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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1894-6-7, Page 2OsSubseribers who do net receive thtr psov promptly will please notify us at ouee, Anyertising rates ou apelleation, TILE EXETER A.DVOCATE: ,IONE 7, 1894. NO MORE, TIGIIT LACING. Woman's Waist Permitted. to Preserve lestiture'e Lines. PerisVentes has not left the Parisienne unslowered, but I believe that the partic a- lar charms- for whieli she is famed aro in some degree due to the Freach,corset. It is a garment to .wonder at. French dress- ' makers say that the waist measurements aEnglish and American 'women after they have lived in Paris a year are all changed, notably the distance to the belt line Is lengthened and the bust measure. went is several inches larger pound. A. new make of corset has wrought the miracle. Bat it is not necessary te jump to the conclusion that the waist has beets pinch - or the abdomen displaced. Paris has too much a-milk:in.° and art to -thy to need resort to such ignorant devices, Tight lacing is a thingof the past in Paris. The dressmakers who rule the mode give an ease of fte round the waist that a few years ago would have been. Weight permissible only to Old women. The present gnalities of the garment, however, are due to arb and. the know- ledge of anatomy. What is to hinder the physician who °couple); himeelf with the flactuations of the pulse in different stages of a flirtation —there is more than one doctor of the sorb ie Paris—or even what is to hinder the most eerious physician in the land, for that matter, from studying the cor- set to see where the body may be a little preseed without discomforb, and where it must bo free? It cannot be the diguified part of medieine to disdain to ameliorate what is not to be destroyed at a coup. And what is to 'sinner the greatest race of artists in the world. to -day that is pas- sionately occupied. in painting the dress of woman( when not preoccupied in paint- ing the nudity of women)—that has a care to complete the arts of the dress- maker and " touch in " deliciously upon the canvas all the latest possibilities of ribbon., rosette,: and lace— what should prevent them from deuiding where the top edge of a corset Should. stop in order to give most roundness and beauty to the figure, and. to say h)w the seams should be carved, and where the uones should be placed, to produce gracious lines? Noth- me certainly; neither can it be un - 0• -worthy the greateet artist to contribute toward making the living being beauti- ful. seeing that the produetion of beauty is the end of all artist labor.. Frencli arriets adore the fashionably liressel woman, and shoo is in much their creation.. Gerome may wear a peignoir in his stadio, but his wife cannot, with his eouseut, go clal in the draperies of Niolle or affect any other mode out of the past re:Atonal aesthetic" because by chance Lhas been glorified by a Reu.bens or Van De-ck. Sub. affectations Gerume would likely tell yon aro for little people that do not eee things ia their proptsr balance. Great p sinters teelay are content with 'their wive; oaly in. the lateet cut of the mode. And so, the Anted fingers of the eoreete sire, having transleted the thought of all those experts, behold a garment fashioned time enhance; the beauty of woman ac- cording to the French ideal? It makes the Preach woman appear to surpass in plumpness and subtle curves her English sisters, who without it have the look of being less well-proportioned. snisuredly, the corset ie no thing to sniff at in France. Looking' For a S100,000 Prize. A few years ago a prize of 8100,000 was offered for the best scheme to use the wa- ter power of Niagara river at Buffalo, and although the offer is still good, and vari- ous devices have been. tested., none have come up to the requirements. Canadian genius-, however. has thought out a plan which will revolutionize the power which drives Buffalo machinery and that genius is at Niagara Falls in the brains of Mr. A. G. Hilt provided his device will do what he olefins, for it, and there ie no rea- son to believe that it will not. Mr. Hill has applied for a patent. The water wheel, for such is the machine termed, consista of an axle which can be made in any length; on four, six or eight sides of this axle posts areplaced. at uniform dis- tances, and. on the alternate posts are gates which work on a hinge. The gigen- bic wheel earn if necessary, be s hoc:deed clear across the river, or one end ca,n be anchored to a pier and placed. far enough below the surface to allow the passage of boats. As the wheel revolves; these gates as the ehrent strikes . them are opened and the poste between thehinge posts hold them like a wall against the water, which must turn the wheel. As .the water forces one wall on it gees upward on the reverse side while another set of gates is lowered, and the action of the water opening the receding, ones offers no resistance af they revolve to again catch the merrent and be closed. The idea is one which carries practicability with it, and as soon as the patents are seethed it will be teeted on a large scale. Mr. Hill is also working on another scheme, one which many mut have tried and failed, but which he hoses to bring to success, audit ie nothing' more then perpetual motion. Some people may laugh at the idea: bat anyone who cast see .11r. Hill'e partially completed nuclei and have hieth my explained will admit there is tithIlethirg in it. A. Faihire. A yoeng man who was to make his first political spreeh this year in Ontarioar- Panged with. a Heed itt the amlience that et the first indication of embarrassment ..ott the, part of the speaker he ehonld Pre• tend to have a fit, so that during the ex. . chernent created the speaker should have • time to rove -yen The night ciente The young speaker began to staminet. .The chum," sitting in the eecencl rose of the audienee, startecl. rt, twitchingeof thaface .andajerking of muscles that was is very good iniitatten of a men about to :fall in it fit. But it happened that next to the pretended sick man sae a denten He at once begat an examination, and within two minutes, rising angrily to his feet, he said to the curious erewd: e.Gentlennen, this man is no more ill than you tire. His awe is wholly pre- tended, and detilitless is simulated for the express purpose of preventing our bright yeeng friend" —pointing to • the man one the pile:farm 'from finiehing his speech." The crow," ocatee angry. • They pertne fled the n sick. " main tore hie clothee, reel threw hint deem two flights of stairs intu 'the street. NEWSY CANADIAN ITEMS. 'FILE WEEKS' RAIIPENilius, Interesting Items i,nd Incidents, Import. ant and Instructive, Gathered from the Various Provinces from the At - 'anti° to the Pacific. Wherrell has been. resplbed until Oet. first, and grambed a new trial., Mr. James Smith, deputy registrar of Lainbton is dead, aged sixty -ono. A. heavy northwest gale raged. on Lake Superior, accompanied by snowstorms on Monday, Mr. Hugh Smith, M.P.P. for Frontenac, died. Thursday at his home in Portland Township. Mae NV, 0. Van Horne, -president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, has been made Kne..M.G. There was a genuine snowstorm at Rat Portage Sauday night; fully two inches of snow fell. Five thousand dollars has been sub- scribed for establishing a glass factory in Wallaceburg. Work was restuned in the St. John, N. Be cotton mills Monday, the employes accepting redneed wages. Felix Moran, an hotel keeper in Mal- den Township, Essex County, aged. sev- enty, hanged himself•Saturclay. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi- neers has deeided upon Ottawa, Ont., as the place for the convention nest year. 3,1r. A. S. Maedonald, one of the prin- cipal promoters of the Great Northwest Central Radler/1,y, diel at Winnipeg Sat- urday. The coal famine is being felt in Berlin, and the manufacturers are buying up all the cordwood, from the farm.ers that they can get. Sir Francis Johnson chief justice of the Supreme Court of Quebec, died in Mont- real Saturday after a long illness from jaundice. Rev. R. M. Hamilton, of Toronto, has receiver' a unanimous call to the pastor- ate of the Presbyterian church at Lake - field., Out. . The Governor-General has signified his intention of being present at the opening of the Massey Music Hall in Toronto on June Lith. Mr. John. MoIntosh'father of Hon. John 'McIntosh, of the Quebec Oabineb, died at Montreal Saturday evening, aged eighty-two. A. Brampton contractor refused the job of making the scaffold. for the execution of Mac ‘1 herrell, but one of his workmen undertook it. Patrick. Finnegan, of Eton, Ont., a car- penter, tried to get into Buffalo with a kit of tools, but was turned back by In- spector Da Barry. Mr. L. E. Kuntz, a veterinary surgeon of Berlin, Ont.; was killed. at Portage la, Prairie Thursday while attempting to get on a moving train. A Montreal despatch says the Grand Trunk Railway has rescinded the order limiting shipments and. will receive con- signments as heretofore. The wire worm is doing considerable damage to the spring crops in the vicin- ity ot Watford, and. grasshoppers are also putting in an appearance. It is announced officially that the long services decoration for volunteer officers, which was granted in. 1892, will be ex- tended to India and the colonies. The body of Joseph Landry, of Winni- peg, wh.o has been missing the last few weeks, was found in. the Ral River Satur- day. It is supposed he saicided. While boring for water recently Messrs. Neil McVicar and. P. A. Campbell, Aner- 1(314, struck gas, which they intend using for heating and lighting their houses. Half of theSpring Hill, N.S., company's coal barges are now taking coal at Parrs- boro' for Briton. Shipments are also be- ing made from the Tonnes mines, Nova Seutia, Joseph Traskey, the murderer of Con- stable Lindsay, of Comber, has not fally reeovered from the effects of the shot he fixed at himself at the time he was ar- rested.. Richard Dawson and Henry Dawson, of Eldon township, have been committed to Whitby jail on (Merges of stealing grain and. clover seed from farmers in :Chorea and Brook townships. Twenty-seven immigrants arrived at Calgary on Monday, also four delegates from the States to spy the country for land, and if they give a fair report a large number of families will shortly f elle w. Another gas gusher was struck at Mr. Reeb's new well; two miles west of Port Colborne, at noon Saturday, ae the depth of 675 feet, throwing water and. enttings of the well high into the air. The flow of gas is about half a million feet. 'Mr. A. T. Freed, for many years chief editor of the Ha,milbon. Speetator, has severed his c,oreneetiom with that journal. Mr. J. R. Cameron, who has been man- aging editor, succeeds him. Mr. Freed hae ben appointed inspeetor of weights and measures. The Presbyterian congregations of 011 Springs and Oil (Jity, Ont., have extended call to Rev. 0. \V. Daly, I3.A., of Queen's Univereity. and the congregation of Tiled - ford to Rev. E. A. Melrenme, of Montreal College. The Sarnia, presbytery has con- firmed both calls. Mr. I), Catnberla,n.d, for many years manag,er of the Bank of British North A merles, at London, left that city for Que'oec to assume charge of the branch there. Before his departure he was wait- ed upon by a number of the bank's cue- tomere and preeented with a magnificent gold watch and chain. Lieut. -Col. Smith, of London, D. A. Ge of Military Diebrict No. 1, .was at St. Thomas on Fricia,y evening in accordance with inebructione from the Militia De- partment, euquiring into th.e pulting dowil of the ling from the TT. S. consul's office on the (4 Lean's birthday evening. It is still aillerned that it was done by mombere of the QaCon's 0 wu George TI Aland, a farmer wln lives in Huntimplon. was hitching hie team to waggon Sastirclay afternoon preparatory to going home in the fac,e of a thun.cleretorm, after -doing some ploughing. when he was struck and instantly killed by lightning. Vim two houses and a suckieg Gott were killed. by the same shock. 111.-r. Holland was thirty.five year& of age, and loaves a svite and four eloildren. The Canadian Temperance League is perishing en ecleteationel, campaign. At a, recent meeting the :scientific aspect of the temporal -tee question wee taken up by Mr. George B. Sweetman, who discoursed on. the effeets of aleohol on the digestive organs. The addrese was, illustrated bee numerous chemicalexperiments, adding greatly to tho interest. At the meeting Friday evening the question of the rela- tioxishiseof improvidence, ignorance and prefligaey to the drink traffic was dis- messed by the president, Mr. J. S. Robert- son, and this was followed by it second half-hour's address on the economic bear- ing% of the liquor traffic by Mr. W. S. Costar, eheirman of the Missionary Com- mittee: film league is now arranging for themaking og a handsome gold medal to be preseated to. the pupil of the public, schools who shall, at the fortheoming midsumnier examinations, pass most suc- cessfully in the study of physiology and temperance, as taught in the schools. Her Majesty has singularly honored Toronto ou the occasion of her seventy- sixth birthday in the person of Sir Fran-, cis Smith, who received his titls on the morning of the 21th through His Excel - 'env the Governor-General. Sir Francis Smith, whose 1141110 is it household word in Canada, was born at Richhill, Armagh, Ireland, 1822. Accompanied by his father he came to Canada in 1882, and settled near Toronto. He inaeriecl Lady Smith the daughter of John O'Higgins, 'Stretford.. His early commercial training was received at Hamilton. He went into business as a wholesale grocer at London, 1849, and eontinued there uu- til. 1867, when he a:weaved. to Toronto, still following the same besiness. His career since has been one of =broken business and social successes. He began his political life as an alderman at Lon- don, aod was subsequently in.ayor of that °ley. Shortly after moving to Toronto he became president of theNorthern Rail- way Company, which position. he retained until the road became part of the G,T.B. system. He sold his interest he the whole- sale business in, 1891, having built up the greatest commercial credit known in Can- ada. He was sworn. a member of the Privy Council Tilly 29, 1882, and hassince on many occasions administered the af- fairs of different departments of the Fed- eral Government, He refused last year to continue in the position of Minister of Public Works on the ground that it would necessitate leis cha,ngiug his resi- dence from Toronto to Ottawa. He is president of the HOMO SEVVirigS and Loan Company, London and. Ontario Invest- ment Company, vice-president Dominion Bank, director Dominion Telegraph Coin - pang, Consumers' Gas Company, North- ern and Pacific Junction Railway Com- pany, G. T. R. Company, president of the Niagara Na,viption Company, and. was president until 1892 of the Toronto Street Railway Company. He was called to the Senate of 04114att ill 1871. Sir Francis Smith has two sons, Mr. Harvey Smith and Mr. T. Austin Smith, and three daughters, Mrs. John. Foy, Mrs. Luce Macdonald. and Mrs. Major Harrison. Mr. Joseph Dent, a member of the Em- pire reporting staff for nearly four years, and writer of the military columns in the Saturday paper under th.e nom de plume of " Seph," died at St. Michael's hospital at 2 o'clock. Sunday afternoon from the result of an operation performed on him Saturday for internal trouble. Mr. Dent had been in failing health for nearly a year, but manfully stuck to his duties, and was confined to his house but a few weeks during the past two months. He entered the hospital on. Tuesday, the 15th inst., the best medical advice giving him the alternative of •undergoing the opera- tion with the chalice of a cure of his ail- ment being effected, or the alternative of continuing to suffer from the trouble which must finally carry him away. He rallied from the immediate effects of the operation., but got worse Saturday night. Mr. Dent, who was thirty-one years of age, leaves a widow and four young chil- dren. Miss Aggie Wood, a young lady about twenty-four years of age, committed.sui- eicle Moncla,y night at her home in. West Oxford; the means usecl being chloroform. The rash not seems to have been deliber- ately planned, she having taken a large piece of cotton batting and saturating it with the liquid placed her face to it on the bed. Deceased, who was the daugh- ter of Mr. Tames Wood, treasurer of West Oxford, had a large circle of friends in town as well as itt the vicinity of her home, who are all terribly shocked at the dreadful occarrence. The reason as- sigued for the deed is gleamed from a note left by her stating she had a misunder- standing with some one and could not bear the disappointment. Mr. J. Ott, chairman of the Brantford Public SchoolBoard, had. a narrow escape frora death Tuesday night. His family are away, and he is occupying the house alone. When. retiring he left the gas turned low in an anteroom off his sleep- ing apartment, and. during the night this went out. Not appearing at business next morning entry was effected, by the bedroom window, an.d the room found to be full of gas, with Mr. Ott unconscious. Two doctore worked over him for three hours before his senses returned. JIB The body of an unknown. man was foun.d in. Davy's pulp mill rakeway of the Welland canal, Thorold, Saturday even- ing. It had, evidently been itt the water :several days, ancb was that of a ma,n about sixty years of age, five feet six inches in height, bald headelt and w eighed about 140 ponncls, He had on a dark coat and vest and light striped trousers. The chief of police is inclined to belie-ve it to be the body of a tra,mp named. James Mc- Laughlin, although he is not positive. A terrific; hailstorm passed over the northern section of the county of Oftford Friday, doing considerable damage to the crops, and causing a number of washouts on the railway. At Tavistock hail fell to the depth of two feet, and in some places was piled up in huge banks. The Porb Dover train from the north had to go around by Paris on =count of the washouts, and reached Woodstock five liollre late. It is thought that the fruit, will suffer severely from the sterm. Mr. Lariviere, M. P. for Provenchert has placed his resignatioix in the hands 01 lion. Mr. Daly as the Minister represent- ing Menitoba, pending a, settlement of his fina,ncial diffieulties. He sustained ex- teasive lessee through a colonization scheme for the settlement of French Ca- nadians in the Northwest, of which he was a leading promote's. His liabilities aro $8),000. If he succeeds in adjusting his financial affairs the resignation will not be handed to Mr. Sneaket. The visit of the Queen's Own to Se. Thomas on the 21t,h does nob appear to have passed off as pleasantly as at first reported, Mr. X. B. Riley, Consul -General of the United States at Ottawa, reeeived despeteli from Mr. George A. 'Willis, Consul. at St. Thomas, stating that Meet the, concert, a member of. the Queen's Own tore down, the American flagfrom the• Cloneulatin Mr. Riley wired Mr...Willis to repave to the State Deparement, Wesh- ington, and alto to hires Mr. Riley vis - !bed the Department of ;beetle° for the pi:typos() of seeingeSinJohn Thompson on the"subjeet, but Six john being, absent at the time Mr.Riley reported it to Solicitor - General Curran, who answered him that the Government would do an 'it could in bilOGamigyaatrber'is talking of purchasing an, °lei:item lighting plant. The Dominion W. C, T. V. convention opens in London on Friday. It has boon deeided to teach a,gricultare in the Manitoba public schools. Crops in Manitoba, and ehe territories are reported to be in excellenb condition. An Ottawa despatch says W. Marlton has been appointed harbormaster at God- . James Page, an old resident of Brantford and. prominenb Mason, died, StlEilicigahY' blives have been lost in the floods on Fraser River, B.C. Whole villages arls,finV1VI. ulvey, a \yell -known young barrister of Winnipeg, was drowned in the Red River on Saturday night. Near St. Hilaire, Quebec, on §aturclay morning Alme Bienairae, a well-to-do bachelor farmer, commibted suicide by hanging. The Dominion Cotton Company's mill Brantford, which has been closed down fOr SOMG time is to be started again in a few days. The Brantford Y.1VE.C.A. is arranging for a big celebration on July 1. A mem- ber of outside assoeiations are expected to participate. The Canadian enzine and locometive works at Kingston have secured the con - bract for the leek gates at the Sault Ste. Marie canal. John Gauthier, who set fire to Sb. Pat - Orphanage, Ottawa, a few weeks ago, has been sentenced to penitentiary for three years. The steamer Cambria, from Sault Ste. Marie, for Sarnia, went ashore near Kin- cardine Friday. The passengers were safely removed. The appeal of Chamberlain, the Winni- peg personate].) has been dismissed, and he will serve the three years sentence in Stoney Mountain Penitentiary. Lightning shack the Presbyberian church at Amherstburg on Sunday, shat- tering the spire and the front all the way to th.e foundation. Some damage was done to the interior also. A voting married man and a young married woman disappeared from. Brant-- ford on, Monday, and. they are believed to have eloped. The former leaves it wife and three children and the latter a hus- band and baby. Hon. 0. F. Fraser has relinquished the office of Commissioner of Public Worksiu the Ontario Government and has been sacceeded by Mr. Harty, formerly mem- ber for Kingston. Wednesday afternoon, at 4 o'clock Mr. Harty was sworn in by His Honor Lieut. -Gov. Kirkpatrick, who attendecl ab the council chamber for that purpose. Mr. Harty was elected for Kingston on February 23, 1892, succeed- ing Mr. Metcalf as the local member for that city. It is understood Mr. Fraser will be appointed inspector of registry offices. There is also an impression, which seems to be well founded, that he will.get another position as Nell. The preliminary hearing of the charge of libel preferred by Special Customs Of- ficer Trowbridge of Toronto against J. L. &vain took place before Magistrate Bart- lett, Windsor. Sugclin is in the tea business, got out some cards of Trow- bridge and Stevenson. and also containing the words "two of a kind" and the Latin phrase "cave canem." Trowbridge stat- ed that he was a special customs officer, and his business was to "do up" people. His lawyer dicl not like this expression, and desired it modified, but Lawyer Han- na demanded that it be taken down as the witness said it. • Lawyer Hanna tried to finit out what part of the card he con- sidered libelous, and he said the whole of it. He declared that no one had a night to use his picture without asking his con- sent. Mr. Hanna, tried to show that if this was true Sir Oliver Mowat would have thousands of cases of libel, as he was being caricatured every day. The magistrate said the cases were entirely different. Sir Oliver was a public man. Mr. Hanna contender' that the charge had. not been proved, but Me Rodd thought ithad been. The magistrate agreed with the latter and sent -the case down for Sugdin giving his o \en. recognizance in $200 and Trowbriclge in $50. An Improved Baby Incubator. en, Prominent among the additions recent- ly added to the baby's ward of the Post Graduate Hospital is a new and bnproved baby incubator provided wibh all sorbs of automatic attachments, indicators, safe- guards and other arrangements calculated to suce,essfelly aid any prematurely born infant in the struggle for existence. An aluminum fan operated by clockwork forces the air into the machine where it is heated by an alcohol lamp. An anemo- meter tells how fast it is cirmelating, and by means of dampers, the supply can be regulated to a nicety. One of the faults of the former incu- bators has been that the babe had to be lifted out of its nest to be weighed a necessarily dangerous operation. In the new incubator the babe lies on 0 mattress that rests on a pair of delicately balanced scales. Why no Didn't Join. The soiled darling of the roail had pull- eci up at a country house by the way and hacl made overtures to the lady of the kibchen for something to ea& " -What are you diming around here Lor ?" she inquired harshly. "You ought to be with Ckixey's army.f' • "1 -wuzemem, ' hs replied2 "but evhen I seen how it woe, 1 gob oue an a hurry." " What was the matten with it?" Well, when 1 j'ined 1 didn't know nothin' about it, and Acme the first qtleetion they ase me WI1S, WLIZ I willin' to go to Washinlon, and right there I kicked." ' " What did you do that for ? Yon were where you belonged," " P'r aps I wee, lady ; 'brein't fee me to be conterdictin' the likes uv you, but the firsb pate try that, name gave me a nary - °mimes I couldn't endure, an' the first, chance I got I resigned my commish and retired from the serViee. Did you say, lady, you could emoommordate me: with a ration or so ?" Ilrlieon on one occasion bad hihi aqua- rium severe" gold fieh, each of whieli had been made to swell() w i. tiny *aide Ininp. When the eurrent, was turned op the flsh presented 'a remarkable eppear- mice, Ali the minute detains of their anatomy were presented to view, DOMINION PARLIAMENT OUR LIWNA.KERS IN. COUNCIL Proceedings or The Senate and nouse of Commons, New Bills Introduced and The Budget Debate Continued. Sir John Thompson and 1 -ton. Mr, Cos- tigan introdueed Mr. T. Blanchard, the new member for Gloucester, N.B. Mr. Mills (Bothwell) moved for copies of all eorrespondence since 1837 between the Government of Canada and the Ime penial Government in reference to Her Majesty's exclusive sovereignty over Hudson. s Bay. He dwelt upon the im- portanee of the subject. While it was true that by the Treaty of Utrecht the sovereignty of Hudson Bay had. been se- cured to Great Britain, foreign, fishermen. were to -day resorbing to these waters in pursuit of the whale and porpoise and 1.1 was important that steps should his taken to assert Canadian jurisdiction, lest by the rule of acquiescence this right might lapse; for it was to be remembered that as well in national as in private relations this rule of acquiescence was held to apply. Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper fully acqui- esced in what had been said about the importance of the question, and he conic" assure the hon. gentleman in advance of the proclaction of the papers asked for that they would show' that the question had reeerved , attention at the hands of the Government. As bo invasion of our territory rights by fishing tend hunting by foreign vessels, information had from time to time reached the Government of suck occurrences, but the remoteness of the district rendered it difficult to ascer- tain the actual feats. Mr. Mills (Bothwell) moved that it is highly desirable that steps shouldbe taken by the Canedian. Government to intro- duce the fur seal in Hudson's Bay and other waters upon the eastern coast of Canada. Sir Charles H. Tapper said that he sup- posed the motion had siniply been moved in order that, an expression of opinion might be secured. Hon. Mr. Mills thought that the Gov- ernment should make the experiment. Sir Charles H. Tupper said that the arbitrabors had not been commissioned to examine that question. If the Canadian Government had framed the treaty it would not have been drawn as it was. Hon. Mr. Mills said that this was an admission that the Canadian Government had not been consulted in the framing of the treaty. ; that the British Government had blundered, and that Canada had thereby suffered. Mr. Sbairs followed. He showed that though seals did not exterminate fisk in the Paeific, it was more tha,ux likely they would do so in the Atlantic. • The motion was then adjourned. Mr.,11ludoek asked if the warden of the Kingston penitentiary had recently- paid over to the Government any moneys in respect of any shortage on his part; if so, how much; when, and on what ac- count? Sir Sohn Thompson said that the ques- tion appeared to be founded upon a mis- take, since there was no shortage in the accounts. Mr. Lachapelle moved for a detailed re - pore showing th.e prizes rewarded by- the judges or jury at the Chicago Columbian Ee.-position, for the work ot pupils of pri- mary and special schools of every degree, and also to pupils of secondary educa- tional institutions of each of the prov- inces of Canada. Sir John Thompson said that the posi- tion which Quebec occupied in hen capac- ity as an educationalist at the World's Fair was an illustrious one. Ile said that the papers asked for should be brought down.. The,motion carried. Mr. :Hillock moved the second. reading of his bill to amend the Railway Ant. The bill provides that street car com- panies shall provide proper shelter for =tom en. Hon. Mr. Plaggart agreed that the pro- visions of the bill were of a character to commend themselves. If motormen were not properly sheltered iitt bad weather. they could not properly conduct theh duties and therefore the public safety was endangered. The bill was read a second. and third time. The House then went into committee of ways and. means. Hon. Mr. Foster announced that on crude opium the duty would be $1 per net pound. Cocoa in its rucle state was reduced from 25 to 20 per cent. Alba- menized papers and films for photograph- ers were reduced from 35 to 30 per cent. Medicated cod liver oil will go under other medicines, and will be taxed 25 per cent.' -while pure cod liver oil will come in at20 per cent. Silvered glass was changed. to 27* per emit. inetead. of 30 per cent. Bevelled silver glass was changed from 35 per cent. to 82* per cent. A clause was inserted providing that shingles and wood pulp should go on the free listwhen the United. States would allow them to go free into that country. This clause was inserted: "Corset',. linen. silk and cotton clothing, and othee weenies 11144e from cotton fabrics, 82* per cent. ad valorem." Elastic, round hr fiat, including garter elastin; braids, chains, cords or other manufactures of hair, and dress belts of all kinds, were fixed at 80 per cent. ad valorem. Hammocks, lawn tennis nets, and other aebicles manala,ctured of twine, ree.s., were placedin the 80 per vent. list. Damask of linen, imam -ling napkins, doylies, tray -cloths, sideboard covers, clanmels stair linen and diaper, were en- umerated at 25 per- cont. ad valorem. Sha-wls of all kinds, railway and travel- ling rugs, and lap dusters; are also 25 per 0Ont. These change); were also made: Windowshade rollers, 85 per cents; window shades, ii the piece or cut or hemmed or mounted Oh rollers, 85 per cent. aclvalorem, bub not less than 5 cents per square yard. Antiseptic surgical dressings, such as absorbent cottons, cotton wools, lint, lemb'e wool, tow, jute, gauzes and oakum preparecl and need as surgical dressiugs, plain ot medicated, 20 per ()Gun Nitro-glyeerino, &alit powder, and nitro and other explosives 4 cents per pound. Tobacco po'.tch.e,s,'80 per emit,. al va- loreen, . Cloths; nob eabberect or made water- proof, whether of wool, eottion, union, or silks, (10 inches or over in width, and weighing nob more than seven ounces to the square yard, when imported excl ively for the rnanufecture of mackintosh clothing tender regaistione to be adolrecl by the Govrnox in commit, 124 per cent. ad valorem. The duty otherwsse it 27* per cent, Brass itt bars, rods and bolts, drawee, plain and fancy tithing, not bent or otherwise manefaetured, in lengths of not less than six feet, was added to the free lis.A.t.fter the words copper, old and scrap, Ka copper in pigs, bars, rods and bolts, was added "in lengths of not less than six. feet." Homing: or messenger' pigeons, ingot moulds, bisulphite of soda and blast iur- nace slag were also placed on the free list. Reeds, salts of zinc and sulphate, of qui- • nine were taken off the free list. The marble duties were arranged as folio WS Marble, in the rough in bloeks, free; in slabs or blocks, sawn on not more than two sides, 10 per cent, alt valorem; sawn en more than two sides, 20 per eente finished and manufactured of marble, 30 pelTceilft hsllowing items of which Mr. Fos- ter had given notice were adopted: Wroughb iron or steel pipe fittings and chilled iron, or steel rolls, 35 per cent. ad valorem,. : em, witches, frogs, crossings and. intersecn dons for railways, .30 per cent. ad va- 10Yarns, composed wholly or in part of ...I wool, worsted, the hair of the alpaca, goat or other like, animal, costing 20 cents per pound and under, 5 cents per pound and 20 per cent. ed valorem. Mosaic flooring of any material, 30 per cent. ad valorem. The following, new item was also ad.opted: Canvas and sail twine of hemp or flax, used for boat or ship sails, 0 per cent. acl valorem. After some remarks by Mr. Mulock on, the rice duty, the committee repurbed progress. The House went into committee of sap - ply. The estimates for the Deparernent of Justice were taken up. The expeudi- tare on penitentiaries caused the most discussion. The vote for Kingston Peni- tentiary was allowed to stand over, as likely to cause a protracted discussion but the votes for the St. Vincent de Paul and Manitoba Penitentiaries were fully debated. Mr. Davies led itt the cliseus- Sion, pointing o-ut that tb.e per capita, cost in the latter prison was greater than in. the British Columbia Penitentiary. The sum asked for the Manitoba Prison was 84040.30, and there, were seventy circuits in it, giving nearly 8700 a year as the annual cost for each circuit. The eost of rationing was particularly excess- ive. Mr. Davies and Sir Richard Cart- wright said. Sir John Thompson held that the cost had been reduced in the past, and from -various circumstances, such as the scat- tered nabure of the building and the ab. smote of a boundary wall, entailing as it does a larger force of guards, it was as low as could be reached with efficiency. The debate continued for some time, then the item was carried. The votes for the British Columbia Penitentiary and for the Regina Jail was then discussed and. ea'rliied SrJohn Thompson made aix import- ant announcement respecting the Domin ion Franchise Act, It was to the effect that the new measure which was to be brought down. shortly, the basis; of repro- sentabion shall be that of the different provinces. In some respects, therefore, the franchise will be wid.enecl. Prince Edward Island and British Columbia have had manhood suffrage for years, and spe- cial provision was made iu the act of 1885 by which this qualification was retained for federal purposes in these provinces Since then the Ontario Legislature h adopted manhood suffrage, so that und bhe proposed new measure this quell tion will hereafter prevail in Ontari Daminion elections. The provincial I -will be taken as the basis for the Dor ioix lists, but the revision will be m by federal officials. When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, when she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children, she gave them Oastoria. Sisterly Sarcasm.. "Have you a sistah ?" said Willie Wishington. "No," replied his friend. " Men you cannot wealize what it is to be utterly htunilia,terl. I was telling my sistah lahst night about a young wo- man that I sometimes call upon. I we- mahked that she made me feel like a fool.'' 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