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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-12-4, Page 7411 A HAMILTON' GIRL'S 'T'RAVELS A Visit to the Land of Brig,nam Young and Morneeniam, GE0RGB 1"IIAN0I8 TRAIN eNTE$VIEWBD, Our readers will undoubtedly peruse with pleasure the subjoined extrauta from a letter by Mies Ida Lewis, of Hamilton, lbetter known on the stage as Julia Arthur. The letter is dated from Austin, Texas. Blies Lewis is leaJling lady with the "Still Alarm " Company, one of the best dray maeio orgeniztidens travelling The first pinus of interest to me after• weaving St, Louis was Denver. I had tri.eude there, or thought I had, the Webers --Edith, her mother and father and grandmother. I went at once to their address and found that the little girl who had been like a sister to me, gompanion, bedfellow, playmate, everything in foot that wee sweet and rare in this profession, was dead, and her people broken down in +heahh and fortune and mourning bitterly their great lose. It was an awful blow and I don't think we ever .recover from such shooks. I went and .planed .ewers on the little mound of earth which covered much that had beenbright and beautiful in girlhood, and wept very bitter tears to think of the bright young life, like a handsome rose broken before the 'bloom; which would have given pleasure to many a lover of beauty and goodness. IN MORMON LAND. We left there and the next place was Salt Lake, full of interest to every traveller, both from the feat that nature has planed one of her greatest wonders there in the take itself, and the delighttul climate, and the Mormon settlement lends the addi- lional charm of novelty to the stranger, 'combined with many of the most wonder- ful pieces of architecture'I have ever seen. ''V�ie Teb;,rnaole is the largest build ,,hg of the kind in America, and ";,' eata8,000 people. It is 250 feet long by 150 feet wide. The height outside is 80 feet. It took a little over 2 years to build and . was completed Oot. 6th, 1887. The Bost of erection was paid by voluntary con- tributions of the Mormon people. The temple is another wonderfah building, whioh, though not yet completed, has cost up to march, 1883, $1,686,968.41, built by the Mormons, not as a place of worship, but for the administration of ordinances, rites and ceremonies, such as baptisms, ordinations, eeatings, prayer -meetings and other eolemn assemblies of the orders of the priesthood. Tnis building was com- menced in 1853 and is 186 feet high, the three towers being 200 feet each. It is built .of white granite, quarried at the month of Little Cottonwood canon, twenty miles distant, and in the earlier years of ereotion hauled by ox teams. Many other wonderful buildings meet the eye in wandering around the city. We visited Brigham Young's house, the houses of his different wives, and hstened with a womau'a intereet in such things to the many stories told of him and of them. Yon are of comae conversant with many of base, so I will not weary yon by repetition. On his arrivat:ae bead of the pioneers in Salt Lake Valley July 24th, 1847, he placed his cane on the site of the present temple and said it would be placed there, and as he glenoed towards Ensign Peak on the north said : " This is the place to stay ; this is 'Mee spot I have seen in my vision." Won- derful the control he exercised over this ,peonliar class of people, completely bind - ng them to his shrewdness in making money out of their belief, and though some of the more intelligent may have understood, the strange mystic power of their religion, and flats wonderful man's method of using that religion againetas well as for them, eff+.ctuaily shut their months till after hie death. We played to splendid bnsinesa there over $1,000 each night of our stay. We then started on our way to " the glorious climate of California," crossing the plains known as the DESERT OP " NO 3fAN'S LAND." The filth of this journey must be imagined ; it cannot be described. Yon almost suffooate during the entire trip, and if the journey is mads in hot, dry weather the misery is complete. We stopped at many pretty new towns on the way, play- ing to good business throughout. In Tacoma li ran against the famous crank GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN. Hearing that his home was a few hours from the city I jumped on the motor and started out to interview him. Rather cheeky in a youngster, you will say, but I could not let years stand in the way of gratifying my cariosity in snob a matter. People had said he was insane, but I found brilliancy and brains without one touch of insanity. He is the moat egotie. Boal being I ever run across in my life and one has lots of opportanity of jndeing in 'our "biz " He never by any chance shakes Shands with a grown person, they are all too far beneath him and live on animal !food these being no better than "dead men." That's his idea. He lives on fruit oraokers and cheese and cocoa. When I asked him how he managed to reconcile himself to eating cheese whioh has some animal substance, I believe, - ewbile at the same time he fired brickbats at other people for doing it, he seemed rather .floored and said, "Well, I don't do it often, and never eat a great quantity of it." He also takes milk in hie cocoa, which, he ,says, he cooksbefore neing. " Well, Mr. Train, we cook all the animal food we eat. I don't think many of ns go about drinking blood or eating dead animals before cook- ing them." Well, he just looked with con- tempt tempt on such a little Miss attempting to give him " cards and spades," and talked of the book he is writing. He read me some passages from it, which he assured me was an honor which he never before conferred on anybody. ` He presented me with many wonderful souvenirs of his trip ,around the world in 66 days—his photo, a cocoa can, a cane, oto,, and assured me they would bring big money in a few years. He then showed me a playhouse whioh he had erected for the ohildren of the neighborhood. He is paeeionately fond of children and the place is a model of comfort and pleasure for the little ones. A covered picnic ground, a roller rink with skates and ekipping ropes hanging about ore pegs, and a lot of dirty dishes on the table 1 They had just had a party. Dear little angels 1 It is lovely to s ee any one look after their Pleasure. Well, George made me some, cocoa and gave me some animal food in the shape of cheese, and then I said adieu, knooking his front gate off the hinges in my endeavor to soy it gracefully, and took my departure over fields of mud and sweet little bunches of wet grass, whioh made my darling little feet (number fours) mite moist. We left that delightful town and travelled as far as Portland spewing through some beautiful wild oonn- try and shriving at night, Sunday, in time to go to the theatre and coq a lot of poor devils doing what we would have to do the following night. Beteg of the more ord nary oleos they were not as great as they might have been and our tears mingled freely et their comedy and flowed (no estopped dead And laughter began) when the leading heavy emotional lady wbo was. thin to boniness, attempted to depict the Many hearkaobes of a wronged young maiden. IDA. Dowries for Li aughtere, It is a foot that cannot be denied, that the middle olase of England is the moat backward of all in making provision for its womankind. In hardly any other country is there snob indifference shown for the daughter's future. It would appear from the account of Herodotue that the maidens of Babylon, like those of London, were also dowerlese, save for their virtue and per. conal oherme;'but in their oase the mar- riage market was made to equalize the chaucee of all, and provide every one with a husband. It was the =atom to put up to auotion the most beautiful and comely, and to knock them down to the highest bidder; the money thug realized provided dowries for those less favored by Nature, wbo were then disposed of to the more needy men who would consent to take them with the addition of the smallest eum. In this way every girl found ;a hue band, and every man a wife whom he could afford. "This," adds the historian with quiet irony, " was perhaps the best of their =stones." The customs of Babylon do not enjoy a very good reputation; bat this par. Bottler one, detectable as it was, was, after ell, simply the logical conclusion of a peo- ple who were too selfish to provide their daughters with dowries, and yet wished to see them all married. We do not ourselves believe that the addition of the dowry would have any very great effect on the marriage gneetion; that there would be very many more marriages inconsequence; or, if there were, that the result would be altogether a matter for congratulation. If a young man' and woman wish to marry each other, and the latter is content to wait, the former can generally find means of supporting a wife, if he is worth any. thing, and is really anxious to provide himself with that particular one. But, at the same time, we consider that to talk of a girl's dowry as a bribe offered to young men that they may marry her for , an unworthy motive • of gain, is not only nonsense, but a hypo. critical excuse put forward to die. guise a selfieli neglect on the part of her parents; and Mao that a ,family of any means, who allow their daughter to go empty-handed to a poor man's house, are wanting in the most elementary form of proper pride. It is not so much the want of a dowry that we deplore, but the want of that feeling in the middle class that should make them look upon the provision of a dowry as a necessity ; the life of use• less and pleasureless monotony that they condemn their daughters to lead—useless because they are too proud to allow them to work, pleasureless because they despise such simple pleasures as are within their resole, and are too poor to provide them with others—and, above all, the pretentious folly of an education that leaves the Baugh. ters, if unmarried, without a competence, and without the means of earning their own livelihood. An imperfect smattering of one or two languages, and a still more imperfect knowledge of the piano, are not sufficient by themselves to make a girl happy ; nor are they likely to help her to better her condition. A better and more sensible ednoation would provide her with varied interests, and teach her to appreci- ate the simplest and least expensive of pleasures—for people have to be taught how to enjoy themselves, as well as how to work for their living. It is a curious fact that, given two families of the same slender means, one of whioh has fallen from affiu• enoe and the other risen from poverty, the former will still find opportnnitiee for pleasure and amusement, in spite of its scanty resources, while the latter is less able to get enjoyment out of its improved oironmetances than it was before : the re- sult of a different ednoation.—London Spectator. He Didn't Forget It. A wife reoently gave her husband a sealed letter, begging him not to open it till he got to his plane of business, says the Sheffield (Eng.) Telegraph. When he did so he read "I am forced to tell you something that I know will trouble you, but it is my duty to do so. I am determined yon shall know, let the result be what it may. I have known for a week that it was coming, bat kept it to myself until today, when it has reached a crisis, and 1 cannot keep it any longer. You must not camera me too harshly, for you mnet reap the result as well as myself. I do hope it won't crush you." By this time a cold perspiration stood on hie forehead with the fear of some ter- rible unknown calamity. He turned the page, hie hair slowly rising, and read: " The coal is all used np! Please call and ask for eome to be sent this afternoon. I thought by this method you would not forget it." He didn't. He Took the Hint. Washington Post : " Do yon know," she said, " that clock reminds me of you every time I look at it. Do you notice anything peonliar about it ?" " Why—nod I really can't say that I do," he replied, as he drew nearer, "ex- cept that it doesn't go." He got red in the face and in a few moments vanished. TERRIBLE IF TRUE, Ceueral Booth, of the l3alvation Ariny, on the Sweating System, T)dE PRETTY • GIRL'S E'ATE. The lot of a negreee in the Equatorial toren ie not perhaps a very happy one, but is it eo very nation wares than that; of many a pretty orphan girl in onr Ohtisaiau oepi• tel? We talk about the brutalities of the Dark Ages and we profess to shudder as we read in books of the shameful exaction of the rights of feudal superior. And yet here, beneath our very 'eyes, in our theatres, in our restaurants, and in many other places, unspeakable though it be but to name it, the same hideous abuse flour. iahee unchecked. A young, penniless girl, if she be pretty, is often hunted from pillar to : post by her employers, confronted always by the alternative—starve or sin. And when once the poor girl hag ooneented to buy the right to earn her living by the sacrifice of her virtue then she is treated as it slave and an outcast by the very men who have ruined her. Her word beoomee un- believable, her life an ignominy, and she is swept downward, ever downward, into the bottomless perdition of prostitution. But there, even in the lowest depths, exoom munioated by humanity and outcast from God, she is far nearer the pitying heart of the one tree Saviour than all the men who forced her down, aye, and than all the Pharisees and Soribea who stand silently by while these fiendish wrongs are perpe- trated before erpe-tratedbefore there eyes. The blood boils with impotent rage at the sight of these enormities, callously in- fiioted and silently borne by these mieera- ble victims. Nor is it only women who are the victims, although their fate is the most tragic. Those firms whioh reduce sweating to a fine art, who systematically and deliberately defraud the workman of his pay, who grind the faces of the poor, and wbo rob the widow and the orphan, and who, for a pretence, make great pro. feseions of public spirit and philanthropy, these men nowadays are sent to Parliament to make laws for the people. The old pro. pheta sent them to Hell—but we have changed all that. They send their victims to Hell and are rewarded by all that wealth oan do co snake their .lives comfortable. Read the House of Lords' report on the sweating system, and ask if any African slave system, making dne allowance for the superior civilization and therefore sensi- tiveness of thee/./ tims, reveals more misery. —General Booth. Harassing the Enemy. Wife (from the window)—Well, I deolare 1 John, I wouldn't spend time sprinkling the dust in our neighbor's back yard, especially when they are people who talk about no the i d . Husband—That's teallri ht the o > way y g my dear; their pet poodle was washed this morning, now he's out rolling in the mud. Trnet your husband, my sweet, for thought f alnesa.-Bostonian. An Exception to the Rule. Lawrenoe American : Prison Warden (to new prisoner)—We always like to assign the prisoners to tho trades with which they are most familiar, and shall be happy to do so in your Date. What is your trade? Prisoner—I am a commercial traveller. The Salvation Army has money and property in the different countries where it is established valued at $3,213,090. The trade effects, stook, machinery and goods on hand are veined at $560,000. Some idea of the trade department may be gath- ered from the fact that they sell 22,000 army bonnets every year to the female soldiers. Smaller checks aro the fashion in Wall street now. I saw a man once beat big wife When on a driinken spree. Now, can you tell no who was drunk, The man—his wife—orme? Thd0'e. It is amid a large business is being done in smuggling Chineee women into Canada, t tributed in British who are d Columbia s and the States for immoral purposes. A Council of War at Lyone has passed maternal of death on a young soldier of t ars- who,being in rismn the Ninth Saes , b g prism, called the brigadier of the guard, and when he opened the door butted him hi the stomach with hie head, looked him in the cell and fled. The Late Lady Rosebery. The Countess of Rosebery, whose death was announced the other day, was Hannah, the only daughter of Baron Meyer A. Rothschild, who died in February, 1874, leaving her the snug competence of $6,500,000 on deposit in the Bank of England, besides other large properties. On Maroh 20, 1878, she married Archibald Philip Primrose, fifth Earl of Roeebery, who had succeeded to the title on the death of hie grandfather ten years before. The. marriage created a marked sensation, being the first occasion on whioh a peer of the realm placed his coronet on the brow of a daughter of Israel. The Earl was then under 30 years of age, a profound scholar, who had made his mark in the House of Lords as a powerful debater and thinker on the Liberal side in politics. The bride was young and beautiful, an enthusiast in art and music, a capable manager of her vast estate and reputed to have a mind of her own even in reference to tines. tions political. Her ancestral palace home of Mentmore, in Buckinghamshire, had been the Mecca of many worthy suitors, but she bestowed her heart and her hand upon the young Earl, who had then reoently been elected Lord Rentor of the University of Aberdeen. There were two marriage ceremonies, first the civil onion and then the solemnization, accord- ing to the Protestant Episcopal ritual. Since their marriage Lord Rosebery has been Under Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1881 to 1883, and First Commissioner of Works in 1883. In Mr. Gladstone's Cabinet of 1886 he was named Seoretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Lady Rosebery had been seriously ill for some time. She has borne four ohildren. Was This the Egg Editor ? Philadelphia Times : " It is villainous, sir," said the grocer, angrily. " The idea of a big fat man like yon settin' on a basket of eggs 1" " That's so," was the meek reply. " I might have known I couldn't hatch any- thing out." LIP EINO UP THE FALLEN. V. General Booth propoees to provide work and bread for the poor and unemployed.. Ile ecce khat the °basing of the ,people off the farmlends, and crowding them into citiee, boa intensified poverty, with its resultant increase of wickedeese, and he means to remove the victims back to the band. In his sobeme, the farm colony would aonsiet of a settlement of the coloc,lets oo an estate in the provinces, in the culture of whioh they would -,find employment and ohtsin support. " As the rice from the country to the city has been the cause of much of the dietreee we have to battle with, we propose to find a sabstantiel part of our remedy by trees. tarring these same people book to the oonetry—that is, back again to ' the Garden.' Here the prgoese of reforms tion of character would be parried forward by the same industrial, moral and religious method as have already been commenced in the city, eepeoially including those forms of labor and that knowledge of agriculture whioh, should the colonist not obtain employment in this country, will qualify him for pursuing his fortunes ander more favorable oircnmatancee in some other land. From the farm, as from the city, there can be no question that large numbers, resuscitated in health and character, would be restored to friends np and down the country. Some would find employment in their own callings, others would settle in cottages on a small piece of land that we should provide, or on oo•operative farms, whioh we intend to promote ; while the great bulk, after trial and training, would be passed on to the foreign settlement, which would consti- tute our third class—namely, the Over -Sea Colony. +' All who have given attention to the subject are agreed that in our colonies in South Africa, Canada, Western Australia, and elsewhere there are millions of acres of useful land to be obtained almost for the asking, capable of supporting oar surplus population in health and comfort were it a thousand times greater than it is. We propose to secure a tract of land in one of these countries, prepare it for settlement, establish in it authority, govern it by equitable laws, assist it in time of necessity, settling it gradually with a prepared people, and so seonre a home for these destitute multitudes." Hie plan includes workshops and labor yards, where the destitute oan earn food and lodging. If any man in England oan make a huge colonization scheme a success, General Booth is the man, Emigrants, imbued with a religions idea, made the desert of Utah blossom into a rich garden, and what has been done before can be done again. Problems of the Day. Rev. Dr. John Hall : There are two prob- lem, whioh are before the Christian church to -day. One of these problems is what to do with the people who rash to the cities from the country. The other is what to do to bring Christ to the people of our cities. • A McHinley Joke. New York Judge : Patient—Can I see Dr. Cnrem ? Servant—The doctor is smoking an im- ported cigar, sir, and oannot be disturbed. It Would be a freak. Columbus (0.) Dispatch : What a curio- sity a newspaper would be that was edited by the people who are always growling abont the papers! 2 In England and Wales out 6,954 of food samples whioh were recently analyzed 3,096 were found to be adulterated. This is equal e then in percentage lower to 1 1 per cent.,a g � P any previous year since 1888, when it„was under 11. There are more public holidays in Hono- lulu than in any other city in the world. In Victoria, Australia, brink•layers and masons work but seven and one.half hours per day. A. large band of armed Indians have crossed the Upper Missouri River and are heading westward to join the Sioux at Turtle Mountains. The Transcontinental Railway Assooie- tion has decided to advance all freight rates on Pacific Coast business 10 per cent., oammenoing Deo. let. The three flint glass factory buildings of the Illinois glass works at Alton, Ill., were destroyed by fire Saturday morning. The loss is $ 100 00 0 hands aro thrown and 500 out of employment. The Regina Leader has received en official telegram from Ottawa saying there is no foundation for the report of Commis- sioner Herohmer's resignation and the appointment of a suooessor. The physicians in attendance Upon Miss Julia Marlowe announce that she is on the road to recovery. The swelling on her od and r ioal is being ,sant a en neck g g operation for its removal will probably be'. avoided. The wool export trade in the South Rus - elan and Donprovinces has been ruined by the new ,A.merieen tariff. Merchants are Y. loudl nom lainin that theyare unable even to unload their _ P goods, ow wing to vex.. g tions Gustonia formalities. Baseball. LOUISVILLE, Nov. — The American Baseball Association met here yesterday. The meeting was held with closed doore. In the hotel lobby there was much talk and severed wild stories were in circulation. Those who ought to know state that the Toledo, Syracuse and Rochester clubs will be dropped and the Athletics' franchise will be given to the Philadelphia Players' League. A new association will be formed, they say, which will include Louisville, Columbus, St. Louie, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington or Cincinnati. This, of course, is not authori- tative, but things look that way. Zaoh Phillips was re-eleoted President of the association. The Athletic franchise was declared forfeited and petitions for admit'. sion were received from Buffalo and Wash- ington. BASEBALL LOSSES. Secretary Brnnell, of the Players' Leagne,estimetes the losses of the National and Players' Leagues for last season as below. Of course he makes the figaree show against the National. Possibly his estimates are nearly correct ; in any event the National League backers are the best able to lose. The figures are : Players' National Clubs, League. League. Boston 60,000 New York 15,000 45,000 Philadelphia 20,000 16,000 Cleveland 15,000 23,000 Pittsburg 20,000 12,000 Buffalo 20,000 Cincinnati 15,000 Brooklyn 19,000 Chicago 16,000 25,000 35,000 Total 8125,000 8231,000 In addition to the Players' League losses was the coat of equipment, which amounted to about 215,000. Richardson, O'Rourke, Whitney, Keefe and Shannon, of the New York Players' League team, complain that they bave not received any salary since Sept. let. The expenses of the club, independent of the grounds, were about $67,000, while the receipts were only $59,000. A Valuable Lesson. Sunday -school Teaoher—And when the wicked ohildren continued mocking the good prophet, two she -bears oame out of the mountain, and ate np over forty of the wicked children. Now, boys, what lesson does this teach ns? Jimpey Primrose—I know. Teacher—Well, Jimpey? Jimpsy Primrose—It teaches no how many children a she -bear can hold. Woman's Aid to Woman. Mies Gossip—I hear your dab hod a meeting last night. Mies Doroas—Yea, indeed. We had a splendid dinner at Delmoniao's that cost $20 a plate, after which our president read a helpful paper on " How to Live on $500 a Year." Awolnannonsis. Mrs. Runway -John, I thought you said you had secured the services of an amen• uensis? Rnmsay—So I did. Mrs. Rumeay—Well, when I stopped at your office this morning there was no one there but a young woman. Found at Last. Man—May I take one of these biscuits with me ? Lady ---Yes. Man -Thanks. I am one of a committee now on a junket to find out, if possible, what is the best pavement for streets, and I think I have found it.—Detroit News. ieaenVa;TION ARMY FIiINAIIiAJG, "Happy 11181 Cooper Burled With Mille tare tienore. Co0PER. Promoted to Glory, Maop Wittier Coer of the eaivation Army, went to heaven at tt o'clock a, 10, The Salvation Army are practical, buoy- ant followers of the missionary apostle who asked with righteous boasting, ,e 0 death, where is thy sting ? " They turn a funeral into a triumph, and form a line of battle about the oofiin of the fallen soldier. Wednesday afternoon the Toronto ' Army " corps buried with a curious mixtate of military honors and ballolujab zeal the body of Major Cooper, who was formerly stationed in Hamilton and who was well-known throughout the Province as " Happy Bill." The remains lay in the parlor of his late residenoa at 86 Vanauley street, in a plain blank oaeket covered with funeral flowers. There was a cross from his wife and children, and pillows from the " Canadian staff " and "Commissioner and Mrs. Adams." Ail about the house and in it were massed the soldiery of the Army. The funeral service was conducted out of doors, just opposite the bay window through. whioh the casket was brought by the pall- bearers and planed npoa a couple of sup - porta. It was now wrapped in the red folds of the Army banner, hiding entirely the sombre black of the coffin. At its side a light platform was pat up in an instant and Col. Young sprang upon it and set the party singing with barracks vim : There's abetter world, they say; Oh, so bright. Commissioner Adams led in prayer, as did several others, intereperaed with sing ing, after whioh Capt. Walton spoke of the faithfnlnees, zeal and Chriatien courage of the deceased. And all the while through the triumphant mneio and the brave words, the widow sat at the open window and sobbed. The procession was formed somewhat slowly in the windy street, the oaeket being carried to the " gun carriage "—a red cart of simple construction, with neither aide nor top shelter. This was drawn by four white horses covered with red housings; on the aides of whioh were the "arms " of the army, bearing the penal motto, "blood and fire." Ort the top of the flag -wrapped coffin were the flowers and the red army cap of the deceased. The procession was led by the advance guard ; then followed the colors draped, the staff band, the commissioner and male staff, the female staff, female field officers and female cadets, the gun carriage bearing the casket, beside whioh- walked the pall- bearers - Brigadiers Spooner and Philpott, Major Bough, Staff-Capts. Walton, Beatty and Fisher. A second band, Mrs. Cooper and family in a carriage, the soldiers and rear guard of oadete followed. The body was interred in Mount Pleasant Cemetery with the Army service. Staff -Officer Southall, of Hamilton, attended the funeral. The officers from this station were present. Night htOnly. g Lientenant of Police (in the winter oir- ons)—What do you mean by piling all those benches in front of the fire-eecape ? Manager—Oh, it's only for one evening, and we wouldn't do it tonight if the place wasn't so orowded.—Fliegende Blaetter. 'sgoodness is so fierce and aggressive that -Some women's it becomes rather . At1 f guin g —Algie—I heard a report that Chappie fell last night and hurt his heed.,,Gus— Well, there's nothing in it. Patrick Bulger, Bromley, who has shipped several thonsande of lembe this t but for the McKinley tha Y saason,seys tariff he could afford to pay from 75o, to $1 more for each lamb. For the Big Head. Street and Smiths' Good News : Young De Fast (who has been out very late the night before),—Have yon filled the bath tub, as I told yon? - Valet—Yee, sir. " With cold water ? " " Yes, sir." " Then heti me to it." " Water's awful cold for a bath, sir." " I don't want a bath. I want a drink." Why She Didn't. Munaey's Weekly : He—I begin to think that you prefer Jack Armstrong to me. She—Oh, you might know thee that is impossible 7 Why, he hasn't a cent to bis name. Too Much. Wickwire—I hear that you and Mudge had a little difficulty. Yabsley—So we did. He called me a pig- headed jackass. I'll stand a great deal from a friend, but I want it distinctly understood that I'm no freak. Working Overtime. New York News : " Why did the men strike np at the oeteep factory ?" " Be- cause the catsup was working more than ten home a day." An attempt at suicide, off the summit of the Aro de Triomphe, Paris, was made on Friday by Louise Fomeyroi, a teacher, and just as she was getting over the parapet she was stopped by the guardian. She said : " Yon are very cruel. I wieh to put an end to my sufferings. I shall do so still." She is the daughter of respectable tradespeople, end is suffering from an in. curable malady. The United States Rolling Stock Com- pany has been placed in the hands of a receiver, Mr. A. Hegewiob, president of the company, being selected for that office The liabilities are given et $3,816,000 and the meets $6,053,000 Thie company is one of the largest, if not the largest, builder of railway °ere in the world, and has planta at Hegewiob, III. ; Decatur, Ala. ; Anniston, Ma., and Urbana, 0. The plants are all to be kept in operation. Prof. Holden, of Lick Observatory, is said to have discovered on the moon parallel walls 200 feet thick on top and about 1,200 feet apart. What they could have been for is not surmised, but it may as well be conjectured that they are walla as that the lines on Mars are canals. Mr. G. A. Reid's painting entitled " Mortgaging the Farm" has been pre- sented to the National Gallery in Ottawa by the o al Canadi an Academy. . The Department of Justine has appealed to the Conrt of Appeale of Ontario from the judgment of the Chancery Divisional Court in the important constitutional mese of The Attorney -General for Canada vs. The Attorney•General of Ontario, whioh involves the question of the power of par- don, declared by the Chancery judges to rest with the Ontario Government regard- ing offences over whioh the legislative authority of the Province extends. The question will ultimately Dome before the Supreme Court. Lord Salisbury attended a council at Windsor Saturday, when the Queen signed the Speech from the Throne, which is to be read on the opening of Parliament. A 'LIFE F'oR A LSI'•%; a 'he Prineiplel Upon. Whish the Pliiiillats glees 8eiivoralrolr; The Parie.Eeiair Saye a Nihilist commit tee decided that if Sophia Gunaberg,. who w e arrested at St, Petersburg for having bombs. in her possession, wae sentenced to death, Gen. 8eliverslsoff would be killed at' soon, thereafter aa possible, The woman warp sentenced to be banged last Monday, widths shooting of the general 000urred the day after. The name of the Pale wh • issuspeotedof: murderin Gen. Seliverek who is Pad e . g 0 1 wake. not Podleeky. A person resembling Padlew- eky creased the Belgian frontier on l'aeidity , night. Dr. Broaardel, in a report on the death of Gen. Seliverskoff, say that death re. salted from the effects of a single ullet wound, .that the bullet entered behind the ear, and that the shot was fired ata die- tante of from six to eight inches. A funeral service for the mar.taredeneral will g be held to -morrow. The body will afterwards be taken to Ruda.. The Value of Silver Coins. That of 1798 brings $12. The dollar of 1804 is worth $100. Those of 1802 and 1836 coat P10 each. Dollars dated 1839 are valued at $30. Those of 1851, 1852 and 1858 cast $4p eaob. Only four of 1804 exist and one is worth 5500. `Those issued in 1836 are rated from $19 $50. Half -dollars of 1794, 1815, 1851 and 1852 bring 55 each. Those of 1797 are worth $50 to 575 ; of 1796, $75 to $100. Silver quarters bring $7 for 1804, 510 for 1796 and 1853, $30 for 1823, $50 for 1827. Not Fair on Georgie. Harrand Lampoon : Little Georgie Mamma. where is the world's fair going to be held ? Mamma—In Chioago,'dear; why ? Little Georgie—Oh, nothing, only while I was hiding under the sot& 1ast night £ heard Charlie tell Grace to come over tee him and he would show her where the world's fair ought to be held, and I was just going to peep ont and see where when tha gas went out. Warranted to Last. Buffalo News : Bachelor Friend—Ana did you really make this bread yourself. Mrs. Newlywed? Mrs. Newlywed—Every bit of it myself. What do yon think of it ? Bachelor Friend—Why, I think it is simply wonderful. I should have said that bread like that could not have been made outside a foundry. Her Refusal New York Sun : " When will yon become my wife, Ethel 2" "On the 29th day of February, 1891." " But there's no such day." " That's the size of it." Inviolable Secrecy. "I'll tell yon something," remarked Miss Bleeoker," on the dead quiet." " Very well," replied Mise Beacon -street. of Boston, "I will remember that it is os the deceased silence." The Motto Spited Him. Yonng Dolley—I hear, Mies Amy, that yon girls bave formed a temperance society. Amy—Yes, indeed. Oar motto is : " Th lips that touch beer shall never tom mine." Dolley—That lete me in. I drink nothing but whiskey. In Darkest London. Boston Journal: In London last year 500 ohildren under 10 years of age were arrested for drunkenness. The Bilk manufacturers of Germany have been completely crowded out of the European market by the superior cheap- ness and excellence of French stuffs. The German wares are now chiefly exported to South America. D(3NL. 49. 90. FARM FOR SALE. FARM CONTAINING 100 ACBES, 70 acres cleared, situated lot 33, 401i cots cession Township Ancaster, on Bra..tford atone road, 10 miles from Hamilton. Engniro W. KAVANAGH, 393 King west, Hamilton, Out. I took Cli;., 1 % oltooIIS Sick, B I TOOK a R.,, , UI,1: I take 1V,s'3a iso ) I tabho ;Z�r Rest, ' ) AND 3 AM VIGOROUS ENOUGH TO TAKE e ANYTHING I CAN LAY. MY HANDS ON; etitil>r1g fat 1,00, FOR Scott's S Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil ' and Hypophosphltes ofLime and soda NOT ONLY CURED MY 'neap. ) fent Conserngotiion BUT BUILT i ; DIE UP, AND IS NOW PUTTING FLESH OM DAV BONES i w AT THERATEr OF A rouNn A DAY. 1 ). TAKE ITJUST AS DASILY AS I DO MILK.' ( Scott's Emulsion is put up only in Salmon n color Dvrappors. Sold by all Druggists at 50o. and 31,00. 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