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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-11-13, Page 7Tho rubulitace. Along the streets like cyclone ran The *imbalance with one dead DOOM Who /aad too freely rushed the on; And all who eaw the car advance, Cried " Ambulance V' Aft 'round the corner fast it ilew, Another man it overthrow, And he vies carried iu it, too ; Then smarter still did onward dance The ambulance, One ancient lady, pang by, Scarce saw it with her eagle eye, When, le I it lifted hor sky high, Wi at good to her, lur eagle glance? Vile enobulamee Flow quick it made the people drop I It for the dead seam seemed to stop -- Seemed jriet to take them on the hop From oue poor man it tore the pants, What ambulance. Itkilled a score of men before Itreaebed the hospital's grim door, Five men it bore whose days were o'er, The people watched with gloomy glance What ambulance. It kept the good work going well, It wildly rung its horrid bell, The knell of tolls who 'fore it fell. It made the crowd disperse like ants, That ambulance. When at the hospital it stayed, " A lot of dead," the driver said; " But, gosh 1 it is 'ho life of trade." And many watched, aa iu a trance, That anibulanoe. Buffalo News A Strange Letter. The following letter was written by the wonng woman who threw the two ohildren :over tbe bridge at Akron the other day, particulars of which appeared in the num : Oct. 31st, 1890. Dam AUSTY,—When you get this I wi' be far from earth. I am sick and tired, ' living, and tee I told you my Met hope is come at last. I am thankful to die .People rebuke me for things I aril not guilty of, and as I have no one to love I oan go in peace. My beam I leave in Akron with the one I always spoke to you of as he Seems to not care for me. I know it is a lain for me to put an end to myself but I tam not the only one. My brain is longing 'for the end. Now if I only had my little trather to take with me I would be happy. If I only had died when I was young bow thankful I would have been, but as it is I xnuet die. So tell my sister that I love her as much as ever, but that I could not stay with her. I hope you will see to them, me I know yon will, and when I am dead I will tome to you and explain and do not fear me. I will not hurt you, and the man I love will know no a a frequent visitor. Oh, dear, it it wse only over how thankful I world be. I think I will take some one with me, so I will close my last letter on earth, hoping God will do justice with me es He does with everybody. So when you gat this you will know I am no more. Yon will find my body in the train in Buffalo. Pleme bury me in Akron as I will be near my loves one. So good -by. Prom Sadie your no more n ece- Grim Conscience. " That fellow's a tough!" tt "He'd bold you up at night!" H .1 believe it." "He'd rob your house 1" "1 think he would." ." Then why did you give him a quarter ?" The above conversation mound between two gentlemen standing on the corner of Broadway and 14th street. " " tell you why," mid the one who bad promptly handed out the piece of silver when " etruck" for lodgings money. " One day two or three years ago I was down on Canal street. A tongh-looking chap asked me for money, and I not only refused but threatened to have him arrested. I didn't exactly mean it, but he thought that I did, .and in bis burry to get away he ran in front of a big truck team, and was knocked down and run over. The wheel crushed his hips, and he didn't live over ten minutes. I helped carry him to the walk, and I'm tell- ing you straigbt wben I say that he kept his eyes straight on mine until they closed in death. There was that in hie lame which made rue feel contemptible compared to a worm, and for the next month it seemed to sae that everybody in New York looked -upon rue as worse than it murderer. That man dire blaming me for his death, and id have given him 9500 to see him live. That's why I come down whenever I'm struck • and if I hadn't but half a dollar on earth I'd divide it if called upon.—New York San. He Had a Question to Afar. New York World: Agitator (on woman's righte)—I claim that the rights of both sexes should be equal. In whatever field woman has entered she has equalled and often surpassed the men who had thereto- fore exclusively occupied it. In what—I repeat, in what branch of industry, what profession, what art as she not displayed her eqality ? Chairman—There is a young anon in yonder corner who evidently desires to say something. Agitator—Well, young man, do you wish to refute what I say? Speak 1 Young man—I only wanted to aek if a woman can sharpen a lead pencil as well as Zs DIEM. The Arctic Rxpedition. Baron Nordenskjold, the great Arctic ex- plorer, is enthusiestic over the Polar expe. Milian which is now being fitted out in Nor. way, and believes that all the conditions are favorable for reaching the North Pole. He does not think, however, that it will ever be reached by ship, but that explorers ehould only sail to the land nearest to it, awed then make the rest of the journey on foot. The energy which the members of the proposed expedition displayed in cross- ing the ioy wastes of Greenland is an earnest that if anything more oan he !learned of the frozen notth they will master the secret. And They Talked About Lozenges. Mme. Patti and Gladstone were both in lEdinbargh a few days ago, and the great statesman called upon the famous singer. The topic) ef conversation which seemed to lee of greatest interest to both was the relit - titre merits of various lozenges they wore each obliged to use, • The Quebec' Legislature opened yester. day. Hon. Mr. Marchane was eleoted Bpeaker and Hon. Mr. Blanobee leader of tho Oppoeition. There was no speech from the Ms nene. The reports; of the eleetione in the Stittes yesterday were unusually meagre last might, but it would appear that the Demo- erats made considerable gaine. They are • reported to have captured Massachusetts and elected Pattison in Penneylvania. A esdet of the Mama &Me in the Royal Minters/ College at Xingston has it pretty :moustache, whioh emetee the envy of hie comrades, several of whom were proceed. ing to *eke A off when a sergeant inter- fered. One of the aemilants wee reduced to the rank& TUE WORLD OM LABOR, Pointe of Interest About the country's endustrIes. France has 130,000 ewe. Butter le made from comm. De Loops Ls near 85 mum, Coal is $14 at Elan Francisco. Union bread lame a new label. Welding is done by eleotrioity. Forging is done by electricity. Copper welding is a "Met art," Dallas drummers have it anion. Paris has a, glut of idle printers. New York janitors have a union. Mrs. limey Green has e40,000 000. Jamaica sends the deareet coffee. Smith Amernia uses Canada octal. In Europe 587 language° are used. t'e Boston will Mote a Chinese paper. Florida claims grapes a foot round. Itheeia's army has 125,000 Hebrews. A London editor gets 915,000 it year. There are 1,688,900 miles ot telegraph wire. The ITIra Cathedealris the highest, 530 feet. From e Sim to Ma " is a day in South- ern fields. World's coffee output: 17,000,000 hun- dred weight. Scotch iron hands want time and half- time for Sunday. Fifty nuion men hold publio offine ha New York and Brooklyn. The Batesville (Ark.) Journal is owned anti printed by deaf mutes. Girls were given the places of finishers in an Indianapolis desk factory. Kansas City people say a boulevard is worth 91,000,000 a mac to property. It is said that men are mane in Col- orado mining camps. Wages average 93 a day. A printer who worked during a New York strike must pay e100 to rejoin the union. ihe Joliet Steel Company has shared $8,000 of its profits with its employees in eis months. The San Francisco Journeymen Butchers' 'Union cannot supply the demand for men. In Pittsburg no paperhanger is allowed to plaster a wall when the hole is over six inohes. Carpenters are name at Great Falls, Mont. Helena men were offered ite and 94.50 to work there. Two Philadelphia plasterers had to pay the Pittsburg Uniou $35 each before they oonld get work. At Frankfort, Germany, 500 horse- power is tratasruitted by electricity to it distance of 140 miles. Some Indianapolis bootblacks o'oarge 10 cents a shine bemuse the tariff increases the price of blacking. There were in the :United States in the year 188S, 2,000,000 of legal voters who were ueable to reateor write. The value of the imports from Sheffield, Eng., to the United States the past three months was about 4900,000. At the Glasgow Convention of Seamen and Dookmen it was suggeeted the next atrike take place in mid -ocean. William Hastiugs, of Parkersburg, W. Va., bass it machine that 'will revolutionize nail -making," doing the work of three machines. The Brooklyn Workmen's Furniture Insurance Fund has 6,242 members. The trettsureres books show total aesets to the emount of e28,180 90. The value insured is given at 82,838,725. "1 William, Emperor of the Working- men," was insoriloed on the arch of welcome erected by the workingmen under which William II. and Emperor Franz Joseph passed in entering Liepnik. Labor Commissioner Peak, of New York: "1 ime was when the relation of employer and emploeed were such that the will of the employer we absolute and selnasser. Mon was impossible." Gold is worth about e240 a pound troy. The rare metal galloam is valued at 93,250 an ounce; barium, $975 it pound; calcium, $1,800 a pound; cerium, 51,920 it pound. Nickel is worth 60 cents a pound arid eilver 912. Rs cent sucqesses in tunnel building en- courage the belief that a tunnel under Behring's Strait will, before very long, meke it poesible to enter a railway car et the Grand Central station, in New York, and step out of it in St. Petersburg or Peri& In Manchester, N. H., a loom -fixer on Mein work receives from e1.75 to e2 per day, and $2.25 per day on limey work. The number of looms under oharge of each man is less than in Lowell. In Nathua the loom fiser on plain work re- ceives el 75 per day; in Lawrenee, 01.75 on plain work and 92 to 52.25 per day on f army work. Prices at Tacoma, Wash.: Potatoes), per pound, 3 cente ; hay, per torn el 5 to 935; oats, per ton, $16 to 535 ; potatoesnper ton, $10 to 960; eggs, per dozen,20 to 40 cents ; butter, per pound, 15 to 35 cents; cheese, per pound, 12e to 15 cents ; cab- bage, per pound, 1e to2e cents; onious, per pound, 2 to 5 cents ; tomatoes, per Pound, 4 to 7 cents ; strawberries, per pound, 5 tee 10 cents. 7 Progrebsive Dinner Parties. Restaurant -keepers have long been troubled as to how to eet even with their boarders. Josephine Driat, of New York, has got out a patent for them. It °onside of a table and stools', both of which run on an endless chain. The diner comes in, takes a seat on a stool, pays his 25 cents for his meal, and it is set before him. The table then begins to move and the man moves along with it. It continues to move him along till it gets to the other end of the room, and at this time he is supposed to have finished his meal, for his dishes slide off around a wheel and his Moot slides ont with him. Millions Spent for Flowers.' One Ne .o York florist,' as the Sun chronicles, is inclined to think that 95,000,. 000 a year is spent in New York city in out flowers, and as much more in plants. This estimate is based on the assertion that one wholesale florist—the chief. to be sure—did a trainee's one year of $1,500,000. Stook that Met 91,500,000 wholesale may retail for $3,000,000, and $2,000 000 is car - Minty little enough to allow for the sale at retail of the stook of the other wholesale dealers. The cost of private ereenhonses mast be considered besides. Florist,' are sometimes paid93,000 a year to take charge of greenhonees. The St. Catharines Milling and Lumber Company, who claimed $165,001Mfrom the Dominion Government for luteiber seized by the Ontario Government when their limit was awatded to the Province of Ontario, were yesterday awarded 92,375 by judge Barbridge. Archdeacon Lander, who Imo returned th Ottawa frorn a *rip to Ireland, says he Paw Bigne of pronperity in every aireotion. Life eves abeolutely safe end property wee re - (mooted. The failure of the potato crop was greedy exaggerated, arid altogether the out. look in the Arehdeacon'e eyes le =ratably bright find (leering, • AMNION To TOITNO. &MX Two Good &Mee Which, if rellowed Bring Fortune, L Save a pert of your weekly eernings, even 11 1* be no more than it quarter dollar, and put your savings naouthly in it savings bank. 2. Buy nothing till you can pay for it, and huy nothing that you domet need. A young man who has grit enough to fol- low them rules will have taken the first step upward to sunoess in busineee. He may be compelled to weer a coon a year longer, even if it be unfashionable; he may have to live in it mailer house than some of hie young acquaintances; his wife may not sparkle with dial:kinds nor be re- eplendent in silk or satin, just yet ; hi children may not be dressed ise dolls or popinjays; his table may be plait' but wholesome, an the whiz of the beer or champagne cork may never be heard in his dwelling; he may have to get along without the earliest fruits or vegetables; he may have to abjure the olub-roorn, the theatre and the gambling hell, and to reverence Use Sabbath day and read and follow the precepts of the Bible inetead ; but he will be the better off in every way for thie self-discipline. Yes, he may do all thee without detriment to his manhood or health or character. True, emptybeaded folks may sneer at him and affect to pity him, but he will find that be has grown strong -hearted and brave enough to stand the laugh of the foolish. He has become an independent man. He never owes any- body, and so he is no man's slave. He has become master of himself, and a master of himself will become a leader among men and prosperity will mown his every enter- priee. Young roan! life's dieoipline and ife's suooess come from hard work and early self denial, and hardmarned success is all the sweeter at the time when old years climb upon your shoulder and you need propping up.—Typographic Advertiser. Romance Reduced to Figures. There is an Englieh literary man who at the end of eaoh year penetrates into the publiehed fiotion and extracts 'therefrom very often some exceedingly interesting figuree. The results of his researches into last year's fiction are entertaining. Of the heroines portrayed in novels he finds 372 were described as blondes, while 190 were brunettes. Of the 562 heroines, 437 were 1 eantiful, 274 were married to men of their choice, while 30 were unfortunate enough to be bound in wedlock to the wrong man. The heroines of fietion, this literary statis. Haien claims, are greatly improving in health and do not die as early as in previ- ous years, although consumption is still in the lead among fatal maladies to which they sumumb. Early rosmiages, however, are on the increase. The personal charms of the heroines included 980 "expressive eyea" and "792 ,shell like ears." Of the eyes, 543 had a dreamy look, 390 fisehed fire, while the remainder had no special attributes. Eyes of brown and blue are in the ascendant. There was found to be it large increase in the number of heroines who poeseased dimples; 502 were blessed with sisters and 342 had brothers. In 47 oases mothers figured as heroines, with 112 children between them. Of these 71 chil- dren were rescued from watery graves. Eighteen of the husbands of these horoines were found to -he bigamists, while seven husbands had notes found in their pockets exposing "everything." And thus ie the romance of a year reduced to figures. She Shouldn't Marry a Ponr Mau. When Miss Debutante done a edwinty costume made for her in New York this fall she will represent an expenditure of exactly e493, whioh may be divided as fol- lows: Sable trimmed dress $350 00 sable toque 85 00 Br, nze boots, bought in England 5 00 Silk underwear 25 00 Petticoat of bronze changeable silk 15 00 Satin coreqt 8 00 Brown kid gloves 2 50 Brown silk stockings 2 50 Total $493 00 The Intelligent Witness. Counsel for Defendant (crose.examining Complainant). -Was the defendant's air, when he promised to marry you, perfectly serious, or one of levity and jocularity? Complainant—If you please, sir, it was all ruffled with his running his hands through it. Counsel for Defendant—You misappre. bend my meaning. Was the promise made in utter sincerity? Complainant—No sir; it wee made in the wasbehouse !—Grip. Infants' Birth Carae. It is a recent and widening custom to announce the birth of a child by sending out a small card with its baptismal name in full upon it; also the date of ite birth in the lower left-hand corner. It is closed in an envelope with its mother's card. A babe is the only untitled person to whom etiquette permits it card that has not Mr., Mrs. or Miss upon it. ..„Mevisits are not possible a card with "Congratulation" written neon the upper left corner is at once Rent, addressed to the mother.—New Yw.k World. He Counted the Tie.• 1 New York Sun: "Have you ever played in the far west, Mr. Hamfatter ?" e Yee," replied the tragedian, " 1 ap. peered once in Harrisburg." " But that is not the far west." " Sir, yon world have thought differ- ently if you had ever walked home from there." Why He Objected. Host—Great Scott 1 There are thirteen at the table ! Guest—Surely you're not so superstitious as 1411 that ?" " No, but there's only food enough for twelve 1" A Silent Bell. Atchison Globe: We never saw a tomb - atone that said that the one under it was the belle of the town when alive. A young woman who had a cheek for 914 on a oertain Detroit bank preeented it at tbe manlier's' desk, and he politely said: " Yon will please endorse it, miss." She took it over to the desk and wrote on the bssok : 1 want thin money awful bad yours' truly please pay the bearer,"—Detroit Free Press. ' MeEingle—Faraway is an absent- minded man, is he not MoFangle--- Abeenteminded I Why, he left his office the other day, tied put it eard on the door: Will return at 3 o'olook." Happening to return at 1 30, and seeing the sign. he sat down on the steps and waited for himself till 3 o'clock. Mrs. Fawcett, the widow of the blind Postmaster.General of England and Mother of Miss Philippa Fawcett, who ranked above the Senior 'Wrangler at Oxford, is herself one of the best speakers in Greed Britain. elhe made her first appearance On a public) platform in 1869. In addition to her inteh leotual tlittainmente, Mrs. Eavecete in noted so a heraeWOnleat Sind 1320Untain Min:alter. •DST GOODS CLERKS. Some Things They hbould Knew and Rraettse To Be eamesoui. It world be a good plan to send Mote out shopping irlow and then that they might learn from experience bow pleasant or disagreeable this •bueinese may beoome &wording as the selesmen or salmwomen make it, paymthe "Dry Goods Economist." We are not going to dismiss the customer tide time, but wish to point out Gem glaring dereots in the eyetern of selling to °tenement. Clerks seem to be divided into two Massa—the know-all and the indifferent or know-nothing. The first one impresses you from the moment you stop at the counter with the idea *het he knows better than you do what you want, or rather knows what you should well& He tries to 'sell either a color, style or quality that you do not want, and dogmatically announces that euoh and so is the correct thing, all of which does not make a shopper inoline to return to that More, as the greatest fool on earth does not care to be told that he dem not know what he wants. The lordly air assumed is as irritating as it is often amusing, and so is the manner that is supposed to Impress you with tbe idea that it is a favor to wait on you. Never make this mistake; the merchant solicits the customer, notthe customer tbe merohant. The indifferent Merle never sees yon, only half hears, does not know whether they have that color or goods, is slow and gene. rally etapid, until it customer feels like doing without tee article rather than be waited on in each a manner. The clerk that rises to be a buyer, manager or merchant has sufficient intereet in his stook to have it, figuratively speaking, at hie finger ends. It is well to keep posted in regard to the current faehione, as shoppers often ask, Do they wear this and that together 2 " Study the nature of the goods you handle that yon may become a jadge of their quality and the relation they bear to the special trade of the store. Be able to converse npon the stook frorn the foundation of its manufacture and thus raise your standard from an ordinary clerk to a well. versed business man. It becomes an in- teresting study to the mind eager for in• formation to dive deep into the ssorets of the silk, wool, cotton, trimming, ribbon, eto., trade; how designed, made, used, eto. Shoppers are apt to consult a clerk as to whether they think snob a piece of goods a good match, accords well or looks stylish. When it is proven that your choice is really good you wilt secure a good customer, but once persuade her to buy it color or design unfit for her purpose and no power oan induce that shopper to buy of you again. It is your duty to please the customer and to satisfy the merohant, and this is possible to effect, but not if indiffereat to the resalts, Politeness does not mean to be familiar, neither doee dignity eignify "don't care whether you buy or not." Yon must care, for every purchase- is to your credit and advances your commercial worth. Have ambition and energy suffi- cient to aim at mounting the highest round of the ladder, even though you only reach the middle, for that round would still remain beyond your grasp if the aim were not at the top. The Plaint of the Unmarried. The London Spectator thus eums up the recent correspondence in the Daily Tele- graph on the subject of " Matrimony and Matrimonial Agenoies " which has been running in that journal: The whole con- troversy is very vulgar, very sordid and very disagreeable; and it would be ridicu- lous' enough if it were not so utterly pitiful. On reading such letters as these, there rims before one's eyes a dismal vision of lthe London suburbs; of mile upon mile of little stuccoMonsers, a dreary desert of drab -colored dwellings wherein people pass a dreary and drab -colored life. The men go to their daily work, and, when that is over, seek their evening pleasure abroad aleo, while the unfortunate women remain at home, and day after day engege in the monotonous and heart-rending struggle of keeping up appearances). For tbe most pert the young girls have no resonnes in themselves; they are only sufficiently educated to read second-rate novels, which they devour greedily. cramming thc-ir imaginetione with ell kinds of tawdry romance, and vain dreams of beautiful young heroes riding to their rescue. They, boo, grow sick of shadows, and hanger for some more substantial change in their meagre existence; to many of them this mental starvation is infinitely more distressing and difficult to bear than actual physical want. Who can wonder that they raise a voice of despairing revolt against their surroundings, as year after year passes and brings no hope of escape, and the fate of perpetual spinsterhood in- exorably Moses in upon them ? After all, the natural life of it woman is that of a wife and mother, and many of these poor girls are absolutely unfitted for any other life that compels them to face the world alone and unsupported. Their ease is the more pitiful became itis so hopeless, as absolutely without remedy, as far so marriage is concerned. The large pre- ponderance of women over men in Engiana renders it inevitable that it great number of the former should go unmarried, and it world be difficult for them to moss the seas in sesroh of husbands. As for their lives, they might well be made brighter and more useful, if it were not for the appearance of painiul gentility which they struggle to preserve. The grinding tyranny that sham respectability exercises over the lower middlemlass is a thing grievous to contem- plate; and, unfortunately, this Molooh that clevoure young girls' lives is an idol that appears unbreakable. Joel Buten a welbknown fernier, and Benjamin Shay and Robert Shay were arrested yesterday as accessories to the murder of Mrs. Nellie Foster by William Decker in Elmira, N. Y., on Friday night. Ratan is an uncle of the murderer, and all three are 'Merged with aiding his escape. The artests have created a sensation. The Prince of Wales presided yesterday over the ceremonies attendant upon the opening of the new underground electrical railway, which rune about two miles under London, ending at South London. The road is 50 feet under the surface and the tunnel passes ander the Thames. The metal English plan of fare is abandoned in this case, those being a uniform eharge and but one style of aticommodation for all passengers. The enterprise bids fair to be a highly popular and profitable one Mlle. Rhea has a neev play, " L'Abbe L'Epee," in which she is to play the part of it deaf and dumb girl. There will then be no complainte of het imperfect enuncia- tion of English, at all events. Although Min Florence Nightingale is no longer young and him been for years past far from strong, ehe hem never 'Met her inter- est in good work of all kinds,' and'does per. eonally far more than many who are strong teed Retie°. Quite recently she wtote a letter calling attention to the importance of the " reecho work dorm tinder the First Offenders ad, as it is somewhat olutneily Celled. TEA TABLE GOSSIP a-Philadelphie beg 138 femele phy01- 41-127tenes of intereet peWelbrele'rel simplioity ie the ideal now in "te111rkrn —131ight thirts for men have been an—"IZled11; Ttle tOWS of Albion, Miohe Maims 25-0 widowst Itise dentlet wlao osn do tooth things at once. —A. letter need not have much informs - tion in Otto be well posted- --Put a lazy man on & hot griddle and he world want time to turn himself. —Furnace shaking is now it fashionable after breakfast exeroise for gentlemen. —The man diligent in his bueiness shall stand before kings, when he holds acee. They polled the town to ascertain Thodrinks, cdd and sage, And learned that men who drink old rye Had reached a rye -polled age. —Adversity is not without comfort— your enemy may be in harder luck than you. day lAunwgo. man will rail against horn raciest and yet keep her own tongue running all • If you at first do not succeed • And fall in life to rise, Do not despair. but with all speed Go forth and advertise. —The longer it man lives the more he becomes convinced of the unfailing friend- ship of a dollar. —" This is it votive offering," said he, as he pat a dollar bill in the hand of the vacillating voter. —Matting will always look bright if wiped off with a Moth dampened with salt water after sweeping. —The minima and ties seen on the pic- tures of dignified elderly gentlemen of fifty seers ago are being revived. —".Did you say he was it vegetarian 2" " No; I said he was a vegetable." "What do you mean ?" "A beat." A 8175P3 mazy. Now proudly struts with royal sway The lordly turkey tall ; While nearer draws Thanksgiving day— "Pride goeth before it fall." — Japanese pillows are said to be en- dowed with beauty preserving qualities. The virtue is in the color—black. — Keep your troubles to yourself. When yort tell them you are taking np the time of the man who is waiting to tell his. — An absent-minded man in a bar -room the other day drank somebody's drink and then put his hand out to be paid for it. —Senile wrinkles at her temples betray woman's age. Every long one repre- sentten years, and small creases stand for one. " Tit e winter," smith the goose, With sadness in her tone, " wet be both long and cold; I feel it in my bone." —"Financial fatigue" is it new word in Stook Exchange parlance. It's an illness following in the wake of unfortunete in- . vestments. —The wholesome prejudice that has been aroused netainst the slaughter of birds for hat decorating purposes has led to the manufacture of artificial bircie. —There is something wrong with the electric lamp at the corner of Emerald and Barton streets. For some nights past its light has been very intermittent. —I rather commend the McKinley Bill, said the Church Treasurer. "1 do not find neerly so many pearl buttons in the plate aa I used to."—New York Herald. When at night we go to bed, Poor old bachelors ! When a; night we go to bed, No curtail, lectures e'er are read, No widows left when we are dead. Poor old bachelors) —Tho fifty largest libraries in Germany possess about 12,700,000 volumes, against England with about 6 450,000, and North America with about 6,001,000 volumes. —Father Ignatius, the evangelist monk of the English Church, is now at the Hotel Huntington, Boston. He will deliver it course of lectures in that oity this week. - Tho most desperate creature on earth," mid the olerk of an up -town hotel to it New York Sun writer, "is a woman from out cf town in it hotel bedroom on a wet Sanday." —A blind old soldier asking for alms at a Manchester, England, church door had a board hong around his neck inscribed as follows: Engagements, 8; wounds, 10; children, 6; total, 24," Nary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white ab snow. But most of us have heard of it All that we want to,know. Vaseline Better Than Soap. A friend of mine a few months ago told me how to shave easily and painlessly, end I have never shaved in it barber' shop since. The plan is to use oil or grease inetead of soap to prepare the chin and eoften the beard. Vaseline is the most convenient, and it should be rubbed in quite freely. Then with it keen razor shav- ing can be done quickly and without it sus- picion ot pain. At firet I couldn't recon- cile myself to doing without the orthodox lather and need soap after the vaseline had been applied. But the soap is really un- necessary, and shaving with oil or vaseline is cleaner as well as pleasanter, and what is more to the point, there is no irritation whatever to the skin.—St. Louis Post -Dis- patch. Joseph Anderson, brother of "Our Mary;" says that his eister will not return to the stage. "The etrein was too great on her," said Joseph: Mrs. John Drew will accompany Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Fiorence this seaman, playing Mrs. Malaprop. "Mise McGinty" (of the Comedic Fran- otsise) is the title of the new musical fame - comedy in which Fay Templeton is to appear shortly. Ithea'a wardrobe is one of the costliest owned by any actress or singer. She has a mania for buying fine gage dresees. Julia Marlowe's company hag been dim banded and several of As members have already secured engagements. For the first time in hie stage career Richard Mansfield caught the Philadelphia swell audiences last week, with "Bear Brum:mall." Ma Rattan playa a Russian baroness' in Daly's latest • adaptetion, " Tlae Last Word." She employs, indeed of the affected babyieh Mike a broken Englieh ao cent that is pleasing relief to the ear, and "Mich better befite et woman 42 years old. The youngest of the Gregg family, the famous amebae& is it girl, Miss Victoria. She turns &Able seneersaults jusi like her br;hthoena"Ms Charlwood, raiding at 20 Thomson street, Toronto, • straitened a severe fracture of the leg yesterday after- noon in it store at the Corner of Sumach etrebt and Wilton 'Vienne. He Was removed tO hie own borne. OH. TALK AGE'S FIBS PIGA*. How la Tatted end lteo er elm rot After • timoking It. The time hadttome in our beehood which we thought detnencled of ue m (ammeter to 0.13:10ke, SttYla the Bev. Dr. Talmage in the •Ladies' Home Journal. The old people ef the boueehold could abide neibiaer the WO nor the emelt of the Virginia weed. When minister's osme there, not by positive in- juuotion, but by it sort a instinct MS to what would be safest, tbey whiffed their pme on the back step. If the house °Quid riot stand modified smote, yon may knotty how little chance tlaere wits eor adoleectent oigampuffing. By aquae rare good fortune whioh put in our hand3 mute we found access to a tuber= store. As the lid of the long, nar- row fragrant box opened, anti foe the first time we owned a cigar, our Mamas of els- tion, maelinese, superiority ante enticipa. tion can namely be imagined, save by those who bas had the setne sonsatiOn. Oar first ride on horsebaok, though we fell off before we got to the barn, end our first pair of new boots (real equeakors) we had thought could never be surpassed in interest; but when we put the &Max to our lips and stuck the luaifer match to the end of the weed and ooramenoed to pull with an energy that brought every Moial muscle to its utmost tension, our milldam tion with thit world was so great our teroptetion wee never to want to leave it. The (tiger did not burn well; reqaired an enaount of suction the.t tasked our deter- mination to the utmost. Yon see that our worldly means had limited us to it quality that Cost only 3 oenta. But we had been taught that nothinggreat was accomplished without effort, and so we puffed away. indeed, we had heard our older brothers itt their Latin lessons my, 'mania vincet labor; which tranele.ted means, If you want to make anything go, you must seratch for it. With these sentiment& we passed down the village street and out toward our coun- try home. Our head did not feel exactly right, and the street began to rook from side to side, so that it was uncertain to us which side of the street we were on. So we crossed over, but found ourself on the mime aide that we were on before we crossed over. Indeed, we imagined that we were on both sides at the same time, and several fast teams driving between. We met another boy who asked ne why we looked so pale, and we told him we did not look pale, but that he was pale himself. We eat down under the bridge and began to reflect on the prospect of early disease and on the uncertainty of all earthly expectations. We had determined to smoke the oigar all up and thus get the worth of our money, but we were compelled to throw three fourths 01 0* away, yet knew just where we threw it in case we felt better the next day. Getting home, the old people were fright. enewl, and demanded that we tate what kept ris so late, and ' what was the matter with us. Not feeling that we were called to go into particulars, and not wishing to increase our parents' apprehension, that we were going to turn out badly, we summed op the cam with the statement that we felt miserable at the pit of the stomach. We had mustard plasters administered, and careful watching for some hours, wben we fell asleep and forgot our disappointment and humiliation in being obliged to throw away three-fourths of our firet cigar. Since Gladstone Was a Young Man, Mr. Gladstone concluded his Midlothian speech as follows: Our path eis straight- forward -to the end. We were never die - heartened for it moment in the day of adversity, and I hope we shall see the necessity of care and moderation in the day of prosperity. We look forward, as Lord Rosebery has said, to attack in this great question the last fortress of bigotry aud of prejadice. Why, when I was voting man the British Empire was full of these sad and painful cases. The State was at issue with the people. For India we had done nothing. A million of negroes we held by the degrading yoke of elavery. At the Cape of Good Hope the colonists, who were then in a great majority, were every man of them hostile to the British Government. In the Ionian Islands we bad kept down a Greek population anxious to be aseociated with their own blood, and in Canada we so managed matters that two rebellions were necessary to bring us to our senses. Every one of these stains has been removed. Every one of these changes has been made with honor, and with benefit, and with inorease of strength. The cause of Ireland alone remains our reproach before the world, a cause and witness of perpetual disunion among ourselves at home. It keeps the country in a perpetual fever. Never in my whole life, until within the last five years, have I known an in- stance when every bmelection as it occurs formed the great subject of public) interest from one end of the country to the other. And it is not unnatural or anjost, because we know that the entire welfare of the Empire is at present bound up with the settlement of the Irish question. That settlement is what we have in view : that settlement is the object with which we ought not to permit, if we are rational men, any subject whatever, 13 it great or be it small, to interfere. The settlement it is which is likely, as I believe, to rid the Empire at once of an intolerable nuisance and of a deep disgrene, and which is likely also to gild with a brighter glow even than any former period the closing years of a ceorions reign. Under the Fifth Rib. Mr. Blossom—I don't think you are doin right in forbidding Welly to receive gentle' men callers. Why did you do it ? Mrs. Bloeson3,—I do not desire the °had to over marry. Mr. Blossom—You seem to forget that you were young once that you received gen- tlemen °Mime, and that yno. married. Mrs. Blossom—Indeed, I don't, Mr. Mosl- em, and what is more, I don't intend to have Nelly make a fool of herself because her mother did. The Old Man' a Mistake. judge: Farmer's wife—Couldn't you sell the potatme, Hiram? Farmer—Naw; the grocers said they wan't good enough far nothin'. Farmer's wife—Well, I wouldn't ha' brought 'ern home when you owe the editor seven dollars fer his paper. ,Plailosoplaer—What induces men to marry? Cynic—The girls do. Arthur Daum who is to be leading man for Mrs. Leslie Carter, is it handsome six footer, with refined bearing and it frank, hearty manner, that at once creates' a pleasant impression. He was the+ original Jim the Penman in London, and has Marred with his own company in the English Provincee for the peat three years. She—Why do poor men &Mame; keep IMO of doge? He—TO keep the wolf from the door. Ship railway projeotOre !Ave been figttre ing on it route from Lake Hatein to Lake Ontario, whioh if Operated World out on 428 ranee of lake nimigetion and 28 mike of betWeen Chicago and MOntroal, The railway would be 69 miles long Mad the itthnsted coot *1200,001