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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1894-5-17, Page 8'Sebeerlhers whoao not reeetve their liaper promptly will eleaee notify ns at onee. Advertislue rates on applleation, 8ebseription, One BOW a year, in advance. THE EXETER ADVOCATE, Published, every Thuesday by SANDEnt DY,PII, at their °ince, A:.eter. 'THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1894. Week's Commercial Summary. Business failures anionuting to $20,- 000,000 are said to have occurred.. Buenos Ayres within the past ten clays, The World's production of wool is esti- mated at 2,456,773,600 pounds annually. Anetralia is foremost in the indestry, Argentina second and Russia third. For the week ending May 5th, 81 come mettial foliates are reported, as compared with 27 for the same week last year, and 26 last week, the most important being those of Wm. Calvert & Co., of Toronto, with liabilities approaching 820,000, and. Wm. Samuel, hats and fins, Montreal, with liabilities of 864,000. Canadian securities have been specially dull towards the close of last week, and • there is no upward tendency se far this week. Reports made to Dan, 1Viman & 0o, from Arthabaska, Megantic and Wolfe Counties, Quebec, represent business fair- ly healthy. Light stocks and purchases direct from manufacturers are factors in produeing this condition. Farming is said to be three weeks in advance of last year, and the season's cut of lumber large.. The imports at the port of Montreal for the. month of March, the last published, show, in some lines. a great falling. off as compared with March, 1898, e.g., dry goods from 8918,598 in March, 1898, to $697,421 this year, being a decrease of about 26 per cent., and. metal goods only reach. $192.878, against $249,610 last year, nearly 23 per cent. Fire losses for Canada and United States for Mareh are cetimated at $9,147,- .000, as compared with 816,662,000 last year, and. 810.648,000 in March, 1802. For the first three months of the year the figures are: 1894, 8'81,013,100; 1898, 844.540,000; 1992, $35,1b(,9)0. It has frequently been pointed out that financial depression goes hand in hand with heavy fire losses, and if the statement is trite we have reason. to point to theabove as an evidence of an improvement of the con- dition. of trade, Owing to the depression which has existed, and continues, in the wool market, buyers and storekeepers are ad - vied against purchasing at high prices. -A. large , portion of the old clip is still being carried, and prices in the United. States bet-ve been so low owing to the fin - andel crisis that not only has our usual export trade teen paralized so far as that •country is concerned, but over 1,000;000 .pounds of American wool has been sold in Canada. It is doubtful if the Insolvency Bill will become law this session. The Mail says: "The chief .qttestion at issue relates to the duties of official receivers, and the Government Shows si, diepesition to har- monize the discordent elements. The Senate Commi ttee recommensis the amend- ment of the clause requiring the official receiver to make a statement of the af- fairs of an insolvent, so that neither the -official receiver, nor his partner, nor a preferred creditor will be eligible for elec.- tien as liquidator." Railroad earnings for April, in Canada fi,S well as the United States, indicatn no important improvement in traffic over the earlier menthe of the year. The glees earninge ef Canadian railways clue- ing- the month of April amounted te $teil )0,00e, which is 12.0 per cent. les, time a year ago, ae coinpared with $1,- 875.1.eld, leiter; 12.1 per cent. less in March, and only 8.0 per cent, less in the month . of February. In inalcing this comparison, however, it is only fair to state that last year's railway traffic: was considerably augmented by the heavier traffic in April. 1898, incident - to the opening of the World's Fair at Chicago. American railroads show a deereaee Of 14.2 per mit. in April, 15.0 in March, and 14.6 in February, as compared with the same months in 18O13. On the other hend., railreals have shown a steady increase until last month, when. the traf- fie fell off 2 per cent. In March it was nearly 1 per emit-. more, and in February 7 per cent. more than, in 1803. Is 'Das True ! The coolest -tempered girl in christen - flora will. get wildly excited when she is given a hunted time in whieh to dress for a party. And did you ever glance into a girl's room after she had. donned her fine feel - ere and reeled off helter-skelter like a hungry chieken after a kernel of corn? If you did. yon 1004 have noticed that the room looked as it it had been whipped up smartly With a hege eggbeater, or perhape had a little set-to with a sawmill, . Such a pawed -up place you never before beheld 1 7Iltere 15 5. yellow slipper in oee eorner nestling close to a, bundled -up silk. petticoat. • Ite mate i perc.hed on tem of the bureau, along with a number of mys- terious looking bottles labeled " Balm " and "Beauty," - but which are usocilly referred to as "whitewash" The bed is besprinkled •with everything from overshoes to hair ribbons, and the chairs are wabbly-legged under the loads of gowns. Every btreau deasver is pulled out and the eontents heaped up in small hills. Handkerchiefs, fans, gloves, powderspaffs .atid, hairpins are smashed together like the wares in a peddler's basket. Oonfu- aim reiges sttpreme- Nothing in its place, for even the curling -iron is rttb- 'bing ibs bleck, smutty erns against the white muslin draperle5 of the dressing NEWSY CANADIAN ITEMS. THE WEEKS' HAPPENINGS. Interesting' Itetue and Incidents, Import. tust and Instructive, Gathered from the Various Provinces from the At- lantic to the Pacific. There . are 1,000 xnen out of work in Montreal hoe a case of merder and at- tempted suicide, Navigation was opened on the Chant - plain canal Monday - H. X. R. Buzzard. and Cleopatre, hay° arrived at Halifax from Bermuda. .Berelars blew open, the safe of James. & Reid at Perth but seem:ea-only $2. There is as yet no proepeet of a settle- ment of the earpenters' strike at Mont- real. It is said thaa the unemployed of Win- nipeg will hold ci demonstration this week. Mr. Robt. Forbes, woollen manufactur- er, of Hespeler, is seriously ill at his resi- dence in Gnelph. Mary Jane Caines has been oommitted for trial at St. Thomas for bigamy, Both husbands were iu court. Steamers reaching Port Arthur are carrying many miners and prospectors bound for the Rainy River district. Five Kingston drUggiSia W0r0 fined $20 for selling liquor during prohibited hours without demanding a Actor's certificate. The Ontario Rolling Mills Company re- sumed operations Tdesday, after being dosed down for a week on account of laek of coal. 1.11 Cealt on Friday 'Wm. Taylor slipped while ascending the org.anloft in a church, and falling on his head, received fatal injuries. The City of Montreal has entered an action against the street railway company for overcrowding the cars. Among the passengers on the Cunarder Umbria, which arrived at New York on Sunday was Prof. Goldwin Smith. The third. anniversary of the death of Madam Blavatsky was celebrated by To- ronto Theosophists on Sunday night. The annual banquet of the Parliamen- tary Press Gallery took place at the Rus- sell House, Ottawa, on. Sattu.day evening. The ubiquitous oldest inhabitant of Colliugwood says business has not been brisker than now since the prosperous days of '57 and '58 The Roman Catb.olie bishops of Canada have sent to the Governor-General hi Column a further petition on the North- west school question. John...fay. ex -minister to Russia, died in New York on Saturday. He leaves a widow, 4 children. 28 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. The Orangeville Advertiser says that Elgin. Myers, Q.C., has been invited to run as a political unionist candidate for the Legislature in North Oxford. John A. Morrison, aged 25, of Wood- stock, while jumping off the G.T.R. train at Beachville, received injuries evhich re- sulted in his death 24 hours later. Japanese laborers areflocking. to Van - cover, B.C.. in such members -that the Japanese Consul has decided to advise his government to restrict emigration. F. Hill, formerly governor of the Chil- dren's Home-, London, England, will suc- ceed W. SanfordEvans as governor of the Children's Home, Hamilton, on June 1. Mi,ss Florence Carlyle of 'Woodstock has' again reached the Paris Salon. This spring two portraits are honored with mai:al:61.°n, both taking rank in the honor list. While driving a land Toiler Da,vid. Arm- strong aged 16, son of Adana Armstrong, North Easthope, was thrown off and in- stantly killed, hie neck being broken by the fall. Crown Lana Agent Holland has return- ed to Fort Frances from Toronto. He sold a number of lets of the Government town plot of Fort Frances while at Port Arthur.. At Tuckeremith on Sunday a five-year- old daughter of John McLean was drown- ed iu the river while attempting to cross on a leg. The body was f01111Ci. Monday mornitig. Deteeti wee, Rogere and Slenein returned to Toronto 'Monday itt charge of Louis- eccused of tile robbery by violence of two Chinamen in Toronto eighteen months ago. The Preebyterion. Synod of British Col- umbia, ill seeeion at Calgary. on Satur- day dismissed the appeal of Rev. Mr. MeLeocl against the finding of the Pres- bytery of Viotoria in his case. At Montreal Judge Doherty eondenined the Montreal Street Railway Company to pay 85.817 to Mrs. Hamelin, widow of a pilot, who was run down and killed by the company's cars last September. Wm. Smith, jeweller, an old baseballist, fell on the sidewalk on Saturday night tee Guetp.h. The small bone of the ankle was broken and, the ligaments torn. A defective plank is said to have been the cause. The announcement of the engagement of Hope Goddard, the heiress to -the God- dard millions, and C. 0. feelin, the New York millionaire and well-known yacht- ing 1TILM, was made on. Saturday at Pro- vidence, R. L - Henry McCready., a farmer Who lived iii Waterdown, --wee accidentally killed while returning hotim Irene Hainilton on Satinelay night. It ie supposed that in the dark he drove off. the road and his huggy was upset. Johnnie Dougher, aged 5. youngest son of William ;Dougher, of Dunnville, was drowned in the Welland canal about noon on Saturday. The body was recovered. after havieg been' in the water about an hour. Thehaywent out to fish and fell from the lock gates. • • Winnipeg Ministerial Association hae pnesed a resolution tmesing the Connell to pimeeed as early as possible ivith the con- templated nubile improvements to give work to boar:, fide rsMonts of the c,ity who are unemployed, Mr. G. P. IVIcintoeh, Toe many year resident of Meaford, died on Friday la,st, He occupie(1 several municipal positions, .and was at one time reeve of '.N.Leaford, ror many years he has been interested in fiehing operations, and was quite an extensive shipper. Alexander Cruieleshaelk, head aster of Hoes street :wheel, Hamilton, Was charged at the pollee wart with assaulting Wm. Hale. one of the schola.as. The evidence: for the proseoution mei that de- feadant severely whipped Hate on Fricicser for alleged tracaney., when the boy hag taken at note from his mother excasind his absence from aehool on Thursday af- ternoon, Defendant's plea was that he thrashed the boy to preserve discipline in the sellool. Magistrate jelis decided that defendant had no justification for whip- ping the boy so severely, and Wined him 810; afterwards reducing it to $5. Miss Islaerrie MorrisonI t, daueliter of It, aka Morrison, Lauelph, had an unpleasant ex- perience on Quebec street of that live team one evening last week. She was passing a vacant lot, when a man sprang from behind some trees, eaught hold of her band satchel and palled her to the ground. She, however, held on to the satchel and screamed at the top of her voice. Her °ries frightened away her assailant. She dn ieisnelbeiegsbtbh.eman as young and °1 pled" Latest news from Sb. Anne do la Per - ado Says that the water is not rising, bat that the landslides and land subsiclenees aro continuing. Houses are falling one by one, and are being earried away by the stream, which has 'been. swollen by the falling rain. The railroad bridge is threatened with destruction. Hr. Mordecai Sanderson, of Napanee, died very suddenly Tuesday morning at the home of his son in Northport, where he and. his wife had gone for a visit. He retired. on Sunday night in his usual health, and about 5 o'clock on Monday morning he complained of feeling unwell, and died at 7 o'clock. Mr. John Shibley, aged 85, died. on Sun- day at his home in Portland, Frontenac. Re was the oldest son of Jacob Shibley, who represented the Midland district in the old Legislative Council, and his first wife was the eldest daughter of the late Bishop Reynolds, of Belleville. Another landslide has occurred in Que- bec, 23 miles down the river from the scene of the former one, at St. Alban. Five houses are said to have been wreck- ed. The C.P.R. bridge over the Batisoan river at Ste. A.nne de la Perade is said to be in danger. About 10 &cloak Saturday night the body of a white woman named Mrs. Mary Birmin„asham. was foand floating in a vat of distillery slop at Stroud & Sons' cattle byres, Hamilton. The circumstances under which she came to hea death are enveloped in mystery. John J. McDonald, 24 years of age, an inmate of Mount Hope Insane AiYlani, Halifax, committed suicide on Sunday by jumping into the harbor. He escaped from his keeper, ran tO the asylaun pier and jumped off. He belonged to Pictou county. The American steamers Visitor and Leroy Brooks, with a party of passengers who were fishing for black bass, were seized at Kelly's island, near Point Pelee, Lake Erie, Taesclay by the Canadian patrol vessel Petrel. The Sharon conspiracy case came to an end Tuesday evening at Toronto. Pegg was discharged before the case went to the jury. A. verdict of guilty was return- ed against Mrs. Evans and Osman. Sen - tones: was deferred. The claims paid by life insurance com- panies in. Canada in 1893 were less by nearly a quarter of a million than in .'92. The revenue from premiums, on the other hand,mul- lion. showed an increase of half a mil - A shipment of 40 prime cattle was made from Woodstock direct to England last week. The cattle were all itt tine condi- tion and it is expected that the shipment will be followed by others in a few weeks. Mrs. L. Lint, of Kohler, Haldimand County, who has suffered from melan- cholia of late, has been missing from her home since Monday morning, and it is feared she has drowned herself. George Proniz ancl Thomas Duval were 'drowned. in a small lake ten miles from Owen. Sound Tuesday. Tb.e men lived in. Quebec, and were working on the Parry Sound Colonization Railway. . The Presbyterian Synod. of British Col- umbia, in session at Calgary, on Saturday dismissed. the appeal of Rev. Mr. MeLeod against the finding of the Presbytery of -Victoria in this case. A ntunber of burglaries have taken taken place in Kingston cluing the last two or three weeks. It is supposed that the men are ex -convicts of the Central Prison, The revenue from premiums received by life insurance companies doing busi- ness in. Canada last year was $9,600,000. The amount paid on matured claims was 88,802,000. John Roche, a pioneer of Warwick Township, was knocked dowu and rtm over by a horse at Watford on Monday, receiving injuries which caused his death Tuesday. The Governor-General has definitely decided to reside in Montreal fora part the year, and bas leased the mansion of the late Premier, Sir :Jelin A.bbott. Corkery, the alleged ex -monk, who created a scene in. $t. Mary's Church, Hamilton, on. Sunday, was committed for trial at the Police Court, Tuesday. ,Tames Fox and Thomas Murphy, mem- bers for St. John's East in the Newfound- land Legislatare, were unseated a,nd dis- qualified by Chief justice Carter. Mr. Will Finlay, of the firm of John Finlay & Son'Norwood, Ont., died from pneumonia onSaturday, aged 32. A series of special evangelistic services are being; conclueted by Major Hilton. and. Rev. Grant C. Uhillar at Guelph, which are meeting with great samess. S. E. Dean and Norman Hoshel, young men, were drowned in Burrard Inlet near Va13.0013.Vel% B.C. Tuesday by the capsiz- ing of a sailboat. r2he employees of the Hoenilton. Bridge Works have been given a month's notice that the works will be closed down. Rev. Robert Fowler, of Erin, was elect- ed moderator of the Presbyterian Synod of Toronto and. Kingston: Evangelists Hunter and. Crossley have met with great success in their series of meetings at Belleville. The Redemptorist Fatherhave decided to meet, a seminary of theology and phil- osophy in Montreal. Mr. Samos Gray, formerly manager of the Bank of Montreal at Picton, died in that town Tuesday. It is reported that immense coal deposits have been found aa Buffalo Bay, Lake of the Woods. The Canadian Lacrosse Association ar- ranged the Ontario olubs into districts Tuesday. Radcliffe, the hangman, officiated at, the excieution of two Italian murderers at Regina. TheSynod of Montreal and Ottawa opened at Carleton Place Tuesday. The Governor-General has decidei to visit HeIlevilie on May 29 and 3). FROM THE UNITED STATES DOINGS ACROSS THE LINE. Miele SaWs Broad Acme rUr111$11. Quite a Few Small Items that are Worth Varerui. Deeding, Soft coal has advanced in Chicago froin $2.75 to $4 per ton. The Connellsville coke strikers are be - owning disorderly, chTiolineglotil1alsr.God assigned, evtBox CompallY 01 The peat Mal strike continues with 180,000 men now idle. Judge W, Green Smith, of Virginia, committed suieide by shooting. Bishop Tuttle (Episcopal) of Missouri has joined the Salvation Army. .A. opal famine threatens Chicago. and the price has gone tip 81 and 81-.2'5 per ton. The Red River is rising rapidly at Ful- ton, Ark" and threatens to flood. the en- tire place. Sir Julian Pauncefote and Secretary Carlisle have completed the Behring Sea regulations. Capt. Barends of the steamship Nor - amnia, has made 100 voyages between New York and Hamburg. "Boss" Croker announces that he will retire from active work in the Tammany organization in New York. Governor Flower has signed Senator a Wolfert's two bills annexing Flatlands and Gravesend to Brooklyn. The State National Bank of Wichita, Kansas, has suspended. It was consider- ed one of the strongest in the State. It is thought an organized band of kid- nappers are at work in St. Louis, Mo. Five children have mysteriously disap- peared. ' A conference of miners and mine own- ers will be held at Cleveland on May 15, and an endeavor made to settle the great strike. Amos Hicks, colored, was lynched near Rocky Springs, Miss., because he was suspected of burning the stables of a white farmer. A St. Paul despatch says the Great Northern strike is practically ended, the railway company having conceded nearly every point to the strikers. A Bridgeport, Conn.'despatch says the differences between the executors of the P. T. Barnnm estate and heirs have been amicably settled out of court. Thea of Alonteemery Gibbs, the Buffalo lawyer, which occurred a week evae is as much a mystery as ever. Serious damage has been caused by floods at the Cloquet lumber yards, near Duluth. Many minion feet of lumber have been lost. The New York brewers who use Can- adian barley are determined to have the tariff lowered on that article. while the western brewers are equally determined the other way. A polar expedition -ander command of Henry D.. Bryant will start from Philo,- delphia June 1, and go north. via St. John's, Nfld., on the steam whaler Fal- con. Henry C. Brown, aged 70 and worth 84,000,000, was married on Wednesday at Denver, Col., to Miss Mary Louise Mat- thews, a school teacher, aged 22. The event caused a social sensation. It is thought the miners' strike in the States will end in a victory for the min- ers, as the supply of soft coal is becoming so low that the mine -owners will be forced to grant the strikers' demands. The United States House Committee on Railways and Canals has decided to re- port favorably the bill appropriating 810,000 for a preliminary sorvey of the Lake Erie and Ohio River ship canal. Burglars at Lynn, Mass., blew open the safe at Torrance, Vary & Co. The ex- plosidn also blew out the front of the building., and the scoundrels decamped without seeming the $5,000 in the safe. A remarkable nugget has been taken out of the Smuggler Mine at Aspen, Col. It weighs 8,8eu pounds, and contains silver to the value of $25,000. itis the largest silver nugget ever kn.own, and is almost pure. A number of riots have occurred in the districts of the United States where the (neat miners' strike is in progress. At Scottclale, Pa., several strikers and one woman were shot by deputies, but none were fatally injured. H. 13. Stutt, of Boston, special agent for Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island for the Northern Masonic Aid Associa- tion of Chicago, shot himself in the left breast in a Buffalo saloon. His condition is very critical. His wife's death had unbalanced his mind. A decision has been handed down by tbe Supreme Court of Illinois declaring the Ticket Sealpers' Act constitutional. This ace renders it unlawful for any per- son to sell tickets without the certificate of a railroad company authorizing him to make such rates. It is said the Standard Oil Company, of the United States, and the Russian Oil Company ha-ve arranged to divide the en- tire markets of the world between them, the Standard taking in Britain, France and westernEurope, the, Russian company taking, all the east, 0, P. Springer, a Mexican war veteran, left Harrodeburg, Ky., on the 41112 inst. with half it dozen congenial spirit e in a baloon for Washingtcm. They took pro- visions for six days. Springer is s, man ot wealth, and took $1,000 to give Coxey if he ever readies Washington. Hugh McCormick, aged 75 years. and his grandson, two 3reare old, WG370 struck and instantly killed by a Rome, Water- town & Ogdensburg isasseneeer train. near Brownville'N.Y. 11.1.r. 'McCormick had the boy in his arms carrying him over the track, when the- train struck him. The bodies were thrown fifty feet. The amendment to the 'Wilson Tariff Bill as regards the taxing of banks and financial institutions provides for a levy of 2 per cent, on nee profits or income above ordinary working or operating. ex- penses. The amendinent covets railways, telegraphs, telephone and express com- panies, light, gas and. water power 00311- panies, and all other corporations doing business for profit, and the tax is payabie on or before the lst of ,Taly each year. A. portion of 850,600,000 of dollars, ebored in vault, 0 at the mint at Phila- delnleia, came tumbling down yesterday, the clerks in the vault narrowly escaping being buried beneath thg avalanche oe silvee. The coin woes piled in bags, twelve feet high by eight feet wide, but aceoarit of the dampness of the -vault the baga had become rotten. One of the elerks aacidOzitally troll on a bag, break- ing it, when down came the silver stream with a noise and jar that shook the entire buildiag, The clerks made a wild rush for the door and got out safely. The amount that fell was valued at $2,000,- 000, anti weighed 112,000•,000 p,aands, The St. Charles' hotel, New Orleans' took fire on Saturday night last and the rear part from cellar to roof was badly burned. It is supposed that several lives were lost. One man jumped from the fourth storey and struck on his head, dashing out his brains. Preaiclont Depew, of the New York Central railroad., says there has been no reduction in rates on the New York Cen- tral, as reported. Rates on the trunk lines are well maintained, except by lake and rail, which are only fairly wellmain- tained. A terrific storm at Texarkana,' Ark" on Wednesday, killed the' 9-year-o1d son of Rev. J. 1VI. Macdougall, a Methodist minister, and fatally injured W. G. Blocker, besides wrecking several houses. The Social Parity Alliance of Philadel- phia has framed a memorial to Congress, praying for the expulsion of W. O. P. Breckenridge from membership in the House of Representatives. The great coal strike continues in the States, and increased inconvenience to many branches of trade is reported. In the greaf ooke regions only 1,800 of the 17,519 ovens are at work. Donald Kennedy, the alleged opitun smuggler from Toronto, was arraigned at the police court at Detroit on Tuesday and pleaded not guilty. His wife was present crying bitterly. In Brooklyn on Monday Mrs, Lizzie Probiecock, 81 years old, a widow, sprink- led her bed with oil, set it on fire lay down and was burned to death. fire, despondency. Ex-jaclge William W. Farwell, on the Superior Court Bench of Chicago for nine years, died Monday of pneumonia. It is definitely stated. that ex -President Harrison will be a candidate for the Re- publican nomination in 1896. Texas suffered last year from droath ; this year floods are causing destruction in some parts of the state. After a long wait the Chicago -World's Fair stockholders are to be paid a divi- dend of ten per cent. Julian 0. Davidson, a well-known ar- tist, has just died in Nyao, N.Y., of heart disease. Coxey and Browne aver' arrested on Monday on the capitol steps at Washing- ton. The Pennsylvania railroad has declared a semi-annual dividend of 2 per cent, A ship canal between New York and Philadelphia is talked of. WISE AND OTHERWISE. Theft. He stole a kiss—one little kiss From her he did adore; And she condemned the thief, becanse He lia,dn't stolen more, Safe from the Autograph Fiend. Fond mother (to teacher)—Don't you think my boy is bound to make his mark? Teacher—I am afraid so. It seems lin- possible for him to learn to write. As it May Be. Intellectual woman—That plain -look- ing middle-aged man over there is Mr. Na,gby. Her friend—Indeed! Whom is he the husband of ? A ..Dellnition. "What is a wag ?" asked the teacher. 11 know," replied the boy at the foot of the class. " Well, what is.a wag?" "A happy dog's tail." Easy Enough. Oldfam—Well, I can't see how suCh a coarse and common woman as Mrs. Lardleigh is can stay in th.e swim as she does. Mr. 0.—I can.; she's got a million dol- lars for a life preserver. }ler Age. Jack—How old did you say Miss Smith vas? Tom—She told me she was 23 on her last birthday. Jack—When was her last birthday: ten years ago? Sorry He Spoke. " Well, why don't you say you wish you Were a, man ?" asked Mr. Potts, dur- ing the little disenssion he was having with his spouse about some matters of do- mestic management. "Because 1 don't wish anything of the aort," she retorted. "1 only wish you were one." I Reason for Leaving. Lady—Why did you leave your last Pla?Seeervant—Well, you see, mum, I had to pay for all my breakages, and as they came to more than my wages, you see, mum, it was a kind of nnposition that I couldn't stand. An Improvement hecognized. "What made you lend Ruggles your umbrella? 'You know he will never re- turn i b. ' ' "That's a fact. But it was mighty honest for Ruggles not to take it without aslcinse and I thought he deserved re- ward." • • The Superfluous Woman. "Dear," asked. Mrs. Wickwire, looking ehloiiiiveas.sa "what does this paper was yotu• younger sistei*,." getting so perfect on expression of aston- ishment in the face of the last picture you. painted ? I never saw anything more mean by referring to superfluous wo- man?' What is the su.perfiteous woman?" IVIr. Wickwire, "the surperfl eons woman Sketchyrre—How did you sacceed in "In our engagement days," answered They Are Atways A.stonished. it reprodaction of the expression on my landlady's face when I told her that my bed needed a little teno- vatima. • Securing an Attendance. "NVould you please have this itent put in the society column ?" said a worried - looking _woman. " It merely Statee that young Mr. Rashkins, the tenor, has it very sore throat." ".Do you consider that fact one of so- eial importanc.e 2" "Not in a general way, perhaps. But I want, to conveyto friends who may be thinking of coming to my reception on to -morrow eveaing the information that Ur. Rashkina is not in a condition to sing." INTERESTING. NEWS ITEMS: PACTS IN A FEW WORDS. A Largo Amount Of Vsof ol owe thane, esSe Su:formation cesatilered, reene tIos• eur quarters of tile Globe. London's police force numbers 14,257. London is to have an exhibition. of tique and historical shoes." The ,cattle in the vicinity of Wesb- piilia are "dying of brain fever." other part of the world; it is Cheapest in Opal is dearer in Beath Africa than any The Kilauea Crater, in the Sandwich Itislleaiiirclosi,,lais. the largest active volcano in A. ship of steel from her hall through to the standing rigging has been built at Cardiff, Wales. . prominent ()Wawa, aged 92, of Day- ton, Tenn" was married: recently to a woman 88 years old. The British Museum has 25 miles of books, and the largest collection of cur- iosities in the world. The fashion of carrying a maff dates 300 years back. Ooartitsrs wore them in the time of George L. No fewer than 1,760 ancient manu- script copies of the New Testament in whole or in part exist. The Hollanders are the greatest tea, and coffee drinkers, using 240 ounces to the inhabitant every year. An Englishman has invented a bonnet which can be taken off in the theatre, folded u.p and used as it A 86 bill of Virginia State currency, issued in 1777, is a cariosity in the pos- session of it Dalton, Ga,, gentleman. The 100 -ton gun is nob yeb regarded with great falser. The majority ot gum for new ironcla,ds are between 60 and. 70 tons. The greatest average height in any European army is fistind in the N or- wegaan, 69 inches; the least in. the Italian, M. Th.e British soldier reeeives daily as rations 44 ounces of toad,—biscuit, 20 ounces; meat, 14; peas or beans, 9; sugar, eocoa, 1. in order to furnishsport for a shooting party on his Moravian estate, Baron. /Basch had • 8,000 partridges transported there and liberated. The longest artifieial water course itt the world is the Bengal Canal, 900 The next is the Erie, 868. Each cost nearly 810,000,000. Excavations in Oiseau-le-Petit, Franck*, have revealed the remains of a Grail°. Roman city, including a great temple, a theatre and monuments. .A. burglar, arrested in Boston, had on his breast an India, ink picture of a grave- stone, on which was marked, "In memory of My father and mother." A new cloek has been placed. in St. Paul's Cathedral, London. The old works are worn oat, having been in con- tinuous service for 182 years. A widowers' association has been form- ed in Dresden. No man can join unless his wife is dead, and if he marries again he becomesan honorary member merely. .A. New Orleans minister says it is a fact that most sermons are dry and sleepy, but the juicy ones are always so sharply criticized that the clergy avoid them. Ka' 'Lipp, the Germ.an cannon manufac- turer, employs 16,000 men, who, with their families number 60,000, and con- stitute the Valk of the population of Essen. The fees for akending. the Eiffel tower are five francs to the top, three francs to the second platform and two franes to the first. The three platforms will hold. 10,000 people. One -thirtieth of the whole population 01 Iceland emigrated last year, moved,it is said, by the unpopularity of th.e Danish Government and the blandishments of Canadian emigration agents. Despite the talk about Smith being such a common name'those of Green, 'White, Brown and Davis beat it in the United States by 15 per cent. Even "John" is not as common as "Joe." Oat in a baekwoods town in.'India,na last week the sheriff left the courtroom for dinner, forgetting all about his prisoner, who afterward leisurely walked. off and has not since been. captured. In a case of • law in Illinois the other day it was shown that a woman whipped her boy so that he was itt bed for three weeks, bemuse he could not commit 50 Bible verses to memory itt one week. When a man is arrested for drunken- ness in St. Petersburg he is compelled as apunishment—no matter what may be his social. position—to join the street - sweeping. gang ou the following morning. The Queen has pet birds in her 'private rooms. At first canaries were tried at th.e suggestion of Princess Beatrice, but the Queen found the noise too trying, and now she has with her a bullfinch and a linnet. The ouse of Keys, as the Legislature of the hie of Man is ealled, has passed a measure removing the civil disabailities which Roman Catholics have until now been subjected in the Island on acoount of U'6;lliesilB. rearlliigniofinre department is =Peri- menting with a novel fire engine. The carriage is constructed entirely of papier- maehe, all the different parts, the body, wheels, poles; etc., being fi-mshed in the beab 111117siibulnPrestr e manner.iecontly returned to the City of Mexico from an Indian vil- lage, only two days' journey, and repor having discovered an Indian temple wi seven large Aztec idols,. to which peoplie eliTkayneodwpuEtthlnigelisyi. Avh ant, ,ass is an beeause n manufacturer of false to has placarded his town with pictures presenting. her "before and after" ta,ki a set of Ins famous teeth. 'Pho "befo portrait is the one which makes angry. A. discussion as to the height of tre itt the forests of Victoria has elieited from Baron von Muellor, the Government botanist, the statement that he saw one of the height of 625 feet. The late chief inepector of forests eneasureel orie fallen and found that it was 485 feet long, An East Boothba,y (Me.) man is engag- ed in aupplying New York and Now Jereey sammer resorts with seals, whieh are very plontifal along the.Maine west. These seals do very well for seashore at- tractions, being objects of unfailing in. terest to the summer visitors,