in the Police Court cf that city tee e;oletitie the Factory laws in ttothiee e onion onsiiinee. The Sultan of Sokoto, who ruleover 12,000,000 people in West Africa, ),ids pre, sented Queen Victoria with a maguiticent lion. The animal has arrived atLiverpool, and will probably be taken care of at the "Zoo," Newton Kemp, convicted of shooting Joseph Reid at a Brighton Beacill oolored danceesear Windeor,was yesterday morning sentenced by Magistrate Barnet t to the Central Prison at Toronto for nine months. The Democratic convention for Connec- ticut at Hartford yesterday reaffirmed the national platform, declared for tariff re. vision and denounced the McKinley Bill. Luzon B. Morris was nominated for Gov- ernor. Col. Irwin, Inspector of Dominion Artil- lery, returned from Nova Scotia last eight. He says he found the Lunenberg Battery of Artillery in a most disorganized awe ineffi. oient state, and will recommend that the battery be disbanded. Last night the citizens of Quebec gave a ball in the Parliament house to H. R. H. Prince George of Wales. It was elitended by the military and civilian notables cd the city, the officers of the English fleet, and a large and fashionable representation of the fair sex. Fire in T. G. MoMullen's steam mill at Ryan's Creek, five miles from Shuben. aoadie, N.S, completely destroyed the mill, with all the machinery, including two saws. Between 7,000 and 8,000 feet of lumber were burned, of which a large quantity wag, dry pine. It is supposed the fire started from the smokestack of the mill. The loss i42,e0s0tom i. ated at between $10,009 and Another move to exclude Canadian workingmen from employment in Buffalo has been made by the Board of Aldermen. It is ostensibly aimed at all non-residents of the city, but it is actually aimed at a few teamsters and laborers who cross the river at this season to secure employment. The City Council, by formal resolution, has directed the city engineer to notify all city contractors to at once remove from their employ all persons not permanent residents of Buffalo, thus complying with the city ordinances. No Ballet No clergy. Toronto World: "We have no ballet tele year," said Vice -President Monlaster to a World young man yesterday, "and what is somewhat strange about it is that we've bad no ministers either in the grand stand or on the platform in the horse ring." "Do you know," continued the captain, that so scarce were the parsons, that at the Viceregal lunch the other day, I had not only to say grace, but had to pray for fine weather as well. Not a minister on hand. Beady For Him. Chicago Tribune: My dear, said the caller, with a winning smile, to the little girl who occupied the study while her father, the eminent literary man, was at his dinner, " I suppose you assist your papa by entertaining the bores?" " Yes, sir," replied the little girl grakiely ; "please be seated." Might Call Again. Epoch: He—Do you think you love me well enough to be my wife? She—Yes, George. He—Well, I only asked to aster' tam n how you felt on the subject, so in ease I ever should want to marry I would know where to come. The Average Boy. "Enjoyed your ,party, Bobby 2" "Oh, awfully !I "Well, what little girls did you dance with?" "Oh, I didn't dance. I had three fights downstairs with Willie Richardson, an' I licked him every time," . Warm Words, New' York Sun: Mrs. Bunting—What does your husband think of the warm weather? Mrs. Larkin—He often applies a heated term to it. Condemns John Smith. Toronto Week: The injustice of taxing Canadian laborers for the purpose of bring- ing in competitors from abroad, especially when the labor market is already crowded with men seeking employment, is too obvi- ous to need much argument. Too Many Airs. Bostonian: "Why, sir," exclaimed an enthusiastic member of a brass band, " we can play the most intricate airs on sight." "I'd like to hear you play the airs the drum -major puts on," replied en unbeliev- ing listener. Satisfied With Their jobs. Binghamton Republican: Neither the walking delegate nor the paid agitator was ever known to get dissatisfied with his job and strike. Why They Get Mad. New York Herald: Psalmist—, Why So the heathen rage? Cynic—Probably because so little of the money stibscribed for their conversion ever reaches them. A young lady, whose stage name is Nikita, is now singing in concert in Europe; and she is likely to prove to be the night- ingale of the future. She is about 20 verde( of age—a tall, angular, raw-boned blonde. When She sings she stands with her hande behind her and her face turned upward, as if she were singing to the sky. Her voice is phenomenally sweet, velvety and powers fed and of surprising compass, and her method is all that could be desired, In " Tale of a Coat," which is being done at Daly's theatre, there is a news. piper eeporter who does a great many mean things sod is twice kicked from the stage. Mr. Boncicault, who is the author of the play, is said to have done this to get Square with the reporters generally, Who for many years have abused him. When " Tale of a Coat " reaches the big city by the tail end of Lake Michigan, if it °Yee does, Mr. Boncicattlt will probably heat from the Weetorn roporters.—DunZop's Stags, News. —JET. M. Stanley is to be paid 41,600 for hie lecture in London on Jan. 7th. Two hundred and fifty -live tickets have Already, been dubsCribed for.