The Exeter Advocate, 1891-7-16, Page 7,
Di YE
SON of the 1
the Days
CRUELTY
The "Cut:Icing"
Tile "R,uth
The l'illory
Instances of
Lady's Diary.
The fact that i
the year of grace
areaigned in poli
tune telling, th
awyers (shrewd
pillory, should 1
some of the p
long ago and as
the meinory of
Some of these pi
no longer reeog
were marvels of
examining the p
tions of law
is impressed
'titian from
human life,
the age of tortur
of reformatory
it maybe.
-that . t
IChristien church
-when it wield
legal penalties
and ferocious per
lent. Just as
affairs of state d
in civil matters
statutes were mi
sacred, reform
revenge as the
woman graduall
anan's equal
was this all.
by the divorce,
dogmatic tyro,
Chlistianity, wit
its foreground a
and its butcheri
evolved a better
at grander thing
far removed fro
are prone to
themselves for t
one of the res
great leaven of
viE "cumin
Among the p
in England and.
or "ducking"
the "Doomesda
time of Edward
known as the "
rude chair in w
users of false
seated, barehea
of their own d
Iiibited in prom
It became the
"scolds, strum
seated and "d
Amain "to cool
one sentenceoxp
2747, writes :
Near many a s
A stool, to broil
it curbed the tc
And mason's e
Astride it set
Then twice or t
. And not& lam
Will leavirthe
The use of t
common up till
'WEIS a degrading
sloes not seem
neatly deaths.
else was in 1809,
-woman was wh
not ducked. I
Jersey grand ju
a " common
astonished to ft
was still reeogn
Jersey. Last
named Annie P
mon scold," ancl
to be an almost
tion.
TE
larank, was a
combining at on
a gag and a gro
posed of bands
the head as we
fasteninglaehin
Bose, and a p
smooth, somet
mouth of the
records of Stfrli
as the year 160
ves7 common u
Iazy or drunken
of her mind,'
and led ab
tached to i
Sometimes she
-whipping post
'used to punish
alitiee, and the
kirk -sessions a
England reve
"breathing."
iiave been used
TUB
.4 The pillory,
not abolished
used in 1830.
State of Dela
pillory was us
set in a public
were jeered at
times unmercif
malodorous au
ders were pelt
aariety of o
short weight;
by their
libellers and
Sometimes the
the pillory and
was over they
Some offenders
their ears cu
branded. Soni
peel at the
towns. Desc
Japhet Cook,
"Tho time i3eil
a chair in the
dressed like a
with a knife lil
lint off his ears
Blit both his •n
with great p
with hot lame
'was so violen
, chair." No w
a fitting frati
scaffold. In
man, and fat
ttacked the
day in a pam
degreded the
whipped, an
nottril slit
imprisoned a 11
course of creel
Eleven years
ated him and informe hini that his punish. sand In the Ore -
OLDEN TIES '
i
. a
meet had heen illegal ! Space forbids
multiplying instancee, hundreds. of which
offer. It le a dark chapter, indeed, the
.
history ealegel cruelty,
The punisliments inflicted oxlutihtors Vie
Were ,' Unfortunate eaough to, like ea. a
-says
Leighton, , antagonize the church, or the
• ,
ruling powers of state, were many and
severe, Brandine, cropping the ears and
slitting the nostrils were .00namoniallictions.
Often a, hand was choPpecl off; sometimes
life was taken, and that, too, in the most
horrible manner.
• Collingbourne, for
writing a satire on three of the favorites of
Richarcli In , in which he taus safe/Tadao
their crests (Richard's being a white boar),
suffered death: ,
" The cat the rat andilevel our dog,
Rule all England unclor a• hog."
It is said that after being hanged "he was
cut down inunecliately, his entrails extracted
and thrown into the fire, all this so speedily
performed that when the executioner pulled
out his heart, he spoke, and said 'Jesus,
jugs., ,,But
Burning to death, racking, the boot, the
1 wanmer and many other forms of cruelty
flourished. Pressing to death was accom-
Wished b etrehiehieig the victim o' n his back
and weighting is o ies with metal or stone
the sentence recteirhig that he be naked and
" as many weights shall be laid upon him as
• - a•
he can bear and more." This death by tor-
t • t' ' 1 d 1 1
ure sorne tines aete severe, c ays, starve-
tion being added to the sentence in some
cases.
• ' Lama
. •
Whipping is a very ancient mode of piut,
ishmentand was recognized in England. under
the Saxons. It was the common punish-
ment for vagrants. In Elizabeth's • time a
re dation was made o ensure. 1 '
ba t the ash bemg
11laid ' •
we on, The victim was to be whipped
from the waist up "till the back be well
Moodie." Whipping at the cart's tail was
Provided for vagrants, who were to be thus ,
returned .to their native' towns. Insane
People were treated to liberal whippings,
and victims of smallpox were also treated to
the cat-o'-talls Curious •
. , „ . . C bills of charges
for flogging distracted " and "crazy"..
women and smallpox sufferers appear in
the constables' accounts of Greet
Staughton, Huntingdonshire, England.
a • F)
James Naylor, "the Mad Qua en who
fancied he was the Messiah, was found
guiltyof blasphemy in 1656. He was
Pilloried. two hours, flogged throug,h the
streets from Westminster to the Old Ex-
chang,e, London; pilloried again ; his tongue
bored through with a red-hot iron; his
forehead branded, and then, seated on a
horse with hisface to the rear, taken
through the city, and again flogged next
market day, after which he was doomed
to solitary •confinement He was released
after two years. A rude cure for insanity!
Soldiers, sailors and female servants were
frequently -whipped. Perhaps as good an
.. illustration of how this form of punishment
was regarded as a part of the discipline of
the female help as occurs to me, is from the
diary of Lady Pennoyer (January 30th,
1760). Her ladyship had become offended
.
at an unpleasant truth stated by her maid,
and teselved to punish her. She sa,ys :
She bath a pretty face, and. should not be too
aubove hreiumetation,
/levy 1,2 tpeak 111 of thtoosetu non
ge ZTuorld,eavnteilhEe°1rfith but anpCgrhome. Ikea
• for her to my room, and. gave her her choice,
• either to be well whipped. or to leave my house
ainstantly.iYoa. s Tied' mchelemlsgycioI think•l.iis,itg.T.il
bade her attend my member to -morrow at
twelve. .
,
Next day this model mistress writes : •
Dearloveamy maid came to my room as 1
, •
bade her i bade her fetch the rod from what
was my mother-in-law's rod closet, and kneel
and ask pardon, which she did with tears. I
made her prepare and I whipped. her well The
girl's flesh is plump and erre, •and she is a
cleriK person -such an one *••• * * ad -I have
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no - w rpped for along time. She hath never
been whipped before, she says, since she was a
child. (what can hermother and late lady have
boon about, I wonder?) and she cried out a
great .
Lady Pennoyer would probably do up 'her•
. . .
owerhair if she lived to -day.
MASQTJETTE.
FA.CIED DEATH ALONE,
. , --
8ad Seeue in. Well streat-A liad Carrier
Waiting fill' Death.
A Ito. d center bed . been }pally crushed
by the fall of a ecalIolding aylule he was
work on a tall building in Wall street, says.
the New York Tribune, ' Hie fellows had
picked him up as tenderly as poseible and
had borne Min bleeding and dusty to a shady
spot to wait for the ambulance. It was
long wait for the man in torture, for the day
was an intensely hot one and people were
being prostrated by the heat all over the
.,
city, and the ambulances had been on the
run al1 day, An hour is not a long time for
an ambulance to set out from a hoepitel,
bring back a patient, and then reach another
one, hut to those who watch a man elosvly
bleediag to death for want of medical Lie-
sistance, it seems an age.
Big, rough men stood around the fallen
hod carrier with tears in their eyes, uttering
low curses at the tardinese of the ambulance.
the victim of the oOntractor's greed
carelessness, was the niost patient of. them
all. As the minutes Paised, he uttered
word of impatience only he looked wist-
fully on those around hire. After about
half an hour of this suspense, a doctor who
Was Passing was called over. He knelt
down lby the man, felt his crushed in side,
•
and examined his fractured skull Then
h ' k 1 • '
s oo ue head and askek softly :
'.'••Hiis, he any friends among you ?"
"None of us knows him, sir," said the
Lii. " e struck m or e 'oh . this
foremi H. e f j
morning, and as I was short handed, I, put
him to work without asking him any guess
tions."
"Well, if any of you can get any infer-
mation from .him about hispeople,you'd
. _ y
Dotter do so at once. He'll soon become
anconscums and will die, without doubt,
before night, no matter if fifty ambulances
came for him.. Nothing °an save him, • It's.
only a question of a few hours." ,
A flask of brandy was procured and
few drops put between the sufferer's lips.
The seemed to revive him and he opened
. y , . t
his eyes and looked around but to
. , s
questions. as to his. name, his home,
•parents, his wife, his children, etc., he gave
no answer.
: "Well,old man," said the foreman
a..
last, tenderly ' we can't do nothing at
knew
for you,' the doctor says, though is
we would if we could. The day s wearing
ri and our job must be finished. The
a . 1
ambulance will soon be here, so you won't'
take it hard if we leave you now,
YOU ?"
The hod -carrier looked u at him, slowly
la .
ani, spoke agreat effort*
lave got to die, eh ?"
," Doctor says so."
"How soon ?"
"Before sundown, my boy."
No help for it *"
" , ID •
" No.. )
" Well " with a ion sigh,"you o
., i d, . g
with your work and .1.11 go on with
in' " and he turned his head -shut
dY ,
eyes -and -waited. .
at
a
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or
no
he
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' MESSES AT WEDDINGS. I
ivhat Four Fairs Or June I/ridesinald
• Wore -Dress of Groom and Usher.
At . the. 114. est and prettiest of town
weddinge in June, ,11-aer's flame, four
pairs oftnadesmeids wore lovely costumes of
pink chiffon with rote -wreath toques and
chiffon perasola The bodices had double
coat frills of chiffon in fine plaits like crimp-
ing, with a, Achu ancl alcoves. embroidered_ in
true lover's knots. The deini-trained skirts
of elliffen 'fling straight in full gathers froin•'
anklet to foot, veiling the silk beneath, The
lower ' edge of the transparentiabric was
Parried under the silk skirt and ' gathered
there.
The rose bonnets were merely a single
row of pink roses •without foliage, pointed
in front in toque fashion trimmed high at
L
the back with a full aigrette, and tied by
wide strings of pink tulle coming from the
back and fastened on the left side by a
diamond fleta-dedia pin -the bride's gift to
each of her chosen attndants. Pink '11
stocleinge were worn with pink satin
slippers. The gloves of white undressed kid
were quite short, as the sleeves of the gown
were very long. The parasols were of
gathered chiffon, with a full frill and white
enameled stick, •
The bride's dressof white satin that would
stand alone was very simply fashioned;with.
inces '
long pi s train, the front of the bodice
t in tabs' with '
cu , h square neck filled in with
point bee. Its garniture, however, was
rinci all • • • _
p p y of jewels, a stomacher of cha
mends half covering the front of the cor-
sage, and strings of pearls forming a collar
clasped by a diamond brooch of great faze.
The tulle veil was held by a diamond tiara
of steven oints a d ''
.. p i 1 fleur- e -lis pattern. A
prayer -book, with ivory cover mounted hi
silver, wee carried instead of flowers.
The ushers wore pink moss rosebuds -not
one, but several buds forming the larte
boutonniere in their long English fro° -
coats. Their scarfs were of white crepe de
Chine, with pins of pear-shaped pearls, and
their loves were earl white Id • •h elf-
g , , P " wit' 6
coloredstitching. The
. • . g.. . only white flowers
were those of the bridegroom's boutonniere
and of the huge wedding favors that deco.
, rated the coachman, footman and horses of
the brougham in which
. the happy pair
drovehome from church. •
The smart dresses of the guests at this
summervedding were in very light colors-
white ale yellow, ink and '1 -
, p p gray prevail-
ing-with small bonnets or large hatsf
°-
' coops to match, or else in decide contrast.
White peau de soie with serpentine stripes
. in cords or brocaded with or scale -
,wi l pat
terns, Was made with a "Louis" coat and
demi-trained bell skirt, trimnaed with lace,
and worn with a small toque of lace and
flowers.
White crepes de•Chine and India silks
had large designs of rose clusters, bunches
.
of bluets or of poppies, and were fashioned
with a oke or corselet ofguipure lace
• Y •
Chine blossoms and stripes were on light
11 ta
ye ow taffe s. Pale blue and lightest pinit11
foulardt wide
s were striped with black a
intervals, and had very slight garniture of
black velvet ribbon ; a, belt ribbon, tied in a
bow in front, snfficing to accentuate the
black note. .
A girlish gown of white mull with large
Pink ots, the yoke and sleeves of guipure,
. had a belt and long se,sla ends at the back
of black velvet ribbon; a, large Leghorn. hat
trimmed with pink chiffon and black velvet
completed this pretty toilette. .Another
youthful dress of white ioulard, strewn with
Parma violets had a contrast of velvet
, . ,green
'ribbon (though matching the stems of the
blossoms) in bows on the corsage, the•sleeves
d d th tied 'high shoul-
an around e armholesin •
der knots.• ' • '
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'llnishments Inflicted in
of Our Ancestors,
IS A FINE ART 2
or " inuating" Steel-
s" or "Scold's Bridle"-
and Stocks- The Lash-
Cruelty - A Note from a
a the city of Hamilton, in
1891, a woman should, be
ce court on a charge of tor-
e penalty for which the
fellows) ! discover to bethe
iicl. iaterest to a sketch of
nishmentS. inflicted in the
•
rell to some in v°gu° within
reybeards of our own day.
niehmeats were for offences
aized b th
. y e law ; many
he ingenuity of cruelty Ie.
, • , ' -
nalties provided for itifrae-
along .the years, one
with the gradual evo-
the low regard formum
the contrast ' between
e -of vengeance -and that
effort, however crude
It is strange, a„,
.e days when the
was the posaet in the state
id the secular sword -the
were most merkedly cruel
.secutions the most preva-
le power of the church in
:dined, just as her counsels
meanie. disregarded, penal
bigoted, life was held more
ation took the place of
object Of Punishment and
, grew • into recognition as
and complement. Nor
he church herself profited
and out of the hard, colda
my of the middle -age
hitsinstruinents of torture,
low with burning heretics
a for the love of God, has
type of religion which aims
3 and whose teachers are so
i that dark past that they
nistake their religion . and-
Le cause instead of mereladwith
Its of the workings of the
rogress.show
i" oR " Triammist" STOOL.
culler punishments adopted
acotland was the "clicking"
tool. It is mentioned in
r Book" as far back as the'
the Confessor. It was first
nickin " stool and was a
g
Lich brewers abed. ale or
neasures were bound and
Led and barefooted, in front
tors, and subsequently ex-
nent places. In later days
ducking " stool, and in it
ets; and slanderers" were
acked" in some pond or
their immoderate heat," as
loins. Viscount Bourne, in
ream was wont to meet us
s a sure quietus.
Ingue, the passions reined
noire firm maintained.
ut a Xantippe,
hrice virago•dip ye; •
kin on theaea ,.,,. ., •
itimarn mare indek thenshe.
.
to ducking stool was quite
the end of last century. It
' form of punishment, but it
1, '
o have . eea the cause of
rhe kit recorded ease of its
at Leominster. In 1817 a
eled in the stool, but was
n 1889, however, a New
ry indicted a, Mrs: Brady as
cold," and lawyers . were
nd that the ducking stool
ized in the statutes of New
year a t Ottawa a woman
me was chargedas a com-
"
. the ducking stool was found
forgotten Canadian institu-
. .
sooLD's'ItRIDIA -
• '
piece of metallic headgear
ce in instrument of. torture,
is humiliation. It was corn-
if iron . passing upward over
L as horizontally around and
1, with an a,perture fiat the
7ojecting prong -sometimes
Ernes spiked -to enter the
victim. The kirk -session
ng mention its use as early
1. It seems to have been in
ie. Just let the wife of a
. husband "give him a piece
• and she was "brankit"
• •
out by a chain at-
s by a, town official.
was tied to the pillory,
n• market cross. It was also
blasphemy and social iinmor-
records of some of the Scotch
d the old church registers of
0
1 some strange . stories of
The last time it is'known to
was in Frankwell, in 1846.
EMORY AND STOCKS.
is an English institution, was•
ntil 1837.. It was actually
It is an institution of the
are to -day. The ordinary
'ally an elevated platform,
place, in which offenders
by the crowds and acme-
Lilly pelted with mud and.
,bish. . In some cases offen.
d to death. It was used for
fences. Bakers; for giving
quacks for affecting to cure
boluses cheats, frauds,
.
any others were pilloried.
Offenders' ears were nailed to
' when the terescribed term
were cut off and left there.
had their nostrils slit open,
b off 'and their foreheads
.0 were subsequently "whip-
art's tail " through several
7ibing the punishment , of
n 1731 the chronicler says S
ag near expired he Was set on
pillory, when . the . hangman,
butcher, came to him; and
at a gardener's pruning -knife,
, and with a pale of scissors,
ostrils ; ell which Cook' bore
tience • but at the seating
L ,
of hie right nostril, the paia
; that he got up from his
miler I ,• He would then be in
le of mind ' to go upon the
630 lar Leightom a,•clergy-
' ' -
er of Archbishop Leighton,
eclesia,etical authority df the
Met. He was fined Z10;000,
' • try pilloried branded
• t off d his r'ght
ear ' ce , . an 1
Ho Was then
opera ..
,eek and subjeeted toe second
, , .,
by, atm sent to pristin for life.
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"Paatorila' is so welladapMd to cbildrenthat
i recomreend it as superior to any prescription
Mown to me." H, A. Avjamt, ma,
1.11 So. Oxford fitt., Brooklyn, N. Y.
CaltOria owes Colle. Cougtilleltiee-,
Seer Steinach, Diarrhosa,'Erectation.
Tr in4 Worms, gives sleep, and proinoten die
di-
gestion
Without injurious medication.
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COURTESIES OF LIFE.
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Sensible People Keep a Stock 0
Civility With Them.
, Civility is a vex7 desirable trait of char-
acter and 'sensible neo le hof Id make a
• . . . . .
point of keeping -it on hand. Civility is one •
f th Ch. - t'. 't 'obligatory'
° •° r's 'an graces ; ' .16 ..
CARTER'S
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4*,' PILLS.
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upon a lady or a zentlemen, and it is exce -
lent tosnt oinekt;inie a for ethnoiseeanwchivio civility, not notot
world.ariiieg
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seevility. Toe and fawn and flatter is
despicable Ostentatious politeness, with a
• . a '
profusion of bows and ne speeches, may be
a 0
utdensome ; but a polite attention, sidi,H adache and
a kind word of greeting, a little dent toea bilious
act of courtesy' is quite another thing, Dizziness, Nausea.
says the New York Ledger. There . are eating, Pain in the
people, who, having. a. great deal of that remarkable success
pride which gives . one the as-
surance of being "just as good
' • • • a
as anybody else, if not a little better,
he yet CARTER'S
fancy that to care nothing for what others II0adae ,
R liy valuable
feel, to take the best and lab the foremost by arenadpefeuvaenting this
dint of pushing and never on any account they also correct
to alio* another precedence, is to assert stimulate the liver
themselves properly. This is a great mis- Even if they only
take. ; such conduct, instead of being an
evidence of true independence of character,
is a mark of ignorance and vulgarity.
In England, and in some parts of Conti- Ache they would
'
n0 suffer from
nentaa Europe, vulgar people are rude to li;"ut fortunately
those beneath them and servile to those here, and those
above them, In this free country, where these little pills valuable
• • " ' • they will not be
there is no titular rank, the ignorant and But after till sick
ill-mannered are sometimes rude to richer
or more fashionable people, in order to .
their independence. This is less
ignoble than the Europemafashioa, but it is is the bane of so
more detrimental to those who . are guilty we 'Make our great
•
f 't I business,'t • 1* l'le others do
o i . n i is very poor po icy, a i
indeed. CARTER'S LITTLE
• and very easy to
It is an old adage that "manners make. a dose. They are
the maa.,, They certainly have a good ' not gripe or purge,
deal to do with the making of a, successful Please a W ho use
five for $t Sold
man. CABTEBAS,
relieve
state of
Drowsiness,
Side,
has
sa'rils
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sea
in
annoying
all disorders
and
cured
be almost
this
their goodness
who once
ivilling
heed
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many
-boast.
not.
LIVER
take.
strictly
but
them
everywhere,
EIDOINEL
'a '?e, aaraa
all the troubles ince
the system, such as
Distress after
ac. While their most
been shown in curhig
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LITTLE LIVER PILLS
Constipation, cluing'
complaint, while
of the sternaCh,
regulate the bowels.
a • e esg,
a aa axes
priceless to those
distressing comp] intf
does note:end
try them will end
in so many ways that
to do without them.
a a s • : a
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:a , • ' ,abe
lives that here is where
Our pills cure It
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PILLS are very small
One or two pills make
vegetable and do
by their gentle action
• In vials at 25 cents:
sent IL
,e, or sen y me
CO.?Tire York. • ,
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Things Worth KROWillg.
Charcoal is one of the best agents for
purifying foul water. If cistern water has
an' 'unpleasant odor from the cistern being
too closely covered, it may bernade as sweet
.smelling as when fresh by suspending in the
Water a muslin bag dontaining one or more
pOunds of charcoal, according to the. size of
the cistern.
To freshen up faded green blinds rub • on
a little lipseed oil.
To remove discoloration of the hands
brought about by peeling potatoes, or other
vegetables or fruits use borax waters ."
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, hose who use green wood for -fuel -under-,
Stand how wasteful the moisture is of the
heat obtained. Wet coal is just as objee,
tionable, except for the fact' that the it
.
es in burning 'that thBooth's
gives ming is so much.e waste
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is not noticed. ' The woodshed or coal bm
should, therefore be not only well covered,
but protected &Alta it may not be wetted
with rain in summer or snow in winter.
To make jelly always cook the juices be-
fore puttingin the sugar Let it boil for
n en. a sugar, anLabor
fifteen minutes,th alci d let 't
.i
boil up good once • then it is done and
y .
read to can It is 'light colored and thick
when treated in this way -boiling the juices
and sugar together makes it dark.
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Salt is a most excellent thing to use in
. sweeping carpets. It not only .gathers up
theduet and leaves the carpet bright and
.It
clean but there is always enough . of the
'a ' • • - .
ner particles left in the carpet to act as, a.lled
prevention to Moth. Of course . the very
h t t salt b d
c eapes , coarses sa may e•use .
Putb i to• 1 b 1 cl.
. crude °nix ii , a, arge. ,ott e an
fill with water. When it has dissolved add
more to the. water, until at last the water
can absorb no more and articles are seen
P .
t the bottom To the water in which the
a- .•
hands are to be washed pour from this bottle
until the water is rendered very soft. Itshort
is cleansing and healthful and will heal
scratches ' and chaps, besides keeping the
hands M ood condition
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Rev. Dr. Scott, Mrs. Harrison's father, •
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shortly starts for Port Townsend, Wash., hall E ball Dose Small ?me
accompanied by Judge Scott, his son, who
lives there: The old min is 90, but hale •
and active.
It is said that Harry Edwards, the actor
who died in New York last week, owned a
collection of about three hundred thousand
moths and butterflies, which he had insured •
for $17 000
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H 1 • 1 I d 'treflect ' like '' ''.
the One Who eats and doesn't exercise.
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Some. Alleged ratite Shown by Charles
Latestlmook.
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disappearance for the moment of the
The disappearan
eternal Irish question, says Harold Frederic
.
in the New York limes, has brought for-
ward a lot of other English social questions,
to the discussion of which, through the
summer, testimony being taken before the
Commission will lend daily point.
as
Great interest h been excited by the ap-
pearance of the second volume of Charles
Booth's ". The Labor and Life of the Peo-
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which,'completed
ple, a large work when
bithe third volume, will present the most
exhaustive study of every.phase of existencee
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pa e great modern city yet made. •
th
deals exclusively with London andgivesRussia
this curious division of its 4,309,000 inhabi-
A th lowest thevicious
tants: , eclass, ca
and. semi-crindual, has 37,610, or 9per cent.;
13 the very poor, casual class has 316 835,
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or 7.5 per cent"; C and 1), poor people earn-
ing $5 or less weekly per, each family, has
938;293, or 22.3 per cent. Theseare
bracketed as " in poverty" as 30.7.per cent.
In another bracket as m comfort" come
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these classes of 69.3 per cent.; E and F, the
eomfortable working classes, with 2,166,503,
or 51.1 per cent.; G and H, the middle and
upper classes, 749,930, or 17.8 .per cent.
Besides these there are 99,830 inmates of
institutions.
' Among the myriad of interesting revela-
' • • ' • that the propor-
trRS III the is the fact ,
tion of people born outside of London is
uniformly greatest in the wealthiest sec-
• ' ' and diminishes
of the metropolis,
regularly until in the poorest and worst
parts between 75 and 90 per cent. are born
in London. This shows. that our accus-
oose cm mg
toll -lull talkaboutcountrymenfl It'
to great cities, to pine and starve, is
nonsense. They really. prosper, apd 1818
d Irobustnativesf the
ag e weaker an less o
city slums whom they elbow aside, and.who
• do what pining and starving there is to be
done Numerous chapters in Booth's book
done. Numerous ' •. specialists,'
are by emment and one of
, these is by Miss Octavio, Hill , on the
Vastrength
st blocks of model dwellings for the
poor, which the present form of philan.
thropy at taking. 111 ought to he studied in
every large city. Her investigations are all
against this massing of a .great number of
families together on the same staircases
under a common roof. Even if the vulgar
and. turbulent inmates be . in the .small
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minority, they lower the tone of the whole
place, with a result that sanitary appliances
are recklessly abused. Sinksand drains are
stopped, washhouses and staircases become'
the nightly haunts of the vicious, and life
to a decent, hardworking family grows to.
be intoktable. In Miss Hill's view all these
evils exaggerate themselves in the sort of
barrack existence of the huge blocks, where-
as under the system of separation afforded
by small houses they tend gradeally to dis-
appear. ,
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361 BroadvniS. '
A Well Known Lady Tells --New York. - -
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' of C reat Benefit •
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Derived From Intiallautm=1211=119111111
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The Household Savings Bluth. '
The Household Savings Bank system,
I tel instituted in the 'Traders Bank of
a Y . .
Toronto by the pushing young in-
Canada, , . . . .
Mr. aEmehus Jarvis is uite a
spector, . , ,q
novel scheme. Iron savings banks,
modelled after the Traders Bank building in
, .
Toronto, will be left at the residences or
s ores o . .ose.w o apply them, e
t f th hfor fl. th
keys remaining in possession of the bank.
Each bank has four compartments for four
individual depositors, whose names can be
inserted in a little disk under the slot in
each compartinent. A nominal rental per
annum (15 cents, , I believe) will he
•chargect, . and . once , a month ind
' the residences, and oftener in the stores
clerks will call and collect the contents of
each bank, the amounts being entered in ashort
' small pass -book held by the depositor. If
required a book of cheques will be given to•.
depositors, and such cheques given in pay -
ment of small tradesmen's accounts will be
accepted at the bank. It is thought' that
•
by this scheme small sums under one dollar,
-which would otherwise, in the majority of
cases, be squandered, will find their way
into these banks, a,nd in time form the
nucleus of a handsome little sum, and there
is no doubt that it will. in the long run
engender a spirit of thrift among those who
are cateiess about small amounts, . and who
would hot care or take the trouble to
,
face a, teller with such. ---Bank Chat.
0 One of Hermann's Great Tricks. •
Hood's Sarsaparilla People have repeatedly asked me whicl
of my tricks have pleased me the most, am
For Debility PI els ral ola and
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Catarrh
"TORONTO, Dec. 28, 1890.
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C. I. HOOD & Co., Lowell, Mass.
"GENTLEMEN: For ma.ny years I have
been suffering from catarrh, neuralgia
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and general debility. I failed to obtain
an t relief from medical ad-
. , y permanent
m friends feared I would
vice, an y , .
never find anything to cure me. A
time ago I was induced to -try
.
Hood's Sarsaparilla. At that time I
was unable to walk even a die-
tance without feeling a
,
Death -Like Weakness
intense ains
overtake me. And I had p
• - and
from neuralgia, in my head, back
limbs, . which • were very eichausting.
But I am glad to say that soon after I
began taking Hood's Sarsaparilla I saw.
that it was dOing me good. I' have
.
now taken three bottles and am entirely
•,,o, .
Cured .of hieuraigia.
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I am gaining in strength rapidly, anot
C b '1 11withoutfeel-an take a two -nn e wa c
ing tired. I do not suffer nearly so
much from catarrh, and find that as my
increases the catarrh decreases.
which I take the most delight in perform
Naturally the effort that brings the greates
success is regarded. by a man, his best .
consider the trick of restoring the shatterei
mirror as my most famous one. This•I hal
the honor of performing before the Czar a
upon an invitation to give an exhibi
- .
tion at his court. Itwas done imexpectedl
to the spectators, and was not down on th
regular -bill. 'While playing billiards wit:
th p
a attaches of the court after the pe
fOrinance the Czar beine resent -in th
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saloon, I. shot a ball with all my strengt
against a 'plate -glass. mirror extendin
from floor to ceiling. It was shit
ered into fifty pieces. Consternatio.
was depicted 011 ever .
y countenance
la
on none more inl
p y than my own. Whil
the Czar courteously waived. my apology
considering the destruction of themitrOr a
trifling, and ordered the game to proceed,
could easily see that my supposed awkward
ness made a disegaeeable Wit
' impression." '
the Czar's permission I examined the mirro
, .
to estimate the damage done and the possi
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bility of repeating it. While se engage
one of the suite playfully challenged. me t
exercise my art and make the mirror whol
again, never dreaming that g
this challen
was the very cue I wanted, and. not corisid
ering. the successful acceptance of it as pot
Bible. I hesitated an instant, and the
ordered the mirror to be covered with,
cloth entirely concealing it from view. 0
the removal of the cloth, after 10 minute.
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the mirror was found without a flaw, and a
perfect as before the damage. I will leav
it to my reader's imagination to decide ho'
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this trick was done.-071evabiei• Herrn:am
in, North American Review.
The' Sewage. of riu-is.
al other reat cities has been.
Paris,like 1 " b
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much concerned with the question now to
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dispose of sewage. A ,presen most o e.
t q t t f th
outflow of the collecteurs ours into the
Seine, . ., .tions.
to its . serinee some
'pollution. PBut
the mumei alitpurchased several
years ago p , y a..
thousands of acres . of land ni• the plain of
Gemievilliers, a 'few miles down the river,
.
and began- the experiment of a sewage
farm. The project has been an unqualified
success. An extension from the Pere-
, . . . .
L i . -
ache se St. Denis collecteur carries a law
quaatity.of 'sewage to the farm, where 111 18
used by irrigation as a fertilizer, •with the
best of results . in every. '• At resent
way. P
one-fifth, or more of the total sewage effluent
of Paris is tuiedon the land. at Gennevilliers ;
' and in due time the whole quantity can be
diverted froni the river to . this and other
tracts of land which have been selected as
, suitable for the purpose. -Dr. Albert Shaw,
in the Century for July, „,.
The Prince's nund,
. Arthur Wilson, who is said to have loaned
' 't Prince of Wales is
a million dollars o the P ,
ono of two sons of Thomas Wilson, the
founder of the famous shipping business at
Hull, and altogether, a,self-made /WM With
capital, courage and a high degree of cold
blood the Wilson brothers. are said to have
crushed all opposition . and controlled the
trade they wanted. • They developed what
was left by their father until it has become
an immense business, including several lines
of steamers. It is said that the brothers
divided $25,000,000 in profits last year, but
• ' ' here near
it is said that the smn was now
- A s the shi in business
that figure. s far a pp g
is concerned it has beaome a stock company
capitalized at £2,000,000 and mainly owned.
by- the brothers. Both men are active in
. .
public affairs, and both are more or less
brusque bi manner and awkward in speech.
It ia told of Arthur Wilson that when he
entertained One of the ,sons of the Prince of
Wales at Trenlay Croft he flew the Uhion
Jack and the Hull•litie flag from his flagstaff
but the steamer fleg was on top of the flag of
Great Britain. . *
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I am indeed a changed woman, and
shall always feel grateful to Hood's Sar- Bad on Jake's Beard.
. New York Herald: Cora -Please don'
11 f' 1 d .
sapari a or what it las one for me.
. kiss me on t h e p, ,Take.
k' lip,
It is My Wish Jake --Why not, dear?
" It causes melo feel clown in the mouth.
My' be
Beware of Ice Cream
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Detroit News • And then cold drinks
. . .
Lemonade, soda water, ginger pop • and
numerous others are set forth to tempt the
unwary. But it has been reliably ascer-
teined that more poison lurks in some of
these temperance drinksa-which are a,ny-
thing . but temperate -than ' in the fiery
decoctions manipulated by the average bar-
tender. Ice cream? Remember tyrotoxicon.
You may be dead in 24 hours.. Soda water?
dust and
,Made withsulphuric acid.
a drink of midiluted sulphuric acid
Take.
and see how quickly yea will turn up your
tots and how the coroner will come and
o . , . .
sit on your body, and hew all the reporters
will fiock around and tell of the foolisli acts
of which you were guilty. Do you want
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the public to know yoerumermost thaughts
Look ', out for the seductive but body do.,
stroying soda water fotintain.
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that this testimonial shall pub-
' A Total Loss.
others suffering as
l'shed in order that otlI
1 ' Buffalo News: Briggs -Did you hex
was may learn how to be benefited.
about Robinson loeing his new finial
"Yours ever gratefully, ' shirt? .
"MRS. M. E. MERRICK, Griggs -No. Row did it happen?
. "36 Wilton Avenue, Briggs -He got caught in a thower.
Thie
Of many thousands
gladly testify
benefit obtained
rilla. If you
affection caused
state of the
tainly take
Ilk
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arsaparilla
aced by druggists.
'Only by C. L HOOD
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"Toronto, Canada." Deprived of a liberal' education Maisel
, D., L Moody, the evangelist, has rethink
16 Only One to Northfield.- Mastaehneetts, hie natie
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toW114 and is makin% it a center of ech
of people , who . . , . „ . th
cational ninuenees. uring e itcadern
to the excellence Of and year he has from six to seven hundred your
, • • •
from Hood's Sarsapa- men and young women in his preparator
schools in addition to a training school 'a
suffer from any disease or . . > . . •
missionaties, The college students'swam,
by impure blood or low echoed where bible stray and practie
instruction . • .
system, you should cer- s are mingled with athleties, le
become a feature of thevecation seamen. Hu:
dtede of students and graduates gather the
. d5 every year and listeu with pleaetire aiid pro
to Mr. Moody; Professor Harper, Of Yal
0 S , and representativez hem other institution
The leader; with that rare knowledge
, human nature Which has Made him suecet
a .
fnl as a preacher, takes care that the yam
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men have plenty of exercise. --Yew n
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Tribune.
51; six for $6. Prepared .
& CO., Lowell, Mess. -Cotton crepe makes a better covern
than silk for rehotaweather sofa. orhaminot
iasie's Secret. a
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Little Elsie hung aboat her mamma's
visitor all day with' her lips shut.avery tight
and sometimes with leer hand over , her
niouth: " 'aa7hetis it, Elsie ?" the visitor' et
,lest inquire,a Elsiessaelocited her lips.
' Mamma saYd I 'inustlseep /Twat:tenth that.
' She's brfle 'fraid I shall tell you that I.Tnele
Atthur has to eleepam the floor while you're
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here. - outh s Compamon.
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' A Sydney kangaroo boxes.
Divorces are few in the South.
• Chietage has 250 Arab families.
a Mexico has five Mormon bolonies.
, A Georgie 4 -year-old reads music, - •
Writer Hitchcock is a millionaire.
A Thircelona man has thirty-nine ehil-
• •
&on,
• Chictigoas tap liave a 24 -story steel build-
ing,
The States contain 481,764,598 acres of
woodland.
A Sat Jose baby put a pistol in her
t ,
inoti h. Heacl. off. ,
An ithiglieh woman got five minutes in
jail. for bigamy.
'ffliatilieth 'McVey. of Rose Hill. Ind.. has
,
been telling the
Gen. Talitiferro, Who has . g .
people of Richmond keine mterestmg
_ . .
remmiscences of Stonewall Jackson says(
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,that the great Southern leader. never held a
council of war. Re Was a siagultirly devout
reari, with. a tendency toward fataliem, and
:.-- „ days , , , , ,
in the earlier of the war he was per.
eonally tieptipular ne Well with own staff
as with the general officers of the army.
—...Ttilatlitin Millni. llito •nlili14,r1 iN1,11.611 +ads.
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One of the Southai most successful
evangelists it William Eva,nder Penn, who
has lust finished . a great revival in
• . , , - . , .. .
Mississippi. He is a man of 63 and has been
. .his
constantly preaching day and' night for 16
years. ' '
--Tho trIrmoni, elf ' 031'611 4,, till r. sa. ,,,i,. nt
/ • ' 'aLsa aaa'.alaSaa•
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around his home at Oak and Cal died after festhig forty-three days.
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100 Dosos One Douar pillow.