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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1891-4-30, Page 7TRIP 01' THE ABERABENS. °i Through Canada With a Kodak" bV Her Ladyship. THE SOJOURN AT MONTREAL. (From " Ouward and upward.") "Glad tosee you et Montreal I' "Well and what do you thinli of Canada 2' a' Lord Aberdoee, I think? You're heartily welcome, sir l" " Grand hotel this I Nothing to beat it ` on the continent I" Such like were the, groetinge which fell on our care as we entered the vast central hall of the Windsor Rotel, Montreal, after a hot and dusty railway journey from Quebec. This hall and the spaciona dining -saloon and public drewing•rooms of the hotel are pre,otinelly a club for the inhabitants of Montreal and its viaitore. Here we find many of our fellow-pessen- gere from the Parisian again -here, too, was ot}r, oaptain; this celebrity and that were pointed out to ne by the head waiter, as they eat at the innu. merable small tables at meals, and before many boars had passed we felt ourselves quite habitues of Can• ado's commercial oapital, and accustomed to her ways. Quite conscientiously, too, could we pees mnoter with the moat exaot• ing Canadian in paying due tribute to the oomforte, the conveniences, and the apion ewdor of the Windeor Hotel. Ae at Quebeo, our thoughts irresistibly named to the contrast between this proud and splendid city, with her beautiful building, and churches, and univereitiee, to the nestling Indian village found by .Jacques Cartier at the foot of the moun- tain which he drat called Mont Royal (the royal mountain), in honor of hie King. We =fancied we could Bee the groups of " braves," with their aquewa and ohildren crowding out of their little huts to look at these strange beings ; the women stroking the moustaches and beards of the explorers, to make aura of their reality ; the infirm, and eiok, and feeble, with their paralyzed chief at their head, imploring for the "healing toneh" which they believed these denizens of another world could give. The words whioh were spoken by Maison- neuve, the leader of the little band of enorty-five emigrante who landed on the island of Montreal in 1642, with the inten• tion of founding a colony and a mission, glnave indeed come true. No sooner bed the little party landed than they gathered together for prayer and in consecration of -their mission in this neer land, and at the close of their worship niaieonnenve turned to hie companions and been " Yon are a grain of mustard seed tear shall rise and grow till its branohee overshadow the earth. You aro few, but your work is the work of God. " Hie smile ie on you, and your children shall fill be land." Many were the vioient❑dee which that little colony had to ease through, many were the heroes and heroines whom they were destined to nurture amidst the rough experienoe of a life spent iu aonetent dread and danger of the Indian's tomahawk and ,scalping -knife. But Maisonnenve'a words .proved prophetic, and in plane of the small barrioaded fort of Villa Marie of Montreal, -defended by a few missionaries and devoted women, there mere itself the largest, most •prosperons oily in Canada, sheltered by her 'Soya' Mountain, on whieh she lavishes her prond Dare. On the Bides of the mountain itself large and most carefully -tended cemeteries have been laid one separately for Protestants and Roman Catholics, and are considered one of the eights of the place. We drove through them, admiring many strange bright planta and trees, and then we wended ,our way to return a visit made to ne in the raiorning by an old friend of the family, Mr. Crombie, who had been for many years a ',London city missionary. And then I mnet tell you or the evening we spent at the beautiful honee of Sir i; Donald Smith, whoee name is a household word in Canada, as well it may be, for he 'has acted the part of a fairy godfather to rhie.adopted country. I think yonr editor =oat some day try if Sir Donald cannot be persuaded to tell the H. H. A. some of his stories of the bygone days of the Hudson's Bay Company, of which he is president, and in whose service he heel taken many an ,adventurous journey. He could tell us not .only ot the hardships of oold, but of the ',hardships of heat, whioh beset the hunter. 'That very evening we were with him he told ns of the terrors of the Labrador mos- quitoes, and how they vanquished men who would fly from no other enemy. He ,inetanoed one oaee in whioh a friend of bin -,was so sensitive to their bites that he had 'to stop every half-hour on the march to wash away the blood whioh was pouring ,from hie head end foae. We had all manner of stories that night, -icor amonget Sir Donald's guests were Mr. Shaughnessy, the Vioe•President of the Canadian Paoifio Railway; the Rev. Mr. Barclay, whom many of you may have heard of, as he was oolleagne with Dr. Macgregor, at St. (lath. barns, Edinburgh, for some years before going to the Montreal oongre• •gation, by whom he is held in such high esteem ; and last, but not least, Father !Lacombe, a priest missionary among the Indians, who hue given all hie life to their cause. I am getting a photograph of him engraved, eo that yon may have a glimpse of the kindly, noble old face. He lives far .away in the Northwest, and is not often seen in civilized haunts, but his name is everywhere loved and respected among Protestants and Raman Catholicsae alike. Hie life of love and wholehearted devotion to his mieeion has gained for him enormous influence amongst " mea sauvages; as he playfully calls them. Hie talk with no will always be a happy remembrance ; his fatherly solicitude over hie flook and the way in whioh he identifies himself with ',them is moot touching. ' Yon mast never drive' the Indians or frighten them ; yon must draw them by ever tell. ;ung them of the love of the Father." Only -once, he told no, was he in momentary danger from any Indian. An Indian lad had been falling, into bad ways, and Father Lacombe told him that if he persisted m these ways he would surely reap the fruits of hie sin. A few days later the boy was ill, and Father Lacombe went to gee hien, and laying hie hand on his knee, asked him how he was. The boy jumped up in a fury,. iris a knife, seizing made a lunge at the aniesionary, 'whioh, fortunately, the latter eluded by a rapid movement. The boy liad remembered the words spoken to him a few days before, and thought that Father Lacombe had the power #o bring punishment and death upon him by merely touching him. Amongst other work done for the Indians by this good man has been the making of grammars and translations of parts of the Bible and other boo ksfar their use. He stop that when ho is quite worn out with motive work he will come and build a hermitage near Haat) Honbo and write books for end about his Indians. I wonder if he will write for •Onteard and Upward. splendid work, and for whioh [ would like to eek your support. TodayI have simply told yea our experience of one wbo is surely following Christ, iia ever man did, and taking hie message of love and mercy bo dark souls, and to whom therefore all Chrietiane on with heart and soul say, " God speed." Meanwhile I meat tell you how Mr. Barclay joined with Pero Laoombe in telling us of the Nortbweat. He had gone with the Canadian troops ae ohaplain, on this expe- dition to quell the last insurrection amongst the balf.breede, and we were told on all hands how magnificent hie tall, manly figura looked in uniform, and how hie can- tina with the troops won for him universal. respect. I wish you could have heard him describing the services he had in far oat- of•the-way places on the Sabbaths. The military band led the Psalms and hymns, and the host of men's voices rose up in the open air where divine worship had never before awakened echoes, and amongst the worshippers were found lonely settlers who had for years been far from any ohuroh, and who hailed this opportunity of joining in public prayer and praise once more, and to whose eyes the sound of the well-known tunes brought tears of joy. But the boat which is to take ne west. ward is waiting for ne at Lachine, and if we are to arrive at Hamilton next month we must hurry westwards. So, good-bye, Sir Donald, and good-bye to year guests ; but au revoir ! SLICK HOVEL BEAM. His Clothes Seized in One House He Gets Square With Another. The fellow had no baggage when he registered first at the Markham House Saturday, but had a very glib tongue and told snoh a plausible story that ho was permitted to resister and given a room, says the Chattanooga Times. He was well dressed and a very pleasant spoken fellow, and hie bill for extras soon assumed startling proportions. The hotel people became alarmed, and after he had been there several days a party stopping there told them he was a beat. The clerk fixed up a scheme, and that evening he got into the fellow's room on some pretext after he had retired, and calmly gathering up the fellow's coat, vest and pante told him they could be re. deemed at the office for the amount of his bill The fellow's nerve did not desert him even in this extremity. He borrowed a mackintosh coat from the clerk whioh reached to hie heels, whioh he put on over his underolothing, in order to go after some money, and walked to the Kimball House, where he boldly regietered and was shown to a room, leaving word that when his baggage arrived it was to be kept until he got up in the morning. At about 8 o'clock on Sunday morning he came jamping downstairs, making a great noise of a tale of robbery, in which he had lost his clothes and $85 in oaeh. The hotel management, without stopping to investigate the fellow, got him a new snit of clothes and paid him $85 rather than have such a notoriety attached to the house. The fellow then walked back to the Markham House, paid his bill, obtained hie clothes and jumped out of town. THE CODERIOR TRAGEDY. Donald MoKinuon round Not Quilty of Murdering 'Kia Wife. REVENGEFUL MOUNTAINEERS Shoot Six Negroes and Wound Ten Without Warning. A Chattanooga, Tenn., despatch of to- day says : A report reaohed here from Rookwood, 76 miles from Chattanooga, on the Cincinnati Southern Road, that 25 miles from that place last Sunday a party of native mountaineers rode into a tan• bark camp, situated on the Cumberland mountains, and without a warning shot and killed six negroes and wounded ten. The mountaineers, it is said, had been dis- charged for incompetency and took this method of revenge. JAILED. FOR ATTEMPTING SUICIDE. A Goderich despatch says : At The As- sizes hero this morning, Donald McKinnon was placed on trial, charged with the murder of hie wife. McKinnon is a Asher- man, and lived with his wife for many yeare in the town of Goderioh. It appears that when he was away during the summer months some one was playing a practical joke upon them, giving the woman to understand that her husband had a wife and child up north upon the lake ahore.. This caused her great anxiety, although every one to whom she mentioned it would assure ber it was all nonsense and without foundation. They occasionally had worde oonaerning it. One dayaneighbor paseing on the road heard moons in the barn, and reported it to another, who visited the place. The sound, he thought, oame from the hay loft, but before going up he re. turned and galled the prisoner whom he found sitting in she home mending a fish- net. Ae soon as the prisoner was in- formed that something was wrong he pro- ceeded at once, and the wife wan found lying upon the hay with a bul- let wound in her abdomen. The husband put hie arms around her to lift her up, but she refused to be assisted by him, nor would she accept the assistance of the neighbor. She waked for her brother, who wae sent for, and he took her to the house. Shortly after this the prisoner shot him- self, inflicting a serious injury, and also out his arm with a knife. The wife, after much coaxing, said that she had been ehot by her hnaband. She refused to be treated surgically in order to assist a recovery, but not to take opiates to relieve 'pain. She acted in a strange manner, and the de- fence alleges that she committed enioide. The wound was in such a position that the clothing must have been pulled to one aide to inflict it, because tho bullet had not passed through either of the garments she had on. The whole of the oitcumetancoa diaoloeed in evidenoe rather indicated that the woman had taken her own life during a fit of jealousy. The prisoner attempted to take hie life on Tuesday laet. With a short pieoe of eharpened wire be endeavored to pierce his heart, and although he preseed it in some two inohes he missed the vital point. At the close of the case for the Crown, Mr. Garrow, conned for the prisoner, asked that the case should not be enb- witted to the jury. on the ground 01301 the evidence was insufficient to warrant a con- viction. Mr. Lount stated the Crown's position and left it to Hie Lordship's dis- cretion. At the re -opening of the court at 7.30 Hie Lordship addressed the jury at some length, pointing out to them that while there might be a scintilla of evidenoe to go to them, yet enoh a case had not been presented by the Crown as to justify them in Baying that beyond all reasonable doubt the prisoner was guilty of murder. He therefore deemed it melees to go through the form of presenting the case to them, and instructed them to return a verdict of not guilty. The prisoner MoKinnon was then ar- raigned on the charge of attempting to commit suicide and pleaded guilty. Upon tine charge he was sentenced to four months in the common jail. The com- munity is relieved at hie being kept in confinement for this period, as it is feared that if he had been discharged he might again attempt his own lite. Peary's Proposed Expedition. Lieutenant R. E. Peary, of the United States Navy, who has already made a trip into the interior of Greenland, is abont to start on another expedition to find the northern extremity of that country. There is no intention of trying to reach the North Pole, but simply to explore the unknown northern comet of Greenland, and set at rest the question whether that country is a continent or an island. To accomplish this purpose Lieutenant Peary proposes to etas with sledges and a well-equipped party over the inland ice trona the neighborhood of. Smith Sound, and to travel along the margin of the ice within sight of the west coast of Greenland to its northern limit. Peary's past experience will bo useful in this enter- prise, and the establishment of depots along the route, well stocked with provi- sions, will be of material advantage. Geographers are agreed as to the impor. tanoe of completing the map of Greenland, especially its northern boundary ; and past efforts show that nothing more in this direction is to be expected by the Robeson Channel route. The.sucoessfnl journey of Dr. Nansen across Greenland in 1888 is evidenoe in favor of the feasibility of using the inland ice ae a means of travel, and the daring Peary has certainly a fair prospect of success. Sumo day I mnet tell yon •o! other, mie. alone amongst the Indiana, of the Cherish of England's mission and of our Presley- ,.,terian Church mission, whioh aro doing Persistent in His Doings. New York Herald : Saneo—The young fool wouldn't listen to reason. He tram- pled all family and social bier under foot and went on the stage. Rodd -And what is he doing now 2 Saneo—Still trampling ties under foot— railroad tied. Under Ground, Bridges—How is your eon getting on with that paper he is running ? Brooks—Well, he got it eo far under ground that he's had to change its name from the Setting Sun to the Colliers' Gazette. Might Object. New York Herald : Mand—This book on "Health" says young girls who wish to have bright eyes and rosy cheeks should take a tramp through the woods each morning before breakfast. Gladys—'spode the tramp should object? Small Profits. New York Times : Drug Clerk (to stranger)—What do you with, , eir? Stranger—I wish you good morning," sir. Where is your directory TRE COLBORNE 8H0OTIRG 08.8E. A Young ,Farnner Arrested onQ pue icion of Being the Guilty Party. ANNOYING A YOUNG LADY. A Colborne despatch save Rumors of arrests in connection with the shot fired from the woods into Mise E wily Spiibnry'e horse on her way borne from this village on Saturday last animinated in the arrest of one James T. Peters, a farmer of Cruinalie township and a neighbor of the Spilburyo. Yesterday Miss Spilbury, who. wee driving with her nephew when the horse was shot, consulted Mr, W. L. Payne and more out an information before Henry Hicks, Reeve, charging James T. Petere, an unmarried man of about 32 years of age, with having " feloniously shot ono horse, the property of the com- plainant, with intent thereby to kill said horse, on Saturday, the 11th day of April, at the township of Oramahe." The magistrate issued a warrant for Peters' ,arrest, which was executed by County ;Constable Reivee, and this morn- ing Peters was brought before H. Hicks, reeve, and the proceedings adjourned until 2 p. en. Ate o'clock the reeve appeared, aesieted by Jnatices Alger and Winn. Mr. W. L. Payne appeareared as council for the proaeoutrix, and Mr. F. M. Field for Peters. The Council Chamber was crowded with spectators. The prisoner pleaded not guilty, and Mies Spilbnry being sworn de- posed to a series of annoyances she had suffered, particularly during the winter, which she sought to attribute to Peters, who was employed by her father daring' December and January. Ono letter signed by Patera woe pot in, and a letter in which the characters were printed, and having no signature, was also pat in, enbjeot to ob. jeatione by Petere' counsel. The last letter contained some peculiar threats end ad- vice, but it did not appear to have been written by Peters. It wee found in the keyhole of the door, and was dated February 2nd, 1891. Mies Spilbury saw no one when the shot wae fired, but heard a loud report from the woods to the right Bide of the road, and the horse jumped and then went on all right serosa the G. T. R. track, but on examining it at home she found it in pain and wounded with shot in the head, neok, shoulder and forelegs. Mrs.. Hinds, a sister of the complainant, who is visiting at Mr. Spilbury's place, was also sworn, but gave no evidenoe of any im• portanoe. The oonneel for the prosecution not being ready with any further evidence, an adjournment was had till to -morrow morning at 10 o'clock. So far there has not been the slightest evidenoe to substantiate the charge against Mr. Peters. He is the eon of Wm. Peters, a highly -respected farmer, and has always been known as a Bober and industrious young man. ELOPEMENT, DESERTION, DEATH. An Eloping Woman Shot Dead by Her Paramour,' Who Then Suicides. A Hoboken, N. J., despatch says : Just before the steamship Eider Belled yesterday Philip Obnaoker, aged 35, shot and killed Mrs. Catherine Barth, aged 30, in the steerage of that vessel, and then committed suicide. Mrs. Barth eloped from Germany with Obnaoker, leaving behind a husband and two children. Obnacker was formerly a soldier in a compenv stationed in the town in which Mrs. Barth lived. He became infatuated with her, and at the woman's request he oame to this country with her. They passed for man and wife, and fonnd work on a farm about five hours' ride by rail from this city. While at the farm Mrs. Barth tired of Obnaoker. They quarrelled and she decided to return to Germany. Mrs. Barth came here and bought a ticket for Germany. Obnecker also came here and vainly tried to dissuade her from returning to Europe. After some angry talk the woman went aboard the steamship. Obnacker followed her and deolared she should not leave him. There- upon he shot her over the right eye and she fell dead. Obnaoker then shot himself in the temple, and fell dead beside the woman. The bodies were taken to the morgue. _ DISHY are the women who live in, New South Wales, Sir Henry Parkes, the Premier, announced' in Parliament yester- day that his Government would introduce a Bill providing for their enfranchisement. The crisis in the Lisbon Cabinet has been settled. It appears to be a foot that Cnetoms °Moor Dronillord has made a seizure of some of the piant of Ryan & Haney, con- tractors for the Satilt Canal, Mr. Hugh Ran made the statement the Other day Ryan dullar'a worth of iant in the that ovary p work had been made in Canada, and that there was therefore no, ground for moll action on the part of the Gastonia authori- ties MAIL AND EXPRESS COLLIDE. Five Men Instantly Hilted in a Lake Shore Collision Sunday Night. A Cleveland despatch says: A frightful wreck occurred on the Lake Shore Rail. road at Kipton station, 40 miles west of Cleveland, early last evening, in whioh nix postal clerks and two engineers were killed. The fast mail, No. 14, bound east collided with No. 21, the Toledo express, just as the latter train was ebony to pull on the siding to let the fast mail pass. The feet mail was running at tall speed, and the force of the collision was so great that both engines, three mail oars, and one baggage oar were completely wrecked. The following is the dist of the dead: Edward Brown, engineer of No. 21, Toledo ; Charles Topton, , ens gineer of No. 14, Toledo ; F. J. Nugent, postal clerk, Toledo; Charles Hammil, postal olerk, Elyria ; F. F. Clemens, postal clerk, Cleveland ; John F. Bowerfine, postal clerk, Elyria ; James McKinley, postal clerk, Conneaut, Ohio : C. H. Mo. Dowell, postal clerk, Elyria. None of the passenger care left the track, and none of the paesengere received eerione injuries. MURDERED HIS MISTRESS. An Absinthe Fiend Cuts a Woman's Throat With a Razor. A New York deepatoh says : In the case of Henry Fanning, charged with the mur- der of Mrs. Emily Taylor, who was found with her throat cut on Park avenue on Saturday night, damaging testimony spinet the twinged was given to -day before Coroner Levy. Albert McMullen, the room -mate of the prisoner, testified that at 12 o'clock on the night of the mur- der Fanning oame in end told him he had killed Mrs. Taylor. It seems that once before Fanning had cut the woman alightly in the neck with a pen -knife, and that the wound left a soar. Fanning on Saturday night walked half a mile with Mrs. Taylor, when he suddenly asked her to let him see the soar on her neck. She turned her head to one side to allow her lover to see the mark more clearly, when he drew a ragged - edged razor and out her jugular vein and the windpipe. McMullen says Fanning, when ho returned to his room, exolaimed, " I killed Mrs. Taylor. I finished the job," eta. " I gave her a jab with a razor and completed the job." McMullen thought his mind was wondering. The next morn- ing Fanning kept talking about having " finished the job," and explained that he meant " the killing of Mrs. Taylor." He had often spoken about killing her before, and one time had talked wildly about the devil tempting him to smash her head with a stone. Fanning is an abainthe drinking fiend. _ Ile Was a Very Lively Corpse. A. Burlington, Ia., despatch saga Ed. Carter, James Smith and Robert Carter were carrying on a drunken revel at the home of Thomas Smith in Madison county on Friday, when a quarrel arose, and Smith wen kno eked ae neeteaa He was carried into the yard and burled under a lot of rabbis. The gang then continued the carousal. Smith regained oonaoione• nese, and, scouring a shotgun, emptied both barrels into the gang, of revelers, fatally wounding Ed. Carter. Smith has disappeared. "German Syrup" G. Gloger, Druggist, Watertown, 'Wis. This is the opinion of a man who keeps a drug store, sells all medicines, coble$ in direct contact with thep - atients and their families, and knows better than anyone else how remedies sell, and what true merit they have. He hears of all the failures and successes, and can. therefore judge , "I know of no medicine for Coughs, Sore Throat, or Hoarseness that had done such ef- fective work in my Coughs, family as Boschee's Sore Throat GernianSyrup, Last winter a lady called Hoarseness, at my store, who was suffering from a very severe cold. She could hardly talk, and I told her about German Syrup and that a few doses would give re- lief; but she had no confidence in patent medicines. I told her to take a bottle, and if the results were not satisfactory I would make no charge for it. A few days after she called and paid for it, saying .:othat she would never be without it in future as a few doses had given her relief." IMMIQUCKURIZAKICialillMMAINOW" -9111•11111111111N A DFB.D CHILD. A Postmaster's Shocking Discovery Near a Small Village in Wellington. A Grand Valley, Ont. despatch says : An inquest was held last night on the body of a child found on the, side of the railway Creek about three miles west of the station here. Robert Dickson, postmaster at Peepabun, was walking along the track, and observed a parcel lying at one side of the track, about six feet from the rails, which at once aroused his curiosity. The parcel was done up with a sheet of grey paper on the outside and tied on by a cord. Mr. Diokeon thinking that the package to be goods of some kind and probably dropped off the train at once began to investigate. He unfastened the oord, took off the paper wrapping and found a woman's garment surrounding a tin tobacco box, the box being about one foot in length. He then opened the tin, which was fastened with small nails, and a black woollen scarf or ebawl appeared, and on lifting the scarf he was horror-stricken to behold the remains of a female infant, which was crushed into the box. The evidenoe of the dealers allowed that the child had been murdered. Whether the box was thrown from the train or was placed there is a mystery. POISONED AT A WEDDING. A Fiend Puts Arsenic in the Coffee at a Kentucky Wedding. A. Louisville despatch says : From the effects of poise: taken at the Snooke•Herr wedding at Lyndon, on Wednesday even- ing, Frank Guthrie, one of the wealthiest and best known residents of Louisville, died yeeterday morning. Mrs. Guthrie and her sister, Mrs. Robert Gray, are down as victims of the same poison. The attend- ing physicians ore confident all are suffer- ing from arsenic poison, and they believe the drug was pat in the coffee at the wedding dinner for the purpose of killing some one. Every symptom of the sufferers indicates arsenic, and if the physicians are correct e. most diabolical crime has been committed. By whom such an act could have been committed has not as yet been even conjectured. That snob a thing could bave been an accident is impossible, as there was no arsenic about the place. The conditions of Mr. B. K. Sutler's daughter and Miss Herr are alarming. The Rev. T. T. Martin, who performed the Dere• cony, is in a very critical condition. The eight guests, who are at Mr. Herr's house, are all very ill. Mr. and Mrs. Snooks started on their bridal tour Boon after the wedding, but wore taken suddenly ill in Cinoinnati on Thnraday, and were aom• palled to return to Lonisville. The condi- tion of both is now said to be origami. How the Queen's Housemaid Died. A London cable says : A singular death from blood-poiaoniog 000nrred at Gram recently. One of the Queen of England's housemaids was sewing and accidentally pricked her finger with a needle and in- flammation set in. Two doctors were galled and her arm was lanced. Matters seemed to be going better for a time, but fever set in and she died almost immedi• ately. Queen Victoria selected the site,. and she was buried in a lot that is per. tioned off from the Catholio cemetery for the burial of those of other faiths who may die at Grasse._ • Tlie latest atetistica show that the suicide mania is spreading in Germany to that ha even children take such an extent their liven. During the six years ending with 1888, 280 school children committed 'suicide. Many of these oaonrred in the elementary schools, end were prompted by fear of punishment.—N. Y. Recorder. The Dominion Trades Congress will petition the Dominion Government to pro- hibit the importation of Chinese labor. CONVENTION Buw It Was Thrown to the Winds by a. Lady in a Street Car. Did you ever think what an odd thing oonventioneliby is? The unwritten code ot good manners, for instance—which is quite apart from the laws of etiquette-.- pieces man on a plane higher than the animal, and makes the humblest human being "believe" with propriety, not to say' good breeding, in public. But the other. daya street oar was the Nene of a bit Of unonventionality that caused a commotion among the passengers, from its very "gneernees." The oar was well filled when a well•dreeeed woman entered. From all a earancee she halon ed in the "lad Pl? g Y > nate or for her gown was of the beet and fitted her admirably, and she wore fresh gloves, and, what is more to the par.' pose, her countenance bespoke refinement'. and intelligence. No sooner, however, was SIM seated than, opening a paper bag which: she oarried, together with her muff, ebe took out a Dorn bread muffin, and began nibbling it with the gusto of a hungry ohild. The passongere opposite gazed at the operation with some surpriee, but there !. observance made no impression, for, having disposed of this porn cake, she drew forth a second, and, after eyeing it well, devoured that in the same nibbling fashion as its predecessor. By this time every eye in the oar was fixed on the "lady, and more than one winked telegraphically to draw attention to the free and eaey lunch, but its consumer apparently took no heed, for she went on eating Dorn; oakee until the little paper bag was emp- tied, and then, squeezing it into a ball, she oast it on the floor. Her unconsoionsnese was the most singular part of the whole performance, for not a sign escaped her that she was doing anything uncommon or that the attention of the crowded publio conveyance was fastened on her. Some one suggested that the three muffins were eaten on a wager, but it ie more likely that the well•dreseed being was defiant of con- vention, and belonged to the new class of "independents." At all events, she amused a lot of people, and carried some of them beyond their destination in their desire to eee the end of the performance. Arranging for a Good Time. Mr. Joseph Hobson, Chief Engineer of the Grand Trunk, in referring to the St. Clair tunnel recently, said : " In two ; months we hope to have the tunnel officially opened. The towns of Sarnia and Port Huron are arranging opening exercises of an unusual ohmmeter, in the completion of which the Grand Trunk will enter heartily. There is to be a grand dinner down in the tunnel. The table will be set just on the international line, with one•half in the Slates, the other in the Dominion. At the head of the table, in Canada, will sit Presi- dent Harrison, while at the other end, in America,will bo seated the Governor- General of Canada. Of course, there will be congratulatory speeches, etc., and a general good time is expected. At any rate, it certainly is a veryrntereeting enter- prise and deserves to be carried out." Tog Bill for the establishment of a Col- lege of Undertaking and Embalming has been shorn in committee of its aompnleory features. These were all struck out, and the Bill gods back to the House merely providing for the establishment of the col- lege, with power to grant diplomas and eertifioates of registration. The right of registration ie extended to all undertakers al me rel now in this in business embalmers b Province. After receiving a diploma from the college, an undertaker may assume the title of fellow of the college. A penalty of 20 ie fixed for the unauthorized nee of this $ title, with $50 au the penalty for a second offence. The underbekers have thus received the same treatment as the station- ary engineers. Why Big Men Have Little Wives. There is a very general' and ancient impresion that big men in choosing wives prefer small women. At first glance this would appear to be true. because the num- ber of big men with little wives is certainly in an overwhelming majority, as we see them. In the five years I have held my office I have learned a thing or two through the medium of the marriage license office, and it is my impression that it is not that big men prefer little women, but that little women prefer big men, and it is the ex. perience of the world -wise that what a woman wants and starts out to get she generally captures. — St. Louis Globe. Democrat. To Regulate Drunkenness. A Weetern man has a scheme for de• creasing drunkenness. He would establish a State inebriate asylum, and compel those who make and sell liquor to pay for its maintenance. He would tax the distiller $1,000, the wholesaler $500 and the re. tailor $100 a year in its behalf. Then he would treat drunkenness ae insanity, and confine all drunkards in the asylum until they are permanently cured. Is There a Hitch ? The Rochester Herald of yesterday said The Canadian Paoifio has not got into New York yet, if the reports are true. Opposition on the part of the Lake Shore and Miohigan Central portions of the Van- derbilt system may lead to a revision of the agreement between the New York Central and Canadian Paoifio. The Lodge in Politics. Toronto Labor Advocate : This lodge business is the curse of this town, and until something be done to curtail the influence exerted by the varietal secret societies there can be no hope of improve- ment in the administration of oivio affairs. When a man rune for alderman, or is after any position, one of the etrongest reasons urged in support of his prospects for eau mese is " he's got the pall with the lodges; he'll get theresore," and the result goner- ally justifies the prediction. If this be the state of affairs which prevails -and I shouldn't have said what I have if I didn't think I had gronnda for it—itis more than time it were put an end to. One of the best means of doing this would be to maks canvassing impossible by disqualifying any man who resorted to it, and this failing, plane lodge membership in the same cate- gory. This last may be regarded as an heroin remedy, but they are oometimea necessary and have to be resorted to when the occasion demands it. A topic extensively discussed in society is the exhibition of the rational dress society. Prominent ladies are aiming to introduce new dress combinations, whioh consist of brevity of skirt, duality of under - dress and shortneea of upper drapery. The mode most approved by the society is that of Syrian trousers and tali blouse of silk over a velvet zonave bodice. No member of the society, however, has ventured to walk out in " rational" costume for publi criticism. —There are over 16,000 Bands of Hope in the United Kingdom. "Alas, this is oartainly a drop too much,' sighed the gentleman who was suspended at the end of a halter. One Customer Fauna. 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