HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-11-13, Page 3tO1N'fERS FUR TRE FARMERS.
Whiugs N'llieh Every Agrieullurist Should
Know
THIO ElEa J LESS 1'A13,UUR.
"ewes In GreatErlta1n.
We beg to pisco before abippere a firmn
wary of the most authentic reporta ,we
have' been abler to get es to the crop of
apples in the United Kingdom. We have
reports ;from 135 dietricte, which may be
classified ae Zo11owe ; Very thin,, poor, or
almost a .failure, 62 ; half crop, or under
average, 34 ; fair, good, or average, 39. The.
aboveetatiatioe make it abundantly evident
that our hams supplies will be altogether
inadequate to meet the demand, and there-
fore the prospects for shipments from
America are correspondingly good. We,
however, again call attention to the advis-
ability of peeking the applea tightly, and
not ehipping enie,ll or common fruit, as if
•, :any quantity of this class arrives the reault
will in all probability be uneatiefaotory.
The faot tiee.t the continental trope of
apples are also poor ie a farther element of
strength in the general position. J. C.
Honexmox & Co., Liverpool, Engleued.
ifiia-seed is Risin'
' We kin all of us remember how along about
September
The papers used to tell about the canons or
the fair,
End them 1'cllers frum the city used ter git al-
mighty witty
On the teller with the duster what had hayseed
in hie hair.
They had fun in leeislatere with the man what
raided portaters
If by any hook ur crook or chance elected and
sent there,
Ajei End the reportorial friskers used ter comment
on the whiskers
End the carpet -Beau of Hinson. what had hay-
seed iu Lie nuir.
Yes, b'gosh ! he rid his pass out end he used ter
blow he gas out
End he used Ler drink hard eider when be went
out on a tear,
End he used ter pinch a dollar till the buzzard
used ter holler,
End the men cut up rse-e diklous what bad
hayseed in his hair.
But, by gum ; ef you've been readin' you observe
a strange pureeedin'—
It's the feller with chic -whiskers that is slowly
gettiu'there,
End it won't be coo surprisin' ef by slowly or-
ganizuf
Old periiee.may wake up to find the Hayseeds
in their Lair.
' When the fashions change you fellers will all
carry green umbrellera
End trousers wide across the seat to make the
dudelete stare ;
• In them time ef you pass muster you must wear
a linen duster
End es you want to throw on style put hayseed
in your hair,
Bogs Les liioney Makers.
" Even allowing e2 as pnrohase money
for each pig, I can make pork with whey
and shorts for 3 cents per pound," said an
• •extensive dairyman to ns jaet recently. He
raises Berkshires and Yorkshires, and of
course only expects such returns through
summer feeding. The above assertion
others will find endorsed in their caper-
. fence. Whey from cheese factories, or
skim milky fad with shorts, is cheap feed,
and given to the right sort of pigs will yield
good pork and and a large profit. Fed to
• "elm peelers " it rune to has, snout and
. lege, the least . valuable of all parte of a
marketable hog. Any farmers near a
cheese factory with whey in abundance,
are making the mistake of their lives if
they do not purchase a pure bred boar find
raise grade pigs to turn that whey into
money. We have no breed in'partionlar to
advocate, se e11 have pertain distinct quali-
ties of their own, bat we would urge those
with facilities at hand to place their order
with a reliable breeder for a vigorous yoang
boar. The raising of pigs is within the
redah of all, as the outlay is small and the
returns qutok and large. Fifteen or twecty
dollars sunk in paroheeing a pedigreed
boar will pay those handsomely wbo have
common feminine for pig raising.—Cana-
dian Live Stock and Farm Journal fo.•
October.
Remedy for Cabbage worm .
On of your postal pard correspondents in
your ;sane of August 301h complains about
the destruction of cabbage by the cabbage
worm. The following is a reliable and safe
remedy ; Dissolve 2 ounces of alum in 10
,quarts of rain water, mix 3 barge teblespon.
fate of fresh Pyret:hrnm powder thoroughly
with the solution, and apply the same by a
watering pot or a spraying pnmp, whenever
` the caterpillars make their appearance.
There is no neoecessity of losing a single
t head of oabbege by worms. In the same
number mention is matte of the claim of
one of the Experimental Stations that the
Bordeaux mixture will exterminate the
potato beetle. My repeated experiments
have convinced me:of the utter fallacy of
this claim. F. A. H.
Agricultural Notes.
The toad is ane of the beat friends of the
/farmer and destroys many insects.
See that the fruit trees you purchase
and accept have a good growth for their
years.
Corn cobs are exceedingly rich in potash.
Save them, burn them, and oarefully con
hot the ashes therefrom.
Young trees should be rid of weeds and
grass around the roots and liberdlly watered
'twice a day in dry weather.
figi Sunflower seeds aro excellent for the
hens that are molting. The hens should
have on all their new feathers before frost
eats in.
When manure is piled and composted,
the expense of hauling is reduced one-half
and the staff is put in much better condi-
tion for feeding plants.
Be careful now that the heavy sows do
not kill their pige by ornsbing them. Allow
plenty of room to farrowing sows, and nee
,oat straw for breeding.
The squash 'bug lays its eggs on the
under side of the leaves and they may be
easily found upon examination. The
.ggnash-vine borer deposits its eggs in the
stem.
Roll your wheat ground, bat do it before
,sowing. After the aced ii sown the in.
-equalities of the ground remaining protect
!the young wheat during the winter.
Before disposing of animals select such
rax have shown merit to be retained for
breeding purposes. Selection will largely
Met in the work of improvement.
One of the very finest fertilizers for
imelone is old bones, gathered up and re.
dnoed by planing them in alternate layers
with ashes the year previous to using
'them.
Put plenty of manure around the canes
of the raspberries if yon wiah a full crop
next aeaaan. The manure served as a
protects to roots,
h r o to and provides
auto&,
:plant food,
A new toot tiny be expensive, but itis
cheaper then damp stables or barna and
siok einimale. The animals have no warm
stoves in winter, and dryness is therefore
essential.
i Sheeonly:good rale foe baling hay is to
put it through the hey press before it
becomes foo dry, being (Angel tbat it is
not too damp or wet --when it is eixnply
ripe, as it were.
Sena up your supply of feed for the
poultry now. idorgbuni and sunflower
seed, the oleaninga as thrashing; and other
materials oan be gathered up and stored
to nee during the winter..
Experiments made show that when
celery - and . many ' other vegetables are
packed in damp moss and keptin a cool
place they will keep well for a long time,
and eepecielly in winter.
Common sense es urg farmers to give
themselves and teams a good long rest after
the mid-day meal. Rarely is work se
pressing as to make the non- observance of
this rube profitable.
Have your animals in good condition
Deo. let, and they will be half wintered,
but it a borne, cow or bullock 'begins the
winter in bad ,order at Christmas it can-
not well be reouporated by the next
summer.
Low fences induce oattle to attempt to
get over, and when the vise of jumping
over fences has beon acquired cattle will
attempt to do so on high 'fences. The rale
should be to have all fences in good eon.
dition.
The farmer who oarefully savea all the
manure and uses every endeavor to preserve
it is the one who also uses fertilizers Saoh
a farmer is never over supplied with the
materials that are necessary to increase the.
fertility of hie soil.
It is olaimed that an acre of Hubbard
equasb will give more food for fattening
hogs than Dorn. Sweet potatoes wilt
fatten hogs quickly, owing to the large
amount of sugar they oontain. Use all the
small sweet potatoes for that purpose..
The experiments made in Ohio for the
purpoee of arriving at a knowledge of the
beet method of cutting potatoes for seed,
and the production therefrom, show that
cutting the see redaoes the yield. In other
words, the smaller the cuttings the smaller
the yield.
Good green clover, when they are shoats,
and good sound Dorn to fatten them, make
good hoge and pork. A good strain of pigs
is neoeseary, of coarse. Healthy hoge will
thrive on any food they ought to have.
It does not pay to spoil a valuable horse
for the sake of making him wear out an old
collar. Many hordes are injured by old,
ill-fitting collars, whioh cause the horse to
become fretful and uneasy, and often pro-
duce permanent injuries.
"Fancy farmers" are blessings to agri-
culture. They reach for the best, make
experiments, and gradually lead the more
practical workers to a realization of the
importance of superior stook and better
methods. But for the "fancy 'farmers"
many of our best breeda would not now be
known, and agriculture would be behind
other pursuits.
Shiftless Tricks for a Farmer.
To try to farm without manure.
To work with poor tools and to sow poor
seed.
To plant more sores than oan be taken
care of.
To buy at public sales what is not needed
because it sells cheap.
It is shiftless to keep poor stock. A poor
oow eats as mnoh as a good one.
To lounge about stores and groceries
when it is possible to be doing something
at home.
To raise frogs and,mosguitoes in the
front yard. To have a pig -wallow in the
road near the gate.
To allow the hags and sheep to wander at
their own sweet will over their owner's and
his neighbor's premises.
To ant the wood for the kitchen fire day
by day and then barn it green. 1t is worse
to leave it for the wife to out.
To allow the barnyard to drain into the
public road or into a stream. A good many
farmers are guilty of this.
To let the cattle fodder themselves at the
hayeteok. It savea a little labor bat the
waste will make their owner Aper.
To leave tools of any kind lying out in the
weather, to put them away nnoleaned, or
to loan them to shiftless and careless neigh-
bors.
To tarn the oattle out into the bare fields
in cold weather when there is nothing for
them to eat there. and they lose flesh shiver -
n in the cold.
To plant an orohard and then to allow cat-
tle to browse the trees; to leisve vacant
places in a young orchard, to allow a yoang
orohard to remain in grass.
It is shiftless to allow weeds to occupy
any portion of the farm, and very shiftless
to allow bushes to occupy several rods of
ground along the fence -rows,
It is ehort.eighted policy to elect tot e
township and county offices the men who
cannot support themselves in the ordinary
parenits of life. It is also costly.
It is a thoughtless and a very dangerous
thing for a farmer to put hie name on any
paper presented by a stranger. Also, to go
on the notes of friends and neighbors.
11 is a shiftless trick to employ the
teacher who will work for the least wages.
It is as bad to leave a family of boys and
girls to grow up without good books and
papers.
It is reckless to buy trees of an utter
stranger ; aleo groceries, spices and such
articles as gen be easily adulterated. Nine
times out of ten one will be cheated by so
doing.
It is a heartless thing for a farmer to
allow his wife to work sixteen or eighteen
hours, when hie own work is completed in
ten hours. On the farm, as elsewhere,
husband and wife should be " equal part-
ners.
To wade through mud to the barn and
out -buildings, when good, dry paths men
so easily be made. To pay heavy doc-
tor's bills for wife and children beoause
their feet become wet through lack of good
paths.
To have no garden and to buy stale vege-
tables of a huckster ; it is nearly as bad to
have a miserable little garden, whit& the
good wile and the girl painfully weed, and
secure a few stunted vegetables, when large
Drops could be had with little trouble if the
garden were cultivated by horsepower. --
American Agriculturist.
Bashkirtneilei Tomb.
A wonderful monument has been erected
to Marie Basbkirteeff by her bereaved
mother, which in more like a house than a
tomb, near the entrance of the cemetery at
Paley. The interior, which can be plainly
seen, contains the yoang artiet'd rocking
chair, little table and favorite books, and
the names of her paintings shine in gold
letters on the wall. A perpetual light burns
before het bier, which her girl friends heap
every day with fresh floweret, and her pore
trait, ifs size, hangs above it. --New York
Sun.
When a man 8
is old h to see the
. enough is:
beauty in a m`ooniigbt; night lie lust about
old enough to get the rhenmeltisnn it he
OW oat in one.
BLENHEI T'S COWBOY
hs Story
of Hid Oeurtsbip and
tiarriag,'e,
AS TOLD BY EIS WE YOUNtk BRIDE
mise Mannillo, a Former Hamilton Girl,
The Dupe.
The following additionalarticulare in
em Y
reference to Blenheim e oowao are taken
trent. the Woodstook Standard
Having purchased seven faring Kline still
further electrified the neighborhood by
stating that he bad 260 head of thorough-
bred cattle on the way from England and
that he expected a fine team of blood
horses in a few days. To hoose these
cattle, horses, etc„ be told the orowd that
waited on hien that he would build a barn
450 feet long and 170 beet wide, the founda-
tion to be of brick and stone. He spoke to
Jacob steokle, of Platteville, for the brisk,
but Mr. Bteekle wanted half the money
down and the bargain was not oloeed. He
hired C. C. Frye to take the management
of hie estate at a salary of $5,000 per year
and expenses. He hired Dutton McNellie,
:Com Duran, George Church and Joe
Bawiman as farm bands at $280, 6250,
0200, $175 respeocively, and find them in.
chewing tobaoao. He was on the lookout
for a good biaoksmith to take charge of the
shop whioli ho intended to build on his
estate. Ile was in Platteville on
Thursday of last week and gave an
order to Robert Deaton for twenty Bete of
harness
Socially, it seems, he was a favorite with
the young people of the neighborhood,
whom he amused in the evening by acting
and reciting his exploits ae cowboy in
Texas. He showed them how to use the
two-edged dirk which he always carried.
Last week he donned his cowboy suit and
invited the neighbors to witness an exhibi-
tion of his horsemanship at the home of
his father-in-law. As soon as he was
seated in the saddle the horse became
unmanageable and., ran away. Young
Whitterick, who was on the road, stopped
the animal in its mad career by catching
the bridle as it was raising a hill, and the
cowboy, pale and trembling, dismounted
quicker than lightning, averring that "dot
horse vas beat eberyting dot vas in Texis."
Every time that he dressed in hie intended
brother.inaaw's best suit and paraded the
road with his intended motber-in-law on
one arm and hie coming bride on the other
he was envied by the young men of the
neighborhood. He sailed under the name
of Charles Kline and was a lover of lager
beer and havauae.
Having learned the above from responei.
ble panties in the neighborhood, your
oorreepondent called et the home of Mr.
b 1aNeIlie, Kline's father•in-law. Mr.
McNellie was not at home, but I was kindly
received by Mrs. McNellie. Before I got
through stating my balminess the bride
appeared, and the mother being somewhat
dull of hearing told the daughter the object
of any call. The bride is a blonde of medium
height, light auburn hair, large blue eyes,
good form and wears epeotaolea. She was
dressed neatly and felt disposed to talk, in
fact she said the truth might as well be
toldat once. In answer to my questions
she stated she was born in Saffolk, Eng-
land, on the 12th of March, 1870. " When
I was a year old my father and mother
emigrated to this country and settled in',
the city of Hamilton. We lived in
Hamilton nine years. Then we moved-
to South Dumfries, °boat four milea
from Ayr. We lived there till we
moved to this our present home. We
moved here last spring. No, my father
has not bought the 1srm. He hag only
anted it. I am in the 2les year of my age.
rw marrie •, d -. IZ ..x At it ; t 1 LIG ti
inst., at 5 p.m., by the Rev. Edward Col.
borne, of Paris, at the rev. gentlemen's
home. Thirteen dens after I was first%
introduced to Mr. Klin I was married to
him. My brother went to Drumho on the
let instant, to hire e, man to help to pull
stumps, end he brought Mr. Kline home
with nim and introduced him to me. No,
my brother never saw Kline before that
day. No, I did not marry him for his
money.' It was is love match. Aa soon as
I became aognsieted with him I told my
mother he was jest the man fir me. He
told my brother that I was just the girl,
for him. He proposed marriage about
seven days after our first acquaintance.!
No, I did not think he was in a hurry. He
asked my father and mother for my hand
in marriage. They gave their consent.
The oonstable'came in and arrested him
in this room. He pnt handcuffs on him.
The amenable demanded the cowboy snit
and it was given to him. He demanded a
sealskin overcoat which he said my husband
had stolen. My husband bas no sealskin
overcoat. Yes, my husband has bought
soma things. He bought a banging lamp at
Dram)" bat it is not paid for. My husband
brought a keg of lager beer to the honee and
bought cigars by the box. No, he had no
money. I did not think it strange that he
had do money about him. He saw he would
draw $250,000 at the Bank of Commerce,
Paris, on the let of November, and I believe
that amount ie coming to him. It was left
to him by his grandfather, uncle anti father.
His father died about four months ago at
St. Thomas. He bequeathed him $75,000.
When arrested, my husband eaid he was in-
nocent. No, I have not heard he was wanted
at Preston. Since his arrest I ` havo
hoard that he has a wile in Brantford. I
do not believe that. His arrest has not
shaken my confidence in him. I am not
down.hearted, and unless he has a wife in
Brantford I will stick to him to the last.
The Cane Gone.
The gilded youth o! New York now walks
the avenue empty-handed. It is one of
those senseless freaks which constantly
seize society, and weak-kneed dudedom bee
been the first to throw away its silver -han-
dled cane. Tho effort to walk straight and
to look at eaee, with hanging hands, is so
great, thenext thing will be a special school
for those wbo must keep tip with the
fashionable procession at any poet to their
own need or comfort. Physical training
has become a fad, and this attempt to leave
the hands free is one of its restate. Now
of all things awkward, none is more so than
to eee a. woman awing her arms when she
walks, and then, too, wink will become of
her poor little paws, if she is not allowed
to carry a muff by and by ?
Tho Bloomin' Cockney.
Ottawa Fee Press
There was a bloomin' sparrow, lived up a
bioomtn'spout,
And a bloomin rain -storm came and washed
the bloomin' sparrow out,
But when the bloomin' sunshine dried up the
bloomin' rain
Up went the bloomin' sparrow to the bloomin'
spout agate."
£ BIOR'Y Otis' TEnie peat
]Field Marsteal lieith, the revorite Oeteered
sal n'redeirlete Ike (bust.
Frederick the Great had the bappy
faculty of surrounding himself with able
men. Like Napoleon, he was a good judge
01 human nature, and he was rarely de
oeived. one of hie most valued assistants
was an Englishman, Jamey Edward Keith.
Tbis young man engaged in a revolution in
England, and barely escaped with bis life.
Then he served under the Czar in his wars
upon Poland and Turkey; but oonaidering
himself the viotim of iejuetiee, he resigned
and aeogpted the position of field marshal
in the Prussian army. Frederiole the Great
made him his favorite companion, andtbey
travelled together incognito through Ger..
many, Poland and Hungary. Keith invented
a game resembling °bees, whioh so delighted
the king that be had some thousands of
men oast in metal, by which he could
arrange battles and sieges.. The British"
field marshal managed the admirable
retreat of the army from Olmutz in the
preeenoe of a superior forge, without the
loss of it single gun, and he took part in all
the great battles of the period. He lost his
life in the desperate fight at'Hoohkerohen
on Oot. 14th, 1758. Keith was of middle
height, dark oomplexion and strongly
marked features. Hie preeenoe of mind
was remarkable, and his knowledge deep
and varied, while his military talente and
stria sense of honor made him take rank
among the first commanders of the day.
Hia brother, the Lord Marshal of Scotland,
once wrote of him : " My brother has left
me a noble heritage; after having overrun
Bohemia at the head of it large army, I
have foand only $70 in his purse." Fred-
erick honored Keith's memory by having
erected a monument to him in Berlin by
the side of hie other generale.
There are 128 hotels in New York city.
Some of them are very handsome and very
good ones in all ways, and some of them
rive tabid -sloth six days without washing
Candles containing 'bromine and iodine
aro coming into tee for disinfecting dein
xoom]
A Broad-minded View.
The Northwestern Miller, a strictly bus;.
nese journal, in discussing the effect of the
new United States tariff on the flour
trade, gives expression to the following
humanitarian sentiments : " The growth
of our commerce is certainly of more im-
portance than the fate of the Republican
or Democratic parties. What we wast is
more trade and less legislation, larger mar-
kets for our products and lase restriction
on our commercial relations. We do not
wish to enter into an argument on the
tariff as a political measure, but we see no
possible objection to our discussing it as a
business proposition. There is one point
advanced by some supporters of the MoKin-
ley Bill which is, we think, utterly let vari.
once with all accepted ideas of American
fairness and honor; a point which we are
ashamed to see brought forward and whioh
we hope will be forever dropped when its
real significance is comprehended. The
point is this : That the passage of the Mo-
Kinley Bill has already brought distrees
upon certain manufacturers in Europe, and
caused them to olose up their works and
discharge their help- In this age and in
this country of ail countries on the globe,
a man should be ashamed to bring forward
such an argument. America, in order to be
prosperous, does not need to pass laws
which will bring distress upon people in
other and less favored lands. An expres-
sion of setiefaction at such a result is
narrow-minded, unohristian and an -Ameri-
can. If in this country a lack of work is a
hardship, in oerteinparte of Europe it is
more ; it is starvation ; and the man who
can gloat over the hunger of men, women
and children who have heretofore been able
_to exist by the crumbs whioh fell from this
table, moat be made of a very different kind
of stuff from what we are accustomed to
consider the average American to be."
The Woes of Queens.
The queen of Roumania has two sericne
troubles, which preys sadly on her excit-
able, emotional nature. Her only daughter
died, and her eon and heir never arrived.
King Charles, her husband, has adopted a
grown-up nephew to fill the state vacancy,
but everybody knows thio is not the same
thing to the poor queen roneort, whose
position is never the same as when her own
child Domes next in enoceaion. The diepen-
eations which have fallen on other exalted
ladies should remind ber majesty of Ron -
mania that the has paiteere enough in dis-
tress. The ex Empresa Eugenie for one,
whose heir was greeted with a whole
nation's enthusiasm and afterwards per.
;abed by the spears of a few dusky savages.
The Austrian Empress is in a still worse
plight Her only son mot with a disgrace-
ful end andbarely received Christian bar -
lel. Save for a legaoy of mieohief end
beartburning he is as though he had never
been. The queen of the Belgians lost her
only son eome years ago. A grand review
of Queen Victoria's descendants would very
likely give "Carmen Sylva " a lonesome
feeling, but she should reflect that forty
children and grandchildren not only coma
expensive but can seldom be managed ae
doves in a cage when once sons-in-law and
daughters-in.iaw and janior partners ewel1
the list.—Modern Society.
A Newspaper Offer.
A novelty in newspaper enterprise has
bean introduced by the proprietors of
The Lancashire Weekly Journal, who promise
to contribute $500 toward the election ex-
penses of the Labor candidate for the next
Parliament. If the candidate is euaceseful
they make a further offer of $25 weekly
toward his maintenance if the circulation
of The Journal goes up to 25,000 copies.
The proprietors further offer to start and
maintain a second labor representative on
the same terms. The conditions are that
the constituency must be Lancashire, the
candidate must belong to the Labor party,
and the circulation of the paper moat be
15,000 copies. There is the rub.
PUOGRIpaniVell +'o$FER$*TIOX,
A New Amusement Meant Mainly for the
Voir tie'.
A. new movement partioalarly adapted
bo the tr,udition&l talent of fair women 1,9
the Progressive Conversation Party,"
which bad itu birth in the East. Ite.
popularity is established by itspostibili•
ties to entertain any number of mato,,
though more than twenty cannot be
easily managed. Its modus operandi is
somewhat as follows : As many °balraaa.
required by the'namber of guests invited
are arranged in pairs in a continuous
line, one behind the other, and are yelled
together with broad ribbons of different
colors.
The to ios of conversation for the even.
in are a nouueed on the invitation. csrde.
Agcarci on whioh is written a to is of
conveel cation is tied' with a narrow rbbon
to the connecting eibbo.,8 on the
chairs, and tally cards, as iu progressive
euchre, with a tiny ribbon bow, which
matches the colors an the °hairs, are
arranged for both ladies and gentlemen, as
in the game when played with cards.
When all the poets have drewn a card
they take their sesta according so the color
designated by the tally card, the ladies on
the left and the gentlemen an the right,
the hostess taps a bell, and the buzz of
conversation begine.
Ten minutes are allowed to each topic,
and the topic on each est cf chairs differs
from all the others. The judges ohosen
pass down the line and criticise, and at the
end of the time specified ides agold star
on the card of the beat conversationalist, a
silver star on the card of the vanquished.
The entire company change seats, the gen-
tleman retreating one seat, the lady ad-
vancing one, and the buzz begins again.
'When ten changes have been made, ten
topics dished np and disoutsod, the person
having the greatest number of gold stars is
the winner.
Libraries for small. Towns.
Out west people have been successfully
trying a new plan for the piecing of
libraries in small towns where no public
library exists. Each one of several hun-
dred people subscribes el a year and selects
any book at that pride which he desires to
own. All the books selected are then
plaoed in a temporary library, and every
anbeoriber bas the privilege of reading eaoh
one. At the end of the year the subscribers
drawout the books they originally
inall
Y
selected, eo that the coat for the year's
reading is practioally nothing.
Jack the Kisser.
There ie one of those public nniaanoes
galled "Jack, the Il;.iseer," loose in Lincoln,
Illinois. The other evening some young
men disguised themselves as girls of sweet
16 and attempted to trap the hugger, who
has been creating intense excitement in that
town. Jack got an elevated and sootnded
position and dumped a pail of water on
them. An hour later he °eight, kissed and
hugged the prettiest girl in the town.
The New Pasev:ord,
Gazzanz (after he has auocedodin waking
his wife) -Open the doreh i
Mrd. Gazzam (head out of Mimed -story
window) --Are you sober ?
4' Yob."
4' Then say • reoIprooity.+"
Marking the Forth Bridge's Movements,
Sir John Fowler has had fitted to the
end of the south main -span of the great
Forth Bridge an iu.;enioas little indicator
to reoord the nan,iber of trains passing and
the daily contraction and expansion of the
bridge. The apparatus consists of a brass
rod, with a pencil attached to the end of
the girder, and a peper.00vered cylinder
driven by clockwork. The point of the
pencil rests upon the paper, which moves
constantly as the clockwork turns. As
the cantilever contracts the pencil is pulled
away, and when the bridge expands the
penoil is pushed forward, thus produoing a
curve of contraction and expansion upon
the roll of paper.
The same prinoipl, is applied to register
the behavior of the bridge while a train is
passing. When the :rain eaters on the
end of the cantle a -r it throws up the
opposite end, end ter pencil resting upon
the roll of paper reco••;s Ibis movement by
9 mark at right angle' to the curve of con-
traction and expans, n. When the train
passes to the other bt f of the cantilever
that end of the gee, span is pulled down
and another, mark is made on the register-
ing eheet at right angles to the continuous
oontraotion and expansion curve. Each
mark indicates the passage of a train, and
the simple apparatus thus serves three
purposes. An average of 140 trains cross
the bridge each day. There is no limit
apon their speed except for freight trains,
which are not allowed to run over twenty
miles an hour.
Birohall Wanted as a Witness.
The World says : Messrs. Meredith St
Cc. yesterday set on foot a motion for leave
to examine Reginald Birohall at the Wood•
stock jail. On the 20th Inst a writ claiming
damages for libel was served on behalf of
Grosveuor Hood Graeme on the Giobe
company. The plaintiff in this action now
asks for leave to exsrnine Birohall as a
necessary and materiel witness on his
behalf. The plaintiff increase that he
believes Birohall did not say, as was stated
by the defendants in the article complained
of, that he wee an accomplice with him in
the murder of Benwell, or that he bad any-
thing to do, directly or indirectly, with the
murder. The motion will likely be argned
to -day or tomorrow.
Solicitors representing some of the daily
papers of tbie city were yesterday melting.
anxious orgziries around Osgoode Hall as
to whether any order for replevin lied been
loaned on behalf of Birohall against them.
It is said that some letters which were
entrusted by the prisoner to some one of
those engaged to procure evidence on
behalf of the prisoner have not been
returned to him, but have been left with
one or more of the Toronto editors, who
refuse to give them up, and proceedings
bave been threatened on behalf of the
prisoner. No order had been issued by any
of the judges at the time the offices olosed.
The Prince's tGemory.
The Prima of Wales has a royal mem -
ory for faces. Some time ago he noticed
an elderly gentleman gravely saluting
him. The Prince immediately remem-
bered the face but could not recollect
where he had seen it before. He approaeited
the gentlemen and said :
"I believe I have met you before, but or
the moment I forget your name."
The gentlemen replied :
"Made your breecbee, your Royal High -
nese."
"Ab, yes," slid the Prince ; "of course.
How d'ye do, Major Bridges?"
He was one at the Prince's tailors.
BUIIGDIMG .d £4£014 YZ,9SXL
The.aitate or 1Jaffornia for Trtei a $,tWSP
18000klyn and Olesgow.
The State line 9r ateanialeips, runrslog
between Brooklyn and Glasgow, are shorty!,
10 augment their fleet of vessels wit11 tr,:
larger one by e,000 tons than any one yet`
in the line. This voaeel ie the Ste,te of
California, which is now being built bye
AIexender et Sons, in Glasgow. She le tit
be in length 400 feet over all, .32 feet 8
inches in depth, 7 feet lid 'where betweelt
upper and main .deck, 7 feet 11 inohele.
between main and lower deck. She. Iia
6,000 tons measure, barkentine rigged,
one funnel and triple expansion engines
and ie in every respeot np to tiftle
most exaoting requirements of they
Board of Trade. The .vessel itir
built entirely of the best of steel.;
with cellular double bottom divided into
seven compartments, and has watertight
bulkheads. She has two decks, main end
lower, entirely of steel. The steering ap-
paratus is ran by steam goer, and is set
fine that she may be easily turned in ben
own length. Speoial attention has been
paid in the designing to the comfort ana
accommodation of the saloon passengers:.
The promenade deck is another feature of
the new steamship to which a great deal of
attention has been paid. It is eight feet
above the upper deck and attends frost
the front of the saloon 152 feet aft, and
the whole breadth of the vessel. The
accommodations for steerage are fully
ventilated by ventilators of the moat im:'
proved pattern. The vessel is lighted. liter
electricity throughout, and is eaid to have
a builder's guarantee of 14 biota speed:
per hour.
A Truthful Plsher.
New York Herald
I walked and dressed and bathed and d seed ,
and drove and dressed some more,
And then I just began again add strolled along
the shore,
I'd frocks for every kind of thing that any girl
could do ;
I'm counted somewhat brilliant, an I'm rather
pretty, too;
I boated and played tennis till I'm quite the
proper tan,
and tithed and fished and fished and fished, but
didn't catch a man.
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A Kansas man sunk a sheft on bis farm
the other day, and n going down 100 feet,
it is eaid, struck two five-foot veins of min-
era!` aint a
ten�foo iaratnm ofi
r br ok clay,
p
e twenty.inoh vein of conal, and a five-fo
stratum of marble.
Women's Ways.
There is more than the difference off es
letter between the woman with nerve and
the woman with nerves.
Somehow profanity does not seem so bad.
to a woman when a man is swearing how'
much he thinks of her.
Did you ever notice that after a woman
passes 30 she doesn't Dare if people do know'
the is going to be married 2
If a woman was as careful in selecting e:
husband to match her disposition as she is
in selecting a dress to match her complex-
ion there would be fewer marriage troubbes
than there are.
When does a woman stop being a girl?
Is it when she gets married ? We have
known married women of 18 who became
cross if they were called girls, and unmar-
ried women of 38 who would get owes if
called anything else.
Unless a "girl can invite everyone she
knows to her parties it is risking her popu-
larity to entertain at all. It is said that
after a girl gives a party to a few friends
half the other girls ahe meets on the street
the next day won't speak to her beoanse.
they were not invited.
Women leave half their things behind
them. After a orowd has left the opera
house it is women's handkerchiefs, um-
brellas and. gloves that are picked np in the
seats ; never the men's. It is the women
who leave everything from a valise to a
baby in the oars when they travel. There
seems to be an absent-mindedness about
women that they themselves cannot account
for:—Atchison Globe.
Loveliest of English Women.
The description of the wedding gown of
Lady Helen Dnnaombe, sister of the
Duchess of Leinster, who is said to be the;
most beautiful woman in England, is quite
charming. The gown must have been
refreshing is its originality. The drese was
of pare white satin, made perfectly plain.
The bodice was made with high, fall
sleeves, finished with frills of point de gaze,
with which the front was trimmed. A
girdle of rings of sequins passed twice
around the waist and fell in long ends on
the skirt. The train, suspended from the
shoulders by ropes of white silk and silver,
was of rich white silk, brocaded with large
white lilies of St. Joseph outlined in raised
embroidery, the stems wrought in pare
green silk and the stamens in yellow. The
veil was point lace, and the bride carried a
bouquet of natural Iilies like those embroil-
red on her train.
Tracts ve. Tracks.
" May I leave a few tracts here ?" in-
quired the meek and olerioal-booking stran-
ger.
" You may," replied the house• owner, as.
tyingthe dog," but don't leave them on the
flower.beds. Sick him, Mike I"
And es the stranger realized that the
man meant " traoke," he fled.
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