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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-11-20, Page 3o. b. tei '•••• 1, Id nd a, oz . nd en It te od Be re er he en a on er et rat hia E a Ha • ' ial tee he , re. eir ' ig. he 0. 3E4 le !t- he T, 30 ag n. NB • Id 0. Id 10, taniritirsesen",* 13111,./onlie Complaina. It speare t' mo thin other folks kin aline ping an danee, Vale Batnehow ',rather farmere never eeenit t' have a ehalgie, — ,Vy0 tllled UI' Bell with Weat au' moll for moren forty year .d.n" all that I kin show forlibi a•Io y. worn-out reckon w'aI itarted in taet I wuz jest' ez spry Eo any man thet over hitehed a, hoes .er eradied Bite 'Wen At eorne 1 traditr—w'y, I got sto SharP folke said "You orter it eja a store, Bill Joliet, for You've get tle head " blyerops waz allue av'ridge lege twuz dry er aeldorigled eVvVcol Aeldo or bore- ,ray neigh- ,rrTtil:;3111 ; But,darulams 'other thiuge thet In my gullet anion. An' made me think thet I AVUZ born t' be down Lon raY'l tick. ' A. red:haired man 'oo talked jes' like a preacher sayire grace Sold me soma nonfat -rode an' tuck a mortgage on MO place. , 'W'en I'd paid Min an' another un that had a patent chine W101.1 be allowed wuz wath more coin 'an twenty mules cud oani kett' right onit-talkinl—he etayed with me aoaliendgt.alr Isivppemy live stock with 'ina for a county, right,. An' how ft would churn water l We'n he'd got off with' my town !Mat' apyratus wouldn't work w'en I tried eream, guests awuz two .years after NV'OU a man that were a weed, Seidl me 'three •bags o' turelp seed, .11e.said a peek il planted right ud make me rio by fall. a meat a -missed directions—them seed ...didn't grow at all I One year I had some likely hops—th' crop WUZ mighty short.— kalitilated thet with 'em ed hold th Tim' price, jumped up -aright up—'way up l but I aeld on fer more, ./ lost three theusitu' dollars, Sech things make man feel sore. ‘It 'pears t' me that otherfolks kin allus sing an dance, . .Bat farnaers, somehow !ruttier, never seem t' git a chance. 3. A. WALDRON. Ittuby flitea Tooth. There aro manyanighty interests TeAattract ua iu tine life, Bailroads to build and towns to boom, Make t.0.441U0t.B strong and rife. But in a11 the fuss and bustle OK middle ago and youth, These little tvurclt, will stop 'us short; " The baby' e get. i tooth." ' We take the brightest silver spoon And stick it in its mouth, And feel arotied from east to west And to the north and eoath. At last there comes a rattle, 'eliough a little oue forsooth, ,That indiamtes exactly where " The baby's got a tooth." ,Just a little peg of ivory, Much like a grain of rice, "'Nike ulaabove the rosy gums So very cute and nice. ...It's very little you may say But mighty big in truth— The pride and wonder of the day, Dear baby's got a tooth. Pointers for Wife -Hunters. Boston Gazette: Agree with the girl's !father in politica and the mother in rag - don. If you have a rival, keep an eye on him. If he it a widower, keep two eyes on him. Don't pat too much sweet stuff on paper. If you do you will hear it read in after yeara when yoar wife has eotne . special •purpoae in inflicting upon yon the severest mmiahment known to a married mon. Go home at a reasonable hoar in the :evening. Don't wait until & girl has to throw her 'whole soul into a yawn that she can't cover with both /made. A little thing like that might cause a coolness at the very begin. ng of the game. ' It, on the ocoasion of your first call, the .girl upon whom you have set your young . affections looks like tin iceberg and acts like • a cold wave, take your leave early and stay •away. Woman in her hour of freeze is uncertain, coy and bard to please. maimat In oold weather finish saying good night lin the house, Don't stretch it all the way to the front gate, and thus lay the founds - Mimi for future asthma, bronchitis, neural' .gia and ohrohic catarrh to help you to worry the girl to death after she has mar- ried. • Don't lie abont yoar financial condition. It is very annoying to a bride who has &tared a life of ease in her ancestral halls to learn, too late, that you expect her to oak a bald-headed old parent who has been unifornaly kind to her to take yon in out of :the cold. Excusable. :Kingston Whig: The " make-up " man •mf the Shawvilie Equity managed to get the ,two following peragraphs in a late issue ,pretty well mixed up : Mr. Wom Richrrdson left here yester- - come off on Wednesday, and the happy girond:Po eNVPcnieda lmolne c'au•stag ftVp()Nielig a happy old time. Rev. Oar' Allum preached at Ebenezer 1 day for Des Joachim% whore he is to meet his intended. The wedding is to a week ago last Sunday on missionary work. Pick out the proper linea from each para. .graph and they maks sense. The editor of thetEquity was just home Prato his wedaing 'trip. That is excuse enough. Botil were in the Dark' 1.11 ..—Punch : Schoolmaster—Yes ; ant ladai More, nay boy. &ippon I were to lend your father five hundred pounds, let us say --without interest but ou ooudition that be should pay me ten pounds a week. How ranch would he still owe mein two months? New boy --Five hundred pounds, sir I , Sohoolmaster—Tut tut 1 Ply boy, you }don't know the haat prinoiples of arith. Indic! New boy—You don't know my father, sir 1" Higher Education. Sophomore -How did you get sway from the polioetnan ? jnnior—Oh, 1 just spoke to him and he let me go. Sophomore—How was that Junior—Speech is silver, know. • Vraaerick Blakeman, a farm Minterwas ettruok by a train while walking along the irsok near A.ntworp, Ont., Thursday eve- ning, and instantly killed. • The engineer ,attow him by aid of the headlight, but it was imporieible to stop in time to prevent the etooident. '-11310 a cotnmon misoontieption that the *•tongue is neeeesary tit articulate ntteranoe, and when amongother atrooities prabtised -on the early Ciariation martyrs cutting out oof the tongue was resorted to and the vic- • tims subsequently became able to speak it *was looked upon aa mireonlourn and �o handed down th the legends of the °burgh. 43tirgioal aoience has, however, dernon. • atrated frequently that the tongue ia not an ,absolute requirement in the vocal economy, • and within the riot few days Miss Sarah Brown, of Tweed, Whose tongue was exoised beeause of cancer, has began to talk quite :fluently. e Mr. Spurgeon ie ill, and is not able to Elbert for Menton°, whine he had planned t� go. Field Mershal von Moltke lives in a pletin, mgasto• house of two Morino, neat ,BoldnillO33 in Silesia.. The eminence ie guarded by two great gone from Motint Valerian thet were presehted t� the Count by the late Eneperor ONE OE TIM DM DM. A ttraotical nallowe'en Jotto Played on the Doctor ii of l'atnnioem No announcement or A medical maven. *ion at the Free Press office last night had beea made, and yet nearly every naedioal mutt in town was there. From alined the oldest to the youngeet of the fraternity they put in hurried appearance in re. sponse to a telephone message rebottle/ after 10 o'clock that tue employee bad fallen down unoonecioue. Nearly every doctor in town was called in rapid enconeiont and ouch one hastened after the other to inter. view one of the liveliest °moo that haa been seen in the oity since the libel suit era Bet in, Dr. Patterson who had Nen first summoned was tlae first to arrive, with hi a overcoat in woe hand and a neoktie, which he vainly endeavored to adjust around his neok, in the other, and meetiog the " patient," wlao was entirely innocent ot the professional aolioitude on bis behalf, demanded what he meant by not being unoonsoioua as reported. While explana- tions were being made outside the offiee, Dr. Gilliee rushed pet on the full run, followed by Dr. Simpson, both of whom climbed two flights of very steep stairs to find their unconscious patient Absent. Then came Drs. Jamieson, Corbett and Fergu- son,and as this trio meandered wearily down the Maim they met Dr. Jones on the keen jam p upward -bound. When the quartette passed out of the door and wandered out to • main street, Dr. Good, Dr. McDonnell, Dr. MaArthur, Dr. Chown, Dr. iltatton and Dr. Higginson were seen hustling towards the office. The arrival of each disciple of Esoulapias was greeted by shouts of laughter by their previously arrived broth - ren, who had, by that time, reached the de- cision that it was Hallowe'en with all that it implied. A aonsultation was hurriedly held, when Dr. Good protested that although he had given up practice alto. gether, be wanted for satisfaction sake to see an unconsoious newspaper man as a cariosity. Dr. Simpson merely mentioned Hehigoland vigoronely and the others ap- pleaded as each mart produced emetics, ayringes, oaks and semis, surgical instru- ments and restoratives that would have knocked any ordinary man, snob as are employed on the evening sheet batik of the Imperial Bank block, ailly. Who put up the job was unknown at first, and the alleged patient established an nomolini, coppembottoraed alibi, but after a while a clue was obtained to the practical joker, and the Lord may have mercy on him when medical assistance is required in hie case He will have a nice pleasant time with the medical fraternity of Winnipeg in his hour of • reoaperation. The dootora enjoyed the sell, and one learnedly read from a pocket dairy which he had concealed about his person; "Prom the days of the Druids unto the present the eve of All Hallows has been kept with spells and ceremonies of a pagan or /mythological character. It is the one holieve which has no spiritual or sectarian inflaerme, and oan be partioipated in by all nations. With its fun and frolic, it should be universally kept." So far as that one man is concerned, it will be universally kept. The doctors believe that the pagans still exist in the flesh. Notwithstanding the ottendanoe of a round dozen of doe - tors the patient is doing fairly well this morning. Seriously, however, although a practical joke was successfully worked by some an. regenerateson of Bella!, the remarkable promptitude with which the medical men of Winnipeg tesponded to the sudden oall for aid is a tribute to ttaeir zeal and their anxiety to relieve a fellow -mortal supposed to be in dietress. A cruel and silly Joke, after all, brought ont an instance of the good side of humanity, and vividly illus- trated the truth of the pathetic woraa of "Dr. Matthew Lee " in "Rosedale," that a physician's Drat mission to reliem suffer. ing and pain is a solemn duty never negleoted.—Winnipeg Free Press. 'Washing the rake. " I wash my face," Mme. Ruppert said to a New York World man, "twice a day —the last thing at night and the first thing in the morning. Then I am facially done for the day. Before retiring I lather my hands with a good unscented soap and rub it into my fettle with friction enough to make the skin crimson, and wash it off with cold water. That cleanses. In the morning a wash in deer, cold water re. freshes. Daring the day if my face looks gray or greasy I wipe it carefully with a soft eloth. The complexion is a delicate affair and requires nice treatment. " Hot water I ooneider bad, for this reason: There is a natural oil in the skin, which hot water washes out of the pores or removes, jut as hot water will clean greasy dishes. With cold water the oil thickens. It is just so on the face. The oil preserves the skin, keeps it fresh look- ing and soft. She Pitied Biro. Harper's Bazar: '1 was so gratified, Miss Jones," said the young playwright, " to see that my work moved yon to tears last night." "Yes, Mr. Bronson," said the young woman, with a sigh; "1 was so sorry for you." Or a Dime Museum. • Rochester Herald: Cousin Nell, incul- cating generosity—Stipposing your chicken should lay a nice egg, Tommy; would you give it to me? rommy—No ; I'd sell it to Barnum. That chick's a rooter. shall espheare. Somerville .7.cnornal : " Ay, there's the rab," said the girl in the kitchen aridly, as she looked at the wash -board on Monday morning. They Blake Light Reading. Rochester Herald: Canadian postal cards of late isetio are very slirapsy. They are alraost "*00 thin." Slightly Belated. New York Sun: " Is Deborah related to Charley Henderson 2" " Yes. She is hie sister by a refuel of marmago. Zandkiel's almanac for '91, already issued in Lotedon, oasts the horoscope for Anaerice, predicting that troops will be called out, tazetion increased, and the Government defeated. Taxation is already inoreesed •, the defenit of the Government is only alla day off, and the calling out of troope will be in order when Congrese shall have convened. eBright military sodritt is to play an important part in the autumn and winter drew, /t goo well with sil 'shades of brown ; but, on the other hated, it hi so hard a tint se to be extremely trying tit the own - plosion. In Pale paleet pink, hien, lemoue end greene are in vogue for evening dreseea in the vie de el:lateen. Poeleoffloo Inspector French, Of Ottawa, died very anailenly yeaterdety. Bank tellet'—Well, if there 0 no other way of °piloting the bill, yott might draw on him With a sight draft. • Cuetonter— There'e Ito nfie in doing that; the man is blind. Woaan CURES? Editorial Difference of opinion on an, 'Important Su.bjeet. Vt'hat is the Ione that ousts elieeriee ; and whioh is the most couvenient appointee for applying i137 How far is the regular pity. Wotan useful to ue *became we believe tu him, aria how far are bahpilla and powdere and tonioa only the material reprepentatives of his personal influence on our health The regular doctors ware ; the homoeo• pathia doctors owe ; the Halenemeenites oars; sue eo do the feith cures and mind tones, and the weaned Olarietion met:415130, and time f our• dollen mail- et -half advertising itinerants, ad the amtent medioine men. Tbey all hit, and they all wise, and the great differenoa—one great differance—in the result is that when the regular dootora lose a patient no one grumbles, and when the arregular dootora lose one the cona- tit unity Mends on end and howls.--Boohester Union and Advertiser. Nature cures, but nature can be aided, hindered or defeated in the °locative pro. ems. And the Commercial's contention is that it is the part of rational beings to seek and trust the advioe of men of gird char. eater who have studied the human system and learned, as far aa modern Baena° lights the way, how far they can aid asture and how they can beat avoid obetruoting hen— /34'Mo Commercial. itis not oar parpoae to consider the evila that result from employing the unsorup. Mona, the ignorant, oltarlatans and quacks to preaoribe for the maladies that otfliot the human family. We simply declare that the physipian who knowa something is better than the physician who knows nothing, or very little indeed about the structure and the conditions of the human system. 01 course "he does not know it alt.' --liochester Morning Herald. I have used Warner's Safe Cure and but for its timely use would have been, I verily believe' in my grave from what the dootors termedBright's Disease.—D. F Shriner, senior Editor Scioto Gazette, Chillicothe, Ohio, in & letter dated June 30, 1890. The Great Tunnels. Ca33ar found • Alexandria honeycombed with aubterranean tunnels supplying water from time Nile to the houses of the city. The St. Gothard tunnel through the Alps was begun in the fall of 1872. ° Ita length is nine and a quarter miles and its cost some 610,000,000. The Hudson River tunnel 10 programing eatisfitotorily. Tbe daily progress is 3.4 feet. The distance already reached is 2,260 feet, the total distance to he covered being 5,060 feet. The new aqueduct from the Croton dam to New York city, a distance of 29,63 miles, or including the pipe lines to the Central Park reservoir, of thirty.three miles, is the largest piece of tunneling yet done. Of subaqueous tunnels the most femme Is that ander the Tharaea at London, begun in 1807 and finally completed for foot paasengere in 1843; total length, 1,200 feet; coat, a6,000 a lineal yard, or total, of a2,500,000. The oast -iron tunnel under the St. Clair River, connecting Canada with the United States, has recently been completed. The total length is 6,050 feet, of whioh 2,300 feet is under the river bed. The °Maid° diamater is 21 feet. The Homo tunnel projeot was originally considered as far back as 1825. It was not until the Shanley Brothers ot Montreal, in 1868, took the contract that constraction was rapialy pushed. They completed their work in December, 1874. The Mont Genie tunnel was a tremend- ous engineering work, in which sir pumps were workee by hydraulic power, rethomeh the work was begun by hand labor in 1857. It was finiebed in 1871, the total cost hav- ing been a15,000,000. The Roman tunnels served as aqueducts, the one to tap Lake Albano°, begun 389 B. C., being 6,000 feet long. On the comae - duct to conneet Laka Fnoinus with the River Liris, 30,000 men were employed for ten years, the work being finishea A. D. 52. Telpherage at Edinburgh. The most recent improvements in tel. pherage are shown in the telpher line pat up at the Edinburgh/Itxhibition by the Electrical Engineering Corporation, wlaiah is arranged so as to carry passengers es well as to demonstrate the advantages of the system for transport of goods. The ama. tem provides for the tranaport of a wide range of material, from minerals and heavy freight to light packages, and an overhead line is employed, with carrier suited for the employment of eleotrioity in the transmission of the power required. The Edinbingh line consists of over a quarter cf o tutle of track, the flexible aor- Moo being conetrnoted in spans of 50 feet, and the rigid ends in eparis of 15 feet. The ropes on which the locomotives and oars travel are of steel, and la inches in diameter. These are tightened, so that with a frill load on the line there is a sag of about 2 feet 4e inches on the spans covered by the train. The working of the line is said to have given great fatiafaation. Mt interesting article entitled " How London is Governed" in this month's Century magazine gives acme partionlars as to the way in which the great rostropoils i of the world s run. It says: Londonle new government rests upon a fran- chise so popular that practically nobody who would care to vote is excluded. In the first place all householders aro enfranchised; and this includes over man who rents a place to his fanally, even if it be only a small raom in the garret or the cellar of a tenement house. It also Includes those who live within fifteen miles of the metropolis, but own or occupy metropol- itan quarter% for any purpose, worth a certain very limited rental. Owners of freehold pro- perty in London, no Matter where they live, if British subjects, are entitled to vote. Widows and unmarried women who are householders, occupiers or owners of property, aro also author- ized to vote for county councillors, The princi- pal basis of the franetaise is the household; the chief disqualifications are receipt of public alms and failure to pay rates that have fallen due. Any resident of the metropolis or vicinity who is entitled to vote is eligible to election. Furthermore, any British subject who owns laud in London, or who is possessed of a limited amount of property, no matter where he 1iV08, may bo chosen a counoillor of the county of London. The fact of residence in one district does not disqualify, either in law or in the popular judgment, for eandidaey in another district, Mr. S. j. Eitolde, o Akron, Ohio, who is at present in Ottawa, seys be is oonfi. dent of the value of the nickel deposits in Sudbury. Magistrate Bell, of Colchester, is deaa. He was one of the oldest inhabitatits in the township. More women in proportion to population are employed in industrial otampations in Englraid than in any other European country—twelve per cent. of the industtial oltneen ABO feraidell. , A funny ease wee that of the badly die. treeteed bridegroom Who Oared blankly at the Minister until &eked if he table " thee Women to be, his lawfal, wedded vette," when he etatted suddenly, ad in tete blandeat manner mid ," Ah, bogperdon-- • 1, were you speatang to MO 4 Oo Saturdey night meow fell in Whole apolie to the depth of flee Mobile. laralaaat WAS Week Talleerrt What Preelelees Cost en etarly eeretiek Otolumatta Moms, l In au in erview moonily Mr. R. E. Gem i nell, lari th Columbhe Commiseioner, showed a °porter * bound volume of the Cariboo Sentinel of 1805.6. Ie ie not e very ailment peper and ite 4.00lumn pages are quite modern M typo and raako•W i yet it hes an intereeting hieterY. ' Jetr. Warren Lan:thereat pressen chief of the Fire Depertment of tag town of Chatham. Ontario, wo ita publialter, and packed the prase upon which it was printed. from Viotoria to Cariboo on his betek—ia parts, Qf antarse.• There were no I cent papers then. •The Cariboo Sentinel, 4 pages (4 columns) eaola about 14 inohes long, Bold at: 91 per copy and no advertisement was taken et len then $5 each ineertion. The aompositore got 75 cents per thousand erne and the editor got 9100 per week. The adveztisements are very neetly mit and the paper is quite epioy, and largely devotee to mining, of worse, The gentleman who is now Mayor of Vancouver (Mr. Oppenhei- mer), figures in its oolunana as one of the early "peahen." • • Bat good as printers' wages were they were not out of proportion to that of miners who got—when they had work at a1l—$15 a day; when they didn't work— well, they had hard times, indeed, Wages had to be high in order to enable men to live. Here is a specimen market report: " Flour is now selling at 836 per 100 tbs.; butter, 9125 • Engem 50o; coffee, al ; tea,, 91,25 to al.* •' bacon, 50o; beans, 40o; tobaon, 92, 93 to 94; oandlea, al to 91,25 per dor.; gum boots, 918 a pain; mutton, 40o to 450; beef, 30o to 350." In thom days men didn't care for small coins, and even to this day the average Britiah Columbian dislikes them. Mr. Gosnell soya it is only recently that 5o pieces have been put into generes1 °nota- tion there and against considerable popular feeling. There is quite a gap between the Cariboo Sentinel, of Mr. Warren Lambert's journalistic days, at al a copy and the 1890 newepaper ; but the former served its con- stituency and at 952 a year probably did not enable its proprietors to start a hank. The volume in Mr. Gosnell's posaession will rank name and more as a journalist% outiosity at the years roll by and our Pool& o Province develops in wealth and influence. , Ilaireign Gossip. The president of Uruguay lives over a millinery due. Sunday is now generally observed in Japan as a day of rest. A hotel has been erected in Hamburg having a faosde made of paper. The first edition of Michael Davittai new newspaper was 150,000 oopies. A. plumber in England won the univer- sity prize for an env on English poetry. The receipts of .the French Memory are larger than Mame of any other civilized nation. Nearly fourteen thousand horses are annually consumed as food in Paris. In Vienna and Berlio the annual commit - tion is about six thousand horses each. The number of suicides in the varione conntriea of Europe, including England, was 75 per cent. greater between 1880 and 1890 than during the preoeding decade. Within sixty-two years Mexico has had &fey:four presidents, one regency and one empire and nearly every change of govern- ment has been effected by violence. A Russia & colony has been formed after the Tolstoi plan. The aim of the Tolstoian philosophy is the diminution and ultiraiste extinction of the human race. While tbe population of Germany has inoreased in the last eighteen years in the proportion of 100 to 1148, the number of German students has been swelled in the proportion of 100 to 211.6. She Was Only Duman. Chicago Post: I heard her in the choir. Singing softer, eweeter, higher, It seemed to me, than I had heard a mortal sing before. I thought to her is given Blissful sounds and sights of Heaven; She's walking with the angels on the bright eter- nal eller% Angelic, perfect creature, Little need has sbe of preacher, Thought I, for nothing he eau say will raiae her thoughts up higher. - Then the while I heard him praying, as my eyes to her went straying ISOM her fiercely flirting with the tenor of the choir. Sure of the Future. A young lawyer of this city has given desk room in his office to s pretty type. writer. Recently when the young lawyer was st his lunch, a man put his head in at the office door and looked around. "What aisn Edo for you; sin?" asked the pretty typewriter. "Are you the boss ?" the man asked. "No, sir," was the reply, "but I expect to be one of these days."—Brooklyn Citizen. Tricycle Coaches. The miming introduction of trioyole coaches on the streets of Detroit hoe met with the hearty approval of a long -suffer. ing public, whose hopesare now raised that the new conveyances will be some relief Mom the preeent alow-going street cars. The promoters of the new enterprise have been running a sample of the new coaches for overal weeks with a view to testing its adaptation to their requirements. The coaches which are to be naed here, how• ever, will be twice the size of that carrying aixteen passeogers while that carries but eight.—Detroit Free Press. IT Was stated shortly after the McKinley Bill WaS pasted that many English firms would establish branch houses and manta footoriea in America so as to evade the tariff. London advioes are now to the effect that the Britiah manufaaturers will do nothing of the sort. The recent Denoo- oratio victories lead them to believe that tho days of the McKinley Bill will be short and they will not risk capital in any such projeota. Trio quarrel among the Afrioan explorera is stitch a horrible and nauseating one that decent people are beginning to think that it would have been as well had these fellows Mat tbenatelves for good. The quarrel ia likely to find its way into the tioarta, as neither Jameson's widow nor Barttelot's brother is in a frame of mind to allow Stenaley'a charges to remain as they are. leant. Stairs, Canadeati representative in the expedition, has not yet t3pOken. Has he any revelations to make? John Oliver' of Blenheim township, woo stricken withparalysis yesterday while visiting a friend in Waterloo township. Be WOO conveyed home immediately. He lost the power of epeeoh. Perhaps no individual waa batter known or more highly feEipeoted in the comity of Oxford than he ter 40 years. An acoident marred near Mond, on the Montreal Se Ottawa Railway. 'john Botether was engaged in handling a Tien, thy of dynamite when it exploded. One arm Was blown off and his face nem% ak. figured, hie oyee being burnt att. Hitt body was elect ehookingly bruieed, end his noir. ery is dmlbtful. Ingersoll, Ont., early last summer. iftliCLANIP9 MAW INTOXWANT. It wee stated in a remota* Lotedou cable thlit the Brbfeb Gevernntent, hadieseed bestreotione so Divieional Clenatetissioner Btoeee So inquiet) into the queetimi Of ether driotoog in tile north of Ireland, and that that gentleman hed artived'at 1114gherafelt met oalled a eoaterence of ette,oenetabelsry sere,eents of the dietrict. Front what can be gatOoged from other teturcee i seam that many of the people have Itlit drbtkin$ whiskey amd taltert to imbibiug ether, pus eeason being that it is chteto and also that Xi WAS 'fleet need as a eentperance drink. That fit has *shone hold 04 the bibulistio• ally inclined is evidenomt in the fact that the authorities have thoneht the matter setioaa enough to inetituto ingitiries into it. A amid deal of information 04 to tho netuee of the drug and tee extent to whieo• it is consumed • in Ireland is gathered from an address on " Etteer Drinting ; its, Prevelence and its Results," delivered on aloodeM week by Mr, Erneet Hart before the Sooiety for the Study of Inebriety, in Lonoun. Mn, Hart said that in oonseqnence of statements recently made in the public press ete to the prevelence of ether drinking in certain parts of Ireland, he bed ieettttited a eys. temp.( to inquiry. A soltertme of questions reletieg to the origin and prevalence of *hie form of inebriety, the quantity of ether habitually taken, its effeot upon health and duration of life, and ite alleged tendenay to the production of insanity and orinae, was sent to the medical men and clergymen of the incriminated districts. The origin of ether drinking was considered by some to be an indirect result of Father Mathew's teetotal crusade. Methylated ether was introduced as a "new drink," which might be taken without breaking the pledge. A more probable view, however, appeared to be that the suppressicn of illioit dis- tilling had driven the people to ether as the best substitute for potheen. ' The introduction of ether drinking was attributed by other authori. ties to doctors who were led by their belief in its efficacy ae a medicine to presoilts it too freely, with the feault that their patients learned to abuse it for purposes of intoxication. F. her drinking, according to Me Hart, prevatled &idly in the southern parts of the county of Derry. It was clearly proved that the consumption of ether in the north of Ireland was out of all proportion to that of the rest of Ireland, and far beyond its legitimate wants. Much of the ether sent to Ireland from England was smuggled as drags in order to escape the extra carriage rate to which ether, as an explosive, was subject. Owing to the light speoifio gravity of the field the wholesale price was ranch less than a halfpenny per ounce, so that no other intomosnt could compare with it on the score of el. epness. By judicious dilation, howevt: , the retail dealers con- trive to make it profit of cent. per cent. Ihe ether was rt.; aled iu draughts—that is, rather leas half a wine-glseeful, which cost 131., d three or four of then . . sufficed to produce Intoxicettion an average drinkers. As mooh as five ounces bad sometimes been taken as a draught. The special feature of ether intoxication was that it Mine on very quickly. It also passed off with extreme rapidity, so that an ether drinker often got dunk half s dozen times a day. Some idea of the quantity of ether consumed in the district,/ might be formed from the fact that more than two tone of ether were openly passed over the railways each year into the Cookstown district. It was drunk by both sexes, young and old, but not so muoh as yet by young gula, and tbe doe - tors are pretty well agreed that the habit had been increasing for the last year or two. The Catholic clergy had done all in their power to put it down. The immediate effects of ether drinking were violent excitement, followed, if the dose were guff. (deafly large, by stupor. The effects on the moral oharaoter were very bad, leading to the lose of self-control, lying, etc., and a general mental condition akin to that of hysteria. Ether drinking seemed to have lao direct tendency tO produce insanity, but it predisposed to crimes of violence. Mr. Hart conoluded by earnestly appealing to the Legislature to make Borne attempt to put down ether drinking by restricting the sale of the fluid in some way without inter- fering with its legitimate use in medicine and in the arts. Sensible Advice. Good News : Ambitions youth—Fatber I am unwilling to go through lile o nobody. wish to leave a name. 1 long to breathe the sweet atmosphere of fame. I am resolved to become great. Will you advise me? Wise Father—With pleasure. The foun- dation of greatness is a good education. A. Y.—I am laying it. W. F.—Next, you need industry and good babita." A. Y. --Yes. Wbat else? W. F.—Always be polite to newspaper men. Open to Moubt. Boston Courier: Doctor—I have the pleasure of informing TOR, Mr. Captious, that you are the father (it twins. Mr. C.—Excuse me, doctor, but as there have been so =my dinorepencies in the �8000S lately, I'll have to ask you to oblige we with a recount. Union Beer, Rochester Herald: Larkin—In a labor parade the other day a banner was die. played which said "Drink only union beer." GAZZ0M—Yee ; they want it strong. Larkin—Is tt stronger than the other kind? Gazzam—Oh, yes in union is etrength, yon know. Wily It Pays to be a Lawyer. We have had SQ far '22 preaiddeits of the United States, and ell but four of them have been lawyore. The duel between Meurice Bernhardt son of Sara Bernhardt, and M. Bourney, the Parisian dramatic critic, who was challenged by the former in onetime/ace of Jig comments alma Mine. Bernheirdt's per- formance in her xiew play, "Cleopatra,' was fought Madam and resulted in Bourney being elightly wounded ha the arm. The corner.dione of the Chicago IlilarlOni0 temple, whicb void cost over two million dollars, was laid yesterday with itaposing ceremonies. ' A ReitlfiltrelAfiler 0110031$11%. Farmer Boherte Started Out to -emptiest - Xl4a and 8hiecoi34ed.- Jahn Itoberts, of North East, is et Penner welt enough to do, but he bed alWaya been eccentric about hie olothee, aye a eiala. manoi despatch in the New York Steeet Datil a week or se etgo he had not been itntriall to buy a new snit of clothes for years. The ono he worehad been Elei often Patehed and ropetched that no bit of the original warp and woof wee visible. This personal slovenliness wee a acme or cone ;dent annoyance to Mree Roberto, who is a. woman of exceptional neetnees. She long ago becetne so eel:tamed of his appearance • that ehe would no longer s000mpaoy biuz to town to do her treding, This eingular charaoteristio of the Varner waa not awing to penuriousness, f or he is a liberal man ita hie dealings. • A few days ago he went to town to do a little trading, and, to the utter astonish- ment of the town, he purchased a new eat of °lathes for hiraself. Rio new 01001011 were done up in a package and he placed the pookage on the waggon oat beside hint when he etarted home at night. It was a dark night, Farmer Roberts had got halt way home when a brilliant idea struck him. He stopped his horees on a bridge where the road mosses the East branch.. " I'll do it, by gum!" he paid. "I'll act it and sulpriee Eliza 1" Thereupon the farraer rose up in the wagon and began to take off the patched and repotched clothes he had worn so long. As he removed a garment he tossed it into the oreek, until he had tosed thera all in, and had nothing on but his shirt. " Great apple sass!" he exolaimedt • "But won't Eliza be stfprised 1" Then Farmer Robert reached for tha package that had his new clothes in. It wasn't on the seat. Farmer Roberts got down and reached under the seat. The package wasn't there. Then he felt all over the bottom of the waggon. Tho package won't anywhere on the bottom. Farmer Roberts rose up in the waggon and looked boa* along the pitoh dark, road. Then he climbed beak in his seat and away the horses went for home. The night was chilly and there was. three miles to go. When Farmer Roberta reached home and climbed out of his wagon he mimed. "The hull idee didn't work," said be. "but I'll bet nine dollars thet 1 sulterke. Eliza ! " That he did no one doubts, but when, bet got up in the morning and went out to the barn clad in the hired man's overallts, and, saw his package of new clothes hsnging by its string to the break handle at the aide at the wagon, he was a little surprieed hini- 113 Was a Warns Dan. Mrs. Nouvean-Marie (looking up from. the morning paper)—We are not fashion- able, Henry. We should be divorced, cao operated ; don't yon think ao ? Mr. NouvearnMarie—Yea, my .dear will go away. Mrs. Nouveau-Marie—Go away 2 Ob, how nioe I'll go with you. A Rome for -Incurables. 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